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Former Clerk of Police Court Pleads Quilty to Fund Irregularities
SHERWOOD JAILED,
AWAITS IRANSEER
TO REFORMATORY
Plea Is Changed in Indict
ment Charging $505
Shortage.
TERM OF 1 TO 2 YEARS,
$100 FINE IS SENTENCE
F. B. I. Investigation Resulted
in 11 Counts by District
Grand Jury.
Clayton B Sherwood, former finan
cial clerk of the Police Court, today
was In District Jail, awaiting transfer
to Lorton Reformatory, following his
appearance In the DJatrict- Court yes
terday to be sentenced on a plea of
guilty to fund Irregularities.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
disclosed today that Sherwood on June
18 withdrew his previous plea of not
guilty and entered a plea of guilty tc
an Indictment charging a shortage ol
$505 In his Police Court accounts.
Sherwood's change of plea and hb
sudden appearance yesterday after
noon before Justice Peyton Gordon
were not publicised until today, when
It was announced at the Justice De
partment he had been sentenced tc
serve one to two years «t Lorton and
to pay a fine of $100.
• uwvtvw Oil A A VVUilto.
The former clerk was Indicted or
11 counts by the District grand Jury
on August 20 last, following a lengthy
investigation of irregularities in Po
lice Court accounts, begun late ir.
1934 by special agents of the P. B. I
A shortage in Sherwood's account:
amounting to $1,280 was reported by
the investigators, but the grand jury
charged him with the lesser shortage
Sherwood pleaded not guilty wher
arraigned on September 10, 1935, and
was released on $1,000 bond.
Long Inquiry Made.
The P. B. I. Inquiry at Police Courl
was prompted by numerous reports oi
fund "juggling” and "loss” of record!
at the court. Working with close co
operation of the judges of the court
the agents made a long and intensivi
examination of all records of thi
court in thousands of cases.
As a result of the Inquiry a new
system of keeping records was insti
tuted. Later Sherwood was Ms dieted
$500 REWARD OFFERED
FOR GEM BANDIT TRIO
94,000 Reported Jewelry Loot pi
Three in Bobbery by Phone
Appointment.
A $500 reward was oSered today Ipi
the capture and conviction of thi
three “telephone appointment” ban
dits who held up, bound and robbec
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Petersen in theii
jewelry store in the Woodward Build
ing last Saturday.
Petersen, who offered ‘ the reward
said the bandits made away witt
money and jewelry valued at $4,001
after making an appointment by tele
phone to purchase a diamond ring
Two men entered first and the thirc
came through the door as the pistol I
of the first two were turned on Mrs
Petersen while she was "modeling” thi
ring on her finger.
The couple was rescued after they
had been bound and gagged by thi
bandits. Their rescue was effected
after Petersen loosened enough of thi
adhesive tape on his mouth to call ou
the window. It was necessary for res
suers to kick in the glass section of ttu
door. The jewelry was not insured.
WOMAN IS RESCUED
FROM WINDOW LEDGE
Lost Balance While Patting
Screen in Place—Is Saved
by Firemen.
Mr*. Lillian Litzenburg, 3530 Con
necticut avenue, was saved from de*
or serious injury last night wiei
firemen pulled her to safety fronf i
window ledge of her third-floor apart
ment.
Mrs. Litzenburg grasped the led,
when she lost her balance while put
ting a screen in place, according' U
police. Firemen next door noticed t&
plight and effected the rescue from tar
apartment directly beneath the wom
an's.
Official Warned
Against Remarks
On School Prohe
Court Calls Chesterfielc
Board Member After
Hearing Teachers. ■
By the Associated Press.
CHESTERFIELD COURT HOUSE
Va., June 27.—After questioning'torn
county school teachers yesterday
Judge Edwin P. Cox warned C4 O
Wells, Chesterfield school board mem
ber, against remarks concerning <th»
current investigation of a spmia,
grand jury into county government*,
affairs.
