Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1930, Page 17

| | | N TWO MAIL PILOTS | | BRAVE' BLIZZARD: . LAND AT BOLLING i Armstrong Arrives at Night, While Shaffer Finishes Trip This Morning. FLYERS LAND SAFELY DESPITE BLINDING SNOW Officials Awaiting Plane Unable to See Approach Because of Heavy Storm. Flying through the worst bligzard ‘Washington has known since the air- ing the height of the blizzard at_7:50 o'clock this morning. “Pflot th::rtusehlg‘e.r‘ 'f 0 b!r{ou ht wn the “shuttle” plane from ey Field, the New York terminal, this encountered the snow at it so thick that the landing lights of his plane when turned on re- vealed nothing but a swirling white cur- tain. He landed safely, but was ordered held here when reports from the South stated conditions were growing worse. ‘The mail was sent on by rail. Leaves Despite Storm. Shaffer picked up the mail from the incoming transcon! 1 plane He was forced down lower and lower that airways beacons were on, though it was after sunrise,” Shaffer said. “The and picked up the Poto- River just below Washington, al- most fiying into two radio towers.” ‘These were the towers at the Naval Research uhogc(;z :: gflemhg.i C., according to of af lling Shaffer then followed the river up Bolling Field, and, though he knew was over the field, he could see to he the gun and stal & landing in the snow.” He landed in nearly a foot of soft, fine snow, which rose in fountain: around and over the plane as it taxied the hangars. Airmail fleld offi- cials, waiting for him, said that as the plane approached them they could see but a cloud of swirling snow Which completely concealed the plane. On Local Run 18 Months. Shaffer has been on the local air- mail run more than 18 months and has' flown the shuttle service, first between New York and Philadelphia and then | between New York and Washington, since its establishment. He flew the first shuttle plane oyt ol the National Capital on May 1 last and has been on the run regularly ever since, flying South from New York in ihe early morning with mail just in from the transcontinental airmail line and re- turning to New York at mail from Washington New England and for connection with the ntinental. Shaffer has been flying since the early days of the World War. He was & wartime pursuit pilot and spent two years at the front with a French fight- | ing squadron. He has been in com- mercial aviation since the war. Shaffer has many friends in this city and in New York, where he makes his home, and one of his admirers has pre- sented him with an exact scale model of the plane in which he came through today's blizzard, complete even to the crow which Shaffer has painted on the nulk’ll'lluer nniah Shaffer and Armstrong while in Washington occupy & room at the Pennsylvania Hotel. Armstrong has been on the night run over the New York-Richmond section of the coastal line since the inaugu- ration of double service last May. HOLDS BETTER MINDS DRAWN TO BUSINESS| Dr. Giles Deplores Lack of Men Such as Shakespeare, Byron and Tennyson. Men with brilliant minds now devote Methodist Union of Washington in the Mayflower Hotel. Dr.olludcplamdtgem:fm such as Shakespeare, Byron and Ten- nyson in the world today. He insisted, however, that such talent still existed. be He attributed the condition to the draw- of better minds to business. that the London Naval Confer- ence would result in a better spirit of friendship between nations was express- ed byl:mmwp ‘William F. McDowell, the . | driven by Abraham Adams, colored, 707 } minor bruises. FLY MAIL THROUGH BLIZZARD I through the smow storm early today to John R. Armstrong (left) and Walter Shaffer, air mail flyers, who flew make their regular landings at Bolling —Star Staff Photos. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS TAKE FREAK FORMS 200 Rabbits—All Dead— Strewn About as Car Hits Horse and Wagon. In a series of unusual traffic mis- haps last night, seven persons were slightly injured, one horse was bruised and another abandoned, 200 rabbits were scattered over the streets and two motorists booked for reckless driving. ‘The rabbits—all dead, anyway—were on their way to market in a wagon Delaware avenue southwest. At third and H streets the wagon was sideswiped by an automobile. The impact projected Adams head- first to the street. He was treated at Emergency Hospital for lacerations. Police learned that the horse escaped injury. Horse Is Abandoned. A somewhat similar mhhn? at Sixth and P streets resulted in slight hurts to a horse. Police were able to locate the motorist, but were puzzled to find that the driver of the horse was no- ‘where