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THE EVEN. 12 SPEEDERS TAKEN IN ONE-MAN DRIVE Bethesda Officer Charges Ex- ceeding 25-Mile Limit on Wisconsin Avenue. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., January 16.—A one-man drive on speeders on Wiscon- sin avenue between the Rockville pike and the District of Columbia line here yesterday netted 12 arrests. All of those stopped were driving faster than the 25-mile speed limit, according to Officer W. F. Soper, who made the arrests. Officer Soper was assigned to the job of watching out for speed violators yes- terday by Sergt. Leroy Rodgers in charge of the Bethesda substation of Montgomery County police. Most of those arrested were required to leave | the minimum collateral of $3.50, in-| cluding costs | Among those arrested, with the | amount of collateral they were required to deposit, were: Mrs. W. R. Moore, Hagerstown, Md.. $3.50; James E. Wil- liams, 1721 Eleventh street, Washing- ton, $3.50; George Leonard, 3211 Mc- Kinley street, Washington, $3.50; Guy W. Bidle, Myersville, Md., $7.50; Vin- cent W. Vericella, 4009 Marlboro place, Washington, $7.50 for speed and $3.50 for no registration in possession, and Clarence G. Devine, 1419 Thirty-third | street, Washington, $3.50 Vincent D. Downs, 1219 Holbrook street northeast, Washington, also ar- rested by Officer Soper and charged with passing a stop sign was required to leave $7.50 collateral. Five others, all residents of Maryland, arrested on speed charges, were summoned to call at the police station and leave collat- eral. | HAUGEN TO RUN AGAIN Republican House Member Will Enter Primary in Iowa. DES MOINES, Iowa, January 16 (#).—Representative Gilbert N. Haugen, Republican, of Northwood = yesterday asked the secretary of State for nomi- nation papers to enter the June pri- mary. He has represented the fourth Towa district in Congress for more than 30 years. — e SPECIAL NOTICES 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS | Contracted by any one other ‘than myself 3. ROBT LUSBY. Suitland. Md. _ 3 Wi L, SE N FEBRUARY 8, 1932, AT T Sy D one Buick' roadster, frame _number, Emerson & auction, at our place. ¢ motor number, 1088570 1098880, to settle a storage bill Orme, 17th and M st. n.w._ X FFICE OF THE WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT OF I MPANY, JANUARY 16, 1932 In accordance with section 3 of the char- fer. the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Washington Gas Light Company, for The election of directors and for such other business as may properly come before said meeting, will be held at the office of the " Mondns, 171833, 'at 12 oclock noon. The TeRIUST e open from 13 6 clock noon until 1230 o 9 1° BTAFFORD. SECRETARY. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE- holders of The Cranford Company will be Samuary o, 1992 January 1§tn, 193 cors for the ensuing year and the transac- on of such other business as may come by 1 eeting before thg meFlEY CRANFORD. President. (Seal) H. L. CRANFORD, Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- m‘dnzé of the Atlantic Building Company, ‘Wwill be held_at the office of the com- y. 119 South Pairfax street, Alexandria, | Virginia. Thursday, January 21st 1932, at| eleven o'clock, A M. This meeting is for the election of officers and transaction of company _business. ATLANTIC BUILDING COMPANY. INC., ‘Myron M. Parker. Jr. President, Nobert ©. Dove. Secretary-Treas. 21* | ANNUAL_REPORT. i Washington, D. C.. January 15. 1932. | The undersigned. being the vice president | and a majority of the board of trustees of | fhe Geo M. Barker Co. a corporation of | the District of Columbia. do hereby certify | tbat the capital stock of said company is| ohe hundred and twenty-five thousand dol- Jars, all of which is fully paid and that there are no debts of said company except current expenses. (Signed) C. F. JACOBSON, Vie President. (s J. SHU o Becretary. District_of Columbia, ss 1, J. SHULMAN. secretary of the Geo. M. Barker Co.. do make oath that the matters | and facts stated in the foregoing annual Teport and certificate of the Geo. M. Barker oration, are trie iignedr J. BHULMAN. Subscribed and_sworn fo ‘before me this 5 of Janua 5 ety ROSS E. POLLOCK, Notary Public My_commission_ex ANNUAL REPORT OF THE N INGS AHD TRUST COMPANY trict of Columaia, to the Comptr Currency, as requir 6. Act of Congress approved October 890, for th year ended December it 1,000,000.00 1,013,021.02 d by Sectiol 3.4, | 31, 1931 zed paid year ended r year ended ios 730.447.53 13.956,619.61 ebis. ... HOOVER, President. SON. UIDEKOPER, ILLARD, President; E. ana_WOOD:. CLEPHANE H_ PRESCO We, WILLIAM D. HOOVER BERCIVAL WILSON, secrelary URY BI 5 SAMES 3 BECKER and H. ROZIER DU LANY, JR., directors of the National Sayv- ings and Trust Company. do hereby solemn- Iy‘swear that the above statement is true to the best_of our knowledge and belict WILLIAM D. HOOVEK, President E. PERCIVAL WILSON, Secretary. V/OODBURY BLAIR. 