Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1937, Page 2

HEALTH OFFIGERS 0 MEET FRIDAY Maryland’s ,17th Annual Conference Will Be Held in Baltimore. B5 the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, May 13.—All the ocounty health officers and officials of the Health Department of Baltimore and Maryland will meet Friday at Johns Hopkins University for their seventeenth annual conference. Dr Robert H. Riley, State health director, will be in charge of the morn- ing session, while Dr. Huntington Wil hams, commissioner of health for Bal- timore City, will preside during the afternoon. Dr. Mark Welsh, State veterinarian, will describe Mar d's program for control of Bang's disease. Dr. Leroy L. Burney of the United States Public Health Service will speak on some Pproblems in the control of syphilis. Dr. Roderick Heffron, former field director of the Massachuseits Pneu- monia Study, will explain the pneu- monia program in that Sta Discus- sions at the morning session will be led by Dr. W. Ross Cameron, county health officer of Washington County, and Dr. Lloyd D. Felton of the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Miss Katherine F. Lenroot, chief of the United States Children's Bureau, will speak on Federal and State co- operation in promoting maternal and child health. The discussion will be led by Dr. J. H. Nason Knox. jr., chief of the Bureau of Child Hvgiene of the State Health Department. A review of tuberculosis in Maryland will be given by Dr. Allen W. Freeman, dean of the Honkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Victor F. Culler, superintendent of Maryland tuberculosis sanatoria, and Dr. Sam- uel Wolman, president of the Mary- land Tuberculosis Association, will + have charge of the discussion, 15,000 EMPLOYED IN TOURIST CAMPS .Business Involves $25,000,000 Annually and Is Increasing, Says Census Bureau. Bs the Associated Press. Running tourist camps has become a $25,000,000 al business, engag- ing more than 15,000 persons in the United States. The Census Bureau said today 9,848 establishments were catering exclusively to tin-can tourists and nomads of the roads in 1935. Commerce Department officials estimated the number of camps, in- fluenced by the popularity of the auto trail has increased sharply since the cen! More than a quarter of the camps are in four States—California, Texas, Colorado and Minnesota, California slone has 1440, - GUATEMALA BARS INSURGENT SHIPS Minister Recinos Says Country Would Not Permit Vessels to Use Its Ports. Br the Assoctated Press. Minister Adrian Recinos said today Guatemala would not allow use of its seaports by any Spanish insurgent armed ship that might be sent to the of Yucatan to prey on vessels 1g supplies from Mexico to the Lovalist government of Spain. The envoy referred to a letter pur- ported to bear the names of Manuel Garcla and Marcelino Diaz, New York shipping agents, which was read in the Senate Mondav by Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota. It sug- gested an armed raider might be provisioned in Guatemala, “a friendly Acting on instructions from the Guatemalan foreign office, Dr. Recinos said: “The government of Guatemala could not permit any port in the country to serve as base or place of provisioning for vessels which might pretend to bring to the waters of this hemisphere the bloody war now raging in Spain.” CLUBWOMEN SELECT PRESIDENT IN BETHESDA Erecial Dispatch to The Star. BETHESDA, Md, May 13.—Mrs. L. L. Nicholson, was yesterday elected president of the Woman's Club ot Bethesda, She will succeed Mrs, N, F. Rabner, Elected to serve with Mrs. Nicholson are Mrs. Edward Morrison and Mrs. Reginald B. Looker, first and second vice presidents. respectively: Mrs. J. W, Bulger, recording secretary; Mrs. J. Reed Bradley, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Harry J. Pirie, treasurer. Mrs. L, A. Gravelle was re-elected his- torian and Mrs. J. B. Hutson parlia- mentarian. The retiring president, Mrs. Rabner, Wwas presented with a silver gift, Congress in Brief TODAY, Senate: Debates $870,000,000 agriculture ap- propriation bill. Judiciary Subcommittee resumes hearings on O'Mahoney licensing bill. Interstate Commerce Committee eontinues rail financing inquiry, House: Considers Interior Department ap- Ppropriation bill. Appropriations Committee considers relief bill. Interstate Commerce Committee studies new railroad retirement legis- lation. - TOMORROW. Senate: May not be in session if agricul- ture supply bill passes today. * Banking and Currency Subcom- mittee, hearings, 10:30 am, on a bill relating to Philippine currency Teserve. Military affairs, meeting. "House: * Continues debate on Interior De- Partment appropriation bill. Public Lands Committee resumes hearings on bill relating to revested Oregon and