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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
GEORGE E. COOK WINS
RIFLE TRYOUTS LEAD
Charles A. Iovino Named Captain
of District Team to Shoot
at Camp Perry, Ohio.

George E. Cook. 1719 Eighteenth
street, of ths National Capital Rifle
Club, scored 1875 points out OF a possible
200 to lead the tryouts yesterday at
Camp Simms, Congress Heights, for the
civilian team which will represent the
District of Columbia at the national
rife and pistol matches at Camp Perry,
Ohio. August 20 to September Is.
Charles A. Iovino, 1923 Eighteenth
street, captain of the Columbus Uni
verSity indoor rifle team. was deSig-
mated team captain and announced the
coveted positions to have been won by
the following experts:
William j. Green, 1l07 Eleventh
street, 179; Robert H. Hartshorn, 903
Webster street. 176: James D. Tanner.
1910 Nineteenth street, 172; Tom w.
Cooke. 1926 Massachusetts, avenue. 172;
William Cook, elder brother of the
leader of the tryout, ITO; Ralph H.
Glaze $40 Eleventh street southeast,
169 Herbert I. Warner, 1853 Jefferson
street northeast, 1853; Henry H. Pike,
1923 Nineteenth street, 1854: Arthur j.
Campbell, 1920 Thirty-fourth street,
100. and Howard W. Baker, 425 East
Raymond street. 100.
The competition was conducted by
Capt. Just G. Jensen, Ordnance Depart
rnent, National Guard staff onicer in
charge of local militia rife practice.
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1t was possible that some action might
be taken. The two important vacan-
cies were created through the recent
deaths of DR.. John A. Foote, dean Of
the Medical School, and DR.. George M.
Kober, a member of the board Of re-
gents.
A change was announced In the usual
Sunday evening program. The Hilltop
class exercises, featuring the Cohongu-
rotor grafton, have been shifted to this
evening. John C. Hayes will be the
orator. In addition. "Propaia" Is be-
ing introduced and will be held annu-
ally hereafter. This will be the an
nouncement of prize and medal win
Of Foreign Service, with 20 awards
leads the list
Dean George E. Hamilton, who cele-
brated the golden jubilee Of his own
graduation from Georgetown IL years
ago, is absent from the city, having
gone to New York to attend the we'd
ding of a son, Richard Hamilton
an attorney in that city and also q
Georgetown graduate. It is the first
Georgetown commencement the law
dean has missed in many years.
The law school will award a new
medal this year. founded by the class
OF 1928 in honor OF the regent, Rev.
Thomas B. Chetwood, g. J.
Georgetown will graduate one of the
largest classes in its history tomorrow
afternoon at 4 o'clock In event of rain
the exercises will be held in Constitu-
ton Hall. Otherwise, they will take
place as usual on the campus in front
of the Healy building. A regent of tho
university, George McNeir Of New York,
president of the New York Alumni
Association, will make the commence
ment address. He Is a doctor of laws
of Georgetown and graduate of the
law class of 1881. This will be the
golden jubilee Of his graduation.
Honorary degrees Of doctor of laws
are to be conferred upon DR.. William
S. Culbertson, United States Ambes-
sador to Chile; Prof. William J. Hughes
of the law school and Felix Neumann.
assistant librarian Of the Army Medical
Library.
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VIRGINIA CONVICT
CAMP PROBE ASKED
Prisoners Make AffidavitS
Alleging Whipping for
Minor 0ffenses.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClhteo FreSS'
NORFOLK, Va, June GA petition
signed by number Of Norfolk resi-
dents asking for an investigation into
conditions existing at the State conVicS
road camp in Goochland County was
sent Gov. Pollard at Richmond tonight
Accompanying the petition, prepared
by A. C. Philpotts, local attorney, were
afidavits signed by D. r. Byrd and
G. c. Ratcliff. both Of Norfolk, former
prisoners at the camp. who told Of the
practice of hanging up" and whipping
for minor offenses against camp
routine.
The afidavits described prisoners as
being strung up in an agonizing posi-
ton and left until handouts cut into
their wrists, and told Of beatings adj
miniStered to men stretched over a bar
rel and struck with a leather strap I'M
til they were nearly unconscious
Maj. Rice M. Youell, superintendent
of the Virginia State Penitentiary, said
In Richmond that he had received no
complaint of i'll treatment Of prisoners
at the Goochland camp. G. T. Smith,
the foreman in charge, has been there
for a number of years, Maj. Youen said,
and there has been no evidence that his
administration has been improper.
Corporal punishment OF prisoners,
which would include whipping with a
leather strap, is permitted under tb<
State law, Maj. Youell said, but only
when his approval is obtained.
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THE WEATHER

