Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1935, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO ILECS HOEPPEL AWAITS | [Accommodations of 1881 for Children of 1935 L ARGE GIFTS SPUR BOARD OF EDUCATION WOULD MOVE ANACOSTIA PUPILS FROM ANCIENT STRUCTURE. WORD FROM SON Californian Refuses to Dis- cuss Indictment on Ap- pointment Charge. Awaiting word from his son in Tuc- son, Ariz, Representative Hoenpel, Democrat, of California this morning wou'd make zo further comrfient on indictments returned yesterday by a District grand jury against the Rep- resentative and his son, Charles Jerome Hoeppel. Each of themn was charged with conspiring to sell ani appointment to West Point and with the substantive offense of having made the sale for $1,000. Appomntment Was Trade. ‘The appointment at issue was one made last May to James W. Ives of Baltimore, being part of a trade be- tween Hoeppel and former Representa- tive Burke of California, by which the latter was allowed to select a candidate for Annapolis, while Hoep- pel named one for West Point. According to the story developed through an investigation by the Jus- tice Department, Hoeppel's son first was given the West Point nomination, | but failed to pass the examination and Ives next was named. Ives with- drew his candidacy about a week after receiving the appointment, how- ever, and is reported to have in-| formed the adjutant general's office in the War Department that he had given young Hoeppel a promisory note for $1,000 for the appointment Many Witnesses Called. A grand jury inquiry was instituted, among the witnesses being former Representative Burke; his secretary, Mrs. Nell Raymond, and Isaac T. Blade, a former secretary of Hoeppel. Hoeppel was not called upon to testify, although he turned his files over to the district attorney during the in- Vestigation. Upon announcement of the indict- ment yesterday, he dénied the charge “in its entirety.” His son, who ad- mittedly was here at the time the in- cident was reported to have occurred, is now in Tucson working on a Gov- ernment job. The Representative said yesterday that if the Government wants his son to return for trial, they will have to pay his expenses. BUSINESS GROUPS I to | sought, but it probably is the most Upper: A crowded class room in the John H. Ketchum School, Fifteenth and U streets southeast. The Board of Education is seeking funds for an eight-room annex to relieve the congestion there and replace a 50-year-old attached structure. Lower: Because of lack of adequate space teachers at the Ketchum School are forced to use the cloak rooms for offices. —Star Stafl Photos. HILDREN in Aracostia and Southeast Washington are forced to attend classes in an antiquated and overcrowded building, heated only with old-fashioned stoves and without sanitary conveniences in the structure. Modern improvement of the John H. Ketchm School, Fifteenth and U streets southeast, has been asked by the Board of Education, which is seek- | ing public works funds to improve the | physical equipment of the District | school system. The Ketchum School is & unit in an old plant more than a half-century old, and so crowded that the teachers | are forced to use the cloak rooms for | their offices. The board tentatively has asked for $155,000 for an 8-room wing, an assembly hall and gym- nasium. Nearly Score of Items Listed. This is one item on a list of close a score for which funds are | | sorely needed improvement cited in the board’s contemplated program. The addition to Ketcham School will go further than merely pro\'lde; eight more class rooms. The plan is | part of the proposal to abandon the annex to the nearby Martin Van CALLED TO SESSION Federation Head Summons Presi- dents to Discuss Disclosures by Crime Inquiry. The presidents of various business men's associations have been called | by Arthur Clarendon Smith, president of the Federation of Business Men's Associations, into a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight to discuss “immediate action in behalf of the citizens of the District” with regard to disclosures of political pressure on the Police Department, as revealed by the special House Crime Committee’s investiga- tion. The meeting will be held in Mr. Smith’s office, 1313 U street. “This is a matter of transcendent importance to this city,” Mr. Smith wrote, “and I am appealing to you to put -aside any previous engagement 80 as to be on hand.” The letter was addressed to the fol- lowing association presidents: T. S. Grape, Central