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Washington News W ASHINGTON, D. C, The Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, OCTOBER ' 16, 1 I Society and General 931. LTy | PAGE B—1 WOMAN SLUGS MAN IN FUTILE ATTEMPT 10 ROB HIM IN CAR Race Attendant Describes Attack by Girl Who Flees in Taxicabh. POLICE SEEKINGMHABITUE OF 9TH STREET RESORTS: — | Purse Left Behind in Auto Con-| tains (< yd With Third and % Streets Address. An attractive girl cf about 21 slugged Fred Fahmie of New York with a blackjack in an attempt to rob him | carly today, he reported to police. Fahmie, who came here to attend the races at Laurel, Md.. declared the young woman, known'to him only as “Jackie,” joined another girl and two men, with whom she fled in a taxicab after at- tacking him “I met ‘Jackie' in a Chinese restau- rant at Ninth street and Pennsylvania ; avenue yesterday morning,” Fahmie re- lated. “We had dinner together last night and she promised to phone me later in the evening.” Callea About Midnight. It was about midnight, Fahmie said, | wken the young woman, whom he de- scibed as a comely brunette, called | hine at his epartment in the Fairfax,! 2100 Massachusetts avenue. “She asked me to meet her down- stairs, explaining she wanted me to escort her home.” Fahmie continued. ! “I put her into my car and followed her directions, driving out to George- town. After a while I noticed a taxi was following us I aidn't think anyihing of it though, until she asked me to stop. Then the cab. with a girl and two men in it, pulled up beside us. At the same moment, out of the corner of my eye, | I saw her getting ready to slug me. | “I ducked, but she was too quick for | me. As she raised her arm fo strike | again, I grabbed the blackjack, but the | men in the cab got out and came to- | ward me. I jumped out and ran. One | of the men chased me, but I soon out- distanced him." Purse Found in Car. With blood pouring from a gash in | his head, Fahmie went to Emergency Hospital. After receiving treatment he r-turned to his apartment and tele-| paoned police headquarters. Detectives found the young woman's preketbook in Fahmie s automobile. In the purse was a credit card issued by a ‘ocal department store, bearing the rame of a girl living at Third and E sireets. Police, beginning a search for | ner, said she was known to them as an habitue of various Ninth street resorts and hed been arrested before. The girl, according to Fahmie, was about 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighed about 120 pounds and was cheaply dressec She told me she had a police re Fahmie added, “but I didn't her very seriously He was un- able to describe the other girl and the two men. CHANGE IN U. S. PAY METHODS UNLIKELY Result of Treasury Department | | | | i | Survey Is Now in Hands of Mills. Although the Treasury Department has made a survey of the whole ques- tion of paying employes by cash or! check, it is belleved in some quarters that there will be little chance at the present time, and perhaps none in the future. Some Government agencies prefer to pay by check, while others pay in cash. Two agenc the Veterans' Adminis- tration and the General Accounting Of- fice, have been paying by check. This threw additional work upon the office of the Treasurer of the United States. A canvass was made by the Treasury and these reports now are in the hands of Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills. No final decision has been made in the matter by the Treasury, which has au thority to order how employes shall be pald. MAN IS FOUND GUILTY | IN WARRANTLESS RAID| Edwin D. Pelot to Appeal Vedict on Charw, of Permitting Gam- ing—Bond Posted. Arrested in a_warrantless gambling raid Auguss 21, Edwin David Pelot, 35, | was canviot+d in Police Gourt today on | a charge of permitting gaming. Pelot was taken into custody by vice | =quad officers in a raid in the 1800 block | of Fourteenth street. Judge Isaac R. Hitt overruled a mo- tion of Defense Attorney Denny Hughes | for a directed verdict on the ground | that the officers had no right to enter | the premiscs without a warrant nor to search for or seize paraphernalia. Assistant United States Attorney Wil- bert MclInerney 1epresented the Gov- | ernment in the case. Hughes advised the judge s going to take the case to the Court cf Appeals and an appeal - bond of $100 was set and execution of | the sentence postponed for the time being. WEEKLY BUS PASSES | T0 GO IN USE MONDAY. | | One, Good for Rides Anywhere in | D. C., to Cost $1.25—Other, for | Certain Hours, to Cost 75 Cents. ‘The Washington Rapid Transit Co. will begin experimental use of weekly passes on its busses Monday. Permis- sion was granted