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IS STUDENT HERE Exiled by President There, He Awaits Outcome of Current Revolution. Exiled from Honduras because of his editorial attacks on the adminis tration of President Tiburcio Cariss Andino. Roger Gabriel Pizzatl, youth ful editor of two newspapers at La Ceiba. Atlantida, Honduras, now is in Washington to study governmental Institutions and methods and to be come acquainted with American jour nalism. He has identified himself promi nently with the revolutionary move ment against President Andino under i leadership of Dr. Vinancio Callejas. | now in exue in El Salvador, and | is awaiting the | outcome of the' present revolu- | tion now raging in five of the I federal depart ments of Hon duras. P i z z a t i esti mated there are 8,000 Hondufans who, like himself, are in political | exile. Most of ! them are in Cen Rnjfr G. Pinati. |ra, Amcrican ! countries adjacent to their homeland, , in Cuba, British Honduras and Mex ico. Many of them, however, are in | the United States and a few have | gone to Europe. Iron-clad censorship has been set: lip over the Honduran press. Pizzati 1 said, and virtually all the newspapers j have been closed up or taken over i by the government. "I hope to be able to go back to establish another newspaper and preach true liberty to the people of Honduras,” Pizzati said. “I stand for the re-establishment of a national press, with real freedom of speech yid political thought. I believe that ell my countrymen should have the right to vote and participate in their government. This right is denied them today.” Pizzati was editor and publisher of El Pais and El Golpe, formerly lead ing newspapers in La Ceiba. Both have been closed because of fiery edi torial opposition to the Andino ad ministration. Pizzati now is engaged in a survey of American newspapers on behalf of the National Press Asso ciation of Honduras, which is working for the establishment of a free press In that country. The exiled editor, who is only 25. said he recognizes in President Andino "many fine qualities,” but that he is strongly opposed to his principles of government and political ideals. Pizzati fled from Honduras nine months ago. entering the United States through New Orleans. He has visited many newspapers in the South ern States and is serving as a special correspondent for La Traduccion. a Spanish language paper at Tampa, and for La Prensa. He is in Washington for an indefi nite stay and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Marsden. Pizzati is a painter by hobby, and Mr. Marsden. a geologist, is a friend of the editor's art teacher. VOCATIONAL SERVICE EXTENSION IS URGED Rapid extension of the vocational rehabilitation service for convalescents at the Tuberculosis Hosiptal was urged at a meeting of the Technical Ad visory Committee of the Tuberculosis Association in the office of Managing Director Mrs. Ernest R. Grant yester day. Discussing popularity of the service among patients. Joseph McGroary, di rector. pointed out that 20 white in mates already have sought instruction from teachers assigned to the hos pital from the W. P. A. adult educa tion staff. Teachers make semi-week ly trips to the hospital. The committee directed McGroary to extend the work to colored patients by arrangement with the colored staff of the W. P. A. education service. Pri vate schools, McGroary said, have do nated many text books for patients' study. -• To Vote on Bond Issue. COLONIAL BEACH, Va„ May 23 fSpecial i.—On Tuesday, May 26, the voters in Washington District, in Westmoreland County will vote on a bond issue to determine whether the district shall borrow about $30,000 to build a new school building at Oak Grove. ---«-. Butchers Go on Strike. When Arab and Jewish butchers re cently went on strike in Jerusalem as a protest against an increase in rates at municipal slaughter houses the city was almost meatless. SERVICE ORDERS ARMY ORDERS. Tobias. Lieut. Col. Robert B., Den tal Corps, transferred from Fort Jay, N. Y„ to the Panama Canal Depart ment, September 1. Robertson, Lieut. Col. Walter M., Infantry, Fort Jay, to the War De partment general staff, July 9. Daley, Col. Edmund L„ Engineer Corps, Army War College, to New York City. Lyons. Maj. F. Russel, Engineer Corps. St. Paul. Minn., to the Army Industrial College. August 21. Wilson, Maj. Frank W.. Medical Corps. Army Medical Center, to Fort Benning, Ga.. September 1. Each of the following officers of the Air Corps at Langley Feld, Va., is assigned to Randolph Field, Tex., July 1: Maj. Walter H. Reid. Maj. Robert T. Cronau, Capt. Edgar R. Todd, Capt. Henry W. Door. Capt. Paul M. Jacobs, Capt. Stoyte O. Ross, First Lieut. John H. Ives. First Lieut. Troup Miller, jr. Perry. Capt. Clifton H.. Medical Administrative Corps, Army Medical Center, to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., October 9. Billick. Capt. Eugene W., Medical Corps, Fort Leavenworth. Kans., to duty in the office of the surgeon gen eral, July 1. Holmes, Capt. Thomas R.. West minster, Md., to the Panama Canal Department, October 