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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. - . . . ^ , , , K, 1 ''V>?.yv.. - - 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. TOUGH AMDS|U|I HlATRinltW i ] I ■m »nva wn wib ifUQT. &i4*ftAif£viZ*UxiJi ‘3vH£4£ 3AYERSON OIL WORKS COLUMBIA 5228 pOBiJULIirS LANSBURGH FURNITURE CQ.mmqoq F ST. i I » I : f/ CHAISE LOUNGE 1 $9-95 Kg Covered in cretonne. A splendid value. KG Walnut-Finish UTILITY TABLE $295 A handy table, specially priced. 9x12 or 8.6x10.6 AXMINSTER RUG $2995 Excellent quality and patterns. .-A » Walnut or Mahogany 4-POSTER BEDS $695 Nicely constructed. I BOUDOIR CHAIR $5.95 Choice of 5 colors—brown, green, gold, rase and rust. A Real Value Floor Sample Bedroom Suites Priced for Clearance g S195 Mahogany Bed Room Suite, I I C 5159 Maple Bed Room Suite, 4 d*| |A S 4 pieces. Reduced to. T* 'O pieces. Reduced to. y I I v s $159 Walnut Bed Room Suite, 4 <£QC S345 Oak Bed Room Suite, 4 d* IQP i pieces. Reduced to. y/O pieces. Reduced to. y I 00 r;< 598 Modeme Bed Room Suite, <f / Q PA $210 Twin-Bed Bed Room Suite, d» i OQ g 4 pieces. Reduced to. ^07.OU 5 pieces. Reduced to. y I ^7 Many other Suites included in this sale but not | listed. Open an account ... Budget Terms. js I-1 I We're Offering 38 Sample 2-Piece Living Room Suites in This Sale $145 2-Pc. & I A/ $79.50 2-Pc. d;/Q Cfl Living Room Suite. I V/O Living Room Suite. ^t7»3v $189 2-Pc. <fc|,n S125 2-Pc. Living Room Suite... IU Living Room Suite. $169 2-Pc. d^QA $145 2-Pc. (Ml/ Other Suitet included but not listed. Open an account—Budget Terms. 17 Sample Dining Room Suites Priced for Quick Selling $245 10-Pc. Mahogany Dining dj I QQ $198 10-Pc. Oak Dining Room ^ | Room Suite. Reduced to. I 07 Suite. Reduced to . y « • ' $750 Solid Walnut 10-Pc. Dining d»CQQ $195 Modern 7-Pc. Dinette Suite. I AT Room Suite. Reduced to. ^5070 Reduced to . y ' “O ^ $169 Genuine Walnut 10-Pc. Din- |A $179 Mahogany 10-Pc. Dining d* | i Q | ing Room Suite. Reduced to- y‘ Room Suite. Reduced to. y * ' ' Other Suites included but not listed. Open an account—Budget Terms. [Julius XsMU&fouryh ^furniture <Qot • I . *■■.909 F ST. H.Wfew- .»■..m,I