Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1931, Page 17

WASHINGTON WA COURT ROW LOON [FAYDLAUNCHED MODEL PLANE SETS RECORD AT BOLLING FIELD FUTLTES BOAR PASSE RATECUT Potomac Electric Power Co. Seeks to Save Present Sched:ules. COMMISSION IS READY TO ENFORCE DECISIONS 8liding Scale to Be Studied Mon- day as Means for Lowering Util- ity's Return of 10 Per Cent. The possibility of the Public Utilities Commission becoming involved in Miti- gation over the “consent decree” gov- erning the rates of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. loomed vesterday as a Tesult of its decision to take up at its yegular meeting tomorrow the issuance of a tentative order abrogating the decree and substituting a modified #sliding scale,” which would tend to re- duce the existing rate of 4.2 cents per kilowatt hour. As the proposed “sliding scale” is less favorable to the company, which is now earning about 10 per cent on the agreed value of its property, it was expected its adoption would result im- mediately in the company availing it- self of the right of appeal to the courts to save the “consent decree.” Whether the company would appeal to the courts or not, there is no ques- tion of any immediate reduction in rates for electricity. A hearing would first be held, and it was said yesterday there is hardly any likellhood of a hearing on the question before next December. At the same time it was disclosed the Public Utilities Commission is ready to consider a plan to be proposed by the Washington Gas Light Co. for the adjustment of overcharges to consum- ers due to high pressure, about which scores of complaints were mad: last Winter. It is probable that the com- pany's plan will be submitted to the commission tomorrow. Beyond con- sideration of it, no other action is con- templated at this time, First Plan Unacceptable. Previously the Public Utilities Com- mission had ordered the company to submit a plan relative to such over- charges. This was done, byt the com- pany's plan proved unacceptable. Should the amended plan be available tomorrow it will bring the question up | ag2in, with discussion as to the de- sirability of a public hearing. The commission has long had this in mind, but indications pointed yes- terday that no action would be taken at this time. A public hearing, it was pointed out. would be confined solely to the question of overcharges due to excess pressure methods and would not involve any general reduction in gas| rates. in all probability such a hearing on overcharges would embody a proposal to penalize the company if it maintains a pressure above the maximum allowed | by the commission. The commission is understood to have in mind some plan of adjustment that would serve automatically to protect the consumer from such overcharges as occurred last Winter. A survey then ordered by the com- mission indicated that the company, in order to keep pace with the rapid con- sumption of gas, was exerting such high pressure of distribution that pressure for some consumers gone up to 14 inches. The commission directed the gas company to install additional distributive mains so as to relieve the pressure on certain principal mains and effect a more equitable distribution of gas over the city. To help them accomplish this the commission per- mitted & maximum pressure of 8 inches, whereas previously the max- imum was limited to 6 inches. With the question arising again and the possibility of a hearing to determine adjustment of overcharges for excess pressure, the impression has been cre- ated that the commission might restore the former maximum of 6 inches. By that time, it is expected the gas com- pany will have taken the necessery pre- eautions against conditions such as con- sumers experienced last Winter. Return Held Too High. The situation with Tespect to the Potomac Electric Power Co., which may come to a head tomorrow, grew out of the recent hearing on the question of changing the present “sliding scale” of rates so as to bring about a reduction for the consumer and less return to the company. At this hearing, William A. Roberts, special assistant corporation counsel, contended the power company had exceeded & 7' per cent return by $1,660,000 last year, indicating that the . company, despite business depression. was earning enough to reduce rates still further. The present sliding scale, effective since the “consent decree” of 1924, pro- vides that when Potomac Electric Power Co. profits in any year are more than the basic return of 7}, per cent of the agreed valuation, half’ toe sum of excess profits is used as the basis of rate reduction for the following year. Under this practice, the rate to consumers has been steadily reduced since the promul- gation of the decree, to a present rate of 4.2 cents a kilowatt hour. The modified scale which is now pro- posed, approves 7 per cent instead of per cent as the rate of return on basic valuation. If the excess profits are more than %7 and less than 8 per cent, half the excess would be used as a reduction base. When the profits exceed 8 and are less than 9 per