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2 RELIEF IS RESUMED | AFTER PASSAGE OF §625,000 FOR D. C. Unemployment Administra- tion Issues Work Cards for 2,400 Needy. $25,000 WEEKLY SCALE TO BE RECOMMENDED Agency Proceeds Under Belief Measure Will Be Signed in Time to Meet Pay Roll. ‘Work cards for about 2,000 men and 400 women were being issued today by the unemployment relief administra- tion, following the action of the Senate yesterday in passing the deficiency bill. The bill carried $625,000 for District unemployment relief. Although the bill must go to conference b2fore it is sent to the President fcr signature, the dif- ferences between the Senate and House bills do not affect the item for relief. Accordingly the relief agency is acting on the assumption that the bill will be signed in time to meet the pay roll next week. All work was stopped aftér last Mon- day, but a pay rcll for werk done prior to that time will be made up tomorrow, when about $7,000 to $8,000 will be dis- tributed. A meeting of the Relief Sub- committee of the Board of Public Welfare will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon to decide upon the scale of} relief to be afforded under the new appropriation. $25,000 Weekly Scale. Leroy A. Halbert, director of the un- employment relief, said tcday that he would recommend a scale of about $25,000 per week from now until the middle of April, when warm weather may be expected and a reduction in the scale thereafter. Prior to the stopping of work last Monday the scale was abcut $20,000 per week. There are now 6,732 “cases” on the unemployment relief rolls. Each “case” consists of a family or a woman, as no relief is afforded to men without dependents. ‘There are applications pending for relief frcm ab-ut 400 additional cases, which have not yet been investigated. ‘The men are put to work in various District government departments and in the Office of Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks under Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. ‘The women work in Red Cross sewing rooms. The assignments are made by the District Committee on Employment, which also makes up the pay roll. ‘The deficiency bill, besides the emer- gency item of $625,000, which comes from District revenues, carties a total cf $31,000,000 to meet urgent defi- clencies throughout the Federal service. Controveried Amendments. Among the Senate amendments to| be adjusted in conference are: For ex- ses of the inaugural ceremonies on March 4, $40,000, and for American participation in the World Disarma- ment Conference, $150,000. The local Telief section passed both branches in the same form and is not subject to conference. For several days the deficiency bill had been buffeted back and forth be- tween a filibuster ageinst the Glass banking bill and a controversy over the McKellar amendment to the deficiency bill relating to the method of examin- ing Federal tax refunds. Early yesterday Senator Long, Demo- crat, of Louisiana, leading the fight against the banking bill, declined to yield to Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, who wanted to ap- peal to the Senate on behalf of the unemployed in the District. In the «afternoon, however, Senator Long an- mnounced his willingness to co-operate in getting the deficiency bill through, insisting he was not holding up the relief money. He sald he had brought the banking bill back before the Sen- ate Wednesday afternoon to'give other Senators time to work ou: the text of the McKellar amendment to the deficiency bill relating to tax refunds. Chairman Hale of the Appropriations Committee, who has been striying to expedite the deficiency bill, then sug- gested that the banking bill be tem- porarily laid aside and another effort made to get the deficiency measure through. This was done. Democrats and Independent Repub- licans united in the Senate to suspend its rules and stipulate that all tax refunds of $5,000 or more hereafter must be passed on by a joint Congres- sional committee before being paid. The P 1 must receive House approval to become effective. AUTO HITS MAN, 56, AND DRIVER IS HELD George Kegley, Telegraph Mes- senger, May Have Fracture of Skull. George Kegley, 56, telegraph company messenger, was seriously injured early today when struck by an automobile while walking at Connecticut avenue and L street. David Chambers, 21, of the 3300 block of Stephenson place, driver of the car which hit him, was booked on a charge of reckless driving at No. 3 police station, Kegley was treated at Emergency Hospital for fractures of both ankles and severe injuries to the head. X-rays were to be taken to determine if he has a fractured skull Two persons were injured, one seri- ously, when struck by automobiles late yesterday. Henry P. Quill, 41, 208 Fourteenth place nortbeest, “as treated at Cas- eiiy Yospital for severe head injuries suffered when the automobile he was driving and one operated by Joseph B. Hell, of the 1900 block of L street north- east, collided at Tennessee avenue and C street northeast. Speres Pappafotis, 9, of 222 Indiana avenue, suffered cuts and bruises when struck near his home by an automobile operated by Thomas E. Crabtree, 30, of 8¢ 700 block of M street. 