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BYRD EXPEDITION
GOES TO BOSTON;
FAREWELL QUIET
Leader Also Departs for
Week End Visit at
Winchester.
WEATHER BUREAU GETS
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES
Explorer Will Stay With Brother
and Mother, Rejoining
Ships Later.
In sharp contrast with the tumul
tuous reception given them at the
Washington Navy Yard Fridav after
noon on their return from Little
America, members of the second Byrd
Antarctic expedition received a very
quiet send-off yesterday afternoon as
they embarked for Quantico, Va., on
the first leg of a cruise to Boston,
where they will be feted next Thurs
day.
Except tor about 100 relatives and
friends and a few sightseers, there
was no one on hand to see the old
Bear of Oakland, 60-year-old former
Coast Guard ice patrol boat, shove
off from the Navy Yard wharf shortly
after 2 p.m. for Quantico, where the
6. S. Jacob Ruppert, big expedition
supply ship, has been tied up since
Thursday night.
Byrd Goes Aboard Bear.
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd went
aboard the Bear for a short time be
fore she left to discuss final arrange
ments for the cruise to Bostoii with
Capt. Robert A. J. Englisn, com
mander of the Bear, and Lieut. Comdr
George O. Noville, executive officer ol
the expedition.
After the Bear had cast off the
admiral left Washington by automo
bile for Winchester, Va.. where he
will spend the week end at the home
of his brother, Thomas Byrd with
his mother, Mrs. Richard E. Byrd, sr.,
and his wife and children. Bvrd will
rejoin the expedition somewhere near
Boston.
The Bear was open to visitors at
Quantico last night and was to leave
there for Boston at daybreak today.
The Ruppert, a faster ship, will re
main at Quantico all day today and
will be open to visitors. She is to
leave for Boston early tomorrow morn
ing, overtaking the Bear on the way.
No date has been set for the dis
banding of the expedition, but this
probably will take place within a
month or six weeks. After the Bos
ton visit the expedition will return to
New York, home port of the Jacob
Ruppert.
Some of the scientific records and
collections were put ashore in Wash
ington. chiefly the meteorological rec
ords, which were taken to the Weather
Bureau for study.
Livestock to Go Ashore.
Other material is to be unloaded at
Boston and the last of the cargo
probably will go ashore at New York.
The expedition’s two cows and the
yearling bull, Iceberg, born near the
edge of the ice barrier, are to go
ashore at Boston. The surviving pen
guins probably will be turned over to
the New York Zoological Park.
While in Washington yesterday, af
ter leaving the White House, where
he had spent the night as the Presi
dent’s house guest, Admiral Byrd
called on Secretary of the Navy Swan
son. It was a social visit, not for
business purposes, Byrd said, explain
ing: “I’ve been knowing the Secretary
all my life, ever since I W'as that
high.” He held his hand at knee
level.
He spent part of the morning at
the Willard Hotel, headquarters of
the expedition here, where he received
calls from a number of friends. After
the strenuous activity of the past few
days, the admiral said, he was look
ing forward to the quiet of a Mother’s
day with his mother and family in
his home State.
BOWERMAN INQUEST
TOMORROW MORNING
Woman Driver Had Been Con
fined in Hospital as Result of
Fatal Accident.
An inquest will be held tomorrow
at 11:30 a m. at the District Morgue
in the death of Mrs. Sarah G. Bower
man, book editor of The Star, who
was fatally Injured April 30 when
struck by an automobile at Ontario
and Columbia roads. She died in
Emergency Hospital the next evening
without regaining consciousness.
The automobile which struck her
was operated by Mrs. Mattie E.
Rogers, 41. of 1707 Columbia road.
The inquest was delayed because Mrs.
Rogers was confined to Garfield Hos
pital, suffering from hysteria as a
result of the accident.
Mrs. Bowerman was the wife of
Dr. George F. Bowerman. public
librarian of the District She had
left her home at 2852 Ontario road a
few minutes before the fatal accident.
RAIDERS SEIZE LIQUOR
AND ARREST FIVE MEN
Prospect Avenue House Entered
by Police Squad—Three Freed
After Questioning.
An echo of the old prohibition
days was heard in the seventh pre
cinct yesterday afternoon when a
police squad, headed by Capt.
Maurice Collins, raided a house in
the 3300 block of Prospect avenue,
seized a miniture bar. a quantity of
alleged untaxed liquor and arrested
five men, three of whom were later
released.
