Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1931, Page 17

Washington News DR. W, A SHELTON 1S 0UT OF PULPIT UNTIL AFTER TRIAL Mount Vernon Place Pastor Awaits Probe Into Charges Woman Filed. PRESIDING ELDER TAKES | NOTED CLERIC’'S PLACE i Accused Minister at M. E. Church South Has Outstanding Record as Educator. Dr William A. Shelton. pastor of the Mount Verncn Place Metinodist Epis- copal Church South. will be unabie to occupy his pulpit until after charges brought against him by a former secre- tary have been tried, it was learned today. His place was taken yesterday by the Rev. Dr. J. H. Balthis, presiding elder of the Washington district, who said Dr. Shelton couid not resume his duties until after the trial. The charges. of an undisclosed na- ture, were preferred by Miss Carrie A. Williams, 5322 Forty-first street. Neither she nor Dr. Shelton would dis- cuss the case. It is expected the trial will be held some time this month. Outstanding as Educator. Dr. Shelton is among the outstand- ing ministers and educators of the Southern Methodist denomination, hav- ing won distinction particularly as an authority on Semitic languages. In! 1920, while professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Emory Uni- versity, he was a member of the| University of Chicago's Oriental expedi- tion for archeological research in Egypt and Western Asia, Born in Azusa, Calif,, Dr. Shelton is! 56 years old. He was ordained to the ministry in 1899 and served pastorates in Oklahoma until 1905. In that year he received the degree of bachelor of arts at Hargrove College. Then he studied at Yale University, receiving degrees of master of arts and bachelor of divinity in 1908. Later he studied at the University of Chicago and in 1914 the degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him at Emory. In_that year he joined the faculty at Emory, having been presi- dent of Oklahoma Wesleyan College for three years. Member of Church Board. He was a member of the General Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church South from 1914 to 1918 and was a member of the de- nomination’s General Conferences in 1926 and 1930. The Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church was built with money contributed by Methodists all over the country and is regarded as the national | phone conversation clearer and to speed | church of that denomination. MR. AND MRS. ELWOOD MARRIED FIFTY YEARS Husband One of Oldest Members of Typographical Union and 21 Years in @. P. 0. - Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Elwood, 635 F street northeast, are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary _today. ‘They were married in Utica, N. Y. Elwood was one of the founders of the Utica Pres: which came into ex- istence in 1882. For 21 yeirs he was| employed in the Government Printing Office, and he is one of the three cldest | living' members of the Typographical | Union, which he joined 57 years ago. | Mrs. Elwood is a member of Bethany Chapter_of the, Order of the Eastern Star. They have three children, Miss Leah E. Elwood, Ernest Elwood, jr., and Mrs, Esther Elwood Wight. After watching the firemen’s parade today. the Elwoods were guests of honor at & dinner at the Hay-Adams House, CANNING CAMPAIGN STARTS TOMORROW! Experts to Demonstrate Preserving Science in Interest of Un- employment Relief. ‘The District of Columbia’s carnpau;nl to conserve surplus fruits and vegetables for unemployment relief will get under- | way tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock ! with four canning demonstrations by experts on the science of preserving. The demonstrations will be held in the | basement kitchen of Central High School, Eleventh and Clifton streets: the Armstrong High School, O street between First and Third streets; Young | Women's Christian Association Build- ing. Seventeenth and K streets, and | Mrs. C. J. Porter will hold a “canning | bee” at the First Baptist Church, Six- { teenth and O streets. | The demonstrations, designed to train | ns for community conservation will continue throughout the ! week at the Central High School. An- ! other demonstration will_be given at Armstrong High School Friday morn- ing at 10 o'clock George J. Adams, executive secretary of the District of Columbia Committee on Employment, said the surplus food conservation movement already is under way in many different States and cities. The purpose of the campaign in the District is to start a concerted move- ment for the canning and preserving | of surplus fruits and vegetables by housewives in their own kitchens, ac- | cording to Mr. Adams. All_donations of foodstuffs made to | the Commuittee on Employment will be | stored in the old St. James Hotel, Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street, until Winter, when they will be dis- tributed to persons certified by recog- nized charities as being unable to pro- cure food for themselves and their families. e ESCAPES FROM LORTON 8 R. Foltz, Jr, of Capital Flees| ‘With Only 90 Days Left to Serve. Samuel Robert Foltz, jr., 25 years old, of Washington, a prisoner at Lorton Reformatory, disappeared during the night from the tubcrculosis hospital there, and is being hunted by a party from the institution today. Foltz had only 90 days left to serve of a sentence of 18 months for false pretenses. The quarters where he was under treatment are unguarded. pe I} i | Hissing Tire Racket Starts Hunt for Yo:ung Miscreants As a racket this is just the sad hiss of flattening tirez. hothersome enough to Floyd Char