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and Mrs. Louis M. Fisher, at Hew-
lett, on Long Island. during the
New York racing season.
For years Mr.. STREET. trained
horses for the Maryland Hunt Cup
races, as we'll as the Virginia events.
He was the honorary whip of the
Warrenton Hunt and trainer for
Mrs. Frank M. Gould of New York
and Mrs. Eva Stewart Spilman of
Burnley, the Plains, Va. He also
was well-known writer of sports
articles.
Several years ago Mr.. STREET. went
to Liverpool, England, to ride in the
Grand National Aintree race. In
recent years he had given up race
riding.
Mr.. STREET., a native of Baltimore,
was the son of the late John Rush
Street, of Pennington, Hartford
County, Md, a member of an old
Maryland family.
Funeral arrangements were being
held up pending the arrival of Mr..
Streets widow, the former Lettice
Coulling of Baltimore, who is visit
ing in the West.
Mr.. STREET., in addition to his wife,
is survived by two children; his
mother, Mrs. katherine B. Street,
of Baltimore, and a sister.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Resolution to Approve
Connolly Filed in House

A resolution authorizing Col. Don.
aid H. Connolly, former Work Prof.
ects administrator for Southern
California, to become administrator
Of Civil Aeronautics in the Com
merce Department was filed with
the House bill clerk yesterday, with
the approval OF the House Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee.
The resolution would permit Col.
Connolly to hold the aeronautics job,
despite a law prohibiting an Army
onicer on the active list from hav-
ing a civil off1ce position.
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BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 5.-Sonia Henie
now is wearing a wedding ring
alongside the big sparkler she got
from Dan Topping week ago.
The born figure -skat-
ing and screen star received the
love token from the millionaire
New York sportsman yesterday at
ceremony attended only by few
friends and the brides relatives.
The wedding ceremony was read
by the Rev, Joshua Oden of the
Irving Park Lutheran Church and
performed at the Lake Shore drive
apartment home of Arthur Wirtz,
business associate of the bride.
Topping, who is the owner of the
Brooklyn Dodgers football team
met his bride when she appeared
in her ice revue in New York last
winter. The romance came to pub
lie notice in March when they took
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Births Reported

Earl and Virginia De Hart boy,
George and Gladys Berry. boy.
Peter and Marian Haley, jr.. boy.
0Lver and Sarah Mathis, girl.
John and Mary Christy. girl.
henry and Vida Montgomery, girl.
Bruce and Edna Counts. boy,
Henry and Randolph Wells boy,
Claude and Constance Pennington. Girl
James and Hllda Schweitzer, boy.
William and Florence Moroney. boy,
Lawrence and Hazel Howe. girl.
Wilton and Dorothy Todd, girl.
Wilmer and jeanette Steiner, boy.
George and Mary Lewis. girl,
Walter and Emily Olson, boy.
Arthur and Mary Godfrey. boy
Lemuel and Martha Bowden, girl.
EDWARD and Marguerite Cotter, boy.
James and Dorothy Lumpkin, girl.
Ramon and Agnes Minick, girl.
William and Stella Wohlfarth, girl.
John and Cecil Burnside girl
Francis and Frances Baldy girl.
Glenn and Nancy Giere girl.
vincent and Rosalie Podicelli, boy.
John and Frances Jervis. jr, boy.
Eddie and Beulah Young, boy.
Everett and Anna Sescoe. boy.
Aoo!phuS and Mary Farmer. girl
Jerry and Eudelle Nicholson. girl.
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". B. Street, Dies;
Noted Steep|echase.
Rider and Trainer
Heart Attack FutuI
To Sportsman at
Long Island Dinner

William B. STREET., about 35, one
of the country's best known gen.
tleman riders and trainer of WIN
ming steeplechase horses in Mary
land and Virginia, died suddenly of
a heart attack last night while din
ing with friends at Westbury, Long
Island, N. Y.
Mr.. STREET., who trained several
winners of the famous Virginia
Gold Cup Race, including the last
one, recently had left his home at
Edge Hill, near Warrenton. to visit
his sister and brother n-laW, Mr.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Children Entertained

