Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1929, Page 17

Wash ington News FEDERAL TAX PAID PER CAPITA IN CITY TOPS .. AVERACE Capital, With .46 Per Cent of Population, Puts .58 Per Cent in Treasury. TOTAL CONTRIBUTION TO GOVERNMENT FALLS| District Income Levy Drops From $16,360,745.95 to $15,677,- 952.08 in 1929. The District of Columbia paid far more than its proportionate share of Federal taxes during the fiscal year 1929, based on its percentage of the to- tal population of the United States, ac- | cording to the re Lucas, commissioner nue, published today. The continual claim_that this city, which is taxed by the Federal Govern- ment without national representation in the taxing body, the Congress of the United Swates, stands high among the contributors to the Federal till is sup- ported by figures showing Washington has only 0.46 per cent of the total popu- Iation of the country, but paid 0.58 per cent of the total t Furthermore, the per capita tax of strict of Columbia for the fiscal year 1929 was shown to stand at $30.97, as contrasted with the much lower per capita_tax for the country as a whole 4.41. Thus the average Capi- capita t s $6.56 higher than the average for the country. The high- est per capita tax, however, was shown of internal reve- in the State of Delaware with $124.22 North Dakota at! which turned | and the lowest wa $1.11. New York S in the most money, as always, had a per capita tax of $73.03. D. C. Shows Decrease in Total. The District of Columbia, however, was among the few States to show a decrease_both in the total contribution to the Government and in the income tax for 1929 as compared to 1928 While_internal te receipts for the Nation inci 3 per cent, from 9.054, t of Robert A.| ,537.68, | from The Foening Star i Dies From Injuries at Casualty. Week end traffic accidents on Wash- ncome for the gainad 7 p to 3 Columt cent_dur > same 360 X tax country 4.428.64, but ihe District of 8. taxes, however, on the | owed an increase in the | Columbia from $824,708.16 | 01 i ellaneous tax collections, in- | s of internal revenue | , amounted to $607,779. | the fiscal year 1929, | comp: 15.962.434.79 collect- | ed during the fiscal year 1928, a de- | crease of $8,182.488, or 1.3 per cent. Tobacco Revenue Increases. The principal increases in the reve- nue from miscellaneous taxes for the fiscal vear 1929 were from tobacco manufactures, amounting to $37.994,- and from “stamp taxes,” in- X 0 playing cards, | 2.60. The princi- | ses in revenue from miscellaneous sources were due to the repeal of the | automobile tax, amounting to $46,082.- | 400.06, and the increased exemptions | in the admissions tax, provided in the | revenue act of 1 amounting to | $11.641 8! | The ‘income tax for the District ot | Columbia _sha verse trends—in- | dividuals paying more in 1929 than | 1928 and corporations less, for a net | loss in the total for both. | Individual income taxes gained from | $7.989.061.91 in 1928 to $8,525,716.52, | while the corporation tax dropped dur- | ing the same period in this city from | $8.371,684.04 to $7.1 b | ‘The tax on the theater and club| loving public of the District of Cu lumbia was included *in- the commls- | sioner’s report of tax on admissions to ! theaters and club dues for the whote | collection _district, which _comprises both the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia. ~ There was » slight decrease in this figure _from | $712,079.05 in 1928 to $705947.73. H The cost of collection of the revenues | in the Maryland-District of Columbia gistrict declined from $298,317.06 in 1928 to $283.581.52 in 1929 | The tax on distilled spirits and alco- | holic beverages in this collection district showed a falling off from $801,896.63 to $768,375.06. The State of Virginia showed an in- crease of internal revenue receipts of 5 per cent for the year, gaining from $83,- 694.871.58 in 1928 to $87,484,287.39 in 1929, The State of Maryland showed an tnterestingly slight increase of only a few thousand dollars from $31311- 205.27 in 1928 to $31,331,988.04 in 1929. $126,595,318 in Refunds. Refunds of $126,595,318 were made to taxpayers during the fiscal year 1929 for taxes illegally collected. Total over- assessments aggregated $339,528,941, but of this amount $176,398,377 was satis- fied through abatement and $36,535.245 by credit. The number of claims filed during the yvear reached 50,299 involv- ing a total of $613,052,371. Interest on the refunds amounted to $38,768,622. The commissioner said that the work of the income tax unit of the bureau through its investigations into returns h brought in an additional $260,- 44 of revenue, including $202- 487,017 of ‘regular assessments, $39,- 309,375 from field agreements and $18,- 421350 from claims which were reject- ed. Of $36,668958 in revenue received from assessments under the jeopardy provisions of the revenue acts $14,088,- 766 was received from assessments cases where it was bddw‘;‘d the return was fraudulently rendered. Penalties assessed_ totaled $8.509,137, and interest on the taxes brought 687,329, ‘5Durmg the year, the report continued, 183,754 income tax returns were in- vestigated and the special force of in- ternal revenue agents working under the accounts and collections units col- Jected and reported for assessment $3.016,833, an average of $361,548 pec agent. MRS. ROSE MANGUM DIES AT AGE OF 77 YEARS Confined since she was struck and knocked down by a