Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1932, Page 12

JANUARY 2, 1932. " A—12 - A% THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, (A12-es - THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D C, So R & -~ e s e Views From Bicentennial Film COURT INSTRUCTION IN VALUATION WORK ONUTILITIES ASKED Commission Invokes Clause of Act for Determining Fac- tors in Appraisals. COMPANIES’ COUNSEL | WILL NOT FIGHT MOVE Petition Suggests Hearings Be Held After Amended, Detailed Brief | and Replies Are Filed. The Public Utilitles Commission, | moving to clear legal technicalities from its path in advence of making valuations of most of Washington's public utilities, today petitioned Dis- trict Supreme Court to instruct it as to the elements of value to be taken | tnto consideration in each valuation Such a proceeding is sanctioned by the public utilities act, but in the 18| years of its history it never has been invoked before | The commission, the petition stated, “js {n doubt as to the elements of | value to be considered by them in de- | termining the valuation of the property | of public utilities for the purposes of | fixing rates for the said public util- | ities, and respectfully requests this| honorable court in this proceeding to | her the commission and such of the | public utilites of the District as may | sppear and to instruct the commission | ®s o the said elements of value.” | Plan Gas and Phone Valuations. | In the past the commission has made its valuations in the first place and every time it has done so the company in question has appealed. In most cases years were spent in litigation and today there is not a single utility in the District with an up-to-date valua- tion. Last year was spent in doing fleld work_on & valuation of the Washing- ton Railway & Electric and Capital Traction Cos. and, during the latter part, the Washington Rapid Transit Co. A valuation of the Washington & Georgetown _Gas Light Cos. will be started in February or March. A val- uation of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. will follow. Action Will Not Be Opposed. The commission suggests in its initial ge'mon that the proceedings be begun filing of an amended petition set- ting forth in detail the matters upon which the commission desires instruc- tion, together with a brief in support, within 60 days, and that within the following 60 days any parties in in- | terest file such briefs as they may choose and that the case be set for oral hearing afterward. ! Assistant Corporation Counsel Wil- liam A. Roberts announced that law- yers representing the public utility | B driven Driving Concret(:( Piles OR the first time in the construction ot the Capital's new Government buildings, unsheathed concrete piles, already cast, are being used as the base for the foundation of the new Justice Department Building, between Ninth and Tenth streets, Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues. Here- tofore, in laying foundations for buildings here, concrete has been poured into forms set in the ground and allowed to harden contractors, S. M. Siesel Co. of Pittsburgh and Milwaukee, on & lot at South Capitol and M streets, hauled to the building site, fitted with a steel cap and into the ground. Now the piles are cast by the —Star Staff Photo. POLICEEN HURT N CRASH WITH BUS Five Others Injured in Series FOUR ALUMNI PAID HONOR BY CENTRAL Distinction Won in Various POLCENAN HORT WA HURLED OF SPEEDNG ATD Driver Escapes After Wild | Ride in Which He Is Struck With Baton by Houck. OFFICER’S BRUISES TREATED AT HOSPITAL Car Driven Through Alley in Dis- lodging Officer Attempting Ar- rest on Florida Avenue. Pitched headfirst from the side of & speeding coupe after a wild ride through the upper Northwest section, Patrol- | man Henry C. Houck, 28, of the second precinct narrowly escaped serious in- jury or death last night in a vain at- | tempt to arrest the operator of the ma- ! chine for a minor traffic violation. Houck suffered brush burns of the | right knee and a bruised left elbow when the driver dislodged him from the i running board at Seventh street and Florida avenue by swerving the car from one side of the street to the other. He was treated at Garfield Hospital. Command Is Ignored. The officer was about to go off duty at midnight, when a car occupled by & ! well_dressed couple, made a “U” turn on Florida