Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1927, Page 2

BALLOU 15 UPHELD N SCHOOL ‘FRATS Regulation of Activities Ap- proved by Parent-Teach- ers’ Congress. *The District of Columbia Congress| ©of Parent-Teacher Associations, meet- ing in its second session of its four- teenth annual State convention in the Raleigh Hotel today, adopted a reso- Jution upholding the action of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, regarding the regulation of school fraternities. ' As parents, the congress went on record as approving supervision of the fraternities by the school authorities. This provides that the school auth tles keep in direct touch with the fra- ternities and their functivning, having a faculty member to represent the school at each initiation ceremony. The resolution also recommended ‘ue parental supervision over all pure- 1y social functions held by the frater- nities within homes or elsewhere. Late Parties Opposed. The congress also adopted a re %ion opposing the continuance of party by school pupils after midnight. The delegates to the convention Joined at a “get-together luncheon” in tho Raleigh Hotel shortly after 1 oclock. Commissioner Taliaferro, and Dr. Ballou were scheduled to_deliver addresses of welcome during the aft- ernoon, while others listed to speak A sst. Bupt. of Schools Stephan Kramer, District Health Officer Dr. V. C. Fowler and Representative Rob- ert E. Simmons. Miss Ellen C. Lumbard also is heduled to make an address on home education.’ A program of music was rendered at the luncheon by the McKinley High Bchool Orchestra and Mrs. E. A. Fast, who sang several solos. Silver Cup Awarded. During the luncheon Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter announced the award of # handsome silver cup to the Joseph R. Keene Parent-Teacher Association, in. behalf of the Congress, for the best attendance at the regu- lar meetings of the congress during the past year. That body attained an average of 10 810 per cent. The cup is to be kept permanently by the par- entteacher association winning it three years in succession. Mrs. Finis Moore is president of the Keene associ- ation. The John Eaton P. T. A, was awarded the sum of $5 for the greatest increase in membership during the past year, it having registered an in- erease from 180 to 517 members. Awards for the best publicity scrap Books also were made at the luncheon to the following parent-teacher asso- * elations: John Burroughs, book sub- mitted by C. K. Hodgson, first; John Baton, Mrs. Henry E. Rossell, second, and Langdon-Woodridge, Mrs. E. R. Enlmbach, third. Other winners chosen Louise B. Moffett; Fairbrother . T. A., Mrs. W. 8. Davis; Fillmore . T. A, Lieut. Comdr. G. H. Stod- dard, U. 8. M. Force-Adams P. ., Mrs. Albert N. Baggs; Gage " T."A., Mrs. T. Young; Greenleaf P. T. A, Mrs. A. Hodgkins: Hine Junior High P. T. A., Mrs. W. Curtis Draper; Henry-Polk P. T. A. Mrs. Lavinia Dunham; Hubbard-Raymond Dr.’ Kate B. Karpeles; 5 A., Mrs. L. P. § Jefferson Junior High P. T. A, Mary Sheppe; Johnson P. T. A, s. A. L. Williams; Kenilworth P. T. A., Mrs. G. A. Lingebac Ketchum P. T. Green; Kingsman F Cummings; Langdon-W A. Mrs. Jay H. Garmon | Junior High P. T. A, G. enox-French P. T. ; Ludiow-T. Elmer Langley A. Ban Wil- L A, Junior | High P. Madi- Ison P. T y Home E. Hort J. Decker Mrs. Anna Club, Smallwood-Bowen P. T. / Yadkowsky: St. Paul's Mrs. . Briggs; Stan- A, Charles F. Foster; ark Home and School “Ass tion, B. A. Chandler; Thomson I T. K. Cammack: Henl A, Mrs. Richard Fletche T. A., Mrs. C. A. Ber Ness P. T. A., Mrs. H. A. Youn ors P. T. A., Mrs. Ed terson: Whittier P. T. A., M Rryant; Weightman ¥ M. Joseph Hanley; West P. T. A H. Wolfe, and Wheatley P. - | Mrs. Walter C. Jone Program for Coming Year. The Congress late yesterday after- noon decided to concentrate on wo for four general items during the com- ing year, following recommendations made by Mrs. W. T. Bannerman, chairman of the organization’s com- mittee on law and legislation. The aims include an elected Board of Education, “clarification and im- provement of laws pertaining to the Juveniln Court, Women's Bureau and other welfare work pertaining to chil- dren”; the promotion of a branch library program, and the appointment of a school architect. The Congress also went on record as opposing any bond issue for schools and voted to consider carefully the recommenda- tions made by the United States Bu- reau of Efficiency, regarding school matters. The latfer recommendations also were made by Mrs. Bannerman. Announcement was made later that the Congress will continue its fight for a single salary scale for teachers to encourage good teachers to remain in the elementary schools instead of en- deavoring to teach in the higher schools, where, under the present sys- tem, they get more money. President’s Annual Report. President Rafter made her annual report. She stated that nine new parent-teacher assoclations were or- ganized during the past year, bring- ing the total number to 74, adding that the congress has a 100 per cent paid- up membership. She also reported that 72 mothers had been declared “plue ribbon mothers,” for sending their children to school last Fall with all remediable physical defects cor- rected. Mrs. Rafter then recalled the establishment of a publicity bureau by the congress and told of the various other activities of the organization dur- ing the past year, giving special praise to the committee chairmen for the