Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1937, Page 14

A—14 *« NICE'S RELIEF BILL HAS RECEIPTS TAX AS ITS BACKBONE Maryland Governor Esti- mates His Own Program Will Raise $6,205,000. AID SPECIAL SESSION TO CONVENE THURSDAY Legalized Gambling and Added Racing Days Eliminated in Administration Measure. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md,, April 17.—Gov. Harry Nice submitted to members of the Maryland General Assembly today a relief revenue program “conserva- tively estimated” to raise $6,205,000 yearly for relief and allied social secur- itw needs—with a gross receipts tax of $2,375,000 as the backbone of the program. He submitted that program five full days before the legislators are to meet here in special session to consider the relif program. Ysterday he announced he had set noon next Thursday for beginning of the session. His program differs from the relief bill passed by the recent Legislature— and vetoed by Nice—by addition of the gross receipts tax of 4 of 1 per cent and elimination of the sections legal- 1zing and taxing bookmaking, licensing of claw machines, granting 20 addi- tional days of horse racing and calling for a registration of automobile drivers. $440,000 for Aged. Nice's relief bill allocates $440,000 for old-age pensions from June 1 to Beptember 30 and $717,553.33 for aid to dependent children for the same period. The yearly allocation for old- age pensions would be $1,320,000, and for aid to dependent children, $2,- 152,600. ‘The remainder on the yearly basis would be for direct relief needs of Baltimore and the counties, with Bal- timore receiving 60 per cent and the remaining 40 per cent going to the counties on a basis of population. The city and the counties may use their shares for any purpose what- soever, relief or governmental pur- poses. That is the system of distric- tion now followed. The Board of State Aid and Chari- ties requested $6,400,000 yearly for the entire program. Nice said he felt that his proposals, since the es- timates are conservative, would raise that amount. He sent a copy of his message and & copy of his proposed bill to each member of the Legislature. Text of Message. ‘The text of his message to the Legis- lature follows: “With the greatest degree of re- luctance, I find myself obliged to call you into extraordinary session, for the purpose of enacting legislation to raise adequate revenue for relief. “You are doubtless aware of my reasons for vetoing Senate bill No. 311, chapter 382, known as the relief bill, as enacted at your last general session, and it would therefore serve no useful purpose for me at this time to restate them. “Public interest requires that this extraordinary session confine itself to the enactment of an adequate re- lief measure. be your attitude, I am submitting herewith a bill, which I feel should meet with your prompt approval, and which will raise revenue adequate to care for the relief situation in the State of Maryland. Used Only Two. “In presenting this bill, I have taken into consideration the fact that on January 25, 1937, I submitted to your honorable body 17 suggestions of sources from which revenue might be raised, all of which I must assume you considered when you enacted Sen- ate bill No. 311, Chapter 382, and which I have vetoed. Of these sug- gestions, you incorporated in the ve- toed measure but two. It is only fair for me to assume that you were un- willing to enact into law any of the remaining 15. Therefore, it becomes hecessary, in submitting a bill, that I look to other sources for revenue. In the bill I herewith present, you | will note I have eliminaied only four items contained in the vetoed bill, namely, licensing of bookmaking, tax- ing of claw machines and other simi- lar devices, 20 additional racing days and the tax on the registration of motor vehicles. I am itting to you the remaining items already ap- proved by you, having enlarged the tax on toilet articles and cosmetics by including soap, tooth mouth washes, dentifrices and tocih paste. I have also included in this biil the gross receipts tax, and in so doing I Bm incorporating & measure which has heretofore met with vour ap- proval, was in successful operation for more than a year, and which proved Its ability to produce adequate reve- nue. There can be no valid objection to this, especially when you noie that I had reduced the rate from 1 per cent to three-quarters of 1 per cent. Lists Bills’ Items. “For your information, I herewith fist the items in the bill now submitted by me, together with the estimated revenue each item will produce. I mssure this estimate is conservative and is based upon authentic informa- tion and figures furnished me by Drs, 6. 8. De Vault and W. P. Walker of the Department of Economics of the University of Maryland, both of whom are known to you as recognized authorities on taxation. Sources of Revenue. Estimated Yield. Tax on beer sold or delivered by “manufacturer or whole- saler. 