Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 4

2 THE EVENING STAR, WA SHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929, HARTMAN BEGINS UTILITIES DUTIES Takes Oath Today and At-; tends Executive Session. Harleigh H. Hartman took the oath of office as & member of the Public Utilities Commission at a brief cere- | mony in the commission’s meeting roon today. The oath was administered by Frank E. Cunningham, clerk of the Dis- trict Supreme Court. Besides making the usual oath to defend the Constitu- tion of the United States, Mr. Hart- man swore that he was not interested | pecuniarily, voluntarily or involuntarily, | in any public utility corporation in the | District. After posing for cameramen and re- : : ceiving congratulations from friends tions report or the debt settlements| oMt Fas confirmed by the Senate WE PAY We and employes of the commission, Mr. | | without previous reference to the for-| division of taxation under which di- i A Cit f H e 10‘1‘1‘0% ELnia e w. | elgn affairs committee, to the Chamber | vision Were some very large income tax ity o omes Have Childress_and Engineer Commissioner | e suits, which she prosecuted. She was ° Wwilliam B. Ladue in an executive ses- | Scene at the District Building this morning when Harleigh H. Hartman, new Public Utilities Commissioner, was sworn | 21 to the Senate. . 8150 tn churge of insceasioe. TiGE regu- Built Under Our . sion of the commission. This was the | into office. Left to right: Commissioner Ladue, Mr. Hartman, John W. dress, retiring member of the utilities board; | At the same time, the commission de- | Jatjons of commerce and prohibition in- P1 Financed first meeting held with a full member- | Commissioner Dougherty and Frank E. Cummingham, clerk of the District Supreme Court. —Star Staff Photo. | cided to postpone fixing the date for| cluding both thewar-time prohibition an ship present since March 4, when the ' - - - — — — —| debate on a Socialist motion demanding | 5ct” enforcement in which she prose- Thi ael Senate adjourned without confirming | | |an airing in the Chamber of the gov-|cuteq large number of cases successfully his Association does “q the renomination of Lieut. Col. Harri- [} was to_ds T an address on “Respira- | £y | ernment’s position on debt settlements.| anq which were most difficult because o everything to aid the son Brand, jr.. vice chairman of the | tory Di: in Massachusetts in b It was originally planned to discuss this | the law was not clear, and the national borrowers to meet their City commission. The meeting was also the | winter of 1928-1920” at the beginning g next Tuesday. prohibition law enforcement, which was obligations, aiding them last with the present membership, as | of a session afternoon. Discussions « ! . y Substitution of a government decree | enacted October 28, 1919, but did not | OR MORE to free the property from Chairman Childress has resigned. his | | on milk, the amendment. to the United ratifying the Franco-American and | {ake effect until June 16, 1920. She all encumibermmces of resignation taking cffect at midnight | | States Interstate quarantine regulation Franco-British _debt agreements for | prosecuted bootlegging cases. Her asso- e ToniEht. = | | and other questions also are scheduled parliamentary ratification was said to- | ciates in the Department of dJustice Open daily 9 to 5 Homes” i [RoNoEs LR day by Paul Reynaud, French deputy, | commend her conspicuous ability. She ORFYINT: Saturday until noon Patrick Oath Tomorrow. delegates will hold an executive session | ] to be the plan of Premier Poincare. came to the pcsitk;xr)) an expenencygd at- 2 At 10 am. tomorrow the other new | tonight_at 7:30 o'clock. M. eouand: was eclectst by thol||tomey hastneabeens 8 b ceatul tror savings member of the commission, Maj. Gen, | Leading authorities on various sub- | e Republican Democratic group in el Tichig sitesitty tn Ner Home clty whon Mason M. Patrick, U. §. A, retired, will g £l | jects also are to speak at sess'ons to- g Chamber of Deputies to sound out the | President Wilson appointed her district ATIONAL take the oath of office and the com- | |nskilled Obstetricians Are morrow morning and afternoon. Leaves Office Today After| head of the government, and may have | attoney for the Northern District of {r:mon hrexvecgfl;alodorxmm under | R TR I spoken from the vantage of tm‘t omc:{, Calllrm'nlfl. October 13, 1914, which po- M new personnel Monday. : i Parliamentary opposition to the Mel- | sition she held until she became Assist- ERMANENT Scored by Health Com- Cotinueus Sorvics | ,usmesmey comelion Lo b e | e et NENT || = Talking to newspaper men after the ceremony, Mr. Hartman said he looked bs British companion was understood here | office in August, 1921, to resume her forward to his duties with great missioner. Since 1922. to have in no wise dimmed the Pre-|practice in San Francisco. Mrs. Wille- BUILDING pleasure. He expressed himself as d mier's hope of making the American | brandt was appointed in September, | — agreement effective before August of this | 1921. ASSOCIATION 2 pleased with the kind words said about his appointment by President Hoover in the press. “I'll have to do some tall working to keep up the pace you have set,” he remarked, smiling. | Mr. Hartman