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RAIL STUDY BEGUN BY WATINAL BODY Thayer Home After Bombing Coolidge Expected to Map Plans of Non-Partisan Group at Once. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 28.—A non- partisan committee of five prominent men, headed by former President Cal- vin Coolidge, today set about a study of the financial position of the Nation's railroads. Sponsored by 31 banking and insur- ance organizations and universities, the commission will recommeud methods of strengthening the transportation lines and will attempt to mobilize pub- lic sentiment on behalf of a remedial legislative program to be Llaced before Congress. With Mr. Coolidge on the committee arc Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York; Clark Howel!, sr., publish- er of the Atlanta Constitution; Bernard M. Barush, a director of Lhe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. and Al:xander Legge, president of the Internaticnal Harvester Co. and former chairman of the Farm Board Will Serve Without Pay. Walter Bennett. president «f the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, who announced the formation of the com- mittee. said the members will serve without pay Mr. Coolidge is expected to an- nee the committee’s plan of opera- n at an carly date In announcing the formation of the the accontance of its members Bennett made no forecast as to what lines the survey and ifs re- sulting proposals might take. However, a letter, by which the com- mittee members were formally invited to serve, read in part “The present deplorable condition of the railroads is not due wholly to the stagnation of traffic resulting {rom the long-continued depression. Many cf the present ills are due to governniental, financial. labor and management poli- cles, some wrong in conception, some wrong in application, and others ren- dered obsolet by radically changed conditions. “No solution will be effective unless the problem of the railroads is con- sidered as an integral part of the cn- tire transportation problem of the United States, whether by rail, highway, waterway, pipeline or air. “Every industry in the country is en- titled to fair treatment—the railroads no less than the others. The public interest must certainly be protected, but regulation should not place the railroads at a hopeless disadvantage with competing agencies and destroy flexibility of operation and management initiative. 1920 Act to Be Studied. A principal undertaking of the com- mission _probably will be to investigate the application of the 1920 railroad act, particularly the recapture provision, un- der conditions of today. It also is ex- pected to inquire into the practicality of other efisting railway legislation. Bennett said the survey was designed to safeguard the interests of the sav- ings banks. insurance companies, foun- dations and other fiduciary. institutions who are the principal holders of rail- road bonds. The National Association of Mutual Savings Banks heads the list of the 31 sponsors, . The organizations listed as inviting the commissicn to serve, principally - surance companies. include Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Chicago Universi- ties, the Railway Business Association and the Investment Bankers' Associa- tion of America. Mr. Baruch, commenting on the an- nouncement last night. said he under- stond Mr. Coolidge probably would call the committee together within a few days, and that work would be started immediately. A staff of technical experts will be organized to collect data on the various phases of the problem and report findings. INQUEST FOR AUTO VICTIM TO BE FRIDAY Robert Emmett Wallace, Spanish- American War Veteran, Dies at Casualty. An inquest will be held Friday in the case of Robert Emmett Wallace, 76- year-old Spanish-American War vet- eran, of 1308 Potomac avenue south- east, who died at Casualty Hospital to- day of injuries suffered Sunday when run down by an automobile while cross- ing the street at the east end of Penn- sylvania Avenue Bridge. The driver of the automobile,~J. B. Chadwick of 6219 Fairdel street, Balti- more, was released under $500 bond for appearance at the inquest X Mr. Wallace had been prominent in Spanish-American War veteran activi- ties for 20 years. He was past com- mander and quartermaster of the Gen. M. Emmett Urell Camp, U. S. W. V. I He served in the war as a lieutenant of the 1st Kenutcky Volunteers, I Mr. Wallace is survived by his wife Mrs. Lila P. Wallace: a daughter, Miss Lila R. Wallace, and a_son. James N. ‘Wallace of Charleston, W. Va. Plants Grow Without Soil. 