75 cents per harrel Manufacturers’ tax on distilled spirits. 215 cents per gallon._ Tax on admission to smuse- ‘ments and passes, 1 per cent on tickets and 5 cents to 15 cents on passes rporation franchise tax_ aX on toilet articles and cos- metics gold at retail (10 per ._inclu - $750.000 420,000 0.000 ments in writing (25 cents Der $500 or fraction thereof) __ 225,000 1 cent gros Te- b " 3.375.000 R i $5.655.000 Automobile Titling Tax. “To this total, devoted to relief, there will be available the estimated sum of $550,000 from the proceeds of the automobile titling tax enacted by your honorable body and signed by me on March 31, 1937, and known as Senate bill 319, chapter 230. “In drafting this bill as a method of raising necessary relief revenues, I have kept in mind three things. My first hought was to secure & program of equitable taxes not trary to the fundamental and meral Knowing that such will | Reed Hospital. VIRGINIAN URGES MEMORIAL SITE Jones Point Offers Scenic Location for Jefferson Tribute, Hooff Says. Charles R. Hooff, Alexandria real estate man, who is active in eivic affairs, was on record today as favor- |ing erection of the Thomas Jefferson | Memorial at Jones Point, south of the Virginia city, where the District of Columbia once began. Contending that Jones Point offers a marvelous site for the memorial to the famous Virginian, Hooff declared that it not only is conspicuous in his- ‘tory but would be ideal scenically. | This, he said, would preserve the famed | Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin and create a memorial to Jef- ferson not far from Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, with whom he worked closely in creating the National Capital. There is an old Government light- house on Jones Point, and the old boundary marker was set out there. From that point the surveyors began their task of mapping out the 10-mile square that formed the original Dis- trict. Jones Point was originally a peninsula, officials recalled today, but during the World War period the old Battery Cove, famous in the law books, was filled in by the Government, and, |as a result, there are now 46 acres, title to which is held by the United | States. | Temporarily the land in Federal | ownership at Jones Point is being used by the Army Signal Corps as a station. Many proposals have been | advanced for its disposition. One was to lease part to the City of Alexandria as a park and to utilize some of it as a link in the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission, according to its secretary, Thomas 8. Settle, has given the area a great deal of study, and since 1930 has had it on its plan as a regional park. Mrs. Hooff recalled today that the original corner stone of the District was laid at Jones Point on Friday, April 15, 1791, Hooff has talked to some of the civic leaders in Alexan- dria, his wife said, and they evidenced interest in the proposal to have ‘the memorial erected at Jones Point. Hooff was out of the city on a business trip today. A student of early Americana, Hooff is a member of an old Virginia family. He cited the address delivered by Rev. James Muir at the dedication of the Jones Point boundary stone, at which the clergyman asserted: “From this stone, may a super- structure arise, whose glory, whose magnificence, whose stability un- equaled hitherto shall astonish the world and invite even the savage of the wilderness to take shelter under its roof.” SMOKE SCREEN FAILS FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 17 (#).—Brush fires to hide the smoke of a liquor still got out of hand and brought out the fire department here yesterday. Firemen discovered the still as they fought a fire they said had been started in a dozen places to hide smoke from the still. An attendant fled as the firemen came up, ————————————— standards of the people of Maryland. My second thought was to draft a measure which would produce relief revenues sufficient to finance for the next two years the social security and relief problems of the State. The third pertains to the collection and adminis- tration of the revenues to be raised. It is my belief that the enactment into law of his bill will prove to you and o | to the people of the State that the three points I have just mentioned are fully covered. “None of the revenues as outlined have their inception in gambling or gambling devices; they will annually produce for social security and relief purposes, conservatively estimated, $6,205,000. Finally, the administra- tion costs will be minimized, as the controller’s office, due to its past ex- perience, will be able to administer the law without great difficulty or additional added expense. “At such a time and under such circumstances we must not let