Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1931, Page 17

| General News H 1 ALLEGED GAMBLER CAUGHT IN RAID AFTER GIVING BOND. Man, Taken 3 Times in Year| Same Place, Arrested 4 Hours After Release. INFORMES POLICE “B0SS” TOLD HIM TO REOPEN! Case Delayed to Study Possibility | of Presenting Case to Grand | Jurors. Arrested for the third time in less than a year in the same alleged gambling establishment, William Baroni, 31, was brought into Police Court this morning, when his case was continued | until the prosecutor can determine | whether there are grounds for institu- | {ing" grand Jjury proceedings against ' im H Aiter he had been taken into custody ! in a raid at 408 Ninth street, yesterday, | Baroni told detectives he had been ordered by “the boss” to reopen the establishment, although he had been arrested there only last week. According to court records, Baron | was first arrested at the Ninth street address on November 7, last. The! grand jury returned an ignoramus in this case on February 11, 1930. There Four Hours Later. He was arrested again last week in the same place, and was released on honld yesterday after demanding & jury trial. Four hours later. when police again raided the establishment, they found Baroni there. He told them he was in charge of the place. | Although the minor charge of per- mitting gaming was placed against him, Assistant United States Aftorney Frank Adams said he intended to investigate Baroni's record to determine the practi- cability of presenting his case to the grand jur Baroni was arrested yesterday by De- | tective Sergts. Larry O'Dea. Arthur; Fihelly, Howard Ogle and O. W. Mans- fleld, who entered the place without a warrant. They said they were volun- tarily admitted. Dozen Flee to Roof. ‘When the detectives entered the place, more than a dozen men escaped through i windows and over adjoining roofs. About 20 others were held as Govern ment witnesses. The detectives confis- cated a number of blackboards and racing forms. Baroni told Sergt. Ogle that after he had left court yesterday he called his boss and asked him whether he shoul reopen the establishment. “His boss he said, “told him to go ahead—that | everything was O. K.” | Baroni said he either had to obey this command or lose his job. Judge John P. McMahon, in Police Court, today postponed until Monday | the case of Willlam Green, arrested last week in the 800 block of Ninth street | & in a warrantless raid. Judge McMahon said he would rule at that time on the; legality of the seizure of alleged intoxi- | cants in the place. i ST CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR SEWER SYSTEMS Commissioners Let Work on Five Projects in Outlying Sections of City. Five contracts for the construction of sewer systems in outlying district: involving appreximately $80,000, we awarded today by the District Com- missioners. The largest single project, the Brad- bury Heights' sanitary sewer, Was awarded to J. B. McCrary Co., the cost being $42,127. A contract of $24.- 787 to construct the Randle Highlands' ganitary sewers In the vicinity of Thirty-second and G_streets southeast, | was awarded to Roy D. Schlegel. The Peter D'Adamo Construction Co. was awarded a $5.427 contract for the construction of the Plymouth street surface sewer in the vicinity of Beach drive, and the same company was awarded a $3806 contract for the Potomac Heights' sanitary sewer in the vicinity of Macomb and Klingle streets. The final contract of $4.026 fcr the construction of the Southern avenue and Sixty-second street outlet sewer was awarded to Roy D. Schiegel. GIRL SCOUTS PREPARE FOR ANNUAL PLAY DAY Colorful Ceremony to Mark Award-: ing of Medals and Athletic Meet in Rock Creek Park. More than 300 Girl Scouts, compris- ing 13 troops of District No. 4, will participate in thelr annual June play day and Court of Award at 2 o'clock tomorrow -afternoon on the playground south of Plerce Mill in Rock Creek Park. A color ceremony will open the ex- ercises, followed by the presentation of second class badges and the award of some 450 merit badges, together with gold and silver attendance stars. °T] will be followed by an