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Evening star., 1933-06-07

milton Of his conspicuous service as
alumni president and for his interest in
university activities
The stlutatory address was given by
Pauline GroSsman and the valedictory
by James Snyder.
Donald Goode, president of the senior
class, presented the senior class mantle
to Joseph DanZansky, representing next
years seniors.
Other Awards Made.
Other awards and prizes presented by
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president OF
the university, follow: Alpha Chi Sigma
freshman awards in chemistry, Samuel
Dove. Robert Hankins, Seymour Podnos.
Alpha Chi Sigma senoir award in
chemistry, Arlo Baker Seegmiller.
Alpha Delta Pi award in French,
Margaret Maltby.
Alpha Delta Theta award in chemis-
try. Margaret v. Reed.
Chi Omega award in social sciences,
Ruth Evalyn Weeden.
Colonial DANES award in history, Will
liam Henry Keith Donaldson.
E. K Cutter award in Eng.is James
Whiting Saunders.
D. A. r. award in American history,
Jane Engeborg Hill.
ard Tilden, Elizabeth Reeves and Sey-
mour Mittz.
Delta Sigma Rho award to the win
ners of the interfraternity debates, zeta
Tau Alpha Sorority and Acacia Fra
ternity
Delta Zeta award in botany, Philip
Nye Chase.
Ellsworth award in patent law, Cor
don Wolford Daisley.
Willie E. Fitch award in chemistry,
Arlo Baker Seegmiller.
Edward Darlington Goddard award
in French, Frederic Walter Stewart.
Additional Winners.
James Douglas Goddard award In
pharmacy, Sidney Nathanson.
Morgan Richardson Goddard award
in commerce, Benjamin Goldberger.
Kalusowski awards in pharmacy,
junior year, Julius Epstein; senior year,
Henry Milton Butler.
Kappa Delta scholarship award to the
freshman girl with the highest scholas-
tic average, Mary Margaret Ferry.
Kappa Kappa Gamma award In bot
any, Kenneth Madison.
Ordron9ux award to that member OF
the graduating class of the School OF
Medicine maintaining the highest aver
age, James Leslie Snyder.
Phi Delta awards in zoology, Marjorie
Nelson and Margaret Y. Read.
Pi Beta Phi award to the senior who,
throughout her course, has done the
most to promote student activities, Eve
lyn Augusta Iverson.
Ruggles prize in mathematics, Rich
mond Tucker Zoch.
Sigma Delta Phi awards to the win
ners of the freshman women's oratori-
cal contest: First, Marjorie Nelson, and,
second, Alicia Mooney.
Sigma Kappa award in English rhet-
oric, Nancy Harper Wheeler.
Sigma Kappa award in chemistry,
Samuel Dove
James MacBride Sterrett, jr., prize in
physics. John Griffiths Barry
Thomas F. Walsh award In history,
Gersham Gelbart
Evening star., 1933-06-07
PROF. PHELPS HAS WORK TO DO,
SO HE is LEAVING YALE AT 68
Looks at "Graduation" With
Eyes of a Senior, Says
Educator.
Professor of English Has Had
AZ Years of University
Teaching.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 7.-Yale's
Billy" Phelps is graduating" and he
thinks it just about time-not because
he has reached the automatic retire
ment age of 68, but because he ha;
work to do.
Some call it retirement. but for Prof
William Lyon Phelps, LampSon profes-
sor Of English literature at Yale, it L
not an end but a beginning, not 6
retirement but a commencement.
Il look at it the way senior ough,
to look at commencement" he says
with regret at leaving pleasant past
but eager and in high spirits for the
future.
Il go out to become private scholar
and a public orator"
He does not go to his Office in Hark
ness Hall so often, now that his T. and
B. course (Tennyson and Browning)
has met for the last time, but he talks
of his graduation" in the long, book
lined living room of his home.
Gives Three Reasons.
"I 60 out with complete satisfac-
tion," he says. Il feel that a mar
ought to retire at 6S, and I'll tell you
why: There are three reasons.
First, young men who are coming
ond. in many cases, a man loses SYM
pathy with youth. In my case, don't
believe this is so, but should not want
to be made an exception to a genera
rule of retirement And third, man
ought to have accumulated a lot OF
private work in a lifetime, that he
couldn't complete with an exacting
job"
It is the future, the studies he
intends to complete and the books he
hopes to publish, that concern Prof
Phelps most directly, but he likes tc
reflect on past that is long and rich
1--WE had AZ years of university
Evening star., 1933-06-07
SCHOLASTIC PRIZES
AWARDEDAT c. v. j.
80 Student Leaders Are Rec.
ognized at Annual Class
Night.

