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Evening star., 1940-01-22
Rifle in Hands
Of Boy, {, Kills
Neighbor Girl
Child Is Unaware
Of Tragic Result
Of Accident

Two grief-stricken households
today mourned the death late yes
terday of 14-year-old Doris Jean
Bomgardner, whose body lies at
the morgue because of the acci.
dental discharge of a rifle in the
hands of a 6-year-old boy.
Doris parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. H
Bomgardner. wept silently as they
recounted the tragedy in which
their oldest daughter lost her life.
n II sent her to her DEATH" Mr..
Bomgardner, unemployed auto sup
ply house worker, said, as the tears
rolled down his cheeks.
He sent Doris, student at the
Powell Junior High School, to find
her sister, Patricia Ann, 6, who was
playing at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Bartelmes, who lives
two doors away in the $500 block
of Eleventh street.
Doris was admitted by Fred A.
Bartelmes, grandfather of 6-year-
old William Bartelmes, who was
playing in the basement with Patricia
Ann and two other children. Down.
stairs, Doris told Patricia to come
home for supper.
Pointed Gun at Her.
Young William pointed a .22-
caliber rifle at Doris and the gun
went off, the bullet striking her in
the chest.
Doris ran upstairs to the first
floor, spun around at the head of
the stairs and collapsed in the
kitchen. She was dead when an
Emergency Hospital physician ar
rived.
Mrs. Bartelmes, cashier in Sill
yer Spring (Md) theater, Who was
at work, was summoned home i'm
mediately. The boys father was in
Virginia at the time.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said he planned to hold an inquest
and indicated that he would issue
a certificate of accidental Death on
the basis of the story told by ,he
children.
Children Unaware.
None of the children there at
the time realized the seriousness of
the accident today. Six-year-old
Dean. Ewart, of the $500 block, and
Richard Drew, also 6, of the $500
block of Eleventh street, said Doris
"just hollered when she was shot
and ran up the stairs"
Williams grandfather said this
morning that the child "does not
even know what happened"
Mr.. and Mrs. Bomgardner sent
Patricia Ann to neighbor's to
spend the night.
Mr.. Bomgardner said, II had many
hopes for Doris. She wanted to be
a secretary. I wanted to get her
typewriter soon."
The Bomgardner's other children
are Mary Margaret, 4; Alvin, jr.,
18 months, and John, 4 months.
Patricia Ann, William and the
Ewart and Drew boys all attend
classes at Raymond School.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Mrs. Katherine S. Means
Funeral Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Kath-
crime s. Means, IS, widow Of Thomas
E. Means, will be hald at $3.50 pm.
tomorrow at St. Adams Episcopal
Church, with burial following in
Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Means
died Saturday in her home, 112 v
street NE. She was q lifelong resi-
dent of Washington.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Robert Winfree and Mrs. John F.
Nalley; three sons, Louis E., j.
Fielder and Edward D. Means. A
grandson, Robert Winifree, jr., Is
attached to the United States En-
bassy at Berlin.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Chaplain N. S. Cover
Buried at Arlington

Chaplain Monroe S. Caver. "a, q.
S. A., retired, was buried today in
Arlington National Cemetery with
full military honors after services
at the Fort Myer gate. Chaplain
Caver, who held the rank Of major,
died January Is at Fort Riley, Kans.
Born at Stevenson, Ala, he was
graduated from Arkansas Baptist
College in 1920 and from the Army
Chaplains School in 1924. He served
during the World War from July
S, 1918, to August 30 1919, and was
commissioned lieutenant in the
Chaplain Corps in 1920. In 1888 he
was promoted to major and retired
last year.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Geraldine r. Caver. Junction City,
Kans.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Catholic u. Alumni
To Banquet TONIGHT

The Washington Chapter of the
Catholic University Alumni Asso-
citation will hold its annual election
of officers tonight, following a ban
quet scheduled to start at 7:30 pm.
in the dining hall of the university.
The Right Rev. Msgr. Joseph NJ.
Corrigan, rector Of Catholic Uni
versity, and the Right Rev. Msgr.
Patrick j. Mccormick, vice rector,
will be guests of honor. A motion
picture, developed by the alumni,
will be shown.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Wives of Two Senators
To Speak Tomorrow

