Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1935, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, lcnnons of all Alr Corps officers, the | | plan calls for the creation of a Flying | Proficiency Board in the office of JANUARY 19, 19 o= ), A—S§ about a mile from the nearest es- tablished playground. it was pointed out, and at present there are approx- SECRETARY SWANSON RECREATION SPACE ASKED AT SCHOOL COMMENDS NAVY HERO Letter e —— the chief of the Air Corps, and a sim- | NA"VES []P P USE Grotto Head Visits Here AlR EURPS SH'HS e, B | imately 398 homes in the territory. which houses some 385 children. The vouths are forced to play in strects and alleys, which is hazardous. it was charged. Ancther resolution opposing any Notifies Signalman Moore He Has Been Named for Medal and retirement purposes, though final for Saving Shipmate. Business and Entertainment Session Hits Bill to Sub- jugate Board. The Society of Natives of me! District of Columbia last night | held & short business session and then put aside all serious thought to | enjoy an elaborate program of singing, | dancing and card playing. The meet ing was held in the Washington Club. | At the business session a resolution | was adopted opposing authority over the Board of Education by the Dis- trict Commissioners as advocated in proposed legislation. The resolution ed insertion in the proposed bill for increasing the general authority of the District Commissioners. a clause to make it mandatory for the District heads to name local residents to offi- cial positions here. Another urged inclusion of the mandatory clause in; the event the bill for increasing the Commissioners’ power is passed in any form. Both resolutions were introduced by | Miss Etta L. Taggart, chairman of the society’s Committee on National Representation, and also chairman of the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions Committee on National Repre- sentation and vice president of the Miles S. Gregory (left) of Los oragnizations in the United States and Canada, shown with Willlam J. Angeles, grand monarch of Grotto | and bearing responsibilities of higher Many Officers to Be Raised, Retired or Transferred to | Non-Flying Branches. Complete reorganization of the | Army Air Corps promotion and re-‘ tirement system, providing for tem- porary promotion of many officers to | ranks commensurate with their duties | | and for the retirement or transfer | to non-flying branches of the service | of officers incapable of flight duties, | | is provided in a plan announced to- | day by the War Department. The plan, submitted to the Secre- | | tary of War by Gen. Douglas MacAr- ! thur, is in accordance with the sug- gestions of the Baker Board, created last vear to make a thorough study of the Air Corps. The plan, it was explained, “will inaugurate a system of temporary promotion in the Air | Corps, based on non-availability of officers of suitable permanent rank, and provide just reward and com- | pensation for those performing duties | rank.” | Under the new tables the com- mander of the new General Head- quarters Air Force will become a brigadier or major general. The post now is held by Lieut. Col. Frank M. | action is to rest with the War De- | partment. NOT GUILTY PLEA | ENTERED BY COOPER| | Former President of Commercial | National Bank Denies Mis- application of Funds. A plea of not guilty to an indict- ment charging him with misapplying funds of the Commercial National Bank was entered in District Supreme Court yesterday by Col. Wade H Cooper, former president of the in- stitution. A similar plea was submitted by Benedict M. McNeil. who was in- dicted after the collapse of the Park Savings Bank. Cooper's arraignment was delayed | pending final settlement of his at- | tack on the validity of the indict- ment. This point was disposed of several weeks ago when the court ac- | cepted the contention of Assistant United States Attorney John W. Fihelly that the indictment was good, |and overruled a demurrer filed by | Cooper. Glover Park Citizens Tell Commissioners Stoddert Ground Is Excessive. Asserting its understanding by the Benjamin Steddert School than is needed for school purposes, the Glover Park Citizens' Association last night adopted & resolution urging the District Commissioners to develop this excess ground for recreational purposes. H. E. Juenemann introduced the resolution on behalf of the Child Welfare and Recreation Committee, which, he said, conducted a month's | study of the question of recreational The resolution was adopted unan- imously. The square referred to is bounded by Thirty-ninth and Forty- Davis place. The Glover Park section is located there | | s more land in the square occupied | space in the association’s territory. | first streets and Calvert street and change in the Burleith-Glover Park- | Trinidad bus line was also adopted | Myron R. Walker, president. who pre- sided at the meeting in the Industrial | Home School, introduced this resolu- tion. | Ravmond H. Reubsam introduced | another resoluticn, which was