avenue. He started across the street and ordered the man to stop, but the latter ignored the command and accelerated the automobile's speed. running board, however. into an alley skirting the south side of Griffith Stadium and raced down the alley at a high rate of speed, keeping close to the brick wall of the base ball park in an effort to brush the police- man from his perch. Driver Struck With Baton. Houck retained his footing however, and smashed in the left side of the windshield with his baton. He struck the driver several times as the car swept out into Boher street, but the latter continued at unabated speed until he regained Florida avenue, where he finally managed to toss the officer from the running board. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and slight- ly colder tonight and tomorrow; moder- ate westerly winds. Maryland—Generally fair and slight- ly colder tonight and tomorrow except snow flurries in extreme west portion; moderate to fresh westerly winds. Virginia—Generally fair and slightly colder tonight and tomorrow; moderate to fresh westerly winds. West Virginia—Mostly cloudy and colder, probably snow flurries in north portion tonight; tomorrow generally falr, colder in east portion. Houck managed to scramble onto the | The driver turned sharply and swung | STORY OF WASHINGTON TOLD IN OFFICIAL PICTURES. T HREE of the scenes from the George Washington Bicentennial Commission’s official motion picture of the life of Washington, which had its first showing here last Wednesday. Top: The Redcoats marching on Concord. Lower left: Washington, portrayed by Ellsworth Woods, with imp-ssioned words arises in the Virginia House and offers to equip 1,000 men for the war at his own expense and lead them to Boston. Lower right: Less familiar than the doubtful cherry tree story is the fact that George Washington, as a lad, packed his trunk to leave home and join the Navy. In the photograph his mother, played by Fanny Washington of Fredericksburg, Va., sternly refused to let him go and as a reminder of the virtue of his obedience gave him a knife. —Photos by Eastman ‘Teaching Films, Inc. PARKING SERVICE PLANNED FOR FETE Bicentennial Commission Also to Conduct Room Lists Stop-Light Bandit Abducts and Robs Motorist of $85 |Gunman Forces Victim to | Drive Near Park and Slashes Coat. WOOD HITS GERARD ONCAMPAIGN FUND | Says Democratic Treasurer Tries to Make Auditors FEDERAL FFIEES WL BE SHFTED INDERNEW PLAN War Department to Move Into Old Site of Commerce Department. STIMSON FORCE TO TAKE OVER ENTIRE STRUCTURE Board of Mediation, Civil Service and Other Bureaus to Transfer. Moving of the Commerce Department into its new building sets in motion & chain of moves in governmental units that will materially alter during the year the downtown Federal Government map of Washington. Officials of the Public Buildings Com- mission, which allots space in the Fed- eral buildings, said today half a dozen | or more major moves would take place early this year. Karl J. Hardy, com- mission secretary, said arrangements had been made with the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks to rearrange and paint the interior of the old Com- nrerce Department Building, into which the War Department is to move shortly. War Department to Move. The plan is to shift the War De- partment out of the State, War and Navy Building, so this structure may be occupied by the State Department alone. The exterior of the State, War and Navy Building is to be remodeled so it will harmonize with the Treasury Department and form an appropriate frame for the White House. Waddy B. Wood, Washington archi- tect, is perfecting plans for this $3,000,000 program. Mr. Hardy said the Board of Media~ tion, now housed in the Zarle Build- ing, may be moved into the first floor of the old Land Office Building. The International Joint Commission, in the National Press Building, also will go into the old Land Office Building. The Patent Office, which is moving with the rest of the Commerce Department units into the new home, will release space in the old Land Office Building and the Tariff Commission will take over the second and third floors. Will Vacate Building. Tentatively it has been decided that the Civil Service Commission, now at 1724 F street, will go into the old Patent Office Building. The Government is now renting the Civil Service Building under an optional