Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1930, Page 16

B4 * L OFM CLASSDAY ‘Arrange Program for June 9 as Part of Commence- ment Activities. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 17.—An all-day program, chock full of events, has been arranged for alumni and class day June 9 at the University of Mary- land, in connection with the commence- ment exercises, which will last from June 8 to 10, inclusive. The complete program for the day 15 as follows: 10 a.m.—Annual meeting of Alumni Association in lecture hall, third floor of new chemistry building. 12:30 am.—Special luncheon for alumni and senior class. 2:30 p.m.—Ivy planting ceremony by senior and junior classes. 2 pm—Tradition ceremony, award- and 5. Bg:g‘o—%pyx' ;':x':z( play, in audi- torium. 5 .—Class reunions, with classes of 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1916, 1917, 1918 d 1919 designated to return. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.—June ball in Ritchie gymnasium. W. B. Burrus of Wi , & Na- iionally known s er, will give a short talk as one of the features of the Alumni Association session. H. C. Byrd, assistant to the presi- dent and athletic director, will report on the development of athletics; H. C. ‘Whiteford, president of the Alumni As- sociation, and Dr. T. B. Symons, sec- retary-treasurer, will give brief talks; J. Hanson Mitchell, as chalrman, will re- port on the progress of the alumni loyalty fund committee, after which the slate for the annual elections will be divulged by J. P. Mudd, chairman of the nominating committee. Elections will follow. Dr. Raymond Allen Pearson, presi- dent of the university, will address the ‘alumni and senior class at their lunch- eon in the dining hall. |_Dr. O. C. Wallace, pastor of the Utah Place Baptist Church of Baltimore, has accepted an invitation to deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the senior class at the university, The services will be held in the auditorium on Sunday, June 8. Dr. James Brown Scott, educator and international lawyer of Washington, as already had been announced, will de- u"m ltbhe commencement address on ‘June 10, Prof. J. E. Metzger, assistant director of the experiment station, has been elected president of the Maryland Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, honorary scholastic fraternity. Other officers are Prof. Charles F. Xramer of the modern languages de- partment, vice president; Dr. Charles E. White of the chemistry department, “ecretary-treasurer, and Dr. Lee A. Schrader of the horticultural depart- -ment, corresponding secretary. Hilda Jones of College Park, a sopho- “nore in the College of Education, has =en elected president of the Young ,School of Law and the School of Eeco- “Vomen's Christian Association at the niversity. Adelaide Gray is vice presi- °nt, Edgar Jones is secretary and Mar- aret Stone 1s treasurer, Harold Robinson of Silver Spring has ieen elected president of the Ross- »nurg Club, the foremost social organ- ' “ation at the university. He is a junior 2 the College of Agriculture, Chester wney is vice president, Joseph Cal- a secretary and Warreb Rabitt _Edwin M. Willse, president; E. M. Gue, -ice president; Phil Cooper, secretary, nd Fred Burton, treasurer, have been hosen as the officers for the 1930-31 ‘tm of the Engineering Soclety at the niversity. Helen Mead of College Park has been 10sen secretary of the Student Govern- :ent Association. at the university. ©ther officers previously had been ~lected, but & second vote was neces- sary to decide the secretaryship. “Below Par,” a one-act farce, has been ] as the Spring play of the Foot- ht @ub of the university. resented next Wednesday as part of “he Omicron Delta Kappa assembly. Gordon Zimmerman has been elected oresident of the Footlight Club to suc- reed Henry Whiting, who resigned fol- owing his election as president of the Student Government Association. Zim- ‘merman aiso will be news editor of the Diamondback, the student weekly paper, during the 1930-31 term. Dr. E. C. Auchter, head of the horti- cultural department of the university, has been elected natonal regent general of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. This automatically places him ‘on the mational executive committee of the so- clety. The University of Maryland chapter, one of 40 in the country, was established in 1920. Dr. Auchter made the annual Phi Kappa Phi address before the faculty and student body st Virginia