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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOveMBER 29 1930. HA N S I B e o conoress| UNSIGHTLY RUBBISHEMERY OUTLINES | LAW TO BE ASKED OF CONGRESS A—14 = ONE SIDE (F BODY.C LONE MAN OCCUPIES ONE TOWN CENTRAL AGENCY .. FOUND T0 BE MORE HUMAN THAN OTHER Studies of Palms and Brains Indicate Greater Advance- ment on Right. EARLY SPECIALIZATION HELD CONDITION’S CAUSE Bimilar Physical Traits Also Dis- covered in Some Higher Species of Apes. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ©One side of the body usually is more “human” than the other. Generally the left side has lagged a e behind in man’s ascent of the evolutionary ladder from a distant ape- like ancestor, it is shown by two studies Just reported to the American Associa- tion of Physical Anthropologists. In any individual, however, it may be the right side which remains a few degrees closer to the primitive, accord- ing to the accounts of these researches, | Just issued in the journal of the asso- ciation, edited here by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology at the National Museum. The first study deals with palm prints, and was made by H. H. Newman of the University of Chicago. The lines of the hand, it shows, have their hid-' meaning, although it is far from that credited to them by the gypsy palmist. They tell nothing of the future of the individual, but may reveal a great deal of the past of the race. Studies Prints of Twins. Newman studied the palm prints of 100 pairs of twins. Looked at super- ficially, the lines of the right and left palms seem to be identical, only re- versed. Closer examination, Newman reports, shows slight but significant dif- ferences, especially in the protuberance at the base of the thumb, which long ago was the heel of the forefoot of man's quadruped ancestor. “In general,” he says, “the left hands on the average and in most individual cases express their hereditary pattern and main-line characters in a more primitive form. Thus thenar patterns (the lines on the elevation below the base of the thumb), which are com- moner in primitive than in more spe- clalized races, occur much more fre- quently in left hands. The rule has extremely few exceptions, and these are nearly always correlated with other types of asymmgtry reversal. : “It seems clear from studies of primi- tive races and of anthropoid apes that the ancestral, or primitive, condition of the palmar main lines is one in which all or most of the lines tend to run somewhat parallel to each other and to the main axis of the hand. In a large majority of the cases of twins the left hand in one or several ways shows the more primitive configuration. In the few exceptions where the right hand shows the more primitive condi- there are other clear indications of reversal in other features of the Report Brain Research. Newman also concludes tentatively that the more “human” condition of the right palm is closely related to the much greater dexterity with which most persons can use their right hands. If an infant shows the more specialized lines on the left palm, however, it prob-| ably would indicate that the advanced and the lagging sides of the body have changed places in the individual, that he will be left-handed, and that efforts to train to use his right hand would be wasted. The other study, reported by Harold A. Cohn and James W. Papez of the Cornell Medical School, deals with the size of the “visual area” in the brain. ‘The two investigators studied 100 brains, including those of the late Helen H. Gardner and Dr. Daniel 8. Lamb of Washington. The visual area is a small space con- sisting of several differentiated layers of nerve cells partly buried in one of the deep folds of the cerebral cortex at the back of the brain. Here terminate many of the nerve fibers from the rods and cones of the eyes and here take place the mental process of “seeing.” Generally the left side of the cortex, the seat of intelligence, looks like a dupli- cate of the right. Each side controls most of the activities of the opposite side of the body, but right and left visual areas are connected, due to cross- ing of the nerve tracts, not specifically with the right and left eyes but with the right and left sides of both eyes. Concentrated on Right Hand. ‘The majority of cases, however, they found, show a greater development of the right visuo-sensory cortex. Cases where this was not true were charac- terized by other evidence of reversal. In some far-distant time, it is ex- plained, emerging man began concen- trating on his right hand for work re- quiring skill. This required greater concentration of the right sides of each eye and consequently more and intenser impulses were passing to the visual area on the right side of the cortex. Conse- quently this developed through exercise, or as a biological variation which be- came fixed hecause of its usefulness. “It is generally believed.” the report states, “that the left ‘hemisphere pre- serves the more ancient cciebral pot- tern and that alterations of this pattern occur most commonly on the right side in the brain of modern man.” Other studies, the authors point out, have shown that the back end of the left cerebral hemisphere often pre-ents features similar to those