Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1931, Page 18

“CLEAN-UP DRIVE" * BEGINS TOMORROW 1931 Campaign Gets Under Way, With Three Pur- poses in View. “Clean up Washington” will be the order of the day throughout the ensu- | ing month, tomorrow. Following extensive planning by a “arge group of officials of civic organ- ‘izations, the 1931 clean-up campaign will be set in motion tomorrow. It promises to be the most elaborate cam- gd:n of its kind ever promulgated ere. The purposes of the campaign are threefold: To prepare the National Capital for the elaborate programs to be staged here in 1032 in connection with the George Washington Bicen- tennial, which is to bring thousands of special guests to this city; to stimulate business; and to provide increased em- ployment. All Urged to Participate. All residents of Washington are urged te participate in the general pro- gram by with needed im- provement of their premises and the refurbishing of properties. The month’s campaign opens with Paint week. Home week will begin April 27 and continue until May 4, when Garden week will succeed to spe- cial public attention. Community week will run from May 1181 to the end of the campaign, May 18. ‘The D\?!“‘WS of the first three weeks, it is announced by George J. Adams, executive secretary of the Campaign Committee, is to concentrate public at- tention on the painting of houses, ga- rages, motor cars and other property, the decoration and beautification of the Tome and the creation and mainte- nance of gardens. Community week is calculated to focus public attention upon the final cleaning of vacant lots, public alleys and private property. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, APRIL 19, 1931—PART ON Officers and Directors of Board of Trade | ‘Unemployment Decrease. Touching on the benefit the eam- paign is to have on employ: ment emd:fi t:'& here, the committe t 5 h."Am' survey of the city indi- cates. the shadow of a doubt that unemployment in the Nation’s rapidly. e ter. ““This estimate is based on the total persons whose persons wm‘ mh:t month for em| ent during clean-up cam- wfi:’flmmnrmmmnox Committee on Employment. ‘While these pi ve workmen wes told not to expect work until the cam- paign actuslly was under way, Mr. Adams have been found for 150 of them prior to of the official campaign. Improvement Apparent. An improvement has been apparent for the past two weeks among such classes of labor as housemaids, butlers, gardeners and handymen, Mr. Adams ““This indicates home owners and pri- in general 4re beginning mittee statement creased iture is probably due to :.llwt &n the Amno‘l.n cm‘:x’ east ‘Washingtonian, e to see signs of renewed pros- perity.” During the past week the Clean-up ttee distributed about 1,000 now are employed. All Fully Qualified. Expressing the belief the most of those out of employment are the un- 3 Committee on Employment Jhopes that before the end of the clean- up campaign it will have been able to provide jobs for the men and women on its rolls who are not skilled or spe- d.lllky trained in a particular kind of work. ‘The Employment Committee points person it sends out in Tound. to-be Tuly quALned Tor the po- qQ for po- sition he seeks to obtain, ARMY ORDERS Lieut. Col. Sloan Doak, Cavalry, from Fort Leavenworth, Kans, has been ordered to Towson, Md., for duty with Reserves; Lieut. Col. J. A. Ulio, Adjutant General's Department, from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Maj. 8. L. Scott, eers, from Fort Leavenworth to Honolulu, Hawaii; Maj. H. E. Pitz, Coast Artillery, from the University of New Hampshire to Fort Benjamin Har- rison, Ind.; Lieut. Col. A. F. Dan- nemiller, Infantry, from Fort Leaven- worth to Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.. Majs. J. R. Herman and A. P. Withers, Infantry, from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Eustis, Va.. Maj. J. N. Cap- erton, Cavalry, to_Fort Monroe, Vi Maj. D. E. Cain, Fitld Artillery, froi Fort Leavenworth to Fort Hoyle, M Capt. J. A. Porter, Quartermaster Corps, from Fort Leavenworth to the War De- partment; Maj. B. B. Browne, Engineers, from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Humph- reys, Va; Capt. J. B. LaGuardia, Engineers, from Fort Leavenworth to the War Department: Maj. H. E. Dager, Infantry, from Fort Leavenworth to Porto Rico; Capt. R. O. Baldwin and Capt. J. E. Dahlquist, Infantry, from Fort Leavenworth to the Philippines; Maj. R. E. McQuillan, Cavalry, from the Army War College to Monterey, Calif.; Maj. P. L. Thomas, Cavalry, ' from the Army War College to Fort Bliss, Tex.; First Lieut. F. H. Vander- werker, Judge Advocate Genperal's De- partment, from New York City to the War