Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 4

A4 SCHOOLS CROWDED ~ INT3TH DIVISION 47 Classes on Part-Time Among Institutions for Colored. | > r RIS is the eighth of deseriding the physical aspects of Wash- ington’s public schools. As in the pre- vious articles, there is mo attempt here to portray the school system’s faults in an exagoerated lioht. The two reporters who visited each school building are merely presenting the conditions as they saw them. The ninth article dealing with another oroup of achools will appear tomorrow. ries of articles Crowded conditions are found in a great many of the schools of the thirteenth division, which includes all the colored schools of the southwest and southeast, most of those in the northeast and a few in the northwest south of New York avenue. There are 47 part-time classes in the division ; above the kindergartens. Oversize classes are the rule—not the exception. There are approximately 160 classes, or nearly 70 per cent of the Whole number, that have more than 35 pupils each—the desired maximum for a modern elementary class, | Of this number 97 classes were found | to have more than 40 pupils each— the ctical maximum within which the local school authorities are try- ing ‘o keep each. class. Nine of these classes had 50 or more pupils each. There are several new buildings, or buildings with recently erected addi- tions, but the majority of the structures are old. Several like the Lincoln and Cardoza graded school, are strikingly out of date. In the entire division of 20 buildings there are only 4 assembly halls—at the new Bell, the Birney, the Burrville and the Garfield. Heating plants, tollet facilities, space for supplementary instruction and play, furniture, etc., wvary widely. Some buildings are satisfactorily equipped in & few and woefully lack- ing in others. 1 The crowded conditions in the divi- sion are shown not only by the large | number of part-time classes and over- size classes, but by the fact that seven old wooden \ portable buildings are be- | structures suffer from ing used. all the ills that portables are heir to. Report on Conditions. | Conditions in each building, as ob- | served by this reporter during a sur- vey conducted in the last three weeks, are as follows: | is no girls’ lay room. The outside playground is very meager and children must use . ‘The building is din, inside 8y ‘The inside walls need paint; halls and stairways are narrow. unsatisfactory for Giddings School, Thlrd'md G streets sittings, 341; four part- apparent e part-time classes are 1A pupils, 2A with 44 pupils, 1B with 37 pupils and 2B with 42 pupils. ‘There alsa are two kindergarten morning and have more G Duplls cach. Lighi- 40 eacl - ing is satisfactory; hot-air heating plant is fairly satisfactory; ventilation poor; tollets old style; two basement play rooms; size of playgrounds is sat- isfactory, but only small portion is available for use, the rest needing grading and resurfacing. Jones School, First and L streets northwest—Eight class rooms; total en- rollment, 365; total sittings, 325; 2 part-time classes. One first-grade with 41 pupils and one first with 45 pupils; no portables; all classes have more than 35 pupils each, five of them having more than 40 each. Lighting is satis- factory; steam plant gives adequate heat: tollets old style, in fairly good condition; two basement play rooms; outside playground too small, needs re- surfacing and better drainage, being muddy in wet weather. Bannecker School, Third and K streets northwest—Eight class rooms; total enroliment, 403;.total sittings; 341; no portables; 2 part-time classes. One first with 44 and one first with 52 puplls. .Chairs have to be borrowed from kindergarten to accommodate puplls in . these oversized first grades. Every class in building has more than one, 40 pupils, e% puplls. The ting is satisfactory; steam heating plant satisfactory; old- style tollets; two basement play rooms. ‘There is virtually no outside playground | and request to close street to traffic has been denied. Cloak rooms are used for | coaching instruction. This building is very crowded throughout. Teachers have difficulty finding enough sittings for pupils. Chairs are shifted from one room to another and frequently are too large or small for the pupils using them. Ambush School, Sixth and L streets | southwest—Eight class rooms; total en- Tollment, 344; total sittings, 334; no portables; 2 'part-time classes. ' One first with 33 and one first with 41 pupils; 6 classes have more than 35 puplls each, 3 of them having more than 40 each. The lighting is satis- factory; steam plant does not -heat northwest.rooms in cold weather satis- factorily; “a new plant or auxiliary furnace is nceded; tollets old style, not suitable for kindergarten children; two basement play rooms; outside play- ground very meager and more space is | badly needed. It