Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1932, Page 17

WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The Foeni ny Star Society and General WASHINGTON, Dy e MOVE T0 REVAMP FEDERAL BUREAUS T0 BE EXPEDITED T [ Vandenberg to Seek Amend- ment to Confer Broad Powers on President. WOULD ATTACH PLAN TO INTERIOR FUND BILL Proposal Will Come Up While Senate Considers Promotion Ban Voted by House. | An effort to get prompt action in Congress looking to reorganization of the Government departments by in- cluding in the Interior Department ap- propriation bill an amendment con- ferring broad recrganization power on the President will be made by Senator ‘Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, when the Senate resumes consideration of the Interior bill this afternoon. Senator Vandenberg will offer kLis proposa! while the Senate is consider- ing the provisions placed in the bill by the House to prohibit salary promotions and to curtail the filling of vacancies until after July, 1933. These two limi- tations were advanced by the House as economy measures. The Senate Ap- propriations Committee has recom- mended that they be eliminated from this and other appropriation bills in order that further discussion of the ad-; visability of such restrictions may oc had in conference. In Line With George's Resolution. Senator Vandenberg feels that since the House has, by these limitations, opened the door to discussion of per- sonnel problems, that it would be ap- propriate in that connection for the Senate to consider steps looking to a general reorganization of governmental agencies Senator _Vandenberg’s proposal to give the President authority to pro- ceed with reorganization of bureaus or departments is in line with a resolution prepared by Senator George, Democrat, of Georgla, which has been favorabiy Teported to the Senate from the Fi- nance Committee, If the move to at- tach a reorganization plan to the In- terior appropriation bill succeeds, its chances of enactment at this session would be much greater than if it is consicered separately. Howard U. Fight Up Again. The Senate also will reach a final @etermination this afternoon on the question of how much should be allow- the Interior bill for Howard Uni- v. Late yesterday afternoon the e, on motion of Senator Smoot of Utah, in charge of the bill, restored the #§400,000 which the Appropriations Committee had cut out, for the building program at the university. Today Sen- ator Costigan, Democrat of Colorado, will offer further smendments to put back some of the money for salaries and general expenses of the university Wwhich was recommended by the Budget Bureau, but reduced by the House. While the House restrictions on sal- ary promotions and filling of vacancies are at issue in the Interior bill, the final decision on these questions will come in the conference report on the agricul- tural appropriation bill, since that is the first bill to reach the conference stage. Since incorporating these limitations in several of the early appropriation bills, the House has partially reversed its stand by leav¥ing out of the Treasury-Post Office bill the ban on normal promotions. With regard to vaca the House has provided in all the ap propriation bills that only such vacar cies as the President declares to be| essential may be filled. | SALOONS’ RETURN SEEN IN WET MOVE Representative Finley, in Radio Talk, Says Repeal Would En- trench Huge Liquor Lobby. The repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment, toward which the Beck-Linthi- cum resolution is the first step, would mean the reappearance of the saloon, Representative Charles Finley of Ken- tucky declared last night in a radio address from Station WJSV “I say that just so eighteenth amendment as_the Tepealed,” serted, “just so Teappear—not reappear glorified ential a part of iness as retail ier wholesale busi- surely is otk Should the Beck-Linthicum amend- ment be adopted by th= States, Repre- sentative Finley said, it would put the| liquor question just where it was be- fore the eighteenth amendment was adopted. The question of the repeal or retention of the eighteenth amendment is the only phase of the liquor question aker continued. told his hearers nendment would in- lem into the poll where it would stay for der such a situation lobby would entrench itol and spread throughout the | | prob) 2 he genera PETROLEUM PRODUCTS RETAILERS END GROUP | Memiers Bétome Affiliated With Merchants and Manufactur- ers' Association. Abandonment of the Petroleum Prod- | s Retaile Association and affilia- | tion of its members with the Merchants a Association, as its! soline Station Opera- | n, was announced following | the gasoline group yes- Dunne, vice president of the association, was elected tem- | chairman of the Membership Committee of the new division of the merchants’ association H The Board of Governors of the or- | ganization will act upon the applica- tion for affiliation of this group of