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A—4 ¥z o THE EVENING l | | Missouri Democratic Victory : SPEAKER ISSUE NOW MORE ACUTE She Is the Best “Farmerette” TITLE AT POMONA, CALIF,, FAIR. Makes Congress Control Less Certain. BY MARK SULLIVAN, H Democratic victory in the election Iast Tuesday to fill a Missouri vacancy in Congress has thrown into acute doubt the question whether the Democrats or Republicans will have the majority and | name the Speaker and otherwise control | the House f the Congress that meets | December 7. Probablv the delicacy of | balance and the juncamental im-! portance involved in that question will not be realized by the public until the | outcome is actually at hand It makes a wide difference whether the partv in power in the White House is also in control of the two branches of Congress. or whether the situation is | one in which the Republicans continue | control of the Senate while the Demo- crats step into control of the House of Representatives, To suggest but a few of the intricate and weighty conscquences. it makes & difference whether ' the committees of the House. many of them extremely im- portant. are in control of Republican chairmen sympathetic to administra- | tion policies or of Democratic chair- | men. As respects the administration's | oppasition to veterans' bonus payments | for example, it happens to make an! immense difference whether the chair- | man of the Veterans' Committee. hav-| ing charge of legislation about the| bonus, is a Republican or a Democrat. | Possibilities for Bonus. the Republicans control the; the chairman of the Veterans'| Committee in Congre: will be Royal Johnson of South Dakota, who hap- pens to be a valiant fighter for moder- ation in payments to veterans. If the Democrats win, the chairman will be John E. Rankin from Mississippi, who happens to be, in the whole of Con- gress, the most determined and aggres- | sive advocate of large payments 1o the | veterans A similar difference exists in whether a Republican or a Demo- cratic chairman heads the Ways and Means Committee which will write the new tax law, assuming one is madf-: he entire situation contains a score of stch vital distinctions, hid House. at Pomona, Calif. As of tod 1 & the Democratic victory in Missouri, two parties in the House are exsctly even, cacn nav: | Of Arrest of Man and Son ing 214, One lone member from " M Minnesota is officially designated in Florida. Farmer-Labor ‘The: are six vacan- cies which will d at special elec- —_— tions during the ing five weeks. Of By the Associsted Press. the six members whose deaths created the vacancies. four were Republican and two Democratic. It would take & robust Republican optimism to think they will hold all four seats. If the Republicans Jost just one the ¥ Congress will begin with the two parties exactly even | and the Farmer-Labor having super- ficially the deciding vote. Whole Story Not Told. Actually, however, these figures do not tell the whole sfory. The Republi- cans, preceding the sitting of Congress, are going to have & cor themselves to choose their NEW YORK, October 1.—The nrrest {of & man and his son in Fiorida failed to stir Suffolk County authorities today in their investigation of the murder of Beniamin P. Collirgs. “It 18 all & surpriss to me.” A District Attorney Fred J. Munder learning of the arrests. “There Suffolk County detectives in Daytona Beach and we know nothing whatever of this arrest.” The latest developmen’ in the case came about through the vartial identi- fication of & body found in Long Island Sound Tuesday, as that of William Bpenker. Smith, a laborer, of South Norwalk The Eastern States will divide be-|Conn. Two restaurant men identified tween two candidates, Tilson of Con- necticut and Snell of New York. Some Western Republicans will have at least one candidate. It will be a miracle if this controversy among the Republicans does not leave sores that mav lead to defections. For any reason and on any ground a dozen or more of the Western Progressives will be insurgent about supporting _ the regular Republican nominee The Democrats, on the other hand, will have no such rift and no such controversy. It is a fixed cer- tainty that their candidate for Speaker will be John Garner of Texas, that he will be nominated with no «hate or division or opposition in the Demo- andred ‘;_‘:fll"’l"“p::”“}}o',’;“’m: on Collings' hody. then refused to give pany In the clection s agame the | CeTtain information at he coroner’s Republicans. Looking upon the situa- | INUest, was at a hospital today resting tion as a whole. there is much justifica- | [T0m & breakdown. He locked 3 Slani' for) the iconfiient oinim ot acing [ 1811 10 ithe bath soom of his home, ‘wd Demccratic National Chairman Shouse | It, Was only on the persuasion of his that his party will organize the House | ¥if®: @ Physician and a policeman tha by Moy | he unlocked the door. (Coprright, 1931.) FATHER AND SON HELD. YORKTOWN THRONGS TO HEAR OF CAPITAL ¥:Fif 3" o " |and William E. Ritchie, 23, yesterday. { declined 1o reveal what information, if any, was obtained in preliminary ques- tioning of the two. Ritchie. who was a veterinarian in South Norwalk, Conn. formerly lived, police understcod, with William Smith. whose body was washed ashore by the waters of Long Island Sound Tuesday not far from the place where the Col- lings murder occurred. New York au- thorities think Smith may have been the “wounded man” mentioned by Mrs Ccilings in her story of her husband's murder by “an elderly man and a youth” on board their vacht. The Ritchles arrived here Sunday from Connecticut. They have lived here at various times for the past 12 years. the victim from photographe and de- scriptions as a recent lodger at the home of Leslie D. Ritchie, 53. a_veterinarian and his son, William E. Ritchie, 23 Mrs. Lillian C. Colling®. widow of the Stamford. Conn.. engineer. was shown photographs of the Ritchies. but failed to identify them. She said two men. one middle aged. the other a youth, boarded her husband’s cruiser in” the sound, bound him and threw him into the water. She thought a wounded man. who accompanied her husband's attackers, also had been thrown in the water Dr. Otto H. Schultze. veteran aufopsy expert, who performed the post mortem DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. October 1 (#)—A father and son were held today for questioning in connection With the Benjamin P. Collings murder case in Leng Island, Pamphlets Describing Washington to Be Distributed at Cele- bration. Visitors attending the Yorktown Ses- quicentennial. October 16 to 19, will be presented pamphlets describing the at-| tractions of the National Capital for possible use in a subscquent trip to the Capital The Greater National Capital Com- mittee of the Washington Board of Trade announced today it will be rep- resented at the Yorktown celebiation by Clifforc Kettler of the tourist bcoth staff of the Washington promotion organization. H- will take with him all available information about the Capital for distribution to the Sesquicentennial throngs. The committee hopes a larg> per- centage of the Yorktown guests will come to Washington to see historic pomnts here, after attending the Vir- ginia celebration Through the co-operation of the V' ginia State Chamber of Commerce, & booth has been provided for the use of the Greater National Capital Committee in distribution of information concern- ang_the District of Columbia and its | environs, ! WALDORF IS LAUDED IN HOOVER ADDRESS | President, in Opening New Hotel, ! Praises Contribution to Job Maintenance. In an address delivered last night by | radio on the occasion of the formal| opening 1 New York of the new| ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. President Hoove declared that the building of this structure at this time has been & con tribution to the maintenance of em-; plorment, and is an exhibition of | cov == and confidence to the whole| Nai o This address. which was a brief one, ! was made by Mr. Hoover in the cabinet ! yoom of the executive office and was | ‘broadcast from coast to coast. i SIGNS WAGE CUT DECREE ‘Hindenburg Measure Affects 180, " 000 Coal Miners in Ruhr. BERLIN, October 1 (#).—An emer- gency decree signed by President von Hindenburg yesterday legalized & 7 per cent wage cut affecting 180,000 coal .miners in the Rubr district. The measure. eflective until Novem- ber 20, but subject to extension. relieves workers and employers from the pay- ment of unemployment insurance_fees thus making the reduction only 3 cent in its effect. Minor walkouts were repcrted at Es: gen, Duisburg and Bottrop, but polic “arrested agitators to prevent the walk- cut frof spreading. COLLINGS MURDER GAS C0. INQUIRY UP PROBE UNCHANGED T0 COMMISSIONERS CONNECTICUT : AVENUE Residential suites nf seven and nine rooms, three baths; three exposures to each apartment. gznérous[y p/anneJ .