Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1930, Page 22

m.[ m[;UMENIS ‘ _FOUNDERS OF DEPARTMENT STORE HONORED ] DOSTRONE INGUIRY Federal Trade Commission ito Resume Power Hear- ings in November, By the Associated Press. ‘The destruction of records in the re- | cent fire at the Federal Trade Commis- has so hampered the investigation r utilities that it will not re- earings until some time in No- m ‘commission_advised the ‘Senate yesterday that a check-up of the dam- m'ed reports prepared for, use in rmn on eight companies had been altogether. These concerns 'ln m have been examined publicly fn 'the near future. The commission also lost exhibits and fleld repom con- eerning fivé other companies. . Resume Hearings in November. -When the hearings ars resumed next month, the affairs of one of the larger companies, not named in the the Senate, will be examined. fire at the end of August, the held one series of hear- of the Carolina Power d the Minnesota Power Co., both operating concerns lectric Bond & Share group. ;cmnu.nu the commission are examining the books of five holding companies and six operat- concerns. They shave completed studies on one holding company and, eight important operating groups. Documents Being Replaced. 'l'h: Jost documents ue belm replaced, | this work was be con- nun: much time as well u being ex- U S. SEEKS EARLY - DISARM FORMULA Ialno Delegates to Oppose Any Budgetary Limitation for Armaments. g;§§3§ Te5E I.Di A gs said; now E ‘ the Associated Press. Speedy conclusion of the work of the w of Nations tory Disarm- ament Commission be urud by the American delegation. After extended aon!éun with Pres- h& Hoover, aecre umzon and the Amer- _ huded by Hugh 8. Gib- M‘l\lm. and Hluh favored W the hnd ‘Under uxll armaments L3 ;S FifE Tt worid rest sea or air the %m.m on £ is expected “l-'tlnm at he has had e American _policy. today, WO TRANSNATION H R Miss Laura Ingalls and Robert ' Buck Set Merks for Flying Time. Wy the Associated Press. : NEW YORK, October 18.—Two new franscontinental air speed marks were -hmnud today, one by a boy of 16| the other by a young woman who M held records for barrel rolling | hm‘ was Miss Laura Ingalls, lt Roosevelt Field with a time of 25 hours and 35 minutes from Los Angeles. A little later Robert dropped down at the Newark Air- 23 hours and 47 minutes in lea Los Angel 'k beat the junior record mace re- friend, Eddie Schneider. Ingalls didn't beat any record be- no woman had ever made an recorded flight from the West o but she uflhllshcd a mark en to h! back wflh him the for both west and east Miss Ingalls would have records, too. if she had not had jon. 30 hours and 27 min- she had time to turn back Mrs. Keith Miller | to 25 hours and 44 ! d et 'gééég i junior and woman's records computed on flying time basis as is done in the open record, | elapsed time The Ingalls and Buck d . times are ronsiderably more the flying times since both h'::m overnight on the way in g 3 ashington sculptor. ‘mmaemdwgeonmwnmgmub- . 'AIR RECORDS MADE! M Carrying into exccution an idea conceived some years ago, the Twenty-year Club of Woodward & Lothrop yes- terday unveiled 2* ™~ 'aunched the establishment. TABLETS UNVEILED TO STORE PIONEERS S. W. Woodward and A. M.’ Lothrop Honored by 20- Year Employes. Bronze memorial tablets in honor of | Samuel Walter Woodward and Alvin Mason Lothrop, founders of Woodward & Llothrop, were unveiled in the de- partment store building of the firm yes- terday morning by members of the unveiling ceremony Wwas con- in the presence of the heirs of members of the club, approximately 130 em- | flm who have worked otnmn.lnflothfllm- | 'l"he’whleu were designed by Carl g Mose, ‘The com- W. B. Willhm Davies and WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN RADIO AUDITION ss Florence M. Yocum and Leonerd R. Davis to Represent Capital in Contests. | Miss Florence Marguerite Yocum of | 1324 Newton street northeast, soprano soloist of the Immaculate Conception | Church choir, and Leonard R. Davis of 712 Pifth street northeast, a baritone, who is secretary to the Assistant En- | gineer Commissioner of the District, were announced last night as winners of the District of Columbia finals in Miss Ina Marie Holtscheiter, soprano. soloist of Trinity Methodist Church, and Edwin Charles Steffe of the National Cathedral choir, were given second awards. Miss Yocum won last year’s audition also, and Davis won in 1927. Both will receive silver medals and will go to New York November 19 and 20 as guests of the Atwater Kent Foundation, champions of Middle Atlantic and New England States will contest for repre- sentation as national finalists. The natfonal finalists, a young man and a young woman from each of five geo- graphical districts, will share in the $25,000 cash awards and the musical | scholarships given by the Atwater Kent Poundation. The announcement of the result of | the audition came after the official tabulation of the votes of the radio audience who heard the audition, and the judgment of the board of profes-| sional judges selected by Dr. Albert W. Harned and the members of the Dis- trict of Columbia Committee. In addi- SAYS GERMAN AWARDS TO AMERICA ASSURED . 8. Counsel to Mixed Claims Com “maission Returns From Hague "\ ‘With Optimistic Report. . 