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Evening star., 1940-05-02
j. B. WiIIiumson's Body
Is Sent to Indiuno

The body Of Jesse B. Williamson,
SIS, assistant secretary of the Fed
eral Power Commission, who died
yesterday at his desk after heart
attack, was sent to New Albany,
Ind, today for burial
Mr.. Williamson was stricken soon
after coming to his Office in the
Hurley Wright Building yesterday
morning.
A former track star at Indiana
University, he had occupied his post
with the Power Commission since
September, 1898. Until five years
ago he was in the banking business
in New Albany.
Accompanying the body to his
birthplace were his widow and two
sons, John, who is employed in the
Census Bureau, and Donald, a stu
dent of Corcoran School Of Art.
Two other sons, Jesse, jr., Of New
Albany, and Beach Williamson Of
Omaha, also survive.
Evening star., 1940-05-02


Secretary of the Interior Oscar l..
Chapman, Ben M. Cherrington,
director of the division of cultural
relations, State Department; Charles
w. Eliot, 3D., director of the Ma
tional Resources Planning Board,
and Mrs Ruth B. Shipley, chief
OF the State Departments pass
port division.
In commenting on Mr.. Mobiles
acceptance Adr. Horn said: 1T is
en- encouraging sign that a man
occupying a prominent Federal
position has evinced an interest
IN helping to maintain this local
cultural asset"
Although there will be no so-
licitation for contributions to the
fund IN Federal buildings Mr.. Horn
said, an effective Government COM
mlttee will provide key persons in
various departments to accept vol
untary contributions.
The orchestra's campaign to raise
q sustaining fund of SLOT 900 for
the 1901 season will open Nom
day.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Convention Delegate
Bill Backed by
Senate Subcommittee
Amendments Eliminate
Poll Tox Financing
BoIIotine in District

When the Senate District Com
mittee meets again, probably next
week, it will have before it the
favorable report voted late yester-
day by a special subcommittee on
the Capper bill to set up election
machinery for choosing District
delegates to the national political
conventions every four years.
A majority Of the five-man sub
committee approved the measure
after accepting series of amend
ments suggested by the Commits
sioners. The principal changes
were:
Striking out of the poll tax and
substituting authority to meet the
cost of holding the primary from
the general revenues of the Dis
trict.
A requirement that the registra-
ton list of eligible voters be COM
pleted 80 days before the primary
date to give the Election Board
time to consider challenges.
CnanSeS Fet1tlOn Plan.
Fixing Is instead of 100 as the
number of persons who would have
to sign the petition of candidate
to have his or her name placed on
the ballot. 1t was provided also
that the petitions be filed with the
Election Board instead of with the
clerk of District Court.
Even without the amendment re-
quiring a 30-day period for chal-
longing registration lists it appeared
unlikely the measure could be en-
acted into law in time to take effect
this year. Senator Austin, Republi-
can, of Vermont, chairman of the
subcommittee, pointed out that, re-
gardless of that amendment, the
bill still would have to go through
the House as we'll as the Senate
The Republican National Conven-
ton will open on June "a, and local
delegates will be elected at q Dis
trict convention this month. Un-
der existing procedure local dele
gates to the Democratic Conven-
tion are chosen in a primary ar
ranged by the Democratic State
Central Committee. The Demo-
cratic Convention will assemble July
Is.
Commissioners Approval Forecast
Corporation Counsel Seal told the
Senate subcommittee yesterday that
a tentative report has been pre-
pared setting forth that, with the
proposed amendments, the Commits
sioners would favor the measure,
but he explained the Commissioners
have not yet been advised of the
position of the Budget Bureau, to
which they must submit all pro-
posed new legislation.
In addition to Chairman Austin,
the subcommittee members who in
dorsed the measure were Senators
Capper, Republican, of Kansas and
Clark, Democrat, of Idaho.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
De Perrin Acquitted
Of Staying Wife After
SeIf-Defense Plea
She Had Been DRINKING,
75-Yeur-OId RiverduIe
Man Tells Court
BY 4 stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, May
2.-Joseph A. De Perrin, 75-year -old
retired transit company employe,
last night was acquitted of charges
of Staying his 42-year- old wife, Alice,
by Prince Georges County Circuit
Court jury, which deHberated an
hour and a half.
The elderly man, who had tear
fully testified that he stabbed his
wife in elf-defense in their River
dale apartment on February 20,
thanked each juror after the ver-
dict was read. States Attorney H.
Winship Wheatley, jr., who with his
assistant, Gwynn Bowie, prosecuted
the case, shook hands with De
Perini. J. Dudley Digges, young
Marlboro attorney and associate of
Representative Sasscer, represented
De Perrin, along with Vincent Mar
tino, Washington lawyer.
Recalling the series of events lead
ing up to his wife's death, De Perini
testified he went to the apartment
where his wife was asleep. He said
she had been drinking earlier and
suddenly woke up. Rising out of
her bed, she grabbed" butcherknife
from cupboard and attacked him,
but he wrested the knife from her,
he testified.
II pushed her away, but she
grabbed me around the waist" he
continued. "She let go and grabbed
another knife and when she plunged
at me again to drive 1t clean
through me I must have caught
her around the shoulder. I don't
remember what happened after she
fell"
He described his wife as a pow
erful woman, who when under the
influence of liquor had the strength
of an animal.
God gave me the strength to
get away from under that Knife" +"
he testified.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
D. T.. Medical Society
Names Dr.. 5chreiber
President-eIect
Dr.. Borden Will Take
Office at Meeting
To Be Held in July

