Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1931, Page 4

*~~yonsibility for Expendityre Needed, Nye ; Committee Told. ) experdl wfi“ this country have is to be’ “that there };la never been a m‘né- 1 ogram - iihongh Caeks e been many mrnlpt prac- Has been at- on mount q& § activities, but it has been sup) , and support come from edijeators ih our univer- Prom these educators hl\;c:ma suf We propose Ay ggestions. o Heawss running st that time sgainst Ford for the ublican nomi- T 3 P‘;& Pollock has SO o Eey anid my. as well a8 in this try. y, he has Bee 1a co More recentl s of # commission on election Michigen, New Valley UNING STAR. WASHINGTON Road Plan GRAVE-DIGERS AR SHERIDAN C/RCLE The the any one ator Nye called attention ‘to hat in a recent Nu Jersey usands of. dnl the ise cont tions m mel or individuals alsoy ‘were col- money for the same campaign. Largely Ineffective. hat is your opinion of the pt practices laws?” are largely ineffective;” repled . Pollock. ferring to State laws, T am satis- ‘Thowever, that they have the level of elzcflm law is e Federal corrupt med.ltuunl;;h;l 4 law, and one Dl of Washingten, & mem- the committee, asked what should about expenditures made by an n such as the ippose organizal n-ne s undldnu?" askéd Senator l.e no way to penalize for arguing for a poltcymrnu ot namie & candidate for office,” the witness. “However, the or- jzation should be made to file a report of its expénditures. Since m practices law was passed in n 1918, centralizing responsi- for expenditures, such organiza- s bition and anti-prohibi- and free trade or tariff organiza- Rave expended far less money in n Dill called sftention to the that the power issue was a major in a number of States and that a deal of money might be expended power trust or opponents of the | without naming candidates. up the question of publicity scrutiny of campaign expenditures, Pollock said that the existing law te ineffective. It calls for the of accounts with the :lerk of the and the g::rehry of the Senate House and the for the. te. The witness sald, however, that e is no publicity given such ac- ts unless an industrious newspaper | commit- them up or unless tedt of te them. efore, I suggest that publicity of accounts | be definitely taken of” said the witness, “and that the of the Houze and the secretary of Senate shall prepare & summary of ch accounts, which should be ré- for publication and also turned 10 & select committee of the House Senate for scrutiny. It is most im- nt that & person filing such an ac- t shall know that is is to be scru- claring that the enforcement con- of the corrupt practices law are ly ineffective, Prof. Pollock asked many convictions have beén ob- 1‘m':d!!’ the Federal corrupt prac- ws. Knows of No Convictions, now of none,” he said, “although may have been one or two." e witness declared that tne Fed- Ilaw should apply to Federal elec- ps completely and +hculd be in lieu y State law. However, he sald, e Federal law is not to be com- , then the States should have laws heir own. “For example,” he said, you fix the limit of cxpenditare in th Fegeral law, then the State should e that amcun'.” ry elections for the nomination of tors and Representatives. of. Pollock replied that he did not thipk the Newberry decision of the Su- Court should hait Congress in e nmd the opinion that the e Court would uphold such a He pointed out that in many of States, probably more than haif of m, the ry was tantamount to he said, was true in his State, which 18 strongly Repub- lnd in the Southern States, ongly Democratic. I Pnlluck was asked whether he the corrupt practices law uld flx the. limit of expenditures by e and for a candidate in palgn. To me,” ‘replied Prof. Pollock, “the t is not so uu;p,mm as the] the purpose for which it is ex- | ded. However, if you desire to put| finite limit, that is all right. But should be full publicity of the from which ths money cores there should be mulnunn of the 's for which it is expended. To indiscriminate expenditure ot pey for help at the polls on elec- day is unsound. Indeed, it is no & polite form of_ hflur “&now how poite 1t m'mmmumu “mmmmm tended. Tar | Of_the law. House or Senate undertakes | his | ture to be allowed for candidates for money