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Evening star., 1937-11-14
CATHOLIC j. GIVES
BROADCAST TODAY
Right Rev. J. M. Corrigan to
Be Speaker-Choir OF
10 Will Sing.

The annual broadcast of the Cath
olic University of America will take
place from 1 to 1:3o pm. today over
the Columbia Broadcasting System
The Right Rev. Joseph M. Corrigan,
rector Of the university, has chosen
as his topic. The University in a
Changing World" Music will be fur
nished by the Catholic University
Choir of 70 boys under the direction Of
Prof. Leo Behrendt. The broadcast
will originate in the National Shrine
Of the Immaculate Conception on the
university campus
DR.. Herbert Wright, professor Of
international law and head of the de-
partment Of politics. will be on the
panel OF Town Hall tonight at the
Rialto Theater. Present Crisis in
Europe" will be the topic of the main
speaker, James G.. Mcdonald.
1t was announced that e. public
speaking class has been inaugurated
in connection with the meetings Of the
Shahan Debating Society by the Rev.
P. j. O'Connor, monitor. This class
not only is for the members OF the,
debating society. but non-memberJ
of the society also are invited to at
tend.
The junior classes Of the Collegs
OF Arts and Sciences and the School
OF Engineering and Architecture have
elected Wayne Ambrose of Worcester.
Mass, editor-in-chief OF the Cardinal
for 1889. John Doherty Of Spring
Valley, Ill, was elected business man.
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Evening star., 1937-11-14
AMERICAN u. ADOPTS
NEW ADMISSION POLICY
Second Major Academic Step of
Season Taken by Faculty
of College.

Ine FACULTY at the College of Liberal
Arts of American University formally
ADOPTED new policy for admission to
freshmen standing last week.
For admission to full standing a
candidate must have general average
OF c or better for the entire high school
course; in addition he must have an
average Of at least C in nine units
presented from the following subjects
English, foreign languages, mathe-
matics, social science and natural
science.
The adoption of this new policy for
admission is the second major aca-
demic step taken by the faculty of the
college this season, the other being the
inauguration of more rigid set of
graduation rules which we're adopted
after an experiment covering the last
five years.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
c. j. IS PREPARING
FOR HOMECOMING
Contest With Maryland to
Be Climax of Weeks
Activities.

A determination to do or die" pre-
walls this week at the Hilltop as
thousands of Georgetown University
students and alumni prepare to join
In a rousing homecoming celebra-
tion that will reach climax Sat-
urday afternoon in Griffith Stadium
Georgetown followers have set their
hearts more than ever on a home-
coming football victory this year over
Maryland, and special train is
bringing hundreds of New York and
Eastern alumni to take part in the
two days of events opening Friday.
An added attraction for the student
body and all alumni wishing to at
tend is a home-c coming pall Friday
night in the Continental room of
the Wardman Park Hotel. This is
being sponsored by the staff of the
Hoya, college publication.
Since the dance is from 9 pm 10
early morning, the visitors will have
an opportunity also to take in the
main event of the evening, Law
School smoker at the Mayflower Ho-
tel at which Georgetown and Mary
land Athletic Boards will be feted
in pre-game friendliness. The smoker
and rally is expected to be the big
gest the local alumni have held in
recent years. 1t will be followed by
entertainment and supper.
Joseph A. Cantrell, president of the
law alumni, will preside and intro
duce as the principal speakers Coaches
Jack Hagerty of Georgetown and
Frank Dobson of Maryland. 1t is
hoped that Georgetown's president,
the Rev. Arthur A. OLeary. S. j.,
will be able to attend, but on account
of the long illness from which he only
recently recovered this is not certain
There will be songs by George OCon-
nor.
The College Alumni Club of Wash
ington also has been invited to the
smoker. Visiting alumni will be well
coined at the Hilltop and downtown
schools.
"A NAONa vi OOO lONdl anu
students returned late last night from
New York in three sections of a
Georgetown special. Since New York
and vicinity is the largest alumni
center for the university, the week end
was in the nature of another home
coming for most of the students. They
were feted Friday night at the Gen.
ter Club, and the 60-piece Hoya Band
which accompanied the team won
plaudits as the bandsmen maneuvered
in the stadium during the game with
New York u.
The band again will be much in evil
dence at Saturdays game and has
been practicing some new and intri-
cate marching during the demon
stration between halves. Marylands S
band also will be out in full strength.
The R. o. T. c. units at the Hill
top will announce its new battalion
and company officers next week.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
BOARDING SCHOOLS
IN GOOD CONDITION
Financial Status Held Best Since
1929-Enrollment 81 Per
Cent of Capacity.

