Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1930, Page 17

Wash ington News IMPRINT OF TRACKS FAILS TO IDENTIFY. PEST OF NORTHEAST Expert Holds They May Have Been Made by Mountain Lion or Dog. ARGUES FOR CAT THEORY Long, Brown Animal With Drag-| ging Tail Is Sighted at Takoma Park. Carefully made imprints of big animal tracks, believed to be those of the “wild boast” that has harassed the residents and preyed on the live stock of Nort east Washington and nearby Maryland for the past month, today failed to defi- nitely identify the animal. Expert study and analysis of the tracks brought forth only the statement that they might have been made by a moun- tain lion, but just as probably were made by a large dog. The imprints were cast in plaster of paris near Fort Dupont, on the Marl- boro pike, yesterday from tracks found in the mud by Walter F. Whitney, owner of a fur farm near Marlboro, and Policeman S. R. McKee, the eleventh precinct’s chief panther hunter. Examined at Museum. The plaster casts were taken to the National Museum this morning by Mc- Kee and Whitney and were given a careful examination by Maj. E. A. Goldman of the Bureau of Biological Sutvey, Department of Agriculture, who is mow engaged in classifying the scofes of mountain lion pelis at the museum. Msj. Goldman was impressed with the size of the pawprints, but could | not definitely state that they were| left either by a mountain lion or by! a large dog. The fact that the prints were without claw marks argued in favor of the mountain lion theory. So| also did the tracks conform, in most particulars, with photographs of moun- tain lion tracks made by the late Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist. But against the mountain lion theory features of the tracks argued just as convincingly. Photographs and meas- urements of mountain lions’ paws at the museum showed that the beast leaves a trail that is broader than it is long. The tracks cast yesterday in the mud were slightly longer than they were broad. They appeared broader, but application of calipers destroyed the illusion. center pad and the toes of one of the imprints there was a high ridge, which, Maj. Goldman pointed out, could hardly | have been left by the furry paw of a| panther, or mountain lion. Believed Print of Dog. Maj. Goldman declared that if the| prints were made by a mountain lion | the beast was a small one. If made by a dog, he said, it was a large one. He did not believe they could have been made by any other beast than a large dog or one of the largest breeds of | cats. Dogs and wolves, he pointed out, | leave their claw prints in snow or soft | mud. A cat animal, having prehensive | claws, keeps them sheathed when walk- | ing, leaving no imprint of its principal | ‘Weapons. Maj. Goldman, interested in finding | out what species of beast could have | caused all the furore that has resulted from its appearance and intermittent forays upon pig pens in and near the District, suggested that an organized | drive hunt would be almost certain to | tree the beast and allow either its cap- ture or killing. Sighted at Takoma Park. Sighting of a long. brown animal with a long, dragging tail in Takoma Park, Md., and discovery of the tracks of some large beast about the section have led ! Tesidents of the section to believe th the elusive beast has found a new lai in Takoma Park. i While no depredations by the beast | have been reported, the discussion of the variety of the beast, a topic which has raged and waned, only to rage again for more than a month now, was re-| newed in a lively fashion today in what | is believed to. be the beast's newest haunt. Sidney R. Wheeler, who lives heside] = patch of woods in Takoma Park, Md., | today reported seeing the animal in the | beam thrown by his automobile head- | lights the night before last. The animal was just outside his home, Wheeler de- clared. He described it as about 4 feet | tall, dark.brown and having a tail which drags along the ground. The | body of the beast, he said, was about 5 feet long. Tracks in the mud about the Wheeler | residence reveal the presence there of some animal with a huge foot. A par- ticularly good track was scooped out of the mud vesterday and placed on a ple | plate, Charles P. Clark, former justice | of the peace in Silver Spring, carrying | it about in an attempt to identify it. ‘Tracks have been found which are 6| inches in length and 4 inches across. Police of the eleventh precinct have for several days been without authentic | report of the presence of the marauder | in Northeast Washington. No reports | of any wild animal having been seen, or having left its marks on any of the | live stock of the countryside. have been received for-nearly a week from Prince Georges County. REFUSES TO PRESS CASE. Prosecutor Holds Crash Hurting Policeman Unavoidable. Assistant Corporation Counsel Ches- ter Gray refused today to prosecute Ed- ward S. Rada, 3709 Thirteenth street, who participated in the collision which wrecked the motor cycle of Policema Raymond Sinclair and seriously injured its rider. He said in his belief the ac- cident was unavoidable. The collision occurred at New Hamp- shire avenue and Rock Creek Church road, October 17. when the policeman was chasing a speeder and Rada at- tempted to make a left-hand turn. Sinclair suffered many broken bones and in Garfield Hospital for six weeks. Last