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Washington News MAEE CREDTOR L0545 U..WIS PRORTY ON TANES Parole Bid of Former Finan- cier Being Heard at Lorton Today. COURT ORDER FAVORS GOVERNMENT CLAIM | Referee in Bankruptcy Had Held Papers Were Filed Too Late. As 2 prelude to Edmund D. Rheem’s | second attempt to secure his release | on parole, the District Court of Ap- | peals today wiped out the last chance his creditors had of recouping any part of their losses from his estate. Rheem, who was the executive head of the defunct Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., is serving a seven-year penitentiary sentence imposed after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of “concealment of writings” in connec- tion with the collapse of his firm. | His creditors, many of whom had | seen their life savings disappear in the failure of the firm, threw Rheem | into involuntary bankruptcy, hoping | to salvage something from his $30,000 personal estate. Just as they were about to be paid a dividend of one- half of 1 per cent, however, the Fed- eral Government stepped :n‘o the pic- | ture with a $114,000 tax claim and the | appellate court decided today this claim must be paid before those of the general creditors Referee in Bankruptcy Fred J. Eden, who already had declared the dividend 10 the general creditors and made out most of the checks, refused to allow the Federal claim on the ground it had been filed too late. The Government, through Assistant United States Attorney C. R. Heflin, contended the money was still in the custody of the court, and that the tax cldim, being a prior lien, should be paid ahead of the general claims. This v position was taken despite the fact an earlier tax claim for $1,533 had been 2llowed in full. The District Supreme Court sup- ported the Government'’s view, and this position was affirmed by the higher court. The: Parole Board will sit at Lorton Reformatory this afternoon to hear | Rheem’s application for parole. One | of the reasons assigned for rejecting his first application was & “lack of frankness” in answering que:tions. | [ SILVER STAR HOME | VISITED BY 3,000/ House in Chevy Chase Is Second | Sponsored by Star—Open ‘ Four Weeks. | More than 3,000 persons visited | the Silver Star home at 14 East| Leland street, Chevy Chase. Md., yes- terday, the first day it was open for o Public inspection. The visitors crowded through the home from the time it was opened vesterday morning until closing time idst night, and expressed approval of The Star's second model home ol} 1935. The house is located in the new de- | velopment of Woodbine and was built | v by the M. B. Swanson Construction | Co. It is a comparatively small dwelling, of early American architec- ture, containing six rooms and two haths. Louis R. Moss was the archi- tect for the home, which has been completely furnished by Woodward | & Lothrop. Under sponsorship of The Star, the house will remain open daily for the next four weeks from 10 am. until 4 pm. It is located a block east of Connecticut avenue on Lelan.. street, | which is approximately a mile and a | half beyond Chevy Chase Circle. LIBRARY TIME SHIFTED Silver Spring Summer Schedule Goes Into Effect Saturday. ®pecial Dispatch to The Star SILVER SPRING, Md.. June 10.— | Summer hours for the Silver Spring Public Library go into effect Saturday and have been announced as follows: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3 to 5 and 7 to 8:30 p.m., and Saturdays, 9 to 11 am. A story hour has been ar- ranged on Saturdays from 10 to 11 a.m., with Mrs. William Dahl or Sligc Park Hills in charge. Defective Brakes - Win Freedom for Takoma Park Boy i _Car, Parked by Police, Breaks Loose; Wrecks Light Pole. An automobile which had been seized by Police because of defective brakes, left its parking space in front of police headquarters early today, backed across Indiana avenue and broke down an electric light pole at the intersection of Indiana avenue and D street. The accident, instead of causing the conviction of the owner, resulted in his release on per- * sonal bond by Judge Ralph Given in Traffic Court today. The defendant, Holtzman Dodson, & high school boy of Takoma Park, was arrested by Policeman E. A. Horsley of the First Precinct at Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street early this morning, when Dodson. is alleged to have run through a:red light. A test of the brakes was made, showing -both “the hand and- foot brakes to be ineffective, police said, in testimony brought in to answer a bad ‘brake charge. . Judge Given held the police were as much at fault for parking a car on which they knew the brakes were in- effective at a place where it could %cause damage as was Dodson when driving it in that condition. ry | O'Brien, William - Coppens, . Meets Royalty VASSAR SOPHOMORE TO BE PRESENTED JUNE 24. MISS EMLEN KNIGHT DAVIES, Vassar sophomore and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, 2041 Massachusetts avenue. Miss Davies is to be presented at the Court, of St. James by Ambassador Bingham June 24. —Nishiyama Photo. BISHOP NNAMARA ORDAINS 33 HERE 31 More to Be Consecrated at Catholic University Rites Tomorrow. With solemn ceremony, 33 seminar- ians of Catholic University today were ordained in the priesthood at the Na- | tional Shrine of the Immaculate Con- ception by Most Rev. John M. Mc- Namara, Auxiliary Bishop of Balti- more. Tomorrow 31 will be conse- crated by Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, Bishop of Modra and rector of | the university. These exercises launched the final week of the school yvear at Catholic University, where commencement will be held Wednesday, with Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Bal- timore, presiding. ‘The men ordained.today were Ama- deus Burke, Wendelin Heath, John McLaughlin, Paulinus Cody. Cecil Goff, Brixius McDonough, Coleman Dunne, Cosmas Girard, John Mc- Grath, Wulstan Gleason, Romen Pfeiffer. Florian Gallagher, Joseph McGrath, Aurelius Loop, Aurelian Sweeney, Gerard Barnett, Francis Hennessey. John McShane, Walton ! Sullivan, Thomas Dalton, John Molloy, Joseph McCormack, Charles Tobin, Ralph Lane. ~Raymond Connolly, Thomas Herlihy, Robert Flexsteiner, Samuel Cummings, Robert -O’Farrell, Stephen _Sullivan, Raphael Grande, Bernard Foley and Edelhard Schneider. The group tomorrow includes Joseph | McAllister, John Ochs. William Thomas Manning, Frederick - Gilbert, Roland Raible, Gabriel Giles, Reginald Wiest, Luke Stephens, Ronald Schott, Giles Staab, Arthur Limbacher, Charles Juzaitis, Edward Sullivan, Richard Daley, James Connery, John Gal- lagher, Thomas Kelley, Clarence Hart, Joseph Coyne, Charles McFadden, ‘William Cullen, George McNamara, Kenneth Kennedy, John Reidy, Robert Russell, Edwin Crosby, Francis Fenton, James Reilly and Frederick Winn. Baccalaureate Mass Held. The annual baccalaureate mass was celebrated ai the shrine yester- day, with Rev. Joseph P. Christopher officiating. The senior farewell ban- quet was held last night at the Ken- nedy-Warren and the national alumni banquet is on the program for tonight at the university. Rev. Speer Strahan, delivering the baccalaureate sermon yesterday, told the graduates to “plan to do what you intend to'do in life before you are 30, or probably you will end by | never doing it at all.” “Some work is terribly dull,” he continued, “but as a man grows older he ought to tend to make his work his play and his play mere recrea- tion. For all too soon middle life will creep in on you like a sudden tide. The danger of middle life is the danger of ‘settling down’ The sins of middle life are the sins of | | the mind and we all have to fear | & degeneration of the cgnscience which is liable to set in at about 50. So strive to keep something of your spiritual childhood about you as you descend into the valley of the middle years.” Sandy Spring Group Elects. SANDY SPRING, Md., June 10 (Special).