Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 20

WICKERSHAM BODY FACES HUGE TASK Commission Admits Impossi- bility of Completing Survey During Allotted Life. By the Associated Press. Convening for the first time in & month, President Hoover's Law Enforce- ment C:mraission today confronted the admitted impossibility of completing its crime survey during its allotted life. One finished report lay before the members—the first since their survey of prohibition—while nine more remained %0 be completed before July 1. On that date the remainder of the commission’s $250,000 appropriation will expire and its offices must be abardoned and its | clerical force dismissed. Unless plans are altered the members will give early ccnpsideration to the| criminal statistics study directed by | Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard. If approved, unless it is voted that signatures of the several absentee mem- | bers must be obtained, the report can| almost immediately to President | oover. Members Pessimistic. Several mffinbers were pessimistic, | ¥ however, as to completion of the Te- | maining nine rep:rts. before July 1 un- c steps are taken. Only one, crim prosecutions survey, super- vised by Monte Lehmann, New Orleans lawyer, is near completion. Even this cannot be signed until the commission's next me It was forecast that the first of the remaining eight reports will not be ready for publication before June. To complete the task assigned by President Hoover an average of one survey every four days must be released during that month. Chairman Wickersham recently con- ceded the impossibility of finishing at least one of the reports. He spoke of the survey of the organization, jurisdic- tion and function of courts,, upon which work is being done by a committee of college heads and deans. ‘Wickersham Cites Views. “This work cannot be completed dur- ing the life of our commission,” Wick-‘ erham said. “We anticipate, however, | having from it a report of progress which will demonstrate the value of the ‘work and the soundness of the method by which it is being conducted, and it is hoped that some institution may be tollnd willing to carry it on to com- Bl.uee completion of its prohibition report the commission has been meet'ng but once a month. Because of the Ppresent emergency, however, plans were nmizr consideration to double the time of meeting, and possibility to to keep the comm'ssion in Washington during much of June. COMMITTEE TO.DISCUSS MONTGOMERY PAMPHLET By a Staft Correspondent of The BETHESDA, Md., April ‘The com- mittee authorized to drganize a civic group sponsoring publication of l pam- phlet descriptive of Montgomery County will meet tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the county building The group is composed o( relent- atives of the six Mo of Commerce, w'i'flm memben n( Funder- is chatr- man and Edward H. Jones of the Be- Receives Award CATHOLIC U. PROFESSOR WINS GRANT OF $300. R. J. DEFERRARIL R. J. Deferrari, scholar for the third time in as many vears, it was disclosed yesterday, when the American Council of Learned Societies announced awards totaling $60,000 to 50 scholars. According to the which was made committee on feil 36 grants, ranging and totaling appro:: announcement, ips and grants, rom 5100 to $1,500 nses of research in a wide variety of flelds. Fourteen re- search fellowships, with a total value of about $40,000, were awarded for schol- arly investigation in the United States, Europe and South America. “The small grants,” the announce- ment stated, “are designed to assist re- search: by scholars who are trained in scientific methods of investigation. The larger grants, reserved for mature scholars. of substantial achievement in constructive research, are bestowed pri- marily to aid in the advancement of knowledge. “The aim of the fellowships is to rovide opportunities for further train- g and experience in humanistic re- search to younger scholars of unusual ability, selected from among those who have demonstrated unmistakable apti- tude for constructive scholarshi] Prof. Deferrari received his first grant three ‘yum ago, when he was awarded $300 for his work on Prudentiut n early Christian poet. The second grant, awarded last year, was for work on Ovid, and the latest is for a concord- ance to the same work. Several months ago, the Medieval Soclety of America awardéd Prof. Deferrari $3,000 for publicatian of his work on Prudentius. It will be pub- lished in June, the professor said yes- terday. H o Valandowo Shaken by Quakes. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, April 1 (#). —A dispatch from Valandowo reported seven earthshocks of moderate inten- sity there last night, terrorizing the asant population. Many people fled g-um their homes to outdoor camps in the bitter cold. professor of Greek | |and Latin at Catholic University, has been awarded $300 for his work 'as s |colonics that dof the shore about 0) e organization’s | :imately $20,000, were | THE EVENING AVIATORS RETURN FROM VIKING HUNT Balchen, Cooper and Enslow See “Slim Chance” That Any Survive Disaster. a7 the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., April 1. —The three aviators who flew into the North in a vain search for trate: of the missing members of the sealer Viking came home yest:rday to report that there was only a “very slim chance” that any survived. Showing little trace of the hardships they endured, Bernt Balchen, Capt. Merian Cooper and Randy Enslow landed at Roosevelt Field yesterday afternoon, completing the last leg of their long journey from New Foundland. “The only hope is that some of the men found their way across the ice to one of the isolated villages,” said Capt. Cooper, who organized the expedition for Dr. Lewis