DR.. Henry r. Schneider, for 80
years general practitioner of medi-
cine in Washington, was named
president of the Medical So
ciety of the District last night at
a meeting in the society's audi
torium.
He will take Office July !, 1941,
following the service of DR.. Daniel
L. Borden, surgeon, who will be
inducted as president this July. The
meeting was the last to be presided
over by the outgoing president, DR..
John Hugh Lyons.
DR.. Schreiber is an associate pro-
fessor of medicine at the George
town University school of medicine
and chief of staff of medicine at
Providence Hospital. His home is
1716 Rhode Island avenue NV. He
is married and has two daughters
and a son.
DR.. Elizabeth Chickering was
elected to the second vice presi-
dency. She also engages in general
practice, with special attention to
pediatrics. She graduated from
George Washington Medical School
in 1927 and interned in Children S
Hospital, as well as in Pittsburgh
and New York City. She lives at
the Broadmoor Apartments.
Other officers named are DR.. Lo-
max Wells, first vice president; DR..
Raymond T. Holden, member of the
Executive Board for four-year
term, and Thomas C. Thompson
member of the Board of Censors.
Brief ceremonies were held in
memory of DR.. Thomas A. Grower,
pioneer in X.ray investigation, who
died recently as a result of an all
ment contracted in his experiments
Tribute was paid to his career by
DR.. Harry A. Fowler and DR.. Charles
Stanley White. DR.. White recalled
that the scientist had first shown
his interest in the rays before he
was 81, as a student in Columbian
University.
The society adopted a resolution
supporting the District Dental So
ciety's opposition to diagnostic
X-ray reports prepared in dental
laboratories by other than licensed
dentists or medical practitioner
Evening star., 1940-05-02
.Teacher-Leave Bill
Notifications SOUGHT
By School Officials
E. P. Strong Is Named
Head Of Department
Of Business Education

