Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1931, Page 17

—mmmore ® WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION - @he Foen WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL “CREATER CAPTAL CANPAIN PENED 170 RAISES1 FUNDS Minimum of $50,000 Sought, Lost and Found—One Baby FIRST A. W. O. L. AT WHITE HOUSE EGG FETE. } but Sum of $112,500 Is ! Hoped-for Goal. DIRECTOR GIVES PLANS ON NATIONAL PUBLICITY Bpokesmen at Dinner Pledge Aid. Early Promises of Donations Auspicious for Budget. The campaign of the Greater Na- tional Capital Committee to promote the interests of Washington on a na- tional scale was started today as mem- bers of the campaign budget group be- gan work for the raising of a mini- mum fund of $50,000 and a hoped-for | total of $112,500. Already, it was announced, $28.750 has been pledged by a comparatively small number of organizations con- tacted during brief preliminary solicita- tion. By unanimous vote at & dinner meet- ing held last night at the Willard Hotel approximately 100 business snd profesisonal leaders of the city approved the general plans for promoting Wash- ington’s growth along beneficial lines. The committee, a department of the Washington Board of Trade, has as fts objectives the bringing of ‘more con- ventions and tourists to Washington, better reception and entertainment of both tourists and’ conventions, more permanent residents for the National Capital, more trade organizations here and promotion of Washington as the educational, musical and art center of America. Subcommittees Announced. Announcement was made last night of the subcommittees of the campaign committee, headed by Robert V. Flem- ing, president of Riggs National Bank, which today are engaged in soliciting funds for the budget. 3 1t is hoped that at least the minimum budget required for the first year of operation will have been pledged by the end of the week. Spokesmen for various | business groups last night pledged sup- port for the movement and the fund- raising campaign. Associated with Mr. Fleming on the | campaign committee are John Poole, John Joy Edson, George W. White, Corcoran Thom, Joshua Evans, jr.; W. W. Everett and Theodore W. Noyes. Defines Objective. ‘The Board of Trade committee ini general charge of the work of the Greater National Capital Committee consists of A. C. Case, chairman; Mr. Everett, E. C. Graham, Lanier P. Mc- Lachlen, Lloyd B. Wilson, George PIlitt, Daniel L. Moorman, Charles W. Morris, Robert J. Cottrell, E. C. Brandenburg and Merle Thorpe. Mr. Fleming, who presided at last night's meeting, described the move- ment that led to the formation of the promotion _committee, including the survey of Washington, and pointed to the need of fostering a guided growth of Washington. It had been decided, he said, that the best objective lies not in seeking to make Washington a great industrial center, but rather in pro- moting its development along lines of education, art and as a place of per- manent residence. Mr. Thorpe, editor of Nation's Busi- ness, publication of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, declared that cities, like private business, can be made to grow faster and under better direction by such co-operative efforts. More tourists and more conventions, he said, are valuable in leading to expan- sion of home ownership and the bring- ing of increased numbers of permanent residents. Director Tells Plans. ‘Ward H. Marsh, former head of the Greater Detroit movement, brought here to be managing director of the Washington promotion, outlined some of the plans which will be made opera- tive as soon as the work is inaugurated. These include a national publicity cam- paign, operating as far as possible through existing channels, to tell the Nation of Washington’s natural, educa- tional, residential and other attractions; an information service for tourists and convention delegates, and the establish- ment of a corps of agents to make per- sonal contacts throughout the country to “sell” Washington as the city for great conventions. The District Commissioners, Dr. Luther H. Reicelderfer, Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby and Maj. John C. Gotwals, were among the special guests. Dr. Reichelderfer commended the promotion committee on the pre- liminary work preceding the fund cam- paign and, speaking of the objectives ©! the Greater National Capital Com- mittee, declared: I firmly believe this effort will be successful.” Films Will Aid Work. wski, representative of who this year will film a motion picture of the National Capital, announced he would seek to establish a national distribution of this film as an advertisement of Washing- ton, and also that while conferring with officials of the producing concern in New York this week he would request that a distinctively Washington mes. sage be incorporated in the produc- tion Mr. Edson, veteran Washington banker; praised the Board of Trade on its new civic