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Evening star., 1938-05-29
CALIFORNIANS TO JOIN
IN CAMPFIRE PROGRAM
Pictures of National Parks and
Monuments in State to Be
Shown Friday.

Members of the California dele
cation in Congress and the California
State Society will join in the first
campfire program of the National
Capital Parks this season at 8 pm.
Friday at the Pierce Mill Picnic Grove.
C. Marshall Finnan. superintendent
of National Capital Parks, will extend
greetings of the park service and
will introduce the speaker, Earl A.
Trager, chief naturalist. National Park
Service, who will give a lecture, il
lustrated with colored moving pic
lures, of the national parks and
monuments of California.
The meeting will be conducted un-
der direction of Donald Edward Nc
Henry. park naturalist. There will bs
community singing. A special bus,
marked Campfire Program" will leave
Sixteenth street and Park road NV.
at intervals between 1880 and 8 pm.
for Pierce Mill Picnic Grove and will
return to the starting point at the
conclusion of the program. Private,
cars will be parked at the regular
parking places adjoining the mill.
In case of unfavorable weather, the
campfire talks will be given in the old
brick pump house on the Rock Creek
Potomac Parkway. just south of the
tunnel beneath Massachusetts, ave.
nue..
Evening star., 1938-05-29
MYSTERY SHROUDS
STRICKEN WOMAN
Police Seek to Learn Whether She
Was Attack Victim or
Became III.

Miss Louise Zimmerman, "a, of 1912
Kenilworth street NE, who was found
lying unconscious beside the railroad
tracks at Minnesota avenue and Gait
street NE. Friday night. remained
in serious condition at Casualty
Hospital today while detectives sought
to learn if she was the victim of a
sudden illness or had been attacked by
robbers.
Miss Zimmerman, employe of a
laundry, still was unable to make an
articulate statement. Doctors at the
hospital told detectives there were no
marks Of violence on Miss Zimmer-
mans body and they were convinced
she suffered stroke while on her way
home from work
The young woman's pocketbook, be-
lieved to have contained her weekly
pay, could not be located after she
was removed to the hospital. Police
thought it might have been stolen by
one Of q number Of spectators who
went to the scene.
Detectives sought several times yes
terday to obtain statement from
Miss Zimmerman without success. A
passerby found her lying beside the
tracks on her usual route home from
work.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
SEAL TO RECEIVE
$9,000.A-YEAR PAY
$1,000 step-Up for Corporation
Counsel Approved by D. c.
Commissioners.

Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal
soon will join the ranks of the select
few District officials who are paid the
top Classification Act salary of So
900 a year.
In compliance with a decision by
Congress in passing the 1889 Appro-
priation Act. the Commissioners have
approved 81 900 step-up for the cor
poration counsel. He has been re-
ceiving the minimum of $4,000 for the
grade for his Office.
The only other District officials re-
ceiving $4,000 are the three Commits
sioners and Maj. Daniel j. Donovan,
auditor and budget officer. Others in
the $4,000 to $4,000 grade are Health
Onicer George c. Rutland, DR.. George
F. Bowerman, public librarian; We'll
fare Director Elwood Street and the
judges of the Municipal and Police
Courts.
The Commissioners also have ap-
proved the top $500 salaries for the
classifications for the positions of
District assessor. held by Fred D.
Allen. and principal assistant corpora
ton counsel, held by Vernon E. West.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
DOG BITES POLICEMAN
ARRESTING HIS MASTER
"Pluto" Takes Piece of Officers
Thumb, but the Law Takes
Its Course.

Pluto" large dog with untraceable
ancestry, tried to make the law swerve
from its duty last night, but succeeded
only in complicating matters for his
master.
Answering a call to quell reported
disturbance in the first block Of Myrtle
street NE. last night, Pvt. Albert D.
Nicholson of No. l precinct, found his
path blocked by Pluto
As Pvt. Nicholson took the dogs
master, Andrew McDodd. colored, into
custody, Pluto" expressed his dislike
by biting piece out of the ofiicer's
thumb. ..,.
The law took its course, however, and
McDodd was locked up on q charge
Of drunkenness and having an un-
licensed dog.
Pvt. Nicholson had his thumb treat
ed at Casualty Hospital and returned
to duty. "Pluto't and the piece of
thumb. remained II large.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
RECEPTION PLANNED
BY LANGDON LODGE
Completion of I. o. o. F. Building
Program to Be Celebrated
Wednesday Night.

