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2 he Foening far FUNDFORJBLESS RELIE 5 SOUHT FROW .. HEADS Appropriation to Be Asked by District Committee on Employment. NO STATEMENT IS MADE AS TO AMOUNT OF MONEY No Further Curtailment to Be Made in Work Program or Person- nel of Steering Body. A resolution requesting the District | Commissioners to seek an approprie- | tion of public funds for unemployment | relief will be transmitted to the city heads in writing today by the Steering Committee of the District Committee on Employment. The resolution was | adopted at a meeting of the full com- mittee yesterday. The resolution will be transmitted without any statement as to how large an appropriation is recommended. This matter has not been discussed in the meeting so far. No Further Curtailment. The Steering Committee at its reg- ular weekly meeting today also decided no further curtailment in the made work program or the personnel of the committee on employment would be made for four weeks. Both the made work program and the personnel of the committee have been reduced '50 per cent and it had been expected that another 40 per cent reduction would be made on April 1. { The decision today, however, was to] continue at the present speed through the first two weeks in April and then taper off the activities of the committee during the remaining two weeks if nes essary. The District Spring highway program, which is expected to result in the employment of 1000 men at first and 3,000 or 4,000 ultimately, will not get under way until April 10. Speculation today centered on the questicn of what the ‘Commissioners would do with the resolution of the Committee on Employment requesting congressional appropriations for Wwork relief, in view of the attitude taken at the committee meeting yesterday by District government employes. District ‘Auditor Daniel J. Donovan, whose ad- Vice on fiscal matters has great weight with the Commissioners, led the fight against the resolution. At one stage of the meeting he said: “Beyond the possibility of a doubt, such a resolution is outside of’the province, authority apd scope of this committee. i { Vote Cast. When the resolutiop came to a vote | two of the four District empicyes pres- | ent voted against it lnfi he other two did not vote. Those voting against the resolution were Ross Haworth, secre-; tary to Commissioner Luther H. Reich- elderfer, and George S. Watson, chief engineer of the Fire Department. Mr. Donovan and George S. Wilson, di- rector of public welfare, did not vote. Mr. Wilson said after meeting, how- ever, he was opposed to the resolution. Nevertheless, Commissioner Reichel- derfer taid today the Commissioners hoped the resolution would come before them immediately and that they would give it prompt consideration on its | merits. He said he had never intimated to Donovan or any one else that the | Commissioners wanted to head off such | a resolution. The Commissioner explained he had | told E. C. Graham, chairman of the| commiteee, that the Commissioners wanted any resolution on the subject | to come from the whole committee, and not from any small subcommittee, be- ‘cause of the importance of the ques- tion involved. He said the matter had | never been discussed by the Commis-| sioners as a board, but he felt sure all of the Commissioners wanted the mat- ter adequately discussed and would consider it strictly upon its merits. The Commissioners, he said, did not | consider it beyond the scope of the committee to adopt the resolution. That was the kind of thing for which the Commissioners had appointed it in the first place. THREE TAXI DRIVERS | HELD UP BY FARES | Grocer Also Robbed—Police Say Loot in All Cases Totaled Only $30.13. A series of hold-ups, in which three | taxicab drivers and a storekeeper were | victims, were perpetrated in the city ! $30.13, according to police | Jacob_Rosenbloom, grocer of 932 M| street, was held up by three armed | oftee 10" o'clock Iast night. He was| robbed of $15 | The three cab drivers victimized were east; Claude McKeathon, colored, 2230 Georgia avenue, and Lawrence Brown. colored, 5219 Clay street northeast. avenue and Fifth street by two young men, ne told police, and directed to drive to Abbey place northeast. He | M streets northeast, where he was held | up at pistol point and robbed of $14.95. | Carnaggio told police he requested the | line, whereupon they returned $1.05 to | him | McKeathon was robbed of his cab | er'’s Court northeast. He recovered his | cab. however, shortly after the robbery. Brown was held up at Potomac | by bandits, but instead of complying with the demand for money, he de- | serted his cab and fled. He returned last night, netting bandits a total of | bandits while alone in his store shortly Joseph Carnaggio, 508 F street north- arnaggio was hired at Massachusetts | was stopped by the men at Fifth and | men leave him enough money for gasc- and 18 cents by a colocred man in Brew- avenue and Thirteenth street southeast | later to recover his machine FILES DIVORCE "PETITION Chevy Chase Woman Charges De- sertion in Rockville Court. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 16— Through Attorney Joseph A. Cantrell of Washington, Mrs. Emma M. Ber- nard, whose address is given as 210 East Underwood street, Chevy Chase, Md., has filed suit in the Circuit Court | Ralph Suspended POLICEMAN COLUMBIA PLAYERS WIN DRANA PRI Jamison Takes Individual Honors in One-Act Play Contest. P. COOL. Offering “Quare Medicine,” the Co- lumbia Players last night won first place in the annual one-act play tourna- ment of the Community Center De- | partment at McKinley High School. The Washington Ccmmunity Players took second piace with “Fog,” a seaside dramga. The drama section of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase fe- ceived honorable mention with “One Little Kiss,” written by Ethelwyn H. Frank, a Washington woman. The Montgcmery Players finished fourth with “No Sabe,” a mystery drama. Jamison Takes Honors. Individual honors went to Frank Jamison for his outstanding work as Old Man Jernigan in “Quare Medicine,” a tale of North Carolina mountain life written by Paul Green. ; Orris Holland as Dr. Immanuel in the same play was selected as possessing the best voice and diction. The audience seemed particularly pleased with -the acting of Aurora Poston as Mattie Jernigan and Willard Miller as Henry Jernigan. They com- pleted the cast of “Quare Medicine.” Both Mr. Jamison and Mr. drew on their experience as profes sionals in assuring the success of “Quare N{Pdk:lne." Mr. Holland directed the play. George Finger made a hit as Shorty in “Fog.” He was ably supported by Newell Lusby as the drunkard and Hazen Shea as a frightened boy who had killed a man. The offering was directed by Mr. Finger. Participants in were Leslie C. Frank, Grace Clayton, Ethelwyn H. Prank and Lucy Frank. Five Serve as Judges. The case of “No Sabe” included Mahlon Selby, Anna Moore Converse, Stanley True, Thomas P. Dowd and S. Fowler. ‘The judges were Gideon A. Lyon, associate editor of The Evening Star; Nelson B. Bell, dramatic critic of the Post; Andrew R. Kelley, dramatic critic of the Times; Miss Mabelle Jen- nings, dramatic critic of the Herald, and Miss Eleanore Wilson, dramatic critic of the News. Births R-eported. James F. and Margaret E. Mitchell, boy. X Ethel J. Jarvis. girl. M. Ristig. girl vood. & Geo Harold F. and Miriam E. Nonem: Frank and Anna Klaschus. girl. John G. and Mildred Wangler. girl. John T. and Florence M. Kenealy. girl. Thomas J; and Anna T. Scanlon. irl Addison E. and Gladys M. Burrows. &irl Vincent F. and Marie Quinlan. girl. Dantel R. and Catherine C. Harty. girl. Joseph A~ and Winifred Kinnahan. girl. Roy F. and Virginia A. De Haven. boy. Willlam W. and Virginia D. Loftis. boy. Samuel E. and Dorothy L. Hogwood. boy. Samuel W. and Lois Simmons. boy Thomas E. and Martha R_Kent. boy. Emile J. and Blanche M. Daigle. bo Fred R. and Hermma Case. Lawrence W. and Theresa C. Cecil, boy Charles W. and Barbara V. Gannon. boy. Alexander W. and Elsie G.'Plitt. boy. Robert J. and Marian Morrison. boy. Halwitt and Janie Wiley. girl John and Geneva L . wirl. PIGEONS IN EVADE TRAP Prefer Public’s Peanuts to The pigeons of Lafayette Park today chcse the public’s peanuts when offered cracked corn by park officials as an inducement to abide elsewhere. A trap was set and baited in the park in an effort to transfer 500 pigeons pets refused to consider corn The only feathered denizen to spring the falling door cf a sizab'e wire cage was an inquisitive black bird that pecked metriy st the trigger string and then flew off with an insolent flirt of his tail. The pigeons have so multiplied that here for an absolute divorce from Ralph Bernard of New York City, charging desertion. The couple, according to the petition, was married in Rockville, October 4, 1927, lived together until February 1, children. . 1928, and have no citizens are complaining of them as & nuisance, even as usurpers of pedes- trian_rights. While the trap was removed this morning after three employes of the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks had spent several hours at Holland | “One Little Kiss” | LAFAYETTE P;RK Them to Rock Creek. to Rock Creek Park, but the pubuc’s‘ WASHINGTON, POLCESUSPENDED N ROBBERY A0 LIQUOR CHARGE {One Held for Investigation 1 After Taxi Driver Is Threat- ened With Gun. | ANOTHER PUTS UP BOND |FOR ALLEGED POSSESSION Radio Repair Car Alleged to Have Been Used by Officer to Deliver Whisky. Two policemen were under suspension today after fellow officers arrested one | for questioning in a series of robberies |and trapped the other in an alleged | attempt to deliver a gallon of whisky in | the Police Department’s radio repair car. The first, Pvt. Luther Edward Cline second precinct, was being held for in- vestigation at that station house. The second, Pvt. Claude P. Cool, attached | to_the’ headquarters garage as a radic | repair man, posted $500 bond on a | charge of illegal possession. | “Cool, arraigned before Judge Isaaci R. Hitt in Police Court today, pleaded | not guilty and demanded a jury trial | Judge Hitt fixed March 29 as the date | for trial and ordered a bond of $500 | substituted for a similar amount of} cash collateral which had been posted last night. Cool was represented by Attorney Harry Whelan, while Assistant District Attorney David A. Hart represented the | Government. | " Cline was arrested with his brother, | silas. 