Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1940, Page 18

Factions Battle ‘For Maryland G. 0. P. Control Convention Delegates Committee Heads To Be Named Today By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, May 18.—Factional leaders fighting for control of the Republican party in Maryland were ready for a showdown today at the State convention to elect delegates to the national conyention and a State national committeeman and committeewoman. g Leading the forces into the battle scheduled to begin at noon were former Gov. Nice, the party’s can- didate for the Senate, and backers of William F. Broening, former Bal- timore Mayor whom Mr. Nice de- feated in the May 6 primary for the senatorial nomination. Paul Robertson, chairman of the Baltimore Republican City Com- mittee, and George R. Norris, Bal- timore County leader, head the ‘Broening faction. Caucuses Scheduled. Separate caucuses this morning of delegates from each of thé six con- gressional districts were expected to indicate the outcome of the moves by both sides to line up a majority of the 149 accredited State conven- tion delegates and insure control of the national delegation. Mr. Nice was assured of 110 con- vention votes for the senatorial nomination, and he predicted that at least 107 would support his choices for delegations to the Na- tional Convention in Philadelphia. Weller Expected to Be Candidate. Former Senator O. E. Weller, Pub- lic Service Commission chairman, was expected to be a candidate to succeed himself as national coramit- teeman. Mrs. Edmonia Lawson is national committeewoman. The national delegation will elect the national committeeman and committeewoman. Keynote speaker today was Paul R. Kach. Wendell D. Allen, former Baltimore City chairman, presided. Former Stete Senator William A. Gunter of Allegany County was| named formally to nominate Mr. Nice for the Senate. Walter Again Suggests Ceding D. C. to Maryland ‘The idea of ceding back to Mary- land all portions of the District not needed for functions ef the Federal Government was revived yesterday by Representative Walter, Demo- crat, of Pennsylvania, as a means of granting the vote to Washington | residents ‘The author of a bill to this effect, which failed of action at the last regular session of Congress, Mr. Walter again suggested the plan yesterday while conducting a hear- ing by a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. on thé Geyer bill to outlaw requirements for pay- | ment of poll tax to vote in elec- tions of President or members of Congress. Sidney R. Katz, spokesman for the District and Maryland Indus- trial Union Council of the C. I. O,, ['hf declared adoption of the Geyer bill would have a “very salutary” effect on District hopes for the granting of self-government to residents of the National Capital. Mr. Walter suggested that District residents could be granted the vote by approval of the plan to cede resi- dential and business areas of Wash- ington back to Maryland. Annual S. A. R. Congress To Open Tomorrow ‘The National Society Sons of the American Revolution, will open its 51st congress at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in Wardman Park Hotel. ‘The congress will continue through ‘Wednesday afternoon. Featuring the opening day will be a luncheon for Executive Committee members, at which President General Messmore Kendall of New York will be host; participation in the massing of col- ors ceremony at 4 pm at the Wash- ington Cathedral and a meeting of the national trustees tomorrow night. A “surprise night” program also will be held tomorrow evening in the Wardman Park Theater. Between 200 and 300 delegates are expected at assembly call at 9:20 am. Monday. The morning session Monday will be deveted principally to reports, addresses of welcome and presentation of State flags. Important on the congress pro- gram will be a banquet Tuesday evening, at which speakers are to include Senator Nye of North Da- kota, Mrs. Henry M. Robert, jr., president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and President General Kendall of the 8. A.R. Capt. Miller Graduated From Traffic Institute Capt. Arthur E. Miller of the local Metropolitan Police Department to- day was graduated with honors from the Northwestern University Traffic Institute, Evanston, Ill, and delivered the class valedictory. Capt. Miller, who is to return to duty soon, attended the institute’s course in traffic control and accident prevention under a $1,200 fellowship provided by the Kemper Founda- tion for Traffic