One hundred and fifty underprivi-
legged children were entertained with
fireworks and ice cream and cake
yesterday by the Children's Aid,
Inc, 466 H street S.W., at its an
nual Independence Day party.
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star in 1887, a year after quitting
amateur skating to start series of
American ice carnival tours. She
won the Norwegian figure skating
title at II and her first Olympic
championship at 16. She captured
the worlds figure skating cham
pionship 10 times before turning
professional.
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Deaths Reported

Mary. Cleary, st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Morris Stern. 1343 Fairmont st NV
Samuel c. Allen. 1121 18th St NV
Patrick McKenna. GEORGETOWN University
Charles Smith. Walter Reed General Hos
Ella Lee Pelowe. Sibley Memorial Hospital.
Francis Savage, Providence Hospital
Henrletta Swetnam. Walter Reed General
Hospital.
Charles n. Gwinn. 265o Wisconsin ave. NV
Albert H. Willard, Casualty Hospital
Matilda M. Yates, 1917 Good Hope I'd. Sc
Henrietta Brickwedede. .220 H st. ne.
Jetre W. Pugh, Casualty Hospital
Howard Strickler, Emergency Hospital.
William j Klinefelter. 1915 I st, NV
Wilbur Maneum, alias ManuelS. Gallinger
Hospital.
Bette Hansen, Emergency Hospital.
Francis L. Fagan, $50 Kenyon st. NV
Infant, David Brennan, Childrens Hos
Joseph Smallwood. st. Elizabeth's Hospital
Alexander johnson. Emergency Hospital
Rebecca Wallace, St Elizabeth's Hospital
William Green: 22s Sd st. Sc.
Willie Clay, sol N st. NV.
Beverly Tucker, Emergency Hospital.
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Henry Settler Dies

FREMONT, Ohio, July 5 R.-
Henry Settler, rs, father Of Frank
Settler, curator at the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, died yes
terday of a heart attack.
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Uarn nf ThankH

HERBERT, WILLIAM r. We wish to
extend our thanks and appreciation to
our many friends for their sympathy and
kind services at the death of our husband
ana father. WILLIAM F. HERBERT.
THE FAMILY
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Over 5000 horses were exhibited
at this years Agricultural Fair in
Verona, Italy.
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IN, AARON W. On Wednesday,
July 3, 1910. at his residence,
-, 72S Bird st. Sc, AARON w.
NE GREEN. He is survived by his
5H wife. Mamie Green, and host
LH of other relatives and friends.
Funeral from his late residence,
SaturdaY july 6. at 9 q clock
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UTCHIsON, CHARLOTTE PAULINE.

On Ihursdav July a. 1910, CHARLOTTE
PAULINE HUTCHISON, beloved mother of
Mrs. L. v. Friedli, Mrs Pauline Phillips and
Lawrence E. Hutchson.
Funeral from the w w Deal funeral
home, 1912 Georgia ave. NV, on Monday,
July s, at pm. Relatives and friends
invited Interment GlenWood Cemetery.
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1aIEo' MAIfLDA NJ. tBLANCHFJ. On
Wednesday. July 3, 1910. at her residence.
1917 Good HOPE rd. Sc. MATILDA NJ.
(BLANCHEl YATES, beloved wife of the
late Glen, Yates and mother of Mrs. Agnes
Webb and Mrs. Alma A. Buterbaush.
urday, July &. at Q am: thence to St
Theresa's Catholic Church. 18th and V sts.
Sc, where mass will be offered at 9:30
and friends invited. Interment Cedar viii
Cemetery. s
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etery. BY order of Sergt. George Berry
Camp, No. 10, Department of the Potomac.
ARTHUR G. TAYLOR, Commander
c. A. CARN1SH. Adjt.
HAMMANN, JACOB. On Wednesday,
July 3. 1910. at his residence near Ger
m1antown; Nd, JACOB HAsMMANN. s be-
Funeral services Sunday. July r, at
Z. m, at Mcdonald Chapel, Prince Orchard,
Md. Interment Forest Oak Cemetery
Gaithersburg, Md.
HANSEN. MYNNE AMELIA. Or. Thurs
day, July 4. 1910, at Emergency Hospital,
MYNNE AMELIA HANSEN. 2127 Cali
fornia St NV, beloved mother Of Robert
1orenZ Hansen.
Services at the S. H. Hines Co; funeral
home, 2901 14th st. NV. on Sunday, July
at pm. Interment private.
day July 3, 1910. ROBERT HENDERSON
Of 1921 n. J, ave NV. devoted father Of
Rooert HENDERSON,; ir.. and Vlrglnla h.
Briggs brother of Thomas and Annie Hen
derSon and Violet. Briggs and uncle Of
Esther Newton. He also is survived by
other relatives and friends.
Funeral from the Malvan & Schey fu-
neral home, N. J ave. and R st. NV Sat
urday, July 6. at $3.50 pm. Interment
OTNn How
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Plaza Traffic
Draws Punch
From Caldwell

