Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1931, Page 11

HIN ISCREAMS CLUE ISDAY, MAY 5 LABOR GROUP WILL MEET 620,303 BOY SCOUTS | - Amon tne vistors to the meet. | urers reporied she. aceumansion TO PLAN BENEFIT FAIRi'N U.S.ATEND OF ‘930{'1‘#“”‘_‘ Jord Hampton, chief commis- | cath surplus during 1930. | he safd, boys ars boys on both sides of | Addresses by Agriculture Becretary the Atlantic, and he saw few differences Hyde, Dr. Willis Sutton, president of Two_Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Electrical Refrigeration THE ARGONNE “16th ‘and Colunibia Road Fall Is Fatal REPRESENTATIVE'S FATHER DIES HERE. HEARING DATES SET ONBUS AND POWER ‘The Executive Committee of the Fair cil Membership Increased Reasonable Rentals ] cursion [ Via SOUTHERN RAILWAY May 9th, 1931 WASHINGTON, D. C, AND ALEXANDRIA, VA. TO Ran CHARLOTTESVILLE a. 00 5.00 400 Utilities Body Puts Sessions Tentatively at June 1 and May 25, Respectively. The Public Utilities Commiesion has set tentative dates for two public hear- | ings to be held in the near future on matters of great importance to thé Dis- | trict May 25 has been selected for & pub- | s ol g ing methods of the awo the National Education Association, and and Expheition Committee of the Cen- | Chief Executive West Tells Coun- | counteies i c 3 IN AUTU MYS]‘ERY‘“.; Labor Union of Washington will | p Lord Hampton are on today's program, Police Probe Report of Cries. in Woods Near Taft Bridge, Given in Letter. A report today that screams were heard in the vicinity of the Taft Bridge over Connecticut avenue Saturday night wag being investigated by police, seek- | ing information in connection with the meet tonight to discuss plans for a fair and exposition, to be staged June 8 to 20, as &’ plan to raise funds which will be used by the union to contribute to the erection of the District of Colum- bia War Memorial in Potomac Park. ‘The location . of the fair will be chosen at tonight's meeting and com- mittees probably - will - be :appointed. to have charge of the various phases of the event. Such details as shows, con- cessions, athletic- attractfons, feature events and others will he decided upon at_the opening meeting. | Frank W. Lee is t?mlrmnn of _the Executive Committee, R. A. Dickeoh is 3.8 Per Cent. By the Associated Press, S, Tenn., May 5.—The Na- tlonal Council of the Boy Scouts of America, meeting here today in annual session, heard from Chief Scout Execu- tive James E. West that there were | 620,303 active Scouts in the country at the end of last year. Dr. West said membership increased | 3.8 per cent Jast year and at one time | or another during the period 1.000.000 or more Scouts were registered. He also | said there were now 5000 Cubs, or lic hearing on change in the system of | regulating rates for electric service. and June 1 for a hearing on the various problems incident to the entrance intc" Washington of interstate bugses. Neither date is final, but each is sub- at Eighth and R ctreets yesterday. | The report came to police this morn- ing in the form of an anonymous letter, | 8x10-ft. ‘flndmz of a blood-stained automobile 'secretary and Fred 8. Walker treasurer. ' Scouts-to-be, below Scout age. The or- | PO it S S L T e bearing a ma of the woodland under RUGS “BETTER CLEANING ekl o Betiies. pa -all yesul - sratesexsent "Eriscont. Limited) Up io Arain No. 36, May 10th. 1981 SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM yflflmAlLE TO EAT red such great distress from indi- stion that 1 was unable to eat. I bought INSEP and immediately obtaiged wond tul reliet,” says J. E. Nebr. End vour stomach misery with ZINSEP, 3t's GUARANTEED, At all druggists. 13 For Sale by Peoples SUFFERING FEET!: That's just a signal for BLUE-JAY CORN PLASTERS 25¢ The quick, safe treat- ment—for 31 years. Made by the sur- gical dressing house of Stores and 5ts BAUER & BLACK Reeder, Falls Citr, | ject to change before official notices | are sent out giving the interested util- | ities the 10 days' notice to which they are entitled. Congestion Is Problem. The problém to' be tackled in the bus hearing is principaily that of traffic congestion. It is one that has defled | the commission’s efforts to date. Ap- | parently the commission has no au- therity over the interstate busses, or 12ther, the bus operators have won evc-y cace in court in which the com- misiion has sought to assert its au- thority. Directly across Pennsylvania