Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1932, Page 17

MISS DELL ASSALS PENALIZING OF L. S| MARRED WORKER Economy Provision Sure to Be Repcaled, Says Civil Service Commissioner. ABSURD, UNJUST BLOW AT WOMEN, SHE HOLDS Provision Discussed in Address Under Auspices of Woman's Party Federal Group. Declaring her belief that the mar‘lta] status provision of the ecenomy act was designed “to strike at the employ- ment of women generally,” Miss Jessie Dell, Civil Service commissioner, yes- terday asserted that “the absurdity and injustice” of it eventually will force | repeal. Miss Dell spoke at a meeting at the Alva Belmont House, under the auspices of the Government Workers' Council of the National Woman's Party. Citing the statute which requires | dismissal of husband or wife where reduction of forces becomes necessary in Government service, and which gives unmarried persons preference in ap- pointments, Miss Dell said that “just what economy is served or in just what way efficiency of operation of Govern- ment business is advanced by such a law has never been explained. Penalty on Marriage. “Ostensibly,” she continued, “the ob- | Ject of the statate is the distribution of Jobs, but this distribution could prob- ably have been brought about just as effectively by providing, for example, that a father or son should be dismissed in case both were employed. There are any number of family relationships that could have been injected into the matter, which would have been just as effective as a penalty on marriage.” “The reason, I think, for the pro- on being written into the law was to strike at the employment of women generally. At the eleventh hour the law was changed so as to include mar- ried men as well as married women, but this inclusion of the men was brought about because of the fear on | the part of the legislators of the po- litical effect it wouid have if the dis- crimination were so clearly and forcibly shown to be against women only.” Law Must Be Observed. Recalling efforts on this part of mar- e cns to evade the law by vol- peration or divorce, the speak- “the Civil Service Commission <. cf course, cbserve the law as long is a lav.” anization,” Miss Dell con vinch has the welfare of t shonld strike quickly at v chances which women have cement in the public service.” chairman of the Government ers’ Council, Edwina Avery, pre- s'ded for the event. Miss Dell was in- troduced by Miss Sara P. Grogan. ! i i U. S. HEATING PLANT BIDS WILL BE ASKED Foundation and Superstrncture! Plans Are Completed—Prior ‘Work Progresses. Plans have been completed for foun- dations and_superstructure of the Gov- ernment’s huge new central heating | plant and bids for this construction are | expected to be asked in a short time. | Plans were drawn by the United En-| gineers & Constructors, Inc., of Phila- delphia. and specifications now are be- | ing prepared. In the meantime work is fast pjo- gressing on_three different pior con- tracts for this project, the excavation, boilers and distribution system, which in effect constitute much more of the Whole job than the foundations and su- perstructure. On the site, between C and D, ‘Twelfth and Thirteenth streets south- ‘west power shovels of McDermott & Co.. Inc., are making headway on what will be the deep excavation, while the Northeastern Piping & Construction Co. already is making progress on its contract. for the distribution system. This latter contract includes a large system of tunnels through downtown Washington to connect the heating plant with the several structures which | are to be furnished with steam. H The bollers are being built by the Combustion Engineering Corporation of New York City, which received the first | contract of the long series required for the complex project. H WORLD PROSPERITY DEPENDENT ON DEBTS| | Elimination of War Loans Would | Aid Return to Business, Says Institute. World prosperity can be restored and maintained “much easier if the disor- ganizing effects of the war debt pay- ments are eliminated once and for all,” it is declared in a study of “War Debts and World Prosperity” published today by the Brookings Institution. Harold G. Moulton and Leo Pasvol- sky authors of the valume, which rounds out a series of studies initiated in 1923 with one dealing with “Ger- many's Capacity to Pay,” are convinced that efforts to collect the World War obligations “has helped to create the disastrous economic conditions which prevail throughout the world today.” The study, which, as is pointed out ir the preface, is largely a synthesis of 10 years' investigation by the Institute of "Economics. now merged in the Brookings Institution. The authors maintain that this coun- | try would be benefited economically byi elimination of the debts from the in- ternational situation. Collection of the debts, they assert, gerves to restriet Buropean purchasing power in American markets, thus de- pressing such great producing areas as the cotton and wheat-growing States, as well as many important manufac- turing industries. Capt. E. N. Chisholm Returns. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., issistant director of public buildings and public g:.;’k.s. and engineer of the National ital Park and Planning Commission, ‘was back at his desk today following & th Carolina. ! when the engineer shall assume his | afternoon delegates will make a tour of | Plan Travel Publications A. A. A. BUREAU HEADS DISCUSS 1933 MAP PREPARATION. many now in the city discussing ciation, They are, left to right: Tex., Auto Clul T and Mrs. Mary Lawrence, Atlanta, Ga., T HE American Automobile Associ- of tourists will visit the Capital during 1933. Tourist Bureau heads of the association, gathered here for the an- | nual meeting of the Advisory Commit- tee of the National Touring Board of the group, are of the opinion that travel all over the country will show an up- turn during the coming year. Vaca- tion motor travel this year, they said, | noticeable, however, at travel objec-'ing July were also rcported by the was largely confined to short trips to | tives dependent upon visitors from dis- | bureau. points adjacent to large centers of population. The meeting, the objective of which is the preparation of plans for the mil- lions of A. A. A. maps and travel pub- lications to be used by next year's tour- ists, was called to order at 10 am. to- day at the Shoreham Hotel by William HESE four American Automobile Association bureau heads are among the plans for 1933 publications of the asso- Miss Virginia Edgecombe, San Antcnio, W. G. Bryant, Detroit, chairman A. A. A. National Touring Board: Miss Amanda Howe, Louisville. Ky., Automobile Club, |1ast 12 months, the Children's Bureau Automobile Club. | G. Bryant, Detroit, chairman. Among ation anticipates a large number | the special maps to be discussed is one * | to be distributed to those coming to the ‘ Capital for the inauguration ceremonies | next March. Mr. Bryant expressed optimism over | the 1933 travel outlook. He said: | “While a decline in vacation travel this | year was to be expected, the drop was | not nearly so great as in business and industry generally. It was particularly tant points. But resorts adjacent to | 1arge cities report a fairly good business, particularly over week ends. All this | indicates that vacations to distant points were postponed, and that with an ex- pected improvement in business condi- | tions, Americans will again take to the | highways.” ENGINEERS URGED 10 FORM ONE BODY i Protection of Profession and Public Aim of Proposal at Convention. An address by Erle K. Ramsey, na- tional president of the American Asso-| ciation of Engineers, in which he urged | all branches of the engineering field to | bind themselves together in one pow- erful, all-inclusive organization for the protection of the profession and of the public, marked the opening of ihe eighteenth annual convention of the or- ganization today. | The three-day conclave at the Shore- ham Hotel is being attended by several hundred eminent engineers from all | sections of the United States. 1 Higher Status- Sought. | Advocating a greater national body of | engineers, Mr. Ramsey said: “The American Association of En- gineers is the only society of national | scope in which the members of all‘ branches of the imperfectly appreciated | profession of engineering join in co- operative efforts to bring nearer the day rightful place in public esteem, and when his social and economic status is second to none among the professions. “Instead of uniting in one powerful organization,” he asserted, “the profes- sion has been diverging into an increas- ing number of separate, component parts, each with its own society—the civil, mechanical, electrical and mining engineers. | | Would Bar Charlatans, “We are not content to see the pro- fession unlicensed and unregistered so | GROUP MEDICAL | Industrial Community of 10,000 Economizes in Cost and Health. Group medical care has been tried American industrial community of 10,- 000 population, the Committee of the Costs of Medical Care announced at a meeting today at the Mayflower Hotel. Families participating in the