cent, three-fourths of the sum would be used. If excess profits are more than 9 per cent of the assessed valuation, then five-sixths would be the basia for rate reduction the following year. Application "of such a sliding scale, jt .is believed, would have tended to reduced rates to 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour had it been in effect since 1927. Litigation Disliked. The commission naturally is anxious to. avoid litigation which undoubtedly weuld follow any action on its part in approving a tentative order for this proposed new “sliding scale” of rates. It is confident that the evidence in it§ possession as to the return enjoyed by the Pepco would be accepted by the court as reasonable cause to reduce rates to the point desired. If the company refuses to join the commission and takes the matter into court, it would be placed in the posi- tion of opposing a concession to the consumers which the commission, after Jong and careful consideration, believes to be fair and just. The company is now making a return of about 10 per cent, it was said, when other public utilities are making less and are ap- parently satisfied. In a communication to the Potos Electric Power Co. on a previous occi sion in connection with its suggestions | take. to modify the present “sliding scale,” the commission said it was well aware that_such action on its part might lead +.ligation, and it had distinctly After 24 Minu A probable new world record for scientific hand-launched model planes was established yesterday when the tiny model plane of Jack Parks, 13 years old, soared over Bolling Field for 24 minutes and 32 seconds during the Dis- trict Model Aircraft League contest. Caught by a trick wind, the model plane flew over the field, finally sweep- ing down to a landing in the Potomac River nearly a mile from where it took off. The plane was sighted during its entire flight by official timers with the use of powerful field binoculars. Officials of the leaegue declared that the plane would have made a longer flight had not the tail boom broken. The sensational flight of young Parks’ plane was made durlng the scientific hand-launched phase of the contest. ‘The former record of scientific hard- Trick Wind Brings Down Tiny Craft of Jack Parks, 13, tes 32 Seconds. ' launched models was held by John Sullivan, District Model Aircraft League ace, whose miniature model stayed aloft for more than 18 minutes during a league contest several years ago. His plane, torn and battered by a heavy wind, later was found in the back yard of an officer’s dwelling at Bolling Field. Young Parks has shown much promise in model aircraft circles since he joined the league some months ago. Yesterday he established an unofficial record for helicopter models when his helicopter plane stayed aloft for two minutes, finally landing in the Potomac River. Official timers at the contest were John H. Williams and H: H. Harbaugh. Young_Parks is also a member of the John Quincy Adams Elementary School Model Afrcraft Club. SIGN COMMITTEE T0 STUDY CHANGES Action to Revise Regulations I Expected to Await Return of Maj. Davison. A meeting of the District Sign Com- mittee will be held tomorrow for the purpose of studying and acting on changes suggested in the proposed new regulations controlling all forms of out- door advertising within the District of Columbia. 1t was expected that action would be deferred on the billboard section until the return of Maj. Donald A. Davison Assistant Engineer Commissioner and chairman of the committee, who is now in Boston. Maj. Davison is expected back in about a week. Due to criticisms of the billboard sec- tion and failure of the “authorized” list of billboards to be completed in time for the recent public hearing, the acting chairman, Roland M. Brennan, chief clerk of the engineer department, said yesterday he would suggest postpone- ment of action on the billboard section. Check Lists From Permits. The list is being carefully checked from all permits issued for billboards, fence signs and wall signs now located in the District. Since it is proposed in the regulations to rescind all outstand- ing permits on and after July 1, this list would be established under the regulations as the duly authorized lo- cations to which no sign can be added in the future or replaced, if once re- moved. Representatives of public interest groups at the recent hearings urged postponment of action on the billboard | section until the list is made available | to_the public for study. There are a number of suggestions for changes in various sections of . the drafted regulations which the commis- sioners have yet to approve. Consid- ering the wide scope of the regulations, however, the favorable attitude of busi- ness generally with respect to them indicates a general willingness to co- operate in removing unsightly signs and otherwise remedying conditions. Section Criticized. A majority of the criticisms were di- rected against the section which pro- hibits the erection or display of signs on any premises which do not advertise “a bona-fide business conducted on the