21, with whom he lives at 2025 1| | street. Police in a radio scout car from | the ninth precinct overtook the taxicab | in which the two were riding at Fif- | teenth and H streets northeast following | | a report that two men had displayed guns near a restaurant at 809 H street | northeast early this morning. Identified by Driver. The brothers were identified at the ninth precinct station by another taxi- cab driver, Willlam T. Griffith, Cherty- dale, Va., as the men who drew guns on him about 2 o'clock this mornirg and threatened to “take him for a ride” | before alighting from his cab in the 1000 block of D street northeast. Cline's commanding officer, Capt. Hugh H. Groves, said the brothers would be held larzguummng in a series of hold-ups staged recently by robbers answering their general description. Griffith told police the Cline brothers hailed his cab at Twenty-first street and Pennsylvania avenue, directing him to the 1000 block of D street northeast. Nearing that address, he said, he heard his “fares” discussing wrether to “take him for a ride.” Griffith said he saw both men were armed and told them they would “use poor judgment to hold me up.” The | hacker said he explained he had no money. The pair, Griffith said, then alighted and re pulled down the street a way to change a tire which was nearly flat. While working on_his calb, Griffith de- clared, he saw the two men coming toward him again and withdrew on foot to the ninth precinct. Griffith was at the precinct early this | morning when a telephone message | came in that two men had displayed guns near the H street restaurant. Pvts. W. D. Young and J. A. Davis were sent to the scene in the radio scout car. The officers were told at the restaur- ant that the two men had proceeded | east on H street in a taxicab, giving the | | tag number of the vehicle. When the | officers overtook the cab, they snid.} they found two loaded guns on the rear seat after ordering the passengers Lol alight Admit Owning Guns. Lieut. F. A. Varney, second precinct, | interviewed the prisoners, who admitted | ownership of the guns, Varney said, but declined to make statements. Officer Cline identified the service revolver | which _the department had issued to him, Varney said, and his younger brother admitted ownership of the sec- ond gun, a heavy-caliber revolver. Officer Cline, who is 30, had been on the force about six years. He was on sick leave at the time of his arrest, and only yesterday obtained his regu- lar two weeks' pay check from the department. The taxicab in which the brothers were arrested was operated by C. E. Pendleton, Mount Rainier, Md. Acting on information that a police- man was to deliver whisky in the 1400 block of Ninth street about 10 o'clock last night, Sergt. Nelson O. Holmes and three other vice squad detectives took up a watch at a vantage point and waited some 30 minutes, they said. before Pvt. Cool drove up. They placed Cool under arrest, the officers reported, when he stepped from one of the department’s automobiles with two half-gallon jars of whisky. Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, assistant superintendent of police, ordered Cool suspended. Offered an opportunity by Inspector Edwards to make & statement, | Cool said: “I was only doing a favor for s | friend.” | The suspended officer is 34 and lives | at 3313 Nichols avenue southeast. Police today were investigating the possibility that an order fer the alleged | whisky was telephoned in through the switchboard at headquarters. Seed Loan Group Named. LURAY, Va. March 16 (Special).— Charles N. Spitler of Luray, James F. Bumgardner of Shenandoah and H. H. Grim of Stanley have been ap- pointed a Committee for Seed Loans in Page County SET BY OFFICIALS Corn, Used as Bait to Lure concealed end of the trigger string without a single captive, it will be reset_tomorrow, the men said. Park officials contemplate no harm to the birds, whose numbers they merely wish to reduce. The captives, when they are apprehended, will removed to a barn which has been prepared for them in Rock Creek Park, |and kept there until they become ac- | customed to the vicinity. Park officials believe they will re- main near Rock Creek. despite the in- vitation of Lafayette Square, where they have oeen fed from peanut hags for years l‘\l have become so tame they alight or™the shoulders of familiar kl#lm&. & pigebns’ numbers have wn surpris the last few yun,'r!