about. Motorist Is Accused. Maurice W. Lewis, 19 years old, 1500 block Potomac avenue southeast, was charged with reckless driving and de- stroying private property as a result. The automobile had overturned the wagon, then bowled over the curbing to an iron fence. Police of No. 2 precinct late this morning had been unable to learn whose horse 'l: gx.volveu. = ™ X unders, 22 years old, of 'Il{u.Cn‘"!tm! suffered in which was riding overturned, follot a collision at Seventh and East Capitol streets. Lawrence R. Collins, 21 years old, 522 ‘First street southeast, driver, and Miss Elsie Harley, 716 C street south- SaRte ol of Maivin, Br et 2 0 l, ., passenge: =y muu, Her o o, “William_ Trete [er companion, m % Devon, Pa., was arrested on a charge a reckless driving and released under bond of $25. Auto Strikes Man. Benjamin E. Smith, 52 years old, 120 East Bradley Lane, Chevy Chase, a stenographer at the Navy Department, was slightly hurt when struck at Seven- teenth and B streets, by an automobile driven by Mrs. Maud Schlosser, 132 Sixth _street ‘southeast. Smith was treated’ at Emergency Hospital for ‘Three ‘were treated at Freed- men’s Hupm’tar slight injuries, fol- lowing a collision at Tenth and S streets | last night. Daisy Jones, colored, 37 years old, 918 French street, was cut on the right hand. Virginia Holems, colored, 39, of the same address, suffered a possible fracture of the arm, and Precella Jones, 15, of the French street address, was cut on the hand. James Hall, colored, 5 years old, | suffered a possible skull fracture when he was struck by an automobile oper- ated by Charles H. Bailey, 1534 Swann street, at Fifteenth and Swann street. | Physicians said the boy's condition was undetermined. STEIN TO BE HONORED. | Prominent Mason to Be Installed as Monarch of Kallipolis Grotto. Henry C. Stein, for many years prom- inent in local Masonry, will be in- stalled as monarch of Kallipolis Grotto by Grand Monarch Edward W. Libbe; at a ceremony to be attended by many prominent Masons in Grotto head- qunrtakn, 1212 G street, tonight at 8 o’clocl ‘Widely known in this city, Mr. Stein is now associated with the Leon Arnold business interests here. He first became a member of the Masonic fraternity in | November, 1902, at which time ke joined the Stansbury Lodge, No. 24, F. A. A. M. He served as master of Stansbury in 1919 and later be- came first master of Brightwood Lodgc, serving in 1924 and 1925. At preseni he is secretary of the Brightwood ge. CITIZENS TO BACK SCHOOL OFFICIALS Rhode Island Group Opposes John Burroughs Attitude on Transfer. Allying themselves with the Board of Education in ordering transfer of pupils of the seventh and eighth grades of the John Burroughs School to the new Langdon School, the Rhode Island Ave- nue Citizens’ Association last night ex- pressed “desire and intention” to co- operate with the public school ai thorities “for the good of the whole community.” The plan has resulted in protests from parents, who have scheduled a meeting tonight. E. G. Sievers, chair- man of the Rhode Island avenue group's school committee, urged all the members ;o ':nend the meeting “and get the The parents are threatening to con- tinue to send their children to the John Burroughs School after February 1, when the change goes into effect. “Book Poverty” Deplored. A request that a congressional appro- prllflrz: be made to alleviate the “book verty” at the new Woodridge sub- ranch of: the Public Library was trans- mitted - to - the congressional subcom- mittee on appropriations. A resolution exvmum’ “high appreciation” for the spirit of _co-operation manifest by George F. Bowerman, lib: , for his assistance in establishing the new sub- branch, was adopted. On motion of W. S. Torbert the as- sociation voiced protest against pro- posed legislation which would remove the three-year residence qualification for District Commissioners. The citizens also condemned proposed increase in ‘water rates and asked that the Federal Government bear a “fair share of the cost of the local water system.” o e zoning of lan e community from residential A to residential C, to permit construction of apartment houses, and asked that the Monroe Street Bridge over the Baltimore & Ohio tracks be widened to eliminate the Michigan ave- nue grade crossing. New Officers Named. Officers were unanimously elected as recommended by & nominating commit- tee headed by C. C. Marsh. They are: Thomas J. Llewllyn, president, second term; Edward G. Sievers, first vice president; Mrs. Charles J. Bowne, sec- ond vice president; Julian F. Belfield, secretary; Wallace E. Perry, financial secretary; Harold