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Evening star., 1932-12-15
NOURlSHMENTLACK
MARKS HUMAN RACE
Discussion by Miss Fisher Inaug-
urates University Women's
Seminars.

Inaugurating a Winter series Of sem
inars in social and economic planning,
the American Association Of University
Women last night heard Miss Katherine
Ward Fisher. member Of the Family
Endowment Society, discuss the perma-
nent physical injury to the human race
growing out of undernourishment..
Addressing q large group which in
cluded university and Government
economists, Miss Fisher cited the
permanent physical injury which befell
persons in Europe deprived OF proper
nourishment during the food blockades
of the Great War.
She said the safeguarding OF children
during times Of economic upheaval
should be the prime responsibility OF
industry.
DR.. Leifur Magnusson, director Of the
local branch of the international labor
organization, conducted the seminar,
assisted by DR.. John Donaldson, pro-
fessor of economics at George WASH
ington University; DR.. Mordecai Ezekiel,
associate economist OF the Federal Farm
Board, and Miss Marie Obenauer.
The seminars will be conducted each
Wednesday until February is. with the
exception of the Wednesdays following
Christmas end New Year. The pro-
grams are being arranged by DR.. Martha
MacLear, vice president OF the American
Association Of University Women.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
HEARING TO BE SET
ON LET'S AND ROVER
Petition for Impeachment May Not
Be Reached by House
Committee Soon.

At a meeting of the subcommittee OF
the House Judiciary Committee, headed
by Representative McKeown, set for to-
morrow, an effort will be made to fix
time for consideration of the petition
for impeachment of Associate Justice E.
Dickinson Let's of the District Supreme
Court and United States Attorney Leo
A. Rover. This case probably will not
be taken up until after the Christmas
holidays.
The impeachment was asked by q
Washington attorney, Jesse c. Duke. He
charged that Justice Let's and District
Attorney Rover sent to the Court OF
Appeals "a false, inaccurate, incomplete,
deleted and diluted bill of exceptions"
in the pending case of Adolph Moder ct
al. VS.. the United States. Attorney
Duke charges that both Of the officials
"are thus guilty Of Justification Of rec
ords and obstruction of justice, which
are two Federal crimes"
Adolph Moder, Thomas Crane, James
Caparrotta and Rocco Pellicano, who
are represented by Attorney Duke. were
convicted in the District Supreme Court
Of conspiracy to violate the prohibition
act by making, transporting, storing and
selling intoxicating liquor. They were
sentenced to from Is months to two
years imprisonment. Appeal was taken
to the District Court Of Appeals.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
MRS. HENRY A. STRONG
GIVEN CROSS OF HONOR
Honored at White House for High
est Service to United States
Flag Association.

The Cross of Honor for highest serv-
ice to the United States Flag Associa-
ton was presented to Mrs. Henry Alvah
Strong at the White House Tuesday by
Mrs. Herbert Hoover on behalf of the
association. Mrs. Strong received the
associations highest decoration for hav-
ing rendered the greatest service to the
organization during the last year. The
presentation took place in the presence
Of wives of cabinet members and men,
bers of Mrs. Strong's family.
Mrs. Strong served the association by
acting as honorary chapenon to q
party of boys and girls-"envoys of
friendship"-when they visited Eng
land and France in the Summer of
1881. under auspices of the organiza-
tion. She also has used her influence
in interesting educators and business
men in the work of the association
and has served the officers of the Or
ganization in an advisory capacity.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
NEW YORK AVENUE ROADWAY
TO BE MARCTIERS' CAMP SITE
District Officials Are Considering Install
ing Sanitary Facilities to Forestall
Possible Disease Epidemics

The roadway Of New York avenue
northeast overlooking the Ivy City
roundhouse, where the hunger march
army was hemmed in for four days, Is
destined to become the camp site for all
other organized groups that come to
Washington this Winter to petition
Congress.
District officials disclosed today that
plans are under consideration to pro-
vide sanitary facilities on the Govern
ment-owned park paralleling New York
avenue for the use of future marchers
who invade the District. The hunger
marchers" had no sanitary facilities Of
any kind until trenches were dug In
the park area. but these were regarded
as dangerous makeshift from health
standpoint.
District officials do not want to be put
in the position of providing conven-
fences or accommodations for unwel-
come armies of marchers, but sanitary
facilities are regarded as an absolute
necessity for protection against possible
disease epidemics.
The plan for temporary sanitary IA
cilities is understood to have been sug-
gested by Lieut. Col. u. S. Grant. Sd,
director OF public buildings and public
parks Of the National Capital. who has
supervision over the park land adjoin-
ing New York avenue.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
kUNZE is REELECTED
HEAD OF PHlLATELISTS

