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*_WASHINGTON. D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1932._•** PAGE B—1
CADET COMPANIES
FOR DRILL MEDAL
Washington Corps Contest
Gets Under Way at Grif
fith Stadium.
CENTRAL HIGH GROUPS
ARE FIRST ONTO FIELD
Business 2Eigh Has One Contingent
in Morning Session—McKin
ley Sergeant Wins.
The 43d annual company competi
tive drill of the Washington High School
Cadet Corps is under way today al
Griffith Stadium, where the first of 31
companies competed this morning for
the Allison Naylor medal and the red
pennant of victory.
The program began at 8; 30 o’clock
this morning, when Company C of
Central High School marched onto the
fi.pid under command of its captain,
Louis T. Gibbs. Last night's rainstorm,
together with the haze this morning
which dimmed the sun's rays, gave the
drilling youths relief from the heat. At
noon today not a single boy had re
quired the services of the first-aid tent
In charge of Cadet Sergts. Rav M.
Clarke. Leon B. Davis and William U.
Snyder, all of the brigade staff of
Western High School.
Central High Band Plays.
As Central High School's companies
and a single unit from Business High
School constituted the contenders in
this morning's session. Central High
Schools Band provided the military
cadence as the companies marched on
and off the field. During the competi
tive maneuvers, however, the companies
worked without accompaniment.
Besides Company C. the other Central
companies and their commanding offi
cers who drilled this morning follow:
Company G. Capt. Worthington B.
Houghton; Company D, Capt. LawTence
Rapee; Company E, Capt. Jack W.
Phillips; Company H, Capt. Sidney
Leventhal; Company A. Capt. William
W. Williams, and Company B, Capt.
George W. Bixby.
The Business High School company
was Company E, commanded by Capt.
Stanley Payne.
McKinley Sergeant Wins.
Sergt. William E. Wilson of Company
E. McKinley High School, won the gold
medal offered to the best non-comniis
sioned officer in the corps In a 15
minute elimination contest following
the morning session. Sergt. William J.
Hickey of Company B, Central High
School, won the silver medal and sec
ond honors in the non-commissioned
officers' drill. The competition, based
on excellence in the manual of arms,
allowed each of the five contenders one
error. On the second mistake, the
offending sergeant was eliminated.
Wilson and Hickey seemed tied for six
minutes after the elimination of the
other three sergeants and they each
made a mistake simultaneously, pro
longing the drill another three minutes.
The other contestants were Sergt. Reu
ben A. Sanders, Company I, of Busi
ness; Sergt. James Payne. Company A,
ef Eastern, and Sergt. Edwin Bell, Com
pany L, of Western.
The drills will continue throughout
tomorrow, concluding with elaborate ex
ercises and brigade review at 5 p.m.,
when the awards will be made.
VISITATION CONVENT
GRADUATES FORTY
Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago
Presides at Exercises and
Presents Diplomas.
Forty graduates of the Georgetown
Visitation Convent, conducted by the
Sisters of the Visitation in Georgetown,
received their diplomas yesterday after
noon at 3 o'clock at annual commence
ment exercises.
George Cardinal Mundelein, Arch
bishop of Chicago, presided at the ex
ercises and presented the diplomas to
13 young women in the Junior College
and 27 graduates of the high school
course.
The list of graduates follow;
Junior College.
| Mary Philippa Berry, Margaret Gib
bons Burke, Mary Elizabeth Dwyer, Rita
Maria Eppig, Frances Mary Gorham,
Virginia B. Harrigan, Elizabeth Nulle
Magruder, Margaret Louise Makins,
Mary Ellen Jane McDonnell. Helena
Miller, Mary Patricia Moran, Mary Jose
phine Murphy and Elizabeth Frances
Tan y an.
High School.
Rose Veirs Abert, Josephine Quinn
Albro. Anne Beaupre Beach, Flavia
Corral. Mary Josephine Corral, Mary
Theresa Donohoe. Agnes Regina Dorsch,
Judith Poore Gilmor, Edith Elizabeth
Greenlee. Isabel Miller ‘ Hannan. Dor
othy Eleanor Healy, Mary Elizabeth
Keane. Elizabeth Anne Klock, Mercedes
Lee. Katherine Merriam, Mary Agnes
Neubeck. Mary Elizabeth O’Connor,
Nancy Ordway, Margaret L. Raskob,
Lorena Cunningham Rowe, Mary Mar
garet Schmelzer, Ruth Louise Schwoerer,
Mary Jayne Semmes, Laura Payne
Smith, Kathleen Sturges, Margaret
Elizabeth Tierney and Margaret Frances
Wright.
MEMORIAL DESIGNS
TIME IS EXTENDED
Three Days More Given in Com
petition for Tribute to
Robert Mills.
