Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1932, Page 17

The penin ITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION n Star Society and General WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, 5, FEBRUARY 1932. PAGE B—1 BRIDE SHOWS LIMIT PUTOND. C. HEADS BY EXISTING LAWS Corporation Counsel Argues Commissioners Should Have Broader Powers. PALMISANO AND BOWMAN CRITICIZE PROPOSED BILL Representatives Declare Changes Contemplated Take in Too Much Authority. Commissioners are pow- ster of a cemetery to another Congress, Corpora- am W. Bride told the PAS FOR NATION Dr. H. H. Harmon Elected to Succeed Dr. Wilfley, Resigned. Miss Genevieve Brown of In- dianapolis Is Chosen as Aide. Dr. H. H. Harmon has been elected pastor of the National City Christian Church, Thomas Circle, it was an- nounced today. Miss Genevieve Brown of Indianapolis, Ind, was chosen as- sistant pastor. Dr. Harmon, who took an active part in the campaign to finance the new church « structure, succeeds Dr. Earle Wilfley, whose health broke almost im- mediately after the dedication of the new church in October, 1930. Dr. Wilfley had been pastor for 21 years Dr. Harmon had served as acting pasto: since last May, when Dr. Wilfley ten dered his resignation Graduate of Towa University. Miss Brown has assisted Dr. Harmon for many years in the general work of the church Board of Education, whose headquarters are in Indianapolis. She is an honor graduate of the University of Towa and of Simmons College, Bos- n The new pastor was born at Auburn Nebr.. in 1875. and groduated from the State university. In 1896 he was mar- =] au- | rity now. and of detalled trict ng out that it | nissioners all | ve nature, but , | D: | Say Proposil Too Broad. ano of Mary- | subcommitte } of 0 broad a aised to a sec- | n | regulations of the » said he would rather proposed in the elected by the an to a com- | President of h is not di- people see the powers said has | too broad. There ons;” | requently | subjects. and | tree limbs scattered over the streets in | the spotlight toward the close of the | ithout powe. tments and wi said Mr. Bride r legisiation is Urges Bill Be Passed. | variety the Na- expected to sideration of | times, compara- matters be lodged some- | conditions to| hat are constant- | dapt municipal ordi- | v ones to meet such | ise. This is es-| e. when which | speedy and ef- ot be obtained | n recess, and body be in ses-| matters of na- Heupadanan esent ti demand 1 which ca oves. of the opinion that | s badly needed and | v passed | ed out there are 29 Congress at this time, | which contain provisions | ely municipal matters | Commissioners_could sicipal ordinance if the plated in the bill are con- | em Traffic Act Cited. | “There are a number of other bills! pending wi seem to fall definitely nto the e class” said Mr. Whe e municipality would e power to act would depend | e followed the | es decided by the courts | upon the assembly or the opinion of i be promy; r. Bride poir courts d istration of the g needed legislation, | n character, atten- | ment passed ngress to the ended by the Since the passage of this | raffic conditions so | amendments be- | Jommissioners | the traffic | in its provisions, and ould be adopted incon- terms of the law ind House District Com- | respective subcom- | requ d to devote many | ns to a consideration of | ng the desired amend- ituation was such it e passed by the respective | Congress with unanimous ditional powers ere Commissioners as proposed e bill. there would be no need to s upon the time of members of s in matters of this nature.” DISTRICT TO INCREASE MEN ON PUBLIC WORKS Community Chest Funds to Permit th thei; Employment of 100 More & Week District Committee on Employ- | will increase to 2,200 the number n employed on public works pro- out of funds provided by the ommunity Chest, Paul Benjamin, sec- retary, announced yesterday. The men are split into two groups and employed | alternate weeks. The plan represents ncrease of about 100 men a week. e work is furnished by the District Government and the Office of Public| Buildings and Public Parks The comn; was in receipt of a letter yesterdayv from Howard Univer- gity, stating that 40 per cent of the gate receipts of a basket ball game be- tween Howard and the College of the City f New York will be turned