week he was detailed to light duty, but was soon forced to give this up owing to a relapse. POOL BARRED TO SKATERS Two Days of Cold Weather Held| Needed for Safety. Despite insistent pleas of skating enthusiasts, officials of the Office of ting pool of the Lincoln Memo- rial. The officials pointed out that the snow-covered ice, which is rather E is now about 2i5 inches thick. Two dl{l of cold weather are needed, they said, to insure safe and satisfactory i Then, too, between the broad | |33, of the 1600 block of Columbia road. Immediately after the death of Mo CONSCIENCE BRINGS RUM CHASE ARREST iDriver Alarmed on Seeing, Police Car, Speeds Up and Causes Race. ‘The guilty conscience of an unsus- pected rumrunner involved him in a race at high speed with police through a dozen city streets and resulted in his final capture early this morning after his car had thrown a tire. He was arrested and 336 quarts of alleged liquor seized. Twisting and turning through the fashionable residential district of north Sixteenth street, the fugitive succeeded in keeping the high-powered police car of Sergt. George M. Little and his liquor squad at a distance until his machine struck a sudden rise in the road on Kan- sas avenue and threw a tire. The jar also broke a number of the containers in which he was transporting the contra- band and apprized the pursuers for the first time of the nature of their quarry. Gradually Close Up Gap. Sergt. Little had driven through Rock | Creek Park and was about to emerge on Sixteenth street from Sherill drive when he saw a small and innocent- appearing closed car proceeding south on Sixteenth street at a moderate speed. Being in a hurry the officers gradually were closing up the distance between the two machines when the speed of the other car_ increased. George C. Deyoe, driving the police car, followed suit, and the two ma- chines continued to go faster and faster untii_they attained a speed of almost a mile a minute, with the officers de- termined to learn why the driver of the fugitive car should attempt to es- cape. The chase proceeded south on Six- teenth street and Colorado avenue to Ingraham street, thence east to Four- teenth street, where the driver turned south to Iowa avenue. From there the cars speeded to Decatyr street, where | the rum car driver turned east, con- tinuing to the end of the street, nar- | rowly avoided a clay bank and drove over rough ground to Fourth street, south on Fourth to Buchanan, west to Eighth street and south to Kansas avenue, About this time, Sergt. Little declared, their speed was 55 miles an hour. It | was here that the bump in the road | was struck. Although minus a rear tire the flee- ing automobile continued at a hardly lessened speed to Spring road and from there to Sixteenth street again. Here the driver turned south, and about 100 feet from the intersection drew up to the curb and halted. “I give up; I know when I've had enough,” he remarked as the police car came alongside. “I guess I'm pretty | lucky I didn’t get killed or kill some of you fellows.” The alleged liquor was found in a compartment in the rear of his car. He was taken to the tenth precinct and booked as Syloan Provost] Taylor, Charges of reckless driving a) portation and possession of li lodged against him. Sergt. Little quoted the manfas saying that he fled because he recognized the policemen and thought they been laying in wait for him. Besides Sergt. Little and Deyoe, those who participated in the chase were Policemen Leo Murray and Robert T. Joiner. | CHANGE IN ZONING RULES DISCUSSED {Commission Fails to Reach De- cision to Increase 8-Story i Area. ‘The Zoning Commission at a lengthy | i executive session today discussed a ichange in the zoning regulations pro-| posed recently by the Operative Builders Association which would allow eighte ry apartment buildings in the zones ow restricted for five-story buildings. The proposal was that eight-story buildings 90 feet high should be allowed in the present 60-foot “C" areas, pro- vided that the total cubic contents of the eight-story buildings were not greater than the allowable content of a five-story building. The commission reached no decision | | | n disposed of a case remaining over from the Decemb: meeting by denying a request to change from residential 40-foot “A" restricted to first commercial 60-foot “C” area | the rear 40 feet of a property at Macomb street, Ordway street and | | Connecticut avenue. Burned by Cleaning Fluid. While handling a small quantity of gasoline used in cleaning clothes Dallas ‘Wilson, colored, 34, of 636 L street, was burned about the hands and arms yes- terday afternoon, when the fluid was ig- nited by an electric iron in the pressing establishment at 609 Seventh street, where he is employed. He was taken to Emergency Hospital in the ambulance and medical assist- - @he Foening Staf WASHINGTON, mbasso, 2 Zoo hippopotamus, work was | started looking toward mounting her hide, and placing the figure in Smithsonian. —Star Staff Photo. DEATH TAKES THO FROM 700 COLONY Mombasso, 19-Year-0ld Hip- po, and Rajah, Siberian Tiger, Succumb. Death has claimed two members of the Zoo colony. ; Mombasso, 19-year-old hippopotamus, unable to withstand the ravages of & lingering illness that confined her to & secluded cage in a corner of the lion house for several weeks, died Tuesday, | leaving five children and a disheartened