With plans completed for the con-
ferring of approximately 700 degrees at
the institutions 112th commencement
in Constitution Hall tonight. George
Washington University last night pre-
sented 80 awards for scholastic excel
lence and achievement in extra-cur-
ricular activities at the annual Spring
class night"
The John Bell Larner medal. estab-
lished by the late chairman of the uni
versitys board of trustees for award
each year to the law senior who has
maintained the highest average in the
entire course, went to Gordon Walford
Daisley. 3725 Reservoir road.
The Samuel Herricll award to that
member of the graduating class of the
Law School. except the winner of the
Larner medal who attains the highest
the Law School was won by Robert
Mich
James Leslie Snyder of Seattle re-
ceived the Ordronaux award, which i
given annually to the senior in the
School of Medicine who has maintained
the highest average throughout the en-
tire medical course.
The Alexander Wibourne Weddell
award for the best essay on the promo
ton of peace among the nations OF
the world, established by Mrs Weddell
in honor of her husband, who is a grad
uate Of George Washington University
and the newly appointed Ambassador
to the Argentine, was won by Earl
Christy Hackworth, 3714 Morrison
street.
Fenl0n Wins Medal
The Delta Tau Delta medal went to
John Fenlon of Cheboygan, Mich, and
the Pi Beta Phi medal to Evelyn
Augusta IverSon of Salt Lake City
Utah, both for constructive work in
student activities
A feature of the class night exercises
was the Omicron Delta Kappa "taI
service" in which 13 outstanding stu
dent leaders were pledged to this honor
group. Those recognized were Joseph
Danzansky, John Fenlon, Wayne Cham
bers, John Madigan, John Everett, Wal
ter Rinehart, Lester Gates, Donald
Goode, William Helvestine, Forrest Bur-
CESS, Gerald Free, Samuel Detwiler ano
De Witt Bennett. DR.. Daniel LIE Ray
Borden, president Of the General Alum
nj Association of the university, was
made an honorary member lin recog-
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Regrets Signing of Bill.

Tie TeSUIUCIOu CUllCIlueu.
while as ministers and laymen and
citizens of the Republic We salute our
President and highly commend him for
earnest endeavor in behalf of the eco
nomic and industrial welfare of the Ma
ticn, We most deeply deplore and regret
the placing Of his official signature to
the Illegal and obnoxious beer bill
While we have nothing but praise and
Thanksgiving for his noble stand in be-
half of the disarmament Of the nations
Of the world, thereby Fastening the
dawn of world peace, we stand bowed
and humiliated in the presence of the
effort to use the power of the admins
Evening star., 1933-06-07
EASTMAN FACES
HUGE RAIL TASK
Job of Co-ordinator Described
as That of Car Under
Regency of Managers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
With the administrations railroad re-
organization bill in the final stages of
enactment, Joseph B. Eastman. presi-
dent Roosevelt's revealed choice for
railroad co-ordinator, is preparing to
undertake the task.
It's a big job. Donald Richberg.
counsel for the Railway Managers As
sociation, told the Interstate Commerce
Committee of the Senate that the bill
would create an infant car under the
regency of the railroad managers"
Eastman as a member of the Inter
state Commerce Commission has had a
chance to learn what the nub of the
problem is. Rated by associates as one
of the hardest workers in Washington,
he has the reputation of being a dis
senter but, withaL one who writes and
sees with unusual clarity. Some of his
friends describe him as IAN independent
liberal"
Eastman IS modest, aggressive and
only moderately talkative. He likes to
hear funny story and tells one enter
tainingly. In the conduct of his office
and in his personal contacts he is in
formal
Away from business he likes to play
Evening star., 1933-06-07

squash or tennis. He Is on the court OF
the athletic club to which he belongs
an average of six nights week through
the Winter. and is said to exercise for
the sheer love Of movement and muscu-
lar reaction
He looks and moves around like
good middleweight boxer in training
Eastman is just turning ST. He is the
son of a Presbyterian clergyman and a
graduate of Amherst College. He used
to be in social settlement work in
Boston and represented street car en-
ployes there in several wage arbitra-
ton hearings He was member Of the
Massachusetts, Public Service Commits
sion for the four years Immediately pre-
ceding his arrival in Washington in
1919.
Evening star., 1933-06-07

