Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1930, Page 17

‘ tomorrow, when arrangements for an- Washington News RADICALS ASSAIL POLICE FOR HALTING AVENUE: MEETING Drive to Arouse Interest Con- tinues as Church and School Defenses Are Laid. HUNDRED COLORED PEOPLE IN CROWD| | | Arrangements Reported Under Way for Gathering in Defiance of Law. As church and school authorities laid | plans to deal with Communist “prob- | lems” here and abroad, radical leaders | continued today their drive to arouse | interest in their “cause” among stu- dents, workers and others. The latest of a series of daily meet- ings under Communist or “workers’ " auspices was held yesterday afternoon | in the hall of the Young' Communhu'l League, on Seventh street, with five | policemen and 100 colored men and women composing the audience. The police heard themselves assailed for breaking up a Communist street meet- | ing Wednesday night at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. Plans were being made today for an | executive meeting of the ‘“Unemploy- | ment Council” at league headquarters ! Concern Over Russia. | Just as school circles here have be- come stirred by the arrest of a Central High School girl during the Wednes- day night demonstration and her claims | of a membership of 300 students in| the young communists’ movement, lo- | cal church leaders are manifesting con- | cern over reports of religious persecu- | tion in Russia. ! Plans for a mass meeting to protest the Soviets' reported ban on religion mbeln‘dnc\nudhylnoupnlpmm-‘ inent clergymen, it is unders \ Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop ufi ‘Washington, '.be-‘d to be one of those interested in ‘;n: cshl:ud, but nothing definite sugg u has been decided. | ‘The meeting in the hall, at 1337 Seventh street, last night was sponsored by the Trade Union Unity League of America. | Similar meetings have taken place fiily‘lin:;‘ Wednuduy,l week ago n&d { are for the purpose of organizing the unemployed of Washington until they reach sufficient numerical strength to march to the District authorities and make théir demand of “work or wages.” Class War Urged. “Then if they can do nothing for us,” one of the spéakers declared, “per- haps we will do something for our- selves.” Another s er urged class war and the establi t of a govern- ment of workers and farmers. Still another openly defied the police, sa) that outdoor meetings will be hel whether or not a permit .is granted. ‘The next meeting will probably take place Monday evening. A session of the executive committee of the Un- employed Council will decide on the exact time and place tomorrow after- other street meeting in defiance of the police will be discussed. North Carolina, now touring the coun- try for the National Council. Both are colored. ington Council. Walker was particularly emphatic in his denunciation of what he claimed was discrimination and persecution of his race in the South. ‘There were no white persons in the audience with the exception of the | policemen and those arranging the meeting. The latter included several | members of the Young Communist League and the Young Pioneers, both boys and girls. The police, led by Capt. O. T. Davis of the second precinct, were present in | obedience to the order of the superin- | tendent of police, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, | that a police captain attend every meet- | ing of a radical nature held in his ter- | ritory. Recrults in Schools. i i A year of Communist “seed sowing"” in the local high and junior high schools | by organizers of a Young Communist | Club movement has netted from 50 to | 300 recruits, of whom but a handful appear to have caught the enthysiasm | of their leaders, a survey by Thé Star | discloses. | ‘The seeds have been sown in all the senior and junior high schools in the | form of mimeographed and printed propaganda distributed _surreptitiously in locker rooms, playgrounds and stadiums. ‘The bulletins, pamphlets, unsigned | letters and posters undoubtedly have come to the attention of most of the| 16,000 children attending the high | schools, but the great mass of students has been unmoved by the pleas to “fight the bosses,” resist militarism and join forces with “the workers.” From school sources comes the “guess” that perhaps . half-a-hundred students have lined-up in the radical “cause,” while the higher. estimate is that of Helen Colodny, the Central | High School girl who was arrested | Wednesday night for participating in | # “young Communists” demonstration | at Seventh street and Pennsylvania | avenue. ! | | Policy of Authorities. School authorities seem to have be- come less excited over the “red” tivities than have the students and their parents. Up till now the policy of the school administration has been to belittle the movement by failing to dignify it with public recognition. This policy is in line with