Evening star., 1940-02-18
Emergency Relief
Is Urged by Schultz
For Home for Aged
Three New District
Inquiries Will Stort
This Week
By JAMES E. CHINN.

Emergency relief for the Home for
the Aged and Infirm was advocated
last night by Representative Schultz,
sional committees completed ar
rangements for series of investi-
cations this week into District
affairs
Three new inquiries. plus a re-
study of plans for reorganizing the
municipal government and liberal
izing the local unemployment COM
pensation act, are on the schedule
of both standing and special SUBJ
committees of the House District
Committee.
Mr.. Schultz, incidentally. declared
none of these investigations would
be necessary il the disfranchiSed
residents of the District we're al
lowed to elect their own municipal
officers and could throw out tho
ones who don't work" -
Changed Mind on Suffrage.
Il am just as strongly in favor Of
local suffrage as was opposed to
it when I became member of the
District Committee nearly eight
years ago" he said. Its the only
| real solution of local problems"
The new Investigations to start
this week are:
Tomorrow-A special subcotnmit-
tee headed by Representative Mich
OILS, Democrat, of Oklahoma begins
hearings on complaints that some
| gasoline dealers have been selling
straight or inferior gas at high-test
premium prices. George M Roberts.
superintendent of weights, measures
and markets, will be the witness.
The hearing will be held in room 327
of the Old House Office Building,
headquarters of the House Claims
Committee. at 10 am.
Tuesday - Another special sub
committee, headed by Representa-
tives Eberharter, Democrat, of Penn
sylvania, will begin public hearings
on the liquor situation. The first
witness will be Ralph A. Lee. whose
application for license to sell
liquor by the drink in a restaurant
he planned to open in the vicinity
of Riverside Stadium was rejected.
This hearing will be held in the Dis
trict Committee room, No. 345, Old
House Office Building at 1890 am.
Receiving Home Hearing.
At the same time Tuesday, in the
Claims Committee room, the Public
Health Subcommittee, temporarily
headed by Representative D'Alesan-
dro, Democrat, of Maryland, viii
begin an investigation of conditions
at the Receiving Home for Children.
Miss Fay L. Bentley, Judge of Juve-
nile Court, and Robert e. Bondy,
director of public welfare, will be
the principal witnesses
Later in the week, probably Thurs
day or Friday, new hearings will
start on the municipal government
reorganization program and the Nc
Gehee bill to revise the unemploy-
ment compensation law. A definite
date and time will be fixed later.
Also to be investigated are the
baby adoption business in Washing
ton, and fortune tellers, palmists,
clairvoyants and others who claim
to have psychic powers These two
inquiries, however, are not expected
to start for a week or two.
Mr.. Schultz, q member of the Pub
lie Health Subcommittee, which has
virtually completed an inquiry into
conditions at the Home for the Aged
and Infirm, said he believed Con-
gress should not wait until the reg
ular appropriation bin for the Dis
trict is passed to start to remedy
some Of the serious conditions found
(see INVESTIGATIONS, page A-5)