Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1932, Page 2

A—2 ¥x» THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, GOLORED SCHOOL SITEIS APPROVED Education Board Reaffirms Stand, 6 to 1, Despite Strong Protest. Despite the vig Gilligan, chairman Committee, who charged that a colored school was being “foisted upon a white community,” the Board of Education late vesterday reaffirmed its approval of the purchase of & Bates road and Al The meeting at 1s protests of Henry of Legislative et which the which it had held purchase of the land for two wi was atiended by a delegation of 65 eitizens bent upon registering further disapproval of the plan. Presents Arguments. In his arguments with the board Mr. Gilligan opposec. efforts to establish § four-room colored school within halt & mile of the Keene (white) Sc' aol, and contended that the board members have & duty to the taxpavers of the District to prevent the spending of public funds on buildings that are not needed. He had said that a personal surve Bates road neighborbood convine was a strictly white res with not ensugh colored “This board is committing an awful | act against a very de on the part of these cit he ce- clared with an illustrative wave of his band toward the assembled delegation Only two of the protesting residents were heard, however, when board mem- bers expressed their unwillingness to re- ceive the same testimony that was pre sented at its storn: ion two weel ago. At that time board agreed to ask the Commissioners to postpone fin: purchase of the proposed site pending study of the submitted evidence. Board Votes 6 to 1. Before the board voted vesterday, Dr. Frank W. Ballou. superintendent, offered 40 pledge himself t9 refuse to ask Con- gress for an appropriation for the buil ing if. by the time the mext appropria tion bill goes to Congress. the colored school population in the Bates road sec- tion shows an appreciable decline. The board’s vote on its reaffiirmation was 6 to 1. with Gilligan casting the v dissenting vote. At the sugges! on Building, Grounds and equipment, the School Board yesterday voted to re- quest the Commissioners to give con- sideraticn to structural harmony in the design and construction of additions to existing school buildings. Citing the new addition to the Janney School, the committee reported that the exterior brick work and mortar bond used in its construction present striking con- trast to original portion of the school. Similarly, it explained, the in- terior halls with wainscoting, do not conform with the plastered walls of the main structure. The board will ask the Commissioners to avoid repetition of this. GLOVER PARK GROUP ASKS PARK PURCHASE 'mined protest Improvement of a Triangular Plot of Privately Owned Ground Is Advocated. Purchase of a triangular plot of pri- Fately owned ground formed by the in. Tsection of Wisconsin avenue, Tun- law road end Calvert street. and its im- provement to form a park. was advo- cated by the Glover Park Citizens' As- TFociation at its meeting last night At present unimproved, the tri could at small expense be tra; into a community asset, the group was told. and a committee was authorized | 4o take action on the project. District officials have indicated that they are prohibited by law from taking over the property, because its size exceeds that authorized by the District Code The association voted to initiate plans for making the fo:1al opening of the new Benjamin Stoda rd School now nearing completion. a community event. and will co-operate with school | — authorities in arranging a program for the opening exercises, ‘The meeting was held at the Indus- trial Home School, at Thirty-seventh street and Wiscensin avenue, and tables were arranged for bridge at the close of the business meeiing. HOOVER OPPOSES LOAN RESTRICTION ! IN BANK MEASURE (Continued From First Page) | Iy last week with Rich- president of the Stock Exchange. Other conferees recently | have been George Whitney, brother of the Exchange president, and Charles Mitchell, president of the National City Bank of New York. The Chief Executive has kept in the closest touch with the activities of bears upon the market. It was re- ported reliably recently that he had secured the names of the princiftl short sellers in New York In the same authoritativ®® quarter it was sald Mr. Hoover had considered various actions to prohibit these ac- tivitles. One of the most stringent of | these concerned the Government's | power to limit interstate communica- | tions of those believed acting against the common good. A House committee | 15 now conducting an investigation | based on proposels that short selling | be abolished or Federally regulated, | President Hooter ed out publicly | some time ago at bear raiding in the grain pits. At the time he asserted he | refrained from publication of the names of those principally respensible only be- cause of the restrictions of his office. Text of Statement. ‘The President’s statemeni of yester- @ay follows \ “I have a question from the press as ‘o conferences held with cfficials of the New York Stock Exchange. There have been discussions, as is reported, between myself and other officials of the ad- ministration with officfals of the New