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Evening star., 1936-10-15
DR.. LEWIS Is GIVEN
COLUMBIA U. POST
Psychiatrist Appointed Executive
Officer of Department
at University.

DR.. Nolan D. C. Lewis, Washington
psychiatrist, has been appointed ex-
ecutive officer o. the department of
psychiatry in the Columbia Uni
versitv School of Medicine, President
Nicholas Murray Butler announced
yesterday in New York.
From January until September Of
this year DR.. Lewis was associate
director Of the Neurological Institute.
He was appointed to the Columbia
faculty in July as professor Of neu-
rology, a post from which he resigned
September /. In his new position he
also will be director of the New York
State Psychiatric Institute. He sue
ceeds DR.. Clarence o. Cheney, re-
signed.
DR.. Lewis, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Maryland, was professor
of experimental pathology at George
Washington University from 1920 to
1924 and professor Of clinical psychia-
try until 1885. He lectured on psychi.
airy in the Naval Medical School from
1919 to 1885. For 10 years, until 1898,
he was also director Of clinical
psychiatry at st. Elizabeth's Hospital
and from 1888 until 1885 director Of
the hospitals laboratories.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

Kifer and w. c. Mitchell, representing
the company.
C. s. Stout. division freight agent,
and M. B. Jones, assistant division
engineer Of the B. & o. Railroad,
attended the meeting but declared
they could give no definite figures
regarding losses sustained in the
destruction oe tracks and roadway
during its course from Cumberland to
Harpers Ferry. They will complete
a survey and submit it later, they
said.
Mrs. Christine Bergen, Martinsburg
Red Cross worker who had charge Of
relief in the Green Spring area
during and after the food, said that
of the rs homes there were rs under
water to the second floor. The Red
Cross, she said, purchased four of the
homes outright and repaired and
refurnished so more. Approximately
$4,000 was spent in this work.
All-Time Record.
All agreed that the food was an
all-time record. Mrs. Hannah Law
less, 64-year-old resident Of South
Branch, said water ran to q 12-foot
depth in her home, which is more
than 100 years old and had never
before been touched.
Many said the water ran 8 or more
teet above previous levels.
A. H. Horton of the United States
Geological Survey. who has charge OF
the 80 gauging stations in the Poto-
mac River area, said many OF the
houses in which gauges are located
were under water for the first time.
Representative Randolph suggested
the use Of dams at the headwaters
of streams and pointed out he was
the patron of three acts passed at the
last session Of Congress for food con-
troll surveys.
Dozens Of others were heard on the
subject Of their losses and the posi-
bility Of some remedy by the Federal
Government.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
ATHLETIC COUNCIL
/ PERSONNEL CHOSEN
Supervisor Bayh Announces Those
i Who Will Handle High
Schools Schedule.

Birch E. Bayh, supervisor of health
and physical education in the high
schools, today announced the per-
sonnel of the new athletic council
which will handle administrative de-
tails of all high school athletics. The
council replaces the old Inter-high
Athletic Association and includes two
members from each schol, selected by
their principals.
They are: Central, Hardy Pearce
and Harold Crankshaw; Mckinley, N.
Leonard Brown and Elmer P. Hardell;
Eastern, E. j. Holmes and j. w.
Euber; Western, Robert o. Anderson
and Clifton Moore; Roosevelt, Lynn
Woodwork and r. o. Sharitz; Wood
row Wilson, Carl Heintell and H. K.
Easley.
Under the organizations bylaws,
Bayh automatically is chairman of
the group. Sharitz was elected Sec
Setary and Anderson treasurer.
The council also announced its
chairmen of the four major sports as
follows: Foot ball, Brown; basket
ball, Suber; base ball, Bosley, and
track, Crankshaw.
AL inter-high games to be played
in October will start at $3.50 o'clock.
In November the starting time will
be 3:15 o'clock. A general admission
price of so cents has been established,
with members of high school athletic
associations being admitted for is
cents on presentation Of their athletic
ticket.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
By the Associated Press.

