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WASHINGTON - D. 0., SUNDAY: VICTIM WAS SEEN IN ISLAND VILLAGE BEFORE HER DEATH Policeman Says He Saw Miss Wiggington at Selomons the Day Before. ANALYSIS AWAITED IN CORONER’S QUIZ Theory That Woman Found in Patuxent River Was Slain Still Strong. By a Staff Correspondent of Th . ARDTOWN, Md., October 17.— T!};ng:;nry surrounding the deatt of Miss Wilma Wigginton, 35-year-ol hmc chitect, whose body was \\laigsgngs nore vesterday near Millstone L ing, 5 fi?:‘fimea tonight when a State pkc‘;hc;‘{ man informed State's Attorney Jo, n n T Briscoe that he had seen the woman Jlomons Island the day before b s found. The officer max 1y after Dr. P. {’\Iounrpd Coroner, an coman’s viscera would be Sl ol Wimore. Coroner Bean de- he said, after an she apparently de his statement short- Bean, St. Marys Coun- t a chemical an- aly ¥ made in Baltimore. cided on the action, autopsy had revealed had not drowned, “Usually.” ne ex person’s lungs are lained, “a drowned Rllcd with water. To is wer in Miss Wig- termine if this were true in Mi 2fnwn-s case, T placed her br‘;diil;rl‘a:xrc‘s cent River, just a sho a N Where 1t was found, to see if it Would float. ‘The fact that it did is, in Ty opinion, pretty conclusive evidence That drowning was not the cause of her death. Poison as Possibil “And, sin¢e there were no !nalrkso:_r physical violence on the body, T coRc cluded that the only other POSSitilEy Was poison—that is. that Miss Wiggip- ton was po.som:d and then thrown e T analysts fails to reveal any trace of poison, l‘ulb:'-im\tl“xx:ngg_})\nz Miss 5 pmitted suic W osulis of the analysis will not be Kknown for several days, it was said. "'he policeman’s report that he seen Miss Wigginton on Solomons Is- Jand Thursday came as a Surprise. &3 a canvass of the town, made by Calver! County authorities, had failed to dis- close any one who could remember hav- seen her. : I e the officer’s statement. how- sver. Miss Wigginton's movements be- fween Monday and the time her body was found were still unknown. ~AD-| parently she did not register at any of The Solomons Island hotels, althoug she placed her automobile in storage in there Wednesdar complication today Sort. received from v re Miss Wigginton had been )& for scveral years, that she had Jeft there with the intention of getting | ma The name of her prospective | Pusband was not revealed in the re- port. resulted Roslyn Marks Ohly Abrasions. Marks on Miss Wigginton's body, at first thought to have been wounds, were subjected to a thorough investigation by the coroner, who said they were mere abrasions and could have been caused by the pebbly bottom of the Patuxent River. The body was float- ing in shallow water when it was dis- covered by Rev. Samuel Bauer of; Vienna. Va. a retired Methodist min- | pointed out. iss Wigginton may have | p, n he into the river in an| to end her life was strengihened of a note pinned to her| undergarment. The note, hand-lettered | on a shipping tag and addressed to a New York City woman, said: “Went out in peace and happiness to make room for others.” was unsigned. Ty other letters in which Miss Wig- ginton indicated she planned to end her life were turned over to State's Attor- ¢ Briscoe by Harry B. Pitts, a secur- alesman for a real estate firm in Washington. Both were mailed in olomons Island. SO e Tecelving the messages Wedne day morning, Pitts said, he took an air- Nane to Norfolk with the idea of find- | ing Miss Wigginton and preventing her from carrying out her intention. Fail- ing to locate the woman, he continued, he went to Baltimore on the “hunch she may have gone there, but that trip also was fruitless. He finally decided 1o g0 to Solomons Island, he said, and arrived there in time to identify Miss Wigginton's body. Body Goes to Louisville. From Millstone Landing the body was brought here, where William C. Mattingly, an undertaker, prepared it for shipment to Louisville, Ky, the dead woman's native city. It later was taken to Washington and entrained for Louisville Arrangements for shioment of the body were made by Lieut. Oscar A. Saunders of Fort Humphreys, Va. Lieut. Saunders, husband of the dead woman's cousin, went to Millstone Landing as goon as he learned of Miss Wigginton's death. Interviewed by State’s Attorney Bris- coe, Lieut. Saunders said Miss Wig- ginton visited his wife Monday, spend- ing the day with her. She seemed de- spondent then, he said. GROUP COMING HERE ON SHORT SELLING| Chicago Beard of Trade to Send | Committee to Confer With Hoover. he Associated Press. CHICAGO. October 17.—A commit- tee of Chicago Board of Trade direc- tors will be sent to Washington to confer with President Hoover, Secretary Hyde and others to get a clear understand- ing as to what is desired in the way of curtailing short selling of grain. The committee is composed of Vice President Peter B. Carey, Directors S. C. Harris and Fred Uhlmann. It is understood the directors did not approve of suggestions presented by Attorney Silas A. Strawn at a directors’ meeting yesterday. and that it was| deemed to discuss the suggesions thoroughly before rendering a decision as to what was to be done. Falls Church Man Buried. FALLS CHURCH, Va, October 17 (Special).