Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1931, Page 17

’ i * The FEpening Star WA HINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, HOOVER IS INITED T0 REVIEW PARADE HALLOWEEN NIGHT Havenner and Roberts Send Bid to President as Plans | for Divisions Are Laid. l GEN. STEPHAN TO LEAD PROCESSION UP AVENUE Halt to Be at Street Carnival Fete | on Constitution Avenue—Line of March Has Five Groups. President Hoover today was invited | by Dr. George C. Havenner, president | of the Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions, and W. A. Roberts, chairman of | th:\c-l Halloween Celebration Com-! mittee, to review the Halloween parade tomorrow night on Constitution avenue The invitation was extended to the President through Lawrence Richey, one of the White House secretaries. Dr. Havenner and Mr. Roberts were assured thag the matter would be brought to the President’s attention and that he would give it his consideration. Wuhlnfflln will drop the vestments of official dignity tomorrow night to bedizen itself for the first civic cele- bration of Halloween. Heretofore marked only by schoolboy ranks and scattered private festivities, Halloween of 1931 will be distin- guished by a gayly costumed proces- sion of marchers and floats in a pa- rade from Seventh street and Penn- sylvania avenue to Fourteenth street, at 8 pm. Saturday, which then turn toward Constitution ave- nue, where & street carnival and dance will be in full swing. Parade to Have Six Groups. Immediately following the parade, sil- wer cups, trophies and a variety of other prizes will be awarded for the outstanding floats, decorated vehicles, marching groups and individual cos- tumes observed in the = e Clifford K. b ul Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, and David Lynn. Final arrangements for the division of the icipants into five groups were made Jast night at a meeting of the Citizens' Committee in charge of the demonstration. Leading the colorful line of clowns, ‘witches, goblins, shades of the past and visions of the future will be a group headed by the grand marshal, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan: his aides, distin- guished guests, the High School Con- solidated Band and the High Schocl Cadet Corps Band. Firemen Enter Float. Foll them, in group 2, will be the \yfln'mm of 'Foreign Wars Band, Drum and Bugle Corps. Federation of Citizens’ Associations float, Association of Oldest Inhabitants float, Society of | Natives and float, Metropolitan Police, Community Center Department, float, marchers and Washington Elks Boys’ Band; Southeast Community Center float and marchers, Park View Com- munity Center marchers, No. 22 Fire Engine Company, District of Columbia Fite rtment, float; Columbia Heights Business Men's Association and float, N. M. tor, Edward Grovo, Lola Stanzman, . Miss Mamie Melich, R. E. Elgin, H. Gibson, Logan: as Circle Citi- mens’ Association float; Southwest Citi- wens' Association float, Southwest Citi- mens’ Assoclation-Neighborhood House float, Glover Park Cigeens’ Association, eight vehicles and marchers; Theta Alpha Chi decorated vehicle, Caroline Allen decorated vehicle. Gmug three will comprise the Wash- on Boys' Independent Band; George ashington University float; Women's {Athletic Association of George Wash- ington University, float and marchers; irroughs Citizens’ Association, float; dall Highlands Citizens' Association, ; Lincoln Park Citizens' Associa= Association, float; Costello Post, ‘American Legion: Benning _Parent- Teachers' Association, float; Peabody, | Hilton, Carberry Parent-Teachers’ As- | iation, float and six decorated cars: | Brookland Citizens' Association, float | and marchers; Michigen Park Citizens’ Association, float and marchers; Clan cClennan, float and marchers; Carrie mens' Association, group of marchers; Washington Highlands Citizens’ Asso- elatlon. hore! Dahlgrn Terrace e izens’ Association, decorated cars: E rated George F. R. Randall, vehicle, and Mr. Denny, vehicle. Leglonnaires Will March. Group 4 includes Victory Post Drum and Bugle Corps, American Legion; Pnfirenslve Georgetown Citizens' Asso- ciation, float; District of Columbia Congress of Parents and, Teachers, float: Buchanan Parent-Te: ciation, float; Francis Scott Key Par- | ent-Teacher Association, float; Conduit | Road Citigens’ Association, float; | FPriendship Heights Citizens’ Associa tion, decorated car; Richman Park Citizens’ Association, car: North Cleve- land Park Citizens’ Association, float; Congress Heights Citirens’ Associaton. float; Fox Theater Band: individual marchers, including C. H. Clements. M. Ewin, William Drysdale, Ella Drysdale, Dorothy K. Thompson, Georgie E. Mills, Ruby Marsh, Glenna Watts, Vio- Jet Drysdale; also Kenilworth Citizens’ Association group; Mid-City Sales Co.. Takoma Citizens' Association, Chillum Citizens’ Associaton, Stuart Junior High School, float. comprise the 121st . District National Guard and float; Midcity Citizens' As- sociation, floats and bands, following commercial floats entered by ‘Washington merchants: Woodward & Lothrop. Lansburgh's, S. Kann Co. Palais Royal, Hecht Co. Goldenberg's People’s Drug Stores, Peter J. Nee Co., | Washington Gas Light Co., Hub Furni- ture Co., Union Terminal Market Co. New Center Market, Call Carl, Inc.; Ambassador Laundry, Columbia Heights Business Men, Kahn Optical Co., New- land's . Midcity Sales Co. Peo- les Service Garage, W. A. Merrell. Nu- ey Co.. Inc.: Hahn Shoe Store, Wis- consin Motor Co. and King's Palace. Union Musicians to Play Gratis. The Musicians’ Union today declined MOITOW’S be staged by the Washington Board of Trade and the Pederation of Citizens' Associations The unlon made two concessions, however. It gave its permission to any nm-mh'l:"ho‘mlodomln donate their services to the fete, and also gave them permission to play with mon-union musicians. The union's position was outlined in @ Jetter from Secretary John E. Birdsell . of the union to William A Roberts, chairman of the federation’s ‘Committee. and the | Dies in Fall - | A Union Files Brief in Support{ FATAL ACCIDENT LA T0 0LD INJURY Fire Lieutenant Retired for Crushed Arm Is Victim of Fall at Home. ‘The same injury that forced Lieut. Eimer Hanback to give up active duty with the Fire Department probably was responsible for his death last night in a fall down the cellar steps of the, home where he was living in retirement, at 3811 Kansas avenue., He was 46 years old. i Lieut. Hanback's right arm developed partial paralysis after it been crushed in a fire ladder, and he was re- tired from the department some 18 months_ago. He also sustained internal injuries, according his family, and an after- math of these had confined him to his bed for the past week. Last night he felt somewhat better and offered to assist his wife, Mrs. Ella Louise Han- back, with the household duties. Stumbled on Steps. He started down the steps with a bas- ket of trash in his good hand and two ginger ale bottles in the weakened fingers of the other. He stumbled on the steps and plunged face forward, cutting his throat in some manner on the brok=n ginger ale bottles. It is believed Lieut. Hanback, when he stumbled, grasped at the railing with his right hand and let the bottles fall on the concrete floor below. Un- able to check his impetus, however, he plunged forward onto the jagged glass, :fi"d"""“"' to the basket in his left n No one heard him fall, and when he failed to return after a reasonable length of time, Mrs. Hanback investi- gated and found him dying from loss | of blood at the foot of the steps. Mrs, Hanback ran to the home of a neighbor and summoned assistance, but her husband was dead when Dr. John F. Brennan of 1201 Monroe _street northeast arrived. Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, acting coroner, issued a certificate of accidental death. Given Lieutenancy in 1924, Lieut. Hanback served in Department for more than 23 years and ap) ted to his lieutenancy in . e served with No. 7 and No. 1 "l;rucl;smucmu Was ;-er.tred from 0. e Company for physical gu‘abuny, due to accident !nvllne of uty. In addition to his wife, Lieut. Han- back is survived by his father, John Hanback of Fredericksburg, Va.; four sisters, Mrs. Sadie Withers and Mrs. Gertie Peyton, both of Fredericksburg, and Mrs. Nettie Carter and Mrs. Mabel Amos of Washington, and three brothers, Homer and Ellis Hanback of Washington and Murray Hanback of mearby Virginia. His body was removed to the funeral parlor of W. W. Chambers, where serv- ices will be held at a time to'be an- nounced later. The funeral will be conducted by Joppa Lodge of Masons, a which Lieut. Hanback was a mem- 4 GAS COMPANY SUBMITS PRESSURE GAUGE LIST Includes 25 Tentative Locations in Residential Sections for In. 2 stallation. A list of 25 tentative locations for installation of pressure gauges by the Washington Gas Light Co. was sub- mitted by Walter M. Russell, its chief engineer, to the Public Utilities Com- mission yesterday. The installation of the gauges was ordered by the commis- |slon when it increased the pressure kher Asco. | limits allowable in the company’s mains | from 6 10 8 inches maXimum and from 2 0 3 inches minimum. The locations are scattered through { various residential sections of the city. | A further list of 15 locations in the downtown business area will be sub- mitted later. The commission will consider the | appropfateness of the different loca- | tions next week. T FOR EDISON ‘The location and form of a struc- |light which is to be & national me- |morial to Thomas A. Edison, prob- ably { were discussed todayby a special loc { committee of the memorial organiza- tion, with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the office of public build- ings and public parks. Discussion, however, was entirely pre- liminary, and a further meeting will be held next Monday. when the matter will be presented to the Pine Arts Commission. No funds are to be raised publicly either in Washington or elsewhere, it was stated by Pairfax Naulty, engineer, who is secretary of the committee. The cost of the memorial is to be met by private interests, and the memorial is 19 be presented to