Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1930, Page 2

SCADD. FAE U1 ‘Gitizéns Do Not Specify Ex- ‘fent of Reduction Asked of Car Companies. T nearly two hours of debate, 1 ved, with amendments, Public Utilities Commission’s bill for or _fares for school children. ~of -voting osed. in the commission’s bill, resolution sought a “red: inistrative details, fixing of the fare, be left | the blic Utilities Commission. _A report on the bill, brought in by | E Lodge, chairman of the ittee on Laws and Legislation, to trouble almost befroe it was u Jame: o 0f the Tducation Cémmittee, interrupt- the reading of the report to demand it the bill be sent to his committee 38.the proper one to handle it. » Claylon Wants Bill. 3 MCcK. Clayton of the Public CTommittee demanded it for his mponmmmmtumrnm- “the bill for 20 years and had by acquired a right to it. While the _committee chairmen wrangled the report, it was discovered that as read was not the one by the Legislation Committee the re; was amended on the 0. include all children, instead of “&chpol-children. ;‘Ifl:?}: schools of thought devek;lped r e argument. There were those _who.wanted the benefits of the bill for all- ohildren, whether they attended school or not. Some wanted the bene- fits restricted to public scheol children; some to children on their way to and from school. One group, led by Edwin 8. Hege of Chevy Chase, opposed the “3-oent provision, and wanted either half : or undetermined reduced fares. 80 intent were the various delegates on their respective vi on the federation that many delegates e shouting at once, and confusion he federation declined, by a vote of to 21, to change to the Hare system of voting for members of the Citizens' Advisory Ceuncil, after listening to Walter J. Millard, fleld secretary of the resentation League, ex- the benefits of the system. ;. federation approved the Capper “Blll -guthorizing the establishment of providing small Joans for to exceed 12 per cent per District. An effort was & vote on the Commis- amend the Borland act d cost of street improve- <=- against abutting property :wrm;:l —consideration was postponed un next meeting to await a report committee on law and legisia- Clayton sought to have the adopt a resolution m?tm tor = pestic mm e Utllities Commission on m Tates of the Potomac Electric Co.,'and asking ‘commission A0 grant his request. i over “Dr. Havenner and A. L. Carruthers, ghairman of the federation’s Fiscal Re- Tpresent. the. federation at e s e n af ear- ipgs on fiscal relations between the Dis- w and Federsl Governments before Mapes Committee. CITIZENS FIGHT RACKETS to cope with racketeers by hopes of easy money. - A force of 250 citizen. " at . THREE PERSONS DIE, __ELEVEN INJURED IN " MOTOR ACCIDENTS (Continued From First Page.) dent to learn who owns the threshing machine “ONries Sherer, 69 years old, of 1109 -a-half street southwest, was injured when a wagon he was driving was in a collision with a ma- | chine driven by Miss Margare, Prances Stevens, 20 years of L h: northeast. impact t Sherer from the driv- or's seat. He was taken to Casualty tal, where he was found to be suf- from a possible skull fracture, double lacerations of the scalp and nu- merous cuts and bruises. C. Dewalt, 70 years old. of 1030 Seventh street southwest, was by an automobile while crossing the intersections of Sixth and 1 streets with members of his family. e was treated at Emergency Hospital. The driver of the car, it was said, failed to his identity. streets balking a quick t, Mrs. F. McCollam, 70 years ©old, of 1147 Fourth street northeast, Emy l%\:req when the automo- which was a passenger col- with another driven by Harold ntieth North through a window of the sedan was removed to Sibley Hospital she was said to be suffering from fracture of the right collar , several rib fractures, cuts and bruises. Bennett was uninjured. The which Mrs. MeCollam was riding @riven by her son, William E. Mc- Hurt Monday Night. “Miss- Harris, who lived at 3618 Wood- ward avenue, Pitisburgh, died from in- 22 years Baltimore, were killed instantly accident. bel Harris, 43 years old, of Harris' sister-in-law, Her condition | ied by Miss and Mrs. Harris S T e e 40-foot M and said today turday. Braum was symptoms were not Baltimore for a 2-cent fare, as | they have determined the cause of the W HURT IN CAR SMASH-UP i 3 . T ; MR. AND MRS. CARLTON H. SKINNER, Occupants of automoblle which was wrecked last night, killing Mrs. Melvin Danlels, a brid & few hours. The party was returning from Ellicott City, Md.,, where the Daniels had been married. Mrs. Skinner is in a serious condition. INDIANS KNEW “WHITE DEATH.,” SIMILAR TO BELGIAN EPIDEMIC Weather Bureau Files Shed Light on Fog. Flying Terror as Being Ice Particles in Wind. be caused by escape of war gases, cylin- ders of which were re ted buried by the Geermans in the neighborhood. With the meager information at hand, he sald, it seemed more probable that the heavy fog held in the valley had be- come. used with poisonous gases ’X-Sum e great industrial works near ege. Dr. Hrdlicka