Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1937, Page 21

- THE SUNDAY STAR, TRUCESCALLED ||, Mascor 1 DIVORCE GRANTED INSCHOOL STRIKE Glen Echo Heights Pupils to Retura to Classes Pend- ing Bus Plan. B¥ & Staff Correspondent ot The Star. GLEN ECHO, Md, May 8—A three-day truce was called in the strike of Glen Echo Heights parents for rerouting of school bus service, after a conference with Dr. Edwin W. Broome, county school superintendent, this afternoon. At a mass meeting in the home of Mrs. Annie L. Morris on Walhonding road, attended by more than 30 moth- ers and fathers of pupils of Glen Echo- Cabin John School, Dr. Broome ex- plained that routing of busses was in the hands of the School Board, which meets Tuesday. He promised to inves- tigate the feasibility of having busses make a loop through the heights with county road officials and a committee or members of the parents' group Monday afternoon in order to make a factual report to the board the fol- lowing day. Officer Is Offered. Meanwhile, a county police officer would be placed at the intersection of Walhonding and Conduit roads to protect children waiting there for the bus, he said. Parents were firm in their demand for bus service on Walhonding and ‘Tuscarawas roads and emphaticaliy rejected Dr. Broome's offer of a traf- fice officer as inadequate. They agreed to send their children back to school Monday, however, and to take them to the bus stop or to the school itself until Wednesday to allow time for a plan to be worked out. 50 Kept From School. More than 50 children from the Glen Echo Heights section have been kept away from school by their parents since last Monday, when Jacqueline Roberts, §, and two schoolmates were injured by a car while waiting for the bus at the Conduit road bus stop. Jacqueline suffered a compound frac- ture of the left leg and is in George- town Hospital. Clarence W. Sands, secretary of the Glen Echo Heights Citizens' Associa- tion, was instructed to call a meeting of the group Wednesday to report on whether the roads are found suitable | for school bus travel. EGG PRICES DECLINE, BUT POULTRY INCREASES Bureau Reports Evidence of Large | Storage Stocks and Strong Consumer Demand. ‘The Agriculture Department, through its Bureau of Agricultural Economics, disclosed yesterday that farm prices of chickens have increased more than seasonally in recent weeks while the market prices of eggs have declined. | Summarizing the poultry and egg situation of the past 30 days, the bureau reported also “the growing evidence of a large carryover storage stock of frozen poultry by July 1 and the continued increase of storage stocks of eggs above those of 1936.” Strong consumer demand was given as the chief contributing factor for the rise in farm prices of chickens in the face of heavy receipts of* poultry and large storage stocks. Eggs are going into storage at a rate about 26 per cent greater than at this time last year, the bureau re- ported, and this heavy supply will tend to lessen the usual seasonal price advance during the last half of the year. MRS. NORTON SPEAKER BEFORE KIWANIANS Chairman of House District Com- mittee to Discuss Local Legislation. Mrs. Mary T. Norton, chairman of the House District Committee, will discuss District legislation at the | weekly luncheon meeting of the " Kiwanis Club| next Thursday at | t h e Mayflewer Hotel. Mrs. Norton, New Jersey Dem- | ocrat, will be a | special “ladies’ day” guest of the club. She is ex- pected to explain numerous bills affecting local citizens and to take up other matters of inter- est to the Dis- trict. Wives and daughters of Kiwanis members have been invited to attend the meeting, for which a program par- ticularly suited to “ladies’ day” has | been arranged. Mrs. Norton. Cash for Worker Who Lost $57 Pay Messenger Given $36 ‘After Navy Is Unable to Locate Envelope. ‘When the paternalistic efforts of the office of the Secretary of the Navy failed to find a veteran colored mes- senger’s lost pay envelope, 15 sympa- thetic superiors of the employe re- cently donated most of the cash dif- ference, it was learned last night. Nathaniel Hedgeman of 1130 Forty- eighth place, an employe of the de- partment since the Wilson administra- tion, dropped his envelope, containing $57, somewhere in the huge building on April 30. ‘When he reported his loss, the