is not practicable to | use the street as playground because m heavy traffic—street carr and Cardoza Graded School, First and I streets southeast—10 class rooms; total enroliment, 419; total sittings, 436; no portable; eight classes have more than 35 pupils each, five of them having more than 40. When all pupils are present in these latter classes there are | not enough chairs and desks to go around. This bullding is old and gen- erally in poor condition. The halls ate naturally dark, but electric light throughout the bullding is satisfactory. Old fashioned iron stoves heat the first floor, and.old hot-air furnaces heat the upper rooms with difficulty, soot being | abundant. Tollets are old style and | reached by a long, narrow, dingy pas- sageway. There are no playrooms. On the day The Star reporter calied many of the boys were gathered in the fur- nace room on the first floor, trying to keep warm near the furnace doors. All about them was coal dust and they stumbled into piles of coal on the floor. On good days the children go across the street to play on the grounds of the Randall Junior High School, as the Cardoza has no playground. —This building is dingy and dirty inside atud out, and lacks space for rest rooms and pecial activities, It is generally unsat- factory for modern schcol. Old Bell School, First street between B and C streets southwest—Eight class- xgoms; total enroliment, 242; qm sit- mmmu:htn(l { with 36, 2-A with 33, | ! i Upper: Rosedale portable school ‘buildnigs, where colored children of lower grades shivered last week as snow sifted in through cracks around the windows and under the doors. Lower: Boys of the old Cardoza Graded School trying to keep warm during recess a$ the doors of the old hot-air furnaces. These little colored DX PRINGESS N ONREES LEES Decree Based on Findings of Referee, Says New York Justice. R By the Associated Press. N YORK, February 1.—An inter- locutwvlyy decree of divorce Was mnoetd in Brooklyn Supreme Court today to the former Princess Xenia of Russia from her husband, Wfl"-mk‘B- Leeds, ir, son of the late tin plate king. = Justice Selah B. Strong, in signing the decree, announced that it was based upon the findings of Percy L. Stoddard, referee in the divorce action, and that he was not aware of fl;:‘giound-! upon whi fon was L ';’xc'l}:mter;: ;c:nh and Leeds were mar- ried on October 8, 1921, in Paris. Both were only 19 years of age and the mar- riage was opposed by the youth’s moth- er, Princess Anastasia of Greece. . Today's final action was the first public intimation that there was any trouble between the young Long Island sportssman and his titled wife. Last Summer when he made the trip around the world on the Graf Zeppelin she accompanied him to Lakehurst for the takeoff and was there to greet him when he returned. The usual rumors that follow many young society couples had been surprisingly few in their case. children have no place to play except the furnace room when the weather is bad. Some rooms in this building are poorly heated by old iron stoves. —Star Staff Photos. tings, 285; no portable, no part-time classes; five classes have more than 35 puplls each, all but one of them having more than 40. Daylight on one side of bllfldlnf poor, electric lights satisfac- ‘tory: old hot-air plant; toilets old style; two naturally dark playrooms in base- ment; outside playground large enough, but needs resurfacing. It is expected that this building will be abandoned soon. New Bell School, Second street be- tween Virginia avenue and D street southwest—17 classrooms; total enroll- ment, 606; total sittings, 714; no port- able, no part-time classes except two kindergartens; nine classes have more than 35 pupils each, three of them hav- lt:‘ry more than 40. Lighting is satisfac- | The 3 heat satisfactory. The toilets lodern. There is a good as- sembly hall. There are two playrooms, but the e is not large enough for so many children; outside playground is fairly adequate. The building has five special or office rooms, one domestic science room, one room for domestic art and cne for manual training. Syphax School, One-half street be- tween N and O strects southwest—Eight class rooms; total enrollment, 470; total sittings, 394; two portables; fov: part- time classes—a 1-A with 37 pupils, a 1-B with 32, another 1-A with 38 and a 2-AB with 47, not including two part-time kindergartens with a total of 45 puplls. Nine classes have more than 35 pupils each, four of them hav- ing more than 40. Lighting is satis- factory; direct and indirect steam sys- tems do not heat building well in severe weather. Toilets old style; two base- ment. play rooms: outside playground satisfactory. There are extra rooms for teachers, office, etc. The portables are electrically lighted and in fair condi- tion, except for usual heating, ventilat- ing and other troubles from which such temporary structures