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The Washington times., 1931-05-16

of the Plaza playground. MOS
of them must now play in the
streets.
In support of the contention
that adequate play space directly
affects the grades of pupils, fig
ures show that out Of 1,031 pupils
enrolled at Langley Junior High
on the last day of school in the
spring of 1881, a total of 102 failed
of promotion. Langley has no
playground.
Situation at Stuart
At Stuart, which had been using
the Plaza playground, out Of ap
proximately 735 pupils, only 2.20
per cent of the students failed.
Of the 102 who failed at Lang
ley, it is estimated that approx
mately So made up" their marks
in summer School-during hot,
firing extra days of toll for the
children and cost for the school
system. And even then, almost B
per cent remained another year u
the same grade.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
FURTHER SLASH
IN INTERIOR
FUND AIM
President Hopeful of Savings
In Face of Heavy Deficit;
Others Will Be Summoned

President Hoover led another
group of explorers into the realm
Of Federal finance to his fishing
camp on the Rapidan River to.
day, this time to determine
whether savings may be effected
in next years budget for the
Interior Department to help off
set the billion-dollar deficit the
Administration is facing.
The Executive left the White
House by motor Immediately
after Z o'clock breakfast,
taking with him 27 guests, in
Guiding all of the ranking officials
Of the Interior Department.
Hopes for Savings
The White House has been per
sistent in it's statements that ef-
ficiency and public welfare must
not be impaired in any way by
budget cuts, but Mr.. Hoover is
hopeful that rough ends can be
found here and there which may
be Topped off to benefit the
Treasury.
Members Of Party
In the party with President
and Mrs. Hoover were Secretary
of Interior and Mrs. Wilbur,
Assistant Secretary and Mrs,
Joseph M. Dixon, Assistant Secre-
tary John H. Edwards, director
of National Parks and Mrs
Horace M. Albright; Commis-
Sioner of Indian Affairs and Mrs.
Charles J. Rhoads; Commissioner
of Land Offices and Mrs. Charles
c. Moore; Director of the Geo.
logical Survey and Mrs. w. C..
Mendenhall; Commissioner of
Education and Mrs. William j.
Cooper; Commissioner of Recla-
nation and Mrs. Elwood Mead;
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr.,
Senator Hastings (R) Of Della
ware, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward H.
Butler, of Buffalo; Secretary to
the President and Mrs. Theo-
dore Joslin, Secretary to the
President Lawrence Richey and
Capt. Joel T. Boone, White House
physician.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
Conference to Hear
DrU Goods Expert

D. F. Kelly, president of the
National Retail Dry Goods Asso-
citation, will speak on How to
Make Merchandising More Profit
able" at the opening session of
the concurrent conventions of the
branches of the National Retail
Dry Goods Associations, to be
held here on May IS to %.
Miss Daisy Reed, training di.
rector Of Woodward and Lothrup,
will speak on Merchandise In.
formation" on the second day of
the convention. Other Washing.
ton speakers include Frank r.
Jelleff and Earl N. Barnhart,
chief Of the commercial education
service, Federal Board of Voca-
tional Education,
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
Educator, UniOnist
To Debate FridQu

Dean Kelly Miller of Harvard
University and A. Phillip Ran.
dolph, of New York. organizer OF
the Pullman Car Porters Union,
will engage in a debate on May
% at the Lincoln Temple Con-
gregational Church.
The subject to be debated is:
"That the present economic
crisis cOunseIs that the negrO's
progress can be better achieved
by allegiance with organized labor
than with capitalists"
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
.|MBR|E AWARD.
APPEALED BY
NJ CARL
Justice Bailey Orders $4,000
Paid Widow of Vice Consul
Murdered by Persians