Fading records Of a gargantuan
rumfest that occurred back in the
days when George Washington was
President led officials to decide that
today was as good a date as any
to celebrate the 144th birthday Of
American coinage.
BY the aid of some neat deductive
logic and a Whit of strong drink
coming to them from the 18th cen
tury, researchers have decided that
the first coins, 8 batch Of half dimes,
probably were minted October Is,
1892.
For a long time the exact date was
q mystery. ALI the historians had to
go on was George Washington's no.
tation that the event occurred some
time in October, 1892, In Philadelphia.
"There has been q small beginning
in the coinage of half dismes (old
word for dimes)," he reported to
Congress.
But when research turned up three
terse notations in the crumbling
ledgers of Henry Voigt, first chief
coiner:
September II, 1792-First pur-
chase of coinage metal.
October 6. 1792-Purchased IS
gallons of rum.
October II, 1792-Purchased 151h
gallons of rum"
Now historians knew that the mint
had only q small force Of employees
in those days. They figured that,
while some of the men may have
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Messengers Ro,O
WhhDog Catcher
Nets Sporty Home

While a 17-year-old messenger
nurses a black eye and a dog catcher
awaits an assault trial, Sporty, tho
crippled police pup responsible for
their trouble, appears to have profted.
He comes out of the squabble with
q new home and a collar and tag.
Mrs. Elizabeth williams, 2117 Leroy
place, director Of the Yard School Of
Fine Arts, has claimed him.
She had frequently seen Sporty be.
fore the dog catchers saw him at Con.
necticut avenue and S street Tuesday
and Pound Attendant Clyde Under.
wood became embroiled In an argu.
ment with Clifton Plummer, the mess
senger.
Frank Marks, District pound mas
ter, is glad the dog is getting home,
but he is sorry Sporty was the cause
of so much strife.
why" Marks said today, Couldn't
somebody have bought q tag for the
dog before this?"
Evening star., 1936-10-15
AbATTO|R PLANS
CLOSELY STUDIED
AFTER PROTESTS
District and Federal Agen.
cies Consider Application
for New Plant.
NUISANCE" is FACTOR
CONTROLLING DECISION
Possibility of Conflict Over Ben.
ming Road Construction Since
Permit Was Issued.

Plans for construction Of an en-
larged abattoir near Benning road and
Kenilworth avenue northeast by the
Adolf Goebel Co. are being scrutinized
by six District and at least two Fed
eral agencies, it was learned today.
The new plant would replace one
which has been in operation for about
20 years,
Interior Secretary Ickes was said to
have called attention of District Of
f1cials to the fact that a low-cost
housing development along Ridge
road, about a half mile from the lo-
cation of the proposed new Goebel
plant, is being considered.
Protest against the abattoir has
been registered with District officials
by the American Civic Association,
which Is headed by Frederic A. Delano.
chairman Of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
Many Angles Considered.
Many angles Of the case are being
considered, not only by the Commis-
sioners, but also by the District Zon-
ing Commission; by Maj. J. B. Cor
don, director of sanitary engineering;
Capt Hugh P. Dram. director of in
spection; Health Officer George c.
Rutland, and Vernon E. West, prin-
cipal assistant corporation counsel
Also concerned are agents of Secre-
tary Ickes and officials of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, Department Of
Agriculture.
According to Engineer Commissioner
Dan I. Sultan and DR.. Rutland, the
action Of District officials will turn
primarily on the question of what con-
stitutes a nuisance" under the mean
| ing of District laws and regulations.
This point also was being studied by
the health officer and the corporation
counsels Office:
DR.. Ruhland indicated he would be
guided to considerable degree by Of
ficials Of the Bureau of Animal Indus
| try. He was informed by Dr. Reid r.
| Ashworth, his chief sanitary inspector.
that If the plant is to have its products
pass Federal inspection, very rigid re-
quirements" Of the Federal bureau
must be met in the plants operation.
| Conflict Possible.
There are possibilities of conflict
over the case, however, since the Dis.
trict, government already has issued q
permit to the company for the build
ing of foundations for the enlarged
plant.
On the other hand, the plant must
have a District license from the
Health Department before it can op.
crate.
DR.. Rutland indicated he is con-
cerned over whether the enlarged plant
will engage in rendering grease and
fats as by-products of the plant, and
whether a public nuisance might be
created by the operation of stock yards.
! He said he did not yet know if the
plans contemplated rendering opera
tions.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