An informal reception Wednesday
night will mark completion of the
building improvement program Of
Langdon Lodge, I. o. o. F.. at Mills
and Rhode Island avenue NE.
The program will include an address
by William S. Egbert, noble grand of
Langdon Lodge; selections by the la
dies quartet of the Mount Rainier
(Md.) Christian Church-Mrs. Lura j..
Fowkes. Mrs. Betty Nuttick. Mrs.
Gladys Kinner and Mrs. Anna Gerst-
accompanied by Mrs. Nora E. Robb,
organist, and numbers by Merlin Ra-
der, violinist; Miss Prudence jackson.
soloist, and Donald King, S-year-old
marimba player. A three-piece or
chestra, consisting of Clyde A. 1sham.
guitarist; R. H. Garrett. banjoist, and
Howard r. Green, pianist, also will
play.
Invited organizations include the
I. o. o. F. and Magnolia Rebecca
Lodges of Mount Rainier: Fidelity Re-
becca Lodge, Magenenu Encampment;
Woodbridge Post, Veterans Of Foreign
Wars, and its Ladies' Auxiliary, and
the Brookland Woodbridge Business
Mems Association.
Arrangements have been directed by
Milton S. Fall, william F. Dowell,
Fred w. Doak, Howard r. Green and
William S. Egbert.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
Repairs oShut
Water Conduit
For Two Weeks

Repair work on one of the two con-
duits which supply Washington with
water will require that 1t be shut of
for about is days. but the city is not
expected to suffer any Inconvenience
unless the weather turns much
warmer.
The conduit will be cut of Wednes-
day, D. M. Radcliffe Of the United
States Engineer ONCE disclosed yes
terday. A 385-foot section damaged
by the severe floods Of the last two
years will be repaired.
If the weather should turn hot
while the repairs are under way, Mr..
Radcliffe explained, it will be neces-
sary to curtail water consumption
temporarily, but II the present cool
weather continues, the conduit will
not be missed. Under current condi-
tions, the city uses about 100 0,000, 900
gallons q day. While each. conduit
ordinarily carries only 100, ,000, 900 gal
Ions day, the capacity Of one can
be increased to take care Of the
normal need.
The repair work will be done near
whitewater, Md. Floods have washed
away the rock foundations On which
the conduit rogts.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
NATIONAL HOUSEKEEPER
ASSOCIATION TO MEET
Fifth Annual Congress to Open
Thursday at Raleigh.
Lucius Boomer to Speak.

The nth annual congress Of the
National Executive Hsusekeepers' Asso-
citation will be held at the Raleigh
Hotel, beginning Thursday and con-
tinuing through Sunday, it was an
nounced yesterday by Miss Margaret
Barnes, executive housekeeper OF the
Raleigh, who organized the associa-
ton seven years ago in New York.
Twenty-six chapters and MEMBER
ship Of more than TOO hotel and hos
pital housekeepers in every State in
the Union will be represented. Next
Saturday, Lucius Boomer. managing
director of the Waldorf-Astor1a Hotel,
will discuss 1.-The Executive House.
keeper and the Employe Problem" :"
Local hotel men have been invited to
hear the address.
After a luncheon in the Pail Mall
room Of the Raleigh next Friday, the
housekeeper Of the White House Will
discuss her duties. New omcers VIII
be elected at II am. Saturday.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
z TO SEEK TITLE
|N.SPELL|NG BEE
II Girls and 5 Boys From All
Sections Begin Contest
Here Tuesday.

Twenty-Five boys and girls between
the ages of IL and Is will arrive in
Washington tomorrow for the four
teenth annual spelling bee sponsored
by the Louisville (Ky) Courier-Jour-
nal, which will be held at the National
Museum beginning at am. Tues
day.
The champions who will enter the
contest here have won elimination
events sponsored by some newspaper
in their community. The contestants
include II girls and five boys.
Donald McWain. director Of the
spelling bee for the r-Journal.
has arranged an entertainment and
sightseeing program that will occupy
the time of the children during their
four day stay here.
It is expected that the finals ct the
contest Tuesday can be reached be-
tween and 1:30 pm, when the pro-
gram is to be broadcast over a Ma
tion-wide radio hook-up.
The champion will receive cash
prize of $500. with $500 and 500 for
second and third. Those finishing be-
tween fourth and fourteenth will re-
ceive $50 each: from fourteenth to
twenty-first, $40, and twenty-first and
twenty-second, $35. The winner also
will receive two plaques, one for his
school and one for himself.
Judges for the bee will be John H.
Lloyd of the Department of Interior,
Ivan A. Booker of the National Edu-
cation Association and Mrs. Wilford
L. White. former faculty member OF
the Harvard Graduate School of Busi-
ness Administration.
Pronouncers will be Harold F. Hard
ing of George Washington University
and George F. Hussey, jr., special con-
tributing editor to Webster's New
International Dictionary.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
PROBE Of TRANSIT
L|NESMARKST TIME
Departure of Dirksen for
Illinois Hints Delay
Until January.
By JAMES E. CHINN.

