Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1927, Page 13

“R0ADS LOSE POINT WORK COMPLETED INVALUATION FIGHT ON TORNAD RELIEF Billions May Be Involved in D. C. Chopter of Red Cross Decision for Basis of | Makes Report of Its Original Cost. Activities Here. Relief work for victims of Wash ington’s recent tornado has heen com | pleted by the District of Columbia | {Chapter. American Red Cross, it was ) | announced last night by Maj | George Barnett, ch; nan of the cl ter. who made public a rvesolution passed by his advisory committee at its final meeting. A detailed financial | statement will be forthcoming later. | it was stated The resolution declared that “the committee on awards feels that every | possible effort has been made to dis- | any and all cases needir re- | All cases had been acted upon. | it was expluined and awards made or | | rejected upon their merits, and “re- | | lief granted in all cases where such | | relief was needed to prevent suffering | and undue hardship.” Workers of the American | Red Cross rendered uble the resolution set forth were characterized as Jor vlearne nd accuracy,” were tendered the ‘“sincere | of_the committee. The committee also deemed it perti- nent to “call attention o the tact that a very large number of those suffe {ing injury they did not r from the injured By the Associated Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., The railrouds’ contention for valuation s of cost of reproduction new Was given a blow today when a special court of three Federal judges upheld the valuations of the Louis & the In December 10.— st OFallon Railvoad us fixed by terstate Commerce Commission large 1y on the hasis of o This difterence was a involving a o move than §10.000,000,000 in the valua of the Nation's rail- | roads. The opinion was written by C: cuit Judge Kimbrouzh Stone and c eurred in by Circuit Judge Arba Van Viakenburgh and Distirct Judge C B Faris The case has b lled gest lawsuit in history” because its ucceptunce by both the Interstate Commerce : B E 1 roads ¥ methods 1« of all the both for and for the recapture by the Federal Government of one-half of excess earn ings above six per cent National Istance, reports | markable | and th thar “the big eil in valuation the country. and that if all axsistance tmount axked for from the have been small rather Varying Est The railroads contended the tion of the O'Fallon roud was §1 000, The comnission declared valuation varied from SS65 000 during the three years for it sought to recapture ex lotaling $225.000 Judge Stone held that question of value nor for ascertaining value n : on, hecause, even accepting the road’s claim of value, its ear B altare Ao the years in question range 5. and B. T, §2 { valua- the press funds collected by v to date total $4.266 975 was previopsly 1 Contributions were terday ey the Women's Association, $30. Ruth Kobbe committee were ex- 8 ohrh tended 1o the neither the the method: 1 be passed rail hence no onfiscation .of property | | among | vary { paratus illustr; THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHI 'NATURE CONTRIBUTES MARVELS 'FOR ANNUAL CARNEGIE EXHIBIT Recent Discoveries in Striking Fields of| esearch Are Represented in Public View Which Is Provided. Many of the more recently liscov- ered wonders of nature, ranging from | the ehemical composition of the color- ling matter in plant leaves to the inte- rior of giant stars quadrillions of miles distant in_ space, were fllustrated in the annual exhibition of the work of the Carnegle Institution of Washing ton, which opened yesterday. The exhibits cover the work of the Carnegie research workers in arche. ology, diatom research, embryology. genetics, nutrition. plant physiology. ecological research. meridian as tronomy. geophysics, terrestrial mag- netism, paleobotany and history. The institution has taken a leading part in the development of all the sciences 1n the United States. Among the most interesting features of the exhihition was the apparatus showing the progress of the work in meridian astronomy. which seeks to clear up various questions which have avisen as 1o the position of the earth the stars—a matter of great importance in the keeping of standard time. One problem now under in- vestigation is that of the changirg vate of the rotation of the carth. The length of the day. or the period be- tween the p: of u selected star | "y Ty aobatanical exhibit goes over the mer had heen gr-)um‘ 1 hack to the very ancient days of iife oy o Uwe The ablon