Comptroller General j. r. Nc.
Carl, who was ordered by Justice
Jennings Bailey to show cause
why he should not pay the full
amount of $4,000 congressional
award to Mrs. Katherine 1mbrie,
1915 Sixteenth st. N. W., the
widow of former Vice Consul
Robert w. Imbrie. who was muir
dered by Persian police at Te-
heran, Persia, on July 18, 1924.
today appealed to the Court of
Appeals from the mandamus
order.
Mr.. Imbrie had been attacked
by a Persian COssack and removed
to q hospital. While lying help
less in the hospital he was mur-
dered by Persian police. Four
days later his widow was attacked
by Persian ruffians on the streets
of Teheran and barely escaped
serious injury.
The Persian government paid
the United States 100000 in.
demnity for the death of Mr.. I'm.
brie, who was acting consul gen.
eral at the time, and an addi,
tional $4,000 for the expense of
transporting his body to the
United States on battleship.
Mrs. Imbrie was awarded
gratuity of 100000 for the death
of her husband and her own har-
rowing experiences, but the
Comptroller insisted that $1,325.-
26, representing a balance due the
Government on Mr.. Imbrie'S final
account, be deducted from the
award.
He relied on a special bond
made by the widow when she
was appointed executrix Of her
husbands estate in which she
assumed personal liability for
claims against the estate.
Justice Bailey sustained a de
murrer to the answer and ordered
writ of mandamus to be issued.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
18th st. 'Y Sends
BOYS to COncL1Ue

A delegation representing the
Twelfth Street Y. M. c. A. went to
Wilmington yesterday to attend
the fifth Older Boys Conference
Of Delaware. Maryland and the
District of Columbia, meeting in
that city.
The group was led by Lee John
son, in charge of recreational
work among the boys. The meet
ing will last through Sunday.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
BrOOkings Institute
Opens NeW School

A conference on cooperative
research was held today at the
new Brookings Institution head
quarters in Jackson Place, with
representatives of Government
agencies, private foundations and
others interested in social science
attending.
The conference is part Of the
two-day program marking the
opening of the institutions new
headquarters, an imposing eight
story home.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
Veterans Bureau p
Worker Tries to Die

Leaving note that he was de-
spondent over illness, Finley Lo-
gan, so, an employe of the Vet
eranS' Bureau, attempted to end
his life today by inhaling gas in
the kitchen of his home at 633
Ingraham st. N. w.
Neighbors sme1led the gas and
summoned the rescue squad, who
reSuscitated the man.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
WindOU Smashers
Get $50 in FurS

Awaiting until a special watch
man had passed down the street,
four colored men early today
smashed the window of the Capt.
tai Full Company, at 1908 G St.
N. W., and took furs valued at
$3.50.
The breaking Of the window
set off a burglar alarm and in a
few minutes a dozen police cars
were on the scene.
The men escaped in an ITO
mobile and w. H. Miller, the
Watchmar said that he was only
able to ge: a fleeting glimpse of
the thieves
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
D. C. Couple Observe
Golden Anniversary

With a large crowd of friends
and relatives present, Mr.. and
Mrs Charles T. Edwards last night
observed their fiftieth wedding
anniversary at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Norman Rems-
burg, 1904 Maryland Avenue.
Mr.. Edwards, who is 70 years,
and his wife, who is II, have been
residents of Washington for the
last 10 years, having come here
from Charlottesville, Va. They
have four daughters and two
sons.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
American u. Clues
Romeo and Juliet

The American University ORA
matte Club last night presented
Romeo and Juliet" in the gym
naSium auditorium.
Directed by Will Hutchins, pro-
feSSor Of art, the play was pre-
sented in true Elizabethan fashion,
with elaborate costumes, use Of
only one scene, and no curtain.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
Infant in Critical
Condition From Fall

Joseph Farrell, 15month son
of william Farrell, ALB st. N. E.,
is still in a critical condition at
the Children's Hospital from a
head injury received when lhe
was pulled from his carriage by
a group of children who were
playing in front Of the house.
The child is expected to re
cover.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
BAER, SILVER REAPPOINTED

Drs. Bernard A. Baer and Edwin
H. Silver were reappointed mem
bers of the District Board of Op-
tometry for three-year terms be-
ginning June / yesterday by the
District Commissioners.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
Robbed by Woman,
Veteran Ch1r0eS

Eugene Moore, colored, who
lives at the Soldiers Home, re-
ported that a strange woman
who met him at Seventh and P
Streets Northwest robbed him of
$25 and his watch in a house
near Sixth and L Streets North
west.
He said he had had two or
three drinks of whisky.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
BALL BREAKS WINDSHIELD

Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Stiller, of
Hyattsville, and their 2-year-old
son were showered by flying glass
when a baseball, batted by some
boys at play. crashed through the
windshield Of their car at Rhode
Island Avenue and Thirty-fourth
Street Northeast.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
STUDENTS TO GIVE PLAY