‘l’ulv- tering abeut park and roosting in the | nearby trees. D@ COMMITEEREADY TORUSHACTONON TRACTIN MERGER Chairman Norton to Request Early Report on Bill and Publication of Hearings. OLD AGE SECURITY ALSO APPROVED BY D. C. GROUP Local Measures to Be Taken Up for House Action Again on March 28. The House District Committee today expressed eagerness to act as soon as possible upon the permissive legislation for a merger of the street railway and other traction facilities in the District | of Columbia Chairman Norton agreed to call upon Chairman Black of the Subcommittee on Public Utilities for a report on this bill and the committee directed that the hearing which have been completed a month ago be printed. It was em- phasized that the District officials, the Public Utilities Commission, the officials of the traction companies and the peo- ple of the District are all in favor of: the proposed merger. 1 The Senate District Committee will | endeavor to take final action on the merger when it meets Friday afternoon. Chairman Capper notified committee members today the merger would be taken up at that time and a decision vill be sought on the various changes which have been advocated by the Utili- ties Commission, the people’s counsel, the District Commissioners and various civic organizations. The committee ordered a favorable report on three bills and expressed a favorable attitude toward Chairman Norftn’s bill providing old age security for persons over 60 years of age in v,he] District, but ordered that hearings bel held by the subcommittee and a report be requested from the District Com- missioners. Insurance Substitute. The committee favorably reported a substitute by Representative Harlan of Ohio for Mrs. Norton's bill to require all insurance corporations formed under a District of Columbia charter to main- tain their principal office and place of business in the District. The Harlan substitute was drafted by the corpora- tion counsel, carries the support of the District Commissioners and the com- issloner of insurance, and is satisfac- tory to Senator Sheppard of Texas, who is fathering similar legislation in the Senate. The purpose of this measure is to control certain companies which have | a District of Columbia charter and are operating in the State of Texas, and to prevent this business from spreading. It wes pointed out that such companies are not controlled either by the Dis- trict Insurance Department or by State laws. Representative Harlan announced that a new insurance code for the Dis- trict is being drafted and that this is merely emergency legislation to prevent an _abuse from spreading. The committee substituted the bill which has passed the Senate for a similar House bill sponsored by Repre- sentative Gambrill of Maryland per- mitting the sale of water to communi- ties in the Washington Suburban Sani- tary area under certain regulations safeguarding the interests of the Dis-| trict consumers. | The committee favorably 'r!portedi Mrs. Norton's bill to further regulate banking, banks, trust companies and | building and loan associations in the District. Security Bill Backed. Mrs. Norton stated that her old-age security bill is indorsed by the Amer- jcan Federation of Labor and several other organizations in the District. Senator Capper has a similar bill pend- ing in the Senate. Discussion before the House District Committee showed that such legislation has worksd well in Massachusetts, Virginia, New Jersey, Ohio and other States, resulting in an actual saving to the taxpayers. A report from the District Commis- sioners regarding heaith and welfare of children, as called for in a resolution by the House Committee on February 19, 1931, was received and ordered to be printed. 1 Due to confusion over two hearings | being set for Friday before the subcom- mittee on the judiciary, the hearing on the Bowman bill to regulate the sale of securities in the District, which is sponsored by the Washington group of | the Investment Bankers' Association, | was postponed until Tuesday. On Priday | the judiciary subcommittee of the House District Committee will conduct a hear- ing on the proposed amendment of the child labor law governing the employ- ment of children in theaters. Chairman Norton announced that the next District day in the House is sched- uled for March 28, and that the com- mittee has nine bills on the calendar to be acted upon. She asked a full at- tendance of her committee on the floor on that day to assist in getting these measures passed. POLICEMAN ON TRIAL ON ASSAULT CHARGE Faces Jury in Police Court, Ac- cused of Hitting Man With Blackjack. Policeman J. J. Hunter, third pre- cinct, accused of having fractured a man’s jaw with a blackjack while off duty Febrnary 18, went on trial today before a jury and