An extension of three days for filing
designs in the competition for the best
architectural drawings for a proposed
memorial to Robert Mills, famous
architect of the Colonial days and
known as the "Father of the Washing
ton Monument,” was announced today
by the Allied Architects of Washington,
sponsors of the contest.
Entries now may be submitted up to
noon Thursday at the headquarters of
the organization, at 726 Jackson place,
the time being extended so that de
signs now being prepared might be fin
ished without haste. The competition is
open to jobless architects and drafts
men residing in the Washington area.
Twenty-five designers have signified
their intention of submitting drawings.
The designs are to be judged by stock
holders of the Allied Architects. The
organization has offered eight prizes,
ranging from $20 to $100, for the de
signs deemed most expressive of Mills'
Ill Boy Graduated
PARALYSIS VICTIM WINS ACADEMIC MERIT HONORS.
JOSHUA EVANS, 3D.
ALTHOUGH a victim of infantile paralysis, which has confined him to a
bed since last July. Joshua Evans, 3d, son of the president of the District
National Bank, graduated with his class from the St, Albans School at
Washington Cathedral Saturday.
Since he became afflicted, all of young Evans’ work has been read
to him. and he took his graduating examinations orally. In addition to receiving
his diploma he was awarded a special medal of merit for academic achievement.
His mother, Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., said her son has been accepted for
admission to Dartmouth College. —Star Staff Photo.
BEDELL RELEASED
ON can BOND
Man Under Indictment in
Legation Liquor Theft
Quizzed After Arrest.
_
William E. Bedell. 55, under indict
ment since last Januaiy as one of the
liquor thieves who attacked Dr. Don
Carlos Leiva. former charge d'affaires of
the El Salvadorean legation, was re
leased on $2,500 bond today.
Bedell, arrested in Baltimore last
Saturday on a bench warrant issued
by District Supreme Court Justice Al
fred Wheat and brought here yester
day, was liberated after being ques
tioned at police headquarters in con
nection with several other crimes.
Among them were the slaying of Jack
Cunningham, police informer, which
occurred soon after the attack on Dr.
Leiva, and the Old Colonial Tea House
shooting, in which one man was killed
and five other persons were wounded
several months ago.
The tea house shooting investigation,
it was understood, was to be continued |
by Department of Justice agents. The
Federal operatives, it was said, also
planned to irake an inquiry concerning
Bedell's possible connection with a nar
cotic syndicate operating in various
cities along the Atlantic Coast.
Investigation of Bedell in connection
with the tea house gun play, it was re
ported, would have to do with the white
slave activities leading up to the shoot
ing.
Bedell was arrested after Washing
ton detectives received a tip he had
established a residence in Baltimore,
and passed the information along to
Baltimore police.
He was first arrested shortly after the
attack on Dr. Leiva, which occurred
when the diplomat surprised a band
of thieves in the act of looting the lega
tion's wine cellar. He was released soon
afterward, however, and left the city—
only to be arrested in New York some
time later in connection with a spuri
ous stock certificate scheme. It was
while he was being held in connection
with this case that the District grand
jury Indicted him and attempts were
made to extradite him. He dropped
from sight following nls Release by a
New York magistrate.
Dr. Leiva, appointed Minister of the
legation some time after the robbery,
in which 17 cases of liquor were stolen,
was said to be in New York taking a
post-graduate university course.
DANES CELEBRATE
CONSTITUTION DAY
Minister Wadsted and Others Ad
dress Picnic—Ancient Legend
Re-enacted.
Danes in Washington yesterday cele
brated Danish Constitution day with a
picnic at the Shaw Water Lily Gardens,
Kenilwcrth. The principal address was
delivered by the Danish Minister to the
United States, Otto Wadsted. Other
speakers included H. de Wichfleld,
counselor to the Danish legation, and
H. Koppel, vice counselor. H. M. Niel
son. vice president'of the Danish Club
of Washington, presiled.
The anc ent legend of the Danish flag
dropping from heaven to turn the tide
of battle was re-enacted yesterday with
the flag being dropped from an airplane.
Denmark got her flag, so the legend
runs, in 1219, during a battle near
Reval, situated between Russia and Po
land. The tide of battle was turning
against the Danish hosts when a ban
ner, bearing the emblem of a cross, fell
from heaven into the midst of the fray.
The Danes rallied to victory.
The flag yesterday was dropped from
a plane by Miss Marie Buch and was
caught as it drifted to earth by her
sister, Miss Ingrid Buch.
W. M. MASTERS DIES
Walter Mouring Masters. 61. a native
of Harrisonburg, Va.. and a resident
of the Capital for the past 10 years,
died yesterday at his home, 1825 New
Hampshire avenue.
