Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1936, Page 18

B—2 LEARN T0 SWIM - DRIVE LAUNCHED Red Cross and Playground Department Act to Re- duce Hazards. ‘With the mercury hovering at the 100-degree mark and Washington résidents flocking to the water front and swimming pools by the thousands, the American Red Cross and the Playground Department of the Dis- trict have joined forces in an educa- tional campaign to reduce the haz- ards which each year take a toll of approximately 7,000 lives by drowning in the United States. A corps of more than 20 instructors is at work in the various playground and welfare pools of Washington to achieve one of the cardinal aims of the Red Cross Life Saving Service— to make a safe swimmer out of every man, woman and child. Their work is augmented by swimming and life #aving classes at the Y. M. C. A. and other private pools, which report a greater demand for instruction this Summer than ever before. Classes Start Tomorrow. Tomorrow at the Takoma and Mc- Kinley playgrounds, Gordon O. Stone of the Red Cross staff will launch a concentrated drive to teach swimmers the methods by which those in peril of drowning may be rescued with least possible risk to the rescuer. Boys and girls who can swim and| who are at least 12 years old are urged to join the classes to be held from 10.30 to 11:30 a.m. daily at Mc- Kinley and from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Takoma. “While we don’t expect to make ex- pert life guards out of all the hun- dreds of youngsters signed up for the course,” Stone said, “we know it is possible to train swimmers of ordinary ability to bring drowning persons to safety in cases of necessity.” Ignore Safety Rules. Reviewing accidents on the Potomac River and nearby beaches which have already claimed the -ives of at least five District residents this Summer, Stone asserted many could have been prevented if the principles taught in life saving classes were observed gen- erally by all those using boats, canoes and bathing facilities. Although certain fundamental max- ims have been publicized for many years, he continued, adults us well as children frequently ignore them end needlessly risk their lives. One thing many people forget, he | #aid, is that swimming is the first water sport to learn. It makes all others safe. Half the Lazarc of sail- ing and canoeing lizs among non- swimmers. “Don't Swim Alone.” Others of his Red Cross maxims | are: “Don’t swim alone. Every swim- mer needs a water buddy to help him, or give the alarm in case of accident. Avoid long swims after a season of inactivity; train gradually. | After eating, wait at least two hours before swimming to avoid dangerous stomach cramps. Failure to look be- fore diving causes meny ccaths. Be sure the water is at least 6 feet deep and free from hidden stumps and rocks."”. Simultaneously with the playground department’s “learn to swim" week, beginning tomorrow, the department'’s supervisors will begin a vigorous in- structional program in life saving. Children who have qualified as swim- | mers will be drilled in the above principles, while they receive practical training in life-saving techniques. | Classes will be given at the Takoma, | Howard, McKinley, Georgetown, Rose- | dale, Francis, Banneker and the E Street Y. W. C. A. pools. —_— VACATION SCHOOL PROVES POPULAR Neighborhood House Already Has 200, With More Seeking Entry. , Applications for admission to its| vacation school are literally swamping | Neighborhouse House, Miss Margaret B. Merrill, head resident, said yester- day. The school already has an at- tendance of 200 children, with a staff | designed for 125. Applications are | still being made. | The purpose of the vacation schools, Miss Merrill explained, is to furnish children with supervised occupation that will keep them off the streets. Activities include gardening, sewing, painting, music and arts and crafts. The school is maintained by the settlement with Community Chest funds at 470 N street southwest. As early as 8:15 am. every day children are lined up in front of the building waiting for admission to the classes, which do not open until 9. Little boys of 6 years are conducting an ex- periment in gardening in a sand box which has been filled with soil. Beans are the only crop planted so far. A carpenter shop intended to ac- commodate 10 students has had a continuous class ‘of 25 boys from 9 to 11 years of age. Twenty-five girls from 13 to 15 years of age are en- gaged in dressmaking. The big event each day comes in the afternoon, when the youngsters, attired in swim or sun suits, file into the back yard, where sprays are turned on to give them a cool bath. | Heat Boosts Store Traffic. RICHMOND, Va., July 11 ®).