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Evening star., 1934-05-25
8 AIM. REPORTING
HOUR REQUESTED
Interior and P. w. A. Work.
ers Submit Poll to Ickes
Asking Change.

Interior Department and public
works employees are going to report
for work at 8 am. during the Sum-
mer months and quit at $3.50 pm
If Secretary Ickes abides by the re-
suits of their balloting.
The balloting was done at Ickes
own direction and a majority per
cent of the employees voting, put
themselves down for the early hour
so as to avoid traffic congestion and
obtain an extra hour Of leisure in
the late afternoon.
The P. w. A. vote for hours from
m to $50 pm was s63 and in the
Interior Department it was 1886
Total, 2,549. Against these, 1,159
employees voted to retain the regular
hours from am to 4:3o pm.
Among them were S89 P. W. A,
workers.
Their unofficial spokesman ex-
planned their voting mo-" by saying
We'll have to work after Office hours
every day, anyway, so why get down
an hour earlier?"
While the total vote cast is only
a minority vote, there being consid-
erably more thaA 5000 employees, the
majority for 81 am. was decisive
enough, official said, to indicate the
feelings of employees. So unless Secre-
tary Ickes orders otherwise, the new
hours are expected to start June l
and continue through September 80
Evening star., 1934-05-25
COMMISSIONERS Reject
AIRPORT IN MARYLAND
Forestvi11e Site Proposal Turne
Down-Gravelly Point
Held Better.

A proposal that tract Of land neal
Forestville, Md, be acquired as mu-
nicipal airport was disapproved today
by the District Commissioners. The
proposal was forwarded to the Com
missioners for comment by Chairman
King of the Senate District Commit
tee at the request of Representative
Goldsborough of Maryland.
The tract is owned by DR.. William
w. Stewart, a Maryland resident who
has Offices in Washington.
Chairman Hazen Of the Board Of
Commissioners informed Senator King
that the former Board of Commits
SionerS and the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, after in
dependent studies, had decided the
Gravelly Point site on the Potomac
was the best location for a municipal
airport. Hazen added that finances
Of the District now would not per-
NIT obligation Of District funds for
any airport development.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
MAN HURT ASF|RE
SWEEPS LODGE
Damage Placed at $4,000
in Blaze in Masonic
Building Here.

One man was severely burned and
damage estimated at more than $10.-
900 was caused early this morning in
the lodge rooms Of the Kallipolis
Grotto, Masonic social order, at 1912
G street.
Eskil Norquest, 46, who gave his
occupation as paper hanger and who
was described as the caretaker Of the
club, received burns on both feet
when he walked through a path of
flames to escape.
Norquest, who was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital and later removed to
Gallinger Hospital, told attendants he
awakened shortly before 3 o'clock to
find the room he occupies a mass Of
flames. He said he had no idea how
the fire originated, and that he had
been asleep several hours before the
blaze aroused him.
Four floors of the building were
damaged, the second floor, occupied
by beauty shop being water-soaked,
while the third. fourth and fifth
floors, tenanted by the lodge as meet
ing and stock rooms, were badly
damaged by fire. The fourth floor
was almost gutted, two uniform rooms
and their contents. consisting of lodge
paraphernalia being entirely destroyed.
According to w. B. Quidley, chief
engineer of the building and one of
the first to reach the scene, the fire
originated in one Of the uniform
rooms on the fourth floor. Dudley
said the damage to the building alone
would amount to several thousand
dollars, and estimated that loss of
uniforms, musical instruments and
other lodge equipment would run into
additional thousands.
The Kallipolis Grotto is the Wash
ington lodge Of the Modern Order OF
Yelled Prophets of the Enchanted
Realm, branch of Masonry.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
MRS. M'LEAN SUED
|. FOR LAWYER FEES
Trial of Suit Brought by
Albert W. Fox Begins
Before Wheat.