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September 28.— Hopes for the swift apprehension of those who bombed the home of Judge | Webster Thayer rested today in a small | piece of copper found in the bed room of a nearby house. The fragment of metal had beer hurled across the street from the Thayer home, through the wall and into the center of the room where it was found. William P. Pinneran, chief of detec- tives, believed it to be a part of the bomb that wrecked the home of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial judge yesterday. Meanwhile police broadcast an alarm for “two swarthy-complexioned men in tration plates.” The car was seen in front of the judge's house shortly before the explosion, and a neighbor said its two occupants left the scene hurriedly just before the blast. Quest for Motiv Investigating officials went back to the trial of the two radicals, who were executed in Massachusetts State Prison in August, 1927, for a motive. Judge Thayer pronounced the desth sentence and refused a new trial. Many times he had been threatened and many times his home, at 180 Institute road. had been the scene of demonstrations. any_violence. The judge himself was not ready to accuse any single group. Asked if he attributed the bombing to his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, he answered: “You can't get me to say that. is for the police to determine.” counsel for the two radicals during their trial, said the bombing was an out- rage, and he did not believe it the work of anarchists or Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. Fuller Home Guarded. Boston police today had placed guards at the home of former Gov. Alvin sentences of the two men when he was Governor of the State. Cambridge police carefully guarded the home oI President A. Lawrence Lowell of Har- vard University, who served as a mem- ber of a committee of three which was appointed by the then Gov. Fuller in 1927 to pass on the innocence or guilt of the three men, who were charged with slaying a paymaster during a pay roll hold-up in Braintree. Mrs. Webster Thaver, wife of the 74- vear-old justice, was recovering from shock and cuts at the Memorial Hos- pital. She had been trapped in the wreckage when the bomb exploded. A maid at the Thayer home, Joan Ashe, was at the City Hospital, unhurt, but suffering from shock. Judge Thayer, uninjured, was stay- ing at the home of a son nearby. U. S. EMPLOYES LAY CONVENTION PLANS Federation's Executive Council Is Expected to End Meetings Tomorrow. i ‘The_executive council of the Amer- ican Federation of Government - ployes, which went into session here Monday night, will complete its work tomorrow, no session being held today. Yesterday afternoon was devoted to plans for the first convention, to be held here October 17, but it was said today that details were still to be com- pleted. The organization also is work- {ing on the legislative program to be |pu=hed at the next session of Con- gress. | " At the opening session Monday night, discrimination against married women in Government service was as- sailed by Mrs. Sophie J. Bergner, sec- ond vice presicent. ' E. meeting last night, adopted a reso- vision of the economy law. It al<o op- posed pay reductions in Federal serv- ! ice. i i 1 NAVY TO HOLD AUCTION Binoculars, Sextants and Camera .Lens on List Offered. Some 498 pairs of binoculars and a number of sextants and camera lens are included in the material to be sold by sealed bids at the Washington Navy yard on October 17. In announcing this sale of surveyed Navy material, the Navy Department said the articles now at the Marine Barracks, Quantico, the Naval Re- search Laboratory, Bellevue, D. C., and the Washington Navy Yarg, and may be inspected during working hours. More than 600,000 pounds of scrap steel. brass, bronze and aiuminum alloy are being put up for sale. Included in the various types of machinery offered s a 10-ten jib crane. CLUE IN BOMBING Worcester Police Broadcast | an automobile carrying New York regis- | That William G. Thompson, one of the T. Fuller, who refused to commute the | Civil Service Lodge of the A. F. G. | ! Jution assailing the marital status pro- | injured. His wife was slightly hurt. WIFE OF JUDGE IN SACCO-VANZETTI CASE INJURED. H UINS of the Worcester, Mass.,, home of Judge Webster Thayer, presiding judge at the celebrated trial of Sacco ! and Vanzetti, anarchists, who were executed for murder in 1927, which was destroyed by a terrific bomb explo- —A. P. Photo. | -District’s Heroes in the World War Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. l | S RECORDED in the official | citation, Edgar