Business Men; C. E. McCalip, Northeast Business Men; ‘W. McLaughlin, Woodridge - Brook- land; E. L. Edwards, Georgia Avenue Business Men; Willam E. Miller, Southwest Business Men; Clarence Donohoe, Southeast Business Men; Thomas Clark, Cleveland Park Busi- ness Men; F. W. Loetsch, New Central Market Business Men; Julius B. Gay, Union Market Business Men; Mr. Klein, Georgetown Progressive Busi- ness Men; George Yeatman, Claren- don Business Men; C. D. Kaufman, | Sylvan King, Central-Seventh Street; Ernest Stewart, Northwest Business Men, and Laurence Rubel, Connecti- cut Avenue Business Men. 20 INDIANS KILLED BY POLICE IN RIOTS 200 Also Wounded in Karachi as Officers Fire on Mob at Execution. By the Associated Press. KARACHI, India, March 19.— Twenty Mohammedans were killed and 200 wounded today when police fired into them as they rioted after the execution of a fellow Moslem. The man executed was Abdul Quayam, who had been convicted of murdering a Hindu, whom he claimed had written an offensive work about the Prophet Mohammed. Eye witnesses said an excited crowd of Mohammedans rushed to the exe- cuted man's grave, exhumed the body and attempted to carry it in pro- cession. The mob was estimated by authori- ties to have been made up of 100,000 Mohammedans, including several thousand women and children, o Annapolis Claims 7 Prized Paintings Now in State House Mayor Insists 0wne'1;ship Is by Capital and Not by Maryland. By the Assoclated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 19.—An- napolis, Maryland'’s capital, today as- serted through her mayor that she and not the State was the real owner of seven of the most prized paintings hanging in the historic State House. Mayor Walter E. Quenstedt informed State officials that he had docu- mentary evidence the portraits were put in the State House for safeke=ping during the Civil War and because they ‘were not returned immediately the be- lief. had sprung up the State owned them. The mayor said, however, that if the State will hut give up one of the paintings, that of Queen Anne, for whom Annapolis is named, the rest may remain. There was little indi- cation that this compromise would be -cc':gmd. because this canvas is highly rated. Among the others is a painting of | bed: FPrederick, sixth and last Lord Balti- more. The rest are of early Governors o Maryland, 4 Buren School, an ancient structure placed in Anacostia in 1881. That old | building is a three-story relic, with | two rooms on each floor, without mod- | ern heating or plumbing. The rooms, with high ceilings and huge windows, are heated by stoves. ‘There is no way in which the heat can be controlled, so that the rooms are | either too hot or too cold, and main- | tenance of an even temperature is | impossible. Worse, however, is the lack of plumbing. Outhouses are on the school grounds, connected with the old building by sheds for protection in cold or wet weather. Attached to this ancient structure DENTISTS T0 LAUD OR .M. SCHOOLEY F.Local Man in Practice 56 Years—High Officials * to Take Part. Dentists from four States and the | District of Columbia tonight will join | in honoring Dr. ‘Henry M. Schooley, , for 56 years a practicing dentist here, is the Van Buren school proper, an eight-room building erected 10 years after the annex, or 44 years ago. This part would be retained if the addition to the Ketcham School is made pos- sible by the allotment of P. W. A. funds. Ketchum Is Superior. ‘The Ketcham School itself is by no means new or modern, yet in contrast to its nearby neighbor, is by all means a superior building, inclined to sug- gest its creation in the twentieth cen- tury. It was constructed, however, in | 1909. Ketcham is now crowded, for in| addition to the six grades and kinder- garten housed in most of the ele- mentary schools, it also has seventh and eighth grades because until next Faul there will be no junior high school in that area. The Anacostia-Calvin Coolidge senior-junior high school is under construction and the junior high wings are expected to be avail- able and equipped by next September so that a part of the load may be transferred there. Two more wings will have to be constructed, however, before the senior high school classes can be accommodated. Meanwhile, Anacostia senior high students will continue to add to the congestion at Eastern High School. One Floor Would Be Finished. Under the board’s plan the 8-room addition would not be wholly finished immediately. One floor of the wing would be completed, along with the