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DEMOCRATS DROP BUDEET BALANCIG Decision to Postpone All Tax Legislation Makes Extra Session Certain. . (Continued From First Page) ministration would be to enable them to start with the Federal budget in bal- ance and the Federal finances in order.” At the same time, Mr, Hoover said, there probably would be a deficit be- tween $500,000,000 and $700,000,000 for the next fiscal year, unless new reve- nues were obtained, and declared that the House action toward reducing Government expenditures ‘had been “disappointing.” Disregarded for Time. After the President dispatched his yiessage both Semate and House dis- regarded it for a lengthy period—the | Senate overriding, meantime, his veto of the Philippine independence bill and the House rejecting one more attempt by Representative McFadden of Penn- sylvania to impeach the Chief Execu- ve. But_after it was read in the House the first reaction was expressed by Chairman Byrns of the Appropriations THE EVENING STAR, WA ‘Text of Hoover Message President Pleads for Balanced Budget as Basis of Recovery—Calls Attention to Further Deficit and Need for Enforcing of Strictest Economies. | | (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) | six groups (excluding debt redemption, The President’s message to Congress | but including post office deficit). Po. Mot SRS O rich camnot. be. fedubed—$125,000.000. “To the Senate and House of Repre- the public debt which | w “2—Trust funds, tax refunds, D. C. sentatives: | budget, contributions to the civil serv~ ice pansions, post office subsidies to alr | and foreign mail which are represented | by fixed obligations, and other similar “In my budget message of December 5, I laid before the Congress the finan- | cial situation of the Government, to- | items on which there is no opportunity ether with proposals for the next | to reduce—$310,900,000. {tg\scal year, s 5 > “3—Public works and their mainte- o X nance (excluding military, naval and | “It was pointed out that due to de- | veterans’ construction which are in fol- | creasing revenues and despite the ef- | lowing stems), has been reduced prac- forts of th admin- | tically to committments an con- | forts of the Congress and the MM | iracts outstanding—$305,000,000. | tstration, we were again faced with a| "%® bl Gitures on military estab- deficit during the next fiscal year. I lishments—$612,700,000. urged upon the Congress the necessity | "&—Exp::id!llure; on v:;&nn: h:‘ie ifor further drastic reduction in ex- | Deen reduced in the executive propesals | penditures and increase in revenues. by $121,000000 * * * uu.wo.?ooh “6—All other expenditures of the | “I now apprcac)_l Congress again Ugg_f: Government, including the legislative, | S oo ot combiete | SO0 M SO B L eign affairs, fiscal and tax service, pub- necessity of a balanced budget as the | jic health, education, forests, fisheries, foundation of economic rism;fl’-t i’e’n | aids to agriculture, labor, commerce, to urge that action shO;l b‘i .safety of life at sea, inspection of food during the present session to bring 'products and a multitude of vital serv- this about. | ices, including the post office, as rep- | Confidence Great Problem. | resented by the remaining deficiencies, Committee, who told the members that “The great problem before the world “In all the time I've been in Congress G 5 i I hever heknl & tiore Mmasing messsge | 1008V 15,8 restoration and maintenance sent to Congress.” = | of confidence. I meed scarcely repeat & x"fl""”y'u rns, his committee and | that the maintenance and confidence he House all were scored by the presi- | sal sta o dential message Tor alsappointing- re. | I the Snancial sta of the United sults in reduction of appropriations. | States Government is the first contri- The unfavorable reacticn of- Repre- | buticn to all financial stability within sentative Byrns was joined in by the | our borders and, in fact, in the world as Democratic floor leader of the House, |a whole. Upon that confidence rests Rainey of Illinols, who said he was not | the credit of the States, the municipali- impressed. Senators said little, but the | ties, all our financial institutions and Jeaders of both parties agreed that the | industry—it is the basis of recovered sales tax was dead for this sessicn, and | employment and agriculture. Senator McNary, (Republican, of | “The increases in revenues enacted Oregon), added: “We will be lucky if (at the last session have not had the wWe get through the appropriation bills.” | results hoped for because of the con- Byrns told the House: tinued _ economic stagnation. The in “I'm very sure the President will{come of the Government for the next wish to withdraw his name, if it could | fiscal year, nominally estimated at $2,- be