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POET LEADER OF MCARL WILL RULE ON STATE PACTS IN PLANFOR PARKWAY. Controller General to Be Ask-| His 4,000 Followers Escaped d to Pass on Agreements After Rebellion Against “for Memorial Projects. French in 1927. Prince Arslan, Chief fide of Arab King, Is Here to Con- fer With Countrymen. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. THE EVENT DRUSE OUTLAW ARMY ARRIVES IN CAPITAL MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA WILL SHARE IN EXPENSE A hard-boiled soldier, leader of an| outlaw army of 4,000 encamped far two | years in the middle of the Arabian! desert, and one of the foremost modern | Arabian poets, Prince Adel Arslan of the Lebanon Druses has arrived in Washington and is conferring with his countrymen. Prince Arslan, for whose capture dead or alive the French protectorate in Syria has offered a heavy Jeward, £ 0 11 escaped from the desert bivouac throug! &‘;::;::"g f'"”:] - Ro MCS,' ':E Palestine, carrying the first passport to pprove a proposed Work- | the United States yet issued from the ing agreement, under the Capper-|court of Ibn Saud, King of Arabia, in! Cramton park purchase act, through |the borders of whose territory the out- which the States of Maryland and Vir- | 18% army had found retuge .\ n- ginia are to co-operate with the Federal | gray hair, the Druse leader plans soon Government in the creation of the|to return to the refugee army Whose George Washington Memorial Parkway | minimum demand, he says, is an in- from Great Falls to Mount Vernon, Va., | dependent Syrian’ nation which shall and Fort Washington, Md., on both |include Syria, Great Falls-to-Mount Vernon Pro- posal Provided for in Capper- Cramton Act. Palestine, Irak and | sides of the Potomac River, and for the | Transjordania under a single govern- preservation for park purposes of vari- [ ment. M e the| prince Is Second in Command. Lieut. Col. U. §. Grant, 3d. vice chair- [ _The desert army, composed mainly of man and . executive officer of the | Druses with some Christian = contin- National Capital Park and Planning gents, is the remains of the force \\'l?ich‘ B asion. made this known today as | catried on the Druse rebellion against | eIt "of & conference held late | the French in 1927 and. then, refusing yeeierday between Maj. E. Brooke Lee, | 10 surrender, escaped across the Arablan e eier ot the Maryland House of Dele. | border where it has held tself together e O iing C. Foot, engineer of |38, the nucleus of the independence e A atinal Gapital Par | movement. Prince Arslan is the second e e inion and the local | in commsnd. _The leader is Sultan i Pasha, who was also the chief spirit of oL Grant explained today the rebellion and who is now with the ments must be entered into on the Arclan was cbliged fo leave pS. Sgten temporarily by the necessity of a surgi- g:“;"’r{"" land to be acquired under | cq) opmofan which was performed in program contemplated by the e Ot Cronmion act, b tiat. there may | S e O] e e orts and be an equitable apportionment of Fed- | five other leaders, he said, have been al funds with those coming from State 3 . o Picen st b aas aproatin | Sereasamnesty ik, the [Etencly 1 they 3 . 4 wi urn YT AN e le oath | windled very little. up & board for appraisal to pick these | 'The army, he said, is encamped near values. a little oasis on the western edge of Must Reach Agreements. Arabia near the Transjordania border Under the act, there must be assur- | from which they can move into Syria ances from the iwo adjacent States or |at 8 moment’s notice and where their political subdivisions of them to con- |Presence is a continuous threat to the Pibute funds toward the purchase of | security of French control. They are the proposed park lands. The question | literally buried in the hot, barren desert. of the type of assurance to be asked by | The oasis itself has no vegetation. The the Fedoral Government has yet fo be |nearest cultivated land is approximately settled. The commission will draw up a | 125 miles away, and all supplies must proposed form of agreement on these | be brought in across the desert by Questions and submit them to the con- | camels, mules and horses. A plentiful troller general to see if they satisfy the | Water supply has been obtained by requirements of the new law. sinking 47 artesian wells. ‘The same sort of ‘arrangement pro- Like Mediaeval Army. for the Maryland authorities will . m‘“’ It is like a mediaeval army, each man ntered into with Virgin g g egica; bringing his own arms and horses. It Grant said, if that is found suitable. "The National Gapital Park and Pian- | IS SUPPOTting itself in part by salt min- ning Commission desires to get a proper | I8, the product being exchanged in e srotation of the law from the con. | TTansjordania for supplies. Although life is extremely hard many of the men troller general with e e Tunds g the waye anq | Bave no incentive to return to clviliza- tion_because they lost all their property ens of putting the new leghlegeide: s on and are animated only Ito effect. Mr. McCarl will pe sk R i acatt by thoughts of vengeance and the the legality of the proposed | restoration of Syrian independence. Practically unknown to the world an troo m) Father than the attorney general. Maryland is ready, within its possi- bility, to enter into commitments from that State to carry on tlre work of put- terior, where few Europeans have ever penetrated, by the political genius of Ibn Saud, chief and high priest of the Hng the new act in = ~ | Wahabis or Moslem Puritans, who has . to force, the commis- | 5 hored the outlaw army, Prince Ars- n gathered from Msj. o iLegiand i lan sid, Since Ton Seuds overthrow BESryiand. is - anxiolis ¥ of Mecca and capture of King Hussein, T iy s otriaread i€ | the lineal descendant of Mohammed, umbia_into the region northward, the | according to the Druse prince, the mys- PRINCE ADEL ARSLAN. ——Harris-Ewing " Photo. terious desert kingdom has been united