York Stock Exchange on the question | of bear raids i colored school site at ! board | teok the action ending tho abeyance in | n of its Committee | © |ANNAPOLIS CHURCH DEFERS | BOARD OVER OUSTED PASTOR Refuses to Accept Suspension of Minister for Alleged “Imprudent” Conduct. Dispatch to The Star. | serfously {ll. Last night. slightly more APOLIS, Md., February 20—The | than & fortnight since the suspension, Calvary Mcthodist Episcopal Church | the official board of the church et and passed & resolution reinstating here has defied the State Methodist | Rev. Herson to the local pulpit. Conference in refusing to accept the Dr. Herson will be present tomor- suspension of its Minister. Rev. Josepli ; row, but will be unable to preach owing {T. Herson recently was suspended by | {o his health. Iast Sunday the local | the conference on charges of imprudent | Presbyterian Church expressed confi- and “unministerial conduct.” The con- | dence in Dr. Herson and invited him ! ference announced that he must stand | to fill its pulpit. He was unable to | suspeaded until June, when he will be appear, however. | tried Members of the official board of the Meanwhile, Rev. Mr. Herson, through | local church feel that charges against !an attorney, filed two $100,000 libel | him are ridiculous even though the suits against officials of the conference, State Conference has sustained the who preferred charges. In the suit he | charges to the extent of suspending challenged them to come into open the minister. court and prove the allegations. Clarence M. White, president of the Members of the local church have local board. feels an injustice has been been indignant since the suspension, |done Dr. Herson, who formerly served but refused to remove him frem the | successfully, in Baltimore, Washington | parsonage home. where he has been'and Salisbury. ANTI-TRUST PROBE - WEIGHED IN HOUSE Names Orators SUPERINTENDENT LISTS COM- PETING SCHOOLS. Demands for Revision of Business Laws Up to Rules Committee. By the Associated Press The halter which the Government fashioned for big business in the horse-and-buggy days when he traded in the not too distant future for equip- { ment better fitted to guide it in this | swift-moving era. Long-gathered demands for revision | of the anti-trust laws have been met | with & formal request by the House | Judiciary Committee for authority to investigate the whole structure of | business-controlling law, with a view to recommending changes. Up to Rules Commiltee. The request is in the hands of the Rules Committee, Democratic con- trolled, as are all the House working groups. and upon its decision probably | will rest the fate of the proposal | Chairman Sumners of the Judictary | Committee pointed out that no impor- !tant revision of these laws has been made in 20 years He merely hinted | at the revolutionary course of business ‘and industry since that time—the enormous expansion and branching out |in_directions then undreamed of. But, he pointed out, there are press- inging the statutes ig group wants ap- agreements and con- solidation of interests on an even more gigantic scale than now obtains. An- other wing of opinion fears the inde- pendance of the small business man and industrialist is being crushed in an _economic vise from which present statutes cannot save him Would Probe Movies. “We are at the forks of the road" AUQUIER COUNTY'S schools en- rolled for participation in the Ninth National Oratorical Con- test, under the sponsorship of The Star, were announced today by W. H. Thomas, county superintend- ent of schools. The schools - and their respective principals are: Marshall Agriculteral High School, W. G. Coleman; Bealeton High Schocl, J. A. Guy: Calverton High School. €. M. Bradley; Remington High School, W. A. Whitmer. Warren- ton High School, P. B. Smith, jr, and Upperville High School at Aldie, Va, W. E. Taylor, jr. ‘These six schocls are among the 71 schools already enrolled in this news- paper's area. The previous record was set last year, when 65 schools were listed. EVENTUAL CONFLICT proval for trad IPATRIOTS T0 HONOR said Sumners. “The question is whether we shall protect the fast-disappearing little man in business and industry or let him go and permit concentrated busineses to control the situation.” At the same time another big busi- ness investigation was proposed in the Senate. Senator Brookhart of Towa | promised a resolution next week to look |into the motion picture incustrv. He | has had many complaint=, he said, and intends to do something about it Tuesday. : s CHINESE HOLD LINE IN FURIOUS ATTACK BY JAPAN’S FORCES (Continued From First Page) bren set by the Chinese in an attempt to hinder an expected attack on Chapei from Kiaingwan Shortly afternoon the Japanese mill- tary headquarters was moved suddenly from the Kingdah cotton mill to the international race course, a short dis- tance east of Kangwan, and Gen. Ken- kichi Uyeda, Japanese commander, be- gsn a desperate attack upon the town. At the aviation field airplanes landed and took off continuously. They re- mained on the ground only long enough to have their bomb rack refilled. There was a rush of cable messages to and from foreign countrics through- out the day. The greatest number