Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1935, Page 22

G-MEN DIPLOMAS GIVEN POLICEAMEN 23 Graduates in First Class of Federal Training School. BY REX COLLIER. Described as achieving long strides toward lifting police work from a job for so-called “flat feet” to a scientific profession for selected, intelligent “career men,” the three-month-old Police Training School of the Federal Bureau of Investigation granted diplo- mas yesterday to 23 members of the first graduating class. “We are getting away from the “false whiskers' idea in crime detec- tion,” declared J. Edgar Hoover, di- rector of the bureau and organizer of the school, in addressing the graduates of the Government’s “Anti-Crime Col- lege.” “It is hard work and intelli- gence that count in this profession.” Presente¢ by Cummings. Attorney General Cummings pre- semted the diplomas with the asser- tion that the school will do much to further co-operation between local and Federal law enforcement forces inthe joint war on interstate crime. One of the weaknesses of law enforce- ment in this country, he said, is the disorganization which exists under our system of divided Federal, State and municipal authority. The Justice De- partment is seeking to co-ordinate these units, he explained. Peter Siccardi, chief of police of Bergen County, N. J., and past presi- dent of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, hailed the end of what he called “the flat-foot era” in police work. Andrew Kavamaugh, public safety director of Miami, Fla., and now president of the association, predicted the training school plan will spread throughout the country, to the benefit of police and public alike. Hoover deplored such handicaps to | law enforcement as “the agonizing de- | lays” in prosecuting and trying crim- inals, the freeing of certain prisoners under bail, the “boon-doggling” ideas of “wild-eyed theorists,” as opposed to practical plans of experienced men, the “ward-heelers and politicians” who segk to exert influence on police, and the “parole sob sisters.” | Laxity Is Criticized. He said he approved of parole if properly administered, but he criti- | cized the laxity on the part of some | State Parole Boards in freeing habit- | ual criminals destined to become pub- lic enemies. The 23 graduates returned to as many cities last night to report to their respective departments. Many planned to organize training schools of their own along lines of the F. B. I school. A new group of 25 policemen from other cities will convene here within a few weeks for the second session of the school. Admission is by invita- tion to police departments, who are | asked to select a representative officer to take the course, one officer from a department. More than 300 appli- cations already are on file, according to Hugh H. Clegg, assistant director of the F. B. I, in charge of the school. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Oyster roast, Potomac Boat Club, | Thirty-sixth and K streets, 10 am. | Mercantile Club, Hamilton Hotel, 1 | pm. | Meeting, Bartenders’ Union, Old | Local, No. 75, 720 Fifth street, 3 p.m. i | TOMORROW. | ‘Meeting, ministers of the Universal- | st Church, Mayflower Hotel, 9 a.m. Luncheon, Rotary Club, University | Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Newcomers’ Club, Carl- | ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. | Luncheon, Society of Motion Picture | Engineers, Wardman Park Hotel, 12:30 ! pm. | Meeting, Delta Sigma Chapter, | Delphian Society, Shoreham Hotel, 10 | am. | Meeting, Gamma Chapter, Delphian Society, Shoreham Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Jacoby Society, La Fayette Hotel, 7 pm. Smoker, Xi Psi Phi Fraternity, La Fayette Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, University Club, 7:30 p.m. Supper meeting, Monday Evening Club, Barker Hall, Seventeenth and K streets, 6:30 pm. Supper meeting, Knights of Colum- :ms. fourth degree, Mayflower Hotel, pm. Meeting, Women's Democratic Na- tional Council, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 pm. " Marriage Licenses. muel R. Be: S, 22 4924 Rock Creek Church it g7l e Rt 35 Pranklin st. ne.. Elmer P.’ Stein. and Cl}herme R. Andrus. 27. 27 Bates ind Lavinia F. st.: Rev_S. B. Inylnam B Meion B Va.; Rev. E, Clay. 22 both of . Poore. Joseph Chafm 28, Enom 41 :&m'“«?f"n.umg?e‘, e ey Maury T, Warren. 33. 1330 Ridge pl and Katherine A, Barlow. 19, Lotne, Raymiond A" Setec 55 ; es. 23 Darnelle. 19. ‘both of Gl‘e’x;?u.’c'rl;laneg: s william B8 4 ampton_42 403 G st. Lucille Cuddy. 24 Ellzabethtown. Tenns ev. S. E.Rose. Stephen D. Brown. 70, and Vivian Weaver, 41. both of Aurora. TIL; Rev. J. R. Si200. Maurice Nias, '40. and Lucretia M. Cusson. 