Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1933, Page 5

THO QUAKESROGK NORTH CALFORN San Francisco Bay Area Residents Flee Homes. Damage Is Slight. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.—Two sharp earthquakes awakened residents throughout the San Francisco Bay area at 3:45 am. 4 Street lights went out in Santa Rosa, B0 miles north of here, when the shocks disrupted the electric system. A few; clocks were stopped and window: broken in San Francisco. No other | damage was reported. 1 Terms Shock “Minor.” | Although Prof. P. Byerly, University | of California seismologist, described the shock as a_“minor one,” many people ; fled from their homes. Prof. Byerly | said he was certain the epicenter was, some distance from San Francisco. He ' did not consider the quake of sufficient importance to consult his seismograph before the usual hour. i Old-time residents in Oakland and San Francisco, however, termed the quake “the worst in years.” i The shocks, each of several seconds ; duration, came in quick succession. | The second, by far the stronger, awak- ' ened sleepers to the sound of the rum- ble of the earth, rattling windows and creaking furniture. Students Flee Dormitories. Ir some sections of San Francisco people ran from their houses, Hun- dreds of students poured out of dormi- tories on the Stanford University cam- pus. Sacramento, 125 miles northeast of here; Stockton, 75 miles to the east, and peninsula towns to the south re- rted fecling the shocks. It was not | elt in Southern California. TALKS SCHEDULED AT CHURCH SESSIONS Drs. Stock and Merrill to Ad- dress Congregational Meeting. Addresses by Dr. Harry Thomas Stock! of Boston and Dr. Charles C. Merrill of New York were scheduled for this afternoon’s session of the 101st meeting | of the Washington Association of Con- | gregational Churches, at Cleveland | Park Congregational Church, Thirty- fourth and Lowell streets. The meeting opened at 2 pm. and is to close with this evening's services. In addition to the two addresses, a round-table discussion on accomplish- | ments, challenges and needs was con- ducted by Rev. Walter Spooner, New Jersey superintendent. The Washington Association of Con- gregational Ministers will meet at 5 o'clock, and the fellowship dinner is to be held at 6 at the church. Rev. Walter C. Hook of Ingram Memo- rial Congregational Church will give! the association sermon at tonight's ses- sion, taking for his topic “The Builder's Need in the Kingdom Task.” Rev. Spooner also will speak at the evening services. The association is made up of 18 churches in the District, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. Charles H. St. phenson is moderator of the associa- tion, and Rev. Harvey W. Goddard sec- retary. DR. R. D. SHEPPARD DIES; EDUCATOR AND CLERIC Former Northwestern U. Succumbs in Spokane, Wash., After Long Illness. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., May 16.—Dr. R. D. Sheppard, 87, historian and edu- cator and former trustee of Northwest- ern Univer: died at his home here yesterday after a long illness. A graduate of the University of Chi- €ago in the class of 1869, Dr. Sheppard became a minister, holding pastorates in the Methodist Episcopal Churches in Aurora and in Chicago. Later leaving the ministry, Dr. Sheppard was elected head of the department of history and ]l)géx;l(‘al economy at Northwestern in In 1892 he was named business man- ager of the university, serving until 1904. He also was president of Gar- rett Biblical Institute at Evanston, I, and was president of the State Bank of Evanston. Coming to Spokane in 1914 in re- tirement, Dr. Sheppard was persuaded to take the chair of history at Whit- worth College. He served three years. Three daughters survive, Mrs. H. G. Ferrls and Miss Virginia Sheppard, both of Spokane, and Mrs. H. W. Wing of Evanston Funeral services were held here toda; THREE D. C. CONVENTIONS PLANNED OVER WEEK END Woman's International Peace League, Jewish Congress and Pegram Club to Meet. Three conventions will be held in Washington over the coming week end, it was announced today by the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade. ‘The Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom will meet in the Mayflower Hotel Saturday for a three- day session. Approximately 300 are ex- pected to attend the convention. Other groups to meet here include the American Jewish Congress, which will convene Saturday at the Willard Hotel. This group, with 400 delegates expected to attend, will meet through Monday. The Pegram Club of the Life Insur- ance Co. of Virzinia, with 200 dele- gates, will meet in the Willard Hotel | Friday for a two-day session. BYLES WINS SUPPORT May Be Made President of Pe- troleum Institute. NEW YORK, May 16 (#).