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WEATHER.
(O. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Cloudy, probably light rain today;
tomorrow cloudy.
Temperatures—Highest. 44. at 3 p.m.
yesterday; lowest. 38, at 10 p.m. yes
terday.
Pull report on page 5.
No. 1,343—N0. 31.638.
STEWS 56-YARD
SPRINT FOR ARMY
BEATS NAVY, 6 TOO
Dash Comes as 65,000 Are
Resigned to Disappointing
Scoreless Tie.
INSPIRED FOE HALTS
MANY CADET THRUSTS
, j
Midshipmen Unable to Advance
After Byng Opens Way in
Fourth Period.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 13. —Army
and Navy, reunited in the name of
charity, battled fiercely and futilely for
three periods and nearly half of the
fourth before 65,000 in Yankee Stadium
this afternoon. Then Ray Stecker, fast
est back in the whole Army, burst off
the Navy right tackle, shook himself
free, swerved sharply toward the south
sideline, ran away from desperate Navy
pursuers with a burst of sheer speed
and crossed the goal line standing up
for the touchdown that enabled Army
to win, 6 to 0.
The run covered 56 yards which had
been fought over as desperately for 50
minutes as the bloody Potomac Valley
In the days that followed the disagree
ment of 1861. It happened just as
the Cadets of West Point, massed at
the northeast corner of the field; the
general officers in olive drab, the ad
mirals commanding, the gobs, dough
boys and civilians of all caste and rank
had come to the conclusion that an
other one of those disappointing score
less ties was in the making.
For five-sixths of the game, the rug
get Cadets in gold helmets had jammed
through the Navy consistently, bursting
off the tackles, plunging through the
line and now and again whirling around
the ends. But the final punch that
means victory in war or foot ball was
lacking. When gains meant serious
danger, the most reckless and most
powerful of the Army thrusts had come
to grief against an inspired Navy line.
It is doubtful If the combatant Ca
dets themselves retained much faith in
their ultimate destiny w’hen the single
clean break of the game flashed on the
Beene.
Stecker Makes Victory Dash.
Then Navy kicked from its own 35-
yard line. Stocky little Wendell Bow
man. the Cadet quarterback, caught the
ball on his own 35-yard stripe and car
ried It back 12 yards. Thus the ball
was on the Army’s 44-yard line when
the Cadets lined up to scrimmage.
There were approximately 10 minutes
left to play. .
The ball went back to Stecker, deep
man in the Army running formation.
He hesitated a fraction of a second as
hte line and backfleld interference
swung in front of him, then burst for
the hole outside the Navy tackle.
A dozen hands tore at his shirt as he
swept through a gap in the locked lines,
but he kept his speed and as he passed
the Navy primary defense he veered
sharply to the left and raced for the
sideline. Prom there to the goal line
his supreme speed saw him through.
He outran the Navy right halfback and
the safety man and pulled just clear
when "Blimp” Bowstrom, Navy cap
tain, dove for him on the 5-yard line.
Thus did the Army, favored team in
the charitable warfare of the services,
pull itself to the fore. The Cadets,
somewhat obscurely ensconsed at the
extreme opposite corner of the field
from where Stecker crossed the goal
line, recklessly sailed fatigue caps in
all directions, w’hile the midshipmen,
seated directiy over the depredation,
lapsed into a disappointed silence, in
terrupted by a faint cheer when Charley
Broachus specialty drop-kicker from the
Hudson's left bank, narrowly missed
the point after touchdown.
Navy Threat Fails.
Prom the time, however, that the
drop-kick went askew to the final
whistle, both immediate cheering sec
tions and casual supporters in all sec
tions of the huge stand had cause for
ecstasy and alarm.
The Navy host swarmed to its feet in
wild acclaim when “Wes” Byng, fast
right end. recovered a fumbled punt
across midfield, and roared in crescendo
when the same striving player snared
a forward pass and brought a first down
on the Army 20-yard line.
Further than that, however, the Navy
could not progress. A plunge met
adamant resistance. Three passes were
batted down by keen Army backs. After
four hectic downs, the West Pointers
took the ball and marched, with the aid
of a certain amount of penalty distance,
to the Annapolis 7-yard line, where the
Midshipmen once again stood firm.
