Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1933, Page 12

G_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 WHITE HOUSE AREA | SENATORS BBOST THE EVE TREASURY STUDIS) ST e MiLLION CENTORES NEW COLD MOVING - CARPENTERS' WAGE e s o o WITH 23 MEN OUT Survey Here. Decision on Scale Under Ba- con-Davis Law Hardly Pos- sible Before Monday. Accidental Discovery of Curi- ous Substance in Sea Leads to Test. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A substance which apparently is pe- WEATHER COMPLICATES troleum has been produced in a week SITUATION IN DISTRICT|tn the chemical laboratory of the Geo- logical Survey here. The natural for- mation of petroleum, according to ge- Continuance of “Strike” or “Lock- | ologists, requires about 100,000,000 out” Threatens Tie-up of Other |V*&r™ It appears, superficially at least, that ‘Work on Six Buildings Affected. |the Government chemists have short- circuited millions of years in the pro- o ’ duction of this complex oil which has Nhe SNUSRINE Y Sigpote, ‘“m; such a vital place in civilization. has thrown 334 union carpenters out o T ek i atea da iR o work on six Government buildings, Was | jscue of the Amw'c‘m R 8o- in the hands of the Treasury today for | ciety Journal by Dr. Roger C. Wells, ecs t is the prevail- | chief chemist of the Geological Sur- l-ng‘1 wag? 1::— tcour;ehn‘terss in eu?g Dis- | vey, and E. Theodore Erickson of the trict of Columbia, under the Bacon- staff. It all came from the Davis law. Termed by the union a “lockout by the subcontractors a “strik controversy so far has affected only the carpenters, but if it continues much longer, with the carpenters off the job, it threatens to tie up first one part of the work after another, until much of the construction on six big buildings would be at a standstill In the meantime, however, the Treas- ury Department was pushing forward its investigation, upon which to base & decision as to the “prevailing wage” for carpenters in the District of Co- lumbia. Under the Bacon-Davis law the “contracting officer” is to attempt adjudication of wage disputes, after ,vmm it may be appealed to the Sec- getary of Labor. » and Data Asked by Heath. Assistant Becretary of the Treasury Heath, the “contracting officer,” has of the Treasury to prepare which he will make his decision on the ing wage. It was learned that cons‘ruction engineers have been asked to eompile data from both public and private work in the city, concerning the wages of carpenters. The controversy on six public build- here was precipitated when the tractors on these structures posted notices claiming the prevailing ‘wage here is $8 and announcing they will pay $8 instead of the $11 union scale which had previously been in force. When the carpenters appeared to work on Thursday morning asking 811, they were offered $8, and so, ac- to union leaders, they were “locked out,” and according to con- tractors_they “struck. ‘The Bacon-Davis law provides that the prevailing rate of wage in a com- munity must be paid on Government Henry W. Blumenberg, general rep- resentative of the United Brotherhood of ters and Joiners, left Wash- ington for Baltimore yesterday on busi- ness for the union, but expects to re- Mr, mumma‘eond:zfln i Ie”m‘h‘e' 3 T8 emphasized t| insistence of labor that the subcon- tractors concerned should not be al- lowed to change their scale of pay on # job for which they already had a contract. Complicated by Weather. The weather has complicated the situation ever since the first men Ellt morning. Cold weather nted mueh construction work on | and Friday, and virtual- all the ttades were off today on ac- count of the fl);loelfi:y week, Saturday expected to be appealed to the Secretary of Labor by the side which is disappointed. The t of Labor, observing a five- day week under the economy act, is closed today, so no action from that source can be expected until Monday. mnlll discovery of a curious sub- stance discovered in the water off the coast of Admiralty Island, Alaska, near the spot where a ship loaded with her- ring is known to have sunk 20 or 30 years ago. The boat long ago has broken up and the herring long since disintegrated. The substance sent to the Geological Survey for analysis, it turned out, was due to the action of sea water on organic oils from the de- composed