Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1934, Page 15

ARRESTS FACING “JIMMY'S" GANG IF GAMING PERSISTS Prince Georges County Com- missioners Follow Watch- ful Waiting Policy. OPENING OF NEW PLACE IS REPORTED NIPPED Authorities Unite in Drive and Appeal for Support of Press and Public. A policy of watchful waiting was being followed by the Prince Georges County Commissioners today as they reiterated their determination to end organized gambling in the county. Overnight developments in their campaign to end the 20-year domina- tion of the county by gambling in- terests were: Discovery and subsequent closing of & place on the Defense Highway where Jimmy La Fontaine is said to have moved after his regular “stand” on the Bladensburg road was closed as a result of harassment by District police. Pledges of 100 per cent support of the commissioners by State's Attorney Alan Bowie and Police Chief J. J. Crowley. An appeal by the commissioners for the support of the press and public. Report of Moving. A few hours after Perry Boswell, president of the County Board, in- formed Chief Crowley of the commis- sioners’ order to close all gambling resorts in the county and keep them closed, the commissioners received a report that “Jimmy” had moved to a house on the Defense Highway. They made an independent inves- tigation, which, they said, disclosed the new location was being used as a headquarters for the numbers game only. That form of gambling had been carried on at the Defense High- ‘way site for several days, however, the commissioners were told. A house on the top of a hill about 2 miles from the Bladensburg War Memorial Cross, secluded by trees, was used for the gambling. The property, the commissioners discovered, be- longed to an employe of La Fontaine's. Shortly after the commissioners completed their investigation, the place closed voluntarily. The commissioners made no effort to hide their indignation at the gam- blers’ effort to continue operation in deflance of their order. “We will continue our policy of watchful waiting awhile longer, but if further defiance is manifest, there will be drastic action. Some people are likely to lose their jobs, some to g0 to jail” one of the Commission- ers said. “We cannot back down now,” he added. “If we do, all the lawbreak- ers in Washington will move into the county. In announcing that members of the county police force would, as a matter of course, co-operate “100 per cent” with the commissioner, Chief |, Crowley said they likewise would have co-operated with the Washing- ton authorities had they been asked | to do so. Referring to the tearing down of the fence around La Fontaine's by District officials last Thursday and the subsequent policy of *harass- ment,” Chief Crowley declared: “Maj. Ernest D. Brown of the Washington force did not ask our co-operation officially at any time. His only request for assistance from fis came through the newspapers. Had he asked we would have given gifts to the worthy. him all the co-operation he wanted.” Crowley Makes Excuse. Chief Crowley said it was “only half true” that he had authority to close “the place at the District line.” “I carf only go there armed with the proper papers,” he said. “Otherwise, if damage is done and no offense proved, my bond is liable.” State’s Attorney Bowie announced he was glad to see the commissioners inaugurate a campaign to clean up gambling. “I always have and always will give my best co-operation to thqse who try to enforce the law,” he said. Commissioner Boswell declared the board members believe they face a “hard fight” but will welcome co-op- eration from the press and public in their efforts, HEART ATTACK KILLS MRS. THOMAS FELL Wife of President Emeritus of St. John's Was Visiting Here With Husband. Mrs. Thomas Fell, 80, wife of Dr. ‘Thomas Fell, president emeritus of St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., died of a heart attack tqgay in her rooms at the Grafton Hot€l. Dr. and Mrs. Fell were on a visit to Washington from their home at Markham, Va. Mrs. Fell arose about 8:30 o'clock and went to an adjoining Topm, where she collapsed. Her hus- band, who is 84, went to Mrs. Fell's assistance, but she died almost imme- diately. Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald issued & certificate of death from natural causes. Mrs. Fell's son, Edgar Feil, & prominent attorney of Baltimore, came immediately to Washington. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Dr. and Mrs. Fell left Annapolis about eight years ago. ALUMNI TO RALLY Dancing, entertainment and athletic events will be featured in the 26th annual reunion of the Central High School Alumni Association at 7:30 p.m. Priday in the school, at Thir- teenth and Clifton streets. After the regular business session, the annual election of officers will be held. Four persons who have gained na- tional or international distinction in’ their various capacities will be select- edmdnwnrdawmbe::‘dewthem during the reunipn, it been an- \snounced. Childish Santa Letters Sent to Dead Letter Office Couple, Who Answered Them in Past, Fails to Call. Childish letters mailed to Santa Claus in Washington went to the dead letter office this year, instead of to the wealthy couple who answered them in the past. For years the couple, who asked that their names be withheld, called at the City Post Office each holiday season to ask for the Santa Claus letters. They spent several days poring over them, separating the innocent and the needy from the merely jocu- lar. Then they filled the requests as best they could, sending uked-‘gor Again this yeay the letters were saved, but the couple did not reappear. Since the Post Office has no Santa Claus appropriation, they finally were “disposed of,” much as other such let- ters have “gone up the chimney.” Postal employes personally saved one or two, and sought to fulfill them from their own resources. - The others, however, had to “go up the chimney” in the absence of the Christmas patrons of the dead letter office. BLANTON RENEWS FGHT OND.C.FUND Makes Attack on Increased Appropriations for City’s Relief Purposes. Extending a Christmas greeting card to the press, Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas at- tached to it statistics on relief ex- penditures here and a reiteration of his opposition to any increase in the Federal lump-sum contribution to the upkeep of the District. In expressing his opposition to the $1,000,000 increase in the emergency relief appropriation re- quested by the Commissioners, Blanton, who is ranking Democratic member of the House District Appro- priations Subcommittee, declared the “money dole should stop.” While furnishing all possible jobs and food to the deserving needy, he said a dole “destroys initiative, self-reliance, energy, thrift and self-respect, and creates lazy, shiftless mendicants.” Presenting Hig Side. The House Subcommittee has com- { pleted its hearings on the District supply bill and Blanton said in his Christmas greetings that he was pre- senting facts to offset what he char- acterized as “city propaganda.” ‘When the hearings are made public, he said, they will show that the Com- missioners admit the following: “That most of the paved streets, bridges, schools, playgrounds, parks, water system, hospitals, courts, jail, asylums for defectives and other projects were acquired and constructed when the United States paid half of their cost. “That during the last 20 years the United States has spent over $200,- 000,000 in Washington on its perma- nent buildings—a great city asset— attracting large crowds here daily, visitors spending $50,000,000 in Wash- ington in 1934. “That $13,000,000 has been spent here on relief in 1934, there being one of every seven persons and one of every four Negroes on relief, many refusing jobs, families receiving from $14 to $90 a month. “That the tax rate is still $1.50 per $100 on real and personal property and one-half of 1 per cent on intangi- bles, with hundreds of millions in locked boxes never taxed; all libraries and $1,000 worth of furniture are ex- empt from taxes to each family, Taxes Lowered. “To aid citizens the assessed values have been lowered $50,000,000 this year and $80,000,000 last year; gaso- line tax is 2 cents;gauto license tags cost $1 for all cars, driver's permits, $1; no income tax, no inheritance tax, no monthly sewer charge. “All frees and their care free; trash, ashes and garbage removed free, cost of water $7 per family; all school books, supplies and clinics free. “Commissioners testified that peo- ple here are least taxed and have more valuable privileges than any other city in the United States.” EXPANSION OF C. C. C. STUDIED BY CHIEFS Pope Proposes More Emphasis on Work Relief—Plan Presented to Hopkins. By the Associated Press. An expansion of the Civilian Con- servation Corps to carry more of the burden of helping the unemployed is under consideration by administration relief experts. It is one of a number of proposals studied as a possible means of putting more emphasis on work relief rather than outright grants of assistance. The proposal has come from a group of members of Congress, who have watched the work of the C. C. C, Heretofore C. C. C. work has been con- fined chiefly to more or less unat- tached youths, many of whom have never found regular jobs since they completed school. The proposal now under consideration would expand it to include older men and married men. Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho, oe of those who proposed the ex- pansion, has taken the idea up with high administration officials, includ- ing Harry L. Hopkins, relief director, and has received assurance it would be studied. Radio Users Help Cinemas. Because residents of small towns in Czechoslovakia stay at home and listen to the radio instead of attend- ing the movies, the government has ordered that part of the receipts from radio license fees be turned over to the theaters. Broadcasting in Czecho- slovakia is & mupnly. operated by & company in wi the government s_majority stockholder, - ". WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1934, First Lady Aids Relief Groups in Dispensing Christmas Cheer Upper left: Mrs. Roosevelt pictured as she distributed 1,400 cretqonne bags fllled with clothing and toys to underprivileged children at the Central Union Mission Christmas party yesterday at Loew’s Fox Theater. I John S. Bennett, superintendent of the mission, acted as Santa Claus. —Wide World Photo. Upper right: The First Lady, shown at Salvation Army headquarters as she helped in the distribution of 1,000 baskets of food to the needy. Others in the picture are Maj. James Asher, in charge of the Salvation Army here, and Mrs. Asher. —Star Staff Photo. Lower: A happy scene at Gospel Mission as Harvey V. Prentice, superintendent of the mission, distributed nearly 500 sacks, each containing everything necessary to the making of a fine Christmas dinner. CHRISTMAS SONGS IN UNUSUAL BOOK Sister John Elizabeth Crea- mer Gives Work to Cath- olic University. g BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. In the Catholic University Library there is a little book of 66 typewritten pages which deserves to be better known as part of the growing litera- ture of the Christmas season. Its title is “English Fifteenth Century Christ- mas Carols—Their Origin, Develop- ment and Relation to the Liturgy of the Christmas Cycle,” and the author |is Sister John Elizabeth Creamer, re- | liglous of the Holy Union of the Sa- cred Hearts, Fall River, Mass. The work was submitted to the uni- versity faculty “in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts.” “The popular ballad of a country, the carol, the favorite melody and the dance,” the writer says, “are just as truly a symptom and gauge of its mental and esthetic activity as the noblest outpourings of the epic and lyric poet, and perhaps more * * * In addition to their literary value, these carols, songs of the people, offer an attractive field of research to the stu- dent of social history. Not Cultured Work. “These verses are not the cultured work of & superior class of poets alone, but they belong to the people at large and, as such, breathe the spirit which animated their lives. Their beauty is not so much that of the nobler lyric as it was practiced and described by Dante, but it is that undeniable beauty of an art which has laws of its own.” In the carols, it is argued, there is “a definite reflection of the vital in- fluence exercised by religion and re- ligious observances over the minds and heart of the people. In them we see how thoroughly the mysteries of the liturgical year were understood by the layfolk and how readily these were made a part of their everyday experi- ence.” Most of the better known carols were first written in the fifteenth century, but Sister John Elizabeth says they “evidently had been pre- served in oral form for considerable time.” Contain Religious Impulse. Carols, it i5 explained, “are songs with a religious impulse, that are simple, hilarious, popular and mod- ern. * * * The religious impulse is fun- damental, because these songs are the outgrowth of popular festivities, which from earliest times have formed an integral part of religious devotions. They are simple and spon- taneous because no literary artifices, conscious art, elaborate metres or forced emotions are employed. They are hilarious because the dancing element, which the term “carol” once implied, is always present, not as a remnant of the purely pagan idea of revelry, but as an echo of the truly Christian spirit of holy joy. “They are popular because they give voice to common emotions of healthy people in language that can be under- stood and music that can be shared by all. Finally, they are modern because sincerely and vitally in accord with the period in which ihey are written, they breathe the modern spirit of humanism which dawned upon the middle ages. The “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” of the angels over Bethlehem, according to tradition, was the beginning of the lcarol custom, and Sister John Eliza- beth has found that in the year 129 AD., Telesephorus, Pope and martyr, commemorated in the Roman liturgy, January 5, instituted the custom of celebrating “the holy mysteries di the night and decreed that the “Gloria in Excelsis” be sung at mass.” e Hornstein-Leon Wedding. Today. David Hornstein, attorney, and Miss Jeanette Leon were to be married this afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home of Rabbi Solomon H. Metz, 87 New York avenue. lives at 2331 Ca- thedral avenue, Miss Leon’s home is st 507 Decatur street. They will re- side at 1417 Newton street. Y S —=Star Staff Photo. HISTORIANS PLAN ARCHBISHOP FETE Most Rev. A. G. Cicognani to Address Reception Open- ing Catholic Conferences. A reception tomorrow night in honor of the apostolic delegate, Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, will