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Evening star., 1941-01-31
RooseveIts Decline
Bids 10 Speak Before
Youth Congress
HiIImon, McNutt and
Murroy Also Reject
Feb. J Invitations

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
addressed the American Youth Con-
gress here year ago and defended
it against charges of Communist
domination" has declined an invita-
ton to speak at gathering here
February sponsored by the con-
gress.
Disclosing this yesterday, a con-
gress official said that President
Roosevelt, Sidney Hillman, associate
defense production director; Federal
Security Administrator McNutt and
Philip Murray. C. I. o. president,
likewise had turned down invita-
tions to speak at the gathering.
Joseph Cadden, executive secre-
tary of the congress, said in a state
ment that Mrs. Roosevelt had been
asked to attend an open discussion
of the administration lease-lend
bill at the first session of the Town
Meeting of Youth on February 7.
Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to
speak to the Town Meeting" he
said, mot only because the youth
desire to hear her views on public
affairs but also because those of us
who have had the privilege of know
ing her personally have the highest
regard and affection for her.
Speculates on Reason.
THAT she has not accepted our
invitation is undoubtedly due to
the fact that she does not want
to associate herself with our op-
position to the leaSe-lend bill and
to other measures which we believe
are leading this country deeper into
the war abroad and dictatorship at
nome"
After saying that the President,
Mr.. Hillman and Mr.. McNutt also
mad declined invitations, Mr.. Cad
den added:
1--WE are sure that young people
will be interested to learn that not
single leading spokesman of the
administration is desirous of put
ting its policies to the test of free
discussion before the Nation wide
Town Meeting of Youth"
President Roosevelt and John L.
Lewis, former head of the C. I. O.,
spoke at the assembled youth last
year Mrs. Roosevelt addressed the
gathering, answered questions from
the floor, and also aided in finding
lodgings for the delegates at hotels
and at Fort Myer Army quarters.
Mr. Cadden said Mrs. Roosevelt
had apparently become "coop to-
ward the Youth Congress when it
opposed peacetime military con-
scription
Refusal of Auditorium Hit.
The Washington Committee for
Democratic Action. in a statement
made public today, aSsailed the
Federal Works Agency for denying
the Congress the use of the depart
mental auditorium for its conven-
ton.
At meeting of $50 members of
the committee. Sidney Katz,. secre-
tary-treasurer of the Industrial
Union Council for the District and
Maryland. declared that denial of
free assembly to one group meant
refusal of the privilege to all groups
The committee condemned the
lease-lend bill as endangering the
fundamental rights of the American
people.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Band Concert

BY the United States Army Band
In the band auditorium of the Army
War College tomorrow at 11:30 am.
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl
Hubner, assistant.
Program.
March, THE Military Maestro"
Becker
Overture, "Sakuntala" Goldmark
Excerpt, Told at Sunset"
from the Woodland Sketches"
MacDowell
Scene de ballet, Dance of the
Hours" from La Gioconda,"
Ponchielli
Waltz, Flowers and Smiles" Missud
March, THE United States Army"
Darcy
-The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Early Action Is Seen
On Item 70 Safeguard
Dc Wafer Supply
SIS 900 Asked to Convert
Plant for Pumping From
ConoI in Emergency

