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Evening star., 1932-05-06
CHILD EDUCATION
PROBLEM STUDIED
Teachers Divide Into Discussion
Groups to Consider Sep
arate Matters.

The Association for Childhood Edu-
cation today divided its convention into
number of discussion groups for the
consideration of problems affecting the
education of children.
Josephine Foster of the University
Of Minnesota as vice president OF the
association, was chairman of group
which took up nursery school problems
implication of research for teachers OF
Young children, first experiences with
literature, and record keeping. Speak
ers assigned to these subjects were:
Frances Hungerford, vice president
of the association; Alice Dalglelsh OF
New York, and Emma johnson, Tenn
pie University, Philadelphia.
Another group, under the chairman
ship of Catherine Mclaughlin OF the
University of California, discussed
reading emphasis in school activities,
future trends in teacher training ana
cooperative supervision.
Among the speakers were: Olga
Adams. kindergarten director OF Chi
cago: Martha Buschman of Baltimore
Julia L. Hahn, a supervising principal
of Washington.
This afternoon members of the asso-
citation drove to Mount Vernon ano
later attended tea at the National
Education Association Building at Six
teenth and M streets.
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur told
the conference in an address that IN
stead of proceeding with our children
to consider them equal and put them
all through the same formal training
the most careful consideration should
be given by parents and teachers to
an analysis of the qualities of each
child
Evening star., 1932-05-06
M'CARL MAKES RULING
ON TOTAL DISABILITIES

In computing the length of service
under the civil retirement act, Con-
troller General McCarl today ruled that
there should be excluded all periods
from and after the date of an official
rating Of permanent total disability
specifically authorized to be made under
any Federal statute"
This should be done, McCarl. held,
whether the name of the employe has
or has not been dropped from the rolls
of the department under which en-
ployed.
The case in point was Mary I. Bulla.
a former employe of the Bureau Of
Fisheries, who claimed $82l7 as salary
for the period from March IA to March
81, 1881 She had been listed with
out pay beginning March IA, until fur
ther notice. but when it became appar-
ent she would not be able to return to
work because of ll-health, her resigna-
ton was accepted effective March 81.
The administrative Office attempted to
change the leave without pay to leave
with pay for the period in question. g..
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u. s. EXPORTS SHOW
MARCH INCREASES
Gains in 27 Nations Offset
Losses in Britain
and Russia.

Twenty-seven out Of thirty-nine
countries were reported today to have
increased their imports from the
United States for the month Of March
over February, resulting in an increase
in this countrys export trade for the
period from $153 .924, ,528 to S155 ,254, ,002,
according to Commerce Department
statistics. Imports into the United
States from these countries showed an
increase from $130,977,114 to $13l, ,341,-
2O9.
The most outstanding decrease in this
country's trade during the month was
shown in the export figures to Soviet
Russia. Goods and machinery valued
at only 1896, 329 moved from this coun-
try's ports to Russia, decline OF 81 ,O63,-
639 under the February figures, and a
cut of $5,695,363 under total for March,
1881.
Comparing this country's trade with
Russia for the first three months OF
this year and for the same period In
1881, shows a loss of S40,319, ,667.
Part of this decline Is laid to the
heavy machinery orders placed in the
first year Of the f1ve-year induStr1al1za-
ton plan. However a material slump
came after American manufacturers
were advised to deal with caution IN
their credit extensions to that country.
Exports of automotive products dur
ing the month were set at 5000 1893, as
compared with $8,039 BOT for February.
Belgium and Japan occupied the lead
ing market positions as outlets for
American passenger cars. They also
we're the chief purchasers of trucks. A
large share of the shipments to Bel
gium, however, were intended for re-
exports, the department said
The raising of tariff barriers in Great
Britain caused the United States trade
with the United Kingdom to slump in
80 days a total of $9,824,281.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

George Washington University cam
pus took on festive air today as the
student body prepared for two-day
carnival, at which Miss Ruth Molyneaux
of Washington, winner of a popularity
contest among co-eds. will be crowned
queen.
midway Is being erected for carni-
val attractions and an outdoor arena
prepared for vaudeville acts by fra
ternities and sororities. One feature of
the carnival, which opens tonight, will
be a base ball game tomorrow after
noon on the Monument Grounds be-
tween student and faculty teams.
Miss Molyneaux will be crowned at
1890 O'Clock tomorrow night by DR..
Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the
university.
Miss Molyneaux, a member of the
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority and
active in college dramatics, was chosen
the most popular girl on the campus in
a contest conducted by the Gate and
Key Society. Proceeds from the car
nival will be used for the benefit of the
university band.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