District of Columbia Maryland
Local showers today; tomorrow general
~ fair; not much change in tempera-
ture.
Virginia-Local showers today; to-
morrow generally fair; not much change
in temperature.
West Virginia-Local showers today:
tomorrow generally fair; not much
change in temperature.
Record for "a Hours.
Temperature-Midnight, 70; 2 an,
II; am, SO; 6 am. Sc; am, SO:
10 am, "a; noon, II; pm, 70; 4
pm, 80; pm, 70; 8 pm, 10; 10
pm, SO.
Highest, 81; lowest, Sc.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 80; lowest, 68.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey)
Today-Low tide. $50 am. and 1912
pm; high tide, 1900 am. and 1920
pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 7:44 am. and
pm; high tide, 1:01 am. and 1:12
pm.
The Sum and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 4:43 am; sun sets
1880 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 4:43 am; sun
sets 1881 pm.
Moon sets 1919 am.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Rainfall
Comparative figures Of the monthly
rainfall in the Capital for the first six
months against the average are shown
In the following table:
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JUDGES SEEK WAYS !
TO STOP ''DRUNKS''
HagerStoWn Court Reports
Liquor Charges Gain Z
so Per Cent.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, June 81
Richard Duffey and Richard II.
Sweeney, city magistrates. have APP
pealed through the press TO the public
for suggestions as to how to dispose Of
the great increase In the number Of
cases of persons appearing. charged
with intoxication.
Records for the year show almost O
so per cent increase in the number Of
drunk and disorderly cases appearing
each day. Since there Is no longer an
"habitual" law, House Of Correction
sentences, usually help, can no'longer
be imposed.
During prosperous times those found
guilty readily paid their fines, but now
most Of them are accepting Jail terms
in lieu Of the fines, and It costs the
taxpayers $3.50 for each one sent TO
jail.
Now the magistrates want suggestions
as to how to cut down the number Of
intoxicated persons appearing before
them, which in 1881 Is almost double
the number during the re-prohibition
days, the records reveal
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ANSJAAOAoOs
years older than Sarah, but he seems
to have loved her from the FIRST, and
by It'll they had become engaged. But
though Siddons was handsome and
looked quite the gentleman" and was
competent to cram any part, however
long, in a day" both the parent KEN
bles opposed the match. In the cir
cumstances, Siddons suggested an
elopement. but Sarah refused In
evitably, SiddonS was dismissed from
the company. But by no means dis
missed frcm Sarah's mind. She "ac-
cepted situation" at 10 pounds a year
in the service of Lady Mary Greatheed
OF Guys Chffe, Warwick, and spent APP
proximately two years there as "a
reader or companion" A truce pre-
vailed. But the end was certain.
Sarah Siddons' first love-affair was
the love-affair Of her life"
Siddons Reappears.
Siddons reappeared The marriage
took place at Trinity Church, Coventry,
November 20, 1878, and Roger gave his
daughter away. Both husband and
wife returned to Kemble's management,
and Sarah was announced as Mrs. Sid
dons for the first time on a Worcester
playful of December Is, 1773.
The following year the troupe was at
Cheltenham Wells, and there occurred
an event destined to happen sooner or
later in the life of the great artist. In
her audience one night was Lord Bruce,
later the Earl of Ailesbury. He was q
man Of discrimination and knew fine
acting when he saw it. Also, he was q
man Of power and influence, and when
his foster daughter, the Hon. Henrietta
Boyle, became acquainted with Mrs.
SiddonS, and he thus came into posses
sion Of further particulars about her,
he communicated with David Garrick,
then rounding out his career at the
Drury Lane Theater. London, and
recommended the young woman so
strongly that Garrick was obliged to
be attentive to her claims. She had
at the time repertoire of % leading
characters. Negotiations for Garrick
were conducted by his friend. the Rev.
Henry Bate. editor of the London
Morning Post Salary IN amount of &5
week was offered and accepted, Gar
rick STIMULATING that William Siddons
must be satisfied to play second fiddle"
WAS Found Wanting"
1t was in December. ITS, that Gar
rick and Mrs Siddons met for the first
time. We do not have the details, but
apparently Garrick was satisfied. She
was engaged for the remainder of the
season. and made her debut as Portia
ir 1.-THE Merchant of Venice" on De-
cember 20. A biographer sums up the
story in the words: The poor girl was
found wanting" Her voice failed She
was frightened. The fact Is that she
was in imperfect health at the mo-
ment; she had just borne her first
child, her son, Henry Siddons. The
critics were pitiless. Her companions
in the theater were jealous and mean.
Garrick was disappointed and unsym-
pathetic. But the engagement con-
tinued and we know that on May ~.
1776. Mrs. Siddons played Lady Anne
with Garrick in Richard III" The
season ended June 10.
During the Summer there were some
weeks Of performance at Birmingham
and elsewhere in the provinces. For
the rest 1t was a time Of anxious wait
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BOULDER CITY CASINO
UNOPPOSED BY U. S.
Construction of Gambling Place
Near Hoover Dam Town Dis .
cussed by Cramton. !

