Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 19

The Foening Htar WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936. Plans for Community Chest Rk E Society and General PAGE B—1 POLICE ATTORNEY FIRST CONTINGENT HEARING ON MOV | SCHOOL BOARD DUE OFG.A.R VETERANS) TOBUY GAS FIRMS || orouo works Overtime rtectng Lives in Hurricane. AT EARLY DATE HOPE OF HAZEN Commissioner Says Plan Is Working Well in Other Cities. MAJ. BROWN WRITES GARNETT FOR AID Assistant Prosecutor for Investi- gating Criminal Cases Seen Crime Curb. Commissicer Melvin C. Hazen, who supervise police activities, expressed hope today that the proposal to assign an assistant United States attorney to police headquarters would be adopted at an early date. Hazen said Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, talked the| matter over with him before dis-| patching to United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett a letter suggesting the plan as a means to improved law | enforcement in the District. “The plan is working out well in other cities,” the Commissioner said, *“and I believe it would be helpful ere in promoting administration of the law.” Brown's letter to Garnett follows: “In the investigation of our crim- inal cases, especially homicide cases, it has been my thought for some time ‘we could develop a better co-ordina- tion of the duties of the Police De- parement and the office of the United | States attorney if an assistant United | States attorney could be assigned to | the investigation of all homicide | cases, to work with the Police Depart- ment in the investigation and de- veloping of evidence. “This procedure is in operation in many other jurisdictions and it is my understanding that it works out most ! successfully. “I would appreciate very much your reaction to this suggestion.” | Garnett was out of the city when the letter arrived at his office yesterday, but he was expected to reply to the proposal today or tomorrow. When ! such a plan was broached to him | informally several days ago, Garnet: ' sald it “might be a good idea,” but ! te the ! | expressed reluctance to initia e plan. With an assistant United States al- torney at his side when he is vestigating a murder, the detective | would have the advantage of immediate | expert legal advice in his effort to col- lect evidence that would stand up in court. The prosecutor, by becoming thor- | oughly familiar with all ramifications | of a case as it develops, would be in | & much better position to handle | presentation of evidence and wit- in- In Various USE YOUR OWN SLOGAN 1936 Community Chest poster. < HE }936 Community Chest campaign will be made as painless as possible for the contributing public, it was in- 1 dicated today at a meeting of the Na- | tional Women's Committee of the Mobilization for Human Needs. Led by Mrs. Harper Sibiey of jRnchesLer. N. Y, chairman of the managed to interest citizens in com- | committee, delegates submitted for K munity welfare through cleverly writ- discussion educational programs which have been used successfully through- out the country. In New Haven, Conn., it was re- ported, 94 groups met in a tea room in the same building with the Community Chest headquarters, where moving pictures and other demon- strations were provided. As a result all civic groups in the city were well informed of Community Chest activi- ties as the campaign got under way. Cities Discussed | In Detroit, Mrs. T. . P. Livingston reported, case histories made by com- mittee members from interviews with social workers were so attractively written that they were circulated widely in bound volumes through pub- lic libraries and women's clubs. The women’s division in St. Paul ten dialogues which were presented as skits for public entertainment. | Richmond women aroused interest in & window display contest, designat- ing & certain date for the unveiling of each window. A warning that the best appeal to the public in behalf of social welfare | | is a serious conviction of the need for | such work was sounded by Margaret Culkin Banning at the conclusion of the meeting today. DATE T0 DEDICATE MEMORIAL IS SET April 19 Tentatively Fixed| to Unveil Statue of nesses before the grand jury and at | Badly Hurt | annual the trial. Effect in New York. The plan long has been in effect in New York, where several assistants cation of Washington's newest memo- | rial—a statue to Gen. Artemas Ward, | Gen. Ward. Plans are in the making for dedi- | IS DUE TOMORROW SETSEPTEMBER 28 Advance Guard of 900 Union | Washington Company Seeks Army Soldiers to Reach City. GRAND REVIEW OF 1936 TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY 70th National Encampment to Begin Sunday With Memorial Services. Seventy-one years after Union ar- mies, 150,000 strong, passed in review down Pennsylvania avenue before President Johnson in two days of martial pageantry unrivaled since that day, 900 veterans of the Civil War, many of whom niarched in the grand review, will gather here begin- ning tomorrow for the seventieth na- tional encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. The