—Election of officers re- sulted in G. Rust Canby as president and Osburn Stabler, secretary, at.a meeting Saturday evening of the En- terprise Club held with Lacy Shaw at his home, near Colesville. Lionel C. Probert was elected to membership. The Foening Sap WASHINGTON, ‘D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1935. WORK BEGINS SOON ON NEW P STREET BRIDGE OVER PARK Low - Level Span Will Be Link in Montgomery-D. C. Thoroughfare. LA PORTE TO RECEIVE CONTRACT FOR $94,000 Maryland Is Expected to Extend Drive Far Up Valley to Serve Qonnty. Plans for the artery that wiil link the East-West Highway in Montgom- ery County to the Lincoln Memorial Highway through Rock Creex Valley took definite shape today wi‘h the announcement that ‘work will start soon on the new low level bridge near P street, across Rock Creek Park. Viewed by National Capital Parks | officials as a great relief for traffic, this roadway will enable motorists | to drive quickly through town to the Lincoln Memorial. Under plans | | of the Maryland National Capital | Park and Planning Commission, the park drive is to be continued further up the valley. i | J. A. La Porte of New York is to be awarded the contract for $84,000 | to construct the bridge, it was made -known at the Bureau of Public Roads. | Formal signing of the contract is ex- | | pected in a few days. 150 Days to Complete Span. La Porte will be allowed 180 days in which to complete the bridge after he gets notice to proceed. The structure will cross Rock Creek at an angle up- stream from the high-level bridge at P street, now being completed by the District government. The low-level bridge will be two-span and construct- | ed of concrete, with stone facing. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District gi- | rector of highways, sald the P street | high-level bridge will be opened to traffic about August 1. P street will be paved, he explained, and next Mon- day he will start directing thé re- | moval of the street car tracks, as trolleys are to be abandoned in that section. | Downstream from Q street, the | TRANSIT TOBULD | | |Wisconsin Avenue ‘Location District Government, under a Federal road aid grant, is grading for the new | road bed to carry traffic as far south ! as K street, to link up with the com- | pleted Rock Creek and Potomac ! Parkway to the Lincoln Memorial. | Grading is about 80 per cent com- | pleted, Capt. Whitehurst sald, and .in about & week he expects to advertise for bids for surfacing the new road- way which will run from Q street to K street. and be of ssphait-concrete construction. - Union Square Bids Studied. ‘The Bureau of Public Roads is now | studying bids opened last week for work in’ Union Square. Four bids were received, the indicated low bid- der being the Highway Engineering & Construction Co. of Seventh and T streets northeast, which offered to | do the work for approximately | $45,000. This will entail road con- | struction in Union Square in the line of Second street from Pennsylvania | avenue to Maryland avenue and the North and South Vista drive from Second to Third streets. A definite award . is expected in a few days. An obstacle in land acquisition has | delayed plans of the Federal Govern- | ment for spending $280,000 in the George Washington Memorial Park- way between the Arlington and Key Bridges in Arlington County, Va, along the Potomac. If officials of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the National Capital Parks, and others concerned, can reath a new agreement, predicated on the new study of plans, it is con- sidered likely that bids may be re- advertised in about a month. Re- cently advertisements were put out, but later were withdrawn, when it was found that the land needed could paying what the Government con- sidered a high figure, i 100 PUPILS IN RECITAL St. Michael's Parish School, Sil- ver Spring, Entertains. Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., June 10.— Approximately 100 children took part in the annual recital of St. Michael's Parish School yesterday afternoon in the parish hall. In addition to plano | solos, group singing was given by the various grades. Graduation exercises will be ‘held Sunday at 3 p.m. in the ehurch. The following will receive their diplomas: Dorothy Alvord, Anna Belt, Mary Belt, Catherine Menke, Mary Beth Szymc- zak, Joanne -Waldron, . Joseph Clem- ents, James Bigham, Richard Hewitt, Willlam Hewitt, Clavin ‘Price ar Richard Yates, % not be purchased speedily without ! Is Chiefly for Local Bus- Rail Patrons. | A modern bus-rail terminal will be constructed on Wisconsin avenue at the District line for the use of patrons electric car line now operating 'be- tween Washington and Rockville is abandoned, it was learned today. The terminal is to be used princi- pally for the convenience of persons are to operate in the vicinity of Be- thesda and connect at