athletic meet. In event of rain the play-day events will be held in the gymnasium of Ham- line Methodist Church, Sixteenth and Allison streets. AUTO SEIZURE FOUGHT Hertz Ccmp:ny AS):S?I.OT?.B"’ for Car Held by Police. Suit to recover $1,072.87 damages has been filed in the District Supreme Court by the Hertz Driv-Ur-Self Stations, Inc., against W. R. Blandford, deputy prohibition administrator; Police Sergt. George M. Little and Policemen George C. Deyoe and Leo Murray. The plain- tiff says a sedan belonging to the cor- ration was taken February 4, 1930, y the defendants and its return has been refused. No reason is assigned for the seizure of the. car. Attorney Nathan B. Wildiams appears for the company. CONVENTION HERE ASKED Meeting with the Canadian Piano Tuners' Association at Torcnto, the tri- State Eastern regional districts of the National Association of Piano Tune: yesterday recommended the National Capital as the site of their next con- wvention. The delegation at Toronto was repre- sentative of 37 per cent of the member- ship of the association. It will be defi- nitely decided where next year's con- vention will be held when the associa- tion convenes at Minneapolis in August. el New Points for Goddess DARING STEEPLEJACK neral foreman of photographed toda | ‘which adorn tre feathered headdress of the Goddess of Freedom atop the build- ing. s he replaced the platinum points on the lightning rods | REPLACES PLATINUM. painters and decorators at the Capitol, | —Star Staff Photo. | ARTMAN RENAMIED SLAIN POLICEMAN'S AS VIGE: CHAIRMAN i Utilities Commission Mem- bers Take Action to Clear Up Misunderstanding. The mystery that enveloped for all v yesterday the status of Harleigh H. Hartman as vice president of the Pub- lie Utilitles Commissicn was cleared { today by an explanation of Maj. Gen. | Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the commission. Mr. Hartman retains the vice chairmanship, about which there appeared so much doubt. by agreement of the chairman and the third member | of the commission, Maj. John C. Gct- wals, Engineer Commissioner of the | District. i The misunderstanding arose at the ! bi-nnual election of the commission e i renamed chairman, the law requiring 1(]]: election of a chairman every two vears. After the meeting it was said that no menticn of the vice chairman- ship had been made, and while this did not necessarily mean Mr. Hartman had been dropped, the impression was gain- | ed that action had been deferred in his case. Usually it has been customary to elect a vice chairman along with { the chairman. The office of vice chairman is not one created by law, but by the com- mission itself. Gen, Patrick later in the iday instructed the executive secretary, Earl Fisher, to have the minutes read that the former organization remained intact and that Mr. Hartman was re- named as vice chairman. When he learned of the earlier reports that had |been " issued, Gen. Patrick consulted {with Maj. Gotwals and obtained his | consent to having the minutes stand. | This agreement on Maj. Gotwal's part was paramount to a vote having been taken. Gen. Patrick said today it never oc- curred to him that it was necessary to | vote on the vice chairmanship, the law | requiring & vote only on the election of a chairman. He supposed, he said, that Mr. Hartman would retain the vice chairmanship so long as he remained ! on the commission or until some other | vice chairman was named. 'WASHINGTON MONUMENT GARDEN PLANS REVISED New Project Expected to Be Sub- mitted Scon to Park and Plan- ning Commission. ! A revised pian for garcens around the Washington. Monument is_expected to be submit:ed scon to the National | Capital Park and Planning Commission. Wililem A. Delano, architect, and Frederick Law s, landscape | architoct, members of the commission, lars at work on a revision of the older plan. the Fourtee: across the Mall. The cnginecrs Lazarus | White and J. Vipond Davies have ad- vised the commission that it is not de- sirable to have a subway as an exten- sion of Fifteenth street, duz to endan- gering the stability of the Washington Monument, they said. The new plans are expected