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The Foening WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER OUTSIDE, PUPILS COSTD. C. SCHOOLS| | cotee st S1T84 A YEAR Tabular Statement Made to Carusi Shows 71 Out of 2,477 Pay Tuition. Manner “Betty Co-Ed” and her roisterous col- lege boy brother have survived without casualties another searching investiga- tion of their morals and antics and the manner of life in their far-flung soror- ity and fraternity houses. This time it was a survey of all phases of college life in 52 institutions of higher learning—including such large units s the Universities of California, llinols, Ohfo and Minnesota and Mas- sachusetts Tech—conducted by the United States Office of Education. It SENIOR HIGHS HANDLE MOST NON-RESIDENTS gressional appropriation to meet ex- penses and included all the land-grant Buildi Could colleges, w}l:elch teeellvso annual tlul:;- tary Building Could | dies from the Federal Government. Al- Heydin ey i together they enroll 164,000 resident Be Built Annually on Loss, students. The report, just issued, gives its only Board Told. slightly qualified approval to the frater- nities and sororities as they exist today. b"l"‘l'nt:y );nve." xlt nysih":nomm;: poul& The District of Columbia is providing es for value to their members an to the college community.” But it urges approximately $217,854.82 yearly for the | 2 08 O wg:km‘ mm{;emm Betuon education of pupils of other States. them and the college authorities. This is revealed in a tabular state- Bugaboo Now Respectable. ment issued by the school statistical| .o “lll P T LT orted, office at the request of Dr. Charles F.|«there are activities which the college Carusi, president of the School Board, g‘ot‘e:l not uncuorn. ’I‘k‘leze1 ":udl-n;ze' a:::- which shows that out of 2,477 non-resi- | tivities range from individual 5 dillos to the subrosa meetings of reg- dent pupils attending District schools | b 2% 0 16 VR IIVE pecome important only 71 pay tuition. The remaining|enough to join with similar groups on 2,406 non-resident pupils are exempt g‘ther tt;,allx‘n‘)l:uses .rxld trlfleg.t a semblance nal organization. under Federal tuition laws applying to | Of Betional ores o zound: thiat 4ie the District schools, either because their | gorgt’ of these are losing ground or have parents are Federal Government em-| disappeared altogether. The famous ployes or in the military service or|T. N. E., bugaboo of anxious fathers otherwise employed in the Distriet. and college presidents of a past genera- If the tuition-exempt non-resident |tion and whose organization “was for pupils paid the cost of the education |the wildest kinds of indulgence boyish they are receiving in tuition, the Dis- { minds could conceive” now has become trict school system would have «nough [ a recognized and respectable Greek money annually to build a ne¥s ele- | letter fraternity, the report points out. mentary school, or if the District saved | It no longer is a secret national society was started in 1927 with a con- | the tuition for a two-year perfod it would be able, with the additiow of a few thousand dollars of its own, t0 erect a complete junior high school with ac- commodations for 700 pupils every 24 months. An eight-room elementary school building without an auditorium can be erected for $130,000 to $140,000, while & 16-room elementary school with combination auditorium and gymnasium would cost between $225,000 and $250,000. Practice of Construction. Under the practice of constructing elementary schools in independent units of eight rooms, it would be entirely possible, school officials point out, to erect a complete elementary unit every year out of the funds not paid the Dis- trict by non-resident pupils. While the school statistical office table shows that the schooling provided non-resident pupils costs the District $217,854.82, the actual revenue derived from the 71 pupils who do pay tuition is only $6.488.36. Thus, the District provides $211,366.46 wcrth of educa- tion to non-resident pupils at no cost wT"::ml' t f non-resident argest group of mon-i puplls attend the senior high schools. Of the 878 State children in these schools, only 34 pay the $122.62 an- ‘ nual tuition. Thus, while $4,169.08 is the total revenue provided by non- resident senior high school children, the cost of senior high school educa- tion that is given State residents is $107,660.36. Similarly, of the 839 non- residen; elementary school ehildren, only nine pay the tuition fee of $71.52. ‘The District, on the other hand, pays $60,005.28, while it receives only $643.68 for this learning. Four of the 33 non- resident teacher-college students pay the $195.36 per year, so that while the cost of this education is $6,446.88, the total revenue paid by these students is $781.44. Junior High Situation. The same situation exists in the Junior high schools, where 8 out of 389 ils pay the $96.90 annual tuition. m revenue paid