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Evening star., 1935-04-08
PASSENGER STABBER
SOUGHT BY POLICE
Colored Man, Unidentified But
Familiar to Motorman,
Slashes Him.

Police and Capital Transit Co. off,
cialS today were investigating the
stabbing yesterday of Motorman Rom
ley L. Harvil, 25, of 1877 B street
southeast. by an unidentified colored
passenger who had been a regular
rider on Harvil's car.
Harvil, who is in an undetermined
condition at Garfield Hospital. told
police that when he stopped the car
at Seventh street and Florida avenue
the colored man stood behind him
waiting for other passengers to get off
and then, without proVocation, slashed
Harvil with a knife and jumped of
the car. Harvil said he was paralyzed
by the cut and that the conductor
didn't know what had happened until
Harvil told him. Then it was too late
to give chase.
The man had been daily rider.
Harvil said, boarding the car at Eight
eenth street and Columbia road and
getting off at Seventh street and Flor
ida avenue. No. precinct police said
today they have fairly good descrip-
tion from Harvil of the asSailant and
believe they will have little trouble
picking him up.
Harvil has been en- employe Of the
street car company 10 months.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
Luck of D. c. ''S,oeeps" Winner
Fails in Georgia Auto Crash

q cut over the eye and shock. Both
were reported recuperating today in
the Jacksonville, Fla, hospital to
which they were taken.
Teed, who lives at Is Franklin
street, Roger Heights, Md, is an en-
ploye of the Government Printing
Office. He drew ticket on one Of
the favorites in the Grand National
Steeplechase at Aintree, England. but
the horse fell on jump.
Teed, however, few hours before
the race, had disposed of his sweep
stakes ticket to New York gambler
for $4,000 cash. At the time Teed
announced he was going to bank
the money as NEST egg" for his old
age.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
110,756 new c. c. c.
MEN TO BE PICKED
Orders Given to Bring Corps Up
to Full Strength by
May /.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Orders were issued today to COM
plete selection of 110,756 new mem
bers of the Civilian Conservation
Corps to bring it to full strength by
May l.
Their selection to replace members
whose terms expired had been de-
layed pending passage of the s4.8so,-
100000 work bill.
Robert Fechner. C. c. c. director,
reported to President Roosevelt yes
terday that plans had been COM
pleted for expansion of the corps from
the present $4,000 limit to 100000,
but officials said no action would be
taken in this direction until the
President returns.
Enlistment quotas of the nine corps
areas:
Boston, 1897; New York City (Gov-
ernors Island). 14,130; Baltimore,
1854; Atlanta, 7,051; Columbus,
12,4S6; Chicago, 1910; Omaha, a.
271; San Antonio, 10.165, and San
Francisco, 1885.
Evening star., 1935-04-08


The luck of Lester B. Teed, ~, the
linotype operator who won $4,000
in the Irish Sweepstakes two weeks
ago, failed to, carry him through an
automobile accident which befell him
yesterday in Georgia while en- route
to Miami.
1t could have been worse, however,
as neither Teed nor his wife was
hurt seriously and Teed had his new
automobile covered by insurance the
day before he left to spend some Of
his winnings on vacation in Florida.
The car was demolished when it
skidded In the rain at Kingsland. in
South Georgia.
Teed's wife suffered a fractured
jaw, while Teed himself escaNd with
Evening star., 1935-04-08
FIVE FLEE FROM HOME
DURING RESTAURANT FIRE
Children and Woman, ~, Are
Rescued-$1,5OO Damage
Done Building.

Two young children and a 74-year-
old woman were among the five per-
sons forced to flee from their home
wnen flames swept through the rear
of Halls sea food restaurant at
Seventh and K streets southwest
about 1870 am. today.
The opinion was expressed that the
fire possibly was caused by lighted
cigarette left in a basement dressing
room by one of the restaurant en-
ployeS. Approximately $500 damage
was caused.
Walter Dyson, whose family lives
in an adjoining house, carried his two
children to safety when smoke and
flames threatened his home. His
wife, Mrs Dyson, aided Mrs. Jennie
Gerdes, "A, in escaping.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
POLICE AND FIRE
HEADS SEE HAzEN
ON PROMOTIONS
Efforts Under Way to Obtain
Fair Credits for Veteran
Employees.
CIVIL SERVICE TEST
DISADVANTAGE CITED
Commissioner Says Many Quail.
fed for Better Jobs Are Handi-
capped by Examinations.

