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Dividing of Cut
In Electric Rates
Slated Monday
Utilities Commission
To Meet to Decide on
Spreading $579,029
Members of the Public Utilities
Commission will meet Monday to
determine how to divide among cus
tomers of the Potomac Electric Pow
er Co. a sum of $575,029 they have
decided is available for a rate re
duction this year.
Experts of the power company
were directed late yesterday by the
commission to submit suggested new
rate schedules after the commission
had ruled on the amount available
for the cut. The reduced bills are
expected to be made effective within
several days.
Above Company Figure.
Company.spokesmen had contend
ed that the rate cut should amount
to no more than $454,766 on the
basis o.' the company’s financial ex
perience in the last year. The high
er figure had been suggested by
George H. Wilson, chief accountant
of the commission, and it developeed
that the difference was based in a
new accounting procedure adopted
by the commission during the last
year as to the handling of certain
items of miscellaneous properties,
formerly charged to operating ex
pense but later put through the
depreciation reserve accounts.
Two decidedly different views as
to how the rate cut should be ap
portioned already have been present
ed to the commission. Rufus S.
Lusk, speaking for the Building
Owners and Managers’ Association
of the District, argued that the en
tire cut should be given to commer
cial users on the ground that resi
dential consumers now are receiving
service at a price below cost.
Home Claim Presented.
Sidney R. Katz, for the Maryland
and District Industrial Union Coun
cil of the C. I. O.. contended that a
greater allocation should be made
to residential consumers.
The rate results from operation
of the sliding scale plan for the
power company, under which the
Company is allowed an initial rate
of return of 6 per cent on the
agreed rate base, which now amounts
to more than $80,000,000.
Youth Is Accused of Jheft
Of $91 From Safe
Police today charged a colored ■
youth with grand larceny in con- j
nection with the theft of $91 from
an open safe at the Parisian Fur
Shop. 641 Pennsylvania avenue :
S.E.. yesterday.
The suspect, an employe of the ,
shop, gave his name as James!
Raymond Nixon. 17, of the 400 block
Of Fifth street S.E. Police said they
recovered $80 of the money.
More than $167 worth of jewelry
and other valuables were reported
stolen from a bedroom of a home
at 4913 Ninth street N.W. Richard
Cromwell, who reported the theft,
said entrance was gained by jim
J._
Helen Pinuman, 1818 N street N.W.,
told police a man snatched her j
pocketbook, containing $4, as she
was walking near Seventeenth and I
De Sales streets N.W. last night.
Two colored bandits robbed Allen
Neumeyer, Government Printing
Office employe, of his billfold, con
taining $23. on K street near North
Capitol street early todav. Mr. |
Neumeyer lives at 4023 Ninth street
N£.
Explorer Tells of Rough
Which Droops Under Ball
A paradise for golf duffers, where
the rough conveniently droops to the
ground on contact with a ball, was
among the high lights of pictures
shown last night by Carveth Wells,;
the explorer, who is back from a
visit to the Straits Settlements.
The rough on the strange golf
course, an attraction of a resort
near Singapore, is covered with a
plant whose leaves collapse when
touched or brushed. The film was
shown before the National Geo
graphic Society at Constitution Hall.
Another oddity shown was a
species of lizard which, when pur
sued by an enemy, detaches a part
of its tail. While the pursuer sits
pondering over the wTiggling piece
of his prey's anterior, the lizard slyly
makes his getaway. Later, the
lizard grows another tail.
The explorer made the trip partly
to bolster some of the stories he
*■ LAnL n ..i.U * V.
about 15 years ago.
Elephants are quite a traffic prob
lem ,vi the section, he said. They
wr - in tunnels and wreck trains
an j railroad lines have to keep
wa. nen at either end to prevent
their entering.
Pictures of monkeys trained to
harvest coconuts, and a strange
species of fish that climbs trees also
were shown.
D. C. Heads Reject
Liquor Permit Appeal
The recent revocation by the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
of the liquor license of the Bamboo
Gardens, Chinese restaurant at
Fourteenth and H streets N.W., has
been upheld by the Commissioners,
if wav announced today.
An appeal from the A. B. C. Board
ruling had been taken to the Com
missioners by F. Joseph Donohue,
attorney for the restaurant.
