Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1933, Page 17

TYOINGS 0 SUBMIT BEER BIL CHANGES AT SESSON TODAY Revision of License Fees and| Legal Phraseology Being Completed. SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE PREPARES FOR MEETING W. W.-Bride and West Followed House Measure in Re- vised Draft. Changes in the license fees fixed by the House in the District beer bill and & number of other amendments to im- prove the legal phraseology of the meas- | ure, will be recommended by Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, when the Senate subcommittee meets to take action, possibly this afternoon. ‘The Maryland Senator, chairman of the subcommittee, made this announce- ment after devoting the week end to a careful study of the legislation. He said he would call the subcommittee together this afternoon if he finds it possible to get his suggested changes into shape during the day. Favors Adjustments, Senator Tydings did not make public | the new license fees he has in mind, but i indicated he thought adjustments snould be made in the ratio which exists be- tween different kinds of licenses under the House bill. That bill fixes $100 a year license for restaurants, hotels and incorporated clubs to sell beer on the premises and $50 a year for “off sale” licenses for establishments where beer would be sold in packages and not con- sumed on the premises. For brewerles, the House bill fixed a license fee of $1.000 a year. In his study of the House bill, Sena- tor Tydings had before him also the revised draft prepared by Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride and Assistant Corporation Counsel Vernon West. Clarifies Various Sections. The revised draft follows the same basic principles of the House bill, but is arranged with a view to clarifying and simplifying the various sections of the proposed law. Chairman King of the Senate Dis- trict Committee is ready to call a meet- ing of the committee to consider the beer bill as stom as the Tydings sub- committee is ready to report. It is ex- pected the bill will be ready for con- sideration in the Senate within a few days, but the exact day on which the Senate may take it up will depend on 'l.he status of mational emergency legis- ation. Chairman King of the Senate District Committee announced that after the Tydings subcommittee finishes rewriting the bill it will be dispatched at once to the District Commis:ioners for a re- yon and will not be acted on by the ull committee until the views of the city heads are available. Senator King informed Dr. Luther H. | Reichelderfer, president of the Com- missioners, of his desire for a report from the Commissioners in a telephone conversation and followed this with a letter to the Commissioner. He caid his action in seeking the views of the Com- missioners is in line with his belief that they should have wider powers in deal- ing with local problems. APPALACHIAN COAL RULING INTERPRETED Gives No Blanket Authority for Mergers of Raw Material Pro- ducers, Cummings Says. By the Associated Press ‘The decision of the Supreme Court upholding the combine of coal operators under the Appalachian Coals, Incorpo- rated, was interpreted today by Attor- ney General Cummings as giving no blanket authority for consolidations of raw material producers. Cummings sald each case would have to stand individually upon its own merits. Replying to questions of news- paper men, he said generally the De- partment of Justice would not modify its attitude toward enforcement of the anti-trust laws, but would take up the | cases as they come along separately. The Appalachian corporation was formed by coal operators to permit more orderly production and distribution of their products. In a test case carried recently to the Supreme Court the com- bination was upheld as not violating the anti-trust laws, though the court| reserved the right to change its decision | if operation of the combine showed any | law violation. i MAN’S SKULL FRACTURED WHEN MACHINE UPSETS Automobile Skids Near McLean During Snowstorm—Victim’s Condition Better. His skull fractured when the auto- mobile in which he was riding skidded and overturned near McLean, Va., in Saturday afternoon’s snowstorm, ‘Thyson, 28, 3706 Morrison street, was sald to be somewhat improved at Emergency Hospital today. An X-ray, taken early today. revealed the fracture. The youth, a son of Willlam Frank ‘Thyson, real estate broker, was riding with Miss Eleanor Corby, 24, of No. 9| Chevy Chase Circle, when the car skidded. Miss Corby suffered only shock and minor bruises. They were en route to the Fairfax Hunt Club breakfast, | At the hospital it was said the young man appeared to be better, after II good night. GIVES L|CEN'SE WARNING ! Head of Capitol Heights Council . Adyises Town Merchants. Special Pispaten to The Star. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., March 27. —All merchants in Capitol Heights who do not obtain a license by Saturday will be subject to arrest under the new business license tax ordinance, Presi- dent of the Council Wallace Rollins announced. Although the local bank 15 operating on a restricted basis it is doubtful if an extension will be granted $aa merchants. TWO WASHINGTON SCHOLARS RECEIVE GUGGENHEIM AWARDS Dr. Ragatz of G. W. U. Plans Year of Research Work *in Europe. Dr. Roos, Former Official of Science Association, Also Honored. Dr. Lowell Joseph Ragatz of Gecrge | Washington University, one of two local | scholars awarded 1933-34 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, will go to France for a year in pursuit of his researches into the | historic importance of European colo- nies in the Caribbean Sea. | The other Washingtonian included in the 38 awards to scholars and artists announced by the fcundation’s trustees | in New York yesterday was Dr. Charles | Frederick Roos, former secretary for the American Association for the Ad-| vancement of Science and a mathe- matician of note. | Dr. Ragatz, an associate professor cf | history at the university for the past 10 years, will leave for Europe with Mrs Ragatz next August on & year's leave. Dr. Ragatz plans to attend the Inter-| nationa] Historical Congress in Warsaw, where he will deliver a paper, “The | Significance of the Caribbean Area in the Study of European Expansicn.” Visit to England Planned. | From Warsaw he will go to Paris for 10 months of research in colonial and marine archives and the National | Library relative to the early records of French colonial possessions in the Carib- bean area. The next two months Dr. | Ragatz will spend in England studying material in the Public Record Office of the British Museum. Dr. Ragatz already has completed a | monumental work entitled “Guide for | The Ty WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star | WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1933. CHEMISTS' POWER WILL BE SUPREME, CONVENTION TOLD DR. LOWELL J. RAGATZ. —Harris-Ewing Photo. prior to last January 1, has specialized of late in mathematics as related to economics. He lives at 2716 Thirty- eighth street. Foundation Aids 455. Since the foundation was established in 1925 by former Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim, as a memorial to their son, 455 persons have been assisted. In addition to the two local scholars, recipients of fellowships this year in- clude: Dr. Thomas Charles Poulter of Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Towa; Arthur Loveridge, associate cur- ator herpetology in the museum of comparative zoology, Harvard Univers- ity; Miguel Covarbuias. noted Mexican caricaturist now living in New York; Mrs. Gwen Lux, New York sculptor. Mrs. Georgina Klitgaard, painter of Bearsville, N. Y.. Emil Ganso, Arnold and Lucille Blanch of Woodstock, N. Y., painters; E. E. Cummings, New York the Study of British Caribbean History,” | author; George Dillon, Chicago poet; based on his researches of the past 10 | Matthew Josephson, writer, of Gaylords- years and published by the American | ville, Conn.. Glenway Wescott, novelist Historical Association. | of Ripon, Wis.; Dr. Henry Schultz, pro- It is Dr. Ragatz’s theory that French | fessor of economics at the University of and British Caribbean colonies played | Chicago; Dr. Kenneth Scott of West- an important part in the development | ern Reserve University, Cleveland: Dr. of modern imperialism, and were labo- | Carl Robert Noller of Stanford Univers- ratories for experiment in colonial gov- | ity, Calif.; Dr. Herrick Lee Johnston of ernment. He already has begun a so- | Ohio State University; Dr. Kenneth cial and economic survey of early Tompkins Bainbridge, research phy- French colonies in the Caribbean. Dr. | sicist of the Bartol Research Founda- Ragatz lives at 3726 Connecticut avenue. | tion of the Franklin Institute, Swarth- He plans to return to the university for the Fall term of 1934 | Dr. Roos, who served as secretary for the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science for several years | more, Pa. Dr. Prancis Bitter, research phy- sicist of Pittsburgh, Pa.; George Antheil, composer of Trenton, N. J., and Paul Nordoff, Philadelphia, composer. GIRL O FACE JURY IN HOUSEBREAKING Miss Turner, Former West- ern High School Student, Held Under $1,500 Bond. Miss Virginia E. Turner, 18, a former Western High School student, who was arrested on housebreaking charges growing out of the alleged theft of clothing from the home of a former fellow student, was held for the grand jury under $1,500 bond when arraigned in Police Court this morning before Judge Isaac R. Hitt. Only one case against the girl was presented this morning in court. It in- volved the theft of $43 worth of clothing from the home of Mrs. Sarah Coe at 3900 Cathedral avenue. Assistant United | States Attorney Michael F. Keogh said, | however, another charge accusing the | young girl of the theft of a fur coat from & Western High School locker may be placed before the grand jury also. The coat was the property of | Miss Marion H. Volkman, 4345 Wiscon- | sin avenue. Police said