The much-discussed traffic lights
on the Union Station Plaza evi-
IDENTIFY appear an impenetrable maze
to Chairman Caldwell of the sub
committee reporting the 194l Dis
trict appropriation bill today.
During hearings Trafflc Direc-
tor William A. Van Du7er was
questioned by members of the conf
mittee and testified that he beneved
the lights have provided definite
improvement in Plaza trafic.
Pedestrians are able to get
through without being hiL.' he
said. The only way to get any Pc
destrian protection there was to put
in pedestrian lights"
Mr.. Van Duzer also pointed cut
that last year there were As acci-
dents on the Plaza and this year
SO far only 3.
I'VE are having great many
less than We had last year. the
trafflc director said.
Il am quite sure that is so said
Chairman Caldwell. because very
few people can get in there now. ~
MIR. Van Duzer testified, how
ever, that a traffic count showed
about nine-tenths as much traffic
was using the Plaza as used it
before installation Of the lights.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Ballou Suggestion 10 Cut
Items Shocks Caldwell

Chairman Caldwell of the sub
committee of the House Appropria-
tions Committee handling the Dis
trict budget was nearly overcome
during the recent hearings on the
bill when a District Official suggested
a reduction in the bill, it was re-
vealed today.
Pointing out that the Allison
Street Health School and the Toner
School for children with positive
tuberculin reaction have been aban-
doned, Supt Frank w. Ballou sug-
gested that the item be cut from
$7.750 to $4,000.
THE suggestion of a reduction
comes with a great shock" said Mr.
Caldwell. apparently overwhelmed
However. we are grateful for it,
DR.. Ballou administered a further
shock when. on advice of a school
oficial. he suggested that the item
for transportation of tubercular
crippled and sight conservation class
children be pared more than $1,000
because of the elimination of the
tubercular group. These children
are now back in the regular schools
on recommendation of the Health
Department.
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Bill Carries $4,000
For Schooling Of
HANDICAPPED Pupils
Bourd of Education
Surprised by Item
In Welfare Budget

The Association for the Education
Of Handicapped Children today won
a partial victory in its battle for in
clusion in the l94l District budget
Of funds to carry on home instruc-
ton for handicapped children
Now carried on under w. P. A.
auspices. the project would have ex-
pired in June. but can now be carried
on under a SIS 900 item inserted in
the budget of the Board of Public
Welfare.
Method Surprises Board
This method of dealing with the
project came as surprise. as the
Board of Education had previously
for a number of years sought funds
to carry on the work without success
and Mrs. Henry Gratann Doyle,
president of the board. has been in
terested in having the work made a
part of the regular public school
program.
While giving the funds to the
welfare department, the subcommit-
tee reporting the bill to the House
today specified that the program
should be carried on with the CO.
operation of public school authori-
ties
$22,400 Sought.
Under the leadership of Mrs.
Odetta OHara. the association car
ried on program calculated to in
terest civic groups in the cause of
the shut-ins and played its trump
card in wheeling shut-in before the
subcommittee on a stretcher to tes-
tify to the merits of the program.
The association sought $22. 400.
which was the amount requested by
the school board.
The subcommittee said that the
$4,000 was the maximum it could
allow for the purpose and that it was
sufficient to do "a reasonably good
job. especially if attention is given to
assembling some of the less handi-
capped children into small groups at
regular intervals"
Under the w. P. A. project more
than $50 children are currently re-
ceiving instruction in their homes or
in the clinics of hospitals. This in
cludes lis white children and more
than 100 colored children.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Use Of Old School Shifted
In Surprise Move

