Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1932, Page 5

HOOVER ACCEPTS ANALOSTAN DEED President Names Island for . Theodore Roosevelt at White House Ceremony. President Hoover late yesterday aft- ernoon in formally accepting the deed of Analostan Island, which was ac- quired by the Rcosevelt Memorial As- sociation as a memorial to the late President Roosevelt, announced that “in consummation of these purposes I direct that Analostan Island mmall here- after be known aus Theodore Roosevelt ‘ Island and be dedicated to the Na- tion.” The ceremony of presentation was held in the famous East Room of the White House in the presence of a dis- tinguished gathering of nearly 100 persons, among them being Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of the late President; Secretary of State Stim- son; William Loeb, secretary to Presi- dent Roosevelt; Gen. John J. Pershing; Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, and James R. Garfield, president of the Memorial Association, who was Secre- tary of the Interior under President Roosevelt. Garfield’s Address. In presenting the Government deed to the Island to the President, Mr. Garfleld made the following acdress: “Mr. President: “It is fitting that the memorial for Theodore Roosevelt should be in the National Capital—the shrine of the Republic—where, in enduring forms we Thonor men who have nobly served their country. “These memorials are beacon lights along the road of the Nation's progress. They will inspire future generations to study the lives of our great dead, and 80 be stirred to high endeavor, right- eous conduct. “Analostan Island seemed peculiarly mppropriate for this memorial. Theo- dore Roosevelt was keenly interested in the completion of the original plans for the development of the Capital. This island is an integral part of that plan. He appreciated the value of beautiful parks, breathing places for the dwellers in cities, where people could enjoy rest and communion with nature. “Mrs. Roosevelt perfectly expresses her approval, ‘It is a dream come true.’ “It is gratifying, sir, that the presen- tation of this gift is made to you who knew Theoaore Roosevelt. and have added luster to your high office because you are distinguished for the civic vir- tues which he likewise had. “I have the honor, Mr. President, in behalf of the Rocsevelt Memorial Asso- clation and the thousands of citizens whose generosity made this gift pos- sible, to deliver to you this deed, con- veying the island to the Nation as a lasting tribute to the memory of The- odore Roosevelt.” Hoover’s Response. In response, President Hoover said: “Mr. Garfield and members of the committee— “The fame of President Theodore Roosevelt has grown in luster and stat- ure as the vears have passed. Time constantly brings his essential great- ness into clearer and clearer outlin His accomplishments will bulk large in the pages of history, but equally he will be remembered for his personality and his character. His was a virile energy, and abuncant optimism and courage, a greatness of vision and a faith in his country’s future which knew no boun- daries of limiting doubts. These quali- ties, inherent within him, and his strength were unconsciously developed in communion with Nature. He lived much in the open; he loved the moun- tains, the woods, the streams and the sea. From them he gained a spacious- ness of outlook which permanently en- «dear him to his countrymen. “There is thus an especial appropri- ateness in this memorial which you are giving to the Nation. This wooded is- land, set in the midst of the Potomac, is forcver within view of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Capitol and the White House. You have wisely chosen a bit of nature within the boundaries of this city which he loved, and where he rendered such noble service. “As years go by the Nation will add to its usefulness and its appropriate- ness as a memorial to so great a Presl- dent. In the name of the peoble of the United States and on behalf of the Federal Government, I accept this gift, and tender to and to the thou- sands of citizens whose generosity made it possible, their warmest commenda. tion and grateful thanks. In consum- mation of these purposes, I direct that Analostan I:land .shall hereafter be known as Theodore Roosevelt Island, and dedicated to the Natio FUTURE D. C. PAR SYSTEM PICTURED Stanton Park Citizens and P.-T. A. Groups See Film Outlining Plans for Development. Gilmpses at Washington's future ap- pearance, with its contemplated system of parks, were shown last night before & joint meeting of the Stanton Park Citizens’ Association and the Parent- ‘Teacher Association of the Peabody- Hilton-Carberry Schools. The meeting was held in the Peabody School, Fifth and C streets northeast. ‘The two one-reel motion pictures, “Parks in the National Capital” and “Future Park and its Environs” presented maps and wviews of sections that wiil be improved with recreational centers and parks throughout the city. John Melncle, Board of Associated Charities, addressed the meeting on playground provisio: At the suggestion of Miss Gertrude | Young, prircipal of the Peabody School, both associations adopted a resolution