Those arrested were Samuel F.
Branzell, 51. who lived at the house,
and John L. Crause, 21, 1800 block
Ninth street. The former was
charged with sale and possession of
untaxed liquor and the latter with
possession. The other three men
were released after questioning.
The alleged bar was located in the
basement of an old house, and was
cached through a small gate and ^
“wden.
Health Outlay Held Low
Tuberculosis Situation Here Cited as
Result of Limited Budget.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
THE District of Columbia spends
approximately 80 cents a per
son a year for public health
activities.
The accepted standard, as
set up by the American Public Health
Association and other agencies, is ap
proximately $2 a person a year.
This missing $1.20 is the first great
hurdle in the road to the ideal in the(
mind of Dr. George C. Ruhland,
Washington’s new health officer, of
making the National Capital the
Nation's model health city. It would
go for the employment of more public
health nurses, the conducting of more
specific health campaigns and demon
strations, and the education of the
public. There is no mystical formula
for public health and there are no
miracle workers. It is all a matter of
applying certain tested and proven
principles—and the application re
quires time, effort and money.
Tuberculosis Toll High.
Take, for example, tuberculosis.
Washington, as cities go, is not un
healthy on the whole. But, in respect
to this one malady, it presents a bad
picture. There are 600 deaths a year
Among the colored population the rate
is approximately 300 per 100,000. The
white death rate is about one-sixth of
that. It is a fact that the white race
is less susceptible to tuberculosis than
the colored, on the whole, and condi
tions of living are better. But for the
country as a whole the ratio is only
about three to one. In the neighboring
city of Baltimore, where the colored
population lives under similar condi
tions, the tuberculosis rate is ap
preciably lower.
Such is the picture confronting Dr.
Ruhland today.
Why is Washington's colored popu
lation so ravaged by tuberculosis and
what can be done about it?
Upon the answer to these two
questions depends the answer to many
others.
First, it may be taken for granted
that Washington hasn’t a population
supernormally susceptible to the dread
malady.
Again, statistics give no basis for
the assumption of some hidden physi
! cal condition here—climate or lack
j of sanitation—by which the discrep
! ancy can be explained. The only an
swer is that tuberculosis here is be
ing allowed to get a better foothold
than in other cities through the
i failure of preventive measures.
Cause Well Known.
Tuberculosis happens to be a dis
ease of which the cause is well known.
It is due to infection by the tubercle
bacillus. Nearly everybody gets some
of these bacilli in their systems at
one time or another. Some dispose
of them naturally, without any
treatment whatsoever, and never
know they have been infected.
Throughout childhood, in the great
majority of cases, the disease may
persist without doing much damage.
The system may encase the bacilli
with walls of calcium and prevent
them from doing any further damage.
They do not ordinarily attack the
lungs.
Then comes adolescence. Something
happens in the physiological system
that makes the germs much more
virulent. If they haven't been dis
posed of before they start to cause
lesions in the lungs. Right here, at
the threshold of adult life, is the time
to strike—and strike hard. This is the
excuse for Dr. Ruhland's first major
demonstration of public health meth
ods in Washington.
There is no wand-waving trick about
it. The disease cannot be cleared up
by some far-reaching but inexpensive
sanitary measure—such as screening
houses in campaigns against malaria.
The only way is patiently to locate
every adolescent case and bring it
immediately under proper medical
care, to find out the source of in
fection, and to prevent the infection
from spreading further. This is the
objective of the great anti-tuber
culosis drive Dr. Ruhland ha*
launched in the District high schools,
both public and parochial.
Individual Study Needed.
The campaign deals with Indi
viduals. It demands that each pupil,
right at the dangerous age. be ex
amined individually. There are three
steps. First is the tuberculin test—
relatively simple and easy to admin
ister. It shows whether the indi
vidual ever has had tuberculosis, and
nothing else. The case may long
since have been closed or it may be
very active.
For those who show a positive re
action the next step is the X-ray pic
ture of the lungs. This, taken at
high school age, shows whether the
bacilli actually have invaded the
lungs. It does not show ordinarily
whether the case is active or closed.
Where the lung invasion is shown,
further tests must be undertaken to
show the status of the malady. But
even this is but part of the story.