comes, | Parks smmm-m | east side of mley. the other passing -bound lane will pass from M other will skirt the east bank of the creek. HRIDGE 10 ELIMINATE GRADE CROSSING. FLAN SHOWING iy plat shown above shows ow the Office of Public Buildings and | crossing &t the fHic nis B o e mor . nownd. leme Wil Belmont, road MGrting th r one-way lanes, cne n - N & hs ng e | ; mdl“be o et o e through ® visduct under the new bri FROST BELT STUDY | Meteorologist Finds Winter Mercury Drops Degree Every 25 Miles. | ___(Continued Prom First Page) | | zero In & very narrow strip cutting | across Northern Florida and along the | Gulf of Mexico to & meam of 60 inches | | in Northern Minnesota and North Dl- kota. The extreme frost penetration in | the cold area is approximately 100 | inchex, Around the District of Colum- | bia, Dr, Fassig reported, the mean pene- tratlon is about 1 foot and the ex-| treme 30 inches. The survey was undertaken for the benefit of builders, who must _figure on | Winter contracts, but, Dr. Fassig warn- | ed, conditions may vary greatly witlhin areas, so that a detailed knowledge of | local records is necessary. Prost penetration, it was pointed out, | is much greater for hard, highly con- ductive soil than for light soil covered | with & thin ccat of leaves such as might be found in Northern forests. ‘ | In extreme Northern Canada, said Dr. J. H. Patterson, director of the Cana- | | dian meteorological service, the d!‘]aflus | of the soil, as far as any one has pene- | | trated, remain frozen all the time. The ‘ soil thaws about 3 feet at the surface in Midsummer, but cold weather comes | again before the thawing process can | go further. Reports on Droughts. A practical aspect of the study, it | ! was pointed out, was to determine at| | what depth water pipes should be buried | [m different localities, but Dr. William | | 3. Humphreys of the Weather Bureau NEW BRIDGE intersection of Belmont road The two highwags will be | Delow the frost line in the so A great drought like that of 1930 does not come without warning, but | begins to show itself two or three years in advance, said Dr. A. J. Henry of the U S. Weather Bureau. He presented | | | | CAPONE'S OFFER Javl Gangster and Keep Him | There, Probs Head Rules in Rejecting Surrender. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 4—Pat Roche, chief investigator for State’s Attorney John Swanson, Iald dowr what he claimed to | existing asked Senator (be his Alphonse Cépone ultimstum to- | e oo . : mioiply siated, 1t was: When Capore : walks into his office, Jtll be in custody Roche rejectéd all of Capone’s of-| fers of surrender yesterday. New Caponie Offer Refused. ‘When_the last offer, reported made ‘the gangster's attorneys, that he. would surrender providing he was be locked up after questioning with the suj torch i “‘Mike de Roche W him lnmy. and when we behind bars as long as 'fil let us.” nm m be was convinced Heitler | because he informed the | sm.m of the West Side gang | Heltler, Must Identify Torch Vietim. Nine dlleged Capone umum zeized Friday night as suspects, - | ever, were released last night. | “We cannot back up & charge of | murder,” Roche said, “until we have estab] the corpus delictl, and we can't do that until we have definitely | |identified the charred remains found | | near Barrington as those of Heitler. We | { feel certain the body is that of Heltle' { | but we are not yet legally sure.” 'HYATTSVILLE VOTING T0 STOP AT 7 0’CLOCK |Those in Line at That Hour Will| Not Be Permitted to Cast | Ballots, Ruling Says. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 4—Elec- tion officials of this town snnounced today that only votes which had heeni cast at 7 o'clock tonight would be cointed. It was explained that owing téwn elections, and the fact that the contest is attracting considerable st'en- tion, this was necessary. It was added that while the State law permirted all of those in line at the polling places by the closing time | to vote, nevertheless a town ruling had | been mace stopping all voting at the | hour fixed for the polls to close. necessary to have watchers at the polls, but that they should be voluntary watchers and net paid. He admittea 1hat practical politicians might say that it 15 necessary to