California Rallroad, 10 am. 4 A regular weekly Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PARTING IN VIENNA. HERE'S nothing like Vienna's sense of humor.” The doctor said it with a wry face as he recounted the misadventures of his dress pants. He is one of the most eminent of Washington specialists, in the Aus- trian capital last Summer for post- graduate study of his specialty. Invited for dinner at the home of the American Minister, he sent his eve- ning clothes to be pressed. The suit Was returned., with the wrong pants. | The hotel manager received his com- plaints with exaggerated courtesy, but seemed inwardly to be laughing about something. “We can do nothing, nothing.” he said. “Your pants are now halfway to Athens. The gentleman who also g0t the wrong pants left this morn- ing.” Temporarily, the Washington doctor got out of an awkward situation by borrowing the hotel manager's pants for the dinner. But this was only the beginning. For days after when the doctor appeared around the hotel the servants seemed to be snickering. Finally, he could stand it no longer. “What the devil are you laughing t.” he demanded of the doorman. “About your pants,” replied that | functionary. ou see, it is not vo1 who have our sympathy. No! No! It 1s the Greek gentleman. He is often | our guest. He is a great lover—oh, a | very great lover. He went to Athens to meet a so lovely lady. And he will | have only your pants. They will come but to his knees. Ah, it will be so embarrassing for the great lover. It :s not you who have our sympathy.” ‘They still were snickering when the doctor left Vienna, after several more adventures in the Odyssey of his pants, which included having a pair made for him modeled after the style the tailor {saw pictured in & 10-year-old Amer- | lcan movie magazine * % ok % TIME FLIES. A young newspaper woman here= abouts, accustomed to smappy ac- tions of city rooms, is beginning to worry. Seems that about sz months ago she made application with the Civil Service Commission to take a certain announced exami- nation. She had noted that “photo- graphs taken within two years” must be submitted on the day of the test, so she rushed to the photographer at once. Now siz months have gone by and the actual eramination has not yet been given. At this rate, she figures, by the time she takes the quiz the photo- | graph will be outmoded by the statute of limitations or something. Or, if the matter is delayed much longer, she may be old, gray-haired, walking with a cane and getting in her application for an old-age pen- sion. Then, to carry the matter to absurdity, if old-age pensions take a similarly long time—well, you finish it. a * % * % JUNE. JUNE PREISSER, younger of the famous dancing sisters who once lived in Washington but who comes back now only to play the town, is one of those stage personalities whom critics always say are “going places.” One of our operatives, however, has | |8 suspicion that June had better keep {her favorite sport from becoming known (watch us give it away) if she | does not want something serious to | happen to her. | ‘9 like to take pictures of people— without any film in the camera,” she confessed to our man back-stage re- cently. “They always look so serious | about it, especially London police- men.” | That ought to give you an idea 6f the kind of person June is. * x ok x DECEIVED. N ELDERLY Colonial Dame issued | ™ from an uptown hotel one after- noon last week and made a sign with her stick to indicate to the doorman that she wished a taxicab. It was a warm day and the first hacker to pull up before the visiting | delegate was in his shirt sleeves. | The lady waved the taxicab on with | her stick. | “He won't do, doorman,” she ex- | claimed. “I won't ride behind a driver who wears no coat!” | Another cab was summoned, then another and another . . . seven in all. The lady delegate smiled regally when the eighth pulled up before her, and entered his cab with & smile of satisfaction. The lady’s eyesight must have been bad because the eighth hacker was also coatless—only he was wearing one of those black shirts which are something of a vogue. * x X x WHIM. SPEAK!NG of back-stage at the theater, a whimsical Washing- tonian walked through the long court leading to the street the other eve- ning and on the way got one of the best ddeas he has had in weeks. Noticing the crowd of celebrity-seers, it occurred to him that it would be nice to taste public acclaim for one brief moment. e en__ So he turned up his coat collar. pulled down his hat, ducked his head and walked quickly into the street. It worked all right for a few sec- onds. Pretty sure any one who took all that trouble to dodge his public must be & big shot, several members of the crowd followed him to a point where light from a cafe window re- vealed him for what he was—just a practical joker. * ok % % CRIME. Even the birds in Washington are epparently converted to epart= A NG WEISS DESCRIBES WENDEL TORTURE Ellis Parker, Jr., Said to Have Ordered His Seizure. By the Assoctated Press. NEWARK, N. J, May 13.