28 New York City; Judge Robert E. Mattingly | ogn F. Hymers. 28 Bayonne. N. mma L. Brasweil 27. 5514 Pl Rev A R. Bird William H. ‘Yearick. Jr.. 21. and Virginia K. S}l{l}llns 18, both of Philadelphia, | = Pa. M. Hennig. | Prederic H. Pryce. 30. Steubenville. Ohlo. | and Mary L. Argyle. 22, Canton. Ohio; ev. 7. H. Dunham | Joseph ‘Hartson 43, Baltimore. Md.. and Helen P. Little New York City; Rev. | J. S. Montgomery. Ellott D. Marshall. 30. Pront Roval. Va: d Dorothy C. Von Beck. 27, Berry- Thomas.” 23. 227 Oakdi and Ellena Coner, 19, 2033 5th s . C. Bundy. rence L. Hollen, 20. Ethel. Ind.. and da_A. Salter, 26, Strongs, Mich.; Rev. s. 33, 153 and_Nellie es. 35. Alexandri i Rev. J. E. Graham. Albert W. lfim{ 27. 83 K st.. and Gladys V. O'Neal, 27, 4420 14th Rev. R. M. Burke_ Earl C. Grifin. 25. Bangor. M J. Aver. 20, Grafton, W. P. German. Liewellyn W. Reed. 26. 1011 M s Marjorie Robertson. 19, 1212 9th Rev. 8. E. Rose. 23. 327 16th st. finon. 20, 1251 6th J.. ang Sherrier . “Birtha Reported. Samuel I and Dorothy Gertler. boy." Charles P. Jane A. Smith. boy. | by and you will see for yourself that|and of Group Hospitalization, Inc., The “tommy guns” or sub-machine guns shown in the hands of Detective Chief Frank S. W. Burke and some of his sleuths are but a few of the modern weapons recently added to the arsenal of the Metro- politan Police Department. It is planned to train some 60 headquarters Memories of Seaton School Recall Historic Neighbors Nearby ‘Minnesota Row’ Housed Grant, Sherman, Douglas and Other Noted " Officials of Civil War Era. BY JESSIE FANT EVANS. ‘Washington has always been a city el of contrasts, as to the juxtaposition of its public buildings, its homes and their occupants. There are no greater groups of city mayors to control the vic destinies of the Nation's Capital. | It is difficult to think of 207 as only one-half of a double house, but this is exactly what it is, with the vast ones than can be seen today on I street | fs‘;‘;;“ E:Ht":rlxy :}‘:‘;;‘u‘ dh":;' h?n ;;; between Second and Third streets nurthwests Heri in a backwater as it | Emery when he purchased the great were, seldom ch‘smed upon by the | double mansion from Gen. Sherman, S whose friends purchised it for him e mng. iotcie iaia fnsigibo hood | from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, by whom which was once the mecca of the it was occupied at the time of his political, social and religious worid just pricr to and after the Civil War. | Slection S;f’u:h‘,rg;:’y“’;’;’;yh ol e Of the Seaton School, which is in| tragic in its unoccupied loneliness, with its midst, Gen. Sherman sald when | copwebs across its murky, staring win- he came to its dedication from his | dows, the grass high and forlorn look- truly imposing hokr]ne across mexsggei i ing in its front yard. in 1871: “I am the opposite neighbor of this school. Its coming into our|, ¥ TaRerY oocupind 207 uoull s | midst is causing me a total loss of | ; a time occupied by G'ustav $10,000. ‘This school is not to0 1arge | ponchureh and his family. Mr. Lans- and it is not too good, but the neigh- |\ oh was one of the founders of borhood is a little better than it ought | yanchuoh & Bro, and from this to be. We who live in it are anz‘home his daughter, Mrs. Charles A. to give our time and money to this|Goldsmith, a civic leader of whom school if our boys and girls who come | this city has just cause to be proud, to it will only grow up to be WOrthy | went forth a bride 45 years ago. “This of the country that claims them &S| house was afterward occupied by the its own.” family of James Lansburgh, anoth- Changing trends have effected ex-|er member of the firm of Lansburgh traordinary changes in the one-time|& Bro. Their son, Mark Lansburgh, | glories of this neighborhood. Wander | now a motivating member of this firm, detectives in the expert use of the weapons at Camp Sims. The guns will fire 600 shots a minute. Left to right: O. 8. Hunt, Thomas Nally, John Apostolides, Robert Barrett, Joseph Shimon, Hoyle Secrest, George Darnell and Inspector Burke, —Underwood & Underwood Photo. A group of 23 policemep from as many cities received diplomas yesterday at first graduation exercises of the new F. B. I. Police Training School. Capt. James T. Sheehan of Boston, Mass., Is shown receiving his diploma from Attorney General Homer Cummings (at right), with J. Edgar Hoover, organizer of the school, in the background. —>Star Stafl Photos. - when Miss Georgia Lane was per- mitted to form an advance grammar school for girls which was followed one year afterwards by & similar class for boys at the Thomson School, taught by Edward A. Paul. Miss Flora Hendley, Miss A. M. Clayton, Miss Susie Collins and Miss Adelaide Davis have served as hon- ored