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Evening star., 1935-05-25
STREAMLINED TRAIN
is DUE HERE TODAY
"Abraham Lincoln" of B. & o.
Will Be Open to Public
on Monday.

The abraham Lincoln" the new
Streamlined train of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad. will arrive at Union
Station at $50 o'clock tonight and
will be exhibited privately at the sta
and will be open for public inspection
from noon until 9 pm. Monday, it
was announced this morning by Off
cials of the road. The train will go
to Baltimore for public inspection
Tuesday.
The train IS the first of two being
built by the B. g. o. They cost ap-
proximately S950,000. When the two
trains are put into service on the
Alton, subsidiary of the B. & O., on
a regular run between st. Louis and
Chicago. real test between steam and
Diesel engine pulled trains will result.
The new train, royal blue in color,
consists of eight cars, which weigh
only $50 tons, behind the tender. The
cars are all made of Cor-ten steel,
while the companion train, now being
built, will be constructed Of aluminium.
The train to be shown to Washing
tonians Monday Is pulled by a steam
engine, also painted royal blue.
Numerous innovations feature the
new train. Besides being streamlined
and air-conditioned throughout, 1t af-
fords greater riding comfort, safety
and spaciouSness.
Oficials of the Baltimore & Ohio,
in announcing the new trains, said
that although the Abraham Lincoln"
will be put into service on the Alton,
one of them eventually will be put into
service on the Washington-N New York
route.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
w. A. FENT0N DEAD;
80 YEARS WITH STAR
Veteran Employe Was Foreman
of Pressroom Until Retire
ment in 1880.

William A. Fenton, for IS years
foreman of the pressroom OF The
Evening Star. died yesterday at his
home in Berwyn, Md. He had been
operated on five weeks ago.
Born in Washington March q, 1877,
Mr. Fenton Joined The Star in 1891
as an apprentice. He was made fore
man of the pressroom in 1915, re-
tiring in 1880. He was a member OF
the Pressmen's Union and The Eve
ming Star Club.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Maude s.
Fenton, he is survived by two sons.
Frank T. and william r. Fenton, and
one sister.
Funeral services will be held at the
residence Monday at 10 am. The
place of burial is not yet decided
upon
Evening star., 1935-05-25
ITO POLICE COMPLETE
CRIMINOLOGY COURSE
Certificates Are Presented Upon
Graduation From Two-Year
Columbus u. Study.

Completing two-year course in
criminology, ITO policemen and po-
licewomen last night received their
certificates from Columbus Univer-
sity. The class was known as the
Metropolitan School of Criminology.
The class was addressed by a num-
ber of speakers, including Commits
sioner Melvin c. Hazen, who de-
clared the problems faced here are
not paralleled any other place in
the country. Others included DR.. John
r. Fitzpatrick, dean of the univer-
sity; w. G. Fihelly, vice president of
the university; Inspector Frank S.
w. Burke, chief of detectives; James
G. Yaden, president of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations; John
Saul, president of the Board of Trade,
and James e. Colli1ower, president Of
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association.
The course covered investigating,
ballistics, fingerprinting, presenta-
ton of evidence and other phases Of
public work. They were given with
out charge by the university.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
EXTENSION PLANNED
TO COTTON CONTROL
White House Conference Agrees
Bankhead Bill Should Stay
for One Year.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Extension of the Bankhead COM
pulsory cotton production control bill
for another year was agreed on yester-
day at White House conference.
. Members of the Senate and House
Agricultural Committees, who confer
red with President Roosevelt, reported
a unanimous agreement.
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, Of
Alabama, author Of the legislation,
said ''the administration will give an
other loan of IL cents pound on this
years crop" If the extension bill Is
enacted.
1t was said there was some senti.
ment in the White House for a two
year continuance, but unanimous
agreement finally was reached on the
shorter period.
Under terms Of the legislation the
control is subject to two-thirds vote
of approval by cotton farmers. Last
Fall they voted more than 10 to for
the program.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
c. j. SCHOLARSHIP
WINNERS NAMED
80 Graduate Students to
Continue Studies During
1856.