4-H CLUB ELECTS Foward Cissel Is Chosen President of Darnestown Group. Special Dispatch to The Star. The Foening Slap WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933. Talks of Planet Trips PICCARD BELIEVES RETURN IMPOSSIBLE. Prof. Auguste Piccard (right) and National Geographic Soclety. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. HE man who has been farther from this planet than any other mortal entertained interviewers today with reflections on the possibility of a man some day | going to same otber planet and getting back again. Theoretically, in the opinion of Prof.| Auguste Piccard, the tall, Lincolnesque | Belgian physicist, who went more than | 10 miles above the earth’s surface in| an airtight ball attached to a balloon this Summer, it might be possible even | with the means now available for some intrepid pioneer to get away from the earth altogether and cruise to the moon, Mars or Venus. But once there, he holds, it would be necessarygto stay there, He couldn't get back o earth. When he landed it would be the end of him. His own air-tight ball, Prof. Piccard | believe:, s am answer to part of the problem. Life could be sustained in it with comparative comfort for any rea- sonable perlod. The difficulty is cne| of locomotion and, he says, any means now practically available are limited to heights of between 12 and 15 miles. It is entirely possible, he said, to improve upon his own balloon so that it would go two or three miles higher. Greater heights would r!q;llu larger balloons until, quite soon, the apparatus became so unwieldy that it could not be gotten off the ground. Some day, he believes, it will be possible to go just as high in an airplahe. But, at about 15 miles, | the plane in order to remain aloft would require a speed close to the velocity of sound—the outer limit cf the airplane’s possibilities. Cites Rocket Ships. But there is one other means of | transportation eavailable —the rocket ship. As yet nobody.has launched a pn‘;ucll ox);e. ‘Theoretically, Prof. Pic-| card says, there is no reason why such | an epparatus_should not be produced. There are only practical difficulties in the way to be overcome by research | and the ingenuity of inventors. With such an apparatus combined with his| own air-tight ball, Prof. Piccard believes | ascents to aimost any height might be | made. Predicts Planet Trips. | But even theoretically, the rocket ship | falls down when it comes to interplane- tary navigation. Such a ship would | be propelled by explosions. Calculations | show, he says, that for' a carriage weighing a ton approximately 20 tons of the most concentrated explosive would be necessary to carry out of the range of the gravitational attraction of the earth—after which it simply would speed through space in a straight line and almost limitless velocity umtil it crashed into something. This, in itself, he believes not to be beyond the the- oretical possibilities. But in order to land safely it would be necessary to “put on the brakes hard”—that is to check the flight of the interplanetary ship by a series of explosions against the surface of the planet lying ahead. For a ship weigh- ing a ton, he calculates, this would re- quire at least half as much explosive as would be needed to get the ship off the earth in the first place. That is, a ship weighing a ton would be obliged to carry with it 10 tons of re- serve explosive in order to land safely. So it would be necessary to propel off the earth not 1 ton, but i1 tons, which would require 220 tons of explosive— calculating by the ratio of 1. to 20. This, Prof. Piccard said, obviously is inconceivable. “But,” he said, “I speak only of ex-| plosives now available. If, as may some | day be the case, the energy bound up | in the nucleus of the atom should be | made available, it would be an entirely | different story. Cosmic Ray May Be Key. Here the discussion entered the field in which he is particularly interested— the cosmic ray, which he described as “the greatest mystery known to physics.” He has little idea as to the source of this extremely penetrating _electro- magnetic ray, lying far above the X-ray in the light scale, except that the only possible source for so much energy is the nucleus of the atom acted upon by unknown physical forces somewhere far outside the earth. The cosmic ray, he said, may be the key to the secret of nuclear disintegration which would make atomic energy available to man and place in his hands power to do almost anything. As for the carriage, Prof. Piccard | said, he himself had been to the height where the pressure of the atmosphere was nine-tenths less than at the sur- face of the earth. His air-tight ball, | with its supply of liquid oxygen and chemical means for absorbing carbon dioxide, was entirely practical. Over- coming the remaining one-tenth so that life could be sustained in a complete vacuum, he believes, offers no particular roblem. 