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U. S, RETIRES 3.5 SNCE JULY T UNDER COMPULSORY ACT Civil Fixes Entire Government Personnel at 575,366. Service Commission RURAL CARRIER GROUP HARDEST HIT BY CUTS Report Shows 64,795 Permanent and 2,464 Temporary Em- ployes Here. Three thousand and fifty-five Gov- ernment employes have been dropped from the service under the compulsory retirement provision of the new economy Jaw since it went into effect on July 1, according to figures made public today | at the Civil Service Commission. The statement of the commission fixes the entire Government personnel as of August 31 at 67,259 in Washington and 508,107 in the field, a total of 575,366, which is a reduction of 13,300, compared with August 31 of last year. The retirements are shown for three periods, June 30, July 31 and August 31, and do not include metropolitan post office clerks and carriers, but do include 723 rural carriers, which represent the largest single group which have been separated from the service. Other Units Are Listed. Next in order comes the Treasury, v, with 373; War, 200; Agriculture, 166; Government Printing Office, 144; Commerce, 62; Public Buildings and Public Parks, 50; In- terior, 48; Post Office Department proper, 46; Pan-America Canal, 34; | Labor, Veterans' Administration, 19; Smithsonian Institution and Inter- state Commerce, 16 each; Justice, 1 State, 5: General Accounting Office, 4: | Civil Service Commission, 3, and 1 cach ! in the motor vehicle service of the Post Office Department, Feceral Trade Com- mission, Alien Property Custodian and | e Employes’ Compensation Commis- Virtually all went out at the end of June and July. The report shows that of the em- ployes in service in Washington on Au- gust 31, just 64,795 were permanent and 7464 were temporary. This was & Te- tion of 64 permanent employes and 2 temporary employes in a year. Hundreds on Furlough. | WASHINGTON, D. C, ‘ Co-Eds on Job as G. W. Reopens STUDENTS RESUME CLASSES AT UNIVERSITY TODAY. year when this picture was snapj T of university life, outlining polici and Virginia Storey. class room today as the school opened its 112th year. faculty today were addressing assemblies of the various schools on phases Tonight, designated as “welcome nig] students by the Student Council at a unive play in a concert at 9:30 o’clock, after whicl ton and Corcoran Halls. During dance intermissions the G. W. U. Troubadcurs, dramatic organization, will present a program. In the picture, left to right, are Elizabeth Orth, Ida Horne, Betty Monroe HESE four fair co-eds were busily preparing for their first classes of the ped in a George Washington University Members of the es, traditions and plans, ht,” will witness entertainment of the rsity party. The university band will h dancing will be held in both Stock- —Star Staff Photo. HITS ECONOMY LAW MARITAL PROVISON Campbell Declares Merit Alone Should Determine | Employe’s Status. | | Spectal Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, September 21.—The economy law provision for dismissal of married persons, where necessary in Government employ, and setting up a | prohibition against this class in em- | ployment, was criticized by Thomas E. | Campbell, president of the Civil Serv ice Commission, in an address here to- day before the twenty-fifth annual con- vention of the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada. “The commission regards the marital connection, however, it was he commission that while | 64 workers less than on | 10 close of August a year | of cthers were on extend- | which were necessitated | cnomy act to avert dis-; | eld service the personnel was 474,185 permanent and 36922 The reduction there had >n 3,893 temporary and 5,781 perma- Reductions throughout the Federal force have been general since February, vlen the impending economy legisla- ton began to loom strongly, though most | of the cuts have taken place since the | law went into effect. OIL FIRM TO BEGIN PLANT HERE SOON Gulf Refining Co., to Spend $300;-| 000 on New Buildings in Buz- zards Point Area. Frank Drake, president of the Gulf Refining Co., announced today in Pitts- burgh, $800,000 of improvements would be started at Washington and at Staten Island, according to an Associated Press Dispatch to The Star. Construction of the new development here is to be started at once on a large tract in the Buzzard’s Point area at the foot of South Capitel street, near the water front, a section set aside for in- dustrial purposes by the District Zoning Commission_and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The local project, providing a mnew headquarters for the concern here, is estimated to cost about $300,000, two- thirds of which is to go for labor. Plans