of official messages went to Washington, according to cable and radio sources, with London a close second and Paris, Berlin and Rome next as the diplo- mats notified their capitals of the latest developments. Soon after the Japanese offensive started a_ long funeral procession threaded the streets of Shanghai. It was the funeral of the two British sailors who were fatally wounded by & shell last Wednesday. The procession left the hospital and proceeded to the cathedral while the guns roared and Japanese airplanes swooped over Chapei nearby, __Approximately 1,500 persons marched in the procession, including the British, American and French Ministers to China, British consular officials in full uniform, military bands, detachments of marines and sailors and a number of officers of foreign units stationed here. Defenses of foreign owned property were hastily strengthened as the big drive beean. A detachment of Amer- ican =ailors guarded the entrance to the American-owned Yangtzepoo plant of the Shanghai Power Co. where they raised & sand bag barricade 6 feet high and lined it with heavy brick walls to guard ag:inst denger from shels. The purpese of the first Japanese as- sault was to break through the strong Chinese positions near Kiangwan at a point two miles north of Hongkew Park in the International Settlement and from that vantage point to deal sepa- | rately with the Chinese troops holding the ends of the line at Chapei and Woo- sung. Fight Opened With Barrage. The attack began this morning with De- | tails will be forthcoming in a speech “Stock Exchange officfals have, dur- | the advance of lines of Japanese infan- | ing the past eight months (from time | try with fixed bayonets behind an ar- to time taken steps to restrain bear | tillery barrage. The signal for the at ratding with a degree of success, but | tack was a loud volley from the big during the laiter part of January, de- | Japanese guns in Hongkew Park. It| WIHSOVETSEEN Dr. Walsh Opens Lectures Comparing U. S. System With Russia. With approximately 1.000 men and | women regularly enrolled in a special | public course, Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., regent of the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, last night delivered the first of a series of 10 lectures constituting a comparative study of the American and Soviet sys- tems of government which he pre- dicted “eventually must clash in a final titanic conflict.” ‘The president of Georgetown Uni-| versity, Dr. W. Coleman Nevils, S, J., who made the introductory remarks, in- | formed those who will attend the course each week in Gaston Hall, that it of- | ficially opened Georgetown's own George Washington Bicentennial pro- gram. Owing to the widespread inter- est in the Russian question, he said, the university officlals had arranged with Dr. Walsh to devote his Russian | course this year to contrasting the character and policies of George Wash- ington. founder of the American Gov- ernment. with those of Nicolal Lenin, founder of the Soviet State. Prominent Persons Enrolled. Many prominent men and women who are close students of Russian af- fairs, have enrolled in the course which will be held on Priday nights at 8:30 o'clock In his first lecture, Dr. Walsh took as his general theme “The Age of Washington” and will follow with “The Age of Lenin.” The collected works of Lenin require 30 volumes, Dr. Walsh said, in point- ing out that they “supply the basis and the framework of the Soviet state. Similarly. De said, the writings of George Washington' and his_associates embody the essential American tra- dition. “Washington's writings alone, ex- clusive of his diaries, will require 25 | yolumes in the complete edition now being prepared by the Bicentennial Commission,” he sald. “A careful com- parison of the two j'ulosophies of government is particularl> valuable at this time. 1If the Soviet riate is the lengthened shadow of one man, then assuredly the American Naticn was the laborious creation of a great will sus- tained by a great vision. In the opin- ion of many thoughtful men, including Lenin himself, these two systems even- tually must clash in one final titanic conflict.” Pays Washington Tribute. | , Paying tribute to the character of the first President, Dr. Walsh said that “The Age of Washington means every age wherein & high purpose, nobly con- ceived and to be nobly executed, awaits its village Hampden.” WASHINGTON BIRTH | Sons of Revolution to Hold Services in Church of the Epiphany. One of the first events in connection | with the Bicentennial Commemoration of the Birth of George Washington will be the service tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Church of the Epiphany, | @ street, between Thirteenth and Four- teenth streets northwest, by the Society | of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia. A similar service has been held each year since 1915. This year the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission has placed Bunday’s service on the official program. In view of this fact, the service will be in harmony with the spirit of the day and the great event it commemorates. Those officiating will include the Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Phillips, chaplain