done, when he realizes what he has | 950,000,000, is likely to fall short under called to the attention of Congress and the country. X | where from $100,000,000 to $300,000,000. “The President is undertaking to tell | “Expenditures tand I speak in terms the country that we are not doing our | of expenditures rather than appropria- duty up here and that we are not doing | tions), because of the confusion caused what we ought to do to balance the |by carryover of appropriations for the budget. the House up to this time. The first|tion, are estimated at about $3,771,000,- was the Treasury and Post Office bill. 000. If expenditures are continued dur- ‘The President asked us to appropr.ate ing the next fiscal ycar at the present for these two departments $994,328,901. rale, there would thus. be a deficit of ‘The House Committee recommended, | from $920,000,000 to $1,120,000,000 in and the House approved, appropriations | the next fiscal year exclusive of sink- carrying $961,416,597, which represents ing fund charges. a reduction under the President’s esti-| -~Obyious.y the first necessity of & mates of $32,912,304. | nation of decreasing income is reduc- “As to the Interior Dcpartment bill tion in expenaiiures. My message of which has passed the House, the budget | December 5, as suppiemented, recom- estimates or the requests of the Presi- |mended very large specific reductions dent amounted to $46,083929. The mended, and the House concurred in the | recommendation, $43,172,904, which was | priations and obligations) would reflect a reduction of $2,911,025, which, accord- | an expenditure next year excluding debt | ing to the President’s message just |redemptions, but including Post Office read, was all wrong and ought never | defici, of about $3,233,000,000, a de- to have been done. {crcase as compared to the current year ultural Bill Passed. | of about $538,000,00). ! $690,000,000 Deficit. Bl e e b the Tiouss,| Assuming that these economics and The budget. or the Preeident’s requaw{" reductions of appropriations will T et o e s ran rme o os | adopted, on this basis of calculation amounted to $108,061.793. The Dill. 88 | there would still b2 a deficit cxclusive Abpropriations. and concurred in by | 0% debt redempticn reduciion of about the House, carried $100,228077, or a | $400,000.-00 to $600,000,000. Chrtainly ; with the gencral economiz outlook in reduction under the. President’s re- ‘resmct to income and the slative quests of $7833716, | was then | OUtlook with respect to recommended The frst deficiency bill was then | cconomies, the latter figure is the mos: reported, and, as finally passed today. |jiely cf realization. has this history: The budget. or the| ™ rhe first essential is that the maxi- President's estimates, called for $44,- | ;i mh® Bieh CReobal 8 R0 00 TRt 138.764. The bill, as agreed upon, car-| oyt in the budget me sage as supple- Tied $31,756.535, or a reduction under - mented should be adhered to. The the President’s estimates of $12-|gecond is that there shou'd be no new 382.228. authorizations or appropriati-ns brought e WA D o e pow | forward. The third is that even the Bioon requesia. 15 smonnted to $39%,- | SppropHiations seeammended should e n s - | re very gress s S A e e o ADpro | able to find an avenue therefor. So far 2“5 833,532 or =pl;eductxoh Under the | €5 appropriaticn bills as dealt with by B e or 80,006,013 | the House of Repre-entatives or the e ier words. i these five bills | committees thereof, the results have Wildh Rive bowt sepitied wp 1o Ui | DodS Simppointing. Maxinesh spyee. time, some of which have been pnssed‘\".'}"‘l“,'\"“? e e by the House. there. has been & total | Yoach, were fecommenided In khe exeeh- e n President’s budget g c - reduction under the | My executive orders to c:nsolidate some of $62.735.886. i |58 Government functions into a few To that Rainey added: W,“?‘ we | divisions, with resulting economies, ap- get our own personnel, we ity P,}"“ | pears likely of refual by the Congress, into these matiers. How can the Prest | with resulting continuing waste. I re- et ] ot o e e | BTet to say that the seme forces are at Tt ‘will yicd oo March 157 T am not | 1ok voich thwarted the savin impressed with this message. | effect at the last session of We are during the current year and even in the next fiscal year suffering | from that failure. “In .the five departmental bills adopted by the House or by the com- mittecs thereof at this s a total SAVES LIFE IN ACCIDENT | of appropriations were recommended by Canine Also Tries to Drag Masi I | (he executive which wou'd result in an e i cxpendi‘ure (exclusive of dcbt redemp- From Wreck—Daughter Xilled ) {70’55 263000,000, being a decrease | of expenditures in th~se depariments of | $264,400,000 under the present fiscal | vear. Some