herring. Nothing like this substance ever had been seen before. It was white, greasy, of about the consistency of hard soap and with a very slightly higher spe- cific gravity than water. It seems to be the mother substance, at least one of them, from which petroleum is pro- duced, and which results from the ac- tion of sea water on certain organic materials in about a score of years, Yields to Analysis. showed it to be composed ‘magnes} Analysis onlof callum and two or three organic originally from the bodies ring. It has long been kno troleum is formed of nic acid de- posits in sea water, which in some way become tied in with mineral matter, forming sediments. After chemical the make-up of the substance, the Geo- logical Survey chemists subjected it to heat of 350 degrees for various pe- riods. At the end of seven days of such intensive heating, having theo- retically about the same effect as in- tensive pressure under the earth, they obtained from the soap-like material & greenish, fluorescent oil which looked just like petroleum, was slightly explo- sive, and which carried & strong odor of gasoline. It is considered very close to petroleum, if not identical. determine the identity is a long, la- borious job, since petroleum is an ex- gemely complex chemical substance. is possil alysis will show considerable difference between the product of a few days of intensive heat treatment and millions of years of pressure. Besides, it was pointed out, petroleum itself probably varies slightly from place to place. Very little of the original material was received from which oil could be obtained for experimentation. The next logical step, it was pointed out by Geological Survey chemists, is to work out the way in which the cal- cium and magnesium salts of the or- ganic acids were formed in the sea. It may be possible to duplicate the process in a brief period in the labo- ratory, in which case the actual pro- To ! be: ble, however, that closer an- | the duction | of petroleum from the raw 'logical DR. ROGER C. WELLS. materials may be possible. Of course, Cotatming "the. oh rescyrane e e o ol rom the Geological Survey chem- chiefly interested in the light thrown by the experiments on the tual process of petroleum formation. Specific Gravity Measured. Among the difficulties in the past has been that of determining whether petroleum game from sediments of an- cient sea bottoms or beaches. The ofls from dead sea animals are light and float on the surface. It has been hard to understand how in the distant past they got to the bottom of the sea and were kept there. The alternative has been the formation of these sediment- ary deposits on the ancient beaches. The accidental discovery of this pe- culiar substance from the disintegrated herring ship shows that they actually come bound up with heavier mineral substances in the sea water itself in a comparatively short time. Very careful measurements of the specific gravity of substance were made. It was found that it was just heavy enough to sink to the bottom under ordinary circumstances. A difficulty with making deductions from the results of the investigation is uncertainty about the origin of the substance, for which the Geological Survey chemists have only the reports of the finders, They have been unable to find exactly how long ago the her- rlnf ship sank or the condition of the water. In- any event, they believe results have been brought about in a total lapee of considerably less than a half century very similar to those which were lluppoaed to have required geo- ages. 0.6 BLLSFAE HOUSE N MONDAY ‘The Treasury Department also was to close l:. 1r o’clock. 1.S}J;o to noon the prospect for a decision in the wage scale today were uncertain. TAX SALES BRING LITTLE REVENUE Produce Smallest Receipts in Five Years, Donovan Report Shows. Sale of properties in the District last month for non-payment of taxes pro- lduced the smallest amount of receipts of any of the last five years, accord- ing to a report submitted to the District Commissioners yesterday by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, Only 10 per cent of the properties offered for tax sale In notices published December 14 were purchased by private interests, in the sales conducted by the District collector of taxes, Chatham ‘Towers, on January 10 to 