The dramatic players Of Freling-
huysen University will present
s"The Servant in the House" on
June 10. at the Armstrong High
School auditorium T.
The Washington times., 1931-05-16
Phone Your Tips
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thing happenS-caIl the News
Tip Editor between $50 a. m.
and 6 p. m.-teIl him of any
new happenings in your neigh.
bOrhOOd. 1t may mean cash
to you.
Fifty dollars in cash is di.
vided each week among 10
people who "tip off" The Times
on the best news stories. Save
your news for The Times.
Call the NeuUs Tip Editor
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
FOUR DAY AIR MEET
AT MIAMI WINDS UP
Two Slightly Injured in Accident
Marring Last Plane
Maneuvers.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
|. MIAMI, Fla, January 12-The third
all-American air races wound up yes
terday after four days of thrills offered
by service and civilian airplane stunters
and racers.
The afternoons program was cli-
NAKED by a minor accident. Pilot
Horace z. French, jr., Birmingham, Ala,
was slightly injured and H. o. Rinehart,
Montgomery, Ala, bruised and shaken
when their plane pancaked that of Art
Killips Of Lyons, Ill, in landing on the
field.
Lowell r. Bayles, Springfield, Mass,
in a Bee Bee Sportster, won feature
15-nile pony express race, in which he
and Earl Rowland, Kansas City, in a
Cessna, were required to land their
planes and eat ham sandwich at con-
clusion Of each lap of the smile course.
Bayles' time was 24:2684.
Betty Lund, Troy, Ohio sped around
the course at 96.442 miles per hour to
win a special 15-mile event for women.
Helen Cox Clohecy, Miami, the other
entrant, had an average of $1,000 miles
per hour.
Freddy Lund, Troy, Ohio, and Lowell
r. Bayles of Springfield, Mass, en-
tertained the crowd with a series of
stunts and maneuverS. Mrs. Lund fol-
lowed them into the air for similar
flying
The meet was marred by tragedy
Friday when a cabin plane, occupied
by four non-contestantS, crashed into
soft muck land near a race-course
pylon. Three men were killed and
fourth was critically injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
PENNILESS MAN TAKES OATH
AS OKLAHOMA EXECUTIVE TODAY
Alfalfa Bill" Murray's Only Property Is
Suit on His Back-Pledged to Clean
Up "Hifalutin" Ways.

to the State university when he be-
comes Governor.
He is going to cut the teaching staff
nearly in half, and Will have professors
teach eight hours a day, same as the
plumber and the carpenter" He Will
knock out foot ball and athletics largely.
Physical training alone makes
brutes," he said.
He heard the university wanted
$120, 900 for a new building.
Think of that" he declared. "And
people starving in Oklahoma.
Extent of His Library.
At the reunion in Norman one boy
hood friend said: when Murray pulled
up stakes in Texas and started for Okla
homa to practice law, saw him on the
way to the train in Fort Worth and he
was carrying paper-bound copy OF the
Constitution of the United States. That
was his entire law library"
In Tishomingo Murray hung out his
shingle. In his first case he was de-
Tending small man for assaulting a
big man with fence stake.
God made fence stakes for little men
to grab to give them even chances with
big men," argued Murray, and the story
is that he won.
Murray married the part-Indian
daughter of the Governor of the Chick
asaw tribe and she is his wife now
Murray is part-Indian himself. He has
written book to prove he is direct
descendant of Pocahontas.
All Oklahoma waited to see what he
would say in his inaugural address, his
constituents hoping that he would pour
it on 'em good and plenty"
Copyright, 1881, by North American News
paper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
4 VOTE CONTESTS
FACE NEXT HOUSE
Election Protests Outcome
VIII Not Determine Con-
troll, However.

