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DELAYS IN SCHOOL
DISTRICT OFFICIALS
Dr. Ballou Places Blame in
Reply to Criticism of
Fine Arts Group.
DECLARES LIST ASKED
WOULD BE OF NO VALUE
Gotwals Say* Art* Commission's
Indecision Held Up Wilson
School Program
Replying to criticism by Ihe Com
mission ot Fine Arts of the delays at
tendant upon public school building
construction. Dr. Frank W. Ballou,
school superintendent, today laid re
sponsibility tor the delay upon the
District Commissioners.
A copy of Dr. Ballou s letter, made
public with his acquiescence by the
Commissioners, was sent to Engineer
Commissioner John C. Ootwrals. who
promptly promised "a torrid reply”
to both Ballou's and the Fine Arts
Commission's letters In the near fu
ture
The Fine Arts letter to Dr Ballou,
written by Charles Moore, chairman,
asked the Board of Education to pro
vide It with a list of schools proposed
for construction In 1936.
In his reply Dr Ballou pointed out
that any list of proposed buildings
which the school authorities might
have for 1936 would be of little value
to the Fine Art* Commission because
the School Board estimates would be
so much reduced by the District Com
missioners and the Budget Bureau
that the fine arts group would be
wasting time reviewing such proposals.
Figure Set at Minimum.
"It is appropriate to point out in
this connection." Ballou’s letter as
serts. “that the Board of Education
quite uniformly submits estimates for
school buildings and grounds involv
ing an expenditure of approximately
$3,000,000. which is believed by the
school authorities to be the minimum
appropriation for such purposes in
view of the growing school system
and the need for replacement of anti
quated buildings. It has been impos
sible to secure that amount of money
for that purpose in most years and
during the period of the depression
the school-building program has been
almost completely abandoned A large
part of this building program is elim
inated by the Commissioners and fre
quently the Bureau of the Budget still
further reduces the number of con- ;
straction items carried in the esti- \
mates.
"Under these circumstances it is
difficult to see just how the Commis
sion of Fine Arts might use a list of
school buildings which the Board of
Education includes in its estimates for
1936. Inevitably, if past practice is
any indication of future practice, many
of these items will be eliminated by
the Commissioners and others will be
eliminated by the Bureau of the Bud
get. The Commission of Pine Arts
would find Itself reviewing items at
this time which might not be actually
carried in an appropriation bill for
several years."
Willing to Submit List.
Ballou added, however, that if the
commission wanted such a list and
the Engineer Commissioner and mu
nnicipal architect did not object, the
school authorities would submit such
a list to the Pine Arts body.
Ballou also pointed out to Moore
that the Fine Arts chairman's letter
interests me because it is addressed
to the superintendent of schools rather
than to the authorities at the District
Building, who are in charge of school
house construction. The school au
thorities, Ballou wrote, have held the
opinion "that they had no official re
lationship to the Commission of Pine
Arts, but that the municipal architect
and the Engineer Commissioner, who
are in charge of the designing and
construction of school buildings, are
the officials with whom the Commis
sion of Fine Arts would carry on their
work relating to the construction of
new buildings.”
The school superintendent also
pointed out that the school authorities
do not undertake to dictate the archi
tectural design of school buildings,
leaving that matter to the municipal
architect. In school house construc
tion, he said, the school authorities
undertake only to set forth the educa
tional facilities and their relative lo
cation within a school building.
I lies Wilson srnooi.
In his letter to Ballou. Chairman
Moore cited the case of the Woodrow
Wilson High School as a striking ex
ample of school building delays. He
wrote:
"The delays and changes were due
to the fact that Congress ordered plans
adapted to flat ground to be used on
a hillside
Maj. Gotwals today took Issue with
this statement and with Ballou's
failure to correct in his letter 'this
kind of rotten, lying history "
'We don't build all our school
houses from the same plan. ' Gotwals
declared We make them ail dif
• ferent. The delay at the Woodrow
Wilson High School was due entirely
to the Fine Arts Commission's chang
ing its mind on the location of that
building We had adopted one pian
and then the commission said they
wanted a romantic setting, and it
took them a long time to decide what
they meant by that. I mean to write
a torrid letter to both the P.ne Arts
Commission and the school people.”
Jail Cell Protects
Man Who Picked
Tracks for Sleep
Amos E Miller. S3, was jailed
todfy for intoxication, but he w as
lufk^ to be alive even to go oe
hind the bats According to the
testimony ot OWcer J. E O'Neal,
who made the arrest. Miller was
found lying on the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks in southeast
Washington his head resting
peacefully on the rails.