the ideas -of President Hoover, who recently ordered the release of youthful pickets arrested in front of the White House with the suggestion that they be sent to their parents and with the implied advige that they be spanked. All along, however, Franklin School officials have been collecting samples of the propaganda found in the public schools, and have been to pre- vent further violations ‘of the regula- tion unauthorized distribution of matter in the schools or on school property. The first definite pronouncement tending to lend official to the Communists’ drive was issued yes- terday by Asst. Supt. Stephen E. Kra- mer, in charge of high school adminis-( tration, who advocated a constructive campaign of “Americanism,” rather than a campaign of denunciation, as the best means of combating /radicalism in the schools. Much of the literaturé which has found its way into the students’ hands urges to contribute their ideas of MASONS' MEMORIAL BETS CHIMES GIFT Alexandria Citizens Surprised: by Music From Wash- ington Marker. A set of Westminister chimes h: been installed in the George Washing- ton National Masonic Memorial under @he Foening Star Society and General WASHINGTON, MUSIC SURPRISES CITIZENS | professed CHARITY GROUPS OVERTAXED BY GAIN - INUNEMPLOYMENT Outsiders Flocking to Capital Aggravate Situation Called Worst in Years. |BUDGETS CURTAILED BY CHEST DEFICIT falvation Army Finds Nuniber Ask- ing Aid Five Times Greater Than Last Year. Unemployment in Washington has | reached the stage where five charitable | organizations affiliated with the Com- munity Chest joined today in a state- ment that they were having “great dif- ficulty in caring for all the cases of need arising from this cause.’ The situation is aggravated, it was declared, by unemployed from other | cities, who are flocking to Washngton in large numbers, lured by reports of ln!‘ge Government building operations and announcement of plans for taking the census. The five groups—the Salvation Army, the Associated Charities, the Jewish Welfare Federation, the Catholic Chari- ties and the Travelers’ Aid Society— “grave concern unless some steps are taken either to keep non- residents in need of relief away from ‘Washington, or to provide some further form of accommodation for those who arrive here, only to find the employment field filled up.” With the Community Chest com- pelled to prune the budgets of the va- rious member organizations by reason D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY | of the deficit in its treasury for this year, the problem of caring for de- | pendent Washingtonians 1s an- increas- | ingly difficult one, aside from the ad- | ditional burden placed on agencies by | | stranded persons from other cities. | Five Times Number. “We have five times the number of persons applying for relief because of lack of employment than we had this time last year,” Maj. James Asher, divis- ional commander of the Salvation Army |said. The same situation is said to apply | to other organizations, whose doors are | Continued good weather, in the opin- {lon of the Department of Labor, will {do much to relieve the unemployment situation in Washington, attention hav- ing been called last week by the de- partment to the existing.labor surplus here. This surplus embraces skilled and unskilled labor, clerical help, white and colored domestic help and salesper- sons. Reports from Community. Chest | agencies indicate unemployment also in | other lines of work. gency are being brought to the atten- | tion of charitable and welfare agencies | than at any time during the past year, {and a number of these involved evic- More cases of actual want and emer- | . The other two who addressed the meeting, Sam Leibowitz and Nathan Brown, are white. They are members of the executive committee of the Wash- i construction at -Alexandria. The chimes | are the gift of Louis A. Watres, presi- | dent of the George Washington Na- tional Masonic Memorial Association, to that body, and are understood to have cost about $30,000. ‘The chimes were first put into oper- ation late yesterday, and their clear, | musical notes marking each quarter {hour were the first hint to residents of Alexandria of the gift to the Masonic Memorial. Masonic Hymns Played. Music, consisting principally of Ma- sonic hymns, was first played on the | chimes this morning, when Miss Mar- were the first intimation of their garet J. Cranford, 21-year-old daughter of Percy C. Cranford, who is head of | the company constructing the temple, | operated the stops for an hour between | 9 and 10 o'clock. The installation of the chimes has been going on since last November. | Located on the seventh floor of the partially completed structure, the in- stallation required eight tons of equip- ment and 6,000 linear feet of cabled wire. The cylindrical chimes are op- erated entirely by electricity and lr!] played from a keyboard