Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1936, Page 21

Washington News The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1936. TRAINING SCHOOL Local Models Form League EXPANSION HALTED BY BUDGET BUREAU Requests Delay in Use of . $100,000 Appropriation Pending Study. MONEY VOTED AFTER SENATORS COMPLAIN Board of Public Welfare Sub- mitted Plans for Two Dormi- tories of Modest Size. Drafting of plans for a $100,000 ex- pansion and improvement program at the National Training School for Girls, ordered at the past session of Congress, has been halted suddenly by the Com- . missioners at the request of the Budget Bureau, it was disclosed today. ‘The Budget Bureau, it was stated at the District Building, seeks to have use of the appropriation delayed until a study is made of proposals for consoli= dating, if possible, all agencies dealing with girl wards of the District under one plant, and all those dealing with boys under another. Congress voted money for the train- ing school last session after Chair- man King of the Senate District Committee and Senator Copeland of New York had assailed physical con- ditions at the school as “barbaric.” ‘The Board of Public Welfare some weeks ago submitted improvement plans, including construction of two dormitories of modest size. After some discussion, Municipal Architect Na- than C. Wyeth was told to draft de- Sailed plans. Commissioner Sultan said the Bud- get Bureau in delaying plans had re- quested a study be made of the future policy of management, possible con- solidation and the problem of needed future expansion of various agencies dealing with dependent or delinquent children. Last Spring the Budget Bureau pro- posed that jurisdiction over the Na- tional Training School for Boys. now under the Justice Department, be transferred to the District govern- ment, where the District might con- solidate its care for boy wards. Apparently the Budget Bureau's order does not affect a general pro- gram for rehabilitation of the old| plant by the W. P, A, for which $66,- | 000 was allotted. GALLAGHER’S COACH DENIES ASSAULT James A, McNamara Pleads Not Guilty to Attack on Arena Manager. James A. McNamara, 36, coach for Marty Gallagher, the boxer, pleaded | not guilty and demanded a jury trial when arraigned in Police Court today on a charge of assaulting George W, King, manager of the Joe Turner Arena, McNamara was released under the $25 collateral which he posted late yesterday after the district attorney issued a warrant for his arrest at Xing’s request. McNamara, & former Georgetown ‘University foot ball star, is alleged to have struck King during an argument in the Annapolis Hotel office of Pro- moter Turner. The quarrel was said 1o have started when McNamara ac- cused King of rooting for Buck Ev- erett, Gallagher's opponent in a fight Monday night. Gallagher's coach, however, denied this, declaring it was a “personal re- mark” made by King about Marty which started the fight, DONKEY BASE BALL GAME SET FORTOMORROW Anacostia Groups Sponsor Event in Grifith Stadium—Godfrey ‘Will Pitch. The donkey base ball game be- tween the Anacostia Lions Club and the Anacostia Lodge, 21, F. A. A. M, postponed from September 30 because of rain, has been rescheduled for to- | morrow night at Griffith Stadium. Arthur Godfrey, WJSV announcer, will attempt the unusual feat of pitch- ing two shut-outs in one ball game. He will hurl for both sides, with Earl Merryman of the WISV engineering ::fl behind the plate for both out- ; Another novelty will be the num- ber of new positions created. In addition to the orthodox nine, there are some 30 more ranging from pad- | and-cushion supply to knot-hole patrol. It is anticipated” that the’ donkeys chafed by the delay, may turn the contest into a rodeo. Gambling Raiders Tiptoe In, Watch Patrons Unaware Despite a heavy door and a ®watcher,” who quit watching, vice 28g i elix g ¢ Organized for the purpose of eliminating the “occasional mannequin” and setting a regular scale of prices for modeling, the Washington League of Models held its first business meetin last m'i’ht at the Shoreham Hotel. s Peggy De Moll, president,; Mrs. are: M Mary Jane Brahany, and Mrs. F. cludes some of Washington’s most attractive Shown above, left to right, E. H. Lloyd, the former L. Chainson. The league in- rls, and is forti- fied by the social prestige of many of its members, The members agreed to stay with the prices fired by their guild—s$10 for a 10-hour day, $5 for a 4-hour half day, $3 for the first fashion show and $2 more for each show that day. TRAIN PLOT PROBE SPEDINMARYLAND Attempt to Wreck Flyer Mystifies Rail Heads. Suspect Hunted. BY & Staft Correspondent of The Star. GARPETT PARK, Md,, October 7.