TINE newest styles In beauty and
dress, many of them with an
old-fashioned touch, have
= found their way to the altar in
models introduced to Washington's
fourth annual beauty and style show.
Long, flowing gowns of white velvet
for the bride, and wine-colored velvet
for her maids of honor will be seen
in the weddings this Fall and Winter,
along with the pompadour coiffure,
the beauty spot, puffed sleeves and
for the bridesmaids, a white chrysan-
themum centered over the forehead.
Norma Shearer promoted the latest
bridal coStmue in recent movie
success. Over her pompadour coiffure
was q Juliet pearl-studded cap. The
pompadour was set for the model
on the closing day of the show at
the Hotel Raleigh yesterday by
Laurent Of New York.
Bouquets of large white chrysan-
themums are the vogue for the bride
and her maids The bride carries
q long, flowing train.
Pointing to the brides carriage,
Laurent said she refuted the British
statement made this week that Ameri-
can women lack sufficient poise to
carry their trains without awkward
ness.
The latest in bridal negligee also
was introduced. the outfit including
white satin pajamas with black lace
gown.
The contrast between modern and
Oriental eyebrows was shown by Miss
Shirley Schwartz, the Miss Wash
ington" of this year, with Aurelea and
Helen Gray Of New York as makeup
experts.
The beauty and style show, at
tended by almost 5000 yesterday,
closed last night with the annual
grand ball.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
DURAND HEARING
BRINGS CHARGES
Counsel for Dismissed En-
pIoye Charges Union Lit
erature Was Banned.

John H. Finerty, counsel for Robert
Y. Durand, dismissed employe of the
Federal Power Commission, charged
yesterday that the Commission pro-
hibited the distribution of union liter
ature among its employees and at the
same time failed to enforce a similar
prohibition against other forms OF
literature.
The charge was made during the
testimony of Basil Manly, vice chair
man of the Commission, before a
special committee of Labor experts
hearing Durand's charge that he was
dismissed for union activity.
The Commission declared he was
not dismissed at all, but that as an
emergency employe he was let out
when the work for which he was en-
ployed was completed.
Chairman to Testify.
Today, Chairman Frank r. Nc
Ninch and Commissioner Herbert j.
Drane were expected to testify. Drane
made the original investigation Of
Durand's charge that he was dismissed
for union activity and reported that
no discrimination was shown. Du-
rand is corresponding secretary Of the
Federation of Architects, Engineers,
Chemists and Technicians and was
employed on the electric rate survey
made under the direction of Manly.
Most of the first day of the hearing
was devoted to the presentation of
correspondence regarding the Durand
case between the Commission and the
federation. Manly was the first wit
ness.
II favor letting United States en-
ployes organize in any way they
want" Manly said.
II don't believe they have the right
to engage in union activity on Gov
ernment time. Statutes fix the hours
for employees official duties"
Two Forced to Leave.
Finerty brought out that on one
lect union literature distributed in
Power Commission Offices and then
leave. Manly countered with the
statement that similar activity on
the part of the organization Of q
group disqualification plan also was
prohibited by the Commission.
I'VE felt" he said, that to sane
ton such activity might carry with it
some decree Of coercion, and we did
not inted to co-erce our employees"
Finerty then charged that Govern
ment time and materials are used by
Power Commission employees to tabu-
late, print and distribute base ball,
bowling and tennis scores. Manly
said he knew nothing about such ac-
tivities.
There were numerous objections to
Finerty's line of questioning made by
Oswald Ryan, general counsel, and
Dozier A. DeVane, solicitor. for the
Commission, but the experts permit
ted the examination to continue.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
POTOMAC FLOOD D
DAMAGES$42O,0()D.
Figure for March Overflow
Revealed at Control
Hearing.
BY LESTER N. INSKEEP,
Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

PETERSBURG. w. Va, October Is.
Damages to roads and bridges in the
three counties to which the South
Branch of the Potomac River runs
amounted to $4,000 during the rec
ord-breaking flood Of last March, &C
cording to report submitted to Lieut..
w. j. Matteson, acting district engf-
neer of the Washington area, at the
second of a series of flood control
hearings. Matteson and his staff
were told that the town of Moorefeld
alone suffered damages amounting to
s74,80o.
The greatest highway and bridge
losses In this area were in Hampshire
County, where they amounted to
$500, 900, according to DR.. J. B. Grove,
member of the advisory board OF the
State Roads Commission.
Hearings are under authorization Of
an act of Congress looking to control
of flood waters In the Potomac River
basin.
Lieut.. Matteson, accompanied by
E. A. Schmitt, senior engineer Of the
United States Engineer ONCE, and
engineers Byron Byrd and Harry Law
son, opened the hearings yesterday
afternoon at Paw Paw, w. Va, where
they were fully acquainted by citizens
with the losses suffered by farmers,
merchants, orchardists and the Union
Tanning Co., subsidiary of the United
States Leather Co., and the only in
dustry in that village.
While definite figures were not avail
able regarding property losses. it was
estimated by Representative Jennings
Randolph, who appeared In behalf of
the affected persons and corporations,
that the loss, exclusive of that to the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad would
run over a half million dollars for that
section.
Only Two Suggestions.
Lieut.. Matteson attempted to gain
some definite information from resi-
dents regarding proper courses of flood
control, but all seemed to be willing
to leave it to the Federal Government.
1t was explained that property
owners will be required to donate any
lands necessary for the erection Of
levees, dams or reservoirs to control
waters in flood time.
Only two definite suggestions were
received. One was that seven islands
between Paw Paw and Cumberland be
destroyed, and another that new
channel be cut to eliminate q sharp
bend east of Paw Paw to prevent
water backing up.
Lieut.. Matteson, after hearing the
descriptions Of the last flood, revealed
that survey made in 1890 for pro-
posed levees at Paw Paw and Spring.
field fell far short Of the height that
would have been necessary to protect
these two villages. He considers the
surveys useless at this time.
Paw Paw Hard Hit.
Paw Paw itself suffered total dam
age Of more than $4,000, while the
tanning factory losses amounted to
more than 100000 and caused the
suspension Of operations for several
months. according To Mayor David
Evening star., 1936-10-15
GARNETT REFUSES
/ TO SUBMIT BASEY
! CASE TO JURORS
Inter.RaciaI Committee Is
j Informed Grounds for
| Action Lacking.
CRIME COMMISSION
TO BE PETITI0NED
Charles Edward Russell Heads
Delegation Presenting Demand
to District Attorney.

