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Wasington News TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936. he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, ¥ PAGE B—1 ardell Succeeds Hamilton as Receiver for 5 District Banks 2 d J10AY SUSPENDED SENTENCE IS GIVEN CAR STRIKE PICKET Man Who Allegedly Took Part in Assault Put on Probation. LABOR UNION MAY ASK FEDERAL INVESTIGATION Advertisements in Out-of-Town Papers for Mechanics Draw Attention of Meeting. A 30-day suspended sentence was meted out in Police Court today to Grady Wilson, picket in the District auto mechanics’ strike, for allegedly participating in an assault on Walter Jones, Hill & Tibbetts employe. In suspending sentence, Judge Curran placed Wilson on probation for 90 days. Meantime, the Central Labor Union has been asked to call on the Depart- ment of Justice' to investigate adver- tisements of out-of-town newspapers for mechanics to work in Washington garages affected by the strike. At the regular meeting of the Cen- tral Labor Union last night Selma Borchardt of the Teachers’ Union asked such an investigation following » report by David Kaplan of the In- ternational Association of Machinists, on the strike. Kaplan predicted early settlement and said he believed it wollld “not be necessarv to pull any more shops to win the strike.” Sen- ator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Caro- lina, it was reported, will be requested to ask the Department of Justice to make the investigation. Men Could Be Stopped. Miss Borchardt pointed out that the Department of Justice could act under the new legislation recently signed by President Roosevelt prohibiting inter- state transportation of men for pur- pose of interfering with peaceful pic- keting. In Police Court the complainant, Jones, of Hill & Tibetts, who lives at 1345 L street, charged Wilson, the picket, was one of three men who accosted him last Wednesday and de- manded to know whether he was still working at the garage. While the trio engaged his attention, Jones told the court, another man ap- proached him from behind and struck him on the head with a blackjack. ‘Wilson, & former employe of Hill & “Tibbets, was asked by Judge Curran if he harbored ill feeling for persons still working at the garage. “No, I don't,” he replied. “But I think the public realizes what is going on there.” Police Do Guard Duty. Wilson said he didn’t know “why we are picketing—we are doing it on orders from others.” Officer Roy Kessling, who arrested Wilson after the alleged ‘assault, testi- | fled matters have been so troubled around garages since the mechanics walked out that police have been re- quired to do guard duty to keep work- ers from being beaten. Wilson denied beifig near the place of the alleged assault, and said he| did not even know Jones. The picket's wife and sister-in-law testified Wilson was elsewhere than the spot where Jones said he was attacked. . The Central Labor Union, in ad- dition to taking up the mechanics’ strike, heard strong opposition to the Capital Transit Co.'s petition to the Public Utilities Commission for ex- tension of one-man operation to 90 additional street cars. W. W. Keeler, chairman of the union’s Public Utilities Committee and former president of the union, called attention to the hearing on the ques- tion, scheduled before the commis= sion for Monday morning, and urged concerted resistance to the transit company’s plans. He and several other speakers advocated a movement for public ownership of the District's transportation system. Keeler said a bill to require operation of street cars by two men would be drafted and in- troduced at the néxt session of Con- Letter to Ballou Read. Frank J. Coleman, union secretary, fnade public his latest letter to Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou in the controversy over provisions of the recent vocational educational bill. Is- sues are whether the measure requires salary increases for teachers and whether teachers shall be required to requalify to instruct in vocational education. Ballou contends increases are not required, but takes opposite position as to requalification. Albert N. Dennis of the Trades Unionist, labor newspaper, and con- ductor of the weekly labor news broadcasts over Station WJSV, said the broadcast will be 3 years old next month and the one hundredth broad- cast will be held July 18. He asked the unions for an expression of senti- ment as to the best time for the radio program each week. A motion was passed authorizing the Education Committee, headed by D. C. Dow of Plumbers’ Union No. 5, to arrange a series of Winter forums on the subjects of old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation and housing. The Washington Union Label League announced at the meeting that it will hold a moonlight steam- boat cruise on the City of Washing- ton Wednesday, August 5, the boat to leave the Seventh street wharf at 8:30 pm. BAND CONCERTS. Soldiers’ Home Band in the ind at 5:30 p.m. today, John ‘M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An- . By the Marine Band in the Tuber- culesis Hospital, Fourteenth and Up- ur streets, at 6:30 p.m. taday. Capt. Branson, leader; William M_ost Ferocious of Vizen, the South American to the Americas. BY W. H. SHIPPEN, JR. | IXEN, a®thampion Zoo mother, | is