found in the brains of apes, but such features are rarely found in the right hemisn.: re excepting in that of a left-handed ner- son. This, it is stated, points to a defi- nite specialization of the two hemi- spheres, Even among the higher apes, it is shown, this specialization has been seen, though to a far less degree than in humans, leading to the speculation that the shift to specializat'on of one side of the body may have started be- fore man evolved. Ora scem to have definitely- righ and a right-handed gorilla brain has been examined. Furthermore. it fs pointed out, measurements by Dr. Hrdlicka here have thcwn that there are frequently difterences in the dimen- sfons of the skull on the right and left sides, indicating a difference in the size of the brain areas underneath. There are differences in the right and left face, ears, eyes, teeth, hands, feet and in many other features. TART AND TALENT CLUB T0 PRESENT THREE PLAYS “His Model Wife” Among Trio on Program at Parish Hall December 5. Med<l Wife,” “Ghost Hunter: and Incarnation Church, in the parish hall Sixteenth and Newton streets, Decemb r 5, at 8 p.m. Included among the players are Rob- ert Emory, Lucille Milne, Charles Pentz, Jdudith Wood, Nancy I'Anson, John Bra- Adams, Helen Adams, Mary , Albert Buynitzky, Constsnce ‘Robert sel, Ruth Fogle, . Miss mmaw L4 ‘Not on the Program,” three one- act plays, will be presented by the Tart and Talent Club of St. Stophen<¢ and District Co mmissioners Also Plan to Sub- mit Proposed New Traffic Legisla- tion in Short Session. The District Commissioners have ad- vised Chairman Capper of the Senate District Committee they expect to sub- mit some proposed new legislation at the coming session of Congress deal- ing with traffic problems and also to modify thla Borland street paving as sessment law. The city heads, who were requested by Senator Capper several days ago to send in any recommendations they may have have not yet transmitted ten recommendations, hut Commissioner Crasby and Engineer Commissioner Got- wals have held a brief informal confer- ence with the Senate Committee chair- men. Senator Capper said they men- tioned traffic and the Borland law as being among the subjects on which they were considering certain recommenda- tions to be made later. ‘Traffic questions have been the sub- ject of consideraie study in recent months by the Traffic Advisory Council and by the Trafic Committee. In ad- dition, the Commissioners recently re- ceived a lengthy report on trafic matters prepared by Prof. Miller Mc- Clintock of Harvard University. The suggestion for revision of the Borland law has grown out of the fact that property owners at various times have been victorious in the courts in having assessments under this law can- celed, for certain classes of property or irregular shaped blocks. Senator Cap- per believes the Senate District Com- mittee will hold public hearings on all phases of the Borland law before taking any further action on the subject. The Borland law has been opposed by local organizations ever since it was enacted. CHRSTAAS SEALS SALES ARE BEGUN First Returns Reach Office of Tuberculosis Association in Annual Drive. | Receipts from the sale of Christmas Seals started com- ing in this morn- ing, the early mails bringing hundreds of returns to the office of the Tuber- culosis Association, 1022 Eleventh street, where the work of combatting tuberculosis here centers. ‘The sale only got under way yester- day, and Dr. William C. Fowler, health officer for the District, was the first purchaser. A feature of the opening of the sale was the address lastenight over Station WMAL by Senator Capper of Kansas. Outlining the scope of the work of the | National Association for Prevention of Tuberculosis. and telling of its accom. slishments, Senator Capper bespoke sup- port for the seal sale. Following his talk he was photo- graphed with a costumed Santa Claus in the act of addressing Christmas Seal letters with the assistance of little 5-year-old Bobbie Kaemmerer, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. A. Kaemmerer, 2121 New York avenue. sy i C. OF C. COMMITTEE S BANQUET PLANS j i MAP! | Subgroup Named to Make Arrange- | ments for Anniversary Affair on January 29. | TGy | Initial plans for the twenty-fourth , anniversary banquet of the Washington | Chamber of Commerce were laid by a special committee of the chamber hav- ing the program in charge at a meeting yesterday at the headquarters of the or- ganization. Rudolph Jose, president of the cham- | ber, is honorary chairman of the com- mittee, while Charles H. Frame is active chairman. The following subcommittee was named to make arrangzments for the banquet: Time and place, Charles H.Frame; reception, Harry King and George A. G. Wood: speakers, Thomas P. Littlepage and Charles W. Darr; pro- gram, William C. Miller; 1 kets, George E. Keneipp and Charles T. Claggett; entertainment, Harry T. Peters; menu, H. A. Brooks; favors, Alfred L. Stern end Joseph D. | Dreyfuss; seating, Henry C. Cole and Ernest E. Herrell, and Dance Commit- Nich Leese; ticl ‘Walter Hinton. flower Hotel January 20, 1931. 