—Services were held Monday at his home in West Falls Church had | 'SHIMA WORKS DESPITE RICHES |Former Secretary Listed for | $200,000 Share, Gets U. S. Job. Serves Agriculture Dept. Rather Than Depend on Bequest. Jesse S. Shima, former secretary to Mrs, Mary F. Henderson, has gone to work for the United States Govern- ment. The young Japanese, who received $200,000 under Mrs. Henderson's last will,'has been employed as a translator of Chinese and Japanese by the Bu- reau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, It was said at the bu- reau yesterday that he will remain there indefinitely. Shima, of course, speaks and reads his own tongue, but can only read Chi- nese. This is explained by the fact that Chinese characters are similar to the Japanese. but the pronunciation is altogether different. Friends of Shima said e took the post in the Department of Agriculture because he is ambitious to succeed through his own initiative and ability and has no intention of depending for his livelihood on the bequest left by the wealthy dowager. s connection, it was pointed out, | LEFT BY MRS. MARY HENDERSON JESSE S. SHIMA. —Star Staff Photo. he was bequeathed the building occu- pled by the Nicaraguan legation, but | voluntarily surrendered it. It was und°rstood that George Edelin, | executor of the will, intends to file his | answer to the caveats attacking it with- |in the next few days. A trial of the allegations in_the caveats will deter- | mine whether Shima receives the money left him by Mrs. Henderson. NAVY WILL DISPLAY MANY SHPS HERE Constitution Among Vessels on Program of Annual Observance. Washingtonians _ within _the next {month or so will have an opportunity to see a variety of fighting ships from the century-old frigate U. S. S. Consti- tution to the latest in American and ! British cruisers as well as being in- | vited to the Washingtqn Navy Yards annual_open house on Navy day, Oc- tober 27. Thus the Navy, which 1 attracting more than usual attention at present_because of President Hoover's prospective trimming of the new budget, door. On Navy day, Washington will be in- vited aboard the light cruisers Rich- mond and Memphis, the submarine R-3 and the destroyer Hamilton, as these day, the birthday of Theodore Roose- velt. In addition, civilian workmen at the yard will join with naval officers, sailors and Marines in giving the public an insight into the various duties tnat d at the yard. nstitution will be at York- November 2 and will then to Annapolis, coming to the November 6 and proceed navy yard here on remaining here six days. *“Old Iron- sides” wiil be open for visitors here and a feature of the ships’ visit will be made on Armistice day. British Light Cruiser. ry Stuart Haggard, will put in at the navy yard November 12 and remain until November 18. After her Wash- ington Roads, Va Washington Navy Yard officials yes- terday made public the complete Navy cay program here. It embfacts a num r of events, including exhibitions ¢ deep-sca diving, catapulting a plafie from the deck of the cruiser Me; phis, lifesaving drills, firing of tor- pedoes and signal driils. Other events will include an air show featuring a parade of planes, exhibi- tions by an autogiro and parachute Jumping. The cruiser Richmond, one of the two visiting here, is of 7,500 tons and carries 10 six-inch guns, 4 three-inch anti-aircraft guns and 2’ triple torpedo tubes. It has a speed of 33 knots. She is the third vessel of that name in the American Navy, the first two being sloops. The Richmond was constructed in Philadelphia and went into commission at the Navy Yard there in 1923, In Corner Stone Ceremony. The Richmond assisted in the laying of the corner stone of the National Masonic Shrine at Alexandria, Va., and at that time made a short visit to Washington. Recently she has been part of the Fleet participating in the celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Yorktown. The Memphis “if placed in a vertical position would be equal in height to the Washington Monument,” says an an- nouncement from that vessel, which will likewise be open to visitors here Navy day. The power developed on this light cruiser, naval officials said, is equal to that of the Leviathan, with its 100,- 000 horsepower, although the merchant craft is 950 feet long. Built at Philadelphia, the Memphi was launched on April 17, 1924, her commissioning coming in February 1925. She carries two modern sea- planes with appropriate crews, and these can be catapulted into the air when the vessel is under way. The total cost of the ship is about $11.- 000.000. Navy day visitors also will be given an opportunity to become initiated into the mysteries of the submarine, for the U. 8. 