suffer. There is need of a fence along the street in front of the portables, where there is a ter- race with no protection. A four-room annex, once promised, would relieve the congestion. Payne School, Fifteenth and C streets southeast—Eight, class rooms; total en- rollment, 400; total sittings, 353; portable; four part-time class: with 36 puplls, 1-A with 32 pupils; 2-AB with 43, and a combined 1-A and 2-B with 40. Every class but one has more than 35 pupils and four have more than 40 pupils, not counting a kinder- garten with 44, which has only 20 regular chairs and tables and is forced to use coaching chairs borrowed from the first and second grades. When all pupils are present there is a shortage of regular furniture in two of the other classes. The building is badly over- crowded. Lighting is satisfactory. An old style hot-air furnace hes difficulty in_heating the building properly and gives off much soot, the walls and furniture being often blackened. Toilets are old type. There are two basement play rooms, but the boys' room is also ground is small, muddy in wet weather and needs resurfacing. The teachers’ room is'small and unheated. . There is urgent need for two more class rooms o give all pupils full-time instruction. The girls must go to 741 Eléventh street northeast for domestic art instruction and the boys to Twelfth and D streets northwest for manual ining. Lovejoy School, Twelfth and D streets northeast—Twenty class rooms, 8 in old section, 4 in middle section and total sittings, 854. time classes, not including 2 kinder- gartens, one in morning and one in afternoon, that use one room. The part-time’ classes are as follows: 1-A with 42, 1-B with 45, 1-A with 40, 2-B B with 53, and 3-A with 36. There are 18 classes with more than 35 pupils each, 10 of them having more than 40, and 2 with more than 50. Borrowing of furniture from one room to another, not always of proper size, is necessary to provide sit- tings in oversize classes. Daylight is poor in 4 rooms; electric lights are sat- isfactory. The heat is partly from a steam and partly from a hot-air plant; the old section suffers from dust and soot from hot-air plant. There are modern tollets for boys in the new sec- tion, but none for girls in this section. The old section has old style toilets. ‘There is no space for coaching, and cloak rooms must be used. The prin- cipal’s office is very small. There 1s one unheated box-like teachers’ room which. is inadequate for 25 teachers. ‘There are two basement play rooms for girls, one being small and near the coal room; also two play rooms for boys, one being quite small. Outside playground is not large enough for so many pupils; it is mostly unfenced and is cut up by automobiles not belonging to school personnel. ‘The building is generally crowded. ‘There is need for better used ‘as_storeroom. The outside play- | teachers’ room, better toilets for girls, | those in the new section having to walk nearly the distance of a city block through the building to basement toilets in old section. Daylight is poor in up- per hall of new section due to small- ness of transom window. Rosedale Portab) Twentieth and Rosedale streets northeast—There is 1 kindergarten and a part-time 1-A class {in one portable and a combined part- time 1-B, 2-A and 2-B and a part- time 3-B in a second portable. The total enrollment of the two temporary buildings is 140 and the total sitting 72. ‘The kindergarten has 28 pupils, the 1- A class 43, the combined first and sec- ond grade, 35 and thé third grade 34. portables have no artificial lights, and are heated by stoves venly. The floors are cold and the venfilation roor. Rain sometimes beats in through he walls of the structures. During the recent storm snow sifted in around the windows and doors. The children use two wooden outhouses for toilet pur- poses. They are supplied with running water, but are eated. Drinking water is furnished by an outside bub- bling fountain between the two build- ings. There is, of course, no inside play room, and for an outside play ground in good weather the children must use a privately-owned lot. Burrville School, Division avenue and Hay street northeast—Twenty class rooms, oldest section, 4 rooms; second section, 8 rooms, and new section, 8 rooms, with a fine new auditorium; no portables. When The Star reporter called only 4 rooms in the new section were occupied, and there were three part-time classes in the school. When the addition is all in use Monday he was told there would be room for all the classes on full time, Total enroll- ment for the building, 780; total sittings, 942; including the 4 rooms to be occu- pied Monday. In addition to the 3 part-time regular classes there was & double kindergarten with a total of 72 pupils sharing a room, with a part-time first grade of 45 pupils. There were 13 | classes with more than 35 pupils each, 8 of them