to be completed during the Summer. v yesterday when Gen. Patrick was | Commi:sion engincers today approved | -~ WIDOW TO LEAVE | 'Mrs. Taylor, Son and Mother: | Plan to Return to Old Home in lllinois. Mrs. Jesse Taylor, widow of the po- liceman who was shot to d=ath recently at the fashionable Club Crantecler by Robert Montgomeyy, scion of a wealthy Boston and New York family, today was { | preparing to abandon her home, at 715 | | Madison street, and move to East Peoria, | a suburb of Peoria, Ill. Although Mrs. Taylor still was “too nervous and upset to do any of the packing herself, she was directing the | work from her bed, where she has spent a great deal of time since her husband | was killed. The actual work was being done by her 16-year-old son, Wayne. Will Leave Monday. | Early Monday morning after the fur- niture and other household effects have been loacded onto a moving van, Wayne, | accompanied by his mother, will begin the long ride to Peoria. Mrs. Taylor's| | mother, Mrs. Ada Barker, also will make | the trip. - Before coming to Weshington Taylor was a member of the police force of | Pecria. Mrs. Barker has a house in East Peoria, and she and her daughter and grandson will live there. Montgomery May Aid. ‘While the plans were being made, Mrs. Barker said, a representative of Col. Robert H. Montgomery, father of the man who shot the policeman, the manager of the night club and then killed himself, called at the Taylor resi- dence and assured the widow she would hear from the elder Montgomery soon. The nature of the promised communi- cation from Col. Montgomery was not revealed, Mrs. Barker added. However, shortly after the shooting—the sole survivor of which was Charles Garbett manager of the Club Chantecler—it was intimated that Col. Montgomery was C\Wf;mm“ alding the widow finan- cially. GIVEN FAREWELL DINNER | iy Rev. Eduardo V. Ancieto to Sail for Philippines Soon. Rev. Eduardo V. Ancieto, 8. J, founder of the Filipino Catholic Asso- clation, was tendered a farewell dinner by members of the organization last night at the Houston Hotel. Father Ancieto, with nine other Jesuits, will sall shortly for the Philippines. Arsenio N. Salcedo, president of the association, presided. Macario S. Balco, first president of the association and now chief of the Philippine Journalistic League, and Silverio Almiranes, promi- nent in local Filipino circles, addressed the gathering. D. C. ENGINEER HIRED | New York Expert Employed on ! Municipal Center. I Moran, engineer cf Moran & Proctor of New York City, has been en- | gaged by the District Government as & consultant in the plans for the founda- tion of the new municipal center, Maj. John C. Gotwals, District Engineer Commissioner, announced today. TWO WORKMEN HURT WHEN CROSS FOR CHURCH CRASHES SCAFFOLD 'Half-Ton Stone Ornament Causes Derrick to Buckle; | Foreman and Laborer Injured. | Two men were injured tcday when a | bore the gm;’!ck,x }'{rh‘- c;otsl.dit wuds::l}:ie. { Lualf-tone stone cross, which they were | caused the derrick to buckle, G0 H v scaffold to hoisting to the top of & wall at ths new| Nooden framewurk of the | Christ Lutheran Church, Sixteenth and |~ The men were both employes of Louls Gallatin streets, caused the scaffold on | Perna & Sons, stone masons. Plagno which they were working to collapse. |was taken to Emergency Hospital, Love John Plagno, 28, of 4301 Ellicott |to Freedmen's Hospital. The condition street, foreman of the stone mason |of both was said to be undetermined. crew, and Jeft Love, colored, a laborer | Love is sald to have fallen on his head. onmm'.mmmafolflwhlch Tne cross was 8ot damaged, STUDENT ENDS LIFE WHEN THREATENED BY LSS OF SIGHT Richard McKirdy Found on Bed in Room With Pistol Nearby. | YOUTH, 19, HAD HOPED TO ENTER WEST POINT Certificate of Suicide Issued by Coroner in Death of At- torney's Son. A certificate of suicide was issued to- day in the case of Richard McKirdy, 19 years old, who shot and killed him- self late yesterday because, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James McKirdy, ex- plained, he had st the sight of one eye and feared he would become total- ly blind. His father is an attorney for the Internal Revenue Bureau. The youth, who had completed sec- ond-year studies at George Washington University and hoped to enter United States Military Academy West Point eventually, was found in the | at | | | I ! { today, SERGT. 