of the United States Senate; Rev. Dr. George Atkinson, rector of St. James' Church; Rev. Charles Warner, rector of St. Albans' Church; Rev. Francis Yarnall and Rev. Alvin Lamar Wills of the Parish of the Epiphany. The sermon | will be delivered by Rev. Dr. Robert E. | L. Strider, Bishop Coadjutor of West Virginia. | | The exercises will be under the di- rection of the society, which comprises Dr. Thomas Edward Green, president; Justice Walter I. McCoy, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N, and Chlef Justice Edward K. Campbell, vice presi- dents; Brig. Gen. George Richards, U. S. M. C. honorary president; Dr James Ralder Mood, secretary, and Maj. Edward F. Riggs. treasurer. Among the societies who will attend as participating guests will be the Daughters of the American Revolution, | the Sons of American Revolution, the Children of the Americen Revolutlon, | the Huguenct Soclety, the Mayflower | Society, the Soclety of Colonial Wars, the Soclety of Colonial Dames, the So0- ciety of the War of 1812, the S8t. Andrew’s Soclety, the Military Order of | the Loyal Legion, the Military Order of | the World War, the Sons of Veterans | and Rotary International, together with other civic clubs and the student bodies | of a number of private schools. The church will be open at 3:30 o'clock | and a general invitation is exténded to the public. TWO HURT INBLAST BLAMED ON.B0NB 'Maryland State Roads Em- |ployes Near Death in Hagers- town Explosion. | Speciai Dispatch to The Btar. | Two employes of the Maryland Staté Road Commission stationed here were probably fatally injured by a mys- terious explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb in the maintenance building in the southern section of the | city today. and Stull Garland, cffice clerk, both ington County Hospital, where they are in a ecritical condition. Three other employes in other sections of the bulld- ing were stunned by the force of the explosion, but were unhurt Walls Blown Out. ‘The explosion, which was of such & terrific force that it blew out the walls of the concrete block building and whirled the double doors a distance of 50 feet, occurred in the riachinists’ de- partmint at one end of the building. An investigation made by Robert Put- man, in charge of the building, and the police, revealed that both a small quan- tity of dynamite on the second floor and the acetelyne tank where the explosion occurred were intact. They were the | only two things in that section of the building, said Putman, that could have | caused so terrific a blast. | Kline and Garland were in such con- ‘dulon that they could not be inter- viewed, but Harry Clark, a blacksmith, employed in the building, said that the I blast was of such force that he was stunned momentarily, and when he did recover, ran into the machinists' de- partment, where he found Kline lying in a pool of blood on the floor. Equipment Scattered About. He said he found tools and equipment scattered all over that end of the build- ing, and that the explosion apparehtly took place directly beéneath a steel | case of tools, as a large hole was torn in the concrete block wall at this point, while directly over the tool case the heavy wooden floor of thé second story was shattered. Garland was in the office adjacent and was found benefith office equip- ment, which had been scattered and overturned by the force of the ex- plosion. Performs at | HAGERSTOWN, Md., February 20— | The injured, Grover Kline, mechanic, | of this city, were taken to the Wash- | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932. Veteran G. W. U. Dean Honored PORTRAIT OF DR. WILLIAM CARL RUEDIGER UNVEILED. RIBUTE was paid to the 25 years' service which Dean Willlam Carl Ruediger of the School of Educ given George Washington University when the Alumni Association presented his portrait to the inst yesterday afternoon in Lambie House, on the campus. was followed by a tea and reception in honor of the educator sity, praised Dean Ruediger's contribution to education in the books on education which Dr. Ru This photograph shows, left to right: Felix Conrad Schwartz, the artist who did the portrait: Dr. vin, president of the university, who accepted the portrait; Dean Ruediger; Mrs. School of Education Alumni Association, who made the presentation immediately after the portrait exercis The presentation and unvelling of Dr. William Allen Wilbur, provost of t ger has written. vd Heck Mar- | Agnes I. Kinnear, president of the unveiled. I Photo. WASHINGTON HONOR PAID AS CONVENTION RADIOGRAM DECLARES MRS. JUDD IS INNOCENT OF N. E. A. IS OPENED yysigned Message From Czechosio- ___ (Continued From First Page.) Old Christ Church at Alexandria at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. William J. Morton. rector of the church. will deliver the invocation and a brief talk to the edu- cators. The main address. however, will be presented by Herbert S. Wee', superintendent of schocls at Rochester, N. Y, and a member of the Depa: ment of Superintendence Executive Committee. The processional and the recessional will be sung by the Christ Church cholr. The first general session of the con- ! vention will be held at 4 o'clock tomor- |row afternoon in Constitution Hall | when