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Students to Be Picked immediately tor Flying Courses C. A. A. Hopes to Train 10,000 in Colleges, Hinckley Says Colleges and universities which will train 10,000 student airplane pilots during the coming school year will be selected immediately by the Civil Aeronautics Authority follow ing enactment of the deficiency bill carrying an appropriation of $4,000, 000 for pilot training. Formal application blanks have been sent by the Authority to several hundred institutions from which ap plications have been received for participation in the program. Blanks are being sent to all colleges, uni versities, technological institutes, 4 year teachers’ colleges and junior colleges requesting them. Robert H. Hinckley, chairman of the C. A. A., pointed out that col leges should decide at once whether they desire to participate in the training program so allotments may be made and courses set up at the beginning of the school year, shortly after September 1, in as many col leges and at as many airports as possible. Hope to Train 10,000. “We hope to train 10,000 students between the ages of 18 and 25,” he said. "The results of the experi mental program for 330 students in 13 colleges authorized by the Presi dent last December and carried out during the half-year of school just ended were so satisfactory that we feel we have adopted a method of training that will, in the first place, contribute enormously to increased safety among private flyers, which Will healthily and almost immedi ately stimulate the production and use of private airplanes, and which, in the long run, will provide a na tional strategic asset in trained per sonnel and manufacturing capacity of incalculable value.” The C. A. A. plan calls for a uni form 72-hour, ground school course and a controlled-instruction flying course which will insure a student his private pilot's certificate with a minimum of 35 and a maximum of 50 hours in the air. The flight instruction will be given at nearby airports by instructors recommended by the colleges themselves which are able to qualify as to personnel and equipment under C. A. A. require ments. C. A. A. inspectors now are ex amining instructors throughout the country under the new rating re quirements. Full Academic Year. The combined course will extend over the full academic year, with ground-school instruction preceding flight instruction by about one month. Selection of students will be left In the hands of college authorities, but all students must pass the rigid medical examination given by flight surgeons approved by the authority. A laboratory fee of not to exceed $40 to cover the cost of insurance and other incidentals will be charged each student. The Civilian Pilot Training Act of 1939 requires that at least 5 per cent of those receiving benefits of the training program shall be other than college students. Although final requirements for the participa tion of non-college students have not been completed, it is anticipated that the training will be given on an extension course basis and that announcement will be made as to the qualifications of those to be selected. Thorne Baby (Continued From First Page.) circumstances surrounding the transfer of the child, but pointed out that both counsels agreed that twice within a day or two after the child was taken away the parents wanted it back. Judge Puzzled. ‘‘It is difficult in the face of things how to understand how this question arose originally,” he said, “but when people are in distress their minds become temporarily unbalanced. Therefore the court decides that the parents should have permanent custody of the child.” While the attorneys had told the two stories of Mrs. Grover's relations with the Thornes, the baby, ordered to be brought into court this morn ing. slept in her mother's arms. Several of the other Thorne chil dren also were in court with their father and grandmother and the justice said in his final statement that he had noticed their attitude before making his decision. He also was assured that neither Mrs. Grover nor the couple who had planned to adopt the child, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tilt of Greenwich, Conn., wished to make any further claims on the child. It being given back to the Thornes, the child is giving up what was described in previous testi mony, and independently, by Mr. McCormick, as a fine home with a millionaire foster grandmother and parents with a $20,000 annual in come. Mrs. Thorny “Distraught.” In describing the circumstances leading up to the surrender of the child, Mr. Chamberlain said Mrs. Thorne was "distraught, disturbed and other than normal.” On her return from the hospital with the baby, he said, "she was ill and de pressed,” and the payment of hos pital expenses as well as other finan cial burdens were wearing heavily on the Thornes.. She faced another operation. __ 1__A.X_9 .._ j iib vuiiuiiucu, ap peared” and suggested to the Thornes that they allow her to care for the child for a while. While the baby was with Mrs. Grover she re peatedly urged