over «) she committee, | wind was ried to Miss Parl S. Schell. They have two sons and two daughters For three years he had charge of a church at David City, Nebr., going from there to Columbus, Ind., for six years and then entering the ministry of the First Christian Church at Lincoln, . where he served for 18 years From' that post he was called into the national work of the Disciples of Christ with headquarters in Indianapolis. Served With “Y" In War, He was a divisional secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in the World War, serving with the 2d Division of the A. E. F. He is said to have been one of the men who carried Flovd Gibbons, war corre- spondent, from the battlefield after he had been wounded. Dr. Harmon is a 33d degree Mason TREES UPROOTED Are Broken. A windstorm, which momentarily reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour visited Washington last night and left in its wake several uprooted trees and several sections. reported The worst damage done by the high to loosen the roof on the home of Edgar Miller, 923 I street northeast. Fire apparatus was sum- moned and firemen succeeded in secur- he portion of the roof torn loose. street lamps were reported No serious damage was roken. Constitution Avenue Hit. Two trees were blown down along from national | Constitution avenue between Fifteenth | g0/ "0 4 debated from time to time Park chains streets one aside with and Sixteenth dragged police and It is a|placed lanterns around both of them y el to warn motorists. The storm, beginning about 7 o'clock last evening, reached a velocity of 38 | miles an hour a few minutes later and at 11:30 pm. a gust blowing at 50 miles an hour was recorded at the Weather Bureau. The velocity was registered at 43 miles per hour at 1 o'cl this morning, 42 at 2 o'clock and continued to blow in decreasing force until it died down at about 5:30 this morning. Telephone Wires Down. The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. reported today that tele- phone wires had been blown down at Rockville, Md.. but the damage was not serious. completed today. The wind was due to a storm which passed up the Atlantic Coast and late this morning was over Nova Scotia, the ferecaster of the Weather Bureau said today. There are still high winds in | the upper strata of air, the forecaster said, and they may visit Washington late this afternoon. The wind was ex- pected to be less violent, however, than that of last night The bureau predicted & minimum temperature of about 30 degrees for to- night. Increasing cloudiness and ris- ing temperature is predicted for tomor- row WOMEN T0 SPEAK ON DISARMAMENT | International League to Hear Far $4.600 East Angle by Miss Baloh, President. Addresses on disarmament will be delivered by a number of prominent | women at a luncheon of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in the Carlton Hotel tomor- row afternoon at 1 o'clock The situation in the Far East in con- nection with the World Disarmament Conference in session in Geneva will be discussed In an address by Miss Emily Greene Balch, national president of the league Other speakers will be Mrs. Sinclair | Lewis, who will discuss disarmament in connection with world peace: Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, former vice chalr- man of the National Democratic Com- mittee, who will discuss the main- tenance of peace as a political issue, and Miss _Charlotte Tuttle of New York, daughter of Charles H. Tuttle, who will speak on youth and world peace. Mrs. Huston Thompson heads the list | of patronesses for the luncheon. Others on the list are: Mrs. Frederick Delano, Mrs. Tillman Frazer, Miss Katherine Lenroot, Mrs. Judson King, Mrs. Cloyd H. Marvin, Mrs. Edmund C. Stanton, Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel, Mrs, Abby Scott Baker, Mrs. Gordon Dunthorne, Mrs. Duncan Phillips, Mrs. Herbert Feis, Dr. Mary Dabney Davis, Mrs. Willlam H. King, Mrs. Avery Coonley, Mrs. George Odell, Mrs. Gilson Gardner, Mrs. Bertha Helm, Miss Eleanor Krick, Mrs. R. W. Ketchum, Miss Carlotta Veitenheimer, Mrs. Alvin Barber, Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler and Mrs. Edward P. Costigan. Farmers selling State are celebrating & } due to the new Pree Stal p in prices, bacon tariff. rk in the Irish Free | TOR AND ASSISTANT NAMED AL