revolving door at Goldenberg's department store, Novem- ber 16, Mrs. Rose Mangum, 77 years old, of 201a P street, died this morning. She had been undergoing treatment at the home of her daughter, 722 Somerset place, for a fractured hip. She was coming out of the store when the accident occurred. Her husband, Albert J. JMnngum. was sitting in an automobile at the curb and saw her fall, He took her home and the next day to Sibley Hospital. She was later moved to her daughter’s home, rom $2.174.573,102.89 | ywed a decrease of 4 per | d from $16,- | lington streets took a toll of one life and resulted in serious injuries to three. ONEKILLED, 12HURT BABY ABANDONED N AUTO ACCENTS N BANKER AUT ! Driver Held as E. E. Lomax‘child at WASHINGTON, “CECELIA JEFFERSON” GETS A NEW HOME Miss Caroline Leonardo, a nurse in Children’s Hospital, is holding the two- | week-old girl baby found abandoned last night. Star Staff Photo. Hospital, While Po- lice Are Clueless in Search for Parents. + Happy in her new home, “Cecelia Jefferson” is taking life easy at the| Children's Hospital today, while police. - RECREATION WORK TOPAY OWN GOSTS | UNDER CIVIC BODY Community Chest Accepts Group as Member in Drive for Money. EXPENSET—OBE LOWERED | BY CONSOLIDATING PLEAS E. C. Graham Heads Organization, | Which Is to Be Placed oni Self- Supporting Basis. Washington’s community recreational activities will be placed on a practically self-supporting basis through the organ- ization_of the National Capital Civi Fund, E. C. Graham, its president, ex~ plained today in announcing the in- | corporation of the new civic body and | its personnel. | Consolidation of at least 10 appeals | for funds with resultant elimination in | | the cost of raising such funds, reduc- tion of the aggregate amount to be| raised; and improvement in the methods | of conducting these projects were | among the bengfits cited. ~The civic! fund has been accepted for membership | {in the Community Chest and the funds | will be raised in the regular chest drive, | instead of individual campaigns. In the National Capital Civic Fund will be included the sums which in| | past years it has been necessary to raise | | for guarantees or for deficits for such | community activities as the Fourth of | July festival, Community Christmas | | festival, Midsummer festival, Com- | munity’ Institute, Community’ Drama | Guild, Model Aircraft League, tennis | tournament, track activities, marathon !and Community Basket Ball League, to | which may be added from time to time | other community projects of a recrea- { tional or patriotic nature for which | there are no public funds available and | which otherwise would have to be | financed by appeals to the public. ] Col. Grant Outlines Plan. i Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, custodian | of public buildings, and’ grounds, be- | leves that under the new organization | it will be possible to erect grandstands and seats upon public grounds, to be sold to defray expenses. | “1f an organization, properly incor- porated upon a non-profit basis, with a regularly elected board of trustees to Nine other persons sustained hurts of |ynaided by any tangible clue, are con- | handle the-funds and to be responsible a minor nature, Struck by an automobile as he was riding his “bicycle north on Eighth street at A street northeast Saturday, Essex E. Lomax, 60 years old, of 19 Fifth street northeast, died early this ning at Casualty Hospital from his | iries. ~ Charles Mobley, colored, 4 of 465 N street, driver of the machine, | was arrested by ninth precinct police | and is being held pending the outcome of a coroner’s inquest tomorrow morn- ing at the District Morgue. According to Dr. Louia Jimal of the Casualty staff, who treated Lomax, he died of a fractured skull, Woman Seriously Hurt. Struck down by a Government mail truck as she was crossing at Seven- teenth and N streets early last night Mrs, Ellen R. Galdsborough, 80 years old, of 1025 Connecticut avenue, was seriously hurt. She is at Garfield Hos- pital today suffering from a broken left arm, lacerations to her forehead and severe shock, often dangerous for one of advanced age. ‘The truck was operated by Squire R. Daniel, 654 Giratd street, who told police he did not see the woman until | He thinks she | his machine hit her. stepped out from the curb into the path of the truck. Mrs. Goldsborough, who is the widow of the late Richard H. Goldsborough, a local attorney, was taken to the ho: pital in a passing automobile and treat- ed there by Dr. Harry Kerr, 1746 N street, her family physician. Injured in Motor Mishap. Hurled to the pavement over the handlebars of a motor cycle when it struck a parked automobile at Thir- teenth street and Potomac avenue southeast yesterday afternoon, Charles Gill, 19, of 731 Thirteenth street south- east, was badly hurt. At Casualty Hospital, where he was | taken in a private automobile, phy cians said his skull may be fractured. He also is suffering from a brain con. | cussion and lacerations to his scalp. Gill was riding on the motor cy behind Clarence Smithson, 20, of 1230“ G street southeast, who lost control of | the machine. Smithson said Gill was thrown into the air over him, hitting the automobile and striking his head on the pavement in falling. Driver Held in Accident. Barney E. Wilson, 28 years old, of 1210 K street, is in a serious condi- tion at Emergency Hospital today as a result of injuries