Miss Turner, who lives in | the 3300 block of P street, took a fur coat from the locker of Miss June A. Coe, daughter of Col. Henry C. Coe, | U. §. A, at the school. Finding a key | to Miss Coe's apartment in the coat, they charged, she called the school, asked if the coat had been lost and if | there was a reward. Police alleged that after she was given | the number of the Coe apartment she used the key to enter it and took @ | quantity of clothing. | Detective Sergt. A. M. Tolson, who | arrested Miss Turner on P street yes- | terday near her home, said she told | him she didn't know why she took the clothing, but said “she liked pretty clothes.” | Miss Turner appeared in court this | morning with her attorney, Miss Goldie Paregol, to plead not quilty. When bond was not posted, she was returned to the Women's Bureau. It is said a reduction of bond will be asked in order to obtain her release. EXPECT TO SEND MENTAL | PATIENT TO CALIFORNIA Mrs. Katherine Braddock Declared to Be Prominent Political ‘Worker in West. The Board of Public Welfare today | prepared to take steps to return Mrs. Katherine Braddock, 62-year-old mental patient at Gallinger Hospital, to her home town of Stockton, Calif. Mrs. Braddock, said to be prominent in| Democratic circles in her community, was detained by the Women's Bureau here Friday and has since been in the hospital under observation. According to officlals at Gallinger Hospital, it is necessary for the Board of Public Welfare to communicate with California authorities to establish the patient’s residence there bafore she can be released here. Her home address in Stockton was given by her as 539 West Willow street. | Mrs. Braddock told physicians she | came to the Capital in search of work. She has requested doctors to keep her at the hospital because she “fears en. emies,” they said. COUNTY POLICE SEEK HEARING ON PAY CUT Prince Georges Officers, Objecting to Proposed Bill, Appeal to Legislators. By a Btaft Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 27.—Ob- jecting to the bill which would reduce | their sal 10 per cent, members of the Prince Georges County police force have requested the county's legis- tors to grant them a hearing. The measure was introduced in the House by the entire Prince Georges delegation. Arrangements are being made to conduct the hearing here tomorrow morning. MRS. MARY KELSEY DECLARED SUICIDE Found With Dress Belt Knot- ted Around Neck and Tied to Bed Post. ‘With a dress belt knotted around her neck and tied to a head-post of her bed, Mrs. Mary Kelsey, about 24 was found dead this morning in her second-floor apartment at 903 Tenth street Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a certificate of | suicide. Sprawled on the floor beside her bed, Mrs. Kelsey, also known as Mrs. Painter, | was found by Cyril Forgus, 926 New York avenue, who decided to investi- gate when she failed to report for work. Climbs to Window. Receiving no response to his knocks, | Forgus climbed to a window of the apartment, cut the screen and entered. The shades were drawn and the room : was dark, so Forgus did not find Mrs. Kfiiw until a few minutes later, he saf Meanwhile, his raps had been heard by Jessie H. Green, occupant of another apartment in the building, who looked from a window and saw Forgus climbing into Mrs. Kelsey's apartment. Told of Forgus' discovery m few minutes later, Green telephoned police. Officers cut the belt from Mrs. Kel- sey’s neck and she was pronounced dlead by an Emergency Hospital physi- clan. He said she apparently had been dead about eight hours. According to Detective Sergts. Harry K. Wilson and Jerry Flaherty, Forgus said he last saw Mrs. Kelsey, who was employed as an elevator operator in a building at Twelfth and G streets, about 7:30 o'clock last night. At that time, she seemed to be in excellent spirits. Leaves Penciled Note. In the room the detectives found a penciled note in which Mrs. Kelsey said she had “made some mistakes,” but “can’t stand the last one.” The message asked that her sister, Mrs. J. ‘W. Oden, Derwood, Md., be notified and that arrangements be made to bury Mrs. Kelsey beside her mother and P! father. The note also directed that all Mrs. Kelsey's personal effects, including three diamond rings, a fur coat, a small amount of cash and a bank book, be turned over to the sister. Mrs. Kelsey, the detectives were told, had been separated from her husband for some time. o RUM TRAFFIC’S DOOM SEEN IN LEGAL BEER Maryland Bootleggers Bewail Congress’ Action as End of Illicit Business. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MR?E-K“VHALE, Md., . ga on of beer by Congress will “paralyze” illicit liquor traffic in many sections of the country, in the opinion of three Montgomery County boot- leggers. 