The House Appropriations Com
mittee today planned to give early
consideration to Budget Bureau
request that $4,000 be provided in
the first deficiency appropriation
bill to prevent disruption of WASH
ington's water supply in the event
or an emergency or an act of
sabotage
The s75 5000 would be used to make
changes in the Dalecarlia hydro
electric plant to permit its conver-
sion, in time of need. into a pump
ing station for lifting raw water
from the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
into the nearby Dalecarlia reservoir.
The 1912 budget now pending be-
fore the committee carries S75, 900
to make the proposed changes in
the plant. The Budget Bureau with
the approval of President Roosevelt,
however, suggested that the item be
shifted to the deficiency appropria-
ton bill so the money viii become
available before July I.
See Waiting as Unwise.
The item is one of a half dozen
supplemental estimates for the Dis
trict for the 1941 fiscal year trans
mitted to Congress yesterday by
the President. With reference to
the $4,000 for changing the plant,
Congress was told:
"An estimate for this purpose is
included in the District of Columbia
budget for the fiscal year 1912,
recently transmitted to Congress, but
because of the possibilities of
sabotage and also the possible de-
lays in securing machinery. the Dis
trict Commissioners consider it un-
wise to await action bv Congress on
the 1912 District of Columbia annual
appropriation bill They therefore
urgently recommend that the es-
innate be included in the first
deficiency appropriation bill.
THE entire water supply for the
District of Columbia is taken from
the Potomac River at Great Falls
and is conducted to the Dalecarlia
Reservoir through two parallel con-
duits 80 feet apart, each approx
imately 10 miles in length Loss of
even one conduit from any cause
would result in serious water
shortage if repairs could not be
effected within three days. This
proposal cortemplates the procure
ment and assembling of auxiliary
equipment within the hydroelectric
station situated beside the c. & o.
Canal at Dalecarlia so that in an
emergency and within two days the
station could be temporarily dis
continued as generating station
and converted into pumping
plant to pump water from the canal
into the Dalecarlia Reservoir"
S250,000 Asked for Streets.
Outstanding among the other
supplemental items is one calling
for an appropriation of s250,0O0 out
of the highway fund for street i'm
provements in newly developed
areas made necessary by abnormal
building activity. The $250,000, it
is estimated, will provide for con-
struction of from 7 to miles of
streets. Recent field inspections, it
was said, indicate nearly 10 miles
of streets without any surfacing or
with surfacing of a totally made
quate character.
The other major items include
S150,000 for extension of service
mains in the water distribution
system and 100000 for additional
sewer construction-all made nee
essary by extraordinary building
activity.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Full Report Is Asked by Keech-
LnDispute Over Buckley Case
Owners of Cars Involved in Crosh Deny Making
Statements They Would Drop Charges

teenth street on the day of the
accident and had seen the collision
and the defendant. He also said he
had made no statement that he did
not wish to prosecute and that he
was expecting to be called on to
testify.
Policemen Not Called.
Policemen T. L. Roland and W. T.
Taft of the second precinct said
they had not been called on to
testify on the drunk driving charge
they had placed against the attor-
ney and that their first knowledge
of the change of charges and the
disposition of the case came yes
terday.
Mr.. Keech said today that in some
cases it is proper and desirable for
a prosecutor to modify charges, but
emphasized he knew nothing yet
about the charges against Mr..
Buckley.
In discussing Police Court pro-
cedure, however, he said the mere
fact that a charge has been nolle
pressed is no bar to a renewal of
the charge" if the facts indicate a
renewal should be made.
J Reiterating that he was not pre-
pared TO discuss the charges against
Mr.. Buckley until he had studied the
report from Police Court, Mr.. Keech
pointed out, however, that the teSti-
mony of complaining witnesses
should be heard in the consideration
of nolle PROSE- action.
1T is a mistake" he said, to mod
ify such charge unless complaining
witnesses have been heard.
In speaking Of references which
have been made to the Police Court
corporation counsel's Office as "a
training school, for young attorneys,
Mr.. Keech said he had made only
two appointments of assistants since
he was appointed corporation coun-
sci on November l, 1910, and that
in both instances the men named
were learning the ropes working
out of his office
Mr.. Keech said none Of his assist
ants had been named in charge of
the Police Court Office as yet, and he
pointed out that he intends to name
an office head, delaying merely to
give himself an opportunity to IA
miliarize himself with his own post
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Gen. Shelley Marietta
To Command Army
Medical Center Here
Gen. MetcoIfe to Retire
In May; Successor Heads
Walter Reed Hospital

