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Evening star., 1939-02-16
Symposiums to Be Held
On Mental Health

The first of five monthly sympo-
siums on Mental Health" arranged
and sponsored by a voluntary group
of District residents, will be held
Saturday at 2 pm. at the Shiloh
Baptist Church, Ninth and p streets
NV.
Although the names Of the
speakers have not yet been made
public, an announcement of the
meeting says they will be distin-
-guished in their field, including ex.
perts in psychology, medicine, So
ciology and education.
Among the topics to be discussed
are promotion of mental health,
prevention of mental and emotional
disorders and delinquencies and
treatment of the emotionally unad-
justed and mentally Ill.
The Program Committee COM
prises the Revs. E. L. Harrison, A.
A. Birch, w. E. Darlington, Arthur
D. Gray and John F. Monroe; H. G..
Christopher and Miss @. L. Wool
folk.
Evening star., 1939-02-16

The contest between maternal and
paternal sides of the family for GUS
tody of 6-year-old Peter Worthing-
ton Frailey today was set for a
hearing Monday in District Court.
Augustus S. w. Frailey, 81, the
child's father, wants the boy to live
with his paternal grandparents, Col
and Mrs. Charles L. Frailey. The
boys mother, Mrs. June Gushing
Frailey, 81, died fortnight ago.
The mother was given legal GUS
tody of the child upon her divorce
last July. Counsel for the father
contend this custody was invalidated
by the mothers death, which oc-
cured at Emergency Hospital after
she accidentally took an overdose
of sleeping potion.
Mrs. Cecil Gushing, the boys
maternal grandmother, and her
sister, Mrs. Lucy Gushing, are seek
ing custody of the child through
Attorneys Woodson p Houghton and
Kahl K. Spriggs. The father is
represented by Attorneys Walter M.
Shea, James A. Purcell and George
c. Warner, jr.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
C.M. 7. c. Not Mitoristic But Aids CITIZENSHIP
One of Nine Honor Troinees Asserts
Maj. Gen. Craig
Pins Pershing
Medals on Youths

American youths who enlist for
summer war training In Citizens
Military Training Camps are not
militarists, in the opinion Of one Of
the Nations outstanding c. M. T. C..
enrollees, square-shouldered, square,
jawed James D. Nudge Of Seattle,
22-year-old junior at the University
Of Washington.
After four years Of military train
ing-National Guard, r. o. T. C..
and c. M. T. 'C.-young Nudge Is
still not militarist.
Il find the main attitude Of
G. M. T. G. boys is one of great in
terest," he said today as he waited
in the office Of Secretary Of War
Woodring to receive with eight other
young men the Gen. John j. Persh-
ing Medal for Distinguished Attain
ment In Military Education.
I'VE are not militaristic, young
Nudge said firmly. I'VE hope we
never will have to 60 to war. How
ever, we do feel that those with
military training will be best able
to take care of themselves if war
comes"
Conception Of Training Clear.
Jim Nudge is a typical American
youth, and, in view of the honor
that came to him today, something
Of a model. His conception of mill
tary training is clear, and he is quick
to express it.
I'm addition to teaching us how
to fight, the Citizens Military Train
ing Camp service in the summer
makes contribution to citizenship"
he said. 1T teaches young men how
to get along with each other, with
those in the same boat as you are.
1t teaches self reliance, and it makes
a man out of you.'
When Nudge graduates from the
University of Washington in his
home town next year, he expects to
be commissioned in the Infantry
Reserve. He may transfer to the
field artillery and co. into the
Regular Army.
His hobbies are sports. He rides
horseback and Is good boxer. He
is quite a marksman, being a men,
ber of the university's varsity rifle
team. AS for military art, he has
served as regimental scout sergeant
in the 146th Field Artillery, Wash
ington (State) National Guard, and
for three years has been in the in
fantry regiment of the University
r. o. T. C.
Outstanding Trainee.
Last summer was his first as a
c. M. T. C. trainee. He entered as
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from st. Joseph, Mo-, Gen. Craig's
home town; and William I. Lofland,
Rockwall, Tex.
Some to Go to Randolph Field.
Touart, son of Maj. Anthony j.
Touart, U. S. A.. now stationed at
the Army Base in Boston, has gone
to c. M. T. C. camp for the past
three summers. He is 81 and is in
the R. 0. T. C. at the University of
New Hampshire. Like several other
C. M. T. C. trainees who received
the medals today, he plans to enlist
in the Army Air Corps for training
at Randolph Field, Tex, after he
finishes college
The nine youns men. represent
ing as many Army corps areas
through which the C. M. T. C. is ad-
mlnistered, are here for three days
Of sightseeing and entertainment.
Tomorrow they will be luncheon
guests at the Army-Navy Club and
tomorrow night guests at the Re-
serve Officers Association dinner at
the Hotel Washington.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Bates 10 Take Lead
In Fight on Racing .
Bill for District
Cites Massachusetts
Incidents in Opposing
LegoIized Betting