by the Public Utllities Commission yesterday. The new week- 1y tickets will not supplant the regular rates, but will be available to passengers at their option. The pass system will be in operation for 11 weeks ending January 2, 1932. If it proves a success, it may be continued. “ There are two kinds of passes. One costing $1.25 per week is good for rides anywhere in the District on the com- pany’s busses at any time. The other, costing 75 cents, is good for rides ali day Sunday, on Saturdays after 9 am, and on other week days from 9 to 4 and after 6:30. Street car companies in the District are also watching the experiment with interest, and if it brings more riders to the bus company, & similar system may be tried out on the car lines. | order to drop the j ters l'in other countrie: D. C. Engineer KERN TAKES ELECTRICAL POST AS CHIEF. WALTER E. KERN, Who took office as District elestrical | engineer today, succceding Warren B.|of Community Chests and Councils so | | Hadley, who retired on account of age. | that the President’s Organization on Mr. Kern joined the department July 1904, promoted to assistant electrical inspector October 8. 1917, and has served as such ever since. He lives at 432 De'afield place, is married and has three children, Mrs. Wilhel- mine Rue, Mrs. Dorothy K. Sotherland nd Edward Walter, a student at Mac- farland Junior High Sci —Star Staff Photo. AR SCHOOL DEFIES TRADE COMMISSION Walter Hinton, President, Refuses to Drop ““U.S. A.” in Designation. Challenging authority of the Federal | Trade Commission to compel the Avi- | ation Institute of U. S. A. Inc. to chang> its corporate name. Walter Hinton, president of the institute, re- fused today to cbey the commission’s letters “U. S. A." from his organization's nme. The refusal means court action will be taken to enforce the order. The institute was given 60 days in which to comply In ruling that “U. S. A" forms an abbreviation for “United States Army.” which it said created the erroneous impression that the institute has some direct official connection with the Gov- ernment. the commission has assumed the authority of the chief lexicographer for the United States. Hinton charged The former Navy lieutenant. who once flew the Atlantic, contended represent “United States America.” Cites Official Rulings. “The Government Printing Office Style Manual. the United States Post Office Department and the adjuta general of the War Department b ruled that the abbreviation ‘U. S indicates the ‘United States of America.’ Hinton said. “The War Department has gone so far as to issue a general order prohibiting officers in the various services from affixing the Itters ‘U. S. A’ as part of their signatures.” Hinton said there is & possibility the institute will establish branch offices | ssuming as part of | their names the geographical name of | the country in which they are located The Trade Commissio ord against the institute, which teach fiying correspondence courses from i headquarters at 1115 Connecticut ave- | nue, was made public yesterday. It| ordered the school to ‘stop using as | art of its trade name the letters. U. S. A. or other letters, wor insignia that would indicate affil with the United States Army, Navy or some other department of the Gove ment. or that its course is conducted according _ to Government require- ments.” The order charged the school, by using “U. S. A.” W tting up un- | fair methods of competition. | Hopeful of Court Action. “Whether the District Court of Ap- peals will uphold the Federal Trade Commission in its Jatest ruling is doubt- ed in many quarters” Hinton con- tinued. “The highest tribunal for such cases, the Supreme Court, has looked | with disfavor on the tendency of the! Federal Trade Commission to assume jurisdiction beyond the powers allo- cated to it by Congrese. “In previcus decisions the Supreme of ve | Court has warned the Trade Commis- sion that the final decision agto what | constitutes unfair practice is a prerog: tive of the court and not a power granted to the commission. “I feel that the Federal Trade Com- | mission may have in many instances issued cease and desist orders in error. thereby, harming busincsses which we: not guilty of unfair or misleading prac- tices. This latest ruling, which affects the Aviation Institute of the United States of America, Inc.. appears to be another one of these instances. “As a matter of fact, the Federal Trade Commission had no nce be- fore it and could produce none showing that any subscriber to the aviation in- stitute’s course of training was deceived into believing that the aviation insti- tute was a part of or supervised by any branch of the Federal Governmen! VOLUNTEERS ARE