sec- tionalism or the interest of individual groups stand in the way of providing adequate provision for relief. This is & matter of State-wide concern and demands the divorcement of all other considerations. I, therefore, em- phatically recommepd its prompt adoption.” L Rewarded for Heroism Two other police changes announced yesterday were the appointment of Twelfth Precinct Patrolman James E. Ennis to succeed Caton, and the demotion of Detective Sergt. A. D. Mansfield to the rank of private, because of inegciencz/, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., A promotion from precinct detective to detective sergeant was given John A. Caton yesterday for his part in the capture of three youthful bandits two weeks ago. Shot four times, Caton wounded two of the youths in an ice cream store hold-up attempt. Howard Crawford, chief clerk of the Police Department, is shown with Caton after the detective was sworn in at Walter ar Staff Photo. PATROLMAN HURT CHASING SPEEDERS Woman Stops Car Quickly, Kaskeski’s Motor Cycle Crashing Into Rear. Motor Cycle Patrolman Anthony J. Kaskeski, attached to the trafic divi- sion, was injured early today when his machine crashed into the rear of an automobile which stopped suddenly during a chase out Benning road, near Thirty-fourth street northeast. Kaskeski, on patrol duty with Motor Cycle Policeman H. W. Carmichael, started in pursuit of two cars speed- ing out Benning road about 2:30 am Kaskeski said both ma- chines were ex- ceeding 60 miles an hour when the one in the rear suddenly stopped. Thrown to the pavement by the impact, Kaskeski received a severe hipinjury and cuts to his arm He was treated at Cas- Anthomy Kaskeski. and elbow. ualty Hospital. Carmichael arrested Bertha P. Wall, 37, colored, 309 Fifty-fourth street northeast, driver of the car which Kaskeski ran into. Charged with speeding and failing to give a hand signal, she was fined a total of $17 in Police Court. The driver of the other | car, Walter P. Wood, 25, colored, Fair- mont Heights, Md., was charged with speeding. Two 15-year-old girls, one from Washington, were painfully injured last night when the automobile in which they were riding overturned on a sharp curve near Chillum, Md. Betty Graft, 78 Randolph place, was treated at Casualty for severe cuts to the head and face. Her condition was said to be “fair.” The other girl, Doris Brondolff, 3514 Thirty-fourth street, Mount Rainier, Md., was treated at Casualty for minor cuts and later released. Police said the car was driven by Peter J. Nebel of Hyattsville. Jane L. Coons, 7, of 411 B street northeast, suffered cuts to the face and right knee when struck by a car as she was running across B street northeast in the 500 block last night. She was treated at Casualty. Police said the driver was Lewis W. Lacy, 37, Balley's Cross Roads, Va. Mrs. Ada Lendtike, 59, of 213 Douglas street northeast, told police she re- ceived cuts to the nose and forehead and leg bruises last night when the car driven by her husband, Alfred E. Lendtke, struck the rear end of an- other machine stopped on a green traffic light at Rhode Island avenue and Fifth street. Police said the other car was driven by John R. Gladden, 24, colored, of 311 Oakdale street. Mrs. Lendtke was treated at Sibley Hospital. CONVENTIDI.I DATE SET Virginia Retail Merchants Meet in Roanoke June 8-9. 1Y the Associated Press. ROANOKE, Va., April 17.—The Committee on General Arrangements yesterday fixed June 8 and 9 as dates for the annual convention of the State Retail Merchants’ Association. Headed by Leonard O. Key, and in- cluding R. W. Cutshall, State presi- dent, the committee met following the monthly luncheon of the Roanoke association. Boys Find HE scene was the board room of the National Education As- sociation yesterday. Richard Allen, 11-year-old president of the Flynn Park School (Mo.) Pathfind- er Club, called the meeting to order. “The secretary will please read the minutes of the previous meeting,” he requested, as the 41 visiting school children, representing the fourth to eighth grades, quieted down. Ten- year-old Jacqueline Johnson rose, and in a clear, unhesitant voice, read the details of the Iast meeting completely unmindful of the room full of educa- tors and even a few congressmen who were present to see a demonstra- tion of character education. ‘The minutes were approved as read. “Im thinking of a five-letter word that always gets one into trouble. Does anybody know el what it 18?” asked . Derothy Bedfles, the specialist SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1937. EDITORS FINISHING | CITY HEADS PLAN |Miss Stimson, Army NurseChief, SESSION HEAR OF | TOMAKE PLEA FOR WAR NEWS WORK| ADD Webb Miller’s Subject Spain. French Journalist Also on Program. HARPER SIBLEY TALKS AT LUNCHEON MEETING Kennedy, Maritime Commission Head, Also Scheduled to Speak This