earth. showing leaves. cones and e e i and | Wood striicture of plants that grew in contraotions In ihe earih itself. such | the Cand CanshitiGusiie e R 15 mav come with earthqunkes. |tlon of the sandstone clifs. Usully {only he impressions o eAvVes wer . ATathec sielliegs the marth M |ty dn abe Tandstone. hut recently Their elative lm‘liiv:‘l:. at diftenshr|Coraemies invastisatonss have ' (ound e e T e e holoreq |Bctual’ material, of the lenven: them. e selvea In lake doposita near Barulog, 2y ) T he department of American arch- s elogy showed exhibits secured from el o . the ruins of the ancient Mava city of | Uaxactun. Guatemala. which dutes Ether Drirt, | from approximately 68 A .. and the latter Maya city of Chichen Itza. Yu- ather-drift apparatus being used by | O™ 31 10 = Prof Michelson of the University of department of diatom research axhib- ited specimens of extremelv havd rock formed from the bodies of microscop- ically small plants. averaging about four-thousandths of un inch in size which grow in enormous quantities i all waters. About a dozen of these diatoms were shown microscopes, each appearing small. round jeweled hrooch Special Exhibit. The pigments of plant leave the subject for a special exhibit. Some attribute of the green coloring mat ter in leaves enables the plant to build up carbohydrates from carbondioxide and water thronzh the utilization of sunlight, and this is the most impor. undet form s concerned stood. however. and the ( vestigators e trying to just what happens. They have found that most green leaves contain four plgments—carotin and xanthophyll. which are « yellow, and « phyll a and chloro phyll b, which are green mples of these pigments. isolated from the planis in theii pure state, are on ex- hibition It ix imperfectly under. determine an time like a | tant process in all nature so far as life | 4 arnegie In- | . DECEMBER 11. 1927—PART 1. MEDICAL MEN PLAN DRUG CONFERENGE Committees to Study Move to Alter Harrison and - Caustic Acid Bills. Arrangements have been made for a conference of committees representing the American Medical Assoclation and | the conference in reference to the elimination of non-habit-forming _de- | rivatives of opium from the provisions of the Harrison act and in reference {to other matters of mutual interest to physicians and pharmacists, at the annual meeting of the National Drug | Trade Conference here, which passed the following resolution Friday: i | “1. That it is desirable that the so. | called Harrison act should he amended ians are prima- concerned in the operation of a law affecting the prescribing of habit- forming drugs, the conference should | confine itself to seconding the efforts o representatives of the med- {ical profession in any attempt to se- | cure such desived modification of the id Harrison act. “Also that Congress be urged to | amend the Federal caustic acid bill S0 that its provisions will apply only to_concentrated lye." The Federal Wholesale Druggists' | Assuciation, representing the mutual | wholesale druggists, was elected to | | membership and the following were elected officers: . €. Henry of Chi- cago, president; H. C. Christensen of Chicago, vice president; E. F. Kelley of Baltimore, secretary-treasurer, and . L. Hilton of Washington, counsel- or to the Chamber of Commerce. iR ol Cardinal de Lai Failing. ROME, December 10 (#).—Cardinal de Lai, whose condition has been sta- tionary for several days, today showed signs of failing after a collapse last night believed to have been caused by | manded ha kil her defined as homicide committed with malice, but not “'malice aforethought’ —that is, not premeditated. The mini- | mum sentence is 10 years. Hart is in jail, unable to furnish bond of $35,000. SLAYER OF BRIDE [ OHIO STATE SOCIETY; COnvicted Desplte Plea Tha‘ Assistant Secretary of Commerce to “Communicative Insanity” | ST "t Meeting Tomor- e | row Night. Caused Deed. Walter F. Brown, Assistant Secre tary of Commerce, will address the Ohio State Society at a meeting to. | morrow night at 8:30 o'clock in the | Washington Hotel. The society will elect a vice president to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Wa Wheeler. Members of the Ohio ssional delegation will be ten a reception following the meet By the Associated Press. BUREKA, Kans A new trial was motion filed by Hart. 31-year-old bank clerk, convicted of second degree murder for slaving | . Mabel Marmont Hart his bride of | ¢ three weeks. Hearing on the motion | was set for next