S. De Merritt, assist- ant secretary; William S. Torbert, treas- urer; Llewllyn and James May, Fed: eration of Citizens' Associations’ dele- gates. Themas P. Littlepage sgoke on the Community Chest. P. 5. Corrigan, Mrs. G. T. Boul, David F. Jamieson and Phil C. bership. Wessells were admitted to mem- TRIP ABROAD AWAITS TWO DISTRICT BOYS 15,000-Mile Tour of Three Conti- nents Is Planned by Y. M. C. A. Officials. A 15,000-mile tour of three continents by sea, land and air is in two hington boys next Summer, under plans being formulated by the boys' department of the Washington Y. M. C. A Selection of the boys is being given attention by officials of the department. The pair will be chosen from the mem- bership of the boys’ division, with due comlfier:(t;lonhot uadmldm' ntlnlta with Tegar character, deportment and other attributes. Ten foreign nations will be visited by the boys, who will be in a group sent abroad under auspices of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A. The tour will be in the interest of international understanding and good will. Some of the high spots of the 1930 trip will be visits to Egypt, Palestine and Greece; encampment, on the Sea of Marmora, just out of Constantinople; attendance at the Passion Play at Om- berammergau and a flight from Paris to London. ‘The boys will sail in June on the Roma and will return in August on the Aquitania. % Mud Bath on Today’s Progr: bath, W. H. Black- at the institution, Separated from others of her kind, is in a quiet corner of the secluded from the curious eye of More than 300 members of the social | For ertained ‘orgarization were ent: ‘epecial musical program, with a Zoo, the public, in her canvas-covered cage. weeks she has hove be- tween life and death, today it was sald that she has & = ZOO HIPPO LOOKING BETTER DESPITE LACK OF APPETITE am for Mombasso, Confined Three Weeks by Ilness. In the hope of aiding her digestion her | rather than with a view of enhancing ng | her appearance, Mombasso will be given & mud pack, one of the many forms of PLANS FOR " STRIKE" IN PUPIL TRANSFER DEFIED BY BOARD President Carusi Says He Can Have No Sympathy With Citizens’ Action. SCHOOL LAWS DECLARED VIOLATED BY PROTESTS Next l‘(ove Put Directly Up to John Burroughs Association of Residents. Regardless of reported threats of par- ents of the John Burroughs School to compel their children to “strike” if the seventh and eighth grades are trans- ferred to the Langdon School and the Langley Junior High School, the Board of Education has definitely decided on the step, and will not reconsider its action, it afMirmed yesterdar. There was considerable discussion at | the board meeting yesterday afternoon on the question of whether a strike actually had been threatened. Presi- dent Charles W. Carusi said he was re- liably informed through the newspa- pers that it had, and John M. Kemper, representing the John Burroughs Citi- zens’ Association, maintained that. it had llzot and th;‘lc ‘l‘he press reports were grossly exaggerated. Carusi said that it did not matter: that the board would consider the mat ter in the regular course of business, despite the request of the citizens that action on recommendation of Dr, Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, be deferred until the opposi- tion could present its case. Transfer Already Made. Kemper protested again, and Ballou answered him. When the time came for discussion of the transfer itself it was found that this had already been done seven months ago. The board ordered that a letter em- bodying this information be sent the citizens’ assoclation by special messen- ger, to b: delivered before the protest meeting tonight. ‘The_question of whether there will be a strike was thus clearly put up to the parents of the children, with the board " standing uncompromisingly for the transfer. The request of Kemper seemed to arouse the ire of the board dent, who said that the parents of the school afldr‘ffi hng ht:one a thing wullth which could not have any sympathy. They had “threatened a violation of the law compelling school attendance,” he said, and asked: “What effect will it have on the minds of these children to be made instruments of deflance to au- thority?” He said statements such as those attributed to the Burroughs citi- zens are greatly to be deplored and were ill advised, since it so influenced the board that now it would not grant their request for a hearing, despite the 3 standing policy of the educational to hear parents on such occasions. Citizens May Sue. The Burroughs Citizens’ Association may sue to restrain the transfer of pupils of John Burroughs to the