Mrs. Robert Taft and Mrs. Arthur
Vandenberg, the wives Of two Sena-
tors prominently mentioned as Re-
publican presidential nominees, will
speak on "The Importance of Public
Speaking in a Campaign Year" be-
fore the League of Republican
Women, at 1901 Seventeenth street
NV, at 10:30 am. tomorrow.
Wives of Representatives in Con-
gress who will discuss the subject
are Mrs. Harry L. Englebright. Mrs.
Ralph o. Brewster and Mrs. Ralph
e. Church, and Mrs. william M.
Butler, widow Of a Representative.
Mrs. Hugh Butler will preside.
The meeting is open to the public.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Feature Editor to Talk
At Goodwill School

Philip H. Love, a feature editor
and writer of The Star, will discuss
news values as part of the promo
ton course given at the National
Training School of Goodwill Indus
tries at 12:45 pm. tomorrow at the
Industries headquarters, 1920 New
Hampshire avenue NV.
George Corner, jr., Baltimore ad-
vertising executive, Wednesday will
talk on publicity, and Friday Mai.
Francis S. Austell, secretary of the
Community Chest Speakers Bu-
reau, will describe word-of- mouth
publicity.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
DR.. Russell Will Speak
At Catholic U. Seminar

DR.. Franklin F. Russell, professor
OF law IN the Brooklyn Law School
Of st. Lawrence University, will be
guest speaker at the January meet
ing the Riccobono Seminar of Ro-
man Law in America at pm. to-
morrow in the law library of Catho-
lie University.
His subject will be "a Comparison
OF the Lex Aquilia and the Common
Law of Wrongful Damage to Prop
erty," and he will take part in a
discussion following his address.
Members of faculties of law schools
in the District and members of the
District bar also will participate in
the discussion.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Bond Concerts

BY the United States Navy Band
Symphony Orchestra tonight at
8:15 o'clock in the United States
Marine Corps Auditorium. 1t.
Charles Benter, U. S. N, conductor;
Charles Brendler, assistant con.
ductor.
Program.
fansssi.' Sa "A hse ashs On Bald Means.in smith
M. Moussorssky
''firebird Suite" I. Stravinsky
!suite de roiseau de Feu.)
ysI;s 4 sehssss sssss;
I-Allegro con brio.
n-Andante con motto.
m-Allegro.
'"The Star spansled Banner"
BY the United States Army Band
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
in the Army Band Auditorium.
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader:
Karl Hubner, assistant leader.
Program.
March, "Sons of the Brave Bidgood
Overture, La Burlesque"- -Suppe
Morceau, Romance -Rubenstein
Gypsy Caprice, "zingaresca" Curzon
Waltz, Danube Waves" Ivanovici
March, "Coeur d'Alene"- Sweet
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Visitor From Ohio Found
Dead in HoteI Room

Edgar Lyons Mcnamara, AZ, of
Columbus, Ohio, was found dead
yesterday in his room at the Hay
Adams House. In his hand he held
a bottle Of medicine prescribed for
the heart ailInent which caused his
death.
An elevator operator in the hotel,
sent to MIR. McNamara's room after
he had failed to answer the tele-
phone, discovered the body. Mr..
McNamara had seen Washington
doctor last week and had bought
the medicine on a prescription made
out at the time.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
1000 Attend
Red Mass al
Catholic u.
Forces Of 1yrunny
Are AssoiIed by
Bishop O'Hoz