pay the watchers. “But I am not so sure that it is” said the witness. The witness admitted that it _might be wise {0 limit the extent of a Federal | rTupt practices act, o as not to deal th “treating” employment of workers | d 50 forth, on account of opposition which might arise from several States. He declared, however, that something | must be done to have Federal regula- | tion reach the primary election for the | Senate and the House. He referred to |a recommendation made by the late President Roosevelt in 1907 that it | might be wise to have the Government | | contribute money to political parties for their campaigns and then insist that | | the political parties live up to all rules | laid down. Should Be Abolished. “If you establish a limit for expendi- tures,” sald Prof. Pollock, “it should be an absolute limit and should cover every kind of expenditure, without leaving any lomolu for evasiol witness suggested that if a limit | {15 to be fixed, it might be based on so | | much per vote of the total vote ecast | the last presidential election. He i\g’I gested 4 cents per vote as the expendi- | | | | | | the House, with a proviso that in no | case should the amount b less than $1,000 or more than $5,000. Senator Dill uked if that was not a very low estima ‘The witness nplhd flllt he had | talked with men who had mtly run for the House and that mn it was sufficient. He added not particularly interested m flx\n. [ limit for expenditures, but that If a limit was fixed it should seek to keep down expenditures, Senator Dill pointed out that a man in_office has .4 big advantage over a -candidete ‘not g office. - Prof. Pollock sald that he: no ny of reaching that matter by stat: | | ing in the county that some decision on | dge. | mont road over the new bridge and the | an exhaustive analysis of wet and dry records for as many years as accurate CVIL SERVICE BODY =5 | that two or three sections roughly ap- proximating States may have a dry| year while the rest of the country en- | ‘)nys normal rainfall. The next year, the dry ares will have spread and the| next it may involve a large ares of the | county. Lights Tell Upper Air Heat. A thermometer of lights which wilt measure accurately the temperature of the upper air up to approximately 15,000 | feet, which he invented and has put | | into use in the Canadian service, was | described by Dr. Patterson. This con- sis's of a metal frame with a very light bntury attached to a series of lights. | This is attached to a balloon. A white | pllot light burns all the time, so that an | observer on the ground can follow the | flight of the balloon with a theodolite. Both above and below the pilot light e ndl’ed and white Ilghthl‘:(lched to ty Civic Federation & con ucting element whicl extreme- e'p-flnlnlon for entry | | ly sensitive to temperature variations. ! When a certain temperature is reached lhe red light flashes on. When it gets | | colder this connection automatieslly is cut off and the white light goes on. | Both red and white lights flash &t an- other range of temperature. When the temperature reverses itself this proge- President Sends Aflington Voters” Petition to Federal Commission. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staft Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., May 4.—Presi- dent Hoover nas referred to the Civil | mission the petition of the | AT seeking execu into local politics of Federal employes living in the county. This action on the part of the Pres- | ident was made known in a letter re- ceived from the commission by Hugh J. McGrath, chairman of the Olvil Bervice Committee of e civic leration. | dure is repeatd by the lights under- Hope for Early Rufing. ineath the constantly burning pilot It is the hope of the federation and | light. nearly all of the Federal employes liv- i The mechanism itself l.l lost - when the balloon drops, but, Patterson the matter will be renderéd within a |said, it can be made ehnplv enough short time, since the entire political | to justify daily cbservations. The tem- sspect of thie county may be changed by | perature record, however, {5 mede in- # favorable ruling. | Stantaneously amd does not depend on The petition, accompanfed by a brief | the recovery of the instrument. on