Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1935, Page 5

SENATE MAY PASS ARMY BILL TODAY 46,250 Men Added by Meas- ure Calling for $400,- 000,000 Total. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Carrying authority to add 46,250 rien to the standing army, the 1936 ‘War Department appropriation bill Is slated to pass the Senate today. The measure calls for about $400,000,000 2pr all expenses of the department, in- cluding flood control, river and har- hpr work and maintenance of the| Panama Canal. It is the largest War Department bill in recent years, ex- eeeding current appropriations by 45,000,000, <A group of Senators led by Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, tried yesterday to strike out the increase in the size of the Army, but were beaten, 56 to 26. Clark also was defeated, 50 16 32, in an effort to reconsider the Senate's action in removing the House provision, which would have given the President discretionary power to say ‘when the new men should be enlisted. i Conference to Decide. «Both branches of Congress have Wpted for the increase in enlisted per- sonnel, but it conference the question @ whether the War Department should have to get presidential appro- WAl for the enlistments remains to be settled. . The bill was ready for final passage | late yesterday, but action was put off | until today to dispose of one minor smendment. | The proposed increase in the size of the Army provoked three hours of debate yesterday, in which Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois, declared disturbed conditions in various parts of the world hold possibilities of danger to this country. Senators Borah, Republican, of Idaho; King, Democrat, of Utah, and others denied with vigor that there are any signs of trouble between other nations and the United States. Lewis had pic- tured the possibility of Japan and Russia co-operating against the United tes, and had also contended that ropean nations are keeping up their national defense forces. + Pointing out he had recently had & chance to observe conditions else- where, in a tour around the world, Senator McAdoo, Democrat, of Cali- | fornia supported Lewis, saying that | “unless we want to continue to be a | “Poob’ Nation, we will not hesitate to provide the moderate increase in the Army which is proposed by the bill.” . Borah Doubts Danger. ; Benator Borah said he does not en- tertain the fear of a possible con- flict with Japan or Great Britain. He «lso argued that if the ddngers pre- dicted by advocates of a larger Army Teally existed, an increase of only 46,250 men would be of no practical Benefit. ’ Senator Clark told the Senate that | falk of “a Japanese war scare” is| always put forward whenever a bill | to increase the Army or Navy is being | considered. He agreed with Borah and King. ‘ Senator Sheppard of Texas, chair- man of the Military Affairs Com- mittee, contended the rending pro- 1 is not intended to increase the duthorized strength of the Army, which was placed at 280,000 by the “national defense act, but merely to bring 1t & little nearer to that figure. The Army now consists of 118,750, and would be raised by this bill to 165,000 men. Sheppard said the present strength is a mere skeleton army, in- sufficient for the ordinary peace-time purposes of the Army. o STRAYER COLLEGE " AWARDS DEGREES iixty Receive Diplomas at Mid- year Commencement Exer- cises Last Night. zllxty degrees and diplomas were | @warded at the midyear commence- | ment exercises of Strayer College last | Dight at the Mayflower Hotel. i « The exercises were marked by the presentation to the college by admin- | jstrative officials, faculty members dnd students of a portrait of Pinck- mey Jones Harman, co-founder and for 31 years principal and director of the college. . The commencement address was de- Hvered by Cameron Beck, director of the New York Stock Exchange In- stitute and for many years director &f personnel of the Stock Exchange. He djscuued “Leadership for Tomor- ‘Three of the 11 accounting grad- uates who received bachelor of com- mercial science degrees were graduated with honors, Roland C. Eaton receiv- ing his degree with highest distinction; Clyde H. Taylor with high distinc- tion and Edgar A. Dorman with dis- tinction. Of the 49 secretarial grad- uates, 6 were similarly honored. They ‘were Margaret Coe, Kathryn E. Riedel, rcia C. Larimore, Rena D. Lynch, - her K. Stewart and Margaret Win- e. President Edmond S. Donoho, on the recommendation of Dean C. Vaughan Darby, of the Graduate Bchool, conferred the degree of bach- elor of commercial sclence on the fol- Jowing: John Bartram, jr.; Alton Bradford, Edgar Dorman, Roland Eaton, Alexander Ferrara, Denny Kephart, Kenneth Lewis, Edwin Lynch, Earle Myers, Frank Sellin and Clyde Taylor. - Secretarial diplomas were conferred By Director Harman, assisted by Lewis E. Smith and Percy E. Sackett, reg- fgtrars of the college, upon the iol- lowing graduates: Howard Albaugh, Barbara Ammann, Rosemary