Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1932, Page 2

OBSERVERS WATCH SHOWER OF ‘STARS $hivering Scientists Wait at Georgetown Observatory in Vain Vigil. i__(Continued Prom First Page.) ' (Continued. | LEaE) 1933, It is even imaginable that the belt bas been so dissipated that tacle never will be seen again, b is_highly improbable. 8o black-robed Jesuit fi scholars of the Georgetown athers and faculty mounted guard from midnight to sun- rise on the cold hflé wz over:oon‘nl the college graveyard, the university bulldings -m‘fr :h:y sleeping eity, with its concentric semi-circles of lights far below. At the same time, astronomers from the Naval Observatory were stand- guard on & hill top northesst of ashipgton. It was a chill, lonely, inexpressably beautiful vigil for the men on the Georgetown observatory tower, each seated under the open aky af & table luminated with s dull, red lamp, a star map of the northeastern beavens spread before him. Presents Weird Picture. All the mystic beauty and weirdness of esrly Winter was concentrated in the prospect below them—the grave- stones glimmering white, the siate roofs Sovend by moonlight, the cloudless | firmament and the majestic march of | the cold satellite and the stars, the bare, black boughs of the forest, 'the eerie rustle of dead leaves, the mourn- ful howling of dogs breaking the vast dense silence, the cold and the lonel ness, Much the same prospect, with- out the city lights, confronted the Naval | Observatory astronomers on their sub- urban hill top. ‘The moon rose early rode high in the heavens, It was a/ disappointing watch—no grand hail- storm of fire, but only a few swift meteors, indicating the earth actually sailed into the danger zone of the jeonids, but was not vet in the thigk of the bombardment. The bright moenlight which silvered the entire hegven was & drawback. Only the brightest of stars could be seen with the naked eye through the veil of that lunar effuigence. Doubtless many shoot- ing stars, which would have been seen as streaks of flame moross & blackened East, were thus rendered invisible, The only’ condition that could have been mueh worse would have been & cloud- overcast sky. Observations Co-ordinated. Each observer “took his bearings” ac- cording to the standard sky map pro- vided for the occasion by the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, American head- quarters for meteor research, which is directing and co-ordinating the obser- vations of the leonids. It was easy, beeause all the stars above the nerth- eastern horizon visible through the moonlight could be counted on the| fingers. As midnight approached those | two heavenly twins, the Gemini, were | ing upward toward the| he southwest was the great | little further westward | ‘barely visible dim line which makes up | the spear of the Hunter. Clearly visible | in Orion were the great stars Sirius and giants of the steller wouild be aimost 10- planets almost in- t pebbles. By fixing the eyes steadily on the heavens a few other faint sters might be seen to appear and to establ them- SoeeR in competition with the m: 8hortly ‘the Georgetown watch. I for the next two nights. Observatory astronomers started their vigil last night. ROBERT BROOKINGS, War, Navy, Labor and Agriculture De- committee; Mr. Brookings was awarded Ani 5 THE EVENING Seek Speaking Award SIX G. W. U. STUDENTS COMPETE FOR DAVIS PRIZE, I speakers will be held this evening prize has been in competiticn fos are, left to right: Ben Hope, Wh World"; Industry”: Seymour Mintz, Down”; Dewitt Bennett, who will speak or Reeves, who will speak on “Socialism an and all night | Eleanor Grindel, who will speak on “The Problem of Nations."—Btar Staff Photo. HE annual Davis prize gpeaking contest for George Washington Universit; Th Richard Tilden, who will speak on “Centralized Control of whe will spe: y at Corcoran Hall at 8:15 o'clock. e r 85 years, Those who are campetin o will speak on “Youth in a Finish on pitalism Not Broken n “The Price of Culture Miss Elizabeth d the Next Era™ (left), and Miss Mary | with suc® cold as never is known on earth. fire. | ance of cold over heat that the chill of | the vast depths would re-assert itself | as soon as the boulder came Only the outer shell is set on | There is such an enormous bal- 0 _rest The college clock struck 4.. Down in | those concentric semi-circles of light | which marked the sleeping city activity began to be apparent—milk wagons and | newspaper delivery trucks moving about. | Lights appesred here and the! Jege windows. Disappointedly the w was given up for the night. servers on the tot cloaks more tightly around them and went slowly homevard. | Pr. McNally sitting crouched over h red lamp under the open sky—a chi lopely, black figure watching and waif ?:r‘eaks on sunrise in the east to break the spell of the mystic night and biot out the thin, sharp sickle of Leo. re ip col- | atch | The ob- wer wrapped their black They left only | is | ‘motionless for the first saffron This was the second night of