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Evening star., 1938-01-26
PROPOSED LIBRARY
SITE IS DISCLOSED
Location in Municipal Center
Area Suggested to
Subcommittee.

A suggestion for location of the
proposed new Central Public Library
on site in the municipal center area
on Pennsylvania avenue between John
Marshall place and Sixth street NV,
was discussed during hearings on the
1899 District supply bill before an
appropriations subcommittee of the
House.
DR.. George F. Bowerman, librarian
Of the Public Library, told the subcom-
mittee the location was originally
suggested by Frederick A. Delano,
chairman Of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, and
that members Of the Library Board Of
Trustees seemed pleased with the idea.
Requires Building Harmony.
A building on that site, Dr. Bower
man pointed out, could be erected in
sections, but he pointed out it probably
would have to be more expensive than
one on a less conspicuous site to
harmonic with the new Mellon Art
Gallery under construction directly
opposite on the south side Of Penn
sylvania avenue and the nearby Apex
and Archives Buildings.
With construction of new Central
Library, the present Central Library
Building, DR.. Bowerman explained,
would be used as branch.
Space Needs Stressed.
DR.. Boverman also stressed the need
OF additional library facilities, and
said
THE demands on the library have
increased so that we are desperately
crowded in the main library building,
and the same is true Of our quarters
in the Ford Building, so that We have
got to have more space"
DR.. Bowerman explained the pres
ent Central Library Building does not
lend itself to enlargement, and that
the trustees in their annual report for
1887 definitely announced their con-
clusion that such q plan would not
economically and properly meet the
needs of the main organization Of
the public library system.
Evening star., 1938-01-26

Reports Of alleged irregularities in
the school custodial forces and
charges that application Of . little
elbow grease" would have eliminated
the boiler trouble that kept several
schools closed for . while last fall
were placed before the District Sub
COMMITTEES Of the House Appropriations
Committee. It was learned today.
High lights Of . survey OF school
cilatodians made In June. 1885, by
Alfred 8. Reed, civil service inspector.
were alleged cases Of misclassific ication,
disciplinary trouble and lack Of tools
for anything but the very. simplest
repairs. Some schools, 1t said, did not
even have 4 screwdriver..
Under questioning from Chairman
Ross Collins, MIR. Reed said he had
found cases where engineers were
not qualified for their jobs and that
he could have gotten better and more
qualified men through civil service
examinations.
w. A. Draper, In charge Of the Dis
Evening star., 1938-01-26
OFFICIALS SCORED
FOR TAX FAILURE
Collins Irked by Slow CoIIec.
ton of Business Priv.
iIege Levy.

Chairman Collins OF the House
District subcommittee on appropria.
tions ran roughshod over the District
tax officials because Of failure of the
business privilege revenues to measure
up to the expected 50 100000, publics-
ton OF the hearings on the 1899
supply bill today revealed.
Mr.. Collins disclosed he had q or,-
vate investigator make q check which
showed in one day that there were
rs places having no business privilege
licenses.
Il want to know why you are not
collecting the privilege taxes" he said
TO Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers.
1--WE are collecting them every day."
Mr.. Towers replied.
But you are not" Mr.. Collins
retorted, telling OF his investigators
findings.
Billed in December,
Tax Assessor Fred D. Allen then
suggested 1t had not been possible to
render De bills until December /,
but Mr.. Collins would not be shaken
on, and he said: Frankly, I think
the time has come when the collection
OF the privilege taxes ought to be
placed in some other agency"
Assessor Allen. said his ONCE hsd
gotten $4,000 returns. I'VE have 5000
people who have obtained licenses
who did not file return. We are
going after those first" he added.
Discussion then revolved around
failure Of the tax to bring In the
estimated s3,OooooO. Up to January
l, the actual receipts were but $3.50 600.
but the second payment is du. In
March and Auditor Daniel J. Donovan
estimated the years collection will
run above $2250,O0O.
Chairman Collins then turned his
guns on Maj. Donovan. He said:
Mr.. Donovan stated awhile ago. off
the record, that We ought not 10
expect to collect over go per cent O.
the total tax due"
Donovan Protests.
Maj. Donovan retorted: 81 did not
say anything of the kind. Mr.. Chair
man. But Mr. Collins continued
And Congress has given you %
employees ranging in salary from $4,000
TO LAO to help assess that business
privilege tax. What have they been
doing?"
Maj. Donovan said: "Mr. Chair
man, I said, in the first place. not
that we are not going to collect the
tax, but that In the first year Of the
operation Of new Law, and within
that year. We would collect about so
per cent Of the entire tax. That does
not mean that We are not going to
collect the balance OF the tax in the
following year"
Mr.. Collins later agreed with MAI,
Donovan that extra help was needed
and that a Strenuous" effort should
be made to collect the levy.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
d. C.. Bill
Continued From First Pase)