5 But Prof. Piccard isn't proposing any personal rocket ascensions or any more balloon ascensions. He has shown the way and sald he was content to leave the rest to other and younger physicists. His particular interest is in the cosmic ray. At 10 miles his electroscope re- corded approximately 100 times as great a cosmic radiation as can be detected at the surface of the earth. These rays, which will go through a foot of lead, are absorbed by the miles of atmos- phere through which they must pass DARNESTOWN, Md. January 13.— The Darnestown 4-H Agricultural Club elected_these officers for the current year: President, Howard Cissel; vice| high secretary- v and formulated m::\t, ‘Thomas Athey; r, Willlam Thrasher. Under direction of Albert sistant county club members @ tentative activity plans for the year, to reach the earth. But the cosmic rays mem:el::' v:;); enormously in_penetrating power. llutuyfiu P;’:{ Piccard expected to increase Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the —Star Staff Photo. above the earth’s surface, are bent to- ward the north magnetic pole. Seeks U. S. Backing. He said today that a high balloon as- cension near the magnetic pole itself would probably be necessary to deter- mine the truth of this theory. He hopes, he said, to persuade some Amer- jcan institution to undertake such a project. The stratosphere, Prof. Piccard said, is one place where there are no speed limits. With nothing to hit there is no relation between velocity and dan- ger. But every country in Europe, he said, requires a permit for a balicon ascension. Somebody asked Prof. Piccard what the use of it all was—why were cosmic rays, for which nobody has even sug- gested eny practical application, worth risking his life in such flights and worth all the money being spent in their study. Prof. jccard smiled. “About 130 years ago,” he said, “a Danish physicist named Oersted noticed accidently that a magnetic needle was deflected by an electric current. He published the fact and it was regarded as an interesting riosity. But it has practicaily revolu- tionized the world. Every electric mo- tor built since has been an application of that chance observation made of Oersted. “T don't know what will come of cos- mic rays. Perhaps nothing for a gen- eration. But I challenge anybody here to tell me of one single result of scien- tific research more than 30 years old which has not now some practical ap- plication. You can hunt as long as you wish, but you can't find it. And that will always be the case. “We don’t know what the cosmic ray is. A lot of research will be required to find out. Every experiment adds something. When we do find out how the energy bound up in the atomic nucleus is being liberated somewhere we may be at the beginning of know- ing how to liberate it ourselves. Prof. Piccard will lecture on his as- cension before the National Geographic Society at the Washington Auditorium this evening. BODY OF HARMON SUCIE, UNCLAED Act Follows Vain Attempt for Reconciliation With Es- traqged Wife. The body of John Harmon, 27, who shot himself to death last night in front of the home of his estranged wife, with whom he had attempted to effect a reconciliation, lay unclaimed in the District Morgue today. Harmon was found dead on the side- walk in front of 1246 I street southeast, about an hour after his wife, Mrs. Mar- garet Harmon, 22, had refused to re- turn to him. The top of his head had been blown off and a shotgun was be- side his body. Mrs, Harmon told Detective Sergt. Dennis J. Murphy she left her husband about a month ago, taking their two children—Dorothy, 2, and Betty, 10 months—with her. Since then, she caid, she and the children have been living with her mother, Mrs. Julia Wood, | at the I street address. Shotgun Shown to Wife. When her husband called to see her last night, she continued, he begged her to accompany him to Windsor, Md., where he said he had obtained a new job. He had been working for the Navy Yard Auto Wrecking Co., 1222 Eleventh street southeast. During the interview with his wife, she said, he showed her the shotgun, packed in a sult case, and declared he would kill himself if she did not go with him. When she refused, it is believed, he returned to his home, 1250 Eleventh street southeast, and wrote a 16-page letter, in which he explained he could not live without his children and was shooting himself “to make my wife happy.” Killed Self on Sidewalk. ‘With the note in his pocket, he re- turned to the I street address, stood on the sidewalk directly in front of the door and killed himself. He was found by two policemen, who heard the report while passing nearby. Neither Mrs. Harmon nor her mother heard the shot, however. Although Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald termed the shooting “a plain case of suicide,” he said he would not issue a death certificate until the body is claimed. CHOIR MEMBERS