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Evening star., 1931-06-27

Ivan Perez, 18 years old, son OF the
former Cuban commercial attache mere,
and Kenneth L. Smith, II years olo'
son of Mrs. Grace w. Smith, Alb Shep-
herd street, today were shopping Tor
shoe leather.
A police search for them at the re.
quest Of their parents ended last night
when Ivan and Kenneth, two Central
High School students, returned TO the
Perez home, 1434 Webster street, tired,
rain-soaked and their shoes worn OUT.
One week ago they left their respective
homes for the wide open spaces In the
West. Their motive power was. di-
lapidated automobile, famous for its
faulty ignition.
AS police were told, the pair sought
solace In the West because Perez had
been ordered to join his father in Eng
land, where he would complete his ed
ucation. He preferred to remain with
his companions at Central High School,
and on receiving no encouragement
along thu lns ct home, be, and hls sA
Evening star., 1931-06-27
BOYS RETURN WHEN FLTVVER FAILS;
SHOP FOR SHOE LEATHER TODAY
Ivan Perez and Kenneth Smith Back After Week of
Roaming in Search of Adventure.

friend pooled their savings, amounting
to $120, and slipped out of town as
noiselessly as their fiivver permitted.
All went well until they reached
Amherst, Va. Their motor chugged out
and despite spending much of their
capital in garage, the engine refused
to chug again. Besides there was also
something the matter with the ma
chimes differential, fly wheel, three of
the four tires, steering gear, radiator
and clutch.
The boys and their f1ivver parted
company and back to Washington they
started on foot. They said they walked
most of the way. camping out at night
and from a health standpoint they were
none-the-worse for their adventure.
Sonora Luis Mariana Perez, Ivan's
stepmother, said today she would pre-
pare to sail at once to join her hus-
band in London accompanied by Ivan
and that in all probability he would not
return to Central High School here
when II ,xeuonenS this EAU
Evening star., 1931-06-27

A JEALOUS desire to teach his
~ beloved science for the two
IA years remaining before the law
1 \ requires him to retire from
Washington's public schools
and the flowers that grace his country
home in Montgomery County today are
supporting DR.. william A. Hedrick,
whose position as head OF the depart
ment of physics in the schools was cut
from under him by the Board OF Edu-
cation Wednesday.
For A years he has been head OF
his department in the schools, and
Wednesday, with three members abb
sent. the school board eliminated DIR.
Hedrick's position and that of head
of the department of chemistry and
biology, now held by DR.. William Hay.
and combined the two. Hearings had
been held by board members before
the final action was taken and hints
of lack of educational leadership and
unsatisfactory ratings by high school
principals for DR.. Hedrick escaped
from the executive sessions. Publicly
it was asserted that Washington s
school children would benefit by the
union of the two departments under a
director Of science"
Change is Opposed.
Oficially. and publicly however, the
names of DR.. Hedrick and DR.. Hay
were mentioned only by Henry Gill;
gan, board member, who vigorously OPP
posed the change. School officials still
are non-committal as to what Will be
done with the two heads.
It want to teach science, that's all, T"
DR.. Hedrick told a reporter for The
Star today. Il have only two more
wears before I reach 70-the age of
compulsory retirement-and just
want to teach science. am not much
disturbed whether they call me head
Of the department or not. I just want
to teach"
You see," he continued "I am all
alone now. Mrs. Hedrick died two
years ago and / am living alone on
Evening star., 1931-06-27
'32 Fete Offices
Sent to Basement
Alongside Adams

The District Committee on En-
ployment, which yesterday found
itself placed against its will in
one of the small rooms on a court
in the basement of the District
Building, today finds itself in dis
tinguished company. The Dis
trict Commission on the George
Washington Bicentennial Cele-
bration was assigned two rooms
adjoining it.
Mr.. George Adams, ousted from
one of the more spacious rooms
on the top floor, regarded his
descent with considerable disgust,
and threatened to resign if the
room did not suit him after a
tryout. DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president of George Washington
University, who heads the Bicen-
tennial Commission. however,
seemed much pleased with mis-
rooms.
Evening star., 1931-06-27

this time would work a hardship upon
him, while after a teaching position for
the next two years-hes due for retire.
ment June 80, 1930-"thingS would be
better"
But If DR.. Hedrick is not irked by
the School Boards action, his aSsoci-
ates in the educational life of the Capt.
tai are aroused in his behalf. The
Executive Committee of the Teachers
Union of Washington already has en-
tered formal protest against the action
as formulating "a policy that under
mines the peace of mind of the teach
ers, thereby affecting their initiative
and their service" The Teachers
Council is planning similar action.
While board members who were absent
when the action was taken Wednesday
would not commit themselves today, at
least one said he would consider re-
opening the case at the reorganization
meeting next Wednesday.
DR.. Hedrick holds the degree of doc
tor of philosophy from John Hopkins
University. He first was appointed to
the school system in 1887, when he was
head" of the science department, and
Allan Davis. now principal of Business
High School, was the teacher
Evening star., 1931-06-27
First Commencement of
Washington Musical Institute