automobiles on nearby sueets while attending yester- day’s ball game. he five reporied to police that dectined to pay “protection” 10 small boys who solicited them @s they left their cars at the curl, On returning they found all their tires fiat and the young racketeers nowieie in sight. Police of No. 2 precinct plan a special patrol to break up the racket. HICKEL CHIEF AID INBATTLE ON'RUST Metal Mixes Well With Others and Hardens Al- loys. Industry is mobilizing & number of metals and alloys in the cnemists’ war on the waste of rust. Chrcnium, cop- per, brass and other copper alloys, and aluminum are substances whose indus- trial use, In part at least, has been augmented by the fight on rust. One of the major new allies on the non-rust battlefront is nickel. “Ona of nickel's chief industrial at- tributes is its ‘willingness’ to mix with other metals, although it also is used in its pure state,” says a bulletin from the headquarters of the National Geo- graphic Society. Mixes Readily. “It readily associates with several hundred metals and metallic alloys, toughening the mixtures, increasing their heat resistance and improving their non-corrosive qualities. It also is used as a whitener of dark metals. “Nickel and products of nickel ma- chinery are man’s fingertivs. In modern homes they may be found in many articles, ranging frcm kitchen sinks to dcor knobs, in- cluding table tops, refrigerator handles and hinges, cook pots, stove trimmings electric iron, percolator, toaster and waffle iron heating elements and plating. | radio tube grids, safety razors, plumbing fixtures, cabinet shelves and the metal that is hidden beneath bathtub enamel Silver plated ware usually is nickel al- loy covered with a film of silver. “In the city streets huge nickel alloy ‘thumb tacks' flank pedestrian lanes, nickel alloy building towers and trim- mings gleam overhead, while under- ground telephone wires ‘wear’ small nicke] alloy loading coils to make tele- transmission. About one-twelfth of the gleaming metal tower of the Chrysler | Building and also the metallic ribbons{ adorning the walls of the lofty Empire State Building are nickel “Because of ils toughening effect on fellow metals. nickel helps make travel safer. Frames and engine parts of many automobiles contain nickel. Once all the bright parts of automobiles were nickel plated. Chromium has taken the place of nickel plate but nickel is often hidden beneath chromium plating. Resists Salt Water. “Many modern steamships are equip- ped with nickel alloy hardware and fit- tings because the metal resists salt water corrosion and in the small boat market one now may buy pleasure boats with nickel alloy hulls that need no paint to preserve them. “Commuters denend upon the tough nickel alloys that go into the facture of locomotive and car parts, and often into the mo'ding of tracks, when they board the 8:15, while nickel alloy: have also played an impcrtant part in improving aviation metal. The pro- peller of the Southern Cross which winged its way from California to Aus- tralia was nickel alloy. “White gold is white because nickel (15 per cent) is mixed with ordinary gold. A lesser amount of nickel makes flesh-colored gold while a still lesser amount makes green gold. German ‘silver’ is a mixture of brass whitened with nickel. “Nickel’s toughness has made it use- ful in the manufacture of steam shovel arms, rock crushers. machine tools, marine shafting, die blocks and mining tools. Flat keys that do not twist in the doorlock perhaps ‘contain nickel. Printing presses contaln many nickel alloy parts, “Nickel's non-corrosive qualities make it useful in the dye and chemical in- dustries and.in salt factorles. Its clean appearance makes it popular among manufacturers of restaurant, bakery and dairy equipment. Nickel for Coins. “The American ‘nickel’ is one-fourth nickel. The other three-fourths is cop- per. ‘Twenty-three countries use pure Tickel coinage. Designing nickel coins is & hobby of the King of Italy. “No one knows how long nickel has been in use. It is well known that the ancients shaped swords from meteorites which contained the metal. ~Because the meteorites originated "in the heavens warriors believed the swords had some sort of supernatural quality. During the early part of the last cen- tury deposits were found in New Cale- donia, but no one knew what to do with "th> metal. ~ Attempts to part it from its metallic neighbors were so| difficult that metallurgists czalled it ‘Old Nick, a synonym for something stubborn. From ‘Old Nick’' came the name nickel. “Nickel was discovered in Canada in 1853 when a surveyor's compass was deflected, but because so little was known ebout the metal the find re- mained only a mention in a surveyor's notebook until 1883, when a railroad was put through the Sudbury region. Shovels struck rock of strange forma- tion. Analyzed, the rock was dis- covered to contain nickel and copper. Ccpper was then more valuable, so the cre was mined for that metal. Not until several years later was nickel profitably mined and icolated. Today 90 per cent of the world’s nickel sup- ply is mined in the neighborhood of i the original Canadian area of dis- | cove COTTON CURB FAVORED Alabama Reports Sentiment in 14 of 67 Counties. MONTGOMERY, Ala., September 7 (#).