the National Capital as the normal location for a national memorial to Mr. Edison. ‘The form most favorably considered was understood to be that of a Grecian tripod and brazier. This would be of bronze. a structure probably not more than 35 feet in height. with a big bowl & the Fire | ture to project the gigantic beam of | in the vicinity of Hains Point, | STREET CAR MEN PLEAD FOR RELIEF FROM:GAB RIVALRY of Traction Companies Asking Taxi Curb. INTENT OF CONGRESS CITED AS REGULATORY | | Appeal to Public Utilities Body | Hits Fleets of Hackers' Vehicles Operating in Capital. The Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Rallway Employes, | Division 669, filed with the Public Utili- | ties Commission today a brief pleading | for relief from unregulated competi- | tion by taxicabs. The brief was forwarded under the | signature of M. W. Poole, president. and John H. Cookman, secretary. It was” prepared by Attorneys Daniel S. Ring and Walter S. Bastian. The Amalgamated is well known as among the most conservative of the labor movement. Its members here are employes of the Capital Traction Co., | as the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. maintains an open shop policy. | 'This is the first time the union ever | has asserted itself locally on a contro- | versial question not strictly confined to capital-labor policies. ‘Workers Back Employers. In explaining its position, the union says: “The members of the union have not always been aligned shoulder to choulder with their employers. Many items of disagreement in the past have clearly defined the traditional line demarcating capital and organized labor. “But in this instance, feeling that they are an integral part of the trans- portation system of the city, feeling that the interests of the public they which the: s et e copenny L 082 are identical. this organization and its members stand squarely behind the roposition of regulation for taxicabs pin the District of Columbia for the fol- lowing reasons: “Because it is necessary to régulate | all_utilities and allow none to competa unham in the same line of ac- tivity in the very essence of fairness. Congress’ Intention Cited. “Because it is necessary for the benefit of the public to maintain permanence in the utilities serving the public and in_the standards of service tendered by them. | “Because it is necessary to prevent | the present high standards of local | utilities declining in some instances to a level of non-regulated irresponsibility. “And, finally, because it is the mani- fest intention of Congress that the | Public Utilities Commission act in such a matter.” i Taxicab Fleets Are Scored. The body of the brief has harsh | words to say of the fleets of taxicabs ‘Washington 1 | as | Japanese jinrickshas, in mushrooms, and in a fourth as Arabs. Any person who will present a rental agency with a $5 bill and produce a hacker’s license can set up business as | an unregulated public utility, in com- | petition ~with the long established | street car poncerns, which are compelled | to submit to burdensome regulations in the public interest, it charges. BAZAAR DATES SET The Ladies Guild of Calvary M. E. Church, Columbia road between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets, will hold its annual bazaar on the afternoons and evenings of November 17 and 18, The executive board in charge of ar- rangements is composed of Mrs. Edwin Dice, president; Mrs. J. S. Bixler, first vice president; Mrs. Henry L. Hunter, second vice president; Mrs. Elliott F. | Brumbaugh, Trecording secretary; Mrs. E. E. Ingle, corresponding and Mrs, Elwood Meitzler, treasurer. [ B FLOUR FUND INCREASES Almost a third of the funds needed to purchase a carload of flour for des- titute West Virginia miners has been obtained in the drive launched last week, Mrs. Todd C. Sharp, chairman, announced today. Many donations of old clothes also have been made. A card party will be held November 7 in_the Masonic Temple at Eighth | and F streets northeast. The proceeds will go toward buying flour. Mrs. James | B. Driscoll will be in charge. She will be assisted by Mrs. William Daugherty. Mrs, Sharp said all donations might be sent to the headquarters, 119 C street southeast. ENTA’I;WE PLANS CéI;ISIDERED MEMORIAL LIGHT Preliminary Discussion Held on Proposed Monument to Be Located in Ca pital. p supported on three slender legs. the bowl would be projected a rful searcblight which could be 100 miles in all directions. This t would be not only a thing of beauty, an intangible beam. with the light itself a memorial to Edison, but it would serve in addition a practical purpose as aid to navigation for both ships in the Potomac and for aircraft over the Capital. R Members of the committee discussed various phases of the memorial from the angle ofstheir own profession—Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, repre- senting science; Capt. Prederick Hell- weg, U. S. N., superintendent of the Naval Observatory, representing naviga- tion; C. Melvin Sharpe of the Potomac Electric Power Co. Tepresenting power and light; Issac