retail gasoline distributors at a_meet- ing of the board today at the offices of the association in The Star Building “With the rapidly increased use of the automobile, the distribution of gasoline has become an important field of distribution, with more than 500 service stations in operation and over 3,000 people employed in Washington - Reward Offered For Lost Pekinese, | “Dead or Alive” (RN REVEALED Wife of Dr. S. L. Christie Says Animal Was Be- queathed by Relatives. Mrs. S. L. Christie, wife of Dr. S. L. Christie, of 1706 Irving street will pay a liberal reward for the return of her 10-year-old Pekinese d dead or alive. Mrs. Christie said: “I want the dog back, whether it is dead or not. I want to_give it a decent burial.” China, is worth $500 and was be- queathed to her by relatives eight years ago. The snimal strayed from the Irving street home last Tuesday. described it as being “a light tan toy AN BROUCHT HERE Companion of Suspect in Brightwood Case Is Also Held. Fred Jackson, 28 years old, of Ho- boken, N. J., wanted here for questioning in connection with the Brightwood postal substation robbery on the night of December 6 and the safeblowing at was returned to the Capital last night from Elizabeth, N. J. Davis, 38, also of Hoboken, described by officers as an ex-convict, arrested with Jackson, who likewise is said to have a police record. No charge has been filed against either man, both being held for investi- gation. Arrested on Suspicion. The two were picked up on suspicion by a local officer at Bound Brook, N. J., and brought back here on a United States commissioner's warrant by De- tective Sergt. Frank O. Brass of head- quarters and Postal Inspector L. A. De Waard. An automobile, the ownership of which was said to have been traced to Jackson, is believed by authorities to have been used in the Brightwood case. Michael Quinn, 55, of Philadel- phia, who was in the car when it was j found on Benning roaa a couple of hours after the robbery was discovered. was charged with housenreaking and larceny and sentenced to five years in prison. He is now in the District Jail. {In the car also were nitroglycerin, | burglar tools, two overcoats and some stamps. Little of Value Taken. ‘The postal robbery netted only a small quantity of stamps and $4 in cash. The yeggmen were thought to have been scared away by the arrival of a clerk before they had a chance to crack the safe. Jackson also is said to have been wanted in the probe of the Wilkins rob- bery, when the safe at the coffee estab- lishment at 525 Rhode Island avenue northeast ylelded about $7,500 in cash and checks. Davis is sald to have served two prison terms for postal robberies. HIT-AND-RUN DRIVERS Hit-and-run drivers of two automo- biles were sought by police today as their victims were recovering at local hospitals. Robert Sayers, 45, Richmond, Va was run down at North Capitol and H streets at 1 o'clock this morning by three men who abandoned their auto- mobile after the accident. Sayers was taken to Casualty hospital, where his condition was said to be not serious. Police seized the car. Thomas Girard, 74, 1412 Shepherd street, was in a serious condition at Garfield Hospital today after having been struck by & motorist at Fourteenth and Randolph streets late yesterday aft- ernoon. Physicians said he was suffer- ing from a fractured skull and ribs, but hope for his recovery was entertained. A young man, the driver of a convert: ible coupe, was being sought by police. Mrs. Christie said the dog, born in | ‘The police report on the missing dog | female with one upper and one lower | INPOSTALROBBERY the John H. Wilkins Co. December 10, | In custody with him was William | SEND 2 TO HOSPITALS | NEWLINEIN SUN'S - BYECLIPSEPHOTOS Discoveries by Navy's Ex- pedition to Tin-Can Is- land Are Announced. COMPLETE SPECTRUM GOTTEN FIRST TIME | Characteristic Lines of Mysterious Substance Known as Coronium Are Found. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. New clues concerning the nature of | the sun's corona, which blossoms like a “gigantic dahlia” during some total eclipses, were uncovered by observa- tions taken during the Navy's eclipse expedition to Tin-Can Island, in the Southern Pacific, last Summer. | Prof. S. A. Mitchell of the University | of Virginia, who was in charge of the | spectroscopic work on this expedition, has just reported on the results of| laboratory analysis of his photographs. For the first time he secured a com- | plete spectrum of the corona, contain- ing the characteristic lines of the mysterious substance known as coro- nium which, so far as is known, occurs nowhere else in nature. New Line Shown. i He foynd the spectrum lines of the| corona covered a wave-length range of | approximately 900 angstrom units and | his photographs show at least one new | line which is not duplicated by any| |’known substance. The nature of coro- | nium, the hypothetical substance known | only from its spectrum, remains a| | mystery, Prof. Mitchell