Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1924, Page 4

LACK OF EQUIPMENT HAMPERS SCHOOLS Dr. Ballou Reports Heavy Shortage of Classrooms in District. [ for be opencd elementary each it Ninety classrooms =chool purils must vear for a period of five ears nortables. oversize classex and the of undesgirable rooms a to be eliminated. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, points out in the fourth installment of hi: nual report. made public today. uperintendent also estimates additional accommodations for high scheol pupils should be opened vear over the five ar period care of accumulated short- age and the prospective increase in enrollment in the »nior institutions. With 4 pressing need for 459 addi- tional classrooms In the graded schools Dr. Ballou said that Con- sress failed to appropriate in the current District appropriation bill “a single dollar’” for any new construc- tion for cither elementary, junior or senior high schoco “These estimates are conservative,” Dr. Ballou declared ey are based upon figures of actual enrollment and conditions in our elementary schools with respect to shortage of school- | house accommodations. The esti-| mate of increased enrollment is bused upon the inc ed enrollment over the t 10 years. use J to take 430 Clamsrooms Short. In view house of €39 gress of the shortage of school- accommodations to the extent | assrooms. the failure of Con- » appropriate for a single ad- | ditional classroom for elementary | school purpo is thoroughly dis- appointing. Tt means that relief from distressing conditions must be post- poned for another year. “Moreover, any appropriation bill of the future which fails to appropri- ate for at least 90 classrooms for ele- mentary school buildings and accom- modations for a thousand high school pupils will be likewise disappointing, because it will mean a postponement of the relief from overcrowded condi- tions. to which the patrons of the public schools have long looked for- ward. and which the pupils of the District of Columbia have every right as American citizens to expect from Congress Three hundre 459 additional cording to the portables. and thirty-six of the classrooms needed, ac- report, will eliminate rented quarters, undesir- able rooms and part-time classes. Of the remainder 102 will permit the abandonment of buildings recom- mended for abandonment in 1908, and 21 will permit the abandonment of other buildings now unfit for use. S8 Exeess Pupilx. | In a section devoted to accommoda- tlons in the senior and junior high | schools Dr. Ballou shows that on No- | vember 1. 1923, there was an of 2356 pupils. These exces were distributed as follow Busi- ness. 356; Central, 976 McKinley. 308; Western, 3415 Columbia Junior High School, 86; Armstrong, 776, and Dun- Lar. 542 The entire fourth section of the | superintendent’s repert deals with the appropriation act for the current fiscal year, sctting forth in detail the increased appropriations granted by the Roard of Education. but denied by the Budget Bureau und Congre: Among them Dr. Ballou classified as an assistant superintendent for edu- cational research. a sufficient num- ber of teachers. clerks and janito Dr. Hou added, however. that 1t tifying to make reeord of the that Congress provided in- creased appropriat for a consid- crable number of educational act ties which are carried on under lump sum appropriations.” Increased ap- propriations were allowed for the vacation and night schools. Ame canization work, equipment for typi- al classes, text books and supplies, kindergarten supplies, science labor- atories, for the maintenance of play- grounds und for the equipment of three new junior high schools. On the other hand, increased appropri- ations asked for the medical inspec- tion service, manual training work and equipment of new playgrounds was not allowed under the lump sum appropriations. MASSACRE IS CHARGED. Protest Made to Russia Over Ru- manians’ Acts. pupils | te is Ry the Associated Press. MOSCOW, October 29.— Bitter pro- tests were made vesterday to the All-Russian Parliament, sitting in the Kremlin, by Bessarabians and | mit for a Ku Klux THREE BANK BANDITS GET $7,250 AND FLEE Employes Imprisoned in Vault. Burglar Alarm Put Out of Commission. | ssociated Press { NEW ORLEANS, October 29.—Two | masked robbers entered the St. Cland avenue branch of the Interstate Bank and Trust Company late yesterday, took $7.250 in currency, forced woman teller, the manager and a 1 vear-old Loy into the vault and escaped in an automobile which was waiting in front of the bank with a third man at the wheel The men, wearing white handker- chiefs on the lower part of their faces, entered the bank with drawn revolvers, compelled Mrs. T. P. Grace, paying teller; Henry Lobit, manager, and Fred Erickson, young bookkeep- er, to throw up their hands. As Mrs. Grace complied, she pressed her foot on a button on the floor to send in an alarm, but the wires of the burg- lar system had been cut by the rob- bers. One of By the the bandits enteged the cage and, after picking up all the currency in sight, forced the em- ployes into the vault und attempted to lock the door but failed, as the combination had been sprung. Piling chairs and other office furniture against the door, the bandits returned | to their car and escaped. Several | thousand dollars in a drawer was overlooked. A few moments after the bandits' departure the imprisoned employes succeeded in opening the vault door and notitied the police. EXPLOSION OF BOMB HITS MAYOR'S HOME Controversy Over Klan Parade Per- mit Held Cause of Qutrage in Niles, Ohio. By the Amociated Press. NILES, Ohfo, October 29.