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AR ARARRRRANRRLRNRNNRNY You d Be Surpr A | SIS ATARRLALARALALLARAARARRARARLL NN R S S S SR AesoP DD NO WRITE WHAT Wi know () AS AESOP'S FABLES ent Will isement of in Appear This State; Our Ad Monday ¥ 1{ is no fable that you get guality !laundry work done at the West End Laundry. Satisfaction s %' guaranteed when you have our churtcous routeman call for yours s every week! West End Laundry 1723 Pennsylvania Ave. PHONE MET. 0200 Monday's Proof’ 1, 1901 was the day 900 merely completes the nineteenth century. The rea son for this is that we write the number of the vear before we T2 Tint the whole year. Con- Scaf] . o R 00 January bt . the ' 19 “hundred of the nineteenth century completed until December ! MONEY SITUATION SEEN AS MENACE iSolvency of Capitalistic So- ciety Held at Stake in Przsent Depression. i | The solvency of capitalistic society | at stake in the handling oi the money situation in the present depres- Dr. Lionel D. Edie of New York, the American Economic Associa- e toda. He urged that measures be taken imme tely to halt the contraction of | bank credit, the progress of which, he | aid. has made the situation constantly worse. he added, can be accom plished by use of Federal Reserve credit | shrinkage of member bank | nces and to build up an; of excess Teserves he declared. “than | foundations of Western | at stake in the present| od of depression and The situation calls for sive constructive action, and there e assurence that such action k the di-Integration to which society recently has been n old tion h ary economic exposed Driven Off Gold Standard. | “As the nation which holds the e of the world's gold sup- | ply. and as the nation which has the largest unimpeded domestic market, the | United States stands in a unique posi- tion of responsibility for preservation | of the monetary standard. The Federal Reserve system w ted for the pose, among others, of mobilizing e resources and energies of this coun- to combat situations of the type ¢ existing. Are we willing to make ! e use of that instrumentality in defense of the solvency of capitalistic | society Liquidation by . deflation of bank credits, he said, “has driven most of | the world off the gold standard, has forced default or threatened default of gations in half the countries of the and has raised apprehensions in the minds of intelligent people of the safety and solvency of the banking sy every country in the werld, bar- | ring none.” The liquidation formula of letting | bank_credit contraction run its course | | uncombated, he said. “has already in- { flicted large scale defaults and threatens still larger ones. Some 11 countries in Latin America and Europe are in down- right default. The reparations mora- | torium was simply a step for removiug { the onus of default from Germany. An | indirect and respectable form of default is devaluation of money unit by aban- | donment _of the gold standard. The | Bank of France lost very heavily in this | respect on its London balances, Sucn indirect default is just as costly to the | debtor as direct default. ( Huge Defaulls in United States. i “In America, a cautious estimate | { places the defaults on real estate obli- gations_at $4,000,000.000. Bank fail- ures, which are in substance a default by banks on payments due depositors, | involve labilities of around $2,000.- g the last year. The Ped- eral Land Banks report 23 per cent of | their loans to farmers delinquent at end of the current year. Never- 3 we have been exvosed since nber 1 to an acceleration of the | credit contraction. We have seen credit contracting during this period at a rate | equal to about 25 per cent per annum | Tt this process continues during the | | next six menths, a new strata of de-| faults and receiverships may be un-| folded which would mean financial | saster in this country. | Two forces, he said, are holding up | positive action to halt the depression opposition of private bankers in lead- ing citles to an anti-deflation policy and “bureaucratic complications within | the Federal Reserve system The international gold situation, in- stead of tending to cure itself, is in- tensifying and prolonging the depres- | sion. Prof. James H. Rogers of Yale Uni told the economists. He | | traced the course oy which the great | !bulk of the world’s gold has passed into the hands of the United States and France sults of gold cone Emergency Measures Urged. “The easlest way to increase a gold | supply,” he said, “is to sell as much |and buy as little abroad as possible |and the best way to bring this about [is by a protective tarifl. So we see tarifis going up the world over during the period of the greatest transporta- tion advances in history and a world | of walled States like those of the mid- | dle ages being built up Congress should _enact emergency measures to stop deflation and encour- age business recovery, Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust | Co., told the American Statistical As- | sociation. The present depression, he said following in many Tespects that pattern of those of the 40s and 705 which were the Jongest and most severe in our history. If we are to escape similar consequences it behooves us to | discover and point out now the requi- | site conditions.” | He suggested that Congress promptly | thorize the Reconstruction Finance rporation; that the Federal Reserve be given “broad emergen including authority to_redis the debentures of the Recon- »n Finance Corporation,” and ongress quickly adopt a budget | looking toward an early and definite policy of limiting Federal expenditures Agricalture secms doomed to become & city-ma occupation, Dr. Newell | i tion ciety |a Co System the American Sociological So- | The modern trend, he said, has | to change agriculture from a mode ing to a profit seeking pursuit gh the new type is not gen- sccesstul,” he said, “its encroach- rresistible. Hence, the tly the one and partly the| ber in a city-made civilization. It | { does not seem possible, for the many acquired the standards of living of | e profit-making type. ince only a | 1 make the necessary profits to | in these standards, they must either forsake husbandry or abandon standards. The latter they are not | Iy to do, hence agriculture will be- come mainly & city-managed occupa- | Marriage Licenses. | r H. K 21, and Hazel | hie Walker 19 Rev. B. M. Burke | W' ‘Boyle. 36. and Teresa Bhaefter, | W P C noth | amer 19 Coe and Inez Bau va zle Johnson and Florine Ashton John Richards. W. West, 34 Rev, K.'W Candler Rev. Harry Manzilla K. W and Malinda Irene Ray Minnle A 49, ‘and Wat- T Ray and Virginia Zanelotti, 1 and V Rev Torboi, and Theima E. Intyre 3. and Ottilie Barrows. und Mary Katbleen R. Koch I . and Inez Hansberg, 34 Annie E. Rev. L. I Union Level. Va.. 21, Basker- Rev. A. F. Poore ey, Ir and Madeline _William D. Jarvis 25, and Regina Hazwood, am H. Dennis. 46, State Farm. Va a E. Ferguson, 43, Richmond; Rev Carter. 23, and Ruth E. Willis, T. Murra: % irginia (5 x. 53. and of Baltimore. Johnson, 31 Grayson~ Andrew 21, APPEAL 15 DENIED | while, Lee was sent to the Baltimore ito a county on the Western Shore. His | day. | versity Club, tomorrow, 12:30 pm. Town Snowbound As Frigid Weather Returns to West| Rivers Continue to Rise Among White-Capped Mountains of California. By the Associated Pr KANSAS CIT Winter weather turned generally period of abnormal warr Golf and tennis gave ter sports of the Rocky Mountain re- glon in & snowfall yesterday. Colder weather was forecast to the East | Silver C! Idgaho, & mining town was cut off from the outside world by | a snowstorm residents described as the | worst they had experienced in 20 | ber 30.— ns have Te- | West after a | th ! way to Win- Dece conditi to th ars. | Reports by telephone to Boise said there was no distress among the in-| habitants. Snowshoes were the only| means of entering or leaving the town. | Snow fell in the mountains of Cali- | fornia and strcams, swollen by pre-| vious precipitation, were still rising. | The flood situation, however, was not acute. A respite in the storm yeste day | permitted workers to open snow-block- aded railway lines and highways Grover Hodgkins, 26, Department of | Commerce employe, returned to Silver Nev., last nght after battling a| - blizzard several hours. Reported | missing on a journey to a beacon light at Little Lake Pass, he had been sough! by airplanes and men on snowshoes. | t INMURDER OF FOUR Court, However, Doubts Fair| Trial for Orphan Jones on Eastern Shore. Special Dispatch to The Star ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 30 Euel Lee, alias