outstanding feature of their reunion will be the grand review of 1936, to be held next Wednesday morning. Many of the 900 veterans— their average age is 92 years—will be on foot when the column, reinforced by units of the Regular Army, Navy and Marine Corps and patriotic and veteran organizations, moves from Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue along the Avenue to a reviewing stand in front of the White House. It is hoped President Roosevelt will be there to make the review, as Presi- dent Johnson was in 1865. The Dis- trict public schools will be closed ‘Wednesday so that students may wit- ness what may be the final review for many of the surviving veterans of the Civil War. ‘The encampment is to begin Sun- day with memorial services in many of the local churches. There will be special patriotic services at 11 a.m. in Luther Place Memorial Church, Foundry Methodist Church and Cal- vary Baptist Church. Sunday at 3:45 | p.m. there will be a special outdoor service at National Cathedral. The memorial services of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held at 8 pm. Sunday in the Gov- ernment Auditorium. Woodring to Give Address. The address at the memorial serv- ices will be delivered by Acting Sec- retary of War Woodring. George W. Offutt, general chairman of the Citizens’ Committee, in charge of the reunion, will preside. The invoca- tion will be pronounced by Rev. Joseph E. Gedra and the benediction by Rev. Howard E. Snyder, Business sessions of the encamp- ment will begin Monday morning at the Mayflower Hotel, headquarters for the convention, with a number of com- mittee meetings and an afternoon ses- sion of the National Council of Admin~ istration. At 8 p.m. Monday there will be a semi-official meeting of the | Revolutionary War hero—at Massa- from the district attorney’s office reg- ularly are assigned to police head- quarters, Maj. Brown pointed out. The system has been employed here in rare instances. In the second in- vestigation of the death of Mrs. Vir- ginia McPherson some years ago for- mer United States Attorney Leo A. Rover assigned Assistant United States chusetts and Nebraska avenues, April | ington, if that is satisfactory to Har- vard University authorities, the Fine | Arts Commission announced today. H. P. Caemmerer, the commission’s | executice secretary, said today on his | return to Washington from a two-day Attorney William H. Collins to in- | Meeting of the commission yesterday vestigate conditions at the scene of the crime. That move was made enly because charges had been made | that detectives had “bungled” the case, however, — 'CHUTE JUMPER’S CONDITION CRITICAL' l?. C. Youth Hurt by Airplane Propeller Taken to Freder- icksburg Hospital, i ‘The condition of Raymond T. Mor- ! ders, 19-year-old Washington exhibi- | tion parachute jumper, who was criti- | cally injured by an airplane pro- peller at Teto- tum, Va., yester- day, was report- ed “unchanged” | today at Mary | ‘Washington Hos- | pital, Fredericks- burg. Attend- ants said he had a ‘“comfortable” | night. | | Oakland Bridge. |in Boston that Leonard Crunelle of | | Chicago, sculptor of the Ward Memo- | rial, told the members that he could have it ready by next April. It is now ready for casting in bronze, and the commission has just approved final details. Ward will be depicted in the uniform of an officer of the Continental Army. The Commissioner decided the memorial should face Massachusetts avenue. The full-size model and the design of the pedestal, which will be of dark granite, were approved. Ward was a graduate of Harvard, and that institution is giving the $50,- 000 monument to the Capital. Caemmerer pointed out that on April 19 it is customary for the Congress of | the Daughters of the American Rev- olution to be in session here. The commission also considered models for the San Francisco me- morial coin which will commemorate the opening of the San Francisco- The commission also examined models of the memorial coin for New Rochelle, N. Y., which will shortly celebrate its: 250th anniver- sary. The Arkansas Centennial Commis- | sion informed the commission that it proposes, under authority of Con- gress, to revise its De Soto memorial coin. \ } The youth, George Washing s ton University student, who| B T. Morders )ives at 4533 Wis- eonsin avenue, was struck in the back | by the whirling blades when he trledi to stop the airplane, which started | moving as he cranked it by hand. Morders has been under instruction as an airplane pilot for more than a year. 90 Days in Jail For Attack on 3-Piece Orche_stra Henry McCarthey, 21, colored, 1018 Pirst street, went to jail for 90 days today because he didn't like the music emanating from a three-piece colored orchestra, including a tuba. McCarthey, according to witnesses, ment into the yard at 1118 Pirst street Andrew Plerce street, and Judge Brandon, 217 ¥ street. . Kennedy said McCarthey cursed him the way be was playing music and m:rlw a knife and attemtped to ey was arrested by Police- Designs for carving the pedestals 2 | for the equestrian groups to be erected | at the Washington end of the Arling- ton Memorial Bridge, and at the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway ap- proach, received ecommission ap- proval. Models for a panel to be erected in the lobby of the new Home Owners’ Loan Corp. Building here were ap- proved. These were executed by Al- bert Stewart of New York and depict .