for the first time in hundreds of years under a stable government. Starting as a minor Bedouin chieftain, he said, the King subjugated all the other minor chiefs, has established a strong police force, and toddy the middle of Arabia is as safe for the traveler as the streets of New York. Formerly to into this country was almost certain death at the hands of the robber bands. An ex- tremely stern regime of law and order is in’ effect. Nominally, Prince Arslan sald, the seat of Ibn Saud's government is in the forbidden city of Mecca, but actu- ally he has established a new capital at the old brick and stone trading town of Riard in the interior of the desert. Riard, with a population of about 30,000, seldom has been visited by Europeans in- the- past, ‘but today ranks with the world’s most progressive capitals. The desert army is in constant communica- tion with this city, around which a new | Islam is arising, divested of the load of religious traditions which centered about Mecca. From Riard trade routes are being established to India on the east and Damascus on the west. Has Reputation as Poet. Under the secure government of Ibn Saud, Prince Arslan looks forward to & great revival of Arabian literature, art and science, which dominated the west- ern world at the end of the Crusades, but which declined with the decline of the political structure of Islam. He himself is one of the foremost literary figures of the revival, but, he explains, the movement is in two divisions. One is a revival of the learning of Western Islam, with its city and comparatively settled life. The literature of the no- madic Bedouin population, he said, ex- presses a different spirit, which the West_cannot hope to duplicate. As a poet Prince Arslan had acquired a rep- utation which almost rivals his stand- ing as a soldier. “In literature and science,” he said, “we are trying to catch up with our old standards. Arabian literature declined with Arabian politics, and we can hardly expect to produce so soon the equals of the old masters.” The desert presses, he said, are turning out a great variety of poetry, fiction and sclentific books which sooner or later must at- tract the attention of the world. ‘While composed largely of Druses, he said, the army in the desert has the support of the Christian population of the four countries and has two out- standing Christian leaders, Al-Ketami Pasha and Said Bey Ammoun. Prince Arslan is accompanied by Dr. Dendek, owner and editor of a daily newspaper in the city of Bethlehem, who is in America as a representative of the Palestine Arabs and also is mak- ing a study of American newspaper methods. Elimination of the proposed circle west of the bridge plaza on Columbia Island as the terminus of the Lee High- way was favored by the commission, B e 2 ORI B IS ‘which adopted a report of a study and recommendation made by one of its mmembers, Frederick Law Olmsted of ine, Mass., in conjunction with the staff. Instead of the circle the com- mission sted an curve ou Co. Jumbia Island to link up with the terminus of the Arlington Memorial Bridge proper, on Columbia Island. The Fine Arts Commission is represented as Jdavoring the circle to the west of the proposed circle that is to mark the end ©of the main bridge on Columbia Island = The park commission indorsed a ‘Yecommendation of its staff for the Set-up of a regional highway committee, on similar organizations which #Mpudied the needs for water and sewer facilities in the metropolitan area for the next half century. Included in This study to be undertaken by the proposed regional highway committee Wwill be not only the question of & beautiful plaza at the Rosslyn end of the Key Bridge, but also ail the ap- proaches to the National Capital. The commission was shown a pro- gnud plan drawn up as a result of the hipstead-Luce act, under which the Federal Government is given power to control the types of buildings to be erected in the vicinity of Government buildings and parks. ‘This plan, which contemplates jurisdiction over the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, opposite the public buildings development in the triangle, will be sent to the Fine Arts Commission and the District Commis- ‘finen, who are charged with carrying ‘, t the law, for study and suggestion. Approve Airport Plans. i Plans for a greater Bolling Field were fapproved by the commission, when it Hindorsed a study made by its staff and iagreed to eliminate from the highway plan some 30 tentative streets in the ected area. f‘rl:‘gishfion is now pending in Con- fgress to suthorize expansion of Bolling Field. [ The commission heard a report from eut. Col. Grant on the joint commit- tee meeting, held with the Fine Arts mmission group in New York, a few ays ago, with reference to the pro- sed new War and Navy Department Buildings. The commission adopted e report, in principle, and authorig ¢ ‘m staff to make studies of other avail- fable sites. It is known that the area “in the region of the Interior Depart- iment is under consideration and that GIVEN APPROVAL Senate Committee Votes to! Tighten Gambling Laws, Provide Taxi Regulation. ‘The Senate District committee yester- day afternoon approved bills to tighten | the gambling laws of the District and | to require all taxicab owners to carry insurance or other form of financial responsibility, but did not finish con- sideration of the bill for a reduced fare for school children. The committee also affirmed action taken at a previous meeting in authorizing Chairman Capper to report the street railway merger resolution to the Senate. The gambling bills were drafted by Senator Robsion, Republican, of Ken- tucky, in consultation with the police and district attorney’s office, and would do the foliowing things: Extend the padlock law to cover gambling estab- lishments; increase the penalties for permitting gaming; broaden the defini- tion of gambling to include the “num- bers game” and establish a penalty for persons found frequenting