'YOUNG BOYS FACE COURT AS RESULT OF SHOOTING police investigation into the shooting of Raymond Murray, 22-year-old la- borer, living on Canal road, n-ar Chain Bridge, yesterday. Murray received a slight flesh wcund have been fired by some small boys, hit him on the right arm. | charged with discharging firearms in the District, while two companions were later taken int custody and charged with carrying rifies. They were released | G, on $10 collateral each Murr-y was given first aid treatment at the Ge’rzotown University Horpital and then discharged. RAINY DAYS HAVE STYLES NEW YORK (#) —Even rainy da! have their fashions now, and the wo an who wents the “last word” in wet weather togs chooses hers of white rub- berized silk, clostng with a zipper fas- tening up the front, so that she is lock- ed in from the rai A brimmed brown | felt hat and leather-heeled brown shoes | The banquet will be held at the May- publicity, | Ausf J. Whelan and Martin A. | the | | | tee, J. Edward Heberle and Lieut.| Washington Channel | Pour young boys. the young:st 10 and | Giannoni's convert~ the oldest 14, were to be arraigned in along the Spe | Juvenile Court today as a result of a | ing aboard it a number of Ariieles Wi when a .22-caliber bullet, beli>ved t0 | is bein, Two of the boys were arrested yester- | has been liv day a short time after the shooting and | Washington whisky, PUBLIC GIVES AID IN EARLY BUYING Merchants Suppgrted in Their Shift of Shopping Period to Earlier Dates. The movement of Washington mer- chants to shift the peak of the Christ- mas shopping period forward to an earlier date this year than ever before is well under way in the Capital, ac- cording to a survey of Washington stores made this week by Ralph L. Goldsmith, chairman of the Shop Early, Mail Early Committee of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation. Move Already Under Way. Corresponding with reports received here from other parts of the country, the buying public already has indicated its support of the movement by turn- ing its attention to Christmas shopping during the past week, Mr. Goldsmith stated. “The idea was first conceived and launched by club women to place their holiday gift buying on a common-sense basis and eliminate much of the eleventh-hour hysteria,” the committee chairman declared today. Holiday Merchandise Stocked. “Action of Washington merchants in meeting this new popular demand with an earlier display of their full Christ- mas merchandise stocks has accelerated the movement in this city. Those who visited stores yesterday found complete stocks from which to make their selec- tion. The selling was under the guid- ance of regular store employes, who had plenty of time to give their customers adequate attention. “Survey by the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association last year proved to us that thousands of people liked the idea of making their gift purchases in November or early December, providing they could make their selections from complete holiday stocks,” Mr. Goldsmith sald. “This year Washington mer- chants, therefore, made this mer- chandise available several days in advance of former years. The result has been very gratifying to all con- cerned.” S sl AUSTRIAN SKIPPER IS HELD BY POLICE Capt. Giannoni to Face Grand Larceny Charges in Police Court Monday. Capt. Frank Giannoni, 58-year-old trian seaman, who filed suit against United States Government for $30,000 last June on a claim he had been “wretchedly treated” by thi» Coast Guard, will be arraigned in Police Court on a grand laerceny charge Monday | following his arrest on charges of rob- bing vesscls and boat houses along the Glannoni was taken into custody last Monday aft:r a series of thefts commit- ted by some one breaking into boats anchored in the Washington Channel and taking electrical appliances and other articles had been reported to police. Formal charges of grand larceny were not filed until today, however. Lieut. Edward Harney and members of his harbor precinct command visited th'y said had been reported missing rec_]r:gzly !ron‘| boats. e Austrian £ea captain complaine of being sick yesterday and wasp !akrg to Gallinger Hospital for treatment. He g held under police guard. Glannont came to Washington on his converted subchaser last Winter and ing on his boat in the e a)hxtl‘:l!lcsinae that time. vis e ‘Capital was el pital was made with Government officials against Coast uard officers who, he said, held him at Moorhead City, N. C., on a charge of failing to register at the customs house in that port. Giannoni declared his clearance papers were held up for 14 months, during which his life's say- ings of $15,000 were exhausted. The Coast Guard detained Giannoni because he was suspected of smuggling records show. STABLER IS CLEARED OF AUTO FRAUD GUILT complete a “brown-and-white” ensemble Indictment Nolle Prossed When that is smart this Fall. NAVY ORDERS Comdr. Rolond M. Brainard, detached command Division 33, destroyer squad- rens, batt’e fleet, to naval gun factory, Navy Yerd, Washington, D. C. Comdr. Francis Cogswell, detached command U. 8. 8. Pruitt to ccmmand U. 8. S. Alden. | _Lisut. Horace L. De Rivera. detached U. 8. 8. McFarland to U. 8. S. Arizona. Lieut. Burton G. Lake, detached com- mand U. 8. 8. 8-9 about November 18 to command U. 8. 8. 