the case, wak presentediat :;e v&;mu Woman Reports Observations. ouse two weeks ago by & committee | of great theoretical significance, it headed by McGrath. The commitee | o0 &hl i ™ e Gevics may Have also presented & number of letters frcm\ ot air and water temperatures ob- | county affcials favoring the move. air teekpesalmony Tor The desire of the Prderal emploves to | T pouns, UDPET aif te ” permitted to take part in county | *Miss Catharine B, Clarke of the Car- pofitics and to hold office has been. pegie Institution, gave a statistical study brought about largely through the | of the air and water tempefatures ob- change in county government that pro- | tained over a wide range of during vides for a commission of five members, | the last cruse of the Cnrn;.is. under whose direction the affairs of the | Dr. W. J. Humphreys deseribed new county will be administered by & county | discoveries about the formaticn of tiny wAnage snow erystals and the even smaller | way i | hold o 4 the very heavy voting today in the | pgggm It is known that there are a number | of Government employes who are de- sirous of announcing their candidacy for ‘pl-m on m& cu?mmunlon and “;re | anxious to get their campsigns under 1 &ermm:d by executive order to Few Announcements Made. To date thm" have been but few an- | ts of candidates’ for the com- in view of the fact that| irants to offices not' open to persons employed, it i3 thought that the delay is' due solely to the uncertainty as to the result of the petition, There are a number of potential can- didates who are not mpluyed by the Federal Govi Who are awaiting the mm making up their tes | 65 degrees. The mercury rose from 40 | be CORNER STONE IS LAID FOR LUTHERAN CHURCH Dr. Wenchel Conducts Ceremonies | Before Large Gathering at Sixteenth and Gallatin. The corner stone of the new Christ Lutheran Church, Sixteenth and Gal latin streets, was laid vesterday after- noon, in the presence of many Lutheran clergymen and members of the church. | Dr. Frederic Wenchel, pastor of the | church, was in charge of the ccre-l George Romoser, president nf' Concordia Ovu;‘: Bronxville, N. Y., de- | livered the cipal adcress, while Dr. ! the outer sides of the crystals. I | | | | | Rev. H. Henning read the Scripture, Oscar Juve, president of the congrega- | tion, read the list of articles placed in | the mne and William Scott, chairman | of ‘the building: committee, assisted in the exsreises. | Reupholstering and Repairing Ask About Our Easy Monthly Payment Plan ‘Tapestries, Mohairs, Brocades droplets of water that sometimes form on them. Such droplets turn into erys- tals whose sides all are paralief to corresponding sides of the snow erys- tals, he said, all h the drol may be 100 times than snow crystal. It also has been found, he re- ported, that the walls of air cavities i gnow crystals are always parallel to Weather Warms in Blizzarl. The weather grows rapidly warmer instead of colder during an Antarctic blizzard, W. C. Haines of the Weather Bureau, reported. He was metenrologist on Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expedi- tion to the South Pole. Winning Orators CONTESTANTS IN TWO OTHER STATES MOVE UP. Howard Wilson (upper) of Granite City, Ill, who will be the State of Illinois contestant in the National Oratorical Contest semi-finals meet at Birmingham, Ala., May 15, and Wil- liam Donahue (lower) of Herkimer. N. Y. who will represent the Eastern New Ycrk district in the northeastern zone finals at Springfield, Mass., on the same date. WEEK END CRASHES KILL T AND HURT 6 Washington Man Is Killed in Accident Occurring on Nearby Road. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 4.