gambling establishments. Taxicab Measure Outlined. ‘The financial responsibility plan for | taxicabs was originally part of Senator Capper’s bill to give the Utilitles Com- mission general authority over taxicab operation, including rates. Senator Robsion recommended that the measure be confined to the requirement of financial responsibility, since there was general agreement on that part of bill. This course was followed. The taxicab operators under the bill would ability to meet damage claims by carry- ing insurance or giving bond. The reduced fare for schiodlchildren on street cars and busses, as passed by the House, was limited to public school children, Senator Tydings, Democrat of Maryland, offered an amendment janother potential site is near the Bo- {tanic Gardens in the shadow of the iCapitol. Several items of land purchase came up for consideration, but in keeping iwith the customary policy of the com- ymission, no information ‘on these was ‘made public, because of the price ques- ftion involved. 'PUBLIC LIBRARY OPEN Today to Continue Through SATURDAYS 8 T0 4 {Summer Change at Central Begins|velo yesterday to have it apply to children attending_ all schools, but Senator Robsion dliestioned whether the legisla- tion could go beyond the public schools and opposed the amendment. Senator Robsion contended that if the reduced fare bill could be applied to private schools the same principle could be ad- vanced with regard to free text books. Quotes Law in Other Cities. Senator Tydings said that in other cities the reduced fare for children is based on the age of the child without distinction as to what school is attend- ed. Other committee members present indicated the Tydings amendment was acceptable to them, but a question de- ped as to presence of a quarum, and measure was left for another meeting. John_ J. Noonan, sponsoring the re- duced fare bill, made another plea for its enactment. John H. Hanna, presi- f the | have to satisfy the commission of their | September 27. dent of the Capital Traction Co., esti- mated, in response to a question by e pontnuing | Committee members, that the bill would building of the Public Library will be |affect the revenues of that company by open Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. | about $70,000 a year. Officials of the e will be no change of hours on | Washington Railway & Electric Co. also other days. were present. Senator Tydings sug- During the same period on Saturdays |gested the bill should be considered the Mount Pleasant, Southeastern and | again. Mr Noonan expressed the belict akoma Park branches will be open |the increase in the number of children from 9 o'clock in the morning m&n riding would tend to reduce the loss in ~on, and from 6 o'clock in the evening | revenue. 1% o'clock, Al sub-branches will be | Other committee members who took cpen trom 9 o'clock in the morning | part in consideration of the various bills until noon. at yesterday's meeting were Senators YOUTH BADLY HURT INAUTO AGCIDENT Four High School Boys Are Injured After Machine Loses Tire. William P. Brown, 19 years old, of 1732 Church street, was injured seri- ously, and three companions suffered minor hurts early today when the rear tire of their machine “warped off” when Brown is sald to have turned a curve at a high rate of speed while returning from a dance qlven at the Indian Spring Country Club by students of the McKinley Technical High School. Brown sustained a possible fracture of the skull, lacerations of the scalp and concussion of the brain. He is in Emergency Hospital. Willlam Higgins, 21 years old, of 207 Douglas street northeast; Everett B. Castle, 20 years old, of 308 Ivy street, Brentwood, Md., and Richard H. Mansfield, jr., 18 years old, of 19 Baltimore Boulevard, Cot- tage City, Md., a son of Detective Sergt. R. H. Mansfield of this city, escaped with slight injuries, The four boys left the Indian Spring Club shortly before 1:30 o'clock, and had gone only a short distance on the Silver Spring road to Washington when the accident occurred. The car, police were told, rolled over twice and plunged into a ditch. Brown was driving. Sergt. Guy L. Jones of Silver Spring police investigated the accident. The injured were taken to Walter Reed Hospital by fellow students and passing motorists. They were given first aid treatment by Lieuts. Dr. Henry W. Daine and John H. Fontaine and later were removed to the Emergency Hospital and placed under the care of Dr. John Baber. Mansfield was treated for abrasions of the face, hands, arms, left leg and foot; Higgins for lacerations of the forehead and left hand, and Castle for severe contusions and abrasions of the forehead and bruises about the back. All were sent home after receiving medi- cal attention. MRS. M. C. VAN WINKLE HEADS POLICEWOMEN Washingtonian ~ Again Chosen President of International Association. Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, head of the Policewomen’s Bureau of the Metropoll~ tan Police Department, was re-elected president of the International Associa- tion of Policewornen yesterday in Bos- ton, where the organization concluded its anruel meeting. Ancther Washington _policewoman, | Sergt. Rheda Milliken, was elected a regional director, according to . ciated Press dispatches. Mrs. J. C. Da~ | vis of Atlanta and Miss Ruth Merriman | of Fort Worth. Tex., also were named | regional directors. The association voted to make a study of transient delinquents as a problem along the international borders of the United States and a report on the sit- uation is to be submitted at the next meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., next STAR, WASHINGTON, AUTO OWNER FINED FOR PARKING CAR ON PUBLIC SPACE Close to 100 Others Forfeit $5 Collateral for Like Offense. CHARGES ARE PREFERRED UNDER OLD REGULATION Machines Left Between Walks and Buildings on Ohio Avenue Are Tagged. Space between the building line and the sidewalk is public property and parking of an automobile there consti- tutes