Department; Maj. W. C. Chase, Cavalry, and H. R. Behrens, Coast ¢ Artillery, from Leavenworth to the Philippines; Maj. T. G. Methven, In- fantry, from Fort Leavenworth to the University of Minnessta; Second Lieuts. Barbara Zeigler and Della M. Robert- son, Army Nurse Corps, at San Prancisco, have been ordered to their homes to await retirement; Cheplain E. L. Braham, from Monterey, Calif., to Fort 8ill, Okla.; Capt. O. B. Bucher, Coast Artillery, from the Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Blacksburg, Va., to Fort Monroe, Va: Maj. J. 8. Bullivan, Infantry, from Fort Leaven- worth _to A ltural College; m]‘. J. M. Crane, ld Artillery, from Leavenworth to Ohlo State Uni- versity; Ma). R. P. Shugg, Fleld Artil- lery, from Fort Leavenworth to Prince- ton University; Maj). R. G. Moses, Amerijcan Battle Monuments Commis- sion; Maj. R. C. F. Goetz, Field Artil- lery, from Fort Leavenworth to Brus- sels, Belguim, for duty as military at- tache; Capt. F. from Port Leavenworth to Rome, Italy, from Fort Leavenworth to| the War Department for duty with the | M. Brady, Air Corps, | MEN CHOSEN TO DIRECT ORGANIZATION LAST WEEK. OP row, left t> right: George W. Offutt, president; Ben T. Webster, first vice president; Claude S. Owen, second vice president, and Frank B. Leetch, assistant treasurer. Second row: Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary; J. Harry Cunningham, treasurer; Charles W. secretary and a director, and Edwin C. Brandenburg, general counsel. ‘Third Norris, row: Frank Strunk, sergeant at arms, Lloyd B. Wilson, E. J. Murphy, John Saul and John B. Hanna, TS, Bottom: Jerome F. Barnard, Joseph A. Burkhart, George B. Farquhar, Robert V. Fleming and E. C. Graham, directors. —Harris-Ewing Photos. CHILD HEALTH DAY PROGRAM MAPPED Local Observance to Include| Examination of Entering Pupils and Dental Care. Plans for the observance of National Child Health Day, set for the first Sun- | day in May, were announced yesterday | by Pr. Joseph A. Murphy, chairman of | the Joint May Day and Early Diagnosis | Campaign Committees. 1 Locally, the program, which is spon- sored by President Hoover and the| White House Conference, will include | a variety of features. A “Summer round-up campaign” for the examination of children of pre- school age who will enter the public schools for the first time this Fall will ticipate in this work, obtaining the, names and addresses of children and | arranging for the services of physicians | and nurses in 74 schools. | Free Dental Care. | Similar work will be done in the vari- | ous_colored schools, under the direction of Dr. A. C. or. | Dental Hygienists' | Tign Members of the Assoclation have been assigned by Miss Jane Park Grow, president of the or-| ganization, to give free dental prophy- laxis to children. Miss Kathleen Turner will provide this service in_the office of Dr. Bruce Taylor, 1801 I street; Miss Florence | Engel, in the office of Dr. Allen S. Wolfe, 1701 Rhode Island avenue; Miss Kathleen Cates, in the office of Dr. George A. Smith, 1835 I street; Miss Anne Allnutt, in the office of Dr. E. D. Jarboe, Barr Bullding, and Miss Na- thalie Ostlund. in the office of Dr. T. L. Rust, Hill Bullding. Hours of serv- ice will be announced later. Will Show Deaf Aid. Methods of treatment for deafness will be demonstrated at Wilson Teach- ers’ College, Eleventh and Harvard streets, under the supervision of Miss Ada_Hill, director of the Association for the Hard of Hearing. A program of games, to be played on | all local playgrounds, is being arranged | by Miss Maud N. Parker. | | | | | Hunt Meets Set. WARRENTON, Va., April 18 (Spe- ! cial).—The Princess Anne Hunt Club at Virginia Beach announces that the | Warrenton Drag Hounds, Maurice Hastings and Willlam H. Emory, joint masters, will hold meets at Virginia Beach from May 1 to May 21. The Drag Hounds will meet each Tuesday, ‘Thursday and Saturday afternoon. In Bogus Telegram Is Held by Police Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., April 18— Shannon W. Hoover, aIrested early yesterday at his home in Mapleside, a suburb, the polide say, is the man implicated in undlng ® bogus tele- gram early in March to the police eadquarters here that he and Am- brose D. Hite, Wineow street, were “washed overboard” while deckhands on a Morgan yacht near Cuba. The police say there was no “Capt. F. L. McDougal,” the name signed to the L2le lll‘ll, and no “Howard C. Morgan yacht.” Hoov(* was arrested upon his re- turn as a suspect in the hold-up of for duty at the United States embassy; Master Sergt. . Harry Kravetz, Army ‘Band, Xfle Ar‘r.ny wh.