by non-resident junior high school children totals $775.20, while the total cost of junior high schooling afforded State children here is $37,694,10. The total cost of- vaca- tion school tuition for mnon-resident pupils is $881.64, while the total revenue peid is only $42.66. This small per- centage of the cost is paid by 9 of the | 186 non-resident pupils in the vacation school. Seven out of one hundred and twenty-eight non-resident pupils at- I the $10.90 tuition fee for these The total cost of night school tuition given State residents is $1,395.20, while et ‘:‘g&ua by R. W. were 2 accountant of the schools, made by the president of the board two weeks ago. They Te) t conditions as of January 1, 1930, and indications at present are that the current figures show an even greater outlay of money by the District school system for the education of non- resident children. These figures, which were presented at the Board of Educa- tion meeting late yesterday, were re- ceived by the board almost at the sam= time that Representative Robert G. Simmons of Nebraska testified in the hearings on fiscal relations between the District of Columbia and the Federal | Government that the Wistrict is at- tempting to “squeez:” money out of the Pederal Government. Holt, at the AUTOPSY ORDERED | IN WRITER'S DEATH| Roy Wesley Hinds, 43, Expires Suddenly in Taxicab on Way to His Home. An sutopsy was ordered at the Dis- trict Morgue today on the body of Roy Wesley Hinds, 43 years old, a fiction writer and former newspaper man, of 1204 Sixteenth street, who died sud- denly last night in a taxicab in front of the third precinct police station, A taxi driver, Joseph A. Clements, of 621 Rock Creek Church road, was driv- ing Hinds to the Jefferson apartments at Sixteenth and M streets when he be- came alarmed at the condition of his uu:uer and rushed him to No. 3 in- stea Hinds apparently died as the car reached the police station. Fire Rescue Squad No. 1 was called, but efforts to revive the man were futile. Mrs. Dorothy F. Hinds, the widow, was left destitute with a baby boy by her husband’s death. Bhe sald she had only 86 in her home, with no relatives or friends to care for them. The Hinds District night _schools pay | ports = schools. of “good fellows” whose membership cut across fraternity lines. Although not so well known, colleg2 girls had a sister organization even more reprehensible. This was known merely as “X” or “Chi,” its membership was a dark secret, and “its initiation ritual violated every canon of decency and good taste.” But it apparently has disappeared altogether. Groups Dissolve Easily. One type of present day “wild cat” activity, says the report, “is the culti- vation of pseudo-intellectual grou interests. Its members are apt to call themselves the intelligentsia and to look down on the bourgeoisie and prole- tariat, their fellow students, who do not rebel at every sign of social convention or authority. These grou are very loosely knit together, as is vitable in the case of groupings of such indi- vidualistic personalities. The only thing that seems to remain is th> feeling of suj rity. Since they are superior r:ot only to all those outside but to each other the bond of union is very weak and, fortunately for the rest of the col- lege community, the groups dissolve quite easily. Apparently the vast majority of the students in colleges to- day are little interested in revolt. “Another type of wildcat activity which has little organization is that of the gambling and drinking fellowship. ‘This group has always existed and mb- ably in proportion is no larger today than it ever was, althcugh in actual numbers it may have increased with the increase of the student bodies. For “Betty Co-Ed” Found O. K. ts Survive Without Casualties, Search- ing Investigation of Their Morals and of Life. the most part members of this group are not long-lived in the college com- munity, so it tends to’ disintegrate rapidly. The only harm is to the mem- bers themselves.” s to the recog- The report then t nized Greek letter orfanizations which, it points out, “for the past 25 years have been under fire in the legislatures of many States,” largely because of their alleged undemocratic character. The attitude of college heads towards these organizations was found to range | from “supreme approval to utter in differance.” “Rushing” Tactils Condemned. “I wish every man and woman on my campus belonged to a fraternity or so- | rority,” wrote one president. But others refused to accord them any official rec- ition. m';'he “rushing” tactics of fraternities are condemned. These ccnsist, the re- port states, “of competitive entertaining and display, high-powered salesmanship and often underhand methods to dis- parage rival fraternities engendering distrust and mutual hard feelings on | the campus.” Among_sororities, the report reveals, a new pledge method has been estab- lished in many colleges. All the sorori- ties furnish