| & draftsman at work on the design for a home, The commission also examined a model by Bertha Margoulies of a Co- lonial foot postman, to be placed in the Postmaster General's office. CHEERS POLIGEMAN A letter of appreciation from Presi- dent Roosevelt yesterday cheered Mo- tor Cycle Policeman Percy G. Gra- ham, who was injured when his ma- ¢hine skidded as he attempted to intercept an automobile which was headed toward the President’s car at Delaware and Constitution avenues. Graham was treated at Emergency Hospital. Although he is able to walk, he will not be permitted to re- turn to duty before Sunday or Monday. “1 have learned with very great regret that you were injured Sunday evening while safeguarding my return to the White House,” the President wrote. “I cannot risist the impulse to assure you of my sincere apprecia- H. Hodge, second precinct. He iven 80 days in jail by Police tion of your effort in my behalf. I do hope that your injuries are mnot 19, anniversary of the Battle of Lex- Wourt Judge Isaac R. Hitt on 8 charged serious and that you will have & of assault, speedy recovery.” —_— | i | | MOTHER SEES BOY RUNDOWN BY CAR 18-Year-0ld John B. Tobin in Critical Condition at Hos- pital—Another Struck. While his mother looked on help- lessly, John B. Tobin, 8, of 316 Ana- costia road southeast was knocked | down by an automobile and seriously injured while re- turning from St. Patrick’s School late yesterday. The boy was said to have been standing beside # his mother’s car in the 500 block of Fourth street when struck by one driven by John R. Pinkett, 47, colored, 122 V street. He was taken to Sibley Hospital with a Charles B. PATKS. fractured skull and other injuries. His condition to- day was termed critical, although he spent a “fair” night. Six-year-old Charles R. Parks, 1301 H street northeast, was injured in an- other traffit accident late yesterday, but returned home after treatment at | Casualty Hospital for brain concus- sion and head cuts. Police said E. E. Norwood, 25, Soldiers’ Home Hospital, was driving the car that hit the Parks boy. CHARTERS ARE RECEIVED BY SEVEN NEW LOCALS Seven new locals have received their charters from the National Federa- tion of Federal Employes, Gertrude M. McNally, secretary-treasurer, an- nounced today. ‘The new member unions, their de- partment and location are: No. 571, JOHN B. TOBIN, i Office Department, Sacramento, Calif.. No. 568, Bureau of Air Commerce a Weather Bureau, Rock Springs, Wyo.; No. 569, Veterans’ Administration Facility, Cheyenne, Wyo.; No. 567, Custodial Service, Los Angeles, Calif ; No. 566, also Custodial employes, Des Moines, Jowa; No. 565, Air Cgnmerce workers, Fort Worth, Tex. | | national encampment in Constitution | Mount Vernon and Arlington Na- Hall, at which greetings are expected to be received from President Roose- velt. Tuesday morning will be given over to committee meetings. In the after- noon there will be a bus trip to tional Cemetery for the delegates. There will be a “fathers’ and daugh- ters’ banquet” at the Washington Ho- tel Tuesday evening and a reception in honor of Commander in Chief Clay | Nelson and his staff at 8:30 pm. in the Mayflower Hotel. The grand review, starting at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, will be followed that afternoon by the first business session of the full encamp- ment, at the Mayflower Hotel. Wednesday night there will be a “camp fire” assembly in the Govern- ment auditorium. Further business will be transacted Thursday morning. Women’s Group to Meet. Coincidental with the encampment of the G. A. R. there will be na- tional conventions of the Woman's Relief Corps, the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, The Woman's Relief Corps will establish headquarters and hold its meetings in the Mayflower Hotel, opening its program with meetings and a banquet Sunday. The Ladies of the G. A. R. will have their headquarters and hold meetings in the Washington Hotel. A pagean: at the Willard Hotel Tuesday night will be a feature of the program. The convention of the Daughters of Union Veterans will begin Saturday morning with a board of directors meeting at national headquarters, 1326 Eighteenth street. Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock there will be dedicated at Fort Stevens a national memorial to the Grand Army of the Republic. ‘Will Present Memorials. The Sons of Union Veterans will have headquarters at the Willard Ho- tel. Monday morning the organiza- tion will present a memorial bench at the Georgetown branch of the Public Library and on Wednesday will pre- sent a memorial tablet to the city of Washington at the Ford Theater Mu- seum. Its business session will con- tinue through Thursday. The Auxiliary to the Sons, with headquarters at the Willard, will par- ticipate with the Soms in the me- morial presentation ceremonies and will conduct business sessions during the week. Under the leadership of Mrs. Karl MCcElroy, chairman of the Women's Committee working in co-operation with the District Commissioners’ Citi- zens’ Committee, arrangements have been made for bus transportation to Arlington, Mount Vernon, Fort Stevens, Skyline Drive, nearby Civil ‘War battlefields and points of inter- est in Washington. B Mrs. McElroy announced plans have been made for “delegates’ lurtheons” on Tuesday and Wednesday for the woman delegates to the various aux- iliary organizations. tions for this luncheon should be made at the Mayflower, Willard, or Raleigh Hotels, she said. to Purchase Two Nearby Concerns. COMMISSION STAFF TO COLLECT DATA All Three Units Now Are Con- trolled by Trust in Massa- chusetts. A public hearing will be held Sep- tember 28 by the Public Utilities Commission for discussion of the pro- posal of the Washington Gas Light Co. to buy the Alexandria and Hyatts- ville gas concerns for a price not to exceed $1,375,000. All three concerns now are con- trolled by the Washington & Sub- urban Cos., a Massachusetts common- law trust, which represents Chase Na- tional Bank and associated financial interests. The Washington company, as agent for the trust, recently moved for public sale of all the stock in the Washington concern held by the trust, amounting to 84 per cent of the total. ‘The hearing will be held at 10 a.m. in the commission offices. Meanwhile, the commission staff will undertake to gather all pertinent data. ‘The Washington company filed petition for the purchases late yester- day after its representative had out- lined the proposals to the commission during several hours of private dis- cussions. The commission said it would not act until after a hearing was held. The company then filed its petition, already prepared, submitting argu- ments that the proposed maximum price was some $175,000 less than the estimated value of the two suburban companies, plus the amounts of accu- mulated interest and advances of funds, totally aside from the value of the stock to be acquired. The commission will inquire closely into three points regarding the con- solidation plan. First, whether it is desirable for the Washington company to acquire the two suburban con- cerns; second, if the proposed price is fair and reasonable, and third, what will be the effect upon the financial condition of the local com- pany. It is proposed to buy all the 2,500 shares of stock of the Alexandria company and to assume notes and other obligations amounting to $803,~ 320 and to buy the 8,600 shares of the Hyattsville company and take over from the parent company, the Massa- chusetts trust, bonds amounting to $231,000 and notes and other obliga- tions totaling $271,928. The costs of the purchase would be repaid through issuance of addi- tional securities, the company told the commission. Dividends Not Paid. ‘The Alexandria company has paid no dividends on its capital stock. The Hyattsville company, the commission was informed, has paid quarterly divi- dends on its stock since April, 1933. The quarterly rate in 1933 and 1934 was 50 cents and in 1936 it was 25 cents. The Washington company told the commission it wished to buy the two suburban concerns because the terri- tories of the two were contiguous to those now served by the Washington company and its present subsidiaries, that the Washington company must look to suburban areas for its future development in the gas business. It said such expansion would insure eventual maximum economies. “Acquisition of the Alexandria and Hyattsville companies will result in a fully integrated gas system serving the metropolitan area of the District under one local management, with- out foreign holding company owner- ship or control, and therefore will be a step towards the accomplishment of one of the purposes of the public utilities act of 1035, the company said in its petition. eather Force Heroic The Atlantic hurricane is h undreds of miles away, but the message of this instrument is that the wind’s strong and gusty right here in Washington. Dr. Willis R. Gregg, chief of the Weather Bureau, inspects the jagged series of vertical lines—so close together and so high that t hey form almost a band—which chart wind variance. The device is a pressure tube anemometer in the Weather Bureau observa < HE safety of lives and property from the Virginia capes to] Sandy Hook rested, in part, today with a small group of | shirt-sleeved men in an old red- brick building at Twenty-fourth and | M streets, The United States Weather Bureau there now has complete charge of the hurricane warning service. It is a somewhat unusual assignment, as most | tropical storms are the business of bureau stations at New Orleans, Jack- sonville and San Juan, Puerto Rico. ‘Working hours overtime, the staff of the Washington station is speeding warnings by radio, telegraph and tele- phone to all the