High officers Of the Police and Fire
Departments were to meet with Com
missioner HaZen this afternoon to seek
ways and means of giving veteran en-
ployes striving for promotion more
credit for past meritorious service.
Hazen feels that many policemen
and firemen who have served the city
many years are prevented from re-
ceiving deserved promotions by the
civil service requirement that marks
made in competitive examinations re-
ceive equal weight with past per-
formance
Many Held Qualified.
MANY policemen or firemen with
30 years service are qualified for bet
ter Jobs, but can't get them because
they do not stand the same chance of
passing the written examinations as
do young men Just recently out of
school," the Commissioner said.
LAS I see the situation, the same
principles should apply as do to GER
tain types of horses in a horse show.
Usually in judging horse. you give
so per cent for conformation and so
per cent for performance, but here
are always special classes in which
the horse that is not so perfectly built,
has a chance. In such classes the
judges count only 25 per cent for con-
formation and rs per cent for per-
formance
That's the way 1t should be in
the Police Department. A mans rec
ord should count rs per cent and his
mark on a competitive examination
only 25."
At present, past service and the
examination marks are weighed
equally in promotion preference.
Practical Procedure.
Hazen suggested as an alternative
the two promotion requisites that
more emphasis be placed on ques-
tions of practical procedure in the
civil service examinations.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed
ward w. Thomas has advised the Com
missioners that it is possible legally to
value civil service examinations lower
than service records, but the Civil
Service Commission must consent to
such a change.
Existing rules setting 70 per cent
as the passing grading on civil serv-
ice examinations apply only to persons
seeking entrance into the service.
Thomas stated. Those expected to
confer with Commissioner Hazen were
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
of police: Fire Chief Charles E.
Schrom and such of their assistants
as they choose.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
PLUCKED BY RAIN
10000 Visitors Here as
Wind Destroys First
Spring Flowers.

A whipping northeast rain and
wind plucked the frail blossoms OF
the cherry trees around the Tidal
Basin today, practically ending the
first phase of Washington's annual
floral show. following a week end
that brought an estimated 10000
visitors to the Capital.
David Saunders, horticulturist OF
the National Capital parks. inspected
the trees today and announced that
the single blossoms on the japanese
cherry trees are lust about gone. y
The trees present a rather forlorn
appearance after night of heavy
rain, with some hail
The park authorities are looking
for the floral spotlight to shift to
East Potomac Park-around the
Speedway-probably this week, If the
weather warns up. There the double
blossom variety of Japanese cherry
blossoms are expected to bloom.
$4,000 Cars at Basin.
Yesterday. the United States Park
Police clocked some 27,340 automo-
biles that made their way around
the Tidal Basin and there were 5000
pedestrians. Union Station author
tiles estimated that $4,000 passengers
came in by train, for the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad had eight extra sec
tions for cherry blossom excursions
the Baltimore e. Ohio had three
extras, and the Chesapeake g. Ohio
had five extras, the authorities ex-
planned. Bus and air lines reported
business approximating Inauguration
proportions.
All hotels were crowded to capacity
and some visitors stayed in private
homes. The Greater National Capital
Committee of the Washington Board
of Trade. under Curtis Hodges. its
director, and his staff worked into the
small hours of the morning to get
accommodations for the thousands
of visitors. Seven telephones were
kept busy, from around Saturday noon
until 3 O'Clock Sunday morning. There
were only a few calls yesterday.
Only One Accident.
The Park Police recorded only one
traffic accident. Mrs. William A. NC
Kenney, IS years old, of SIS Columbia
road, was given Emergency Hospital
treatment for shock and spraineo
back and Mrs. L. A. Foster, 80, OF the
same address, was given first aid
treatment at the Red Cross hut In
Potomac Park for shock and head
lacerations.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
WINTER RETURNS
IN NEARBY STATES;
BREAK DUE HERE
Snow Covers Sections in
Western Virginia and
Maryland.
END TO RAIN FORESEEN
FOR D. G. TOMORROW
Some Fruit Injured by Cold.
Storm Warnings Up on
Chesapeake Bay.

