Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1935, Page 8

A8 SHOWDOWN ASKED ON' IMMIGRATION Dies of Texas Charges Com- missioner With “Con- flicting Statements.” By the Associated Press. Charging Immigration Commis- sioner MacCormack with ‘“conflicting statements” on the allen situation, Representative Dies, Democrat, of Texas yesterday demanded that the commissioner explain his attacks on the Dies alien deportation bill. ‘The Texan has advocated deporta- tion of all aliens of fllegal entry, along with those who have not sought United States citizenship, as a means of relieving unemployment. In his letter to MacCormack, he said the Labor Department had asked $5,675,000 of relief funds for a census of aliens and to strengthen the border patrol. He cited, also, & statement by MacCormack that there were only 4,922,000 aliens in the country and asked MacCormack lo give a written explanation of the *conflicting statements.” Dies Asks Explanation. “In your statement of June 20 you said,” Dies wrote, “‘the immigration border patrol has, however, in recent years, been so effective that there have been comparatively few suc- cessful illegal entries.’ “How do you reconcile this state- ment with the one made by you in your report for the year ended June 3p, 1933, when you said, ‘Illegal en- tries have not greatly decreased on the Mexican border”? “How do you reconcile that state- ment with the one made by the Im- migration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Labor in your application for $5675440 for three projects, to conduct a census of aliens, | strengthen the border patrol and tabu- late the aliens?” Cites Testimony of June 20. “In your testimony of June 20,” Dies wrote, “you say that desertions of alien seamen have never averaged more than 21,481 a year, yet in your annual report for the year ended June 30, 1933, you say that often times as many as half of the crew of certain vessels deserted.” Dies quoted an estimate by Mac- Cormack that 250,000 alien seamen reached this country each year, and said according to it if half of them deserted “total desertions would be more than 100,000 a year.” He added: “The question as to whether or not we should stop all new immigra- tion and deport certain classes of aliens in this country does not even remotely involve the question of re- ligious, racial or alien prejudice. You Tecognized this fact when you stated | in your report ending June 30, 1933, that, ‘the policy of immigration re- striction is generally approved by the people of the United States.” “Neither native-born nor foreign- born citizens desire that the bars | should be lowered. It is generally recognized that the United States can no longer absorb annually hun- dreds of thousands of immigrants | Wwithout serious economic and social dislocations. “Certainly the present restrictions cannot be relaxed while millions of workers are unemployed and main- | tained at public expense.” SERVICE COMMAND FORMED IN HAWAII Set-up to Act in Islands Block-| aded—Army to Increase | 40 Per Cent. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 13.—Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, commander of the | Army's Hawailan Department, an- | nounced today formation of s service | command to co-ordinate military and civilian activities should Hawaii be | blockaded in an emergency. The announcement was made simul- taneously with Washington advices that the Army in Hawaii will be in- creased approximately 40 per cent in the next eight months. The pres- ent Army strength in the Islands is approximately 15,000, which the Army here expects to be increased by more than 6,000 by early next year. Gen. Drum pointed out, in announc- ing formation of the new command, the possibility of the islands being cut off from mainland commercial sup- plies in a crisis. The new organization, which be- comes effective August 1, will follow the lines laid down by the national defense act originally passed in 1916. Lieut. Col. James Ulio, senior aide to Drum, will head the new service command. POLITICS DéCLARED BAR TO WOMAN PRESIDENT Advertising Executive Says Her Sex “Won’t Play the Game,” So Can’t Gain Position. By the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, July 13—Women will leave the presidency of the United Btates to men, Mrs. Celine MacDon- ald Bowman, president of the National Federation of Business and Profes- sional Women’s Clubs, said here to- day on the eve of her organization's &nnual convention. The dark-haired Richmond, Va., ad- wvertising executive, mother of 11-year- old twins, also ventured the opinion in an interview that the United States could be “swept into a dictatorship overnight.” She added, however, that the present administration was “not dictatorial, but merely drastic in an emergency.” The presidency will remain ex- clusively a man’s job, she continued, not because women lack the neces- sary ability, but because they refuse to “play the game.” “When women are interested in leg- islation or advancement, however, they