enterprise and said that, while he was soon to celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday, he expects to see that organization and Washington ac- 1 even greater things in future Subcommittee Members, ‘The subcommittees for various busi- ness group announced last night in- clude the following, with their respec- tive membe! Finan “dward J. McQuade, chair- man: W. W. Spaid, Frederick Siddons. Retail—A. C. Case, Frank R. Jelleff, Mark Lansburgh, J. D. Kaufman, Hctels—E. C. Owen, F. S. Hight, R. Pollio. Transportation—J. H. Hanna, Wil- liam F. Ham, E. D. Merrill, William H. Caliahan. Public_Utilities—Lloyd B. Wilson. Real Estate—Monroe Warren, John Saul, Morris Cafritz, Arthur Carr, Wil- liam R. Ellis. Graphic Arts—W. J. Eynon, Shoemaker, Grant Leet. Food Products—Edward Yonker and Leon Arnold. Contractors and Builders—Charles Tompkins, E. H. Rosengarten, C. Wohl- 1 J. B HE dubious distinction of being th egg-rolling festivities at the Wh! s of the White House police and years old. She was found wandering in the throng by Officer F. Gibbons | |of the area of the upper atmosphere e first child to become lost at yvesterday's ite House went to Rose Mary Rolls, 2! returned to her parents. —Harris-Ewing Photo. | SOLDIER SOUGHT INLANE MURDER Missing Since Leaving Fort Two Days Before Crime, Police Learn. The search for the slayer of James H. Lane, street car motorman who was fatally wounded while protecting his fare box from two bandits on March 18, swept into new channeis today as a re- sult of information unearthed by De tives J. F. B: 1 and William of the eleventh precinct station. Police and Army officials are hunting for a 19-yéar-old alleged Army deserter, 2c the latest suspect in the murder of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. employe. Rewards totaling $1,300 are expected to aid the two agencies in lo- | cating their quarry. ‘The soldier, police have learnsd, left Fort Washington, Md., two days before the murder and has not been heard from since. He borrowed a suit of | cl<thes from a fellow soldier, lcaving be- hin¢ his own uniform, civilian clothes and back pay amountmg to approxi mately $60. His general description is said to tally with that of the gunman who shot Lane and fled with a ccmpanicn in a waiting automobiie, after the street car motorman resisted the efforts of the bandit pair to rob the coin box on the iront platform of the one-man car he was_operating. The soldier is sald to be well known in the Capital, especially in the vicinity cf Seventh street and Pennsylvania ave- nue, where he frequently has been seen, cording to police, in company with a man now under arrest in the first precinct. WEST. SIDE OF LINCOLN PLAZA WILL BE RAISED Clean Earth Sought to Build Up Area to Grade of Arlington Memorial Bridge. The west side of the Lincoln Me- morial plaza is being built up to the grade of the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks is anxious to get clean earth for filling in this area. The east de of the plaza will remain about the same grade as at present, motorist of the future, traveling on to the Arlington Memorial Bridge, will g0 up to the bridge level on a gradual incline. At the present time, part of the earth for raising the west side of the plaz being secured from the excavation for States Building, east of the Capitol. David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, made arrangements with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Build- ings and Public Parks, to have trucks travel over Constitution avenue and into Potomac Park, to distribute the earth Contractors are asked to make ar- rangements with Col. Grant's office with reference to dumping clean earth near the memorial, and the engineers said today that they will be given permission to haul earth over Constitution avenue and the park roads. Kenzie, Louis Levay, George P. Mar- shall Florists—George Gude, John Smail. Commission Merchants—Col. Brown. Newspapers—Edmund _ F. Jewell, Arthur Marks, Samuel H. Kauffmann Lowell A. Mellett, L. E. Ryan. Bakeries Represented. Bakerles—Leon Ulman, John Green. Accountants, Auditors and Tax Con- sultants—James Councilor, Raymond Florance, Wayne Kendrick Bottles and Beverages—Julius J. El hard, L. J. Goode, Abner Drury, Dikeman, Christian Heurich Coal and Wood—J. E. Colliflower, W. williams, Pere Wilmer. Electrical Contractors and Electrical Pixtures—E. C. Graham, O. R. Evans, Charles D. McClary. Express, Transfer and Shaffer, Granville Wrisley D. H Storage—Ar- K. Morris. Insurance Men Aid. Montgomery. Lawyers—George Offutt, Edward F. Colladay, George Hoover. Dr. Charles 8. White. ‘Theaters—Julian Brylawski, Hardle Meakin, Orangelo J. Ratto, Steve Coch- gemuth, jr; Harry Blake. Automotive Group. Aummov}.liven—gg:fluj Wll‘n'.i'nl‘n‘nn‘ hoy Restaurants—Bert L. Olmstead, Pred Buchholz, A. P. Reeves. Gleaners and Laundries—Fred Mac- ran. Henry Brawner, Drug Stores—M. G. Gibbs, Paul Pearson. Investment and Brok: Knowles Cooper, Charles Corby, Lawrence M. Proctor. Alles, Karl but the | the new Supreme Court of the United | thur Smith, Clarence A. Aspinwall, E.