Thirty-two graduate students at
Catholic University have received
scholarships to continue their studies
through the academic year Of 1885,
it was announced today by Most Rev.
James Hugh Ryan. Bishop Of Modra
and rector of the university.
Included in the group is one Wash
ingtonian, William T. Hannah, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. Hannah, 1901 Sew
enteenth street. He is a graduate OF
st. Johns College. received his A. B.
at Catholic University in 1888 and
will receive LII. B. degree in June.
He received one of rs Knights Of
Columbus fellowships, which were en-
dowed by the order in 1914 and COM
prise the largest block Of graduate
scholarships for men In any Catholic
Institution in the United States.
Awards TO Women.
In addition, three university schol-
arships for women were awarded; two
Winthrop fellowships In biochemistry,
the Anna Hope Hudson scholarship
and the Joseph L. Peabody scholar
ship were granted. The last-named
two were awarded this year for the
first time.
Winners Of the K. of C. scholar
ships which provide tuition, room and
board for lay students only, in addi-
ton to Hannah, are as follows: JOS
eph r. Beiser, John E. Bristol, John
j. Brady, John L. Brown, Julio Car
denal. Nicholas Chiascione. John j.
Conboy, William T. Foley. Wilfred r.
Foster, James w. Garvin, Roman
Haremski, Joseph L. Hunter, Arthur
B. Kemper, William A. .Kozunplik,
John P. Mann, John Leonard, Frank
Liebert, Raymond Mccall, Paul v.
Murray, Marion O'Shaughnessy, jr.:
Demetrius Panopoulos, Patrick D.
Porrone, Wendell Shay and John P.
Toner.
Scholarship Winners.
The winners of the thre scholar
ships for women, all of whom will do
their graduate work at C. U. and the
colleges from which they have gradu-
ated, are Marie Bruins, Rosary College,
River Forrest, ILL.,; Frances Murphy, St.
Mary-of the Woods College, Ind, and
Helen A. Henderson, Mount ST. Vim
cent College, New York, N. Y.
The Winthrop fellowships in bio
chemistry were won by Sr. Crescentia
O'Connor, r. S. NJ, of Fordham and
Columbia Universities and Sr. John
Marie Brozzel, C. S. B., of st. Bene-
diets College, Kansas, and Catholic
University.
Mary M. Morrissey of Mundelein
College, Chicago. won the Anna Hope
Hudson scholarship and the Joseph l..
Peabody scholarship was awarded to
Irida M. Mattioli of st. Joseph Col
lege, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
Tells Utilities Commission
of Concessions Given
Subsidiaries.
PRICE CUTS ARE LINKED
TO RETAIL DECREASES
Public Hearing Will Be Held by
D. C. Body on Future Costs
to D. G. Consumers.

Charges that the Washington and
Georgetown Gas Light Cos have made
illegal reductions in wholesale rates
for their product sold to their sub
sidiaries were filed with the Public
Utilities Commission today by Peoples
Counsel william A. Roberts.
He asked the commission to declare
the reductions illegal and to deter
mine what notifications In the ac-
counts and revenues Of the two local
companies would result from the
wholesale rate reductions.
The peoples counsel makes the i'm
piled charge that the wholesale rates
were cut because of a reduction in
the retail rates to consumers in Ar
lington County recently, this suggest
ing that revenues lost in the county
rate reduction would be passed on
to the parent companies here and
ultimately on to Washington con-
Sumers.
Public Hearing June 3.
The point in this connection is that
there will be on June 3 a public
hearing before the Washington COM
mission on the rates to be charged
in the future to Washington gas con-
sumers. A reduction in revenues as
a result Of the cut in wholesale prices
to the local companies subsidiaries
naturally would reduce revenues of
the Washington and Georgetown COM
panies.
Roberts told the commission he had
found on inquiry at the gas company
that on March l, directors of the
Washington Gas Light Co, approved
the following cuts in their wholesale
rates.
For gas sold by the Washington
company TO the Georgetown company
its subsidiary, for sales within the
District and elsewhere, a wholesale
rate cut from So to AZ cents per 1000
feet; from the Washington company
to the Washington Gas Light Co.. of
Montgomery County, Md, a cut from
so to So cents; from the Georgetown
Co., to the Georgetown Gas Light
Co., of Montgomery County, from so
to So cents, and from the George
town Co. to the Rosslyn Gas Light
Co., from go to So cents.
Follow Retail Cuts.
These reductions in rates are Of
the utmost importance, as they fol-
lowed almost Immediately upon re-
ductions in retail rates in Arlington
County by the compromise agreement
effected by the Virginia authorities. "
Roberts said.
They will unquestionably have the
effect, as predicted by me in my men,
orandum of June, 1884, of reducing
the revenues Of the Washington Gas
Light Co. very substantially and max
ing even more important than before
accurate information as to the sepa-
ration of operating costs and invest
ment in plant used to supply gas to
the companies in other Jurisdictions. "
Evening star., 1935-05-25