15. Weber, First Lieut. John H. (Field Artillery), Ordnance Department, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., to the Philippine Department, Septem ber 16. Hanna. First Lieut. Archibald J., Air Corps, Langley Field. Va., to Chanute Field, 111., August 20. Grandmother Among Grads Mrs. Mabel Slocum Fisher, 57-year-old grandmother who postponed education 38 years because of her family responsi bilities. will get her long-wanted college degree next month at graduation exercises of Washington Square College of New York University. Mrs. Fisher, native of Hamburg, N. Y., is pictured in her graduating gown with Daniel Brill, 18, of Brooklyn, youngest member of the senior class. She went to high school in Buffalo. During college career she was honor student in sociology, averaging B for four years. _—A. P. Photo. Former Capital Pastor Will Deliver Commencement Address June 1. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, former pas- i tor of the New- York Avenue Pres- | byterian Church, will deliver thej commencement address to graduates1 of American University on Monday; night. June 1, at Memorial Continen- j tal Hall of the Daughters of the j American Revolution. Dr. Sizoo. now located in New York j city, will take for his subject: ‘ Toward an understand ing." The exer cises will climax nearly a week of academic - year end activity at the University. Dr. Joseph M. M. Gray, chan cellor of Ameri can University, will deliver the baccalaureate ser mon to graduates next Sunday af ternoon at Met ropolitan Memor Dr. SHOO. jal M e t. h o d 1st Church adjacent to the campus. Following the baccalaureate service, the senior class at the college, through its president, Elbridge Church, will present. Its class gift to Dr. George B. Woods, dean of the College of Lib eral Arts, in the form of a memorial collection of books in memory of Dr. Harold Golder. former professor of English, and later dean of the Grad uate School of American University. The outstanding function this week will be the so-called "All University Dinner,” to be held Saturday night at Meridian Mansions, 2400 Sixteenth street, to be addressed by Dr. Leon Marshall, formerly of the N. R. A. and newly appointed professor of Political Economy at the Graduate School. Reservations for the dinner are br ing made with Raymond Spaeth at the campus, and should be in by to morrow. The Commencement entertainment will take place Friday night at the gymnasium auditorium on the cam pus. The program will include read ing of the class will by Esther Smith and Prank Hoadley; the class pro phecy by Betty Wheeler; an original skit by Edward Hopper, and music by the chorus, ths Girls’ Glee Club, the Men's Glee Club, the orchestra and the string quartet. A dance will follow. METHODISTS’ VOTE UNIFICATION PLAN General Conference of Protestant Church Favors Move by 142 to 39. By t he Associated Press. HIGH POINT. N. C.. May 23.—The General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church late today voted 142 to 39 in favor of unification with other branches of the denomination. The vote was upon a resolution of the Committee on Church Union rec ommending the merger. The Methodist Episcopal (Northern) Church recently approved a unifica tion plan, but the Methodist Episco pal Church, South, will not hold Its general conference until 1938. CIVIL SERVICE PLANS ' TESTS FOR EXAMINERS Applications to Be Received Until June 10—Tobacco Inspector Jobs Open. The Civil Service Commission is preparing to hold an examination ior junior civil service examiners and will receive applications until June 10. The pay is $1,620 and generally a four-year college course will be re quired for examination entrants. The commission will receive also until June 4 applicants flOE tobacco Inspector, at $2.000-$3.200. in the De partment of Agriculture, and until June 11 for aircraft inspectors, $1,620 to $2,600. . Details are available at head quarters. Seventh and P streets. DETECTIVES HUNT $30X00 DEPOSITOR Man Vanishes After Opening 25 Bank Accounts in Los Angeles. iy the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 23.—An unob trusive, middle-aged little man who moved quietly through this city's financial districts, opened 25 bank accounts aggregating $30,000 in two days and then vanished, mystified bankers and detectives said today. Accounts were opened Monday and Tuesday in virtually every downtown bank under the name of Donald Berg of St. Louis. Wednesday night the depositor left the hotel where he had been staying. Nothing has been heard from him since. Detective Agency Called in. The American Bankers’ Association called on the Burns Detective Agency to investigate the possibility the man may have met foul play. The aid of the Department of Justice also was enlisted. Bank tellers said he usually ap peared with two suit cases, from which he would produce a $1,000 bill and two $100 bills. Berg was de scribed as evasive on questions as to his home address or the names of his relatives. "There certainly Is nothing- wrong about opening 25 bank accounts, but there is reason to