premises and for which business a cate of occupancy has been is- sued by the inspector of buildings.” The committee apparently is in ac- cord with the opinion that this should be modified to some extent, so as to take care of products sold on the premises, but not to such an extent as would permit an abuse of the privilege. Some of the independent filling sta- tions and small shopkeepers, for in- stance, claim that a strict enforcement and interpretation of the section as it now stands would seriously handicap their business. Filling Stations Cited. The independent operators of filling sttions, it was pointed out, sell & num- ber of popular brands of oils. Under a strict interpretation of the section, these brands could not be advertised. Only one sign, they claim, could be erected advertising the filling station. The suggestion has been made by Mr. Brennan that perhaps this could be remedied by permission to display a neat, single sign, showing in parxls, the | different kinds of oils sold on the premises. This could be done in a manner, he believes, that could conform to the spirit of the regulations. He let it be understood that the committee apparently has no intention of liberal- izing the section to such an extend that miscellaneous signs could be erected. WITNESS IN MURDER GETS DEATH THREAT Rich Los Angeles Clubwoman Re- lates Warning Whisper at Hearing in Slaying. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 6.—Mrs. Ethel Hamlin, wealthy clubwoman and State's witness against David H. Clark, charged with murdering Charles H. Crawford, political boss, and Herbert Spencer, former newspaper man, said today her life had been threatened. She related that the death threat was whispered during the preliminary hearing of Cark last Tuesday. at which she attended, but was not called as a witness. Clark was held for trial. Mrs. Hamlin said she was standing near Crawford's office when the shoot- ing occurred, and shortly after a man rushed out and told her to move on. The same man, she said, last Tuesday in the elevator at the court house whis- pered to her: “You're chirping too much.. If you keep your mouth shut you'll be evinced its desire to avoid litigation if ible. “On the other hand,” the commission then pointed out, “it may just as well be stated right here that the commis- sion pelieves the xudtnf scale should be modified * * * and if, to accomplish this purpose, it becomes necessary to take the matter into court, or if any ac- tion taken by it is challenged before a court, the commission will not hesitate for a moment to use its utmost en- deavors to secure favorable action by a court on any prayer which it may make, or to defend most vigorously be- fore a court any action which it may So far as known, that statement of policy, made on March 14 last, is un- changed by the commission with respect to the issue now at hand. . LAW SCHOOL GIVEN Presentation Features Open- ing of 132d G. U. Com- mencement Activities. Class day exercises at the Georgetown University School of Law, featured by presentation to the school of a large oil portrait of Prof. Charles Albert Keigwin, last night marked the open- ing of the university's 132d annual commencement activities. While the exercises were in progress upward of 100 members of the class of 1916 fraternized with former law pro- fessors of that period at & reunion ban- quet held in the auditorium of the Na- tional Press Club. Many of the alumni had come from nearby cities, and log]e from as distant points as the Middle West and New England. John Joseph O’Connor of the Dis- trict of Columbia, one of the honor seniors in the afternoon section of the law school, delivered the valedictory for his class last night. In the absence of Dean George E. Hamilton, who is in New York, the regent of the school, Rev. Thomas B. Chetwood, S. J., ac- cepted the class gift on behalf of the faculty. The presentation was made for the class by Richard Rollo Trexler of Chicago, president of the after- | noon section. | Is Veteran Teacher. | Prof. Keigwin has been on theGeorge- town faculty for some years. The gift of his portrait was in appreciation of | his co-operative services to the stu- | dents who formed his classes during | their four years at the law school. He | 1s professor of torts, equity, pleading and common law pleading. The exercises were opened Wwith an address by the presiding officer, William Grigge Gassaway, president of the morning section. Then followed the bachelor’s oration by Lawrence Michael Hall and the usual class histories, given respectively by Arthur Anthony Salva- tore and Martin Willlam Meyer, with the prophecies by Maurice David Roserr- burg and Ross Clarence Hurrey. There was & change in the George- town program this vear, the Hilltop class day exercises being postponed until this evening, when John C. Hayes, the valedictorian, will deliver the traditional Cohonguroton oration in the picturesque setting of the college quadrangle. For the first time, also, the awarding of prizes to honor students in all depart- ments will be held at that time. At the reunion dinner of the