ROBBED Three Purses Taken at New York Avenue Church. ‘Three members of the Young Peo- ple’s choir had their pocketbooks taken last night by a sneak thief while at choir practice in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church after the evening services. The pocketbooks were taken from a lecture room while the three young women were practicing in another room. The value of contents of the purses cor- miles totaled $20. UTILITIES BOARD MAY REIECT POWER MATE CONPRON Patrick Says Commission’s Reply Will Be Sent to Company Tomorrow. PEOPLE’S COUNSEL HITS PROPOSED AGREEMENT Pepco Offers to Fix Schedule About Half Way Between Consent De- cree and Sliding Scale. Indications today at the District Building were that the compromise in the electric rate litigation offered Tues- day by the Potomac Electric Power Co. would be turned down by the Public Utilities Commission. Although there was no statement on the point by the commission today, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman, said a reply would be_sent tothe power company tomorTow. People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech said he was opposed to the compromise, and would not be a party to its ac- ceptance. ‘The commission and the company are in litigation over the consent decree of equity court which has ruled electric rates here from 1925 until 1931. In the latter year the commission voided this decree and set up its own sliding scale for fixing rates, a scale more favorable to the consumers of electric current. The company appealed to District Su- preme Court. There the commission was sustained, and the company has an appeal pending from that decision in the Court of Appeals. ranged, about half way between the old consent decree scale and the commis- sion’s sliding scale. This resulted in rate reductions designed to reduce the company’s net income by $860,000. These reductions, however, were stipu- lated to last only until the litigation was settled. During 1932 the new low rates did not have the effect contemplated by the commission, since they reduced the earnings only about $100,000. The commission suggested that the same proceeding be gone through for 1933. The company offered a compromise, whereby they would agree to another rate reduction, in an amount about half way between the consent decree and the sliding scale methods, if the commission would incorporate this in another consent decree and abandon the litigation. Mr. Keech said that to adopt this course would be to sacrifice the gains already made in getting rid of the con- sent decree. It is believed that the commission and the people’s counsel are in agreement on this point, al- though they have often differed in the past. GROCER IS SHOT FOILING BANDITS Pair, Unable to Open Cash Drawer, Frightened as Victim's Wife Enters Store. | Hyman Gamerman, 38, proprietor of a grocery store at 442 O street, was shot in the arm last night by one of two colored bandits when he refused |to tell them how to open the cash drawer. ‘The bandit shot and ran without any loot when Mrs. Gamerman suddenly came in the rear door of the store and screamed. As they closed the door Gamerman threw a meat cleaver at them. Gamerman was taken to Emer- gency Hospital. Relating the incident, Mrs. Gamer- man said a button has to be pressed to open the cash drawer. As the two bandits entered, she said, one of them said, “Give me the cagh.” Gamerman told them, “Go ahead and get it.” While they were fumbling with the drawer, Mrs. Gamerman appeared. Two persons, one of them a taxicab driver, were robbed of $27 last night. police he was robbed of $22 by three colored men and a colored woman who grabbed and held him at Seventh and N streets. George M. Fox of Brentwood, Md., the cab driver, was robbed of $5 by three colored passengers whom he had driven to the 1100 block of Eleventh street. Charles H. Pfleiger, 1939 Calvert street, was fired at with a pistol near his home early today by a man who, a few moments before, had robbed him of 30 cents at the point of a knife, he told police. Pfleiger gave police the robber's nickname, as well as a de- previously seen the man loitering near North Capitol and H streets. Boy Found Unconscious. Harold Alexander, 9-year-old colored boy, was treated at Emergency Hospital last night for exposure after being found unconscicus on the sidewalk in the 1300 block of U street. The boy is said to live in the 400 block of R street. For 1932, a compromise scale was ar-| Mellor Toomer of 622 M street told scription of him. Pfleiger said he had | CAPITAL TRACTION STUDIES ZONE FARE 10 REGAIN' LOSSES Annual Report Shows $616,- 949 Drop in Revenues During 1932. DEPRESSION, TAXIS AND AUTOS BLAMED President Hanna Says Experiences of Other Cities Have Offered No Solution. The zone system of fares and Te- duced fares during non-rush hours is being studied by the Capital Traction Co. with a view to recapturing some of the business lost to 20-cent taxicabs and private automobiles, it was dis- closed today in the annual report