Police Training. Named by Undertakers ' Garyton Echols, general manager of the W. W. Chambers Co., last night was elected vice president of the Advertising Funeral Directors of America at the annual conven- tion in Des Moines, Towa. The organization will meet here next year. Ed Hoyne of Dayton, Ohio, was named president, the Asso- clated Press reported. Stoplight Holdup Reported A colored woman and a colored man entered his car when he stopped for a traffic light at Scott Circle about 10 o'clock last night, George H. Fletcher of 1635 Q street N.W. reported to police, and they forced him to driVe to an alley near N and Fourteenth streets N.W., where they robbed him of his Ppocketbook containing $3. 4 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY ‘15, 1040, JUST AN OLD PERUVIAN CUSTOM—While Dr. John Parks, left, resident physician in the Gal- linger ‘maternity ward, and Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of the hospital, looked on, Senora German de Morales Macedo presented a layette to the infant son of Mrs. John Goodmap, shown in bed, yesterday. —=Star Staft Photo. ¢ Never Turn Back on Wrong Cat, Circus Lion Tamer Advises‘ Alfred Court Battles With Each Animal to Prove He Is Master By ALFRED TOOMBS. Some days, when Alfred Court is in a bad humor, he walks into a cage full of lions, tigers, leopards, bears and assorted murder-on-the- hoof and says “Booah,” which is an old French expression meaning “who would like a poke in the kisser today?” The beasties take to cover and Mr. Court finds it absolutely impossible to get any of them to come out and try to kill him unless he adopts a kindlier tone. Mr. Court has 60 vicious animals in the act which he does in Ringling Bros, Barnum and Batley Circus, playing here now. He has licked every tough baby in the crowd. The circus people say that Mr. Court’s cat act is the most unusual they've ever had. He’s trained panthers, pumas and jaguars—the most unreliable and vicious of ani- mals—and has then worked them in with lions, tigers, bears and dogs, who love each other like Mr. Hitler loves Mr. Churchill. Sees Aides Die. In the process of building up this act, Mr. Court has seen two of his assistants and one secretary killed by his animals and has personally gone to the hospital four times after being mistaken for the, meat course. Mr. Court gets jungle-born ani- mals and trains most of them when they are young. Lions are easiest to handle and tigers next. When he gets one_of these cats, he goes into the traifiing cage alone, armed with such formidable weapons as'a whip, & wooden stick and an old chair. He doesn’t own a gun. Then the cat is turned loose with im. “Eet's joost like a box match,” the Frenchman explains. “They've got their teeth and their claws— I've got my wheep and my steeck. The best one weens.” The cat always attacks and when he does Mr. Court gives him such a lambasting, such a dizzy chase after a little man who’s never there that the animal lies down after a while and dreams of turning vegetarian. Once Is Enough. Mr. Court hasn't met the lion or tiger or bear that he can’t beat in a hand-to-hand fight. And after he beats them once, they generally get the idea. “They say: ‘He's the boss. He’s strongair than I am, so I won’t fight heem’.” The jaguars, cougars, panthers and other smaller cats have to re- ceive a slightly different training treatment. You can see a lion coming for you and hell walk right up before he makes a pass. But the smaller cats will jump straight for a man’s throat from a distance of 10 or 15 feet. So when Mr. Court goes into the cage with them the first time, he has a couple of ropes around their necks. This keeps them from jump- ing at him and makes it an even fight. The next training step is to teach them the tricks, just lke yowd teach a dog—by rewarding them when they obey and punishing them when they don’t. Then he has to teach the cats not to fight each other. You learn to know each animal as an individual and you find there are some you can turn, yoyr back on and some that you can’t. One.of his late trainers turned his back on the wrong tigér once. . This was in Europe and Mr. Court had just hired the new trainer, a young Frenchman. There was a mean tiger named Bengalee in the act and he leaped on the trainer’s back. Mr. Court was outside the cage at the time and when he saw the tiger's jaws fasten on the trainer’s leg, he leaped to the rescue. ‘Without Weapons. In his hurry, he forgot to take any weapon with him and when he got in the cage he picked up & stool and