the| 1t will be continued The Naval | | | sl AT B INSTITUTE FOUNDER, DIES AFTER ILLNESS | ll i I ROBERT SOMERS BROOKINGS. (Continued Prom First Page.) | | | | partments. For his services as chairman of the that take a Distingulshed Service Medal. eapacity it devolved ypon him™ in all committge actions inability of cther to devote the necessary time. de- termined what the governments of the United BStates, Great Britain, France, fully, he ingorporsted it separately as the Robert Brookings Graduate Bchool of Economics and Government, obtain- ing & further endowment from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation, George tman - and others. In addition to the D, S. M. he re- ceived from this Government, ' Mr, Brookings' war services were Rckhowl- edged by the governments of Prance and Italy, which made him a chevalier of the Legion of Honor and commander of the Order of the Crown, respectively. ‘The character and spirit of the man STAR, WASHINGTON REPORTER FINDS PROFIT IN BEGGING Collects $22 in Three Days in Investigating Success of Panhandling. (Continued From First Page.) One “pro” told me he had yet to be turned down when he asked a merchant for food in this city. Another pointed out that one could always get a sack of rolls from the manager of one of the Jocal bakeries, the only requisite being that the beggar call at his office before noon, when the plant shuts down. These men who make bumming & business don't want to work. Monday afterncon I was talking with two of them in front of the Salvation Army shelter at 479 C street. I had been sent. to the shelter after appearing at the Community Chest offices in the lnvutmentt!uudlnl asking for some- thing to eat. ¥ "X;l‘ow they feeding up here? 1 ap- ched the two. "?’;bed'l all right, but who the hell wn{'; t.:, k2" “Work? It developed that the men would rather bum their food and money than work two hours in the municipal wood~ verd in return for the meals and bed given them by the Army. One of the two, however, had figured o‘\:hn way to -hour re e, "WEJ\lzulll\(":‘ your ticket (a ticket is iven you by the Arm{ before going to the wood yard) with the guy in charge and go out on the lot like you're going to work, There's a bask gate and you can leave by it and just sit around for two hours, then go baek in, come through the crowd of men on the lot, tel] the superintendent you're through, get your ticket back, and everything's all set,” he explained, Bemoans Loss of Car. He said one of his friends had tried the wood vard trick and was successful. The other of the pair bemoaned the recent wrecking of his automobile, “Things were & lot better,” he sald, “when I cculd drive from one town to another. We used to park the car just outside & town, go in and ‘work’ the lace, and then come out and go on W be next burg.” He was, however, feeling well fed, and told of his morning's experience. He “stemmed” four men, it seems, between 10 and 12 o'clock and each, in- stead of giving the money for which he asked, took him into s nearby restau- rant and fed him. “And I had & hard time finishing up that fourth meal,” he concluded Another phase of street panhandling wes described by one of the profes- sionals as the “bay rum method.” Women accosted by a panhandler reeking of bay rum are usually fright- ened, and give him money to get rid of believed he ‘beat” the yhim. Some of the users of this method never drink the stuff, but find it better to pour it on their clothes, to give the necessary odor. I didn't resort to any of the techni. cal ruses of the craft—didn’t know them until I had fraternized with some of its members—but had no trouble working as a “straight man’' who is one who tells his story, looks the part, and takes any offering of the contributor with profuse thaaks. The number of 20 and 26 cent con- tributions was large, and & few people gave & nickel, The average was & dime, FPew Are Inquisitive. Those who did contribife, and they were about & third or more of those I touched, weren't very inquisitive, Some of them would ask: “Aren’t you working? One man, after this lead, followed up with, “Where ya from?” +“Out West. Belgium and Italy should pay for all war purchases in this country, except -|food and fuel, 8 volume of business which aggregated nearly $30,000,000,000. “Waatcha doing here?” D. C., TUESDA CENSUS ENPLOYES WL LOSE 1085 Most of 630 Temporary Workers to Be Dismissed December 1. Most of the 630 temporary employes in the Census Bureau tzday were noti- fied that they would be dismissed from the Governyent service December 1 because of the exhaustion of the ap- propriation, the Commerce Department announced today. The remaining temporary workers, numbering not more than 100, will be diemissed December 31, when the Af- teenth decennial census, the most com- | hogs _of yourselves. Upper left: Ted Kellogg (left), a reporter on The Btar staff, shows how he “stemmed” $7 a da prove that “panhandling” on Washington streets can be made more profitable than work. Upper right: Kellogg tumning | over to Eiwpod Street (left), director of the Community Chest, the funds be collected in his investigation. NEW WATER ROUTE CALLED ‘WASTEFUL' St. Lawrence Plan Endan- gers Railway Investments, Hearing Is Told. —(Continued Prom Fimt ) NN Pomflon. the raflroads, the trueks and he inland waterways, Vandenberg Questions Them, Before Thom left the stand he wes asked by Senator Vandenberg, Republi- can. of Michigan, if his views repre- sented all class 1 railway executives. “‘Are there not Middle We:t executives who, if free to exprecs their opinions, wculd feel that there was a definite advantage for them?" Vandenberg asked. “Whatever hes been their views in the past” Thom replied, “they have come to the cenclusion that this 1s a sound position.” Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mon- tana, asked for the names of scme reprecentatives of Western roads lead- ing into Chicago who supported Thom's views. The railroad spokesman named | Charles Donmelly, president of the | Northern ‘Pacific: ‘Henry A. Scandrett, | president of the Chicag>, Milwaukee & | 8t. Paul; C. T. Jaffray of the Minne. | apolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, and | Fred W. llrgem, president of the Chi- | eago & Northwestern. “I am sure that will be most inter- | esting to those in our part of the coun- try.,” Walsh commented. Plan Called Unsound. Characterizing the proposed waterway as of “doubtful practicabllity and economicaily unsound,” John P. Magill of the Maritime Assoclation of New York, said its consummation would re- sult in » “total disruption of the trans- | for three days to | —Star Staff Photo, Man Found With Is Sentenced to Ease Beggars’ Competition | Steps were taken by Police Court Judge Ralph Glven yesterday to “alle- viate the competition among beggars” when he sent a man who had over $6 in his pockets to jail for 10 days to “give the other boys s chance.” ® ‘The man, Raymond Blackburn, 25, 400 block of Bixth street, was arrested | on F street Sunday by Policeman W. A. | Schotter, who said he had observed the youth getting money from several per- | sons. He charged him with vagrancy. “The trouble with you people.” ob- served Judge Given, “is that you make You have got enough for a while, 50 T am going to give | the cthers a break and send you to jail.” Officer Schotter said he discovered Blackman had his board paid up twe weeks in advance at the lodging house | where he stayed, BRITISH PROPOSAL T0 ASK ABOLITION prehensive enumeration of its kind ever undertaken, will be compieted within the three-year limit, the de- | partment said, | Oficials pointed out that this will® be the first time a decennial census has been completed within the prescribed period, | Last of Dismissals, | The temporary workers to be dis- missed are the last of the 6.022 employ- ed here on November 1, 1950, to com- | pile the census figures sent in by field enumerators. Following the completion of the ar force of approxi- census, the T mately 750 workers will be employed on | the current and periodical statistical | compilations which the bureau is re- quired by Jaw to make, [ Among the censuses to be under- taken immediately are those on pubiie | OF AERIAL WARFARE | (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) sidered as final. demanding a-ceptance rlone instead of beirg a cont: i the eventual pooling of all :mament proposals, the British would regard it as disastrous, | (Covyright, 1032.) FRENCH PLAN WELL RECEIVED. Treme sty Cohiplex, However, Ob- servers Think—Amerjcan View Favorable | GENEVA, November 15 (#).—PFrench P Is ifor achieving disarmament and securily, presented yesterday to the World Disarmament Conference Bureau, have been generally received with a| | | T00LOSTINSTORM portation flow in this country.” “That dislocation,” Magill added, “would bring with it reductions in the earning capacities of existing " | and divert substantially the flaw of tonnage through North and South Atlantic ports. The treaty was opposed in_fthe first session yesterday by the railroad officials and representitives of New York State interests on the ground it was SCOURGING JAPAN =225 1,637 Houses Destroyed in ¢ Five Prefectures—Ship- ping Suffers Damage. competitive remwum&:hwld not be | 2‘1;,0 uced by action of Pederal 'Gov- ment. “Not only will the railroads not be tax free, as will be the case with their proposed competitor,” he sald, “but the result will inevitably be, in our juds- ment, to increase the heavy burden of nxr under which they are now stage gering.” By the Associated Press. TOKIO, November 15 —More than 100 persons were reported dead or miss- | ing today in the wake of a 13-hour typhoon thai scourged land and ses | in the Tokio district with torrential Wheat Shipments, reing 404 & 1060l puls. Thom contended that &s & much The fishing villages of Pukushima | larger volume of wheat is exported from prefecture reported 13 motor boats wmaicuudl than from the United States more than 100 fishermen aboard as| that “s very substantially volume larger missing, _Three hodies have already | O, WDORL AR 1 flour Bauiveent ey, move, through the TWaY, Canada than from the United n aghore. | from The freighter Unkai Maru, elrlierv'"m reported in distress, Went aground on | e said the effect of having oeesn boats coming into the Great Lakes Oshima Island st the mouth of Tokio y. Pishermen rescued nine rnm-; rs of the crew, but the 22 remaining | aboard were feared lost. { The navy sent destroyers to Oshima to give any assistance possible. 