A change In the command of the
Army Medical Center here, with
Brig. Gen. Shelley U. Marietta Sue
ceeding Brig. Gen. Raymond F. Met
calfe, who is due to retire soon, was
announced today by the War De-
partment.
The new commandant is assistant
to the Surgeon General of the Army
and is commandant of Walter Reed
Hospital. Gen. Metcalfe will retire
in May.
The Army Medical Center is the
most important of its kind in the
country
of the Medical Corps in the Regu-
lar Army since 1912. He is an
Iowan and received his medical ed
ucation in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in Illinois. For a
while he served in the Medical Re-
serve Corps.
Gen. Metcalfe was decorated by
the French Government for his serv-
ices during the World War. He
organized and trained the personnel
for Base Hospital 43, at Blois,
France.
Subsequently he was a student at
the Mayo Foundation, Rochester,
MINI. He has been on duty at
Walter Reed as chief of the med
ieal service since April, 1899, and
as commandant Of the hospital
since December, 1889.
Gen. Metcalfe is a native of Sala-
manca, N. Y, and was graduated
from the University of Buffalo Med
ical School in 1900. He became an
Army surgeon the following year.
Much of his early service was in the
Philippines, where he served in the
Board of Health in the cholera epi-
demic in 1902
Gen. Metcalfe served in France
during the World War as surgeon
with the 36th Texas-Oklahoma Di-
vision and later with the 1st Army
Corps. He was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal.
He has been on duty at the Army
Medical Center since August, 1885,
and assistant surgeon general since
March /, 1887.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Irving 0. Ball Dies;
Active for SO Years
In D. {. Affairs
Funeral Will Be Held
At z PM. Monday
At Foundry Methodist

Irving o. Ball, rs, for many years
proprietor of the old Hamilton
Hotel and for so years active in
business, civic and church affairs of
this city, died today at his home
in the Wyoming Apartments from a
heart ailment which had confined
him to his bed for several months.
Mr.. Ball is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Anna Hayes c. Ball; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Frederick A. Utiedt, wife
Of Washington patent lawyer; one
grandson and by two brothers, Fen
ner Ball of Block Island and Provi-
dence. R. l., and Miami, Fla, and
Everett Ball of Manchester. Pa.
Funeral services will be at 2 pm.
Monday at the Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Throughout his residence in
Washington, Mr.. Bail was active
in the Foundry Church, of which
he once was treasurer and later
president of the board of trustees.
He was a member of that board at
the time of his death.
Born on Block Island, January
28. 1865, Mr., Ball was graduated
from Greenrich (R. - Academy
and from the Rhode Island State
College of Agriculture. He taught
school ON Block Island for several
years before coming to Washington
in 1890 as clerk in the Pension
Office. The following years he be-
came clerk in the old Hamilton
Hotel and in the course of years
he acquired complete ownership of
the property. He was a member
OF the Hotelmen'S Association.
Following the sale of the property
to corporation which erected the
present Hamilton Hotel Mr.. Ball re-
tired in 1921, but continued activity
in business affairs in connection with
his investments. He was married
twice, the first time in 1889 to Miss
Carre Briant of Morristown, N. j.,
who died in Washington in 1888. In
1884 he married Mrs. Anna Hayes
Champlin of Providence, widow of
Christopher z. Champlin of that
city.
Mr.. Ball was a member of st.
Johns Lodge of Masons.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
DoctorsPIan
More Medical
Building Space
Two New Stories to
Give Added Room
For Nearby Hospital

Two new stories will be added to
the Columbia Medical Building.
Nineteenth and I streets NV, to
provide expansion not only for this
structure but, more particularly. for
the adjacent Doctors Hospital with
which it will be connected by q
corridor.
Officials of Doctors Hospita! ex-
planned today they already had per-
mission from the Zoning Commits
sion to heighten the Columbia
Building to the same height as Doc
tors Hospital, ITO feet. Applita-
ton was filed today with the build
ing inspector at the District Building
for a construction permit in the
estimated cost of S125,000
Room for Expansion.
AS explained by DR.. Oscar B.
Hunter, secretary of Doctors Hos
pital and also of the Columbia
Medical Building Corp, the tenth
floor of the Columbia Building Will
be connected by corridor with the
top floor of the hospital and sew
eral facilities now accommodated in
the hospital will be housed on the
new top floor next door. This will
give room for needed expansion Of
the hospital itself.
The new construction, for which
Marcellus Wright is architect and
Lee Parschall of Richmond. Va. is
contractor, is the latest development
in the so-called Medical Center of
four buildings, which are under the
ownership of three corporations Of
interlocking directorates and similar
stockholders.
Use for Special Equipment.
The buildings are the Doctors
Hospital and the Columbia and
Washington Medical Buildings on
either side. stretching from Eight
eenth to Nineteenth street, and the
Medical Center parking ramp on the
south side of the same block
The two new upper floors also will
be used for the accommodation Of
several practicing physicians who
use special equipment.
DR.. Charles Stanley White is presi-
dent of the corporation and DR..
Charles w. Hyde is treasurer. DR..
Edward L. Morrison is vice president
of Doctors Hospital and the Colum-
bia Medical Building, while DR..
Edgar P Copeland is vice president
of the Washington Medical Build
ing.
Evening star., 1941-01-31

Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech said today he had asked for
a full report on the traffic charges
placed against M. Edward Buckley.
jr., Washington attorney. against
whom an original charge of driving
while drunk was nolle pressed and
a lesser charge filed.
Mr.. Keech said he had no official
knowledge of the circumstances
surrounding the case and that,
pending delivery of the report to
him. he preferred to make no COM
ment. He said he had asked As
sistant Corporation Counsel Milton
D. Norman, senior member of his
four assistants at Police Court, to
submit the report. to include dis
position of the case and the nolle
pressing of the runk-driving
charge. Mr.. Norman was expected
to complete the report today.
Yesterday Assistant Corporation
Counsel Ralph Quinter, jr., said the
charge against the defendant had
been nolle pressed because repre-
sentations were made" to him that
all damages were paid and COM
plainants did not wish to prosecute
the defendant"
Charged After Collision.
Mr.. Buckley was arrested and
charged with driving while drunk
after a collision with the automo-
biles of Joseph Lerner and Dorsey
J. Griffith on Thirteenth street
NV. Later he was charged with
driving on the wrong side of the
street, to which he pleaded guilty,
Police Court records reveal, and a
fine of s25 was paid.
Mr.. Griffith. who lives in Cherry
dale, Va, said today he had never
said that he did not wish to prose-
cute Mr.. Buckley and that it was
his understanding he would be
called on to testify at the trial of
the defendant on the driving while
drunk charge. The first knowledge
he had that the charge had been
nolle pressed and a lesser charge
substituted was when he read OF it
in the newspaper, he said.
Leon Lerner, 4528 Ninth street
NV, owner of the car driven by
his brother Joseph. who was in
volved in the accident, said he had
been following his brother up Thir-
Evening star., 1941-01-31
New School
To Be Named
For DR.. Kramer
Building Committee
Also Votes Honor
To DR.. KimbuII

The new $500 900 junior high school
to be built in Anacostia by Septem-
ber, 1912, will be named for DR.. Ste
phen E. Kramer, former assistant
superintendent of schools who died
IN June, 1886.
This was unanimously voted today
by the Building and Grounds Com
mittee of the Board of Education on
recommendation of Supt. Frank w.
Ballou. The name has to be ap-
proved by the full board and by the
Commissioners, but no objections are
anticipated.
1t also was voted to name the pro-
posed new elementary school at
Minnesota avenue and Ely place
Sc. for DR.. Ephraim Gardner Kim
ball, a former supervising principal
of schools located in the vicinity of
the Capitol. Funds of some $210, 900
are asked in the 1912 school budget
now before Congress for the school.
Change in Rules Forecast.
Under rules of the board, school
cannot be named for any one less
than two years after the nominees
death. Col West A. Hamilton, a
member of the committee, expressed
the opinion at today's session that
this limit should be extended to five
years. The bulk of the city's schools
are named for Presidents of the
United States and former Commis-
sionerS.
Members of the committee agreed
generally that the number of new
schools being limited. they should
be so far as possible named for
persons who have made a marked
contribution to the local school sys-
tenn or in the educational field.
Considerable support for naming
the school for DR.. Kramer had come
to the school officials from persons
in the school system and citizens
DR.. Kramer had been in the school
system some As years and was
vigorous sponsor of the High School
Cadet Corps He called the cadet
program "the finest activity the high
school has to offer"
Support for DIR. Kimball.
Strong support has also been
voiced in behalf of DR.. Kimball, Mrs.
Philip Sidney Smith, chairman, told
the committee, but it was agreed
that it would be more appropriate
to name an elementary school for
him.
The new Junior high school will
be built at Seventeenth and @
streets Sc. to relieve the congestion
in the present Anacostia Junior
Senior High School. The latter will
be devoted to senior high purposes
when the new school is completed
Funds are carried in the present
budget and also in the 1912 estimates
to complete construction.
The proposed new elementary
school is designed to relieve a tre-
mendous load now carried by four
elementary schools in the Anacostia-
Benning area in view of the big
building boom, both private and
Federal, in the area.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Hull Calls Metuxus' Loss
Great Blow to Greece
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of State Hull today
described the death of Premier John
Metaxas as a great loss to Greece
in the hour of her struggle for
freedom"
In a message to his successor,
Alexander Korizis, Mr.. Hull said:
1T is with a profound sense of
sorrow that I have learned of the
death of his excellency, Gen. John
Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece.
Please accept my most sincere
sympathy in this great loss to
Greece in the hour of her struggle
for freedom
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Defense Glasses Attacked

