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Evening star., 1936-12-17
Dance Tomorrow.

The students Of the Sidwell Friends
School will hold their annual Christ
mas dance tomorrow night. The
dance Is. sponsored by the Student
Council. In the receiving line will be
Headmaster and Mrs. Albert E. Rogers,
Miss T. OSullivan, Miss Helen zart-
man, Mr.. William B. Alexander, 5th.
president of the Student Council, and
Miss Roberta King.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

Hall, Charleston, S. c. Mr.. Patterson
was graduated in 1888 from Princeton,
where he was member OF the Colonial
Club. His other clubs include the
Tuxedo, Metropolitan, Union League
and Princeton.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Suburban News.

Mr.. and Mrs. Elton Fay have moved
from 8l8 Sligo avenue, Silver Spring,
into their new house at 80l Noyes
drive, Woodside Park, Md.
The Rev. Clyde williams returned
today to his home In Baltimore, Md,
after passing several days with his
mother. Mrs. Clyde williams Of Wood
side, Md.
DR.. Howard D. Dozier returned yes
terday to his home in North Wood
side. Nd. from Chicago, Ill, where
he spent three weeks.
Miss Elizabeth Imirie of Kensington,
Nd, Is spending the Winter in st.
Petersburg, Fla.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Arts Club Dinner.

Miss Bertha Noyes and Miss Mary
@. Riley will be hostesses at the din
ner this evening at the Arts Club
before q talk on modern art by Mrs
Katherine. Munroe.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

Mrs. ]. w. Thomas has gone to New
Evening star., 1936-04-18
MENINGITIS VICTIM
REMAINS CRITICAL
Physician Reports Only Slight
Improvement in Condition
of Student,

Miss Margaret Graham, 17-year-old
high school student from Wexford.
r. l., remained in a serious condition
today in Garfield Hospital, where she
has been in semi-conscious condition
from meningitis since Tuesday night.
Very slight improvement was reported
by her physician.
Miss Graham was a member of a
party of 80 students of the Rhode
Island school who came to Washington
for an Easter tour. She became ii
Tuesday and her mother was sum-
moned here from Wexford the next
day, when specialists handling the case
feared an operation might be necessary.
Thursday. after it was decided the
illness is of communicable type, ar
rangements were made to send all other
members of the party back home at
once. They left in a special car on
an afternoon train from Washington
to Boston and were to be placed under
quarantine on arrival at their homes
last night.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
PAR[EY HELD HERE
ONNECROHOUS
Mrs. Roosevelt to Be Main
Speaker at Conference
T0niqht.

The need for better housing among
Negroes and how to supply it were
to be discussed today at a one-day
educational conference at Miner
Teachers College. Georgia avenue
and Euclid street.
Mrs. Roosevelt will deliver the prin-
cipal address tonight. Other speak
ers are DR.. George C. Rutland, Dis
trict health officer; Canon Anson
Phelps Stokes, member of the Wash
ington Committee on Housing, which
is sponsoring the conference in CO.
operation with COlored organizations;
DR.. Roscoe C. Brown, United States
Public Health Service, and DR.. Robert
c. Weaver, adviser on Negro affairs,
Interior Department.
The conference opens with lunch
con meeting at which Clarence Phelps
Dodge, chairman of the Washington
Committee on Housing, is to preside,
and Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen
is to welcome delegates. DR.. Weaver
speaks on "The Significance of
Housing"
1ne tneme OF the nrSC afternoon
session is Minimum Standards of
Housing" Hilyard r Robinson, chair
man of the committee of architects
supervising the Langston low-rental
housing project for Negroes, was to
speak, as well as Drs. Rutland and
Brown.
John Ihlder, executive officer of the
District Alley Dwelling Authority, and
Mrs. Clara Burrill Bruce, assistant
resident manager Dunbar Apartments,
New York City, are the speakers on
the program for the second afternoon
session.
The Women's Glee Club of Howard
University will sing at the concluding
session tonight, at which Mrs. RooSe-
velt is to speak.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
PEACE SEEN NEAR
IN DOCK DISPUTE
Union Suggests Meeting
With Employers in Effort
to Settle Differences.
BY the Associated Press.