Representative Bates, Republican,
Of Massachusetts,, served notice to-
day he proposed to take lead in
the House in opposing the Sacks
bill to legalize horse racing in the
District under the pari-mutuel sys-
tenn of gambling.
A member of the House District
Committee, Mr.. Bates fought two
other similar bills which came be-
fore the committee in the last four
years.
Il am more opposed than ever to
legalized horse racing in the Dis
trict in view of recent developments
IN Massachusetts," he declared
And nothing has happened to
change my mind that race track
gambling will have a serious effect
on the economic life of Washing
ton"
The bill is to be referred to the
Judiciary Subcommittee of the
House District Committee, of which
Representative Bates is a member
About two weeks ago, Mr.. Bates
said man who claimed. he held
an option on a site in Benning,
where a race track would be estab-
lished If racing is legalized, asked
him If he had changed in views on
legalized horse racing in the Dis
trict. This man, he declared, told
him a racing bill would not be in
troduced in this Congress if he
objected.
although I announced at that
time that my mind had not been
changed" Mr.. Bates said, "the bill
was introduced anyhow"
Sponsored by Representative
Sacks. Democrat, of PENNSYLVANIA.
former member of the District
Committee, the new bill is similar
to one he introduced in the last
Congress. It would allow a maxi
mum OF 54 racing days a year.
Racing would be controlled bv
board OF three members appointed
by the Commissioners. Operators
OF tracks would be required to pay
the District a license fee of $4,000
for each day of racing, plus i per
cent of the daily take" The track
operators would be allowed ~ per
cent of the take" in addition to
the breaks"
Evening star., 1939-02-16
venereaI Disease Clinic
Held 0vercrowded

y Two members of the Health Com
lnittee of the Central Neighborhood
Council today descriged as terribly
crowded" the conditions at the We
nereal Disease Clinic at 51S I
street NV, where from $500 to
1000 clinic visits are handled
weekly.
Z Mrs. L. w. Jefferson, social worker
Tor the Temple Baptist Church, and
Miss Elizabeth E. Wingfield, repre-
tentative of the First Baptist
Church, visited the health clinic
today to gain information for re-
ports on health conditions in the
central area. The Central Neigh
borhood Council, an organization
sponsored by the Council of Social
Agencies, is seeking the establish
ment of a health center in the
area bounded by North Capitol
street, Constitution avenue, Six
teenth street, S street and Florida
avenue.
= The health workers were shown
ynrough the clinic, where since 1927
nedlcal service has been furnished
70 white and colored venereal pa
tients.
The clinic is doing excellent work.
s. Jefferson declared, but the
groWlng number of cases each year
makes 1t increasingly difficult to
nanole the problem adequately with
the space provided.
surveys made by the Council of
ooclal Agencies show that the CEN
Iral area has the highest number
sci Venereal disease cases in the
CITY and is danger area in the
mater OF infant and tuberculosis
oeatns as well. Future visits are
Planned to the tuberculosis and
child health and maternal clinics,
Evening star., 1939-02-16

an advanced student because of pre-
vious military training. After his
two weeks Of summer duty. the COM
manding general of the 9th Corps
Area selected him as the outstand-
ing trainee Of the Pacific Northwest.
Today Nudge came to Washing
ton with others who won the same
honor in their own corps areas. To-
gether they stood before Maj. Gen,
Malin Craig, Army chief of staff,
who pinned on them the Pershing
medals. Secretary of War Woodring
was to have presented the medals,
but he was prevented from doing so
because of congressional hearing.
Others receiving the medals were
Anthony ]. Touart, jr., Newton Gen.
ter, Mass: who carries on the mill
tary tradition in his family; Bayly
Elmer Merschoff, Richmond Hill,
Long Island; Paul M. Gift, Lewis
town, Pa; John R. Taylor, Green
vile, S. c.: Robert Edward Connor,
Cincinnati; Robert S. Saunders, Chi
cago; Harry r. Gillett, who halls
Evening star., 1939-02-16