the Thornes to sign papers permitting her to adopt or take over the care of the infant, he said. The Thornes grew uneasy because of the repeated conversations, he went on, and after two weeks they took the child home. Mrs. Grover, he said, visited the home in East Riverdale several times again and kept up the same line of conversa tion. The time for her operation was nearing, he said, and Mrs. Thorne was worried because her 20-months old child was 111 and her mother had broken her arm and would be un able to take care of the other chil dren. Parents Didn’t Realise. “I don’t believe either of the Thornes was in a position to realize what this was all about,” he said as he described the signing of papers surrendering the child to Mr. Grover. On May 5, he said, the document was signed before a notary public and on May 8, after thinking it over, the Thornes went to Mrs. Gro ! ver and asked her to return the ! child. Mrs. Grover, he said, said it was too late. On several succeeding occasions, Mr. Chamberlain concluded, the Thornes asked Mrs. Grover where the child was and, not being able to learn the baby's whereabouts, finally “in despair” went to the Board of Public Welfare, which re ferred them to the Legal Aid Bu reau, where they were advised to file a writ of habeas corpus to get back their child. Mr. McCormick, in his version of the story, told the court that before the baby was born Mrs. Thorne had talked with a nurse, who advised her of Mrs. Grover's condition. She then told Mrs. Grover, he said, that she couldn't afford a baby. Mrs. Grover, he said, advised her to wait until the baby was bom and then take it home and talk the mat ter over with Mr. Thome. If she was still of the opinion that she wanted to give up the baby, Mr. McCormick said, Mrs. Grover told i Mrs. Thome she would help. Asked Mrs. Grover’s Aid. A week later, Mr. McCormick con tinued, Mrs. Thorne asked Mrs. Grover to find the baby a better home than they could give it. He said Mrs. Grover offered to take the baby for a week or two while the Thornes were making their de cision. After the baby had been with Mrs. Grover a week, the lawyer con tinued, the Thornes came to her home on Jocelyn street N.W. and said they had changed their minds and wanted to take back the baby. The following week, he went on, the Thornes brought the baby back to Mrs. Grover and told her to find a home for it. Mrs. Grover, he said, told them she knew of a couple who would take the baby but she didn’t want them to change their minds when it was too late. The Thornes agreed, he said, that it was best not to know the names of the adopting parents. She asked them, he said, if they were willing to sign sur render papers and they said they were. She went with them, he said, to a notary public and gave each of them a copy of the surrender paper, which they studied for some 10 min utes before they signed. “They signed freely and willingly,” he declared, “well knowing that by the following Monday (three days away), the baby would be placed for adoption.” He said that the Thornes called a week later and said they had changed their minds and wanted the baby back again. They were told, he said, that Mrs. Grover could do nothing about it. The following day, he said, Mrs. Grover visited Mrs. Thorne and explained the situation to her. Mrs. Thome, he asserted, said she was perfectly happy, but "was afraid of her husband and had to do what he said.” At this point Mr. Chamberlain asked that Mr. McCormick’s remarks be stricken from the record as preju dicial, but Justice Goldsborough re sponded that he “was not disposed to suppress anything that will throw any light on what had hap pened.” Besides the Thorne family, whose faces were wreathed in smiles as they left the courtroom, a number of representatives from the Board of Public Welfare and other social serv ice organizations attended the hear ing, which climaxed several weeks of litigation on the Thorne case and the hearing involving the custody of 5-year-old Ramona Bayasco- Per na last week. AT COURT BILL SIGNING—Attorney General Murphy (right) and former Attorney General Cum mings (left) were called to the White House yesterday while President Roosevelt signed a bill which Mr. Murphy said “completes the 1937 court program” by creating an administrative offi cer for the Federal courts. Mr. Cummings, who fought with the President for the court revision plan, said the signing “put the capsheaf qp that fight.” (Story on Page A-l.) —A. P. Photo. | - ———-—---— Roosevelt's Court Statement President Cites Objectives Gained Since Judicial Reorganization Proposal in 1937 By the Associated Press. Following is the text of President Roosevelt's statement yesterday on his court reorganization proposal: It is worth recording that today, August 7, 1939. deserves special rec ognition because it marks the final objective of the comprehensive pro | posal for judicial reorganization j which I made to the Congress on ! February 5, 1937. The country' is naturally concerned with the at tainment of proper objectives rather i than any one of many possible methods proposed for the accom plishment of the end. 1. Two and one-half years ago I proposed the extension to the jus I tices of the Supreme Court of retire ment privileges then available to other Federal judges. Such an act was passed March 1, 1937. 