CITY CHURCH MI NEVIEVE BROW: The committee &1 new minister we Scott, W. H. Pinke E. W. Davis, Mr: C. C. Galloway and n ted to select the H. E. Davisson nnie Foster. Dr Miss Ida McMillan STRICT DRY BILL BYHIGH WIND HERE AGAIN T0 COME UP IFiremen Called Out by Dam- Senate Committee to Begin | age to Roof—Street Lamps | Hearings Tuesday on Howell Measure. | Discussion of & dry measure to supplement hibition in Washington national pro- which occupied be resumed when Committee begins last Congress. will the Senate District hearings again on 2:30 o'clock Tuesday Senator Howell's bill, which tended to correspond in the Dis Columbia with the local enforcement measures that have been adopted by many of the States, was reported from the District Committee at the last ses- but afternoon is in- did not reach a final vote. Senator Howell. Republican, of Ne- said today he would explain the measure at the hearing set for Tuesday and also stated he would make every effort to obtain a final the bill in the Senate this year. When the Senate took up last year most of the debate revc around a proposed broadening of cearch and Seizure law. This prov was modified in the Senate and in introducing his bill this year | Howell has made the changes whick had been agreed to during last year's debate. Senator Howell has explained | that his purpose in regard to the search and seizure provision is to give the the the ion Senator police a means of preventing boot- | Repairs were expected to be | 1eggers from using dwellings as storage | | places from which to make deliveries. | | Most of the debate in opposition to the | bill has been on the search warrant | feature. Other sections of the bill | would give all members of the police | force authority to assist in prohibition | enforcement ‘instead of the | number now possessing that juristiction HUNT ACCUSED MAN IN BANDIT ATTACK Police Extend Search for Yudelevit ‘ to Baltimore—Victim in Serious Condition. Henry Abrams, 30, shot during a jewelry hold-up Wednesday | night, still was in a serious condition | today at Emergency Hospital. | .. Meanwhile, police here and in Bal- | timore were continuing their search for | Harry Yudelevit, named by Abrams’ | companion, William P, Moses, as the man who fired the shots. Abrams was shot as he and Moses sat in an automobile in front of the latter’s home in the 1600 block of Bu- | chanan street. Three armed men sur- rounded the car, forcing Moses to hand | over his diamond ring. valued at $3,100, and his diamond scarfpin, worth $1,500. Then, according to Moses’ statement to police, one of the men suddenly opened fire, shooting four bullets into Abrams' body As the bandits fled, Moses said, he drew his automatic and | fired eight shots at their machine. Four of the bullets struck the automo- bile, it was learned when the car was found abandoned yesterday. BURROUGHS CITIZENS BACK TAX OPPOSITION Association Allso Supports Capper Bill for Restriction of Firearms. | of Sales The stand of the Federation of Citi- zens’ Associations in opposition to in- creased taxation, as proposed in the four bills growing out of the Mapes re- port, was indorsed last night by the Burroughs Citizens’ Association. The association, meeting in the John Burroughs School, Eighteenth and Monroe streets northeast, at the same time approved the Capper bill for the restriction of the sale of firearms in the District. Congressional proposals to authorize the District Commissioners to settle all claims under $1.000 against the District | of Columbia also were indorsed by the | body. posed of Blair T.| e Howell bill at | vote on | =f A limited | SIGN COMMITTEE SEEKS TO ENFORCE BILLBOARD RULES | i Meets to Consider Measures in Connection With New “Regulations.” ADVERTISING COMPANY GAINS D. C. MONOPOLY g | {Some Unauthorized Displays Still Standing, Despite “Agree- ment."” With the Washington celebration opening this District Sign Committee met today, probably for the last time, to consider stricter enforcement measures in con- nection with the regulations promul- gated several months ago to give the Commissioners better control over out door advertising displays The billbos ) | committe> ev | solved under { agreement” with th try operating local bi s arisen as one of th cf obstacles in | the way of cleaning up the city in time for the Bicentennial. This