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Evening star., 1932-05-19
FUNDS REQUESTED
FOR MEMORIAL DAY
Civil War Graves to Lack
Decoration Unless $500
Is Appropriated.

Several thousand graves Of Civil War
veterans in Arlington National Gene
terry may not be decorated on Memo
rial day, May 30, unless the House
grants authorization for an appropria-
ton of S2,500 for expenses incidental
to the annual exercises. members of
the Grand Army Of the Republic Me-
mortal Day Corporation, said today.
Pressed for time to complete their
program, members of the corporation
held special meeting last night and
passed a resolution urging the House
to approve the special bill for the ap-
preparation which is now on the CAL
endar.
Resolution Sent to House
The resolution was sent to the House
today.
The corporation was organized sew
eral years ago by an act Of Congress
and is composed of the Grand Army.
United Spanish War Veterans, Ameri-
can Legion. Veterans Of Foreign Wars
and the Disabled American Veterans of
the World War, and approximately 80
auxiliaries and allied organizations.
Members said today the purchase
Of thousands of flags for graves is
now dependent on congressional &C
ton.
For several weeks the auxiliaries of
the Spanish War Veterans and the
American Legion have been making
carnations and poppies to be placed
on the graves of World War and Span
ish-American Was veterans. The graves
will be decorated by Girl and Boy Scout
troops. Regular so'diers Of the 10th In
fantry Brigade will aid in the decora-
ton work, it was said.
It was announced that the Woman's
Relief Corps of the Grand Army of
the Republic will embark on the steam
ship General Rucker Sunday afternoon
at 1870 o'clock from the War Callepe
wharf and scatter flowers on the Po-
tomac River at the same time hold
ing memorial services.
Sea Dead to Be Honored.
Memorial services will be held on
board the U. S. S. Apache, United
States Coast Guard, in honor of SOL
diers, sailors and Marines who lost their
lives at sea. under the auspices of the
auxiliaries of the United Spanish War
Veterans. The delegation will leave
Sunday morning, May 90, at $50
O'Clock, from the Navy Yard wharf foot
| of Eighth street southeast.
The Ladies of the Grand Army OF
the Republic will hold services Sunday
| afternoon at o'clock in the Capitol
| when colors from the various veteran
| organizations will be maSsed
Arrangements have been completed
| for transporting disabled veterans from
the various hospitals to attend the me-
! mortal services at Arlington Amphi-
theater on Memorial dE
Evening star., 1932-05-19
FIVE SCHOOLS TO MEET
IN ORATORICAL CONTEST
Medals and Certificates to Be
Awarded at George Wash
ington University.

Contestants from five institutions of
higher learning in the District will
participate in an oratorical contest in
Stockton Hall, George Washington Uni
versity, Monday night under sponsor
ship Of the Educational Committee of
the District George Washington Bicen-
tennial Commission. Medals and GER
tif1cates will be awarded winners by the
United States Bicentennial CommiS-
sion
Students from American University.
Catholic University, Georgetown Uni
yersity. George Washington University
and Trinity College will participate
The winner in the District OF Columbia
contest will be eligible to enter into a
regional contest. including Virginia,
West Virginia, Tennessee and the Dis
trict. on May 27. The winner of the
regional contest will take part in a
national contest later
The orations will be based on the life
Of Washington.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
Smith Gets 28, Gov. Ritchie
23 and Garner 10 in Demo-
cratic TabuIation.
MRS. ]. BORDEN HARTMAN
AND COSTELLO REMAIN
District to Send IL Delegates, With
Half Vote Each, to
Convention.