-- mm)em{c[l/ pru:a) H. L. Rust Company 1001 Fifteenth Street RENTAL AGENT | st | corn hus Miss Hamann's dim- A. P. Photo, | Prosecutor Pleads Ignorance City Heads Expected to Take Action Under Anti- Merger Law. | towa Public hearings in the investigation into ownership of the Washington Gas | Light Co. ended yesterday with brief arguments relating to inclusion of ex- hibitx in the records of the case i Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert and | Arthur Dean, for the company, moved | to exclude all exhibits on general | grounds and four of them on additional | specific grounds. Their objections were overruled and the exhibits admitted. | There were 112 exhibits in the case. | consisting principally of letters and | memoranda passing back and forth be- tween officials of the local company and | the Central Public Service Corporation of Chicago. The Public Utilities Com- | mission sought to trace ownership of the local company to the Chicago corporation The next step in the case probably | will_consist of sending the record to the District Commission for action This step is expected in & week or tw Under the La Follette anti-merger | law, forbidding foreign utility or hold- ing ¢ ons to hold. own. vote or control. directly or indirectly. more than per cent of the stock in Washington utility corporations, it is up to the Com- missioners to bring actions to force any company violating the law to sell or dispose of its stock, or to enjoin it fron voting the stock When the record comes before the city heads. they probably will turn it over to Corporation Counsel William W Bride, with directions to bring action, oIL COMPANI.ES UNITE FOR TRADE IN BRITAIN| | z i Anglo-American Among Big Group to Collaborate in Meeting Cur- | rency Difficulti By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 1—A large group | of ofl companies, including the An- glo-American, the Anglo-Persian, the Burma Oil Co., the Mexican and Canadian Eagle Cos. and the Shell group, have agreed to collaborate as far as possible in the United Kingdom, it was annouriced Wednesday night | The announcement said that the ! companies believe the present currency difficulties can best be met and most | speedily l.rought to & successful conclu- sion by the closest possible industrial co-operatign and that this was the reason for the collaboration agreement. ' They agreed to develop ways and means of assuring an unhampered sup- ' ply of requirements at the lowest pos- sible cost, it was stated, and they ex- pressed the hope that other industries would follow their example. National 8100 STAR, WASHINGTON, IDEMOCRATS LIKELY METHODIST COUNCIL 10 CONTROL HOUSE Death Rate of Members In-! dicates G. 0. P. Will Lose Position. By the Assoclated Pre The law of averages favors the Demo- crats organizing the next House. Over a long perlod of years the death | rate of Republican and Democratic | members averages about the same. The annual number of deaths is more than D THURSDAY, POWERS INCREASED Judicial Group to Decide Matters of Law by Amendment. By the Associated Pr ROANOK! Va., October 1.—Dele- gates to the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Bouth today voted 205 to 31 in favor of an amendment to the church constitution a doren. Of the 11 Representatives elected to | the Seventy-second Congress who have | died. 7 were Democrats and 4 Repub- | licans. | The Democrats have filled all but two of the vacancies normally Demo- cratic, while the Republicans still have four vacant. As a result of the Demo- | cratic victory in the seventh Missouri district Tuesday. both the Republican and Democratic parties have 214 seats. The Farmer-Labor party has 1, Death May Cut Margin. If the Jaw of averages prevails, the death rate in the Republican member- ship may nip the advantage the admin- istration party has maintained since last November elections. ‘Tnen the count was: Republicans, 218; Demo- crats, 216; Farmer-Labor, 1. With only two months before Con- gress convenes, it would be dificult for Republicans to fill addition:] vacancies. A special election is to be held October 13 to fill the seat in the first Wisconsin aistrict, vacated by the death of the veteran Henry Allen Cooper. The Re- 1SS MAURINE HAMANN. formerly of Omaha, Neb. who won the t'tle | Publicans expect to take (his seat with of national farm girl champion at the recent Los Angeles County Fair The contest included milking, churning ing. tractor driving and other farm occupations ples were not mentioned, but they helped ease. The remaining vacancies, both Re- publican and Democratic. are to be flled November 3 by special elections. The attention of the Nation will be centered particularly on the first Ohio district. There the Democrats claim more than a fair chance to defeat the Republican candidate nominated to suc- ceed the late Nicholas Longworth. In addition, the Democrats are con- fident they will be successful in the rmally Democratic districts—twen- h