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3.000 DIPLOMAS
TO BE PRESENTED
Junior and Senior High
School Changes Not to Re
lieve Congestion.
[ Close to 3,000 pupils in the junior
and senior high schools will receive
diplomas on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, more than 1,000 graduat
ing from the eight senior high schools
of the District.
Their departure, however, will not
mean that the larger high schools
will become less crowded. Approx
imately 8P5 will leave the five white
senior high schools, but the 11 junior
high schools and 8 grades in the ele
mentary schools will advance close to
1,500 to take their places.
A similar condition exists in the
colored schools, where more than 200
will finish their courses, only to be
replaced by almost double that
number.
Junior Schools Better Off.
Junior high schools will fare slightly
better, for the elementary schools will
promote approximately the same num
ber that will step up to the senior
institutions.
For convenience of school authori
ties, the graduation exercises in the
24 junior and senior high schools
have been extended over all three
days with morning, afternoon and
evening schedules. Four schools will
end the mid-year semester Wednes
day, eight Thursday and an even
dozen Friday.
The schedule, the hour of the ex
ercises and the presiding officer,
follow:
Wednesday—Cordozo, 2:15 p.m.,
Charles H. Houston; Francis, 10:30
a.m., Mrs. M. A. McNeill; Garnet
Patterson, 2 p.m., Dr. J. Hayden
Johnson, and Terrell, 1:30 p.m., A.
K. Savoy, assistant superintendent.
Thursday at Roosevelt.
Thursday—Roosevelt, 8 p.m., Henry
Gilligan; Eliot. 2 p.m.. Miss Bertie
Backus, assistant superintendent;
Hine, 2 p.m.. Miss Jessie LaSalle,
assistant superintendent; Langley, 8
p.m., Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle;
MacFarland. 2 p.m., Robert L. Hay
cock, assistant superintendent; Taft,
8 p.m., Jere J. Crane, assistant su
perintendent; Dunbar, 8 p.m.. Dr. J.
Hayden Johnson; Randall, 10:30 a.m.,
Charles H. Houston.
i Friday—Central, 8 p.m., Dr. Hayden
Johnson; Eastern, 8 p.m., Henry I.
Quinn: McKinley, 8 p.m.. Dr. Frank
W. Ballou, superintendent: Western,
1:30 p.m., Dr. Ballou; Deal, 2 p.m.,
George M. Whitwell; Gordon, 2 p.m.,
Charles B. Degges, secretary of the
board; Jefferson, 8 p.m., Mrs. Philip
Sidney Smith; Paul, 2 p.m.. Dr.
Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant
superintendent; Powell, 2 p.m., Mrs.
Doyle: Stuart, 2 p.m.. Miss LaSalle;
Armstrong, 8 p.m., Mrs. McNeill, and
Shaw, 2 p.m., Dr. H. H. Long, assist
ant superintendent.
LABOR BOARD WEAK,
CHAIRMAN ADMITS
Enforcement Powers Broken
Down, Says Biddle, Pleading
for Law Revision.
By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, January 26.—The
Chairman of the National Labor Re
lations Board said today, “I think the
enforcement feature of my board has
broken down.
"It ought to be strengthened, let’s
admit it,” said Chairman Francis Bid
dle in an address before the Ninth
District Regional Labor Board.
As a practical position, he declared,
the Blue Eagle is a dead bird, but it
has great value as a' moral symbol.
N. R. A. brought about a psychologi
cal improvement in industry by mak
ing labor feel it can have its day in
court, Biddle said.
A preservation of this spirit, he ob
served. depends on the strengthening
of enforcement powers vested in his
board.
Describing collective bargaining as
& “machinery for settling disputes,”
Biddle added that “if wre are, as I
believe, engaged in the beginning of
a somewhat more controlled economy,
we must endeavor to create a func
tional machinery to preserve our tra
ditional and historic rights of con
tract.
“If the machinery and theory of
collective bargaining breaks down,
we are faced with the inevitable be
ginning of compulsory arbitration and
government dictation—for which the
country is not prepared.
MACY SUPPORTS ICKES
IN GOTHAM OUSTER ROW
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 26.—W.