2 Police Chief Alvie A. Moxley said today that the men voiced this belief yesterday while conferring with him over the dugosmm of an automobile geimd by officers in a recent whisky ase. “People who have been drinking the terrible stuff some bootleggers sell them will be only too glad to get good beer,” the county police head quoted the men as saying. “It will mean that many will have to give up the liquor ‘business mdlryu:dtchmdmeMvmbe paral % Chief Moxley would not divulge the names of the men. * Sandals Made From Tjres. A plant for making native sandals from used automobile tires has been es- tablished in Guatemala City, Guate- | atoms of gasses. 3,000 Scientists From All Over Nation at Opening of Session Here. WORLD FRIENDSHIP LINKED TO MINERALS Prof. Taylor of Princeton Points to Chile's Tax and Disorders n; Cause of Our Producing Nitrate. | ‘The chemist with his magic test tube was pictured as a vital factor in world affairs in addresses before the American Chemical Society which opened its eighty-fifth annual meeting here today with approximately 3.000 scientists from all over the United States in attendance. That the laboratories hold the key to world power in the future was stressed by Prof. Hugh S. Taylor, professor of chemistry at Princeton, who linked the problems of international lrlend.!hml] and hatreds with the distribution of mineral resources of the earth. Prof. Taylor cited the present dis- turbed politics and heavy “taxation of | Chile as directly attributable to_ the | chemists who found ways of deriving| nitrogen from the air and thus cut| down the need for heavy importations of nitrates, the chief export product of the South American republic. The United States, he pointed out. now con- | trols 71 per cent of the world's petro- | leum, while chemists in Great Britain | and Germany are striving to produce | synthetic fuel oils from coal to offset this advantage. New Gold Deposits. Gold shortages which caused great | depressions in the past, said Harry L. Derby of New York, president of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Cor- poration. have been met by discoveries | of new deposits. Last year, he pointed out, gold production all over the world | { reached & new all time record in its | |effort to beat the depression without the discovery of any new source of | supply, but by improved methods of deriving the metal from the crude ore, | the so-called “floatation” method. | themselves, has barely begun, Mr. Derby | declared in discussing the relations of | chemistry to the State. During the five | years ending with 1930, he said. the chemical industries contributed more | than $1,000.000,000 in taxes to Federal, State and local governments. This, he insisted, was a disproportionate share. “From a heavy importer of chemicals.” | Mr. Derby said, “we have so increased | our production and variety that, except for a few minor exceptions, we can now supply our entire requirements and pro- vide large quantities for export. It is estimated that in 1931 we imported less than $16,000,000 worth of chemicals that cannot be produced in sufficient quantities in the United States, and this figure included a total of $13.000.- 000 for potash salts which America itself soon can supply. 249,000 Employed. “In 1914 the chemical industries em- ployed 249,000 persons. By 1929 these industries had provided employment for 465,200, despite improvements in pro- duction methods which reduced labor. This increase in employment was at approximately twice the rate of our growth of population. The average cost of chemicals to consuming indus- tries in this country has gone down tremendously since the Amerian mar- kets began to supply them in place of foreign producers.” “Atomic energy threatens to change the whole structure of modern chemis- try,” Prof. Taylor declared. “Trans- mutation of metals, goal of the ancient alchemists, is in process of solution in the physical laboratories of the world,” he continued. “Radio-activity, a chem- ist's discovery, has become one of the most potent instruments of physical| research. The difficulties which arise in world politics from distribution of natural resources may be intensified be- cause progress in chemical achievement may profoundly modify the extent of power accruing from the possession of raw materials.” Announcement of the Langmuir award of $1,000 to Prof. Frank H. Sped- ding of the University of California for researches disclosing fuller knowl- edge of the structure of the atom was announced today by Prof. Arthur B. Lamb of Harvard University, president of the society. Dr. Spedding, Prof. Lamb explained, had been able to “slow down” the atom through sharp lowering of temperatures and thus determine some of the charac- teristics bf atomic structure in solids by use of the spectroscope. Hitherto this method has been confined to the Means of Identification. “Through studies of the light given off by substances,” Prof. Lamb ex- lained, “science has found means of 1dentifying them. since different sub- stances give off different spectra. The light not only identifies the substance but tells the chemists a great deal about its condition. Dr. Spedding has dis- closed methods which, it is hoped, will give as full a comprehension of the characteristics of the atom in