Ohio and seventh New York. alle looking hopefully toward the "hth Michigan, they have no expec- tions of capturing the second Penn- slvania, vacated by the death of the enerable George Graham. The election of Robert D. Johnson Democrat, to succeed the late Samuel C. Major from the seventh Missouri district, by more than 9.000 votes over the Republican candidate fs seen by hairman Shouse of the Democratic onal Executive Committee as & step Democratic guidance of the Goternment CIVIL SERVICE TO FILL SEVERAL VACANCIES Metallurgist Positions for Which Examinations ‘Will Be Held. Associate Among Examinations for sevetal vacancies in specialized branches of the Federal service will be conducted soon by the Civil Service Commission, officlals an- nounced today. The positions to be filled include those of associate metallurgist in de- partmental and field services. at $3.200 to $3.800 A ,sear, and an assistant met- llurgist. at 00 to $3.200 annually. ests also will be conducted a phvsiotherapy aide and a physiotherapy | ssistant in the Veterans’ Administra- tion end in the Public Health Service Full information may be obtained from the commission offices, 1724 F| street COFFEE TASTERS BUSY GRADING | FIRST 120,000 BAGS FROM BRAZIL providing that final decision in matters of law shall be made by the Judicial Council instead of the Coliege of Bishops. | ‘The amendment provides that the Judiclal Council shall have appeliate | power to determine the constitutional- ity of an act of the General Conference, and whether or not any act of the Gen- eral Conference or the Annual Confer- ence Violates the constitution of the church, Other Provisions. | The amendment also provides that the Judicial Council shall hear end de- | termine the appeal of a traveling | preacher: to determine an appeel taken | by one-third of the conference, board | or body from which the appeal comes, | by one-third of the College of | Bishops; all appeals from a bishop's decision on the question of law in an | annual or district conference: to hear and determine all other questions in- volved in appeals from any connectional board or bodv of the church: tu Lave such other jurisdiction as may be con- « ferred upon it by the General Confer- ence: provided it shall have no jurisdic- tion ‘under an appeal by a bishop in- volving his character or the eMciency of his administration. In such cases the bishop shall be allowed un appeal directly to the General Confererce. The council shall have power to arrest any act of a connectional board or body of the church, when such action is brought before it on appeal by one- | third of the members of such board or | body or upon complaint of a majority of the College of Bishops present at a regular or called session; provided that such an appeal shall be taken at the session of the board or body from the action the ‘appeal is asked, or within 30 davs after the adjournment of said session. Council Decision Final, The decision of the council shall be final. provided that when the council shall have decided any act of the Gen- eral Conference unconstitutional, it shall take the course provided for con- stitutional alterations. The council shall have free access to all papers and records of the confer- ence. board or body. and may requ the production of any papers, docu- ments or records which in its judgment may pertain to any matter pending be- fore it. Preceding the business session, during which the passiig on characters of ministers in"the tonference. commenced vesterday. was continued, a devotional address was delivered by Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon. SETS FIRE TOHOME | Colored Man Said to Have Con- fessed to Police. Because & woman friend transferred her affections to another man, Rich- ard Wilson. 23, colored, of 1213!; Blagden Court, set fire to her apart- ment at Tenth and M streets, he was said today to have confessed to police. Wilson was followed from the apart- ment and arrested last night. After being booked for investigation at the second precinct station house, he con- | fessed, according to police i Jury of 12 Pass Opinion on 20 Cups Daily, but Never Swallow a Drop. Lie Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, October 1.— Hectic s these for the coffee tasters. The m Board recently swapped 25000.