26 Dead Ashere, The home office early tonight an- pounced total casualties ashore were 26 dead, 25 seriously injured and 36| V! missing. This did not include the loss of life at ses. ‘The total number of houses destroyed Including those burned totaled 1,637 nd those seriously dsmaged. 4,413, ac~ ording to the home office figures. is perhaps most clearly revealed in his own. writings on economic and social problems. In the light of Mr. Brook- also . McNally hadrecruited 100 volun- students to count the meteors as as the shower started. They were t¢ be awakened by the watchers, but xg- of them were, qisleep. Stars Begin Pelostial March, .On achedule, the eastern horizon, wrose Jus, thE bright star in the int of the gol sickle of Leo. Be- | d it appeared the two fainter stars of the constellation, sweeping slowly and irresistably up the heavens through the mystic meadow of moonshine. Be- nd it came the war planet Mars, Taintly red. Far to the westward, cut- ting through the belt of Orion, flashed & meteor. An instant later a fainter | mieteor traced a trail of fire to the north | of Leo, Then enother, almost within the zone of the constellation jtself{. Ex- cifement prevailed. The scene might be compared to that of & ship entering the zone of action. Father McNally, huddled over his red-lighted table, was the captain. He shouted sharp direc tigns to the men on the waleh tower. Pencils were polsed over star maps. IU red as if the first drops of the hallstorm of fire were falling. And then—nothing. No more visible | metcors fell for an hour or more, The | sepuichral college bell tolled 2. Venus| arose out of the East—big, golden and | beautiful. Jupiter followed her. A few | miore meteors fell. Once more the| shouted directions—and then the show- | er stopped. Thus jt went all night| long—a few scattered meteors like tlreatening drops of rain, | Vigilance was relaxed. The watchers eame down from their tower, wrapped | in their overcoats and blankets, and | walked out the road eircling the observ- | atory to stir their congesled eircult tion Somebody turned on the radio angd the incongruous music of a dance | orchastra in San Francisco broke into | the mystical silence. The loneliness | and beauty of the night stirred phil- | osophieal Teficction in the minds of the | relaxed watchers. They walked about and discussed with shivering newspaper reporters who had joined them in their ld watch the great mysteries of time d space, of life and what might be bcyo..s life, on the impenetrable mys- tery that wes on the other side of that luminous veil of sky through which the senses of man could not penetrate, of the majesty and order of the celestial universe and the evidence it offered for an all-wise cresfor, of the destiny of man and soclety, of the frailty of hu- manity and the uncertainty of living from moment fo mement Meteor Rushes to Earth, A red meteor fashed down through Orion. It wes rushing to meet the earth with such speed that it was set on fire by the friction of the extremely tenuous outer atmosphere. The esrth was rushing to meetl it—steadily, un- censingly at approximately 18 miles s second. It might strike snywhere. In the flash of an eye the observatory | and the hilltop might be wiped off the | face of the earth. It might strike the | college below and the sleeping students | would never awake again on this earth | o know what had happened. L might be a very large meteor, like ose that fell in the unpopulated northern 8i- berian focest & few years ago, and strike the City of Washington, leav- m;v;:: observatory hilltop unscathed. t & swell story, porter., | | [ i remarked a re- | Pather McNally, who is not| & newspaper reporter, looked at it from | & different point of view, If a meteor | fell near he would run to it to see| ‘what it looked like. It would be a ball | fire when it struck the earth. But | before he could reach it even if it| struck only a few feet away, it would be eold as ice. Wait Proves Fruitless. W is desperately cold, the uzmnuxur‘ L3 , out there in those vast| reaches of empty space where the -1 ments of the broken planet pursue | eternal journey around the sun. The| M,w of the boulders are chilled in governmental that there were numerous vital preblems in this connection that must be solved. He therefore took & hand in founding the Institute for Government Research in Washington, partisan organization, whose chief pur- | ceasing interest in the welfare of mi pose is to increase the efficiency and | kind are revealed in his three volumes: economy of the national business ad- | “Industrinl