Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1929, Page 12

12 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 <y 1929, EXPANSION URGED | FOR DEAF TRAINING Enlargement of Vocational| Training Work Asked, Wilbur Declares. | Enlargement of the vocational train- | ing work in the Columbia Institution | for the Deaf in this city is “urgently re- quested by the heads of schools for the CONSERVATIVES SCORED November Freaky Weather Month With Records for Hot and Cold ‘Two all-time records showed up mid- night Saturday. when meteorologists here closed their book of statistics rela- tive to the weather vagaries of Novem- | ber, 1929. | ‘The month brought both the hottest | and the coldest November temperatures | in the history of Washington's Weather | Bureau. | On November 2 last clectric fans and iced drinks had a brief vogue as the| city sought relief from an unaccustomed temperature of 83 degrees. '18 ‘This was three points above any No- vember maximum in the 58 years of the Weather Bureau's existence. On two previous occasions the mercury had touched 80. ‘The other November extreme was vis- ited upon Washington at 8:30 a.m. Sat- urday, when the temperature reading dipped to 11.3 degrees, the lowest of | record. The former minimum for the season ;11!95012 degrees on November 22 and 23, MATSON JURY LACKS STIDENTS SWANP MEDGAL EADOL Applicants for Admission Ex- ceed Capacity for Training | at Howard University. Pressure for admission to the school /| of medicine of Howard University for | students from 38 States, including the District of Columbia, and 15 foreign countries. At the commencement last June 227 received degrees. “The most notable development in the professional schools this year,” says the report, “has been the inauguration of a full-time three-year day school of law with 20 students registered in the first-year class.” Largest Enroliment. In the academic colleges of the uni- versity the total enroliment was 1,919 students, which exceeded the enroll- | ment of last year by 132 anc is the largest enrollment inthe history of the university. There were 666 new students. The activities of the university in- | clude the colleges of liberal arts, educa- the Summer sessions. expenditures, $561.373. deficit. | Ransas City physical education, the reserve officers’ training corps, the evening classes and INSTRUCTORS EL_ECT. Woman Heads Teachers of English. KANSAS CITY, December 2 (#).— Miss Ruth Marie Weeks of Kansas City | Saturday was elected president of the | lin of the University of Washington, | Normal Seattle, first vice president; College, This was thr‘ third year that there has been no Locate \ | | | | tion, applied science and music, the | National Council of Teachers of Eng- | graduate school, the department of ' lish, meeting here in annual convention, The New 14th Other new officers include O. B. Sper- | president; W. Wilbur Hatfield, Chicago secretary-treasurer, Henry (and Mise Carrie Belle Parks, Indiana, ‘The total income of the university | Graydon, High Point, N. C., second vice | Pa., auditor, for the fiscal year was $588.903 and the Pt o B ool LR i e the year 1928 “far exceeded the school’s | capacity” and there has been a “notacte | [ =] ) ] Bl =l el G = | increase in the caliber of entering stu- | | INDICTMENT EVIDENCE deaf and teachers of the deaf through- out the country,” says Secretary of the | Interior Wilbur today in his annual re- port to Congres “To provide this and better auricular and oral instruction three new instruc- tors are needed,” the report states, A new building to house vocational work and classrooms is declared to be pnother important need of the institu- ‘tion. An increase of 25 free scholar- ships in the advanced department 1s also recommended to take care of the expected increase in attendance, Enrollment in Schools. This _institution is supported mainly by congressional appropriations and, n part, by tuition fees. During the year that ended June 30 last, in the advanced department, known as Gallaudet Col- lege, 129 students were under instruc- tion, representing 35 States, the Dis- trict of Columbia and Canada. In the grammar department, known as Kendall School, 59 were under instruction, >4 being from the District of Columbia. During the year the power plant was remodeled and a 300-horsepower steam boiler installed. Additional space for coal storage was provided and new re- frigeration