450 Will Graduate
From West Point
In Colorful Ceremony
Lf. Gen. Drum Will
Present Diplomas
Tuesday Morning
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WEST POINT, N. Y., June 8.— J
Four hundred and fifty youths will!
make their last appearance in cadet
gray tomorrow afternoon in the tra
ditional graduation parade, colorful
high light of West Point's June Week
ceremonies.
The 1940 graduating class of the
tTnlted States Military Academy will
step from the ranks of the corps,
march across the parade ground and
take their stand beside Brig. Gen.
Jay L. Benedict, superintendent, to
watch their younger classmates pass
in review.
Following the review, the corps
will march back to the barracks,
where the ' plebes," members of the
fourth class, their first year of cadet
life ended, will be formally recog-1
nized by their fellows.
Throngs of families and friends of J
cadets and West Point alumni are
expected for the exercises that will!
be climaxed Tuesday with the
presentation of diplomas and com
missions in the cadet armory.
Alumni ceremonies wil. be held
tomorrow morning, opening with a
memorial service at the cadet chapel i
at 9 am. and dedication of the
Wirt Robinson Memorial. Escorted
by Gen. Benedict, former graduates
will march to Sylvanus Thayer Mon
ument, where the entire corps of
cadets will be formed in three sides
of a hollow square and the tradi- j
tional wreath will be placed at the
feet of the statue of the "Father
of the Military Academy.”
The alumni will take their place
on the parade ground to review the
corps in full regimental dress.
A luncheon and annual meeting
Of the Association of Graduates will
be held in Cullum Memorial Hall
at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday's graduation
is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m.
Lt. Gen. Hugh A Drum. U. S. A.,
will make the presentation.
I
Nebraska Flood Strikes
Town Thrice in Two Days
B? thp Associafpd Press.
WAUNETA. Nebr.. June 8—Rain
awollen Frenchman Creek raged 4
feet deep again through the business
district of Wauneta today as the
third head of water in two days
struck the hard-hit town, but else
where in the Republican Valley
flood dangers appeared past.
The Frenchman was dropping
above and below Wauneta. however,
and ample warning prepared resi
dents, so little new damage occurred.
Any possibility of a repetition of
1935's Republican River flood ap
peared past as first flood waters of
the Frenchman reached the river
at Culbertson after high water from
other tributaries had been drained
away, and experienced observers as
serted the Republican could carry
the load now.
Palestine Is hard hit by loss of
tourist trade.
HONORED AT LUNCHEON—Two retiring home economics teachers of District schools were
honored at a luncheon. Left to right. Miss Mary Tate and Miss Josephine White, the honorees,
and Mrs. Ola Day Rush, supervisor of home economics in District of Columbia schools.
—Star Staff Photo.
Home Economics Teachers
Fete Two Retiring Colleagues
Thirty-eight of the District school
system's home-making teachers sat
down to the "other fellow's cook
ing" yesterday to honor two of their
number who have been retired after
an aggregate of 57 years of service
Miss Josephine White of 1751
Kilbourne place N.W., who has b°en
teaching Washington girls the fine
points in keeping a proper home for
36 years, and Miss Mary Tate of
1789 Lanier place N.W., a home
economics veteran of 21 vears of
class supervision, were the honor
guests. The luncheon was served at
Mrs. K's Toll House Tavern in Sil
ver Spring. Md.
Attending the fete were teach
ers representing home economics
classes in the District's elementary,
vocational, occupational and iuniot
and senior high schools. Among
other guests seated at the head table
were Miss Kathrine Bresnehan of
1364 Shepherd street N.W., who was
retired last fall, and Miss Emma
S. Jacobs of Arlington, Va . who
served in the home economies de
partment of the schools for 50
years, many as supervisor, prior to
her retirement four years ago.
The present supervisor. Mrs. Ola
Day Rush, presented silver candle
sticks to Miss Tate and Miss White
on behalf of their fellow teachers.
Miss White, a native of New York,
came to the District when she was
a girl, entering school here in the
fourth grade. She has been con
nected with the school system, eith
er as a pupil or a teacher, since that
time. Miss Tate came here from
Annapolis at the time of h»r ap
pointment.
Co-ed of 1940 Wants Marriage,
Not Career, Psychologist Says
By th* Associated Press.
