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Evening star., 1937-06-01
AUDITORIUM GROUP
IN final SESSION
Skating and Hockey Advocates
Urge Facilities Be Provided
These Sports.

The final meeting of the Auditorium
Advisory Committee is being held this
afternoon in the Office of c. Marshall
Finnan. superintendent of National
Capital Parks, who is chairman of
the group. Advocates OF ice skating
and hockey are appearing to urge
that the Auditorium be furnished with
facilities for these sports.
Christopher Meyer was slated to
tell the committee OF the demand of
ice skaters for adequate accommoda-
tions.
Finnan said he hopes to hand over
his report to the National Capital
Auditorium Commission, which is
headed by Secretary Ickes, in the next
couple of weeks.
The public has been given an oppor-
tunity to state its views on the audi
torium, and witnesses from various
civic and business interests have been
heard. The location at Third street
and Constitution avenue, on part
of the Municipal Center site, is IA
vored by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission and Fine
Arts Commission as the location for
the auditorium.
Finnan said his group would report
to the commission probably three or
four alternative sites, listing them in
the order of priority. He made it
clear he and his colleagues have only
advisory powers and that it is up to
the commission and Congress to make
the final decision.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
INCREASE IS URGED
IN TEACHING FORCE
OF SCHOOLS HERE
Parents From Junior and
Senior High Units Appear
Before Senators.
GROWING POPULATION
IN PUPILS is CITED
Hold Large Glasses Leave No On.
portunity to Develop Ability
of individuals.
BY ], A. O'IEARY.

A plea for more teachers to keep
pace with the steadily growing popu-
latlon in the public schools here was
made today before the Senate SUBJ
committee handling the 1888 District
supply bill by delegation of parents
from the junior and senior high
schools.
They told the subcommittee, pre-
sided over by Chairman Thomas of
Oklahoma, that in the last seven
years the number Of pupils has in
creased from 1884 to 93,5O9, a gain
OF 20 per cent. In the same period
the teaching force has been enlarged
by only 9 per cent, they declared.
Emphasizing the difficulty of giving
children the help they should have
when classes become too large, the
delegation gave the number Of classes
having As or more pupils as follows:
In the senior high schools, 255;
junior high, 720; vocational, 36, and
elementary schools, 1913.
Require Mass Teaching.
The number of classes having be-
tween 40 and A pupils we're listed as
follows: Senior high. 1924; junior high,
1,O44; vocational, u, and elementary,
396.
Large classes, they informed the
committee, require mass teaching,
leaving no opportunity to develop the
particular ability of individual pupils.
Among those who spoke for the
group were Mrs Robert Riggs of
Woodrow Wilson Senior High School,
Mrs. G. H. Collingwood, Macfarland
Junior High. and Mrs. F. c. Craighead
of Woodrow Wilson.
AS the supply bill passed the House,
the item for teachers salaries is
s65,400 less than the budget estimate.
The estimates provided for SO new
teachers. The House measure allows
81 new positions, of which 27 will be
required for classes in Few buildings
soon to be opened.
Jail Guard Plan Heard.
The subcommittee also heard testi-
mony on behalf of shorter work week
for guards at the District Jail. The
subcommittee was told the guards now
work 56-hour week of seven days.
Twelve new positions were asked for to
establish five-and -one- half day
week, as in other Government estab-
lishments.
A flve-year campaign to beautify
school grounds through city-wide CO.
operation was outlined to the subcom-
mittee by Mrs. B. G. McIlwee, chair
man Of special committee Of the
Roosevelt High Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation. The association launched the
movement last year. Mrs. McIlwee also
called attention to resolutions adopted
by the Manor Park Citizens Associa-
ton last Winter urging new method
Of handling complaints against dogs.
Speaking as an individual citizen,
Mrs. McIlwee also told the subcommit-
tee there is need for more nurses at
the tuberculosis Hospital, Fourteenth
and Upshur streets.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
Lo,c to Set Length of Inch
Urged by Government Expert

nounced, has submitted to the Com
merce Department, for submission to
Congress, the draft Of bill proposing
Ito establish legally the standards
which define the weights and measures
now In use."
The proposed standards would be
based on the metric system, fixing the
length OF an inch at 254 millimeters.
This would fall midway between the
present accepted values of the British
and United States inches, DR.. Briggs
said.
DR.. Briggs spoke at opening of the
national conference, of which he is
president. The conference will con-
tinue through Friday. The afternoon
program today included addresses by
James OKeefe. inspector Of weights
and measures Of Chicago: D. E. Mont
gomery, consumers counsel OF the Ag-
rieultural Adjustment Administration,
and DR.. ]. H. Meek, director Of the
Virginia Division Of Markets.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
Wife Planned Trip.