said that he would not | close up his law office, where for years he has been busy as a consultant on public utilities matters, as he had sev- eral cases which had reached a point where it would be impossible to abandon them. He said that he would accept no new cases, however, and wind up the present cases as quickly as possible. He will be present tomorrow while Gen. Patrick is taking the oath. Mrs, Hartman Spectator. Among the spectators at the cere- mony were Mrs. Hartman, Commis- sioner Proctor L. Dougherty, employes of the Public Utilities Commission’s office force and accounting bureau, and several of Mr. Hartman's friends. The commission meeting today was possible as the regular semi-weekly meeting of the Board of Commissioners, which would have required the presence of Col. Ladue, was postponed because of the absence from the city of Commis- sioner Sidney F. Taliaferro. Mr. Talia- ferro is taking a week end vacation. Holidays Granted. The first business taken up by the! eommission was granting of a half holi- day on Saturdays, beginning tomorrow cer for the gas inspection burcau. The commission ordered the Wash= ington, Marlboro and Annapolis Bus Lines, Inc., to continue selling tokens at the rate of 10 for $1 for trips to Bradbury Heights for another month. The bus company has been selling to- kens at this rate for two months in the Tope of attracting more passengers, the previous rate being four tokens for 50 cents. The company recently reported that the reduced price for tokens had caused a financial loss and asked permission 10 Testore the old token rate. The pres- ent order leaves it open for the com- pany to make this request again at the end of the month should the business still be unprofitable. :fldex:%rl‘;‘ygguolg zthhemu'h tfimbfar )2 Qnfi‘ém 1: &13.2‘%’&'2:".,{,?&‘,‘".;,“’. flenddlréfl tlr‘:lnt dthe famous. ‘rievg\‘r:l pre- Pr:gid';i s&xst “fi‘:BL “.:ni’f.fi:.“ ogf p'xhfi - - George ane asso- c] I Browhing was appointed property offl their_work and license them. | dicted by Hloye George o e Yioea | some one not 1n the Goverament o W l S l Muzzle-Loaded Golf Bag. ‘The ardent golfer takes his game very seriously and trivialities assume the greatest importance in his mind. For instance, spare balls that are carried around any great length of time are often discarded for the reason that their surface might have been marred in the course of their wanderings about the field, even in the pocket designed for their accommodation by coming in contact with each other. When he is called upon to supply a fresh ball, it must be absolutely perfect. So the golf ‘bag manufacturer now supplies a ball carrier secured to the bag in the shape of a gun carrying one ball above the other with a proper protection between and by the touch of a button near the bottom one bright fresh ball is dis- charged into the hand of the player. To raise funds caused by the crop failure, Latvia is selling more than 26,000 acres of timberland at public Lack of physicians skilled in of- stetrics, blamed on inadequate instruc- tion, was held largely responsible for many deaths and the chronic invalid- ism of hundreds of women annually from causes directly connected with childbirth, by Dr. Matthias Nicoll, jr., New York and president of the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America, at the opening session of the forty-fourth annual conference of the organization in the Annapolis Hotel today. The conference i being attended by leading health officials and authorities from throughout the United States and elsewhere. Speaking on the subject, “Maternity declared that between 14.000 and 15,000 women die each year, while many more are rendered chronic invalids as & re- sult of childbirth, Instruction Inadequate. attack against the methods of teaching obstetrics, saying, in part: “No one will question the oft-repeated statement, especially by members of the medical profession, that the teaching of obstetrics in most of our medical schools is totally inadequate. In many the in- struction and experience afforded medi- Emfl. in some of our medical schools the faculties have nct departed from the obstetrics is hardly a man’s job.” As & contrast to this situation, Dr. Nicoll declared there has arisen in re- cent years “a school of meddlesome ob- stetrics founded on the practice of teaching of certain unquestionably skilled obstetricians, the popularity of whose practice is undoubtedly based on the very natural desire of women to be relieved of the sufferings through child- birth.” "On the slightest provocation, Dr. Nicoll continued, this class of ob- stetricians will resort to the use of in- struments and operations. Todine Content in Food. Goiter and its relation to jodine con- tent in food was cited in an address at the meeting by Dr. James A. Hayne of South Carclina, who told of investiga- tions made in that State and urged other health offices to conduct analysis omr food grown in their States and prov- ces. “We know that South Carolina fruits {tnd Veg{etlble& contain sufficient jodine or nutritional purposes,” and if a per- son will eat South Carolina fmluplend vegetables they can ‘“reasonably expect not to have goiter,” he declared. He told of the work of the State food analysis commission and