lease that permits it to vacate in a month and turn the building back to the lessor. When tha Civil Service Commission Building is vacated it will save the Government a rental bill of $24,592 annually. As the Bureau of Mines is moving into the new home of the Commerce Department, it will vacate the Winder Bullding, Seventeenth and F streets, into which will move the Women’s and Children’s Bureaus of the Labor De- Scapegoat of Charges. | A “stop-light” bandit today Iobbed‘ | Michael Picillo, 1408 Girard street, of | for Visitors. concerns involved had agreed not to oppose the present petition. The law- partment, now occupying Temporary Report for Last 24 Hours. Building No. 5, Twentieth street and yers making this agreement were Wil- tion J. Lambert of the Washington and Georgetown _Gas_ Light Cos; G. Thomas Dunlop, Capital Traction Co.: S. R. Bowen, Washington Railway & Electric Co.; George P. Hoover, Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co., and R. A. Van Orsdel, Chesapeake & Potomac | ‘Telephone Co. The commission is represented in the case by Corporation Counsel Wil- liam W. Bride, Assistant Corporation Counsel Willlam A. Roberts, and by Roland J. Lehman, special valuation | counsel of the commissicn. TREK OF AVIATION | TO MIAMI STARTS Chief of Army Units in Races | Leaves—40 Amateur Pilots to Stop in Capital Monday. A general aviation movement toward | Miami, scene next week of the All-| American Air Races, which will send approximately 70 Florida-bound planes through the Capital in the next few Gays, began today with the departure | Bolling Pleld of Maj. Willis H.| of the office of the chief of the Army Air Corps. He will assume com- | mand of the Army units at the Miami | meet, The Miami races will bring trxzcmcrl many of the world's most famous pilots, with several international trophies standing for competition. Maj. Hale is making the flight to! Miami in a fast Army Northrup trans- port plane and is carrying two official | passengers. At laast five other Bolling Field planes were expected to leave for | Miami within the next few days. On Monday 40 private planes are ex- pected to arrive here for an overnight | stop en route from New York to Miami, They will be flown by sportsmen pilots who are members of the United States | Amateur Air Pilots' Association, or- ganized to put sporting aviation on as high a plane as amateur golf, tennis and other sports. | C. 8. “Casey” Jones and Clarence D. | Ghamberlin, famous transatlantic fiyer, | are to accompany the amateurs as guests, rules of the association barring | them as active participants. The 40| sportsmen pilots and their guest pas-| sengers will be entertained here at din- | ner Monday night by F. Trubee Day son, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, and David S. Ingalls, A: sistant Secretary of the Navy for Aero- | nautics. | MOTHER'S CAR RUNS DOWN DAUGHTER, 2 Purcellville Child Injured as Auto Is Driven From Garage. Special Dispatch to The § PURCELLVILLE, Va. Jenuary 2— Mary Catherine Yakey, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Yakey of Purcellville, was seriously injured this morning when she was knocked dowr by an automobile driven by her mother. One wheel passed over the child’s ab- domen. Mrs. Yakey had left her child on the back porch and went to the garage to get the car. She did not know the child hed left the porch until she heard her screems. Dr. C. P. Hutchison, treated the child at her home. MAN HURT IN FALL DIES Injuries in Backstage Tumble From Scaffold Prove Fatal. Edward Smith, 48-year-old elec- trician of 1447 East Capitol street, died st Emergency Hospital yesterday from in‘uries received December 18, when he fell 10 feet from a scaffold, while working backstage at the Fox Theater. | were riding of New Year Day Traf- fic Accidents. Seven persons, among them two po- | licemen, received minor injuries in New Year day traffic accidents late yester- day and last night. Officers C. W. Sine and E. M. Jett in the eleventh pl’ecmct3 radio scout car when it collided at Pennsylvania and Minnesota avenues | with a Capital Traction Co. bus oper- | ated by Lewis C. Dillon, 27, Capitol | Heights, Md | Jett was treated at Emergency Hos- | | pital .for injuries of the side and Cuts‘ about the head. Later he was removed | to his home, 1434 W street southcast. | Sine was given first aid treatment al‘ his home, 126 Eighteenth