Polvtech- day at the time of the Virginia initia- tion. RECORD HONOR ROLL AT CENTRAL HISH School Reports Ten Students With Perfect Rating at End of Second Semester. ‘The eighth semester at Central h School leads in the number of !ludlgfu on the honor roll for the second ad- visory, having 10 pupils with perfect ratings in full major subjects. The following 36 pupils “made” the honor roll for the second advisory: Doris Fisher, Margaret Garber, Henry Gibbs, Marjorie Stewart, Richard Her- man, Alfida Brigunflio, Arthur Conn, -Kenneth King, Helen Mansfield, Jeanne Thompson, Rex Bernham, Margaret Hedgecock, Helen Sherfey, Arria Mc- ‘Ginniss, Alicia Mooney, Irene Guy, Ruth Jenkins, Carl Achterkirchen, Jean Creech, Alfred Bronaugh, Hugh Hetzer, Armand Gordon, Felicia Locke, Frances Crawford, Alice Shaw, Ruth Yanovsky, May Lesta Wakeman, Alba Gammerino, Lena Lane, Mary Garner, Edward Crum, Alfred Hazoury, Florence Holbrook, Anna Gelfand,” Margaret Graves and Robert Mathais. A stamp exhibition will be held at the echool, May 328, it was announced at the Stamp Club meeting last Wed- nesday after school. The winner's name will be engraved on & cup to be placed in the hall. Second place winner will receive a certificate. Communication with almost 500 amateur radio stations is one of the achievements of Woodworth Williams, tor of the Central Radio oodworth 1s & licensed operator and hes a station of his own, W30Z. In the nine months the station has been in operation ‘he has talked to amateurs in Spain, Germany, Australia and every district in the United States. The transmitter and receiver which he uses are home-made. W30Z is an offi- cial relay station of the American Radio Relay League, which transmits messages from one section of the country to the other, free of 4 ‘Woodworth has been interested in for the past three years. ————— - ; official lion hunter brought | Tuesda; nic Institute at Blacksburg on Thurs- | cluded Leon Smallwood, chalrman, and Show,” & vehicle which not only permif went to round out the show. Displaying creations designed in the domestic science classes, girls at the Kendall Green institution on Friday afternoon adapted to various occasions, but also theatrical costuming for the numbers which In this group, left to right, are: Emma Cornelius- || sen, May Koehn, Kathryn Buster, Alice Campbell and Florence Bridges. THE SUNDAY presented “‘Cinderella’s Fashion tted the exhibition of dresses and suits DEGREE ASPIRANTS WILL DEFEND WORK Public Discourses at National University June 2-3 Set Precedent. For the first time in the history of National University candidates for the degree of doctor of civil law will be re- quired to make public defense of their dissertations June 2 and 3, when three graduate students speak before an au- dience of university officials and stu- dents. ‘The defenses, which by virtue of the publicity according them have have at- tracted wide‘attention among students, will be staged at 7:30 p.m. on each day. Otis L. Mohundro will talk June 2 on “Reparation in Interstate Commerce Law,” while on the following day Ar- thur E. Cook will discuss “Immigration Laws of the United States” and Thomas Joseph Mackavanaugh will discourse on the Sherman act and the exclusive right of the patentee. By increasing the academic require- ments in the enlarged graduate depart- ment of the university, National is of- fering two higher degrees, commencing with the Summer sessions. They are master of law and government and doctor of law and government. Test Schedule Announced. | The Summer sessions will begin in the nomics and Government shortly after the June commencement, and registra- tion indicates a record vacation school enrollment. Meanwhile the current Spring term is being brought to a close rapidly. examinations in both schepls of the uni- versity will begin Saturday, to proceed on the following schedule: School of Law—Saturday, efiuity text, evidence cases, jurisprudence, legal his- tory and trust and monopolies; Monday, May 26, contract cases, English history, community property, Federal tax laws; Tuesday, real property, private corpo- rations, constitutional law and Roman law; “Wednesday, bills and notes, wills and administration, modern civil law, land, mining and irrigation law and in- ternational relations and organization; Thursday, equitable trusts, equity cases, | review course, comparative government and public la’ nd Saturday, May 31, bailments and carriers, international claims and