8-16. Dental Corps. Lieut. Carlton B. Morse (D. C.), de-| Pensacola, | !tached Naval Air Station, | Fla, to treatment Naval | Washington, D. C. i Warrant Officers. Boatswain Howard H. Branyon, to duty U. S. 8. Hannibal. Chief Redio Electriclan Benjamin F. » Schmidt, detached U. §. §. Bushnell about December 1 to Y. 8. 8. Raleigh. Redin Electrician Kirke G. Schnoor, to duty U. 8. 8. Wright. Padl, I ian E'mer H. Stelts, to Culy U. S. 8. Oglala. Asiatic Dispatch Orders November 23, Lieut. Ccmdr. Axel T. Lindblad, to submarine division, Asiatic. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Bow! , orders Oct Hospital, | tober 27 modified, to connection fitting out U. 8. 8. Louls- ‘conetance Fogle Hpren Vkéting Pay Clerk Earl W. Layton, de. iIce e . , G- | i Prosecutor Finds Accounting Was Made in Full. An indictment _charging larceny after trust against T. Ralph Stabler has been nolle prossed in Criminal Court, The indictment, returned Cctober 22, | charged Stabler with converting t» hi own ust $600 which he was said to have obtaincd from Jonethan G. Bige- low of 423 Fourth streat northe~st. The money was involved in the :ale of an automobile for the mutual benefit of the two. Di-irist A orney Leo A. Rover order-d the indictment nolle prossed after a subsequent investiga- tion revealed that the money had been paid in full previous to the indictment and that Stabler held receipts for it. Stabler lives in Baltimore. JUNE, SOUTH POLE FLYER, RECEIVES FLYING CROSS As a fitting climax to his historic flight over the South Pole just a year ago today, Chief Aviat‘on Pilot Harold I June was awarded th» Dictinguish'd Flying Cross this morning by Secretary Acams at the Navy D-partment. June is now on duly at the Naval Air Sta- icn, Anacost'a. Sccretary Distinguished Flying Cross upon Lic Wallac> M. Dilion, Licut. Richard F. hit>head and Photographer (First Class) William J. Murtha for their serv- ices with the Navy’s Alaskan aerial ex- pedition in 1926.° Murtha is nmow on duty at the Naval Air tion, Ana- costia. d subchaser, tied up | edway. and reported find- | purpose of filing a complaint | Adams also bstowed the ' t. HIT IN BILL DRAWN BY DISTRICT HEADS Vacant Lots Would Be Clean- ed Under Penalty of Fine in Proposal. OWNERS WOULD ERECT FENCES AT OWN COST Public Safety and Health Given as| Legal Reasons for Effecting Esthetic Results. Derelict automobiles and auto parts, old building material, and other un- sightly piles of discarded substances on vacant lots were the target of a bill approved by the District Commission- ers yesterday for submission to Con- gress for enactment at the coming ses- slon of Congress. ‘The bill, drawn up by Assistant Cor- poration Counsel Vernon L. West, pro- vides that where such conditions exist, ithe owner of the lot shall be given five days within which to remedy the condition. If he fails to do so, he shall, on conviction in Police Court, be fined not exceeding $20 for each day of the | offense. Authorizes Fencing of Property. ‘The act also gives the Commissioners the power, after proper notice, to in- | close the unsightly lot with a fence, and to assess and collect against the prop- erty owner the cost of bullding the fence, the assessment to become a cloud upon the title to the property in the same manner as assessments for road- way, sewer, sidewalk and other improve- ments which remain unpaid. In recommending the passage of the bill, Mr. West wrote: » “There is no doubt that where premises located in other than indus- trial districts or zones are used as a carting, express or hauling yard or generally for storage of material of any kind in the conduct of a business the owners and users thereof would be sub- ject to penaltie§ of the zoning law. However, even in residential districts, the mere existence of such unsightly vacant lots caused by the presence | { thereon of abandoned automobiles or other like material does not of itself constitute a nuisance, either public or private. So while the use of property generally in a manner offensive to the eye only cannot be regulated, yet when other elements are present calculated to infringe upon public safety, health or welfare, esthetic considerations may be coupled therewith and taken into | consideration in determining whether | action by the authorities could be had | looking to the elimination of such use.” | Esthetic Features Not Alone. In the proposed legislation the ele- ments having to do with public safety, health, etc., are taken care of by in. serting provisions relating to an un-| covered well, cistern, dangerous hole or excavation, and these, together with abandoned automobiles or other debris, are expressly declared to be “a nuisance dangerous to life and limb and to the | safety, welfare and convenience of the public.” No reference is made in the bill to purely esthetic considerations. ADM. NILES FUNERAL | T0 BE HELD MONDAY Services for Retired Officer Will Be Conducted at Fort Myer Chapel in Morning. ‘ Funeral services will be conducted in the Fort Myer Chapel here Monday morning at 11 o'tlock for Rear Admiral | Nathan Eric Niles, 82 years old, U.S.N., | retired, who died of pneumonia at the | home of his daughter,. Mrs. Joseph G. Walker, Woodberry Forest, Va. yester- day. Chaplain Sydney K. Evans of the Navy will officiate. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. A native of Wellsboro, Pa., Admiral Niles was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1868. He | reached the grade of rear admiral in 1908 and was retired in 1909. He commanded the Piscataqua dur- ing the Spanish-American War. He also had s®rved at various pests in this country and in Europe, and was gov- ernor of the Naval Home at Philadelphia in 1908 and 1909. During his early | career in the Navy he was with ti Darien Surveving Expedition. Admiral Niles is survived by two | daughters, Mrs. Walker of Woodberry | — e Forest and Miss Rosamond Niles of New Ycrkr VClL { {CAPT. FRED CORNWELL ’ HONORED BY POLICEMEN | Retired Commander of Fourth Pre- | cinct Given Easy Chair and i Smoking Set for Service. Capt. Fred Cornwell, retired com- mander of the fcurth precinct, was pre- sented with an easy chair and a smok- iing set by policemn cf No. 4 station {last night in aporeciation of his two s’ service in that disirict. The prescnttion was mede by Pyt ‘C A. Stroble ot the Cornwell residence, {4714 Eghth street, bofore a delegation of 18 biuecoats, who were entertained at the hcme of Fourth Precinct De- tective and Mrs. Robert Barrett after leaving Capt. Cornwell’s residence. The retired police officer will leave the Capital within a few days for Florida, where he will spend the Winter. EMPLOYES GIVEN VOICE NEW YORK. November 29 (A).—The New York Times says the employes of the Standard Oil Co. of New Ycrk have received a voice in the m:nage- ment and will assist in fixing compen- sation and working c-nditions. The precent plan includ>s only the mark~t'ng Cepartment, but it is under- stood, ihe Times says. that th> plan | may later be extended to the refinery | and other divisions. UNITED FRONT IN BATTLE FOR VOTE President of Society of Na- tives Says Civic Bodies Are Nof Chasing Will-0’-the-Wisp. OVERWHELMING SUPPORT EXPECTED FROM STATES Aims of Representation Movement Not Statehood, Speaker Declares. ‘Washington's responsible civic and business interests present a united array in support of the movement for na- tional representation for the District of Columbia, Fred A. Emery, president of the Society of Natives in the Dis- trict, stressed in an address on “Civic Responsibilities of Washingtonians,” de- livered last night over Station WMAL. “The great civic organizations of Washington back of this movement are not chasing a will-o-the-wisp,” he said. “They are enthusiastic about its | ultimate success.” Mr. Emery expressed the belief that when the issue involving national rep- ' resentation is presented finally to the States, with a clear understanding of all the facts, there will be an over- whelming response. Have Signed Petition. Supported also by the Republican and Democratic national committee- men, he pointed out, the organizations back of the Citizens' Joint Committee for - National Representation have signed a petition to Congress. “They do not ask for statehood, nor self-government, nor any change in the form of the municipal government of the District of Columbia,” he said. “All they ask is that Congress sub- mit to the States for ratification a pro- posed amendment to the Federal Con- stitution to authorize Congress to grant to the District of Columbia the right to be represented in the two houses of Congress, the Electoral College, and to have the same right as to suing and, being sued in Federal courts outside of | the District that the citizens of the| States have.” Washington'’s plight is unique, Mr.! Emery said. “It apparently means | nothing that Washingtonians this year contributed in national taxes more than 25 States have paid into the Federal Treasury,” he added. “Washingtonians paid it, but were vouchsafed no part in | determining the amount and kind of | these taxes or how these taxes paid by them should be expended. Their civic | response to every constructive under- | taki national or local, if not un- | paralleled in proportion, is at least un- | surpassed anywhere else in America.” Sponsors of Movement. Out of this denial of the rights of | citizenship in the face of obligations | imposed and gladly accepted, Mr. Emery pointed out, has evolved the increasing | movement for national representation for the District of Columbia, under the | leadership of the Citizens' Joint Com- | mittee. “The movement is now sponsored,” | he explained, “by the Washington Board | of Trade, the Washingion Chamber of | Commerce, the Merchants & Manufac- furers’ Association, the Federation of Citizens' Associations, the Society of Natives in the District of Columbia, the Association of Oldest Inhabitants and a large number of other organiza- | tions constituting the organized citizen- | ship of the District of Columbia.” Mr. Emery declared that out in the States, however, are found people every- | where who cannot understand why Washingtonians, shouldering all the ob- ligations placed on the rest of the people, have neither voice nor vote in Congress. Humiliating to Many. “It surprises strangers,” he said. “It humiliates nearly half a million people as patriotic as any group of citizens in | all the history of this country.” Washington's _ plight, Mr. Emery | traced back to the revolutionary days of 1783, when a group of the Continental ! Army, almost d:sperate, marched into Philadelphia {o demand from the Con- tinental Congress the pay due them. That incident, he said, built up