Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1931, Page 2

-~ TERMINAL IS CRUX OF RAIL REMOVAL Temporary Site Offered on Constitution Avenue, but i No Agreement Reached. With temporary terminal facilities here declared to be the principal ques- tion lwnlllh%wlu(lnn. a 2'g-hour con- ference of thoss interests involved in tHe removal of the Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Washington Railway tracks from the Pennsylvania avenue tijangle, broke up this afternoon with the statement that no decision would be reached for a week or 10 days. iThe railway has been offered a tem- porary terminal site at Constitution ayenue and Fourteenth street, Wwhich would allow the removal of all its tracks in the triangle. It was sald “zfi the conference by R. L. May, president of the railroad, that he want- ed_the vews of Alexandria citizens on sue}{. an arrangement before agreeing to il There are other élements entering into” the arrangements, too, it was said, but“the conferees would not discuss i e hge Public Utilities Commission, whith was represented at this morn- ing’® hearing by W. A. Roberts, assist- anf ration counsel, has announced its' willingness to grant this location as a gemporary measure and it was said that the commission would give the Alexandrians a hearing. Alexandria in- terests, which are seeking to halt the abandonment of the road. want the line to Tun up into the center of the busi- ness district. No Agreement on Time. The question of payvment for the road when the tracks are removed was discussed at this morning’s meeting. It was indicated, however, the conferees did not approach any agreement as to possible time. In the event the company accepts & temporary terminal site, it would al- low the Government program’ to be pushed Ahead. Participating in this morning's con- ference were May, with his counsel, John S. Barbour and Gardner L. Boothe; E. R, Whitman, from the legal division of the Treasury; R. J. 'Maw- hinney, solicitor of the Treasury; J. R. Benney, attorney for the Treasury; J. A. Wetmore, acting supervising ar- chitect of the Treasury, and Mr. Roberts. The conference was a continuation of one begun yesterday afternoon. A two-hour conference was held in the office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Heath #nd at its conclusion Mr. Whitman expressed the opinion that the parties to the negotiations ‘were closer together. ‘Want Terminal in Town. Under an arrangement propos:d some months ago, the company was to get $200,000 for evacuating all its rail lines in the District, up to the South end of the Highway Bridge. Boothe said it was possibl> such a figure would still be acceptable, but there were certain other things that would have to be taken into comsideration now. H2 sald the company wanted to operate its street cars as long as possible. Faces Track Replacement. If as a result of the negotiations the company decides to continue operation of its line, it faces afn expenditure esti- mated by the Publle Utilities Commis- | sion a* $75,000 for renewal of its tracks south of Water street. The commission has had the condition of these tracks under advisement fot many months, but bas never issued the order for re- placentont .| the -pendency of the negotiations which might resuit in removal of the tracks and therefore ke the order unnecessary. t is belfeved that if the negotiations fail, however, thé order will issue. The Highway Department is planning to re- pave this roadway next year, carrying it ‘up to the level of the Bouthern Rail- rond tracks at one point, in order to pass over the road to East Potomac Park and avold the traffic jam which now marks this intersection’ at Cherry Blossom time and during regattas and other events which cause traffic to ac- cumulate in that section. It would be impossible to ve the road without laying new tracks, as the present track- age i8 in such bad shape that & new glvement laid beside it would quickly reak up. DRY AGENTS HURT AS AUTO UPSETS womu, U. 8. Stenographer, und‘ Three Men Injured in Triple Crash. A Prohibition Bureau stenographer was injured geriously and two Federal agents suffered minor hurts when an automobile in which they were riding overturfied this morning in a triple crash at Floral Park on the Southern Maryland Pike. Miss Jessie E. Morgan, 1200 block of M street. the stenographer, is in Provi- dence Hospital with deep lacerations about the face and possible internal in- juries. A. C. Towslee, 1100 block of Twelfth street, and J. P. Dell, jr., of the Park Central