Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1931, Page 5

WALKER CONFINED TOHOTEL BY COLD Threat to Mooney Mission Seems Ended as Mayor Improves in lliness. By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, November 30.—A severe cold, which for a time seemed about to place in jeopardy James J. Walker's mission to California to plead for a pardon for Tom ‘Mooney, appeared under control today. Unless an unex- pected turn for the worse comes, the threat of influenza seems past. The New York mayor spent a very restless night Saturday, an increasing congestion making slecp almost out of the question. He slept much better last night. Walker arrived in California last Tues- day feeling none too fit. A cold, start- ing with Lttle indication that it would cause more than mild discomfort, grew much worse Sunday. Associates of the mayor became alarmed, and ihe New Yorker himself slightly apprehensive. Makes Only One Speech. Dr. John Gallway, the physician, who a few weeks ago ordered to bed Gov. James Rolph, Jr, who will hear the Mooney pardon application tomorrow, prescribed a course of medicine, and ad- vised Walker to remain in his hotel apartment until the cold was definitely broken. The enforced relaxation did mot seriously disarrange the mayor’s plans, for he had no engagements yesterday and only one today, a luncheon address. The speech today was not canceled, as the luncheon was in the hotel wnere ‘Walker is staying. Visits Street of Blast. Before the physician was summoned, Mayor Walker had attended noon mass at St. Patrick’s Church and then driven with Frank P. Walsh and John A. Hastings, associate counsel, to several places on Market street, these thor- oughfare on which a bomb explosion during a parade in July, 1916, claimed 10 lives. Mooney, whose cause Walker is now championing, was convicted of murder in connection with the bombing. He has served 15 years of a life sentence in San Quentin Prison. Gov. Rolph, after a week end visit to Los Angeles, was back in"San Fran- cisco today and final plans were made for the pardon application hearing which will begin at 10 o'clock tomor- row morning in_the Supreme Court chambers of the State Building here. 50 WILL BE IN CAST OF G. W. U. COMEDY Musical Show, “Happy Landings,” Will Be Presented Here De- cember 10, 11 and 12. More than 50 George Washington University undergraduates are to ap- pear in the cast of “Happy Landings,” & musical comedy to be presented in the auditorium of McKinley High School on the evenings of December 10, 11 and 12 Principals in the production include Ruth King egolynelllx, Wilbert Bag- ranoff. Mildrel Burnham, Dolph Ather- ton, Louise Berryman, Joseph Dan- zansky, Katherie Wessels, Willilam Claudy nd Grant Van Demark. The chorus is to include Amanda Chittum, Betty Rose, Marcia Stauffer, Janey Allen, Billie Solomon, Harriet Doktor, Mae Leesnitzer, Evelyn Sweit- zer, Marguerite Thomas, Betty Bacon, Virginia Mahurin, Inez Ingham, Olivia Nixon, Dolly Tschiffely, Ruth La Fount, Edwina Seal, Anita Watson, Shirley Graff, Flufly Jacobs, Peggy Evans, Betty Monroe, Louise Monroe, Merian Ritten- our, Jane Caskey, Betty McGowan, Betty Reynolds, Adele Meriam, Kath- leen Watkins, Virginia Hawkins, Jane Menefee, Ruth McNary, Bernice Wall, Dorothy Wilson, Hilda James, Margaret mxvefi. Jane Hughes, Platonia Papps and Helen Sherfey ‘The producing staff includes Daniel Detweiler, assistant to Mr. Beattie; Ruth De Vane, business manager, assisted by Marion Ziegler; Christine Spignul, danc- ing director, assisted by Janey Allen and Betty Reynolds; Carolyn Brasch, costume director, assisted by Eleanor Spencer and Caroline Schreiner; George ‘ells, company manager, assisted by Jack Hawkins, Morris Allainer and Jeanne West; Dean Longfellow, scenery director, assisted by Lucrece Bradford, John Madigan and Jerry Cobbe, and Mildred Burnham, advertising director, assisted by Catherine Prichard, William Helvestine, Jean Kirkwood, Marjorie Montgomery and Earl Kneibley. —_— ARMS PARLEY FAILURE PREDICTED BY SPEAKER Matthews Tells Friends’ Forum French Nationalism Will Be Cause of Deadlock. Because of the “ultra-nationalistic attitude of France” a prediction that the Geneva Disarmament Conference will be a “tragic failure” was made last night by Joseph B. Matthews, na- tional secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, in a talk at the Friends' Ferum, 1811 I street. Although