| Insurance—E. 8. Brashears, Willlam | | Physicians—Dr. Arthur C. Christie, Dairies and Ice Cream—E. H. Damels.I BUS DRIVERHELD | INFATAL ACCIDENT! Colored Man Struck While; } Crossing Street Dies [ at Hospital. Claude Holbrook, colored, 42 years old, 1248 Bladensburgh road northeast, died at Casualty Hospital early this | morning as the result of injuries suf- | fered when a Washington Railway & | Electric Co. bus struck him as he w; crossing Florida avenue near Fou teenth street early last night. A squad of ninth precinct police car- ried Holbrook to Casualty Hospital, | where staff physicians diagnozed his | injuries as fractures of the ribs and | right arms, lacerations of the head and | face. He dicd five hours after the mis- | hap. . | The operator of the bus, Lewis C.| Ward, 27 years old, of 528 Sixth street southeast, was arrested by police pend- ing an inquest which Coroner J. Ram- say Nevitt is expected to call for to- morrow morning at the District morgue. Seriously Hurt in Crash. A crash between two machines in the | grounds of the Smithsonian Institute sent one of the drivers to Emergency Hospital with serious hurts. He is Hal| Semmes, 49 years old, of 1212 Hemlock | street, who received a skull fracture. Claude Rosenberger, 19, of Ballston, | an athlete at Washington and Lee High | | School, who was driving the second car, | and a companion, William Harrison, 14-year-old son of Inspector William H. Harrison of the Metropolitan Police Department, escaped injury. Semmes was hurt when he was thrown from the car, his head striking a stone |on the roadside. He was carried to | Emergency Hospital by Park Policeman W. J. McFeeley. Emergency Hospital physicians treat- ed Miss Ruby Dowie, 17, of Arlington, N. J, and Miss Wanda Krukell, 15, of Kearney, N. J., guests at the Lee House in this city, for shock and bruises sus- tained when an automobile operated by Frank B. Laporte, 44, of Hyattsville, Md., struck them as they were crossing | L street at Fifteenth. | | Machines Collide. \ Fire rescue squad workers removed | Lewis Floyd, colored, 35, of 778 Co- lumbia road, to Emergency Hospital after he was injured in a collision at New Jersey avenue and P street be- tween a machine which he was driving and another operated by David Glen, 27, colored. Floyd received a broken arm and cuts of the forehead. | A hit-and-run driver struck William A Finely, 28, of 317 C street, near his home last night and inflicted minor cuts and bruises. Finely refused hos- pital treatment. Police are searching for a Florida car in connection with the accident, A hearse owned by Martin W. Hy- | song’s undertaking establishment col- lided with a sedan driven by Allen R. Marsh, 33 years old, of 3218 Otis street, Mount Rainier, Md., at Kentucky and South Carolina avenues southeast late yesterday afternoon and injured four | occupants of the Marsh machine. Those hurt were Marsh's wife, Mrs. Georgia P. Marsh, 33; Mrs. Naomi Gray, 40, of 518 Fifth street southeast and her two children, Edwin, 6, and Acoline, 11. Mrs. Marsh refused hos- pital treatment, but the others were ( given first aid at Providence Hospital for shock, cuts and bruises. The driver of the hearse, Cowl L. Hill, 27 years old, of 407 Ninth street | northeast, and Marsh were unhurt. FALLS FROM WINDOW J. A. Norton Has Lacerated Wrist and Possible Internal Injuries. John A. Norton, 52, insurance sales- man, received a lacerated left wrist and possible internal injuries when he fell from a window of his home at 615 Girard street northeast as he was aris- ing this morning, crashing through the glass and landing on the paved alley- way below. He was taken to Sibley Hospital, where little information regarding his condition could be obtained. The cut lon his wrist was believed to have been | received when he went through the window glass, on losing his balance. Police of ‘the twelfth precinct are | | investigating. of ASKS $20,000 DAMAGES | e Ty James Brown of Ashton, Md. has filed suit in the District Supreme Court | to recover $20,000 damages from the | Washington Wholesale Drug Exchange | for alleged personal injury resulting from a collision between his automobile and a truck of the defendant May 28 | 1ast. ‘The accident hap{).ened at Pifth and 8 streets, and the plaintiff says his car :raue—wmmm was turned over and demolished. He is | rollers in action. represented by Attorneys Cromelin & Laws and L. N. Coe. FQUATORALAD SURPASSES OLAR SEVERALMILES P Research Council Given Data on How Stratosphere Re- verses Temperature. EFFECT OF SUN’S RAYS | AND RADIATION STRANGE | Dr. Willett of Massachusetts In-| stitute of Technology Explains } Vast Phenomena. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | It is almost twice as cold at the| Equator as at the North Pole. I This curious condition, from 5 to 15 | miles above the earth’s surface, is re- | vealed by Dr. Hurd C. Willett of the Messachusetts Institute of Technology | in a report just issued by the National | Research Council. | The higher one goes the colder it | gets at_the approximate rate of 6 de- | grees Centigrade for each kilometer. But a point finally is reached where there is no more decline, and even a | possible slight increase of temperature | with elevation. This is at the bottom known as the stratosphere. Now, at the two poles, the report says, this point is reached about 6 kilometers above the earth and an estimated tem- perature of —45 Centigrade. At thy Equator the temperature continues to | drop steadily until a height of about 17 | kilometers is reached. It stops at ap- | proximately —80 Centigrade. Althqugh there was much more heat to start with, | there has been nearly three times as much distance in which to lose it. Dome-Like Covering. ‘The stratosphere, Dr. Willett explains, covers the whole earth, somewhat like a dome, the "height increasing con- stantly from the poles to the Equator. Consequently, the temperature change | with latitude in the stratosphere is exactly the reverse of that on the| earth’s surface. The explanation of | this reversal of temperature, the report | says, involves th: basic mechanism of | temperatures on the earth, | Practically all the earth’s surface | heat is received from the sun in the form of fairly short-wave radiation. In order for a particle to be heated it | must absorb some of this radiation. | ‘The gas molecules that make up the | atmosphere absorb very little of it, so | the air is not heated to any appreciable | extent by the sun rays passing| through it. | These rays, it is explained, are ab- sorbed by the materials which make up the earth’s crust. This is heated. Every heated body radiates. The earth rera- diates the radiation it has received from the sun. But, being a much colder body, its radiation is in the form of very long heat waves, which can be absorbed by the gas particles of the atmosphere, which are heated by the absorption. They in turn reradiate back to the earth and to higher levels of the atmosphere. Heat is passed upward, somewhat like water in buckets, a little being spilled | at each stage. Pinally a point is reached where the amount received at each transfer is almost exactly the same as the amount lost. From this point on there is no further change in tempera- ture with height. The supply of radia- tion being passed upward over the poles | is less than half that at the Equator, so the point of temperature stability is | reached sooner. Sixty-three Per Cent From Sun. Actually only about 63 per cent of the radiation from the sun makes its pres- ence felt on the earth and in the | atmosphere as heat, Dr. Willett ex- | plains. The other 37 per cent is in | ve lengths which cannot be absorbed | by any of the materials on the earth’s surface. ‘This is simply returned to outer space by reflection from clouds, molecules of air and water, ice and snow on the surface. Of the remainder about 10 per cent is absorbed by the atmosphere through which it passes, heating it slightly. The rest is ab- sorbed by the surface of the earth, e]i(!her directly or as reflected from the sky. Now, says Dr. Willett, the tempera- ture of the earth itself remains ap- proximately constant. So it is obvious that the heat must be reradiated almost as fast as it is received in the form of long-wave radiation. Almost 90 per | cent of this reradiation is absorbed by | the atmosphere, largely by the water | vapor particles in the air. As soon as | a layer of air is heated it must get rid | of its heat by reradiation, both upward | and downward. Half its heat is used up in heating the layer next above it | and half is sent bac: again to the | earth. This in turn --radiates to the atmosphere again. This, Dr. Willett says, is the “green- house effect.”” Life on earth is spent in a greenhouse of nature. The reason for placing plants under glass is that the glass admits most of the incoming radiation, but stops and returns the outgoing radiation, thus greatly in- creasing the heat of the inclosed: space. The effect of the different layers of the atmosphere covering the earth is simi- Jar. The earth would be a cold place if it had to depend on direct sunshine alone for its heat. “The radiation returned to the earth’s surface by the atmosphere,” says the Teport, “ranges normally from two- thirds to three-fourths of what the total radiation from that surface to space would be at the same prevailing temperature if there were no_interfer- ence of the atmosphere. For high mountain stations this ratio is reduced from' one-third to one-half.” Tne principal element in the atmo- sphere which absorbs and reradiates heat radiation from the earth is water vapor. Water vapor is practically non- existent by the time the stratosphere is reached, leaving very little which can absorb up-coming radiation