already have been filed with the District calling for the erection of a number of buildings having an esti- mated cost of $51,800. These include a $20,000 warehouse and other service buildings. In addition, it is announced, there will be erected a number of other buildings, warehouses, railroad siding, 8 large wharf and pipe lines. The products of the company are to b- chipped to Washington by water and pans call for distribution of it to North-, e-n Virginia by rail. The concern now 38 gasoline stations in the District and its suburbs, The present headquar- ters is at Resslyn, Va. TWO MARINE AVIATORS status provision of the economy law as unwise,” he said. “It believes that merit alone should be the yardstick of measurement for employment in the Federal service. Bui the law is the mandate, and it will b> enforced until it is repealed. a bad law is to enforce it rigid Separations Investigated. numerous reports have been received of ‘couples separating in an effort to | evade the law, and that such separa- | tions cannot be recognized. Each case | must be investigated to determine if the separation is bona fide, he explain- ed, adding that this entailed “more work and unpleasant work.” Campbell's speech was a general out- | line of the personnel situation in the | Government, and in its course he argued for consolidations to do away with overlapping functions, and told what stcps are being taken in this connection. He recalled the commission recom- mendation in its Jast annual‘ rcpnrth!or b rsonnel agencies, which | fxfcr?uéshz]fie Pogamission rself, the Pere sonnel Classification Board, the Bu- reau of Efficiency, the Employes’ Com- pensation Commission and the admin- istration of the fiscal features of the retirement law, which comes under the Veterans' administration, and discussed the step in that direction to be taken October 1, when the Classification Board comes under the Civil Service Commission. Many to Lose Jobs. “A considerable number of employes of the Personnel Classification Board will not be taken over by the Civil Service Commission,” he said. “It is, of course, unfortunate that any should lose their jobs, particularly at this) time when it is hard to find new posi- tions, but unless reduction of person- nel is included in economies effected by consolidation, such a change would fall far short of its purpose.” . POLICE BALL TEAM WILL PLAY TONIGHT Meets Columbia Heights Business Men for Benefit of Shooting Victims' Families. Police Department and the Columbia Heights Business Men's Association will mr?t in a benefit game tonight in Grif- widows and children of three policemen KILLED IN OCEAN CRASH First Lieut. Donald G. Willis and Sergt. Frank H. Reynolds Die Off Point Loma, Calif. First Lieut. Donald G. Willis and Sergt. Frank H. Reynolds of the Marine Corps were killed yesterday in an air- P! crash off Point Loma, Calif., the Navy Department was advised today. pt. C. A. Blakely, commanding cffizer of the aircraft carrier Lexingion, oivised the department that Lieut. W slain recently—George W. Shinault, El- ‘mer A. Swanson and Milo J. Kennedy. Tickets for the game have been on sale for .10 days and a good crowd is expected tonight. Policeman Frank Watts, formerly of the Philadelphia Na- tional League club, will pitch for the po- lice team. A band will entertain spec- tators before the game. man only a few weeks after the bonus army riot on Pennsylvania avenue, dur- | ing which | benus marcher who attacked police, Swanson was killed by & maniac, who barricaded himscif in a house in South- liis, piloting a land plane with Rey- 1olds as passenger, spun into the water | from an altitude of about 400 feet while preparing to land on the Lexington. Within 20 seconds of striking the water the plane sank, carrying both men down with it. Their bodies have not been Tecovered. Both Lieut. Willis and Sergt. Rey- nolds served recently at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Va. Lieut. ‘willis was & native of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Sergt. Reynolds a native of Fall River, Mass. DENY HOLD-UP STORY Two Men Admit Account of Rob- bery Was False. Twe men who early today reported they had been held up and robbed of $10.60 by three colored men later signed statements, when questioned by De- tective Sergt. James E. Kenney that their story of the hold-up was untrue. ‘The men, who identified themselves #s Charles A. Stramer, 900 block of 1 of Nineteenth street, had they were held up on Sixth street be- tween E and F streets. east Washington and defied police at- tempts to dislodge hi: Kennedy, a park policeman, was beaten to death in { Logan Circle by a gang of colored men. 716 DRIVERS’.PERMITS REVOKED DURING YEAR Board Restored 758, However, Re- port