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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
Merchants and Manufacture
ers Oppose Putting Burden
on D. C. Taxpayers.
BACK 100000 FUND
FOR WASHINGTON FETE
Inclusion of Appropriation in De-
ficiency Bill Is Urged
by Association.

The Federal Government-and not
the District taxpayers-should reim-
burse the Mount Vernon, Alexandria g.
Washington Railway Co. for the re-
moval of the tracks of the tranSporta-
ton company from the triangle area,
made necessary by the Federal build
ing program, in the opiniona.of the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
The board of governors of the local
trade association yesterday adopted a
resolution recommending that damages
to the railway concern growing out of
its removal from Washington should be
paid by the National Government.
Vigorous opposition was voiced to the
proposed appropriation out of the
revenues of the District to cover this
reimbursement to the railway.
Backs s1OO,O Fund.
The association, through it's govern
ing board, also went on record urging
that the appropriation of 100000 for
the local George Washington Bicenten-
NAL Commission, which has been elm
lated from the District budget meas
ure, be included in the deficiency bill
The proposed election of John H.
Hanna as a member of the board of
directors of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, to represent the
local region, was Endorsed by the asso-
citation.
The body decided to hold its tradi-
tional Washington Booster outing again
this year aboard a steamer on a three
day cruise down the Potomac River
and Chesapeake Bay during the early
part of June. DR.. M. G. Gibbs was
named chairman of the Outing Com
mittee.
Chest Official Commended.
A resolution was adopted, commend
ing the Community Chest officials on
the recent success of its budget cam
paign.
Mark Lansburgh, president, spoke OF
the excellent record set during the past
year by local retail trade organizations
in the face of generally depressed bust
ness conditions and Edward D. Shaw
secretary, made a detailed report on
the activities of the association during
the past year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
COED HURT IN CRASH
in SERIOUS. CONDITION
Miss Alice Brennan May Have
Fractured Skull-Friend Not
Badly Injured.

Miss Alice Brennan, 17-year-old Uni
versity of Maryland coed. who was
seriously injured in an automobile acct
dent at College Park, Md, yesterday,
was said to be in an unchanged condi-
ton this morning at Providence Hos
pital
Miss Brennan, who lives in the 2400
block Twelfth street northeast, was
thrown from her car when it was struck
by another machine as she drove into
the Washington Baltimore boulevard
from the university grounds.
Miss Dorothy Romback. who was rid
ing with Miss Brennan, also was thrown
from the automobile, but escaped Seri-
Gus injury. She was treated for cuts
and bruises at the university infirmary
The occupants of the other car escaped
injury.
Physicians at Providence Hospital
said Miss Brennan, who was uncon-
scious when she reached the institution
was suffering from possible fractures
of the skull and arm and cuts and
bruises.
Miss Brennan is prominent in stu
dent activities at the university, being
a regular contributor to the two under
graduate publications, the Diamonoback
and the Old Line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
NAVY OFFICIALS PLAN
TO SCRAP MAYFLOWER
Cost Of Reconditioning Former
Yacht of Presidents Would Be
$4,000, Board Finds.

The former yacht of presidents, the
U. S. S. Mayhower, will be scrapped
and it is likely that bids will soon be
called for, to dispose of the hulk.
Secretary Adams reached the decision
to junk the craft late yesterday after
the Board of Inspection and Survey had
reported to him that repairs to the ship
would entail expenditure of approx
mately $4,000. The Mayfiower was
burned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
on the night of January "a and sunk.
but she was raised, and on Tuesday
Rear Admiral Sumner. E. w. Kittelle,
president of the Board of Inspection
and Survey, and his colleagues went to
Philadelphia and made a f1rst-hand in
spection. In view of the cost of placing
the ship again in seaworthy condition,
the board recommended that she be
scrapped.
Long familiar sight at the Wash
ington Navy Yard, the Maydower fire.
quently took the former President Cool
idge and other notableS down the Po-
tomac River. When President Hoover
decided to abandon her, in the interests
of economy, she was taken to Philadel-
phia for decommissioning and the Navy
unsuccessfully made four attempts to
sell her to private interests. Recently
the Mayflower was being recommis-
stoned as flagship of the Special Serv-
ice Squadron, to relieve the u. S. s..
Rochester.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
D. c. SUPPLY BILL
/. SENT TO PRESIDENT
House and Senate Agree to
Conference Report, With
Lump Sum Unchanged