having more than 40 pupils. Extra chairs and tables have to be set up in some of the class rooms when all of the children are present. The light- ing is satisfactory;, steam heat satis- factory; toilets are part old-style and part lern; 2 play rooms on ground floor of old section are too small, but there is a large room under the new auditorium and one other large room not yet assigned for use. This space may be uscd for play rooms, or for in- struction in industrial arts. Even with a new toilet in the modern section the reporter was informed that boys' toilet facilities will be inadequate. The out- side playground is much too small, most of the former playground space having been used as a site for the new section of byilding. Additional playground seems to be greatest need; playground equipment is also needed, as there is non: at present. The office space and room for women teachers are satis- i factory, but there is no room for three | men teachers. Coaching rooms are lack- iing. Laboratories for industrial art in- struction are needed and also modern equipment for industrial art work. The !r(‘porwr found deep, sticky mud around | the building, and the children had to plow through it to get inside. The out- side grounds are unsightly, being en- tirely without lansdscaping. The side- walk in front of the building is full of | holes and dangerous, especially for chil- dren. There is no room in the build- ing in which the janitor may keep his effects. Although the auditorium is otherwise satisfactory, it has movable seats, which, under the fire regulations, bar it from use for showing moving pictures, Deanwood School, Whittingham and Lane places northeast—13 class rooms, total enrollment 673; total sittings, in- cluding those in two portables, 551. When the reporter visited this build- ing there were 6 part-time classes, but when 2 portables are occupied Monday this number will be reduced to 2 part- time classes. There were 13 classes with more than 35 pupils each, 6 of these having more than 40. The light- ing is satisfactory; steam heat satis- factory. Tollets in new section are modern, those in old section being old style. There is a play room for boys, but none for girls. The playground is satisfactory. The two portables were having electric lights installed. The: are old structures, having been moved 8 times. They have cold floors, cracks under doors and around windows, etc., like other wooden structures of this type. There are 3 extra rooms in the main building for cooking, sew- ing and carpentry work, and the prin- cipal's office is satisfactory. There is a teachers’ room, but no furniture for it. ‘This building is in fairly good condition, but crowded, In addition . to the part-time classes mentioned above there are 2 kindergartens, using the same room at different periods. Smothers School, Forty-fourth street and Washington place northeast—10 class rooms, total enrollment 290, total sittings, 322; no portable nor part-time classes. Three classes have more than 35 pupils each, 2 of them being above 40. There is a room for visual educa- tion and another for domestic science work. The lighting is satisfactory, and steam heat is satisfactory. Tollets are modern. There are no inside play rooms. ‘The playground outside is ample and was being surfaced. It had not been fenced. The reporter found mud all around the building sand no semblance of grass. This is a new building and the grounds need grad- ing. In front of the building there is a new concrete sidewalk, but the streets that bound it on the other three sides have no sidewalks. Garfield School, Twenty-fifth street and Alabama avenue southeast—Twelve class rooms, only five of which are used for classes. There is a good assembly hall, but it is inadequately heated. ‘There are no portables and no part- time classes. Total enrollment, 156; total sittings, 347. Five of the class rooms are used for supplementary in- struction, one for domestic science and one for sewing instruction. Only one of the five classes has more than 35 puplls—a combined 5AB and 6AB grade with 38 pupils. This building has plenty of room, and the com- munity is not growing in population. ‘The lighting is satisfactory, but a hot- air furnace does not heat the entire building satisfactorily. Some of the rooms not used for regular classes have to be closed in very cold weather. There is an abundance of soot. The toilets are strictly modern and are con- nected with a septic tank buried in the ground about 200 yards from the build- ing. They can be connected with the city sewerage system as soon as it reaches this point. There is no teach- ers’ tollet. There is a play room for boys, and the girls play in one of the extra class rooms. ample but needs grading and fencing, particularly as it is near & much-used automobile road. Birney School, Nichols avenue, near Howard road northeast—Sixteen class rooms; six