thanking the Chevy Chase Dairies, Inc., Jgor the free milk it has furnished in part to the schools. Miss Young also urged that the Citizens' Association do something sbout the traffic condition around Stanton Park, which she con- sidered dangerous to the children cross- ing to and from school. She suggested some form of traffic lights be installed. Christmas baskets of food, clothing and toys also were asked for needly chil- dren and residents of the association’s territor: President William E. Monroe of the kitizens’ group and Mrs. L. H. Brown, secretary, officiated at the meeting. A musical program followed the business session. $792,000 FOR HARBOR Pecretary Urges Improvement at ‘Honolulu. ‘The Secretary of War yesterday rec- ommended to Congress expenditure of $792,000 for improving the harbor at Honolulu. The recommendations also included a $3,000 additional annual expenditure for maintenance. The improvement projects include keeping the entrance channel the full width of 500 feet and at a depth of 40 feet. Previous recommendations had been made for replacing the lighthouse depot “‘facilities and reconstructing the quar- . antine wharf. e Five men under 27 years and a youth have left Portsmouth, England, for a three-month _shark-fishing adventure in the West Indies. 4 System for Washington | experience, but jobs are seldom found. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1932. A group of wandeving, homeless boys are shown here applying 16t work. Applications such as this are a frequent WELL INFORMED YOUTH FOUND AMONG HOMELESS WANDERERS Many Boys on Road Have No Speciflc Destination, but Inclination This is the third of a series of dally dispatches by a writer who traveled back and forth across the country to get the story of the thousands of homeless, wandering boys. BY DANIEL ROBERT MAUE. The rain streamed down. | At midafternoon I drove a small| roadster to the New York City end of the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson | River. I was starting on a trip by fliv- ver, by freight, by hitch-hiking, across | the continent, to get first-hand the story of the thousands of homeless, | jobless boys who are roving the United States, victims in the main of the eco- nomic _crisis. A policeman on duty at the Manhat- tan end of the tunnel was apologetic. He did not have on hand an assortment of 20 or 30 hitch-travelers, awaiting a | lift southward, as he would on any less | stormy day. A few minutes later had passed under the Hudson and was talking with a Jersey City patrolman. | No transients. “Too stormy.” The Erie freights would be in later in the | day. Then, weather or no weather, old | men and young would be scuttling out of the neighboring yards and soliciting | passage through the tunnel to Man- hattan. Driving on, I saw near a mo- tionless truck the slight, hunched fig- ure of a boy. Bound for Oklahoma. I stopped. = The lad ran forward and | crawled in out of the rain. “Now where in time are you headed for, on a day like this?” I asked. | . “Okalhoma City.” Going to Okla- homa City on 43 cents! He talked an incessant stream clear to Philadelphia, 90 miles. In suit. coat and sweater over a zipper shirt, heavy shoes and shapeless cap, with grubby, | laughing face and capable hands, he| seemed all boy. | Biographicall; Augustus Simonson, | | 21, of New York ; going to ask work of the Phoenix Steel Co., Oklahoma; six years of grade school his_mother and two sisters at home: on his own since he was 15; simply hitched about the country until 17; traveled to the West Coast three times; worked on and “did 30 days with the chain gang”; “fee grabbers” in Tennessee also had inducted him into unpaid service. He might travel westward by way of Baltimore, or Washington, perhaps Richmond—there was no telling yet. | This- Boy a Wide Reader, Augustus carried a copy of the| Argosy. He said he was an inveterate | | Teader, and I cannot doubt his word. ¥e amazed and all but cornered me | with his wide knowledge, informally ac- quired. Am I awake? “Cro-Magnon Man . .. Neanderthal Man . . . Pithicanthropus Erectus . . . the Jaffa man.” The youth beside me, in his rough-and-ready | jargon, is talking of these and specu- | lating where the Missing Link may be |and what it is like. He speaks the | | words correctly, if with his own place- | | ment of accent.” Now he is off about | religion and the churches. Again and | again he came back to the subject of | anthropology. He adores Roy Chapman Andrews, adventuresome anthropologist. | "“I ain't kidding myself. I know I | haven't got a chance at it; I couldn't even make night school with conditions - . . Say, would |1 go with Roy Chapman Andrews? I'd sure work for that man for nothing.” ‘The youth talked on. He was in the middle of a discourse on the financial condition of Philadelphia when I set | him down before Broad Street Station in that city. He went running away through the slanting rain. I went on foot through the arches of City. Hall, along Broad street, through the retail business areas. Many owners of stricken young faces were marking time by seeking some spot drier than the last occupied. In a doorway I en- countered a stationary person. On His Way Back Home. Although