Sec- retary’s administrative assistant im- mediately sent memoranda, appegl- ing for return of the money, to every Navy Department office. ‘When the official communique failed to locate the funds, 10 officers and five civilians, attached to the fout departmental boards for which Hedge- man carried messages, donated $36 to ease the loss.” The contributors com- prise the membership and secretarial staffs of the Naval Examining, Naval Retiring and Naval Medical Exam- ining Boards and the Board of Med- ical Examiners. Grateful for the administrative ef- forts of the Secretary's office and the | generosity of his superiors, Hedgeman { the trans-Atlanti€ service, were deliv- | | ciation, with this in mind. last. -night “doubted” that his two- » week salary would ever be found. » DUCK ADOPTED BY LOCAL BUREAU. “2%,” the duck mascot of the District of Columbia Un- employment Compensation Board, shown with Emma Rock, 1824 Belmont road, of the personnel of the board. The duck makes its home at the board headquarters at 470 Indiana avenue and goes to the base ball games played by the board team as well as to the tennis matches in which the feminine members of the personnel take part. —Star Staff Photo. IRISH GRANT PERMIT FOR AIRWAYS BASE Trans-Atlantic Experimental Flights Expected to Begin in Few Weeks. A permit issued by the Irish Pree State government to Pan-American Airways for use of a base in Ireland for its proposed trans-Atlantic service has been received by the Commerce De- partment and forwarded to the airline, it was announced yesterday by As- sistant Secretary of Commerce J. Mop- roe Johnson. Permits by Great Britain and Can- ada, the other countries concerned in ered to Juan Trippe, president of the airline; by Secretary Roper at a cere- | mony in the Commerce Department | two weeks ago. Foynes, on the River Shannon, in Southwestern Ireland, is designated by the Free State government as the landing place for Pan-American planes operating across the Atlantic. Experimental flights are expected to begin within a few weeks, to be fol- lowed by regular service probably in the Fall. Pan-American will operate the service jointly with British Im- | perial Airways. BIDS FOR BATTLESHIP TO BE OPENED JUNE 17 Navy Department Announces One of Two Vessels Will Be Built in Navy Yard. Secretary Swanson yesterday an- nounced that the date for open- ing bids for building one of the two new battleships has been extended from June 2 to June 17. Navy Department officials ex- plained that the other new battle- ship will be built in a Navy Yard, under the terms of the Vinson-Tram- mell act. While Navy Yards that are in a position to construct a battle- ship are making up estimates of cost, officials said that these figures will not be made public. The allocation of a new battleship 0 the successful Navy Yard will be made at the same time the Navy Department makes public the name of the successful private contractor, officials asserted. It is quite possible, officials de- clared that both battleships will be constructed in Navy Yards if the figures from the private contractors are considered too high. CAT SHOW PLANNED Congressional Pet Society to Spon- sor It December 4 and 5. The Congressional Pet Society is planning a cat show here December 4 and 5, Mrs. Grace L. Costinett, pres- ident, annoanced yesterday. The or- ganization is especially interested in promoting the long and short haired cat, and has arranged the show, under the rules of the American Cat Asso- Honorary members of the society, which was organized last February, are Mrs. Henry Litchfield West of Washington, Mrs. George D. Kessler of Chicago, secretary of the associa- tion, and Mrs. Eva T. Harris of Cali- TOMRS.E.C.BELL Wife of Virginian Who Was Cenvicted in Poisoning Wins Decree. By the Associated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 8.