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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-24
CHESTNUT HILL Mass-N

CHESTNUT HILL. Mass.-Na-
tional Girls Champion Helen Bern
hard of New York successfully de-
Tended her title in the women's
division of the 47th annual Long
wood Bowl tournament today by
defeating third-seeded Katherine
Winthrop, Boston veteran. Ga. 81.
The 11-year-old Miss Bernhard.
alternating a blasting forehand
and a deadly backhand, outdrove
and outsteadied Miss Winthrop.
ranked 10th nationally, to triumph
by a wider margin than the score
indicated. She took advantage of
Miss Winthrop's weak service to
score six service breaks.
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LOngdcreS Selections
For Sunday Races
CARY
BY COL CARY

Here are Coloney Carys Selections:
145-FIRST RACE; $500; claiming; 4-year-oL
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Hines Goes Into
Early Golf Lead

CHICAGO Henry Picard,
p. q. A. champion from Her.
shey. Pa. tied for the lead
among early finishers In the
second round OF the western
open today with a S4-S1-11,
for "A 36-hole total of l4S.
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H ERE'S MORE ABOUT
STORY BEHIND JUBILEE

ARTS ON FACE ONE
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of slowly advancing surf as each
ona uanNAd HnI.,1. n I'd
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D. {. Relief Program
Left TO Congress by
Budget Bureau
Bottle on Report by
Lewis Expected Before
Decision Is Reached

Decision on the controversial ques-
ton of how much is needed for the
public assistance programs in the
District next fiscal year was left to
Congress in the municipal budget as
published today.
Because of the current investiga-
ton of the adequacy and efficiency
of the relief programs, the Budget
Bureau accepted the action of the
Commissioners in merely inserting
the same items, by various categories,
as provided for the present year.
Report Battle Expected.
This was not interpreted as any
indication of what they regarded as
final judgments, which will be
reached in Congress after an ex-
pected battle over the recommended
tions and findings reported by Bur-
dette G. Lewis, the special investi-
gator, now being made public.
For this year, Congress provided
s1,716,25O for the various categories
from municipal revenues, plus, a
supplemental item of $189,5O as the
Districts contribution as sponsor for
District w. P. A. projects.
Waving the question of the sums
which may be needed as sponsor S
contribution for w. P. A. projects,
the 1910 budget follows the same
items as granted this year for as
sistance programs. These are:
For public assistance, 100000, of
which $880,000 is for direct relief;
for cases classed for home care,
S163 900; for old age assistance. $597,-
600; for aid to the needy blind, $685.
$50; and for transportation for nom
residents, $4,000.
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Civil Service Commission
Wins Budget Increase

Facing enlarged duties after Feo-
ruary l as the result of President
Roosevelt's civil service expansion
program, the Civil Service Commis-
sion won an increase of $1,600,000
for personnel services and $53,250
for printing over last years appro-
priation in the recommendations
which went from the Budget Bu-
reau to Congress today.
This would give the commission
s4,25O,O00 for personnel services. of
which $550,000 would be Immediately
available; the printing item is $780,
900, with $4,000 available at once.
BY President Roosevelt's eXecu-
tive orders of June "a more than
100000 exempt positions are to be
brought under civil service next
month, and there also are to be
other improvements, including more
elaborate personnel administration
machinery.
The Budget Bureau also proposes
that the civil service retirement
fund get $86 900, as compared
to $74,244O00 last year. This is in
conformity with recent practice to
bring the fund to the proper actu-
arial basis, making up shortage
that was created in its early years,
when the Government made no
contribution.
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Wage Act Demands Big
Increase in Funds