mid-coastal and north coastal region in the path of the gale. Eyes are glued to instruments, hands describe curious markings in red, blue and green pencil across maps of the threatened zone, telephones jangle constantly. On a tower 30 feet above the roof, the four cups of & wind instrument spin dizzily, fore- boding of the storm. A red pencil jig- tory. —Star Staff Photo. vessels, and serve as warning to air- craft and ships without radio. Regular reports and special bulle- tins go out periodically throughout the day and night to newspapers and radio stations. In a big frame building on the out- skirts of New Orleans wireless opera- tors for Tropical Radio, subsidiary of the Weather Bureau here and relay them to the company's coastwise | vessels, laden with passengers and | cargo. Other warnings go to NAA, the Navy radio station at Arlington, to be sped from the tips of the tall towers there to naval. Coast Guard and commercial ships at sea. The bureau has its own radio, too, and through broadcasts will be dispatched up-to- the-minute news of the hurricane. In addition there are the major marine | broadcasts at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. and broadcasts at 11 am. and 11 pm. to the French meteorological service, which relays the information from the | United Pruit Co., receive advices from | its six regular dafly\ 10 PICK PRINCIPAL FOR CENTRAL HIGH Choice Likely to Be Made at. Special Meeting of Group Today. VOCATIONAL TEACHERS' | PAY BOOST IS DEBATED 67 to Get Increase at Once With Way Paved for Other 17 to Qualify. A new principal of Central High School and an assistant principal at ‘Theodore Roosevelt probably will be selected today when a special meeting of the Personnel Committee of the Board of Education will be followed by a meeting of the board itself. ‘The special session, third to be held | this week, is expected to be brief, in | contrast to its two predecessors. Yes= | terday the board and its Vocational | Education Committee were in session | for more than three hours to cone | sider the advancement of vocational school teachers from elementary to Jjunior high school status. In the main, discussion of the proe motion, authorized by the last Cone gress, was an argument between the | four lawyer members of the board as | to the meaning of the act. The bill { had been pending before Congress for the last seven years. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend« ent, had prepared necessary orders to advance all but 17 of the 84 teachers employed in the vocational schools. Gilligan Cites Opinion. Henry Gilligan, vice president, cone tended that under the law he could make no exception of the 17 and would have to promote all of the teachers. Henry 1. Quinn, Robert A. Maurer and John H. Wilson, the other lawyer members of the board, disagreed with | Gilligan as to the law’s meaning, but they couldn't agree among themselves. Wilson and Maurer eventually agreed with Dr. Ballou, but Gilligan and Quinn supported the idea that all the presently employed teachers should be blanketed into the higher ratings. The change means an advancement of $100 | per year in salary for each of the teachers. | Ballou's contention was that the | law permitted him, as administrative officer of the school system, to set uf rules and regulations governing the requirements of teachers to receive | junior high school ratings. As such | he had instructed the boards of exame | iners of the white and colored schools to exclude all teachers and instructors | without a high school education from the eligible list for promotions. 80 Per Cent Recommended. gles along & cylindrical graph. When | Eiffel Tower. calm prevails, the pencil traces a thin, | Shore stations constantly advise the straight line. Today it is jerking Up | washington bureau of the storm's and down in strokes 1 or 2 inches progress and from their information high, leaving a broad band of red. | Automatic Markings. The automatic pencil on the baro- | graph, or barometer, goes gradually | down. Its marking looks like a hill slope. On directions from this station, lighthouse keepers, weather observers and Coast Guard shore station offi- cers from the Virginia Capes to Sandy Hook have hoisted the fearsome sym- bol of “Hurricane!” in this arrange- ment: Square flag, red-bordered with black square center, From Sandy Hook to Eastport, Me., flutter the warnings of a northeast storm: ‘Triangular red pennant. Square flag, red-bordered with black | center. | Tonight lanterns will glow on 50- foot towers along the coast in this ar- | rangement: Red. ‘White. Red. Tossing on the waves will be red banners attached to cork or wooden floats. They have been dropped into the sea by Coast Guard planes and Young Washington A potential contender in The Star tournament—Robert Harris, 13, performing at the Takoma Playground. Robert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. B. Harris, and a pu; School. Tomorrow: plean Kendrick, lo’hn B. Kendrick, at the Wheatley Sc o "ut !