think only in terms of what that leg- islation will accomplish for the good of the people, and not whether it will gain the support of the American Legion, a manufacturers’ association or some other organization,” she re- marked. Soft Ball Diamond Ready. A new soft ball diamond has just been opened in Rock Creek Park. Frank T. Gartside, acting superin- tendent of the National Capital Parks, yesterday announced s 60-foot soft- ball diamond is now available for use et Picnic Grove No. 2 at Plerce Mill in the park. Margarine From Whales. Whale ofl is being converted into margarine in Germany. L Plane Brings Earle D. Messer, 18, C. C. C,, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Patient Here worker in Columbus, Ohio, is shown here at Bolling Field being taken from the air ambulance which brought him from Ohio. Messer was brought to Washington for treatment of a leg infection at Walter Reed Hospital. Infection set in following a com- pound fracture suffered in May. He was brought to the hospital here for specialists’ treatment. Physicians in Columbus said his condition would not permit his being brought by train. -—Star Staff Photo. Machine to Correct Examination Papers Invepted by Teacher Answer Paper of Circles and Squares Is Inserted Into Device and Pro per Re- plies Indicated and Grading Follows. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 13.—Development of & mechanical system of correcting examination papers was announced tonight by a high school Englith teacher, who had chafed for years un- der the drudgery of blue pencilling his pupils’ errors. The teagher-inventor, Hardin Lucas, | who has worked on the project after | school hours since 1931, said the de- vice could mark 10 papers, each con- taining up to 240 answers, at one stroke. It not only saves the teacher time and labor, he explained, but also points out to the pupil just where and | how he erred. In addition it removes any possibility of partiality or preju- dice on the part of the teacher. Special Paper Provided. In using the system, the pupil is furnished with a set of questions, a special sheet of paper for his answers, and a code. ‘The answer paper contains 240 squares, each one numbered to cofre- spond with a question. Inside of each square there is a circle of dots, rep- resenting the numerals on the face of a clock. By drawing lines that rep- resent the hands of a clock to certain dots, in accordance with the code numbers, the pupil can designate his answer to the question. Altogether, Lucas said, there are 1,017 possible combinations by usl.ng‘ the complete system of symbols. In its simplest form, using the true- or-false type of question, the pupil would draw a line to the No. 2 dot for “true” or to the No. 10 dot for “false.” The code tells him how to draw his | lines to slgnify the answer he wishes | to give. To mark the papers, Lucas has de- vised a stamping machine, which punches holes in the proper combina- tions to give the right answers. How Paper Is Graded. ‘Thus, when a pupil has finished his paper, he takes it up to the teach- er's desk, slips it into the machine, | punches it, and then takes it back to see whether the holes correspond with the symbols he has selected. Where they do not, he marks them with a red pencil and turns the paper over to the teacher, who grades his | rating in accordance with the num- ber of red pencil marks. Lucas, tall, rangy native of Harri- son County, Ky., who has been teach- ing for 37 years, said he had been ex- perimenting with the system in his own classes for two years and that it was highly successful. CAVEAT AND OBJECTION FILED TO BONFILS WILL By the Associated Press. DENVER, July 13.—A caveat and objection to the admission to probate of the will of Mrs. Belle Barton Bon- fils, widow of F. G. Bonfils, the pub- | day by Mrs. Mary Berryman, a daugh- | ter. Mrs. Berryman asked that the will, | which disposes of an estate running | into millions, be denied admission to probate, and that her mother be ad- judged to have died intestate. A hear- ing on probation of the will was sched- uled for Monday. It was alleged in the objection of Mrs. Berryman that Mrs. Bonfils was “incompetent to make a last will and testament because of unsoundness of mind and memory.” The objection asserted that Miss Helen Bonfils, to whom one-half of the estate was willed, influenced her mother in mak- ‘mg the will, directed her what to do with her property and took an unfair advantage. Miss Bonfils was named in the will as an executor, and also was desig- nated as one of the trustees of the other half of the estate, the lifetime income of which was to go to Mrs. Berryman. Furniture and Furnishings Silverware and Art Objects To Be Sold At PUBLIC AUCTION BY CATALOGUE FURNITURE: Antique and Modern Desks, Secretaries, Tables, Curio Cabinets, Commodes, Chests, a mew twin in Neo Classic, a fine Virgini: Living Room Suites, Odd Chairs, Post Mahogany Bed and a room suite Sofa, various new Upholstered etc. A Colonial Carved High KNABE