the theme will be “spiritual values in education” This session will be in | the form of a vesper service over whicix Mr. Broome will preside and in which congregational singing will play an im- portant part. The Hampton Institute Cholr will sing also. On Monday, the second general ses- sion will be held in Constitution Hall when the theme will be “moral values in education.” At that Session, the first reguiar business session of the conven- tion, the yearbook on character educ: tion will be presented by the leadl educators of the country. Meeting Places Named. The conventicn will continue with morning, afterncon and evening ses- sions throughout next week. Meetings will be held simultaneously at Constf- tution Hall. Memorial Continental Hayj, the United States Chamber of Com- merce, the National Education Auoclx tion Headquarters Bullding, the Fir: Congregational Church, Mayflower Hotel, National Museum Auditorium, | vakia to Gov. Hunt Says Woman Is Not Guilty. By the Associnted Press PHOENIX, Ariz, February 20 —Gov. George W. P. Hunt of Arizona has re- ceived from Prague, Czechoslovakia, an unsigned radiogram whicn says Mrs Winnie Ruth Judd is innocent of slay- ing Mrs. Agnes Anne Leroi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson. Mrs. Judd was ron- victed February 8 of the murder of Mrs, Leroi by a jury which recommended the death penalty. The radiogram read: “Stay your hand. Winnie's sacrifice not necessary. Await information. Innocent.” A motion for a new trial for Mrs Judd was expected to be acted upon by Judge Howard C. Speakman next Tuesday. the day he had set for pro- nouncement of sentence. ANGUS CRAWFORD, “EDUCATOR, DIES Former Diplomat, Interna- tionally Known, Victim of Heart Attack. Angus McDonald Crawford, interna- tionally known educator and former Almas Temple, Raleigh Hotel, Interior diplomat, died suddenly at 3 o'clock this Department Auditorium, Department of morning from en acute heart attack Commerce, Washington Hotel, Carlton Death occurred in his Georgetown resi- Hotel and District of Columbia Chapter dence, 303¢ P street, & home that has of the Red Cross. been for many years a Washington Becretary of Interlor Wilbur and Dr. mecca for univerlity men and repre- William John Cooper, United States | sentatives of the State Department in Commissioner of Education, will have every corner of the world. prominent parts in the convention pro- gram. The special music features at | various sessions will include concerts by the United States Marine Band, the | United States Army Band and the g | United States Navy Band. | _ Final adjournment of the convention will take place Thursday at the con- clusion of the presentation of “Wake- | field,” & folk masque of America by Percy MacKaye, in Constitution Hall. Other educational groups meeting concurrent with the superintenderds in- clude the Department of Elementary School Principals, Department of Rural Educatlon, Department of Secondary 8chool Principals, Department of Su- pervisors and Directors of Instruction, Department of Vocational Education, Municipal Normal School and Teachers’ College Section, Natlohal Association of Deahs of Worfien, Nationsl Association of High School Inspectors and Super- yisors, National Council of Childhood Education, National Council of Educa- tion, Natlondl Council of State Super- intendents, National Society for the Study of Education, National Society of Collegt Teachers of Education and the American Educational Research Association. Horse Show “Washington's native resolution and | force of character,” he added, “was the | greatest single event that transformed the Declaration of Independence from rhetoric into a political actuality that spite these steps, there was a large in- crease in the short accounts, which un- uestionably affected the prices of se- | ‘urities and brought discouragement to the country as a_ whole. | “I and other administration officials | again txfressed our views to the man- | agers of the Exchange that they should | take adequate measures to protect in- vestors from artificial depression of the l Pprices of securities for speculative profit. | Individuals who use the facilities of the | Exchange for such purposes are not con- | tributing to the recovery of the United States.” © SCHUYLER RITES HELD 8AN FRANCISCO, February 20 (#).— After military funeral services today at the Presidio for Brig. Gen. Walter S. Schuyler, U. S. A., retired, the body will be taken to Washington, D. C., for anme‘t in Arlington National Ceme- en. %cquyler died Wednesday. was three hours later that hostilities | began on the Woosung end of the line. | The Chinese opened the fire and rained projectiles upon the Japanese, includ- ing the warships in the river. The morning was foggy, but after noon the murk lifted and there was brilliant sunshine. The temperature was snappy. Conditions were ideal for the big air circus that the overwhelm- ingly strong Japanese squadrons were putting on over the whole battlefront. okesmi at naval headquarters sald the Japanese planned to clean out Chapei with as little action as ible “in the hope of protecting the Foreign Settlement.” It was in Chapel’s tortu- ous streets that the origine! Japanese | attack was repulsed by tae Chinese 18th Route Army three weeks ago. Soon after the opening of the artillery duel, United States Marine hidqu&r- ters sald two Japanese shells fell within their area. The trocps of the 31st U. S. Intantry, which yesterday took over the defense facing the Chinese city. 