He was a salesman and was widely
known in Maryland and Virginia. He
is survived by relatives at Harrison
burg, where funeral services will be
beU M J&9Q mb. teams*_1_
SIGN RULE CHANGES
WILL BE STUDIED
Public Hearing Will Be Held
Wednesday on Proposals
at D. C. Building.
Five proposed changes in the District
signboard regulations will be considered
at a public hearing in the board room
of the District Building at 10 o'clock
next Wednesday morning.
One of the proposed regulations pro
vides that the rules shall not apply
to '‘signs displayed or carried for the
purpose of acquainting the public with
the existence of a labor dispute.”
Workers Seek Rating.
This regulation was asked for by the
local Fur Workers Union after a rul
ing by Corporation Counsel William W.
Bride that union placards came within
the regulation.
A second proposed change is that
in case of a sign of one line of let
tering not exceeding 16 inches in
height, the background of the sign will
not be counted in the area if it is not
more than 3 feet 6 inches high.
A third is intended to clarify section
2, which requires the issuance of per
mits by inserting the words “except as
otherwise provided in these regulations’’
in the sentence in which the permit re
quirements are set forth.
Exemptions Proposed.
A fourth change provides that not
exceeding two show cards each of a slse
not greater than 14 by 28 inches which
advertize matters of current public in
terest may be placed or displayed with
out a permit in show windows of occu
pied business establishments.
The last proposed change modifies
the existing regulation that no sign
erected before the adoption of the regu
lations shall be repaired, altered, re
painted or moved unless it be brought
into compliance with the requirements
of all applicable regulations by adding a
clause allowing the District Commis
sioners to grant permits for the re
painting of one line of lettering not ex
ceeding 16 inches in height with a total
area of 100 square feet.
GRANT TO BID GOOD-BY
TO CAPT. MONTGOMERY
Capt. Doyle 0. Hickey.to Assume
• Command of U. S. Park
Police.
Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of
public buildings and public parks, ar
ranged to say farewell officially at 2:30
p.m. today to Capt. Ray C. Montgomery,
U. S. A., who has been superintendent
of the United States Park Police for
the past three years. Col. Grant will
turn over the superintendency to Capt.
Doyle O. Hickey, U. S. A., who will
assume his new duties immediately.
Col. Grant lauded Capt. Montgomery
for his service In Washington and
wished him good luck on his new
assignment, a two-year course at the
Army’s Command and General Staff
School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.,
which starts in August. Capt. Mont
gomery will leave Washington^ a few
days for a vacation In Florida.
BOOGERT BURIAL RITES
SET FOR TOMORROW
Former Employe of Building In
spector’s Office Died
Saturday.
Funeral services for Herbert Boogert,
33 Madison street northeast, a former
employe of the District building in
spector’s office and of the Navy De
partment, who died Saturday at Oar
field Hospital, will be held at 3 p.m
tomorrow at the C. J. Nichols funeral
home, 4217 Ninth street.
Mr. Boogert was born in the Neth
erlands 76 years ago and was edu
cated at the University of Utrecht. He
came to this country in 1882, after
having served in the Netherlands
Indies Army for a time, Coming to
Washington, he first entered the Navy
Department, later transferring to the
District building inspector’s office.
Besides his widow, Agnes Van Den
Boogert, he is survived by » niece,
Frances, employed at the Netherlands
legation, ___——.
THOUSANDS TOTAKE
PART IN FLAG DAY,
EVENT NEXT WEEK
Vast Patriotic Demonstration
Will Honor Washington
and “Old Glory.”
PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED
TO REVIEW MARCHERS
X
Service Bands Included Among 20
or 30 to Be in Parade—States
Entering Floats.
A vast patriotic demonstration and
parade, honoring the memory cf George
Washington and in tribute to the Stars
and Stripes, is being "planned by the
United States and District of Columbia
Bicentennial Commission for Flag day,
Tuesday, June 14.
Unlike any of the other Bicentennial
parades that have taken place thus far
during the 1932 celebration of the birth
of George Washington, the Flag day
pageant and parade will be held in the
evening, commencing at 7 o'clock.
The long marching column, including
units representing military organiza
tions, veteran, patriotic and civic
groups. State societies, forelgn-Amer
ican bodies, and others, will form at
Seventeenth street and Ccnstitution
avenue and proceed to the Capitol
grounds by way of Constitution avenue,
Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania ave
nue.
Hoover to Review Marcher*.
President Hoover is expected to be in
the reviewing stand on the Capitol
Plaza when the procession reaches that
point at 8 o’clock.
Between 20 and 30 bands will be in
cluded in the procession led by the
service bands of the Armv, Navy and
Marine Corps. The United States En
gineers Band, from Fort Humphreys,
the United States Cavalry Band from
Fort Myer and the United States Band
of Marines from Quantico, Va., also will
take part.