to a neutral liaison officer a list of all the freshman girls they wish to pledge. Without revealing these lists, the liaison officers asks every girl whose name is included on any of them to give in order her preferences of the organizations she would like to join. If the liaison officer holds a “bid” for her from the sorority first on her own list, he forwards it to her. If her sec- ond choice has asked for her, but not the first, she is sent that. Only one bid goes to one girl. It was found that the scholarship of fraternities is improving. At the same time the investigators found still sur- viving the quaint old college idea that poorness of scholarship and success in after life are in some way positively related, that the student gets the real values out of college activities and that the best thing to do with the minimum that must be learned to satisfy the professors is to forget it as soon as pos- sible. Solve Housing Problem. ‘The fraternities, it is stated, take the difficult job of housing students off the shoulders of the institution in many cases. Here, it was insisted, the col- leges and the fraternities should work together to keep up standards. “Institutions frequently reported,” says the report, “that the students’ rooms were unclean ‘and disorderly, that sleeping quarters were crowded and un- suitable for group life, that the fire haz- ard was very great, and that the storage ‘md preparation of food was unsani- ary.” ‘The survey also included the social activities of the college men and women and reports show, it is stated, “that students are just about like people out- side college who make up the population at large. Drinking was listed as one of the difficulties in 26 of the institutions reporting. Extreme or improper danc- ing was listed by six and the attendance at town cafes after the dances by 11. The going to roadhouses after college dances was spoken of in a number of reports as were the stag line, with- drawal from the hall to cars during dances and auto riding after dances. Dark or moonlight dances were men- tioned by two or three institutions and discourtesy to chaperons seemed to be & fairly common complaint. BREAD PRICE DATA GIVEN T0 CAPPER Bakers Say Distribution and Labor Cost Bar Cut in Charges Here. Manufacturers of bread and bakery products in Washington today furnish- ed Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict Committee with information pur- to support the contention that, less of what happens to the price of wheat and flour, the price of bread cannot be lowered appreciably in Wash- gton. Senator Capper, who is gathering in- formation about the manufacturing and e&hmfl?m wh ':;ndl Dflg with & view learn] mfl' the decline in wheat has been reflected in the price of bread to the consumer, was told today that wheat prices have very little to do with the price of bread in the Capital. Capper Bares Complaints. Announcing the inquiry, Senator Capper sald vesterday it complaints had been made to him that “although | wheat is selling for about half of what | it was bringing a year ago, bread s | about the same here. | Admitting this statement to be sub- stantially correct, the larger bakeries 000 informed the Disirict Committee today | that manufacturing and _distribution | costs in Washington are higher than | in any city in the United States, for | the reason that every element of labor | in the industry is organized. | Cost in Cities Compared. | ‘The standard price of bread here is | 9 cents for the pound loaf and 13 cents | for the 1}5-pound loaf. This price, the | bakeries told the commiitee, compares | with 10 cents for & 1-pound loaf in New | York, Detroit and Chicago, despite that | labor costs in those cities are more favorable to manufacturers than here. ‘With especial reference to the price of wheat, the bakeries furnished the committee with data purporting to show that other bread ingredients cost as much as a year ago, and that if wheat flour were furnished the manu- facturer as a gift it would still cost 4.57 cents to uce & 1-pound loaf, exclusive of wrapping and delivery. Several of the bakeries were can- Vi resterday and today by James Ring, clerk of the Senate Committee, who, at Senator Capper’'s instance, was ‘flven cost and sale prices and other a. Chairman Cl;:rer said he expected the matter would come up for discus. sion when the Senate District Commi tee meets some time next week. Several members of the Senate have spoken to him about the subject, he said. Senator Capper stated he had been informed there are some 5-cent loaves being sold here. family came here recently from New York City. Hinds was born in Midland, Mich., and came here about 20 years ago to work for several local papers. He later g:o up uflvgfif and entered University President Resigns. OTTAWA, Kans., December 4 (#).