The four teachers were called --be
fore the court after the grand Jurj
foreman complained that Mrtteidpti
had been made "to influence the tes
timony of witnesses.” 2
Miss Courtenay Godsey, one offithi
teachers, told the court that fee tin
terpreted Wells’ remarks as an 1 di
caticA he did not want her to saj
anything against” B. Clifford Gc de
county superintendent of schools
Another of the group, Mrs. E tllj
Harrison Bates, said Wells told a gi >uf
of teachers “it would be embarras ln|
for us to come up for trial, an ii
we didn’t want to bring any cha get
that would be all there would be tc It.*
Wells declared he "had no in tec loo
of approaching any witness to re ud '
Justice."
The grand Jury, In recess until 5 it*,
day. has about 43 more witness eg U
examine.
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UCATION BOARD
PICKS 2 ASSISTANT
HEADS OF SCHOOLS
•
Miss Bertie Backus Given
Post at Alice Deal—Cen
tral Unfilled.
FURTHER JUNIOR HIGH
CHANGES ARE FORECAST
Personnel Committee Schedules
Session for Tuesday — Home
Work Experiment Left in Air.
Dr. Harvey A. Smith, principal of
Central High School, and Dr. Chester
W. Holmes, principal of Anacostia
Junior-Senior High School, were ap
pointed assistant superintendents of
echools late yesterday by the Board
of Education.
Dr. Smith was named to supervise
the teachers' college and senior high
schools, and Dr. Holmes was selected
to direct the junior high schools and
vocational schools.
Miss Bertis Backus, who for the
past two years has been assistant su
perintendent in charge of the char
acter education experiment, was re
turned to Alice Deal Junior High
School as principal at her own re
quest.
Her reassignment necessitated the
transfer of Mrs. M. R. Merritt from
Deal to the Langley Junior High
Bchool.
John Paul Collins, principal at
Langley, was reassigned to Anacostia,
succeeding Holmes.
Central Poet Left Open.
The series of transfers and promo
tions left vacant the po6t of principal
of Central High School, one of the
most coveted positions in the Wash
ington school system. Just who will
succeed to that post was not Indi
cated, but the personnel committee of
the Board of Education has called
another special meeting for Tuesday
at 2 pm., when It Is expected that
further changes will be made.
Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend
ent, told the board that "further
changes” may be made In the princi
palships of junior high schools, but
he did not Indicate what they may be,
other than to add “after conferences
with Mrs. Merritt and others con
cerned.”
The promotion of Smith, who has
been principal of Central since 1929,
came as something of a surprise in
asmuch as his name haul not been
mentioned publicly in advance of the
board's action yesterday.
It was known, however, that he
was held In high regard by both
school administrative officers and
members of the board.
He Is a native of Pennsylvania and
a graduate of Franklin & Marshall
College. He was made a master of
arts at the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1921, and in 1929 he re
ceived the degree of doctor of phi
losophy in school administration from
Teachers' College, Columbia Univer
sity. He was made superintendent
of schools In Millville, N. J„ in 1925,
and came to Central from that posi
tion. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and Phi Delta Kappa.
Holmes G. W. U. Alumnus.
Dr. Holmes received his doctorate
from George Washington University
earlier this month. He was graduated
from Harvard in 1916 with a B. S.
degree, and received his master's de
gree from Harvard's School of Educa
tion in 1924. He came to Washing
ton as principal of Langley Junior
High School In 1928. Prom Langley be
Went to Anacostia last Tall.
His, elevation leaves In abeyance
the experiment in “no home work”
which he and his «ftaft at Anacostia
undertook about two months ago. He
has already asked for a year In which
to continue the study.
Colliti became widely known in
Washington through his Interests and
coaching at Eastern High School
Where he was successively teacher of
physical training and then assistant
principal before succeeding Holmes at
Langley.
nc Jo • giouuovc vi vwu vmuijt
Washington University and Catholic
University.
