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GROUP ASKS FUNDS
FOR ARMS BE USED
INYOUTHPROGRAM
“Pilgrims” Gather at Y. M.
C. A. to Hear Address by
Aubrey Williams.
MEMBERS ABSOLVED
OF “SIT-DOWN” BLAME
Incident Kesult of “Uncalled For”
Action by Police Official, "
Leader Declares.
A campaign to lessen Government
expenditures on armaments in ordnr
to provide more money for Federally
administered youth programs was
urged today on the young representa
tives of 60 labor, educational and
social organizations.
A reduction in the arms budget.
Chairman William Hinckley told mem
bers of the National Council of the
American Youth Congress, would
make more tangible the hope of the
congress for passage of the $500,000,
000 American youth bill.
This pending legislation, in behalf
of which the young men and young
women staged a Pennsylvania avenue
parade ending in a “sit-down” Sat
urday, would make possible an elab
orate program of education, vocational
guidance and job-finding for unem
ployed persons between the ages of
26 and 26.
Convention Closes.
The meeting of the National Coun
cil held at the Young Men's Christian
Association, 1736 G street, was the
last event on the four-day program of
the convention of young men and
women, estimated by their leaders at
4,500.
Aubrey Williams, director of the
National Youth Administration, was
to address the council, and short talks
were expected from Senator Lundeen,
Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota, one of
the four authors of the $500,000,000
national youth bill: Katherine Len
root, chief of the Children’s Bureau
of the Labor Department, and Charles
P. Howard, president of the Interna
tional Typographical Union.
A statement absolving the Youth
Congress from blame in the “sit
down” at the Whit# House Saturday
was issued yesterday by Hinckley, who
was one of the two men arrested when
600 youths in the van of a parade
halted on South Executive avenue and
dropped to the street.
Police "Interference" Hit.
“The fact that several hundred
tired young marchers, many of whom
had traveled all night in busses to get
here, sat down at the end of the
parade as they waited for the bearers
of scrolls containing hundreds of
signatures indorsing the act to reach
the White House, would have passed
off shortly, quietly and entirely un
noticed if it were not for the un
reasonable interference of the police,”
Hinckley said.
"The parade was legal and orderly.
The overpublicized incident at its con
clusion was merely the result of a
thoroughly uncalled for action on the
part of an overzealous police official.”
The pilgrims attended an inter
denominational religious sendee at
Washington Monument yesterday, at
which Jeffrey Campbell of the Stu
dent Christian Movement presided,
and Rev. Dr. Russell J. Clinchy of
Mount Pleasant Congregational
- Church. Rabbi Theodore Gordon of
Baltimore and Rose Terlin, national
• student secretary of the Young
Women's Christian Association, spoke.
Campbell, Hinckley and Myrtle Pow
ell of the Y. W. C. A. laid a wreath
at the base of the monument.
U. S. NAVY GROWTH
PRAISED BY CRITIC
British Authority Commends Pol
icy on Air Power as Far
Sighted.
8r the Associated Press.
A British naval authority praised
the United States Navy’s development
of a “well-balanced” fleet rather than
"overemphais" on air power in an
article published today.
Hector C. Bywater, writing in the
journal of the Army Ordnance Asso
ciation, termed the building and main
taining of a strong force of capital
ships, with proportionate quotas of
other craft, instead of placing too
much dependence on air power, a
"clear-sighted appreciation of actu
alities.”
Airplanes are an important auxiliary
arm of the fleet, Bywater explained,
but air power alone will not play a
decisive role in high seas warfare of
the future.”
“It is difficult to see,” Bywater wrote,
"how the paramount naval problem
Confronting the United States—main
tenance of strategic control over the
eastern Pacific and the security of
communication with the Par East, in
cluding the Philippines, can be either
complicated or simplified by the de
velopment of air power.”
BROADCASTS PREPARED
WRC Official Works on New Pan
American Series.
Shannon Allen, night manager of
Station WRC, begins work today at
the head of a group of 30 Govern
ment scriptwriters preparing a series
of 26 radio broadcasts designed to
Improve relations with the 21 Pan
American countries.
The project is being undertaken at
the request of the President, following
up his recent gogd-will trip to South
America, and is being handled
through the Interior Department.