— A vigorous inquiry was being pressed by Montgomery County police and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad detectives today in an effort to uncover some clue leading to solution of the attempt to wreck a crack St. Louis-New York express here yesterday. The attempt is the second of its kind made in this vicinity in recent months and officials of the two agencies, who are at a loss to explain | why any one should want to wreck | the east-bound fiyer, have assigned half a dozen officers to the investiga- tion. A man who twice drove rail flanges between the tracks a short time before the train roared through Garrett Park on its way to Washington and then escaped into the woods when two signal men appeared is being hunted. Only the timely arrival of the sig- nal men, John Crawford and Fred Oden, who are employed at the Silver Spring station, prevented the train from being derailed, officials said. Crawford and Oden were proceed- ing toward Silver Spring on a small gasoline motor car when they dis- covered the first flange driven between the rails and heavily reinforced with bolts and rocks. They removed the obstruction and reported the incident to Station Agent E. H. Wallach at Garrett Park. Preparing to continue eastward, they boarded their car and were about to start when they looked up the tracks and observed a man walk from the woods and begin to drive another flange between the rails at the same point where the first was detected. Together with Wallach they returned to the scene, but the man fled into the woods nearby. A thorough search of the neighborhood was made, but he could not be found. Oden and Crawford gave police a description of the man, and the former said he had seen him loitering along the tracks near here about a week or 10 days before. Several months ago an attempt was made to wreck an eastbound train at night near Silver Spring. Several ties were piled on thé tracks near a curve, but were discovered by railroad employes and removed. CHESTER DAVIS’ MOTHER SUCCUMBS IN IDAHO Funeral Services Will Be Held This Afternoon—3Born in Venice, Ohio. 7.—Mrs. Eva Elizabeth Davis, 8%, mother of Chester C. Davis of the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, died Monday of pneumonia. —Star Staff Photo. GAS FIRMS' SALE FIGURE IS HINTED Price of Alexandria and Hyattsville Concerns Must Be Cut, Board Says. The price to be paid by the Wash- ington Gas Light Co. for the pur- chase of the Alexandria and Hyatts- vills gas companies must be reduced to a figure “substantially below” $1,000,000 before the Public Utilities Commission will consider the merger. Word to this effect has been passed along to the “foreign” banking in- terests which hold controlling interest in all three of the gas companies, commission officials said today. This would indicate that if the Washington company is to buy the assets and assume the obligations of the two suburban gas concerns, the controlling interests will have to slash more than 27 per cent off the original offer of $1,375,000, proposed recently, and which was rejected by the Washington commission. Impasse Is Seen. Doubt was expressed in one quar- ter today that the Washington com- pany, as agent for the “foreign” con- trol, would accept so large a slash in the price. Washington company. officials have said they will “let the matter rest for the time being,” indi- cating that for the present, at least, the negotiations are at an impasse. Representatives of three organi- zations interested in the gas industry here approached the commission yes- terday to seek to learn at what figure the commission would approve the merger. Commission officials declined to set a figure, but Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman, told the group the Public Utilitles Commission would not consider any offer that was not substantially below $1,000,000. In the group were Robert C. Owers, treasurer of the Washington company, who holds a similar position with the Alexandria and Hyattsville companies. The others were George H. Clifford, president of the Stone & Webster Management Corp., and George Wood of the First Boston Corp., bankers. Ownership Control. Ownership control -of the three concerns revolves around the Wash- ington and Suburban Companies, & Massachusetts common-law trust, rep- resenting the Chase National Bank and associated financial interests. This trust holds 84 per cent of the common stock of the Washington company, and controlling interest in both the Hyattsville and Alexandria companies. The trust has moved to sell to the public all the’ shares it holds in the Washington company, this being rep- resented as & move to end the. “for- eign” control of the Washington company. While that plan is- pending APARTMENT FIGHT AGAIN IS GARRIED T0 ZONING BOARD Change in Classification of 2122 Massachusetts Avenue Urged. CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION LEADS OPPOSITION Dupont Circle Group and Ad- miral Hough Cite Ob- _Jections. Another fight, to prevent the pro- posed rezoning of the Patten property at 2122 Massachusetts avenue to per- mit evection of an apartment house, was made before the Zoning Commis- sion today by the Dupont Circle Citi- zens' Association and several residents of the neighborhood. At least half a dozen efforts in the past to have the property rezoned were futile as & result of vigorous protests from owners of palatial homes in the area. The