Avenue, from the windows of Gen. Mason M. | Patrick, there iz a terminal of a bus line put up despite a prohibition by the commission. The Nevin Bus Lines suc- cessfully resisted in court an_ effort by the commission to make the busses follow a prescribed route. It is believed that the result of the | hearing will be an order forbidding the | busses to enter the congested downtown sectlon, but how successful this will be remains to be seen. Rates Still Wrangled. | 'The hearing on electric rates is a part | of ths effort of the commission to make | a greater percentage of the excess earn- | ings of the Potomac Elactric Power Co. evailable for consumers. in rate reduc- | tions. There has been continual skir | mishing on this subject since last De- cember 31, when the commission an- nounced its finding that under the | present system the returns enjoyed by the corporation are too great. The system, embodied in a decree en- tered by consent of the commission and | the corporation and effective from Jan- | uary 1, 1925, provides that half of the | excess earnings each calendar year shall be used as a reduction fund for setting | rates the succeeding year. The basis on which earnings are calculated is | 832,500,000, plus net additions, "gf’md but undepreciated, to the date the rate determination. Under this system the commission found that the company made more than 10 per cent last year, which it | considered too high. Treasury Employe Il Daniel W. Bell, assistant commission- er of accounts and deposits ot the Treasury Department, who has been jousty il with pneumonia, was re- GEORGE W. PRATT. George W. Pratt, 90, father of Rep- resentative Harcourt J. Pratt of New ‘York. died at Emergency Hospital last | | night of injuries received when he Iell‘ and broke & bone in his leg at the| | home of his daughter, Mrs. H. R. Old- | field, 3610 Idaho avenue, January 31. e had been in the hospital since the mishap. | Mr. Pratt, whose home is at High- |1and, N. Y., visits each Winter at the | home of his daughter in Washington |1t was while on cne of his annual | visits to Washington that the accident occurred. Despite his advanced age, he | had not retired and was still active| president of the National Bank of Highland. | The body will be taken to Highland for burial. Besides Representative Pratt he is survived by Mrs. Oldfield wife of Maj. H. R. Oldfield, U. S. A, and five grandchildren, Adelaide and Barney Oldfield of Washington and| George Pratt, Mrs. W. Betts and Mrs. | Legrand Haviland of Highland. BSix great-grandchildren also survive. | Representative preceded the | body to Highland today, where arrange- | ments for the funeral and burial, prob- ably Thursday, will be made. BREWER HEADS BAR By a 8taft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT | HOUSE, Va, May 5—J. Hammond | Brewer, jr., w terday elected | ident of the Arlington County Bar As- sociation, succeeding Amos C. Crounse. Other officers elected were: ‘Thomas W. Phillips, vice pres! it. and W. Thomas French, secretary and t rer. Those elected to the Griev- ance Committee were Judge Harry R. Thomas, chairman; State Senator Frank L. Ball and Walter U. Varney; Legisla- tive Committee, Charles T. Jesse, chair- men; Emery N. Hosmer and J. Foster the bridge and indicating at what point the screams were heard. Detective Frank Alligood was sent to | investigate the report and made a care- ful search of the woodland area under the bridge in an effort to uncover clues. He reporting nothing was found. Since the roadster was not stolen until Sun- day night investigators _apparently placed little significance in the report. Meanwhile, Inspector William 8. Shelby, detective chief, .awaits a Teport | from Dr. G. V. Reed, District chemist, who is making an- analysis to determins just how long the blood had been on the stolan roadster. ‘The blood-splashed .automobile was stolen from Dr. Louis Notes, dental sur- geon, with offices at 1104 H street northeast, from its parking place in the of Ninth and F streets, Sunday night about 6:30 o’clock. Dried blood was found in the rear | seat of the roadster and the khaki can- vas top also bore stains. A man's oloods handkerchief also was found in rumble seat. | A check of the hospitals in an effort | to find out if any “mysterious” patients | were treated in the past {(wo days| proved fruitless, Captain of Detectives Edward J. 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