threw it at the tiger. The animal loosed his grip and the trainer rose, turned his back on Bengalee and started toward Mr, “He lost hees nerve for joost a second — joost a leetle panic. And that ees where he made hees mees- take.” The tiger leaped again, his teeth fastening on the trainer’s head. Mr. Court, grabbing whatever he could lay his hands on, fought Bengalee and the half dozen other cats in the cage, who, excited by the blood, be- gan to riot. For three minutes he battled the cats, dragging the wounded man little by little toward the gate. Mr. Court got out, but the trainer died two hours later . The same tiger killed another trainer a year later while Mr. Court watched. “Bengalee joomped heem and then all the others joomped and: tore heem to pieces een & few seconds.” Mr. Court worked Bengalee be- fore and after both these killings— » / but he never turned his back on him. His body is covered with scars. A lion gave him a mauling once that laid him up for two years. “Whan that fellow get me down, I do not make the meestake of getting panicked. Eet make me angry, very angry, that these lion try to keel me. So I fight heem back and I bBeat heem.” Wound Is Dangerous. Even the smallest wound is dan- gerous, because blood poisoning is likely to set in. That’s how one of Mr. Court’s secretaries was killed. She had seen him pet one of the black leopards so she stuck her hand in the cage. He bit her arm and two days later the girl was dead. The lion can outfight all the other cats in the act. The little black bears he uses are the only ones that can outfight lions. They are Malayan bears and are the clowns in thé act. The black panthers are the meanest and the costliest, running about $1,000, untrained. He nearly lost all his animals— which are worth at least $50,000— when the European war started. He was in France and just got the act out in time. They kill such meat eating animals these days. The circus had the crowd “on the siraw” last night—which means #n overflow audience. There are two performances today, the last day, at 2:15 and 8:15 pm, Businessmen Ask Betfer Air Defenses for D. C. The Federation of Businessmen's Associations supported President Roosevelt's request for increased defense appropriations and asked that the air raid defenses of the Capitol be improved, in a resolution adopted at its meeting in the Con- tinenta] Hotel Thursday night. L. R. Colburn, president of the Connecticut Avenue Businessmen's Association, offered the resolution. He urged a survey by the War De- partment of defensive measures in the District, declaring he believed they are inadequate. R. G. Dunne from the Northeast group favored immediate action by the Federal Government to deport all persons favoring overthrow of the Government. The federation voted down a mo- tion by .Capt. Floyd Truscott of No. 10 police precinct that the group go on record favoring compulsory mili- tary training for all men between the ages of 18 and 55. The Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers’ Association and the Dis- trict Petroleum Committee were voted into the federation after being recommended by the Membership Committee, of which James P. Rogers, president of the Northeast group, is chairman. The Trafic Committee was: asked to investigate parking restrictions imposed in the Park View area, and & visit to Trafic Director Willilam A. Van Duzer was also requested, to seek lifting of the no-parking ban on both sides of Georgia avenue —from Otis place to Princeton street N.W. Jewish Center Council To Install Officers The Service Council of the Jew- ish Community Center will install recently elected officers at a dinner dance today in the center at Six- teenth and Q streets N.W. New officers are: President, Rubin Borasky; vice presidents, Jack Gold- berg, Rose Shatenstein, Sam Bos- sin and Ruth Morgenstein; record- ing secretary, Mae Ponorow For- man; corresponding secretary, Rose Shapiro; treasurer, Esther Horo- witz; directors, Jeanette Applestein, Sadie Edlavitch, Rose PFurr, Sol Klass, Julius Lazerow, Hy Lytton, mon and Dave Tavlin. '‘Allies Act to Stop U. S. Shipments to Holland 'The allies. moved today to cut off shiprhents of American goods to the Netherlands in view of German oc- cupation of most of that country. Al navicerts and applications for navicerts—certificates issued here to; facilitate passage through the allied blockade—covering goods consigned to the Netherlands “must be regard- ed as canceled,” the British and Prench Embassies announced. American exports to the Nether- lands