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Washi ngton News he e e e———————— Jobless Benefit Bill Faces Fight Monday McGehee Forecasts Approval; A. F. of L., C. 1. 0. Oppose Terms By DON S. WARREN., With opposition from A. F. L. and C. I. O. groups, the stage was set today for a battle Monday on the House District Committee, or later on the House floor, over the sup- posedly non-controversial compro- mise plan of the District Unemploy- ment Compensation Act. In the face of newly developed opposition, Chairman McGehee of the Judiciary Subcommittee, which had trimmed previously contro- verted items from the measure, de- clared he would continue to seek prompt action on the latest ver- sion of the measure and preditted approval by the House. Condemnation of the compromise bill was voiced by John Locher, president of the Central Labor Un- fon, A. F. of L. affiliaté, and a mémber of the District Unemploy- ment Compensation Board. He said the central body would make a formal statement on the issues after it had had a chance to analyze pro- visions of the measure. This will be done, he said, by a special com- mittee headed by Arthur L. Schoen- thal, who is a member of the District Minimum Wage Board. Sidney R. Katz, secretary-treas- urer of the Maryland and District Industrial Union Council of the C. 1. O., last night sharply attacked the compromise and its sponsors and issued two sets of tables which he said proved that the latest plan was less liberal than the present law or an earlier bill sponsored by Mr. McGehee. Eberharter Plans Amendments. This followed yesterday’s an- nouncement by Representative Eber- harter, Democrat, of Pennsylvania that he would offer “suitable amend- ments at the proper time” to the compromise plan, which he said would do “practically nothing” in liberalization of benefits for the unemployed while granting employ- ers tax savings estimated at about $1,000,000. Mr. Katz reported that the C. I. O. would oppose the compromise bill and support the bill offered by Mr. Eberharter. The compromise plan, formally adopted Wednesday by the Judiciary Subcommittee, after many weeks of eration of various proposals, would grant to District employers a reduction in the pay roll tax rate from 3 per cent, now the highest in the country, to 2.7 per cent, the standard State rate, and limit ‘the tax to the first $3,000 of the salary of any covered employe, which is the Federal policy. The District now has a benefit reserve fund of more than $17,500,000. The compromise plan also con- tained provisions which would es- tablish a $6 minimum benefit pay- ment, the present law having nb minimum; would increase from $15 PROGRESS AT GRAVELLY POINT—Clearing the way for the largest single paving con- tract ever awarded in the United States, a giant bull- dozer is shown completing the grading of a runway at Wash- ington National Airport, Gravelly Point. D. C. Court Awards U. S. $250,000 in German Alien Case Judge Holds Isenberg Obtained Property Release by ‘Fraud’ By WILLIAM A. MILLEN. Johann Carl Isenberg was ad- judged a German citizen and or- dered to pay $250,000 to the United States Government as a World War alien, under a District Court order | entered today. Mr. Isenberg, who was born in Hawaii, claimed he became a citizen through the Organic Act of 1900 which admitted the territory to the United States and on this basis asked for release of some of the $1,091,280 of his property which was seized during the World War. He now lives 'in Travenort, Hol- stein, Germany, but said he was born in 1870 at Lihue, Hawali, and that both his parents were citizens of Hawaii. His father helped to establish the Republic of Hawaii, he said, and was a noble of the king- dom. Says War Barred Return. In 1914, he had claimed, he went | school and because of the war was | unable to return to the Pacific to Germany to put his children in| to $16 a week the maximum benefit | jslands for some years. payment; would fix the duration of | was seized in the meantime and he benefit payments at 18 weeks, in-| had sought its return, under the | His property | WASHINGTON, Dy C, bening Sfar WITH SUNDAX MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940. Rolling of the graded runway surfaces is the final step before application of the paving, which is to begin with the arrival of dry weather. This view shows a portion of the main runway, 6,850 feet in length, one of the Jongest air transport.runways yet constructed. Health Chiefs Told of Fight On Deadly African Mosquito Pan-American Parley Informed Spread In New World Appears Checked Braril is waging a stubborn but slowly winning fight against a vi- cious insect which is a threat to much of the Western Hemisphere, Dr. Joao de Barros Barreto, former national director of health of that country, told the Pan-American Conference of National Health Di- rectors here yesterday. ‘The foe is anopheles gambia, an African mosquito which is the vector of an extremely virulent type of malaria. It first appeared in Brazil about 10 years ago and is believed the object ‘of providing a more sen- sitive test] but the far greater pos- sibilities were in the minds of all present. In reply to & direct