pointed out, however, that it is far from impossible for a virulent disease unknown to medical science to appear suddenly in & circum- scribed area and, having gained a foot- hold, spread over a continent. There is little doubt, he said, that the vast world of micro-organisms and filterable viruses responsible for so much human disease is subject to the same laws of evolution as the visible world of life. This leads to the presumption, he pointed out, that the micro-organisms themselves continually are throwing out new strains, some of which have potentiali- ties of terrible virulence. But these variations must struggle for existence, the same as variations among animals. Probably the struggle is even more intense. They must compete for food with the vast hordes of already established micro-organisms. Conse- quently they are wiped out before they have a chance to make themselves fit. May Explain Plagues. But, as among higher animals, occa- sionally & micro-organism variation may appear in circumstances to which it is better adapted than its rivals and sur- vives as a new race. Bome of the great plagues of history, he believes, may be explained by the survival of micro- organism variations. Thus, he pointed out, there is no evidence that the or- ganism of the bubonic plague which swept Europe in the Middle Ay WaS exactly the same as the organ! re- sponsible for this disease today. It may have been an especially favored variation which swept everything be- fore it for a time before the forces of evolution had organized to put it in its place. Eventually, for no known rea- son, the disease became far less virylent and then disappeared from Europe. Such an emergence of & micro- organism variation, he pointed out, would be expected to first show itself in a very limited area, such as that now swept by the fog fever. But, he insists, the evidence in the present case rather points to a chemical mixture in the air than to an unknown germ. FOG VICTIMS HELD WEAK FROM DISEASE AND ADVANCED YEARS (Continued Prom First Page.) seriously affected by the mist, were driven into the homes where they might be ted from the damp. families rushed to the homes of their neighbors to give one another aid and comfort in what some believed to be mysterious manifestation of Providence, and others thought was & new poison attack in some sudden war of mm‘:‘:’ had not heard. All stricke; RY’ THOMAS R. HENRY. The icy hand of the fog-flying “white death” may have fallen upon the vil- lages of the Meuse Valley. This semi-legendary malady, hitherto reported only in the United States and unrecorded in medical literature, re- sembles closely the mysterious epidemic described as having caused 64 deaths in the neighborhood of Liege during the past few days The United States Public Health Service a few days ago, it was learned today, received a request for informa- tion which baffled the cxperts. The unnamed inquirer wanted to know about the fog fever, pogonip, or white death. The surgeon general's library, one of the most eemgleu medical libraries in the world, falled to yield a single reference. Known te Indians. Then the Weather Bureau was con- sulted and search of the files showed old references to an obscure meteoro- logical condition known by an Indian name, "po{amp.“ and also as “the white death.” It was well known to some Indian tribes who used to flee before it, trying to hold back the death-laden yellowish-white mist with appropriate incantations. Nevertheless it is reported to have wiped out small tribes. ‘Whether this diagnosis might be ap- plied #o the Belgian endemic, it was pointed out, would depend on more exact information on the meteorological conditions which obteined in the chok- ing blanket of fog. Death presumably 1s caused by bf!lol‘lln' ice particles into the lungs. The ip itself is recognized by meteorol . “The white death” ac- companying it, if it is not altogether a phantom of the imagination, es- caped the attention of medical science. But, since descriptions of it would be pn in an un- have been it getting literature. Fog Perfused With Iee. extremely complicated, comes about under certain circumstances when warm air from a valley rises into & cold wind that generally is blowing lengthwise of the valley. The fog becomes perfused with extremely minute bits of ice which will penetrate the lungs without melting, causing & condition very similar to pneumonia. The single report of a scientific ob- servation of such a condition was in Washington, November 19, 1801. Whether there were any deaths is not recorded. There are un re- of the occurrence of the pogonip White Pine County, Nev, and in isolated areas of Northern Colorado, ‘Wyoming and Montana. It would not be apt to occur in any place where the stage was not set for it. e following presumably authenti- cated report is recorded in the files of the Weather Bureau: “About two years ago (the report was for 1000) s party of three women and two men were cbroulnl N;;l‘: P;rk in i s wa in February. air was 3 Bitterly cold_but dry as & bone and | The little town of Engls, 10 miles , suffered the most. Four- mnlml‘m&mm&“m shown with almost | {707 Log* there in s few hours and many were sent to hospitals. Hundreds Woman Feels Sting. of others suffered more or less seriously “Suddenly one of the women put her from the malady. hand to her face and said that some- Fog General Over Europe. thing had stung her. Then the other| ...