Apartments, the agents, were treated at the same hospital for lacerations and bruises. | Prince Georges County police say & truck dri by John House, 100 block | of Sixth street southeast, ran into the rear of an automobile driven by C. W. Mans of T. B, Md, and then hit the agents’ car, which was coming in the opposite direction. House, who was injured slightly, was srrested by Sergt. A. W. Hepburn on chiarges of reckléss driving and having bad brakes, and released under $300 bard. Mans was not hurt. ‘Gergt. Hepburn said the agents and Miss Morgan are stationed at Waldorf, Md., and were on their way to that town when the accident occurred. Policeman G. W. Gray brought the injured to the hospital. CAPT. JACKSON COMING T0 TAKE NAVY POST| Commander of New York Will As- | sume Duty With General*De- | partment Board. | Capt. Edward 8. Jackson, now com- | manding the battleship New York, is; coming to Washington as & member of | - the General Board, Na placing & qualified naval aviation ob- server on that y. A native of Pennsylvania, Capt. Jack- son was ins| of ordnancé at the! New_York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N. J, and at the works of Willlam Oramp & Sons Co., Philadelphia, duf- ing the World War. Later he com manded the cruisers Cineinnati and Ta- coma. Two years ago he assumed com- mand of the U. 8. §. New York, The department canceled previous or- g t. Jackson to the Navy Yard, Pudget Sound, Wash. His home is at Cleveland CIiff, Mich. Lights for Humphreys. Ap. allotment of $15413 has been made by the War Department for in- stallation of a permanent system of gtreet lighting at the Engineer post at Rart Humphbreys, Va, Department, | t THE -EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Lose Air Race With Death | { } 1 | | KANSAS WHEAT CUT "Huge Yield Allows Average Collection of $4 an Acre. By the Associated Press | SALINA, Kans., July 14.—New wheat [t0ld here yesterday at 25 cents a bushel, or several cents less than the price of two packages of cigarettes. Salina 15 one of the principal ship- ping points in the Winter wheat coun- try of Kansas ,which on official esti- | mates produced 200,000,000 bushels of | wheat this year. | 1t the wheat farmer raised 16 bushels an acre—the average estimated in the latest Department of Agriculture fore- | cast—and sold at today's price, he col- lected at the rate o only’ $4 an acre {for his crop. The 16-bushel figure was exceeded on many Kansas farms, some producing double that amount. Dumps Wheat in Street. BUCKLIN, Kans., July 14 (& Rather than sell his wheat at 27 cents a bushel, Forest Kennett opened the lend gate of his truck and allowed the inl;:"w #pill out on the streets of ucklin Kennett _displayed two pictures of donkeys. One was labeled “Kansas Wheat Farmer” and the other “Farm Board.” DEBT 'SPENSION ASKED. ENID, Okla., July 14 (#).—A 30-day moratorium for wheat farmers of Okla- homa in an attempt to obtain higher prices for grain is to be proposed at a meeting here tomorrow right of grain, machinery and bankers' crganizations. Bankers and farm machinery firms will be asked not to push farmers for loans due after the harvest for 30 days or longer. The meeting was called by E. N. Puckett, manager of the Union Equity Co-operative Exchange here, after con- sulting officials of other associations, and John Manley, manager of the Okla- homa Wheat Growers. “Parmers are not getting anything for their wheat” said Manley. the bankers and machinery men agree not to force immediate payment the farmers can hold their grain until conditions improve.” Puckett asserted & new freight rate, averaging 4!y cents per 100 lower for grain in this section and effective Au- gust 1, “is bound to benefit the far- mers even if the price does not in- crease.” Wheat on the end market fell to 28 cents & bushel yesterday. CURTIS TO PUSH APPEAL. Aroused by new reports of low wheat prices in Kansas, Vice President Curtis today indicated he would renew his appeal to the Farm Board. The Vice President was in communi- cation with Senator Capper of Kansas, who joined him in a request to the board last weck that stabilization wheat be withheld from the market until this year's price reaches 85 cents. Mr. Curtis sald he received word to- day from a farmer in an outlying sec- tion of the State that he had to sell his wheat for 26 cents a bushel. ALLIS IS ONE UP ON HAGEN AT 18TH IN TORONTO PLAY ___(Continued Ffom First Page.) yard fourteenth, where he was down in par 3, while Allis was overrunning the cup and then missing one of no more than 