Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1929, Page 22

12, 1929—PART 1. =22 (OMMISSION 0.K.'S WHEAT RATE CUTS = Rallroads Servmg Lake Erie! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, DAY ROLL ROBBERY |28 Ecmzss SURVEY IS PLANNED from the time the offense is commif until the criminal either has been lound guilty or acquitted. ‘The Subcommittees of National Crime Commission Group Named for Tasks. board, and Ellen Glasgow, mem- the board. Judge Stafford to Speak. Rexlm fon booths at the Washing- ton Auditorium will be open between 2 and 4 o'clock this afternoon, Mond: at 8:30 o'clock unul 10 DISCUSS RADID e i ad 81 | ‘The firs, general session of the con- vention will be called to order at 8:30 |o'clock Monday night, with Judge | Wendell Phllllvfi Stafford, associate | justice, District Supreme Court, to de- |liver the address of welcome. Judge Stafford also is vice president of Public Library trustees. Other addresses will | be delivered by Mr. Cooper, commis- g;cua cutting the export ratés on flour | of the nllrum! petitions nked rmmlm m nuke tbeuicnedulu ef- | 's no ' zhe ael-y caused by usu quirement for a 30-day cation of freight rate chln It Is oxpo'vd u:ut the enmplete set | road traffic offices m in export grain and flour rates e! wuunz about 11 cents per hundred pounds from the average Western ship- ping point to the seaboard will be on hand tomorrow or Tuesday and that SCULPTOR QUINN STRICKEN BY POISON New York Policé Say Noted Ameri- can Found in Home At- tempted Suicide. bero appointments were made by J. Weston Allen, chflrm-n of the com- mittee. who is also & member of the em_huve committee of the Crime Com- mi The personnel of the three new sub- committees follows: State police—Maj. Richard Sylvester | e lames TS Of joul 0., ane ' I W. S Parsons of Victoria Brusn| Ports Are Granted Re- umbia, the actual schedules will be in effect Nhyyrolls—‘PmL ymond Moley of duction in Tariffs. ;bcrou the end of next week. ew York, chairman; Guy A. Thom '[ | Hoover Asked Reductions. Movies Also to Be Brought Up at Convention, Opening By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 11.—Edmond Quinn, one of the foremost American sculptors, was in a serious condition in in City Tomorrow. ‘Whether the radio and movies are competing successfully with the library for the leisure hours of the American public, and if so, to what extent these two devices can be employed by the | library to further its own ends, is one of the questions this week before the | American Library Association, which | meets here tomorrow in fifty-first an- | nual session. ‘Twenty-five hundred delegates are ex: pected, representin public, school, | rison, business, institutional and col- ege libraries in all parts of the coun- | try. The program permits group dis- | cussion on the phases of the work. Goup sessions will be held in hotels | here, although the general meetings will convene in the Washington Auditorium, Nineteenth street and New York ave- nue. Visual Aids to be Discussed. The subject of radio broadcasting s it pertains to the library will be taken up Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the ‘Washington Hotel. ©. H. mn of the Jowa State College Libras side at the round table - ur St. Louis Public Library: m Spaulding, Des Moines Publln Hh’ary. Bertine E. Weston of the Library Jour- nal, New York City; Julia F. Cincinnat{ Public_Library, and Ruth Galvin of the Iowa State College Library. Another discussion will be devoted to the motion picture and other visual aids to library work. This group meets at 2:30 p.m. in the Washington Audi- torium, room 4, and will be led by J. R. Patterson of the Chicago Public Library. Among those who will address this meeting are Carl E. Milliken, secretary Motion Picture Producers and Distribu- tors of America; Marilla W. Freeman of the Cleveland Public Library and Mr. Patterson. Much interest has been manifest in the exhibit of the National Capital Park ' and Planning Commission’s models. g:‘m and pictures of the Government ilding development here to be held in connection with the convention. The d}splny will be in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. ‘The office of the local committee in charge will be open daily at the audi- torium from 8:30 am. to 6 p.m. Honorary Members Listed. ‘The committee consists of honorary members as follows: Andrew W. Mellon, Library of Congress trust John Cooper, United Columbia; William president of trustees; superintendent of schools; Marvin, vlument. Gecru the rict P. Stafford, vice Frank W. , Ob!d H. rector, retary, National Research Council. Active members of the local commit- tee in charge are: George F. Bowerman, chairman; Frederick W. Ashley, Charles | E. Babcock, Claribel R. Blrne!t Eliza- a'.h Dessez, Isabel DuBois, Fenton, Charles H. Huunls, w. Herbert, Dorsey W. Hyde, jr.