The widely heralded investigation
of the Capital Transit Co.. which got
off to two feeble starts in the last two
years, appeared last night to have COL
lapsed with the departure from WASH
ington of Representative Dirksen, Re-
publican, of Illinois, who initiated the
inquiry.
Mr.. Dirksen probably will not re-
turn before the adjournment OF Con-
gress, and the Public Utilities Sub
committee of the District Committee,
which is charged with the investiga-
ton. has shown no disposition to re-
sumo the proceedings In his absence.
There is no intention on Mr.. Dirk
sens part. however, to abandon the
inquiry. But he indicated there would
be another delay until next January
at least, before he would have time to
devote to the investigation.
Start Made Year Ago.
The initial start on the probe was
made about . year ago. After several
hearings, there was an abrupt halt.
Again, early in the present session
of Congress, the subcommittee held
another hearing, and Mr. Dirksen sub
sequently went to the District Build
ing and collected in the Public Utilities
Commission mass of data relating
to the transit company and its par
ent. the gigantic North American Co.
of New York
Since that time no effort has been
made by the subcommittee to resume
the investigation. Representative
Randolph. Democrat, of West Vir-
ginia, the subcommittee chairman, an
nounced some time ago that no fur
ther hearings would be held until Mr..
Dirksen was ready to proceed. But.
Mr.. Dirksen found himself too busy
with other congressional duties. Now
he has returned home to patch up
few political fences in the 18th Ilh-
nois district.
II still intend to go through with
the investigation" said Mr.. Dirksen.
There are number of matters that
have not yet been delved into, partic-
ularly the relationship between Cap
ital Transit and the North American
Co. I have considerable information
with respect to the financial struc-
ture of the transit company, but the
picture I want to get is still in
complete"
May Summon OfIicials.
Mr.. Dirksen said when the inquiry
is resumed, he proposed to have Of
ficials of the North American Co. sum-
moned to testify. Thus far, only Of
f1cials of the transit company and
the Public Utilities Commission have
been on the witness stand. In addi-
ton, however, William A. Roberts,
former peoples counsel, and the Sc
curities Exchange Commission fur
nished the subcommittee with data
showing the tie-up between the tram
sit company and the North American.
Aside from the financial set-up of
the transit company and the amount
Of revenue it is turning over to North
American, the subcommittee, in re-
suming the investigation this year, set
out to determine the justification for
the increase in token fares which the
commission authorized last November.
At that time the price Of tokens was
raised from 4 for 80 cents to six for
so cents.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
CONFERENCE TO OPEN
Federal and Industrial Scientists
From Throughout q. s. to
Attend 4-Day Program,

Government and industrial scien-
lists from throughout the United
States will attend the four-day pro-
gram of the 28th National Conference
on Weights and Measures to be held
here beginning Tuesday.
The sessions on Tuesday and Thurs
day will be in the auditorium of the
East Building of the National Bureau
Of Standards, while Wednesdays and
Fridays sessions will be at the WASH
ington Hotel.
Tuesdays sessions will be at 10 am.
and 2 pm. Discussions will center
around the standardized equipment
used in measuring and weighing.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
BACKED FOR D. c. POST
George Allen Ham Urged as Sue
cessor to George Allen.

Representative Atkinson, Democrat,
of Tennessee announced yesterday
that he would recommend to President
Roosevelt the appointment of George
Alien Ham, young Washington busi-
ness executive and sportsman. as Dis
trict Commissioner to succeed George
Allen, who resigned recently.
Mr.. Ham was with the American
Automobile Association for several
wears and was credited with working
out several plans that improved traf-
fic conditions. Later he was sales
director for an automobile agency and
more recently has been assistant man
arer Of q local hotel. He Is an en-
thusiastic yachtsman.
Evening star., 1938-05-29