BY inc Associated freSS.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.-Peace
negotiations were under way today in
the ominous San Franciso waterfront
dispute, responsible for a virtual cessa~
ton of activities at the port.
Representatives of the International
Longshoremen's Association and the
Waterfront Employers Association
were to meet in an effort to settle diff
ferences, which started with refusal
of longshoremen to work the Liner
Santa Rosa and the shippers sus-
pension of relations with the dock
workers union.
The move toward peace was made
yesterday when district officials of the
I. L. A. suggested the meeting in the
belief the conferees should be able to
arrive at basis Of settlement"
Bridges Accuses COnciliators
Earlier in the day growing tension
was climaxed by Harry Bridges, head
of the local union, who charged Fed
eral labor conciliators had issued "prej-
judicial statements" The conciliators,
E. P. Marsh and E. H. Fitzgerald, de-
clared his charge too ridiculous to
answer.
Marsh yesterday sent telegram to
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins say
ing the situation looks bad"
Bridges told Miss Perkins labor con-
ciliators had said a union violation OF
the 1884 arbitration award was the
primary cause of the present contro-
versy. He denied the union would de-
mand shorter hours, better wages and
better working conditions and said
statements to that effect attributed to
him were unfounded rumor.
Want Self-Rule.
"The sole thing we are asking now"
he said, lis that the employers adhere
to the terms of the 1884 award and
the right to choose our own officials"
In a statement to all coast I. L. A.
locals. Bridges said the lockout" was
a move toward giving Joseph P.
Ryan, president Of the Longshore-
mems International Union, control of
the West Coast units.
Only seven ships were worked yes
terday. Operators Of at least 80 ships
had set their courses for other ports
as a result of the situation.
Trouble Started Tuesday.
Waterfront activities began decreas-
ing last Tuesday when the Santa Rosa
arrived. Longshoremen refused to go
through picket lines established at the
Santa Rosa's dock by the Maritime
Federation of the Pacific. The fed
Grafton had termed the Santa Rosa
unfair" because a Great Lakes crew
had replaced sailors who left the vessel
in the East in support Of demands for
the higher West Coast scale
The employers then suspended rela-
tionS with the union, saying the move
was directed against what they termed
radical, subversive and comunistic"
leadership of the local I. L. A.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

denberg in his attack on the canal
produced evidence that even the nine
originally slightly interested ship
owners had all retreated; that repu-
table geologists had predicted that the
canal would damage the underground
waters, perhaps cause an inflltration
Of salt water into the fresh water
supply and possibly ruin the citrus
fruit industry-with law suits against
the Government as consequence.
What the Board Of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors thought about 1t
did not come out, because that board,
which exists for the purpose of making
such investigations, had not been con-
suited.
Other Pretenti0us Projects.
Nobody seems to know how many
other such pretentiouS projects have
been begun by the administration
without regular appropriations and
against the advice Of experts in the
hope that Congress might be per-
suaded later to carry them further, by
authorized funds. Senator Vanden-
berg states that he has himself dealt
specifically with 10 such. Five of them
were reclamation projects. Conchas
Dam, New Mexico; the Sardis River
Reservoir, In Mississippi, and Blue
stone Reservoir, in West Virginia, were
so initiated. only eventually to be
abandoned.
A deserted village, an Abandoned
water way, finished dams will dot
the country to testify to its people
Of the incompetence of Government, to
disillusion people with the belief that
they can solve their problems through
government. There will be hundreds
of unhappy and discontented workers
who will have to be shifted onto work
relief rolls. For thousands of others
another bubble will have burst. We
will have had another bit Of public
diSilluSionment at cost of millions.
Vast accretionS of wealth in this
country are derived from the waste of
our national resources in the interests
Of certain groups Of individuals. Now
we have reached another stage. We
are wasting the money derived from
waste. The tradition persists.
Copyright, 1896, New York Tribune, Incl
Evening star., 1936-04-18
D. c. MOTOR CLUB HITS
PARKING METERS USE