An end vas in sight today for the
wind rain and sleet which swept
Washington last night in the wake of
snow storms in the mountains of
nearby Maryland and Virginia.
Snow blanketed the apple orchards
near Winchester this morning and
marooned at least 40 automobiles on
the mountain pass at Panorama, near
Luray, Va. Five or six inches of snow
lay in the high sections.
About an inch of sleet and snow
vas reported at Frederick, Md. and
three inches at Cumberland Mean
while. storm warnings were displayed
along the Atlantic Coast and Chesa-
reake Bay.
Break Seen Tomorrow.
The Weather Bureau here predicted
an end tomorrow for the rain, mist
and chill which has gripped Wash
ington for more than week during
the cherry blossom season of visitors.
The 35-degree temperature at m.
today was the lowest local mark for
April since 1920, when like figure
was reached. The average tempera-
ture for the month has been 10 de-
Rrees below normal
Snow in Western Maryland ranged
from three to six inches in depth. A
gale was blowing on the Eastern
Shore
Garrett County, Md, was blanketed
with 6-inch snow that whipped into
drifts under the influence of a wintry
IT. Vllo Ordn ~
into service by the State Roads Com
mission to clear away drifts ranging
up to a foot in depth.
Plows At Work.
Several plows were sweeping away
the Spring snow on route 81 between
Oakland and Keyster's Ridge Others
we're operating in other sections of
the western counties.
Rain poured down on Baltimore.
Annapolis and the Eastern Shore. A
sharp line was drawn by the freakish
weather at Hancock. From that point
westward it showed heavily, while
eastward it rained just as heavily.
The chill drizzle is expected to con-
tinue here tonight with a low of about
IS degrees The threat of a frost
damaging to vegetation was lessened
by the prospect of rain.
Temperatures of 26 and % degrees
above zero in the fruit districts
around Winchester. Va. damaged
early crops of peaches. cherries. plums
and other stone and soft fruits that
had been in bloom a week, according
to reports from growers.
Conditions Unusual.
Trees and shrubs were bending un-
der weight of heavy snow, and num-
bers of branches were broken. Apple
growers said their fruit was not far
enough advanced to be injured by
the nights temperatures.
Slightly higher mercury in the Upper
Shenandoah Valley, around Martins
burg, W. Va. rendered fruit in that
area safe, growers said.
The conditions bringing the long
siege of comfortless weather is In
usual, the Weather Bureau reported.
A low-preSsure area moving north
ward from Louisiana has been boxed
in by high-pressure areas on the
east and west. This slows its escape
over the ocean and causes the cold
and rain it carries with it to last
longer than it would under normal
circumstances.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
WILSON TO GIVE TALK

Lloyd B. Wilson, president of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co., will address the Washington sec
tion of the American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers in the auditorium Of
the Potomac Electric Power Co. to-
morrow at 8 pm. The program will
include two reels of motion pictures.
Prior to the meeting, the regular
speakers dinner of the institute will be
held at the Raleigh Hotel.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
EDITORS TO MEET HERE

Members of the First Georgia Con-
gressional District Press Association
will hold their Spring meeting in
Washington as the guests of Repre-
sentative Peterson, Democrat, Of
Georgia. a member of the association.
The Georgia editors plan to make
the trip from Savannah in motor
cade to arrive here April rs. They
will remain in the Capital until
April 29.
Representative Peterson Is editor
nj the Mount Vernon Monitor.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
Club to Hold Supper.

TUXEDO, Md, April Especially -
The Young Peoples Social Club OF
Tuxedo, James Owens, president, will
hold an oyster supper Wednesday eve
ming in the Methodist Episcopal
Church here.
Evening star., 1935-04-08
VIVISECTION BAN ASKED
Quinn Bill Would Bar Use of Live
Dogs in Experiments.

Dogs In experiments.
A bill designed to prohibit scientific
experiments upon living dogs In the
District was introduced today by Rep
resentative Quinn, Democrat, OF Penn
sylvania, member of the House Dis
trict Committee.
Operations or experiments on living
dogs under Quinn's bill would be per-
mitted only for curative purposes.
For violations. the measure pre-
scribes penalty Of fine ranging
from 500 to $500, or Imprisonment
from to IL months, or both.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05

Last week she attended a two day
meeting in Evansville, at which
smaller southern Indiana city clubs
attended. A feature of this district
program was the concert of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
At a luncheon given last Wednes-
day in honor of Mrs. Hunter and
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Goossens, Gin
cinnati Symphony Orchestra direc-
tor and his wife, district officers
were guests. An all-day meeting
was held the following day.
Other district meetings include
one at Salem Friday; another at
Terre Haute, Nov. IL; one at Fowler,
Nov. Is, and one at Rushville, Nov
81. Mrs. Hunter Is to attend these
meetings, several of which will have
special feature programs.
A Junior meeting for organiza
lions in the southern part of In
diana is to be held in Bloomington,
Nov. 16. A similar meeting for
Junior organizations was held in
Flora Oct. 26.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
Finger Painting Started to Give
Children Their O7vn Art Medium

