Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1930, Page 24

SUCCESS IS SHOWN Children’s Festival Reveals Results of Directed Recreation. The results of many months of or- ganized recreation in the District pub- lic schools were shown in the fifth an- nual children's festival yesterday aft- ermoon in the Central High School Auditorium by 614 students from 10| communities under the direction of the Community Center Department. | The festival is made pcssible by a system of “directed recreation.” The play of the children is directed toward ! definite purposes, among them the (Dflnlum'{) of orchestras, training in group dances, the learning of plays and the production of specimens of handi- work, it was explained The festival was staged before an sudience composed of parents, rela- tives and friends of the pupils, teachers and children from schools not partici- pating in the program. The program, which lasted more than three hours, included 25 numbers ar- ranged and staged by the various com- munity centers, featuring orchestral selections, musical plays, exhibition dances, tap dances, a flower festival rhythmic dancing, a demonstration of piano instruction to community center groups, drum and bugle corps selections, a circus, old-fashioned dances, a minia- ture aircraft demonstration and an exhibit of handwork. AGRICULTURE OFFICE BUILDING TO BE RAZED Department Is Preparing to Make TUse of New Structure and Develop Flower Beds. With the completion of the new mar- ble central building of the Department of Agriculture and an early start on the office building, to occupy three city squares directly south of the main at ministration group, the present red- brick administration building is soon to be torn down and the unds in front of the new building relaid, with a re- arrangement of the flower beds which have for so murx years attracted great throngs, not only of tourists but of Capital residents, at this season of the ar. ”Bounm.s and representatives of gar- den clubs from practically every State in the Union have told officials of the department that the outdoor flower show now being visited daily by many thousands of people is the “best ever.” Just now the pansies and tulips are at their best. ‘There are el%ht large beds containing more than 5,000 pansy plants. There 8,000 bulbs ’m taining 6,000 bulbs 3 ?:dx tulips con! ) wv&u- at the department’s bulb farm in Bell- ingham, Wash. A large force of gardeners has been at work putting the d:-g:nment grounds in the best possible pe for the big Sunday crowds of flower lovers. COL. L. M. NUTTMAN SENT TO FORT M’PHERSON, GA. ! L | | Community Center yesterday afternoon. Dorothy Muller. TAE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO SCHOOL PROGRAM | Lo stans or amosevs resmiva | Two of the little folks who took part in the children's festival at Central May Frances Bladsburn (kneeling) and —Star Staff Photo. Dr. Sverdrup, Norwegian Arctic Authority, Assures | Him of Feasibility. i Underwater. Craft Will Just Beneath Ice in Trip Planned in 1931. Go| ‘The fantastic project of crossing the North Pole in a submarine is entirely practical, Sir Hubert Wilkins has been! assured by Dr. H. U. Sverdrup, Nor- wegian explorer, who probably is the world's foremost authority on the Arctic. Wilkins revealed to the American Geophysical Union that the project, ‘which he will undertake in the Summer of 1931, has been in his mind for 15 years while he has waited the develop- ment of Diesel engines. While he will be equipped with ingenious mechanical devices to cut his way through the ice, Sverdrup assured him that he probably | never would have to use them. The plan, Wilkins said, is to run the | submarine just under the ice, a device | like a trolley arm constantly scraping | the bottom of the ice sheet and holding | Wresident Hoover Approves Appli- cation of Col. Errington of Chi- cago to Be Retired Sept. 22 Col. Louis M. Nuttman, Infantry, at Ban Prancisco, has been assigned to the command of the 22d Infantry at Fort McPherson, Ga; Maj. H. F. Schroeder, tired, has been relieved from duty the high schools, Indianapolis, and ordered to his home; p 5 . Col. B. F. Miller, Field Artillery, from Hawall to Richmond, Va., for duty with Or- Reserves; Maj. J. B. Martin, Artille: m to Concord. for duty with the New Hampshire National Guard; Maj. T. J. Hanley, jr., Air 1 Leavenworth, Kans., to ‘Tex.; Maj. W. L. , Ordnance De- E-n.ment. from the War Department to 'hiladelphia; Capt. Charles H. Swick, Engineers, from the War Department to New York City; Capt. James Lawrence, Signal Corps, from the War Department to Fort Monmouth, N. J.; Capt. Roy