Rear Admiral Charles E. Riggs, sur
geon general of the Navy, and his as
sociates in the Bureau of Medicine and
surgery, Navy Department, collaborated
With Admiral Parsons and the Allied
Architects, Inc, in formulating. the
plans for one of the most modern of
the Navy's hospitals, to replace the
present wartime structures, which, off,
cials, say, are veritable fire traps.
Congress authorized the construction
OF a new naval hospital here in Feb
ruary. 1881, but neglected to appropri-
ate funds for starting construction,
Pending specific appropriation by
Congress. the new hospital will wait
Meanwhile, the officials say, some of
the existing buildings now housing Grip
pied veterans are combustible. The
war-built structures will soon need ex-
tensive repairs because of the deteriora-
ton of the wooden property. hastily
erected to meet grave national emer-
gency, the officials assert.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

ward wings, extending at right angles
from the central section and framing a
broad entrance court, which faces east
toward the area Of the proposed deveI-
opment for the War and Navy Depart
ment buildings. Another similar court
commands a vista westward toward
Analostan Island. which has been of
fered to the Government as a memo
rial to Theodore Roosevelt by the
Roosevelt Memorial Association.
The buildings are to be of limestone
and are conceived in simple style of
modified Grecian character, the archi-
tects explain. The new hospital will
accommodate $50 beds and cover little
less than two acres of ground, provid-
ing about eight acres of floor space for
the purposes of disqualification and
medical education. The southern part
of the building will be three stories in
height, but other parts of the hospital
will comprise four stories and base
ment. There will be Is wards, for vari-
GUS types of diseases
Evening star., 1932-05-06
POLO HOBBY HORSES EXTOLLED,
BUT FAIL TO GET IN ARMY BILL
House Subcommittee Chairman Finds Uncle Sam Is Not
Paying for "Ths Foolshness.''

slanted so that the polo balls that are
hit will roll back to be hit again.
Gen. Bridges had never seen one of
the wooden polo horses, but Col. w. T.
Mcmillan of his bureau knew all about
them. A man doing his training want
ed to practice hitting a ball, so he in
vented the device.
"Wf1ere there is group of enthusi-
asts among the officers" he said, they
viii rig up thing like that, collect two
or three dollars from each of the men
and put it up, just as when officers go
out for trapshooting. they will go out
and buy one or two hand traps. As
a training feature" he said, II would
see no objection to proper expenditure
for that purpose. from the standpoint OF
horsemanship training and polo"
Polo enthusiasts in civil life indulge
in the same sport, the committee was
told, but they agreed with Chairman
Collins that it was hardly advisable al
this time to carry an item In the Army
bill to encourage 1t.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

Riding wooden hobby horses for polo
practice is favorite pastime for some
Army polo enthusiasts, but they do so
at their own expense.
War Department officials were quick
to disclaim any responsibility for the
hobby horses, when the subject was
brought up at the hearings on the
Army appropriation bill, although they
admitted a wooden hobby horse is not
really poor substitute for a polo pony.
Chairman Collins of the House sub
committee had seen picture Of one of
the hobby horses in action at a Detroit
training camp and demanded If the
Army was paying for this foolishness. I"
His pecunious sensibilities were notice
ably relieved when Adj. Gen. Charles H.
Bridges hastily assured him it was
not so.
Mr.. Collins gave a graphic account Of
how the practice stunt Is worked. The
wooden horse is set up in o wire cage
at the bottom OF an arena or platform
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Findings on Capper Plans
Will Be Included by Eff
ficiency Bureau.
UNIFORM RATE IS AIM;
EARLY ACTION EXPECTED
Tangible Personal Property and
Real Estate Would Garry Burden
and Receipts Levy Would Be Cut.

When the Bureau of Efficiency re-
ports to the Senate District Committee
within 10 days or two weeks on the
Mapes local income tax measure. it will
include in that document its findings
on the bill recently drafted by Senator
Capper of Kansas to increase and place
on a different basis the taxation of
public utility corporations in Washing
ton, according to Thomas F. Murphy,
assistant chief of the bureau
At present the utilities pay the real
estate tax and tax on gross receipts.
The percentage rates fixed by Congress
for this gross receipts tax are not uni
form for all companies. Senator Cap
per's bill proposed that utilities be taxed
on their tangible personal property as
well as on real estate, with the gross
receipts tax reduced to uniform rate
Of per cent
The bureaus final report is expected
TO deal with the effect of the Mapes
tax bills on the fiscal relations prob
lem, and is scheduled to be submitted
soon after the income tax report. One
of the Mapes bills seeks to repeal the
substantive law fixing the 60-40 ratio of
appcS Stioning the expenses of the Ma
tionS Capital between the District and
Federal governments.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Church TO TAKE Up
PROHIBITION TODAY
Congregational and Christian
Conferences Holding Two
Day Session Here.