Noon. A globe-trotting war correspondent and a French journalist were among the speakers today on the concluding program of the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. & The story of “Covering the War in Spain” was told from the National Press Club auditorium in a Nation- wide broadcast by Webb Miller, Euro- pean news managed of the United Press, who has covered many conflicts in various parts of the world during the past 20 years. “The Sunday Newspaper” was to be discussed in speeches by Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales, New York corre- spondent of Paris-Soir, and W. G. Vorpe, Sunday and feature editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. One Side Would Give Out. Miller, who accompanied Gen. Franco's rebel forces into Toledo, Spain, last September, expressed the belief the civil war would be drawn out for months and end “only when one side or the other is completely exhausted.” “I don't believe either side can score a knockout punch,” he said. “This war has again demonstrated that when opposing armies are any- where ‘nesrly evenly matched In strength, the defense is so strong, com- pared with the offensive power, that a decision can be reached only by ex- haustion. There are so many unfore- seeable factors that I hesitate to predict which side will win. I would not be surprised if the war entered the Autumn again. “In the last 21 years I have seen something of six wars, but none—not even the World War—has been so ghastly and horrible. In Spain, you have three wars rolled into one. One is political, the second is economic and the third has the elements of a religious war. “These elements deeply stir some of the well-springs of human passions. The result is a war of unparalleled ferocity. One of the sickening phases is the wide development of the use of terrorism as a defensive weapon, just like bullets, shells, starvation and propaganda. “In Spain, terrorism of the civil populations by indiscriminate bomb- ing from the air has largely wiped out the old distinction between combat- ants and non-combatants. Among are thousands of women and chil- dren.” Children Bomb Victims. Miller then told of the siege of Oviedo, where on the streets he saw children wearing bandages, covering injuries suffered in aerial bombings. He saw the children play a game called ‘“bombing.” A boy would stretch out on the ground while his companions would hold a brick above him. Then they would drop it. “The excitement lay in rolling over | before the brick hit him,” Miller said. The society was to wind up its morning session with election of of- ficers and reports of the Resolutions Committee. President Marvin Creager, editor of the Milwaukee Journal, is presiding. A luncheon and final session was to be held at the Willard Hotel at 1 pm., with Editor Grove Patterson of the Toledo Blade presiding. The speakers were to be Harper Sibley, president of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States, and Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Maritime Commission. Magazine Editor Speaks. John Martin, 36-year-old managing yesterday on the News.” To fix the perspective of writers of the magazine, Martin said, “we have used the definition ‘as it would look to the man in the moon’ Such an historical viewpoint necessitates sev- eral kinds of background in the re- porter who would assume it.” Martin was asked several questions after delivering his prepared address. One editor wanted to know where Time got the story of the final confer- ence between Premier Stanley Baldwin and former King Edward VIII. “We have our pipelines just like any- body else,” replied Martin. “That one came from Scotland Yard.” Dr. George Gallup, director of the American Institute of Public Opinion, told the editors yesterday that the “newspaper of tomorrow” would carry more pictures, have wider news col- umns and be printed in larger type. He suggested newspapers maintain a battery of research specialists to prove reader interest. An opposite view was taken in an eddress read for John H. Sorrells of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. He said the burden of making & news- paper readable belonged to the editor himself. “The Background of BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. instructor. Nearly every hand went up as the group chorused “anger.” She asked them what letter put in front of “anger” spelled what anger often gets one into. They knew that, too—*“danger.” “What makes you angry?” was her next question, “When mother makes me wash the dishes,” & husky young lad spoke out with conviction, and the audience laughed. The rest of the group were opposed. Washing dishes is being helpful, several protested, and not “sissy work” at all. Miss Backus, who teaches by this method in 17 St. Louis County schools, then told a story about a camper who started a forest