The board had revoked the permit,
effective as of midnight Monday,
ruling the place had been guilty of
a sale to a minor. Thursday is the
beginning of the new license year
and the place has applied for a
renewal. Chairman Thomas E.
Lodge of the A. B. C. Board said
he did not know how soon the
agency would act on the new appli
cation.
Traffic Record
The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for 24
hour period ending 8 aun. to
day:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 21.
Motorists injured, 3.
Motorists arrested, 232.
Pedestrians injured. 1.
Pedestrians arrested for vio
lation of pedestrian control
regulations, 1.
Housing Parley
Plans Drive
For U. S. Funds
Roosevelt Appeals for
Rural Areas in
'Balanced' Program
Encouraged by President Roose
velt’s appeal for a “balanced” pro
gram to improve housing conditions
for low income families in rural
areas as well as in city slums, the
National Public Housing Conference
was preparing today to exert pres
sure on Congress for the enactment
of needed legislation.
Next in importance to presidential
approval given the proposed ex
panded housing program was the
assurance of Senator Robert F.
Wagner, Democrat, of New York,
that there is no danger of hous
ing funds jeopardizing the Federal
budget. His remarks were construed
as directed to the leaders of the
economy forces in Congress.
“The greatest possible cost of the
program to the Federal Govern
ment next year, the only cost
chargeable to the taxpayer and en
tering into the National debt, is
JilS nOOfiOn ” Rpnntnr Waanpr caiH
“Indeed, the House has just found
that an appropriation of only $10,
000,000 will be necessary at this
time.” He referred to proposed an
nual subsidy payments.
Meet Mrs. Roosevelt Today.
Senator Wagner and Administra
tor Nathan Straus of the United
States Housing Authority spoke at
a conference dinner session last
night at which Miss Helen Alfred,
executive director, read a message
from the President. Sessions were
being continued today and the con
ference, which has drawn up a
five-point legislative program, will
adjourn to enable delegates to be re
ceived at the White House this
afternoon by Mrs. Roosevelt.
Visualizing the rural housing pro
gram as "a challenging problem”
justifying the interest of the con
ference, the President’s message
read in part:
"Beginning with the first P. W. A.
projects and extending to the
projects of local authorities assisted
by the United States Housing Au
thority now opening every month,
the public housing program has
progressed consistently toward lower
rents, lower income groups served,
lower construction costs, increased
decentralization and community re
sponsibility, and above all the needs
of a larger number of families are
being met.
Slum Growth Checked.
“Last year, for the first time in
about half a century, the slum areas
in our country as a whole com
menced to shrivel rather than to
expand. Through public and private
endeavor, this tendency should con
tinue until decent housing for the
lowest income third becomes the
established rule rather than an
almost non-existent exception.
"I am especially gratified by the
vital interest now being shown in
improving housing conditions in ru
ral areas. The projects which the
United States Housing Authority is
helping to develop in widely scat
tered farm localities with the co
peration of the D^iartment of
Agriculture justifies the manifest
i interest of your conference in this
challenging problem this year. The
program for helping urban families
of very’ low income to obtain release
from the slums, though still young
will be given better balance bv thp
development of the still youngei
program to help rural families
; afflicted by the same evil condi
tions. Joined together, the rural and
urban housing programs togethei
should continue to grow."
Senator Wagner, who is co-authoi
of the United States Housing Act
reminded Congressional economists
that the $800 000.000 in construc
tion loans for housing pending now
in the House do not enter into the
I budget or the national debt at all
He added: "These loans require nc
taxes and call for no appropria
tions: they are financed through
the sale of United States Housing
Authority bonds to the investing
public, on which the Authority no*
realizes a substantial interest
profit.”
Earlier in the day the conference
reported its recommendations for
legislative action. They included:
1. Passage by the House of the
bill doubling the $800,000,000 loan
authorization of the United States
Housing Authority so that public
housing may be based on “long
range and uninterrupted program.’
2. Creation by President Roose
velt of a Rural Housing Commission
to report to Congress on the prob
lem as it now exists throughout the
country and recommend permanent
methods of handling it. Meanwhile
all governmental agencies dealing
with rural housing were urged tc
go ahead with present or projected
programs.
3. Urged State legislatures tc
study constitutional and statutory
precedents on which to base sup
plemental programs similar to that
New York State to make loans
and annual contributions to loca
housing authorities.
