Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1930, Page 6

A-—6 * NG NORTH DAKOTANS | BALLOTING TODAY for G. 0. P. Nomination Holds Spotlight. By the Associated Press FARGO. N. Dak. June 25.—A. C. Townley, founder of ths Non-Partisan League in North Dakota, held the spot- light in today's State-wide primary election, in which he is entered as a| candidate for the Republican nomina- tion for Congress in the third con- gressional district i Townley, running without the en-! dorsement of the organiation he found- ed. is opposed by the incumbent. J. H. | Sinclair of Kenmare, the Non-Partisan | endorsee, and Staale Hendrickson of Coteau, endoised by the Independent Voters Assoctation. Townley and Hen- | drickson have expressed themseives as | “wets.” | Three Seek Renomination. | The State's three representatives, | Sinclair, Thomas Hall and O. B. Burt- ness, all sought renomination. There s | no race for United States Senator this | year. Gov. the Independents. sought renominatio and was opposed on the Republican | ballot by H. T. Brant of Linton, the | Non-Partisan League candidate With the exception of the guber- natorial race, all candidates on the! Democratic ticket have no opposition. | Pierce Blewett of Jamestown. endorsed | by the Democratic convention; Fred L. | Anderson of Minot, and F. O. Hellstrom | of Bismarck. are in the Democratic ' Tace for nomination for governor. | Two Women in Race. i Two women are contesting for the Republican nomination for State treas- | urer—the incumbent, Mrs. Berta E. Baker, Non-Partisan candidate, and Della M. Wardrope of Leeds, the Inde- pendent endorsee. Two initiated measure for amendment of the law, so as to permit Sunday “movies’ and other theatrical productions, and creation of | & one-man game and fish commission, are before the voters. | George F. Shafer, endorsed by ' providing | PARKING ALONG SUPREME COURT TO BE STOPPED Bidewalks on North Side of Build- ing, Used as Road, to Revert to Original Use. ‘The erstwhile sidewalk that has been utilized as a roadway to the north of the District Supreme Court Building, is | to revert to its status as a sidewalk, and those whose affairs take them to the court will have to find parking fa- cilities elsewhere. From D street the road running on the west side of the court house will be a one-way traffic north, while the road running on the east side of the court house will be a one-way thor- oughfare, running south. This was decided at a conference held yesterday by interested court offi- cials with Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, U. S. A, superintendent of the United States park police. Parking provisions will be made for the van of the United States marshal that brings prisoners %o the court house. Complaints reached the headquarters of the United States park police that cars were tearing up the turf to the north of the court house, and the pow- ers that be decided that they would prefer to have green grass than parked cars just outside the windows. TOWN WINS APPEAL Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md. June 25— Judge Albert A. Doub has granted a new trial to the mayor and council of Frostburg in the damage suit of Harry Haskins, who obtained a $300 verdict for alleged illegal arrest. Haskins. a non-resident magazine subscription solicitor, was arrested un- der a town ordinance requiring & license for solicitors obtaining subscrip: tions for publication: e and a fellow worker. named Mager. re sent to jail “Joe Judge” | An electrical finger that Non-Partisan Founder’s Race The Ahwahnee, recently completed 2t a cost of over $1,000.000 and considered the best hotel in any national park, 1 | where President Hoover will stay during his visit to Yosemite Valley, Ca cated here by the railing. (S ERATNSHINSSTEEL 'ARE IDETREGCTED| Wonsn Huxt by Strect Car. BY NEW ELECTRICAL "FINGER" Use on Railroads, Bridges, Automobiles! and Otherwise Expected to Increase By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. June 25.— " the in- visible twists and strains in steel un- der great pressure was described to the American Society of Testing Materials here yesterday. The purpose is to increase safety in construction tions of actual use tests heretofore con- fined to scientific laboratories. The de- vice was by J. G. Ritter of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. No longer than a human finger, and not much thicker, it bolts to the side of a rail and records the bending as a 100-ton locomotive thunders over. If placed on a curve it will show the side twist of the rail under the loco- motive's thrust. It can be laid upon an automobile wheel to detect how nearly bumps come to causing overstrain. The finger works somewhat like a slide rulé, being of two parts, which by making under condi- | described by J. P. Shamberger | of Pittsburgh, who said it was designed | | Safety. | | telescope. This telescoping amounts only to the diameter of a tremor or a | vibration: that is, something like one 10-thousandth of an inch. Even so | slight a motion slides a piece of iron to or from between two sensitized elec- | trical instruments on the finger. These instruments correspond to the sense of touch. They detect the mo- tion of the bit of fron, and with it the distortion which causes the movement ‘They register this movement by slight electrical changes. | into play. They are plain wires, which carry the slight electrical disturbances to instruments that amplify them into movements an inch long, that can be | calibrated in terms of wear and tear. Mr. Shamberger said the instrument | is particularly suitable to obtaining in- | formation of apparatus under actual | displacement in { locomotive side members and bridges, and in | dustries. rods and wheels, truss suspension cables in machines in many in- MORTARS PRESENTED Leonardtown Legion Post Receives Weapons From War Department. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., June 25. Two six-inch trench mortars, gotten through the aid of United States Sen- ator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland for Comdr. Joseph C. Mattingly of the St. Mary's Post, No. 54, American Legion, will arrive this week and be mounted in Memorial Park in the cen- ter of Leonardtown. These guns are given by the War Department and come from Aberdeen, Md. ‘The gases and vapors that form the earth’s atmospheric sphere, and with- out which we could not exist, extend to from 40 to 50 miles above the earth's surface. Graduate eCormick Mediea) Glasses Fitted e iers e Buimines DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist wh i MeLuchicn "B and’ G 8ts. W | ENVOY’S HOME INVADED Nothing Taken in House of Coun- selor of German Embassy. Gaining entrance through & rear door, thieves yesterday ransacked the home | of Dr. Otto C. Keip, counselor of the | German embassy, 3229 Idaho avenue. A | quantity of silverware was found scat- | tered about the floor by Marlene Bren- | ner, caretaker, but nothing was taken. | Dr. Keip and his family are out of town. e t SWAT THE FLY | Take advantage of an early start by an aggres- sive war on the fly at the beginning of the season. The Star has for free distribution wire-handled fly swatters. Ask for one at the main office of The Star, 1lth and Pa. Ave. N.W. | on fairway, court, or Summertime attire tha Sport Shoes by Florsheim are equally correct avenue. They add to the t pleasing smartness, that generous comfort well-dressed sportsmen enjoy Most styles $10O oxfords with crepe rubber soles. - And white —ideal for Summer wear—tan woven woven with crepe rubber soles w « « NOW All Imported W oven Oxfords or leather oxfords 4,85 Men’s Shops 14that G 7thand K 8212 14th His suite is located on the second floor, indi- The “nerves” of the finger then come | rails, track splice bars, | STAR, WASHINGTO D. C. WEDNE HOWARD T JONES | " ISIVEN DRY OST Assistant Attorney General | Will Become Assistant Di- ‘ rector of Prohibition. Howard T. Jones, who for years has been assistant to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition prose- | cutions, has been appointed assistant director of prohibition in the Depart- Imcm of Justice, it was «onounced |late yesterday by Attorney General Mitchell i | “His appointment follows the selec- | tion of Amos W. W. Woodcock, dis- trict attorney at Baltimore, as director of prohibition. | | Jones has been assistant to A. G.! Youngquist, and formerly Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, at the Department |of_Justice. | “He has been in <luse touch with I'the Prohibition Bureau and the United States attorneys,” said an official an- | nouncement from the department, “and | has acted as liaison officer between | the two departments relation to activities under the national pmhlhl-l tion act ever since it weut into effect “Mr. Jones is a native ui Pennsyl- ania. He is 37 years old and as been in the service of the Department of | Justice since 1916, While employed in | the department at Washington he studied law at Georgetown Law Scheol and received the degree of vacheior of | laws in 1919 and that of master of | laws in 1920 - “The appointment of Mr. Jones is another step toward cbtaining closer co-operation between the investigating and the prosecuting forces, which is the object of the transfer of prohibi- tion enforcement activities to {he De- partment of Justice.” 1 Mr. Jones lives at 3828 Livingston street, is married, and has two chil- dren . Prohibition enforcement under the new law is to be transferred from the Treasury Department to the Dspart- ment of Justice July 1. —Wide World Photo, While crossing at the intersection of Seventh and K streets southwest about 10 o'clock last night Virginia Whyatt, colored, 30 yvears old, of 1428 Carroll- burg street southwest was knocked down by a street car and severely injured. She was treated at Emergency Hospital for a laceration of her jaw and an in- jury to her skull. Small Fire at G. P. 0. Short-circuited electric wires was given as the cause of a small fire in & tool shop at a new building at the Gov- ernment Printing Office late vesterday. The fire was quickly extinguished. Sports Shoes that BELONG In Your Vacation Wardrobe Sports oxfords or ties —in white elk. Also in tan and white or black and white. | ' . $6.50 Spectator model in [ emea ey x| TIMING BIG FACTOR - IN AIDING JOBLESS Hoover Committee Sees Need of Public Construction at Right Moment. s “Skillful timing in the use of a com- paratively small margin of public