items in these bills have 18— | been genuinely decreased by action of the commiitees of the votes of the Hovse. Others have been increased master's life. | Still others have been given the ap- Not by dashing through a smoke- | pearance of reduction. but in reality filled home and spreading a fire alarm | must be restored during the next fiscal or by pulling him. half-drowned, out of | year by deficiency bills. the water. Sandy acted as a pillow A when W. A, Jacksen's car overturned §7%3,500,500 Deeronses: “The items in which there have been on_him. The dog was unhurt, and was trying | g°nuine decreases in these appropria- to drag Jackson out wh help ar- | tions agzregate about $23,500.000 (but Dorothy, was | of this $10,000,000 is reduction in the rived. Jackson’s daughter killed in the accident public buildines for which commit- ‘mrnk have been authorized). “Items have been decreased which in TWO GET JAIL TERMS |an probabili'y will he required through | defic'encv bills amounting to approxi- mately $41.420.000. “Items have been increased amounting to avproximately $58.200,000. There is thus produced an appear- ance of slightly greater savings than Jav. | recommended in the executive budget. sent | but in reality an actual increase by over by | $35.000,000 in Crash. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash, Sandy, 5-year-old Airedale, January saved his Sentence Follows Attempt to Break | in Through Window. YORK, Pa. January 18 (® men accused by prison officials of ing tried to break into jail were there for 10 days each’ yesterday Mayor Harry B. Anstine “If the Congress would accept the The men are W. H. Barnhart and | cuts recommended in the executive John Morgan, both 24, and from Han- | budget and also the genuine cuts made ook, Md i by the House Committee on Appropria- Deputy Warden J. Ralph Grove said tions, or as passed by the House. it lscovered them early yesterday | would represent a real decrease in Gov- ng the bats outside a jail window. | ernment expenses over those in the . bu "‘0 morosnm to these bills of some bridge at Sidney Harbor| ““ere are yet remaining to be re- e scepe of so many sWICIAes | ported appropriation bills in which re- g last March that Aus-|quctions have been recommended by the executive which would secure reduc- tions on those agencies' of $249.000,000 less than those of the current year. Two norities have ordered the cred_with_strong_grills Expenses Classified. “In consideration of reductions, 3 o | realize the pressures upon the Congr nds ACE | I also recognize many organizations a¢ z _ | vocating economy do not fully under- 0, O CAMDEN. | stand the limitations under which the STORAGE CO. | Congress works in reduction of expendi- {tures. In order to clarify this I may | classify the Government expenditures proposed for the next fiscal vear into DAILY TRIPS, FULL AND PART LOADS: | B\timore. Philacelphia. New york. hoston, | Bithmond_and all’ way polats: unexcelied Service pnone Nat.'14u0 NATIONAL DELIVERY ASSOC. INC. 31302 New York Ave. Local Moving Also. | i WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY | ebis contracted by any one oiner than by myself CHESTER AYERS. 1813 35th st. n.w i8e < REPAIRS Porches, carpenter work. paint- tng; save ! . North 6864- B, . on Monday, Pebruary 6. 1933, i noon. CZDW- T STAFPFORD, Secretary. | the present world conditions by any- | preseni_fiscal year, including Post Of- | “We have had five bills reported to |fice deficit, but excluding debt redemp- | of appropriations and economies for the | House Appropriations Committee recom- | next fiscal year. These proposals (in-| cluding the effect of previous appro- | be | and all other independent establish- ments, except the Veterans Bureau, $461,000,000. “Total, $3,233,000,000. ! 86 Per Cent in Five Items. “It will be seen that about 86 per cent of the whole expenditure of the Gcovernment lies in the first five items “No mattor how rigid economies may | ke, it is obvious that the budget cannot | be balanced without a most :ubstantial | increase in revenues. But the progress | of appropriation bil's, however, would indicate that the executive reccm- mendations on which all these calcu-| lations are based will not be realized by- $100,000,000 or more, and therefore | it is more likely that the deficit will | amount to from' $500,000,000 to $700,- | 000,000 | “In canvassing the three major fields of possible income, that is, income taxes, customs and excise taxes, I belicve that inquiry by the Congress will develop that income taxes under the act of 11932 have been developed to the point | | of maximum productivity unless we are prepared to abandon our American s tem of fairly high exemptions and rea- sonably low rates applicable to th smaller incomes and in any event kceping to these: principles