Ownership,” published in Saw Need for Change. ‘These experiences convinced him there was rocm for great improvement an uncflicial, nop- ministration. In 1918 he was elected chairmean, with William P. Willoughby, | 8d “The Way Forward.” which ' ap- director, and subsequently raised the funds necessary for carrying on this rk by personal appeals to individuals and business interests throughout the Ishmd with him his philanthropic and country. The institute’s work led Mr. Brook- ings to perceive the need for organising another permanent body of trained ex- “perts with the larger purpose of study- ng the world's basic economic prob- lems, and for this purpose he obtained funds from the Carnegie Corporation in New York as an endowment. He next founded here a graduate school expressly for the teaching of economics and government and to qualify stu- dents for this schol he contributed an endowment of $1,000,000 to Washing- | ton University. ko 1924, because the institytion had not functioned success- administration and | ings’ business career and in view of | the fact it was not until late In life that he became genuinely interested in economic and social problems, one would naturally expect to find him a stanch conservative. He possessed. however, such flexibility of mind.and such broad human sympathy thef his writings are those of & creative libers Jiberalism and his ne | 1924; “Economic Democracy,” in 1929, ,genr;d only & few months before his eath. He is survived by his widow, who public interests even before becoming | Mrs. Brookings: two half-sisters, Mrs. Robert A, Montgomery and Mrs, Flor~ ence Houston, both of Hollywood, Calif,, | and scveral nephews and nieces. SR s Historic Court House Burns. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, November 15 (A).—Carter County’s historic old court house, buflt at an estimated cost of $75,000, was a mass of smouldering rluins today. PFire of undetermined origin, last nighi destroyed the build- | ing. part of which was erected during ' the Civil Wa SCIENTIST USES AN AWAKENER TO INCREASE HIS OWN SLEEP {Sodium Rhodanate Administered on The- ory That Slumber Is Hardening of Proteins in Brain. By the Associated Preas. ANNE ARBOR. Mich., November 15 —The odd effects of a chemical which indicates that sleep is a hardening of proteins were reported to the Nation- al Academy of Sclences today by Wil- bér D, Bancroft, Ph. D, of Cornell Upiversity. ‘The chemical is sodium of rhodanate With it Dr. scademicians he has increased his own sleep from an average of four hours to seven. Yet sodium rhodanate is an awakener and not a sleeping potion, Its aetion, Dr, Bancroft sald, demonstrates a theory of sleep which shows that form of temporary oblivion akin to, if no evactly the same thing as, unc ness, anesthesia, or the stupor of nar- cotics and alcohol. The “agglomeration” theory, Dr. Bancroft called it. In lay langua the proteins of the centers of con. sciousness harden a little, like the white of a boiled egg. Merely Makes Sleep Possible. Sodium rhodanate counteracts this hardening, but & small amount acts only on the nerves, without reachisg the sleep centers. It soothes the nerves, 50 that they stop interfering. In larger quantities it reaches the sleep centers themselves, and “peptizes” them into wakefulness. “Oaffein,” said Dr. Bancroft, “irri. tates the sensory nerves and some people, including myself, cannot sleep if they drink coffee in the evening. In my own case I can countéract the effect of coffee by taking double the usual dose of sodium rhodsnate in a glass of water after dinner, I have never tried this on anybody else and 1 have never tried putting the sodium rhodanate in the coffes. “The sodium rhodanate does not put Bancroft told his fellow | | people to sleep any more than darken- ing the bed room does, but it makes | possible their going to slesp or staying | asleep. | "Robert S. Gutsell, M. D., has given | sodium rhodanate intravenously to { man suffering from an attack of sc atica and the man was sound asleep | in half an hour. Incidentally, it cured | the sciatica | Substance Unidentified, | “While s little sodium rhodanate will quiet the nerves and make sleep pos- | sible more may start peptizing the pro- | teins of the centers of conscioysness | and make sleep more difficult. Various medical men have tried to repeat our | experiments on the antagonism be- | tween ether, sodium amytal, morphine | and - sodlum rhodanate and have obe | tained results diametrically opposed to {our, the animals coming out of the stupor more slowly when given sodium | rhodenste. This 15 just the result the | medioal men should get. if they admin- | istered too little rhodanate, an error| which they would be practically cer- tain to make. “We do not know what the coagu- lating substance or group of substances is. Lactic acid plays a part but ap- parently not the whole part. Dubois thinks carbon dioxide is the importan thing, but he has not yet convinced, other people.” After this unidentified substance has copgulated the proteins