street south- east, for bruises of both legs and shock. | Mr. and Mrs. Mason Posey, both 71, | ware treated at Emergency Hospital for severe cuts and brulses after a taxicab, | driven by Ralph Pierce, 33, of 3504 Georgia avenue, struck them in front of their home, the Woodley Apartments, 1869 Columbia road An automobile driven by Floyd A. Allen, 23, Ballston, Va. struck Mrs. Mary Danlels, 68, of 818 Sixth street southeast, fracturing her leg. She was crossing Sixth and F streets southwest when the accident occurred, police said. Walter Fox, 65, of 2908 Thirteenth street was cut and bruised when struck at Fourteenth and Irving strects by a machine operated by Keith Smith, 25, 2115 F street George Hayon, 42, of 4126 Thirteenth street was treated at Garfield Hospital for cuts on the head, body bruises and shock after he was struck by an auto- moblle driven by George Terry, 30, of 1405 Howard place. FACILITIES ADDED FOR NORFOLK LINE Installation of Full Equipment Will Be Completed Within Five Days. The airways facllities of the Com- merce Depariment on the Washington- Norfolk airway will be placed in full | operation within the next five days, | marking the inauguration of the new- | est fully equipped airway uniting the | Cepital with the rest of the country. | The various beacons and course | lights on the airway are being placed | in commission at the rate of two per | day, beginning at the Washington end | of the airway, it was announced yes- | terday. Completion of the lighting pro- gram will make possible the flying of night schedules. The airway was lighted at the re- | quest of the Post Office Department, | which was expected to inaugurate air- | mail service over the route last Spring. The Postmaster General has withheld | the mail contract, though a temporary appropriation for the service became available last Spring, followed by a reg- ular appropriation, available last July 1. CRUSADERS APPRAISE FINNISH “WET” VICTORY | All but 128,000,000 People Have | Thrown Off Reform Yoke, Says Statement. The Crusaders, militant anti-prohibi- tion organization, commented upon the result of the prohibition referendum in | Finland with a statement yesterd: which declared that “a decade ago an attempt was being made to keep over 300,000,000 people sober at the point of a shotgun, but today all but 120,000,000 have thrown off the yoke of the re- former.” The statement listed Russia, all of Canada except one province, Norway, Sweden and Finland as going “back to the good old-fashioned method of He suffered compound fractures of 3 ribs and complications devel- e ceaiin teaching instead of dragooning people High School in Washington, each of whom has rendered conspicuous public | work extend back to the period of the | communication | submerged in the sea. Fields by Ives, Lowell, Hoover and Bochne. Four prominent alumni of Central service in his field of endeavor, re- turned to the scenes of former student days yesterday afternoon to be honored by fellow alumni. Later they will be presented with official certificates of distinguished service in the name of the Central High School Alumni Asso- ciation. | The men so honored were Lie Norman . Ives, U. . N., for develop- ing_sutmarine safety devices; Percival D. Lowell, radio engineer and inventcr; J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation, Department of Jus- | tice, and Representative John W. Boehne, jr. of Indiana. They had been selected by the Executive Commit- tee of the association as alumni who had contributed outstanding public service. | Dr. Harvey A. Smith, principal of | Central, grected the large crowd of | visiting' alumn{ and L. V. Lampson, president of the association, introduced each in turn. A reception and enter- tainment followed. Cited for Navy Cross. ! Lieut. Ives, the first of the men | whose record was explained, was cited by etary of the Navy Adams, No- vember 30, 1931, for the Navy Cross. This was bestowed upon him by the President for distinguished service as commanding officer of the Submarine 5-4, while engaged in hazardous ex- periments in developing and perfecting devices to make submarines safe for the operating personnel. Mr. Lowell was declared to have con- tributed more to radio broadcast recep- tion than any other man in the United States. His inventions and research World War. During the war he volun- vith an associate, and went to