con- | struction” is the most important end to achieve in relieving unemployment throughout the Nation, according to President Hoover's committee on eco- nomic changes. A summary of the studies undertaken by the committee's agents was made public today. Consideration of attempts to relieve unemployment by increasing expendi- tures for public works has brought the | President’s committee to the conclusion, it was announced, that effective appli- cation of the idea will require a great areful timing. Personnel of Committee. y OUTING FOR BOYS’ CLUB | The membership of the committee pi includes Owen, D. Young, President y Green of the American Federation of Big Attendance Expected When Labor, Daniel Willard of the Baliimore | & Ohio Railroad Co. and other promi- il b L | nent leaders in the business world. The committee suggests that it will be necessary to develop ways and means of anticipating the onset of a cycle of depression i “Prompt action before conditions be- come serious can be assured only there is developed a practical method of gauging the economic situation,” says the Teport, “so that unfavorable trends | which threaten adversely to influence | the economic balance that may be an- ticipated and compensating factors in HOWARD T. JONES. With the opening of Camp Reeder the recreation center of the Boys' Club of Washington, less than a week off. there were indications today. of a rec- ord attendance this season, C. M. Fyfe, club_director, sald today. The camp will be thrown open Monday. Arrange- ments have been made to conduct the customary -supervised daily programs including swimming, boating and hik- ng. as| ‘ fluenced earlier than would be the gase if natural forces were left to their | own time and way. | “As an unplanned form of emér- relief for unemployment, public consiruction has long been tried and found wanting.” In addition, some degree of play to the cycle of economic conditions, yhich varies from great activity to stagnation, should be allowed, it was suggested. Better methods of obtaining State, Fed- eral and municipal co-operation for the purpose of releasing public work were deemed necessary. The committee an- nounced that the further progress of | its inquiry would deal with the shifting of price relationships noted in recent | months. 'MARYLAND DRUGGISTS MEET AT OCEAN CITY 48th Annual Convention of State Association Being Held at | Resort. | Special Dispatch to The Star. OCEAN CITY, Md. June 25.-The forty-eighth annual convention of the | Maryland Pharmaceutical Association is being held in Ocean City, Md., during 1 the period between Tuesday and Friday. | Representatives of Delaware and the | District of Columbia are also numbered in the gathering. The Atlantic HotelMs the headguarters of the convention dur= ing its stay at the Maryland ocean re= sort. The opening day of the gathering Was given over to business matters. The second day of the convention period is probably the most interesting from a professional standpoint for on this day affairs of scientific interest are to be discussed. A minstrel show is to be presented to- night. Tomorrow night will be the time of the banquet. Albert C. Ritchie, Gova ernor of Marviand. is expected to attend | together with other State dignitaries, Thoughts Turn to The New Home Here Are Suggestions for the June Bride From “Electrical Headquarters” white buckskin with Huthias shike thesls! Tan or black trim. Hand-woven sandals and oxfords. Delight- fully cool and com- fortable for Summer outdoor wear. SPECIAL (Not at F St.) VACATION SALE of Young Folks’ Shoes (at Tth St. & “Arcade” Stores) Junior Women’s Sports Shoes tan and beige, tan and white or black and white. Reduced $3.65 Misses’ and Small Boys’ —dress and sports shoes, in- cluding some “Hahn Specials.” $2.65 At 7th St. store—broken sizes Misses’ and Junior Women's Summer shoes. Also Infants’ slippers. Vacation sale price— $1.65 “Barefoot™ Sandals a Play Oxfords —300 of them—for small bays and girls. Imported tan grain leather. crepe sol comfortable and sturdy. Sizes 5 00 3 ~ Women's Shop ! . 1207 F - 7th & K 3212 14th PROCTOR Fully Automatic TOASTER Just the thing for prepar- ing breakfast in the new home . . . or for making de- licious toasted sandwiches. Toasts a single slice or thick- est sandwich both sides at once . . . signals when toast is ready . . . and keeps it at serving temperature until you remove it. $3.00 Down Monthly on 6 Light Bills $1.68 Electric Waffle Irons Make delicious waffles right at the table. trical Headquarters” has a size to meet your need at a price to fit your purse, Eléctric Hot Plates These convenient appliances are very handy in the small kitchenette or at the summer cottage for prepar- ing quick meals. They are sturdily built and come in several sizes. . SpeL, ford & Westinghouse. FEasy ranged on monthly light bills, Electric Percolators Coffee is never so good as when it is made the electric way. No bride should 'be without this indis- pensable appliance. Many sizes and styles from Phone NAtionol 8800 “Elec~ $895 ., Electric Rangg Choose from our stock of guaranteed ranges made by such dependable manufacturers as L. & H., Craw- payments may be ar- with as little as ; $1 1.95 - Have Everything Electrical —Pay on Light Bills