Private boarding schools of the COL
lege preparatory type are generally in
better financial condition this year
than in any year since 1929, according
to the report of school census re-
leased yesterday by N. w. Aver & Son
Inc. through its educational division
Enrolment in 232 schools of all
classes in various parts of the coun-
try this year is 9l per cent of capacity
an increase of 7 per cent over last
year, according to the report. Nineteen
per cent of all schools are more than
filled compared with the usual ca
pacity. This is double the number
over-f1lled last year.
Nearly third of the schools can
yassed raised their rates for this fall
and many of these reported a full en-
rollment, the report says.
Girls preparatory schools show the
greatest gains over a year ago in ca
pacity attendance ratios. Co-edu-
cational schools, on the other hand.
have recovered more slowly from de-
preston lows.
The most popular schools are those
In the s500-$800 range that have more
than so pupils enrolled.
Evening star., 1937-11-14

Supreme Court to declare acts OF
Congress unconstitutional should be
restricted" The George Washington
debaters will uphold the affirmative,
arguing in favor of restriction of the
power of the court.
Annual Speaking Contest.
The annual Davis Prize Speaking
Contest. one of the universitys Oldest
activities, will take place for the
ninetieth time on Wednesday night.
Six members of the senior class have
been selected by the department Of
public speaking as contestants, having
won the honor of competing through
manuscripts submitted. Those who
will deliver orations are Edwin Cage,
Doris Detre, John EhrmantroNt, Ray
mond Firth. William Rochelle and
Mildred Vierling. The contest will
be held at 8 pm. in Corcoran Hall.
Dean Elmer Louis Kayser. who as a
student in the university was winner
of the award in 1917, will preside as
chairman. The judges, James G..
Wingo, Paul H. McMurray and Mrs.
Allen H. Gardner, also are former
Davis Prize winners.
A delegation of six students, headed
by Howard Ennes. editor of the
Hatchet, attended the annual fall con-
yention Of the Middle Atlantic Inter-
collegiate Press Association, meeting
at Lehigh University on Friday and
Saturday. Ennes is president of the
association. Others from George
Washington who went to the conven-
ton we're Winfield Rankin, Howard
Mace. Paul Yost. John Daugherty
and Robert Linehan.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
Elected to Glass Group.

Miss Carol Jordan. daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. E. w. Jordan, 2o29 Woodley
place NV, was recently elected to
the Freshman Glass Commission at
State College. Fredericksburg. Va
Miss Jordan was graduated from
Central High School, where she was
sergeant at arms Of lambda Sigma
Delta Sorority, member Of the Ath-
letic Association. the Dramatic Club.
\. w. c. A.. the Library Guild and
the Glee Club.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
|G. v. UNION PLANS
| TO INSTALL SLATE
Oklahoma Student Will Head
Model Congress at
University.

James P. Speer, I'd. of Comanche,
Okla. George Washington University
foreign service student. will be in
stalled as president of the George
Washington Union. student model
congress. at the unions inaugural
meeting Thursday night.
Speer is a member of the Center
party, which this year won the largest
number Of union seats as a result
Of the annual campus-wide election,
held in October.
In addition to the installation of the
president the 81 Center party dele
gates. "a Left party delegates and 20
Right party delegates will be formally
seated at the meeting.
The union also will hear an address
by David Cushman Coyle, economist
and author and chief Of rural elec-
trification
The union is a student legislative
forum composed Of 100 delegates rep
resenting the three parties, Right, Gen.
ter and Left, whose platforms con-
form in general to the principles held
Wy 8iodpo III
tual legislative bodies. 1t was set up
by students of the university as a
medium for representing their funda-
mental views through discussion and
enactment of legislative program
touching national and international
problems
To Sponsor Debate.
On the Wednesday following their
inaugural meeting, November 30. the
union will sponsor the debate between
George Washington University and a
visiting team from the University OF
Melbourne, Australia.
John T. Dootson of Everett. Wash,
and George Pughe OF Craig, Colo,
have been named to represent Georc,
Washington in the debate Both are
students in the Law School. Simon
Rottenberg and w. Ward McCabe will
serve as alternates.
The debate on November % will
be the first occasion on which Aus
tralian debaters ever have been heard
in Washington. Not since 1925 has
an Australian team visited the United
States.
The subject for the debate will be:
Resolved. That the power of the
Evening star., 1937-11-14
Junior Glass Is Host.