cussed by Cramton.
BY the Associated Press.
LAS VEGAS, New, June 6.-Federal
authorities will not fight the construc-
ton Of gambling casino on privately
owned land near Boulder City. former
Representative Louis c. Cramton, Recla-
mation Service counsel and executive
head Of the Governments model"
city, said today
Cramton added. however, he had con-
ferred with Clark County commission
ers, who granted the permit to r. j.
Warren for the gambling resort. and
expressed the belief that II liquor or
immortality appeared there the permit
would be revoked. The site. at first
reported within . mile Of the town
which will house workmen on the Hoo
yer Dam project, Is between six and
seven miles out on the road TO Las
Vegas.
Federal prohibition agents have made
frequent raids in and near Las Vegas.
but since gambling Is legal in Nevada
the Governments cleanup" efforts
have been confined to liquor.
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Frank Weitzel vaIedictorian.

HIGHEST honors within the be-
i i stowal of the senior class OF
George Washington University
have been conferred upon Frank Welt
eel. son of Mr. and Mrs. r. w. Weitzel,
1856 Twenty ninth street, who has been
named valedictorian, and Charles r.
Kirk of wilmington, Ohio, who has
been made salutatorian.
Weitzels scholastic average Is the
highest among the graduates of Co
lumbar College, the college OF letters
and sciences of the University. He
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pr OK / mately $50
students at the
sixty - second an
nu al convocation
this Friday night
at Memorial Cont
mental Hall.
The S UNI m e r
term at National
will present in
struction in both
law and college de-
partment subjects
carrying reg u lar
credits for degrees
in course. Since
the classes run a
full 11-week period
and because they
are som e W h a I
smaller than those
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

ID EGISTRATION for the new Sum-
N mer School of American University
will start next Thursday, and con-
tinue through Friday and Saturday.
Glasses will open on Monday, June Is.
School will continue to July ~.
Already many inquiries have come in,
according to DR.. Walter M. w. Splawn,
dean of the Graduate School Of Ameri-
can University. who will direct the
Summer School, and a large enroll
ment is expected. Registration Is at
the Graduate School, 1901 r street.
The principal groups Of courses In
clude philosophy. international law,
history. government, economics, psy-
chology and education, English and
anguages-French and German.
For the first time since the establish
ment of the College Of Liberal Arts
six years ago, the women's residence
and the new mems dormitory on the
college campus, Massachusetts, and Ne
braska avenue, win be open and avail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

Maria in their youth, all victims Of
consumption. She drifted away from
cred about her she had only her young
est daughter, Cecilia, with her. Her
son. George, was in India.
She was buried under q venerable
elm tree in Paddington Churchyard.
Five thousand people crowded to the
scene to pay tribute to her memory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

