Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1936, Page 23

Court Dismisses Suit to < GEORGETOWN ADDS DAVIES T0 OPEN ROOSEVELT RALLY FROM CONVENTION Five Others to Introduce President to Various Sec- tional Groups. 100,000 HERE JOIN “NOMINATORS” CLUB Parade Scheduled to Start at 7 P.M.—Oldest Democrat Is Sought. Joe E. Davies, former Federal trade | commissioner and chairman of the | Roosevelt nominators’ demonstration scheduled here tomorrow night, will address the Washington audience through ‘a special telephone-radio hook-up from Philadelphia in introduc- ing President Roosevelt. Simultaneously, six other speakers avill be broadcasting over similar hook- ups from Franklin Field, Philadelphia, with their remarks being carried direct- 1y to nominator rallies in various parts of the country. In Washington, more than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the jamboree at Griffith Stadium. To Assemble at 7 P.M. The affair gets under way here with the parade assembling at Constitution avenue and Tenth street shortly befor> 7 o'clock. Marching west along Col stitution avenue, the celebrators wi go up Fifteenth street to the Veterans’ Administration Building, where a hait is to be called for purposes of resting, cheering, speaking, etc. From there, the line proceeds to the stadium, where things really will happen. Commissioner Hazen and a staff of 40 mounted aides will lead the parade. but the supply of enthusiasm, fire- crackers, flags, torches, floats and| whatnot make it seem likely that the| marchers will be subjected to very little | Testriction. | It is planned to have every State| represented in the line with a Senator, Representative or some prominent citizen of each State heading its con- tingent. Col. H. S. Kimberly is to be executive officer of the parade. Search for Oldest Democrats. Helping to arouse interest in the affair are several contests for both old | and young. In the former category, is | the search for the oldest District | Democratic voter, with five whose ages range from 84 to 97 now in the field. ‘The winner will be given a bottle of 1873 wine and a ride at the head of the line. Other competitions are scheduled for roller skaters and bicycle marchers, with the expectation that the young Democrats will monopolize the contest. Prizes will be given in these cases for most interesting cos- tumes, best decorated bicycles, etc., Among those seeking the title of old- est Democrat, Richard O. Melton, 2018 First street, followed up his claim to- day with the insistence that he cast a Democratic ballot at the very first opportunity after 1869, when he came to the District from St. Marys County, Md. Those fellows who didnt’ vote here until 1872 ha dbetter retire from this competition as gracefully as possible, Mr. Melton believes, because he's sure he beat them to the polls by at least a year and maybe two. On a strict basis of age, however, Mr. Melton seems to be running sec- ond to Thomas O. Lyddane, 50 Nichol- son street. Both were born in 1849, but Mr. Lyddane will have another birthday on September 10, and Mr. Melton doesn’t have his until Decem- ber 12. The plan to have Davies, speaking in Philadelphia, introduce the Presi- dent, also in Philadelphia, to the Griffith Stadium audience is a novel one in that seven separate introduc- tions are being made at once. Seven sound-proof broadcasting stations have been built at Franklin Field to facili- tate this part of the program. Others to Speak. Others selected to make the wide- spread introductions are Gov. Martin Davey of Ohio, speaking to Columbus; Carl C. Donaugh of Oregon, to Port- Jand; James Sheridan of New York, to Madison Square Garden Bowl; Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, to that city; Mayor Bernard J. Dickman of 8t. Louis, to that city, and Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, to six rallies in that State. A total of 8,739 Nominator rallies has been scheduled throughout the country, it was announced* today by W. Forbes Morgan, secretary of the Democratic National Committee. In order to enable workmen to get the stadium in readiness for the eve- nings excitement, one of two ball games scheduled tomorrow between the Washington Elite Giants and the Homestead Grays of Pittsburgh, mem- bers of the National Negro League, has been postponed to Sunday. There will be a single game tomorrow and a double header on Sunday. GAS-RATE HEARINGS START IN AUGUST Public hearings on the new rates of Washington and' Georgetown Gas Light Cos., under the terms of its sliding scale plan for annual adjustment of its charges, probably will be started be- fore the Public Utilitles Commission on or about August 10. The new rates will go into effect Sep- tember 1 and will be adjusted in ac- cordance with financial findings on conditions prevailing June 30. People’s Counsel