The Commissioners through Audi
tor Daniel j. Donovan sprang a sur
prise on school officials during the
appropriation hearings in connec-
tion with the disposition Of the old
Jefferson Junior High School. 1t was
revealed today when the bill was
reported to the House.
School officials had counted on
turning the old structure into a
storehouse and using part of the
space for recreational purposes of
the children.
When the item for $4,000 to turn
the building into a storehouse came
up Maj. Donovan intervened to ask
that 1t be stricken out, as the Com
missioners had in mind using the
building as garage and repair shop
and general warehouse, which is
now in the Ford Building and will
have to make way for the con-
struction of the new Central Library.
He said the item had been approved
through an oversight"
Supt. Frank w. Ballou expressed
regret that the Commissioners had
not revealed their intention earlier
at hearings.
Il dislike very much to agree to
the elimination of the item under
these circumstances" he said, add
ing, 1T Is just as urgent that the
public schools should have a store
house as 1t is that the District Com
missioners should have a garage"
Chairman Caldwell expressed the
opinion that since the Commission
ers' plan would require razing the
present building, it might be more
economical to leave it for the
schools, but the committee elimi-
mated the item on the understanding
that one Of the old school buildings
soon to be replaced can serve as q
storehouse.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Crime Fails to Effect Boost
In Number of Policemen

The Police Department took 1t
on the chin today as the House Ap-
preparations Subcommittee recon-
meinded q 1941 police budget of
slightly more than $500, 900 to the
House.
Despite the plea by Supt. Ernest
w. Brown for more men and the
increase in District crime while
the subcommittee was in session,
not one additional policeman was
provided in the estimates, which
were some 1850 below the Budget
Bureaus figures and $8S.O00 be-
low cVcent appropriations.
An ln. Of ti,36S vas approved
covering the salary Of . part-ttme
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Budget Carries 100000
To Continue New Library

A 100000 item for continuing
construction of the new central
library is carried in the l94l Dis
trict budget reported to the House
today.
This sum accounts for the bulk
OF a 100000 increase in the H.
brary budget over the present ap-
preparation, but the final figure of
$77S $40 is more than $4,000 less
than the amount approved by the
Budget Bureau.
An increase was given in the
salaries item to take care of the
new Southwest branch, which is
expected to open in the fall.
The item for continuing work
on the new central building will
leave a total of $S68, 900 necessary
to complete the structure.
DR.. George F. Bowerman. Ii
brarian, predicted at the sub
committee hearings that the 1910
census would show a need for more
branch libraries here. He said the
present library would be turned
into a branch library when the
new central library is complete
There are now, he explained. SIX
major and five minor branches, not
including the new Southwest unit
Evening star., 1940-03-27

physician in the police eye, ear
nose and throat clinic.
Various suggestions have been
offered by other members of Con-
gress to help out the local force.
it has been suggested the park
police help out in the presidential
escorts and diplomatic affairs, and
that the Government building
guards might assist. ...
Maj. Brown asked for LIS addi-
tional men, which the Commission
ers Reduced to Is and the Budget
Bureau eliminated entirely. Com
missioner Hazen recently attrib-
uted q slight recession In the crime
wave to the fact that more than
100 additional men had been added
to tA1niSht shift from other tours
Of duty.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
S49,960 Provided
For Certification Of
E|igib|es for Relief
$4,000 for Additional
Case Workers Also
In D. G. Fund Bill