— Albert Baylor, 28, of the 200 block of Virginia avenue, Washington, was drowned yesterday when a truck in which he was riding went through a bridge guard rafl and crashed into Massaponax Creek. His wife and chil- dren were rescued by the driver of the truck. SKULL 1S FRACTURED Two Others Hurt When Auto Hits Pole | at Clinton. CLINTON, Md., May 4—Three per- sons were injured, one seriously, early | today when a taxicab in which they were riding struck a telegraph pole in front of Lee's Nursery here. The cab struck the identical pole which was hit by a car driven by Wallace Bowling, killing Ralph Grimm, several months ago. According to Deputy Sheriff A. C. Thompson, who investigated the crash, the injured were Joseph John Schmitt, 1400 block of D street southeast: Henry Chatlin, 1300 H street, and Eiizabeth Tyndall, 3600 block of Eleventh street. Schmitt, the most serfously injured, | is in Casualty Hospital with a frac- tured skull. CRASH AT MASON SPRING. ~ Skull of One Fractured; Other Has Fractured Leg. Special Dispatch to The Star. During one blizzard the temperature rosg in less than 20 hours from 49 de- below zero to 16 above, a elimb of | degrees in & few Rours during sev- other blizsards, he raid, adding hat such temperaturs changes are be- caused by the mixing of cold air near the with warmer sir above. ‘The fest day encountered by the expedition was 72.4 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The warmest was 35 de- grees above. July was the coldest month, with an average temperature of 4.7 below zero, Haimes said, z INDIAN HEAD, Md., May 4.—A man and woman, both colored, were seri- ously injured when their automobile | struck a culvert at Mason Spring, near | here, yesterday. Both were unconscious when sent to Washington hospitals. ‘They were Alberta Holte, 24, HOO block of 8 street, Washington, who is in Emergency Hospital with a fractured | skull, and Robert Swann of Faulkner, Md.. 'Who was taken to Freedmen's Hos- pita a fractured leg and other injurles. while even in December and January, the Antarctic Midsummer, the ther- mometer often fell below zero, Ww. C. T 8 Poltponu Meeting. BALLSTON, Va., May 4 (Special) — The Clarendon Woman's Christian Temperance Union announces that its regular meeting scheduled for tomor- row at the home of Mrs. Mae E. Jacobs | has been postponed until Tuesday of nexl week Four Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Electrical Refrigeration THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road Reasonable Rentals SLIP COVERS Also Chair Caneing and Porch Rockers Splintered by Our Ex- perts at the Now Prevailing Low Prices for Two Days Only. Write, Phos Call Metropolitan 2062 . or Residence Phone Cleveland 0430 3721 Porter St., Cleveland Park Estimates and Samples Given Free CLAY ARMSTRONG 5-Pe. Parlor Suites—Antiques 3-Pc. Overstuffed Suites Room Chairs z: Upholsterer 1235 10th St. N.W. Card Party Plnned SILVER HILL. Md., May 4 (Special). —The Alpha Community Club will sponsor a card party to De held in the local school Saturday night. The “Bo| R the warmer days, which are “just around the corne the much preferred model. This new and beaut above, developed in black or beige moroc- co, blue kid or white Priced at 312 Silk hosiery in all $1.00, $1.50 and $1.95 pair RICHS Chatlin and the woman | fi]‘md“ treatment at Emergency Hos- | MAY 4, 1931 FAIRFAX 4 CLUB RALLY DAY K HELD Girl Fronv McLean Hurt When Grandstand Rail Collapses. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, May €—The snnusl 4-H Club rally, the big event of the 4-H Club year, was staged Saturday on | the Fair Grounds here with an attend- | ance of abeut 300. The morning was | spent in demonstrations, with a pro- gram of games and recreation, led uy ‘William Langhorne Leitch, Boy Scou executive for Northern Virginia, in the afternoom fnuowuu & pienic lunch. The | day was marred by only one mishap, | when o railing on the grandstand gave | way and Eloise hmm of the McLean | cluby fell four or five feet to the ground. ‘ She was taken home for examination, but her injuries are not believed serious. The main address of the morning was dell'v::ed by l?l:l’l!l’!:t'flafl’f e;'o;‘ the United ent. o culture, in charge of 4-H Club work in the Eastern | States. He spoke on the power of & million boys and girls. The program opened with the club song by all the | members. Each club then gave a| dramatization of a song: Annandale, | ‘UtflE Bo Peep”: Baileys Cross Roads, | “Three Little Kittens™ Burke, ““Here We Go Around the Mulberry Bush”; | Cl.lflan “Auld Lang Syne”; Forestville, | “Choosing the Spring Flowers”: Pair- ould You Take & Walk With | Fort Hnm%:;cys, “Little Jack ; | faith, have not been arrested. Wise, | Lee Jackscn, “Maggie”: Oakton, \Making the Flag } No, John, No' lone” Part; folt ‘This was followed by a contest participated