A few plays more and the game was
over. The status of stern disagreement
which had prevented previous Army-
Navy games since the Polo Grounds of
1927, was resumed automatically. Cadets,
in high spirits and midshipmen, some
what buoyed even in defeat by the
knowledge that their under-dog team
had come fully up to expectations,
etraggled off the field to begin a few
cherished hours of liberty. The civilian
spectators wedged themselves through
the exits and the Salvation Army,
abetted by the imDosing Grover Whalen,
started to count up.
5600.000 for Unemployed.
It was estimated —apparently with a
slight optimism—that $600,000 had
been realized through the medium of
the "gate” and associated resources for
the unemployed and that 70,000 per
sons had passed through the turnstiles.
The unseasonably bright and mod
erate weather of the morning and the
last-minute free distribution of a large
number of unsold tickets to enlisted
men of {he Army and Navy swelled the
crowd to proportions beyond the ex
pectation of a • few days ago. There
were va£R.nt. gcpts, but not ip solid and
disappointing numbers.
Despite this fact—and it was the only
Army-NfcYy gqfsje of modern tiroes that
was not witnessed by a capacity crowd
—all of the splendor that has given the
game ap atmosphere all its own was
there, vital ai\d untarnished.
ARSENAL BURNS
Rifles and Ammunition Lost ip
Porto Rico Fire.
BAN JUAN, Porto Rico. December 13
UP). —The headquarters building ol the
Porto Rican National Guard was de
stroyed by fire of undetermined origin
i late today.
A thousand rifles were among the
materials burned, and several thousand
rounds of amunition also were con
sumed. The resultant explosions sound
ed like a machine gun battle for two
taOUHh
Entered as second class matter
post office, Washington. D. C.
Fills Senate Seat
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CAMERON MORRISON.
MORRISON TO FILL
SEAT OF OVERMAN
Governor Gardner Appoints
Predecessor to Vacant
Seat in Senate.
By the Associated Press.
SALISBURY, N. C., December 13.
Gov. O. Max Gardner today appointed
Cameron Morrison, the man who de
feated him for Governor in 1920, to fill
the United States Senate seat left
vacqnt by the death of Lee Slater
Overman.
“I intend to take the oath of office
just as quick as I can,” Mr. Morrison
said. He expects to bear his commis
sion to Washington late Monday or
Tuesday
Governor Was in Quandary.
Former Representative Clyde R. Hoey,
Gov. Gardner's brother-in-law. cleared
the way for Morrison's appointment.
The Governor—he admitted it this
afternoon —was in a quandary.
“If Clyde Hoey had wanted to go to
the Senate,” he said. “I would have ap- j
pointed him even though I had to re- 1
sign.”
Mr. Hoey didn't. Gov. Gardner read
this telegram from him:
“I am not a candidate for appoint
ment to the Senante and do not wish
you to consider me in connection with
the vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Overman.”
That decided Gov. Gardner. Cameron
Morrison, he said, was regarded by the
public as a candidate when Overman’s
term expired. His decision was made
immediately.
NEW SENATOR IS FIGHTER.
Attained Political Success After 49
Years* Personal Straggle.
CHARLOTTE. N C., December 13
(/P). —Cameron Morrison, named today
as Senator Overman's successor In the
United States Senate, has reached his
high position after 40 years of personal
struggle and political combat.
In his boyhood, he served an ap
prenticeship at the plow. Family cir
cumstances denied him a college educa
tion. but by his own efforts he studied
law and began practice of his profes
sion shortly after coming of age.
Fought for Democratic Party.
Simultaneously, he began to take an
active part In the more or less strenu
ous political battles of North Carolina.
It was seldom he sought political honors
for himself, but he found the joy of
battle in campaigning for Democratic
nominees. His father was a Republi
can. but young Morrison entered the
ranks of the opposing party as soon
as he could vote.
In 1920 he won his party's nomina
tion for and w r as elected Governor, after
defeating in a spirited primary the man
who today appointed him to the Senate,
O. Max Gardner. Previously he had
been a State Senator and mayor of his
native town of Rockingham, In Rich
mond County. He Is now Democratic
national committeeman.