Allen is being loaned by the radio
station during the period required for
the work.
Dancing ^eachers Meet.
Paul Mathis, dancing instructor,
waa among the speakers at a meeting
of the Dancing Teachers’ Club of
Washington, Maryland and Virginia
yesterday at the Mayflower Hotel. Miss
Ivy Randall offered instruction in
acrobatic work and ball room dancing
waa discussed.
Sebring, Police Court Clerk
For Last 30 Years, Dies at 77
Was 111 Tivo Months,
Would Have Been
Retired March I.
Francis A. Sebring, 77, cleric of Po
lice Court for the last 30 years, who
would have been retired March 1, dt°d
today at his home, 5320 Colorado ave
nue, after an illness of two months.
Mr. Sebring. who had been confined
to his home by illness since early in
December, asked to be retired in a
letter addressed to Presiding Judge
John P. McMahon last month. Hs
request, made because of poor health,
was approved and Walter F. Bramhall
has been appointed as his successor,
to take offipe March 1. William A.
Norgren is acting chief clerk.
Retirement-of Mr. Sebring, who had
been an employe of the court more
than 40 years, was blocked in 1932
when Police Court judges interceded
in his behalf and obtained special or
ders from President Hoover waiving
terms of the economy act in his case.
Praised by Judges.
In asking that he be retained in
office beyond the retirement age fixed
in the act, the judges said in their re
quest to the President that Mr. Se
bring's “capability, sound judgment
and energy and capacity for work has
not been diminished because of his
age.”
President Hoover granted a 30-day
extension in office and later a further
extension was granted under which
he had held office up to the time of
his final illness.
The judges paid high tribute to
the veteran court clerk in their re
quest of 1932.
“Under his progressive regime," they
said, “the system in vogue in the
Police Court is well above the aver
age found in other jurisdictions. In
view of the splendid organization
which he has built up and his ability
to handle difficult situations, which
constantly arise, and his thorough
knowledge of all precedents and re
tentive memory relating thereto, which
[ are of inestimable value to the judges,
\ his retention 1s therefore considered
: vital to the interests of the general
public and to the judges of this
court.”
Refused Vacations.
The judges cited the fact that he
had been absent from his desk be
cause of illness only twice in his
long term of service—during the World
War. when he was a victim of the
influenza epidemic, and in 1919, when
he was run down by an. automobile.
For many years he refused to take
vacations.
Mr. Sebring was prominent in
Masonic affairs. He was a thirty
FRANCIS A. SEBRING.
third degree Mason, past master of
Temple-Noyes Lodge, past potentate
of Almas Temple of the Shrine, past ;
high priest of Mount Vernon Chapter, i
Scottish Rite, and past commander j
of Columbia Commandery, Knights
Templar.
Born in Chatfield. Minn.. Mr. Se
bring came to Washington as a young
man, after having been admitted to
the bar in North Dakota. He was
graduated from the University of
Rochester In 1886. He was personal
page to James G. Blaine during part
of Blaine's service in the House and
then worked for the Census Bureau
and the Treasury Department before
going to Police Court 43 years ago.
Collected Autographs.
For 60 years Mr. Sebring had col
lected autographs of eminent Ameri
can statesmen, which fill a volume of
more than 100 pages. He began the
hobby in 1876 when he was a page
in the House and obtained the signa
tures not only of all members of the
Congress of that period, but practi
cally all the notable Capitol figures
of the day, even of the justices of the
Supreme Court. President Grant and
| his cabinet members all signed. All
of the Presidents since Grant have
signed His book has been sought for
years by collectors of Americana.
Mr. Sebring is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Carrie H. Sebring; two
daughters, Mrs. Stephen O. Ford of
this city and Mrs. George P. Plum
mer of Rockville. Md., and by two
sisters, Mrs. Celia Sebring Knoeppel
of Nashville, Tenn., and Mrs. Libbie
Doremus of Newton Center, Mass.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Wednesday at the home, with
interment in Congressional Cemetery.