18, and the Temainder were bought in by the Dis- trict itself, the auditqr’s report shows. In the tax sale last month, 2,089 pieces of property were sold to 49 pur- chasers for $270,093, the auditor re-| ported. In the first notice of that sale, published December 7 last, 27,000 prop- erties were advertised for sale, and in a second notice, on December 14 last, 20,000 properties were listed. In January, 1932, 2,784 pieces of property were sold to 66 purchasers for $379,753. In January, 1931, 5,170 prop- eriles were sold to 48 purchasers for $667,243. In January, 1930, 8,297 prop- erties were sold to 48 purchasers for $887,144, and in January, 1929, 7.160 }zroperfles were sold to 49 purchasers or $800,330. The data was compiled by George H. Kidwell, fleld examiner of the office of the District auditor. COLORED MAN IS HELD IN PURSE SNATCHING Prisoner Trailed to Heme by Pass erby—Microscopes Worth $220 Stolen From G. W. U. Locker. ‘Third precinct police today were holding a colored man for investigation in connection with a pocketbook snatching last night on Sixteenth street after he had been trailed to his home in the 1900 block of Fifteenth street by & passerby, who notified police The man under arrest identified him- #elf as Howard Dawson, 30. He was trailed by H. P. Spears, 431 Ninth street. ‘The pocketbook, containing $1, snatched from Blanche Healey, 1700 block of Sixteenth street, while she was 8t Sixteenth and Caroline streets, Police were told ‘Thefts of articles, totaling $570, in three instances, also were reported to police. Charles Merry, superintendent of buildings at George Washington Uni- versity, reported two microscopes, yalued at $220, were stolen from a locker in the building at 2025 G street. Liquors and cigarettes, valued at $150, were stolen from a drug store at 1564 avenue by some one who * entered through a transom. Fifty Cresses, valued at $200, were reported taken from a dress shop in the block of Fourteenth street. P A 2000 under Piney Rainey Fixes “District Day” | for Study of Various Lo- cal Measures. ‘Twenty-two bills affecting the District of Columbia await House consideration Monday. House Leader Rainey has ‘set aside that day as District day. These measures include: A correc- tion to be made in phraseology of the street railway merger bill; protection for the District Government by requir- | ing notice within a specified time after an accident, as a result of which a suit against the District is to be filed; regu- lation of the sale of securities; authorizing of repairs to Casualty | Hospital; regulation of small loans; permits ' to allow amateur boxing: amendment of the teachers’ salary act; |permit for a sale of District property |on Brothers place southeast; amend- |ment of the estate and lost property |law, so the property clerk may dispose of articles held after three months in- stead of six months; provision for a board to license electricians; authoriz- ing of the sale of the old Potomac School property on Twelfth street southwest; provision for quarterly pay- ment of taxes with a notice to home on corporations with a 1> per cent tax to clear up legal controversy; amendment of the act regarding em- | ployment of minors; incorporation of ment; making specific exception under the law covering ' degree-conferring institutions; making a specific excep- tion regarding income of charitable institutions; exempting from taxation property of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Colonial Dames and the Daughters of 1812; provision of relief | for Jenny Bruce Galahan, and provis- fon for reappointment of George N. Nicholson as & policeman. {CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED FOR SEWER PROJECTS Five Jobs to Be Completed for Dis- trict at Total Cost of $15,244. Contracts for construction of five sewer projects in the District, having a | total cost of §15,244, were awarded yes- {terday by the District Commissioners at their bi-weekly board session. The M. Cain Co., Inc., of Washing- ton, was awarded a contract for the building of & replacement sewer under | Eye street, between Twenty-sixth and | Twenty-seventh streets. The company was | submitted the low bid of $6,071 for this | | work. placement sewer under Nineteenth street, between Eye and L, was awarded jto James Parrezo & Son., Wash'ngton, i which