14 inches for an inglorious 5. The: Haig went ahead for the first time on the fifteenth, when Alliss was in a trap and needed 5, while Hagen was taking his regulation par 4. Alliss Evens Up on Sixteenth, Alliss squared the match at the 400- yard sixteenth, where Hagen sliced his drive and then, after a fine recovery and & nice pitch, missing a 3-foot putt for a par 4, Alliss dropping his in regu- lation figures. Hagen almost got a birdie at the seventeenth, putting his approach 15 feet from the cup and then missing his 1y for & birdie by & whisker, both get- s. Alliss took & one-stroke advantage on the eighteenth, where he sank a lon tt for & birdie 3. Hagen made a gal- :b try for his, but missed, and took 84 Cards (morhing rout B 3 3 3 5 5 5 PRESIDENT INVITED Senator Royal Copeland today in- vited President Hoover to attend the opening of the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on September 30. The New York Democrat said the Chief. Executjve tion under; ¢ 1025 CENTS BUSHEL % | hours 2 | campa Fort, !bv Los Angeles and Chiel d taken the invita- | bring the 1932 internati tione to their cities, Army airmen who raced with death across the country yesterday in rushing Pvt. Olaf Nelson to Walter Reed Hospital for removal of two false teeth lodged in his windpipe thought they had won when they landed the stricken soldier at Bolling Field yesterday. but he died today of infection. being removed to ambulance from hospital plane at Bolling Field. Photo shows soldier —Underwood Photo. INFECTIO TO SOLDIER WITH TEETH IN ESOPHAGUS (Continued From First Page) morning. Four gold prongs, which at- | tched the two false teeth to the ad- | jolning good teeth, caught in his throat | & short distance down, according to Maj. Daniel Franklin of Willlam Beau- mont General Hospital, Fort Bliss, Tex., | who accompanied Nelson to Wash- ington. “Nelson tried to remove tne bridge | with his fingers and pushed it down,” | Maj Franklin said. Maj. Franklin attempted to remove the bridge and succeeded in_partly | freeing it when the soldier suffered a | spasm, his throat contracting and the bridge lodged firmly directly across the esophagus about 25 centimeters below | his front teeth, between the breastbone | and the fourth vertebra. | Maj. Franklin called in a private surgeon and together they made an- other attempt to free the bridge but | failed. Maj. Franklin then decided that the patient must be taken to Walter Reed Hospital, where the best surgical talent in the Army and the finest of equipment could be made available. Ambulance Plane Ordered. | An Army ambulance plane at San Antonio, Tex, was ordered out, with | Lieut. Prank G. Irvin, Army Air Corps, | at the controls. Leaving El Paso with the soldier at 4 o'clock Sunday after- noon. Lieut. Irvin flew until darkness forced him down at Post Field, Fort Sill, Okla. Maj. Franklin and Sergt. D. R. Kass accompanied the soldier. After only 5 nours at Fort Sill, Lieut. | Irvin took off with his patient, the sur- |geon and the mechanic long before dawn yesterday morning, making stops for fuel at Muskogee, Okla.: Scott Field, Belleville, Ill., and Fairfield Air Depot, | Dayton, Ohio. After a hard day of flying he arrived at Bolling Field an hour ahead of his anticipated arrival | time, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. | Nelson was conscious, though hailf | suffocated and _in considerable pain when & Walter Reed ambulance backed up to the door of the plane and he was lifted out. He told those standing around that he was “all right” and | asked for & drink of water. Infection Sets in. Following his arrival at the hospital, Maj. Roy Brown and Capt. John Har- greaves, two of the Army's throat spe- cialists, worked for two hours in an effort to cut up the bridge so it could be taken out in section. or to free it 80 it could be taken out whole. Every effort failed and at the end of two Surg. Gen. Robert U. Patterson | and Dr. James F. Mitchell, Washington surgeon, who had gone to the hospital to aid in handling the unusual case, decided that the patient was too weak to stand further probing until he had regained some of his strength. By this time the soldier's condition was critical. During the night general Infection set in and despite the efforts of sur- geons and nurses, who worked over him all night in relays, he died earfy this morning. Nelson was & native of Clifton, Tex., the son of C. O. Nelson, 90-year-old veteran of the Confedérate Army in the | Civil War. The Nelstns were a Texas ploneer family and had come to the