WIG IlAnneO lElp.
Seitz, a BROTHER -in-law of Police
Lieut.. Floyd Truscott, was alone in his
car when it swerved out of control at
the top of hill on the Etchison-
Damascus highway. His wife Grace
had planned to make the trip to Penn
sylvania with him, but at the last min
ute found she was unable to leave their
home. at 1903 S street southeast. Sietz
had played the clarinet in the Navy
Band several years.
Two colored men drowned in the
Potomac River off Shepherds Point,
near the Home for the Aged and In
firm at Blue Plains, D. c., yesterday
when the rowboat from which they
were fishing sank. The victims were
Louis Dennis. %, and Gene Gibson,
81, Of Alexandria. Ace Simons, 81,
swan to safety.
Knocked From Motor Cycle.
No serious traffic accidents were re-
ported in the city proper. Motor cycle
Policeman Garner L. Norris, eighth
precinct. escaped with slight cuts
when he was knocked from his motor
cycle following collision with an auto
mobile driven, he reported, by Ben
Tarwater, IS, Of 1882 Calvert street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob H. Moore, of "a
Adams street, escaped with slight
head injuries when their automobile
overturned at Saratoga and Philadel-
phia avenues, Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
Star Staff Photo.

Six-year- Harry E. Murphy, jr.,
l440 w street, disappeared yesterday
while in bathing with his parents in
South River off Glen Isle, Md, &C
cording to the Associated Press.
Watermen we're dragging the waters
today for the body. The boy disap-
peared about half hour after ar
irving there with his father, Harry
E. Murphy, sr, meat manager in an
A. & P. store; his mother and an
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
Miller.
Justice of Peace Joseph o. Fowler,
EdgeWater, acting coroner, said water
men were Of the opinion the boy had
stepped into deep water and may have
been carried offshore. the Associated
Press reported.
The father said his son did not
know how to swim and was afraid OF
the water. He said he had not been
we'll since an automobile accident last
October in which he received a frac-
tured skull.
Murphy said there was a strong
undertow, sinkholes and cross cur
rents. at the place where they were
bathing.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
PRIVATE RITES HELD
FOR DR.. G. M. RUFFIN
Prominent Physician Died in Hall.
fax County, Va, While
Visiting Sister.

Private funeral services were held
here today for DR.. George M. Rufln,
so, Of l645 Connecticut avenue, prom
inent physician, who died Saturday
at the country home of his sister, Mrs.
William B. Sims in Halifax County,
Va.
The body was cremated. The ashes
will be placed in st. Matthews Epis-
copal Church Yard at Hillsboro, N. c.,
the home of DR.. Ruff1ns ancestors, at
time to be decided later.
A graduate of the University Of
North Carolina and George Washing
ton University, DR.. Ruf11n had prac-
ticed here about IS years and was
widely known. He left here several
days before his death to visit his sis
ter and was Ill only two days.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
How long Is an inch?

How long Is an inch?
That question isn't as silly as 1t
may sound, because nobody can say
with real authority.
Congress should remedy the situ-
alton by passing a law definitely hx-
ing the standards Of weights and
measures. DR.. Lymann ]. Briggs, di-
rector of the National Bureau Of
Standards, told the twenty-seventh
National Congress on Weights and
Measures here today
DR.. Briggs pointed out that the
Constitution specifically grants Con-
gress the power Ito fix the standards
of weights and measures" The
major congressional action along this
line 80 far has been to make the
metric system, as adopted by France
in 1901, legal in this country. How
ever, the inch and pound system are
customarily used here without precise
standards Of determining their value.
Tho Bureau Of Standards, hs au.
Evening star., 1937-06-01

son, chief Of detectives, said that no
charges are pending against the girl,
but he understood some members Of
the department wanted to question
her. She was taken TO the Woman's
Bureau.
When she was arrested today, the
girl broke into tears She said she has
been living with her mother at her
home in Elwood, Ind. She came here
alone.
Isabelle was sentenced to a 6O-day
jail term here on several bad check
charges in November, 1885,
She was wearing boys clothes when
arrested in August, 1894, in a down.
town hotel. Detectives had become
suspicious after they noticed her
cropped, black hair beneath a blond
wig.
Evening star., 1937-06-01