The place of honor among State
floats will go to one entered by the
District Bicentennial Commission and
depicting LEnfant laying out the Cap
ital City. Other historic floats will be
Paul Revere and the Minute Men at
Lexington, entered by Massachusetts;
Washington crossing the Delaware,
New Jersey; Mecklenburg Declaration
of Independence and Birth of Virginia
Dare. North Carolina; Mount Vernon,
South Carolina; the Virginia Presi
dents. Virginia, and the Ohio Presi
dents, Ohio.
Other States Plan Floats.
Other State societies which have
entered floats so far are Alabama, Ari
zona, California, Indiana, Kansas,
Louisiana. Minnesota, Montana, Ne
vada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Okla
homa, Vermont and Washington State.
Maryland will be represented by 23
decorated automobiles symbolic of her
counties. The line will be headed by
Gov. Ritchie and other prominent
Marylanders.
The Philippine Islands and the Fili
pino Club of Washington will be repre
sented by a float and a marching unit.
Marching units and fleats are being
added daily to the list of participants
in the flag procession, and it is expected
that most of the State societies in the
Capital will enter contingents in the
parade. Many of these groups are pre
paring elaborate floats depicting the
history of the United States and of "Old
Glcry."
Brig. Gen. Perry L. Miles will be
grand marshal of the parade. His
aides will be Lieut. Col. James M.
Lockett and Capt. Horace Smith. Mili
tary units to. march in the procession
include the 2d Squadron, 3d Cavalry,
from Fort Myer, commanded by Maj.
Alexander Surles, accompanied by the
Fort Myer Band; 3d battalion, 12th In
fantry, from F'ort Washington, com
manded by Lieut. Col. Louis Kunzig; a
color guard from the United States
Army headquarters company here, and
detachments from the Navy and Ma
rine Corps.
Guards to Have Big Part.
The District National Guard is to
have a large part in the parade, and
the District of Columbia Department
of the American Legion will have 1,500
uniformed marchers in the column.
Other patriotic and fiatemal groups
planning to participate include the
Grand Army of the Republic, National
Women’s Relief Corps, Military Order
of the World War, Society of the War
°f1812, Department of Dis
abled American Veterans of the World
War, Camp 171 of the United Confed
erate Veterans. 81st Wildcat Division
and James Reese Europe Post, No. 5, of
the American Legion.
^ Other organizations to be Included In
the Flag day tribute are the American
Women’s Legion, Military Training
Camps Association of the United States;
Department of the Potomac, Women’s
Relief Corps; Eva Allensworth Auxiliary,
No. 2, United Spanish War Veterans;
Department of the District of Columbia
Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans;
Sons and Daughters of the Republic,
D. A. R., Society of Sponsors of the
United States Navy, United Daughters
of the Confederacy, Washington Post,
Society ot American Military Engineers;
Service Star Legion, Navy League of
the United States, Ladies’ Auxiliary to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Abraham
Lincoln Circle, No. 3, Ladies of the
G. A. R.; American Gold Star Mothers,
American Red Cross. Children of the
American Revolution, Daughters of
Union Veterans of the Civil War. Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, No. 1,
Daughters of American Colonists: Bethel
No. 1, Job’s Daughters; the National
Society of Patriotic Builders, the O. P.
Morton Post. Women’s Relief Corps No.
1, and Women’s Overseas Service
League.
Civic Group* Join.
Among the civic organizations to take
part will be the Daughters of America,
Sons and Daughters of Liberty, General
Federation of Women's Clubs, Southeast
Civic League, Girl Scouts of the District
of Columbia, Association of Oldest
Inhabitants, National League of Amer
ican Pen Women, District of Columbia
Council. Boy Scouts of America, Amer
ican Order of Pioneers and Boone
Family Association; Washington, D. C„
Lodge No. 15, B. P. O. Elks, and others.
Many organisations will have historic
floats with their units.
A meeting of representatives of all
organizations expecting to take part in
the parade and pageant has been called
for tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at
the hetdquarters of the District Bicen
tennial Commission in the National
Press Building by Dr. George C. Haven
ner, executive vice president of the
commission. The meeting, Dr. Haven -
ner said. Is for the purpose of com
pleting final ta for the nag
tfViaBli _ ___
UTILITY TUX PLAN
OF CAPPER FOUGHT
OY COMMISSIONERS
Unfavorable Report Is Given
to Senate District Com
mittee on Bill.
LEVY ON NET AND GROSS
RECEIPTS RECOMMENDED
“Present Basis Has Ho Substantial
Belation to Ability to Pay,”
City Heads Declare.