~ .jthough its fatal results members of the party did the same, | The HO. Althou small district above | sithough not an insect was visible. A | SR COMned jo & smal aistrlct abote | moment later they noticed that the | ol " UIT MR P il e Buirope. | distant mountaing wate ‘:‘"g'““‘",;“.“g:m Hamburg on the north to below | b W‘w Dlow and the air | Paris in the south and over a large part '“.’:.."fifi,?'.‘;u, fr Darticles “of | Of the British Isles the blanket of mist | omething that acintilated like diamond e e o o 15 services were discontinued. ‘They drove on until they came to | PIgTE BeTViees Wers GB5 T e tog Siop. Swith his head ted up n & bundle | Y35 Eraduslly lifting over most of the D e s e e Py fndile | affected British areas, but the Thames tuary was still so blanketed tonight the driver a bit of paper on which was | &' written: “Come the house quick that 400 boats of all sizes were unable or this will kill “fi of you. Don't talk to move nna on some the lack of food outside here.’ e s Motor boats from Gravesend spent The next morning ons of the women | tirOugh the murk to sell food to pas- died with all the symptoms of pneu- | jonéers and crews who had been fog- {monia. The others were violently 11, | PO4nd for two and three davs, “The man said: ‘That stuff you saw {tn the air was fine particles of ice, | NeSYY the great iiner Eutopa had not | frozen 50 cold it goes clear down into | P¢eR able to sail by 10 o'clock tonight. the lungs without melting. One Winter - = st o'yt T i3 it POLICE OF 7TH PRECINCT it. The Indians are more afraid of it OUTSHOOT cAvALRYMEN i than V:lunlkel and call it “the white [Crack Pistol Team, in Return | deatn.” "~ | More Than Buperstition. There is also a reference to the| Match, Duplicates Victory Won “white death.” feared by the Indians, mulie ik on November 4. In the official &l':'td!;ook of the Bureau of American nology, but with no comments. . It ap) T to have mn‘ The crack pisto] team of the seventh ! much more than a superstition, al- Dolice precinct, in a return match with though of rare occurrence. |& team of the 306th Cavalry Reserves, While pointing to the impossibilty of | Yesterday duplicated their victory of reaching definite conclusions on the | November & with a score of 567.67 to | slendcr reports at hand, Government |535.39 for the Cavalry. The match | medical experts were loath to accept the 1 was staged on the outdoor pistol range | | theory of Prof. J. B. B. Haldane, one |8t Georgetown University. | of Great Britain's foremost blologists, | PVt. K. G. McCormick of the seventh | that the Meuse Valley outbreak might |Precinct team made an individual score be a return of something similar to|Of 86.33, the highest for the match. {the black death, the pneumonic form |Scores of the other policemen maki of the bubonic plague, which killed | Up the six-man team were: Lieut. L. almost a third of the population of | Kelly, 95.67; Pvts, E. J. La Force, 94.67; Europe in the fourteenth century. |W. R. Ostiom, 94.83; Z. E. Ditto, 95, Some such ldtabml:lhl have arisen, in‘“Thf‘Bg_::“ 17 3 team wers: was pointed out, he recent appear- | * : ance of three cases ‘of bubonic plagus | Maj. H. E. Murray, 95.33; Lieuts. Cha- at the port of Marseilles. In its pneu- | JUPsky, 82.83; Kane, 87: Perkins, 85.28; monic form, similar to & very yirulent | BUrTis, 74.78, and McCiure, 90.17. form of pn-umonia, the black death | would be favored by Xo¥ and would | | spread without the bites of insects from | | infected rats. But the “white death” is s more plausible diagnosis then the | bt KILLS HIS EMPLOYER - = DENVER, Colo., December 6 | “black death. | l.l:rrm Il;z:a‘t‘z 47, killed his :emnloyer. Soou | Harry T, 64, made an attempt on ! s War Gas Theery, | the life of Dcter’s daughter, and then Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian | sent a bullet into his own head in a Institution, who is familiar with the | farm house near here last night. valley where the malady is The two men had argued, the daugh- reported, pointed out that the ter told county authorities, concerning mmhnord arily | the right &mu o use t::‘mur & micro-organism, { bunkhouse ‘Winter as done idea that they would | in the pash hs ».