neverthejess one of the V most dangerous and ferocious cats native to the Americas. Trapped in the jungles of Southern Brazil, Vixen was brought here in May of 1930. She was mated with enother jaguar and in-six years has | given birth to seven cubs in three | litters. Vixen, unlike many of the other big cats, her long captivity. When approach- ing her cage keepers make allowance for paws apt to flash a couple of feet between the bars. In former days the jaguar roamed the Southwestern States as well as Central and South America, but now is found only in dense jungle or al- most uninhabitated highlands far to the South of his former range. The adaptabliity of the jaguar to varying conditions has given rise to remains untamed despite ! Who’s Who at the Zoo American Cats Is Champion Mother. jaguar, mother of seven cubs in siz years, and one of the biggest and most dangerous cats native —Star Staff Photo. many conflicting stories regarding his hunting habits. He may trail his prey across the wild savannahs of the M#tto Grasso, or lie in ambush in Jjungle foilage above some Amazonian watering place. The jaguar is greatly feared by some South American natives and | held in contempt by others. He is { capable, however, of killing a tapir |as large as a full-grown cow. His | principal food, perhaps, is wild pig. | The jaguar is larger and heavier | than the leopard, and his magnificent | coat is patterned somewhat differently. The Jagulr’s spots. are- arranged-in large ‘circies; with an occasional spot on the center, while the leopard’s coat shows none of the central spots. In captivity Vixen has been helpful | to the Zoo by supplying healthy cubs |in such numbers that a few have | been left over for trading purposes. Tomorrow: The tapir, step-child of evolution. . MISS HOSKINSON HURT | Jjured in Collision. Nancy L. Hoskinson, 16, daughter of Hilleary G. Hoskinson of 68 Ob- servatory circle, vice president of the Riggs National Bank, was injured slightly yesterday, when her automo- bile was in collision with another at Massachusetts avenue and Observa- tory circle. Miss Hoskinson was treated at home for a ‘prained ankle and bruises. Carl H. Swafford, 23, of 351 Eleventh street southeast, driver of the other car, was treated at Georgetown Hcs- pital for bruises. A future Frank Buck takes Daughter of Banker Slightly In-| SEVEN REGAIN JOBS Mallory Line Ordered to Re- employ Workers. The Labor Relations Board today ordered the Clyde Mallory Steam- ship Line to re-employ seven colored dock hands, who, the board said, were discharged for union activity last Fall in. Tampa, Fla. The company was ordered to give the men back pay for time lost and also to recognize Local 142 of the International Longshoremen's Asso- ciation,as the collective bargaining agent of the Tampa dock hands. Young Washington his first lesson in tramning white rats. The smiling trainer is Hugh Staver, 11; son_of -Mr. and Mrs. Quig Staver, 3531 R sireet.. Hugh attends the. Fillmore School. “Tomorrow: Frank Rdlstow, 10, son of Mr, and Mrs, Frank Ralston, of the John Burroughs School. A ARGHITECT OFFICE, TURNING CENTURY, LAUDED FOR WORK $224,000,000 _Program Is 96 Per Cent Complete After 21/, Years. ACHIEVEMENTS OF UNITS HAILED BY MORGENTHAU Centennial Dinner Is Marked by Review of History—Relief “Guiding Motive " Climaxing 100 years of service, the Office of Supervising Architect within the past two and a half years, under its new name of Public Buildings Branch, Procurement Division, Treas- ury Department, has completed or placed under contract 96 per cent of & $224,000,000 program, and still has $60,000,000 more in appropriations “on the books.” ‘This was emphasized at the centen- nial dinner of the office at the Wash- ington Hotel last night where several speakers reviewed the history of the office, and told of much work to be done in the future. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sent to the organization a letter of praise. Work Is Praised. Explaining that in its “long and honored career,” the Architect’s Office has been ‘“charged with the grave responsibility of pro- viding a. physical expression, in en- during materials, of the forces and functions of the Government,” Mor- genthau declared: “Our most important and stirring links with the past are the buildings of anclent time which stand for our contemplation. One of our greatest contributions to the future must be | the buildings which we erect now for the eyes of coming generations. “I cannot but feel, therefore” he sald, “that through the cycle of years, the Supervising Architect’s Office has | performed an impressive public service | In erecting structures which. now, and in the future, will be visible symbols of that intangible thing, the Govern- ment of the United States.” Pays Tribute to Workers. The letter was addressed to Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples, director of procurement. In & spéech, Admiral ‘Peoples declared the keynote, and “guiding motive” behind the present public buildings program was the “re- lief of unemployment.” He paid high tribute to the personnel of the Pro- curement Division for their co-ordina- tion of all units towards this end. in history,” he declared, “as one which has brought about a revolution in Fed- eral architecture. You are building something that for generations