4. Federal loans up to 100 pei
cent for non-subsidized projects tc
rehouse families whose incomes arc
just above the maximum now sei
for public housing benefits.
5. Rejection of the proposec
amendment to the United States
Housing Act making it unlawful tc
admit aliens as tenants in public
housing projects.
This amendment was condemned
by the conference as "un-American’
in a resolution that claimed its
enactment would “gradually con
vert the slums into a crime breed
ing, disease breeding concentration
camp for aliens, from which in
practical effect, it would be unlaw
ful to remove them. The argu
ment that citizens alone are en
titled to Government aid is “fallaci
ous,” the conference contended. It
added: "The public housing pro
gram is not a largess to citizens but
a definite move by the Nation
against deteriorating effects ol
economic under-privilege and the
remedy must be applied where the
problem is found.”
Will Discuss Dictatorships
Ways of avoiding dictatorship ir
America will be discussed in a course
to be given by Dr. Ernest W. Griffith
dean of the American University
G—riuate School, beginning Thurs
dey.
Bondy Stresses
Need of Funds
For Aged Home
Commissioners Promise
To Consider Criticism
Of Mrs. Roosevelt
Need for larger appropriations for
the District’s Home for Aged at Blue
Plains was voiced by Robert E.
Bondy, District director of welfare,
in comment on the declarations
made by Mrs. Roosevelt following
her personal inspection of the home
yesterday, in which she described
conditions as “below standards of
decency.”
Mr. Bondy refrained from any di- '
rect statement that the Commis
sioners or Congress had failed to
provide sufficient funds in the past,
but he gave general agreement tc
the views of Mrs. Roosevelt that
larger sums were needed.
Commissioners Melvin C. Hazen
and David McCoach, jr., promised
to give "very careful” consideration
to views expressed by Mrs. Roose
velt following her tour of the in
stitution, accompanied by Mrs.
Henry Morgenthau. Commissioner
George E. Allen was away from his
desk, due to illness.
“Good Job for Money."
Mr. Bondy said: “We believe we
are doing a reasonably good job with
the money that has been made
available. I agree in general with
the criticisms of the program as
voiced by Mrs. Roosevelt. We will
study details of her comments. We
could use a great deal more money.
I hope we can get more funds, which
would provide for a better program
and a better institution.”
Mr. Bondy took office as welfare
director last September 16. Five
days before that date, he was called
before the Commissioners to defend
the estimates for the next fiscal year,
beginning next June 30. which had
been prepared by the Board of Pub
lic Welfare.
Study of the records disclosed that
, while the per capita cost at th»
Home for Aged was but $211 t'-»
similar cost per inmate at the Na
tional Training School for Girls for
this year was limited to $500. where
as it previously had been consider
ably higher. For District inmates
of the National Training School for
Boys the District is charged $2 a
day, or $730 a year.
Food Costs Figured.
Further examination of current
appropriations disclosed that food
costs at the institution run to some
$58.70 a year per inmate, not
coun'ing the value of farm produce
raised on the farm. It was esti
mated that these products were
valued at $31,470. but that the cost
amounted to some $22,189.
It was disclosed that inmates of
uie institution now’ nelp out with
the operation of the institution on
i a voluntary basis, in serving tables
and peeling potatoes and workinrt
on the farm. Congress has allowed *
but $2,000 a year for such "tempos
rary labor” and customarily thia
sum is used up within seven months
of a fiscal year. The inmates re->
ceive $1 a week for such servicij
while the pay lasts.
Urges Better Medical Care.
Mr. Bondy suggested the need for
a better program of medical care
and for clothing for the patients.
The total appropriation for this
fiscal year is $164,110. For the next
fiscal year the Welfare Board sought
appropriations totaling $337,690. The
Commissioners cut this down to
$159,170 and the Budget Bureau
allowed, in its report to Congress,
a total of $161,270.
The Welfare Board had requested
$20,000 for a new administration
; building and home for nurses and
other women: $12,500 for an addi
tion to the main dining room: $12.
000 for a colored women's ward;
$10,000 for new plumbing and $101,
000 for new power plant equipment.
None of these items was approved
either by the Commissioners or
! the Budget Bureau.