group care system in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, received at low cost much more extensive medical attention than they could afford through the conven- tional fee-for-service payment, a report made public by the committee states. The report, compiled by I. S. Falk, Dr. D. M. Griswold and Hasel I. Spicer, is the twentieth similar document cre- ated {n 5 years af study the committee has devoted to the problem of *“pro- viding adequate, sclentific medical care to all the people, rich and poor, at a cost which can be reasonably met by them.” On November 29 of this year. the committee is expected to issue its final, complete report with recommen- dations based on observations of the past five years. Results Are Compared. In describing the experimental meth- od used in the North Carolina city, the report sets forth a plan whereby two population groups of approximately equal size adopted different systems for medical care and reported comparative results. In one group the participants made fixed, periodic payments for their | medical care. In the other the regular fee-for-service payment was employed. that any charlatan may call himself an l With the periodic payments, supple- engineer, endangering public life and | property and bringing the profession into disrepute.” Discussion of means of protecting the | engineering profession _against indis- criminate operators is expected to mark | the first business session of the conven- tion tomorrow. Following an invocation by Bishop | James E. Freeman, today’s meeting was called to order by Donal Chamberlin, | president of the Washington chapter of | the assoclation. i Maj. Paul A. Hodgson, Assistant En- gineer Commissioner of the District, made the address of welcome. Com- | mittee reports and other business occu- | pied the morning sessicn. The speaker at a luncheon this after- noon was Chester Leasure of the United | States Chamber of Commerce. This | the city, inspecting the Bureau cf| Standards and other Government insti- | tutions. EDSON TO BE GUEST John Joy Edson, veteran leader of the Washington Board of Trade, will be guest of honor at a special meeting of the Membership Committee of the or- ganization at noon tomorrow at the Raleigh Hotel. Mr. Edson, 86 years old, who has| been an active member of the trade body for about 50 years and who is one of its former presidents, will address the committee on the opportunities of the organization for service to Wash- ington. All present and former members of the Membership Committee have been invited to attend. Elmore T. Burdette, | service, ‘mented by _funds donated by employers of the families in the first group, a staff of trained doctors and visiting nurses was maintained. The medical service they rendered ordinarily would cost. at prevailing local rates in Roanoke Rapids, $129,889, the report states, but actually was given for $92,083, a saving of some 29 per cent. The workers in the first group each paid 25 cents ‘per week deducted from their ‘wages. For this they were en- titled to the services of five physicians and three visiting nurses, ward accom- modations in the local hospital and vir- tually complete medical cave. Usual Manner and Rates. The second group, paying fee-for- usual manner and at the usual rates. Comparing the health activities of the two groups in the period of survey, the observers found the “participating” group used the hospital five times as much as the other group, received four times the number of office treatments and three and one-half times the num- ber of home treatments, in addition to the services of the visiting nurses, who were seldom called upon by the non- participating group. MAINE SEEN HOOVER'S Representative Beedy assured the President that there was no reason to ful gloomy as a result of the outcome in Maine. He pointed out that the Demo- cratic_victories were not due to the | President’s unpopularity but to a lack of proper party organization and ac- tivity during the campaign. He told the President that Maine will go for him in November regardless of any chairman of the group, will preside. reports to the contrary. SHOT BY HUSBAND OUSTING HIM FROM WHEEL, DECLARES WOMAN Leon Reid, Automobile Supply Co. Employe, Here, Arrested Near Scene of Alleged Row in Virginia. Mrs. Una Delores Reid, 19 years old, of 138 Q street suffered a severe gun- shot wound of the right arm late Sat- urday night when, police say, her hus- band fired upon her while driving along the Casanova road about 6 miles from Warrenton, Va. The husband, Leon Reld, 24 years old, who was arrested