of these rooms are in a new section; also an assembly hall. There are no part-time classes and no port- ables. Total enroliment, 572; total sit- tings, 592. Nine classes have more than 35 pup™s each, all but one of them exceeding 40. The rooms are all crowded and extra chairs and desks, have had to be placed in many rooms. A_1A grade has 52 pupils. This class hds movable furniture, but only 21 double tables and 42 regular chairs. Borrowed kindergarten chairs are used to make up the deficlency, and most of the pupils sit three at a table. The lighting is satisfactory and so is the steam heat. Tollets are old style. There are two play rooms for girls and one for boys. Playground is fairly sat- isfactory in size and surface. There is no office for the administrative prin- cipal, who has a desk in the main corridor on the first floor, where it is exposed when community center and other' public meetings are held there at night. An addition to the building seems to be required to take care of the children in the oversize classes. Crummell School, Gallaudet avenue and Fourteenth street northeast—sSix class rooms, total enrollment, 282; total sittings, 241; no portables: three part- time classes—one first, sharing room at different period with a kindergarten, and another first and a second grade. Five classes have more than 35 puplls each, one of them having more than 40. The first grade in the kindergarten room has 35 pupils. This room has only 26 regular sittings, and some of | the pupils use long benches and crowd | around the kindergarten tables. The lighting is satisfactory. An old hot- air plant gives uneven heat and walls, etc,, are solled with soot. The build- ing is detached and exposed to winds on all sides. It is impossible to heat it properly with the old furnace. Toilets are old style. There are two base- ment play rooms. The playground is too small and needs resurfacing and grading. In wet weather it is very muddy and rain water backs up to boys’ entrance 4 and 5 inches deep. There is an office and teachers’ rest room, but the equipment is poor. There is no teachers’ toilet. Logan School, Third and G streets northeast—Eight class rooms; total enrollment, 467; total sittings, 351; no portables; four part-time classes—three first grades and one second grade. Nine classes have more than 35 pupils each, seven of them having more than 40, The part-time second grade has 51 and the fourth grade 55 puplils, Folding chairs are used in several of the rooms with oversized classes and there are not desks enough to go around. In some rooms some regular furniture is broken and unfit for use. The floors are in r condition in some rooms and a number of the “stationary” seats cannot be securely screwed down. ‘The halls are small. The daylight is poor in four inside rooms, but electric light is satisfactory. The steam heat is all right. There are two basement gl:‘ rooms with half windows. Each steep flight of steps to an open half-length window, through which the children reach the street by stooping down to pass through. There is a play- Eound, but it is across the street from e school. The teachers’ room is too small. The chief need of this school is more class rooms, better play rooms and better furniture for puplls and teachers. Douglas School, Pirst and Plerce streets northwest—8 class rooms, total enrollment, 400;. total sittings, 336; no portables; two part-time classes—both first_grades, one of 40 and one of 42 Rlllplh. All of the 8 graded classes ve more than 40 pupils each, two of them having more than 50. Extra chairs are used In many of the class rooms where the regular desks and chairs will not go around. The light- w 1s satisfactory; steam heat all right; lets oid style; two basement play ‘The playground is Qu Leeds recently presented to the city of New York, presumably for use by Police Commissioner Whalen in greet- ing distinguished guests, a speedy motor yacht in which he and the princess had taken many cruises. The princess is said to be at Palm Beach and Mr. Leeds at Havana. WOMEN WILL STUDY INTRICATE ISSUES School of Politics Convenes in April for Fourth Time in Washington. ‘The intricacies of the tariff and other issues will be closely scrutinized when the School of Politics for Women convenes in the Willard Hotel early in April. This will be the fourth political school to be held in Washington. ‘The announced purpose of the meet- ing is better to inform women of the policies of the Republican party, the blems of the Government and the issues of the day. The school is under direction of Mrs.. Virginia White Speel, national committeewoman for the Dis- trict. and the League of Republican ‘Women. Among the subjects to which par- ticular attention will be given are the tariff, prohibition, public lands, devel- opment of waterways and foreign rela- tions. Besides Mrs. Speel and Mrs. E. H. Harriman, president of