Watsons Quartet and Ja
coby Players in Lead for
Championship.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November 9.—Despite
a 900-point penalty imposed upon
their opponents for lateness, Harold
S. Vanderbilt's second seeded team
trailed Louis H. Watson’s quartet by
1,370 points at the end of the first
half of their 64-hand semi-final match
for the Vanderbilt Cup team-of-four
contract bridge championship.
Oswald Jacoby’s four aces, defend
ing champions, led H. Huber Bosco
witz's four by 1,510 points.
Watson and two of his teammates,
Samuel Fry. jr„ and Edward Hymes,
Jr., were 90 minutes late for the
afternoon session because they went
to see their alma mater, Columbia
University, play foot ball against Syra
cuse University. M. D. Mater, fourth
member, did not attend.
Capt. Alfred M. Gruenther, tourna
ment director, penalized the Watson
team 10 points for each minute of
delay.
Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard
Schenken and Michael T. Gottlieb
picked up 1,000 points on the last
two hands of their match with Charles
Goren of Philadelphia, Charles Loch
ridge, John Rau and A. Mitchell
Barnes. Capt. Boscowitz does not play
afternoons.
Vanderbilt, Waldemar Von Zedtwitz,
Theodore Lightner and B. Jay Becker
trailed by only 30 points at the end
of the first 16 boards.
The finals of the tournament will
be played Monday and Tuesday.
Ifr Safety t4§
(Continued From First Page.)
tribution of the pledge cards are John
T. Cuthbert, chief cleric of the Office
of Naval Operations; Edward Henkel,
chief clerk of the Bureau of Naviga
tion, and Franklin J. Schuyler, reg
istrar of the bureau; Harry M. Klee,
chief clerk of the Bureau of Ordnance;
Augustus C. Wrenn, chief clerk of the
Bureau of Engineering; John M. May.
jr„ chief clerk of the Bureau of
Aeronautics; Henry C. Brunner, chief
clerk of the Bureau of Construction
and Repair; Edward W. Whltehorne,
chief clerk of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks; Clyde Reed, special as
sistant to the paymaster general, and
Kirk Holmes, civilian assistant, both
of whom are on duty in the Bureau
of Supplies and Accounts, and Wil
liam S. Douglass, chief clerk In the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, com
mandant of the Marine Corps, like
wise is lending his active support, as
are Charles A. Ketcham. his special
assistant; James W. Burrows, special
assistant In the Quartermaster’s De
partment: Charles L. Snell, chief clerk
in the adjutant and inspector’s de
partment, and Samul F. Birthright,
chief clerk in the paymaster’s depart
ment.
Admiral William H. Standley, chief
of naval operations—the highest rank
ing offl--r In the United States Navy—
and 3 assistant. Rear Admiral Joseph
K. Taussig, led th? list of officers In
signing the pledge cards, on which
Individual motorists pledge them
selves to strict compliance with 12
primar, safe-driving rules.
Assisting in the Navy's push for
safer driving are Rear Admiral Adol
phus Andrews, chief of the Bureau of
Navigation: Rear Admiral Harold R.
Stark, chief of the Bureau of Ord
nance; Rear Admiral Hsu-old G.
Bowen, chief of the Bureau of Engi
neering: Rear Admiral Ernest J. King,
chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics;
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chief
of the Bureau of Construction and
Repair; Rear Admiral Norman M.
Smith, chief of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks; Rear Admiral Charles
Conard, chief of the Bureau of Sup
plies and Accounts, Rear Admiral
Perceval S. Rossiter, Surgeon General
of the Navy and chief of the Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery, and Rear
Admiral Claude C. Bloch, Judge Advo
cate General of the Navy.
Need of More Police.
One high-ranking naval official,
who asked that his name be withheld,
declared that one of Washington's
greatest traffic needs is about three
times as many policemen as the city
now has. Figuring, for the sake of
convenience, the cost of a policeman
at $2,500, he asserted that 100 addi
tional officers would co6t only $250,000.
This amount he described as "a mere
drop in the bucket.” contending that
the city would be saved many times
that sum in fewer deaths, accidents,
injuries, mental suffering and prop
erty loss reductions.
The mere presence of a man in uni
form on the street would deter many
reckless drivers, who now roam the
streets with abandon, because the
National Capital lacks complete and
adequate police protection, this naval
official asserted.