Once the victim has been located
trained workers must trace down the
source of the infection, determine
whether others in the same family
are infected and decide what pre
ventive measures are necessary. It
is all a matter of intensive, thorough
attention to details.
But it is the only way In which
tuberculosis can be materially re
duced. It requires time, work and
money. The results are certain.
They have been demonstrated over
and over again. Scores of lives would
be saved every year.
Other Diseases Similar.
There is much the same story to
be told in connection with most of
the other bacterial diseases. They
can, for the most part, be brought
under control. The death rate can
be greatly reduced. But It is a mat
ter of patient, thoroughgoing work
with individuals. The public health
is, in a sense, a misnomer. It is the
health of the' individuals making up
the public. The City of Washington
hasn’t any lungs to be Invaded by
the tubercle bacillus. It hasn’t any
heart to be weakened by diphtheria
or scarlet fever. A doctor can’t shoot
an injection of serum into the arm
of the old gentleman pictured in Mr.
Berryman’s cartoons as “the District
of Columbia.” He never has been
located.
Upon the clear realization of this
apparently commonsense distinction—
and yet very few actually make it—
depends the success of the public
health movement. It depends on the
natient, thorough searching out of the
sources of disease among Individuals.
It is just this upon which Dr. Ruh
land’s program rests.
But says the new health officer,
this is only part of the story Bac
terial diseases can be attacked, in a
sense, en masse. They have the same
‘cause and run about the same course
DR. GEORGE C. RUHLAND.
—Star StaS Photo.
in everybody. An even greater public
health problem is that of dealing
with maladies which are entirely in
dividual—diseases of the heart, kid
neys, stomach, etc. One can't conduct
a survey of these and apply o com
mon remedy. They are due to in
dividual weaknesses and individual
ways of life. Here the problem rests
upon the arousing of health conscious
ness so that ' that individual will
change ways of life and consult com
petent physicians. It is a matter of |
education.
Other Campaigns Successful.
There is no question but that the j
health status of Washington can be 1
bettered, he says, end the death rate
brought down materially. This has
been done in other cities where condi
tions, to start with, were worse. But
the sovereign requirements are time,
work and money.
Is public health worth the cost?
Is it a function of the public to be !
concerned with the health of the in- ]
dividual? ,
Dr. Ruhland insists that both ques
tions. especially in Washington, should !
be answered In the affirmative.
In the first place, bacteria draw no I
class or color lines. So long as there I
is a single active case of tuberculosis I
the infection is likely to spread to J
anybody else who comes in contact j
with it. One must be one’s brrther's !
keeper to prevent the germ in the j
brother's lungs from getting into one's
own lungs. It is a matter of self j
protection, not only for Washington |
but for the Nation at large because j
of the great numbers of visitors who ;
come here.
In the second place, it is a matter
of cold dollars and cents.
Why does the public educate chil
dren? Not. says Dr. Ruhland, because
of pure sentimentality. Money is ex
pended for public schools because it
is a good investment. Every man or
woman who has reached the produc
tive stage of life is a public asset.
One may even calculate the value—
or the cost of production of this public
asset. It comes out about $18,000.
Multiply that by the number of chil
dren in the District schools. The
portion of the required $2 per person
needed to meet public health require
ments for child welfare might be con
sidered as an insurance premium on
this vast investment.
The District is under-insured.
8 DISTRICT WORKERS
TO GET CASH PRIZES
City Refuse Division Men to Re
ceive Awards of Twentieth
Century Club.
For meritorious service in the huge
task of keeping the District clean
eight employes of the City Refuse
Division will be awarded cash prizes
Monday at 10 a.m. by the Twentieth
Century Club.
Commissioners Hazen and Sultan
will be on hand at this annual event
to present the prizes to the men at
a meeting in the board room of the
District Building.
Julius Jackson and James Willis
were first and second place winners
in the Garbage Division; Clifford
Lucas and James Hunter, Ashes
Division; Arthur Hudson and Wesley
Powers in the Trash Division, and
Ernest Avery and John Gardner in
the Street Cleaning Division. First
prize winners wiU receive $5 and sec
ond place selections 83.
Inspections of the work of the
divisions were made by the following
members of the Twentieth Century
Club: Mrs. W. W. Husband, Mrs.
Richard Fay Jackson, Mrs. Jerry Mat
thews, Mrs. L. F. Schmeckebier, Mrs
Ryland C. Bryant, Mrs. Geoffrey
Creyke, Mrs. Arthur J. Seaton, Mrs.