adopt- | ed, opposing any change in the con- trol of the Board of Education by granting the District Commissioners more authority concerning such than they now have. Library Change Opposed. Another resolution adopted opposed any change in control of the present Public Library system. The associa- tion asked continuance of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library sys- tem Paul L. Kirby, assistant director of public welfare, addressed the meeting | on varjous phases of the welfare sit- uation in Washington, explaining the | functioning of that body. . Farm Prices Depressed. Germany is bearing down agricultural prices. on Secretary of the Navy Swanson yes- terday commended McKinley Miles Moore, signalman second class, for rescuing a shipmate from drowning in San Diego Bay last June 8. Moore, whose home is in Puyallup, Wash., while serving on board the U. S. S. Pinola of the »2 Force, dived into 10 feet ¢ water fully clothed and broug! Francis M. Turner to safety. In a letter to Moore, Secretary Swanson, citing bravery, declared that recommendation had been made to the Secretary of the T.-asury for silver life saving medal in recogni- tion of his act Police Masons to Meet. A meeting of the Circle Club ot Master Masons. composed of employ~s of the Police and Fire Departments. will be held tonight in the Rigas Na- tional Bank Buildinz, 3308 Fourtecnth street In addition to the business meeting there will be entertainment by mem- bers of the Police Boys' Club and sev- eral boxing match LoTHROP Prone District 5300 WooDpwARD & 0™ |I™F anD G StrReeTs 1 group. Andrews. His staff will include a | ff with rank of colonel | McNeil, 2 former teller at the sav- :::(f(?l:r Ng:nernl staff officers, who | NS bank, allegedly conspired with latter body. Miss Taggart cited the appointment Erskine, monarch of Kallipolis Grotto, the loca offered Dr. George C. Ruhland, health | commissioner of Syracuse, N. Y., as District health officer as an example of how “outsiders are offered positions here,” adding. “We have many capable end efficient. doctors here qualified to #rve in that position.” Advantage in Independence. Regarding the proposal to give the | Commissioners increased authority over the Board of Education, Miss Taggart said the latter bedy should | rcmain independent, expressing the view that as such it can function to the better advantage of the school system. Immediately after the business ses- sion, the program of entertainment began, under direction of Mrs. W. Stuart Hodge, chairman of entertain- | ment. It included a variety of songs and dances by pupils of the Smithson- Hodgson School of Dance and Expres- sion, several other specialty numbers, social dancing and card playing by | GROTTO HONORS GRAND MONARGH Miles S. Gregory Visits Washington—To Con- tinue Tour Monday. Miles S. Gregory, grand monarch of the Supreme Council. Mystic Order Veiled Prcphets of the Enchanted | Realm, Masonic group, was guest of | honor last night at the business ses- | sion of Kalipolis Grotto in the or- | members of the society. Assisting Mrs. Hodge on the Entertainment Committee were: For cards—Mrs. Charles S. Eis- inger, Mrs. W. E. Richardson, Mrs. Lewis J. Battle. Mrs. H. V. Lansdale, ' Miss Margaret E. Forbes, Mrs. A. M. | Talbert and Mrs Frederick Umhau. For dancing—Mrs. William L. Broad- dus, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Grover- mann, Mrs. Watson V. Shelton, W. E. | Richardson, Miss May E. Hungerford, Mrs. Dora Knight Muir and Mrs. Frederick Umhau. Pupils on Program. The following pupils of Mrs. Man- dolin Smithson-Hodegson were pre- sented in the various dance and song numbers: Zelda Weightman, Helen Clum, Roma Lee Haun, Lillian Lee Benja- min, Gennieve Rcgers, Rita Zuck, Louise Burgess, Mary Jane Hammett and Jane Johnston Alice Tyrrell, 9. “Washington's baby soprano,” sang and danced to the ! musical accompaniment by the Minia- | ture Hawaiians, the latter including her brother, Warren Tyrrell: Frank- lin Haughawout and Raymond Davey, who played Hawaiian music, directed by Ernest L. Deale. Mrs. William L. Broaddus was! chairman of the Reception Commit- tee and Mrs. Frederick Yates, vice chairman. Henry H. Burroughs, president of the society. presided at the business session. 20 CHEST AGENCIES | HOLD ‘Y’ LUNGHEON Subcommittee Guest in Apprecia- | cities before coming ganization’s headquarters, 1212 G street. As grand monarch of grotto groups | the United States and Canada. | had visited groups in 75 to Washington | vesterday. He started his tour of visitations from his home in Los An- geles August 19 and plans to com- plete visits to 160 cities, including the in Gregory | Supreme Council session at Knoxville. | Tenn., June 17. Gregory came here immediately | after visiting at Philadelphia and Bal- | timo! Monday he will leave for Fredericksburg, Va. From there his | itinerary will include Richmond, Spar- | tanburg. S. C., and other cities in the South. ‘While here he is being accompanied | on sightseeing trips by officers of | Kallipolis Grotto. These include Wil- | liam