As Governor, Morrison dedicated his
administration to good roads and !
launched the $150,000,000 highway
construction program now nearing
completion.
He was a widower when elected
Governor, but near the end of his term
he married Mrs. Sarah Ecker Watts,
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THREE ARE ARRESTED
FOR RAILWAY ROBBERY
Postal Inspectors Trail Two Men
and Woman Wanted in Year-
Old Illinois Crime.
By the Associated Press.
GARY, Ind., December 13.—'Two men
and a woman were arrested by postal
inspectors today for the robbery of a
railway mail clerk at Decatur, HI., a
year ago.
The prisoners are Charles Westbrook,
38; Agnes Brown. 25, who posed as his
wife, and Charles Belmont, 50, who said
he was a Chicago gambler.
The trio had been trailed to New
York, Buffalo, Boston and Hot Springs
during the last year and finally the
Government agents traced them to a
flat, where they had been hiding here
for a fortnight. In the flat w’ere two
pistols, a sawed-off shotgun, and an
Army rifle.
TAXICAB BANDIT ROBS DRIVER
IN SHADOW OF POLICE STATION
Victim,Warned to Wait Five Minutes, Sounds Alarm Too
Late for Successful Pursuit.
Taxicab banditry, which has been
running rampant here last .week, last
night took rather a braggadocio turn
when one cab driver was ordered to
drive to within hailing distance of the
second police precinct, where he was
robbed of (3.50. his night’s earnings.
Roydon L. Richley, 28 years old, of
3601 Hall place, ran into the station
house shortly after 8 o'clock last night
and informed police that he had been
robbed at pistol point by an unidenti
fied colored man.
"Where were you robbed?” Richley
was asked.
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Me Jiumlmt Jftaf.
WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION '— /
WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1930-136 PAGES. *
SKIT ON ELECTION
FEATURES DINNER
OF GRIDIRON CLUB
Fess Pictured as Napoleon,
Astride Steed, Volstead,
Receiving Returns.
‘OUT WHERE WETS BEGIN’
PARODIES DRY ISSUE
Democrats’* Co-operation Offer Is
Burlesqued—Benefit Given for
Idle “Lame Ducks.”
Battered “lame duck” Representa
tives and Senators, worried prohibition
ists, bewildered politicians, passed in
review last night before the guests of the
Gridiron Club at its December dinner
in the Willard Hotel.
With rhyme, song and jest the fa
mous newspaper club pictured for the
President of the United States, mem
bers of his cabinet, members of the dip
lomatic Corps, Senators, Representa
tives and other distinguished guests, the
outstanding happenings in the Novem
ber election, the fate of the promised
‘ co-operation’’ on the part of the Demo
crats and the situation over the wet
and-dry issue.
The club called upon President Hoo
ver and its other guests to lay aside
the cares of state and take a light
hearted view of their problems. If the
satire was barbed it was also good na
tured. The club was non-partisan, be
laboring Democrats and Republicans
alike. The results of the November elec
tion were given particular attention,
however, without the club being able
to discover the foundation for the Hoo
ver “vindication" theory. Mr. Hoover
was assured, however, that the Demo
crats in reality were his friends and they
would come to his rescue In 1932.
Club Hears President.
As courtesy and custom decreed, the
President was invited to give his own
version of the problems before his ad
ministration and he accepted. His re
marks, however, must be withheld from
publication under the club’s ancient rule
that "reporters are never present” at
Gridiron dinners. Senator Joseph T.
Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader
of the Senate, was the only other speak
er of the evening.
In a setting patterned after the field
of Waterloo, Senator Fess, chairman of
i the Republican National Committee, dis
guised as Napoleon Bonaparte, astride
his rather restive steed. Volstead, gal
loped to the front Just In time to receive
the disheartening returns of the elec
tion from his trusted marshals. He bade
farewell to his army and promised to get
his beaten followers Jobs as Ambassa
dors and judges, assuring them that “the
Old Guard dies, but never surrenders—
the pay roll.”
Rejuvenated Democracy was symbo
lised by Cinderella, who threw off her
■ tattered garments and stepped forward
! in royal raiment at the touch of the
Fairy Godmother Raskob’s magic wand
with a huge dollar sign at the end of it.
