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A—=16 wxw CAPPER O 0PPOSE POWER CLAUSE IN TRACTION MERGER Joins With Senator Blaine to Force Revision in Agreement. FAVORABLE REPORT DUE IN SENATE NEXT WEEK Field:Restricted to Cars and Busses. Clauses on School Rates and Paving Also Inserted. Chairmah Capper of the Senate Dis- trict Committee it was made known today, will join with Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin in opposing the clause dealing with electric power for the merged car lines in the street railway merger resolution which was ordereg favorably reported from the‘ committee late yesterday. Senator Capper said today he thought the merger resolution as a whole is in better shape than it has ever been lni the past, but that he objects to Lhei power clause gs it now stends. | ‘This clause provides that for a period of 15 ¥ s 63 per cent of the current for the consolidated car system would ®e furnished under the present arrange- ment existing between the Potomac Electric Power Co. and the Washington Railway & Electric Co., with the Public Utilities Commission regulating the re- maining 37 per cent. After 15 years it would all be subject to the Utilities Commission. Wants “Fair” Provision. Senator Capper said he does not re- gard this as a fair provision, and point- ed out that People's Counsel Keech also recommended that this section of the resolution be amended. Before acting on the measure late yesterday, the committee made a num- T of the amendments that had been debated at hearings earlier in the session, ‘The merged company'’s field of opera- tions would cover “street railway and motor bus transportation,” the com- mittee having cut out reference to other forms of public transportation, to meet the objection of those who contended thiscomplny should not operate taxi- cal The original street paving clause was modified by the committee to relieve the merged company of three-fourths of the expense now borne by the rail- ways toward the improvement of streets not previously paved. This would not relieve the company in the case of streets completely resurfaced. The amendment was recommended by the District Commissioners and the Utili- ties Commission. School Rates Guarded. The committee wrote in a provision under which the company would be required to acquiesce in the authority of the Utilities Commission to fix rea- sonably reduced rates for school chil- dren. The present school rate, fixed by act of Congress, is being contested in the courts. The amendment does not fix a definite rate, but is intended to insure the continuation of some re- duction for school children under the This was one of the amend- ments advocated by William McK. Clayton of the Federation of Citizens” Associations. The committee left unchanged the section providing for free transfers be- tween street car lines, with the Utilities Commission empowered to determine Whether free transfers should be issued from cars to busses. Witnesses had suggested universal free transfers from €ar to bus as well as between cars. Other amendments made by the committee include: A provision making subsidiaries within the District subject to approval of the Utilitles Commis- sion, making the articles of incorpora- tion of the new company subject to ap- proval of the commission before they are recorded, that at least 9 of the 15 directors be bona fide District residents, empowering the commission to author- ize abandonment of property or opera- tions for the purpose of improving serv- ice or effecting economies contemplated by the merger. Repeal Power Stressed. The clause at the end of the resolution reserving to Congress the power to aiter, amend or repeal the resolution was en- larged by addition of the following words: “And any and all rights of fran- chise created by this resolution shall terminate after one year following its Tepeal.” The resolution contains the section re- lieving the company from payment of salaries of crossing policemen. The company also would be relieved of ex- pense in connection with maintenance and replacement of bridges, except such expense as results from the require- ments of railway operation. The resolution contemplates a vol- | Untary merger of the Washington Rail- | way & Electric and the Capital Trac- | tion Cos, with authority for the new | company to acquire the Washington | Rapid Transit Co. The resolution sets | forth the conditions under which the companies would be permitted to merge, subject to acceptance by the stock- holders. ‘When the committee meeting began yesterday John Maynard Harlan ex- pressed his views on one or two of the amendments. Mr. Harlan explained that he had been asked by Harley P. Wilson to assist in bringing about the | merger if Congress should pass the authorizing resolution. Mr. Wilson is principal owner of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. Mr. Harlan said the various amend- ments presented to the committee had