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D. C. Colored Youth Among
Students Failing to Pass
Examinations.
One hundred and thirty-five bud
ding naval officers failed to weather
the storm of rigid examinations at
th» Naval Academy, and Secretaiy
8wanson yesterday accepted their
resignations, among them James lea
Johnson, jr., only colored midship
man, of 1737 S street.
In Johnson’s class, the fourth, cor
responding to freshmen at civilian
colleges. 87 failed to make the grade.
In addition to the 135 who will never
pace the quarterdecks of battleships
aa naval officers, six additional mid
shipmen saw the proverbial handwrit
ing on the wall and submitted their
resignations previously, officials said.
One midshipman who would have
graduated in June, failed to measure
up to the requirements, five In the
second class and 48 in the third class,
making a grand total of 141.
Appointed by Mitchell.
The Naval Academy, which has
never had a colored graduate, prior
to Johnson's admission last Summer,
aaw its last colored midshipman in
1874. Johnson was appointed by the
colored Representative of Chicago, Ar
thur W. Mitchell, Democrat.
The Representative, reached yes
terday afternoon, declared: "I haven t
anything to say just now. but will have
a statement some time next week."
At present, Capt. Chester W. Nimicz,
acting chief of the Bureau of Navi
gation. Navy Department, in the to
sence from the city of Rear Admiral
Adolphus Andrews, said yesterday that
141 resignations represent the largest
due to examinations. At the same
time, he made it clear the Naval Acad
emy now has its greatest peace-time
student body. In October there were
2.323 midshipmen, but since then a
few resignations have reduced that
number. Only once before were there
as many midshipmen in Annapolis as
at present, and that was during the
World War, when 2,499 were recorded.
Academic Board Is Judge.
All found deficient in their studies
or who fail to pass the physical tests
are permitted to resign. Capt. Nimitz
asserted that under the law, the Aca
demic Board at the Naval Academy is
the judge of the scholastic standing.
When the Academic Board is no longer
Willing to vouch for their standing in
their studies, midshipmen are per
mittef to resign. If they do not. they
are dropped by the authorities, but it
has never been necessary to resort to
this drastic action. The usual course
was followed, he said, in the case of
the 141 now leaving the Naval Acad
emy, all having submitted their resig
nations, including Johnson.
Secretary Swanson lost no time in
accepting the resignations yesterday.
Acceptances should be in the hands
of those concerned early this week.
Former Representative Oscar De
Priest, colored, also of Chicago, nom
inated as midshipmen Emile Holley
and Edward Weir, likewise colored, but
they failed to pass the entrance re
quirements. Weir's eyesight was con
•idered defective.
Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, sup
erintendent of the Naval Academy, as
serted Johnson had too many demerits,
deficient eyesight and had failed in
English.
Navy Department records reveal
there were only three colored midship
men previously. They were James H.
Conyers. Alonzo McClennan and Henry
Edwin Baker, jr. From South Caro
lina Conyers was appointed on Sep
tember 21, 1872, but due to deficiency
in his studies he resigned November j
11. 1873 Likewise from South Caro
lina. McClennan was appointed a cadet
midshipman on September 25, 1873. I
He resigned on January 7, 1874, ‘‘on
account of being badly deficient in
etudies.”
Baker, named from Mississippi on
September 24. 1874, was dismissed on
November 4. 1875, “for applying a very
profane and vile epithet to a cadet
midshipman at the mess table.”
THREE BISHOPS NAMED
JO SUPERVISE DISTRICT
Alignments Made at M. E. South
Meeting Following Mou
®on's Funeral.
Mr the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex., February 13._
Bishop John M. Moore, secretary of
the College of Bishops of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church South, an
nounced today the assignment of
three bishops to supervise the Epis
copal district left vacant by the death
of Bishop E. D. Mouzon early this
week.
Bishop U. B. W. Darlington of
Huntington, W. Va., will have the
West Virginia conference: Bishop W.
N. Ainsworth of Macon, Ga., the Bal
timore conference, and Bishop Paul
B. Kern of Durham, N. C., the Vir
ginia conference, Bishop Moore said.
The assignments were made at a
meeting of the College of Bishops
following funeral services here for
Bishop Mouzon. They are effective
only for the remainder of the Epis
copal year, which closes May 1, Bishop
Moore said.
