Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1936, Page 6

1936. Washington, D. C.,, schools, and a ques- | Miss Ralls is president of the N, E. A, tionnaire issued recently by mpn:em- bt o¥ftilesrocen tadetors. | TS MIDGET RACES THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 29, ative Blanton of Texas. Blanton's| The second general session will be questionnaire sought the views of | at 8 o'clock tonight. It will be devoted | | 08 teachers on religion, politics, reading | largely to a presentation of new edu- | b g N v A e ) material and other subjects. | cational ideas, with John W. Studen- | ugles blowing and 'the nolses of Approximately 10,000 school teach- | baker, United States commissioner of | midget auto races at the McLaglen ers were expected here for a discussion | education, leading the discussion. | Sports Center, operated by the burly of the latest methoas of instruction. screen actor, Victor McLaglen, are Coach May Be Charged With Manslaughter in Dec- Reunited FATHER AND DAUGHTER SEPARATED 7 YEARS. Questioned FOOT BALL COACH QUIZZED IN SLAYING. Early arrivals heard Dr. Bruce R. “Interference of Politicians | Buxier Presdent of Willamette Unts and Othe Meddlers" ‘tfi for character training of children. Robert F. Stoever, who lives near Veterinarians of Australia are fight- | the arena, has written the city coun- L ing & mysterious disease which is kill- | cil about the “nuisance.” The Plan- caught “and not | ing off kangaroos at an alarming rate. | ning Committee will investigate. Kaplan and Barnes Fail to Fight Strange Malady. | Emorin a neighbor. Qualify for All-Ameri- “Character s taught,” he said. “Unless one has the can Play. BY the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, June 29.—They delll’ some hig surprises in the qualifying | P round of the all-America bridge cham- plonships of the American Whist League yesterday. Two kings of the cards, Frederick D. Kaplan and A. Mitchell Barnes of New York were definitely out of the bidding when the qualifying points were counted. | Barnes won the all-America team | title last year and Kaplan has cap- | tured many & national crown. | Others Out in Upsets. | Other upsets in the preliminary | play—which cut the field from 56 to 28 pairs—included elimination of Mil- lard P. Kaiser and C. W. Rodewald | of St. Louis, Mrs. D. L. Warren and | Mary Dushane of South Bend, Ind. | and Walter Jacobs. A. R. Millner, Paul | D. Parcells, Elizabeth Whitney and | E. J. Tobin of Chicago. | The famed East-West team of Os- | wald Jacoby, New York, and Louis J. | Haddad of ‘Chicago, came through, | but below par. They were listed fourth Alfred Scadding, rescued orator’s Death. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS. June 29.—Police today were still trying to puszzle out | the story of a fashionable wedding re- | ception that flared into a fistic brawl |in which Harry Summers Carpenter | died of = broken neck. Carpenter, a young Interior deco- | rator, was buried yesterday in serv- ices attended by social leaders. Assistant District Attorney Ru- | dolph Becker said James S. Percy, | 27, Loyola University assistant foot | ball coach arrested Friday night when | the fight brought police to the Or- | . probably would be charged laughter. | Percy was released in $2,500 bond. The tall, 200-pound athletic assist- ant was quoted as saying he struck | Carpenter because of a remark ‘“re- flecting on my self-respect.” The de orator was felled in the kitchen of the club, where guests were drinking. Police sald there were blood stains in the kitchen, pantry and reception room. Stains were found also on a veranda and a blood-marked corsage of white flowers was found caught in nearby shrubbery. JAMES S. PERCY, Assistant foot ball coach at Loyola University, was tenta- tively. charged. with. man- slaughter as the aftermath of a fight at a wedding reception at the fashionable Orleans Club in New Orleans. Percy was charged with striking Summers Carpente; died of a broken ne i 4. P fore the fighting became general and be Discussed. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., June fl’,—-’l‘he‘ National Education Association Con- | vention opened here today with aca- | demic freedom listed a8 one of the | controversial topics. | Belmont Farley, the organization’s | public relations director, said many of the educators, particularly those from | the Eastern States, were seeking group expression on “interference of politi- cians and other outside meddlers.” Two of the points under fire, he sald, were the restrictions on the teaching of government theory in | might prove to be very dangerous. An educated weakling is a disappoint- ment; an educated rascal is a men- ace.’ A general assembly of delegates at 9 a.m. was only a prelude of 111 meet- ings scheduled today for the associa- tion and other organizations meeting | in conjunction with the association. | ‘The opening program was- routine | with Henry Lester Smith, dean of | education at Indiana University, pre- correct scale of values, an edur‘uuon‘ | | siding, and Mary C. Ralls of Kansas City, Mo, responding to the addresses | of welcome by Oregon officials. Smith is past president of the association and in their division. after his 10-day entombment The honor guests, Dr. Willoughby E. | did not learn immediately of the trag- Kittgedge, jr., and his bride, formerly | edy. They were New York bound on Miss Ruth Sullivan, had departed be- | the steamer Dixie. in the Moose River gold mine last Spring, is reunited with his 15-year-old daughter Win- ona, whom he had not seen for seven years. She trav- eled from Waukesha, Wis., to greet her father as he was released from Halifax Hos- pital, where the toes of both feet were amputated because of his long exposure under ground. —A. P. Photo. High qualifiers were Edward Hymes, jr. and Merwin D. Maier of New York and John R. Smith and Edward Jacobs of Chicago. Average qualifying score was 351 points. First Round Begun. Qualifiers who met last night in the first round of actual play, with their scores, include: Hymes and Maier, 431; Haddad and Jacoby, 402; Mr. and Mrs. Charlton | — T = Wallace, Cincinnati, 369; Hoffheimer and Bernard Magruder, Racine, Wis, 358; Mrs. George S. Fitzgibbon and Dr. E. B. Neff, Mo- | drew. Edward { line, Iil, 378; George Benyon of New ork and R. E. Danlels, Chicago, 356. Mrs. Fitzgibbon and Dr. Neff with- Keep COOL-TEELD for a STETSON STRAW "3 The rays of the hot Summer sun beat harm- lcvl} on Stetson straws . . . a S})(’klvl]. un- usually hght straw that is flexible, as well as cool. 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