The prohibition issue was given spe
cial attention in a parody entitled “Out
Where the Wets Begin,” and in a trav
esty entitled “Fireman, Save Me
Che-ild!” Dr. Liquorsham, head of the
Law Enforcement Commission, and Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with her
grape concentrate tonic, offered to save
the child, but the Anti-Saloon League
and the W. C. T. U. appeared suspicious
of their intentions.
Shakespearean Medley.
The famous "co-operation” pledged
by seven Democratic leaders soon after
the last election was the subject of
a skit produced by the “Gridiron
Shakespearian Players.” The cast in
' eluded “Romeo Robinson." “Juliet Wat
| son” and the melancholy ‘Hamlet
(Continued on Page" 4, Column 1.)
TYLER BUST PROVIDED
Alfred I. Du Pont to Give Funds
, for Capitol Memorial.
RICHMOND, Va., December 13 (A*). —
Funds for the bust of President John
Tyler to be placed In a niche in the
Capitol rotunda will be provided by
j Alfred I. du Pont, Delaware philan
thropist and financier. Gov. Pollard
announced today. The Tyler unveling
address, date for which has not yet
been set, will be delivered by Claude
Bowers, editor, author and orator.
Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont is a native
of Virginia, a kinswoman of Gov. Pol
lard and a direct descendant of Col.
William Ball, progenitor of George
Washington.
“PUBLIC ENEMY” TAKEN
Joe Genaro Makes 16 Arrested on
Chicago List of 26.
CHICAGO, December 13 (A*). —Joe
“Pepe” Genaro, “public enemy,” was
arrested today in Calumet City by Pat
Roche, chief investigator for the State's
Attorney's office.
The South Side alcohol peddler sur
rendered peaceably and was taken to
the detective bureau for booking on a
vagrancy charge. He was lounging In
a Calumet City gambling house when
accosted by Roche.
Genaro’s arrest leaves only 10 of the
i original 26 “public enemies” who have
not been arrested on vagrancy warrants
issued by Judge John H. Lyle.
"At the curb, lust outside this sta
tion," he replied.
Policemen rushed from the station,
but could not find a trace of the robber.
Richley told police that he picked up
his fare at North Capitol and Q streets.
He said he was first ordered to Ana
costia. but later the man changed his
mind and told him to drive to Ridge
street near Fifth street. Just as the
sab was within the shadow of the po
lice station, the driver' was commanded
to stop, he said, and hand over his
money. He said the man was armed.
The driver told police that he obeyed
; the robber’s orders to wait five minutes
before reporting to the station.
UNEMIVYHHt **
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FEATURES OF THE DECEMBER DINNER OF THE GRIDIRON CLUB.
CAPPER HOLDS IJ S.
SHOULD JOIN COURT
Kansas Senator Finds Na
tion Safeguarded—Talks in
Radio Forum.
The World Court protocol, which
President Hoover has asked the Senate
to consider favorably, meets the “spirit
as well as the letter of the Senate
reservations adopted four years ago,”
Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas,
declared last night in a radio address,
in which he gave his reasons for favor
ing American adherence.
Senator Capper, who is a member of
the Foreign Relations Committee, spoke
in the National Radio Forum, arranged
by The Washington Star and broadcast
over the coast-to-coast network of the
Columbia Broadcasting system. The
address was heard locally from Station
WMAL.
Senator Capper said that if he be
lieved that by joining the court the
United States would be even remotely
committed to the League of Nations,
he would vote against adherence.
Among his reasons for favoring
adherence- he cited that the court is
“fundamentally an American concep
tion and American contribution to
world progress.”
Idea Long Entertained.
“We prescribed this medicine for the
nations of the world nearly half a cen
tury ago," he said. “Nothing has hap
pened since, no ingredients have been
placed in the formula, that would justify
us in refusing to take our own medi
cine now, «o far as I can see.”
The United States jcannot be haled
(Continued on Page 2, Column 47)
TODAY’S STAR
PART ONE—44 PAGES.
General News—Local, National and
Foreign.
Educational News—Page B-5.
Parent-Teacher Activities—Page C-4.
Organized Reserves— C-5.
District of Columbia Naval Reserves —
Page C-10.
District National Guard—Page C-10.
