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RAL SHOP FORCES SECRET ARMAMENT £ WILL BE INCREASED Business Gains Are Shown in Many Lines Scattered Over Country. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, September 28.—A pro- gram for increasing the Baltimore & Ohio_Railroad shop forces by approxi- mately 1,800 men was announced yes- terday by C. W. Galloway, vice presi- dent in charge of operation and main- tenance. . The plan, effective on Monday, Oc- tober 3, for the month of October, calls for the forces employed in heavy repair shops to work 30 hours a week, divided into four days of seven and one-half hcurs each day. Shops_affected by the order include Mount Clare, in Baltimore; Cumberland and Brunswick, Md.. Du Bois. Pa.; Glenweod. Painesville, East Chicago and Washington, Ind. Car Loadings Increase. CHICAGO, September 28 (#).—Ex- ecutives of half a dozen railroads yes- terday issued statements recording in- creased car loadings and interpreting it to portend economic improvement. Car loadings for the week ended Sep- tember 17 gained 17 per cent over the preceding Labor day week, the sharp- est advance in four years. The Bur- lington road reported that for the first time since 1925 September car loadings on the line were higher than the total for August. Steel Output Gains. MASSILON, Ohio, September 28 (#). —The Republic Steel Co. open-hearth plant here has increased ingot produc- tion to 25 per cent of capacity, the highest level of operations in several months. 1. H. C. Buys Cotton Fabric. CHICAGO. September 28 (). —Inter- national Harvester Co. officials an- nounced they have contracted for a million yards of heavy-grade cotton duck fatric—enough to supply all the binders and combines the firm could manufacture in a year. George A. Ranney, vice president, said he believed cotton has reached its lowest point and that good business principles compel purchases now. Motor Sales Improve. NEW YORK, September 28 (&)— Dow, Jones & Co. predicted vesterday ‘General Motors would finish 1932 W\th] its position backed by working capital | in an amount close to that held at the start ‘of the slump. Improvement in Tetail sales was given as the reason, Day’s Sales Set Record. CHICAGO, September 28 (#).—Offi- cials of Carson. Pirie, Scott & Co..| wholesalers of clothing and dry goods, | reported last Monday was the largest business day in three years. Ninety employes have been called back to work, it was announced. and the entire staff worked hours of overtime. Shoe Orders Increase. ST. LOUIS. September 28 (#).—Or- ders received by the International Shoe Co. since August 15 have shown a 35 per cent increase over orders for the | corresponding period last year. Frank | C. Rand, president, announced today. Carriers Recall Men. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September | 28 () —Railroad officials here yester- { day announced approximately 285 train | and engine men will be recalled to work | in Utah and Southern Idaho within the nest few weeks, to move the sugar beet ercp The roads include the Oregon Short Line, the Los Angeles & Salt Lake, the Denver & Rio Grande Western and the Salt Lake & Utah Railroads. The work is expected to last for two months. Rail Executive Optimistic. NEW YORK. September 28 (#)—: L. A Downs. president of the Illinois said yesterday that about the busi- Central Railroad he felt “a lot better” ness outlook. “Traffic on the Illinois Central,” he asserted, “at present is running about 7 per cent below a year ago. Loadings have been improving week by week and the improvement is continuing. Peo- ple in our territory are encouraged, “Our previous_estimates of earnings were too low. We will do better dur- ing the balance of the year than we expected at the time we borrowed from the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion. We will not make any more ap- plicatiohs to the R. F. C. for loans this year.” When the road applied for aid it estimated a net loss of $6.939.798 for 19322. Mr. Downs would not attempt a forecast of earnings over the re- mainder of this year. Wholesale Sales Gain. CHICAGO, September 28 (#).—The Seventh Federal Reserve District Bank reported wholesale grocery sales in- creased 9 per cent in the district dur- ing August. The report said hardware sales gained 4 per cent, dry goods, 26; drugs, 14, and shoes, 58 per cent. Freight Shipments Increase. FORT. SMITH, Ark. September 28 (). —Carload shipments of freight over the Fort Smith & Western Railroad from September 1 to 24. inclusive, were 7 per cent more than during the same period a year ago and 39 per cent more than during the corrcsponding period of August. 