Four election contests are coming
before the House in the next Congress
but they win in no way AFFECT the con-
troll of the House.
These contests win not be settled, II
they are ever settled. until the new
Congress is well along on its legislative
way.
They have been instituted In four
districts where the vote in the recent
election was unusually close.
The lineup at present is 2l8 Repub-
ncans, 21z Democrats and 1 Farmer
Labor, with vacancies caused by
deaths Of Democratic members.
Credentials Are Respected.
A prima facie title to each seat is
assured by the certificate Of election.
There Is therefore no way to exclude
any one bearing such certificate of cleo
ton from the seat at the opening of the
session prior to the election Of the
Speaker and other House officers. The
House has always maintained q great
deal of respect for credentials. Where
there Is no question of validity of Gre
dentialS the candidate declared elected
case has been tried before q House cleo
tions committee. This House committee
Is allowed six months after the contest
has been referred to 1t to consider the
case and report back to the House. In
some contested cases the decision has
not been made until the life Of the
Congress was nearly closed.
One of the contests centers around
the seat Albert H. VeStal, the Repub-
lican whip, has occupied for ID years
as Representative Of the eighth Indiana
district.
Kunz Protests Defeat.
Claud G. Ball, the Democratic candi-
date, was given 44,194 votes and Vestal
44,203. The incumbent was declared
elected by q majority of nine.
The lone Democrat not reelected
Stanley H. Kunz of the eighth Illinois
district, is contesting the election OF
Peter G. Granata, Republican. Kinz
charged in his petition that gangsters
were largely responsible for his defeat.
Granata, who garnered 1855 votes to
1884 for Kunz, has denied the charges
Charles O'Connor of the first Okla
homa district, who came in with the
Hoover landslide of 1928, Is contestine
the election of his opponent, William F
Disney. O'Connor received Al ,642 ant
Disney IL ,902.
Everett Kent, a Democrat, has file
against Representative william r.
Coyle, Pennsylvania Republican.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
PRESIDENT OF AUSTRIA
RADIOS GOOD WILL TO U. S.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January IA greeting
from the Old World to the New in a
goodwill radio address by DR.. Wilhelm
Miklas, President Of Austria, was given
over the Columbia network yesterday.
Dr. Miklas spoke from the executive
cvhambers of the Ballhaus Palace, the
same room in which the map of Europe
was remade after the downfall of Ma
poleon at Waterloo.
The speaker said the worldwide eco
nomic depression had blocked speedy
recovery of Austria after the World
War, but that on the threshold of 1881
the nation stands as one of the most
important of Europe through geographic
situation and its age-old culture.
DR.. Milkas praised American efforts
to aid his country and stressed the ne
cessity of continued efforts for inter-
national peace. He urged other nations
to follow United States leadership to-
ward world unity.
The address, by telephone to London,
was relayed to Rugby for transmission
on short-wave length to the United
States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
EIGHT STATES TO SEND
MEN TO OIL CONFERENCE

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, January 12.-Eight of
ten States asked to send delegates to a
conference in Washington to consider
relief for the petroleum industry last
night had signified their intention to
participate.
The conference, to begin Thursday.
was arranged upon the suggestion OF
Gov. w. j. Holloway of Oklahoma and
Gov. Clyde Reed of Kansas.
The Governors of Arkansas and
Louisiana have not announced any
action. States expected to participate
are Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Cali
fornia, Wyoming, Kansas, OklahoraA
and Montana.
Secretary Wilbur will participate in
the meeting
Saturday night e. B. Howard, former
Tulsa Representative, who was named
on the Oklahoma delegation, announced
he would not attend the conference
because Secretary Wilbur would be
present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
CUT IN ALLIED DEBTS
FAVORED BY BANKER
Depression Relief Advised by
Chase National Chairman,
Albert H. Wiggin.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 1.-THE
reduction of interallied debts to stimu-
lat the recovery of business is advocated
by Albert H. Wiggin, chairman Of the
Chase National Bank, the worlds
largest.
In his annual report to stockholders
today he writes:
1.-THE most serious Of the adverse
factors affecting business is the inability
of foreign countries to obtain dollars in
amount sufficient both to make interest
and amortization payments on their
debts to us and to buy our exports in
adequate volume"
He advises moderate decrease in
wages.
1T is not true that high wages make
prosperity" he says, instead, prosperity
makes high wages. When wages are
higher than the market situation
justifies. employment and the buying
power of labor fall off"
Conditions at the end Of 1881 will be
IA great deal better than they were at
the end of 1880 in the opinion of Mr.
Wiggin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
PRISONERS FEAR
ISLAND WILL SINK
ouakes Open Crevices In
Mexican Area-voIcanic
Evidences Alarm.
nx tha Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
XTEPIC, Mayarit, Mexico, January
I2.-In the breasts of hundreds of Mex
lean felons, imprisoned on Las Tres
Marias Islands prison colony, today was
a desperate fear of natural cataclysm
which will sink their island home into
the sea and drown them ALL
For three days the islands have been
shaken by some powerful subterranean
force which has cracked buildings,
opened .crevices in the earth, and
washed in huge waves from the ocean.
Twenty-seven such quakes occurred in
one period of three hours Islet cones
near the waters edge have smoked and
emitted rumbling noises.
Some believe, it Is said, that super
natural vengeance is about to be visited
upon the penal colonies in retaliation
for the imprisonment of Madre Con-
cepcion, who is serving 20 years as
moral author" of the assassination If
Gen. Obregon in 1928.
There is general fear that a volcano
will open directly under the prisoners
feet, or that one of the nearby small
cones will emit a flood of lava which
will engulf them; that continuing
quakes will reduce the buildings, or
that an immense seismic wave will in
undate the islands and wipe them
bare of human life.
The entire west coast Of Nayarit also
is alarmed. Here the quakes are as
cribed to the Volcano Cerobruco, south
of Topic, which, after century of 81
lence, is rumbling and smoking. Steps
may be taken soon to evacuate the
mountainside and Jala, the village at
its foot.
It was in the mountain crater that
bandits held j. B. Bristow, San Angelo
old man, for time last Spring. Later
ransom negotiations for his release
were completed within the crater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
ALLEY HOMES BILL
SENT BUDGET BODY
SO, 900, 900 Appropriation Is
Authorized for Purchases
in Measure.
fcontinued Prom First Page.l

