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b—L % MRS. ROOSEVELT LAUDS GIRL SCOUTS Says Country Safe as Long | as Young Women Are In- terested in Homes. After planting a tree in a ceremony At the National Girl Scout “Little House” yesterday, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt praised Scout interest in beautifying the home. Noting, in a brief speech, the fact | that “homemaker” badges are sought | more widely than any other awards offered in Girl Scouting, she de- clared: “It seems to me that any country | in which the girls so definitely indi- cate their interest is fundamentally in the home can look into the future with equanimity and confidence.” The planting, held in the “memory garden” at the little house, was in connection with the Scout observance of Better Homes week. The ceremony held a double significance for the selected group of girls and officials present, since the tree—a camelia Japonica bush—was brought from Bavannah, Ga., the home of M Juliette Low, who founded the Scout movement in the United States. Guard of Honor Present. A guard of honor composed of 25 Girl Scouts who have won their "citi zenship” badges greeted Mrs. Roose: velt who also was welcomed by a committee of executives, including Mrs. Henry H. Flather, Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, Mrs. B. F. Cheatham and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes. During a tour of the Little House Mrs. Roosevelt examined with interest @ soals model of the Savannah Little House, where the first Girl Scout troops in this country were organised. Amy Scheible and Virginia Fones of Troop 8 explained that the model had been prepared for the silver anni- versary of the Girl Scout movement celebrated in April. A demonstration in weaving also was given by Dorothea Kopsch of Troop 79, and a poem was read by ‘Betty Lee Plummer of Troop 79. Refreshments Served. Mrs. Roosevelt was served light re- freshments in the dining room before leaving to continue her busy program for the day. | Subsequently she sipped fruit juice served on the White House lawn to 1,300 women executives in the Gov- ernment attending her annual women's ! garden party. Later she ate two luncheons. The first was a small picnic lunch on the White House lawn, to which | she had invited three high school pupils from Arthurdale, W. Va. The second was a gathering of 300 Demo- | crats at the home of Secretary of War | Harry Woodring, where plates cost $10 | each. CRIME ON INCREASE IN 68 BIG CITIES| | ] | First Quarter of This Year Shows | General Rise in Lawlessness Over 1936. More crimes were committed throughout the United States during | the first quarter of this year than during the corresponding quarter of | 1936, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Comparative statistics made public yesterday in the F. B. I. publication, Uniform Crime Reports, show that police in 68 cities of more than 100,000 population reported increases in allwl major offenses. There had been gen- eral decreases in most of these crimes eince 1931 until the 1937 period. These comparisons were made be- tween the first three months of this year and last: Murders, 1937, 321; 1938, 295. Manslaughter “by negli- gence,” 1937, 287; 1936, 181. Larcenies, 1937, 42.117; 1936, 36,963. Burglaries, 1937, 17,224; 1936, 16,097. Automobile thefts, 1937, 12,671; 1936, 11,471. Rob- beries, 1937, 3,580; 1936, 3,138. As- saults, 1037, 2,257; 1936, 2,182. Rape, 1937, 403; 1936, 311. | The following report was made by | Washington police for the three-month | period: Murder and negligent man- slaughter, 15; thefts, 2,033; burglaries, | 860; automobile thefts, 763: robberies, | 348, assaults, 119; rape, 18. Physical Education Head Will Revamp| Maryland System| Ferguson to Stress Intramural Side of Athletics. By the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, May 15.—Thomas C. Ferguson, named today as head of county school physical education, said the athletic and physical education system of Maryland's secondary schools would undergo a thorough re- vamping. Under & new set-up announced by Dr. Albert C. Cook, State superin- tendent of schools, athletics in the county schools will be withdrawn from the 25-year supervision of the Play- ground Athletic League. “The individual physical develop- ment of the students will be stressed,” #aid Ferguson, who for several years has been a field leader in Maryland counties for the playground league. “The athletic competition among the schools of the State will be secon- dary,” said Ferguson, indicating he will concentrate his activities toward developing intraschool physical edu- cation and athletic programs. Ferguson, holder. of a master of arts degree from Harvard University, where he majored in physical educa- tion subjects, succeeds the late Dr. ‘William Burdick. Another feature of the revamping, Dr. Cook explained, would be the di- rect employment by the State of referees and athletic instructors en- ¢aged in county school programs. Under former policy, the Play- ground Athletic League provided the instruction and umpiring personnel and billed the State for their services. Under the new system the athletic assistants will become State employes and Dr. Otxznld he felt this would be & far m( “efficient policy.” Club to Join 4-H Encampment. MANASSAS, Va., May 15 (Spe- cial).~The ¢-H Club boys of Nokes- ville are planning to take part in the encampment at Jamestown and will | kling of an eye to take away their | | | One May Be “Miss California” The first of the hundreds of California’s most beautiful girls who will enter the “Miss Cal- ifornia” beauty contest to be held as part of the Venice, Calif., Mardi Gras next August register their entries with Harvey Walters, chairman of the beauty pageant, at his open office on the beach. The winner will compete for the title of Miss America. THE SUunDAY STAR, —Wide World Photo. Grief-Torn School Blast Town Is Doing Its Best to Carry On Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW LONDON, Tex.. May 15 (N.A. N.A).—This settlement of cottages its level best to pick up the broken | threads of a shattered life. It is try- ing hard to resume its former small place in the sun. It is attempting to take it on the chin by assuming a masquerade. Its disconsolate folk go about their business with a sham cheerfulness, trying hard to conceal their thoughts from the outside world and divert the memories of an awful tragedy—the gas blast that March 18 snuffed out the lives of more than 400 school children, leaving a beautiful school building in shambles. Trying harder still are those di- rectly affected by the calamity to| keep from looking too far ahead into a future that promises little but futil- ity and emptiness. The loss of their children has burned deep into the hearts of these oil field folk. Even the children carry something of this mark of tragedy and sorrowing memory about them. They, too, have troubled eyes. Like the grown-ups, they cannot forget the calamity that struck within the twin- Little Variety in Soenery. There are no markers to tell where | brothers, sisters, playmates and friends. New London begins, where it ends. It | is just & designated spot in a section dozens of miles long, a dozen or more | miles wide. For miles before you enter New London the scenery is the same.| After you get there it is the same—| just miles of oil derricks, gas flares| and huts built out of tar paper and | green lumber—erected during the hey- | day of the biggest oil field on earth. | The countryside here can be likened | to a gold mining town; there is un- told wealth that cannot be dis- tinguished except by the derricks and the rural schools. Yet the people here are not really poor. They are much better off than ir many other sections, for the oil companies pay good wages. But the workers continue - to live in cheap frame houses. Most of them have auto- mobiles of some sort. Many of them own interests in oil wells. Some of their homes are furnished nicely, in some cases expensively. But for some unknown reason they never get around to building or buy-| ing a modern, comfortable home. | Perhaps it is their understanding of oil that keeps them from doing this. They know that oil flelds spring up overnight, fade out, at times, with the setting sun. There are practically no first-class business houses here, no picture shows, no parks, only a few shanty beer | joints, hard work and a few small churches to take their minds off the | tragedy. The big school that was blown up: was their chief pride. Around it centered practicallly all of the com- munity’s social life, the Parent-Teach- | er Association, the track team, the| foot ball team, which won last year's | district championsh#p, and the 60- plece band that is shattered com- | pletely. Flowing Wells on Campus. The school is wealthy. It owns| a campus of 18 acres and has nine | flowing oil wells, seven of which are on the eampus. Forty members of the band were either killed outright or maimed for life. About 16 members of the track team are gone, practically all of the foot ball players are dead or maimed. There really isn't much left for these people except work and re- ligion, yet they are trying hard to pick up where they left off on March 18. A pathetic example of their stoi- cism and endeavor to start all over was seen recently when a track meet was held in Livingston, nearby. The coach took three men to the meet. He formerly took 20. These people here have always worked hard. That's the law’ of the oil felds. You don’t find many tramps around here. Everybody works. They had always been fairly religious as rural folks are wont to be. And now they are turning more to their religion. Few children are left ir the com- munity. Easter Sunday meant little except a day of mourning at the four cemeteries that dot the red clay hills wnd dales. The Fourth of July ‘will mean little. Christmas will bring only horrible memories. . There i5 no lack of routine. If and uncured pine shanties is doing | Masquerade of Cheer Is Only Shield to Conceal Thoughts—Church and Cemetery Main Assembly Places. anything there is more routine than before the blast. It is ali hard work now, plus going to church and to the cemeteries, the chief gathering places on Sundgy afternoon. - The mounds of the children who died are covered with fresh fiow- send a demonstration Jeam. ers, wild flowers—ghere are no flower - shops here and only a few flower gar- dens about some of the homes. A few send up to Henderson and Livingston | on Saturday and get cut flowers to decorate the graves for Sunday. “My people have always been more | or less deeply religious.” said Rev. H. | V. Sparkman, pastor of the New Lon- don Baptist Church. *Of course, this tragedy has driven them closer to the | church. People always turn to God | during such a calamity. We are not | having any Sunday school classes these Sundays; hardly enough chil- | dren are left in the community for | that. And even if there were it would | be too hard on the parents. We will resume Sunday school in a few months. “I try to keep off of the subject of anything that would recall the blast. I preach to them of the beau- tiful hereafter, try to instill in them more the belief that God in His wis- dom always knows best. I tell them that our children have not died in vain—that they are better off where they have gone—that they will always be happy and have no more worries about death.” Scores of tourists and others now map their itinerary to include New London. The townsfolk resent this. I was standing on one of the corners of what might (by a stretch of the imagination) be called the heart of the settlement, when a car bearing an Ohio license plate drew up and the driver asked where the school house was. “Ah,” remarked a 6-foot, middle- aged man. “You know, the school house where all of the children were killed,” re- | minded the driver. “Over yonder is the cemetery, mis- ter,” the man replied, pointing off to | the northwest. He turned his back. Seek Architect. The leaders of New London, who are the school board, about the only body here that meets any more, are trying to select an architect to rebuild the blasted building. The board meets in the frame gymnasium that was un- | touched by the blast. The floors of | the building have been scrubbed so | white that large splinters protrude in | hang-naii fashion. This was done to remove bloody splotches from the floor. It was to the gymnasium that the dead and dying were taken as rescue work proceeded. | If vou have ever been in a coal-min- | ing town after a blast and saw or | felt how the people took the loss of | their loved ones, you would know what | New London is doing nowadays. It is | Jjust trudging, not marching on. Most every one here lost a child or friend. All of the school teachers killed in the blast boarded with the workers. Many of the families have asked the Humble Oil & Refining Co., which dominates here, to move them to other parts of the big field. They feel that they cannot stay. Familiar land- | marks bring up old, once happy, now heart-breaking memories. It isn't easy to find out things about New London. The people were so appalled at the tragedy they could not understand what photographers | and other newspaper men wanted with | pictures and stories of their sorrow. | In many cases they became indignant | when pictures were taken of their dead, their dying, their sorrowing | community. You can only get a picture of the | situation by standing around the stores | and watching and listening. Then you can feel it through their attempt | at conversation, their effort to steer away from mention of any tragedy. Talk of Tragedy Difficult. Talking to the men of the com- munity about the tragedy and its| aftermath is difficult. But if you go | down to one of the cemeteries you will understand. ! These people were appreciative of all the fine things which the world said after the blast. They were touched by the telegrams of condo- lence from Gov. James V. Allred, from President Roosevelt. But that is all over, Now they are facing their hardest task, trying to forget; trying to bolster up the spirit of their womenfolk, of the whole community. When school was reopened two weeks after the blast and the roil called, there were hundreds riot pres- ent. “He's dead,” some one would Answer when a name was called. Other names called were also unanswered. Some of these had quit school for the term; others were still in the hos- pitals, still others had moved away. Some who answered roll call were in bandages, some on crutches. The routine of school life will not be re- sumed soon, although a strong effort is being made to bolster their morale. Time heals many things. (Copyright, 1837, by the North American l'lvluur’mne', Ine.) { | foreign trade. | erents may obtain raw materials from NEUTRALITY ACT HELD INEFFECTIVE Senator Gillette Cites Loop- holes at Pi Gamma Mu Session, The new neutrality act is ineffective, but a step in the right direction, Sen- | ator Gillette, Democrat of Iowa, told | members of Pi Gamma Mu, national | honor society in social sciences, at the organization’s Atlantic reglon con- | vention banquet last night at 2400 Six- teenth street. “There is not a man in Congress who thinks the bill will be effective,” | he said he believed, listing major loop- holes. Chief among these, he said, is fail- ure to ban “‘cash-and-carry” modes of | Under the bill bellig- America providing they come here to purchase them and carry them in their own ships. He also stressed need for more vig- orous regulations on foreign invest- ments and borrowing te provide funds for warring nations. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York was presented with an honora:y | key at the banquet by Dr. Charles A. Ellwood, national president of Pi Gamma Mu, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the social sciences. Following introductory remarks by Dr. Francis E. Lucey, regional chan- cellor. 62 new members from Ameri- can, Catholic, George Washington and Georgetown Universities were installed by Dr. John Donaldson, second na- tional vice president. Brief addresses were heard by Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro, former president of Panama, whose son, Rogelio, was among those installed, and Mrs. Cope- | land. | Honor guests included Msgr. John A. Ryan, Catholic University; Frank M. Morrison, American Federation cf Labor; Dr. E. 8. Schuyler, professor of sociology at the University of Louis- iana; Dr. Paul Fitzpatrick of Catholic University, Dr. L. E. Ragatz, George Washington University, and Dr. Wal- ter Jaeger, Dr. Josef Solterer ard Dr. H. G. Reuschlein of Georgetown University. ADDITIONAL RESERVE AIR FORCE PLANNED Navy to Register Civilian Pilots as Second Line in Case of National Emergency. By the Associated Press. The Navy disclosed yesterday that it has begun to create & vast reservoir of fighting aviators who will be avail- able for service in event of war. Regulations issued by the Bureau of Navigation instructed the comman- dants of each of the 14 naval districts to invite qualified civilian pilots to register. Rosters of such men will be kept up to date for possible use in a national emergency. Officers asserted that the registra- tion would be purely voluntary. Those thus listed will form a “second line” reserve behind the regular peace-time Naval Aviation Reserve, which has an enrollment of only a few hundred be- | cause funds are unavailable. VIRGINIA EDITOR DIES ABINGDON, Va., May 15 (#).—John W. Lyon, 80-year-old editor of the Abingdon Journal-Virginian, died at the George Ben Johnston Memorial Hospital last night. Lyon was born at Newbern, Pulaski County, Va., on April 9, 1857, the son of Frank 8. and Jane Clarisa Lyon, and | was the last surviving member of the | immediate family. WASHINGION, D. C, ANTICANCER AIDE HAILED BY SCIENCE! Cornstarch Injections Cure Mice in 30 Days at Laboratories. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, May 15.—Corn- starch emerged from acientific labora- tories today as a potential counter- active for cancer. The discovery was outlined today in the fourth annual report of the In- ternational Cancer Research Founda- tion. Dr. Robert Chambers and his as- sociates at the New York University Biology Department reported they in- jected cornstarch into mice having tumors that ordinarily kill them in two weeks. Instead of dying, the mice were cured in 30 days. Similar experiments with oil of wintergreen were nearly as success- ful, the researchers reported. But, the foundation report emphasized, they are merely experiments and cancer patients should beware of quacks who may vend them as *‘cures.” Dr. Balduin Lucke, University of Pennsylvania pathologist, found that some forms of cancer seem to spread like infectious disease. He reached the conclusion after studying the way leopard frogs contract carcinoma from one another in the Wister Institute's frog pool. Dr. Fritz Bischoff and M. Louisa Long of Santa Barbara (Calif.) Hos- pital, sought to see how diet affected cancerous mice. They reported they found tumors grew more slowly in mice given extra measures of casein. On dried beef diets, the rate of t'mor growth did not diminish. Eight researchers of the Royal Can- cer Hospital, London, set out to in- festigate the theory that the human body, like a huge test tube, may bring together chemicals whose ecombina- tion causes cancer. They reported that the two most potent cancer- producing compounds found were cholanthrene and methyl-cholan- threne, but said neither produced tu- mors when applied on mice. W. H. Donner, president of the association, summing up the work, said: “Essential though care and treat- ment are, they cannot be of the slight- est help in preventing the develop- ment of malignant diseases in the next sufferer. For him or her, hope lies in the laboratories. To man them well, with well-trained investigators will mean the ultimate solution of the greatest unsolved problem in medici today. Ample funds are needed * * LL SPEAK WALLACE WI ON LAND USE TOPIC | Secretary on Program at Cincin- nati May 31-June 3 for For- estry Association. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace will discuss the problems of land use in connection with flood-control measures at & national flood-control conference to be held under spon- sorship of the American FPorestry Association at Cincinnati May 31- June 3, it was announced yesterday. Two outstanding features of the conference will be a 100-mile boat | trip on the Ohio River to observe after-flood scenes the main river and an inspection of the Muskingum watershed conserv- ancy district, where source control is being undertaken on a scale unequaled anywhere in the country. Among the nationally known fig- ures to participate in the meeting will be former Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Undersecretary of the Interior West, Col. Henry Solon Graves, dean of the Yale Forest School and former chief of the United States Forest Service; F. A. Silcox, chief forester of the United States: Representative Willlam M. Whitting- ton of Mississippi, chairman of the House Committee on Flood Control; James G. K. McClure, president of the American Forestry Association: Gen. Max C. Tyler, assistant chief of Army Engineers, and Gov. Martin L. Davey ol Ohio. MAY 16, 1937—PART and river works | designed to deal with flood waters in | ONE. ) Conte di Savoia for his first tri Pope Pius. Their siz weeks’ p fe For $160,000 By the Associated Press 1 OYSTER BAY, N. Y., May 15— The sale of the William B. Leeds estate late today defimitely set at rest rumors that the Duke of Windsor would be a bidder, but left the pur- chaser of the 54-acre property some- what of a mystery man, Joseph B. Lerner, New York attor- ney, who made the top bid of $160,- | 000 for magnificent Kenwood, said! he was not at liberty to disclose the purchaser for whom he acted, but described him as “an American sports- man and yachtsman who is a mem- ber of a first family of Virginia." This hint came after Lerner had | answered a reporter’s guess of James A. Farley with | | “Very, very close. But you'll have| [to wait until June 1 for an an- nouncement.” He said the announce- | ment would come from Miami, Fla., Farley has been reported as seeking | to purchase a home on Long Island. | DR. CUSHING TO QuIT YALE FACULTY POST Eminent Brain Surgeon, James Father-in-Law, Reaches Retirement Age. By the Assoctated Press. | NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 15.—Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, dean of the Yale Medical School, announced to- night Dr. Harvey Cushing, eminent brain surgeon, will retire from the facuity in June. Dr. Cushing, father-in-law of James Roosevelt, the President’s eldesf son, Jjoined the Yale faculty in 1933, be- coming Sterling professor of neu- rology. He previously had served for | 20 years on the Harvard Medical School faculty, retiring in 1932. | Dr. Bayne-Jones said Dr. Cushing | attained the mandatory retirement age of 68 in April. | Although Dr. Cushing will with- | draw from the active faculty Dr. | Bayne-Jones said, he will remain as- | sociated with the Medical School as | professor emeritus and will oonunuei | his research in special laboratories | Roosevelt's | provided for him when he joined the faculty. .On First Trip Abroad A skilled mariner on heavy political seas, New York's color- ful Alfred E. Smith, sailed yesterday with Mrs. Smith on the abroad. He will be received by asure trip will include Ireland. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Guess Farley Bought Estate Declared Close Fewer than 50 persons attended the sale after persistent rumors that an agent of the Duke of Windsor would bid on the estate were denied by Herman L. Rogers, spokesman for the duke, at Monts, France Rogers said, “The duke is not look- ing forward to purchase of the prop- Besides Lerner, only one other per- son, a representative of Leeds bid. The purchase price included as- sumption of a $125.000 mortgage held by the New York State Mortgage Commission. The top bid was $35,- 000, the net figure above the mort- gage, which has been on the prop- erty since Leeds purchased it 10 years ago. A water front 1,200 feet long, an elaborate gymnasium with an indoor tennis court, a 10-room Colonial man- sion with adjoining guest and su- perintendent’s cottages, stables, pad- docks, garages, a beach and a virgin woodland make the estate one of the most pretentious in Long Island. With one of AL SMITH PARTY - SAILSFOR EUROPE | Veteran Politician to Visit Ireland to See House of Grandmother. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 15.—Clad eome pletely in brown, topped by a brosn derby, and chewing furiously on a cigar, Alfred E. Smith, veteran navie gator of the political seas. sailed toe day on his first trip to Euroce. | “This is just a regular pleasure trip. I've never been to the other side and I'm going now, and I want to have a good time," commented the former Govermnor. presidential candidate and phrase-coiner ex- traordinary, grinning automatically for the cameras on th¢ deck of the liner Conte de Savois. “Ireland? Yes, I'm going to Ire- land. A priest wrote me that he knew where my grandmother’s house was in Westmeath, and I'm going there and look it over. I have ro relatives there, but I want to look over Ireland.” For the friends of the Fulton Fish Market'’s No. 1 alumnus and his wiie it was an occasion of major im- portance. They swarmed all over the ship, jammec the corridor out- side Smith's state room and trailed him from deck to deck. Womrn kissed him and men by the dozens shook hands, The Smiths and their party, which includes State Supreme Court Jus tice Edward McGoldrick, Right Rev, Fuiton J. Sheen of Washington, D. C,, and others will be abroad six weeks, MRS. JAMES G. NAYLOR SUCCUMBS HERE AT 85 Widow of Adjutant General's Division Chief Was Native of Georgetown. Mrs. Sophia Naylor, 85 | James G. Naylor, former division ch: in the Adjutant General's Office the War Department, died Fridar | after a long illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Maitland 8. Wright, 3610 Thirty-fifth street. A native of Georgetown, Mrs. Nare lor was a lifelong Washington resie widow of " dent and for over 70 yvears was {member of Concordia Lutheran | Church. Besides her daughter, she leaves two | grandsons, Stephen M. and James K. | Wright, and one great-grandson. Funeral services will be held | pm. tomorrow in Hysong’s funeral ‘parlors, 1300 N street. Rev. Dr, { Charles Enders of Concordia Luth- | eran Church will officiate. 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