Orphan Jones, cannot get a fair trial in eicher Dorchester | nor Worcester County, on the stern Shore, the Court of Appeals ruled here yesterday. Lee, & colored farmhand, is charged with the quadruple murder of Green K Davis and his wife and two daughters in their farmhouse at Snow Hill, on the Eastern Shore. Numerous demonstra- tions have been made against him in Snow Hill, where he was first confined in jail. The court further ruled, however, that it has no power to order & change of venue to the Western Shore, since it can only review cases which have been tried in lower courts and appealed to its jurisdiction. Change of Venue Sought. Appeal on motion for & change of venue had been taken by Bernard Ades, International Labor Defense | League attorney, who is representing | the colored prisoner Ades also was the object of a dem- onstration by incensed Eastern Shore | tarmers, from whom he took refuge in the Snow Hill Jail when he went there | as Lee's counsel i Cambridge, Md.. was fixed as the place for the trial, after the several demonstrations in Snow Hill. Mean- City Jail for safe keeping, and still is a prisoner there. Denial of Petition. Ades petitioned for a change in venue petition was denied after a hearing, | and he then took the appeal to the higher cou; Yesterday's decision states: “That there is in the section of the State selected for the trial such preju- dice as forbids attempting a trial there, seems to this court to be manifested by the attacks on the jail at Snow Hill, the | conclusion of Jocal authorities that L must be taken away from both Wor- | cester and Dorchester Counties for safe keeping while awaiting trial, and tha he must be brought to trial with a guard of troops.” | The court further intimated that if | a change of venue is not granted and! appeal is taken after conviction, a new | trial may be ordered. OIL SAVING STUDIED | IN ROCKS OF AGES Conference | | Geologists at Tulsa Consider Means to Con- serve Supply. I by the 1931 session. | line and co | with Second avenue, | Gaithersburg; one mile, Travilah towar 'WOMEN'S COLLEGE {uni | By By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla, December 30.—The | rocks of ages and their relation to the world’s crude oil reserves engaged the attention of the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America here to- | In a joint session with the American | Association of Petroleum, geologists members of the soclety and other affili- ated bodles took up a geology as applied i | to the finding, producing and conserv- | ing of oil i The scientists heard their retiring | president, Dr. Alfred C. Lane, point out that in the long, dark ages which geol- | ogy seeks to enlighten, living things | were forced to fit themselves into a | constantly changing environment or die. | “We in this oil area do not need to| find more oil or gas now,” he said, “out | to learn how more economically to de- velop that which already has be found.” CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Washington Lee House, Club of 10 pm. Meeting, Washington Philatelic So- ciety, 1518 K street, 8 p.m. Sermon, Rev. E. C. Smith, Vermont | Avenue Baptist Church, 8:30 p.m FUTURE. Annual family day Club, Raleigh Hotel, E.m. Dance, University, Duke Kiwanis 12:30 party, tomorrow, Luncheon, Phi Gamma Delta, Uni- Britten Plans Reception. Representative Britten, Republican, of Illinof former chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, has invited a number of his colleagues, Washington correspondents and others in public life to a reception in his home, 2253 R street, Sunday from 11:30 to 1 o'clock. “to meet Speaker Garner and Minority Leader Snell.” READ TWICE The Pan-American- New England Dispatch (Monthly )—Out Shortly 1t you are Interested in Continental, Educational, Social, Political and Financial Life and Entanglements _as viewed by Advanced University Stu- dents and Professors of North and South America and other authoritiesfgubscribe |of 30 cents at Great Falls in place of 23 and Martha V. both, of Richmond: Rev. ins. 23, and Annie Robin- Bonseter g 28 and Irens D. rimes Gibson. 26; Rev Eliza’ Tyman, 26 Reymond Millcr. 30, ane Rev. P. H. Yancey. advance (students only). 4450 per Address money order bof 1102 Yale New Haven, Other_ s write Boston Bureau, 74 In- ton, Mass. COUNTY T0 OFFER | §1.000000 BONDS Roads ard Schools Improve- ments to Be Made in Montgomery. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., December 30.} —Montgomery County will offer for sale! $1,000,000 in road and school bonds at | an early date to provide funds to carry out the school and road construction program during 1932, Lacy Shaw, presi- dent of the Board of County Commis- sioners, announces, This bond issue on which bankers will be asked to bid was among the issues authorized by the last session of | {he Maryland Legislature and represents the only unsold bond issues authorized High School on List. Among the school construction projects provided for Ly this bond issue are the first unit of the new con-, solidated Eastern Suburban High School | to be located on land purchased by the | nty this past Sumrher at Mont- | nery avenue and the west side of igo Valley parkway: | Virginia can appreciate the three-room addition to the Woodside Elementary School; a two-story 1l-room addition to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School: a new unit for the Rockville | Elementary School and two_additional | rooms to the Bethesda Elcmemax'y( e roads to be financed from the e those comprising the unfin- | ished portion of the program generally discussed and approved in 1930, ‘Among the road projects to be built out of this bond issue will be the ex- tension of the East-West Highway to Takoma Park; paving of the center of Connecticut avenue from Chevy Chase Circle to the Lake; paving of the center of Wisconsin avenue from the District line to Bradley lane, the further extension of Massachusetts ave- nue north from the B. & O. freight inecting Columbia Boulevard in Woodside, Various Other Projects. Other projects are: One mile, Sun-| shine toward Brighton; one-half mile, | Altcheson toward Sunshine; one mile, Purdun to Lewisdale; one and one-half | miles to Browningsville Church; one mile toward King's Distillery; one mile, Boyd to Germantown: one mile, Comas to Sugar Loaf Mountain: one mile, Benton's corner toward Old German- town; widening Darnestown to Tra- vilah' completion of Burtonsville to Spencerville (Laurel) road; Laytons- vile Highway through Washington Grove: one mile, Cloppers road to, Glenn, and two miles on the Viers Mill road from Welsh's gate toward Rock- ville ues SITE IS SELECTED Fredericksburg, Va., Is Chosen for New Liberal Arts Institution. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., December 30.—The State Teachers' College at Fredericks- | burg was chosen for the establishment of & liberal a:ts college for women in the report of the General Assembly commission submitted today. The new college for women is to be a co-ordinate institution with the Uni- versity of Virginia and the plan pro- vides that it will be under control of the rector and board of visitors of the ity, with the latter's president at its head An increase of $45,000 is recommended in appropriations for the new college. OLD DOMIN!O.N RAILROAD CUTS RATES TO CAPITAL Fares in Bluemont and Great Falls Division Are Lowest in History. a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROSSLYN, Va., December 30.—Re- ductions of one-way fares between Washington (Rosslyn Terminal Sta- tion) and points on the Bluemont and Great Falls division to the lowest basis in the history of the road have been announced by the Washington & Old Dominton Railway, effective January 1.1 These reduced fares will be contin-! ued in effect for a trial period of three months, officials of the line announce, and during this period they hope to as- certain the correct answer to queries that passenger fares are too high, as contrasted with other means of trans- portation. The new fares will average about 2 cents per mile, as compared with the normal steam railroad fare of 36-10 cents pre mile, it is stated. Some of the more fmportant reduc- tions on the Bluemont division are: Falls Church, from 21 cents to 15 cents; Vienna, from 39 cents to 30 cents; Herndon, from 63 cents to 50| cents; Leesburg, from $1.05 to 75 cents, and Bluemont. from $1.56 to $1. On the Great Falls division the one-way fare to McLean will be reduced from 21 | cents to 15 cents, with a maximum fare | 42 cents. C. U. Peet, member of Parliament for Darlington, England, is giving his par- Jlamentary salary to help the poor in his town who are not assisted by any organization. For a Perfect New Year Celebration, Let l\cher 4'paris.INC. design for you Perfect Coiffure Robert may advise of his unsurpassed Permanent Waves Bpecially priced to 15, according to your hair lengty or simply a_contour bob and fincer wave_or “the tintin ur_hair back Lo its n brown shade. e In any event you will be sure of obtaining the best in artistry and quality. Hair Color Retouching $5.50 Make an Earl; | 1514 Con b from $10 is | kearching for a downed plane in those | Alleghenies Hold Secret Army Flyers, Facing Peri Region, Feel Sighting of Lost Comrade’s Plane Will Be Matter of Luck. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. The bleak and forbidding wilds of the Alleghenies are guarding well the secret of the disappearance on Christmas eve of Lieut. E. H. Bobbitt, J., 24-year-old Army Air Corps pursuit pilot Fog and storm-wrack il the valleys and roll over the rock-tipped mountain crests, handicapping planes and pilots from Michigan, Virginia and the National Capital wio have been seek- ing him whenever the weather will permit of observa- tion from the air It is a hopeless sort of search at best, fraught with peril and hard- ships for fellow Army pilots of the missing man. If the fast httle pur- suit plane is sight- ed from the air at all, it will be due as’ much to luck as to the determi- | nation and ability of the pilots who are sceking their comrade Those who have flown over the Alle- gheny fastnesses in West Virginia and that_seeking the proverbial needle in the haystack a mere pastime compared Wwith Joseph 8. Edgarton. hundreds of square miles of merciless country. Wreck Report Traced. ‘The sort of luck ich will be re- quired if the lost ship is sighted from the air yesterday afternoon enabled Licut. Louis M. Merrick, operations officer at Bolling Field, to track down a report that a wrecked plane had been seen near U. . Highway 50 west of Keyser, W. VA. The plane, according | to the report, had a red tail. e thin information Lieut. Merrick, | with the writer as observer in the rear | cockpit, took off from Bolling F‘\Pld: shortly before noon. Weather reports | showed large areas of the mountains | still clouded, but with sufficient open- ings 50 that some observation was pos- sible. i A few minutes earlier Lieut. Merrick, as operations officer, had sent out a big tri-motored transport pane, flown by Lieut. C.W. Cousland and occupied by six | observers; a single-motored transport and five observation planes, led by Capt. Ira C. Eaker. They were to go to Hot | Springs, Va., goal of Lieut. Bobbitt on his ill-fated Christmas flight from | Selfridge Field, Mich., and to push the search northward from there as far as the weather would permit. A thin and watery sun was shining at Bolling Field when Lieut. Merrick lifted off his blue and vellow observa- tion ship, climbed rapidly to 4,400 feet and headed West. The skies became bleaker and more dismal as the plane droned on over the rolling Virginia hills. The Blue Ridge, crcssed near Bluemont, wore a crown of misty streamers, trailing from dull banks of cloud. | Clouds Block Path. | Roaring on across the wide Valley of Virginia, Lieut. Merrick found the way to Cumberland, Md., where he planned to start his search, blocked by walls of cloud which dropped curtains of fog NEW YORK BATTLE FOR HOOVER BEGUN Hilles and Mrs. Ruth Pratt Open Upstate Campaign by | Address in Albany. | By the Assoclated Press. | ALBANY, N. Y., December 30.—Two New Yorkers of the inner councils of the national Republican organization came up-State yesterday to advance the cause of President Hoover in the rural and small community sections of the | State. | Speaking to 40 or more Republican county chairmen and 20 or more other | up-State leaders, Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, Congresswoman from New York's | most aristocratic district, said “those who now are criticizing President Hoo- | ver will look back six months from now and wonder why they did not see the wisdom of his present acts.” | Charles D. Hilles, national commit- teeman, placed the blame for internal difficulties at Washington upon “men posing as Republicans,” who, he were “doing the most damage.” referred to the Progressive group. Mr Hilles predicted that before the mnext presidential election the