A. W. Spanhoofd, Mrs. Hersey Munroe,
Mrs. Robert Ferguson, Mrs. F. L.
Molby and Mrs. L. H. Macomber.
John Blake Gordon, District sani
tary engineer, and Thomas L. Costi
gan, supervisor of city refuse, aided
the club in its inspection program.
INQUEST IS CALLED
Girl Said to Have Died After
Illegal Operation.
An inquest will be held at the Dis
trict Morgue at noon tomorrow into
the death of Evelyn Hindman, 22,
1317 Fairmont street, who died fol
lowing an illegal operation, according
to members of the police homicide
squad.
The investigation revealed, accord
ing to the police report, that the oper
ation was performed at another house
in the 1300 block of Fairmont street
on May 1, where the woman remained
until May • when she was removed to
her home. She was taken to Emer
gency Hospital May 8, where she died
Friday.
COOPER PREPARED
10 DEFEND SELF IN
TRIAL TOMORROW
Commercial National Bank
Fund Misapplication Is
Charged.
CONTINUANCE OF CASE
SEVERAL DAYS LIKELY
Justice Department Accountant
Prosecution Witness Is Busy
in Philadelphia.
Prepared to act as his own attorney
if need should arise. Col. Wade H.
Cooper, former president of the Com
mercial National Bank, is scheduled
for trial in District Supreme Court
tomorrow on charges of misapplying
funds of that institution.
Col. Cooper yesterday formally
entered an appearance as counsel in
his own case, although it is expected
he will be represented by Attorney
William E. Leahy. Questioned as to
why he had entered an appearance as
counsel in the ca3e. Col. Cooper said
he was merely ••exercising a constitu
tional privilege” to act as his own at
torney if he should desire to do so.
The former bank president has
been a member of the bar here for 25
years, but has never tried a case.
Protests to Adkins.
Last week he protested vigorously
to Justice Jesse C. Adkins on learning
the Pennsylvania Railroad case had
been called ahead of his own trial.
After he had attempted to file a pro
test with the House Crime Committee,
it developed that the continuance was
ordered when his own attorney noti
fied the Government he was tied up
in another case and could not be
present.
A possibility that the trial will be
continued until Tuesday or Wednes
day was seen last night with the an
nouncement that one of the prosecu
tion’s expert witnesses is out of town.
Assistant United States Attorney
Irvin Goldstein, who will try the
case for the Government, said Samuel
c. Simon, Department of Justice ac
countant who made an examination
of the bank's records, is engaged in a
trial in Philadelphia. Goldstein said
he will ask Justice Adkins for a con
tinuance until Simon can be present,
probably until Tuesday or Wednesday.
Col. Cooper said he knew nothing
of the proposed continuance, but that
it seemed to him the Government’*
witness had been “placed in Phila
delphia every time the case has been
called for the past two months.”
The indictment charges that Cooper,
while serving as president of both the
Commercial National Bank and the
Continental Trust Co., misapplied
$450,000 of the bank’s funds in an
effort to give the trust company large
credits to which it was not entitled.
He attacked the indictment on sev
eral grounds, one of which was that
the charge was not brought against
him in good faith, but only to dis
credit him in civil litigation with the
Treasury Department. Col. Cooper
charged the controller of the cur
rency informed the Court of Appeals
he was under indictment in an effort
to impede his suit to regain control
of the United States Savings Bank.
He also contended the indictment
was so vague he could not adequately
prepare a defense and that there was
no showing before the grand jury that
he had wilfully misapplied the bank's
funds.
Dividends Held Unearned.
The Government contends the al
legedly misapplied funds were used
to pay unearned dividends on the cap
ital stock of the trust company.
In overruling Col. Cooper’s demur
rer attacking the indictment, District
Supreme Court Justice Oscar R. Luhr
ing said:
“The conduct described in the in
dictment meant more than that the
defendant used bad Judgment with
respect to these transactions. It was
obviously improper and unjustifiable
use of the moneys, funds and credit
of the bank, and there was the like
lihood and probability that the bank
would lose. This conduct is de
nounced by law as a willful misap
plication.”
SENATE D. C. COMMITTEE
WILL CONVENE TUESDAY
Measures Considered Probable
Will Include One on Util
ities’ Appeals.
