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Evening star., 1933-03-16
Commission Approves Rock
Creek and Potomac I'M
provement Plan.
EXCAVATION FUNDS
ONLY AVAILABLE NOW
Officials Say Park Unemployed
Force Is Ineligible-Drive
to Pass Under Bridges.

Plans to begin improvement of the
Rock Greek and Potomac parkway be-
tween P street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. were approved today by the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant. Sd. director
Of the Office of Public Buildings and
Public Parks, expects to call for bids
shortly for excavating from the side
walls OF the valley in what is known
omcially as section of the parkway
South, OF Q street to K street. Much
OF this excavated earth will be placed
near the new bridge at L street, now
unoer construction, to make a suitable
approach from K street, where the i'm
proved parkway now ends. The ex-
caVatlon will be done by private con-
tract
Unemployed Not Eligible,
Ofhcials explained that under the
present law, the unemployed who work
IN the park, cannot be used on projects
for which Congress makes a specific
appropriation.
Money Is on hand only for the ex-
cavatlng, officials asserted. and funds
Tor the project in the coming fiscal
year are uncertain, as the appropria-
ton bill did not pass.
The Commission today indorsed the
genera! layout for the improved park
way, which will take the proposed high
way under the Pennsylvania avenue and
M street bridges, northward to connect
With the completed section at @ street.
Beneath New Bridge.
new bridge is to be constructed by
the District government at P street. and
the parkway highway will pass beneath
this. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director
OF highways for the District, explained
today that plans for the new P street
bridge are completed, but the citys lack
of funds for building 1t Is holding up
construction. The bridge at L street,
being constructed under Col. Grants
direction, Is expected to be ready some
time next month. 1t will be some time,
however, before improvements permit
the public to have access to Pennsyl-
vania avenue by that route.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
MARRIAGE IS STUDENTS BUSINESS,
BUT WHO GETS REPORT CARDS?
DR.. Kramer Raises Question After Wedding of Three
Western His Pupils Is Made Known.

Marriage for public school pupils Is
nobody's business but the pupils them
selves and perhaps their parents, but
1t does bring its problems. Perhaps
every class at Western High School for
the last 10 years now has had at least
one married student, and most of the
other high schools have had similar
experience. So the school officials
today are not at all perturbed over the
discovery" that three Western High
School students are welded.
When girl or boy marries, the school
people take no cognizance Of 1t, DR..
Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant
superintendent In charge of high
schools, and DR.. Elmer s. Newton,
Westerns principal, said today. Their
names are carried on the rolls without
change and unless the student sees At
to mention his marital status to the
teacher, no one Is any wiser, and no
one cares.
But there are problems. When q
person marries, presumably he no longer
Is accountable to his parents. Should,
then, the schools send q young wife's
report card to her parents? II both
husband and wife are pupils, does the
school send the wife's report to her
Evening star., 1933-03-16
CROWDS DW|NDLE
IN REVENUE OFFICE
Only Few individuals Present
Because of Income Tax
Extension.

With the income tax deadline ex-

With the income tax deadline ex-
tended from last midnight to March
81 the crowds which visited the local
office of the deputy collector of in
ternal> revenue here fell of sharply to
only a few individuals this morning.
Under terms of the extension in
come tax returns may be filed from
now up to March 81. when there is a
6 per cent per annum interest charge
able against only the first quarter CT
the tax. No interest in charged against
the other three quarters, which do not
fall due until later
The announcement of extension evi-
IDENTIFY caused many people to postpone
filing their returns as the number Of
taxpayers calling at the deputy's Office,
Twelfth street and Constitution avenue,
dropped of from 8,035 to 5,424 yester-
day During the evening hours last
night from o'clock to midnight. usual
ly one Of the rush periods, only $50
people filed returns.
The number filing yesterday, however.
was considerably larger than last year
on March IS, when there were only
3,617 returns filed. The increase this
year was probably due to the lower ex-
emption, forcing many people previously
exempt to pay.
The public is still offered free notary
public service in the Office of the deputy
collector and sufficient number of depu-
ties and revenue men will be on duty
during regular Government hours, from
9 to A:30 to accommodate the taxpayers,
advise them en- filing returns and ad-
minister the oath without extra charge.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
TRICKED BY BOY,
JANITOR AIDS Theft
Apartment House Tenant Loses
$5.25 From Mail Box-OtMr
Robberies Reported.