—| FED 1S ENDED Mrs. Gann and Mrs. Long- worth Bury Ax at Reception to Diplomatic Corps. L;itrcanm’me'd From First Page) Vice President Curtis in March, 29, they could scarcely believe thelr ears. The cultured voices of both women were audible, clear and friendly and there ensued an animated conversation on Mrs. Gann's at home Wednesday, on cabinet receptions and general so- cial topics of the day. When they parted, those in the overcrowded State drawing room drew breath and de- clared, “Now that incident is past. There was nothing in it." “Nothing in it,” is just what Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann has declared over and over and “nothing in it” is what Mrs. Longworth reiterated quite as often. Wherever Mrs. Gann and her ru- mored antagonist, Mrs. Longworth, have met in years past. their greetings have been core ‘This does not, however, settle the “sit or not to sit” question, for Mrs. Gann and Mrs. Longworth have never attended a dinner or lunch- eon at the same time since the question arose There is not much that is new in a question of precedence, for an unseemly wrangle arose in the earliest history of the te House and waxed warmer until during the Monroe administration it reached most unpleasant proportions. Th: late Chief Justice Melville Fuller balked at the door of the White House and refused to enter and carry on with the judicial reception because foreign | Ambassadors and others were there to | precede him. The matter was settled for the moment by the other guests going direct to the blue room, leaving the austere little Chief Justice to_head the line and be first to greet the Presi- dent when the reception opened. Cabinet Women Refused to Call. It was in the Roosevelt administra- tion that cabinet women took up the soclal cudgel against Senate women and refused to call on them. They waited at home for Senators’ wives to make the first visit. They continued to wait. Their at homes were scarce and chilly. The Senators confirmed cabinet mem- bers, 50 why should they “call first?” Cabinet members are in line for the Presidency, so why should they curry favor with the Senate? Only the other day the Congressional Club gave a tea in honor of the cabinet women, and while it was quite Mrs. Gann's privilege to attend, she did not do so. Perhaps it was because there might have been a conflict of prece- dence. The social world said so, and yet when the President and Mrs. Hoover gave & reception to the diplo- mats Thursday night, Mrs. Gann walked beside the Vice President, im- mediately behind the exalted hosts and immediately in front of the Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson. It has always been the custom for the Vice President to keep open house during the social season, taking Wed- nesday, just as do the cabinet women. Mrs. Gann gave her first afternoon re- ception on a parallel day and hour with the cabinet women and that she has done her full duty in making calls was shown by the hundreds of guests who surged through the large suite at the Mayflower all during the reception hours. Not all the Senate women were there, for there are some who still maintcin that notwithstanding Mrs. Gann is official hostess for the Vice President, she is also his sister and should not be given rank above a Senator’s wife. There was nothing political about it, for there were quite 28 many Democrats as Republicans who left cards. Assisting Mrs. Gann were two women who held sway during the Wilson administration, the popular Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall and Mrs. Edwin T. Meredith, whose husband was Secretary of Agriculture in the same administration. Program Adroitly Planned. Mrs. Hoover, who is one of the most democratic women the White House has ever had as a mistress, has adroitly and in friendly spirit arranged a social program for the White House that can- not be questioned for wisdom and diplomacy. ike all other women and men in offi- cial society, when she strikes the snag of precedence and neither she nor the Department of State can untangle it, she diplomatically goes around it. On the White House roster she found that a Speaker's dinner was part of the offi- cial program. 8he knew it was begot of a controversy as bitter as any that ever waged or was sald to wage, be- tween Mrs. Gann and Mrs. Longworth. Uncle Joe Cannon, doughty old Western politician that he was, refused to g]ly second fiddle or attend a dinner where members of Congress were given rank above him and so President Roosevelt sald let there be a Speaker's dinner and | there was a Speaker’s dinner. Perhaps Mrs. Hoover found objec- tion or rather embarrassment in placing Mrs. Gann with the cabinet women, so s iged that she and the Presi- dent would first entertain the cabinet | and three weeks later she and the Pres- ident would give a dinner in honor of the Vice President. This distinction should have been thought of years ago, State dinner parties were too large for comfort and sociability, now they are smaller and there are more of them. To each one Mrs. Hoover gives her per- sonal attention, dictating the menu and the flowers to be used. | Senate Source of Trouble. | Nobody has brought greater discord | into the official ranks than the Sen- ate and again Mrs. Hoover comes to the | rescue and on the program gives two | instead of one eontlrelllonll reception. | January 15 there will be a reception to members of the Senate and January 20 a reception for members of the House of Representatives. At the former the | president pro tempore of the Senate will lead the line of guests