4 Assoclated Precs. Yon.x October 18 —Robert counsel for the American lves. on the Mixed Claims sion, returned fodsy from The assertion thst the smeu is vlnu-uy assured of an ot uos.mm In its cases tion to Misses Yocum and Holtscheiter | and Davis and, Steffe, the contestants were Misses Aurelia Beck, cortralto, the Fourth National Radio Audition. |advise ‘a~g these bronze tablets in memory of Samuel Walter Woodward and Alvin Mason Lothrop, who —Star Staff Photo. WIFE SLAIN WITH HAMMER | Florida Carpenter Confesses Mur- der in Auto During Quarrel. CLEARWATER, Fla., October 18 (#) —E. E. Jeffcoat, a carpenter, confessed to Sheriff Roy Booth here today that he beat his wife to death with a ham- | mlfl;, ttlurlnl a family quarrel Tuesday night. Ehe was found on a highway with her head crushed and died in a hos- pital here soon afterward. Jeffcoat disclosed in his confession | that he and she quarreled while riding in an automobile and that he struck her several blows with the hammer and left her lying in the road. A1 s BUREAU TO WEIGH SCHOOL EXPENSES - Extra Hearing Nearly Com- pletes Consideration of District Budget for 1932, Consideration of the District's items, which will be taken up during | the week beginning tomorrow. An extra hearing was called yesterday in order to get everything | except the school items lx!mpleud It | lasted until after 6 o'clock. Maj. iel J. Donovan, District auditor lnd budget officer, was the only District government representative to attend the extra session. The 1932 budget for the District is said to require an expenditure of $48,.- 500,000, which can be met, according to present regons, without changing the tax nu of $1.70 per hundred on real nnd perscnal property and without get- |ting & larger contribution from the Federal Government than the $9,500,- 000 contributed for the District’s ex- penses during tbe current fiscal year. According to the program, hearings on the District budget will be compleu by October 27. 'l'hey -hned Omb!l' u.s. DELEGATION SAILS NEW YORK, October 18 (#)—Amer- ican delegation to the Pr;pl tory Con- ference of the League of Nations, which convenes at Geneva on November 6, sailed todly on the Leviathan. Among members_are Hugh S. Gibson, Ammdar to Belgium; Hugh Minister to Switzerland; Col. George V. Strong, military Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Sec- retary of Commerce, and Hoffman Phillipi, Minister to Norway. I Audition Winners I and Helen Dalby, soprano, and Blainc | comwu) ir. barifone. The Judges of the contest were Mrs. Nellle Wilson ! Shircliff, Miss Jessie’ MacBride and Miss Maude Gilchrest Sewall. et FEDERAL FARM BOARD PARTIALITY IS ALLEGED Live Stock Marketing Organization Head Charges Discrimination in Refusal to Lend Money. By the Assoclated Press. -uummmnnhe $305,000,- | *&h"dhfln nited States for toward live stock selling Nal side the National Live St Association to lend money for feeding pur- 1932 | budget by the Budget Bureau was com- | leted yesterday, except for the school | 1S, WOULD RECALL VARE CASE APPEAL Asks Supreme Court to Dis- miss Motion Affecting T. W. Cunningham, ‘The Supreme Court was asked by t.he | Government Friday to dismiss 1 for a review ol the Circuit Coun er that Thomas W. Cwiningasmw of Philadelphia, under indictment for ton- tempt of the Senate in the Vare esde, discharged from custdy. The motion was made in the form of a “suggestion of abatement,” after a error had been discovered in the appeal, in that it had been brought in the name of a former United States marshal rather than in that of the in- cumbent. Witness Not Released. Should the Supreme Court follow the suggestion of the Government if is understood this would leave Cunning- senatorial campaign of 1926, but re- fused to answer questions as to the source of this money. A Federal grand jul’y here indicted him 1or oonumm. of the Senate. Habeas corpus proceedings in the Federal Court at Phflldzlphll were unsuccessful but the Circuit Court of Appeals ordered his release. Questions Not “Impertinent.” It held the questions Cunningham refused to answer were not impertinent to the Vare investigation and uut his refusal to answer them did not consti- *Tne Gover appe ernment’s al ed the Supr:me Court to review thugu and argued that to allow the ruling of the Court of Appeals to stand would estab- lish & harmful precedent. The action of the Court of Appeals was taken after the Senate had voted to refuse Vare a seat. e o s CHILD CONFERENCE WORKERS PRAISED Women's City Club Hears History of Movement Inaugurafed by Hoover, ‘The work of the White House confer- °nce on Child Health and Protection, and the history of the movement which brought on the study now being con- ducted by the foremost experts on the subject in| the country under the official sanc- | tion and at the in- | stance of President, | Hoover, was ex- en's City Club ll forum yesterday . noon by Martha Van Rens- selaer, professor of home economics at Child Health con-Miss Van Rensselaer ference. “Not since the World War,” declared Miss Van Rensselaer, ‘“when Mr. Hoover rallied the volunteer service in the food administration of the country, has there been a group of experts whose work evinced so much sincerity of purpose, and who have made so large a contribution of time and ability | o, this cause of little children. “Not since the World War has there perhaps been a conference which will 80 help to throw the light upon vexed modern - problems and - conkribute so much to their solution. 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