A train passing through the
vards was able to stop before hit
ting him and was held up until
some one came to remove Miller
from the rails.
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Spanish Missionary Preserves
Legend of God Chinigchinix
Culjtrit Who Dared Enter Temple to
Invoke Justice IIr/,s Left free by
Upper California Indians.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
When Father Jeronimo Boscana. a
Spanish Franciscan, was sent from
Mexico in 1812 as a missionary among
the Indians of Upper California, he
came upon the worship of a sttange
god. Chinigchinlx.
John P Harrington. Smithsonian
! Institute ethnologist, has Just recov
ered and translated literally Boscana's
long-lost manuscript in which he de
scribed the ways of Chinigchinlx and
his worshipers—perhaps the earliest
ethnological treatise on the Califor
nia aboriginals.
Boscana found himself among the
San Juan Capistran Indians who
lived in the San Luis Rey drainage, in
what is now San Diego County. Calif.
The Chinigchinlx, whose memory he
preserved, was one of the great New
World "redeemers." who lived among
the great elemental beings that occu
pied the earth before man. It was
the redeemer who created man out of
the mud of a lake, and afterward as
cended into the sky where he re
mained as judge and punisher of his
people.
Among the curious practices found
by the Franciscan missloner was that
of the "house of refuge.” This was a
temple containing an image of Chi
nlgchinix. Once a man was In
this temple, he was exempt from all
human punishment—since he delib
erately had chosen to subject himself
to the punishment of the god rather
than that of his fellows. It was a
court of last resort and Chinigchinlx
could be depended upon to punish the
guilty more effectively than man.
* * * *
Wore Apron of
Feathers to Heaven.
“They believed." says Boscana. "that
Chinigchinlx was everywhere present
and that he saw everything though it
were a dark night, but that no one
could see him; that he was a friend
of the good and punished the wicked
much. They say that this Chlnig
chinix went away dancing to heaven,
wearing a little skirt or apron of
feathers, adorned with feathers like a
crown on his head, and painted up.”
Chinigchinlx apparently was a quite
effective tribal god. Parents, Father
Boscana recorded, did not punish the
sins of their children, but merely
harangued them daily on the WTath
of this supernatural figure—and be
cause of dread of him, child offenses
were almost unknown.
Spartan, indeed, was the initiation
ot the boy to manhood, as described
by the Franciscan. First, the brand
of nis totem was burned on his arm
Then it was their custom to whip them
with nettles and to put ants on them.
i and this was done to make them
monger and more robust In the
Summer time when the nettle* are
in season and are fiercest they took
some bunches of them and began to
whip the boys on their legs, thighs,
shoulders and arms. After this, they
placed the patient on a nest of fierce
anu. and another one mas stirring
them up to make them still fiercer
They often caused fever.
A veritable holy-of-holies was the
temple of Chinigchinlx. as described
by Boecana: “None save the chiefs
or elders entered within It. The othei
people remained outside the stakes
and the boys and girls did not even
approach It They did not speak in
side It. except In a very low voice, and
also those who were outside pre
served silence. The immunity which
these temples possessed was so great
that whatever the crime. If the delin
quent has the good fortune to take
refuge at the temple before his oppo
nents encountered him. he was al
ready free and could go wherever he
pleased without being molested or the
least mention made of what had hap
pened. They merely told him If they
let him: You went to the God Chi
nlgchinix and had you not gone we
would have slain you. but he will
punish you because you are wicked.”
* * * *
Legend of Flood
Spread Through Tribe.
Father Boscana found here the ap
parently world-wide legend of a great
flood.
"They believe and say,” he records,
"that at a remote time the sea began
to fill up so that it came in over the
valleys, and the water rose over the
mountains, and all the people and
animals died, except some who went
to a very high mountain.
“They have no fear because Chinig
chinix does not wish there will be
another flood. There is no doubt that
all this has some correlation to the
universal deluge, and the promise that
God made to us that there would not
be another.
Regarding their treatment of
disease, he says: “In internal diseases
such as fevers, what they did was to lie
down naked on top of a pile of sand
or ashes, a little fire in front of them,
and a basket or pot of water at the
head of the person. They were also
accustomed to set for the person a
little basket of acorn mush, but the
sick person ate if he wanted and if
not he left it, without any one impor
tuning him to take food, and it is to
be noted that*he always had some one
at his side day and night And thus
he remained until either nature con
quered or the disease conquered.”
UK RULES
EXEMPLI SEEN
Contractors Signing Union
Agreements Not to Be
Closely Watched.