Gans orLs-x: & o& representing commerce; L. Stodda: Taylor, manager of Belasco Theater, re) ting the stage, and Fairfax representing engineering. Sharpe acted as temporary chair- The District Plank. Democrats Are Urged by Committeeman Costello to Include in Their Platform a Declaration of | { | { Americanism for the Voteless Residents of Washington. John F. Costello, Democratic mational committeeman for the District of Columbia, today announced that he had forwarded the following letter to' John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. em- bodying his views as to what District of Columbia Democrats desire in the 1932 national platform: . October 28, 1931. Hon. John J. Raskob, Chairman, Democratic National Committee, National Press Building, Washington, D. C. My Dear Mr. Chairman: Your communication to the members of the committee asking their views as to what our next platform should contain regarding certain issues has been carefully considered by me. Naturally, in com- mon with all other Americans, the half-a-million residents of the District of Columbia are vitally interested in, and affected by, the various matters of National policy to be set forth in the platform of the Democratic party. There is, however, one marked difference in the case of the residents of the District of Columbia because of the |anomalous and unAmerican conditions under which the{ live, de- | priving them of all power of enforcing, in any measure, their ideas | of governmental policy. Because of this condition there is little point {in our sufge.stlng general National subjects for inclusion in the plat- {form while there exists very vital need for recognizing us as Ameri- can citizens and for according us our just share of participation in the Government of our country. For the reasons above mentioned we are suggestin _prayln§ for the inclusion of the following District of |in the forthcoming platform: “District of Columbia. ‘We faver granting to the residents of the District of Columbia adequate voting representation in Congress, the right to vote for President and Vice President and the same right to sue and be sued in the courts of the United States as is enjoyed by the citizens of a State and by aliens. Denial of such basic Americaa rifi:ts to an intelligent community of American taxpayers is contrary to the tra- ditional policy of the Democratic party, which has always stood firm for preserving faithfully the tie between taxa- tion and representation. We hold that officials appointed to administer the government of any Territory, together with the District of Columbia, should be bona-fide residents of the Terri- tory or District in which their duties are performed. The members of the Democratic party in the District of Columbia believe that the time has come for the party to grant them this recog- nition and encouragement in their National patform. We Washing- tonians continue to suffer the humiliation of witnessing the exercise of the highest right and power of American sovereignty by all Ameri- cans of continental and contiguous United States except in the District of Columbia. ! We are still the only Americans to whom the basic American principles are a mockery. In the world’s great republic_just gov- ernment is rooted in “consent of the governed,” except in the District of Columbia. In relation to National laws, the sole function of the District resi- dents is to obey. They take no part in making the laws which they must obey. In relation to National taxes, their sole function is to pay. Though they contributed in National taxes in 1930 more thdn 25 of the States, they have nothinilm say, like other National taxpayers, concerning the amount and kind of taxes they shall pay and how the tax money shall be spent. In relation to National war, their sole function is to fight in obedience to command. Though they sent more soldiers and sailors to the Great War than seven of the States, they have no voice like other Americans in the councils which determine war or peace. They have no representation in the Government which |requlres them to fight, to bleed, and perhaps to die. In representation in the legislagtive branch and by the executive and earnestly ‘olumbia plank {branch of tH® National Government, they are on the same footing as aliens. Before the judicial branch of the National Government they are, the United States Supreme Court says, less than aliens in the right to sue and be sued. In total population the District of Columbia outranks 8 States and in ulation of voting nge outranks 10 States. The District of Columbia has a larger population than any State at the time ofiits admission into the Union with the single exception of Oklahoma. and evidence in support of our proposed District of Columbia plank, but will at the proper time request a full hearinghupon this question. It is sincerely hoped that this matter will have your favorable and friendly interest. Yours sincerely, JOHN F. COSTELLO, National Committeeman for the District of Columbia. MAN FALLS THREE ' WOMAN BEATEN UP FLOORS, IS DYING. BY HUSBAND GAINS Companion