consisting of 20 keys located back of the main audi- torium of the temple. The chimes will be set to ring every half hour during the day from 9 o'clock in the morning until 10 at night. Yes- | terday they sounded on the quarter | hour while being tried out. Col. Watres expressed himself as not | entirely satisfled with the volume of the notes given off by the chimes yes- terday and today -amd stated that the present installation was only temporary | and that he planned to build a sep- arate tower outside of the present floor for the permanent placing of the in- strument. Tones are muffied at pres- ent due to the thickness of the stone surrounding the bells, according to the donor, and cannot now be. heard in the lower part of the Temple Building, al- though the sound carries for many blocks away. Donor Is Musiclan. The donor of the chimes is himself a musician. He has a set of 16 chimes similar to those installed at the Temple at his home at Scranton, Pa., with sev- eral control boards, some located a con- siderable distance away. Col. Watres is a former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and has been president of the George Washington National Masonic Memorial Association | Convicted for several years. - Kills Nephew’s Widow and Self. ALEXANDRIA, Ind., February 21 () —Dexter Hinton, 56-year-old _steei worker, late yesterday shot and killed Mrs. Eva Carney, 46, nephew’s widow, and then sent a fatal shotqun charge through his own breast at the Carney home. the general injustice of all existing in- stitutions and government for publica- tion in a litle magazine supposedly edited entirely by high school students. These pleas have been signed by “Dar- rell” a name which, upon investiga- tion, was found to be fictitious. There was 1o such person living at the address given (with the signature) and no one of that name is or has been residing in Washington or the vicinity during ‘The leaflets |office, and it is possible that the sub- | i { The huge chimes installed in_ the | George Washington Memorial at Alex- andria. No announcement of the gift from Louis A. Watres (lower right) iad boen made and the musical notes marking each quarter hour yesterday pres- nee, i Center: Miss Margaret J. Cranford, | who played a concert on the chimes | toda: —Star - Staff Photes. | POLICE PAY RAISE T0 BE DISCUSSED| Firemen Concerned in Measure Be- fore Senator Robsion’s Group Tomorrow. The salary-increase bill for policemen and firemen will be taken up by the police and fire subcommittee of the Senate at 11:30 o'clock tomorrow. The meeting has been called by Senator Robsion, Republican, of Kentucky, the new chairman. ‘This is'the same subcommittee which was designated during the special ses- sion to consider an investigation of Dis- trict .affairs, particularly in the Police Department and the district attorney's committee also may discuss what fur- ther steps are to be taken on that subject. The investigation was proposed in a resolution by Senator Blease, Dem- ocrat, of South Carolina. COLORED SL AYER GETS SENTENCE OF 10 YEARS of Stabbing—Burglar Is Four-Year Term. Manslaughter in Given Elous Williams, colored, recently con- victed of manslaughter in connection with the stabbjng to death on May 30 of Robert Jackson, also colored, was sentenced today by Justice Willlam Hitz in Criminal Division 2 to serve 10 years in the penitentiary. ‘Williams been employed for sev- eral years, at the District Building and Attorney James A. O'Shea called the court’s attention to the testimony which showed that Jackson wore brass knuckles when his body reached the | morgue. The assault followed an al- tercation at the home of Willlams in Brooks Court, he pointed out. ‘Tom Harvey, colored, was sent to the penitentiary for four years today by Justice Hitz. Harvey pleaded guilty last week to two indictments charging | tions from homes. At the Municipal Court it was said an average of 150 persons a day is brought to court on summons for ar- rears in rent. Unemployment is the contributing factor in a majority of ch cases, it was explained, although “corn liquor” was equally blamed. The number of actual evictions, however, does not average more than about two a day. Increased need of people residing permanently in Washington "have strained the resources of all organiza- tions affiliated with the Community Chest, it was stated, most of them hav- ing already exceeded their allowances for the month of February. The deficit in the Chest budget for this year is not helping matters. All Records Broken. Ensign Gilbert Decker, in charge of relief work at the Salvation Army, re- ported that requests for aid from men who are seeking work exceed the fig- ures of any previous year in his ex- perience here. “We want to do all we can, but our relief funds have a limit and we have more Washington families for whom we have to care than ever before,” explained Comdr. Asher. “If something