The District Commissioner* today
sent to the Senate District Committee
an unfavorable report on the Capper
bill to change the system of taxing pub
lic utilities in the District. The bill«
proposed that Instead of the present
franchise taxes, the utilities be taxed
on their personal property, and a 2 per
cent tax on gross earnings. The present
system is to charge no personal property
tax and 4 and in some cases 5 per cent
on gross earnings for a franchise tax.
The Commissioners suggested an al
ternative method of accomplishing the
desire of the Senate District Committee
to increase public utilities taxation
(1,000.000 by imposition of a 4 per cent
on gross rtceipts, plus a 6 per cent
on net receipts for all local utilities.
Report Accompanies Draft.
At the same time, the Commissioners
recommended that the street railway
corporation be excused from paying the
salaries of street crossing policemen, an
item amounting to about (110,000 per
annum. The new draft was accom
panied by a comprehensive report made
to the Commissioners by a committee
consisting of District Auditor Daniel J.
Donovan, Assessor William P. Richards
ana Assistant Corporation Counsel Wil
liam A. Roberts.
The committee report finds that "the
present basis of taxation of utilities
bears no substantial relation to ability
to pay. The computation of the tax
on gross earnings and gross Income
consumes the same measure of profit
per dollar of gross operation and pre
sumes a relation between gross Income
and the amount of property required
to conduct a business on the same pro
portion. Obviously these relations are
non-existent, and it might further be
added that the present taxes involve a
presumption of substantially similar
cost to the Government in supervision
and occupation of public space which
cannot be supported.
"The difficulty of evaluating the
property of complex utilities annually
for purposes of taxation is generally
conceded, and this is particularly true
where the taxation is required by
statute to be upon the basis of 100 per
cent of (he value of the property.”
The report then points out that there
is a pronounced trend away from ad
valorem tax basis for public utilities in
other parts of the country. It points
out that the measure provides for the
deduction of the gross income of the
amount received by a parent corpora
tion from a subsidiary located in the
District of Columbia, which is itself
taxed under the same measure. It
specifically provides for the exclusion
of income received from the operation
of motor vehicles in carrying passen
gers which is covered by other pending
legislation.
Theory of Substitute.
The fundamental theory of the sub
stitute bill is said to be "the combina
tion of a 4 per cent tax on the gross
receipts and a 6 per cent tax on the
net earnings of a utility, thus insuring
at the same time substantial security
to the District of Columbia, as to a
large portion of the tax. regardless of
the economic condition of the compan
ies, and a development of additional
revenue from the more prosperous util
ities.
The Capper bill provides also for a
modification of the methods of taxing
national banks and other incorporated
banks and trust companies by classify
ing all banks except savings banks
without capital stock and private banks
in a single group, to be taxed 6 per cent
on all their earnings, excepting only
those from tax-exempt securities and
interest paid to depositors on savings
accounts.
The report on this question says: ‘‘It
is recognized at the present time the
business of national banks, trust com
panies and incorporated savings banks is
subtantially similar. Nevertheless, the
present provisions of the statute Include
a tax of 6 per cent on all the income
of the national banks and trust com
panies and only 4 per cent on the so
called State banks or savings banks.
Since the criginal purpose of Congress
was to discriminate in favor of those
banks paying interest on savings ac
counts, an amended section has been
prepared to accomplish this purpose."
Section 2 of the bill proposed by the
Commissioners puts a tax of 6 per cent
per annum on gross earnings on each
national bank, incorporated bank and
trust company, and a tax of 4 per cent
on each incorporated savings bulk pay
ing interest to its depositors.
TWO BOYS MISSING
14-Tear-Old Bicyclista Believed on
Way to Florida.
Police today were seeking two 14
year-old Boys—one the son of an Army
major at Walter Reed Hospital—who
have been missing from their homes
since yesterday morning when they
went riding together on bicycles.
The boys are David Kinderman, son
of MaJ. and Mrs. H. W. Kinderman of
the 6000 block of Western avenue, and
Walter Alanson Frost of the 3300 block
of Stuyvesant place.
Both boys left their homes, saying
they would be back late in the after
noon. it is said. Police were asked to
aid in finding them, after it was learned
they had told some other boys they were
going to Florida.
LOAN MAY BE FINAL
$750,000,000 Treasury Securities
to Be Sold June 15.
The last borrowing the Government
intends to do until its finances get all
straight again will be the sale June 15
of $750,000,000 worth of Treasury
securities.
This will bring the fiscal year 1932’s
borrowing up almost to the three bil
lion mark, but the next fiscal year is to
be run strictly on a pay-as-you-go basis
if hopes and expectations materialize.
The new issues will consist of $400,
000,000 in three-year Treasury notes
bearing 3 per cent interest and $350,
000,000 of one-year certificates paying
lfe per cent.