there is in France, Mr. Matthews said, a large sentiment in favor of peace and disarmament, it is ized. He blamed Coty, the perfume manufacturer, who controls two of the largest newspapers in Prance, for the powerful nationalistic attitude of the country. While the next election, he believes, will under- mine this nationalistic strength, it will not help the Geneva conference, which takes place in February. Mr. Matthews pointed out that the conference is only a stepping stone toward peace and that other peace machinery will continue to cperate after the conference. There is no chance of the conference succecding without apportionment between Russia and the rest of the world, he said. In discussion of the probability of war with Russia, Mr. Matthews said it would be a clear-cut case of fight- ing for God against atheism. HINKLER AT LISBON Flyer Expects to Fly From Casa- blanca, Morocco, Today. PARIS, November 30 (#).—A Havas Agency dispatch from Casablanca, Mo- rocco, said Capt. Bert Hinkler, who flew acrcss the Atlantic from Natal, Brazil, last weck, landed there today from Cap Judy and planned to leave today for Lisbon if the weather permits. From Lisbon Capt. Hinkler expects to fly to England. TWO DEAD FROM LIQUOR Beveral Scores Under Treatment in New York Hospitals. NEW YORK, November 30 (#) —The medical examiner’s office today reported two deaths from liquor and several scores of persons were in hospitals suf- fering from acute alcoholism. The Harlem Hospital and Bellevue had 125 cases under treatment. Several of the Bellevue cases had not recovered consciousness late last night. Walker and | | 1 4 1 1 | ‘Walker of New York (right) as the prisoner's release was near. T Mooney Meet EPHOTO, transmitted from San Francisco to New York, shows Mayor he shook the hand of Tom Mooney in San Quentin Prison, where the imprisoned man has spent 15 years of a life sentence as a Preparedness day parade bomber. 3,000 miles to plead for Mooney's pardon before Gov. Rolph, hinted that Walker, who traveled —Wide World Photo. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 30.— On July 22, 1916, when the United States was remaining neutral, but making ready for eventualities in the World War and San Francisco was restless with industrial strife a bomb exploded during a Preparedness day parade in Market street, killing 10 per- sons and injuring 40. ‘The bomb, supposedly operated by a timing apparatus, exploded in front of a saloon at Steuart and Market streets, behind the spectators lined up along the curb, spewing bullets and sharp chunks of metal through the crowd. Jewelry, shoes and clothing of the victims were blown all over the street. The hat of one was found on a nearby roof. ‘The parade, in which 50,000 were cipating, stopped. Amid cries of the injured and d: some one shouted: “Hang the dog ‘The nearby crowd took up the cry, but the bomber was not in evidence. After two or three minutes of con- fusion the parade was ordered to con- tinue and the marchers tramped on over the blood-flecked street. Bits of a cheap suit case led to the beliet that the bomb had been deposited in front of the saloon. After a quick investigation, the police arrested War- ren K. Billings, 22, a machinist, and Thomas J. Mooney, 34, who were known to investigators as “direct actlonists” and labor agitators. Both had been ar- rested in 1913 on charges of transport- ing explosives. Billings had been con- victed and had served two yeats in prison. Mooney had won acquittal. In Billings' quarters were found some 200 bullets, said to have been identical with those in the bomb. Mooney's home at 975 Market street, more than & mile from the scene of the explosion, ‘was raided. ‘The aroused city raised $17,500 re- ward money for conviction of the bombers. Billings was convicted prompt- History of Mooney Case San Francisco Bombing That Killed 10 Persons in 1916 Has Been Center of International Con- troversy Since Conviction of Two Men. 1y of second degree murder and sen- tenced to life imprisonment. Mooney was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. tation centered about the fluctuat- ing ‘testimony of several prosecuting witnesses, Mrs. Estelle Smith, a dentist’s assistant; John MacDonald, a parade spectator, and Frank C. Oxman, an Oregon cattleman, regarding the posi- tion of the defendants at the time of the explosion. All later repud: im- portant parts of the