is not done to keep unem- ployed people away from this city, I de1't know what we are going to do.” The unemployment situation is also the big problem of the Associated Charities, according to Miss Louise O. Beall, assistant secretary, who is com- piling statistics on this question at the present time. ‘““More people are coming in all the time, and just what is to be done with them is becoming an acute problem,” she said. “We strive to get them to return to their legal residences, but find trouble in accomplishing this in many instances. In addition, we are finding more unemployment among Washingtonians than ever before.” “Unemployment has raised the de- mand for relief from Jewish institu- tions to a point where I do not see how we can accommodate all who ask,” Oscar Leonard, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation, said. “Many of the cases which come to us are those of transients, attracted here by the prospect of Government building or census jobs, and wheh they fail to get them they turn to us for help. We have our Washington families to protect and our funds are limited. Something will have to be done or the Washington charities cannot carry the load.” “We are soon going’to find it impos- sible to furnish relief for all the out-of- town people who apply to us,” said Dr. John O'Grady, director of the Catho- lic charities. “We do all we can, but the needs of our people in Washington come first, and, with the Community Chest failing to reach its goal, there is simply need for more money than we have to spend. Like every other or- ganization, we pared our needs to the closest possible figure, and that figure did not make provision for the influx of unemployment with which we have been confronted’ recently.” “Applications to the Travelers' Aid Soclety have increased at least five- fold,” Mrs. Margaret Ford, executive secretary of that soclety, said. “Em- ployment agencies are giving the prefer- ence to the unemployed of their own cities, and we strive to make arrange- ments to have those that apply to us return to their legal residences, where they will have preference. We help them all we can, but we cannot furnish transportation for the army of unem- E:o“d persons that have applied to us recent weeks.” SPAN NEARS COMPLETION. Structural Work Almrost Finished on Rock Creek Bridge. The structural work on the M street bridge over Rock Creek in Georgetown is practically complete, but traffic will not be allowed across the span until late Spring. No surface has yet been put on the bridge, nor will any be laid until a the t year. B the young radicals to prepare themselves for a war on “the bosses” instead of the capitalists’ unnoni housebreaking and larceny. The court fixed the penalty at four years in each becoming “fodder for | case, but allowed the sentences to run . concurrentiy. study is completed relating to the best jmethod of putting it in. The bridge has been under construction about 14 months. 5 21, HOW BOYS BEHAVE AT DIFFERENT AGE LEVELS IS SHOWN Study in Washington School Gives Method of Measur- ing Progress of Growth. EXPLAINS “SISSIES” AND EARLY LOVE AFFAIRS | | | Dr. Furfey’s Work Considered Real Advance in Science by Local Psychologists, BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Love desn’t come so early to American boys as is generally supposed. This is the case, at least, if the boys at St. Martin's Parochial School, at First | and T streets northeast, are a fair sam- | ple of American boyhood, according to Rev. Dr. Paul Hanley Furfey, psycholo- gist of Catholic - University, who has made an intensive study of them for the past four years. Among the symptoms for which Dr. Furfey looked in the growing youngsters, | as indicating a transition from one stage of life to another, were the first love afiairs. He found only about 45 per ' cent of the 14-to- which he studied had it gi though he had expected this sign to ap- ){wa'; somewhat earller and develop | aster. Tells Purpose of Study. | The appearance of the “best girl” was | only one out of many developments | which Dr. Furfey studied among these | boys, ranging from 6 to 18 years of age. | The purpose of the study, which Dr.