mate. A short while after her death became | known today, Rajah, 5-year-old Siberian | tiger, expired from internal disorder Body to Be Mounted. | In order that Mombasso may be re-| membered by posterity, taxidermists of | the Smithsonian-National Museum are preparing to mount the body, which | will be placed in the Smithsonian In- stitution. It will be the first hippopota- mus exhibited in the museum. J. S. Warmbath noted hunter and taxidermist, and S. B. Childs of the Smithsonian Institution are making plaster casts of Mombasso’s body. When these are completed, the skin will be removed from the carcass and tanned. | The bones and clay will be used to make a life size skeleton of Mombasso. Of this framework a cast will be made, over which will be stretched the ani- mal’s skin. Through study of other hippopotami and pictures a perfect | image of Mombasso will be created, but it will be months before the animal is completed for the institution. Bungo, mate of Mombasso, appears nearly overcome by the death of his spouse. Hiding away in a corner of his tank, he submerges himself in the water and refuses to eat until all is quiet in the lion house. He will recover from his grief only when the body of Mombasso is removed, W. H. Black- burn, head keeper at the Zoo, said today. Came From South Africa. Mombasso's ancestors roamed the South African Soudan. Captured by a trader, she was sold and brought to the United States when 18 months old. She has lived the remainder of her 19 years at the Zoo, and in that time has had five offspring, which are now in zoos of the country or traveling with circuses. Rajah was a native Washingtonian, | as he was born at the Zoo here, Frantic efforts were made to pro- long his life. In the meantime, his mate sulked in the cage, giving vent at intervals to a full-throated roar in nndan,empt to rouse her stricken com- rade. WARNINGS ARE GIVEN ON FAKE SOLICITORS Unauthorized Use of Names of! Universities Here Revealed by Officials. ‘Warning was issued today by the au- thorities of George Washington and Georgetown Universities against the un- authorized use of the names of these institutions by a group of men in the city engaged in magazine sales and ad- vertising solicitation, Writing to the Chamber of Com- merce, Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, presi-| dent of George Washington, said: “Some of these solicitors claim to be students who are working their way through the university by obtaining subscriptions to well known magazines, while others are attempting to secure advertising for university student pub- lications which do not exist. “I should appreciate the co-operation of the Chamber of Commerce in mak- ing it known to the merchants and cit- izens of Washington that the university has not authorized the use of its name in this way and that students of the university who are engaged in soliciting advertising for legitimate student pub- lications have been instructed to ident- ify themselves and the publication they répresent by letter.” Rev. R. Rush Rankin, S. J., dean of Georgetown University, also said today that his attention had been called to a number of instances wherein magazine solicitors had used the name of the university without authorization. He said one such group of solicitors had forged the names of the dean to a let- ter supposing to have come from him. PRINTING CLASS DINES. Informal Get-Together Precedes Graduation Exercises April 3. An informal get-together dinner of the 1930 graduating class of the Gov- ernment Printing , Office’s course of study in the art of printing was held at the Hamilton Hotel last night. Lanceford Pruitt acted as toastmaster, while the entertainment ?rogrlm was, in charge of A. A. Nasahl, Graduating exercises of the class are sance was rendere¢ by Dr. J. M. McLean of the stafl scheduled to take place April 3. Joseph Harvey is president of the class, i The brief concludes with the assertion D. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY s ) DECLARES PARENTS WANT KNOWLEDGE OF MENTAL TESTS Head of Parent-Teacher Con- gress Submits Brief to School Association. EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE TO MAKE STUDY OF PLAN Questions Designed to Give Au- thorities an Opportunity to Explain Practices. Washington parents, according to Mrs, Giles Scott Rafter, president of the D. C. Congress of Parent-Teacher As- sociations, want to know more about | the mental tests which are being ad-| ministered to their children in the pub- } lic_schools. Mrs, Rafter, also a member of the Public School Association, has laid be- fore that body’s committee on educa- tional methods and progress an exten- sive brief, which, she frankly states, was prepared by “experts,” in which a series of queries, designed to bring out virtually every question which has arisen in the minds of parents since the testing was begun, is included. The Public School Association Wednesday night authorized its educational meth- ods and progress commttee to undertake a study of the mental tests, and the presentation of the brief to that body marked the first step in the study. Tests in Experimental Form. ‘The brief, described to be “in petition for the evaluation of the mental tests and achievement tests given in our pub- lic schools and of the results in the sys- tem from the use of their findings,” is headed by a preamble which assumes that the Tests