different phases of the work. For next year’s program she stre: ed the importance of securing certain legislative enactments, saying: were, Carbery, Mrs, Walter Hahgen; Jackson, Mrs. Fernando Cunibert; Bryan, Mrs. F. M. Hawaker; Keene, Cyrus T. Bright; Columbia Junior High, book submitted by Mrs. W. A. Hooker and E. H. Pullman: Brookiand, Mrs. E. O. Voland, and Peabody-Hil- ton, Mrs. L. H. Brown. Religious Education Stressed. Prior to the adoption of resolutions preceding the luncheon, an address on the importance of religious educa- tion within the schools was delivered by Mrs. John T. Pressgorve; Mrs. 8. W. Rauscher, chairman of the con- gress committee on the child welfare magazine, reported, and Mrs. G. S. . Fraser, chairman of the clothes con- _servation committee, reported that her committe had helped supply 100 families with clothes during the past wyear and that individual associations had supplied many more. Mrs. Joseph Sanders, chairman of the health committee, recommended that the congress aid in conduct- ing milk Juncheons at the schools, aid in the Summer round-up of pre- school children and in general social hygiene, dental health and other work. She also moved that the congress stand for open-window schoolrooms, Schick test for- diphtheria and other measures pertaining to the promotion of the general health of children. The program as recommended was adopted in the form of a resolution. A report also was made at the morning session by Mrs. B. P. Zebley, chairman of the congress’ committee on juvenile protective work. Reports Submitted. Coples of the reports of the presi- dents of the various parent-teacher associations, not read at yesterday's meeting, were submitted to the secre- tary of the congress at today’s session as follows: Abbott P. T. A, Dr. George L. Knapp, president; Bancroft P. T. A., Mrs. Willam G. Stuart; Barnard P. T. A., Mr. John T. Thomas; Bradley P. T. A, Mrs. G. P. Leishear; Brent- Dent P. T. A, Mrs. E, Pearle Wind- sor; Brookland P. T. A, Mrs. R. L. Kause; Mount Vernon Place Church P. T. A, Mrs. R. E. Mitchell; New Brightwood P. T. A., Mr. H. Raymond Bresnahan; Oyster P. T. A., Mrs. Ru- dolph F. Harrel, and Park View P. T. A., Mrs. Charles H. Ruoff. Peabody-Hilton P. T. A., Mrs. Ar- thur Mann; Petworth Home 8chool Association, craft; Pierce-Webb P. T. Theodore Reier; Powell Junio P.T. A Highlands-Orr P. T. A., Mrs. Clifford Bhoemaker; Reservoir-Conduit P. T. A., Mrs. E. W, Burr; Seaton P. T, A, Mrs. Charles H. Magill; Service School P. T. A, Mrs. William A. Canoe; Bunker Hill P. T. A., Mrs. George H. Stiles; Columbia Junior High P. T. A, E. H. Pullman; Con- gress Heights P. Charles Scherer; Corcoran P. rs. Grace Latopa: Cranc T. A., Mrs. Allen Davis; T. A, Mrs. G. High Home and School Association, Arthur B. Bishop. Edmonds P. T. A, Mrs. B. E Grinder; Emory-Eckington P. T. A, Need of Legislation Stressed. “Legislation is one of the most im- portant parts of our work in the Dis- trict of Columbia, as we have no vote and the only way in which we can create interest in the development of work for the welfare of children is through our own efforts.” Referring to the organization’s: committee on law and legislation and the advisory coun- cil to that committee, Mrs. Rafter added: *This department with its coun- cil and chairmen in the many organi- zations, has kept us well informed about the laws that will affect the happiness of our children.” In conclusion, she declared that it is most important that each individual association having membership in the congress map out a definite program of work for the coming year in order that the greatest amount of results might be accomplished. The individ- ual associations, she said, can get much help from the publicity depart- ment of the National Congress of Par- ent-Teacher Associations. Reports of other officers also were submitted: By Mrs. Joseph N. Saun- ders, first vice president; Mrs. Andrew Stewart, second vice president; by the treasurer, Mrs. Z. D. Blackistone; the corresponding secretary, Mrs, James ‘W. Byler; the historian, Mrs. L. H. Brown, and by the recording secretary and delegate to the Federation of Citi- zens’ Associations, Mrs. H. S. Parsons. General progress was reported by the presidents of individual parent- teacher associations at vesterday aft- ernoon’s meeting. Those making them at that time were as follows: Bancroft P.-T. A., Mrs. William G. Stuart, president; Benning, Mrs. H. S. Taylor; Blair-Hayes, Mrs. L. H. Ma- gruder; Blow, Mrs, Emma 8. Zimmer- man; Bryant, Mrs. Gertrude M. Don van; Carbery, Mrs. John W. Davi Central High, Mrs. Andrew Stewart; Cook Home and School Association, Mrs, H. R. Fulton; John BEaton Moth- ers’ Club, Mrs. Joseph N. Saunders; idmonds P.-T. A., B. E. Grinder; Grant, Mrs. J. L. Parrish, and Keene P.T. A, Mrs, Finis D. Morris. ONE-HOUR PARK LIMIT. Order for 13th Street Between Avenue and B Street. A one-hour parking limit on Thir- teenth street between Pennsylvania avenue and B street was ordered established today by the board of Dis- trict Commissioners. The restriction will be provided for in an amendment to the traflic code. A number of merchants and manu- facturers having places of business in the area asked for the restriction since the shipping entrance privileges they had held had been declared invalid. AR A Subway Crash Injures Ten. NEW YORK, April 27 UP).