% lfinfl hier T, @ s, hool, —Star Staf Photo! maps are charted here hourly. Un- less drastic changes warrant more frequent advisories, 6-hour intervals space the hurricane bulletins issued to interested sources. Two members of the bureau stafl worked throughout last night. Others i reported just after dawn today, an- | ticipating a long siege. ‘This is the hurricane warning cen- ter because the Washington Weather Bureau handles all storms north of 35 degrees latitude. Jacksonville takes | care of gales south of 35 latitude and ! west of longitude 85. New Orleans | bean hurricanes south of the Gulf | coast and west of longitude 85. SHOKE CONTROL FORD. C.DISCUSSED | Public Hearing Before Offi- cials Opens Way for Ag- gressive Drive. A public hearing before District officials on the proposed new smoke- control regulations, drafted under the | terms of the act adopted at the past session of Congress, today opened the | way for a more aggressive effort to abate the smoke nuisance next Winter., Nearly 30 representatives of build- ing, engineering, trade and residential organizations attended the hearing, which was conducted by Capt. Patrick Henry Tansey, assistant engineer commissioner, who heads the Dis- «| trict’s Smoke Committee. Several spokesmen suggested changes and others asked for clarification of some paragraphs in the regulations. Tansey’s committee now will review the draft and submit recommenda- tions to the Commissioners. It is ex- pected the rules will be adopted in the near future. Enforcment will be under the direc- tion of H. K. Kugel, smoke engineer. The rules require that his approval must be obtained for installation of any new boiler or other heating plant. .| The same regulation applies to any re- modeling of heating plants if the ca= pacity of the plant is enlarged. Capt. Hugh P. Oram, director of in- spection, who sat with Capt. Tansey and Kugel today, explained some pro- visions of the regulations. WOMEN TO HOLD TEA Bladensburg Democratic Group to Meet Sunday Afternoon. 87 & Stafl Correspondent of The Star CHEVERLY, Md., September 18— The Women's Democratic Club of the Bladensburg District will hold a tea at the home of Mrs. Carl Yagle, Le dB.kmd avenue, from 3 to 5 p.m. Sun- y. Mrs. Daisy La Copnidan and Mrs. Prances McFadden of the Seventeenth District Club will preside at a table, with assistance of Mrs. Mary White, club president. Afl members and their triends are invited to attend. | Under questioning by Gilligan, it | was brought out that Dr. Ballou had | said that “about 80 per cent” should | be eligible for the advancement. Mrs. Mildred H. Gropp, chief examiner for the white schools, and Dr. Howard H. Long, chief examiner for the colored schools, told the board they had worked with that proportion of eligie | bles in mind. | Gilligan was severe in his criticism jof Dr. Ballou, Mrs. Gropp and Dr. | Long for taking such an attitude, and ’ in the sentiment was joined by several other members of the board. } In Quinn’s discussion of the mean« ing of the bill he agreed that Dr. Ballou had the right to set the stand- | watches for Gulf of Mexico and Carib- | ards for advancement and also said | the board had a right to blanket in | all the presently employed teachers. “Each time I read this act,” Quinn sald, “it becomes more ambiguous.” Vote Equally Divided. Gilligan moved to override Ballou's recommendation to advance all those | except the 17 and to promote all of the teachers automatically. | The vote was equally divided—Gilli- | gan, Quinn and Mrs. Mary H. McNeil | supporting it and Maurer, Wilson and Dr. J. Hayden Johnson voting against it. Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, president of the board, refused to vote. She explained that she believed all the teachers should be blanketed in, but she also believed that the law itself gave the superintendent the right to | select his teachers and create the ! rules for their promotion and fix the | standards of education to be required. | Finally it was agreed to promote the | 87 teachers whose qualifications were not disputed and to leave the way open for the remaining to qualify for promotion when and if they can. The unpromoted 17 are men and women who have not graduated from high school, but who have been instructors in trades, such as brick laying, car= pentry, welding and other practical skilled trades. BAND CONCERT. By the Army Band at the Capitol at 7:30 p.m. today. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assistant | leader. Program. March, “King Cotton” .. A modern rhapsody, “Headlines” ‘Trio for cornets, “Flirtations” Featuring= Joh: Barnes and Victor Christensen, cornetists. | Fantasia, “The Evolution e I T e -Lake | Dramatic episode, the Great Spirit” Featuring Charles netist; William Raymond and Clarence Hurrel, trombonists, March, “The Globe Trotter” Hernandes Variationseon an old folk song, “Showing Off Before Company” Novelty, “Springtime in Chinatown” Solo for saxophone, “Autumn Leaves” Eugene Hostetter, soloist. Selection, “Operatic Masterpieces,” Comptled by Safranek | Solo for xylophone, “Xylophobia™ Young Joseph L. Y 3 “Marche Slave”| -Tschaikowsky “The Star led Banner.”