—The Her- ald-Tribune says Axtell J. Byles, presi- dent of Tide Water Associated Oil Co., is receiving the support of influential members of the American Petroleum Institute for the presidency of that organization. Consideration of Byles by the Nomi- nating Committee would point to the probable discontinuance of the $50,000 a year salary connecied with the post for the last two years, the newspaper says, adding the view is held by one group within the organization that a president would be more effective and independent if his position were hon- orary. The semi-annual meeting of the in Tulsa, Okla, dnstitute opens ‘Wednesday. Furniture Suite Sprouts. A suite of furniture made of willow. tree sprouted in & beauty parlor at, appropriately, Big Spring, Tex. De- .spite two coats of heavy yellow enamel, | Melting Pot to Aid House of Merc The melting pot shown above mont avenue. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933. will be installed in the Cathedral Close Thursday afternoon for the annual garden party for the House of Mercy, an Episcopal home for unmarried mothers and their children. at Klingle road and Rose- Persons attending the party will drop into the pot old silver, fit of the home. In the picture, left to right, are: Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes, Mrs. T. Percy Myers, Mrs. Charles G. Matthews and Mrs. George Russell Cecil. which will be melted and sold for the bene- —Star Staff Photo. Democrats Best Bookkeepers Public Works Cost and Other Like Items, Totaling Around $5,200,000,000, Segregated in Non-Budget Account. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HE Hoover administration cer-| tainly had some poor book- | keepers—they always wound up | with deficits. The Roostvelt‘ administration will have a bal- | anced budget. no deficits, and while| there will be a decided increase in the | net public debt, probably about $5,000,- 000,000, this, after all, is a mere matter | of the point of view. | Back about a year ago When the genial chairman of the House Appropri- ations Committee, Joseph Byrns of Ten- nessee, was estimating the expenditures of the Government under the Hoov!r‘ administrtion, he counted it up to| about _ $8,000,000,000. He construed | even Reconstruction Finance Corpora- | tion loans as a direct expense irrespec- | tive of whether any money ever came | back in the form of repayment. And, | based upon the procedure heretofore, | he was absolutely right. For money paid out is considered separate from | money paid in, even though it was a re- payment of a loan. Thus for years when the Government under the Re- publican regime sold salvaged war sup- | plies, the money was turned into gen- | eral receipts and in the end there was | a surplus of the total budget. Scme- | thing like $1,000,000,000 was received | that way. | Items Kept Separate. 80 now when it comes to setting up | the figures to make them look attrac-| tive, the Democrats are drawing a dis- tinction between capital expenditures and current operating expenses. They | are differentiating between lending | functions of Government agencies, like | the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Trustee | refinancing of mortgages for farms and | g5 200,000,000 is an inflation of Govern- urban communities and actual admin- istrative items. | By lumping together the $3,300.000,000 | about to be spent for public works, and a half-dozen other items such as re- financing of mortgages, the Roosevelt bookkeepers re: a total of about $5.