‘: College, uvlu be pril on own applica- uonrm more than 30 years' active cervice. the Golden Service Btation on Old- town road, January 20, last. He and still at large, have been officers since that Man Reported Dead Heir Helping Out YOUNG DU PONT AS JUNIOR AIRPORT POST. A. FELIX DU PONT. EIR to a goodly portion of the vast fortune of the du_ Pont family of Delaware, A. Pelix du Pont, jr, for all his poten- tialities, is just another em- ploye at the Washington Airport end of the Ludington Air Line at Washing- ton Airport-Hoover Field—and not a very important one at that, at present. Young du Pont's official title at the airport is “junior plane dispatcher and ticket agent,” and above him there is an imposing array of officials, directors, vice presidents and the like—enough to dull the ambition of many a lad, for most of the line officials are young men, | and vigbrous. But the line has plans for young du Pont that might satisfy his ambitious air-mindedness. He's learning the business end of the flying game and probably eventually will be transferred back to his home town, Wilmington, Del., to take charge of the Ludington Line's business at Bellanca Field. Young du Pont has learned all there is to the actual flying end of the game. He has about 1,500 hours of fiving to his credit, buflt up since he was grad- uated from the Army Air Corps School at Kelly Field, Tex., in 1929. Since then he has been a test pilot for the Fckker Afreraft Co. Alrport officials are finding plenty of | odd chores besides the regular duties | of junior dispatcher and ticket agent | to keep the heir to millions busy. He | 1s expected to be in Washington for several months. TRUCK CRUSHES MAN Machine Rolls Back on Worker in Hampshira County. pecial Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va, April 18. —Charles Jackson, 40, was instantly killed near Woodrow, Hampshire County, when & truck rolled back upon him while he was at work on & State road project. His body was taken to ‘Terra Alta, W. Va., his home, for | burial. | The accident was the second fatality | to occur on the same road construction | job in the past two months. | The ordinary domestic cat is said to |be the result of crossings between the | sacred Egyptian cat and the wild cat of Englai ‘The latter is now almost extinct in that country, but was plenti- ful when cats from Egypt are suj to have been brought into Brif is known that the cat was rare in Europe unt Middle Ages, | | | | | |WORK CONDITIONS SEEN BETTER HERE Appeals for Free Meals at Mission Steadily Decreasing, Says Superintendent. Improved employment conditions are believed by Supt. John 8. Bennett of the Central Union Mission to be respon- decrease in the | sible for the steady number of free meals applied for nightly at the mission. ‘The mission's March report to the Council of Social Agencies showed the number of men fed at the mission had from 11579 during February d to 9,720 last month. A steady corres- ponding decrease is being noted this month, Mr. Bennett said. ‘The nightly line-up for free shelter, however, remained about the same. The | majority of these men, however, com- prise drifters who pass through Wash- ington. Last month 4,558 men were sheltered at the mission, compared with | 4,749 during the shorter month of February. ‘With the advent of warm weatl there has been a decrease also for shelter, but it still is necessary to keep open ‘the additional lodging house wle wmrlssim was obliged to rent last Inter. Jobs are being found for numbers | of unemployed, who are being sent by Mr. Bennett to Dr. John C. Palmer, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, in charge of the Employment Committee for the Washington Federation of Churches. New Jail, Set Back From Street, Urged To Prevent Escapes Special Dispatch to The Star. BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. Va, April 18.—A new jail, built at least 50 feet back from the street, with a surrounding high iron fence to pre- vent any communication with pedes- trians, was recommended by a Cir- cuit Court Committee here yester- day to Judge D. H. Rodgers as the only solution to the problem of re- peated jail deliveries here. The committee, composed of Ray- mond_Hunter, Clifton Michael an J. 5. Coughlan, was named especially to study the question of jail breaks which have been frequent during the past few yéars. One set of three prisoners recently made two succes- sive escapes within a few weeks by sawing ‘out bars. The present jail is bullt into the court house and stands in the downtown section, abutting a highway on one side. * her | this | month in the number of men applying NICARAGUAN POLICY OF U.S. IS PRAISED Buell of Foreign Policy Body Sees Curtailed Protection as Step Forward. By the Associated Press. PHILAD! April 18.