Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 5

SCHOOL VOTE BILL s v - DIVIDES CITIZENS {ommissioners and Trade i Board Oppose Plan—Fed- [* eration Favors Election. The people of the District are di- “Miss Washington™ Wed |i¥ided over the vroposal to have an | ‘elected Board of Education, it was in- | | dicated at & hearing before the Senate | t committee yesterday afternoon. A bill to take the power of appointing the board away from the justices of the {{District Supreme Court and set up ma- inery for direct election was opposed %y the District Commissioners and the jBoard of Trade, while the Federation Nof Citizens’ Associations, the Citizens’ |¥Advisory Council and the Congress of |¥Parent-Teacher Associations supported ‘the measure. Commissioner _Dougherty told the | committee the Commissioners are not | in favor of the bill, because they are | | satisfied with the present ‘method of | | appointment. He said if there is to be | !mny change the power of appointment | should be transferred to_the Commis- sioners, where it at one time was Pplaced Sees No Demand. The Commissioner testified there is 1o general public demand for a change. fen and women of unusual ability have Dbeen appointed to the board and have served patriotically without pay, he said Charles 1. Stengle. speaking for the sory Council. said the council favors the bili on the theory that there ahould be a closer contact between the and those who govern the The support of the federation was} Presented by Dr. George C. Havenner and Harry N. Stull, the latter speaking also for the Stanton Park Citizens' As- sociation. The views of the parent-| teacher associations were outlined by {Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter and Mrs. W. T. |Bannerman. Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, | U. S. A, indorsed the bill as an indi- | | ¥idual and parent. Fred S. Walker in , dors the bill for the Park View| Citizens' Association. and stated th {Central Labor Union also has ap: I proved it. | Reasons it would be unwise to under- | fake election of the school board were | ted on behalf of the Board of | de by Thomas P. Littlepage, chair- | {gnan of the school committee, and by | rt J. Cottrell. executive secretary. }.Mr. Littlepage stressed the point thaf there is no existing condition to be| {Tured by electing the school board, and | ithat the holding of such an election | {merely for the sake of voting would Introduce pelitics into the school system. | Representation. The proposal for national represen- tion is a different question and one of Trade favors, Mr. Little- . adding, however. that the tal of the Nation should be kept control of the Government. | twice, once with | P! question 1,000 members present and again with 7720 in attendance. The supporters of the bill laid em- phasis on the argument that the justices of the District Supreme Court, because of their judicial position, do not come in close contact with the people. They | icontended school affairs should be handled by who have children fan bam‘. -ttt dn an election parent . more 0 be Chairman Capper of the Senate com- | nittee, and author of the bill, con- @ucted the hearing. | ;_ Before the school board election bill | ‘was heard the committee crdered a fa- worable report on a measure 1o give 4the Commissioners more authority in mettling claims against the District, 1 1y in refunding taxes such as land street paving assessments, after ,the courts have rendered decisions af- ifecting taxes already paid. The com- jmittee agreed to an 2mendment sug- mwd by Senator Biain> of Wisconsin, { iting the time within which such ‘settiements may be made. | "TRAFFIC SIGNAL BILL REMAINS UNSETTLED | !Commissioners Seek Agreement on; | Disputed Funds for 1925 | Parchase. The District Commissioners are still | 1 1rying to make final settlement with the {Crouse Hinds Co. of Syracuse, N. Y., {for traffic signal equipment furnished in 1925, and which figured in the in- | | vestigation & year ago by the Gibson {subcommittee of the House District | committee. Bums aggregating $7,74995 are claimed by the fim and have been |approved by Daniel J. Donovan, Dis- | trict auditor. Confusion arising from exchange of merchandise and delivery | of goods otherwise than as specified in the contracts, caused Controller Gen- | eral McCarl o reduce the approved | tems 10 a total of $4,196.35 The Commissioners asked the signal eoncern in December if it would accept | the sum specified by McCarl in final settiement. No reply was received. The Commissioners yesterday instructed Becretary Danlel B Garges 1o write a second Jetter | Bues Property Owner. | June E. Walker, 902 Madison street, hes filed sult 10 recover $10,000 dam- !mges from J. Ardels Dante, 1604 Park yod, who s described as the owner of premises 7 th street. The | Plaintify says 1 ovember 18 Jast she | Uipped over w rise in the conerete | walk Jeading into the Thirteenth street | premises and sustained permanent in- Juries Bhe is represented by Attor- neys Downing. Malioy & Brassor The Princess A Corrective Shoe Y'/‘ R {oot is rested excl no other sive which give clentific upy in this shoe as in The Princess Pat has the Walk-Over Main ¢ ' _GLADYS COOKMAN. GI;ADYS COOKMAN WED TO PENNSYLVANIA MAN Miss Washington of 1927 Married