'a special George Wash| has served as the corner stone of our domestic liberties and has profoundly influenced the development of demo- ‘cmtlc forms elsewhere.” In various forms Georgetown Uni- versity is arranging to take cognizance of the Blcintenninl celebration this year. In addition to the present course of lectures. the graduate departments of the university have inaugurated special studies for research into Amer- |ican history and patticularly into the Constitution. The university on April 8, President Nevils lnnol!’xlx;gd, will hold n_program, & part of which will be an efmmt of the university's Washington and Co- lonial cnllrctfi)ns of historical data. . Actor's Son Under Kaife. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, February 20 (#).—An emergency appendix ra- tion was performed yesterday on Don Brown, 15, son of the film comedian, coveréd thefr"rand bag défenses With half-inch steel plates. Joe E. Brown. Physlt §td the lad had an excellent cl s for Tecovery. i8S MARGARET COTTER. 3220 Cathedral practice jump on het Smiling the Riding and Hunt Club H A large crowd of sports lovers land witnessed the seven classes. iru, whicl orst Show at MISS COTTER EXHIBITS AT HUNT CLUB. yefiue, is seen h.nnf s che uhlblt'ed”lnt M{h at ‘Washington, 'vfi.:flm u.mr'y" from - 5 —>Star Staft Photo. Thr | Mr. Crawford was a son of the late Rev. Dr. Angus Crawford, dean of the Theological Seminary, near Alexandria, Va., and Mrs. Crawford, formerly Miss usan Brown of Mount Holly, N. J. The father was a native of Coburg, Canada, but as a young man made this country his home and was chosen to head the Episcopal Seminary neer Washington about 40 years ago. Mr. Crawford was 10 years old, when | his parents moved to Virginia. He was entered at the Episcopal High School, from which he was graduated with high honors, and matriculated for the Uni- versity of Virginia. where he completed | an elaborate course of study in two years. Later, he earned a degree in arts at George Washington University in this city. Begitining as Teacher. | His work as a teacher begsnn as & member of the faculty of the Episcopal High School at Seminary Hill, Va., where he continued for three years. That was followed by 8 four-year service as head | master of the West Texas Military Academy, in San Antohio, Tex. | He returned to Washington to_be- come & co-owner with Winslow H. Ran- | dolph of the Emerson Institute, where | he specialized as & teacher of courses | required for the diplomatic service. | en this country entered the World war Mr. Crawford offered his services. | A bad accident, suffered as a boy, pre- | vented him from passing a physical ex- amination, but his intimate knowledge of modern languhges and international | law made him particularly valuable to the Government. He was sent to Ber- gen, Norway, as a special representative of the State Department, and contin- | ued at his post until seme months after the cessation of hustilities. Founds Private Scheol. 1 g his return to this country, [, Mr, Crawford withdréw from Emerson Institute and founded his own private school for the preparation of candidates for the diplomatie and consular services, where he built up & record of success for his students that challenged the admiration of the State Department and all educational institutions in Washing- ton. Mr. Ctawford was véry active in the University of Virginia Alumni Assotia. tion. During his stay at the Virginia university, where he was a dominant member of the D. K. E. and other so- cleties, he achieved an_ extraordinary popularity. Throughout his life he won a host of friends in this and other cities of the world and was noted for his hos- Cra & prominent hysician, and by two sis- &ur deW. Randolph of Vi Mrs. Merritt T. it lade]phis. Aruniemenm for the funeral services | have hot been completed, and will be announced later. Seer Wrong at Trial. PHILADELPHIA, (#).—Louls Certask was on trial for forturie telling. Judge Gordon asked him what he thought the outcomié of the trial would be. “I will rtask, confiden , and RAILROAD PURCHASES EXPEDITE RECOVERY OF GENERAL BUSINESS | ___ (Continued Prom First Page.) ancient cars and worn rafls no longer a daily ordeal, the world which has been | sad and drear fer commut d trav-| eler will ha Raflroad s, which are such a | widespread factor in the prosperity of the Nation, last year were $350,000,000 less than in 1930, which in itself was hundreds of millions lower yeirs of proeperity. Nee penditures to maintain the properties in satisfactory operating condition were curtailed under the stress of reduced revenues | Cleary. : GLASSFRD HOLLS PANHENDLER COAT “Sentences” Dozen to Work on Municipal Wood- pile. (Continued From Pirst Page) be in charge of an unemplo whose services are to be contributed by the Committee on Employment. The three ordered held for court nc- tion Glassford considered as “profes- sional bums” he said. One of these he ordered sent to for treatment. The ot missed, about a