no further burdens in this direction would sub- | stantially increase revenues and solve the questions. One of the first eco- nomic effects of the increases already made is the retreat of capital into tax- exempt securities and the denudation of industry and commerce of that much available capital. “The customs revenues and the mis- cellaneous revenues are not likely to be increased except through recovery in trade In my view, therefore, the field for substantial increase in Federal Government revenues, resolves itself to the exploration of possibilities of so- called excise or sales taxes. In_the estimated revenues for the next fiscal | year, nearly $700,000,000 is comprised of so-called excise taxes which are | levied cn a few score different manu- factured commodities. “These taxes are, in fact, manu- | turers' sales taxes. Any attempted dis tinction between ‘excise’ taxcs on manu- factured commodities, or ‘sales’ taxes on manufacturered commodities, is mere juggling of words. Of the taxes now levied nearly $200,000,000 are upon es- sentials as distinguished from so called non-essentials. The Congress has thus already established a ‘sales tax’ as a basis for one-quarter of the whole pub- lic revenues and has already adopted ‘sales’ taxcs upon essentials as di: tinguished from non-essentials. To ex- tend this form of taxation is neither new nor revolutionary. “Inctead of sprcading it over a few scores of commodities and services at the regular rates, which cause discrim- ination and hardships between indus- tries, it would seem the escence of good statasmanship to apply such a tax gen- erally at a low rate upon all manufac- tures except upon food and cheaper grades of clothing and thereby give to the Federal Government a stable basiz of income during the pericd of de- pression, . ‘he balancing of the blidget is one of the essential steps in strengthening the foundations of recovery. Capital expenditures are a very important item in our economic life. There can be no doubt that there is an enormous ac- cumulated demand for capital funds that would be expended for equipment and replacements of all kinds if long- time funds could be obtained cheaply and if confidence were restored. For | some time now long-time funds have not been available for the public at rea- | sonable rates. The requirement of the Federal Treasury from the market as a constant borrower, the balancing of the Federal budget and the refunding operations necessary to bring the Gov- ernment debt into better balance would | have a stimulating effect, would vital- ize our entire credit structure and pro- duce one of the conditions essential to continued recovery. Would Refund Bonds. “It is essential that the Government undertake at an early moment the re- funding of outstanding high-interesf bearing Liberty bonds into bonds bear- ing a lower rate of interest. It is es- sential, too, that a portion of our short- term borrowing should be converted into longer-term issues. A balanced budget would greatly facilitate such an operation. “Every principle of sound government or management and wise economy policy call for the prompt balancing of the Federal budget. This all-im- portant objective is definitely within reach, and more determined effort will bring us to the goal we have been striving to reach in the face of un- paralleled difficulties. “One of the most helpful contribu- tions which the Congress and this ad- ministration could give to the next ad- ministration would be to enable them to start with the Federal budget in balance and the Federal finances in order Signed: “HERBERT HOOVER.” Urged for Farm Board. PHOENIX, Ariz, Janyary 18 (®).— Appointment of A. A. Johns of Pres cott, president of the Arizona Wool Growers’ Asociation, to the Federal Farm Board was asked in a resolution adopted by the association at its Mid- winter meeting her LIMITED EDITIONS 1 OFF. PAUL PEARLMAN | 1711 G St. N.W. SHIOTING MYSTER THEORIES ELASH | Doctor Declares Bradway | Brown Murdered—Police See Suicide. By the Associated Press PALMYRA, N. , January 18— Medical authorities differed radically today with police seeking to unravel the tangle of conflicting clues sur- | rounding the fatal shooting of Bradway Brown, young and wealthy executive of a Philadelphia printing company. After a- three-hour autopsy, Dr. Daniel F. Remer, Burlington County physician, said he was convinced the | cas¢ was plainly one of murder. “The wounds are of what is known as the viscous type,” he said. “Medi- cal experience shows one viscous wound would immediately end all power of | activity on the part of the injured per- son. “If it is supposed that Brown shot | himself, it must be understood that he would have had to shift the weapon from one hand to the other after the D. C, first bullet went into his