Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1936, Page 18

QUEEN IS NANED FORCUP REGATI Miss Leila Peoples to Pre- side Over Night Pageant Scheduled Friday. Miss Leila Peoples, daughter of Ad- miral and Mrs. Christian J. Peoples, yesterday was officially named queen of the President's Cup Regatta to pre- side Friday over the most elaborately planned night pageant ever to be staged in connection with the event, which will include the largest fleet of decorated boats ever assembled here. Accompanied by an honorary escort of police, the queen, with her ladies- in-waiting and courtiers, will hold court in a royal pavillion to be erected in her honor just off the racing course at Hains Point. The races will be staged Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Thomas Ellis Lodge, who has ar- fanged the pageant in past regattas, -again is in charge. Assisting Lodge will be Howard Eales, in charge of Judging arrangements; Lloyd Gaines, in charge of District Government #~- tivities, and Joseph Kaufman, Coyle and Gordon Hittenmark, wno will preside over the public address m. Attendants Named. Named as the queen's attendants were: Miss Nancy Brereton, daughter of Comdr. and Mrs. William D. Brere- ton; Barbara Conard, daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Charles Conard; Miss Margaret Davis, niece of Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen; Miss Barbara Hunter, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. William H. Hunter, and Miss Kathleen Whaley, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Arthur M. Whaley. They will be escorted by officers of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserves and the Coast Guard and National | Guard. Six prizes will be awarded this year for the most beautiful and artistically decorated boats. Three of these will go to boats in the group class, con- sisting of craft entered by organiza- tions, business firms, etc, and the others to boats entered by individual | or private owners. Prize judges will be Col. Dan I Sultan, District Engineer Commis- sioner; Director Arno B. Cammerer of the United States National Park Serv- | ice and E. A. Schmidt, senior engineer of the Rivers and Harbors, War De- partment. Program Opens at 7:30 P.M. ‘The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. | with a concert by the United States | ¥Navy Band, under leadership of Lieut. Charles Benter. At the time of con- clusion it is expected the official boats ‘will have been properly stationed along Bill | Seniors offered a helping hand to newcomers at George Washington University when the school's 7,000 students began registering yesterday. E (seated) of the Senior Women's Hour Glass Society, an honorary organization, are shown above offering their assistance to new students. Left to right are: Jane McElligott, Miss Hagenah, Miss Theda Hagenah and Elisabeth H. Coale ~—Star Staff Photo. High School, which probably will not be filled for another two weeks. Mean- while, Lawrence G. Hoover, assistant principal, will act as head of that school. Termination of the character edu- cation experiment also resulted in a number of transfers in administra- tive officers, Miss Bertha Backus, for- mer assistant superintendent - in charge, being returned at her own re- quest to Alice Deal Junior High School. She replaced Mrs. M. R. Merritt, who was assigned to Taft Junior High School. Harry Baker, jr., former prin- cipal at Taft, was transferred to Lang- ley and John Paul Collins, former Langley head, succeeded Dr. Holmes at Anacostia. May Admit Outsiders. The junior high schools will be closed the opening’ week to non-resi- dent pupils, the sons and daughters of Army and Navy officers and em- ployes of the Government. After the opening week’s registration, however, it is expected that some of them will be opened to non-residents, unless the congestion makes it prohibitive for outsiders to be enrolled. * At Anacostia the “supervised study experiment,” begun last Spring, will continue for a whole year. Dr. Holmes directed the experiment, looking to the elimination of home work, through the last six weeks of the last term, but decided the period was too short to arrive at & conclusive decision. His successor at Anacostia, Collins, asked that it be continued and authority to carry on the work was granted last week by the Board of Education. No particular ceremony will attend the opening tomorrow. New students entering the system for the first time will be required to present entrance permits which have been available since Wednesday at the Thomson School for white pupils and at Dun- bar High School for colored. Schools (Continued From First Page) Eliot Junior High School, Eighteenth tand B streets northeast, and eight rooms at the Randall Junior High School in Southwest Washington. | Improvements to which the Board | of Education and the supervisory offi- | cers look forward during the current year are as follows: | Completion of Anacostia Junior- Sentor High School. | ! High School. Four finished and four incomplete | rooms at the Lafayette School, Nor- ithamplon street and Broad Branch road. Four rooms at the Hardy School, | Foxhall road and Volta place. Truesdell Gets Gymnasium. | Eight rooms and a gymnasium the Truesdell School, Ingraham street, | between Eighth and Ninth streets. | | Eight rooms and a gymnasium at | | Coale, Virginia Clark and Myrta Williams, year construction program, they have been considered in outlining the work that will be needed to make the physi- cal school system adequate for the number of pupils. Last Peak Was 100,908, Last