dozen bels to a representative of the D mittee on Employment, who saw to it that each was fed and given a bed for the night, eitrer at the S ation Army or one of the missions, meals and Jodg- ing to be worked out on the woodvard today. Glassford was both judge and prose- cutor in the unwsual proccedings headquarters. Passes Judgment on Each. ‘While a score of arresting officers and newspapermen looked on, ihe towering former Army officer passed judgment separately on each panhandler after interrogating him under the powerful lights used in criminal line-ups. In- spector L. I. H. Edwards assisted him The first man placed “on the stand was “going to get a job t week He wasn't a professional bum, plained, but only worked * week " Vagrancy and possession charges were ordered placed against him by Glassford, when the arresting officer claimed he found two h: 1 | bottles of lig The nex “professional.” “I'm no bum.” he told Glassford, “but figure soliciting is one wav to get a job—in fact, you often can get them that way. But jobs are awful hard to get nowadays. Try it yourself and see.” He said he had recentiy done a two- week painting job “at 30 cents an hour.” Glassford dismissed the case. turning it over to the Employment Committee The third man questioned had been in Washington only a week. He came to see about getting compensation from the Veterans’ Bureau and ran out of money. Ex-Marine Questioned. “How long have you been begeing asked Glassford. “About three days replied. “Didn't you streets is ag the ex-Marine know begging on the t the law, that you could be arrested for doing it?" “Yes," faltered the veteran “but I like to keep myself clean to see Gov- ernment officials therefore I don't W to go to the missions and get crumr “What do you mean ‘crum terposed the Employment Com representative Chief Clerk “Have you ever been in: Salvation Army or other such places nere in Washington? Have you actual- 1y had any experience with them?" “Well, no, I haven't, but just sam " the Pt “That's all; take a seat in the rear of the room,” snapped Glassford, This year, less traffic shows an un- A Kansas youth was next. e ha expected decline, the receipts will be |just been released from the Maryland larger, and not only the maintenance | House of Correction. he said, and was which is needed from aay to day, but | looking for & job. “but had run out of that which has been neglected in pre- |money.” He was staying at a board- vious years will be attempted | ing house at Third and C streets, pay- The voluntary 10 per cent wage re- |ing 50 cents a night, he told Glassford duction which empioyes have acepted | He also knew it was against the law Larger Receipts Predicted. | amount will bring the biggest share of the in-| creased revenue. It will be available to every railroad. Based on wages paid in 1932 and if there is no decline in traffic, this should amount to $215,600,000. To that will be added the increase in rates allowed by the Interstate Com- merce Commission, which should to between $100,000.000 and 25,000,000, again based on current traffic. This, however, will not be avail- able to all the railroads and many which do receive it will be compelled to use it for operating expenses even though maintenance of roadbed and rolling stock may have been neglected 1 | for months | While all roads will put the higher rates into force, the increased revenue| to those whose condition is nearest a prosperous level will be loaned to the more hard-pressed roads. Those already in the hands of receiv may not even share in the distribution, beihg too far gone for the financial pulmotor. Others | near a similar crash will need all they receive to add to their own revenues and to balance operating expenses. The ! remainder—and they should be the majority—will be able to divert a por- tion of it toward purchases which will play a big part in reviving trade. Purchases Last Year. Last year the railroads bought $695.- 000.000 worth of supplies, according to a Nation-wide canvass just completed by the Railway Age. They were among Uncle Sam’'s best customers and their purchases reached, like far-flung ten- drils, into giant plants of other in- dustries and humble stores in hun- dreds of villages. The purchases last year compares with $1,038.000,000 in 1931, which may be taken as typical of what is normally needed. Previous years were larger, but in them several of the largest roads were making _extensive improvements. In 1931 purchases wers 17 per cent of the operating revenue, while in 1930 they were 20 per cent, which also in- dicates maintenance which was post- poned and now must be attended to. Not all of this $350.000,000 which did get into circulation last year will be added to this year's expenditures. Part f it represents equipment, and that ter is already over the wheel. The roads got along without the equipment last year and the year is gone. Reduc- tions in maihtenance of way tnd struc- tures are another story. Roadbed Repair Needed. Roadbeds must be brought up to shaps, especlally on branch lines which have been neglected, even if less loco- motives and cars roll over them. Only $560,000,000 worth of material was pur- chased for them last year, compared with $669,000,000 in 1931, and the $163.