Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1931, Page 5

11, “NEGRO WEEK" Annual History Period Has Numerous Programs in Capital Centers. The seventh annual National Negro History week is being observed here with many prominent leaders of the race in attendance. ‘Tonight's program will be held at 8 o'clock at Birney Community Center, Nichols avénue seutheast, with Mrs. M. E. Ellis, community secretary, in charge. She will be assisted by Miss S. V. Smith: chairman of the Birney Advisory_Committee. Prof.” R. J. Bunch of the Political Science Department, Howard University, will deliver the address and the program will include music by the Birney Choral Soclety and the Girls' Junior Club, as well as by members of the Wisteria Dramatic Club. There will be a program tomorrow evening at Burrville Center and another at Garnet-Patterson Center. Wednes- day's program will be at Frelinghuysen Unlversity. ‘Thursday’s programs will be at Burrville School at 1 p.m. and at Garnet-Patterson School at 8 pm. On Friday the meetings will. be held at Lovejoy Center and Francis Junior High School. Among_the speakers at these meetings will be Representative Oscar de Priest of Tllinois, Prof. Charles Thomas, Prof. William S. Hansbury, Mrs. Anna Mur- ray, Mrs. B. J. Gray, Dr. Clara Smythe Talliaferro and oth: ‘The observance opened in community centers and churches yesterday, when special sermons were preached. Among nations who took part in_yesterday's program were Rev. J. C. Banks, Rev. A. L. Griglar, Rev. M. Wilcox, Rev. J. T. Marshall, Rev. N. Coleman, Rev. C. J. Covington, Rev. E. J. Bradshaw, Rev. H. W. Campbell, Rev. L. P. Hear- ing, Rev. R. E. Ford, Rev. R. L. Lewis, Rev. F. E. Alstock, Rev. O. G. Bullock, Rev. W. J. Jarvis, Rev. D. E. Wiseman and Rev. R. W. Brooks. Others included Rev. H. Threlkeld, R. W. 8. Thomas, D. Spencer Franklin, Grant Contee, W. L. Washington, J. W. Bundrant, W. H. Brown, A. B, Fisher, Oliver Wing, Charles Fox, John W. Mc- Coy, W. H. Jernagin, J. D. Catlett and Leon Wormley. | Yesterday afternoon at the Phyllis ‘Wheatley Y. W. C. A. a program took place, which included historical slides, as well as important speakers and mu- sic, which was arranged by Mrs. Ga- | brielle Pelham, who presided. NEW DRIVE STARTED T0 FREE PHILIPPINES Roxas’ Manifesto Suggests Revo- lution, but Americans Doubt He Desires One. MANILA (#)—Manuel Roxas, speaker of the Island’s House of Representatives, has launched a new organization de- voted to Philippine independence. His manifesto suggests revolution but stops just short of coming out for it. Instead it emphasizes the immediate need for a nationalistic feeling that would unite the entire archipelago into a single, driving political source. Hitherto the independence campaigns have been confined largely to the Tag- alog politicians. The new organization aims to bring all elements into the movement, from the Mohammedans of the south to the hill tribes in the moun- tains. The organization is the Bagong Kati- punan, glso known as “the New Kati- punan,” and therein lies its note of menace. “Katipunan” is the Tagalog word for “association” and the only other “kati- punan” mentioned here was one which played a big role in the 1896 uprising | against Spain. But most Americans in Manila decry this aspect of the situation. They say that Roxas has adopted the name as a catchword and that at heart he is the last person in the islands to desire a real revolution. ‘They regard it all as a move of Roxas to bolster his political standing and to provide funds for campaign junkets by offering membership at so much a head. It is a recognized fact that the tao, or Filipino peasant, has always been enthusiastic for independence so long &s it costs him nothing. It remains for Roxas to demonstrate that he can be converted into a patriot who will say it with pesos. Roxas’ own version of the line-up is different. He came back from the United Etates last Summer convinced that independence could be won if it could be shown that not merely the politicians but the entire Filipino peo- Pple wanted it. He is trying to prove that this desire | exists. Sponsored by a man so high in poli- tics as Roxas, the scheme has started auspiciously and only a little criticism has been heard. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 9 (Spe- cial).