constitute “the most sci- entific approach known at present for & more accurate method of evaluating intelligence and capacity.” The pre- amble, however, also expresses the view that the tests still are in a highly ex- perimental form and that consideration of them must be made with an open mind, regarding them and their use as neither fixed nor final. The queries, which follow, are grouped under three general heads: 1. The giving of the mental 2. The use of the mental tests. giving of the achievement tests. They deal largely with the procedure which labels a chil ubnormal” and places him in the “Z” group class in school. that the questions are presented “not to discredit any practice now in use, but to afford our school authorities an oppor- tunity to explain definitely certain poli- cies and practices which are now in use in our schools and which to a large number of parents may present many perplexing problems.” | Under the topic “Giving the Mental Tests,” the brief contains the following: Urge Physical Test. “In view of the fact that physical | and mental well-being are closely con- | nected should not a thorough physical examination accompany every mental test? “Inasmuch as some pre-eminent au- thorities hold that mental tests still are out of balance with exceeding value placed on some one factor—vocabulary, for instance—should not many things | be considered in close relation with these tests before labeling a child ‘Z’ or subnormal? “In order that an additional check | may be had on the findings of group tests, and in view of the fact that group tests cannot posibly consider individual problems, and finally, as so much im- portance is attached to the findings of tests cannot possibly consider individual | test be made, at least of the child held by the group test to be not an average child?” In this connection, the brief asks that if individual testing is considered to take too long and the expense too great, “should we not either spend enough to/ do the work properly, or else not use this device at all>” Continuing, the | “brief asks: | “Is not the ‘Z’ label of serious enough purport to force us to take every pre- | caution before giving it? Should we nqt consider that when a rroup test is given one child in ths group may be ill, | one may have tootwache, one may be | seated too near a rgdiator, one may not hear well and so aot fully understand the instructions?” “In view of the fact that neither of the two standard intelligence tests given in our schools now are thoroughly diagnostic, and further as they do not allow adequate consideration of the mental capacity of & child who has the ability to think clearly and accurately but whose response is slow, but class such a child in somewhat the same category as they do the child who can- not think at all, should not all addi-| tional tests be used, or, if none is avail- | able, be devised by the research depart- } ment of our public schools which could help evaluate more fairly the two types of children? “If tests were used which are more | truly diagnostic than those now used apparently are, would they not indicate which children of higher as well as| lower intelligence were ‘motor minded’— that is, which preferred to learn by doing rather than by abstract thinking | alone?” Have Faith in Value. Under the topic “Use of the Mental | Tests” the brief assumes first that the authorities who are authorizing the use of these tests and their spplica- tion in school organization “have great faith in their value.” Upon iis basis the following questions are asked: “Has the course of study been adapt- ed throughout the school system for the so-called ‘X, ‘Y, ‘Z’ groups? In other words, after the tests reveal a child to be an ‘X, ‘Y’ or ‘Z’ is the work of each grade adapted to the particular needs of each group?” ‘The brief also asks why there is so much “skipping” of grades by school children. Under this topic it asks: “Should not the physical and the social age of a child be considered as well as his mental age? Is the very young child in the senior high school not very unhappy when she cannot fully enjoy the social life of the bigh school? ~ Are there not it problems to be considered terest of the welfare of the child? “Would it not be better for the child if he who is of superior intelligence be given additional work rather than to have him denied even a sketchy approach to the work of any particu- lar grade? Does not ‘skipping’,have as many bad effects, psychologically speaking, as it has advantages?” Commenting upon this phase of school life, the brief suggests recogni- tion of the unhappy state of very bright pupils who are obliged to work with slower pupils and of the evil conse- quences of this condition. The “evil consequences” include, according to the brief, laziness, indifference to work, de- sire stop sqhool and recourse to trouble-making 'for cccupation. The CONGRESS IS URGED 10 BUILD AIRPORT AT GRAVELLY POINT Board of Trade Renews Ef- forts for Location of Mu- nicipal Flying Field. LETTERS ARE FORWARDED TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS Opposition Voiced to All Sites at Any Great Distance Outside the District. A letter strongly urging the imme- diate development of a municipal air- port at Gravelly Point was sent to individual members of interested con- gressional committees today on behalf of the Washington Board of Trade. The circular letter, signed