teaching" he says, lone at Harvard
and Al at Yale. If I had gone on a
few years more I would have taught
three generations in one family
grandfather, father and son. That sure
ly would have been some sort of rec
ord"
Amazed at Demonstrations.
The thing that puzzles him, though
is that his retirement should attract
any more notice than does the gradu
alton of any senior
I've been looking on as the de-
partment made its plans" he says
"and I thought I would just slide cut
quietly. I was completely amazed at
the demonstrations in my classes, ano
at the interest people seem to have
taken.
But it's always better to walk out
than to fall out, and I am glad I go in
full power"
He smiles as he thinks back on his
words, and says: "Of course, the base
ball player thinks he is just as good
too, at 36, but it is the coach who
knows"
And as he talks, he leans forward
intently, or strides energetically across
the room, or shuff1es the pages of a
book with slender. steady fingers.
Perhaps the coach knows I an
wrong" he says, "but I feel that ]
am in full power"
Evening star., 1933-06-07
PIRATES OF PENZANCE'
OPENS FESTIVAL SEASON
Estelle Wentworth Group Will
Present Opera Tonight at
Sylvan Theater.

With the presentation of Gilbert and
Sullivan's opera, THE Pirates of Pen
zance," by the Estelle Wentworth Opera
Group tonight, the 1888 Summer festival
season will be inaugurated at the Sylvan
Theater in the Washington Monument
Grounds.
with a festival concert from 8 to $50
pm. The Community Center Depart
ment of the public schools and the
Of1ce of Public Buildings and Public
Parks are cooperating in the presenta-
ton. The opera will follow the band
concert.
At $3.50 pm. tomorrow, the opera will
be repeated. If 1t rains tonight or to-
morrow, officials said the opera will be
given Friday at $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1933-06-07

Although women are becoming in
creasingly active in competitive sports,
there was only one, Mrs. c. T. Jack
son Of New York, who took part in the
recent mid winter target-shooting cham
pionship matches at Pinehurst, N. C..
Evening star., 1933-06-07

tration to hasten the repeal of the
eighteenth amendment, the bulwark of
the States, and let in the uncomfortable
floods of the liquor traffic upon the
homes Of the American people"
The resolution was offered by Rev.
Don S. Colt, pastor of Waverly Church,
this city, and was followed by fiery re-
marks for end against. Harry Under
wood of Foundry Church, Washington,
lay delegate, Immediately opposed the
bill and offered an amendment that the
part referring to the President be elm
mated.
Tabling Motion Made.
A motion was made that it be laid
on the table. DR.. J. R. Edwards, secre-
tary of the Board of Foreign Missions,
said he did not think that the first reso-
luton to go out from the conference
should be one which would be con-
sidered as condemning the President
and said he thought it should follow
other resolutions.
Dr. Burgan declared this is no time
to hesitate, and this is the time to speak
on the matter. The amendment was
rejected and the resolution was passed
by very large majority.
Evening star., 1933-06-07
METHOD|STSSCORE
CONGRESS ON BEER
Resolution at Baltimore
Conference Precipitates
Storm.
Special Dispatch to The stsr.

special Dispatch TO the Ster.
BALTIMORE, Md. June IA storm
broke at the Baltimore Conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
session at st. Marks Church. this city,
this morning when resolution con-
demning the action Of Congress on the
beer bill was placed before the body by
is ministers, of which one was Wash
ingtonian, Rev. H. w. Burgan, pastor
of Hamline Church. After vigorous
addresses, in which a number Of the
Washington delegates took part, the
resolution was passed.
The resolution affirms the ancient
position" of the Baltimore Conference
on the liquor question. The resolution
condemns the action of the present
Congress in nullifying the Constitution
and legalizing the manufacture and
sale of beer We highly commend our
business and trades people everywhere
who have refused to sell their convictions
on this great moral issue and turn their
places of business into saloons, and we
gladly and earnestly pledge them our
support and call upon our people to
stand with u.s.
The Washington times., 1933-09-21
FIVE KILLINGS
ARE LAID To
SUSPECTS
Seven Held as Police Continue
Crushing Drive on Gangs;
II HoIdups Charged