Sino-Amerlcan air lines between
C^unghtag^and^Bhar^l^l. China, an
Maj. Robert Wilson. 635 Morton street, a veteran of the Civil War, laying
a daisy cross on the grave of a fellow soldier, Maj. Petltt, during Confederate
memorial services in Arlington Cemetery yesterday. The cross was made by
Thelma Wilscn, 501 Olive street, Clarendon, Va., Maj. Wilson's granddaughter.
A MEMORIAL service for the Con- ]
federate dead was held yester- '
day afternoon in Arlington
Cemetery under auspices of
Camp 171, United Confederate
Veterans. Approximately 2,000 persons
were present.
The memorial service is held on the
Sunday following May 30 every year.
Assisting the United Confederate Vet
erans were the Sons of the Confederacy,
Daughters of the Confederacy, the Con
federate Southern Memorial Associa
tion, Children of the Confederacy.
United Spanish War Veterans and the
American Legion.
Representative L. Russell Ellzey of
Mississippi was the principal speaker.
He discussed conditions before and after
the Civil War. and paid tribute to the
valor and loyalty of the Confederate
soldiers.
Gen. W. L. Wilkerson, Civil War vet
eran. presided and introduced the
speaker Dr. Samuel Judson Porter of
the First Baptist Church pronounced
the invocation, and the benediction was
given by Dr. John E. Briggs of the Fifth
Baptist Church.
Marx Kahn recited “Scatter the
Flowers," and flowers were laid on the
graves of Southern soldiers. Wreaths
were placed on the tomb of Gen. Joe
Wheeler and the Tomb of the Unknown
Dead. Dr. John E. Copenhaver of the
Epworth Memorial Episcopal Church
said a prayer. Music was furnished by
the Marine Band.
EXTRA JOBS 0.0
Court of Appeals Rules Dis
trict Commissioners Can j
Limit Outside Work.
The District Court cf Appeals today
reversed a decree of the District Su
preme Court which had held unreason- ]
able an order of the District Commis- i
sioners passed September 19. 1930, for
bidding members of the Fire Depart
ment to engage in gainful employment
during their unemployed hours. Chief
Justice George E. Martin held that the
Commissioners had the right to make
the order especially as against firemen,
but might not have authority to apply
a similar order to certain other em
ployes.
In view of the controversial character
of the case and since the Court of Ap
peals had not previously passed upon
the regulation, the chief justice sug
gests that the Commissioners would be
justified in omitting the imposition of
penalties on John R. Ihrie. the fireman
who attacked the regulation.
Firemen's Case Different.
“Our conclusion in this case." says
Chief Justice Martin, "might very well
be questioned or denied in the case of
certain other classes of District em
ployes, but In the case of firemen a dif
ferent standard may reasonably be re
quired. The nature of the service they
are called upon to render frequently re
quires the exercise of every faculty,
physical and mental, for the preserva
tion of life and property, and there Is
no schedule by which these emergencies
may be anticipated.
“This alone creates a situation de
manding that the employe thus em
ployed shall be at his best at all times,
and this result obviously it is the pur
pose of the regulation to insure, and it
is this underlying necessity alone which,
we think, justifies the rule.
Cites Bosk Principles.
“In saying this,” the court continues,
"we are not unmindful of those basic
principles of our Government that
every man has the right and no man 1
can be prohibited from exercising the
right of following any lawful avocation
on the same terms as others; that he is
free to choose his occupation when and
where he pleases, provided he does no
wrong to the State or some other indi
vidual. To all of this we subscribe, but
when one seeks a position as fireman
he must, in the very nature of his em
ployment, subordinate, to the extent
necessary to accomplish the end sought,
rights which are personal to the com
mon weal.”
Assistant Corporation Counsel Frank
H. Stephens represented the Commis
sioners, while Attorney George C. Gert
man appeared for Mr. Ihrie.
TAXI DRIVER HUNTED
Police today were seeking a colored
taxi driver for assaulting Henry G.
Hanford, 57, 3706 Military road. Mr.
Hanford interceded when the driver is
alleged to have grabbed a pocketbook
from a colored maid employed by the
Hanfords.
Henrietta Adams, of the 1800 block of
P street, the maid, had an argument
with the driver over rates and during
the dispute the taxi driver was said to
have grabbed the maid's pocketbook and
started down the steps.
Mr. Hanford and his son prevailed
upon the driver to await the arrival of
a policeman. The driver suddenly
struck him in the face, and, before Mr.
Hanford could get clear of the cab,
started away. Mr. Hanford was dragged
several feet. He was treated at his
home by a private physician.
Preaches at Mount Rainier.
MOUNT RAINIER, Md„ June 6.—
Deacon Walter P. Plumley, Jr., who has
accepted a call to take cnarge of St.
John's Episcopal Church here, preached
his first sermon yesterday. Mr. Plumley
is a graduate of the University of Mary
land and the Virginia Theological Semi
nary. He succeeds ^saenp James Vsl
II E COURTS
SCORED BY REPORT
Conference Committee Hits
Lack of Understanding by
Judges and Police.
The failure of Juvenile courts and
the police to deal understandingly with
child delinquents is contributing to
adult crime in the United. States, ac
cording to a report by the Committee
on the Socially Handicapped of the
White House Conference on Child
Health.
The 200.000 defendants who go before
the juvenile courts annually do not re
ceive proper attention, the report says,
because of poorly paid or ill-suited
judges, lack of probation officers or ef
fective parole system, lack of psychiatric
services and foster home of institutional
facilities.
They fare poorly at the hands of
police, the report continues, through
unnecessary arrests, detention in police
stations or jails and through the ten
dency of police to treat with the of
fense rather than the personal prob
lem of the child.
“It is futile to deal with the offense
a child commits.” the report says.
“The only way to treat the difficulty is
to deal with the child himself, to find
out why the delinquency happened.
The delinquent act is a symptom. The
real difficulty lies deeper and must be
dealt with.”
FORMERPOUCEMAN
IS DECLARED SUICIDE
Carroll Zepp Found Shot to
Death—Was Dismissed
Last Fall.
A certificate of suicide was issued to
day by Deputy Coroner C. J. Murphy
in the death of former Policeman Car
roll 8. Zepp. iB. of the 4900 block of
Carroll I. Ztn.
. Illinois avenue, who
was found shot to
death on the floor
of his repair shop
in the 1200 block of
Blagdens court yes
terday.
An examination
by Dr. Murphy re
vealed Zepp had
shot himself twice
through the mouth.
The body was
found by Sergt.
Charles Wise of
headquarters and
his son. Frank Wise.
Sergt. Wise went to
the shop looking
for Zepp, after the
latter's wife had
Decome uneasy aue to ms tenure to
return home Saturday night. Dr. Mur
phy expressed the view that Zepp had
shot himself Saturday. An old .32
callber pistol lay near the body.
Zepp was dismissed from the force
last September after being tried for In
toxication by the Police Trial Board,
which recommended leniency. He was
a carpenter and had been on duty in
the police carpenter shop. He was ap
pointed to the force in 1917.
Mr. Zepp Is survived by his widow
and two daughters. Dorothy and Vir
ginia. Funeral services were to be held
In Hysong's funeral home, 1300 N street,
this afternoon, with burial In Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Tech Boy Wins Scholarship.
Paul Oehmann, McKinley High
School student, has been awarded one
of the live annual Swarthmore College
men’s open scholarships, it was an
nounced today by Dr. John A. Miller,
acting president of the college.
Oehmann, who lives at 3916 Mor
rison street, has been prominent in
athletics, scholastic work and student
ulMm___
85 AMERICAN II.
GRADUATES ARE
GIVEN DIPLOMAS
College Honor Prize Captured
by W. Yule Fisher, Alumnus
of Central High.
OR. CRANE ADDRESSES
HURST HALL GATHERING
One of Faculty Prizes Won by Anne
King—Other Recipients of
Honors and Graduates.
Degrees were conferred on 85 gradu
ates today by American University at
the eighteenth commencement at the
assembly hall on the college campus.
Tne address was
delivered by Dr.
Henry H. Crane,
pastor of Elm
Park Church,
Scranton, Pa.
Diplomas were
presented by Dr.
Lucius C. Clark,
c h a n c ellor of
American Uni
versity, and the
candidates were
pres ented for
their degrees by
Dr. Walter M.
W. Splawn, dean
of the Graduate
School and of
the School of
the Political Sri
W. Tale Fisher.
ences, and by Dr. George B. Woods,
dean of $he College of Liberal Arts.
Among the recipients of the degree
of doctor of philosophy was Clyde B.
Aitchison of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The ceremonies of the morning
started at Hurst Hall, where the aca
demic procession formed, under direc
tion of Prof. Will Hutchins, chief mar
shal, for the march to the assembly
hall.
W. Yule Fisher of this city, graduate
of Central High School, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Martin H. Fisher of 4421 Seven
teenth street, captured the most cov
eted honor of the college, the college
honor prize, awarded for scholastic
standing, character and leadership for
four years. Fisher also was awarded
one of the "faculty prizes," the other
one going to Anne King of 720 Allison
street.
Graduating Honors.
Graduating honors went to the fol
lowing: Cum laude, Norman Fabian,
Agatha Varela; magna cum laude,
Audrey Belt, Margaret Cross, Yule
Fisher; summa cum laude, Mary Jean
nette Mueller.