T. Collins,| | colonel, Infantry, General Staff | | Corps, U. S. Army. was| | awarded the Distinguished | Service Medal for exceptionally meri- torious and distinguished services in a position of great responsibilities. As | assistant G-5, gen- eral headquarters, and later as chief of staff of the G:Ih . he performing his cifficult tasks with unremitting zeal, rendering services of con- spicuous worth_to the American Ex. peditionary force: By his exempla conduct and per- sonal example of fearlessness, he in- spired the men under him. Resi- dence at appointment, D. C. With the rank of brigadier general, he is on duty in Washington, and re- sices at 2400 Sixteenth street north- west. Washington, (Copyright. 1932.) INJUSTICE CHARGED 10 ECONOMY LAW Representative Mead Says} Never before, however, had there been l | seventh annual dahlia exh: | among the winners. WIN LARGE SHARE AT DAHLIA SHOW L. W. Holland, Lund’s Gar- dens, and E. Lund Take Many Prizes. L. W. Holland, E. Lund and Lund's Dahlia Gerdens led the prize winners yesterday in the opening session of the tbition_spon- sored by the National Capital Dahlia and Iris Society, at the Carlton Hotel Topping the other exhibitors in 12 and 14 classes, respectively, Mr. Hollan and the Lund g>rdens nevertheless met | keen competition from entries of U Shewmaker, John S. Driggers and Mrs M. B. Payne In the garden flower division. Mrs. A H._ Engelbrecht, James Dulin Mrs. L. E. Voorhces were prominent ington Times-Herald Trophy for best garden club basket exhibit | dahlias went to the Montgomery Gar- den Club this year. The trophy must be won three times by the same organ- ization before it is retired. Stays Open Until Tonight. Tonight the Washington Post Silver Cup for the basket of dahlias selected as best by popular vote will be awarded. The exhibition remains open from 10 am. to 10 pm. today. Winners in the clos es last night were Vase red dahlias. Mr. Shewmaker: vase white dahlias, E. Lund: vase yellow dahlias. Mr. Driggers; vase pink dahlias, Mr. Hollind: va'e variegated dahlia: Mr. Holland: vas any other color, Mr. Holland: vase Autumn shades, Mr. Hol- land; vace cf six blooms. Mr. Lund second prize highest awarded; vase of six blooms. collarettes, Mr. Lund, second prize highcst; vase of six blooms, peony, Mr. Holland, second prize high- est; vace of six blooms. semi-cactus, Mr. Lund; vase of six blooms, formal deco- | rative, Mr. Driggers; vase of six blooms, Act Has Increased Jobless in P. 0. Department. By the Associated Press. Chairman Mead of the House Post Office Committee today charged the Post Office Department unjust in ad- ministering the economy law. The New York Democrat took the stand during testimony by Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary of the National Fed- eration of Post Office Clerks, at the opening of an investigation of post oftice mail and building contracts. Fla- herty had said the Post Office Depart- | ment “is guilty of flagrant violations of the economy bill.” | | “We agree they (the Post Office De- | partment) are carrying out the provi- | | sions of the economy act with a ven- | geance,” Mead said. Injustice Is Charged. | “They are doing an injustice to the | employes, patrons and to their own in- | tegrity in the face of what President Hoover and Postmaster General Brown have said. President Hoover said the | ‘(urlough plan, if adopted, would put | | 20,000 substitute postal workers to work. | | Instead of giving 20.000 men wcrk, they | | are driving the 20.000 substitutes in the service to starvation.” | ""Mead said postal officials were keep- |ing within the appropriations alloted, but that they were not giving Sunday, | holiday and overtime work to the sub- | stitutes as provided under the economy act. Fleherty said “we should go to the! ‘E‘cs lent and present the situation to | i A “restrictive administrative policy of the department, Flaherty said, had increased unemployment. A “sharp de- cline in the volume of mail” brought abaat by the increase frcm 2 to 3 cents | in 'first-class postage, he added, had | resulted in curtailment of workers. | Asks Rate Repeal. “Fhe 3 cents postage might properly | be Tcpeiled at the short session cf | Congress,” he continued, saying it was | not returning greater reverue than the | 2-cent rate. Flaherty asserted “there is no justi- fication for continuing the 3-cent post- | age, because it does not return the rev- | enue expected and has increased un- | employment.” | He added the department had sus- | pended its monthly reports on revenue and that Congress and the public was in the dark as to the decline in volume of mails. WILLIAM PLATT SUED | Wife