walls of the second floor. The second floor would be divided into class rooms as demand warranted. Construction of the Ketcham School | | addition is but one of several improve- ments for which civic and business organizations of Southeast Washing- ton and Anacostia have been pleading for years. It was included in a list of projects recommended to Public Works Admin- istrator Ickes by Dr. John W. Stude- | baker, United States commissioner of education, who has petitioned to have school needs throughout the country put first on the new public works list. | INFLATION FEARS HELD IMAGINARY Eccles Defends Deficit as Turning Money Into Pri- vate Channels. By the Assoclated Press. | A forcefully expressed opinion that fears of inflation have been exag- gerated was given the House Bankmgi‘ HAZEN IS CALLED BY CRIME PROBERS IN POLICE QuIZ (Continued From First Page) had “socked” Maj. Brown “below the belt” came after the witness had ad- mitted Blanton had sent him a copy of the police superintendent’s letter | with respect to the so-called “gentle- men's agreement” without telling his superior about it. Headley's testimony was punctuated with sharp clashes between himself, Schulte and John R. Fitzpatrick, com- mittee counsel, and his parting shot on leaving the witness stand was this: “I've been a member of the police force for 39 years and I have never | = before been characterized as at a banquet of the Five-State Post- | Committee today by Marriner 8. | snooper.” graduate Clinic being held at the | ‘Wardman Park Hotel. Several high Governmenj and Dis- trict officials are expected to attend the banquet. Among those invited to be honor guests are Postmaster Gen- eral Farley, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Senator King, Representative Norton, Harry L. Hopkins, Surgeon- Gen. Cummings, Veterans’ Adminis- trator Frank T. Hines, Dr. George C. Ruhland, District health officer; Rob: ert Fleming, president of the Wash- ington Board of Trade, and Commis- sioner George E. Allen. The evening entertainment will bring to a close the third day of the five-day clinic attended by dentists from Maryland, Virginia, West Vir- ginia, Delaware and the District. The | conclave is sponsored by the local society. ! Several speakers were heard by the | dentists during the day. Dr. Arthur | P. Little, author of the “Textbook of | Prosthetic Dentistry,” and professor | of that subject at the Medical Col- lege of Virginia, lectured on casting in partial denture construction for the general practioneer. The after- noon session was devoted to crown bridge work and was featured by an address by Dr. De Forest Davis. In paying tribute to Dr. Schooley tonight, the dentists will be honoring one of the oldest practitioneers in the profession. He was elected president of the District Dental Society 50 years ago. He has been active in the work since 1879. Dr. B. Edwin Erickson, president of the District soclety, will preside at the banquet. SR WOMAN VOTERS. TO MEET Need for Better Trained Person- nel in Office to Be Discussed. ‘The urgent need for better trained personnel in public service and for Immediate reorganization of antiquated tax systems will be emphasized by the General Council of the National League of Women Voters at its ses: sions here May 7 to 10. it was an- nounced today. The meetings will be at the Washington Hotel. About 100 ‘women leaders are expected to attend from 38 States, it was said. Program plans are being drafted by a committee comprised of Miss Anna Lord Strauss, New York City; Au- gustus M. Roan, Atlanta, and Mrs. Quincy Wright, Chicago. Auto Total Soars. Registration of passenger automo- biles are rapidly rising in Portugal = Neuritis For the relief of chronic tis, ph i clans recommended I'llllfi' alley direct trom {amous Hot o 1 = Wy TS -Lolun. Phone for free el Valley I{x‘::ril &tw { |ago. Unless people without money | Eccles, governor of the Federal Re- | serve Board. Appearing before the committee again to discuss the omnibus banking bill, Eccles said: “All this talk we've heard the last three years about the danger of in- flation has been largely imaginary. “There is a means of creating tre- mendous credit inflation. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we are go- ing to get it. People have got to be willing to use bank credit. Must Spend First. “I don't believe it is so easy to get inflation. Certainly many efforts | have been made, but we are just as | far from it now as we were three years | and without jobs are put in possession | of money and jobs, and unless people | and corporations with money will | spend the money they have, you can’t get an inflation by purely changing the gold content, or by silver legisla- tion, unless your action actually puts money into the hands of people who will spend it and induces others who have it to spend it.” Claims Deficit Needed. Eccles renewed his contention that a governmental deficit was needed in time of depression, and added: “The income tax system must be worked in and tied in with the mone- tary system. A substantial increase in taxes at the present time, if it would pull into the Treasury money which otherwise would be spent and thus reduce private spending, would be of no particular help. “The time to increase taxes is when incomes are such that income taxes will produce substantial revenue. There is only one way to get out of the depression, and that is to expand the Government deficit until private credit expands, and that depends on private willingness to expand credit.” — N Party at School. WOODLAWN, Va., March 19 (Spe- cial).—The Woodlawn School League is sponsoring a bingo party at the school house tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock. Before Selling Investigate the Prices We Pay old Gold Jewelry of every description. bridgework. silver. No matter how old or dilapidated any of foregoing articles might be you will be greatly surprised at the cash prices paid by us. (Licensed by U. 8. Govt.) SHAH & SHAH 921 F St. N.W. Phone NA. 5543—We Will Call Agreed to “Step Aside.” Headley explained he had advised Blanton of his interest in a promo- tion to the rank of assistant superin- tendent, but in March last year, the Texan told him friends of Inspector Bean wanted him to “step aside.” Headley said he agreed without any hesitation. “Why should Mr. Blanton be asking you?” asked Fitzpatrick. “You will have to ask him,” Headley replied. “He's my friend and I value his friendship very much. I was an aspirant for the honor of assistant superintendent of police. I stepped out of the picture.” “The understanding was,” continued Fitzpatrick, “that when Inspector Bean retired, after a short while, you would succeed him?” “That was not part of a bargain.” said Headley, “but that was my under- standing.” Headley, in reply to a question of Schulte, explained that his duties con- sisted of supervising the work of sev- eral precincts. *“Of course,” he added, “my business is to see that discipline is proper.” “Isn't it true that you go around to see that the men don't smoke or drink?” asked Schulte. “That's part of my duties,” Headley answered. “The men in the department call that snooping,” declared Schulte. “There are 1,300 men on the force,” ROOMS ROOMS ROOMS If you have rooms in your home that you will rent in April during Cherry and Easter seasons, write at once to HOUSING COMMITTEE, 204 STAR BUILDING, giving ad- dress, phone number, number of rooms, facilities and prices asked. SYNPHONY DRIVE Mrs. Roosevelt Contributes and Anonymous Donor Gives $5,000. A number of substantial gifts from individuals including an anonymous one for $5,000 and another from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wers announc-¥ ed at a meeting yesterday of the committees leading the National Symphony Orchestra’s drive for a $100,000 sustaining fund. ‘The campaign workers also were encouraged by several contributions by organized groups in the Capital and donatfons from out of town sup- porters. Despite the pick-up yesterday, solic- itation in the drive, which is sched- uled to close Monday, is running be- hind expectations, and officials of the National Symphony Orchestsa Asso- ciation urged committee heads and their field agents to redouble their efforts. Countess Among Contributors. Among other prominent individual contributors was Countess Szchenyi. The Associations Committee an- nounced the Laymen’s Music Course, Twentieth Century Club, Petworth Women's Club and the Washington | Music Teachers’ Association were | among the groups contributing sub- stantial sums. John J. Kennedy, co-chairman of | the National Committee, of which Mrs. | Alice Longworth is co-chairman, re- | ported gifts from New York, Chicago | and Milwaukee. An individual gift | was received from Elsie Maxwell, | prominent New York social leader and composer. Gifts totaling $250 were an- nounced by Mrs. Royal McKenna, co- chairman of the Private Schools Com- mittee, while Mrs. Barton K. Yount, co-chairman of the Army Committee, reported 163 Army officers have re- sponded in the