Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1931, Page 2

POPULAR AT VOTE CONCLUDES TODAY Corooran Exhibition to Lasf One More Week—Prize of $200 at Stake. ‘The public will have its last chance today 'to go to the polls in the referen- dum being conducted by the Corcoran Gallery of Art to determine the most ar picture in the current Twelfth iennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings. lvrry visitor to the exhibition today be mnd.ed & ballot, on which he =y tndi his personal preference wil raspect to the display of paintings. Two ballot boxes have been provided to recelye the votes, which will be counted ténmomw ‘The voting began last Mon- ay. ‘Popular Prize Is $200. The artist whose painting receives the greatest number of votes will receive a special “popular prize” of $200. This referendum has been a popular feature of similar exhibitions at fi;ll'ery in the past, and great interes shown in the voting this yur. wcord- ing to: C. Powell Minnigerode, dlmtm'" exhibition_al- | of the Cotcoran Gallery. Four pictures in the ready have Deéen chosen by a jury of noted artists for the biennial William A. Clark cash prizes and the Corcoran awards. ‘Every painting in-the display will be eligible for consideration in the public referendum. ‘The gallery will .be open this after- noon from 2 to 5 o'clock. Final Week Begins Tomorrow. ‘The final week of the exhibition will begin tomorrow. The hours tomorrow will be from noon to 4:30 o'clock, and on the remaining weekdays from 9 to 4:30 o'clock. ‘There ‘will be a final night opem,fl next Thursday, when the exhibition wi be on public view from 8 to 10:30 o’clock. ‘There is no admission charge at any time during the exhibition. The exhibition will close next Sunday afternoon, when the hours will be from 2 10 5 o'clock. HUNGRY FARMERS STORM ARKANSAS TOWN TO GET FOOD (Continued From First Page.) them to be quiet,” he continued, “some shouting. I tried situation was quiet. FURTHER TROUBLE EXPECTED. Réd Cross Representative Believes Food State Drought Relief t he feared the situation at’ was merely the forerunner of One of them, Bob Avery, 70, found to h'a.ve hoarded, officers Lonoke County, of which this town 1s county seat, embraces England, where farmers demanded and received food after threatening merchants today. SCHOONER STRUGGLES 40 DAYS ON LID OF DAVY JONES’ LOCKER (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) a fever,” ‘were only four seamen, g nook. e mate and the skipper in " zhought every day_that sailor would die and I would have to sew him in canvas and send him overboard, but he made it and now is up doing his work with the rest of them.” They had to save the best food for the sick man—the canned soup and “bully beef tea” but they had some canned beet and fiour and water on which to subsist. Then there was the captain's radio. The men rigged it up with a battery £rom ‘one of the holsting en “For the life of me, I could not get a weather rt through,” Capt. Nicklas said. “Every time e T would try there would be some musical program or other entertainment.” Once in 1924—that was when she ‘Then in 1926 she rode out the hur- ricane which struck Miami with such force and lMmped into Morehead City, N. C., with the tale of ha lol complete set of sails.. Caj time. Force Ex-Employer’s Dismissal. ‘THETFORD MINES, Quebec, January 8 (P).—Apparentl )l R. Jen- kins, superini g =y 4 BEULAH LIMERICK. LIMERICK DEATH SLUG PROBE ROBS POLICE OF EVIDENCE (Continued From First Page.) in which the murder oc- curred Thursday morn! in a position to indicate it had been shot through the mattress where the girl had lain. Found Shell in Cup. ‘The exploded shell Langdon was said to have turned over to police was found, he said, in a coffee cup in the kitchen the death room. Part of the time Langdon was guard- ing the house, at 18 Nineteenth street southeast, two patrolmen from No. 5 ‘were with him. Shelby said he “personally inspected premises with homicide squad mem- bers shortly after evidence of the l‘l violent death was uncovered Wi day night. At that time, he said, he examined six coffée cups left unwashed on the kitchen table and saw no shell in any of them. Thm ummly unusual circum- Shelby 1 A hmud‘m the vttrolmnn under suspicion and Friday he was detained for quuuan- ing. At mc time, found one loaded person unused tor in his home, at 1282 east. m. Having received said, of disorderly nearby - Arurthemmlzulmmmdhe asked the cafe proprietor who he was, but could not obtain his full name other than he was a “Maryland boot- ‘The officer declared lelet later flashlight through the