JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 1976

TO PROVIDE FOR HOME RULE IN THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

97650

MARCH 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, AND APRIL 1, 1952

Printed for the use of the Committee on the District of Columbia

57-41763

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1952

S. 1976 (82d Cong., 2d sess.), an act to provide for home rule in the Dis-

trict of Columbia.

Statement of-

Aitchison, Dr. David, the Anglo-Saxon Society, Takoma Park, Md..

Atherholt, Gordon M., Northwest Council Citizens Association and

Palisades Citizens Association, Washington, D. C-----

Beaver, Mrs. C. T., District Chapter of the Unitarian Fellowship for

Social Justice, All Souls' Church_

Beter, Peter, chairman, Home Rule Committee, Young Republicans

Club of the District of Columbia..

Case, Hon. Francis, a United States Senator from the State of South

Dakota; accompanied by Robert C. Albrook, assistant, and Gerhard

Van Arkel, counsel of the Senate Committee on the District of

Columbia, and secretary of the Democratic Central Committee of

the District of Columbia__

Chamberlain, Culver B., suffrage chairman, Washington Chapter,

Unitarian Laymen's League, All Souls' Church, Washington,

D. C.....

Colladay, Edward F., general counsel, Washington Board of Trade..

Cutler, Lloyd N., Washington Home Rule Committee..

Darrin, David, Washington, D. C.......

Dawson, Dr. Giles E., first vice president of the Connecticut Avenue

Citizens' Association___

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Gottsegen, Mrs. Jack, representing the Washington section of the
National Council of Jewish Women..

167

Hall, Woolsey, District of Columbia Federation of Civil Associations,

Inc.

185

Hawes, Alexander B., president, Central Suffrage Conference of the

District of Columbia_.

195

Howard, Clinton N., superintendent of the International Reform

Federation and editor of Progress Magazine, Washington, D. C. 164, 182

Lane, Michael J., Southeast Businessmen's Association_

Leonard, Mrs. Robert F., first vice president, League of Women Voters

of the United States-

Lusk, Rufus S., president, Washington Taxpayers Association....
McIlwee, Mrs. Branson Gilbert, Washington, D. C... ... ...

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McKee, Jerome B., immediate past president, Federation of Business-

men's Association__

171

Malloy, Mrs. George W., League of Women Voters of the District of

Columbia

178

Newell, Clifford H., Federation of Citizens Associations, The Wash-

ingtonians

188

Ottenberg, Mrs. Louis, representing the National Council of Jewish

Women

137

Spiro, Grace M., executive secretary, Washington Chapter, Americans

for Democratic Action; accompanied by James White-

Sylvester, Paul, Greater Washington Area Council, American Veter-

ans Committee__.

214

208

Tavenner, Frank, Young Democratic Clubs of Washington_

Watts, Glenn E., president, District of Columbia Industrial Union

Council, CIO.

219

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Whatley, David, Bethesda, Md..

221

Wheeler, Al, chairman, Democratic Citizens Committee.
Wood, Harlan, attorney, Washington, D. C..

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