Resolutions on prohibition and other
subjects were to be taken up by the
Middle Atlantic Conference Of Congre-
gational and Christian Churches late
this afternoon, when the Resolutions
Committee of the first annual meeting
will report.
Clergymen and laymen attending the
first sessions of the two-day meeting
Yesterday at the Mount Pleasant Con-
pregational Church heard speakers
deride a pagan world, where God is not
given a chance to perform. Rev. Arthur
J. Buttrick, pastor Of the Madison
Avenue Presbyterian Church OF New
York, spoke on economic and social
problems.
Committees Reported.
Committee reports took up the greater
part of this mornings session, with DR..
Luther A. Weigle, dean of the Yale
Divinity School, leading a religious
education discussion on the "Church's
Responsibility For Its Youth"
Rev. z. T. Buehrer, pastor Of the
Congregational Church Of Haworth,
N. j.. led discussion on Drama and
Pageantry in the Local Church" and
Jessie La Sale, assistant superintendent
of Schools, spoke on Personality De-
velopment in Children" Today's de-
votional services were led by the con-
ference chaplain, Rev. Gaius Glenn
Atkins, professor at Auburn Theological
Seminary, who spoke at yesterday after
Moons session.
"Our Conference at Work"
A half dozen ministers and as many
lay members were to discuss this after
noon "Our Conference at Work"
This years meeting marks the f1rst
anniversary of the merger of the Con-
gregational and Christian Churches OF
the Middle Atlantic section.
A young peoples banquet at Ingram
Memorial Church tonight. at which DR..
Allan A. Stockdale will preside as toast
master, will close the meeting. Rev.
Leon E. Smith, president-elect of Elon
College, in North Carolina, will speak.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
C. {. MORGAN FUNERAL
TOMORROW AFTERNOON
Roofing Company Head Will Be
Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Elks Plan Rites.

Funeral services for Clarence E.
Morgan, head Of the Ajax Roofing Co.,
who died suddenly at Emergency Hos
pital Wednesday, will be held at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Hysong's
funeral parlors, followed by burial in
Rock Greek Cemetery. Special services
by the Elks, Of which Mr.. Morgan was
an active member, will be held at 7:30
o'clock tonight at Hysong's
Mr.. Morgan was born in Ashland,
Wis, in 1889, and educated in Pitts
burgh, Pa, where he was graduated
from Pittsburgh Commercial College.
He came to this city in 1907, and for
several years was travelling auditor for
the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co, resigning TO become vice president
and general manager of Grafton g. Sons
Roofing Co. Several years ago he form
ed his own company, of which he had
been head since.
He is survived by his widow, the for
mer Miss Carrie L. Blick of this city.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
WOMAN DIES, EIGHT
IN COLLISION HURT
Mrs. Lucy Cullen Succumbs
to Injuries Sustained at
22d and Otis Streets.

Mrs. Lucy Cullen, So, Of the 300 block
of B street southeast, died last night
in Sibley Hospital from injuries re-
ceived late yesterday in head-on col
lision of two automobiles at Twenty
second and Otis streets northeast, in
which eight others were injured. four
seriously.
Five Of the injured were high school
students from the Lancaster, Pa, High
School.
The drivers of the automobiles, Mics
Catherine Marie Cuskey. II, of Lam
caster, and Miss Elizabeth o. Cullen
80, today were ordered held under
$4,000 bond each pending action by the
coroner.
Miss Cuskey, who received severe
lacerationS and bruises about the body,
was transferred from Sibley to George
town Hospital today. Miss Cullen was
treated for Iacerations to the head and
shock.
Others seriously injured were Mrs.
Dora Roberts, So, and Richard Roberts,
53 both of the 220 block of Kearney
street northeast, passengers IN the car
operated by Miss Cullen. Mrs. Roberts
received cuts about the face and in
ternal injuries, while Mr.. Roberts re-
ceived a broken shoulder and cuts
about the head
The others injured, all from Lancas-
ter, Pa, are Miss Mary Bennawitt. 16,
treated for lacerations about the face;
Miss Catherine Bennawitt, 18, cuts on
the hand; Henry Dennis. Is, cuts on
the head, and Miss Pauline Hoffman,
II, lacerations on the arm. Miss Hoff-
man was treated by private physician
and later taken to Georgetown Hospi-
tai. All the others. except Miss Cuskey,
are in Sibley Hospital
The high school group was in Wash
ington on a sightseeing tour with a
large group from the school, riding in
IL other automobiles. They were on
their way to the Franciscan Monastery.
Detective Sergeant George E. Darnell
is in charge Of the investigation Of the
affair.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
NEEDY FAMILIES GIVEN LAND
TO RAISE OWN FOOD HERE
Some IS to 20 Homes Will Share in First Tract Set Aside
Behind Eastern Hgh