points out. It long was believed to be an unknown | element, possibly prevalent in minute | quantities through nature, but most abundant in the extremely tenuous, luminous disk of gas circling the eclipsed sun like a halo. The rare gas helium was first identified in the sun through its spectrum lines and after- ward found on the earth. But numerous investigations have failed to reveal anything correspond- ing to coronfum and during the la few months all of the hitherto hypo- thetical elements needed to fill gaps in the atomic table presumably have been discovered. No place is left for “coronium” as a distinct element. The report mentions the suggestion that it may be “neutral oxygen.” The characteristic corcnium spectrum line comes in the wave length range associated with green. The new line found in the corona by Prof. Mitchell was in the red wave length range and does not check with anything now known. It is believed, however, to represent a rare state of some known substance. The coronjum, Prof. Mitchell found, is mostly in the inner corona which extends to within about €00,000 kilo- meters of the surface of the sun. Results Summarized. Prof. Mitchell, in his report pub- lished in the Astrophysical Journal, summarizes the results of corona ob- servations on several eclipse observa- tions. These show, he says, that there are two main types of corona. One is the minimum type, with extended streams near the sun’s equator and the other is the “gigantic dahlia” type, circular in outline, with the blackened disk of the sun in the center. The shape of the corona, he points out, evi- | dently depends upon conditions within | the sun and hence is only a temporary | phenomenon which can have ro con- stant sha The “giant dahlia” corona, he says, apparently comes two years before the period of the sun's maximum activity | as revealed by sun spots and solar prominences. The minimum corona comes two years hefore the minimum U in the solar activity. Thus there an indirect relationship between changing coronal shapes and sizes and the 11-year sunspot cycle. The regular changes in the shape of the corona, Prof. Mitchell points out, have escaped notice because the phenomenon can be observed only for a very brief period at the time of a total eclipse. When all | the periods of observation for many €ars past are put together they amount nly to & short time. REPRINTED The predicted battle over the Bureau of Fisheries publication, “The Love Ad- ventures of an American Bullfrog,"” was on today, when the Commerce Depart- ment authorized Public Printer George H. Carter to reprint the pamphlet, “If in the opinion of the Public Printer the cemand for its republication war- rants it.” Mr. Carter in a letter to the depart- ment requested such permission, stating that he was making an effort to satisfy the “great demand for coples from sections of the country.” The pamphlet was printed 13 years ago, when a frog-farming boom was sweeping the country. To meet the de- mands of prospective frog farmers the Democratic administration, through Sec- retary of Commerce Redfield, paid Prof. W. H. Wright of Cornell University $1.740 to write the pamphlet. It was reported a “best seller” during its day, but frog farming proved discouraging and the article was soon forgotten. Two months ago. on_the floor of the Senate crat of Mississippi, charged the Com: merce Department with gross evtrav agance of public funds by publishing useless pamphlets, citing the publica- tion of the bullfrog booklet as an ex- ample. He quoted at length from the pamphlet. which, he said, described how a gentleman bullfrog makes love to its lady-fair by crooning or croaking | ditties: how gallant he is when facing danger and his other characteristics. Scores Waste of Funds. Senator Harrison said he was a frog lover when he was a boy and still has living evidence of this hobby on his hands. While he thought the booklet was very interesting, it was of no value to the general public and therefore a waste of public funds. His speech, | which also rapped the Agriculture De- partment for its pamphlet on “light- ning bugs,” received wide publicity, and letters of protest have been received by the departments from all sections. Commerce Department officials refused to comment upon the issue, other than to say they had granted permission for the pamphlets republication. Bureau of Pisheries officials frankly admit there is no such thing as frog culture or frog farming, and they have BULLFROG LOVE STORY ORDERED Deman- for Copies After Many Years Recalls Clash in Congress When Waste Was Charged. Senator Pat Harrison, Demo- | IN FEDERAL ROW very little information on the subject. A Washington State farmer a few years ago caused postal receipts to mount throughout the Nation when he wrote an article for a popular magazine de- scribing haow he had raised large frogs from the tadpole stage on his frog farm. He sald he got his start by following directions sent him from the Govern- ment's frog pond at Woods Hole, Mass. It lzook some time for this boom to die oul No Extensive Research. The bureau, believing that frog cul- ture is not possible, has never made an extensive research. Unlike chicken rais- ing, frog farming has many pitfalls. It takes eight years for a bullfrog to reach adult stage, it must be fed on live food and must be separated from smaller frogs when it reaches adult years be- cause it has cannibalistic ideas. mfgyfi r'xur:ulng today is a commercial eSS, but it is very limited in scope. The best flelds are in Louisiana, Mis- sissipp!