and at the latter event, the Speaker and Mrs. Longworth will come into their own. There has fre- quently been controversy between the president pro tem and the Speaker, and this Winter the Speaker will have a dinner all to himself, while the presi- dent pro tempore of the Senate will have no objection at all to dining with Vice President Curtis at the hite House dinner given in his honor. And now since the “Halloo Dolly, Halloo Alice” incident in the blue room as reported by guests about them, the world may rest in peace and while Mrs. Gann and Mrs. Longworth may never play pussy wants a corner for place at the right of the host, they will at least add nothing to the disturbance of a drawing room. DRY OFFICIAL IS SUED FOR MACHINE’S RETURN Hertz iv-Ur-Self Stations Co. Complains Car Seized for Rum. None Arrested. Wililam R. Blandford, deputy prohi- bition administrator, was sued in the trict Supreme Court for the return of an automobile by the Hertz Driv-Ur- Belf Stations, Inc. The court is told that a machine of the company was seized February 4 last on the supposi- tion that it was being used for the ille- gal transportation of liquor by “per- {#ons unknown.” No such persons have |been arrested, the plaintifi company says, and no prosecution instituted. Blandford has refused demands for the return of the car, it is stated, and re- course had to e had to the court. At torney Nathan B, Willlams appears for the company. President Hoover (in center) presenting the President’s Cup to Capt. D. F. O'Neil of the Marines after they won the Marine-Coast Guard charity game here yesterday. The President and Mrs. Hoover, who is also shown, witnessed the en- tire game. The final score w: —A. P. Photo. HOUSE PAY AGTION OPPOSEDIN SENATE Dale and Brookhart Lead Foes of Wood Amendment in Upper Chamber. A determined effort will be made by members of the Senate to knock from the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill the House amendment under which the salaries of Government employes could not be increased within their re- spective grades under the classification law during the next fiscal year. Senators Dale, Republican, of Ver- mont, and Brookhart, Republican, of Towa, both came out yesterday in oppo- sition to such a limitation and urged its elimination from the bill. Senator Dale is chairman of the Civil Service Committee and Senator Brookhart is a member of that committee. ‘When the Senate mcets tomorrow, it will receive the Treasury-Post Office measure from the House, which rllled it late Friday with the ry limitation included. It will be referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee, which probably will begin work on it without delay. Expects Disagreement. “I do not think the Senate will agree to the House provision,” Senator Brook- hart said last night, referring to the limitation on salary increases. The House restriction does not affect the Welch and Brookhart laws enacted at recent sessions of Congress, which raised the salary rates applicable to various grades of the classification law, but seeks to postpone for a year in- creases within grades which were rec- ommended in the budget to bring under-average grades up to the average. “If Congress was sincere in passing the primary legislation respecting sal- aries, it should go through with it,” said Senator Dale. “I know perfectly well that the argument will be made that we have to be careful with the expendi- ture of money and that we are short on account of the financial depression, but I believe that such steps as the pro- posed salary adjustments will help to get us out of the depression.” Plan is Explained. budget message to Conj early in the week the President ex- plained that there has developed through the years rather a wide differ- ence among the several departments and establishments as to the relation- ship which the average of the existing salaries bears to the average of the compensation rates provided by law for the various grades of positions. In order to spread over a three-year period the cost of bringing these under- average grades up to the average the budget figures submitted for the next fiscal year included approximately 30 per cent of the amount required to make the necessary salary adjustments. The Treasury-Post Office measure was the first of the annual appropri- ation bills to be drafted by the House Appropriations Committee and to it was attached the much-discussed limitation, forbidding any increases within grades during the next fiscal year. The amendment does not reduce any existing salaries, but would prevent during the next fiscal year the recom- mended increases within grades. Called Backward Step. Senator Brookhart saild he looked upon the House limitation as “a back- ward step” and that he was not in favor of taking such steps. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas, said he would be disposed to follow the course recommended in the budget as submitted to Congress to make the proposed salary adjustments. Snator Caraway, Democrat, of Ar- kansas also was inclined to the bellef that the Senate would not be sympa- :ilulc toward the House salary limita- ion. Senator Jones, Republican, of Wash- ington, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, which will consider the matter, was out of the city yesterday. In his BODY OF DUNCAN DANA FOUND ON ISLAND BAR Former All-America Foot Ball End and Grandson of Editor Dies While Hunting. By the Associated Press. MARBLEHEAD, Mass., December 6.— The body of Duncan Dana, grandson of Charles A. Dana, famous New York editor, was found tonight on Eagle Island Bar. Dana, former Harvard foot ball star and All- America end in 1914 and member of the famous Lafayette Escadrille, became the object of search early today when his swam dory was found. He had been duck hunting, it is believed. Four fishermen found the W at on Eagle m where dusk. It had been washed uj Island Bar, about 500 yards the dory was found. Pelice said Dana evidently had kicked off his shoes in an endeavor to swim to shore, but a high wind and a heavy sea were too much for him. Dana was 40 years old and an elec- trical engineer. He leaves a widow and three children. The Japanese sl t contalns 73 letters, 47 more fl’n our own alphabet. Man Kills Himself After Forcing Note Holder to Eat It By the Associated Press. SHERMAN, Tex., December 6. —E. Haning, 40, cha with robbery after it was alleged he forced a man who held a $250 note against him to eat the evi- dence of indebtedness, killed him- self here yesterday. Haning was released under $5,000 bond after 8. J. Brown of Pottsboro complained Haning had forced him to swallow the note. A coroner’s verdict held Han- died of gunshet wounds, self- icted. RED REFUSES PART INREPORT ON RS | Soviet Delegate Forces All References to Russia Out of Document. By the Associated Press. today refused to participate in the re- port which the Preparatory Disarma- ment Commission will submit to the League of Nations along with a draft convention for a future general disarm- ament conference. Anatole Lunacharsky, the Soviet dele- gate, labeled the draft convention as “both inadequate and sterile,” de- manded the right to have all the So- viet reservations appended in a sepa- rate document, and asked that all refer- ence to Russia's views be stricken from the report itself. Calls Report Negative. He added that as a non-member of the League, the Soviet government wished to have nothing to do with a repol;: which it considers strictly ative, . J. J. Loudon, chairman of the commission, inquired why the Russians require different treatment from other members of the commission, both mem- bers and non-members of the League He asserted that it would be impossible to attach the Soviet reservations in & separate document. Backed by Ceeil. Eduardo Cobian of Spain, one of the reporters for the commission, took the same view as the chairman, but Lord Cecil of Great Britain interposed to support the Russian request. On Lord Cecil’s motion each paragraph setting forth the Soviet attitude was struck out. As to other business, the commission tonight approved those parts of the re- port dealing with limitation of per- sonnel and materials. POLICEMAN DENIES ROUGHNESS CHARGE Lieut. Smith Says He Will Ask Inspector to Investigate Arrest Involved. Lieut. Milton D. Smith of the fic Bureau yester: denied charges of roughness made t him Priday in & Police Court trial by David G. Johan- son, Government employe, and an- nounced that he could ask Inspec- tor Brown of the Traffic Bureau to in- vestigate all circi.nstances of Johan- son's arrest. Smith arrested Johanson November 21 at Sixteenth and Fuller streets for speeding and disobeying a stop sign. The lieutenant was in civilian clothes at the time. Johanson testified before -wdge John P. McMahon that Smith, wnom he failed to recognize as a police- man, jerked buttons from his over- coat front in arresting him. Judge McMahon dismissed a speed- ing charge against Johanson and con- tinued the other charge until he is able personally to inspect the stop sign on Fuller street near Sixteenth, which Jgg:n!on sald was obstructed by a hedge. Yesterday McMahon postponed the minor charge against Johanson until next Tuesday. CHARGED WITH THEFT. ‘Woman Identifies Colored Youth as Footpad Who Robbed Her. James Flournoy, colored, 17 years old, is being held at the tenth precinct after he was identified by & woman who said the youth knocked her down last night and robbed her of a handbag contain- ing a small amount of change. The money in the pocketbook was found on Flournoy's person, the police reported. The woman, Miss Mary Devlin of 1440 Meridian place, told police that she was walking near her home when the boy jumped on her back knocked her down on the p.vem::t. severely both her kni s eea and GENEVA, December 6.—Soviet Russia | d | Robert L. Miller, also lives in BRUENING TRIUNPH HEARTENS BERLIN Four Repulses of Reichstag Opposition Strengthen Government. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 6.