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Mah Chan-Shan, erstwhile hero of | the Monnie River-Tsitsihar campaign, | will head a new army which is being raised, under Chincce auspices, in the Province of Heilung-Kiang. The campaign of Provisional Gov. Hsi Hsia of Kirin Province, which has re- sulted in fighting with other Chinese forces for several days around Pinhsien | lung-Kiang Province is, at the same time, Jeaving the North Manchurian situation in the utmost confusion, to the eye of the foreign observer, giving a score of obscure Chinese general a few thousand followers each and a chance to partici- pate in events the ultimate effects of which probably will be most vital to Manchuria’s future. Harbin remains under rigorous mar- tial law following the fighting between White Russians and Chinese police Jan- uary 3 and 4. The streets are patrolled night and day by police in squads of four to six men each, equipped with brand new rifies, which are authorita- tively said to have come from Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang’s great arsenal at Mukden, which was seized by the Japa- nese. The tension here was eased some- what by the replacement of the chief of police blamed for the drastic meas- ures taken against the Russians. It was confirmed today that the op- and which aroused the anxiety of Soviet | erations of Hsi Hsia are still confined Russia_concerning_its interests in the | to the southward of the Chinese East- Chinese Eastern Railway zone, is re-|ern Railway. Authorities were unani- garded here as typical of the apparent | mous in expressing the belief he will | th | - | Prench new Japanese policy. Hoilung-Kiang Negotiations Begun. | Negotiations on an even larger scale are under way in Heilung-Kiang Prov- ince where Chang Chung-Hiu was in- | stalled as head of an autonomous gov- | ernment last week at Tsitsihar. Imme- diately afterward he returned to Harbin where he is now carrying on the duties of Governor of Heilung-Kiang and the Harbin special district as well. Johannes G. Vos, an American mis- sionary at Tsitsihar, stated in a letter receivéd here that the installation cere- | monies there were held in streets empty | except for lines of new Chinese troops rcently recruited for service in that area and between rows of which the new Governor entered the city. These troops, Mr. Vos said, are intended to be | the nucleus of the new army Gen. Ma is slated to command. Significance is being placed on the | fact that Gen. Ma visited Harbin for | the first time since the Tsitsihar cam- ‘ paign at midnight on the night before Chang Chung-Hui started for Tsitsihar to be installed. The two conferred for a long time and authorities here said they believed a bargain had been struck for " control of Heilung-Kiang Province under the aegis of Japan. Chang Chung-Hui has been marked as Japan’s man since he was permitted to return to his post at Harbin after | he was arrested during the original | Japanese occupation of Mukden last September and it was noted recently that many Japanese advisers are joining his entourage. Situation in North Confused. This indirect Japaness policy, ai- | though probably effective in producing | & Japanese control of Kirin and Hei- | of not have to press his campaign be- cause the Pinhsien army numbers barely 2,000 poorly equipped soldiers, Whose morale is likely to be under- mined by the Japanese aircraft, against which no Chinese soldiers have been able to stand their ground. Air Bombings Unconfirmed. The occupation of Chinchow height- ented greatly the morale of the Chinese Who have accepted Japanese control and it weakened the resistance of others. The difficulties at Pinhsien are expected to be compromised by the inclusion of the Pinhsien general's force in Hsi Hsia’s new Kirin army. Reports of Hsi Hsia's advance, how- ever, continued to give uneasiness to Chinese Eastern Railway towns, espe- cially Imienpo. Japanese consular and military au- thorities here say they are without in- formation on Japanese air bombings such as were reported from Pinhsien and other towns. They said it was un- believable that some Japanese bombs had fallen on a girls’ school at Pinbsien, as was reported in the Chinese press, although they admitted Japanese air- planes were scouting in advance of Hsi Hsla’s army. Consular officials also denled local Soviet officials have made representa- tions to the local Japanese consulate general about possible danger to the Chinese Eastern Railway. Conditions in the Pinhsien campaign are believed to be the most severe in the recent Manchurian activity. A bliz- zard struck the region east and south Harbin January 11, leaving eight inches of snow which made transporta- tion of troops and supplies difficult. The temperature has fallen to from 20 to 30 below zero Fahrenheit every night. ALLIES HOPE U. S. WILL CONSENT TO DEBT CANCELLATION (Continued From First Page) _ | in reparations than it pays in war debts, it is opposed to cancellation of repa- rations. If, therefore, to prevent can- cellation of reparations it appears nec- | essary also to oppose cancellation of | war debts, France will not hesitate. Fears Default by Germany. What France, like Great Britain, fears, however, is that Germany will | default, which would leave France still | owing Great Britain and the United | States. The ideal Frenth solution would be cancellation of an equal amount of reparations and war debts, leaving France still receiving a considerable | balance of reparations. The Young plan just suits France. If permanent Franco-German friendship could there- by be assured, France might even agree to a complete cancellation of war debts | and reparations, take a loss on