‘ ard H. Johnston, Mary G. Lacy, M. Alice Matthews, H. H. B. Meyer, Joy E. Morgan, Miles O. Price, Laura A. Thompson and Ralph L. Thompson. Honorary chairmen appointed rrnm nearby Maryland and V! with plans for entertain LOUIS NYBERG, Gordon Junior High School student, as “Slovsky,” in “The Florist Shop,” pre- sented last Friday night by the junior high pupils. Pratt, library board, Baltimore, and Thcmu F. Cullen, vice president; John t Bryan, president, Richmond sioner of education: Linda A. Eastman, presldmt the American Library Asso- A high light of the evening's program | | will be a tribute to Dr. Hubert Putnam, | Library of Congress. on the occasion | of his thirtieth anniversary in that post. \R R. Bowker, editor, Library Journal, | New York City, will ‘make a congratu- | latory talk. | i Other general sessions will be held |at 10 am. Tuesday, Thursday and | Saturday. The lattér meeting will be | featured by reports from committees lon elections, resolutions and the pre- | sentation of officers-elect. Birds Get Live-Wire Sense. Electrical engineers in South Wales declare that birds are being gradually educated to the danger of electric wires, and when they see one of their number shocked to death, they pass the infor- mation on. In districts where there are overhead main lines the birds, seeing others electrocuted, realize the damger. Ten Short Lines Motor to Atlantic City! Swift, Well-Conditioned Roads! Miles of Fruit Trees in Blossom! A Picture Gallery of Landscapes! And then A Marine Masterpiece! The Green and Gold Atlantic! Purr of a Motor... Murmur of Spring... Crash and Crescendo of Seas! ou0Step on it! F g, s, R e Y o e N ATLANTIC CITY CHALFONTE-HADDON HALL-« © corvaicnTes, ¥. L. 7., 1939 are: Wmhm G. 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World's Largest Searchlight. ¥ ‘What is said to be the largest search- light in the world has been completed in England, It has a candle power of -t | = | about 3,500,000,000, and if the limita- tions of the horizon could be overcome and clear weather were m prevail, it | | would be visible hundreds of miles.” It | fortress and may cuntrolled from a distance by electricity. —— | | By the Assoctatea Press. The Intrstate Commerce Commission yesterday granted permission to rail- roads serving Lake Erle ports to reducc rates on wheat 11-3 cents a bushel or export shipments to Atlantic ports. In addition the commission had re ceived similar applications for reducinz rates on wheat aind wheat flour for ex- port in the West to Chicago and St. Louis, but did not act upon them prior to the hour of closing official business yesterday. Flour Cut Is Expected. ‘While the reduced schedules from | is to be mounted on & continental power | [ ake Erie ports only mentioned wheat, it was said at the Interstate Commerce | Commission that tariffs were also ex-' URUBANTIY . s "the fact that railroads had been asked Western trunk line petitions recited to make the rate reductions by Presi- dent Hoover in order to move large stock of wheat now held in Western clevators into world consumption and to reduce an existing accumulation of ihe crop prior to the next harvest. The reductions proposed were all limited in time, and will expire Sep- tember 29 next. The schedules pro posed conformed exactly to the an- nouncements made in the last 10 days by Eastern and Western lines regard- ing the subject. A block of ice containing the frozen body of a Swedish liquor smuggler re- cently drifted ashore on the coast of Jutland. Metropolitan Hospital tonight, following upon what the police listed as an at- gmgxt‘ !: gomm“ <u|§idc They said Mr, ad swallowed a poison T HeHIs 60 yer-n old. o pere e was found pntly conscious on a lower floor of his home and studio on East Sixty-first street by l servant. His wife and his mother-| ., Mrs. Emily Bradley, who were in lnother part of the house when the sculptor was found, could give the police no clue to 4 motive. Mr. Quinn had been very successful. Thursday one of his work: a bronze bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes, was unveiled in the Hall of Fame at New York University. Other pleces ex- ecuted by him include figures on the Battle Monument at King's Mountain, N. C. He contributed decorative figures to the Pittsburgh, Pa., Athletic Club. 4 FORWARD SPEEDS - | oSN R I R D D O v UBTLE HET G- SIX~SIXTY-SIX AND SIX~SEVENTY STEGERS MOTORS 645 Maryland Ave. N.E. 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