fire by not putting out his campfire. We must always put out our own “campfires,” she con- tinued, preaging home the analogy of Mfllp the dead and wounded on both sides | editor of Time magazine, spoke late | Laugh Takes Point Out ED AID FUNDS Reported Prepared to Go Before Subcommittee of Senate. $130,000 DEFICIENCY SOUGHT IN D. C. BILL Restoration of $1,000,000 for 1938, Eliminated by House, Next to Be Asked. The Commissioners were reported today as preparing to go before the Senate Appropriations Sub-committee in charge of the District bill in a final endeavor to obtain additional relief funds disallowed by the Budget Bureau and the House. Looking to the immediate needs of employables, they will seek to have Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, chairman of the sub-committee, in- clude the deficiency item of $130,000 in the pending District bill. ° Next on the program, it was re- ported, was the restoration of $1,000,- 000 eliminated from the 1938 budget by the House for general relief needs. Keddy Believed Relenting. ‘While an impression gained ground that Assistant Budget Director John L. Keddy had “relented” to the extent of approving a considerable portion of the $130,000 deficiency appropria- tion to take care of 3,000 unemployed “employable” relief cases in May and June, there was no officlal confirma- tion. Pressure on all sides is being brought to bear to get sufficient funds to pro- vide for the wants of these families, for whose care the District Board of Public Welfare has only $10,000 avail- able for the remainder of this fiscal year. The Commissioners had originally sought about $2,500,000 for general relief purposes for the 1938 fiscal year, This amount was reduced in the House bill to $1411,500, insufficient, officials said, to provide adequately for future needs. The $1,000,000 in addition, which | the Commissioners are now seeking, would restore approximately the orig- inal estimates. “Fair” Pay for Clean-up Urged. Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, chair- man of the Citizens' Committee on | Unemployment, urged, meanwhile, that | in hiring unemployed employables for “‘clean-up-week” jobs, as proposed at & recent meeting of the committee, they be paid “fair” prices. Dr. Stokes cited numerous calls to employment agencies in which "un-i fair” prices for work were offered. “It seems to me,” Dr. Stokes said, “that when we employ the unemployed we should be willing to pay a mini- | mum—plus car fare and lunch—of | 25 cents an hour for cleaning women, and of from 40 to 50 cents an hour for unskilled laborers. When a ‘handy man’ is wanted to do a little rough carpentry and painting he should receive more, say 60 to 70 cents an hour. Demoralization Is Feared. “Even this is less than half what ! the skilled workman in the building trades receives today,” Dr. Stokes ex- plained. “To pay less than the wages | mentioned would be unfair and would have a demoralizing effect on the un- employed.” | Dr. Stokes called attention to the fact the Employment Center, 480 i Indiana avenue, which has agreed to co-operate with the Citizens'’ Commit- | tee in this respect, has a large number | of colored maids available at $6 a week and up, and also numerous typists, stenographers, and men and women capable of filling other positions. Families employing these unem- ployed persons may be able to secure some type of permanent jobs for them, | Dr. Stokes added. SMALL CLAIMS HEARING MAY BE ENDED TODAY Half Dozen Witnesses Remain to Be Heard by Senate D. C, Committee. ‘The Senate District Committee is scheduled to conclude hearings this afternoon on Chairman King's bill to establish a small claims and con- ciliation branch in Municipal Court. The committee will meet at 2 p.m. Half a dozen witnesses, some for and others against the propossl, re- main to be heard, after which the committee will take the question un- der advisement. As drafted, the measure would give the new branch jurisdiciton over cases involving $100 or less, but some of those who indorsed the plan at a previous hearing suggested a limita- tion of $50. The bill seeks to estab- lish a simple and inexpensive pro- cedure for settling small financial disputes. e Rum Shipped to U. 8. CHRISTIANSTED, §t. Croix Island, April 17 () —Seven cases of Virgin Island rum were shipped today to San Juan, Puerto Rico, en route to New York, in the first consignment of pure cane juice rum manufactured as a W. P. A, project. The rum, branded “Government House,” was made in 1934. The children were becoming more and more attentive to their little forum. “When you push against a hot radi- ator, what do you do?” Miss Backus asked. That was easy—move away, they all told her. “But, suppose you can't move phys- ically. If your mother was scolding you, would you move out the door?” she wondered. The unanimous denial suggested experience. It was not long, however, before they made the sug- gestion that they could move their minds away from a hot spot, even if not their bodies. Skilfully but by simple question, Miss Backus drew from the little group, all of whom were anxious to | High School Girls From 47 Will Be Retired Next Month Was Director of Service of A. E. F.