to District Commissioners Reveals. The Board of Permit Revocations and Restorations revoked or suspended 776 automobile operators’ permits dur- ing the pasi fiscal year, but restored 758 of them, according to its annual report, forwarded to the Commissioners yesterday. Leading causes for revocation were, in the order named, driving while drunk in Maryland, violating the na- tional prohibition act, driving while drunk in the District, reckless driving, fimenl record, and leaving after col- %Mwm&dmtcm— | Base ball teams of the Metropolitan | fith Stadium, the proceeds to go to the | Shinault was fatally shot by a colored | he killed William Hushka, | SCHOOLS SURPASS 1% Second Day’s Enroliment To- tals 79,751—Central Still Leads Senior Field. The day public school enrollment reached a total of 79,754 late yesterday, which is 4,363 more than the second day's enrollment last year. Of this total, the teachers’ colleges enrolled 914, or 251 more than a year ago. The senior high schools’ enroll- ment was 14,142, a gain of 827 over last year. The junior high schools yesterday registered 14,648, which was a gain of 1,863. The elementary schools had 49,079, or 1,267 more than a year ago, and the vocational schools re- corded a gain of 155, with an enroll- ment of 971. Central High School continued to lead the senior high field with an enrollment of 2,740, to record a gain of 101. enrolled 39 fewer children yesterday than on the second day of last year. The total roll was 2,512. The new President Campbell explained that | Roosevelt High School still was below | its anticipated 1,620, with an enroll- ment late yesterday of 1.437. Western showed a loss of 13 students, with an enrollment of 1577. Dunbar High School led the colored senior high fleld with an enrollment yesterday of 1,484, which was a gain of 127. Armstrong gained 103, with 1,372, and Cardozo gained 146, with its enrollment yesterday of 606. Yesterday's total enroHment was ap- proximately 3,600 more than that of cpening day. {OFFICERS INSTALLED | BY COSTELLO POST Norman R. Grant, New Com- mander, Announces Legion Appointments. Officers for the year were installed last night by the Vincent B. Costello Post of the American Legion. Porter Bush, senior commander of the De- partment of the District of Columbia, was installing officer. The new post officials include Norman R. Grant, commander; Elmer R. Reyn- olds, first vice commander; Frederick A. Thuee, second vice commander; John H. O'Connell, third vice commander; Rev. Francis J. Hurney, chaplain; Wil- liam F. Franklin, historian; Wilber W. May, quartermaster; Dr. Charles J. Demas, surgeon; Edward Kelly, sergeant at arms, and F. Vernon Daly, master at arms. Comdr. Grant announced the follow- ing appointments: Albert A. Tatspaugh, adjutant; Sigmund Millbrandt, assist- ant adjutant; Robert G. Coleman, fi- nance officer; Robert A. Moyer, mem- bership officer; Richard A. O'Brien, de- partment executive committeeman; Hu- bert 'Elben, service officer, and Ollie Shriver, marksmanship officer. Father Hurney announced the French government has officially donated two service rifles for the shrine established by Costello Post in 1931 as a perpetual memorial to the war dead. The principal speaker was Frederic William Wile, political analyst, who dis- cussed present political trends. PETWORTH CITIZENS ASK FLOOD DRAINAGE Association Cites Damage to Homes and Automobiles Caused by Storm Waters. | The District Commissioners were pe- | titioned last night by the Petworth Citizens’ Association to concentrate en- gineering attention in that section in an effort to prevent further flood menace and take necessary steps to secure funds for such remedy. It was pointed out in a resolution in- troduced by Dr. C. Eder Reed, chair- man of the Sanitation Committee, that similar floods have occurred in this area in 1928, 1929, 1931 and 1932. The last occurred on September 5 and caused considerable damage to automobiles and home property near PFifth and Ingra- | ham streets. Resolutions were to be presented also to the Federation of Citi- | zens’ Assocfations for further action. Indorsement of the proposal to es- tablish a 5-cent fare for short hauls on street cars and busses was given by the association. This action was taken, however, only as a means for increas- ing the revenue and thereby permitting further improvement by the street car Randolph streets. Horace J. Phelps, president, and Earl secretary, officiated at the poration Counsels Raymand Sparks, Eunley De Neale and Edward M. Wel- iver. . ‘W. Cooper, d meeting held in the Petworth School, \Lighth and Shepherd streets, MARK BY 4.363. : Me- | The way to dispose of | Kinley was second, despite the fact it| WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION \WATER FRONT PLAN REPORT DUE SOON FOR CONGRESS' USE Channel Improvement Data to Go First to Chief U. S. Army Engineer. REDUCED OUTLAY SEEN IN REVISED PROGRAM Proposed Bridge From East Po- tomac Park Likely to Be Elim- inated for Present. ‘The report on the Washington chan- nel water front improvement program called for by the House Rivers and Harbors Committee, is expected to be sent shortly after October 1 to Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of Army Engi- neers, by Maj. Joseph D. Arthur, Jr., district engineer for the War Depart- ment for the Washington area. E. A. Schmitt, engineer in Maj. Arthur’s making revised estimates for the entire project. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District high- way engineer, said today municipal au- thorities are planning to pave part of Water street, which forms the easterly boundary of the Washington Channel, in the Spring. Ultimately, it is pro- posed to make Water street 160 fect wide, with a service roadway and a boulevard, separated by a strip of park- ng. As the first step in this pr m, Capt. Whitehurst said, the st:&:zg:w- ernment will pave a 60-foot service road- way from Eleventh to M street south- west. The plan is to improve Water street 5o the new paving will link up | with M street, which now is an improved arterial highway, leading to the eastern section of the city, without the necessity of going into downtown traffic. Report Going to Congress. The report of Maj. Author. which is ing on the whole program, including the will be sent to the River and Harbor Board and after that group has passed on it will be sent to Gen. Brown. Sec- retary Hurley is expected to transmit the report to the House Rivers and Har- bors Committee shortly arter Congress opens. ‘The report, which brings up to date one made by the United States Engi- neer Office a few years ago, probably will call for a much reduced program. | $287,600 for improving that thorough- | fare, as set out in the original Wash- ington channel report. A total of $249.870 for a proposed bridge from Fast Potomac Perk to Water street at the tip of Washington channel also is likely to be eliminated. The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, at its recent meet- ing, suggested that the bridge should be retained on the plan, but was in- clined to view it as a park and high- way project, rather than part of the commercial ‘development of the chan- nel. Cut Number of Wharves. In the new report the number of wharves is likely to be greatly reduced, as the result of a letter from the District Commissioners recommending that the wharves be held to the mini- mum number for zctual present needs, without reference to future expansion If the War Department carry this out, a number of wharf {items. calling for _expenditure of | $200.000 apiece, will be dropped from the plan. In view of the preponderance of argument at the public hearing by yachting intertsts that facilities for yachts here are insufficient, it is con- sidered likely that the new report will | { | cessor, for this sport. BARKLEY CHIDES G. 0. P. mand” Confused in Remarks on Railroad Speech. the Democratic National Committee, Senator Barkley of Kentucky chided Republicans for the “confusion in the Hoover high command,” saying its members_find it impossible to agree even on the criticism of Gov. Roosevelt's speeches. He cited the comment of Senator Hatfleld, Republican, of West Virginia, declaring Gov. Roosevelt’s railroad speech was “one of the beautiful butter- files of his fancy,” and then cited the comments of Secretary of the Treasury Indiana, and Secretary of Labor Doak stating the Roosevelt address was taken | from the program of President Hoover. SUIT ASKS $15,000 Lotus Restaurant Patron Charges Personal Injuries. Helen Metzger, 1215 G street _south- east, today filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $15,000 dam- ages from the Co-operative Restaurant Corporation, which operates the Lotus Restaurant, for alleged personal injur- fes. She says her mouth and throat were lacerated and she became seriously ill June 14 while dining at the restaurant when a glass of water served to her contained a hard foreign substance. She is represented by Attorneys John N. Breen and Milton Conn. office, now is supervising the final stages | of the report, collecting statistics and | being compiled following a public hear- | ‘Water street development, last June 30, | authorities | make extensive provision, over its prede- | CRITICS OF ROOSEVELT! Senator Says ‘‘Hoover High Com- In a statement issued today through | Mills, Senator Watson, Republican, of | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, POLICE TO ASSIST | CHILD DELINQUENT PREVENTION WORK hlassford to Have