—A bomb explosion early today wrecked the front porch and dumaged the front of the home of Mayor Harvey . Kist- ler and shook many other buildings in the neighborhood. Neither Mr. Kistler nor his wife, who were aslecp in an | upstairs room. were injurcd. The bombing. police official lieve, is the result of a controv over issuance by the mayor of a per- Klan parade here Saturday. Intense fecling was aroused when an anti-Klan organization di tributed circulars of its intention holding a parade on the same date, although Mayor Kistler announced no permit would be granted. VOTING BY WOMEN BREAKS RECORD IN BRITISH ELECTIONS Sheflield, and a few county divisions, including Lancashire and Middlesex In some districts the polls opened at 7 o'clock and in others an hour later. At that time warm sunshine was general. but the sky later be- ame overcast and wers we promised. The fog which was an election day feature last year, how- ever, seemed unlikely An indication of the intense inter- est In the clection was seen in the aueucs which were formed outside the polling booths before their opening Another feature was the apparent carly voting of the members of the middle class, who usually put off their visit to the ballot box until afternoon or evening. The women. who will play a langer part this vear than ever before and may eventually decide the fate of the parties, were cvidently extraordinarily intcrested, many appearing in the carly line-ups at the booths. To forestall any outbreaks of rowdyism, special details of police were stationed in the poorer districts, but early indications were that the clection would be an orderly onc. The police themselves did not expect much trouble. SR ST Electric light in the average home | costs but approximately 1 cent a day for each member of the family $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington And Retarn | print THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT! $250,000 NEEDED TO REMOVE OLD AQUEDUCT BRIDGE ENTIRELY Though the abandoned Aque- duct Bridge, repluced by the Fran- cis Scott Key Bridge, carnot be wholly removed unless Congress provides funds for the work, the demolition of the upper part of the old structure actually is under way, and before long nothing will remain but the stone plers and the supporting steel frame. Work in progress includes re- moval of the flooring of the bridge and the iron railing on both sides. It is being done by order of the District Commissioners, who have special jurizdiction over the upper portion of the structure. All the good planks, fencing and other material salvaged in this way are to be used in repair work on other District bridges. The south end of the old brid 3 1. C. C. GRANTS DELAY IN NEWSPRINT CASE Pennsylvania Asks More Time to File Exceptions in Rate Dispute. At the request of the Pennsylvania Railroad, an extension of time has been granted by the Interstate Com- merce Commission to the Washing- ton Publishers’ Association and asso- ciated complainants and the two rail- roads named as defendants in a befors the commission involving re- duction of railroad rates on news- paper from northern points to Washington and Baltimore. The com- mision in a tentative report by Kx- aminer W. B. Hunter set October 29 as the final date for filing of excep- tions, but extended the time until No- vember § at the request of the rail- road company. The tentative report found that while the rail rates from mill points in New England and other producing points to Washington were unreason- able to the extent that they cxceed the rate to Baltimore by 1 cent per 100 pounds, the Baltimore-mill points rate was not unreasonable. This con- tention of the examiner, according to attorneys for the complainants, does not fully meet with the point of the complainants that the entire rate structure is too | gh. timore-Washin; ean rate but does not a is too high. rates for the longer haul from mill points | to Baltimore, the basing point. Two other complaints. on paper cores and newsprint ink, are before the commission for decision. They were heard by Ixaminer Fleming last January. JOHN W. HURDLE DIES. John Warre Hurdle, vears old, & member of N 0. 