EVANSTON. 111., June 8—The
co-ed of 1940 Is shunning a "career"
for marriage and motherhood.
This conclusion was reported in
an interview today bv Mrs. Ruth
O McCarn. psychologist and coun
selor of women at Northwestern
University.
She described the choice of mar
riage and motherhood instead of a
career as tremendously more pop
ular with the co-eds of today than
with those of the last generation. |
“Twenty years ago. as a result
of the overemphasis of the femi- 1
nist movement, women thought in
terms of careers," she said.
“Today very few young women
have professional ambitions. Most
of them are interested in the prob
lem of how to marry as soon as pos
sible in the face of financial diffi
culties. and how to plan for a
family."
i The psychologist said she believed
the feminist movement was a pro
1 test against woman's feeling that
her place was inferior in a man's
world, but that, today women have
a more equal chance for education
and advancement, and less of a
sense of injustice.
Mrs. McCarn said she believed the
results of psychological tests, the
release of women from household
drudgery, an increase in parent ed
ucation, and the dissemination of
birth control information, were
among the reasons for the shift in
women's interest.
Judge Okays Shakespeare
GREENSBORO, N. C„ June 8 i/P).
—The plaintiff in a suit "wowed''
'em with his answer to the defense
attorney's question by saying it was
a matter he “wot not of." After
some discussion, Superior Court
Judge Felix E. Alley ruled that the
Shakespearean expression was
quite legitimate, meant the plain
tiff "did not know" and that "any
thing Shakespeare said may be used
In my court.” '■
Baptists Accept Japan's
$66,000 War Damages
By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va., June 8.—Dr. M.
T. Rankin, Southern Baptist Foreign
Mission secretary for the Orient,
announced yesterday that a com
mittee representing Northern and
Southern Baptists had accepted a
Japanese offer of approximately
$60,000 for damages inflicted on the
University of Shanghai during the
first two years of the Sino-Japanese
war.
Owners of the property are the
American Baptist Foreign Mission
Society (Northern Baptists) and the
Foreign Mission Board of the South
ern Baptist Convention. They esti
mated the damages at $367,000.
"The owners have agreed to do
this because of the uncertainty of
present conditions, and because of
the delays and complexities which
must be faced if the matter were
to be deferred for the attention of
any international claims body at
some indeterminate date," the com
mittee reported.
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All-Welded Steel Ship
Slides Down Ways
In Mississippi
18,000-Ton Craft Is First
Of Eight Being Built for
Maritime Commission
By th* Associated Press.
PASCAGOULA, Miss., June 8.—
The 18,000-ton cargo ship Excheq
uer, flrst American-built all-weld
ed steel ship, slid down the ways
into the Pascagoula River today.
The $2,600,000 vessel, flrst of eight
being built at the Ingalls Ship
building Corp. plant here, was chris
tened by Mrs. Max O'Rell Truitt of
Washington, wife of a member of
the United States Maritime Com
mission and daughter of Senator
Barkley of Kentucky.
Approximately 12.000 spectators,
including high officials of the
Maritime Commission, attended the
launching.
The eight new ships are being
constructed for the Maritime Com
mission for delivery to the Amer
lean Export Lines of New York.
The Exchequer, 492 feet long, was
constructed without use of a single
bolt or rivet. Each piece of steel
in the huge hull was electrically
welded. She is expected to be de
livered to American Export Lines
in August.
The Exchequer has a speed in
excess of 18 knots.
An early start of shipbuilding at
Mobile, Ala., was indicated, follow
ing announcement yesterday the
Waterman Steamship Corp. had
agreed with the Maritime Com
mission to construct four cargo ves
sels of approximately 9.600 tons,
with a speed of 16 knots. The agree
ment to construct the new vessels
was reached as a condition of the
commission's acceptance of Water
man's *596,000 bid for purchase of
five vessels from its laid-up fleet.
Street accidents in Paris in
creased from 453 in 1938 to 506 last
year.
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Br the Auoclited Preu.
SAN JOSE, CaUf.—With the
price of mercury boosted by the
war, renewed activity is taking
place In the old mines of the dis
trict. Several major deals involving
deposits worked since the days of
the Spanish padres have been madfc.
Fulminate of mercury is im
portant in war as a detonator for
shells. This area contains the
largest known deposits of the liquid
metal in the United States.
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