SOUGHT FOR RED CROSS ACTIVITIES Arlington Chapter Head Reports Necd of Girls' Dresses and Boys' Shirts for Island Relief. By a Staff Corres; of The Star, October olly, chairman of the Arlingtcn Ccunty Chapter, American Red Cross, today issued an appeal for as many volunteer workers as can be obtained to report to the local hea quarters in the Rucker Building next Tuesday. The offices will be open from 10 until 4 o'clock. Mrs. Kelly expiained that a call for 600 girls' dresses and 900 boys' shirts or the chapters of the island posses- sions has been issued by the National Red Cross. These, she said, must be finished within one month in order that they inay be placed on a transport. the let- | ed | poor, and 27 cities, necding $3.318,788, 16.— | 300 MILLION DRIVE FOR RELIEF OPENS INU. 5. NEXT WEEK 314 Cities Need Immediate Help, Gifford Is In- formed. WELFARé AGENCIES MOBILIZE FOR WORK {Jobless and Regular Social Aid Campaigns tg Be Held in Hun- dreds of Cities. The citizens of the United States will |be cilled cn to contribute approxi- | mately $300,000,000 duting the next 60 { days for unemployment and social wel- fare relief. A report containing an estimate of 170,090,130, needed at once in 314 for unemployment relief only, to- | day was in the hands of Walter S. Gif- | { ford, national relief director. | It was presented by the Association | Unemployment Relief would know what objective to seek in stimulating cam- paigns for funds to be raised locally. | Most cf the campaigns open next week. Chests to Push Drive. During the same period the majority I of the 381 member cities of the Com- { | munity Chests’ Association will wage their regular campaigns for their an- i nual social welfare budgets, the mone- | tary goal being set unofficially at $90,- {000,000. A total of $80.000.000 was | | raised in chest cities last year At the same time $1.000.000 more | will be asked for by the American Red Cross in its annual roll call Inasmuch as the Community Chests’ | estimate does not include distress relief !in communitics of less than 25,000 | population it has been unofficially esti- | mated that the American Association | ot Public Welfare and other agencies | co-operating with the President’s group | Would have to raise approximately $38,- | 000,000 for rural relief purposes. Gifford Finds Reassurance. Commenting on the $170.000.000 estimate submitted to B'm, Gifford said, We realize the figures are in a sense only estimates and cover only part of the total problem, but they are reas- > tend.” he added. “to confirm the visw of the President's Organiza- tion on Unemployment Relief that the burden arising from unemployment this | Winter can and will be wholeheartedly met.” The association in submitting _the estimate completed an assignment given it by the President’s group to ascertain the extent of relief needs and to stimu- late both local campaigns for private funds and the provisions of local ap- propriations in 518 cities. Needs are Estimated. The report s2id of the 518 citics, 314 enting a combined population of in 45 States, supplied esti- for this Winter ‘he cities not replving were for the most part smaller places with #n aggre- | ; gate populaticn of 7.000.000. Of the total of $170,090,130. the sum (01 $142.670.130, the report said, is need- “home™ relief; $27.420.000 for | “work™ relief. The report added that | these cities estimat> 60.9 per cent of | | the total of $142.670.130 for “home” re- | | lief must ccme from city and county treasuries: 37.6 per cent from private | funds, and the remaining 1.5 per cent frcm miscellaneous sources. i ‘Work™ relief is the amount to be | | spent by the cities in construction ; activities which indirectly would give | employment to a number of persons Home" relief invclves direct aid to the | needy in the form of food, rent and | clothing. It does not provide for nurs- ing, medicine or institutionel care. | Prospects are Varied. Reports from 177 cities s1id prcspects of raising the money were either excel- lent or good; 71 reported the prospects | s fair and 39 said the outlook was | volunteered to no appraisal of the out- look. The assoclation said it was certain the total “work” relief is not all that will be spent in this manner. Only 29 of the 314 cities answered the associa- tion’s query regarding this type of re- lief. Many of the others failed to an- swer it, presumably because of the un- certainty as to the nature and extent of local plans, the association said. Relief Course Traced. “While there has been the usual sea- sonal decline in relief expenditures since | March of the current year, the main | relief curve shows a sharp upward movement from the 1929 level in 1930 and a still sharper rise in 1931,” the association said. “It shows relief expenditures in Au- gust of 1931 to have been almost two and one-half times as high as those in August, 1930, and nearly four times as high as those in August, 1929. “The figures on which these com-| | parisons are based came from selected | cities in New England, the Middle At<i lantic States, the North Central States, | the South and in the Mourtain and | Pacific region." ’ | i 1 ! American and Foreign Groups to| Be Represented in Program Wednesday Night. 