latest application for rezoning was greeted with opposition not only from the citizens’ association, but from Rear Admiral Henry H. Hough, 2210 Massachusetts avenue, and Joseph A. Rapp, who sald he represented Larz Anderson, 2118 Massachusetts avenue, whose property is reputed to be the most valuable in the neighborhood. Admiral Hough declared an apart- ment house would constitute an un- Justified “spoiling of a fine residential area.” He also said the proposed zon- ing change would depreciate the value of surrounding property. “Keep what is left of beautiful Mas- sachusetts avenue,” Rapp asked. J. C. O'Laughlin, 1774 Massachusetts avenue, who indorsed the proposed change in zoning, pointed out that apartment houses already are in the neighborhood, and declared Massa- chusetts avenue from Thomas to Sheridan Circles is “a boarding house street.” X Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, U. 8. N, retired, 1621 Massachusetts avenue, told the commission he did not believe a high-class apartment house on the Patten property would be detrimental to the immediate neighborhood. H. G. Hoskinson, rep- resenting the Riggs Bank, which has a branch in the vicinity, testified the bank had no objection to the proposed change. Charles F. Wilson, a trustee of the Episcopal Home of the Washington Diocese, urged approval of an applica- tion for rezoning which would permit a house at 3701 Macomb street to be operated by the diocese as a home for aged couples. He declared the old people who would be quartered there would be excellent neighbors. The commission also considered 23 other proposed zoning changes, one of which is designed to pave the way for a delicatessen store proprietor in the 1300 block of Thirty-fifth street to procure an on-sale beer license. SUSPECT IN THEFT OF CHALICES FREED D. C. Youth Convinces Police of Innocence in Robbery at Seminary. Convincing detectives of his inno- cence, a Washington youth was re- leased today after being questioned in connection with the theft of 11 chalices, valued at $5,000, from St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore. Arrested at his home here late yes- terday, the youth, said by police to be & former student at the seminary, was taken to Baltimore last night. The chalices, of gold and studded with jewels, have not been recovered. They were missed early Monday when a priest discovered a cabinet, in which one of the vessels was kept, had been opened. Police are searching Baltimore and Washington second-hand stores, be- lieving the chalices might have been broken up and sold. BAND CONCERTS. By the Marine Band in the Audito- rium at 3 p.m. today. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; Willlam F. Santel- mann, second leader. Program. “The Marines’ Hymn.” Fantasia, “The Midshipman,” Peter Buys March, “Gridiron Golden Jubilee,” Branson Prelude to the third act, “Lohen- grin,” Trombone solo, D. 8. Harpham, March, “Old Comrades”. e “Londonderry Air (mmcflpgon). ral Xylophone solo, “The Glow Worm,” Lincke (b) “Gypsy Love Song” and Czar- ,” from “Fortune Teller,” Charles Owen. before the Securities and Exchange ( Hymn, Commission, however, the plan proposed for the Washington pany to pay $1,375,000 for ville and Alexandria companies. commission rejécted that price as being in public interest. PROBE “DELAYED” was com- the Hyatts- The not By the Navy School of Music in the bandstand at the Navy Yard at 7:30 p.m. today. Bandmaster James Mor- gan Thurmond, leader. Program. Asia’ “A Song of India,” from “Sadko,” Rimsky-Eorsakow Grand march, “Marche Milf Newest arrivals at the National Zoo receive a bath from their mother. kR IFULL SURRENDER The Brazilian jaguars, born several days ago, made their first public appearance today. . They are the fourth litter born to a pair of jaguars which arrived at the zoo in 1930. Otis Skinner Is “Given Away” at College Here NUMBERS RACKET IS HEPBRON TOPIC Cites Seriousness of Offense and Ineffectual Attempts to Stamp It Out. The seriousness of the numbers racket here and the ineffectual at- tempts to stamp it out were described last night by James M. Hepbron, act- ing director of the Washington Crim- inal Justice Associatoin, in a talk be- fore members of the Federal Bar Asso- | ciation. Hepron said the chances of escape from conviction under present condi- tions are 10 to 1 in favor of those ar- rested on numbers charges. Under questioning by People’s Coun- sel William A. Roberts and former Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Pretty- man, Hepron said the Criminal Justice Association is a fact-finding and not “a, head-hunting” organization. He did state, however, that he believed personnel rather than inefficient or- gamization was the greatest factor in the lack of criminal prosecutions. Various cases here were discussed as examples of what be believed indi- cated undue use of political influence in their final determination. Hepbron emphasized the need for training of officers and contrasted crime prosecution conditions in Canada and England with those in this country. After the discussions