in Reno Charges Cruelty. Wed in Rockville Last Year. Mrs. Gladys Platt of this city, filed a complaint for divorce against William Platt, 3424 Thirteenth street, in Reno, Nev., yesterday, according to an Asso- clated Press dispatch. Platt is listed in the City Directory as a painter. According to the dispatch the couple was married in Rockville, Md., July 20, 1931. The complaint charges cruelty. R S & T University to Receive Medal. GAINESVILLE, Fla. (#)—The Uni- versity of Florida has been advised that it will receive the Fidac educational medal in recognition of its work in pro- | vase | Payne. moting good will ‘between the United States and Latin American countries the past year. informal decorative, Mr. Shewmaker: vase of six blcoms. ball, Mr. Holland: of six sprays, miniature, Mrs. Vase of six sprays, pompons, Lund's Dahlia Gardens; most artistically ar-| ranged vase of pompons and °other small dahlias, Lund’s Gardens: largest perfect semi-cactus, W. H. Gannaway; largest perfect formal decorative, Mr. Gannaway: largest perfect informal decorative, H. R. Watkins: largest per- fect ball, Mr. Holland; largest perfect dahlia in show, Maj. James B. East- man: smallest perfect pompon in show. Lund's Gardens; best seedling not shown before, Maj formal decorative, six blooms, Mr. Hol- land: peony, three blooms, Mr. Holland: second prize highest awarded; formal decorative, Mr. Holland; informal deco- rative, Mr. Holland: best vase of dahlias arranged for effect, Mrs. J. E. Willett: best bloom peony, Mrs. Willett: best bloon? incurved cactus, Mrs. Willett best bloom semi-cactus. Ma). Eastman best bloom, formal decorative, Mr: Payne: best bloom informal decorative, Mr. Gannaway: best bloom ball, Mr. Holland: best seedling, originated and grown by exhibitor, P. B. Darling: best trade exhibit, Lund’s Gardens: formal decorative, 12 blooms, Lund's Gardens: informal decorative, 12 blooms, Lund! pompons, 12 sprays, Lund pompons, 25 spray ¢ Gardens. most artistic vase of dahlias, Mr. Lund; most artistic basket of 12 blooms, Lund's Gardens. Wins Basket Prize. Best Garden club basket, Montgomery Garden Club, first; Chevy Chase Garden Club of Maryland, second, and Fairfax Garden Club, third. Garden flower winners were: Best basket roses, Mrs. Engelbrecht; best vase roses, Mr. Dulin; best collection of roses, Mrs. Byron Blodgett; best white rose, Mrs. Voorhees; single red rose, Mrs. Engelbrecht; single rose, pink, Mr. Dulin; single yellow rose, Mr. Dulin; single rose blend, Mr. Dulin; best basket of annuals, Mrs. Willett; best vase of annuals, Mrs. C. R. For- ester, second highest awarded: best vase of petunias, Mrs. H. P. Wilson; best vase large flowered zinnias, Lund'’s gardens; best vase pompon zinnias, Lund’s gardens; best vase African mari- golds, Lund’s gardens; best vase French marigolds, Mrs. Voorhees: best vase cosmos, Mrs. Voorhees; best vase sun- shine asters Mrs. William Kneesse; best exhibit wildflowers B. H., Lane; best vase garden flowers arranged for ef- fect, Mrs. W. P. Reinchl; best basket garden flowers arranged for effect Mrs. Forester. ‘Warren G. Maytrott, New Jersey ex- pert, was the Judge in all classes. TALL CEDARS TO GIVE LOCAL CLASS DEGREES A number of local candidates will take the Sidonian degree of the Order of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon at an elaborate ceremonial to be held by Capital Forest No. 104 at 8 p.m., Friday in the ballroom of the Raleigh Hotel. A majority of the class of candidates are Masonic employes of the Govern- ment Printing Office. Public Printer George H. Carter, a member of the order, will be present. The ceremonial will be under direc- tion of the grand tall cedar, Thomas C Havell; Charles R. Brill, senior deputy grand tall cedar, and J. Pred Huber, junior deputy grand tall cedar of the local Forest. The degree work will be under supervision of J. N. Kline, director of the royal court, and W. C. Heider, director of the “stunts” will take charge of the comedy end of the program. ( and | while the Wash- | the ! of | James Eastman; | PUERTO RICO DEAD MAY G0 ABOVE 200 Haiti Reports Storm Passed Santo Domingo Without Serious Damage. 