question by Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran, Dr. Eagles said: “I can only say that by means of this organism we have not been able to confer on rabbits | protection against syphilitic infec- | tion. However, there is some evi- | dence that the immunological pic- | ture in the rabbit is changed. ‘ ‘Work Highly Experimental. stead of the present basic limit of 16 weeks (which can be extended to as much as 26 weeks if the worker has been employed a sufficient num- , ber of years in the past): and would change the eligibility rule from the present requirement that the ap- plicant must have worked in 13 weeks out of the past 52 to one that he must have earned a minimum of $125 in the past year. | Mr. Katz, whose group protested proposed elimination of extra benefit allotments for persons having de- pendents, declared last night the compromise bill was “nothing short of a mockery and emasculation of unemployment compensation.” Draws Comparison. ‘The tables Mr. Katz prepared gave comparisons between provi- sions of present law, the compro- mise plan, the bill Mr. McGehee re- cently sponsored as based on sug- gestions from the District Unem- ployment Compensation Board and of the Eberharter bill. His calcu- lations, Mr. Katz said, showed that & married person having three chil- dren, who has had steady work at $15 a week, would get, under the present law, $253 on an annual basis in benefit payments; $144 a year under the compromise plan, $180 under the earlier McGehee bill, as against $280 under the pro- posed Eberharter plan. A single person, who has earned $15 a week, he said, would receive $156 under present law, $144 under the compromise plan, $180 under the earlier McGehee bill and $180 under the Eberharter plan. A single person, who has earned $35 a week. would receive $364 under present law, $288 under the compromise plan and $400 under either the earlier McGehee bill or the Eber- harter bill. The C. I. O. council spokesmen Also protested that whereas the pres- ent law and the Eberharter bill would permit benefit payments to persons who are “locked out” by their employers, the compromise plan and the earler McGehee bill would not. Mr. Katz added that only the Eberharter bill would per- mit payments to employes who go on strike, this to be effective after four weeks of strike duration. McGehee Defends Provision. Meanwhile, Mr. McGehee de- fended a provision which provides that a benefit recipient may receive in a year benefit payments equal 1o 18 times his weekly benefit allow- ance, or one-third of the wages earned by him in the base period, whichever is the lesser. Whereas Mr. Katz termed this clause a “joker,” Mr. McGehee declared it was & provision similar to those in the laws of the States. Mr. McGehee agreed it would mean that a person earning $125 in a year prior to making claim for benefit payments would be entitled to receive a maximum of $42 within a year, in benefit payments, in- stead of the otherwise calculated $108, which would be the result of payment of the $6 minimum provision of the law which allows American citizens to recover a higher percentage of such property than aliens. son and W. A. Julian, Treasurer of the United States, contended that Mr. Isenberg was a German citizen then and now. Wiener Appears for U. 8. Appearing for the Government, F. B. Wiener, special assistant to the Attorney General, told Justice Jen- nings Bailey that Mr. Isenberg had been taken to Germany in 1878 ’nd was naturalized there in 1890. He fought in the German Army during the World War and visited the United States in later years on a German passport, he said. Justice Bailey, in making his rul- ing, said when President Hoover had determined that Mr. Isenberg was an American citizen in 1931 he had not been in possession of all the facts. The judge ruled that Mr. Isenberg had obtained release through “fraud’, of approximately $500,000 of his property as a result of the action. Justice Bailey entered an order under which was dismissed the ac- tion brought by Mr. Isenberg in 1936 and granted the Government & sum- mary judgment. Gen. Grant Is Ordered To 3d Corps Area Post Maj. Gen. Walter S. Grant, com- mandant of the Philippine Depart- ment, was ordered to duty at head- quarters of the 3d Corps Area in Baltimore, according to today’s Army orders. At the same time, Col. Harry H. Pritchett was ordered from the Inspector General’s Department here to the Baltimore headquarters, and Col. Leo J. Ahern was trans- ferred from the Baltimore post to the Inspector General’s Office here. A native of Ithaca, N. Y, Gen. Grant has had & number of assign- ments in the Philippines and along the Mexican border. He has served here several times and became act- ing commandant of the Army War College in 1935. The following year he was made commandant. In July of last year he assumed command of the Philippine Department. Gen. Grant holds the Distin- guished Service Medal for services during the World War and is an officer of the French Legion of Honor and the Belgian Order of Leopold. Jitterbugs Banned When the “jitterbug marathon” was introduced into Leeds, England, police’officials attended and banned one acrobatic