Bab- cock, N. Mabel Bales, Sylvia Bazza- lla, Beatrice Berman, Margaret Coe, lma Counts, Page Darlington, Nancy Davis, Betsey Evans, Frances , Eleanor B. Fitts, Elizabeth oegel, Lena Gordin, Thomas Grant, udrey Grimes, Muriel Hicks. . Hagel Hook, Catherine Hunaker, Jennie Jakubec, Margaret Johnson, Nancy Keen, Eleanor Kirby, Clara Klein, Elizabeth Lanham, Marcia C. Larimore, Ann Lightman, Betty Zynch, Rena Lynch, Marion McGhee, Marian Means, Helen Metzger. + Esther Miller, Burl Mitchell, Helen Olmstead, Ruth Peck, Everett Pugh, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. Where Do Washington’s Foreign-B CITIZENS OF 52 NATIONS CHARTED ON DISTRICT CENSUS MAP. | | my is mi Did you know that there are mere Russians in Washingtan than embers of any other forcign nation? Or that one small area in the District “home” to citizens of 48 distant countries? This heretofore unpublished ap reveals the Capital's “foreign zones.” | ISR BY DON BLOCH. XCLUSIVE of members of for- eign missions, there are 30,819 foreign-born men, women and children in Washington. And among this 7 per cent of the total population are representatives of more than 52 nations from all the far-flung corners of the world. Red, yellow, white, brown—these people are literally spread all over the 30 “tracts,” or census divisions of the Capital. An analysis of the latest available census charts reveals that no single tract is without some few individuals, at least, who lay claim to some other country than the United States as their birthplace. Almost 60 per cent of this cosmopoli- tan group, moreover, are residents of only 12 of the 30 census areas, that South Capitol street, and Rock Creek north to Buchanan street northwest. Few in Tract 4. The little triangle of territory bounded by the Little Falls road and Massachusetts avenue, known as tract 4, is perhaps least chosen for resi- dence by our foreign-born people. Two Englishmen, one man from the Irish Free State, another from Sweden, and two men of Canada live here. and one each from Germany, France and Cuba make up the total of 14 non- native-born residents in this dis- trict. In sharp contrast is tract 15, the area between Euclid street, Harewood road, Piney Branch and Rock Creek Church road, and the creek itself on the west. Here, indeed, lies little Europe, where 4,362 people count 48 different foreign countries as their birthplaces. From Russia, England, Italy, Yugoslavia, Finland. Bulgaria, Portugal, Newfoundland they come. - 0 c—— e ¢ region roughly bounded by the Mall, | Women from each of these countries | Even Iceland has two men and two| women in this sector. Only the | Azores, Estonia, Luxembourg and| ‘ our own country’s Indians are without representation here. Russians Have Largest Colony. One woman, normally resident in| | the tract, is in the census columns | headed “at sea.” Eight other reu-} dents fall into the general column of | “all others,” a designation which | means that they are from some far- | away nation not even listed among the {47 major and 5 minor lands of racial | | origin recognized in the census. Russia has more of her peoples in Washington than any other nation. | Oddly, 1.052 of them are in the Little | Europe area, making it also the tract | housing the largest number of indi- | viduals of any single nation. | | Italy, with but a few hundred less | than Russia, has transplanted the | | second greatest number of her people | here. Her individuals have taken up | residence in every tract of the city| ' but one, according to the tables. ‘There follow, in order, Germany, | the Irish Free State, England, Poland, Greece and France as the nations having the greatest numbers of their | people in Washington. [‘ Only 40 Indians Left. Some facts for the curious come to | light if the census figures are ex-| | amined in detail. For example, in the | | entire Capital area, once densely thronged with Indians, there remain | | now but 40, all told, and these are scattered rather widely. | _Estonia has but two of its people in | Washington, & man and a woman. They live at the opposite sides of the city. The Azores, on the other hand, | have two men only, both living in the | same tract. Iceland, besides having | its two men and two women in tract | {15, has a lone man in one end of | | BUS HEAD OPPOSE TERMINALS PLAN Arlington Operator Says Public Demands No Change in System. Four objections have been advanced before the Public Utilities Commission by the operators of suburban bus lines to the proposal to force them to obtain off-street terminals to replace the on- street stations now in use. Dr. Louis H. Parmelee of Falls Church, Va., president of the Arling- ton-Fairfax Motor Transportation Co., which makes an average of 80 trips daily between Fairfax, Va., and Tenth | and D streets, asserted that there is | in reality no public demand for a change in the present system and that the public interests will not be better cared for under the proposed new system. The four objections advanced by