A S49, 900 slice was taken from the
100000 relief appropriation to pay
for workers engaged in certifying
persons eligible for work relief and
surplus commodities in the District
supply bill reported out today.
The bill also provided $4,000 for
additional case workers for the pub
lie assistance division, as requested
by the Board of Public Welfare, but
in doing SO. took this sum, too. from
the 100000 grant With the certi-
flying agency and the established
$4,000 for PERSONAL services. total
of sl57,960 must be taken from the
relief grant.
w. P. A. Handles Certification.
At the hearings. testimony of
which was made public today, Public
Welfare Director Robert E. Bondy
told the District Appropriations
Committee that the w. p. A. had
been handling certification of relief
clients. Under the Federal w. P. A.
policy, however, the responsibility
for certification is usually borne by
the local departments of public well
fare, he explained.
He said the District was the out
standing exception of the country"
to this general policy and that the
responsibility for certification should
have been taken over February l
last but couldn't be for lack of funds.
The other major gain within the
public assistance division budget
was the increase in the percentage
of funds for personal services from
10 to IL per cent of the $500 900
grant.
Mr.. Bondy emphasized during the
hearings that more case workers
would mean more accurate and
efficient spending what We now
have"
Case Load Of 1870 Families.
The present staff, he said, carried
average case loads OF 100 families,
almost twice the number the Social
Security Board indicates is an aver
age number that worker can rea-
sonably be expected to handle.
Mr.. Bondy also told the subcom-
mittee that Baltimore spends twice
as much per capita for general re-
lief as Washington.
Appropriations for other types Of
relief renamed as estimated in the
Budget Bureau request, including
$163 900 for home care for depend
ent children. $575.OOO for old-age
assistance and $4,000 for the needy
blind.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Northwest Health Center
DeIeted From Bill

Although the l94l District, appro-
priation bill failed to carry Budget
Bureau-approved item of $4,000 for
purchase of a site for a new health
center in the Northwest section, it
did recommend $4,000 for furnish
ing and equipping the new center in
Southwest Washington.
The bill also provides for CONSOLE
dation of nine items heretofore pro-
vided in the annual supply bill into
four major items: Administration,
medical services, laboratories and in
spections.
The House subcommittee which
drafted the bill said it believed the
new setup would provide a more
intelligent expenditure and better
control of funds and will result in
improved accounting for such
funds"
In the general trimming Of mu-
nicipal estimates, the subcommittee
reduced the Health Department s
Budget Bureau-approved items by
$50, 800.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Father of 9 Sees
Indictment in
Pupil Decline

Decreasing enrollments in the
white elementary schools due to
falling birth rate constitutes very
significant discovery and stands as
an indictment of the white people
Of Washington in the mind of
Representative Rabaut, Democrat,
Of Michigan.
In the hearings on the District
194l budget. made public today. Mr..
Rabaut said he was speaking as the
father Of nine children.
He pointed out that when WASH
ington had a population Of 4S6 600
there were more than 5000 chill
dren In the white elementary
schools, but now, with the population
an estimated 685 900, the figure has
dropped to slightly more than 5000
Certainly" he commented. they
have forgotten the precept Go thou
and do likewise" -...
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Request
For Schools Emerqes
As $12,778,773
Subcommittee Cuts
Nearly Half Million
From Bureau Figures

A $l2,778,773 budget for the public
schools during the next fiscal year
was recommended to the House to-
day by its District Appropriations
Subcommittee.
This was about $59O.0O0 less than
the present appropriation and
nearly $500 900 below the estimates
approved by the Budget Bureau.
The Board of Education originally
sought more than $l8,775,000.
Building Items Reduced.
High lights of the bill include:
/ A slash of $500, 900 in the build
ings item. Funds were allotted to
start construction Of a junior high
school near Seventeenth and @
streets S. E., new Abbot Vocational
School at Thirteenth and Upshu
streets NV, an eight-room addi-
ton to the Syphax School and
for plans for a new senior high
at Twenty-fourth street and Ben
ming road NE. in expectation they
will be given funds for completion in
future years.
2. Denial of funds for two voca-
tional guidance officers, in belief
work can be adequately done by
present officials.
Fuel Item Is Trimmed.
3. Cut of more than $1,000 in fuel,
light and power item to $500 900 and
retention of rider" that no def
cheney be incurred.
4. Reinsertion of rider" that
average salaries of public school
librarians shall not exceed the aver
age of employees of the Public Lii
brary doing the same type of work.
S. Increase allotment for school
gardens to $500.
6. Nine thousand dollars to re-
model the Allison Street Health
School for use by the crippled classes
now at Landon. More than $1l 900
was asked.
7. Cut Of $500 in teachers and
librarians salaries, to be made up by
release of teachers from Industrial
Home School to come back to
system.
The Abbot School replacement was
changed by the full Appropriations
Committee from q Brentwood Park
site recommended by the subcom-
mittee to the Upshur location as
being more desirable.