6. M. LITTLE WILL BE ELEVATED T0 LIEUTENANCY Veteran Police Dry Officer Slated for Inspection District. HARRIED BOOTLEGGERS PRIOR TO U. S. DRY LAW Forty More Changes Due in Per- sonnel by July 1—Some to Retire. Sergt. George M. Little, veteran liquor enforcement officer cf the Police Department, is slated for promotion to lieutenant July 1, and, it was reported probably will be assigned to duty in one of the three new police in- spection districts to be created under the police recrganization plan which becomes effective on that date. For nearly 14 years Sergt. Little has been engaged in enforcing the liquor law, his activities in this work begin- ning before the advent of national pro- hibition when Washington was dried up | his bed on the third floor cf his home, | by the Sheppard law. at 1529 Fourty-fourth street, by his mother. There was & bullet hole in his right temple and a .22-caliber revolver laid nearby. According to Mrs. McKirdy, he had been in the bed room since 7:30 a.m. stairs and found the door to his room locked. After rattling the knob and calling him several times, she broke open th> door. Dr. Harry A. Ong, 1801 I street, said the student apparently had been dead scveral hours. The youth, according to his father,| purchased the pistol whil® attending Antioch College, Antioch, Ohio. He was a student at the Middle Western insti- tution before entering George Washing- ton last Fall, his father sald. Besides his parents, the young man is survived by a sister, Loulse, a student at | Western High Schood. Funeral arrange- ment have not been completed. FIGURE AT 0P CAPITOL AGAIN SAFE IN STORM | Xk —— |KIWANIS SPEAKER Painters’ Foreman Replaces Points of Platinum to Protect It From Lightning. The statue of the Goddess of Free- dom atop the dome of the Capitol is surrounded once more today by the little platinum points which protect it from lightning. Fearing A storm might arise last night and damage the statue, Charles Fries, general foreman of Capitol paint- | ers, climbed to the shoulders of the statue late vesterday and put the points in place. Fries and Robert Jones,.also a foreman of painters, made the climb today and completed the repairs and adjustments. ‘The platinum points had been taken down two days ago to be repaired. The lightning arresters on the statue are examined and adjusted every four years, when the dome is being cleaned and painted. David Lynn, Capitol architect, award- ed a contract today to the Munz Spt lawn Corporation of Detroit to install tubing and sprinklers in the new por- tion of the Capitol grounds extending toward Union Station. The work will cost $31.000. Leon A. Harris of this city was given a contract to clear a portion of the | site for the new Botanic Gardens, south of Maryland avenue. TWO CAUGHT IN CHASE AFTER HAM IS STOLEN Policeman, Notified by Pedestrian, Pursues Trioi—One Leaps From Car and Flees. Alfred B. Martin, 22 years old, of 3400 E street southeast and Charles R. Anderson, 24, of Capitol Heights, Md., were arrested on charges of petty larceny yesterday following a chase | after a stolen ham. Patrolman Morris M. Deakins of the eleventh precinct station was cruising in a police car ncar Benning road and Kenilworth avenue yesterday afternoon when an excited pedestrian rushed up, pointed to a flecing machine and said: “Those fellows just stole a ham.” The officer gave chase, and after three or four blocks saw the occupants of the pursued auto throw the ham off to one side of the road. Two blocks further the car drew to a halt and one man jumped out and escaped, two com- panions remaining in the machine. Deakins arrested the pair and took them to No. 11 station after retriev- ing the ham. Deakins’' informant told police he saw one of the men steal the ham from a truck parked in front of a meat packing establishment and drive away. Finds Life Is Hard After Wife Takes His Shaving Glass Dr. Paul Bartch Granted Plea to Stop Sale of Furniture. Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator at the Na- {ional Museum, is finding it difficult to get along without his shaving mirror, according to his application in District Supreme Court for an injunction against his wife to prevent her from disposing of furniture which she is reported to have taken from their home at 1456 Belmont street when they separated. He says the wife left him only two Summer suits and not enough plates to Mrs. Bartsch filed suit for a limited divorce, and the husband answered with a cross-bill and sought the return of the furniture which the wife had removed from the home. Both suits are still pending. Justice Bailey granted the petition of the husband, who is represented by At- torney Huston Thompson. Mrs. Bartsch is represented by Attorneys, Lambert, Yeatman & Canfield, i Bootlegger Nemesis. Mounted on & motor cycle in those | days, he was & nemesis to bootleggers who were importing liquor from Balti- more via_ Bladensburg road northeast. Since July 1, 1925, Sergt. Little has been in command of the special road squad of the Police Department—a rov- ing unit assigned to capture rum run- ners as they come into the District. In these six years the squad has selzed thousands of gallons of Jiquor and made hundreds of arrests. Other Changes Due. Sergt. Little took command of the road squad successor to Guy E. Burlinghame, who was promoted and | put_in command of the 9th precinct. | Burlingame was retired several years 0. The reported advancement of Sergt Little is only one of more than 40 “hanges in personnel to be made July 1, due to the reorganization and the re- tirement of a number of ranking officers who have reached the maximum retire- ment age of 64. Maj. Henry G. Pratt. superintendent of police. and Inspector Willlam 8. Shelby, chief of detectives, are now selecting the officers to be promoted. The slate, however. is not expected to be completed before June 15. PRAISES BOYS’ CLUB'! | Judge Montgemery Cites Them as Medium for Building Character. Boys' Clubs of America were First Naval Academy Bride COUPLE MARRIED IMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATION In the upper photo, Ensign Horace Meyers of Boise, Idaho, 1s shown leaving the academy chapel with his bride, formerly Miss Louise Hines of St. Joseph, Mo. They were the first of 10 couples married after graduation exercises yesterday. Miss Marion Wells ¢f Washington is shown in the lower photo warmly con- gratulating Ensign C. L. Gasterland of Raymond, Minn, upon recciving his [ epaulets. —A. P. and Underwood Photos. ¢ commended as a_ medium strengthening and building the | character of the American youth in an | address by Judge William H. Montgom- | lery of the Municipal Juvenile Court of | { Wilmington. N. C.. at the weekly lunch- | { eon meeting of the Kiwanis Club yes- | terday at the Washington Hotel. | Speaking on the “Welfare Work With | | Youth,” Judge Montgomery indorsed ithe activities of the Boys' Clubs and |pointed out the benefits accorded | through their work. Judg: Montgomery also commended the charitable work carried on by the Washington Kiwanis Club and praised |the club for setting an example for | similar organizations to follow. | The “Fort Worth Tigers,” a group of { Boys’ Club harmonizers from the Texas City, provided the musical entertain- ment. D. S. Clifton directed and Mrs. | | Alyne Hoffman accompanied at the | piano. ACCOUNTANT IS SEIZED ON EMBEZZLING CHARGE i!‘ormer Employe of Paper Com- pany Here Accused of Taking $400 Is Held at Laurel Answering_a look-out broadcast by local police, Maryland officers at Laurel yesterday arrested Harry Wadsworth Stephens, 43 years old, an accountant, of 1107 Sixteenth street, on charges of embezzlement of $400 from the jCantwell Paper - Co., 1628 L street. Stephens, police say, denied the charge. A week ago Stephens is said by po- | lice to have severed his connections | with the firm and his arrest followed | & reported checking-up of accounts.! Stephens was said to be en route to| Philagelphia_with his wife when ar-, rested. He was released on bond of ! $3,000 for his arraignment