sustained last evening when he was struck by a motor cycle as he was crossing at Twelfth and K streets. James Burns, colored, 18, of the 1300 block of Eighth street, the operator of th€ machine, is being held at the first precinct for investigation in_connection with the accident. Wilson was taken to the hospital in the ambulance and treated by Dr. Fran- | cis Gilfoy for internal injuries, fractured ribs and contusions to his body. Mrs. Myrtle Wenzel, 21 years old, of 3511 Davenport street, was cutand bruised about the face last night when the au- tomobile in which she was riding, oper- ated by her husband, William H. Wenzel, 32 years old, was in collision at Thirty- fifth and S streets with a car driven by Frederic T. Lynes, 39 years old, of the 5400 block of Connecticut avenue. Lynes was later arrested for reckless driving and leaving after colliding. The injured woman was treated at George- town University Hospital, Miss Mabel Hamilton, 35 years old, of 1616 Sixteenth street, received a frac- ture of the collarbone last evening when the automobile in which she was riding was in collision with another car at Eighteenth and R streets. Mrs. Made- line Long, 40 years old, of 3033 Fif- teenth street, driver of the first ma- chine, sustained contusions to her left arm. Both women were treated at Emergency Hospital. The other car was operated by George B. Martin, 1822 T street. Receives Scalp Injury. Riding in an automobile driven by Jack Bailey of the Mount Alto Hospital, Miss Sylvia Fingerhut, 19 years old, of 605 Decatur street, was cut about the scalp when the car was struck last night by a machine operated by William Merk, colored, 29 years old, of the 2100 block of R street. The accigent oc- curred in front of Merk’s home. The young woman received medical atten- tion at Emergency Hospital. ‘Thrown against the top of the auto- mobile in which she was riding along the Speedway yesterday afternoon by a bump in the road, Mrs. Willye J. Freeman, 58 years old, of 102 Thirteenth street northeast, sustained a sprained back and contusions to her head. ‘She was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. 1 . ! [ @uctinig an’ Investigation in an attempt to locate her parents | “Cecelia,” a 2-weeks-old baby " girl, was found abandoned last night in the machine of Iowerth J. Roberts, cashier of the Riggs National Bank, when M and Mrs. Roberts entered the car ir front of their home, at 1330 Jefferson street Soft cries coming from the rear of the automobile attracfed Mr. and Mrs. Roberts' attention as they were about | to_drive away from their home about 7:30 o'clock. Hungry and cold, thé baby was found lying on the back seat. She | was clad only in a- thin cotton dress and two small blankets Carrying the foundling into their home, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts warmed the baby ‘near the fireplace, fed her warm milk and notified police. Sergt. Rhoda Milliken of the Woman’s Bureau was assigned to the case, but her examina- tion of the clothing failed to disclose any marks of identification. The girl was taken to Children’s Hos- pital, where she “weighed-in” at 5!, pounds. A physical examination by Dr. V. Schlatman showed her to be none the worse for her exposure. Shortly .after the arrival of the child the' nurses in ward F met informally to choose a name for the new inmate, finally arriving at “Cecclia Jefferson, the last name being selected from the street on which she was discovered. G. W. U. PLAYERS PLAN UNIQUE ATTRACTION Troubadours to Present “Gyped in Egypt” Thursday Evening in McKinley School Auditorium. ‘The production of the George Wash- » | ington University Troubadours, “Gyped in Egypt,” written, designed and pro- duced by students in the university, is being perfected rapidly for presentation Thursday evening in the McKinley High ! School auditorium. Performances are evenings. The book of the show was written jointly by Mildred Burnham and Frank Westbrook, and the cast includes a number of students well known as col- lege players. In the cast are Miss Burnham, a sophomore in the Foreign Service School; Henry Nestor, formerly of the University of Nebraska, who plays the juvenile lead; Bert Bagranof, varsity foot ball player, who has the leading male role: Al W. Perry, Jerry Sickler, Whitney Stephens, Frank West- brook, 'Jane Wilson, Wilhelmina Gude, Quincey Lee, Caroline Brasch and Sack Kennedy. Denis E. Connell is coach of the ‘Troubadours. The directors of “Gyped in Egypt” are John Redmond, stage manager; Kennedy, dance directors; Kitty Boykin, costumes: Ted Chapin and Walter Rine- hart, publicity and programs, and Whitey Stephens, business manager. WILL P. KENNEDY TO GIVE ADDRESS AT Y. M. C. A. Will Conduct Question-and-Answer Forum Tonight on Current National Topics. ‘The situation in Haiti, the legislative program with respect to appropriations and other topics of current interest will be discussed by Will P. Kennedy of the ‘congressional staff of The Star in a talk at a question-and-answer forum of the Y. M. C. A. tonight at 7:15 o'clock in the Central “Y” Building, 1736 G street. ‘The discussion is the third of a series being held in the Y. M. C. A. lobby on Mopday evenings. A showing of The Evening Star-Universal newsreel wiil open the form, through courtesy of the newsreel management. The public is invited. There will be no admission charge. Ladue to Undergo Operation. Engineer Commissioner William B. Ladue is in Walter