that fear which led to the deletion of Amer- icanism in the progressive City of NSFORMS i | SOVIET TRA SIBERIAN CUSTOMS William J. Morden, Explorer, Ad- dresses National Geographic Society Audience. The red star of the Soviet is trans- | forming the desert tribes and river fish- | ermen of Siberia, William J. Morden, | explorer, told the members of the Na- tional Geographic Society during his lecture, “My Quest of the Saiga An- tolope ‘and the Long-Haired Tig'r,” in the Washington Auditorium last night. | Turkestan is now a country of “spe- | cialists,” that is, any man who is a day laborer calls himself a specialist, | Mr. Morden declared | Ol4 tribal lines and customs are being | brok>n’in som= respects, but the efforts | of the Soviet officials and educators to | eliminate\ private trading have made very little headway, Mr. Morden de- clated. Textile factori-s have made little inroad into production from small shops and hand looms. Bartering goes on as of old in the public squares and traders parade their horses before shaking hands in pump-handle style—the tra- ditional seal of contract. Only in the matter of the veil have the government officials made much headway. On the streets of Samarkand, the new capital, the young women of Turk-stan walk with their features ex- posed, although their younger sisters hide their faces. Finencally the new Asiatic republics ar> sound. In €amarkand Mord-n found, the Russ'an rub'e n at_tie same valus that it does In Moscow. New railroads, moter cars and American s°w ing machines are revolutioniz'ng among these once nomed and desTt| prople. i | Building No. The Federal Tre cengra‘v'ating 1 alarm yes<e" v foke—caused o'y of a cernenter te a fire alexm box The h~mr:~ring in Tempo ary Buil ing No. ¢ at Pightecnih and B str ncw the home of the commission since the structure at Twentieth and D streets | was burned down in the Fall, was dis- turbed by the clanging of the fire alarm. The janitors, the charwomen and other Federal employes who regularly take their place in the fire-fighting e C-mmf: tzday ‘hot a fire d “ui to b2 a the hamm-ring | °g up a s'gn near CARPENTER’S HAMMiER TEéTS U. S. EMERGENCY ALARM SYSTEM| Fire Squads Show Skill When Rush Is Made to Temporary 6 Positions. fzrce when an alarm is sounded went into p--ition just as if a real fire was brewing Car av C. Montg~m-~| tondent of ih~ United £t-t Yice, vho ‘s (herzed with vition of fh~ fire prote-ticn n Go-ern- mcn’. buildings, seid todey that the carpenter’'s hammer served a good pur- pos> in showing that the force is effi- cient in responding readily to an alarm. Capt. Montgomery made it clear that the District of Columbia alarm system was not cut {n on the summons for aid. ,_fuperin- T'ark Fo- 2 super- According to the 1930 census, Arune one man, Capt. John Wells, shown above, Chesapeake Bay puppies and their mot| be the only one-man town in the United States. del-on-the-Bay, Md., has a population of with a few cf his only neighbors, two her. Arundel-on-the-Bay is believed to —Underwood Photo. JEWISH RELIGIOUS BODY IN SESSION Divine Services Feature Pro- gram This Morning” of Teachers’ Association. . | Divine services featured this morn- ing’s meeting of the Second Annual In- stitute of the Jewish Religious School Teachers' Association of Virginia, Mary- land and the District of Columbia, which opened in the Eighth Street Temple yesterday afternoon. Following a luncheon, scheduled to begin in the Washington Hotel this| {afternoon at 12:30 o'clock, the associ- ation was to convene in session in the hotel this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The latter session was to be featured by a paper on “The Development of Jewish Character by Means of the Teaching of Hebrew,” to be delivered by Mrs. A. Lincoln Dembitz of this city. Group Conferences in Program. Group conferences will be held under the following leaders: Miss Shoshanns. Kramer of Baltimore, primary leader; Rabbi Charles J. Abeles of Lynchburg, Va, intermediate leader, and Mrs. J. O. Berliner of this city, senior leader. A dinner and dance will be held by the association at the Woodmont Country Club tonight at 7 o'clock, and the ses- sions of the institute will be brought to a close tomorrow aftern officers and the conduct of other busi- ness will feature the final session. Dr. Abram Simon of the Washington | Hebrew Congregation delivered greet- ings to the delegates yesterday after- noon and told them the City of Wash- mgt:n is an ideal place in which to meet. Out-of-Town Delegates Welcomed. The official addr:ss of welcome to out- bi-town delegates was delivered zt the ses.on yesterday by Joseph Salomon, | president of the Washington Hebrew | Dillon, president of the Mount Pleas. Congregation. Rev. Dr. Edward N. Calisch, presi- dent of the institute, described the or- | ganization as “an essential element in | Ida E. Kebler, secretary of the Advisor; the furtherance of instruction in Jew- ish religion in this district,” and ex- presscd the hope that the associatiop may grow and prosper. A paper was read at the meeting yes- terday by Samuel J. Priegal of Baiti- mcre on the subject, “The Develop- ment of Jewish Character by Mean iof Bible Story and Post-Biblical Hiz- tory.” Mr. interest in Jewish traditions and his- tory. and stressed the importance