J. Erskine. monarch: Richard T. | Umhau, chief justice; Cyrus F. Armi- | ger, master of ceremonies; E. W. Lib- bey, secretary, and L. Whiting Estes, | treasurer. Local Past Monarch Henry C. Stein also is accompanying him. | The grotto organizations are com- | posed of members of the Blue Lodges of Masons. | WAR CURE GROUPS WILL HEAR REPORTS Meeting Today, Preliminary to Conference, to Take Up Na. tion's Foreign Policy. | Preliminary to the Conference on | TWO TAKEN IN GAMING RAIDS TO BE ARRAIGNED' One, Already Indicted on Gam- bling Charge, Arrested on Race Betting Count. Two men arrested yesterday in raids | by the vice squad were to be arraigned in Police Court today on gambling charges. They are Peter T. Pape, 34, of the 2100 block of I street, charged with | setting up a gaming table following | his arrest yesterday in a house in the | 1600 block of H street, and Barney Sasser, 35, arrested in his grocery | store in the 1100 block of Twenty- third street on a charge of permitting | gaming. Pape, who police say under indictment on a gambling charge, was arrested in connection | with race horse betting and Sasser for allegedly accepting ‘‘numbers” | bets. The former was released under $2,000 and Sasser under $500 bond, pending their court appearance. already is CLUB EVENT IS TONIGHT Civitan Group to Entertain 80 Boys at Y. M. C. A. Music, movies, swimming and re- freshments will make up the program when 80 members of the Boys’ Garden Club are entertained by the Civitan| Club at the Y. M. C. A. tonight at 8 o'clock The boys will be called for by mem- bers of the club and taken to the “y.” where they will be welcomed by Arthur C. Richards, newly-elected president. W. R. Beattie, senior horticulturist | of the Agriculture Department. will| speak on “Preparing the Soil for' Spring Gardening.” WoODWARD O™ [I™F anp G StreETS | will be lieutenant colonels. New Brigadier Generals. Commanders of the 1st and 2nd Wings, now a lieutenant colonel and major. will become brigadier generals. Units of the 3rd Wing, now divided hetween Panama and Hawaii, will be commanded by col- onels. Group commanders are to become lieutenant colonels. Some now are only captains. Squadrons, some now commanded by first lieutenants, will be commanded by majors and flights by captains. Promotions of like sort are pro- vided in the Materiel Division, the Air Corps School System and on the staffs of department and corps area commanders. The policy also includes increased rank for many minor posi- tions. Under the new plan for weeding | out of non-flying Air Corps person- nel, it will be required that all Air Corps officers of 15 years or less of service be qualified pilots. They are further to be graded on a basis of flving experience. After 15 years of service, all Air Corps officers must submit to periodic tests to determine | their qualifications as flying officers. Non-Piloting Duty Provided. Officers no longer qualified for ac- tive flying are to be used, where suit- able, for non-piloting duty in the Air Corps. If they cannot be used in non-flying posts, they are to be given the option of transferring to a ground branch of the Army or retiring from the service. Secretary Dern, it was announced. has approved a policy submitted by Gen. MacArthur and approved by Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the Air Corps, and Col. Andrews, which prescribes & minimum of 100 hours of flying time per year for all Air Corps pilots, including 35 hours of navigation, 10 hours of instrument flying, 10 hours of night flying and five hours of formation flying. To check the training and qualifi- his father, Alexander, and Robert S. | Stunz, former official of the bank, | to steal and embezzle its funds. The lflther and Stunz are now dead. At-| | torney William E. Leahy represented | Cooper and McNeil. ' FILIPINOS PLAN DANCE | to Honor Newj { Visayan Circle Officers This Evening. | The Visayan Circle, Inc., a Filipino | organization, will give a dance in honor of its new officers at the Wil- lard Hotel tonight. Francisco Delgado, new commissioner from the Philippine | | Islands to Congress, will be the guest | of honor. | The new officers of the circle are | Jose Roca, president} Eduardo Bal- | onon, vice president; Ferdinand T.! Amis, recording secretary, Anastacio Cubero, corresponding secretary; Joaquin Mates, treasurer; Antonio S. Aquino, house manager; Gregorio | Castillo, sergeant at arms, and Diosdado M. Yap, critfc. Policeman Baum Suspended. | | Charged with neglecting to safe- | guard a school crossing at Fifth and | Sheridan streets and being under in- fluence of liquor when he reported at the station, Pvt. John C. Baum, a member of the police force since | 1920, has been suspended by sixth | Precinct Capt. Joseph W. Pierson. | & LoTHROP ¥ PHone District S300 | tion of Work Done in Char- | here next week. interested local i groups will meet at the headquarters | the Cause and Cure of War convening | acter Building. e of the American Association of Uni- | In appreciation of the work of the Community Chest Budget Subcom- mittee