Trial of a suit by Albert w. Fox,
former attorney for Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean. to recover $22,700 in counsel
District Supreme Court before Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat.
The attorneys claim is based In
part on services allegedly rendered
Mrs. Mclean in her suit for limited
divorce from Edward B. Mclean,
former publisher of the Washington
Post, and in connection with her
negotiations with CASTOR B. Means
looking toward the ransom of the
A. Lindbergh.
Former Post Reporter.
1t was brought out that Fox, for
mer reporter on the Post, was retained
in a legal capacity by Mrs. Mclean a
few months after he had been admit
ted to the bar in 1880. His employ
ment as attorney covered a period of
approximately 16 months, and Fox
comedies he was paid approximately
$4,000 by Mrs. Mclean for his serv-
ices. He said $4,000 of this money
was given him as Christmas gift,
but that he applied it to his fee.
1t also was brought out that $10,-
900 of the fee was received after he
had been awarded Judgment on a
promisory note given by Mrs. Mclean.
She contends she signed the note
while in highly nervous state shortly
after returning from trip to Texas III
connection with the ransom negotia-
tions.
Dismissal Claimed.
Attorney Charles Baker, represent
ing Mrs. Mclean, told the jury the
defense would show Fox was dis
missed as Mrs. McLean'S attorney
after she accidentally overheard a
telephone conversation in which he
allegedly said she was the laughing
stock" of the American Security &
Trust Co. as result of her negotia-
tions with Means.
Fox is represented by Attorney Will
liam Sullivan Wilton j. Lambert
and Rudolph Yeatman, with Baker,
will handle the case for Mrs. Mclean.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
Conferences on 1895 Ap-
preparations Postponed
Until Tuesday.
OTHER DUTIES CAUSE
PARLEY Adjournment
Passage of Public Works Loan
Hoped to Contain Items
for Schools.

Postponement of further confer
ences on the 1885 District appropria-
ton bill until next week may prove
helpful to the House and Senate con-
ferees in reaching a final agreement
on their differences, particularly in
view Of the relationship Of some of
the items in this bill to the District
public works loan measure now being
rewritten and scaled down in the
House.
The main reason the conferees ad-
journed yesterday until Tuesday
morning was to enable members Of
the conference to keep up with other
pending duties. BY that time. the
confereeS probably will have a better
idea Of how much work the munich
pality viii be able to make plans for
under the public works loan measure.
si,272,ooo for Schools.
Under the heading of public
schools, for example, the appropria-
tion bill conferees have before them
for decision Senate amendments
amounting to about s1.272,000 most
of which is for buildings and grounds.
When the public works loan bill
passed the Senate authorizing the
District to borrow up to $4,000, 900,
1t was intended that at least $4,000
900 of the loan would be allocated to
needed school construction projects.
In rewriting the public works loan
bill to limit the total that could be
borrowed to sl0,750,000. school build
ingS were among the classes Of projects
eliminated. II the loan bill goes
through the House in that form. there
fore, 1t may lead the Senate conferees
to make greater efforts to keep school
items in the appropriation bill
The S500,000 construction item in
the appropriation bill for the Dis
trict tuberculosis sanatoria is expected
to be retained, since this amendment
was taken into consideration by House
members yesterday when they reduced
the total of the separate public works
loan measure from the figure of SILL
250,000 announced Wednesday, to
41O,
The appropriation bill conferees held
morning and afternoon sessions yes
terday, but both sessions were inter-
rupted by developments in the House
and Senate which required the pres
ence of members Of the conference.
For this reason. the conferees were
unable to make much headway yester-
day. and an adjournment was taken
until Tuesday morning.
U. S. Part Unsettled.
The chief issue in controversy,
namely. what part of next years ex-
penses the Federal Government should
bear, is still unsettled. with the Senate
group urging retention of the pres
ent Federal lump-sum payment of
s5,7oo,ooo. The House group is in
sisting that there should be deducted
from that figure approximately ST.
335 900, on the theory that the Dis
trict owes the United States 10 per
cent of an allotment made by the
Public Works Administration last
Summer for sewer construction.
The Senate conferees are fortified
In their position by the testimony of
District officials that the sewer money
was a grant, that they would have
been forbidden by law from accepting
Evening star., 1934-05-25
c. U. PI DELTA EPSILON
DIMES AT PRESS CLUB
Journalistic Fraternity Formally
Accepts Six New Students
to Membership.

The Catholic University Chapter of
Pi Delta Epsilon, national Journalistic
fraternity, held banquet last evening
at the National Press Club when six
new student members and one hon.
orary member were formally accepted.
Among the guests were Bishop
James H. Ryan, rector of the univer-
sity; Senator Thomas of Utah, DR..
Tung-Li Yuan, director of the Ma
tional Library of Peiping. China; DR..
Harold J. Moulton, president of the
Brookings Institution, and Herbert
Wright, head Of the department of
politics at Catholic University.
Gold keys were presented to the
students and a membership shingle
was given to Eugene Meyer, publisher
of the Washington Post. Henry I.
Bengal, president of the chapter, pre-
sented the keys.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
"Wildcat" Goes In for Poetry
Mr.. Rayford Pnfs and Boorns Before Arts Club in
'Vigorons Coming Out of American
Spirit" but Not in Shorts.