SCIENCE SOCIETY
Ceremonies at Cosmos Club
to Precede Installing of
G. W. U. Chapter.
Fifty workers in the field of science
will be nominated for election to the
Society of Sigma Xi, natioal honorary
scientific fraternity, at the Cosmos
| Club at 5 p.m. today. The cere
monies will precede the Winter con
' vocation of George Washington Uni
' versity. scheduled for 8 p.m. in Con
stitution Hall, at which a university
i chapter of Sigma Xi will be installed
and eight internationally known
scientists will receive honorary de
grees.
Dr. George B. Pegram of Columbia
University and Dean Edward Ellery
of Union College, both national of
ficers of Sigma Xi, will conduct the
installation. Dean Ellery will present
the chapter its charter, while Dr.
Pegram will deliver the charge.
Those on whom honorary degrees
will be conferred tonight are the fol
lowing: Dr. William Alanson White,
superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hos
pital; Dr. John C. Merriam, president
of the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington; Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secre
tary of the Smithsonian Institution;
Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director of the
Bureau of Standards; Dr. William
Bowie, director of the Division of
Geodosy, Coast and Geodetic Survey;
Dr. Paul Bartsch. curator of the
Mullusks Division, National Museum;
Dr. Ellery and Dr. Pegram.
The convocation also will be marked
by the awarding of certificates and
degrees to 315 students who are gradu
ating from the university. President
Cloyd Heck Marvin will make the
awards and presentation of diplomas.
Dean Elmer Louis Kayser, university
marshal, will head the academic pro
cession and preside.
Delegates representing 31 chapters
of Sigma Xi in colleges and univer
sities throughout the country will be
present. Forthy-three members of
the faculty, who are members of
Sigma Xi chapters at the universities
where they took their degrees, will
be charter members of the new
cihapter.
Probe of G. W. Student’s Ac
cident at Standstill—Fra
ternity Explains.
Investigation of the Sigma Chi Fra
ternity prank that indirectly nearly
resulted in death for a George Wash
ington University freshman Saturday
night appeared at a standstill today
as the student was reported recover
ing from burns received when he was
shocked by a KTOOO-voltage wire.
Physicians said the victim—Vernon
Rasmussen, 25, of East Salt Lake
City, Utah—will get well, although he
is still confined to Georgetown Hos
pital, where he was taken after being
found semi-conscious on the grounds
of the Dalecarlia Distributing Reser
voir, at Conduit and Reservoir roads.
Although burned on the arms and
legs, police do not believe Rasmussen
actually touched the power line. They
think he probably was thrown back
when he came too close to It.
Found by Pepco Employe.
The youth was found by a Potomac
Electric Power Co. employe about two
hours after he had left the Sigma Chi
house, 1312 N street, where prepara
tions were being made for an initia
tion on Saturday night.
A student at the fraternity house
said Rasmussen was sent out on an
‘•errand”—to look for “an object"—
while the initiation equipment was
f»ut in readiness.
“If he had followed the written in
structions he was given,” the student j
said, "it wouldn’t have happened. He
wouldn’t even have been near the
power line.”
University Won’t Investigate.
Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, president of
George Washington University, said
he was not investigating the incident.
“If any inquiry is made,” he said,
“it will be up to the Student Relations
Committee.”
Prof. John A. McIntyre, head of
this group, said he had not yet de
termined whether there would be an
investigation.
Seventh precinct police, who investi
gated the case Saturday night, denied
they intended to charge Rasmussen
with trespassing when he is released
from the hospital.
f
Woman’s Estate Held Ample
To Pay $1,000,000 in Bequests
The extent of the estate of Mrs.
Clementine Parr Duff, 86, whose will
specified about $1,000,000 in chari
table bequests, probably will be re
vealed this week or early next week,
the executors declared today.
Meanwhile, they declined to esti
mate her holdings, other than to say
that her estate was ample to pay all
the legacies.
Stanton C. Peelle, one of the execu
tors, disclosed that one of Mrs. Duff's
last requests was that she not be
buried until late Spring "so that peo
ple will not have to brave bad
weather to visit my grave.”
Burial will be in Philadelphia be
side the grave of her husband, John
J. Duff, wealthy New York real estate
owner. During the interim her body
will repose in an unmarked metal vault
in the receiving room at Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
For years Mrs. Duff, a small woman
who habitually dressed in black, had
given liberally to charities and to her
friends and servants. i
Living a retired life in her large
apartment at 1150 Connecticut ave
nue, she was little known to those
of this generation, taking part in few
outside activities.