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. q
I.N.S.).-Bench warrants s
charging Leonard Scarnici and
Anthony Reino, two members
of a gang of seven under ar
rest in New York city, with
kidnapping John j. O'Connell,
jr., were sworn out today by
District Attorney John T.
Delaney.
At the same time Delaney ex-
pressed conviction that Nanny
Strewl, indicted as the actual
kidnaper, was 'the brains Of the
case"
Reports of a possible ink he.
tween the kidnapping Uf D C0fYtie1l'
and the murder Of Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh's infant son were
secuted by Federal authorities to-
day. From the start. Federal
authorities have been convinced
the Lindbergh kidnapping was not
the work of professional gangsters.
John Obey Sought
Delaney also announced that
Albany police were seeking John
Obey, former beer-running partner
of Strewl, and two other Albany
gangsters, for questioning in con-
nection with the O'Connel case.
Police said Obey had not been
seen around his usual haunts for
more than a week. Early in the
O'Connell case, Obey was ques-
toned by police but was not held
on any charge.
NEW YORK, Sept. 81 G.N.S).
Confident the e1duction of John
j. O'Connell, jr., would be "a
closed case" by nightfall, police
and Federal agents today swept
toward a cleanup Of one of the
Nations most notorious kidnap-
ings, a series of murders and
bank robberies, and the climax Of
q crushing blow delivered in the
Governments campaign of ex-
termination of kidnap-racketeers.
O'Connell, scion of a politically
powerful Albany family. was to
view in the police lineup five
men and two women seized IN
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The Washington times., 1933-09-21
Alcohol Runner Found Slain in Northeast
Held Sequel
To Jones
Killing

Liquor warfare flared up
anew in Washington today,
when the body of a man was
found shot to death in Patter-
sons Woods at the head Of
Fifth Street Northeast.
The dead man was identified
by police as Tony Frisco, 48,
said to be a beer and alcohol
runner.
The man was found lying
face down, a bullet through
his chest. He had been dead
about "a hours, doctors said.
This killing is the second
this week, Charles Jones, al
legged local rum ring head,
having been slain Monday
night in Shows Court in the
rear of the Government Print
ing Office. va
At the time of the Jones slay-
ing threats were voiced that a
gang of Philadelphia gunmen
would be brought here to evenge
his death.
Homicide Squad detectives
who have been working on the
Jones killing were ordered to
start work at once on this lat
est rum feud death.
The Washington times., 1933-09-21
GANG MENACES
G0V. LANDON

TOPEKA, Kans., Sept. 81
QN.SD.-A plot to kidnap a
member of Gov. Alfred Landon's
family to hold as hostage for
the parole of six convicts, said
to be members of the Wilbur
UnderhilI gang, was revealed to-
day by the governor.
A heavy guard was stationed
over members of the official
family and the governor can
celled all speaking engagements
when the plot was revealed three
weeks ago by a former inmate
of the State prison at Lansing,
who had been free only few
days.
An. effort of police to trap
members of the kidnap ring at
a farm house in Oklahoma
failed, it was revealed. The men,
bers of the gang apparently had
learned their plan haC reached
official ears and had fled.
The victim of the proposed
kidnapping was not determined
definitely, but it was believed the
gangsters had planned to kidnap
Peggy Ann, 16, daughter of Gov
ernor Landon by a former mar
rage.
Governor Landon refused to
give the names of the convicts
whose parole was sought.
The Washington times., 1933-09-21
PUG, APPROVES
RAIL MERCER

The Public Utilities Commission
today formally approved the
merger agreement submitted to
it by the Capital Traction Com
pany and the washington Rail
way and Electric Company,
paving the way for an early con-
solidation of the two firms.
The agreement will be submitted
to the stockholders of the two
companies for their approval
September 26. Inasmuch as the
stockholders had tentatively ap-
proved the plan, it is expected
that the merger will be completed
within a short time.
In approving the agreement,
the Public Utilities Commission
apparently disregarded the pro-
test filed yesterday by William
NICK. Clayton, chairman Of the
Public Utilities committee Of the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions.
Mr.. Clayton declared the mer-
ger, as contemplated, is detri-
mental to the interests of the pub
lie and further demanded that, if
it is approved, electric power rates
be reduced as a result Of the
profits which will accrue to the
Potomac Electric Power Company
under the new Set-up.
While public utilities officials
did not comment on Clayton's de-
mands, Peoples Counsel Rich
mond Keech said that extra
profits to the power company will
result in lower rates, since the rate
is based on the amount Of earn
ingS of the company.
The Washington times., 1933-09-21
POST INJURED
IN CRACKUP