The Junior Glass of Washington
College of Law. under the leadership
OF its newly elected president. Joseph
G. Walters. last evening entertained
members of the freshman classes at
a dance given in their honor at the
college building.
This initial social affair is an annual
event to which all students are invited
and is given to welcome the new stu
dents into the college activities.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
TRINITY CLASS TO GIVE
1.-THE BElLAMY TRIAL"
Play Will Be Presented Next
Wednesday-Card Party
Set for Thursday.

Set for Thursday.
The Senior Group of the Trinity
College Dramatic Society has selected
The Bellamy Trial" by Frances Moves
Hart and Frank Carstarkhen. as its
annual class play
Rehearsals of the three-act drama
have been conducted by Miss Elsie
Herman, instructor of dramatics at
Trinity, Misses Charlotte O'Brien.
Rosalie Barbieri, Frances Sullivan
Peggy Gonzales, Barbara Moriarty,
Angela Matthews, Dorothy Sweeney.
Catherine Gaffney and Polly DAILY are
in the cast. The play will be presented
next Wednesday.
card party for the benefit of Notre
Dame Academy in Southern Pines. N.
C., will be held Thursday under the
auspices of the Washington Club of
Trinity
Miss Frances A. Fitzgerald is general
chairman of the various committees.
Katherine Friant, Anna Mae Rover.
Lenore Hemelt and Marie Lee will ar
range for homes of students through
out the city. where the parties will be
held.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
Warming Motor Engines.

Something every motorist should
know is how to warm up his engine
In extremely cold weather. There is
small electrical heater on the market
that plugs into the nearest socket. It
is placed on the intake manifold and
connected to the power supply by an
extension cord. The heater is only
slightly larger than the new metal
radio tubes and can be used on no.
volt &C. or dc. current. Blankets or
other covering on the hood keeps in
the warmth and help to start the
engine in below-xero weather.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
HOBBY ENDS LETTERS
Student Brothers Converse Across
Nation by Radio.

A hobby. amateur radio broadcastine
has been developed by two scholar
brothers to take the place Of onerous
letter writing between the University
OF Texas and Harvard.
DR.. F. Burton Jones. instructor in
mathematics at the University oil
Texas, and his brother. Wayne Jones
graduate fellow at Harvard, maintain
daily short-wave communication and
expect to continue it until Wayne re.
turns to Texas in June.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
TECH DRAMATIC CLUB
TO GIVE "ADAM AND EVA"
Comedy to Be Presented in School
Auditorium Friday and Sat-
urdav NIGHTS
urday Nights.


Adam and Eva" modern comedy
by Guy Bolton and George Middle
ton. will be presented by the Mckinley
High School Dramatic Club in the
school auditorium at pm. Friday
and Saturday.
Since its Broadway success a few
years ago this play has been popular
with amateur groups.
Benjamin Lynt plays the part of Mr..
King. harrassed father of two beau-
tiful, but headstrong daughters. Bruce
Rowzie is Adam Smith, his business
manager: Madeleine Bawell and Betty
Jones are the daughters, and William
zeller is Lord Andrew Gordon. a Scot
tish fortune hunter. Other parts are
taken by George Filgate, Morton Jo-
han, Theodore Stell, Roberta Shirley
and May Tierney.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
Professor to Speak
From Movie Screen
To Law Class Here

Joseph H. Beale OF Harvard
University will lecture to the law
students of Columbus University
here Tuesday at BIS pm.-from
a movie screen.
Prof. Beale, in conjunction with
Samuel Williston, also OF Har-
ward. is pioneering the idea OF
teaching law by movies, and as
his first effort has had filmed a
lecture, hitherto unpublished, on
Jurisdiction for Divorce" in CO.
operation with the Film Founda-
ton Of America.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
LUNCHEON SCHEDULED
BY SOUTHEASTERN u.
Newly-Elected Board of Trustees
to Be Introduced at Gath
ering Tuesday.