— Richmond department stores, having air conditioning, said shoppers were using their long aisles as thorough- fares between principal streets. ‘was cooler there than on hot sidewalks. Town Too Cool, Scotty THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, - When Learning Isn’t a Chore wuraon Stone of the District Chapter, Red Cross, shown at Takoma pool with one of the swimming classes organizcd by the Red Cross and the Playground Department to reduce the hazards of Summer bathing through instruction. Mildred Coleman, Jane Birgfeld and Emma Low Heine.' Left to right are: Stone, Betty Birgfeld, —Star Staff Photp. GOTHAM CHILDREN LIKE HOMESTEAD No “Keep Off the Grass” Signs Mar Joys of Liv- ing in Open. Fy the Associated Press. HIGHTSTOWN, N. J. July 11.— Nine youngsters from the crowded streets of New York, children of the first families at the Federal Resettle- ment Homestead Project here, romped on the grass all day today without “keep off” signs or policemen to spoil their fun. ‘The first seven families arrived late yesterday by bus from New York with five trucks loaded with furnishings for their new home in the open country, where they have come to work in a co-operative garment factory. After moving their belongings into their little flat-roofed, cinder block houses, they put all the food they had brought into one pile and parceled it Jut to the families in co-operative style —they way they hope to live gnd work together. After each family has eaten in its own home, the new occupants of “Jer- sey Homesteads” went from house to fouse, singing and dancing and getting better acquainted, till after midnight. The work of getting settled and the celebrating led most of the adults to sleep late today. But not so the children. They were up with the sun, and were still romp- ing and shouting when it set behind the Jersey hills. Tonight there was a community party at the home of Isadore Snyder. Seven families connected with the resettlement project, but living off the grounds, were invited to “drop in and meet the folks.” ELKS PLAN OUTING FOR 600 ORPHANS Children From 11 Institutions to Be Feted at Glen Echo July 22. More than 600 orphans from 11 institutions in this vicinity will enjoy an all-day outing at Glen Echo Wednesday, July 22, as guests of the Elks. The party will include groups from | St. John's Orphanage, J®wish Foster Home, Baptist Home for Children, St. Joseph’s Home and School, Washing- ton City Orphan Home, Washington Home for Foundlings, German Or- phan Home, St. Vincent's Home and School, Masonic and Eastern Star Home, Social Service League of Mont- gomery County, Md., and the Welfare Board of Montgomery County. The children will be taken to the park in busses early in the day, and will remain until late afternoon. In addition to the park’s amusements, they also will be entertained by the Boys' and the Clown Bands of the Elks, Billie Gee, fireman cowboy; Frank Portillo, clown; Buck Hall in rope-spinning tricks, a Punch and Judy show and a “dancing mule.” ‘Thomas O'Donnell is chairman of the committee arranging for the event. MAYOR OF SYRACUSE IN GOVERNOR RACE By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 11.—-Mayor Rolland B. Marvin broke an enigmatic silence of several months today and announced himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for Gov- ernor, The entrance of the Syracuse mayor into the pre-convention picture creates a situation in which two leading up- State Republicans from the same city are thrown into the spotlight as pos- sible Republican nominees for Gov- ernor. The other is Senator George R. Fearon, who, prior to the national convention, announced he would ac- cept the nomination if it were offered to him. Hies Back to Death Valley—130 Br the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, July 11—Death| Valley Scotty came to town today, glanced at the weather reports and expressed his anxiety to get back to his “diggings"—where it's 130 in the shade. “I see by the papers its warming up in the East,” observed the 200-pound “desert rat,” whose tales of fabulous gold strikes have macde him almost a Jegend among the _prospectors of! Death Valley. b “Down at Furnace Creek it's 130 to 135 in the shade,” he offered. “IU's too cool for a fellow to take his coat off here. . I'll be glad to get back to the rocks.” ' ' Scotty has been in Death Valley more than 30 years. “Every man to his own liking"” he said of the region where 134 