The Alabama Wildcat went through
his poetic PAGES before the Arts Club
last night.
When it was over, most of the men,
bers decided it must be the vigorous
coming out of the American spirit"
of which. Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace spoke last week in referring
to the Wildcat and his unorthodox
paintings.
At any rate, all the formally dressed
ladies and gentlemen had most
interesting" evening listening to
Julian Lee Rayford, who wanted to
recite in shorts and would have If
Charles Bittinger, club president,
hadn't threatened that they would
throw him out. As it was, the Wild
cats penchant for the unusual in
dress found satisfaction in sneakers"
on his feet, a white tie and a blue
shirt of the most vivid possible blue.
Expression Galore.
He puffed and doomed like a bull
frog, Missed like snake, snarled like
a wildcat, Tapped like wave, roared
like a subway, cracked like a gun
and was just getting around to "gi-
raffes" when he seemed to remember
that these animals are silent.
With all this went crouchings and
jumpings, body swayings and arm
swayings reminiscent of an Egyptian
dancer, that had the audience either
hypnotized or half scared out of their
wits most of the time.
AS a preface to his recital, Rayford
explained that the trouble with most
poets was they were poor reciters
They were dull and hadn't any idea
of how to put expression into their
poems. He said he would show now
it should be done.
Introduced as Radical Pioneer.
He was introduced by c. Law Wat
ktns of the Phillips Memorial Art
Gallery u,hO admitted Rayf0rd MIGHT
Evening star., 1934-05-25

P. w. A. as mot recognized union
organization" Action of the P. w. A
against the technicians, Locher said
had been taken in a case at the Ma
tional Training School for Boys, and
was a matter of official record.
Parsons JustifieS Stand.
Parsons. the contractor, feels he had
a right to use members of the Tech
nicians' Union, and that competi-
ton between unions would be de-
sirable in the building industry. He
said he had been paying the carpen-
ters from the Technicians' Union ST. 10
an hour, the scale offered by the
Master Builders Association as a
compromise to settle the strike. This
figure was fatty rejected by the Car
penters' Union and the District Coun-
Gil
Meantime, the strike of engineers,
firemen and oilers at two local ice
cream plants still continued, with no
prospects of negotiations at least until
next week.
Plasterers' tenders are also on strike.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
26 BILLS FACE HOUSE
ON NEXT DISTRICT DAY
Effort Will Be Made to Dispose
of senate-Approved
Measures.

With Monday as a regular District
day the House is to meet at II o'clock
with 26 District bills awaiting action.
An effort will be made to pass first
those bills which have already been
acted upon in the Senate.
There is prospect that at least 10
District bills will be acted upon House
Leader Byrns feels the District Com
mittee did not get square deal on
the last special day for District legis-
lation and has promised to cooperate
in an effort to get as many as pos
sible Of the 26 pending District bills
acted upon by the House Monday.
which will probably be the last Dis
trict day this session.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
MARCHERS
SPURN c. c. {. HELP
Army Prepares to Remain
at Fort Hunt Over
Sunday.