fraternize with the Districts lawless
element.
The committees aim, in all these
projects, is to aid the Police Depart
ment in its efforts to turn back the
wave of crime which SO recently
aroused members Of congress and even
Attorney General Cummings.
Gallinger Hospital was not as badly
treated as the hearings on the bill
would seem to indicate 1t Is true no
funds we're provided for the proposed
addition to relieve overcrowding, but
the committee provided for increased
personnel Ito take care Of other acute
needs"
Other plans were worked out, also,
to relieve the Gallinger situation. For
instance, funds are provided for pur-
chase Of the Homeopathic Hospital,
which the committee intends to be
used as both a health center and q
convalescent home for those patients
now forced to convalesce at Gallinger.
And substantial increases in appro-
priations are allowed for the Tlbercu-
loSis Sanatorium at Glenn Dale, Md,
so it can come to Gallinger's aid when
1t is needed. 49,
Naturally, in adopting these plans,
the committee scrapped the Budget
Bureaus proposal to reopen the old
tuberculosis hospital at Fourteenth and
UpShur streets as an adjunct to GAL
linger.
Some Of the expected things the
committee did-expected because of
advance leaks" from the committee
room-include:
1t recommended an appropriation Of
$l25,000 to start an addition to the
Jail which ultimately will cost $3.50 900.
Denied funds for operation Of the
National Training School for Girls on
Conduit road, which has been head
ache" for District officials because of
the disorderly inmates. The commit
tee contemplates that these girls be
transferred to the woman's penal COL
ony on the workhouse reservation at
Occoquan, Va.
Transferred the children's receiving
home from jurisdiction Of sthe Board
of Public Welfare to the Police De-
partment, and It's future operation
placed directly under theS Woman'a 4
Bureau In connection vithsits opera
ton cf the House Of DetsetAon Thi
Evening star., 1938-01-26

plan contemplates abandonment OF q
rented building near Eighth street and
Potomac avenue Sc, and establish
ment OF the receiving home In the old
Police Court Building at Sixth and D
streets NV. when the Woman's Bu-
reau takes possession there upon
restoration of the old second precinct.
The bureau now is occupying the old
second precinct station house on Fifth
street NV, between M and N streets.
Fairgrounds Consolidated.
Consolidated all public school play
grounds under the Community Center
Department Of the public schools. The
committee said it did not like the
present arrangement whereby the
Community Center Department runs
the school Fairgrounds during the
school term and the Municipal Play
ground Department during the sum-
mer vacation period.
Refused to approve the Budget Bu-
reaus recommendation for an ap-
preparation Of $e50,000 to begin re-
placement Of the Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge across the AnAcostia River.
The committee, however, did set aside
$4,000 for making repairs to the old
span. In taking this action, the COM
mittee said: 1T was the consensus
that other more acute traffic situations
should be given priority over the
Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge"
And here's what the committee did
to improve traffic conditions, as The
Star pointed out last Sunday:
Told Highway Department to spend
$3.50, 900 for construction Of an under
pass beneath Thomas Circle In the
line of Massachusetts, avenue, $3.50 900
for another underpass under Dupont
Circle, $4,000 for q grade separation
bridge where K street NV. intersects
the Rock Greek Parkway and $115,000
for widening Eleventh street NV.
from Massachusetts, to Rhode Island
avenues.
Other highway improvements prof.
ects recommended follow:
Widening of K street, Twelfth street
to Connecticut, $121,100; Eleventh
street. Twelfth street, New York to
Massachusetts, avenues, $4,000; New
York avenue, Fourteenth to Fifteenth
streets north side). $4,000, and
Twelfth street from Constitution to-
Independence avenues, $S4,500.
Relief Fund Not Increased.
The committee turned deaf ears to
pleas Of civic leaders for increased
funds for public assistance and ap-
!. peoTed the 100000 appropriation rec
Evening star., 1938-01-26