a violatlon of the police regula- tions, Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt held today in fining James H. Alvey $2 for leaving his automobile on a public reservation on the south side of Ohio avenue between Thirteenth and Thirteen-and-one-half streets. Alvey was one of more than 100 au- tomoblle owners who fell victim yester- day afternoon to a police campaign to break up parking on the vacant spaces between buildings and the sidewalk along _Ohio avenue between Twelfth and Wourteenth streets. ‘The other driver hose cars were ticketed for- feit« iteral, Eaclicr Efforts Failed. Just on the border of the restricted wone where porking is limited to one hour, the open spaces along Ohio ave- nue have long been a mecca for all-day parkers, Previous sttempts of the police 1o break up the practice failed because of confiicting opinions that have come from assistant corporation counsels assigned to Police Court. The campaign was ordered by Capt. F. 8. W. Burke of the first precinct as a result of a complaint by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, that an “intolerable condition” existed along Ohio avenue because of the parking of cars on public space between the side- walk and the buildings. Old Regulation. Owners of the cars parked on the public reservations were charged with a violation of an old police regulation forbidding the occupation of a public space for storage purposes. Capt. Burke said that Judge Schuldt’s decision removed all doubt as to the status of the regulation, and that it will be enforced rigidly. Four officers were detailed along Ohio avenue today to warn motorists that they would be arrested for parking on the reservation, but no further warning will be given. Capt. Burke announced. HICCOUGHS VICTIM THOUGHT RECOVERING Reid Continues Iil at Hospital, but Paroxysms Are Fewer and Less Violent. Refreshed by & 6-hour sleep last night Charles F. Reid awoke in his room at Casualty Hospital this morning and be- gan to hiccough again, although the paroxysms came at longer intervals and were less violent than at any time since they statted six days ago. Reid is a blacksmith and his rugged constitution has borne up well under the ordeal. Physicians believe he is well on the way to recovery and anticipate a complete cessation of the hiccoughs in the next 24 hours. Hundreds of persons have telegraphed, telephoned or delivered personally to the hospital suggestions as to how Reid might be cured. Most of the remedies were psychological, while physicians point out that Reid's condition is due to some actual impairment of his breath- ing apparatus. Reid was seized with the hiccoughs Sunday and on Wednesday was admitted to the hospital after home remedies had failed. The patient is married and is 32 years old. BERESFORD TO LEAD ART PROMOTERS’ CLUB Architect Elected President Year Term at Business Meet- ing Thursday. Robert Beresford, architect, was elected president of the Art Promoters’ Club for the coming year at a business meeting of the club Thursday. Other officers are Phillp F. Bell, Miss Mae H. Vance, Miss Delia Frances Bogue and Isaac T. Gans, executive vice presi- dents; Miss Adelaise Dwyer, social sec- retary; Miss Addie B. Deering, cor- responding secretary; Miss Leona Bix- ler, recording secretary; Newell At- kinson, treasurer, and Jess Rohrback, director. William E. Huntington, former ex- ecutive director, was elected honorary chairman of the board of governors, with Miss Margaret O'Brien as acting chairman”and Miss Eugenia Burch vice chairman. ‘The Minister of Persia is honorary president of the club and the Turkish Ambassador and the Minister of China are vice presidents. 15 NEW ARMY OFFICERS FROM DISTRICT ASSIGNED West Point Academy 'Graduates Are Commissioned as Second Lieutenants. Fifteen graduates of the West Point Military Academy, class of 1930, ac- credited to the District of Columbia, and commissioned as second lieutenants in the Army, have been assigned by the War Department to various arms of the military service as follows: Edward F. Kumpe, 1726 M street, to the Engineers; Henry B. Croswell, 811 C street south- west, and Troup Miller, jr., Washington Larracks, to the Cavalry; George C. Duebring, 6931 Ninth street; Herbert C. Gibner, jr. Army War College; Robert H. Booth, 4329 Fourth street; Paul Clark, jr., Ontarlo apartments; Bream C. Patrick, 3010 Albemarle street; Millard Lewis, 1669 Thirty-first street; Roderick L. Carmichael, jr., 2511 Cliffbourne place, and George W. Gibbs, 3225 Quebéc street, to the Fleld Artil- lery, and Sidney C. Wooten, 2450 Mas- sachusetts mvenue; Frederick R. Weber, ir., Army War College, and Wiillam N. Taylor, 1831 Belmont road, and Ludlow King, 2356 Massachusetts avenue, to the Infantry. for King Gets Death Sentence. EUREKA, Calif., June 14 (#)—Clar- ence L. King, ex-convict, today faced a death sentence for the slaying in Febru- ary of his former sweetheart, Mrs. Min- nie McCoy, whose body was found behind a redwood log. The Superior Court jury in finding him guilty yes- Summer. Mrs. Van Winkle has been identified "The central building, branches and Capper of Kansas_ Jones of Washing- b-besorhes will be closed Sundays ton, Copeland of New York and Glass ~antember 14, ar of Virginia. with police work in Washington about 10 years and has won national recognitioms o terday made no. recommendation for clemency, making a death sentence mandatory. The p rosecution said King Elizabeth to ‘medal for the highest average in the killed Mrs. McCoy to enable him marry Miss Eunice Pardee, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 1 BENCH AND BAR AT NATIONAL U. CONVOCATION In the center of the group of prominent jurists, lawyers and educators are, left to the District of Columbia Supreme Court; Dr. Charles ¥. Carusi District of Columbia Board of Education, and Justice Freder ici DR. CARUSI REPLIES TO WHO ACCUSE LEGAL PROFESSION Chancellor of National University Tells Graduates Public for Many Evils. Admitting some current