Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1935, Page 8

UNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO) EPTEMBER 22, 1935—PART ONE. Atwell's back, and told him he was going to rob him, take his cab and choke him, Conners said. ‘The police lieutenant said Hill tied Be: € CLAIM CONFESSI0 | but 1t 1s the finest job in the world.” He said churches “don’t give half enough time to youth. They are run for the middle-aged and the old.” EARLY MARRIAGE SEEN AS “BOON TO MORALITY” 2 WINTOP PLACES s Arrive for Eucharistic Congress AT CHURCH MEET Miss Margaret Unkle Is Crowned at St. Mary’s Tournament. # By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. # PISCATAWAY, Md, September $#21 —First honors in the annual $tournament held here this afternoon for the benefit of St. Mary’s Catholic Church were won by Melvin Cole of Baltimore County and Ray Blandford f Townshend Riding as Knight of Good Hope, Cole defeated Warren, McConkey, | John McConkey and Brooke Kirby, all | £of Oxon Hill, to win the professichal #class. «crown Miss Margaret Unkle as queen 4of the tournament ball held in lhel ¢church hall tonight. # Warren McConkey, the second prize winner. nominated Miss Thelma Eng- slish of Washington as first maid. | John McConkey chose Miss Evelyn ,Lanmm as second maid and Kirby ,transferred his crown to Robert Ede- Llen for his wife, Mrs. Hilda Edelen. {_As winner of the amateur class, Blandford offered his crown to his Wwife, Mrs. Ellen Blandford. Other prize winners were William Gardiner of Waldorf, cokeek and Ernest Willett of Sharp- erville. They chose Miss Ellen Posey, § Hilda Blandford ice Willett as maids. The crowns were presented by Roger I. Manning, who acted as chief marshal. Judges were Judges Philip Miller and Millard Thorne of the Or- “phans’ Court of rPince Georges County and Adrian Fisher. Misses Lorraine Boutwell and Hilda Blandford were aides to the marshal. . Schools (Continued Prom First Page.) until the new plant can be made “ready for occupancy. Most to Van Buren Annex. Pupils of Randle Highlands, Ketcl am-Van Buren and Congress Heig promoted to grade 8B last June will report to the Van Buren Annex at £8°45 o'clock tomorrow Those from Randle " Ketcham-Van Buren promoted to grade 8A will also renort to Van Buren Annex. Congri Heights promoted to 7A, 7B or 8A will report back to the same 7A and 7B pupils from Ran- lands will return to that I, but those advanced to 8A will report to Van Buren Annex. All 7A and 7B Keicham-Van Buren students will go to Van Buren Annex. Stan- “ton's 7A and 7B pupfls will go to Randle Highlands, and those from Stanton promoted to 8A will go to Van Buren Annex. Five Benning School pupils as- fsigned to Anacostia will report to ¢Randle Highlands. ¢ Deal Junior High Delayed. “the addition at Deal Junior High School, advanced pupils will be tem- porarily accommodated there and in the Murch Elementary School. # Matriculation of pupils in the Dis- “trict actually began last Thursday, *when children entering the system for | the first time from other cities began | to present their credentials. Through Friday and Saturday this work con- | tinued, but at the statistical headquar- | ters at the Franklin School it was said yesterday that no figures on the new enrollment will be available for a | day or so. For the first time, non-resident en- roliments are to be restricted. E\'en_I with the new additions, the District schools will be just as crowded during | . the coming year as they have been in | " the past. The physical facilities, since " the beginning of the depression, have " been far behind demand and as the enrollment continues to increase year after year the system continues to | rrl“ more and more behind. Some Bar Non-Residents. He permitted Clinton Boden to | and Mrs. | | Highlands, and Stanton | Those from | Because of the delay in completing | l Papal Aide John Underwood of Ac- | Msgr. Diego Venini, of ceremonies, photographed as they Cleveland to attend th: Seventh Na Places for Each Di Flag at Euchar LEVELAND the P)—Pilgrims tos eventh National Eucha- ristic Congr to be held here Septemb to 26. may attend mass before 120 altars, erected especially for each Roman Catholic | diocese under the United States flag. The altars will occupy the city's spacious underground exhibition hall | which adjoins the public auditorium, scene of congress activities during the first three days of the meeting. The ornate episcopal coat of arms of each diocese will adorn its respec= tive altar, of simple orthodox archi- tecture. Visiting members of the clergy will celebrate mass on the al- tar of their home see. Space is to be provided before each altar for the laity. | The throng which is to pay public homage to its Eucharistic Christ is | expected to tax the resources of Cleve- |land. Church officials have asked Catholics to throw open their homes to the overflow crowd. The congress will emphasize in sec- | tional meetings the activities of the | church's lay apostolate. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic nominee for Presi- | dent in 1928, and Joseph Scott of | Los Angeles, a knight commander of St. Gregory, and who nominated Her- | | bert Hoover for President at the Re- | publican National Convention of 1932, | will be the principal lay speakers, Sectional sessions will be conducted for university and college men and women, nurses, journalists, public service men (policemen, firemen and post office employes), social service workers, professional men, young | women and parent-education groups Priests and nuns also will have sec- | tional meetings. | For the first time in the history of the national congress a papal legate will represent the Vatican. Pope Pius XI so designated Patrick Car- dinal Hayes of New York. | " addition, the Pope's personal secretary, Msgr. Diego Venini, will represent the papal household and will bear a special chalice as a gift from the Vatican. This chalice and ilnolher once the property of St. <P’r8n€1% de Sal(’s will be used in Roosevelt and Eastern High Schools | swill pthis year; the new Woodrow Wilson #School will accept non-residents from pMfll’)lflnfl only; Western will bar all astudents from nearby States until September 30, when it will determine ,whether any can be admitted. Central and McKinley have set next Thursday as the day on which | "to determine whether Maryland and Virginia boys and girls may be ad- mitted. the decision resting wholly pupon the total enrollment of residents | of the District. In the junior high schools, the ban has been placed at Paul, Powell, Taft, Eliot, Stuart and Hine. Macfarland, Gordon, Deal, Langley and Jefferson will decide Thursday whether they will have space for outsiders. Non-Tesi- ,dent enrollment last year totaled 2,470. 