A tricky colored boy, who induced an
apartment house janitor to let him
have $5.25 that a tenant had left in
her mail box for an insurance collector,
was sought today by police.
Three men who held up police
headquarters janitor apd a colcred
man who snatched a Gallinger Hospi-
tai dieticians purse. also were the
objects of police searches.
Helen Wiser, occupant Of an apart
ment in the 400 block of M street, was
the victim of the trickster. The boy
walked into the apartment house soon
after she had put the money in the
mail box. she said. and he insisted he
had dropped the money into the boz
inadvertently. About an hour after he
had gone the insurance collector ap-
peared.
The police janitor, Philip M Lawson,
colored, reported he was robbed of IS
by three men, who attacked him near
Fourteenth and Corcoran streets shortly
before l am.
The dietician, Miss Ethel Theis, said
she was walking on Massachusetts,
avenue near Nineteenth street southeast
when here pocketbook containing $40
was stolen.
Evening star., 1933-03-16

husband and the husbands report to
his wife? The school attendance law
insists that child between IA and
16, who has completed the eighth grade,
be either at work or at school. DR..
Kramer raised the question, although
he hasn't been called upon ofhcially to
answer it, as to whether a housewife
really works" Asked for his personal
opinion. he said:
We'll, should say that any girl who
takes on the management Of husband
Is really and truly at work."
Discussing the question of married
pupils further, Mr.. Kramer said the
schools almost always have had the
problem with them, but that it has
never been made an issue simply be-
cause If the parents are satisfied and
If the children themselves are satisfied
it's none of our business" He said
many Of the young married students
had remained in school and had been
graduated. Others, he said, have
dropped out Of school when they mar
ried, and had returned later to be grad
uated, while still others had quit with
their marriage. His own view on the
subject. however, is that marriage is
not particularly conducive to strict at
tention to scholastic pursuits.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
DAUGHTER STRUCK
MOTHER, NOT ROBBER
Love for Child Kept Mrs. Martha
Faber From Giving Police
Real Report.

Love for her daughter caused Mrs.
Martha Faber, 4132 Gault place north
east, to bear in silence a severe head
injury inflicted on the night of March
3 when she was struck with a stone.
1t was revealed by police last night.
The daughter, Miss Theresa Faber.
l6, told police that she had struck her
mother with the stone while walking
wltn the parent near Minnesota avenue
ana Barnes lane northeast-thus break
ing down the first report to the effect
a colored man had attacked Mrs. Faber
and snatched her pocketbook.
Police said the girl told them she
became angered with her mother dur
ing a discussion over boy friend. Miss
FaPer was not arrested because her
mother refused to prosecute.
Mrs. Faber, who was knocked un-
conscious by the blow, was treated at
Casualty Hospital, and it was at first
thought she might have received =
fractured skull.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
BOARD PROPOSES.
RECREATION PLAN
Proposal Designed to ,EIimi-
nate Confusion Among
Various Agencies.

A plan designed to eliminate irrita-
ton and misunderstanding among the
recreational agencies of the District
when efforts are made to establish
recreational centers was proposed to-
day by the Beard of Education to E.
c. Graham chairman of the Commit
tee on Coordination of Recreation.
The plan was devised by DR.. Frank
w. Ballou, superintendent of schools,
who submitted it to the school board
at its meeting late yesterday. In offer
ing the plan to the board DR.. Ballou
explained that Mr.. Graham presented
tentative layout Of the athletic facili-
ties for public use to be arranged on
the Mckinley High School-Langley
Junior High School grounds at First
and T streets northeast Monday for
school authorities study. Despite Mr..
Graham'S assertion that the Commit
tee on Coordination of Recreation ap-
proves no project until all interested
agencies have been consulted, the SUI
perintendent said the feeling exists
among "a number of persons concerned
center" that school people are not suffi-
GENTLY consulted.
Accordingly. DR.. Ballous plan which
was transmitted to Mr.. Graham today
follows:
"l. Whenever recreational center
is to be laid out, the Committee on
o-Ordination shall secure from the
three agencies concerned, namely pub
lie buildings and public parks; munic-
ipal playground department, and the
school department, written statements
indicating the recreation activities
which each would like to carry on in
said recreation center These needs
would then be considered by the Com
mittee on Coordination and a tenta-
tive agreement reached as to what rec
reational activities can be provided for
in said center.
"2. The Committee on Co. Ordination
will then select the person who will
proceed to lay out said center in accord
ance with the tentative agreement.
"3. When the preliminary plans of
said center shall have been developed
the Committe on Coordination will
then submit said tentative plans to the
three agencies concerned for considera-
ton and recommendation.
a. When the plans shall have been
finally approved by the agencies con-
cernej, each agency will proceed to
equip the grounds for its particular
activities in accordance with the ap-
proved plans subject to available appro-
priations for that purpose"
Evening star., 1933-03-16
POLICE CONTINUE PROBE
OF COLORED GIRL s DEATH
Investigation by Homicide Squad
Discloses Child Had a Frac-
tured Skull.