Miss Backus, who was regarded as
a leading candidate for one of the
assistant superintendent's positions,
eliminated herself Wednesday when
' she applied to Dr. Ballou for her old
place as principal of Alice Deal Junior
High and said that. Mrs. Merritt was
willing to make a change.
Prior to the board’s action yester
day, Dr. Ellis Haworth, head of the
science department of the high
schools, and Francis A. Woodward,
principal of Gordon Junior High
School, had received public indorse
ment for one of the two assistant
superintendencies.
ROOSEVELT VETOES
ARMY CAPTAIN BILL
Says Records Show Officer's Dis
missal in Conformity *
With Law,
Mf the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt yesterday vetoed
a bill which would have authorized
him to reappoint James W. Darr as a
captain of infantry in the Army and
to place him on the retired list with
a captain's retired pay.
Capt. Darr, now at the State hos
pital at St. Peter, Minn, was tried by
an Army general court martial at Fort
Snelling, Minn, in 1933 and con
victed on charges involving embezzle
ment. removal of a letter addressed
to his commanding officer from the
official mall with intent to conceal
the contents from his commanding
officer, making a false official report
to his commanding officer, and for
wrongful misappropriation of an auto
mobile by trading It In in part pay
ment for a. new automobile.
The President said: "Prom the facts
, In this case as disclosed by the rec
ords of the War Department, it ap
pears that this former officer's dis
missal from the military service was
strictly In conformity with the law
and that the question of his mental
condition was carefully considered be
lore final action was taken in con
nection with the sentence of court
martial."
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New School Executives
Left, Dr. Harvey A. Smith, new assistant superintendent of
schools in charge of senior high schools and the teacher’s col
lege, and (right) Dr. Chester W. Holmes, new assistant superin
tendent in charge of junior high and vocational schools.
—Harris-Ewing Photos.
BE DECLINES
Only $40,220 May Net
Against $100,463 Pre
viously Reported.
Net income of the Capital Transit
Co. in May totaled $40,220.67 in com
parison with $100,463.37 in May, 1935,
a decrease of $60,242.70 or 60 per cent,
according to the financial statement
just filed with the Public Utilities
Commission.
Operating revenues in May amount
ed to $880,837.30, a jump of $73,269.98
or 9.1 per cent over May a year ago.
At the same time operating expenses
advanced to $652,613.57, an increase
of $95,133.84 or 17.1 per cent.
Taxes called for $56,141.74, a drop
of $869.63; depreciation took $83,
577.95, an increase of $32,518.91 or 63
per cent, and boosting the total cost
of operating expenses, including taxes
and depreciation, $126,783.13 higher
than a year ago. The increase in ex
penses left an -operating income of
$88,504.04 against $142,017.19 or a
decrease over May, 1935, of $53,513.15
or 37 per cent.
Non-Operating Income.
Non-operating income in May was
$7,676.59 lower than last year. Gross
was more than $61,000, or 39 per cent
lower than last year in the same
month. Once again net Income de
creased in the face of notable in
creases in the number of revenue pas
sengers carried, which totaled 14,842,
906 as compared with 13,070,850 in
May, 1935, a gain in the month under
review of 1,771,456, or 13.6 per cent.
Detailed study of the May report
shows that while passenger revenues
increased more than $73,000, wages
paid employes increased over $77,000
during the same period. Gasoline
and motor oils Increased $12,439 in
May as compared with last year and
miles operated by busses increased
395,032 over a year ago. Increase In
bus maintenance materials and other
material expense items were partially
offset by decreases in rail cost items,
the net change being an increase in
these items of $5,448.
With the report filed with the com
mission, Vice President and Controller
J. E. Heberle sent a letter stating that
there were several records established
in the consolidated operations of the
Washington Rapid Transit Co. and
the Capital Transit Co. during May
which he considered worthy of special
notice, as follows:
5.91 Cents Average Fare.
“The average fare in the District
of Columbia per revenue passenger
was 5.91 cents, and per total pas
senger 4.37 cents. This establishes a
new low for recent years. The total
number of passengers carried in the
District of Columbia by these com
panies was 19,810,009, which repre
sents a new high point; as also does
the number of car and bus miles
operated 2,410,570, excluding char
tered.