commended by the Budget Bureau.
However, 1t provided for extended use
of that fund for actual relief by re-
ducing the former 10 per cent allow
ance for personnel services to 7l2 per
cent. Investigation. the committee
said, discloses this Is the prevailing
rate elsewhere.
Despite the threats a month or so
ago of Chairman Collins Of the sub
committee on appropriations to heap
reprisals on the Public Utilities Com
mission for advancing street car fares,
the committee allowed the commission
two additional employees. And, incl
dentally, the committee remarked in
its report that the funds provided for
appointment Of a peoples counsel
would result in considerable benefit
to the residents of the District Of Co.
liumbia."
As usual, the bill carries an array Of
legislative riders-all Of them subject
to a point of order on the floor Of the
House because the rules forbid attach
ing legislation to appropriation bills.
Mrs. PrescOtt's Pay Cut.
One of these riders applies directly
to Mrs. Josephine Pittman Prescott,
director of the Bureau Of Nursing Of
the Health Department, who had
some difficulty with the subcommittee
during her testimony on the nursing
item in the budget. The provision
stipulates that the salary Of the di-
rector OF the nursing service shall be
at the rate Of $4,000 per annum." "
Mrs. Prescott now receives $4,000.
That means q pay cut OF $1,000 q
year.
Another important legislative rider
is aimed at the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. which has
been purchasing property with Dis
trict funds in the past without the
approval of the Commissioners. The
provision specifically stipulates that
hereafter all land purchases paid out
Of District revenues shall be approved
by the Commissioners.
And q third of the series Of riders
would prevent salary step-ups in the
District service that would add more
than $35,000 a year to the municipal
pay roll. Moreover, the provision says
the step-ups shall not become effective
without approval Of the Commissioners.
Limits Public Aid.
Still another rider was written onto
the bill-one that would force appro-
priations for home care for dependent
children and for public assistance to
be spread out over the entire year to
Evening star., 1938-01-26
HEALTH PUBLICITY
RAKED BY COLLINS
Stories of Congestion at
GaIIinger Lead to At
tack on Rutland.

Chairman Collins of the House sub
committee on District Appropriations
let it be known today he is on the war
path for publicity men" in the Dis
trict government.
Mr.. Collins was particularly irked by
recent newspaper stories about CALM
ger Hospital congestion and other
Health Department problems. he re-
vealed in hearings OH the 1899 appro-
priation bill, made public today.
At one point. he sarcastically told
Health Officer George c. Rutland:
Nov the thought has come to the
committee that modesty might have
prevented you asking for it But
maybe you might want radio station,
and perhaps a newspaper out at GAL
linger, and you might also want us to
contract with Walter Winchell to
handle the publicity, instead OF
Insaminger."
S3,200-Salaried Aide.
He referred to DR.. Melvin P.
Insaminger. $4,000 a year Health De-
partment employe whose function. DR.
Ruhland said, has been essentially to
reach groups and tell them about per-
sonal hygiene" Newspaper publicity
has largely developed externally to
bis activity" DR.. Ruhland added.
When Dr. Rutland said later that
he did not know whether DR.. Insamin-
ger had given out release he had not
authorized, Mr.. Collins curtly re-
marked:
Il think We will save you from your
publicity man by the time we write
up this bill"
Engel Takes Up Qiuz.
Representative EnHe Of Michigan
took up the questioning-about a
press report which DR.. Rutland said
was a misinterpretation OF his re-
marks that he was not ready to make
q release.
Suppose q reporter asks, and you
say, No, do not want any publicity
Can you do more?" DR.. Rutland asked
Il can stop talking" Mr.. Engel
snapped back. 1T is my experience a
man has never gotten his foot in his
mouth when he had his mouth shut"
Mr.. Collins also questioned Miss
Sybil Baker, District superintendent of
Fairgrounds. closely about publicity
from her Office. She said they had an
information department, but no pub
licity bureau.
Mr.. Collins-"You do not have any
publicity department like the Public
Health Serviee?"
Miss Baker-"No, sir"
Mr.. Collins-"You are almost as
good, think"
Resumes Health Theme.
Although both DR.. Rutland and DR.
Edgar A. Bocock, Gallinger superin-
tendent, protested they were not re-
sponsible for the recent hospital pub.
licity and it was distasteful to them
Mr.. Collins brought up the subject
again when League Of Women Voters
dClS6otAoAA pPPNoiSA ONloiS bllC NoIll.
mlttee.
He told Mrs. Gordon Wagenet that
he had wanted to give DR.. Ruhland -
radio station and provide for employ
ing Walter Winchell to handle his
publicity"
Il don't know whether you know 1t
or not" Mrs. Wagenet remarked, "but
there Is q radio station actually work.
ing In Chicago. They have q rowing
obstetrician. who is ready to help In
the most difficult cases where an in
terne is out on q job and his motor
car is equipped with radio so they
can get him on short wave and he
goes around like police officer"
Mr.. Collins had the last word-"If
there Is anything the Health Depart
ment and Gallinger Hospital have not
asked for, it is not their fault"
Evening star., 1938-01-26