to the point of sleep, sald Dr. Bancroft, the body begins to produce a counter substance which ultimately reverses the coagula~- tion, so that the sleepcr awakes. This renalin, the hormone of energy se- creted by the adrenal glands. When &. person o »ly ‘added. L “is verysprobal adrenalin.” o ‘ counter substance, he said. may be ad- | thi has & nightmare he big. 1 explained there was nothing doing out West, and I'd come East to get & job (which was perfectly true). He took four dimes from his pocket, said “I'll give you half my pile,” and gave me two of them. I thanked him and walked away, on my WAy 10 & Tes- taurant. At the Travelers' Aid Bociety, where 1. was sent after a visit to the Com- munity Chest, I had to use a “phony” name. George Ambrose, I believe, wa: the name I-gave. I told them I was from the West and was on my way to Baltimore, where I expected to get work on a boat. 1 was advised to go back to the farm country, as the boats leaving all ports had waiting lists of men who wanted work. Young men. who don't want to ap- pear “cheap” in the eyes of the girls accompanying them, are well up on the professional panhandler's “sucker list.” They're almost always good for at least a dime, and give no argument. Like all other panhandlers, I avoided snswering too many questions. oo easy to get crossed up in your stories. Police Don’t Interfere. The police do not bother the pan- handler. I wasn’t bothered, although I made several touches within 100 feet of an officer. Of course, 1 didn't try to make my “profession” obvicus to the policeman, or any other passerby, Monday afternoon I saw a defective sergeant standing in front of an F street drug store. I looked pretty bad. Dirty ckthes, stubby beard, # hat much too big, almost covering my eyes, added to the furtive look I gave the sergeant as 1 passed, He Jooked me over, noth- ing more. I walked on around the block, hcping my reappearsnce would prom‘pt him to ask a few questions— and if that failed I was going to make & touch where he couldn’t help seeing it. When I got back he'd gone. None of the members of the profes- sion to whom I talked would loosen up enough to give their estimate of a good day's compensation. If I'd questioned thém too much they would have doubted my authenticity as a seasoned panhandler. Even these are locking for an end to the depression, but not to go to work. One of them expressed it: “People are just as soft-hearted now as ever, but I don't believe they have the dough.” No one got “tough” when I made a touch. Several walked along unheed- ing, others mumbled something ebout the Community Chest, and still others stopped and asked me why I didn't try the Chest, or some of its agencies. Cold Weather Bad, One youth, apparently a college student, demanded that 1 get away from his territory; he said he was “working this side of the street,” then walked away with his companions, laughing. e most fertile field for the pan- Landler, I believe, is the ares extending southward from Massachusetts avenue between Scott and DuPent Oircles. The broad sidewalk in front of the White House, State, War and Navy Building and Treasury Department also is very good. Cold weather, such as prevalled late Saturday and all day Sunday, is bad for the bum. The man on the street is hurrying, and does not want to take off a glove and unbutton his overcost to help a panhandler. ‘On several oceasions I was forced to leave the trail of what I believed to be a potential contributor simply because I saw one of my friends coming down the street. It wasn't so much fear of meeting the friend, but the fear that he'd recognize me through my and give my iden away in of & prospective “touchee"—or worse still, in front of some one who had just given me some- ing. My first day “out” I had provided mysell with & pair of shoes much too . After & fow hours on the pave- t, though, my.fset got 5o sere ded it was better to look a little around the T, I tributor m\fl:‘:\ touckh. A ‘!d'bu, revenues, expenditures and tax levies covering all Btates and cities and i political subdivisions and for the de- fective and delinquent classes confined to or admitted to institutions, including ithe insane and feeble-minded, sen- tenced prisoners and paupers. Preparations Under Way. ‘The bureau said that preparations for both of these censuses :’r:px:n'l un- | | der way and will cover the yesr 1932.