installed in the main kitchen. Six hundred square yards of old asphalt roadway was replaced by new asphalt. Degrees Conferred. On commencement day there were conferred one honorary degree, four de- | the normal department, two certificate: of graduation from that departmen three degrees of bachelor of science and eight degrees of bachelor of arts. | The receipts during the year were | $169,832, and the expenditures $167,135. INQUEST WILL PROBE 6 CAR-TRAIN DEATHS | | Story of Wild Ride With Death Will Be Told to Coroner. By the Associated Press. ‘WHITTIER, Calif,, December 2—The story of a wild ride with death will be told to a coroner's jury here today at an inquest into an accident which cost the lives of six young persons at a grade crossing near here. The six were killed yesterday when their automobile was struck by a Santa Fe passenger train and hurled, a mass of twisted wreckage, against the concrete base of & semaphore signal. Sherifl’s deputies said the party was Teturning to Los Angeles from a dance in Santa Fe Springs and apparently an attmept was made to beat the train to the crossing. The dead are: William R. De Ford, 21, former Los Angeles High School foot ball player; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McCann, Centralia, Wash.; Edwin C. Bike, 23; Miss Arline Herr, 19, and Mrs, Audna Day, 23, all of Los Angeles. Investigators said De Ford evidently ‘was driving the car. Mr. and Mrs. McCann were on their —_— grees of master of arts in the course of | = = FOR VOTING “SLACKNESS” | Press Hits Absentees for Failure to Upset Labor Party in Insurance Split. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 2.—Absentee Conservative members of ‘the House of Commons have been roughly hauled over the coals in their party since the Labor government narrowly escaped de- | feat last Thursday, when for the first | time Conservatives and Liberals trooped | into the same divicion lobby there were | 128 Conservatives absent sible voting strength of 25 erals, on the other hand, were only seven short of their full voting strength. The Conservative press is sharply critical of ‘“Conservative slackness.” The Morning Post roundly scolded the party M. P’ The division was on a Liberal amend- ment in committee to a clause in the | unemployment insurance bill. As it did not involve the main principle of the | bill, & defeat of the government would not have caused either resignation or dissolution. Italy has stopped the practice of in- serting in contracts for public works a clause forbidding the use of labor-saving machinery. “My Skin Nearly| Drove Me Mad” | “I had pimples and blackheads so | badly, and used to squeeze them so | | much that my face looked red and raw. On the advice of a nurse friend I got a jar of Rowles Mentho Sul- | phur and used it faithfully for ten | days. In 3 days’ time there was a | big difference in my skin and today |16 is as soft and clear as my ten- | year-old sister’ | The sulphur in Rowles Mentho | Sulphur clears the skin while the | Menthol heals the sore, broken tis- | sue. That's the twofold action you | | want for skin troubles. Try Rowles | | Mentho Sulphur not only for pim- | ples and blackheads, but for dry, | scaly skin, rash, and itching eczema. Suspects Held in Death of Broth- ers Will Be Released, Offi- cials Say. By the Assoclated Press. TEXARKANA, Ark, December 2.— Because it failed to find sufficient evi- dence in connection with the deaths of Arthur and Lee Matson, whose shot- riddled bodies were found in an aban- doned well on November 19, the Miller County grand jury Saturday failed to re- a few days after the disappearance of the Matson broth- ers, Foos and John Rayburn, together with Ola Owens, sweetheart of Coe, have been held in’ jail here. Al will be Teleased ‘county nmolalaiesia. The two youths v re ber 4 and it emerof were discovered in a_well November 19 that it was known they had met with death. 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Those of | maximum preparation were selected. ‘There is a notable increase in the | caliber of entering students. Of the 60 students entering the School of Medicine this year, 30 held bachelor degrees and 28 d done three years of college worl The total enrollment of Howard Uni- versity for the year 1928 was 2671 ate Medical Glasses Fitted College Eves Examined DR. CLAUDE S. 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