previously been considered by Lhel Utilities Commission, and suggested that the committee consider only the differences between the commission | and the companies { Senator King, Democrat of Utah, ! paid he thought the committee should | not limit itself in the consideration of | amendments. Senator Blaine of Wis- consin pointed out that, since repre- sentatives of the Utilities Commission and other interested groups were not present, the committee might be sub- Ject to ‘criticism if it continued to hear | arguments on the question. Chairman | Capper said he also had regarded the hearings as completed. Mr. Harlan and Louls Barley, another attorney, withdrew and the committee went into executive session. CATHOLIC INVITATION REJECTED BY ADVENTISTS By the Associated Press. The invitation of Pope - Pius for Protestants to return to the Roman Catholic faith has been turned down by the Executive Committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. In resojutions made public today, the committee called attention to differences in doctrine between the two churches and added: “It is perfectly apparent, even to the easual reader, that it would be just as |said a woman threw several pint bot- 1SS JOY HANSEL of Wardman entry list made the show one of MERMAID ASSURED HORSE SHOW CLP Last Night’s Events Fea-| tured by Bareback Jumpers. Outdoor Races Today. With the first outdoor horse event of 1932 in view this afternoon, the| indoor horse show season of the Riding | and Hunt Club was topped off last| night by a well attended exhibition at the club ring, Twenty-second and P | streets. Today the local hunters will Q-Ike up competition again when the ’Wash- ington Drag Hounds trials open at Bradley Farms at 1 pm. While con- formation and other show ring at- | tributes played an important part in| the judging last night, the performers | this afternoon will be rated principally on the way they race over the 12- obstacle hunt course in classes for | green, qualified and open hunters. | Award of the.grand championship of the series to Mrs. William J. Chewn- ing's mare Mermaid climaxed the four- show Winter series last night. The young mare was not in form in the final contest and was unable to score a single victory during the evening, but a past record of two individual show championships automatically as- sured her the championship cup. Shamrock Takes Honors. In February Mrs. Simon Patterson of | Pittsburgh took the third of the four- | show victories, while A. H. Ryan's Shamrock swept through to blues in the bareback and open jumping last night, and walked off with the triple ;g:'ene emblematic of best horse in the w. Horsemanship replete with that val- uable characteristic known as balance gave the spectators their most inter- esting entertainment in the bareback division, the first of its kind to be run off here this year. The riders took four jumps four feet high, without sad- dle and in one case without a bridle, but there was not a spill in the class. The fact that several riders got refusals m-ldb] le this record all the more remark- able. Maj. George S. Patton merited the mythical reserve championship of the final club. show, the record of his owner ridden entries almost equaling that of Shamrock. Besides a blue which his Hoapili received from the hands of Ruth Roland, film actress, at | the conclusion of the Corinthian class, he captured second place with Kaill | in the saddle horse division, and Hoapili again rubbed shoulders with the not- ables when Brig. Gen. Pelnam D. Glass- ford handed him the red ribbon for open jumping. Ask Him Scores Twice, Allen Hechter of Baltimore also was high in the night's score, winning the hunter class and taking a second in the bareback after a jump-off with | Shamrock. His Ask Him scored both counts for the visiting rider. ‘The summaries follow Hunters, 4-year-olds and under: Mrs. Chewning, Tiget; Miss Evelyn Walker, | Judas; Miss Margaret Cotter, Impulse. Open jumping: A. H. Ryan, Sham- rock, ridden by Miss Elizabeth Martin; | Maj. Patton, Hoapili; Miss Walker.1 Judas. Saddle horses, park or road: V. G. Owen, Harriet Lee; Maj. Patton, Kaili; Mrs. J. D. Patch, Bally Forest. Bareback class: Mr. Ryan, Sham- rock, ridden by Miss Martin; Allen | Hechter of Baltimore, Ask Him; Charles | Carrico, Piedmont. Hunters: L. Allen Hechter, Ask Him; Miss Cotter, Impulse; Charles Carrico, Piedmont. Corinthian: Maj. Patton, Hoapili; Miss Anna Hedrick, Madigal Pom; Mrs. W. G. Hill, Questionnaire. Show championship: Shamrock. Grand championship of the season: Mrs. Chewning, Mermaid. ARRESTED IN DRY RAID One Man Held, Pint of Alleged Liquor Seized. One man was arrested and a pint of alleged liquor seized in a raid last night on a house in the 1300 block of Rhode Island avenue. The raiders Mr. Ryan, tles out of a window and all but one were smashed. The man arrested was Jack Edward ‘Wade, 24, who was charged with illegal possession. The woman who threw out the