glass panel of 8 door to the girl's semi-basement bed room. He said he saw the girl stretched upon her cot as if asleep, with the bedding pulled well up over ur.mm‘":t or anything , he continued on his rvlmdl'u:%d Te- mofl duty at 8 am. Wednesday, Shelby sald yesterday the girl's moth- er had informed police here daughter complained that Langdon had come into her house and annoyed her on sev- eral occasions. Grilled last night for two and a half hours, however, Langdon insisted that the only time he had seen the girl previous to the morning of her death was when he went to her home some ‘weeks ago to investigate an anonymous complaint against the premises received at his precinct. Unable to Shake Statement. Capt. Kelley and Sergt. Flaherty sald they were unable to shake Lang- don’s -orif statement. While police contin their investigation in sev- eral directions last night, numerous' au- tomobiles’ passed along: the little-fre- quented street, where the death house stands, their occupants gazing curious- ly at the dilapidated two-story frame structure. The two No. 5 precinct policemen on guard there had rigged up a radio to help them while away the tedious hours. A service overcoat covered the front door glass to hide the interior of the death room from curious eyes. ‘The investigation is by no means cen- tered on Langdon, Shelby sald. Nu- merous men, sald to have been friends | g of the girl, will be questioned and for- mal charges will not be placed against Langdon until additional evidence, if is uncovered, the inspector ex- Another policeman, attached to No. 9 ‘precinct, was summoned to head- qun.run yesterday, questioned concern- -cg juaintance with Miss Lime- Hck and discharged after police had satisfied themselves he knew nothing of the girl’s death. Meanwhile the girl's brother, Ver- non Limerick, 18 years old, with whom Ahc made her home at the Eighteenth street address, was still under deten- tion, as was wun-m Edwazd Paddy, 22 years old, of the 200 bhck of Four- mnth street mm.hun, Limer- escort to dance l'. Capitol Hd.hh, m 'nudny nlahl. and Rich- bflfl Vernon sald he found his sister, ap- ently very ill, when he ucle about o'clock Wednesda sum- moned members of %\11 family lnd l'.n“ur a Casualty Hospital ambulan girl was pronounced dead MALONEY T0 FACE POLICE TRIAL BOARD Ninth - Precinct Officer Charged With Assault by Cameraman. Is Faced with an assault charge - ferred by a newspaper photographer, Police Lieut. John lnloney of the ninth ecinct has been cited to appear be- Police Trial and prob- that tribunal’s arge tgrowth of an alleged attack hy Lieut. Malone; um Joe E. Roberts, cameraman for when the Ilatter ‘Washington Hmld. attempted to make a p ph at police headquarters yesterday of & ninth precinct policeman who had just been questioned in connection with the death ol Beulah Limerick. Roberts conferred with Maj. Henry 0 ?ntt and Commissioner Herbert B. alleged attack regarding the they Cror Anuum United States Attomey Fitzpatrick Tant upon the. Fher's compiaint nt upon 's compl that he had been attacked. The cameraman said - that Maloney, escomn; & man believed by newspaper men be the policeman just ques. tloned by detectives, leaped on 1‘!@! erts and jammed the camera into his face cutting hi It was later lumed however, that the man with Hfloney was a “foil” and that the officer who had been grill- ed quietly walked off in the excite- ment following the alleged assault. Commissioner Crosby was in con- ference with Maj. Pratt when the newspaper man appeared to complain to Pratt after he had been refused an assault warrant by Pitzpatrick. Rob- erts was told that he could follow two courses: Seek a warrant at the Dis- trict Attorney’s office or flle charges with the Trial Board. Having been defeated in his quest for the warrant at itrick’s office, berts immediately followed the lat- ter suggestion, 5 BODIES RECOVERED AFTER BLAST IN MINE Four of Rescue Workers in Hos- pital After Being Overcome by Fumes. By the Associated Press. MIDVALE, Ohijo, January !