body. The shock of this wound would have pre- cluded such a possibility.” | Murder Theory Supported. | Earlier in the investigation, Dr. Dean Lefavor of Palmyra, who first examined Brown, had been equally em- phatic in his assertion the young social | registerite had been slain. | Arrayed against the physicians, how- ever, were counly investigators headed | by Ellis Parker, noted chief of Bur- lington County ' detectives. Unwilling to list the case positively as a suicide, they nevertheless expressed the opinion it would have been possible for Brown to have inflicted both wounds found in his body and also that he could | have walked into the house after fir- ing the shots. | Brown, treasurer of the printing com- pany of which his father, the late | Charles T. Brown, had been president | for years, was found dead in the liv- | ing Toom of his home in Cinnaminson Sp) cla and bore two bullet wounds—one of | | which, the autopsy disclosed, pierced | the left lung and the other the liver. | Two Men Sought. | While the investigators grappled with their contradictory evidence, search for two men whom Mrs. Harold West, a neighbor, said she believed she saw | running from the Brown home shortly alter (wo shots were fired was con- tinued Hrown was an important witness in the Wilson-Roberts murder and suicide in 1929 at Moorestown. He testified at the inquest in the deaths of Miss Ruth Wilson and Horace Roberts, jr., both friends of his. A coroner’s jury decided Miss Wilson was shot by Rob- erts, who then ended his own life. NOTORIOUS BANDIT REPORTED IN OHIO “Pretty Boy” Floyd Recognized in Car With Gang by Man Who | Knew Him in Oklahoma. By the Associated Press. FINDLAY, Ohio, January 18— Findlay police broadcast a warning yesierday that Charles .(Pretty Boy) Floyd, notoricus bandit and alleged slayer, and 10 or more other men de- scribed as gangsters, have been seen in_this vicinity. The police said Floyd was recognized by a former acquaintance who knew him in Oklahoma. Floyd, accused of a series of bank hold-ups in the Middle West, and of slaying Patrolman Ralph Castner of | Bowling Green, Ohio, was driving a maroon-colored coupe when observed by the police informant. This man said he recognized Floyd by his ap- pearance and voice when he stopped his car to inspect the tires after re- marking to his companions That he be- lieved one of the tires was flat. Satisfied that the tires were all right, the man identified as Floyd ‘took the driver's seat and went on, followed by | the other cars, occupied by several men, police said. THREE FACE CHARGES | OF. EXTORTION ATTEMPT | the Federal Hold Trio | After Alleged Threats Sent Bank- er's Wife Through Mails. By the Associated Press COOKEVILLE, Tenn., January 18.— Extortion charges were entered against three persons late yesterday in con- nection with an alleged plot to obtain $21,000 from the wife of a Cookeville banker under threat of death to her, | her husband and their 10-year-old | daughter if she failed to comply with the demands | Rob:crt Leftwich, 23, of Buffalo Val- | ley: his uncle. Guy Leftwich, 30, and Hobson Jackson, 34, both of Cookeville, held on warrants sworn out by United States Deputy Marshal Morgan Stout, pleaded not guilty. | Bond for each was placed at $5,000 to_await preliminary hearing today D. Q. Musgrove, a Postal inspector, said the three were arrested Monday night after Mrs. Stacey Wilhite in- formed officers she had received through the mails a note threatening to “burn alive you and all your fam- ily” if she failed to deliver $21,000 in bills of $50 and $20 in the manner prescribed by the note. Mrs. Wilhite's husband is assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Cookeville. | IR | Missing Maryland Girl Found. | | WILMINGTON, Del. January 18 (#). | | —mildred Virginia Richardson, 17, of Berlin, Md., who had been missing | rom her home since January 3, was | | found by police last night living in the | home of & Wilmington woman. Authorities The way it appears when vou duy it. Sprouts burst throuoh after 3 or 4 days. In three weeks with no care or watering it is in full dloom. | ling, who Mrs. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1933. ‘Shooting of Bradway Brown Still a Mystery WEALTHY SOCIETY MAN FOUND DEAD IN EIVING ROOM OF HOME. ONFRONTED with a maze of ccnflicting evidence, police set to work to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of Bradway Brown (inset above who was found shot to death in the living room of his home in Palmyra, N. J. She was visiting in Beaver, Pa., at the time of McCauley Brown, will be able her husband’'s death. * MRS. FERGUSON TAKES OATH AS GOVERNOR Returns to Office in Texas After Six Years—Warns Taxes, Must Come Down. By the Associated Press AUSTIN, Tex., January 18.