Her apartment was lavishly fur
nished in the style of half a century
ago. In it her best friend, Miss Mary
R. Baker, to whom she willed $100,000,
now lies ill.
It was said she had inherited three
large fortunes, the first from her
father, William Parr, Philadelphia
manufacturing jeweler: the second
from ^er husband, who died about 15
years ago, and the third from her
sister, Mrs. Seaton Perry. In memory
of her sister, Mrs. Duff financed the
Children’s Home of the Central Union
Mission.
Origin of “Academy.”
The word "academy” is derived from
the olive grove of Academe, where
Plato, the Greek philisopher, retired.
SLEET AND SNOW
CAUSE CRASHES;
WOMAN IS KILLED
Pedestrian, Run Down on
Georgia Ave., Pronounced
Dead at Hospital.
D. C. MATRON IS VICTIM
IN FREDERICK SMASH-UP
Five Persons Are Injured as Auto
Hits Pole—Taxicab “Stop”
Story Is Probed.
Death of a woman pedestrian sent
Washington’s 1937 traffic toll to 24
last night as sleet and snow precipi
tated a series of accidents in the city
and nearby communities, one of which
was fatal to another resident.
The pedestrian killed was Mrs.
Sophia M. Klezos, 48, of 3555 Georgia
avenue, who was run down bv an
automobile while crossing Georgia
avenue near Otis place. She was
pronounced dead on arrival at Gar
field Hospital.
Police said the car was driven by
Thomas O'Connor, 28, of 619 Seventh
street northeast, who was released
pending a coroner’s inquest. An au
topsy was to be held at the District
Morgue today.
Killed Near Frederick.
Mrs. Kathleen A. Nivens, 5111 Ca
thedral avenue, was killed early yes
terday in an automobile crash near
Frederick. Md. Two other persons in
the car. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stanaes,
5173 Fulton street, escaped with
slight injuries.
Mrs. Nivens died soon after the car
in which she was a passenger was in
collision with a truck on a curve at
the foot of South Mountain.
Mr. and Mrs. Starnes were taken
to the hospital in Frederick. Mrs.
Nivens was a sister of Mrs. Starnes.
The party was en route to spend the
week end with relatives in Maryland.
Police reported that the truck was
operated by Ralph O. Koontz, Ger
mantown, Md. The accident occurred
on a particularly sharp curve, it was
said.
Meanwhile, Washington police are
investigating the possibility that the
death Saturday of Mrs. Mary B. Tew,
90, of 2953 McKinley street, resulted
from injuries received in a taxicab
accident.
Complained of Taxi Jolt.
Mrs. Edith Lee, a daughter, re
ported that Mrs. Tew complained on
January 22 that a taxicab in which
she was riding had stopped suddenly,
throwing her to the floor.
Five persons were injured early
today when the driver of their auto
mobile hit a telephone pole on the
Washington-Baltimore Boulevard at
Berwyn, Md.
The driver, Mattie Morris, 28, of
707 Seventeenth street southeast, said
he drove through a puddle during the
storm and slush splashed over his
windshield, blinding him. The car
sheared off the pole and overturned.
Morris received cuts about the face
and scalp. Others brought to Casualty
Hospital by the Prince Georges County
Rescue Squad were Marie McMahone,
35, of 1828 M street northeast, suffer
ing scalp cuts and brain concussion;
Mrs. Bernice Strong, 35, of 66 I street,
concussion; William J. Waer, 37, of
327 First street northeast, broken
nose, cuts and bruises, and Chester
Strong, 42, of 66 I street, possible
fracture of the knee and concussion.
Jersey Man Critically Hurt.
Harry’ W. Butz. 58, a resident of
Newark, N. J., stopping at the Atlas
Hotel, was critically injured last night
when knocked down by an automobile
at John Marshall place and C street.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital
and treated for internal injuries, a
broken arm, nose and pelvis. Butz
later was transferred to Gallinger
Hospital.
The automobile, police say, was op
erated by Clement J. Mesbaum, 26,
of 760 Princeton place.