School officials will seek in the
Senate modification of House bill
to provide educational employees of
the school system leave of absence
with part pay for educational i'm
provement purposes.
This was approved by the Board
of Education yesterday as Supt.
Frank w. Ballou explained the
modification would bring the House
bill in line with similar bill sup
ported by the board.
At the same time the members
appointed Earl p. Strong to be head
of the department of business edu-
cation in the white schools and
voted to seek a $4,000 deficiency
appropriation to equip the M. NJ
Washington Vocational School re-
Gently altered under P. w. A. ap-
preparation.
The members also supported a
bill to extend their power and juris-
diction over degree-conferring in
stitutions to cover junior colleges.
Would Assure Reinstatement.
In a report on the leave bill DR..
Ballou said it was essential that
the teacher or officer taking leave
under the act should be reinstated
in his former position at the close
OF the leave. This, he said, was the
policy now in effect for employees
taking leave without part pay.
Another section which is not in
the present bill would compel per-
sons getting educational leave to
return and serve at least two years
to give the school system the bene-
fit of their study. This, DR.. Ballou
said, would prevent teachers from
taking leave with part pay and
then getting married or finding
larger educational opportunity else
where and not returning.
Mr.. Strong was appointed to sue
ceed DR.. A. L. Howard, who retired
as head of the department of busi-
ness practice recently. The board
changed the name to department
OF business education" as being
more in line with present educa-
tional Technology.
Studies Cited.
Mr.. Strong was named by the
Personnel Committee after "a full
and fair consideration" of all candi-
dates, Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith,
a member of the committee, told
the board. He received his degree
as bachelor of accounts at Rider
College in 1890 and took his bache-
lor of science in education at State
Teachers College in PENNSYLVANIA
four years later. In 1897 he was
made a master of arts at Ohio
State and since then has continued
his studies at the University of
Iowa, Harvard and New York Uni
versity. He belongs to a number
of professional organizations sand
has had both teaching and business
experience. The salary is 5000.
DR.. Ballou reported to the mem
bers that three schools had been
damaged by vandals recently. The
vandals broke % panes of frosted
glass at the Morse School, 40 panes
at the Randle Highlands and broke
in and stole $381 worth of equip
ment from Randall Junior High.
The superintendent also filed a
report showing that of the liquor
license applications opposed by the
board since last December five have
been issued four denied, and eight
are still pending.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
All HoNows' Flower Mart
Proves a Double Success
PIeoses ArtisticoIIy and in Receipts;
Boutonniere Booth Takes First Prize

group of children performed on
schedule, despite the wetting.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Owen
J. Roberts, wife of the United States
Supreme Court justice; Mrs. Henry
A. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of
Agriculture, and Nine Hialmar
Procope, wife of the Finnish Minis
ter, were among those present during
most of the afternoon
Admirers Pause to Buy.
Hundreds strolled up and down the
steps, pausing to admire the various
booths and buy flowers, plants, vege-
tables. preserved wares and such
novelties as vases and other items
fashioned of the coveted."CathedrA
glass" the same type as that used
in the stained windows of the edifice.
Imitation fruits, made into head
dresses, lured patrons to one stand.
Cakes. jams and jellies were among
the attractions at the exhibit of the
Bethesda Farm Women's Market.
Young ladies in costume circulated
in the crowd, offering boutonnieres,
and there were balloons for the
children. Herbs from the Cottage
Herb Garden of the Cathedral were
included in the sale. among them
plants known for centuries as cook
ing aids and perfuming agents.
Tea, cookies and ice cream were
consumed by those who paused to sit
at the lawn tables around the re-
freshment booth.
Miss Bell Gurnee was general
chairman of the mart. She was as
sisted in arranging the affair by Mrs.
Daniel Knowlton, chairman of the
All Hallows Guild, and the other
members of the guilds Executive
Committee, Mrs. George w. Pepper,
Mrs Henry Leonard, Mrs. Charles
Henry Warren and Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Police Are Given Booklet
On Pedestrian Protection

AS further step toward increased
safety for pedestrians in the Dis
trict, copies of the American Auto
mobile Association booklet, "Pedes-
trian Protection" are being sent to
all precinct station houses In the
city as we'll as to inspectors and
commanding officers of departments,
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent of police, announced today.
The booklets will be used in con-
junction with the accident compari-
son charts being issued monthly to
the various precincts. They tie in
very smoothly with the safety pro-
gram being developed by the police
department, Maj. Brown declared.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Reserve Officers Elect

Capt. Lester L. Kornhauser,
United States Army Infantry Re-
serve, was elected president of the
Washington Chapter Of the Army
Reserve Ofiicers' Association, at a
meeting last night in the Hayloft,
Fourteenth street and Massashu-
sets avenue NV. Other officers
elected are Mai. Edmund Malczew-
ski, vice president, and It. Leo
Goodwin, secretary.treasurer.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
$111,260Added
For Memorial
Interior Bill Also
Asks Water Cote
Comfort Stotion