open the fifteenth annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical As- sociation, at the Mayflower Hotel. Archbishop Cicognani will address the meeting at 8:30. The association will remain in ses- sion through Saturday. It is one of several learned societies meeting con- currently and will hold a joint session with two of these—the American His- torical Asosciation and the American Society of Church History—at 10 a.m. Thursday. The subject then will be “The Development of Religious Liberty in Colonial America,” with considera- tion being given the contributions of both Catholic and Protestant faiths in this respect. Other organizations meeting are the Mississippi Valley Historical Associa- tion, Conference of State and local Historical Societies, Agricultural His- tory Society, History of Science So- ciety, Bibliographical Society of America, Medieval Academy of America, Association of Research Li- braries and National Council for the Social Studies. The American Catholic Historical Association is headed by Michael Wil- liams of New York, prominent Catholic layman, who is editor of the Com- monweal. THREE IN HOSPITAL AFTER STREET FIGHT Takoma Park Couple and Police- man Injured in Christmas Eve Battle. Benjamin F. Dixon, 30, of Takoma Park, Md., was arrested last night on charges of drunkenness, disorderly conduct and assault, and his wife on drunkenness and disorderly charges after a battle which sent the couple and Policeman Ernest T. Wessels of the sixth precinct to hospitals, Wessels had responded to a call which said a women had been heard screaming in an automobile parked on private property at Eastern avenue and Whittier street. When he at- tempted to arrest Dixon, who was in the car with his wife, Dixon attacked him with a heavy wrench, police said today. Policeman John I. Shotzberger, sixth precinct, went to Wessels aid. Meanwhile the latter had struck Dixon. When the melee was over Wessells was treated at Emergency Hospital for a scalp wound and Dixon and his wife, 34, were taken to Garfleld Hospital, where the man was treated for cuts on the scalp and injuries to his hands and Mrs. Dixon for & leg injury. CHRISTMAS TREE PARTY GIVEN BY “CAT WOMAN” Bowl of Milk and Purring of Many “Tabbies” Add to Yule Spirit. By the Assoclated Press. - By MEDFORD, Oreg., December 25.—. bowl of milk and an unlighted Christ- mas tree brought the Christmas spirit, manifest by loud, contented purring, uring ( to the home of Medford’s “cat wom- an.” Miss Frances C. Evereit, 80, is known as “the cat“woman,” because all. cats are ‘welcome at her little brown house on the city's outskirts. She always has 10 or more. There are no gifts in the corner, no lights on the Christmas tree, but fancy pepers adorn it. For Miss Everett knows “that'’s how cats like it best.” She has given them just such & tree WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ! pening Star SMALL GALLERIES " IRK LAWMAKERS Demand of Constituents for Seats on Opening. Day Swamp Congress Members. By the Assoclated Press. Some Sendtors and Representatives are having their annual cry—there are not enough gallery seats to go around on the opening day of Congress. Demands by thousands to see their political heroes take office are flood- ing members of both House and Sen- ate, but there is little they can do about it. Galleries in the House and Senate chambers, counting seats on steps, accommodate about 600 persons each. Senators and Representatives are allowed only one seat besides the one each has on the floor. The President, Vice President, Speaker, members of the Supreme Court and other high Government officials get a few each. On top of it all, some of the new Senators and Representatives elect, not knowing the limited space, have invited big delegations to see them sworn in. And now they don’t know what to do about it. —_— AUGUSTINIANS TO HOLD TWO-DAY MEETING HERE 800 Educators to Discuss Prob- lems—Catholic Leaders Take Leading Parts. Some 300 educators, representatives of the Order of St. Augustine in vari- ous sections of the Nation, will gather here Thursday at the Augustinian Col- lege, 3900 Harewood road, to discuss a. number of problems of this teaching branch of the Catholic Church. ‘The Very Rev. Mortimer Sullivan, provincial of the Augustinians, will take a prominent part in the delibera- tions. Sessions will be held Thursday and Priday. * One of the outstanding items on the agenda will be the question of im- proved religious training in the Au- gustinian schools. Rev. Edward Valen- tine Stanford, the president of Villa- nova, Pa., College, which is conducted by the order, will take a leading role in the addresses, centering around the trend of education in States. —_— URGES SEAL BUYING Mrs. Ernest R. Grant Makes Ap- peal to Capital. An appeal for continued buying of Tuberculosis Assoclation Christmas seals was made today by Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, executive secretary of the