Contractors who have signed union
agreements with their workmen will
not be subjected to the same rigid
pay roll inspection as those who oper
ate on an "open shop" basis, under
new rules to be drafted by the Dis
trict's "kick-back board." Engineer
Commissioner John C. Gotwals an
nounced today.
Where a contractor Is operating
under a union agreement, he said, the
pay rolls on the job will not be
checked nor will the pay envelopes
passed out to the men be inspected.
Maj. Gotwals said that the inspections
would not be necessary in the case
of closed shop jobs as the unions could
be relied upon to look after their men
Maj. Gotwals said he believes this
would encourage the employment of
Washington men, drawn from the
ranks of local organized labor in Dis
trict road, sewer, bridge and building
contracts and placed emphasis on the
selection of local men rather than on
preference for those employed under
union agreements.
The board recently set up to guard
agamst repetition of the "kick-back''
racket is under fire from local organ
ized labor because of objections voiced
by the Washington Building Trades
Council to the nomination ol Assistant
Engineer Commisisoner Howard F.
Clark as chairman. Maj. Gotwals said
he would confer later today with John
Locher secretary ol the Building
Trades Council, regarding the latter's
objections to Capt. Clark. He ap
peared confident that the objection
would be overcome.
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POLICEMEN INJURED
IN MAKING ARRESTS
Four Men of Fifth Precinct
Slightly Hurt During
Week End.
Four policemen of the fifth precinct
were injured during the past week
end. three ot them by unruly persons
and one by a dog. None was seriously
injured.
Mrs. Emma Victoria Simmons, 317
Eleventh street southeast, is charged
with assault on Sergt W F. McDuffy
and Pvt. C. P. Paul, who went to in
vestigate complaints by neighbors that
they were disturbed by her radio. The
policemen were treated at Providence
Hospital for scratches. Mrs. Simmons
furnished bond lor appearance in
court.
Pvt. J E O'Neal was struck In the
face Saturdav midnight when he ar
rested ltomintck Pinto. 22. of 72b |
Eleventh street southeast near Eighth I
and C» streets lor alleged disorderly
conduct O'Neal s Daton quieted the
alleged troublesome prisoner. Charges
ot intoxication ana disorderly conduct
were preferred against Pintc and he
was neld foi trial
Pvt Bruce Strong was bitten by a
dog when he went to the 100 block of
M street southeast and arrested WU
aam Day. 45. colored, for questioning.
! The dog. belonging to Day's brother.
Leroy Day. attacked the policeman
’and bit him on the thigh. »
STUDY OUTLINED
Conference on Experiment
to Be Tried in Fall Ends
Tomorrow.
The final conference of the Char
acter Education Institute, conducted
by District public school officials, will
be held tomorrow.
Due to intensive work, the char- !
acter education course for the prin
cipals and administrators, which was
to have taken three weeks. Is being
completed in four days less than that
time.
The main work now ahead is set
ting up the administrative force for
the character education experiment
which will be conducted in 10 schools
next Fall.
Counselors to Be Named.
Twelve counselors will be selected
by principals of the various schools,
with the approval of Franklin School
officials and Miss Bertie Backus, as
sistant superintendent of schools, who
has charge of the character educa
tion program. These counsels will be
trained under direction of Miss Backus
and in turn will direct activities of the
teachers in whose classes the char- i
acter education work will be done. 1
The experiment will be continued
throughout all next year in the fourth,
seventh and tenth grades of the select
ed schools There will be two coun
selors assigned to each senior high
school, two to each junior high school
and one to each elementary and vo
cational school.
Co-operation Pledged.
Many organizations throughout the
city have offered their co-operation
to the schools In the experiment. In
cluded among these are the Parent
Teacher Associations, the police, the
Social Hygiene Society, the Juvenile
Court and the Community Center De
partment.
Programs for co-operation of out
side agencies will be worked out be
tween now and the beginning of the
Pali school term. It is planned to
line up the support of the entire com
munity behind the character educa
tion work, since it is felt that the
schools can play only a certain limited
part in developing citizenship.
SIX-INCH KNIFE LANDS
MAN IN JAIL 60 DAYS
District Attorney Threatens to
Prosecute Dispensers of
Illegal Weapons.
A knife with a six-inch blade, which
he claimed to have won in a claw
machine shortly before his arrest, to
day cost John Chefe. 47. of the 100
block of Four-*nd-a-half street south
west. 60 davs in jail.
Chf4e was arrested on an intoxica
tion charge and the knife was found
in hU pocket
Assistant United States Attorney
Dsud A Hart remarked after the
case had been heard that it was the
thiid or fourth case in which con
cealed weapon defendants had claimed
to have won knives of illegal length
ie daw machines.