After Whirlwind Courtship While She Was on Tour. Miss Gladys Vivian Cookman, Miss Washington for last year, was married on March 28 in Greensboro, Pa.,, her parents here have learned. She is now Mrs. Arthur Bissell and will live in Beaver, Pa., where her husband is in business. At present the couple are honey- mooning and expect to visit the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Cookman of 214 Kentucky avenue southeast, in about three weeks, Mrs. Cookman said today. Mrs. Cookman learned of the plans of the couple on the night of March 28 when her daughter telephoned her to tell her that the ceremony had already been performed. The marriage came as the result of a whirlwind courtship be- ginning when the show in which Miss ‘ookman was playing, “Artists and Models,” visited Beaver. Mr. Bissell aw her at several other places played y the company and the marriage took place_when they reached Greensboro. Mrs. Bissell intends to give up her stage career upon which she embarked about five months ago, her mother stated. She represented Washington in the beauty pageant held in Atlantic City last September. Before going on the stage she was employed in a local de- partment store. AMUSEMENTS NEWMAN ON “LENINGRAD.” E. M. Newman yesterday afternoon at the National Theater repeated his color- ful description of Leningrad, formerly St. Pet rg, capital of the Russian Empire in the days of the Czars. The same lecture had been given earlier in the season, and the great interest which has been shown in Mr. Newman's travel- talks on Soviet Russia was the reason for its repetition. “Leningrad,” says Newman, “under the Communist regime, born with the death of the Czar, shows drastic changes. They may be for better or worse, according to individual ideas of TOgTesS. The city, built by Peter the Great, was viewed with a detail that takes in its main thoroughfares, shops, markets and its far-famed fur stores. The mag- nificent Church of the Redeemer, where Alexander II fell, is contrasted with the Memorial Church, where children «eTHE EVENI NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WE ESDAE, APRIT, 11, 1928, GIRL ORATOR WINS ATFALLS CHURCH | Mary Shreve, 15, a Sopho- more, Is Chosen—Boy Takes District “X” Place. | ‘The contestant field in the Virginia | district’'s first group meeting of the fifth National Oratorical Contes, spon- sored by The Star, scheduled to be held | at Falls Church tomorrow night, was completed today when the Falls Church High School announced its spokesman as Miss Mary Fairfax Shreve, 15, a sophomore. Simultaneously, Albert H. Mills of the Abington High School, Abington, Pa., was designated champion of District “X" in the national competition. Dis- trict “X" is open to students who live in territory not within the area of any of the 53 newspapers. Mills, as its sponsoring champion, will compete in a national semi-final meet at Raleigh, N. C., for the right to enter the national finals here May 26. Girl Repeats. Her victory won with an oration on “The Development of the Constitution,” Miss Shreve repeated her conquest of last year when she represented the Falls Church High School in the group phase of the contest. This diminutive con- testant is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs, E. A. Shreve of Dunn Loring, Va., and, although she admits she isn't certain yet just =miat she wants to do after her school days are over, she hopes to study at Willlam and Mary College. At present her time is occupled with her studies and a little basket ball. Speaking on “The Present Signifi- cance of the Constitution,” Albert Mill won the championship of district “X" through the verdict of three judges: Stanton J. Peelle, former chief justice of the United States Court of Claims; Miss Clara McQuown, Washington lecturer, and Capt. E. K. Rawson, U. S. N, retired. Milis is 17 and a senior. In his next action in the contest the district “X” champion will compete in his own right in a field of newspaper representatives for a place in the na- tional finals and the grand prize of a three-month tour of Europe. Last year Miss Alfa C. Christianson of Chippewa Falls, Wis., champion of district “X,” took close second honors in the bid for the European trip and a place in the national finals here. She was defeated by Carl Albert of Mc- Alester, Okla. District “X" Striet. ‘The contest operates in district “X" in accordance with a strictly enforced plan set up by the national contest office. One speaker is designated in each school by its principal as the representative of that school in the contest. In making the designation the prin- cipal is required to certify the pupil's age and school status and that the con- testant was chosen in a public speak- ing contest. A school representative may not be designated without actual speaking competition. The principal and the pupil's teacher in English are required also to sign a statement that they believe the contestant's speech is his own work. The manuscript of the contestant’s oration is then sent to con- test headquarters, where the winner is chosen through his written work. Man- were not considered. Through district “X” and the zones in which the contest is sponsored by one of the 53 newspapers, every high school student in the United States, provided he is