Saturday. | Defense attorneys pleaded that corn- | municative insanity caused Hart to| slash his wife's { when she d ause she fe s on the defe ¥ . Hart apparent- | sponsible and had | Representative Theodore E. Burton president, last night announced regu lar meetings of the society will be held | when the y will pril 9 “i | the nights of January 30, | MeKinley birthday annive: be observed. and March 12 and Officers who will serve during the coming year are Chief Justice William | Howard ry president; Rep- | ¢! tive Burton, president: Speakor rth of the House of Repre: | sentatives and Mrs. Wilson Compton vice presidents; H. W, Kitzmiller, sec mutherhood side testified ly was mentally ir communics her delusions to husband, prosecution that Hart slew his bride with malice and intent. Mrs. Hart was found dead July 8 in an automobile on a country road near | town, and her husband was picked up retary: Clyde B. Asher, treasurer: Rev. in a briar patch some distance away, | John W. Hamilton, chaplain, and Mor- | suffering from loss of blood after at.|ris J. Hole, historian tempting suicide. Hart had slashed | his wrists. Second degree murder In Kansas is Uruguay will hold an exposition o nationally made goods next March | ning MRS. ALICE D. HUNTER: 13 DIES IN FRANCE —_ —_ | ASKS NEW .I-RIA 1BRDWN TO ADDRESS 4Former Social Leader Here Sur. vived by Two Sons and One Daughter. Alice I William Dulany Hun ¥ Ars sor been completed brou the it several She amuel ht to this American for a foreizn is surv Dulany FORL A MIANITS, Gl T Saks PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AT SEVENTH (N0 ally promine was overnme ved by Hunter Hunter | Chicago to determine whether the for-| Until recently the only known could be claimed hy the road | ward movement of the earth cun be | method of taking fingerprints was first g, pulmonary k. Therefore, he held the commission's pulmonary attac " SEX INSTRUCTION > P order is “not open to attack upon the ground of wrongful valuation.” Judge Farrls, in his concurring opin- | fon into valuation methods tively concluding that the commission ached the valuation found by it in the only way possibie in situation so difficult that absolute went certainty and corvectness is well nigh | finitely impossible. Court's Argument. Rejecting that the dominant was reproduction rald “A valuation arrived at by the sole use of cither the prudent investment theory bottorned upon cost when con- structed. present cost of reproduction new less new., depreciation. would work presently to | the public and eventually carri themselves <uch monstrous inequity % to preclude wholly the use of either such methods exclusively and elim- inate the notions that Congress con- templated the exclusive use of either | of such methods.” “Therefore.” he continuad. of the proy nroperties mon carrier under the recapture the Interstate Com- ce Act ought to he the net re- r of expert opinion reasonably and henestly exercised Judze Van Calkenburzh concurred without comment. v of counsel for the ‘Fallen said he be- s opinion provided for an appeal to the tates Supreme Court und #aid the road would so appeal on. December 19. whenythe degree is formally entered Schwitalla Namad Dean. ST. LOUIS. December 10 (#).—Ap- pointment of Rev. Dr. Alphonse . Sehwitalla, 8. J.. as dean of the school of medicine of St. Louts University was announced here today by Pri dent Charles H. Cloud. He succeed the late Dr. Hanau W. Loeb. The ap- pointments go into effect January 1. the railroad’s contention | element of valuc | Judge Farris | or upon the theory_of the | detected by a varlation in the speed|to find them with a magnifying glass IN SCHOOLS URGED Social Hygiene Group Told Co-‘ operation of IHome and Church Is Needed. Co-operation of the home, school | and church for instruction of youth was urged hy Dr. Thomas Wal ton Galloway of the staff of the Amer- | ican Social Hyziene iety of New York in an address at a meeting of | the Social Hygiene Society of the District of Columbia and the Dis | teiet of Columbia Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations last night at Pierce Hall of All Souls’| Unitarian Church. Progress In the schools already has heen noticed, according to the speaker. as school hoards have undertaken to formulate plans whereby these ideas | can be taught wholesomely and through the parent-teacher —associa- tions, which have started groups studying this work with a hope of enrolling many more parents. The | speaker said that the church was slow in taking hold