— The resignation of Dr. Erdmann Smith, president of Ottdwa University, here, was announced _yesterday, effective next June 30/ Dr. Smith sald he was not ready to announce his plans for the fu- . ONE HURT IN COLLISION Laundry Truck and Fire Depart- ment Repair Wagon Crash. pat hgmn of "tha Fire Departtaent r wagon o re Departmen! were overturned in a collision today at Tenth and B streets southeast. Harry Wood, 24 years old, of 620 Maryland avenue northeast, a driver for the laundry company, was uninjured. 1. J. Dalstron, 30, mem»er of the Fir> Department re v shop, receled A A PEPGO OFFICIALS DISCUSS NEW RATE Confer With Utilities Commis- | sion on Proposed Domes- tic Reduction. Officiale of the Potomac Flectric Power OCo. spent two hours this morn- | ing in discussing the proposed 1931 | electric rate with memboers of the Public Utilities Commission. ‘The power company proposes to re- | duce the domestic rates from 4.7 to 4.2 | cents per kilowatt hour and to make | numerous changes in the 12 other schedules, After the conference Maj. Gen. Ma- son M. Patrick, chairman of the com- mission, sald that the company's pro;:- sitions as to the other rates were in very tentative form and that after dis- cussion the company agreed to brin in another set of rates meeting certain suggestions made by the commission. Would Use Up Reduction Fund. If the domestic rate is reduced to 4.2 cents, it is estimated this will use up $330,000, approximately, of the $830,- reduction fund. ~The remnimnl’ $500,000 would be used for reduction of | the other schedules, which emhrace the various commercial uses as well as a go;'),t“uc schedule for uses other than 8! As to this Jast, Gen. Patrick said that the company proposes to make a sub- stantial reduction in order to popular- ize the use of electric ranges for cook- ing. The present rate for this service is 4.7 cents per kilowatt hour for the first 10 hours and 2.5 cents per ki- lowatt hour for all thereafter. who were present at the con- | ference this morning were Gen. Patrick and Vice Chairman Harleigh H. Hart- |man of the commission, Byars McK. Bachman, the commission’s account- |ant; President Willlam F. Ham, Vice | President 8. R. Bowen of the company |and A. G. Neal and H. A. Brooks of the company’s accounting staff. Commission to Hear Motions. ‘The commission arranged to meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon to hear mo- tions by People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech and William McK. Clayton of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations | attacking the present methods of set- | tling the telectric rates, which will be considered. Mr. Clayton wants the commission to | petition Equity Court to revise the de- cree under which the rates are now adjusted annually, so that 3; instead lof 14 of all excess profits above 7'z | per cent return on valuation shall be |used in the annual rate reduction. Mr. Keech is seeking to have the commission take into account the fact that after each rate reduction the com- pany's business, and consequently its profits, increase. If this were done, a greater reduction in rates would be made than is possible under the present interpretation of the decree. e Woman’s Purse Snatched. colored footpad snatched the purse . Mary T. Smith she was walking in front of her home, at 1107 Irving street, yesterday afternoon and dashed off. The bag coniained a small amount of monsy and raluab’e papers, Mre Smith te'd Bt TWO PERSONS DIE FROM INJURIES IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS Fireman Hurt in Collision November 21 Expires at Georgetown Hospital. NEVITT CALLS INQUEST; TWO MEN TO FACE JURY Colored Woman Struck by Car No- vember 19 Succumbs—Four Are Injured in Accidents, Pvt. Irving P. Hall, 42 years old, of No. 28 Engine Company, died at George- town University Hogpital last night from injuries received when an auto- mobile in which he was riding with his family was in collision with another machine at Wisconsin avenue and ‘Woodley road November 21. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt called an inquest for the District Morgue today and order:d police to summon Edward 8. Barrington, 31-year-old architect, of 1701 Sixteenth street, and James F. Meline, 20, of 1729 Kenyon street, to appear before the jury. Meline was driving the car in which Hall, his wife and three children were riding when the mishap occurred. He essayed a left turn into Woodley road at Wisconsin avenue when ths auto operated by Barrington struck his machine. Another Dies From Injuries. Another traffic death occurred today when Mrs. Jennie Jones, colored, 45 years old, of 90 Logan court, died at Gallinger Hospital from injuries suffered on November 19, when she was struck in the 100 block of K street by an auto- mobile driven by Harry S. Wilson, 35, of 3040 Vista street northeast. She was first removed to Sibley Hos- | pital and treated for internal injuries, | and was taken a short time later to Gal- linger Hospital. It is expected that an inquest will be called tomorrow. Four persons sustained