- 00,000 difference shows what should have been done but was not. Such re- pairs now are urgent and the figures tan be doubled for what the railroads hopé to do this year. Nearly one-third of all railroad buy- ing is for fuel, and as only a small per- centage of it is uted in Shops the amount depends directly on traffic. mber. from ties to lumber, makes 11 cent; a wide list of varied articles fom stationery and food to cement makes another one-fourth, and iron and steel form more than 26 per cent of the total. The latter was heaviest hit by last year's retrenchment and Wil show the greatest change with the im- proved conditions this year. How much of this total so easily fig- ured in hundreds of millions will be available depends on traffic. That is not too promising with the start of the year. Though car loadings. which are the thermometer, not only for railroads, but for A natidn’s business, showed an encouraging increase for the first week of this month, they totaled only 2.- 773,000 for January, the lowest since 1918, when records started, and a de- crease of 21 per cent from the first month of 1931 and 39 per cent from the high year of 1929. As the railroads now have some 700,- 000 surplus cars, orders for new rolling sock are not expected to be a heavy feature of this year's purchases. Hieh! , by the North American (CoPy NG, wibaper Alliance: The.) ‘Will Lecture on Flowers. N, Va, February 19 WARRENTO! (8pecial) —An {llustrated lecture on | hoa wild flowers will be given February 25 in the parish hall of Wasl the Warrenton Garden Club. Mrs. Knappen under the auspices of to beg; “but I have to eat.” he ex- plained. His case was referred to the Salvation Army. A youth who has a job, but was beg- ging to “help out a friend” followed the Kansan. His companion also was in the room, but the Good Samaritan | told Glassford, “Don’t blame him, all my fault.” He said his friend was out of work and had been living with him, but that “I didn't have enough money to see me | through the week, so tried to bum some.” | "“You know it's against the law to | beg. don't you®" Glassford asked. “Yes. But you won't tell my boss, | will you, sir? "I promise not to B 11 right, but let this be a lesson to you,” the police chief warned. A man who had “just come in from Baltimore” followed the boys. More than a dollar was found in his pockei and Glassford asked why he was beg- ging while he had money. “Well, a fellow’s got to have a little hange ahead, sir.” came the reply. “You never know when you might need it in these hard times.” He wa$ one of the three held on vagrancy chages. Have Money In Pockets. The next man * | | agai n't begging. only talking to a friend.” The friend also was among those arrested. Both had money in their pockets, Glassford was advised. They were referred to the Employment Committee. A “floater,” who said he was on his way to Richmond, was summoned next. Coming from Baltimore night before last, he was stranded here, he said, “or else I would be in Richmond now, not in this line-up.” His case also was dismissed An Oklahoman stepped under spotlight. He told Glassford he had been here “five or six months, but hadn't gone to the missions because I thought I could get by without it.” An officer testified he had “stopped four or | five people near Sixteenth and I streets.” The man admitted begging for two or three days, but said he was unable to work as he had just been re- leased from Emergency Hospital where he had spent a month. Next came a veteran from Portland, Me., who said he was “on the way out of town when arrested.” He was picked up near Thirteenth and K strects A South Carclinan who said he was not “physically able” to work was the third man held. He was ordered trans- ;En;ed to Gallinger Hospital by Glass- ord. the | i Panhandled $1.20 a Day. Three Detroit men and one from North Dakota were disposed of in rapid succession. Each claimed he had started begging only when his money ran out. One c’ the Detroit men told of “bum- ming” 70 cents in 20 minutes- while waiting for a policeman to return from an errand to take him to dinner. He was arrested after the meal. The most a Leavenworth, Kans., man could panhandle in the Capital was $1.20 a day, he told Glassford. After he said he had come here “by highway” all the way from Kansas to see Vet- erans’ Bureau officials, the “judge” let him off with a warning. A New Jersey man, “just passing through,” also was dismissed with a warning after he told the chief he was en route to Fredericks- burg, Va, to work for a farmer. A Milwaukee salesman resorted ta begging when people “became too hard up” to buy his product, “a pcwder for shrub- bery and trees”” he declared. Glass- ford let him off, tco, and adjourned “court.” “Gees,” remarked one bum to an- other as Glaseford left the room, “they won't even let you bum an honest dime any more. What's de world com- ing to?” . OLD SECURITIES DUG UP Bhow No Bign of Wear After Be- ing Hoarded 20 Years. RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., February 20 () —Nearly $1,000 in gold certificates t! bacl uzg years camedmn‘ of ay and were deposited in a b\nk’el'lefl i dias The certificates, showing no sign of r, were on banks in California, lowa, Texas, Missourl and Arkancas,