Administration of the new Fair
Labor Standards Act is largely re-
sponsible for the increase of s3,1O8.-
730 in estimates for the Department
OF Labor in 1910, which President
Roosevelt today sent to Congress.
totaling $30,93O,2SO.
The net increase is the result of
increases totaling $4,125,25O, less a
decrease of $1,016,520.
To initiate administration Of the
Fair Labor Standards Act, the Presi-
dent explained, there was appro-
priated 100000 in the Second De-
f1ciency Act. For its administra-
ton during the next fiscal year
there is included in the budget an
estimate of $3.50, 900 for Wages and
Hours Division of the Department
of Labor and 100000 for the Chill
drens Bureau of that department,
making total of $3.50, ,0O0-an in
crease Of $3,450, 900 over the amount
appropriated for the fiscal year 1899,
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Extra Pay for Guard Band
0pposed in Budqet

Denial of extra compensation to
members of the 12lst Engineers
Band, District National Guard, is
sought by legislation proposed in
the new District budget. The legis-
lation would repeal a provision in
the act of 1889 by which members
Of the band, when ordered out for
parades and exercises, receive 81 a
day in addition to their regular pay.
For the leader this amount has been
So and for the assistant leader Sc.
Several years ago it was decided
members of the band should not get
any more compensation for appear
ing for duty than the other troops
in the regiments, so they were re-
fused the extra compensation. How
ever, each bandsman sued in the To-
cal Municipal Court and won, and
the District now has judgments fac
ing it of approximately $1,000. Since
these suits were decided, the bands
men have filed other claims for duty
at the last encampment and for
other appearances totaling about
$1,000. The corporation counsels Of
flee has asked the Guard authorities
to check these claims.
The extra compensation. it was
explained, was included in the law
originally to encourage trained mu-
sicians to join the band. Fear has
been expressed that if the extra
compensation law is repealed then
the regimental music will suffer
through inability to attract trained
musicians.
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New Wilson Teachers College
Plans Provided in Estimates
s13,l77,73o Approved Schools Figure Includes
Additions and Site Purchases

High School on Rhode Island ave-
nue.
Although the school budget as
approved by the bureau is some-
what less than the third of the
entire District budget which Supt.
Frank w. Ballou has repeatedly
urged should be allowed the pubic
schools, the Board of Education did
not fare so badly outside of con-
struction and land purchase items
At the same time it was recalled
that the schools participated in the
P. w. A. emergency construction
program last summer to the extent
of more than a million dollars.
Headlight Item Cut.
The heat and light item was set
at 1926, 900 which, though less than
asked by the school board, is equal
to what the schools will have had
for this year If the application for a
SIS, 900 deficiency appropriation goes
through this month.
Transportation of crippled and
tubercular children was voted $23,-
200, which is above the appropriation
for this year but below the esti-
mates of the school officials. Sew
eral children were cut off from trans
portation to tho schools for the
crippled this year because of the
inadequacy of the $4,000 allotment.
The fund for the summer opera
ton of school Fairgrounds was in
creased from $25,O00 to $29,75O.
I Fifty eight additional teachers
were granted by the bureau, al
though the request was for 213, and
IS clerk-stenographers were allowed
from the original estimate of 80.
Approval was also given for Is more
custodians.
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New Library Fund
Balance Carried Over
To Prepare Plans
Possibility Also Seen
Of Obtaining Money
To Stort Building

President Roosevelt in his budget
message today recommended that
the unexpended balance of an ap-
preparation of 100000 for prepara-
ton of plans and specifications for
a new central library building at
John Marshall place and Pennsyl-
vania avenue should be continued
available during the fiscal year
1910.
This would promote the project
for new headquarters for the Free
Public Library, despite the fact that
the Budget Bureau did not include
in the 1910 District budget a request
for $500,00 to start the structure.
OF particular interest in this con-
nection. however, is a notation in
the District budget estimates show
ing that part Of an unexpended bal
ance of $1,100,000, released to sur
plus, is an item of $5O0,OOO in the
current budget for the Municipal
Center, "but which will not be used
for that purpose"
NAiSAt AHltldtC NOHSgEuCtlOns
1t has been suggested at the Dis
trict Building that perhaps the
$500,000 which will not be used
for the center might be used to start
construction on the new central IL
brary. The proposed library building
would be located in square 4e1 of
the original Municipal Center site,
now owned by the District and al
ready designated by Congress as the
location for the new building.
The total estimates for the library
budget were decreased from the
$593,270 appropriated for this year
to $540,650 for 1910.
For personal services the estimate
for 1910 is SALT 800, as compared with
1894 300 appropriated for 1899.
Book Fund Cut.
There was reduction for books
and periodicals, however, from $685.
900 appropriated for this year to an
estimate for 1910 of $54,50O.
The item of maintenance, altera-
tions, repairs, etc, was cut from an
appropriation of $40 $50 for this year
to an estimate of $4,000 for 1910.
Rent of branches remained the
same. at $4,320 for branches in
Chevy Chase and Woodbridge.
The school budget carries an esti-
mate of s500,000 to complete the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior
High School and Library in South
west Washington.
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D. 6. Budget
Continued From First Page.)