class of 1916, in the days before the two-year college requirements for admission when the law school was one of the largest in the country, Justice Jesse Ad- | kins of the District Supreme Court, who | was then and is still a professor at the law school, was dhe of the principal | speakers. | Other Professors Speak. Other former professors who regaled the class members with anecdotes of the class room were J. Harry Covington, former Chief Justice of the District Supreme Court: A. A. Hoehling and Daniel Thew Wright, former associate justices of the court, and Frank E. Cunningham, clerk of the court. In addition there were talks by Hugh J. Fegan, assistant dean of the law school; Prank J. Hogan. John Laskey, former United States attorney: Col. James S. Easby-Smith and Daniel W. O'Dono- ghue, leaders of the District bar. Both the latter are still on the law faculty. ‘The president of the 1916 class is Robert T. Scott, and James Blaine Fitz- gerald, secretary, was in charge of the. successful arrangements of the dinner. The board of governors of the class is composed of Charles Baker, Robert Barry, Thomas Cogswell, Francis Con- don, Fefton Darr, C. Brooks Deveny, Bernard Jarvey, Daniel Kelly, Wil Ruffner and George Sweet. Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown Col- lege will be the scene of the annual baccalaureate mass this morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Thomas J. Delihant, S. J. of New York, an alumnus of 1899, will preach the sermon to the grad: uating classes. Yesterday afternoon at the college, President W. Coleman Nevils, 8. J., recelved man, friends at a tea. Ladies of the George- town Circle and the Christ Child So- clety assisted in receiving. |SHOOTING STORY FALSE, | CAPITAL POLICE FIND | They Declare No One Shot, But Liquor Odor is Noticed by Reporters. A false report that there had been a shooting in an alleged speakeasy in the 400 block of Eleventh street last nlxh:. brought police to the establish- ment. ‘The odor of liquor was so strong that it could be noticed some distance from the building as the police automobiles pulled up at the curb. Reporters were prevented from en- tering the establishment by a “bouncer” who stood in front of a door leadi: to a rear room and ordered them “beat it.” = Police searched the place, however, and reported no one had been shot. NAUTILUS IN MIDOCEAN Wilkins’ Submarine Reported 238 Miles from Cape Cod. BOSTON, June 6 (A).—Sir Hubert Wilkins' submarine Nautilus, with which he plans to explore the North Pole by the undersea route, was 238 miles east of Cape Cod Light at 8 am. (E. 8. T.) today on her trip to England. lsplhberng‘u mg‘ th‘finee le'?t. regions. sutilus SHINGTON, D. C., EGHIN PRTRAT From England the craft will go to fllemhr POLICE VICE SQUAD BOOKS 21 PERSONS INVARIED ARRESTS Major Gaming Raids Prove Fruitless as “Horsemen” Find Places Closed. CLEAN-UP PLAN GROWS, WITH 30 DENS LISTED Rum-Runner Flees, but Woman, 19, Is Arrested in Apartment Near Scene of Flight. Headquarters detectives who have been waging a spirited campaign of raids against the Capital’s gaming and liquor dives spent the entire afternoon yester- day in search of additional conquests, but their efforts were unrewarded. Meanwhile the police vice squad made 21 arrests for violations ranging from traffic regulations to small-time “num- bers game” and bootlegging operations, and seized 11 gallons of whisky. Nine- teen of the prisoners were colored. More than a score of places said to be harboring speakeasies and gamb- ling dens were visited by the “four horsemen,” but every one was closed as “tight as a drum” and the detectives consecutive day. 30 Places Due for Raids. Despite this display of inactivity ! of the places marked for raiding have been closed, police said. One incident which has added in- centive to the detectives' campaign, now in its second week, was the recent granting of a temporary padlock in- junction against a speakeasy in the 1200 block of New York avenue. said to have been serving one of the lagest clienteles in the District prior to the raid by Central Office men several days ago. Approximately 30 places still remain to be raided by Detective Sergts. Larry O'Dea, Howard Ogle, Arthur T. Fihelly and O. W. Mansfield, before their task of cleaning-up downtown Washington is completed. This list is being added to daily, they claim. Rum Runner Escapes. Fifteen speakeasies and places of chafice have been visited by the “four horsemen” during their drive, and so far as can be ascertained, all of these have since suspended operation. In each case the detectives strolled in without warrants on the pretext -of “looking for a couple of fellows.” This method of raiding has received the sanction of Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby and police officials, who say that the drive will continue in relent- less fashion until its complete success is assured. A bootlegger caught yesterday load- ing alcohol into a coupe parked in an alley opening on the 1700 block of Seventh street fled through an apart- ment house at, 1722 Seventh street and made his getaway