Fraternities—Page C-14.
Army-Navy News—Page C-15.
Marine Corps Notes—Page C-15.
Spanish War Veterans—Page C-15.
PART TWO—B PAGES.
Editorials and Editorial Features.
Serial Story, “The Secret of Margaret
Yorke”—Page 5.
W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 5.
PART THREE—I 6 PAGES.
Society Section.
News of the Clubs —Page 10.
D. A. R. Activities—Page 13.
PART FOUR—B PAGES.
Amusement Section—Theater, Screen
and Radio.
In the Motor World—Page 4.
Aviation—Page 5.
American Legion—Page 6.
At Community Centers—Page 0.
Radio —Page 6.
PART FIVE—4 PAGES.
Sports Section.
PART SIX—IO PAGES.
Financial News and Classified Adver
tising.
PART SEVEN—24 PAGES.
Magazine Section.
News of the Music World—Page 10.
Review of New Books—Page 20.
Notes of Art and Artists—Page 21.
Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22.
GRAPHIC SECTION—I 4 PAGES.
World Events in Pictures.
COLOR SECTION—B PAGES.
Moon Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.; Little
Orphan Annie; Mutt and Jeff- the
Smythes; Brutus; Reg'lar Pell era;
Highlights of History. .
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Santa’s Little Friend
Wants Machine Gun
With Real Bullets
By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, December 13.
Boys, in days gone by, wrote
Santa Claus for popguns, but
times apparently have changed.
Witness this letter, which came
today among tbe Santa Claus
letters to the St. Louis Poet-
Dispatch’s annual Christmas fes
tival office:
“Dear Santa: I am 6 years old
and a good boy. Please bring
me a machine gun and some real
bullets.
“Your little friend,
JACKIE.”
WOMAN'S SUICIDE
FOILS FRANTIC HUNT
Miss Alicia Trapier Shoots
Self at Nearby Virginia
Tea Room.
Within a few feet of searchers seek
ing frantically to stop her from killing
herself, Miss Alicia Trapier, 26 years
old, of the Marlboro Apartments, 917
Eighteenth street, last night blew her
brains out with a revolver at the tea
; room of a friend, Mrs. Gasket di Zeriga,
at Aldie, Va.
Miss Trapier is a member of a Wash
ington family and lived here with her
mother in apartment 51, at the Marl
boro.
Members of Miss Trapier’s family here
were unwilling to disclose Miss Trapier’s
motives for killing herself last night,
but it was learned that she had been
for some time in ill health.
Disappears After Dinner.
Miss Trapier arrived in a Washing
ton taxicab at Mrs. di Zeriga's tea
room late yesterday afternoon, talked
with Mrs. di Zeriga and with other
persons about the tea room in a friendly
(Continued on Page 27~C01umn~2.)“~
IMMIGRATION BAN
FOR 2 YEARS FAVORED
House Committee Overrules Fil
ipino Exclusion Clause Protest
in Vote.
By the Associated Press.
A two-year suspension of all immi
gration, except relatives, who may enter
until half of the existing quota is filled
was tentatively approved yesterday by
the House Immigration Committee.
The final committee vote on the sus
pension bill, sponsored by chairman
Johnson, was set-for. Tuesday.
The bill devised'by the committee ap
plies to all Immigration from the
Philippine Islands. Resident Commis
sioner Pedro Guevara yesterday pro
tested this exclusion, but the commit
tee voted to apply the restriction.
DEPRESSION IS BLAMED
FOR POLITICAL UNREST
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. December 13.—World eco
nomic depression is the cause of pre
vailing political uncertainty in some
countries, Frank B. Kellogg, former
American Secretary of State, told press
correspondents here today. He came
here en route from Oslo, Norway, to
New York.
"Germany,” he said, “has no monopoly
of an economic crisis. Such a crisis is
to be seen everywhere, but it will dis
appear and with it the factor of uncer
tainty in many countries.’*
BILLBOARD BATTLE
DRAWS NEW ALLIES
Prince Georges County Wom
en Roused by Cluttering
of Historic Sites.