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Wife Weeps as Flyer Obtains Divorce
Scene in a Kansas City court yesterday as D. W. (Tommy) Tomlinson toon a divorce from
Virginia S. Tomlinson. The wife is shown sobbing as Judge Daniel Bird denied custody of 4-year
old Sheila Tomlinson to either parent pending a hearing. The child is in the mother's arms.
The father, assistant to the operations vice president of T. W. A., is barely seen behind Mrs.
Tomlinson. The child was given to the sisters of Notre Dame de Sion until after the hearing.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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Sales and Bank Clearings,
Though Off for Week, Ahead
of Last Year.
Although department store sales and
bank clearings in Washington during
the past week dropped below the totals
for the preceding week, they were well
ahead of the totals for the same week
last year, the Commerce Department
reported in its weekly business survey
of 37 key cities.
Local department store sales dropped
10.03 per cent below the previous week
but were 18.21 per cent ahead of the
same week a year ago. It was reported.
Bank clearings totaled $23,634,790.
This is only a slight drop below the
total of $23,905,773 for the preceding i
week and is far ahead of the $19,970,- |
! 770 total for the corresponding week
last year. It was pointed out.
The value of local building permits f
issued during the week was $457,800, j
compared with $975,900 the previous
week and $233,550 the same week of
last year.
Visitors to the Smithsonian Insti
tution numbered 18,199. compared
with 17,701 the week previous and
9.963 during the corresponding week
in 1936.
For the 37 key cities generally, the
survey shows that although tlgae was
an adverse effect due to unfavorable
weather, the volume of retail sales
continued well ahead of the same pe
riod last year. The reports from Cin
cinnati and Louisvilit indicated that
business conditions in these flood
devastated cities are returning rapidly
to normal.
Settlement of the maritime strike. j
It was reported, brought great relief
to the Hawaiian Islands and was help- 1
ful to all of the cities along the Pa
cific Coast.
PHILADELPHIA ASSURED
OF CURTIS AUDITORIUM
Heirs of Publisher to Carry Out
Purpose of Handsome Gift
to Citlsena
Br the Associated Frees.
PHILADELPHIA. February 13.—
The plan of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, pub
lisher, for the erection of a great
auditorium as a gift to the people of
Philadelphia, blocked by his death, is
about to be carried out with the aid
of his heirs.
With the auditorium in mind. Cur
tis purchased a large plot of ground
on the parkway for $2,100,000. Mayor
S. Davis Wilson announced today that
the Curtis Foundation would donate
the site to the city and that Judge
Curtis Bok, grandson of Curtis, has
agreed to raise a substantial sum for
the building by public subscription.
The mayor said the city would con
tribute to the cost and that a grant
would be asked from the Public Works
Administration. The entire cost would
be about $5,000,000.
The auditorium would be used for
opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra and
cultural gatherings.
Enters Convent
MISS BETTIE MILLS,
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence J. Mills, has left
Washington to enter the Holy
Cross Novitiate in South Bend,
Ind.’ Since graduating from
St. Patrick’s Acgdemy Miss
Mills has been acting as secre
tary to her father.
BLUM URGES CURB
ON WAGE DEMANDS
Premier Appeals to Millions of
Government Workers Not to
Retard Recovery.
By th» Associated Press.
PARIS, February 13.—Premier Leon
Blum tonight pleaded with millions
of government employes to curb their
demands for increases in pay lest they
retard the economic recovery of the
nation.
France's first Socialist premier
broadcast his appeal after employes’
unions had lodged representations
that the cost of living had risen faster
than wages.
The premier accused his opponents
of trying to split the ‘ Popular Front”
which he leads by sowing discontent
among government workers.
He also blamed the financial trou
bles of the government on those who
hoarded wealth or sent it out of the
country. He estimated that wealth
withheld by these means amounted
to three times the current needs of the
treasury, which Finance Minister
Auriol has placed at 40,000,000,000
francs (<1,840,000,000).
Blum promised that the govern
ment would wage a stiff fight against
rising prices and declared that gov
ernment employes would get Increases
when the financial outlook was
brighter.
MRS. TOMLINSON
FIGHTS FOR CHILD
Habeas Plea Follows Divorce
Granted Husband in Emotion
Packed Court.
Br the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. February 13 —
Divorced today by D. W. (Tommy)
Tomlinson, vice president of Trans
continental Western Air, Mrs. Virginia
S. Tomlinson opened a court battle
for custody of their 4-year-old daugh
ter Sheila.