company submitted a bid of 3,581 | **7he three remaining préjects wil be executed by the R. D. Schlegel Co., Bethesda, Md. The company submitted a bid of $1.870 for laying a service sewer under North Dakota avenue, be- tween Peabody and QuacKenbos streets; $1,099 for construction of a sanitary sewer under Klingle street, between Fifty-first place and Weaver terrace, and $2,623 for laying a service sewer Branch road, between Georgia avenue and Van Buren street. owners; correction of the insurance law | | the big brothers and big sisters move- | 3 Contract for the construction of a re- | ORATORY CONTEST ADVISERS NAMED Students Planning to Take Part Begin Study of Constitution. With the second semester in the Dis- trict public schools settled in its regu- lar routine, the active participation of the high school students in the Tenth Nation#l Oratorical Contest, which sponsored here by The Evening Star, is definitely under way. Students are beginning their research into subjects pertaining to the Consti- tution of the United States so they may prepare their orations with a view to increasing interest in and respect for it. This work in each school is being directed by faculty committees under the guidance of the respective school principals. Committees Announced. The school oratorical contest commit- tees were announced today as follows: Central High ScHool—Dr. Harvey A. | Smith, principal; Miss Hester McNally, | chaiman; Miss Charlotte Earrington, | Miss Grace Johnson, Miss Alace Du- | breuil, Miss Sara Lynch, Miss Dorothea | Sherman, Mrs. Lola Hutchins, and Miss | Edith Kojouharoft. | _Eastern High School—Charles E. | Hart, principal; Mrs. May C. Morin, | chairman; Miss Marian V. Hummer, | Miss Louise Moore, Mrs, Lola Hall, and Charles C. Guilford. McKinley High School—Frank C. Daniel, principal; Miss Gertrude Don- naly, chairman; Mrs. Mabel Martin, Mrs. Alleen Frazier, and Miss Louise | Kingsley. { Rcosevelt High School—Allan Davis, | principal: Miss Cora McCarty, chair- | man: Mrs. Edna Smith, Miss Mar- guerite Donnally. Mrs. Merwin Mace, | and Miss Alace McCauley. Set-up at Western. Western High Schocl—Dr, Elmer S. Newton, principal; Miss Isabel Pickett, chairman: Miss Rose Stutz, Miss Clara Stutz, Miss Sue Gardner, Miss Alice Wood, and Miss Elizabeth Dessez. | _Armstrong High School—G. David Houston, principal; J. B. Hunter, chair- |man: Mrs. E. B. Howard, Mrs, E. W. |Smith, C. M. Thomas and C. O. | Planchet Cardoza High School-—R. M. Mat- tingly, principal; Mrs. H. M. Skinner, chairman; Miss Ruth A. Weatherless, Miss M. O'H. Willlamson and Mrs. Louise Lovett. Dunbar High School—W. L. Smith, | principal; Miss Lillian S. Brown, chair- ma; Mrs. H. O. Jackson, Mrs, I. M. | Davis, Mrs, J. M. Harley, D. B. Good- | loe and C. s Shippen. DR. COOPER HONORED | U. 8. Commissioner Invited to Din- ner by Education Association. The District Education Association will honor Di. William John C U. 8. Commissionsr of Education, at a ainner tonight at the Mayflower Hotel. The dinner, to begin at 6:30 o'clock, marks the fourth anniversary of JDr. Cooper’s induction into office, Speakers will include Chairman Mary | | | tee, and | of the National Education Association. | Dr. Harold E. Warner, president of the Sastrm Education Association, will pre- e. Y "\ THREE LOCA r, | pointed out that loud speakers in sta- Norton of the House District Commit- | Dr. Joseph Rosier. president T0 BE FASHIONED INTO. HUGE STAGE Entrances to Be Flanked by Statues of Washington and Jefferson. PLANS FOR INAUGURAL PARADE ARE COMPLETED Police From Other Cities Will Be Used to Supplement D. C. Force During Ceremonies. Pennsylvania avenue, in front of the ‘White House, will present the appear- ance of a great stage across which will pass in colorful array the inaugural parade, it was revealed today in the final plans of Waddy B. Wood, archi- tect, who has designed the Court of Honor from which President Roosevelt will review the column. The Grandstands and Decorations Committee of which Mr. Wood is chair- man has_obtained" two great statues, one of Thomas Jeflerson and one of George Washington, to place at either side of the entrance of the stage, which will be at East Executive avenue, and the scenery will be banked evergreens against the background of the trees of Lafayette Park and the lawn of the