in by onldn’(‘:m Irene Daniels, Adrian Tobin, Elizabeth Colter, Margaret Clair, Mary Cline, Kathleen Anderson. Estelle Grenn, Mary Norton, Dorothy Allison, Alice Bready, Ruth Chesley, Lois Jones, Frances Hef- | fling. This was won by Onida Cauble of Annandale. The judges were Miss | R. Belle Burke, Mrs. J. A. Hailman and | Mrs. Florence E. James. | ‘The health and growth contest was judged by Dr. E. S. Waring of Fairfax, William Meyer of Herndon, assisted by Mrs. Margaret Crandall of Annandale. | Bach club picked out its best developed girl. the entrants being Minnie Gentle, Mildred Dyer, Ann Rust, Julia Robin- | son, Mavis Kearns, Jean Bready, Helen Webb, Vivian Beahm, Margaret Ed- | wards, Mary Grove, Marjorie Miller, Helen Daniels Pearl Skimmer, Kitty | Birkett, Annle Beach, Betty Mattingly, | | Theressa Miller. The contest was won | by Margaret Edwards of McLean. ‘The Clifton 4-H Club demonstration 'am, Rebecca Myers and Bernice Rig- es, won the county-wide champion ship with a demonstration on “Cheaper cuu of Meat.” They will represent Fair- | ax County in the State-wide contest in | Bllckshurz in July. The judges, Miss Belle Burke, Mrs. J. Hunter Mack and Mrs. Ruth Allen, had a hard time de- ciding between the two contestants. | Clifton’s rivals were Margaret Biladen | |and Louise Hilleary of the Annandale ! Club, who gave & demonstration on “Carrots, From Soup to Dessert.” | The showing the clubs made at the ! rally, including the song demonstra- tions, was judged by Mrs. J. U. Kinche- loe, Mrs. D. J. Garber and Edward D. | Vosbury. This score was combined with the scores on the work of the year, in %er g self‘ct t‘l;e county-wide winner. e gold pi for the ion club of the county was lwlrdce};‘zpm.; two-room school at Fairview, in Lee| district, whose members made an abso- lutely perfect score on every point. The school's two teachers are Emmett Day | and Miss S. Dorothy Brown. Potters Hill, “Oh, | oodlawn, “Mollie Ma~ ‘Aunt Dinah's Quilting | tes gl e 'VIRGINIA SOCIALISTS | END STATE SESSION, Sympathy With Russia Voted | outlawry of War Is Given Approval. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., May 4—The State Socialist Convention adjourned last night after naming Alexandria as the place of meeting of the Executive Com- mittee which Iater this month will | adopt a platform, approve cardidates {in unorganized districts and pass on the constitution drafted during the two- |day session here. Exact date of the Executive Committee meeting was not 1 decided. Joe C. Morgan of Alexandria, last year's candidate for the United States Senate, was re-elected for the third term as national commmeem-n, and | Herman R. Ansell of Richmond, candi- | date for the State Senate, wn named ‘Stuw chairman. Andrew 8. Leech of Stafford was appointed on the State Central composed of 21 members. The State Executive Committee was electzd as follows: Joe C. Morgan, mr. man R. Ansell, David C. George, J. | Rice, Mrs. Elizabeth Otey, Richard L Johnston, J. Lofton Johnston, Winston P. Dawson and Mrs. Annabelle Rix. ‘The convention indorsed the Prazier amendment to the commumm mmng | war illegal, and adopted resolutions ex- |pruflnl sympathy and friendship with Russia. Hopewell was chosen Committee, | bolink’” r,” the sandal will be iful creation, sketched calf— the desired shades ¥ | C. OF C. MEETS TONIGHT * | Two Accused of Flogging Be- Louise Talbott, Vivian Hart, | 3PPe: First Session of Bethesda Chamber Under New Officers Is Set. By & Stafr Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., May 4 —Pirst meet- ing of the Be ber of Com- FOR WHIPPING MAN cause Vietim Got Drunk After Getting Red Cross Aid. By the Associated Press. MENA, Ark., May 4—Two ministers | were under indictment here today for flogging & man they accused of disre- garding thelr warning to stay sober while the Red Cross fed his family last ‘Winter. Sheriff John B. Joplin says ¥ ihey are convicted and fined, he will raise the money to psy the fines. “I think it was a Christian act,” he said. Ministers Not Arrested. ‘The ministers, Rev. Sid Wise and Rev. P. R. Larimore of the Apostolic fore leaving here, however, he ficers if he was he would re- adm! flogsing, | shrrfl-!ovlmuid and added their act ared to have the approval of