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I Two Are Slightly Hurt
In Traffic Accidents
Two passengers in automobiles In
volved in collisions here last night
w’ere nursing minor injuries today.
Fred Wineland, 13. of 519 Trenton
street S.E.. received leg bruises and
an injury to his right shoulder in a
collision on Nichols avenue S.E.,
near Sheridan road. He was treated
at Providence Hospital and returned
1 home. The boy was a passenger in
I a car which, police said, was oper
ated bv Sherman A. Snow, of th«
Trenton street address. He and the
i other driver. Elmer E. Cox. of Oxon
: Hill. Md.. were not iniured.
Face and head cuts were received
; by Louise D. Gordon. 19. of 3241 R
Street N.W.. in a crash in the 2500
block of Q street N.W. The car in
which she was riding rammed a
parked taxicab, police reported. She
was treated by a private physician.
A. Camp Stanley, jr., son of a
Washington physician and student
at Blue Ridge College, New Windsor,
Md„ was slightly injured in a head
on automobile collision last night
on Route 11 near Middleburg. Md.,
according to the Associated Press.
Miss Barbara Brechbill, 21, daughter
of a State Line, Pa., minister, was
killed, and four other persons were
injured in the accident.
Americanization School
Asks Immigration Study
The Americanization School Asso
ciation last night asked Congress to
consider carefully all pending meas
ures on immigration and natural
ization which may affect millions of
native-born children of foreign-born
parents.
Souren H. Hanessian, vice presi
dent of the association, said effort
was being made to unite all organi
zations in the city which are inter
ested in the legislation for discus
sion and consideration of the
measures.
F. Regis Noel was chairman of
the panel at last night’s ses
sion. Members included Miss Selma
Borchard and Martin Boghosian.
Other speakers were Vladimir Vasa
of the Americanization School,
Elizabeth Eastman of the Foreign
Language Information Service. Mrs.
Geoffrey Creyke, chairman of the
, D. A. R. Americanization Commit
tee, and James A. Crooks, chairman
■ of the legislation study group of the
association.
A son of the old South, Speaker Bankhead of Alabama and
Mrs. Bankhead were among the personages appearing for the
premiere. —Star Staff and A. P. Photos.
Kennedy Prepares
For Early Hearings
On Reorganization
House Committee
Chairman Also Tells
Objections to Plan
Chairman Kennedy of the House
District Committee, disclosing two
main objections to the Seal reor
ganization plan for the District
government, announced today that
he will hold public hearings on the
reorganization proposals just as soon
as he receives them from the Budget
Bureau. He anticipates this should
be “almost any day now,” as the
Budget Bureau has been studying
the plan for several weeks.
Chairman Kennedy said he differs
| with the Commissioners’ recom
i mendations on many points which
; he feels he should not be too critical
about until the Commissioners have
had an opportunity to explain their
reasons for the proposals at a pub
I lie hearing. There are two aspects
! which he feels, however, should be
objected to on principle.
One objection is to the provision
for a citizens' advisory council to
i be appointed by the Commissioners.
Chairman Kennedy believes this
would give the citizens no better
voice in management of municipal
I affairs than they have now, but
would be likely to curtail their in
■ fluence. because the proposed coun
cil, appointed by the Commissioners,
would not be representative of the
1 citizens.
A second important objection is
to the idea of having tne District
health officer chosen from one of
the service branches of the Federal
! Government—the Public Health
| Service. Army or Navy—“now or
later,” Mr. Kennedy declared. He is
of the opinion this would take con
trol over municipal health problems
from the Commissioners and place
the city health work under Federal
supervision. He also holds that,
being specially trained for Federal
service, a doctor from one of those
branches of the Government might
not have the training and broad
; general experience required for
muncipal public health work.
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Erie-Ohio Canal Seen
Harmful to Railroads
By the Associated Press.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission asserted yesterday that con
struction of the long-projected $240.
000.000 Lake Erie-Ohio River Canal
might so weaken the railroads as to
prevent them from meeting the
“needs of the public for efficient and
safe transportation.”
This statement was made in a re
port to President Roosevelt on “cer
tain aspects" of the proposed canal.
The I. C. C. was asked for a report
about a year ago after the Board of
Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
had told the President that if the
railroads would reduce their rates
by an average of 29 cents a ton, the
project could not be justified.