Still resisting efforts Of the Gov
ernment to enroll its members in the
Civilian Conservation Corps. the 1884
bonus army prepared today to re.
main in Fort Hunt, Va, over Sun
day by permission Of the Veterans
Administration.
The men were scheduled tt
evacuate the fort yesterday, but two
long conferences with Brig. Gen
Frank T. Hines, administrator Of vet
erans' affairs, obtained the extension
of time. The Committee of Three
could have obtained the permission
Of the Government to stay over be-
fore noon yesterday, except for one
thing.
Harold Hickerson, spokesman fol
the committee, said that agreement
was reached on everything but one
point" after the first conference with
Gen. Hines. That one point was
the offer to take the men into the
c. C. c. and otherwise to help them
through the Federal Employment
Service.
I'VE are opposed to the Govern
ment taking our men away from
u.s." Hickerson said.
Today, however, there was still dis
agreement over the point. The Gov
eminent prepared to use c. C. C.
enrolment officers and, it is under
stood. the extension of their stay
was permitted to allow officials to
arrange for the assignment of the
men to camps and their transporta-
ton to them.
Hickerson, George Altman and
James J. Beatty asserted there was
no agreement that the bonus army
would leave Washington Monday
although they will evacuate Fort
Hunt. The committeeman said it Is
probable that the army, or whatever
remnant of it is left, will come into
the city from the fort and remain
to continue lobbying for cash pay
ment of the bonus.
Meanwhile, Senator Hendrix Ship
stead, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota,
announced in the Senate yesterday
that he will move to discharge the
Senate Finance Committee from fur
ther consideration of the bonus bill
already passed by the House. The
motion, If it carries, will reopen the
battle for cash payment of the bonus.
v. F. w. Joins Campaign.
Acting independently, the Veterans
of Foreign Wars joined the lobbying
campaign to force vote on the cash
payment of the bonus yesterday.
James E. Van Zandt, commander-in-
chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
came to Washington to launch the
drive and last night broadcast an
appeal to the country by radio.
Van Zandt said the bonus bill is the
only legislation ever to be sponsored
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
predicted success in obtaining its pas
sage.
This is the big test and we know
It," he said. I'VE enter the battle
confident. Public opinion is in our
favor"
Evening star., 1934-05-25
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Education Is venturing into new
waters-with the District of Columbia
as one of the jumping g-off places.
Before the learned body of college
presidents who constitute the Ameri-
can Council on Education, meeting
here this week, the question of char
acter education was much in evidence
involving, as it does, a radical re-
orientation of the scholastic machine
I'VE know enough to make saints OF
devils" said the report of DR.. w. w
Charters of Ohio State University to
the council on this problem. The diff
Guilty, he said, must come with getting
teachers competent to master and ap-
ply this knowledge.
Education, DR.. Charters pointed out,
in the past has been "subject-minded. "
The job of the teacher has been to
turn out graduates with a required
body of Acknowledgement to guide the
application of that knowledge to the
actual business of living. The ablest
pupil might turn out to be the worst
scoundrel, with the most defective
sense of social obligations.
The aim of the new education will
be to concentrate on the pupil rather
than the subject taught.
X
Find It Difficult
To Define Character"
A fundamental difficulty at the out
set Is to define the term character"
psychologists point out.
The word is much confused in popu-
lar usage. A bad character" may
have a very good character, finding
its expression in wrong ethical chan
nels. Courage, persistence, self-con-
troll, will power, the whole constella-
ton of qualities which enter into the
capacity for setting aside temporary
pleasure for the sake of distant goal,
are qualities Of Charlottesville essen
tial either for the successful building
of churches or the successful robbing
OF banks.
On the other hand, either kidnaper
or charity worker may have funda-
"bad character" Either may
be fearful, vacillating, the creature Of
impulse.
Evening star., 1934-05-25

be called a radical and certainly was 9
pioneer reaching out into unexplorec
ways Watkins ended by saying that
Rayford was like all the rest of US
only more So"
John Marin, nationally famous
water color artist, who also was on the
program, talked at length about
"line Of safety" right and wrong" and
about the great monotony" necessary
in all art. Then Rayford had his turn
II don't know anything about this
great monotony," he declared, land
what's more, I don't give a damn
about it,"
He launched into his poems. First
came an African Chant" on the order
of the Negro spiritual, which he sang
The audience applauded loudly.
When the next piece was over they
we're a little dazed and could only clap
feebly. The poem was called Chi
cago" and came. under the head, as
explained by Rayford, of those written
for vocal expression. He tried to imi-
tate most of the sounds of great city
wildcats" Noblest Effort.
1.-TWO Alabama Wildcats" was the
title of the next poem.
when I recited this over the radio
in Pittsburgh" Rayford said, babies
cried, cats and dogs tried to eat up
the radio and people began phoning in
to please take that fellow off the air
After that they called me the Ala
bama Wildcat"
There were no wildcats at the Arts
Club, but they might well have mis-
taken Rayford for a brother.
The climax of the evening vas
reached when Rayford recited Sub
way Like Dixie" an attempt to imi-
tate the sound of a subway through
the noises of Southern swamp. He
introduced this one by saying to his
audience: Now I am going to insult
your intelligence"
Evening star., 1934-05-25
LIQUOR DEALERS GIVEN
DATA ON D. C. STAMPS
Several Hundred Attend "School'
to Learn New Regulations for
Beverage Revenue.