White House. ‘The statues, borrowed for the George Washington bicentennial celebration from the American Sculpture Society, will be shipped back to New York when the Inai 1 Committee is through with them. They have been stored in the National Museum since the bicen- tennial celebration ended. * Decision on Cadets Explained. Incidentally, the inaugural will bring to Wi n its first out-of-doors statue of Thomas Jefferson. - At pres- ent there is no statue of Jefferson in any of the parks or other public places of the city and the Inaugural Commit- tee conmsidered it fitting that his figure, along with that of Washington should be prominent in the inauguration of a Democratic President. Col. E. M. Watson, chairman of the Inaugural Parade Committee, today ex- plained, in reply to protests from school authorities over the ?lmmnl of the par- ticipation of high school cadets in the parade, that the limitations placed on the parade made the move necessary. He sald that at the outset he dis- cussed the matter with Lieut. Col. Wi s0n ‘said, to keep the parade within the prescribed length of a column that will take two. hours to pass a given point. He regretted the necessity of cutting down the cadets to 14 com . but £3id ace 1o, other soiution of the Prob- em. Police Policy Decided. COMMISSION FUND FOR UTILITY WORK Appropriations Committee Adds to House Amount for Federal Trade. ACTION BRINGS TOTAL SUM UP TO $780,000 Billion-Dollar Independent Offices Supply Bill Also Reported Favorably. The Senate Appropriations Commit- tee today increased Federal Trade Com- mission funds for the next fiscal year from $500,000 as approved by the House, to $780,000, to permit the Commission to continue its power utilities investiga- tion. ‘The committee thereupon reported favorably the biilion-dollar independent offices supply bill, which carries the Trade Commission funds and money for the Veterans' Administration, Farm Beard, Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, and other independent Federal agencies. Stock Watering Claimed. Members of the Trade Commission had told the Apj tions Committee yesterday the commission’s investigation of power and dg:;pubuc utilities had dis- closed up to the deliberate “water- ing” of capitalization in excess of $1,- 000,000,000 Upon nearly all of this inflated cap- italization, they sald, securities have been issued and sold to the lic. This statement was made by the com- missioners as part of their mission which the House cut from $1,100,000, the budget_estimate, to $500,000. A delegation from the National League of Women Voters also appeared before the Senate committee and pro- tested against the cut in appropriations. They insisted the commission was the ‘cnhu{ m flo’t the Government defend- g the jcan lic. Discussing. the power. hauity. the statement_of the trade commissioners, gdhged in the record of the committee, Special police to augment the Wash- ber ington police during the inaugural will be recruited from the organized, trained forces of other cities, and not from the ranks of the unemployed, Supt. E. W. Brown of the Police Department an- nounced today. Maj. Brown pointed out that while there have been requests that the work be given the unemployed, it has been decided that this policy might prove unfortunate in some of the personnel selected, and to obviate the danger of this procedure, only the regular police of other cities will be used. ‘This policy had been assailed by Patrick J. Sheehan, 117 Twelfth street northeast, in a letter to Chairman Norton of the House District Com- mittee. Huston Thompson, chairman of the Entertainment Subcommittee of the Inaugural Committee, in a radio talk last evening told the country of the en- tertainment plans that are being made. He estimated that there will be in the city for the inaugural between 150,- 000 and 200,000 visitors, with an sistent demand for a care-free celebra- tion such as accompanied the old-fash- joned inaugurals. He said every effort is being made to have the inaugural spectacular and joyful, with, always, the Be'the benenciarics o any brofits of the Inaugural Committee, to “start our minds on the road to a new deal that | will leave the handicaps of the depres- sion complex behind ws.” L BILLS ~ REPORTED IN SENATE Measures Include That Fixing| Time for Notice of Suits