to do with the use of time-those
spare moments when he lies awake
or stretched out in his hot bath. It
seems inevitable that, given an orig
inal personality, he would neces-
sarily become outstanding in any
field he chose, for it is the time that
most people throw away that he has
turned to his advantage.
Ahead Of Publishers.
BY this method, and apparently
without sacrificing anything that
with an ordinary person goes to
make life good, he stays far ahead
of his publishers. At the present
time he has a half dozen stories in
the Office of a magazine, a novel
called Christmas Holiday" in the
hands of publisher, who will bring
it out next fall after serial publica-
tion in magazine, and, in addition
to his anthology, a volume of his
own short stories ready for publica-
ton In the spring of 1910. All this,
and yet he never stays at his writ
ing table, fountain pen in hand,
more than four hours a day. cI have
never found typewriter that could
either spell or WRITE" he says.)
But, at this writing table or not,
he is a writer "a hours a day, for,
once a story idea appears in the
copious notes he takes, it goes
through a period of ripening during
whatever time his mind is not other
wise occupied, a period that often
takes two or three years. And how
could man like that have a vaca-
ton?
His advice to would-be writer's?
It is simple.
Write" he says, adding that your
work should be an expression of the
personality that is distinctly yours
IT that personality interests people,
you will have readers"
Evening star., 1939-02-16

Attorney Shea sought to have the
case heard today on the plea that
the father now is employed at a
hotel in Florida and has twice flown
to Washington, at considerable cost,
to be present in court. A full docket,
however. prompted Justice Jennings
Bailey to set the case for assign
ment Monday.
Attorney Shea said the boy had
lived with Col and Mrs. Frailey
since he was months old and until
December of 1897 when his ma
ternal grandmother took him to
Cincinnati, Ohio. He said Mrs.
Gushing obtained custody of the
boy on the understanding that he
was merely to spend the week end
with her.
The couple was married in Feb
ruary of 1881 and the child was
born two years later. In October of
1888, it was said, the child went to
live with his paternal grandparents
and remained with them, by mutual
consent Of father and mother, after
they separated in March of 1886.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Hearings Planned
On Civil Service
Appeals Board
Commission DiscIoses
1t Has Not Fovored
A Separate Body

Chairman Bulow of the Senate
Civil Service Committee made
known today he plans to hold hear
ings in the near future on various
plans that have been proposed to
establish board of appeals to hear
personnel complaints of Govern
ment employees.
Meanwhile, the Civil Service Com
mission has just informed the Sem
ate Committee it has not been
favorable "to the setting up of a
separate body for this purpose.
Order Is Recalled.
In reporting on one of the bills
for an appeals board, sponsored by
Senator Capper of Kansas, the
commission recalled that an execu-
tive order issued by the President
last summer instructed the direc-
tors of personnel in the Federal
service to establish a means of hear
ing employe grievances. The COM
missions report indicated it be.
lieves this order will prove a salts
factory solution of the problem
The report contended separate
agency would entail heavy cost.
The commission also has sub
mitted to the committee arguments
in support of retaining maximum
age limits for entering the Govern
ment service. This report was made
in connection with a bill by Senator
Barbour, Republican, of New Jer-
sey, under which a person could
not be barred from appointment
on the sole ground of age.
Age Limits Vary.
The commission explained that
the maximum age limits vary, as
follows: For apprentice jobs, 20 or
81 years; for railway mail service
and for Junior scientific and tech
nical positions, 35, and for clerical
positions, so to SO.
The civil service retirement law
has become a factor in developing
maximum age limits for appoint
ment, the commission wrote, point
ing out that Is years of service is
required as eligibility for retire.
ment. For this reason, the report
continued, the commission, in con-
ference with appointing officers,
has held that the maximum en-
trance age for a job should be from
Is to II years less than the retire
ment age for that class Of work.
"The commission trusts that the
above, information will serve to
show the necessity for establishing
maximum age limits for entrance
to civil service examinations" the
report concluded.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
CoIored Women Gets
225 Doys in Jail

A 22-year-old colored woman
was sentenced to serve 225 days IN
Jail when arraigned in Police Court
today on five charges that included
two assaults on q police matron
and an officer.
The woman, Amelia Frazier Of
the TOO block of s street NV.
struck Matron Eta Casebeer and
Pvt. N. K. Adams In the Woman's
Bureau last night as they were
taking her to isolation quarters for
being unruly. Matron Casebeer
suffered cut lip. The woman also
was sentenced for carrying q con-
cealed weapon, knife found in her
possession, and for being drunk
and disorderly.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Two Men and Woman
Held on Lottery Choroe