dance. weekly benefit payment for 18 weeks. Mr. McGehee insisted the new schedules would represent a con- siderable liberalization over the present law. A LR L IERDE St ADEOUEH R rom D EA Dr. Eagles refused to amplify this Attorney General Robert H. Jack- | Africa by airplane on one of the early South Atlantic flights. It is now to be found in a large area along the Atlantic Coast from Rio de Janeiro northward. Up to the present, Dr. Barreto said, more than 176,000 cases have been reported, and there has been a very high death rate. Left at first to the states, the fight against this mosquito was taken over entirely by the federal government as soon as the magnitude of the problem from national and international standpoints was recognized. Spread Appears Halted. The spread of the mosquito, Dr. Barreto said, seems to have been stopped and in some districts it has been entirely eliminated. It still constitutes a major menace, how- ever, and is one of the great sources of worry for national health services throughout the New World. Not only is this mosquito very difficult to combat, Dr. Barreto said, but it car- ries a very high degree of infection. At least 65 per cent of sample mos- quito catches have been found to carry the malaria organism. Not only are all breeding places for the insects being cleaned up and sprayed but there is an extensive campaign of fumigation of houses, railroad trains, boats and airplanes. After Dr. Barreto’s report, Brazil was given an unanimous vote of thanks by the health representatives of the other countries for the cam- paign. A development which some physi- cians present believed might be of extreme importance as a possible opening step toward immunization against syphilis was reported by Dr. Harry Eagle of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. The disease is due to a curious micro-organism, spirochita pallida, which is‘so close to the borderline between plant and animal that bac- teriologists are at odds as to which kingdom it belongs. Numerous ef- forts have been made in the past to cultivate this organism in artificial media of some sort, but all have failed and the only way to keep it alive for laboratory study has been by passing it through a continuous succession of syphilis-infected ani- mals—chiefly rabbits. Most Sensitive Test Devised. Now, Dr. Eagle sold the confer- ence, he has received from Germany and from Russia two strains of mi- cro-organisms which were allegedly obtained from human syphilitic le- sions, which grow readily in a cul- ture medium, and which provide, in the hands of a few skilled tech- nicians, the most sensitive test for syphilis yet devised when they are 'mixed with the blood serum of the person being examined. These organisms look and act like the syphilis organisms, but they do not give the disease to rabbits. Dr. Eagle believes that they are not actual spirochita pallida, but such close relatives that it is impossible to tell them apart at present. He | statement later. The work, he said, {is in a highly experimental stage, | the immunological results are only | suggestive at the best, and even use | of the organisms in a test for the | presence of syphilis is so delicate | that it cannot be recommended to the medical profession. At his own laboratory, he ex- plained, it has made a sharp dis- tinction between syphylis and lep- rosy from the blood picture—a fleld in which other tests have proved wanting. Positive reactions may be given, however, by persons suffering from malaria, who actually have no trace of syphilis. Panama plans this year the gi- gantic job of vaccinating against smallpox the entire population of the republic, it was reported by Dr. A. V. Mastellari, health director of that country. This has become ad- visable, he said, because of the enormous increase in the population due to the building of additional locks of the Panama Canal. The job will be carried out in close co- operation with the Canal Zone au- thorities. Band Concert By the United States Army Band in the Army Band Auditorium to- morrow morning at 10:30. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub- ner, assistant leader. March, < Lyric sketch, “Street Scene, Newman Poetic mood, “Poema Anacronico,” ‘Gorigoytia Premiere performance in North America. Intermezzo, “My Lady Brocade,” ‘Whaltz, “Love Sparks” March, “Liberty Day” “The Star Spangled Banner.” —Star Staft Photos. U. S. Resumes Fight For Directed Verdict Defense Evidence to Be Presented to Follow If Padway Motion Fails ‘The District Court trial of four | members of the Teamsters Union who are charged with conspiring to | tie up building operations here last fall today was in adjournment until | Monday when the Government will end its argument against a’' defense motion for a directed verdict. Contesting the motion late yester- |to the Attorney General, declared | the testimony thus far introduced | by the Government warranted the | submission of the case to the jury. | If Justice F. Dickinson Letts over- | rules the motion, the defense will | begin presentation of evidence. Padway Denies Act Applies. Joseph A. Padway, general counsel for the American Federation of Labor, in moving for dismissal of the charges yesterday, insisted that labor is not subject to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, under which the prosecution is being conducted, and said that the strike of teamsters which led to the indictment of the union leaders, was to further the legitimate objectives of labor—im:- proved working conditions. 