Held in Pblice Man Flees and Kills Self Probe of Plunge Denies | After Breaking ; | Being in Room. Wife’s Jaw. While Carl Huff, 40, lay near death| Mrs. Margaret Loveless, 26-year-old in Casually Hospital today, police were Covernment clerk, Was recovering in endeavoring to clear up the mystery | Emergency Hospital today from a beat- surrounding his plunge from a third- |, STRRCE SORR R OGO end, story window of his home at 148 Elev- enth street southeast late yesterday. [Albert L. Loveless, who killed himsel! Huff a few minutes after assaulting her. ‘was found lying unfon:clou: in the small vard in front of the house About 5:25 pam.. by 10-vear-otd | | Mrs. Loveless has a broken jaw. but m{,mw‘ Douglas Zimmerman. The boy | Nospital authorities sald her condition call ed his mother, Mrs. Jorsx‘ehzgml;‘::. |is not serious. man, at whose home Hu al D | Mrs. Loveless left her husband's home staying for the past few weeks. | in Hyattsville Heights, Md., & week ago Denies Being in Room. land moved into an apartment at 1216 After Huff had beep~ taken to the | Tenth street. hospital in an ambulance summoned Floors Wife With Fists. by Mrs. Ruth Bishop, 15¢ Eleventh | The husband came to her apartment street southeast, police began an in- | 19. ‘We will not at this time burden you with additional argument | The vestigation. The inquiry is said to have revealed Huff and Roy W. Harding, 30, of 3804 Veazey street, were together in the front room on the third floor of the house a few minutes before the injured man was found in the yard below. { In the room, police found a checker | board, arranged as though a game had been in progress. Harding denied he had been playing with Huff, however. | At the time Huff plunged from the window. Harding declared, he was in the bath room. Man Held for Probe. Purther investigation disclosed Huff apparently was trimming a running vine outside the window when he either fell | or was pushed. Harding was arrested and held for investigation at the fourth precinct police station, but later was re- Jeased in the custody of his attorney, T. P. Burke. Harding. according to police, sald he heard Huff call to some boys in the street, inviting them to play checkers with him, a few moments before his three-story drop. On arrival at the hospital Huff was found to be suffering from a fractured skull, cuts about the head and face and | severe body bruises. Physicians declared his chances for recovery are slim Before the arrival of the ambulance which carried Huff to the hospital, Mrs. | Julia Hartley, 146 Eleventh street south- | east, saw him lying in the yard and | fainted. She was revived by members of | her family. Prior to jolning his sister, Huff, an | electrician, is sald to have been con- | nected with a traveling carnival. e A R Plan Halloween Bake Sale. RIVERDALE, Md., October 30 (Spe-| cial).—A Halloween bake sale will be held all day tomorrow at West Madison avenue and the Washington-Baltimore Boulevard by the Woman's Club of Riverdale for the benefit of local wel- - yesterday, forced his way in and knocked her down several times with his fists. Then he ran across the street into an hlley and fired a pistol bullet through his head. He was dead when police arrived. Mrs. Loveless went to Mrs. P. C. Collins, resident manager of the apartment house, for help. Mrs. Col- lins gave the injured woman first aid and then called the police ahd fire rescue squad. Police Say Man Was Angered. There were no witnesses to the beating, but police said the man be- came enraged after failing to effect a reconciliation. The couple had been married about 10 years. Loveless, who was 35, is survived by two_brothers and three sisters, James C. Loveless of Berwyn Heights, Wil- liam Loveless of Easton, Md.; Mrs. | Lillian Bergling of Washington, Mrs. Effie Smith of Hyattsville Heights and a sister in Michigan. “PERSONAL BEHAVIOR” SUBJECT OF LECTURE Dr. psychiatrist, J. Duerson -Stout, | will discuss “Personal Behavior” in the third lecture tonight of a “personality develoent” course sponsored by the Phalanx Fraternity and the rel and social departments of the Y. M. C. A. Dr. Stout will explain the psychology | of personality and how it affects the human behavior. The discussion, free to all men, will take place in the Central Y. M. C. A. building, 1736 G street at 8 o'clock. Col. Wilber S. Tupper, authority on Spanish-American history and customs, will give an illustrated lecture on Latin America tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the assembly hall of the Central Y. M. C. A. His subject will be “Between the Canal and the Rio Grande.” The pub- lic is invited. There will be no admis- charge. 31. * PAGE B—1 STRANGE FACULTY | OF IMAGE - SEEING BOYS SHOWN HERE Half of Pupils in Big School Found to Have Some Traces of Eidetic Ability. EFFECT ON TEACHING MAY BE PRONOUNCED Children Who See Withdrawn Pic- ture as Reality Discovered by Psychologist. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ‘The strange phenomenon of eidetic imagery among children is being inves- tigated in the psychological laboratory of the Catholic University here. Dr. John W. Rauth, conducting his investigations among the 700 boys at St. Mary's Industrial School in Balti- more, the alma mater of Babe Ruth, is finding that approximately 50 per cent of the g;l:fll possess to some degree this cur faculty which was discov- ered a few years ago in Germany. Hitherto it has been considered in America & rare individual peculiarity, and Dr. Rauth’s work constitutes one of the first investigations of the phe- nomenon made on this side of the Atlantic. ‘The pupils at St. Mary's, Dr. Rauth says, represent a fair cross section of American boyhood. They cover a wide range of racial ‘stock, ages, physical types, intelligence and personality. Very few of the children represent ab- normal chai problems. The Ger- man psyche ists have presented con- siderable evidence that children who possess the eidetic image faculty bene- fit by a radically diffesent educational procedure than_ that commonly fol- lowed in the schools: If the ratio of such children among boys and girls in {enen , in the United States, is close 0 that being shown among the St. Mary's boys, the implications for edu- cational reform are far-reaching. Dr. Rauth brought a group of the “eidetikers” to the university yesterday, and a class of advanced students watched with wide-eyed wonder as the timid youngsters did stunts that verged on the miraculous. The eidetic image is a phenomenon of that largely unex- plored territory between the physiologi- cal and the mental. It is known only among children. and always disappears shortly after puberty. It is described as an intermediate step between the after image and the memory image, both of which can be produced with the average person. Experiment in Physiology. ‘The average person looks intently for about a half second on a pure color —for example, red or green. The object may be a colared light or a square of cardboard. Then the stimulus is re- moved and the person continues to gaze intently upon a neutral colored back- ground, sueh as a greyish screen. The patch of color will remain for a brief interval—only it will be the comple- mentary color to that which actually was seen. That is, the person who has been gazing on & spot of green will see a spot of red. This is the after image. experiment is common in phy: logical laboratories. It is entirely physi- ological, explainable in terms of the “seeing_mechanism.” Now let the average person look in- tently at a picture, trying to absorb as many details as possible. Then close the eyes, or look into a neutral background, and -try to recall the pic- ture. Nothing actually will be seen, but by a mental effort the various de- tails can be described from memory. The picture is called up again, as it were, inside the mind. The eyes see nothing. But the “eidetikers” are different. After the picture is removed they ac- tually see it again, as a physical real- ity, on the neutral colored screen. Asked to describe such a picture they tell not what they remember but what they see with their eyes in front of them. The whole attitude of the child is one of intent observation, not of trying to recall something. The eyes are never lifted, as is the case when a person is trying to remember. The child’s body is tense, the eyes fixed straight ahead. The picture fades out suddenly. The child either stops at once or, in an effort to please, begins recounting details from memory. In the latter case the difference in the subject’s whole attitude immediately is obvious. Cruelal Tests Made. Dr. Rauth has several crucial tests to show that the child is not deserib- ing something he remembers. One of these tests is to have the subject fixatey his attention for 35 seconds on a simple geometrical design. Then it is with- drawn and the child left looking upon a pure white screen. He is given a results are obvious tracings, not draw- ings from memory. These children are untrained in drawing—yet the propor- tions come out almost exactly right and little irregularities purposely intro- duced in the figures, such as breaks in lines, appear just as they were in the original. Another trick is to use two identical pictures, except for one or two minor details. With, one of these pictures the child becomes familiar. It is used five or six times in the same experiment, or it may be some storybook picture Ll'\ ’wlhx"ceh t:ne ‘g;x‘hject has shown spe- cial interest. thout saying anythi to the child Dr. Rauth dfl.r:dueu ‘the other picture. The true “eidetiker” never is caught by the insignificant changes in detail. He describes the substituted picture just as it is, be- cause he is describing what he sees and not what he remembers. It is not necessary, however, to use pictures. e “eidetiker” gets these images, which by an effort of the will can be recalled indefinitely as actual physical pictures and not as memories, of objects in which he becomes inter- ested in his daily life. These children never had been in Washington before. Dr. Rauth asked several of them to de- scribe the Catholic University Building in front of which they had gotten