Judge Jobhn P. Mc- Mahon in Police Court. The complaining witness is Clyde H. Nichols, 400 block of Tenth street southwest, who said his jaw was broken as- WEDNESDAY, be|E. Bryan, who resides with the com- When struck by Hunter. The alleged sault occurred in the 1200 block ¢f Vir- ginia_avenue southwest, where Nichols said he called for a dress his wife was having made. ‘With Nichols at the time was George plainant. The men said they rang the door bell and that the person who an- swered it slammed it in their faces. Taey rang again and this time they said a man whom they identified as MARCH 16, = 1932. Society and General Police Officials Take Oath of Office PROMOTED OFFICERS ASSUME NEW DUTIES TODAY. quarters this morning. Lieut L, Bureau, while Inspector Edwards today assumes his duties as assistant superintendent of police. EFT to right: Inspector L. H. Edwards, Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, police chief, and Lieut. Rhoda J. Milliken. Gen. Glassford is shown swearing in Lieut. Milliken and Inspector Edwards to their new posts at police head- Milliken has be>n promoted from the rank of sergeant to command the Woman's Lieut. Milliken succeeds Lieut. Mina Van Winkle and Inspector Edwards takes the position vacated by Inspector Willlam S. Shelby. Both Lieut. Van Winkle and Inspector Sheiby Lave retired. —Star Staff Photo. Weather Map Changes Recent Severe Cold, Unusual for March, Results in Many Queer Phenomena Being Recorded. BY THQMAS R. HENRY. Revolutionary changes have taken | place in the weather map of North America during the last few days. Behind the scenes of this exception- ally cold March weather extending over most of the United States and Canada have been some of the queerest phe- nomena yet recorded at Weather Bu- reau stations. | Perhaps the most exceptional cou- | dition has been an aimost unbroken | draining of cold for more than 10 days out of the north polar regions, where all the cold comes from. It is almost | unprecedented for such an Mflow to | last for more than four or five days at a time. The Mackenzie River cold channel | appears to have been clear of obstruc- | ; tions like a river basid at the time of | a Spring freshet so that viriually an | enormous “flood” of cold has. swept | over the country. At the same time the | celebrated “Atlantic coast high,” which has centered over Bermuda more or less persistently for the past three years and greatly influenced the weather of East- ern North America, has gone to pieces. | An area of heavy, cold air is known as a “high”; of lighter, warmer air a “low.” They move in pairs northward and southward. Least Resistance Paths. Cold, pushed southward out of the Arctic basin, follows paths of least re- sistance. These may be over the oceans | or they may be by well established | routes over the continents. The basin of the Mackenzie River in Northwestern Canada east of the Alaskan Mountains and the Rockies is a favorite route into North America. But for the past few years the Mac- | kenzie basin cold flow has not been so | pronounced. For 10 years most of North | America has been warmer than nor- mal. The climax was reached during 1931—the hottest year In American history since records hawve been kept. Meteorologists are unable to explain the reason for this. The Arctic basin has only so much cold, at the most, to dis- pense to the rest of the world. Perhaps some other channel has been more easily available. There have, of course, been plenty of highs. The phenomenon has been relative. Then, during the past two years; the | whole mechanism of weather was further complicated by the Bermuda It was an enormous area of | | | extending westward over the Appa- lachians. A “high” would come down through Canada east of the Rockies and sweep southeastward across the United States. Normally it wopld pass| over the Atlantic Coast States and out | over the Atlantic, where it gradually would be lost. But right over the At- lantic and the Southeastern Co: W wouldn't give way. The on their way southeastward would smash! into its sphere of influence over the | Southern States and break to pieces. | During the past year some of the Gulf States have been exceptionally cold. | The territory north of them, however, has been hot beyond all precedent. It simply was because the cold-bringing | “highs” couldn’t get through. ‘ Low Pressure System. | Meteorologists began to look for | trouble late in February when observ- | ers reported that the “Bermuda hxgh"‘ at last was beginning to break. In its place a low-pressure area was develop- ing over the Atlantic. Then came some- | thing unexpected, 11 days ago. Some- | where over the northern Pacific was a great low-pressure area. Possibly it came from over northern Japan. It began to move rapidly southeastward, struck the Pacific Coast, shot over the | Rockies, and crossed the (‘cntment} through Texas and the Gulf States.