minor injuries in accidents reported last night, while headquarters detectives arrested a col- ored man sought since Monday night as | the operator of a car which collided with another machine and hurt three persons, one seriously. Four Given Hospital Treatment. Those given hospital treatment in last night’s mishaps were: Mrs. Dora Weis- brod, 43, of Charlottesville, Va.; Mrs. Susie Kloss, 34, of 449 Fifteenth street northeast; her daughter, Louise Kloss, 10, and Henry B. Carpenter, 55, of Somerville, N. J. Andrew B. Conlyn, 18, of 1936 Thirty- fifth street, was arrested on a charge of passing a stop sign and forced to de- posit $25 collateral at No. 14 station as a result of the accident in which Cl.l'peA r‘nutr W;fl hurt. . ire truck company and Fire Rescue Squad No. 2 were called out to ex- tricate Carpenter after the machine in which he was riding was struck by Conlyn’s car at Thirty-fourth and Ma- comb streets. An alleged hit-and-run driver was booked at the sixth precinct as Law. rence Sylvester Robinson, colored, 21, of 1152 Thomas street, following his apprehension by Detective Sergts. Richard J. Cox and H. K. Wi N Robinson, according to police, was the driver of a car which struck an- other machine at Thirteenth and G streets northeast on Monday night and | injured three people, including an oc- cupant of his own machine. . OLD POINT COMFORT HOTEL PURCHASED Corporation Which Acquired Ward- | man Equities Here Gets Cham- | berlin-Vanderbilt. The Hotel Management & Securitics Corporation of this city, which recently acquired the entiré Wardman equity in a group of Washington hotels and apartment houses, announced today the purchase of the Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel at Old Point Comfort, Va. The purchase price was not disclosed. J. Reed Lane, president of the cor- poration, in making the announcement of the purchase of the famous Virginia hostelry, stated that T. B. Horner, resi- dent manager of the Grove Park Inn, at Asheville, N. C., would become manag- ing director of the Chamberlin-Vander- bile and the Grove Park Inn. George E. Allen is general manager of the cor- poration owning both these hotels. Charles Talbott, resident manager of the Old Point Comfort hostelry, will continue in his Presenl capacity, it was announced, while A. N. Barnett, now assistant manager at Grove Park Inn, will become resident executive in charge of the Asheville property. The name of the Chamberlin-Van- derbilt will be changed to the New Chamberlin. TO MEET oy Catholic Mission Crusade Unit to Admit New Members. ‘The Vaeth Unit of the Catholic Stu- dents' Mission Crusade will hold its monthly meeting tomorrow evening at the home of Edward McLarney, with Lawrence Peifer as co-host. Following the business meeting there will be a ceremony conducted by Richard Roberts and Edwin Hinkle to administer degrees to the following pledges: Edward Coffey, Nellie McCor- mick, Katherine McGlynn, Catherine Greenwald, William Monahan and An- thony P. Schmitt. , Star 4, 1930. PAGE B-—1 Miss Gladys Macafee (left) and Miss Edna Luginbuhl, at the Abbott Art School, with the posters with which they won first and second prizes in the local contest conducted by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women. The posters now will be entcred in a contest in New York, —Star Staff Photo. §1,500 L0OT TAKE INROBBERY SERIES Clothes; Cash and Jewels Are Stolen From Stores, Homes and Apartments. Burglars looted stores, residences and apartments of wearing apparel, cash and other articles valued at approxi- mately $1,500 in a series of robberies that kept police and detectives throughout the city busy with investigations late yesterday and last night. In the apartment of Mrs. Helena Kim- ball, 3621 Newark street, where a du- plicate key was used to enter, jewelry worth $328 and a jewelry box, contain- ing & small amount of cash, were stolen. Three rings and $12 in cash were taken from the home of Joseph C. Letts, at 5420 Connecticut avenue, by & jimmy thief, who entered the apartment dur- ing Letts’ absence yesterday. A dia- mond ring valued at $150, a $100 pearl earring and a wedding ring were in- cluded in the loot. Ax Used to Smash Door. Smashing in a panel of the rear door with an ax, soms one entered the At- lantic & Pacific Tea Co.’s store, at 521 Eighth street southeast, and stole $153.73 in money, hidden in various parts of the store. The apartment of Kenneth Harvey at the Park Lane, Twenty-first street and Pennsylvania avenue, was robl of jewelry and wearing apparel worth $118. James Selmon of 622 Twentieth street. northeast told police his home was entered by a duplicate-key thief last night and a wrist watch, sweater, shirt, lumber jacket and $7 in cash were stolen. Some one smashed in the door of an | apartment at 1835 Sixteenth street with an ax and stole clothing worth $26, while an apartment at 3145 Mount Pleasant street was robbed of $30 worth of wearing apparel. \ Grocery Store