by Law- rence E. Williams, chairman of the aviation committee of the trade body, sets forth the many times reiterated position of the board and the reasons for assuming that position. Its dispatch to members of the con- gressional joint airport committee and the Senate and House District commit- tees marks a determined renewal of the board's efforts to obtain an airport for Washington, which have extended over a period of several years. Asks Reason for Delay. . The letter begins: “Why the delay on a_municipal airport for Washington? The site unanimously indorsed by the responsible civic and trade organiza- tions of the city is Gravelly Point.” Various objections to the Gravelly Point site and refutations of them are then stated. The last part of the mis- sive follows: “This organization is composed of 3,600 of the leading business and pro- fessional men of the city. We pay a large part of the District taxes. We strongly urge that Gravelly Point be promptly developed as a model airport for Washington. 1In this we are joined by the Chamber of Commerce, the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Association and the citizens’ association. Our rea- sons are: “1. The agency charged by Congress to advise the cities of this country on such matters—Ii. e., the Department of Commerce—recommended it to us. “2. It will permit great expansion when necessary. “3. It is very easily located from the air, being at the junction of the Poto- mac and Anacostia Rivers. ““4. It offers facilities for both land and sea planes. “5. It is indorsed by the Park and Planning Commission and fits in with thl’dplans for the Mount Vernon Boule- vard. Location Important. “6. Taking Fourteenth street and New York avenue as the business and hotel center of the city, it can be reached al- most as quickly as the Union Station. Since the appeal of flying is speed and the attendant saving of time this proximity to the business center is of the utmost importance. The construction of re- pair shops (yards and round houses) a distance is a matter for private cap- ital and should not be born by the tax- TS, . ‘We oppose H. J. resolution 100 for an appropriation of $500,000 with which to purchase options on land on the ground that the best site available already belongs to the Federal Gov- ernment and such an expenditure would be a waste of the taxpayers' money. Further, we shall object strenuously to any expenditure of District of Colum- bia tax funds for the improvement of land at some distance in either Mary- land or Virginia. The only site offering sufficient acreage lying mostly within the District is Gravelly Point. The traffic to and from this site will be over the Federally owned and controlled Mount Vernon Boulevard. “We ask that the recommendations of the aeronautic branch of the De- partment of Commerce be carried out nd model airport be constructed at Gravelly Point. “On behalf of the directors of the Washington Board of Trade, I am “Very truly yours, “LAWRENCE E. WILLIAMS, “Chairman, aviation committee.” SMOOT IS GRéAT-GRANDPA Daughter Is Born to His Grand- daughter, Mrs. Fred Chambers. Senator Smoot of Utah yesterday be- came a great-grandfather. His first great-grandchild was born at Garfield Hospital here, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chambers. She will be named Alice, after her mother. Mrs. Chambers is only 18. She mar- ried last year after eloping to Freder- ick, Md. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smoot. i course of study, additfonal work in keeping with his special interest?” Con- tinuing, the brief asks: “How does the child who is so ‘skipped’ over a grade get training in the basic academic work of that grade? What is| the effect on the child of being re- garded as a child wonder? Does the bright pupil become a valuable, good citizen? May not ‘skipping’ account at least in part for the large number of children who enter the junior and senior high schools without even elementary training in the fundamentals of gram- mar, for instance? May not ‘skipping’ produce many evil social consequences which may cause the child’s maladjust- ment, socially speaking, for life?” Continuing, the brief presents querles designed to ascertain whether special courses are provided now for the chil- dren in the “X.,” “Y” and “Z” groups and which ask specifically for a state- ment of the “practical, applied use” of the tests. The brief also asks to what extent the classifications of pupils can hold in junior and senior high schools. Referring to the giving of achiev ment tests in the schools, which it a: sumes “are given as a means of de- termining how well the pupils know the academic subjects which they have been taught” and that these tests “are thor- oughly standardized,” the brief asks: “Why is it that in some of the arith- metic tests in our elementary schools pupils are examined in work which is not in our course of study for that par- ticular grade? Why did the tests in a number of the other subjects also not correspond with the subject matter covered in our schools?” In conclusion, the brief which Mrs. Rafter has placed with the Public School Association committee declares: “We present the foregoing set of questions not to discredit any practice now in use, but to afford our school au- thorities an opportynity to explain, defi- question is asked if “another and per- haps better plan than ‘skipping’ to meet the situation would not be to give the superior child an enriched I3 nitely, certain policies and practices which are now in use in our schools, and which to a large number of parents pre- sent many perplexing problems.” 