when an auto load of detectives from Inspector Bean's squad came upon him. ‘Woman, 19, Arrested. The officers seized the car and then raided a suite of rooms, arresting Mrs. Ann Rosenberg, 19 years old, when they came upon her in the apartment. Four gallons of alcohol were reported uncov- ered in the machine and apartment. An illegal posesssion charge was placed against Mrs. Rosenberg. ‘Three colored men were arrested when the vice squad walked into a bar- ber shop at 517 PFirst street and al- legedly found a group placing “numbers game” bets. Charges of permitting gaming were placed against the trio said to have been operating the game. They gave the names of Jim Bryant, 48 years old. of the First street address: Jerome T. Rob- erson, 28 years old, of 106 Madison court, and Willie Regin, 31 years old, of 818 First street. 10 Held in Raid. A raid at 516 Ricketts court netted six prisoners, five on charges of dis orderly conduct and the sixth for ille- gal possession of five quarts of whisky. The latter was booked as Virginia Welnstein, colored, 22 years old, of the Ricketts court address. Those charged with disorderly con- duct were Elizabeth Allen, 815 Twenty- sixth street; Leila Williams, 20 years, of 510 Twenty-third street: ~ Everett | Smith, 27 years old, of 506 Nineteenth street; Edward Stewart, 25 years old, of 7 Johnsons court, all colored, and Pat- rick Nilan, 59 years old, of 612 Twenty~ second street. Viola Louise Payne, colored, 21 years old, of 1820 L street and Pearl Byrd, colored, 30 years old, of 1023 Nine- teenth street, who were arrested at the latter place, and Lenoa Thomas, col- ored, 28 years old, and Leroy Williams, colored, 29 years old, both of 104 I street, were booked on charges of sale of whisky. Six Booked on Possession. Tllegal possession charges were placed against the following colored persons: Ella Carter, 29 years old, of 939 F street southwest, 3 gallons; Brown, 35 years old, 937 F street south- west, 3 pints; Annabell Thorp, 33 years old, 937 F street southwest, 3 pints; Ida Diggs, 27 years old, 1058 Potomac street, 5 quarts; Tessle C. Boyd, 24 years old, 1000 Twenty-sixth street, 5 quarts; George Monroe, 20 years old, of 1743 Elghth street, 4 pints. Roy Coleman, colored, 29 years old, of 1813 Wiltberg street, who excited the suspicion of vice squad members by the manner in which he was driving in the 1200 block of T street, was arrested on charges of driving without a permit and failing to display a registration card. e TWO WOMEN INJURED WHEN HIT BY VEHICLES Capital Resident’s Hip Is Broken, While Visitor Receives Cuts and Bruises. Struck by an automobile . while cross- ing in the 1700 block of Connecticut avenue, Mrs. Jane N. Frickel, 53 years old, of 2129 Florida avenue, received ay. Miss Virginia Bishop, of Garfleld streef f Wi Ly to Hospital, Mrs. Bertha Gi of Bishopsville, 8. C., street car loading platform at Twenty- first street and Pennsylvania avenue and was knocked down by a taxicab driven by Artin Brown, 24 years old, of 1014 Third street northeas:. Ex:he ncy rl?lm‘“letgl o 'ge uxt‘;::b lw ergency Hospi AN or lacerations of the head, m:m of the right shoulder and shock. Mrs. University treated by Teturned empty-handed for the second ! SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1931. % | GENERAL The Sty Stad | et Kindergarteners in Annual Frolic 2,500 CHILDREN DANCE IN PLAY FESTIVAL AT CENTRAL STADIUM. B Miss Catherine Wat- —Star Staff Photos. ‘RETIRING POLICE V | among gamblers and bootleggers, the | nu FlNAI_ SERV‘GE} drive will be pressed forward until all Six of 18 Officers Whose Duty Ends July 1 Work Last Day. A half dozen of the 18 veteran police officers who automatically go on the | retired list Juiy 1 put in their final day | of active service yesterday as Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of po- lice, and Inspector Willlam 8. Shelby, assistant superintendent, worked to put the finishing touches on the drastic re- organization plan which goe. into effect on the same date. These officers included Inspector Wil- liam H. Harrison, George W. Sollers, | who had charge of the police print | |shot; Capt. John M. Walsh, fifth pre- | cinct; Pvt. W. H. Lester, fourth pre- cinct, and Pvt. Thomas Oriani, driver | lof the police van. All of them had {accumulated leave of absence which | entitled them to go out of active service in advance of the retirement date. Others Go on List. Aside from the 18 officers to retire July 1, a number of others will be placed on the retired list before the end of the calendar year. Capt. Walter Emerson, thirteenth precinct, is sched- uled to retire October 10, while Sergt. Thomas McGraw, supervisor of the po lice property room, leaves the service July 10. Frank M. Dent, a lieutenant at the first precinct, who is scheduled | to be promoted to a captain July 1, also | 15 to retire July 22. Dent's retirement, it is said, will re- sult in the promotion of Lieut. Michael Raedy, thirteenth precinct. Lieut. Jos- eph Morgan, complaint officer at head- quarters, is expected to be advanced when Capt. Emerson retires. ‘The successors to the other officers who are to retire have not been dis- closed, but there were reports in police circles that Frank M. Dierkopf. first| precinct, would take over Oriani's job | as driver of the police van. | | Maj. Pratt plans to have the reor-| | ganization plan, completed by June 15, | | at which times the names of all officers to be promoted, together with their new assignments, are to be made public. BETHESDA WOMEN SET | CARD PARTY WEDNESDAY Proceeds Will Be Used in Retiring | Debt Incurred for New Club House. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., June 6.—The an- nual card party of the Woman's Club of Bethesda will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock on the lawn, porch and in the ball room of the club house on the old wn road. Proceeds from the affair will be used toward retiring the debt in for the building of the club house. Mrs. W. Walton Schultze, Mrs. N. F. Rabner and Mrs. J. Frederick Imirie are in chn¥e of arrangements. Sub- committees for the affair include Mrs. Oliver Owen Kuhn, prizges; Mrs. George Pariseau and Mrs. Roland Marshall, entertainment; Mrs. William E. Weigel, Mrs. Richard E. Titlow and Mrs. Gar- lock, tables; Mrs. Leonard L. Nicholson, decorations, and Mrs. Walter E. Perry and Mrs. G. W. Imirle, refreshments. | Students of Mme. Vasilliess’ school of dancing are to give a flower ballet with several solo numbers. The Girls’ Friendly Club of St. John's Episcopal Church will serve the luncheon. FIGHT ENDS FATALLY Results Quarrel Over Auto Shooting—Assailant Sought. An_argument over whose automobile would be used for a ride last night cul- minated in the fatal shooting of Wil- liam Johnson, colored, 30 years old, at 37 E street. His assailant, Leroy Mack- all, also colored, 26 years old, of the 300 block of K street, escaped after the shooting. According to witnesses, Mackall drew a small pistol during the height of the argument, firing five shots, four of which ‘took effect. Johnson died almost flsukn.'i!ly. A lookout was broadcast for (ac] 3 LAW REUNION HELD Georgetown Alumni of 1916 Class Meet at National Press Club. otA reunion banquet of the class of 1916 University College Press in J. chl:(”:'imlu of the District ‘Supreme Court, made the vfln‘e‘llrl talk of the evening. Other distinguished guests in- cluded Frank E. Cunningham, Hugh J. Fegan, assistant dean of the college of law, and John E. Laskey, former assist- ant district attorney. u:.nnne&. J.“ Heller was toastmaster at of the class were pgesent, = . Hhat Strother Seeks Solitude DEFIES AGE OF ORGANIZ, BY WILLIAM HARD. N this age of ‘“organization,” when almost everybody thinks he has to have a “job” with some “going con- cern,” preferably big, there is great refreshment in gazing upon the audacity and upon the passion for solitude exhibited by French Strother, now departing from his “job” as the President’s literary secretary. The press has carried numerous ru- mors as to large “jobs” that Mr. Strother might be offered and might embrace. These reports are slamders. Mr. Strother's precise main high pur- uose is to have no “job.” He is going to bury himself in the cellar, or elevate himself to the attic, of his house near New York. In that cellar or in that attic he is going to produce literary works and then mail them to editors for acceptance or re- jection. He will not work for the edi- tors. No! He will simply give them by mail the chance to accept or to reject, as.they please. That is as far as he | will go toward association with them or their firms. No Man's Servant. He is going to be no man's man or menial. dependent character, at least as long as his money holds out. He will de- fend his independence to the last cent. Three cheers for you, French Strother, and we hope that you will not even - stall a telephone ~whereby some ‘®r- ganization” might rope you into doing some grinding, grubby routine toil. And if you ever do again take a “job” we advise you to take it with Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, of Minne- sota. Think how splendidly he does without an “organization.” His senatorial colleague from Minne- sota, Mr. Schall, has to worry about Jjudgeships and other Federal “patron- 3ge’ in' Minnesota. That is because he is a Republican. It is because he belongs to one of the two great politi- ;L“amnlnflms." Mr. Shipstead does Inapprehensive persons say that he belongs to_the “Farmer-Labor organi- zation.” That is not an “organization.” It is a state of mind. It is a drift of notions. It is a label. whereby a candidate can say to Re- publicans, “Vote for me; I'm not a and to Democrats, “Vote m not a Republican.” Responsjble to None, In other words, he can say to them all, “I am responsible for none of the mistakes or counter-mistakes made by Republicans and Democrats in Wash- ington, and I have never refused to ap- point any of you to a Federal office because I have never had the power to appoint any of you to a Federal office, and, please God. I shall successfully avoid acquiring that power as long as I am seeking your suffrages and striving to give no offense.” All that Senator Shipstead