"For the week ending June 13, 1936,
during which the merger of the Wash
ington Rapid Transit Co. with the
Capital Transit Co. was accomplished,
9,913 of the $1.25 passes were pur
chased, this representing an all-time
high for the $1.25 pass."
The Capital Transit’s application
for higher street car and bus fares
makes the report for the first five
months of 1938 also of special Inter
est. Operating revenues showed a
gain of $415,603.40 over May, 1935,
an Increase of 10 per cent. At the
same time operating expenses in
creased by $624,133.88 or 23 per cent.
Depreciation deductions were $158,
125.36 higher than the figure a year
ago, or 62 per cent.
These three items combined—op
erating expenses, tax and deprecia
tion—showed an Increase of over
$773,000, or 24 per cent. The ad
vances in costs and the usual de
ductions for bond Interest from gross
earnings produced a deficit of $10,
594.55 in net Income against a gain
in the first five months of 1935 of
$382,674.43.
Revenue passengers carried In the
five months this year numbered 69,
787,455, an increase of 7,650 904, or
12.9 per cent, the report states.
GROUPllF WOMEN
TO FIGHT NEW DEAL
“Nation-Wide Coalition” Planned
at Conference in Toledo
Next Week.
St tbs Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 27 —Mrs. Mabel
Jacques Elchel of Wilton. Conn., an
nounced here yesterday that a “Nation
wide women’s coalition” will be formed
next Tuesday and Wednesday In
Toledo, Ohio, "to work for the election
of anti-New Deal candidates for Fed
eral offices.”
She said that delegates representing
1,000,000 voters in New York and 24
other States would meet In Toledo.
"They are women who believe In the
American form of government,” said
Mrs. Bchel, “and who are convinced
that the New Deal violates these
principles.”
FORCES ON MAY
WEEKBYJULYII
Bill-Affecting Engraving Bu
reau Workers Signed
by President.
The Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing will go on the flve-day week with
the start of the next fiscal year, under
a bill signed yesterday by President
Roosevelt, which takes care of more
than 3,200 employes excluded from the
original 40-hour law—known as the
Thomas amendment — which went
through on the independent offices
appropriation for 1935
Under this Thomas amendment,
which was opposed by the President,
the skilled tradesmen in the Govern
ment generally had their work-week
cut from five and a half to five days
without any reduction in pay,
780 Under Allowance.
When the case of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing workers was
put up to Controller General McCarl,
he held that the allowance could be
made for but 780 employes there, be
cause the Act was drawn to apply only
to personnel whose pay Is fixed by
wage boards or other authorities,
whereas the bulk of the Bureau work
ers came under the classification act.
Campaign Is Started.
Organized employes at once started
a campaign to take in those who were
excluded, and legislation to bring this
about was Introduced In May of last
year by Senator O’Mahoney, Demo
crat, of Wyoming.
Meanwhile, because of the variance
in hours, it has been necessary to keep
the Bureau open five and a half days,
in order that the 44-hour employes
could work out their week, and the
shifts of the 40-hour employes have
been staggered so a force always would
be on duty.
The new law ordinarily would be ef
fective on the first Saturday of next
month, but the Government establish
ment will be closed that day—July 4—
anyway, so actually it will not be ap
plied until July XI.
Employes generally hailed the law
yesterday, and a telegram of appre
ciation immediately went forward to
President Roosevelt over the signa
ture of Miss Belle Trouland, presi
dent of Local 105. National Federa
tion of Federal Employes, the wom
en’s union at the bureau.
The liquor tax administration act,
revising wine tax rates sharply down
ward, also was signed into law yes
terday by the President.
59 Recent Redactions.
Among other things, the act re
duces by 50 per cent the taxes on
still wines, champagne, sparkling wine,
brandy used for fortifying purposes
and liquers and cordials; removes a
first withdrawal tax of 20 cents per
gallon and a rectifying tax of 30 cents
per proof gallon on vermouth.