—Ten persons were injured, one seriously, and subway trafic temporarily dis rupted when two subway trains col- lided near the Seventy-second street station on the West Side today. CUT OUT ALO! OFFERS TO tor Fivi cha The Foening Stas. “Answers to By Frederic J. Haskin —the Question ook by the Diree- Bureau in the world. Answers Readable, tional, informative and fascinating from cover to cover. 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Otherwise, Mr. Stephens said, the traffic divector may suspend or revoke | a permit for violation of any regula- tion or law “from spitting on the side- | walk to wilful murder.” The opinion was written at the re- quest of M. O. Eldridge, acting traffic director, who inquired as to his av thority to revoke the permit of driver suspected of being in the em- ploy of a bootlegger. Permit Was Restored. driver was arrested last for leaving after colliding, but his case was nolle prossed in court and his permit was restored. When reported by the police to be in the employ of a bootlegger, Mr. Eldridze isked if the law gave him the au- thority to again revoke the permit under such circumstances. “I am of the opinion that the di- rector could not now revoke the permit” said Mr. Stephens. “I think this authority should be rea- sonably confined to traffic laws and regulations. There is no longer any traffic matter involved, for the col- liding case is ended. He is now charged with making whisky. Opinion Is Approved. “The director of traffic inquires if he has power to cancel the permit and what policy to pursue in this kind »of case. 1 do not think it was the intention of Congress to invest the director of traffic with any authority outside of trafic and give him power to revoke permits of citi- zens in all matters outside as well as within the traffic regulations. If he have such authority he may suspend or revoke a permit for the violation of any regulation of law from spitting on the sidewalk to wil- ful_murder.” The Commissioners approved the corporation counsel's opinion and also ordered Mr. Eldridge to restore the permit of an_attorney in the prohibition unit which had been sus- pended for 60 days for alleged use of improper langauge to two young women employed in the traffic de- partment. This January RAFTS NEW RULE FOR AUTO SPACE Stephens Presents Text of ; Regulation for Use of Shipping Entrances. A new regulation governing the use of shipping entrances in front of business establishments was submit- ted to the District Commissioners to- day by Corporation Counsel Francis H. Stephens as a substitute for the existing regulation, which he has held is invalid because it grants an ex- clusive right to the merchants. The text of the regulation, which Mr. Stephens drafted at the direction of the Commissioners, follows: Text of Regulation. No vehicle shall stand at the usual shipping entrance of any store or commercial building except for the purpose of loading and unloading passengers or merchandise and only so long as may be reasonable for such purpose. Such entrance shall be designated by signs erected on permits issued by the director of traffic.” Such a regulation, in the opinion of Mr. Stephens, will allow the public to share the shipping space reserva- tions with the merchants, and has none of the discriminatory feature of the existing regulation. To Go in Traffic Code. Mr. Stephens recommended that the regulation be inserted as a mew para- graph in article 12 of the traffic code, and that the words, “or at the regular entrance of any commercial build- ings” be stricken from paragraph B of that article which forbids the park- ing of vehicles in certain locations. The corporation counsel also sug- gested that the Commissioners send copies of the proposed regulation to the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, the Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce for consid- eration and comment. In view of this recommendation the Commissioners are not expected to take action on the regulation until reports are re- celved from these trade organizations. F. B. NOYES RENAMED PRESIDENT OF “A. P. New Board of Directors Re-elects Publisher of The Evening Star. By tho Associated Press EW YORK, April 27.—Frank B. s of The Evening Star, Washing- ton, was re-elected president of the Associated Press at a meeting yester- day of the new board of direct: The following additional officers were named: First vice president, ¥rederick I. Thompson, Mobile (Ala.) Register; second vice president, W. J. Pape, Waterbury (Conn,) Republican; counselor, Melville E. Stone; secretary, Kent Cooper; assistant secretary, Jackson $. Elliott; treasurer, J. R. Youatt, The executive committee, re-elected terday, includes President Noyes, Adolph 8. Ochs, Clark Howell, E. Lan- sing Ray, Elbert H. Baker, Robert McLean and Benjamin H. Anthony. TWO IN HOSPITAL AFTER FATAL FIRE Special Dispatch to The Star, DANVILLE, Va., April 27.