—The Alabama Department of Agri- culture said today that farmer:s, farm leaders and bus: men in 14 cf the States 67 coun have cxpiessed themselves in favor of legislation pro- hibiting coticn preduction 1932. Most of the ccunties favoring prohib- itive legislation have gone on record, urging Gov. B. M. Miller to call a spe- cial session of the Legislature to con- sider the plan, the department said. Thus far Gov. Miller has not announced his plans. o seldom out of range of ; CHILD NEAR DEATH AND SECOND HURT AFTER ACCIDENTS Three Men Injured as Auto Skids and Turns Over The WASHINGTON .on Beach Road. HIT-RUN DRIVER SOUGHT FOR STRIKING MAN, 70 Taxicab Crash and Upset Results in Injuries to Five Persons, One a Bystander. Two 6-year-old children, one of whom is expected to die, were among victims of a series of accidents yester- day attending the rush of holiday traffic in Washirigton and nearby Mary- land. Morris McGwiggin of Hughesville, Md., was gravely injured when hit by an automobile yesterday afternoon as he ran across the street near his home. He was brought to Emergency Hospital for treatment of a possible skull frac- ture and lacerations about the face. The car, according to witnesses, was operated by Harry O. Dodson, 5302 Eighth street. The accident was sald to have been unavoidable. Doctors at the hospital said the child passed only a “fair” night last night and would undergo X-ray examination today. Three Hurt in Upset. Melvin Bowie, also 6, colored, of 606 K street euffered a fractured leg, cuts and bruises yesterday afternoon when struck by an automobile near his home. The child wes treated at Emergency Hos- pital and then transferred to Children's Hospital. Police reported the automo- bile was operated by Edward J. Bross- man, 36, of 610 Seventh street south- west Trree men were injured early yester- day when their car skidded and over- turned on the Chesapeake Beach road about 14 miles east of Marlboro, They are David E. Weaver, 58, of 268 Fiftheenth strect southeast, severe lac- erations about the head and body bruises: Charles J. Denzer, 41, of 721 Virgt svenue southeast, probable fractured ribs and bruises, and Frank 40, of 262 Fifteenth strect said to kave been the driver f the machine. who was only slightly injured. The latter two were transfer- red to th Naval Hospital gfter they were brought with Weaver to Casualty Hospital. Weaver was sald to be re- covering. Man, 34, Knocked Down. Slight injuries were suffered by Wil- liam Waddy. 74, of 3128 Dumbarton street, last night, when he was knocked down by sn automobile at Wisconsin avenue and M street. ‘The car was| operated by Robert Dunigan, 18, of 1417 | Trirty-fourth street. Dunigan took the | injured man to Georgetown Hospital. ! H ligzment in his leg and later was allow- ! ed to return hcme. A hit-and-run driver was being sought by police today after John Mar- shall Black, 70, of 1822 De Sales street, | was knocked down last night at Eighteenth and L streets by & motorist vho failed to stop. The injured man was removed to Emergency Hospital in a police scout automobile and treated for a fractured rib. The automobile was described as a small green sedan, and was occupled by two white men. In a collision early today at Rhode ! Island and Florida avenues, a taxicab }dmer was seriously injured, while four | others received lesser hurts { The taxi driver, Strother M. Talifero, | 2013 Fourth street northeast, was | treated at Emergency Hospital for a' i wrenched back and lacerations. The s driver of the other car, Rosie Carter, | colored, 27, of 3420 Sixteenth street, was | treated at Freedmen’s Hospital for cuts about the body. The taxicab rolled over the sidewalk, following the impact, and knocked down Otto J. Wilis, colored, 33, of 141 § street. Wilils was taken to Freedmen's Hospital. and treated for a strained back and numerous cuts and bruises. Two passengers in Talifero's cab, Edward Adams, 29, of 1404 Morse street northeast, and Bernard Dorey, 26, of Berwyn, Md., were taken to Casualty Hospital and treated for minor lacera- tions, With the exception of Talifero, all of the injured were discharged from the hospitals following treatment. MERCHANTS ASKED T0 ELECTRIC SHOW 850 Invitations Issued for Exhibi- tion of Fall Equipment of 18 U. S. Manufacturers, Invitations have been issued to 850 merchants of Greater Washington to attend the annual electrical merchan- dizing show, to be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Shorcham Hotel. New Fall equipment will be displayed by 18 national manufacturing concerns. Those invited to the show, which otherwise will be private, include rep- resentatives of electrical, hardware, radio, house furnishing, clock, refriger- ator, drug, jewelry, department and furniture stores and architects and en- gineers. Sales managers of a. number of manufacturers will attend the display, as well as officials of the Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. New household appliances, such as washers, cleaners, air conditioners, mix- ers, radios, cooking equipment, deco- rative pieces, clocks, lighting fixtures and others, will be displayed by some manufacturers for the firsi time. NOTED ACTOR DIES - Capt. H. H. Saunders, Veteran of Spanish War, Expires. NEW YORK, September 7 (#).—Capt. Henry Herbert Saunders, well known actor and veteran of the Spanish- American and World Wars, died here today. He was 73, Capt. Saunders suffered a collapse two weeks ago, and subsequently & paralytic stroke, His last appearance on the stage was in Charles B. Dillingham’s “Waterloo Bridge. ——e ARMY INSPECTOR DIES Col. J. M. Dunn Fails to Rally Aft- er Operation in Philippines. MANILA, September 7 (#).—Col. J. M. Dunp, inspector of the Philippine Department of the Army, died after an appendicitis operation. i | | the HEAD. OF FEDERAL EMPLOYES WARNS_ OF WAGE-CUTS FIGHT Luther C. Steward, tion, Opposes Salary Slashing Efforts Foreseen in Next Congress. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEATTLE, September 7.—“A sound system of classification by law for both field and district” was laid down today by Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, before the annual meeting of the federation as “our paramount legis- lative issue until a law is enacted and its administration satisfactorily in operation.” President Steward sounded a warn- ing that in all likelihood there would be sentiment in the forthcoming Con- gress to cut the pay of Federal employes, because of the economic depression. But such a movement will be vigor- ously resisted by the federation he declared. ‘Three major legislative enactments of the federation during the last two years were listed by Steward as liberal- | jzation of retirement laws, the Brook- hart salary act and the year-round Saturday half holiday. Scores Wood Amendment. ‘The Wood amendment, which would have restricted salary increases. and was defeated in the last session of Con- gress, was sharply criticized by Steward as “a viclous and unfair restriction on salary increases.” Referring to the wage-cut danger, President Steward said: “In our planning for improvement of personnel conditions in the Federal service we must not. however, become oblivious to signs and portents, not only Nation-wide, but world-wide, and which will have a decided influence upon the future of employment in the service of the United States Government. “Even in the most prospeious times, there are numbers of reactionary in- dividuals who would hold down the compensation of wage earners to a scale below comfort, health and decency. In a time of depression, such as this country, in common with other nalions of, the world, has experienced during the past two years wage reductionists become emboldened, and their ranks are added to by the timorous and short- sighted who seem unable to think of any other solution of an economic de- pression than to diminish the earning and spending power of the wage earner. PERU PRESIDENGY SOUGHT BY EXLE De la Torre Hailed as New Mussolini on Return to Country. Special Dispatch to The Bta where he was treated for a strained ' Haya de la Torre, for eight years an incre exile from his nitive land. has just come home on the heels of the revolu- tion t> be a candidate for President in the September elections Eight years ago de la Torre. a flery young student leader, was thrown into the Lima prison by President August Leguia and then deported. Now Legula, whose dictatorship endured for 10 vears, in priscn, and De la Torre is back, his N IBER 7, Addressing Conven- “The compensation of employes of the Federal Government lagged far behind during the so-called prosperous times. Even to seriously consider reductions from existing scales would be in effect a’proposal to take away from them something they never had. “Notwithstanding the logic of the sit- uation, it may be predicted with confi- dence that the voices of the professed Treasury watch-dogs, the one-idea wage reductionists, and the unimaginative who feel that to cut the pay of Federal employes is the simplest way out, will be heard in increasing volume during the forthcoming session of Congress. “To be forewarned is to be fore- armed. Facts will be all on our side when the issue is reached, as it will be reached, to reduce the compensation of Federal employes. But facts alone will get us nowhere. “With the Federal employes thor- oughly alive to the situation confronting us and operating more actively and more effectively through their organi- zation, any attempt to deprive the em- ployes of the United States Government of any of the condittions which they now have, and which have been secured | through long-continued effort, can be defeated, but in a conflict such as im- pends, ‘he who dallies is a dastard and he who dcubts is damned.’” Will Resubmit Report. | Turning to classification, which Stew- ard characterized as the paramount is- | sue, the speaker said the final report of the Personnel Classification Board on the fleld survey carried out under the terms of the Welch act would be re- submitted at the forthcoming session in December. “This survey and the recommenda- tions accompanying the report to Con- gress,” he sald, “represent exhaustive study and enuncjétion of sound pe: sonnel principles, for which the tional Federation of Federal Employes has stood spcnsor since its origin. To repeat what has been said many times before, a sound system of classification /by law for both fleld and District is the essential corner stone of any per- | manent improvement for Federal em- p}?ves as to wages and working con- aitions.” U.S. PAYROLL CUT FAVORED BY BECK Scores Unnecessary Bu- reaus—Urges Rum Modifi- cation to Lower Taxes. Representative James M. Beck, Re- | ase in taxation, asserted vester- | day that the Federal Government's deficit could be wiped out if “all un- | necessary and meddlesome Government | bureaus were abolished and if Congress would declare light wines and malted | liquors, non-intoxicating in fact and impose a heavy excise tax upon these | luxuries.” | He cited the “fate of England” as a Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., MONDAY, SEPT 1931. 61,000 JOB INCREASE IN'U. 3. BUILDING IS SEEN BY PRESIDENT Hoover, in Report on Prog-| ress, Says 100,000 to Be Employed by January 1. 