proved unfounded upon inquiry yes
terday. Miss Lorene Nelson, school
principal who Is a graduate of CO.
lumbia University and specialist in
education, said the girls attend aca-
demic or vocational classes from 8
am. to noon and from l to pm.
daily. except Sunday. This schedule
has been in effect since her appoint
ment more than a year ago, she
declared.
In the academic classes the girls
are taught arithmetic. spelling, Amer
ican history. geography, English and
social science-all of necessarily
rudimentary nature, she pointed out.
Few Of the girls have been beyond
the sixth grade. Instruction is adapted
to meet the requirements of individual
students. she explained.
Vocational classes are given in sew
ing, laundry work. manual training,
domestic science and beauty parlor
technique. The sewing and beauty
parlor classes appear to be more pop
ular. In the domestic science classes
the girls are given intensive instruc-
ton in cooking and serving meals. to
train them for home service after they
leave the institution.
Since the first Of this year the girls
have published-by mimeograph-a
newspaper called This and That,
which contains personal and general
items of interest to all inmates. They
also have dramatic club, which
stages plays occasionally.
The newspaper has made no men,
ton of the fact that unless Congress
relents the institution will be aban-
doned at the end of June The House
Appropriations Committee has before
it set of alternative recommen-
dations by the Budget Bureau as to
disposition Of the inmates after closing
of the school. One suggestion was
that all of the girls be paroled-al-
though officials declare this would be
"unthinkable," as the girls are unfit
for parole at the present time. A Sec
ond recommendation was that all but
40 inmates be paroled and that these
40 be transferred to cottage at Blue
Plains now occupied by boys of the
colored Industrial Home School. The
latter would be "farmed out" in foster
homes. A third suggestion was that
three new buildings be erected at Blue
Plains to house the girls.
Witnesses before the Appropriations
Committee last week are understood to
have vigorously opposed all of these
suggested moves and to have urged
that the National Training School and
the Receiving Home for Children-also
in danger of being abolished-be con-
tinued during the next fiscal year.
In addition to arguing that the
training school is now being conducted
on an efficient basis. friends of the
institution have pointed out that more
than $223.000 has been expended re-
Gently on new buildings and other
improvements at the school. It would
be false economy" they contend, to
abandon the institution in view Of
these changed conditions.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
SPEED IN SITE CHOICE
FOR SCHOOL is ASKED
1887 Trinidad Citizens Urge
Commissioners to Act on
Combination Project.

A delegation representing the Trini-
dad Citizens Association yesterday
urged the Commissioners to speed the
selection of sites for combination
junior senior high school and play
ground facilities. somewhere near Six
teenth and Queen streets NE.
A petition bearing the signatures OF
1887 residents Of the Trinidad area
was presented to Commissioner Melvin
c. Hazen. The group was headed by
George j. Cleary and included jose
phine M. Mcneil, Mrs. j. M. Selby,
Mrs. William H. Mahoney, H. E.
Shilling and Robert F. (Cy) Perkins.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
DC. YOUTH HEADS CLASS
AT c. U. FOR 4th YEAR
L. H. Lanman Named President
of Senior Engineering and !.
Architecture Group.

Election of Lewis H. Lanman OF SIT
Decatur street NV. as president Of
the senior class in the School OF Enlgi-
neering and Architecture at Catholic
University was announced yesterday.
The son of Mrs. Mary Frances Lam
man, the youth is an honor student, .
member of Phi Eta Sigma, national
freshman honor fraternity, and Of the
Senator'S Club, an organization Of
day students. He becomes president
of his class for the fourth consecuttXe
year.
Mr.. Lanman plans to graduate as
bachelor of science in chemistry in
June. 1899. He was graduated from
st. Johns College. washington pre-
paratory school, in 1885.
Evening star., 1938-05-29