bottles escaped through a window. ‘The raid Is said to have followed the delivery of a pint of liquor to an agent of the liquor squad at Twelfth and K streets. The raiding party was com C. 8. Dyer, W. D. De Groot, Day and J. Auffenberg. — BRAHLER RITES MONDAY Services to Be Followed by Burial in Cedar Hill. Funeral services for Emil P. Brahler, 40, a lifelong resident of Washington, who died Thursday at his home, 655 Maryland avenue, will be held at 9:30 o’clock Monday morning st his late home. followed mass at St. Joseph's of B. F. impossible for us to become members of the Roman Church as it would be for the Pope to become a member of our church, inasmuch as our doctrines are 80 absolutely at variance. * * * “We cannot accept a call for unity ‘which involves the violation of our con- sclentious convictions concerning the sruth of the Gospel.” Church at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mr. B: , wWho was a son of Wil- liam and Anna Brahler, was s member of the B. P. O. Elks. He is sus hunter Scootie preparatory to the final indoor show of the Riding and Hunt Club, which was held here last night. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Park Hotel is shown schooling her bay A large and distinguished the best of the year.—Star Staff Photo. LAW OF EVOLUTION S ENLARGED UPON Dr. W. H. Longley of Car- negie Institution Presents New Theories. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A new and far-reaching amplification of the “law of evolution” was presented before the Washington Academy of Sci- ences Thursday night by Dr. W. H. Longley, biologist of the Carnegie In- stitution of Washington. He presented evidence of a funda- mental mathematical law, or family of laws, whose members are essentially alike, which apply to physical systems throughout nature. e further pre- sent data to show that a family of plants or animals, including the human family, is a special sort of physical system in which the same laws hold with such modifications as may be re- quired by the special circumstances. For the first time last night evolu- tion was presented as a mathematical equation. The development of a race of plants or animals was shown to pro- ceed along essentially similar lines as a mass of gas in an inclosed space. The significance of Dr. Longley's work, it was pointed out, is that it links evolution to some of the basic phenom- ena of the physical universe, gives a mathematical form to description of the evolutionary process and reveals the behavior of life itself as only a more complicated form of the behavior of atoms and molecules. Darwinian in Principle. “On the average,” Dr. Longley said, “species belonging to large genera oc- cupy large areasgand those belonging to small genera small ones. This is a fact of the utmost importance. It seems impossible to explain it except by assuming that the many widespread species in the large genera are descen- dant of an able ancestral species which has had much success in increasing the number of species of its general sort in the world. The few and weak species of the small genera are similarly the descendants of weak ancestors which have had small success in the produc- tion of new kinds. But this explana- tion of the correlation between the size of a genus and the average range of its species is to affirm that evolution is Darwinian in principle and that varia- tion, inheritance and natural selection unite in bringing it to pass. This makes the fact of evolution essentially as certain as that of the rotation of the earth on its axis, which we neither feel nor see, but infer primarily from the changing aspect of the night sky. “Some 15 years ago Dr. J. C. Willis of Cambridge, England, discovered that in great natural groups of animals and plants there is always & great prepon- derance of genera of one species and that the proportion of genera of dif- ferent sizes is much the same from!| group to group. 'This suggests that the process of differentiation of genera and species, which is the process of evolution, proceeds according to law. The law of evolution may be written in as precise a form as the laws of physics or chemistry and this law is one of a group naturally associated and including some of the best known laws of nature.” Combination of Laws. In fitt ether the new “law” of t\'oruuon‘.nfhewggls laws and the popu- lation growth laws, Dr. Longley point- ed out that the former was in effect a combination of the other two. In the process of evolution species serve as units which are capable of varia- tion and reproduction. In the gas laws atoms serve as units and these, under special conditions, are capable of variation but not of reproduction. They vary according to the pressure exerted by other atoms in the sys- tem. In the population laws, which| are just as applicable ‘to the increase in the population of the United States as to the increase of the population ot mijcro-organisms in a closed