repara- | tions and consider peace cheap at the price. But practically all France is | convinced that Franco-German friend- ship on an acceptable basis is tem- | porarily impossible. | It is being said everywhere in gov- erning circles that to cancel the war debts and reparations completely, as Great Britain and Italy propose, would leave Germany with a’ bigger and bet- ter industrial equipment and a lower national debt then any one else. while the disappearance through cancellation of the reparations quarrel would lead immediately to a ncw and even more bitter quarrel over the Polish Corridor. | French Favor Moratorium. | ~ The French tend to believe, more- over, that as long as the reparations | problem is unsettled the Germans will deliberately refrain from putting their finances in order. So the French plan is to grant a two or three years mora- torium, .provided the United States grants a similar moratorium on war ebts, and keep the Whole question open. Then, if Germany does not, it will remain so internally weakened, the French seem to think, that at least it will be unable to start a new agitation over the Polish Corridor. It would be a mistake, moreover, to believe that the French, as the Ger- mans so often say, are trying to hold the world still and oppose all changes. What France seems to be really trying to do is quite different, namely, to hold Germany_still while France's allies— Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania—develop. These countries actually are developing and it is seem- ingly not without reason that the | French think that Europe may be quite a different place 10 years hence. Meanwhile a movement has been begun in France to shift the whole war debt question to a new level, one much | more pleasant for France, though hardly so for the United States. Hitherto the allies in suggesting a re- ducticn of war debts have urged mainly that these were really credits expended |wholly in the United States to equip allied troops in a common cause at high | war prices, a part of which the United States Treasur immediately recuper- ated in the form of excess profit taxes. 1 Vhat is now proposed is to drop that | urgument and present the United States | with a common bill for having held the | ine and dene most of the fighting dur- ! ing the 15 months from our declaration of the war on April 6, 1917, to our first considerable engagement on July (Copyright, 1938.) AGREEMENT HELD UNLIKELY. Paris Newspaper Believes Lausanne Conference Should Be Postponed. 16 (A).—The news- paper Petit Parisien said today the and British viewpoints on reparations continue to be so wide apart that interested French circles believe it | would be best to poetpone the Lausanne | conference until the Hoover moratorium expires, on June 30, and to spend the interval in an effort to reach a basis for agreement. The time is so short now until the | date originally set for the conference. | the newspaper said, that any agreement, seems unlikely. | PARIS, January Select Baltimore for 1933. CORAL GABLES, Fla, January 16 (#).—The National League of Commis- sion Merchants closed its convention and re-election of Robert F. Blair of Cleveland as president. ¢ 15, | | ceptances, while the Senate put a $500,- '8t | and | posed of photogra) here yesterday with selection of Balti- |and hunters, seeki more, Md., as the 1933 convention city | elephant. rhinoceros. bufr; i Tangany Will Rogers CAIRO.—Today saw Jerusalem, Dead Sea and Bethlehem. Never catch me traveling over here_again un- less T have read the Book. First these Pyramids (Mexicos' got higger) and Sphinx (Cool- fdge got him licked to death). Tomorrov' 600 miles of ocean flying in land plane to Athens: see if the Greeks got a word for that. (Copyright, 1832.) HOOVER'S 2-BILLION FINANCE BILL IS - PASSED BY HOUSE (Continued From First Page) bill authorizes the President to appoint the four members while the Secre- taries of the Treasury and Agriculture Departments and_the governor of the Federal Reserve Board are to serve e: officio. In this the bill differs from the Senate measure which places the farm loan commissioner on the board in- stead of the Agriculture Secretary. Differences in Bills. Ancther Steagall amendment ap- proved makes the obligations of the corporation lawful investments in or- der that they may be accepted for all fiquciary, trust and public funds. An outline of the legislation and the Important differences between the House and Scnate bills follow: It sets up a corporation with a capi- tal stock of $500,000,000 to be subscrib- ed by the United States and appro- priated for by Congress out of the Na- tional Treasury. It is authorized to sell bonds to the amount of $1,500,000,- 000, the proceeds to be used for loans Each director is to receive a salary of $10,000 annually, with no employe re- ceiving more. The directors and employes are pro- hibited from participating in any mat- ter of personal interest to them The corporation is set up for 10 years ration to make loans to any bank, sav- | ings bank, trust company, building and loan assoclation, insurance company, intermediate credit corporation and any agricultural or farmers’ associa- tion incorporated under the laws of any State, and on the assets of any closed bank or bank in the process of liqui- dation The Senate bill excluded intermediate credit