Reed Hospital, where he wilt undergo a minor operation. He is expected to be in the hospital about 10 days. During his absence his duties will be discharged by Assistant Engineer Commissioner Donald A. Davison, who is the senior among the three Assistant Engineer Commissioners. also to be given Friday and Saturday | Julia Denning_and Ralph | {to the Community Chest, is placed in | charge of these community activitie: there is every reason to it will be made possible to erect stands or seats upon public grounds to be sold to defray expenses,” Col. Grant said. f course the legal status of the cor- | poration as'a non-profit organization, | responsible to the Chest, must be es | tablished. My own view is that it then ! {would be in accordance with the law to build such seats and stands.” | Col. Grant pointed out that funds ! for guarantees and deficits for th various community activities general | are subscribed by a small group of from | | 250 to 300 people. all of whom are large | contributors to the Chest. The cost of | raising a $5.000 guarantee, for instance, he explained, is as greaf as ‘he cost | of raising the entire revolving fund that { will be needed by the new group. Th probably will be some cost to the oper ation of the fund the first year, Col. Grant said. but pointed out that tk | inaugural committee, of which he wa chairman, is preparing to turn over ap- | proximately $30.000, exclusive of tb | charity bail fund, to the Chest, and a | this money came from civic activity, he | feels that it is appropriate that some of | {it be applied, through the Chest, to | | the furtherance of such activities. i Deficit Is Put at $5,000. By careful management, interchange ! of equipment between various projects | and other economic methods, it is be- lieved that the deficit for the first year | will not amount to more than $5.000. No contributions will be necessary fc | the guarantee funds which wiil | | y for advancing to these proj- before performance, because thes: | | advances can be guaranteed by the { Community Chest and loans made. if necessary, to the National Capital Civic i Fund, which will be repaid later when | the receipts from these activities come | in. “This will obviate the necessity for a public appeal for from $25.000 to $100.- 000 which had been planneq to estab- | lish a permanent guarantee fund and this money saved to contributors. The cost of raising the estimated annual deficit of $5,000 will be eliminated by | its inclusion in the Community Chest ! joint campaign which, counting the National Capital Cive Fund as includ- ing at least 10 activities heretofore | financed separately, will include at least 75 charitable, philanthropic, social and | | community appeals combined in one. | Officers of the National Capital Cl\'lC] | { Fund are: E. C. Graham, presiden | william Montgomery, first vice pres | dent; E. J. Murphy, second vice presi- | dent: Maj, Julius I Peyser, treasurer, | and Mrs. Philip S. Smith, secretary. I | corporators include: F. G. Addison, jr. | Sibyl Baker, Henry M. Brawner, Charles | F. Carusi, Mrs. Sydney A. Clojan, Ed- ward F. Colladay, John T. 'Cushing, Charles W. Darr, Frederic A. Delano, | Victor B. Deyber, John Joy Edson, Joshua Evans, jr.. W. W. Everett, Robert V. Fleming, C. J. Gockeler, Mrs. | Charles A. Goldsmith, C. C. Glover, jr.; E. C. Graham, Col. U. §. Grant, 3d.: | | Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, Dr. George | Havenner, Frank J. Hogan, Frank R. Jelleff, John C. Koons, John Oliver La ! | Gorce, Martin A. Leese, Arthur D.!| | Marks, L. P. McLachlen, Lowell Mellett, | William Montgomery, E. J. Murphy, Newbold Noyes, John Jay O'Connor, | Judge Mary O'Toole, Claude Owen, Maj. | Julius I. Peyser, John Poole, S. J. Pres- cott, Cuno Rudolph, Mrs. Philip S. Smith, W. W. Spaid, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, Charles H. Tompkins, W. J. Weller, Ben T. Webster, George W. White, Dr. Charles Stanley White, Graham Lists Advantages. “I believe that the plan of the Na- tional Capital Civic Fund will appeal to all thoughtful and philanthropic ‘Washingtonians,” said President E. Grabam. “Elimination of these appals | which have been irritating to contrib- ! utors, difficult for those who attempted to raise the funds and fairly expensive in individual cost; the improvemeht in method which is likely to come from centralized planning and direction of these and other communal activities which may develop; the assurance which these responsible citizen: ciated in the Civic Fund, give il affairs will be well conducted with a true regard to the recreational needs of all citizens: all seem great advantages. 