—Mrs. A. B. Rakes and her daughter, Ruth, are improving at Shackelford Hos- pital, Martinsville, today following the destruction of their home yesterday in which John and Isaac Rakes, 7 and 9 years old respectively, were burned to death and four other children were saved. Mrs. Rakes and Ruth were serfously butned about the arms and shoulders, and a boy, thrown from a window, was slightly hurt. The fire was dis- covered shortly after midnight. After rushing out of the building in their District Motorist Ticketed as “Hog” As Penalty for Greed at Parking Space One District motorist got a ticket for parking wrong today. It was not the usual kind of ticket. There was nothing on it to indicate that the motorist should pay call first nct with a contrite and a i not that kind of ticket at d only one word on_it, but word was lettered sufficiently all the world passing by The word was: that large that ht see. Hog.” The offending motorist had parked almost s ly in the middle of two good parking spaces| A little care a little caution and a negligible amount of unselfishness and there would have been more than enough space for another car to park. “Hog.” PROPOSE STREETS THROUGH BUILDING Triangle Committee Consid- ering Plan to Handle Traffic About New Structures. Construction of one great building There it wa for every one west of Pennsylvania And every one little knots of from time to time, s in large blatk letters who walked along the Eleventh street between avenue and C to sece. aw it, judging by the humanity that looked at the ticket pinnied heneath the windshield wiper, twittered, noted the license plate and passed on to make room for the next group of lookers and twitterers. “HOG, There was the work of the one man who apparently has tried to strike a new blow to avenge thwarted motor- i Here, according to one motorist who saw the sign, was motordom made articulate on a subject which s closest to its heart—the man w takes two parking spaces when only one is needed. side a URGES MORE FUNDS FOR CHILD HYGIENE Facilities to Be Enlarged July 1, but Not Enough, Di- rector Says. Heolth Department facilities for the examination of children in the child hygiene stations of the city wil be en- larged beginning July 1, according to Dr. Hugh J. Davis, director of the Child Hygiene ervice. Dr. Davis however, that an additional in- e in this work will be needed for ucceeding year, if the situation is to be adequately met in the National Capital. Under apropriations for this work in the fiscal year 1928, starting next July 1, the funds available will be increased to $45,000. This will allow the instal- lation of an additional child hygiene station, Dr. Dav anounced today, and the additign of one or two doc: tors and nurses. Increase of $12,000. “Congress,” said Dr. Davis, shown a growing interest in the pre- vention of diseases of childhood, as indicated in the fact that appropria- tions for the past few years have been greater each year. “The appropriation for 1928, which is $45,000, or $12,000 more than for this year, will provide for 10 child hygiene stations with a staff of 12 to 14 nurses on full time, a medical director and 10 or 12 part-time physicians. “Through this service it is expected that about 10,000 children will be reached in the fiscal year 1928. But as the number of children born in the District is approximately 10,000 per vear, and as the Child Hygiene Serv- ice covers a period of six years of the child’s life, it may be seen that only a small portion of the infant and preschool population can be reached by this servi Urges Double Appropriation. “A conservative estimate would call for an appropriation for 1929 of at least double the 1928 appropriation to approach somewhere near the service which the District of Columbia shouid render to the children of early age.” A similar problems exists, Dr. Davis said, in the Medical School Inspection Service, which he intlicated was not able to administer examinations to children in the schools. Discussing the question of child welfare in connection with the forth- coming Child Health day-May day celebration Saturday, when a Nation- wide campaign will be carried on by the American Child Health Associa- tion for examination of children for defects and recommendation of cor- rective measures, Dr. Davis issued an appeal to parents to co-operate. Urges Frequent Examinations. “All parents are urged to avail themselves of the service the Health Department provides,” he said, “or to present their children to their private physicians for periodic health exam- inations and for preventive measures. “The custom of frequent periodic health examinations to prevent dis- ease has become well established. Tt has been heartily indorsed by the medical profession, particularly by the Medical Society of the District of Co- lumbia, which has officially gone on record in favor of such examinations, not only for adults but for children. “Physical defects are more easily corrected in childhood than by wait- ing until the person has become an adult, when the defects shall have become much harder to overcome. “The child in his early life up to 7 years of age is in a state where he can be molded more easily than later, according to all medical authorities. This is particularly true as regards health habits and avoidance of ner- vous strain, which will tell in later life. Habits Become Well Fixed. “Habits formed by seven years of age are pretty well fixed and if the child has been encouraged in the de- velopment of the right habits it stands a better chance of getting ahead both physically and mentally. There is too great a tendency on the part of parents to neglect the child at the runabout age. Parents are fairly well educated on the neces- sity of giving infants during the first few years of life medical and hygiene attention which they need, but after two years of age there is a tendency to let the child go scott free, so far as supervision is concerned. It is in this period between infancy and the school age that the child has not been receiving the care and attention he should recef “All authorities on child health are agreed that this 2 to 