+. A woman and two men, arrested
by the police vice squad, were
arraigned before United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
late yesterday on charge of operat-
ing lottery and possession of num-
bers slips. The defendants, who
gave their names Ethel M. Dodd,
40, and Everett c. Dodd, 40, both of
the 800 block of Sixth street NV,
and Raymond Goodman, A., who
gave a local Y. M. C. A. as his ad-
dress, pleaded innocent. .
Commissioner Turnage. ordered
the three held under $500 bond
each pending Q hearing Monday.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Swanson Approves
Promotion of Five

Secretary Of the Navy Swanson
today approved report of a Naval
Selection Board recommending the
promotion of five officers of the
Naval Reserve Supply Corps, two
Of them Washingtonians.
,Comdr. Gordon Charles Hall of
Webster Groves, Mo-, was promoted
to captain. The following were pro-
noted to commanders in the Vol
unteer Reserves: Alfred Chester
Flather and Charles Carroll Glover,
jr, both of Washington; Jacob
Matthew Bregar Of Tampa, Fla,
and Harry Alvin Bellows OF Bever-
ley Hills, Calf.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
0verton Plans
Fiscal Relation
Definite Formula for
Fixing Payments
To D. c. Sought

Hearings on the plan to establish
a definite formula for fixing the
Federal payment toward District
expenses, based on the percentage
OF land area used by the Govern
ment, will be held by Senator Over
ton, Democrat Of Louisiana, he an.
nounced following his appointment
late yesterday as head Of a sub.
committee to handle the measure.
Chairman King referred the bill
to a subcommittee and designated
Senator Overton to take charge Of
it at the first meeting of the SEN
ate District Committee, at which
10 minor bills were ordered reported
favorably.
Subcommittee also were provided
for to study several other bills, in
cluding these: To limit the number
OF taxicabs; to strengthen the regu-
lation of small loans; to amend
District banking laws; to regulate
the practice of engineering; and to
transfer the recording of liens on
automobiles from the Recorder of
Deeds Office to the Motor Vehicle
Department.
Taxi Monopoly Question Raised.
The committee was about to act
on the taxicab limitation bill when
Senator Austin, Republican Of YER
mont, said he could conceive of the
bill having the effect, as time goes
on, Of giving a few companies a
beautiful monopoly" Chairman
King suggested the subject be given
further study by a subcommittee.
The pending small loans bill was
intended to put more teeth in the
regulatory features of the existing
law, but Corp. Counsel Elwood
Seal announced he is drafting a
comprehensive new law on the
subject and suggested postpone
ment until the draft is ready.
Senator King said he would select
within a day or two other Senators
to serve with Senator Overton on
the Fiscal Relations Subcommittee.
Senator Overton, who is the author
OF the land-area plan for putting
the Federal payment on a fixed
statutory basis, will announce later
the date for the. hearings. Senator
Overton is chairman also Of the
Appropriations Subcommittee which
handles the annual District supply
bill, and believes the present lump
sum practice Of Federal payment
should be replaced by some definite
percentage system. The land-area
formula, under present conditions
would make the Federal share 20
per cent Of the general fund
expenses.
Keech Cites Limitation Support.
Public Utility Commissioner Rich
mond B. Keech told the committee
there is uniform approval by both
citizens and the cab industry of
regulating the number of cabs. The
reduction would be accomplished by
not issuing new licenses when cabs
60 out of business voluntarily, or
when licenses are revoked for cause.
He testified there are 1900 cabs in
Washington, and $500 individuals
with permits to operate them.
Harry S. Wender of a committee
Of the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations supported limiting the
number of cabs, but urged also
that the Commissioners should be
given power to regulate the num-
ber Of individuals licensed to drive
them.
The committee made an adverse
report on a bill which would pre-
vent the District from establishing
one of the automobile inspection
stations adjacent to the Farmers
Market in the Southwest.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Planners 10 Receive
Progress Plans for
Airport Development. 4 |.
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Five Agencies to Submit
Drawings; Action on
Lond Purchases Seen

