Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1930, Page 10

A—10 ** WILLIAM A. ORTON, PLANT EXPERT, DIES Prominent Research Worker, Member of Many Socie- ties, Succumbs. William Allen Orton, nationally prom- inent plant pathologist and for the past four years director of the Tropical Re- search foundation, an organization de- voted to furnishing information regard- ing agricuitural problems, died at his home, 600 Cedar street, Takoma Park, D. C. today after a long illness. He was 52 years old. Dr. Orton ended 25 years' service as | plant pathologist at the Department of | Agriculture on October, 1924, during which he had taken part in many im- portant enterprises pertaining to inves- tgation and study of plant life. Native of Vermont. A native of North Fairfax, Vt., he was graduated with a bachelor of science degree at the University of Vermont in 1897, a master of science degree there in 1898, and received a doctor of science degree there in 1915. From 1897 to 1899, he served as assistant botanist at the Vermont Agricultural Experi- mental Station and was instructor at the University of Vermont. He was made plant pathologist, Depattment of Agriculture, in 1899. Mr. Orton was a fellow of the Amer- jean Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Botanical Society of America, the Botanical So- | ciety of Washington. the Society of Hor- | ticultural Science, the American Phyto- | pathological Society, the American Ge- | netic Association, the American Society of Agronomy, the American Horticul- tural Society, the Societe de Pathologie Vegetale and a membcr of the Phi Beta Kappa. He also was & member of the Cosmos Club here. Survived by Widow. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Helén D. Orton; two daughters, Miss Al- berta Orton and Miss Alice Orton, all of this city, and two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Fifield and Mrs. W. J. Wright, both of Vermont. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence, Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery CHEST ADVERTISING PLANS ARE OUTLINED ‘Placards Announcing Drive to Be Placed on Street Cars and Busses of City. Plans for placing placards announcing the coming drive of the Community Chest, January 28-February 6, on all street cars and busses in Washington were outlined at a meeting of the Com- munity Chest campaign publicity com- mittee_at the Pederal-American Na- tional Bank yesterday. Robert Dougan assumed responsibility for the placards on the outside of the street cars and Garnet Lee of Barron Collier, Inc., said he had arranged for placing the cards inside the cars and busses. John Shoemaker of the General Out- door Advertising Co. announced that he had arranged for 150 billboards, each carrying a 24-sheet poster, and George Walling submitted copy on the new general poster that will be used for general display. Norman Kal, handling the display advertising for the committee, was ap- plauded when he stated that the news- papers of the city had agreed to donate practically the same display space given the Chest last year, when each paper gave six full page advertisements. This was considered last year as one of the most effective means used to reach the public. Department and other stores are co- operating by arranging a number of window displays. The window dressers will compete for a prize for the most effective window design. Leonard B. Schloss, new vice chair- man of the committee, presided for the first time, the chairman, C. Melvin Sharpe, taking charge later in the meeting. HONOR DINNER PLANNED FOR DR. AND MRS. COOPER | Commissioner of Education and| Wife to Be Guests of League of Republican Women. Dr. Willlam John Coope:, United States Commissioner of Education, and Mrs. Cooper will be honor guests of the League of Republican Women of the District at a dinner at 6:30 o'clock Monday night in the Men's City Club, 1320 G street. ‘The principal address will be made by Dr. David Allan Robertson, assistant director of the American Council on Education, his subject being “What's Going On in Education.” A discussion of the subject of educa- tion will be conducted by Mrs. Charles Alger, State chairman of the business and professional women of the District Republican State committee. MORROY/ GIVEN PRAISE FOR HIS WORK IN MEXICO Former Ambassador Credited With Aiding to Restore Peace Between Catholic Church and Government. | Former Ambassador Dwight W. Mor- Yow was praised for his part in the ne- | gotiations of peace between the Catholic Church and the government of Mexico in an address delivered last night by William P. Montavon at Catholic Uni-| versity. H Mr. Montavon, who also took part in | the negotiations as director of the legal part of the conference, said that Am- | bassador Morrow’s amiable attitude toward President Calles paved the way for a new era of understanding between the government and the clergy. The speaker also told of conferences between President Calles and Rev. John Burke of the National Catholic Welfare Council and the subsequent discussions between the President and Archbishop Rulz, who_had been in exile in this country. It was through these con- ferences, Mr. Montavon said, that ques tions under the constitution of 1911 reached