in charge of gharacter building ana citizenship organizations, execu- tives of these 20 agencies tendered a luncheon yesterday to the subcom- mittee members at the Y. W. C. A Morris Bisgyer, executive director of | the Jewish Community Center. was in ! charge of arrangements Louis Ottenberg is chairman and | Col. Edward Goring Bliss vice chair- | man of the budget group in whose honor the luncheon was given. Other members of the subcommittee are Judge Fay Bentley, Mrs. Harry S. Bernton, Harold A. Brooks, Mrs. Wil- | sor: Compton, Mrs. W. L. Corbin, Miss | Mary Edith Coulson, Mrs. H. H. Flather, D. J. Kaufman, Mrs. Case- nove Lee, Dr, Harold G. Moulton, George Hewitt Myers, Hugh Thrift, | Garnet Wilkinson, J. Bernard Wyckoff, | Mrs. Arthur Mullen and Judge James A. Cohb. ALICE DEAL SCHOOL | WORK SOON TO START to Structure to Cost| Addition i $135,983 Will Be Begun in About Two Weeks. Construction of an addition to the Alice Deal Junicr High School, to pro- | ‘vide 10 more class rooms and a gym- mnasium, will be started in about two weeks. The Commissioners yesterday award- ed contract for the work to Birchett & Atkins, Inc., which submitted a bid of $135983. The project is to be fin- ished within 200 calendar days. The Commissioners also awarded a contract for construction of a service sewer in Brandywine street between Forty-fourth and Forty-sixth streets to the Peter D'Adamo Construction Co. of Baltimore. The bid was for | $4,205. HOOVER TO SPEAK ‘Will Address G. W. Alumni at Luncheon Tomorrow. ! during the present year. | movement in the Midwest, stressing versity Women today to discuss the| Nation's foreign policy. This after- noon, the four committees which have nsidered this subject during the | ast vear will make reports on their | findings. At the conference, delegates | from similar groups all over the country will present their reports, | which will be used by the participating | organizations in their work for peace . | Following this afternoon’s session, | there will be a buffet supper at 6, | |open to the general public. Former | Representative Jeannette Rankin will | speak on “Action for Peace.” | Sponsoring the conference are the | following organizations: ~American Association of University Women, | Committee on Women's Work for the Foreign Mission Conference, Council | of Women for Home Missions, Gen- | eral Federation of Women’s Clubs, National Board of Young Women's Christian Association, National Coun- cil of Jewish Women, National Fed- | eration of Business and Professional ‘Women, National League of Women Voters, National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, National Women's Conference of American Ethical | Union, National Trade Union League.. THIRD PARTY DANGER | IS STRESSED BY RYAN| Minnesota Representative Sees| Possibility of Split in Democratic Ranks. Representative Ryan of Minnesota told a meeting of the District Young Democrats last night of a third party the danger of a possible split in the Democratic ranks if such a party goes forward. The meeting was held in the Willard Hotel. Ryan told the group the party needed the suport of its young follow- ers to offset -the attack of a third party. A reception in honor of Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt will be held by the Young Democrats in the Mayflower | Hotel tomorrow afternoon. ONE-HOUSE LAW SOUGHT J. Edgar Hoover, director of the In- vestigation Division of the Justice De- partment, was to address a large group of George Washington Uni- versity Alumni, of whom he is one, at a luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel at 1:15 p.m. today. Originally sched- uled for the garden room, the lunch- eon was transferred to the ampler quarters of the main ball room. His brother, Dickerson N. Hoover, head of the steamboat inspection serv- 1ce of the Commerce Department, and also a George Washington alumnus, shares honors at the luncheon. The speakers will be introdueed by Charles S. Baker, president of the Alumni Association. Proposal Wyoming Would Trim Legislature to 15. CHEYENNE, Wyo., January 19 (®). —The Nebraska unicameral influence has penetrated Wyoming. Senator John S. Manning, Platte County Democrat, said he would pre- sent & one-House bill soon to reduce the Wyoming Legislature from 85 members to 15. “I am a business man,” Senator Manning said, “and I believe in sound business principles. If I were running the business of Wyoming I wouldn’t hire 85 men. In fact, I wouldn't even hire 15—I'd hire only 11.” in | e Model Sketched, Westinghouse Auto- matic Electric Range, Installed More Efficient: $139.50 Pay $6.08 down and $6.08 for 24 months. Other Electric Ranges, $89.50 to $207.60. Can You Afford Your Present Method When Electric Cookery Is: It costs less than 1 cent per meal per person. .. for electricity is used only a fraction of the cook- ing tim.en Electric power rates in Washington are lower than those og most large cities. And you save money on meat bills, too, by not allowing so much for shrinkage. 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