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Evening star., 1939-09-20
J. P. Atkinson Rites
To Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for John P. At
kinson, SO, who served at the Capitol
for "a years as messenger and as
sistant clerk, will be held at 2 pm.
tomorrow at Calvary Episcopal
Church, Eleventh and G streets NE.
Mr.. Atkinson died Monday in Freed
mems Hospital of heart ailment,
having been i'll since February. He
made his home at 209 Tenth street
Sc
Born in Washington, he was edu-
Gated in the public schools here and
was first employed in the Navy Yard
as a clerk in the Ordnance Office.
He later worked in the Office Of
Senator Dillingham; of Vermont
until the Senator's death in 1928.
He had been a member of the staff
of Senator Austin of Vermont since
1881.
Mr.. Atkinson was former presi-
dent of the Oldest Inhabitants AS
sociation (colored) of Washington
He was an active church worker.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ella
Atkinson: three brothers and two
sisters, all of Washington.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Noble Will Crown
Miss Ruth 0verton
Regatta Queen
Commerce Official
Accepts Invitation
To Officiute Friduy

Undersecretary of Commerce Ed
ward j. Noble today accepted an in
vitation to crown Miss Ruth Overton
queen of the 1899 Presidents Cup
Regatta, Thomas P. Morgan, jr, pro-
motion chairman of the 18th annual
Cup Regatta, announced.
Miss Overton, daughter of Senator
Overton of Louisiana, will receive
her crown from the hands of the
Government official on Friday night
aboard her flagship, 75-foot Coast
Guard patrol boat. anchored in
Georgetown Channel off East Po-
tomac Park, as climax to a parade of
Illuminated yachts and fireworks
display.
The power boat section of the re-
gatta opens Friday morning with
day of outboard racing over course
identical with the water pageant
scene that evening. Racing will con-
tinue Saturday and Sunday, begin
ming each day at noon. Miss Over
ton plans to view each days events
from a special box in the grand
stands along Hains Point drive.
Following a mock coronation for
the benefit of photographers, the
queen and her court will board the
flagship at the new Municipal Yacht
Basin No. at 7:30 pm. AS the ship
moves down Washington Channel
and around Hains Point it will be
joined by Illuminated and fag-be-
decked pleasure craft of Capital and
Corinthian Yacht Clubs.
On nearing the Coast Guard cut
ter Calypso the flagship will anchor
off the reviewing stands while the
flotilla of yachts continues in single
formation up the channel
Meanwhile the queen will be
crowned, and the fleet will return
in review between the flagship and
the shore stands. Canoes illumi-
mated with flares will perform ma
neuvers. This will be followed by
fireworks set off from the Virginia
shore of the Potomac River.
The queen and her court will dis
embark at Corinthian Yacht Club.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Father Casey Dies;
Former 6. j. Instructor

The Rev. PIX j. Casey, S. j.,
retired teacher Of classics at Loyola
College in Baltimore, and a former
instructor at Georgetown Univer-
sity, died yesterday at Woodstock
College near Baltimore. He was 10.
Father Casey retired about 20
years ago because Of illness and
had been an invalid since.
Born in New York, he attended
st. Francis Xavier College there.
After entering the Jesuit Order in
1879, he continued his studies of the
classics at the Jesuit novitiate, then
located near Frederick, Md.
He taught at Holy Cross College
in Worcester, Mass, from 1882 to
1885, studied philosophy at Wood
stock College from 1883 to 1886 and
then returned to Holy Cross for a
year.
Later he taught in succession at
Georgetown University, as a classics
instructor; st. Peters College, Jer-
sey City, N. j., and st. Francis
Xavier. Returning to Woodstock to
study theology for three years, he
was ordained to the priesthood in
1894.
After the turn of the century he
taught at Fordham University,
Holy Cross and Gonzaga.
Funeral services will be at Wood
stock tomorrow at 10 am.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
City News in Brief
TODAY