Kingsland Macy. former chairman
of the New York State Republican
Committee, gave his support tonight to
Secretary Iekes in the latter’s effort
to have Park Commissioner Robert
Moses of New York City removed
from the Tri-Borough Bridge Au
thority.
“Every special interest, every mem
ber of the Old Guard and those as
sociated with that illuminating po
litical group are arrayed against you
in what is here described as the ‘fight’
against Mr. Moses,”, wrote Macy to
the Secretary.
Macy was forced from the chair*,
manship of the New York commit
tee last year by the to-called “Old
Guard” and he was a candidate for
the Republican nominee for Governor,
being defeated by Moses.
Mrs. Owen Hostess
At Eskimo Party;
Acts as “Inunguak”
By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark,
January 26.—“Inunguak”—Eski
mo for dear little woman—Ruttf
Bryan Owen, United States Min
ister to Denmark, tonight played
hostess at a real Greenland
“Dansmik,” or Eskimo feast.
Chief among the 80 guests, all
of whom were called for the
evening by their Eskimo names,
was "Ipatuklivak,” meaning
"Mightily Bearded God,” other
wise Prime Minister Theodore
.Stauning.
The rooms of the Minister’s
house had pictures of Greenland
on the walls, while at various
places were "brixes,” on which
the Eskimos lie during the long,
dark Winter. All the music was
by Greenland accordions and rec
ords which Mrs. Owen recorded
herself.
Much of the food also was
from Greenland.
Victims of $250,000 Gem Theft
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Two armed thieves entered a luxurious suite In the Miami Blltmore Hotel last night and robbed Mrs.
J. E. Bell (center) of jewels valued at approximately *250,000. Harry Content (left) heard the robbers and
lost his watch and $200 when he entered her room to Investigate. At the right Is Armandine Rechtl, Mrs.
Bell’s maid, who gave the alarm.
Oregon Editor Will Be Guest
at Meeting Tomorrow
Night.
Problems concerned with the plan
ning and development of the Nation’s
resources will be considered at a plan
ning meeting of the Executive Board
of the American Civic Association to
morrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Cosmos
Club.
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes and members of the National
Resources Board, of which he is the
chairman, will be the guests of the
association at its dinner meeting.
Frederic A. Delano, president of the
association’s Executive Board and also
a member of the National Resources
Board, will preside.
The principal speaker will be Mar
shall N. Dana, chairman of the Pacific
Northwest Regional Planning Com
mission and associate editor of the
Oregon Journal of Portland. Dana's
interest and activity in planning work
for the Pacific Northwest region made
him the natural selection of the Na
tional Resources Board as district
chairman of district No. 11, compris
ing the States of Oregon, Washington
and Utah.
The organization activity of Dana is
resulting in planning for the Colum
bia River Basin, although in a fash
ion widely different from that of the
Tennessee Valley Authority. Plan
ning in this section centers in the de
velopments at Grand Coulee and
Bonneville, two of the largest P. W. A.
dam and power projects, affecting all
the States in that district.
For 22 years Dana has been inter
ested in civic and public welfare work,
and because of his familiarity with
conditions in the Pacific Northwest he
was named regional adviser and re
gional chairman of the Public Works
Administration. He is also president
of the National Reclamation Congress.
The planning dinner will be given
by the American Civic Association in
connection with its annual board
meeting, which will be held earlier to
morrow at headquarters in the Union
Trust Building. The following officers
and board members will attend: Mr.
Delano, president: J. Horace McFar
land, Harrisburg, Pa., vice president;
Mrs. Edward W. Biddle, Philadelphia,
vice president; Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Harland Bartholomew, St.
Louis; Alfred Bettman. Cincinnati;
Col. S. P. Wetherill. jr„ Philadelphia;
Miss Harlean James, executive secre
tary; A. Ungem-Stemberg, extension
secretary, and Mrs. E. R. Padgett,
librarian.
Glasgow Trade Better.
Retail trade in Glasgow Is reflect
ing the improved industrial conditions
in Scotland.
DR. HARRY E. BARNES
IS MARRIED IN RENO
Author and Educator and Di
vorcee Wed After Both Are
Granted Decrees.
RENO, Nev., January 26 OP).—
Shortly after both had been divorced
Dr. Harry E. Barnes, New York edu
cator and author, and Mrs. Jean
Hutchinson Newman were married
here today.