—VWith U. 8. Since Then. Maj. Julia C. 8timson, chief of the Army Nurse Corps since 1919 and di- rector of the nursing service of the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War, will be retired from the Army about May 15, the War De- partment announced today. The War Department also an- nounced the appointment of Capt. Julia O. Flikke as successor to Miss Stimson, with the rank of major. Mrs. Flikke now is assistant superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps and is on duty here in the office of the surgeon general. She is a native of Wisconsin and entered the Army Nurse Corps during the World War, serving in France at several base hospitals and with hospital trains of the A. E. F. Miss Stimson, regarded as one of the world’s outstanding authorities on military nursing, is the author of a mumber of books and articles on pro- fessional subjects and war experiences. She lives at 149 Mount Vernon avenue, Arlington Ridge, Va., but lists her permanent residence as New York. Born in Worcester, Mass., May 26, 1881, Miss Stimson, the daughter of Rev. Henry A. Stimson, was educated in New York. She received an A. B. degree from Vassar College in 1901, and A. M. degree from Washington University in 1917, and an honorary science degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1921. She was graduated as a nurse at| New York Hospital in 1908 and was | superintendent of nurses at Harlem Hospital until 1910. 8he was director MAJ. JULIA C. STIMSON. A. P. Photo. of the School of Nursing at St. Louis from 1913 to the beginning of the World War, when she was sent to France as chief nurse at Base Hos- pital 21, A. E. F. She soon became director of the ursing service of the American Army in France and after the war came to Washington to take over the post she has held for 18 years. passage of the national defense act of 1920. Miss Stimson is vice president of the American Association of University Women and is active in a number of professional organizations. She holds the Distinguished Service Medal and British and Prench decorations. D.A. R ARRANGES PILGRIM PROGRAM States Will Be Guests. A full entertainment program for the 48 girl winners of the good citizen- ship pilgrimage of the Daughters of the American Revolution has been ar- ranged by Mrs. Raymond B. Kimbell, chairman of the Good Citizenship| Committee, and her aides, Mrs. Kim- bell announced today. The high school girls from 47 States, who are staying at the Lee House, and Miss Dorothea Kopsch, the District winner, will appear before the forty- sixth annual congress of the National Soclety, D. A. R., at the opening ses- | sion Monday night in Constitution Hall. The congress closes Friday. A highlight of the pre-congress ac- tivities will be the unveiling today at 4 pm. of a bronze tablet in honor of | Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, of Cooks- | burg, Pa., honorary president general| of the D. A. R., and president general from 1923 to 1926. The plaque, inscribed with the pre- amble to the Constitution, commemo- rates the fact that the construction of Constitution Hall was authorized during Mrs. Cook's presidency. The tablet is in the front corridor of the hall. Because of iliness, Mrs. Cook will not be present. | The citizenship contest victors will be entertained by members of the D. | A. R. and will visit the many historic | shrines in and about Washington. So | pleased is Mrs. Kimbell at the pil-| grimage that she remarked: ’ “Interest in the pilgrimage this year far exceeded all expectations. As a re- sult we have the finest group of high school girls ever to come to Washing- ton. Their appearance before the congress on Monday evening, I am sure, will be a brilliant feature of the congress.” Mrs. George Rohde, the former Ruth Bryan Owen, who as Minister to Den- | mark was the first woman diplomat in | United States history, is honorary chairman of the Pilgrimage Committee. | The first such trip to Washington was | arranged in 1934, | “I regard this as one of the most | important features of D. A. R. work,” | Mrs. William A. Becker, president general of the society, said of the pilgrimage. “The girls are chosen by their fellow students and faculty for| outstanding qualities of dependability, | service, leadership and patriotism.” ‘The girls here on the pilgrimage in- clude, besides Miss Kopsch, Viwan | Broome, Siluria, Ala.; Lee Ellen Smith, Jerome, Ariz.; Mauzelle Olliff, Louann, Ark.; Edythe B. Tramontini, Lodi, Calif.; Vivian Victor Barr, Loveland, Colo. Julia