- 200,000,000, which they consider non- budget items. These are to be handled as one huge loan, so to speak, and kept | separate and distinct from the balanced | budget. But this big amount is not to | be treated as public debt simply be- cause it is an addition to the borrow- ings by the Government. It is to have a sinking fund of its own—approxi- mately $220,000.000 a year—by which it is hoped to retire the capital expense. So about $220,000,000 must be added | to current operating expense as an in- terest for retirement charge. This means added taxes. And the adminis- tration is considering everything from a sales tax to excise duties on specific items as a way to raise the money. The | President does not intend to borrow to pay interest. This must indeed be borne by the budget. L Provide for Carrying Charges. | ‘The Hoover administration never used or public works or farm relief or other mergency or depression items and lumped it all into the budgets every year, and came out at the end with big deficits. These deficits represented in- | creases of the public debt and also were | traceable to large public works ex- penditures. ‘The only practical differ- ence between the Democrats and the' Republicans is that the former have capitalized the depression expenditures and are making provision for carrying charges, while the latter did not. The fact remains that, bookkeeping or no bookkeeping, depressions are expensive and balanced budgets in Government arg all a question of how much is bor- rowed for new capital to keep the po- litical and economic rebellions from breaking out. As for inflation, the | ment credit to which no serious objec- | tions will probably be made if Govern- ment bonds are issued, though the ad- | dition of this sum will bring the public | debt close to the 27,000,000,000 peak of national credit reached in war time. (Copsright. 1933 ANNULMENT SOUGHT BY MRS. TOWNSEND Former Popular Debutante Charges | Husband Falsified Claims of Wealth. Though married twice, once in an elopement to Ellicott City, Md., and five weeks later at St. John's Episco- pal Church, Mrs. Mary Martha Wren ‘Townsend, popular debutante of several | seasons ago, yesterday filed suit in Dis- | trict Supreme Court for annulment of her marriage to James B. Townsend. Mrs. Townsend, the daughter of Col. Clark C. Wren, 2021 Kalorama road, attorney for the Inland Waterways Corporation, bases her action on the allegation that her husband falsely told her he was a prosperous business man before her marriage. Through her attorney, Raymond C. Neudecker, she charged that her hus- band told her before their marriage that he could support her “in a social position befitting 8 man of means and leisure,” and that he admitted “he wil- fully deceived her respecting his finan- cial condition.” She sald in her suit that her husband told her he owned an expensive home in Virginia, a stable of blooded horses and several hundred shares of New York Central Railroad stock. ‘The couple was first married at Elli- @he Foruing Htae ADVERTISENENTS Receivep HERE B ol Armstrong’s Pharmacy 11th and Park Road N.W. Is an Authorized Star Branch Office HE purpose of these practically every neighborhood in and around Washington, is to render convenient service to patrons of The Star Classified Section, making it un- necessary for a journey downtown to the' Main Office. Copy left at these Branch Offices will be promptly forwarded, to appear in the first available issue. You can locate the Branch Office near you by the above sign. There are no fees in conection with Branch Office service; only m*hr rates cott City on June 20, 1932, and a second time, following an announcement of their engagement, at St. John's Church, on July 30 Following the marriage and a wed- | ding trip, the couple went to Amissville, | Va., the Townsend home, to live. SONG SERVIC.E TOMORROWi IN ST. THOMAS’ CHURCH Several of Ecclesiastical Music Will Be Presented by Choir. Several forms of ecclesiastical music will be presented at an evensong serv- ice tomorrow night at St. Thomas’ Church, Eighteenth and Church streets, | by the church choir under the auspices of the District Chapter, American Guild of Organists. Included in the program will be selections from Brahms' “Requiem,” Haydn’s “The Creation,” Gounod's “St Cecilia Mass,” and from the “Mass No. 2 in D Minor,” by Ar- mand Gumprecht, organist of Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown. ‘The solo quartet of St. Thomas’, to have a prominent part in the , includes Mrs. Carl Henning, soprano; Miss K. Lee Jones, alto; Richard Allen, tenor, and Robert Frederick Freund, baritone. L. B. Aldrich is organist and director. The services will be conducted by the vicar of St. Thomas’, Dr. W. B. Bishop. Mrs. Roosevelt has expressed her interest in the service and wil attend if possible. Forms Branch Offices, located in are charged. THREE CONCERNS SUBMIT BIDS FOR POWER PLANT Winchester Council Committees to Study Offers to Build Munici- pal System. Special Dispatch to The Star. THOUSE OF MERCY SEEKS