Members Of Congress. Govern.
ment officials and foreign diplomats
were among the throng Of 1000 who
gathered at Catholic University yes
terday for the celebration Of the red
mass, traditional ceremony adopted
centuries ago in France for the
opening Of legislative and judicial
sessions.
The attendants heard the Most
Rev. John Francis O,Hara, former
president Of Notre Dame Univer-
sity and new auxiliary bishop of the
Army and, Navy archdiocese and
titular bishop of Milan, assail the
forces Of tyranny and relationships.
Bishop O'Hara, his red vestments
ablend with the red carnations
banked on the Shrine of the I'M
maculate Conception, warned that
governments become arbitrary die.
tators when they cease to be gov.
ernments of law and become in
stead the vehicle of the whim Of
ruler"
Soviet Russia Condemned.
The speaker condemned Soviet
Russia for its efforts to stamp out
religion and subject the will of the
people to the desires of the state.
He called attention to "the thou.
sands executed in cold blood be.
cause the dictator believed 1t to be
for the benefit of the Soviet Union"
"Yet," he said, "the rank and file
Of the Russian peasants have recog-
nized the injustice of the dictator"
The red mass celebration was be-
gun here last year largely through
the efforts of the Very Rev. Robert
j. White, dean of the university's
law school, during the celebration
of the institutions golden jubilee.
The committee arranging this
years celebration was headed by
Vincent Toomey, an instructor in
municipal corporation law at the
university.
Led by Sisters of the Catholic
University Nursing School, members
of the university law faculty, garbed
in red and blue trimmed academic
robes, marched slowly into the crypt
to the accompaniment of chanting
by the university choir.
Law Schools Criticized.
Ecclesiastical dignitaries particle
pating in the celebration then took
their places in front of the crypt.
The officers of the mass included
Father White, the Rev. John P.
Mayer, o. S. A., and the Rev.
Thomas p. Garrett, o. S. A., both Of
the Augustinian College, Catholic
University; the Rev. William j.
Lallou Of the university, master Of
ceremonies, and the Rev. Walter j.
Schmitz, S. S., assistant.
Bishop O'Hara also condemned
lawyers who identify themselves
with practices of gangsters. I'm
many ways" he said, they are
worse than the gangsters, because
their profession marks them as the
protectors of the people, the guar
dians of society, and they prey like
so much vermin on the very people
that their knowledge should pro-
tect."
Law schools which once taught
law and it's correlative justice"
Bishop O'Hara added. have de-
generated into institutions teaching
laws rather than law"
Bishop O'Hara called at the
White House today to have a brief
informal chat with President Roose-
welt. Bishop O'Hara, who is an
old friend of the President, said
his visit on this occasion was for
the purpose of paying his respects
to his commander in chief"
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Soeneerbund Will Give
Dance January 30

The Washington Saengerbund,
one of the city's oldest civic organ
lzations, will give dance January
30 in its hall in the Arcade Build
ing, 3134 Fourteenth street NV.
Net proceeds will be given to the
Committee Of the Presidents Birth
day Ball.
In helping the fight against in
fantile paralysis, the organization
will provide floor show as its part
in the dance so that others may
walk" campaign.
Evening star., 1940-01-22

under conditions that would have
been discouraging to less courageous
Individuals
The Federation, which held its
monthly meeting today at 2400 Six
teenth street NV, also voted to
request the General Federation to
continue its study of the equal
rights amendment. Mrs. Wiley, who
is chairman of the National Wom-
ans Party. presented the resolution.
Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel, presi-
dent, presided.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Burglar Gets JeweIry

Jewelry valued at $770 and 1922
in cash were stolen last night by q
burglar who entered the home of
Louis Mirman at 1735 Webster
street NV, police said today. The
loot included two diamond rings,
Mr.. Mirman reported.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Two D. T.. Residents,
One virginian Die
In Traffic Accidents
Capital Man Is Found
Dead Underneath Car
Near Warsaw, Va.
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending am. yes
terday:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, "a.
Motorists injured. 6.
Motorists arrested, 300.
Pedestrians injured, 3.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control
regulations, 6.
The traffic record for 24-hour
period ending at 8 am. today:
Fatalities, /, pedestrian.
Accidents, 10.
Motorists injured, 4.
Motorists arrested, 1870.
Pedestrians injured, none.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control
regulation, 2.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
TIME TO PORT OUR HELM

ALWAYS. in every city, there is one out
L \ standing reason for economic success.
There must be many contributary influences,
but their power to build up a greater city
depends almost wholly on the efficiency OF
the central enterprise.
In Wilmington the port is the dominant
project. The city will go forward or slip IN
proportion to the effort for port development
or withheld therefrom. There can be no mid
die course, as is demonstrated by past failure
to build a great port while water-borne com.
merce was growing at Charleston, Norfolk
and Newport News. They have all advanced
at Wilmington's expense, and while they
were going ahead Wilmington has lost.
This view is confirmed by a statement by
j. T.. HERS, manager of the Wilmington
Port Commission, during his address before
the Better Business club Monday night, when
he discussed the ports situation. Citing the
fact that Wilmington, despite its heaven,
sent opportunity, stands twenty-ninth among
United States ports, he added: "We have
been forced to turn many thousands of tons
of trade away because of the lack of space
to handle various products
Mr.. HERS advanced a plan for city-spon-
sored terminals, possibly with WPA aid, so
that already seeking accommoda.
ton here may not have to go elsewhere, to
the enrichment of other ports and the com.
munities they cause to prosper. He declared
Wilmington terminals lacking both in size
and facilities to take care of many ship
ments, and placed special emphasis on to-
bacco, cigarette paper, bananas, tapioca, tex
tiles and furniture as sources of port income
once we provide accommodations for them.
The advantage of having an efficient port,
he noted, would lie in the revenue derivable
from trade. Every ton handled would give
the operators the city, under his plan
seventy-seven cents in income, which, we
paying costs of operation with a surplus for
meeting the debt incurred by a building
program. But this is not the only advantage.
With the increase in money circulation a
working port would bring, there would be
profit for every line of business, wholesale
and retail, in the city.
Mr.. HERS made out a good case for i'm.
provement Of the port. 1t but remains for
the business interests of Wilmington, notably
the Better Business club to put shoulder to
wheel that this program. or something like
it, with equal possibility of meeting the need,
may be carried out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
IMPORT
Greensboro NeWs)