Hart said that if he received evi
dence that illegal knives were dis
pensed in that manner he expected to
i prosecute the cases. '
DISTRICT PROBES
BY BUREAU MEAL
All Victims Reported Out of
Danger—Nine Taken
to Hospitals.
NEARLY 200 AFFECTED
IN CASE 2 WEEKS AGO
Chemists Test Food. Said to Have
Been Passed by Govern
ment Inspectors.
The second case of wholesale food
poisoning at' the Transient Bureau
within two weeks was being Investi
gated by four inspectors of the Dis
trict Health Department today after
nine men were sent to hospitals and
50 others treated at the bureau for a
violent Illness which followed their
supper last night. All the victims
were reported out of danger this
morning.
Thirty-flve of the men affected
were members of a contingent of 86
ex-service men being fed and shel
tered temporarily In the bureau’s
lodge at 479 C street pending their
admission to Civilian Conservation
Corps camps in this area. This group
is headed by Roy Robertson, California
leader of the bonus army "death
march” here In 1932
Illness began to seize the men at
8:30 o'clock and from then until 2
a.m. there was brisk work for two
Transient Bureau doctors and several
internes from Emergency and Cas
ualty Hospitals.
Nine Taken to Hospital.
The nine men requiring hospital at
tention, all of whom were reported re
covering today, were:
Edward F. Leddy, Providence, R. I.;
Charles McDonald, Springfield. Ohio;
James Hendron. Boston, Mass.; Au
gust Schleger, New York City; James
McGully, New York City; Sam Ber
naski. New York City; Herbert Mc
Gannahan, Bois. Idaho; William Lib
erty. New York City, and Howard
Brewster, Milwaukee, Wis. The men
were treated at Emergency and Cas
ualty Hospitals.
A somewhat similar wave of food
poisoning swept the bureau two weeks
ago. At that time virtually all 200
men who had partaken of food there
were affected, but no violent illnesses
occurred and the bureau staff was
able to cope with the situation
Curiously enough, 200 men were fed
on the same menu last night—potato
salad, cold meat cuts, sliced peaches
and coffee, and none who ate with
the first shift at 5:15 p.m. was af
fected. About half of those wrho
dined with the second shift at 6
o'clock became ill.
A. S. Rosichan, supervisor of the
bureau, declared today the bureau’s
tw'o physicians and one orderly could
have handled the situation last night
without outside assistance.
"However.” Rosichan said, "Robert
son sent for the police and insisted
that hospital assistance be called in."
Ambulances responded from Emer
gency and Casualty Hospitals, and
another was sent from the Board of
Public Welfare. Patrol wagons also
were sent to the bureau from Nos.
1. 3, 4 and 9 precincts, but were not
needed.
In a statement issued through the
office of Elwood Street, director of
public welfare. Rosichan said in part:
"The cause of the incident is as
yet undetermined. The same menu,
consisting of potato salad, cold cuts,
sliced peaches and coffee was served
at all seven kitchens maintained by
the bureau end in none of the others
was there any illness.
Chemists Test Food.
“All foods served will be tested im
mediately by District chemists in an
effort to determine the cause. The
bureau doctors have been puzzled by
the fact that only a few of the men
were taken ill, as food poisoning
usually affects all individuals served
a particular meal.”
Dr. William C. Fowler. District
health officer, said a thorough investi
gation would be made. It was said
that the food was purchased under
Government contract and Govern
ment inspection.
Officials were investigating the pos
sibility that the potato salad might
nave become contaminated through
contact with a metai container.
TROLLEY REROUTING
HEARING IS JULY 30
Studies by Consulting Engineers
to Be Laid Before Public
Utilities Commission.
July 30 has been tentatively se
lected oy the Public Utilities Commis
sion as the date of the public hearing
on street car rerouting, it was learned :
today.
Studies on the complicated subject
by consulting engineers retained by
the commission will be complete and
laid before that body within two
weeks.
The Capital Transit Co. is entitled
to 10 days' notice of the hearing, i
which, accordingly, must be sent out
before July 20. By that time, the;
commission expects, the engineering j
studies of rerouting will be so far ad
vanced as to enable It to issue the'
formal notice.
The commission's studies and plans j
will be placed In the record first, and ‘
afterward opportunity will be allowed
the public to offer any suggestions or
to criticize those put forward by the
commission. The company engineers
will then describe their plans.