| Furfey outlined to a group of psycholo- gists at the Washington Child Research Center last night, was to work out a sys- tem of measuring the ‘‘developmental age” of boys. Dr. Purfey's students now | are carrying out the same study with a | large group of Washington girls. It has been observed ergr‘; l!nngifime. the psychologist explained, that children pass through various stages marked by distinctive behavior, but hitherto there pearance of these stages. Dr. Furfey's study among the boys of St. Martin's School has led him to take as a basis for his work three distinct stag No “Team Work” From 6 to 10. The first, extending roughly from 6 | to 10 is the individualistic stage. Boys | and girls play together without any self-consciousness, but nearly all play is individual. The children cannot be organized into teams and work together. Children at this stage, he said, may tell one that they play such games as nd foot ball, requiring team work, but they actually only throw or kick balls as individuals. When an attempt is made to organize a team eve, child wants to play every position. At St. Martin's School Dr. Furfey or- ganized a unique Boy Scout troop which accepted every boy who applied for membership regardiess of age. Boys in the individualistic-age did not want to | join and could hardly be induced to join, he said. They were not at all interested in being members of a social oup. ngu':many. somewhere between the (ninth and eleventh years, he said, & great change comes about. The boys pass into the “gang” age. They want to be Boy Scouts. They fit naturally into teams and take pride in the vic- tories of their teams. Close friend- ships are formed with other boys. The child no longer is primarily an dividual, interested only in himself. Aversion to Girls Appears. Another curious change which comes about at the same time is the aversion of boys for girls. They are ashamed to be seen with the other sex and say that they “hate” girls. Among the boys of St. Martin's School, he said, this stage continued normally until somewhere between the thirteenth and fifteenth year, when the period of adolescense sets it with marked changes in behavior. The boys | become interested in girls and lose their aversion. Love affairs appear, The boy takes more pride in his appearance, begins to have dates and takes an in- terest in such things as dancing. Another marked change, he said, is in the attitude of the boys toward authority. Before they seem to have accepted blindly the orders of any one who claimed authority over them. Now they begin to question the source of the authority and to obey only if they can convince themselves that it has a sound basis. The “gang” begins to fall-apart and the boys probably never again feel the same loyalties to each other, Furfey divided these activities in- | Dr. and interests of the boys of St. Martin's School into age groups by checking the ages of the majority of the boys who displayed them. This classification was accepted as a standard. Fairly Close With Majority. ‘With the majority of boys, Dr. Furfey said, the relationship is fairly close be- tween the characteristic_activities and the chronological ages. But some boys fall into the groups above or below what would be expected from their chrono- logical ages, showing a retarded or ac- celerated development in characteristic behavior. Dr. Furfey has worked out a scale for measuring this acceleration or retardation with considerable exactness, and this was characterized by promi- nent psychologists who heard his report last night as probably a notable scien- tific contribution, for there is little doubt that the method of measurement developed at St. Martin’s School can be applied to almost any normal group of boys in the United States. For a long time, it was pointed out, educators have been measuring the in- telligence of children by standardized tests, by which the mental status of the individual is checked against that which has been found to be normal for chil- educational science in modern times. But intelligence is only one of the es- sential qualities of a human being which determine success and happiness may have hit upon a means of meas- uring another with an approximately equal degree of exactness. “Developmental age,” he said, “may be some subjective factor in the human being analagous to intelligence.” {dren of the same is consid- Scores Fail to Be Related. He has checked his developmental age scores of the Washington boys against their intelligence scores and found practically no relationship at all. lBoys three or four years accelerated in | their mental development were some- times found three or four years retarded in their characteristic behavior. The op- posite may also be true, he pointed out. He found a closer relationship between the characteristic activity stages of boys and their physical growth. Generally the taller and heavier boy was further advanced in his activity preferences than the boy of the same age, less de- veloped physically. The relation, how- | career in the Navy. | American War he was the first officer ered one of the great developments in | fine in life. Dr. Furfey, it was pointed out, [tc discor 1930. HONORED AS OUTSTANDING CITIZEN The Cosmopolitan Club last night who has performed the most outs during the past year and presen selected Martin A. Leese as the citizen tanding and unselfish service for Washington ted him with a “distinguished service medal In the photo (left to right): Mr. Leese, Mrs, Leese and Dr. J. Rozier Bigg —Star Staff Photo. ADMIRAL WILARD HASBIRTHDAYFETE Navy Yard Commandant} Presented Roses by Mas- ter Mechanics. Rear Admiral