Somehow the opening of the baseball season
characterized by the Inauguration
of play in the major leagues today and spread
ing into hundreds of minor leagues and end
less towns and hamlets where the play runs
from semi-professional organizations down to
youngsters who with a yarn ball and available
pieces of board engage in two old cat-strikes
us as meaning more to the country, in it's
practical effects and it's symbolism, than at
any time since Abner Doubleday devised the
game full 100 years ago.
1t is not baseball, in its technical aspects,
it's pennant races, its arguments over the
prowess of respective clubs, that grips our
thought now. Rather it is b~aseballs sports
manship, baseball's influence, baseballs happy,
free and wholesome characteristics which we
herein recognize and hail.
There are basic elements of democracy in
baseball. Team play transcends, but team play
in turn rests upon individual performance,
conduct and ability. The good of the team,
the ultimate victory, comes first; but individ.
ual initiative, aggressiveness and worth have
their reward in triumphs achieved and, in the
case of the professional sport, stipends re-
ceived.
Baseball is played according to the rules,
Neutrality is not violated. Small nations are
not overrun. Opposing teams are not bombed
or poison-gassed in contraventlon Of interna.
tional law. Where decisions must be made,
where rules must be interpreted, where teams
must be retired, the umpire functions. UNI
pires, it is true, are occasionally manhandled;
but back of the umpire stand a higher of.
fetal Of the league and the law itself to guar.
antee protection against physical violence.
Baseball is umpired, and baseball is policed
Raucous demonstrations, which rarely get
out of hand, are for that matter part of the
game in it's democratizing aspects and effects.
Where is to be found a more democratic
crowd than that which packs a grandstand or
edges a sideline, roofing for it's favorite. law.
ing with the umpire, ~jostling, commingling
engaging in repartee which breaks down all
class lines and economic, social and financial
distinctions?
A stimulating picture Of free, happy, for.
%tunate, peaceful America is baseball as it gets
under way today. Where else in the whole
wide world could so many thousands gather
without fear Of molestation, without worry OF
bombers or submarines or casualty lists in
process Of preparation? Mothers sons of Eu
rope have donned their uniforms, their gas
masks, their bayonets and go out to combat
with. machine guns and aircraft. Mothers sons
of America don sweat shirts and flannels
mitts, and gloves and so out to meet will
bat and ball their rivals and their enemies or
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
WARNINGS COULD HELP

Throughout the parks and along the
shores at Niagara Falls are signs reading,
DO not venture in dangerous places" They
might seem superfluous, especially where
the water has every appearance of being
placid. But it was found that persons, de.
ceived by that very quietness, were prone
to venture in for wading, only to be swept
from their feet by the swift undercurrent
and carried to their death over the falls. 1t
is reasonable to believe that the signs have
been the means of saving many lives through
their timely warning.
Something of the sort might easily prove
a safety measure hereabouts. 1t is too much
to claim that a warning sign at Moore's
Inlet would have been a positive preventive
of the drowning there on Monday, but it
might have made the young girl who at
tempted a crossing, and lost her life as a
consequence, think twice before starting her
tragic trip.
To install warnings there and at all other
danger points could not restore SHIRLEY
MANSFIELD to life but might deter other ven.
turesome persons from taking the first step
toward certain death.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
HAS RESPONSIBILITY TOO

The county commission extends it's moral
support to the building of a sports arena,
which is helpful, but not enough.
The commission takes the view that the
project is exclusively a city undertaking., up
to the city commission for execution, and
therefore outside it's sphere of influence and
cooperation.
This is not quite correct. The county board
fails to see the picture in its broadcast as.
poets. 1t is not solely a city project, but a
countrywide one.
In the last analysis, 1t is a southeastern
North Carolina project, in which the entire
district would have interest and derive ben
efits. But because there could be no hope of
assistance beyond the county line, at least
at the inception, it must depend upon city
and county sponsorship.
The county has a very definite share in
responsibility for its launching. Every per.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
HARRINGTON RAISES HOPES