Albert r. Kunze was reelected presi-
dent Of the Washington Philatelic
Society last night. Other officers chosen
were William c. Bond, first vice presi-
dent, Charles S. Vaughan, second vice
president; Maurice s. Petty, secretary,
and Phillip S. Warren, treasurer.
The following were selected as addi-
tional members Of the board Of gov
ernors: Ernest Kletsch, v. v. Weiergang,
J. H. Jenkins and w. H. Collins. Jenkins
was elected auctioneer, Clyde De Binder,
sales manager.
It was reported that membership of
the local society has decreased but
slightly during the past year, In marked
contrast to the experience Of other
philatelic societies in this respect.
The committee in charge of the
recent exhibition at the Washington
Building recommended that the exhibit
be made an annual affair.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
PRESIDENT CALLS
PARLEY TO DISCUSS
| EDUCATION CRISIS
IS to 100 Leaders in School,
Labor and Farm Groups
Invited.
RETRENCHMENT SOUGHT
WITH Minimum INJURY
Two.Day Conference to Outline
Program for Each
Community.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover has decided to cal
a conference on the "crisis in educa-
ton" and invitations will be issued
tomorrow for a group of educational
and other leaders to meet here Janu-
ary 5.
The opening session will be addressed
by the Chief Executive. who will set
forth as the conferences primary .pur-.
pose the working out of methods o1
making necessary retrenchment In
school expenditures with the least pos
sible injury to the coming generation. :
A second goal will be to secure ef-
fective participation in constructive
action by citizens Of widely differing
points of view but with common in
terest" in reducing educational costs.
Invites Other Leaders.
In addition to educational leaders, the
President will invite representatives of
labor and leading farm organizations
Invitations were to have gone forward
today. but a delay was encountered in
engraving them.
In an effort to achieve definite re-
suits during the two-day session, it
was said at the White House. the
conference will be limited to IS or 100.
eaid there would be an effort to 'formu-
late statement Of recommended
policies in the light of which any COM
munity can examine its own situation
and make appropriate adjustments.
Council Gathers Data.
DR.. Charles R. Mann. head OF the
American Council on Education, who
will play a prominent part, has devoted
months to gathering data on the in
creasing Eumber of children attending
school and the reductions necessary in
educational appropriations.
Data will be assembled in advance" "
DR.. Mann said, concerning the shrink
age in national income. the increase
In governmental expenditures, the re-
duction in wages and commodity prices,
the increase in bonded Indebtedness and
costs Of debt service, the increase in
school attendance during the past few
years of unemployment. the number of
youths under l8 years Of age gainfully
employed and many other significant
factors that vitally affect the support
of the schools. r" I
In addition, cases Of waste in school
expenditures will be cited and examples
given of constructive retrericfment in
which costs have been reduced, yet
schooling improved"
Evening star., 1932-12-15
KEMMERER FACES
ASSAULT CHARGE
Man Who Terrorized House
With Gun Accused of Point
ing 1t at Spectator.

Formal charges Of assault upon a
spectator in the House galleries prob
ably will be placed in Police Court to-
morrow against Marlin r. M. KEN
merer, 25-year-old Allentown, Pa, de-
partment store clerk, who terrorized a
crowded House chamber Tuesday by
brandishing a loaded revolver from the
gallery.
Police are planning to charge the
man with an assault on E. j. Roche
president of the Allied Printing Trades
Council Roche told investigators he
was seated near Kemmerer when the
latter arose and flourished gun.
Roche said that, realizing the dan
ger, he stepped forward and advised
Kemmerer to give up the pistol. KEN
merer'S response, however. was to point
the pistol directly at him.
Gun Caught by Mas.
He ordered me to stand back sew
eral times" Roche told police, "and
then turned his attention to some one
on the floor beneath, before tossing
down the weapon"
The pistol, cooked and loaded, was
caught by Representative Mas Of Min
nesota, who had ordered Kemmerer to
throw 1t down to him. After his arrest,
two sticks of dynamite were found In
Kemmerer's room in the 600 block OF
Massachusetts, avenue.
Roche was assisting Detective Thomas
Nally today in the investigation OF the
incident. Police communicated with
Kemmerers home city and were in
formed he was a salesman of firearms
in large store there. Allentown police
had no information that Kemmerers 6
mind might be unsound.
Price Claims Arrest.
Meanwhile, Brooks Price. Capitol po-
| liceman stationed in the House gallery
has written letter to The Star pro-
testing he was not properly credited
with the arrest Of kemmerer. Prices
version of the arrest follows:
II am the officer of the United States
, Capitol police who Is stationed at the
House gallery. In other words, that
is my post. The episode that occurred
yesterday in the House has been mis-
represented by your paper. I, myself,
am the officer who arrested the man
who welded the gun in the House gal
lery. The Metropolitan officer who was
off duty and was spectator in the
gallery with his wife has been given
the sole credit for the arrest. accord
ing to your paper. Which misrepre-
sentation makes it appear as if (the
officer stationed on duty there) was
slow on the job I made the arrest and
I feel that it is a dark reflection on
myself as the officer on duty at that
post and I deeply resent the implication.
IF you will kindly investigate the
affair you will see that am right.
Please ask the doorkeepers Of the
House gallery-ask those who saw it
and they will tell you the truth. AS
you have printed the affair, it appears
as if was of duty-loaffng, asleep or
anything that might be derogatory to
my services. Please correct.
Very truly.
BROOKS PRICE,
U. S. Capitol police blouse gallery.
Evening star., 1932-12-15