finance the new budget, will be
faced with producing additional
funds. Experts of the Joint Con-
gressional Committee on Internal
Revenue Taxation, who have worked
for several months developing a new
tax program, believe this can be
most painlessly and equitably done
through combination income
sales taxa tax on incomes in ex-
cess of $4,000 year and a general
2 per cent tax on all commodities
sold at retail with the exceptional
food and medicine.
In slashing 811,157 from the esti-
mates of the Commissioners, the
Budget Bureau ran roughshod over
items labeled either urgent or de-
sirable. 1t refused, for instance, to
allow funds for any additional po-
licemen, although the Commission
ers asked for so more to augment a
force recognized as lamentably un-
dermanned.
Likewise, it declined to Increase
the current appropriation of 5000, 900
for public relief pending final &C.
ton on the report of Burdette G..
Lewis, who investigated the relief
setup, and cut the Health Depart
ment's allowance $4,000 under the
1899 appropriation, despite the re-
ported interest President Roosevelt
recently showed in improving gen.
eral health conditions in Washing
ton.
Various agencies under the Health
Department, however, the hospitals
in particular-Gallinger and the
tuberculosis sanatoria at Glenn
Dale, Md.-will be benefited under
the new budget. Additional per-
sonnel are provided at both institu-
tions. Gallinger is scheduled to get
18 additional nurses, 80 pupil nurses
and another social service worker.
Funds are provided, too, to give en-
ployes of the institutions under the
Health Department, as we'll as those
at the penal institutions, the benefit
Of the standard 44-hour work week.
The public schools, as usual, felt
the effect of the pruning shears.
The Budget Bureau did allow the
schools $423,000 more than appro-
priated for the current fiscal year
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So $50 544 Fund Requested for District Health Departmer
District Budget in Brief