Repeals the tax on grape concen
trates.
Permits American vintners to desig
nate their product by wine-type names
of foreign origin, provided they car
ry a prefix indicating the place of
geographical origin, such as Cali
fornia, in this country.
Mr. Roosevelt also signed legisla
tion setting at 3.2 per eem by weight
or 4 per cent by volume the amount
of alcohol a State may permit in
beverages sold within its borders and
still receive Federal protection as a
“dry" State under the twenty-first
amendment. Under repeal, dry States
were guaranteed protection.
CHANGE IN SCHOOLS’
HOURS IS ADVISED
Van Duzar Say» Traffic Study
Shows 9:30-3:30 Period I*
More Feasible.
Results of a partially completed
traffic study Indicate It would be more
feasible to change the school opening
hour in the District from 9 to 9:30
a.m. and the closing hour from 3 to
3:30 pm., rather than move the time
the other way, Traffic Director William
A. Van Duzer revealed today.
In a recent poll parents voted over
whelmingly In favor of a change In
the hour of school opening, due to the
heavy traffic during the 8:30 to 9
o’clock rush in the morning, and many
favored advancing the opening hour
to 8:30.
“To send the children out into
the morning traffic rush, which Is
greatest between 8 and 9 In the morn
ing, would be almost as bad as the
present unsatisfactory conditions, the
survey shows, ” declared Van Duzer.
“If the children did not have to
get to school until 9:30, they could
start from their homes after the
peak of the morning rush has passed.
Leaving school at 3:30 instead of 3,
they still could get home before the
afternoon peak, which starts at 4 pm.”
Van Duaer plans to complete his
survey, showing the peak traffic
hours in the vicinity of each of the
District schools, and submit to the
District School Board as an aid in
making a final fiadatoo in the matter.
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57 PLAYGROUNDS
TO OPEN JULY 1
FOR SUMMER PLAY
-
Space for Games and Sports
to Be Greater This
Year.
FACILITIES GAINED
BY CO-ORDINATION
Supervisor, Hiss Baker, Tells Suc
cess of Anacostia Park Play
Center 2 Tears Ago.
Announcing plans for the opening
July 1 of 57 Summer playgrounds to
augment the 36 year-round areas,
Miss Sibyl Baker, playground super
visor, said today the space for games
and sports events on a number would
be greater due to the program of co
ordination of facilities of Federal and
District agencies.
In sections where school play
grounds are lacking or are too small
to afford an adequate play field, ad
ditional territory has been “borrowed”
from the National Capital Parks, from
neighboring Junior high sehools or
from unoccupied private property,
she said.
“The idea for this sort of co
ordinated program,” said she, "orig
inated two years ago when the play
center at Anacostia Park was opened
to augment the Van Buren play
ground and proved so successful that
it served as a model for the reA of
the city.”
In the Northeast suburban Ac
tion, where land is plentiful, super
visors of the Brookland playground
will organize more games for boys at
a new playfield in Turkey Thicket.
Brightwood Changes.
In Brightwood, a much needed ad
dition will be made by using the Paul
Junior High School grounds for the
boys and a similar plan will be used
at the Ludlow playground where the
Stuart Junior High School space has
been allotted for use by boys.
Land at Seventh and H streets
Southwest will be used for the boy’s
program at the Rossell School play
ground and five acres of municipal
playgrounds adjacent to the Hearst
School are being developed.
A plot between Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth streets on Macomb also
is being developed and the Corcoran
Scnool grounds have been Improved
for use this season. The playground
department will supply supervision at
the Langdon Recreation Center as in
previous years and will continue the
play center at Lincoln Park, which
was opened the latter part of last
season.