situation has become aggravated, it was learned by a recent busincss deal out of whict the General Outdoor Advertising Co. has gained a virtual monopoly of the existing billboards in Washington Morton Withdraws. The Morton Co. has withdrawn froj the Washington fleld, turning over its billboard sites to the G 1 Out- dvor Co., in exchang, | Baltimore by Th 2 Washi. nt W Bicentennial | month, the | be alled orga | in official j circles, as that « 15 said | have ‘co-operated rrying out the s 100 of t Aside from oper the lo | washir | its_units are The “gentlemer the billboard companies abandon all unaut d of the matters to come Sign Committee tods companies were remove ithe signs. some of standing It is understood the Morton Co. had | complied with practically all of th | conditions under this agreement the District officials before ment from the local field agreemen the boards are Situation Displeases. uation with regard General Outdoor Co.’s boards. ing to those familiar with is far from satisfactory boards have been taken | learned. were removed by of new building operati cases the repainting obliterated some of th the company was pl Civic leaders wk obtaining a_*'model District of Cc s the accord The dow the take onths’ prompt that the forced. In me have b | coor adv jand store the city. ce, should and to billboard sect | on s strictly er ny ways the en’ effective new regulati in_restraining c sing that clutters the stre fronts in various sec By refusing new p additional display signs in numerot cases, the Commissioners have accom- plished much in maintaining a dez of order. In a few days the sign markers will arrive and authorized sign will be red to she its license number. This will be a h to the police in reporting on condition: other problem with which the S Committee is faced involves the sectic governing the character of advertising This section declares that no sign shall be displayed unless it advertises a bona fide business conducted on the premises.” The provision is admitted to be difficult to enforce. MANY ROBBERIES ' REPORTED TO POLICE | Fares Take Driver—Brooklyn Man Re- | lieved of $103. Money From Taxi | Two taxi drivers told police last night they had been held up by passengers |and robbed of small sums of money. The drivers are George I. Kyle, 1308 Florida avenue northeast, and Benja- min Johnson, colored, 1221 First street Pclice are looking for two colored men said to have commited the robberies John King of Brooklyn, N. Y., re- perted to police last night that he had been held up and robbed of $103 in the District by a man he had given a “lift" while driving here from Richmond, V: King said he and his youthful pas | senger went to a rooming house on L street for the night. After retiring, he said, the stranger got up, threatened him with two pistols and took the money. Mrs. Ethel Waller, 2501 Thirteenth | street, was knocked down by one of two colored men she surprised in the act of | robbing her apartment yesterday after- | {moon. The intruders escaped with only | !a small sum of money. Mrs. Waller was | y hurt. DRY AGENTS TRAP TIPTON: HE DEMANDS JURY TRIAL Man in Night Club Arrested on Charge of Selling Pint not serious to Policemen. Charged with selling a pint of liquor to two policemen in a night club near Eleventh and U streets last night, Wal- ter Edward Tipton pleaded not guilty when arraigned in Police Court this morning and demanded a jury trial. Tipton faces a charge ‘of sale and second offense illegal possession of liquor. He is alleged to have accepted marked money from Policemen A. L. Embrey and C. H. Gould. Tipton's ar- rest followed execution of an elaborate scheme to entrap him. Embrey and Gould registered at a hotel yesterday. Last night they went to the club and informed the manager that they were guests of the hotel from out of the city and showed hotel stationery to prove it After spending some time in the club and observing Tipton, the officers man- aged to persuade him that they were “all right.” They say he left a bottle on their table fl'd took their money. His arrest followt | eration | Grant { Alexander, > automobile puzzle contest d with confront ition. Photo L. Halle Auto Show | R AUTO PRIZES Miss Dalton of Clarendon, Va., Wins First Honor Among 44. 