| Another eensus to be undertaken is that | of the religious bodies or churches, | which, in the regular course, will be | taken in the second half of the deca and cover the year 1936, and a mid- d-cr;;;bhl of agriculture will be taken in 3 TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BOY RESCUES SCHOOL TEACHER Hersehel Dyer Summons Aid for | Miss Cheney, Who Was Pinned Against Stove. By the Assoclated Press. CHAMPAIGN, IIl, November 15— Herschel Dyer, 12, was a hero to his rural schoolmates and teacher today. He w iven credit for saving the life of his teacher, Miss Lois Cheney of Maple Grove, who yesterdsy slipped snd fell while attempting to reach some papers on top of a bookcase. The case toppled over against a hot stove, pinning the teacher underneath. Herschel, playing in the school yard alone, heard the crash and, seeing Miss Cheney’s danger, called his parents and neighbors. The teacher was in & semi-conscious condition today, but physicians said she would recover, She was burned on one ff.’f’ and was suffering from smoke in- e WOMAN GETS $2,000 VERDICT ON JEWELS| S ——— | ‘Wardman Company Ordered to Pay | Mrs. Madeline F. Deming | for Loss. (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday'® Star.) A verdict for $2,000 was grantad late today to Mrs, Madeline F. Deming against the Wardman real estate properties for the loss of jewelry while she was & guest at the Carlton Hotel two years ago. The verdict was award- ed by & District Supreme Court jury, Mrs, Deming, who now resides at the Shoreham Hotel, claimed to have lost & r-shaped pendant surrounded | with dlamonds, and a platinum brace- let set withh 60 diamonds, which had been left in s trunk in & locked room May 29, 1930, and which were missing when she returned after & brief ab- | sence. P.-T. A. Plans Bake Sale, AURORA HEIGHTS, Va.. November 15 (Specisl) —The Parent-Teacher As- sociation of the James Monroe Bchool | will give & benefit bake sale at the school house Thursday beginning at # o'clock in the morning. less Ibl::ml’m the feet, so, sacri- ficing * for comfort, I changed least & conscientious he must, I bad already developed the mental operations of my new racket. It would be & serjous breach of form not to start off, ostensibly in the di- rection of a restaurant, after thanking | { the most recent giver. One must also | get away from his last conquest, and | the House, and Oscar B. Lovette, Re- | parently defeated Lovette last Tuesday, | great deal of good will, but the comment | |is widely heard that the plan is tre- mendously complex. | The American delegation here appears well disposed toward the French system, especially because the Americans believe it affords a basis'for meeting Germany's arms equality demand and getting Gers many back into the Disarmament Con- ference, Resumption of that conference with all powers represerited is considered an essential preliminary to the success of the disarmament undertaking. When Baron von Neurath, the German for- eign minister, comes here for the League of Nations Council meednfl on Mondsy of next week strenuous efforts will be made by representatives of the other great powers to reach some agreement on the issue of German equality. The Itallans have informally ex. pressed a de{'ru of skepticism over the feasibllity of some of the French pro- posals, notably that for the crestion of an international army under the con- trol of the League, and that for the maintenance of war materizls stocks under League control, Among the Germans, and in other quarters also, there is a tendeney to emphasize the formidable nature of sev+ | eral questions raised by the Prench | plan, for example, the procedure which | would be necessary for concluding the proposed continental security pacts, the difficulties of reorganizing national | armies as Propoud by France, and the | questions involved in supervision and | inspection of the special internatonal [ troops and their equipment, Up to now there has been no British | comment, but Sir John Simon, the for- eign secretary, is to speak at a confer- ence bureau meeting tomorrow or Thursday. DAVIS’ RE-ELECTION MAY BE CONTESTED BY LAWRENCE RUPP (Continu also were to testify before the com- mittee, which had an open session scheduled this afternoon. Btewart Lynch of Wilmington, Del., counsel for the committee, also is to testify in connection with the activities of the officials of the Better Govern- ment League cf that State. Representative Black said the com- mittee would look into a complaint filed in connection with the election in the first Tennessee congressional district, The complaint involves Carroll B. Reece, Republican, a former member cf | publican independent. Lovette defeated | Reece two years and Reece ap- With the exception of Representative Lehibach, Republican, of New Jersey, who is ill at his home at Newark, all five members of the Campaign Com- mittee were present. They inelude, in addition to Chairman Ragon, Black and Harlan of Ohlo, Demoerats, and Rep- resentative Nelson, Republican of Maine, Informed of Wilson's statement, Sen- ator Davis today made public a letter he said he received several days ago from nu%‘.n It said: “Dear 3 your “viiorg: % Yas haping that. our v 3 was our paths would cross during the campaign, but I seemed to miss you by & narrow margin on several occasions. ith kindest wishes, I am “Sincerely yours, “Lawrence H. Rupp.” Maynard Discusses Authors. “Gilbert. Chesterton and Hilaire Bel. loc” was the topic of a talk by Theo- dore Maynard, lecturer and author, where the con- yesterday at the Immaculata A The lecture the liter- make another 'ary d et { the l;'wun-u Finale. “Uni of le, “Unive . Federation of Cathollo: Alumnee. he. Btas Bpaneied ¢ | flooded as the downpour inundated low- since 1917 as it ml{lmhhndJ of tl up a) empire. panese direction and were being restored but | flow]y, houses were destroyed by fire at Namat. | su, and 30 of the houses wrecked at Suzukawa were buried in a landslide, g.