The Japanese era dates from $50
B. c.. when the japanese Empire was
founded.
Evening star., 1938-01-26

Northern Ireland has a new 48.
hour-week law for factory workers.
Evening star., 1938-01-26

Stores in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
are being air conditioned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-09-15

All the latest styles in black
and brown. Wing tips, French
and double crease toes. Made
just like the mems! Can be
re-soled. Sizes l to 6,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Graphing TourneyPlanned
High School
Matmen To
Match Skill

High Schooi grdns and groan
artists. only they dent grunt and
grcan. will attempt to throw each
other to the canvas next Friday
night in the first valley high
school wrestling tournament at the
Central high gymnasium.
Brawley. Calexico, Imperial Holt
vile and FL Centre will enter two
grapplers in each Of the eight di-
vision, Coach Hammer of the El
Centro high school announced.
Weight divisions are 115 pound,
1875, 1856, las, l55, 1865, ITS and
heavyweight.
The Spartan grapplers have been
working cut under the direction of
Coach Hammer during the past two
weeks. Hammer was an outStand-
ing amateur wrestler at use. His
pupils will admit that there are
a very few tricks which he does
not know.
Holtville and Brawley are rated
as the most serious obstacles in the
path of the Central grapplers, ac-
cording to Hammer.
Each amateur wrestling bout is
one fall, or five minutes in length
to a decision.
Punishment holds are barred in
amateur wrestling thus rewarding
science and speed as well as brute
strength in the matches.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Won Cram
Detention
PrOte ted

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6. CUP)
The release and eXoneration OF
Baron Gottfried Won Cramm, Ger
man Davis cup star, who has been
detained by Nazis on morals charg-
es. was demanded today in an open
letter to newspapers from score
of Pacific coast sports celebrities
including Donald Bulge and Helen
Wills Moody, the tennis stars, and
joe DiMaggio. the baseball slugger.
The letter said Won Cramm was
IAN ideal sportsman, a perfect
gentleman, decency personified" and
added that mo country could have
wished for a finer representative
no sport for a more creditable
exponent"
The group criticized the failure
of any amplification of Won
Cramm's accusers of the charges
against him. attributed it to the
darkness OF silence, so character
istic of dictatorship countries where
free expression of in word or print
has long ago given way to news
suppression and censorship"
The letter said the signers had
come to the conclusion that the
charges preferred against Won
Cramm are a mere subterfuge, that
the real reasons for his prosecu-
ton and persecution have not been
stated, and that the secrecy of
methods employd forcefully sug-
gests to us the innocence of the
victim and the bad faith of his
accnSerS :"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06

Brawle. nigh school baseball
team moved into the finals of the
valley league championship play
Thursday afternoon with a burst
of power which smothered FL Cen
tro high school 27-3.
The victory gave Brawley the
inside track IN the battle for the
baseball title of the valley for
the Wildcats are undefeated. Cal
exico, the only obstacle in the
path Of the Brawley team, has lost
one game.
Brawley defeated Calexico. 1914,
in the first game of the season
but was held to an 8-8 tie by the
CaleXicans in a second meeting.
A victory for BraWley in the third
game will give the Wildcats their
second title in IA years. A win
for CaleXico will necesSitate
fourth game and will revive the
chances for the Bulldogs, who have
won twelve in thirteen baseball
campaigns.
On paper Brawley looks like the
better club for the third game to
be played next Wednesday after
noon On the field the Calexico
club looks the toughest
CaleXico has a scrapping ball
club, the type of team which would
have attracted the applause Of such
baseball warriors as John McGraw,
Robbie Ribinson, and Hughie Jen-
nings.
On the field no chance is too
hard, no ground ball is too hot
to handle. On the base paths no
cinch out is taken for granted,
every hit is run out.
Occasionally an opposing base
runner steps in the way, and is
sorry, for no CaleXico player is
going to slow up just because a
baseman is in his way
The border city boys are playing
for keeps. Heaven help the man
who stands in the baseline to halt
the progress of a runner.
The tactics of the CaleXico team
have been condemned in some sec
tions but the real baseball lovers
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
L. A. VEGETABLES