-—Bodlu of five men killed in an explosion in the No. 4 mine of the Midvale Coal Co. this' mofning were recovered by rescue workers tonight about nine hours after the blast. The victims apparently were killed by the explosion, which seemed to have centered where their bodies were found scattered about the floor of the tunnel, about 3%, miles from the entrance of the drift mine, rescuers said. Fifteen other men in the mine when the bln.s'. let go at sbout 10:30 a.m. escapes vm.haut injury a few minutes ltm- id the would sal e cause probably not be termined before tomorrow. v !"our of elght local volunteer rescue workers who braved without masks the pohonwn gases which filled the work- after the explosion were in the Unhm Hospital at Dover, near here, tonight. Their condition was not con- sidered sericus. The other four re- covered quickly. A crowd of several hundred, includ- ing members of victims' families, a score or more voluntzers waiting to take up the rescue work and a number of curlolu drawn to the mine from nearby to thered about in the near- wu to watch the rescuers carry out the victims. KING’S_ SISTER WEAKER Princess Louise, Invalid for Some| Time, Has Heart Trouble. 3 M")-—Pflncell Louise, oldest sister of King Geo: and British princess royal, was l'-lted in an official bulletin early today to be showing increased weakness. been seriously il for some months, this is the flm recent indica- tion of a recurrence of the hsart trou- ummvhlohnhehumflend!or Th! bu.lle“n. signed by Sir Russell Wilkinson and Sir Thomas Horder, fa- hysician, said: Although | Mrs. BILL FOR WHEAT EMBARGO PLANNED Representative Burtness to Ask Ban to March 1, 1932, on Legge Advice. By the Afisociated Press. The Farm Board's proposal to place an embargo on wheat will be laid: before Congress in legislative form tomorrow | by Representative Burtness, Republican, North Dakota. Burtness made this announcement yesterday while Senator-elect Dickinson of Jowa was issuing a statement through the Republican National Committee as- serting the Hawley-Smoot tariff had “more than fulfilled the promises of its backers by maintaining prices of Amer- unfavorable report to the Senate Agri- cultural Committee on the Capper pro- to use 40,000,000 bushels of wheat by the board agencies for feeding the unemployed. The t was made that the) board no authority to give away wheat, and such action would impair “a molflnc fund and divert the money for purposes other than for which ap- mvpmued 5 1 Other Products on List. Burtness said that, acting on Legge's suggestion, he will introduce a bill for a temporary embargo until March 1, 1932, on wheat, butter and butter substitutes and the feed grains, including corn, barley, oats, their manufacures, and bran and bran screenings. “The importation of Lll these products is increasing, and the present tariff is. not high enough to keep them out,” said | the North Dakotan. "Daplu the higher tariff wall” he said, “the complete break in market g_lgcu is bringing in larger imports. e procedure under the flexible pri vision is too long. It is like locking a barn door after the horse is stolen. “It is also very doubtful whether the ‘Tariff Commission would find increases justifiable because the commission can- not take into consideration abnormal competitive conditions. Very likely the present rates are adequate under nor- mal conditions. Dickinson tkm wu llr (rom utuxu'wry. id the farmer's situ b'llt agricul turll cltu!rophe lrom whlch we woulfl have been years in fecoves He ted lower wheat rlcu else- where support of his oonrgmlon that riff American prices would hnve broke:l to the level of fore markets. Without the. tariff, he sald, wheat would have sold at 11 to 28 cents less than was paid in the American market. Embargo or Higher Tariff. m proposal either to create an em- bargo on wheat or raise the tariff on mill feeds and grain found the support 0( Sam R. McKelvie, grain member of the Farm Board. He pointed out that the flexible tariff law r uires that cost studies be made ln countries whose exports threaten American mar- kets, and said. complaints had reached the board against incoming shipments from South Africa, Argentina and Man- churia. At the same time Legge he had said he was by John A. Simpson, pmldent of ‘the National Farmers’ Union. the suggestion “ridiculous.” arding further charges that the board contends the price of wheat can be raised and maintained at $1, Legge said: ““We' did say this could be done if sufficlent funds were available ~with which to buy all the wheat offered from all sources, but that a designated price level could not be maintained unless the stabilization corporluon mk all of the wheat that was offered. This would not be ldmble. the chairman ‘added, because a large actu- mulation of grain would be a “serious handicap in future seasons. TRADE WIND LANDS AT HAMPTON ROADS ON OVERSEA FLIGHT (Continued From Pirst Page.) only about an hour and a half of gas left when we struck our wheels at Hampton Roads. Neither Mrs. Hart nor I was alarmed at any time. Of course, we always knew approximately where we were, but re- member, Bermuda is_a mighty smalt | Dr. m in . I believe, on 'the of my calculations aboard, that we were within. 