to come will be typical of its kind, individual, dignified, monumentalism.” Reviewing the status of the public bulldings program throughout the country, Admiral Peoples said up to last Friday night, 349 structures had been completed, 510 more are under contract, with some being completed now from day to day, and 126 more are in immediate process of being placed under construction. “The office has a long, fine record of achievement,” declared the director, | “of high ideals, of duty well per- | formed; its personnel of the highest standard and its accomplishments such that each and all connected with it can well be proud. Oarry on the good work."” Cites Greater Insight. Louis A. Simon, supervising archi- tect, declared “today the architectural work of the Treasury Department shows a renewal of the greater insight and the larger view of the early days of its construction activities. “In an institution as far reaching in its works and its influence as the United States Government,” said Mr. Simon, “it is perhaps not unnatural that issues arise and episodes occur which lead some of our citizens to in- dulge in gibes and badinage at the in- scrutable ways of a republic. But no thinking man can live in Washington without feeling underneath the super- ficial appearances of things, and deep down in his heart, the steady throb of the mighty force of his Government, sweeping on its course, undisturbed by backwashes and counter currents. . . . Ours is the responsibility to uphold the best traditions of a service that has been placed in our keeping.” ‘Tracing the development of the Su- pervising Architect’s Office from Rob- ert Mills, the first Federal architect, to the present time, Neal A. Melick, super-~ vising engineer, declared the number of buildings now under supervision of the director of procurement through- out the country had increased to ap-. proximately 2,200, and the outlook is, he added, that there will be 3,000 in 1938. Melick paid tribute to the sup- port of the field organization which has supervised the construction of pub- lic buildings throughout the country. W. E. Reynolds, assistant director of procurement, praised the Public Buildings Branch as a “most efficient organization,” and paid high tribute to the character and ability of its per- sonnel James A. Wetmore, formerly acting supervising architect for many years, in a letter from his home in Florida, read by Fred Trott, sent to the gather- ing his regards, with the wish that the Public Buildings Branch “continue to be a credit to itself and honor to the Treasury Department, of which it has been so long a part.” “Old Because It's Good.” E. B. Morris, chairman of the com- mittee in charge of arrangements and toastmaster of the evening, declared of the office, “It ian’t good because it's old; i1’s old because it's good.” Among many prominent persons from the early d8ys of the organization introduced” were A, A. l‘lckl‘lgl.nlu- merly - supérvising superinten of construction; Fgank A. Birgfeld, for- mer chief of division, now chief clerk of the Treasury Depart- ment, and others. . z Supervising | “This administration is going down | without extravagance or | New Champion Victor by Default as Spectators Fear He Might Break Something Besides Records. to Carl Bryson last night by defauit. If any other water ski jumpers were record, breaking it several times. present, they kept quret about it. 80| mobile, about 150 feet of tow rope, Bryson went ahead and set his oWn | water skils, which might be called | The spectators at Maryland Club | sloping up out of the water to the! € B Carl Bryson, athletic director, taking off on his water skis. HE local swimming pool ski) Gardens were afraid Bryson would take-off .point, enough water to land jumping champion:hip went | break something in addition to records Swimming pool ski jumping de- | mands a lot of paraphernalia, in-| cluding a pool, of course; an auto- | aquaplanes split in two, a platform | —Star Staff Photo. in, etc. | Bryson was pulled over the jumps on skiis and on an aquaplane. He| is the new pnysical director at the | pool and learned about water stunts| while heiping Walter Camp film sport features in Florida. The new water ski jump champion may hold his title for some time. {Miss Betty Dumbris Married Instead of London Trip. Was Former Student at Western High School. Miss Betty Dumbris, Washington | student who has appeared in every Ziegfeld show since “Whoopee,” was married at midnight Sunday to Russell John, New York broker, while on a party at the Atlantic Beach Club, her Spring road, announced today. After their honeymoon they will make their home in New York. At the age of 15, Miss Dumbris won the title of “Miss Indiana” in a beauty contest in that State, and reached the semi-finals of the international beauty contest at Galveston, Tex. Her mother said today Betty “would have been Miss Universe if she hadn't been ruled out because she was under age.” Only girls 16 and older are eligible for the title, Betty attended Western High for three years and failed to graduate, her mother said, because she joined the Follies. She appeared in the 1936 production and was to have left Satur- day noon for London, but instead Betty is an only child. Her father is an instrument maker for the Coast and Geodetic Survey. girl and former Western High