N
" and relations was present
"A last night at Barker Hall to
1 \ witness the first annual COM
mencement and eleventh re-
cital of the Washington Musical In
stitute. At BIS o'clock the cere-
monies began by the distribution of
diplomas and certificates by Edwin
N. C. Barnes, Mus. Ed. D., president
of the board of trustees, assisted by
Weldon Carter, director of the in
stitute, who awarded the gold medal
for highest all-around scholarship
to Bertha Gordon and Dorothy Sorn-
borger. Teachers diplomas were
awarded to Dorothy Coggeshall and
Bertha Gordon. A graduate diploma
was awarded Dorothy Sornborger
intermediate certificates were given
Jane Fellows, Edith Harrison, Vir-
ginia Grove and Margaret Hedgcock,
and preparatory certificates were
given Gloria Carter, Evelyn Eibender,
Helen Fur, Margaret Ann Morgan
and Frances BARLEY.
Following the recital ceremonies
a musical program was offered by
the various departments. Among
those who took part in this were
Helen Furr Evelyn Eibender, Gloria
Carter, accompanied by Evelyn
Scott; Edith Harrison, Bertha Cor
don, with Dorothy Sornborger at
the second piano in the Haydn
Concerto; original compositions
played by Mary Gastrock, whose
i"Quartet for the Forty-sixth Psalm
was sung by Laura Williams, Walter
Snellings, William Rittenhouse and
Miss Gastrock; Dorothy Sornborger
playing her own "Chaconne" and
three other selections, and Bertha
Gordon, who wrote Cradle Song"
for the violin. and a quartet, pre-
lude to Evangeline," sung by Lor-
raine German, Mildred Mennen,
John Wilcox and Eugene Kresin.
The program was concluded with
piano selections by Dorothy Cog
geshall, Dorothy Sornborger and
Victorine Bouillon, and violin solos
by Evelyn Scott, assisted by Mar
jorie Davis.
Evening star., 1931-06-27
FIREWORKS ACCIDENT
CUTS MOTHER AND GIRL
First Mishap of July A Season oc-
ours as Woman Bounces Tor
pedo Thought Ball.

The first casualties resulting from
the use Of Independence day fireworks
were reported yesterday when Mrs.
Sewell Shreve of 116 Sixth street north
east and her 3-year-old daughter Mar
tina suffered minor cuts in the explo-
sion of a torpedo.
The child was playing in sandbox
at the home of her grandmother, at
621 East Capitol street, when she found
the torpedo and, mistaking it for a
rubber ball, asked her mother to
bounce it.
Mrs. Shreve complied, and fragments
flying from the torpedo when it struck
the concrete pavement cut both. They
WeEe. eixen snrstnaid. treRtnes,& ~ home.
Evening star., 1931-06-27