The Senate District Committee is
scheduled to meet at 3 o’clock Tues
day afternoon to consider several
measures, which probably will in
clude the bill passed by the House to
establish a new procedure for appeal
ing to the courts from decisions of
the Public Utilities Commission.
It is likely the proposed new di
vorce law for the District, recently
approved by a subcommittee, will come
up for action. The measure would
broaden the grounds for an absolute
divorce, which at present can be
granted only on the grounds of in
fidelity.
It is possible the committee also
may discuss whether to proceed with
consideration of local airport legisla
tion at this session.
FAVORED TO GET
RECREATION POST
Tam Deering Believed to Be
Choice of Committee Meet
ing Tomorrow.
NEW DIRECTOR TO UNIFY
FACILITIES OF DISTRICT
Information Service in Hind of
• I
Group to Assist Sport
Enthusiasts.
Strong Indications point to the se
lection of Tam Deering of Cincin
nati. Ohio, as the District’s super
visor of recreation, under the new
unified set-up.
The Star learned this yesterday,
when It became known that the Dis
trict of Columbia Recreation Com
mittee, headed by Frederic A. Delano,
will meet tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in
Commissioner Allen’s office at the Dis
trict Building. It is expected that
after many delays and personal inter
viewing of some of the applicants for
the post, the committee will be pre
pared to reach a final decision.
Thomas S. Settle, secretary of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, who has been acting as
temporary secretary of the Recreation
Committee, has been receiving appli
cations for some weeks past. Recently,
the committee met and selected five
names, considered the best men in
recreation in the whole country.
Those Being Considered.
The five under consideration were:
C. E. Brewer of Detroit, Mich.; R.
W. Robertson of Oakland. Calif; Tam
Deering of Cincinnati, Ohio; W. C.
Batchelor of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Ar
thur T. Noren. in charge of the train
ing school for the National Recrea
tion Association in New York City.
Some of these men came to Washing
ton for personal interviews with mem
bers of the Delano Committee, but
others indicated that they were satis
fied with their present posts.
The new director of recreation will
be expected to unify recreational fa
cilities here, now scattered between
the National Capital Parks, the Wel
fare and Recreational Association of
Public Buildings and Grounds, Inc.;
the Community Center Department
of the Public Schools and the Play
ground Department of the District
Government. He will set up an in
formation service, so that Washing
tonians will have a ready reference
as to Just where to go to secure vari
ous kinds of sports in which they may
be interested.
The new recreation set-up will be
for one year, and during this time
the Washington situation will be a
laboratory. Those in close touch with
the Recreation Committee promise
that, after the National Capital has
tried it, the city will not want to go
back to the lack of system now ob
taining. Details of just who is to pay
for the new organization are obscure
at this time, although it is expected
that the National Capital Parks will
bear the brunt of the expense.
Staff is Needed.
Officials are hopeful Federal emer
gency relief workers can be taken off
the unemployment rolls to supply a
staff to the director of recreation.
The director will work out a pro
gram in which the three major agen
cies handling recreation here will co
operate. Albert Clyde-Burton, as
sistant superintendent of the National
Capital Parks, who has handled de
tails of recreational activities in the
parks, including sports, getting ready
for parades and pageants and other
out-of-door events; Miss Sibyl Baker,
director of playgrounds for the Dis
trict Government, and Mrs. Elizabeth
K. Peeples, director of the Community
Center Department, are expected to
play a leading part in the new sched
ule. In keeping with the New Deal's
policy for the increased use of leisure
time, the recreational facilities here
will be accentuated and additional
opportunities created as funds become
available.
Delano, who is chairman of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, which had the National
Recreation Association make a report
on recreation here, is the presiding
officer of the District Recreation
Committee. He is without a vote.
The voting members are: Henry I.
Quinn, outstanding attorney and
member of the Board of Education;
C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
of the National Capital Parks, and
Commissioner Allen.
ENOCH A. CHASE SUED
Photographer Asks $15,000 Dam
ages for Alleged Assault.
Enoch A. Chase, prominent local
attorney, was sued for $15,000 in Dis
trict Supreme Court yesterday by
Joseph Tenschert, commercial pho
tographer, who says he was assaulted
by Chase March 3 In the Mayflower
Hotel.
Tenschert, through Attorneys Clif
ford A. Sheldon and Prank A. Hamp
ton. says he was knocked down and
kicked in the chest by the attorney.