—A con- fessed participant in the alleged kid- naping of Paul H. Wendel described it at the Parker conspiracy trial in Federal Court today and said Ellis H. Parker, jr, both ordered and wit- nessed the seizure and visited the vic- tim frequently during his confinement. Harry Welss, who pleaded guilty with two others when put on trial with Burlington County Detective Chief Ellis H. Parker and his son, told of the imprisonment of Wendel in Brook- lyn, where Wendel said he was tor- tured into a false confession that he kidnaped the Lindbergh baby. He named Martin Schlossman and Murray Bleefield, both of whom plead- ed guilty to the Federal indictment, as participants. One Meal in Three Days. Wendel had but one meal in three or four days, Weiss said, and during the torture Wendel screamed with pain. While Wendel was writing, Weiss said, Bleefleld made suggestions to him and went to the next room re- peatedly to confer with Parker, jr. Weiss said he objected to young Parker about the torture, telling him “I couldn't see any reason for treat- ing him this way.” “Parker said he (Wendel) was a v smart fellow,” Weiss stated, and “you've either got to give him the silent treatment or beat it out of him.” Weiss said Parker, jr., suggested a “third-degree” method and described the alleged manner of spreading Wen- del's legs and arms. This was done the fourth day of the imprisonment, | he said. Started Writing Next Day. ‘Wendel “started writing” the follow- ing day, he said Parker, jr. and Bleefeld conversed outside the torture room, he said, and Parker never got in Wendel's range of vision. “He told me,” Weiss testified, “that Mr. Wendel knew him and he didn't want Wendel to see him.” Weiss described later tortures, say- ing Bleefeld held a lighted electric light bulb on Wendel's face “and I struck him on the face and shoulders and legs with my hand and a piece of rope.” Weiss described the seizure of Wen- del in front of his hotel in New York and said young Parker watched from across the street. SOCIETY TO HONOR SENATOR COPELAND Pi Gamma Mu to Present Key for Service in Social Science. Senator Royal S. Copeland, Demo- crat of New York, will be presented with the Pi Gamma Mu honor key for distinguished service in social science at the annual banquet Saturday night of four Washington chapters of the National Honorary Social Science Society. The banquet, which will begin at 7 o'clock, will be held at 2400 Sixteenth street. Dr. Ricardo Al- faro, former Panamanian president a n d Minister to the United States, will be present to see his son, Ro- gelio Alfaro, in- ducted as a mem- ber of the society. Rogelio, a student at the Georgetown Foreign Service School, will be one of 62 students of Georgetown, George Washington, American and Catholic Universities who will become members at the banquet. Among other distinguished guests at the dinner will be Dr. Charles Ellwood, professor of sociology at Duke Univere sity, the society’'s national president. The banquet is being held in con- Junction with the annual regional con- vention of chapters in Delaware, Mary- land, Virginia and the District of Columbia. KREML WILL SPEAK ON TRAFFIC CONTROL District and Federal Officials to Hear Expert at Dinner Tonight. District and Federal Government officials will gather at a dinner at the | Willard Hotel tonight to hear Lieut. Franklin M. Krem], one of the coun- try’s foremost authorities on traffic control and accident prevention, who recently won the C. I. T. Safety Foundation's $5,000 prize for out- standing accomplishments in the field of traffic during 1936. Lieut. Krem] will discuss his accl- dent prevention system, which has been established in a number of cities in Eastern United States. The youthful traffic expert is ex- pected to study traffic conditions in ‘Washington during his stay here, and discuss possible remedial measures with Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer, Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown and other city officials. Senator Copeland. Now You Tell One. ELKO, Nev.