nEA SOALAEh.
A N 85-year-old Navy veteran, who
" saw duty on Old IronSideS be-
"A fore she was retired, is bemosn-
"A ing a fate that has confined him
to his apartment here on the
eve of executing plan for serving once
more aboard the restored frigate.
But for an automobile accident sew
eral months ago, Edward w. Creecy,
one of the few living survivors" Of the
Constitution of old, would have applied
to the Navy for permission to become
special member of the modern crew
which is to man the vessel on its forth
coming patriotic voyage to Eastern
ports.
II know every rope and pin of the
old ship from stem to stern" Mr.. Creecy
declared today, as he lay on lounge
in his room at the Dupont apartments.
IT had hoped to serve aboard her when
she was restored. thought they would
like some one on the ship who knew
all about her and could tell her story
to visitors"
Suffering Pain.
He spoke weakly, and as he attempted
a gesture his face was wrenched in pain.
But my back won't let me go
through with the plan,' he said, mourn
fully.
He had Just returned from another
long visit to the Naval Hospital, where
he has been under treatment for an in
jured spine-the result of a taxicab
crash last December.
Mr.. Creecy, who gave up a naval
career to enter business after the Civil
War, disclosed that two other veterans
of the Constitution reside in Wash
ington. They are Rear Admiral Daniel
D. v. Stuart of the Wyoming Apart
mentS and Rear Admiral Joseph New
ton Hemphill of 2139 Wyoming ave-
nue.. Both are in poor health it is said.
The two rear admiralS were midshipmen
in Mr.. CreecyS class at the Naval
Academy, and the trio received their
seamanship training on the Constitu-
ton.
Saved by Immortal Poem.
That was in the days of the first
resurrection" of the venerable frigate,
resurrection inspired by the publica-
ton in the Boston Advertiser in 1880
of a poem, 'Old Ironsides,' by Oliver
Wendell Holmes. The poem, since be-
come immortal, aroused public elamor
for preservation of the ship and she was
rebuilt and egain put into service in
1888
In 1855 Old Ironsides was laid up at
the Portsmouth Navy Yard for a while,
but later she became a training ship
for midShipmen. 1t was while she was
performing this service in Civil War
time that Mr.. Creecy and his COM
Evening star., 1931-06-27
Pupils Recital, MONDAY,
At EIdbrOOke M. E. Church.
Sunday Evening Concerts
At ShOreham Hotel.

A INVOLVEMENT has been made
a that outdoor concerts on the
terrace of the Shoreham Hotel will
be regular Sunday evening feature
at this hotel throughout the Sum-
mer. The program will be offered
between the hours of 7:30 and $50
pm. Raoul da Costa will direct the
orchestra at these events, and Spe-
cial emphasis will be put on light"
music.
Evening star., 1931-06-27
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported
TO the Health Department In the last "a
Harriet Burns. IS, $3.50 r st.
John Frazier, 80, United States Soldiers
Zebedee H. Allison. 81, e27 H ST. s.w.
Martin j. Mulroe, 81, 10 x st. ne.
Mary Hattie Burrows, 81 4424 Warren st.
Bentamin @. Betz, 54, en- route Emergency
Hospital
James @. Harrison. 8, Casualty Hospital.
Gforee johnson. so, GallfnEer Hospital.
William Edward Jackson, months, 1920
Evening star., 1931-06-27
Emusic and Musiciians
Reviews and News of Capitals Programs.

Vernon Methodist Church, Ninth
and Massachusetts avenue north
west. Miss Templin's program will
include Schubert, Brahms, Meyer
beer, and such moderns as Sidney
Homer and Mary Turner Salter, and
Mr.. Shure will play one of his own
compositions, as well as selections by
Dubois, Lemaigre and Lemmens.
Pupils Recital, MONDAY,
At EldbrOOke M. E. Church.
CLARA YOUNG BROWN will pre-
~ sent her pupils in recital Mon
day night at the Eldbrooke M. E.
Church, Wisconsin avenue and River
road. Those taking part on the
program will include Betty Lee
Thompson, Joseph Perna, Leonard
Duvall, Richard Brown, Carl John
son, Myra Riddle, Gaspar Segreti,
Lois Smart, Helen Murphy, Helen
Burgess, Dorothy Dilley, Elizabeth
Merwin, Maybelle Shoemaker, Doro-
thy Noble, Margaret Burgess, Rich
mond Houser, Lois Roberts, Helen
Dilley, Charlotte Hewins and Clar
issa Collier. Mrs. Brown will sing
a group of songs, accompanied by
Louise Prescott.
Evening star., 1931-06-27
GIRL FELLED BY AUTO
Seriously injured When She Runs
into Path of Moving Car.