1 Engine Company of the District of Columbia Fire De- partment, died at his residence, 117 Second strect, yesterday. Death was due to heart disease, it was stated Mr. Hurdle had served with the local Fire Department for 14 year: Funeral services will be conducted the residence tomorrow morning 10 o'clock. Interment will be pri- in Glenwood Cemetery Hurdle survived by ters, Miss Lillian K. Hurdle Anna Wilkerson and Mrs. O'Callahan, and two brothers, X Hurdle and E. J. Hurdle. il of this city: also two other brothers. Owen T. Hurdle of Kittery, Me. and Wil- liam L. Hurdle of Cleveland. at at vate Mr. is three The the the the luckiest day for a wedding and Autumn, when the wine is in, as most suitable season It finds the Bal- | ~mpt a correction of | Rumanians regard Sunday as | pletely shit off by the abutting high embankment of the new Key Bridge, and with the gradual re- moval of the bridge floor it has become necessary to close the historic old thorcughfare to trafic entirely. Since the opening of the Key Bridge only a few daring pedestrians have ventured on or across the old structure. Maj. O'Connor, the United States Bngineer in charge of this engi- neering district, estimates that it will cost about $250,000 to remove the bridge piers and the superim- posed steel frame. If Congress provides the money, it is his pur- pose to utilize the stone recovered for building seawalls in Anacostia Park and the good steel beams and rods in the construction of proposed small bridges in that GEORGE BERNARD SHAW GOES TO A BALL GAME; LIKE “PUSS-IN-BOOTS” (Continued from First Page.) vantage over cricket of being sooner over. As far as I can grasp it it combines the best features of that primitive form of ericket (the only tolerable one) known as tip and run, with those of lawn tennis, puss-in- the-corner and Handel's “Messiah," and it surpasses them all (except Handel) in giving scope for the high er human faculties of rhetoric, irony and eloquent emotional appe Attaboy Like Greek Cry. Iiven those players who had no gift of eloquence expressed their souls in dithyrambic cries like the Greek “Kvoe? which sounded to me like ttaboy!” 1 confess that T am not enough of a Gireek scholar to trans late attaboy, but it is a very stimu- lating ejaculation. What is both surprising and de- lightful is that the spectators are allowed and even expected to join in the vocal part of the game. 1 do not see why this feature should not be introduced Into cricket. There i no reason why the wicket keeper should not incite the bowler to heroic exertions by combined taunt- ing and coaxing or why the ficld should not try to put the batsman off hix stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and s motacrs | respectability. It is true that the English cricket- |er would not do it exactiy in the same way. He would ery “Get vour| hair cut” or “Take off that paper | collar” or but the inten- | tion and the effect would be the same. | And the spectators could Jet them- | selves go utterly, rivalling each other in every art of the satirist and every | apostrophe of the hers worshipper. Couldnt Be Yore Stupid. But, even with this borrowed im provement, 1 think cricket would still be unable to compete with base ball except in slowness and stupidity in which qualities it without parailel or rival When 1 arrived on the ground roy- alty in the person of the Duke of York was doing its share of the daily | task, the common round, by King | {hands with the carefully aligned and s0 far spotlessly clean Sioux and Apaches, who confronted royil cor descension with republican fortitude They were not proud. these Land T shall never forget that Mister [MeGraw, in whom T at least discov- | ered the real authentic most remarkable is neroe No Time Like the Present Papering and Decorating insaring you the best workmanship possible. The charge for thix rervire Estimates cheerfully furnished. CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. | 714 13th St. N. Main 3373-337 is very low. | D. .C, WEDN | | the | ;b7 proficient men who are extromely carefal, | v, E man in America, shook hands with me. He even shook hands with the duke, but, though he was very nice to us, there is no denying that he played us both right off the stake. The duke, by the way, failed to catch the part of the game that re- minded me of our performances of Handel's greatest oratorio. 1 do not know how it is in America, but i1 England gthe audience always stands up for the Hallelujah chorus. In America during a game of base ball it stands up for the seventh Inning And we all did stand up except the royal party, which, not having been properly coached in the ritual, re- mained " seated, a scandal _that = evi- dently made a most painful impres- sion on the Americans present. Hopes Wur Will Not Come. Lest this should result in a war, may I assure the United States that It was an error of pure ignorance. The king will be present at the next match but one, and I have no doubt that if the President will write and explain what s expected of him he will rise reverently at the proper moment und instruct the lord cham- berlain to see that the court does the same. The British spectators were be- wildered by the proceedings at first The plavers began by playing with- out a ball and with an Indian club instead of a proper bat. They varied this by imitating a slow motion cin- ematographic picture. All this we in our innocence took to be part of the celebrated but to us unknown game, and when the real play began we made no distinction and inno- cently supposed that for some my. terious reason base ball was pl partly without a ball and partly with one. The Indian club was a terrible stumbling block. We could not con- celve any serious player using such 4 thing. As to the bowling, and English bowler would have becn or- dered off the field for it. The bowler began like a Highland- throwing the hammer and shield the badl with all his might straight to the wicket keeper for a hard catch. Tho batsman incidental- Iy swiped at it as it passed with his absurd club and if as sometimes happened he caught it with @ master- Iy drive to square leg everybody said foul” (without the least foundation) and nothing clse happencd. But if he drove it back, then it was a case of tip and run and puss-in-the ner unless he was caught out, which case w heartily as it was the only transac- tion in the game which was in the least intelligible to us. Regrets Small Score. I regret to have to say Sioux and Apaches played badly; for after extraordinary tions their scores were 1 and spectively. An English cricket team would have bit up hundreds with halt the trouble. 