Strong opposition to proposed legis-
lation permitting installation of park
ing meters here was announced yes
terday by the advisory board of the
District OF Columbia Motor Club of the
American Automobile Association.
In voting opposition to the plan, the
board asserted that cost to motorists
OF the city would be nearly $500,000
annually.
Motor vehicle owners in Washing
ton are already overburdened with
taxes and the District of Columbia
Motor Club is unalterably opposed to
any attempt toward placing a further
load Of taxation on the shoulders of
car owners" it was declared in a
statement issued by the advisory
board.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
PRES|DEN! ASKS
PRESS INVENTORY
Greetings to Publishers
Urge Review of State
of the Nation.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 18.-An inven.
tory into the state Of the Nation as
revealed by the public press" vas
urged yesterday by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt In a special message to
American publishers.
Through Editor and Publisher,
weekly trade journal, President Roose-
welt asked the newspaper publishers
and executives gathering here for the
annual meetings of the Associated
Press and American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association next week to re-
view events since the meetings last
year.
Renewed Fluctuations.
1T gives me great pleasure through
the medium Of Editor and Publisher
again to send hearty fluctuations TO
the members Of the press associations,
the publishers, editors and advertisers
in connection with their annual meet
ings in New York" he wrote.
This yearly gathering of the vari-
GUS instrumentalities which a great
statesman of an earlier day SO aptly
called the fourth estate invites an
inventory into our standing as a Ma
ton as revealed in the public press
since the meeting a year ago. And
surely the business and financial
pages Of all of our newspapers have
given cheerful chronicle of improve
ment in business throughout the Ma
ton.
Wishes for Success.
"In the hope that the record of i'm
provement so uniformly reflected by
the press during the year which has
passed since last addressed you may
be maintained and strengthened in
the year to follow, I wish for the va
riouS bodies which will gather in New
York successful solution of all the
problems which will come before them
for consideration.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
Evening star., 1936-04-18
DISTRICT STUDENT
WINS SCHOLARSHIP
A. R. Bird, Jr., Among Four
Given High Presbyterian
Award at Richmond.
Ely the Associated Press.

bS thC ASoOCldLcu rIeSS-
RICHMOND, April l8.-The faculty
Of Union Theological Seminary today
announced that the trustees Of the
Southern Presbyterian General As
sembly have confirmed the recent
nomination of four seminary students
as Latta scholars.
The awards, the highest undergrad
uate honor at the seminary, we're
made to Andrew Reid Bird, Jr, Wash
lngton, D. c.: Donald R. Brandon,
Kannapolis, N. c.; Robert H. Bull
lock, Sherman, Tex, and Robert H.
Smith. Jr., Mobile, Ala.
Awarded annually to the three or
four most outstanding new students,
the scholarships amount to about $500
a year and provide for the students
seminary expenses.
Davidson Graduate.
Andrew Bird, graduating at David
son College in 1881, edited the COL
lege annual, was major of the Cadet
Military Battalion. varsity debater,
Literary Society president, president
OF the Publications Board, assistant to
the professor in philosophy and Bible,
member of Omicron Delta Kappa
Leadership Fraternity, Phi Gamma
Delta Social Fraternity and various
honorary societies.
He comes to Union Seminary with
four additional years of experience
with the Wachovia Bank g. Trust Co.
of Winston-Salem, N. c., and as a
deacon in the First Presbyterian
Church there. At the seminary he was
president of his class this year and
is the newly elected secretary of the
student body.
Also College Editor.
Robert H. Smith, fraternity brother
Of Bird, was also editor of the David
son College annual in 1885 and was
awarded Omicron Delta Kappa in
recognition of his campus leadership.
Donald Brandon, another David
son man, did extensive Y. M. C. A.
work while there and was co-pastor
of the Unity Church of that city while
a student.
Robert Bullock graduated last year
at Austin College, Texas.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
wendell AIDS HUNT
FOR MYSTERY PAIR
Joins Officers in Search for
House Where He Made
"ConfeSSion."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, April 18.-Paul
H. Wendell, free of New Jersey charge
he murdered the Lindbergh baby,
Joined Kings County officers today in
a search for the Brooklyn house where
he said he was tortured into con
fession."
With Wendell, a diSbarred Trenton,
N. j., lawyer, to aid them, the author
ities hoped for a swift showdown in
the mysterious case and arrest Of the
men who, he said, kidnapped him Feb
ruary IA.
Wants Justice Done"
II am here to do all In my power
to see that justice is done" Wendell
said upon arrival last night.
81 promise you justice will be done"
replied District Attorney w. F. x.
Geoghan.
Geoghan and his men were seeking
specifically two men Wendell has
named as his aSSailantS.
Thomas w. Trenchard. New Jersey
Supreme Court justice who sentenced
Bruno Richard Hauptmann to death
as the kidnap-Slayer of the Lindbergh
child, dismissed the murder charge
against Wendell late yesterday.
Bail Fixed at $1,000.
In Mercer County, N. j., Judge
James S. Turp then fixed bail of
$4,000 for Wendel's release on group
Of old embezzlement charges, and he
was brought to Brooklyn last night.
A charge of kidnapping the Lind
bergh baby, filed in Pennington, N. j.,
by Mrs. Anna Hauptmann in futile
effort to save her husband from elec-
trocution, remained on the books
against Wendell.
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck said
at Flemington he would defer placing
the kidnap charge before the Hunter
don County grand jury pending a
thorough investigation of 'Wendels
own story in Brooklyn.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Barker BOn,barded
By 'EP MOtOrnla1lS S
Showers of Fruit
Driuer Breaks MOnOtOny
by Hitting Sleek "PuH
in" Man Daily.
sy the Associated Press.