Running from between two street
cars at Fifteenth and F street, Miss
Marjorie Badger, 81 years old, of 1900
r street, was knocked down by an auto
mobile and seriously injured yesterday
afternoon She is being treated at
Emergency Hospital for severe head
injuries, cuts and bruises.
The driver of the car, Henry Albert
Bagelman, %, of Lanham, Md, was
not held. A test of the brakes on
Bagelman's car proved them to be in
good condition. Police said the ac-
Gident was unavoidable
Evening star., 1931-06-27
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia, Maryland, West
Virginia-Fair tonight and tomorrow,
warmer tomorrow; moderate northerly
winds.
Enthusiastically fair tonight and
tomorrow, warmer in north and west
portions tomorrow; moderate northwest
winds.
Record for "a Hours.
IL midnight, &C., 4 am, 6S; 8 am, 49,;
noon, 80.
Barometer-4 pm, 2999; 8 pm,
29.99; IL midnight, 5000; 4 am, 1898;
8 am, 29.99; noon, 29.97.
Highest temperature, 81, occurred at
AIS pm. yesterday.
Lowest temperature, SO, occurred at
am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 81; lowest, 81.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today-Low tide, 1926 p.m.; high
tide, 5:33 am and 6:02 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1926 am. and
1:19 pm; high tide, 6:25 am. and
6:54 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 4:43 a.rSw -us sets
1888 pm.
Tomorrow-sun rises 4:44 am; sun
sets 1898 pm.
Rainfall.
Comparative figures of the monthly
rainfall in the Capital for the first six
months against the average are shown
in the following table:
Evening star., 1931-06-27
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Card party. Star Point Society. Good
viii Chapter, No. SO, o. z. S., 920
Bladensburg road northeast, 8 pm.
Lawn fete, Capital City Club, Twenty
second and Prout streets southeast,
8 pm.
Evening star., 1931-06-27
BURNET LEAVES HOSPITAL

Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Goes Home Today.
David Burnet. commissioner of in
ternal revenue, planned to go home to
his residence, 3509 Rodman street, to-
day from Homeopathic Hospital, where
he recently underwent a serious opera
ton for removal of gall bladder and
appendicitis.
THE commissioner was reported to be
well on the road to recovery.
Evening star., 1931-06-27
POLICEMAN BURNED
Raymond v. Sinclair, Traffic Of
fcer, Injured by Motor Cycle Fire.

Motor Cycle Policeman Raymond ".
Sinclair. nernessi of CAPITAL speeders
was burned about the hands last night
when his motor cycle backhred and
burst into flames as he was riding it out
of the Traffic Bureaus garage in the
500 block Of G street.
Sinclair rode the machine across the
street to prevent it setting IRE to any
of the other motor cycles in the garage
and suffered minor burns Of both hands
IN doing 50 ---
Evening star., 1931-06-27

Record rainfall for the first six
months was:
January. 1882, 7.Oe inches; February,
1884, 6.34 inches: March, 1891, 8.84
inches; April, 1889, 9.13 inches; May,
1889, 1889 inches; June, 1900, 1884
inches.
Weather I'm VarIOus Citfew
Evening star., 1931-06-27

Joint Recital Announced
For Next Wednesday Evening.
MARY TEMPLIN, contralto, and
ANA r. Deane Shure, organist, will
give q joint recital next Wednesday
evening at ais o'clock in the Mount
Evening star., 1931-06-27
FUTURE.

FUTURE.
Meeting, Upsilon Lambda Phi Fra
ternity, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow, 4
pm.
Evening star., 1931-06-27

BY REX COLLIER.
A N 85-year-old Navy veteran who
" saw duty on Old IronSides be-
"A fore she was retired, is bemosn-
4 "A ing fate that has confined him
to his anartment here on the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
FAIRBANKS PLAY TO GIVE WAY T0'
 .L.ANCD0N FAR CE.
Tomorrow's New Program to Be Shown at l
 O'Clock Tonight

Reaching For the Moon," with Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels and Edward Everett Horton in the leading roles, will be shown at the Capitol theatre for the last times tonight. See America Thirst, starring Harry Langdon, Slim Sum- merville and Bessie Love, will head the new program tomorrow night, and this new program will be pre- viewed at the o'clock matinee to- night.
 Beginning at ' o'clock this eve ming, the Elks Christmas Tree party for little boys and little girls on Gastineau Channel will be held in the theatre, and all children will be admitted free. Adults, how ever, will be charged the custom ary admission prices.
 Styles for Shipboard
 In Reaching For The Moon, hundreds of men, women and chil- dren, dressed in the height of fashion participated in scenes aboard an ocean liner. The latest travelling costumes for society on the high seas is shown in this pie ture, also fitting wardrobes fol every moment in the social envir- onment of a floating sea palace.
 See America Thirst" is satire on gang life in America. The story deals with an exciting adventure in the lives of two knights of the road" who take leave from a side door Pullman and are swept ur by storm of circumstances which involves them in a whirlwind suc- cession of events.
 Affiliated With Racketeers
 They become unavoidably affilia- ted with gang of rum racketeers and the most hilarious incidents that migh be imagined follow in rapid succession.
 Langdon and Summerville make a comical team.
 Miss Love, who plays the part of an aide to the district attor- ney'S office by posing as cabaret dancer, is a lively factor in ths picture.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28