1 am sure that all persons who in the past have given to these projecis will be glad to add the amount for these sub- scriptions to their Community Chest gifts so that the National Capital Civic Fund will mean a real asset to the Community Chest and a source of strength in its federated appeal. President Frederic A. Delano of the Community Chest said: “The Com- munity Chest welcomes the application { bill will ma | of the Georgetown University School of | Foreign Service, will address the Wom- | en’s Club of Bethesda, Md., tomorrow | matters before the biennial convention | that the United States produces 96 per STREET CAR HEADS | ARE SILENT ONNEW| MERGER PROPOSAL Have Not Been Provided With Copy of Agreement Sent Congress. ACTION WAS EXPECTED, - BUT NOT SO SUDDENLY Blaine Sees Justification of Earlier| Stand in Finance Aspects of Plan. Officials of Washington's two street | railway companies reserved comment | today on the latest move of the Public Utilities Commission to bring about the long-sought merger by sending to Gon- gress a new unification agreement of own fashioning. = One of the reasons for the reluctance on the part of the traction officials to discuss the agreement is due to the fact that they have not yet been furnished with an official copy. The newspapers have been their only medium of infor- | mation thus far. The commission, however, plans to | have properly authenticated copies of | the new plan in the offices of the trac: tion oficials within the next 24 hours. | Mimeographing machines at the com- | mission were set to work this morning | to turn out enough copies to meet the demand of the companies as well as' civic leaders and others who may be interested in the details. | Commission Uses Strategy. ! “The action of the commission in fram- ing a new merger plan, it is known, did not surprise the traction official who have had a feeling for some weeks that such a move probably would b made in view of the delay of the com- ! panies in renewing merger negotiations on their own initiative. | The blow that stunned the companies, | it was said, was strategy employed by | | the commission to get the agreement | before the public just in advance of the | | filing of the appeals in the court for an inc: 1l sed fare which the commission | turned down last month. | 'hat the commission made extraor- | dinary haste to get the agreement to Congress and in the newspapers, it was | said, is evidenced by the fact that copies of it are not yet available. Ralph B. Fleharty, people’s counsel fore the commission, also said he had ot been furnished with a copy of the eement, and therefore had ne com- | be ment to make at this time. The only reaction came from the Capitol, where Senator Blaine, Repub- of Wisconsin, said he understood | commission, in_its new merger | plan, left out the financial set-up of | stocks and bonds of the merged com- pany, which was one of the points he raised in opposition to the unification agreement before the last Congress. Justifies His Position. Senator Blaine said he was not pre- | | pared to either approve or disapprove the new agreement before a careful of its features, but that he re- the omission of a definite capi- {al structure as tending to justify the position he took in opposing the orig- inal merger Tesolution. He felt at that time that Congress should not approve a definte financial set-up for the merged company. Senator Blaine also advocated last year a new rule of valuation for the analys| | District’s public utilities based on the| so-called prudent investment theory. he commission’s new agreement, how- | provides for preservation without ' prejudice of the present valuation rights | of the two companies pending a new valuation to be made in accordance with existing or fyture law. Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict committee, who expressed gratifi- cation Saturday over the action of the commission in bringing a new merger plan beiore Congress expects to decide | s0on whether consideration of the tariff ce it possible for the com- mittee to hold a meeting this week-to discuss the agrecment. HEALY WILL SPEAK ON WOMEN’S STATUS Assistant Dean of Georgetown U. School Will Address Bethesda Club Tomorrow. Dr. Thomas H. Healy, assistant dean afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on “National Status of Married Women."” ‘This subject will be on the agenda for the First Conference on Codification of International Law at The Hague next March, at which the United States and about 40 other countries will be repre- sented. It is also one of the principal of the National Woman's Party now being held in this city. Dr. Healy discussed the nationality of married women in lectures last Sum- mer before the Academy of Interna- tional Law at The Hague, attended by graduate students from all parts of the world. Besides being a member of the American_Society and the American Associations of Teachers of Interna- tional Law, he is associate professor of that subject at the Georgetown School. ‘The Women's Club of Bethesda, head- ed by Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, consists of about 100 women, who have been carrying on important county work for upward of 15 years. A business session at 2 o'clock will precede the lecture, it being the custom to have a speaker at each monthly meeting of the club. The session will be held in the clubhouse at Bethesda. U. S. IN THE LEAD. BOSTON (#)—The National Indus- trial Conference Board has computed cent of the world's natural gas. This country also produces, says the same authority, 68 per cent of the crude oil, 39 per cent of the coal and 36 per cent of the water-power. The totals for the world in 1928 are given as 1,450,000,000 short tons of coal, 1,323.000,000 barrels of crude oil of 42 gallons each, 1,640,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas and 38,000,000 of the Community Chest principle of federation, consolidation, appeals united in the National Capital civic fund. The board of trustees believes that its ac- tivities are well within the scope of the community responsibilities of the Community Chest; that not only for- mer contributors to activities included in the National Capital civic fund but many other citizens