— An absolute divorce from her hus- band, Edward C. Bell, was granted to Mrs. Madge W. Bell by Judge Fred- erick W. Coleman in Corporation Court here today. Mrs. Bell earlier had flled a bill for divorce and she and her daughter, Miss Irma “Bell, testified that Bell had been sent to prison for a felony and had not re- sumed warital relations since his release, Bell, who was sentenced to three years in the State penitentiary on March 13, 1935, upon conviction for poisoning his wife, did not appear in the proceedings but filed & formal an- swer through counsel in which no ma- terial contest of the allegations was made and agreeing to an amicable property settlement which had been arranged with his wife. Under Virginia law neither party can remarry for six months. Bell was released from the peni- tentiary last July, his term having been reduced for good behavior since which time he has not returned to his home in Fredericksburg. For a while he lived in Washington but at present is making his home in Richmond. Under the property settlement, Mrs. Bell is to receive an annual income for life of $3,500 for her maintenance and support, payment of this sum to be secured by a trust deed on all real estate in Fredericksburg owned by Mr. Bell. Upon the death of either party the income from the trust will go to the other principal. After the death of both, the property will be transferred to their two children, Miss Irmia Bell and Edward C. Bell, jr, both of ‘whom are over 21 years of age. The 62-year-old man was formerly prominent in the business, religious and social life of this community. His health has not been good since his release from prison. Mrs. Bell, who still resides here, is enjoying good health and has recov- ered from the effects of the poisoning for which her husband was convicted and sentenced. W. Marshall King was counsel for Mrs. Bell and Bell was represented by Francis B. Gouldman. WINS GORGAS PRIZE WITH HEALTH ESSAY Miss Kathryn C. Coombs Is Awarded $10 in D. C. Division of Institute Contest. Miss Kathryn C. Coombs, 633 Emer- son street, student at Holy Trinity High School, has been awarded first prize for the District of Columbia in the eighth contest conducted on sub- Jects of health and sanitation by the Gorgas Memorial Institute. The sub- ject of this year’s contest was “The Im- portance of Mosquito Control and the Gorgas Memorial.” Winners in various parts of the country were announced yesterday by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chair- man of the institute’s Board of Di- rectors. Miss Coombs will be awarded & $10 State prize and her manuscript will be considered with the winners from other States for five national prizes. These range from $500 in cash and & $200 travel fund to honorable mention. John Seybold of Richard Montgom- ery High School, Rockville, won first prize for Maryland, and the Virginia prize went to Mildred B. Wiltshire, John Marshall High School, Richmond. WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY WASHINGTON ATTORNEY HEADS SIGMA NU PHI Godfrey L. Munter Honored by Legal Fraternity—L. R. San- ford Elected Registrar. Godfrey L. Munter, local attorney and member of the faculty at National University Law School, has been elected lord high chancellor of Sigma Nu Phi Legal Fraternity, it was announced yes- terday. . Munter was © unanimously se- . lected to. head “ the fraternity at : its recent conven- tion in Atlanta, Ga. Other officers " elected were: Otis L. Hathcock of Atlanta, first lord vice chan- cellor; Donald L. Castle of Detroit, second lord vice chancellor; Carlyle 8. Baer, Consul General of Bulgaria, grand master of the rolls; A. De Vitt Vanech, Justice Department, grand custodian of the seal; Leigh R. San- ford, Washington attorney, grand registrar of the exchequer, and John Allison Lathanan, jr., Portland, Oreg., grand marshal. The'frlusrnlty, which was founded here, has chapters at leading univer- sities in this country and Canada. Godfrey L. Munter. Will Attend Boys’ Club Session. Charles M. Fyfe, executive director of the Boys' Club of Washington; Charles Reynolds, athletic director, and Clarence Richardson, director of the Georgetown branch, will leave to- night. for New York to attend the an- nual convention of the Boys’ Clubs of America. The four-day session will begin tomorrow at the Commodore Hotel. 