His suit did not set forth any details.
$1,139,682 in Insurance Saved
For Families on Relief Rolls
Insurance policies valued at $1,139,
682.92 were preserved for families on
the District relief list during the past
year through adjustments made by
relief officials, Elwood Street, director
of welfare, announced yesterday.
In 66 cases the homes of relief
clients were saved from foreclosure
proceedings through use of cash made
available in adjustment of policies for
payment of realty and tax bills that
were in arrears.
This phase of the work of the in
surance division of the District public
assistance division was stressed by
Street as a demonstration of the value
of the Insurance service. He reported
the Building and Loan Associations In
—
all Instances had co-operated with the
District in the adjustment work.
In all, the insurance agency handled
15,148 policies, which had a lace value
ol $2,733,296.90, with annual premiums
ol $145,815.56. Alter lapse and “un
necessary” policies were eliminated
through the work ol the bureau there
remained 6,326, having a lace value
ol $1,139,682.92, with annual premiums
ol $39,820.
This showed an annual saving in
premiums ol $105,995. Further Street
reported a total ol $72,472.61 was made
available to the rellel clients through
complete adjustment ol 2,723 cases.
He presented figures to show that
while the insurance protection was re
duced through adjustment by about
50 per cent the annual cost ol premi
ums was reduced by nearly”# per cent.
Fireman Rescues Climber, 10,
Grown Dizzy Over Own Genius
Donald Ervin with Fireman E. E. Davis of No. 20 engine who rescued
the boy from a tree. —Star Staff Photo.
TEN-YEAR-OLD Dcnald Ervin, 1
who is something of a tree
climber in Spring Valley, made
the mistake of tackling a
Cathedral Heights tree yes ter- j
day. and it took the combined efforts
of the Police and Fire Departments to
get him down.
It seems that Donald, who lives at
4943 Hillbrook lane, went for a hike
yesterday afternoon with 7-year-old i
Stanley Harris, jr., son of the m°o- \
ager of the Washington base ^ 1
team.
They were strolling along in the
3900 block of Fulton street when Don
ald spied an immense oak, which had
once sheltered a tree house for the
kids in the neighborhood.
“Say,” Donald remarked to young
Bucky. “that’s a keen climbing tree.
Watch me go up it.”
Bucky. whose interests incline more
toward base ball than tree climbing,
watched.
Drawing on all his Spring Valley
experience. Donald clambered up the
tree, but in a crotch some 30 feet
above the ground he met his Water
loo. He had no desire to go higher
and he couldn’t get down. Just to
look down made him dizzy.
In this dilemma he called down to
Bucky for help, and the latter flagged
down Policeman N. E. Ward of the
seventh precinct who happened to be
driving by in a scout car.
Officer Ward took the situation in
at a glance and decided it was no
job for a policeman. So he called
the Fire Department and Pvt. E. E.
Davis was dispatched to the scene
from No. 20 engine house. The fire
man climbed the tree, tied a rope
around Donald’s waist and lowered
him to the ground.
Donald was a little nervous but
sought to conceal the fact from a
number of Cathedral Heights young
sters who had gathered around.
“Well," he remarked in his most
casual manner. “I got up it anyhow.”
“Shucks.” replied one of the youth
ful onlookers. “That's nothing. We
climb all over that tree every day.”
TUBERCULIN TEST
SCHEDULE ISSUED
Students of Local High
Schools Will Be Examined
During Week.
With several hundred pupils at
McKinley and Eastern High Schools
already tested with tuberculin in the
Health Department’s anti-tuberculosis
campaign, the Medical Committee
working under direction of Dr. George
C. Ruhland. District health officer,
yesterday announced plans for sched
uled examination in other high
schools this week.
On Wednesday at 10 a m. senior
students at Central, Western and
Roosevelt High Schools are to meet
the volunteer physicians and official
nurses for the tuberculin test.
Other Tests Scheduled.
The examination of the Dunbar
and Armstrong High students will be
given tomorrow morning and those at
Cardozo High will be examined Tues
day morning.