association here. Although the annual sale closed today, Mrs. Grant sald receipts have not been sufficient to carry out the work of the organization. The fight of the association to protect Washington from a spread of the e FUNERAL RITES TODAY FOR ROBERT W. ROGERS Industrial Engineer With F. E. R. A. to Be Buried in New York. Funeral services for Robert W. Rogers, industrial engineer with the Federal Emergency Relief Adminis- tration, were to be held at St. Al- ban’s Church today at 5 p.m. fol- lowed by burial in Woodlawn Ceme- tery, New York. Mr. Rogers died Sunday night of a heart attack at his home, 3700 Massachusetts ave- nue. Born in New York City, Mr. Rog- ers had lived in Washington for the Washington Society of Engineers and formerly was an associate mem- ber of the American Society of Me- chanical Engineers in New York. Ed- ucated at Cornell University and Trinity College, he did post-graduate work at Charlottenburg University in Berlin for two years. Besides his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Mallett Rogers, he is survived by two daughters, Miss Elizabeth Carson Rogers and Miss Rachel Cauldwell Rogers; two brothers, Col. William C. Rogers of Chicago and J. S. Rog- ers of New York, and three sisters, Misses Emily and Ida Rogers and Mrs. Edward C. Ehlers, all of New York. ' GIFTS GIVEN 80 MEN BY SALVATION ARMY Social Service Center Entertains. Clothing, Toys, Furnityre Con- tributions Received. ‘The Social Service Center of the Salvation Army entertained last eve- ning at 310 Sixth street, where a large number of gifts was distributed to the 480 men at the center. The “party” this year was not 2s elaborate as in previous years owing to lack of an auditorium, however. With completion of the center’s new building at First and F streets about March 1, one of the major problems of their work will be solved, Brig. John P, McGee said. During the last week contributions have been received consisting of clothing, discarded toys and furniture, ‘which the men at the center renovate and resell in order to raise funds to give them some pay for their work. GIRL SERIOUSLY BURNED IN FURNACE MISHAP Child's Dress Is Ignited When Flames Leap From Door Opened by Sister. Helen T. Harding, 4, was in George- town Hespital today suffering from burns on her face and body, received late yesterday in her home at 3605 O .street when flames leaped from & fur- nace as an older sister opened the door. The child’s dress was ignited by the blaze. ‘The sister, Doris Harding, 18, was preparing to put wood in the furnace when the accident cians believe JAMES BERRY RITES TO BE TOMORROW Head of Building Association to Be Buried in Congressional Cemetery. PAGE B—1 KING T0 DISCUSS D. C. MEASURES WITH PRETTYMAN Strengthening of Gaming Laws to Be Among First Acts in Congress. TWO BILLS TO MAKE STREETS SAFER ON LIST Taxicab Insurance and Safety Responsibility Due for Early Action by Committee. Following up the plan he announcc several days ago of getting some Dis- trict legislation ready for the Senate before that body becomes busy witn national legislation, Chawrmar King of the District Committee will confer with Corporation Counsel Prettyman Thursday on bills to be considered for early action. Senator King wants to obtain im- mediate action by his committee on those District measures which were reported out at the last session, but which failed to pass both Houses of Congress. Among the proposals in this category are the anti-gambling bill and two measures dealing with street safety. One is a taxicab insur- ance bill and the other is the gerera. motorists’ safety responsibility bill. To Ask Gaming Law. Prettyman notified Senator King yesterday that the anti-gambling bill will be presented in the same form in which the Senate committee ap- proved it last Spring, which should facilitate its reconsideration at the coming session. It will have to be re- introduced, this being a new Con- gress, but Senator King is hopeful of arranging a committee m:eting either before or immediately after Congress convenes on January 3. It may not be posible to introduce bills until the second or third day of the session, but the District Com- mittee can go over its calendar of un- finished business from the last ses- sion and be prepared to reafirm with- out delay its stand on those bills which it reported favorably a year ago. Will Aid D. C. Authorities. Senator King has announced he will do everythig possible to obtain early passage of thgbm to strengthen the hands of the Bistrict authorities in their efforts to curb gambling, par- ticularly the numbers game. The Senate subcommittee appointed to make a comprehensive study of the District government to determine to what extent there is need for reor- ganization or change in basic mu- nicipal laws will begin to map out its work immediately after the Christ- mas holidays. Senator Gore, Demo- crat, of Oklahoma, indicated yester- day. Senator Gore, who is chairman of the subcommittee, has just returned