- 000 bushels of American wheat for 1.050,000 bags of Brazilian ccffee. The first 120,000 bags have arrived. and the tasters are busy tasting. It is the regular method of grading the beverage bean. Coffee tasting coffee everywhere. is a case of coffee. and not a drop to drink; for the tasters never swallow it Experts of coffee exchange sit around a table which may be revolved as required. Before them are the samples to be graded. The ground cof- fee is put into cups, different samples Lamp in each, and bolling water is added Each' taster snifis expertly at the cup before him. He lifts & spoonful to his mouth. Then he spits it out. The table is revolved and the tasters try another sample. After each has sniffed and tasted opinions are exchanged. As these men taste, 50 the coffee is graded. Twelve men are the coffee tasting jury, and the youngest among them has been in the business 20 years. Twenty cups is & day's work. After that the tasters’ palates are tired out In private life the tasters drink cof- fee twice daily—and as long as there | is plenty of sugar and cream they don't muck care what kind of coffee it is. An Unusual at an Unusual Price Jewelers A.Kahn Jnc with decorations in relief. Never Have We Offered So Distinguished a Lamp at So Low a Price The lamp itself is of Chinese pottery, in a lovely soft green glaze, The base is of pierced brass, the finial of carved Soo Chow jade. The attractive silk shade may be had in either soft green or gold. The lamp with shade and finial is now offered at the remarkably low price of Stationers Arthur J. Sundlum, President (8] CTOBER 1, 1931, The Dole in G 81 NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATES MEET ‘Half of Living Classmates ermany Relief Placed on Emergency Basis After Nation Concludes Jobless Insurance Law Is Unworkable During Economic Depression. BY HENRY J. ALLEN, | Pormer United Statgs Senator and Gov- ernor of Kansas. (Who. after a comprehensive first- hand survey of the development esent operation of the dole in England. s continued that survey in the Father- B Iand. " Following is the first of a series of articles giving the results of his stu In Germany they have reached more | generally than in England the convio- | tion that the unemployment insurance | law is unworkable in these times. An | eminent German student of the whole | problem said to me: ! “America is at the beginning of the experiment, England 1is half way through, Germany has reached the end.” He did not mean by this that Ger- many is at the end of taking care of the needs of the unemployed. He meant that all pretenses that it is “insurance” would have to be abandoned: that the problem of caring for unemployed must be reorganized upon a different basis. By Winter, as the unemployed in- | crease in numbers, Germany will be taking care of her workless in a manner similar to that in which we shall be meeting the situation at home, except that private contributions will not play & prominent part in meeting the nec- essary expenditure in Germany. The necessities of life will be provided to the unemployed here, according to actual needs and rot upon any pre- tended basts of Insured benefits. The and states will organize id in food sup- towns, cities for the extension of plies and other necess] ‘The federal government will urderwrite certain burdens which the states and com- munes cannot meet. There will be bread lines, soup kitchens and other merciful provisions to keep actual suf- fering from menacing the health of the unemployed. Relief on Emergency Basls Thus. after several years of so-called unemployment insurance, the chief re- sult of which has been the alarming deficits In the treasuries of the nation states and communes, relief now must be placed upon an emergency basis and the Maborate principles and provisions of the act of 1927 igrored so far as the main problem of caring for the unem- ploved is concerned. The abuses of the dole system did ot multiply as fantasiically in Ger- many as they did in England. but. com- paratively, the situation was e ruinous in its effect upon public treasuries While the benefits did nct run as high and there were abuses. the tota paid out n benefits ran up to a great sum because there Was & larger number of unemployed. The sum total of public employes necessary to care for the system mounted to 28,000 in spite of the fact that a strong effort was made to de- centralize as much as possible the work of administration, placing a large part of the responsibility upon the com- munes. This direction of German thought prevented the establishment of many of the permanent features of s civil service to acminister the dole which characterized the movement in England Germany the so-called insuran system was doubtless administered a well as could be expected under the circumstances. Its failute is due, th fore, more t> the funce" al fau the scheme itself thir to abuses. many's rather consistent effort, has