Fresenius, Milford, Conn.; Wilhelmina Press, Wilmington, Del.; Thelma Gray, Bradenton, Fla.; Reba H. Yarbrough, Thomaston, Ga.; Dar- lene Werner, Twin Falls, Idaho; Lor- raine Ploszek, Oak Lawn, Ill.; Marga- ret Stout, Windfall, Ind. COL. PHILIP FLEMING T0 RESIGN FROM R. A. Col. Philip Fleming, Army engineer, who was in charge of construction at the ' Passamaquoddy, Me., tidal proj- ect, announced yesterday he will re- sign from the Resettlement Adminis- tration July 1. Col. Fleming was assigned to R. A. last September at the request of Ad- ministrator Tugwell, who was im- pressed with his work at Passama- quoddy. He has acted as co-ordinator of all resettlement construction work. Col. Fleming will resume active Army duty with an assignment to the Corps of Engineers office at St. Paul, Minn. of a Fight that anger could be controlled by keeping the voice modulated and the breathing even. “Did you ever hear anybody say ‘My good man, after due considera- tion I have decided to sock you in the jaw?’” she wanted to know. No- body had. She told another story of two boys who were about to fight. They were talking furiously. A third boy came up and, turning to one, gave a beau- tiful Joe Penner imitation of “You naaasty man.” The two quarrelers were 30 amused they stopped. The whole forum got the point because when Miss Backus asked for another way to curb anger, they replied: “Make yourself laugh. You can’t keep your fists doubled when you are laughing.” That is character education by the ml*“- Bullet Did It ARNOLD YUTER, Clerk at a liquor store at 1410 Ninth street, has his hand near a hole in his leather jacket which was made by a “dum-dum” bullet fired by one of three colored bandits last night. The jacket hung open at the time of the shoot- ing. —Star Staff Photo. BANDITS ATTACK HACKER AND LERK Colored Trio Fire When First Victim Flees, Then Take - Shot at Second. Frustrated when their first pros- pective victim, a taxicab driver, leaped from his car and fled amidst a hail of | bullets last night, three colored bandits two hours later entered a liquor store at 1410 Ninth street and without warning opened fire on Arnold Yuter, 24, a clerk. A “dum-dum” bullet tore through Yuter's open leather jacket, and one of the robbers, cursing, shouted ne would kill the clerk if he attempted to resist. Yuter and Sylvan Wertleib, another clerk, stood with their hands above their heeds while the gunmen stole $55 from a cash register. While the hold-up was in progress police in scout cars were cruising in search of the bandits, whose descrip- tion had been given by Jack N. Saw- yer, 1234 U street southeast. His de- scription tallied with that given later by Yuter. Robbers “Hire” Cab, Sawyer told police the robbers hired his taxicab at Fourteenth and L streets and ordered him to drive to Fourth street and Clarks court south- east. As they neared their destina- tion one of the bandits whipped out a nickel-plated revolver and ordered him to hand over his cash, Sawyer said. Slamming on the brakes of his cab, Sawyer said, he slipped from behind the wheel and began running. Four shots whizzed by him, he added. Leonard Freedman, proprietor of the liquor store, said the bullet fired by the robbers was dug from the wall. The nose of the slug had been creased with a knife so it would spread. Parked Cars Looted. ‘Two motorists told police their parked | cars had been looted of luggage, con- taining clothing, during the night. J. A. Robertson of Henderson, N. C., clothing salesman, said samples valued at $150 were taken from his car in the 5200 block of Connecticut avenue. Alfred H. Woolston, Philadelphia, said 8 trunk containing personal effects was stolen from his car at Nortan Capitol and D streets. Arnold G. Peebles, 2028 Douglas street northeast, reported his home had ‘been entered by a robber, using a duplicate key, who made off with $35 in cash and jewelry valued at $135. Henry Portee, 1325 Seventh street, reported an envelope, containing $13, was snatched from his hand by = colored man while he was waiting for a street car yesterday at Twelfth street and Michigan avenue northeast. Demand Pay Increases. ‘Workers of Nicaragua are demand- that wages be increased to meet higher living costs. FIDELITY GROUP'S INCLUSION N NEW ASSOIATION HIT | Shareholders File Protest With Home Loan Bank Board. |PLANS FOR HEARING TUESDAY COMPLETED | Opposition to Old Officials Does Not Object to Principles in Move. A protest has been filed with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board against the proposal to include on the board of directors of the new First Federal Savings & Loan Association any one who was connected with the closed Fidelity Building & Loan As- sociation | This was learned today, as plans were completed for a hearing by the board Tuesday, when the protest will | be brought into the open. The pub- | She has had the rank of