appropriations 1910 fiscal oalng $476
$780, reduction of $688 272 from current funds.
$o00000 pay
Calls $4,000 reduction Health Department estimates
Fails to increase appropriations for public relief
public schools
Places of municipal hospitals and penal institutions
standard Government 44hour week.
estimates Highway
partmens
salary peoples Utilities
Commission.
Denies Police Department funds for requested
Provides completion addition
strucon reformatory workhouse Thomas
High Library Coolidge High
School,
Authorizes improvements addition
survey separation
SW
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Burke street, Nineteenth street
west to concrete, $4,000.
S2,489, $50 for Water Department.
The total Water Department
budget. as approved, would be $2,-
389, $40. or slightly less than the
Commissioners requested and some
5000 900 less than this years appro-
priations.
The reorganization plan, only
partly approved, provides for the
employment of 20 additional work.
ers. The salary item for the revenue,
inspection and distribution branches
was increased from $185,l70 for this
year to $215,700 This includes pro-
vision for 16 new engineering in
spectors and four extra clerks.
An appropriation of 100000 is
sought for construction of some 5000
feet of 48-inch trunk line water
main from the Bryant street pump
ing station to the first high service"
reservoir to be built in the grounds
of the United States Soldiers Home.
A sum of $4,000 is approved for ad-
ditional pumping equipment at the
Anacostia and Reno pumping sta
tions.
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would 60 forward as an urgent sup
Elemental request. This would per-
init the funds to be made available
sooner for this long-requested i'm
provement.
The bureau blocked a plan of the
Commissioners to save several hun
dred thousand dollars in the next
fiscal year under repayment of
funds used for District P. w. A..
projects and the Capper- -Cramton
Park Extension Act. The law re-
quires that no more or less than
81 300, 900 must be refunded each
year under these two programs.
However, since the District owes
but $462, 500 for final payment
under the 1884 District P. w. A.
loan, the Commissioners proposed
to pay next year but this sum plus
the usual $500, 900 on the park loan.
The bureau insisted the repayments
must total 81 100000 and therefore
raised the figure from 100000 to
1887 500.
See Deficit Overcome.
Financial experts at the District
Building figured that even If Con-
gress should fail to adopt new
tax program designed to cover the
anticipated budget deficit, mere
continuation of the $1.75 tax rate,
coupled with continuation of the
business privilege tax, would raise
more than suffcient revenues to
balance the new budget. The busi-
ness privilege tax will expire auto
matically June 80, unless continued,
and the Commissioners, of course,
have general authority to adjust the
tax rate to meet financial needs.
With respect to the prospective
budget shortage, the Budget Bureau
in an explanatory statement" said,
in part:
"The Congress at the close of the
last session made provisions for
its Joint Committee on Internal
Revenue Taxation to survey the
local tax structure in the District
and to report thereon to the Con-
gress not later than January IS,
1899. Following the submission Of
this report, the District govern
ment intends to recommend to
Congress the enactment of new
tax legislation which, 1t Is contem-
plated, will compensate for the
revenue lapsing at the close Of the
fiscal year 1899 and avert the In.
dicated 1910 deficit"
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| |$2,500,000 Heat
Relief Proposed
In Budget

To provide relief from the swell.
tering summer heat to an increas.
ing number of Government officials
and employees President Roosevelt
proposed In his budget message to.
day to extend air-cooling systems
during the coming year to five more
buildings.
The work would be done under
supervision of the National Park
Service in the total estimated
amount of $2,50O,O 900.
The following projects are recon-.
mended: Agricultural Administra-
ton Building, $265, 900; Civil Serv-
ice Commission Building, $40 900:
State Department, $785 900; Tariff
Commission, $3.50, 900, and part of
the Internal Revenue Building,
some Of which already Is cooled,
$760, 900.
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A 100000 appropriation for pre-
liminary plans and specifications for
new Wilson Teachers College is
recommended in the 1910 public
school budget estimates transmitted
to Congress today.
The Budget Bureau placed before
the legislators school finance
schedule for the next fiscal year
calling for $13,177,730 in appropria-
tions-a sum more than 5000 900
under the estimates of the Board
of Education but more than $780,
600 above the appropriation for this
year. The estimate set by the Dis
trict Commissioners was $13, ITO 900,
or Sl,270 above what the Budget
BNreau approved.
The new home for the crumbling
teachers college is the only new
school provided for in the estimates,
although funds are recommended
for completion of the Calvin Cool
idge Senior High at Fifth and
Sheridan streets NV. and the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior
High School and Library in South
west Washington. An eight-room
addition to the Montgomery School
and 10-room addition to the Ran
dali Junior High are also recon-
mended.
Location of the new teachers COL
lege would be on the grounds of the
old tuberculosis Hospital at Thir-
teenth and Upshur streets NV. in
front of the old hospital building on
the Upshur street side.
Site Purchases Recommended.
Four sites for schools were recon-
mended for purchase, including one
on which to construct the addition
to the Montgomery School, This
will serve as replacement for the
old Briggs School, which is on the
site of the new War Department
Building and must be abandoned.
CogniZance was taken of the
growing school needs of the Wesley
Heights and Spring Valley and other
West Washington communities In
the approval of site purchased at
Massachusetts, avenue and Macomb
street NV. School officials have
made a thorough investigation of
the territory after complaints from
some of the residents in those COM
munities of transportation difficult
ties in getting to the schools the
children now must attend.
At present the children attend
Gordon Junior High and Western
High School.
Other sites, purchase of which was
approved by the Budget Bureau,
were for an addition to the Syphax
School with assembly hall-gym-
naSium, and for Northeast Senior
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The Board of Education asked for
$18,923,110 for the school system
in the 1910 fiscal year and the final
approved amount is $13,177, ,730.
Construction Program Slashed.
The ak fell hardest on the school
building construction and school site
program. The School Board asked
for $6,289 400. The Budget Bureau
approved $1,500,0O0, which will pro-
vide for five building projects and
four land purchases for sites.
The Public Utilities Commission is
another agency that will feel the ef-
feet of the Budget Bureaus action.
1t had asked for 16 additional en-
ployes, needed to work. on the new
taxicab liability insurance law and
to. fill long existing gaps in its cler-
ical staff, and was allowed but one
more, a clerk at $1,44O a year. In
addition, the bureau failed to ap-
propriate salary for a peoples
counsel, an Office that has been
vacant for more than two years.
The budget picture, however, has
bright side.
Although the Police Department
was denied funds for personnel
increase, the Budget Bureau did ap-
prove items for enlargement of the
building occupied by the Woman's
Bureau and for construction of a
police precinct station on the site Of
the old Abbott School, Fifth street
and New York avenue NV. The
new building will house the re-
established second precinct station.
A fund of $25,OO0 was approved
for plans for a grade separation
structure in Fourteenth street at its
intersection with Maine avenue
S.W. as major traffic engineering
project for the future to relieve con-
gestion at this present bottleneck.
The bureau also allowed the High
way Department funds for % major
paving jobs and two street widening
projects. Provision was made for
continuation of the construction of
the new Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge.
Penal Institutions Benefit.
The District penal institutions also
will receive benefits under the new
budget. In an addition to an ap-
preparation to complete the annex to
the jail, the bureau answered the
frequent pleas Of penal authorities
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for an increase in the guard force
at the workhouSe and reformatory.
Approved budget items provide q
more guards at these institutions, as
we'll as funds to continue construc-
ton of permanent buildings for
| woman inmates at the workhouse
and for prisoners in the walled in
closure" at the reformatory.
Despite the fact that plans are
under consideration for relocating
the National Training School for
Girls in nearby Maryland or Vir-
ginia, the Budget Bureau took no
step in this direction, but approved
items to add five more domestic
attendants to it's staff and increased
the allowance for clothing for in
mates. However, it rejected a re-
quest of $175,0OO for construction
of new building for the Receiving
Home for Children.
In various District agencies funds
were provided for increased per-
sonnel. These include an increase
in the staff of the Zoning Commis-
sion, the Minimum Wage Board and
the probation offices of both the Po-
lice and District Courts.
The Sewer Department was given
an increase of $40, 100, chiefly for the
installation of new sewers and catch
basins, while the principal item ap-
proved in the budget Of the Water
Department provides 100000 for
water main to connect the new
Soldiers Home reservoir with the
Bryant Street pumping station.
More Refuse Department Funds.
One of the agencies allowed an
increase in the appropriation over
the current year is the city Refuse
Department. Nearly $4,000 of the
units additional funds will be used
for new equipment and there are
also increased funds for collection
of garbage, trash and ashes and
for operation of the incinerator.
Due to an increase in the number
of District patients under treatment
at st. Elizabeths Hospital, the
Budget Bureau approved an extra
$l76,2 ,26O for the institution.
While the bureau failed to include
in the 1910. regular budget an item
of $4,000, providing modern ma
chimes to permit establishment of
q central billing system in the as
sessors Office, this was done with
an understanding that the item
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Mail Service Estimates
Based on Continuing
Three-Cent Stamps

By the Associated Press.
The pictures on the stamps
may change and the glue may
taste better or worse, but let
ter postage seems likely to re-
main at 3 cents for another year.
President Roosevelt advised
Congress in his budget message
today that his estimates for the
postal service were based on
continuing that charge for
first-class, out-of-town mail.