has to do during the pre-presidential campaign season, when every other Senator is worrying himself sick over possible party mistakes, is to go to Europe and to wise crack. Somebody said to him the other day that the campaign of 1932 would bring up great questions of “right” and “wrong.” “I hardly think so0,” replied the Sen- ator. “I am inclined to think that in 1932 it won't be so much ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ as ‘right’ and ‘left.”” Naturally the Senator ho) so, and hopes the “left,” to which he radically belongs, will win. The Senator also has contributed a happy, if not helpful, remark to the present business d defined a banker. He says: “A banker is a man who holds an 'umbrella over you when the sun is shin- | oU! ing and puts it down when it rains.” Having thus discharged his party re- sponsibility to the situation, the Senator is free to travel and to gibe at Republicans and Democrats when he returns. If Mr. Strother would write his new free novels in Mr. Shipstead’s office, the two of them together might produce some wonderful passages on the delights and beauties of “unorganized” existence. Another way, though, of being totally independent is to be right in the thick of all of the organizations, like Mr. Adolph Miller of the Federal Reserve Board. There's an independent and se- He is going to be a wholly in- | It is a device | ATION BY INDEPENDENCE. FRENCH STROTHER. rene and impregnable character and officeholder for you. He is a profound scholar of finance |and one of the few men in the whole ”Jmltd States who knew from the be- | ginning that this depression was going to be a real and a deep depression and {not _a mere superficigl stock market | flurry. He also was a prime influence {in the Federal Reserve Board toward | the issuance of the warning which the board delivered to bankers on the sub- ject of loans for speculative purposes before the depression occurred. He also is known now to have been an earnest opponent of the ‘‘easy-money” policy which the New York Federal Reserve Bank entered upon a few years of “helping Europe,” and with the re- sult of inflating New York Stock Mar- ket speculative activities. He is in many ways the Federal Re- serve Board’s sheet anchor of American cautious solid sense in the midst of American and world-wide artificial sac~ rificial “helping” schemes. He was appointed to his first office in Washington, as assistant o the Sec- 1etary of the Interior, through the ad- miration felt for him by Franklin K. Iane, Democrat, of his own State of California. He shortly afterward was appointed to the Federal Reserve Board by President Wilson. Acquainted With AllL He was very well acquainted finally | with Herbert Hoover, also of California |and President Wilson's Food Adminis- trator. Mr. Hoover was a Republican ! with Rooseveltian progressive tendencies and Wilson Democratic leanings. Thus |equipped, he became President Cool- idge's Secretary of Commerce. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Miller lived in homes | side by side on § street. | Mr. Coolidgs reappointed Mr. Miller |to the Federal Reserye Board in 1924. It makes no difference to Mr. Miller whether Presidents are Democrats or Republicans. He talks finance to them and they appoint and reappoint him. They know him and he knows them. His present term in the Federal Re- serve Board expires in 1934. Perhaps Mr. Hoover will then be President. In that case Mr. Hoover will reappoint Mr. Miller. Perhaps, though, Mr. Hoover will not be President. then? Well, one of Mr. Miller’s warmest friends is a gentleman who lives in New York State—FPranklin D. Roosevelt. !z‘?w are you going to get this man Perhaps Mr. Strother, in his search for independence, ought to study the method of mixing with them all as well both |as the method of mixing with none of them. Either method, if ardently and consclentiously followed, will get you (Copyright. 1931.) 35 Injured in Riot. | BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 6 (P). —Thirty-five persons were seriously in- today during municipal and district council elections. ZOO’S KING COBRA SHEDS SKIN, SO KEEPERS FEED HIM SNAKE Pullman-Riding Reptile Had Meal Two Weeks Ago, But Swallows Four-Foot Tidbit. the ), him into & remote part of his “g at the new reptile house. But the snake began to slither about. Laymen saw that the king and 147 feet of good slipper skin was crawling here and there with great animation. It took the keepers, how- ever, to know that the cobra wanted food. The ki darted about king at the glass and training rivet-like eyes LR e e o 8 e b a | ganized County will be held at the Country 1o that preyed on smaller snakes, but excellent food for the king cobra. ‘The cobra, which arrived in Wash- his | ington on a Pullman train in time for the opening of the zoo reptile house several months ago, and which created a sensation when fellow passengers learned later of its presence, reared and struck once. In two minutes the other snake was stretched out and 20 minutes later his first,_into before the depression for the purpose | sh jured in