Coleman Nevis. S.
j.. president andDr
Edmund A. walsh,
S. j., vice presi-
dent, who has just
returned from a
trip to the Near
East. the faculties,
regents and seniors
will march to the
chapel q few min
utes before the
services begin.
At 1880 o'clock
the annual regents
meeting win be
held. While no in
timation has been
given by the rector
concerning the fill
inn ~ &aoo~ain.
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has earned many
hcnors during his
college career, cul-
minating this year
in his election as
president Of the
senior classes. A
member Of the edi-
torial board Of the
student weekly and
chairman Of the
Graduate Endow-
ment Fund Com
nittee, his achieve
ments in scholastic
and student activi-
ties have won for
him election to a
number. Of honor
societies. o m o n 8
them Delta. Phi
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Epsilon, foreign service fraternity; Pi
Gamma Mu, honorary social science
fraternity; Pi Delta Epsilon, profeS-
sional Journalism fraternity. and Omi-
cron Delta Kappa, fraternity for the
recognition Of merit in -curricular
activities.
Kirk stands among the highest
graduates Of the law class. In 1929
he was awarded the Ordronaux prize
for the higest average in the second
year law class He is a member Of
Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and sings
with the Glee Club.
The valedictory and salutatory adj
dresses will be part of the program for
the class night exercises which will
take place Tuesday at 8 pm. in Cor
coran Hall of the university. Other
events on the program will be the read
ing of the class history, the awarding
Of prizes and q program by the Glee
Club. Dancing will follow.
The Glass Night Committee Is COM
posed Of Harryman Dorsey Of the Law
School, chairman; Richard Mattingiy
Of the School of Medicine, Richard
Radue Of the School Of Engineering,
Stanley Fraser Of the School Of Phar-
vision Of Library Science.
senior week dCtlVlCleS were lnaugu-
rated last night with q reception and
dance in honor Of the graduates given
at the Willard Hotel under the auspices
Of the General Alumni Association, the
Columbian-George Washington Law
School Association and the George
Washington University Medical Society.
This afternoon at 3 O'Clock, the BAG
calaureate services will take place at
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. DR.. Albert Charles Dieffen-
bach. formerly pastor of the First Uni
tartan Chu!ch of Hartford. Conn, and
since 1918. editor of the Christian Reg
lister, Boston, will preach the sermon.
Tomorrow afternoon the president
Of the university and Mrs. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, will entertain at a reception
at the Washington Club in honor Of
the graduates and their parents.
Tuesday the class night exercises
will take place, and the following eve
ming the graduates will receive their
diplomas at the 10th commencement
to be held in Constitution Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

Of the regular Fall, Winter and Spring
terms National University officials
recommend the Summer term as ideal
for the beginning of the study Of law.
The program Of studies in the Law
School this Summer will include quasi
contracts case law, torts, elementary
law, marriage and divorce and prop
erty law in the elementary group of
courses and constitutional law, review
course, sales, conflict of laws and legal
ethics In the advanced group.
With classes suspended during the
past week while university officials
compile the grades made in the recent
final examinations, student activities
were at virtual standStill. Plans
were made, however, for the annual In
stallation of recently elected officers by
the Alpha Beta Phi Fraternity. The
installation will take place at the
Beaver Dam Country Club June 20,
when Myer Pumps, president, Will take
over the duties of his new office. Mil
ton Strasburger, former judge of the
Municipal Court, will be the speaker.
e. Joel Trigger will be master of cere-
monies at the exercises.
The farewell dinner of the Segnu
Forum, student organization Of the
School of Economics and Government,
was held at the Thomas Circle Club
IllBllLs IlC 1OIuul WILL ACCuAAlC
its activities next year with a full
schedule Of cultural and social events.
With DIR. Lewis Rockow already
launched on his Summer research work
at Harvard University, two other Ma
tional University faculty members are
preparing for Summer educational
pursuits. Chief Justice Fenton Whit
lock Booth of the United States Court
Of Claims, who Is professor OF ele-
ments Of jurisprudence in the Law
School, will instruct in Practice Be-
fore the Court of Claims and Govern
ment Departments" and DR.. Richard
Flournoy, professor Of international law
in the Law School, will teach "Immi-
grafton and Citizenship" on the law
yers' educational cruise to Europe. this
Summer. The cruise, presented by the
French Line, begins with departure
from New York July 6 and will con-
tinue for nearly two months. Some
of the best educators in the legal field
in the United States are members of
the faculty.
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Columbus Students Close Year.

Columbus Students Close Year.
WITH commencement to be held
w Wednesday evening at the May
flower Hotel by Columbus Univer-
sity, former Justice Wendell p. Stafford
of the District Supreme Court address,
ing the graduates, and Daniel j. Gala
han, supreme treasurer Of the knights
of Columbus, to receive the honorary
degree of doctor of laws, number of
student activities closed out the scho-
lastic year.
On Tuesday night the Venetian So
ciety of the School Of Accountancy held
a reception for graduates at the Am
baSsador Hotel. Guests Of honor in =
cluded Miss Mary Alberta Warren, reg
istrar OF the university; DR.. James d.
Cushman, dean, and Francis P. Brassor,
assistant dean, and members of the
schools faculty.
Last night the freshman class of the
Law School held its banquet at the
Shoreham Hotel Guests of honor at
this event included William E. Leahy,
dean; Seton Darr, assistant dean; Miss
Warren and members Of the faculty
and their wives.
) On Thursday night the officers and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
Schools and Colleges
News of Interesting Student and Faculty activities
in Washington's Leading Educational
Institutions.

able to students of the Summer School.
Heretofore, these campus buildings have
been closed for the Summer.
The third annual American Univer-
sity seminar to Palestine, conducted by
Arthur j. jackson, head of the depart
ment Of religion at the college, will
sail from New York for two-month
trip on June a. Composing the semi
mar will be ministers and teachers In
the religious field. Prof. A. Bruce
Curry of Union Theological Seminary
cussions during the trip, In addition
to the lectures by DR.. Jackson.
The American University Alumni As
ISOLATION directors soon will elect on
GERS. New directors just elected by vote
of the entire Alumni Association men,
bership include Rowanetta Allen, Ro-
land Rice, Mrs. Irwin Stewart and Ar
thur 8. F1emming.
During the last few days at the COL
lege several student organizations elect
ed officers before commencement last
week. A chapter of Pi Gamma Mu,
the national honorary social science
fraternity, was a newcomer to campus
organizations and was installed with
Dan Terrell president, Arthur Murphy
vice president and DR.. D. 0. KinSman
faculty adviser, as secretary treasurer.
Members include Clair Altland, Barbara
Evans, Kathryn Heath, Fremont Knittle,
Rene Lutz, Earl Masincup, Arthur Muir
ply and Dan Terrell. Members in the
faculty include DR.. Kinsman, Edward j.
Carroll and DR.. Lowell F. Huelster, the
new member of the staff on economics.
Alumni members are Randall Penhale
and Raymond Spaeth.
The Women's Student Government
Association chose Mary Jane Pearce
president, Margaret Gross secretary,
Katherine Reuter- head proctor, Ruth
Belden treasurer and Dorothy Latham
social chairman. The Debate Council
elected Max Tucker president and Ar
thur Murphy manager. The Women's
Glee Club elected Olive Rodgers presi-
dent, Dorothy Seaton vice president,
Margaret Dimond recording secretary,
Margaret Skidmore corresponding sec
rotary, Mary Jeanette Brundage sec
rotary librarian and Mary Frances
Brown manager The Westerner Club
elected Arthur Kidder president The
newly formed American University
Christian Association elected Russell
Lambert president, Richard Buckingham
first vice president, Charlotte Gould
second vice president and Ruth Ed
wards secretary treasurer. Arthur Muir
ply was elected president Of the Inter-
national Relations Club.
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Record rainfall for the first i've
months was:
January, 1882, 70s inches; February,
1884, 6.34 inches: March, 1891, 8.84
inches; April, 1889, 9.13 inches; May,
1889, 1909 inches.
NNsther In Various Cities.
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Artificial eyes with pupils which d.
late end contract have appeared in
Europe.
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D0AK TO GET DEGREE

Lincoln Memorial u. to Confer
Honor on Labor Secretary.
Secretary of Labor Doak was en- route
today to Cumberland Gap. Tenn, where
he will deliver a commencement address
at Lincoln Memorial University.
The university will confer on the Sec
rotary the degree of doctor Of humanity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

Porto Rico Is wrestling with its old
land distribution problem.
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BaccaIaureate Mass at G. U. Today.
4 BACCALAUREATE mass for the
~ graduating classes and announce
ment of prize awards in all depart
mentS win feature the second days
program at Georgetown University to-
day in connection with the 1920 annual
commencement
Rev Thomas J. Dehhant, S. j.. Of
New York, class of 1899, will preach
the sermon to the seniors at 10 o'clock
In Dahlgren Chapel Headed by DR.. W.
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National Registers for Summer.
ID EGISTRATION for the Summer
N sessions at National University's
School Of Law and the School of
Economics and Government was
launched last week following the con-
clusion Of final examinations. The
Summer term win reopen National
University classes June Is, three
days after the graduation of APP