the District line with direct rail service to the downtown areas of the Capital Direct Into City. Other lines from Galthersburg, Rockville and the through lines that are to run during rush periods will go directly into the city and not halt to transfer its passengers at the ter- minal, traction officials said ‘The terminal is:to be outfitted with up-to-date waiting rooms. It is to Le constructed in such a manner that passengers will be protected from in- clement weather on entering or .de- electric cars. Preliminary - plans for the bus service will be discussed with -Mont- next week by William B. Bennett and C. Melvin Sharpe, assistants to Pres- ident J.- H. Hanna of the Capital Transit Co..at a meeting to be held in ‘County Building in Bethesda. The meeting was to have .been -held . to- | night. but has been _ postponed, on account of the Shrine events. Maps Being Studied. Bennett said “today "that - maps of every subdivision in the western sec- tion of Montgomery County are being studied by the transit company pre- paratory to drafting the schedules and routes of the “feeder” lines. It is expected that the study will be completed by June 25. when the Maryland Public Service Commission will hold a hearing in its offices at Baltimore on the company’s petition for permission to abondon . the Rock- ville trolley service. School Selects Editors. LEONARDTOWN, Md., June 10 (Special).—Miss Ruth Bussler of Me- chanicsville has been selected to head the editorial - staff of the Margaret Brent School news department. She will have as assistants Hope Swann, Anne Jarboe, Grace Lee, Lorena Downs, Regina Reintzell, Elliott Bur- and | roughs, Maria. Wise ~and Charles Lathan. Catholic U. Graduates at Baccalaureate Mass Graduates leaving the National Shrine after the annual baccalaureate mass at Cathalic University yesterday. th, N. H., president of the senior class of engineers; Most Rey. James H, Left to right: Paul J. Griffin of Ryan, rector of Catholic University, and Willam J. Barron, president of the senior class of arts and sciences. - —Star Staff Photo, ‘ of the Capital Transit Co. after the | vsing the local or “feeder” routes that | parting from both the busses and | gomery County residents some time | This unusual camera study shows the new United States Supreme Court on the left and the Congressional Library beyond. The new * building will house the court Fall. when PAGE B—1 MEDICAL SOCIETY BACKS RURLAND IN DRIVE FOR FUNDS Interested Organizations Are Called to Special Mee‘ting Today. SUPPORT OF CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATIONS SOUGHT Health Officer Places Need for $93,000 Before Allen—Dono- van Is Present at Parley. Supporting the campaign of District. Health Officer George C. Ruhland for funds for the District Health Depart- ment which were cut out of the new District appropriation bill, the Medical Society of the District of Columbia has called a special meeting of inter- ested organizations to be held at it opens its sessions mext — Harris-Ewing Photo. Girl Who Masq | uerades as Bovy . Returns Here and Lands in Jail Isabelle Messmer, 20, who was er- | rested here last August as a suspected “gun girl” and a month later was shot near Columbus, Ohio, when, she claimed, she was attacked by four | colored men on a freight train. ran | afoul of the law again last night. was taken into custody { near Fourteenth and K streets by The girl | he understood a lookout had been sent out for her arrest. She is being held at the Woman's Burezu while police | determine if she is wanted. | living at & hotel in the neighborhood | where she was takén into custody, but | Heath sald she was not registered. She said she had been traveling in ‘ Florida and recently had been in Bal- timore. The girl was wearing boy's clothes when arrested in a downtown hotel | here last August 9. become suspicious after they noticed her cropped, k hair beneath Detectives had | | blond wig. An.automatic pistol was | found in her room. She was put in a | line-up for robbery victims to look over, but was not ideatified. Then | she was sent to Gallinger Hospital for observation, and finally was re- | leased, immediately setting forth on a jount across the country. A month later she was in a Colum- bus hospital recovering from a