The Interior Department appro.
priation bill, awaiting Senate con-
sideration this afternoon, carries an
increase Of $111,260 in House figures
for landscaping the area surround
ing the Thomas Jefferson Memorial.
and 100000 to purchase part of the
Patrick Henry estate in Virginia as
national shrine
These and other items of interest
to Washington were added to the bill
late yesterday by the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee, including
the following:
To erect first-aid police lodge
and comfort station at the Water
Gate in West Potomac Park, $4,000.
For additional expenses at Freed
mems Hospital, $14,78O, and for
purchase of uniforms for employees
at st. Elizabeth's Hospital, s35, 900.
Makes Memorial Item S375,O00.
The Jefferson Memorial amend
ment raises the House item from
1858 900 to $375 900, as recommended
by the Budget Bureau, to improve
the grounds surrounding the new
memorial, and was adopted after
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah,
vice chairman of the Memorial Com
mission, had joined officials of the
National Park Service in supports
ing it.
The Senate Committee was told
that the entire project calls for
changes in the Tidal Basin seaWall
and adjoining grounds on the east
and west sides Of the memorial, but
that only part of the project could
be carried out at this time under the
reduced House figures
Senator Thomas filed a statement
from F. F. Gillen, chief of the plan.
nng and construction division. show
ing that If the changes in the sea
wall are divided into two projects, as
required by the House bill, the work
finally would cost $4,000 more. II
1t is all done at one time, the COM
mittee was told, dirt to be excavated
east OF the memorial could be used
to make a necessary fill on the west
side. II it is not completed as one
project there would be added expense
for hauling material, it was testified.
Concert Crowds Cited.
In support of the Water Gate first.
aid and public comfort station, park
officials told the Senate Committee
that as many as 10000 persons visit
the Water Gate during summer
concerts. They explained that the
proposed facilities would be built
into the abutment of the Arlington
Memorial Bridge, to avoid placing
another structure in the park area.
Stuart G. Gibboney. chairman Of
the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Commission, also filed a statement
IN support of the budget estimate for
improving the memorial grounds.
Answering the argument advanced
in the House that it would involve
removal of "a considerable number
OF cherry trees" Mr.. Gibboney
wrote:
There are only "a cherry trees
involved, all of which are old and
have outlived their usefulness and
will have to be removed under nor
NAL conditions and replaced by new
trees, and our plans provide for the
planting of additional cherry trees
both on the west and east sides of
the memorial"
TO make the Patrick Henry estate
a national monument. the bill
authorizes acquisition of 962 acres
OF the estate in Charlotte County,
Va, known as Red Hill.
Evening star., 1940-05-02

The flower mart held on the
pilgrimage steps of Washington
Cathedral yesterday was pronounced
success today by the Executive
Committee of All Hallows Guild,
sponsor of the affair, as proceeds
of the various booths were totaled.
The receipts will be used in beauti-
fication of the bishops garden at the
Cathedral.
Declaring themselves unable
quickly to decide upon distribution
of honors among the many pains
takingly-wrought displays, the
judges, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison of
Belvoir, Va: Miss Rose Greely, land
scape architect, and w. H. Young
man, garden editor of The Star,
finally awarded first prize to the
boutonniere booth arranged by a
committee of which Miss Rosalind
Wright was chairman.
Mrs. Warren's Group Second.
Second prize went to the array of
vegetable baskets and wreaths of
Mrs. Charles Warrens group, and
the third award was taken by the
kitchen cupboard" featuring pre-
serves and other delicacies prepared
from receipts of the Sandy Spring
(Md) Quaker families, famed for
their culinary skill.
The judges gave honorable men
ton to the seedlings of Mrs. Howard
c. Davidson's. booth, the decorated
cart of the Trowel Club of Wesley
Heights and the display of the Com
munity Garden Club of Be-
thesda, Md.
Mrs. Roosevelt was among the dis
tinguished visitors, but her appear
ance, shortly before 3 pm, was
greeted with sudden downpour of
rain, and she hurried off after
watching the Maypole dance which
Evening star., 1940-05-02

Undersecreta ry
of CONNIE &c e
Edward j. No
BILE had accept
ed the chair
manship of the
Go v Ell n m e n t
committee for
the drive.
Mr.. Horn also
released a par
tial list of vice
chairmen W h o
will serve under
Mr.. Noble. They
include Solicit
or General Bid
49, A-.l
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Noble Will Direct Unit
In Symphony Fund Drive

A. F. E. Horn, general chairman
OF the National Symphony Orches-
tra's 10th annual sustaining fund
campaign, announced today that
Evening star., 1940-05-02
BIodensburq Society

Miss Susie Beall will speak on
the "Snowden Grant" at a meeting
tomorrow at 8 pm. Of the Bladens-
burg Historical Society at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Hall, Riggs
Mill, Md.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Tokomu Citizens to Meet