adjustment PARK POIJCE ACTIVE. | Report 134 Arrests and $811 in Fines and Forfeitures. The holiday spirit resulted in 134 persons being arrested by the United States park police during the month of December, the report made today by Capt. P. J. Carroll to Cng:. Ray C. Montgomery, U. S. Army, the superin- tendent, said in revealing that fines and forfeitures netted $811. Twenty per- sons were fined $350, while 84 preferred o _forfeit $461. In addition, the park police per- formed these services: Sick. or injured persons sent home or to hospitals, 10; 2utomobile accidents reported, 37; stolen automobiles rc-overed, one, and one lost child returned to its parents. | Army should become effective March ! Public to Be Admitted to Red Cross & o ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. EARL TO SELL FAMOUS PAINTING b “The Red Boy,” famous painting, reported up for sale to American collector for approximately $1,000,000 by Earl of Durham. | —Courtesy of Spink & Co., Ltd., London. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS SHOW BIG INCREASE December Fatalities Also Are| Greater Than November, Although Arrests Decline. The total number of traffic accidents during December was 1,066, almost double the number in either of the two preceding months, according to the report presented to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, by Lieut. L. I. H. Edwards, personnel officer. Despite the increase in acci- dents, the number of arrests for traffic violations decreased from 5,009 in No- vember to 3,767 in December. There was a large increase in the number of deaths, however, nine fatali- ties being recorded last month, as com- pared with four in November and one in December, 1928. The record for De- cember is better than that for October last, when 10 deaths were caused in traffic accidents. Non-fatal Injuries Increase. ‘The number of non-fatal injuries was 328, compared with 248 in November, and the number of accidents in which property was damaged was 912 in De- cember and 423 in November. Arrests for felonies decreased slightly during the month, but there was an increase in the number of mis- cdemeanors. Four murders were re- ported in December, as were 26 cases of assault with deadly weapons, 25 rob- beries with weapons and 20 other rob- beries, 23 accidental deaths other than traffic, 6 suicides and 19 attempted suicides. There were also 2 cases of rape. Violations of the lottery law accounted for 10 cases. The total arrests for felonies were 243, against 269 in November. In the case of misdemeanors there were 2,553 arrests compared with 2,512 in November. Included among these were 21 cases of carrying concealed weapons and 77 arrests for permitting gaming on vremises. There were no handbook cases last month. Voistead Arrests Increase. A gain of about 10 per cent was shown in arrests under the Volstead law, while arrests under the Shep- pard law declined in about the same proportion. A total of 467 persons were arrested for violation of the Volstead law, com- pared with 427 the preceding month. Intoxication cases involved 1,095 ai rests, but there were no arrests for dri ing automobiles while intoxicated. Seizures under the Volstead law ac- counted for 2,361 gallons compared with 2,394 for November. Four sitlls were seized. COL. BELL IS RETIRED T0 ACCEPT POSITION Date of Leaving Service Advanced to Permit Assuming City Manager’s Post. Lieut. Col. J. Franklin Bell, Corps of Engineers, formerly Engineer Commis- sioner of the District of Columbia, was placed on the retired list of the Army on his own application yesterday, and is expected to assume at once his new civic dutles as manager of the city of Covington, Ky recently accepted by him. It had been originally arranged that Col. Bell's retirement from the 15 and he had been granted leave till that date. The advance of the retire- ment date to yesterday was authorized by the President, at the special re- quest of Col. Bell and the authorities of Covington. ‘ FIRST-AID TREATMENT COURSE TO BE STUDIED Classes for Ten Weeks in | Memorial Hall. | The District of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross will organize tomorrow night at_ the World War Memorial Hall, 1730 E street, a 10-week course in first-aid treatment. This course will cover thoroughly the more essential branches of medical and surgi- cal first-aid treatment and will cul- minate with the presentation to each graduate of an engraved certificate, Signed by John Barton Payne, chair man of the American Red Cross, and by President Hoover, honorary presi- dent of the organizafion. The course will be under the in- struction of Ira Lee Law. Classes will be held every Wednesday evening at | 7:45 o'clock and each session Will oc- cupy one hour, A $2 fee is to be | charged. The course is open to the INVENTOR DIES. | | WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. January 7| (#).—Jean Francl: Webb, 81, in tor and president of the International Sig- nal Co. of New York, died yesterday at the home of his son. CHEST DRIVE INDORSED. ‘The Washington Better Business Bu- reau, which has steadfastly refused to indorse anything, has at last capitulated and pledged its support to a local ven- | ture. ‘There will be no protests from com- petitors, however. The venture in ques- tion is’ the Community Chest, which was indorsed at a meeting of the execu- tive committee of the bureau. IBRITISH NOBILITY SELLING 0LD ART Sales Forced by High Taxes. American to Get “Red Boy” for Million. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 7.—Increasing taxation and heavy death and succes- sion duties have obliged many promi- nent members of the British nobility to throw on the market art treasures that have been in their families for decades and even centuries. uke of Richmond and Gordon announced today that he had decided to sell a number of pictures and books from Goodwood House, his sumptuous English estate, and from Gordon Castle, his seat in Scotland. “Much as I regret having to do this, there i no other course open if I wish to continue to live at Goodwood and employ those connected with the estate,” the duke said. that the Earl of Durham was about to part with Sir Thomas Lawrence's famous painting, “The Red Boy,” to an American collector for approximately $1,000,000. ‘The sale was sald to have been forced on the Earl of Durham in order to pay the enormous death duties demanded for the estate owing to the deaths of the third and fourth earls. At the time of the third earl’s death, the value of the estate was estimated at about $10,- 000,000, of which nearly $3,500,000 was taken, demanded in death duties. Four months later, the fourth Earl of ! Durham died, and this brought a de- ! mand for $1,450,000 in death duties by | the state, so that the value of the great estate of Durham was cut almost in | half within a few months. 0il Pipeline Planned. | JERUSALEM, January 7 (Jewish Tel- egraphic Agency).—Syrian newspapers sist on laying & pipeline from the Mosul oil flelds through Haifa, French and American interests in the Turkish Pe- troleum Co. will lay a separate pipe line to a Syrian port. | contain _accounts | Franco-. ing a railway extension from Damascus to Mosul in order to nullify the pro- posed Bagdad-Haifa line. of SAVE YOUR BLANKETS! With Denatured Alco- bol within your radiator, there's no reason for unsightly blankets on the outside. And Denatured Alcohol not only protects your car against freeze- ups but keeps it safe from possible motor damage. CHART SHOWS YOU! Your service man has a chart like this that shows how much Denatured Al- cohol your car needs. See him « - « without delay. Save time and money with - IDENATURED ALCOHOL s news closely followed reports | C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930. CONGRESS OFFERED BANKING MEASURES Bills Introduced in Both Sen- ate and House to Modify Existing System. A number of bills relating to the banking laws of the country were in- | troduced when Congress reconvened yesterday, and the House banking com- mittee asked permission to hold hea: ings during the session of the House instead of in the mornings only, indi- cating that banking problems would receive considerable attention. On the Senate side, Senator Brook- hart, Republican, Iowa, offered bills to create & new Federal Reserve co-oper- | ative banking system, which would in- | clude the Federal intermediate credit | banks, and to prohibit short selling on | exchanges by forbidding use of the mails to communications having to do with orders and payments. | He also proposed legislation to license corporations engaged in interstate com- merce, under which the concerns would be limited to earnings of 5 per cent on the capital investment. Excess profits | would be turned over to the Treasury. Establishment or _acquisition _of | branches by national banks within the geographical limits of the Federal re- serve districts in which the parent insti- tutions were located would be authorized under a measure offered by Representa- tive Beedy, Republican, Maine, who said | it was intended “only as a basis for in- vestigation of branch banking.” Chairman McFadden of the House | banking committee, proposed to transfer | entire responsibility for examination Df‘ Federal Reserve and member banks and affiliated concerns to the controller of currency. His measure would require the con- troller of currency to examine such banks at least twice a year, and would empower him to cause special examina- tions when he deemed them necessary. The Senate got a start on bank legis- lation with passage of the George bill to authorize receivers of national banking associations to compromise individual shareholders’ liability either before or after judgment is rendered. Nearly $125,000 in rebates have been granted to householders and others in London who were not permitted to use water for gardens or automobiles dur- ing last Summer’s long drought. § ¥ Colder weather due tonight! STARLING'S CHANGE OF ABODE GIVES RISE TO NEW PROBLEM Bird Pests Roost Business' Men on Buildings and Seek Way to Eradicate Them. Driven from their nocturnal homes along Pennsylvania avenue by the saw and tree-clipper, the starling army, which is causing no small discomfiture to official and business Washington, has spread out to new roosting places on the facades of buildings near the trees which were their former places of rest and today threaten to envelop much of downtown Washington, ‘The spread of the starling army from the trees on Pennsylvania avenue to buildings in the heart of the business section of the Capital may be a matter for humorous comment by the man in the street, but it is rapidly assuming more serious proportions to business men and the city heads. The pestiferous birds have transferred their night roost- ing quarters to F street, the District Building and other structures nearby, and one of the F street theaters has be- come a favorite roosting place. Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, said today the merchants along F street are becoming alarmed at the spread of the starlings. May Have to Move. “We may make humorous remarks about them,” ' r. Shaw said, “but the matter is becoming a serious one for the business men of downtown Washington. If it keeps on and increases, it may be that some of the merchants wili be forced to transfer their activities else- where”tn the city at considerable ex- pense. Mr. Shaw agrees with J. M. Barnes, scientist of the National Museum, that starlings are nothing more than pests and should be done away with in as humane a manner as possible. “Why should it not be possible,” he sald, “to find their regular feeding places and spread poisoned food where they will pick it up, and can be put out of the way in as inconspicuous & manner as possible? The cutting of the trees has caused the spread of the birds to ledges on bulldings, roof tops and any- where they can gain a foothold, and it is causing the business men consider- able anxiety. I have several letters be- fore me, one advocating cold-blooded murder and another utilizing the cold- steam method .by which buildings and statues are cleaned, for the removal of the starlings. But if they continue to roost on buildings I don't believe any- thing short of their complete eradica- tion will solve the problem.” Clippers Continue Work. Meanwhile Clifford L. Lanham'’s stal- warts, armed with tree clippers and saws, continued moving west along Pennsylvania avenue in their campaign to remove the small twigs from the togmm branches of the trees and thus take away the roosting places of the starlings. The trees between Ninth and Twelfth streets have been denudea of their small branches, and workmen ‘were conllnulnil today to strip the trees between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. This stripping of the small branches is claimed to be the most efficaclous method yet devised for forcing the starlings to forsake the trees for other roosting places. It has been effective without any doubt, but it has simply driven the birds to other roosting places. On the ledges outside the fifth floor windows of the District Bullding have stood—night and day—rows of smudge pots, which poured forth odoriferous smoke toward the offices of the Com- missioners. Smudge Pots Removed. ‘The smudge pots were ordered re- moved today by the Commissioners, who sald the odors distributed from their reeking contents were offensive to of- ficial noses. Possibly these noses would rather have the starlings than the smoke pots. But the starSings continued to roost above the pots and on other ledges of the ct Bullding, and be- cause of their numbers spread to other structures, Something really effective may be done about them, but so far the starlings have won the battle. Every go-t has been a winning one for the irds to date and the next move is ug to the official agencies charged wit! their suppression. Mr. Shaw believes their eradication is a matter for the District Government, and not one for the business men of the Capital to pursue. Among the suggestions for tion of the starlings which r District Building today was the delivery of five toy kittens to be tled to the | tree tops to scare the birds away. CALHOUN NOTE TRIAL 1 BEGUN Dispute Over Paper Being Heard in Rockville Court Before Judge Peter. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md.,, January 7.—The trial of the suit of Joseph R. Harris of Bethesda against Mrs. Daisy B, Cal- houn of Chevy Chase, wife of Col. Clar- ence C. Calhoun, well known Washing« ton lawyer, and George A. Gormley, Washington bullder, which is an action to recover on a promisory note for $2,000, assigned by Gormley to Harris, began before Judge Robert B. Peter in the Circuit Court here yesterday. Signing Admitted. Although it is not denled that Mrs. Calhoun signed the note, which was ted June 29, 1928, payable in 90 days, payment at its maturity was refused on the theory that the note was never delivered to Gormley, but was taken by him, without authority, from the Calhoun home at Chevy Chase while Mrs. Calhoun was telephoning to her husband in Washington to ascertain if he were willing to sign the note, and that Gormley refused to return the note, which he was repeatedly request- ed to do. Gormley’s Contention. On the other hand, it was contended that Gormley obtained the note in a proper manner and that it was in pay- ment of money due him in connection with the erection of the Calhoun home at Chevy Chase. The note, it was shown, was assigned to Harris with the understanding that when paid he was to retain something over $800 due him by Gormley and turn over the balance to the bullder, Attorneys W. 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