Evening star., 1942-04-16
SchooICadets
ToLose Rifles 10
ArmybyJu June IS
Guns to Be Token
After Drills for
Use of Allies

Some 2,7o0 30-caliber rifles issued
to the Washington High School
Cadet Corps in both the white and
colored schools will be withdrawn
by the War Department on or before
June Is.
This was disclosed to the Board of
Education yesterday by Supt. of
Schools Frank w. Ballou, who said
the weapons would be packed and
made ready for shipment immedi-
ately after the company competi-
tive drills scheduled at Griffith
Stadium about the middle of May.
The move is part of War De-
psrtment maneuver to recover
thousands of Army rifles issued for
peacetime training to various
schools and private. organizations
under the National Defense Act.
The department announced last
Sunday plans to repossess some a.
900 weapons in private hands. They
will be turned over to the United
Nations troops.
May Use Broomsticks.
Requests for the school weapons.
together with accessories and spare
parts. came from 1t. Col. r. A.
Brown. ordnance officer of the 3rd
Corps Area, who asked that they
be shipped at the earliest possible
date consistent with school activities
School officials said they did not
know what would be done about the
cadet corps next year as far as pro-
viding them with weapons with
which to drill. A War Department
spokesman said 1t might be nece-
ssary to use broomsticks for drilling.
In move to expand aviation
training offered in the schools. the
board authorized DR.. Ballou to
establish six-week summer course
for June graduates or those who
may have graduated within the
previous year, in physics, mathe-
matics and physical education
Assistant Supt. Chester w. Holmes
reported marked increase In the
demand for mathematics by high
school pupils since the military
services had indicated the need for
training in that field. He predicted
the demand may exceed available
teachers of the subject.
New Hours Working"
School officials will offer the six
week course only if the enrolment
justifies 1t, but DR.. Ballou expressed
the opinion that interest in avia-
ton and other factors might make
the demand such that limitation
would be necessary.
|. The superintendent also reported
that the change in the opening hour
Of junior and senior high schools
@fFem=Sam. to $50 Am. as a traffic
measure to relieve congestion on
buses and streetcars during the
rush hours is working with "a rea-
sonable degree of success"
At Woodrow Wilson High School.
however, he said, numbers of pupils
are tardy because of apparent lack
of sufficient bus service and some
high schools feel the new hour is
"detrimentap to the high school
cadets.
Survey of Tools Planned.
The board authorized survey by
the school officials of machine shop
tools in the local schools, both pub
lie and private, at the request of the
United States Office of Education.
Members also voted to seek def
cheney appropriation of $15,500 for
fuel, gas and electricity to operate
the schools until the end of the
fiscal year, June 30.
They also agreed to land swap"
on a permit to use" basis with the
Alley Dwelling Authority on prop
erty on the Langston development
In Benning where the A. D. A. wants
to build SO demountable houses to
be taken down after the war. Dr.
Ballou explained that the permit
to use" basis makes change of title
"a long legal procedure-unneces-
sary.