bottle, individuals serve as units and these are capable of reproduction but not of variation. But, Dr. Longley showed, when the animal or plant group is taken as a unit it not only is capable of reproduc- tion but, through the operation of the laws of genetics, of variation. The working of the evolutionary process is seen in the behavior of groups. JOINT PARLEY HELD ONBILL REGULATING CLOSING OF STREETS D. C. Commissioners Confer With Planning Board on Objections. BEAUTIFICATION GROUP FEARS LOSS OF POWERS Opposes Loss of Veto Right as Men- ace to All Program—*“Friendly” Spirit Prevails at Session, ‘The District Commissioners this morn- ing sat in on a conference with the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to discuss- the street clos- ing bill, now A)endmg in Congress, future planning and development of the city and its environs in general. ‘The oners made it clear at the recent hearing on the measure be- fore the Senate District Committee that they want the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to have only advisory powers on saying what streets shall be closed. The planners, however, foresee grave danger to their development program if they are de- prived of their veto power under the bill as originally drawn. Open Executive Session. The two commissions went into executive session. Capt. E. N. Chisolm r. lhed Phill‘;l'efldngh missjon’s gineer, descr! the gathering as friendly round-table conlerenceq" College alumni_groups here co-op- erated with the Planning Commission last night in the New National Mu- seum, in presenting an ition of the program for the development of the National Capital and surrounding territory. The visitors were welcomed in an address, delivered in the au- ditorium of the Museum, by Frederi A. Delano, the commission’s chairman. People in the West are more inter- ested in the development of the City of Washington than are people who reside here, J. C. Nichols of Kansas City, Mo, a member of the commis- sion, told the audience. The West- erners, he asserted, propose to make ‘Washington the most beautiful city in the country. In his travels throughout Arizona, New Mexico and other Western States, Nichols said, people frequently inquire about the progress Washingtin is mak- ing in its beautification program. Eliot Explains Program. Charles W. Eliot, 2d., director of planning, explained to the audience, through the medium of colored slides, the program of development here and the Washington regional plan, in general. After the addresses, the audience went out into the exhibition hall and members of the commission’s staff ex- plained the various models and maps that are a feature of the George Wash- ington Bicentennial Celebration, con- tributed by the commission. Yesterday afternoon, the commission viewed movies, made with the co- operation of the Department of Agri- culture, dealing with the park system here. These were exhibited in the pro- jection room of the Navy at the department. Irving C. Root and J. Bond Smith, representing the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, reported to the commission on the progress being made in the develop- ment of parks in Rock Creek and Sligo Valleys. | THE WEATHERI District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; probably light rain; lowest temperature tonight about 40 degrees, colder tomorrow night; tem- perature below freezing tomorrow night; moderate southwest winds shifting to northwest and becoming fresh tomor- Tow. Maryland—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably light rain in east and light rain changing to snow flur- ries in west portion; colder tomorrow. Virginia—Increasing cloudiness fol- lowed by light rain late tonight or to- morrow, except fair in southeast por- tion tonight; warmer in southeast por- tion tonight; colder tomorrow and to- morrow night. West Virginia—Cloudy and colder to- night and tomorrow with light rain changing to snow flurries. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Degrees. Inches, 29.89 29.91 29.92 29.84 29.78 29.74 Year ago, 4 pm. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘oday. 5:20a.m. 11:57a. ‘Tomorrow. 6:13a.m. 12:35a.m. 6:37 p.m. 12:52 p.m. High High Low The Sun and Moen. Rises. Sun, today .. 6:14 Sun, tomorrow 6:12 Moon, today. 3:03p.m. 4:44am. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in Capital (current month te date): Month. January ... the “Species population such as would in- Octol clude all the bats or all the cactus plants of the world,"” Dr. Longley said, “constitute another sort of physical system affliated with the others men- tioned under the terms of the ampli- fied kinetic theory. The unit species gives rise to a new species, an act of both variation and reproduction. Species are active and act uj other species at random. As a result the laws of this very complex sort of physical system | include a law of differentiation, a law | like the law of increase of simple popu- | lations, and laws which are struc-,, turally of the same form as the lawsg of normal gasses. “Direct study of the numerical rela- | tlons of animals and plants as they are known to science today shows that ; evolution is a fact. Varistion, inherit- ance, natural selection and isolation are the factors by joint action of which it has been brought about. From the statistical point of view its process is an orderly one. It a process of ways according to one formula. Its law is ydeflnm, capable of mathematical statement, and is affiliated with the | Kansas City. laws of growth of simple populations, the law of distribution of energy in the line spectrum of glowing gasses, and with the laws of normal gasses under the terms of kinetic theory amplified by recognition of the fact that it is vived by three sisters, Miss Ida Brahler, Mrs. J. F. Windom and Mrs. Willlhm Weber, and two brothers, Gus and Of He wrs unmarried. - ot necessary to ct its terms to ystems whose active units, acting at incapal | Abllene, differentiation Which _runs al- | Helena, . H Tes. Albany,’ N, Atlanis, Gn. S882e Pkt ] 5 2883 I Loutsville, Miaml, i N, Otjeans. La;- 30, PRifudeiohgs’ Phoenix. Ariz... Pittsbu; P LR S SIS S TR SRR D. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932. McKinley Wins War Game Fmals COMPANY A, 2D REGIMENT, GIVES TECH SECOND CONSECUTIVE VICTORY. F of illness. McKinley High Scheol, and Maj. Hobson. OR the first time since the Cadet Corps war games were founded a high school won its second consecutive annual Victory late yesterday when a team composed of Company A men of the 2d Regiment, McKinley High School, was proclaimed victor in the 1932 games. The final game of the series was played in the auditorium of the Franklin School Administration Building. Lieut. Col. Wallace M. Craigie, U. 8. A., professor of military science and tactics in the public schools, directed the play, and Maj. William H. Hobson, U. tactics at Georgetown University, was the ‘umpire. ‘The group shown here includes the personnel of the winning Company A team and the officials of the game. They are, left to right: Ralph E. Carpenter, Alfred Moe, Lloyd Burk, Gordon Davison, John Driever, Paul Clarke, Edward Evans, Col. Craigie, Robert McCrae, Col. Frank Mormon, U. S. A., assistant professor of military science and tactics at o George McKenzie, the final member of the team, was not present because 8. A, professor of military science and —=Star Staff Photo. FUND BILLS DELAY DISTRICT PROPOSAL Mrs. Norton’s Plan for Study of New Form of Govern- ment Given Committee. The joint resolution introduced by Chairman Norton of the House District Committee for a study by a joint com- mittee of House and Senate of desirable changes in the form of government for the National Capital and particularly regarding the desirability of granting District residents voting representation in both House and Senate, has been referred to the House Rules Committee. Chairman Pou of the Rules Commit- tee will confer today with some of the members of his committee to see when it will be agreeable to them to consider this resolution. It is probable, however, that action will be deferred for several weeks, as the time of the House is allo- cated for several weeks, with emergency relief legislation and the appropriation bills as the most urgent business. The Norton resolution will be considered as soon as it can conveniently be fitted into_the House program, members of the Rules Committee said today. Mrs. Norton emphasized she had been led to introduce the resolution by the “numerous petitions presented to Con- gress urging a modification in the form of government in the District, so as to permit the residents 8 more authorita- tive tvoi::e in its affairs and manage- ment.” She expressed her own opinion that “much of the substantive law here is obsolete and cannot be enforced,” and she feels this joint committee should be authorized to bring it up to date. Mrs. Norton said she and many oth- ers in Congress have “found a great diversity of opinion regarding what form of participation in government should be given to the residents.” She herself feels, they should haVe voting representation in both House and Sen- ate, at least. “I would like to help get this matter settled once and for all, to bring about a more cordial and co- operative relationship between the res- idents of the National Capital and the members of Congress, and to relieve the Congress of the great mass of de- tailed work connected with the duty of legislating for the municipality on so many minor matters.” AMARYLLIS SHOW OPENS TOMORROW Exhibits Predicted to Be Finest in History of Agriculture De- partment Exposition. The nineteenth annual amaryllis show of the Department of Agriculture will be opened at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and will remain open to the public for nine days, closing at 9 p.m. Easter Monday. The green houses of the department at