amounted to $96,636,000 in 1939, and to $28,227,000 for the first three months of this year, made up mostly of corn, wheat, soy beans, tobacco, cotton, gasoline, machinery tomobiles. % A Mother's Day Baby Given Layette by Peruvian Senora Founder of Hospital In Lima Repeats Old Custom Here The infant son of a World War veteran will leave Gallinger Hospital with a brand-new, very pink layette because of an old Peruvian custom. Seventh child of Mr. and Mrs. John Goodman, 233 K street N.W., the infants’ good fortune stems sim- ply from the fact that he was born on Mother’s Day. The donor, Senora German de Morales Macedo, whose husband is a delegate to the Pan-American Scientific Congress here, specified that the recipient of her gift be a Mother’s Day baby. That's because, back home in Lima, Mother’s Day is celebrated differently. The babies get all the attention. To each infant born on that day, and sometimes there are 40 of them, goes a layette just like the one the Goodman infant re- ceived. Founded Hospital for Poor By a lucky chance, Dr. Beatrice Berle of the Gallinger Hospital staff speaks Spanish and so the senora was able to make it clear that her gift was from “The Fireside of the Mother,” an institution where poor mothers go in Lima to have their babies. Senora de Morales Macedo founded the institution 15 years ago and has supported it by frequent raffles. She doesn't go in for teas and balls to raise gnoney. Architects volunteer their services and houses are built at low cost for raffling. As many as 50,000 tickets are sold at 20 cents a chance and the win- ner gets a house, complete with furnishings and even trgnsporta- tion by airplane if he lives outside Lima. The mother’s home, mean- while, gets the rest of the take. The hospital picked out Mrs. Goodman as the ideal mother for the layette. The 33-year-old wom- an was virtually overcome with emo- tion, even wanted to name her baby after the senora’s husband. It was suggested, under the circumstances, that the®baby have another name beginning with G instead of Ger- man. Baby Sleeps Contentedly. Mrs. Goodman's husband hasn’t seen his son yet. He is under treat- ment at Walter Reed Hospital. The presentation of the basket, twined with artificial flowers and bearing all the things babies need— like diapers, blankets, shirts, rattles, baby powder, etc.—was made at Mrs. Goodman’s bed. The model infant didn’t utter a peep. When he was first brought to his mother’s bedside he opened one eye to investigate, appeared satisfied that things were going well and slept through the rest of.the ceremony. Miss Morgan’s Ple Spurs Fund Drive , A cabled appeal from their na- tional president, Miss Anne Morgan, now in the French battle zone, has intensified the drive of the Wash- ington Committee of the American Friends of France for emergency funds to supply the organization’s | volunteer relief units in France, Following the reported bombard- ment of Miss Morgan’s unit while evacuating a sector in Northern France, the Washington group re- ceived this message from Miss Mor- gan: “Our northern post quitted westerly direction. Excellent morale in spite of exhausting and heart- rending condition. Desperate need immediate cash.” Mrs. Arthur Woods, chairman of the Washington Committee, said contributions may be sent to Cor- coran Thom, jr, at the Dupont Circle branch of Riggs National Bank, to be forwarded to the war zone immediately. Officials to Attend Peace Mass at C. U. Leading Government officials and diplomats are scheduled to attend the Pan-American Peace Mass at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in the National Shrine of the Immaculate. Concep- tion at Catholic University. ‘The Most Rev. Joseph M. Corrigan, rector of Catholic University, will pontificate at the mass. The sermon will be preached in Spanish by the Rev. Dr. Edwin Ryan, secretary of the Institute of Ibero-American Studies and the “Prayer of Peace” will be recited in four languages— English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Among those expected to attend are Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, all members of the diplo- matic corps of the American re- publics and delegate to the American Scientific Congress of the Pan- American Union, now in session A Traffic Counci Recommends Appoinfment Representative Davis - Of Tennessee Urged For D. C. Committee By G. ADAMS HOWARD. For the first time in its history, the Commissioner-appointed Traffic Advisory Council indorsed a man for a job. Representative Davis of Tennessee” was