37 AUGUST CONTRACTS TOTAL OVER $25,000,000 750 Projects in $700,000,000 Pro-|S: ram Authorized—164 Architect Firms Are Engaged. Reporting on the progress of the Gov- ernment’s $700,000,000 building program throughout the ~country, President Hoover has estimated that workers will be employed on hundreds of projects by January 1, at a time when unemployment 1is supposed to reach its peak. The President estimated the number now employed on Government projects as 39,000, while 164 firms of architects are engaged in plans and specifications for the 750 building projects thus far authorized. The Government's gigantic building program, with Washington as the focal point, is plentifully scattered in every State. Every effort is being made, Mr. :'-lgg;'erws:m.t to ]gx;;(;]dlu construction v s 'to a e unemploy, situation this Winter. PRy The President in his statement satd: “That portion of the Federal program of aid to unemployment, comprised in the great expansion of public buildings under the Treasury Department, shows the following progress since the report of July 15. There are a total of 750 projects which have so far been spe- cifically authorized, and 164 firms of architects are engaged in plans and 100,000 | 4y supervision. The attached tables show | the progress of individual' projects which may be summarized: “First: A total of 121 buildings have been completed at a total cost of $39,- 869.569. Three bulldings have been completed during the past month. “Seccnd: There were 229 buildings in construction at the first of Septem- | ber by contract. at an estimated cost of $181.393,100. There having been 37 contracts let during the last month of a total value in excess of $25,000,000. “Third: There are 65 projects which drawings are completed, for which con- struction contracts have been invited, of a total estimated cost of $19.319,600 “Fourth: There are 202 projects in which sites have been sclected and on which plans are now under way of & total estimated cost of $178.766.523. “Fifth: At the first of this month there were 199 projects in which the sites have been determined upon and are in process of being acquired. The estimated cost of the buildings thereon being £49.545.400. in - " i LIMA, Peru, August 4 —Victor Raoul publican, of Penncylvania, opposing an | men mowe s that the number of and indirectly em- z.am is 39.000. It is ber that will be employed on direc ployed on this pr estimated that the nt directly end indire January 1 is 100.000." For the purchase of building sites in the District of Columbia, the P:esident Teported. there is available $4.003.949 Omitting the $17,500.000 Commerce Department Building, now in the last stages of completion, the completed Federal projects in the District were estimated at $39,869,569. This includes broadened political idealism interpreted | reminder to the coming Congress of | $1.768.741 for the purchased site of the in E1 Partido Aprista Pruano, the party which he founded and heads. They have hailed him here and in Talara, Trujillo_and Callalo as the savior of Peru, “El Mussolini Peruano.” And through the Canal Zone the return of “departado” cn the liner Santa Maria from New York was heralded by students, labor groups and intellectuals While De la Torre is one of the four presidential candidates, and doubtless the weeks will bring mcre, he is the only candidate who represents a party— and a party of considerable strength and size. Three Others Are Candidates. His opponents, individual candidates all, are Gen. Sanchez Cerro, who over- threw Leguia: Gen. Oscar Benavides and Dr. Aruturo Osores, former member of Leguia's cabinet. ‘The Civil Party (El Partido Civil), which elected Leguia on a mnon-mili- tarist program, now has disintegrated into factions, some of which are sup- porting the two military candidates. De TA ‘Torre's stormy past. his dy- namic personality and his pcpularity with students, labor and intellectuals, will add color to the campaign. He was born in Trujillo, a city founded by Pizarro. He studied philosophy and the liberal arts at the University of Trujillo, political science and law at the Uni- versity ¢f Lima. Concerned about the lack of educational facilities for the workers, he organized the People's University in 1921. where workers were given free education by volunteer teach- ers from the University. Lead Student Revolt. In 1923 the Federation of Students, which De la Torre headed, vigorously opposed Leguia's plan to consecrate the republic of Peru to Sacre-Coeur, be- lieving the ceremony was a step toward a religious political domination. The protest ended in a riot. in which two students were killed. The consecration did not take place, but De la Torre was put into prison. hunger strike De la Torre, weakened | physicaily, but not in spirit, was shipped out of Peru and forbidden to return. He went to Mexico, where he was connected with the ministry of edu- cation and studied Mexico’s handling of the Indian problem. He visited the United States, Russia, England, Ger- many, Switzerland. He concluded that Russia’s communism was not appli- cable to Latin American problems. England and Germany contributed most, he sald, to the political philosophy he gained. Studied Government. Eight years of study of international government have taught him, he said, that politics is a science rather than an adventure, and have made him a prag- matist rather than a romanticist. He is faced in Peru with the major problems of national debt, unemploy- ment, disorganization, political corrup- tion. His immediate program, if clected, will comprehend these four movements: 1. The calling of an economic con- ss, representing both capital and bor, to determine what Peru can do toward lifting the great burden of debt. According to De la Torre, Peru has no idea of her capacity nor even of her population, the last census having been taken in 1876. For War on Corruption. 