Aroused over unsightly roadside con
ditions of which the miles of billboards
and “dumps” along the greatly traveled
Washington-Baltimore Pike are typical,
groups of the Prince Georges County
Federation of Women’s Club 6 have en
listed whole-heartedly in the campaign
to clean up the entrances to the Nation
al Capital and its suburban districts.
One of the first objectives In a Prince
Georges County campaign which these
groups intend to Inaugurate immediately
is in the vicinity of the Bladensburg
j Memorial Cross, where advertisers have
taken advantage of this intersection
of the Bladensburg and Annapolis
highways, to hedge around the monu
ment erected to the World War dead
of the county, signs descriptive of their
wares. This intersection, the center of
• traffic moving in three directions is in
; a nest of billboards that extend up and
i down both highways.
Stand Taken a Year Ago.
More than a year ago the Prince
’ Georges County Federation of Women’s
Clubs adopted a resolution indorsing
the national policy of opposition to the
indiscriminate placing of billboards and
' more lately the topics as applied to local
conditions has come up at the County
Federation’s meetings under the division
i of conservation of the department of
t education. Mrs. James H. Dorsey, State
chairman of conservation has taken an
outstanding part In emphasizing at
every opportunity the Importance of
beauty along rural highways and the
menace of increasing numbers of sign
boards.
■ Out of this agitation grew the recent
1 action of the Public Welfare Com
mittee, of which Mrs. Wade Sheriff of
Landover is chairman, which has em
bodied in its program for the year a
campaign against roadside conditions
throughout the country. Mrs. Rudolph
Allen of College Park, president of the
county federation, has been a pioneer
in the movement to clean up the un
sightly highway conditions and yester
day heartedly Indorsed the civic cam
paign inaugurated to improve the high
way entrances to the National Capital
before the George Washington Bicen
tennial celebration In 1932.
Campaign Backing Expected.
Under the direction of Mrs. Sheriff,
the County Federation will be called
upon to indorse the present campaign
by official action at its January busi
ness meeting. Meanwhile, she declared
yesterday, her committee is planning
to co-operate in every way possible
with the campaign.
Pointing out that the Memorial Cross
at Bladensburg Is one of the most cen
trally located spots In the county where
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PROTEST PAINTING OF PRESIDENT
AND HIS CABINET BY FOREIGNERS
American Artists Transmit a Copy of Their Resolution
to White House.
By the Associated Press. f
The American Artists Professional c
League thinks portraits of the Presi
dent and his Cabinet should be done s
by Americans. s
A resolution of the league’s execu- t
tive committee, made public yesterday, t
said it “protests” the painting of por- s
traits of the President and his Cabi
net by foreigners and added it felt v
r;
VIVE CENTS
IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS
DISTRICT SCHOOLS
ARE FILLED BEYOND
; INTENDED CAPACITY
Western High Suffers Most
by Congestion Which Is
Now Acute.
D. C. HEADS DISAPPROVE
RELIEF APPROPRIATION
Budget Bureau's Estimate Omits
Purchase of Site Suggested
in Undeveloped Area.
With 300 more students on its roll*
than it was designed to accommodate,
and confronted with a known net in
crease of another 300 children. Western
High School is threatened with emer
gency measures of wartime stringency.
This Is Indicated by the most recent
enrollment statistics and a study of
conditions which school officials now
are making in an effort to find a solu
tion for the problems arising from the
congestion which has reached the acute
stage in the senior high schools of the
District. * ' •
Western Not Sole Victim.
While Western is suffering more than
any other senior high school at present,
the tabulation for December 3 shows
that it is by no means the sole victim
of congestion. Central, with a maxi
mum capacity of 2,200, has enrollment
of 2,660; Eastern, with a capacity of
2.000, has 2,119 students; McKinley,
theoretically able to accommodate 2,300,
is caring for 2,475, and Business with a
peak capacity of 1,100. lists 1.184 on
its rolls. Similar crowding is witnessed
in one of the three colored high schools.
Dunbar, with a maximum capacity of
1,400, has an enrollment of 1,444.
The figures representing the “ca
pacity” of a school constitutes what
school officials point out is an “abso
lute maximum” and which actually is
higher than the architect’s estimate at
the time the buildings were planfied.