No advance information has been re-
ceived by District officials that any
other organized groups are coming to
Washington this Winter, but II they
do, the Police Department intends to
be prepared to handle them the same
way it dealt with the hunger march"
army. The hunger inarchers," how
ever. have treatened to return in March
II President-elect Roosevelt calls a spe-
cial session of the Seventy-third Con-
gress at that time, but police officials
have not taken the threat seriously
In any event, If the hunger march
ers" come back, they will be penned up
in the same roadway camp with nothing
more to look forward to In the way Of
accommodations and conveniences than
sanitary facilities.
Police and District officials consider
the New Yor.. avenue site as an ideal
camp from a strategic standpoint. Here
the railroad tracks serve as barrier to
the north and hill serves the same
purpose on the south. Columns of police
can effectively block the entrances to
Bladensburg road and Florida avenue
on the east and west as was done In
the case Of the hunger marchers"
In this area police can keep the
spectators separated from any groups
of marchers. thus reducing the pos
Sibility Of disorder.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
PLAY WILL BE GIVEN
BY DRAMA CHILDREN
Everybody Happy" Will Be First
Of Season Sponsored by Com
munity Center.

The children's drama groups spon-
sored by the Community Center De-
partment will give their first play OF
the season, Everybody Happy" by
Madeleine Barnum, tomorrow afternoon
at the Burroughs Center, Eighteenth
and Monroe streets northeast. The per-
formance, directed by Wilma Wright
Flood, will begin at 3:i5.
Also on thes program Of the after
noon will be dances by the classes
taught at Burroughs Center and Christ
mas carol singing for the audience, led
by Mrs Florence v. Yeager. All guests
are requested to bring an article of non
perishable food for the needy families
Of the neighborhood.
Saturday night play by McKin-
ley High School student, Alfred Moe,
will be performed at the Langley Cen
ter, First and T streets northeast. The
burlesque, entitled up In the Air Over
There" will begin at pm. Musical
selections will be rendered by the Vaga-
bonds Orchestra and the moving pic
ture Progress Of Aviation" will be ex-
hibited
Evening star., 1932-12-15
1,242 FAMILIES GET
RELIEF IN november
Associated Charities Outlay $22,-
294, Report to Board
Discloses.

The Associated Charities spent s22.-
294 during November in helping 1922
families, according to report submitted
to the board of managers yesterday.
The report stated the major relief
problem was unemployment. the relief
of which involved the expenditure of
$9,17365.
For the care Of 2O3 sick persons, the
association spent $5,o67.92 for 127
widows and families. $2,794.05; for "a
unmarried mothers, $435.18 for 10
aged persons, 1891 Sc, and for 191 fam
lilies of deserting husbands, $3,529.77.
There were Alb other families where
no direct relief was given, but where
the problem was one of adjustment
within the family or some health prob
lem requiring hospital or medical care,
legal aid, or was referred to the Board
Of Public Welfare for institutional care.
Clarence Phelps Dodge presided.
Others attending the meeting included
Arthur Deerin Call, Franklin H. Ellis,
Charles c. Glover, jr.; c. c. Morgan,
Mrs. E. K. Morris, Miss Helen Nicolay,
Mrs. John L. Proctor, Miss Florence p.
Spofford, Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro and
Evan Tucker.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
GEORGETOWN PRESENTS.
THREE PLAYS TONIGHT
Three Casts to Take Part in Debut
of Mask and Baub1e.
Club.