Dr. Pasmelee against the contemplated change were: (1) Patrons of the line do not need off-street terminals to serve their interests; (2) off-street | terminals will tend to increase rather | than decrease traffic congestion be- cause they will necessarily add mileage to the bus routes; (3) by moving the | terminals away from the congested areas, fewer patrons will walk to the terminals, hence more time will be required to pick up passengers at street intersections, thus slowing down traffic; and (4) his company in par- ticularly carinot finance the procure- ment and construction of an off-street | terminal alone, and joint terminals will add to congestion by concentrat- ing more busses in one place. View on Cost Upheld. Parmelee was the first bus company official to_testify in the hearing. Calvin I. Kephart, head of the utili- ties board of Arlington County, Va., | and chief examiner of the Interstate | Commerce Commission, expressed a | similar opinion as to the prohibitive cost of buying and building an off- street terminal. Kephart agreed with the commis- sion’s contention that express busses to Virginia could be routed via the Arlington Memorial Bridge instead of Key Bridge and relieve some of the congestion on M street in Georgetown without working any hardships on passengers. Georgetown Protests. ‘The Georgetown Citizens’ Associa- tion and the Georgetown Progressive Business Men's Club vigorously op- Margaret Rapee, Kathryn Riedel, Es- telle Robinson, Jean Schmidt, Kate | posed P. Smith, Esther Stewart, Alvin M. Swanson, Alice Vroman, Maynard Waterfield, Gladys White and Mar- garet Windle. Bricklayer's Reward—a Kiss. A pretty girl student of Liverpool University, collecting for the hospi- tals pluckily scaled a ladder to -each gorkmen on a 60-foot scaffolding at bington, England. She made her collection, but then lost her nerve. snd a gallant young bricklayer went t her assistance on the ladder and helped her down to the ground. Her rescuer was rewarded with & kiss. the proposal, however, asserting that the bus lines along M street are “absolutely essential” to the welfare of Georgetown. John Paul Jones, on officer of both organizations, also objected to the commission’s recent order rerouting Cabin John, Potomac Heights, Glen Echo and Georgetown-Thirty-sixth street cars away from P street and into M street with a turn at Wiscon- sin avenue. This is to be done as soon as a connecting curve can be installed at M and Wisconsin. Jones said the resulting congestion will be “an impossible situation.” 1t was expected the hearing would |Russia Will Force | Equality of Women In State Positions Check-up on Promotions ' Ordered by Soviet Central Unit. | By the Associated Press. ‘ MOSCOW, March 8—A national | check-up to see that women are pro- moted to leading positions on the basis of equality with men was or- | dered today by the Central Committee | of the Communist party. | An investigation will be conducted | by party groups designed to ferret out | negligent applicatidn of the rules| which guarantee women an opportu- | nity to rise in any fleld. | The order was issued as a part of | the observation of the twenty-fifth in- ternational working women's day. It/ was announced that women are par- | ticularly active in national delznu‘ preparations, 2,380,000 belonging to | the National Air and Chemical De- | fense Society. | There are 100,000 crack marksmen among the women and 460,000 are in training. ‘There are hundreds of woman airplane pilots and thousands more have jumped from parachutes | and have learned to pilot gliders. NEWSGATHERERS T0 HONOR JERVIS| White House Correspondents Plan Farewell Party Tonight at Press Club. Richard Jervis, who for many years was chief of the White House Secret Service and who will leave Washing- ton in a few days to take charge of the Secret Service headguarters in San Diego, Calif., will be tendered a farewell party tonight by a large num- ber of his ol friends in the auditorium of the National Press Club Arrangements for this fete have been made by the White House cor- respondents, 8 number of whom have been closely associated with Jervis for many years Francis M. Stephenson of the Associated Press, president of the White House Correspondents’ As- sociation, will preside. Bascom N. Timmons of the Houston Chronicle will be master of ceremonies, Edwin W. Gableman of the Cincinnati En- quirer, chairman of the Committee on Arrangements; George E. Durno of Charles W. B, Hurd, New York Times, chairman of the Committee on Testi- monial, and Leon Dure, jr., Washing- ton Post, chairman of the Committee | on Finances | Besides & large number of news- paper men there will be present a number of the White House executive staff, including Secretaries McIntyre and Early, and Col. Edwin Watson and Rear Admiral Wilson Brown, military and naval aides, respectively, to the President. The entertainment program will in- clude George E. O'Connor, Matt Horne and Bernard Fitsgerald. 