cost her $2.000,000000 in a bri period of time. amply proves that in an economic slump which results anything like general unempioyment the s cannot set up an actuarial basis upon which real insurance schems may be bal: ed and the state kept solvent Deadly Influence Produced. It has somewhat the habit in Germany to blame her unhappy plight upon war reparations, but her effort to keep her unemployment relief up~n a basis of legalized insurance honcfits has produced a deadlier influence than have her war debts. This does not mean that Germany could have es- caped the expenses of caring for the needy idle. but she would have saved millions if her aid had “cen placed upon the simple plan. to which she must now revert, of taking ample care of the needy by direct a:sistance ac- cording to their needs. This word “need” plays a big part in the problem of caring fo: necessi- tous people under the presen® con tions both in England and Germany. Our government encountered the word in Washington when it was sug- | gested that the extension of loans to veterans upon the adjusted compensa- | tion certificates be limited to those vet- erans in need of the mone>. The word was frowned upon by those leading the effort to advance this Billion-dollar payment to the veterans. Tne test of need would serve to humiliat: those who were thus set apart as eligible to receive money under this category. tney migued. Therefore, it was decided to pag all upon the same basis rather than risk & hurt to anybody's feelings Precisely the same argument is used 15 Platinumsmiths i 39 Years at 935 F Street |ance fund. | Hall, today in Germany against applying the test of need to those upon the unem- ployment list; and every diy in the British Parliament the government is most _eloquently some members have proposed to apply the test of need in payment of money to England's unemployed. However, those who are charged with the work of balancing the German bud- get so that it will stay balanced, say there 15 no way eventuslly to avoid the use of the test of need. Way to Retire Left Open. Fortunately for herself, Germany left open in her law a way of retiring from “unemployment, insurance” which the English did not provide. In Germany the unemployed were divided into three clesses under the insurance law. In category 1. which is the only class now pretending to be legally insured is enrolled all who have worked 26 weeks at an insured trade and paid 26 weekly contributions into the insur- The insured member of this category has paid a weekly con- tribution ‘of 2 per cent of his wages, his employer a simlar sum, and the federal bureau a similar sum. He is entitled to draw benefits for 26 weeks Then if he has not found work he is transferred to category 2. This is called “extended insurance.” The fund to pay the benefits is pro- vided four-fifths by the federal gov- ernment and one-fifth by the com- munes. When a person has been in the extended class 26 weeks and has failed to find work, he is again demoted. This time. in category 3, he becomes a welfare subject and must be cared for entirely by the commur es. Thus in LWo terms of 26 weeks each the unem- ploved has passed from a legally insured to a subject of “extended" insurance and then Into the “welfare class® as category three is named. Here the federal” government says good-by to him and ‘the states and communes as- sume the care of him on a basis of his actual needs. In the rapid increase of unemployment naturglly category 1 and 2 decrease, while category 3 grows, and when the insured reaches| no longer insured | category 3. he is It estimated that at present the contributions of workers, employers and the Federal Insurance Bureau can care {:)r\ I?OO 000 unemployed and remain solven Since the list of unemploye: s grown to 5.000,000 and d(\\?\)!iesd: :‘fil reach 7.000.000 this Winter. it will be fen that the relation of category 1 to the whole is not important as a relief agency. It is a great expense, how- ever, to administer it as a system and an 'fln‘ will be made to mingle ca: r and 3 into one welfa; < ‘This doubtless w g friends of the svstem atill wish to re- :ain the principle embodied in category ven 1f it has fafled Nevertheless, whether they retain the principle of unsmployment insurance for the minority, the vast and growing majority of unemployed will be cn the \\rl&ure list, cared for according to need. 9 (The second of this illuminating series. “How the German Dole Came." cspecially important because of the rowing discussicn upon unemployment nsurance in the United States. will be published in this newspaper tomorrow. ) (Copyright, 