—In the presence of a number of Washington friends Miss Grace Kath- erine Saxton and James Travis Thomen, both of Washington, were married here about 9 o'clock Saturday night by Rev, Bertram M. Osgood of the Baptist Church at the home of the minister. The same minister officiated at the marriage of two other Washington cou- ples here Saturday. They were Miss Blanche S. Thorpe and Marshall J. Carpenter and Miss Eleanor K. White and Ray L. Hicks, the parsonage being the scene of both ceremonies. Pvt. Harry Merson of the county po- lice force is investigating the looting Friday night of the store of Hawkins Bros, at Etchison, this county. A| large amount of clothing and many | other things were stolen, the value of the articles taken being estimated at between $400 and $500. Entrance was gained through a basement window. The Guild and Auxiliary of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church at Laytonsville is arranging for an elab- orate card party in the public school auditorium at Laytonsville Friday eve- ning. Mrs. Uriah H. W. Griffith, Mrs L. E. Riggs and Mrs. Vernon H. Dyson | head the various committees. Bridge, auction pitch and 500 will be played. Plans are said to be progressing sat- isfactorily for the twelfth annual He night of the Rockville Volunteer ‘Fire Department, to be celebrated in the hangar of the Congressional Airport, at Halpine, on the Rockville pike, 2 miles below Rockville, Saturday night, Feb- ruary 21, and, according to F. Bernard Welsh, president of the department and head of the General Committee of Ar- rangements, the preparations will be in anticipation of an attendance of 2,500 or more men and boys from the county, District of Columbia and else- where. Members of the department have constructed paths from the pike to the hangar with cinders donated by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., preparations to heat the big building are in progress and nothing tending to promote the convenience and comfort of the big throng is being overlooked. The program, which will include box- ing, wrestling, vaudeville and other fea- tures, is expected to be away ahead of anything heretofore presented on the big night. ———e Men -2 “h’;?l *boat t, exal tudy life management, e: rbuym which are now compulsory for ships’ crews, Douglas, Isle of Man, to 60 and 70 recently remrned] mina- $3,000. Announcement of the amount 1 | | served palace of the Sassanian dynasty many layers, representing the stages of is on top. Vertical shafts on the gr: ancient Sumerians, the first known ci | 5 BSERVED HERE Sixty Arab workmen set fo scraping away at the earthen mounds on the | the clergymen of the different denomi- | site of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish, 8 miles east of Babylon, Vhfl'ausr there | was nothing e'se for them to ¢o at the m-ment, discovered the first well pre- | ancient that they show water marks left by the Bibical flood. Langdon, American-born director of the Oxford-] Mesopotamia, said that the discovery was of the greatest importance for the light it would throw upon the history of the periods concerned. show when the city was inundated by the Biblical flocd and by another and earlier greater flood. This picture shows the ruins of the Temple of Ssagila, pfobably the most important Babylonian sanctuary near the new discoveries. THE EVENING STAT WASHINGTON, Di €, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1931. of Persian kings and beneath it ruins so Prof. Stephen | ield Museum expedition in | The ruins are in civilization at each age, and the palace hill show buildings dating back to the zed race, and water marks on the ruins —Underwood Photo. Sings at Benefit ETHEL HAYDE Who will sing at the W Benefit Association entertainment in the Swanee ball rocm in the Earl Build- | ing tomorrow nigh ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 9 (Spe- cial) —The February term of Corpora- tion Court opened this morning with Judge William P. Woolls presiding. The docket was called and cases set for trial, Five youths, four of them brothers, were dismissed in Police Court today | by Judge William S. Snow following | the hearing of charges of an assault with a milk bottle on Preston German of Alexandria avenue, alleged to have | occurred Saturday night. Those dis- | missed were Mac, Terrace, Ossle and | Welford Durrett, all of 325 East Belle- fonte avenue, and Irvin Reynolds of | Washington. Charges of violating the prohibition law were made against Mr. and Mrs. | 3. S. German and Preston German ( a. yesterday by police, who say they found 21 bottles of alleged beer when they raided premises on Alexandria avenue. | The case has been set for a hearing | Thursday. The raid was made by State | Prchibition Officer Virgil Williams and Sergt. Sim and Patrolman Kaus of | local police. Mrs. Claude Violett, 39, of 417 Earl | street, was fined $150 and costs in Police Court by