Official tabulation today Of the votes
cast in the Democratic presidential
primary held here yesterday showed
Gov. Roosevelt of New York led the
field with total of 265 votes.
Although the ballot carried only the
Roosevelt delegate slate, % votes were
cast for Alfred E. Smith, % for Gov
Ritchie of Maryland. 10 for Speaker
Garner and / each for George White,
william H. Murray and Newton D.
Baker.
The ballot also carried the n,mes of
National Committeeman John Costello
and Mrs. j. Borden Hartman, national
committeewoman, who were returned
without opposition, end Of l9 members,
who will comprise the State Central
Committee.
Vote Favors Unit Rule.
The District will send II delegates,
with one-half vote each. and six alter
mates to the convention. The voters
balloted 274 to s in favor of the unit
rule, and 277 to 3 in favor Of the Dis
trict delegation voting for Roosevelt
until a majority Of the delegates decide
otherwise
The delegates are: John B. Colpoys.
Col. Arthur O'Brien. treasurer of the
National Democratic Victory Fund;
Charles c. Carlin, former Representa-
tive from Virginia; A. Mitchell Palmer,
former Attorney General; George P.
Marshall, George Garrett. Mrs Henry
Leonard, Walter D. Denegre, Malcom S.
McConihe, Daniel c. Roper. former
commissioner of internal revenue; Nor
man B. Landreau and James V. Boyer.
The alternates will be Fred S. Schow,
Mrs. Lester J. Pollock, C. r. Allen,
Watson B. Miller, Robert T. Scott and
James william Bryan.
Members of Committee.
The Central committeeman are Mr.,
Colpoys, John j. Mcconnell, Michael
J. Coffey, Charles H. Dausch, Thomas
M. White, Samuel B. Bagnam Mr..
Boyer, E. v. Roche. Joseph j. May,
Jerome Digges, Harry j. Wells, j. ].
Sullivan, D. D. Donovan, Russell
Balderson, R. A. Dickson j. w
Burke, william P. Keneally, Mr..
Landreau and Fri-nk w. Cahill.
At the polling places there were
watchers from the ranks of the
Women's National Democratic Club,
the Women's Democratic Educational
Council and the Young Democrats
Club, which had been invited to take
part because of criticism of irregu-
1arities at former primaries.
During the voting, which took place
from to pm, a mtx-up occurred as
to the location Of one of the polling
places. A group Of watchers called at
the home of o. v. Perdue of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, at 712 Seventh
street southwest, prepared to observe
the vote.
Mr.. Perdue explained that his home
was not a polling place.
While the watchers were debating
the situation Costello and Landreau
appeared, and Immediately got in touch
with James v. Beyer, who directs
Democratic affairs in the southwest.
The polling place was at 411l2 Seventh
southwest; a mistake had been made
in the advertising, he said, setting right
the watchers, who were Miss Louise
Falligant, chairman of the Campaign
Committee of the Young Democrats
Club and Mrs. j. Fred Essary. Mrs.
w. D. Sterrett and Mrs. Charles c.
Lamborn of the Women's National
Democratic Club.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
WILBUR SEES HOPE
FOR COLORED FOLK
Secretary Tells National
Conference Horizon Is
Frightening in U. S.
READY FOR DEMOCRATS.

THE horizon is Frightening for the
Negro in America Secretary of the
Interior Wilbur told the Twenty-third
Conference of the National Associa-
ton for Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie last night, in describing the ad-
vantages of education, improved health
and economic conditions which men,
bers of the race enjoy in increasing
quantities.
The Secretary extended the greet
ings Of President Hoover at the night
session of the conference being held
in the Shiloh Baptist Church this
week.
Wilbur spoke in behalf of the 4,000,-
900 colored children in America, say
ing the future of the race rests en-
tirely with the way the children are
brought up, that their health educa-
ton and development is the RESPONSE
bility of our whole people, but in par
ticular the responsibility of the adult
men and women of the Negro race"
Handicaps Are Described.
He described the handicaps the col
the change from the hot climate to
which their ancestors we're used to the
temperate zone and the change in
volved in the present migration from
the open fields of the country to the
congestion of the city.
"The Negro in America he said
has reached a new stage in his de-
velopment. The last living links with
slavery are almost gone. The Negro
child must be viewed from the stand
point of health, education, home, recre-
alton and welfare. A cultural adjust
ment is necessary. In particular, it is
important to have vocational guidance
for colored youths so that they may
be prepared to fit into civilization,
rather than have occupation by chance,
or to be allowed to drift at the age
when they need the most care"
Senator Bulkley of Ohio urged the
colored voter to cast his ballot inde-
pendently for results beneficial to his
race.
DIR. Du Bois Speaker.
Other speakers yesterday included
DR.. w. E. B. Du BoiS, who spoke of
the connection of the race problems in
other parts of the world to the colored
people Of America, and Dorothy Deter
VIII opOhc Ol1 WOIlQ EcdC6 dIlQ LI4c
Negro" and others.
Today the conference discussed the
colored man in the changing economic
order, and Youth and the Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People"
Herbert j. Seligmann of New York
said Government without control of
the economic resources of the world is
an Illusion"
Harry E. Davis of Cleveland ex-
pressed the opinion Negroes are not
concerned with a new economic order
They want jobs" he said George S.
Schuyler, New York, disagreed, assert
ing the change would come whether
Negroes like it or not.
A mass meeting tonight in Shiloh
Church will be addressed by Schuyler
and DR.. John Dewey of Columbia Uni
versity, following musical program by
the Armstrong High School Choral
Club.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
TREE TO BE DEDICATED