Several hundred Washington liquor
dealers attended school" today, con-
Quoted by the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board to spread knowledge among
licensees of regulations for the use OF
the new District beverage revenue
stamps.
The session was held in the ball
room of the Willard Hotel, with men,
bers of the A. B. C. Board and the
corporation counsels Office in charge.
This was the first general meeting of
the Districts new business enter
priserS.
Use Of the District liquor revenue
stamps begins officially June /. All
liquor dealers have been ordered to
make a detail inventory of their
stocks as of May 81, and on the fol-
lowing day they are required to afflx
the revenue stamps to all their stocks.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
CLUBS DEAD HONORED
Memorial Services for Five Mem.
bers Held by Cosmopolitan.

Memorial services in honor Of five
members of the Cosmopolitan Club
who have died since the club was
founded In 1921 were held at yester-
days meeting of the club at the
Carlton Hotel. The Rev. John K.
Cartwright. pastor Of the Church of
the Immaculate Conception, was the
principal speaker.
Deceased members honored at the
meeting included John c. Merkling,
Milton Hopfenmaier, Orville B.
Drown, Samuel zirkin and Anton A.
Auth. Col. William H. McCarty,
president of the club, was in charge
of the exercises.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
Polo Game POSTPONED.

Ofncials Of the National Capital
Parks today announced that the polo
game between Pennsylvania Military
Academy and a picked team from the
War Department, scheduled for to-
morrow at $3.50 pm. at the West Po-
tomac Park polo field, has been post
poned until Saturday, June 2.
Evening star., 1934-05-25

it If they had been told 1t was to
be regarded as a loan, that, even if
it be finally classed as a 80 per cent
grant and 70 per cent loan, it is
unfair for the Government to take
back the entire 10 per cent in one
year when the States are being al
lowed to repay similar allotments over
an extended period of years, and
the further testimony that the Dis
trict has not. and probably never will,
spend about s250,000 of the total
sewer allotment.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
Character Education Is Aim
Of american College Heads
Purpose of Ne,o Program Viii Be to
Concentrate on Pupil Rather
Than Subject Taught.

Education, at the present stage of
knowledge, hardly can pretend to
means of improving character" itself.
There are only the vaguest ideas of
what it is The idea would be akin
to that Of increasing intelligence. "
Some psychologists say that this can
be done, but to very slight degree.
Others insist that it can't be done at
all, any more than the color of a per-
sons eyes can be changed. A person
is born with certain limited capacity
for understanding and adjustment
which remain characteristic of the in
dividual throughout life.
The best that can be done Is to
guide the application of intelligence
to turn it to such socially useful lines
as reading and writing, surgery, high
er mathematics, etc.
Character appears to be twin
quality with intelligence. It is some
thing deep seated in the organism,
known only through its manifesto
tions.
Seeks to Isolate
Fundamental Character.
Prof Charles Spearman, the cele-
brated English mathematical psycholo-
gist who lectured at Catholic Univer-
sity last Winter, is engaged in efforts
to isolate a fundamental character
factor in the human psychic makeup
which will be comparable with the
well known "G"-the fundamental in
telligence factor.
But character, he explained, is much
more obscure and more difficult to get
at than intelligence. He designates his
factor as "W"-the strength or energy
which underlies all specific manifesto
tions of character and determines the
average level of an individuals char
acter qualities.
1t finds Its expression in such quail
ties as trustworthiness and stability.
In one direction it may go far and stop
short in another. One of the most
curious findings Of Prof. Spearman Is
that fundamental character factor and
the fundamental intelligence factor
are slightly but positively related to
one another.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
COMMISSIONERS OPPOSE
TYDINGS SCHOOL BILL
Permission to Sell Tenly Building
to st. AIMS Church After Lease
Expiration Not Favored.

The bill introduced by Senator
Tydings of Maryland to permit the
District to sell the Tenley School to
st. AIMS Church met with the dis
approval Of the District Commissioners
today.
In report to Congress, Commis-
sioner Hazen noted that the Board of
Education had opposed sale of the
school. stating that the building might
be needed for public school purposes
after expiration of the present lease
to st. AIMS School
Evening star., 1934-05-25
CALIFORNIANS TO MEET
Admr. William H. Standley to
Address State Society.

Address State Society.
Admiral william H. Standley, chief
Of naval operations, will be principal
speaker at a meeting of the California
State Society at $50 pm. tomorrow
in the Interior Department Building.
Admiral Standley is president Of the
society.
Preceding the business session will
be a half hour of music by Hugh
Alexander's Stringed Orchestra. Rep
resentative Buck, of Vacaville, Calf,
also will speak, outlining California
legislation enacted during the present
session of Congress.
AL Californians are invited.