Dinner, Washington Association
of Credit Men, Hamilton Hotel, $50
pm.
Dinner, National Association Of
Cost Accountants, Hamilton Hotel,
$50 pm.
Meeting, Washington Philatenc
Society, Mayfiower Hotel, 7 pm.
Meeting, Kappa Gamma Sorority,
Zeta Chapter, Raleigh Hotel, 7:30
pm.
Meeting, North Carolina Demo-
cratic Club, Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Convention, Farm Security Ad-
ministration, Wardman Park Hotel,
all day.
TOMORROW.
Breakfast, Credit Women Of
Washington, Willard Hotel, 7:45 am.
Meeting, Maryland, Virginia and
District of Columbia Laundry Own
ers' Association, Willard Hotel, 8
am; all day.
Luncheon, North Washington
Lions Club, the eKnesaw, sixteenth
and Irving streets NV, 1915.
Luncheon, Junior Board of Com
merce, Hotel Annapolis. 1920 pm.
Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club,
Carlton Hotel, pm.
Luncheon, Olds Division Of Gen.
eral Motors, Mayflower Hotel, l pm.
Dinner, Social Democratic Feder-
alton, La Fayette Hotel, $50 pm.
Dinner, Mothers Forum Club, Ra-
leigh Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Kappa Gamma Sorority,
Beta Chapter, Raleigh Hotel, 7:30
pm.
Meeting, Women's Bar Associa-
ton, Mayflower Hotel, 7:3O pm.
Meeting, Tau Phi Sorority, Ward
man Park, 8 pm.
Dinner, Sigma Gamma Sorority,
Wardman Park, 8 pm.
Meeting, District Of Columbia
Pharmaceutical Association, Ward
man Park, 8 pm.
Meeting. Washington Auto Trade
Association, Hay-Acams House, $50
pm.
Meeting, Young Friends Club,
Raleigh Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Meeting, Lido Civic Club, May
flower Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Meeting. General Electric Supply
Corp, Willard Hotel, 9:15 pm.
Convention, Farm Security .Ad-
ministration, Wardman Park, all
day.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Miss Perkins Predicts
New Armour Parley
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of Labor Perkins yester-
day expressed the belief that COL
lective bargaining negotiations be-
tween Armour & Co. and the c. I. o.
could be reopened as the result OF a
series of conferences here.
The Secretary conferred twice
with four representatives Of the
packing company and told newspa-
permen later that important con-
cessions" had been made which
would smooth the difficulties block
ing negotiations.
I'VE think negotiations can be re-
opened along the lines desired by
the union," she said.
Negotiations begun on plant-by-
plant basis a few weeks ago were
broken off, and the union demanded
Federal Intervention to avoid a
threatened strike in Armour's scat
tered plants.
The Secretary made it plain yes
terday that the only problem in the
controversy was an agreement on
the procedure to be used in negotia-
tions at the various plants.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Two More SquoIus Dead
Buried in Arlington

The Navy was to bury two more
of its Squalus dead today In Ar
lington Cemetery and two tomor-
row, after services in Fort Myer
Chapel.
John Pleasant Hathaway of In
diana, fireman (f1rst class, and
James A. Aitken of Connecticut,
flre-controlman (third class, were
to be given burial this morning with
full military honors.
Final rites will be held tomor-
row for Kenneth Ross Garrison of
Missouri. chief machinist's mate,
and Robert Ross Weld of Idaho,
fireman (second class.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Mrs. Law Funeral
To Be Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Efle
Law, 70. widow of Frank A. Law,
Washington attorney, will be held
at 2 pm. tomorrow at the home of
her son, Frank A. Law, jr., 1886 Var
mum street NV. Burial will be in
Congressional Cemetery. Mrs. Law
died Monday.
Born in the District, Mrs. Law
lived here all her life. She was
educated in the public schools and
was married to Mr.. Law in 1880.
A member of the law firm of Bur-
dett, Thompson g. Law, he died
May 10.
Another son, Joseph E. Law, of
Salem, Oreg., also survives, as we'll
as six grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
G. 0. P. Aide Visits
Middle West Cities