A tree planted In 1915 in honor Of
George Washington will be dedicated
Monday by the District of Columbia
Federation Of Women's Clubs, when they
make pilgrimage to Mount Vernon.
The group will leave the Roosevelt
Hotel at 10 am.
servation Of national resources, will con-
duct the tour. Mrs. Edgar Merritt, pres
ident of the federation, will place
wreaths on the tombs Of George and
Martha Washington.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
$4,000 TO ATTEND
MASS At STADIUM
Catholic Tribute to Washing
ton viii Be Led by Arch
bishop CurIey May 30.

pontifcal field mass, celebrated by
Archbishop Michael j. Curley of Bal
timore, will be the high point of huge
celebration of the Bicentennial Of the
birth of George Washington to take
place in the stadium of the Catholic
University, in Brookland, May 30, with
more than $4,000 Catholics expected to
participate.
The field mass, officially sanctioned
by the United States Bicentennial Com
mission, will not only be an archdio-
cesan observance, but will be in the
nature of tribute by Catholics all over
the United States to the Father of His
Country.
A group of Catholic dignitaries, Off
Gals from the Federal and District gov
erlImentS, members of the diplomatic
corps and others high in public and
private life will be assembled on a re-
viewing stand in the stadium to view
the ceremonies, which will begin with
parade at 10 o'clock.
The Memorial day services at Catholic
University will be broadcast over Ma
tionWide chains, and the huge stadium
will be prepared to seat 100 900 visitors
Children from the schools, colleges, uni
verSities and religious institutions, as
well as members of all the Catholic So
cieties, have been invited to participate
IN the great Catholic celebration.
Three bands will participate in the
ceremonies-the Georgetown University
r. o. T. c. Band st. Mary's Industrial
School Band and the Industrial Boys
School Band. Officers and members OF
the United States Marine Corps will as
sist in the handling of the large crowd
expected. Special arrangements fol
conveying Visitors by train to the rail-
road station adjacent to the university
grounds have been made.
Rev. DR.. Peter Guilday, a member oi
the faculty of the Catholic University
and editor of the Catholic Historical
Review, will preach the sermon.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
NIGHT HIGH SCHOOL
REORGANIZATION IS
ORDERED BY BOARD
Students May Obtain STAN
dard Diploma in 512
Years Under Plan.
LOSS OF ENROLLMENTS
is CAUSE OF CHANGES
Arrangement Is Possible Within
Present Appropriation,
Directors Insist.

Night high school students may Sc
cure a standard diploma in five and a
half years under reorganization Of the
evening school approved by the Board
Of Education at its meeting late yes
terday.
E. J. Lockwood and C. o. Lewis, di-
rectors of evening and Summer schools
in the white and colored divisions, re-
spectively, recommended the reorgani-
zation with a view to increasing the
efficiency of these classes.
The Changes Ordered.
The changes ordered follow:
/. Opening and closing dates, vaca-
ton periods and holidays to be the same
as the day schools, thus giving the eve
ming school year 108 evenings instead
OF 90
2. The class period to be extended
from so to 81 minutes.
3. Certain schools to be designated
as standard schools"
T. All classes would be consolidated
and accommodated in these standard
schools at the end of the seventy-sec-
ond evening of the year.
S. A standard diploma will be awarded
to students completing the high school
course of 80 credits.
6. No change in the per diem rate of
pay for teachers, principals or assistant
principals shall be made
These changes are made to permit
evening schools to alleviate the pc
culiar condition existing in them with
respect to the loss of students through
cut the year.
Many Students Drop Out.
Evening enrollments always are heavy
at the outset of season and by mid
year SO many students have dropped
out that operation of the schools is
sometimes an economical burden. Both
Mr.. Lockwood and Mr.. Lewis insist
that the new plan can be put into op-
Grafton within the present appropria-
ton.
Five selected District public schools
will exchange American flags for Brit
ish flags with five schools of Wash
ance with the School Boards approval
yesterday of a proposal made by the
English town The American consul
Of Washington, England. forwarded
that community's proposal to the State
Department here and yesterday the
suggestion was placed before the
School Board. The idea of the ex-
change Of flags, the consul wrote. is
to pay Bicentennial tribute to George
Washington by the city of his ances-
try and the city of his establishment.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools, was instructed by the board
to set up the procedure under which
the exchange could be made.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
DECLARES COAL FIELD
WOULD WELCOME PROBE
Operator Tells Senate Harlan Coun-
ty, KY, Will Accept Sym
pathetic Inquiry.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Howard N. Eavenson of Pittsburgh
today told Senate committee the coal
industry In Harlan County, KY, will
welcome any unprejudiced and impair
tial" investigation of conditions.
Eavenson, whose coal companies op-
crate in Kentucky, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania, appeared before the com,
mittee in its hearings on the Cutting
Costigan resolution for a senatorial in
quiry.
with the citizens generally, It (the
coal industry will gladly accept any
help from the people of the county that
is contributed in the form of sympa-
thetic charity and not under the glise
Of self f-seektng and self-advertising pub
licity and ssitstior" he added.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
NATIONAL DEFENSE
BUILDINGS STUDIED
Park Commission to Pass on Pro-
posed New War and
Navy Group.