housing program for the District by
John Ihlder, housing expert retained
by the commission, and at the same
time, It became known that the new
bill will contain authority for the Dis
trict Commissioners, instead of the
President, to choose the alleys to be
closed progressively and the proposed
sum Of money to acquire the property
Is eliminated
In the commissions supplemental re-
port, Mr.. Ihlder asserts that there are
in Washington today more than $50
inhabited alleys, in which there are ap-
proximately 2,400 dwellings, containing
a population estimated at from 1000
to 10000 persons" The commission
has made maps of 1875 alleys that con-
tain 10 or more dwellings each.
Some of these alleys are communities
Of such size that they would be con-
sidered villages If they had rural en-
vironment," Mr.. Ihlder says. Navy
place, for example, contains 70 houses;
O'Brien's court, 40; Shows court, Al;
Cooksey place, So; Dixons court, a."
Progress is Shown.
Poor people fiocking to washington as
a result of the Civil War and the fact
that under the L'Enfant plan, the city
has very large squares between boundary
streets, are set down as the major con-
tributing factors to the alley dwelling
population. Mr.. Ihlder says that con-
siderable progress has been made, for
"the alley population has been reduced
from an estimated $4,000 to an esti-
mated 1900 to 10000" because the
worst of the old frame shackS have
been demolished and sewers, water
mains and street lights have been ex-
tended into inhabited alleys.
Mr.. Ihlder reiterateS his opinions on
this subject in this manner: 1.-THE
fact remains that disease, crime and
immortality flourish more in the alleys
than they do outside; the children born
and reared in alley dwellings are more
subject to demoralizing environment
than are those outside The remedy
that all students ultimately advocate Is
the elimination of alley dwellings,"
These two points must be kept In
mind, the housing expert asserts-re-
housing the alley population and the
future use of alley property new used
for dwelling purposes He makes 1t
clear that ''all alley jewellers are not
undesirable neighbors" and 1.-The transit
ton must be handled with consideration
and tact"
Mr.. Ihlder appends to his report the
history of previous legislation on this
subject. The Commissioners alley bill
was presented in 1914 and later much
condensed version was enacted and ap-
proved September IS, 1914. After two
poStponements, its effective date was
finally made July /, 1928. Two cases,
District of Columbia VS.. Franklin p.
Nash ct al. and District CT Columbia VS..
Charlotte E. Lockwood ct al, were car
ried to the District of Columbia Court
of Appeals and both were decided
against the Government on May IS,
1927. Since. then there has been no
attempt at enforcement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
CHAIN STORES APPEAL
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chain stores appealed to the Suprem
Court today to test the right Of State
to impose a separate tax on each stol
Of their chain within the State.
The case comes from North CAROLYN
where the Great Atlantic g. Pacific Te
Co., F. w. Woolworth Co. and numbe
of other chain stores challenged the
validity Of a 1929 law which impose
tax Of $50 on each store operated II
the State by chain companies.
The tax was paid under protest anc
suit brought to recover on the grounc
that it was a discrimination agains
chain stores, and did not apply t
separate stores operated by individual
The State Supreme Court Of Nortl
Carolina sustained the tax.