major since | 'i¢ hearing is scheduled for 2 pm._in room 7321 of the new Post Office De- partment Building, Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue. | It is for the purpose of providing the Home Loan Bank Board with complete information on the proposal to grant a charter for the First Fed= eral Savings & Loan Association to take over assets of the Fidelity and make available 85 per cent of the shareholders’ funds. The protest was formally filed, it was learned, as a result of & meeting held recently by influential persons who are understood to be large share= holders in the Pidality. At this meeting it was decided to oppose the plan already before the Home Loan Bank | Board, to include some men on the board of the new institution who had been prominent in the Fidelity. Opposition to Old Officials. The protest, it was learned, does no* oppose the principles behind the move- ment to set up a new savings and loan association in place of the Fidelity. It is not the purpose of the protest, according to reliable information, to defeat the purchase of Fidelity assets by the new First Federal. But stout objection will be made against allowing the old Fidelity officials to have any | part in the new institution. The text of the formal protest has not been | made public, but at the Home Loan | Bank Board, it was stated that the | protest was on file. | Word that the protests had been filed came as a surprise to Walter M. | Bastian, counsel for the men who | have filed application for the charter, “I know nothing about such a pro= test,” he said. “If such objection has lbeen made, it seems to me nothing | short of amazing, because these men | who were on the Fidelity board have | worked day and night in their ef- | forts to get the new institution started. They have been mainly responsible for the progress made so far.” Bastian said he would appear at | the hearing to explain the proposal to start the new Federal Savings & Loan | Association under the general plan | already approved and recommended by | the Home Loan Bank Board. To Defend Original Plan. Asked if he would defend the original plan, he said, “Of course I will.™ Bastian entered the Fidelity case after the institution was closed by the controller of the currency last July and placed in the hands of a receiver. Word that objection would be raised at the hearing has stirred keen in- | terest in what otherwise might have | been a perfunctory hearing on & pro- | Posal which previously had received | virtually the approval of the board. Although the hearing was originally scheduled for the board room in the Post Office Department Building, it was learned that plans have been made to take care of a crowd in case one shows up. As a matter of fact, pre- liminary arrangements have been made to move the hearing over to the huge Departmental Auditorium on Constitution avenue between the In- | terstate Commerce Commission and the Department of Labor. This would hold several hundred persons. 300 ARE EXPECTED AT C. A. R. SESSION Juvenile Group Meeting With D. A. R. Begins to Register. The first of 300 delegates expected | for the annual convention of the | National Society of Children of the | American Revolution began register= ing this morning at headquarters in Memorial Continental Hall Mrs. Amos A. Fries, publicity chaire | man, said she estimated today that 65 senior presidents of societies— adults in charge—also will attend the children’s convention, along with ~ national officers, headed by Mrs. C. A, Swann Sinclair, and State directors. The delegates, meeting concurrengly. with the D. A. R. and S. A. R. cof ventions, tomorrow at 1 la.m. will af tend services at Christ Church, Alex= andria, where Washington was a vestryman, and at 4 p.m. they will ba addressed by Bishop Freeman at the ‘Washington Cathedral. Although the convention formally opens Tuesday morning, the National Board of Management will meet Mon- day at 10 am. in C. A. R. head- quarters. A “get together” luncheon of national officers, State directors and senior presidents will follow at the Roosevelt Hotel. The convention will open with color bearers and pages filing into the Wom- en’s War Memorial Auditorium to the strains of “The Star and Stripes For- ever,” played by the United States Ma- rine Band. It will adjourn Thursday afternoon when the national chaplain administers the oath of office to newly- elected officers beneath the C. A. R. elm tree at Mount Vernon. The serious business of reports and speeches will be broken with music, sightseeing tours, receptions and parties. ‘Wednesday afternoon the young delegates will see the Nation's Capital, ending a tour with ceremonies in Statuary Hall at the Capitol. The two-minute reports for the so- cieties are the most important for the Juniors. Social events include “stunt night” Tuesday and reception and dance ‘ednesday night. J