8. R-3 will be on hand. Recently this craft_has been operating out of Bellevue, D. C. All the valves, vents, dials and gauges which control the ship will be explained by officers and crew. BUILDING RAZING BEGINS FOR EXTENSION OF MALL Area Is Between Pennsylvania and Missouri Avenues, Third and Sixth Streets. Destruction_of old buildings in the area between Pennsylvania and Missouri avenues, Third and Sixth streets to make way for extension to the Mall is now under way. Contractors are tearing down the old Mades Hotel, corner of Third and Penn- sylvania avenue, and also 102, 104 and 106 Third strcet, as well as four pieces of property on Missouri avenue, num- | bered 321, 32115, 323 and 225. The two big squares betwzen Third and Sixth street along Pennsylvania avenue, known as Reservations A and B, are to be turned into the Mall area and an extension of Constitution avenue. They will constitute part of what will be known in the future as Union Square, into which will enter ths new Louisiana avenue now under construction in Union Station plaza. Louisiana avenue will run for Willlam H. Weeks, well known resi- dent, who died Friday, October 9. He 18 survived by his wife and one daugh- ter, Mrs. C. N. McGahey of Washington. from Union Station cutting through new territory for a street to join Pennsyl- vania avenue at Union Square, between ‘Third and Sixth streets. will be brought to Washington's front | four craft will be at the Navy yard that | The British light cruiser Delhi, flag- | ship of Vice Admiral Sir Vernon Har- | visit she will go to Hampton | HALLOWEEN FETE * PLANS ANNOUNCED Celebrati Parade and Dance on Constitution Avenue. { Final plans for the District’s gala | city-wide Halloween extravangaza were | night by Washington | last dors announ ctvic lea Declaring its “this first city intention of maki wide cclebration of ancient festival one long to be remem- | bered.” the committee in charge of ar-| rangements revealed the pageant would | culminate in a great parade up Penn- | nce on Constitution avenue. Community Pageant. A day which since the time of the | | Druids has held a wondrous hold on | world | the imagination of people the over, Halloween in the National Capi tal this October is passing up the usuzl casual, prenkish celebrations in favor of a great c-mmunity pageant. In the parade will be floats and g decorated automobiles intermir with bands and marchers in ca attire. Entries are coming in by the hundrecs, the committee announced. and notification t> each entrant of parade formation and location of units will be sent out as soon as possible. Prizes for the most at- tractive floats have been donated by Washington merchants. Citizens' Groups Co-operate. Among the entrants are the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association, | Rhode Island Avenue Parent-Teacher | Association, Logan-Thomas Circle Citi- participate with _elaborately . designed floats: the Burleith Citizens' Associ tion, Sixtcenth Street Heights Citizen: whose plans are being kept secret ‘The Mid-City Citizen: Association. sponsoring a whole mid-city section the parade, will have its own float marchers and bands. _In the sect] will be floats entered by Woodward & Lothrop, Lansburgh and Bro. Hecht | Co.. Goldenberg's, New Center Market. Union Terminal Market, Peter J. Nee | Al - | Co., Call Carl, Inc., Kahn Optical Co. IHaIlmr‘ll Phillipps in 1876 Peoples Drug Store Co.. and othe; | Elaborate plans are rapidly being pe: | fected for this mid-city section by a | committee comprising “A. J. Driscoll, president: Samuel W. Cockrell, chair- man _Halloween Pageant and Parade Committee: Max T. Pimes, vice chair- man, and 15 other members of the citi- zens’ association. ALLEGED GAMBLERS’ CASES ARE DROPPED 13 Charges of Vagrancy Are Nolle Prossed for Lack of Evi- dence. | The final chapter in last June's drive | to “clean up” gambling in the city was | written in Police Court yesterday when | vagrancy charges against 13 alleged | gamblers were nolle prossed. |~ Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed- ward Welliver informed Judge Robert E. Mattingly that he had thrown out the cases because of “insufficiency of | evidence to prove the Government's cases.” The men were arrested after a num- ber of warrantless raids had been made on_alleged downtown gambling -houses. Those_given freedom yesterday werc James B. Miller, Harry W. Schecter, Louis L. Levy, Jo¢ Freeman, William W. Deitz, Harry E. Rock, Louis A. Palumbo, Raymond Hawkins.' Hugh _Gallagher, Charles J. Baker, Willlam E. Larman, Tony P. Passero and Barney Berlinsky. \AVIATION EXHIBITION RAISES JOBLESS FUND | Crowds in New York Brave Cold Wind to See First Day of Thrills and Famous Pilots. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 17.