Construction Of the proposed new
War and Navy Department Buildings
in the triangle bounded by New York
avenue, Seventeenth street and Consti-
tuition avenue, engaged the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion, which started a three-day session
today.
Harvey Wiley Corbett, prominent New
York architect, laid before the commits
sion his studies for the new national
defense group and visualized them in a
model of the buildings and a number
Of plans.
The present study provides for the
Army group on the east side of the
intersection of New York and Virginia
avenues, with the Navy group on the
west side of this crossing. This will
insure the new Navy Department being
near the new Naval Hospital, plans for
which we're recently Endorsed by the
Fine Arts Commission. The Corbett
program contemplates a large circle in
the central area Of the national defense
group.
To Close Avenue.
The plans the commission studied to-
day contemplate the use of a greater
part of the so-called northwest building
area. Closing of New York avenue from
near Constitution avenue to some yet
undesignated point is provided under
the plan.
Location Of the $75O,oo0 heating plant
for the northwest building area will
have to be reconsidered If the Corbett
plans are finally adopted as they In
sure wide approach to the circle, from
the south, looking from Constitution
avenue.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
PACKERS RENEW FIGHT
FOR MODIFIED DECREE
Swift and Armour Ask Supreme
Court to Reconsider It's
Recent Decision.

By the Associated Press.
Swift & Co. and Armour & Co. today
asked the Supreme Court to reconsider
its recent decision refusing to modify
the consent decree, under which the
packers are restricted to dealing only
in products of slaughter houses.
The court reversed the action of the
Supreme Court of the District of Co
lunbia, which had permitted the pack
ers to handle groceries.
Five grounds were advanced for a
rehearing, including that the decision
was based on the erroneous assumption
that the record showed the packers had
violated the Sherman antitrust law and
that the court overlooked that the Gov
ernment did not insist on the fact that
packers had consented to the original
decree should be controlling.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
STATUE TO BE UNVEILED

A statue Of the late Gov. Aycock of
North Carolina will be unveiled in
Statuary Hall at 8 pm. tomorrow.
Representative Lindsey Warren of
North Carolina will preside, and the
presentation will be made by Josephus
Daniels. Secretary Of the Navy under
President Wilson.
The ceremony will be attended by
Gov. o. Max Gardner of North Caro-
lima, Tho has invited all natives of his
State how In Washington to be present.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
LIBRARY WILL RECEIVE
PORTRAIT AND MEMENTOS
Effects of Second Earl of Alber-
marie Will Be Placed in Char
1ottesville Institution Saturday.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, May ia por-
trait of William A. Keppel, second Earl
of Albermarle, for whom Albermarle
County was named, and three memen-
tos of the earl, will be placed in the
Public Library at Charlottesville, Satur-
day.
The portrait, a copy Of one owned
by London Guards Regiment. was un-
veiled in CaStalia, the estate of Mr.
and Mrs. Murray Boocock, near Char
lottesville. yesterday. The unveiling
was followed by the presentation of
the mementos by Leander Mccormick
Goodhart, commercial secretary of the
British embassy.
The mementos are q painting Of
the earl before he came into the title,
and while he still held the family's
second name, Viscount Bury; a letter
in the earl's handwriting, dated June T.
l744, and the earl's order book for his
campaign in Flanders from 1740 to
1743, at which time he held the title
of Governor of Virginia as well as In
spector General of the Horse.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
BOY, Z, SUCCUMBS
TO BURNS IN BLAST;
|. BROTHERS MAY DIE
Injuries Sustained When
Youth Strikes Match to Lo-
cate Source of Fumes.
FATHERS DEATH is HELD
SUICIDE BY CORONER
Mother Frustrated by Grief, but
Escapes Serious Consequences
as Husband Takes Life.