1932. L. B. Barry, receiver, Teports. Most of the line is in OKla- homa. CITIZENS 'SEEK SHIRLEY'S | ROMISE FOR HIGHWAY Go to Rehmond to Seek Early Con- structon of Link From Fort Myer to Lee Boulevard. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINCTON COURT HOUSE, Va., September 23.—In an effori to insure| construction of a connection between the Lee Bou! d and the Fort Mysri 1 n before Winter, | of the property lying between : inus of the boulevard | and tne reservation went | = groun ty Richmond today for a {th H. G. Shirley, chai ~S.ate Highway Oommission. | b= proverty cwner: way fer the con if the h'ghway commi work immediately upon the uction work. It was understood the surfacing of the Lce Boulevard s to be started within a short time e PrODCTLy GWDEIS Were anxious C - continuation to an outlet at Fort Mye Property owners who went to Rich- mond were Joseph D. M:Donnell, Ashton Jones. L. R. Eckin and Arthur C. McMillan. _They were ac- companied by William P. Ames, who ex- pected to participate in the conference as an interested citizen. ROAD CONTRACT LET ‘Work on S;;.:\:lndcnh Valley Pike to Start in Few Days. {accordance with this reality, or if Ger- {army. LAD T0 GERMANY Herriot’s Attitude Against U. S. Proposal AIlegedIy Based on Reich Force. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. GENEVA, September 28.—Why does France appear to be so reluctant to adopt President Hoower's disarmament plan? What is France, army, afraid of? ‘What is this mystery of alleged secret German armaments? What information, if any, have the French got which has not hitherto been available to the United States? What did Edouard Herriot, French premier, really mean when he sald Sunday, in his sensational speech, “technicians of indisputable authority tend to make us believe that Germany is alming to organize a very powerful modern army, destined not only for defense, which would be entirely legiti- mate, but ultimately for aggression™? Actually Favors Plan. How can an intelligent libe\'ll[ like Herriot, with all the sources of | information of the French government | at his disposal, expect to be taken seri- ously by the United States when he asks, “Is not the military genius of Germany today seeking to create an army, or even a double army, with the intention of striking a final blow to the heart of a chosen adversary?” ‘This correspondent is able to reveal today the gist of the famods French dossiers often mentioned, but never hitherto published, on Germany's secret armaments and military policy. France, it is declared, actually favors the Hoover plan in principle. But the Hoover plan is based on the assumption | that Germany has merely a pclice army | of 100,000 men. In reality, the French insist, 1t is far different. If, however, the Hoover plan were to be modified in with its superb many cculd be persuaded to observe both the letter and the spirit of the‘ Versailles disarmament clauses, then | France, it is said, could accept the Hoo- ver plan immediately. Allegations of France. What the French dossiers with, it is said, masses of corroborative detail, tend to demonstrate is as follows: Germany has never ceased to evade the treaty’s disarmament terms and is doing 50 now on an increasingly open scale. Its army regulations have ccn- stantly provided for training in all weapons forbidden to Germany. In this training dummies have replaced actual weapons, but there is reason to | believe that the actual weapons also exist. Up to the time when it was dissolved, the Inter-Allled Control Commission continually found hidden stocks of arms. Since 1927 there has been no outside control whatever and German law punishes for high treason any Ger- man who in any way reveals informa- tion connected with the national de- | fense. Thus the Germans, Walter Kreiser and Carl von Ossietsky, were condemned to long terms of imprison- ment by the Supreme Court at Leipzig for publishing in a German magazine information regarding the reconstitu- tion of German military aviation. If German armaments are merely what the treaty allows, say the French, why should it be treasonable for a Ger- man to speak of them? The German general staff has been entirely re-established. Its military policy has been fully explainea 1 re-| cent military works by Gen. Hans von | Seeckt. This policy provides for two | armies. The first is a shock army, highly trained for