principals of the Seaton School. Mr. Selden M. Ely, & forceful leader in patriotic society groups, now super- vising prinicpal of the fifth division, won his administrative spurs presid- ing over the group of schools of which the Seaton was the motivating one. Popular Mrs. Florence H. Rogers is now the supervising principal of the sixth division, which has present juris- diction over the Seaton £chool. Its present enterprising principal is Miss M. A. Delger. Changed as is its neighborhood, the Seaton has not ceased to serve wisely its midst. Here today, financed by rellef funds, there is in successful operation one of six nursery schools planned by Assistant Supt. of Schools Robert L. Haycock in conjunction with Miss Emma Jacobs, director of cook- ing and sewing in our public schools. And so, the school of which Gen. Sherman said: “It was not welcome on this site, but I for one refused to join in a general remonstrance against q | the street. Georgetown is not the only portion | of our city where past and present mingle. Take “Minnesota Row,” for instance, across the street from the Seaton School from one of whose im- portant domiciles Gen. Sherman walk- ed that “balmy October Saturday aft- ernoon” so long ago. The historical marker simply says “Minnesota Row, built in 1856 for Stephen A. Douglas Henry M. Rice, John C. Breckinridge. Douglas Hospital during the Civil War.” Why called “Minnesota Row" we do not know, except that one of the houses was built for Henry M. Rice, first Senator from Minnesota, and that Minnesota was admitted to statehood in the year that the row was built, Here in the heyday of their grandeur were three great double houses of 20 rooms each, and numerous rear addi- tions. Their massive front door portals opened to the wealth, the fashion and the politically great of that moment- ous time. Within their high-cejlinged, spacious drawing rooms dignitaries greeted their equals. Hospitable din- ing rooms, paneled to the ceiling in lustrously shining walnut, remind one of the banquet days of yesteryear. Home of Douglas. A Civil War chronicler tells us that 400 beds for soldiers were placed on the lower floors of these homes during the Civil War when the row served as one of 56 military hospitals and was known as Douglas Hospital. It was so designated because 201, the| corner house, was originally built for “the little giant,” Stephen A. Douglas, who was Senator from Illinois, a mas- ter of oratorical invective and Lin- coln’s bitterest political opponent, al- though he supported him during the war's duration. Today 201 is a col- ored apartment house called The Grant. As I recently approached -close enough to read a dingy historical tab- let fastened to the building’s exterior, an elderly colored woman seated with- in the heavily paneled vestibule so- clably commented, “They tells me sure :nough white folks once lived here, the | big wigs and mostest importantest ones there wuz.” “Indeed they did,” was my reply as I scanned the list of those who had once been its inmates. In addition to Stephen A. Douglas, the list ran: Joseph P. Bradley, im- portant citizen; Richard Wallach, one- time mayor of Washington, and Arch- bishop Sebastian Martinelli, apostolic delegate from Rome, who during his residence here in 1901 received the summons home which resulted in his being further honored by Mother | Church with the prized cardinal’s red | hat. Like an urchin impudently thumb- ing its elders, the R-K-O film build- | ing, which is a central distributing plant for the moving picture industry at present, occupies 203 I street. Its frontage juts out to a justifiable mod- ern street level in sharp contrast to - |the dignity with which the original structures in this row sit back from Here once lived wealthy and powerful Senator Henry M. Rice of Minnesota. Within our generation the Juvenile Court was for a time quartered at 205 I street. Just before the Civil War it was occupied by John C. Breckin- ridge of Kentucky, Vice President of the United Sfates under President Bu= chanan, and himself an unsuccessful . | aspirant for the presidency on the V- | Democratic platform against Lincoln. Here it was that he lived when he erate States in Jefferson Davis’ cabi- net. Another Historic House. ‘With the regal air of & d [ lifting her skirts aside from world of modernity as she fi impertinent gaze of those new hitherto unquestioned place scheme of things as they were, the last mansion in once nesota Row to be maintained in if accustomed manner. It ished residence of Mr. as he was known death, the last of | lived here and went across the street to school at the Seaton.” Later, to | | relieve the neighborhood’s one-time | congested school population, the Dis- trict government