United States from Norway. Frederick Nelson, a brother of the dead soldier, i postmaster at Clifton. It is planned to take the body to Clifton for burial an ‘military etcort probably will make the trip back. Lieut. Irvin is scheduled to take off from Bolling Field on the return trip to San Antonio tomorrow. |EARLY MORNING BATHING DROPPED AT M'KINLEY Lack of Attendance Causes Discon- tinuance of Service at School Pool. Beginning Thursday, early morning awimming at the McKinley pools, First street and Linccln road northeast, will be discontinued, F. W. Hoover, general manager of the Welfare and Recrea- tlonal Assoclation of Public Buildings and Grounds, Inc., announced today. There is no demand for pre-breakfast bathing, he explained. “For some weeks the pools have been opened early in the morning so it would be possible ‘to swim before work,” Mr. Hoover said, “but the small attendance has convinced the Welfare Association that this service is not desired.” Starting today, Mr. Hoover said, chil- dren’s tickets at the McKinley swim- ming pools and the Francis swimming pools, Twenty-fifth and N streets, will ger l?lw r&l:mu up to t}ae age of 14, evio age limit for children’ tickets had been 12 years. 3 TEXAN LION EXECUTIVE BOOMED AS PRESIDENT TORONTO, Ontario, July 14 (#).—A ign to promote Julién C. Hyer of Worth, Tex., from vice president to president of the International Associa< tion of lions Club was launched yes- terday by Harry Newman, past presis dent. Mr. Newman told a luncheon of Ontario and Quebec district clubs at which Mr. Hyer spoke that the Texan would be elected at the international convention, which opens tomorrow. As delegates from the United States began arriving movements were started groups to vention IPROFESSOR BACKS OUSTED ECONOMIST Dr. James H. Rogers. of Yale Says Hall’s Discharge Will Cause Skepticism. Dr. James H. Rogers, professor of political science at Yale University, has come to the support of Dr. Ray O. Hall, whom the Department of Commerce discharged following a controversy with him over the contents of the depart- ment's international trade report, “The Balance of International Payments.” Dr. Rogers voluntarily entered the dispute yesterday with a defense of the figures which Dr. Hall had sought vainly to include in the publication while serving as assistant chief of the | Pinance and Investment Division of the department. The Commerce Department at the same time denled Dr. Hall's charges, contained in a letter to Secretary La- font, that figures were “juggled” in the questioned economic study. Answers Hall's Letter. Assistant Director kins of the Bureau of Foreign an mestic Com- merce, replying to the letter for Secre- tary Lamont, ssserted the ousted offi- ciai's proposals for revising valuation “unscientific and unsound.” He added that statements that changes had been made in the report as a matter of “political expediency” were “untruz.” Hall ssserted imports were greatly overvalued and that estimates of ex- ports of American capital in 1930 “grossly exaggerated.” The study was made public A week ago and in the foreword Assistant Secretary Kiein said it was largely the work of Dr. Hall, who had prepared the report for the last four years. Secretary Lemont turned the Hall report over to Assistant Secretary Klein, with instructions to have Di- rector Feiker of the bureau obtain a a full regor: came to the de) handled the situation because ol familiarity with it. rtment and Hopkins na his “certain unfounded and misleading charges against the form and contents of the official annual compilation of the balance of international payments.” Denies “Polltical Expediency.” “In preparing that computation,” he said, “upon which Dr. Hall formerly worked, it was necessary to preserve its accuracy by rejecting certain of his | own proposals to revise on an unscien- tific and unsound basis figures es to the valuation of American imports. He asserts that this rejection was due to ‘political expediency.” This is untrue. “He implies that ' the department's unwillingness to allow juggling of this detail 0? the complicated account had some relation to the tariff controversy. This is untrue, and it also is absurd, since most of the import commodities involved in the matter are on the duty- free list and consist of such things as copper, rubber and cocao.” Asserting other matter in Hall's let- ter was chiefly important as “illus- trating the temperamental handicap suing economic abstract inquiry." Hop- kins said Hall “considers this study of international payments