Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1930, Page 5

- BROOKHART SCORES ‘OOURT DRY. LAXITY' lowan Says Failure to Inflict More Severe Penaliies Ham- pers Enforcement. Blame for the lack of better enforce- ment of the eighteenth amendment wes placed on the courts for their failure to inflict greater penalties for prohibition violations and on “certain higher-ups” in the enforcement machinery who do notbelieve in prohibition, dress by Senator Brookhart of Iowa at a meeting of the Columbiz Heights Citizens' Association in the Columbia Heights Christian Church last night. Brookhart praised prohibition as “the greatest success of any rcform law” and expressed the view tha! while it is not perfectly enforced, it is the best thing for the country, Senator Brookhart, who had been listed on the Columbia Heights Citizers’ Association bulletin to speas on “Dis- trict Affairs,” was greated with ap- plause when he announcec from the platform that he was going to deliver “a prohibition speech.” He launched into the address on the eighteenth amendment after telling of a bill sponsored by him for the establish- ment of a “court of justice,” where Federal employes may be heard on matters in which they think they have not received a fair deal at their piaces ©of employment. Crampton Bill Is Favored. The association adopted a resolution favoring the Crampton bill providing for funds for securing land for a com- prehensive development of parks and playgrounds. ‘The resolution also urged that an item be included in the bill for power development at Grest Falls, in addition to urging that the District be Tequired to refund to the Faderal Go:- ernment only a half of the total sum expended for the purpose ‘n the Dis- trict—or the same proportion of the | fund required of the States to refund | in connection with the development | project in nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia. The resolution was introduced by W. 1. Swanton. A resolution was adopted opnosing the Jones bill which would liberalize Qualifications for the Commissioners. The body went on record as oppos- sing_any increase in the water rents in the District. The latter resolution also urged that any adciidonal funds needed for the development or extension of the water system b: taken from the general taxation funds, Peppler Is Advocated. ‘The association adopted a resolution urging President Hoover to appoint Lewis D. Peppler, chairman of its mem- bership committee, to the board of District Commissioners. Another reso- lution urged the -appointment of Wil- liam McK. Clayton as peoples’ counsel on_the Public Utilities Conunission. Other resolutions adopted included: A resolution favoring the use of the old Pension Office for an armory by the District of Columbia National Guard, and a resolution urging increase in the pay of firemen and policemen. The latter measure included a clause urging that the Federal Government increase the amount of Jts annual con- tribution of $9,000,000 for District ex- penses. A report by C. E. Westrater, chair- man of the association’s committee on streets and alleys, urging repairs to sidewalks on Georgia avenue from Florida avenue to Shepherd street, was adopted. A report by J. Clinton Hiatt, chairman of the public satety com- ! mittee of the association, uskng offi- cials of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. to instruct its drivers to be more careful in closing the rear ex!: doors on the one-man operated busses also was adopoted, as was a recommenda- reet and Georgia avenue. on the Washington Com- munity Chest was delivered by Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss. The associstion voted to contribute $10 to tae Chest. E. T. Fitzgerald and Irving W. Buck- lin were elected new members. Wil- liam W. Adams, president, presided. DOHENY OFFERS TAX SETTLEMENT TO ¥. S. Petroleum Company Moves to Avoid $1,100,000 Suit, Prose- cutor Reveals. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Februery 5-—As- sistant United States Attorney Doherty said today that the Doheny Paciic Pe- troleum Co., against which the Gov- ernment has a $1,100,000 suit for ad- ditional income tax, has offersd to settle out of court. Doherty asked the Federal Court to continue the case until Februery 11, to give time for consideration of the offer. If accepted there probably will be no trial, he said. The Government's suit alleged that in 1919 and 1920 the Pan-American Petroleum Corporation transferrec 55,- 000 shares of stock to the Doheny Pa- cific, owned by Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Do- heny, their son, since deceased, and J. C. Anderson. The company claims the transfer was | & merger and not subject to tax, while the Government declares it was & sale and subject to income tax from the company holding the stock. PARENTS CALL STRIKE. Refuse to Let Children Cross 16 Tracks on Way to School. 