250 WILL TAKE PART "IN LANTERN FESTIVAL More than 250 persons will partici- {pate in the lantern festival, sponsored by the Community Center Department, {5 be held at Central Community Cen- { ter, Thirteenth and Clifton streets, next | Wednesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. | American and forelgn groups in the city will be represented in the Autumn festival, which will be divided into four episodes. The groups in charge of each sode, Tespectively, are: Boys and girls, Nelghborhood House, directed by Mrs. Clara J. Neligh; menbers of the Lido Club, directed by Dr. Raphael aro; the Greek Community, | en_ Hancssian, dimir Vasa, con- shington Elks’ Boys Band will ishing introluctory, entre-'acte and pestlude music. The committee in charge includes Mrs. Eligabsth K. Peeples, director Community Conter Department; Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, Mrs. Edith H. Hunter, Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, Miss Erba Birney, Miss Sibyl Baker and Cur- tis A. Hodges of the Greater National Capital Col | i HOSPITAL HEADS | who was PREPARE REPORT ON CHLD ASES Meet Secretly to Explain Why Dying Children Were Turned Away. ALSO SEEK TO IMPROVE SYSTEM OF ADMITTANCE Detailed Explanations Drafted and Committee Named to Make Synopsis. Washington hospital superintendents met today in secret session to prepare | reports explaining why their institu- | tions within the past two weeks refused ! admission to two dying children. Meeting with Director George S. Wil- | son of the Board of Public Welfare and | representatives of the Community | Chest, whose organizations support their hospitals, the superintendents also | sought to improve their admission sys- tems to prevent a recurrence of such cases. Submit Explanations. The superintendents adjourned after a two-hour meeting, during which they | supmitted detailed explanaticns with | respect to the two cases. The reports | were not made public. but a_committee | was appointed to prepare a synopsis for publication tomorrow. | Dr. S. B. Ragsdale, superintendent of | Columbia Hospital, which is not in- | volved in the affairs, was appcinted chairman. Other members include Dr. | F. J. Eiseman, superintendent of Gar- field; Miss Mattie Gibson, superintend- ent of Children's; Dr. Charles S. Cole, superintendent of Sibley; Miss Gertrude Bowling, chairman of the Health Com- mittee of the Council of Social Agen- cies; B. B. Sandidge, superintendent of Emergex Public * Welfare Director | Wilson and Mrs. W. A. Roberts. execu- | tive chairman of the Council of Soctal | Agencies. { Meeting Held Secretly. ! i ‘The meeting was held in an air of |secrccy and care was taken to prevent newspaper men from getting anywhere | near the conference room | Clerks on the ground floor of th- building were instructed not to permit | any one who was not a hospital super- | intendent or & representative of the| Community Chest or Welfare Board ap- | proach the mesting room on the fourth | floor. | The reports on the two cases—those concerning Eva Mae Dixon, 5, who died of burns at Children’s Hospital after! being refused admission at Sibley and | Garfield Hospitals. and Samuel Goddett, | 9, who died of lockjaw at Gallinger after being turned away from Emer- gency and Children's—were prepan‘di at the request of the Community Chest, which called the meeting through ! its council of social agencies. A report already has been submitted by Dr. Edgar Bocock. superintendent of Gallinger. denying blame in another case—that of Catherine Zanelotti. 3.| refused admission to both Children's and Gallinger. BOY FRIEND VISITORS AID GIRL CORRECTION| T = | By the Associated Press | BALTIMORE. October 16.