solids as in gasses. ‘The award was instituted in 1931 by Dr. A. C. Langmuir, brother of Dr. Irv- ing Langmuir, Nobel prize winner in chemistry. The award was made by the following committee: Dr. Charles L. Reese, president-elect of the society; Prof. Arthur E. Hill, New York Univer- sity; Prof. Hobart H. Willard, Univer- sity of Michigan; Prof. James Conant, Harvard University; Prof. Har- Red Cross to Honor War Nurses JANE A. DELANO MEMORIAL PLANNED FOR UNVEILING MAY 30. T represents “The Spirit of Nursing,” coming forward with compassion and hands. An exedra, scheduled for completion in about a month, is to be of white Vermont marble. ENTATIVE plans are being made by the American Red Cross for unveiling the memorial to Jane A. Delano, pioneer Red Cross executive, and 296 nurses who died during the World War, on Memorial day this year. illustration is the artist's conception, done in plaster, of how the completed memorial will appear when it is placed in the quadrangle of the American Red Cross Building, at Seventeenth and D streets. The central figure This service, as shown by outstretched The figure will be in bronze. The memorial, which has been sanctioned by the Fine Arts Commission, is being pushed by Miss Clara D. Noyes, at American Red Cross headquarters here, who is a member of a special committee, headed by Miss Adda Eld- redge. have been set in place. clation, the week of April 22, next year, when some 6,000 nurses are expected here. is sculptor for the memorial. Suitable landscaping is now being planted on the south side of the Red Cross block and a number of new trees Dedication of the memorial may await the biennial convention of the American Nurses' Asso- R. Tait McKenzie of Philadelphia FOUR PERSONS INJURED IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS | Motorist Receives Fractured Skull | in Collison—Boy, 8, Runs ! Into Side of Auto. | RESALE OF POWER HIT BY COURT RULE TWONAVY OFFICERS| ek ARE ELEVATED | opinion said. B. | Sherlock Holmes, London,” was deliv-| Judges Uphold Pepco Refusal to Sell Electricity for Submeters. The District Court of Appeals today upheld the right of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. to refuse to sell power at wholesale rates 1o clients who sub- metered and resold it to others at re- tall prices. | | John J. Dagostino, 1030 Third street | northeast, today was in Casualty | Hospital with a fractured skull and other injuries, received when his auto- mobile turned over three times after a collision at North Capitol and D streets late yesterday. Dagostino's car was in a collision with the machine of | Willam H. Smith, 2114 Fourteenth | street southeast. who was uninjured. | Dagostino's condition is critical. Two youths, Neal §. Brown, 20, of | 5600 block Rock Creek Ford road, and | Robert Shotwell, 18, suffered severe | head injuries when the car in which they were riding crashed into an elec- | tric light pole at Thirty-second and | Patterson streets. Brown, who is said | Lieut. Comdrs. Royce and Cochrane Picked for Pro- motion to Commander. Two Washingtonians are among the half dozen lieutenant commanders of the Navy's Construction Corps, chosen by a selection board for promotion to commander—a report which today re- ceived the indorsement of President | The decision was rendered in the | to have been the driver, was treated | Franklin D. Roosevelt. Chemistry’s contribution to the world, | case of Myron P. Lewis, Robert A |at Georgetown Hospital. already 50 vast as to startle chemists | Nordblom and Fred D Jordan owners | taken to Emergency. | of a store and office building in Wash- ington, who had asked the court for an injunction to compel the company to furnish them with electricity. Under a ruling by the Public Utili- ties Commission, the power company had threatened to cut off electric serv- | ice to the office building unless the owners discontinued the practice of sub-metering the power and reselling it to_their tenants at retail prices. ‘The Court of Appeals held that un- der the law, the Utilities Commission had a right to issue the regulation and the action of the power company was not in violation of the Commission's order. “There was shown no wrong-doisg on the part of the power company, nor any over reaching on its part,” the “On the contrary, the rule is a reasonable protection to the revenues of the company. It also is a| prevention of discrimination, which it | is its duty to avoid.” | The three owners of the building | had contended the electrie current, | when sold and delivered, is like “h"i property, and as such is subject to the nurc]huer'- exclusive control and dis- | posal. old C. Urey, Columbia Universit; Homar B. Adkins, University of Wis- consin, and Dr. John Johnston, director | of research of the United States Steel Cornoration. | Existence of a wave-like motion of | atoms in & molecular network, first predicted as the result of a theory! formulated by Prof. Albert Einstein in 1907, at last has been confirmed by a | vibrating nitrogen crystal model, it was | reported