clashes at Braila and Janka | 'NEWS | PAGE B—1 APPEAL OF HAYNES IS UNGERTAIN WITH | SENTENCE PENDING Convicted Banker Without Funds, but Friends May Come to Aid. WIFE VISITS PRISONER HELD IN DISTRICT JAIL Former Farmers & Mechanics’' Head to Be Sent to Lorton Unless Defense Is Renewed. A decision will be reached the middle of‘ this week as to whether an appeal will be taken by Harry V. Haynes, con- victed Friday in District Supreme Court on 14 charges of violating the national banking law, growing out of his op- OYS and girls of kindergarten classes throughout the District yesterday presented s program of interpretive | €rations while president dances, games and rhythms in the second snnual play festival since the World War. "The presentation was wite (€ ey nessed by 3,000 persons and was staged without rehearsal to tempo set by band music. kins, director of kindergartens in the white schools, supervised the performance. The phctograph shows a sector of the fleld of white-clad children during the interpretive rhythms.. 1s and Mechanics' National Bank. Haynes, confined in the District Jail awaiting sentence next Friday by Jus- Itice Gordon, said yesterday that he was without funds to prosecute an appeal, but that action would not be deter- mined until he had conferred with his counsel, H. Winship Wheatley. Friends Interested. Friends who_previously came t assistance are interesting themselves in thz tl;luurv‘d!\e)opm:nl of the case and their views also will - Sldx:frztion. Pe R an appeal is taken, it will be immediately after sentence is p‘:rs’:g and bond will be sought. While he was awaiting trial he was under $10.000 bond, but, conforming to custom, Jus- tice Gordon, who tried the case, re- fused to allow the convicted man his Lreedom on pond prior to passing sen- nce. ‘Would Go to Lorton. It is said that any prison sentence meted out to Haynes [meted o ] ‘would be served Meanwhile the banker, confined to & cell, is undergoing the same jail rou- tine as fellow prisoners, = e was visited terday afte: e —e GROVE HILL KILLING TRIAL IS SET JUNE 12 Prisoner, in Luray Jail, Denies Knowledge of Shooting. Cause Unknown. Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va, June 6.—The prelimi- nary trial of Herbert J. Minor of Shen- andoah, charged with murder of James Lucas of Grove Hill, will take place be- i(;?e Justice J. H. Booton Friday, June The killing occurred May 28, at the home of Lucas. { Minor, it is said, was at the Lucas home several times during the night, but the cause of the alleged trouble has not been revealed. Lucas died early the next morning at the Rockingham Hos- pital. Minor was placed in jail here ln;loe?ny‘s he does not remember of the —_— VIRGINIA INSURANCE HEAD URGED FOR LEGION POST Myron E. Bristow Indorsed by Richmond Group for State Commander. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va.. June 6.—Myron E Bristow, Virginia commissioner of in- surance and banking, has been indorsed by the Richmond Post of the American Legion for the office of department com- mander of the Legion in this State. He is a former vice commander of the department. having been elected to this office at the convention in Dan- | ville in 1924. He has also served | finance officer of the department 13 i two years. The annual convention will {be held at Clifton_Forge this year Au- | gust 23-26. Mr. Bristow is a veteran { of both the Spanish War and the World War. His friends believe that he has an excellent chance of being chosen * State commissioner of the Legion at the forthcoming convention. COLORED MEN CONFESS LOOTING DOCTOR'S SAFE Former Employe of Dr. Harry P. Scott, Who Knew Combination, Held With Companions. ‘Two _colored men, Theodo: 3 Lane, 27, of 2117 O street, and Hollis lsmlth, 29, of 1431 Twenty-first street, have confessed stealing between $250 and $300 from a safe in the home of Dr. Harry P. Scott, 1426 Twenty-first street, police announced last night. Dr. Scott reported to police yesterday that the robbery had been committed between midnight Friday and early yeg- terday morning. He said the thiev: haq entered through a rear window. de- scending to a front room in the base- ment_where the safe was located. McLane and Smith were arrested and booked for investigation by Detectives Irving Rosenberg and Ruppert McNeill of No. 3 precinct. McLane is a former employe of the doctor, and is said to have known the safe’s combination. WOMAN VOTERS TO HOLD COUNTY “GRIDIRON” FETE Officials in Arlington Will Be “Put on Pan” at Dinner Friday Night. By 2 8% Correspondent of The 8t Ar] i Army-Na Club Friday. While details z the affair are not to be made known until the night of the dinner, it is stated that officials and other well known persons in the county will be : “put on the pan.” Y 4 1t is planned to make this the most unique affair ever staged in Arlington County, according to the committee. There will be a number of distinguished . guests. Mre. Ruby G. Simpson, president of the organization, is general chairman for the affair. The Program Committee consists of Mrs. Marian Hagan, Mrs. #orence Cannon -and Mgs,- Siggts