—Delin- | 7 . ST PPN A ssnasett Left to right MARINE'S SUICIDE TRY IS HELD HOA Doctors Fail to Find Trace of Poison He Admitted Having Taken. A former Marine was under observa- tion in Emergency Hospital today after he had casually remarked to two friends last night that he had swallowed 10 grains of deadly poison before dinner. He is Philip Partridge, 22, soh of George E. Partridge, noted psy- chologist of Towson, Md. So far doc- tors have been unable to discover either symptoms of poisoning or evidence that he ever possessed deadly medicine. In- vestigation at the store where Partridge claimed he purchased the drug was met with the denial that any such sale had been made to him. Goes to Girls" Apartment. Partridge came to the apartment of two young women friends at an early hour this morning and asked to be admitted. One of the girls conversed with him for some time. The girl said Partridge remarked that he had taken a large quantity of potson. She persuaded him to go to the hospital, where emergency treatment was_ applied. ©One of the young women said Partridge quent ang incorrigible girls are more ! had told her he had been depressed docile when here yesterday. Mrs. J. L. Averitt. superintendent of | the State Industrial School for Girls, at | Alexandria, La., told the National Con- ference of Juvenile Agencies that her | experience indicated girls in State in- | stitutions are more amenable to cor- | rective measures if their boy friends | were allowed to visit them. More than 1.000 sociologists. parole | workers and officers of institutions for | delinquent children attended the confer- | ence, which will continue through to- | morrow. dated,” it was claimed | BUT BUCHANAN HEIR IS UNAFFECTED. JAMES M. SHERTZER. —Star Staff Photo. Prospects of obtaining a substantial inheritance in the settlement of a New! York estate don't excite James M. Shertzer of 2547 Holmead place. “It is well worth looking into, but I don't plan to spend any money umtil I get it,” Mr. Shertzer said today. He! added, however, he had retained a lawyer and would take whatever legal steps might be necessary to enforce his claim. The large estate involved was left by President Buchanan, of whom Mr. Shertzer is a lineal descendant. The Jong delay in dlstrsbufing the property among the heirs resulted from a 99-year lease which recently expired. The estate is said to have consisted prin- cipally of New York real estate on which skyscrapers now stand. “I knew President Buchanan had large holdings in New York,” Mr. Shertzer said, “but I had no inkling of a settlement until I read a story in_The Star the other day. The item told of efforts by Robert Wilson, mathematics instructor in the Maryland Park High School, to obtain a share of from $500,000 to $800,000 in_the same estate. Mr. Shertzer said he is a great-great- greatnephew of President Buchanan. He is in the department of accounts of the Julius Lal gh Furniture Co, | the and upset because, while serving with 5th Regiment of Marines in Nicaragua, he had killed three men in combat. Corps here indicate that Partridge operated a radio instrument during his service in the battle area. Mental Disnbility. Partridge jolned the Marine Corps in 1928, served in Niceragua from October, 1929, to March, 1931. and was dis- charged for mental disability by the Medical Survey in Scptember of this year. His case was catalogued as “pre- schizophrenia.” Although Partridge will be kept at the hospital for cbservation for some time, Dr. Benjamin Weems, the family physician in attendance, expressed the belief today that mo poison had been taken by the m=n. TWO LIQUOR CASES DEFEATED IN COUR Man Testifies in Rockville Court That Product Found Was for His Own Use. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 16.—Guy Nicholson, son of former Sherifl George E. Nicholson, was found not guilty in the Police Court here yesterday on charges of illegal possession of intoxi- cating liquor and with having in his possession the paraphernalia to manu- facture intoxicating liquor to sell. He was arrested recently following a | visit to his home, near Oakdale, by Sergt. Guy Jones and other Montgom: ery County officers, who found in an outbuilding. so it was testified, a com plete still, two gallons of peach brandy and a barrel of sweet cider. ‘The defendant admitted on the wit- ness stand that he each year converts a barrel of cider into apple brandy for his own use, but insisted that he never | s0ld intoxicating liquor to any one. The ach brandy found by the officers, he swore, he bought for home consumption. Il;lis reputatior. was shown to be of the est. In dismissing the cases Judge Charles ‘W. Wocdward rebuked the defendant for having the still, especially in view of having such a high-class father. Herbert Hell, proprietor of a garage at Brown's Corner, this county, was be- fore Judge Woodward on a charge of having intoxicating liquor in his posses- sion with the intention of selling it and he, too, was acquitted. It was shown that Sergt. Jones and two other officers vsited his place of business and found in an automobile on the premises about two and a half gallons of alleged in- texicating liquor. Heil, however, swore