To give children an art medium
on their own level, thus enabling
them to derive feelings of power,
satisfaction and accomplishment,
was Ruth Faison Shaws motive
when she originated finger painting,
which she is demonstrating at the
book and toy exhibit of the Amer
lean Association of University Wom-
en- this week in Ayres' auditorium.
Finger painting is co-ordinated
with her doctrine of creative educa-
ton, self taught and demonstrated
in her experimental school which
she conducted for nine years in
Rome. In this new play technique
children are encouraged to smear
color with spread palms, clenched
fists and fingers and to use free
rhythmic muscular movements of
their whole bodies.
Today as she spread color over
large sheets of damp paper, several
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
Music Federation Head to
Address Hartford Group

Music clubs can serve the COM
munities in which they are organ
lied, Mrs Frank B. Hunter, Indiana
Federation of Music Clubs president,
is to tell delegates to an annual dis
trict meeting at Hartford City to-
morrow.
Mrs. Hunter, who is to speak .on
What the Federation can do for the
Music Club" is to incorporate into
her address a resume of community
services which have been given by
small music clubs.
The talk is to be of special inter-
est to the Fifth District members
whom she is to address, since she in
cludeS mention of the introduction
Of music instruction into rural
schools by the Upton Club, member
of the Fifth District.
Clubs included in this district are
those of Upton, Kokomo, Peru.
North Manchester, Marion and
Hartford City. The meeting is one
of series being held by the various
districts.
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children watched her paint pictures
with her fingers and arm. AS she
spread out the paint in undulating
lines, one child spoke out, THAT
looks like the ocean," Their eyes
Wldened as their imaginations were
stirred by pictures.
Children Seem Eager
Their fingers touched the edge of
the table in eagerness as they
watched the simple movements OF
her hands as she drew fanciful pic
lures.
Miss Shaw has experimental to
discover a formula for the paint, as
simple for children to work with as
mud pies.
Finger painting gives color and
form to thoughts for which children
often know no words" Miss Shaw
explained to the youthful visitors
mothers. ut is not always a thing
OF beauty which the children draw
at first; it may be something sinister
and evil, which, to the teachers is
an outward sign of some deep
seated obsession in the child's SUBJ
conscious mind interfering with his
normal progress"
The medium gives crippled and
handicapped children an imagina-
tive and mental interest in the
movements they are able to make.
Describes Child Picture
She described how child with a
brain lesion and lack of muscle con-
troll was able to draw goat by her
involuntary hand movements. The
pictures that resulted fror.. the nery-
Gus jerks of her hand could not be
reproduced by the other normal chill
dren, and thus she was given a new
mental interest in the movements
she made. The child no longer ex-
perienced feelings of defeat, but
was encouraged by this strange Gre
ative ability she never knew before
A blind woman visited Miss Shaw
at Ayres yesterday and through her
keen sense of smell was able to
choose the colors with which tc
paint. Today she came to see
her picture-by tracing her sensi-
tive f1ngertips over the dry picture
Invariably Miss Shaw can detect
the child who has suffered from the
interference of adults in his ac-
tons. Always his pictures are cha
otto in theme. But generally his
power of selectivity and taste over
comes the revolt in his mind: ne re-
lakes and his pictures become
things of beauty.
Adult persons of high-strung
temperamental dispositions have
found relaxation through finger
painting as pastime. Stage design
ers and decorators are beginning to
appreciate, the pictorial possibili-
ties. Psychiatrists have been ex-
perimenting with the medium as an
aid in clipical diagnosis. Still these
various angles have not lured Miss
Shaw from hr original objective
the introduction of finger painting
as a method of self-expr ession in
art in the education of the very
young.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
Mangus Home
Is Scene Of
Novel Party