Fourteenth and B streets will be open from 9 a.m, until 9 p.m. daily. aryllis show is original in the United States with the Department of Agriculture, which has the finest col- lection of these plants in the world with a far wider variety of calix formation and coloring and peculiarity of marking than can be found even in the native habitat of this “Knight's Star Lily” in South America. The show this year will contain many new hybrids, which are flowering for the first time, produced by cross pol- lination two years ago. There are more than 1,200 carefully selected plants in the show, each with 2 stalks of at least 4 blooms to a stalk, thus making more than 10,000 flowers in the show. The department has achieved what florists for many years considered was impossible—production of a pure white amaryllis bloom. In the show will be more than a score of these floral novelties. Many leaders in the cabinet, diplo- matic and resident social circles of the Capital are to be guests tomorrow after- noon of Secretary and Mrs. Hyde and other department officials. Dr. William A. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, made his official inspection E. today and expressed his conviction that both in excellence of plant growth and in variety of formation and coloring this year's show will surpass any held by the department. LIQUOR CAR WRECKED AS POLICE GIVE CHASE Two Occupants Arrested on Charge of Illegal Possession of Smoke Screen. Attempting to escape from police, two colored men in a liquor-laden automo- bile crashed their car aganst a telephone pole at Fourth and K streets last night. The car, which was wrecked, Wwas equipped with a smoke screen device 1 RIP VAN WINKLE PLAY STAGED BY CHILDREN Hundreds Take Part in Panto- mime at Central Community Center. Several hundred boys and girls today were participating in a pantomime ver- sion of “Rip Van Winkle,” offered at the Central Community Center by the Community Center Department. Edward Muth was cast as Rip Van Winkle, with Beatrice Mullen as Dame Van Winkle, Betty Ballou as Young Rip and Constance Kramer as Judith, Rip's daughter. Mrs. Maud Howell Smith gave the prologue of the legend. Mrs. Gertrude McRae Nash was the accom- panist. Harold Snyder had charge of the lighting effects. ‘The children represented the East Washington, Thomas, Ben Murch, Georgetown, Langley, Burroughs, South- east, Chevy Chase, John Eaton, Powell, Park View, Macfarland, Lafayette and E. V. Brown Centers. FRIES AND NEARING N RUSSAN DEBATE Economist Urges Recogni- tion—General Opposes Such an Attitude. Debating last night with Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries on the question of dip- lomatic recognition of Russia by this country, Prof. Scott Nearing, econo- mist and advocate of world Commu- nism, laid down three reasons which, he said, entitle the Soviet to the rec- ognition of the world. Prof. Nearing said the Soviets have made the following great contributions to human progress in the past decade: Three Great Contributions. 1. They have eliminated class dis- tinctions, reducing the exploiters and the exploited to a common footing. 2. They are now engaged in organiz- ing a system of planned economy un- der which the economic life of the na- tion is not left to chance and which is e to eliminate many of the gisks and uncertainties experienced in other countries. 3. They have consistently opposed war and advocated disarmament and peace. Gen. Pries opposed recognition of Russia by this country, saying repre- sentatives of the Communist party had admitted they stood for the right to advocate the overthrow of other gov- ernments by force and the right to advocate murder and assassination. Says Stalin Is Government, “You wouldn't take a man into your home to live if you knew he planned to assassinate you and your family and seize your house for his own purpose,” Gen. Fries declared. “So why admit the Soviet to this country of ours?” He said the present Russian govern- ment is not truly Communistic, but rather a dictatorship of the proletariat, and, in the final analysis, Stalin. The debate was sponsored by the Victor L. Berger National Foundation. Rev. Russell J. Clinchy presided as chairman. —_— SCULPTOR MEETS HOOVER President Hoover today informally recelved Ernest Durig, Swiss sculptor, a pupil of Rodin, the famous Prench sculptor. The presentation was made by Marc Peter, the Swiss Minister in ‘Washington. Mr Durig, who has been in Wash- ington for some time, recently com- pleted a bust of George Washington, an original conception of his own, which has received favorable comment. Bridge League Holds Tourney. ‘The W: Bridge League held its second monthly tournament last night at the Shoreham Hotel. The win- ning team was composed of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lemon of Alban Towers and Mr. and Mrs. B. A, Clarke, 1812 G . Second team : . R. F. Brett, British embassy, and Dr. Harry Kaufman, the Shoreham. HEARINGS