25 Game Violators Arrested. I
MARTINSBURG, W. Va. July 9
(Special).—Twenty-five persons have
been arrested for various violations of
the State game and fish laws since
the bass season opened July 1 by Dis
trict Game Protector Tull Whitacre |
and assistants on patrol in the Eastern
Panhandle Counties. Trials have been j
held before various magistrates.
■ ■■ ■ ■" •-- —
Like U. S. Wood Best.
Builders in Australia have asked the
government to reduce customs tariffs
on Douglas fir from America because
no satisfactory substitute can be found
at home. *
FOULOIS SPARRING
TO OBTAIN RECORD
Army Air Corps Head Acts
for Defense Against
Removal Steps.
RULINGS ARE COLLECTED
IN SUPPORT OF SYSTEM
Contentions Will Be Based Upon
McCarl Letter of Feb. 11. 1929,
to Expenditures Group.
Maj. Gen Benjamin D Foulois and
the House Military Affairs Subcom
mittee, which has demanded hi. re
moval as chief of the Army Air Corps,
are sparring by mail over the in
sistence of Foulois that he be sup
plied with all testimony and records
of the hearings on airplane procure
ment.
Gen. Foulois, in preparing for a
spirited defense against congressional
charges of “Incompetence” and "wil
ful violation of lawr,” has directed a
barrage of requests for data to the
committee as a whole and to its mem
bers as individuals, it was learned
today.
To date, however, he has failed to
obtain access to the information re
quested. due to the committee's con
tention that some of the testimony and
records are confidential, having been
given in executive session because they
involved national defense secrets. He
was asked to be more specific about
his request for data.
Foulois Writes to Rogers.
In an attempt to be "more specific"
Gen Foulois has sent another letter
to Chairman William N. Rogers. Dem
ocrat, of New Hampshire reiterating
and amplifying his request for a
transcript of testimony bearing on
the Air Corps. He is not concerned
with other procurement matters in
vestigated by the committee, such as
motor truck and automobile purchases.
Gen. Foulois, in addition to writing
several letters to Rogers as chairman
of the committee, has sent letters to
several members of the investigating
group reminding them of what Gen.
Foulois terms a “promise” made on the
floor of the House that Foulois could
have any Information in possession of
the committee.
The Air Corps chief is said to feel
that even though much of the testi
mony was given behind closed doors,
there could be no menace to the na
tional defense in letting him—the
Army’s aviation head—peruse it. It
is understood he will make a deter
mined fight to gain access to all the
records of the executive sessions.
Gathers Many Rulings.
In the meantime Foulois Is known
to be fortifying himself with numer
ous rulings by Government legal offi
cers in support of the system of nego
tiated contracts condemned by the
House group in a caustic report for
warded to Secretary of War Dem.
One of the principal legal opinions
on which he will base his defense of
the system is a letter from Controller
General McCarl of February 11, 1929,
to the chairman of the House Com
mittee on Expenditures, in which Mc
Carl said the Air Corps act of 1926
permitted non-competitive purchases
of airplanes. This letter was quoted
in yesterday’s Star.
Assistant Secretary of War Wood
ring said today he believed the 1929
ruling had reference only to experi
mental planes and not to purchases
of aircraft in considerable quantities
Kvale Mails Opinion.
Copies of the McCarl opinon have
been mailed by Acting Chairman
Kvale, Farmer-Laborite, Minnesota,
to all members of the House investi
gating group. The McCarl letter did
not come to attention of the commit
tee until Saturday.
The committee meanwhile is mark
ing time in its collateral investiga
tions of motor truck purchase; and
of favors granted Army officers by
private business firms. Kvale is the
only members of the subcommittee
in the city. Hearings will be resumed
when other members return. Agents
of the Department of Justice and the
controller general’s office are contin
uing their search for new evidence
along several lines.
MRS. HELEN F. RICE,
EDUCATOR, EXPIRES
Dean of Faculty of Potomac
School Founded Calvert School
in Baltimore.
Mrs Helen Fisher Rice. 60, dean
of the faculty of the Potomac School,
2144 California street, died Saturday
at the residence of her niece. Miss
Jessie C. Fisher, 6211 Thirty-first
street.
A native of Washington. Mrs. Rice
was educated in the local public
schools, being a graduate of Cen
tral High and Washington Normal
Schools.
After teaching in the public schools
for several years. Mrs. Rice founded
the Calvert School in Baltimore. She
continued to live in Washington,
however.
Mrs. Rice resigned as head of the
Calvert School after operating that
institution for a number of years and
became affiliated with the Potomac
School, a private Institution.
She is survived by her husband, J.