—Avi did its stuff for the jobless de?, i;i‘lilo‘l: up thousands of dollars for relief funds, but wind blew other thousands away. A sudden cold spell held the attend- ance at a four-ring aerial circus, one of the greatest spectacles in the history of aviation here, down to about 10,000 persons. The show continues tomorrow. Huddled in heavy overcoats at -four airports, the crowds roared approval as airmen wearing fur-lined suits per- formed stunts never seen in this saction. Among th2 spectators were Sir Hul Wilkins, Al Williams, one-timz worl speed champion, who will show some of his_wares here ‘tomorrow; Gen. James E. Fechet, chicf of the Army Air Corps; Eddle Rickenbacker, Wiley Post and Del. The American Clipper. biggest 1 boat ever built in Paerica, e o ture, as was the DO-X. on Will Culminate in! lvania avenue and a carnival and| as to| zens’ Association, all of which plan to | MORNING, he Sunday Staf WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 18, GENERAL NEWS 1931. ¥ % FOLGER COLLECTION OF SHAKESPEAREAN WORKS COMES HERE First Cases of Rare Volumes Were Received at New Library Thursday. EXACT NUMBER OF ITEMS IN GIFT IS NOT KNOWN Many Months Will Pass Before Books Are Catalogued and Available to Public. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. ‘The books of the Folger collection, for the housing of which the beautiful new Folger Shakespeare Library has been built in East Capitol street, ad- jacent to the Library of Congress, have begun to arrive. The first cases were received Thursday. The volumes gathered by Henry Clay Folger, financier _and industrialist, through the last five decades of his life and bequeathed by him to the Na- tion have been in fireproof storage in New York for a long period. Many of them Mr. Folger himself had not ex- amined in many years. Even the ex- act number of items in the collection is not known with positive certainty. It ias been estimated that there are as ‘many as 70,000. Another estimate has | the figure as low as 25,000. It is for this as well as other reasons that Wil- fliam A. Slade, recently appointed li- brarian of the Folger Foundation, and his associates are inordinately curious about the exact contents of the heavy boxes now en route to them. As one case after another is opened and its treasures disclosed there will be ex- citement at the new library comparable only with that with which Mr. Folger originally _pursued his quest for the books in Europe and America Cataloging Monumental Work. The task of properly arranging and cataloging the collection will be a monumental we Just how long it | will take is a matter of speculation. It { will be many months in any event be- | fore the books will be available for | | public inspection. The date for open- ing the building cannot be set until| the books 2 n order | Prof. George F. Whicher. Ph. D., of Ambherst College. the institution charged { with the maintenance of the Folger Library, under the terms of Mr. Folger’s | will, recently discussed the collection in { an article in the Atlantic Monthly. “Of | all the collected editions,” he said, “the | most_interesting to both laymen and| special students is, of course. the First ! Folio of 1623, containing the earliest! printed versions of 20 of the 37 plavs | included in the Shakespeare canon. Only a few more than 200 copies of ) this book have been preserved, and of these 79, including 6 fragments, ere in | ction. Among them are tr io. once owned by the | i dett-Coutts, listed b Sir € v Lee as 1 of 4 copies in a perfect state of preservation: 3 | others also regarded as perfect, though | apparently not so listed by Lee: 6 of 27 copies placed by Lee in the second division of the first class because of minute defects, and perhaps most in- teresting of all, though not perfect, the Vincent Folio, the tallest known copy and one of the first to come from the press, bearing on its title page an in- | | scription recording its presentation by | | william Jaggard. the printer of the ume, to Augustine Vincent. the { herald, who had been instrumental in securing the grant of Shakespeare's | {arms. This last First Folio was the| first copy Mr. Folger acquired. | Purchased Facsimile for §1 “Among the less dist d_copies pany where all are of high | is one which Mr. Folger must have regarded with special af- | fection, the Roberts Folio, used by | Chatto' and Windus in_the ‘production | of the reduced facsimile edited by J. O. It was with the purchase of this facsimile for $1.25 that Mr. Folger commenced his career | as a student of Shakespeare's text and a collector of Shakespearean books: “The Folios succeeding the first are also generously represented, the Sec- ond Folio at least 50 copies, the ! Third Follo by at least 24. including both issues, and the Fourth by at least | 30. Only avorcximate figures can be | i given i “Next to the Folios, which foremost among the glories of the | Folger Library,” come the plays inl quarto, of which the earliest printed are among the rarest of rare books. Not infrequently an edition is known by only three to six surviving coples. | and in some instances a single copy i all that remains. Seventeen plays were printed in_quarto form before | the issue of the First Folio, 14 of