operating base at New Lon- don, Conn., where he commanded and demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Navy the first practical method of radio on submarines while His invention proved of enormous value in wartime. Solve Hum in Radio. Mr. Lowell and S. W. Dunmore worked at the Bureau of Standards, and event- ually solved the problem of eliminating the hum of the alternating current in | radio recelving apparatus. This had far- reaching effect ir enabling the public to get better service from radio sets. He is also the sponsor of the fundamental principles underlying the now widely used radio beacons. Mr. Hoover was cited particularly for outstanding work during the last year in obtaining evidence that re- sulted in breaking up the Al Capone gang and operations of other gang- sters. At Central High School he was captain of Company A of the Cadet Corps He was appointed a special assistant to the Attorney General in 1919 in charge of the alien enemy divisions, and in 1521 appointed assistant di- rector of the Bureau of Investigation. In 1924 he succeeded William J. Burns as_director Representative Bochne 1is one of eight members of Congress who have succeeded their fathers in thal legis- lative body. He was a student at Cen- tral when his father was in Congress. LYNN CUTS FORCE Practically all the temporary em- ployes who have been engaged in sea- sonal work under the architect of the Capitol, David Lyrn, have been let out gradually—approximately 200 within }he past two months—and the Capitol organization for the Winter. Architect Lynn explained today “the permanent roll has not been touched” and that “all of those who were dis- charged have been cmployed only on seasonal work and for a temporary period.” They included laborers, me- chanics of all kinds, painters, masons, | March orce has been reduced to its xkeletun' Temperature. Barometer. Inches. 29.69 29.67 29.65 29.67 29.70 2072 . 50,10:00 p.m. Year ago.. 44 . 40, 7:30am. Yearago.. 17 Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. 2:25a.m. 9:00 am. 4 pm. 8 pm. Midnight 4 am. 8 am. Noon Highest Lowest Tomorrow. 3:28a.m. 10:03 am. 3:05pm. 4:05pm. 9:51pm. 10:56 p.m. The Sun and Moon. High Low High Low Sun, today Sun, tomor! 7:27 Moon, today.. 1:42am. .1 Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1932. Average. Record. January 131 3.55 7.09 February . 3.27 6.84 3.75 8.84 3.27 9.13 370 10.69 10.94 10.63 14.41 10.81 857 8.69 1.56 April May June July August September Octeber November December 1 71 01 3.24 2.84 2.37 3.32 4 4 4 Stations. fieainers Abllene, Tex.... Albany, N. Y. Atlants, Ga.... Atlantic_City. [ Balumore. Md'! 29.66 Birmingham . 30.04 Bismarck. N. D’ 30.10 Hoston, Mass... Buffalo, N. Y. Charieston. S.C. Chicago. 11}, Cincinnati, Ghio 29.84 Clevelana, " Ohio 29.66 Columbia, 8. C. 29.94 Denver, Colo. . 30.02 Deiroit, Mich. . 29.66 El Faso, Tex... 29.96 Galveston, Tex. 30.06 Helena, ro Pt.cloudy Snowing . Pt.cloudy Cloudy Cloudy . Clear Clear Raining Loutsville Miami, Fla New Orleans New York, N'¥. 29 Oklahoma City. Omaha. Nebr Pniladelphia Phoenix, Ariz Pittsburgh, Pa . | Bortland, Me St. Louis, Mo.. 8t. Paul,”Minn. 2 Seattle, ‘Wash . _Wash Fla .. D.iCii. FCREIGN. (7 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. mperature. Weath London, 51 Cloudy Faris, WASH., Bart clo Clear U9 Stockholm, Gibraltar, Sweden. Spain.. Part cloug Part cloddy WHEEL BREAKS WINDOW Wrenched from its axle when two cars collided at Florida and Connecticut avenues yesterday, the front wheel of one of the automobiles coursed across the sidewalk and demolished a large plate glass window in a chain grocery store at 1801 Connecticut avenue, bricklayers, steamfitters, eleotricians and & force of about 50 working under the direction of Willlam A., Frederick, to ua‘e alcolfjlic beverages in modera- landscape gardener on tge Capitol o, The wheel was torn from a machine operated by Paul Greenhalgh, 35, of 1310 Nineteenth street. The second car was driven by Clarence Zohn, 37, of 244 Kennedy gizecty police seported, | An automobile parking and garage service and a room listing service will be conducted by the District Bicen- tennial Commission during the cele- bration, Dr. George C. Havenner, execu- tive vice chairman of the commission, announced today. Edwin S. Hege was appointed several weeks ago to direct the services. In his endeavors to direct visitors in find- ing facilities for parking and garage accommodations, Mr. Hege will work in close co-operation with local traffic au- thoritles. A survey of all available hotels, board- ing and rooming houses, private res dences with accommodations for visi- tors, as well as garage and automobile parking facilities, will be made imme- diately, it was stated. 