—Three automobiles, all from Californiy overturned at the same spot on a highway 45 miles south during the past three weeks. Blow- outs in the same wheel caused the accidents. All occurred at the same hour. All three cars were insured by the same company. ment house living, for in a certain bush near the gate of the Bureau of Standards there were two nests this Spring, separated only by a matter of a foot, and the nest of the robin was directly above the nest of the cardinal. But living in apartment houses such as these is rather risky some- times, for apparently murder was committed. All that was left of the cardinal was a fluff of feathers, and the robin had fled from her | international | realization that we were bucking a | practical monopoly. | lished radio circuits to ships at sea, | nest. However, the call of house- keeping was apparently greater than her fear, for in a day or so the robin returned, settled down in her upper apartment (ezcuse us, nest) and so far no further mure ders have desn STAR, MAGKAY CHARGES R.C.A. MONOPOLY Accuses Communications Board of Sanctioning Con- trol in Suit Filed Here. Charging that the Federal Com- munications Commission is sanctioning monopolistic control by R. C. A. Com- munications, Inc, of radiotelegraph service to Europe, the Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., Inc., today petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for “relief.” A long notice of appeal flled on be- half of the company by Donald Rich- berg and associates requested she court to reverse the commission’s recent de- cislon denying Mackay Radio a direct radiotelegraph circuit between this country and Norway. “The fundamental issue,” the court was told, “is whether there shall be & monopoly as against competition in public service radiotelegraph com- munication.” ‘The commission's denial of a license for the Norway service, the petition asserted, leaves the Radio Corporation of America's subsidiary in sole control of radiotelegraph communication with Norway and “continues and sanctions a monopoly.” Seen Contrary to Congress. “The denial is contrary to the policy of the Congress directed against monopolies and restraints of trade and commerce.” the petition stated. “The denial flouts the specific prohi- bition set forth by the Congress in the anti-trust laws and repeated and emphasized in the communications act of 1934.” Coincident with the filing of the petition, Clarence H. Mackay, presi- dent of the company, issued through Richberg a statement declaring inten- tion of Mackay Radio to “carry this case to the highest courts.” “It is utterly inexplicable to me how the F. C. C. could take such action,” Mackay said. “The Radio Corporation of America, which has the only direct commercial radio circuit to Norway, opposed the granting of Mackay Radio’s application, while the Federa- tion of Labor and certain commercial interests supported the application, “The commission fitself was not unanimous on the question, for two of the commissioners supported the posi- tion of Mackay Radio, dissenting from the decision. Cites Sherman Act. “Congress in the Sherman act of 1890 condemned monopolies in re- straint of trade in interstate and foreign commerce. The Clayton act fortified this prohibition. By the radio act of 1927 and the communications Aact of 1934 Congress accentuated this policy against monopoly and made it expressly applicable to communica- tions by radio * * * “Yet in spite of the affirmative ac- tion by Congress in prohibiting monop- olies in international communicatior, in spite of the unwillingness of Cor.- gress to take any steps to change this situation—though the change was recommended by the F. C. C.; in spite of the fact that a consent decree exists against the Radio Corp. be- cause of action by the Department of Justice, and in spite of the precedent set by the old Federal Radio Commis- sion. recognizing the need for com- petition—to all intents and purposes the Federal Communications Commis- sion in denying the Mackay Radio & circuit to Oslo, Norway, is helping to establish a monopoly in international radio. “Of course Mackay Radio has just begun to fight. We went into the radio field with the We have estao- to the Orient and to South America. We have made an excellent start on | competitive service to Europe. “The last thing we expected was that an agency of the United States Gov- | ernment, and particularly of this ad- ministration, which has stood against monovoly, would deny the right of fair competition to an American com- munication company.” Listed as associate counsel in the court action were Richberg's law firm, of which Ambassador to Russia Joseph E. Davies is a member; Raymond N. Beebe of the same firm, Howard L. Kern, John H. Wharton and Adrien F. Busick. F. C. C. Findings Held Arbitrary, The attorneys listed 24 specific rea- sons for appealing from the commis- sion’s order of April 24 denying Mac- kay Radio's application. They charged that the findings were “arbitrary and capricious” on many grounds. The petition pointed out that the telegraph division of the commission first denied the application on June 3 of last year, and that Mackay Radio appealed to the full commission June 15 for a rehearing, which was granted, but which was limited to oral argu- ments. ‘The