DR.. Emmett j. Scott, assistant
publicity director and adviser on
Negro affairs at the Republican
National Committee headquarters
here, left Monday to visit Chicago,
Kansas City and st. Louis
At st. Louis, DR.. Scott, who is a
retired secretary treasurer of How
ard University, will speak at exer-
cises to be held Friday night in
Municipal Park by the colored people
of that city in celebration of the
issuance of the emancipation proc
lamation.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Sorority to Initiate

The Sigma Phi Delta sorority of
American University will hold spe-
cial initiation at the sorority room
of the Women's residence home of
the university at 4:30 pm. today.
A dinner will be given to the initiates
this evening at the Ming Toy Inn.
The initiates are Miss G. Dell Sale,
Miss Priscilla Booth and Miss Erva
Barger.
Evening star., 1939-09-20

scheduled to join
the 14th Cavalry
at Fort Des
Moines, low a,
following a Pc
riod OF leave,
comp ! e t e d a
four-year detail
In Washington
in the Office of
the chief of the
National Guard
Bureau May l.
He had held an
earlier detail in
Washington with
the general staff
f from August,
Evening star., 1939-09-20

A native of Bayside, N. Y, Col.
Newman was graduated from the
United States Military Academy in
1908. He had completed courses in
the Cavalry School, Fort Riley
Kans.; the Command and General
Staff School, Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., and the Army War College
here.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary S. Newman, 1108 South Ar
hngton Ridge road, Arlington, Va;
a daughter, Rosemary, and his
mother and a sister of Freehold, N. j.
Funeral arrangements have not
been announced.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
H. c. Malone to Speak

An address by H. c. Malone deal
ing with the Federal and District in
come tax laws and the Social Sc
curity Act last night marked a meet
ing of the National Capital Group
of Controllers at 2400 Sixteenth
street NV. Mr.. Malone, who is a
member of the groups Tax Com
mittee, discussed how the laws would
affect the local stores.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Hortettes' Luncheon

The Hortettes, an organization Of
the wives of Federal employees at
the Horticultural Field Station of
the Agriculture Department at
Beltsville, Md, will meet for a
luncheon at 1890 tomorrow at the
home of Mrs. J. Magness, Valley
View avenue, Takoma Park, Md
Mrs. L. o. Regeimbal will be hostess
with a number of assistants.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Senator Logan, Long Ill
Returns to Office
By the Associated Pres

BY the Associated Press.
Feeling much better" Senator
Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky re-
turned today to his of1ice after an
absence of more than a month
because of illness.
The Senator was released yester-
day from the Naval Hospital, where
he had gone shortly after the close
of the last session Of Congress for a
rest and general physical checkup.
He said he did not plan to keep
regular Office hours or receive call
ers for several days until he fully
recovered his strength.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Firth

WILLIAMS, ALEXANDER HAZARD III.
Kr. and Mrs Alexander Hazard Williams,
q Marston pl.. Glen Ridge. N. j.. announce
the birth, at New York Hospital on Thurs
day, September IA, 1889, Of q son. ALEX
ANDER HAZARD WILLIAMS Ill.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Enlistment Inquiries
From u. S. Reported

VICTORIA, B. c.. Sept. 20. Ca
madam Press Premier T. D. Pat
tullo said his Office is receiving
scores of inquiries" from residents
OF the United States regarding en-
hstment in the Canadian army for
service overseas.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Col. Richard D. Newman,
Cavalry Officer, Dies

Col. Richard D. Newman, Sc, cav
airy, U. s. A., died last night at
Walter Reed Hospital.
Col. Newman, who had been
Evening star., 1939-09-20

A tree bearing 1000 lemons was
exhibited at the agricultural show in
Moscow.
Evening star., 1939-09-20

Argentina is decreasing the acre
age devoted to wine producing
grapes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
Budget Up the Flue