by Fauquier County authorities, became enraged when his wife took the wheel of their car after accusing him of being drunk, and opened fire with a .38-caliber pis- tol, one of the bullets striking Mrs. Reid in the arm and another taking ef- fect in Reid’s left hand, they said. The couple left Washington, polit were told, Saturday night to visit Reid’s father, George Reid, near Warrenton. wheel and refused to let him resume driving, whereupon Reid climbed into the back seat. A few moments later, the wife told officials, Reid opened fire with the pistol. Reld emptied the gun, authorities de- clared, and several of the bullets shat- tered the windshield. Mrs. Reid told police she pushed her husband out of the car and drove to the farm of James Hibbard, at Casa- nova, where she was given first aid treatment by Dr. John Sprague of War- renton. Authorities took Reid into custody near the scene of the shooting, and he ce | is being held without bond in the. War- renton jail pending the lodging of formal charges. Reid, police say, is an Reid halted the machine near Casa- nova and his wife slipped the employe of an auto supply company in the 500 block of New Jersey avenue, - SERVIGE SUCCESS and found economical in a typical| obtained their service in the| WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION OFCAPTAL MOUNT 10 FET. INYEAR July Total Is $67,461, Com- pared With $32,576 for Same Month of 1931. $21,760,328 FIGURE OF 125 CITIES IN U. S. 976 Agencies Report Increase of 87 Per Cent for July Over Previous Period. | Relief expenditures in the District have increased 107 per cent during the of the Labor Department said today, 1 following a survey of the relief work here as conducted by 12 agencies. A total of $57.461 was expended for relief here druing last July, the latest | month statistics are available, in com- | parison with $32,576 expended during | the same month last year, and $3,262, ‘|or 5 per cent more than was paid out ! during June, 1932, the burcau reported. Relief expenditures in 125 cities dur- They totaled $21,760,238, a | decline of 4 per cent from the June { total, but an increase of 87 per cent over July, 1931. Reports From 976 Agencies. The bureau said its figures came from ; 976 agencies and totaled approximately [ the same amount spent in December, 19 “Direct relief, whether in the form of general relief or in the form of special allowances from public funds such as mothers’ aid, old-age relief and aid for the blind, bore the brunt of the decline, for the amount of work relief actually | increased 13 per cent in July over June, the upward trend being especially evi- dent in work relief administered by pri- vate agencies, which increased over 26 per cent. while that administered by public agencies increased over 9 per cent,” the bureau said. “The greatest incr penditures between July 1932, came in the field of general re- lief, which increased 124.2 per cent. During this period work relief increased 76.5 per cent, and special allowances | 15.8 per cent. Emergency relief commit- tees gave seven and one-half times as much relief. “Growing dependence upon the county as a financing and administrative unit | | for relief is reflected in reports showing six times as much expended for relief by county departments this year as com- pared with July a year ago. City de- partments spent over twice as much for general public relief and work relief ad- ministered by private agencies increased | nearly five times. Veterans' relief pro- vided through public departments ex- panded by two-thirds. The smallest in- crease, 28 per cent, was reported for mothers’ aid. Types of Assistance. “While all types of direct relief de- clined between June and July, 782| agencies reported a total increase in the | number of families receiving certain types of as: . 761,372 in July, as| compared with 755715 in June, a rise | of seven-tenths of 1 per cent. Emer- | gency relief committees gave aid to over 46 per cent more families than iR June; tiie Salvation Army to 9 per cent | more; county relief departments, 6.9 per cent; old-age relief was given to 2.7 per cent more and non-sectarian family societies aided 1.2 er cent more. As compared with July, 1931, the num- ber of families receiving general relief increased 129.3 per cent in July, 1932, and those receiving,special allowances | increased 28.9 per cent. | “Reports from 162 agencies showed | an increase of 1 per cent in the num- | ber of meals provided for homeless and | transient persons from June to July,| and a decrease of 2 per cent in the! number of night's