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NEW YORK, April 18-David
F'einman, ''puller-in" for Brooklyn
clothing store, has just found out who
threw the apple cores. banana peels,
grapes and other fruit which have
been hitting him with surprising ac-
curacy almost every night for the last
seven weeks.
Glib of tongue and confident of mien,
as he has to be for this type of side
walk salesmanship," Feinman said he
nearly lost his aplomb as well as his
peace Of mind.
Things had reached the state where
Morris Klar, Feinmans employer, was
asking regularly:
We'll, Dave, did the apple come
yet?"
Night after night, at precisely $50,
things would begin coming Feinman's
way. Never did he have a chance to
dodge.
Should Feinman dash into the
street, his tormentor would vanish
like phantom, unseen into the night.
Frankly. it got on Feinman's nerve.
Monday night Feinman kept watch
and, although Smacked once again.
saw the core thrown by a motorman
from an elevated street car.
The next night an inspector for the
car company was on the job. He.
too, saw the motorman throw first a
core and then a banana peel.
At the next station, the motorman
was relieved of duty. He was James
Cooley, who had worked on the eel
for IA years-l4 years of monctony
except for the last seven weeks.
Officials of the line, undecided about
his case. indicated they intended to
be "merciful."
Evening star., 1936-04-18
MRS. GRACE HAMILTON
DIES IN DRUMM0ND
Maryland Woman Is Survived by
Husband and Three
Children

Mrs. Grace Gardiner Hamilton, 48.
wife of r. E Hamilton, died unex-
pectedly this morning at her home
in Drummond, Md.
She was the daughter Of Mrs.
Ignatius Quinn Gardiner of st. Paul,
Mimi, and the late Mr.. Gardiner,
and had been a resident Of Drum
mond for about IL years.
In addition to her mother and her
husband, she is survived by one daugh-
ter, Miss Dorothy Ann Hamilton:
two sons, Richard and Donald, and
four brothers, Donald I. Gardiner,
Francis G. Gardiner and Rev. Harold
C. Gardiner, all of Washington, and
DR.. Greth G. Gardiner of st. Paul.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not been completed.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
JULIA FAYE, SCREEN
ACTRESS, GETS DIVORCE
Parted From Author and Scenar-
ist She Married Six
Months Ago.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, April lS.-Julia
Faye, leading woman of the silent
screen, disclosed today she had OBJ
tanned Nevada divorce from Anthony
Merrill, author and scenarist, whom
she married six months ago.
Miss Faye said she cited incompati-
bility when she obtained the decree
at Reno April g. Merrill did not con-
test the divorce.
The couple admitted they separated
about 10 days after their wedding at
Pasadena last October "a, when C. B.
De Mile, her "discoverer" and direc-
tor, gave the bride away.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
D. c. WRESTLING BILL

A bill to authorize professional
wrestling in the District was intro
duced late yesterday by Representative
Schultz, Democrat of Indiana.
The measure would amend the pres
ent law legalizing boxing. Schultz is
a member of the House District Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

a short but eX-
pensive child
hood.
Passamaquoddy
was the dream of
one man, Mr..
Dexter P. Cooper,
brother Of Hugh
Cooper Of the
Russian Dnieper-
stroy. Mr.. Cooper
dreamed of har-
Messing the moon,
that is to say the
ocean tides which
it controls, and
building in Maine
Evening star., 1936-04-18