out of his automobile. They had seen it only momentarily. Nothing had been called to their attention. They imme- diately began to describe details of the architecture and of the statue in front of the building, obviously because they saw the structure itself on the neutra. pel, with which they are very familiar. Still with the attitude of looking at a real picture they could de- scribe technical details—the number cf candles in one place and the number in another—which mo child could be expected to remember without special training. Many Have Faculty. ‘The discovery that such a great pro- portion of the children have this faculty 1= the surprising feature of Dr. Rauth’s Novelist Coming | SABATINT WILL SPEAK HERE TUESDAY. Rafael Sabatinl, the distinguished glish-Italian novelist. will appear for the first time before a Capital audience next Tuesday evening at 6:15 o'clock, ! when he will speak at the Central High School auditorium. The writer, whose romantic, historical novels, “Scaramouchey” “Capt. Blood” and “Sea Hawk,” are known through- out the world, will be introduced by Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington cor- respondent for the London Times. Sa- batini will have the choice of two topics, “History in Fiction” and “Fic- tion in History,” both of which are closely interwoven in his past writings. Appearing as the guest of the Com- munity Institute of Washington, Saba- tini will be the first speaker of the sea- son in the institute’s literature series. Inasmuch as there is great demand for tickets to hear the novelist on this, his first American lecture tour, Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt, secretary of the Com- munity Institute, announced today that tickets have been placed on sale at the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, the Willard Hotel, A. A. A. headquarters or may be ordered by telephone at National 1300, the institute’s office. Sabatini will arrive here Monday aft- ernoon. | _____ —— SUSPECT ESCAPES POLICEMAN IN MOB Knife Drawn by Colored Man, Who Flees Amid Fusillade After Struggle. A colorsd bootlegger suspect Who drew a knife and attempted to stab Patrolman E. L. Dalstrom when the po- liceman halted him last night, escaped amid a fusillade of shots after a struggle in which an angry mob tried to take the prisoner from the officer. Dalstrom, attached to the first in- spectiop district headquarters, and Phil- 1lip May, a friend, were driving through DIFFICULTIES SEEN N U.S.10B STDY FOR OBLESS RELEF Federation Head Says Fed- eral Workers Are Ready to Co-operate. SURVEY IS RECOMMENDED BY HOOVER COMMITTEE jSenator Dill Favors Salary Cut of 10 Per Cent From President on Down. Although expressing willingness to have a study made of the possibility of spreading employment within the Fed- eral service as one means of providing work for unemployed, Luther C. Stew- ard, president of the Natfonal Federa- tion of Federal Employes, indicated to- day that there would be difficulties in the way of such proposals. ‘The 10-point program for improving conditions throughout the country, pre- pared by a committee of the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief and made public yesterday, included this suggestion regarding Federal, State and municipal services: Ask Thorough Survey. distinguished from private em- Pl ent, there is a vast fcmun in Fed- eral, State and local public service un- der civil service .‘ppomuiunt, which in general has not felt the ‘h of un- employment or been called upon to share their hours of work. If a truly 3‘2‘% t:xll.lmm effort is to be ll} , up, representing one of the largest le blocs of labor, must be called upon for their fair contribu- tion. ‘This committee upon the elected and appo! of the inted Federal, State and municipal govern- ts isal of ments and the heads of all to at once enter into an a the facts and to make a de: effort mlcontrlglxnu to the .g,ahner‘slmoh}ectln." n_another para o program the Relief Oommlg:e made a m‘fi.- o 3 S ey Sk g off or , or in labor, preference should be given, as between equally efficient workers, to married men with dependents residing in a community six months or more; sil:fle men or women with dependent and single men or women, above school age, without dependents, but with no other means of support. Have Given to Charity. “Federal employes have contributed generously to Community Chests, Red Cross drives and unemployment funds,” said Mr. Steward, of Pederation Federal Employes, “and stand ready to give A:ux:obe{n!mm hetr Hmited tncomes. - e possibility of employment within the meum (as suggested in point No. 5 of the relief organization's plan) we are more than willing tha appraisal of the n t an facts by the heads.of departments and establishments be made and will do everything possible to assist in such a survey.” Mr. Steward said that as he read the recommendations the e seemed to be on municipal For the the 2100 block of Eighth street in the former’s -automobile when Dalstrom leaped from the car and placed a col- ored pedestrian under arrest on a liquor charge. ‘The mgn