SILVER GIFTS Old Metal to Be Melted and Sold for Benefit of Mothers and Children. A “melting pot,” to receive donations of battered, tarnished or otherwise un- | serviceable silver, to be melted and sold for the benefit of the House of Mercy, an Episcopal home for unmar- ried mothers and their children, will be a feature of the annual garden party to be given Thursday afternoon in the Cathedral Close under the auspices of the Board of Lady Managers of the home. ‘The pot is the idea of Mrs. Rose Gou- home, and it has been suggested by Mrs. Hoes that the donations of old | silver be given in memory of some per- son, perhaps a child, and that a card bearing the name of the person to be memorialized accompany the gift. The garden party is an annual affair, which, with an apron sale which is usually held in the Fall, are the onlyl public appeals.for funds for the House of Mercy. This year's party is being directed by a committee headed by Mrs Eliphalet F. Andrews, jr., daughter-in- law of the late Mrs. Minnigerode An- drews, who for many years was inter- ested in the work of the House of Mercy. The House of Mercy was founded more than 30 years ago by Mrs. Julian James, and the present quarters of the home are her gift. At the home way- ward girls and their children are taken in and the girls are given an oppor- tunity to fit themselves for useful and self-sustaining work. The girls do nll] the work at the home and care for the | babies, There usually are from 15 to the home. Boy Scouts of Troop 25, Church of the Covenant. granted time off from school so they can be at the party all Thursday aft- ernoon to run errands, guard the ropes about the party and make themselves generally useful. In case of rain the party will be held at the same of the ‘WINCHESTER, Va., May 16.—Three concerns have submitted bids for a Diesel engine electric power plant and distribution system here, it was an- nounced today by the Water and Light Committees of the common council. Those submitting bids were the North- ern Virginia Power Co.. a cubsidiary of | the Potomac Edison Co.: the Trans-| american Construction Co. and Fair- | banks, Morse & Co. | The first company has been supplying electricity to the city and private con- sumers for many years. Its bid was said to be somewhat lower than the present contract. P.-T. A. TO LUNCH Bancroft School Association Plans | Meeting Thursday. The annual luncheon of the Ban- croft School Parent-Teacher Association will be held at the school grounds | this device. It merely spent the money | Thursday, it was decided at the May | meeting, at which the following officers were unanimously elected: Mrs. R. E. Elgen, president; Mrs. Paul White. first vice president; Mrs. B. M. | McKelway, second vice president; Mrs. C. C. Hines, third vice president: Mrs. John Farnsworth, fourth vice president: Mrs. Maurice Eanet, fifth vice president; | Mrs. Harvey Otterman, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Peter Valaer, jr., Here’s $2.50 Z>ru AzZma< 1?35 F |3 o'clock, Friday afternoon. ICHINESE LEADER ARRIVES |, Sir Ribert Ho Tang, Financier, to Come Here. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (#).—Sir Robert Ho Tang, 70-year-old financier of Hongkong, known as the “peace- | maker of China,” arrived here yester- day from the Orient on the liner Presi- | dent Coolidge en route to Washington and London. Sir Robert, knighted by King George |, of England in 1915 for his services in | the cause of peace, will confer with T. | V. Soong, Chinese finance minister, in ccnnection with the latter's discussions with President Roosevelt on economic problems. His arrival preceded by 48 hours that || of Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, Japanese ' statesman, who Is aboard _the | Tatsuta Maru, due here Wednesday. verneur Hoes, an active worker for the || 20 girls and from 22 to 24 babies in have been || lace, beginning at |} Hongkong |’ liner ; ¥ | money. EXTORTION PRISONER ASKS TO SEE “VICTIM” $25,000 Over Which Companion ‘Was Shot, Wanted Only as Loan Police Are Told. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 16.—His pal dead, Oscar Mueller, 27-year-old me- chanic, yesterday begged police to be al- lowed & heart-to-heart chat with Lloyd R. Smith, millionaire manufacturer, from whom he attempted, police said, to extort $25,000. Mueller was arrested Saturday night after his companion, Frank H. 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