to affect its own temperature. ny Sfarf T, 1931 PAGE B—1 ROBERTS IS SILENT ONCOAL REPORT AS PROBE NEARS END Circular Stipulating Fixed Retail Scale Scrutinized by Investigators. BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU| FINDS CHANGE REFLECTED Prices Compensate for Difference Between Long and Short Ton, Rothschild Says. George M. Roberts, superintendent of weights, measures and markets, said today that he expected to complete in | a day or two his investigation into the change from the long to the short ton by Washington coal merchants. The investigation was authorized by the Dis- trict Commissioners April 2, after Mr. Roberts had submitted to the city heads coples of advertisements in the news- papers notifying the public of the pro- posed change April 1. Mr. Roberts was silent as to any spe- cific. matter revealed by his investiga- tion, but it was learned at the same time that eirculars said to have been sent out by Fadely & Co., wholesale coal dealers, had come to the attention of the corporation counsel's office and are being studied, probably in connection with™ the weight probe. The circulars have to do with Colonial anthracite and, after setting up a price list, the cir- cular reads: = “Any dealer who does not sell this coal at the listed retail prices will be refused Colonial authracite and will be stricken from the list of authorized ) dealers of this company.” | Price List Given. ‘The price list on the circular is: Egg, $12.50 per 2,000-pound unit; stove, $12.75; nut, 2.75: pea, $10; buck- wheat, $8.25, and rice, $7.50. The probe authorized by the Com- missioners takes in the question of price as well as weight, although Mr. Roberts’ recommendation, in which he asked that the investigation be ordered, referred especially only to the weight. He called attention to the act of Con-| gress of March 3, 1921, which provided that coal must be sold by the long ton in_the District. Present prices of coal here reflect| and compensate for the weight differ-| ence between the long ton (2,240 | pounds) and the 2,000-pound unit re- | tail prices offered by local dealers, it is found by Louis Rothschild, director of the Better Business Bureau. He states in a bulletin today, follow- ing a study of the change in the unit siz2 of coal sale quotations: “In the coal | used by the majority of home owners | the new prices more than reflect the difference in the quantity of coal and | Spanish-American War, | application before Mrs. Helen T. Mc- | Dewey describes him as a young patroit, Piloted Dewey Into Manila Left, Joseph A. Aguado, Lancaster, Pa., a SPANTARD who piloted Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, into Manila Bay is to realize his ambiticn to become an American citizen. Francisco Aguado y Reyes, who when 30 years old was directing navigation of vessels in the Philippine waters during the today made Graw, assistant clerk of the District Supreme Court, for final naturaliza- tion papers. He came to this country in Novem- ber, 1928, up to which time he had continued piloting ships in the Philip- pine_waters and had been chief pilot and harbormaster at Manila. | munication SPANTARD WHO AIDED UNITED STATES SEEKS CITIZENSHIP. nd his father, Francisco Aguado y Reyes. —Star Staff Photo. He was accompanied to the court by his son, Joseph A. Aguado of Lancaster, Pa, who is the only one of six chil- | dren residing in America. | The applicant has several commenda- | tions from naval officers, and the com- recommending him | thoroughly familiar with the waters |about the Philippine Islands and en- |tirely in sympathy with the United | States in that struggle. He resides at 1722 Nineteenth street. After three months he will be eligible to take the oath of allegiance to the | United States. are actually—pound for pound— a de- | crease over March prices. Change Made at Mines. “The smaller sizes of coal, pound for | pound, have been increased in price, pea coal and buckwheat showing an in-| crease. “Investigation discloses that the changes in price of coal have been oc- casioned by changes made at the mines by the producers. Changes in prices at the mines compared with retail price changes indicate that Washington coal | merchants are decreasing their margin anywhere from 1 cent to 16 cents on the basis of the long ton.” Mr. Rothschild reports that changes | in the price of anthracite at the mine by the producers became effective April 1, 1931. These changes, figured on the basis of the long ton of 2,240 pounds, formerly the basis of merchandising here, are reported as follows: A decrease in the price of egg coal of $1.09, a decrease in the price of stove coal of $1.31, a decrease in the price of chestnut coal of 81 cents, an in- crease in the price of pea coal of 32 cents and an increase in the price of buckwheat coal of 64 cents. "How Prices Compare, Average Washington retall prices per long ton, at which coal was sold during the Winter, were found to be: Egg, $15.10; stove, $15.75; nut, $15.25; pea, $10.90, and buck, $8.75. When these Winter prices are changed in ac- cordance with change made at the mines, April retail prices would be, per long ton: Egg, $14.01; stove, $14.44; nut, $14.44; pea, $11.22, and buck, | These quotations, converted into equivalent prices for 2,000 pounds of coal, would be, Mr. Rothschild finds, as Tollows: Eggs, $12.51; stove, $12.89; nut. $12.89; pea, $10.02, and buck, $8.38. Average prices (Spring, 1931) quoted not in 2,000-pound unit were found by ng. R::;;%hlld to be: Egg, $12.50; stove, $12.75; nut, $12.75; pea, $10, an buck, $8.25. ’ I “A comparison of the last two sets of figures shows that these average prices now being quoted give the pub- lic the full benefit of the change in the unit of sale,” Rothschild reports. In fact, these prices, in addition to passing on mine reductions in egg, stove and nut, and mine advances in pea and buckwheat, also reflect more than complete compensation to the con- sumer for the difference in weight be- tween the old and new units of sale. Net Changes in Prices. “On the basis of the long ton, and taking into consideration both the change in weights and prices at the mines, net changes in price between present prices and Winter prices are: Egg coal, a decrease of $1.10; stove coal, a decrease of $1.47; nut coal, a decrease of 97 cents; pea coal, an in- crease of 30 cents, and buck coal, an lnlfl;gllse o:h“ cents. +Using the same method, comparin, prices with May, 1930, shows: EBKP conl!‘ a decrease of 10 cents; stove coal, & de- crease of 47 cents; nut coal, an increase of 3 cents; pea coal, an increase of 2:,13& and buck coal, an increase of 74 EGG-ROLLERS ‘SHOT’ AS FIRST SCENE IN MOVIE OF PARK SYSTEM HERE Sports Features and Maps Noting Future Plans to Be Filmed—Many Calls Prompt Idea. In the midst of yesterday’s egg-rolling on the White House grounds, making of & pretentious movie of the park system of Washington was started, under De- partment of Agriculture auspices, for the Office of Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks. A cameraman and a director of the office of motion pictures, Department of Agriculture, were on the scene yes- terday and “shot” the White House egg- ‘This will be incor- porated into the film, which will show the history of Washington's parks, their present status and proposed develop- ment. The film is being made for Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d., director of pub- e buildings and public parks, and will HAND PHONE LEVY MAY BE DROPPED Company’s Plan Would Allow‘ $4 Payment Instead of 25- . Cent Monthly Charge. The Public Utilities Commission has before it a plan by which users of the continental or hand type of telephone, now called upon to pay an extra charge of #25 cents per month, may be re- lieved of such charge by a cash pay- ment of $4. An alternative to the scheme, for those who do not care to make a cash| payment, is to continue paying the 25- | cent monthly charge until it totals $4.50 | and then the extra charge will be abol- ished. The company will credit pay- ments made after June, 1930, on this second plan if the consumer elects. The proposals were submitted by the Ches- apeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to| take effect May 1. The commission was busy with a hearing on the ques- tion of bus service to Potomac Heights and Foxall Village yesterday and did not act on the telephone matter. It 1s expected, however, that its action will be favorable, * The commission some time ago ‘ques- tioned the company’s authority to make any extra charge for the hand sets, and the company replied with statistics showing that the sets are more ex- pensive, both to install and maintain. In a statement today Hanse Hamil- ton, general manager of the company, said: “The providing of hand sets in- volves several factors which have an important bearing on the company’s operations. The initial cost is about twice that of the desk st and the maintenance charges are substantially higher. Furthermore, the rapid in- stallation of a large number of hand sets would involve considerable loss because of the retirement of desk set equipment before it has lived its useful life. While the hand set is more con- venient, it does not give any better service than the desk set.” King of Siam Reaches Tokio. TOKIO, April 7 (#)—Twenty-one guns boomed & salute of welcome today to the King and Queen of Siam wien they arrived at Yokohama on the liner Empress of India en route to the United States, where the King will consult an eye specialist. Their majesties traveled to Toklo in a_special train. Thousands of school children, Boy Scouts and reservists lined the route to the railway station, waving Siamese and Japanese flags. in the making, but when the picturiza- tion of the parks gets into full swing, a number of movie experts will be on the Job. Animated maps will show the development of Washington's parks of the future, giving, for