presented a number of tables showing the large con- tent of fodine in the fruits and vege- tables of his State. An address on new standard of cer- tificates on births and deaths required was delivered at the meeting by T. F. Murphy, chief statistician for vital statistics, Bureau of the Census. A dis- cussion was held at the conference on the collecting of information on accidents. . H. Bigelow, commissioner of auctiom. Dr. G. health for the State of Massachusetts, commissioner of health of the State of | as a Public Health Problem,” Dr. Nicoll | original conception that the practice of | NEW UTILITIES COMMISSIONER TAKES OFFICE LABOR, JUBILANT, - EXPECTS CONTROL jMacDonaId, Cheered by Suc- | cess at Polls, Calls Meet- ing for Tuesday. By Cable to The Star. | ters is jubilant. The number of seats | they have won in the British general election exceeds the party's most opti- | mistic estimates. |~ Ramsay MacDonald, leader of Labor, has summoned his principal lieutenants | —all former or future cabinet minis- ters—to London for & conference next Dr. Nicoll then Iaunched into a severe | T4 esday. |~ Whether the Labor leader’s optimism in this action is entirely justified is difficult to say. But at present it looks as if the British Laborites will be able to form & government without the aid of any other party. The greatest surprise has been the sweeping Liberal defeat. It seems, o far, that the Liberal party is actually imagination of the Welsh wizard. (Copyright, 1929.) —_—— HEADS MISSIONS BOARD. Rev. R. H. Potter, Hartford Semi- nary Dean, Re-elected. DETROIT, May 31 (#).—The Rev. iRockWell Harmon Potter, dean of Hart- |ford Theological Seminary, Hartford, | Conn., today was re-elected president of the American board of commissioners for forelgn missions at the board's annual meeting, held here in connection, with the biennial meeting of the Na- tional Council of Congregational Churches. The Rev. Cornelius H. Patton of Bos- ton was elected secretary emeritus. House Passes Wood Bill. The House today passed the Wood bill to appropriate $52,000,000 for ad- ditional compensation to railroads for transportation of the mails in accord- ance with increased rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The measure now goes to the Senate. O look the whole wo T self—or another? fail—and that is why it song and story. A man may need money he may, unavoidably, be itegrity. too, will find here frien fairly! What more can any man ask of him- It is the one test of manhood where none should may have jeopardized his financial security—but taken separately or together, none of these condi- tions need reflect in any way upon his personal That is why Morris Plan cordially welcomes appli- cations for loans from men of this type. Women, rld in the face, squarely— has been immortalized in for many urgent reasons; in debt; business reverses dly financial help to meet inal ... ful Summer shades. LONDON, May 31.—Labor headquar- | Kafka’ Cor. 10th & F Sts. Every frock a replica of a higher priced Paris orig- exception in style and workmanship. to wear all through the Summer . . . for every occasion. Every size for miss and matron. Herbert M. Lord of winds up his duties as director of the budget. At 4:30 this evening, when Uncle Sam blows the whistle for Gov- ernment workers, the end of the day, Gen. Lord, who was formerly chief of finance for the Army, severs his con- nection with the Government by resiz- nation. President Hoover up to a early hour this afternoon had not yet appointed Gen. Lord's successor, and it was pre- dicted that it would probably be some time before a new director would take over the reins. In the meantime, Royal O. Klober, assistant director, takes charge. In Service Since 1922. Gen. Lord has been serving as direc- tor of the budget since July 1, 1922, when he succeeded the first director, Charles G. Dawes. Gen. Lord is moving to New York City, where he has a con- nection with the financial house of Kleeman & Co. President Hoover is anxious to ap- point, as soon as possible, & successor to Gen. Lord, realizing that the busiest period of the year for that office is at hand. According to authoritative White House information, Mr. Hoover is at present undetermined in the matter of a selection. Experienced Man Sought, this time, who has had considerable business and executive experience. Since Gen. Lord notified the President of his intention to retire, Mr. Hoover has con- sidered a number of names suggested to him. 1t is understood that he was on the verge of making a selection last week, but changed his mind and again cast about for availables. Herbert Brown, chief of the Bureau of Efficiency, who has been frequently mentioned in connection with a suc- cessor to Gen. Lord, is understood not to be on the President’s preferred list of availables at this time. STRIKE AT COTTON MILL. Between 600 and 700 Greenville, 8. C.,, Workers Demand Increase. GREENVILLE, S. C, May 31 () Employes of the Mills Cotton Mill No. 1, numbering between 600 and 700, went on strike here early today, demanding a 20 per cent increase in wages. ‘The employes were holding a mass meeting today and H. A. Ligon, presi- dent of the mlill, was expected to ad- dress them. s, Inc. 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