surprise attack and ready always for instant osc. The | second is a defense army, in which the | nation’s entire resources in men and material would be utilized. Why a Sheck Army. | If Germany is thinking only of de- | fense, w the French ask. does it| need & shock army to take advantage | of a surprise? | This shock army already exists. It| consists of the Reichswher, of 105000 | men plus 70,000 schupo (police), or a total of 175,000 of probabiy the best trained men in the world. | The schupo, 140,000 strong, is theo- retically a police force, but actually only half of them are on real police duty. The other half live in barracks in companies and hold regilar army | maneuvers like the Reichswehr, frcm | which they are almost indistinguishable. | ‘What Germany is now ousy with is| the formation of its second or defense It is for this reason that all| sorts of private armies, like the Steel | Helmets and the Hitlerites, have long been officially encouraged. Under recent decrees these private formations have received a definite | official status and will be welded to- | gether in a trained militia. Seventeen great camps are being establishea for | this_purpose. | The Germans say that the purpose | of this_training is merely sport and | physical culture. but the rtegulations provide for such sports as 15-mile | | marches with 25 pounds on the back. | studies of maps and the terrian-and all forms of field communications and | signaling. | Following Gen. Bomberg's visit to the | United States, Germany also organized | in the universities reserve officers’ train- | ing corps and citizens’ military. training | camps on the American model. Second Force of 600,000. In all the French estimate that Ger- many. today in addition to its shock army of 175,000 men, has ready a sec- ond army of 600,000 fairiy well-trained | men, which could defend the frontiers pending offensive operations of the shock army. It is further believed that full modern equipment in all arms is now available. The German military budget in 1924 was roughly $114,000,000. S. Parker Gilbert, American reparations agent, re- ported at that time that, on the basis | of treaty requirements, this figure was too hlgh and could be considerably reduced. Yet, since then, despite Germanyy finzncial difficulties, the figure has con- stently increased. It attained in 1930 2bout” $173,000,000. German deputies have complained repeatedly that there is no check whatever on the way this guns, army of 800,000 men. Tanks, in of which .the Reichswchr is highly trained, wiil be provided, it is said, by specially manufactured farm tractors. Has Plenty of Gas. ‘The e jon of a phosgene tank near Hamburg a few years ago indicates that Germany, in addition to immediate possibilities of its superb chemical in- dustries, has plenty of gas in stock. The shock army is said to be thor- oughly motorized. There is probably still a shortage of heavy artillery, out Germany, in certain fortresses, has big fixed guns which could be easily ren- dered mobile. Planes for bombing and for the trans- port of troops exist abundantly in Ger- many’s civil aviation, subsidized by the government. Pursuit planes exist also abundantly in the so-called sport planes, which the German government encour- ages. Big civilian planes can be trans- formed into bombers in a few minutes by attaching bomb frames and sighting apparatus. Sport plans ca. be trans- formed by substituting more powerful motors. Further, Germany has factories abroad making war materisl in Russia, Holland and Sweden. The Junkers firm in Sweden is said to sell an identical model in Germany as an ordinary transport plane and elsewhere as a bombing plane. German pilots are believed also to be training in Russia under secret agree- ments between Russia and Germany. Means Reorganization. ‘The demands Germany is now putting forward publicly for a militia and for the right to make a few samples of all sorts of modern weapons would effect a complete organization of the German army on lines laid down by Gen. von Seeckt, the French say, for if Germany received the right officially to have five or ten mobile guns, it would be im- | possible ever to know how many Ger- many really had in various parts of the country. And if Germany has broken one dis- armament treaty, how can it be as- sumed that Germany will observe another disarmament treaty? The French ask. Such, anyway, is what the Prench dossiers say. Such are the concrete llegations Herriot seems to have had in mind when he mde his Sunday speech. (Copyright, 1932 POWER DECISION REVIEW OPPOSED Justice Department Files Brief in Connection With Clarion River Project. In a brief filed by the Justice Depart- ment yesterday in the District cf Co- lumbia Courts of Appeals, opposition was recorded to the granting of a re- view of a decision upholding the right of the Federal Power Commissicn to call upon the Clarion River Power Co. of Pennsylvania to adjust its accounts on a project in the Clarion River. The commissicn ordered the power company to show why it should not be required to lower its cost state- ment on the project, licensed by the commission, from $11,032,816 to $4.645.