southeast. suffered bruises, shock
and possible internal injuries late yes
terday when the ran from behind
parked cars in front of his home and
was struck by an automobile oper-
ated by D. K Faircloth, 46. neigh
Dor. The child was treated at home.
Another Boy Injured.
Much the same type of accident
befell 6-year-old Dean Wiley, 128 c
street northeast, who ran between
parked cars last night and was struck
down by a car driven by John c.
Gartner. 10, of 2O34 North Capitol
street. The boy was treated at Cas-
ualty Hospital for a broken collar
bone and injuries about the head.
Ffve-year- Dorothy May Jones,
colored, was run down and critically
injured last night as she started
across the street in front of her home,
at ass M street. The child was taken
to Casualty Hospital.
Virginia Melton, 26, OF 5141z K
street northeast, suffered broken
left leg and shock when a car in
which she was a passenger crashed
into an upright on the K street viaduct
about midnight. The driver of the
| car, Joseph A Tyson of Cherrydale,
Va, received an injury to his right
wrist. Both were taken to Casualty
Hospital.
Another automobile crash yester-
day resulted in serious injury to
Mrs. Anna B. Waldron, 81, of 2829
Twenty-eighth street. An automobile
in which Mrs. Waldron was pas
senger left Klingle road in the 5000
block and hit a tree. The driver,
Harold N. Lawrie, 81, of 3102 Thirty
third place. suffered an injury to his
nose. At Georgetown Hospital, Mrs.
Waldron was found to have dis
located hip, broken nose and cheek
bone.
Leg Broken.
Peter Won Weymarn, 81, of 2254 Ca
thedral avenue, suffered a broken leg
and brush burns about the body when
knocked down last night in the 5000
block of Mount Pleasant street by an
automobile driven by John R. Rutley,
30, of 4611 Davenport street. The in
jured man was taken to Garfield Hos
| pital
Bess Miller, 48. of 28OO Ontario
road, was run down and severely
shocked and bruised at Connecticut
avenue and Upton street late yester-
day by an automobile operated by
william KenneyS, 46, of Garrett Park,
Md. Kenneys was charged with reck-
less driving by police and released on
$500 bond. The injured woman was
taken to Garfield Hospital.
In the fatal accident in nearby
Maryland, Kirby's car plunged down
an embankment, cutting through four
posts and a telephone pole.
Kirbys wife, Agnes, was treated at
the scene for bruises and sent home.
Vernon L. Jones, 80, of the Rltten-
house street address, and Jerry Kea-
vey. SO, 900 block of Twelfth street
| southeast, were removed to Casualty
Hospital.
Keavey has a possible fracture Of
| the spine and jaw and his condition
is termed serious. Jones was treated
for lacerationS about the face and
hands.
Kirby's body was removed to the
Ritchie Brothers Funeral Home,
Upper Marlboro. County Policeman
G. william Gray and Oscar Beall
who investigated, said no inquest
would be necessary.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
Hobo Bridal Party
Lands in Custody
On Way to Altar
Sisters in Male Attire and
Brother With Groom
tO-Be Are Halted.

The young wedding party which
attempted to hobo to Baltimore yes
terday was to see a Judge instead Of
q preacher today.
Two boys and two girls garbed in
boys clothing were seen in the Eek
ington yards, preparing to grab a
rattler," as the saying goes.
Taken to No. IL precinct station,
they gave their names as Odessa and
Lillian Clark, sisters, of the TOO block
Of Fifth street northeast; william
Clark a brother of the girls, and
Clarence Gaskill of Alexandria, Va.
The four explained that 2O-year -old
Odessa and Gaskill, also 20, were
eloping to Baltimore. Lillian, II, and
her elder brother were going along as
attendants. The girls were sent to
the Woman's Bureau and the boys
locked up at the precinct.
Last night friends furnished $40
collateral each for the bride-and-
groom -to-be, while young Clark and
Lillian Clark were unable to make
bond. All were to have a Police
Court hearing today on charges of
trespassing on railroad property.
The four explained they had only
SO among them, and would have to
defer the ceremony while they plead
their case in court.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
Character Tests Defended
At Meeting of Board
Consultants Faror Program in Elemen.
tary and High Schools-Teachers
Hear Opposition.