Prissell of New York, fa- ther of the missing Varick Frissell, young motion-picture photographer. Capt. Cooper said the little fishing colonies that dot the shore about 60 and sank are cut off from communica- tion with the outside world until late Spring. He said the ¢hance that the men had reached shore, however, was slight. “We are positive there was nothing alive on the ice, fof we searched an area of 1,000 miles and the visibility was so | good that we could sce many miles ad- | ditfonal form a high altitude.” The only sign of life the searching | party encountered, said Capt. Cooper, | was at Twillingate Harbor. From 100 mil away they saw some black spot STAR, ut,m-x'm cn':kms wmnndl a group of sealers at Wi wosping o, could us that ‘were "h:{ clo ed, curious, hllt nham no f_distress. filehen Who divided tbe plloting with had little to sa] “Qur only hope when we started cut was to get there in 48 hours, but weather conditions were such that it would have been absolute suicide to have flown cn when we could have been of no assistance.” HAMMOND if_E.RRY BRIDGE IS TAKEN OVER BY STATE Roads trol of Anne Arundel County Commission Assumes Con- Highway Span. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | ANNAPOLIS, April 1.—The State Roads Commission of Maryland has no- tified the commissioners of Anne Arun- del County that it will assume control of the Hammond Ferry Bridge over the; Patapsco River. The bridge connects Anne Arundel | and Baltimore counties, and is part of the road which links Linthicum Heights in the former county with Lansdowne in the latter. It also offers an alternate route between Annapolis and Baltimore. The Hammond Ferry Bridge was one of the three which the State body was asked to take from the county. The others are Strong Creek Bridge near Brooklyn and Baltimore and the Weeks Creek Bridge northwest of Annapolis. No decision has yet been reached as | to the latter two. Two Dead After Duel. NEW YORK, April 1 (#).—Two men, clutching pistols and about 20 paces apart, were found shot to death early | this morning in a lonely spot under the Queensboro Bridge, Long Island | City. They were faced forward, and lit appeared that they had gone there £ |EAN DAYLE, FREED, PLANS 70 G0 HOME Acquitted on Slaying Charge, She Breaks Into Tears and Thanks Jury. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, April 1.—For the{ | first time in nearly four months, Jean Dayle left the Salt Lake County Jail yesterday without a police officer at her side. The former cabaret singer was ac- | quitted of the murder of Sam Frank, Memphis, Tenn,, jewelry auctioneer, by a jury yesterday morning. The verdict snapped the tension under which she had lived since her arrest early in De- cember, charged with the murder. With a sharp intake of breath she to shoot it out. g Stielf&terllng Silver Duritan. Patterna, Rovse. . - “CLINTON" A Plain Colonial Pattern of Stieff Sterling Silver At These New Low Prices 6 Teaspoons .. 6 Salad Forks. 6 Knives, med. 6 Forks, med.. 6 Butter Spreads.... 6 Cream Soup Spoons. 10.! 50 6 Coffee Spoons 4.00 6 Oyster Forks. 6 Iced-Tea Spoons 6 Tablespoons 1 Butter Knife. 1 Sugar Spoon 1 Olive Spoon 1 Lemon Fork.. 1 Tartar Sauce Ladle. 1 Gravy Ladle.. 1 Jelly Server. 1 Cold Meat Fork 1 Ple Server.. 2-pc. Steak Set. " Pt ] Pz, | ansssaAnse Stieff Rose and Puritan at These Same Prices R.Haurris &. Go. 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Genuine Reptiles, Kidskin Satin Kid New Colored Kids Pumps—Straps—Ties All Are Brand-New 1931 Styles Not a pair over 3 weeks old FSt—At12th l?er' WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1931. burst into tears and threw herself, sob- bing, into arms of her , Mrs. Ida l‘n “of Seattle. The crowded rang with applause and cheers whlth were instantly hushed by Judge James H. Wolfe. ‘Then the jurors, who had reached the verdict on their second ballot after slightly more than six hours’ actual de- benunn. by and received her “A Lh(n‘ that's stained can be cleaned again,” she said. “It's not the mistakes we make, it's what we profit by. I've a second chance and I'm going to got & vflmt M it going home—that's enough, isn't i"" beamed Mrs. Lane, who came here from Seattle to her daughter's aid. She said she and her daughter planned to leave today or tomorrow by automo- bile with her son, Eddie McCullough. ‘The verdict was called by defense counsel a victory of justice and by the district attorney as a travesty. “We might as well wipe the homicide laws off the statute books,” said District Attorney Ray Van Cott. “The trouble is not with the law but with the juries. D. C. SUBURBSUSING -~ OWN WATER AGAIN District Supply Abandoned as Out- lying Sources Return to Normaloy. For the first time since early last Summer, the entire water supply for suburban Maryland is being supplied by the pumping stations at Burnt Mills and Hyattsville, J. Darby Bowman, secretary to the Washington Suburban Slnlhry Commission made known to- slnce the first of February, the com- mission has been cutting down on the amount of water drawn District of Columbia mains, until at the present ing the quality of the water now being supplied, Mr. Bowman said. Flow in the Northwest Branch, from fall considerable belo' average it will not be n to take water Summer ter mun.m to four and a half million to five mil- lion gallons & day. Unless there.is a cessation of precipitation, ha declared, the -Sanitary Commission hlve no difficulty furnishing this amount. The four connections made with Dis- trict mains last Summer still are open, however, and can be utilized at eny time. Two are near Chevy Chase Cir- cle, a third is on Georgia avenue, while the fourth is on Rhode Island avenue in Mount Rainier. 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