75 miles of Bermuda when we put about and headed for home. We “spelled” trols and the fii expected—smoothly. Two pieces of bad luck simply were too many pleces of bad luck in one day. Both of us worked like blazes all the way after we lost the telescope and neither of us had time to think of eat- ing. As a consequence we were ex- hausted on our arrival here. ‘Will Start Again Monday. Mrs. Hart has llrudy retired and as soon as I check up the shi) Andmylog I will get some much-nee&d There is no hurry gbout the fl-wht. It is as practical Monday as it was Satur- day. The ship functioned perfectly and at no time were we in the slightest dan- ger. Of our general direction and lo- cation we were certain at all times. Qur return to Norfolk was planned W] flying over the open ocean. We came down almost on the spot, demonstrating how very close we must have come to our goal With pure guess- rk. It should be but a matter of hours tomorrow to check the motor, which was running nicely when we switched it telescope for the sextant and '11 he.d for the ocean again Mon- day morning. We 'ulbelunuo!flunndbue commandant over the week end, (Copyrisht, 1931, the Associated Press.) WILL TRY AGAIN MONDAY. each other at the con- NORFOLK, Va., January 3 (#).—A damaged sextant, shifting” winds and misty wenther encountered within a few miles of the first goal caused failure today of the first attempt “pay-load” airplane flllht from New York to Paris. ‘The monoplane Tradewind, piloted by Lieut. William 8. MacLaren and Mrs. Beryl Hart, was forced to turn back and landed tsaight at the Hampton Roads Naval Alr Station, fore than 15 hwnflhrshcludhunonxmuuw York. The fiyers had flo - mately 1,500 miles when M landed wm t at 9:25 o'clock, but were none ‘worse lor ir experience other grime and ‘Will Try Again Monday. Lieut. MacLaren and Mrs. Hart, after. anc] their plane securely night, went to m quarters of Lieut. C. C. Champion at the naval base, where Hart retired shortly after her ar- rival. Both announced, however, they would resume their flight to Paris Mon- day morning over the same route as originally planned. ‘The 8 that resulted in the fail- ure of the flight occurred b:fore the bll monoplane had hn the Yofl juse of the heavy load, .L!ellt llu-mm said, it was necessary e’ sexiant, which rfl wuonmnlm mwumu than ¢ | burg, performed xorme" The executive mansion of Vlrxlnh resounded to wedding music last evening for the first time in 40 years, when Miss o{ and Mrs: John Garland Pollard and Virginia’s official hostess, became the bride of Miss Pollard, who at the age of 23 took over the duties of mistress nl the mansion, and who wen praise for her poise in presiding at State social functions, chose a simple wedding ceremo: to which only members of the two families were Invited. After their hgneymoon, Mr. and Mrs. Boatwright will ‘Washington, whm the groom is engaged in the practice of law. !—mu Pollard, t, jr., (inset) of Danville, Va. SUZANNE POLLARD BECOMES . BRIDE OF YOUNG D. C. LAWYER lin dmhd crease in the price or"-vfifi:? ed Virginia Executive Mansion Transformed fo. Cha 1 Banked in Flowcrs—Destma- tlon of Honeymoon Kept Secret By the Associated Prass: l RICHMOND, / Va., January 3.—Miss Suzanne Pollard, Virginia's first lady, tonight became the bride of Herbert Lee Boatwright, jr., of Washington in lw:enmony at lhe historic mlnflm of ‘Governbr.* Miss Pollard, .zured in a gown of ivory satin and carrying a prayer book with streamers - of white orcl , - ad- vanced down an aisle of. bay trees-and cathedral candles to an altar to be given in marriage by her father, Gov, John Garland Pollard. Her only at- tendant was* Miss Emily Poliard of Merion, Pa., a cousin. Benjamin Booth, jr, of Danville, Va., was best man. Only members of the immediate fami- lies were present. Home Transformed Into Chapel. The great- dining hall of the cen- tury-old mansion was transformed into an improvised chapel for the wedding, and flowers and Scotch heather were unk huh around its stately walls. R. Goodwin, rector of Bru: ton Pnnsh Episco) Church, Willlams- ceremony. More than 500 distinguished guests, including socially prominent people in Viry and a dozen or more States, entered shortly. after the wedding, when ht went just as we |the mansion’s doors, were thrown open for a receptlon It was the first wed- mansion, traditional social eenter of the Old Dominion, in 40 years mfl the most mmsnt lochl event of the. Winter in the Virginia capital. Members of Gov. Pollard’s official staff, in full-dress uniforms, were ushers. Many