1] _Page) well imagine thousands killed in the districts through which he passed. All government offices were instructed by the governor to open for business as usual today. “We must have every- body go to work,” he said, “as thougl nothing had happened—only more so Mayors of the stricken towns who called on the governor last night were | instructed to supply emergency relief for 48 hours. Requests for caskets in whi.h to bury the dead were refused. Gov. Beverley explained that burial was up to the municipalities. “The insular government’s duty is to care for the living,” he said. ‘Communications were so crippled that complete information on what parts of the island were hit by the storm was still lacking today. Woodfil Buttem, the Governor’s secretary, who made a tour of much of the north coast by airplane, said he thought the hurricane passed out to sea just west of San Juan. The in- sular chief of police, however, said he Lelieved the area hit was much more extensive. He said he had reports 23 were killed at -Areciba, much farther west. But- tem’s plane did not cover this area be- cause of the heavy rain. No Americans Hurt. At least 800 of the 1,000 dwellings of the ocean front section of San Juan either were destroyed or damaged so greatly that it was impossible for their | occupants to continue living in them. During the storm hundreds of families found refuge in the ancient Spanish | fort of San Cristobal The casualty list in San Juan itself was kept down because police, warned | in advance of the imminence of the storm, rounded up hundreds of women | and childiren and placed them in churches and school buildings, which | were much more substantially built | than their homes. In the villages little | protection of this sort was available. The Governor ordered Adjt. Gen. John A. Wilson to call out 400 National Guardsmen to assist_the police in San | Juan and vicinity. Judge Pablo Berga, chairman of the Puerto Rico chapter of the American Red Cross, and Capt Antonio J. Silva, executive secretary. also were participating in the work of | caring for storm sufferers. | A preliminary check indicated that | none ‘of the Americans living here I killed or injured. But no American | resident escaped without property loss. RELIEF WORK UNDER WAY. A vigilant watch was being kept to- | day by governmental and relief agencies | on the tropical storm buffeting the : West Indies, while the Red Cross speeded assistance to Puerto Rico, stricken Monday night by the same hur- ricane. | Coast Guard and naval communica- tions officers lacked information about | the hurricane. Walter Swenson, Naval | Reserve radio man and operator of amateur station W3PN here, reported that an amateur operator Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had told him that area was preparing for a blow. Adviced by Gov. James R. Beverley of Puerto Rico that the entire island may | have been devactated, the Red Cross { ordered George Smith, chief supply of- | ficer, to go there. The relief organiza- | tion ‘2lso had a destroyer ready to rush i medical supplies into the storm-swept area. Will Go on Destroyer. Smith, going by way of Miami, where he is due at 3 am. tomorrow, wiil leave there around 8 am. for Sin Juan. Sup- plies were being arranged for here by Di. William de Kleine, Red Cross medical director. Col. Ernest P. Bick- nell, vice chairman in charge of insular and foreign affairs, said a Navy de- strover would take them. The Red Cross today received a mes- sege from Antenio Silva, of its San Juan chapter, reporting ‘“Thousands temporarily homeless.” A dispatch to the Navy from Lieut. Isaiah Olch, district ccmmunications officer, at San Juan, s2id: “Short trip into San Juan indicates | conditions next few days acute due to | lack of food.” Another message said there were no casualties in the Navy personnel The Red Cross i ready to ship to Puerto Rico the 10.000 barrels of the flour now being distributed for relief in this country, along with cotton cloth if needed. | Plans Air Survey. Beverley will fly over the central part of the island today if visibility permits in order to report in detail to the Bu- reau of Insular Affairs on the storm’s destruction. In his last message, the island governor said a survey as far as Humacao on the east and Arecibo en the west showed great destruction all along the northern coast. Advices from Guayamo and Ponce show little damage on the southern coast, but practically all houses in Fa- | jardo, Cieba, Rio Grande and Luquillo | have been destroyed and great damage reported in Carolina, Rio Piedras and west. | ‘Work of restoring telegraph lines, the aqueduct of San Juan and cpening of | roads began shortly after the storm ended. A meeting of the Emergency | Relief Committee, formed in anticipa- tion of the hurricane, was held yester- day and § permanent organization ef- fected, with Dr. Jose Padin as chair- man Gov_ Beverley reported that the local | Red Cross and Relief Committee have arranged to send tents and medicines to the Fajardo area today. “Please inform National Red Cross that we believe we will need aid,” he said. The Weather Bureau this