Stewart Rice.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow at 3 p.m. at the residence of
her niece. Burial will be in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
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FORMER JUDGE DIES
RALEIGH, N. C„ July 9 UP).—
Judge John W. Thompson, 84-year
old former judge of the Cristobal
Court in the Panama Canal Zone. ]
died at his home here late last night '
of a heart attack after an extended
illness.
Judge Thompson served tn the
Panama court from 1913 to 1920 by
appointment of President Woodrow
Wilson.
Surviving are his widow and three
daughters here and one spn. Herbert
C. Thompson of Atlanta, ki a.
Merc York If oman Mamed
Assistant Public Printer
Miss Jo Coffin W as Copy
Cutter on W orld Re
fore Merger.
Assisted in Organizing
Tuo Centers for Job
less Women.
Miss Jo Collin, for many years ac
tive In labor Circles in New York,
today became assistant public printer
She succeeds Miss Mary A. Tate
Miss Coffin is a member of Typo
graphical Union No. 6 and of the I
Woman's Trade Union League and
for 15 years was a copy cutter on the
old New York World until its merger
with the Telegram. She has assisted
many small Industries and unorgan
ized groups at N. R. A. hearings in
New York and last year, under the
direction of Mrs Franklin D. Roose
velt. assisted in setting up two centers
for unemployed women in New York
City, one for industrial and factory
girls, and another for office workers
During the 1932 campaign Miss
Coffin was active in the labor division
of the Democratic national headquar
ters In New York.
At the Government Printing Office
MISS JO COFFIN.
Miss Coffin will be in charge ol
women's relations.
This appointment is the only one
that is Intended (or the present, ac
cording to August E Giegengach, new
public printer, who said today that
he did not anticipate any changes In
the staff of the G P. O. before August
and perhaps not until September, as
he was making a study of operations
there upon which to base any action
that will be taken.
A. Z. A. WILL HONOR
i
500 Delegates to Join in
Ceremony at Tomb Dur
ing Tour.
Five hundred members of Aleph
Zadik Aleph, junior order of B’nai
B'rith, in convention here, will par
ticipate In ceremonies of laying a
wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier in Arlington National Cem
etery late today. The rite will be in
cluded in a sightseeing tour to begin
at 4 p.m. and include points of inter
est in the city. Fort Myer and the
cemetery.
The convention, which Is meeting at
the Jewish Community Center, will
close tomorrow night.
Visit to White House.
This noon the delegates went to the
White House, where they posed with
Col. Marvin McIntyre, presidential
secretary, for a photograph, before
returning to the Community Center
for luncheon. Dr. Joseph R Sizoo
pastor of New York Avenue Presby
terian Church, was to address the
luncheon.
This afternoon each delegate was to
receive a copy of Frederic Haskin’s
book on "American Government” at
the convention session.
Nebraskan Oratory Winner.
Irving Hill, Lincoln. Nebr., won the
International oratorical contest spon
sored by the convention last night.
Hill spoke on "What It Means to Be
a Jew,” and, following the oratorical
contest, broadcast his speech over a
Nation-wide radio hook-up
The convention adopted a reso
lution declaring “unqualified abhor
rence of war and complete indorse
ment of the work of peace.” Simon
Atlas Chapter, No. 26, ol this city, is
host to the convention.
The resolution deplored increasing
evidences of international decline of
democratic forms of government and
the rise of the fungus growth of na
tionalist and dictatorial power.
Other participants in the oratorical
contest won by Hill, included Ronald
Freedman, Waukeegan. 111.; Austin H.
Perlow, McKeesport, Pa.; Henry J.
Rubin, Hollywood, Calif.; Raymond
Kierr, New Orleans, La.; David Gold
berg, Paterson, N. J.; Eugene A.
Blurr, Steubenville, Ohio, and Cecil
Oppenheim, Pueblo, Colo.
NORTH CAROLINIAN
GETS COMMERCE JOB
F. H. Rawls Named Head of
Foodstuff Division to Suc
ceed Montgomery.
Fletcher H. Rawls of Winston-Sa
lem, N. C„ today was appointed chief
of the Foodstuffs Division of the Bu
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, it was announced by Dr. Clau
dius T. Murchison, director. Rawls
succeeds E. G. Montgomery, who for
some months had been doing special
research work with N. R. A.
Rawls, a native of Deer Park, Ala.,
joined the bureau after many years
of business experience In both foreign
and domestic food production and
distribution.