CLOSE ON CHLD ACTORS Report Wednesday—Helen Hayes’ Career Cited. Judiciary of the House District mittee. Hearings were closed_yesterday, representatives of the District Trade, Chamber ts and Merchan! Manufacturers’ mm were invited by 0 to present their writing to be included in graphic "Fm of the hearing. The in proof that health, the theatrical profession. Cochran, manager of Theater, presented a le she said: “I have always felt that in a large measure I owe my position on the stage today to the experience and training that I gained as a child actress. “From my own observation I can truly say that the stage child is as well, and in many cases better, safeguarded in the way of health, education and morals than the children in well-to-do homes. “It is grossly unfair that the theater, already s under so many han- dicaps, should suffer a further hardship by exclusion, in certain towns and States, of plays requiring a child in the cast.” Mr. Cochran said the presentation of educational drama in the District is seriously handicapped and impaired by g:e exclusion provision in the W, Miss Fay Bentley, kdireflnr of school CAB KNOCKS POLICEMAN FROM HIS MOTOR CYCLE Pursued Hacker Makes Quick Turn, Catapulting H. 0. Hite to Ground. Policeman H. O. Hite of the Traffic Bureau suffered a fractured right ankle and body bruises early today when he was knocked from his motor cycle by a taxicab which he was chasing with a fellow officer for b Henry G. Williams, colored, 25 years old, of 654 Girard street, driver of the cab, was overtaken Motor Cycle Po- liceman C. L. Smith, Hite's companion t|in the pursult, and placed under ar- ed with driving 34 speeding al D street, police said, when he espied the officers on his trail and made a left tugn into an alley between New Jersey avenue and North Capitol street. Hite, who had drawn alongside the taxi, was knocked from his motor cycle and thrown into the roadway. The hacker was halted by Smith a short distance away, and the first pre- cinct radio scout car was summoned to take Hite to Emergency Hospital for treatment. HOLD-UP MEN SOUGHT Robbery of $02 and Theft of Taxi Reported. Police today were searching for a white man and two colored men said two hold-ups last night. O'Keefe, 1352 Fairmont ., he was robbed of $92 by the colored men on the street near his home. Arthur W. Eison, a taxicab driver, reported he was robbed of $5 rest, He was cl miles an hour. Williams was HUNGER STRIKER LESS MILITANT ON 20TH DAY OF HIS ABSTINENCE Dr. Frederick F. Wolter Not Quite S0 Sure of Self in: i served as chief clerk of the Working Protest Against Maybe the reaction had set in—Dr. Frederic F. Wolter didn't know. Yesterday he had been in high spirits, stimulated by many visitors, much at- tention. Some physical revival had carried him unwearied thr 2 long walk, an afternoon at- the , 8 hospital examination and hours of study in his quarters at 119 Pennsyl- vania avenue. But that was yesterday, the nineteenth day of the hunger strike which the scholar has resolved upon to hh'.flflure to receive suitable employment Today the doctor roused himself somewhat wearily from his cot to re- ceive a lone visitor. He made his and performed his morning tions with a preoccupied air. ‘Twenty d:m without food—it was enough to a man's living as ':lih as for food, from expression. through his drab window toward :‘ppemgfmn but one could | three weeks. Unemployment. breeze, presently awoke to the fact that he had been polishing his safety razor brx‘ rldgtc\uu-ly lo:zhc t’tme. “I'm not hungry,” the former employe of the Library of Congress said, “nor tired, particularly. Maybe I can walk today—I dont know—I'll have to try my legs. “Still, it's been cold. The eaten one peanut for almost “T ate “out of it was doctor, x Hill, where flags were up and out in the fresh morning that ut,” the doctor said, The salesman said salted couldn’t- oying X" |House Subcommittee Wil A report on the proposed amend- ment to the child labor law to permijt | admitted concocting the children to appear in professional stage performances here is expected next Wednesday from the Subcommittee on Com-| Burt W. Carpenter, 41, after Bar As- sociation, the Washington Board of of Commerce and Asso- ciation had testified. All interested Chafrman views in the steno- brilliant stage carecer of Helen Hayes, who started her dramatic work while attending the Grover Cleveland School here, was cited at the hearing education and morals of children are not neglected in Stephen E. the National letter from Miss Hayes in support of the bill, in which MAN IS IDENTIFED 1S, GUNMAN WHO SHOT AT UNON TR George MacSuMen Identified by One of Three Officials Fired on Last May. THREE SUSPECTS SIGN STATEMENTS ON “PLOT" Prisoner Denies Implication im Earlier Case, but Admits Scheme Ageainst Hawry, George MacSullen, 47, one of five persons held in connection with an al- leged plot to assassinate Charles E. Haury, supervisor of the International