Also on Tuesday, physicians plan
to examine the students of the Ab
bott Vocational High School and a
corps of doctors will be assigned to
conduct experimentations in the fol
lowing parochial high schools:
Gonzaga, Twenty-seventh and I
streets, Father Clarke the superior;
Holy Trinity, Thirty-fifth and O,
Sister M. Austin in charge; Immacu
late Seminary, Wisconsin and Ne
brasKa avenues, sister superior, ixotre
Dame Academy, North Capitol and
K streets, sister superior; St. Cecelia’s
Academy, 601 East Capitol street.
Sister M. Agnesia, superior; St. Pat
rick's Academy, 924 G street, sister
superior; St. John’s Collese, 1225
Vermont avenue. Brother Dorotheus,
the principal; Holy Cross Academy,
2935 Upshur street, Sister M. Eliza
beth, superior; Immaculate Concep
tion, 1554 Eighth street, Sister M.
Louise, superior.
Machine Does the Work.
Officials expect the portable X-ray
machine to be used in the campaign
will arrive by the end of the week
when the results of the test will be
known to physicians. The Medical
Society, the Medico-Chirurgical So
ciety end the Tuberculosis Association
are working with the health depart
ment in this campaign, the funds for
which are being supplied by the
Tuberculosis Association.
SAILORS REMEMBER DAY
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11 VP).—
Several hundred mothers in scattered
parts of the Nation will receive greet
ings tomorrow from their sailor sons
far out in the Pacific on fleet maneu
vers. Weeks ago the young sailors
marched into a stationery store here
and purchased greeting cards which
they arranged with the proprietor to
mall for them a few days before
Mother’s day. r
SYSTEM TO START
Civil Service Board Sends
Instructions for Try
Out This Week.
The Civil Service Commission yes
terday sent out to Government estab
lishments Instructions for applying
the new efficiency rating system which
gets its initial try-out when the an- ;
nual ratings are made May 15.
The new system does away with
the fine numerical distinctions of
the old.
In sending out the instructions,
the commission said:
“The present plan of recording the
efficiency of employes, like any other
plan having the same purpose, re
quires intelligent action, considered
judgment and mutual co-operation
on the part of rating officers, re
viewing officers and boards of review.
The plan affords a convenient uni
form vehicle for recording these judg
ments. but the usefulness of the plan
and the value of the efficiency ratings
when made depend upon the degree
to which all the rating officials co
operate before, during and after the
rating process in acquiring and ap
plying a correct understanding of the
rating tasks and responsibility and a
common understanding of rating
standings and the terms in which
these standards are expressed.
“Under the new rating scheme, em
ployes are graded excellent, very good,
good, fair and unsatisfactory. When
employes have a rating of excellent,
very good or good they are eligible
for pay increases. When unsatisfac
tory they are not to be continued
longer in the work upon which en
gaged, but assigned to duties more
nearly commensurate with their abil
ity. The new efficiency rating scale
was devised after a lengthy study
by personnel officers throughout the
Government in co-operation with the
Civil Service Commission.”
ILLEGITIMATE CHILD
MEASURE IS VETOED
Gov. Lehman Holds Law Would
Permit False Entry on
Birth Certificates.
By the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y„ May 11.—Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman vetoed today a
bill designed to assure names for il
legitimate children at birth.
Approved by the 1935 Legislature,
the measure proposed to require an
unmarried mother or attending physi
cian to supply on the birth certifi
cate at least two given names for a
child. She would not have been per
mitted, however, to name the child
after any living man.
The Governor said the law “would
permit a false entry upon a birth
certificate.” 9
CADET COMPANIES
TO VIE TOMORROW
Five High Schools Repre
sented by 29 Units at
Stadium.
ROPER TO REVIEW GROUP
AND PRESENT MEDAL
Brigade Band of 209 Pieces Will
Head Formation Passing Before
Commerce Secretary.
The forty-eighth annual cadet
competitive drill of the five white
Washington high schools will be held
tomorrow and Tuesday with 29 com
panies vieing for honors.
Promptly at 8 a.m. Company L of
Roosevelt High School, commanded
by Capt. William Gerhardt, will march
onto the field at Griffith Stadium, to
be followed at half-hour intervals by
other units throughout the two days
of the drill.
Each year the drill, a colorful af
fair, draws large crowds, and arrange
ments have been made to care for a
considerable throng Monday and a
still larger crowd Tuesday. There will
be no general holiday declared in the
high schools until Tuesday, when
classes will close at noon to permit
all students to witness the final cere
monies and award of prizes.
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C.