_and Florida, and so fast hasj this industry grown in this section that frogs are now being exported. Washington seafood merchants state ‘(h:u. frog legs are worth their weight in | Bold, and because of the fancy prices | paid for them it takes only a few offi- ctal words to start a frog-farming boom. The Bureau of Fisheries pamphlet on bullfrogs today is not to be obtained at Yy price. There is only one copy | available and that is in the well guard- ed hands of Commissioner of Fisheries Henry O'Malley. Records show that | Prof. Wright, who is reported to have made a very lengthy research on frogs, received $1,740 for the article. In order to ascertain at first hand whether a bullfrog can' be raised, Com- missioner O'Malley has ordered one tank in the Commerce Department’s aquarium set aside for a couple of good bullfrogs. They will be fed each day by placing food on a stick and moving it n;ound in the water, upe;l— ment proves a success, it is probal that the Republican administration will author the publication of phiet. to supplement the booklet printed by the Démocrats, which Public ter Ga nds to circulate at we m COpy as soon as get his presses going on the reprint FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1€ Mural Masterpieces for Bicentennial Exhibit DISPLAY OF SCULPTURE AND PAINTINGS TO OPEN IN NATIONAL MUSEUM MARCH 26, S a notable feature of the George ‘Washington Bicentennial Cele- bration here, an exhibit of paintings, sculpture and other fine arts will be open to public A display on the afternoon of March 26 and continue until the close of the Bicentennial, in November. Fourteen mural panels, heroic in size, depict the life and times of George Washington as one phase of the exhibit, which is being sponsored by the Fine Arts Com- | mission, in the north wing of the Na- tional Museum, now occupied by the national gallery. The American Insti- tute of Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the National Sculpture Society, the Mural Painters’ Society, the American Academy 1in| Rome, the American City Planning In- | stitute and the National Conference on | City Planning are co-operating in the exhibit Top: “Washington With His Friends at Mount Vernon,” by J. Monroe Hew- | Jett. The Fine Arts Commission has made available this description of the | painting: “Upon the steps of Mount | Vernon, standing in front of the en trance door, George Washington and hi: wife are recelving their friends. At | the extreme left is a group of servants. Then Mary Washington and Mrs. John Parke Curtis. The two children are George Washington Parke Custis and Eleanor Parke Custis. Then George and Martha Washington. To the right of the door, John Adams, Thomas Jef- ferson, John Rutledge and Alexander Hamilton. Then Mrs. Rutledge, Benja- min Franklin and Edmund Randolph.” Center: “Surrender of Yorktown, 1781, by Tom Loftin Johnson. The | description of this painting follows “To the left, Gen. O'Hara (British) { presents his sword to Gen. Lincoln (American). Mounted upon horses are Washington and Rochambeau. Below der Hamilton, Anthony Wayne and De | Keller. cers. | Lauzun, with several other French off- | to depict the humane side of Washing- In the distance, to the left, the | ton, wh “In this picture the artist has tried 0 is saying gocd-by to a soldier house of Thomas Nelson, where Corn- | who has lost a leg and who is accom- wallis was stationed. rather than an accurate historical por- trayal of the scene.” “To the left of this group a farmer is refusing continental cur- rency offered him by one of Washing- SR | Washington is Lafayette; then Alexan- \ Below: “Valley Forge,” by Deane ‘ ton’s aides for grain or produce brought into camp. To the right, two soldiers | are carrying a sick comrade to the | hospital; back of them a fatigue squad | carrying wood. In the distance two | platoons drilling near the huts used The intention | panied by his wife,” says the official | at Valley Forge; Washington's head- was to create a decorative design, | description. | quarters also appear. The color scheme | chosen suggests the cold and suffering | | of the men.” FORT MYER TEAM NAMED FOR MEET Lieut. Col. George to Head Riders in Telegraphic Event Tonight. Announcement -was made today of the team which will represent Fort | Myer in the telegraphic horse show to| be staged tonight simultaneously at the Virginia post and three Army stations in the Middle