The list of the grounds to be opened
July I, together with their locations
and the hours they will be open
follows:
Bancroft, eighteenth and Newton
streets, to be open from 9 am. to 6
pm.; Barnard, Fifth and Decatur
streets, hours, 9 to 6; Benning, Ana
costia road between Benning and
Foote northeast, 9 to 5; Brookland,
Tenth and Monroe streets northeast,
9 to 0; Buchanan, Thirteenth and E
streets southeast, 1 to 0; Congress
Heights, Alabama and Nichols avenues
southeast, 9 to 6; Cooke, Seventeenth
and Fuller streets, 9 to 0; Corcoran,
Twenty-eighth and M streets, 9 to 0.
Others Are listed.
Deal Junior High, Thirty-eighth
and Davenport streets, 9 to 6; Eaton,
Thirty-fourth, Lowell, Macomb Thir
ty-fifth streets, 9 to 6; Eckington Rec
reation Center, Second street and
Lincoln road northeast, 9 to 0; Gordon
Junior High, Thirty-fifth and T
streets, 1 to 4; Hardy, Foxhall road
at Q street, 9 to 5; Hayes, Fifth and
E streets northeast, 9 to 6.
Hearst, Thirty-seventh and Tllden
streets, 9 to 5; Henry-Polk, Seventh
and P streets, 9 to 5; Janney, Wiscon
sin avenue and Yuma street, 9 to 5;
Jefferson Junior High, Sixth and D
streets southwest, 9 to 0; Johnson,
Hiatt place and Lamont street, 9 to
0; Kenilworth, Kenilworth avenue,
between Ord and Olive streets north
east, 9 to 0; Key, Conduit road and
Dana place, 9 to 5.
Kingman, Fourteenth and E streets
northeast, 9 to 5; La Fayette, North
ampton street and Broad Branch
road, 9 to 5; Langdon, Twentieth and
Franklin streets northeast, 9 to 5;
Ludlow, Sixth and G streets north
east, 9 to 5; Macfarland Junior High,
Iowa avenue and Webster street, 1 to
5; Mann, Newark street, between
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets,
9 to 5.
Murcn, rmny-sixin ana Eiucott
streets, 9 to 5; Noyes, Tenth and
Franklin streets northeast, 9 to 5;
Orr, Twenty-second and Prout streets
southeast. 9 to 6: Paul Junior High,
Ninth and Oglethorpe streets, 9 to 6;
Rossell, Eighth and E streets south
west, 9 to 6; Stoddert, Thirty-ninth
and Calvert streets, 9 to 6; Stuart
Junior High, Fourth and E streets
northeast. 1 to 0; Truesdell, Ninth
and Ingraham streets, 9 to 6.
Van Buren at W.
Van Buren, W street, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
southeast. 9 to 5: Wallach, Seventh
and D streets, 1 to 5; Weightman,
Twenty-third and M streets, 9 to 5;
Wheatley. Montello avenue and Neal
street northeast. 9 to 6
Anacostia Park, section D. between
Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh
street southeast. 10 to 6; Langdon
Park, Mills avenue and Franklin
street northeast, 9 to 6; Lincoln
Park, Eleventh and Thirteenth streets
at East Capitol, 10 to 6; Turkey
Thicket, Michigan avenue and Tenth
street northeast, 10 to 6.
Banneker Recreation Center, 9 to
5; A. J. Bowen, Delaware avenue and
M street southwest, 9 to 9; Burvllle,
Division avenue between Hayes and
Bell place northeast, 1 to 0; Crum
mell, Oallaudet, between Kendall and
Providence streets northeast, 9 to 9;
Francis Junior High School, Twenty
fourth and N streets, 9 to 6; Garfield,
Twelfth and D streets northeast, 9 to
5; Love joy. Twenty-seventh, between
I and M streets. 1 to 5; Montgomery.
V street and Champlain avenue, 9
to 5; Morgan, Twenty-eighth and N
streets, 9 to 5; Phillips. Twenty-eighth
and N streets, 10 to 6; Shaw Junior
High School, Seventh street and
Rhode Island avenue, 9 to 6; Stevens,
Twenty-first, between K and L streets,
9 to 6; Young, Thirty-fourth street
and Bennlng road northeast, 9 to 6;
Anacostia Park, section C, Bennlng
road at Twenty-fourth street north
east, 10 to I.