QUINCY, ILL.,, Sept. 81 G.N.SJ.
Wiley Post. American flying ace,
today suffered a serious scalp
wound and a badly sprained or
broken left shoulder when his
plane, the Winnie Mae, cracked
up as he was taking off for
Davenport, Iowa.
The plane had just risen above
the tree tops when the engine
died. The ship dived into a tree,
crumpling both wings.
Post was rushed to st. Mary's
Hospital, where he probably will
be forced to remain for several
days.
Post, who is on a transforming
tour of the country, came to
Quincy from Springfield, where
yesterday he was the guest Of
Gov. Henry Horner and the Mid.
day Luncheon Club.
The Washington times., 1933-09-21
School Bars Entz Children
In Vaccination Row

office of his attorney, Daniel S.
Ring, and conferred with him.
Ring declared Entz had a
dead shut case" against the
school authorities and started pre-.
pairing papers for a writ of man
damuS, which probably will be
filed in District Supreme Court
later today.
All involved in the case, teach
ers, principals, supervisors, and
the school guards who barred the
children, will be served in the
case, the attorney said.
Entz contends that he carried
out the District law in having his
children vaccinated last June, and
because the vaccination di3 not
take, he claims, the school au-
thorities have no right to demand
that the children be revaccinated.
Children Angry
The children cannot under
stand why they should not be
ablet o go to school, Entz said
today. David, wrathful at the
prospect of having a guard pre-
vent his entrance, according to
his father, said:
"I'll get between his legs, if
/ can"
Dozens Of letters praising his
stand have been received by him,
Entz declares. Money for fight
ing the case in court was enclosed
in some Of the letters, he says.
The total amount so far received
is about $50, but all has been
returned except that from a few
close friends.
If the court case is decided
against him, soth at his children
cannot attend school in the Dis
trict, Entz said he will send them
to Palm Beach, Fla, where he
has a home, and where there is
no vaccination law.
The Washington times., 1933-09-21
Transit Employees
Threaten N. Y. Strike

NEW YORK, Sept. 81 Q.N.S0
With 10000 workers in the under
garment and painting industries
still on strike, New York today
faced the threat of a walkout by
transit workers, with a possibility
10000 would strike to force union.
ization of their companies. Init,
nation of the walkout came from
Patrick j. Shea, member of the
executive board of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street Rail
way and Motor Coach Employees.
Shea visited NRA headquarters to
present charges that the Fifth
Avenue Coach Company had dis
charged some men for union &C.
tivitieS.
The Washington times., 1933-09-21
.F|NGERP R|NTS
ACCUSE KELLY
BY International News Service


Fingerprints on death threat
letter to Charles F. Urschel, Okla
homa oil man and recent victim
of kidnapers, definitely fixed the
identity of the writer as George
Machine Gun" Kelly, sought by
the Government for a number OF
crimes, Attorney General Cum
mings said today.
The fingerprintS had been ex'
amined in Oklahoma and later by
the Identification division of the
Justice Department.
Cummings declared Kelly would
be captured in time, the Govern
ment being close on his trail.
Cummings said there was man
ifestly lull" in the general crime
situation. He said:
"There is reason to believe
that the people in the business
of 1idnaping as a vocation and
other major crimes are so close
Iy harried by Government and
other law enforcement agencies
that they do not have time to
plan new crimes.
"AlsO, many major criminals
are under arrest awaiting trial
or sentence"
lie said, however, that set
backs in the anti-crime campaign
might be expected and that there
should be no lover optimism"
The Washington times., 1933-09-21

The Entz children, whose
father, Howard H. Entz, has bat
tied school authorities for several
months on the subject Of vacci-
nation, were barred from the Gage
School today.
When Entz brought his chill
dren, Barbara, 8, and David, Z,
to the school this morning he
found the entrances blockaded by
janitors and other school depart
ment employees, who explained
that they had been instructed to
keep the children out.
HaycOck Ordered Action
The principal Of the school,
Miss M. R. Lyddane, said the
action was taken under order of
r. L. Haycock, superintendent of
the fifth division.
Entz Immediately went to the