- | 085. The company then filed a bill in the District Supreme Court contending the commission had no jurisdiction er authority to make any order requiring the ccmpany to adjust its accounts. The District Supreme Court dismissed the bill and the Court of Appeals up- held the action. Now the Clarion com- pany is seeking a review. In its brief opposing a review, the Justice Department maintained ‘none of the questions concerning the powels cf the Federal Power Commission is properly presented because there is ro basis for the equitable relief sought or any other relief.” S FIRE CHIEF IS PUZZLED BY FENCED-IN HYDRANT Greater Capitol Heights Official Says He Has Twice Requested Removal of Incumberance. Special Dispatch to The Star. GREATER CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., September 28.—A fenced-in fire plug is the latest problem for Chief Wilham J. Tierney of the Greater Cap- itol Heights Volunteer Fire Department to _solve. The fire plug is located on a hill on the Marlboro pike, one-half a mile from here. Chief Tierney said he has re- quested the Washington Suburban San- itary Commission twice to remove the fence from in front of the plug, with- out any results. The firé plug, which has four homes depending upon it, is useless as it stancs with the fence blocking the fire- men from hooking up, Chief Tierney said. 1. BOND SMITH TO WORK FOR TYDINGS AND LEWIS Starts Tomorrow on Speaking Tour | in Montgomery—Will Also Boost Roosevelt-Garner Ticket. ” Special Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md., September 28. —J. Bond Smith, an active member of the Democratic party, will start tomor- row on & campaign throughout Mont- gomery County on behalf of Senator Millard E. Tydings and Representative Lewis of the sixth district, who are in the field for re-election. Mr. Smith was for many years corporation counscl here and in_addition to making addresses for Tydings and Lewis will extend his remarks to cover the Roosevelt-Garner ticket. Play to Benefit Guild. FAIRLAND, Md., September 28 (Spe- cial) —“Patty Makes Things Hum” is the title of a play to be given Thursday evening at St. Mark's parish, Fairland. by the Fairland Players for the benefit of St. Mark's Guild. Among those in the cast are Warren Adams, Clark Adams, Earl Lehman, Helen Sullivan, Elizabeth McCulloch, Grayson Lehmai Charlotte Adams, Adeline Ellin, Peari money is spent. In 1929, the German! Marlow and Sylvia Ellin. Gravity Aids Scientific Find addit ional weight is od block, e e T ks are forced upwerd — pLASTIC ROCK ON 2% DENY CIVIL SERVICE IS PLAYING POLITICS COmmiSsioners Answer Har- rison’s Charges Against President Hoover. Charges by Senator Harrison, Demo- crat, of Mississippi, that more than 500 employes of the Justice and Commerce | Departments “have been placed under the protection of Civil Service by Exec- utive order of President Hoover since the first of the year” as a political move, today drew from the Civil Serv- ice Commission & reply that the trans- fers were in accord with the policy to extend Civil Service authority over per- sonnel as far as possible. At the same time, it was revealed that a detailed reply to the accusations of the Mississippi Senator was being written and would be issued later. In connection with ihe whole matter, attention was called to the fact any executive order may be modified by a succeeding order, and transfer of pe sonnel by this manner under one ad- ministration could be nullified by a suc- ceeding administration if it was so de- sired. * Senator Harrison's statement was is- sued through the Democratic National Committee. The salary range of those affected, he said, was from laborers and messengers to district managers in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Com- merce drawing $7,000 annually. Termed a Precuation. Putting them under civil service, he sald, was precaution which it was