evidence that led to the convictions. The defense obtained photographs taken from the roof of the building adjoining Mooney’s rooms at 975 Mar- ket street, showing Mr. and Mrs. Mooney on the roof of the building in which they lived. Street clocks in the pic- tures pointed to 1:58, 2:02 and 2:04 o'clock. The bomb had ex'pl‘oded at about 2:06 p.m. Demonstrations by Mooney sympa- thizers throughout the United States and in some foreign countries led Presi- dent Wilson to intervene with a request that Mooney’s sentence be commuted, which finally was done. Mooney asked revocation of the commutation and issuance of a full pardon. The Presi- dent appointed a commission, which investigated the case and reported Mooney's conviction had been dis- credited. ‘Three Governors have declined to pardon Mooney. The Supreme Court refused to recommend a pardon for Billings, who needed the recommenda- tion by reason of the prior conviction. Two weeks ago Mayor James Walker of New York announced he would make a personal appeal before Gov. James Rolph, jr., of California in behalf of a Mooney pardon. Walker arrived November 24. He visited Mooney in San Quentin Prison last Saturday and told Mooney he be- lieved the present effort before the Governor would be successful. MAN KILLS DAUGHTER, WIFE AND THEN SELF Bodies of Three Are Found on Beds in House—Leaves Two Notes. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 30.—Police yesterday wrote down as double murder and suicide the deaths of Thomas Mere- dith Davidson, 60, retired business man; his wife and their 18-year-old daughter, whose bodies were found in the luxuri- ous Davidson home here late last night. ‘The bodies were on three beds. After writing two notes, speaking of inability to “stand the strain,” police say they believe Davidson shot his daughter, Catherine, and his wife, Norma, then lay down on his own bed and com- mitted sulcide with the same pistol. Davidson, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. The Mninister was not a rela- tive, despite the name. “Everything has been going so badly lately I cannot stand the strain,” the note read. “I am afraid to leave Norma and Catherine with conditions as they are.” DIPLOMAT IS STONED MADRID, November 30 (#).—An au- tomobile in which Octavio de Peppo, counselor of the Italian embassy, was riding, was stoned today by an anti- Fascist fanatic, but the counselor was I not_injured. His assailant was arrested and found to be armed. He told police he at- tacked the counselor as a protest against the Fascist regime. One note was addressed to Dr. George | NEW CANADIAN LOAN IS OVERSUBSCRIBED Applications for $150,000,000 Issue Are Heavy—Close Books Tonight. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, November 30.— Oversubscription of the $150,000,000 Canadian national service loan appeared certain late last night as finance offi- cials tabulated applications. E. M. Rhodes, acting minister of fi- nance, announced the government has decided to close the books tonight in view of the heavy volume of applica- tions received the past two days. Rhodes’ statement gave no figures as to the actual amount of subscriptions already received Sir Charles Gordon, chairman of the Loan Committee, announced at Mont- real that no participation by the banks of the country was necessary. ‘The oversubscription all came from institutions and private investors, he said, adding that he viewed this “out- standing achievement” as clearly show- inrgagnada was able to look after her- se1g§" economic matters. YOUTH SLAYS GIRL, 13 CHICAGO, November 30 (#).—Ruth | Wicklund, 13, was shot and killed today | by Henry Sio, her 16-year-old sweet- | heart, who then shot himself. The girl |died en route to a hospital. The | youth was dangerously wounded. The police said the shooting was the climax of a “puppy love” quarrel. | | | | | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, November 30.