banks Extensions Limited. All loans must be adequately secured and cannot excced three years, with extensions limited to two additional years. Loans to railroads must have the approval of the Interstate Com- merce Commission. Loans cannot ex- ceed 10 per cent of the authorized capital stock of any corporation. The corporation has complete ad- ministrative authority over the type of collaters] acceptable The House bill permits no loans or advances on foreign securities or ac- 000000 limit on_ them. onds issued by the corporation in the House bill are .xnmx?: Iargmn all taxes except surtaxes, estate, inherit- ance and gift taxes, but the Senate measure does not except surtaxes. After one year of making loans the corporation may liquidate its assets wind up its affairs, and if the liquidation is not completed within 10 years the duty will be turned over to the Secretary of the Treasury. Heavy penalties are imposed for any criminal act toward the corporation. GARY COOPER TO HUNT HOLLYWOOD, Calif., January 16 (, —Gary Cooper, now traveling gregfll his health, plans a big game hunt in Africa before he returns to resume his motion picture work, he cabled his father, Charles Cooper, Wednesday. He will g0 with an’ expedition com- phers, “achaeologists ng the i}lu;‘xu of the alo, lion, leop- efle in Kenya, Uganda and , he cablegram said. ard and The House bill empowers the corpo- | ITOKIO REPLY CITES -CHINA'S DISUNION New Conditions Defeat Aims of Pact, Note to U. S. Declares. (Continued From First Page.) been stated, regard that policy as a cordial feature of the politics of the Far East and only regret that its ef- fectiveness is so seriously diminished by the unsettled conditions which pre- vail throughout China. “In so far as they can secure it, the policy of the open door will always be maintained in Manchuria as in China proper. “They take note of the statement by | the United States Government that the | latter cannot admit the legality of mat- | ters which might impair the treaty | rights of the United States or its citi- zens or which might be brought about by means contrary to the treaty of August 27, 1928. New Conditions Cited. “It might be the subject of an academic doubt, whether in a given case the impropriety of the means nec- essarily and always volds the ends se- cured, but as Japan has no intention of adopting improper means that ques- tion does not practically arise. “It may be added that the treaties which relate to China must necessarily be applied with due regard to the state of affairs from time to time prevailing in that country and that the present distracted and unsettled state of China is not what was in the contemplation of the high contracting parties at the time of the treaty of Washington. “It was certainly not satisfactory then, but it did not display that dis- union and those antagonisms which it does today. This cannot affect the binding character or the situations of the treaties, but it may in material re- spects modify their application, since they must necessarily be applied with reference to the state of facts as they exist. “My government desires further to point out that any replacement which has occurred in the personnel of the administration of Manchuria has been the necessary act of the local popula- tion. Even in cases of hostile occupa- tlon—which this was not—it is cus- tomary for the local officials to remain in exercise of their functions. Says Officials Fled or Quit. “In the present case they, «for the most part, fled or resigned. It was their own behavior which was calculated to estroy the working of the apparatus of government. The Japanese govern- ment cannot think that the Chinese people, unlike all others, are destitute of the power of self-determination and of organizing themselves in order to secure civilized conditions when they are deserted by the existing officials. “While it need not be repeated that Japan entertains in Manchuria no ter- ritorial aims or ambitions, yet, as your excellency knows, the welfare and safe- ty of Manchuria and its accessibility for general trade are matters of deep- est interest and quite extraordinary im- portance to the Japanese people. “That the United States Government is always alive to the exigencies of Far Eastern questions has already been made | evident on more than one occasion. At the present juncture, when the very existence of our national policy is in- volved, it is agreeable to be assured that the American Government is de- voting, in a friendly spirit, its sedulous care to & correct appreciation of the situation. “I shall be obliged if your excellency will transmit this communication to your Government.” Ambassador Forbes forwarded the Japanese reply to Washington later. Japanese Occupy Tungliao. As part of their operations against Chinese irregulars, the Japanese have occupied Tungliao, west of Ssupingkai. Tungliao is the terminus of the Tahushan-Tungliao Railway, which con- nects with the Taonan and Ssupingkai | branches. The war office also announced that | detachments of the Kwang-Tung army | yesterday began extensive operations | against irregulars in the districts of | Chinsi and Hsinmintun. In the north the operations against irregulgrs continued, the war office said, and the Japanese forces encountered a group of several hundred irregulars | eight miles north of