Against City. ‘Three bills amending existing laws of the District were reported to the Sen- ate yesterday by the District Commit- tee. " Senator Grammer, Republican, of Washington, filed a report on the bill fixing the time ‘within which persons must give notice of suits against the Municipal Government. Chairman Capper- filed a report on the bill to define in substantive law the standards for the teachers’ colleges of the District schoal system and to give | trade and vocational schools the rating | of junior high schools. The chairman | also reported a bill amending existing | law defining the duties of property clerk | of the Police Department. | The Senate yesterday passed a bill | broadening the” powers of the District health officer over the exhumation of bodles and their transfer from one| cemetery to another. This measure | will avoid the necessity of having Con- | gress pass separate bills from time to] time in specific cases. i ing or preferred stock to the public, Bureaus Abolished. “As 8 direct result of comtis- :nk}n'a h:}resugntlon most otxh‘ the utility lormation bureaus in the ites the preparation and ol pr'echnnn or write-ups (watered stock). “One concern upon which public e comm: analyzed its rec- ords in preparation for the public hear- ings $102,000,000 of write-ups, or ap- &rgl:t}:nihhvmm !.tt.u public hearing ] appreciation had been re- duced to $30,000,000. S 5 “In a large number of instances rates to consumers have reduced fol- lowing the commission’s in and exposure of the elements that had been incorporated into the base which the previous rates had established. These changes have re- sulted in direct savings to the public of | millions of dollars. One company has stated that $2,600,000 had been saved in two years by residential customers as a result of a reduction by it in Tates after the commission’s investiga- tion. Detailed information as to these :Eiennga can be furnished if it is de- Chairman March of the Trade Com- mission and Commissioner 5crnmn a peared before the Senate, sibmitted !:e prepared statement and also made oral argument against proposed cut in the appropriations for the commission. DAMAGES AWARDED Potter Family Collect From Insur- ance Auto Which Struck Them. A jury in District Supreme Court yesterday returned verdicts for $4,200 in favor of Lois Potter, 4, and $2.800 for her father, D. W. Potter, 1224 | Quiney street, for injuries received by the child when struck by an automobile of the Hartford Accident and Indem- nity Co., 925 Fifteenth street. They were represented by Attorneys Welch, Daily and Welch. FUNDS URGED FOR INSTALLATION OF RADIOS IN EVERY PRECINCT| Value Stressed by Commissioner Crosby and Supt. Brown at Budget 8 Funds for installation of radio loud speakers in every police precinct station house were urged by Police Commis- sioner Crosby and Supt. of Police Brown during recent hearings on the 1934 District budget before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations. A section of the transcript of the hearings, released today by Chairman C:nnon, showed _that Comm: Cresby and Maj. Brown, both stressed the value of radio in police work, and tion houses, would keep every precinct informed of developments at head- quarters. ‘The plan under consideration is to have the speakers connected by telephone lines to the broadcast penel of the transmitting station. Otherwise, each station house would have to be equipped with a short-wave receiving set. Maj. Brown told the committee that 37447 messages were flashed out from the Police Department radio station Hearing. 1932, and that 2 minutes was the aver- age time for a police car to reach the scene of trouble. Restoration of the old Fourth Pre- cinct Station in Southwest Wi . which is now consolidated with No. 5 in southeast, was recommended by Po- lice Inspector Albert J. Headley. His request followed a petition from resi- dents of Southwest Washington, wh said they are not getting adequate po- lice service. Inspector Headley disclosed that the present fourth precinct has a popula- ! Atlanta. tion of 66,414, as compared with 23,965 in the old fourth precinct. He sald he believed this to be “a considerable re- | By spousibility for one captain to assume.” A change in the u?lhm of selecting jurors was advocat Wheat of the District Supreme Court. He