D. Burdick, Engineers, from the War De- Philadelphia; Maj. Lewis c. Medical Corps, from El Paso, Tex., to his home to await re- ; Maj. Hugh Mitchell, Signal Corps, from Dayton, Ohio, to the War De ent; Maj. Harrison McAlpine, Infantry, from Columbus, Ohio, Charleston for duty with the West Vir- ginia National Guard; Capt. E. R. Rey- nolds, from Fort Monroe, Va., to Fort H. G. Wright, N. Y.; First Lieut. G. B. Barth, Field Artillery, from Auburn, Ala., to Fort Myer, Va.; Maj. E. B. Gray, Coast Artillery, from the Panama Canal Zone to Washington University, St. Louis; Capt. H. W. Forster, Cavalry, from Fort Ethan, Vt, to Baltimore; Maj. F. C. Phelps, Inafntry, from Fort Benning, Ga., to Fort Eustis, Va.; Capt. F. B. Rogers, Infantry, from Fort Doug- las, Utah, to Missouli, Mont.; Capt. C. E. Ryan, Infantry, from Fort George G. Meade, Md., to the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley; Maj. Medorem Crawford, jr., Infantry, from Memphis, nn., to Fort Brady, Mich.; Capt. A. J. Stark, Infantry, from New York City to Fort Benning, Ga.; Capt. G. A. Miller, Infantry, from Madison, Wis., to Fort Benning, Ga.; Capt. S. L. Bertschey, Field Artillery, to Los Angeles; Corpl. J. H. Rogaleski and Pvt. Virgil McCor- mick, 24 Cavalry, from Fort Myer, Vi to F linton, Ohio, for duty as com. pet. #/ith the Cavalry rifie team. Mas -rgt. Charles Buck, attached to the o_. e of the chief of Infantry, Mu- nitions Building, has been placed on the retired list on his own application after more than 30 years’ Ml’v&!. The President has approved the ap- plication of Col. Charles H. Errington, Finance Department, at Chicago, for transfer to the retired list September 22 after more than 31 years' service. KELLOGG RECOMMENDED FOR WORLD COURT POST Minnesota U. Law School Faculty Urges Former Secretary of State to Succeed Hughes. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, May 3.— Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, former Secretary of State, co-author of the Kellogg-Briand peace pact, and former Ambassador to Great Britain, today ‘was recommended for nomination as a Judge of the World Court by the fac- ulty of the University of Minnesota Law School. A resolution embodying the faculty action will be forwarded to Newton D, Baker, George W. Wickersham, John ‘W. Davis and Roland W. Boyden, rep- resentatives at The Hague tribunal of the United States. ‘The judgeship for which Mr. Kell is recommended was vacated ap- Eolnu'nenl. of Charles Evans Hughes as ‘hief Justice of the United States. The term expires December 31, after which @ new panel of 15 judges will be elected for 9-year terms. — Scotland’s population is now estimated 8¢ 4,892,000, . | ever, that plans may the s down. Whenever the trolley arm no ong:nr:m the ice \nce— that is, wi ver water—the submarine will rise auto- matically. Its batteries will be charged to allow it to continue for approximately 125 miles under the ice, or to rel | submerged for two and a half days. Actually, Wilkins and Sverdrup agreed, it will be practically impossible to go more than 25 miles In any direction . | without coming on open water. “Walking” Under Tce. The plan was described by Wilkins as more a ship walking along the bot- tom of the ice, its drilling devices taking the place of legs, than the submarine voyage of the mflhr imagination. Sir Hubert recogn! the pofllbmty.‘m- g0 an the ‘submarine will find itself trapped under the Arctic ice sheet with its bat- teries exhausted. For such an emer- gency, he is devising a formidable array of apparatus. “The first step will be to throw away ballast, giving the ship its full positive buoyancy of 75 tons. He does not be- lleve the ice sheet anywhere can stand 2 blow of more than 25 tons. The sub- marine itself will pound its way through with a single upward rush. In case this fails, the craft will have a conning tower equipped with saw teeth operated by electricity. If the ice is not too thick, this will saw through a small 20| nole. Open Water Balks Dogs. ‘Then through the conning tower, chemicals can be sprayed over the sur- face of the ice, which will melt it in a short time. Then there will be elec- trical drills capable of going through any thickness of ice much easier than oil drills go through great thicknesses of rock, Sir Hubert said. But after flying more than 10,000 miles over the ice and walking 5,000, he said, he be- lieves it unlikely that he ever will be called on to use any of these devices. He pointed out that Amundsen landed in open water barely 90 miles from the North Fole and that the great difficulty of Arctic explorers with dog teams has been to get around the leads of open water continually