of character development. The remainder of the afternoon ses- sion was given over to group con- ferences. TWO ADDRESSES LISTED BY REPUBLICAN WOMEN Assistant Labor Secretary and Mrs. Wirtman to Speak at Meeting | Monday Evening. eter F. Snyder, assistant to the See- retary of Labor, and Mrs. W. Wayne Wirtman will "ad-ress the regular monthly mecting of the League of Re- publican’ Women Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Washington Club Seventeenth and K streets. The president, Mrs. Edward A. Harri- man, will preside. After a business session the league's forum will be turned over to Mrs. Allen Dougherty. Tea will be served follow- ing the meeting. It was announced that the league wiil reopen its social activities in De- cember, to continue until the Spring with a series of luncheons, teas an dinners. - 'SPENCER GARY DEAD Funeral Services for Native of Cap- ital to Be Held Monday. Spencer Gary, 36 years old. died yes- terday at his residence, 1214 Decatur street, after an illness of three weeks. Mr. Gary, a native of Washington. is| survived by his mother, Mrs. Walter L Gary. He is also survived by a brother william T. Gary of this city, and two sisters, Mrs. Emory Gary Morehead, also of Washington, and Mrs. Mattie Gary Vink of Baltimore. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 11 o'clock at the residence. Interment will be in Ivy Hill Cemetery Alexandria, Va. oon. Election of | Priegal urged the creation of | CITY LEADERS OPEN SANTA CLAUS LANE! Reichelderfer Switches on Bulbs Lighting Mile and Half of Fourteenth Street. | | A mile and'a half of electric bulbs | lining_both sides of Fourtesnth street, | from Fairmont street to Meridian place, | were switched on last night, officially opening the 1930 “San‘a Clause Lane.” The annual Yuletide featurs is spon- sored by the Columbia Heights Busi- | ness Men's Association. Commissioner Reichelderfer turned on the switch that set the highway aglow. Among the first to traverse the col- corful thoroughfarz af er tran:lormation into a street of carnival proporiions | was old Kris Kringle himsclf, c'ad in his. familiar costume cf red and white. Although in the bitter cold of ths bleak November nigh® he forsook the reindeer and sleigh so ind’ssolubly linked with his name and fame, for th> more com- fortable confines of a closed sedan, still thers were in the welcoming thrcngs which greeted him many cf his juvenie follow=r: D. C. Heads Lead Parade. Santa Ciaus' carriage formed the last | unit of a parade which wended its way | the length of the lane immediately fol- | lowing “its opening. The march was | headed by the Dictrict Commissioners and included members of the Colum- bia Heights Business Men's Associa tion, Maj. Henry G. Pratt. superintend- | ent of the Metropolitan Police Depart- ment, and Mrs. Pratt; t, and Mrs. Watson: Wiillam H. Harland, di- ' rector of traffic, and Mrs. Harland, to gether with representatives of a num- ber of trade, business and civic groups. ‘ These included Eugene Minoux, presi- dent of the Georgia Avenue Business Men’s Association; Milton R. Vollmer, vice president of the Georgia Avenue | Business Men's Association: Earl E.| | ant Citizens’ Association; B. W. Payne, president of the Citizens’ Forum of Co- | lumbia Heights, and Mrs. Payne; Mrs. ! | Ccmmittee of the Park View Citizens' Association; T. C. Downing, represent- | ing the Contral High School Commu- | T Center; Mrs. M. S. Young. execu- tive secretery of the Advisery Commit- tee of th> Park View Citizens’ Associa- | tion, and Col. E. L. Mattice, Boy Scout | executive. Yule Trees Line Street. Other units incluted in the parade were the bands of the Veterans of | | Foreign Wars, Linc:In Fost, No. 17, of | the American Legi-n; Central High | School . Cadet Pand, Boy Scouts, in | charge of Deputy Commissicner E. M. Perkins, and a_commuaity band, under the direction of Lewis F. Collins. A central feature of the gala affair was the giant’Christmas tree, brilliantly illuminated. More than 200 other | Christmas trees set up in half brrels line the street from one end of the lane t) the other. The electric lighting effects, in additi‘n to stretching along | | both sides of Fourtecnth street, aiso | extend westward en Irving street and on Park road. Store window dispiays and cecorations add to the festive at- | mosphere. | B. A Levitan s president of the; | association ‘sp nsoring the affair. whils | Wiliem F. Dismer was in ehsrge of arrargements for last n'ght’s celebra- | tion g e 20 -UP CLAIM » Why" -He Charged Robbery by Bandits, Is Report. DISCLOSED BY PDLICE'“ William W. Clubb “Doesn’t Know Atle WILL HANDLE.C. JOB AID APPEALS - iCo-ordination of Efforts Un- dertaken by Group Headed by Delano. ‘Y’ MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO HELP IN EMERGENCY Check-up on Conditions of Homes Sought—Help of Churches Also Requested. Co-ordination of all efforts to place the city's unemployed in positions is being effected by the District Commit- tee on Employment, it was announced today by Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the committee. Efforts are being made to have all appeals for employment fo through the central agency, the Public Employment Bureau, 480 Louisiana avenue, and to this end, all cards filled out in the unemployment registration