1931.) RECEPTION PLANNED FOR DR. U. G. B. PIERCE Pastor of All Souls' TUnitarian Church to Be Honor Guest Tonight. A reccption honoring Dr. and Mrs. Ulssses G. B. Pierce, in recognition of their 30 years in the ministry of All Souls' Church, will be held Fifteenth and Harvard streets, tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock. Dr. Plerce came to Washington from the Unitarian Church in Ithaca, N. Y. early in 1901. During his pastorate, the present church was erected. i For a time Dr. Pierce was chaplain of tke United States Senate. At present he is a member of the board of St. Elizabetn’s Hospital, the board of Ho ard University, secretary of the Colum- bia Institution for the Deaf and | director of the American Unitaria Association, Howard Hosmer is chairman of the committee arranging the reception GROSNER'S F. Two real merchandise. . S p1 she and be fitti twe Fing Regular $2 and $2.50 Suirts A choice of fine regular stock woven madras, chambray and broadcloth. Plain shades, whites and stripes; collar attached styles— neckband style in white. 1325 F denounced because | ill be resisted. as the | specials iday Only! Specials for the one dav -- tomorrozw TOPCOATS garments with lan with back . some form- Char@e Accounts Invited CROSNEIRY Mark Fiftieth Anniversary | of Commencement. A good half of the living members | of the class of 1881 at the Naval Acad- | emy met in Washington today to cele- brate the fittieth anniversary of their | graduation. | While two wars and 50 years had re- duced the original 95 men to almost & | third, those who foregathered at the | Lafayette Hotel this morning seemed | hale and hearty as youngsters. Retired captains and admirals ex- changed greetings with those of their number who had entered business. the professions. They volleyed wisecracks at & photographer who posed them on the hotel “steps, before trooping like schoolboys on a lark into a sight- seeing bus which was to bear them o a trip through the Shenandoah Valle: Guests at Luncheon. | During the course of their tour, the classmates stopped at Wakefield Manor near Huntly, Va,, today. to be luncheon guests of Mrs. George Barnett, the | ¥idow of a former comrade, Ma). Gen. | Barnett, U. 8. M. C., who died some 18 | months’ ago. They expect to remain about a week in Washington and the vicinity. The semi-annual reunion here was arranged by former Senator Orvington V. Weller of Stlve , Md., who is president of t group. Among the '81 prominence in civil life was Wi Stayton of Smyrna, Del, operator of large shipping interests centered about | Baltimore and founder and chairman of the board of directors of the Asso- ciation Against the Prohibition Amend- ment. | Class Roll Sounded. | ‘The class roll, as sounded here thi | morning follows’ 1. B. Parsons. Hayward, Calif.; W. H Gartley, Philadelphia; J. L. Rees. Cieve- land, Ohio; W. L. R. Emmet, Schenec- tady, N. Y.; Col. C. M. Perk: Pla burg, N. ¥.. A. C. parsons, Marion, Il R. P. Torshew, Br! n, N E. H Harrison, Winnetka, I Butler, Pa; H. R. C lanta, Ga.. Admiral H M. Whitham. Philadephia: Ira McJunkin Simmard, D: Ohio; M. J. Do W. H. Stayton Russell, W. W. Wl CANADIAN SOBRIETY STATEMENT HIT Women's Committee Against Al- cohol Gives Data on Drunks in Phillips Letter. Taking issue w tributed to Wil American Min Canadian liquor « sobriety, the Wom National Com- mittee” for Education Against Alcohol | made public today a letter to him pur- porting to show figures of the Dominion bureau of statistics fail to support his contention former that the stem insures Comparing figures for 1922, the yvear the government sales plan first went into effect. with those for 1930, the vomen's committee lotter showed a 48 per cent increase in the consumption of spirits, & 55 per cent Increase in con- victions for drunkenness. a 942 per cent increase in con s for driving while drunk. a 126 per cent increase in con- victions under the liquor temperance act and a 115 per cent increase in the percentage of deaths from alcoholism. P. R. HOLMES TO SPEAK Illuminating Engineer to Address Conference Tonight. P. R. Holmes, illuminating engineer of the National Lamp Works, will ad- dress the sixth of a series of lighting conferences sponsored by the Electric League in the auditorium of the Po tomac Electric Power Co. at 8 o'clock tonight. P. A. Davis and Russell Haves, light- ing experts, also The con- ferences 1328 'F STREET of regular stock .offered at these savings Regular $35 plendid rag- or & i niders some hali- Ited i Friday Only All Sales’ Final ng double breasted. Navy blues, eds, herringhbones and fleeces. ely tailored. All sizes. STREET