to the soclety last night by| Prof. Victor Deitz of Johns Hopkins University. The model was made of | wooden blocks and rubber bands, the | blocks representing the atoms and the | Bands the “forces which tie them to-| gether,” Dr. Dietz reported. With this model, he said, it is possible to observe | waves of motion going back and forth in the crystal lattice. This discovery is | of importance in fundamental chemis- | try since it makes possible for the first | time an exact calculation of the heat | energy due to these motion waves. Exhibit at Library. A feature of the program today was | the opening at the Library of Con-i gress of an exhibit rel g to the life and works of Joseph tley, the dis- coverer of oxygen, whose 200th birth- day anniversary is being observed at this meeting. The exhibit contains old and unduplicable coples of Priestley's own books and correspondence with leaders of the American Revolution such as Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. ‘Tonight there will be a dinner at the ‘Willard in honor of Dr. Charles E. Mun- roe, past president and only surviving charter member of the society, who is | professor emeritus of chemistry at! George Washington University and chief explosives chemist of the United States Bureau of Mines. Tomorrow the scientific sessions of the various divisions of the society will get under way. A feature will be the symposium on insecticides, in which chemists of the Department of Agri- culture will take a prominent part. Mail Man on the Job. A letter from France addressed to a woman living “in the same street as | for which the MUSIC TEACHING AS TO STATUS IN HOME ZONES Residents Deplore Noise and Claim Protection Under Ban Against Business Enterprises. The preplexing question of whether the teaching of music is a home occu- pation which may be permitted in vrl-} vate residences, where other business is | barred, has been laid on the desk of | Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride for decision. The case has arisen from vigorous protests of residents of the 2200 block of Bancroft place :t;“ld\n‘:t ‘the operation occupations must be conducted by members of the family residing in the dwelling, there must be no “stock in trade” on hand or commodities for sale and no mechani- RAISES DOUBT cal equipment other than those for do- mestic or household purposes. The dispute in the case on record, however, has become bitter, according to complaints laid before Capt Hi P. Oram, director of inspection. Neighbors of the studio claim they suffer real anguish as piano students crash through Wagner and Chopin chords. ‘There has ben tn:: violation of police regulations agal nuisance noises, however, it is re] since the teach- ing starts after 7 a.m. and stops before 10 pm. Because of insistance of the com- laints, however, Maj. John C. Gotwals, gn‘lneer Commissioner, has asked the corporation counsel for a ruling on whether teaching of music, under the |Ceremony Will Be Held at 10 [in | in,, ! in command of the Nicaraguan National Guard detachment from February, 1931, to last January, when the American forces evacuated that republic. The Shotwell was Robert Phillips, 9, of the 3500 block | | T street, received lacerations to the | face and arms yesterday when he ran | from between two parked cars in the 3200 block of S street into the side of s car driven by J. E. Hunter, 3400 block P street. POWER BODY OPENS VALUATIONHEARING ISix Hydroelectric Projects | Before Federal Com- mission. Valuation hearings on six hydro- electric projects under Federal license, licensees claim a net | investment of approximately $60,000,000, | today were started by the Federal Power Commission. The net invest- ment figure is used by the Government in supervising the fiscal affairs of the operators and in fixing the recapture ‘base for the projects. | Included in the lot is the celebrated Clarion River development, which has | been the subject of ex:iensive litigation, | in which the authority of the Power Commission, challenged by the Clarion River Power Co., a subsidiary of the Associated Gas & Electric Co.,, was up- held in District Supreme Court and later by the United States Supreme Court. This hearing is set for May 15. The hearing which started today | covers the Waterville project on the | Pigeon River, in North Carolina, under | license to the Carolina Power & Light | Co., which is an Electric Bond & Share Co. affiliate. The Carolina company is | claiming a net investment $13,- 764,856.51. On April 4 the commission will go into the Chelan project in the State of ‘Washington and two days later into the Lewiston, Idaho, project, both of which are owned by the Chelan Electric Co., another Electric Bond & Share affiliate. On April 17 the El Dorado, Calif., project of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., and on May 1 the Oak Grove project of the Portland General Electric Co. in Oregon, a Central Public Service affiliate, will be heard. ‘The commission also has a couple of hearings this month on California projects in which annual charges are to be adjusted and the value of head- water improvements is to be deter- | mined. | SWANSON WILL PRESENT HERO AWARDS TO TWO/ 0'Clock Tomorrow Morning Before High Officials. Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson tomorrow morning will present to Lieut. Col. Calvin B. Matthews, now on duty at Marine Corps headquarters, the Distinguished Service Medal and to Gunnery Sergt. Willlam A. Lee, serving at the Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va., | the Navy Cross Star, for eminent serv- | ice in Nicaragua. The ceremony will be held at 10 <k, in the presence of high-rank- aval officlals. Col. Matthews was colonel's home is 1906 Florida avenue. I ASTRONOMER TO ADDRESS LIONS OF SILVER SPRING By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., March 27— Rev. Dr. Paul A. McNally, S. n!cm of the Mg:‘nom!ul Observatory of guest eeting the ver 8§ Lions Club which will be held tomorrow evening at the Teny Engiish, president of the club, club, announced today that Mr. M. Vestal, an official of the Southern Pacific Railroad, will speak at the April 11 meeting. Marcial P. Lichauco, assistant attorney general of the Philippine Islands, zoning regulations, is, infact, a “home occupstion.” at the last meeting of the club. Lieut. Comdr. Donald Royce, on duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy De- partment, and Lieut. Comdr. Edward L. Cochrane of 3110 Thirty-third place, now on duty at the navy yard, Ports- mouth, N. H, were the two local men picked for promotion. The others were Lieut. Comdrs. Beirne S. Bullard, super- intending constructor at the Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn., where some of the Navy's submarines are constructed; Robert W. Ferrell, superintending con- structor at the Bath Iron Works Cor- poration, Bath, Me.; Adrian R. Marron, on duty at the Norfolk, Va., navy yard, and Gordon W. Nelson, serving at the New York navy yard. Lieut. Comdr. Bullard was born in Baltimore County, Md., and makes his ‘home at Apherton, Howard County, Md. Lieut. Comdr. Ferrell is a native of Richmond, Va. and was appointed to the Naval Academy from his nativ State in 1910. President Roosevelt approved the recommendation made by the selection board, which convened at the Navy De- partment on March 15. It comprised Rear Admiral Horatio G. Gilimore as president, Capt. William G. Du Bose, as- | sistant chief of the Bureau of Construc- tion and Repair; Capt. Ernest F. Eggert, Capt. Lewis B. McBride. Capt. Isaac I. Yates and Capt. Alexander H. Van Keu- ren. Comdr. Philip G. Lauman was recorder of the board. MARKSVILLE DISTRICT SEEKS SCHOOL LOAN Taxpayers to Ask Supervisors for Aid in Erecting New Stanley Bujlding. Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va., March 27.—Two hun- dred taxpayers of Marksville district met at Stanley and voted unanimously to ask permission of the Board of Super- visors tomorrow to borrow $25.000 from the State’s literary fund to build a new building for the high school at Stanley. A favorable action by the board would necessitate the placing of an additional levy of 30 cents on this district. As the board has already increased the levy for other purposes, their action| cannot be anticipated. The new building would be of fire- proof material, consist of 17 class rooms, auditorium and offices, and would be begun immediately as an unemployment project. The present building, which was built about 20 years ago, was recently condemned by the State fire marshal as a fire hazard, a wind hazard and generally unfit. NEGOTIATIONS FOR SALE | OF POST CONTINUING Capital ~Newspaper Operating Under Receivership as Mrs. McLean Seeks Acquisition. Negotiations for the acquisition of the Washington Post property were continuing today, as the paper operated in receivership under orders of the District Supreme Court. Nelson T. Hartson, attorney for Mrs., Evalyn Walsh McLean, wife of the for- mer publisher, E. B. McLean, conferred with Benjamin S. Minor, receiver for the property, for an hour today, but the details of their conversation were withheld. “It is no secret,” said Mr. Hartson afterwards, “that Mrs. McLean still wants to acquire the Post property, but I cannot say anything more defi- nite about it at this time.” A. Coulter Wells, who informed the court last Saturday, when the receiver was appointed, that he had a client who wished to make an offer for the paper, said today that he has not yet made his offer to the receiver, but that he expected to have something definite to report by Wednesday. He is with- holding the name of his client. INJURED BY AUTO " By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 27.—An automobile driven by Bob Godwin, 21, Southern boxer, struck William White, colored, of 810 Montgomery M.