Ohhcials Of the District Employment
Committee today revealed that a COM
prehensive plan has been worked out
whereby many unemployed Washington
families will raise their own food this
Summer on free tracts
Workmen are now clearing a 5-acre
tract in the rear of Eastern High
School, which will be divided into plots
Of so by $50 feet Some is or 20 families
have begun cultivating their plots al
ready.
They are being supplied with quantir
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Company Also Considering
Three Sites for Terminal q.
in Downtown Area.
OPERATORS TO CONDUCT
INDEPENDENT STATION
Three Applications for Depot Sites
Now Pending Before Utilities
Commissioners.

A large garage to accommodate buses
of the Greyhound Lines will be erected
shortly on New York avenue extended
and the bus interests are considering
three locations for their bus terminal
in downtown Washington.
This was learned today from officials
of the Greyhound Lines, who said their
company hopes to have their buses
of the streets of downtown Washing
ton, as provided by the Public Utilities
Commission order, by August /. An
nouncement of the location chosen for
the terminal is expected to be made
within the next few weeks.
Plan Own Terminal
A spur track from the Pennsylvania
Railroads passenger tracks will be run
into the new garage for the Greyhound
lines busses, so that oil and gasoline
may be transported more readily, off,
cials asserted The authorities antici-
pate that ground will be broken for the
new bus garage within a month, and
there are hopes of occuying downtown
terminals and the garage about the
same time.
At present the downtown terminal
for the Greyhound Line Is at 1885 New
York avenue, and the BUSES stop across
the street.
officials Of the Greyhound Line said
today they expect to operate their own
terminal and are not proposing to COM
bine with other interests in a union
terminal.
Ask Terminal Permit.
An application for an occupancy per-
NIT for bus terminal in the rear of the
Annapolis Hotel, filed yesterday by
George H. Weinrott & Co., was under
investigation by the Public Utilities
Commission today. Such applications
are made to the District Commissioners,
but the city heads turn them over to
the Public Utilities Commission, since
they involve common carrier operation.
A second bus terminal at the Metro
politian Hotel, Sixth street and Penn
sylvania avenue, was also under discus
sion today, when representative of the
property owners called on Chairman
Mason NJ Patrick Of the Public Utilities
Commission to inquire of any objection
to the location of terminal in that
section.
The commission has been shown
plans for a third bus terminal at 81
Massachusetts, avenue, near the Union
Station.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

THESE plans for the new Naval
Hospital, to be erected at Twen-
ty-third street and Constitution
i avenue, meet previous objec-
tions of the Fine Arts Commits
sion. which contended prior plans
would compete with the beauty of the
Lincoln Memorial because of their
height These plans were submitted to
the commission by Rear Admiral A. L.
Parsons, chief of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks, Navy Department, and the
Allied Architects, Inc. Further studies
are being made of the three terraces
to grace the southwark slopes Of the
Naval Hospital property, leading down
to Constitution avenue.
The newly approved plans provide for
erection of a central main building. 500
feet long, running north and south,
with the medical school forming T
at the north end and the sick officers
quarters similarly placed at the south.
to command fine view Of the Lincoln
Memorial and Arlington Memorial
Bridge. Between these terminals are
Evening star., 1932-05-06
MRS. JOHNSON DIES

Mrs. Alice Moore Johnson, II, widow
of Ellis c. Johnson. solicitor Of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau in the Wilson
Administration, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. A. F. Zerbee at New
Rochelle, N. Y, Wednesday night. ac-
cording to word received here today.
Mrs. Johnson was a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Leander Moore Of Whining
ton. N. c. She had resided In Wash
tngton for the last 30 years. Funeral
services and interment were scheduled
et Rock Greek Cemetery today.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
ATTORNEY RESUMES
J WILKERSON STORY
Promises to Give New Evidence to
Senators Considering Nomina-
tion of Judge.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Donald r. Richberg, attorney for the
Railway Labor Executives Association,
today resumed before a Senate Commit
tee an attack upon the nomination of
Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago
for promotion to the Circuit Court.
Richberg told the committee his pre-
vious testimony had not brought out
all that he intended. He promised to
produce evidence which will show the
part played by Judge Wnkerson in CIV
ing aid and comfort to those corrupting
forces that have made Government in
Chicago q mockery of law and order
and national disgrace"
Wilkerson sentenced Al Capone to
prison, and his confirmation has been
recommended to the full judiciary
Committee by the subcommittee under
Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho,
before which Richberg appeared today
Evening star., 1932-05-06
TWO HELD IN OPERATION