Tsitsihar, routing | them after killing 50 and suffering no | | casualties themselves. | “Reports from Shanghal that the| Chinese government is considering | severing diplomatic relations with Japan | were not taken seriously in official circles here “China has nothing to gain, and all to lose, by such a step,” it was stated | on good authority. FREE STATE PLAN SCORED. | | | | Chinese Say Manchuria-Mongolia Ar- | rangement Is Not Desired. | SHANGHAL January 16 (). — Ad- | vices from Mukden that plans are rapidly progressing there for the es- tablishment of an independent state { of Manchuria and Mongolia were re- ceived with surprise in Chinese politi- cal circles here. The Chinese here claim that the Chinese citizens of Manchuria and Mongolia do not want any such independent status from China prober. “If such plans are be- ing formulated” it was stated here, “They are the product of the Japa- ! nese who are working unceasingly to | alienate those areas from China.” | "'The reports from Mukden outlined | the alleged new proposed government as _follows" The territory of the new state will include all of Manchuria and_ Eastern | Mongolia_ All the peoples in those areas will enjoy equal rights as citi- |zens, the sovereignty of the state lying with' them. A president, who would be the state's chief executive officer, would I be elected in accordance with the peo- ple's will, although for the present the | chairmen of the three Manchurian | provinces would appoint & president Under the president would be ad- ministrative, judicial and inspection de- partments and under the administrative department would be military, foreign affairs, civil, industrial and educational | divisions. Natural resources and com- munications would be under the direct | control of the president, the Japanese reports said. Although the likelihood of such a government being established is not considered great here, Japanese reports Isay the northeastern leaders will meet Mukden soon and they expect to in- president early next month. | augurate a i WORLb PROSPERITY SEEN IN END OF REPARATIONS Head of Krupp Works Says Main- tenance of Payments Will Mean Disaster. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 16—Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, head of the Krupp Works, asserted last night that German industrialists were unani- | mous in the belief that the abolition of reparations is the cnly way to bring | back world prosperity. | "“The maintenance of political pay- Dr. Butler Is Given MoreI nts, he told an audience of fellow {:‘ledu.!!rhllsu. will lead to disaster, not only for Germany, but for the ‘whole world. His announcement at Essen was di speech came on the heels of an hat the Krupp Works issing 4,500 workers. OXING LEGALITY | ASKED IN VIRGINIA Assembly Gets Bill to Amend Present Statute to Permit Sponsored Shows. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staft Cofrespondent of The Star. RICHMOND, Va., January 16— Among a number of bills introduced during the brief session of the House of Delegates yesterday was one by MTs. Emma Lee White, only woman member, prohibiting discrimination against mar- ried women in the selection of school teachers. Another, introduced by Dele- gates Vellines, Coleman and Darden of Norfolk and McMurran and Cadmus of Portsmouth, would legalize boxing in the State. Mrs. White's bill was shott and to the oint. It provides that “it shall be un- awful for any member or members, either individually or collectively, of the school board of any county, city or town to discriminate against any mar- ried woman, because of her being mar-~ ried, in the selection, employment or retention of any teacher or teachers in the public school system.” Violation would be misdemeanor. Terms of Boxing Bill. Under the terms of the boxing bill, which is in the form of an amendment to the present act prohibiting the sport, boxing matches would be permitted un- der the auspices of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps, by National Guard or- ganizations or women’s auxiliaries of | such organizations, or by any bona fide athletic association or any civic league or organization, when the match does not exceed 12 rounds of 3 minutes each. Provision is made that gloves be of standard design, weighing not less than five ounces each, and that the physical fitness of the contestants be approved by & physician. The matches would be governed by either the Marquis of Queensberty rules or by any other rules made by the authorities of the city, town or county in which the match is to be held, or by a boxing commission appointed by the legal authorities. ‘The bill is similar in character to one that was introduced at the 1930 session and which was defeated. It will un- doubtedly receive vigorous opposition, both in the Assembly and from the out- side, as was the case during the ife of the bill introduced at the last session, A duplicate of the billboard regula- tion bill that was introduced in the ate on Wednesday was introduced the House today by Delegate Hugh Reid of Arlington County and several other patrons. The bill would remove billboards 30 feet from highways and safe distances from road and railroad intersections and curves. It also would impose a yearly tax upon each sign. Get Hopewell Petition. The -House ‘was_formally presented with the