should have Will Cause Skepticism. “He would also,” Hopkins continued. “have included his personal criticism of policies followed by the investment banking _interests and the ~investing public of the United States.” Prof. Rogers, who was here to con- sult Hall regarding figures to be used in A book he is writing, entered the dis- pute today by sending for newspaper reporters and telling them Hall was a “preseminent authority” on _economic subjects. Rogers was a member of the Hoover Committee on Recent Economic Changes. “The controversy,” said Rogers, “will cause all economists to look on Gov- ernment statistics with extreme skepti- cism,” adding that he used Hall's fig- ures in 1928 in preparing the report of the Economic Committee. LONE VOYAGER STARTS EAST ACROSS PACIFIC Memphis Man Leaves Yokohama in 5-Ton Auxiliary Yacht, Bound for Honolulu. By the Associated Press. YOKOHAMA. July 14 —Edward Miles of Memphis, Tenn,, started today on & projected journey across the fic alone in a five-ton yacht witli auxiliary motor. His frst scheduled stop is Honolulu. “I won't have time to feel lonesome.” he said. n<er, cook and all keeps me on the jump during all waking hours.” Miles carried food enough to last three months, He hopes to be the first lone sailor to make the eastward cross- ing. The westpart crossing has been n:ld‘: by lone navigators on three occas sions. of American imports was rejected as | Felker only recently | Hopkins described Hall's assertions as | under which its author labors in pur-| lads demonstrated at the swim tests Sundoy in the water under their own power. The new swimmers, the proudest of the young campers who have just returne Willlam Mulligan, Arthur Dickerson, Francis Pickinson, Donald Simmons, William Boswell, Edward Gill, Jonn James Richards. s i v, Waiter a TORTURE DESCRIBED AT DIAMOND TRIAL Victim Says Gangster and Girl Burned Feet and Hung Him to Tree. TROY, N. Y., July 14 (#) —Grover | Parks, a small, bald, middle-aged coun- | tryman, as a State witness testified to- | day that Jack Diamond, gangster chief, assaulted and tortured him because he | would not reveal the location of & | whisky still in the Catskill Mountains | " Diamond is on trial for assauit. Asked by John T. Cahill, deputy at- torney general, to identify his assail- | ant, Parks pointed to the defendant. “Tough old bird.” Diamond observed, according to Parks, after Parks had been beaten, his feet burned, and his | head and legs pulled toward each other | with rope. | Tells of Hanging. | “Then they threw the rope over a tree and pulled up by the neck.” | Parks testified, “and Diamond said to hold me there until I became uncon- | aclous.” Parks sald Jim Dalton, Diamond’ chauffeur and s girl were with Dia. April 15. The State holds the girl was Marion Roberts, New York show girl, ‘I'ho was indicted with Diamond. She has not been arrested. Parks, truckman with a businass taking him between Albany and Cals- kill. testified Diamond remarked: | “We'll warm his feet.” | Feet Were Burned. ‘They did, Parks continued. using his socks as a bonfire. John Scaccio, Parks said, Jump@d on his bare feet. He was kicked and cuffed by both Diamond |and Scaccio, one of the Diamond gang, ' he said. | . All of this, he explained, was to force | him to reveal the location of a still, which he said he did not know. Parks sald that after it was all over, Diamond warned him not to tell of the incident or “it would be just too bad.” James Duncan, a farm boy who was with him, Parks said, received similar | treatment, ORANGEMEN ROUTED ;!rlsh Volunteers ;n;h Platform in Preventing Demonstration. BELFAST. Northern Ireland, July 14 | (#).—Republic volunteers yesterday de- | clined to allow an Orangemen's demon- stration to take place at Newtowngore, | County Leitrim, near the Ulster bor- |der. Marching to the village armed they smashed up a platform, leaving | only a flagpost standing on which they | hoisted the Republican tricolor. As the | “Being the navigator, engi-|Orange contingents approached they | were turned back by civie guards. | o BT Although the Netherlands are report- ed to have felt the unf of the German economic depression, | | | | than for some time. | |Kansas Department’s Ban| | D. C. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931 . They Can Swim Now! Capt. J NABLE to swim a stroke when they entered Camp Good Will, in Rock Creek Park, two weeks ago, this line-up of that they put their vacation to good use by learning how to travel ck Leatherbury, head boy councillor, was their instructor THESE YOUNGSTERS LEARNED AQ‘JAflé ART IN' TWO WEEKS. rom camp, are John Wall, Litigation Costs 70 Per Cent of Money Involved in Suits By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, July 14.