6 age group par- ticularly needs attention. ~There is, | for instance, the question of tem porary teeth, It is as important to keep “these iemporary ones in good conditions as the permanent teeth later because they affect health very markedly, and may affect the perma- nent teeth if not kept in good condi- tion. Mortality Is Greatest. “It is in this group that the inci- dence and mortality is greatest. The toxin-anti-toxin treatment provides as sure a method for prevention of diphtherifa as does vaccination for emallpox. Diphtheria should be as night clothes with three of their chil- dren, Mr. and Mrs. Rakes ran back to save the others. The two boys whose lives were lost, could not be reachod, .. o bt ] rare as smallpox in every community, if not completely stamped out, just as typhoid fever has been generally eliminated from the United States Army, This elimination is a classic | Half of COOLIDGE NOT TO REPLY. Inquiry as to Candidacy Now Closed, Secretary Says. By the Associated Pres President Coolidge is not expected at the White House to make any re- sponse to a letter received there yes terday asking whether he would be :andidate for re-election. Edward T. Clark, acting secretary to the President, who received the letter from Henry Goddard Leach, editor of the Forum, said today that the incident was closed. Whether the letter has been called to the attention of the Presidept or whether it would be was not disclosed by Mr. Clark. WELSH HEIRES&]\GAIN TAKES MARRIAGE VOW Miss Radcliffe, Whose Previous Alliance Was Annulled, Weds Lieut. Curtin, Aviator, M Catherine Radcliffe, Welsh heiress, whose wedding to George Wise of Washington, after an elope- ment in 1923, was followed by an annulment, became the bride of Lieut. Lawrence W. Curtin, naval aviator, in Greenwich, Conn., a week ago, it became known here last night The couple are at the Mayflower pending the projected transatlantic flight of Lieut. Curtin and Rene Fonck, French ace. The naval flyer and Miss Radcliffe met after the recent fatal crash of the Sikorsky plane, with which Fonck had started the New York-Paris non- stop trip. The wedding took p ence only of a few been kept secret until last night, when announced by Mrs. W. J. new, sister of the bride and wife of Comdr. Agnew, U. 8. N, The couple previously had planned to defer their wedding until after the flight. . Curtin said tol.y that their stay in Washington was not def- inite, all depending upon the time needed to complete arrangements for the venture. Miss Radcliffe, daughter of a wealthy Cardiff shipbuilder, and Mr. Wise, well known local athlete and war-time aviator, were wedded in Bal- timore after a brief acquaintance when Miss Radcliffe was visiting here. Upon their return to this city, imme- diately after the wedding, Mr. Wise went to his home, while Miss Rad- cliffe returned to_the home of friends, later going to Wgrrenton, Va. In Paris the: succeeding Summer an an- nulment of the mar tained by Miss Radcliffe. i ot the elopement to Baltimore Mis: Radcliffe was engaged to Lieut, Julian Brown, U. 8. M. ( s e in the pres- riends, and had NEW YORK PLUMBERS AND HELPERS STRIKE 10,000 Quit, With Threat of Call- ing Out 700,000 Other Building Trades Workers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April —Threaten- ing an eventual tie-up of 700,000 workers and a halting of New York City's $1,000,000,000 building program, 10,000 plumbers and their helpers were ordered to go on strike at- the close of the working day today, it/was announced by C. G. Norman, head of the Building Trades Employers Association. Of the 10,000 men, 3,000 plumber: and helpers in Brooklyn already have been on strike since April 1. the 7,000 men in the other four boroughs are helpers. It was stated at the headquarters of the American Association of Plumbers’ Helpers that the helpers have officially gone on strike with the plumbers and are making separate demands. The helpers are asking $9 a day, a 40-hour week, recognition of the union and double time for over- time. example of what widespread immuni- zation will do. “The Health Department of the Dis- trict provides care along all these lines in_its nine hygiene stations. There children up to the age of 6 years may be brought for periodic health examinations as to care in hy- giene. “In’these stations diphtheria immun- ization is now administered at one or two places each week, but will be gen- erally increased beginning in June, when a campaign for this purpose will be carried on by the Health Depart- ment.” Discussing the steady growth of the work in the city, Dr. Davis sald it had progressed to a point where the nine stations of the Health Depart- ment_and the child welfare clinic at the Children’s Hospital were inade- quate to provide the care that the preschool population of the District of Columbia needs. One of the features of Child Health day Saturday, in addition to the big health demonstration on the Ellipse, will bhe examination of all children applying at the nine child hygiene centers of the city, the clinic at Chil- dren’s Hospital and three schools, the Tenleytown, the John Burroughs and the Miner Normal School, from 9 to 1 o'clocls g ; ther | in that part of the so-called Govern ment triangle, bounded by Twelfth, conth and B streets and Pennsyl- ania avenue, was easury Department officials yester- t the conference with the triangle ttee of the National Capital | Park and Planning Commission. The wh would provide for passing stree