party would justify the appellation, “party of pros- Ti pen“ywu Hilles who struck the note of the prohibition guestion at_the| meeting, telling the New York State Republicans that from & national standpoint the question could no longer be_avotded “The prohibition question must faced,” he declared, adding it was now | a matter removed from the realm of | politics. | The conference of county chairmen, called by W. Kingsland Macy, State | chairman, was described by one of the | leaders “as a town hall meeting” with | “every fellow talking about anything he wanted to." | Macy said there was general discus- sion as to who would run for Governor next year; whether the party would be wet or dry, and how the increasing | gains of the Democrats upstate might be offsel id He Overseas Service For Christmas Money You are cordially inv our completely equipped Foreign Ex- change Department’s faci : ing Christmas money o any part of the world. Come in NOW Interest paid on Checking and Savings Accounts EDWARD J. STELLWAGEN Uniov’ OF THE DISTRIC ) into the valleys. | for this precise purpose. TRUST | and Hardship in Wild Sky and mountains were as chill ‘and_grim as they must have appeared to Bobbitt as he roared into the unknown five days earlier. He now was over the route Bobbitt would have been following en route from Uniontown, Pa., where he refueled and last was seen, and Hot Springs, whither he was bound. Lieut, Merrick went cown in a steep spiral to look over a stretch of wild mountain coun- try before heading down toward Keyser. Sliding along the forested mountain- sides, he crossed | U. S. 50 just east| of Keyser and ran/ into another solid wall of cloud roll- ing across from the West. Turning westward, he fol-| lowed the tortuous course of the high- way past Keyser, to where the road winds up the but- tresses of Mount Storm. He slipped over the pass and above the roadway into the valley be- yond, scanning ev- ery foot of the brok- en ground below Twenty miles beyond Keyser he turned back and retraced the course, but no trace of anything like a wrecked plane appeared. We were lcoking for a splash of chrome yellow. The wings of Army planes are painted this color It is the most | readily visible of all colors from the air uncer varying weather conditiol Less noticeable colors or the bare framework of a burned plane prebably wculd have been utterly invicible against the drab mountainside. Lands to Make Inquiries. The most careful scrutiny failed to reveal any traces, and when a little town appeared in a cieared mountain valley Lieut. Merrick decided to attempt a lancing to inquire whether the na- tives had heard anything of the re- ported wreckage. Down into the valley he spirdled, | while the mist-hung peaks of the mountains climbed up on either side. There was but one strip of ground that Lieut. Merrick. | appeared to offer any sort of landing | 1o el *GR surface. It was a strip of meadow no more than 100 feet wide and three or four times that length. It lay in the direction of the wind, however, and Merrick éropped down to 10 feet and “dragged” the strip to look it over care- fully for ditches, stumps or stones. Finding it reasonably smooth, he cir- cled around once more and drcpped in over the Federal highway for a beauti- ful landing in the tiny area. Across a winding mountain stream there was a little town, from which a score of men hurried to the plane afoot and by automobile. The town, they said. s Burlington, W. Va. Asked about the wrecked plane with the red tail, they assured Lieut. Merrick he had come to the right place. Across the road, scarcely 100 yards away, were the remains of the ship. It was a wrecked plane beyond any doubt, but the only trouble was it had been there for three years. It was an old com- mercial -plane, which had been flown there, cracked up and partially dis- mantled. The motor had been sold, the plane dragged to a place beside a gaso- line filling station, and painted to serve as an attraction and perhaps an ad- vertisement of the desirability of tra eling that kind of country by automo- bile. Heads Back to Bolling. With - that particular repcrt amply disposed of, Lieut. Merrick prepared to leave. He was warned to watch for a sunken place at the far end of the cleared space, so short a distance away, and promised his anxious informant that