Southeastern University will hold the
first of series of monthly luncheons
OF this season at 1890 pm. Tuesday
in the Washington Hotel.
A usual feature Of the luncheons
last season was 15-minute talk by
some well-known person. At the
luncheon Tuesday. however, in place
OF an address, the newly-elected board
OF trustees of the university, now func-
tioning under Federal charter, will
be introduced to the alumni and
students.
The monthly luncheons, held last
season for the first time, we're ap-
proved with such enthusiasm by alum
nj. faculty and undergraduates that
1t was decided to hold them again.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
C.. u. Dancers
Strike Wins
More "Apple"

Shutdown strike technique is ef-
fective on the dance floor. too, stu
dents at Catholic University have
found out.
At the recent Cardinal hop, annual
dance of the year book, at the Shore
ham, 1870 couples sat down" on
Maestro John Slaughter and his band
when the musicians discontinued the
Big Apple rhythms in favor of more
tranquil waltz
The orchestra capitulated.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
Ten Strayer Students Inducted

Ten students of the Strsyer College
OF Accountancy were initiated into
Alpha Chapter of Phi Gamma Alpha,
national accounting and business ad-
ministration fraternity, at a ceremony
held Friday at the Dodge Hotel.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
Cherry Pie Wins Poll.

Cherry pie nosed out chow mein for
first position in. hearts and conse-
ouently the stoMachs of Mckinley
High School students.
This was revealed by Tech Life,
school publication, as the result of a
popularity contest. Techites also drink
lot of milk and like spinach.
Evening star., 1937-11-14

Who 1Uill speak at a tea in her
honor Tuesday at the Buchan-
an School by the ne1Oly
formed Elementary Classroom
Teachers Association. The
association has about 400
members and is affiliated 1Uith
the National Education AsSo-
citation. This ,uill be the first
time the elementary school
teachers as q group hare had
the opportunity to meet Mrs.
Doyle.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
TALK ON MANNERS SET

Mrs. J. D. Erskine to Address
Gunston Hall Audience.
Mrs. James Drummond Erskine,
traveller and educator. Of Cold Spring
Harbor. is in Washington and will be
the guest Of Gunston Hall School to-
night. She will deliver a lecture before
the faculty. student body and guests.
Mrs. Erskine, known in the social
circles OF the continent rs we'll as
America, will have as her subject The
Importance of Good Manners"
Evening star., 1937-11-14
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Evening star., 1937-11-14
THE chr K4TN OOMRZEE

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REICH LAUNCHES.
WAR ON GOSSIP.

BERLIN, 0.N.SO.-War on Cos
sip and loose talk by soldiers and
civilians going hand in hand with
espionage has been launched by
the German army to the slogan
of Flight That MurderouS World"
1t is pointed out that general
stats seldom instruct their intel
ligence operators to go straight
into foreign lands and ferret out
closely guarded state and military
secrets but instead expect them to
gather hundreds Of minor bits of
information for gradual piecing
together into a composite picture.
The most tragic example of
what careless talk can do is found
in failure of the great German
Champagne offensive in 1918.
German military authorities claim
to have secured confirmation that
despite tremendous efforts by the
German command to keep plans
of the projected onslaught silent.
the French and British Inteli-
gence Service on July 4, 1918,
turned over to their own com
mands the following gossip picked
up from German Red Cross nurses
in a Frankfurt-Main hospital;
THE German army will attack
in the Champagne July Is"
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Kahn, a New York attorney, re-
turned from an extended study Of
the Polish situation and, in an
interview aboard the French liner
Champlatn, said:
lone of the few forces d.
rected toward peace in
greatly agitated world Is aid
being extended by the Jews Of
America to those who are strug'
Cling against depression and OPP
preston in eastern Europe.
HELP TO NATION
mot only is this a reminder
of the basic humanity which
links all human kind, but even
beyond this, the aid extended
from America to the Jews Of Po-
land is helping the economic
restorction of the entire Polish
nation upon which in great
measure the peace of the world
depends"
Blaming Nazi elements for po-
groms that are wiping out entire
towns and villages and spreading
suffering throughout Poland, Kahn
went on:
"Anti-Semitic attacks are car
ried out with the cruelty charac-
teristic of savages. Young peo-
pie are hired to do this dirty
work while older people provide
the money and a modified Nazi
philosophy.
Local populations do not par
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way When you go back you are
still q German citizen"
On the drive to Kenosha cars
are numbered and keep in fairly
close formation. Fritz Matthes has
warned us against creating any
disturbance.
Program Described
The Bund American citizens"
protest has done no good and the
celebration is held in Kenosha
Bund headquarters. Chicago Bund
members operate a bar on the first
floor near the large assembly hall.
In the basement, Kenosha mem
bers operate lunch counter, large
dining room and bar. There also
are four slot machines which are
very popular.
I see two newspaper photogra-
pliers and am warned by fellow
members to turn my face away
when they attempt to take pic
lures. Picket S-"communiStS, "
Bund members say-Start parad-
ing outside with sign denouncing
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Naziism, and Matthes calls all
Deutscher Bund troops inside and
orders us to "Stay away from those
agitators.'
Matthes also gives definite or
derS that we are not to give the
Nazi salute or any other salute
during the program. Our organi-
zation is the only one that parades
in the hall before speeches begin.
(Read tOmOrrOw'S TINES for
further experiences of James ].
Metcalfe as a member of Chi
Cages alien army.
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ticipate. The pogroms are caused
by out-of-town squads. Arms,
food, drink and railroad fare are
supplied to them. When a gang
marches into town, the police
usually disappear.
SEES CIVIL WAR
There may be civil war in
Poland if this continues, result
ing in a general war in Europe"
Kahn complained of "unSpeak
able brutality by hired hooligans'
that occurred even on the streets
of Warsaw. These men, he de
clared, ruthlessly destroyed shops
wrecked and looted homes ano
beat pedestrians on city streets.
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J. J. Metcolfe
Honored