GRAND PIANO The Property of F. W. W. Gleason Bric-a-brac, Bronzes, Vases, a Pair of Dr Candelabra, a | lisher, was filed in County Court to- | FARM ADJUSTMENT MEASURE SPEEDED Senator Smith Seeks to Get Measure Into Conference This Week. By the Assoclated Press. A move to shove the farm adjust- ment bill through the Senate early this week and get it into conference was initiated yesterday by Senator Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, in charge of the bill. It colncided with warnings from foes of the A. A. A. amendments that s host of amendments would be pressed. Fretted by three days of debate, during the last of which he conceded no progress was made, Smith sald he would seek administration aid tomor- row to limit debate since “everybody knows what is in the bill. Amendments Studied. Throughout Friday the Senate combed through the list of commodi- ties which the bill would permit the Secretary of Agriculture to control through marketing agreements. But the only amendments of the day were to knock out of the list hops and fruits JULY 14, for canning, which had been added in the Senate Committee. Poultry, added to the list in com- mittee at the request of Senator Pope, Democrat of Idaho, was likely to go out promptly since the Idahoan evi- dently has changed his mind. Maine, Idaho and North Carolina potato spokesmen, at first eager to have that commodity included in the list, were reported yesterday to be agreed on adding a separate section to the bill. Under it the Becretary of Agriculture would be empowered to issue quotas on potatoes and apply a tax of three-fourths of a cent a pound for those in excess of quota. Effective in December. ‘The tax would become effective on | all potatoes harvested after next De- cember 1. After the first year of op- eration continustion of the quota pro- gram would require approval of more than two-thirds of the growers. The amendment was proposed by Senator Balley, Democrat, of North Caroina and Smith said he was ad- vised it had the support of Maine and Idaho potato growers. As the bill now stands, the com- modities subject to marketing agree- ' ment ‘‘orders” are milk, fruits (not including apples and mnot including fruits for canning), tobacco, vegeta- bles (but exempting all vegetables for canning except asphragus), soybeans, package bees and queen bees, poultry and naval stores, with poultry sched- uled to go out. Nearly 20,000,000 letters a day are 1935—PART ONE. BAR TO CONSIDER PRISON RELEASES Requirement of Psychiatric Re- port on Cases Question for Association. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 13.—The American Bar Association will be asked at its convention here Monday to approve a committee recommenda- tion urging that a psychiatric report be required before a prisoner is re- leased, paroled or transferred. The recommendation follows the recent declaration of J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation, that the parole system consti- tutes & “national scandal.” Similarly, the association’s commit- tee of the criminal law section of psy- chiatric jurisprudence, urged that in every felony case where the judge may impose the sentence, no sentence be imposed until & psychiatric report is attached to the criminal's record. “It is desirable,” the committee said, “to keep within narrow limits the kind and degree of disorders of the mind which will entitle the defendant in a criminal case to an acquittal, and to readjust the machinery after the point of conviction to the end that disorders of the mind which are not sufficient for acquittal may result in now being delivered in England. treatment other than that provided for persons who are not mentally dis- ordered.” Establishment of a chair of criminal law and criminology in the Law Li- brary of Congress will be recommended to the association. —— NEW DEVICE MEASURES INTENSITY OF LIGHT Massachusetts Tech Professor Per- fects Instrument of Simple Design. By the Assoelated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 13.— ‘The Massachusetts Institute of Tech- ‘mnlogy tonight announced the con- struction of a new and simplified in- strument which will make possible for the first time a scientifically ac- curate measurement of light intensity. So sensitive it will measure the Jight of a star millions of light years distant, its chief use will be for im portant research on various forms of lamps and light in the field of illumi- nation. ‘The instrument was invented by Prof. Parry H. Moon of the institute The Stein Bedding Co. 1004 Eye St. N.W. ME. 9490 Front Page News! Just Arrived New 4-Piece Bedroom Group “FLYING FISH” STUDIED ROME, July 13 (f).—Whether giant hydroplanes or land airplanes shall be used to span the South Atlantic in Ltaly’s drive to capture South Ameri- can markets is one of the problems occupying Italian engineers and indus- | trialists. Machines that combine the essential features of both land and sea planes are now being studied. 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