instance, glimpses of the Fort drive and vistas along the completed Rock Creek and Potomac parkway. ‘There will be a number of recrea- tional features incorporated into the picture, showing polo, base ball, foot ball, golf and other sports indulged in here. During the Summer many scenes an:lenexpected to be taken as part of the First Lieut. P. B. Butler, assistant di- rector of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, said today that the film is being made in res] Te- mted requests for such & production. office from time to time receives take about a year to finish. requests for a film depicting the Wash- Raymond Evans, chief of the office | ington park system, bat upgw this time of motion pictures, Department Of |none has been-available. Just recently, Agriculture, will supervise the making|Lieut. Butler said, a call came from of the film, which will include a large | Stockholm, Sweden, for such a film. number of scenes to be made next! The film is ted to tell graph- how Washingtonians | ically the strides that have been made lize their parks for Winter sports. here in creating a beautiful ‘Ruk 8YS= rtment of Agriculture officlals tem, and it show how the Depa 3 ple said today that as yet & wofln is use the parks for healthful exerctg:.o “Kiss or Smack— It’s Assault—30 Days,”” Rules Judge Mary Ambrose, Hunt place northeast, came into Police Court this morning with a badly swollen Hp. Ernest P. Ayers said it was the result of one of his kisses. Miss Ambrose said Ayers’ hand, not his lips, smacked her in the mouth and caused the swelling. “Kiss or smack, it’s assault just the same—30 days,” Judge Given told Ayers.s DRY LAW TO STAY, SAYSBILLY SUNDAY Repeal Farther Away Than Ever, He Declares in Ad- dress Opening Tour. ‘The eighteenth amendment is farther from repeal than it ever has been, de- clared Billy Sunday, dynamic evangelist, in an address in the First Congrega- tional Church yesterday afternoon, under the apspices ¢f the Anti-Saloon League. The address opened an 18-day speaking tour of the East by Mr. Sun- day under league auspices. He left for Baltimore immediately following his ad- dress here, As spectacular in manner as when he began to attract attention more than 20 years ago, Mr. Sunday vigorously de- nounced “the whisky bunch” and de- clared it would be as difficult to repeal the eighteenth ariendment as to repeal the Ten Commandments. Opposes Any Wet Candidate. ‘The evangelist said he would fight with every weepon at his command any wet candidate for public office, regard- less of the party or other considerations. Arguments against prohibition, he said in characteristic style, are “as weak as soup made out of the shadow of a chicken that starved.” He trained the guns of his oratory on Al Smith, whom he termed “wet as a bathtub,” and sald he did not oppose Smith because he is a Democrat or because he is a Catholic, but because he is a wet. He predicted that nomination of a wet Democratic candidate would dl\grce Southern Democrats from the party. Young people of today, Sunday sald, are no worse than in the past genera- tion, but they have more ways of mmak- ing fools of themselves. He expressed the hope that he might live “until America is so dry that you'll have to prime a man to make him spit.” Ebbert Deplores Youths’ Attitude. F. B. Ebbert, Anti-Saloon League at- torney, who wiil accompany Mr. Sunday fon the tour, said an alarming develop- ment was the tendency of youth to|Dis “laugh at prohibition.” He added that if prohibition fails at all it will do so within the next five years; that if it survives that period it will be on the law books to stay. ‘The purpose of the speaking tour, it was explained, is to arouse sentiment for the dry cause and to raise money for an extensive educational campaign planned by the league. F. Scott Mec- LB}:MQ‘ league, pintendent, occupied Desp! as crowded to c “Tra and parts unteg Binie i0 Fate T e value t $35754,714, or more that of 1929, to POLICE LIST 1022 SIGNS IN REPORTS GIVEN COMMITTEE Those Not Advertising Prem- ises’ Business Cited—Many Thought Unauthorized. NEW POSTERS ON HOMES AND PARKING BANNED Plan to Allow Billboard Repairs Brings Sharp Protest From Delano. A police survey of outdoor advertis- ing signs in all 14 precincts of the city, revealing the existence of 1,022 signs of three particular types which do not advertise the business conducted on the remises where they are displayed, is ing studied by the Commissioners’ Sign Committee. Many of these signs, in the opinion of the committee, are unauthorized and it is with the purpose of getting rid of these that the police reports have been turned over to Col. John W. Oehmann, inspector of buildings, for a careful check with the record of authorized sites in his office. Of these advertising signs, 253 are billboards, 254 are large signs painted on walls, while 515 are various types of small signs, usually 4 feet by 8 feet, on suildings. No effort was made to