5 Both A. F. of L. Affiliates. ‘The Government charges that the strike was an effort to force concrete contractors to break a contract with the Operating Engineers Union and put Teamsters Union members on concrete-mixer trucks. This consti- tuted an illegal restraint of trade within the meaning of the Sherman Act, it is contended. Both unions are affiliates of the A. F. of L. One defendant—Thomas O’Brien, a representative of the International Union of Teamsters—was freed yes- terday when the Government an- nounced the indictment against him was being dismissed. The other four defendants are officers of Local 639 of Washington. Pope Receives D. C. Students Two Washingtonians were among the 28 American students who re- cently received an audience with Pope Pius XII after completing their theological studies at the North American College in Rome. They are Father Martin J. Killeen, 26, of 2325 Twentieth street N.W. and Father Philip Hannan, 26, of 1501 Seventeenth street N.W. A 13-year-old political sage from Texas, who is here for the Na- tional - Institute of Government, looked reporters squarely in the eye today and delivered himself of opin- jons on everything fro mthe pres- idential qualifications of Vice Pres- ident Garner to old age pensions. The prodigy is Billy Humbard of Dallas, who is the mascot of the delegation of Texas women who are attending the institute here. His opinions are based on a study of public questions and were reached independently. He finds himself taking issue with his elders on many questions. There’s the business of Mr.' Garner, for instance. Billy's father is a Garner man. But Billy, admitting Garner Too Old to Seek Presidency, Says Boy Sage nice man,” says he is too old to be President. “All Texas people love Mr. Gar- ner,” he said, gravely, “but’ we don’t want him for President.” He is critical of the old-age pen- sion scheme which was evolved by Gov. Lee Daniel of Texas when he was seeking office as the “pass the biscuits, pappy” candidate. He blames the men of Texas for Gov. Daniel’s election: “The men made a mess of it last time. They voted for Lee Daniel. He promised all the backwoodsmen old-age pensions. That kind of got them.” Billy says he has no political am- bitions. Of course, if the country needs him, he would run for office. But there's only one job he wants. Yes, it's the same one Mr. Garner mwmmmmnmuummmmmmu “a very ' aspires to now. ). Monday on Union Plea day, James Hayes, special assistant | Drag-lines also are used in the grading work, as shown here at the southeast end of the northwest-southeast runway. The Potomac River and the Maryland shore are shown in the back- ground. Sound Motion Picture Extolled at Opening Session of Educators Declared.Important School Factor Before Council Meeting ‘The sound motion picture is po- tentially the most revolutionary in- strument introduced in education in this generation, Dr. George F. Zook, president of the American Council of Education, told the open- ing session of the council’s 23d a: nual meeting today at the Wardm: Park Hotel. Studies that a special council committee has been making in four two years show that “many of the supposedly difficult concepts re- served for senior high and college may be taught with clarity and depth of meaning to lower grade children,” said Dr. Zook. “Young children, even in kinder- garten and first grade, show evi- dences of critjcal g, are capable of observing an enormous number of details in a film, relate these details to living and express & fresh interest in activities related to things in motion pictures,” he continued. Teaching of science to older children and social studies in- struction fh high schools and col- leges can be made much more effec- tive through use of carefully pre- pared films, he declared. Leadership Urged. The council president urged edu- | cators to assume leadership in de- the council has made plans with other kindred organizations In his annual report to the some 500 delegates of colleges, universities and educational associations repre- tional needs at present are: 1. Establishment of school pro- grams that will enable youth to deal intelligently with issues involved in the current international conflict and in the place of the United States in world affairs. 