Prominent Guests. The long list- of invited guests in- cluded Mrs. Nellle Tayloe Ross, former Governor of Wyoming: United States Senator James J.' Dayis of Pennsylva- nia and Mrs. Davis, Chief J\uflce Rob- ert R. Prentis of -Virginia, Mrs. Robert W. Danlel of New Ym'k and Brandon, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crane of Westover, Mr. and Mrs. Archi- bald McCrea of Carters Grove, Presi- dent Marvin of George Washington University, members of the Virginia delegation in Congress, State officials, high-ranking Army and Navy officers and hundreds of other personal friends of the two families. Honeymoon Destination Kept Secret. The young couple will make their home in Washington after February, and while there has been no formal an- nouncement, it is understood that Mrs. Boatwright will continue to serve as of- ficial hostess for her father, a position she has held since his inauguration because of the illness of her mother. Until February they will be on a honeymoon trip, and even Gov. Pollard will not know their whereabouts. The Governor has in his possession a sealed letter which he has been requested to keep unopened unless there is urgent reason to communicate with them. the plane, and the lens in the telescope was broken. He did nét discover the mishap until he was an hour and a half out of New York. . Then he decided to continue, setting his- course by compass and.dead reckoning. All went well until they were within a comparatively short dis- tance of Bermuda, the first stop. when a shift in the wind and misty weather were encountered. This forced the fiyers to seek a low level of 400 feet, and even at this altitude it was impossible for them to see the island. Turned Back at 2:30. ‘The plane was not equipped with radio and no bearings could be asked. Realizing that he might run out of gasoline in search for the island, Mac- Laren said he and his companion de- cided to turn back. Hampton Roads, where MacLaren 'learned to fly as a Navy pilot in 1919, was selected as the nearest point and compass course was set for the Virginia Capes. It was 2:30 o'clock when the plane .turned back, having been in the air then seven Kours. No trouble was encountered on the flight to Hampton Roads, and a few min- utes before 9 o'clock the lights of the Hampton Roads Naval Air Station were picked up and an easy landing made in the darkened waters of Willoughby Bay, on which the air station fronts. Lieut. MacLaren said most of the pilot- ing was done by Mrs. Hart while he looked after the navigating duties. ' His records showed the plane had been in the air 15 hours and 25 minutes. Lieut. MacLaren said ' after ‘getting into the air at New York and circling round it was 6 o'clock when he finally got his HARRIS ESTATE SMALL NEW YORK, January 3 (#).—An in- dica $10,6 d estate of not much more than 0 ‘was -left by Charles K. Harris, on_musical renown as the author o! "Amr the Ball” and other hits. Fhe ng writer, who died December 22, left :l“ o{l his estate to his widow, Cora L. arr Student Flyer Killed. LAFAYI'I'I'E Ind., January 3 (P).— her, 37, student fiyer, was y when the airplane he Was puntm: went into a tallspin and crashed from -n altitude of 3,000 feet on a farm near h Baugher was be- lieved to have M ing stunt flying as a part, of- training. MANY TASKS HOLD ALFARO, PRESIDENT OF PANAMA, HERE __ (Continued From Pirst Page) legation at Panama City and Guatemala City extensive reports. Special considerations, involving Amer- ican interests in preserving order in the Canal Zone will govern recfinmon of the regime there, Stimson in addi- tion to considerations as to whether Panama is prepared to fulfill her inter- national obiigations under the new ‘ad- ministration. PANAMA SITUATION NORMAL. Head of Junta Says Gofernment Needs No New Recognition, PANAMA CITY, January 3 (P).— Panama went about its business as usual today as though there had not been an overnight change in the gov- ernment, and from' the presidential palace itself Harmodio Arias, head of the junta which replaced President Arosemena. announced that recognition by forelgn powers Was not necessary since the change of government was entirely constitutional. J. J. Vallarino, a member of the provisional “cabi’et, appointed a new head of the police force, which also serves as Panama’s army, and declared that he would see to it that order was Dr. Vallarino, who is an X-ray. lpedll- ist, intended -to ‘o to San Francisco this month. to {visit Gen. Malin Craig, But he was not sure whether be could lqlko the trip in view of recent events. ‘The Arias government will function as it