Headed by Charles Edward Russell,
noted liberal writer, delegation from
the Interracial Committee of the Dis
trict of Columbia called on United
States Attorney Leslie c. Garnett to-
day to demand that he present to the
grand jury evidence concerning the
fatal shooting August 81 of Lawrence
Basey, 27, colored c. C. c. worker,
by Policeman v. H. Landrum, ninth
precinct.
Garnett refused to comply, telling
the group independent studies OF the
facts of the case by three Of his assist
ants had resulted in the unanimous
conclusion that the matter was not
q proper one for grand jury action.
Up to Crime Group.
Russell then informed the district
attorney he would take up the mat
ter with the District Crime Commits
sion, before which he asked hearing
last July on the general subject OF
Negro crime in the District. He said
the Basey case would constitute the
major part of his presentation to the
commission.
The result of an investigation made
for the Interracial Committee by
Harlem E. Glazier, a member, was read
at the conference, and afterward.
Russell stated it contained new evil
dence. Garnett and the three assist
ants who had studied the case said,
however, that no facts were brought
out by Glazier which were not before
the coroner's jury.
Two inquests into the death were
held, the first ending when the jury
could not agree on a verdict. The
second jury returned verdict stating
Landrum shot in self-defense, but
adding that he was induced to fire on
Basey by his own state of mind rather
than by any untoward action by Basey
or his companions.
Attempt to Arrest Five.
Testimony at the two inquests in
dicated Landrum attempted to arrest
five colored men for disorderly con-
NuI1 dliu ulCW LID gun dLlu SIIUt UllC
of them while they were waiting at a
patrol box near Nineteenth and M
streets northeast. The officer said
the colored men had intimated they
would resist him and he was afraid of
his life. He told the coroner's jury
that recollection of the beating to
Heath of a park policeman in Logan
Circle some years ago by band of
colored youths flashed through his
mind at the time.
Assistant United States Attorney
Allen j. Krouse was present at the
first inquest and Assistant United
States Attorney Howard Boyd at the
second. Although both advised Gar
nett it would be useless to present the
case to the grand jury, the District
attorney submitted a transcript of the
record from the inquest to another
of his assistants, Charles B. Murray,
who studied it without consulting
either Boyd or Krouse. He arrived
at the same conclusion that they had.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Perspiring Hands
Prolong Life of
/ Book Coverings

Perspiring hands may be nuisance
ut times, but are not entirely without
advantage, Agriculture Department
scientists have found.
The department said today research
has shown perspiring hands are good
for books-make leather bindings last
longer. Salt-sodium chloride-is an
excellent leather preservative. Perspira-
ton exudes salt.
Librarians have found that leather.
hound books In constant use are more
durable than those rarely handled.
Until the scientists learned otherwise,
It was thought this was due to oil or
grease absorbed from readers hands.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
TRAINING SCHOOL
TRANSFERSTUD|ED
Budget Bureau Officials
Would Move Wards of
Industrial Home.

