Evening star., 1941-06-10
6. u. Confers Degrees
On Glass Of 5O9;;
0'Conor Hits Strikes
Most Rev. THONGS Emmett
And Senator O'Mohoney
Receive Honorary L.. D.'s

NeTSlly S6IllOIS TtCtlNeu lIlelI Uc-
grees at the 142d annual commence
ment yesterday afternoon and heard
Gov. O'Conor of Maryland indorse
stern measures to curb the "subver-
sive methods of labor radicals aimed
at impeding defense production.
IF these men are not American
citizens they should be sent back to
the country whose cause they
espouse." Gov. O'Conor said. In
this period of all-out defense pre-
paredness, the control of American
labor should not be allowed to rest
in the hands of foreigners whose
allegiance is to another government
than our own.
"On the other hand" he added
'if these agitators happen to be of
American citizenship, although dis
loyal to our country, way must be
found to curb their efforts and to
punish their reasonable activities
Commission Given As.
Forty-six graduates of the r. o. T.
C. course were awarded Army COM
missions as lieutenants in the In
fantry and Medical Reserve Corps
and two of them, william r. Desobry
and John Paul Beall, will be COM
missioned as lieutenants in the Reg
ular Army next month. Both are
Washington students.
One of the largest crowds TO at
tend a Georgetown commencement
in recent years was welcomed by
the Very Rev. Arthur A. OJeary,
S. j.. whose term as president may
be continued beyond this year be-
cause of existing emergency.
Honorary degrees of doctor of laws
were conferred by the president
upon the Most Rev. Thomas A.
Emmet, S. j., vicar apostolic of
Jamaica and Senator OMahoney of
Wyoming. a Georgetown law grad
uate of 1920. Bishop Emmets cita-
ton referred to his nearly so years
of service to church and education
and to the fact that in 1923 he was
made the first headmaster of the
Georgetown Preparatory School.
Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of
versity at the exercises.
Citation for DIR. Scott.
A surprise OF the ceremonies was
the presentation of congratulatory
citation to DR.. James Brown Scott
of Washington. who had retired this
year from the faculty and as secre-
tary of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. 1t was DR..
Scott's 18th birthday anniversary
and he was made professor
emeritus.
DR.. Scott had served on the
Georgetown faculty for nearly 20
years as professor of interna tional
law and international relations and
later added Jurisprudence and
Roman law to his courses. He was
formerly a solicitor of the State
Department.
Another interesting sidelight was
the bestowal of congratulatory cita-
tions upon seven graduates of the
class of 1891 in celebration of their
golden jubilee" They are James
E. Duross and James S. Easby-
Smith, college alumni, and William
G. Dunno. John j. Hamilton. John
A. Saul. Joseph N. Saunders and
William c. Taylor, law alumni.
Commissions Listed.
1t. Col Charles E. Ravens. u. S. A.,
commandant of the R. o. T. c.,
awarded commissions as second
lieutenants in the Infantry Reserves
to James F, Anderson, John Paul
Beall, William F. Becker, John B.
Boothy, John J. Buckley, William v.
Burke, Archibald F. Commiskey, jr.;
William r. Desobry, Donald D.
Donahue, Maurice F. Dozier. William
j. Evans, George c. Fowler. jr.:
Joseph H. Giebel. jr.: Thomas F.
Haley, Richard L. Harris, George c.
Jordan, Edward c. Kurdziel, Sydney
]. Lawrence. Charles r. Mullan,
Herbert D. Peterson, Edmund D.
Roche, John P Rupert, Charles A.
Sullivan. jr.; Francis w. B. Wales,
jr, and William v. Wixted.
Commissions as first lieutenants in
the Medical Reserves were awarded
to James F. Ambury, George L. Benz
William G. Best, John H. Brady,
John F. Dugan, Leo C. Jacques,
Francis j. Kalaman, Carroll E.
Keating. Charles S. Kellar. Stanley
j. Kuk, Kenneth w. Kurbitz, Peter
N Lombard, Jerome S. Monaker,
Ward NJ ODonnell, Richard K.
OLoughlin, Nicholas S. Peters, Leo
j. Sklar and Fred J. Wertz.
The degrees in course were con-
ferred as follows:
Degrees were conferred on grad
yates as follows:
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Bachelor Of Arts.
Brophy Philip Noel Lane. Eugene F.
Buckley John Joseph Mahoney, T. j.. jr.
Burke, William M. McNicol, Kenneth r.
Burns, John T, jr. McVoy, Richard e.
Byrd, William H. Merkle, Robert W. M.