is now constituted until Ricardo J. Alfaro, the Minister to Washington, can come here and assume the dency. Former President Arosemena mean- time was confined t> his quarters with other officials of his government, but it was generally expected that he would be released soon unless his successor decided to try him on charges of mal- feasance. Hartwell F. Ayers, American news- paper man, who was wounded by stray bul 'day, still lived in the Gorgas tal, but the docmn dld not think he could recover. shot in the meck and an the intestines were perforated. presi- | the chi Federation Favors Change in Teside —A. P. Photo. TREASURY FACES 1931 TAX PROBLEM, & Dwindling Surplus and. Pros- pect of Reduction on:In- ‘comes Start Year. By the Assoclated Press. - Collecting approximately $70,000,000 less in income taxes in the calendar year 1930 than in the 12 months of 1929 the Government entered the 1931 calen- dar year with a dwindling surplus and faced with reduced income taxes. The Treasury’'s statement issued for the close of business on December 31 showed that in the 1930 calendar year it had’ collected $2,333,307,000 in taxes on incomes despite the 1 per cent re- duction granted in the tax on 1929 in- comes. In the previous calendar year the collections - amounted w, $2,403,- . Decline of Surplus. Starting the fiscal year of 1931 on last July 1 with a surplus of $184,- 000,000 the Treasury completed the first six months of the year on December 31 with a surplus of $53,124,805, which may be wiped out before the first pay- ment of tax on 1930 incomes is re- ceived on March 15. At the close of business on the last day of the year the Government had collected from all sources $1,854,207,812 and had spent $1,801,082,916 in the first half of the 1931 fiscal year. During the six-month period customs receipts showed a decrease of approxi- mately $100,000,000 as compared with the same period of the previous year, collections mml.ng $201,385,239 as com- pared with $302,214,137 in the same period * of 1920. Income tax totaled ll 107,307,012 as comp‘nfl with §1,185,~ 317,860 and miscellaneous internal reve nue dropped off from $318,493,628 to $295,317,352. Six Months’ Comparison. ‘The total income of the Government for the first six months of the 1931 fiscal year compared with $2,077,539,5616 in the ‘first six months of the previous fiscal year while athe expendmnrea de- creased from $1,085,804,861 in the first six months of the 1930 fiscal year. General and ordinary expenditures of the ‘Government, however, showed in- creases In the six-month. period of the present fiscal year as compared with Qh? same period of the previous fiscal ‘The general expeénditures totaled u 171,124,746 this vear as compared with Sl 112, 046,602 in the previous year while ordfin-ry expenditures totaled 3: ,706.788,916 as l.‘ompared with $1,601,- PRIEST’S TRANSFER PROTESTED BY MOB; POLICE ARE ROUTED (Continued From First Page.) let him retire pelcelbly but the devout parishioners refused. The mood of the crowd seemed to be h;pm;nlud in the words of one man, “Father Kowaleski loves us and we love him. He has and ‘has built the parish from nothing until 'Ihlt it is today. We'll not al- low him to g nor any one to take hxm—‘t.h,{l is the only way we can pre- Almost_simultaneously. with the rival of the small police detail this ternoon a large limousine drove up to urch. it were Father Kowal- eski’s successor and two othe priests. All were hooted and imprisoned in the car, which finally drove away. The back and side doors of the church were guarded to prevent the new pastor from any possible stealthy entrance. Soon after the. priests disappeared, Father Kowaleski came out of the church, walked slowly across the street to the a church's organist, e and surreng The mood of the crot has been here 21 years, | Ry Borland Law— Reaffirms Vote for D. C. Stand. The Federation of Citizens’ Associae. urder which sych assessments are lev. ied, leaving the principle intact, though attempting to make cation more equitable in certain cases. ‘The Federation also reaffirmed its po- sition in favor of national representa- tion for the cftizens of the District. contradictory nature of the Bore land law report was what led to most assessments are o be made, however, the committee recommended several safeguards in a second paragraph, in- cluding the setting up of a board of review made up of -freeholders of t.h. District. One_ group, led by James G. Yaden of Petworth, wanted to slice the report in two, adopting only the graph opposing the principle of m. front-foot assessments. He was joined, by Willlam