charges against the legal profession are deserved by its members, Dr. Charles F. Carusi, chancellor of National University and president, of the District Board of Edu- cation, launched a counter attack on behalf of the bar last night, when, in an address to National's 300 graduates, he contended that the public itself is largely responsible for many of the evils attributed to lawyers. ‘Dr. Carusi was speaking at the sixty- first annual convocation of National University held in Memorial Continental Hall, with Justice Frederick L. Siddons of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, senior member of the law school faculty, presiding. Degrees were con- ferred upon approximately 300 students and the honorary degree of doctor of laws. causa honoris, was presented to Edwin Jay Pringle, New York attor- ney. T his address Dr. Carusi discussed four specific charges against lawyers: 1, that they are losing their independence; 2, that they are losing their leadership: 3, that they lack education, and 4, that their profession is overcrowded. Afflicted With Reformitis. “Pprofessional geformers” tasted -Dr. Carusi’s satire when, in answer to the charge of “too many lawyers” he de- clared that there are no more practic- ing attorneys today than there were years before critics attacked the legal profession. Instead, he asserted, “a new kind of profession has sprung up— the profession of reformation—whose members are recruited from among graduate lawyers. “The United States is afflicted today with reformitis,” Carusi said. * ‘Itis’ is the term used by medical men to indi- cate the presence of inflammation, and while I do not profess to know just what kind of inflammation we are suf- fering from today, I do hope that the modern light of science may isolate the rm and permit men to mind their own usiness. Therefore, I urge you grad- | uates to pursue the profession you are entering upon tonight in the scientific spirit and not in the spirit of this strange malady.” Tllustrating the difference between the scientific pursuit and the reformers’ methods, Carusi cited the discovery of the earth's motion by an observer who watched a hanging lamp swing from the ceiling in a church adjoining the lean- ing tower in Pisa, Italy. “If that man had not been of a scien- 'CRITICS Largely to Blame medal for the highest average in the | junior class, J. A. Carusi, Eugene Carusi gold medal for the highest aver- age in the freshman class, Mary M. ‘Bigos; Emma Deal Denton gold medal for best final examination in equity jurisprudence, Charles L. Curtis; faculty prize, set of legal masterpieces, to the student selected as the best de- | bater, Lloyd G. Andrews; national ex- ecutive council of Sigma.Nu Phi Fra- ternity, gold scholarship key to the member in Joseph H. Choate Chapter having the highest scholarship stand- ing, Dewey Lee Shepherd; Beta Chap- ter, Phi Beta Gamma Legal Fraternit: at commencement who has attained highest scholastic standing during three years of study, Louis H. Mann; Omi- | cron Chapter, Kappa Beta Pi Legal So- rority, gold scholarship key to woman student receiving LL.B. at commence- ment who has attained highest scho- lastic standing during three years of study, Zoda V. Greenlee; Mu Chapter, Sigma Delta Kappa Fraternity, scholar- ship award key to the graduating mem- ber of Sigma Delta Kappa, who, hav- ing attended National University Law School for three full years, has made the highest scholastic average, Karl M. Foust. Other prizes were presented to Theo- | dore Edelschein, C. Chester Guy and Reuben Goldberg. Degrees were conferred on National | University graduates, as follows: Master of laws—Mauro Baradi, Wal- ter Milton Besse, Walter Waitman | Bryan, Robert Cox Carter, Alexander Lee Oraighill, Jose A. de Jesus, Milton Dunn, Olivine Fortier, John "Warren Girvin, Madge Breeden Glassmire, Wal- lace Marinus Hales, Henry Reese Har- rison, James Francis Kehoe, ~Anne | Beatrice Leach, I. Harry Levin, Nicholas | Richard Manfreda, William H. Mondell, | | Emory Chase Naylor, Isadore Jack Politz, Elisabeth Kingsland Prender, John B. S. Purdy, Charles M. Sexton, jr.; Albert Pranklin Sisson, William Or- | | lando Skells, C. Stanley Titus, jr.; E. | Rose Riedl Trammel, Murry Anderson | | Weekley, Eugene R. Weisbender and H. | Winship Wheatley, ir. | Master of patent law—Pearl April, ! Mauro Baradi, Walter Milton Besse, Walter Waitman Bryan, Josiah L. Carr, | Arthur E. Cook, Earl Hubert Davis, Jose A. de Jesus, John Amadeus Kiernan | Donovan, Miiton Dunn, Olivine Fortier, Madge Breeden Glassmire, James A. | Joyce, William F. Kelly, jr.; Roberts chancellor of National L. Siddons of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. gold medal to member receiving LL.B. | tific turn of mind,” the school board | Browning Larson, Anne Beatrice Leach, president declared, “he would have de- | 1 Harry Levin, Nicholas Richard Man- cided whether it was morally right for | freda, Clarence LeRoy. Parker, Isadore lamps to swing. If he thought it was good, he would have written a thou- sand letters or so, enlisted supporters at a dollar each, and undertaken to ecause all. lamps to swing. If, however, he thought it was bad for lamps to swing, he would have dashed out to have a statute enacted making it a felony for lamp to swing. But instead of either, this scientific man sought why the Jamp swung and discovered the truth of the earth’s motion, thereby contributing to the world’s fund of knowledge.” Gamble at Lawyers’ Expense. Dr. Carusi agreed that lawyers may be losing some of their independence, but declared it was largely because the public “gambles” too much at the at- torney’s expense. Motivated by revenge, real suffering or greed, a man ap- proaches an attorney, generally a young one, Dr. Carusi explained, instructing him to institute proceedings against another party. Instead of agreeing to the lawyer's stated fee, the would-be claimant instructs the lawyer to “sue for $500 and you pocket $250 of it if you win your case.” The