1In all instances only such accommodations will be list- ed as meet a specified standard after nspection. . Ill?lefurma(im\ will be furnished visi- tors to the city as to rooms and garages without charge from the headquarters of the commission in the National Press Building. In announcing the the two services, Dr. against “unauthorized sought to collect fees this commission.” BOY, 10, AND MAN, 50, ARE ELECTROCUTED Farmer Going to Aid Youth Lying in Ditch Near Brodnax Is Killed. inauguration of Havenner warned persons who have in the name of By the Assnfll(cd!‘rfl((J e % X, Va., Janual — - (D RODNAX: ' ‘man were electro: Cuted yesterday by coming in contact with a high-voltage wire. g s o Moore, 50, & farmer, was killed when he went to the assistance of Paul Lynch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willle Lynch, whom he found lying in ditch beside a rural road. Officers said the boy had come into contact with & telephone wire which had fallen across & high-current line. Moore, in company With Murray Wes- boy. son, found the b3 o 0ry the boy, : Wesson TUSDC() He was arrested in vas dll. g e Noore, who suggested that for a physician W\P!f'sl;):n B esson returned with a doc- tor he found Moore's body lying across that of the boy. EXPERT PLAYS 31 GAMES ALL AT SAME TIME HERE Chess and Checker Star Is Winner of 28 Contests at Y. M. C. A. on New Year Day. ew Year day open the Young Men's n yesterday was multeneous chess by W. B. Mundell A feature of the house celebration Christian _Associatio! an_exhibition of s and checker plaviis, during the afternoor : Moving from player to player with scarcely a moment's hesitation at each board. Mundell played 6 games of chess and 25 checker contests at the same time, . jous in all but one of the meyer, who was awarded a book on chess ‘as a prize. Mr. Mundell won 18 of the checker games, tying 2 and losing the other & owd watched the contests throughout the afternoon. During the day, more than 4,000 persons attended the ‘open house celebration. RECITAL TO BE GIVEN il by Maj. Cyrus B. Wg:‘d o\:vffinb:ecg’::eln ]iIn t,hje Memorial jter Reed Hospital to- !(2:11;?1?:\}‘/ :i 2vg'clock. The recital will mark the fifth of & series of musicales at the hospital this Winter. v is to sail for Panama -oohffjfiv{gfdfir“ Mcial organist of the Memorial ( B Beed. $85 after forcing him at the point of | a pistol to drive to a lonely spot on | Park road near Rock Creek Park. | Picillo ;halted his car for a traffic | light at Fifteenth and Euclid streets and was waiting for the signal to | change when a young white man step- !ped off the curb and entered his car, drawing a revolver and ordering him to drive toward the park. | ~ The bandit forced Picillo to stop just before rteaching Rock Creek Park, pulled 2 penknife from a trousers’ pocket and, slashing Picillo’s overcoat, | withdrew a purse containing $85 in | money fromt his victim's hip pocket. | The bandit left the car and commanded | Ficillo to drive on. The robber was described as being a dark-complexioned white man about 25 | years old. Picillo said the man had about a three-day growth of beard on his face and was dressed in an old | brown overcoat and cap. ARREST EXPECTED - IN BOYS ATTACK | Youth, on Leaving Hospital, Able to Tell Police More Details. An arrest was expected today in the mysterfous attack on Bromslow “Bar- néy” Golkoski, 15, who was found un- conscious in Rock Creek Park early yesterday, his arms and legs bound with tire tape and his mouth stuffed with tobacco. Hospital, where he was treated for ex posure and shock, the boy was taken to the tenth precinct police station this | morning. There he was questioned at length concerning the assault, details | of which he at first said he could not remember. | Golkoski was found beside Beach drive, between Pierce Mill road and Blagden ave.ue, by Fred E. Altemus, 2041 Twenty-eighth street. Driving through the park with his wife, Alte- mus heard the boy groan and saw him lying about 20 feet from the road, a heavy downpour of rain beating upon his