Policy For- mulated for Co-operative Handling of Task. SCHOOL TRUANCY HELD VITAL PART OF PROBLEM | Delay in Formal Arrests or Filing of Charges Favored to Save Self-Respect. Definite plans on how police may best co-operate with various agencies in pre- vention of juvenile delinquencies are to be formulated soon, Superintendent of Police Pelnam D. Glassford said today Tollowing receipt of recommendations on police co-operation from Inspector O.T. Davis of the Crime Prevention Bureau. Gen. Glassford, after viewing Inspec- tor Davis' report, announced he would seek recommendations and suggestions from the Juvenile Court. Various per- zons familiar with child welfare will be asked to ald in formulating the best plans possible for co-operation, he said. The work of co-operating with the various agencies in dealing with| delinquencies was one of the purposes for which the Crime Prevention Bureau wa‘s organized, Gen. Glassford pointed out. School Truancy Covered. Inspector Davis' report makes special recommendations for dealing with! truants from school, and in all cases! recommends preventive rather than punitive methods for dealing with them. Unsatisfactory conditicns at home | and maladjustment at school are blamed in the report as contributing causes to | truancy and various forms of child de- linquency. The report was compiled | following a lengthy investigation cn truancy and delinquencies by Officer W. T. Murphy of the Crime Prevention Bureau The importance of curbing truancy | from schocl is emphasized in the report, which points out that a large per- centage of habitual truants become de- | linquents—committing various forms of | crime. Caution About Arrests. Inspector Davis recommends that | children not be placed in custody or | charged with any offense until a study has been made of home conditions, | wherever possible, pointing cut that a police charge places a blot on the repu- tation of a delinquent. The source of delinquency is often a trivial misun- derstanding that can be easily reme- | died, the report points out. The report urges a_thorough check | and study of habitual truants or de- | linquents. such as keeping a record of | the physical condition of the child and his general behavior over long periods. ‘ Gen. Glassford, in discussing the re- port briefly, indicated good co-operation | with the various child agencies is nec- | essary in order that the best results | may be obtained. DR. RAUTH. ORDAINED | Bishop McNamara Presides at St. | Anslem Priory. | Rev. Dr. John W. Rauth, O. S. B., of Hagerstown, Md., was ordained to the Catholic priesthood today at St.i Anselm Priory, at Brookland. by Right | Rev. John M. McNamara of this city, | Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore. The ceremony was participated in by Rev. Carl M. Rauth, brother of the| new priest, who is in the United States; for a year following nine years of col-} lege teaching in China. = Dr. Rauth | teaches psychology av Catholic Uni- versity. NECK FRACTURE FATAL Colored Man Victim of Dive in Shallow Water in Maryland. Harrison Russell, 26, colored, 1400 block of Rock Creek Ford, died in! Emergency Hospital last night of a| broken neck received on September 3 when he was injured in a dive into shallow water. Russell was taken to the hospital from Sparrow’s Beach, Md., where he was injured. e $600 FOR CAPTURE Second Reward Offered in Slaying of Shinault. A reward of $500 for information leading to the apprehension of Willie Bullock, 35, colored, wanted in con- nection with the fatal shooting of Policeman George W. Shinault, first precinct, on August 14, was offered by the Policemen’s Association at a meet- ing in Odd Fellows Hall last night. This brings the total reward for the arrest of Bullock to $600, the sum of $100_having previously been offered by the Police Department. 513 PUPILS IN SCHOOLS Special Dispatch to The Btar. GAITHERSBURG, September 21.— ‘Thomas W. Troxell, principal, an: nounces the enroliment of the Gaithers- burg High and Elementary School to be 513 pupils to date, with 11 teachers in the high school faculty and eight in the elementary. Three new faculty members have been added: Miss Carrie Robey of Fair- {land, instructor in English, social sci- ence and Prench; Miss Edith Barnett of Gaithersburg, instructor in physical education and first-year junior high, and Miss Ella Mossburg, kindergarten. | MINIATURE FACTORY EXPLOSIONS PLANNED FOR SAFETY CONGRESS Series of Blasts to Be Caused Causes and A series of dust explosions on a min- iature scale to demonstrate the danger of en accidental explosion in a com- mercial factory will be caused by Dr. David J. Price of the -Agriculture De- partment, October 4, before visitors to the twenty-first annual Safety Congress and