If the Appropriations Committee of the Legislature needed one more report or bill to submerge it completely in sea of data and material, it was supplied this week when the governors special commission on education named earlier to investigate the need of our four normal schools sent in voluminous report, which Governor Raymond E. Baldwin plans to pass along to the General Assembly immediately. The report is lengthy, to be sure, but it con- tains in every line something of interest to all of us. 1t is one of the finest reports on state educational matters that has been furnished in long time.
 What the Appropriations Committee can do with it, we don't know nor would we hazard a guess. But Governor Bald win definitely opens the door to an un- balanced budget something that was reckoned to bring look of horror on the face of any COP legislator or official few short weeks ago. The balanced budget was being built up as a Republican shib- boleth, but right now it's just stray cat in a back alley The plans for the de- velopment of the states educational sys- tenn have thrown it out of gear.
 While opposing the governors early plan to shut down the normal schools at Willimantic and New Haven, the special commission indicates that eventually it hopes to see all teacher preparation cen tered in New Britain and Storrs, the latter to continue it's work in secondary teacher instruction. This has familiar ring and is more or less the idea advanced several years ago to terminate gradually the normal schools and to make one central ized center for men and women who want to pursue a profession of teaching.
 To set in motion the program the spe- cial board deems advisable it would be necessary to forget about the half-mil- lion dollar saving Governor Baldwin based on elimination of two normal schools. The study group anyway claims that this figure is wrong and that elimination of the two institutions really would cut the states education estimates only about $267,000. Instead of cutting the budget this much the alternative plan is to spend $600,000 to prepare Teachers Col lege at New Britain for an ultimate en- rollment of 1,200 prospective teachers. No further drop in the need for teachers is anticipated the special commission feeling that school attendance figures are reaching a stable point. An increase in tuition to what is claimed to be the uni versal median of $100 is another item of interest in the report.
 The governor apparently won't clinch with the commission on it's findings, for he probably agrees that what it points out and suggests is nothing more than has been evident for some few years now He leaves the door open for unbalancing the budget when he says, education per haps can be considered the most justifi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
John A. Macdonald

Noticeable was the lack of editorial comment in the press of the state follow ing the sudden and unexpected death ot John A. Macdonald, former State High way Commissioner, this week. It was just a year ago that he was forced from his commissionership under pressure and following revelations that acquisition Of land for development and construction of the Merritt Parkway was accomplished to the tune of fee-splitting. This natur- ally reflected on MT. Macdonald's ad- ministration of what is probably our largest state department, but it in no way can take away from him much Of the credit for development of our highway system in the last fifteen years.
 Even the Merritt Parkway itself will long stand as an engineering tribute to the late highway department chief. Many of its features, its design, etc., were crltl- cized severely as it came time to throw open one section of the route, but today everyone is pretty generally agreed that the road is fine one, a distinct contrlbu- tion to highway improvement, and the states first and foremost parkway sys- tenn In the planning for an actual building of this road it can only be con- cluded that Mr. Macdonald played an important part.
 Roads in Connecticut increased by leaps and bounds from 1923 when MT. Macdonald took over the office of High way Commissioner The type of road way changed completely in that time: The scope of the department expanded to include not merely the roadway itself, but rights of way including many times 6 hundred feet or so alongside of the roadbed Bridge construction changed, too. In all such things Connecticut kept pretty good pace. MT. Macdonald may fave finished his work with the state under cloud, but we will always remem- Der that it was during his regime that highway construction became one of the states biggest industries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
Men and Animals

This is the week, April IT to g, which the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" has designated national Be Kind to Animals Week" Celebration throughout the country is hardly universal. Most Americans won't do anything about it, even if they happen to know of the occasion. Most Americans already are kind to the animals they own or come in contact with. This year, how ever, more than 600 societies are con- ducting special drives in their commun- ities to promote better treatment of ani- mals in general by human beings, and better understanding of the needs of the animals and their value to mankind.
 It isn't so much a matter of being kind as of treating animals with fairness and decency. Work animals or pets have certain fundamental rights which it is the responsibility of their owners to pro- tect for them. Food and shelter and entire freedom from abuse and cruelty are some of those rights. One of the cruelties against which the SEGA. con- stantly works is that of abandoning pets no longer wanted, or going away on vaca- tior and leaving pets to shift for them- selves. It is surprising now many appar- ently normal persons do this thoughless, cruel thing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
Czech Shrine