to Washington. He said the first step probably will be an informal conference of sub- committee members to outline the scope of the study. The other mem- bers are Senators Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, and Reynolds, Democrat. of North Carolina. TRIO FACES BOGUS MONEY CHARGES Three Held on Bond, Accused of Funeral services for James Berry, 77, president of the Perpetual Build- ing Association, who died Saturday at his home, 3916 Military road, will be held at Christ Church, 620 G street southeast, tomorrow at 11 p.m., fol- lowed by burial in Congressional seven years. He was a member ol\cflnm,y, Formerly in the meteorological di- vision of the United States Signal Corps and then transferred to the Weather Bureau, Mr. Berry became a director of the Perpetual Building Association in 1902, and president in 1915. Born in Charles County, Md., the son of William L. and Margaret Turner Berry, he had lived in Wash- | ington since 1875. He was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhab- itants, of Hiram Lodge, F. A. A, M, and Orient Commandery, K. T. He was a vestryman in Christ Church | and a member of the Board of Man- | agement of Congressional Cemetery. Besides his wife, Mrs. Ella Huntt Berry, he is survived by a son, James W. Berry; a grandson, John Latham Berry;, two brothers, George and Passing Counterfeit Cur- rency Here. Charged with possession of coun.e. - feit money, three men were held under bond yesterday after arraignment be- fore United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage. Preliminary hearing was set for Thursday. They are Ralph C. McGuire, 600 block of Sixth street, $1,500 bond; Major Montgomery, 32, of the 1400 block of Chapin street, $2,500 bond, and Walter E. Hardy, 30, of the 600 block of Sixth street, $5,000 bond. McGuire was arrested, police said, when he attempted to pass & bogus $10 bill in a lunch room on Tenth street. The money is thought to have been manufactured in a counterfeit- ing plant raided in New York several weeks ago. Hardy lived with McGuire and i believed by police to be implicated. Montgomery is alleged to have given & counterfeit 50-cent piece to tho manager of a liquor store in the 2000 block of Fourteenth street. o Walter Berry, all of Washington, and another brother, Thomas, of Balti- more. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 25 (Special). —More than 600 poor chil- dren of this city were guests of the Alexandria Lodge of Elks at a Christ- mas eve party held in Armory Hall. Toys and Christmas stockings were distributed among them by Santa Claus, impersonated by Mike Frasca. Mayor Emmett C. Davison gave the signal to start the celebration, which included an entertainment program and music by the Citizens' Band, by turning on lights which illuminated a large Christmas tree in the hall. H. B. Lemon and Officer George Welker were in charge of arrangements. Struck- by an automobile at King and Patrick streets last night, Mrs. Floyd E. Brooks, of 115 South Pa‘rick street, was admitted to the Alexan- dria Hospital, with undetermined head . Police said Lewis C. Ferrell of the 100 block East Maple street was driver of the machine. Approximately 60 prisoners in the city jail received a Christmas present from City Sergt. R. H. Cox today in the form of a full-course turkey din- ner. The menu included mince pie, nuts and candy. Baskets of food were distributed among approximately 200 poor fami- lies yesterday by R. L. May of the A. m Rapid Transit Co. The dis- was in charge of William J. McCaffrey. . ‘Women of the Anne Lee Memorial Home were entertained by members of the Sccial Activities Committee of the Alexandris of Elks at a Christ- mas eve party at the home. 290,000 SCHOOL PUPILS RECEIVE FREE LUNCHES Figure for 45 States and D. C. in 1933-4 Is 7.5 Per Cent of Total Enrollment. More than 290,000 school children in 45 States and the District of Columbia received free lunches and milk during the 1933-34 school year, the Federal Relief Administration dis- closed yesterday in 'a survey. This represents 7.5 per cent of the en- rollment in the school systems. Ala- bama, Illinois and Michigan did not Treport. In the District a total of 5500 school children, or 6.4 per cent of the enrollment, received free lunches and milk, enabling & majority of them to continue school attendance. Only 1.2 per cent of the school enroliment in Maryland, however, came within the program. Virginia reported 7.1 per cent, or 10,905, given luncheons. PRIZE WINNERS PICKED Detroit Midshipman to Get Sword for Mathematies Proficiency. The Military Order of Foreign Wars Sword, presented each year to the midshipman of the graduating L class at Annapolis who makes the best record in mathematics, hassbeen won by John Robert Middleton, jr., of De- troit, it was announced yesterday. ‘The Society of the Cincinnati prize, also a sword, will be awarded Marion Frederic Ramirez de Arellano of Porto Rico for the highest average e Wards will be presented ness [}