—Liti- gation costs eat up approximate- ly 70 per cent of the money in- volved in a civil law suit brought in New York, the Institute of Law of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity reveals today in its study on that subject. An analysis of 527 cases in- dicated that it cost $140.33 to collect $201. This is divided at $67 for the plaintiff and $73.33 for the defendant. And above all this it takes about two to three years to dispose of a case. INJUNCTION GIVEN 10 CITIES SERVICE on Stocks Declared Void by Court. contained an implied criticism of the mond when Parks was stopped on a 7 prohibition policy of the United States.| lonely mountaln road near Catskill | 7 h* Assoeiated Press TOPEKA, July 14.—The Cities Serv- ice Co. won & victory today in its €OUrt the “30th Marines, which is based on | battle to enjoin enforcement of the Indian Head, M action of the Kansas Banking Depart- ment in withdrawing its approval of certain of the concern’s stocks. A two-judge Shawnee County Dis- under the comparatively new Volunteer trict Court held, in effect, that the 1931 i law under which the department with- | lumbia, composed chiefly of members drew its approval of the stocks was of the Metropolitan Police Force. This void and unconstitutional. The judges overruled a motion by Roland Boynton, State's attorney gen-| eral, to dissolve a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the bank- ing department’s order. Attorney General Boynton indicated the State would take an appeal to the State Supréme Court. Judge George H. Whitcomb, in deliv. ering the court's ruling orally, said the Legislature in providing the State Bank Commissioner and his assistants in charge of the securities de%n‘lmem with authority to withdraw their ap- proval of stocks listed on certain ex- changes had failed to place limitations upon that power. The judge later said off the benc! his ruling, in which Judge George A. Kline concurred, applied only to the powers conferred upon the banking de- partment to withdraw approval of se- curities listed on the New York, Chica-~ go and Boston Stock Exchanges and the New York Curb Exchange. Carl Newcomer, assistant State bank commissioner, in charge of the securi- ties department, withdrew on July 2 the department's approval of Cities Service stocks listed on the New York Curb, except the concern's first pre- able influence | ferred. . _ Citles Servioe attorneys contended his business conditions are better there order was arbitrary and that it was issued without & hearing. Crowd Gathers to View Diamond BARRED FROM TRIAL OF UNDERWORLD FIGURE'ON ASSAULT CHARGES. IEW of the crowd outside the court house in Troy, N. Y. yestérday waiting to see Jack “Legs” Diamond, who went 6n- trial on A eharge of segond-cegrée assault, one of the five indictments growing out of an attack on Grover Parks, Greene County, N. Y; cider trucknjan... Only the press, the getin, ; \ politically elect ad the talesmen could IEE—— S 2 1 | master, | | | 150000 MARINES TO TRAN AT AP ‘ Here Slated to Embark i for Norfolk in August. \ A?roxlmnuly 1,500 officers and en- | | listed men of the 6th Marine Brigade, | | District of Columbia Fleet Marine; Corps Reserve, are expected to attend | the annual brigade encampment which | | will be held at Camp Byrd. near Vir-| | ginia Beach, August 23 to September 6, | according to Lieut. Col. J. J. Staley, commanding officer. ‘The brigade, com and 23rd Regiments with brigade, regimental and battalion head- quarters units, will leave Washington by the steamer Northland, which will dock at Norfolk. From there the brigade will complete the journey by train. The two regiments are composed of four line battalions, commanded by Maj. Harvey L. Miller, Capt. Michael J. Kelly, M2j. Earl C. Lane and Maj. Vincent Stack. | | | Units Recruited Here. | | vicinity, with the exception of the Mili- tary_Police Company, which is based on Roanoke, Va.. and Company C of The 6th Marine Brigade is a develop- ment- 6f the 20th Marines, which en- camped at Quantico last year. The | first organization to go into_training | Marine Corps Reserve training system | was the 401st Company, District of Co- | | unit went to camp in 1929 to try out |the new training system, which was | inaugurated by the late Maj. Gen. Com- mandant Wendell Neville, and the pres- ent commandant, Maj. Gen. Ben