15,000 than automobil St tive cove ir solutiol ans. In mak- phy said, these 1 jnto_consider however, was of the a prerequ. slogans themse; verly worded because the incorrect First Prize Winner, some ¢ were swers slogans puzzle an- own ou were Marion ner of ets to fourth prizes ickets each Leesnitzer of E. Lange, Eleve of judges Ten pri the two tickets were sent to ) Watt, Kew Apartments: Florence French r pl Fred Brandt, 5211 | enth street; Joan Thompson, 1334 Farragut street: L. H. Hughes, 419 M street; Mrs. Joseph H. Love Glen Echo, Md : Paul N. Peck, 1718 Twenty- second street; Mrs. Edwin E. Mays, 1218 D street northe; Mrs. Mary J. Michael, 615 Pennsylvania _avenue southeast, and Nelson Warner, 39 Lloyd avenue, Alexandria, Va Winners of Tickets. | Two tickets to the automobile show were awarded to each of the following Mrs. W. C. James, 137 Carroll avenue, Takoma Park, Md.: Miss Helena Taylor, 401 Seventh street; Elizabeth Beall, 9 South Ballston aven Ballston, Va.; Miss Henrietta F. Murphy, 2611 Adams Mill road Charles E. Mansy 818 Ninth_street; Miss Dorothy Crandall, 1840 Biltmore street: Miss Margaret Thomas, 713 Massachusetts avenue northeast: Clay G. Walker, 404 Ray- mond street, Chevy Chase, Md.; H. Walter Barrows 8 Manor circle, Takoma Park, N Edward H. Coulson, | 1801 Calvert str John Scott, s O 1 avenue, Tak a Pa Md.; O. } E. Lancaster, 815 Fifteenth street: | J. S. Buynitsky. 7 Eighteenth street; | Milton M. Rowzee, 1111 Glennross road, | Silver Spring, Md.: Jesse L. Tewsbury, | 18 Ninth street southeast: Mrs. Theo- dore Ruoff, 41 Carroll avenue, Takoma Park, Md.; B. B. Lezin, 3500 Thirteenth street; George M. Hawkins, 2446 Kalo- rama road: M. L. Keyes, street; Mrs. Clyde Bell, 121 Fifteenth street southeast: Mrs. Frances 8. 1317 Columbia road; Mrs. | Guy F. Allnut, Seneca Md. Mrs.| Pauline B. Werner, 121 House Office | Building; Mis.. M. Forney, 104 Arling- | ton avenue, Clarendon Va:: Mrs. H. J. | Sykes, 4425 Fourteenth street; Willlam H. Kephart, Herndon, Va.; Kenneth Elliott, East Falls Church, Va. Mrs. | Margaret R. Carrothers 5103 Fifth | street; H. M. Dodd, 239 Rock Creek Church road: Lillian S. Munzberg, 2825 Twenty-seventh street. DECORATION BILL URGED on Navy Department Urges Blanket | Authority for Acceptance. The Navy Department, tired of ask- ing Congress to pass a special bill each time one of its officers is offered a foreign decoration, today asked blanket permission for the acceptance of these | tributes. | The privilege would extend also to | the Army and Marine Corps [ The fathers of the country, fearful of the effect of foreign honors upon its officials, wrote into the Constitution | an express provision that these should | be prohibited from accepting any | president and Joseph B. Trew | 1929, sponsored j quite a jo n it came to goi h some of the gton Automotive shows of se T CAPT. ORAM RELIEVED Hoover Accepts Resignation to Permit New Duties. he resignation of Oram as an Army offic by President Hoover today to enable him to take over his new duties as ector of the Department of Inspec- of the Di Columbiag duties are ma 1 of the build- ectors’ offices to the zon- ad of the Capt. Hugh P. was accepted fold, udin ing and plumbi serving as execut commiss 120 AUTD TA LETTERS RETURNED Traffic Bureau Puzzled by Difficulties From Chang:=d Addresses. The Traffic Bureau has become a mall-sized “dead letter office’ and Director Van Duzer is wondering what he can do about it Due to wron names or other causes burea had returned to it more than 1,200 letters containing application bl s 1 automobile tags. about 400 letters con- taining certificates of title and approxi- mately 600 1-tters advising car owners of incorrect title applications addresses. Motorists May Be Waiting. Director V: ve that m: mes are on dignantly awaitin Bureau, not realizi through no appa 15 impotent to pr Examining the collection of returned application blanks, Van Duzer said to- day that most of the envelopes bear “wrong address” notations by the postal hers came back to the | some of the addresses | xistent. or * h | the address given or had moved on to be- rists whose are he TreFic the bureau it of its own, Duzer bureau because proved to be person” lived at because the residen unknown quarters. In the case of the 600 filled-out title applications Directc Duzer endeavored to locate the dresses through the police precincts. In most instances the policemen re- ported “party moved.” and several re- ports stated that the addresses given them for investigation were fictitious. 