For nine years he was in Central
America and Cuba, in the production
and exportation of bananas, sugar and
other tropical food products. During
the period of Government control of
sugar in 1918-19, he was associated
with the United States Sugar Equali
zation Board, in New York City and
also conducted an investigation in
Northern Europe, including Russia,
immediately after the war. Since
1920 he has been engaged in the
manufacture and distribution of food
products in the South.
robbery and hold-up
SERIES REPORTED HERE
Several persons were victimized in
a series of petty robberies yesterday
and last night. _ .
Clyde H. Pools of Silver Spring,
Md. was robbed of $11 yesterday by
two colored men at K and Four-and
a-half street southwest
Another colored pair neld up George
Andlis ol 920 First street while the |
latter was selling -snowballs- at
Massachusetts avenue and Second
street last midnight. The bandit*
took *6.
Falling asleep on a bench at Lin
coln road and R street yesterday.
James Shea of 1348 Euclid stre*
woke to find he had been robbed °*
his coat and a watch valued at $3i.
he told police. a
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Federation of Protestant
Congregations May Aid
Catholic Fight.
The Washington Federation of
Churches, composed of Protestant
churches in the District, is expected
to join with the Catholic “League of
Decency" in its campaign here against
unclean motion pictures, it was said
today at the office of Wilbur J. La
Roe, head of the federation
The federation probably will under
take a real campaign against im
proper films next Fall, it was indi
cated. Mr. La Roe is away from Wash
ington today and is not expected to
meet with the Catholic campaign
leaders for several weeks, it was said.
More than 8,000 pledges to boycott
unclean movies have been received,
with a number of the larger parishes
still unreported, it was said today by
Mrs. Harry J. Kirk, chairman of the
local Catholic campaign group.
Twenty thousand pledge blanks have
been sent out. she said.
"We have not had any count yet
from many of the parishes, Including
some of the largest parishes In the
city," she said. "We are considering
the advisability of requesting all pas
tors to talk on the subject next Sun
day or the following week and if this
is done we will delay our final check
up of pledges until after the appeal
is made in the churches.”
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CHURCH CARNIVAL
TO OPEN TONIGHT
| Grand Parade Will Launch
Church of the Assumption
Benefit at 7 P.M.
A grand parade, to be led by the
Holy Comforter Band, in which the
best decorated truck and best deco
rated pleasure vehicle will be awarded
prizes, wiU feature the opening of the
Church of the Assumption benefit
carnival tonight at 7 o'clock.
Judges for the parade, which will be
held in the neighborhood streets of
Congress Heights, starting from the
Church of the Assumption. Nichols
avenue and High View place southeast,
will be J. Louis Oelbman, Frazier C.
White and Joseph H. Hanlein. Rev.
Joseph M. Moran, pastor of the
church, heads the Arrangements Com
mittee,
The carnival will continue through
July 21, every night except Sundays,
with spaghetti dinners being served in
the church's auditorium on Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings, July 17 and
18, from 5 to 8 o'clock.
As a grand finale of the carnival a
most-popular girl contest will be held
July 21, the winner of which will be
awarded a diamond ring donated by
Rev. Moran.
JUDGE GIVEN PROTESTS
COUNSEL ON BOARDS
Says Aides Should Be Given Full
Time for Handling
Court Cases.
Judge Ralph Given of Police Court
today complained strongly against the
practice of assigning assistant cor
poration counsel to board and com
missions whicn interfere with their
duties in nandling court cases.
During a hearing of a case in the
hands of Assistant Corporation Coun
sel Edward Curran, it developed that
the case could not be set for trial
at the date Judge Given desired be
cause on that day Curran would be
required to attend the Board of Li
cense Revocation and Review.
“I would like It known that I am
opposed to the practice of naming our
assistant prosecutors from the cor
poration counsel’s office to outside
boards and commissions,’’ Judge Given
said. "The court work should have
first call on their services, and when
they are called away for other duties
often it Is necessary to turn over
their briefs to other attorneys who are
not familiar with the circumstances.
I feel sure the other judges concur
witta^ne in this attitude ”
The case in question finally had to
be delayed until July 31.
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French Sculptor Dies.
PARIS, July 9 t4>).—Francois Si
card. 70, the sculptor, died yesterday.
A friend of Georges Clemenceau. war
time premier. Sicard made a statue
of "The Tiger” and also executed the 1
statesman's death mask.
ADDITIONAL AID
FOR HOMES HERE
ASKED OFH.O. L. C.
708 Owners Want Funds for
Repair and Recondi
tioning Work.
EXPENDITURES NOW
AT $80,000 TO $100,000
288,000 Applications Involving
$55,000,000 Projects of Kind
Over Nation Recorded.
BY VINCENT TUTCHING.