Defense training courses given in
local public schools are inadequate
to prepare workers for real service,
the Washington Youth Council de-
clared today. The council, it was
announced, is investigating the ra-
ito of white workers trained in the
schools who find jobs to that Of
the colored workers.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Sentencing of Moyne
In Dies Affair DELAYED

The scheduled sentencing today of
David A. Mayne, who pleaded guilty
Monday to charges of forgery and
false pretenses in connection with
letters which purported to link
Chairman Dies of the House Un-
American Activities Committee and
William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt
leader, has been postponed until
next week.
The probation Office, to which the
case was referred by District Court
Justice James M. Proctor, still is
investigating.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Church to Give Program

The Rev. G. G. Oliver, pastor of
the Clarendon Methodist Church,
and the church choir will present
a program over Radio Station WINK
tomorrow at Sis pm. The program,
Arlington Vespers," is to be weekly
feature.
Evening star., 1941-01-31

In January, Beware OF:
/. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. Three
persons were killed doing so in
January, 1910.
2. Crossing a street at an un-
controlled intersection. This
took one life in January last
year.
AL four pedestrians killed last
January were over so years of
age, two being 10 or over. The
fifth death was that of a motor
cycle policeman killed in a col
lision while pursuing a speeding
car.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Wunderbirds to Hike

The Wanderbirds Hiking Club
will sponsor walk from Potomac
to Cabin John, Md, Sunday. Rob.
ert Walker and Marguerite Cox will
lead the group, which will meet at
9 am. in front of the National
Theater.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Civic Forum to Meet

The Civic National Forum will
hold its quarterly round-table meet
ing at pm. Sunday at the White
law Hotel, Thirteenth and T streets
NV. L. c. Farrar is president of
the group.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
AnnondoIe Program

ANNANDALE, Va, Jan. 81 (Spe-
ciaD "A program for the benefit of
the local school will be held tonight
in the school under the direction of
Bud Ward, radio entertainer.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

Glad to see the law hand in hand with
art. Ha-ha."
Mrs. Osgood Tuttle blotted out
the rest of the room. 'My dear"
she gushed, "the most thrilling party
of the year. You must - She
doomed on and on. Other people
spoke to Gloria. She replied mechan-
ically. The reporters were still there
OH if they would only leave.
Jimmy was back. The sight of his
smiling face was like strong drink.
"Okay. duck" he whispered. were
in the clear. And there was a plot.
See that desk of Wellman's in the cor
ner?" His dark head jerked. Some
(Confinvsd on nsn pogs)
Evening star., 1941-05-04

1t was the little artist. He had Mrs.
Tupper by the elbow. He was eager.
anxious. His glasses glittered with ex-
citement. Had he whispered some
thing under his breath to her mother?
Gloria tried to hold herself. She
was seeing things. She turned to MIR.
Croy, but her eyes searched for
Jimmy. Mr.. Wellman, the owner of
the galleries, came bustling up.
"A wonderful gathering. Mrs. Hart
ley. Marvellous! We've already had
several interested inquiries about two
items. All, good afternoon, MIR. Croy.