lodgings furnished | during the same period KODIAK ISLAND YIELDS RELICS OF ANCIENT ERA Nearly Deserted Island Off Alas- ka May Have Been Linked With Asia, Dr. Hrdlicka Believes. By the Associated Press, Back some centuries, Kodiak Island, | off Alaska’s coast, was a teeming popu- | | lation center from which Asiatic mi-| | grants may have peopled North Amer- | ica. | This view of the now nearly deserted island was expressed today by the Smithsonian Institution upon the re- turn of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropoly, frem a Summer’s exploration trip. Hrdlicka found scores of ancient vil- | lage sites that showed the island to | have been inhabited by two successive peoples. The earliest were of a high cultural type, but apparently were wiped out, to be succeeded later by a lower order of primitive people. THREE HURT IN CRASH Autos in Collision at Alaska Ave- nue Intersection. Two women and a man were injured in an automcbile collision at Holly street and Alaska avenue today. Those hurt were Mrs. Irene Studds, 45, of Silver Springs, Md., who suffered from cuts and shock; Mrs. Elizabeth Studds, 21, treated for shock, and Max Rosenbloom, 51. of the 4100 block of Ninth street, also treated for shock. The two women were treated by a private physician and' Mr. Roseubloom was treated at Walier Reed Hospital. He was driving one of the cars. The automobile in which the two women_were riding was driven by Her- Parker, 41, of Rockville, Md,, police said. AR PRI BONUS KEPT INTACT Save $700 Colored ‘World War Veteran. willie Dowd, colored war veteran, of Dillon, 8. C., left for his home last night with $700 bonus money intact after police had nipped in the bud an alleged attempt to rob or swindle him out of the sum. Dowd, who had come here from his home to draw the money, got the $700 from the Veterans’ Administration and pelice aid was called when a colored woman suspected two of Dowd's com- panions were seeking to get his money. Police found Dowd with his money intact and the two companions disap- peered. Dowd was taken to No. 2 pre- cinct and then to Union Station, w] he was placed aboard a train for his e in relief ex- ! 1931, and July, Police for . O The Foening Stad WASHINGTON, D. C, Society and General MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1932. NE woman was burned to death and three men injured when these two machines were destroyed by fire after acci- dents on the Richmond-Washington Highway south of Alexandria, yesterday. Miss Gertrude Sass, 26, of South | Ozone Park, N. Y., met her death in the machine shown at top when she became pinned under the steering | wheel after it had overturned and caught fire when in collision with another machine. Traffic over the highway at the foot of Snake Hill was blocked for three hours by the burning freight truck shown at the bottom. Earl Wells of Woodbridge, Va., is standing by the machine. which burned near his residence. —Star Staff Photos. BURNED TO DEATH ON WAY T0 BE WED Woman Is Victim of Blazing Car Near Alexandria. Crashes Injure Three. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 26.— A New York woman on her way to be married was burned to death, her fiance injured and two men slightly hurt in two accidents near here yester- day, both of which involved burning ! cars. Miss Gertrude Sass of South Ozone Park, N. Y., was pinned beneath the steering wheel of her car when the ma- chine overturned and caught fire after a collision 4 miles south of Woodbridge, | Va, and was burned to death before she could be removed. Her fiance, C. ‘W. Engler, 30, attached to the U. S. S. Idaho, sustained a fractured arm, three broken ribs and cuts about the head. One man was injured and another escaped unhurt when a Burlington, N. | 49, colored, of the 1200 block of Half| C.. freight truck with a 30-foot trailer | caught fire going down Snake Hill on the Richmond Highway. 3 miles south of here. Traffic over the highway at the point was blocked for three hours as the truck and its cargo, valued at $10,000, went up in flames. En Route to Be Married. Miss Sass and Mr. Engler were en route to Portsmouth, Va, to be married today when their auto- mobile and a machine driven by Anton P. Hoeffner, 54, of ale, N. ¥., collided almost head-on, State Pcliceman James Clark, who investi- gated the accident, said. Hoeffner es- caped uninjured. His_brother, Henry Hoeffner, 50, also of Rosedale, N. Y., was cut about the face. All were treated at the U_mued States Marine Hospital at Quantico, Commonwealth Attorney Thomas Lyon of Prince William County ordered Anton