| Then it ran into the low which had developed over the Atlantic. The re-| sult was a great low-pressure system | extending over almost half the conti- nent and almost all the Atlantic. That looked like trouble. At about the same time a great high- pressure area was developing in the| Far North, its center over Coronation Gulf. north of the Hudson Bay region. There it hung on the weather map like a dark storm cloud. It split into two parts. One moved northeastward over Greenland. Somewhere in the interior of that great ice sheet it was lost from sight. The other half lay menacingly over Canada, its “jaw” over Central Alberta. Slowly it began to move southward, chilling the air in its path. It swept over the Canadian border, and, gathering momentum as it went, crossed the United States over the cus- tomary path of “highs.” But when it approached the Eastern States there Hunter came out, struck Bryan with his fist and knocked him down and then struck Nichols with his blackjack. Hunter previously had denied all knowledge of the affair. Although he admitted he knew residents of the Vir- ginia_avenue house, he sald he was not_there on the night of the assault. Hunter has not been . H has been st liberty on $500 bond. ¥ was no “high” to oppose it. Madly it raced eastward to the Atlantic sea- d. The great low from the North Pacific passed over the District of Columbia the morning of Sunday, March 6. The winds accompanying a low move coun- ter-clockwise, around and toward the center. That is, they are from the | that should have been the end, with | succeeding warm weather. they carry the air into colder regions | it becomes chilled. When it becomes chilled sufficiently fromthis and other causes the moisture is squeezed out of it. That means rain. It was the cause of the torrential rains that Sunday morning. ‘The low swept northward with no opposition from an opposing | high. It brought the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in this part of the country. Over Washington the| ressure was 28.67 inches. The low- | est previous was 28.71. There was a high wind but it was not dangerously high. The same condition obtained all along the coast. Meteorologists hardly could believe their eyes when they read the record for Eastport, Me. The press- ure was so low that, under normal con- ditions, it would have meant such a wind as ht have laid the little city n ruins. “¥et the observer at Eastport reported, “calrjgdi.. It was due to lack of a steep baror lc gradient. * Day by day the meteo have watched the progress of that “northern Pacific low.” It was last reported moving over Hud- son Strait. ’ Great #High” Behind. Right behind {6 came the great “high” | with its winds blowing clockwise on the eastern side—that is, from the north. It s“ over Washington, changing the heavy rain to the worst snowstorm of the season. Normally But, for some. reason or other, the | cold air kept coming, almost without intermission, and continued for 10 days. It was about the nearest to a | continuous flow of cold the meteorolo- | gists_ever have seen. Ordinarily the | low is broken. At present this one is | diminishing largely because there is no more cold left, for the time being, in the Arctic .to flow out. Really, the meteorologists explain, there have been two highs, but with a very short inter- val between them. It has required a lot of cold to chill a continent in mid-March. It is ome of the most extensive high-pressure areas yet recorded. At ‘present the great low-pressure system still is over the Atlantic. Just as great a low-pressure system hangs | over the Pacific. The high is over the | continents, Siberia, as well as North | America, has had an abnormal high. | It is taking the cold from the Arctic | north of Asia. | can predict, the Weather | Bureau meteorologists say, what will be | the outcome of the phenomenal weather | map_upset. One fact that stands out is that enormous quantities of cold | are coming down the McKenzie basin | again. Weather is a creature of habit. | What is tends to continue. It may be, although the meteorolo- | gists will make no such prediction, that | the 10-year stretch of hot weather is| over and that this will be a_readjust- | ment year with curious phenomena ! which will be worthy successors to the | drvest and the hottest year in the his- | tory of the United States, as far back | as ‘the records go. It has had a good start with the lowest barometric pres- | sures on record for some parts of the | country and cold weather for March | breaking all records in_various cities | in Georgia, Florida and Louisiana. . MAN’S BODY FOUND IN EASTERN BRANCH Edward A. Cole, 41, Said to Have Worked in Printing Office, Identi- fied at District Morgue. The body of Edward A. Cole, 41, of | the 1300 block of I street, said to have been employed at the Government Printing Office, was found floating in Eastern Branch last night near the foot of Pirst street southwest. The body remained