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“Ach, Was 1st Das?” Asks Letts Visitor
No one could blame Conrad Heifer fright) for wanting to "know what this game of base ball
is all about when his hecklers, Herbert Jacobi and Ralph Paz, urged him to believe that Amer
icans played the game with two gloves, one on each hand. It seemed like a lot of liverwurst to
Conrad—one couldn’t do anything with both hands bundled up like that.
Heifer is one of the German youths visiting Camp Letts. —Star Staff Photo.
264 MORE HERE *
ON (ILMGE LIS!
Assistance to Be Granted
Persons Who Have Been
on Relief.
Old Age assistance will be granted
to approximately 264 additional Wash
ington residents by the end of this
month, raising the total to about 500,
most of whom have been on the emer
gency relief list, officials of the Board
of Public Welfare said today.
Nearly 3,200 applications have been
filed to date. It has been estimated
that between 1,500 and 1,800 requests
would be granted. A total of $2,470
was distributed to the 236 cases which
had been approved by the end of May.
Not all of these were on the old age
assistance list for the full month.
The average grant to those placed
on the list for aid is expected to
amount to about $30 a month. Fed
eral aid is extended to the District
and the States up to a maximum of
$15 a month per case. The amount
to be paid each case is left to the dis
cretion of the local agencies.
44 Per Cent Slash.
The 44 per cent slash in the staff
of the Public Assistance Division to
be made effective next week is ex
pected to slow up action on pending
applications. The cut was ordered,
du* to a limitation of $200,000 placed
by Congress on the amount of Dis
trict revenues appropriated for relief
purposes which may be expended for
administration during the fiscal year,
beginning next Wednesday.
Officials next week also will review
the cases of between 900 and 1,000
relief clients who are scheduled to be
dropped from the relief list because
they are not classed strictly as “un
employables.”
Continued on List.
These cases were said to be on the
border line and were continued on the
list after April 1. At that time 4,138
other cases, who were classed as em
ployables, were dropped, due to near
exhaustion of District relief funds tor
the fiscal year 1936.
The border-line cases were said to
be persons incapacitated temporarily
for work, or at least for Jobs which
were available, but who were not
strictly unemployable.
Motorist Takes Gun
Away From Robber
On Running Board
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Vincent W. Munez of Baltimore
was one .38-caliber revolver to the
good today, the result of a brief
session with a would-be robber
last night.
Munez, who has an office in the
Standard Oil Building here,
stopped bis car for a red light at
New York and Florida avenues
northeast. A man of about 26
stepped on the running board,
pointed a pistol at Munez and
commanded, ‘ Stick ’em up.”
Munez had other ideas, how
ever. He grabbed the gun and the
robber fled.
GEN. WARD MEMORIAL
SITE GIVEN APPROVAL
Fine Arts Commission Inspects
Subsurface Conditions on
Massachusetts Ave.
The National Capital Parks has ex
amined subsurface conditions at
Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues
and found them satisfactory for the
erection of the proposed memorial to
Gen. Artemas Ward, Revolutionary
War hero, H. P. Caemmerer, executive
secretary of the Fine Arts Commis
sion, announced today.
Leonard Crunelle, Chicago sculptor,
is about ready to have the $50,000
monument, being given to Washing
ton by Harvard University, cast in
bronze. The commission has now
given final approval to the plans and
also to the design for the pedestal,
Caemmerer said. The commission is
making a study of desirable dark col
ored stones to be used for the pedestal
and harmonize with the bronze color
ing, depicting the general In his Revo
lutionary War uniform.
The District Government recently
constructed a circle at the intersec
tion of the two avenues and the Gen
eral Ward statue will stand In the
center of this. Caemmerer said he
expected that the memorial will be
erected “in the course of a year."
Many Visit Airports.
Nearly 200,000 persons, 60,000 more
than last year, visited Royal Air Force
stations in England on Empire Air
day.