the League of Republican Woman, those in charge of arrangements for the school are: Mrs. Charles Alger, Mrs. Marcus Benjamin, Mrs. J. H. Branson, Mrs. Marian But- ler, Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty, Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of the Secretary of Labor; Mrs.. Albert F. Dawson, Mrs. Charles Deneen, wife of Senator Deneen of Illinois; Mrs. Louise Dodson, acting vice chairman of the Republican na- tional committee; Mrs. Harry D. Fry, Mrs. Lucia Hanna Hadley, Mrs. Warren J. Haines, Mrs. Percy Hickling, Mrs. Edward A. Keys, Mrs. Burnita Sheltor Matthews, Miss M. Pearl McCall, as- sistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia; Miss Clara Mc- own, Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, Miss Edna Patton, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker and Miss Alice Whitaker. WELFARE GROUP HOLDS DANCE AT MAYFLOWER Bureau of Internal Revenue sociation Is Given Entertainment. The Welfare Association of the Bureau of Internal Revenue held a dance at the Mayflower Hotel last night. Among the guests were As- sistant_Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs, Walter Ewing Hope,: Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Seymour Lowman, Commissioner of Internal Revenue and Mrs. Robert H. Lucas, Assistant to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and Mrs. Harris F. Mires, Special Deputy Commissioner and Mrs. Pressly R. Baldridge, Assistant Commissioner and Mrs, L. C. Mitchell, Deputy Commis- sioner David Burnet and Mrs. Burnet, Deputy Commissioner Robert M. Estes and Mrs. Estes and Deputy Commis- sioner George J. Shoeneman and Mrs. Shoeneman. An entertalnment program of dances and vocal and instrumental music was presented. ‘The officers of the association, re- cently organized to include every em- ploye and officer of the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue in Washington, are H. B. Robinson, president; Floyd Toomey, vice president; Miss Cora A. Geiger, secretary, and I. Y. Bain, treasurer. o nenneglatle ol ORIENTAL NIGHT PLANNED Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society in Annual Event. The Woman's Missionary Soclety of Eastern Presbyterian Church will hold a social evening called “A Night in the Orient” Tuesday at 8 o'clock. This is the annual social event held by the so- clety, of which Mrs. A. E. Barrows is president, and the program and decora- tions wiil be Orental in character. There will also be curio tables and re- freshments. Mrs. Walter L. Hagea is general chairman, assisted in entertainment by Mrs. Reddish, Mrs. W. A. Beall and Mrs. W. T. Walker, Mrs, Thomas Baker is chairman, and Miss Edith Funston vice chairman of decorations, Mrs. V. Trainham and Mrs, ri. C. Wilcox are chairman and vice chairman, respec- tively, of refreshments; Mrs. J. S. Blake is chairman of hospitality, and Mrs. George Kern chairman of invitations. HEADQUARTERS SET UP. | Building Trades Employers’ Group Opens Offices. The Building Trades Employers’ As- sociation, recently formed by 16 build- ers’ groups in Washington, has estab- lished headquarters at 1719 I street, it was announced yesterday by Thomas Grant, executive secretary. The coffices also are headquarters of the Master Bullders’ Association. — sidered dangerous for the children to cross. The office and the teachers' room are small. Simmons School, Plerce street be- tween Pirst street and New Jersey ave- nue northwest—7 regular class rooms and one room used for shop work: total enrollment, 309; total sittings, 294; no As- | | | | Whose marrisge in_ Paris several years MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM B. LEEDS, JR., ago ended suddenly yesterday when a divoree was granted Mrs. Leeds, who was formerly Princess Xenia of Russia, Mrs. C. M. Lipp on ‘The capture and arrest of Gen, John Hunt Morgan of the Confederate army Lipp of 1520 Buchanan street, who, as a small girl, stood on the veranda of her home in Greenville, Tenn., while her mother, Mrs, Sarah Thompson, serving as a dispatch carrier for the Union army, revealed to Gen. Sherman and his officers the hiding place of the famous Confederate leader. Mrs. Lipp's father, Capt. Sylvanus ‘Thompson, although a native of Ten- ness, was a Northern sympathizer, and 11t was at the sacrifice of many of his 'frlend.u and the love of many relatives that he openly sided with the Northern Army, eventually being shot while on reconnaissance duty in their service, leaving behind him two little daughters and wife, who continued to carry on his work with the Union side. “Well do I remember the day that my father was shot,” recalled Mrs. Lipp. “My mother was sent for by some neighbors and, taking me with her, we went to a barn outside of our town where they had lain my father’s body. | He had been shot through the head. It | was after that that my mother sent was personally witnessed by