School | mother, Mrs. Anton Dumbris, 1308‘ changed her mind and was married. | Capital Girl in Follies Wed To Broker While on Party L MISS BETTY DUMBRIS, HOUR CUT LOOMS FOR D. C. WORKERS Standard Schedule Is Approved. Funds to Employ It May Be Sought. If and when the District receives sufficient funds from Congress, all em- ployes will be placed on the schedule of standard hours approved by the Civil Service Commission for Govern- ‘ment employes. That will mean that the Fire De- partment, now operating ocn a two- platoon system, will have three pla- toons of eight hours each. The full week will be from 40 to 44 hours. At present firemen work from 70 to 84 hours per week, depending on whether they are on day or night duty. The same thing applies to nurses and attendants in the several hospitals under the Board of Public Welfare and the guards at penal institutions. The new hours would set up the 38-hour week for them. Maj. Danial Donovan, District audi- tor, who represented the District in making the study of hours and rec- ommended standardization through- out the Government and District de- partments, explained, however, that no instructions to adopt the shorter hours have been sent to department heads. “If they wish to take advantage of the Civil Service Commission rec- ommendation,” he said, “they have a perfect right to ask for the addition= al money needed to carry out the new schedule of hours.” Donovan also explained that the District Commissioners have approved the shorter hour schedules. The provision is made in the rec- ommendations that present hours shall continue until the time when the needed funds are provided, and if the additional money is not appro= priated in the 1938 budget, the exist- ing schedule will continue, TERM APPEALED BY D.C. YOUTH, 15 Boy Sentenced to Training School Seeks' to Change Plea. Sentenced by Judge Fay Bentley of | Juvenile Court to imprisonment in the National Training School for Boys un- til he is 21, Charles I. Johnson, 15, of 483 E street southwest, late yesterday began a fight through his attorneys to have his prior plea of guilty to a false entry charge set aside and for a trial by jury. The boy pleaded guilty January 20, 1935, to a charge of unlawful entry and was given a year’s probation by Judge Bentley. However, Charles miss- ed several days from school the fol- lowing June, and Judge Bentley re- voked the probation and placed him in & home maintained by the Board of Public Welfare, from which he escaped two months later. With his mother, Mrs. Eva H. John- son, co-proprietor of a stand in the Southwest Market, he went to Capitol Heights to live with his grandmother, but recently returned to Washington. Some time after his escape, Charles obtained a job at $14.50 a week in the Agriculture Department. On July 1 last he was arrested on an attachment issued by Judge Bentley and sentenced to the National Training School. In their petition to set aside his plea of guilty, Attorneys Fred J. Icenhower and William K. Teepe contended that “the defendant was of immature years and understanding and was not ad- vised of his constitutional rights”; that he was not advised of his right to have counsel; that there was no trial; that no opportunity was given the boy or his mother to be heard, and that the sentence was too severe. Icenhower said the boy entered a store through a window, but took nothing. | by the National Capital Parks and the PAINTING COURSE | TOBE GIVEN FREE W. P. A. and Parks Unit Co- Sponsors of Project This Summer. A free course in painting and sketch- ing will be offered the public from July 15 until the opening of city schoois | in September, it was announced today Works Progress Administration, co- i sponsors of the plan. It is believed ov | parks authorities to be the first project | of its kind in America. The classes, to include adyanced and | elementary work for both adults and | children, will be held Wednesdays and | Saturdays at the Joaquin Miller Cabin | in Rock Creek Park. Miss Pherne | Miller, niece of the famous poet for| whom the park cabin was named, wiil be in charge of the course. The project will be conducted under general super- vision of Russell Parr, Eastern district supervisor of the Federal Art Projects. Classes for children will be held on | ‘Wednesdays beginning at 10 a.m. and continuing until 4 p.m. with four classes of one hour each during the period. The Wednesday instruction | will be confined to children between | the ages of 7 and 16.- Adult classes will | be held Saturdays beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing until 4 pm. The pro- | gram for adults calls for three one- | hour classes during the day. | Courses will cover both elementary and advanced work in color harmony, | black and white and colored pencil drawing, and water color and oil paint. ing. The course will provide, in addi- | tion, nature walks for the study of plant, bird and animal life in native | conditions. Several visits to the Na- tional Zoological Parks are also planned. Pupils will be required to furnish only their material. Registration will be held at the Miller cabin each after- noon this week from 1 p.m. until 6, beginning tomorrow. DAY NURSERY CHILDREN WILL BE GIVEN PICNIC By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7.