body. Altemus removed the handkerchief with which the tobacco was held in the youngster's mouth and took him to the police station, where the bonds were cut. He later was transferred to | the hospital. He regained conscious- gc&ihs;\'eral 1{‘murs 11:‘"‘ but declared e had no idea what had happen: to him. 4 hamnensd “The last T can remember,” he said, “is standing in front of & restaurant |at Ninth and E streets.” \MACEACHRAN TAKES POST |Assumes Duties in Chief Clerk's Office at State Department. Clinton E. MacEachran, Beverly, Mass,, today assumed his new duties as chief ‘clerk of the State Department, which office has been vacant since the death, last June, of E. J. Ayres of New | Jersey. Mr. MacEachran is a graduate of | Tufts College and the Georgetown Law School and has had 27 years' ex- | perience in the department and in the foreign service. Appointed to a clerkship in October, 1910, he has since served in various capacities in Mexico City, Vera Cruz, Bern, Paris, Antwerp, Ghent, Madrid and at the State De- partment. ‘ Man Dies After Injuring Thumb. Blood poisoning developing from a | mashed thumb proved fatal to Percy Nevingdon, 35, of .The Plains, Va., at Garfield Hospital yesterday. | _ Nevingdon injured his thumb at his home fiye days ago and was brought bere for Hreatsite After being discharged from Garfield | ‘ Charges that the Democratic Na- ’tional Committee and its treasurer, | James W. Gerard, attempted to “pass | the buck” to a firm of accountants in | answer to allegations that expenditures were concealed in the 1928 presidential | campaign were made today by Repre- sentative Wood of Indiana, chairman | of the Republican Congressional Com- | mittee. | Mr. Gerard had sald in his reply to | the accusation tbat the accountants | who prepared the 1928 Democratic ex- ]‘pendlture reports were the ones who | performed similar work for the Re- publicans in 1924. This, according to Mr. Wood, is a “small and unfair” effort of the Demo- cratic National Committee and its treas- urer “to reflect upon the efficiency and | methods of a reputable firm of ac- | countants by attempting to make that | firm a scapegoat for the violation of | a Federal law by the Democratic Na- tional Committee and its officers.” The blame cannot be passed to the accountants, Wood sald, because he had charged violation of the corrupt prac- tices act of 1925, which was not in effect in 1924. The act does not recog- nize, he said, outside accountants or auditors acting for any political com- mittee, but makes it mandatory upon the treasurer to file the reports of com- | mittee expenditures. “In attempting to shift the respon- | sibility, the Democratic committee and Mr. Gerard have contributed very ma- terially to the justice and accuracy of | the assumption that the suppression of | the pay roll roster of the Democratic national headquarters in New York City in 1928 was intentional,” Wood said, “and was done for some purpose | which possibly cannot stand the light | of publicity.” —_— 'FOUR OFF|CERS ORDERED TO NAVAL AIR BUREAU Lieut. Cornwell Assigned to Ana- Clarke Goes to Sunnyvale, Calif. costia—Lijeut. Comdr. | The Navy Bureau of Aeronautics will | | take in four new officers from the aviation squadrons of the fleet and the | Anacostia Naval Air Station will get one new officer as a result of orders announced yesterday by the Navy De- partment, At the same time Lieut. Comdr. V. A. Clarke, jr., one of the Navy's hand- ful of big airship commanders, was or- dered from the Bureau of Aeronautics | to_Sunnyvale, Calif., for duty there in connection with establishment of the giant new naval air station. Lieut. D. 8. Cornwell was ordered detached from duty aboard the U. S. S. Langley about May 15 and to report for duty at the Anacostia Naval Air Station. Officers ordered to the Bureau of | Aeronautics are Lieut. Comdr. A. I | Price, to be detached from the Langley about June 1; Lieut. G. A. Seitz, from | the Langley about June 1: Lieut. Comdr. G. F. Bogan, from VF Squadron 1, U. | S. S. Saratoga, about June 5, and Lieut. | H. B. Temple, vS-5 Squadron, U. S. S. Memphis, about May 15 BLAINE TO REINTRODUCE D. C. SECURITIES BILL The bill to regulate sale of securities in Washington, which passed the Sen- ate but was not acted on in the House at the last session, will be reintro- duced soon by Senator Blaine, Repub- lican, of Wisconsin. The Senator already has