bedraggled, the young man bore evidence of former good grooming. He stamped his feet. He said he was hungry. He wore no hat, and he had sold his overcoat at Indianapolis so he could eat. Irish, 21, and native to Malden, Mass., he was going home be- cause “the whole business is no good.” He had once been a tennis instructor, had gone in for stenography, and then down to restaurant counter man. Finally employment had run out alto- gether. He had been a motor transient for three months. The somewhat disillusioned fellow was trying to save his clothing. He wished “to go into New York and hcme looking like something.” John Scott, 21, and an orphan since | childhood, told me he started hitch- traveling because he didn’t believe what he read. I talked with him in Phila- delphia at the Sheiter for Homeless Men. “I had seen hospital cotton,” John said, “but I couldn’t believe it grew on bushes. I had thought about cigarettes, too, and I didn’t think tobacco was a plant. So I went to see.” He had never strayed far from the city in which he had for so long re- ceived institutional care; he had gone only to the neighboring States. He and his companion, Henry Kutsey, 18, represent the type of youth I be- lieve to be most often in contact with welfare organizations. Henry’s is a clouded mentality. He could tell little straight. He babbled of a fear of “the machine age,” about which he has the merest smattering of knowledge. Two colored boys came in out of the storm. They arrived by freight from Greensboro, N. C. One was 16, the other 15. The y ‘was full of hilar- structural steel in several States; taken ington Loan & Trust Co. to Mrs, Alice off a passenger express in North Florida | Hay Wadsworth, owner of the fee to | rent was extinguished and that Ward- | | leasehold interest “when erecting the ounger f#ty and laughter as the other,was sub- dued and forlorn. ) blow y’ up & tune, mistah,” Merely Follow to Travel. he continually interrupted. “Lemme blow ¥’ up a tune.” It developed that he wanted to play | a harmonica. He was without such an | instrument at the time, but a harp ap- parently had won him sustenance and | shelter. He had, too, cleared an entire | dollar by working three weeks in a| ‘Washington shoe store. | ‘The story could not be fitted together until the older boy explained that the | younger, with his Washington dollar, | had returned to Greensboro and lured | his companion away from home with | glowing promises of great money in the District of Columbia. The older boy was desperately intent on going home. His features never re- laxed from signs of tense suffering. He wished he could go back to school. ‘The hilarious one had no plans what- soever. He only knew that on the mor- row he would be “going on a train.” (Tomorrow: A Stop at Pittsburgh.) (Copyright, 1932, by North American News- HAY-ADAMS HOUSE SUIT IS DISMISSED Appeals Court Upholds Lower Bench in Dropping Action of John U. Gardiner. ‘The District Court of Appeals in an opinion by Chief Justice George E. Mar- tin yesterday affirmed the action of the District Supreme Court, which had dis- missed a suit by John U. Gardiner, owner of $1,400 worth of notes, secured on the leasehold interest in the Hay- Adams House, at Sixteenth and H streets, against the Washington Loan & Trust Co. and the Union Trust Co. The latter company had been named as trustee under a deed of trust securing a loan of $600,000 made by the Wash- the land. Mrs. Wadsworth had leased the prop- erty May 1, 1925, to Wardman, Bones & Hobbs for 99 years, with an option to purchase for $600,000 within 20 years. After erecting the building, costing be- tween $900,000 and $1,000,000, Ward- man and his associates, July 28, 1927, decided to exercise the option of pur- | chase. Mrs. Wadsworth executed two deeds, one securing a loan of $600,000 | to the Washington Loan & Trust Co., | and the other transferring the prop- erty, subject to that loan, to trustees | representing Wardman and his associ- | ates. Gardiner contended the purchase by | the lessees of the fee to the land oper- | ated as a merger and that the ground | man, Bones & Hobbs became the legal | owners, subject only to the trust for $650,000. which they had placed on the building, of which the notes of Gardiner formed a part. In affirming the dismissal of the suit the court held that the money was bor- rowed from the Washington Loan & Trust Co., and the arrangement effec- tdally prevented a merger of the fee and leasehold interests, for a merger of such states will not be permitted when it would destroy the rights of a bona fide lienholder, who had taken a lien on lthe fee before its conveyance to the essees, Dental Society to Meet. “Aids to Esthetics in Denture Con- struction” will be the theme of a paper to be presented tonight by Dr. Irving R. Hardy of New York at a meeting of the District of Columbia Dental Soclety at George Washington University. District’s Heroes in the , World War Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. IRISH SERIES T0 CLOSE Final Address Honoring St. Pat- rick to Be Given Tomorrow. An address on “The Irish Influence in English Literature” by Dr. Patrick J. Lennox, and another by Dr. Charles H. McCarthy, on “Ireland.” tomorrow night, will mark the closing of the observance at Catholic University of the sesqui-millennium of the landing of St. Patrlck in Ireland in the year ‘The speeches will be made in the :udlwrium of the Music Building at pm. hand tailored.. SILK MOGODORES; spring-back feature ......... designed by famous artists. .. BY SERGT. L. E. JAECKEL. S recorded in the official cita- tion, Guy I. Rowe, major, 38th Infantry, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, was awarded the Croix de Guerre of France for heroic gallantry in action with the enemy east of Chateau- Thierry, France, July 15, 1918. For 1415 hours on July 15, Maj. 