~ W SSA AZ IAAo
traffic crashes,
police said.
Walter Seitz,
As, a musician in
the Navy Band.
was killed when
h is automobile
era shed into a
telephone pole
n e ar Rockville,
Md, while he
" a S returning
from Glenn Rock
Pa, where he
h a d gone to
d e ora te his
mothers grave.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
he boards Committee on Works o,

the boards Committee on Works Of
Art.
Minnigerode recalled today that two
other Washington friends began work
as clerks As years ago today. They
are Clarence j. Aspinwal Of the Sc
curity Storage Co. and Wilbur j. Carr,
Assistant Secretary OF State.
Although born in st. Louis, In 1876,
Minnigerode comes Of family long
prominent In Virginia. He spent his
boyhood In Alexandria.
He Is member Of the Metropolitan
and Chevy Chase Clubs, q director Of
tho Episcopal Church Home and .
director Of the Riggs NattouA Bank.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
APPOINTMENT MADE
Koester Executive Assistant to
Secretary of War.

Appointment of Charles w. Koester,
former chief of the recording sec
ton Of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, as executive assistant to the
Secretary Of War was announced to-
day.
Koester, resident of Washington
for several years, is member of the
District bar. He is a graduate of
the University Of Nebraska, George
Washington University and Harvard
University.
A native Of Marysville, Kans., he
now makes his home at the May
flower Hotel.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
17.HOUR STRUGGLE
TO SAVE BABY FAILS
Child Born in Chicago Without
Being Able to Breathe Nat
urally Dies.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 1.-Twelve fire.
men lost their l7-hour struggle today
to save the life Of John Francis Walsh,
who was born in Mother Cabrini's
Hospital without being able to breathe
naturally.
The 712-pound baby died sfter in
halator squads worked in two shifts
since yesterday afternoon when the
child was born to Mrs. Frank Walsh,
%.
The firemen, who used Is tanks of
oxygen, were assisted by woman ply
sician, an inferno and two nurses.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
HOLIDAY ACCIDENT
TOLL THREE DEAD.
Navy Band Musician, Walter
Seitz, Killed by Auto-TWo
Men Drown,

Two holiday accidents claimed the
lives Of three men in and near Wash
ington yesterday. Despite the throngs
OF motorists on city streets and outly-
ing highways the day was remarkably
Evening star., 1937-06-01
D. c. YOUTH GRADUATES
John Barron Receives Degree at
Columbia U. Today.

John Joseph Barron of Washington
was one of 300 seniors scheduled to re-
ceive a bachelor of arts degree from
Columbia University today in exercises
at the New York institution.
Barron was affiliated with Phi Kap-
pa Psi fraternity and was member Of
the track squad. He belongs to the
Blue Key Society, an honorary group,
and participated in many campus so
cial activities. He lives at 909 Varnum
street northeast.
Evening star., 1937-06-01

it's a habit with
them, officers ar.
rested her.
The 22-y e ar.
old girl, who ha:
been arre S t e {
here on numer-
GUS occasions
once Wnen dis
guised as a boy
was taken into
custody at a bus
t e r m inal near
Fourteenth street
and New York
avenue.
Inspector Ber-
YYY
Evening star., 1937-06-01
Would Halt Mail on Bad Roads.

FREDERICK, Md. June l (Spe-
ciaD. - The Frederick Montgomery
County Rural Letter Carriers Asso-
citation asked the Post Office Depart
ment to abandon mail routes which
include impossible roads. Many of
the carriers reported they had been
stuck in the mud frequently this year.
Evening star., 1937-06-01

Musician Charles Owen.
Valse, Invitation to the Dance"
Weber, r-Weingartner
Hungarian Rhapsody" No. a. List
THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the Soldiers Home Band at
the bandstand at 7 o'clock tonight.
John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmas-
ter; Anton Pointner, assistant.
PROGRAM.
March. "The New Washington
Overture, "Safari" Holmes
Suite characteristic, "A Water
Carnival" -Kooyman
CD Rejoicing and Inauguration Of
the Queen"
ca Queen Of the Ball"
go Love Song and Barcarolle."
Excerpts from the musical comedy,
He Wanted Adventure"
Turnbridge
Popular numbers:
Five Little Reasons for Happi-
ness" Observation-Disclosures Scheill
TITS an Old Southern Gus
TOM ------------------- Meyer
Waltz suite. "The Emperor STRAUSS
Finale, Yours Truly Jewell
THE Star epaut1ed Banner"
Evening star., 1937-06-01
Time Extended.