not thought necessary to take at the ernment but which the administration apparently _considered vital when it became evident that after March 4 next the affairs of the Government will be in Democratic hands.” “The normal and average citizen finds great difficulty in obtaining employ- ment with the Government. He must, first of all, take a rigorous civil service examination. If he passes, there must be room in the quota assigned to the section in which he lives. Friends of the Hoover administration, however, have found places under the protecting wing of the civil service, without all these formalities. “The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is, as everybody knows, a brain child of President Hoover. It was in this burcau that much of the false and misleading propcgenda bolstering up the era of false prosperity orig- inated.” There were 337 employes affected by the transfer to civil service ordered in the bureau March 10, he said. Justice Department Hit. “The Department of Justice,” he said, “affords an even more striking illustrs tion of sudden realization of the benefits of ctvil service. The records of the Civil Service Commission will show that as far back as 1924 the Civil Service Commis- sion protested that the Attorney Gen- eral had abused the privilege of making apopintments considered ‘legal and con- fidential’ outside the Civil Service. The various heads of the Department of Justice since that time could see no merit in the repeated complaints of the Civil Service Commission for many vears. “On February 2, 1932, an executive order gas issued which covered 22 persons in the Department of Justice into the classified civil service. The po- ! sitions embraced a wide range, from la- | borers, messengers, clerks, stenogra- | phers, librarians and typists. In the | higher grades were examiners of ac- |ecunts, with salaries from $2.700 to 1$4,800; assistant chief investigators, 1$5200; supervisor of social service, $3.200: executive assistant, $3,800, and industries agent, 4.000. supposed to enforce the law and see that justice is administered, I presume it is not difficult for those who direct it to satisfy themselves that the em- ployment of laborers and supervisors of | social service are covered under work- lers of ‘legal and confidential' charac- ter.” \CRUST OF EARTH FOUND “FLOATING” | Gravity Gives Science New Evi- dence on Plastic Lower Layer. | By the Associated Press. Gravity, the mysterious “pull” that holds things on the earth, has given scientists new evidence that the earth's crust floats on a plastic lower layer, somewhat as a raft floats on a lake. The new evidence was discovered through measurements of gravity's pull in the West Indles. says Dr. F. A. Ven- ing-Meinesz of Holland in & report to the American Geophysical Union. | The “floating” idea is called the theory of isostasy. The crust of the earth, under this theory, might be com- pared to a large number of rafts float- ing side by side, but on a lake of thick. slow-flowing molasses instead of water. The material on which the earth’s crust floats is plastic rock, far “stickier” than the colcest molasses, but it does flow. If weight is added to one “raft, section of the earth’s crust, it ride: lower in the “lake.” and the increased pressure causes the material below to flow over beneath the neighboring “raft” and push it up so that it rides higher, according to the theary. Measurements of gravity’s pull in many parts of the world show that this is actually .what happens, says Dr. Meinesz. Places where the “rafts” of the earth's crust are not in perfect balance—where isostasy is out of equilibrium—can be i traced because they affect gravity's pull. | Graviety pulls most strongly over sec- | tions of the earth’s crust that are heav- iest or most dense. Lighter sections exert less pull. The newest. gravity evidence that the { earth’s crust is “floating” was gathered | when Dr. Meinesz and other scientists | cruised through the West Indies on the yacht Marmion of Hugh Matheso and ; the United States Navy submarine S-48. Dr. Meinesz states that differences in gravity's pull found there at different points on land and sea showed that the earth’s crust is “buckling” downward underneath a region where a mountain range is in early stages of formation. He believes this downward buckling shows that isostasy is working. Part of the crust is being thrust downward to balance other parts being thrust up- ward. When the mountain range finally is formed, says Dr. Meiness, there will be a protuberance, or “root,” below it, thrust down into the plastic mass of rock on which it floats. ACQUITTED OF THEFT Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., September 28.