the Bar As- sociation voted indorsement of the criminal justice body and recommend- ed to the Executive Council of the former that it become one of the sup- porting organizations. The Executive Council will act at a meeting Octo- ber 13. - FUNERAL TODAY Funeral services for Col. Henry May, 81, retired mining engineer and prominent figure in Washington for more than 40 years, were to be held today in; Southampton, Long Island, where he died Monday. Burial will be in Baltimore. Col. May, for many years colonel of the 1st Regiment of the District National Guard, lived at 1325 K street, once the home of Edward M. Stan- ton, Secretary of War in President Lincoln’s eabinet. . By Ascot Tie Noted Actor Walked in ' . Anonymity Before Trinity Throng. OR one of the few times in his | very public career, Otis Skin- | ner, venerable idol of the Amer- | ican stage, yesterday walked among his public in splendid ano- | nymity. The incident is given weight when you consider that the public among whom he walked was assembled to| hear Mr. Skinner speak. | Hundreds of young girls, eager for a glimpse of the celebrated actor, and half as many visitors stood chatting | around the Trinity College campus yesterday afternoon when the morn- | ing-coated, Ascot-tied Mr. Skinner | alighted from one of many cabs dis- charging passengers in front of the| auditorium. And they kept on chat- ting as Mr. Skinner paid his fare and walked off. He walked first into the chapel. People were kneeling in prayer. the other end of the campus. Mr. Skinner’s unpremeditated disguise was abetted by a rather incongruous tan top coat, and he walked again through his future audience, unchallenged. One person followed him, however, on the strength of the Ascot tie, which peeped through the collar of a top coat. | Finally Set Right. Mr. Skinner was finally set right by & colored servant, who duecoed} him back to the building from which | he had just come. The auditorium was in the basement of the building, not on the first floor. Following his lecture, in which he famous roles, the stocky 78-year-old artist chatted briefly with a small group in one of the reception rooms at the college. “I know what some one is going to ask me sooner or later,” he said. “I always get asked that. I know it’s coming, so I like to get it off my chest as soon as possible. On Abandoning Self. “Do I abandon myself to emotions of a certain role and try to imagine that the loves, hates and vicissi- He| withdrew quietly and started toward | re-enacted parts from many of his! tudes of the play character are my own? Certainly not! As soon as you lose yourself in and abandon yourself to the complexities of por- Young Washington Robert Kershlis takes School. Robert is the son ginia avenue southeast. T and Mrs.R. M. W‘rlgkt, at deadly of Mr.and Mrs. A. 'omorr. the Wallach Sc | life member of Al Malaikah Temple aim ' during recess at the Dent S X ), 'y er o] T. o aen o aru.’?tufl Photo. —Star Staff Photo. OTIS SKINNER. traying a character, that is where artistry ceases. You're trying for effect, and your audience knows it. ‘My,’ they say, ‘he’s perspiring.’ And they watch the sweat trickle down your brow instead of losing them- selves in appreciation of your ex- hortation. Hokum begins where re- serve stops. You must always save one trick up your sleeve. I can’t explain that last precisely, but it’s true. “Everything depends on effecting and maintaining a liaison with your audience. I can‘t explain that, either, but you've got to co it, and your success depends upon the measure to | which you succeed. You must make the audience do part of the acting, quite a large part. Get the audi- ence to feeling the way you do about the character of the role you're play- ing and you can't miss. Everything you do is right because it's what the audience wants you to do.” FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR COL. R. B. GRUBBS Retired Medical Corps Officer to Be Buried in Arlington. Final rites for Lieut. Col. Robert B. Grubbs, 64, U. 8. A., retired, who died August 18 in Stockholm, while on a pleasure trip, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Arlington National Cemetery. He left this country with a friend on May 30. Col. Grubbs entered the Army in 1900 as a lieutenant in the Medical Corps to'serve in the Boxer Rebel- lion, having graduated from George Washington University Medical School the year before. Enlisting as a con- tract surgeéon, he received a com- mission in the regular service the following year. During the World War, naving retired in 1917, he was recalled to serve at ‘Walter Reed Hospital until 1919. After this last service, he moved to Santa Monica, Calif., where he engaged in private practice for two years. He had been made a captain in 1906, a major in 1911, and promoted to lieutenant colonel upon retirement. He was a 32d degree Mason and a of the Shine at Los Angeles. Born in Virginia, Col. Grubbs at- tended public schools there, later schooling at Willlam and Mary Col- lege. While employed as a clerk in the Agriculture and War Depart- ments, he