—Cen- ,lury-old knowledge of crystals—that some of them generate electricity when bent or may be bent by electricity flowing through them—was applied here today in a demonstration of im- proved radio sound reproduction. At the meeting of the Acoustical So- ciety of America, C. Baldwin Sawyer, director of the Brush Laboratories of Cleveland, showed how a loudspeaker could be made to respond to tones above the highest note audible, and how a microphone could be made quieter and more sensitive. - In the lou ker he demonstrated a “sandwic] two flat crystals, each about the size of a playing card, serv- ing in place of the usual magnet and armature. ‘The crystals vibrated with the vibra- ons of the electric current sent through them and transmitted the vibrations to & wooden grm attached to loudspeaker the ‘The crystals, are able to HIGHLY SENSITIVE CRYSTALS USED IN IMPROVED RADIO RECEPTION| Application of OId Physics Principal to Aid Sound Gratifying to Acoustical Society. reproduce sounds of higher pitch than 20,000 vibrations a second. He said it is probable that “supersonic” vibra- tions as high as 50,000 or more a second could be reproduced. ‘The value of a loud speaker this sensi- tive, Sawyer pointed out, is that it re- produces ‘the higher harmonics if aud- ible tones more faithfully than the ordinary loud speaker, and hence makes the sounds from the radio horn more natural, He added the highest pitch the dynamic loud speaker can n‘groduce is between 5,000 and 6,000. Although the highest note on the piano has a pitch of 4,000, its quality depends on the higher harmonics, which are not ordl- narily heard in a radio. Saj demonstrated how potent his cry: “sandwiches” can be made in the ta one of his loud speak g2t 8 bright discharge in the tube | merely by pressing his nnge.rd lightly | against the wood arm attached to to & 90-volt neon tube, he was able to | pn HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, DRY CHIEFS PLAN T0 CONVENE HERE| RAIL Session in January to Map Program for 1932 Na- tional Elections. Visioning a period of “critical im- portance to prohibition,” the Anti- Saloon League will meet here January 15 to map its line of campaign for the impending national elections. The National Prohibition Board of Strategy alsc will meet here next month, the gatherings thus bringing dry forces from throughout the country to the Capital. The call for the Anti-Saloon League meeting was sent out yesterday by F. Scott McBride, general superintendent, who told his forces to be prepared to give their fullest counsel. The board of strategy will pay special attention to the legislative plans for the coming session of Congress. Beck Hits Dry Law. ‘While these plans were going forward, Representative Beck, Republican of Pennsylvania, former solicitor general, yesterday termed prohibition a de- stroyer of basic constitutional principles. As speaker for the Sentinels of the Republic, he told a radio audience that by the cighteenth amendment Federai governmental powers had been ‘“inex- tricably” interwoven “with the reserved police powers of the State.” At the same time it was announced a constitutional amendment to permit States opposed the eighteenth amendment to authorize the manu- facture and sale of liquor under a Fed- eral commission will be proposed to the next Congress by Representative Aldrich of Rhode Island. Presidential Row Watched. McBride told league State superin- tendents in his call that the wets “hope that the economic earthquake will hake drys out of Congress and a wet si |into the White House.” “I will depen:d upon you,” he added, “to be presentl prepared to give' the fullest counsél and co-operation on how best tc keep Congress and the White House dry.” McBride sought specifically informa- tion on how the prohibition cause stands with relation to the various States' attitude toward presidential candidates, whether the prohibition stand of Senators and Representatives would be changed, and about the next State Leg! ures. He added: “Every one of the 300 and more men and women in the field and office forces in the league must prepare for the 1932 campaign.” “Three-fourths Hot Air. ‘The exchange between wets and drys also brought a statement from the board of strategy that the demands of “brewers” for beer-for-revenue are part of & wet propaganda “three-fourths ‘hot air’ and the other one-fourth bad economics and worse morals.” The board cited a newspaper ac- count of the appearance of Gustave Pabst and a delegation before a Senate committee on May 8, 1917, opposing a war-time ban on brewing. The statement quoted the delegation as arguing that such s move would be ineffective for conserving food because the industry used *less than three- quarters of 1 per cent of all the grain produced in the United States and be- cause the barley used was “not a staple human food.” This argument is now being re- versed, the