will welcome this opportunity to consolidate still further their gifts.” | ., MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1929, ‘W. H. Hoovi , Washington scientist; his daughter Betty and Mrs. Hoover, who have just returned from three years on top of a South African mountain, where Mr. Hoover has been conducting solar radiation investigations. Mrs. Hoover, the former Miss Jean Johnson, is the sister of Mr. Hoover's former wife. She accompanied them to Africa after America and later married Mr. Hoover. SCIENTIST ENDS THREEYEAR TRIP Romance and Adventure Are Found in South Africa by . H. Hoover and Family. Romance and adventure were mingled in the three-year vigil of a sun-blistered South African mountain of W. H. Hoover of the Smithsonian Institution, field leader of the Smithsonian and National Geographic Society solar ra- diation expedition. When Mr. Hoover left Washington for Mount Brukkaros three years ago. he was accompanied by his motherless baby daughter with his sister-in-law to care for her in the desolate country of their destination. In South Africa the scientist and hi wife's sister were married, it was re- vealed at the Smithsonian today. The Hoover family has just returned to vashington, together with Fred A. v, & fellow scientist. , Mr. and Mrs. Hoover ter, was 11> years old when the out to establish_the observato she is 41 cow were her only playmates for © years. ~ The Hoovers and Mr. Greely were re- lieved by Louis O. Sordahl and Mrs, Sordahl and A. G. Froiland, wio arrived daugh- went Now at Mount Brukkaros to carry on the | work of “shooting the sun” six times a day. Observatory As Object. The work of the expedition was to sct up an observatory which would make rcports similar to those made by Smith- onfan Institution solar observalories in Chile and &t Table Mountain, Calif. The three observatories on three con- tinents are reporting daily variations in the heat of the sun that reaches the earth. Every activity on the face of the earth is dependent on_ the sun's radiation, the variation of which is the subject of this study. While indiviauals are only con: ! of such variations in radiation as earth itself brings about through the pro sion of the seasons, evidence of the va- riation in the strength of the sun itself is not far to seek. Smithsonian author- ities think there is a definite connection between variation in solar radiation and changes of weather. The observator: Mr. Hoover established on Mount Bruk- karos, Southwest Africa, may some day help warn Chicago of a coming drop in temperature. At Brukkaros the Hoover party lived 2,00 feet up a mountainside and 61 miles from a grocery stove. The nea- est white man, a German missionary lived 8 miles away. Lheir near nelghbors were Hottentots, whose be hive houses doited the plain. Because the observatory stands within a Hot- tentot reservation, Mr. Hoover h?.'d to get permission to hunt springbok irom the local chief of the Hottentots, who is known as captain. Isolated on a dry mountain, sur-; rounded by African natives, the expe- dition was nevertheless in constant touch with civilization. The govern- ment of Southwest Africa, which built the three-room corrugated iron home on the rocky mountain top. ran a tele- | phone line connecting Keetmanshoop, the nearest town. A radio, a Chrisi- mas gift from the National Geographic Society, brought them cable news of the United States and the rest of the | world via the station at Cape Town, although static interfered in warm weather. The second year the observatory staff received the mechanical parts of an electric refrigerator. They built a Te- frigerator around this unit. Thereafter ice cream was served on the volcano top. The refrigerator also preserved vegetables, fruit and meat so that the 122-mile_journey to the grocery store and back might be made less fre- quently. A gasoline engine, which was brought up the mountainside, piece- meal on donkey back, and a generator supplied current for the refrigerator. Many Duties to Perform. _“A man setting up a solar radiation Gbservatory has to be a jack-of-all- says Mr. Hoover. “Greely and I were carpenters, plumbers, mechanic clectricians_and farmers, alternatel “One night we heard noises that " “he said, telling about the leopard, “and next morning three of our chickens were missing. Then we suspected our visitor to have | been a leopard and the following night set a big trap. *The leopard got into the trap, but went off, trap and all. “Next morning we trailed him and finally located him in a crevice. I fired. wounding the leopard, which at once leaped toward us. We were on a ledge. ‘The animal just barely missed the ledge and, as it tumbled down the rock, Greely fired and killed it. Although neither of us was injured, the experience taught us never to go after leopards with 8 .22 rifle.” ‘The ringhals cobra, a snake that grows to 6 feet in length, was a fre- quent visitor at the Mount Brukkaros Observatory. More than half a dozen were killed near the house. Snake-bite serum is kept in the icebox at all times. Once a cobra coiled itself on the front porch. Another time, as Mr. Hoover entered the storehouse, he felt moisture on his cheek and looked up to see a ringhals cobra lying above the door. ‘The snake had a spat its poison at him. He ran out, got his gun and killed the snake. The ringhals cobra shoots its venom as well as injecting it with the fangs. ‘The poison shot through the air