—Four times today the Bruening government repulsed the vigorous attack of the opposition in | the Reichstag and at the end of the parliamentary session stood clearly vic- torious and still at the nation’s helm. With 38 votes to spare, it defeated a motion to revoke the chancellor's de- cree of drastic financial reforms. By & | margin of 36 votes it put down a “no | confidence” motion. It won the edge of 65 votes on & proposal to table a motion of confidence ironically offered | by the National Socialists. Finally, at | the end of a long day, it got a majority of 72 votes against a Communist mo- tlon demanding revocation of the emergency decrees in force since last June. Cabinet Is Stronger. Thus at the end of three days' de- bate the only surpiise which came out of the session the unexpected size nll&‘e u;o:e;nmem majority. It indi- | ca ruening is stronger than | had been geenrally supposed. thl“nl the members ul;fd the cabinet emselves were surpri ot the vote against revocation of the financial decree. They had expected s majority of not more than 15. Thg were visibly vdfl'lfhud as they left the Reichstag | Building. not to return until Tuesday, when the session is to be resumed. Relief Feeling General, There was a feeling of general relief as this session ended, for nobody wants Bru:mnz'l {oh ':fi’, h“l{’ly. :&u no op- position party realiy envies overn- mggl iumdlm::ult task. ¥ ow the government is in a position to put its financial reforms into full effect. Some of these measures are un- popular, particularly overnment salaries, but the chancellor imself, in presenting the measure to President von Hindenburg, asserted that nothing_else would pull Germany out of her financial difficulty. The new measures will cut Germany's annual expenditures by $345,000,000, and they will inaugurate the most rigid economy in tvel;’y dn&a.mnem. of both the national and state governments, “Germany,” said Bruening when he first rrelenbed his decree, ‘must resign herself to & lgnnun life for the next three years. Even if our income in that perlod should be greater than we expect, we will have to use any such excess to pay our debts.” P P .35-INCH RAIN HEAVIEST HERE IN TWO MONTHS Effect of Last Night's Fall Expect- ed to End Drought Conditions. More Expected. | _ Last night's rainfall of .35 of an inch was the heaviest that has fallen in the Capital in nearly two months and was expected to about end the drought con- ditions of the District, according to the Weather Bure: In the hard-hit drought sections nearby, particularly in the Shenandoah Valley, about three-quarters of an inch of rainfall was recorded yesterday, enough to revive most of the parched springs and streams throughout that section and afford substantial rellef to farmers who have been faced with a tremendous problem of getting water to their stock or even for home consump~ tion purposes. The last rainfall of any vmgcnlm in the District was on Sept. 13, when .52 of an inch of precipitation was rec- orded by the Weather Bureau here. susiiintad: HOWARD PRIDGEON DIES Young Printing Office Employe Ill Since August. Howard Pridgeon, 28 years old, died last night at the residence of his cousin, Mrs. George Snyder, 2007 Twelfth street northeast. He had been ill since August of heart disease. Prior to his iliness, Pridgeon had been e?lwed at the Government Printing Office. He is survived by one brother, James, of Baltimore, CHIROPRACTOR IS DEAD Mrs. Maud Doran Succumbs as Re- sult of Apoplexy. . Maude M. Doran, ¢ actor, died yesterday at her hame, ,‘nu street, after a short #iness pO- plexy. Mrs. Doran, who was 55 years of age, ‘had ‘lived in" Washington since | " She #8 survived by her himband, Ed- iwtn J, Doran, and a daughter, Doro- | thy Leuise, 15’ years old. ton. Funeral services will be hel day morn| 10 o'clock at V&, Mrs. former home, HOOVER CHILDREN T0 ARRIVE TODAY Merry Christmas Is Expected by Grandparents—Special Quarters Are Ready. With the arrival today of the thres little grandchildren of President and Mrs. Hoover, the White House, for the first time In & number of years, will echo the laughing and romping of chil- dren. g These youngsters who are to make an indefinite stay at the White House will arrive with their mother, Mrs. Her- bert Hoover, jr., during the forenocon from their home in Pasadena, Calif. The mother is expected to leave to- morrow for Asheville, N. C, to rejoin her husband, with whom she will re- main at his cottage in the hills on the outskirt of that eity throughout the coming Winter. Everything has been made ready for the temporary residence of these chil- dren. _Alterations on the top floor of the White House have been made, which will provide an adjoining sleep- ing compartment for them and one large nursery and playroom. The nurse, who has been with the young family for more than a year, will accompany them. The eldest of the grandchildren is Peggy Ann, aged 4, the next in line is Herbert 3rd, not quite 2 years, and Joan, less than a year old. The grandparents have been looking forward to the com- ing of this little family with the great- est amount of pleasure and are counting on a lively and interesting Winter. Their presence in the White House