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In a brief session, devoted mainly to a lengthy brief by Chief Justice Hughes in the Texas case on the limitations of a Governor's power to declare martial law, the court also consented to review a half dozen cases and denied a like number of pleas to be heard. Takes Recess Monday. ‘The court announced that after next Monday it will take a recess until Janu- ary 9. It decided to hear on that day the Appalachian case, resulting from the attempt of hard-pressed coal pro- ducers of the bituminous belt to set up a sales organization limiting competi- tion, only to have their effort declared illegal by a Federal three-judge court. Cases the court consented to take up, and which it therefore probably will decide before the present term is over, included: The appeal of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co., to test the validity of taxes imposed by Tulsa and Payne Counties, Okla., on oil it had in stor- age in those counties. The effort of Scranton Electric Co. | of Scranton, Pa., to test the ruling of | the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, | sustaining the Commissioner of Internal | Revenue in his refusal to accept con- | solidated tax returns made for it by the American Gas & Electric Co. for the years 1917, 1918 and 1919. Reviews Refused. The court refused to review the fol- lowing: The appeal of Frank Haskell and others convicted of violating the Cali- fornia gambling laws in connection with the operation of the Johanna Smith, a | vessel anchored more than three miles | off_the California coast. John Dillon’s conviction of violating the PFederal prohibition law in Sioux lcm-. Iowa, in 1931 and his sentence to ing, $ 1.00 FUT wool long strip 2 SHOPS—MAIN FLOOR—THE HECH By the Associated Press. COURTLAND, Kans., December 13.— Over at William Freeberg’s general store, where eggs speak louder than money, the Swedish customers haxe ex- hausted a liberal supply of “lutfisk.” ‘The Christmas holidays are approach- ing, and while most folks are pricing fowl for their menus, the Swedes al ready have put to soak their lutfisk, sometimes known as Norwegian turkey. It derives its name not from zart, the g;?t: from the method used in its prepa- ration. Wherever one finds a Swedish colony one is almost sure to encounter lutfis] and when the fish is in season, as at Christmas _time, community suppers are popular. It's a'link with the old coun- try. Heaping platters of the white, flaky at, served with butter sauce or cream gravy and lignon berries, is sure to recall memories of a childhcod spent in the land of the Midnight Sun. No Christmas dinner menu in the home of a first-generation Swede is complete without it. Taken from the water, the fish are placed on huge racks and dried until they become hard. Shipments :re made to this country especially for the hdli- ys. Stacked up on the counter at Free- berg's, lutfisk looks like cordwood. Many times ti.2 fish are mistaken for unfinished ax handles. Edgar Lind- blad, Freeberg's right-hand man, avers, | however, that such ax handles are | mighty g)od eating if prepared by a | formula handed down from many gen- erations. caught off the coast of Norway, | Carpenters who value their tools gen- erally put their saws away about this knot .... IMPORTED SILKS; same color. Jacquards, patterns.. | 10 months in ghe county jail with a fine of $500. The appeal of C. N. Bevan, John W. Koehrman and Robert A. Stranahan, held guilty of contempt by a notary | public acting in a civil suit pending in | the common pleas court of Lucas | County. Ohio. 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The Chestatee Pyrites & Chemical | Co. of Atlanta yesterday won in the Dis- trict of Columbia Court of Appeals a reversal of the decision of the District Supreme Court dismissing jts petition to compel Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, to comply with a decree of the court to make final adjustment of the company's claim for compensa- tion and interest claimed to be due for its losses in connection with the produc- tion of minerals for use of the Govern-~ ment during the World War. | The lower tribunal had accepted the | answer of Secretary Wilbur that the law places a limitation to pay obligations for interest after March 2, 1919, and that he had conformed to this ruling in making his allowances and that his de- | termination amounted to a finding of fact and not of law. The lower co . then dismissed the petition and the company appealed. 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