that what was found there was for his own use and that he had never sold intoxicating liquor. Fire Campaign to Start. HYATTSVILLE, Md., October 16 (Special) —Members of the Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department plan to be- gin Monday a house-to-house canvass on their annual honorary membership drive. Literature was being distributed today. Honorary membership dues are $1 annually, but the firemen will wel- come contributions in any amount, The records of the Marine Red Skin Halloween Paraders From Tulsa OKLAHOMA INDIANS WHO WILL TAKE PART IN THE CITY-WIDE DEMONSTRATION HERE. Chief Red Bird, Running Buffalo, Little Bear and Medicine Elk, who will participate in the city's | big Halleween parade along Constitution avenue. x: ARCHITECTS’ BUILDING TO HOUSE U. S. OFFICES Treasury to Turn Structure Over to Grant—Tenants May Stay Until Leases Expire. The Architects' Building at 1800 E slreet will be turned over soon by the Treasury Department to Lieut. Col U. S. Grant, 3d. director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. for use as a_Government building Final details are being completed for turning the title over to the United States from the former owner, the Ordnance Building Corporation.” The building. purchased for $312.500. has more than 38,000 square feet of floor space. What Government agencies will b placed in the building remain for Col Grant to decide. Some of the tenants in the building at present are known to have leases up to December, and it is believed they will be allowed to stay out their leases. TWO WOMEN HURT INTAXI COLLISON Male Companion Also Injured When Cabs Crash in Rear of White House. Two women were injured ,seriously and a male companion hurt slightly when two taxicabs collided on the Ellipse roadway at the rear of the White House grounds last night Miss Margaret Knittle, 30, of the Park Central Apartments, suffered a | possible fracture of the skull and in- ternal injuries; Miss Lucille Gay, 21, | of 1523 Sixteenth street, received cuts | about the Lead -and serious injuries of | the pelvis, and Eugene Sullivan, 53, of Casper, Wyo., a guest at the Washing- | ton Hotel, sustained minor cuts and | bruises. The injured who were riding in a taxicab operated by William J. Me- | | Gearry, 40 years old, of the 700 block | Twenty-second street. were treated at | Emergency Hospital and the two wom- en admitted to the institution for fur- ther attention. Staff physicians re- ported their condition to be undeter- mined today. | Driver Is Arrested. Justiniano Ferrer, 23 years old, of the 900 block Sixteenth 'street, driver (of the cab, was taken into custody | iby police of the third precinct sta- | tion on a reckless driving charge. He | was released on $500 bond for appear- | | ance in Police Court today. | | Another traffic accident in which a | taxicab figured as one of the col- | ;lidlng machines sent Mrs. Beatrice | Shackette, 25 years old. of 3314 Mount | Pleasant street. to Emergency Hospital | with a broken left wrist and two frac- tured ribs last night. Mrs. Shackette was riding in a cab operated by Thomas Ward, 24, of 1229 | Maryland avenue northeast. when it was in collision at Twenty-first and K streets with a car driven by Col. Ken- | neth Morton, 62 years old, Uunited | States Army, retired, of Plymouth, Mass. | Neither driver was held. | Boy Treated for Injuries. Ernest A. White 13, years old, 800 | lock B street southeast, was treated | t Providence Hospital late yesterday | | | b al for injuries suffered when he was struck at Seventh and C streets southeast by | an automobile driven by Marie Cain, 3300 block of Eighth straet northeast. Charges of leaving the scene of an | accident were lodged against Roy E. | Thomas, 19 years old, of University | Park, Md., last night after a machine he was driving figured in a triple col- | lision at Thirteenth street and Penn- | sylvania avenue. | According to first precinct police, Thomas attempted to get away after his car crashed into another driven by Ruth Howe, 1314 Fourteenth street, and caused it to ram the rear of an auto- mobile operated by Edgar C. Kellogg, 3700 Massachusetts avenue. Thomas was overtaken and arrested gt Four- teenth and F streets. PASTOR TRANSFERRED Rev. Francis Cavanagh Is Named to Church of Assumption. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md,, October 16 —Rev. Francis X. Cavanagh, curate of Saint Martins Church, Washington, has been appointed pastor of the Church of the Assumption, Congress Heights, as suc- cesscr to the’ late Father William J. Carroll, it g‘;: announced today by Archbishop Cfirley, | | to $205.000 were accepted for the an- \\?w\- iy e e e R | —Star Staff Photo. | S0000000IN 1940 AW OF CATHOLIC U Endowment Fund Campaign Approved by Eastern Diocesan Conference. | Support_of the plan to establish by | 1940 a $20.000000 unincumbered en- dowment fund to place Catholic Uni- versity cn a more equal basis with other | members of the Association of American | Universities wes voted at an Eastern diocesan conference of the Roman Catholic Church yesterday at Provi- dence. R. I, | The conference also Voted to support plan whereby $1,000.000 would bal ised to be applied against the univer- | tv's present indebtedness. This plan | c2s for difect appeal to a select group | 12y members of various ecclesiastical | $20,000.000 Scen Insufficient. A number of delegates of the three archdioceses and five dioceses Tepre sented at the conference expressed the | sentiment that even the $20.000.000 en- | owment goal would not be sufficient to place Catholic University on an even plane with other universities of the as- | sociation. Until economic conditions | have improved, however, no effort will | be made to raise a greater sum. Mgr Ryan, rector of the institution. said. Despite the recognition of unfavorable economic conditions at present, the bishops and sheir representatives were | enthusiastic in their support of the plans adopted recently by the board of | trustees of Catholic University for the development of the institution. Eight diocesan targets totaling from $176,000 | | nual collection Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Shechy, in pre- senting the needs of the university. | pointed out the comparative poverty of | the institution and indicated the fact many_Catholics are lending support to | non-Cathplic universities in their gifts and endo¥ments. He asserted the proj- ect to be undertaken would work hard- | ship upon no individual or upon no section of the country Bishop Hickey Presides. “In times such as we are now wit- nessing,” he said, “every institution ' finds it necessary to indulge in a finan- | cial examination of conscience and ®o| make sure that its finances are upon a sound business-like basis. Catholic | University always has been supported | by hit-and-miss efforts. It isthigh time that we stabilize the income of the school.” The conference, conducted to ratify | or modify a development program out- | lined for the university at recent re-| 2tonal megtings in Atlantic City, Cleve- Jand Omaha and Los Angeles, Was pre- sided over by Bishop William A. Hickey of Providence. CORONER’S JURY SAYS DEATH IS ACCIDENTAL Verdict Returned Following Probe Ordered Into Circumstances of Woman's Passing. A verdict of accidental death was re- ing an inquest into the death of Mrs. Katie Knox, 60, of 1006 I street. who | was found dead Wednesday morning. THe jury reported that the woman died as a result of acute dilation cf the heart, induced by alcoholism. and strangulation caused when she fell un- conscious across the leg of a table in the room in which she *was found. The inquest was ordered by Dr. Joseph Rogers, «deputy ccroner, when he dis- covered bruises on the woman's body. Dr. A. Magruder McDonald testified the l;r]\]xlses were caused when the woman ell. Mrs, Knox was the wife of James Knox, retired Army sergeant who is confined to Casualty Hospital, pros- trated by his wife's death. MARTINSBURG SHRINERS HOSTS FOR CEREMONIAL Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., October 16. ~—Seven hundred Shriners from Eastern West Virginia points and nearby Mary- land, Pennsylvania and Virginia tem- ples were here today for a one-day cere- monial by Osiris Temple, O. . 8, of Wheeling. | ingham, | District HEARING ON SLATE. FORD. C. WILL AR PROTEST BY DAVIS Discrimination Is Charged by Senator in D. C. Tests of Roofing Material. PROTEST TO BE HEARD TUESDAY AT MEETING Claim of Discrimination Here Is Brought to Head by Lettes to District Officials. _ Charges of discrimination in favor of Virginia slate for District building roofs, as against Pennsylvania slate, made jto the Districi Commissioners by Sen- ator James J. Dav meeting next Tuesday of a committee named by the Commissicners to judge the relative merits of slates from the two States. The dispute has been in progress for several months in the form of corre- spondence between the Senator and En- gineer Commissioner John C. Gotwals and Assistant Engineer Commissioner Donald A. Davison It was brought to a head by a recent letter of the Senator, in which he de- scribed the conclusions of the District officials as “entirely unsatisfactory to me.” will be aired at & Davis Hits Specifications. Senator Davis' letter reads. in part: “From the letters from Maj. Davie son and the municipal architect, Al- bert L. Harris, I can draw only the