the selection. ‘The council at a meeting last night in the . District Building unanimously adopted a resolution asking that the Speaker appoint Mr. Davis to membership on the House District Committee. The ac- tion followed an address by Mr. Davis, who was vice mayor of Memphis and commissioner of pub- lc safety. Mr. Davis stated that Washington was the most outstanding, the most beautiful, and could be made the safest city in the world. Calling upon the homes, schools, churches and civic organizations to co- operate, he said that he could get the full co-operation of Congress. Burton W. Marsh, director of trafic and safety engineering of the American Automobile Agsocia- tion, gave an analysis of Washing- ton’s entry in the pedestrian pro- tection contest. He praised the work of the local papers, stating that they had done much to better conditions here. He pointed out that 9 out of 10 fatalities occurred to non-drivers. For this reason he emphasized the néed of making contact with pedestrians of this nature that they might be safe- guarded. Safety Council Aide Speaks. Lloyd A. Blanchard, District field representative of the National Safe- ty Council, was another: speaker. He also stressed the need of help- ing the pedestrian and urged that a campaign to aid this class be dramatized. The council approved the report of E. S. Hege, chairman of the Traffic Safety Promotion Commit- tee, to obtain city mape for the various police precincts, detailing by pins the various accidents oc- curring daily. In his report it was stated that the director of vehicles and traffic has agreed to secure precinct maps and pins for use as traffic accident spot maps to show every day the number and location of any accident resulting in a pas- senger fatality, pedestrian fatality, passenger injury, pedestrian injury property damage. These maps will keep each precinct and all officers posted up to date where traffic acci- dents are occurring. The different size and shape of pin heads will indicate the result of the accident. “Each precinct Already has three prints of similar spot maps which will be valuable for comparison with the up-to-date pin maps. These three maps were furnished by the Safety Promotion Committee from data secured in co-operation with the Recreation Department from the records of the Police Depart- ment. The first map spotted loca- tion of 888 child traffic injuries or fatalities in 1938 for the entire city. ‘The second map gave the same in- formation on 842 child injuries and fatalities in 1939. The third map spots location of 745 adult night- time injuries and fatalities. Enforcement Report Approved. Harry S. Wender's report for the Committee on Legislation and En- forcement was approved. This re- port asked that the Commissioners favor concentrating enforcement agencies in locations where acci- dents are most apt to occur, uni- form enforcement of traffic regu- lations in Police Court, a full-time traffic judge and the reduction of taxicabs from 4,500 to 2,500. ‘The report stated in part: “Your committee * * * feels that it is necessary to assign at least one Traffic Court judge on a full- time basis, with the thought that when the work of the traffic bench has increased so as to necessitate the full time of two judges, the number of Police Court judges may v augmented and two assigned w full-time Traffic Court duty. “The committee recommends that the Traffic Advisory Council go on record expressing its approval in principle of the proposed bill H. R. 9175 * * * amended * * * to read as follows: ‘Be it enacted * * * that section 42 of the District of Co- lumbia Code of 1901, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence—“The presiding judge of the Police Court shall assign for a period of not less than one year one judge of the court whose sole duty shall be the trial of cases involving violations of the traffic laws and regulations and in the absence, sickness, or disability of such judge, may assign a substitute, or when the expeditious trial of such cases requires, may, temporarily, as- sign an additional judge to such duty.” Section 2. Section 6 (1) of the District of Columbia Trafc Act, 1925, is amended to read as follows: “(i) All prosecutions for violations of provisions of the Traffic Act, excepting section 11 thereof, and this act or. regulations made and promulgated under the authority of said act, shall be in the Police Court of the District of Columbia upon information filed by the corporation counsel of the Dis- trict of Columbia or any of his as- sistants ‘and shall be tried by any Jjudge assigned for that purpose as provided in section 42 of the Dis- trict of Columbia Code.” Home Play Model Advised. A report by H. V. Schreiber on education for children was read and approved. It was suggested that typical home play lots, home- made and purchased equippment be acquired and set up and shifted about to the various parts of the city by the recreation department as a demonstration unit to show parents how they can help keep| high their children off the streets. In this _connection it was stated that the D. C. Motor Club of the A. A. A, in co-operation with the Playground Department and Department of Vehicles and Traffic, has secured a set of traffic signals and a number of toy autos for a safety town demonstration at various play- grounds. The council, on the recommenda- tion of its Committee on Signs and Signals, disappro changes in the traffic lights. The committee was asked to con- sider the suggestions made in a recent newspaper article—that nal lights st intersections be placed A \ BEST-DRILLED UNIT—Benjamin Washington, member of the faculty at Armstrong High School and commander of the first winning company of colored cadets in the drills in 1893, pre- sents a medal to yesterday’s winner, Capt. William Mason of Cardozo High School’s Company I. Tall Cedars fo Stage Constitufion Avenue Parade Today Masonic Fun Order To Begin March at 2 O'Clock Gay with music and in colorful uniforms, the Tall Cedars of Leb- anon planned to march down Con- stitution avenue this afternoon in & parade filled with the humor of this fun-order of Masonry. Marching units in gaudy uni- forms, bands and curious vehicular contraptions designed to provoke laughter were to be ready to move at 2 o'clock. The parade was to be led by Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, himself a Tall Cedar; a group of police who are members of the order, the United States Marine Band, Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, commanding the District of Colum- bia National Guard, and others. The parade is the climax of the 38th annual convention of the Tall Cedars, whose business sessions at the Willard Hotel were.to. close to- day with election of officers. Patriotic Pageant Tonight. ‘Tonight a patriotic pageant will be staged at the Sylvan Theater by Baltimore Forest No. 45, under lead- ership of John H. McFaul, jr, and directed by Maj. Howard Hughes. Festivities at the theater on the Washington Monument grounds will open at 7:30 o’clock. ‘The annual banquet last night at the Willard was featured by an address by’ Senator Carl A.Hatch of New Mexico, who warned the delegates that freedom of thought and action in this country must not be curtailed by the attacks against democracy in Europe. He criticized forms of totalitarian gov- ernment under domination of one man, citing communism in Russia, \Nazi-ism in Germany, Fascism in Italy and imperialism in Japan. “The lights of civilization may be blacked out in Europe,” he said,” but in the United States those lights are still ablaze.” Greeting From President. R. F. Camalier, general chairman for the convention, read a message of greeting from President Roose- velt, a member of the Tall Cedars. Other speakers included Repre- sentative Luther Patrick of Alabama and Supreme Tall Cedar Thomas C. Havell of this city, toastmaster. Po- lice Capt. George M. Little was co- chairman of the evening. The annual convention will close with a reception and dance at the ‘Willard after the pageant tonight. Spicer Named President Of Public Accountants William E. Spicer was elected president of the Washington Insti- tute of Public Accountants st its annual meeting in the Willard Hotel last night. Mr. Spicer was secre- tary of the institute last year. Other officers elected were Louis C. Grossberg, vice president; Harry Lund, secretary, and Lee Atford, treasurer. The institute also elected a Board of Directors consisting of Mr. Spicer, Mr. Lund, David E. Snyder, William - Revis, Hugo W. Kurandt and George H. Bobinger. Weekly luncheons of the institute will be held at the Madrillon Res- taurant each Thursday at 12:30 pm. A special meeting of the Board of Directors will be held next Tuesday. at least 3 feet higher than they are at present, or that they be placed in the center of intersections on center poles or span wires sus- pended high enough. to be seen a block away. Sees $80,000 Cost. committee re- them 3 feet necessitate the in- pol Ornamental poles would cost $50 each; ‘4 per in- tersection, $200; or $80,000 