he most certainly would watch carefully. Wheeling the plane around, motor wide open, he roared away to- ward the diteh, picking up speed rap- idly, and lifted off over the treacherous spot Circling back, he found that the wrecked plane was just discernible from the air, once its location was known He climbed to an_altitude of about one mile into the cold and mist-filled air and headed back to Bolling, where he found that Lieut. Cousland and the tri-motor had been forced down by closing clouds at Waynesboro, Va., and would probably be storm-bound there all night. The other six planes were at Hot Springs, unable to make any search because of fog and clouds which blanketed every trace of the ground north of there. It was the close of a disappointing day and typical of the days which must follow for the Army searchers until the missing man is found or the area has| been combed so thoroughly that further aerial search is useless. AUTOMOTIVE.ENGINVEER ON CIVIL SERVICE LIST Applications for $4,400 Job Will Be Received Up to January 19. The United States Civil Service Com- | mission will accept applications until January 19, 1932, for the position of | automotive engineer in the Ordnance Department at Aberdeen Proving Ground, it was announced today. The | entrance salary is $4,400 annually. Requirements are a degree in engi- neering from a recognized college or university, at least five years experi- ence or post-graduate education, two years' experience with automotive lab- oratory, testing and dynamometer equipment, to be counted in the five. | Full information may be obtained at the office of the Civil Service Commis- sion, 1724 F street. | ited to make use of ties for send- SOUTHWEST CORNER FIFTEENTH ANDH STS. NORTHWEST P AT CONTINUE SEARCH - CHAMBERLANN AIMS FOR ARMY FLYER AT OIL FUEL MARKS Hunt Takes on Aspect of Noted Pilot to Attempt Speed War-Time Operation as and Altitude Records for Weather Clears. Diesel-Engined Planes. | | { | Encouraged by the first clear weather BY the Associeted Press. in the Virginia and West Virginia, NEW YORK, December 30.—Almost mountains since Christmas eve, whem' any day now Clarence D. Chamberlain Lieut, E. H. Bobbitt, jr, Army pursuit| will be scooting into the air in an at- pilot, disappeared while flying from tempt to prove furnace oil can make Selfridge Field, Mich., to Hot Springs, airplanes go places Va., 15 Army planes were sent out from in a big way at two bases today to search hundreds of 10 con square miles of tangled wilderness. Mon Wes nater ‘The search operations have taken on that the National the aspect of a war-time military opera- Aeronautic Associa- tion. There still is hope that he may tion had sanctioned be alive; injured so that he cannot get his plans to set away from his plane, which is thought altitude and_speed to have crashed between Uniontown, records for Diesel= Pa., where he refueled, and Hot Springs. engined planes re- The lengthening hours since he van- called that Cham- ished, however, are making hopes that berlain is no he will ‘be found alive increasingly stranger to records slender. S Maj. Howard C. Davidson, comman- ?;‘(?,mf”(""”s " dant of Bolling Fleld, this morning took active command of the search opera- Set MArk With tions from the National Capital. He Acosta. took off from Bolling Field at 9:10 | Clarence Chamberla He started in o'clock in an Army observation plane 1927. Wil Bert expecting to work in the vicinity of | Acosta he set a world endurance record Cheat River and Mount Storm, W.Va.|of 51 hours 11 minutes and 25 seconds. Another sector of this area is being| The same year, he made a long- searched by Lieut. James A. Willls, jr. | distance record in the monoplane :\;:: ::]I‘tnBolhng at 8:45 in an observa- | Columbia, which he set down 70 miles e. from Berlin after a jaunt of about Lieut. Cornelius W. Cousland, wWho| 3790 miles from New York. That set was forced down by bad weather at| another record of a sort, for in ferrying Waynesboro, Va., vesterday. got back to | Charles Levine to Germany he became the Capital late in the afternoon and | the first flyer to take a passenger across was to go out with six observers again | the Atlantic. 