Bessie Haar, 32, of 1445 N street,
suffered fractured ribs yesterday when
she was struck by an automobile while
crossing Massachusetts avenue near
Fifteenth street. She was taken to
Sibley Hospital, 'where doctors said
her condition appeared to be improv
ing.
The car was driven by Armon
Deans. 1731 Ninth street, according
to police.
Man Struck by Taxicab.
Billy Washington, 29, colored, 907 R
street, possibly received fractures of
the pelvis and skull when hit by a
taxicab yesterday while crossing Ninth
street in the 2000 block. The cab was
operated by Louis P. Allen, 37, of 101
E street southeast.
Four Washingtonians were slightly
Injured last night when their car
skidded and overturned on the high
way 4 miles west of Luray, Va. They
were Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wilson of
Indiana avenue and a "Mr. and Mrs.
Manahan." according to a dispatch
from Luray today.
Carroll Hutchinson, 20, of 1104 Ver
mont avenue was hurt yesterday at
Havre de Grace, Md., when a Grey
hound bus from New York to the
South hit a bridge abutment, injuring
eight other persons. Hutchinson, a
steward on the bus, received a broken
left ankle.
MRS. J.J. COPENHAVER
DIES IN ROCHESTER, N.Y.
Lifelong Resident of Capital Was
Active Worker in St. Thomas’
Episcopal Church.
Mrs. J. Julia Copenhaver, life
long resident of Washington and
widow of Henry E. Copenhaver, died
today at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Edward H. Cumpston, in Ro
chester, N. Y.
Mrs. Copenhaver, who lived for
more than 40 years at 2239 Q street,
had been an active worker for St.
Thomas' Episcopal Church since it
was founded. She also did volunteer
work for Homeopathic Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at St.
Paul’s Church at 3 p.m. tomorrow,
with burial in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Mrs. Copenhaver is survived by her
daughter.
Empty Bottles May Make Houses
Refuse Department Toys With Idea in Drive on “Dead Soldiers”
About City.
All of these empty whisky bottles were picked up by one trash truck in a single day.
—Star Star Photo.
BY JOHN JAY DALY.
MPTY whisky bottles—strewn
throughout the city, on side
walks, in tree boxes, in gutters,
along alleyways and even on
church lawns—cause more trouble for
William A. Xanten, supervisor of city
refuse, than all other forms of debris.
Actually a ‘‘drive” was started some
weeks ago, at the behest of the Fed
eration of Citizens' Associations, to
rid the city of this nuisance. As a
result many strange uses for the
old, discarded, thrown-on-the-ash
heap bottles have come to light.
For instance, houses of the future
may be constructed with material
made from remelted bottles.
Under the law', whisky bottles may
not be refilled. So when found at
large they go to the dump. At least
they went to the dump until it became
overcrowded. Ton after ton of empty
{ bottles, picked up willy-nilly by the
ash, trash, garbage and street cleaning
forces, and then deposited at Jhe Gale
street dump, came very near providing
Washington with a glass mountain.
To forestall such a pyramid of
empty bottles, orders were issued at
the District Building to dispose of
them in another manner. They are
I now being taken to the two incinera
tors operated by the District govern
ment, one at First and O streets south
east and the other in Georgetown.
There, in heat raised to 1.500 degrees
Fahrenheit, the bottles are melted.
This melted glass is then cooled and
afterward taken to the dump—hidden
from human gaze.
That's where the containers of old
John Barleycorn go—out to the “dead
soldier's no man's land.” That’s
where the melted bottles camp for the
night, out in the open, till they bury
them neat morning at daybreak,
throwing dirt on top of them.
Once fumes from the empty whisky
bottles perfumed the air over the
Gales street dump. A man with a
good strong sense of smell could then
get a mighty cheap jag on, merely by
taking a stroll near the final resting
place of the empties.
That was before the new order—
bottles melted at incinerators.
Product of the empty bottles, when
melted, is a hard, amorphous sub
: stance that can be used as building
material Thus the bottles eventually
may make good window sills, door
I jambs and even glass brick for the
I walls of homes.
I Of course, it's quite an intricate
process. Yet, architects and builders
believe the day is coming when glass
houses will be made from salvaged
bottles found on city dumps. The
glass house is no idle dream. There j
is a warehouse on Rhode Island ave
nue made almost entirely of this sub
stance.