has been recorded. “That’s down in the sink (300 feet below sea level),” he explained. “But it's real nice up to Hell's Gate, Skeleton Mountain and in the Funeral Range. Only about 150 in the shade—when you can find enough shade.” In Grapevine Canyon the 60-year- old prospector has a luxurious resi- dence—he calls it the castle—equipped with electricity and a huge ice plant. “But you can tell the world that the castle is closed right now,” he said. “I don't have many visitors in the Summer. No neighbors for s hundred miles. That's when I go out lnuxemchlnfl‘etwwwtdvu." Appointed WOMAN NAMED TO STUDY MARKEYTING ABROAD. | EMILY CAUTHORN BATES, The 25-year-old former edu- cational director of a North Kansas City co-opergtive oil company, has been named by President Roosevelt to a com- mission to study co-operative marketing methods in Europe. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Blanton (Continued From First Page.» gress has ‘full legislative authority over the District of Columbia,. in- | cluding the schools, and under -the | many years of encouragement of this | body, this magnificent school system has been developed. Up to last year the hardihood to interfere with it. Would Destroy Spirit. “I have at no time engaged in per- sonal criticism. I do not now, but to pass over without protst a mistake |80 vital as this questionnaire which | the gentleman from Texas presumed to send out would have meant to con- done the act, would have been to | stultify myself personally, and would be a failure on my part to fulfill the duty which I owe to the great office I have the honor to hold. To permit the further exercise of an espionage already begun would in the end de- stroy the spirit of this great corps of 3,000 highly trained, broadly edu- cated, thoroughly prepared builders of youth in the District of Columbia. “I cannot join the few friends of Mr. Blanton in believing he is in any wise infallible. Nor can I agree with them that having done some good, he should be permitted to do much harm without just criticism. It would be the very worst thing we can do to sit supinely by and permit any man in this body to embarrass the public school system of the District of Co- lumbia, whatever may be his motive— whether, indeed, any motive beyond misguided interest could prompt such action. “Let me repeat that the public school system of Washington is rec- ognized as one of the best in the world. It is properly so held and whatever is done by the Congress is reflected in the school systems of our many States. And what we do as the sponsors of this great school sys- tem will be noted as the attitude of the United States Government toward education in its broadest sense. So far the Congress has wisely left the building of this school system to the teachers, to the educators, to the thinkers. This has been done throughout the Nation as well as in the District of Columbia. No Excuse for Questionnaire. “There is, indeed, and, in fact, no possible excuse for the sending out of this thoroughly vicious questionnaire— whatever be the motive. Not one of the three gentlemen who so praised the author of it for a moment ever implied that Mr. Blanton had any authority for doing such a thing—that he had any power to carry out his threat; that he in anywise represented this House. He knew and they knew that he had no authority, no power, no mandate from the House. e knew and they knew it was a presumption seldom equaled in public or private life. If you remove from considera- tion the psychological red herring now being exércised overtime by all our perspiring politicians—that of com- munism—not'a single one of this trio would dare to justify his act. It is the world-old game of justifying one folly by charging a worse one. They over- look the fact that the questionnaire itself grossly outrages the third para- graph of - Article VI of the Constitu- tion, which says: “But no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” SANCTIONS CANCELED BUENOS AIRES, July 11 (#).—The Argentine cabinet, in a decree issued today, ordered removal of sanctions against Italy July 15, in acoordance with the League of Nations' decision sanctionist countries may formially suspend the penalties. | no member of Congress has ever had | PIONEER EDUCATOR WILL BE HONORED Ministers Will Preach Trib- ute to William Holmes McGuffey. BY the Associated Press. OXFORD, Ohio, July 11.