used it as an annex to the Seaton School for the housing | of the first four primary grades. A Gift From Grant. There are still uving a few Wash- | ingtonians who remember when 205 and 207 I street were one great double house, a gift to the victor of Appo- | matox from a group of admiring | friends. They can also recollect the | night of his election to the presidency [of the United States when milling | thousands with torch lights and ban- | ners jammed then aristocratic I street and into neighboring ones, as they | gathered in exultation to cheer the | successful hero. Not only did Gen. Grant set forth from here to the Capitol for the inaugural ceremonies, | but it served as a temporary Executive Mansion for two weeks thereafter, as | Mrs. Johnson, the wife of the retiring President, was ill, and ‘he Grants did not wish her to be immediately moved. When you unlatch the iron gate | which gives you entrance to 207 I street, today, you stand a mdment in appreciation of its meticulously kept | side yard, wherein there is a giant horse chestnut tree said to be the largest horse chestnut tree in the city. The story is that both Gen. Grant and Gen. Sherman often sat beneath its spreading branches in friendly conversation over their | cigars. While you await Mrs. Hannay's coming, your eye wanders upward to lovely frescoed ceilings, the work of Rakeman, who also did some of the frescoes at the Capitol. His son be- | came ane of the city's renowned { violinists.” Tall pier glass mirrors be- | tween double windows in both the { front and rear drawing rooms reflect | chandeliers whose shining glass prisms remind you of those in the east room at the White House. The original gas connections have never been re- moved from these chandeliers. On | either side of marble mantles sur- mounted by mirrors in gold frames | there are oil portraits—that of Mayor | Emery is distinguished-looking, de- picting him as the kindly alert man |of vision and of substance that he | was. The one of Mrs. Hannay's moth- er as she came a young bride to her husband is exquisitely lovely. Mrs. Hannay's two sisters are Mrs. Hancke, widow of Gen. Hancke, and Mrs. Wil- liam V. Cox, whose husband won dis- tinction in local banking circles and | served as vice president of the Board of Education. A Delightful Atmosphere. Mrs. Hannay’s amused smile as you pause delightedly before the rear drawing room windows with your query, ‘“Your lot goes all the way through from I street to K?” answers your question affirmatively before she adds: “If it wouldn't be too cool for you, perhaps we could have our tea served on the porch looking toward K street.” An ancient grape vine with ripening clusters of purple grapes, its leaves making patterns of sunlight and shadow, comes down over the sides of this porch like a canopy. Before you stretches an honest-to-goodness gar- den, with corn tasseling and lima bean vines climbing their poles, flanked by ripenin® tomatoes, althea bushes, sturdy perennials and ancient pear, peach and flowering mimosa trees. Lilies of the valley plants encircle a pecan tree planted by the young son that Gen. Sherman lost. His favorite nuts were pecans, and you somehow feel that the carefully tended lily bed and tree are s living remembrance of that beloved little boy of the long ago. As you sip your tea you ask, “Mrs. Hannay, what was your father’s great- est interest as mayor?” The answer is what you expect: “The desire that the children of Washington should have more and better schools. Father was chairman of the Bullding Com- mittee for the school across the way, which he insisted should bear the name of Mayor Seaton, who served nine terms as mayor, and in a crusade for school conditions en- listed the aid of Jobn Quincy Adams, Edward Everett le and George J. Abbot, secretary Daniel Webster. This is the only memorial to his mem- |ory in the city, I believe, there not even being & marker over his grave in Congressional Cemetery, although as the editor of the National Intelli- gencer he was one of the most influ- ential citizens of his era.” The Seaton School. After Mrs. Hannay bids you a hos- pitable good-by, you walk across the | street to the Seaton School, to muse | upon it. honorable past and effective present. The site of Stanton Military Hospital during the Civil War, it was the third in the group of “new deal” schools to be erected after the war. Its cost was $64,756.86, a stupendous one for the time, and Cluss, the architect for the Wallach and Franklin Schools, drew up the plans, which were exe- cuted by Robert I. Fleming, whose construction firm was the master one WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY of its day. His son, Robert V. Flem- ing, is now president of the