President Roosevelt today signed a
bill extending the time for COM
mencing and completing the con-
struction of bridge across the Po-
tomac River at or near Dahlgren, Va.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
POLICE SHED COATS

Summer Shirt-Sleeve Attire Or
dered by Edwards.
The familiar Summer attire Of
Washington's police force-gray shirt
and black tie-was in evidence today.
Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, assistant
superintendent, yesterday gave the
officers pefmission to shed their heavy
blue coats.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
Isabelle Messn,er.
Arrested Again,
Is il, To,cn Again,
There Are No Charles.
but Police Just Can't
Break a Habit.

Isabelle Lorraine Messmer, peren-
NAL headache of the Metropolitan
Police Department, came back to town
today, and apparently only because
Evening star., 1937-06-01

0. E. S. Plans advance Night"
GA1THERsBURG, June 1 (spe-
ciaD .-Pentalpha Chapter, o. E. s.,
will hold its Advance night" in the
Masonic Hall, here, Friday at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1937-06-01
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the Marine Band in the formal
garden at the Army Medical Center
at $50 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader; William F. Santle-
mann, assistant.
PROGRAM.
March, "Old Comrades -Teike
Overture, "Orpheus" Ofenbach
Saxophone solo, "Valse Manzan-
Kenneth Douse.
Coronation Scene" from Boris
Goudunov'' -Moussorpsky
Excerpts from mo. No, Nam
cite" Youmans
Xylophone solos:
(a) Hungarian Dance" No. 6,
Brahms
(b) "Nola" -Arnd
orIn
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
Modern Menus
,y Mrs. GAYNJR MADDOX
MA Service Stan Writer

WIN We"
AVER q field Of yellow daffo.
~ dis, linen as white as snow.
baby lambs gambol with Succu-
lent glee For your Easter din.
ner there's nothing more delicate
Not Just spring lamb, remember,
but BABY spring lamb
It's pretty scarce because it's
so populaf. so be sure you can
trust your butcher Otherwise
he may try 10 sell you spring
lamb, good IN Its own way. but
not the same as baby lamb. Be
Arm in the cause of astounding
tenderness.
A whole baby lamb will not
weigh more than 20 to % pounds,
and one leg will weigh about four
pounds These are from lambklns
not more than 5 10 6 weeks old,
and being scarce at Easter time,
and also one of the most delect-
able of the springs blessings, cost
plenty. But remember. every
mouthful will convince you that
it is cheap at any price. ..
A. Eulogy Of Lamb
Odd as 1t may seem. a ruddy.
stern looking restauranteur IN
New York is probably the all
American expert on baby lamb.
Billy the Oyster Man speaks with
emotion. This dish outshineS all
others for Easter popularity The
shoulder Of baby lamb is deli
cious, but because il has d great
deal Of bone, perhaps you'd bet
ter use the leg for your family.
For a family Of from 6 to g.. he
says, "I'd advise brace OF baby
lamb legs. That's not too much,
because there is some shrinking
in cooking" r
His subject gentle, his manner
brisk, he continues: There is
only one way to cook it and that
is to roast II in the pan. Sur
round il with new potatoes (new
ones from Cuba are in the mar
ket). l myself don't mind seeing
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
JAS. N. THOMAS
DIESINS ALUDA
Services Held Sunday for
Ex-Wireless Operator;
Was Talented Singer

