Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-03
Leaders of Transfer Protest
Waiver in Face of Pos
SibIe Fines.
CONGRESSMAN ASKED
TO JOIN CONTROVERSY
Representative Murray of Pennsyl-
vania Said to Have Advised
Against Compliance.

With the full support Of their leaders
gone and the morale of AmoSt of them
shattered by fear of the penalties of
THE compulsory school attendance law,
only IL families we're represented among
the strikers" who appeared at the
John Burroughs School this morning to
protest the transfer of their children
to the new Langdon elementary
School and the Langley Junior High
School.
The 10 parents who called at the
school with their children to demand re-
admittance were advised that the trans
fer orders stood. After agreeing to meet
tonight at the Office of one of the lead
erS, who meanwhile had agreed to the
transfer for his own child, in order to
decide upon the future course" the
little crowd dispersed. Some said they
were going to Capitol Hill to seek the
support of>their Congressman and others
went home to think it over
Turpin Advises for Burroughs.
Mrs. Alice M. Garman of 1903 New
ton street northeast, whose eighth-grade
boy was among those ordered trans
ferred, said she had seen Representa-
tive G. Murray Turpin of Pennsylvania,
and although he admitted he was UNI
familiar with the situation, she said, he
Burroughs School. When Mrs. Garman
left the school this morning she said
she was going directly to Senator
Grundy and Representative Colder.
Mrs. H. A. March of 1911 Monroe
street northeast was planning to see
Representative Murphy Of Ohio to en-
| list his support.
Meanwhile, more than 70 per cent Of
the 80 transferred children were in their
I II rTIl-g
the 15 assigned to the Langley Junior
High School had appeared at that
building, while more than so of the re-
manning group were installed in the
Langdon School.
Among those who bowed to the trans
| fer was x. p. Armstrong, vice chairman
OF the citizens associations educational
committee and leader in the organi-
cation Of that body and the present
hight against the transfer. He told The
Star that he had written on the formal
card. asking which of the two schools
to which the children we're being trans
ferred he preferred his child to attend.
| that he preferred Burroughs. He said
| also, however, that he instructed his
child that ''if 1t came to a showdown"
ne was to go to Langley in accordance
with the transfer.
John M Kemper, chairman of the
the transfer.
In this mornings protest to the
principal of the Burroughs School, Will
liam E. Rabenhorst, president of the
| association, made it plain that he was
not protesting as a parent, because he
| had no child affected this year by the
reorganization. He told The Star that
the weakness of the protest was caused
by the threat Of the compulsory school
attendance law and the fines it pro-
videS.
| Besides those already named. the pro-
| testing parents at the Burroughs this
morning were: William Walsh, 1915
Tylor street northeast; Mrs. r. K. Lynt,
! 1878 Lawrence street northeast; Mrs.
l.. F. Thompson, 100 jackson street
northeast; Mrs. H. A. Leusenkamp. l72l
kearney street northeast; Mrs F. B.
| Wallace, 1923 Monroe street; Mrs. A. A.
Pack, S501 Fifteenth street, and Mrs.
c. ]. Russell, 1921 Monroe street north
! cast.
| Transfer Relieves Congestion.
/ The present disturbance among the
| parents and children of the community
served by the Burroughs School resulted
! from the transfer of the seventh and
eighth grades from the Burroughs Build
ing to the recently completed Langdon
school. The rooms vacated by the trans
terred classes will be used to relieve con-
geStlon at the Burroughs School and
the Brookland School.