Exposition, which will meet in Washington the week of October 3. The explosions will be staged in the Government testing station at Arling- ton, Va., and are expected to be viewed by many of the more than 5,000 dele- scheduled to attend the Safety Dr. Price. who is chief engineer in charge of the chemjical engiacering di- by Federal Scientists to Show Preventives. vision of the department, has arranged for the explosions to take place in a miniature g gallery an a total volume of 333 cubic feet. Ex- plosions of commercial dust, such as starch, sugar, cork, aluminum, wood, flour and similar particles will be pro- duced. Since the dust explosion hazard important one in industry, safety expect to learn at first hand ofthnhctanwfikh!rmdmmchm explosion, as well as chanics of the blast. Elal ite nrecautions will be taken for t! | -osion. is an men T 'BLUE AND G 1932. First Post Office Stone Laid - WILL SUPPORT CORNER STONE OF HUGE BUILDING. Building, marking the beginning erected for the exercises. HE first stone, & 3,000-pound block of Massachusetts granite, was laid ' today at the northeast corner of the $10,000,000 Post Office Department | of a new phase of the great Mall build- ing program. On this stone President Hoover will lay the corner stone with impressive ceremonies Monday at 3:30 pm. Stands now are being| —Star Staff Photo. WORKERS ADOPT LECISLATIVE PLAN Restoration of Pay and Privi- leges Among Aims of Federation Group. The District Department of the | American Federation of Governmeni | Employes has adopted a plan for pre- senting the legislative needs of Fed- eral workers, including restoration of pay and privileges lost through the economy act, equitable classification for the departmental and field service and optional retirement at the end of 30 years’ service. The program was evolved last night by the Legislative Committee, consist- ing of two members selected from each District lodge, one of whom is the lodge president. George L. Jeffrey was ap- pointed secretary of the committee, of {which Miss Ethel M. Smith is chair- man. Miss Mary Anderson of the Labor | Depertment’s Children’s Burezu told the Agriculture Department Lodge that Federal employes must depend upon Cong‘rm for improvement of working conditions. ~Advantages of affiliation with the American Federation of Labor were cited by Michael D. Schaefer, president of the District department. David R. Glass, federation president, installed officers of the Commerce De- partment Lodge yesterday. They are: Miss Fanny P. Lamson, president; Mrs. Mattie R. Leverette, first vice presi- dent; Miss Mary L. McGee, second vice president; Charles E. Ridgway, secre-| tai ry: A. J. Webb, treasurer, and James M. Copeland, sergeant at arms. D GRAY URGED TO MARCH TOGETHER - G. A. R. Member Proposes Joint % Parade as Symbol of United Nation. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, 111, September 21— The Blue and the Gray—enemies of the Civil War—may bury the hatchet at last and march arm in arm for a grand review by the President of the United States. | Joe Page, 87, Civil War veteran and | editor of the Jersey County (Ill.) Demo- crat, made the suggestion by letter yes- terday to the 2,000 delegates attending | the sixty-sixth annu2l encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Page suggested the Confederate veter- ans be permitted to fly the “Stars and Bars” in the line of march, the flag to be furled as they passed the reviewing stand, and the line to proceed with “Old Glory at the head.” That, he wrote, “would show there was a united Nation.” ‘The encampment, in the main, rested yesterday for the review today. The line of march will be but nine blocks, many of the veterans being too feeble to walk further. Some will sde in au- tomobiles. Organization politics occupied dis- cussion yesterday. Apparently, dele- gates said, Capt. Willam P. Chicago, would be elected commander over Col. Russell C. Martin, Los Ange- les, and Harding I. Merrill, Wichita, Kans,, in the Sons of Union Veterans: Titus’ Ruch, Hellerton, Pa. and Park Yengling, Bay Village, Ohio, appeared as rivals to head the organization. The G. A. R. Auxiliary will choose between Mrs. Carri . Col A e ggoflmbfll, é)lg‘.’?, d Mrs. J ‘Bowers mj m, ., 1 *he Nominating Committee of the Daughters of Union Veterans selected Mrs. Doris Merryman, Tglledg,';:r m- . Doroth , Wich- There may be other nominations. B oy CATHOLIC U. OPENS WITH ENROLLMENT GAIN | Law School “Begins New Six-Year Course, Offering Two Degrees - for Same Period. it ned its forty- Catholic Wm"g;m '&’ Registral graduate ent will continue for ariother week to give that section a slight increase over last A The first-year class of 140 included 33 in the School of Engineering, 4 candidates for the bachelor of arts de- gree and 50 candidates for the bachelor science degree. o aerense was noted also in the| Law School, which this year is begin- ning a new six-year course wWhich en- ables students to receive a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of laws degree | during the same training period. Will Widen Highway. LEESBURG, = Vs, ‘(,‘Sp..dll).