two members of the commission who dissented from the majority rul- ing of April 24 are George Henry Payne, vice chairman of the telegraph division, and Paul A. Walker, chair- man of the telephone division. Mackay Radio's petition claims it is “the only carrier which has made any progress toward providing any real radiotelegraph competition against the Radio Corp. system in this field.” “The history of appellant,” the peti- tion stated, “is a record of a strug- gle against the monopolistic position of Radio Corp. of America in the fleld of foreign communication. “On the one side was the Radio Corp. with its cross-licensing patent monopoly and its exclusive contrac- tual monopoly of radiotelegraph com- munications with foreign govern- ments, administrations and corpora- tions, and on the other side was ap- pellant, engaging in ship-to-shore and domestic radiotelegraph, and at- tempting to secure a footing in such foreign fields as were still left open and free from exclusive arrange- ments of Radio Corp. of America. Department of Justice Action. “In 1930 the Department of Justice entered the picture, instituting an anti-trust proceeding against the Radio Corp. of America, R. C. A. Communications, Inc., and others. As a result of this proceeding and supplemental petitions filled in the proceeding by the United States di- rected at the exclusive traffic agree- ments of Radio Corp. and R. C. A. Communications, an amended consent decree was entered on July 2, 1835, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.” Under this decree, 1t was stated, the Radio Corp. was forced to relinquish advantages it had under cross-licensing agreements and exclu- sive traffic agreements. In turning down the Mackay ap- plication for Norway service, the F. O, O, beld thet “public conwenisnce ) WASHINGTON | Basque defenders before them. D. C, THUR Watch as Heroic Mother Dies Their faces mirroring their grief, this trio watch a fire in their South Side Chicago apart- ment today in which two loved ones died. The three are Antone Witkowski, 42, center, and his sons, Henry, 22, left, and John 14. As . .ey watched, Antone’s wife, Helen, was suffocated in a heroic DAY, MAY 13, 1937. effort to save another son, Stephen, 11, who also died. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. FIGHT FOR BILBAD FLAMES 15 MILES General Engagement Along Extended Front Rolls Up Loyalist Lines. BACKGROUND— For weeks Gen. Franco's Fascist forces have been pounding Bilbao, last loyalist port on the northern coast of Spain and center of im- portant coal and iron mines. Is0- lated, desperate, the Basques have sent thousands of women and chil- dren out of the city by British and French vessels, and are now fight- ing to the last man to withstand the siege. Br the Assoctated Press. GUERNICA, Spain, May 13.—Gen Francisco Franco's northern insurgent army rolled government lines nearer the Basque capital of Bilbao today in a general engagement along a 15-mile battle front, which reached at some points within five miles of the be- leaguered city. From the north and the east, the Insurgent troops pressed their drive to crush the defenses of the city where refugees have swelled the popu- lation to over 300,000. Insurgent fivers rained bombs on the town of Munguia, 7 miles north of Bilbao. Government reports said the air raids threatened to convert Munguia into a “second Guernica,” the Basque holy city left in ruins after plane attacks two weeks ago that | killed an estimated 800 persons. Insurgent planes prepared the way | for the attack, bombing and strafing | with machine gun fire the Basque en- trenchments on the slopes of the | green hills. Infantry Captures Heights. The heights north and just east of Manguia, fell into insurgent hands shortly after the attack opened, as wave after wave of infantry swept the Artillery and planes found the range of the retreating government troops and harassed them into the city of Munguia itself, which was placed under steady bombardment. To the south, midway on the front, Basque artillery shelled the crest of Mount Biscargi in a futile effort to recapture the mountain from which they were driven with loases of 2,500 men in one of the most gruesome battles of the offensive. Government Claims Gains. MADRID, May 13 (#).