Los ANGELES, May tUP)=
Supplies were moderate TO liberal
on most lines with trading mode
rate to good.
Bunched vegetables per crate:
beets 45-60c. Carrots 50-65c. Dixon
m ostly soc. Green onions S1.25-
$3.50; leeks 60-75c. Mustard most
~ soc. Parsley 5O-60c. Radishes
small red 1880. Spinach 6O-75c.
Turnips 50-60c.
Cantaloupes; Imperial Wy jumbo
45S S5.5O-S6.50 crates; std ass So
$3.50; orange pack best S1.75-S2.
Lettuce: Guadalupe, Santa Maria
and San Luis Obispo dry pack !
doz S1.85-S2; 8 doz S1.65-S1.75; San
Fernando Wy 4 doz $1.35-S1.5O. .
doz S1.15 crate.
Peas: Pismo Oceano pole best 5
Y &c Bush mostly 3-31ac. Arroyo
Grande and San Luis Obispo m ost
ly 3-3hc. Casmalia mostly 3-2l2c
Squash: Imperial and Coachella
Wy white summer crates costly
$1.50-$1.75 flats S1.35-$1.50; loca.
lugs S2.15-S2.25 flats $1.65-S1.75
Italian, Imperial and Coach ella
Wy crates S1.5O-S1.65, flats S1.35.
81 so; local lugs $1.75-S2 San Diego
20 light colored S1.50-S1.65, yellow
crookneck local lugs $1.75-SIS5.
Tomatoes; inland and Imperial
Wy crates Stops $125-S1.50, 12s
S1.15-S135, les S0-90c. Flats 5x5s
and 5x6S mostly S1.25-$1.35 6x7s
6O-70c. Coachella Wy 9S best most
ly $1.65-S1.75 12S S1.35-$1.65, 16S
S5-S1.1O; 5x5S and 5x6S $1.50-S1.65
6x7 S125-sI.40 7xSS 75-9Oc per flat
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
PORTLAND BACK
IN LEAGUE LEAD
BY UNITED PRESS

Portland defeated Hollywood, 7
to 4, last night and climbed back
with the stars into a tie for first
place in the Pacific coast baseball
league.
Bill Thomas was the winning
pitcher although Whitley Hilcher
had TO go 10 his rescue in the
ninth when Hollywood pushed
across two runs. Portland collect
ed Is hits from Nicholas, Miller
and ToSt.
In another night game San
Diego scored a run in the last of
the ninth to gain 9 to decision
over Oakland.
Sacramento, spanked by a home
run by Sparky Adams. won from
Los Angeles, to 4. Tony Fretias
gave up 10 hits but went the
route for the winners.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06

LOUISVILLE, KY May b.
UPl-How does il feel 10 run
i'm the Kentucky Derby?
Today. while the dew still was
on the blue grass and the iulepS
On my breath, I Henry McLemore
(freckled cslt, 81, by railroad
tracks cut Cf Georgia. ran a full
mile and one quarter ON the
Churchill Downs track where
the Derby will be raced Satur-
day.
Ignoring the questioning CLAN
ceS 6 checkers, stable hands,
guards. and Jockeys, l went TO
the head CT the chute where the
Derby is started, and paved the
brown earth with patent leather
she's. A guards yell of what
the devil are you dOing?" served
as my starting bell and l was
off.
| moved 10 the rail immediate
". figuring l might need il before
got around. and started the
run down past the grandstand.
Guards continued 10 yell and my
conscience. which was riding me,
put me under restraint and l
passed the judges stand the first
time laying slightly off the pace.
Already my weight was begin
ming to tell. Al the first turn
went wide and hit a soft spot.
Resisting a temptation to lie
down in ii ] spurred myself with
a jagged aspirin tablet l found
in the pocket n: my silks" and
staggered into the backstretch.
IL locked eleven miles long and
| wondered if the saying l had
heard since childhood - Me
Lem0re colts can't go a distance"
was true.
passed a clOcker and he tore
another page off his calendar.
Then | remembered 4 turf say
ing had heard a thousand
times-'He was so good he just
walked home"
l started walking.
As | moved into the stretch
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Net Meet
Entry List
Enlarged

The entry list in Imperial VAL
ley's second annual tennis tourna-
ment, to be played Sunday on the
Central high school courts, con-
tinued to grow Friday as tourna-
ment officials definitely announced
the tourney will be divided into
Junior senior divisions.
A third division, Tor boys under
Is, will be played Saturday and
Sunday in CaleXico.
Flay in the singles championship
tournament will begin at 8 o'clocl;
Sunday morning.
Fairings will be drawn Saturday
afternoon, according to Roscoe
Messner, tournament chairman
Entries will be accepted Sunday
morning but late entries will be
forced to take the less desirable
spots in the draw.