them, as is now maintained, from fairly re- liable manuscripts, and five, counting ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Hamlet' once | in each group, from ‘stolen and sur- Teptitious coples’ irrégnlarly secured by catchpenny publishers. Of the five ‘bad’ quartos, Mr. Folger was able to ! [ obtain all but the 1603 ‘Hamlet.” and | of the 14 ‘good’ first quartos 12, the missing items being ‘Richard II' (1597) and the ‘First Part of Henry IV’ (1598). To compensate for these gaps his library includes a unique fragment | (four” leaves) regarded by Halliwell- Phillipps as a ‘portion of the first and hitherto unknown edition of the “First Part of Henry IV,” published by Wise early in the year 1598 and s unique third edition of ‘Richard II' (1598), which has been the object of much bibliographical attention. ME, Folger also possessed_the only known copy of ‘Titus Andronicus (1594). the carliest printed of all Shake- speare’s plays; one of the three known copies of ‘Hamlet' (1604), the first is- | sue of the revised plav. and the rare; second edition of ‘Pericles’ (1611), be-: sides both states of the first edition. “Out of a large and representative ar | distinctio: stand | only three of those issued prior to 1623 appear to be missing, the item that most insistently demands recognition is the bound set of the Jaggard-Pavier quartos of 1619, the only complete set known to have survived in seventeenth century binding. A second but incomplete copy of the same curious book is noted in Mr. Folger's record of his purchases. “Plays that shnkesxsenre revised and plays wrongfully attributed to him by enterprising publishers are well repre- sented, nearly always in the form of first_quartos. “Of the very scarce early issues of “Venus and Adonis,’ the Folger Library holds a unique fragment of the third edition, one of the two known copies of the sixth-edition, and one of the two known copies of the thirtcenth There are 2 of the 10 recorded copies of the ‘Rape of Lucrece,’ first edition, and single exaxples of the third, sixth, seventh and eighth editions. The ‘Sonnets’ are represented by two_copies of the st printing (1609). Finally Felix B. Du Pont and Mrs. Du Pont. |there are 10 copies of the first collected The Du Ponts flew from Wilmington, | edition of the ‘Poems’ (1640), at least one of which has the rare portrait of ‘Willlam Marshall, the second ,ltkeneu America, was a fea-<of %*utupeue to be en!nved.' e term “folio” indicates a book T coliection of later quartos, from which | n PAGE B—1 Before the Battle of Yorktown WASHINGTON'S CONFERENCE WITH GENERALS DEPICTED. HIS painting, the work of Ralph Davol, an artist living at the Cosmos Club, pictures the Revolutionary War leader | and his generals planning the Yorktown battle, which resulted in the surrender of the British under Cornwallis. ‘The painting, which is about 7 feet in length, is one of 10 on similar subjects produced by Mr. Davol, who main- tains a studio at 1911 I street. D. G JOBLESS AID REVEALSBENEFITS 14,000 to 18,000 Employed as Committee Prepares for Winter. Fourteen to eighteen thousand per- sons are at present unemployed in the Di. t, it was estimated by George ams, secretary of the District of Columbia’ Committee on Employment. in a radio address over WRC yesterday afternoon. Of this number the major portion belongs to the unskilled labor and domestic servant classes, Mr. Ad- ams said. The maxi proximatel T m figure quoted is ap- 37-10 per cent of the Di trict_population according to the 1930 census, it was pointed out, which in- dicates that conditions here compare favorably with the general predicament of cities throughout the country. Job Campaigns Help. The District Committee on Emplo; ment has supplied 25,000 hours of laby at 40 cents per hour for job ants during the first nine mont year, it was reported. The majority of this work was obtained through the Spring Clean-Up and Midsummer Job Campaigns _conducted throughout the city, and the remainder was supplied through public improvement projects | | | | of this| Plants Bloom Again As Summer Lingers In Northeast State By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., October 17.—Summer lingers in the lap of Fall in Connecticut. Lilac bushes, white and purple, are abloom, apple trees are fringed with snowy white petals, tea roses give off their fragrance, hooiyhocks are blooming anew and dahlia gardens are a mass of_color. In Old Lyme an apple tree which forgot to open its buds in Springtime is garbed in pinkish- white blossoms. ‘Trees in the country are verdant green except in the hill sections. It is the latest flowering Fall in many years. PHILIPPINES HAVE EXPORTS BALANCE Study Shows Island Imports to U. S. Are $381,194,000 Less Than Shipments. | Plans for a Fall and Winter campaign | By the Associated Press. to enable the local jobless to earn money and arrangements for distribu- ion of food and fuel have been formu- ated by the committee. Mr. Adams an- ounced. It is expected that the