—Insurgent defenders of Toledo, once capital of the ancient Moorish kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, were reported to- day to have been driven from front line trenches just south of the city. Government columns were said to be steadily advancing in the major offensive to recapture Toledo, an im- portant base for insurgent operations on the Madrid or central Spanish front. Toledo is 40 miles south and slightly west of here. Insurgents in the old imperial city, lost by the government when its siege of the Alcazar Military School was broken last October, were reported by the government to have been freshly reinforced by Moorish and German troops. (Insurgent reports from Toledo, picturing the battle as one of the bloodiest of the civil war, carried esti- mates of the number of government dead as 3,000 and said the govern- ment land offensive had been shat- tered against an 8-mile front south of the Tajo River, skirting the south- ern edge of the city. e Municipal housing projects in Cork, Irish Free State, have been held up by a strike of builders. and necessity” would not be served by grenting the competitive service. It held that there is “intense com- petition” at present for the Norway trefic between cable compenies and radio companies. The Mackay petition charges, on the other hand, that R. C. A. Com- munications has virtually eliminateq the Commercial Cable Co. as a com- petitor because the former has the advantage of an arrangement where- by 50 per cent of radio traffic tolls goes to the Norwegian Administra- tion, controlling communications in that country. ‘ The legal battle begun today may have reverberations in Congress, where there has been agitation for an investigation of the F. C. C. Rep- resentative Oonnery, Democrat, of Massachusetts has introduced s reso- lution for such an inquiry, alleging existence of a monopoly in radio. Senator White, Republican, of Maine Harry K. Thaw’s Virginia Farm Advertised in Sale for Debt; Special Dispatch to The Star. WTNC!’?EST!’R, Va., May 13.—Harry | K. Thaw, erstwhile Prederick County‘ farmer, who recently went to Purope, saying he would get eye treatment in | Berlin and “take off at least 17, pounds” at a PFrench spa, may lose his Kenilworth country home sev- | eral miles north of here as well as | some of his weight. | A legal advertisement appeared to-| day over the name of R. Grav Wil-| liams, trustee, announcing that Thaw's farm will be offered for sale at public | auction June 15 at the request of a local bank, holding debts secured by | & deed of trust. ‘The indebtedness, it was stated, con- sists of five bonds of $2,000 each in | the first lien, all of of which were de- | clared to be overdue, and a second lien | by which a $5,000 bond, also allegedly | overdue, is secured. The present Kenilworth farm contains 56 acres. The large man- BRODNE RENANED N MONTEONERY Superintendent Given New Term as School Board Reorganizes. Epecial Dispatch to The Btar ROCKVILLE, Md, May 13.—The Montgomery County Board of Educa- tion reorganized at its May meeting here by electing Dr. E. F. Kohman, president, and Mrs. Daniel C. Walser, vice president. Dr. Kohman succeeds Thomas C. Darby and Mrs. Walser takes the place of George W. Davis, whose term recently expired. The other members of the board are Mrs, Julius Hall, Julius Stadler, Elmer E. Boyner and Mr. Darby The board reappointed Dr. Edwin W. Broome county superintendent of schools for a four-year term begimming August 1. Trustees Named. School trustees were named as fole lows, there being two holdovers in each case: Laytonsville, Mowatt Wind- ham; Unity, August Priebe; Etchison, William Gue; Redland, Robert W. Farmer; Hyattstown, Mrs. Willie Lloyd Burdette; Clarksburg, John E. Lewis; Slidell. John O. Knott; Germantown, Mrs. Eugene Waters; Poolesville, Mrs, G. Robert Gray; Rockville, Mrs. Rose Dawson; Montrose, Mrs. Ethel Leigh- ton: Derwood, Mrs. George Brigham; Garrett Park, S. H. Ingberg: Coles- ville, Mrs. Elsie Peters; Burtonsville, Mrs. Arthur Beall. Fairland, Mrs. Odorian W. Roby; Darnestown, William Miles; Travilah, Charles Conners; Quince Orchard, Clarence Mills; Bethesda, John Dick- inson; Glen Echo-Cabin John, Lewis Odelle; Chevy Chase, Mrs. Dwight Curtis; Leland, Rea Shafer; Somerser, Charles Moore; Sherwood, Joseph Fin- neyfrock and Mrs. Yellott Canby: Gaithersburg, Mrs. Merle Jacob: Washington Grove, Mrs. George W, Chadwick; Potomac, Mrs. R. T. Ofa futt; Barnesville, Elmer Hoyle; Comus Windsor W. Hodges: Dickerson. Mrs, Leo Robertson: Damascus. Dr. Georga Bover: Clagettsville, James Moxler . | Kensington, Willard A Warthen; Woodside, Mrs. Henry McCeney: Glen- | mont, Mrs. Harry Hull: Takoma Pa sion is of native limestone and mod- ernly equipped. It was sold to Thaw some vears ago by heirs of the late Henry Stephenson Thaw selected the old estate for a country residence while on a tour of {the valley of Virginia after fleeing Mattewan Hospital in New York State. He traveled from one end of the valley to the other and back again, inspect- ing scores of old places and selected Kenilworth. The former Broadway playboy em- barked upon a career of “dirt farm- ing"” immediately on taking possession, and also took a fling at pure-bred cattle and German police dogs—ven- tures which met with varying success. 