9, 1937—PART ONE. * B3 GEORGETOWN U. DENTAL ALUMNI WILL BANQUET Prominent Professional Men and Athletic Directors Will Be Guests Saturday. Prominent professional men and athletic directors will be guests of the District Chapter of the George- town University Dental Alumni As- sociation at & banquet Saturday eve- ning in the Washington Hotel. William E. Leahy, law graduate of the 1912 class and president also of Columbus Law School, and Dr. J. P. Burke, president elect of the Dental Alumni, will be principal speakers. Dr. Joseph F. Manley, general chairman in charge, announced the following guests of honor: Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary, S. J, president of Georgetown University; Rev. Da- vid V. McCauley, regent of the School of Dentistry and dean of the School of Medicine; Dr. William N. Cogan, dean of the Dental School; Dr. J. L. B. Murray, associate dean; Dr. C. Wil- lard Camalier, president-elect of the American Dental Association; Dr. G. Albert Smith, president of the Dis- #rict of Columbia Dental Association; | E. Barrett Prettyman, president of the Georgetown Law Sthool Alumni Association; Jack Hagarty, George- town foot ball coach, and Joe Judge, base ball coach at the university. D. C. STUDENT HONORED Thomas 8. Ryon of Washington, a senior at Trinity College of Duke University, has been named business manager of the Archive, student lit- erary monthly, for the next year, it was announced yesterday. This is one of the highest elective offices open to a Duke student. Ryon, son of Norman E. Ryon, 1329 Delafield place, was graduated from! Central High School in 1934. He| has been active in a number of other | student, organizations. ‘GYPSY QUEEN’ ACCUSED | Rose Bimbo and Man to Face Rob- bery Charge. BOSTON, May 8 (#).—Deputy Po- lice Supt. James R. Claflin said today | Boston detectives would arrive in Indianapolis, Ind., May 13 to take into custody James Miller and Rose Bimbo, self-styled “gypsy queen,” in connection with & robbery in Boston. Claflin said the pair had been in- dicted for rcobery of Mrs. Linda Cheng, white wife of a Boston Chi- nese physician, who reported she had been beaten and robbed of $3,500 after she went to a gypsy tea room to have her fortune told. PARK SYSTEM PLANNING SUMMER ART CLASSES Miss Pherne Miller, Niece of Famed Poet of Sierras, Will Instruct All Ages. Edward Kelly, administrative as- sistant to C. Marshall Finnan, super- intendent of the National Capital| parks, announced yesterday that Miss Pherne Miller, niece of the famed “Poet of the Sierras,” Joaquin Miller, will conduct. art classes for persons of all ages this Summer under the auspices of the park system. Registration will be held from 10 am. to 4 p.m. next Saturday at the Joaquin Miller Cabin, Beach drive, north of Military road in Rock Creek | Park. Classes will be held on Satur- | days, from 10 am. to 4 p.m., until July 7, when the schedule will change | to classes on Wednesdays, Fridays and | Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., last- | ing until August 30. Two lectures will be delivered each day and the rest | of the time will be devoted to actual work. Guest lecturers will be heard. Kelly said the curriculum will in- | clude the principles of art, water color, oil and pastel. Sculpturing will be given this year and papier-mache CONVENTION BY PI GAMMA MU PLANNED Honorary Social Science Society Event Set for Saturday at American U. Pi Gamma Mu, nationsl honorary social science society, will hold its annual Acantic region convention next Saturday at American Tniversity in conjunction with the annual din= ner of the four local chapters of the society. The convention, over which Dr, Francis E. Lucey, 8. J., regional chane cellor, will preside, will open at 2 p.m. With a brief report by the delegates of the various chapters Societies in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District will be represented. Dr. S. Howard Patterson, nationa) treasurer of Pi Gamma Mu, will re~ port on activities and condition of the society, and Dr. John Donaldson, second national vice president, will speak on “Immediate Problems of Pi Gamma Mu.” After a general discussion of probe lems of the chapters and suggestions for future growth and policies, Da Josef Solterer, professor of economice in the graduate school of Georgew town University, will speak on the “Relationship Between Justice and Economics.” The evening banquet, at which chapters at Georgetown, American, Catholic and George Washington Universities will induct 55 new mem= bers, will be held at 2400 Sixteenth street at 7 pm. Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa will speak on “Ameri= can Neutrality and World Peace.” Dr. Andrew J Kress, lieutenan$ governor of the District of Columbia province, is in charge of arrange- ments for the banquet. - . 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