gun- | said she received in protecting herself from four colored men. After the girl recovered, she was 14 ARE INJURED * INCRASHES HERE Five Seriously Hurt in Series of Accidents During Week End. | Policeman George L. Heath, who said shot wound in the leg, which she . Fourteen persons were injured, five | seriously, in traffic accidents in and 3:30 p.m. today in the Board of Trade rooms in The Star Building. At this meeting, plans will be dis- | cussed for supporting Dr. Ruthland and the District government in its fight for supplemental funds to meet the emergency situation created by the reduction in the regular appro- priation for health work in Wash- ington. i Appeals to Civie Bodies. The Medical Society fodav sent | written appeals o all civic organi- | zations asking their support in the | move to get an increwse from Con- | gress in the Healith Department ap- } propriations. | In addition, it called an emergency imeermg of representatives of the | Board of Trade, the Medical Society, | the Medico-Chirurgical Society, the ! Council of Social Agencies and all | the charitable organizations it repre- sents, the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society, the Hospital Superintendents’ Association, the Association for Pre- vention of Tuberculosis and the Dis- trict Congress of Parent-Teacher As- | sociations. No definite plans had been made for the emergency meeting this after- {noon and the representatives of the | associations present will be free to | follow their own plans in supporting 1 the campaign for funds, it was indi- | cated. s Need Told to-Allen. l Dr. Ruhland laid before Commis- | sioner George E. Allen this morning the need of his department for $93,000 which was cut out of the present ap- propriation bill. This he did at a con- | | ordered by police to return. to her |around Washington over the week end. | ference which also was attended by Isabelle told the policeman she was | home at Elwood, Ind., where she said | | her mother lived. She had told offi- cers she ran_away from home when 15 and .started traveling, usually | dressed in boy’s clothing. When shot, she was wearing male attire, with her dress and hat wrapped in a bundle. When dressed as a boy, usually in and a white cap, Isabelle wears her dark hair in a boyish bob. - As a girl, |GARAGE MAN SAVES | LIFE, DUCKING SHOT | Baltimore Police Hold 65-Year- 01d Man on Alleged Drink- ing Spree. , By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, June Clift, ducked his head—and saved Fis life. Stephen Earnest, 65, walked “into Clift’s garage yesterday, mumbled that he had been robbed of $2, and flour- ished a pistol at- CIift. The latter rushed toward the aged { man, but before he cculd reach him, | Earnest shouted: | “I've got you now, I'm zoing to | shoot you.” As the garage man leaped upon him, Earnest fired. - Clift ducked, fell to the floor on top of his assailant, then scarmbled to his feet and ran for aid. Police, who said he had been orink- ing, later arrested Earnest on charges of assault with -a deadly weapon. Clift was released after treatment at a local hospital for a bullet woand in his scalp. Physicians said had he not aucked as the gun went off, he would have been killed instantly. The bullet penetrated the ucalp. SRS |BRENTWOOD ELECTION TO HAVE 2 CONTESTS “William N. Mahaffey and James “F. Mowatt Are Candidates for Mayoralty. 10.—Harold By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BRENTWOOD, Md, June 10— There will be contests for two of‘the four positions to be filled here in the town elections, June 24. When - the- final deadline for filing was reached at midnight Saturday William N. Mahaffey and James F. Mowatt were in the running for mayor, and E. W. and Albert N. Plum for councilman from the sec- ond ward. Joseph- L. Merkle is unopposed for the first ward council seat, while urer E. C. Helm is seeking re- el i without a rival. Mphaffey, a veteran.member of the Council, has- been mayor since the death of Lloyd V, Moxley last month. HOLT WILL ADDRESS ° CULPEPER DEMOCRATS ~1’rng;run 'rutuui Club’s Drive . for Members and: Election of -Officers. By the'Associated Press. CULPEPER, Va.. June 10.