Mrs. Newman obtained a divorce
from T. Somers Newman, whom she
married in 1918 at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
on grounds of cruelty.
Dr. Barnes was divorced by Mrs.
Grace S. Barnes at a private trial be
fore District Judge Benjamin F.
Curler. Her complaint also charged
cruelty.
Authorities Probe Deaths at Baby'Farm
Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
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No. 1—E. L. Brooks, jr„ and (No. 2) his foster-father, E. L. Brooks, sr„ central figures in Investigation
of baby farm on Crystal Lake near Beulah, Mich, where State authorities charge more than a score of
infants died of neglect. w
No. 3—Workers digging for bodies of the infants, some of whom, the State attorney general charges, 1
were buried ‘‘without even rough.box.” ' ■#
1 No. 4—Cribs, typical of those* used at the farm. These were found in one of the cabins on the farm.
Women Urging Anthony Stamp
Find It Task to See Farley
The Post Office Department ran Into
some more stamp trouble yesterday—
this time over a proposed issue, rather
than one that is out.
The latest episode found Clinton B.
Eilenberger, Third Assistant Postmas
ter General, serving as the target of
a delegation from the National Wom
an’s party, which sought unsuccessful
ly through him to get an Interview
with Postmaster General Farley to
urge a stamp issue commemorative of
Susan B. Anthony, suffrage pioneer.
Coming to the department from
their regional conference at the Dodge
Hotel, the women, headed by Mrs.
Ralph C. Huntington, wer$ told by
Eilenberger, it was charged last night,
that he would not take them to Far
ley and that he was against their pro
posal. Eilenberger, who has charge of
stamp issues, could not be reached for
his version of the affair.
Afterward, the visitors went to the
office of William J. Bray, secretary to
the Postmaster General, and obtained
from one of his aides a promise to see
Farley tomorrow, they said.
Mrs. Huntington, prominent in Bal
timore club circles, was accompanied
on the stamp mission by Mrs. Ella
Schnabel of Philadelphia and Mrs.
Donald R. Hooker of Baltimore. Mrs.
Huntington said the wives and moth
ers of American leaders have been
honored in the issuance of the Mar
tha Washington and Mother’s day
stamps, and her group feels Miss An
thony’s labors likewise deserve recog
nition.
On two previous occasions in the
last few days the Post Office Depart
ment has been in hot water in con
nection with stamps because some
special sheets went to friends of Post
master General Parlev
LEVY ON 'BOOKIES’
AND BEERLIKELY
Democratic Assemblymen
Plan New Revenue to Avoid
Income Tax.
BY GEORGE PORTER.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, January 26.—Impo
sition of taxes on beer and book
makers appeared likely as Demo
cratic members of the General As
sembly continued their study of
sources of new revenue to meet Mary
land's emergency needs.
The two proposals have gained In
favor among the lawmakers, who
have viewed developments of the past
few days as signs that they will not,
as they feared, be forced to enact
either a State sales tax or a State
income tax.
Encouraged by this outlook. Demo
cratic leaders who in the near future
will formulate a tax program of their
own in place of the list of “sug
gestions" submitted by Gov. Harry W.
Nice, believed they can work out a
series of special taxes which will pro
duce enough revenue.
Expect Trouble.
Their list, if drawn today, prob
ably would include new inheritance
and public utility taxes, together with
the levies on beer and bookies. Party
heads recognize they will have trouble
putting through any revenue bill, but
believe they can muster sufficient
strength to enact any program upon
which the leaders agree.
Although they may approve the
licensing and taxing of bookmakers,
the Democratic chieftains still frown
on sweepstakes and lottery proposals,
plans which were denounced as "re
sorts of decadent nations" when aired
before the 1933 Legislature.
One of the chief developments of
the week which led the Democrats
to conclude that Gov. Harry W. Nice
overestimated the State’s relief needs
for 1936 and 1937, when he placed
them at $11,050,000 for each of those
years, was the publication of a report
by his own commission on old-age
pensions which calculated $1,680,000
would be needed from the State
annually to pension the aged. Instead
of $3,000,000 as listed in the Gov
ernor’s tax message.