petition of 14 members of the Hopewell bar, charging Judge T. W. Rohertson with malfeasance in office, neglect of official duty and incompe- tence, and asking an Investigation by {he General Assembly. ‘The petition was offered by Delegate Allen C. Adams of Hopewell. While the measure was referred to the Committee on Courts of | Justice, it is the hope of the sponsor | that it will be assigned to a special | committee. Three other bills were introduced by Mrs. White, one to repeal the act per- mitting the Board of Supervisors of Mathews County to appoint each mem- ber of the board road supervisor of his district; another to add traveling sales- men and commercial fishermen and oystermen to the jury exemption list, and a third, to prevent pollution of the waters of the Pamunkey, Mattaponi | and York Rivers. Gov. Pollard's support of legislation setting aside a “homecoming year for Virginians” was sought by a delegation | from Norfolk. The delegation consisted | of Norfolk’s members in the House of | Delegates and officials of the Norfolk | Chamber of Commerce. The bill is to be introduced by Delegates Page and Darden. WEEM’S BOOK SELECTED FOR FRENCH COMPETITION Naval Expert’s “ ir Navigation” Will Be Entered in Contest Con- ducted by Aero Club. Lieut. Comdr. Philip V. H. Weems, navigation expert, who is on duty in the hydrographic office, Navy Depart- | ment. was notified yesterday by Senator | Huam Bingham, = president of the| National Aeronautic Association, that his book ,“Air Navigation” has been | selected a$ the association’s choice in | the competition conducted by the Aero | Club of France for the best work on | aeronautics published in a | language (other than French) during the past year. The Senator advises lieutenant commander that he has asked the publishers to send to the| Aero Club of France, for the attention of the Bibliography and History Com- | mission in Paris, two copies of the book, | to comply with the rules governing the contest. Weems is the eminent the originator of the famous “drift indicator,” and he has had under finstruction for several months here Harold Gatty, round-the- world flyer. Weems' drift indicator was used by Gatty and Wiley Post on their world-girdling tour. Gatty has just been created an aero navigation research engineer in the War De- partment. HOMELESS MEN INCREASE | All records for homeless men invad- ing Washington were shattered in' December, the Salvation Army reported yesterday. Transient men appealing to the Sal- vation Army for aid last month totaled 6,042, as compared with 2428 in November, 1931, and 2.044 in December, 1930. A much ‘greater percentage were men under 30 years of age. “The preponderance of youth in this group of men,” declared Maj. James Asher, “is caused for much concern.” The Salvation Army, the report re- vealed, served 19,260 meals to white | transients during December in_addition to serving 3,831 meals and giving 3,506 | nights of lodging to 3,069 colored | transients. S o Briti;fl 'Who’s Who’ | Tells How Horses Should Be Played Space Than Any Other American. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 16.— The . British “Who's Who, 1932,” containing between 25,000 and 30,000 biographies of “the world’s great,” was issued yes- terday by the Macmillian Co. As measured by space, the world’s greatest appear to be Sir Ernest A. Wal- lace Budge, the Egyptologist, who rates two full columns. Dr. Nicholas Mur- ray Butler, president of Columbia Uni- veli.'ilty, is accorded a column and a half. ‘The volume records that the princi- pal recreation of Willlam T. Tilden, jr., is “tennis,” and devotes 15 lines to Bobby Jones. Josef Stalin is omitted. Among thg advertisements are five pages of counsel on how to “play the horses.” ING ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JARUARY 16, 1932 ]B : ‘My Most Int eresting Case BY MISS ELIZABETH A. MULHOLLAND, Supervisor of Family Department, Catholic Charities. HEN the Catholic Charities discovered the Russian fam- ily, each member had been separated from the other— and for such a clannish group that circumstance was tragic. Lila, who adored her elderly father and mother, was the first to break the home circle. Her dark beauty had attracted a young mechanie, and, quite unexpectedly, one day she told her beloved par- ents of her mar- riage,. The hus- band was by no means a happy ad- dition to the fam- ily, and, against the tearful en- treaties of his bride, he insisted that 'the old peo- ple be sent to a home for the aged. Such was the con- | dition of our most interestinz case in 1931, when Lila, her ' mother and father were reported t5 us. The old people presented a pitiful picture, living in separate quarters at the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged. For years they had been partially blind, and since coming to the United States from their homeland Miss Mulholland. had lived only for each other and their black-eyed daughter. Their English vocabularly was limited, making con- versation with their fellow inmates al- most impossible. The extreme loneli- ness of the two aroused the sympathy of those in charge of the home, who called our attention to the case. On questioning Lila we learned she was working in a laundry. making only $8 a week in hopes of saving enough money to support her parents in a tiny flat, where they could