WilliamA. Roberts and John Bruton, of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, of New York, which represents the companies, both yesterday asked the commission to start the hearings not later than August 10. Decision was reserved to await the re- turn to work of Riley E. Elgen, com- mission chairman, who has been ill for 3everal days. A “Nominators” Call ToRally Will Blare From Sound Truck Police Sanction Use of Vehicle to Advertise Session Here. A sound truck equipped with loud- speakers—a vehicle ordinarily out- lawed by police—will be used by the Democrats tomorrow to round up sup- porters for the Roosevelt rally in Grifith Stadium. Sanction in the form of a permit has been given by the Police Depari- ment to use the truck and, despite reports to the contrary, Republicans have made no official protest. This form of political advertising is something new for the District, but it is frequently resorted to in other parts of the country. “It will give the people here a taste of big-time politics,” one Dem- ocrat explained. Sound trucks are banned for com- mercial purposes, but they have been used in parades here, police pointed out. It is planned to have the truck tour the city with an announcer sounding praises of the Democratic party and urging loyal supporters to turn out for the rally or tune in on their radio for the President’s address. TWO SCHOOL J0BS ARE T0 BE FILLED Miss Backus Leaves Field to Holmes and Haworth. ‘Washington school-teachers, pleased | by the selection Wednesday of Robert L. Haycock as the new first assistant superintendent of schools, were hope- ful they will know the two new assist- ant superintendents before nightfall. The Board of Education planned to meet immediately after the Personnel Committee concludes a session begin- ning at 3 pm. at the Franklin ad- ministration building. Just how early they would be able to act, the mem- bers would not estimate. Announcement yesterday that Miss Bertie Backus, who has been assistant superintendent in charge of character education two years, does not desire to continue as an assistant superin- tendent, simplified the task ahead of the Personnel Committee and Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent. Interest in Miss Backus. ‘When it became known that Con- gress had failed to appropriate funds to continue the experiment, inquiries were made at once as to the fate of Miss Backus. It was believed at first she would be chosen either to succeed the late Dr. Stephen E. Kramer as first assistant, or for the new position as assistant in charge of junior high and vocational schools. Dr. Ballou, after the selection of Haycock, announced that Miss Backus would be retained in the service. Yes- terday she wrote him that she had no | desire to be an assistant superintend- ent and would prefer to return to Alice Deal Junior High School as principal, the post she held two years ago. She said Mrs. M. R. Merritt, her successor, was sympathetic to her position and indicated a willingness to accept a transfer to some other post. Elimination of Miss Backus as a possible candidate for assistant super- intendent apparently left the field open for Chester W. Holmes, princi- pal of Anacostia Junior-Senior High School, and Dr. Ellis Haworth, head of the science department of the high schools, to take the two jobs. Considerable Backing. Both have received considerable backing and are generally believed to be favored for the positions, although no person in official position would comment one way or another. Others, however, are known to be under consideration. Dr. Harold E. Warner, principal of Hine Junior High School; Francis A. Woodward, prin- cipal of Gordon Junior High School, and others have been indorsed in com- munications either to the Board of Education or to Dr. Ballou. When the Personnel Committee meets later today, transfer of teachers assigned to character education work also will be taken up. Dr. Ballou has announced, and the board has ap- proved, a plan to retain all such teachers who were taken from regular teaching positions during the time the work was carried on. Some 30 individuals, most of them clerks, were notified yesterday that they cannot be retained after June 30. — CAR HURTS EX-OFFICIAL OF CIVIL SERVICE UNIT John T. Doyle, Secretary 46 Years, Suffers Broken Leg and Cuts on Head. John T. Doyle, 77, of 1833 Nine- teenth street, secretary of the Civil Service Commission from 1886 to 1932, is in Emergency Hospital suffer- ing from a broken leg and cuts on the head, received Monday night when hit by an automobile. Mr. Doyle was struck, police say, at Twentieth street and Florida avenue by a machine operated by James M. Cliffen, 39, colored, 1300 block of U street. The injured man is well known by many present and former Government employes. He served with the com- mission while former President Theo- dore Roosevelt was chairman and was a personal friend of the former Exec- utive. Mr. Doyle retired in 1932. BAND CONCERT. By the Army Band at the Capitol at 7:30 pm. today. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, as- sistant leader. et By the Navy Band in Walter Reed Hospital at 6:30 pm. today. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, essistant leader. (3 he WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936. Father Hogan, President of Fordham, to Be Graduate School Dean. FATHER PARSONS ALSO APPOINTED | Editor in Chief of America, Catholic Weekly, to Be Professor. Two of the most prominent Jesuits in the East—Very Rev. Aloysius J. Hogan, president of Fordham Univer= sity, and Rev. J. Wilfrid Parsons, editor in chief of America—were a: signed today to the faculty of George- town University. Father Hogan, whose six-year term at Fordham has officially ended, will | become dean of the Graduate School ot Arts and Sciences at Georgetown. He will come here for the opening of the Fall academic term. Father Parsons, one of the best known Catholic publicists, is due to | arrive here tonight. He will be a | professor in the Graduate School. | America is a national Catholic re- | view of the week. Assignments Announced. The assignments were announced | today from the headquarters of the New York-Maryland Province of the Jesuit order in New York City. Very Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary, S. J., presi- dent of Georgetown University, who is now in New York, confirmed a re- | port of the two assignments. | At Fordham University, it was an- | nounced in New York, Father Hogan has been succeeded by Rev. Robert I Gannon, S. J, formerly dean of St. Peter's College and founder-dean of the Hudson College of Commerce and Finance, both in Jersey City. The appointments were first an- nounced in Rome by Rev. Vladimir Ledochowski, general of the Society of Jesus. Succeeds Father Sohon. Father Hogan will succeed Rev. Frederick R. Sohon, S. J., as dean of the Graduate School at Georgetown. It was not known whether Father Sohon, who also is director of the Seismological Observatory, has been assigned elsewhere. . The new graduate dean climaxed his administration at Fordham two weeks ago by laying the corner stone of Keating Hall, the university’s new $400,000 building. He has never before been assigned to Georgetown Uni- versity. Father Hogan was born in Philadel- phia August 5, 1891 and entered the Jesuit order in 1908. He is a noted teacher of the classics and as an ad- ministrator advanced the Graduate School at Fordham and reorganized its Law School. He is a Ph.D. of Cambridge Uni- versity, England, and has done im- portant research in medieval mystery plays. He studied at the Jesuit class- ical colleges at Poughkeepsie and Woodstock, Md., and taught the class- ics at Boston College from 1915 to 1920. In 1927, he was made dean of classical studies at the Poughkeepsie College and just before assuming the presidency at Fordham, he had been dean of the new Jesuit House of Classi- cal Studies, Wernersville, Pa., which is now affiliated with Georgetown Uni- versity. Native of Philadelphia. As editor of America, Father Par- sons has had a prominent role in mold- ing Catholic opinion and action since he assumed those duties in 1925. He also is a native of Philadelphia and is 49 years old. He is a Master of Arts and Doctor of Divinty of Woodstock College and took his graduate studies at the famous Gregorian University in Rome. For many years, Father Parsons has been active in Catholic press relations, He is president of the American Press, & Fellow of the American Geographic Society and a member of the Catholic Press Association, the Academy of Po- litical Sciences and of the American Catholic Historical Association. Scalding.of Dog Case Dismissed; Evidence Lacking Witness Says He Saw Hot Water Thrown, But Not Thrower. Charges of cruelty to animals brought against Thomas Earl Car- penter, 1521 Elliot place, as a result of the scalding of an 8-month-old chow dog, Shinn, belonging to Mar- garet McCrae, 13-year-old school girl, were dismissed in Police Court today for lack of direct evidence that Car- penter threw hot water on the dog, as had been charged. ‘The school girl, who lives at 4578 Conduit road, brought her dog into court and he was paraded on the counsel table to show a large injury on his back, said to be the result of the scalding. The charges against Carpenter were brought by the girl and by George Wech and Robert Pop- :;tnl the Washington Humane So- y. Harry Kinder, 1525 Ellot street, next-door neighbor of Carpenter, tes- tified that on June 4, the day of the alleged attack on the dog, he was on the porch of his home at about 6 a.m. and saw Shinn on Carpenter’s porch. He said that he saw a shower of water come out the door and hit the dog, WITH SUNDAY . bening SHtar ¥% Scenes at Northeast Business Men’s Frolic nual outing of the Northeast A Garrison finish in the horse race staged at the an- Business Men’s Association at Marshall Hall yesterday. Dr. James Greeves, in the foreground, is shown nosing out Sam Rice, former Nats’ star, to win the first prize of $50. Walter Johnson came in third. $5.13,223 SPENT BY TRANSIT LINE | Showing Offered by Merrill| in Plea for Fares Increase. The Capital Transit Co. expended ! a total of $5,575,223 for new property, including replacements, between De- | cember 31, 1933, and April 30 of this year, according to figures presented by Vice President and General Manager E. D. Merrill, in the company’s request made to the Public Utilities Commis- {sion for the right to raise car fares, it was revealed today. This summary covers much of the | period since the strect car merger went into effect, the outlay of more than $5500,000 being divided as follows: Track changes for re-routing and track reconstruction us gArag Other additions to property.. Total Passenger Increases. Vice President Merrill's statement adds that for the 12 months ended November 30, revenue passengers carried on the properties then operated separately by the Capital Traction Co. the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co. and the Washington Rapid Transit Co. was 85,384,837. The corresponding num- ber for the year 1934 was 130,412,770, and for the 12 months ending April this increased number of rides, car and bus miles increased from 23,336~ 554 in the first period to 30,214,438 in the last mentioned period. Expenses Hit Revenues Hard. Comparative figures show that op- |erating revenues for the 12 months | ending November 30, 1933, totaled $7,371,974. For the year 1934 they totaled $8864,725 and for the 12 months ending April 30 of this year, $10,216,040. Operating expenses and taxes for the year ending November 30, 1933, were $5,821,827; in the next year, $6,726,- 596, and for the 12 months to April 30, 1936, $8,607,521. 1934, $1519,625, and $685810 in the 12 months ended April 30, 1936. since the merger went into effect, which have reduced net operating in-| come, have been increases in wages, increases in the number of employes, sharp increases in vehicle mileage operated and the number of vehicles engaged in operations. The compari- son shows an increase of about $1,- 881,000 per year in operating expenses and taxes between the year 1934 and the period ending April 30, 1936, ac- counted for by the following items: nd salaries—increased Wontes ® $734,554 698,578 109,224 100712 72,984 164,948 $1.881.000 Stock Widely Held Here. These are only a few figures which are being studied and pointed to by more than 2,000 stockholders, a ma- jority of whom are Washingtonians, .as having vital bearing on the plea for higher fares. The matter is being widely discussed in the financial dis- trict, many stockholders having paid over $100 a share for the stock, which sold yesterday at $14.75 a share. In some guarters the impression pre- vails that the transit company wants to abandon the so-called $1 passes. The company does not wish to give them up, but to increase the price to $1.25, making the cost of all passes on all lines uniform. Any action that will place the stock back on a regular dividend basis is being awaited anxi- ously by the shareholders. Naturally, their views and interests are quite dif- ferent from those of many other street car and bus line patrons. D. C. STUDY WEIGHED President Asks Bell to Explain Provisions of Bill. President Roosevelt indicated today he already has given some thought to launching the fiscal relations study in the District authorized by an amend- ment to the 1937 District appropria- tion bill, which he signed several days zl};uhmmedmflm,bmnl at its . He sald he did not see any one throw the water. ‘The case was dismissed on motion of T. Edward O’Connell, attorney for Carpenter. .‘:;m President said that while he 1933, the number of | 30, 1936, was 156,423,092. To furnish | After taking out | depreciation, net operating income in | the first’ period totaled $3952%6; in Some of the most notable changes | has given no thought to the personnel of the special commission of three to make the survey, he has requested Budget Director Bell to explain some of the wording of the bill $ him. MEMORIAL BRIDGE FUNDS RELEASED $148,000 Made Available for Construction of Eques- trian Groups. With the Budget Bureau releasing $148,000 impounded since the Hoover administration, construction of the equestrian groups at the Washington end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which has been delayed for several years, will get under way soon, C. Marshall Finnan, superin- tendent of National Capital Parks, announced today. At the same time, it was revealed the entire Arlington Memorial Bridge program, tied