‘r:eté:hm the ped was 900 block, North Wi last_night, accor local police. God dress as Waterbury, Md. ite appeared to be only bruised. No charge was placed against Godwin, Society and General fee - E> PAGE B—1 'THE FOX" GIVEN UP BY BONDSMEN IN LEAN FRAUD PLOT | Alleged Accomplice of Gaston Means in Lindbergh Baby Hoax Held for Florida. CONVICTION UPHELD BY APPEALS COURT Surrender on Conspiracy Bond Ex- pected to Result in Extradition of Norman Whittaker. Norman Whittaker, alias “The Fox,” who is under indictment here charged with conspiring with Gaston B. Means to defraud Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $100,000 reported to be paid as ran- som for return of the kidnaped Lind- bergh baby, was surrendered to author- ities by his bondsmen today to await possible return to Florida, where he has been convicted of violation of the Dyer act and sentenced to serve three years in prison. The sentence recently was upheld by 8 decision of the Court of Appeals. ‘Whittaker was committed to jail here to await action of Florida authorities to obtain his_extradition. Milton Kronheim, who had posted $5.000 surety for the release of Whit- taker on the conspiracy charge, and also had put up $500 bond for Whit- taker in connection with a Virginia fugitive warrant, turned him over to local authorities today after hearing of the Florida court decision. Whittaker was brought before Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court in con- nection with the fugitive case, which involves a $150 bad check “The Fox" is alleged to have passed in Richmond. A hearing on_his extradition to that State was scheduled for the 1st of March, but at the request of Assistant I;;nl!!g States Attorney Michael F. eogh was tponed until th of this monfigospo e Later, before Chief Justice Alfred A. [w{ne-t of the S:prernc Court, Whit- aker was surrendered on the conspir- acy bond. o \FORMER POLICE BEGIN JAIL SENTENCES William R. Laflin and James A. Mostyn Were Convicted on Assault Charges. William R. Laflin and James A Mostyn, former policemen, convicted of simple assault after a trial on “third degree” charges more than a year ago, today were committed to the District Jail to begin serving sentences of one year each. . The two men were ordered sent to | jail by Justice James M. Proctor, who | presided at their trial in District Su- { preme Court. His action followed & refusal by the Court of Appeals to set their convictions aside. Both Laflin and Mostyn also were ordered to pay fines of $500 in addition to the jail sen- tences. The case of Vivian H. Landrum, who was foynd guilty shortly after the trial | of the other two, was referred to the probation officer. If a favorable report is returned he will be placed on pro- bation. The Government was represented at the trial of Mostyn and Laflin by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. They were said to have beaten a prisoner in | old No. 1 precinct to secure a confes- | sion from him. —_— BUREAU OF STANDARDS DIRECTOR IS NOMINATED President Sends Name of Lyman J. Briggs of Michigan to the Senate. President Roosevelt today sent to the Senate the nomination of Lyman J. Briggs of Michigen, to be director of the Bureau of Standards. Briggs has been acting director of the bureau since the death of George K. Burgess, and before then assistant director in charge of research and testing work. The President also sent to the Senate the following nominations to be secre- taries in the foreign service: Robert G. McGregor. jr, New York: Peter A. H. Flood, New Hampshire; Robert R. Graves, Vermont, and Robert L. Smyth, California. Also the following to be consuls gen- eral: Harold B. Quarton, Iowa, and Ernest L. Ives, Virginia. _————— POLICEMAN SUSPENDED AGAIN FOR INTOXICATION James D. Bennett of Ninth Pre- cinct Accused of Riding in Auto While on Duty. Policeman James D. Bennett of the ninth precinct was suspended from duty early yesterday on a charge of in- toxication. Bennett is alleged to have been seen riding in an automobile with another man while on duty and when examined by a police surgeon later was adjudged unfit for duty. A little more than a year ago Ben- nett was suspended on a similar charge. He was réecommended for dismissal, but the Commissioners allowed him to pay a fine of $100 and retain his job. CHARLOTTE l.'IALL SCHOOL ORATORY ENTRANT NAMED Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., March 27.— Cadet Arthur Sergi de Diab of Bar Ha bor, Me., a student taking post-graduate work at the Charlotte Hall Military School, has been selected as the repre- sentative of the Charlotte Hall Military School in the National Oratorical Con- test to be held at the school on April 28, it as announced today. ‘William Sterling of Leonardtown will represent St. Mary’s Academy in Leon- ardtown and Miss Louise Jones of Leon- ardtown, will represent St. Mary's Fe- male Seminary at St. Mary's City, in the same contest. - Cheverly Citizens to Meet. CHEVERLY, Md, March 27.—Illu | trated slides of the national parks anc appropriate songs will feature a meet- of the Cheverly Citizens' Associ- ation tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the school. F. W. Nickel, president, will conduct the meeting, following his re- turn from & trip to Florida. y