SALUDA, March %. (SpeciaD.
James Moffett Thomas, son Of
Mrs. jamie NJ. Thomas of Charles
ton and Saluda, died here Satur-
day, March 20, following a long
illness.
His father, William Thomas,
jeweler, of Charleston, died sew
eral years ago. Besides his mother
he leaves one sister, Elizabeth
Simonton Thomas, living in Sa-
luda.
Funeral services were held at
the grave in Friendship church
cemetery on Sunday afternoon,
Rev. o. V. Armstrong, and Rev.
H. Cary-Elwes officiating. .
Mr.. Thomas, who was about 40
years old, had many friends IN
Saluda. For some years he was
able at times during the summer
to add to the pleasure OF the
dances at Library hall with his
banjo and sweet tenor voice.
He was at one time wireless OPP
orator and made several trips
abroad. He was educated in
schools in Charleston, S. g., Vir-
ginia and in the north.
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a little pink IN the meat to prove
il is not TOO thoroughly cooked
but some people object to this, sc
the state OF 'done-ness' will de-
pend on the taste Of your fam
lily" ....,
Roast Leg of Genuine Baby Lamb
C to 8 servings)
Two 4-pound legs of baby lamb
/ carrot, | onion, salt, pepper
Season legs, which usually come
with q wrapping of suet around
them, place in roasting pan witt
small quantity Of water, CARO-
and onion, and of course the new
potatoes. The carrot and onion
take away the natural wild fla
vor and they add flavor to thu
gravy. If you prefer. they can b.
removed after the lamb is cnoli
ed. Place lamS IN DOT oven (37'
to 400 degrees r.) and cook on'
hour. oastiag we'll and turning
every Is minutes. Remove lamt
and potatoes, place roasting par
over flame, add tablespoon fou
and bring to boil. Strain gray!
in separate hot bowl. From thel
on Happy EasterI
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ROADS GORGED WITH
FUNERAL PROFESSIONS
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
sions were not long but there
were many.
Morticians had TO keep hearses
moving. AS soon as tiny casket
was deposited at the burial plot,
the car turned and with siren cut
ting at the heavy traffic, raced
back to pick up another.
From hundreds of miles the
Texans came to see the tragedy
that struck at their wealthy north
west oil field.
In the nations most expansive
state the residents think OF dis
tances in hundreds of miles. So
from Dallas and Houston and Fort
Worth and even far away San
Antonio, "neighbors' came to
view what remains of the wreck
age. A.
Cars lined either side Of the
road in front of the New London
Scholastic for hundreds of yards,
stretching into miles as the day
heightened. 49,,
For the first time national
guardsmen let down safety barri'
ers that had kept idle spectators
from roaming over the ruins.
Into the two remaining wings
pushed hundreds of the curious.
They thumbed shattered books,
pried under overturned lockers,
wrote their initials on blackboards
and crowded around New London
natives who had horror tales to
tell.
Oblivious to swarming crowds
of thousands outside, the military
court of inquiry met within the
music building, frame structure
which remains standing 100 feet
10 the rear of the demolished
school.
When the funerals are over.
there remains the problem OF
schooling for the survivors OF
Thursdays tragedy - those who
did not die, and those who were
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22

Louisiana. There are 4,794 navi,
gable waterways in Louisiana,
Three airlines Of national signiti,
canoe traverse the state. Foreign
ships ply between the port Of New
Orleans and every major country
of the world as well as coastwise
in our own country. Twelve i'm
portant railways serve the indus
trial centers Of the state.
The leading industries Of the
state are: Petroleum refining, su.
gar refining, lumber and palning
mills. Thirteen hundred and four
teen establishments for industry
were reported in the state in
1888, which employed total of
$1,000 people. In petroleum re-
filming alone there were 37Gl en-
ployes.
Louisiana ranks ninth in the
value of exports in our country:
In 1920, this state. had the high
est rank of illiteracy in the coun-
try, PIG per cent. In 1880 this
figure was reduced to 1875 per
cent. "Illitcracy among the ma
tive whites, 7.3 per cent; among
the foreign born whites, 1872 per-
cent; and among the negroes,
23.3 per cent.
Education has been making and
is making rapid strides IN Louis
lana. Especially since 1900. Al
that time only 80 per cent of the
teachers Of the state had two OF
more years of college or teacher
training. Today they have 80 per
cent of their teachers college
trained. We arc told that it is
through the desire and readiness
of the people Of the state as q
whole, as well as the teachers,
themselves, that this increase in
percentage of college trained
teachers was made possible. Also
the colleges and universities OF
the state have done their share to
make this possible. 1t is, there
fore, proper to display the oppor-
tunities for COLLEGE training IN
Louisiana as ut least one Of the
important basic factors in our
ROSY future" There are IL col
legcs and universities in the state
for the instruction Of young men
and women of the white race. And
five institutions Of higher learn
ing for the negroes. As well as
numerous private institutions for
the whites. State schools for the
deaf and blind have been estab-
lishcd in this rapidly. progressing
State of Louisiana.
The negro population OF Louis
lana has increased 1913 per cent
in the decade between 1920 and
1880.
There are many major attrac-
tons to the tourist in Louisiana.
The major one Of them all, OF
course, is the annual Mardi GraS
in Ne wOrlcans. This city has
been spoken of by many as being
the Paris of the Western Hem
isphere, and anyone visiting that
city during the Mardi Gras week,
might well believe that statement.
New Orleans being the eastern
terminal point of the Southern