Washington, D. C., has another mon- ument, and one probably destined to be- come famous. It is the legation of the Czechoslovak Republic. That building is still held by Vladimir S.. Hruban, who was minister of CzechoSiovakia at our capital when his government passed out of ex- istence He refuses to turn it over to representative of Slovakia, on the ground that the puppet state set up by Hitler for the Slovak half of the former Czecho- slovakian partnership has no legal exist ence. The government of the United States approves his attitude, refusing to recognize the right of Hitlers repre- sentative to speak or act for either the Czechs or Slovaks of the violated republic.
 That legation building might be called a "cenotaph', defined as "a sepulchral monument in memory of deceased per- son whose body is elsewhere" The Czechs hope their national sovereignty will be restored, and so do the American govern ment and people. Meanwhile it may well serve as sort of spiritual shrine for American CZechs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
Selected Poem
JOURNEYING ONWARD

Nellie B. Mace in the Christian Science Monitor) He had so often watched the sunrise and sunset That he knew all the wide horizon hills. He had walked along quiet country lanes In the twilight, noting the steadfast stars, Listening to the soft voices of the night. He had felt the clean winds flowing across The plains, tasting on the air the sweetness Of the cedar, hemlock, and sage.
 He had plucked mountain gentian and primrose, Had walked through the gold grain of rich valleys; Ind had loved well the eastern rose. He grew familiar with the salt tank of the sea; Had seen the clinging gray fog burn away Under the warm punctual sun
 He had traversed city streets, felt the press Of hurrying eager crowds; saw their hungering; Grew tolerant of their passions, and gave Them comforting And he knew the sweet peace Of quietude and faithful friendliness. And in one early hour, as he fingered Beside gate-an old and narrow gate That stood half open-and saw the morning star Over the darkened earth, saw it's brightness Withdraw, saw the darkness recede before The oncoming dawn, he drew the gate closed, And, one long accustoed, walked out, expectant To face the task of new day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20

Oddly enough the discussion about Con- necticuts normal schools and the possible elimination of all of them to center actlvl- ties in instruction for the teaching pro- fession at the New Britain Teachers Col lege comes at moment when in adjacent Massachusetts the State Federation of Taxpayers Associations is advocating the closing of four of that states nine Teach CTS Colleges. Up there it is claimed that more graduates are being turned out each year than can be absorbed by local teach ing systems. The waiting lists are said to be heavy and with 600 new teachers being turned out each year the profes-- sion is overcrowded to the point that 1,2oo graduates between the years 1925 l9; and 1887 are still unemployed The complaining group believes that pupil enrolment is still going to fall off, fact that Connecticut educators doubt. They think the peak is reached and figures will remain stable for some time now. It's serious problem any way you look at it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20

Everyone should have made some con- tribuition to Be Kind to Animals Week which is being celebrated all over the country now. It started Monday and ends Sunday Many are the ways and means that citizens could take of show ing their kindness to dumb animals. Those who have always had dogs or cats or horses around them know what it means to show a bit of kindness to them. Seldom do the creatures forget such acts. There are too many ways in which ami mai life is exploited today to let this opportunity pass without doing some thing for the noble cause.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
Book A Day
New Introduction To Mexico

Most of our recent book and magazine knowledge of Mexico has come from two sources. First the left-wing esthetes and social re- formers, who made the neighbor country look like progressive school in Already, filled with noble people, and just too, too pictures que. And second, the writers pre- occupied with the position of foreign capital, who made it look like a reform school for poor problem boys.
 A less preconceived view is that of J. H. Plenn, American newspaper veteran of many years in Mexico, in the most up-to-date study of our neighbor country and its problems, Mexico Marches (Bobbs- Merrill: $3). Only occasionally, he reminds us, have writers discussing the Mexican Jose Doakes come out of their rhetorical and theological trance long enough to remember that the guy is human, after all WrlCCen III an lrreVerenC ana swinging journalese, Plenn's book refuses to regard itself with the solemn gravity customary in an- alyses of Mexico, yet it is clear that Plenn knows what time 1t is by the Mexican clock. He gives enough of the background to un- derstand the present, and a rapid fire survey of Mexicos attitude to- ward the oil appropriations. the land problem. church, school and labor problems.-W. T.