—Mrs. Miriam A. (Ma) Ferguson was inaugu- rated Governor of Texas yesterday for the second time after a lapse of six years,. When Mrs. Ferguson served in 1925- 26 she was one of two woman chief executives in the United States, Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming being the other. Now she is the Nation's only feminine head of a State. In a bricf inauguration address, after she took the ancient constitutional oath, affirming that she never had “fought a | duel with deadly weapons,” she asked the hearty co-operation of the Legis- lature. She &'amed that “the burdens of Government are falling heavily on the masses,” declaring “reduction of taxes must come and come quickly or the Government will fall and fall quickly.” By “Ma’s” side stood her husband, former Gov. James E. (Pa) Ferguson, barred by a Senate impeachment court from ever again heading a State office of trust, atter his removal from the | governorship in 1917. The -outgoing Governor, R. S. Ster- Ferguson defeated in the bitter Democratic campaign, de- clined to take part in the induction of his successor. NEVADA GOVERNOR URGES BRANCH BANKING LAW Message to State Legislature De- | clares Everything Possible Must Be Done to Reopen Banks. By the Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev., January 18.— Changes in the Nevada banking laws to permit branch banking and provide greater security for public funds on deposit in State banks were recom- mended to the Legislature yesterday by Gov. F. B. Balzar in a message in which he also advocated imposition of a special sales tax upon “non-neces- saries. A proposed plan to reorganize and reopen the 12 closed Wingfield banks in Nevada is contingent upon legisla- tion permitting branch banking, Governor said, adding: “If, in our present unfortunate sit- uation in which so large a part of Statz’s financial machinery has ceased to function, the best plan pre- sented for bringing about a resumption shall include branch banking as an indispensable feature, then any other course than legalizing branch banks would be unthinkable.” JOB FUND EXCEEDS GOAL $15,026,000 AT Svembit, thiNew York Draws Smith Comment. NEW YORK. January 18 (#).—The | Emergency Unemployment Relief Com- mittee announced yesterday that its fund-raising campaign which began last Fall had overshot its $15,000,000 goal by $26.000. i The campaign was to have ended De- cember 20, but was $1.000,000 short at that time and an extension was decided upon. Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, hon- orary chairman, told committee work- ers at a luncheon he “would rather see $15,000,000 handled by a committee such as this one than to see a much larger sum imposed upon the tex- payers.” Girl Found Dead in Hotel. DENVER, January 18 (#).—Miss Lil- lian Watkins, 21, of Paducah, Ky., was found dead in & hotel room here. yes terday. Deputy Coroner George Bost- wick said she had taken poison, leav- ing three notes indicating she intended to commit suicide. The girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Watkins, Pa- ducah, had been here several weeks looking for work. Lily of the Valley . . . Wonderplant! Just set it on the table in your room and watch it grow —in three weeks it is in full bloom—a fascinating, ever- changing greeting. Boxed ready to mail. $1.00 Florists to Washington Since 1889 Store, 1212 F .Strut Phones Nat. 4278-4277-4278 Thiee Branch Flower Stores the | ), 28, wealthy and socially to shed some light on the case. prominent Philadelphia_printing company executive, Police hope his wife, Mrs. Ruth ~A. P. Photo. [MINUTE (MlysTeRy f Solve il 7~ Fordnes is professor of criminology at Dr a famous unbiversity. His advice is often Sought by the police of many cities When confrented with particularly bafing cases This nroblem has been taken from his case- book caverinis hundreds of criminal investi- “"Tre"vour wits on 1! It tokes but ONE MINUTE to read! Every fact and every | clue necessary to its solution are in ihe stors it and there is only one answer. How good a detective are you? Class Day. BY H. A. RIPLEY. Ee ELL, boys, there is much | to accomplish in the new | year and your first les- son finds your old profes- sor dwelling again on the importance, nay, the necessity, of quick and accurate observation. As I've told you before, its value in crime detection | simply cannot be overestimated. Vis-| ualization and ob- servation are hand- maidens, so I'm going to give you, this morning, a problem on what I might call inner- observation. It calls for memory | | and concentration 1 as well. | } “This time you| are on your honor. You must not DRAW anything | or have any OB- JECT IN FRONT OF YOU. You must ‘see’ with your mind and not your eye. You may | write only the questions I'm going to give you. The answers must be arrived at by visualization. “Now, imagine