of John H. Hanna, president of the com- any. 2 Ti‘w report showed that competition of taxicabs and private automobiles, coupled with depressed economic con- ditions, was responsible for a reduction of $616,949.30, or 16.1 per cent, in the company's revenues in 1932. Studies of experiments in other cities with reduced fares for short- haul riders, or for those riding during off-peak hours, Mr. Hanna sald, have thus far failed to offer any encourage- ment which would justify similar changes in the basic fare structure in Washington. The studies are being continued, however, his report declared, with the hope that a suitable solution will be offered.. The proposed unifi- cation of the car companies, Mr. Hanna pointed out, would greatly simplify such a change. Keech for Zone System. A zone system has long been advo- cated by Richmond B. Keech, people's counsel, as one means of improving street car business. Willlam A. Rob- erts, assistant corporation counsel, as- signed to public utilities, also has ad- vocated similar experiments. The joint resolution authorizing & merger, which now awaits the signature of President Hoover, Mr. Hanna said, differs greatly from the original plan of consolidation proposed by the com- panies and approved by the Public Utilities Commission. As a result, the companies will be required to draw up a new unification agreement. Negotia- tions for the new agreement, according to the report, will be undertaken im- mediately. Mr. Hanna said he believed the merger would not solve entirely the problems of the transportation com- panies, but would result “in such econ- omies and will make possible such con- structive planning for the future that the new company will be able to take full advantage of improved business conditions affecting our business, which they are sure will follow.” “Throughout the year,” the report continued, “we were in competition with hordes of taxicabs operated under conditions which, we are reliably in- formed, result in an average earning to the operators of something less than $1 per day for 10 or more hours of work. The 20-cent taxi rate for rides as much as three or four miles in length, offers competition with our service which is very difficult to meet. “The Public Utilities Commission is endeavoring to remedy this situation by regulatory orders applying to taxicabs. It is greatly hampered, however, by Jack of powers under existing law either to limit the number of cabs in service or to require financial responsibility from their operators and owners. The Commission’s order issued late in 1931 requiring meters on all taxicabs has never become effective because the Dis- trict appropriation act specifically pro- { vided that no meney appropriated could | be used for carrying it out.” Solution is Predicted. Despite the adverse conditions, Mr. Hanna sounded an optimistic note for the future by predicting an ultimate solution of the problems facing the transportation companies in Washing- ton. “Mass transportation of passen- gers,” he declared, “is even more essen- tial to urban life now than ever before. The_continued growth and prosperity of Washington or any other city de- pends upon the continuance of adequate transportation facilities. “Not only must the service now fur- nished be continued, but it must be im- proved and made more attractive to the public, and must be extended to meet the growing needs of the territory served. To do this by private capital requires the co-operation of all who are interested in the city’s growth.” $5,000 ASKED FOR CRASH Virginia Woman Files Suit for In- juries in Montgomery. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., January 13.— William West, of the lower section of the county, is named defendant in a sult for $5,000 damages filed in the Cir- cuit Court here yesterday by Miss Hazel Lamb of Virginia, who is represented by Ajtorneys Whiteford and Cissel of Rockville, She charges that on the Bethesda- Silver Spring Highway, on November 11, 1932, she was struck and very seri- ously injured by & machine operated by the defendant. EASTERN HIGH TO HAVE FULL-TIME “STAGGER” SYSTEM NEXT TERM Students of Two Platoons to Get Whole Day of Education by Alternating Eastern High School will inaugurate a novel “staggered plan” of school at- tendance in order to defeat the ill effects of heavy congestion with the beginning of ‘the second semester, February 1, Dr. Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent, an- nounced today. Under the new plan, every student in the school will receive a full day's schooling in contrast with the “double shift” program invoked at Western High School last year. The staggered plan involves the operation of classes from 9 am. to at least 4 p.m., and, if class schedules demand it, until 3 with the student body divided into two sections, whicn will overlap in the middle of the day when three lunch periods will be held. The old double shift program simply allowed one platoon to go to school from 8:30 a.m. to-1 pm., when it was for the day with no lunch finod, and the second platoon from 1:00 to 4:30. In describing the new plan today, Dr. mu-lflmh&;pm‘wol Eastern’s student will be dn;fi nated with a letter. "Group “L” will school at 9 a.m. and p “M’ begin at 11:30 am. group A Lunch Periods. “M” goes to school, however, the first lunch period will begin so that the class rooms will be housing all of group “M” and two-thins of group “L.” The remaining third of the first group will be in the lunch room. The second lunch period will begin at 12:15. to continue until 1 pm., while the third lunch period begins at 1:00 and con- tinues until 1:45. It is at the end of this third lunch period that students with shorter sched- ules will to leave school for the day so that the several hundred pupils constituting the capacity-taxing enroll- ment will be either in the lunch room or. through for the day during the period when the two groups, “L” and “M,” are overlapping. Dr. Kramer said today that the new ith WAMPLER T0 FACE BALTIMORE COURT Attorney Indicted on Income Tax Evasion Charge Provides Bail. T. Morris Wampler, prominent local attorney, is facing arraignment in | Baltimore under a Federal indictment | charging him with income tax evasions | in 1930 and 1931. ‘Wampler was indicted late yesterday afternoon on conclusion of a three-day grand jurv investigation. At his own request, the attorney appeared as a last-minute witness in his own defense. Following his indictment he was re- leased under $10,000 bond. He asked that his friends and clients “suspend Jjudgment.” The indictment, in two counts, charged Wampler made incorrect in- come tax returns in those years, there- by evading payment to the Government of a total of approximately $16,000. The evidence was gathered by agents of the Intelligence Unit of the Inter- nal Revenue Bureau, operating under Elmer Irey, chief of the unit. The case was presented to the grand jury by United States District Attorney Si- mon E. Sobeloff of Baltimore. ® Edward B. Dean Testifies. ‘The grand jury acted after question- ing s long procession of witnesses. One of the principal witnesses was Edward B. Dean, sr., 80-year-old retired real estate operator, for whom Wampler at one time is reported to have served as_counsel. ‘The Government charged Wampler’s tax return for 1930 reported a net in- come of $16,816.87, on which he paid a tax of $412.76, whereas his actual net income should have been reported at $49,771.98, calling for a tax of $4,547.71. In 1931, the Government alleged, ‘Wampler reported a net income of $37,- 761.85 and glid p tax of $2,555.78, whereas he should have reported a net income of $96,946.22 and paid a tax of $15,018.59. Other Witnesses Listed. Among other witnesses were J. Wil- liam Tomlinson, Robert H. McNeil and Herbert S. Ward, local attorneys; Nor- man S. Bowles and Abner Siegal, dis- barred attorneys; Harry J. Donoghue, assistant cashier of the Federal-Ameri- can National Bank; Christine Rock and her attorney, Albert Esher; R. L. Hooven, Morris H. Caro, Mrs. Catherine P. Offutt, William W. McDonald and George F. Bradley, Internal Revenue agent. Dean, the Government's chief witness, gained wide notoriety during the past few years as a result of sensational litigation in which he was involved. After he had been sued five times by women, who asked sums totaling about $2,000,000 for alleged attacks, the wealthy realty man himself filed a suit in District Supreme Court charging blackmail to Bowles and four others in the amount of $150,000. This suit is pending. Disbarred in Arnstein Case. Bowles was disbarred after his con- viction with “Nicky” Arnstein, W. W. Easterday and David W. Sullivan in the $5,000,000 stolen bond plot of 1919. Wampler served as chief defense at- torney for Bowles in that trial. Since his disbarment Bowles has had several skirmishes with the courts as a result of alleged attempts to continue the practice of law. He has been held in contempt twice on these accusations. Bowles and Gaston B. Means are credited with instigating the famous “lettuce raid” on a Baltimore warehouse by Representative Hamilton Pish, chair- man of a committee investigating Com- munistic activities. The pair are said to have given tip that several trunkloads of radical documents were in the ware- house, but Representative Fish found only crates of lettuce. Represented Means Here. Incidentally, Wampler and Tomlinson represented Means in his trial and con- viction on charges of defrauding Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $104,000 in a Lindbergh baby ransom hoax. Siegal was convicted some months ago of bribing an official at the District jall to falsify records in arder to pro- vide an alibi for a client, charged with a crime in another State. Mrs. Leither Lowe of this city re- fused to testify against Wampler on the ground she might incriminate her- self. She was held, but later released on $500 bail. ‘William J. Dow, a disbarred attorney here, was arrested when he failed to | | Above are shown clerks of the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade mailing out envelope stickers calling attention to the inaugural, for use by nearly 200 ‘Washington firms on out-of-town corre- spondence. Below is Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the last Democratic President, who will take an active part in the inaugu- ration, just 12 years after her husband left the White House, of the next Dem- ocratic President. NOONAN DECLINES Car Fare Cut Campaigner Tells House to Spend Funds for Relief. Although his heart is “deeply touched by the signal honor,” which he esteems as “the greatest accorded in- his life,” John J. Noonan today declined the public tribute which the House District Committee by a resolution unanimously adopted at Wednesday's meeting asked the superintendent of schools to ar- range. The members of the House District Committee, at the suggestion of Rep- resentative Patman of Texas, eagerly supported by Chairman Norton, Repre- sentative Gasque of South Carolina and others, declared the appreciation of the school children and the public should be shown for the single-handed campaign conducted by Mr. Noonan, at considerable personal expense, to get a lower street car fare for school children. Three Reasons Given. Arguing that any money which might be spent on such a testimonial might better be spent in feeding hungry chil- dren, Mr. Noonan has written to Chair- man Norton expressing his heartfelt appreciation of their purpose, but re- questing that the resolution be re- scinded. He gave his reasons for this action as follows: “First. I feel it was a duty for any one knowing the deplorable conditions among children of the District to have done what they could to alleviate them and that no one is entitled to credit for such effort. “Secondly. I feel that due to the depression and the need of bending all efforts to help better conditions that it would be unwise to spend any money for the purpose mentioned. I would prefer it should go toward providing food for children who are going to school without breakfast or without money to provide lunch. Gives Credit to Press. “Thirdly. I feel that any success in winning this car-fare clause is due to the unstinted efforts of the press; they have merely used me for cop; Mr. Noonan emphasized that “al- though the adult fares are declining, there has been an increase from about 5,000 to about 11,000 in children riders, and that recent figures show practically TRIBUTE FOR WORK PAGE B—1 MRS. WILSON AIDS INAUGURAL GROUP'S RECEPTION PLANS Widow of Last Democratic President Named Vice Chair- man of Committee. GRAYSON WARS AGAINST PROGRAM SOLICITORS Tremendous Demand for Tickets Forces Roper to Take Over Ad- ditional Office Space. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the last Democratic President, will take an active part in the work of inaugurating the next Democratic President, it was announced today by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the Roosevelt Inaugural Committee. Mrs. Wilson has accepted a vice chairmanship on the subcommittee on reception of Governors and distinguished guests, of which Ray Baker is chair- man. Mrs. Wilson, it is stated, will take an active part in planning for the reception of the Democratic party lead- ers and the Governors of States when they come here for the inaugural. Other vice chairmen of Mr. Baker's committee were announced today as follows: Woodbury Blair, Joseph P. Tumulty, Warren Delano Robbins, B. Sumner Wells, Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, Mrs. Hiram Johnson, Mrs. Frances G. Newlands, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson and Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin. 200 on Committee. ‘There will be about 200 members of this committee, composed of prominent citizens of Washington, who will take part in the reception and entertain- ment of the Governors, their aides, Democratic national committeemen, State party leaders and distinguished citizens from all over the country. Mr. Baker and his committee are pre- paring to face the task of seeing that every State delegation and distinguished guest coming to Washington for the Inaugural ceremony and celebration will be adequately entertined and made comfortable during his stay in the Cap- ital. Working with the Entertainment Committee and other groups in the in- augural set-up, his committee will ar- range for parties for the State delega- tions on the evening before the in- augural and arrange their seating at the review at the inaugural ceremony at the Capitol. Admiral Grayson today warned the entire country against transacting any business with unauthoried solicitors for inaugural programs. He declared no solicitors for h&xo‘rflmfl have been au- beer Teceivel st TeApril Neoaduses af 1 ar- ters in the Wn.shmgmnw‘flulldln( that solicitors® already have gotten busy with unauthorized program promotion schemes. Roper to Talk en ll‘. The first of a series of radio talks on the plans for the inaugural, intended to acquaint the city and the country at large with the preparation