for ap- proximately 400 intersections where installed, trees at the curblines wolld in- terfere nwl'.h the motorists seeing ved any material|of u, declaring that the District had lost & true friend and & good traffic adviser. ‘Whit A mmmvm d —=Star Staft Photo. Cardozo Company | Wins First Prize in Colored Cadet Drills Dunbar Company B Places Second, With Unit A Third For the second successive year, Company I of Cardozo High School {s the possessor of the Teachers’ Diamond Medal denoting top honors in the annual competitive drills of colored high school cadets held yesterday for the 48th time in Griffith Stadium. ‘The winning unit won 956 points out of a possible 1000. Company B of Dunbar placed second with 919 points. Company A of the same school was close behind with 914 for third place. Col. Harry O. Atwood, professor of military science and tactics in the colored high schools, empha- sized the contest was close. Capt. William Mason of Cardozo received the medal from Benjamin ‘Washington, a member of the Arm- strong High School faculty, who was the ranking officer of the first winning company in the com- petitive drill ih 1893 spk- 15,000 Cheer . More than 15000 chee! tators witnessed the event, which was featured by the various units passing in review before 22-captains of previous victorious colored high school cadet companies. Clarence Wormley, captain- of Armstrong Company B, which won in 1923, presented the winning flag to the Cardozo unit, and William Brown, captain of M Street High School Company B, which was vic- torious in 1899, presented a gold medal to Capt. Mason. The M street school is now Terrell Junior High. The Kramer Cup, second prize in the colored competitive drills, was presented to Capt. Ashton Rob- inson of Dunbar Company B by William J. Howard, captain of the winning M Street High Company B in 1900. Lt. Norris Berry of the winning company received a medal from Robert N. Mattingly, head of Com- pany C of the M street school, which won in 1901. Mr. Mattingly is now principal of Cardozo High School. Ribbon Bars Presented. Ribbon bars were presented to members of the Dunbar B Company and to members of the Dunbar A Company. Among those who attended the competition were Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou; Dr. G. C. Wilkin- son, first assistant superintendent of schools, and Judge Armond W Scott of Municipal Court. Judges were Col. Lackland Hewitt of the Massachusetts National Guard; Capt. R. A. Williams of the New Jersey National Guard; Capt. Roscoe -Clayton, military instructor at Howard University, and Lt. Leroy Clay of the Maryland National Guard. ‘Peace Week’ Declared For 13-Day Period The Washington Peace Council last night declared a 13-day period beginning today as “Emergency Peace week” and planned a house- to-house canvass of peace senti- ment, distribution of literature and & mass meeting at the close. The council, after hearing a talk by Representative Lee Geyer, Dem- ocrat, of California, passed a reso- lution declaring that “We are ir- revocably opposed to American par- ticipation in the present war and are opposed to relaxation of any legislation to allow loans to bel- ligerents because this would be a step to war.” A committee of 42 was elected to steer activities of the “peace week.” Michael Howard presided at the meeting. Man, 66, and Boy, 6, Hurt .in Auto Accidents Hit by a car last night while crossing Seventh street N.E. in the 600 block, Frank Duffy, 66-year-old resident of 611 Fourteenth street N.W., was treated at Casualty Hos- pital for a possible fracture of the jaw and face lacerations. Police said the driver of the car, Booker T. Calder, colored, 35, of 1136 Third street N.W., was charged with having defective brakes. 6-year-old John W. King, colored, of 805 New Jersey avenue S.E, received a frac- House Backing 0f Higher D. C. Bill Indicated Decision Expected to Hinge on Assurance Of No Deficit Given assurances that increases in the 1941 District supply bill over the House total would not run the Dis- trict “into the red” and thereby threaten a boost in its realty tax July 1, House managers may accept a large portion of items added in the Senate, it was indicated today. . 