David Cochrane, II, one OF three
brothers burned yesterday in an ex-
plosion which followed their father S
suicide by gas, died about 8 80 o'clock
this morning in Providence Hospital.
Meanwhile, his brothers-Claude, l8,
and John, 8|remained in a critical
condition, according to physicians at
the institution, who said their injuries
also might prove fatal.
Father Found Dead.
The blast occurred shortly after 4
o'clock yesterday morning, when David
lighted a match while trying to locate
the origin of gas which filled the
Cochrane home at 122 Tennessee ave-
nue. northeast. Windows and doors
were blown out, and the entire neigh
borhood was aroused.
Immediately afterward, the boys
father, William B. Cochrane, so, was
found dead in a kitchen on the second
floor. He was lying in front of a
range, every burner of which was
turned on.
Claude and John were burned about
their bodies, while David suffered burns
to his face as we'll as his body. Their
mother, Mrs. Nellie Cochrane. and a
sister, who were alseep on the first
floor, escaped injury. The mother was
Frustrated by grief, however.
Worried Over New Job.
Mr.. Cochrane, according to his wife,
had been sleeping on the third floor
with the boys During the night, in
vestigators said, he crept to the floor
below and turned on the gas. He had
been worried over new job, on which
he went to work about three weeks ago,
his wife said.
Acting Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald issued a certificate of suicide
in the death of Mr.. Cochrane and one
of accidental death in the case of David.
Double funeral services will be held
at the Cochrane residence at am.
Saturday. followed by interment In
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Evening star., 1932-05-19
WARDMAN SALE DELAYED
Realty Market Again Calls Off
Disposal of Properties.

Public sale of the so-called Wardman
properties here was postponed yesterday
until October 81 by order of Justice
Jesse C. Adkins of District Supreme
Court. The postponement was asked on
the ground the real estate market at
this time does not justify the sale.
The postponement yesterday was the
fourth delay In the sale Of the proper
ties since they went into the hands of
receiver nearly q year ago. The
properties include hotels, apartment
buildings and thu Department Of jus
tice Building.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
UNDERWOOD ACTS TO BAN
FUTURE PENSION VET0ES
Ohioan Calls or Hoover-Plans to
Submit Future Bills to
Veterans Bureau.

With the view TO avoiding further
future vetoes of pension legislation by
President Hoover, Representative Un-
derwcod, Democrat, of Ohio, chairman
of the House Committee on Invalid
Pensions, called on the President today
and advised him that an effort would
be made to have future pension bills
passed upon by the Veterans Bureau
before being acted upon in the House.
Mr.. Underwood said 1t would be de-
sirable to have a working agreement
with the Veterans Bureau so as to
make sure OF suitable pension measures.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
Miss Slade Fails to See Gandhi.

BOMBAY, May 10 P.-Miss Made
me Slade, who was released Tuesday
night at the expiration of her sentence
fol participating in Nationalist activi-
ties started Immediately for Yeroda
jail to see Mahatma Gandhi, but was
refused permission to visit him. Her
ment.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
CONTRACTS AWARDED
$4,000 Work Let by Navy De-
partment Bureau.

Contracts totaling $70,3245o for i'm
provement work in various sections were
awarded today by the Bureau of Yards
and Docks, Navy Department
Among them were contract for s22,-
945 for painting buildings at the Marine
barracks, Quantico, Va, awarded to the
Richardson Construction Corporation of
New York City, and contract for ST.
5945o given the Westcott Nursery Co
of Falls Church, Va, for planting at
the apartment houses at the Marine
barracks at Quantico.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
LIGHTING CONTRACT LET
Cincinnati Firm to Install Fixture
in Public Health Building.

Contract for furnishing and installing
lighting fixtures throughout the new
Public Health Service Administration
Building on Constitution avenue be-
tweenth Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets has been let by the Treasury
Department to the Newman Manufac
turing Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the
sum of $7490.
Evening star., 1932-05-19
GOVERNMENT COSTS HIT
President of L. & N. Sees Obstacle
to Prosperity.

The high cost Of Government opera
tions is the chief obstacle to the return
of better times, w. r. Cole, president
Of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad,
declared last night in radio address
under auspices of the American Tax
payers League, Inc.
In my opinion" Cole said, zone of
the chief, if not the chief, deterrent to
a resumption to a reasonable degree
OF prosperity in this country is the
failure. up to this time, to liquidate the
high cost of Government, despite the
liquidation of values and income to
which every citizen has been subjected. &"