A. L. Willard, com- | mandant of the Washington Navy Yard and superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory, today was being congratulated by the officers and civilian force at| ahe navy yard upon his sixtieth birth- a; y. Admiral Willard was the guest of honor at a birthday party in his office this morning when the master mechan- ics of the yard called to pay their re- spects and present the veteran officer with a large basket of roses. In regly to the many compliments offered by C. W. Crawford, master pat- | ternmaker and joiner, spokesmar. for the master mechanics in the little cere- mony that preceded the presentation of the flowers this morning, Admiral Wil- lard declared: “I thank you for your kind attentions on this day. 1 the same, gentlemen, I'd rather be a young lieutenant in these stirring days.” Record of Service. Admiral Willard's total service at the Washington Navy Yard has been longer than that of any other officer in the Navy. Since he was first assigned to the yard in 1900, he has been stationed at the yard in many capacities, and his total service is better than half of the last 30 years. . He was commandant of the yard dur- ing the war, when the gun factory was greatly expanded and more than 12,000 men were employed there, turning out every type of gun used in the Navy from the smallest to the great 16-inch engines of destruction. Under his di- rection was built ordnance which dropped hundreds of tons of explosives upon enemies in the World War, on land and sea. Distinguished in Cuba. Admiral Willard has had a notable In the Spanish- to plant the American flag on the Island of Cuba. He hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the town of Cardenas, on the island, and for that act was award- ed, by his home State, Missouri, a hand- some sword. Admiral Willard started his present | tour of duty at the Washington Navy Yard about two and a half years ago, coming here from the command of the light ~ruiser division of the fleet. NEW YORK FIRM BRIDGE BIDS FOR ROAD ARE LOW Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corpora- tion Appears Successful in Mount Vernon Highway Competition. The Merritt-Chapman & Scott Cor- poration of 17 Battery place, New York, submitted the lowest bids on 12 bridges to be constructed on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, the Bureau of Pub- lic roads announced yesterday. The Mount Vernon Highway will extend {from the Arlington Memorial Bridge to Mount Vernon. The low bid in group No. 1 was $840,124.50 and in the sec- ond group was $936,902.50. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde will later consider the bids and recommend awards of contract. JANITOR IS JAILED. Clothing Catches Fire as Tends Furnace in School. Michael Considine, 69 years old, of the 1100 block of K street northeast, ‘was burned about the body late yester- day when his clothing caught fire while he was attending & furnace in the basement of the Holy Name School at West Virginia avenue and Neal street northeast. Considine was given first-ald treat- ment at the sche fter which he was taken to his home. His burns were not regarded as serious. ever, was far from perfect. Dr. Furfey attempted by means of X-ray pictures to d some relationship between develop- mental age and the ess of bone ma- turation, but none could be found. He now is working with a bio- chemist at Catholic University, he said, ver whether there is any rela- tionship with chemical changes taking place in the body, especially at adoles- cence. ,;‘"" bo{. l\vho shows l?m -bnoml Mt‘ velopmental age score, he pointed out, naturally affords a_serious lem to teachers and nuswm With the T4-year-sid boy wrong = continues to play with small boys and girls and who has not even reached the s where he normally would avold girls of his own age. Probably the most serious problem which arises in the “gang age” group, he pointed out, is that of inferiority, es- pecially as felt by the “sissy” boy. whole life may be wrecked by failure to understand and attend to this condition. In the adolescent age, he said, the most that ot Foo" it hicriorky aad. the of “smart-f.c” type of behavior. | commission decided that there are some JOINT SEWERAGE STUDY SANCTIONED Park and Planning Group Consider District Needs 50 Years Hence. Study of a co-ordinated system of ewage disposal in the Washington met- ropolitan area was sanctioned today by the Washington National Capital Park and Planning Commission after it had heard and approved a report from a drainage and sewerage committee, rep- resentative of interested District, Vir- ginia and Maryland authorities. The details that need further elaboration in the report as submitted. but after the authorities had appeared before it this morning and explained their position, the commission directed attention to the needs of half a century hence and sug- gested that the authorities concerned