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dissatisfaction with the situation is
responsible for the story leaking out.
Just why the detectives were directed
to report to the brain trust, or re-
search department of the Republican
National Committee, is open to all
sorts of conjecture. A friendly version
is that the detectives are, after all, no
more than researchers themselves. The
explanation along this line is that it
was realized there was some phase Of
researching which the recently ac-
quired professors could not accomplish.
This is to say, they were not tempera-
mentally fitted for 1t. The professors.
it was pointed out, could take reports
and other propaganda disseminated by
the New Deal and diSsect it, but when
it came to getting out like newspaper
reporter and getting the real lowdown,
they couldn't do it.
The committee is understood first
TO have employed several reporters on
the side-that is, to have paid them
$50 or SO a week to report to it, while
continuing to work for their news
papers.
Under the rules of the House and
Senate press galleries, newspaper
man can accept such employment as
this If he lists The extra employment
with the committee.
Committee Faces Problem.
The Republican Committee, on the
other hand, is confronted with the
problem of getting such information
from the various New Deal agencies as
it has not had to obtain in recent
years. 1t is difficult enough for
trained reporter to get such informa-
tion, much less persons who are an
nounced as being from the committee.
Several days ago the press agent of
Prof. Tugwell's Resettlement Admins
tration complained that a man from
the Republican Committee, posing as
a newspaper man, had obtained in
formation from his unit. This pub
licity agent said it was noe that he
objected to who was asking for the
information, but he did object to the
duplicity. The Republican Commit
tee discharged the man who misrep-
resented himself.
1t is doubtful that Republican Chair
man Fletcher approved of the employ
ment of the detectives. The chairman
got a bad reaction from the employ
ment of the professors, for one thing.
But New York influences, which have
a lot to do with the committees
finances, are impatient to do some
thing" In so far as this reporter can
learn, this is responsible for the en-
ployment of the detectives.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

ganization has opposed social Sc
curity legislation, child labor legis-
lation in the States, 8 national depart
ment of education. the Guffey coal
bill, the holding company bill and
other measures. Members were asked
to send kilograms asking repeal of
the pink slip" provision of the in
come tax laws.
The committee is in recess until
next week,
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Waste Long
Tradition
of u: S.
'Quoddy and Ship Ca
nal in Florida Cited
as Examples.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON,

YHEN the Union Pacific Rail-
M road first crossed the Amer
" " ican plains passengers
amused themselves by
shooting buffaloes from the trains,
leaving the beasts to rot on the fields,
flesh and hides alike Even so years
ago wild pigeons blackened the Amer
ican skies with their numbers. Today
not one is alive. There Is one con-
sistent American tradition. 1t is the
tradition of waste.
Consider Passamaquoddy and the
Florida ship canal, two projects cut
of in Washington on Wednesday after
Evening star., 1936-04-18
WIFE STILL DOUBTS HIM
Cites Incident of 20 Years Ago
at Alimony Hearing.

CHICAGO, April 1S P).-"I've
always been a good provider, judge,
and faithful husband and" Gus
taVe Schulz started to explain at a
hearing of his wife's petition for all
mony.
Faithful, my eyel" interrupted Mrs.
Schuhl. Twenty years ago you came
home at o'clock in the morning with
q pair of lady's slippers in your
pocket-and you never have explained,
not to this very day."
Evening star., 1936-04-18
RUSH PLANS FOR TRIAL
Texas Woman Charged With Slay.
ing of Young Musician.

CORSICANA, Tex, April 18 LP).-
A speedy trial was in prospect today
for Mrs. ALA Mae Kent, charged with
the Staying of Noble (Curley) Hathaway,
young musician. The 29-year old wife
of an oil operator was at liberty under
$500 bond.
Witnesses said Hataway and Mrs.
Kent quarreled at a night club party
and that he was fatally shot in his
apartment few hours later.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Radford House Razed.

Radford House, near Plymouth.
England, where Sir Walter Raleigh Ia
supposed to have ridden when fleeing
for his life, is being torn down.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
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