—Min- isters in many churches throughout the country will offer tributes from their pulpits July 19 to Willlam Holmes McGuffey, the red-haired Presbyterian schoolmaster whose text- books contributed in large measure to the education of pioneer America. The services will inaugurate the centennial of publication of McGuf- fey's Eclectic Readers, which will be climaxed by ceremonies unveiling a monument to the educator in this little college town, where he lived and taught. Notables, many of whom gained their first formal learning from the selections in the volumes which Mc- Guffey prepared here, have promised to attend the occasion. Notables to Attend. Among them are Henry Ford, Mark Sullivan, John Finley, editor of the New York Times; Hamlin Garland, author; J. W. Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education; Hugh 8. Fullerton, columnist; former Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio; W. L. Bryan, president of Indiana Uni- versity, and James M. Cox, former Governor of Ohio and one-time Democratic presidential candidate. Edgar A. Guest, the poet, will read & composition in McGuffey's honor. Despite the fact that more than 122,000,000 copies of McGuffey's books were printed following their compilation here at Miami University in 1836, the dog-eared little volumes now are collectors’ gems, and a first edition is a treasure beyond price. Program Starts July 17. The centennial program here will be launched July 17 with a McGuf- fey pageant in the auditorium at Miami. On Saturday, July 18, a bar- beque lunch for the visitors will be followed by the unveiling of the me- morial, the work of Lorado Taft, fa- mous sculptor. Ford, Sullivan and others are scheduled to speak. Dr. H. C. Minnich, curator of the McGuffey Museum at Miami Univer- sity, will bring from the press at that time a volume of McGuffey stories selected in a Nation-wide poll for the favorites included in the series of six readers. No collection anywhere con- tains every edition complete. Dr. Minnich lists the “Primer” of 1837 as the rarest of all, not even owned by Ford, who now possesses 468 volumes of various McGuffey works. Ford already has reprinted many volumes for presentation to friends and McGuffey admirers. The indus- trialist further showed his interest in the old-time schoolmaster two years ago by placing in his model piloneer village at Dearborn, Mich., the log cabin where McGuffey was born in 1800. FUND PLEA PLANNED Flood-Control Group to Confer ‘With Roosevelt. i BINGHAMTON, N. Y., July 11 (®). —The Executive Committee of the Flood Control Council of Central- Southern New York authorized today the appointment of a committee to call on President Raosevelt at Hydé Park Monday and seek immediate funds for preliminary work. At the same time the committee passed a resolution declaring it was “sick and tired of delays by the Fed- eral Government when the Congress of ‘the United States has authorized flood control action and money is available for the immediate beginning of flood control works.” Ickes Moves Bath ToGetMoreRoom InWhich to Study Engineers Include Co.r- ridor in Quarters Join- ing Office. F3 the Assoclated Press. Secretary Ickes acquired more Toom in which to study in the $12,000,000 Interior Department Building now nearing completion—but he had move a bath room to get it. Engineers on the imposing new structure were reluctant to discuss the quarters being prepared for the Secre- tary, but it was learned chat to en- large the study adjoining his office a corridor linking the two rooms had been eliminated and the bath moved to another location. * Describing the quarters as “modest,” engineers said the change requested by the Becretary would maske the study 3 of ‘4 feet larger. The builde ing will be ready for otcuphhcy sume time in Tnh: JULY 12, U..5. TRADE TO GAIN BY SOVIET PACT Industry Promised at Least $30,000,000 More Dur- - ing Next Year. BY CRESTON B. MULLINS. American industry i¥ promised at least $30,000,000 more of Russian business during the next 12 months as the result of the extension yester- day in Moscow for a year of the Soviet-American trade agreement of July 13, 1935. By means of an exchange of notes between the American charge d'af- faires, Loy W. Henderson, and the assistant commissar for fdreign af- fairs, N, Krestinski, the Soviet gov- ernment was assured of most-favored- nation treatment in respect to tariff duties and undertook “to increase substantially the amount'of purchases in the United States of America for export to the Union of Soviet Social- st Republics.” The pledge to purchase $30,000,000 worth of American goods was not in- cluded in the notes, but assurance was given this Government separately that the appropriate Soviet economic organizations intend to buy that amount. Promises