The Chief Executive asked the I.
C. C. “whether or not rate reductions
of the magnitude and type noted
above would be economically justi
fied.” and what effect construction
of the project would have on rail
and motor carriers.
“These are problems which I
should like to have examined before
large Federal expenditures are made
for the project,” the President said.
Clothing Asked for Veterans
An appeal for warm overcoats
and wool suits for disabled veterans
suffering from the cold was issued
today by the home service depart
ment of the District Red Cross.
Donors may bring garments to the
j chapter house, 1730 E street N.W.,
, or have them picked up by calling
I National 5400, extension 242.
Your D. C. Income Tax
-No. 13—Deduction for Contributions—
Whatever charitable contributions and gifts you made during
1939 are deductible under the District's income tax, but the bene
ficiary of your gift must meet several tests to make the deduction
valid. The District’s general rule on this question says you may
deduct:
“Contributions or gifts actually paid within the taxable year
to or for the use of any corporation, or trust, or community fund,
or foundation, maintaining activities in the District of Columbia
and organized and operated exclusively for religious charitable,
scientific, literary, military or educational purposes, no part of
the net income of which Inures to the benefit of any private
shareholder or individual.”
Adding thereto is a proviso limiting such deductions to a maxi
mum of 15 per cent of the net income. This means that even
though you may have given half of your 1939 salary to charity,
you can claim deduction up to only 15 per cent of your net income.
You may deduct contributions made to a missionary fund,
church building fund or for the benefit of other activities of the
church. Also regarded as contributions are pew rents, assessments
and dues paid to churches.
Gifts made to the United States, any State or Territory or
political subdivision thereof for exclusively public purposes are de
ductible. For instance, if you gave the District a tract of land for
use as a public park, that's a deductible item.
Contributions to organizations of war veterans, fraternal so
cieties, orders or associations operating under the lodge system
are deductible if used for religious, scientific, educational, literary
or charitable purposes. All the deductions for charitable con
tributions are almost identical with those allowed under the Federal
income, tax law.
U. S. Retirement Plan
Extension Will Be
Studied Further
Ramspeck Cites Bill
As Filling Needs of
Unclassified Clerks
The special committee studying
the question of now to provide old
age benefits for thousands of un
classified Government employes not
under civil service, and therefore
not subject to civil service retire
ment, decided yesterday to gather
additional information before tak
ing any action.
Representative Ramspeck, Demo
crat, of Georgia, chairman of the
House Civil Service Committee,
pointed out today that if the House
passes his bill, now awaiting con
sideration, to provide a method for
bringing these groups into civil
service, their retirement problem
would be largely solved. As exten
sions of the civil service took place,
the employes would become eligible
tu CiilCT LiiC t_xvxx aci Vice X CtXXC“
ment plan, he explained, as it is
now, they not only are outside of
the Retirement Act, but because of
having Government employment
are barred from social security also.
The special committee includes
members of Congress and repre
sentatives of several executive
agencies. President Harry B.
Mitchell of the Civil Service Com
mission is chairman.
Plan Expected Soon.
Meanwhile, Robert H. Alcorn.
1 Chairman of the Joint Conference
on Retirement of Civil Service Em
ployes. predicted today that within
j two weeks some plan would be
! ready for consideration by Congress,
to liberalize the age limits for op
tional retirement from Government
positions after 30 years of service.
This proposal struck a snag in
Congress last year, when differences
of opinion developed over how much
the employee contribution toward
retirement, now 3'j per cent of
salary, should be increased to make
possible the improved optional
feature.
Congress at that time, however,
succeeded in putting through several
other changes in the law. one of
which became effective January 1,
enabling employes to increase their
contributions voluntarily in order
to obtain a higher annuity at re
tirement.
Extra Benefits Shown.
These voluntary extra payments
may be made in multiples of $25
a year. In a letter to officers and
members of the joint conference
yesterday. Mr. Alcorn inclosed a
table just prepared by Lewis H.
Fisher, chief of the retirement di
vision of the Civil Service Commis
sion, showing to what extent vol
untary contributions of various
amounts wrould increase the retire
ment annuities of employes who
utilize the new feature of the law.