in Police | Court here, probably next week. CELEBRATION TO MARK TRADE BOARD CRUISE Members and Guests Who "l‘flokl Trip to Enjoy Dinner-Dance at Columbia Country Club. A celebration to mark the first annual three-day cruise made last week end by members and guests of the Wash- ington Board of Trade will be held | June 29 at the Columbia Country Club, | it was announced today by Robert J. Cottrell, executive sccretary of the rd. Col. John T. Bardroff, chairman of the Outing Committee, will be honor guest at the dinner and dance, which is expected to be attended by thé 170 members of the board and their wives and guests who made the cruise on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. Motion pictures made during the cruise by Dr. Roy Lyman Sexton and Henry Brawner will be a part of the entertainment program at the party. POST HOLDS MEMORIAL Legionnaires Assemble at Grave of Maj. Gardner in Arlington. A memorial service wes held today | by the officers and men of the Augus- | | enable two pecple to eat on at one time. | tus P. Gardner Post, American Legion, at the grave of Maj. Augustus P.*Gard- ner in Arlington National Cemetery. ‘The group assembled at the grave with the post colors and Maj. Iter Bruce Howe talked of the life of Maj. Gardner as a statesman and a soldler. Col. Willlam M. Wilder of the 17l1st Regiment of Georgia, closely associated ' with Maj. Gardner prior to his death during the World War, also addressed the group. . 1,000 MIDDIES SAIL ON ANNUAL CRUISE Board Arkansas and Wyo- ming for Two-Month Tour. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS. Md., June 5—Nearly a thousand Naval Academy midshipmen lugged sea bags aboard the battleship Arkansas and Wyoming here today for the start of their annual cruise, this year to European waters. ‘The ships were under orders to sail with the 944 undergrads, members of the new first and third classes, later in the day, for Copenhagen, where they are scheduled to arrive June 23. The second classmen Temain st the |3 academy for a Summer course in avia- tion. Most of the 441 grads who yes- terday recelved diplomas, 392 of them being commissioned ensigns or Marine Corps second lieutenants, had scattered to their homes on a month’s leave of absence, Plebes Due Soon. ‘Before the battleships return here August 25 a new first year class will have arrived. £ Glasgow is to be the next port visited after Copenhagen. The midshipmen are to spend from July 1 to 13 there. Cadiz, Spain, is to be visited from July 18 to| 27 unless it is decided to change the itinerary because of unsettled political conditions in Spain and Gibraltar from July 27 to 30. Hampton Roads, August 15; Atlantic drill grounds, August 17-20; Annapolis August 26, is the remainder of the schedule. Target practice will be held at the drill grounds. From August 26 to September 26 the midshipmen will be on vacation. ‘Weddings Planned. Several more of the new officers planned to walk with their brides be- neath arches of swords of their com- rades today, following yesterday's 15 weddings. Last year 21 couples were wed on graduation day. Two of the weddings, those of Miss Gwendolyn M. Binstead, Accomac. Va., and Ensign John W. Crumpacker, Mich- igan City, Ind, and of Miss Katherine Ing, Baltimore, Gale, Portland, Oreg., were scheduled for the Academy Chapel, where 10 were wed yesterday. At Washington, Miss Alberta Perley nd Ensign Windsor C.| of Washington, and Ensikn John G. F. Prescott, Los Angeles, planned to marry |today. In addition a score or more of | cngagements have been announced. | Midshipmen may not wed until grad- uated on pain of expulsion. i ENSIGNS GET ASSIGNMENTS. | Navy Department Designates Ships to | Academy Graduates. Assignments of the Navy's new en-| | signs were made public today at the | Navy Department. Assignments of en- | signs living in the District, Maryland and Virginia follow: The District—J. W. Byng, U. S. S.