Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1933, Page 19

DEADLINE IS FIXED ON PEPCO PETITIONS July 1 1s Date for Close of| Arlington Campaign to Get Service. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE. Va,| June 24—July 1 has been set as the| deadline for circulation of petitions ask- ing the Potomac Electric Power Co. to extend its lines throughout Arlington County, it was announced today by L.C. | McNemar, chairman of the Public Utli- ities Committee of the Arlington County | Civic Federation. McNemar said that July 1 all peti- tions will be called in and immediately | turned over to Chairman Edmund D.! Campbell of the Arlington County Pub- | lic Utilities Commission for submission | to the Potomac Electric Power Co. While the Potomac Electric Power Co. has so far declined to indicate what consideration it will give to the efforts of the local Public Utilities Commission and the Civic Federation to have it ex- | tend its service throughout the county| in competition with the Virginia Pub lic Service Co., it has been intimated that a statement will be forthcoming, as soon as the petitions are received. since these will give definite information as to the amount of business that might | b2 expected immediately by the Wash- | ington company. In announcing the deadline, Me- ! Nemar issued an appeal to the persons | charged with the circulation of the| petitions to make every effort to sce that every user of electricity in the county has an opportunity to them Information available at this time, McNemar said, indicates that the pe- titions have been signed by 95 per cent of the persons to whom presented. He stated, however, that some of the peo- le who are supposed to circulate them | Fmve put forth little effort so far. The federation, he said, is anxious for every possible signature to be obtained, so that there can be no doubt in the minds of the officials of the Potomac Electric Power Co. that their service | is desired. RECOVERY ACT 0. K'D BY CATHOLIC ALUMNI Protection of Small Industries Urged in Resolution Passed at National Meeting. Associated Press. YORK, June 24.—Support of the Administration's national industrial recovery act was voted today by the National Catholic Alumni Federation, ting about 300,000 persons. ‘The resolution endorsed setting up of trade associations under the act for n&nnnwnt of an organized economy, an ““We insist that the conduct of these associations remain not solely in the hands of the employers, but embrace labor and Government representing the general public. general public.” Protection of Small Industries. Protection of small industries was called for, and gradual substitution of equity or partnership financing for long-term borrowing was suggested. A plan for stabilizing banking with- out resort to general deposit guarantees, a plea for segregating corporation earn- ings for the protection of labor, stock- holders and creditors, and adoption of 8 “gold clearance” standard instead of » gold currency redemption standard also were in -the resolution. ‘The convention was told by Post-! master General James A. Farley that the idea is spreading that sound busi- ness and sound morals are the same. Sees Morals ness. “I hope we have seen the last of the days when nearly everyone had the notion,” he said, “that wahtever they could get away with legally was all right. There are a great many hu- man activities which it is utterly im- possible for laws to reach and to cover. “Moreover, legislation is always slow | in eatching up to the latest efforts of | human beings to evade responsibility | and to grab the biggest share of power or_profit for themselves.” Farley warned against the assumption that the country was going ‘headlong into an era of monopoly” because some grovi.slam of the anti-trust laws have modified. NAMES HELD ESSENTIAL IN JUDGE’S WIFE’S SUIT Kansas Court Rules YList Should Be Supplied Attorneys in Divorce Action. By the Associated Press TOPEKA, Kans. June 24 —District Judge George H. Whitcomb ruled to- | day that attorneys for Mrs. Nelle M Hopkins in her divorce suit against Federal Judge Richard J Hopkins should provide defense counsel confi- dentially with a list of women with whom, she alleged, her husband has associated. Referring to allegations in Mrs. Hop- Xins' petition “that the defendant has courted and corresponded clan- destinely, divers and sundry other women, both in Kansas and eisewhere, and has made trips away from home for the purpose of visi¥ng and has visited other women, and has enter- tained other women in his home, and | has contributed to the support of and paid bills owing by other women,” Robert Stcne of defense counsel said: “We want to know whether immoral acts alleged. The allegations make | that inference. If that is not intended, | we want counsel to disclaim petition has been i to coast, and it ca infidelity.” In Teply. Harry W. Colmery, for Mrs.” Hoj E h makes no chas NEW YORK W'ILL RATIFY REPEAL WITHOUT MUSIC Decorations Also to Be Absent at Convention, Under Lehman Order for Economy. By the Assoclated Press ALBANY, N. Y. June 24.