board said. ‘Would Protect Dry States. The proposed Aldrich wet measure would authorize a Federal License Com- mission to issue licenses to those States requesting such, but would protect the dry States from the wet common- wealths near them. ‘The Rhode Island Republican has completed a draft of the proposal which is quite involved. The legisla- tion proposes that the country be di- vided into nine districts. Each district, based on population, by popular vote would elect a commissioner to the Federal License Commission. ‘The commission would be authorized to issue licenses to the States, where their Legislatures have approved an application. The eighteenth amend- ment would remain in the Constitution and would be effective in dry States, and would prevent the wet States from transporting liquor into their arid neighbors. Morgan Joins Crusaders. Dr. Willlam Gerry Morgan of Wash- ingion, past president of the American Medical Association, yesterday joined the Crusaders, anti-prohibition organi- zation, and indorsed it as “a sane movement, organized and directed by truc_patriots.” “This country is seriously ill.” he said, “and through lack of treatment and’ ignorance is swiftly approaching the incurable stage. No country has or can survive continued reign of in- temperance.” WILLIAM WALDECKER FUNERAL RITES SET Church Organist to Be Buried in v Congressional Cemetery Tomorrow. Funesal services for William Wal- decker, 71, Washington musician, who died Saturday at Georgetown Hospital, will be held at St. Paul's Church, Fif- teenth and V streets, tomorrow morn- ing at 9 o'clock, followed by burial in Congressional Cemetery. Mr. Waldecker, who studied music at the Leipzig, Germany, Conserva- tory, had been organist at St. Mat- thew’s, St. Dominic’s, St. Aloysius and St. Mary's Catholic Churches, serving 25 years at the latter church. He also kad been conductor of the Sangerbund, choral society. He was a native of Washington, and many of the Capital’s outstanding mu- siclans had been his pupils, among them Miss Jennie Glennan, organist and di- rector of St. Patrick's Choir; Harry Wheaton Howard and Carl and Ed Droop. He made his home at 1415 Chapin street. Mr. Waldecker's first wife, who died 12 years ago, was Miss Nellie Eichhorn, one of the city’s foremost contraltos. He is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Emma Greenwell, and a son Louis. HEALTH OF U. S. SOLDIERS AT BEST DURING YEAR Half as Much Illness Reported as in Period Preceding Span- ish-American War. ‘The general health of the United States Arm{uwu never bettey than during the t fiscal year, according to the annual report of the surgeon general, Maj. Gen. Robert U. Patter- son, made public today. Gen. Patterson cited figures showing that today there has been only one- fourth the sickness in the Army that there was 100 years ago and only one- half as much as d the period preceding the Spanish-American War. Although admitt2ag there has been little decline in the prevalence of acute respiratory infections, non- c forms, eumonia, the -surgeon general’s re- port asserted the most noteworthy ad vance !fis beeg in fhe egntrol of com- municable , such as typhold diarrhea’ ¥ DU IGOL. . H. GARROLL, LAWYER, DIES :Official Host to Royalty Be- gan Career as Homeless Waif in Ohio. ‘The career of a powerful railroad at- torney, who began life as a homeless walf, living in an alley drygoods box, ended yesterday with the death of Col. John Haydock Carroll at his home, 2029 Connecticut avenue, Private fu- neral services will be held at the resi- dence tomorrow, followed by burial in Rock Creek Cemetery. He is survived by his widow, the for- mer Priscilla Woodrow of Lynchburg, Ohio, whom he married in 1880: a son, John H. Carroll, jr., of Chicago, West- ern freight traffic manager of the Bal- timore & Ohio Railroad, and a daugh- ter, Mrs. Philip Lantz of Sewickly, Pa. At the time of his death, Col. Carroll was general attorney for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the North- ern Pacific Railroads, and assistant to the president of the Baltimore & Ohio. He was “official host” to Queen Marie of Rumania when she made her tour of America in 1926, and was decorated by tre late King Ferdinand. He also was host to the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden in 1927. Was Missouri Leader. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1880 and the Missouri bar shortly after. From 1883 to 1889 he was prosecuting attorney of Putnam County, Mo. He conducted the campaign which resulted in the election of David R. Francis as Governor of Missouri. He was a member of the Metropol- itan, Chevy Chase and Army and Navy Clubs of Washington and was a past president of the Alfalfa Club. Col. Carroll came to Washington in | 1917 _and later served as assistant to | the Director General of Railroads, John \ Barton Payne. The story of Col. Carroll's rise has often been told in magazines and news- papers. Until he was 32, his earliest knowl- edge of his beginning in life was arriv- ing in Cincinnati, Ohio, on a train*with his mother and going to a small hotel. His mother left him at the hotel and ola. Soon he was turned into the streets and, with an older boy, George Kirk, lived in an old dry goods box in an alley. The two boys sold papers and blacked boots and managed to make enough money to buy food. After being denied Christmas gifts at a church serv- ice in 1863, George comforted John with a suggestion they hang up their stock- ings. Johnny's feet became frostbitten. The stockings were empty in the morning. Taken to Orphanage. His frostbitten greatly, and during the Spring of '64 John Carroll bound them in rags to ease the pain. A philanthropic Quaker, Murray Shipley, learned of the lad’s case after watching him hobble on his rag-bound feet and placed him in the Children’s Home. He was then less than 6 years old. ‘Two years later he returned to the box in the alley. Through selling extra papers telling of ‘he assassination of President Lincoln he accumulated $4.50, and with it bought a ticket\to Toledo on a fruitless search for his mother, and he again re-entered the Children's Home. ‘When he was 8, John wa: civen & home at a farm house near Martins- ville, Ohio, but. he ran away to Cincin- nati and reported again at the Chil- dren’s Home.' Ultimately he was “bound out” to a farmer named Thomas Hadley. John Carroll worked on the Hadley farm, got & bit of schooling and studied law. At 17 he became a school teacher. At 22 he married Miss Woodrow and they spent their honeymoon in the Children’s Home in Cincinnati. Law Practice Prospered. His law practice in Missouri pros- pered. In 1890, when he was appointed general attorney for the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Railroad, the story of his life led to Col. Carroll’s discovery of who he was and why his mother never rejoined him in Cincinnati. It brought a letter from his mother’s sis- ter in Lockport, N. Y. He went to that place and learned that he and his mother had gone to Cincinnati from Erle County, N. Y., where he was born in 1858. They were en route to Ken- tucky, where his father, a Union soldier, had been wounded. His mother had left her other children in a Toledo orphan- age to go to her husband. Leaving John at the hotel, she had gone out to purchase railroad tickets for the remainder of the journey from Cincinnati and, suffering a sunstroke, died in a hospital. When these facts were learned, Col. Carroll’s father and sisters were dead. A brother who lived in Michigan became a member of Col. CarroH’s family in St. Louis. . ‘The Archbishop of Canterbury re- never returned. He was then 5 years | The night was bitter cold, and | feet pained him | cently laid a corner stone from “Beck- ett’s Corona,” a small chapel built about 1190 in Canterbury Cathedral, at St. CRROSNERS 1325 F*STREET A Special Group of $2 and $2.50 Shirts $ styles. shade madras and d- shadow shirts ‘All Sizes All Sleeve Lengths Neatly Boxed for Christmas Giving . . Our Entire Stock of TIES Reduced Any $1 79c TIE now...... Any $150 §7.15 TIE now..... Any $2 31.65 TIE now.... MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1931 \ ® A-S _._—_j—_"—_?