Roper will review the brigade at
5 p.m. Tuesday and present the
coveted Allison Nailor diamond
studded medal to the captain of the
winning company.
209 Piece* in Band.
At the head of the cadets when they
pass before the Commerce Secretary
will be the brigade band of 209 pieces,
the largest student military band in
the country. It is composed of the
five regimental bands.
In order to give fellow students op
portunity to see at least one company
from their own school perform, five
representative companies from each
of the five high schools have been
held out of the scheduled order of
the drill and will go through their
maneuvers, beginning at 2 pm.
Tuesday.
In the order of their appearance on
the field, the selected outfits are:
Company A, Central, commanded by
Capt. Lemuel A. Fraser; Company M,
Western, Capt. Joe Loughran; Com
pany E. Roosevelt, Capt. Walter
Bastion; Company A, McKinley, Capt.
Richard P. Hilder, and Company G,
Eastern, Capt. Bowen Shaw. They
were selected at random and do not
necessarily represent the best com
pany of each school.
The last of the other companies is
expected to finish its drill at 11:30
a m. Tuesday, when the distinguished
non-commissioned officer competition
will begin, with a sergeant from each
school taking part. The contestants,
already selected as the outstanding
non-commissioned officer in their
schools, are: Sergts. Calvin C. Davis,
Central; John M. Evans. McKinley;
Harold LeRoy. Eastern: Benjamin F.
Spiller, Western, and a student from
Roosevelt whose name has not yet
been furnished. The winner will re
ceive a gold medal.
Medals for Rifle Team.
In recognition of winning second
place recently in its class in the
William Randolph Hearst Trophy
matches, the brigade rifle team will
receive medals. The local cadets re
ceived a similar distinction three
years ago. The team members are
Col. Don L. Andrus, Western; Maj.
Willard Jensen. McKinley: Capt. Jul
ian G. Griggs, Central; Second Lieut.
Thomas Riley, Central, and Sergt.
Jack Dove, McKinley.
Drill judges will be Capt. Carleton
Smith, First Lieut. John G. Hill and
First Lieut. Harold E. Smyser, all in
fantry officers on duty at the War
Department.
Each man in the company they se
lect as the winner will receive a red
ribbon, while purple ribbons will go
for second honors, and white for
third. Sabers donated by the District
Department of the American Legion
will be presented to the officers of
the winning company. School system
officials are expected to turn out in
force to witness the final ceremonies.
Order of Appearance.
The order in which each company
will take the field, together with the
names of the captains, follows:
Monday Morning.
Roosevelt, 5th Regiment, Co. L,
William Gerhardt; Co. G, Carroll
Mallonee: Co. M. Robert Milligan and
Co. I. William Marlow. Eastern, 3d
Regiment. Co. A, John Apergis; Co.
B. Richard Nichol; Co. D, Edward F.
Steagall; Co. C. Charles W. Stuart
and Co. F, Harry Rose abloom.
Monday Afternoon.
Central, 1st Regiment, Co. F, Julian
G. Griggs; Co. B, Howard J. Stafford;
Co. C, Marvin F. Fahrenbach; Co. E,
Fulton H. Kupsaw and Co. D, Harold
E. Franke. McKinley, 2nd Regiment,
Co. E, Joseph Draley; Co. B, Harry
L. Hamilton; Co. C, Edward G. Pink
ham and Co. D, Harry D. Anspon.
Tuesday Morning.
Western, 4th Regiment, Co. K, Rob
ert Drury: Co. F, Joe Crowder; Co. E,
Richard De Saussure; Co. G, William
Bonvillian; Co. L, Morrison Ruther
ford and Co. H, Jone Hanley.
Tuesday Afternoon.
Selected companies from each
school.
CLERIC IS ABSOLVED
Rev. S. I<. Michaux Is Freed in
$50,000 Assault Case.
A verdict In favor of Rev. Solomon
Lk’htfoot Michaux was returned yes
terday by a District Supreme Court
jury, which heard testimony in a $50,
000 assault suit brought against the
colored preacher by W. Herman Lu
cas. 1401 Irving street northeast.
Lucas cUflmed he was assaulted by
the preacher last February 6 while at
tending a meeting of depositors of the
Industrial Savings Bank. Lucas told
the Jury he was struck after object
ing to a lengthy prayer by Michaux.
The plaintiff said he though the de
positors should be heard instead of
the preacher. >