—A com- mittee of the Alexandria Lodge of Elks is completing plans for carrying 35 children from the Children’s Home and Day Nursery here to Fair Haven Beach, Md.. for an all-day picnic Sunday. The children will leave here at 8 a.m., will be given toys, and will enjoy bathing and games at the beach. Members of the Elks’ committee in- clude Charles E. Powell, chairman; William E. McKenney, H. D. Carter, Harvey Beavers, Harry Fedder and H. B. Lemon. Named Receiver JUSTUS S. WARDELL. —Star. Staff Photo- CONGRESS SEAT HELD BY DARDEN New Official Promises Speed in Liquidation of Assets. LAST REPORT SHOWED TOTAL OF $6,203,736 General Increase in Real Estate and Securities Values Cited. Justus 8. Wardell of San Francisco today was appointed by Controller of the Currency O'Connor to be receiver of the district National Bank and four other closed banks of this city, suc- ceeding Norman R. Hamilton of Ports= mouth, Va. Hamilton resigned to enter the race for Congress in the second congres- sional district of Virginia. He is rune ning against Colgate W. Darden, jr., member of the House from that dis- trict. The Democratic primary, which virtually decides the winner at the No- vember elections, takes place August 4. Wardell, former publisher, financler and active in Democratic affairs of California, takes over the receivership of the District National Bank, the Po- tomac Savings Bank, the Northeast Savings Bank, the Seventh Street Save ings Bank and the Washington Save ings Bank. Assets Total $6,203,736. The remaining assets in these five closed banks, actording to the past published quarterly report of the ree ceiver December 31, 1935, stood at a grand total of $6,203,736.55. Wardell, the new receiver, in his first statement since taking charge, declared that these remaining assets “will be liquidated as quickly as pose sible.” In the opinion of the new receiver, values have been increasing rapidly both in securities and realty. “My aim.” he said, “will be to bring to a close as soon as the situation can be developed, the receivership of these institutions. There has been a general improvement of conditions all over the United States. Not only have securities values increased, but there has been an advance in the durable goods industry, housing. and building materials. This has rounded out an advance which portends even greater progress than we have yet had, in my estimation toward a return to normal times. This should help in the lie quidations of the remaining assets of these five banks.” Examines Real Estate. Already Wardell has made a persone al examination of some of the ree maining pieces of real estate belonge ing to the five banks. He is confere ring with members of his staff as to details of each of the five institutions, He hopes to pay further dividends when possible, but stated definitely he could make no specific promise on this point at the present time. He will have to 2o into the matter deeper, he said, before any predictions of another dividend can be made. The new receiver is a native of California. For many years he was publisher and owner of the Daily Journal of Commerce of San Fran- cisco. He was personally acquainted with his predecessor, Hamilton, as the two were appointed during the administration of Woodrow Wilson, when they were both in the customs service. Wardell was surveyor of customs at San Francisco, while Hame lton was collector of customs at Norfolk, Va. They met frequently at customs conferences in Washington. Appointed by Wilson. Wardell was appointed by Presi- dent Wilson to become collector of internal revenue for Northern Cali- fornia and Nevada during the second Wilson term. Wardell was the youngest member of the California Assembly when he | entered his public career at the age of 24. He recently was regional advisor of the Public Works Administration for five Western States. For many years he was head of the brokerage and banking firm of Wardell, Taylor, Dunn & Co. of San Francisco. Hamilton, who resigned his post here in Washington to make the race for Congress in Virginia, is the owner and publisher‘of the Portsmouth Star. He had been in charge of these five banks here since November, 1933. He had been active in Democratic politics in Virginia and through his newspaper had been a consistent supporter of President Roosevelt and a champion of labor. He was the first citizen to receive the so-called “Citizens’ Award of Portsmouth.” Darden has just completed his sec~ ond term as a member of the House of Representatives, having come here directly from membership in the Vire ginia House of Delegates. —_— DENIES BLACKMAIL Young Man Pleads Not Guilty to Canon’s Accusation. Arraigned today before Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue in District Court, Horace W. Richardson, 21, pleaded not guilty to charges that he robbed and blackmailed Rev. Raymond L. Wolven, canon of the Washington Cathedral. Richardson was sarrested June 4 when the clergyman and police had 1aid a trap for him. He allegedly had obtained between $400 and $500 from Rev. Wolven. He was represented in court by Ate torney Richard Tedrow. First Assist« ant United States Attorney David Pine said he hoped to bring the case to a speedy trial. Lives 80 Years in Same House. Born the day after her parents ar- rived in Australia, Mrs. T. Layton has lived in the same house in Grafton for more than ‘M