Mrs. C. M. | M GIRL WHO SAW CONFEDERATE GENERAL TAKEN GIVES STORY Porch Of Tennessee Home When John Hunt Morgan Was Captured. word to Gen. Sherman that she would disclose to him the whereabouts of Gen. Gen. Sherman with his army entered Greenville, and I can remem- br clinging to my mother’s skirts as she directed the men to tear down the fence of a neighboring house. There they I?und Gen. Morgan hiding behind some vines. “Mother was obliged to leave Green- ville after that, so when Sherman re- t;:;beu sa too; :‘l{h l?ltl):her. my_little sister and m; army, placing us in one oly-an canvas-covered trans- port wagons of the army. We later transferred to a train which took us to Canton, Ohio, and there my mother be- came a nurse in one of the Northern hospitals, keeping us with her during that time.” Mrs. Lipp relates that her mother carried many important es on horseback for leaders of the Union Army. “She had lovely, long hair,” said Mrs. Lipp, “and frequently she would braid the dispatches in her hair. Once she told us that she was captured while carrying an important massage and she wes obliged to swallow the paper in or- der to prevent its being found.” |SAFETY AT SEA RULES !~ MAY BE MADE TIGHTER New Code Laid Before Secretary of Commerce by Supervising Inspectors. Tightening up the rules regarding safety of life at sea is being considered by the Commerce Department's Steam- boat Inspection Service. A conference of supervising inspectors yesterday laid before Secretary Lamont a new code of regulations covering safety provisions at sea. The new regulations included the following: A more stringent lfehoat lowering test; testing of the crew in pulling oars in lifeboats to be made necessary; standards of examinations for various grades of licenses raised; a new rule for releasing lifeboat hooks; a larger number of life preservers on fer- ryboats to be made obligatory; more stringent boiler regulations and revision of distress signals. Dickinson N. Hoover, |ugervlal.n| in- spector general, declared that 328465, 552 passengers were carried on steam vessels during the past fiscal year, and that only 86 lives were lost, a ratio of 1 life lost to 3,819,366 passengers car- ried. During the year 741 lives were di- rectly saved by means of the life-saving appliances required by regulations of che service. | COLORED MAN LYNCHED. OCILLA, Ga., February 1 (®).— Ji Irvine, colored man accused of attacking and killing a 14-year-vid white girl yesterday, . was beaten to death and burned about 10 1niles from here today by several hundred persons who took him by force from ‘he sheriff of Irwin County, Irvine was captured at Mystic, Ga., after an all-night man-hunt by the sheriff and his deputies. ing the man to jail here, the sheriff was accosted by a crowd which overpowered him in a struggle in which he was injured slightly, The captive was then taken to the place where the body of the girl, daugh- ter of a prominent farmer, was found 1;u yesterday. The lynching occurred there. v The sheriff said Irvine confessed the crim WOMEN IMMIGRANTS’ EQUALITY BILL URGED Discrimination Would Be Prevented by Measure Proposed by Cable in House. By the Assoclated Press. A Dbill to prevent discrimination in the naturalization and immigration laws because of sex was introduced in the House yesterday by Representative Cable, Republican, of Ohio. ‘The bill provides for a' series of amendments to the law covering the naturalization and citizenship of mar- ried women. It would pmvflio that a citizen of the United States should not cease to be a citizen by reason of mar- riage unless a formal renunciation of citizenship is made before a court hav- ul‘x‘e Jurisdiction of naturalization of aliens. Provision also would be made that a native-born citizen who has lost United States citizenship by marriage to an alien may, if forelgn nationality has not been ac¢quired by affirmative act, be naturalized by full compliance with the turalization laws. POLICE REVAMPING URGED BY MELLON Secretary Proposes Transfer of White House Force to Treasury Unit. Secretary Mellon yesterday submitted to the House a proposed draft of a bill transferring the White House police force to the Treasury Department, un- der the direction of the chief of the Secret Service, and increasing the per= sonnel of the force from 35 privates and four sergeants to at least 43 privates, the ranking officers to have grades and salaries equivalent to the importance of their assignments, The bill provides for appointment of one captain, one lieutenant and three sergeants in place of the four ser= geants, and permits more flexibility in the number of privates, |, Secretary Mellon said “the President believes that in the interest of good administration the control and direc~ tlon of the White House police should be vested in the chief of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury De- | partment, as