be together egain. She grieved continually over the poor progress she was making to relieve the seemingly hopeless predica- ment of the aged couple. A small monthly allowance from us, together with the daughter's salary, now pays for a comfortable flat. And the old people, in their own home, are again contented. To make the family relations more pleasant, the couple has won the heart of Lila’s husband, and |every day he visits them with his wife. The part played by the Catholic | Charities in this little drama was not to relieve any poverty suffered by the | Russian family, but to reunite th- . | thus changing their bitterness, in “bhe | circumstances which meant separation, | to_happiness. For the first 11 months in 1931 ‘he | major cases assisted by the Catholic Charities totaled 1,218. Hundreds of people benefited by incidental aid given PICKS ARMS DELEGATES Poland Names Zaleski Strassburger and Komarnicki. W. SAW, Poland, January 16 (). —Po 1d's delegation to the Disarma- ment Conference will be composed of Foreign Minister Zaleski, M. Komar nicki, chief of the disarmament di vision of the foregn office, and M. Strassburger, Polish Danzig commis- sioner, it was announeed yesterday. BARES PROSPERITY OF MODERN ICELAND Capt. Bartlett, in National Geo- graphic Lecture, Shows Movies of People Using Geyser Laundries. Modern Iceland as a land of pros- perity, where the people use geysers for laundries, and swim in geyser-heated swimming pools every day in the year, was described by Capt. Robert E. Bart- lett, famous seafarer and explorer, fore the- National Geographic ‘Society in the Washington Auditorium - last pight. With the ai d of a mnew series of motion pictures * Cap’n Bob” took his | audience on a new voyage aboard the good ship Morrisey, calling first at Brigus, Bartlett's home town in New- foundland, and then at Iceland. On the return voyage & visit was made to the Eastern Coast of Greenland. Capt. Bartlett showed the new build- ings and paved streets of Rekjkevik, the capital, where traffic police control the growing traffic, most of which is com- posed of American automobiles. In Ice- !Tand the catching and drying of fish is the principal industry—the men doing the catching and the women the drying and packing. all parts of the world. When the expedition was caught in the pack ice off the Greenland coast, dynamite was used to break up the foes. At this time some striking and unusual photographs of polar bears and walrus were obtained. WOMAN HIT BY AUTO GETS $8,000 VERDICT Jury Invokes Doctrine of “Last Clear Chance” in Case of Mrs. H. H. Rabbes. Invoking the doctrine of the “last I ctear chance,” a jury in District Su- | preme Court yesterday awarded $8.000 damages to Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Rabbes, who had brought suit against Charles H. Tcmpkins, loéal builder. Mrs. Rabbes was injured in May, 1929, when she stepped from the north curb of Dupont Circle and was struck by the side of an automobile operated by Tompkins’ chauffeur It was brought out that both the woman and the chauffeur were negli- | gent in crossing the intersection while the warning traffic light was on. The foreign | jury found, however, that the operator | of the automobile could have avoided the accident after Mrs. Rabbes placed herself in danger. Plaintiffs were rep- resented by Attorney Alvin Newmeyer. Government-owned South Africa Rail- ways now have 12,873 miles of lines. This fish is shipped to | 7™ from here during 1931. | RITCHIE RELEASES ~ GIRLINTAG WAR Governor Remits Fine by Hagerstown Judge for 1931 Car Plates. | ecial Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., January 16.— | Miss Gurnella Poag, 22, of Leavenworth, | Kans, and San Francisco, was today frecd by Gov. Albert Ritchie sfter she | had served a day in jail here in default | of a fine for $11.45 imposed by Magis- | | trate Joseph Fite at Hancock for op- | erating her automobile on 1931 Kansas | tags. The girl was en route to Washington, D. C.. to make her future home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Poag, | when taken into custody by a State | policeman. | " Gov. Ritchie learned of the girl's | plight_through Altorncy General Wil- | liam Preston Lane and after an in- | | vestigation ordered the girl released and | | the fine canceled. | Miss Poag, while released last night, | spent _the night in the residence of | | Sheriff. W. Bruce Downham, who had | refused to place her in a cell when she | was first sent here from Hancock. | " “I am glad they threw me in jail. | Maybe they will do away with some of | the ridiculous laws in this State” the girl said. _ The Governor found that the question involved was highly technical, but felt | | that the matter was so trivial that the | sentence of the magistrate was unjust. Miss Poag said she had not even been stopped in any other State en route m Kansas, | Sp! CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Initiation, Shepherds ef Bethlehem, Washington Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Federation of Citizens' As- sociations, District Bullding, 8 p.m. Reception and dance, Towa State So- clety, Willard Hotel, 8:30 p.m. ‘ Costume party, New England State | Society, 2400 Sixteenth street, 9 pm. | Meeting, League for the Larger Life, | | 1400 New Hampshire avenue, 8 p.m. l | | DA ‘ | card