wrough the building, instead of hav. of buildings streots present day | comn separate at series by as | planned | m took up the lem to cons c tha | that area | that have beer thoroughfares triangle committee originally matter as a traffic prob- der the great volume of will pour into and out of v. Some of the buildings n proposed will cut off and result in blind streets, forcing vehicular traffic to make a series of compound turns | while proceeding through the area. | ¢ street would be one of these and it was sug ed that in order to pro- vide an outlet this highway should be formed by a tunnel under the pro- Commerce Building between h and Fifteenth streets and fteenth street. | | | | | One Building Proposed. | | posed U. §. Grant, 3d, execu- er of the N 1 Capital 5 and Planning Commission, said that it Avas then pointed out to the cials of the office of the supervisinz architect of the Treasury that it might be better to treat the proposed structures in this area as one great building, with the streets passing | through them at grade. It \“l s also pointed out that the in- divid buildings as proposed would he more or less allke in architecture, | and that it would be just as attractive to construct them as one building. More Floor, Space. This not only would give additional floor ace above the streets, but would save considerable in the cost of construction in that much of the colonnading could be done away with, as it would not show on the streets, but the inside would be more or less a series of courtyards. No decision was reached on any of maiters, and the members of the committee will give the problems further study, having in mind the general idea that east and west traf- fic should be passed into and out of the area below grade, leaving the north and south traffic on grade, as at present, WELLING ASSAULT DENIED BY JACKSON Insists on Stand He Was Home and Alleges “Third Degree” by Policemen. Col. Philip * Jackson, colored, charged with a criminal assault on Mrs. Daisy Welling in the Capitol grounds near midnight of February 18, today testi- fied in his own behalf before Justice Hoehling and a jury in Criminal Di- vision 1. The prisoner emphatically denied that he was the assailant of the hotel telephone operator, who was returning to her home from her place of employment. Jackson insisted that he was not near the scene of the assault at the time and claimed that he went to bed that Friday evening about 9:30 or 10 o'clock and never left his bed until 6 o'clock the next morning. He de- clared he had a roommate named Michael Daly, who shared the bed with him. The prisoner said when he reached home from work he entered the kitchen, where he found the wife of the man who kept the house wash- ing. Passing through the dining room, he stated, he accosted George Courtney, her husband, and then went to his room on the second floor. After shaving, he prepared for bed and re- mained there all night, he stated. The prisoner told of his arrest on February 19 and declared that when taken to No. 5 precinct a policeman went to his cell and told him he had better make his peace with God. Jackson declared he did not know what was meant by the remark. He as taken later to headquarters, he said, where policemen put him through a “third degree” and he signed the alleged confession. stant United States Attorney will cross-examine the prisoner this afternoon. The case may be sub- mitted to the jury late this afternoon. John H. Wilson is defending the pri: oner by appointment of Justice Hoeh- ling. College Men Fool Crowds Posing as Duke and Duchess By the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Australia, April —Two university youths, dressed | as the Duke and Duchess of York, | motored through the streets of | Melbourne tod and so succe: ’ | | | fully impersonated the royal vis- itors that the crowds were co pletely hoodwinked and them vociferously | The stunt was part of the ¢ ging” during the Duke's into the Studen Associal after he had received the degree | loctor laws. He pod-natur | & \e hazin | 4|n'l'uh~l riding about in | brougham, followed by a proce | | of cows 1ts and sheep. | | . He smiled when slapped on back, and took an oath | his clgars »s with members” of the ELECT MRS. SHOPE National Society Names Of- ficers at 35th Associate Council Meeting. Mrs. Samuel Z. Shope of Narberth, Pa., was unanimously elected pre dent of th tional Society of the United States Daughters of 1812 at its thirty-fifth associate council meet- ing today at the Willard Hotel. Other officers elected wer Charles F. Rice of Atlanta, Ga., s ond vice president national: Mrs. James Augustus Ostrom of Chicago, curator national, and Mrs. Alfred Olson of_Baltimore, librarian national. Mrs. James Harris Baughman of Danville, Ky., was elected fourth vice president national; Mrs.. Charles Burt Tozier of Ohio and Mrs. Fannie D. Ward of Massachusetts, honorary vice president, and Mrs. Reinoehl Knite of Pennsylvania, Monticello board of managers. Children’s Bureau Denounced. The aholition of the Children's Bu- reau was urged this morning by dele- gates to the council in one of the series of resolutions passed at the final session of the convention. The bureau was denounced as “Socialistic and Communistic” by the resolu- tions committee, under the chair- manship of Mrs. John T. Moss, which favored the placing of matters affect- ing children’s welfare irt the hands of the Public Health Service and Depart- ment of Labor. Resolutions