2. I called attention to the un warranted attitude of the Supreme Court with reference to its exer cise of constitutional powers. Meas ures of social and economic reform were being impeded or defeated by narrow interpretations of the Con stitution and by the assumption on the part of the Supreme Court of legislative powers which properly belonged to the Congress. It is true that the precise method which I recommended was not adopted, but i the objective, as every person in the United States knows today, was achieved. The results are not even j open to dispute. Attacks recently made on the Supreme Court itself by ultra-conservative members of uthe bar indicate how fully our lib eral ideas have already prevailed. Congested Dockets Cleared. 3. I called attention to the con gested dockets of the Federal courts, delay in disposing of cases, the need of new blood in the judiciary branch of the Government and the need of additional judges. Since then 25 additional judges have been pro vided for by Congress, and a bill authorizing five more awaits my signature. The congested dockets and the delay; have been already ! almost eliminated. 4. I called attention to the need for greater flexibility in the Judicial system so that judges could be more readily assigned to areas where the courts were excessively in arrears. Under the act of August 24. 1937, a welcome improvement was made in this feature of our judicial system. 5. I called attention to the in tolerable situation when constitu tional questions involving Federal statutes were passed on in private litigation, and recommended that no decision, injunction or decree on con stitutional grounds should be per mitted without previous notice to the Attorney General and an opportunity for the United States to be heard. By the act of August 24. 1937, the Attorney General was given the right to intervene in litigation be tween private parties involving con stitutionality of Federal statutes and limitations were placed on the is suance of injunctions in similar cases in the lower court. Appeal Path Made Direct 6. I called attention to the need for direct and immediate appeal to the Supreme Court in cases involv ing constitutionality of Federal statutes, such cases to take preced ence over all other matters pending in the court. This right of direct appeal was established by the act of August 24, 1937, and is now the law of the land. 7. I called attention to the need of the judiciary itself for effective machinery for overseeing its own dockets and expediting its own af fairs. This very day I have, with great satisfaction, approved an act which sets up an administrative of fice for the judiciary. Thus have been enacted into law six of the actual recommendations made by me more than two years a8o—and the seventh recommenda tion has been accomplished through the opinions of the Supreme Court itself. Explosion (Continued From First Page.) experiment along to the point where the danger began and was alone in the laboratory with Dr. Joseph Greenberg, a faculty assistant. Dr. Greenberg had his back turned when he heard an explosion. He turned to see the student lying on the floor, broken glass all about him and flames leaping up from the table where the chemicals had been. He summoned help and Mr. Rabeno vets was rushed to the hospital. The flames were quelled quickly. Dr. Rice said he believed the shield —which was cracked by the force of the explosion—had saved the student from more serious injury. The professor said that experiments with the chemical would be stopped. Diazomethane was described as a yellow gas, which was being liquified in the experiment. It is a highly inflammable and powerful substance which causes rare reactions on other chemicals. UNTIL MARCH 15 Double room, twin beds and bath, $15.75 to $17.50 week, each person, including breakfast and dinner. Also European Plan. HOTEL MARTINIQUE 16th b M Sts. N.W, Dl. 4150 Sayre Takes Oath As Commissioner In Philippines McNutt and Murphy Witness Ceremony; Bell Takes New Post Francis B. Sayre took the oath of office today as United States High Commissioner in the Philippine Islands. Floyd E. Dotson, chief clerk of the Interior Department, administered the oath in Secretary Ickes' execu tive quarters in the presence of Mr. Ickes, Sergio Osmena. Vice Presi dent of the Philippine Common wealth; Attorney General Murphy, a former high commissioner; Secur ity Administrator Paul V. McNutt, also a former high commissioner; Admiral H. R. Stark, chief of naval operations; former Attorney General Cummings and approximately 100 personal friends and administrative heads of the State, Justice and In terior Departments. Mr. Dotson also administered the oath of office to Golden Bell, former assistant solicitor general, who will be Mr. Sayre's legal adviser. President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Sayre, a 