fam- ilies and dependents of every man will- 1ag to work will be assisted throuzh the efforts of the committee during this | season. Only $18.817 The cost of $18.847 by the activities of the committee harply contrasts with figures ranging from $300.000 to $800.000 expended in unemployment relief in cities of smaller population, Mr. Adams asserted Thousands of cords of firewood do- nated by the Quantico Marines and large quantities of food obtained through volunteer assistance in canning fruits will be included in the commit- tee's stock for distribution this Winter PRESIDENT HOOVER CUTS Spent. so far incurred EXECUTIVE EXPENDITURES | Treasury Reveals Reduction of $66,477 in Comparing July to September Figures. By the Associated Press. What President Hoover hes been preaching to the Government depart- ments he practices himself The Treasury yesterday revealed that the White House executive offices and the Commerce Department were the only divisions of the Government to reduce their expenditures for the first three months of the 1932 fiscal year to | a point below the same period of last year. From July 1 to September 30 the ex- ecutive offices spent $115,694, as com- pared with $182171 in the opening quarter of last year. The Department of Commerce in three months spent $13,956,766, as com- | pared with $17.979,360 last year. other departments exceeded penditures of & year ago. The P.-T.A.TO HO.LD ELECTION Special Dispatch to The Star. UNIVERSITY PARK, Md, October 17.—Annual election of officers will be held by the local Parent-Teacher As- sociation Tuesday, when on account of road construction’ near the school the meeting will be made at the Church of i the Brethren here. Dr. C. A. Magoon of the Department of Agriculture will address the meet- g. composed of sheets of paper folded only once. A “quarto” is a book or pam- phlet whose pages are of-the size of the fourth of a sheet, the name denot- ing a shape broad in proportion to its length rather than an exact size. Roughly speaking, the Shakespeare fo- lios are large books and the quartos small, or at least smaller in size than folios. At the Folger Library some of the more precious volumes will never leave the vaults prepared for their reception, once they have been placed there. Scholars may see these items, but they may not take them from the room. In the circumstances, photostatic copies will be made for general use. Adequate arrangements have been made for guarding the Folger treasures. For obvious reasons the details of these arrangements will not be made public. The library staff grimly declares that no burglars need apply. Every library is the objective of sneak thieves, but the Folger stafl takes its responsibility with the utmost seriousness and they have no intention of losing the books committed to their care. the ex-| | islands A study of tariff and trade relations showing the Philippines in 32 years sent $381.194,000 more in commodities to the United States than they took out was made public yeiterday by the Tariff Commiscion In the same period. however, the had an unfavorable trade balance of $126,706.000 with the rest of the world Since Philippine independence has been closely associated with agitation for American import duties on the islands’ principal products, the com- mission's study, undertaken to_inform Congress of trade trends, probably will be consulted often next Winter when the Philippine question arises in Congress. From 1909 to 1930, the apparent | amount of duties waived by the United | corresponding States, the commission report showed. was about $190,000.000, the special preferential rate on Cuban sugar. This waiver was greater than the concessicn of about $174.025.000 made in the Philippines on’ American goods. SAYS JIBES AIMED AT U. S. SECURITIES McFadden Hits Talks of Lloyd George, Shaw and Wells—Sees Effort to Impair Confidence® By the Associated Press. A charge of attempts abroad to im- pair confidence in American sccurities was made yesterday by Representative McFadden of Pennsylvania. Speaking over the radio during the National Grange hour, the chairman of the last House Banking Committee said he regretted statements made recently by George Bernard Shaw, the Irish Socialist; Lloyd George, former Eng- lish premier, and H. G. Wells, the his- torian and writer. “It is hard to build up confidence, but it is tremendously easy to break down confidence,” he said, adding that the American Government authorities should take notice of such tactics, | which, he said, “are being pursued. ap- | parently for the purpese of destroying confidence abroad as well as in the' United States.” BEREA EX-TEACHER BARES LACE PEDDLERS By the Associated Press. BEREA, Ky, Oct T 17.