under 19 and is not taking a post-graduate course after . | having completed his regular high school question, “ it has capitalists?” With this Leningrad, Mr. Newman gave a motion reminiscence of 1911, when St. Peters- burg was the glory of Russia under the rule of the Czar. That the Soviets handle mail and master the important problem of gar- bage disposal was shown in a review of these lines of public work. The for- mer Winter Palace, now the Museum of the Revolution, provides proof of the splendor of “the Hermitage,” the won- derful museum started by Catherine the Great, with its treasures of paintings, sculpture, armor, gold and jewels. “How the worker lives—government factories and workshops,” gives among its locations the palace at Tsarskoye Selo, now called the “Childrea’y Village.” At this point the lecturer braved forbidden territory by entering apartments that in former days were closed to all but the royal family. The room in which the Czar was forced to abdicate still re- tains many reminders of its former owners' personality, with photographs of his loved ones on his desk and around the walls. Glimpses were also given into the picturesque sleeping room of the Czarina, with its ikons, and into the playroom of the Czarevjich. Among many other interesting views of Leningrad, the fountains of Peterhof were shown in their unrivaled beauty. These gardens are now nationalized property. LADIES’ NIGHT PLANNED. Civitan cnuIWIll Gh;e Entertain- ment April 24. April 24 was decided upon as the date for their “ladies’ night” by the members of the Civitan Club, at a din- ner-meeting in the La Payette Hotel last night. Dr. E. H. Koss is In charge of & committee which is arranging an en- tertainment program and dance for the event Sidney E. Kent, third vice president, presided. Franz J. Heiberger was ad- mitted 0 membership. Car Line Wins Suit, The Capital Traction Co. has won the sult tor 850,000 damages brought against it by Cecella A. McQuigg, 310 Becond street southeast, for injuries al- leged 1o have been sustained in & col- lision of two cars, on one of which she was & passenger, May 19, 1923, Yourteenth and R streets. A jury in Circuit Division, before Justice Staf- ford, rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant, which was represented by Attorneys Hogan, Jones, Phelan & Guider. Shown in many Styles All with onug hael and reomy los Pat Blach, Tan and Colors pring B1h | 810 to $12.60 ot Wolfs Wat-Cuer Shop 929 F Street course, is eligible to compete In the Truckman Sued. James B. Sparks, 1363 Otis place, was today as defendant in a suit to recover $10,000 damages flled in the Court by Charles R. 7 Tllinois avenue, for al- leged personal injuries. A truck of the defendant collided with his automobile March 9 at Eighth and T streets, the plaintiff says. Woods is represented by Attorney Albert Grebstels Save Vs ? R Compiete’ 13ut of” ® Quaiity _ New Building ~ Materials “Delivery System Unexcelled” 3 BRANCHES 674 C StaSW 574 Fia Ave NE 5021 Ga AvNW at| ““There isn’t one left,” cried the irate householder. It was the tragedy of the empty cigarette box. “And I had almost a carton of York- towns.” That is one of the dangers of smoking Yorktown Ciga- rettes. Your friends are almost too appre- ciative. But you can’t blame them. Blended from seven Iriendly tobaccos, Yorktowns are such a mellow, soothing smoke. The kind you have always looked for. Twenty for 15c. Larus, Richmond, Virginte School Contest Vietor R MISS MARY FAIRFAX SHREVE, Of the Falls Church High School FINANCIER DONATES BIG FUND TO HOSPITAL| By Cable to The Star and_ Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 192 ROME, April 11.—John J., Raskob, chairman of the finance committee of | the General Motors Corporation, has made a generous gift to Pope Plus for the Hospital of the Infant Jesus. Mr. | Raskob was received by the pontiff late Tuesday. ‘The hospital, which is under the care of the Holy See, recently received a large donation from the American Chapter of the Knights of Malta, of which Mr. Raskob is one of the 13| charter members. Mr. Raskob's donations to Cathollc institutions amount to several millions. PRESBYTERY ENDS SPRING MEETING Rev. Bernard Braskamp Is Re-Elected to Committee on Vacancy and Supply. Adoption of resolutions, election of | committee members and reports fea- tured the final session of the ffty- cighth stated Spring meeting of the Presbytery of Washington City, in the Westminster Presbyterian Church, yese treday afternoon. A resolution was adopted approving the sale of the Fairmont Helghts Pres- byterfan Church, colored, and the building of & $10,000 church to take the place of the present edifice, on a site to be selected later. Re-elected to Committee. The presbytery also adopted a reso: lution_extending thanks to The Eve- ning Star for the church news stories run on the church page of the paper each Saturday. Rev. Bernard Braskamp was re- elected as a member of the committee on vacancy and supply for a three- year term. Other members of the com- | mittee whose terms have not expired are Rev. J. C. Palmer and Rev. W. F. Eagleson. All members of the National Capitol church extension committee were re- elected. They are: Rev. Freeley Rohrer and_Rev. J. C. Palmer, and Elders J. H. Wurdeman, Raymond Loranz