Senior class honors went to Audrey
Belt, Margaret Cross, Keeler Faus. W.
Yule Fisher, Charlotte Jamieson, Mary
Jeannette Mueller, Virginia Pedersen
and Agatha Varela. These honors and
prizes were announced by Dean Woods.
The Swift Foundation fellowship was
awarded to Paul Adolph Friedrich to
study Biblical literature in the Univer
sity of Cambridge. The Massey Foun
dation fellowships went to Alexander
George Heakes of the University of To
ronto to study economics in the Uni
versity of Cambridge, and' to Lorie
Tarshis of the University of Toronto to
study economics at Trinity College,
Cambridge.
The college orchestra, under direc
tion of Dr. C. Henry Leineweber, played
the overture "Mignonette." Prayer was
offered'by Dr. John Edwards.
Chancellor Clark delivered the an
nual convocation sermon yesterday be
fore the graduates at Metropolitan Me
morial Methodist Episcopal Church,
warning against the dangers of this
"machine age." He called upon the
graduates to turn to the "beautifying,
satisfying philosophy of Jesus to bring
this chaos into a cosmos."
Referring to these days when “we are
supposed to be in an 'economic break
down,' ” Dr. Clark declared. "Our day
is a key-sticking, telephone-ringing, ra
dio-static, auto adjusting mechanism.
We have school cramming, supersales
manship. air-mindedness, society flit
ting. political conniving. We have an
exhibit of high-brow conceit, low-brow
abandon and even religious censorious
ness. This is the chaos out of which
we must find our cosmos."
Dr. James Shera Montgomery, chap
lain of the House of Representatives, of
fered prayer and music was by the
American University Choral Society,
under Harlan Randall, director, with
Mrs. James Shera Montgomery organist.
The senior class gift, a marker for
Hurst Hall, was presented, following the
convocation services, by Daniel Terreil,
president of the class, and was accepted
by Chancellor Clark.
Graduates of Three Schools.
The list of graduates In the three
schools of the university follows:
Bachelor of arts—William Menges
Bower. Barton Brooke Bright. Mary
Prances Brown. Leon Kirkpatrick
Bryner. Roberts Diodate Burr, Thomas
John Cuddy, Dorothy May Darby, Ruth
Rumsey Edwards, Keeler Faus, Robert
Henry Fuchs, William Barrett Fuchs,
Edith Audrey Gaylord. Harry Eugene
Gurney. Mrs. William F. Hall, Margaret
Elizabeth Herbine. Charlotte Brewster
Jamieson. James Earl Kadan. Fremont
James Knittle, Russell Wharton Lam
bert, Rene Lutz. Jeannette Frances
MacMahon, Charlotte Isabel Magee.
Virginia Lee Maiden. Walter Earl
Masincup. Lois Antoinette Merselis,
Suzanne Myrick Mullett, Lynette Eliz
abeth Mulholland. Arthur Reaney
Murphy, Doris Lucille Murphy, George
Wilhelm Olsen, jr.: Mary Jane Pearce.
Virginia Eleanor Pedersen, J. Harold
Higgle. Olive Elizabeth Rodgers, Edwin
Allan Ross. Sylvia Kemp Sard, Gran
ville Harold Shirley. Leland Wilfred
Sprinkle. Lois Wllhelmina Stone, Ru
dolph Hamilton Swanson. Daniel Start
Terrell, Max Tucker, William deVeer
Washburn and Frances Elaine Young.
Bachelor of science in government—
F. Hugh-Craig Bickford.
Bachelor of science in commerce—
Marjorie Moon.
Bachelor of science In education—
Barbara Staples.
Master of science—Paul Albert Alt
peter, Wendell Calhoun, Grace Jeanetta
Gowens and W. Harold Smith.
Master of arts—Paul Flesher Ashby,
Helen Schuyler Brabrook, Ruth Brown.
Elizabeth Louise Carmichael. Lula Mae
Comstock, Frederika Critchett, Euphe
mla Fosdlck, Albert Henry Garretson,
Ethelwyn Irene Hine, Mary Bernice
Huff, Mary Nuckles Longfleld, Rebecca
Matthews, Bernice Virginia Moler,
Laura Morris, Queene Takoohy Pam
bookjian, Elizabeth Campbell Phelps,
Margaret Stuart Ramey, Franz B. H.
Wehllng and Elizabeth Yearsley.
Doctor of philosophy—Clyde Bruce
Aitchison, Miles Ellis Drake, Leon A.
Fox, Donald Hubbard, Willis Cleaves
Russell, Walter Ivan Smalley, William
Timothy Span ton, George Quentin