The principal change made by the
conferees before the bill was reported
back to the two houses was the elimi-
nation of the Senate item of 100000
for expenses of the District of Column
bia George Washington Bicentennial
celebration next year. Efforts will be
made to have funds provided In the final
deficiency bill. The House conferees
refused to accept the Senate amend
ment in the absence of separate con-
gressional authorization.
The conferees worked out compro-
mise which will make it possible for
mothers attending the Americanization
classes at the Webster School to con-
tinue to take their small children to the
school during classes. The agreement
will make possible the employment of a
matron to care for the children. The
original bill would have barred chill
dren under years of age and would
have prevented attendance of some
mothers who had no one with whom to
leave their babies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
DISTRICT BILL AWAITS
APPROVAL OF HOOVER
House and Senate Accept Confer.
ence Report Quickly, With
Lump Sum Unchanged.

The District appropriation bill, carry
ing a total of approximately $45,672,-
900 for the coming fiscal year, is at the
White House today awaiting the sigma
ture of President Hoover The confer
ence report was agreed to promptly by
both the House and Senate yesterday
and the bill sent to the President dur
ing the afternoon.
The final legislative step was taken by
the Senate when it ratified the confer
ence agreement within a few hours after
ment was made possible because of a
previous agreement by both Houses that
the $9,500,000 Federal lump sum con-
tribution would be continued pending
completion by the Mapes Committee of
its study of fiscal relationship between
the Federal and District Governments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
SKILLED TEACHER TO GIVE WAY
TO MATRON IN WEBSTER SCHOOL
Cutting OFF of Fund by Congress to Deprive
Children of Americanization Glass
Mothers of Instruction.

His mother, who spoke no English, went
into the citizenship classes.
The boy. who now is old enough to
begin regular school work, speaks per-
feet English and his mother is doing
pretty we'll herself. Now if any little
countrymen of that boy are in the
beginning of their work in the under
age kindergarten they'll just have to
quit for Congress is placing a matron
in charge of the class where there will
be nothing but nursery play.
Child Greatly Helped.
Then there's another lucky child. She
is a little Italian girl who's going into
regular school next Fall. She also went
to the kindergarten at the age of 3.
Her parents, not very skilled folks, as
parents go, had permitted her to get
the idea that all she had to do was
scream and anything she wanted she
could have The scientifically trained
woman in charge of the kindergarten
gradually drew the child out Of that
habit and today the little girl is one
of the best behaved pupils of the class.
The teacher in charge has Spent years
of effort in scientific study for the work
she is doing. But her salary has reached
the $4,000 per year that is the height
Of kindergarten teacher salaries. And
by replacing her with a matron at
$780, Congress is saving some money.
OF course, if the matron docs her ma
ironing" pretty we'll, she will get a $50
raise each year until her salary is $1,000,
so that. after all. Congress will be saw
ing in the end S700 year.
Under the rule which the school
board adopted January Z, any kinder
garten which cannot show at least %
children belonging to its rolls must be
closed
Hence the Webster class will be elm
mated because there are only 10 boys
and girls of regular kindergarten age
there. Thus, the 80 remaining under
age" children, including 10 who attend
three or four days a week and the %
who are regular attendants, will occupy
the same room they now use But their
teacher will be gone, the scientific
guidance IN work and play and dis,
cipline will be gone and they'll have
a kindly matron who'll bounce them on
her knee while mother struggles up
stairs to learn citizenship and English
But Congress will be saving from $70O
to $1,000 for the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21