up for lack of funds, is moving forward again, Finnan an- nouncing that bids will be advertised shortly for construction of the new three-arch stone bridge at the north- west end of Columbia Island. Grading Job Accepted. Dovetailing with this program was Finnan's assertion that the Govern- ment has accepted the grading job in the first unit of the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway, which runs from Columbia Island to a point south of Key Bridge. Studies are under way for carrying this riverside drive underneath Key Bridge, necessitating addition of a span to that structure. Maleolm Kirkpatrick, landscape architect of the Branch of Plans and Design, National Park Service, Inter- ior Department, who is attached to the National Capital Parks, was back at his desk today, after an official in- spection trip in New York City, ex- amining the half-size model of the equestrian groups, executed by the sculptor Leo Friedlander. These de- pict the arts of war and will be erected at the Washington end of the Arling- ton Memorial Bridge. Two other eques- trian groups, symbolic of peace and the arts of peace, will be erected at the| Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway ap- proach from models executed by New York sculptor, James Earle Fraser, Bridge Is Approved. Finnan explained that the half-size model is the final one, from which the granite carvers will work, doubling the scale of that produced by the sculptor. National Capital Parks of- ficials pointed out today that the Federal Government's contracts with Friedlander & Fraser called for their producing the finished product here in Washington. This means that they will supply the granite carvers and do all necessary work here. The Bureau of the Budget's release of the im- pounded funds, with approval of President Roosevelt, will enable prompt payment to be made to Fried- lander & Praser, officials asserted. ‘The new stone bridge across Bound- ary Channel at the northwestern end of Columbia Island has received the approval both of the Fine Arts Com- mission and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. RECOVERS MEMORY Capt. G. Harris of Virginia Is Victim of Amnesia. A victim of amnesia who had been admitted to Gallinger Hospital recalled this morning that he was Capt. G. Harris of Soldiers’ Home, Hampton, Va. Harris had walked into the ninth pre- cinct station last night and announced: “What is my name? Where am I from?” | Commissioner Melvin C. contest tre Miss Thomas and Commissioner Hazen presentes the beauty hy to Miss Evelyn Thomas, 1811 Wyoming avernue. Left to right: Raymond G. Dunne, president of the association; Hazen. —Star Staff Photos. LIONGHECK CASE HERE IS CANCELED Lunacy Hearing Dismissed as Representative Goes to Hospital. District Court today wrote “finis" across the lunacy case of Represent- | ative Marion A. Zioncheck, who now | has passed beyond its jurisdiction and | is undergoing mental treatment in the | Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital at Towson, a suburb of Baltimore. Today was the date for the sched- | uled lunacy hearing for Zioncheck, | but at the request of his wife and | Gallinger Hospital psychopathic ward, | where he had been held for three weeks, and transferred to the Mary- | land institution. Transfer Approved. ‘The transfer had-the approval of | Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue amd the District Commissioners, who last Friday filed the petition for a lunacy hearing before a jury here. | This petition was dismissed today | on motion of the' Commissioners, and the rule to show cause why Zion- check should not be adjudged insane, issued a week ago by Justice Oscar R. Luhring, was discharged. Assistant Corporation Counsel T. Gillespie Walsh, who handles District lunacy matters, had explained to the court that Zioncheck would be kept in custody until he was cured at the Maryland institution, and that it was unnecessary for him to be committed to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital here. Order of Court. ‘The court’s final order stated: “On motion of counsel for the petitioners and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the representations of Mrs. Rubye Nix Zioncheck, wife of the respondent, and Mrs. Anna Nadeau, sister of the respondent, made through their at- torney, Max H. Ammerman, have been accomplished and fulfilled, and that the respondent, Marion A. Zioncheck, has been admitted to the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Md., where he is now a patient and receiving care and treatment for his mental condition. “It is by the court this 26th day of June, AD. 1936, ordered that the rule to show. cause, heretofore issued herein, be, and the same is, hereby discharged, and the petition hereto- fore filed herein dismissed.” The Commissioners’ petition had stated their