whipped out a knife as a crowd of/ angry colored men collected and closed in on Dalstrom, attempting to set free the prisoner. The officer grabbed the colored man’s wrist and May, who had remained in the ma- chine, seized a revolver Dalstrom had left in the automobile and fired twice in the air, scatf the X Meanwhile, the officer and the col- ored man grappled on the ground, and the latter suddenly broke from the po- liceman’s grasp and fled. May fired at the man as he sped away on foot, but the shots went wild. investigation. In some it is barely per- ceptible. ~ Few details can be seen, and the pic- tures vanish quickly. With such chil- dren the phenomenon is just over the line from the physiological after image. From these the pupils range all the way to those shown in Washington yesterday, where the phenomenon ap- proaches closer to the memory image with fts wealth of details, but still pre- serves the actual reality of the after Tl et Lof ik ik workers show that the eidetikers learn best from education of the object les- S0N type With symbols, such as words, T inimum. Dr. Rauth and reduced to a m same as those used in public and pa- rochial schools everywhere, for specia) application to the eidetic children. If they are shown to progress much faster but who show the same intelligence | quotients, the study may point the way j to changes in educational theory which will extend into every school and caus: the school population at large to be classified as eidetikers and noneidetikers. American educators have paid no atten- tion to the matter in the past because of the common impression that the faculty of forming the eidetic image was a rare curiosity. Another problem he plans to work is the - correlation of various types of eidetic imagery—such as the dominance of color or action details—with physical types. The great smount of material on hand this possible for the first time. Then it may be possible to find relationships with various per- sonality differences. Boys’ and Girls' Similarity. The German workers found no dif- ference in the prevalence of the faculty | between boys and girls. But an ex- amination of 40 girls picked st random from = girls’ school in Washington failed to reveal & single case. There should have been 20 showing the faculty to some degree. Dr. Rauth is not sure whether the worker happened to get a very bad selection, whether the tests were improperly conducted or whether there is an actual lower incidence among little girls. It is necessary to bear in mind, Dr. Rauth stresses, that there is nothing abnormal about the “eidatiker.” The they had been promised. St. Mary’s, Dr. Rauth emphasized, is not in any sense a reform school or school for Federal service, he said, it seemed to indicate that a study should be made of the possibilities. Dill Urges Salary Cut. ‘While representatives of the Federal employes were considering today the effect of the suggestions in the relief organization's program, word came from ‘Wi that Dill, Demo- crat, that State favors a Federal eccnomy program to balance the income and expenses of the National Govern- ment, Associated Press dispatch, Senator declared that 10 per cent should be cut from all salaries of $1,500 or more m all govern- ment departments. Thne salary cuts as proposed by Senator Dill, it was said, would affect the President, Senators, Representatives and Federal judges. It became known here today, how= ever, that Senator Jones, Republican e of Senator Dill from Wash- , has advised the Federal - ployes’ Federation by letter that he is ap) to reducing Government sal- arles. Jones Alsc” Opposes Wood. Senator Jones occupies the im post of chairman of the Senate Appro- priations Committee and, thus, has taken an opposite stand from Repre- sentative Wood of Indiana, chairman L e A i of Tl Empiyes e ig Sen0r Jones expressed his views in the follow- ing October 20 to G. at “Your “{lvm‘ of Ocmrb;’r fi:&,' with ref- erence p u of Federal eployes, at hand, I ::’ not. in favor of acting along these lines, pencil and asked to trace over the|in the common school subjects than|If we cannot make any increases now, lines he sees in front of him. The | children who do not possess the faculty; We should not make anw decreases, Federal employes do not get very prompt raises in salaries during prosperous times and when depression comes they should certainly not have them de- creased.” A number of other Senators have re- cently expressed themselves cuiting Oovehmmrg;u salaries, indicating at any sucl ‘would meet with The ;;‘le‘nfin e Jubs yesterday 3 public yes! by the unemployment relief organiza- tion contained no reference to the ques- tion of downward reviston of salaries, but discussed of employment and the giving of preferences to those with dependents. Senator B He reiterated yesterday that he favored meeting the lmufiou’by nxi.n.‘hm profits. e e “OLD IRONSIDES” WILL WINTER HERE Secretary Adams Says Decision as to Frigate's Anchorage Is for Economy. ‘The frigate Constif Secretary avy Adams said today “Old Ironsides' vou Ir for the rest of the year here November 6