Novelty gifts concealed in a
cornucopia, centering the serving
table, were presented to Miss Mary
Martha Hockensmitn, bride-to- be,
at a party given last night at the
home of Miss Mary Katharine
Mangus. Hostesses with Miss
Mangus were Misses Mary Vance,
Madeline Trent and Esther Hoover.
Mrs. M. w. Mangus assisted the
hostesses.
Guests with the. bride-to-be and
her mother, Mrs. Charles A. Hook
ensmith, were Mrs. P. j. Hertz,
mother of the bridegroom be,
Victor P. Hertz; Misses Elysee
Crosier, Gayle Thornbrough, Mar
tina Coddington, Susan McGaughey,
Jean Southland, Judith Miley,
Marian Ballinger, Mary Ella Julian,
Mary Alice Moore, Josephine Symms
and Jane Crawford.
Miss Hockensmith and Mr.. Hertz
are to be married in SIS. Peter and
Paul Cathedral on Thanksgiving
Day, Nov. %.
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PARTY HELD FOR
PROSPECTIVE BRIDE

Mrs. o. P. Epler and Mrs. j. W.
McPheeters assisted Miss Mary
Alice Epler at the party which she
gave last night for Miss Ruth L.
Jones, who Saturday is to be mar
ried to Maurice w. Pickett, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alva Pickett.
Miscellaneous gifts were presented
to the bride-to-be. Serving tables
were decorated with fall flowers and
autumn foliage.
Guests who attended and played
bridge included Miss Jones mother
Mrs. w. Frank Jones; Mesdames
Fred Stilz, Ned Perkins, Arthur An
derson and Edward B. Crowell AND
Misses Marjorie Woods. Naomi Teve-
baugh, June Woodwork, Edna Rubin
Jane Crowell, Mildred Allen, Bea-
trice Houze, Grace MeVey, Heller
Louise Brown and Nellie Bottema.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
BRIDAL PARTY TO
FETE JANE CRABR

Mrs. T. f. Fishers party tonight
at her home, 5521 College-av. is to
compliment bride-to-be, Miss Jane
Crabb. Miss Crabb, daughter OF
Mrs. Ethlene Crahb. is to be married
to Edgar a Claffey in ceremony
Nov. 10. The hostess is to be as
sisted by her mother, Mrs. Dorothy
Ann Danke.
Guests with Miss Crabb and her
mother are to be Mesoanes F.. w.
Stempfel, c. B. Tichenor, r.. w.
Pentecost, John Spahf, Jctn Riddle,
Burchard Carr, Eugene Ezell and
Misses Jeanne Winchel and Jane
Sherer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
MARQUETTE SHOW
= TO AID SHORTRIDGE

Shortridge High School student
council announces presentation of
the Tatterman marionettes in 1.-The
Glowing Bird" at 2:30 Thursday in
Caleb Mills Hall.
Proceeds are to be used for the
fund for the erection of new steel
bleachers on the high school ath-
letic field Plans have been COM
pleted for the grand stand, which is
to have a seating capacity of 1900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
WPA Training Fits IS Young Women
of State for Jobs in Business World
BY HELEN LINDSAY

THIRTY-FIVE young Indiana
women soon are to step into
the business world, as the result
OF an eight weeks training period
at Mccormick Greek Canyon
State Park, under the Works Pro-
gress Administration.
The course ended last week,
after an unexpected bit Of train
ing in quarantine life, when two
Of the 35 enrolled developed
diphtheria. So, in addition to
learning recreation leadership,
stenography, bookkeeping and
household management, the girls
know how to live in quarantine.
For most of the girls. the en-
campment period was their first
experience away from home. They
we're enrolled from relief families
in Bedford, Rushville, Evansville,
Frankfort, Princeton, Richmond,
TT. Wayne, Lafayette, Henryville,
Terre Haute, Jeffersonville, Gary,
New Harmony, Mishawaka,
Bloomingdale and South Bend.
Each girl was considered "em-
playable" when selected, and was
given training in a particular
field Although not promised jobs,
approximately 25 are to be placed
almost Immediately. The others
are prepared for work as soon as
openings develop.
TWENTY were given training
Il as recreation leaders. They
are to be placed with WPA recrea-
ton divisions in their own coun-
ties. In some instances, these
recreation projects are not in
operation yet, but are expected to
open in short time.
Girls who took training in
typig and shorthand are to be
placed on WPA survey and cleric
al projects, and the Indiana State
Employment Service, which is
making placements, hopes TO flnd
positions soon for them.
Recruited from small cities in
most instances, the girls learned
how large municipalities are OPP
Grated through an organization
set up in imitation of city govern
ment. They were under the di-
rect supervision of a city manager
and a city council elected from
their own group. Problems which
developed in the encampment
period were settled after discus
sions by this group.