With one member OF the Board Of
Education frankly antagonistic, the
two character education consultants
for the public schools presented to the
board yesterday an exhaustive explana-
ton and defense of the employment
of a testing program all the way from
elementary grades through high
school.
Meantime, a Columbia University
professor, addressing District elemen-
tary school teachers at their annual
dinner in the Women's City Club last
night, just as vigorously opposed the
tests, which result in grouping Of ele-
mentary grade children according to
their intelligence, progress and apti-
tude. The speaker was DR.. Ralph NC
Gaughy.
The tests in question are not the
ordinary examinations in ''readin'
'riting and 'rithmetic" of the old-time
school, but yardsticks applied to the
capabilities and development of in
dividual children in order to diagnose
their mental and character needs.
II. O." Test Included.
Among them are the much publi-
cized I. G." test, as well as aptitude
and achievement tests.
Such testing program has been
installed in the 10 schools here, in
which the character education expert
ment is in operation, by local school
people directed and assisted by DR..
w. w. Charters Of Ohio State Uni
versity and DR.. Ben D. Wood of Co.
lumbia University, the special con-
sultants who appeared before the
board yesterday.
Throughout their exposition they
were confronted with the definite op-
position Of Henry Gilligan, board
member.
He contended teachers should be
allowed to devote all their energies
to teaching and not be required to
bear the testing tasks.
Dr. Charters admitted the testing
program placed a heavy burden on
the teachers and said money should
be available to employ additional per-
sonnel for this purpose.
Gilligan said he did not want to
see the teachers burdened and would
like to have the tests discontinued
until we get additional money"
Machines Needed.
DR.. Wood told him more clerks and
computing machines would relieve the
teachers of great part of the bur-
den. But until we get them," he
added, 1--WE will have to do the best
we can. or we will be flying blind"
Wood presented numerous charts
demonstrating the great variation,
both as to colleges and types of in
dividuals, in the response of students
to standard examinations in different
subjects.
This, he said, was evidence of the
wasteage resulting from teachers not
measuring pupils accurately and de-
Evening star., 1935-05-25

terming on the basis Of those meas
urements how much and what they
should study.
There is great danger In subjective
teachers grades unchecked by OBJ
jective methods, he declared.
Students should be encouraged to
study that for which they have an
aptitude, and subjects for which they
have no leaning should not be re-
quired, was the conclusion he reached.
There Is no defense Of mathe-
matics, for instance, as universal
prescription for students in our col
leges and high schools" he observed.
Recent Nationwide studies indi-
cate there is a marked difference be-
tween the aptitudes of men and wom-
en- students in high schools and col
leges, the board was told. DR.. Wood
said women are consistently superior
to men in English, literature, the
humanities, certain aspects Of social
studies and foreign languages, while
men are definitely superior in mathe-
matics and the sciences.
Differences Are Small.
Gilligan asked If this meant men
should study only math and science,
and Wood replied that 1t did not,
since the differences between the sexes
is small and there are many excep-
tions.
Subjects which are not integrated
with future careers, such as French,
algebra and American history, are
quickly forgotten, he said.
If brilliant children are not given
more work to do than dull children.
they tend to lose interest, Miss Jesse
La Sale, director of research in the
public schools, stated. She said 2 per
cent of the pupils entering Mckinley
High School, one of the institutions
where the character education pro-
gram has been installed, show more
intelligence than the average college
sophomore.
Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou
summed up by matter in this wise:
THE crux of the matter is the neces-
sity of recognizing individual differ
ences in children, and one way to
do this Is by tests to determine what
they should be taught. Much remains
to be done in the measures applied,
but whatever the defects, our meas
ures are immeasurably superior to
subject tests by teachers of our boys
and girls"
DR.. McGaughy told the elementary
teacher at the night meeting that
Labelling children as dull or very
bright is a violation of the personality
of child. And it is just as bad for
the brightest group-the smart little
aristocracy-as for the dull
Passing to the tests, he said: "In-
telligence tests as a means of recog-
nizing the individual differences in
children are not a test of intelligence,
as they measure only a tiny area of
the total intelligence of child"
Evening star., 1935-05-25

wife and two 9TH
ers injured early
this m orni j n g
when Kirby's au-
tomobile failed to
negotiate a sharp
curve on the
Southern Mary
land pike, about
a mile from the
District line, near
Silver Hill, Md.
Three-year-old
Richard Roberts,
son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George D.
Roberts. 2102
Sixteenth street
Evening star., 1935-05-25
"The Woman Pays.

PHILADELPHIA.-Neither his first
wife nor his second wanted to see
Harry Sollenberger, 43, go to Jail.
But the first, Ella, wanted payment
on $2,100 in arrearages on support
order for her two children. And
Sollenberger couldn't pay it because
he doesn't have a job.
So the second wife, laboratory
technician, pledged her salary toward
the arrearages and produced $50 In
evidence of good faith. Sollenberger
was freed.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
BOY FEARED POISONED
Two-Year-Old Taken to Hospital
When Tablets Disappear.