include miscellancous signs in the report, as this would be practically an'impossi- bility. The report on the whole, cov- ering each precinct separately, was said to reveal conditions in the city which the committee is anxious to remedy as far as possible under the new powers vested in the Commissioners. Fourteenth Free of Signs. ‘The fourth and seventh precincts lead in the number of billboard units, the count being 86 and 42, respectively, while the second and fourth lead in the number of small wall signs, the former having 128, compared with 68 for the latter. A few of the precincts, such as the fourteenth, are comparatively free of these types of outdoor signs. There are 21 painted wall signs In the first precinct, but only two bill- boards of the type mentioned in the re- port, whereas in the fourth precinct the number of large wall signs total 65. The Commissioners’ Sign Co ttee met yesterday to discuss the general re- vision of existing regulations prior to the calling of the public hearing which it will hold the latter part of this month. It was expected the new regulations would be in shape by that time, so the Commissioners can scrutinize them before the hearing takes place. Such regulations, of course, are subject to revision after the hearings. Plan New Regulations, ‘While there are many phases of reg- ulation which must be defined by the corporation counsel’s office under the so-called “welfare” powers of the new law, the committee is understocd to have agreed definitely upon at least two important regulations. Additional signs will be prohibited on all premises in the residential district, and signs also will be banned absolutely on “pub- lic_parking. ‘With respect to the latter decision, based on a law passed March 4, 1913, all real estat: signs now on public park- ing must be removed also. It will be possible, it was said, to place such signs on porches or walls, provided the maxi- mum projection does not exceed 3 feet and 6 inches. \ Varlous suggestions have been ad- van as to the regulation of bill. boards of the so-called posteg-pancled type use¢d by the organized billboard companies. None of these suggestions, it was said, has been finally approved, the idea being to ascertain first of all public sentiment in the matter. One of these sugges was to authorize the repairing of dilapidated billboards in exchange for the removal of boards from locations acrass from public buildings and parks. Delano Makes Protest. ‘This suggestion brought a sharp pro=- test from Froderick A. Delano, chair- man of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and president also of the American Civic Association. A leader in the anti-billboard campaign, Mr. Delano wrote about the matter to Maj. John C. Gotwals, Engineer Com= missioner. He wrote, he said, to inquire into reports that the Commissioners “plan to persuade the outdoor advertis- ers to remove existing signs on private property, opposite public buildings and grounds and within residential neigh- borhoods by granting new locations in commercial areas for every abandoned site and to permit all billboards in commercial and industrial areas to be repaired. “Both the American Civic Association and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission have been in sym- pathy with the policy of the District ‘Commissioners the past decade to grant no new permits for billboards in the City of Washington and to re- fuse dgermuslon to repair existing bill- boards,” Mr. Delano wrote. “It seems a little strange to me that the Commissioners should be consider- ing any plan to it new billboard locations and to lengthen the life of billboards in the Nation’s Capital. At the suggestion of the Maryland-Nation- al Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion, the zoning authorities in nearby Montgomery and Prince Georges Coun- ties have now banned billboards in alll t , of course, be some years before the non-conforming boards now exist- ing will be abandoned, but it would be unfortunate if the policy in the District of Columbia itself were less progressive than that in.t.he environs. “Few Industrial Areas.” “The least objectionable place for a billboard is in industrial areas, but ‘Washington is not essentially an in- dustrial city and has very. few indus- trial areas. “I should be very much interested to know the number of billboards in resi- dential areas now facing on public buildings and grounds, as it may be that our organization couid aid in their elim- ination through the pressure of public opinion,” Mr. Delano concluded. that’ doubtiemsly b perriccing. soany loubtlessly perp! many trict officials: “By the way, what is the life of a billboard?” probibited sepaiie. o Dilbpards, many re) many are in’a state of bad deterioration. Rather than extend their life for an- other long period the representatives of many civic associations are practically unanimous in believing they should be allowed to rot away. Benefit Card Party.