| Detroit; P. W. Clarke, Nevad: A Davis, Manley; R. B. Farquharson, ir.. Saratoga: W. M. Garton, jr., New York; H. T. Johnson, Texas; J. W. Leverton jr., Augusta; J. S. McCain, jr., Okla. | homa; C. T. Shoemaker, Chester; J. C. South, Pennsylvania; R. A. Theobald, | ir, Maryland; F. L. Wallace, Chester; H. Willlams, jr., Willlamson, and A. L. | Young, New York. Maryland Assignments. ‘The assignments from Annapolis, Md., S. S. Maryland: . M. Ci gs, Northampton; C. M. Howe, 3d, Milwaukee; E. J. O'Neill, Idaho, and S. D. Owens to the U. S. S. Pennsyl- vania. C. A. Morrow, jr., of Baltimore will go to the Yarnell and A. E. Sharp, jr., from the same city will go to the Trenton. J. F. Harper, jr., of Center- ville will go on the Navy rifle team; B. F. Roeder of Cumberland will go to the Richmond: R. E. | Forest Glen will go to the Biddle; H. B. Lyon of Lusbys, to the Pensacola: P. L. Wirtz of Mount Washington, to N of Takoma Park to the Saratoga. Virginia List. Virginia assignments: N. M. Head of Barchoft to the U. S. S. Texas; T. ayne of Clarendon to the Tennes- M. Wood, Lynchburg, West Vir- ginia; E. M. Bingham, Norfolk, Idaho; L. A. Stuart, Portsmouth, Omaha; R. C. Williams, jr., Richmond to Saratoga; E. A. Wright, Richmond, to the Pen- sacola; H. A. Renken, Staunton, to the Greer, and A. B. Tucker of Winchester to the Nevada. UNION NAMES DELEGATES Elmer H. Bailey, president of the War Department Federal Employes Union. No. 261, of the National Federation of Federal Emp! . and Willlam S. Kin- ney, secrctary-treasurer, have been named to represent the union at the convention of th> National Feceration, to be held the week of September 7 at Seattle, Wash. The delegates were elected at a business meeting of the union Tuesday night. BRIDE BELIEVES TRANSPORTS ‘ USED ONLY BY CONGRESSMEN New Ensign’s Wife at Annapolis Thinks Two Navy Ships Carry Investigating Legislators Exclusively. A newly commissioned ensign's bride believes the only passengers carried by the U. S. S. Chaumont and U. S. S. Henderson, naval transports, are in- vestigating Congressmen. young bride, whose name officials at the Navy Department failed to dis- close, telephoned the department from Anna) portation on & naval vessel to her husband’s new post of duty, so that she could be near him. is today, asking about trans- |tri] |of some of your naval transports. and their szilling dates?" inquired the femi- nine voice. ‘The official in charge looked over his schedule, and found that soon the two' regular transports plying between the East and West Coasts and the Orient each will be making another Ip. “We have the U. 8. 8. Chaumont and Henderson, you know,” said the offi lelal. “But,” the bride, “the mm. aren’ mfl,q’r,. Lockwood of | ths Jacob Jones, and H. E. Seidel, jr., ! PAGE B—1 FEWER 0BSTACLES RAISED T0 MERGER OF OIL COMPANIES Combinations to Be Opposed in U. S. Only on Proof of Violations. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE USES RULE OF REASON Standard Units May Join to Meet New Problems Raised by Dutch Shell Invasion. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The Federal Government is not going to put any obstacles in the way of mer- gers or consolidations unless it s clearly apparent that the proposed com- binations are in violation of law. Inst-ad of opposing mergers and let- ting the courts determine all cases, the Department of Justice is inclined now- adays to apply the rule of reascn. This does not, mean the exercise of discre- tion but that the department is not going to proceed uselessly unless it has a clesr case. Published reports that the Standard Ofl Co. of New Jersey and the Stand- ard Ofl Co. of Califcrnia have under conilderation a merger which will de- velop within the next 60 days unless Government opposition appears is the direct consequence of the policy pur- sued by the Department of Justice in deciding not to appe2l the case in which the Standard Oil Co. of New York was given the right by a lower court to merge with the Vacuum Ofl Co. Other Mergers Loom. The fact of the matter is that the court decision in that case rendered several weeks ago may become th basis for many mergers in the ofl ine dustry. The Department of Justice reserves the right, of course, to prose- cute any ccmpany which violates the law even after a merger takes place, but the supposition now is that none of the oil companies wishes to do