District officials today debated, with
some hesitancy, whether to follow
the suggestion Of Budget Bureau Of
ficials to ask Congress to enact legis.
lation for dissolution Of the Industrial
Home School and transfer of its wards
to the National Training School for
Boys and the National Training School
for Girls.
The study was being made by men,
bers of the Board of Public Welfare
as the result of conference late yes
terday between the Commissioners,
District Welfare Board members and
officials of the Budget Bureau, headed
by Acting Director Daniel w. Bell.
The Budget Bureau has prevailed
on the Commissioners to halt drafting
of plans for improvements at the
National Training School for Girls,
for which Congress at the past ses-
sion appropriated 100000.
Delay was asked in these plans be-
cause Of dispute over the size Of two
dormitories to be erected. The We'll
fare Board proposed buildings hous-
ing IL girls, but the Budget Bureau
last session approved the 100000
appropriation, then pending, on the
assumption the buildings would house
IS girls each.
Study Of Legislation.
The conference yesterday went into
additional plans, the Budget Bureau
officials insisting there should be,
study Of legislation dealing with how
and where delinquent and dependent
children should be housed.
District welfare officials recently
voiced objection to the plan of plac-
ing dependent or backward or prob
lem" children in the two national
reform schools, the national training
schools for boys and girls. At yes
terday's conference, however, accord
ing to q report made by Comn,is-
sioner Melvin c. Hazen, none OF the
members of the Welfare Board, or
Welfare Director Elwood Street, raised
IN objection to placing the dependent
Evening star., 1936-10-15

or backward children in the same
institution with those convicted Of
law violations, who are committed by
legal process to the national training
schools.
The Burget Bureau plan appears
to be to seek legislation transferring
Jurisdiction over the National Train
ing School for Boys from the Justice
Department to the District and to
abolish the Industrial Home School,
transferring its boy wards to the Ma
tional Training School for Boys and
its girl wards to the National Train
ing School for Girls.
Expansion Possibilities.
That Is the apparent reason why
the bureau has raised the question
of the size of buildings and the pos
sibilities Of future expansion at the
National Training School for Girls,
1t is said.
District welfare officials yesterday
voiced some questions as to the cost
to the District from transfer Of the
National Training School for Boys to
the District government.
At the close of the conference,
however, Hazen said, the Commits
sioners agreed to call on the Welfare
Board to consider the proposed legis-
lation, and to reconsider its proposals
for the 100000 improvements at the
National Training School for Girls.
The 100000 appropriation was
voted by Congress after Senators
Copeland of New York and King Of
Utah, the latter the chairman Of the
Senate District Committee, had de-
clared physical conditions at the Ma
tional Training School for Girls were
'barbarous" and should be remedied.
Mrs. Roosevelt also took an interest
In conditions at the training school
Evening star., 1936-10-15
LABOR FORUM TOPIC

Speeches, followed by discussion
from the floor, will be the program
order as the Capital City Forums
secohd symposium Of the current series
takes up the topic Labor and the
New Deap at 8:15 pm. tomorrow at
the Workmen's Circle Lyceum. 1902
Fourteenth street.. ,s
Speakers viii be Nels Anderson,
director OF the w. p. A. labor relations
section; Gardner jackson, chairman
OF the Committee on Rural Social
Planning, and DR.. Joel. Seidman,
srookwood Labor College instructor.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Cooking Demonstration Tonight

Fall Food Fashions cooking
demonstration-will be sponsored by
the o. S. Grant Circle, Ladies OF the
Grand Army of the Republic. tonight
at 8 O'Clock at the General Baking Co.,
2146 Georgia avenue. Special dishes
will be prepared under the supervision
Of Miss Ernestine Chubb.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Grid Team to Be Guests.

Edward e. (Hooks) Mylin, coach.
and members of the Bucknell Uni
versity foot ball team, which plays
Georgetown here Saturday, will be
among the guests at reception and
dance to be held by the Pennsylvania
Democratic Club of Washington Fri
day night at the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Altrock to Be Guest.

Nick Altrock OF the Washington
base ball club will be the guest OF
honor at the Central Business Mems
Associations luncheon tomorrow at
1890 pm. at the Burlington Hotel.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
RITES SET FOR THIS
AFTERNOON.


Eighteen gears old, OF 22S F
street northeast, 1Dho died in
Alexandria Hospital yeSter-
day of injuries received Sun
day Uhen a taricab in ,Dhich
she 1oas riding left the road
and struck a tree in Aleran-
drid.
. Funeral services are being
held this afternoon at Wheat
leyS. funeral establishment,
Alexandria. Burial 1DiH be at
Marbury, Ala, the girls home.
SuruiUing are her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Hargitt, t1Do
brothers and fDe sisters.