—Neither music nor decorations will play any! part in New York State's repeal con- vention next Tuesday, Gov. Herbert H Lehman revealed tod ‘The executive has left both out of the convention plans in order 1o prune expenses ‘The State probably will spend only $5.000 in conducting the ceremony by which it will ratify the congressional repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the Governor said,or one-half the money set aside by law for that purpose. The colorful setting in which the State's Governors are inaugurated will be en- tirely lacking when the 150 delegates all elected on a bipartisan wet ticket take their seats in the huge assembly chamber of the capitol. All of the delegates will pay th!!r own traveling and hotel expenses under the Governor's economy plan Former Gov. Alfred E. Sml'.h is slated | to be permanent chairman of the con- wention. Gov. will be tem- peray THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, IDELAWARE BECOMES | Proffer of Government Jobs Leaves Cotton Farmers Cold Fire Chief Feted EDWARD O’CONNOR TRANSFERS TO SECOND PLATOON. personnel of Engine Company No. 5 as a farewell prior to his moving from the first to the second platoon in the District of Columbia Fire i Department. He is shown her | Lieut. J. H. Davidson of the engine company. | No. 5 is with t,he two cfficvn By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., June 24—Twelve skeletons which crumbled at the touch of road builders’ picks, were unearthed today near the spot where legend says the pirate Blackbeard had his lair more than a century ago. Within a space not more than 10 feet long and hardly 5 feet wide the dozen skulls were found, their white surfaces embedded in the black loamy soil. Above their resting place workmen a | short while before had felled trees that had stood there for possibly 150 years. But the skeletons could give no clue to the questions of the curious who sought to unravel the mystery of their presence there. ‘Were they the victims of Blackbeard's piracy? Had they been slain in an Indian massacre? The bones, perhaps, of Indians slain by whites in their fight to I:DnQuer the BRIDGE CONTEST LED BY SURPRISE TEAM Watson and Fry Overtake Lenz and Partner, 1,260 to 1,183, at Two-thirds Mark. By the Associated Press. HANOVER, N. H. June 24—A sur- | prise team of L. H. Watson 2nd Sam | Pry, jr.. was leading at the two-thirds mark in the all-American contract | bridge pair championship today, with one more session—tom —to go. This combination went ahead of the veteran expert, Sidney C. Lenz, and his partner, C. S. Lochridge, 1,260 to 1,183, by scoring more than 600 points in each session George Unger scored a sensational rise in the second session today by chalk- place after a sorry start In all 53 teams were contesting for positions in the championship, and all within the first 10 technically still were in the running. Scores in general ran close, with five of the teams separated by ouly nine points. P. Hal Sims was seventeenth in the standing tonight, while the wives of two of the more famous players, Mrs. P | Hel Sims and Mrs. Oswald Jacoby, were far down in thirt; nird and fortieth ‘Jiat'cs, respectively. Ben Ames Wil- fams, Boston author, was thirty-sixth in the list. Plans Rummage Sale UPPER MARLBORO, Md. June 24 (Special).—Marlboro Chapter, No. 61, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold a rummage sale in Masonic Hall here next Friday and Saturday. | FIREMEN GIVE OFFICIAL ! | with William Schoneberger, master of the District Morgue. Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz and | ing up 625 points to put them in fifth | | ] :IRE CHIEF EDWARD O'CONNOR was given a banquet vesterday by ths e (right) receiving the good wishes of Maurice Harbin of Engine —Star Stafl Photo. DOZEN SKELETONS FOUND AT SPOT \WHERE BLACKBEARD HAD HIS LAIR Secret of Bones That' Crumbled at Touch of Pick Unfathomable, But Conjectures Are Many. | Red Skins and win dominion over Vir- ginia? Some there were who, recalling the story of Roanoke Island’s long lost col- ony and the story of Virginia Dare, sought to find in the bones a key to the fate of the small band of Englishmen who apparently vanished from the face of the earth, leaving no key %o their fate. Scme of the skulls were large. Others were small, indicating that -children were ameng the dozen bodies buried in the one large grave. The formation of the earth just east of the spot where the crumbling hones were found indicated that it once was covered by water. Nearby in Lake Joyce an island, said to have been built there by Blackbeard, rears its head. Legend says that the island was bullt as a fortress for the pirate and his mates, a place where they could protect themselves from harassed merchant sea- men upon whom they preyed and who in consequence wught their ]hes HELVERING EXTENDS STOCK TAX PAYMENT Limit for Filing Returns Under 1 New Levy Put Off Till ‘ August 31. By the Asrociated Press. Guy T. Helvering, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, vesterday extended until August 31, the time for filing re- turr d paying tax due under the capi tock tax provided in the na- tional industrial :>covery act. The new law levies a tax of $1 on each $1,000 of declared adjusted cap- ital stock on the year ending June 30 of each year. The bureau had set July 31 as the date for making the returns and paying the tax for the period ending June 30, 1933 In the new order the Commissioner extended the return and tax payments to be filed in the Continental United States until August 31 and those from Alaska and Hawaii to September 20. HOLDS BEAUTY CONTEST Spectal Dispatch to The Star. MATAPEAKE, Md., June 24 —At 6 pm. July 3 a bathing beauty contest for girls of Queen Anne County will be a feature of a four-day celebration and home-coming festival on Kent Island, beginning July 1, with a dance at night Under sponsorship of the Woman's Club of Kent Island a large number of entries have already been received by Mrs. Golden