—Sena- tor-elect Rush D. Holt of West Vir- ginia will address the Young Demio- cratic Club of Culpeper here ‘Thursdsy. The is being held in con- program nection, with _the_ club’s drive for members. - Following the , offi~ £ address, L} 25-year-old . garage proprietor, | uses a blond wig. | AUTOS HURT THREE ; IN ALEXANDRI! 4.Year-0ld Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. White in Serious Condition at Hospital. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10.— | Three persons were injured, one seri- ously, in automobile accidents near | here yesterday. Struck by an automobile near her | home on the Richmond-Washingtcn highway south of here, 4-year-old ismu White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | D. K. White of Route 1, Alexandria, is in a critical condition at the Alex- andria Hospital. where she was re- juries Capt. N. C. McKittrick of Quantico was listed at the hospital as driver | to have run onto the highway in the | path of his car. X |~ Joseph Silverstein of Richmond re- | ceived severe head cuts and a chest injury when an: automobile in which he-was riding skidded on the ‘slippery Hunting Creek causeway and plunged into the shallow water yesterday morn- ing. Frank ‘Peristein of Richmond, driver of the machine, received minor | injuries. Both were taken to the Alex- andria Hospital. GOV. NICE INVITED | Program - Announced - for Found- ers’ Day at St. Marys City. LEONARDTOWN, Md., June :10.— Founders’ day exercises will be held at historic Trinity Church, St. Mary’s City, June 16 starting at 11.am, it ‘was announced today. the principal speaker. The afternoon service will -be ad- dressed by. Rev.-Dr. Warfield Hobbs, executive secretary of the Department of Publicity of ‘the National Council of .the Episcopal Church. moved for treatment of internal in-| of the machine. The girl' was seid | { Gov. Nice has been invited-to be A head-on collision between two | automobiles -near the Laurel State | police “substation on the Baltimore | Boulevard sent three men and a ! woman to Casualty Hospital. Henry Woodward, 19. of Leon. Va. 'and Andrew Jackson, 28, colored, of Laurel, suffered fractured skulls in white ducks, shirt open at the neck. | ihe crash, while Mary Carter, 27, and | R Lewis Carter, 30. both colored, of Laurel, were treated for scalp injuries. The others more seriously hurt are Adrian Kiser. 30 a taxicab driver of | Capitol Heights, Md.; Edward G. | Winston, 20, colored, 2242 Twelfth | piace, and James Wright, 15. colored, | 2424 Seventeenth street. = Kiser was | taken to Emergency Hospital with a | possible skull fracture after his taxi| | struck a viaduct pole at Second and | H streets northeast: Winston suffered | head injuries and a broken leg, and | | Wright received internal injuries when | a truck-driven by Winston hit a tree near Florida avenue and W street. Both are in Freedmen'’s Hospital. Two : other passengers in the truck. Roy ichnon. 18, colored, 1231 Fifth street. and Herman Davis. colored, 2217 | | Twelfth place, were slightly hurt. | Arlington Accident. | Robert.W. Steele. 21, of 3010 South | Dakota avenue northeast, received a | compound “fracture of the leg in an | accident’ on . Glebe road, Arlington County, Va. He was treated at| Georgetown Hospital. Another vic- tim was William H. Shields, 54, col- ored, 612 Fourth street, who suffered head injuries when knocked down by an automobile at Fourth and F streets southwest. He was taken to Gal- linger - Hosptial. Miss Virginia Wade, 28, of 805 H street, was treated at Emergency Hos- pital for knee injuries received when she was struck by a police scout car at Ninth and H streets. She later went -home. The car was driven by |'Pvt. J. J. Cullinane, second precinct. Taxi and Wagon Collide. Carey C. Nunnery, 23, of 1817 K street, was charged with reckless driv- ing after- his taxicab struck a wagon ! driven by Addison Lewis, 58, colored, | Arlington, Va., near the Highway | Bridge. Lewis was treated at Emer- | gency Hospital for rib fractures. James Hopwood, 31, Wheeling, W. Va, a passenger in the cab, suffered a cut | lip. | [ ", -C. Russell, 21, of 1213 N street. was charged with driving while drunk after his car collided with the second precinct patrol wagon in the 900 block of M street. No one was hurt in the | accident. | Boy Drowns at Play. | WILMINGTON, Del, June 10 -(&). | —Edward Klonowski, 13, was