Congress is moving a scientifically
trained educator from her charge of 80
childr.n under years of age and it
is turning those youngsters over to a
woman possessing no educational re-
quirements whatsoever except that 1t
would be nice if she had some nursing
exp rience."
But by doing that Congress is going
to save the District of Columbia $1,000
next year. And that is exactly $31 .25
per pupil
This is one result of the compromise
reached by the Senate and HOUSE con-
ferees the other day on the House pro-
posal that not a dollar of the Districts
money should be spent on the education
of the Districts children who have not
yet become years of age. That was
the proposal which Representative
Rob.rt G. Simmons Of SCOTS Bluff,
N1br, made when the Districts School
Board discbeyed his admonition to
eliminate all under-age kindergartens
and retained the kindergarten at thu
Webster AmericaniZation School. The
compromise which now is to go into
effect calls for the hiring of ''matron"
for that class, and that automatically
means the transfer of the skill-d
teacher elsewhere in the school system
Now Becomes Nursery.
In reaching that compromise, the
congressional conferees knew of the
widely voiced defense of the Webster
kindergarten that its elimination would
seriously hamper the work of the citi-
zenship classes by removing a safe
place in which the foreign mothers
who study citizenship could leave their
children. The compromise, school Off
Gals opine, makes the kindergarten a
"nursery"-just as Mr.. Simmons al
ways has commended.
Meanwhile, under the plan of the
matron, those youngsters who hear no
English at home and who got their
only instruction in the tongue of their
new homeland at the Webster kinder
garten must now face first grade of
the elementary course with the OBJ
stacle of a new language to learn. A
little Greek boy, though, whose name
doesn't matter, but whose identity is
real, is all set to go on prepared to
begin the studies of other American
children next Fall. He went into the
kindergarten when he was years old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
LANGDON WILL FACE
TRIAL BOARD TODAY
Charges Involving Discovery Of
Still in Suspended officers
Home to Be Heard.

Charged with conduct unbecoming an
officer in connection with the investiga-
ton of the Staying of Beulah Limerick,
Robert F.. Langdon, suspended fifth pre-
cinct policeman, was scheduled to go on
trial today before the Police Trial
Board.
Langdon said he would plead not
guilty to the charge and ask for con-
tinuance until liquor charges now pend
ing against him in District Supreme
Court can be heard.
Langdon was one of four men ordered
held by coroner's jury which investi-
gated the girls death. All four, how
ever. were ordered released by the grand
jury.
The misconduct charge against Lang
don is based in part upon the discovery
OF a still in the basement of his home
by detectives investigating the murder
mystery. He is represented by Attorney
Harry WheIan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
NAVY OFFICERS DETAILED
FOR HARVARD COURSE
Three Named to Study Inter
national Law, Beginning in
Next September.