international law. Invitations for graduates will be avail- able for distribution on Priday, June 6, at 6:30 pm., in the Law School ilding, it was announced last night. ‘Approximately 300 students will receive degrees this year, the highest number of graduates in the history of the university, Docket to Appear. The Docket, senior yearbook, will be | issued this week, it was made known ! yest'rday by John G. Faircloth, editor- | in-chief, The volume this year, it has been previously announced, is dedicated to George P. Barse, & member of the faculty. Edward A, Aaronson was elected master of the Alpha Beta Chapter of Al Eta Phi ternity last week. Othér officers chosen at the semi-annual election included Myer Pumps, senior warden: Albert Gelfeld, scribe; Jack Resnicoff, chaplain; Samuel Lebowitz, guard; Ben Friedson, guide, and Nathan Steinman, sergeant at arms. The final monthly dance of the year | was held by Alpha Beta Chapter last The committee in charge in- David Krupsaw. The annual banquet. to be held Saturday night, June 7, will | conclude the social program of the year, An increase of 32 members for the year was announced at the final meet- | ing of the National University Masonic Law Club, held Monday under the chairmanship of George P. Grove, | president. Mr. Grove appointed G. S. | Rush and Charles Mulr as the club's | Tepresentatives on the advisory board | of the District of Columbia Masonic League clubs. A. Sherman Christensen. National's contender in the regional finals of the national intercollegiate oratorical con- test, won second place in the meet held last week. What is believed to be National's most successful debating year was ended last night when Lloyd Andrews, Merritt L. Smith, John Cotton and A. Slevers, winners in the four interclass debates, | contended for the title, “best debater of the year” and the u:oomplnylnrl faculty award. The victor will be an-: nounced this week. {TWO SOUTHERN FARM | | PUBLICATIONS MERGE | | Atlanta and Birmingham Concerns in Deal Involving $2,500,000 Effective September 1. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., May 17.—Merger of the Southern Ruralist Co. of Atlanta and the Progressive Farmer Co. of Bir- | mingham, Ala., publishers of two of the | lezding farm papers of the South, was | announced here today by officials of | the two companies. The transactlon was said to involve about $2,500,000. The consolidation will become effec- tive September L under the name of the Progressive Farmer Ruralist Co., with mare than 1,000,000 circulation for the combined papers. Headquarters and publication offices will be maintained at | Atlanta and Birmingham, and perma- nent divisional offices ai, Raleigh, Dallas, Memphis and Louisville. ‘The combined editorial forces of the two publications will be continued with Yttle change, officlals said. Dr, Clar- ence Poe of Raleigh, president of the Progressive Farmer Co., will be general manayer, and L. D. Hicks, for many Joors an'officer of the Southern Rural- imcn also will continue to manage Ruralist, Press, which 'will' be epersted independently Final |} | jack and other games in operation, Mr. | tion §. A.R.TO CONDUGT SERVICE AT GRAVES Heroes of ’76 to Be Honored | Today on Congressional Cemetery Visit. A large delegation from the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution will make a pil- grimage to Congressional Cemetery this || afternoon to place medallions on the graves of the Revolutionary soldiers buried there, and to hold special serv- ices the graves in honor of the heroes of 1776. ‘The delegation, to be headed by Col. Alonzo Gray, past president of the so- || clety, will meet at the main entrance of the cemetery at 3 o'clock. United States Representatives, representing | States from which the Revolutionary | soldiers enlisted, are to make addresses at the grave. In the group will be Representative Butler B. Hare of South Caroline, Rep- resentatives Charles L. Abernethy and, Lindsay C. Warren of North Carolina and Representative Richard P. Free- man of Connecticut. | Plans also are under way for the local soclety, 8. A. R., to conclude the observance of the fortieth anniversary of its founding by & pilgrimage on June || { to Mount Vernon where the members will place a wreath on the tomb of George Washington. The latter party is scheduled to as-|| semble at the Seventh Street Wharves at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of June 7 for the trip to Mount Vernon aboard || the steamer Charles Macalester, which eaves at 2:30 o'clock. The program, to be under the direction of William | Knowles Cooper, goc\dent of the Dis- | trict of Columbia iety, 8. A. R, is to include several addresses. AMERICAN MUSIC NOW CALLED OWN' Werner Janssen, Third American | Prix de Rome Winner, Sees U. S. i Recognition by Europe. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 17.—This country || nwra;odn:u music which speaks the | Ame n Janguage without foreign ac- cent and is recognized in Europe as equal to that which the Old World has produced, it was asse: tonight by | Werner Janssen, who recently became | the third man from this country to re- | veive the Prix de Rome. The winner of the much coveted award, which is granted by the Acade- ! my of Rome to music composers of out- | standing abllity, said that Europe has come to recognize a definite “Ameri- can idiom” in music. It is built upon the crooning Negro melody and ja: with the spirit of American life as a background. ‘The Negro melody is mot- imported, Janssen said, for it was born in the South under Americaf influence. The spirit of the African is not in it. The Prix de Rome fell to Janssen,|! who is only 30 years of his compositions, ew Year Eve in New York” and “The Obsequics of a | | Saxophone.” In all his compositions Janssen takes | the color of American life, from the streets, tall bulldings, jails, anywhere that people move, and produces their | strange sounds. He is conducting an | orchestra and writing music at radio | Station WTAM here. | REPORTERS LEAD POLICE IN DETROIT GAMING RAID Arrests of 300 Persons Are Result | of Charges Made on Wide- Open Gambling. By the Associated Pres DETROIT, May 17.—Led by news- paper reporters, sent out to prove to suthorities that stories in their paper of wide-open gambling were accurate, police squads this afternoon and tonight || made nine raids in downtown Detroit | and arrested approximately 300 persons. || Most of the places visited were de- scribed as handbooks, where the interest | | of crowds centered in the running of || the Kentucky Derby. largest num- | ber taken into custody one WAS 90, at 25 Cadillac square, half a block from the City Hall. | ‘The police also reported finding black- of | gambling, as well as form charts and | other paraphernalia used in handbooks. || The reporters, working for the De- { troit Free Press, led squads of raiders | from police headquarters to the raided | places without telling the officers where they were going. f The Free Press said that the raids| came as a result of a statement of Po- lice Commissioner Harold H. Emmons || questioning the accuracy of stories of | wide-open gambling which have been | appearing In that newspaper for sev- || eral weeks. ASSEMBLY SELECTS CITY Evansville to Be Scene of Presby- terian Session Next Yea: OLNEY, Tex, May 17 (P).—Evans- | ville, Ind., was selected as the 1931 con- |‘ vention city of the Cumberland Presby- terian Church by delegates to the an- nual assembly here ay. The invita- extended by Dr. C. A. Gallowa; of Evansville. Y Rev. H. H. Bright of Alabams Oity, Ala., invited the assembly o his eity the year, . STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 18 1930—PART ONE. ; Through the hearty co-op- || eration of the many buying resources we have at our command we can offer hun. | dreds of attractive bargains, which together with the ex- traordinary values from our own stock will certainly make this a “regular Birthday Party.” Make this your shopping headquarters. . |/ $2 Picot Top | Tuesday—But We Ad- vise Shopping Monday. New $10 Summer Silk Dresses 7 ¥ 475 A marvelous assortment awaits your se- lection — every new and want- ed style, color and trimming effect; sizes 14 to 44. i S0c Continental Window Screens J7c ‘Walnut finished Jjustable black acreening. $2.50 Conti- nental Doors size 30278 $7] 65 Inches J Basement Girls’ New Sheer Summer Dresses $1.15 Volles, _dimi- ties and batistes, fast-color wash- prints, checks, designs lain col- arge col- lars, round eol- te.; 7 to 14 $2 and $3 Brand-New Summer Hats A just arrived shipment —em- bracing all the newer styles for wear with light summery frocks. Beauti- ful eolors. Full Fash’'ned Hose 69c Seconds of a Famous Make Pure silk from toe to top, hem- stitched run- new . Sizes 82 to 10. Seventeen Years of Good Store Keeping ~—Giving Honest Values Daily. /’ X Advertised Items on Sale Monday and Tuesday. 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