is not dangerous to humans unless it gets into the eyes. 5 ‘The expedition kept an auto truck in a “garage” half way up the mountain. A flock of chickens and a | 9 YOUNG MENHELD N S50 LAY ‘Charged With Stealing Jew- | elry and Clothing While Attending Party. The two young men who are alleged | by police to have attended & party Sat- | urday night at the home of Mrs. Daniel Levy, 3105 Sixteenth street, and to have | taken jewelry and clothing valued at $500 when they left have been arrested by headquarters detectives and the property recovered. They were booked as Wiiliam Curtis Waters, 20 years old, of the 1000 bloc of Twenty-sixth street, and Stanley Paxson Hough, 24 years old, of the 300 block of Fifth street southeast. Ac- cording to Detectives John Wise and James Collins, who handled the case, both admit the theft and will be taken to Police Court tomorrow to face charges of grand larceny. | Wate noon at his home, where a portion of ,the alleged loot was recovered. Accord- ing to the officers, he implicated Hough, wh as taken into custody early this morni He is said 40 have shown the detectives the location ot the rest of the Party Dispersed by Mrs. Levy. According to Wise and Collins, the two young men were brought to the Levy home Sature night. together with between 30 and 40 other persons by Mrs. Levy's son while she was ab: sent. When returned, she is said to have fol hose taking part in her son’s impromptu party to leave. Shoes valued at $60 were taken from window of Hahn's shoe store and K streets, last night by a , who smashed plate with a’brick. The theft was reported by Abe Toonin, the manager. The theft of $32 from the cash reg | ister of a barber shop at teenth street northeast last night was | | reported by S. Sidotti, the proprietor, o twelfth precinct police. Entrance was eflected with a duplicate key Irving Rosenburg’s Home Robbed. Jewelry, clothing, toilet articles and a revolver with a box of ammunition said to have a total value of $272.85 were stolen from the home of Irving ‘Rntrnburz. 1104 Allison street, last | night. Entrance was through a rear kitchen window which had been left unlocked. William H. Brown, manager of the Kinney Shoe Store, Seventh street, reporied to sixth precinet police this morning that a show case in front of tore was broken open last mght and shoes and stockings valued at $19 | stolen. A quantity of ice cream and cig- arettes were stolen from a cafe at 3100 Connecticut. avenue Saturday night, Julian Pouget, 612 F street, the man- | ager, told police. Entry was obtained by smashing a rear windos CALF CLUB HAS RECORD. ELGIN, Nebr. (#)—The Elgin 4-H Calf Club, with 45 members, claims the | membership championship of the world. It further asserts that success of the boys and girls in buying and selling calves entitles it to distinction. “Honest animals at honest prices, in- stead of fancy animals at fancy prices,” was the motto dictated by Charles Coupland, stockman and farmer, who sponsored the club. The highest net profit received by any member was $95, while several have taken a profit of $80. The club was organized two years ago with five members. —_— Every 10 days some one would drive to Keetmanshoop for supplies and mail. On these trips the driver always took | a “black boy” to walk: back in case of accident. The Hottentdts have no use ing work. Fifty miles in a day they consider a nice jaunt. Hence the emergency “black boy” on the truck. Goes 20 Miles for Help. When Mr. Hoover broke an axle in the sand of a dried-up river, the Hot- tentot servant trudged off 20 miles for help. At other times this dry river was a raging torrent, and on one occa- sion cut them off from Keetmanshoop for six weeks. Getting water and supplies up the mountain proved a great trial. Mount Brukkaros was chosen because of the lack of rain. The roof-cistern system yielded some water, but not enough. up from a water hole on donkey back. cupied the morning from soon after sun-up until 9 or 12 o'clock. of the day was spent in computing the results obtained by three instruments, each different. The copputations re- quire six hours or more. The intricacy of the computations may be judged from the fact that once the data for six film exposures of solar radiation intensity have been taken, the figures -have to be corrected for depth of the atmosphere, ozone, water vapor, dust in the air, absorption in the mirror reflection, absorption in the black strip used in the instruments and absorp- tion in the prisms. At Brukkaros the expedition had on an average of 240 clear days per year. ‘The observatory, Mr. Hoover believes, may prove especially valuable because its reports accentuate deviations in com- putations reported from California and Chile. These variations have put the scientists on the trail of some unknown factor governing the check on the sun's radiation. arrested yesterday after-| g at an apartment on Fairmont | for work, but _they do not consider walk- | Two loads of water daily were brought | Taking of observations generally oc- | The rest | PAGE 17 DAVIS DEPLORES OVERCRDNDING LABORDEPARTHENT | New Building Will Be Almost Filled When Ready, Says Secretary’s Report. URGES AIR PATROL TO CURB SMUGGLERS i Mogification of Immigration Laws | and Retirement Age Ques- tion Discussed. Deploring overcrowded conditions in the leased building now occupied the Labor Department, Secretary Davis declared in his annual repori today that if the present