‘_— Dies Here COL. JOHN HAYDOCK CARROLL. PAGE'S HONOR DUE BEFORE S0TH YEAR Clerk to Sit in House Chair| 12 Days Before Reaching Service Anniversary. By the Associated Press. Fifty years less twelve days of serv- ing the House of Representatives will see Willlam Tyler Page, clerk, raised briefly to the high eminence of the Speaker’s chair. To convene the House, December 7, he will be, in a way, king for a day. But it will be the wrong day. “I had hoped to be sitting in the Speaker’s chair December 19, the fifti- eth anniversary of the day when I come here, at 13 years of age, a page boy,” sald Page. “If the House had been deadlocked, that might easily have happened. But recent Democratic victories have made anything but a speedy Democratic election of Speaker and clerk very unlikely.” Nineteen has ever been his number, Page said, but the pending shift of Democratic control has made him won- der if his lucky number will hold. Wants to Continue Service. “I may come right up to that fiftieth anniversary and not arrive there at all,” said Page. “It all depends on what happens after the Democrats pre- sumably elect my successor on De- vember 7. “A movement is on foot, I know, to offer me some sort of a position here, and it all depends on how that develops. “Some business openings have been discussed with me, but frankly, after 50 years here, I would feel like a fish out of water anywhere else. This is my life work. I like its contacts. I should like to continue in some capacity even though the salary does not comport with ‘what I have been receiving.” ‘The veteran legislative expert, who has written The American’s Creed, known to every school child, and guide books for new Representatives, grew a bit misty-eyed as he reviewed his nearly half-a-century under the Capitol dome. It has included: The rise and fall of nine Speakers; the triumphal march up Capitol Hill of 12 inaugural parades; the fan-fare which went with the suc- cessive admissions of 12 new States to the Union; the spectacular struggle pending passag> of four constitutional amendments; a comradely acquaintance, down through the years, with 8,000 lLl"lembers of the House of Representa- ves. House members all wore long-tailed black “coats, stiff-bosomed shirts, stove- pipe hats and tall stock collars when Tyler Page first knew them. Some of them are wearing petticoats now. Contemplated Swan Song. ‘Those who are coming to this Sev- enty-second Congress are his friends— Democrats and Republicans alike. But Page expects no exception to be made in the stiff game of politics. On that platform from which Nich- olas Longworth made prophetic fare- well on the closing day of the Seventy- first Congress, Page will say his good- by to the clerkship on the opening day of the Seventy-second. “I haven't decided yet whether or not I shall sing a swan song,” Page said. “The associations have been so very pleasant I want to say something. But when the heart is full, it is so easy to spill over—so hard to say just the right 2 Mildred's Church, Addiscombe, England. | thin LAMONT SEES SIGN OF TRADE REVIVAL Stocks ' of , Manufactured | Goods Reported at Level | of June, 1928. | Secretary of Commerce Lamont to- day informed President Hoover in his annual report that America’s bulging ‘warehouses are being relieved of the glut of overproduction of manufactures. - He sald of manufactured goods had dwindled so at the end of the fiscal vear that the situation was akin to 1928, giving reason to expect in- Upturn Follows Moratorium. ‘Mr. Hoover heard again that his moratorium proposal of last June “had a salutary effect on business senti- meut in this country and abroad, which was promptly reflected in an upturn in commodity and security values.” To measure industrial activity in| this country, the Col crce Depart- | ment chief selected Federal Re- | serve Board's index of production. It | averaged 20 per cent less last fiscal | year than in the cne before, and 25 per cent below the unprecedsnted vol- ume of 1928-29. But, despite the abnormal business sit- uation, Mr. Lamont emphasized, indus- trial production for the year ended June, 1930, was of greater volume than in 1920 and 1922, “and 31 per cent more than in the depression year, 1921.” Stocks of Raw Goods Gain. During the past fiscal year the De- | partment of Commerce index of domes- tic raw material stocks averaged 7.4 per cent larger than in the preceding year, while the index for June, 1931, was 17 per cent above that of the same month of 1930. “The situation with respect to stocks of manufactured goods is much more satisfactory,” the report said. “After rising above pre-depression levels dur- ing the fiscal year 1929-30, the index has since turned downward and at the end of the ?lst fiscal year was about 6 per cent below the preceding year and at the same level as in June, 1928.” The Secretary found foreign trade not so bad as indicated by dollars and cents values. Fxports were 34 per cent lower in dollar values and imports 37 per cent under the previous