The Navy Department has long
had its own safety-driving campaign
among its own chauffeurs—rewarding
those that are worthy and censuring,
Two Iguanas Join Zoo Colony Here
The above iguana, tropical American giant lizard, has just arrived here with another to join the already
large assemoly of reptiles at the National Zoological Park. The frightful creatures took little time to make them
selves appear at home In the specially heated quarters of the Zoo s reptile house. —Star Staff Photo.
with the loss of their jobs if need be,
those that are reckless. There are
safety engineers at all the navy yards,
including the Washington Navy Yard,
where Lieut. Comdr. Walter R. Jones
is assigned to that duty, as well as
being in command of President Roose
velt’s craft, the Sequoia.
Assigned to the Navy Department
are half a dozen official cars, one to
the medical officer at the Capitol,
half a dozen at the Navy Yard, four
to the dispensary at the Navy Depart
ment, one at the Naval Observatory,
two to the Naval Air Station at Ana
costla and one to the Naval Research
Laboratory at Bellevue D. C. There
are some 75 trucks at the Washington
Na-'y Yard, officials said.
In addition, the Federal Govern
ment provides parking space at the
rear of the Navy and Munitions Build
ings for hundreds of automobiles, at
testing the great numbers that travel
to and from work by private machines.
They come from Maryland and Vir
ginia, as well as the District, so that,
in Joining the Star safety drive, the
movement is being carried far beyond
th. physical boundaries of the city.
Rich Results Expected.
omciais at tne wavy Department
believe that the warfare against death,
injury and property damage will bear
rich results in making the streets of
Washington much safer to drive in.
<n joining the campaign, the Navy
Department Is shoulder to shoulder
with the Post Office and Commerce
Departments, a number of inde
pendent offices of the Government,
the Naval Reserves and the District
National Guard, as well as the Port
Myer, Va., garrison and other public
and private groups.
The first District public night school
to affiliate with The Star Safety Coun
cil is completing the signing of safe
driving pledge cards, according to a
report received by the council. This
school, the McKinley Evening High
School, has returned nearly 1.000
signed pledge cards to The Star
Council.
"All returns are not yet in, and I
am hoping that we will go above the
1,000 mark,” reported L. I. McDougle,
teacher of civics at the school, who
is handling details of the safety drive
there. "This will make McKinley
E-vning High School practically 100
per cent enrolled."
McKinley Evening High School held
a "safety assembly” last Monday for
discussion of the safety campaign and
the enrollment of teachers and stu
dents. The assembly. Mr. McDougle
reported, "went off in the very best
style and was an outstanding success
in every way.”
"The interest in evidence there and
in the class rooms afterward,” he re
ported, "far exceeded our expectations
and I hope this effort will not be for
gotten by those present. We plan to
carry the campaign forward by vari
ous means, chiefly through publicity
in our night school paper, the Owl.
The Pall edition of this newspaper
will be out about Thanksgiving and
will carry an account of the drive.”
The Mount Pleasant Citizens' Asso
ciation joined the safety campaign as
a unit at a meeting last night. At
the request of the association, -The
Star Safety Council provided 100 safe
driving pledge cards for the member
ship of the association.
Church Groups fcniist.
Wholehearted support of the safety
campaign has been voted by two Bap
tist church organizations, both of
which are pushing the enrollment of
safe drivers and the general purposes
of the campaign.
The Baptist Ministers’ Conference,
under the leadership of Rev. W. H.
Jernagin. president, is working among
the colored Baptist clergymen of the
city in the interest of safety. The
conference Indorsed the campaign in
the following resolution, unanimously*
adopted:
•'Whereas, The Washington Eve
ning Star is now carrying on a safety
campaign to lessen the accidents and
deaths in our city by automobiles:
Therefore, be it resolved, That the
Baptist Ministers’ Conference Indorse
this campaign and call upon each
member of the conference with auto
mobiles to sign the pledge.”
The campaign also has the indorse
ment and support of the Baptist
young people of the District of Co
lumbia. The following resolution
was adopted unanimously by leaders
of the young people’s groups at a
convention meeting during the past
week in the Mount Carmel Baptist
Church:
‘‘Whereas, The Washington Eve
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Special pledge cards were provided
for the members of both organizations
and enrollments In both groups have
! practically been completed.
Additional Safety Council
news will be Jound on Page
A-12.
McCarl
(Continued Prom First Page.)
control systems, and the installation
of budget systems. In 1931 he be
came president of the Controllers’
Institute of America. Among the
commercial Institutions in which he
installed budget systems was Filene's
Department Store in Boston.
He is 40 years old.
McCarl Thom in P. T. A.