Exceeded. ‘The Soviet government, under the agreement expiring tomorrow, had promised to make purchases of $30,- 000,000, but, by the end of May they had actuslly made $34,000,000," and prospects are that the full 12-month figures will exceed $37,000,000. Average American sales to Russia for the calendar years 1932-3¢ were $12,000,000. The State Department credits this success to the administra- tion's trade program, which i based on the reciprocal tariff agreements negotiated under the act of June 12, 1934, amending the tariff act of 1930. Although the Russian agreement was concluded not under the author- ity of this act, but under the Presi- dent's power of executive agreement, this more than tripling of American exports to Russia is attributable to the mutual reduction of tariff duties, al- ready effected in 14 reciprocal trade agreements with European and Latin American countries. ‘The motive impelling the Russian | government to agree to buy $30,000,- 000 worth of goods while they received in return virtually no more than what every other nation, except Germany and Australia, receives free, was the | desire to retain its place as a supplier | of manganese ore to the United States | in the face of a 50 per cent reduction | in tariff duties on this commodity | imported from Brazil. Thus, the Bra- zilian reciprocal agreement, in effect since the first of the year, brought the United States a heavy increase in | trade from Russia, the only cost being ! the promise to treat Russia equally with other countries in gereralization of tariff reductions in reciprocal agreements, Cotton Increase Spectacular. Cotton, the storm center of the Roosevelt administration’s crop reduc- | tion program, has enjoyed perhaps | the most spectacular rise as an export | to Russia. More than a 400 per cent | increase — $5,500,000 — occurred in | 1935, the last six months of which was included in the trade agreement. In general, the size of this increase has been maintained during the first five months of 1936. D. C, 1936-PART ONE. Miss Mercedes Weil holding the Capt. William Wallace Stickney, U. S. M. C. R., Trophy, which he presented to the 5th Battalion, to be awarded to the company with the highest athletic standing during the annual training camp period at Camp Albert C. Ritchie in August. .. .. . —Star Staff Photo. Russian worker and peasant raise | their standard of living. Linked with this new market for | cotton has been one for textile ma- | chinery, a field of Russian buying into | which the United States has entered only recently. Whereas the U. 8. 8. R. hitherto had purchased all her textile | machinery in England, last year she ! began buying such equipment here. | Perhaps more important than tex- | tile machinery in dollars and cents is metal-working machinery, in which machine tools, used in the manufac- ture of automobiles and tractors, are the principal beneficiaries. From $2,799,000 in 1934, this product has Jumped to the $10,000,000 class, owing primarily to the determination of Soviet leaders to motorize Russia. | Making Russians automobile-con- scious spurs American trade in an- ther respect—oil drilling and refining machinery, required in growing amounts as the industry expands. In 1935 the Soviet government, in addi-| tion to other purchases, ordered in this | country a complete cracking plant to cost $1,500,000. Petroleum Industry Lags. Despite discovery of new oil fields in the Volga district, and tremendous ex- | pansion of gasoline demand for trac- tors, automobiles and airplanes, Rus-| sian petroleum industry has lagged far behind the rest of the country. | Russia has patronized other phases of American industry as well to make up the $25,000.000 increase in exports that has occurred. axles have been in greater demand. | stimulated by the rapid expansion of religious and radical the Russian railways. For the purchase of all these goods Russia has obtained no credit. Cash and carry has been her policy. And she can afford to pay, probably better than any other European nation, for her output of gold this year is ex- pected to reach $200,000,000, second largest in the world. FREIGHT RAMS ANOTHER; 2 KILLED AND 1 INJURED —_—— B) the Associated Pyess. CLINTON, Tenn, another injured today when an extra freight train, bound for Oakdale, crashed into the rear of another freight at & curve a mile south of here. J. Pat Barnett. 