2 v 4 04 ¢ e 9 o 8 2 Washington, and a lone woman in the other. four women live, each of them, in widely separated areas. Latvia is the only country which has an equal num- ber of both men and women, but they live in homes scattered all over the city. Bulgaria’s dozen men and four women show the greatest discrepancy in ratio between the sexes. No Scot in Three Tracts. No Scotchman dwells in three par- | ticular tracts—4, 21, or 25—but a flying trip out to these locations failed to discover a chance to ring in any witticisms. So the mystery, if there is one, remains unsolved. Along Rock Creek north, below Pennsylvania avenue, is the largest colony of Swiss. The stream does cut a minor caper through this section, but the ruggedness of the homeland is not exactly duplicated here. All together, there are 64 men and women from Asiatic countries not specifically listed. And under the heading of “All Others” are 78. Six other people come from unnamed | Atlantic islands. Strangest of all—scattered over Washington there are 14 men and women listed as “at sea.” that number are women. Luxembourg’s four men and | Eleven of | | been practically at a standstill for orn Live? | |HUGE BOND [SSUE TORELAX MARKET Kennedy Hails $43,000,000 Refinancing Plan of Swift & Co. By the Associated Press. A break in the Nation’s jammed in- vestment markets was seen yesterday by Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities and Exchange Commis- sion, with the filling with the com- mission of a $43,000,000 bond issue, the largest in its history. The issue was by Swift & Co. of Chicago, to be made up of 3.75 per cent first mortgage sinking fund bonds due in 1950. The bonds will be offered publicly. The proceeds would be used to retire outstanding securities bearing a higher rate of interest. Announcement to Press, Chalrman Kennedy announced the filing at a press conference, called, he said, because of the importance of the issue as an indication of what the country’s corporations may accom- plish by refunding. Some $3,000,000,- 000 in’ callable bonds might be re- financed at this time, he said. The private securities market has months, and Government officials, financial and business leaders have cited this tie-up as a major obstacle | to recovery. “I think this (the Swift issue) is, at least, very good evidence it is start- ing,” saild Kennedy, referring to the flow of capital. He added that a re- newed capital market would be an “important force in conquering the depression.” Later, W. B. Traynor, treasurer of the company, told newspaper men the company had no “real difficulties” in| preparing the issue; that only a month was required to prepare the data for the commission, and that the company saw the opportunity to take advantage of the plentiful money mar- ket and “took it.” Lowest of Kind in Years. The new bonds at the 3.75 rate are only seven-eights per cent higher than the rate the Government is asking on its new refunding issue. It is the lowest rate achieved by any company | in recent years for a comparable is-| sue. Traynor declined to estimate the | savings to the company, but the issues | to be recalled bear 5 per cent. | g He estimated that the total expenses | of registration, including $43.000 in stamp taxes, were about $150,000. Legal Society to Meet. l The regular monthly meeting of Eta Alumnae Chapter, Kappa Beta Pi| Legal Sorority, will be held tomorrow at 8 pm. at the Carlton Hotel. Mrs. Martha Gold will discuss “Our Gove ernment Under the Continental Con= gress.” At Palm Beach ONCE FAMOUS DANCER 1S GUEST AT RESORT. MRS. IRENE CASTLE McLAUGHLIN, Soclalite of Chicago, photographed at Palm Beach, Fla., where she is & guest of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Somers Roche. Mrs. McLaughlin, formerly internationally famous as a dancer, is wearing a white crepe shopping ensemble with gunmetal buttons. & silver fox collar, Panama hat and linen sandals. —A. P. Photo. Greenland's Hunters Busy. 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Sunday in St. Cyprian’s Church, 1242 C sicect southeast. The soclety will attend solemn mass at the church, after which John Had- ley Doyle, a member of the society from Holy Trinity Church; Fran< BOND'S MONEY- s A-$S Madigan of St, Patrick's Church and William Cole of 'St. Augustine's Church will be paid special tributcs for their many years' work with the soclety. After the services the group will hear its 31 active charity workers make detailed reports during a bieeke fast celebration. Wed in Gotham Today. NEW YORK, March 8 (#).—Miss Laura Durkee Todd, daughter of Mrs, George Davidson Todd of Louisville and Brookline, Mass., will be married today in the Little Church Around the Corner to Howell Dewitt Stevens, who is with the Boston Post. After a trip to Bermuda, the couple will live at Brookline. MARLH SAVERS for 5pring Easter comes late this yeor. We can't afford to sit back and wait for it! Our Spring business must get away to a flying start—right now. 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