7,500 to Start First Time. Some 7,500 children are expected to .be entered in kindergarten classes or {the first grade for the first time this ! year. | , Tomorrow night the public evening schools will open and preparations have been made for a substantial in- ‘ crease in these corresponding to the gains in the day schools. Classes will meet at Abbot Vocational School, Central, McKinley and Roosevelt High Schools, Hine Junior High School and the Webster Elementary School. Most of the classes will be devoted to voca- tional subjects, but opportunity will also be given pupils to make up sub- jects needed to qualify for particular classes or ratings in the regular system. —_— WAR MOTHERS TO HEAR GEN. WILLIAM R. GIBSON Gold Star Feature of Biennial Convention. , Brig. Gen. William R. Gibson, as- sistant quartermaster general of the Army, will be the principal speaker _October 1 at the Gold Star luncheon, “a feature of the biennial national _convention of American War Mothers to be held September 27-October 4 “at the Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. “Nicholas N. Nock, former national ‘Gold Star chairman, is chairman of “the Luncheon Committee. Another speaker will be John J. Daly | “of The Evening Star, who will recite *his poem, “A Toast to the Flag,” and “relate some of the circumstances sur- rounding its composition. Approximately 800 delegates are ex- ‘pected to attend the convention, 250 of them Gold Star mothers. The “others are Blue Star mothers, whose sons returned from the war safely, and Silver Star mothers, whose sons Teturned wounded. or u'}bl-d. receive no non-resident pupils | Luncheon Will Be| U. S. TOURIST TRADE | ALMOST UP TO ’29’ | Trans-Atlantic Traffic Biggest Since Boom Year—Air Travel | at All-Time High. By the Associated Press | The tourist trade in the United States was reported by the Commerce Department yesterday to have a\most reached the 1929 level. “An interesting feature of the re- port,” the survey said, “was the reve- | lation that during the Summer sea- son just ended tourist activities have | returned to proportions comparable to 1930 and 1931, and, in some cases, to | 1929. These conditions prevail in steamship, railroad, airplane and bus | lines, as well as in travel by private | cars.” Trans-Atlantic passenger traffic was 25 per cent greater in the last four months than last year, with the larg- | est volume since the Summer of 1829. Airline passenger trave! “was at a peak never before reached in the his- tory of American scheduled air trans- portation.” . Turkey Advances. Turkey has turned its attention to the second part of its five-year pro- gram, which provides, among other projects, for electrification and min- mg development. BUILD A GARAGE NOow! 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Vidal, air commerce chief, in a memorandum, | and yesterday's report represented the official finding of the department's Aviation Accident Board. After noting the change toons, the report said: “A study of the effect of the various | changes made on the airplane indi-| cated that it was decidedly nose-heavy | and must have been extremely diffi- cult, if not impossible, to properly con- | trol without the aid of the engine (which failed almost immediately after the take-off). A statemenu made by the pilot after the change to pon- | toons confirms this conclusion. “The exact cause of the engine (all-‘ ure cannot be determined.” ocese Under U. S. istic Congress. of pon- JOSEPH SCOTT, Who nominated Herbert Hoover for President at the 1932 National Convention, will be one of the principal lay speakers at the Cleve- land Eucharistic Congress. Grounds for Divorce? 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Free Estimates Day or Night IN TAXI SLAYING Police Report Suspect, Ken- dall Hill, Breaks Under Grilling. By the Associhted Press. BALTIMORE, September 21 —Lieut. Andrew Conners and Sergt. Marlin Brubaker of the State police, an- nounced date today that Kendall Hill, former Perry Point Hospital attend- ant, had confessed the murder of Albert Atwell, Baltimore taxi driver. The officers said Hill exonerated Harry Jones, also a former hospital attendant at Perry Point, of com- plicity in the killing, but implicated him in the holdup of David Unger, another cab driver, and robbery of a diner at Perryville. Conners and Brubaker announced | Hill's confession after both suspects had undergone a grilling at State po- lice headquarters here. They were brought here from Bel Air for safe- keeping early today after a restless crowd had gathered at the jail. Conners and Brubaker said Atwell was killed for the $3 or $4 he had in his pockets, but quoted Hill as saying he intended only to choke the cab driver into unconsciousness so that he could rob him and make his getaway. The officers said Hill told them he and Atwell drank a pint of liquor while riding Tuesday night in Atwell's | cab. Near Havre Lovers’ De Grace, on Lane, Hill stuck a pistol in | Kl | Che% ll Atwell's hands behind his back, choked him and shoved his body into the bushes. NEW MICHIGAN LAW BAR T0 “GOLD DIGGERS” Breach of Promise and Similar Suits Penalized Under Legis- lation Now Effective. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 21.—Cash consolation for broken hearts became | & thing of the past in Michigan today. 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