Hoeffner held under bond pend- ing the outcome of an inquest into the accident by Coroner Marstellar. The inquest will be held within the next two weeks, Dr. Marstellar said last night. An effort to extract the woman from the burning machine was made by M. Shelton. proprietor of a filling_statiori at the scene of the accident. Her legs were extended through the windshield of the car, while the upper part of her body was pinned under the steering wheel, he said. ‘The machine in which Miss Sass met her death was completely burned. Both werz overturned. The body of Miss Sass was removed to the Davis & Hall funeral home, at Occoquan, Va. Driver Jumps From Truck. In the other accident the driver of the truck, Grillien Faulkner, 28, of Burlington, N. C. jumped from the cab as it caught ' fire, leaving his companion, H. L. berson, also of Buriington, N. C., in the ma- chine asleep, Roberson said. Fauikner was burned about the hands before he jumped and sustained a fractured ankle in his leap. He was admitted to the Alexandria Hospital for treatment. chb‘eirson miraculously escaped unin- jured. Of the cargo of mixed freight on the truck, only apprcximately $100 worth was saved. The truck was completely burned. Fire engines from Alexandria were unable to check the flames because of lack of water. Southbound -~ traffic over the high- way was detoured over the Fort Hunt road and northbound traffic through a .Geld at the foot of Snake Hill for three hours before the burning wreckage could be removed. WEEMS TO QUIT CAPITAL Air Navigation Expert Will Com- mand U. 8. 8. Hopkins. Lieut. Comdr. Philip V. H. Weems, U. 8. Navy, who has taught many noted aviators air navigation and is con- sidered one of the world's experts in this science, today was directed in naval orders to leave Washington and assume command of the U. S. S. Hopkins. He has been on duty in the hydro- graphic office, Navy Department, for that | | | | | their elothing to the water, Sermons Accompany Meals for Jobless at Capital Church Sermons accompany food at luncheons for unemployed spon- sored by Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Third and I streets. Rev. William H. Jernigan, who sponsored a luncheon for jobless, followed by a sermon, yesterday, has announced a similar event will take place at 11 a.m. tomor- row at the church. Rev. R. A. Carter will preach. About 100 unemployed attended yesterday's luncheon-sermon. TWO PERSONS KILLED IN WEEK END TRAFFIC Albert Johnson, Colored, One of the Victims—Six Others Are Injured. Two persons were killed over the week end in automobile accidents. Some | six other persons were injured in acci- | dents yesterday and last night. One of the dead is Albert Johnson, street southwest, killed Saturday night when his automobile and one said to have been operated by James H. Tinsley, 22, attached o Walter Reed Hospital, col- lided at First and N streets southwest. An inquest was being held in Johnson's death at the District Morgue this after- | noon. The other-dead is an unidentified col- ored woman, about 65 years old, who died in Freedmen'’s Hospital early today | re- | without ever having sufficiently gained consciousness to give her name since being injured when struck by an automobile Tuesday at Georgia avenue and Farragut street. Charles L. Win- mer, 19, of the 700 block of Fern street, was the driver of the machine which struck ker, police said. REHEARSALS TO START FOR HARVEST PAGEANT First Practice Called Tomorrow Night on Bicentennial Event to Be Held at Sylvan Theater. Renearsals for the harvest pageant, “The Vision of George Washington," be- ing arranged under auspices of the | District Bicentennial Commission, will get under way tomorrow night with a practice session at the Central Com- munity Center, Thirteenth and Clifton streets. The pageant, which is to be presented in the National Sylvan Theater October 11, 12 and 13, is under the direction of Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, its author. The rehearsal in Central Community Center will be for the groups represent- ed in the episode “Harvest in the Colo- nial South.” Thursday night, at_the same place, participants in “The Great Wheat Harvest in the Northwest” epi- sode will rehearse. Other groups will meet at later dates. Performers in the pageant are being drafted from the outstanding dramatic groups of the Capital. AGREEMENT CITED | | | Alleged Violation on Gas Sta-! tion Construction May Bring Plea for Injunction. Alleged violaticn of the terms of a deed of covenant restricting vehieular crossovers to the north or Rhode Island avenue boundaries of a gas station | property at Seventh street and Rhode | Island avenue presaged today an in- junction suit by the District of Colum- bia against Michael R. London to close the Seventh street drives to the station, which, it is charged, are illegal. This was _indicated today at the Franklin School Administration Build | ing. where the Board of Education’s secretary, Harry O. Hine, was compiling data on the construction of the filling station. Permission to erect the filling station at that corner was granted by | the School Board February 3 of this !yeer. on condition that entrances or exits to the station would not be made on Seventh street, which is directly across the street from the Shaw Junior High, School. Ading on the advice of James A Purcell, attorney, Mr. London and his wife, Mrs. Dora London, owners, filed a deed of covenant with the recorder of deeds restricting vehicular entrances and sidewalk cross-overs to the Rhode | Island avenue frontage of the lot. This deed of covenant was filed April 1,1932. Meanwhile, Mr. Hine is meeting to- morTow morning _with Dr. Hayden Johnson, School Board member, and Mr. Purcell to plan the School Board's course of action to correct the alleged violation of the covenant. SAYS POLICE IGNORED PLEA FOR TREATMENT Complaining he was kept in a cell at the first precinct overnight, after he had | asked for medical treatment for ihe | effects of a drug he had taken, Jack Cheney, alias Jack Thomas, of Rosslyn. Va,, collapsed in Police Court today and was sent to Gallinger Hospital. Joseph McMahon, deputy marshal at Police Court in charge of the prisoners, ceciared after the man had collapsed he was in no condition to appear in Police Court when brought there. At Gallinger, doctors in the psycho- pathic ward said Cheney was well known to them as Jack Thomas and that he had been treated for drug ad- diction. They said he was not in & serious _ condition, but was suffering from effects ot drugs and liquor. They said he claimed he had asked for medi- cal treatment after he was iaken to the first precinct last night, but_ did not complain about not having been sent to the hospital. Capt. William E. Holmes of the first precinct, said there was no record of the man having asked for medical treatment, and apparently he was in good health this morning when removed from the precinct to Police Court. The man was arrested by Policeman E V. Will of the fourth precinct and booked as drunk. TWO ARE RESCUED FROM BAY 2 HOURS AFTER BOAT CAPSIZES Capital Youths Near Exhaustion When Reached by Oysterman—Wave Causes Accident. Thrown into the water when a large wave capsized their runabout boat in the middle of Chesapeake Bay yester- day afternoon, two Washington youths were rescued at the point of exhaustion after they had clung to the overturned boat 2 hours and & half. Fred Crismond, 23, of 1520 A street northeast, and Morton Henderson, 28, first block of T street, set out from Shelby-on-the-Bay about 1 pm. for a pleasure cruise on the bay. ‘When they were about an equal dis- tance from either shore, a vave broke over the boat from behind ana swamped it. The young men clung to the sides of the bobbing craft and kicked off lighten themselves in The water was rough and few boats were out, although an occasional ing craft passed at too great a distance were clinging to the boat with their to hear their shouts, The young men last strength when Capt. Gardner of Mayo, Md., noticed their plight as he drew near in his oyster boat. Capt. Gardner took the youths ashore, where members of their fam- ilies. residents of a Summer cottage at Shelby, bad been awaiting their return anxiously for hours. Among those ashore was Miss Thelma Crismond, Fred's sister and his mother. Neither young men required hospital treatment, and they were said to be none the worse for their experience - BY SCHOOL BOARD, PAGE B—1 AGAINTO SPEAKERS IN ORATORY TESTS Five Nations Will Send Their National Forensic Cham- pions Here. MISS LUCYLLE GOLDSMITH TO REPRESENT AMERICA England, France, Ireland and Holland to Be Represented October 19. For the seventh successive year, Washington will be the scene this Fall of the International Oratorical Con- test, in which high school represent- atives of the United States and Euro- pean countries compete for the highest oratorical honors offered in the world to young students. Five Nations Compete. Five nations will send their national forensic champions here next month, prepared to meet the final test of the world wide competition. The young orators will speak before a board of judges in Constitution Hall on the night of October 22. Preparations are now being made for the distribution of tickets to the public, Randolph Leigh, director general of the contest, said today. England, France, Ireland and Holland will be the foreign countries represented here this year. Their speakers will compete with Miss Lucylle Goldsmith of Las Angeles, who won the National Oratorical Contest in Washington last May. defeating five other zone finalists from various sectors of the United States. By her victory Miss Goldsmith earned the right to represent the United States in the international contest. America Winner Twice. America twice has retained the in- ternational honors of the contest in th's icountry. The last victory for the United States was won by Edmund Gullion. a Washington high school stu- dent, who went undefeated through The Star area. the national and the inter- netional finals in 1930 Last year Henri Van Hoof of Holland won the international and found he liked America so well he stayed to at George Washington Univer- Irish Speaker Here First. ing the visit five of the Ameri- can national finalists made to their countries on the annual contest tour this Summer, the foreign contestants are expected to arrive here in the third week of October. The Irish speaker is scheduled to be the first of the invaders to dock, and all will he assembled in Washington by October 19 for the en- tertainment and official recognition an- nually accorded them. ' FOUR JUDGES TO ATTEND NATIONAL U. OPENING Speakers Tonight Will Include Dr. Pergler, First Minister From Czechoslovakia. Four District of Columbia jurists will articipate in the opening at 6:30 o'clock tonight of the sixty-fourth Fall term of National University. They are Judge Fenton Booth, chief justice of i the United States Court of Claims; Judge Oscar R. Luhring and Judge Pey- ton Gordon of the D. C. Supreme Court and Judge D. Lawrence Groner, associ- ate justice of the D. C. Court of Ap- | peals, all active members of National's Law School faculty. Besides the jurists, who will speak briefly. addresses will be made by Dr. Charies Pergler, first _Minister of | Czechoslovakia to the United States. now dean of National's Graduate | School; Prof. Glenn Willett, Prof. | Thomas H. Patterson and Prof. Conrad Syme, all law instructors. Dr. Hayden Johnson, chancellor of the university, who recently was made a member of ‘h; D. C. Board of Education, will pre- side. After tonight the university’s Fall term classes will be in sessions every week day during morning, afterncon ng hours. 20 BOXERS ON TEAM Northeast Boys’ Club Representa- tion This Year Strong. A team of 20 boxers is expected to represent the Northeast Boys’ Club { this year, according to Billy Reed, for- mer Boys' Club boxing champion, who now is coach at the Northeast club. Boxing, Reed holds, builds up a boy's physique and mentality by developing co-ordination of mind and muscle and self-control. Self-defense, too, is trained by the art of boxing, he says. Boxing has come to the front in the last eight months at the Northeast Boys' Club. Members of the club's team won three championships in the A. A. U. Junior Golden Glove Tourna- ment here last Spring. It was their first appearance in the tournament and the youngsters expect to make an even better record this year. MARKS C. U. OPENING Rt. Edward A. Pace Gives Sermon at Solemn Mass. A sermon by Right Rev. Msgr. Ed- ward A. Pace, vice rector of Catholic University, marked a solemn mass of the Holy Ghost formally opening the Rev. Msgr. 4 forty-fourth academic year of the in- stitution yesterday. Celebrated by Right Rev. A James H. Ryan, rector of the univer- sity, the mass was said in the crypt of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Members of the faculty attended in formal academic dress and seniors in cap and gown. Others present included superiors and members of the religious communities on the campus, graduate and undergraduate students. e DISCUSS ENFORCEMENT Glassford and Little Confer With District Prohibition Chief. The liquor situation in Washington was discussed at a prolonged conference today between Brig. Gen. Pelnam D. Glassford, superintendent of police; W. R. Blanford, prohibition enforcement director for the Washington district, and Lieut. George Little, commander of the Police Department’s special liquor enforcement squad. Particular attention was given the activities of the Police Department liquor enforcement officers in co-operai- ing with the Federal agents. Blanford told Gen. Glassford he was receiving t ca-operation,