Acceptance of James J.
Metcalfe, ex-G-man who took
part in the investigation of
the Nazis in the United
States, as a charter member
of the Society of Former Spe-
cial Agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Inc,
has been announced in New
York by Charles ]. Scully,
president of the organization.
The society, which makes
its headquarters at l Park
Ave., New York, was formed
this year. Its purpose, as out
lined in its constitution, is
"the preservation of friend
ship and loyalty and the pro-
motion of good will among
the members"
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Gen. Varela Hit
By BOmbin Madrid

MADRID. Sept. "a G.NS0.
Gen. Jose Varela, supreme military
commandant on the Madrid front
and the man who frustrated the
siege of the capital, was reported
seriously wounded last night when
the nationalist Shelled and
bombed Madrid. A shell splinter
entered his lung, the report said.
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Ask For Photographs

At this meeting and at the bust
ness meeting of the America
deutscher Bund two days later,
dozen members asks for copies OF
the pictures 1 took at Hindenburg
camp the previous Sunday. Mem
bers are amused at a story of the
Hindenbrg camp celebration in
the Milwaukee Sentinel headed
Fail to He'll Hitler"
The heils were given all right,
but Hitler'S name was not men
toned. AS is customary at all
Bund meetings, the leader called
for q salute and three heils for
Der Fuehrer CHitler). the Father
land and the new homeland.
Wire Protests Park Ban
At the Bundesheim, Peter Gissibl
asks me to draft a telegram for
him to the city manager of Ke-
nosha protesting against City
Council action prohibiting the
Bund from using Washington Park
there for the German Day cele-
bration. The telegram, as ap-
proved by Gissibl, says:
I'VE as American citizens
strongly protest the recent &C.
ton of the Kenosha City Coun-
Gil and knowing that those who
first brought this unpleasant
situation do not clearly under
stand > or apprecite our high
American ideals, we respectfully
request that you reconsider your
decision to the end that Wash
ington Park may be made aValla-
BILE to us next Sunday the same
as it would be to other American
citizens"
The wire is signed by six Bund
affiliates, with names Of leaders,
making it appear to be a protest
from a large body of Chicago Ger
man-AmericanS. che of them is
the DeutScher Volksbund, an Or
ganization for German citizens
only. And the wire says, I'VE as
American citizens ~
Swastikas By Thousands
see a swastika sticker under
the glass top of Gissibls desk and
ask where I can get one. He says:
I'VE have thousands of them
here and I will get some for
you"
At the bar the next night, I talk
about citizenship with Heinrich
Wolter, a member of the DeuJ-
scher Bund, and he says American
citizenship docs not mean any
thing because the German govern
ment does not recognize it, any.
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annie Laurie" Henry Give GlOri-
flies Another Famous Song In His
Series Of "SOngs That Will Live For
ever" Reproduced n Full Color in
The American Weekly, With Sundays
Washington Herald.
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"Visitor's Delight An amusing
short fiction story about . Northern
girl in the South. by the well-knOw1
writer, Wentworth Hale. In The
American Weekly, with Sundays
Washington Herald.