morning issued the following storm notice: “No reports received from Haiti, but information from area to the north and west indicate center of tropical dis- turbance which was approaching the city of Santo Domingo late Tuesday has continued’ moving westward and is as far west as Port au Prince at least. Caution advised vessels in path.” VIRGIN ISLANDS HIT. Gov. Paul M. Pearson of the Virgin Islands today notified Secretary Wil- bur that the “full force of the West Indian hurricane hit the Virgin Is- Everyone feels better, returning as Summer ing Anthracite at today’ 811 E St. N.W. Dependable Coal Service / | not President to Rush ! Puerto Rican Aid; Wires for Report President Hoover today sent s cablegram to Gov. James R. Beverley of Puerto Rico, pressing his sorrow over death and damage caused by the hurricane there and asking im- mediate reports on the situation with a view to extending relief to the island sufferers. ‘The President’s cablegram fol- lows: “I am deeply grieved to learn of the death and destruction visited upon the people of Puerto Rico and their possessions, and wish you please to report to me at once the salient facts of the situation, especially those look- ing to immediate provision of any relief that can be supplied by our public agencies.” lands. He reported no lives lost on St. Thomas Island. Gov. Pearson requested financial aid. Secretary Wilbur immediately asked the Red Cross for $20,000 for relief. Governor's Telegram. Gov. Pearson’s telegram said: “Full force of hurricane hit the Virgin Islands. As yet no details from St. Croix St. John. St. Thomas Hos- pital and some other public buildings damaged, all wires are down, some houses demolished and 80 per cent of small craft sunk or beached. No loss of life in the town. No water-front damage. “Have received reports from various departments and have made a personal inspection of damage done by the hurricane in St. Thomas and have held meetings of responsible citizens and organized Relief Committee to begin distribution of food and supplies today. “Qur local funds inadequate to meet immediate urgent conditions. Many people are homeless and hungry. Banana trees and gardens which are chief crop for poor people are mostly destroyed About one-third of the population long unemployed and living on mere sub- sistence ration makes situation more acute. . Under Interior Department. “Immediate aid should be given to rebuild or repair houses of poorest peo- ple to prevent exposure during rainy seasons. Earnestly request $.0.000 Lo supplement local funds be iade avail- able under the direction of the Govern- ment and distribute through relief committees just organized. Money to be used for ‘ood and for grants to poor est people for repair of honses.” ‘The Government of the Virgin Ts- lands is under the direction of the In- tegior Department. Ofificials ! ave osked Gov. Pearson to give them prompt in- formation as sfoon as P on con- ditions in St. Croix aud John. LABOR T0 OPPOSE | U. S. CAFETERIAS Hotel and Restaurant Employes' Alliance Plans Attack When Inquiry Is Reopened Here. When the hearings on operation of cafcterias and restaurants in Gov ment buildings is resumed here in } vember by the special House committee, ' headed by Representative Shannor. Democrat. of Missouri, the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Alliance plan to be heard “in no uncertain terms,” its representative said today | Charles E. Sands, speaking for the | organization, which ic affilisted with ! the American Federa'ion of Labor. ex- | plained the position of these workers, saying “We are of the opinion that a num- ber of these cafeterias in Government buildings are necesscrv, and some are If these cafeterias serve one meal only to bona fide employes of the build- ing they fulfill their legitimate function When they cater to outside patrons they are encroaching or business that belongs to outside eating place: “Most of these cafeterias in Govern- ment buildings are subsiuized by Gov- ernment _appropriation Legitimate business that has no such helps canrot compete with such conaitions. The House and Senate restaurarts should be leased out to caterers, who should | charge sufficient prices to make.a fair profit.” FORMER D. C. MAN LEAPS FROM BURNING PLANE} One of President Hoover's former, junior naval aides at the White House has just become a member of the Cater- | pillar Club. | Lieut. Stanhope C. Ring. who relin- quished his White House duties in May, | was forced to jump from a burning plane vesterday near San Diego. Calif, | the Navy Department was advised “Lient. Ring was piloting a_Boeing fighting plane _when it