a three-inch cube (three inches cubical) painted black. “Number one. How many times must you cut completely through the above to make one-inch cubes? “Number two. After you have done this how many cubes will have three black sides? “Number three. How many cubes will_have two black sides? | “Number four. How many cubes one black side? | “Number five. How many cubes NO black sides? “Remember, you are NOT permitted | to draw a cube. It should take you only a few seconds to answer each question, but vou will be marked on accuracy rather than speed.” The above was presented to Prof. Fordney by Roger R. Wilterding, Chi- cago, Ill, for a class day problem. Perhaps you have one you would like the professor to submit fo his class. If <0, send it to him in care of this paper and he will be delighted to see what his students make of it. | (See Page 7 for Solution.) . : DIETZ MADE PRESIDENT " OF CATHOLIC ALUMNI| Association Elects Other Officers at Annual Meeting at the Uni- | versity. William F. Dietz, 5714 Colorado ave- | mue, was elected president of the Catho- lic 'University Alumni Association at the annual meeting of tpe organization | at the university last night | Other officers chosen include Joseph | C. Suraci, 1021 Twentieth street, vice | | president:’ James J. Bowe, mechanical | | engineering instructor at the un rersity, | secretary, and Bernard F. Locraft, | treasurer. | The association approved & program of activities for the ensuing year which will include luncheon meetings on the first and third Thursdays of each | month and a dance on the night pre- ceding the opening of the Lenten For Information, Call, Phone or Write— 'l lliker &BBvo. INCORPORATED % MILK REDUCTION CAMPAIGN URGED Petworth Citizens' Association Con- tends Prices in Capital Are Too High. Contending milk prices in the Dis- trict are too high, the Petworth Citi- zens' Association last night adopted a resolution asking that the Federation of Citizens’ Associations initiate & cam- paign for a reduction. Members pointed out that in several other larger cities the price of milk | ranges from 8 to 11 cents per quart, | while in the District milk costs 13 cents per_quart. The association adopted a resolution favoring the merger of the Washing- ton and Georgetown Gas Light Co.’s, but voiced its disapproval of the “going concern” as an element of value in valuations of the company for rate- making purposes. In the case of the Washington companies this factor rep- resents approximately $2,000,000 of the total valuations. After a discussion, the association voted its disapproval of the use of the high school gymnasiums for boxing bouts. It commended the Board of Education upon the appointment of Miss Ida Lind as supervisor of elemen. tary education. Horace J. Phelps, president, and Earl | W. Cooper, secretary, officiated at the meeting held in the Petworth School, Eighth and Shepherd streets. —— AHEPA TO HOLD BALL Ahepa, national Greek society, will hold its annual ball at the Mayflower Hotel, Monday night, January 23. The Greek Minister, H. Simopoulos, members of Congress, officials of the District and guests from all parts of the country will attend, as well as Ahepa members from other lodges. The society has a membership in Washington of about 3,060. Its name stands for American Hellenic Educa- tional Progressive Association, and has for its purpose advancement of the Greek population. DENTISTRY A Dental Serv- 5, B . ice offered you based on and successful experience. abil- ity reputation, at positively the Tong and known lowest prices at which this qual- ity of servi can be obtained Most liberal terms of credit My own attention to every patient. Dr. Vaughan, Dentist 932 F St. NW. 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King of Mississippi County said Wright would be given carte blanche to bang away at his lions in the sheriff’s bailiwack. The St Louisan’s attempt to s his first hunt last October ended tamely when a deputy sheriff of Scott County, north of Mississipi County, killed the two young circus lionesses Wright had released on an island before the hunter could get a shot at them. Officials of humane societies also protested against the first hunt. ‘Wright passed through here last night with the two loud-roaring 400-pound lions he bought from a circus farm for a “bigger and better” imitation of the jungle sport. ____WHERE TO DINE. Jewish Community Center Modern Dining Room Special Dinner, 50c Me 16th and @ NW. 5 WHY DON'T YOU Where good food brings yon back? Where service is unexcelled? Where atmosphere is homelike? GREENWAY INN 2815 Connecticut Ave suesk DaveER S Enchiladas, Tamales, Tortillas, Chill con Carne, Bistec a la Parilla, Arroz con Pollo, Molé Poblano 1321 New York Ave. N.W. 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