1930. LX) CHEMICAL ANALYSIS IS HELD MEANS TO MARITAL SUCCESS Three Types Predominate, According to Chicagoan, on Capital Visit. Change of Profession Advised | to Musician Who Turned Successful Artist. BY GRETCHEN S. SMITH. If husbands and wives fail to agree and “live happily forever after,” it is doubtless because they are not chemi- | cally sulted to each other, according to Dr. E. Tulley Yonge of Chicago, who ' has recently arrived at the Willard on a short visit to Washington and who is | an_exponent of chemical analysis for human beings, having lectured at vari- | ous clubs throughout the country on this subject. The human body is composed elements, and the possession or lack of certain chemicals are the reasons for different types existing among men and women. Three types which predomi- nate, asserts Dr. Yonge, are the sodium, phosphorus and calcium, and the char- acteristics of individuals in which these chemical _elements predominate are largely influenced by the chemicals, “It is absolutely fatal for a woman with a sodium chemical to marry a man of the calcium type,” Dr. Yonge declared. “For instance, persons with the chemical sodium predominating are inclined to be restless, alert and quick. They have a strong dramatic sense, love the out of doors and also love to be out at night. They should sleep late in the morning, as that is the time they get the pest rest. Should Reverse Sleep. “On the othes hand, a person of the calcium type sitould go to bed at sun- set and get up at dawn in order to be in the best physical condition. In dis- position, persons of the calcum type are apt to be skeptical, critical and quiet. They are good listeners and en- joy being entertained. “The pure American type is generally the postassium. They are lively, versa- tile, healthy, born to mingle with oth- ers and make friends easily. They are either very happy or very much down- hearted, and when in the latter mood a walk in the fresh air is suggested as highly beneficial Dr. Yonge contends that proper diet and proper eating will greatly aid in supplying chemicals necessary to im- prove health, disposition and character. “I do not believe in dieting to the extent of starving one’s self,” Dr. Yonge explained. “On the contrary, my sys- tem is based on eating the proper foods and not starving. By correct eating it is possible to lose a pound a day, if it its necessary to that individual. I my- self have lost as much as that at cer- tain times when I felt it was necessary to do so.” Is Keen Analyst. Dr. Yonge is a keen analyst of hu- man character based on the physical aspects of the individual. Upon her arrival recently in the city of New Or- leans, she was sent the photographs of seven prominent citizens of that city completely unknown to her. A request was made to analyze the characters of the men from their photographs. was done with an accuracy amazing to the individuals whom she analyzed. “Chemicals cause the development of of 16 | DR. E. TULLEY YONGE. certain characteristics in individuals,” said Dr. Yonge, “which make them- selves apparent in the features and in the contour of the head. Coloring also is important in a character analysis, as different chemicals produce different colorings. In the photographs submit- ted to me in New Orleans, the only question I found necessary to ask was the coloring of the different men.” Food plays such an important part in the constitution of an individual that Dr. Yonge claims that frequently domestic catastrophes may be averted by the proper feeding of one’s family. “If you want your husband to stay at home nights, feed him calcium,” she claims. “If you want him to stay at home less, cut down on calcium and feed him phosphorus and potassium. If he is inclined to fits of il temper, keep all sodium and phosphorus away g;o;n him and add calcium to his daily Some Are Wrong. Often people are unhappy and un- successful because they are following the wrong profession or are pursuing the wrong business for one of their chemical type, asserts Dr. Yonge. “Some time ago, in Chicago,” she explained, “a woman, 63 years of age, who had been a musician all her life, had played in concerts and on the Cha- tauqua circuits, was sent to me by a member of the Chicago Prosperity Club, a club composed of men who through their own efforts have made more than $125,000. This woman had been ill, and she came to me to be chemically lyzed. 'You have been following the wrong profession,’ I told her. ‘You should be an artist.’ “She was indignant at my statement and left me to tell the gentleman who had sent her to me what she thought of me, He placed more faith in my analysis than she had done, and told her he would pay for her lessons if she would enter the Chicago Art Institute. He induced her to do so, and three years later that woman held an exhibit at Marshall Field's and sold her first picture for $1,500. That woman had been chemically unsuited to her life as a musiclan all those years,” declared Dr. Yonge, “and when she had found her proper place in life she gained health and happiness.” Dr. Yonge will address the National Woman's Press Club on February 11 on ‘“Humanology.” COMMUNITY DRAMA CONTEST TONIGHT Finals in One-Act Play Tour- nament to Be Held in Mc- Kinley Auditorium. Finals in the 1930 one-act play tour- nament of the Community Drama Guild will be held at 8:15 o'clock to- night in McKinley Auditorium. The judges, comprising the dramatic critics of the Washington newspapers, will select one of the four groups chosen by the preliminary judges. ‘The four player-groups competing are | the Takoma Players, presenting “The Valiant”; the Jewish Community Center Dramatic Society in “The Little Stone House”; the District of Colum- bia League of American Pen Women offering “Riders to the Sea,” and the Columbia Players in “When the Ship Goes Down.” Prof. William Lee Corbin will an- nounce the individual awards for act- ing and diction. A brief talk will be made by Miss Alma Kruger of the New York Repertory Theater, who will direct the rehearsals of the Drama Guild production, Announcement of the winning com- pany of players will be made by Miss Mabelle Jennings of the Washington News. Other judges are Andrew Kelly of the Washington Times, ink T, Washington Herald: Daniel C. Chace, ! Washington Star, and Whitman Conn, ‘Washington Post. Reserved seats and general admission tickets for tonight's performance at $1 and 50c are on sale today at T. Arthur Smith’s, the Willlard Newstand and the A. A. A. headquarters. UNIVERSITY CLUB TO NAME GOVERNORS Plans for Adding Three Floors to Building Will Be Discussed at Session. Five new members of the board of governors of the University Club will be selected at the annual election and meeting of the organization tomorrow night. Balloting will continue until 6 pm, and the meeting will be held at 8 o'clock. Plans for the addition of three stories to the present six-story building, which was provided with facilities for the ad- dition when constructed, will be dis- cussed. Other improvements under considera- tion include an enlarged dining room and additional lounge room for women, | a modern gymnasium, and other ath- letic facilities on the roof, o Court Asked to Change Name. Because his name is difficult to un- derstand and has been an embarass- ment to him, Abraham Gibolovitz, 250 Eleventh street northeast, has asked the District Supreme Court to change it to Abe Gimble. For the past nine years, he says, he has been known as Gimble and wishes to have its use legalized. DENISON ATTACKS INDICTMENT HERE Counsel for Representative and John Layne Charge Vagueness. By the Assoclated Press. A demurrer has been filed attacking the validity of the indictment charging Representative Denison of Illinois and John Layne, his former secretary, with possessing intoxicating liquor. The brief, filed by attorneys for the two, contends that the indictment re- turned by a District of Columbia grand jury is so vague that a judgment re- turned upon it would not protect the defendants from another prosecution for the same offense. It also sets forth that the indictment did not specify the kind or quantity of liquor it charged was found in a trunk m Denison’s office in the House Office Building. The demurrer added that there was no definition of time or place or how the alleged offense was com- mitted or how he came into possession of the liquor he was charged with having. The contention also was raised that, while the indictment charged the two with possessing liquor, it did not show the acts of either or both of the de- fendants specifically constituting pos- session. The demurrer added that the true bill “alleges commission of distinct and separate offenses by different defend- ants in one and the same charge and does not allege that said acts were done jointly or that defendants acted in con- cert.” Denison and Layne were in- dicted recently and gave bond for their appearance in court. P.-T. A. BOOK GIVEN AT PARK VIEW SCHOOL Six-Foot Representation of Nn»’ tional Publication Used in Cele- bration. A representation of the organization’s national organ, Child Welfare, bulit six feet in height, with cover opened, was used effectively by the Park View Parent-Teacher Association of . the Park View Platoon School yesterday at a celebration of the assoclation’s ninth birthday anniversary in the Park View Platoon School, at Warder and Newton streets. Four past presidents of the assocla- tion were ushered through the pictured book by the president, Mrs. Thomas Griffith, who later touched off lights on a large cake which was served. Miss Emily Scrivener, principal of the school, and officers of the national and District associations also participated in- the Founders’ day program. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the District Congress of Parent-Teacher iations, attended, as did Mrs. David O. Maers, second vice president of the national congress for 20 years. Mrs, Maers told of the history of the organization. Mrs. Aija Morgan, treasurer of the Park View Platoon Association, dis- cussed the association's activities in the nine years, and Mrs. W. T. Bannerman, legislative chairman of the association, He is represented by Attorney Hal Rodman. it and of the State Parent-Teacher As- sociation, addressed the membership, PAGE B-—-1 12 WOMEN, 125 MEN PASS EXAMINATION FOR DISTRICT BAR Nearly Half of 286 Applicants for Admission Declared Successful. ONE ATTENDS HEARING CARRYING HORSE SHOE Goes Through With Flying Colors After Failing on Her First Effort. Twelve women and one hundred and