this coming Christmas assures a happy time in the presidential household during that occasion. The latest report the President and Mrs. Hoover have received from v son in_Asheville, who is being treated for a slight tubercular infection, is that he is responding splendidly to the treat- ment and is showing constant improve- ment. SERVICE FRAY NETS SUM FOR JOBLESS; MARINES WIN, 7-0 (Continued From First Page.) only the sea soldiers and the sea saviors can offer an admiring publie. It was the only game the President has attended all Fall and he sat throughout the fray while the wintry, molst winds whistled through the skele- ton structure of the stadium and the icy temperature bit into the very mar- row of the watchers of the game. He stayed to award to Brig. Gen. Smed- ley D. It commandant of the Quantico training base of the Marine , the President’s Cup, given by his lecessor in the White House, Calvin Coolidge, to be annually fought for in Wi n, Flanki the President's box were those of members of his Cabinet, of more than a score of diplomats from fore! countries, of members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and of hlfl|° government officials. About him also was grouped a '.hron’ of persons minent in soclety, of persons prominent in business and per- sons prominent in the civic affairs of the District, all bent upon better: unfortunate enough e et portunit; to of y work ane wnmonuzlmu business deg:sulfln. ; An hour before game time there were a) imately 5,000 persons in the smd: ‘The pre-game entertainment started just 50 minutes before the start- flf whistle for the game, and that §0 nutes wes packed full of color and entertainment. Bands Enliven Occasion. ‘The first event on the was the entrance of the large, gayly uni- formed band of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, led by the booted and spurred Thelma Bonini and her bullpup. Across the fleld it marched to martial music, then stationed itself in the south stands, across the fleld from the Presi- dent’s box to await the arrival of the President. ‘Then on the fleld the contingent of the Coast Guards, about 500 strong, and led by the Coast Guard band, marched. On the arrival of the President, at about 113_lfl_ho'clo:ll, l,;u v’le’d‘ g band pl?ed “The Star Spang) anner” and saluted the Chief Executive. The Marines, accompanied by Nick Altrock, comedian and coach of the Washington base ball team, came on the field for a short work out, while over in a corner of the big fleld waited th: Marine Band and the contingent of 1,200 Quantico Marines with two big English bulldogs. The maneuvers of the Coast Guards ended, the Marines, led by two “leather- necks” holding leashes on Sergt. Maj. Jiggs, 2d, English bulldog mascot of the corps, and a second dog of the same breed entered the fleld. service uni- forms and white caps, the Marines pa- raded, lm.klnng & picturesque scene the playing fleld. First, in a series of parade evolutions, they formed a giant ‘M” as a tribute to their comrades who were soon to battle for foot ball su- premacy of thé service on the pla; fleld. Then, facing the Coast Gua conf , the big of “Devil e formed the letters C and @, and faced the Coast Guard contingent, headed by the commandant of the service, Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, doffing their hats. \ Doff Hats to Hoover. Then the Marines marched about the fleld and formed a t H, doffing thelr to President Hoover as the band ed “California, Here I )" -in or of the President, a Californian, As the Marines left the fleld leadin their two bulldog mascots, the Coast Guard introduced a huge black bear, on a leash held by a Coast Guardsman about half the size of the bear, as the mascot of the Coast Guard. The bear was chosen as a symbol of the Coast Guard® several years ago on the basis of the gallant record of the Coast Guard cutter Bear, which for more than ht." a cenuary ""531‘&', L;ale harbinger of mercy and good the les of the Arctic Circle. ki The Marine contingent took seats n ll'rle east stands ’g( the ;hdludm nfter esenting a color guard and salute getom the Prmlflen!'subox. ‘The Coast Guards put on an exhibi- tion of the breeches buoy, the device used to bring sailors ashore from ::r:nded ships, between the halves of e. gam The Marines and Coast Guardsmen battled through the first half of the game about evenly with neither team threatening seriously to cross the oth'xfhr'n hmk e. reak of the game came about midway of the third quarter when little Bobby Gotko, Marine h tackle and raced 60 yards through the entire Marine team for a touchdown, the only score of the game. Robert- son, Marine left halfback, converted the point after touchdown with a perfectly booted placement kick. ing red, ut were unable to make much head- way, and the two teams battled on about even terms throughout the final period of the game. A 5l wrist watch, offered by a elry firm to the man wug by iters as the best on the fleld the game, was awarded by the writers to Ensign Eddle Roland, captain of the Coast Guard team, who throughout the game.