2. Development of a practical method of making available through education the resources of religion “so essential to development of per- sonal and social integrity and to the democratic way of life.” Continue Youth Commission. Emergencies that might arise with regard to employment of youth in this country as a result of the European war is a factor that has forced a decision to continue the American Youth Commission an- other year, Floyd W. Reeves, com- ‘mnl‘sslon director, told a group meet- Mr. Reeves said the commission, which had been organized originally to continue only to 1940, \will be extended to June 1 of next year. Since the commission was organ- ized in 1935, he pointed out, the youth problem is no longer recog- nized as one related solely to the depression, but as a continuing one now complicated by the uncertain- ties caused by the condition of international affairs. “No one dealing with youth should forget for a moment that events abroad may have far more vital consequence for young people in this country than even the economic vicissitudes through which we are passing,” Dr. Reeves said. A panel discussion and symposium on “The Care and Adjustment of American Youth” was scheduled for the afternoon, and the annual din- ner will be held tonight at 7 o’clock. inner speakers are to be Mark A. May, director of the Institute of Human Relations, Yale University, talking on “The Education of a Democrat,” and Dr. Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, considering “Who Is Respon- sible for Peace?” Concluding general sessions will be held tomorrow. Traffic Record - The traffic record, as revealed at police headquarters for 24- hour period ending at 8 am. today: Fatalities, 1, a motorist. experimental centers for more than | velopment of educational motion | pictures, and he pointed out tha* | tp par- | ticipate in this development along sented at the meeting, Dr. Zook | asserted that the greatest educa- | 4 Society and General Cathedral as Cenfer 0f Fellowship for Peace Envisioned Association Hears Bishop Holt of Methodist Church A hope that Washington Cathe- | dral may become a center of inter- | denominational fellowship activity looking toward a worthwhile con- tribution te world peace was held by the Na'ional Cathedral Associa- tion today, following a message de- livered by the Right Rev. Ivan Lee | Holt of Dallas, Tex., a bishop of the Methodist Church, at its annual meeting yesterday. Bishop Holt pointed out as an en- couraging sign recent church uni- fication efforts, which he said give | promise of a reversal of the cen- turies-long process of division with- | in denominations. Effective work by the Christian | {church of this country in promot- ing understanding among peoples is not yet an actuality, however, the prelate reminded his audience in the North Transept and Grand Crossing of the Cathedral, Cites Vatican Representative. He declared the fact President Roosevelt’s appointment of a per- sonal representative to the Vatican incited controversy indicated “We're not yet in sight of the time when the Christian church can do much in building up fellowship between North and South America,” inas- much as the Catholic Church is | dominant on the latter continent. (The General Conference of the Methodist Church, meeting in Atlantic City, N. J., yesterday formally asked the President to recall Myron C. Taylor, his emis- sary to the Vatican.) | Bishop Holt suggested an an- nual gathering of Protestant lead- ers, which might in time grow to include other faiths, be held at the | catahedral, which he termed an ideal setting for a conclave dedi- cated to stimulating fellowship be- cause of its location in the Nation's Capital. Pepper Accepts Chairmanship. Walter B. Clarkson, president of the association, the total member- ship of which is 8,000, announced that former Senator George W. Pepper of Pennsylvania had ac- cepted chairmanship of a commit- tee considering future fund-raising policies aimed at making possible completion of the Cathedral. Mr. Clarkson said a “broader membership base” and enlistment of many more active supporters of the movement is a necessity. The Very Rev. Noble C. Powell, dean of the Cathedral and vice president of the association, d livered the invocation and benedic- tion and greeted the members in the absence of Bishop James E. Freeman. Dean Powell expressed Bishop Freeman’s regrets that a minor foot injury prevented him from being present. The Bishop and Mrs. Freeman received the delegates and their guests at tea following the meet- ing, however. Reports were offered by Miss Mary E. Johnston, president and chairman of women’s committees; Richerd W. Hyson, treasurer, and Edwin N. Lewis, secretary. The choirs of National Cathedral School for Girls~ and St. Albans School participated in the program. Porch to Be Completed. The Women'’s Committees of the. association, holding a business ses- sion and luncheon at the National Cathedral School for Girls yester- day, voted to make completion of the north porch of the Cathedral, known as the women’s porch, one of two major activities next year. As- sistance in obtaining memberships in the association toward mainte- nance of the Cathedral will remain started nine years ag0 and is now half finished. An anonymous donor will match every gift for the balance of the fund, dol- Iar for dollar, it was announced. A sum of $27,000 remains to be raised for that purpose. Miss Johnston presided at the women’s meeting, which was at- tended by regents and committee chairmen representing 20 States. Miss Elizabeth B. Canaday, field secretary of the association, re- ported, and Miss Mable Turner, principal of the National Cathedral Girls’ School, spoke. Former Sena- tor Pepper, Dean Powell and