Mrs. Mamie S. Johnson, 40, of the
1700 block of D street southeast. and
Byron G. Carson, 35, an attorney, living
in the 1000 block of Belmont road, were
arrested yesterday on charges growing
out of an alleged illegal operation which
resulted in the death Of Miss Mildred
Rogers, 35, at Sibley Hospital April "a.
The arrests were made at the request
Of Assistant United States Attorney
Pearl Mccall, following an inquest at
the Morgue Carson and Mrs. johnson
were released on 81 500 bond each.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Marriage Licenses Issued.

UPPER MARLBORO. Md, May g.
Marriage licenses have been issued here
to the following:
M. L. Eickner, "a, and Margaret K.
Reynolds, "a, both of Washington;
Virgil Frederick Taylor, 25, Thornton.
Va. and Katherine Chapman, 80,
Lynchburg, Va; Russell j. Slant. "a.
and Melva Hedges, Is. both Of Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

ties of seed and tools. The tract has
been made available by the Agriculture
Department The department will as
sign a superintendent to aid inexperi-
enced gardeners.
Preference will be given to families
recommended by the Associated Chari-
ties, the Catholic Charities and other
family welfare agencies in order that
those in dire need may receive first at
tention.
Mrs. Frederick Fl. Brooke Is chairman
of the subcommittee In charge,
Evening star., 1932-05-06
WOMAN FOUND DEAD

Mrs. Mae odenwa1d's Body Dis
covered in Gas-Filled Apartment.
Mrs. Mae Odenwald, As, widow OF
John Odenwald, was found dead in her
gas-fllled apartment in the 1400 blocl;
Of Fairmont street shortly after O'Clock
this morning.
When discovered by the janitor. Mrs.
Odenwald's body was lying in the bath
room with the head toward the open
door. Gas was escaping from burner
on the kitchen stove. All doors and
windows were closed.
Mrs. Odenwald was past matron Of
the Washington Centennial Chapter of
the Order of the Eastern Star. She is
survived by a brother, Robert Bursey, a
policeman at the second precinct.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
WIN $45, 900 INSURANCE
Business Partner and Widow Of
Sidney West Given Verdicts.

verdicts totaling $45,000, with inter-
yesterday by jury in Circuit Division
before Justice Jennings Bailey against
the Northwestern Mutual Life insurance
Co. on disputed policies of insurance
issued on the life Of Sidney West,
prominent merchant, who died in 1927.
One Of the verdicts was in favor of
Eugene C. Gott, business associate OF
Mr.. West. and was for $25.000 and in
terest. The other was In favor of Mrs.
Florence H. West, widow of the mer-
chant, and Is for $40 900 and interest.
Attorneys Tobrfner a. Graham ap.
peared for the plainkiffA
Evening star., 1932-05-06
BANQUET at Takoma Park.

TAKOMA PARK, Md, May (Spe-
ciaD The Christian Endeavor So
ciety Of the Takoma Park Presbyterian
Church will hold its fourth annual ban
quet tomorrow evening at $50 o'clock
at the church.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Guests at Training School.

The National Training School for
Boys, on Bladensburg road northeast,
will be host to the Johnnie Reh Enter
tainers, comprising group Of song and
dance artists and comedians, tonight at
7:3O o'clock
Evening star., 1932-05-06
BIRTH CONTROL LOSES
House Ways and Means Committee
Defers Taking Up Bill.

Defers Taking Up Bill.
lation has been deferred indefinitely by
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee.
Behind closed doors yesterday Acting
Chairman Crisp laid before the commit
tee a bill to legalize the distribution of
birth control information and said
Representative Hancock, Democrat, of
North Carolina, the author, desired
hearings.
Strenuous objections were raised.
Finally the opposition, led by Repre-
sentative Mccormack, Democrat, Of
Massachusetts,, won out.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Hunt Club Show May %.

BERRYVILLE, Va, May 5 (Spe-
ciaD The thirty-ninth annual show of
the Blue Ridge Hunt Club will be held
in Carter Hall Grove at Wildwood Sat-
urday, May %.