Seven hundred and eight Washing
ton home owners whose properties
have been refinanced by the Home
Owners’ Loan Corporation have ap
plied to that body for additional funds
to repair and recondition their homes,
the District office of the corporation
revealed today.
Estimates cf the amount to be ex
pended in these projects, which in
clude repairs essential to refinancing
as well as improvements the owners
desire, place the total between $80,000
and $100,000. All of the applications
have been filed within the few weeks
since the home owners’ loan act was
amended to permit loans for recon
ditioning.
The revelation of this tremendous
Interest In property renovation on the
part of H. O. L. C. mortgagees here
came coincident with a report by the
headquarters office of the corporation
that nationally 288.000 application',
involving projected reconditioning Jo’js
estimated to cost $55,000,000 had
been filed.
Interest Is Mounting.
Mtanwhlle, interest of home owners
not eligible under the H. O. L. C.
plan, but desirous of renovating their
properties, continued to mount In the
Federal Housing Administration's pro
gram. which gets under way this week.
Janies A. Moffett, head of this new
unit, spent this morning viewing
prospective office space and expects
to be located within the next two days.
His Capital headquarters will require
approximately 30.000 square feet,
which will have to be rented space,
since none Is available In Oovemment
owned buildings.
Despite this, however, there is a
possibility that room may be made for
Moffett In the new Poet Office Build
ing. He talked with Postmaster Oen
eral Farley with this In mind today.
He Is particularly anxious to get the
space question settled, since his suite
at the Mayflower Is being swamped
with callers. After a conference with
Marvin H. McIntyre, one of the Presi
dent’s secretaries. Moffett said he had
three or four men in mind as his prin
cipal lieutenants, but declined to re
veal names
The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
emphasized that Its fund advances
are absolutely restricted to home own
ers In financial distress. Its recon
ditioning department has been deluged
with requests from owners not eligible
under the act, indicating there is
widespread national Interest In the
Idea of enhancing the value of realty
Improvements by preserving and bet
tering their condition. Loans by the
H. O. L. C. are made only to those
who have been given a mortgage by
the corporation, or are about to be
given one, and to those who own un
incumbered prperty and are unable to
obtain a loan through private channels.
$300,000,000 Available.
The amendment to the home own
ers’ loan act. signed by President
Roosevelt April 27, made available
$200,000,000 for reconditioning work
on homes under the wing of H. O. L. C.
The national housing act, approved as
one of the last acts of the recently
adjourned Congress, added $100,000,000
to this fund.
The reconditioning division of the
corporation passes upon the local ap
plications, approves the bids and su
pervises the actual construction work,
which it specifies shall be carried out
by private contractors selected by the
home owners themselves. The average
of all applications for home improve
ments, the corporation estimates, is
$200
Many of the home owners who have
applied for these loans also have taken
out entry forms in The Star's $1,000
Better Homes Contest, which Is now
in progress in the metropolitan area
with the objective of encouraging
property Improvements as a means
of stimulating employment In the
building trades.
Prizes in The Star’s campaign are
divided in two groups—for homes val
ued at $12,000 and less and for homes
appraised above that figure. In each
class the prizes are: First prize, $2oO;
second prize, $100; third prize, $50.
and four honorable mention prizes of
$25 each. A special landscaping im
provement prize of $100 is offered by
the Board of Trade.
I Housing Administrator Moffett has
estimated that $500,000,000 will be
spent in property renovation by Fall,
and probably a billion and a half by
the end of next year. Ultimate re
employment of 5,000,000 workers In
the building and allied trades is seen
by him as a direct consequence of the
program
Loans by the F. H. A. will be avail
able to all nome owners in good credit
standing, with steady jobs, and will
be made by private lending agencies
with the Government guaranteeing 20
per cent of the loan. A policy of
consumer credit is planned, with the
borrower repaying in monthly in
stallments extended up to a period
of five years. Individual loans are
limited to $2,000 and may be made
for private homes or for commercial
and business properties.
TWO HURT IN CRASH
Truck Driven by Colored Youth
Hits Parked Car.
Two persons were slightly hurt to
day when a truck crashed Into a
parked automobile in the 1500 block
of Elliott place.
The Injured are Thomas W. Brown,
58. 1517 Elliott place, who was seated
In the parked automobile, and Clar
ence R. Blackwell. 19, colored, of the
1000 block of Thirtieth street, driver
of the truck. Both were treated at
Georgetown University Hospital, Brown
for cuts on the head and the colored
youth for bruises. Police say the
truck’s steering gear got out of order,
causing the dnrjp to lose control.