said the present pgocedure is arch: lc and inadequate, and recommended employment of a regular salaried jury commission with to lssue in | sul Were recently held had at the | at EAST AFTER SNO BLANETS CAPTAL Wave Expected by Tomorrow Night—Streets Cleared of 4-Inch Fall, JOBLESS ARE ENLISTED FOR CLEAN-UP WORK Traffic in District and Nearby Area Unimpeded, but Western Mary- land Roads Blockaded. With a four-inch mantle of snow cov= A slide down the icy hill at Leroy place and Connecticut avenue overturned | ering Washington today, the Weather this ice truck this morning. ‘The driver, James Mathews, 217 E street, was| Bureau reported a new cold wave .was slightly hurt. He is seen standing at the end of the truck. —Star Staff Photo. | moving on the Middle West and 8 DEE T0 BE BROUGHT HERE FOR' TRIAL Detective to Leave for Miami to Take Alleged Bank Bandit. ~ night day, colder We y o Th %o cold toward end of ursday, not weel Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today. Report for Last 24 Hours. 30.59 30.57 30.36 30.14 30.03 30.04 Record for Last 24 Hours. Hkhelt;, 34, at 3 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 76. Lowest, 25, at 4:30° a.m. today. Year ago, 43. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 68, on' January 19. Lowest, 14, on February 9. Tide Tables. ' (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today. ‘Tomorrow. 8:46a.m. 9:24a.m. 3:13am. 3:49am. 9:00 p.m. 3:23p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sun,, today .. 7:05 Sun, tomorrow 7:04 : Moon, today .. 7:07pm. 4lam. Automobile lights must be turned one-half hour after: sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. January February. March. Simpson, -| garet Spiller and Melvin Wheatley. likely to end by tomorrow night the re« spite from extremely low temperatures along the Eastern coast line. SCRUTINY 13 URGED INCONDEMNATIONS House Appropriation Group Head Asks Selection of Juries Wtih Care. Chairman Cannon of the House Sub- ropriations, it was has urged the District Supreme Court carefully to scrutinize the selection of juries in condemnation cases. The request followed Mr. Cannon's complaint during recent hearings on the 1934 District budget that an award by a condemnation jury in the Jeffer- son Junior High School case consti- tuted “highway robbery.” Believes Award Reasonable. “Chief Justice Alfred A. was revealed in the transcript of his testimony before the subcommittee, ex- pressed the belief that as a rule the that boughit a house and lot every month. Asks Close Scrutiny. “Now, I do not think we would ob- 30 ect , possibly, when these juries make an award to a man out that Adkins - steps already had been taken Congress to authorize a new viding for the 2 Dmm::m . Do} a lent a with .pg‘o“ln_ éflr! commission chairman. i GRADUATES OF D. C. SCHOOLS HONORED 22 Out of 33 American U. Stu- dents Honored Attended Institutions Here. Twenty-two graduates of Wi ki s s e of the College of Liberal Arts of Amer- ican University who were awarded . | semester honors at assembly yesterday by Dean George B. Woods. The honcrs were awarded on the basis of scholastic attainments for the first semester of quired for the upper classmen than f¢ frehmen i Sara Mot- . Paul- Anne King, f zy. mm Helen Nor e u, Sander! Meta Scantlin, Bsther Srith, Joseph Sum- mers and Mary Lesta Wakeman. Honors were awarded to the following out-of-town students: Kathryn Bro cus, Katherine Reuter, Lawrence Rice, , Kathleen Smith, Mar by scpho- juniors, 4, and seniors, 9, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dance, Curley Club, Continental Hotel, 9 p.m. Dinner dance, Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity, Broadmoor, 9 p.m. Supper dance, Beta Chi Sorority, Shoreham Hotel, 10 p.m. i Valentine masque dance, Reunion As- aocl.lu}:n. Junior Ot,hlJ. A. M., Masonic and These students are distributed classes as follows: Freshmen, 8; mores, 13; pm. Banquet, Washington College of Law, o Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Babquet, Educational Association of the District, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner dance, League of Coast Guard Women, Mayfiower Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Dinner, Military Order Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner dance, Sigma P{ Esther