In an emotion-packed court room,
Mrs. Tomlinson heard Judge Daniel
E. Bird order Sheila placed in the
care of the Sisters of Notre Dame de
Sion, who conduct a religious school
here.
Then she burst into tears. Other
women in the court room wept as Mrs.
Tomlinson pleaded:
“Don't take my baby from me. Don’t
take her Judge, please.”
Tomlinson, tears in his eyes, tried
vainly to console her.
Mrs. Tomlinson quickly applied to
the Kansas City Court of Appeals for
a habeas corpus writ to give ner
Sheila's custody. Judge Hopkins B.
Shain ruled the child should go to
the school until a hearing Tuesday.
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BTDR. WARBASSE
Co-operative League Head
to Discuss Movement at
Shoreham Tonight.
Dr. James F. Warbasse, president
of the Oo-operative League of the
United States, will be the principal
speaker before the Town Hall of
Washington tonight at § o'clock at
the Shoreham Hotel. His subject
will be “The Co-operative Movement.”
The members of the panel will be
Jacob Baker, chairman of the Presi
dent's commission which studied co
operatives abroad last Summer; Mias
Helen Topping, representative In this
country of Toyohlko Kagawa, leader
of the co-operative movement in Ja
pan; Edwin O. Nourse, director of
the agriculture division at Brookings
Institution, and Huston Thompson,
former chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission. Dr. John W. Stude
baker, commissioner of education,
will preside.
The Co-operative League, which
was formed in 1915, Is an organiza
tion of consumers' co-operative so
cieties throughout the country.
Dr. Warbasse'g study of economic
conditions and co-operative societies
has taken him into every State in
the Union and 23 foreign countries.
Benjamin Myers, 80, Dies.
CLIFTON STATION, Va„ Febru
ary 13 (Special).—Benjamin Myers,
80, died In Emergency Hospital, Wash
ington, yesterday as a result of pneu
monia which developed after he frac
tured his arm in a fall at his home
near here February 8.
U. S. Judge in Ohio Dies.
TOLEDO, Ohio, February 13 (.P).—
George P. Hahn, Federal judge of the
northern district of Ohio, died yes
terday of paralysis after a brief at
tack of Influenza. Judge Hahn was
appointed by President Coolldge in
1928.
NEW ‘STAR’ HOME
Second of 1937 Series Is
First in Virginia for Sev
eral Years.
The second Silver Star Home of
1937 will be opened to the public today
at 3225 Glebe road, Country Club
Hills. Vt. It Is the first Star home
to be located In nearby Virginia in
several years.
Early American in type, the new
home was built by Charles B. ller,
who took charge of construction in
the club hills section a short time
ago. The community is situated hign
above the Capital and within easy
reach of the business area.
There are eight rooms and two baths
in the home, which has a sale price
of $16,000. It Is constructed of brick
and stone painted white. The lot is
more than a third of an acre in extent.
The Glebe road home bears the in
dorsement of the Silver Star Homes
Committee, a group of housing experts,
of which James S. Taylor of the Fed
eral Housing Administration is chair
man. Other members of the com
mittee who examined the home with
Mr. Taylor are as follows: John Nolen,
Jr., director of planning of the Na
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission; Irwin S. Porter, archi
tect; Edwin H. Ro6engarten, builder,
and Comdr. F. L. Sandoz, president
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and permit our oil burner installa
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Salary and commission basis.
Nothing to sell.
Address Box
228-E Star Office
of the Washington Real Estate Board.
Under sponsorship of The Star, the
home will be open to the public for
30 days. Visiting hours are from 10
a.m. until 9 p.m. It may be reached
by driving across Key Bridge, thence
right on Lee Highway through Lyon
Village and Cherrydale to the traffic
light at Glebe road. Turn right on
Glebe road and proceed slightly more
than a half mile. The house Is on
the right of the street a short dis
tance past the Washington Golf and
Country Club.
$60,000,000 Spent on Flowers.
More than $60,000,000 was spent on
cut flowers in Great Britain last year.
NOTED SCIENTIST DIES %
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Dr. Edward Curtis Franklin, Nich- *
olas Medal Winner, Succumbs.
PALO ALTO, Calif., February 13
—Dr. Edward Curtis Franklin, 79,
who received the 1925 Nicholas Medal
for contributions to science, died here
today. ,M«ui. «
A graduate of Johns Hopkins Dili# ||
versity, he was an authority on am
monia and liquid air. He had been an
emeritus member of the Stanford Uni
versity staff since his retirement 10
years ago.
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