my Cagney on the spot. AS boy who lived in a tough section of New York he saw something of the hard boiled side of life. Two of his child hood pals went into rackets. One was killed. The other is booked for life at Dannemora.
 Young Jimmy had to learn to use his fists. He used to train with pugs in the gyms, but never boxed professionally. He did, however stage boxing act in vaudeville and his screen punching shows he knows how.
 His father, Irish American, be- came a saloon kepper. What Jim my saw of drinking in the old days steered him away from it, he says. What he sees of drinking now keeps him off it.
 While pals were being fashioned by environment, Cagney was pre- pairing himself to escape it.
 Cagney stepped from Columbia university into the chorus of Pit ter Platter" He smashed through small time vaudeville lines to attain his goal, success on the Broadway legitimate stage. Then the movies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
JAMES CACNEY, RACKETEER OF
 FILMS, MODEST
Does Not Smoke, Does Not Drink-Tells of
 Ambitions
By William Gaines

I NEW YORK, Dec. 28-Some ido- lators of ruthless young racketeer of the screen may be in for disil- fusion every time he returns to New York, where he got his start inthe chorus James Cagney won't drink their drinks, smoke their cigarets or smear grapefruit in the faces of their girl friends.
 In the light of assertions that gangster films are contaminating, a man who plays in many of them be- comes an interesting exhibit And a fascinating one he appears to be to his public.
 The other day I had an appoint ment for my first meeting with Gag ney. AS I approached our meeting place, I noticed a familiar figure small to the point of bantam pro- portions, walking ahead of me.
 Three men, standing on the cor ner observed the figure as he passed. They were excited. One of them dashed into the traffic of a crowded avenue to follow and peer again at the small mans face. Dodg ing taxis, he hurried back to his two companians, all a-grin. Sure, dats S James Cagney." he informed them
 For the balance of the short walk Cagney was factor in obstructing the sidewalk. Femmes especially stopped to stare.
 The red haired young man Che is 27) looks little like a conventional gangster or actor type as he walks the streets. He is nowise sleek in the slightly odious sense of that word He is neat, of pleasant man. ner and you grant him his sim cerity.
 Cagney assures me his private life is happy and conventional. He has been married seven years to the former Frances Vernon, dancer. with whom he worked in vaude- vile.
 He has an aversion to the reality his films have reflected, and can't understand why those who witness them should have any other reac- l ton.
 But he has no evangelical streak. He dosent smoke because he just doesn't care to, and he doesn't drink, he says, because it doesn't fit in with his ideas of self improvement. AS for others, they may souse themselves to their hearts content and smoke until they char.
 Cagney is ambitious. Gangter roles were fun for awhile, he says. but he is tierd of them and hopes for something else. He doesn't want to be typed and eventually pigeonholed. Versatility is going to be his escape from that.
 James Cagney, the tough bold, is studying singing. If nothing else, why, big things in musical comedy Environment could not put Jim-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
'CHARLIE CH AN' SHOWS FOR LAST TIMES TONIGHT
Slightly Scarlet at Coli. scum Tomorrow-Pre-
 views at l A. M.

With Charlie Chan Carries On, showing at the Coliseum theatre for the last times tonight, Slight ly Scarlet" will be presented to- morrow night, and this phctopjlay will be previewed at the 1 o'clock matinee tonight.
 Rex Parrott will play selections on the organ at tonight's regular performance.
 Charlie Chan Carries On" fea- lures Warner Gland in the title role of a smiling Chinese detective, with John Garrick and Margurite Churchill in the romantic leads.
 Slightly Scarlet is an adven- turous romance. The tenseness of the situations makes for unusual suspense. Evelyn Brent and Give Brook have the leading parts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
TWO UNDERGO OPERATIONS

Mrs. Ingwald Sunderland Of Ju neau and Mrs. Vena L. Crane of Thane successfully underwent sur gical operations yesterday at St. Ann's hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28

Final citizenship papers have
 been granted by the United States District Court at Fairbanks to Will
 liam Wallace Stapleton, Linda The resa Hassel, George John Homates and Robert Wesley Gilmour. Of Fanrbanks, and to Moses Henry Creep of Circle City.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28

officials are determined there would be no repetition of disorders which resulted in 36 deaths in Northern Chile last Friday.