expansion continues, tk new building to be provided for the department in the Federal buildin program will be almost filled when is ready and will hardly have room fo future expansion. The public buildin j commission has informed the depart- ment that it has about reached ti limit of space that can be allotted to it, although several of the bureaus arc located in buildings apart from tic main affice several blocks distant The Labor Secretary recommended ta Congress establishment of an air patrol |to curb smmigration. smugglers other border law breakers the “false philosophy” that men arc worthless in business and ind when they reach the age of 40 or 50 Supporting his request for an air fleet, Mr. Davis asserted that enforce- ment of the immigration laws could be accomplished only through using the same or better weapons than those 1 by smugglers. He added that airships already are being used to evade the jaw. ! Other Recommendations. Three other recommendations 1o Con- gress are made in the annual report, as follows: | . Codification and consolidation of all | immigration statutes now scattered in { various congressicnal enactments. | . Construction of increased detention facilities at ports of entry to care for | the greater number of aliens held there, ! Modification of the law which for- | ever bars aliens once deported so as to | permit them to reapply if permission | were given by the Secretary of Labor. The department was cognizant, Sece retary Davis said, of both the encourag- ing and discouraging aspects of the sit- | uation among wage ers, “but on { the whole it is cl the general I\trend is forward along some lines | the advance has been rapid.” The Secretary held that questions of | unemployment ~ would eventually be solved so that every who de- sired work would be pr with an | opportunity. | . A firm stand for a policy of Immigration was advocated by i retary and he pointed out that the annual quotas of countrie pe is about 150.000 immigrants a vear, upward of 2,000,000 pe had taken steps toward securing vises and the United States was unable to sel ct the aliens considered best qualified. and . and attacked No Increased Quotas. Quotas would not be increased under Mr. Davis' plan. but he would git | preference to immigra jneeded here. He cited that a man | whose services might be sorely needed as the key man in some new industrial | opment which would afford em- {ployment ~ to hundreds or perhaps thousands of men, must await his turn while other immigrants were admitted to seek employment in some ing {in which there was already a sur f { workers. The Secretary would permit | industries or other interests in this { country needing the professional gerv- ices of some particular individual to { present their ‘case to the department | Which would authorize a preference if it was justified. | Placing count the | Hemisphere on ed q {less stringent than that imnc European and o recommended in th | More and more,” Mr. Davis | “it is becoming the experience of our | most enlightened employers that men 1 0f 40 or 50 vears or over are often bet- i ter qualified by experience. ability and settled habits to render more valuable {serviee than those of a vounger age.” He characterized the age question as one of the grave cconomic problems | that deserve the Nation's particular | consideration and during the coming |years he expected to see “a great les- | sening in the practice of retiring from | employment the workers of middle or | advanced age.” ! Good Effects Lacking. ! “It has been adequately proved.” he said, “that efficiency is not served by | the enforced retirement of our middle- faged artisans in industry: nor is hu- | manity made happicr by the bringing | about “of sudden work or adjustments which these displaced men are fre- | quently called upon to meet.” Mr. ‘Davis also declared that nearly half a million American citizens have left the United States to take up resi- dence abroad during the last 12 years. | Of these, 435000 were native born, | While 62,000 were naturalized, and the | eport said they had sought “perma- Inent, or at least extended” places of living in other land: | “The number leaving the country has diminished greatly since the quota law went into effect,” the report de- clared, however. “But even now, 25 alien residents emigrate for every 100 immigrants who enter for permanent { residence.” | TWO SENATORS NAMED ON BOARDS IN CAPITAL | Phipps Continues With Columbia Hospital—Overman Appointed tions report to Bi-centennial Commission, Two senatorial appointments of in- terest to the National Capital were an- nounced today by Vice President Cur- Senator Lawrence C. Phipps, Re- publican, of Colorado, was reappointed to the board of directors of Columbia Hospital for Women for another term. Senator Overman, Democrat, of | North Carolina, was appointed a mem- ber of the George Washington Bi-cen- tennial Commission to fill a vacancy that has existed since the term of for- mer Senator Bayard of Delaware ended. Arlington Lodge to Elect. CLARENDON, Va., December 9 (Spe- cial) —Election of officers for the year will be the main item of business at a meeting of Arlington Lode, No. 193, 1. 0. O. F, to be held at Odd Fellows’ Hall here tomorrow night. Those who have been nominated are: Robert Mel- nick for noble grand, C. J. Ives for vice grand, Frank Davis for recording secrettary, C. P. Heins for financal see~ retary, and W. B. Huffman for treasures, v