McKinley, for instance, was designed
to accommodate 1.800 children and
Business was planned for only 900. The
so-called “capacities,” however, gradu
ally have been raised by using the audi
toriums as study halls and by making
library rooms, in some instances, into
class rooms.
Budget Bureau Supports Cut.
In the face of these revelations, the
District Commissioners recently cut
from the Board of Education's estimates
an item for the purchase of a new
senior high school site north of the
Brightwood section. This elimination
was supported by the Bureau of the
Budget, which sent its estimates for
1932 to Congress lacking this item. The
school authorities sought the purchase
of the land while it is still undeveloped
and therefore cheaper. They have
pointed out that the site is located in
a definite line of residential develop
ment progress.
Western High School already has un
dertaken extreme measures to accom
modate its overflow of students. Its
library has been turned into class rooms
and its assembly hall is used for study
periods. Further, every laboratory in
its science department is used for
academic recitation purposes during all
the hours in which science classes are
not actually working.
Crowding Expected.
These extreme measures have been
necessitated to accommodate the exist
ing excess enrollment of 308. A survey,
just completed, shows that 350 new
students are scheduled to enter West
ern February l, through promotion
from junior high schools and ele
mentary schools. At the same time
Western expects to graduate only 50 of
its present students at the end of the
current term. Thus, the school must
prepare for a net Increase over its pres
ent jammed enrollment of 300, giving
that school 608 more children than it is
equipped to care for.
School authorities now are under
taking to devise a plan which will
remedy the situation at Western or one
which at least will make it possible to
receive the students scheduled to enroll
there. Any plan necessarily will be
drastic. During an earlier emergency,
prior to the construction of an addition
which afforded relief for a few years at
the school, the student body was placed
on “shifts,” one-half of the students
reporting to class at 8:30 a.m. and
Quitting at 1 p.m., and the other group
reporting at 1 p.m. and leaving at 4:30
p.m.
Indications also point to a deficiency
in the number of teachers required to
instruct the anticipated excessive en
rollment.
Some Relief Seen.
Relief of the Western High School
congestion will be afforded to some de
gree, school officials believe, when the
Alice Deal Junior High School, now
under construction at Reno, is com
pleted. The opening of that school
probably will permit the establishment
of a ninth grade—the first year high
school class—in the Gordon Junior High
School, which is within a block of West
ern. Although the Gordon School now
is in its second year, its full comple
ment of grades never has been pro
vided because the extreme congestion
in the elementary schools of the Bur
leith and Georgetown sections has nec
essitated the maintenance of that
school as a virtual elementary building.
At the recent joint conference be
tween the school board and civic organ
ization representatives. Dr. Ballou de
clared that in the face the known an
nual increase in the school population
oi the District, the school system should
be prepared to provide a new senior
high school every three years.
should be done by American artists
only.
‘‘ta foreign countries it would be con
sidered unthinkable that an artist of
another nationality should be called in
to paint any of Its rulers or officials,”
the resolution, a copy «( which was
sent to the President, said. %
A recent report that a German artist
was to paint Mr. Hoover’s portrait was
denied at the White House,
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PRESIDENT PRODS
G.O.P. SENATORS IN
CO-OPERATION ROW
Will Take Issue to Nation If
Failure to Defend Him
Is Continued.
SCORES VICTORY OVER
RELIEF FUND CONTROL
But Submission to Such Moves as
La Follette Resolution Likely
to Widen Breach.
President Hoover and Republican
Senate leaders were reported deadlocked
last night over party responsibility as
the second week of the short session of
Congress closed. The President scored
during the day when Senate conferees
informally agreed to his controlling the
proposed emergency construction fund.
But the broad question of co-opera
tion between the President and his
party leaders in the Senate remained
unsettled, with Mr. Hoover threatening
to take his case to the country at the
first provocation.
The first test was expected to come
on the La Follette resolution declaring
the Senate determined "to put human
in this emergency over the
consideration of wealthy taxpayers.”
The resolution as offered by Senator
Robert M. La Follette, Wisconsin, Re
publican insurgent, was considered a di
rect slap at the President.
Word reached the White House late
yesterday that Republican Senate lead
ers expected the resolution to pass after
some modification tentatively agreed
upon earlier in the day. it resulted In
notice in unmistakable terms that Mr
Hoover would “make an issue” of the
matter before the Nation if a resolu
™™K ej » resentlng hia Position were
objSiS? to P<WS wlthout
Let Criticism Pan.