West. The event will be- gin at 8 p.m. at Fort Myer Riding Hall. Lieut. Col. C. P. George will head the Fort Myer riders. In the team event he will be assisted by Capt. G. 1. Smith and Lieut. C. W. Bennett, and the in- dividual competitors will include Lieut. W. A. Bugher and Lieut, C. H. Noble. Results of the performances in each fort horse show ring at Fort Leaven- worth, Kans: Fort Sil, Okla.. Fort Riley, Kans., ‘and the Fort Myer hall will be flashed to every station imme- diately after a competitor has complet- ed his round of the ring. The scores of the various teams will be kept up to date as the meet progresses. Judges at Fort Myer tonight will be Maj. A. D. Surles, Capt. G. D. Shea, Capt. L. K. Truscott, jr. and Capt. T. W. Ligon. The team will be mounted on Miss America, Jack Snipe and ire. An admission fee of 25 cents to cover expenses will be charged. Officials and participants at two other forts were announced today. The judges at Fort Leavenworth are Maj. N. B. Driscoll, Capt. Charles H. Gerhardt and Capt. Marcus E. Jones. In the team event are Maj. C. B. Lyman, Capt. P. C. Febiger and Capt. G. E. ‘Davis, riding respectively Maui Girl, Dandy Dude and Dynamite. Riders CANOEISTS MEET ROUGH GOING BEGINNING TRIP FOR MEXICO |HOUSE GROUP PLANS i TOUR OF DISTRICT Nothing Heard of Youths by Harbor Police Here After Appropriations Subcommittee Will Boat Braves Channel. Two young adventurers, who set out)both youths had worked here for a for Mexico in a canoe yesterday morn- ing, and encountered a freezing gale and rough going before they passed Hains Point, presumably were on their way down the Potomac to Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean today. ‘They have not been heard from, how- ever, since harbor police observed their 18-foot craft taking a mauling from the waves as the youths paddled into the wind down Washington Channel. The edventurers, Harold Reagan and Leo Brees, hope to make Florida in two months in the course of a 2,500- mile journey, most of which will be on the Atlantic. They had camping equipment aboard, an allowance of a dollar a day for food, and a 10-foot sail which will speed ther‘;x‘ 10 miles an hour in favorable winds. ‘While neither is a Washingtonian, in the individual event are the same, with Prominent Tom, Tiny Foot and Wop as the additional horses. At Fort Sill the event will be judged by Lieut Col. E. B. Edmunds, Capt. Baron Anton Decheolsreim of the Ger- considerable period and planned the trip for several weeks before the start Their first objective will be Texas, which is Reagan's home State. advised the youths to take the inland water route down the coast, or at least to await more favorable weather for the start They replied that they would stay close in shore, hoped to make about 20 miles a day and would soon be in a warmer climate. They plans, the youths explained. before the cold snap, and could not afford to wait here for warmer weather. CLARA Y. ARCHIBALD DIES Sister.of War Correspondent Passes Away Here. Miss Clara Y. Archibald died today at her apartment, 1808 Connecticut avenue, following an illness of several weeks. She is survived by a brother, Capt. James F. J. Archibald of Hollywood, Calif., & war correspondent. In failing t few weeks, Miss her joe Old-timers who knew the Bay and | 'Fict the Atlantic around the Virginia Capes | made their | Inspect Schools and Other Institutions. Members of the House Subcommit- tee on Appropriations will begin a tour next week, visiting a number of Dis- institutions, including public school, penal institutions and hospitals, it was announced todey by Chairman Cannon. The committee also plans to inspect streets and public parks recom- mended for improvement Between the inspection trips, Repre- sentative Cannon said, the committee would merk up the 1933 District appro- priation bill, the final step in pufting the measure in shape for considera- tion of the House. The committee, he said, will not know until the bill is marked up, the total appropriation to be recommended for 1933. The amount, however, is expected to be somewhat lower than the $47,000.000 appropria- tion approved by the Budget Bureau. committee’s itinerary has not yet been. completely mapped out, but will include visits to the District Reforma- tory at Lorton,Va.; the work house at Occoguan. Va.; the District Jail and the hospitals and public schools which figured in the discussion during recent hearings on the appropriation bill. Indications are that the supply bill will not be reported to the House for at least 10 days. The legislative program of the House is so arranged that the revenue bill, ow under discussion, and the independent offices appropriation bill will have to be disposed of before the District bill will be considered, PAGE B—1 BLACK HOLDS UP REPORT ON BILL FOR CAR MERGER Suspicious of “Sudden Pres- sure” on Subcommittee to Hasten Action. MRS. NORTON OPPOSES DELAY OF MEASURE Decision on Legislation May Ignore Series of Amendments