attended Bliss Electrical School, Takoma Park, Md., graduating ON SUSPENSION 1S DEMAND OF C.1.0. Lewis Statement Believed Fatal to Hope of Last- Minute Peace. FEDERATION SESSION TO OPEN TOMORROW No Overtures Made on Either Side ‘", Adjustment of Contro- versy, It Is Said. BY JOHN C. HENRY. ‘The executive council of the Ameri« can Federation of Labor can bring back peace to the ranks of labor only by rescinding its suspension action against 10 member unions of the Com= mittee for Industrial Organization, by admitting it was a mistake ever to vote the suspension, and by co-operat ing in an industrial union drive in the mass production industries. These are the terms for peace as set forth yesterday by John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. L O., 48 hours be- fore the A. F. of L. executive council a session here tomorrow afternoon. Originally scheduled fos today, the meeting was postponed 24 hours to allow Willlam Green, presi- dent of the A. F. of L, to make an appearance tonight before a conven- tion of the cap and millinery worker in New York. Seemingly receptive only to coms plete surrender by the federation council, Lewis evidently squashed for good and all any hopes of & recone ciliation of the two factions during the eoming session of the coupcil. Such hopes, -arising from a somewhat loosely interpreted remark by David Dubinsky, president of the Interna- tional Ladiés’ Garment Workers, in New York Sunday night, had brought from President Green an echoing de- sire for peace. Explains Dubinsky Stand. According to the militant Lewis, however, Dubinsky merely had re- peated what C. I. O. leaders have maintained from -the beginning, namely that only federation co-opera« tion and consent to industrial organie zation of certain mass production ine dustries would remove any differences of opinion. If the federation is will- ing to take on the job of organizing the steel and other mass production industries all would be “O. K.” with the C. 1. O., Lewis repeated. Lewis denied flatly that there have been any overtures for peace by either group and that no conferences on the matter have been held. “I know of no peace negotiations of any character,” he said, “and I know of no conferences on any basis of reconciliation. I note that Mr, Green’s heart is pulsating with a de- sire for peace. If he wants it, let him persuade the council to rescind its suspension action and foin us in the organizing work. “We have always been willing to de« fine and limit the industries for in- dustrial organization. The federation always has claimed there is adequate room tor both craft and industrial or- ganization. Let them join us in spote ting the industries for industrial ore ganization and then join us in carrye ing out the job. There is the basis for a practicable settlement of the present Dreak.” Typographical Union Problem. As an alternative to any efforts to effect a reconciliation, the council to- morrow must take up the gquestion of | extending the suspension order to the | International Typographical Union. ‘This organization has been represented in the C. 1. O. by its president, Charles P. Howard, but was not suspended in August because the union itself had not indorsed Howard's position. Since then, the union did vote this indorse- ment, and Lewis yesterday declared the council, to be consistent, must sus- pend the I T. U. or admit themselves in error in the other suspensions. With the cap and millinery workers now in session, it is considered likely that they also may take some action on C. I. O. affiliation. Like the I. T, U,, they are not under suspension, ale though their president, Max Zaritsky, is on the C. L O. Asked about plans for attending the November convention of the A. P. of L, in Tampa, Lewis said he still believed it would be a waste of time and money but that no formal decision on the question has yet been made by the C. 1. O. A meeting of the committee, he said, will be held in November, probably after election day but before the convention is scheduled to opea November 16. In brief reference to the steel drive, Lewis said the organization work it proceeding according to “chart, graph and blueprint,” with results thus far satisfactory. About 175 paid organ. izers are active, he said, and uniform and general demands upon the in. dustry are likely within a few months Union membership in the rubber in. dustry has jumped to 28,000, he said while the automobile industry also re- ports & new high of about 60,000. Touching on politics only once Lewis predicted that Ohio, Indiana MNlinois, Pennsylvania and West Vir- ginia, all States where there is 1 heavy United Mine Workers' vote, will go for Roosevelt in November. ESHER FUNERAL TODAY Retired Coal Merchant to Be Buried at Cedar Hill. Funeral services for Emil Esher, 75, retired coal merchant, are being held i|MRS. GRACE M. WILSON /1S DEAD IN NEW YORK Mother of Capital Engineer Was Head of Y. W. C. A. Board. Mrs. Grace M. Wilson, 84, mothe: Lester G. Wilson of Chevy Chase Md., prominent engineer, died Mon. day at her home in New York after o