year on June 30, but studies of the department showed that the actual volume of ex- ports Was down only 29 per cent. De- spite the decreases, exports were 2 per cent above the 1922-26 averages. WASHINGTON FLYERS ARE GROUNDED BY FOG All Transport Operations Sus- pended for Two Days Due to Bad Weather. For two days all air transport opera- tions out of the Capital have been blocked by thick weather. No airmail flights have gone through since Leland Jamieson, trapped by fog for nearly six hours, finally saved his life Saturday by a forced landing on a mountainside South Carolina farm, smashing his landing gear. Lieut. Charles Pugh, Army Air Corps, of Bolling Field, the only military fiyer to break through in three days, still was stranded in Newark, N. J., await- ing a change in the weather so he could come home. The weather forecast today indicated no improvement could be expected be- fore tomorrow afternoon. e YULE LANE TO OPEN The Central Seventh Street Business Men'’s Association will open its lighted Christmas lane tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock at a brief ceremony which will be attended by Commissioners Lu- ther Reichelderfer ana Herbert Crosby. Sylvan King, president of the organi- zation, will preside. The Commission- ers will assist in turning on the lights of the three-block lane, which extends from G to K streets on Seventh. A silver cup, presented by Harry Hahn of the Hahn shoe stores, will be awarded for the best decorated window among stores on the lane. TURKEY LUNCHEON and SUPPER ST. DOMINIC’S HALL Sixth and F Sts./S.W. Wednesday, December 2nd 11:30—2. 4—7 Tickets—$1.00 NAVY OPENS DRIVE FOR CHEST FUNDS Adams and Jahncke Warn Against’ Coercion in . Obtaining Gifts. ‘The Navy Department today launched its drive among it@ employes for the collection of funds for the work of re- lief here, with the expressed stipulation that there be no coercion. The cam- paign wifl be completed on or before December 11, and the plan recommend- ed by President Hoover's committee has been adoj A designated his right-hand man, the Assistant Secre- tary, Ernest Lee Jahncke, as chairman of the Navy Department division and the chief clerk of the department, F. 8. Curtis, as assistant to the divisional chairman. In his letter with referesce to the District of Columbia Community Chest, Secretary Adams said: “Each ‘bureau and office of the Navy Department and headquarters Unitad States Marine Corps will designate & vic: chairman and under each vice chairmen will be desisnated a sufficient number of key men and it r}r;cn tg ma‘k':: a Lhorough canvass of the avy Department. It is suggested com- mission>d officcrs be désignated key men wherever practicable for solicita- tion of the commissioned personnel. Prompt report will b2 mad> to the divisional chairman of the names, room numbers and telephone rmumbers of the vice chairmen and the key men and assistant key men. “The Washington Navy Yard will be handled by the commandant as a sep- arate division. On account of the loca- tion of the Naval Hospital and the Naval Dispensary they will be handled by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The Naval Research Laboratory will also be hand] by the Navy Depart- ment. Marine Corps headquarters will handle the Marine Barracks and all other Marine activities in the District of Columbia outside of the Navy Yard. “Under the plan adopted and recom- mndf}dm:y {‘lhi:h it is inml‘l ey qi W] the Na Department will reach is v pay of each office civilian employe. “The approved plan is for a day’s pay to be turned In on January 15, Febru- ary 15 and March 15, 1932, but, where the budget arrangements of the indi- vidual makes it desirable or necessary, oFin ten monthiy ing begin or monthly installments, e ning January 15, 1932.” Mr. Jahncke added this comment of his own as chairman of the Navy De- partment Division: “All contributions for the District of Columbia Community Chest are to be entirely voluntary, and it is hoped that none of the officers or employes of the Navy Department will feel that there is the slightest coercion in connection with the plea for funds to relieve un- employment and dependency in al!smct of Columbia the coming For a Limited Time Extra Trousers FREE With Every “Merts” TAILORED sm'l' TO MEASURE Make your selection from our vast stock of 100% all-wool fab- rics. 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