—wilbur . Hall Wright, | WAR ON ROAD SICAS GAINS NEW EROUND Interest Awakened Against Unsightly Billboards, Says Struthers Burt. | Strides in eliminating unsightly bill- boards from the highway localities and an awakening of public interest in the campaign against road- £ide signs were reported at a “billboard luncheon” yesterday afternoon of a group of the organizations represented at the Bicentennial Conference on Planning, Parks and Government at the Willard Hotel. Struthers Burt, author of the article | “Obscenic_Scenery,” recently published in the Saturday Evening Post, the principal speaker at the luncheon, urged the delegates to the convention to undertake missionary work in at- tempting to awaken the public to the fact that roadside signs not only are unsightly, but are actually destroying values. “A Cow in the Bed Room. “I have been a rancher in the West,” | he said, “and I believe you will agree with me when I say that a cow is | & beautiful animal out on the range, which is its natural habitat. But a cow in your bed room is a distinctly ugly creature. That is the point I am trying to make about this adver- tising business. There is a place for advertising—in the newspapers and | magazines—where we may read them |if we wish, or pass them up. But the | place for advertising certainly is not the roadside. | Southern Pines, N. C., to our cause. He had a large number of billboards about the countryside advertising his bank. These signs were on the maln road between New York and Florida, which most cars passed at from 40 to 50 miles an hour. many of those cars stopped just to their occupants to com» in and i i ank. That “Roadside signs are like the con- stant beating of tom-toms—they keep | drumming at you until some one goes crazy—and I'm convinced that is not the ~ sort of advertising that sells goods. We must convince the public of the foolishness of it all.” McFarland Speaks. The other speaker at the luncheon was J. Horace McFarland, chairman of the Roadside Committee of the American Civic Association, who has been campaigning against billboards in_Pennsylvania for many years. He urged the delegates to promul- gate in their States the method that has recently proved effective in the anti-billboard campaign in New York State, where large, unsightly roadside advertising signs have been blotted out from view from roads by screens erect- ed by the State Highway Department. The erection of the screens was upheld br the court and the work of covering thé unsightly signs has pre ssed. Represented at the luncheon were the American Civic Association, the American Institute of Park Execu- tives, the American Legislators’ As- sociation and the National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty. Mrs. W. L. Lawton, chairman of the National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty, presided. HIT-RUN DRIVER SOUGHT AFTER MAN IS INJURED Second Motorist Arrested on Reck- less Driving Charge as Woman Is Run Down. Police today were seeking a hit-and- run driver wht automobile last night knocked down and injured Erwin West, 23, of the 3800 block of Thirteenth street, near thedintersection of Thir- teenth street and Delafield place. West was treated at Walter Reed Hospital for bruises. The automobile bore a Maryland license, West told police. Homer F. Williams, 27, of the 6200 block of Wisconsin avenue was booked at No. 3 police station yesterday aft- ernoon on a charge of reckless driving after the automobile he was driving had knocked down Mrs. Ella Komerow, 58, of the 900 block of Twenty-second street near the intersection of Wis- consin avenue and Chesapeake street. Mrs. Komerow was treated at George- town Hospital for cuts about the heas and . Her condition is not be- lieved serious. ROBBER FE ~—— LLS WOMAN d Colored Man Hiding in Hall Gets $50 and Escapes. Mrs. Ellen M. Collins, 500 block of Thirteenth street northeast, reported to police last night she was struck on the | head and robbed of $50 in her home by a colored man who had hidden himself in the hall. in several | advertisers and | “I recently converted a banker in| I asked him how| de- | PAGE B—1 TRAPPED ON ROOF, THREE FAGE PROBE OF SAFEROBBERES Philadelphians Seized at Heinz Provision Plant When Watchman Calls Police. SEVERAL BUILDINGS FOUND BROKEN OPEN Auto Yields Safe-Cracking Tools, Say Authorities, and Finger- prints Are Found. Three men, trapped