54-year-old Pennsylvanian, on July 29, to succeed to the post vacated by Mr. McNutt, who became head of the Federal Security Agency I under the President's recent reor ganization of Government depart ments. Was Assistant Secretary. Mr. Sayre previously served as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of reciprocal trade agree ments. He formally took over his new duties under Secretary Ickes' aegis as a result of the reorganiza tion program, which switched pro tection of the islands from the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs to the Interior Department's Division of Territories and Island Possessions. kjl 1V_»1 L1J W1UIV. tVUHJ U m. vu> u>B in ceremony, the resignation of Mr. Bell as assistant solicitor general was announced at the Justice De partment. Attorney General Murphy said he could not say at this time who would succeed Mr. Bell. In an nouncing the resignation, the de partment made public an exchange of correspondence between Mr. Bell and President Roosevelt and the Attorney General. Fascinated at Prospect. “I am sincerely thankful for and enthusiastic over your appointment of me as legal adviser to the United States high commissioner in the Philippine Islands.” Mr. Bell wrote the President. "The fascination of adventuring in your service to these far places with Frank Sayre to meet novel and momentous prob lems i< one of the few opportunities that could lure me from office in the Department of Justice, where in divers capacities I have been privileged and happy to serve you during the past six years.” “In entering upon my new duties, I should deeply appreciate having a signed photograph of you to take with me. “Under these exhilerating circum stances I tender my resignation as the assistant solicitor general, to take effect upon the qualification of Mr. Sayre as United States High Commissioner in the Philippine Islands.” In response, the President said he was "particularly pleased that you are looking forward with such enthusiasm to your prospective duties.” He also expressed "grati tude and appreciation” for Mr. Bell's services in the department. TRUNKS— ST47 ”d Repairing of Leather Goods G.W. King, jr., 51111th StN.W. "TINY" HILL AND MEMBERS OF HIS BAND, ALL FROM ILLINOIS, DEDICATE WED., AUG. », AS A SUPER-SPECIAL ILLINOIS NIGHT AT THE BALLROOM Girl Born With Heart Outside Her Body Puzzles Doctors Baby Sleeps Peacefully As Manila Physicians Debate Operatioin By tb« Associated Press. MANILA, Aug. 8.—A 7-pound baby girl, bom with her heart com pletely outside her body, but appar ently normal otherwise, alternately took nourishment and peacefully slept today while puzzled doctors worried what to do. A thin stemless cocktail glass pro tected the tiny exposed heart which rested on the Infant's chest over a small opening. Through this open ing the aorta, a large artery, con nects the heart with the thoracic cavity, where the heart normally is found. The glass helps maintain body heat for the heart and guards against infection. Physicians disagreed whether the child would live and debated feasi bility of an operation to place the heart in its normal position inside the chest. They said there was only one other such case in recorded medical history. Born in Slum District. The child was born yesterday to a 24-year-old mother in a little ma ternity hospital in the heart of the Tondo slum district. She was bap tized by a priest and named Maria Corazon (Mary Heart). The most prominent medical and surgical men in the Philippines gathered about the operating table on which the baby lay, surrounded uy uub wmci uuiuco aiiu uuuri uuu stant care of a nurse. Among them was Gen. Basilio Vales, chief of staff of the Philippine Army and prominent also as a surgeon. Dr. Guillermo del Castillo, the at tending physician, said he expected the child to live. Other prominent physicians expressed doubt. The doctors also were undecided whether to attempt the operation to place the heart where it belongs. Dr. Castillo said he thought an operation would be impossible for the present, explaining he feared the thoracic cavity was too underdevel oped to receive the heart and that the child could not stand the shock of an operation. Heart Action Normal. Tlie baby whose heart beat and breathing were declared normal, was not born prematurely. Feeding was accommplished by means of an eye dropper, which was used because it was more convenient than a bottle. The baby sucked in the milk and licked her lips. Crying caused her exposed heart to beat faster. While newsmen watched her to day she opened her eyes, squinted, then fell into a sound sleep. Visitors flocked to the little ma ternity hospital, among them Mrs. Manuel Quezon, wife of the Com monwealth President. Curious Filipinos by scores gath ered around and superstitious folk of the Tondo district were attracted by a story that the child's exposed heart was due to the mother’s ex ceptional devotion to the Sacred Heart prior to the birth. The mother, who was unaware of her daughter's condition, was re ported doing well. Boy, 9, Hot Only Pilots