Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1931, Page 6

rX—6 =% AT FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D VGTIN IS UMBLE TO P KINAPERS Road House Proprietor Fails, to Recogivze Five lli- nois Sa'spects. By the Assoclated Press CHICAGO. Septem ber 10.—Hope that thd perpetrators of & series of kidnap- ings had been capturd 1 at Decatur went glimmyring today wifh the failure of James ¥ackett, Blue 7\ land road house sprietot, to recognize any of the five s those who tcok $75,000 for his | t had gone to Vecatur yester- attempt identit\yation of the | Monte Moore, Morris Lut- slinger, Joseah Yates and The fac\ that Fred roe, Wis., ewer, and hrenberg of Sprinyfield, IIl, cloased by their (Kidnapers | ¢ iad made the reported seem plausibie. Traces Bribe Charge. Patrick Roche, chief in- tor for the State’s attorney here, unced that Hackett had identifierl Roche nced he had inforamation umed police had accevted a f he kidnapers. William Cusitck of ective Bureau todav permitted to see oners while at De- | ed here last night while the Decafur the gang in another t william W Tume of his captors. re. Hackett looked at the d not recognize themn. RED HOT radio NEWS! Roche has not dLsflas;dbna; source of his report of the alleged bribe. Tl\ep‘;h'e prisoners were to be held in custody in the hope that John J. Lynch, wealthy turfman, or other victims of recent kidnapings may identify them. Charges by Roche that police officers received a $50,000 bribe drew fire from Acting Commissioner of Police John H. Alcock last night. Promises Suspensions. Deploring Roche’s refusal to identify the officers, Alcock said: “Charges of bribe-taking and graft against policemen reflect, great discredit upon the Police Department. But if any evidence is given me that these officers were Chicago policemen I will immediately file charges against™ them before the Civil Service Commission and suspend them.” Roche had said that Hackett's kid- napers were stopped by the police | shortly after they had accepted $75 000 to free the gambler. The police, Roche said, found the money in the men’s car, recognized them as possibly connected with the Hackett abduction and demanded two-thirds of the $75,- 000 to release the: HUGE AMPHIéIAN PLANE COMPLETES LOAD TEST| By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Scptember largest amphibian plane structed flew to Flo: nnett Field today from the Sikorsky factc t Stratford, Conn., to complete a succ 10.—The ever | ful ground load test, in which it lifted 34,000 pcunds of lead The giant plane is designed to carry 40 passengers and a crew of 5. It has a wing spread of 114 feet, weighs 22.00f pounds and is equipped with fou ! horsepower Pratt-Whitney motors. It was designed by Igor Sikorsky. On the load test the plane took off after a run af 2000 feet, field and landed gracefully. The lead Tepresented the weight cf 40 passengers and fuel for 500 miles of flight The machine was to be taken later today to Bridgeport, Conn. where will “attempt a take-off from water tomorrow with a sdmilar capacity load. con- | cled the | 874020, C. PUPILS EXPECTED IN FALL }Census Bureau Estimates; Enroliment Based on April Count. . \(/ ’ When school bells ring in the/ Dis- trict of Columbia on September 21, it |is estimated that 75,326 students, from 7 to 20 years of age and 12,076 students | over 21 years old will answer the call. | The estimate is based on the school | census taken in Washington on April 1, 1930, and announced today by the Census Bureau. The bureau said the total census here of persons between the ages of 7 and 20 years is 98,904, revealing that 33,578 | persons were out of school when the | census was taken. | The Census Bureau's estimate of 5 excludes entirely the approxi- mately 13,560 kindergarten and first grade children definitely expected to enroll in the public schools. The fig- ures exclude also the nearly 2,800 non- ‘x'rsident pupils who attend the public | schools of the District. Likewise, the | kindergarten and first grade pupils in | private and parochial schools, estimated at 2,500, are omitted from the total ac- | credited to schools located in Wash- | ington. | | Public school estimates alone place | | the number of students expected to en- | roll during the first month of the school year at 80,000. | | 25 Per Cent Increase. | During the last decade school at- | it | tendance has jumped more than 25 per number of pupils was found in the 7 | cent. The following table shows the | ! total attendance here on April 1, 1930, | .increased about 50 per cent. | 19,274,149 boys were enrolled. | rural farm districts, ;;‘2‘0 the percentage in attendance in | Total Attending Percent population, school. 1930, s o611 95 08l g1 7441 208 In 10 years the number of those at- tending school here over 21 years old ‘The total was 12,076, as against 6,177 in 1920. ‘The bureau found in its 1930 national count that of 38,387,032 personssbe- tween 5 and 20 years old, 26,849,639, or 69.9 per cent, were attending school. Ten years ago, 21,373,976, or 64.3 per cent, of 33,250,870 between the same ages were students. Older Students Gain. An increase in older children attend- ing classes over the number 10 years ago was shown. There remained, how- ever, a sharp decrease in school popula- tion in children 15 and older, although a slight gain was shown in 1930. ‘The largest increase in older students was reported in the 21 and over divi- sion, which showed 1,034,782 in school, against 344,789 10 years ago. The total of eligibles in this division was not given. Girls and boys were about equally divided in the total school citizenry. Of the 19,112,883 giils, 13,327,871 were in school, while 13,521,768 of the total of Of the urban population, betweem 5 and 20, 72.3 per cent, were in school; 66.4, and rural non-farm or villages, 69.3 per cent. The bulk of students 21 and over came from the urban areas, accounting for 738,- 193; 143,283 in the rural sections and 156,217 in the villages. The report recorded 97.5 per cent of foreign-born white children between 7 and 13 in school, and 87.3 per cent of the colored children. The number in the age groups of foreign-born and col- ored, likewise, declined as the children grew older. 7 to 13 Leading Classes. The highest percentage and largest to 13 year classes, which in 1930 ac-~ counted for 16,398,400, or 95.3 per cent The Hecht Co. offers a sensational Radio Value to WASHINGTON! L ng ; | years old, 4,156,378 attended school, as THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1931 of 17,209,566, against 13,869,010 in 1920, 90.6 per cent of 15,306,793. Amo! the 4,678,084 of 14 and 15 LONG ILLNESS FATAL Special Dispateh to The Sta; WINCHESTER, Va., Septémber 10.— Rites were held yesterday at Berkeley Springs, W. Va., for Mrs. Maggle Heat- wole Skelton, 65 years old, wife of the compared with 3,124,129 out of 3,907,710 n :HO. respectively, 88.8 and 79.9 per cent. The dre out of classes was more marked in the 16 and 17 year di- vision with only 2,669,857, or 57.3 per cent of 4,663,137 in 1930, as compared with 1,644,061 in 1920 42.9 per cent of 3,828,131, In the 18 to 20 year section 1.456,~ 784 were reported in school, 21.4 per cent of 6,815,710, against 814,651, or };.230 per cent of 5,522,082 counted in CHILDREN ON ADVENTURE ARE FOUND NEAR RIVER Edward Sitler, 8, and Brother, Oliver, 7, Missing From Home Six Hours. Located by police late yesterday ap- proximately a mile from their home, 927 Maryland avenue southwest, about six hours after their departure, Edmond H. Sitler, 3, and Oliver 8. Sitler, 7, brothers, were of the opinion today that adventure alone is not so good. It was getting dark when the boys were finally located by a policeman near the water front and taken home. ‘The boys were reported mminf by their mother, Mrs. Oliver 8. Sitler, about an hour after their departure. 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