young lawyer, un- able to dictate or choose his cases in the face of necessity for livelihood, has to accept these terms, he added. This situation is aggravated, Dr. Ca- rusi_declared, by the fact that instead of the old system of building up inde- pendent practice, many lawyers today are engaged exclusively by big corpora- tions, who pay a specific retainer. Thus, he explained, with most of the choice clients removed from the open fleld, the independent lawyers are even more the subject of a “gambling public.” The growing idea that ‘“majority opinion makes right,” Carusi said, is on. reason why lawyers are losing leadership. Instead of inquiring of them as experts as to the right or wrong of a proposed political policy the pub- lic turns to the professional reformer for advice, he said. Thus, he explained, is the leadership of the trained lawyer being usurped by victims of ‘reform- itis.” Reed Delivers Valedictory. The charge of too little education for American lawyers as against foreign members of that profession is unfound- ed, Dr. Carusi claimed. Abroad the lawyer is expected to complete his sec- ondary education and then enter uni- versity to study law for three or four years, just as he would study for any other profession. The movement here to require an arts and sciences degree before legal education is begun meets economic difficulties, he exolained, be- cause a man or woman who has that preparation is 26 or 27 years old be- fore he can even begin to earn his live- lihood in his chosen field. While not openly concurring in the opinion, he said it is popularly charged that the cry for more education on the part of lawyers comes from & group of pro- fessional educators and not from the legal profession itself. Following Dr. Carusi’s address Stacy Mark Reed, a gl’mdunte. delivered the valedictory. exercises, in Memorial Continental Hall, were opened with the invocation by Rev. George G. Culbertson, associate pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Among the higher degrees. conferred were the following: Doctor of civil law, Otis Lee Mohundro and Thomas Josep! MacKavanagh; doctor of judicial sci- ence, Joseph Teh-Hsin Lee, Yuen-Li Liang, Peter H. Rognley and Francis Edward Teeling; doctor of jurispru- dence, Alice Loman Rhine and Oscar Stevenson Wilkinson. Special Prizes Awarded. Special prizes were awarded by Jus- tice Jennings Bailey as follows: University gold medal for the highest average the post-graduate _class, K. Prender; McArthur gold Reed; H senior class, aucya urst gold Jack Pelitz, Elisabeth Kingsland Pren- der, Jack Irwin Resnicoff, Peter H. | Rognley, Charles M. Sexton, jr.; Her- bert Lockman Shepard, William Or- lando Skeels, E. Rose Riedl Trammell, Ely Joel Treger, Richard W. Treverton, Fugene R. Weisbender and H. Winship Wheatley, jr. Bachelor of civil law—Joseph Karam Awad and Robert Lee Emrick. Bachelor of laws—1rene C. Acton, Guy Anderson, Pearl April, Walter Arm- strong, James Edgay Louis Artis, Charles | Kohler Balster, arles Church Bar- nard, Obdulio Bauza-Gonzalez, Kilgo C. Baxter, Willlam Carroll Beatty, Harvey Calvert Beavers, David K. Bent, jr.; Jordan R. Bentley, Irvin Berlin, Colin Campbell Bickford, Charles Edwar Bish, Clitus Oliver Bourdeaux, jr.; Al- fred’ Gwynn Bowie, Charles John Brandt, Thomas Alexander Browne, Harriet Buckingham, Merrell Ira Bud- | nick, William Lewis Cann, Salvadore | Joseph Capece, James Thomas Carey, | Guy McDowell Carlon, Ben Fellows | Carpenter, Byron H. Carpenter, Pred Robert Case, Gaetano A. Cassara, Jesse right: Justice Peyton Gordon of University and president of the --Star Staff Photo. THOMAS T0 PRESIDE ATVETS' MEETING New Departmental Com- mander to Close Eleventh Annual Encampment. William L. Thomas, newly elected departmental commander of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars in the District of Columbia, will preside at tonight’ closing session of the eleventh annual encampement of that organization. A past commander of Quality Post of attorney in the Veterans’ Bureau and attorney in the Veterans Bureau and was elected to the ranking office at the meeting last night in the Stuart Junior High School. He been active in veterans’ affairs since the World War, in which he served. Mr. Harvey succeeds Capt. Harvey L. Mil- ler, and it is understood that he con- templates no chnge in the progres- sive policy of the organization. Oscar W. Hollingsworth was elected senior vice commander. He is a past commander of the National Capital Post, a veteran of the Spanish-American War and past deputy chief of staff of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The new junior vice commander is G. P. Wheeler, a World War veteran of Po- tomac Post and a member of the ‘Washington police force. * Other officers elected were Morris Grudd, judge advocate, member of Front Line Post; Dr. A. V. Cercell, re- elected departmental surgeon, of Front Line Post; Rev. O. V. Anderson, rector of St. Agnes’ Episcopal Church, depart- mental chaplain, and a member of Fed- eral Post; Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pas- tor of the Church of the Immaculate | Conception, re-elected deputy" depart- mentai chaplain, and Clifford A. Brode of Federal Post, departmental quarter- master. Fa‘her Hurney is a member of Front Line Post. At tonight's meeting it is expected that favorable action will be taken on a resolution advocating increased pay for District policemen and firemen, in line with pending legislation, but with the elimination of the so-called Simmons amendments. Appointive officers wiil be announced tonight by Comdr. Thomas also. § THREE WASH.INGTONIANS TO ATTEND CONVENTION Leave for New York as Federation of Various Hard-of-Hearing Organizations Is Assembled. - Mrs. Betty C. Wright, secretary of the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing; Miss Elizabeth E. Sargent, assistant secretary, and Mrs. Laura Stovel, secretary of the Everywhere League for the Isolated Hard ‘of Hearing, have left for New