plea for funds. Emory S. Land, co-chairman of the =Na\'y Committee, also reported prog- | ress. Committees Meet Daily. Meetings of the various committees | will be held each day at noon at | headquarters in the Carlton Hotel until the drive is over. D. J. (Radio Joe) Kayfman will | dedicate a radio program to the sym- | | phony campaign tonight at 6:15 | yelock over Station WRC. A message will be delivered from Dr. Hans Kind- ler, director of the orchestra, who will be unable to speak in person be- cause of an out-of-town concert. Dr William McClellan, chairman of the Men’s Committee, also will speak. Another radio appeel will be made tonight at 6:55 o'clock by Willlam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. He will speak over Station WJSV. | Dr. Marvin to Broadcast. | Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president | of George Washington University, will | speak tomorrow at 6:25 p.m. over | WMAL, and Dr. Coleman Nevils, | president of Georgetown Unl\'erslly.( will speak Saturday at 4 p.m. over WJSV. It was announced yesterday that Mrs. Roosevelt will make a radio address in behalf of the campaign at the Thursday concert of the Sym- | phony in Constitution Hall. She will talk over Station WRC during an intermission in the program, which is slated to start at 4:45 pm. Headley shot back, “who might call an inspector a different name than that. % | Denies “Snooping” Charges. ‘\ “I do not snoop, I do not hide, and | | T do not wear false whiskers. I'm not | |a fanatic. I don’t drink. I don‘t‘x | smoke, but I have no objection to | | others doing that. I'am not & pro- hibitionist.” Schulte made Headley admit, how- ever, he would “turn in" a member of the force, who, while on duty, would drink even a glass of beer. | Drinking of any intoxicants, he ex- | plained, is forbidden by the police manual. Schulte and Headley engaged in another argument later over ihe Blanton correspondence. Schulte wanted to know why Headley had J failed to show Blanton's letters to Maj. Brown. “Is there any reason why I should?” said Headley. “Maj. Brown did not tell me he had written to Blanton.” “Don’t you think that’s hitting be- low the belt?” asked Schulte. “I think you were hitting Maj. Brown below the belt if you ask me.” “I question that rather seriously,” | Headley answered. | BERMUDA Popular Transatlantic Liner CARINTHIA Sails March 23rd (Noon) Back in New York March 29th (4 P.M.) 3 Days in Bermuda! Full cruise, using ship as your hotel in Bermuda; all meals included, $75.00 up. Round-trip rate—not includ- ing accommodations or meals during ship’s stay in Ber- muda—60.00 up. CARINTHIA also sails on EASTER CRUIBE to Nassa and Bermuda April 20th . . . returning April 28th. $90.00 up. M. V. GEORGIC sails April 15th on Springtime Cruise to Bermuda . . . returning April 21st. $65.00 up. See Your Local Agent or CUNARD WHITE STAR 1504 K Street N.W. Washington, D. C. Night Final Delivery The last edition of The Star, known as the Night Final, and carrying a row of Red Stars down the front age, is printed at 6 p.m. and delivered throughout the gitg at 55% per month ‘3,‘ together with The Sunday Star, at 70c per month. This 18 a special service that many people desire for the very latest and complete news of e day. Call National 5000 and say that you want the “Night Final” delivered regularly to your home, and start immedia delivery will Mrs. | TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1935. Symphony Worthy Project, Declares Secretary Roper Says Washington Fortu- nate in Having Orches- tra and Kindler. The National Symphony Orchestra is a worthy educational project, Sec- retary of Commerce Roper said today in commenting on the symphony's drive for a $100,000 sustaining fund. The Secretary said: “Washington is fortunate in having the National Symphony Orchestra with Hans Kindler as its conductor. Its four years of activity have brought to the people of this city an unusual musical opportunity and the privilege of supporting a worthy educational project. Its cultural value to the com- munity through its stimulating work in schools, in churches, in clubs and among individuals is of the highest importance. “The Capital of the Nation should have an outstanding symphony or- chestra, and the present campaign to raise $100,000 by which to afford its musiclans a living wage and provide a series of outdoor concerts next Sum- mer and in Constitution Hall next Winter is to be commended.” Grocer Slayer Executed. 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