resi- | dents of the community. Wise was said by the sheriff to have warned Ralls if he went home “drunk Sunday, went home Mfi!d and abused | sald he was | meon t followed. "! w Ralls has stayed sober snma Joplin said. TRI-COUNTY BANK GROUP TO MEET Prince William, Londoun, Fauquier | " Institutions to Complete Organization. Special Dispatch to The Ster. MANASSAS, Va, May 4—The Tri- County Asseciation of Banks, organized at Leesburg last week and having in its membership representatives of the 16 banks in Prince William, Loudoun and Pauquier Countles, will meet in War- 2ation, according to announcement this morning by G. Raymond Rateliffe, sec- retary-treasurer of the assoclation. Among matters to be discussed at the meeting will be the scope of the organi- zation and plans under which it will be administered. Under plans outlined chairman of the the V! Bankers’ renton tomorrow to perfect the organi- f NEW BUS MERGER LINKS 12 SYSTEMS |Short Line Group Is Formed After Greyhound Unites Five Large Routes. BY GEORGE E. DOYING. ‘While the raliroads continue to pon- | der over the matter of consolidation, ‘thcbmnnumbemnmm into | large mrm |- Announcement tndqv of the consoli- dation of 12 ms}or bus tion systems, every city tically in the Ccnml Atlantic and |and town Southern States, Indicate steps toward the culmination of efforts | to ecombine comparatively local opera- | tions into Nation-wide networks. The Greyhound system, in which Pennsylvania Railroad interests are tending almost entirely over the United States. New Short Lime System. Now comes the Short Line System, a new mlnllt\o‘n headed by Willlam H. Vi J. Scarr and Charles E. | Crocker, 'hlch may become an impor- | tant competitor of the Greyhound- i A o from the New York office of Mr. | Vanderbilt, the Short Line System con- | sists of the Great Eastern Stages, Inc., operating between New York, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago: between | New York, Philadeiphia. Baltimore, | Washington and _ Norfolk: between & New York ltrntmllw Co., operat. ing bus lines between New York and operating and Saranac Lake ‘Llns between Je'rsey City, New York. Bridgeport and New Haven; the Coastal | Transit Co., the Acme Lines, the Yankee Lines and the Short Line, Inc, all operating in New mnd and the chumer Valley Bus Lines, operating Greyhound Lines, consisting of | Camel City Coach Co. of North Carolina, the Camel Lines of Georgia, the Blue & Gray _Transit Co. of West Virginia, the Old Dominion Stues nf Vh'[lnll. and }the Skyline sucu jorth Carolina. n service in ylvln! Oh!o. the District of ,columbh South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida. Each Covers 5,000 Miles. The Short Line system will cover 5,856 miles of hl(h'ly while the At- lantie: Greyhound lines will serve e ound 'Hmzhxw‘h its umm a 13 e operates buses nounces arrangems ‘othnlnanmwmc«nmdw er- of interstate bus lines are mm £ ject to the aproval of any gov- iernmental agency, most ef ithe States exercise some control over ithorities fer publie aut mnmuon has led the Tlinois o issue a state- interstate lines to secure of convenience and neces- sity and conform to Stat~ of the States irginia tion, closer relationship between the banks of three counties will be sought, and ‘methods o e maael protection. and, assist: e anee of member banks 'flluwl about. tion are C. E. H. Wall, cashier of the First ru- tional Bank of Quantico, vice president for Prince William County, and G. Ray- mond Ratcliffe, vice president of the Ptoplu National Bank, Manassas, sec- Committee, which has president of the Bank, Purcellvm& lnd Harry P. Davis, the N 1 Bank of Ma- “How's my form?” bflk better L;lxml FST.ATTENTH WEST END " epesial Mighway taxes Trom | col way es. In- terstate buses. (Copyright, 1031) ‘The British government is conferring jawards on the residents of Allonne and Beauvais, France, who tried to succor the victims of the wreck of the R-101. “Not bad—that is, I've seen worse. But it would 'd send those linen knickers to the UNDRY and have them rejuvenated.” Don't Forget—West End Does Fine Dry Cleaning, Too PHONE METROPOLITAN 0200 LAUNDRY 1723 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. 1201 Conn. Ave. .+ 1737 F St. N.W. 1008 15th St. N.W. 1122 14th St. N.W.