—xe&n Arismendi, refereeing a soc- The typhoon zone includs ‘Tokio, Chiba, fectures of nmcdbufln;uubnmn')nhem | adopt Kanagawa prefecture, including t! cities of Yokohama and Yokosuka, re- ported 15 of the deaths and in Tokio proper there were three, Landslides claimed most of the victims, More than 760 houses were destroyed and 2,000 bedly damaged in Tokio pre- fecture, and in the capital itself 40,000 houses were partially and temporarily lying river-front streets, It was believed probable the desth list would increass &s losses among the fishing fleet and small coastal vessels became known, The main strength of the Japanese pavy, anchored off Yokosuks, felt the fury of the S!e. which lasted through all of last night. Naval Vessels Crash. ‘The air carrier Hosho and the de- luum Asagirli broke their anchor el and eollided. Both were slight- 1y damaged in the erash. The destroyer Ikazauchi was blown ashore, but was refloated later with only minor damage. The cruiser Nis- shin drifted into contact with the un- finished aircraft carrjer Ryujo. The Ryujo was demaged. Several launches and other small craft at the naval base were swamped and foundered and the aviation and other naval establishments ashore near- by did not escape unscathed. The battieship Nagato and other cap- ital ships were 50 buffeted that they threatened to break their anchor chains. They prepared to stesm to sea, but found it would be unnecessary. While the tempest was raking his cap- ital, Emperor Hirohito remained in Osaka in the north, where he had been reviewing army maneuvers. He tele- | graphed President Gerardo Machado of Cuba the sympathy of Japsn in the death of 2,500 or more in last week's Caribbesn hurri cane. Trains bringing Prince Chichibu and other notables back to Tokio from the Osaka maneuvers were several hours late because of crippled railway lines. Storm Worst Since 1917, The Navy Department statement on the storm said the winds reached a maximum velocity of 100 miles an hour Tential riis WAiopod acvow the cepival | Wi BCTOSS district with bl ferocity. el.l'-llf The storm was declared the worst | across Honjo, the group that m: unications were down in every | Several towns spent the night darkness. o % Reports over crippled lines said 500 et Soccer Referee Shot. LA PLATA, Argentina, November 15 in here yesterday, wes shot and critically wounded by the m Augustin akes | shooting, For these reasons, I Great terday. Among those attending the sectional my were C, L. Sabin, vice president of the Carriers’ Assoctation, which has gone on record in opposition to the St. Lawrence waterway; R. F. Malia of Milwaukee, gecretary of the Harbors Associstion, and J. ‘MacLean of Detroit. e CAPITAL TRACTION SUED FOR $35,000 BY COUPLE The Capital Traction Co. was sued the District Supreme Court for & total of $35,000 damages by Mrs. Ecther Slegel, 4707 Georgia ave- nue, and her husband, Adolph, for in- juries sustained by the wife in an au- fomobile accident September 10, on Seventh street, between S and T streets. Mrs. Blegel places her injurles at $25,000 and the husband asks an addi- tional $10,000 for the loss of the serv- ices of the wife and the expense inci- dent to her illness, The wife was riding in an automo- pile with her husband, which had stopped on the tracks of the company by reason of traffic cougestion, when s car of the defendant is alleged to have collided with the machine. Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer and Jacob 0:;\!!.1 appear for the husband and wife. LIBBY HOLMAN CASE DROPPED BY STATE. AB WALKER ALSO FREE (Continued From First Page.) tion yes~ the evidence of the physician, who mace the post-mortem examination and found the evidence insufficient to justi- fy a charge against any person and while the grand jury, who preferred such & charge, and while I have no eriti- cism to make of their action, for I know that it was honest and sincere, yet the ’nnd Jury did not have the benefit of the evidence of any witness, who was present at the party or who was in the house at the time of the request that 8 nolle prosse be entered in this case,” By taking & non-sult, Higgins can at any time move to bring Mrs. Reynolds and Walker to trial merely by appearing before a judge and moving that the case be reopened. on the grounds of newly discovered evidence. 4 Shot After Gay Party, The young tobacco hgir was found on a second-floor sleeping porch of Reyn- olds, the family estate here, with & pis- tol bullet wound through his head about 1 a.m, July 6, shortly after a gay retused birthday party had broken up. tos Walker agd Blanche Yurka, Reynolds, New York actress, who was a house guest. After lingering about four hours, um::’-:nmoutmcamn Coroner W. N. Daiton made a prelim- and announced