.. The situation arose from the fact
Presiden t last week had stood
undefended by members of his own
Pasty in the face of the woratDem™
cratic Senate criticism he has yet en
“untered and that his relief program
P| en over-ridden in the Senate
objecticm PUbliCanß ° aerlag no voting
In the eyes of high administration
officials the issue presented by Republi
can senatorial failure to stand up for
the administration, especially in relief
legislation, was of such transcendent
importance as to make a mere inci
dent of the Senate conferees’ capitula
tion to the President in the emergency
fund control. 17
R has had the .effect of focusing at
tention on the subjects wherein the
President and the Senate stand disa
greed. They are principally these:
Emergency construction fund.—The
President sought a free hand, to allo
cate the money to relieve unemploy
ment as changing conditions seemed
to him to warrant. The Senate, with
out Republican dissent, stripped the
bill of provision for such presidential
control.
relief.—The President thought
$30,000,000 sufficient to Insure crops
next year in drought-stricken areas
and recommended that cases of individ
ual distress be left to the Red Cross
The Senate passed a measure, spon
sored by an administration Republican
Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon
raising the amount to $60,000,000, whici
was to be loaned to fanners not onl
for feed, seed and other supplies, but
also for human food.
Tb.® President recommended $150,-
000,000 for the emergency construe
-2* f <JL nd ' House cut it down
Bdniinistration approval, tt
f?io’n o^'®00 ' Tbe Senate raised it tc
$118,000,000. and, in addition to thf
denial of presidential control, inaertei
a clause to restrict Federal projects t
scales lab ° r Bnd 8t Prevailing wag
Bonus Issue Raised.
At the same time, administration Re
publicans were offering such proposal,
as that of Senator Arthur H. Vanden
berg. Republican, of Michigan, to casl
soldiers’ adjusted compensation certifi
to J? le Treasury Os abou
$3,500,000,000. Tremendous sgltatloi
tor this proposal has developed, and th<
President Is anxious to hold It down.
Mr. Hoover was represented to be de
termined to hold out against the pro
vision tor food for farmers, although
not particularly Insistent on cutting
down the total of the drought relief bil
from the $60,000,000 Senate figure. Th<
law would permit the administration to
distribute so much of the $60,000,000
“!f.? med “ ece »ary. and ®° the effect
would not be to take $60,000,000 directly
out of the Treasury.
With Mr. Hoover depending: on the
administration-controlled House to stop
tnese Senate measures which are ob
jectionable to him. Nicholas Longworth
a h. Cr ’ 15 con ? onfced by a wrlous
test of his power tomorrow. One oi
courses w Wch he has
to block the human food provision re
quired a two-thirds majority an* big
thoTO 6 * pres ? nt Republican majority is
there Is serious doubt as to whether it
e^° Ug , h i. lth such ot her aid as
might be picked up, to produce th r
necessary two-thirds.
Opposition Found Waning.
a Trnrf?. o 7 ere bidications meantime ol
. ?, recession of the opposition
i? £ es ‘ dent Hoover ’s relief policies, bu ;
*1? means certain yet that th(
administration would succeed in we
nt mi? 8 f extravagant legislation to , Si
na m® °f emergency relief.
Jbe informai agreement of Senate
conferees on control of the emeraencv
Xt ? n l hidication. a reporTlMt
night that Republican Senate leaders
were expecting Senator La Follette to
eliminate the “offensive" preamble of
his resolution was another si®?/ With
out the preamble, many administration
Ke rSurion. 40 SUppwt
spkuo« t ltepW«S a s2n?uS e hS Sr
sonally assured President Hoover of
their support, but have protested ac
' cording to administration leaders/ that
they have looked to Senator Watson for
leadership. There are in the Republican
senatorial contingent many personal
friends of the President, men who knew
him long before he went into President
Hardings cabinet.
Looking to 1932.
In the Senate, it was pointed out Yes
terday, the 960,000,000 drought relief
bill was bound to pass, regardless of
anything the Republican leaders might
say or do about it. That being the
case, it was argued, there was no point
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