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I untarily added $25 a year to his
^ contribution for 20 years, would
have between $53 and $65 a year
added to his regular retirement an
nuity, depending on which retire
ment-age group his position falls in
—62. 65 or 70. The table also shows
what the amount would be if re
tirement came after 10 and after
30 years of accumulation.
Social Security Board
Member to Speak
The Rev. Orris Gravenor Robin
son, minister of the Calvary Metho
dist Church, will preach tomorrow at
11 a.m. on "The Will to Under
stand.” At the Calvary Evening
Forum Dr. George E, Bigge, member
of the Social Security Board, will
speak on “Some Basic Questions of
Social Security.” Next Sunday morn
ing the sacrament of the Lord's
supper will be observed at 11.
Elihu Frick, president of the
Young People’s Department of the
church, will preside at a supper and
open cabinet meeting of the group
at 5:30 Sunday. Following this
there will be a brief devotional serv
ice, in charge of Adele Archer, to
take the place of the regular 7
o'clock service.
Mr. Robinsdn will speak Thursday
evening, me u. y. w. uiass, Mrs.
Edwin Dice president, will hold a
guest night at the church Wednes
day at 8.
Press Club to Install
New Officers Tonight
Richard L. Wilson of the Des
Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune
will be installed as president of the
National Press Club at 8:45 o’clock
tonight in the club’s ballroom. Cere
monies will be spiced by a mock
inaugural parade of Mr. Wilson’s
supporters, with banners carried by
State delegations.
Melbourne Christerson of the As
sociated Press, will be inducted as
vice president. Retiring President
Arthur Hachten of International
News Service is to speak and the
United States Navy Band, under
direction of Lieut. Charles Benter,
will play.
Dorothy Lamour, Olivia de Havi
lland and Franklin P. Adams are
among the celebrities expected to
attend the annual ball, which will
follow Induction of officers. Yvette,
New York radio star, w11! sinj.
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AT LONG LAST—The movie “Gone With the Wind,” having had its premiere in various parts
of the country, arrived in Washington last night. Peter P. Smith and Julius F. Howell, Con
federate veterans, and Mrs. Howell (left to right) arrived for the doings in a horse-drawn
Victoria.
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Educators Discuss
Civil Service at
Conference Here
300 Attend Parley of
Association of Schools
Of Social Work
A panel discussion on “Civil Serv
ice Selection and the Profession of
Social Work" was to feature an
open luncheon session at the May
flower Hotel today for the more
than 300 educators attending the
conference of the American Asso
ciation of Schools of Social Work.
Members of the panel were to be
e,aun addou, aean oi tne university
of Chicago Social Administration
School; Albert H. Aronson, Social
Security Board; Eizabeth Cosgrove,
Civil Service Commission; Margaret
Frank, Maryland Employment Com
mission: Glen Jackson. New York
State Department of Welfare, and
Walter West, of the association.
A review' and discussion of the
best means of training men and
women to fit them for public and
private welfare work has occupied
the delegates from the Nation'^
leading social service schools during
the three-day meeting. The lunch
eon session today is open to the
public, and will be the last general
meeting scheduled.
Virginia P. Robinson of the Penn
sylvania School of Social Work was
the principal speaker at the annual
dinner held last night. W. I. New
sletter of the University of Pitts
burgh, president of the association,
presided.
Miss Robinson, one of the out
standing leaders in the field of social
service training, spoke on “The Cul
tivation of Skill as the Determining
Factor in a Social Work Curricu
lum." Social service schools, she
said, should design their courses to
fit ever-increasing conditions in the
field.
Earlier yesterday discussions were
led by Florence W. Hutsinpillar of
the University of Denver. Charlotte
Towle of the University of Chicago
and Arlien Johnson, University of
Southern California.
The Rev. Lucian L. Lauerman,
National Catholic School of Social
Service, was chairman of the local
Committee on Arrangements. Com
mitfpp mpmhprs uuprp the Pov
Thomas E. Mitchell, Catholic Uni
versity, vice chairman; Dorothy
Abts, National Catholic School of
Social Service; Hazel A. Hendricks,
Children's Bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor; Monica Lyman,
Catholic University, and Agnes Van
Driel, Bureau of Public Assistance,
Social Security Board.