J. Fuller. h Students Form Companles. | The 6th Brigade has four members | of Congress in its officer personnel. | They are Maj. Melvin J. Maas, Repre- | sentative from Minnesota, chief of staff; | Carter, Representative from Wyoming, and Capt. David Hopkins, Representa- tive from Missouri. Recently commissioned from _the ranks was Lieut. Smith W. Brookhart, son of the Senator from Iowa. Capt. Carmen A. Newcomb, brigade pay- is’ a commissioner of the United States Court of Claims. ! "An unusual feature of the personnel of the brigade is that Company F of the 20th Marines, with three exceptions, is com) d entirely of college men, | most of them from George Washington University, and the Engineer detach- ment is composed largely of Catholic University students. BAND CONCERTS. Four concerts by service organizations | are listed for today. Soldiers' Home Band at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon. March, “The Hurricane” Overture, “Der Freischutz”. . Solo for piccolo, “Polka Brillante,” ‘Werner Musician John Prezioso ts from musical comedy, “Sons ns”. ...Davis and Coots ‘The King's Horses,” Graham Excerp 0'Gus Fox trot pop Waltz, “Eileem Alannah” Finale, “The Kilties’ “The iStar Spa United States Army Band, at_the Army Medical Oenter, Walter Reed General Hospital, at 6:30 p.m. March, “General Ben Fuller”..Talbot Overture, “Il Guarany”..... ...Gomez “Irish Tune from County Derry,” > Grainger Selection, “Victor Herbert Favorites,” arranged by Lake Waltz, “Carolina Moon.” Spanish suite, “La Feri Mal “Friendship” . ‘The Star Spangled Banner.” United States Marjne Band, at Mount Alto Hospital at 7 o'clock to- night. March, “Sambre et Meuse”.....Turlet Overture, “Orpheus” ffenbach “Cripple Creek,” from suite “Southern Mountains” . Stringfield Saxophone solo, “Valse Caprice, Beau- tiful Colorado De Luea Musician Kenneth Douse posed of the 20th | the usual All units have been recruited in the| | District of Columbia and immediate | ANONYMOUS BARBS AIMED AT CAPITAL Political, Diplomatic and So- cial Washington Hit in New Volume. From President Hoover and the mem- bers of his cabinet on down the whole line of political, diplomatic and social Washington, none escaped the barbs of the anonymous author of “Washing- ton Merry-Go-Round,” published today by Horace Liveright, Inc., New York. ‘The volume is described as “the untold story of Washington society, politicians and politics.” Few details, true or un- true, have been omitted in this volume of town topics and gossip which has gone the rounds and will always go the rounds of society in the National Capi- tal. “Washington Merry-Go-Round.” un- like other anonymous volumes dealing with life of the great and near-great in Washington, gives the first place to the social side of Capital existence. Under the chapter title “Boiled Bos- oms" the author declares that, “with the exception of Peiping. no other cap- ital in the world equals Washington for the relentless brilliancy with which the spotlight of public opinion is fixed upon the comings and goings, the cock- tail parties and the amours of the petty people who run the official and_social ls\(etol the Capital of these our United tates.” Senators Going for Society. Turning to the Senate, the book de- scribes Re°d of Pen; nia as going in hard for soclety. and also Senator Moses of New Hampshire and Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland P. Trubee Davison and his wife, once Dorothy Peabody, are given a para- graph or two. The= diplomatic corps, which is placed under the chapter heading “Starched Utility,” §s discussed almost member by member. Ambassador de Martino, the book says, calls at the State Department to protest against publications in this country attacking Mussolini, his chief. and constantly the State Department calls his attention to the fact that the United States has no censorship. Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State. the book declares, ‘‘performs exactly the duties of the Free State government an Irish-American society wabta an Irish. Minister to perform.” MacWhite, the author says, whenever he addresses a League Assembly, always used French because, as he explained it. “I can't speak my own language, and T'll be damned if T'll speak English.” Hoover “Super-Promoter.” The author of “Washington Merry- Go-Round” h2s been unable to find anything. at all admirable in President Hoover, whom he describes as “the super-promoter of the age.” The President is not given the credit of hav- ing originated his plan to postpone | German reparations and allied debt | payments, but the author declares the plan was worked out by Owen D. Young and that Secretary Stimson, who co-operated with the British, had urged the plan upon the President, which was finally “put over on Herbert | Hoover through the combined efforts of Charles G. Dawes, Dwight W. Morrow and Andrew W. Melion, plus a dozen New York bankers.” Vice President Curtis is given a chapter. The Vice President's offices in the Capital are described as “one of the most astounding sights of Washing- ton. They are a cross between a giant tribal wickiup and a sultan seraglio.” Secretary of State Stimson is described as a fighter, but first of all a soldier, obeying orders. The State Departmant has a chapter all its own in the beok entitled “Pink Peppermints and Proto- col,” in which considerable attention is paid to the Undersecretary of State William Castle, jr. Secretary Mellon of the Treasury the book declares “will g0 down in history as the man who did not know when o quit. “Sons of Wild Jackasses.” A chapter is devoted to the “Sons of the Wild Jackass,” beginning as fol- lows: “The Senate insurgents are the strongest and weakest elements 1in American national affairs. Individ- ually they are the strongest. Col- lectively they are the weakest. Indi- vidually they are the most righteous and forward-looking men in public of- fice in the Capital. Collectively they have been without plan or purpcse, un- organized and ineffectual.” Senator La Follette of Wisconsin is destribed as the “best hope of the Pro- gressive group,” because he is the most constructive and cohesive force among the insurgents. Senator Borah, the au- thor says, “is individualism in all its glory and all its futility.” Senator Nor- ris is described as “one of the saddest a;:fl noblest characters in American his- ‘The House of Representatives is called by the author “the Monkey House.” and is declared to be “the greatest organized inferiority complex in the world.” A chapter is given to Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, and another to Senator Dwight W. Morrow. ‘The President's secretariat is described as “the vestal virgins,” and finally the press and is work is given attention. TWO BOYS ARE FACING GRAND JURY PROBE Police Charge Them With Looting Northeast Homes—Stolen Auto Is Recovered. ‘The cases of Willlam A. Reed, 19, of 1817 I street northeast and Joseph Haas, 19, of 1225 I street northeast are scheduled to before the grand Jury today. Reed faces three police charges of housebreaking and one of grand larceny. and Haas has two housebreaking charges. Harold Lee Stewart, 18, of 219 Twelfth street northeast,, arrested along with the other two youths, was re- leased several dag: ago. Stewart aided Detective C. A. Berry, twelfth precinct, in the captiire of the other two youths. Reed and Haas are said to have taken patt in several robberies in_the Northeast section. When arrested Reed admitted he was driving an autome- bile stolen from the Handley Motor Co. g . Village Hears of World War. ‘That a village of 500 inhabitants in Northern Siberia has only recently learned that there was a world war ard that the Czar was dead, has been re- ported from Russia. Soviet ideas were entirely new to them. They are pro- gressive, however, in having & womah as Interme22o, Fres Walts, o‘;{u Fellows y In| Scene”. ... “ne Halis of s Finale, ucalessi Marin , Monte- Zul 3 “The Star Spangled Banner.” United States Navy Band, at Conduit and Foxall roads. at 7:30 p.m. Mareh, . Overture, “Coriolanus’ . Beethoven 80lo for_cornét, “Dream of Love”..Hoch Musician Birley Gardner Dance, “Tartar”.............. Wi Walts, “Waltz of the Flowers,” ‘Tschalkowsky Excerpts from “The Firefly” Friml March, “The Pflglm" .Lake Grand reh, “Pomp and ctrcuEln- stance’ areegerieiaaiinan igar “Anchors Aweigh.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” —— For thé first time in many years Marl- h ardens were recently loaned by the Prince of Wales for & chief judge. Youthful Chicagoan Is Caught Reselling Motorists Own Gas By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 14—Hand- S hviiment were possibi. ] of investmen , lice said, under the sehgmcpooi Girard Marzano. They accused him of siphon- ing gasoline out of parked cars, hanging around until the owner found they were stalled and then selling them back their own gasoline. ‘The plan worked until E. R. ‘Whalker walked out of a printing plant 4nd caught him. Then Judge Borelli in the Boys' Court sentenced the aoun‘ merchant to 10 days in jail.