that division is_charged | with _the protection of the President and his family and the person elected to be President.” The Secretary said “it is the bellef of | the Treasury Department that the pres- |ent White House police force is inade- quate to perform properly the duties assigned to them.” He pointed out that an estimate of the amount needed for 1931 was sub- | mitted to Congress by the President in the budget, but the amourt has been reduced by the committee on appropri- ations of the House to the appropria= tion for the current year, pending en- actment of legislation such as Secretary | Mellon today Pmpose& He urges that | this proposed legislation be given early and favorable consideration. He says that the director of the Bureau of the Budget advises that in so far as financial program of the President is concerned, there is no objection to this legislation he proposes, . TEMPLARS TO GIVE PREPARATORY DRILLLS Six Commanderies Eliminations Also Planned for Sword Manual Night. With the competitive drill of the Knights Templar but two days away the six commanderies making up the Wash- ington jurisdiction are planning to hold last-minute preparatory drills and in- spections tomorrow evening. Then, also, will be held final eliminations for the right to represent the commanderies in the sword manual contest, which is to be one of the features of the meeting 'lu;l"eld-ly night in the Washington Audi- um. . The meeting will eombine a grand ball with the mili maneuvers, and is expected by offl of the order to be the largest Templar function staged here during the past 15 years. All the knights are to turn out in full uniform as well as the 24-man drill teams. Arrangements have been made to transport the teams by bus to the Auditorium the night of the drill. ‘The m¢ this year, combining both the military and social ts of the fraternity, sets a precedent which will be followed in the future. It is thought that within a few years the yearly function will have been enlarged to take in the neighboring Templar jur- isdictions. ok COLORED WOMAN HELD AFTER WHISKY RAID Letterman Special Vice Squad Gets 13 Quarts of Alleged. Liquor. ‘Three colored women were arrested B Cern T ice sq yesf ly 8 in raids wl netted 13 quarts of alleged whisky. The largest haul of the was made at the home of Mary L. es, where 10 quarts of whisky were found by Sergt. Letterman, Pvts. Richard J. Cox, George C. McCarron and James A. Mostyn, who charged her with sale and possession of whisky. The other seizures took place at the home of Jennie V. Allen, 1923 Eleventh street, who was booked with charges of sale and possession of two quarts of whisky, and at the residence of Leona Christlan of 62 Plerce street, at which one quart of whisky ‘was taken. The Christian woman was charged with possession of whisky only. . Silver-fox farming in_ Norway has greatly increased in the last year ,and there are 35,000 foxes now in couni X “I Was Surprised How Quickly and Easily the Loan Was Repaid” “When my son ar- rived and was oper- ated on at twenty- three days old, ne- cessitating a special nurse, hospital room oty o0 Physician’s & Dentist’s Office Ideal location * for dentists and similar offices—)us step from the intersection of Six- teenth Street, Columbia Road. Har- yard Street and Mount Pleasant Street. e of the choicest and most densely populated residential s in this part of Washington. In dition, the situation of the offic themselves {n TI MAYC APARTM] provides no siderable ‘amount of business from occupanis of that bullding. hone Maycroft Apts. Columbia 9722 AUSTIN C. WALLER District 0864 portables; no part-time classes. One class has 40 pupils and all others have more, it being necessary to borrow extra chalrs, often not the proper size, to ac- commodate all the pupils. The day- light is poor in some of the rooms, elec- tric lights satisfactory. Steam heat is satisfactory; tol'ets old style; two base- ment play rooms; closed street is used for a playground. There is no teachers' rooms. There is no playground, the children playing on Pierce street. As First street is an arterial highway, i cannot be closed to traffic and is con- Test room, the only available space being used for a central library for this and the Douglas School and for & teachers’ toilet. t TIN ROOFS PORCHES BUILT ), REMODI P 942 CONSTRUCTION RVICE and the various other expenses incident to such a serious time, I was in debt to an extent that had never happened before. “I decided to make a loan at the MOR- RIS PLAN BANK: “I made the ar- rangements and signed the contract without the slightest embarrassment. My following wvisits were quite pleasant and 1 was surprised how quickly and easily the loan was repaid. “My faith in the Bank is such that 1 always recommend it to any one in need of personal financial assistance.” " MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury S A RIS