3 today. Lieut. Louls M. Merrick, opera- | tions officer at Bolling Field, who ran | Four Attempts Failed. down a false report that the plane had | After his return from Enrope h y been found yesterday, also was sent out | a plane from the liner Lm":au-.;nm:t again today. ; | sea to New York. The next thing on Five Bolling Field planes and six pur- | the program was a series of four at- suit planes from Seifridge Field, Mich., | tempts at a new duration record, all are operating out of Hot Springs. home | of which falled. Once he and Roger of Lieut. Bobbitt, today. The Bolling|Q. Willams were forced down when Fleld ships, commanded by Capt. Ira | ice formed on thelr wings, and once C. Eaker, are flown by Capt. Eaker and | they crashed. Lieut. W. A. R. Robeitson and Charles | Chamberlain, who believes th: F. Pugh of Bolling Field and W. D.|a Diesel engine he could i “1:!12 Harrison and E. D. Shannon of Lang- | passengers to Europe at a fuel cost of I The pursuit planes are | $4 apiece, says aviation will eventually in command of Capt. Ennis C. White- | become the cheapest form of trans- head. portation. cement | S ey | WILL REMOVE OLD TRUCK D. C. Police to Comply With Pleas on Vehicle at Park Entry. ‘Tenth precinct police agreed today to act on a request from the Office of Pub- | lic Buildings and Public Parks for the removal of an abandoned motor truck which has stood on Klingle road near the Zoo entrance for two wecks, despite the fact it had come to be regarded as | menace to traffic. Congestion at the | police garage, it was explained, pre- vented its earlier removal. While Klingle road is under jurisdic- tion of Metropolitan Police, the Zoo- |logical Park is under the Smithsonian Institution and nearby Rock Creek Park is under the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. 10 BID ON BRIDGE JOB ‘Ten bidders today sought the job of constructing a steel and concrete bridge across Rock Creek at L street, as another step in the Rock Creek and Po- tomac Parkway development. ‘When the bids were opened in the office of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, ci- rector of Public Buildings and Public Parks, N. C. Briddell of Baltimore was | indicated as the lowest bidder, with an ’OHEY of $41,290. | The award of the contract is expected within a few days. The new bridge will be begun early in the year and con- struction will take several months, Births Reported. Lawrence L._and Grace Morgal. boy. Joseph and Evelyn Manning. boy Timothy H. and Mabel Kingsies. boy, Aristides H. and Mariina Chaconns. boy. George E. and Racina A_ Boswell. boy, Philip L. and Nancv R. Portar. bov. Glibert W and Amelin E_Allen. boy. Harold W._and Ruth L _Beall. boy. Theodore 8 and Aenes L. Gochenonr, girl Raymond M. and Marv £_Bott. girl Harry K. and Lilian H. Howes ‘girl Lester 1. and Virginia M. Rocere girl. Walter B "and Panline V. Roberts. girl. Prancis P. and Eileen R Hunt. gi-) James N and Emma M. Hall. @il Harold M and Faith M_ Lippard Martin F. and Eisie A. Fitzpatrick. gir] Clifion W.‘and Charloite R. Carter, girl. Antonio and Adelina Piccionl. kirl. Melvin and Helen Walter. boy Prank C. and Susie L._Cnrtis. boy. Don K. and Hazal M. Smith. boy | Martin R. and Grace A, Thorp. bov. Liovd H_and Agatina Frantlin, bov Samuel N and Magdalen T. Smart. boy. Jeflerson D. and Halen V. Perry, bcy. | Morris and Clara Berger. girl John C. and Florenca McGuire, girl Archie M and Trene E. Col Albert E and Grace V Joseph E. and Marxarei Harold and Ruth N. Sto Fred R..and Dorothy F. Barnes. wirl Robert A. and Charlofte D. Gabricl Thomas C. and Jilia J. Jones william . and Georgfena L: Harkey E.and Asia Baker, girl Jennings B. and Macgie M. Lane, girl. Pete and Mary Paulini, gir} Western W, and Lessie B. Littie, boy. Babe and Pearl Warner, boy Lewis and Dorothy Johnson. boy. Lither and Luellen Martin. boy Alexander and Francis Hart, girl. Herman and Thelma Hicks. il Ric)ard and Rhoda Beasiey. gir] Heywood V. and Cora V. Sloan. boy. Frank and Pearl Hart. boy Edward and Ethel Jahnson. boy. Saul and Minnie Green. boy. Walter and Geneva Gaskins. boy. Daniel and Edna Saunders. kirl. nd Ruth Bunche, girl. nd Carrie Brown, gi girl. a1 Il et Pear’'s Eve Gala Celebration —— | 2400 Sixteenth St. (Meridian Mansions) 10 Until P Couvert Five Dollars Includes: De Luxe Supper Entertainment Favors Novelties Dancing Reservations Columbia 7200 % Store Hours: 7 A.M. to 5 P.M.—Saturdays, 1 P.M. 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