twenty-five men passed successfully the examination of candidates for admis- sion to the District bar held last De- cember, according to a report made by the examining committee to Frank E. Cunningham, clerk of the District Su- preme Court, through John Paul Ear- nest, chairman of the committee. Mr. Earnest reported that 286 applicants appeared for examination and about 48 per cent were declared successful. One of the young women who failed on her first attempt to pass the exami- | nation, Mr. Earnest declared, appeared at the recent hearing with a horse shoe. She called Mr. Earnest this morning to learn the result of her second try and was answered “You went through with flying colors, Your horse shoe did it.” ‘The following persons are reported to have passed and unless some adverse report is heard against them will be ad- mitted to practice in March or April: Edward A. Aaronson, Asthur Attwood, Arthur B. Bakalar, Frank Jay Barley, Anthony Benevento, Fay Louise Bentley, Harry H. Bettelman, Harold Stephan Blackman, Horace R. Blackwell, Charles E. Bodson, Allen M. Boettcher, Perre Bowen, jr.; James E. Britt, Rollin M. Clark, Stanley A. Clark, Washington I. Cleveland, Allen Coe, Grace E. Collins, Kathryn C. Conliff, Norman H. Conner, William G. Conrad, James Bernard Connell, Fabian C. Cox, Alexander Lee Craighill. Leroy A. Crofts, John W. Cronin, Earl Clinton Crouter, John A. Cumberland, Glen E. Curtiss, Bernard Dare Daniels, Joseph Benjamin Day, J. Edward Dellinger, Lawrence B. Dodds, Kenneth Donald- son, James R. Donlan, John M. F. Donovan, jr.; Max Dressler, Milton Dunn, James F. Elliott, Robert E. Ennis, Charles Henry Evans, jr.; Lester L. Fansher, John R. Fletcher, William J. ter, Louls Gerace, Spaulding F. Glass, Harry Samuel Goldstein, Samuel Alexander Goldstein, Prank S. Good- year, Daniel L. Haldeman, Paul W. Hansen, Rogers E. Harrell, Howard D. Harris, Franck G. Harrison, Harry D. , Lena R. Hyatt, Sidney James, R. Reid Jewkes, Henry Lincoln Johnson. jr.; Leighton W. Johnston, Daniel M Jordan, William James Kane, jr.; Wil- liam Edwin Keefe, James _Aloysius Keliher, Robert Fenner Klepinger, Edwin Otto Koerner, Louls Lebowitz, Robert Edward Lee, jr.; William A. Lee, jr.; Martha Lickteig, Charles M. Little, David Lynn, 5th: Alfonso E. Mec- Intyre, Charles F. McCarthy, Frank McGuire, Hugh C. McKenny, Thomas F. Maddox, John J. Maher, Charles E. Mahoney, John James Malloy, Joseph Marks. Ernestine Matthews, Sara Tal- bert Mero, Morris A. Miller, Philip A. Minnis, Morrow Harris Moore, James P. Morgan, Ferdinando Morina, Benjamin Moss, Richard H. Moulton, J. Johnstone Muir, Emory C. Naylor, Frances Loyola Nichols, John Reed Nicholson, jr.; Arthur. Hugo Nordstrom, Alfred Edward Notarianni, Matthew John O'Callaghan, Jr.; Willlam Ignatius O'Neill, Henry Preston Owens, Edna L. Parker, Edward C. Parker, Edward B. Perry, Albert A. Peter, Tell M. Petersen, H. Mitchell Pfeffer, Marian B. Phelps, William Ar- nold Porter, Michael J. Rano, Carroll M. Redford, John Ruel Reeves, Arthur Edward Reyman, J. Garfield Riley, Samuel Rosenblatt, Vincent Paul Russo, Pedro Santos, jr.; Otto Joseph Saur, Thomas C. Scalley, Richard Paul Schulze, Milford F. Schwartz, Pedro P. Semsem, Rupert Alston Sinsel, Fred- erick William Smith, Walter Ray Smith, Raymond Sparks, Morton L. Stannard, Albert E. Stephan, Shirley Stephens, Francis J. Stoegerer, Charles Scott Sykes, Peter M. Tamburo, Edith Tan- nehill, Lisle Thomas, C. Stanley Titus, jr.; Richard Warbrook Treyerton, Thomas George Willis and Walter Hugh Zeydel. . DALE NOT TALKING ON LEHLBACH BILL Vermont Senator Not Prepared to Discuss Retirement Proposal. Senator Dale, Republican, of Vermont, who handles civil service problems in the Senate, will withhold comment on the new Government employes’ retire- ment plan being worked out by Repre- sentative Lehlbach of New Jersey untit he has been able to give it careful study. The Vermont Senator disclosed that he also has talked with President Hoover within the past few days on the subject. Senator Dale said that the two most important changes suggested are to set aside in a special fund a part of the requirement contributions of the em- ployes and the proposal to have a minimum but no maximum annuity The separate fund referred to by Sen- ator Dale would be bullt up by taking $1 a month of the contributions of the employes, The new plan would give annuitants $30 a year for each year of service, not to exceed 30 years. The separate fund would be established to take care of this $30 a year portion of the annuity. The remainder of the employes’ contri- bution, after deducting the $1 a month, would be treated as at present, except that a separate account would be kept for each employe as a savings account. In addition to $30 a year for each vear of service, the annuitant would get whatever annuity could be bought with the amount of his savings account with the Government. V. F. W. WILL PRESENT REVUE ON WEDNESDAY The annual musical revue of the local Veterans of Fore! Wars, a semi-pro- fessional production directed by Rev. Francis J. Hurney, director of the St. Patrick’s Players, will be presented Wednesday evening at Parish Hall, Eighth and N streets. Father Hurney will be assisted by Miss ., Alice Riccl. Arthur MecCreight has arranged the musical scores. The Overseas Military Band, under the baton of Lieut. Arthur E. Harper, wiil furnish overiure and entracte music,