were passed urging im- migration restrictions, and the ex- clusion of undesirable aliens, and the extension of the quota system to Mex- ico and Central America. An_adequate national defense as provided for in the resolution of the Women’s Patriotic Conference on Na- tional Defense was reiterated in a resolution passed by the council. The passage of the Tyson-Fitzgerald bill for the relief of disabled emergency officers of the World War was favored by the delegates. They also indorsed the support of the Carcassonne Com- muntiy Center at Gander, Letcher County, Ky., for the education of the mountaineers of old American stock. and urged the preservation of Fe lowship Hill, the home of Albert Gal- atin. Parley to Adjourn Today. The convention will adjourn this afternoon, following the completion of unfinished business. The delegates will make a pilgrimage tomorrow morn- ing at.9 o'clock to Kenmore, the home of Betty Washington in Fredericks- burg, where they will stay for lunch- eon. The program this morning in- cluded the reports of the following committees: Loyalty and patriotic council of national defense, by Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker; credentials, Mrs. Washington L. Mann: Constitu- tion fund, Mrs, Edward L. Crosby Kenmore, Mrs. Leroy Habenicht; Roosevelt Memorial Mrs. Robert C. Maxwell; reciprocity, Mrs. Willis Hitz- ing; Jefferson Memorial, Mrs. James H. Baughman; national scholarship, ‘William MecD. Vaught; Navy Marine Memorial, Mrs. Homer sesquicentennial, Miss Louise Hortense Snowden. The following speakers addressed the banquet at the Willard Hotel last night: Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, Commandant of the Marine Corps: Rear Admiral Billard; Maj. Gen. Fechet, Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the D. A. R. and Mrs, Anthony Wayne Cook. ¢ Church Poor Box Robbed. Special Dispateh to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., April 27.—Local police were informed yesterday that the poor box of St. John's Catholic Church was broken open an. about $1.50 taken, Insurance and other papers were taken from an open safe in the office of Judge Glenn H. Worth- ington, it was also reported. By the Associated Press. SW YORK, April ~Two hun- dred Bowery vagrants were up in rms today in an organized effort to retain their beloved Salvation Army lassie, Lieut. Isabella Austin, just as a group of nationally prominent men kept Comdr. Evangeline Booth here a year ago. A petition signed by 200 of the down-and-outers of New York has been sent to Comdr. Evangeline Booth through Brig. Gen. Wallace Winchell asking that the army rule providing compulsory periodic transfer of work- ers be rescinded for Lieut. Austin. Lieut. Austin, a blue-eyed blonde girl of 21, been transferred to Morristown, N. J. Three months ago, The one big problem confronting President Coolidge today was the man- ner in which he should receive the two lion cubs, a present to him from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, which have reached Washing- ton. The President is undecided whether it would be entirely safe to have the cubs brought to him at the White House, or whether he should go to them at the Washington Zoo, where they are now being cared for and where they will be kept publicly. The problem was solved to some extent by the local express company, which, upon its receipt of the caged animals yesterday, delivered them to the Zoo without any instructions. It was Mr. Coolidge’s original in- tention at ‘time he sent a cable. gram of ac@eptance to the mayor of Johannesburg to have the cubs de- livered to at the executive office and possibly keep them in the rear grounds off the White House for a few days Hgfore turning them over to the Zoo. 200 Bowery Vagrants Appeal to Keep Salvation Army Lassie at Mission upon her graduation from the training school, she was assigned to the Bowery corps. There was, something in the way she said “let us pray” that brought drunks to their knees and made the sober vagrants take off their hats. “I love these people,” the girl used to tell her comrades. “I was an orphan, you know—these are my own people.” The case is almost identiaml with that of Comdr. Booth, whose proposed transfer from America to a new com- mand in England aroused fruitful pro- test from George Gordon Battle, Myron T. Herrick, Herbert Hoover, Samuel Untermyer, Bishop Manning and others. The transfer, ordered by her brother, Gen. Bramwell Booth, was never effected. President Puzzled at Way to Receive Lion Cubs When He Hears of Their Size The President today was inclined to change his mind in this respect and indicated that it would probably be more practicable and convenient for him to visit the lions at the Zoo home, especially so since he has learned that the cubs are older and much larger than he expected. Be- sides this fact, the young animals are not in the best of spirits since their long ocean trip and the cage they have been in throughout the journey has been damaged and it was feared that the cubs, in a mo- ment of playfulness, might work their way to freedom. These young lions, according to Zoo authorities, are splendid specimens. They are about 10 months old and well formed. With the shipment of lions from | Scapa Flow Johannesburg was also a beautiful little South African duyker, the small- | diplomatic e DAUEHTERS OF 1612 | i WALSH HITS SOVIET FOR IMPERTINENGE Denounces Activities in Ad- dress Before School of Foreign Service. »viet