—“Berea lace,” something that Dr. W. J. Hutch- ins, president of the Mountain College, says simply does not exist, resulted in a $175 fine being given several lace ped- dlers at Rockville, Ind, near Terre Haute. In announcing it today, Dr. Hutch- ins said a woman tried to sell lace rep- resented as made by the Berea Fire- side Industries to Miss Ione Chapman, & former Berea teacher, now living in Rockville, and the arrests followed. George R. Cavanaugh, assistant busi- ness manager of Berea, went to Rock- ville to prosecute the case but since nc sale actually had been made in that case, members of the group were fined the total of $175 on charges of ped- dling without a license. “Berea pupils do not make lace,” Dr. Hutchins said, but in the least year or two I have had some 20 letters from different parts of the country indi- cating that lace represented as made here is being peddled.” . computed at | ADVISES GAS SUIT BY COMMISSIONERS Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride Holds D. C. Heads Are Proper Plaintiffs. Counsel William W. Bride yesterday advised the District Commissioners they were the proper agency for filing a suit in District Su- preme Court seeking to compel the Central Public Service Corporation to rid ftself of its interest in the Wash- ington and Georgetown Gas Light Com- panies, or to prevent that corporation from voting the stock alleged to be otied by it through the agency of sev- eral other ccrporations and trusts. The Commissioners did not act on the advice yesterday, but an order is expected to issue ecarly this week in- structing the corporation counsel to bring the suit. The suit will be brought nder the terms of the LaFollette ant; merger act. which prohibits foreign public utility or holding corporations to own. hold, or vote, directly or indi- rectly, stock or bonds of District public |utility ccrporations. A ‘long _hearing before the Public Utilities Commission yielded a large mass of evidence that the Central Pub- | lic Service Corporation had indulged in a series of acts compatible only with | its ownership of the local gas proper- ties, although the corporation claimed that through a set up of trusts the corporation itself in legal contempla- tion owned no stocks in the local com- panies. The suit will be brought in the names of the Comm! ers in Equity Court. Corporation M’'LEAN REPORTED REFUGEE IN FRANCE Marshal's Office Still Has Sum- | mons to Serve in Divorce Suit Against Publisher. Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, has avoided serv- ice in the suit for limited divorce filed by Mrs Evalyn Walsh Mclees, | whom he has been estranged for some time, and is reported to have gone to France. It developed yesterday that the United States marshal's office still has the summons in the divorce action, which was rejected by McLean at the time he accepted service through coun- sel in another suit filed by his wife for his removal as co-trustee of the estate of his father, John R. McLean Both suits were filed October 7, and A week later McLean was made de- fendant in a suit for $17.655.75, filed here on behalf -of the Berglorf & Good- man Co. of New York for clothing and jewelry he is said to have purchased | for_an unidentified woman. | This suit, like the othars, was brought through Attorneys Frank J. Hogan and Nelson T. Hartson, counsel for Mrs | McLean, who said that none of the purchases were for her. | McLean could not have been served in this ltigation. 'HOOVER AND FIRST LADY SPONSOR V. F. W. JUBILEE Dancing Exhibitions Feature Armistice Day and to Celebration. The President and Mrs. Hoover have given their names as sponsors of the Armistice day jubilee of the Veterans of Forcign Wars the evening of No- vember 11 at the Washington Audi- torium, the proceeds to go to the relief fund for disabled and destitute vet- | erans. ‘The celebration will be the first of its kind in the Capital, with many interesting features. The auditorium will be converted into a “Paris of 1918,” with dancing on the main floor and various booths and exhibitions in the numerous rooms in the auditorium. ‘Tickets are now on sale for $1 each, ‘lr;ld there are a number of boxes avail- able. ‘The event is sponsored rominent hostesses of Army, vaybznpd Marine Corps circles, as well as men outstand- ing in public life. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, U. 8. A, is director general of the jubilee. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Olam Club, Jewish Com- munity Center, 8:30 p.m. Dance, Las Amigas Club, Jewish Community Center, 9 p.m. FUTURE. Banquet, Alpha Delta Phi Frater- nity. University Club, tomorrow, 7 p.m. from ! TAXICAB SITUATION WILL BE AIRED IN PUBLIC HEARING Citizens and Operators Are Invited to Give Views Before Board. PATRONS’ ENTHUSIASM FOR FLAT RATE IS SEEN People’s Counsel R. B. Keech Holds Needs Are Standard Zones and Insurance Law. A public hearing on Washington's taxicab situation, called by the Publ Utilities Commission, will get under way | tomorrow, and all those interested .An the subject, including the operators ‘of Washington's many taxicabs, have heen asked to give their views. The hearing Wil be held in Room 102, District Building. People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech in a lengthy public statement vesterday called attention to the importance of the meeting from the public's point of view and went on to give some of his iviews on the situation. Public Likes Rates. “The public” Mr. Keech's statement said in part, “has shown that it is well pleased with the so-called flat rate cabs and many persons, as stated by both owners and drivers, are making use of taxicabs now who never did before this system was invoked. The low rate partly accounts for this, while the substitution of a fixed charge for a ticking meter has played its part. This is true even though the amount charged by the meter may not be in excess of that charged for flat rate service, “The ordinary taxicab rider, prior tn the advent of the so-called flat rate or low-priced cabs in this city, looked upon the taxicab as a luxury or for use in case of dire necessitv. The taxicab of today no longer stands in that position. “If there be any complaint as to the flat rate or zone cab system. it is due to the fact that all operators have not adopted uniform rates and uniform zones. ~ Should the Commission fix defintie boundaries and rates, and re- quire operators to carry in a conspicu- ous place in their cab a map showing definitely the boundaries of the vari- ous zones and the charges for such zones, then in my opinion the only real evil of the so-called flat rate or zone system will have been eliminated. Some time back. I attempted to get the operators to eliminate the use of the term ‘City Proper.’ I still believe that this should be done, and as a matter of fact most of the cabs now on the street no longer carry such description.” 1 Urges Insurance Law. Next to uniformity the matters mentioned Mr. Keech said the com- mission should ask for legislation re- | quiring the taxicabs to take out in- surance. with approved companies, to idemnify the public against damage through the negligence of drivers. The commission previously tried to accomplish the object of compulsory in- surance by issuing a regulation of their own on the subject. but this regula- tion was held beyond the commission’s powers by the District Supreme Court. The insurance regulation was part of a taxicab code enacted by the commis- sion. Since one part of it was in- validated, the commission did not at |tempt to enforce the other section: although it has sought to secure | monthly operating reports from all taxt operators, i1d a2 number of oper- ave complied with this request. Nowiere in tne act creating the mmission is the word “taxicab™ men- tioned, and there is some legal opinion to the effect that this precludes any i jurisdiction of the commission over cabs, Another view is that the com- mission has jurisdiction over some, of the cabs as “common carriers.” The precise question has neve® been aue thoritatively settled in the courts. The hearing tomorrow was called after the Merchants and Manufec- turers' Association had protested to the commission about chaotic conditions in the industry generally, There are now at least three systems of rates and zones in effect and the rates are often changed without application to the commission. INQUEST ORDERED IN EDWARDS DEATH Police Ask Probe of Injury in Fight and Jail Colored Man Named as Assailant, in I An inquest into the death of Frank Edwards, 31, of 32 Seaton street, who died yesterday supposedly from a kid ney infection, was ordered last night when police learned he had been in- jured in a fight here recently. Police arrested Robert Allen, colored. 33, of 120 Pierce street, who is said to have struck Edwards on October 4 during an argument at Eleventh and Pierce streets. Edwards, police said, fell and struck his head against a curbstone. Edwards was taken to Freedmen's Hospital at the time, but police said he gave a false name and refused treatment. He later was treated by a private physician, police reported. He was admitted to Gallinger Hospital Thursday and died there yesterday. Physicians said his death was due to a kidney infection. An autopsy had already been or- dered vesterday after police recetved erronceus information that Edwards had figured in a“fight in Philadelphia i several weeks ago. The autopsy will be held today and the inquest tomor- row morning at 11:30 o'clock. - TWO AMERICANS WIN ON COLUMBUS MARKER First Prize in Competition Goes to Englishman, With Second to U. S. on Memorial. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, October 17.— Donald Nelson and Edgar Lynch, Amer- icans. were awarded the second prize of $5,000 in a competition for a design for a memorial to €hristopher Colum- bus, which is to be erected at Santo Domingo, where the explorer first sigrt- ed the New World. The first prize for the design went to an Englishman, J. L. Gleave. His prize ‘was $10,000. The design is in the form of a cross with an urn foundation to receive the ashes of Columbus. It is adorned with horizontal lights for ships and vertical lights for airplangs and is to be con- structed to resist earth (