The police homicide squad continued
today its investigation into the death
of an unidentified colored girl, about
S, whose body was found in an un-
covered sewer trap near Second and r
streets southwest yesterday afternoon.
The child was found by colored boy,
and investigation showed she had a
fractured skull 1t appeared she had
been struck several severe blows on the
head.
Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson, head of
the homicide squad. said there was n
remote possibility the child had died
from natural causes and received the
head injuries when dropped into the
sewer trap.
Detectives today were questioning
residents in the neighborhood with a
view to finding more definite clues.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
0RAT0Ry CONTEST
WINNERS DECIDED
Miss Maxine CardWeII Award.
ed Arlington Title Over
7 County FinaIists.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, March 16-Miss
Maxine Cardwell won the Arlington
County championship in the National
Oratorical Contest last night. BY en-
erging as the victor in the contest held
in the Washington-Lee High School
here, against seven other county finalists,
she is entitled to a place in the North
ern Virginia finals, to be held on
April %.
S. P. Vanderslice. principal of the
Washington-Lee High School. presided,
and explained to the large audience that
every one of the 1908 boys and girls
in his school had taken part in the
preliminary competitions of the contest
and that the eight participants in the
finals had been through protracted
and thorough process of elimination.
Randolph Leigh. director general of the
National Oratorical Contest, was pre-
sented to the audience by Mr.. Wander
slice. and announced the decision Of
the judges.
Music for the occasion was furnished
by the 27-piece Westinghouse Or
chestra. A special feature was the
Washington-Lee marching song, in
which the audience joined with en-
thusiasm.
MISS Eunlce Green was CHOSEN as
alternate and Miss Peggy Rucker won
third place. The contestants, in the
order in which they spoke, follow: Miss
Peggy Rucker, Edwin Scheid. Miss
Eunice Green. John Henry Rixse, jr.;
Bank Davis, Miss Patricia Daue, Miss
Maxine Cardwell and Miss Jane Hen
derson.
The Northern Virginia finals. in
which the champions of Alexandria,
Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun
and Prince William Counties will COM
pete for place in The Star area finals,
will be held in the Washington Au-
ditorium on the evening of April e..
The winner on that occasion will re-
ceive a cash prize of $l00 from The
washington Star, and will be entitled
to compete for The Stars champion
ship award of 5000, which carries with
it place in the national finals and a
trip to Europe.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
Donald R. Cameron HurtIes
More Than 100 Feet
to Roadway.
WAS ALIVE WHEN RESCUE
SQUAD REACHED SCENE
Unidentified Witness Informs Hotel
Clerk and Vanishes While
He Calls Police.

Donald R. Cameron, 80 plunged to
his death from Taft Bridge about s
o'clock this morning, landing on his
head near the center of Rock Greek
drive, more than 100 feet below.
According to Detective Sergt. Harry
K. Wilson, chief of the homicide squad,
an unidentified man saw Cameron
hurtle from the rail en- the west side
Of the span.
The witness, Wilson said. ran into
the Shoreham Hotel and informed
clerk, who telephoned the police.
While the phone call was being made,
however, the stranger disappeared.
Missing Witness Sought.
Cameron, who roomed at 93l1 Mcnt-
gomery avenue, North Chevy Chase.
Nd, still was alive when the fire rescue
squad, summoned by the police. reacned
the scene He was dead when the
squad reached Emergency Hospital
with him.
Acting Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald ordered the body removed to
the District Morgue. pending ccm-
pletion of the homicide squads tnves-
tigation. After conferring with De-
tective SergtS John w. Wise and Wl-
liam Liverman. both of the homicide
squad, later in the day, DR.. MacDon-
aid issued a certificate of suicide
Cameron's body was identified by his
brother law. Howard P. Foley, West
chester Apartments president OF the
Howard p Foley Co., Inc. an electrical
contracting concern. Cameron had
worked for the firm for some time,
Foley told Wilson.
No Notes Found in Car.
Camerons automobile was found
parked in front of 210l Connecticut
avenue. Search of the car revealed
no notes, however, and members OF
the dead mans family were able to
give the investigators but little in
formation
Cameron had rcomed at the North
Chevy Chase address, the home of Mrs.
Mason Weldon, since short time after
separating from his wife, Mrs. Marian
B. Cameron.
The couple, prior to their separation.
lived in the 2800 block Of Connecticut
avenue. Mrs Cameron. an insurance
company clerk, now lives at 1926 Six
teenth street.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
DISTRICT SUPPLY BILL
NOT READY FOR Week
Appropriation Measure to Be Acted
on by House as Soon
as Prepared.