—A jury Court ecquitted Harvey Hall of the charge of grand larceny. Hall was ac- cused of stealing $165 from Tom San- ders of near Herndon. Harry Howard, time of their employment by the Gov- | yesterday In’the Fairfax County Circuit | TIME IS EXTENDED T0 PAY U 3. LOANS [New Terms Allow Wheat Growers to_Settle Only One-Fourth of Debt. President Hoover has taken steps to assist wheat farmers who, because of present low prices, are unable to repay the Government the full amount due for loans advanced for crop production, it was announced today at the White House. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde has been directed by the President, because of this situation, to accept from such farmers 25 per cent of the amount due, together with an agreement to secure the remaining 75 per cent on whatever terms Congress may authorize. Present low prices on farm products, the White House statement sald, would make it “practically impossible for wheat farmers to repay their crop pro- duction loans without incurring grave risk of need during the Winter.” ‘Will Not Press Farmers. On_September 14, Secretary Hyde said he had been authorized by the President to say the Agriculture De- partment would not press for collection of its feed and seed loans until Congress | had an opportunity to act. | ‘The White House statement today | difficuities in all localities, since it had | been construed as meaning that a claim remained upon the crop, preventing the marketing of any part of it. After further consultition with the President, the statement added, Secre- | tary Hyde has issued a new order to! accept from farmers 25 per cent of the | amount due, and upon receiving such payments to press for no further money | from the farmers involved until Con- gress has acted. Persons Warm in Cool Air SCIENTISTS HEAT WALLS MILDLY IN TESTS. A method of keeping persons warm in cool air has been discovered by science. By the Associated Press. EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa., September 28.—Keeping warm in cool air. | Srappy outdoor alr to breathe in a house heated to feel like sunshine. These two seemingly impossible com- binations are partly successful in a new typs of room under observation in the laboratories of the Westinghouse Co. here. The four walls of this room are Text of Statement. The announcement text follows “Present low prices make it prac- tically impossible for wheat farmers to repay their crop production loans with- out incurring grave risk of need during the Winter. “On_Sepiember 14 the Secretary of Agriculture, in order to clear up the situation, issued the following statement in respect to these loins: “*With respect to your recommenda- tion as to deferment of collection of feed and seed/loans made by this de- partment, I am authorized by the Pres- ident to say that the department wishes to handle the situation with the ut- most _consideration for the borrowers who are in difficulties. You will realize that the law contemplates that such |luans must be repaid out of this crop and that to give such extension as you - | wish will require legislative authority. To meet the needs of those who are in | distress, the department will not press { for collection of these loans until Con- | gress has an opportunity to act.” i "It is now represented that this plan has not solved the difficulties in all lo- calities, as it has been construed that |under this arrangement a claim remains { upon the crop, which pervents the mar- keting of any part of it. | “In order to clear the matter up. after consultation with authorities n the States concerned, and in order to enable such farmers to provide for their families, the Secretary of Agriculture, after consultation with the President. | has directed the department to accept from such farmers 25 per cent of the |amount due, together with an agree-, ment to secure the remaining 75 per (cent of such debt on whatever terms Congress may authorize. | *“Upon payment of such 25 per cent and execution of the agreement, no further payment will be required until | “Since the Department of Justice is | opportunity has been given Congress urer. to pass on the question involved.” Affects $23,000,000. The 25 per cent mortatorium on the loans will affect approximately $23.0.0.