5,000 to Be Issued. Altogether there are Iy 5.000 tags yet to be issued, Mr. Van Duzer esti- mated. He said the bureau is current with its work and if applicants will come in they will receive prompt atten- tion. Applications for dupli certificates disclosed a wide variety of explanations of loss of the originals Some owners reported the papers had been aceidentally burned with the trash, inadventently thrown away or other wise destroyed. Two motorists said their titles were stolen by safe crackers. INSANITY SUIT DROPPED | tes of title Court Dismisses Woman's $50,000 Action Against Alienist. Justice Jesse C. Adkins of the Dis- tyict Supreme Court has dismissed for want of prosecution a suit for $50.000 damages brought against Dr. D. Percy Hickling, ~District alienist. July _26. by Mrs. Helen McHale, 3110 Mount Pleasant street. The physician | was awarded a judgment for costs against the plaintiff. Mrs. McHale claimed that Dr. Hick- | ling had falsely signed a certificate | charging her with insanity, which re- sulted in her incarceration at Gallinger Hospital and later at St. Elizabeth’s KATE SMITH TO by The Evening Star and the Was! vice president of the association | tomotive ies sub- wndred sol They Association J y, man- Star Staff Photo. HEARINGS DELAYED g through a rade ON'U. 5. PAY CUTS Postponement to Next Forced by Absence of Two Senators. The ch Senate Civil to ver nent will hold ure early pay reductic its first meet next week First Set for Tomorrow. i called a mee e group for morning in_accord- consideration. poned until rman learned ow attend- s of date ed to at the by h that he would give promy to the bills if they committee Aimed at Higher Officials. irst suggestion was that the Pinance Com Dale argued that jurisdi 5 were st d go to they 1 of bills are Is \ uding mem- cabinet, the 1 them will be | by those who mistake for the upon a program followed feel it be a Government to enter of salary reduction ROVER SAYS GAMBLERS HURT LEGITIMATE TRADE interest District Attorney Also Scores Type of Men Who Hang Around Gaming Resorts. Gambling house operators are divert- ing money which should be spent with imate business concerns, Leo A Rover, United States District attorney declared vesterday before a meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in the Carlton Hotel “Around these places, loors and electric signals.” Mr. Rover said, “are to be found that type of man too lazy to beg. too yvellow to steal and too proud to work.” The speaker said magazines sup- pressed here recently contained matter h> would not permit his children to read. He commended the club for pre- senting a medal annually to the person accomplishing the greatest civic enter- prise during the year. He said this weuld tend to counteract ill advised criticism of men who perform public tasks Thomas J. Groome, chairman, an- nounced a stag night program would be given February 25. Dr. Bryant to Lecture. “Some Superlative Features National Parks” will be the of an illustrated lecture by Dr Bryant, assistant director of the } tional k Service, in the Cosmos Club night at 8 o'clock. of Our Pa Monday Wealthy Publisher Dies. CLINTON, Iowa, February 5 (/) Courtland H. Young, 62, capitalist and publisher of the Clinton Herald, died last night BE GIVEN Week | enator Borah | with their steel | PROFIT OF §785903 SEEN N UTILITES * ALERANDRIA DA Sale of Securities Brought Fat Profits, Testifies U. S. Examiner. NAMED AS RECIPIENTS Aaron J. Hughes Describes Trans- actions for Control of Company Now Owned by Insull. Three quarters of profit was made on the s and bonds of the Alexar Power Co. by two holding com I now under the control of Samuel H. | Insull, Tllinois utilities mag it was claimed today the Federal Trade Commission utility investigation | The transactions, occurring in March, | 1926, were testified to J. Hughes, examiner for the Com- m His report showed when the preferred and common stocks of the Alexandria Light & Power Co. W quired by the National Public rporation from the M Service Co., Municipal of $563,010. milar pal Service Co. sold in the Alexandria Public_Service Coj {a profit of $151.7 two transactions of $747,828 de sion that its bon Estimates