York to attend the eleventh annual con- ference of the federation, which is to be held at the Hotel Roosevelt June 16-19. Others who will attend the conference from Washington are Miss Josephine B. Timberlake, editor of the Vola Review and the Auditory Outlook, the magazine published in the interests of the deaf and the hard of hearing; Miss Florence P. Spofford, president of the Washing- ton League for the Hard of Hearing and one of the vice presidents of the feder- ation; Miss Frances H. Downes, who is to represent the league in the national lip-reading tournament; Miss Elizabeth d | Tatum, Miss Alice Matthews, Miss Jes- sie P. Dawes, Miss Mary Turner, Miss Mary Mitchell and John A. Ferrall. GIVEN FAREWELL TRIBUTE ‘Ward P. Christie, General Contrac- tors’ Engineer, Goes to Indiana. Sharpless Cheyney, Otto H. Chmillon, | Ben J. Chromy, Francis Manley Cla son, Howe Preston Cochran, Moritz S. The national staff of the Associated General Contractors joined last night | Coftman, Louis F. Cohen, William M. | in a farewell {ribute to Ward P. Chris- Cohen, James N. Colasanto, Nicholas tie, engineer of the organization for 11 lier, Margaret Loyola Connelly, Angtl"amhlu with Ulen & Co, contractors, Anthony Colasanto, Wilson Francls Col- | years, who is leaving the assoclation to | h | John Mahoney, Joseph D. Malloy, Louis Tomas Correa, John Arthur Cotton, | Alexander Lee Craighill, Robert John| Currfe, John Russell Curry, Harold | | Windsor Davis, John Randolph Fairfax Davis, Joseph M. DeCicco, Elphege Desgres, Ralph Diamond, Milton Ed-| ward Diehl, Frank J. Donaghue, James | Forney Donaldson, John Amadeus Kier- | |nan Donovan, Lloyd Hydorn Dopp, | Alexander J. Doyle, 1. Richard Dresse! Albert E. Duke, Theodore Edelschein, | Charles Marion Eggleston, Simon E. Elchberg, Jack D. Emry, P. Anthony Esperdy, John G. Faircloth, Cornelius M. Feeley, Frances Dyer Foley, Francis Forti, Karl Marlin_ Foust, Maurice Freedman, Frank P. Fulton, Alyre Jo- seph Gallant, Ralph Stanley Gayton, U. Bon Geaslin, Albert Gelfeld, Heard Franklin George, Ettore Alexander Gin- netti, Raymond Gittelman, Spaulding F. Glass, Louls L. Goldman, Abe M. Goldstein, James Simon Goldstein, E win Carter Green, Harold Stewart Green, Walter LeRoy Green, Zoda Vern Greenlee; Thomas Jefferson Greer, How- ard Gwin, Leon B. Habecker, Walter Lovell Hagen, Leo Franklin Haines, Reynolds Trent Harnsberger, Samuel Reynolds Harrison, Dougles William Hartman, Forrest Franklin Heaton, Cur- tis Carl Henderson, Reidar N. Hen- driksen, Irving Stanley Herman, Henry Gordan Herrell, James Dunham Herr- man, John Clement Hill, John Hender- son Hoffman, Robert Taylor Hoge, George Andrew Hospidor, Addie A. Hughes, Benitto A. Il’lnrf’. jr.; Reuben W. Jacobson, Everett Clyde Johnson, John DeWilton Johnson, Raleigh R. Jones, John Francis Kelley, Harold Paul Kelly, Barney Joseph Keren, Nathan | Kluft, Vernon Kurtz, Louis George .; Clayton Willlam Langer, Roberts ~ Browning Larson, Raymond Aloysius Lash, James Warthen Lauder- dale, Louis Lebowitz, Salvatore Ercole Leonardo, Abraham H. Levin, Libbey Sylvia Lewis, Isabel Ursula Lucas, Leo | | H. Mann, Reuben Jack Mares, Clayton Cecil Marsh, Daniel A. Martin, Leonora 1. Mason, Peter George May, Charles A. Maze, A. Fred Milano, Charles Perry Miller, jr.; Allan Daniel Mockabee, Spencer Thomas Money, Robert S. Mol rce, jr; Helen E. Mooney, Achsa V. Moore, Irving G. Mulitz, Raymond | Francis McCarthy, James Percy Mc- | Ceney, John F. MacDonald, Ronald C. MacNab, Charles Perrin McRae, Colin E. McRae, jr.: Thomas Edward Nance, John Cecil Nevitt, Edmund Hen O'Brien, Walter Ogus, Robert E. O'Neal, Joseph M. Pancoast, Ivan Frank Par-| Garla) Baehelor pf \mm Aflwl?m in Lebanon, Ind. A. E. Horst of Philadelphia and Rock Island, 111, president of the A. G. C.; Alan Jay Parish, representing the high- way construction branch of the associa- tion; Edward J. Harding, assistant general manager; E. J. Brosnan, assist- ant treasurer, and W. R. Richards, safety director, conducted the testi- l}lotnlll event, held at the Raleigh Hotel. rigin, William Frederick Partlow, Erin Branson Peatross, Elliott Dan Pember- ton, Luis Perez Matos, Erik George Peterson, Mario Victor Pisarra, Samuel Pollock, Myer Pumps, Jo 'ph Welr Rangeley, Clemens F. Rauth, Stacy Mack Reed, George H. Reges, jr.; Eman- uel M. Reiter, Jack Irwin_ Resnicoff, Ernest Lee Rhodes, Hyman Ritzenberg, Elmer Turner Ross, Ernest Alonzo Rountree, Anthony Frank Ruffu, An- des Ruiz, Charles J. Ryan, Thomas Ward Sandoz, Linnaeus T. Savage, Hor- ace G. Schief, Arthur Harvey Schrager, Edwin Shelton, Herbert Lockman Shep- ard, Dewey Lee Shepherd, Glenn Levi Shinn, James Alexander Shipper, Sam- uel C. Shoup, Max L. Shulzman, Irvin David Silverman, David Simons, Jerome Francis Sheehan, Gordon Sterling Souther, Milton Stein, Lloyd Stentz, | LeRoy Granville Story, Lee Roy Stover, Edward Strauss, David Beaverson Strubinger, John Franklin Sudnick, S. Elizabeth Tabor, Morris Talpalar, Gar- land Edison Taylor, Maurice A. Taylor, Samuel Henry Tepper, Hillory Alfred Tolson, Henry Clay Travis, jr.; Ely Joel Treger, Richard W. Treverton, Charles Hartis Tysinger, Josephine Kiszka Vass, George Francis Viault, Charles Beale Watkins, Emma Marie Weber, Louis Weiner, Lewis Henry Weiss, Maurice ‘Wolfe Wihton, Marian G. Wilcox, James Adams Willey, Edward McCormick Wil- liams, Wilbur Summers Wills, Girard Christy Wise, Jefferson Ray Woolard and Alonzo C. Wooten. Master of arts—John A. Campbell. Master of sclence—James R. Arm- strong and Candido Elbo Tobias. Bachelor of arts—Joseph Karam Awad. Josiah L. Carr, Arthur E. Cook, Neal Anthony Harper, Albert Langer- man, Otis Lee Mohundro, Joseph A. O'Brien, jr.; Alonso S. Perales, Eulan I. Snyder, Alberta M. Willlams and Gus- tav Adolf Zindler. Bac‘l:;lor of science—Randolph M. commercial sclence—Nor« FOUR NEW JUDGES . PROVIDED IN BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE D. C. Supreme and Appeals Courts Gain Two Each on President’s Approval. FAVORED BY SIMMONS AFTER