conducted by the Committee on Employment have been turned over to that agency. The Public Employment Bureau, it is pointed out, has had long experience in handling this sort of work, is equip- ped with the best facilities and should handle the work ‘with the aid of all other agencies endeavoring to help un- employed find jobs. At the same time the committee ap- pealed to all members of the Y. M. C. A. to help in the present cmergency to find positions for those out of wr The employment services of the * hlave entered into the co-ordination plan, Of those who are home owners the committee asks that there be a general check-up of the condition of houses in the District and a general employment of men out of work on minor repairs cr cleaning around the house. Jobs which will greatly improve the appearance of homes and at the same time give men out of work an opportunity to earn some money are listed as follows: Carpenter repair, repairing and paint- ing fences, painting, indoor or outside; putting in concrete walks, repairing and painting screens, washing windows, scrubbing porches, cleaning and washing floors, installing new downspouts, clean- ing cellars, general housecleaning for women, laundry work, raking yards, cleaning garages, washing cars, remov- ing screens and awnings, firing fur- ll'lucel storing coal and whitewash cel- ars. ‘The committee also called upon min- isters in all churches of the city to call attention .to the efforts to co-ordinate all unemployment relief to clear through the Public Employment Bureau, and to print a nctice to that effect in their church bulletins. TWO STORES ROBBED | Thieves Get Ladies’ and Men's Clething in Night Hauls. Thieves broke into the store of Mrs Catherine Cole, at 1236 U street, and escaped with underwear, dresses and ladies’ hose vzlued at $90 last night. Police found that entrance to the nlace was gained by breaking the glass of the front door of the esteblishment and releasing the catch. Burglars also entered ‘the store of Louis Fradin, at 3607 Eleventh streel and made off with men’s wearing ap- parel valued at $15. THE WEATHER District of Columbia — Increasing ~ | cloudiness and warmer with lowest tem. perature about 30 degrees; tomorrow cloudy and wan followed by light rain; increasing southerly winds. Maryland-Virg.nia—Increasing cloudi- ness and warmer tonight; cloudy and warmer tomorrow, probably followed by light rain: increasing southerly winds. ‘West Virginia—Cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow; rain tomorrow nndh n extreme west portion late to- night. Record for Twenty-Four Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 25; 8 pm,, 31; 12 midnight, 18; 4 a.m,, 17; 8 am,, 15; noon, 217. Barometer—4 pm.. 30.58; 8 ‘pm. 30.68; 12 midn:ght, 30.74; 4 am, 30.77; 82; noon, 30.81. perature, 27, occurred at lowest temperature, 14, occurred at 7 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 37; lowest, 17. Tide Tables. (Furnished by Unit:d States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today—Low tide, 9:18 am. and 9:31 p.m.; high tide, 2:28 a.m. and 3:08 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 10:07 a.m. and :}052;4 p.m.; high tide, 3:21 am. and :58 p. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 7:05 am.; sun sets 4:47 pm. Temorrow—Sun rises 7:06 am.; sun sets 4:47 pm, Moon rises 12:27 a.m.; sets 1:32 pm. Automobile lamps to lighted one- half hour aftr sunset. Conditien of the Water. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers both clear this morning. ‘Weather in Various Cities. Stattons. 223333 Another faked hold-up report was uncovered by Headquarters Da2fectives Richard J. Cox and H. K. Wilson yes- | terday in an investgation imio the case of Williazma W. Clubb of 708 Sev:nth | street_southeast, who earlier in th day ~Galver told fifth precinct police that $42 had | bzen taken from him by two colored men n Navy place southeast. Clubb, detectives say, when questioned by Wilsen, Cox and Policeman Joseph G. Russell, dec’ared he had been drink- ing at the time and could not explain why he had made such a report to police. H> said that he had not lost the money, but on the contrary, “had ' just won a little on' the races.’ : badide Births Reported. The folfowing births have been re- portad to me «caliy D parument dur- CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, C:ntral High Schol P: Tezcher Assaciation, school, Tairt and Clifton strests, 8 ent- anth | Dance, Cmicron Chepler, Mu Sigme Fraternity, Shoreham Hotel, 10 p.m. [ ] | Meeting, Biolcgical Society of Wash- ington, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. | FUTURE. Lecture, Brahmchari Jotin, Washing- ton Yogoda Soelety, Champlain Apart- ments, 1424 K street, tomorrow, 8 p.m. a r and hcodore and Alma Leo i and Tszier W James Charleston; §.C. Chicego. Il incinnati, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio. 3 Columi Denve D! El Helena, uron, Indianapolis. Jacksonville, sas City. Los Al Loutsville, Miami, Fi New Orleans. New York, N. Oklakoma' Cit: Qmana, ' Neb Phe S8 & EEHEEREEE EEE " 28228388 SIS EE E P S - iadeiphia ... oenix. L SNgNeRIRIegRsaIs: gustsustusmansianys | smesnennagesnan Tamoa, Ila:. WASH, D. G = FOREIGN. (7 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) urrent observations.)