Looted. A Sanliary Grocery Co. store in the 1400 block of P street was looted of $30 worth of supplies early yesterday, while $12 in cash was reported stolen from the cash register of a barber shop conducted by Lawrence M. McVeary, in the 2500 block of Mills avenue north- east. The parked machine of Harold L. Skeah, 400 block New Jersey avenue, | D06 SHOW ENTRES SET RECORD HER Champions From All Sections Are Among 650 Which Will Vie for Honors. ylelded $25 worth of laundry to some | one yesterday while standing near the | Skeah residence. Fifteen dollars in change and several suits were taken from the Eiseman Clothing Co. store at Seventh and F streets by burglars who sawed the bars from over the fire escape to gain ac- cess to the establishment. Twelve chickens, worth $15, and six | hogs, valued at $40, were stolen from | the barn of Phillip Sanford, at the rear of his home, 110 Portland street southeast, and a thief, who apparently reasoned that his loot might sound an alarm and spoil his plans, ‘'wrung the necks of 13 chickens and a rooster, in an invasion on the chicken coop of Mrs. | Minnie J. n, 21 Channing street northeast. Editor of Treaties to Speak. An address on “Some Early Treatles in the Senate” will be delivered by Hunter Miller, editor of treaties of the State Department, in an address Mon- day night at 8:15 o'clock before the student body of Columbus University School of Law. He will tell of numerous early pacts which guided the destinies of nations. Several other officlals of the State Department will be among the guests when Mr. Miller is intro- duced by Sefton Darr, assistant dean. MIX-UP IN PHONE PARK POLICE INSTEAD OF STORE Officer Balsgen Courteously Bargain Hunters. Keeping the parks policed and the police_parked is worry enough for Of- ficer Carl Baesgen of the United States Park Police headquarters, but an addi- tional bother has come into his life, with women calling up about dresses and what not—and it all came about through confusion in telephone numbers. Park Police headquarters has just in- stalled & new emergency telephone with | the number “District 3500.” It hap- pens that the telephone number of one of leading department stores s | L4+ 'milar, In thelr eagernes NUMBERS GETS Disentangles Calls of Eager to get the latest intellij newesf —y 3 % o t bargain in CI responding to the “Buy fair sex, with this new- and m dn:i system, slip a cog and g2t Park Police headquarters. “WIill you please delay the delivery of my new 1 today,” is the request fired at Officer Baesgen as he takes the receiver off the hook and. envisions a red ll:ll’ch upon the Whits House, a bed | City and New York by Eastern Air " |ident of the National Capital Kennel FAST DE LUXE AIRMAIL LINE | BETWEEN HERE AND N. Y. NEAR Postmaster General Brbwn Tells House | Committee Plan for Service That Will | See Letters Delivered in Few Hours. Expansion of airmail and nger service on the Atlantic coastal line pass- ing through the National Capital may result in creation of a unique de luxe | fast airmail service between the Na- tional Capital and New York, Postmas- ter General Walter F. Brown told the House Appropriations Committee during consideration of the postal supply meas- ure, it was learned today. The new service, which will be a com- bination airmail and special delivery service, Mr. Brown said, would make possible the delivery in New York before the close of the business day of letters mailed in this city as late as 12 noon or 1 pm. The Postmaster General said that he had been considering a charge of a minimum of 25 cents for this spe- cial service, which would cover both postage and special delivery. “It occurred to me,” he said, “that there might be some demand for a service of that kind between these very important cities, so that a letter could be delivered here in the morning from New York and the answer received in the afternoon in New York, or vice versa. I am thinking of trying it out.” Necessary Daylight Service. ‘The new. service will necessitate the flying of daylight service between this Transport, holders of the New York- Miami airmail contracts. Inauguration of three trips a day between this city and New York for mail and passengers, in addition to six regular airmail runs, now # being planned by Eastern Air Transport as & part of a tremendous expansicn in operations authorized by the Posi Office Department under the | terms of the Watres bill. | Nineteen new planes, all but three of which are multi-motored types, are be- | ing added to the fleet of Eastern Air ‘Transport, increasing it to 40 planes. This will be one of the largest commer- cial fleets in the country. The first step in the e lon program, which will increase the amount of daily flyhlg on the line from a little more than 5,000 miles a day to more than 10,000 miles, will be the extension next Tuesday of passenger service, now_ operating from New York to Richmond, on to Atlanta, — e e . R S With more than 