belief that Zioncheck was of the unsound mind and dangerous to be at large. Midget Plane Record. Bernard Collins broke the 50-mile record for a British midget airplane when he flew 87 miles recently from Heston to Milton Mowbray, England, in two and one-half hours. Son of Col. Crane of Fort Myer Married to Egyptian Princess A romance between the son of a Fort Myer Army officer and an Egyp- tian royal princess has culminated in the marriage at Istanbul of Alden McKim Crane of Baltimore and Prin- cess Enineh Rukrey Halim, a relative of the late King Fuad of Egypt. This was anaounced here yesterday by Col. J. A. Crane, commanding the 15th Field Artillery at Fort Myer, who has just returned after serving four years as American military attache in Turkey. He said his son met the bride while visiting his parents in Istanbul, they having been attracted to each other by their mutual interest in horseback riding. Young Crane, who is a free- lance writer, is 26, the same age as the princess. ‘The marriage ceremony was per- formed on June 8, two days after Col. and Mrs. Crane had sailed for the United States. S ‘They described their daughter-in- law, whom they had known well, as a vivacious brunette and an accom- plished linguist, whose interests lie chiefly in outdoor activities. She is the daughter of Princess Rukrey Halim, who was a first cousin of the late King Fuad. ‘The couple are now on an extensive honeymoon tour in the north of Eu- rope, and probably will not come to the United States to establish their residence for some months. The bride and groom first met while the latter was visiting his par- ents in Istanbul. Both are interested in horses and spent much time to- gether at the Jockey Club there. Crane was born in the Philippines and attended St. James Preparatory School near Hagerstown, Md,, and the University of Virginia. Col. and Mrs. Crane said they .were “very happy t it and very glad to be back at e | sister, he was forcibly taken from the | DRIVE MAPPED ON DIPTHERIA Ruhland Asks Public and School Groups to Join in Efforts. A city-wide public campaign for re- duction of the District’s diphtheria | mortality rate, now the highest in the country, was being organized to- | day by Health Officer George C. Ruh- | land, with an appeal for extensive use of preventive measures this Summer. Members of parent-teacher associa- tions, the District Medical Society, the Medico-Chirurgical Society and par- ents of children who have not been immunized are asked to join in a co- operative attack on the disease. Attention to Pupils. Dr. Ruhland emphasized that the ;disease is preventable through adop- tion of available protective measures and stressed that all children, not im- | munized, should be treated before school reopons next September. Parents not able to employ the serv- ices of a private physician may take | their children to Health Department | clinics. 2 Writing to Mrs. Walter B. Fry, pres- | ident of the Congress of Parents and Teachers, Dr. Ruhland said, in part: “Medical science has been able to | . | eradicate diphtheria to a large extent | and most of the large cities are at the present time conspicuously free from | this disease. It is rather disappoint- ing to note, however, that in the Dis- | trict we have not achieved an equal protection for child life against this disease. 20 Deaths in District. “At the present writing there have been reported since the first of the year 560 cases of diphtheria and 20 deaths from the disease. It should be noted that the sole damage from diphtheria infection is not expressed in deaths. Unfortunately, many of the children who are infected from diph- theria develop heart disease, which will cripple them for the remaining days of their lives.” TWO FlLIPINbS SOUGHT IN DRUGGING OF BOY Police Seek to Learn How Youth Obtained Enough Marihuana to Make Him Senseless. Narcotic squad detectives today looked for two Filipinos to question them concerning how a 16-year-old woy obtained enough marihuana—a drug from a plant which grows wild in conscious. The youth was taken senseless to his home on G street shortly after last midnight by the Filipinos. His par- ents summoned a Casualty Hospital physician, who diagnosed the boy's condition as due to the effects of smok- ing marihuana. SILVER SPRING PLANS NOMINATION PROGRAM ranged by Young De_mo~ cratic Clubs. By a Staff Correspondent ot Tne Star. SILVER SPRING, Md.,, June 26.