Chemists already have learned that
bottles need be done over very slightly
to accomplish this end. There needs
to be added to the silica (sand) only
the right proportion of some oxide in
order to make the glass as durable
as brick, steel or iron.
Only four plants in the country,
according to experts at the Bureau of
Standards, are so equipped today.
' This scarcity of producing centers, to
; gether with the high cost of trans
portation, hauling material from city
dumps, holds up the making of glass
houses from empty bottles.
Down at the exhibit room in the
warehouse operated by the procure
ment division of the Treasury De
partment, there are samples of what
can. and is being, done with glass such
as can be reclaimed from old remelted
bottles. Some of this material 1s being
used in the construction of Govern
ment buildings throughout the land.
I
Alleged Victims in Pershing
Bust Promotion Included
Men of Prominence.
Alfred M. Layton, alleged swindler
of many of the country's better
known financial and political figures,
is scheduled to go on trial tomorrow
before Justice James M. Proctor in
District Court.
A fugitive for two and a half years,
following discovery of a reported
scheme to obtain money through sub
scriptions to a fund for purchase of
a bust of Gen. John J. Pershing,
Layton was arrested July 30 in At
lantic City. He is said to have told
those from whom he solicited con
tributions that the bust was to be
presented to the National Gallery
of Art.
It now reposes in that gallery, the
gift of Maj. James A. Purcell, ex
ecutor of the estate of Maj. Gen.
George O. Squier. Officials say Lay
ton signed Gen. Squier's name to the
12,000 letters he sent to wealthy per
sons asking for contributions.
Gen. Squier knew nothing of the
solicitation and was greatly con
cerned when he discovered his name
had" been used. Knowing his feeling,
his executor purchased the bust out
of the funds of the estate and pre
sented it to the gallery.
Arrest of Layton, who jumped a
$10,000 bond early in 1934, followed
his recognition in an Atlantic City
hotel by Elmer Bell, Washington at
torney.
Layton was indicted February 20,
1934, on charges of using the mails
in furtherance of a scheme to de
fraud. Each of the six counts of the
true bill carries a maximum penalty
of $1,000 fine or five years' imprison
ment or both.
He allegedly obtained about jn.ouo
in 1933.
Assistant United States Attorneys
Walter M. Shea and George E. Mc
Neil contend Layton wrote many
■wealthy and famous persons asking
them to serve on the “Gen. John J.
Pershing Portrait-Bust Committee,”
which he said was forming to pur
chase a splendid bust of the A. E. F.
leader. On the bust was to be placed
a plaque bearing the names of each
committee member. To become a
member of the committee required a
contribution.
Work of Dykaar.
The bust was the work of Moses
Dykaar, famous sculptor, who since
has died. It is said to have been the
only such work on which Gen. Persh
ing has placed his approval.
Among the well-known names found
in Layton’s files were Daniel Willard,
president of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad; the late Gen. W. W. Atter
bury, president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad; Paul D. Cravath, nation
ally known New York attorney; Roger
1W. Straus, New York financier;
Charles G. Dawes, former Vice Presi
dent; William Randolph Hearst, pub
lisher; Andrew W. Mellon, former
$2 Parking Fine
Mailed to Police
From Charleston
West Virginia Woman
Sends Check for
D. C. Offense.
A check for a $2 parking viola
tion was received by the Police Court
financial clerk today from Frances
W. Ellison of Charleston. W. Va.
The “ticket” which accompanied
the check accused her of parking be
tween 4 and 6 p.m. on February 16 in
the 1200 block of Sixth street.
It is seldom, court officials said,
that out-of-town motorists pay any
attention to tickets for traffic viola
tions. The check could not be ac
cepted by Police Court, but was sent
to Sergt. John Agnew of the Traffic
Division, who will have it cashed and
return the money to the court for
forfeiture.
70 ADDITIONAL STANDS
ASKED FOR CAB PARKING
Drivers' Brotherhood Also Calls
for Abolition of 4-6 P.M.
Prohibition.
The District Commissioners and the
Uublic Utilities Commission were
asked for 70 additional parking stands
and the rescinding of the 4 p.m. to
6 p.m. parking prohibition in the
downtown area at a meeting of the
Industrial Brotherhood of Taxicab
Drivers yesterday at 426 G street.