Young Washington
The article about to be manufactured here by 11-year-old
Billy MacDonald of the 3-B grade of the Cooke School is, believe
it or not, a boat. Billy says you can’t believe everything you see,
and when he gets through with the thing it will float. He is the
son of Mrs. Ella MacDonald, 1418 W street. Monday: Mary
Gardner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Gardner, of Paul Junior
Sigh School. —Star Staff Photo.
A
FIVE PROFESSORS
AT G. U. SHIFTED
Three Faculty Additions Also
Announced—Expansion
Planned.
Five of the college professors at
Georgetown University were under
orders today transferring them to
other assignments and three new ad
ditions to the faculty were made
known upon the receipt of orders
from Jesuit provincial headquarters
in New York. ,
Another new assignment was the
appointment of Very Rev. Edward C.
Phillips, S. J., at one time director of
the Georgetown Astronomical Observ
atory, as dean of the faculty of philos
ophy at Woodstock College, Md.
Woodstock is now Georgetown Univer
sity's theological seminary. Father
Phillips, until a year ago, had served
as the provincial of the Maryland
New York province of the Society of
Jesus.
The new appointees at the college
are Rev. Daniel O'Connell McFadden,
S. J, from St. Francis Xavier College,
New York City, who will be professor
of classical languages in the sopho
more department; Rev. Arthur A.
Coniff, S. J., and Leo G. Monaghan.
8. J. Father Coniff has just com
pleted his theology course at St. An
drew-on - the - Hudson, Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., and was assigned as lecturer in
biology. Mr. Monaghan, who has not
yet been ordained, will be an instruc
tor in English literature in the under
graduate department. He recently
completed graduate work in Latin at
St. Louis University.
The departing professors include
Rev. Leo F. Andries, S. J., librarian for
the last year, now transferred to St.
Ignatius Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Another professor. Rev. Atlee P. X.
Devereaux, S. J., is assigned to Holy
Trinity Church in Georgetown.
Rev. George C. McCauley, S. J., who
taught philosophy in the Foreign
Service School and religion in the col
lege, was assigned to St. Joseph’s Col
lege. Philadelphia, as assistant dean
of studies. Rev. Joseph A. Slattery,
S. J., a major professor of religion
and of English in the Graduate
School, was appointed professor of
English at Woodstock College.
It was announced at the university
today that Dr. Wilfrid Parsons, S. J.,
former editor of America, who arrived
last night under assignment to the
Graduate School at Georgetown, will
become professor of European history.
NATIONAL PARK UNIT
FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE
Buildings Division Employes Will
Get First Fay Checks Since
June 1.
Funds became available today for
payment of 4,200 employes of the
buildings branch of the National Park
Service. The money was made avail
able In the deficiency appropriation
bill signed by President Roosevelt
early In the week.
This division of the Park Service
ran out of funds early this month as
a result of extraordinary demands on
it during the past Winter. As a re
sult, pay checks due on June 15 were
not issued and the watchmen, char
women and janitors of the force have
been payless since June 1.
TWO GET LIFE TERMS
SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 27 (IP).—
Harlan Crouch and James Jacobs,
both of Indianapolis, were sentenced
to prison for life yesterday when Fed
eral Judge Thomas W. Slick accepted j
pleas of guilty of second-degree mur
der In connection with the slaying
of John R. Poster, United States j
internal revenue agent, near Ham-1
mond, Ind., last May 14.
Jacob’s mother, his wife and four
children were in court when he was
sentenced, as were the mother, wife
and three children of Crouch.
Foster was killed while chasing the
two men. who were transporting 200
gallons of surtax-paid alcohol to In
dianapolis.
JUDGE HARRIS DIES
KEY WEST, Fla., June 27 i/P).—
The man who occupied the southern
most house in continental United
States died yesterday.
He was Judge Vlning Harris of the
(Key West) Criminal
i was 71.
red brick house
overlooking the is situated at
the southernmost of this south
ernmost altar of
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