at the District Morgue some time before it was iden- tified by Hugh Harris, also of the I street address. Later it was identified by his wife, Mrs. Reno Cole, 508 G street northeast, police said. Cole was at the I street address yesterday morn- ing, it was said. Jewel Tryman, a watchman at Co- rinthian Boat Club, saw the body float- |ing in the river and told officers he hauled it to the sea wall before noti- fying them. autopsy was to be performed today. FIRE IN HUGHES’' HOME Justice Charles Evans Hughes, at 2223 R street, was e guished by firemen late yesterday thin a few moments after it was discovered. There was little damage. Donning gas masks, the firemen fought their way into the smoke-filled basement snd quickly quenched the south on the east side of the low. As|flames, & Coroner Joseph D. Rogers said an| A fire believed to have originated in | the furnace room in the home of Chief RADIO WAVES HELD COSHIGROLEREY Research Associate of Car- negie Institution Here Sees Solution. Solution of some of the “great cosmic riddles of the world” by the use of radio waves was predicted by Prof. Arthur E. Kennelly, research associdte of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- ington, speaking here last night. It is certain, he said, that some radio phenomena are greatly effectéd by What' happens on the sun and there is reason to believe that influences are’ at. work much more remote than the sun. These influences are reflected in the upper atmosphere which can be explored by radip waves. Obseryations in regent years, said Dr. Kenhelly, have shown' that when brief electrical impulses are sent out at a radio sending - station the - invisible broadcast wave, carrying the impulse outward along the ground in all tions, is closely followed by echoes which come down from the sky. They are due to the radio impulses bent down, or seemingly reflected, from an invisible layer in the upper atmosphere which completely blankets the globe. Caused by Sun Rays. This invisible layer, which is seeming- ly almost impenetrable to the long wave radiation, is caused by the intense violet rays of the sun falling upon the upper atmosphere. These break up the air molecules into electrically positive and negative parts. The result is a vast, invisible cloud of electrically ac- tive, jonized air which seals the earth. The radio echoes from this cloud can be phctographed and recorded. The apparent height of the ionized layer, Prof. Kennelly said, can be found from the delay of the echo behind the ground wave. It varies from about 50 miles to more than 300 miles, de- pending on the wave length, the sea- son and the time of day. “It is found from numerous records,” Prof. Kennelly said, “that the apparent height of the invisible cloud is related to the strength of the long-distance radio signals, such as those coming over the Atlantic. The strength of the radio signals, in turn, is found to be related closely to the earth’s magnetic ac- tivity, and this in turn is related to conditions on the surface of the sun, as revealed by sunspots.” Reasons Only Guessed. The 1l-year sunspot cycle, it was pointed out, apparently is one of the fundamental phenomena of nature. Every 11 years the sun seems to have a great outburst of energy. This effects vitally a great deal that takes place on the earth. “The reasons for the interconnection of these widely different phenomena,” Prof. Kennelly said, ‘“can only be guessed as yet. The spots on the sur- face of the sun are found to be asso- clated with outpouring of ultraviolet light and this may change the depth and density of the invisible cloud in the atmosphere. “This can efect radio signals and somehow effects the earth's magnetism. Why the sun should have acquired the habit of an eruptive cycle of about 11 years still is a mystery. There may be cosmic infiyence at work more re- mote than the sun. “Radio waves of different lengths respond differently to the ionized layer in the sky. Exploration Limited. “By carefully studying their behavior it may be possible to learn much about the nature and constitution ot the upper air. At present our exploration of "this region is limited to about 30 kilometers, the height to which re- cording instruments can be lifted by sounding balloons. Radio waves can be sent up to much greater heights and be made to tell the story of what happened on their journey by the con- dition of the wave when it is caught on return. | “By continued careful studies of ter- restrial magnetism, electricity and radio waves, linked with astronomical ob- servations, we may well hope to find the solution for the great cosmic rid- dles of our world.” BOY SHOT BY BROTHER iLou of Eye Is Feared as Result of Accident. Jerry Sullivan, jr., 14, colored, of 3338 Sherman avenue, may lose the sight of his left eye as a result of having been shot accidentally today by & pistol his brother was cleaning. | _The brother, James Sullivan, 24, was | cleaning a .22 calibér pistol when a | bullet in"the barrel of the weapon'was lisch: striking the boy in the forehead. Physicians at Preedmen’s Hospital, where he was taken for treatment, say the boy’s condition is not but at he may lose the sight of his left | PAGE B—1 BUS LINES ACCEPT BAN ON TERMINALS INCONGESTED AREA Agree to Set Up New Depots in Second Zone by First Day of April. UTILITIES COMMISSION HOLDS SECRET SESSION Operators Give Written Assurance in Answer to Recent Subpoenas All operators of interstate busses in the congested section agreed at a meet- ing with the Public Utilities Commission today that they would abide by the commission’s order to vacate those terminals and set up others outside of the congested zone by April 1. The meeting was held behind closed dodrs but an official stenographer was pres- ent and the assurances of the various operators were made in writing and entered on the record. This step apparently indicates a com- plete victory for the commission in the first phase of its effort to solve the problem of traffic congestion created by large interstate busses in the downtown section. Operators Subpeonaed. Although the order banning all ter- minals from the congested zone by April 1 was adopted last August, there had been no indication until recently that any of the operators intended to obey it. The commission, therefore, subpoenaed to the meeting today all operators who had either failed to state whether they intended to obey the order or whose statements were regarded as indefinite. The result of the meeting is said to have exceeded the commission’s most optimistic hopes. The second phase of the problem is to banish curb-terminals in the second parking zone by August 1. The order adopted last August provides that there shall be no terminals, whether on or off the street, in the congested zone after April 1, and no street terminals in the second parking zone after Au- 1, 1932. Terminals will be allowed e second zone after August 1, so long as the busses load and unload their passengers on private property and not on the public streets. The order affects only interstate busses doing business with distant points and does not include the purely suburban busses which cross the Dis- trict line in order to get to Hyattsville, Silver Spring, Alexandria and other communities in nearby Maryland and Virginia. |PRISONER CONCEALS $2,200 IN HIS SHIRT Jail Authorities Take Cash and Bonds From Former Jeweler for Safekeeping. | Edward Frank, former Ninth street jeweler under indictment here for arson, is temporarily poorer by $2,200 —that amount in Liberty bonds and cash having been found sewed in the back of his shirt by District Jail offi- cials yesterday. ‘The $2,000 in bonds and $200 in cash were taken by jail authorities, prisoners not being permitted to have more than $10 in their possession. Col. Willlam Peak, jail superintendent, said the money and securities would be returned tt‘) Prank when he leaves that institu- tion. The concealed money was found when Frank was searched after Capt. George Ratherdale saw him hand $100 to a lawyer. Frank was arrested early this month in Detroit and brought here to answer the indictment. GEORGE STRESSES NEED OF NATIONAL DEFENSE Present World Conditions Require U. 8. to Maintain Forces, Senator Says. The advisability of maintaining suffi- cient land and sea forces was stressed last night by Senator George of Georgia at a meeting of patriotic organizations at the Interior Department Auditorium. The meeting was held for the dedication of colors to the Follow Me and Advance Posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. “The United States always will gladly participate in any general disarmament conference,” the Senator said, “but with the world in its present state, it would be clearly unwise not to maintain our present defense.” Brig. Gen. Hugh Matthew, U. S. M. C., and Capt. Claude Covel, assist- ant commandant of the Coast Guard, also spoke. Admiral Robert E. Coontz presided. SPEAKER ‘IS ASKED Maine Republicans Request Presi- dent to Send Cabinet Member. President Hoover was asked today by the Maine congressional delegation to send some member of his adminis- tration, preferably a cabinet member, to deliver a speech at the Republican State Convention in Portland, March 31 The President was represented af- terward as having agreed to comply with this request, but the name of the speaker to be sent has not been made known. Mr. Hoover was told by members of the delegation that the Maine delega- ticn will be strong for him for another term, but they will go to the Chicago convention uninstructed. CAPITAL CHOIR SINGS Second Lenten Presentation Is S for Tonight. ‘The National Capital Choir will give the second of its Lenten music ‘The soprano; Marjorie sie Masters, cont i -tenor, and Eugene Dahl, tenor. program will consist of selections by enson, Gustav Holtz, Wagner, Rossini, Neidlinger and