any- thing that will get itself entangled in the clutches of the law and merely is desirous of combining operations in such a way as to meet competition. In other words, even since Rayol Dutch Shell Co. with its foreign capital came into the United States and spread its filling stations from coast to coast the Standrad Oil group of companies has been unable to do some of the s which the foreign-owned cor- perations were free to do. The view takem by the lower court in the Vacuum case is that the mer- ger will increase rather than lessen competition. The purpose of the Sher- jman law, of course, was to prevent any Imerger which would restrain competi- tion. The evidence in the Vacuum Oil suit showed that the merged companies expected to combine operations in the export as well as domestic market. So it is exvected that the Standard Ol Co. of New Jersey combining with the Standard Oil Co. of California will ibecome a larger competitive unit, con- trolling jointly about 25 per cent of the domestic oil business. Not Considered Monopoly. Most. decisions of the Supreme Court have indicated that any such small i percentage couid not by any means be { considered a monopoly. | The original purpose of the Supreme | Court decree dissolving the parent jStandard Ofl Co. 20 years ago was to ! break up a monopoly then existing. Since those days the various Standard ! Oil companies have been fighting a big- ger compotitor and have been com- ! peting among themselves. In the case jof the Standard Oil Co. of California, which is the leading oil enterprise on {the Coast, while the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey operates in Eastern States, there is mo real competition. The economies of purchase, the pooling of processes and operations in the ex- port market are believed to be the main ireasons for the amalgamation that is | planned. Big business generally will watch the course of the Government in the oil cases to see how far the present trend toward mergers and combinations is possible without interference by the Department of Justice. (Copyright. 1931) MERGER PLANS READY. Standard of New Jersey and California ‘Will Combine Forces. NEW YORK, June 5 () —The New York Times says the proposal for con- solidation_ of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and the Standard Ol Co. of California will take definite form | within 60 days unless formidable op- pesition develops in Washington. The inerger was proposed about twe vears ago, but was abandoned upon in- timation that the United States De- partment of Justice would withhold its approval. The newspaper says the consolida= tion will now be undertaken as a re- sult of the faflure of the Government to prevent the merger of the Standard Oil Co. of New York and the Vacuum Oil Co., two other Standard Oil units. It was said the proposed merger would create the largest petroleum com- pany in the world. with total assets of more than $2.375.000.000. and control- ling about a fourth of the ofl business in_the United States. The company would be larger than the old Standard Oil Co. which was | dissolved by Supreme Court order in 1911, and would also be larger than the Royal Dutch Shell organization of Europe, now the world's largest pro- | ducer of crude ofl, the newspaper says. 4-H CLUBBERS LEAVE Ohio Delegation Goes to Philadel- phia After Visit Here. A delegation of Ohio 4-H Club cham- plons, here on a three-day sight-seeing trip as guests of the Baltimore & Ohio Phia, ths Txt Sy on MhelF inerary. , the next city on their itinerary. They will visit Atlantic City before re- turning home. Members of the party included Ever- ett Bailey, Maxwell Challen, Thomas Collett, Harold Dinsmore, Albert Du- rose, Gerald Hamilton, Elmer Lawliss, Henry Pinkvoss, Randall Ross, W. H. i Palmer and E. B. Baugh, agricuitural agent of the railrcad. Aae L ‘Washington Boys Win Prizes. ‘Two Washington boys were honored at the annual commencement exercises this week of the Mercersbury Academy, Mercersburg, Pa. Richard Austin Smith of this year's graduating class won second prize in senior English, while Benjamin McCartney was awarde ed first §rize in junior English, , .