fear this man and his money may be the victims of foul play,’’ said a Burns detective. Non-Existent Bank Reference. In opening the first account here the man gave as reference an account in an out-of-town bank which proved I to be non-existent, said the detec ■ tive. In the 24 other accounts opened in rapid succession the first Los An i geles account was cited. The Bums Detective Agency said it could find no trace in St. Louis of any one by the name of Donald Berg. Much Rubbage Collected. Report on the Ottawa, Kans.. pub lic school's clean-up week: 100.000 pieces of unbumable trash collected; 919 barrels of dandelions dug; 584 cockroaches killed. Tentatively Named as Mrs. Grace Hurley of Boston. Slayer Hunt Continues. By the Associated Press. KEENE. N. H., May 23.—State in vestigators tentatively identified the victim of a lonely, mountain top "torch” slaying tonight as the woman who registered at a Brattleboro. Vt., hotel last Tuesday as "Mrs. Grace Hurley of Boston." County Solicitor Arthur Olson de clared he was satisfied the “Mrs. Hur ley’’ was the victim. From several sources, he asserted, he learned that a woman answering the description of the one who regis tered at the Hotel Plaza. Brattleboro, had been seen walking up the moun ' tainside Wednesday. Fosse May Be Formed. Olson said he was considering or 1 ganizing a citizens’ posse to comb the forbidding thickets of the mountain ; on the possibility “the murderer Is ! still lurking In there.” Attorney General Thomas G. Cheney, ordered State Investigators Ralph W. Cosewell and Edward Hayes. State fingerprint expert, here from Concord, to aid in the investigation. From the Worcester. Mass., manu facturers of the .22 caliber revolver i discovered near the charred and broken body of the woman. Olson said he had learned that the gun had been one of a batch sold to a Philadelphia mail order house. He said police were checking there in an effort to find the person to whom | it was sold. Gun Clue Falls. Late tonight, however, Edward E. I Chandlee, secretary-treasurer of the i Philadelphia mail order house, as 1 serted a thorough search of the com pany s records had failed to reveal any trace of the purchaser. He de | scribed the gun as "cheap, worth | about to,” and added it had ap ) parently not been sold by mail but j rather shipped to some distributor. Olson said he had no idea of the motive for the slaying. Meanwhile, from the summit of the mountain-top search for the j slaver spread to three States. Air Bomb Misses Home ----- 3 KILLED IN HOLD-UP Policeman and Two Bandits Slain in Ontario. SARNIA. Ontario, May 23 UPV— Two robbers and an officer were killed late today when fellow officer^ Inter rupted an attempt to hold up a gov ernment liquor store here. The dead: Jack Lewis, city constable. Jack or Norman Ryan, one of the robbers, believed to be from Toronto. An unidentified hold-up man. The two gunmen had compelled a dozen patrons and employes of the store to hold up their hands when another customer started to enter. Seeing the hold-up in progress, he turned back and notified police. Mrs. Edgar Miller examines fragments of an Army avia tion bomb that accidentally dropped behind her home in a suburb of Sacramento, Calif. She is looking at the firing pin, seated beside a part of the shell of the 200-pound projectile which dug a hole 6 feet deep. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. W. P. AJOBRIGHTS Figures Reveal Number Os tensibly Has Returned to Private Employment. Nearly 4,000 persons voluntarily hav« given up their right to Jobs under the Works Progress Administration pro gram here since early March, osten sibly to return to private employment, according to figures released yesterday by the District W. P. A. office. The ‘ case” load of the W. P. A., It therefore would appear, has been re duced by nearly 25 per cent within the part three months, since there were nearly 16,000 employable persona listed as eligible for W. P. A. job* early in March. Yesterday, it was said, there were about 12,000 ellgibles re maining on the list. District officials attributed the re duction almost entirely to improve ment on the employment situation in private industry and pointed especially to the burst of construction work, which started with the return of good weather. There were 11,964 persons at work during the past week on W. P. A. projects here, including those assigned to Federal as well as District gov ernment units, the report stated. Early last March the number actually then assigned to jobs from the list of eli gible persons on the W. P. A. rolls was 12.800. The W. P. A. roll will be reduced by at least 300 more before the end of next month, under orders from Fed eral relief officials. The number of employables on the District W, P. A. must be reduced to 6 900 by June 30. Yesterday there were 7.200 holding W. P. A. jobs. Early in March there were 8,900 on District W. P. A, AIotoro^JK BAYERSON OIL WORKS COLUMBIA 5228 PONTIAC Four-Door Sedan *850 Completely equipped and delivered in Washington. 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