reintroduced the other bills to regulate foreclosure of mortgages and to provide for the licensing of real estate brokers and salesmen. The securities bill places the regu- latory power in the hands of the Public Utilities Commission. No changes are expected to be made in the essential features of the measure when it ls reintroduced. Burglars Rob Strongbox. Smashing a strongbox at the home of Bernard Rasser, 1151 New York ave- nue, burglars stole $40°in cash, & $2.50 goldpiece and,a $10 bracelet yesterday. Rasser told gdolice the intruders ran- sacked the Constitution avenue. The Bureau of Fisheries Building, Sixth street and the Mall, also will be vacated when the bureati moves into the new Commerce Building. Into its place will go the motion picture labor- atory of the Agriculture Dé) ent, as well as the laboratories 6f the Public Health Service. Building to Be Razed. Temporary Building No. 6, Eighteenth street and Constitution avenue, which is now occupied by the Federal Trade Commission and other small groups, will move into Temporary Building No. 5. It is planned to tear down Temporary Building No. 6, shortly, so the Pan- American Union may erect its $1,000,- 000 office building on that site. The Bureau of Lighthouses and the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce of the Commerce Department are moving out of the Hurley-Wright Building, Eighteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue, and this space will be occupied by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which now uses a large share of the structure. That section of the General Account- ing Office occupying the Emory Build- ing, First and B streets, will move into the old Patent Office Bullding, with an overflow into the basement of the old Land Office Building, Hardy said. The Emory Building is to be torn down to make way for the new Louisi- ana ave, which will join Pennsylvania avenue in the vicinity of Third street. The Public Buildings Commission has urder consideration the moving of the Federal Radio Commission, now occu- pying quarters in the National Press Building, into the new Commerce Build- ing. As the lease for the space for the Radio Commission runs to next June 30, the change will not take place prior to that date. The Radio Division of the Commerce Department, however, is moving out shortly. When the Radio Commission, Inter- national Joint Commission and the Ra- dio Division of the Commerce Depart- ment move out of the National Press Building, the Federal Government will save & rent bill of $59,000 annually. i s FALLS CHURCH SERVICE INVITATIONS ARE ISSUED Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., January 2.— The vestry of historic Falls Church has issued invitations to the morning service tomorrow which will be con- ducted by Rev. Clarence Stuart McClel- lan, jr, rector of Calvary Church, Fletcher, N, C. Dr. McClellan is the founder of the “Open Air Westminster Abbey of the South,” and through his efforts me- morials to the leading men of the Civil War have been erected in the church- yard. Memorials to statesmen, poets and Southern men and women of note are also found in his outdoor cathedral. Historic Falls Church, now without & rector of its own, following the resigna- tion last Summer of Rev. Robert Allen Castleman, was one of the three churches in Truro Parish which ante- dated the Revolution. It was the upper church, named Falls Church owing to its nearness to the Falls of the Potomac. From it the town of Falls Church later took its name. George Washington was one of its vestrymen, and he and George William Fairfax were appointed by the vestry a committee to draw up plans and recelve bids on the present brick church, which was built in 1764 to re- place the original structure of wood erected in 1736. The present building was gutted during the Ctvil War, and has since been restored. FIRST 1932 SUIT FILED IN ARLINGTON COUNTY By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va,, Januery 2—The first suit in the new County Court was filed in the clerk's office here today. The suit was filed by Wilbur Deuter- man agairs Carter Taylor, the former asking dameges of $300 as a result of injuries alleged to have been received by him when struck on October 26 by an automobile which. he claims, was op- erated by Taylor. At the time of the accident, Deuterman says, was & county employe and was working om