Navy Selection Boards
Convene February 5-6
The Navy selection boards will
convene February 5 and 6 to select
330 lieutenants, junior grade, for
promotion to lieutenant and eight
lieutenant commanders and 11 com
manders in the Medical Corps to
commanders and captains.
Later a third board, as yet un
named, will choose officers for spe
cial postgraduate work at An
napolis.
Capt. Robert A. Theobald will
head the board selecting lieutenants.
Serving with him will be Capts. Paul
H. Bastedo. Lemuel E. Lindsay,
Charles J. Moore, James A. Logan,
James G. Ware, Elliott B. Nixon,
George D. Murray and Robert H.
English. Lt. Comdr. Armand J.
Robertson will be recorder.
R.par Admiral Rpninmin W rinrcov
will head the board of medical offi
cers selecting commanders and cap
tains. Serving with him will be
Capts. William J. Zalesky, James M.
Minter, Gordon D. Hale, William E.
Eaton, Richard H. Laning and Wil
liam W. Hargrave. Comdr. John
C. Adams will be recorder.
Army Nurse Is Buried
With Military Honors
Burial with full military honors in
Arlington National Cemetery today
was accorded Mrs. Christy Glueck,
51. Army nurse, following funeral
services at- the Hines funeral home
at 11 am. Mrs. Glueck died Thurs
day at her home, 2651 Sixteenth
street N.W. She was the wife of
Mason H. Glueck, attorney with the
Reconstruction Finance Corp.
A native of Fargo, N. Dak., Mrs.
Glueck was graduated from the
Army School of Nursing at Walter
Reed Hospital here in 1921. She
was appointed to the Army Nurse
Corps the same year, serving at the
Army Medical Center and at Camp
Meade, Md.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by her mother, Mrs. Ina H.
Dalrymple, a sister and two brothers,
Rebel Yells Echo on F Street
In March on'G. W. T. VV/
Celebrities Turn Out En Masse to See
Capital Premiere of Mitchell Epic
Washington, scene of the most
crucial Civil War "battles" since
the Civil War, had new and fiery
fuel to add to the post mortem flame
today—the city's premiere of "Gone
With the Wind,” with trimmings.
Sherman-s epochal march through
Georgia had a miniature counter
part last night in the “rebel” march
through F street—a howling parade
from the Willard Hotel to the Palace
Theater to hiss the general-in-spirit
in Hollywood's version of the Mar
garet Mitchell historical novel.
The Union general a la celluloid
was defenseless. He was outnum
bered by an army of yelling “rebels,"
clad in evening gowns and white
ties and tails, who set off the
premiere wun a oang.
Preceded by Mint Juleps.
Planners of the march were mem
bers of the Southern Bachelors’ Co
tillion of Washington, who gathered
at the Willard with scores of guests
for an old-time mint julep recep
tion before attending the premiere.
Gen. Julius Franklin Howell. 94
year-old commander in chief of the
United Confederate Veterans. W’as
there. So was Gen. Peter P. Smith,
95, a District resident, who fought
under the colors of the South.
The two generals, in their Con
federate uniforms, led the F street
march, sitting erect in a horse
drawn Victoria. Holding the reins
was a colored driver, topped with a
high silker reminiscent of the old
South.
Flanking the carriage were five
young “rebels" garbed in Confed
erate uniforms. Confederate flags
were held high with the national
emblem. National Guardsmen help
ed lead the way and along behind
came the formally attired mob wav
ing small Confederate flags and
shouting "yipees” and “whoopies,"
which duplicated the yells of Miss
Mitchell's fiction characters as they
left their homes to “fight the Yan
kees.”
Traffic Yields to “Rebels.”
Scores of policemen lined the 1300
block of F street to keep order
among spectators who crowded the
curbs and held up traffic for the
“rebel" fling.
By the time the “Gone With 'the
Wind" marchers reached the the
ater t’.e floodlighted entrance was
a madhouse.
Lesser lights in their best bibs
and tuckers jammed through police
lines elbow to elbow with Washing
ton’s celebrities—high Government
officials, diplomats and members of
Congress—and when Olivia de Hav
illand, one of the stars of the show,
arrived the mob closed in. The
smiling star was suddenly flanked
on all sir! Pc hv “nrntprtnrc”—froir
and five deep. She finally made the
grade, thanks to a police squadron.