being made for inducting Mr. Roosevelt into office, will be delivered by Daniel C. Roper, chairman of the subcommittee on inaugural tickets, over Station WISV chTuell‘d;)ly, January 17. r. Roper today announced that his committee is being flooded with requests for blocks of tickets. So heavy has the early demand for tickets been that Mr. Roper’s committee has found it necessary to secure additional space from which to handle the ticket sale. Mr. Roper's committee, it was an- nounced, will occupy rooms 535, 536 and 537 in the Washington Building for public distribution of tickets. Some indication of the demand for | the tickets may be gained from the fact that the employes of the Treasury De- partment have asked for reservation of a block of 2,000 seats. In addition there already have come several re- quests for large blocks of seats from out of town. A Pittsburgh organization has asked the committee to reserve for it 100 seats and a party from Michigan, planning a bus trip to the Capital for the inaugural week end has asked for a block of 250. Hundreds of reserva- tions for smaller groups are being made daily. There will be nearly 60,000 seats available. Board of Trade Busy. The Greater National Capital Com- mittee of the Board of Trade is con- tinuing its work of publicizing the in- augural. All information going out of this office is pointing to the fact that March 4 is Saturday, and affords vis- itors an opportunity to spend a week- end in Washington, attend the inau- gural and the entertainment which ‘will accompany it, and get back to their homes without great loss of time from their businesses. “The fact that the inaugural comes on Saturday is particularly fortunate, in that the week-end affords visitors the ideal time for attending such a function, whereas if the day were in the middle of the week a great many who would like to visit the Capital for the inauguration would find it difficult to do so without losing too much time from work,” declared Curtis A. Hodges, executive director of the Greater National Capital Committee. Mr. Hodges today reported that the no net loss to the companies in the application of this law.” e D. €. BILLS TO BE STUDIED Bight Measures Include One Pro- viding Tax Sales Extension. Eight District bills will be considered at & meeting of the Fiscal Affairs Sub- committee of the House District Com- mitlee tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Representative Gilbert of Ken- tucky is chairman of the subcommittee. These bills include one providing for an extension of one year on sale of property for non-payment of taxes, another proposes to exempt a residence respond to a subpoena, but he agreed to appear voluntarily. STOLEN TRUCK FOUND e Vehicle Laden With Confections Is Discovered by Police. Policemen at No. 3 precinct who put duty ahead of cakes, candy, pop corn or peanuts have worked themselves out of a tasty prize, It looked like a belated Christmas gift when a truck abandoned in the 2600 block of K street was hauled up to the precinct yesterday, laden with confec- tions. ‘The vehicle bore no identification and the tags were gone. Stern detectives, however, found a motor number and ith a tracer. occupied by the owner from attach- ment. Others propose to license fuel hucksters, electricians and retail mer- chants; to allow the Police Department property clerk to make sales within three months instead of six months as at present. CHANTS TO BE STUDIED The Pius X School of Liturgical Music of New York will conduct a course in the Gregorian chant on 10 consecutive Saturday afternoons be- ginning tomorrow in the Convent of the Sacred Heart, 1719 Massachusetts avenue. ‘The course will include a study of the fundamentals of G xi and Ramsay, Mrs. J M. loseph Sarah Lee, envelope stickers, calling attention to the inaugural celebration, which are being supplied by his organization, have been requested by nearly 200 business firms in the city engaging in out-of- town correspondence. In addition, he all conventions meeting at or about the time of the inaugural are being invited to come to Washington for the inaugural as an entertainment feature of the convention. PLUMMER IS INDICTED BY JURY IN BALTIMORE Charges Returned Yesterday Are Outgrowth of Calvert County Hi-Jacking. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, January 13.—Willilam Plummer, characterized in court recent- 1y by dry officials as king of Southern Maryland bootleggers and one of the best informers they had, today faced a court trial on charges growing out of the hi-jacking of prohibition investi- gators in Calvert County last September as the result of an indictment returned against him by a Federal grand jury here yesterday. He is now at liberty in $15,000 bail. California Attorney Dies. LOS ANGELES, January 13 (P .— illiam J. Hunsaker, 77, one of Cali- fornia's leading attorneys, a former president of the California Bar Asso- ciation and at one time district attor- ney for San Diego County, died today of & heart attack while recovering from #r