as Proposed 13y Keech. Sudden pressure on the Public Utili- ties Subcommittee of the House Dis- trict Committee to hasten its report on the bill authorizing a merger of Washington's two street railway com- panies has aroused the suspicion of Chairman Black of New York who an- nounced today he proposed to delay the report for further study The subccmmittee had planned to make a favorable report on the bill next week but developments in the last few days, Mr. Black said, have brought him to a realization that perhaps an inquiry should be made to determine why various interests are so anxieus to have the report rushed to the House at this time. Asked About Bill's Status. Mr. Black declared he had received a number of telephone calls in the last few days, some of them from repre- sentatives of the traction companies, inquiring about the status of the mer- ger bill and urging early committee action. “The sudden interest in the com- mittee’s report,” he said, “has aroused my suspicion, and I intend to find out the reason for it. I certainly am not going to be rushed into submitting the report.” Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, chairman of the House District Committee, expressed her re- {gret over the delay of the utilities sub- committee at the regular meeting of the District Committee Wednesday. She said the measure is controversial, and for that reason she desired early action on it. Keech Amendments Ignored. The utilities subcommittee, according to Chairman Black, had virtually de- cided to make a favorable report on the bill substantially as drawn, which would |ignore the series of amendments pro- | posed by Richmond B. Keech, people’s | counsel before the Public Utilities Com~ imission, and representatives of civic | organizations. Black pointed out, how- ever, that serious thought had been given to adoption of one of Keech's pro- | posed amendments, designed to preciude the merged company from operating taxicabs. The definite decision, he indi- cated, had not yet been reached on | that question. . | Officials of the street railway com- { panies have assured the committee that | they do not propose to go into the taxi- | cab business at this time. It was Keech's intention ia suggesting the » ‘amendment to prevent the consolidated company from ever operating taxicabs. \VIEWS TO BE GIVEN ON STREET CLOSING Commissioners and Planning Offi- cials to Be Heard by Senate Committee. The Senate District Committee is scheduled to hear the District Com- missioners and officials of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission this afternoon on a proposed law out- lining the procedure to be followed in closing streets and alleys that have become unnecessary by reason of changes in the highway plans. The District Commissioners, in a re- port filed yesterday, objected to = clause in the bill to require them to obtain the approval of the Park and Planning Commission before closing such streets and alleys. The Park and Planning officials take the view that this requirement is essential in view of a previous law which made the Park and Planning Commission the s;wcessor to the old Highway Commis- sion. .The District Commissioners suggested yesterday that the pending bill be postponed until the two agencies have 2 chance to prepare a codification of all the laws relating to streets, high- ways and alleys. The Senate Committee may consider several other local bills this after- noon. ARBITRATORS NAMED IN RAIL PAY FIGHT Two State Supreme Court Justices and Economist Asked to Serve by President Hoover. By the Associated Press. As the special board to settle a wage- cut dispute between the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway and the Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas Railroad, President Hoover today appointed Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Dr. Davis R. Dewey, head of the department of economics of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, and Justice Julian H. Moore of the Colorado Supreme Court. Announcement of the setting up of & board under the raflroad labor law was made late yesterday. The controversy centers about a propesal made two months ago by officials of the two roads that a 15 per cent reduction in wages be agreed upon. The workers declined to accept the cut, and it has been reported unoffi- clally that representatives of the work- ers had suggested a 10 per cent cut might be acceptable. Members of the Board of Railway Mediation have been in the South for more than three weeks attempting to settle the controversy amicably. White House officials said they did not know when the special board would begin its work. SUSPECTED CAR ESCAPES Policeman C. W. Sine was outdis- tanced early today by a suspected liquor- laden taxicab after a chase of about two miles. Sine sighted the car near the north- eastern boundary of the District, he said, and began g it, when he Simiine to tose i Which WHLLY sovae: wl wi some- times is carried,