- | 000 which has been loaned through the | Northwest farm regions where droop- ing grain prices brought poverty. The rate of interest on the loans is 51, per cent and this rate will b con- tinued upon the 75 per cent left out- standing after the loans fall due No- vember 30, officials said. While applications have been re- ceived for similar extensions of paying from the coiton, tobacco and other agricultural regions, Secretary Hyde | made the order applicable only to grain regions. Seed loan officials said both cotton and tobacco prices are above those of last year and the need for extensions was not felt so keenly. | Husband Charges Desertion in Suit at Upper Marlboro. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO. Md., Septem- | ber 28.—Accusing his wife of desertion ! and non-support, and naming a co- respondent, John E. Sheriff yesterday filed suit in Circuit Court for an abso- | from Thelma Sanford | lute _divorce Sheriff. Through attorney Adrian P. Fisher. Sheriff tells the court he was married in Washington, June 22, 1929, and | alleges his wife leit him in April, 1931 The Sheriffs have no children, accord- ing to the bill. Judge Joseph C. Mattingly yester- day granted Mrs. Elizabeth J. Mc- Carthy an absolute civorce, permission to resume her maiden name of Eliza- beth J. Holmes and custody of her son. John P. McCarthy, jr. She brought suit against her husband, John | P. McCarthy, on grounds of desertion. | Attorney W. Carroll Beatty appeared | for the wite. 000000000000000000000000000000000000000 3 ) African School Crowded. 1 | Because of the awakened desire for | learning in South Rhodesia, a girl's school at Hope Fountain, near Bula- | wayo, has more girls than it can accom- | | modate, and the officials miay have to | |enlarge the buildings. One Black: girl | arrived from a remote country district in Selukwe, ing traveled by train| until her money ran out and then walk- | ing 20 miles. Her mother, a widow, | could not pay the school fees, and the | g\rlu ted on becoming & working pup! i | satisfaction and saving! mildly heated, an idea of L. W. Schad, research engineer. Most persons know only two of the three ways their bodies stay warm and miss the third ome, with which Dr. Schad is experimenting. They know that warm air is one necessity and proper moisture another. They do not know that their bodies also radiate away heat in rays traveling with the speed of light. Kecping warm depends on how fast heat is lost by all three methods. This loss, in standard American clothing, is found by scientific authorities to be di- vided into 46 per cent through the fast- traveling rays, 30 per cent by convec- tion—that is. in the air curreuts circu- lating over the skin—and 24 per cent in “latent heat,” which is the energy required to evaporate moisture from skin and lungs. Ordinary heating systems are limited mostly to warming the air. the 30 per cent factor, and regulating the mois- ture, the 24 per cent loss. They omit KING’S DAUGHTERS ELECT “ OFFICERS AT WOODLAWN .Mrs. Marian Ballenger Is Re-elect- ed President of Fairfax Coun- ty Association. Special Dispatch to The Star. WOODLAWN, Va, September 28— Mrs. Marian Balienger was yesterday re-elected president of the Fairfax County Association of King's Daughters Circles at the annual convention in the Woodlawn Baptist Church. Mrs. D. J. Garber was re-elected secretary-treas- The guest of honor was Mrs. Henry S. Ely of Suffolk, State president. Ad- dresses_were made by Mrs. Ely, Mrs John Butcher of Norfolk. second vice president of the State crganization, ard Miss Mary Cox of Woodlawn. Dr. Wil- liam P. Caton of Accotink and Miss Sula Fleeman of Richmond outlined the campaign being conducted in Fair- fax County to wipe out tuberculosis. Mrs. William Cleveland made a plea for additional workers to help make garments for the county welfare work €0000000000000000 Every size in stock less than ‘manufacturer’s cost Ordered Sold! 28x5.25 5 29x5.25 30x 31x5.25 5 28x5.50 29x5.50 30x6.00 31x6. 29x4.40. . 