2. The complete reorganization of the administration to do away with na- tional corruption, which De la Torre terms tremendous. 3. Expansion and popularization of education. 4. The reorganization of agriculture toward domestic production of “cheaper food, cheaper clothing, cheaper houses.” Except in cotton and sugar growing oj the coast, De la W that ur]- culture is in & most ve state, and After a 19-day | | the danger of strangling prosperity by | excessive taxation. By adopting his proposals, Beck said, “we could easily cut the necessities of taxation by $2,000,000,000." Sees Way to Surplus. “There would then be no deficit,” he said, “but on tre contrary. a large sur- plus: business would be less burdened and take heart and the wheels of in- | dustry. now sunk in the mire of in- | dustrial prostration, would again move.” | The Pennsylvanian, who has just re- turned from abroad. approved the plea of Representative Wood of Indiana for reduced governmental expenditures, but he could not see “why the Army and | source of such economice. Many of their functions., like rivers and harbors work, he said, have be- |longed to the peace establishment of the United States and are ss valuable as almost any work that the Federal Government does. “It seems to me that in effecting governmental economies, more atten- tion should be given to some of the recently created departments of the Government, which are honeycombed with bureaus which would never be missed,” he said. “If I can judge from my personal contact with one execu- tive department of the Government. every departmant has many superfluous employes, some of whom do not average one hour's work a day. Points to Great Britain. “While the causes of the present world depression are many. yet the strangulation of prosperity by the abuse g!]me taxing power is the most fruit- ul. “Nowhere is this more strikingly shown than in England where an em- pire, once the greatest and wealthiest in recorded history, is now on its knees financially and the pound sterling, once the acknowledged standard of financial stability, threatens to go the way of | the mark and the franc.” 25 BRIDGE CHAMPIONS PLAY FOR BEST SCORE Individual Match Is in Last Day at Deal, N. J., With Lead Held by Baron Von Zedtwitz. By the Associated Press. DEAL, N. September 7.—Twenty- five natonal and former national bridge | champions yesterdsy continued their | contest to determine the individual champion. Yesterday's two sessions of play closed with Baron Wademar Von Zedt- witz of Deal leading the scoring with 129 match points. Robert M. Halpin of Chicago was second with 128. Willard S. Karn of New York, who donated the trophy to be awarded the victor of the tourna- ment, was third with 1262 points. Edward C. Wolfe of Cleveland, who has 114 points and a bye (which is equivalent to 11 points), played liantly in yesterday's sessions. A single session today concludes the tournament. | Peru, an agricultural natlon, imports even'the simplest staples. These to De la Torre are the imme- diate needs of his country. His pro- gram goes much farther, however, He would nationalize the sources of wealth, put into practice a definite policy with regard to the Indians, who make up 70 per cent of Peru's and whbo contribute an ancient culture and sepa- rate church and state. i | Navy should be singled out as the sole | & United States Supreme Court Building and $225,000 for water mains, etc. Projects under contract in the District| 10:03 pm.; high tide, 3:12 am. and of Columbia include, besides the Com- merce Building: $12,800.000 for the extensible building, Agriculture Depart- ment: $2.000.000 for the connecting wing of the Labor Department: $4,500 - 000. Interstate Commerce Commission: £4,750,000. Labor Building: power plant, Agriculture Department $908.250, Public Health Service, and £300,000 for water mains, etc Among the projects for which sites have been selected. plans completed and i the sites have been arranged, | | tinued cool tonight; tomorrow fair and |8 a.m.. 30.09; noon. 30.09. |Veteran Is Robbed | Of Disability Check | Near White House 1Tmu' Stolen and Driver! Relieved of $14 Cash in Robbery Series. Three new cadidates for the “mean- | | est man” title robbed a disabled World ‘War veteran of his veteran administra- | tion check for $28.95 and $2.52 in cash | when they stopped him last night at | the point of & gun in back of the White House. Francis Cole, 1722 F street, was the victim. After cruising about the vicin- ity of Fifteenth street and Constitution avenue with park policemen to whom he had reported his loss, he pointed out two men who, he said, looked like the robbers, The men picked up were Roy Byrd and Horace Grove. Cole told police he was walking toward Constitution avenue when three men approached. After brandishing a gun they took the check and the money he had. A few minutes later he re- ported the affair to Park Policeman I. Connole in Lafayette Park The policeman and Cole hunted to- gether for the robbers. Other robberies last night included theft of a taxicab, sums of money and wearing apparel. Bruce Boyd Hatfield, 105 R street northeast, was robbed of the taxi he was driving for the City Cab Co. and $14 in cash by three “considerate” pas- sengers who told him: “Sorry, pal, youre a pretty good fellow.” ‘The men then drove away, promis- ing to leave the cab somewhere in the city and boasting they'd be in Phila- delphia by this morning. Neal Harvey Willlams, driver of a cab for the Botts Co., was another vic- tim of taxi passengers. He was robbe of $2 by two colored men. Lieut. Ernest Blair of Fort Jay, Gov- ernors Island, N. Y. told police that wearing apparel, valued at $29.50, had been stolen from his automobile, parked in front of 410 Twenty-third street. Joseph Snyder, manager of a chain store at 921 Eighth street, reported the theft of $10 from the store cash rey ister some time after closing time S: urday night. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and con- slightly warmer: gentle north shifting to east or southeast winds. Maryland—Fair and continued cool | tonight: tomorrow fair and slightly | warmer: diminishing northwest or north | winds becoming gentle varible tomor- irginia—Fair tonight and tomorrow: slightly cooler in south portion tonight; slightly warmer in north portion to- morrow; moderate to north or north- east winds. West Virginla—Fair and continued | cool tonight; tomorrow fair and | ‘Warmer. Records for Past 48 Hours. ‘Thermometer—Saturda; : 12_midnight, 29.9 ., 29.95: 8 a.m., 29.95; noon. | 2991: 4 pm. 29.86; 8 p.m. 29.90; 12 midnight. 29.98; Monday, 4 a.m. 30.00; | Highest temperature. 87, occurred at 1 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 60, occurred at 5:45 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 92; lowest, 71. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and | $85.000. | | 6:31 pm. the projects &re now in the specifica- tion stage or in the market for bids is included plans for the State Department Building remodeling at & cost of $3,- 00,000 Projects in the District of Columbia where sites have been selected and plans are partially completed include the $8, - 750,000 Archives Building; $3,857,023 for a central heating plant; $3,000,000 Coast Guard Building; $12,000,000 De- partment of Justice Building: $50,000 for landscape work and $10,300,000 for the Post Office Department Building. —e MRS. NELLIE ROSS HITS 1932 BOOKLET Declares Federation of Women's Clubs Should Call Back Pamphlet. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, vice chair- man of the Democratic National Com- mittee, declared today that the General Federation of Women's Clubs should withdraw its recent pamphlet compar- ing President Hoover with George Washington. She said it “reads morc like & partisan campaign ‘document fs- sued by the Republican National Com- mittee in the interest of the candidacy of President Hoover than like a tribute from the members of a non-partisa; organization of women to the memory of the First President.” The former Governor of Wyoming at the same time warned Democratic wom- en “not to permit themselves to be- come parties to the dissemination of Republican propaganda disguised as hand books of non-partisan’ organiza- tions.” Mrs. Ross will start this week on a speaking tour of cities in Utah, Idaho, | J ‘Washington, Oregon, Nevada. c:uror-‘m nia, Texas and the Middle West, fea- turing her propaganda warning. Although she paid tribute to the Fed- eration of Women's Clubs for its “contribution to the progress of our country,” Mrs. Ross sald it was “in- conceivable that the members of the Bicentennial Committee of the Federa- tion were unaware of the fact that 1932 will be a presidential election year, that President Hoover is participate in that election as a candi- date and that the parallel which is at- tempted el = : careers eorge President Hoover will be certain to lend itself to_political Lnur%r:htion.” the pamphlet as Mrs. Ross quoted saying: “As Washington planned communica- tion between seaboard and frontier, so | London. Hoover has planned from coast to coast, marking trails through the air.” Commenting on this, she said: “May I call attention to the faci the airmail was being carried through |Gibraltar. Spain my own town of Cheyenne by the Post Office it under the adminis- tration of Woodrow Wilson long before Hamilton. Bermuda %o which party £ Mr. Hoover had decided Mmmu;’!uhnmu. already planning to | San t that | Se Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today—Low tide, 10:22 am. and 3:44 pm | | PAGE B—1 NAVY YARD WORKER IS KILLED BY BOLT; PIER TWICE STRUCK Walter F. Binnix, 42, Victim at Chesapeake Beach. Several Others Stunned. TWO MET SAME FATE AT SPOT AUGUST 26 Party on Crabbing Trip Breaking Up at Close of Day When Lightning Strikes. For the second time within two w2eks lightning struck the pler at Chesapeake Beach early last night bringing death in its wake. Walter P. Binnix, 42, a navy yard mechanie, residing at 1104 Queen street northeast, was killed instantly shortly before 6 o'clock by & bolt which burned his clothes from his body. At the time he was reeling in some crabbing lines preparatory to leaving with members of his family for a cottage where they were passing the week end. Several other persons nearby were stunned by the lightning. George Veihmeyer of Baltimore was rendered j unconscious. Wife Had Left Pier. Binnix end others in his party had been crabbing all afternoon. All but he had quit and his wife_had gone to the cottage. A brother, Ervin Binnix, and his wife stood about 20 feet away, waiting for Binnix to get his lines in Clouds had been gatherirg in the bay area a couple of hours. As Binnix bent over, working with his tackle, lightning struck. In a second his clothes were enveloped in flames. Horrified spectators went to his assistance, but he was lifeless. His body was badly disfigured. Dr. Hugh Ward of Owens, Md. pronounced hinr dead and Mrs. Binnix was notified. Survivors of Victim. Besides_his wife, Mr. also a daughter, Ethel: his father, Benjamin F. Binnix; three brothers, William, Ernest and Ervin, and three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Lowry, Mrs. Mabel Williams and Mrs. Emma Tull, all ef Washington. William Neumemer. 