party, Columbia Review, Wash- | | ington Loan & Trust Building, 8 p.m. | | Meeting, Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity, | Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. | Dinner, Alfalfa Club, Willard Hotel, | |7:15 pm. Dinner, State Department correspond- ents, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Dinner dance, Ph: | flower Hotel, 8'p.m. eta Gamma, May- Meeting, Political Study Club, Wash- ington Club, p.m. Representative | Lozier of Missouri, speaker. Card party, benefit Sacred Heart | Home, Hyattsville, Md., Thomas Circle | Club, ‘1326 Massachusetts avenue, 2:30 | pm. | card and bingo party, Ways and Means Committee, Knights of Pythias, | | Pythian Temple, 8:30 p.m. TEACHERS’ OATH 'CONSTITUTION PRINCIPLES URGED :Delegate E. H. Allen of Fairfax County Holds Up Patriotism of Washington By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. RICHMOND, Va., January 16—Be- lieving that the patriotism of George Washington is the standard that should be observed in the instruction of the youth of Virginia, Edmund H. Allen, Who is the Delegate from the same county and same district and is a ves- tryman in the same church from which the first President went to the Con- stitutional Convention and House of Burgesses, will introduce a bill in the House of Delegates requiring public School teachers to afirm their belief in the principles of government as rep- resented by the Constitution of the United States. Allen, who is serving his first term in the House of Delegates, comes from Mount Vernon district, in Fairfax County. It is in this district that George Washington lived. The Fair- fax Delegate is a_vestryman in the famous _Pohick Church, of which George Washington was a_vestryman. The bill which Allen proposes to in- troduce is sponsored by the Fairfax Basement Office for Rent at 1719 Eye Street L. W. GROOMES 1st Mtge. Notes for sale; on detached all- brick, new and modern homes near 16th St. ex- tended. L. W. GROOMES, 1719 Eye St. High-Grade 1st Mortg. Notes Since 1901 Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star every day. The great ma- Jority have the paper delivered regularly every evening and Sun- day morning at a cost of 1'% cents daily and 5 cents Sunday. 1f you are not taking advantage of this regular service at this low rate, telephone National 5000 now d e will start tomorrow. OF BELIEF IN U. 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The appoinment of a suc- | cessor is considered a matter of urgency |In view of the important problems which | are coming up in Europe at present Henry B. Fletcher 1s considered in usually_ well informed quarters as the most likely successor to Gen. Dawes. [ Mr. Fletcher has already hei ! suc- | cesstully the position of Ambassacor to Mexico and, in the opinion of leading members of th State Department, is the best fitted person to succeed Gen. Daywes. Grew Due for Forbes’ Place. Ambassador Joseph Grew is likelv to succeed Cameron Forbes early this Spring. As the Manchurian affairs have become less active as far as im- mediate _diplomatic negotiations are concerned, Mr. Forbes feels that he now can request President Hoover to allow him to return to this country. The Tokio embassy is very important requires the careful handling of a * reer” man. Grew has been Ambassador to Turkey since 1927 and has filled that important post brilltantly. His place as Ambas- sador to Turkey is likely to be filled by Jefferson Caflery, at present Minister to Colombia. Caffery belongs to the younger generation of ‘“career” diplo- mats. He has held positions as secretary of embassy or legation in practically every country where America has diplomatic representation, Paris Post to Be Vacant. His promotion as Ambassador would be welcomed by all members of the American diplomatic service because he would be the third man who has risen “from the ranks” to the highest post in_the service. The poct of American Ambassador to Paris is likely to bz vacant in the course of this Summer, possibly earlier. Am- bassador Walter Edge is reported to in- tend returning to the United States be- fore long. The post in Paris will un- doubtedly go to some political men out- side the diplomatic service. Phipps Recommended. Meanwhile. it was learned that former Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado has been strongly recommended to President Hoover for appointment as successor to Gen. Dawes. Senator Oddie of Nevada. one of those who is urging the appointment, said the former Colorado Senator is “splendidly qualified” for the position. Phipps at ot is in Colorado Senator explained he had written a let! the President recom- mending the aPointment. He said other Western Republican Senators also | were indorsing Phipps. Open till 6 P.M. Sundays eautiful Floral Tributes for all occasions, $3.50 up '$ 1407 H St. N.W. Nat’l 4905 Another Year of Your Lives Paying Rent? N DECIDE NOW! Go See 1 Wrenwood Homes 10 Sold $13,450 In Washington's finest home section of Chevy Chase, PG Protective Terms, Construction, Location, Price, Terms, and the many New Ideas found here all con- tributed to this SUCCESS To Inspect Right from Chevy Chase Circle, two squares on Western Av then right two squares on_Rif tenhouse St. to Finished Home. Bus line right to property. 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