Three separate casts Of college play
ers will take part in the debut Of the
Mask and Bauble Club of Georgetown
University this evening at 8:15 o'clock
in the Trinity Church Theater, in
Georgetown. There will be only the
The program consists of Copy"
Kendall Banning's newspaper play
which has had popular run; Lord
Dunsany's "The Lost Silk Hat" and an
Irish character sketch by Lady Greg
ory entitled '"The Rising of the Moon. %
The program will be a strictly anna
teur performance. which students IN
charge, even Of the stage effects. r.
Vernon Murphy is president Of the dra-
matte club. and John F. Drum Is chair
man of the board Of governors. The
Georgetown Rub Is planning to enter a
prize competition against Jesuit college
groups n the Eastern United States.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
CONVICTED OF THEFTS
Man Found Guilty of Taking Mag.
azines and Papers.

Percival Ryan. 54. Of the 1900 block
of Thirteenth street. was found guilty
on two charges of stealing newspapers
and magazines by Police Court jury
late yesterday. Judge Gus A. Schuldt
deferred sentence.
Ryan was arrested the first time early
In the Fall when Policemen A. Mann
and M. N. Stottleuyer caught him with
So worth Of magazines which had beer
taken from a news stand in the 70C
blLck Of Thirteenth street. Ryan posted
$50 collateral and, when he failed tc
appear for trial, the money was for
feited and an attachment issued. Po-
lice had hunted in vain until his arrest
December 4 for alleged theft Of three
newspapers from . stand in the 1890
block Of H street.
The jury deliberated less than 10
minutes.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
BONUS ARMY PAYS
HONOR TO VICTIMS
Wreaths Laid on Graves oil
Two Men Killed in
Capital Riot.

Wreaths Of red were laid today by a
group Of $50 radical bonus marchers on
the Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier and
the graves of William ]. Hushka and
Eric Carlson, the war veterans who were
killed last July in the bonus riots on
Pennsylvania avenue.
George Brady Of the Bonus Expedi.
tionary Force, delivered the eulogy at
the Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier.
James w. Ford, colored, Communist
vice presidential candidate In the last
election, also eulogized the Unknown
Soldier.
Bugler Sounds TAPS"
Harold c. Otis. bugler of the Ma
cfine-gun Troop. Sd Cavalry, Fort
Myer, blew Taps" at the graves Of the
three former soldiers. The ceremony
al the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
WAS directed by the superintendent OF
Arlington National Cemetery, Robert
Dye
The bonus marchers, led by Ford
Brady, Emanuel Levin, head Of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League. and
Samuel ]. Stember, trudged to the
cemetery from their headquarters al
905 I street by way of Fourteenth street
and the Highway Bridge. Escorted by
four metropolitan motor cycle police
ment. they entered the cemetery
American flags were the only emblems
they carried.
After laying the wreath the marchers
ploddetl back to Washington over the
new Arlington Memorial Bridge.
Possiti ility of demonstration at the
White House was seen as police received
reports the marchers would attempt to
picket the Executive Mansion.
Police Reinforced.
Due to the fact their route lay along
Constitution avenue, only few blocks
from the White House, extra details OF
police were expected to be ordered out
to prevent the marchers from breaking
ranks as they passed the Ellipse
A mass meeting was expected to be
called for tonight, at which further
plans Of the united movement fol
bonus payment legislation will be dis
cuSSed.
Whether the marchers will remain
in the Capital after tomorrow, probably
will be decided then, according to Levin
In anticipation of movement on the
WIuCe Rouse, MAJ. ErNeSL w. 6rOWn
superintendent Of police, detailed 25
metropolitan police at the Executive
Mansion and ordered so more held In
reserve at the first and third precincts
Strong detachments Of United States
park police also were ready at an in
Stant's notice.
Expecting surprise move last night,
regular detachments of police at the
White House were heavily REINFORCED
and vigilance redoubled throughout the
city. No move was made, however, and
the extra details were reduced after
midnight.
Possibility Of q return Of the radical
element OF the bonus army after next
March 4, probably will be discussed at
tcnight's mass meeting.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
FORGOTTEN BOYS AND GIRLS IN WASHINGTON
j THIS CHRISTMAS PLACED AT MORE THAN 10000
But Single Heartbreak Is
Enough to Point Need
for Toys.
TOY MATINEEs SATURDAY
P|aythings and Clothing
Sought at Star-Warner
Brothers Benefit.