Chap- . {ter, No. 5, Past Matrons and Patrons, by Chief Justice | Shica: Detroit. Mich. El Paso. T alveston, O. E. 8, Willard Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Dinner dance, Alpha Delta Fraternity, Willard Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Dance, J H. Milans Lodge Cha, ter, No. 41, O. E. S, Masonic 3 Rhode Island and Mills avenues north- east, 8:30 p.m. Card perty and dance, Trinity Chap- ter, O. E. ; » Roosevelt Hotel, 9 p.m. Jasr g oipn German Leader Dead. BERLIN, Heinrich m former Prussian :Mur of education, The mercury will touch as low as 18 degrees tonight, but there are no in dications of another snow. Tomorrow also will be coider and fair. The snow which desgended upon Washington early last night penetrated to the regions around, Baltimore and New York, but it caused none of the hardships which followed in the wake of the record 1l-inch snowfall of the season last December. Weather con- ditions in Washington and other cities in the East were something of a hodge- podge. Concurrently with the snow in Washington and other sections, the temperature rose gradually. Striking a minimum of 25 degrees at 9 o'clock last night, the official thermometer at the Naval Observatory remained practi- cally stationary from 4:30 am. to 9 am., ranging from 25 to 27 degrees. Given Ample Warning, Given ample warring, the District had out all its ren;hr mw-remwfll uipment hours before morning Sow of tramc . As a result there were few if ahy blockades caused by snow drifts. In their zeal the street cleaners swept the snow clear frem the streets at some intersections leaving a treacherous film of ice. This caused one serious accident to a truck at Flor- in 2 bill now before the Senate | section. Committee this year, with a higher standing re- | 11 (®).—Dr. Carl" died last night coal ing department shoveling crosswalks in the congested A force of approximately 350 to shoveling 400 men was at work snow inte any other department except that a crew of sewer departm:nt was occupied in supervising the dumping. 2 street cleaning mally employes 300 to 32 and “about 100 extra m garage at Ninth and O streets. All matic snow loaders as the piles of which had to be loaded were n enough. A sanding truck was busy this morn- ing laying sand on heavy grades where 2 thin film of ice had formed by the time most workers awoke.. A treacherous sheet of ice, however, made driving a trifie dangerous. On hills and curves, chemicals, sand or salt were applied to provide proper traction. The snowfall was somewhat heavier in Western Maryland, with danger of the rural rcads being - telephone and telegraph wires were not affected, All of the plows of the Maryland State Roads Commission stationed in Montgomery County were pressed into service last night and the main arteries in the highway of that system were clear of snow today. The plows swung into operation in the more rural sec- tions this morning after completing their task on the main thoroughfares and were engaged in cleaning away the snow on the back roads. Although many of the roadways offered a treacherous surface to motor- ists before they were cleared of sncw, there were no accidents reported to police, while garages in the county received but few calls from stranded drivers. : 90 Reported Dead. : Rising temperatures were breaking the cold’s grip to some extent in the higher areas of the Far West, heralding the approach cf another storm, which wes expected to bring snow and rain to the Pacific Northwest. A survey of the effects of the week's biting cold showed that about 90 per- sons lost their lives. Teport of 9 deaths, bringing its total to 12. Michigan had 11 deaths in all, 5 to a former report. The deaths an unidentified man, found frozen to death in a shack at Kansas City, and of s woman, found dead from the in her home in lowa, added to the told of suffering caused by the storm. A 16-year-old Michigan gir], Katherine Needham, was taken to a at Vichbu:}‘ Mich., suffer- ing from the effects a 4-mils walk to school. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Garrison of Artesia, N. Mex., drove an automo- bile from their home to El Paso in 35- -below-zero veather to save the life of their year-old son, who was ll-flx'choled to. M&R by & lump of swallowed. ‘WAS removed without dificulty st the hospital, S }