700,000 JUVENILE DELINQUENTS IN U. S. Head of F. B. I. Cites Number in Address in Connection With Scout Jubilee. If the Nation's juvenile delinquents were to camp in Washington, they would overflow from the parks into | more than one-fourth of the District | of Columbia, according to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If to these juveniles were added all the country's adult criminals, a terri- tory twice the size of the District | would be necessary to provide a tented city for them. the head G-man declared last night in a radio address in * connection with the national Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica. to be held here in June. Pointing out that 17 out of every 100 persons arrested last year were under 21, Hoover said the number of young delinquents totals more than | 700,000. The total strength last year of America’s “army of crime,” he de- clared, is 4,300,000. He praised the Boy Scouts and similar youth organizations as “deter- rents of crime.” JUDGE SENTENCES MAN DESPITE PASTOR’S PLEA Trusted Persons Must Justify Trust, Jurist Declares in Send- ing Banker tc Tail. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, May 13.—United States District Judge W. Calvin Chestnut Tuesday sentenced Lester S. Birely, 52, former president of the Thurmont Bank, to & year and a day in the Federal Penitentiary and $1,000 | fine after he pleaded guilty in Federal | Court to charges of misappropriation of funds of the bank. | The indicement against Birely al- | leged misapplication of u.zao.aoi Rev. Paul B. Beard of Queens City, Rev. Paul B. Beard of Queens City, N. Y., brother-in-law of the former banker, made a plea for mercy for Birely. He told of Birely's active church work, of his service as Sunday school superintendent and member of a church board. Birely, he said, had been followed by “supposed friends” who were “like a bunch of wolves following a fawn.” | the substitute TEMPORARY READING POST IS APPROVE House Votes to Employ a Substi- tute as Haltigan Is Hos- pitalized. The House today created a tem- porary position of substitute reading clerk at a salary of $3.600 on the mo- tion of Chairman Warren of the Com- mittee on Accounts. The action was taken because Pat- rick J. Haltigan, veteran reading clerk of the House and of the Democratic national conventions. was taken to a | hospital today after a long illness. The regular position pays a $5.000 salary, which Haltigan will receive as long as he lives. In the event of his death, reading clerk will be promoted to the regular position and the temporary office created today will | be abolished. More than 130 applicants for the temporary position have been tried out during the last two months, largest in the history of either the Senate or the House for such a position. A secret committee of six Democratic and six Republican members sat as judges | during the tryouts and have made | their report to South Trimble, House clerk, who will make the appointment after consulting with Speaker Bank- head and House Leader Rayburn. It is understood the committee has reported in favor of the appointment of Ralph Roberts of Indiana, an em- ploye of the House for more than 14 years. APPEALS F. C. C. RULING Mackay Radio Fights for Circuit for Service to Norway. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK. May 13 —The Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. announced today the Mackay Radio & Telegrapi Co. has filed an appeal from the de- cision of the Federal Communications | Commission denying Mackay Radio's | application for a circuit for radio com- | munication between the United States | and Norway. The appeal, the announcement said, was filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. “We intend to carry this case | through to the highest courts.”” Clar- | | ence H. Mackay, president of Mackay | Radio, said. Bogus Ticket Agents Victimize Whole Families at Coronation B) the Assoctated Press. LONDON, May 13.—All was not joy and light in London Town today as the first coronation grumbles be- gan to roll in. The biggest howl came from victims of bogus ticket agents. Whole fam- ilies were loaded down with worth- less admission cards to the procession stands, for which they paid $50 to $75. The holders, harnessed for' the great coronation fleld day with bi- noculars, cameras, umbrellas and other impedimenta, found themselves politely but firmly ejected from the premises all the way from Picadilly Circus to Oxford Circus. Scotland Yard, busy with & search for the bad ticket sellers, also vurned its attention to the trail of some 100 motor cars, stolen from parking lots. Many of the privileged “spectators” of the actual crowning of George and his Queen in Westminster Abbey were among those muttering darkly. Their only impression, they com- plained, was the echo of sounds