The District appropriation bill for the
fiscal year beginning July l, which
failed at the last session Of Congress,
probably will not be ready to be re-
ported to the House for a week or 10
days, but will be promptly acted upon
as soon as it is ready.
This was stated today by Chairman
Buchanan of the Appropriations Com
mittee who has held conferences with
the budget director and with House
Leader Byrns.
Speaker Rainey corrected a former
statement that the District bill might
come up next Monday under suspension
of the rules when informed that Chair
man Buchanan has arranged for q new
estimate to be submitted by the Budget
Bureau.
Both Speaker Rainey and House
Leader Byrns gave assurance today that
1t is their intention to get the earliest
possible action on the District appro-
priat:on bill.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
SUICIDE FOLLOWS
SHOOTING Of WIFE
JobIess Mans Children Near
Scene of Tragedy in Six
teenth Street Home.

Out of work and overwrought by
months of financial worry, William Sid
ney Edwards, As, shot and seriously
wounded his wife. Mrs Amanda Ed
wards, and then took his own life after
quarrel yesterday afternoon in their
home at 1923 Sixteenth street
The bullet which passed through Mrs.
Edwards head fell spent on a chair
beside the crib in which her infant
nephew, Richard Shelton, months old.
lay.
The two small children of the couple,
William Sidney, jr., 4, and Mary Jane,
3, waited frightened outside the locked
door Of the second-foor bed room in
which the tragedy occurred.
Condition Is Critical.
At Emergency Hospital this morning
Mrs. Edwards was said to be In criti-
cal condition. The bullet passed
through the left side of her head, en-
tering the cheek and coming out at
the back of her skull. The bullet, which
Edwards fired through his own brain,
entered his right temple and emerged
near the top of his head on the left
side. Acting Coronsr A. Magruder
Macdonald last night issued a certifi-
cate of suicide
Edwards was a member of the Ed
wards family of Virginia, which en-
gagged in the Allen-Edwards feud that
eliminated in the shooting up Of court
room at Hillsville, Va, where the Aliens
were on trial.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards had operated
rooming house at the Sixteenth street
address since January Is last. They
formerly lived in Richmond.
Samuel c. Oglesby, John Hess and
Irving Newcomb, roomers in the house.
heard the shots and broke in the door
OF the Edwards bed room. They found
Edwards lying face downward on the
floor. As calibed Army automatic near
his right hand. Mrs. Edwards was
conscious and told police her husband
had shot her
Cousin Tells CT Quarrel.
Oglesby, a cousin Of Mrs. Edwards
was in the room with the couple when
the quarrel began He said the door
bell rang and Mrs. Edwards said to her
husband:
Go on and answer the door. That's
all you're good for"
Oglesby then left the room.
The two children were sent to rela-
tives of Mrs Edwards living in the 1900
block of Queens street northeast. As
they passed from the house to waiting
taxicab, child in the curious crowd of
onlookers spoke to the little boy.
My daddy shot himself" the boy
called back with no note of under
standing Of the tragedy in his voice.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
HIBERNIANS TO HONOR
ST. PATRICK'S DAY HERE
Full Program Planned for Cele-
bration by Order To-
morrow

A full program will mark the celebra-
ton of st. Patrick.s day here tomorrow
by members of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians and the Ladies' Auxiliary.
They will attend special mass at 10
am in st. Patrick's Church, at which
the Rev. John Barrett of Baltimore will
be the celebrant.
After day of private parties, mem
bers Of the order will attend banquet,
at o'clock, at the. Mayhower Hotel.
The principal address will be delivered
by the Rev. Dr. John K. Cartwright,
assistant pastor of ST. Patrick's Church.
Other speakers will be Miss Lillian Fay,
Rev. Timothy N. MacCarthy and
Patrick H. O'Dea, toastmaster.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
$4,000 DAMAGES ASKED