caught afire after a dive. Shortly after he “bailed out” the plane crashed in a vacant lot and the lieutenant received burns and minor injuries. Lieut. Ring. a native of Norfolk. served in Washington from 1929 until Tast May, and made his home here at (he Marlborough Apartments FLOWERS Mark the BIRTHDAYS and ANNIVERSARIES Florally, thru— NG Nat'l 4905 1407 H St. N.W. | T TREES 3 PARKS % RoADS Every Living Advantage ._ IN —. Sligo Park Hills . HOME S mmmmm———" Built to Give Permanent Satisfaction PHONE SHEPHERD 2400 AUTUMN PEP business confidence is gives way to crisp, sparkling Autumn days. Be sure of warmth morning and evening, and be ready for the coming cold days by filling your bins NOW with our Super-Cleaned Read- s low prices. Marlow Coal Co. NAtional 0311 co 1858 HOME LOAN BANKS T0 BROADEN SCOPE Send Out Stock Subscription Blanks to Institutions Not Now Eligible. Anticipating early legislative sction, the Home Loan Bank Board today was sending out stock subscription blanks to financing institutions not now eli- gible under State laws for membership in the new Federal system. This step follows an announcement by the board that it had approved a method whereby building and loan as- sociations, life insurance companies and savings banks can subscribe to stock. their subscriptions to become effective on enactment of enabling legisiation by their respective Legislatures. Board Action Explained. The blanks contain the following ex- planation of the board’s action: “The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, In its desire to serve the institu- tions in those States whose statutes prohibit their admission to membership in and purchase of stock of Federal home loan banks, has decided to allow those institutions to subscribe now for stock in the banks of their respective districts, to take effect immediately upon the passage of enabling legislati-n by the Legisiatures of their respective States. Greater Accuracy Cited. “In this way the board can determine with greater accuracy the number of institutions of a given state which de- sire to become members, the amount of stock they will purchase, and will be better able to present to the various Legislatures &s they convene the neces- sity of pessing enabling legiclaticn thereby permitting these subscriptions o become effective ard in full force.” In many Ststes building and loan associations may participate, but savings banks and insurance companies barred. In other States the reverse is true. In Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio. Ofegcn, Rhode Island. South Dakota and Tennessee no home financing insti- tution is eligible. The board said en- abiing legisiation is being prepared in ssouri and Ohio. Boy Scout Commended. John Karschel, a Boy Scout cub of Salisbury, South Rhodesia. has received official commendation for averting pos- sible tragedy on a bridge over the Gwebi River. While fishing John no- ticed that one of the concrete piers was badly cracked and already was break- ing away. He ran some distance to the engineer. who promptly closed the bridge. The bov has just received let- s of commendation from the head of s school and from the Government d Department. TE o wwe seen 1m Ao 1M RUSH PRINTING EXPERT SERVICE HIGH GRADE —NOT HIGH PRICED BYRON S. ADAMS "I Never Disggpoins™ Automatic Heating Corp. 1719 Conn. Ave. North 0627 % A3 METHODIST MISSIONARY, SOCIETIES WILL MEET, Annual Session Friday to Be Ad- dressed by Baltimore Woman Leaders at Waugh M. E. Church, The Woman's Foreign Missionary Societies of the Methodist E; Churches of the District will ho?é“:mhm annual meeting Friday at 10:30 am. in the Waugh Methodist Episcopal Church, Third and A streets northeast. Mrs. Chesteen Smith of Baltimore will speak at the morning session, while Mrs. Carl F. New, also of Baltimore, will address the afternoon meeting. Rev. Benjamin Meeks, District super« intendent, will conduct installation ex- ercises, during which officers for the ensuing year will be installed. Justin Lawrie, ‘music director of Foundry | Methodist Episcopal Church, will have charge of a musical program. . It is said of Stephen Girard, famous Philidelphia merchant and banker (1750-1831), that he never had a friend. Yet he distinguished himself by his humane attentions to the sick, whom he personally nursed in the public hospitals during the yellow fever epidemic of 1794; he was “the very sheet anchor of | the Government's credit” during the War of 1812, and he left the whole of | his fortune, approximating $9,000.000, to | found Girard College for the education of arphan_boys. 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