The cabmen pointed out that, with
about 5,000 cabs in the District, there
are only about 800 stands. They also
felt that a removal of the parking
ban, which would allow them to wait
for fares at the Government build
ings and by department stores, would
eliminate a good deal of the traffic
congestion caused by cruising.
OSTEOPATHS TO DINE
Representative Drew to Be Honor
Guest of Association.
The Osteopathic Association of the
District will give a dinner tonight at
Columbia Country Club to Repre
sentative Drew, Democrat, of Pennsyl
vania.
Charles Colfax Long will deliver the
principal address. Dr. Ardeshir Irani,
president of the local association, will
welcome the guests and Dr. Chester
D. Swope will be toastmaster. Edwin
C. Steffe of the Gridiron Club Quar
tet, will sing.
Secretary of the Treasury; the late
Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New
York Times; E. L. Cord, automobile
manufacturer; Alfred E. Smith, for
mer New York Governor; Charles
M. Schwab, steel magnate; Ogden L.
Mills, former Secretary of the Treas
ury, and Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., presi
dent of General Motors.
Layton is being held in the Dis
trict Jail. He was unable to poet
$50,000 ball.
COUNSELS SERVICE
Baden-Powell, 80, in World
Wide Message, Tells
Boys Their Need.
Celebrating his 80th birthday an
niversary today. Lord Baden-Powell.
founder of the Boy Scout movement,
told the more than 2,500.000 Scouts
throughout the world that they can
enrich their own lives by rendering
services for the old, the poor and
the infirm.
The message from Lord Baden
Powell, who has been the "chief
Scout of the world” since 1920, when
he was given that distinction at the
first world Scout jamboree in Eng
land. was transmitted to the head
quarters of Scout organizations in
73 lands from their international
bureau in London.
In his message, he said: "Eighty
years may seem to you a long time,
but I can’t remember a time when
I wasn't busy, and as long as you
are busy, you^ can’t help being cheer
ful. If ever you find yourself with
out something to do, remember that
there are always lots of people want
ing help, old people or those poor
or infirm, who would be only too
glad of a helping hand.”
Lord Baden-Powell said he had
found a difference between pleasure
and happiness.
"You get pleasure by amusing your
self. Happiness is another thing. It
is a joy which remains with you al
ways, and it comes largely not so
much from amusing yourself as from
doing good turns which help other
people.
“I want you to have as long and
jolly a life as I have had. You can
get it if you keep yourself healthy
and helpful to others. I will tell you
my secret for this: I have always
tried to carry out the Scout promise
and the Scout law in all that I do.
If you do that, you will make a
success of your life and will have
a very happy time even if you live
to eighty."
MAN HELD IN DEATH
FYank Milton Rowley, 30, of the
1400 block of Eighteenth place south
east, was arrested last night pending
an Inquest to be held Wednesday
in connection with the death of Mrs.
Thelma Scherer, 30,- of 912 Seventh
street southwest.
Mrs. Scherer died in Gallinger Hos
pital yesterday morning after being
admitted Saturday.
BAND CONCERTS.
By the Army Band in the audito
rium at 6 p.m. today. Capt. Thomas
F. Darcy, leader.
By the Marine Band at 3 p.m. to
morrow, in the auditorium, Marine
Barracks. Capt. Taylor Branson,
leader. William F. Santelmann, sec
ond leader.
TOWN HALL TOLD
OLUfllHASUCHED
LEFT SWING LIMIT
Abbe Ernest Dimnet Says
Inflation Peril May
Oust Premier.
SEES MANY REFORMS
GAINED BY REGIME
Conservatives No Longer Fear
Socialist, Cleric Tells
Audience.
The ‘‘popular front” government of
France, led by Socialist Prime Min
ister Leon Blum, has gone as far as
it can toward the political left and
still remain in power, Very Rev.
Abbe Ernest Dimnet, canon of the
Cambray Cathedral and noted French
author and lecturer, told the weekly
Town Hall audience at the Shoreham
Hotel last night.
Governmental finance and econ
omy, especially the former, are the
greatest problems confronting the
Blum government, the abbe de
clared, with either the “dream” of
tapping resources of insurance com
panies or inflation of the currency the
possible pitfalls ahead that might
eventually lead to the cabinet’s down
fall.