Believed to have swallowed several
poison tablets while playing in the
bed room Of his home at 305 Tenth
street southwest, 2-year-old Paul
Gavin was given first aid at Emer-
gency Hospital last night and de-
tained for observation.
The child was taken to the hospital
after his parents discovered some Of
the tablets were missing and assumed
he had taken them. Physicians said
the child aid not seem to be seriously
Affected.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
ONE DEAD, SIX HURT
BADLY BY AUTOS
Driver Killed Near Silver
HiII-Three Children
Are Run Down.

A wave OF traffic accidents last
night and early today. within IL
hours, left one death and at least six
serious injuries in its wake. OF three
young children run down by automo-
biles, two were critically hurt.
Earl Kirby, %, a laborer, of 4
Rittenhouse street, was killed and his
Evening star., 1935-05-25
HEAT BILL OFFERED

A bill to fix penalties on landlords
who fail to furnish heat in apartment
houses was reintroduced in the Senate
yesterday by Senator Capper, Repub-
Iican, of Kansas, ranking minority
member of the District Committee.
Senator Capper advocated similar
legislation in the last Congress. It
would designate the Health Depart
ment as the enforcement agency.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
PASSERS-BY SAVE LIFE
OF MAN CUT IN FIGHT
Pedestrians Apply Tournique to
Worker Hurt in Downtown
Street Row.

Passers-by on crowded, downtown E
street at the noon hour probably saved
the life of a colored man whose wrist
artery had been laid open In a fight
with another colored man.
Men passing on the sidewalk applied
tourniquets with their pocket hand
kerchiefs to the slashed wrist. An
other pedestrian, A. H. Kitchner OF
1902 Allison street northeast, put the
wounded man in a taxicab and took
him to Emergency Hospital.
There the man said he was Robert
Pitts, 30. Of 619 P street. He and an
other colored man were washing cars
parked on E street between Thirteenth
end the Avenue in hope of obtaining
fps. The pair quarreled and the sec-'
ond man fed after the cutting.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
MAN HURT IN GARAGE

Pinned beneath an auto on which
he was working when it slipped from
a Jack, Walter Cole, A, Of 22l5 Doug
las street northeast, received severe
injuries to his chest and possible in
ternal injuries yesterday.
The accident occurred in a garage
in the 900 block of Pennsylvania
avenue southeast. Cole was taken to
Casualty Hospital, where his condi-
ton was reported to be undetermined.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
MAY QUEEN CROWNED
Very Rev. F. E. Hyland Delivers
Sermon at st. Roses School.

Very Rev. Francis E. Hyland, Sec
retary to the apostolic delegate and
chaplain Of the school, last night de-
livered the sermon at the st. Roses
Technical School, following the May
procession and the crowning of the
statue of Our Lady by Miss Rita
Collins, May queen, at the school.
The procession marched down
Phelps place and California street and
circled the school grounds before ad-
vancing to the shrine, where the act
of conservation was read by Miss
Helen Newman. Attendants to the
queen were Miss Newman and Miss
Dollie Guedri.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
BURNS ARE FATAL

Trapped by flames, Arnie Pink,
26, colored, was found dead from
burns and suffocation when firemen
entered q burning house at 604 Divi-
sion avenue northeast early today.
Pink, a roomer, was discovered at
the head of the second floor stairway.
Francis M. Brown and his wife,
who live at the Division avenue house,
escaped unhurt.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
Pumping Station Job Open.

A pumping station operator is
sought for the United States Engi-
neering Department and applications
will be received until May 81, the
Civil Service Commission announced
today. The salary is from 1880 to
$2,100.
The applications may be made at
Room l706, NavyA Department, or
civil service heada aearters' Seventh
and r streets.
Evening star., 1935-05-25
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow; slightly warmer to-
night, lowest temperature tonight
about 50 degrees; gentle northwest
winds, becoming light variable.
Maryland, Virginia and West Vir-
ginia-Fair tonight and tomorrow;
slightly warmer tonight.
Report for Last "a Hours.
Evening star., 1935-05-25

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 81, at noon today. Year
ago, So.
Lowest. 81, at am. today. Year
ago, 50.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, SO, on April q.
Lowest, ., on January 20.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 79 per cent, at am. today.
Lowest, "a per cent, at noon today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey.)