Plane, But Flies It by Instrument Son of Commander of Naval Air Station Has A Wish Answered Sammy Ginder has taken a turn at piloting a plane, and his pro ficiency in that first effort presages a brilliant career in the air. The bright 9-year-old son of Comdr. Samuel P. Ginder, com manding officer of the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, had- been pleading for the chance almost con stantly, but his father had been forced to refuse, being barred by regulations governing operation of naval planes. The opportunity appeared recent ly however, when a nine-seater, twin-engined Beechcraft transport arrived at the station for demonstra tions. Comdr. Ginder and his son went up with the demonstrating pilot. The two flyers explained to eager Sammy significance of the instru ments—the manufacturer wished to indicate 'simplicity of the ship's operation—and the youngster then was permitted to slip into the pilot’s seat. Sammy had learned well. He was able to maneuver the plane "blind” for 20 minutes at 200 miles per hour without aid from his father or the regular pilot. During the adventure the young air enthusiast was forced to resort to the instruments because he was too small to see over the dashboard. Sammy, who lives with his parents in the Westchester Apartments, now is vacationing at Camp Gunston, Centerville. Md. He will begin fifth grade studies at Horace Mann School in the fall. Comdr. Ginder holds the Herbert Schiff Memorial award for 1939 as leader of the naval air squadron possessing the best record of vigi lance and safety in flight. He has been a flyer for 19 years. SAMMY GINDER. Rev. F. A. Parsons Quits Church Post Here The Rev. F. Alan Parsons, for nearly nine years rector of the Church of the Ascension, Twelfth street and Massachusetts avenue N.W., has resigned. He has ac cepted a position as superintendent and rector of the Church Home for Children in Philadelphia. It is an institution which takes care of girls until they are 18 years of age. Mr. Parsons will assume his duties there on August 15. He will preach his last sermon at the local church next Sunday at 11 a m. at holy eucharist. Headed by the Parish Aid Society several organizations of the church have planned to tender the rector and Mrs. Parsons a farewell recep tion next Sunday from 5 to 7 o'clock in the parish hall, adjoining the church. Until the return of Bishop James E. Freeman from his vacation no new rector will be selected for the vacant position. President's Signature Fixes Edison's Status By the Associated I^ss. Presdient Roosevelt signed yester day a measure which will permit j Charles Edison to continue as act ing Secretary of the Navy until a j permanent successor to the late j Secretary Swanson is named. Under the law. Mr. Edison, now Assistant Secretary, could serve as acting secretary for only 30 days. Stephen Early, a presidential secre tary, said the new measure would permit Mr. Edison to sign contracts and to conduct other Navy business until the President chose a perma nent department head. Police Asked to Look For Missing Youth Montgomery Couty (Md.) police today were requested to look out for Nelson N. Perron. 17. who has been missing from his East Mendon 'Mass.) home since June 26, 1939. i Police were told that an aunt, Nellie Downs, lives in Silver Spring, Md. The missing youth was said to be about 6 feet tall, weighing 160 pounds, with dark brown hair, gray , eyes and a medium complexion. THE REV. F. ALAN PARSONS. Columnist Protests Apology to Hoover i By the Associated Press. ^ Drew Pearson, Washington col- \ umnist, took exception today to a'*' University of Chicago statement which called “absolutely untrue” a radio assertion by Mr. Pearson that former President Hoover has had men “buying up” Republican dele gations in the South. Frederic Woodward, university vice president, told a radio audience Sunday that Mr. Pearson had made the assertion during an extempo raneous portion of a university round table broadcast. The univer sity’s retraction, he said, was be ing given after Mr. Hoover de- r manded a “full, approved apology." Mr. Pearson’s statement today said Mr. Hoover “made no protest • to me” and added: “I am informed that Mr. Wood ward acted without consulting President Hutchins (of the uni versity) and also that his state ment was opposed by others at the University of Chicago.” The columnist said Mr. Wood ward was an old friend of Mr. Hoover's and declared he “stepped into a situation which did not con cern him and regarding which I told the university I would take full responsibility.” Dr. Cooper Curtice Dies; Was Cattle Fever Expert Dr. Cooper Curtice, outstanding authority on cattle tick fever, died -» this morning at his home in Belts ville, Md., the Department of Agri culture announced. Dr. Curtice. v'Jio was 83 years old, had been engaged in research work for the Bureau of Animal Industry for many years and had continued his studies after re tirement in 1930. Many of his ex periments in combatting the disease were conducted in Fairfax County, Va. 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