News photographers, snapping
dignitaries as they stepped from
limousines, and radio announcers,
interviewing the first nighters, were
pushed and shoved in the mob.
Borahs’ Seats Empty.
Photographers missed J. Edgar
Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, and dozens of other
personages who slipped through the
throng virtually unnoticed.
"My, isn’t that a pretty coat?”
was the way the bystanders ac
cepted Actress Grace Bradley and
“Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd. Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Cronin got littie more than
a nod. as did Tom Corcoran and
Ben Cohen.
By the time the curtains rolled
back for the introduction to the
evening's piece de resistance, vir
tually all of the 2,400 seats were
filled. At least two remained empty
throughout the spectacle, however.
Those were the ones reserved for
the late Senator Borah and Mrs.
Borah.
Miss de Havilland got another re
ception after the premiere had offi
cially opened, bowing from a box
omiH O r»f onnlaucA a fam min
utes before the four-hour picture
started unreeling.
Sherman got his, too, a spon
taneous emission of hisses, when his
name was flashed on the screen,
with the flames consuming Atlanta
in the technicolored background.
George Sees it Again.
Gen. Howell “got a real kick” out
of the show from his front box. Gen.
Smith retreated in good order
shortly after the parade out front
ended. He saw the complete pic
ture as one of the honor guests at
New York’s premiere recently.
A second helping of “G. W. T. W.”
fell the lot of Senator George of
Georgia. He attended the world
premiere of the picture in Atlanta
and sat through the entire show
ing again last night—and what’i
•
more, declared he enjoyed it thor
oughly.
Members of the diplomatic corps
who accepted invitations to attend
the premiere were Ambassador of
Venezuela Don Diogenes Escalante.
Ambassador of Peru Don Manuel de
Freyre y Santander. Ambassador of
Panama Don Augusto S. Boyd. Am
bassador of Equador Colon Eloy Al
faro. Ambassador of Colombia Ga
briel Turbay. Argentine Ambassador
Don Felipe A. Espil. Mexican Am
bassador Don Francisco Castillo
Najera, Minister of Rumania Radu
Irimescu. Minister of Portugal Dr.
Joao Antonio de Bianchi, Minister
of Egypt Mahmoud Hassan Bey,
Minister of Guatemala Dr. Don
Adrian Recinos. Minister of Ireland
Robert Brennan. Minister of Greece
Dpmpf rins Sirilianrw Minister r.f the
Dominican Republic Don Andres
Pastoriza. Minister or Lithuania Po
vilas Zadeikis. Minister of Yugoslavia
Constantin Fotitch. Minister of
Czecho-Slovakia Vladimir Hurban
Minister of Nicaragua Dr. Don Leon
De Bayle and Count Jerzy Lasocki,
attache of the Polish Embassy.
Representatives of the District
government included Commissioners
Hazen, Allen and McCoach and Cor
poration Counsel Elwood Seal.
Others accepting invitations were
Secretary of War and Mrs. Wood
ring, Supreme Court Justices Huge
Black and Owen Roberts. Speaker
of the House and Mrs. Bankhead
I J. Edgar Hoover, Gen. Edwin Wat
I son. Guy Helvering. Eugene Meyer
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt anc
Mrs. Jerome Frank.
Four Students Receive
White House Invitation
Four seniors of the New Jersey
College for Women who invitee
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt to dint
with them when they come to
j Washington for the citizenship in
stitute of the American Youth Con
gress in February will lunch wit!
her at the White House instead.
Their invitation to the President':
wife explained: "We realize this re
quest is quite out of the ordinary
but we don’t uphold convention:
and formalities just for their owr
sake, so when a circumstance pre
sents itself where we feel justified
in casting aside these convention:
we do so.”
The response to their invitatior
was a note from Mrs. Roosevelt’:
secretary. Miss Malvina Thompson
asking them to “come to the front
door” on February 10 for lunch.
Mon Pleads Guilty
To Theft of Tickets
Roland Linder, charged with steal
ing two airplane tickets to San
Francisco and $116 from a travel
agency in the 700 block of Four
teenth street N.W. where he was
employed, pleaded guilty at his
arraignment yesterday in Dallas,
Tex., the Associated Press reported
Linder was taken in custody Sun
day when he and his wife stepped
from a transcontinental plane at
Dallas. He will be returned here
for trial.