year, according to the office of John F. Brougher, school statis- tician, the total maximum enrollment in the schools reached 100,908 indi- vidual pupils. The peak enrollment for a single day was 93,082, which came in November. The usual increase on the first day of school in the past has ranged be- | | ol A new gymnasium at Armstrong ::::n:ézgo ::: g::imt&nw-i::l\:]“ggc‘m the principalship at Central reached this year, because schools are opening a week later than usual, but with a holiday already ordered for Wednesday, authorities fear that par- ents will keep their children out until | after the first week. The holiday wusl declared for the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic, whose annual encampment opened in the Capital today. The statistician’s office forecast that the peak for a single day during the the race course. The parade is sched- ‘the Grimke School, Vermont avenue | coming year will not exceed 94.600, uled to begin at 8 p.m. Among the larger boats entered will be the Coast Guard Cutter Apache, the War Department boat, General Rucker, and the Commerce Depart- | “ment’s steamboat inspection boat. The | District's fire boat, with its full com- | plement of firemen operating the | fountain-like sprays through a maze | ;:r colored lights, will be among the lot. In the vanguard will be an official boat of the District of Columbia with | Commissioner Hazen and other offi- | cials aboard. | A magnificent display of fireworks | will be shot off from a barge oppo- | site Gravelly Point following the | passing of the last craft in review. Third i)egree (Continued From First Page.) | | in an effort to obtain a confession from him. | “The beating occurred in the ber- tillon room in the basement of the Fayette County Court House. “The investigation will continue. | Pending its completion I will make no | announcement as to who are the culpable persons.” | Will Resume Inguiry. | ‘The attorney general instructed three members of his staff to stay in Uniontown over the week end to| study the case and said he himself | will Yeturn next week to resume his | inquiry. l Monaghan, 64, died last Saturday | at detective headquarters. Police said | at the time that he collapsed sud- denly while being questioned. Coroner 8. A. Baltz reported death caused by & heart attack, superinduced by acute | alcoholism, but he later filed the | murder charges after physicians re- ported Monaghan had been severely injured. The doctors asserted Monaghan's nose and jaw had been broken, 11 ribs fractured and that his body was badly bruised. Monaghan had been accused of stabbing County Detective John C. Wall, after being arrested for allegedly driving while under the influence of liquor the night of September 11. Wall is in serious condition. at a hospital. Detective Stopped Car. The detective and District Attorney James Reilly had been riding together when they said they came upon Mona- ghan’s car zig-zagging down a rural road. Wall stopped the car and took the wheel after ordering Monaghan and his companion, Florence Dean, an employe at his hotel, into the back seat. Reilly drove ahead, but returned after discovering Wall was not fol- lowing. He found the detective stag- gering down the road, his throat slashed. Police arrested Monaghan later at his hotel and took him to detective headquarters, where the al- leged beating occurred. ‘The defendants, State Troopers Anthony Sanute and Stacey Gunder- man, and County Detective Wilbert Minerd, are free under a joint bond of $20,000. ‘Tonight's another big nite at Swanee. Come on down and join in the fun. Danc- ing here Sunday, Thursday and Saturday nights at 9:30 p. m. Meyer Davis Music Ladies, 55¢ — Gents, 75¢ Beor and Wine Served at Tables | between T and U streets. | | Eight rooms and a gymnasium at | }the Young School, Twenty-fourth street and Benning road. | A new Dennison Vocational School for girls. For this building $100,000 has been made available of a total appropriation of $280,000. Ten rooms and a gymnasium at Paul Junior High School, Eighth and Oglethorpe streets. Ten rooms and a gymnasium at Alice Deal Junior High School, Thirty- eighth and Davenport streets. Remodeling qf the. present xym-i nasium into class rooms and construc- tion of a new gymnasium at Eastern High School. Although these improvements are not a part of the proposed new five- OCULIST PRESCRIPTIONS but no estimate was made of the max- imum enrollment for the year, except to say the gain should range between 3,000 and 3,500 over last year. During the coming nine months, 55 | additional teachers will be employed. | Last year the teaching staff, exclusive | of administrative and field officers, | number 2,997. The additional 55, however, will not all be in service | tomorrow. About half of them will not be employed until after the Christmas holidays. Replacing the high school grad- uates who left the system last Spring will be approximately 7,700 new pupils —kindergarten and first-grade young- sters—who will enter the system for | the first time. The new term will be the first under ACCURATELY FILLED BY REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST Rimless Glasses complete with toric lenses, rim- less mount- ing and case. Value, $13.00. KRYPTOK LENSES Invisible Bifocal to see far $12 Value One pair 62! Personal attention given all examinations by Dr. A. S. Shah, The Shah Optical Co. 812 F St. N.W. ed 25 Y oN A MODERN Eireceric RANGE IN YOUR HOME NO COsT . . . Clean It's Economical It's Modern eLectric HOT 'NO OBLIGATION POINT RrANGES F.S. 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