turn their attention toward coping with the problem. Explaining the repott and the com- mission’s position, Capt. E. N. Chisholm, jr., the commission’s engineer, said to- day that the time will come when the District of Columbia will no longer be able to dispose of its raw sewage by throwing it into the Potomac River. ‘When the time comes that the water courses are being polluted, Capt. Chis- holm said, the United States Public Health Service will require sewage dis- posa! plants to be constructed in this area as a health measure. commission in relation to the drainage and sewerage reports were J. B. Gordon, sanitary engineer for the District of Columbia; Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, the commission's executive officer and vice chairman; Capt. Chisolm, Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city planner of the com- mission; Robert B. Moore, chief engi- neer of the Washin tary Commission; C. L. Kinier, Arling- ton County, Va., engineer; Thomas De Lashmutt, in charge of sewer activities in Arlington County, and M. Hall of the Maryland State board of health, The commission voted its thanks to the drainage and sewerage committee for its work and suggested that some minor points in the report as submit- | ted_be restudied. The commission, following the ap- proval of the report, turned its atten- tion, shortli before noon, to a con- | sideration of proposed highway changes, which were previously published. B I B, 'ST. PATRICK’S DAY CEREMONIES PLANNED Mac White to Speak on Program Sponsored by Hibernians ‘and Ladies’ Auxiliary. n Suburban Sani- In commemoration of St. Patrick’s day, March 17, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the ladies’ auxiliary are planning impressive ceremonies, at which Michael Mac White, Minister from the Irish Free State, will be guest of honor and principal speaker. Solemn high mass is to be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church Monday at 10 o'clock. A banquet at the Mayflower Hotel that night will end the festivities. Patrick J. Haltigan, national director of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, will act as toastmaster. He will introduce the speakers, Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey; Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, O. P.; Rev. Vincent Fitzgerald of St. Stephen’s Church, Dis- trict chaplain of the A. O. H.; Judge Mary O'Toole and Miss Elizabeth Lynn, president of the ladles’ auxiliary. James T. McCarthy is chairman of the banquet committee. Other mem- bers are Mr. Haltigan, Joseph A. Daly, district president, A. O. H.; Miss Eliza- beth Lynn; Mrs. Margaret treasurer, and Michael Dowd, chair- man of the ticket committee. TWO ARE ARRESTED HERE IN ATTACK ON CONSTABLE Danville Will Send for Men Held After Bloodstained Newspapers Are Found in Car. Finding bloodstained newspapers on the floor of an automobile he had stopped on M street for violating a minor traffic regulation yesterday, Po- liceman Lester Parks, after an investi- gation, arrested the driver of the car and a companion at the request of the Danville, Va., authorities, who have been searching for the men in connec- tion with the beating of a constable. At the second precinct station house the men gave their names as Carson McDaniel, 32, and his brother, Ernest McDaniel, 21, both of Blanch, N. C. A pistol was found in possession of A | the younger brother and a constable’s badge was located in the car. Inspec- tor W. S. Shelby, chief of detectives, has been advised that Among those who appeared before the | Daly, | PAGE B-1 MEDAL PRESENTED LEESE AS REWARD FORSERVICE T0D.C. Cosmopolitan Club Honors Owner of Station WMAL at Banquet. CHOSEN MOST UNSELFISH CIVIC WORKER IN 1929 Many Activities for Benefit of Com- munity Listed by Dr. Biggs in Presentation Speech, In token of having been selected as the citizen who performed the most | outstanding and unselfish service for the City of Washington during the year 1929, Martin A. Leese, proprietor of the M. A. Leese Optical Co. and owner of radio station WMAL, last night was presented the “distinguished service medal” offered by the Cosmo- politan Club at the midwinter ladies’ night banquet of the club in the Carl- ton Hotel. He also received a written testimonial from the club. The presentation was made in behalf of the club by Dr. J. Rozier Biggs, past president, before large assemblage. Among those seated at the head table with Mr. Leese was Mrs. Leese, who proudly watched the presentation cere- mony, and from whom it was learned that Mr. and Mrs. Leese are today celebrating their twenty-sixth wedding anniversary. The presentation pro- gram was broadcast over station WMAL. Quoting a verse from the Bible. “Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me,” Dr. Biggs declared: “This verse from the twenty-fifth chapter of St. Matthew has been, either consciously or unconsciously, the