29x4.50. . $4.85 l$5.45 U. S. Royal, Good- 35.45 rich, Silvertown. . .. First Quality—3.25x18 TRUCK TIRES, 50% OFF We Are Authorized to Sell Entire house Stock of Tires ve Prices on Ti Discount on Abo T Mo h-Grade. "Hll New TIRES AND TUBES TO BE LIQUIDATED At American Storage Co. Any Phone Col. 41 Open 8 AM. to 0000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000 (2444 Rinaldi Seys: Buy COAL Now! RINALDI'S “Silo-Stored and Re- Screened” READING ANTHRA- CITE is now offeredat the LOWEST PRICES in YEARS. Order this il Winter’s supply now before the rush. The bigger the bin, the greater the Phone North 1600 ¥ It is by mildly heating the walls of a room. Heated said this order had not solved the | such as the ones surrounding the girl above aided in the discovery. §- portable panels | the biggest loss of all, the 46 per cent radiation. | These speeding bodily radiant rays are not very hot. So Dr. Schad esti- mated that if a person could be sur- | rounded by something just warm enough to radiate simllar rays back to the body the 46 per cent would be re- duced. whose walls were electrical heating panels. His theory worked successfully to the extent that when the air was cooled to 63 degrees and the walls heated to 80 scores of persons said the comfort was just right. Troubles developed in regu- lating air currents in such an “unbal- anced” heat. They have been only partly ironed out. Practical means of heating walls at economical costs are still to be found But Dr. Schad thinks these experi- ments point to a new era of comfort in- dcors, which will come when science has perfected enough of new materials and new processes. The “radiant” heat- ing has been tested also with portable, heated screens and temporary panels. “To touch such a surface with the hand,” Dr. Schad says, “one hardly gets the impression that it is heated at all. Yet with such devices in a room the air may be delightfully cool to breathe, and if it were not for this almost im- perceptibly -gentle source of radiant heat would be actually to cool for comfort.” SABBATH SCHOOL ELECTS SLATE AT TAKOMA PARK Prof. Leo Thiel Chosen Superin- tendent of Seventh-Day Ad- ventist College Organization. By the Associated Press. TAKOMA PARK, Md., September 28. —The following officers have been elected for the Seventh-Day Adventist College Sabbath School: Superintend- ent, Prof. Leo. Thiel; assistants, Carl Ashlock and Miss Dorothy Sampson; secretary, Harold Voorhees: assistant secretary, Miss Mary Reichard: peri- odical secretary, Mrs. J. N. Kimble: chorister. Miss Josephine Rockwell pianist, Miss Virginia Flemming: de- partment leaders, kindergarten. Mrs Minnie Irwin; Junior, Clifford Hubble, end ascistant, Floyd Klcpfenstein. To test this he built a room *%% A_S§ " ENGINEERS HONOR HOOVER AT SESSION President Becomes Fourth Honorary Member of American Association. President Hoover was named an hon- orary member of the American Asso- ciation of Engineers today at the third day’s session of the annual convention of the organization in the Shoreham Hotel. The President, who thus becomes the fourth honorary member in the asso- ciation's history, was notified of the action shortly after noon when he re- ceived a group of delegates at the White House. Declaring “individuals and corpora- tions must contribute approximately $46,000 each working day of the year for support of Federal, State and local government,” V. Bernard Siems, New York ci engineer, advocated before the convention a plan of Government aid to industries. so they may improve their conditions and be enabled to bear the excessive taxes. 28 Per Cent for Taxes. Stressing necessity for tax reductions, | Siems estimated that of the $50,000,000,~ 000 national income in 1931 approxi- mately 28 per cent was required solely | to carry on the business of government in this country. The average annual |tax bill is $110 for every man, woman |and child, he asserted. | ~ Advocating timed public works as the best means of aiding im stabilization of |industry and trade, the speaker urged adoption of long-term public improve- |ment programs commensurate and synchronized with the ability of the public to support them. District Law Proposed. A resolution favoring enactment of legislation by Congress for the regis- tration of engineers in the District and pledging the support of the national organization in aiding the passage of such a law was adopted by the asso- ciation. Following their reception at the White House, the delegates were to make an inspection trip through the recently completed Department of Commerce Building and later were to embark on a motor tour to Mount Vernon. stop- | ping at Arlington Cemetery en route. John Lyle Harrington, member of the Engineering Advisory Board of the Re- construction Finance Corporation, will be the principal speaker at the annual banguet in the Shoreham tonight. This will be the concluding event of the con- vention. H. A. Wagner, consulting and metallurgical engineer of Chicago, will be presented with the 1932 Clausen gold medal at the banquet. 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