— President Roosevelt’s nomination for President by the National Convention in Philadelphia will be celebrated by Montgomery County Democrats at a rally to be held in the Silver Spring Amory tomorrow night at 9:30 o’clock. The celebration is to be featured by the broadcast of President Roosevelt’s acceptance speech from Franklin Field, in Philadelphia and dancing will continue until 1:30 am. after the broadcast is concluded. The Young Men's and the Women's Democratic Clubs of Silver Spring are handling arrangements for the event with Mrs. Townley Gamble, president of the women's group, as general chair- man. the temperate zone—to render him un- | Rally and Dance at Armory Ar-| Society and General PAGE B—1 ive Veterans Work Relief Preference RULING OF COURT VIEWED VIGTORY BYW.P. A. HEADS :Feared Injunction Here Might Have Tied Up National Program. DECISION IS GUIDED BY CIRCUIT COURT Justice Gordon Cites Absence of Legislation in Regard to Soldiers. Following the lead of the Third Cire cuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Justice Peyton Gordon of District Court today dismissed an injunction suit pending here for several months which sought to compel the Govern- ment to give war veterans, their wives and widows preference on all work re- lief projects. Works Progress Administration offie cials viewed the dismissal of the Dis~ trict case as a signal victory since an injunction here might have tied up the work relief program on a national | scale. A considerable scare was given the W. P. A. some months ago when Fed- eral Judge George Welsh of Phila- delphia granted an injunction to Ben- jamin J. Spang upholding the prefer- ence for veterans so far as the Phila- delphia Business Census Project was concerned. Sought Census Taker’s Job. Spang, who at that time also had instituted the District suit, had sought a job as a census taker in Philadel- phia. On June 2, however, the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Welsh's ruling dissolving the injunce tion. By bringing a similar action here, the injunction proceedings were made national in character, threatening se- riously the administration’s plans for transferring persons on direct relief rolls to work projects. | The case was argued before Justice Gordon, who has had it under ad- visement for some time. His ruling was given in a brief mem- orandum in which he simply stated he would be guided by the Circuit Court’s decision. Decision of Buffington. That decision, given by Judge Jo- | seph Buffington, was to the effect that Congress considered giving war vete erans preference and rejected the idea, | and that it was not for the court to nullify legislative wishes. “For this court to hold that the sol- diers’ preference applies to the busi- | ness census act of 1935 would be to fly directly in the face of what Congress | meant and stated when the act was passed,” Judge Buffington declared. i “It is for Congress to legislate in that | regard and not for the courts to nullify { what Congress plainly stated and en- acted.” 23 PLAYGROUNDS | WITHOUT MISHAPS May Record Brings Praise of | Civic Standards Con- tests. | Praising the effect of the civic | standards contests among children of {super\'ised play areas, officials of the | District Playground Department to- | day reported there were no accidents |on 23 of the 38 grounds in operation |in May. | Further, they said, there were no traffic accidents in the immediate vi- | cinity of any playground during May. “It is significant that the number of accidents on or near playgrounds is negligible because of the well- | worked out standards campaign for order, safety and progress,” said Miss Sibyl Baker, playground supervisor. Children of the Burroughs and Lo= gan grounds won first place in the | contest for white and colored groups for May. Second places went to the Virginia avenue and Rose Park grounds and third places to Twin Oaks and Payne grounds. Banners were awarded yesterday to the groups by the American Automobile Associa=- tion, which sponsors the campaign. Each playground has a patrol ap- pointed as guardians of safety for their group. There are from 5 to 20 members besides a captain and lieus tenant. Leaders usually are “grad- | uates” of the schoolboy patrol. D.C.Su pr.eme Court Name Is Changed To End Confusion ‘The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia passed out of official ex~ istence at 4 p.m. yesterday and the District Court of the United Statre for the District of Columbia openea its doors for the first time at 9 o’clock this morning, identical in all but name with the old tribunal. President Roosevelt yesterday signed the bill providing for the changed des- ignation and the Department of State notified Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat that the change would be effective this morning. Sponsored by the Department of Justice, the bill was designed to elim- inate the confusion which had existed because both the District and the United State Supreme Courts were lo- cated here. The change also was aimed at bringing the local court in line with the terminology applied in other Federal jurisdictions. Acting Clerk of the Court Charles B. Coflin said he has all necessary new stamps but has not yet received a new official seal, although it has been or- -