Langdon School and Langley Junior High School, William E. Rabenhorst, president of the association, declared this morning. This will be decided at the meeting tonight. According to printed notices sent members, they will consider ways and means of avol a strike. In a statement today Mr. Rabenhorst commented on yesterday’s board action: “The Burroughs Citizens' Association on three separate occasions passed reso- lutions protesting against the plan of school authorities “to transfer the seventh and eighth grades * ¢ = The third occasion was as long ago as November, 1920 * * '+ We assumed that transmittal of these resolutions to the board was equivalent to a Tequest for a hearing thereon, but we have not even received an acknowledgment. Chairman Gives Report. A preliminary report of the advisory committee on vocational education of the Board of Educstion was R sented by its chairman, John B. g- poys of the Central Trades Union, edi- tor of its official organ, the Trade Unionist. The report embodied most of the for- mer_ request of the trade union for Vvocational education in the District. Its high light was the request that the board ask the Federal Board for Voca- tional Education to a trained man to make a survey of the situation here and confer with the commitiee before the final report of that body is rendered. The Board of Education agreed to do this. Among the recommendations of the committee were that the Columbia Junior High School be made available for use by the vocational classes now housed in the Abbott School, which, the report stated, was never intended for a school building and lacks ade- quate heating facilities; that the Com- missioners urge Congress to include the District in the Smith-Hughes act for vocational education, and that there be provided two modern buildings for the trade schools, one for white chil- B "Batiou tola the ‘board 3 lou e rd that the ;.‘rblenlfer of classes from the Abbott to Columbia_Junior Hilhl School will ::l take be completed by Fel 5 A supplemental estimate of $242,880, gurmlnt to the free-text book bill passed y both Houses of and await- ing the President’s s iture, was ommended by Dr. Ballou and indorsed by the board. It was stated that the body is not yet ready to say what ad- ditional dgermnnel will be needed for the handling of the books. To Co-operate With D. C. Heads. ‘The board decided on a policy of co- operation with the District Commis- Shoners in the moving of the Garfleld School in order that the highway plan may be carried out. It is_estimated that this work will cost $75,000. De- tails of the source of this sum were not touched upon. The building is to be moved to the rear of the property where it now stands at Twenty-fifth street and Alabama avenue southeast. ‘The following recommendations of the committee on bulldings, grounds and H equipment were approved: That one &:m school ding be transferred the Takoma School to the Whi closet, and a duplicat- and a playgroun a set of encycloj ing machine to ‘West School ac- treatment to which her attendants have | cepted. resorted to prolong her life, Blackburn declared. & Hundreds of visitors at the Zoo make futile attempts to see Mombasso, but are prevented by her cautious attendants, who say that she must not be disturbed until the day arrives, which they hope will be before long, when the large will endoy. goad health, As some members' of the board thought children might bring undue in- fluence on their parents to attend meet- ings of parent-teacher associations, a ndation for the approval of an offer of the Barnard Parent-Teacher Association of a of 85 to the room having the greatest preseat at the x¢ WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, STAGGERED HOURS FORU. 5. WORKERS | HELD TRAFFIC AID Grant Studies Plan to Find Solution of Congestion Problem. TRANSPORT COMPANIES’ CO-OPERATION IS ASKED Question Offers Various Imgricate Details to Work Out Satis- factory Method. The proj hours_for Tnment employes to re- lieve traffic oon&luon is being actively studied, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, di- rector of public buildings and public parks, sald today, but no satisfactory solution has yet been reached. A conference was held yesterday with interested parties and an effort is be- ing made to arrive at a mutually satis- factory arrangement with the traction and bus companies which will be vitally affected by any change in office hours. Problems Are Intricate. As an indication of the intricacy of the problem, Col. Grant cited the point that if different bureaus in the same departments of the Government are to come to work at different intervals, this arrangement would make it difi- cult to check up on who was late and, in general, would tend to disa the smooth working of a department. ‘While the requirement o6f having one Government de ent’s workers come i the ‘morning Thight prove.bencacisr might prove 3 in the evening em’n’?u of the depart- ment getting out earlier might be pass. ing a department letting out its em- E!:zyu 15 minutes later, at the same e, thus causing a traffic congestion. Buildings Lecation is‘ Factor. ‘The location of the various Govern- ment departments in the im it on the whole prob- lem, Col. Grant explained, and in ad- dition there is the question to be con- sidered of shifting around the to maintain MINT VENDERS SEEN AS “EVIL CHATTELS” Attorney’s Petition Declares “Gam- bling Instinet” Ap- pealed To. Mint slot machines were classed as “‘evil chattels” yesterday an the marked anol the legal battle between the owners of the automatic devices and the District, started last year after police seized s large number of the machines. The case went to the Court of Appeals after Justice Peyton Gordon of the District .| Supreme Court denied a petition ask- that be & o w[:llu enjoined fiom seizing Keech's petition contended the vend- ing apparatus does not des pro- tection of the law which surrounds other property and declared them sub- Ject to summary seisure. He the machines a to the gamb) if their purpose was solely to sell mints they would not be equipped with' intricate and expen- CHILD, 5, DIES OF BURNS SUSTAINED IN APARTMENT Dennis Smith, Left Alone in Home, Fatally Injured While Play- ing With Matches. Five-year-old Dennis Smith, colored, died at Children’s Hospital late yester- day afternoon as a result of burns sus- tained earlier in '.lu'dny at his home, the police that the oty o B ment, P! mal W) his clothing ignited. The child mme: for assistance, others in the Occu ding. its of other apartme - pk:lnexfin tf il death was given, | NOVICE FORCED DOWN. Pressman Lands in Field With Li- cense 10 Minutes Old. Within 10 minutes after he had suc- cessfully passed his flying tests at Hoo- ver Pleld for a private pilot’s license, Joseph C. Bergling, 21 years old, 414 Tenth = street southeast, "pressman on the Washington Post, forced ding yesterday 4 miles from at College Park, Md. 's motor iber of parents to “stagger” working | thr 1930. e BLIND INDIAN WOMAN ARRIVES TO FIGHT FOR TRIBE'S RIGHTS Cause of Cherokees Is Cham- pioned by Susan Sanders, 87 Years Old. Great-Granddaughter of a Chieftain Claims Injus- tice to Red Men. BY GRETCHEN SMITH., Busan Sanders, granddaughter of Elsie Pathkiller, and great-granddaughter of & Cherokee chieftain, has gon hand. Although she speaks the tongue of the Cherokees fluently, Susan’s command of the English language is remarkable When one realizes that she has never at- tended school. But she has taught her- self wlhug oonnne': m- xl&ek'fi Xo; ee long years to read an te an her favorite reading has been the Bible. Susan has arrived from her home in Oklahoma to smoke the pipe of peace or to shake her tomahawk in the faces of those who control the destinies and properties of the Red Men. In her own words she tells you, “I have come to seek help to have enforced the laws which already exist regarding the guarantee of the United States to the people of my tribe. I want to see justice given to the Cherokee tribes who have had their lands and money erroneously allotted to k;(r:.lhd:n monopolize the best part of who territory supposedly given my mople in the Indian 'remwr;lxn 1835 exchange for their lands in nessee from which Ten- my ancestors were I‘:n"flyt driven at the point of the yonet.” Many Of thome mhl:in{n':'hu best, “Many of 08¢ NOW ey Ravert s drop of Encin ok 1 ven't & their velns, nor can their names. be found on the authenticated rolls of 1851, when an enroliment was made by the Government of those legitimately Susan gained the sympathy of many of those in a go-mon to help her. For a time, she thought she would win her case. But the years passed by with little achieved and she now tells you that “all those who helped me in the past are no longer here. I must seek |in new friends.” Elsie Pathkiller, the mother of Susan, was one of those who remembered the “Terrible Panther’ Proves to Be Just a Plain Collie Dog Bateman, police telephone opera- tor, last night. “Pa-pan—what?” shouted Bate- man. ‘“Pa-pa-pa-pa-panther,” _came the voice, vibrating with fear. “Where?” beseeched Bateman. “Ri-ri-right heah,” said the “‘e':il gl { water, “Take a glass of water,” sug- Bateman. “Wa-wa water? No water, pan- ther. It's right under my win- temen dispatched the elev- ict panther squad to the drmtoflndnlu-f.hn collie dog and a badly frightened man, BONDHOLDERS ACT T0 SAVEPROPERTY New Corporation Planned to Buy in City Club at Fore- closure Sale. member of the group. d_trust bondholders have been given a week to subscribe to the plan under which a new corporation would be formed of second trust holders and others to buy in the property at a fore- closure sale, said to be impen 3 A certificate of accidental | Pyle, , attracting attention of | There buily . ‘The last night, in- REAR ADMIRAL SNOWDEN IS BURIED IN ARLINGTON World War Atlantic Fleet Squad- ron Commander Was 73 Years Old. Funeral services for Rear Admiral SUSAN SANDERS. —Star Staff Photo. days, when a little girl, she was driven with her tribe from the home of her ancestors in essee. ““My mother used to tell me,” said the proud-faced old Indian, “of how the soldiers came and at the point of the bayonet drove my people from their lands. They were placed in wagons and driven to the West, where they were Ientbunu;;otthemulvumu wilderness country.” Susan claims that she holds the rights to 640 acres of land. in Tennessee which are legitimately hers through inheritance. She clearly recalls e struggling days of her childhood. Land Cultivated by Hand. PAGE B—1 UTILITIES BODY NOT EXPECTED T0 APPEAL GAS CASE Justice Wheat Rules Anti- Merger Act Not Violated by Seaboard Trust. {HOLDS INVESTMENT FIRM IS NOT A “CORPORATION” Corporation Counsel Avers Decision Appears to Be Only Logical One. The Public Utllities Commission will - probably not appeal from the decision of Justice Alfread A. Wheat in the Washington Gas Light Co. case, it was learned today. Justice Wheat yesterday handed down a decision in which he held that there was no violation of the La Follette -nt.;;n;:ymext .t‘r:: in the purchase %‘oc : majority of e ny’s sf by the Seaboard nvem Trust of Boston. He denied a petition by the col to order the Seaboard Trust to dispose of its stock. Held Not a “Corporation.” The anti-merger act prohibits the said, “and we were s0 poor that it of our plowing and land cultivation to be done by hand. There was about to four families and that pony would be borrowed from neighbor to neighbor. “Our clothes were of the crudest. In those days our men would go into Arkansas for the hides to make our ct"5p thelr . My people set up own tanyard and the women did their own spinning.” Blinded through a badly performed operation, she has continued her “battle for her rights” despite this handicap. Although she has possessed property the past, most of Susan’s have been expended in her trips to ‘Washington. Susan woman and - poor. PANTHER' ELUDE . TWO EXPEDITIONS Hunters. - Make Futile Searches. in District and Near' Bowie, Md. A wild beast's foray upon the pigpen |of Edwin J. Scott, colored,, fourth pre- cinct policeman, at Glenn Dale, Md., near Bowie, early yesterday morning, sent panther hunters of I'rince Georges County out on the trail of a panther again yesterday and iast night w:thout any damage to the e 3 Another head eaten and showing long slashes from fangs and claws. Another- Pig Badly Wounded. Another pig was badly wounded about the head expected . to survive the attack. ‘The ity was strewn with blood and the ties of the porkers, and ‘there was come beast’s evidence of a terrific battle between them and the marauder. The hard-crusted snow gave no trail for huntsmen to follow, but the woods thickets nearby ct, and two fine g quartered for the past two weeks at the eleventh: inct, struck a hot trail shortly after t midnight at Piftieth street and Fitch ghu after a stray shot had put to flight some marauding beast about the pigsty of Bernard Chapman. Chap- mn.‘kfi’l’? ‘was the scene of the first pork of the night prowler. About é?u days ago one of Chapman's pigs was led. Despite an elaborate floodlight sys- tem that has been installed over ihe S':‘n'pmt;n p;‘::y a:nnle mtly;e beast’s first , the elusive an escaped un- scathed last ht. T As usual, the watch over Chapman's was kept by several huntsmen of Northeast Washington. Ken- ney, colored, who lives nearby and who the t before last shot at a night- prow beast in the grounds of the Natic Training School for Girls on Fiftieth street, got another shot at the 3 on z mw'\l‘l&d :“lmegu'l! shotgun nfll‘ Ppally ball bearings and nuts and bolts. ith owner of ve been the shot and There the dogs Thomas Snowden, U, 8. N., retired, 73 [and the iron Atlantic Fleet du Who died Monday at years old, squad r of the the World War, s residence, in the to| Woodley apartment, Mintwood place and Columbia road, were held this morning at St Margaret's Church. Military burial was in Arlington National Ceme- 1 Snowden, a veteran of two | trict from wars, was duated ln.::’li. at the Naval rank of rear admiral in 1917, bulletin said. t | fie is 'd | messages to and from the Byrd the station to mkm:h?’l; e 11 to ascertain the ity of the frir'wened woman. STUDENTS ORGANIZE, Baptist Union Formed at George Washington University. ‘The Student Union has been umnl-.:p:‘t“onnw Uni- .| versity with Miss Ella Lee Sowers, a , &8 president. The new union is ed after similar groups in Mullmfl.mnfi- ing 100,000 students. are about 400 enrolled at George 'W_union X~ T, by Dr. WA of: MM-M.&M bmeeting, Baptist ‘Washington. Approval s ox provost of led the first g Sy “We planted corn and beans,” she 5, and hind quarters, but it is| in urchase of more than 20 per cent of Washington utility by any foreign hol corporation or pub- lic utility corporation. held that the investment trust, which is a trust organized under the law of Massachusetts, is not a “corporation” within the meaning of the law. ‘The gas light company case was the first one to be brought to test the strength of the La Follette act passed in March, 1913. Before'the commission filed the suit, a special investigation of the sale of the stock was made for it by the Degrtmnt of Justice. Accord to the department’s report the Seaboar Investment Trust was admittedly or- ganized by the Harris-Forbes Co., New York investment dealers, for the pur- pose of evading the La Follette act. The Harris-Forbes Co. e stock in an; joined with four ©old | other investment and banking houses in setting the trust which holds the light m“e"i for their beneficial mmega'. Formal Decision Not Reached. Although no formal decision has been reached by the commission, it has turned the matter over to tion Counsel William W. Bride, who stated frankly today that Justice Wheat's de~ cision appeared to be the only logical one and that apparently no good pur- pose would be served by taking the case any farther. will make a formal re to the commission on the subject hpt:'? If no further effort is made to bring the gas light com back into Wash~ mneonmu. the only woula by the sides the Gas e Chesa] & Potomac Telephone Co. are all owned by outside interests, b WOMEN NUMEROUS AT AUTOMOBILE SHOW Fair Sex Displays Real Interest in Motor Improve- ments, More than ever before women are prominent in the thi which daily Visit the Washington Auditorium, where the tenth annual automobile show is being held under the rship of the Washington Automotive Trade Associa- tlon. ~ According to officials of the show, this year they seem to manifest a genu- e t in the car improvements own, Two talks descriptive of the show will be broadcast tonight. Rudolph Jose, chalrman of the show committee, will :fienlk from WRC on “Motor Car De- in 1930,” and L. 8. Jullien, treas- urer of the Washington Automotive Trade Association, will from WMAL on a similar subject. WIFE'S CHARGES DENIED. Husband Says He Did Not Desert Mate. Describing _his wife as domineerin and selfish, Earl A. Stoup, employe of the General Accounting Office, todsy flled in District Supreme Court his an swer to the petition of Mrs. Muriel W. Stoup fer limited divorce, Stoup denles charges of desertion and disputes the charge that he left his wife because he was in love with an- other. He says the separation was at Mrs. Stoup's request. Stoup declares that since their marriage in 1923 he t. turned over to his wife his ea which she invested for her own Attorn Willlam Stoup. pro eys Raymond Neudecker and ©C. Ashford appear on behalf of P SR RADIO BYRD DAILY. Navy Maintains ~ Schedule Boat’s Wireless in Dunedin. e communication division bulletin - oflhce of D":u rc‘:gt :1 naval op- erations, Navy Department, made pube«: lic today, revealed that the Navy s tains a daily schedule with Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd's station, WFA, “After indifferent results were obs tained in attempting direct communi~ cation, messages now are being relayed via the steamer Bolling, WFAT, an- chored at Dunedin, New Zealand,” the “Inasmuch as some traf- necessary to maintain efficiency, e o Via tion will be accepted.” SHIPSTEAD SEEKS HEALTH ipstead, Farmer-Labor, Minnesota, who returned to Wi iy 3 the isthmi nn:: after n'cndlnlww some bu:: It was said at the Se to- ot nator’s office b feel he no'.'&'“’ o that h:ngcton - h‘ little more & warmer climat turn him to normal health. e Benefit Ball to Aid Veterans. A public ball for the benefit of dis- abled veterans and 'ajhr. ":e ll‘ “cl't?t.k. Ilniflgl“huwlcu it n o' a the Ladies' Auxiliaries of the i District of Columi ment of the © AR