encountered. ‘The actual condition of the Arctic ice was explained by Dr. Sverdrup, Amundsen’s chief lieutenant, who was in command of the Maud, which passed several years in the ice. The enormous and unequally distributed pressure, he said, causes great jagged cracks to ap- pear. The edges drift apart and then do not come together evenly, causing & constant succession of ponds. Keeping Cool Would Be Job. One of the problems, Sir Hubert said, is with the refrigerating apparatus of the submarine. Unlike previous North Pole explorers, his difficulty will be in keeping cool. The Summer temperature of the Aretic, he said, runs between 60 and 90 degrees and without artificial refrigeration it probably would be al- most unbearably hot in a closed shell beneath the ice, even under the North Pole itself. ‘The submarine, he said, now offert the only means by which explorers can get to the North Pole and stay there long enough to carry out an extended research program. The aviator can hover above the top of the earth only a few minutes at the best. Peary, the only man ever to get there on foot, could stay only two days. A submarine could remain in the vicinity for weeks Sir Hubert plans to start out from Spitzbergen in July, 1931, and end u in Alaska some time in August. He will collect data for use by the many ex- peditions to be sent out in the world co-operative movement the next Sum- mer. He urged American geophysicists to state the problems they wished studied. Sea Currents May Be Studied. One of the most valuable scientific results which can come from the sub- marine voyage, said Dr. Sverdrup, will be accurate information concerning the ocean currents under the ice, especially the Laborador current which comes down the western coast of Greenland and empties into the Atlantic, vitally affecting the weather along the whole Atlantic Coast of North America. The WILKINS' SUBMARINE VOYAGE TONORTH POLE HELD PRACTICAL SIR HUBERT_ WILKINS. —Underwood Photo. the surface of the ice have been unable to learn anything about them. 8ir Hubert's own primary concern, he said, is to find whether it will be pos- sible for a party to live for a year on the ice about 700 miles in the Arctic northeast of Point Barrow to study magnetic and meteorological conditions. He wants to find somewhere that the ice does not break up in Summer and said it might be feasible to send one of the international polar year expedi- tions to this point. : | SHELDON CHURCH PILGRIMAGE TODAY Hundreds Will Make Annual Visit to Pre-Revolutionary Shrine. By the Assaclated Press. BEAUFORT, 8. C, May 3.—The historic ruins of S8heldon Church, Prince ‘William Parish, tomorrow will receive many visitors who will make the an- nual pligrimage to the pre-Revolution- ary shrine for divine worship. Services will begin at noon with the Right Rev. F. F. Reese of Savannah, Bishop of Georgia, delivering the sermon. Every Spring on the second Sunday after Easter the pllgrimage to the Shel- don Church is made, and each year the number attending the service is increasing. Although better known as Sheldon, the proper name of the church is Prince William Parish Church. The exact date on which the edifice was erected is not definitely known, but records show that it was shortly after 1730. Gov. Willlam Bull, whose nearby resi- dence, Sheldon Hall, has given to the church its popular name, is said to have brought designers and masons from England to erect the church. The massive ruins still give evidence of exquisite workmanship and of the sumptuousriess of the church in its prime. The remaining walls and the four majestic columns that still stand bear the marks of the two wars through which they passed. Burned by the Brit- ish during the Revolution, the church was repaired and used continuously as a place of worship until the close of the War Between the States. At the time of Sherman's march through Georgia and South Carolina the edifice again was burned and has never been renaired. STORE OWNER CONVICTED| IN MURDER-ARSON CASE Kansas City Jury Gives Verdict in Connection With Firemen’s Death in Explosion. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, May 3—Arch D. Glover was convicted of . first-degree murder in connection with the explosion at a south side drug store here last August, in which three firemen were killed, and was sentenced to life im- prisonment by a Circut Court jury late today. ‘The State rested its case at noon after succeeding in the introduction of a signed confession by Glover, which disclosed an alleged conspiracy to de- stroy the drug store he operated. ‘The confession, witnessed by two deputy sheriffs soon after Glover's ar- rest, described the placing of gasoline in the store and told of plans for touch- ing it off with the object of collecting | insurance on the store and fixtures. ‘The confession also implicated June Carey, one of three other men charged with murder in connection with the ex- plosion. Glover's statement, officers said, was designed to exonerate D. L.' mingling of other currents is believed im ce in weather be portan: &flfi:-fs,wl explorers confined to Piggott and John L. Crowe, the other accused participants in gthe alleged arson conspiracy. F ISCHOOL CONTEST FINALS ARE HELD Fifth District, Embracing Most of Northern Virginia, Holds Last Tests. !smu: Dispatch to The Star. H ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3—Pinals | for the fifth school district, embracing | most of Northern Virginia, in a contest | | including bookkeeping, typewriting and | shorthand, were held at the Alexandria | High School a few days ago. Winners in the contest will go to | Fredericksburg May 10 to represent the fifth district in the State finals, to be held under the auspices of the State | Board of Education. | " Schools participating in the recent contest here weré the Alexandria High, | George Mason High, Manassas High, | Washington-Lee High, Winchester High and Fredericksturg High. | Miss Dorothy _Childress, business | teacher at Alexandria High, is captain of the fifth district gnd arranged for | the cont:sts here, which were given, | however, by outside persons in no way familiar withthe students taking the tests. i Manassas a Winner. | The team of Manassas High won the contest in beginners or first-year book- | keeping, with Washington-Lee second | ;Bnd Alexandria third. The winning | team consisted of Alice Wilson, who scored 84; Franklin Bodine, 85; Lucretia ( Larkin, 78; Margaret Farquhar, 68.7, | and Ethel Riteneur, 67.1. |~ Washington-Lee High team won_the advanced bookkeeping contest. Their | team consisted of Clifton Stoneburner, who scored 68.7; Inez Kemp, 61, and Marion McNair, 55.2. In typewriting, class A, or first-year students, the test was won by Manassas High, with George Mason High second and Washington-Lee High third. The winning_team consisted of Lucretia Larkin, Brulah Sowers, Lillian Fletcher, Reba Crawford and Alice Wilson. Class B, or second-year typewriting, went to Alexandria High, the winning team consisting of Wilma Roland, Vir- ginia Monroe and Milton Fairfax. V’ashington-Lee was second and Win- chester High third. Class C to Fredericksburg. Class C, for students with more than two years’ work, went to Fredericksburg, with Manassas second and Washington- Lee third. The winning team consisted of Louise Waters, Grace McKenzie and Mae Berson. In shorthand—event 2, 60 words per minute, was won by Manassas High, with Washington-Lee second and George Mason third. The victorious team consisted of Sylvia Showalter, who scored 98: Lillian Fletcher, 96.2; Lu- cretia Larkin, 95.3; Eva Lunsford, 92, and Alice Wilson, 85. Shorthand—event 2, 80 words per minute, was won by Alexandria High, with Winchester second, Washington- Lee third and George Mason fourth. The winning team consisted of Edna Green, who scored 99.5; Milton Fairfax, 99; Virginia Monroe, 98, and Wilma Roland, 97. KOHLER HEARING RECORDS MISSING Testimony of File Clerk Reveals Fact at Ouster Trial of Governor. By the Associated Press. SHEBOYGAN, Wis, May 3. Testi- mony that some records used at a pre- vious hearing had been destroyed was given today in the ouster trial of Gov. Walter J. Kohler, charged with spend- ing more than $4,000, the legal limit set by State law, in the 1928 primary election. The witness was Ellery Mc- Cann, chief file clerk for the Kohler | Co., of which the governor is head. | The defense emphasized its belief the ,dutructlon was due to a misunder- standing, and Judge Gustave Gehrz put several questions in line with th theory. The prosecution, however, brought forth McCann's testimony in a Joe Doe hearing at Madison, which showed he had been ordered by the State's attor- | ney, Daniel W. Gray of Portage, to “keep that—don’t throw it away.” The matter was introduced by the | State in line with its theory that the Kohler Co. co-operated with the gover- nor in making excessive expenditures during the 1928 primary campaign. McCann said he understood Grady to have declared he did not need the yec- ords—concerning material mailed from the Kohler factory during the 1928 pri- mary campaign. —_— An autographed manuscript of the “Marseillaise,” by Rouget de Lsile, au- thor of the French national anthem, ‘was sold recently in London for $850. 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