The spectacle Of one small child's
heartbreak on Christmas morning is
scarcely more tragic when multiplied
10000 times.
A single tear-stained face before an
empty stocking-this, 1t seems, Is clear
er than anything framed in figures
Thousands of similar faces are almost
too many to contemplate.
Choose one forgotten boy or girl, only
one, from his numberless fellows
III, 900 is q conservative estimate this
Christmas. Buy him Christmas gift
new toy or bit of child's clothing
trade 1t in as the price Of admission
at one Of Saturdays IL toy matinees
and see good show!
Charity Dollars Limited.
Send a personal message of good
cheer TO the lone child whose suffering
you can picture. and forestall. Help
him to q merry Christmas-his prospect
is, indeed, forlorn this year.
No pennies are left over for toys, or
Christmas gifts Of whatever sort. from
charity dollars. which must 60 far In
1888, just to buy food and shelter FOR
thu poor.
The toy matinees are city-wide, 10
Gated in all parts Of the District, and
arranged by Warner Bros. in co-opera-
ton with The Star.
Their appeal Is city-wide also. and
OF two-fold strength. The pictures star
juvenile film luminaries and have been
arranged especially for children, or for
grown-ups not too old to contribute a
Christmas gift to some deserving child.
The shows begin at $50 am. Satur-
day at the Earle and Metropolitan and
at 10 o'clock in the neighborhood houses
Ambassador. Avalon, Apollo, Avenue
Grand, Central, Colony. Home, Savoy.
Tivol and York.
The Christmas gifts. already piling
up at the. theaters. brought by we'll
Evening star., 1932-12-15
SPECIAL PAY SCHEDULE
ADOPTED FOR SCHOOLS
Teachers to Get Full December Sal
aries Next Thursday as Christ
mas Vacation Starts.

A special Christmas pay schedule for
the District public school system per-
sonnel was announced today by Harry
o. Hine, secretary of the Board OF
Education.
The officers and supervisors of the
system, who are 12-payment employees.
this afternoon are receiving one-half
their December'S salary.
The teachers, who receive their pay
In 10 payments year, will receive thier
full salary for December at the end Of
the teaching day next Thursday. This
allowance is made because the teachers
work Ior this month will have been
completed on that day. the last school
day before the Christmas holidays,
which are not terminated until Janu-
ary 3, of the new year.
The clerical and custodial staff,
which receive their pay in two half
monthly stipends, are receiving their
regular checks this afternoon.
Evening star., 1932-12-15
RESTAURANT MAN DEAD
IN GAS-FILLED ROOM
George Hagis Discovered in Bed
After Delivery Driver Smells
Fumes From Jets.

With gas flowing from two jets,
George Hagis, about 35, was foi,ad dead
in bed this morning in his room above
Chrales Lampiras. 1878 Tenth street,
who went to the lunch room to deliver
doughnuts, detected the odor of gas
and traced 1t to the bed room. The fire
rescue squad was summoned by Lam
piras and made futile attempt to re-
vive Hagis.
According TO first precinct police,
Hagis had been drinking before he re-
tired last night. So far as the police
could learn, Hagis has no relatives here.
Hts body was removed to the morgue
3k1d sn Investigation was begun by Cor
sner Joseph D. Rogers,
Evening star., 1932-12-15
"BROKEN DOLL TRAGEDY"
PLEA TO MAIL WORKERS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
1.-THE Tragedy Of a Broken Doll" was
the title Of an appeal for care in han
ding gifts that Assistant Postmaster
General Arch Coleman made today to
all postal workers through the Postal
Bulletin.
1--WE all know the sorrow that comes
to children when q doll has been dam
aged or broken or other gifts have been
destroyed or marred by mishandling IN
the postal service" said Coleman.
This Is q year when we should make
q special effort to try to save from
damage gifts for American people
bought at some sacrifice to gladden. the
hearts Of loved ones In an attempt TO
carry On the traditions Of Christmas.
Evening star., 1932-12-15

wishers unable to attend the matinees.
will be distributed by the Council of
Social Agencies, as they were following
last years benefits. Over $500 toys
we're collected last year, and at only
two matinees.
The 1882 benefits, like the need for
them, are larger and wider in scope.
New toys are always acceptable, but this
year the need for clothing is also felt
Evening star., 1932-12-15
WILL PRESENT DRAMA
Women's City Club Group to offel
"The Fool" Tomorrow.

The Drama Guild of the Women's
City Club will present as a Christmas
Fool" by Charming Pollock. Miss Mar
jorie F. Webster viii direct the play.
The cast includes. In addition to Miss
Webster, Mrs, II. c. Curl, Mrs. Good
win Graham, Miss Thelma Schmttt,
Miss Elva McNamara, Frederic j. Has
kin, IT.; Miss Nell v. Price. Mrs, Nadine
Lane Gallagher and Qrrin N. Elliott