'HICAGO, February 5 (#)—A “strike” of 300 students of the new Burbank Junior High School was cailed yesterday by the children’s parents ‘The parents met last night and agreed o keep their children from school i the board of education changes its ruling by which the children are obtliged to cross 16 railroad tracks to reach the school house. Husband, i Fearing Chicago Dangers, Sued for Divorce Spouse Disgusted With | Mate in Vienna Who Won’t Come to U. S. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 5—Away off in Vienna, Mathias Regan has heard about Chicago. Not about Chicago's art in- stitute, beautiful parks, museums, uni- Versity, boulevards and unrivaled lake front; instead, he has heard of murder, banditry, violence, bombs and an empty treasury. For these reasons Mr. Regan has hesitated about leaving the safety of Vienna. Mary, has been over here and has sur- vived. She has begged Mathias to toss his duffel bag on a west-bound ocean liner and join her. Each time, how- ever, Mathias has replied to the effect that he get smors comfort out of the thought of being alive in Vienna than i _Chicago. Mrs. Regan has become disgusted, ¥4 fled gult for divorce, an ad- | For seven years his wife, | TO BE HEARD 175 Pieces, Recruited From All Parts of United States, to Participate. Prominent Director to Have Charge of Musical Students in Washington Debut. ‘Washington is going to have the op- portunity of hearing the amazing re- sults of a musical venture, sponsored by the University of Michigan, which brings together a junior symphony orchestra | composed of 175 pieces, recruited from | the high schools of every State in the | Union and Hawaii. The orchestra will play in Washington on the evening of March 1 at Constitution Hall, under direction of Joseph S. Maddy, director of the school of music, University of | Michigan, and originator of the junior! musical movement. | It will not be the first time the.or- chestra has given a public concert. Last Summer, and in 1928 as well, concerts | were given at Camp Interlochen, Mich. The musical dream of Mr. Maddy has become a reality within the past three years. Testifying to the H‘mm‘knble} quality of the music these voungsters, are producing are the crowds which | have flocked to hear them in that far-| away spot, where they are enjoying an | opportunity never before approximated | for juvenile talent. From 3,000 to 5,000 persons was an average audience last| Summer, according to Senator Arthur| H. Vandenberg, who, with his wife, at-| tended the camp last Summer, and will | sponsor the coming concert in Wash- | ington, and its fame has spread abroad. The British government has‘ invited the orchestra to tour England in 1931. Switzerland also wants to hear it. With the exception of a few mcmbers‘ who have joined the orchestra .slnce‘ last Summer, the group has received training under Mr. Magdy’s direction and under the volunteer leadership of many of the outstanding orchestral di- rectors in the country at the Summer camp, which has been established perma- nently through the efforts of its origi- nator and the generosity of prominent sponsors. It occupies 350 acres of virgin forest lands between two lakes in Mich- igan, and consists of two sections—a girls' camp and a boys’ camp—situated a mile apart, with a magnificent am- phitheater between, in which the groups | combine to play their concerts. Mr. Maddy has developed not only an or- chestra but a band and an a capelia choir. Among the orchestra members who will play in Washington are four Wash- ingtonians, three of them attending high schools here, and the fourth at school in Grand Rapids, Mich. Eliza- beth Vandenberg, daughter of the Mich- igan Senator, who is a student at the Mary Wood Academy of Grand Rapids, will play a piano solo, Grieg’s “Con- certo.” Minnie Clipker of McKinley High School will play the violin. Miss Clipker is one of the most talented of the juveniles. She is the concert mas- ter for both the junior and senior or- chestras at McKinley. Martin Emerson of Central, who plays the trombone, and Charles D. Cook of Central, base viol, complete the quartet of local talent with the symphony group. Only those students are eligible for the camp and the musical group who have been adjudged especiMly talented in their iocal school groups. The m: Jjority who attend ere there on scholar- ships given by loca! clubs, musical or ganizations, philanthropists or educa- tional groups who have become so fired by the project thai they are eager to lend their support. Insiruments for the orchestra have been loaned from all over the country. Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg have sent out 1,000 invitations to the event, on March 1. In addition 500 seats will be given to school children. The rest will be sold through Mrs. Wilsons. Greene. ‘The program given will be Ernest Bloch's symphonic poem, “America,” which won the $3000 prize offered by the magazine Musical America in 1928 “The Call of the Unbeaten” By { | JUNIOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HERE MARCH 1 JOSEPH C. MADDY. for the best composition of its type and which was played for the first time last year simultaneously by five of the country’s greatest symphony orchestras, President Hoover will receive the stu- dents on the day of their concert, it has been announced by the sponsors. —_— Returns to Jungle. NEW YORK, February 5 (#)—Dr. Mary Cushman is on the way back to a jungle to administer to the sick where roaring lions can be heard. She is a medical missionary for the Congrega- tional and Christian Churches at Ochi- lesso, Portuguese West Cen'ral Africa, and has a hospital of 30 grass huts. In the last three months before her leave of absence she treated 4,000 patients. JONES' PROPOSAL HIT BY CITIZENS Devonshire Downs Group Op- poses Liberalized Qualifica- tions for District Heads. Favoring action of the Federation of Citizens' Associations at its last meeting, the Devonshire Downs Citi- zens’ Association, meeting in the Home for Incurables last night, went on rec- ord unanimously opposing the Jones bill recently introduced in the Sen- ate, liberalizing the qualifications of candidates for posts on the District Board of Commissioners. Willilam J. Neale, vice president of the association ,in presenting resolu- tions condemning the Jones measure, declared there are any number of men, na fide residents of the District, suf- iciently qualified and capable of nan- dling District affairs. He also de- clared that the three-year residence regulation should be maintained and that any one holding voting rights in other jurisdictions should be barred from consideration. Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions, addressed the meeting, outlin- ing briefly the history of the federa- tion and "declaring it to be the most influential body in the city. He criti- cized the Jones resolution, The fact that residents in the met- | ropolitan area are furnished water at a rate lower than paid in the District also drew his fire, as did a proposed bill in Congress providing for patrol- ing of all "territory within 5 miles of the Capitol by park policemen,, part of whose maintenance, he said, is paid out of District appropriations. He made an earnest plea for na- tional representation and urged sup- port for enactment of the bill pro- viding for an elective school board. Pointing out the desirability and need |for a modern structure to replace the | present Chain Bridge, Dr. Havenner | declared no plans should be made by District officials until an agreeable form of financing the project is ar- rived at between District, Virginia and Federal authorities. He also touched on the proposed increase in water rates and suggested several means of coping with the situation without adding ex- pense to the taxpayers in general. ‘The association voted unanimous op- position to a pending Senate bill au- thorizing the Commisisoners to close certain streets or roads. The reso- lution pointed out that the bill is aimed primarily at the closing of Van Ness street alongside of private prop- erty at the Bureau of Standards. e resolution, presented by Mr. Neale, de- clared that no street connecting two arterial highways should be closed without the consent of at least 75 per cent of the property owners af- fected. The resolution will go to the chairmen of the congressional District committees and to the federation. Resolution were adopted ;uurpomng Sens " Asancistion urkihg: -appolntent 2zens’ a) of matrons to all graded ugggls. SDAY, FEBRUARY 5 RADIO COMMISSION MEMBERS IN DOUBT Terms of Al to Expire on February 23, With Fight Around Starbuck Seen. With the terms of all the members of the Federal Radio Commission due to expire in less than three weeks, there is speculation in Washington as to the personnel of the commission, now that it has become in effect a continuing body, and will not go out of existence as Fl’ovflded in the original radio law until Congress cuts its life short. Terms of the five commissioners ex- pire on February 23, and- meanwhile the commission, having outgrown its present quarters in the Interior Build- ing, is negotiating with the owners of two downtown office buildings for office space to meet the expanding needs of the commission. At least a dozen offices will be needed, in addition to those already in use, for the new officers of the commission authorized under recent legislation, W. D. L. Starbuck of New York, who succeeded O. H. Caldwell, is expected to be the nucleus of a fight between those Senators who would like to see great concentrations of radio broadcasting power decentralized from the big cities. Mr. Starbuck is in charge of the first zone, in which ‘Washington is lo- cated, and succeeded the man who is regarded as the author of the present radio allocation plan. Under this plan several large broadcasting stations in New York retained and even increased their power, and some Senators are rep- resented to believe that because of this great concentration of power in and near New York, their communities have had to suffer from low-power broad- casting stations. Under the Davis amendment to the radio law, each zone is allotted 20 per cent of the power used throughout the country. 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