Of Mrs Carrie Weaver Smith, have
resulted in a reduction of the daily
per capita cost figures, which at times
we're in excess of 81, to record low
mark of So, recorded last month.
This reduction has been effected,
school officials said yesterday, without
impairing the quality or quantity OF
food served to the delinquent girls
housed in the uch-discussed estab-
lishment on Conduit road, near the
Dalecarlia pumping station.
Representative Ross Collins, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi. principal congress
sional critic of the school, is said to
have told House appropriations sub
committee last week that it costs as
much to keep one girl at the training
school as it does two girls at Vassar.
He opposed efforts of District officials
to secure a deficiency appropriation
with which to continue the school
during the next fiscal year.
Costs Decline Steadily.
An inquiry at the school yesterday
by The Star disclosed a steady decline
In operating costs during the first four
months of this year. under a manage
ment headed by DR.. James Lewald,
superintendent Of the District Train
ing School at Laurel. Md, as acting
superintendent, and Miss Annie
Andrus as resident acting assistant
superintendent. The decrease in per
capita costs from similar months q
year ago was especially great.
In January of this year the per
capita cost was 1929, while in Janu-
ary of 1897 it was S633. In February
of this year the per capita figure again
was 1929, as compared with s7.o4 in
February, 1887 In March the cost
for 1888 was s215; for 1887, $500.
In April it was 81 in 1888 and s4l5
in 1887.
The per capita cost per meal has
dropped from an average of 20 cents
in the first four months of 1887 TO Is
cents during a similar period of this
year.
One of the factors in the reduced
per capita costs has been an increased
population at the school, due. officials
explained, to a tightening up of the
parole policies under the new man.
agement. Fewer girls are being
paroled this year than last, and super
vision is said to be stricter.
Population Averages 50.
The population of the school aver
aged less than IS for the first four
months of last year. whereas it has
averaged above so so far this year,
with the present total being 60 girls,
all but seven of whom are colored.
There are now 70 girls on parole.
A typical weekday breakfast con-
sists of grapefruit juice, cereal, bacon
and eggs or Clipped beef or hash.
toast and coffee or milk. A typical
Sunday breakfast consists of oranges,
cereal, sausages, hot cakes, sirup and
coffee or milk.
A midday meal during the week
usually consists of soup. meat, vege-
tables, bread and butter, dessert and
tea or milk. Dinner last Sunday con-
sisted of fried chicken with gravy,
mashed potatoes, string beans, celery,
green onions, pie and tea or milk.
A typical supper consists OF baked
fish or chops or roast meat, vege-
tables, dessert and tea or milk.
All Attend Glasses.
Reports that inmates of the school
attend educational classes for only
two hours-late in the afternoon
Evening star., 1938-05-29
SESSION At G. v.
TO OPEN. JUNE q
-Four Visiting Professors
Join Summer Staff of
Education School.

Four visiting professors will join the
faculty of the summer session of the
School of Education Of George Wash
ington University, which opens June
q, a week earlier than usual, for the
convenience of teachers taking the
six-week course.
DR.. Carroll D. champlin, professor
of education in Pennsylvania State
College, will return after an absence
of four years to conduct seminars in
philosophy of education and compar-
ative education. He has made three
educational tours to Europe in recent
years and also has visited South
America.
DR.. william H BristoW, general
secretary Of the Congress Of Parents
and Teachers, is another visiting pro-
fessor. He was formerly deputy SUI
perintendent of education of the State
of Pennsylvania. He is graduate
Of Columbia University and State
Teachers College, Warrensburg, Mo-,
having taught at the latter, at the
University of Oklahoma and Cornell
University.
Play Leadership Course.
A new offering this summer will be
a course in leadership in recreational
groups which will be given by DR..
Lennig Sweet of the Social Security
Board. 1t is designed for those work.
ing with groups in schools. play
grounds, boys clubs and the. like.
DR.. Sweet holds degrees from Prince
ton and Columbia Universities and
Union Theological Seminary. He
brings to the work background OF
long experience in the field of recrea-
tion.
Mary A. Adams, principal Of the
Monticello Demonstration School Of
Baltimore public school system. again
Joins the faculty this summer. She
will give courses in children's liter
ature. teaching of reading and the
social studies.
Others Assigned.
Others assigned to the summer ses-
sion are members Of the George Wash
ington faculty. DR.. James Harold
Fox, associate professor of education
will give seminar in administration,
as we'll as courses in the junior high
school and teaching of science. Prof
William Cullen French will give SEM
mars in educational origins. the cur
ricula and research studies. Prof.
Mitchell Dreese will teach educational
psychology, educational measurements
and psychology of motivation.
Courses of particular interest to
teachers in other departments include:
Victorian literature, modern Ameri-
can poetry. introduction to the study
of poetry, historical evolution of mod
ern nationalism, recent American for
eign policy and current history, prin-
ciples of philosophy. international
politics, the Far East. international
law and relations and educational
sociology.
In addition, a full program of
academic courses is scheduled in a
nine weeks term beginning June 20,
under the liberal arts department,
which affords additional training for
teachers. The summer course is OPEN
ing earlier 50 as to give teachers
longer vacation between its close and
the reopening OF schools in the fall.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
SEVEN ATTEND MEETING
Greenbelt Residents Leave fol
- Cooperative Convention.

~ Seven residents of Greenbelt went
to New York over the week end to
attend the annual convention of CO.
81 operative wholesale companies.
IfrH They are Mrs. Bertha Maryn. only
Toman member of the Greenbelt Co
Operative Organizing Committee,
(which is making preliminary studies
g, preparatory to assuming control Of
, EGreenbelt's business enterprises;
\ fCharles e. Fitch, Fred Wilde, DR.. Dod-
, Ison, william r. Poole, Reed P. Maughn
yand Peter Carroll.