Fxpect Other Excesses.
If the Governor so far overesti
mated this item, he may be equally
amiss in some of the other figures he
used, the Democrats state. They con
fidently expect that the anticipated
$7,200,000 State relief bill can be low
ered to $6,000,000 or less when details
of President Roosevelt's social security
program are developed.
Whatever amount Maryland finally
is asked to contribute toward its share
of the State’s unemployment relief
probably will be divided between the
counties and State, unless there is a
reversal of sentiment apparent among
the Senators and Delegates this week.
Under such a set-up, Baltimore City
would, of course, be asked to con
tribute toward its own relief expendi
tures, although one of the major prob
lems of the system will be to deter
mine how much the city should pay.
The metropolis has been spending
B6 per cent of the State’s relief funds,
the other 14 per cent being disbursed
among 21 of the 23 counties. Carroll
and Harford have carried their own
relief loads without assistance.
Opinions Vary.
Most of the lawmakers here think
the counties should pay about 25 per
cent of their welfare bill. Some, how
ever, argue that in the poorer counties
even 5 per cent would be too much.
Determined efforts undoubtedly will
be made nevertheless to saddle a part
of the relief load on the counties as
most of the legislators think this will i
tend to end the ‘‘grab-bag'’ tendencies
and, through local vigilance, prune
the relief rolls of questionable cases.
The plan to have the counties pay
part of their relief costs fits In per
fectly with the aims of those who
favor ■ legalizing bookmaking. The
counties, they say, can supplement the
State license fee of about $500 with
county licenses costing $1,000 to $5,
000, and In addition, derive part of a
tax to be placed on bets laid with
the bookmakers. County bookmakers’
taxes could then be applied to the
local relief bill.
Delegate Walter J. Locke of Balti
more City, who has a bookmakers’ tax
bill ready for introduction next week,
estimates it will net the State $1,
000,000 a year.
The proposed tax on beer already
has been incorporated in a bill intro
duced in the Senate. It would tax
the popular beverage at the rate of $1
a barrel, which amounts to about
three-tenths of a cent a bottle. A
State revenue of about $1,250,000 a
year can be expected from such a beer
tax, according to Senator Milton L.
Veasey of Worcester County, author
of the measure.
No sales tax bill has yet been intro
duced, but the Legislature has in its
files an income tax bill designed to
raise $5,000,000 a year: a bill to in
crease collateral inheritance taxes so
as to produce $500,000 more a year:
a measure to raise the gross receipts
on most public utilities to 3 per cent,
increasing the yield about $1,000,000 a
year, and a proposal to change the
race track taxes in the hope of netting
an additional $1,000,000. Charity
sweepstakes and lotteries also would
be legalized under pending measures,
but no satisfactory estimate of the
amount of revenue which can be ex
pected from these sources has been
given.
Town Has One Fire in Year.
DUNDEE, N. Y., January 26 </P).—
The firemen of this village of more ;
than 1,000 had plenty of time to brush
up their pinochle in 1934.
The annual report of the village
board today recorded but one call all
year.
POSTMASTERS PREY
OF FUND SOLICITORS
Political Publications Said to
Have Threatened Jobs on Sub
scription Refusal.
By the Associated Press.
Agents of some political publica
tloas were disclosed yesterday to have
sought subscriptions from postmasters
by telling them they would lose their
jobs if they failed to sign on the
dotted line.
Postmaster General Farley him
self called attention to the alleged
practice and directed postmasters to
report any publications or solicitors
who might attempt to sell subscrip
tions in that manner.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Howes said the publications men
tioned were of a political nature.
Post office employes were said to
have been told that the publica
tions had been approved by the Post
master General as chairman of the
Democratic National Committee and
that they were designed to help per
petuate the Democratic administra
tion.
Amagh, Northern Ireland, has ban
ned Sunday and Saturday afternoon
movies.
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UTILITY TABLE
$295
A handy table, specially
priced.
9x12 or 8.6x10.6
AXMINSTER RUG
$2995
Excellent quality and patterns.
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4-POSTER BEDS
$695
Nicely constructed.
I BOUDOIR CHAIR
$5.95
Choice of 5 colors—brown,
green, gold, rase and rust.
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