Two suits for damages totalinp SIS.
goo were filed in District SHnrenna
Court yesterday against Lloyd H.
chandler. 1924 Tilden street. bv Will
liam P. Wright, 1907 Kenyon street.
Through Attorney George d. Horn
ing, jr, Mr.. Wright and his wife said
they were injured in an accident on
Jones Mil road, Montgomery County.
Mo, last November when an automo.
Ollie driver. by Chandler collided with
machine in which they were riding.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
LW0W. MISSING z DAYS,
is HARD-TO-CALL DOG
$50 Reward Offered for Russian
Named Animal That Came Here
With New Jersey Visitor.

Named animal That Came Here
With New Jersey Visitor.
Few could pronounce his name, and
being stranger in the city anyhow
things may have gone from bad to
worse for Lwow.
At any rate he has been missing
more than two days now from zoos
Massachusetts avenue large, we'll
bred young airedale, visiting here from
Lakewood, N. j.
Lwow. which is Russian for "wuff."
came to Washington a week ago from
Lakewood with Miss Fawan Washburn,
guest at the Massachusetts, avenue
address.
The dog, finding an unguarded door
Tuesday morning, slipped outside, pre-
sumably on private sightseeing jaunt.
He Is II months DID, and large for his
age, with long face and large black
saddle. When last seen Lwow was
wearing green collar bearing a Lake
wood license tag.
Mrs. Stanley Washburn of Lakewood,
Miss Washburn's mother, has offered a
$50 reward for Lwow's return, land no
questions asked"
1t is thought the dog may have be-
come lost and followed some stranger
who would return him if he could learn
the owners address.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
FALL INJURIES WORKER

Richard r. Matheny. 46, an iron
worker living in the 1900 block of
Seventeenth street. was critically in
jured today when he fell rs feet from
a steel beam on building under con-
struction at Half and v streets south
west.
Matheny was taken to- Providence
Hospital where it was said he had
fractures of both arms. a broken leg
and internal injuries. He Is employed
by contracting company.
Evening star., 1933-03-16

Federal agents may investigate the
stag show" which police interrupted
last night after it had drawn an audi
ence of 400 men into Carpenters Hall,
Tenth and K streets. The police arrest
ed five girl performers and four men.
A police report of the affair was
turned over to the Justice Department.
The spectators we're allowed to 60 home
after a talking to" by Lieut.. Charles
j. p. Weber of No. 2 precinct, In
charge of the raiding squad.
Lieut.. Weber had advance informa-
Evening star., 1933-03-16
u s. MAY PROBE "STAG SHOW"
HALTED BY ARRIVAL OF POLICE
Five Girls and Four Men Are Arrested-Spectators
Lectured and Released

ton Of the SHOW" and detailed two
members of his command to mingle
with the audience and signal from q
wi window at the first semblance OF law
One of the two policemen who went
into the crowded hall gave the signal
for the raid from wash room on an
upper floor, opening window and mr.
the SHOW" Spectators and perform
ers were questioned before the five girls
and four men were removed to the
station house.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
HEADS SCOUTMASTERS
William H. Murray Elected Presi-
dent of Club at Y. M. C. A.

William H. Murray, well-known
Washington scoutmaster, was elected
president of the Scoutmasters' Club at
its initial meeting Tuesday night at
the Y. NJ. c. A. Other officers elected
are Dan Tyrrell, vice president; R. T.
Haugh. secretary, and Karl Krumke,
treasurer.
A constitution and bylaws were
adopted at the meeting. The group
will meet the second Tuesday OF each
month.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
Elks' Boys Band Will Play.

The Elks' Club Boys Band will give
a concert tonight, at 8 o'clock, at Blue
Plains Home for the Inf1rm and Aged.
James L. Kidwell will direct the band.
He will be assisted by Lawrence Leer.
Evening star., 1933-03-16
REICHELDERFER SPEAKS
Tells 0ptimists Club Of Operations
of City Government.

An informal talk, built around the
operations of the District government,
was delivered before the Optomists
Club yesterday by DR.. Luther H.
Reichelderfer, president Of the Board
of District Commissioners.
DR.. Reichelderfer said the years Of
service, Of many Of the District Depart
ment heads had proved invaluable to
the Commissioners In framing the var
ious municipal programs. He described
the ramifications Of budget making,
letting contracts and other municipal
activities.