—Raymond L. Buell, research director of the For- eign Policy Association, sald today the action of the State ent in re- stricting protection to Americans in Nicaragua is “an important step toward placing relations of industrial powers and backward countries upon & friendly, non-imperialistic basis.” Al g the annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and So- cial Science on “Our Puture Relations With Latin America,” Buell said: “The good will which the United States will gain in Latin America from this policy of non-intervention will have a much greater ethical and commercial value than any policy of protection by armed force.” At last night’s session, while Russian affairs were under n, Repre- sentative Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York criticized the State Dgpartment’s present Nicara policy.. He said Americans in w] er land they might be wers cntitled to the protection of their Government. Replies to Fish. “The United States is apparently the first industrial power to restrict its: interposition,” said Mr. Buell. “The protection of foreign lives in disturbed areas is _justified on humanitarian grounds. But obviously such protection cannot be extended throughout a coun- try as a whole without establishing a complete military occupation. Mr. Stim- son does not intend that the State De- partment should become an insurance agency and give Americans d guaranties that they do not have at home. “There is nothing in the Monroe Doctrine, properly interpreted, which imposes on the United States the obli- gation to protect property in Nica- Tagua” Wants Forelgn Co-operation. Tk o TVar versity, on “How May We Best te in In- ternational Affairs?” said American participation in international co-opera- tion must be grounded on & clear con- ception of the purpose of ration and must be done because it is to the Nation's interest to do so, rather than because of altruistic motives. ‘The first step to improve co-operation in international affairs, said D. C. Poole of the School of Public and Interna- tional Affairs, Princeton University, is to “improve the machinery for the con- duct of our foreign ref R “The deepest fault,” he said, “is in our Constitution. The requirement of a | two-thirds vote in the Senate for ratify- ing treaties was set up under circum- stances at home and abroad very dif- ferent from those now prevailing.” Capital Man Hits Tariff. | Huston Thompson, Washington, D.C., criticized the American and rec- ommended creation of an international trade tribunal to sit at Geneva so that nations can present thelr complaints against the tariff, monopolies and un- fair methods of other nations. “In making our American tariff we were apparently unconscious of the effect that it would have upon other nations,” he said. Willlam F. Montavon, director of the legal department of the. National Cath- olic Welfare Council, Washington, D. C., sald that governments placed in office with the support of the armed forces of the United States find it impossible to maintain themselves without that support and this country is “left in the undemocratic position of employing armed forces to maintain the tyranny of a minority.” Points to Differences. “An effort has been made to justify pan-Americanism by stressing the thing American nations have in common,” Montavon said. “So far has this gone that we are in danger of forgetting there are striking differences which hold us apart, but which, when prop- erly un , prove to be comple- mentary and compensatory. “Friendly intercourse between né- tions grows deeper and more solidly irf the soil of reciprocity and profitable fair exchange than it ever will grow in the soll of make-believe kinship or similarity.” | | PR T CAB DRIVER WINS $22.50 IN $10,000 BEATING SUIT Virginia Legislator Accused Having Attacked Milford Man During Row, Special Dispatch to the Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 18.— A verdict of $22.50 in favor of Charles Bruce, Milford, Caroline County cab driver, was returned by a Circuit Court jury in Bruce's suit for $10,000 dam- ages it W. G. iaferro, repre- sentative in the House of Delegates from Caroline and King George Coun- ties, and his son, Arthur Taliaferro. ‘The suit, trial of which was in prog- ress for three days, grew out of an altercation last tember, when the two Tallaferros were alleged to have t:kh“m Bruce, after the later cursed em. WOMAN FOUND DEAD Mrs. of Frances Miller, 69, Expires in 217 F Street Home. Mrs. Frances Miller, 69 years old, was found dead early today in an apart- ment at 217 F street. The discovery was made by Mrs. Mary Adams, in whose apartment Mrs, Miller, a widow, was visiting. Ente) ing a bedroom, Mrs. Adams found Mrs. Miller, who occupied rooms on the same floor, sitting in & chair, appar- ently dead. She summoned Mrs. Miller's nephew, David Berger, who notified Dr. William A. Mess, 4569 G street. The physician, after pronouncing Mrs. Miller dead, asked that Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt be notified. WHALER RETURNS TO NEW YORK WITH CATCH OF 1,444 MONSTERS [Result of 10-Month Expedition to Arctic Better Than That of Moby Dick’s Captor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 18.