Russian propagan 1 countries was resent ernational impertinence und A. Walsl Foreign Dr. Walsh denounced the activities of the Soviet Union In its endeavors 10 stir revolutior 1 fasten its doé- trines on other countries through its rissaries. Instructions to its diplomatic agencies, he declared, pointed out to them the way to spread this malicious propagan fraid of t ffect on Dr. Wa here there are al inequalities. It is their rnational impertinence to w C object and to wheh the State De ment objects in refusing to extend recognition to the Soviet government Points Road to Recognition. Recognition of the Soviet by United States will come only Russia learns to abide by its intern: tional obligations and respects property rights of other nationa declared. This question of recognition and the effect of Soviet relations on the rest of the world, Dr. Walsh sai is one of the major factors in fore relations tos Public apologists for Russia, Wk contend that in refusing to recogniz the Soviet Union the United States is contradicting itself by refusing to recognize the right of revolution, were termed efther “ignorant or malicious” by the speaker. class he placed Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee. The United States was the first gov- ernment to recognize the Kerensky revolutionary government in Russia, Dr. Walsh declared, because that was a democracy founded upon the pre- cepts of international law. Upon its overthrow by the bolshevists in No- vember, 1918, and the establishment of a government that challenged the basis principles of organized soclots. he declared, the United States has re- fused and will continue to withhold recognition until conditions have changed. While declaring the teaching of re- ligion to persons under 18 years of age is still punishable with possible death in Russia, Dr. Walsh declared that “religious persecution alone is not a bar to recognition.” Compares Two Revolutions. Dr. Walsh’s address was one of a series on current problems of foreign relations being given at the school by prominent university professors and public men, He made a comparison of the American and Russian revolu- tions. “The American revolution was a po- litical revolution,” he said, “but the Russian revolution was a_deliberate challenge to the basic principles of or- ganized society, not only in Russia, but throughout the world. Had the Russian revolution confined itself to redressing the wrongs that had been inflicted upon its people, there would have been no complaint. “The first revolution resulted in the establishment of a democracy. The Soviet Union, when it came into power, repudiated all international ob- Dgations and international law as it exists. Its repudiation of these sacred obligatfons puts the Soviet in a class by itself.” MURDER AND SUICIDE MYSTERY TO POLICE Young Cumberland Man XKills Friend and Self in Own Home. Mother Finds Bodies. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., April 27.— Motive for the slaying of his friend, August Haselberger, 30 years old, fol- lowed by the suicide of Albert Russell Vance, last midnight at the Vance home here, is lacking. Haselberger, known as “Gus” in the North End, was shot through the heart. Mr: Vance came down stairs to stumble over the body in the dining room and to find her son in the kitchen with a wound under the right eye. He died at Allezheny Hospital about an hour after the shooting. Vance had no oc- cupation, the police say, and had sep- arated from his wife. SEND PARCELS BY AIR. CHICAGO, April 27 (#).—Airplanes soon will heip bring to the housewife her order of a spool of thread, a fur coat, a head of lettuce or a jar of apple sauce, John W. Scott, vice presi- ident of a large Chicago department store, told the Retail Delivery Asso- ciation, in convention here today. ‘The airplane will be used in con- veying parcels from larger city stores to suburban store stations, where mo- tor cars will complete the delivery, Mr. Scott said. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—Purse. $1.200: maiden 32- sear-oid Biies: 4% Turlongs. . malden 3 Besa Martin . Pauline L. Miss Prim Fair Mist . bMo: SRRAN ARG . aGlee a H. P. Whitney and L. S. Thompson entry b Sage Stable and Pineland Stable entry. o P. H. Faulconer and J. P. Jones entry OND RACE—Purse. $1.200: claiming olds and up: 68 furiongs. adder Music. . Clinging Vine Sunswent *Let’s Go Encamp ... Also elizib) by . .. *Red Light Majuba’ St. Donard *Queen Bessio T iss Fayetts | Sparkling V/ater Rixolo Donges : THIRD RACE—Purse. $1.200: claimi maiden 3-year.olds and up: mile and yards *Winoyg .. Donn Byrne Reciprocate Tahoma Clear Sky Wood Fairy™ ... 10 FOURTH RACE cess Purse; 3-year. Dignus Fantasti Heartacho FIFTH RACE- wood Handicap: longs. bArmo . Blondin ZSSEREEEEES 12 Foundation . 03 *Grazer . 10 Keydet 05 Tommy 10 Sabret . Forehead 3 Purse. $1.200: the Prin- 1d fillies: 6 furlongs. 109 Candy May 106 Fresco 109 Gilded Easel . Purse. $2,000: the Fleet- -year-olds and up: 6 fur- Foster 109 aCanter . aSinglefo Prince of The Heuthen Flight of Time.. 118 bRolls Royce aJ. E. Griffith entry. B Seagram Stable eatry. wIPVEMECTE B AL 108 108 b it a Sage Stable and Goodstons Stable entry, SEV CE—Purse, $1.200; elaim- P e est of antelope, a gift from the City | ins: 4.year-ol il of Johannesburg to Mrs. Coolidge. It is thought that Mrs. Coolidge will accompany the President when he goes to recelve hig lions, and in which case she will -antelope. Sormh - accept her little ’