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Preston Hexo-Diamond Shingles then | > of England applauded | and the cricket-trained duke | attractive duchess who | SDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1924. Topaz, Weighing 90 Pounds, Placed l r a pu; on of my to cricl back acts with fifte. after through way By In Field Museum he Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, October 29.—A white realized that the ma! after - and made for their carriages. Still, it only r very telligible moment in the when An American got “This ham theater is famous for its performances thought the remark unn in questionable can enjoy credit shameful prefere ing the author. Rut “This is the an played) T sl agre topaz, weighing 90 pounds, large enough rings of one carat, and said to be the largest pre placed ‘on Museum from Marambalia, Minas, Brazil, by 0. C. Farrington, h seum'’s department of geology, who { headed Field's | tions. i stone would supply the demand for many year: — to make 205,120 dinner ous gem, has been exhibition in the Field here. It was_brought ad of the mu- one South of Capt. American Marshall expedi- placed on the market the museum. officials said. h was over and some incredulous hesitation was a great occasion. The crettable incident occurred at exciting and totally unin- the game when who were playing in-the-corner hurled themselves the ground like runaway be a policeman overtakes them. next to me so far for- mself as to shout: ix better than the Birminge Repertory Theater!” As this champio [ “Back to Methuselah,” 1 cessary and taste, If any Ameri- :an be so utterly benighted as to puss-in-the-corner more than play he should for the his country conceal that instead of shout- r of re Ity and of my Ereat of the it in Right Length of Game. if an Englishman had better than Lords!™ London cricket great shouted | (Lords ground where matches used to be 1d have been disposed him. To go back to e ball is like guing peare played in five n-minute intermissions | seeing it played straight in the correct Shakespearean cket is doomed by its “overs,” The G & 11th Sts. is the with after ba to Shake! PALAISROYAL Darfain Basement A Basement Sale of 300 DRESSE For Misses, Women and Larger Women Pleasingly Priced at 5 Materials are Wool Jerseys, Trico Suede, Wool Serge, Plaids, Stripes and Crepe de There are as many as 50 styles irom which to choose in a com plete range of colors and color combinations. to 42 as old fashioned Shakespeare is by its acts. It is slow, stogy and obvious. Base ball {s swift, intense and (as to what it is all about) inserutable. Of course, many Englishmen may dislike it on that account. I once help- ed to establish a reformed country hotel, where the villagers could get good beer for their money, instead of the herrible stuff they were ac tomed to. Far from appreciating my efforts, they complained bitterly that the process of getting drunk, which the bad beer prolonged cheaply and deliciously for hours, was precipi- tated by the good beer, which reduced them to insensibility in thirty min- utes. Men of this stamp are capable of preferring a silent game, which lasts from 10 to 6 and which consists mostly of changing over and going in and out of a pavilion to an up- roarious, impetuous, incessant, quick- firing whirlwind of & game that lasts no more than 90 minutes; that is long enough to give you all the smusement you desire, but not long enough to give you time to begin wondering which is the bigger fool of the two, the Apache who is whaek ing at a ball or you who are look ing at him as it your life depend«d on_ his success. And that is ju the right time for a game to last As I left the ground one n courteous horts expressed @ hoj- that I would come again. When man asks you to come and see base bajl played twice it sets you asking yourself why you want to ” played once. That is a totally v answerable que on. It is a mad world But I will ot deny that T enjoyed tI afternoon. I may have the making ? a fan in me for all 1 know (Copyright, 1 United Great Riritain and Japan, by G. Hernard Shas Al rights reserved. Released €xcluiae through’ North American Newspaper Allisnc States. Canads Mrs. Josephine Little Dead. NEW YORK October Josephine Robinson Little Raymond 1. Lirt tional tennis dot a member of the 5 mother T tWo years ples champion Davis cup team fo years, died at day. e was her home here yeste Let’s go! To Harvey’s “Rue De Paris” Pennsylvania Avenue at Eleventh a For Dancing—Ten Regular OI' Time “"HALLOWEEN Revel to One MEYER DAVIS Presents McNally's Syncopators 21 Make Reservations Now for Tuesday, November 4th “ELECTION NIGHT” RETURNS BY RADIO CALL Service and Courtesy Silk and Chines. and 44 to 52. 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