45, of 615 Third street, and Charles Ainsworth of Elm- hurst, Del, were killed by lightning while fishing from the pier on Au- gus Binnix leaves TO RESUME STUDY "Schcol Rolls Throughout Nation to Be Increased by Colleges. More than ¥5,000,000 children will march into more than a quarter mil- lion public schools this week, accord- ing to an estimate made today by the Federal office of education. More than 850.000 teachers will return to their desks. Schools in the District do not open 1. The Government bureau said that Tomorrow—Low tide, 11:22 am. and 11:15 pm.; high tide, 4:14 am 1:47 pm. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:41 am.; sun scts and | I | Tomorrow-—Sun rises 5:42 am.; sun | sots 6:29 pm Moon sets 3:53 p.m. i half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Comparative figures of the monthly rainfall in the Capital for the first nine months against the average arc shown in the following table: Average. January ..3.55 ins. .3.27 ins, 75 ins. .3.27 ins. 370 ins. .4.13 ins. .4.17 ins. August, ....4.01 ins. September..3.24 ins. Record rainfall for the months was: January, 1882, 7.09 inches; February, 1884, 6.34 inches; March, 1891, 8.84 inches; April, 1889, 9.13 inches; May, 1889, 10.69 inches; June, 1900, 10.94 inches; July, 1886, 10.63 inches; Au- gusz. first nine 1928, 1441 inches; September, 876, 10.81 inches. e Weather in Various Cities. a | o 8 H £ g azep Statlons. | 000, p. | Autcmobile lamps to be lighted one. fis until September 2: while elementary and public high schools of the United States enroll up- ward of this number of boy 1s, college and university registra boost the enrollment to nea 000. ~ All other school enrollments, both and private, will raise the total an school population to 31.000.- more than one-fourth of the Na- lon’s population. ‘The bureau also pointed out that the rst day of school is, for the average American child, the first of 172 days of school work. The school year con- stantly lengthens, and it now averages 10 days more than in 1920. Many children of school age will not, however, be included in the long Sep- tember school lines, the bureau said. It explained that geographical locatior, climate, size of school, wealth of school Americ: | and numerous other circumstances all - | play a part in determining the date of Fall school opening and the length of - i school year. A boy or girl living in a rural com- - | munity’ and attending a small rural school, for instance. may not start to - | school on the first day after Labor day. Office of Education statistics show the typical rural school year is 21 days shorter than the city average of 184 days. The shortness of the rural school term generally is evident in the later date of Fall opening and earlier Spring closing. Upward of 3.500 colored schools in the United States have terms of only fwe months or less, according to infor- mation collected by the special prob- lems division of the Federal Office of Education. These do not, in most cases, open their doors in September. Neither do about 1,200 white &chools which report school terms of five months or less. A September opening for these short-term schools would Abilene, Tex.. Albany{ N Atlanta, Ga n. Helena, Mont ron. S, Dak ndi G Siear & P touay Clear Pticloudy Clear 016 ack: le. L... Cloud: Kansas City Giear” s Angeles uisville, *K: . Fia . Nebr... 29 niladelphia Phoenix. Ariz Pittsburgh, P Portland, Me. Portland, Ore Raleigh, Salt Lake City. Antoni Dieso, Calif Francisco. e Pt cloudy Cloudy 3 SBIIISRTARBS San 321 ‘ampa, WASH., D. 22288, FOREIGN. (7 a.m, Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. 42 Clear aris, Vienna, Ausiria . Berlin,” Germany. ' Brest. France neva. Switzeris ockholm, _Sweden L) reenwich’ time. Azores. .. 72 observatio: an, Porto Rico. , Canal Zo (Noon, G ay.) Horta (Fayal. Part cloudy (Gurrent ) ns. Cloudy Colon, mean & closing in Midwinter. {PERU EXPLORERS RETURN Five Youths of Shippes-Johnson Expedition Land at New York. NEW YORK, September 7 (#).—The five youthful members of the Shippee- Johnson Peruvian expedition to the land of the ancient Incas returned to- day aboard the Grace liner Santa Clara after nine months of motion picture exploration. * The vessel, escorted to her Brooklyn pler by six planes from the New Jersey National Guard, was met by an official reception committee. The party is headed by George R. Johnson. Other members of the expediticn are Robert Shippee, Irving G. Hay, Valentine Van Keuren' and Max Distel, all of New | Jersey. MILK TRUCK ATTACKED Shots Fired in St. Louis Price Fight Bring Threat of Legal Action. ST. LOUIS, September 7 (#).—St. Louis’ wrilk war received new impetus when 10 shots were fired at a milk truck ncar Mulberry Grove, IIl., yes- terday, but failed to penetrate it, the Pevely Dairy Co. reported to day. Attorneys for the dairy company said they would ask for contempt citations in Feceral Court tomorrow if the local authorities succeeded in learning who took part in that attack or in two others in St. Clair County, Il Saturday. The dairy has a temperorary court order against interference with its milk ship- ments in a controversy with the pro- d\lWl"i over prices. \