on the roof of one of three business establishments into which they are said to have broken last night, w being held by police today for' investigation in connection with several recent safe robberics. The prisoners, all of whom gave Ph adelphia addresses, identified themselves las Charles W. Bowes, 35; his brother, Arthur C. Bowes, 20, and Marino N. Caporelli, 27. Fifth precinct police found them hid- ing on the roof of the H. J. Heinz Pro- vision Co. plant, 2101 Fifth street north- east, while investigating reports that tre Bramhall Food Products Co. wareho Tenth and Girard streets northeast, and the Hart & Crouse Co. building, Ninth and Girard streets northeast, had been broken into earlier in the evening. Police Called by Phone. Officers W. J. King, F. R. Rabil an W. B. Kuhn ‘were sént t the. Heing plant in response to a telephone call from Arthur Trussel, watchman for the Barber & Ross warehouse, which ade- Joins the provision company’s building. Trussel reported he had heard some one break a window of the Heinz plant. Searching the building, the police- men found the three men and placed them under arrest. Investigation re- vealed, the officers reported, that one safe had been broken open and an unsuccessful attempt made to force another. According to Capt. Hugh | Groves, fifth precinct commander, the men apparently were at work on the second safe when the policemen en- tered the plant. Tools Found in Auto. _An automobile bearing Pennsylvania license plates was found parked near- by. In it, the officers said, they found an assortment of safe-cracksmen's tools, some of which bore fingerprints. Photo- graphs of the fingerprints were taken to police headquarters for comparison with fingerprints found on other safes |robbed here during the past few | months. < Some time before the men were ar- rested a_passerby noticed a door of the Bramhall warehouse was open and notified police. Search of the building disclosed an attempt had been made to break open a safe. A short time |later it was found a cellar window of | the Hart & Crouse Building had been | smashed and the place ransacked. CITIZENS APPROVE NEW BUS TERMINAL Executive Committee of Federation Favors Station on North Side of New YorkeAvenue. | | | | | The Executive Committee of the Fed- eration of Citizens' Associations has gone on record as favoring estab) ment of a bus terminal by the Grey- hourd Lines on the north side of New York avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. The application will come up at a public hearing tomorrow before the Public Utilities Commission. e federation's approval was given with the reservation that no left turns be permitted for busses in this stretch and that the number of daily trips not be increased without formal permission of the commission. A previous application for a terminal in the same place, made by the Short Lines, Inc., was denied by the commis- slon without hearing. DEPARTMENTAL BANK TO OPEN FOR CLAIMS :For Three Months, Beginning Fri- day, Depositors May File Bills. The Departmental Bank, 1726 Penn- sylvania avenue, which closed July 14, will be opened at 8:30 a.m. Friday to enable depositors to file bills of claim, W. B. Allman, receiver for the bank, announced yesterday. The institution will close at 9 pm. The same hours will be observed on Saturday. For three months, beginning Friday, depositors may file claims. On week days the hours will be 8:30 am. to 5 pm., and on Saturdays, 9 to 1. The bank went into the hands of the controller of the currency July 14 when its directors decided to suspend opera- tions as a precautionary measure. . BAND CONCERT. By the United States Navy Band this evening at the band stand at the Navy Yard at 8 o'clock. Charles Ben- ter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant leader. March, “Hand in Hand”....Von Blon Two movements from “Symphony in B Minor, Pathetique” (No. 6, Op. 14) Tschaikowsky ‘Allegro Congrazia, Adagio. Lamentoso. Idyl, “The Bells of St. Mary”...Adam ! Extra, “Salome's Dance” from the opera “Salome”.....Richard Strauss Excerpts from “The Cat and Fiddle” .Kern “Spanish _Jota” _Frances Suite, “Scenes Napolitaines’.Massenet The Dance, Procession and Im- provisitation, the Fete. Mexican valse, “Ensueno Seducto,” Roses Overture, “Figaro's Wedding”..Mozart “Anchor's Aweigh.” “Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Marine Band this evening at the United States Capi- tol at 7:30 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader. “Prelude” ‘Tone poem, Clarke Scherzo “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”.Dukas Grand scenes from “Ernani” . Verdi “Infernal Dance,” from the suite, “The Fire Bird"”. tra .. Wiedoeft Marines, , “The Halls of Montezuma.® “Tie Star Spangled Banner.”