51, conductor, and Mack Rains, jr. 36, flagman, riding in the caboose of the first train, were crushed to death. M. H. Grissom, 39, fireman on the second train, suffered a foot fracture and face lacerations when he leaped from the cab of his locomotive before the crash. The first freight had stopped be- cause of repair work on the track, resulting from the derailment of 15 freight cars Friday. Its caboose and a rear-end pusher locomotive were on & curve, hidden from view by a Tinplate and | hill. Coming down grade, the ucondi In spite of huge cotton crops in |terneplate, used for canning. jumped | freight swung around the curve and Central Asia, Russia is requiring for- | nearly nine times between 1934 and | smashed into the pusher engine. The eign cotton to supply the vastly larger 1935; electrical machinery rose from wooden caboose ahead was ground to demand for , better clothing the ! ON $365,000 to $816,000. Car wheels and splinters. July 11.—Two | | Knoxville trainmen were killed and FREE SPEECH HELD - MORE IN EVIDENCE “Improvement” Over 1935 Is Cited by Civil Lib- erties Union. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 11.—In & review of the state of civil liberties during the first five months of 1936, the American Civil Liberties Union to- night reported an “improvement over the unusual preceding year in all but a few of the phases of free speech, free press and assembly.” Its 96-page pamphlet, entitled “How Goes the Bill of Rights?” stated that more violations of “freedom of assem- bly” have been reported in Chicago this year than in any other city. Chief areas of restriction of civil liberty were reported as the South, which, the union said, “takes the lead in attacking organized labor and rad- ical movements”: the automobile manufacturing cities of Michigan, Harlan County in Kentucky, and coal and steel towns, particularly in Penn- sylvania. ‘The report said the relative im- provement o “the extraordinary year 1934-1935" was to be ascribed in part “to a degree of economic recov- ery, to the steadying influence of the | New Deal administration—which rare- ly gives aid or comfort to repression, however little it actively opposes it The union listed as “major ga the absence of higher court decisio violative of personal liberty; no ne repressive legislation by Congress little in the States: enactment of t: La Follette resolution for an inve: [gation of civil rights and colle: | bargaining violations; and no new se- dition or criminal syndicalism prose- | cutions “punishing mere opinions,” and fewer political prisoners. It noted as the “worst features” of the year what it termed a continuing Red scare used effectively to discredi all reform measures and a widespread tendency to terrorism against radicals, minorities bv | such groups as the Ku-Klux Klan in the South and the Black Legion in the Middle West. 2 'BORAH HAS SINGLE " RIVAL IN PRIMARY G. 0. P. Opposition Dwindles to Former Auditor, Backed by Townsendites. By the Associated Press. BOISE, Idaho, July 11.—Senator Willlam E. Borah’s opposition in the Republican primary diminished to one opponent today. A few hours before the deadline for recording nominating petitions, R. E. Whitten of Grimes Pass, veteran Re- | publican State legislator, withdrew | from the race. This left Byron Defenbach, former Republican State auditor—indorsed by | the Townsend organization—as Bo- | rah’s opposition in the Idaho primary. The opponents of Gov. C. Ben Ross for the Democratic senatorial nomi- | nation increased to two when John | A. Carver of Pocatello announced he | would enter the race. | Leslie Aker, Boise attorney, had ane nounced previously. Cellophane l;eplms B;:bber. ‘L Cellophane balloons can go higher than rubber ones to gather weather ! data STARTING ME by Rex Collier WHEN A CREAM ROADSTER PULLED UD NEAR THE APARTMENT HOUSE THE NEXT DAY MILLER SAW TUE AGENTS CLOSING IN Vi Dol CAME DOWN TUE FIRE ESCAPE, AND OPENED FIRE. MONDAY! COME ON VERNE ! QUICK! DONT LET THEM The Complete Episode of the Sensational KaNsAs City MASSACRE FOLLOW IT DAILY —IN— The insidé story of how the Federal Bureau of Investigation solved the erime that shocked a nation! . . . the ruthless slaying of a Federal Agent, three police officers and their prisoner, the escaped convict Frank Nash, in front of the Union Station in Kansas City! from the files of the F. B. I. in Washington! See how the U. S. Government answered gangland’s challenge to law and order, how the G-Men scientifically solved this baffling mystery . . . a thrilling, dramatie and authentic story culminating in the capture and killing of the notorious “Pretty Boy” Floyd—the fate of a gangster who dared to resist with arms the Agents of the F. B. L! Every fact and every clue graphically and truthfully told, direct The Foening St