SEVERE CENSURE Chairman Says Secret Check-up He Caused Last Winter Brought Results. ‘Two additional justices for the Su- preme Court of the District and two additional judges for the District Court of Appeals are authorized in bills passed ™ by the House late yesterday by unani- mous consent. The two bills, fathered by Representative Gibson of Vermork, creating these four additional judges were passed earlier in the week by the Senate, so they now go to the President for_his signature, This will increase the number of jus- tices on the District Supreme Court bench from five to seven and on the District Court of Appeals bench from three to five. The purpose of these bills is to relieve very serious and in- creasing conjestion of cases in these courts and is part of the program to expedite the administration of justice in the Federal courts. Chairman Simmons of the subcom- mittee on District appropriations, whe last Winter severely censured the Su- preme Court justices and produced s time schedule of their service on the bench as a result of a secret study made by the Bureau of Efficiency, spoke in favor of the bill yesterday sayin; 1 had a check made during the Winter on that matter. It was found that the judges of the present Supreme Court were spending the minimum amount of time that it was possible to spend in actual trial work. Speed Up Assurance. “As the result of that check-up, how- ever, I have been assured by the local bar association and likewise been as- sured by the judges that there will be an effort made to speed up and extend the hours of actual trial work in the trial courts of Washington. “Likewise, a survey is to be made, and in the deficiency bill reported the other day there is carried an item of $2,500% to enable a commission to go to other cities. comparable to Washington and study their court set-up. They have an obsolete plan here, an obsolete way of bringing cases to trial, and an effort i\ to be made to see if they cannot bring the system up to date and modernize it. Since the judges are willing to under- take that, and since the bar associa- tion is willing to help, I feel that Con- gress should authorize these two addi- tional trial judges. The probable maxi- mum cost will be about $20,000 a year per judge, and that is probably the cheapest service the District gets from any of its servants.” Representative Blanton, Democrat, of ‘Texas, protested that the justices should open court at 9 o'clock and “give the people of the District a real day’s work in_court.” Representative Stafford, Republican,~ of Wisconsin, showed a disposition to prevent age of the bill for two ad- ditional gudges in the Court of Appeals, saying - that he considered that court “rather an honorary gentleman's court of the District.” However, he was dis- suaded by statements made by Repre- sentative Dyer of Missourl, speaking for the judiciary committee, and by Repre- sentative Simmons of Nebraska, speak- ing for the subcommittee on District l})pl’opmflons: Representative Michener of the judiciary committee, House Lead- er Tilson and Chairman Graham of the judiciary committee. ‘Work Exceptionally Hard. | Representative Michener said: | “These judges are doing exceptionally | laborious work. I do not think any one | finds any fault with the hours these men work and the number of decisions they render each year.. It is true that when the patent jurisdiction was taken from this court and given to the othen, | court it was felt that this would remedy conditions, but even under present con- ditions the cases have greatly increased instead of diminished. I can assure the gentlemen that the commiitee gave | very careful consideration to this mat- ter and was thoroughly convinced that these additional judges should be au- thorized. The Attorney General, the Department of Justice and every one having knowledge of the facts have recommended that these additional judges be provided for.” TWO NAVAL OFFICERS TO FLY TO MIAMI Comdr. Towers and Lieut. Dillon "~ Take Off Monday to Examine Proposed Air Base. v Comdr, John H. Towers, assistant | chief of the Buerau of Aeronautics, nad Lieut. W. M. Dillon, head of the avi~ ation Naval Reserve section of the Bu= reau of Aeronautics, will take off from the Naval Air Station at Anacostia on Monday for Miami. They will inspect facilities for the es= tablishment of a Naval Reserve aviation base at the Florida city. o805 Following this visit “they willifly to , Pensacola, a training center for;maval aviators, and there Comdr. Tewess is , to confer with Rear Admiral Albegti-W. Marshall, commandant, concexning the preparation of plans for the,mew, e~ velopment of the naval air atation. . They are to return to Washingtgp.»by air. , R s9se Civic Body Passes Condolenres. Members of the East Cendrab-Gitic Association this morning 4, the | fire and passed a resolution .of, o= ! lence. Miss Corinne E. Martin, 310 b ew York avenue, president of the associa- tion, visited the office of Chief Watson and informed him of the action of the organization. o CITY NEWS IN BRIE®: - TODAY. o Card party, Kenmore Couneil, Daugh- ters of America, Winston Hotel, fanight. Flag day celebration, Gramdudeme of the Republic and Woman' Coi east front of the Capitol, Conferring of _degrees, bert, (Le Bruce Chapter, Order 3 Moy, George Washington Nationial M: Memorial, Alexandria, 8 p.m. | Card party, home board of Beth: Chapter, O. E. 8., home gt Mrs. N H. Howes, 2011 F street, T Card party, Past Councilors’ tion, Anacostia Council, No. 14, Dapj ters of America, home of Ethel Bur- roughs, 905 Alabama avenue southeast, tonight. Graduation exercises, Benjamin Franklin University, grand ball room of the Mayflower Hotel, tonight. Dinner dance, Tau Beta Phi Sororit garden of the Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. FUTURE. Card party, Columbia Council, No. 4, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, Naval Lodge Hall, Fourth and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Monday, 8:45 p.m.. v