McK. Clayton of Bright-. Wales, Cathedral wood, George R. Heights, l.nd others, who held that road improvements should be paid for out of the general tax funds. Roberts Supports Report. The committee report was supported by Willlam A. Roberts, an assistant to Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride, who wrote the bill on the mhlm now pend- ing in Congress; E. chairman of the eumm!tme Harry Stull, Geo Sullivan, and others, When the Yaden amendment came to a vote, the result was a tle, 37 to 31, and the amendment wns declared lost, H. E. Young of Iowa-Thomas Circle, who could have decided the issue either way, voted “present.” The committee's :;p?rt’;vu finally adopted by & vote of 0 29. The Federation voted against a bill to prevent medical experiments on living dogs, and against & $50,000 appropria- tion from public funds for the assist- ance of Casualty Hospital. Reports !t- voring a six-day week for sguards ai Blnuwt .l'lllll ‘:m'i'lli':om and the nbol« hing of alley dwellings were adopted. The Federation empowered Edwin Hege and Joseph Gammell to speak for it at the hearings before the House Dis- trict Committee on the Commissioners® traffic bill. The federation had previous- ly ored the bill, which pmvidel ‘w tl;e mhhln‘ of the office of di o c. ing all appropriations for the the personnel of the traffic di- s office, amounting to about uq,. 000 & year, and that he had been sured that such was not the ineenuan of the Commissioners. He was author- ized to s t an amendment to take care of this medical experience care of this. Favor Vote for District. The report on national repruenh- tion was based on a resolution of ‘the Columbia Hellhu szenl‘ Associgtion- favoring giving to the eitizens of thl Dmmc e right to representation in the Hnupe dand Senate and the elec- 1 college, and also in the national eonvenuom of the major political pu- ties, Fred Emery, ch.lmun o( Committee on National mde-brlefreport.tnw chhe attention to the fact that the federa« lon’ had nulu nmu in the M He said the ported the rouuu- of the lzdeutkm were the same ll those printed in the petition in Evening Bhr November 4, which vll n.m by the presidents of numerous, organizations, including® the tedenuum le's Counsel Richmond B, attended the meeting. and at fl; mlg“a 'w brief speech Inviting uu dele- ga bring their problems nemmmmdwnummm- ture meetings. SEMI-CONSCIOUS MAN FOUND LYING BESIDE PIKE. Taken to Hospital, He Only Re« members Going for Ride With Friend—Jaw Broken. < ' Picked up iast night beside the road along the Washington-Alexandria about a half mile south of the High- | wey Bridge, Henry Merrill Cook, 33, of the 500 block Park road, was taken fo Emergency Hospital and found to be suffering from a broken jaw and broken pelvis bone. His condition was un- detzrmined. Cook was discovered in ‘a semi- conscious condition by Harry Allen of 237 Tenth street northeast, and Henry Carter of 3624 New Hampshire avenue, who took him to the hospital. Cook: is said to have told his rescuers that he was out riding with a friend whose name he dm not know and that the next thing he remembered was when' he was picked up. Arlington County police were in< formed of the affair and Policeman William H. Thompson was sent to in< vestigate. CHICAGO BANKS ENTER '31 STRONGER. THAN IN-'30 Statements Reveal Larger Depos- its, Cash Resources and Smaller Loans. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Ill, January 3.—Chicago banks enter the new year stronger (han they were at the beginning of 1930. ~ - This was shown today in statements of condition as on the last day of 1930. Larger deposits, cash resources and smaller loans were in com- parison with a year ago. Likewise, strength in all three directions was greater than at the time of thelutel.u. made on Septemer 24. All the city's national banks showed total deposits of $895,819,000, an in- crease of $16,326,000 since September 24 and of $41,345,000 since December 31, 1929, Total deposits, of the leading State banks aggre 1,724,101,000, an in- crease of $53, Izn in the last thred months and $130,694,000 in the year. DO-X REPAIRS ADVANCE . LISBON, mnl January 3 (P).— Dornier bo-e ship may be able to leave the January 15. With an entirely new left 'pzl’:ce t.bn Lisbon in a tut hop. To increase the fiying nue of the lhlg whose commander, Christiansen, Brazil by way of and thence to New York, tional oil tanks have been built into the machine. Gives I.x{e for nng [ONTREAL, Jlnn.ry g Mchuy, 42, gave e to save her pet Pomennhn dog was lwept by the way of a street car which and injured her nmls I'GM with,a