650 entries, the | largest number ever recruited for a dog show here, a two-day exhibition will get under way at the Auditorium to- morrow. Champions from all sections will be represented at the show, which will be the first of sizeable proportions here since 1926. The show i¢ under the sponsorship of the National Capital Kennel Club in co- 8}”{‘"0“ with the American Kennel lub. Presentation of a “best-in-the-show™ prize will be made by Vice President Curtis at the conclusion of the show Saturday night. A feature of the con- cluding night will be a ‘“parade of champions,” which will include about 20 prize-winning dogs representing vic- tors in Nation-wide contests. Jiggs, 2nd, successor to the late fa- mous Marine Corps mascot, will, be brought from Quantico to Washington with a special Marine escort for the ! two-day show. He is being sent to the exhibition by Capt. N. M. Shaw of the Marine Corps, his custodian. Included in the long list of entries for the show is “Glads Guardsman,” a Dalmatian beauty, twice champion of Madison Square Garden shows and a victor in many other American contests. He will vie for honors with the Boston terrier entry of Joseph C. O'Hare, pres- Club. Other _specimens spaniels, foxhounds, greyhounds, point- ers, English setters, Gordon setters, Irish setters, whippéts, wolfhounds, col- lies, police dogs, Great Danes, Dober- mans, sheep dogs, airedales, bull ter- riers, fox terriers, Schnauzers, Scotch and Irish terriers, Sealyham terriers, entered include loose in Rock Creek Park, or a tagedy on the Potomac River. But Offiz:r Beesgen is a philosophical en—snd very courtecus, Chihuahuas, Japanese spaniels, Peking~ es>, Pomeranians, poodles, Schipperke:, ®ax~vs and Eoston terriers. Ga. This line will be extended within a month to Miami, Fla. An entirely new pessenger and mail line will be opened along the Atlantic Coast from Richmond, Va., to Jacksonville, Fla., at which points it will connect with the present inland coastal route, 12 Monoplanes Ordered. ‘Twelve twin-engined cabin monoplanes carrying eight passengers each have been ordered and six are to be delivered by Monday. All these planes will .be used on the runs from the Natinnal Capital South, landing at- Washington- 500\7& Airport as the Northern Tm] . Three giant 18-passenger twin-engined biplanes, the largest Dg:a in use in the Eastern United States, of which two have been delivered, will be used, together with a high-speed tri- motored type, between this city and New Ksfi'mm lgmo'fd thesa planes will be com| mail and service. iR L In addition the fleet will be increased by three of the latest type single- engined mail planes, cruising at 125 miles per hour with 1,000 pounds of mail. These will be added to the mail fleet for night operations. The National Capital also will be bene- fitted by a new working agreement be- tween two of the largest indcpendent Eastern airmail and passenger systems, announced today, which will result in co-ordination of schedules affecting 32,000 miles of flying each 24 hours. The effect will be to extend mail and this city into New England and Canada and south to Miami, the Gulf States, the Far Southwest, the West Indies, Central America and South America. The agreement, in addition to close tying-up of schedules, provides for joint :ld‘lltelrusm‘ and joint promotional ac- vities. First Great Expansion. The first great expansion of the serv- ice through this city will occur Tuesday, W] 10 multi-motored airliners will take off from this city and other points along the New York-Atlanta Al 3 bound for Atlanta and carrying more than 100 Government officials, business men, financiers and aviation executives. Three of the planes will leave New York Monday, spending the night here, They will leave here Tuesday. Formal ceremonies will be held in Atlanta. When the exranskm program is com- pleted there will be 14 flights scheduled daily for mail or passengers between ‘Washington and New York; 6 daily be- tween Washington and Atlanta, 4 daily between Atlanta and Miami and 2 daily over the new coastal route. is will call for a daily total of 10,500 miles of flying by this company alone. ‘When Eastern Air Transport’s expan- sion program is completed the National Capital will be the center of some of the most intensive commercial flying in the world. There will be 34 planes a day operating between this city and New York, six to Atlanta, two to Pitts- burgh, and two to Greensboro, N. C. In addition, Postmaster General Brown has rezomd to Congress, his depart- ment considering establishment of airmail service between the National Capital and Pittsburgh, to give this city a direct outlet to the West, with an extension of the line to Norfolk, Va. . Toy' Girl, owned by Mrsgesse Thorn- of Baltimore, which iSone of the coliten opening -+ wl 0 in the dog sl {rmo-row. v 'SENATE T0 DEFER ACTON N HOWELL DISTRGTORY LAV Wickersham Commission’s Report to Be Awaited, Leaders Announce. WOMAN