reach- some far corner of the abbey where 7,700 persons were crowded into seats with an average beam of only slightly over a foot. Most of the annoyances were smothered, however, by a realization of the magnitude of the task faced by the earle marshal—especially when the case of month-old Godfrey Don- ald Morrison, baby son of the minis- ter of agriculture, was disclosed. Mrs. Morrison wanted to accom- pany her cabinet minister husband to the abbey ceremony, but Donald is & hungry youngster who demands food every hour on the hour. The Duke of Norfolk, the earl marshal, fixed up an elaborate ar- rangement by which Mrs. Morrison could slip out of the abbey twice dur- ing the solemn ceremony of anointing and crowning a King to see thatl young Donald was fed. ‘The pleased husband peid tribute to the arrangement: “It speaks highly of the perfect or- ganization that even such a little matter could be attended to. demsnded & similer investigstion, bing them oo the third sebound in) *We are both very gratatul? A 4 Mrs. George O. Cook: Takoma-Silver Spring. Dr. John R Wagner: Eas: Silver Spring. Mrs. Frank Smith, ! Colored Schools. | _Unity, Howell Howard; Laytonsville, Samuel Fisher; Etchison, Isiah Dor- sey: Clarksburg, M. M. Mason: S | land, Elizabeth Tavlor | Mrs. Annie Thomas Clarke; Rockville Elementa Johnson: Lincoln Hig | George W. Johnson; Scotland, J: | Cooper; Burnt Mills, David Jack | Spencerville, Arthur Pum 2 | Smithville, Joseph Smith; German- town, Sandy Johnson; Quince Orchard, | Samucl Holtman: River Road, Ar | Windear; Sandy Spring, Samuel T. | Hill: Norbeck, Charles Forbes: Grift: | Edward Johnson; Washington Gro | William Ross: Cloppers, William Jack~ son: Stewardtown, George Plummer; Seliman, William Hamilton; Damas- cus, Neif Lyles; Linden, Wilbert | Young: Wheaton, Dr. Webster Sewell; Ken Gar, Clement Prait; Takoma Park, Bessie H. Beaman. |CHEVY CHASE CHILDREN | PRESENT MAY PAGEANT CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 13— Nearly 600 children took part Tues- day in one of the most colorful May day pageants ever heid in lower Mont- gomery County. The pageant was given on the grounds of the Chevy Chase Element- ary School by the pupils. The after- noon started witk trumpeter, Paul Stapleton, a Virginia Wilson, daughter of T dersecretary of Agricul M L. Wilson, was crowned Queen of May. Pimlico By the Associated Press, FIRST RACE—The. | $1000° claiming: 3-vea | turlongs Fvan (Wagner) Cornwallis (Merritt Happy Host (Pal Riding High (Ku | Max B. iKurtsinger) | Cherrystone (Fau = | XShaggy Ann ' (Johnson) = | XMr. Dencannon (McDermott) -~ | aBromide 'Richards) | Hard Cnase iLauch) Peppery _(Rosengarien) aTitian Kiddie (Kurtsinger) Also_eligible: ! x8ir Windsor iScott) { xCancel (Cubitty 5 XBalcony Morris) aR. B. and J. S. Archer entry. SECOND RACE—The_Lord Baltimors plechase: maidens: Purse. $1.000; | vear-olds and | zEnthusiasm (Eagan) | z-aBell Man (Mr M. Macy) Round Bend_(No Boy) Rock (Ea’ | e = McGrath) 227-aRolling Steel (Licas) zzRockden iAnsteatt) zPrometer (Young! aJ F. Adams. ir. entry. |z Five pounds claimed for rider | 7z Seven pounds claimed for rider. 222 Ten pounds claimed for rider THIRD RACE—The New Howard: purce $1.000° claiming; 2-year-olds. & furlor xMobcap (Scott) xaStep By (Grigg) 2 ¢ Frank Brooke (Machado) Waugh Scout (O'Malley) aLittle Sally (Grigg) | ¢ Tuleyries Lin (Machado) __ River Dee (Machado) Ginger R. (Morris) Doris Rene (Beishak) a Gravson-H_"P. Metcalf ent cMrs. K. N. Gilpin-Mrs. E. L. Bull entr FOURTH RACE—The Mount Rovali purse. $1.000: 2-vear-olds; 4's furlongs Beneficlary (J Renick) - 104 Slow Motion (O'Malley) Tedema (Merriti) Way Out (Bejshak) Briar Plume (Wagner) RIEIE 100 FIFTH RACE—The Francis Scott Handicap: purse. $2.000: 3-year-olds up: 1's miles Dark Hope (O'Malley) a Dusky Prince (S. Renick) Calumet (Wagner) (8. Renick) ak) aA. G. Vanderbilt entry. SIXTH _ RACE—The Fort McHenry: purse. $1.500: 3-year-olds: 8 furlongs. Fleeting Moon '(Merritt) _ - 108 Lernana_(Faust) - Honey Cloud (Wagner) 8avage (S. Renick) Rough Time (O'M; Key and SEVENTH RACE—The Belvedere: purse. $1,000; claiming; 3-vear-olds and up; 1-s miles. xSpittenimage (Grigg) May Music (Root) = (Wagner) s_(Wagner) Little Banner (Faust) xJusta Flight (Morris) - xMischiefmaker (McDermott) "=~ Chiriqui (Bejshak) Bungalow (Faust) Sun 8veep (Johnson) - Lady Carrot (Dougherty) Queen Govens (O'Malley) __ Also_eligible- Waidell Orme (Palumbo) Balmacan (Lauch) Locomotive (8cott) — xTom’s Boy (Johnson) Exaggeration (Garrett) Faleen (Rosengarten) EIGHTH RACE—The Southern: purse, $1.000; claiming: 3-year-olds and up: 1's miles xRough Plaver (Sawyer) Zembia (O'Malley) - xChief Yeoman (Faust) _ Xandra (Wagner) & xChurch Call (Skelhamer) Dutch Uncle, (Rosengarten) oppyman (Wagner xAoprentice allowance claimed. Clear and fass