Merger Profit. When Alex he sam the n total profit to the t | controlled companies Service Co e Corporati L res of Alexand $1,023010. The difference was up in cash, according to Hughes His report stated Municipal had paid only $460,000 for the Alexandria stock but when it sold them to National it set up on its books the 29,880 s | of Eastern Shore stock a | $563.010 less than the th tional Co. had carried bool | “In this way.” Hughes' report | clared. “M | avoided sh jandria s made de- ‘Which n to Virginiz at the appreclated cost. Profit Not Shown. | The Municipal company did not re- | cord a profit as a result of thi action until September, 1927 said, when it resold to ic Service the common the East hore Gas & | which it received in ex Alexandria st | corded. acc | lowing profits | Light & Power and $33.100 on Eastern Shore Gas & Electric | In reselling the Eastern Shore stock |to National Public Service. the com- mission was informed. Municipal was paid $1,303,000. or $33.100 more the cost at which N stock xcess of the amount at which € | was bought from National by Municipal | originally. | " Between the time from Nation: of was changed ; & Electric Co. Shore Public Service Co. Insull acquired the Nation | Service Co. through his Nati | tric Power Co. about a year after the Alexnadria Ligh Co. transactions MRS. RUCKER HEADS DAUGHTERS OF ARMY hore Organized Washington Chapter Elects Its First Officers. The newly organized Chapter of the Daughters of the United | States Army held its second meeting at, | the Army-Navy Country Club Tuesday | afternoon to elect its first officers of the local branch Mrs. C. B. Rucker, daughter of Gen T. Q. Donaldson, was elected president Mrs. J. H. B. Bogman, vice president and Miss Virginia Coleman, secretary treasure: Mrs. Roscoe Woodruff was acting chairman at the session, National headquarters of the society will be moved to Washington from Fort Benning. Ga. when the local chapter has been properly organized, it was announced. The society is com- posed of daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters of Regular Army officers. 1Its object is to keep alive the traditions and ideals of the Army officers. The group will function principally as a social organization. its charitable endeavors being ‘- confined to assistance of service agencles. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner meeting, Washington Round Table, Ladies’ night, University Club, 6:15 p.m. Washington Card party and dance, benefit St, Francis de Sales Church, Raleigh Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Washington Norwich Club, Olmsted Grill, 7 p.m. Dance, Trinity College alumnae, May- RECEPTION AT UNION STATION | fover Hoet. o pn. | Legion Guard of Honor, Other Veterans and Boys’ Band to Greet Radio Blues Singer This Afternoon. When Kate Smith, radio blues singer, | arrives in Washington at 5 o'clock this afternoon she will be met at Union Sta- tion by an American Legion guard of honor, representatives of other veterans' organizations and the Boys’ Band from the National Training School. | Her arrival will be broadcast over of the singer will go to her mother's apartment in the Kennedy-Warren, ac- companied by a police escort Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans' Administration, will expre: to her the appreciation of veterans for her work in their behalf during her regular broadcest Monday night. At 12:30 Wednesday he will present her to “present, emolument, office, or title of | Station WMAL from 5:15 until 5:30 | President Hoover any kind whatever,” without the con- sent of Congress, o'clock. Miss Smith is here for a week's en- | After these ceremonies are dispose gagement at & local theater, Meeting, Italy-America Society, May- flower Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Chicago Association of Com- merce, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Card party, ladies of the Rector's Aid and choir of St. Andrew's P. E. Church, Hotel Roosevelt, 8 p.m. Card party, St. Cecelia Alumnae As- sociation, Raleigh Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Dance and card party, St. Frances Girls’ Club, Raleigh Hotel, 8 p.m. Dance and card party, La Fayette Lodge Chapter, O. E. S., 2400 Sixteenth street, 8:30 p.m. FUTURE. Luncgpeon,; Harvard Club, University Club, tomorrow, 1:15 pam,