Three officers who have graduated
from the Naval War College at New
port, r. l., have been chosen by the
Navy Department for the first class to
take the course in international law
for naval officers at Harvard University,
this coming September.
The department today announced
that these men are Capt Henry L.
Wyman, now commanding the U. S. S.
Idaho; Comdr. Clarkson j. Bright, now
commanding the U. S. S. Simpson, and
Lieut.. Comdr. Randall E. Dees, now at
the naval station, Guam.
Only officers in the grades of cap
tain, commander and senior lieutenant
commanders and War College graduates
are to be ordered for this new course of
instruction, the department asserted.
For officers who take the course after
sea assignments the course will be
about three years. while for officers who
have just graduated from the Naval
War College the course will be two
years. A special course of study at the
Naval War College will be given during
the Summer months in conjunction
with the legal curriculum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
'SCANT HOPE HELD
BY BONUS FOES OF
VETO BEING UPHELD
Rumor of Extra Session Call
to Provide Funds for Loans
Unverified.
CONGRESS TO RECEIVE
MESSAGE BY THURSDAY
Slate Well Cleared for Adjourn
ment Unless New Complica-
tions Develop.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
President Hoover today began plan
ming his veto message on the veterans
loan bill, while administration leaders
on Capitol Hill started forlorn search
for votes to sustain it.
Although the measure will not be
returned to Congress until next We'd
nesday or Thursday. Republican chief
tains saw scant chance of boosting to
the required number for sustaining the
veto the meager band Of opponents.
Rumors spread through the Capitol
that the President in his veto message
might assert that If the legislation, al
lowing World War veterans to borrow
half the face value of their compen-
sation certificates, were enacted over
the veto he would be forced to call an
extra session this Spring to provide
funds.
Spoke Of 1t as RumOr.
This was circulated by responsible
party leaders, but they spoke of it only
as rumor; refused to take RESPONSE
bility for it, and said nothing definite
was known as to what Mr.. Hoover
would say. Most of them secuted it,
Whether such threat would bring
into line enough members who object
to an extra session of the new Congress
also was problematical The President
himself is known to be vigorously OPP
posed to an extra session. The next
Congress is divided almost equally po-
litically in both branches. He sought
cooperation agreement to avoid such
meeting just before the present ses-
sion opened.
Congress otherwise is prepared to
complete its business in due time for
the March 4 adjournment. Only yes
terday four of the appropriation meas
ureS carrying funds for next years
operation of the Government were sent
to the White House
All nine of these bills must be passed
before March f. All have passed the
House. The Senate has only to approve
OF two more, and passage of one-for the
Navy DEPARTMENTS in prospect today.
Filibuster Is stopped.
Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl-
vania, brought word to the Senate yes
terday that the President would veto
the veterans loan bill and that he would
send 1t back by next Thursday at the
latest, in plenty of time for Congress
to vote on it again.
This announcement stopped a fill
buster launched by Senator CouzenS,
Republican, Michigan, against the re-
naming appropriation bills before the
Senate. The Michigan Senator had ex-
pressed fear that the veterans bill
might be allowed to die by the pocket
veto route.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
LANGLEY FIELD TEAMS
FLY TO WASHINGTON

More than a dozen Army planes OF
various types are making the trip
from Langley Field, Hampton, Va, to
Boiling Field today bringing the Lang
ley Field enlisted mems basket ball
team and an officers squash team to
meet similar local teams tonight.
Five A-3 attack planes, an Army
Sikorsky amphibian and a P-12 pur-
suit plane were making the trip during
the morning, with others to follow dur
ing the afternoon, pilots at the Vir-
ginia field having saved up cross-coun-
try flying time in order to make the
trip.
The Boiling Field basket ball team,
with seven victories to its credit out
of eight starts, will take on the visitors
in the field gymnasium. The Langley
Field squash team will meet a team
from the Racquet Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
WARDMAN PARK THEATER
Is DAMAGED BY BLAZE
Scenery Destroyed and Rear of
Structure Injured in Fire of
Undetermined Origin.

A small blaze backstage at the Ward
man Park Theater this morning brought
eight engine and four truck companies
to the streets and approaches behind
Wardman Park Hotel.
The flames destroyed some scenery
and smoke and water slightly damaged
hackdropS and the interior of the rear
part of the theater
The fire started in corner at the
rear of the stage. Firemen were unable
to ascertain the origin of the fire.
A small fire in a pile of trash in
the basement of the Ambassador Hotel,
Fourteenth and K streets, was put out
by firemen about o'clock this morn
ing. Origin of the fire was not de-
termined, police reported, and no dam
age was done.
Late last night firemen were sum-
moned to the Baltimore Hotel, 808
Twelfth street, where SCOT in the
chimney had caught fire. The fire did
no damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
CROAKERS, LIKE RICH,
GO SOUTH FOR WINTER
Federal Bureau of Fisheries Gains
Evidence by Tagging Fish and
Turning Them Loose.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
1t is now clear that the "croaker,
one of the most important of North At
lantic food fishes, shares with wealthy
human beings the habit OF going South
for the Winter.
The Federal Bureau of Fisheries
after puzzling over the croaker's annual
disappearance, has got the evidence.
Experts for some years have beer
catching a few and tagging them, Of
ferlng a reward to any fisherman haul
ing one in during the Winter. Thi:
last December one Of the tagged fishes
was hooked of the Carolina coast anc
now reposes in bottle with the date
and place of its demise properly re.
corded on the label.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
DEATH CALLED DEMOCRATIC AID
AS LEAD OF G. Q. P. DIMINIST1ES
DR.. Arthur Macdonald Says Mortality Rate of Party
Long in Power May Change Control of Congress-