—From the land of the midnight sun and 40 below gero weather 250 wind-burned Vikings :xn"od into New York's skyscraper-| Ed tressed bay today on the Sir James Clark Ross, one of the biggest whaling vessels in the. world ‘Outharpooning grave Capt. Ahad, who bagged the famed Moby Dick, this blue- ey crew brought back a catch of 1,444 whales—some little ones measur- ing only 20 feet, others monsters of nearly 100 feet. The shining red and white ship, two~ funneled and equipj with two Diesel engines, each of 3,400 horsepower, made whaling on its len trip. It 1s a successor to a whaler stili boasted of | in ‘maritime reminiscences, which bore the same name. Captained by Oscar Nilsen, the big whaler left Sandefjord, near Oslo, Nor- 10 to seek a fortune in commodit! VII Land is eight-month trip of 25,000 miles. on deck, looking quissi. cally at the great city before him, stood Edward Jorgensen, hero of the sags. He had shot single-handed 254 whales, bringing his lifetime total to 2,700. He is eager to get home, for he will collect $40,000 as pay for the trip. Standing beside him was Bot Brodt- care of the whales after ht aboard. Said he: he CArgo we CAn CArry. id have more, but even with this ship we didn’t have room. It was & good year, all.right.’ Next the” whalers will not f" out. year they got an oversupply. Always Present HOLDS KIWANIS ATTENDANCE RECORD. DR. GEORGE A. BAKER Has not missed a weekly luncheon of the Washington Kiwanis Club since | Jjoining, 12 years ago. $1,000,000 ESTATE SOLD Priests to Found Lithuanian Boys’ School in Connecticut. ‘THOMPSON, Conn.. April 18 (#)— Sale of Carolyn Hall, 300-acre estate of the late Norman B. Ream, to the Mari- | an Order of priests of Chicago was an- | nounced today. A Roman Catholic college for Lithu- anian boys will be established on the estate, it was made known. The pur- chase price was withheld. Development of the estate cost more than u,m?o,uno. TWO DIE AS FOREST FIRES BURN TOWN Timber Leveled Over Thou-l sands of Minnesota Acres as Flames Spread. By the Assoclated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn, April 18.—Forest fires in north Minnesota and Wisconsin tonight had taken a toll of two lives and virtually destroyed the village of Tipler, a settlement of 125 inhabitants. Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin were mottled by patches of red and black today—red where forest fires still burned and black where flames had eaten over thousands of acres of timber and brush lands. Winds and vegetation handi- capped fire fighters who attacked blazes that destroyed .four farm hcmes, & school building and several unoccupied farm structures in Minnesota. Showers in one section of Itasca o County, Minn., however, tended to lessen the danger and helped forest rangers control a blaze that had threat- ened the village of Kelliher. In Wisconsin, near the village of Cayuga, fire destroyed an outlying resi- dence and forced a widow and chil- dren to flee without their possessions. Rangers, who fought 20 fires in Northern Itasca County, estimated 10,000 acres of timber and brush .were burned. In the Waskish district rangers esti- mated fires were burning over 25,000 acres of balsam, pine and spruce tim- ber. Two farm homes were destroyed in_that area. In Kocchiching County brush fires leveled two farm homes and one school building. Propaganda is under way in Mexico City to discourage patronage of Amer- ican talkies, which are accused inimical to old Spanish traditions. of being | POLITICAL STUDY CLUB ! HEARS U. S. OFFICIAL Humphrey, Trade Commissionery Explains Group's Work—Officers Are Nominated. | Nomination of officers to be elected |in May and an address by Commis- | sioner William Humphrey of the Ped- eral Trade Commission featured the Political Study Ciub's meeting, held yesterday at the Washington Olub, Seventeenth and K streets. Discussing “Business and the Fed- eral Trade Commission,” Mr. Humph- rey told of new rulings adopted by the commission, among which was one mak- ing it compulsory for advertising con- Vertiserments ate pald caser when ‘the “'c' "d"f‘“‘h' pa when the ‘andidates nominated are: President, Mrs. Rose Yates Forres Ernest H. Pfinfil‘: first ::t = foot; third vice president, Mrs. Harry R. Perry and Mrs. Frederick P. 8. John- . 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