Riggs National Bank. Among the first teachers at the Seaton School were Nathaniel P. Gage, Metella King, Mrs. Rose E. Roosevelt and Eliza Caton. Mr. Gage later became supervising principal of the school district in which the Seaton was located, one of the administrative quips for which he became famous being “will some one explain to me please, how it*is that Divine Provi- dence permits some people to become parents?” The old records show, too, that Wil- liam J, Flather, senior vice president of Riggs Bank was one of the pupils of the Seaton’s early days, to be “sig- nalized for his meritorious record.” ‘Washington's first high school had its beginning in the Seaton in 1876 o its erection,” is a continuing memo- rial to William W. Seaton, Mayor Emery and neighbor Sherman. For here tiny tots, as well as older boys and girls whose home advantages are not perhaps those of the '70s, are being trained in the ideals which shall make them worthy of the country that claims them as their own in fulfill- ment of the expressed desire of Gen. Sherman 65 years ago this month. - JUNIOR BAR GROUP PLANNED BY WOMEN| D. C. Women's Bar Association Approves Organization for Those Under 36 Years. Establishment of a junior bar group, similar to one formed by the American Bar Association, has been approved in a recent meeting of the District of Columbia Women's Bar Association. | The new organization will admit wom- | an members of the legal profession under 36 years of age. The Women's Bar Association also | discussed pending legislation concern- ing a new probation act, the uniform | sales act, a new corporation law and the creation of the “friend of the | ments of disputes. All measures were referred to committees for study and report at a later meeting. -— Deaths Reported. Emily P. Dieterich, 74. 308 Vi | Frederick Mueller. 306 140h Bt sre. 'Ng’]‘fnfi; CB P%flck. hflfl), slg{?’ LHQSDHI] ! 'umphrey. . ANCO) Park, | Helen L"F: Barsa 45" Columb A | Helen . Parks, 32, Columbia Hospital Yujonne V. Gallagher, 6, Casusity Hospi- a George W. Jackson, 81, Freedmen's Hospi- | a Lettie Giles. 68, Gallinger Hospital Sarah 8. Johnson. 64. 425 M st. 5.W. Jackson Javins. 60, 915 Westminster | James H. Tyler. 55. Geo | James W. Hunt 6 13th st Nannie C. Coleman, 50, 4826 Deane ave. n.e. Melvin Williams. 49, Walter Reed Hospital Harry Banks. 30, Gallinger Hospi! John Bcott, 35. Freedmen’'s Hospit Aldine J. Gariton. 29, 816 3rd st 4.~ U. SATALIANS SAL FOR AFRIGAN WAR More Than 100 Natives Go- ing Home to Help Mussolini. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 19.—More than 100 native Italians from the United States and Canada are on the Atlantic tonight, bound for their homeland and the African wars. The group, & cheering, singing body of young men sailed on the Italian liner Rex to join Mussolini’s volunteer legions. As bands played the Italian national listed from many citles, including Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington, D. C. A few were from Canada. The consulate here said that volun- teers from other cities had paid their own rail fare to New York. Their ocean passage was paid by the Italian government, and they will be re- imbursed for other transportation costs upon their arrival in Italy. D. C. AUTO RACER FATALLY INJURED Wheeler Braden Dies in South Carolina After Car Crashes at Fair Event. Wheeler Braden, 28, son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank W. Braden of 628 East Capitol street, was fatally injured, and Red Redmond of Atlanta, Ga., suf- fered a broken collar bone yesterday court” post to sponsor friendly settle- | anthem and a crowd estimated at 4,000 | when their racing cars collided in an cheered wildly from the pier, Gaetano Eastern championship American Vecchiotti, Italian consul in New York, | Automobile Association event at the officially bade farewell to the con- | Spartanburg, 8. C., fair, according to tingent. | an_Associated Press dispatch. Of the thousands of Americans of | The accident was said to have Italian descent who offered their | occurred when the front of Braden's services, he said, none was accepted. | car struck the rear of Redmond's ma- ‘Those who sailed were all bachelors | chine and Italian citizens. | Braden died at a Spartanburg hospi- (A Federal statute passed in 1918 tal of a fractured skull and internal provides a three-year jail sentence or | injuries several hours after the crash. $1,000 fine for United States citizens He had been racing five years. who enlist in a foreign army.) | His parents left yesterday for A check of the liner’s passenger | Spartanburg. Relatives said his body lists showed that the volunteers en-'would be returned here. 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