If the mortality percentage of the
last five Congresses hold good until next
December, he said, the slim Republican
majorities in each house will be spirited
away
Figures of the retired physician
showed the ratio of Republican mortal
ity in the House over Democratic was
4 to S.8, taking the 10-year average.
In the Senate, the ratio was z to 8.
1.-The larger number of new Demo-
cratic members will naturally be young
err" Macdonald said, land will show
a much lower mortality, so that If there
Is no extra session, the probabilities of
the Democrats organizing the next Con-
gress are very great"
DR.. Macdonald is internationally
known as an alienist physician and
writer on medical, statistical and So
Geological subjects. He was4for many
years a specialist with the Unlted States
Bureau of@Education.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
DRY CAMPAIGN OPENS

NEWARK, N. j., February 81 (P).-
The 'five-year campaign" in support of
the eighteenth amendment by the Anti
Newark sector.
DR.. George w. Morrow of Detroit,
representing the national organization,
directed two meetings attended by about
800 persons. He explained the League
had launched an educational campaign
and asked those present to join mot in
battle, but in war If necessary"
DR.. Frank Kingdom, pastor of CAL
vary Methodist Episcopal Church. East
Orange, challenged the vets to produce
- scheme as good IS prohibition"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
Iris Lecture illustrated

j. M. r. Adams. at meeting OF the
National Capital Dahlia and Iris So
ciety held at the Carlton Hotel last
night. gave lecture on iris which was
illustrated with lantern slides.
Plans for the Spring exhibit will be
formulated at the next meeting, which
will be held March 20, it was an
uoIuced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
BY the Associated Press.


Death was represented today as a
friend of the Democrats in Congress
all because the Republicans have been
in power SO long.
Dr. Arthur Macdonald said the Demo-
Gratis have the best chance to organize
the next Congress. All death has to
do is to continue cutting down Sena-
tors and Representatives at the same
rate as in the past 10 years.
DR.. Macdonald added that from the
Republican point of view an early Ses-
sion will be more advantageous.
Relatively" Macdonald said, "the
mortality of Republicans is distinctly
greater than that of Democrats. The
Republicans have been in power much
longer than the Democrats in recent
times. They are, therefore, older, and
naturally more deaths occur among
them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
LIBRARY TO BE OPEN

The central building of the Public
Library, Eighth and K streets, will be
open tomorrow, as usual. The regular
Sunday schedule will be adhered to
the library being open from to pm
The same schedule will be followed
Monday at the main building. AL
branches and subbranches will be
closed however
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
CITIZENS MEET MONDAY

The North Capitol Citizens Associa-
ton will hold its next meeting at Nc
Kinley High School at o'clock Monday
evening.
John P. Frey, secretary-treasurer of
the Metal Trades Department of the
American Federation of Labor, will
speak on Unemployment as It Affects
Our Industrial Life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
Soprano in Special Feature.

Miss Dorothy Skinner, Washington
soprano. will entertain as special fea-
ture of the February dance to be held
by the Massachusetts, State Society of
Washington at the main ball room of
the Shoreham Hotel Thursday night,
February "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21

mortality are preventable," it was re-
ported.
The voracious appetite of the ado
lescent is thoroughly justified, the con-
ference was. told by DR.. Lafayette B.
Mendel, professor of physiological
chemistry at Yale. Their uniquely
heightened metabolisnn, he said.
"abundantly justifies the proportion
ately greater calorie intake. Science
will no longer justify the skipping Of
youth in matters 81. Diet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-21
MARTIN RITES HELD
State Department Official Buried in

Arlington Cemetery.
Funeral services for Capt. Hugh
Street Martin, economical adviser on
Eastern European affairs at the De-
partment of State, who died in Garfield
Hospital Thursday, were conducted in
Tabler's funeral home, 928 II street, to-
day. Interment was in Arlington Gene
terry, with full military honors at the
grave.
Capt. Martin, who was 80 years old,
was widely known lecturer and rec
ognized expert on Russian affairs.