The Flower Avenue Park Citizens
Association Of Takoma Park, Nd,
will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the
IRE hall. John Ford viii preside.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 80.
Motorists injured, 4.
Motorists arrested, 352.
Pedestrians injured, 10.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton Of pedestrian control reg
ulationa, ].
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-02

| Confronted with the situation and
with full explanation of the cir
cumstances, the meeting of school
district patrons Tuesday evening
concurred with the school district
officers in the advisability of dis
trict owned equipment. Nearly
everyone who voiced an opinion
agreed that for the best interests of
the district the bond method of fl
nancing was the better of the two.
However, the obvious solution of the
problem was not discussed at all. If
the district is able to cut off $1,000
a year from the operating budget
to purchase six new buses, surely it
would be able to buy one new bus
each year. This would solve all the
difficulty, would obviate the inter-
est charges and still comply with
the state highway departments re-
quest that the district do some
thing" to put its equipment into
passing condition. Another advan-
tage in this plan would be that no
huge replacement item would be
forced upon the district in any one
year some time in the future. The
pay-as-you-go plan seems much
more feasible, and certainly will be
cheaper.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-02
BUY AMERICAN

There aren't many men in Ken
newick who can afford the imported
English tweeds in tailored clothes
even if they preferred English-made
clothes. You don't find many local
smokers who seek the English
blended tobaccos when their Ameri-
can tobacco fields yield quality
weed. What Londoner can make a
pipe better than an American manu-
facturer, and British lasts for foot
wear appears to have slipped down
a number of notches in popularity.
There were springs when folks
sought English flower and garden
seeds, but most of them are satisfied
with American plants today. Due
to present conditions those who
have pro-British tastes in the above
must be content with what home
markets have to offer. Some say
our sheep do not give the quality
wool of the Scotch hills, but We
have many sheep and many cattle
men beseech America to manufac-
ture with native products. Tobacco
fields need to be noticed for this
is one of our surplus problems.
Trade agreements and purchasing
of foreign produce when we are
yielding the same goods here at
home is not reasonable, conSiderate,
or judicious unless you are mighty
hard to please.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-02

There's void insthis community,
which will be difficult to fill, caus-
ed by the death of H. S. Hughes
Always prominent in civic affairs,
Mr.. Hughes had no small part in
school, grange and county activi-
ties and the loss of his voice and
efforts will be felt in time to come.
For long years his work on the
school board in his home COM
munity has helped the district thru
many difficulties. His experience,
knowledge of conditions and his
sage advice has helped every pa
iron in his district through many
trying ordeals. No less effective
was his work in connection with
grange activities. His official po-
sitions with the county administra-
ton have always been for the best
interests Of the community and his
every act was aimed toward that
end. As q personal friend and a
citizen in his community we feel q
deep sense Of loss in his untimely
passing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-02

We've heard lot of complain
ing in the press about the federal
census. Some of the reports and
complaints have given the impress
ion that it was a terrible ordeal. The
nearer the time came when the
enumerator would call upon us the
more worried, and harassed, and
fidgety We became, until it began to
affect our sleep and our digestion.
Even the family cat who usually
notes our arrival home with some
thing less than casual concern got
so she ran and hid under the neigh
boris rose bush when we came home.
The children on the street stopped
laughing and playing when we
passed and gathered in groups and
whispered together. And then the
census required just twelve minutes.
All the worry and stewing and fret
ting for nothing. If we ever meet up
with the buzzards, who have been
responsible for these three weeks
fretting we have a lot of mean and
harsh things we are going to say to
them.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-02

The day is not far distant when
private enterprise will no longer be
possible. Not infrequently nowadays
parents of boys are heard to remark
that they are fitting their sons to
land government positions. With
more and more people put on the
government payroll, it will soon
be impossible for private enterprise
to pay governmental costs and then
all will be pushed into government
service, with a possible collectivist
state. Lending agencies operated
by the government, with attendant
foreclosures, the huge stores of gold
and silver being boarded in this
country at the expense of other
countries, the impoverishment Of
foreign nations by their war activ-
tiles, all seem to point to the ulti-
mate change in our own form Of
government. And, who's to say that
such a change will not be for the
ultimate good Of all.