conclusion that the District Govern= ment is determined to use only Buck- Va., slate on its buildings, and is content to do so without mak- ing any investigation of the merits of slates from other districts. Such in- vestigation as has been made seems to be cursory, and has been mainly along the lines of quoting from authorities 1 whose works are out of date and whose igatians do not stand up in the it of recent tests.” In another part of the letter. after describing the tests to which slate is subjected before it is admitted for use on District municipal buildings, Sena- it tor Davis s. “In other words, the specifications for the District have been {drawn up so that Buckingham slate can meet exactly the tests and slates jof a higher quality will be rejected.” Group Named for Hearing. ‘This letter, written to Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer. president of the board, resulted in the order setting up a com- mittee to hear the Pennsvlvania slate men state their case. The committee consists of Assistant Municipal Archi- tect S. B. Walsh, Assistant Purchasing Officer M. D. Lindsay and D. W. Kessler. a slate expert employed by the Bureau of Standards The Pennsylvania interests. headed by Harry Stoddard of Pen Argyl. claim that slate quarried in the Pen Argyl and Peachbottom districts in Pennsyivania is the finest in the United States. The spegifications for slate to be used on District municipal buildings say that bidders must prove that they are sup- plying a slate which has been in use for at least five vears on other munici- pal buildings in the city. There are no specifications for roofing slate in the standard specifications of the Federal Government. and it is un- derstood that the slate interests will try to recure the inclusion of specifications in the Federal contracts which will per- mit Pennsylvania slate to compete on even terms with the Virginia slate. Most of the specifications used by the purchasing department are taken from the Federal specifications. DELEGATES SELECTED BY GARFIELD CITIZENS Asscciation Picks Representatives to Federation and Names Committees. The Garfield Citizens' Association. at its first meeting of the season, Wednes- day night. in_Garfield School, nomi- nated W. H. Lewis, jr. president, for membership on the Advisory Council and Executive Committee of the Fed- eration of Civic Associations. Other delegates and alternates se- lected as representatives to the federa- tion are W. D. McCain, W. W. Murray. J Forest and W. R. Giles. delegates. and R. Chase, B. B. Joyce. A. Dang field, Mrs. N. Babby and T. E. Hern- don. alternates. Committees selected for the ensuing year follow: Education, W. P. Taylor, chairman: J. W. Caldwell, Mrs. A. Am- bush, Mrs. M Shores and A. Dan- gerfleld: Streets and Lights. J. Forrest, chairman; Mrs J. Lloyd. H. Ride- out and Mrs. N. Baddy, Water and Sewerage, T. E. Herndon. chairman; J. Green, Mrs. J. E. Caldwell and Mrs. L. Keen: Police and Fire Protection. W. D McCain, chairman: T. Jones and M Wright; Sanitation. R. Chase. cha; man; B. B. Joyce and Rev. L. P. H ring: Publicity, W. W. Murray, chair- man: Mrs. N. V. Hillery and S. J. Heb- ron: Transportation, W. R. Giles. chair- man; E. Whiting and A. L. Rollins. A resolution requesting a cinder walk be placed on Alabama avenue southeast ih the association’s territory as a safety for school children from speeding automobiles was adopted. Res- idents of Ainger place southeast ex- pressed satisfaction with the condition of the thoroughfare, recently resurfaced | turned today by a coroner’s jury follow- | with slag. Mr. Lewis presided and made an- nouncement of an election of officers {10 be held the second Wednesday in | November, the next meeting date. CLUB CHAIRMEN NAMED Officials Chosen by Head of Prince Georges Women's Group. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md, October 16. —Appointment of three new chairmen | for the Federation of Women's Clubs of Prince Georges County was ane nounced today by Mrs. Rudolph S. Ale len, president. New officials are Mrs. Cora Mayber- ry of Mellwood, chairman of resolu- tions; Mrs. John Bartoline of Mount Rainier, chairman of art, and Mrs. W. R. Ballard of Hyattsville, chairman of literature. PR Rally Day at Tuxedo. TUXEDO, Md., October 16 (Special). —Rally day will be celebrated and a community social will be held tomorrow evening under the auspices of the A class of candidates will be initiated tonight. A dance was held last night for the visitors. Norman G. Friedrichs is {llustrious potentate of the temple, Tuxedo }ethodist Episcopal Church. Old-fashion games will be played and entertainment, will be furnished by giem« bers of the church’s congregatisc.