guid- {ing light and the active creed of the man whom we honor this evening, Pays Tribute to Mr. Leese. “Continuously for a quarter of a cen- tury he has been on the firing line of unselfish service.” Then, recalling that Mr. Leese was a native Washingtonian and_educated in the public schools here, Dr. Biggs declared “He has always been an ardent and untiring worker for the benefit ‘of the community,” and described some of Mr. Leese's many activities. He re- called that he is a past president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, a charter member and twice president of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, a member of the Board of Trade. the City Club, Knights of Pythias, Masonic order and other civic and fraternal les. After describiflig many other of Mr. Leese's attributes, Dr. Biggs declared: “He is your friend and mine” Dr. Biggs then read the report of the judges, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, pres- ident of the Merchants.and Manufac- | turers' Association: E. J. Murphy, pres- | ident of the Board of Trade, and Rus- isell Kent, immediate past president of | the National Press Club, who gave their reasons for selecting Mr. Leese to be the recipient of the honor as follows: Text of Citation. “Because ol his unstinted generosity in donating the facilities of radio sta- tion WMAL to the use of numerous worthy causes for the advancement of the community and its people, and for his unselfish personal efforts in move- ments for the welfare and the growth of the District of Columbia, the judges appointed by the Cosmopolitan Club unanimously recommend Mr. Martin A. Leese for the 1929 service medal.” Dr. Biggs then sald: “Mr. Leese, on behalf of the Cosmopolitan Club, 1 deem it a great privilege to present to you the service medal and citation for the year 1929, and feel, because of your unusual servi not only in 1929 but for the past quarter of a century, that the club is honored by having the op- portunity of presenting this medal to you.” Mr. Leese, in reply, declared he was greatly surprised when he learned the honor was to be bestowed upon him recalling he had read that some citizen was to be selected for the honor but that the name of the one chosen was | not to be made known until shortly before the ceremony. * . Mr. Leese declared he was interested in Washington and its development and expressed the hope that the citizens here may soon be given the vote and representation in Congress. “We have had some very good friends in Con- gress. Some have done a very good job,” Mr. Leese declared, but expressed the thought that a Representative of a State has not sufficient time to give the proper consideration to purely District affairs, Referring to the sum of $9,000,000 ap- propriated each year by Congress for the District, Mr. Leese said the citizens here pay some $17,000,000 annually in income tax and expressed the view that a State mlfht not feel well satise fled if it got only $9,000,000 of such a sum back in view of the many expenses, etc., under the situation encountered in the National Capital. ‘The medal bore the inscription, “Cos- mopolitan Club Distinguished Service Medal, 1929” across the top and the in- scription “Think” at the bottom. Written Testimonial Read. The written testimonial presented Mr. Leese, with the explanation that the club wanted him to have additional visual testimony of the honor conferred upon him, read, in part, as follows: “This is to certify that Martin A. Leese is hereby unanimously selected as the citizen who performed the most outstanding and unselfish service for t)slgocnlly of Washington during the year | | 1 Fred J. Rice, governor of the Capital Federation of Cosmopolitan Clubs, told briefly of the decision of the Washing- ton Coflmogolllln Club to present the medal at the special wish of its inter- national director, Pat J. Hod’ln.l. He described briefly the scope of Cosmo- politan Clubs and ' the principles for which they stand. Mr, Rice was preceded by Willlam Callal president of the Washing- ton Cosmopolitan Club, who made a brief introductory address. : An elaborate program of entertain- ment preceded the presentation. The latter, in turn, was followed b unch% The entertainment was furnished unds the direction of Miss Edith Lee and in- cluded numbers by Dorothy Skinnes, soprano; Rose Novak, violinist; Corinne Allll& Flel h the t; Clements, dancer; Jeanne and “harmony singers,” and “The Sisters,” dancers. Music throug] dinner was furnished by the Honolul- String Quartet, while the music yans for dancing was by Fred Clark and his R. K. Olians. Alley -Clonnz Act Requested. The District Commissioners toddy asked Congress to pass an act closing all streets and alleys in the section bounded by B, C and Nineteenth streets_and Seventeenth place north- east. This is the rty on which it is expected to build the new Charles W. Eliot Junior High School. 5