If the controller of the Tennessee
Valley Authority should turn out to be
the successor to McCarl, it would be
rather a coincidence. For McCarl has
“mixed it up’’ with the T. V. A.
Under the law, the controller gen
eral was directed to make a check on
the T. V. A. expenditures and submit
regular reports to the President,
Congress and the T. V. A. A report
of the controller general last Spring
caused a lot of discussion about T. V.
A. and Its methods of doing business.
The matter was fought out before the
House Military Affairs Committee
which was holding hearings on the hill
to extend the authority of the T.
V. A.
Generally speaking, the T. V. A. of
ficials insisted that they should have 1
more latitude in doing business than
is permitted under the regular depart- ■
ments—that the corporation was
clothed with the flexibility a pri
vate enterprise and could carry on
free of certain restraints. One of the
matters of which the report of the
auditors of the controller general
i
complained was that the T. V. A. had
not insisted on purchasing all ma
terials through competitive bidding,
but had used selective bids. McCarl
Is « stickler for competitive bids for
purchases by the Government. In the
end. Congress amended the T. V. A.
law. granting the T. V. A. greater
powers and more flexibility.
McCarl is a Nebraskan. At one
time he was secretary to Senator
Norris, the father of the T. V. A. act,
if it has one, although the plan for
the T. V. A. was one of the first ad
vanced by President Roosevelt, even
before he took office. Before his ap
pointment as controller general by the
late President Harding in 1921, McCarl
was secretary to the Republican Con
gressional Committee.
Rated Presidential Timber.
He has locked horns so often with
New Dealers and has been hailed as
a defender of the Treasury to such an
extent that his name crept Into the
discussion of possible Republican
presidential candidates.
Among the projects of the New
Dealers which McCarl has ruled out
were a $25,000,000 Canada-to-the-Gulf
tree belt project fostered by the Presi
dent, and a $100,000,000 slum clear
ance plan of Secretary Ickes, the
P. W. A. administrator. He and Sec
retary Swanson of the Navy had a
famous row over the payment of
traveling expenses of naval officers.
More recently. McCarl was credited
with having done the New Dealers a
good turn. He held that funds were
not available for carrying out the
potato control act, which the adminis
tration did not appear anxious to have
enforced.
Last Spring Senator Vandenberg,
Republican, of Michigan Introduced a
proposed amendment to the act creat
ing the office of controller general, the
budget act. seeking to make it possible
for a controller general to be reap
pointed. Presumably he wanted to
have McCarl reappointed to keep an
eye on New Deal expenditures. But
even if the amendment had been
adopted, which it was not. there seems
to be considerable doubt that President
Roosevelt would reappoint McCarl.
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Exiled Archbishop Hits Mex
ican Head for Refusing
Plea.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 9.—Arch
bishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, exiled
apostolic delegate to Mexico, said to
day "President Cardenas has lost a
new chance for restoring peace in
Mexico.”
In a prepared statement upon the
government’s recent refusal to grant
the Catholic Church Its plea for rea
toiation of the right to hold property
and Impart religious education in
schools, the archbishop said:
“I read In the papers this morning
the extracts of the answer given in
the name of the president, Cardenas,
by the secretary of the Interior, Senor
Barba Gonzalez, replying to the recent
ap,<eal presented by the Mexican
Catholic bishops and backed by thous
ands of Catholic laymen.
Peace Chance Seen Lost.
”1 think that President Cardenas
has lost a new chance for restoring
peace in Mexico, while the church
has proved once more her good will.
History will Judge.
"This petition made the best lm
I pivssion everywhere, except among the
Revolutionary party, which, like all
dictators, fears to lose the control of
Mexico by granting a little freedom.
It would be useless to discuss this
answer In which they pile the vulgar
commonplaces of the Inquisition,
wealth of the church, politics and
great treason of the clergy and so on.
I think these were repeated more for
foreign consumption than for the
sake of truth and justice. Mexican
revolution cannot mention Inquisition,
wealth, • Intervention, bigotry without
betraying itself.
“It Is funny that they charge now
th- clergy with looking for foreign in
tervention. when the only desire of
Mexican Catholics is to end with all
foreign Intervention by which the
revolution has triumphed and Is go
ing on.
"The answer of-the president Is In
accord with hU policy. He officially
declared in his political campaign
that the people of Mexico were not >
any more deceived by the three clas
sical liberties, because behind the
freedom of conscience and religion
wa- the priest spreading fanaticism,
behind the freedom of teaching and
education was the burgess maintaining
ignorance, and behind the economical
freedom was the capital spreading
mirery and slavery.”
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