The French cleric and author, well
known on the American lecture plat
form, first informed his audience
that the Blum government was far
from communistic. He pictured the
Socialist Bium as between the Liberals
and Communists, right and left, re
spectively, on the left side of the
French Chamber of Deputies. There
are 140 Liberals, 180 Socialists and 72
Communists in the Chamber.
Honest and Clear Thinker.
“The popular front,” said Abbe
Dimnet, “is purely a political affair
among the men elected to the Cham
ber and not among the electorate.
Blum is a poet, an artist, a dramatic
critic and a collector, and while his
father was Jewish and his mother
Bulgarian, nobody can be as French
as he. Most Socialists members in
France are rich men, and Blum was
sure to be moderate as prime minis
ter, according to his nature. He is
honest and he thinks and write*
clearly.”
Abbe Dimnet described the Liberal
.party part of the popular front as
“really conservative" and asserted
Blum, achieving the 40-hour week,
15 per cent salary increases and col
lective bar^nining, really was carry
ing out Liberal reforms proposed as
far back as 1868, when Napolean III
was in power.
The speaker showed himself de
cidedly camera-shy when a news
photographer early in the addresa
made a flashlight picture of him.
“What a bothersome custom." he ex
claimed, as the bulb flashed from his
left side. He paused briefly and the
cameraman retreated. “The last man
who did that said ‘go on with your
lecture,’" the abbe added.
“Socialism,” asserted the speaker,
“means nationalization of industry,
and thus far there has been none of
that in France except for war muni
tions.”
Part of France’s financial difficul
ties were attributed by Abbe Dimnet
to appropriation of 14.000.000.000
francs for rearmament, because of
revival of the German war machine.
Conservatives, he said, are now not
as afraid of Premier Blum as they
were when he first took cffice. eight
months ago. Discussing effects of the
Blum program, the Abbe said the 40
hour week had led to increased prices
for goods and reduced sales and had
raised the cost of living 13 per cent,
leaving workers only 2 per cent net
from wage increases of 15 per cent.
The speaker described France a*
a nation of small landed proprietors,,
whose political beliefs are mirrored
in the French Senate, and said "if
Blum loses he will be outvoted by
the Senate unless there be a banana
skin somewhere.” He believed the
government would meet its Waterloo
if it tried to take over insurance com
pany resources or pursued a path of
inflation.
Financier Might Succeed.
In this event, said the abbe. a
Liberal cabinet would succeed the
Socalists, with a man of great finan
cial ability as premier, and there
would be no revolution because the
French worker "is so well fed. and rev
olutions are started by hungry peo
ple."
Abbe Dimnet was introduced by
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Wash
ington Cathedral, who acted as chair
man. Members of the panel that
questioned the abbe after his lecture
were Herbert Wright, chairman of
the department of politics and pro
cessor of international law at Cath
olic University: Leifer Magnusson,
director of the Washington headquar
ters of thp International Labor Of
fice. and Kemper Simpson, economic
adviser to the Securities and Ex
change Commission.
Replying to questions, Abbe Dimnet
said another prime minister would
have to "foot the bills” of the Blum
government, suggesting the new
French Ambassador to the United
States, Georges Bonnet, as a possible
successor to the mustached, bespec-.
tacled Socialist leader
The Blum government, he asserted,
had accomplished more reform in
eight months than the conservative
parties of France had in eight years.
Only 1 per cent of the French pop
ulation is unemployed, while 20 per
cent of the nation’s income goes for
taxes, in contrast to 12 per cent in
the United States, other questions re
vealed.
Canon Stokes announced efforts
were being made to secure two Sen
ators to lead a forum on the Supreme
Court issue at next Sunday's Town
Hall session, thus postponing the
scheduled lecture of Dr. Howard Hag
gard of Yale University until a later
date.
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Fishermen Fear Torpedo.
SAN DIEGO. Calif. (/P).—Commer
cial fishermen put to sea gingerly and
cast their nets with many a worried
glance at the hauls.
Navy authorities had asked them to
keep an eye open for a torpedo lost
overboard by the destroyer Dewey.