Mr. Clarkson attended the luncheon, The day’s exercises were con- cluded last night -with & choir fes- tival in the Cathedral, conducted by $100,000 Voted To Complete Navy Memorial Interior Supply Bill Passes Senate With Increases for D. C. A new item of $100,000 for com- pletion of the Navy and Marine Memorial, on the Columbia Island area near the Mount Vernon hLigh- way, was added to the Interior De- partment supply bill as it was pased late yesterday by the Senate. ‘The move, sponsored by Senator Danaher, Republican, of Connecti- cut, was accepted by Senator Hay- den, Democrat, of Arizona, in charge of the measure, prior to Senate action. In protesting the unfinished state of the memorial, Senator Danaher recalled that Congress a year ago authorized a similar ap- propriation, which has not yet' been made, and revealed a lengthly list of Connecticut residents who had made contributions toward the me- morial. As the bill came from the Senate, calling for a total outlay in the next fiscal year of $136,262,834, it included other increases amounting to more than $200,000 for projects or services in the National Capital, all of which had been added to the bill Wednes- day by the Senate Appropriations Committee. 2 Jefferson Memorial Shares Increase. There were: An increase of $111,260 to House figures for landscaping and improve- ments in the area surrounding the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, to raise the sum for this purpose to the $8375,000 recommended by the Budget Bureau; An increase of $40,000 to provide for erection of a first-aid police lodge and comfort station at the Water Gate in West Potomac Park, which would be built into the abut- ment of the Arlington Memorial Bridge; 5 fAnlmlmcrea.seu otf $35,000 for purchase orms for employes of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, and, An increase of $14,780 for addi- tional salaries and maintenance at Freedmen’s Hospital. Senator Thomas Backs Chaxge. The additional fund for improve- ment of the grounds of the Jefferson Memorial was recommended by the Appropriations Committee after Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah, vice chairman of the Memorial Commission, joined with National Park Service officials in urging the change. The project, it was said, calls for changes in the Tidal Basin seawall and adjoining grounds on the east and west sides of the memorial, only part of which could be done under the House figures, and it was argued the ultimate cost would be some $15000 greater if the work were done piecemeal. The grounds improvements, it was reported, would entail the removal, and later replacement, of 34 cherry trees, but officials of the Memorial Commission declared these trees all were old and would have to be re- moved under normal conditions, and that the commission’s plans call | for planting of additional cherry | trees on both the east and west | sides of the memorial, John Philip S;u;d?tump Is Released Today The John Philip Sousa stamp, in memory of the march king, who for 12 years, was leader of the Ma- rine Band, was released today. First requested by music lovers and philatelists, soon after the fa- mous conductor and composer's death in 1932, the new commemo- rative is one of the “Heroes of Peace” series—a 2-cent value, print- ed in carmine. It is on sale.at the City Post Office, the Benjamin Franklin Station, the Philatelic Agency and the special branch pos- tal station at the philatelic fair at the Hotel Mayflower. At the same time, a 1-cent stamp, in tribute to Stephen Collins Foster, today will be distributed from Bardstown, Ky., where he is sup- posed to have written “My Old Ken- tucky Home.” The first sheet of the Sousa issue is to go to the bandmaster’s widow. It has been arranged that it will be purchased for her by Joseph P, Tumulty, secretary to President Wil- son during his administration, Shouted Greeting To Judge Costs Visitor $100 Stepping down from his bench in the jury branch of Police Court for & short recess yesterday, Judge John P. McMahon was hilariously greeted by a visitor in the hallway. “Hi'ya, judge!” he shouted loudly “How’sa boy?” ‘Taking & quick look at the visitor —and one was enough, witnesses testified—Judge McMahon ordered Deputymgushll Harry J. Wells to arrest . Today, before Judge George D Neilson, the defendant—Jack C. Lane, 30, of Richmond, Va.—pleaded not guilty to & charge of intoxication and denied he meant any offense to the dignity of the court. Testifying about the arrest, mads in the second floor hallway, Deputy Marshal Wells told Judge Neilson the defendant claimed he was from Richmond and that he “was a mem- ber of the bar.” “Did he specifically state what kind of & bar?” the jurist inquired. "N:& your honor,” Mr. Wells Judge Netlson ordered the.defend. ant to pay a fine of $100 or serve 180 days in jail. —_— Dr. T. Tertius Noble, New York ore ganist and composer. Choirs par- ticipating included that of the Cathedral, directed by Paul Calla- way, organist and choirmaster; of the Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation, Sherman J. Krues- burg, organist and cholrmaster, and of §t. John's Church, Georgetown, directed by E. Brackett.