WETS OPPOSE LOCAL PROHIBITION BILL | passenger service in both directions from | O Tydings, Mrs. Norton and Mis. Miller to Speak at Mass Meeting Tomorrow. Senate leaders have decided to defer consideration of the Howell prohibition enforcement bill for the District until the Wickersham Law Enforcement | Commission makes its report, but they have not sidetracked it for this entire session, it was learned today. ‘The Republican Steering Committee, which recommends the order of busi- ness, conferred with Senator Howell yesterday regarding his measure, which ‘would supplement the national dry law in Washington. It is understood those in charge of arranging the Senate .program felt it would save time if discussion of ques- tions relating to prohibition could be concentrated rather than hlvb',h(m taken up at different times. Awaits Wickersham Report. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, vice chairman of the Steering Committee, said there was a general dis- position to give the Howell bill a place on the program after the Wickersham report is submitted. ‘The Howell bill was one of several local measures reached on the unani- mous-consent call of the Senate calen- dar yesterday, but went over for later consideration on objection. The Howell bill ‘would extend pro- hibition enforcement authority to all members of the District police force and would broaden the search warrant provisions of existing law. ‘Women Oppose Bill. ‘The woman wets of Washington will jpose the bill, Miss Bell Gurnee, chairman of the District council of the Women’s Organization for Prohibition msre for M nfl'l‘nmc;d nw-gam ' nat rd E. gs of Mary- , Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey and Mrs. Carroll Miller, Democratic National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania, will speak at am anti-prohibition mass meeting, spon- sored by the woman's organization, to- morrow evening in the Masonic Audi- torium. “The Howell bill will increase law- lessness in the District,” Miss Gurnee said. “The District police have enough to do as ét is. If all of them are com- - pelled, in addition to their duties, to act as prohibition enforce- ment agents, as Howell bill pro- vides, it will mean that the District t under police esplonage, since they will be compelled to pry into private affairs of citizens.” l Miss Margaret Frazer is chairman of the committee in charge of the rally. CAPTAIN OF ANNA CHARGED WITH THEFT Accused of Taking Electrical Fix- tures From Another Boat in Channel. Capt. Frank Gianniano, lone dweller & subchaser in the Washington Chan- nel and once a lieutenant in the Aus- trian Navy, was held for grand jury action in Police Court today charged with grand larceny. He is accused of having taken elec- trical fixtures valued at $80 from the Hesper, another boat in the Channel, and the property of Robert C. Malsten, 1226 B street southwest. Police de. clared they found the appliances om Gianniano's rebuilt subchaser Anna. Gianniano did not testify today, but Lieut. Edward T. H"l:.:( of the harbor precinct told Judge ph Given that the Austrian informed him that a man whom he knew only as “Bill” put the fixtures on the Anna, and that he did not know that they belonged to the Hesper. ‘The former officer was represented by Attorney Albert W. Fox, while Michael J. Keogh prosecuted the case and re- quested a bond of $500. Court papers charge that Giannoni took the property November 13, It was said in court that several of Giannoni’s friends, one a foreign diplo- mat, will appear as character witnesses if it is held necessary in the Distriet Supreme Court. Giannoni came to Washington on his converted subchaser last Winter and has been living on his boat in the Washington Channel since that time. His visit to the Capital was made for the purpose of filing a complaint with Government officials against Coast Guard officers who, he sald, 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 save ings of $15,000 were exhausted. G bem C:fist Guard denine'd Giannoni cause he was suspected of ling ‘whisky, records ahop:. ea DEBATING HONOR GOES TO DISTRICT STUDENT, Al Philip Kane Awarded Prize by G. U. Law School Faculty in First Test. Al Philip Kane of the District of Columbia was awarded & offered by the Georgetown University Law School faculty to.the student ad- judged the best individual debater in the first of a series of debates held at the school late yesterday. Mr. Kane was not only the best speaker, but also was on the team which Deing Jack. Cnaries. Mevgar of West arles of Wi Vll'l!nll. The debate took the form of a case in rnate for Kane in final contest to be held at the end of term to determ the academic AR ine the 3 other participant in the first debate was Thomas Edward Stakem of Maryland. The test will be held December 18. TSI oy Miss M. Clarke of Glasgow, Scotland, has just_bequeathed ‘1?6.0“0 to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in her fother and grandf: