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Evening star., 1939-01-11
Change MayCut
0verton Figure
On Payment
Modification Weighed
To Apply Formula to
General Fund Items
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

Senator Overton, Democrat, of
Louisiana may modify his plan for
settlement of the fiscal relations
problem by applying the percentage
Of Federally used land to the gen.
eral funds items in the District
supply bill instead of to the total
Of the bill as whole, he indicated
today.
He said he also was inclined to
believe land owned by the United
States but used by the District gov
ernment should be deducted from
the Federal acreage before arriving
at the Governments percentage.
Estimating there are about 200 acres
of such land used by the District,
he predicted this modification would
not change the result materially.
Excludes Separate Financing.
Conf1ning the formula to the gen.
eral fund would mean excluding
the water and highway appropria-
tions, which are financed separately
out of water rents and gasoline and
motor vehicle taxes.
These changes in the formula, if
embodied in the bill he is planning,
would mean smaller Federal pay
ment than was estimated originally,
but it would still be nearer to an
equitable Federal payment than the
present s5,00OOOO lump sum.
Senator Overton estimated the
general fund appropriations would
be approximately S40,0O0,0O0 for the
coming year, and that the area of
Federally used land would be about
20 per cent. Basing the national
obligation on this ratio would make
the Federal payment 100000.
Original Estimate S9,975, 900.
The original calculation several
days ago, placing the Federal land
area at 81 per cent and applying it
to the total District budget of ap-
proximately SAT 100000, would have
made the Federal share s9,975 900.
The Senator is still debating
whether to present his plan as a
separate bill or suggest it be con-
sidered as a part of the new Dis
trict tax bill, about to be drafted.
Meanwhile he continued his tour
of inspection of District agencies
yesterday afternoon by visiting the
Lorton Reformatory and Occoquan
Workhouse with municipal officials.
He said he regarded those as we'll
operated institutions. He will con-
slider whether more guards and
added facilities are needed. Earlier
in the day he had visited the Tuber-
culosis Sanatoria at Glenn Dale,
Md, and the District Training
School for Feeble Minded near
Laurel.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Federal Emp|oye Benefit
Bills Introduced

Two bills for the benefit Of Gov
ernment employees were introduced
in the House today. One would es-
tablish a minimum rate of pay for
all Federal and District employees
at not less than $1,500. The other
would grant 80 days annual and sick
leave to postal employees.
Representative Dunn, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania introduced the min
imum pay bill, which covers all en-
ployes, whether paid on per annum,
per month, per week, per diem.
piece work or any other basis. The
rate of pay for part-time employees
would be on pro rata basis.
Representative Keogh, of Illinois,
one of the new members on the Ways
and Means Committee, introduced
the postal employees leave bill. 1t
provides that sick leave would be
granted only upon satisfactory evi-
dence Of illness and if for more than
two days the application must be ac-
companied by a physicians certifi-
CAKE. The 80 days annual leave
would be credited at the rate of
tWo-and-a-half days for each month
of actual service.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Couple Held for Jury
On Harboring Charge

A young married couple today
were held for the grand jury on a
charge of harboring a 30-year-old
fugitive, who yesterday was returned
to South Carolina to complete life
sentence for murder.
The couple. John Clyde Baber, 90,
and Anna Mary, 26, pleaded inno-
cent and were held under $500 bond
when arraigned before Police Court
Judge Hobart Newman.
They were arrested Monday after
Detectives Guy Rome and Richard
Cox found Cecil Eugene Fowler, who
escaped from a South Carolina
prison on June l. 1886. in an apart
ment allegedly rented by Baber and
his wife in the TOO block of H
street NV.
Detective Cox said that when
shown warrant for Fowler's ar
rest, the pair denied he was living
at the apartment, but Fowler was
discovered in nearby room when
officers looked through a transom.
Fowler was convicted of murder
ing bootlegger on September 13,
1888, in Spartanburg, S. C.
Evening star., 1939-01-11

ing Miss Mary Alice Hill, director
of the public assistance division of
the Board of Public Welfare, and
Elwood Street who were criticized
in the Lewis report. At the same
time, DR.. Stokes said he believed
many of Mr.. Lewis proposals "are
basically sound"
DR.. Stokes suggested that ''it
would be in the public interest if
all unseemly comments on both
sides Of this unfortunate controversy
should cease, and attention be CEN
tered on getting fair consideration
OF the proposed new administrative
setup, improved relief and employ
ment policies, and additional appro-
priations called for by Mr.. Lewis.
District relief forces, he said, have
had to carry a tremendous emer-
gency burden with such small means
that case workers have been re-
quired to investigate three time as
many applicants for help as a pri-
vate welfare agency would consider
possible for good administration
That some errors of Judgment have
been made under such circumstances
was inevitable"
Dr. Stokes said he always had
found Miss Hill and Mr. Street
courteous, high-minded, hard
working and responsible public serv-
ants trying to do all in their power
for the tens of thousands of unem-
ployed, mostly needy, who have
sought the aid Of the department.
In an address over station VOL
yesterday, William Taylor, member
of the city Executive Committee of
the District Communist party,
scored the Lewis report and asked If
Mr.. Lewis were "by any chance look
ing for q job"
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Dr.. Mann Ponders Ways to Get
Rhino Here rom Calcutta
Rare Creature Must Have Tender Care
And Plenty Of Cur, Whatever That Is

White. the conservator of forests of
Assam, engaged to capture a
specimen for the National Geological
Park. Native hunters last fall locat-
ed mother and calf Pitts were
dug, and one night last November
the rhino calf tumbled into one of
them.
Six-Mile Road Cut.
The forest service had a road
slashed out for miles through the
jungle to the pits side, and trans
ported the rhino to the Assam Ben
gal Railway in an iron cage placed
on motor lorry.
The cage was constructed at a
railway workshop, the Indian papers
reported. at a cost of rs. 600.
The fast-disappearing Indian rhino
is making his last stand in the iso-
lated jungles of Assam, a country
south of the Himalayas, whose val
leys are circles by an Inner line"
beyond which British subjects are
forbidden to venture without a per-
nit and proper defenses. The wild
inhabitants of the hills gave up head
hunting too recently to encourage
the authorities to take chances.
The rhino will be put aboard a
steamer bound for the United States
early this Spring, after the weather
moderates in the North Atlantic. A
Zoo employe may be sent from
Washington to bring the animal
back. or arrangements may be made
to have the rhino's present Hindu
keeper accompany him to the United
States.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Promotion Of Truscotf
Urqed By Mai. Brown

1t. Floyd Truscott, ace detective
Of the Metropolitan police. was
among three officers recommended
for promotion today by Maj. Ernest
w. Brown, superintendent of police.
Maj. Brown sent to Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen the names of those
policemen at the top of the civil
service eligibility lists and the pro-
motions will become effective Mon
day if approved by the Commission
ers.
1t. Truscott, who solved the Allen
Wilson murder case and worked on
the Beulah Limerick Staying case,
was recommended for promotion to
captain. He has been attached to
the sixth precinct, but at present
is on duty at police headquarters
with the special squad investigating
the Office OF Chief Clerk Howard
Crawford.
It is believed he will be assigned
to the tenth precinct, where the
only vacant captaincy exists on &C
count of the recent death Of Capt.
Ira SheetZ.
Others proposed tor promotion
are Sergt. Paul L. Barnes, night in
spector, to lieutenant, and Percy
Deanell, headquarters pay roll clerk,
to sergeant.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Why Must They Die?

Eighty-sir persons Uere killed
last year in traffic accidents in the
District of Columbia-a needless
sacrifice of liDes. The 1889 record
is now being made. Already four
persons haze been killed this
year. two more than in the cor
responding period last year.
The Star, believing study OF
fatal accidents may cause motor
lists to driue more carefully, is
Offering during 1889 a tactual
analysis of each fatal accident in
the District of Columbia. illus
trated by pictures or sketches.
What ,Das the accident? Where
did it occur? What factors Uere
inpolued? These facts, as pre-
sented, vill be based upon official
findings.
The second of the series, al
though the fourth fatal accident
OF the year, is presented here
1Dith. An analysis OF the first
and second fatalities Dill be
ytUCU uJLST LHS COT OHeT LHQUCSLs
Traffic Fatality No. 4.
The place: Georgia avenue at
Barry place NV.
The accident: A 42-year-old COL
ored man was instantly killed when
struck by a taxicab while crossing
Georgia avenue in the 2300 block
Witnesses differed as to whether
cars were parked along Georgia
avenue and whether the victim
stepped from behind an automobile.
The taxi driver continued north
ward on Georgia avenue without
stopping. The victim, badly broken
up, was left lying on the street car
tracks about II feet from the Barry
place intersection.
The time: 6 pm, January Z.
Weather conditions: Clear.
The vehicle: A 1887 sedan. Brakes
good. Driver said he was travelling
Evening star., 1939-01-11
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr,

Transporting rhinoceros from
Calcutta to Washington is not the
simple task it might seem at first
glance.
The problem just now is furrow-
ing the brow of DR.. William A.
Mann. Zoo director, whose delight
in obtaining the rare and costly
animal is exceeded only by his anx-
iety to get him safely into the local
pachyderm house.
There is the matter of diet, per-
sonal care, and climatic changes on
the long voyage around India,
through the Suez Canal, the Med
iterranean and thence across the
North Atlantic. DR.. Mann, as a
precaution, has insured the life of
the 3-year-old rhino.
Figuring the life expectancy of
jungle-bred Indian rhino bound
for distant climes was a task for
Lloyd's of London and several
worthy British competitors. One
estimate submitted to United States
Consul General John Campbell
White at Calcutta included ma
ternity risk.
That Hazard Out, However.
Quite number of rupees were de-
Quoted from the premium when the
insurance agent was informed this
risk could be eliminated. The rhino
is healthy young male, and already
has forsaken his jungle diet, the
Calcutta newspapers report, in favor
of Calcutta Zoo fare of green grass,
milk, rice, sugar and CUR.
This last item is worrying DR..
Mann, who can't find "gur" in his
dictionaries or diet tables. If the
young captive wants 'gur," however,
it's safe to assume he will get it, be-
cause he is worth several thousand
dollars on the hoof, even in far-off
India, and once he gets to the United
States he couldn't be replaced for
many times that amount.
The Indian rhino is perhaps the
worlds most valuable exhibition
animal. American ZOOS have been
unable to obtain only three of them.
Through the good Offices of Mr..
Evening star., 1939-01-11
DC Reorganization
Plan Mayo 10
Roosevelt First
Kennedy in Favor Of
Effectine Program by
Several Bills

President Roosevelt will be asked
to review the proposed District gov
ernment reorganization plan in ad-
vance of its presentation to Con-
gress, it was revealed today by Rep
resentative Ambrose j. Kennedy.
Democrat, of Maryland, who will
have charge of the program in the
House.
Mr.. Kennedy said he desired Mr.
Roosevelt to give his Endorsement to
the plan before Congressional con-
sideration, feeling that with Presi-
dental support action would not be
delayed.
1t also is Mr.. Kennedy's inten-
ton to have the reorganization leg
islation embodied in a series of bills,
rather than one omnibus measure
Under such an arrangement, he
said, if Congress should find objec-
ton to any particular feature of
the plan, the entire program would
not be jeopardized.
The reorganization plan, being
developed by Chicago firm of
municipal engineers headed by E. O.
Griffenhagen, is expected to be COM
pleted within the next two weeks
The principal recommendation, it is
reported, will call for creation of the
office of business manager, and the
consolidation of various departments
and agencies whose services are now
duplicated or overlap.
The object of a reorganization is
to increase efficiency and economy
in the municipal government. Mr.
Kennedy advocated reorganization
for several years, and at the last
session of Congress 5000 was ap-
propriated to employ municipal ex-
perts to recommend changes that
would bring about these results.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Meurs Reelected

Thomas Mears was reelected gen.
eral superintendent of the Petworth
Methodist Episcopal Sunday school
last night at the annual board din
ner meeting. The Rev. r. L. Wood.
former pastor of the church. spoke
on Sunday school advancement. and
the Rev. Frank Steelman. pastor Of
the church, acted as POSTMASTER.
Others named were D. A. Spencer,
assistant superintendent; Lional r..
Fielder, general secretary; Frank
Ferris, assistant general secretary:
Pearl Mcpherson, recording secre-
tary, and Archibald Lindsay, treas
urer.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
New D. T.. Committee
Senators Keep Minds
Open on Suffrage
Clark and HoImun
Prepare to Become
Acquainted With Issues

Both of the newly appointed men,
bers of the Senate District Commit
tee-Senators D. Worth Clark,
Democrat, of Idaho. and Rufus C.
Holman, Republican, of Oregon
will enter upon the work with open
minds on the question of suffrage,
they made known today.
Il am not unacquainted with
municipal problems, and will apply
myself most earnestly to the mat
tiers that come before the commit
tee," said Senator Holman. Il was
member of the Charter Commis-
sion of Portland, Oreg., which made
the plans for change from the
councilmanic to the commission
form of government for that city"
The Oregon Senator said he is
particularly interested in school
problems
Senator Clark was member Of
the House for the past four years,
but had no direct contact with Dis
trict affairs, and said he had no
pre-conceived opinions on local
problems. He said he realized the
importance of the work of the Dis
trict Committee to the residents of
Washington.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Death Rate Here
Falls 10 A||-Time
Low in 1888
Birth Rote Highest
In 30 Years; Infant
Mortality Lowest

The Districts death rate from all
causes fell to 1892 per 100000 dur
ing the last calendar year, an all
time low record, according to un-
corrected calculations released yes
terday by the Health Department.
The previous low was in 1887, with
rate of 1891, and the lowest rate
preceding that was the IA record
of 1922.
Birth Rate Higher.
Last years birth rate, the de-
partment found. was the highest in
80 years. The birth rate increased
from 1888 per 1000 population in
1888 to 2O73 in 1898. Previously
the highest was reached in 1906
with rate of 2074.
The department reported de-
creases in the death rates from,
tuberculosis. pneumonia, diphtheria
and infant mortality.
tuberculosis Deaths at Low.
The tuberculosis death rate, the
department found, was 93.8 per
100000 population, which was de-
scribed as an all-time low. The rate
for 1887 was computed at 94.9, and
in 1910 it was reported to be 222
per 100000.
The pneumonia death rate for the
last year was said to be 86.9 per
100000 population, the lowest in the
last 38 years. For diphtheria the
rate last year was found to be IL
per 100000 population, as compared
with % in 1887. The last years
record was said to be an all time low
The infant mortality record for
the last year was found to be 48 per
1000 live births, another all-time
low. 1t compared with rate of
59.2 in 1885, the department said.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Comp to Aid Boys

Plans to send several hundred
underprivileged boys to the Mer-
rick Boys Camp at Nanjemoy, Md,
next summer will be made at a
meeting of the camp directors at
7:30 pm. tomorrow at the Columbia
Country Club.
Directors of the camp are about
so Catholic men of this city. They
organized the camp last year and
sent 275 boys Of all creeds there
last summer.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
24 at West Point Tests

TWenty-four men attended the
opening examination session for the
single vacancy at West Point held
today at the Wilson Teachers Col
lege. The tests will continue tomor-
row and Friday. Physical exami-
nations were given yesterday at the
fire clinic on Thirteenth street be-
tween K and L NV. Competition
for two vacancies at the Naval
Academy will be held in the same
places at a later date.
Evening star., 1939-01-11

IL miles an hour. Witnesses said
driver was exceeding speed limit
ana a deputy coroner said driver
must have been going more than
IL miles an hour to have shattered
the victims body as badly as it was.
The driver: A 33-year-old colored
Evening star., 1939-01-11

auto mechanic. He had no driving
permit, did not own the car. He
and the owner surrendered four
hours later at the second precinct
station.
Coroner jury's verdict: Driver held
for grand jury action.
Evening star., 1939-01-11

starts on a project. This is in line
with agreements in other cities.
Negotiations are procee d ing
quietly in connection with a fifth
low-rent housing project in the Dis
trict. The $6,600,00O loan nego-
tiated with the U. 8. H. A. allows
only four projects.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Escape With Cuts

Two men in car which fell 60
feet to the bottom of a cliff near
Higher Broughton, England, escaped
with cuts.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Reno Couple Decides
Washington Is Best
For MARRIAGE

A couple from Reno, New, has
decided to be married in WASH
ington.
Filed yesterday in District
Court in the Office of the mar
riage license clerk was the ap-
plication of Kenneth P. Reese,
% years old, and Gertrude B.
Joyce, %, who gave their ad-
dresses as Reno. The Rev. j.
Herbert Garner is to perform
the ceremony.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Band Concerts

BY the United States Marine Band
in, the auditorium at the Marine
Barracks at 2:30 o'clock. Capt
Taylor Branson, leader; William F
Santelmann, second leader.
Evening star., 1939-01-11

BY the United States Army Band,
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock in
the Army Band Auditorium. Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl
Hubner, assistant leader.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
No.. 4

spot where pedestrian struck street
tracks Georgia Barry place NV Direction
taken by B taxicab indicated The broken lines indicate
parked along Georgia avenue Some said the VIC
tim stepped parked into the pathway Of the
cab Others parked along that part
of the street.
Evening star., 1939-06-11

land. But usually they roam about on
the ice foes near the coast in the polar
area. Sometimes floating ice fields or
bergs carry them on long journeys.
even to Labrador or the Bering Sea.
A big male will measure eight feet
from tip to tip and weigh we'll over a
thousand pounds. No matter how bit
ter the weather, he seems absolutely
impervious to cold. The father bear
roams the ice all through the long
dark Arctic night, but the mother digs
a hole in the snow bank and sleeps
away the winter 1t is then that the
cubs are born. usually two. and no
larger than cats. They nurse and grow,
living on their mothers fat, and when
she breaks open her den in the spring
they roam and hunt with her on the
fields of ice.
Evening star., 1939-06-11

he is hardly fast enough to pursue fish
under water.
Essentially. the polar bear is not a
water animal, but he has adapted him
self amazingly we'll to life in that ele-
ment. Oil glands in the skin. air spaces
in the fur and thick layer of fat give
him surprising buoyancy. His toes
are partly webbed and his huge fiat
feet serve both as paddles and snow
shoes. The enormous power in his
forelegs can send his long gangly body
through the water at amazing speed.
Scientifically he differs from all other
bears because of his long neck, slender
pointed head and the fur on the soles
of his feet.
Polar bears are such powerful swim
mers that they have been seen nearly
three hundred miles from the nearest
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Continued from preceding poge

an equal number of potential beetles.
At the laboratory these wasps are
stored in individual glass tubes during
their period of Information. Usually
there are about $4,000 of these tubes
on hand. When ready for release in the
field entomologlsts seek out likely
spots. One hundred wasps represent
the nucleus of the new community. A
little over half of these colonies sur
vive. Over LOO of them have been
established in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey. Maryland. New York and other
infested states
Researchers recently have been de-
voting study to another beetle killer;
a parasitic roundworm. This minute
worm. harmless to plants and man.
lodges IN the digestive track OF the
grubs and kills them. Experimental
colonlzatlon already has begun.
Suppression of adult beetles is ac-
compllshed by means of sprays and
traps. On the research farm work goes
on constantly IN an effort to find more
effective sprays. Whole trees are en-
closed in wire netting and then
sprayed. Mortality among beetles let
free inside this area is then checked
So far it appears that calcium arsenatc
is the most effective poison If prop
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gait and headed in straight line to-
ward the sleek little creature. As the
bear numbered carelessly up, the seal
saw him and popped into its hole in
the ice. The bear seemed hardly to
notice the seals disappearance. He
shifted the air a bit and went straight
up to the hole and lay down beside it.
After few minutes the seal poked up
its head to breathe. With incredible
swiftness the great bulk of the bear
plunged bodily into the hole. There
was terrific commotion in the water
Evening star., 1939-06-11

The possibility of finding bacteria and
protozoa that would prey on the bee
ties has received great deal of study
but as yet nothing too promising has
turned up here. Better luck has been
encountered with prey insects. Alto
gether seventeen of these have been
brought into the country Conditions
in the United States have been suit
able for the survival of only five, and
of this five only two have been par
ticularly effective. These two are re-
lated wasps - one from Korea. the
other from Japan. Both are small and
black and look like flying ants.
These wasps are ground borers and
prey directly on the grub. The female
pushes her way through the earth
until she finds an unsuspecting grub
She stings it and the poison causes
temporary paralysis. She then lays an
egg which she attaches to the under
part of the worm. When this egg
matches the larva sucks fluid nourish-
ment from the grub. AS the larva
grows stronger the grub grows weaker.
Completely ungrateful for the hos
pltality afforded him the larva finally
consumes the depleted body of his
host. In the course of summer a
wasp will lay about forty eggs which
under ideal circumstances will DESTROY
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GREAT polar bear, pure white,
A numbered over the ice of
4 u Greenland foe He stopped,
raised himself on his launches and
carefully looked around while shifting
the air
Far off to the left seal lay beside a
hole. The bear must have caught a
faint odor of the animal, for he turned
sharply and shambled forward. He did
not attempt to stalk the seal; instead
he moved directly into the open,
swung into his peculiar long-striding
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Lionel Green

and the next moment the bear was on
the ice again with the dead seal beside
him. In half an hour his meal was
finished and, phantom-like. he van
ished behind the ice hummocks to
sleep away the morning in the warm
sun.
His next meal might be a young
walrus caught browsing on an ice pan
or even fish basking near the edge of
a foe He loves fish but seals and
walruses are his chief food. for even
though he is a magnificent swimmer