Judge Snow today on charges of possession of eight ofie-half | jars of alleged whisky. Similiar charges | against two sons of Mrs. Violett were nolle prossed. The alleged whisky s said by police to have been found when | a raid was made on the home Saturday. { In the raiding party were Sergts. Sim | and Padgett and Patrolmen Snoots, | McClary and Welker. Foley’s Ark, on the Hunting Creek shore off South Royal street extended, was destroyed by fire about 8:30 o'clock last night. Fire Chief Duncan investi- gated, but no alarm was turned in. Charges of the larceny of coal against Frank Willis, 46, colored, of 415 Oro- noco street were dismissed by Judge Snow this moming following a warning given Willis by the judge. Ross Tyler, 25, colored, 604 South Pitt street, charged with possession of four pints of alleged whisky, was fined $50 and costs. James Nessmith, 44, of 406 | Georgetown avenue, Potomac, charged with possessicn of two one-half galion | jars of alleged whisky, was fined $50 | and costs. The monthly membership meeting of | the local Chamber of Commerce will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the George Mason Hotel. Discussion of the street raflway situation is expected to take place. The monthly report of Dan S. Hollenga, business manager, will be given. Gladys Stokeley, about 10 years old, of Burke, was treated at the Alexan- | finger, sustained when it wes caught between the seats of a school bus. B. A. Bibbs of Belmont avenue was fined, $10 and costs in Police Court on charges of having an unlicensed dog. In his absence a warrant was issued for his arrest. Crowds thronged city hall this morn- fog to get city automobile tags. The deadline on tags was Saturday night, but police have not started a drive on those who have not obtained the markers. A large number of tags re- mained to be issued after the close of | business Saturday. Appmxlrzuly $300 has been col- lected to date in the drive' of Rescue Squad No. 1, Potomac Truck and En- gine Company, No. 2, and the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the local Pire Department for funds to purchase a fully equipped ambulance for the Rescue Squad and present it to the city. The goal is |Army Air Corps Provided With | | will | hours without stop. | horn-rimmed glasses dria Hospital this morning for a mashed | FASTEST TRANSPORT PLANE COMPLETED Craft Capable of Speed of 205 Miles Per Hour. DAYTON, Ohio (#)—A bullet-nosed monoplane, sald to be the fastest trans- port ship in the world, has been com- pleted for the Army Air Corps. Built by the Detroit Aircraft Corpora- tion, it has been timed in flight at 205 miles an hour, though officlal figures be determined in tests here at Wright Feld by Army pilots. With places for a pilot and passenger, fuel tanks occupy most of the cabin, with a gasoline supply claimed to be sufficlent for a 2,800-mile flight and placing practically any military base in the United States or possessions in reach from a ceniral point within 10 The basic design is that of standard Lockheed planes, similar to the one owned by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, but differing from it in being a high- wing cabin model instead of & low-wing, open_cockpit ship. It has a new type landing gear which does away with all but two exposed siruts, a streamlined tail wheel, “pants” on the landing wheels, new motor ac- cessories, including a 10-to-1 super- charger, and changes in the cowling covering the single air-cooled motor. The circular fuselage tapers at the tail to a point so that the ship, minus its wings and landing gear, resembles a monster torpedo pulled along by the motor in its nose. Designed for transporting personnel and military supplies, the ship is not | equipped with machine guns or other armament, but would depend upon pur- sult planes for protection in combat zones. KING. AIDS INJURED Proffers Flask to Sprained Ankle Victim in Skiing Party. MURREN (N.AN.A).