It begins to look as if Wilmington will get
a complete census enumeration after all.
J. H. HARRINGTON of Lumberton, district
supervisor, gives assurances that the count
will be finished if it takes an extra month.
Let no guilty man escape, is the sense, if
not the text, of his order to enumerators.
This is encouraging. Wilmington needs a
thorou gh-going census not only because it
will affect our standing among North Caro-
lima cities, but because its gross population,
industrial strength, transportation. facilities,
business resources and port possibilities will
play an important part when firms of ma,
tional reputation and widespread ramifica,
lions are surveying the field for new head.
quarters.
The city's industrial expansion, upon which
we count heavily for future prosperity, will
depend in large measure upon the showing
we make in the census returns. This makes
it doubly important that the census Job be
painstaking in every detail.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
BEST RECREATION

That's the best after-school recreation I
have ever SEEM" said a companion to CARL
REHDER, director of the Stdr-NeaUs garden
contest, recently when they were looking
over the gardens school children have made
in their Backwards.
The strange thing about the comment is
that children generally share in it. They
are finding real recreation in their projects,
and getting as much fun in working the soil
and raising crops as they ever derived from
sports. And the gardens have an advantage
over games in that they produce something
useful whereas play, however helpful in
sportsmanship, is without economic value.
1t is really remarkable the way the school
children are taking to gardening. Pupils a,
T1leston school have entered Ga gardens and
at Delgado IA. At Cornelius Harnett sc
were entered on opening day, March 1, and
others are being entered almost daily. Par
ents OF these entrants will find their table
problem well on toward solution by the TIM
summer arrives.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
ONSLOW POLITICAL
CONTESTS SLATED
Lively Campaign Expected to
Be Waged for Register of
Deeds Office

JACKSONVILLE, April 16. - A
lively political campaign for the Of
flee of register of deeds will feature
Onslow county's election year. Five
candidates are out for the office,
now held by J. B. (Jim) Murril..
Jacksonville.
He is seeking denomination, and
his four opponents r Sam Gerock
of s~wansboro, Roland V. Venters of
Richards, j.. E. Sanders and Kir-
by D. Thompson, both of Jackson
vile. Sanders held the office up
until six years ago.
Only one office holder in the
county is without opposition. He is
County Commissioner Dan B. Sand
ers, of Hubert.
Other candidates seeking office
are: Rep. George Phillips and 1. J.
hellum. both of Jacksonville, for
state representative; Isaac Lanier
and J.. w. Burton of Jacksonville,
j.. +. Shaw and l.. H.. Sylvester of
Richards, A. 7. Redd and John H.
Gillett of White Oak, H. NJ. Emmett,
j. r. Covil and w. J. Everett of
Stump Sound, for board of county
commissioners; and w. L. P. Jar
and Hammond Koonce hoth of
Richards, for board of education.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
Additional u. S. Judges
Authorized By Senate

WASHINGTON. April 16.-CP-
The senate passed legislation to-
day authorizing the appointment
of three additional circuit court
judges and six federal district
court judges.
The vote was Al to p for pas
sage. 1t sends the measure back
to the house for action on senate
amendments.
AS voted by tbs senate. the
measure would provide for ap-
pointment of two new judges in
the eighth circuit, covering Mimi.
esota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas,
Nebraska, North Dakota. One ad-
dltional judge would be named for
the sixth circuit, Ohio, Michigan,
Kentucky and Tennessee.
The measure would authorize
appointment of district judges in
the southern district of California,
New Jersey, western district of
Oklahoma, eastern Pennsylvania.
southern New York and one Judge
1or northern and southern Florida.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
Gibson Is To Preside
At Rotary Convention

District Governor A. V. Gibson
of Sanford will preside over the Dis
trict Rotary Convention to be held
at Pinehurst May 1-2, according to
an announcement made yesterday by
Conference Secretary Thomas r.
Hood o. Dunn.
The convention, which will bring
together approximately 1000 Rotar-
ians from all sections of the state,
will bring to a closing climax a sue
cessful year of Rotary in North
Carolina under his able direction.
One of the best district governors
ever to serve, the Sanford Presby.
terrain minister has been largely re-
sponsible for many improvements
during the year, including an in
crease in membership and success
full completion of many worthwhile
projects.