Union of Operating Engineers, was identified today as the gunman who attempted to kill three other officials of the organization last May MacSullen, who said he came here from Chicago recently, was picked from a line-up at police headquarters by John Possehl, president of the union and, police say, one of the intended victims of the first plot. Possehl, ac- companied by another official of the organization, came here from New York to view the line-up. MacSullen, who previously had been viewed by three other witnesses, who said he resembled the man, denied being the gunman who fired upon Pos- sehl, Frank Langdon, editor of the union’s official organ, and the late Arthur M. Huddell, Possehl's predeces- sor, as they sat in a restaurant across the street from the organization’s head- quarters at Tenth and K streets. After being identified by Possehl, MacSullen signed a written statement in which he scheme to pu Haury “on the spot. Signed state- ments also were obtained from two of the other alleged plotters, Ed Johnson, 38, of the 900 block of Grant place, and of the 1200 block of Seventeenth street. Couldn’t Identify Man. Langdon, whose eye was put out by the bullets fired at him and the two other union officials, also viewed the line-up. He was not asked to identify MacSullen, however, The others held in connection with the scheme are Walter Reed, 26, of the 200 block of A street south- east, and Mrs. Kaye Reed, 25. Charges to Be Filed Today. The statements which are said to be essentially the same, were obtained by Detective Sergts. A. D. Mansfleld and Jerry Flaherty, who questioned all the alleged plotters until after 3 o'clock this morning. In them, Johnson and Carpenter are said to have acknowl- edged their parts in the alleged scheme and implicated the others. No c has been placed against of those held, but Mansfield said & count of conspiracy to murder probably will be filed against them today. The alleged plotters were arrested ‘Thursday night after the police had gathered evidence against them by means of a dictaphone secretly in- stalled in the house in which they met. HOME CO-OPERATION URGED BY BROOKHART Senator Asks Closer Ties Between Parents and Children at the Father-and-Son Banquet. any Senator Smith Brookhart of Iowa, long an advocate of co-operation in marketing, believes in practicing co- operation at home as well. The Iowa Senator, father of three boys, called for more co-operation be- tween parents and children in an ad- dress last night at the annual father- and-sor banquet of the Woodward School of the Y. M. C. A. The Sena- tor's youngest son, Joseph, is a student of the school. Senator Brookhart gave as an ex- ample of the value of co-operation the success of co-operative business enter- prises in Europe. He gave a detailed explanation of the operation of these co-operatives and expressed the opinion a similar system in America would end the problem of economic depressions. Dr. H. B. Humphrey, scientist of the Department of Agriculture, also present as ‘“one of the fathers,” sounded the keynote of co-operation in responding on behalf of the fathers to a “toast to dads” offered by two of the students, Connor Huff and Comly Robinson. A “father-and-son” prayer for the safe retyrn of the Lindbergh baby was voiced by H. B. Gram. Among other prominent fathers at the banquet was :val'ur Newton, secretary to the Presi- ent. FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR HARRY P. PARKER Native Washingtonian Served as Secretary of National Mone- tary Commission. Funeral services for Harry Page Parker, 65, native Washingtonian and for many years active here, who died at his home, 3221 Adams Mill road, Wednesday, were held at the residence yesterday. Interment was in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Parker was a member of the bar of the District of Columbia, but had devoted most of his life to Government service. He served as secretary of the National Monetary Commission and the Senate Committee on Finance during the chairmanships of the late Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. He assisted in the work of the Un- derwood-Simmons tariff bill with his chief, Senator Shively of Indiana. He also held a respousible position with the late. Senator Boise Penrose of Pennsyl- vania. During the World War he Conditions Service of the rtment of Labor. He held this position until the exigencies that called it into exist- jence terminated. He retired from the Government duties after 30 years of service. He &5 {Pu‘rr\'lh'ad by his widow, Mrs. Mabelle J. er. PUPILS PRESENT OPERA “Chimes of Normandy” Staged by Tech Club Vocalists. ‘Youthful vocalists of the Tech Opera Club, McKinley High School, last night ted “Chimes of Normandy” at the Kenelpp ‘ol bekos as Henri, both well their individual parts. Other roles ney Dwight, 3 OI{U‘. Dorothy Miles, Iona Comstock, Saverto Pisciotta and Richard Rush. The cperetta is to be given agsim tonight.