—The uncon- | ventional King of the Belgians started | the decline and fall of conventional | dress when he first appeared to go down the bob run in an old shooting suit, with a cap worn back to front and Lady Mabel Lunn, Miss Audrey Sale- Baker and Lord Knebworth have all been acting as skiing guides to the King and Queen. The King always carries a flask of brandy and the other day you might have seen him kneeling in the snow and handing it to a novice who had sprained her ankle, For the major casualty of Maj. H. O. Morris’ son Jock, who broke his leg, the royal visitor was very solicltous: he called on the young man at his hotel, staggering under the weight of a great pot of azaleas. (Copyright, 1931. by North American News- paper Alliance.) STRAUSS OPERAS FAIL Teuton Musician May Leave Vienna | for Munich. VIENNA (Special) —Richard Strauss, | onefof Vienna's favorite sons and prob- ably the greatest living Teuton musi- can, may be lost to Austria, it is feared. Dr. Strauss has had several recent dis- appointments with the Vienna Opera, culminating in a report that his favo- rite_work, “The Woman Without Her shadow,” will not, after all, be played this season on account of lack of funds. For years Dr. Strauss has conducted his own operas and symphonies at least several times each season in Vi- enna. His contract with the opera, however, expires next March, and the present season, people fear, may be his last. The government of Austria has given Dr. Strauss, in lieu of fees, a magnificent home in Vienna, but so far | the great composer has preferred resi- dence in Munich, where he has a coun- try esta SLIP COVERS Thre snap. fasteners, tatlored o your furnitur Beatiufil cretonne and Roman stripe, $16.50 Write of phone for sampies Write of PR L 1SHERWOOD Line. 5330 " 1513 28th St S.E. 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This trend, becoming more pro- | nounced in the last few years, is em- phasized by the wide variety of new products manufacturcd here annuall During the last year alone 27 new mai ufacturing plants and warchouses, rep- Tesenting an aggregate property invest- ment of $29,502,000, began operations in the Pittsburgh district, while 5 more piants were under construction, From them are to flow such diverse products as_asphalt, automobiles, cable acces- sories, cement, plaster, dies, ground slag, industrial furnaces, non-ferrous metals, oil, gasoline, pipe, structural steel and electric power. River Traffic Helpful. Canaijzation of the Ohio River, begun 50 years ago by the Federal Govern- ment and completed in 1929, opened to | Pittsburgh Industry a great avenue to the Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico ports Pittsburgh in 10 years gained 81.474 persons to become a city of 669,817 in | 1930, but in that time suburban com- munities, profiting by migrations, showed population gains as high as 500 per cent. Opening of the $6,000,000 Liberty vehicular tunnels, a mile and a | quarter long through the rocky hillside overlooking downtown Pittsburgh, in- | spired the movement. In 1929, a metropolitan plan move- ment, which would have given Pitts- burgh a pobulation of nearly 1,500,000 and fifth place in the list of American cities, was defeated. The trend toward home building in the Pittsburgh district has been most pronounced in the last six vears,-the residents spending $175,418,654 for new dwellings. Civic Center Develops. In the same time the Oaklend dis- trict in the eastern section of the clity developed into Pittsburgh’s civic cen- ter, its nucleus being the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute of Technology. the Carnegie Museum Schenlev Park. Forbes Field and the Universitv of Pittsburgh’s massive foot ball stadium. The $6,000,000 “Cathe- dral of Learning.” newest unit of th University of Pittsburgh. is slow! crawling skyward and will be com- pleted next year. While there was some movement of business firms out of the district, Pittsburgh's “Golden Triangle.” whose apex is the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, where the Ohio begins, grew steadily. In 1930 the assessed valuation for the 1,074 acres in_the triangle was $377.403,390. The success of the first attempt to broadcast radio programs, made from KDKA, in Pittsburgh, on November 2, 1920, opened a new fleld of sclentific and commercial development. Pt burgh today has four broadcasting sta- tions. VILLAGERS STARVING Closing of Iron Rolling Mill in #1920 Is Disastrous. BERLIN (Special). —Unheard of are the consequences of the present eco- nomic crisis for the little village of Wittingsthal in _Saxony near the Czechoslovakian frontier. which, like many other Saxonian villages. used to live on one single factory. For more than 100 years the people of Wittings- thal (about 400) were employed in an iron rolling mill, which was closed down in the Spring of 1929. Meantime they have exhausted their claim on unem- ployment doles and they are meagerly supported by the welfare institutions of the state. The situation in Wittings- thal is getting from bad to worse, as the owners of the mill do not intend to reopen its doors to the starving vil- lagers for some time to come. SWISS ARMY GROWING Peace and Disarmament Parleys Have Little Influence. 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