drowned in the Christiana River here yesterday | while trying to relrieve a base ball. His body has not been recovered. Next time Joseph Svaboda of 621 T street goes fishing his two sons—Al- fred, 14, and Joseph, jr, 13—will make him leave his overcoat at home. It nearly cost their father his life yesterday in the choppy waters of the Chesapeake Bay off Solomons Island. But for & lady in a rowboat—Mrs. R. E. Menger of. Solomons Island—a tragedy would have resulted. As the two Svaboda boys tell the story, their father took them on a fishing e when . he found a good spot to catch spots- he heaved the anchor of his boat over- board. It carried him with it. The overcoat he wore prevented free and easy movement in the waters— and Mr. Svaboda was going down.for € Boys See Woman Save Father, Pulled Overboard by Anchor the third time when Mrs. Menger. rowing her own child, heard the cries for help. While Svaboda, sr, is “a swell swimmer,” as the boys put 1 his overcoat proved too much of a han- dicap. “He would have drowned only this dy saved him,” they chorused today. Her name-is Mrs, Menger and she was rowing around with a little boy in her boat and she rowed over and pulled father out just in time.” For that, the Svaboda boys believe Mrs. Menger -ought to get the Car- negie Medal. Svaboda plans to remain away from the water until it is warm | Payne. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, | Allen announced following the con- | ference that he will study the mafter | and possibly ask for a supplemental appropriation. Deletion of the $93,000 from the ap- propriation bill constitutes a distinct menace to the health of the city, Dr. uhland has stated, and may even result in furloughing regular Health Department. employes. i Allen said he expects to be able o announce within a few days what the District Commissioners will do. ' The matter is scheduled for consideration at their meeting Friday. DRAMA TO BE GIVEN BY BALLSTON STUDENTS Waihington Tee High Diplomas to Be Awarded Tomorrow Night by Superintendent. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BALLSTON. Va. June 10.—The senior class of Washington-Lee High School will present a maritime .drama tonight at the school as a prelude to commencement exercises tomorrow | night The chief role is taken by Franklyn Others are Edward Brown, Dorothy Rynex, - Margaret Canady, Robert Blake, Ruth-Smith. Direction is by Thomas H. Christie. Diplomas will be awarded graduates tomorrow night by Fletcher Kemp, superintendent of schools, -following the commencement address by Dr. H. Gordon Hayes of the Department of Commerce, who is substituting for Lieut. Gov. James H. Price of Vir- ginia. Mr. Price is a key figure in the Shriners’ celebration in Washing- ton and is unable to fill the engage- ment. Ruth Mohundro is the class vale- dictorian, with salutatory honors -be- ing divided between Franklyn.Payne and Ruth Smith. Rev. W. Clark Main, pastor of Arlington Methodist Epis- copal Church, will open the exereises with the invocation. He also will ‘pro- nounce the benediction. s OFFICERS ARE ELECTED BY D. OF A. AT VIENN‘A Miss Chosen Head of Betsy Ross Council for Six Months. Special Dispatch to The Star. VIENNA, Va,, June 10.—Miss Thelma Pearson_has been elected councilor of Betsy Ross Council. Daughters of America, for six months. Other offi- cers are: Miss Agnes Golden, associate coun- cilor; Miss Rosie Ross, vice councilor: Mrs. Fannle Kidwell, associate vice councilor; Miss Helen Burkeholder, conductor; Benjamin Trammel, war- den; Mrs. Eula Bennett, secretary: Mrs. Maude Gunnell, financial secre- tary; R. W. Wood, inside sentinel: Mrs. May Lane, outside sentinel, and Mrs. May Lane, trustee for 18 months The office of treasurer will be filled at a later meeting. VIRGINIAN ASKS $10,000 Suit Filed Against C. & O.. by Injured Orange Man. By the Associated Press. ORANGE, Va, June 10.—J. §. Bragg, administrator for Charles W Bragg of Gordonsville, has filed suit for $10,000 against the Chesapeake & Ohjo Rallway in connection with the death of Bragg, who is said to have been struck by a railway motor car at_Gordonsville March 4. It was reported that Brage was Thelma Pearson enough to go fishing without an over- coat, [} walking along the tracks toward -his home when hit.