Progress plans for development of
an airport building group which is
believed will be superior to anything
in the world will be submitted to
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission tomorrow as
part of general plan for develop
ment of the Washington National
Airport at Gravelly Point.
The commission will receive from
the five Federal agencies concerned
with the airport development pre-
liminary drawings for the relocation
of the Mount Vernon Highway and
other controlling elements which
must be settled before detailed study
can go ahead. The commission is
expected to act on general plans for
the whole airport development.
At the opening session Of the
commissions February meeting to-
morrow morning action will be taken
on a number of land purchase items
and legislative matters pending at
the Capitol. The commission will
receive a request from the Alley
Dwelling Authority to approve the
condemnation of several pieces Of
property for one of its new low
cost housing projects and for alley
clearing work.
Plans for a new tuberculosis an
mex at Freedmen's Hospital will be
considered by the commission which
also will act on a new landscape
plan for Commodore Barney Circle
at the west end of the new Pennsyl-
vania Avenue Bridge.
Revision of the District recrea-
tional plan to bring up to date
various developments over a period
of eight years will be considered.
The commission will receive re-
port on the status of plans for de-
velopment of highway on the
right-of- way of the old Washington,
Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad.
Consideration also will be given to
legislation pending before the Mary
land Legislature to revise the Plan
ming Act affecting developments In
the suburban area around Washing
ton and to a proposed Maryland
bond issue to finance development
of the George Washington Parkway
along the Maryland side Of the
Potomac River above Washington.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Vaughan, Here on u. S. Tour,
Keeps Busy Planning Novel
Author Finds Little
Time on His Hands
During Vacation

w. Somerset Vaughan, the writer,
today was in Washington as part of
his American vacation, If you can
call it that.
The author of "of Human Bond
age" "The Summing Up" Thea
ter" RAIN" and other volumes too
numerous to name, arrived in New
York from his villa in the south of
France on January IL and since
that time has visited San Fran
cisco. Chicago and Cleveland, and,
if the vacation he is having in
Washington is typical. writer's must
never have heard of the 40-hour
working week.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Vaughan
arrived here early after a night on
the train. It might be added that
it was a rather sleepless night, but
even on vacation Mr.. Maugham
wasted no time sheep counting. In
stead he lay in his berth phrasing
dialogue for a novel he will not
begin to put on paper for another
year.
Studies Characters.
Then there was breakfast at his
hotel and half hour in a hot bath
turning over in his mind descrip-
tions of the characters for that
future novel, ideas about their
homes, their clothes. their food and
all the little idiosyncrasies that go
to make up living personality.
After that he had the morning
mail to face, for, wherever he is,
his mail is forwarded to him by his
publishers. Furthermore, the mail
Of successful author is not some
thing that can be eyed casually be-
tween ones soft-boiled egg and cof-
fee. For example, yesterdays mail
included a suggestion for a some
what pathological short story, SUBJ
mitted by an admirer in Idaho.
Then, too, there was the letter that
began like any other but which, as
1t developed, turned out to convey
no personal message. It was simply
an essay Oh truth. Nor are these
letters unusual. Every mail brings
them.
Sometimes I think so many peo-
pie must be lonely" is Mr.. Maugh-
ans reaction.
But the mail only began the morn
ing. After that the 64-year-old
writer turned to study of series of
translations Of French, German and
Russian tales that are to appear in
an anthology of 100 short stories
to be edited by Mr.. Vaughan and
published in the future.
Expert Bridge Player.
So goes his vacation, and one can
not help wondering what he thinks
when he sees people who imagine a
vacation calls for countless hours
lying on a beach doing nothing but
digging ones toes in the warm sand.
Despite this wonder, however, 1t
would seem that Mr.. Vaughan finds
time for recreation. He is an expert
bridge and poker player, and a good
swimmer, golfer and tennis en-
thusiast. There is nothing Of the
bookworm about him. Persons who
have read "Of Human Bondage
or "The Summing Up" will know
that his pattern of life is too full tt
permit that.
On meeting him you become aware
of a man of medium height with
dark hair and dark, brown eyes, and
a certain air Of suave confidence
The impression deepens as he
speaks, always with a viewpoint de.
tached enough to see things clearly
Gradually, as you sit with him anG
listen, you begin to form . theory
on what has made him what many
call the greatest living Enslist
writer" e seems to have 0oanethiul
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Emil Enders Funeral
Services Tomorrow

Funeral services for Emil Enders,
father Of the Rev. Charles Enders,
pastor of the Concordia Lutheran
Evangelical Church, will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow in Richmond, Va.
A retired businessman in Rich
mond, he was 86 years old. He for.
merly conducted . Tailoring bud.
ness.