'The bill is expected to be sent to conference early this week at the request at Representative Caldwell, Democrat, of Florida, chairman of the District Appropriations Sub- committee of the House. Raised About $1,406,000. As passed by the Senate, the bill calls for an outlay of $49,697,890 or some $1,406,000 more than the sum approved by the House, which was itself figured to be about $800,000 more than actual tax collections expected to be received during the next fiscal year. However, Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District Budget officer, has declared final approval of the Senate total would not mean any real deficit since it was based on the premise of considering the October, second-half income tax payments, in effect, as a part of the revenues of the preceding fiscal year, ending June 30. Caldwell Wants Assurance. Mr. Caldwell, while indicating much of the Senate increases may be agreed to, said if the Commis- sioners wish to anticipate the Octo= ber tax payments in this fashion and can convince his group the plan js legal, he would make no fight against the move. However, he said he would want to know that it would not put the District “into the red.” Need for increased appropria- tions in some respects, he said, had been recognized by members of the House‘ District Appropriations Sub- committee at the time it considered the supply bill, but, he added, it was felt that the subcommittee had gone about as far as it could, in view of the revenue situation. Measure Would Repeal Sections of D. C. Statufes Apparently in reply to assertions that the “revision” of the District code of laws being performed by the House Committee on Revision of Laws is merely a compilation |of District statutes and not a real revision, Representative Keogh, Democrat, of New York yesterday of= fered a bill to repeal 135 sections of 80 District statutes that are ob- solete or suspended. The new bill by Mr. Keogh, who is chairman of the Revision of Laws | Committee, was prepared on the | heels of the recent action by the Senate District Committee in re= porting, with amendments, the bill of Senator - Bilbo, Democrat, of Mississippi to authorize employment of five attorneys for up to three years at a maximum cost of $90,000 in salaries, to revise the code. The Bilbo measure is said to be supported by members of the Dis- trict Bar Association, but whereas & similar plan drafted earlier by Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal would have provided that four of the five legal workers must be Dis- trict residents, the revised Bilbo bill omits this restriction. Also, it was recalled, the Bilbo measure, now awaiting Senate action, would place 60 per cent of the cost on the Dis- trict government. The work being done by the Keogh Hpuse group places no cost on the District. W. P. A. Dinners Monday Will Promote, Projecis Almost half a hundred 25-cent dinners will be given in Washington Monday night under the auspices of the District Work Projects Ad- ministration, Paul Edwards, District administrator, anncunced yesterday. With more than 3,000 in attend- ance, the novel dinners will be held all over the city, with these as the outstanding groups: Arts Project, 816 Independence avenue; House- hold Training Project, 1114 O street N.W.; Housekeeping Aid, 61 I street N.W.; Sewing Project, John Mar- shall place and C street; School Lunch Project, 1640 Wisconsin ave- nue; National Archives Project, American Legion Hall, 414 Ninth street N.W., and Census Project, 808 I street N.W. Sponsors, project workers and executives of the various profes- sional and service projects will take part, during the dinners, in the launching of “This Work Pays Your Community” Week—a Nation-wide campaign. Purpose of the campaign is to urge business, civic and welfare ore- ganizations and the general public to inspect administration projects between May 20 and 25 and get an accounting of the physical accom= plishments to date. The gatherings, comprising a Nation-wide “ e dinner, will hear addresses by Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Carmody, administrator of the Fed- eral Works Agency; Col. F. C. Har- rington, commissioner of the Works Progress Administration, and Mrs, Florence Kerr, assistant commis- sloner. These addresses will be broadcast in Washington over Sta~ tion WOL and throughout the coune :;y o;;rt. lNull(m-vAde hookup of e Mutual Broadcasf s from 8 to 8:30 pm. o ‘Whole Family’ Party Planned for May 25 A party for the “whole family” will ‘be staged May 25, from 3:30 to 7 pm., at the National Child Re- s}:wh Center, 3209 Highland place The program calls for square dancing, music, games for young- sters, movies, pony rides, puppet shows, magic and refreshments, with Mrs. Watson Davis in charge of arrangements. Legion Post Dinner American Legion Post, No. 20, meeting at 6:30 Tuesday at the tional Press Club, ! A