and A. L. Baldwin. Two Named Moderators. Rev. Thomas H. MacLeod was elected moderator of the Clifton Presbyterian Church, Clifton, Va., and Rev. A. B. Altfather, the pastor of the Presby- terlan Church of Falls Church, Va. was chosen moderator of the Irving Me- ! finances. | ment. Jjourned meeting, April 18, in St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Cottage City, Md., for the purpose of ordaining G. {gundnhl and installing him as pastor ere, Rev. A. E. Barrows, the presbytery treasurer, reported general expendi- tures amounting to $27,000 for the year ending March 31, Commissioners Yo the general as- sembly in May, in Tulsa, Okla, were elected yesterday. ‘Those elected commissioners were: Rev. Henry W. Tolson, the retiring mo.srator; Rev. Bernard Braskamp, R:v. W. L. Darby, and elders, L. 8. De- pue, W. S. Armstrong and D. D. Mar- tin, with the following clergymen and elders as alternates: Rev. Walter F. Eagleson, Rev. Mr. Rohrer, Rev. Lu- clan V. Schermehorn, S. H. Lewis, M. C. Bennett and Frank M. Stearns. Rev. Willlam A. Eisenberger was| named as stated supply at the Church of the Covenant until the October meeting of the presbytery by the com- mittee on vacancy and supplies. Others named as stated supplies are Rev. Mr. McLeod, Clifton, Vi Re! G. G. Culbertson, Gerald W. Snell, Church, Vienna, Va. Rev. Mr. Rohrer is the new modera- tor of the presbytery and Rev. Mr. Braskamp is vice moderator, ARBUCKLE SUIT ENDS. Former Wife Files Quit Claim in| Dower Right Fight. | LOS ANGELES, April 11 (#).—Roscoe Arbuckle, former film comedian, and | Minta Durfee, his former wife, have | settled their argument over family | A quit claim of all her dower rights from Arbuckle, signed by his former | wife, in New York City, was filed here | yesterday. It shows that Minta Durfee | relinquished her dower rights for $16.- | 500 paid her by the former actor. Ar- buckle was divorced four years ago, but | last year he was served with an at- tachment on his possessions in the for- mer wife's suit for a financial settle- Since Minta Durfee's divoree | Arbuckle has married Doris Deane. 2 PARK AND PLANNING FINANCING. URGED Silver Spring Chamber Fa- vors Advancements by County Commissioners. The Silver Spring Chamber of Com- merce at its monthly meeting night unanimously approved a resolu- tion urflng the Montgomery County commissioners to advance to the Mary- land-National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission any funds necessary for the early preparation of the master highway and general park plan of the metropolitan district of Montgomery County. It was pointed out that if the county commissioners agree to this plan of financing the purchase of park | ands . in Montgomery County, which they are expected to do, nearly $500,000 will be available. Several speakers advised the cham- ber that the members of the planning commission desired to continue with the preparation of the master highway | and general park plan of the metropoli- | tan district, but that there was some uncertainty as to whether funds were available for the additional engineering expen$es incident to preparation. The chamber also unanimously ap- proved a resolution urging the planning commission to issue bonds to be re- deemed by the 7-cent tax on the metro- | politan district of Montgomery County for the early purchase of park lands. Attention is called to the fact that land generally could be bought more cheaply now than at any time in the future and that this applied particularly to the valleys of Rock Creek, Sligo Creek, Cabin John Run, and the valleys of the Northwest, in which valleys it is expected the main Montgomery County parks will be located. It was pointed out that the issnance last | morial Church. The presbytery voted to hold an ad- The extent of the present gift was not disclosed at the Vatican. ™ L S S*"g:.‘qe\'\‘&: gafl"'_", New York has more Itallans than|of the bonds for the immediate pur- any city in Italy. ichase of park lands will not raise the by 5 |tax on the Metropolitan district be- cause the 7-cent tax Is now being | lieved in Montgor County, although | the buying of park ids by the Plan- ning Commission is limited, unless bonds are issued, to the annual amount produced by the 7-cent tax. It was strongly advocated that all citizens be urged to dedicate valley lands for general park purposes and that the public funds only be spent | for the purchase of such lands as the owners refuse to dedicate. | The 7-cent tax on the metropolitan | distriet is producing about $30,000 a year and both the 1927 and 1928 fund from this tax is available for the pur- chase of park lands, and the commission has on hand $50,000 State funds for expenditure in Montgomery County and an ecual amount for purchase of park lands in Prince Georges County. | It is estimated by county officials that | nearlv $400,000 in” metropolitan district bonds could be issued, carried and re- | deei upon the 7-cent tax on the |metr-politan district of Montgomery Cc ‘nty within the 20-year limitation, which the Legislature has placed as the | maximura extension of the bond issue. | Consequently, it is believed that near- ly $500,000 is availeble for the purchase of park lands in Montgomery County. 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