of the idea, but that in | some churches, the movement had | been started. J. E. Jones, chairman of the board of trustces of the All Souls’ Church, introdueed Dr. R. S. Tamb, president of the District of Columbia Hygiene Society, who spoke briefly of the ob- ject of the meeting and introduced the speakers Short addresses also were given by Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital; Dr. Moses R. Lovell, pastor of the Mount Pleas- ant Congregational Church; Stephen E. Kramer, assistant superintendent | of schools, and Mrs. W. P. Rroop, chairman of social hygiene of the District of Columbia Parent-Teachers, | who advocated instruction along the lines laid down by Dr. Galloway. sex Intruder at Minister’'s Home Stole $12: Beligyed to Have Left City | The story of the encounter between a midnight prowler of Cleveland Park, who earned the sobriquet of the “Cat Bandit,” and the Rev. J. Hillman Hol- Jister, 3913 Ingomar street, pastor of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, early on the morning of November 17, was revealed last night. At the same time it was disclosed by police that no cases of housebreak- ing have heen definitely traced to the midnight prowler since that time, and Capt.. W. G. Stott, commanding the fourteenth precinct, in which s cated the Cleveland Park section, be- lieves the bandit has left town. The bandit who entered the home of the Rev. Mr. Hollister was not a hardened criminal, but & nervous youth who told his vic- rate—I enough money to go home.” The burglar took $12, which had been collected at the church The Rev. Mr. Hollister and Mrs, Hollister, it was related, were awakened zhout 5 o'clock in the morn- ing by the beams of a flashlight held in the nervous grasp of the young housebreaker intended CLOSING-OUT SALE After 20 Years in Business We Are Ret Note a Few of These Prices $7.00 Parker Ducfolds. . . $2.75 Parker Pens....... $2.75 Swan Pens $2.75 Sheaffer Pens. . . ... $2.75 Moore Pens . o $20.00 Elgin Watches . ... ... $15.00 Elgin Watches . ...... .. $25.00 Rogers Silver-plate Sets . $25.00 Darby Silver-plate Tea Sets . . $125.00 Diamond Rings. ... .... $70.00 Diamond Rings .. .... $6.00 Ladies’ Pin These Are Just a Few of the Bargains OPEN EVENINGS Richards’ Fountain Pen & Gift Shop 1225 Pa. lo- ! tim was a clergyman, the intruder ex- ciajmed: | “Gee, T wouldn't have broken in your house if I'd known you were a preacher, but I saw a nice car in your arage and figured you'd have some | money."” When it was explained to the ban- | git that Rev. Mr. Hollister's mother was ill in u room across the hall, the bandit turned his back on the Rev. and Mrs. Hollister and stepped across the hall, closing the door of the elder- ly room, it was stated. conversed with Mr. Hollister for 50 minute disclosed, not leaving the he 6 o'clock in the morning e first intimation that the clergy- | man had that his house had been entered came when he heard the slap | of soft shoes on the floor below. At first he thought it was his mother [ When he called to her, he was still | naie nsleen. but he was breught into | wakefulness by the beams of the flash- | light | Although the Rev. Mr. Hollister was reluctant to confide the details of his conversation with the bandit, he | vevealsd that he discovered the in truder was in a'desperate plight and planned the robbery only to obtain ugh money to it of tow Rev. it was e until of light. Tt was son’s inability tion in cruder upparatus Einstein theor) iring H oSthnooohohonhy SoSitiTins Qq:z—-‘.—n—n—-h b . St bk (D) 2l A A A LA NS L A 1 e 222 Seal Bags. . 2 2 Ave. NW, 0 detect such a varia- previous experiments with | veal fingerprints which he suspects | body of a humming bird, sacred to the the famous |butcannot see even with the strongest | Aztec god of war, to gain the love of was established. The magnifying glass. To Our Friends Christmas, Michel- [and then photograph them. Science has now enabled the detective to re- upon Prot. ['stdll hangs aroun’ that a lady. --- the Public! T is a sincere feeling of mutual helpful- ness which prompts this message at this time. : In behalf of the other thousands of employes in other organizations and ourselves, we respectfully request when convenient to make your gift purchases as early as possible— to eliminate the last “panicky” rush which has heretofore prevailed during the last week be- fore Christmas. By doing this, you are as- sured of better selections and more leisurely shopping. 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