Benton of Stevensville, contest chairman Prizes will be 3uflrded winners, it was announced to- ay. Honor Retiring Morgue Master TWO FAREWELL DINNERS. SIXTH REPEAL STATE State Convention Takes Only 45 Minutes in Unanimously Adopt- ing Resolution. By the Associated Press DOVER, Del, June 24 —Delaware, first State in the Union to ratify the Federal Constitution, today became the sixth formally to approve the proposed repeal of the eighteenth amendment to | that fundamental law of the lend, In s 45-minute session the State con vention of 17 delegates unanimously adopted the congressional resolution for repeal of the prohibition amendment At the same time, the delegates, elected by a vote of more than 3 to 1 on May 27, pledged themselves and the free from abuses” of the State’s liquor law regulations. ‘The other States in which conven- tions have ratified the repeal amend- ment are Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Wyoming and New Jerse: States which have voted in favor of repeal, but have not yet met in conven- tion to act, are New York, Nevada, Illi- | [ | promotion of honest and wise control, | D. C, JUNE 25, Director of Census Writes Finis to a ‘“Noble Experiment.” "LLIAM L. AUSTIN, new di- rector of the Cersus, has causz to refleet on the in- consistency of mankind. I world in which the clamor for jobs—particularly Federal jobs—dr-wns out all eise, he's uncovered one class that doesn't want them. and the revelation has left the genial di- rector in A rather bewildered state 5 it will be recalled, abcut a month ag> Mr. Austin was instrumental in having com e civil service require- ments substituted for non-competitive for the selection of special agents for the Bureau of the Census who operate in the cotton belt. collecting the periodic reports of cotton ginned, consumed and held. The j bs, 747 in number, were im- modiately thrown open to examination by the Civil Service Commission, the executive er under which the new arrangement 1933—PART ONE. ‘WILLIAM L. AUSTIN. Im the previcus five in growing or gin- ning cotton, or manufacturing cotton Prcudly Austin surveyed the scene, and in an announcement that wasn't far removed from heresy. other things baing taken int consideration, empha- sized thet n> longer d cotton sta- tistics have to depend for their collect- irg on “city slickers who have some political pull.” but that, to the conts | from then on. “intelligent farm would direct this work fcr the bures: Then the director bsgan t> await re- sults, and they were not leng in coming Members of Congress called in person. Also, there were ictters (1) from in- cumbents who wanted to know in no uncertain terms why their jobs should bw thrown open; (2) from people who aidn’t think lack of experience should be any barrier to fulfillment of an ar- dent desire to pugsue cotton here and there. this enumeration is general idea of just what happened And to add insuit to injury, there was an absolute dearth of applications from farmers. They just didn't come in, despite the fact that the statistics collectors pick up from something less {than $100 to $1,000 annually. and the average pay is $300 for work that takes tonly a short time at stated periode. |~ The upshot was that the Civil Service Commiesion was asked to amend its | application announcement to eliminate {the requirement for experience. Th: s effected requiring that | Among octher essentials which were | jobs. of course, remain under the com- s« B-3 divers, animal trainers and others of non~cclwn callings to qualify. So. that's the Teason Mr. Austin falls in a refesg e mocd whenever the de= mands of his office ctherwise allow ree flection “We had hoped to gt lnul_lken farmers for this work,” gretfully yesterday. in commenuu “on the end of this noble experiment, “but they simply were not interested. We get the applications. Con- we_changed the closing date m June 27 to July 10, and mm the examination open to everybody. don't know what's the matter wn.h the farmers.” CLAIMS CALLED FOR e B"rd to Pns! on Losses Incurred by Stray Dogs. Special Dispatch to The S PAIRFAX. Va. Junc 24—A notice has been iscued by the Fairfax County Boerd of Supervisors td all persons hav= ing claims against (he dcg tax fund of the countv ior sheep. goats, hogs or fowls killed by stray dcgs for the year ending June 30 that they should pre- sent their claims to the clerk of the board, F. W. Richardson, properly itemized and sworn to, on or before July 3 at 10 am.. et which time a commit- tee from the board will meet in the county board room to pass upon all such claims submitted. ne committee of the boerd that will pass on claims con- Mr. Schone- tirement on July 1, was given a good-by EING given farewell dinners seems to be coming something of a habit B berger, who is scheduled for re! feast last Saturday by one of the two platoons of firemen at the harbor fire house. Then yesterday the other platoon gave Mr. Schoneberger unov.hzr dinner, pregl-l'ed by Firemen Ermest Winters and J. H. Shimp. After | the feast Capt. Jacol berger with & box of his favorite cigars. Stulz, commander of the fire house, presented Mr, Schone- ‘The phof.o[rlph shows Capt. Stulz (left) congratulating Mr. Schoneberger Morgue. ted 19 on his 41 years' service in the succeed the retiring Morgug master. Tbulurnomhubunlmln —Star Staff Photo. cut, New Hampshire and Iowa. same basis as any outside applicant. nois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Connecti- | the incumbents take the tests on the prescribed wes that the mw'-c.,e. must | petitive civil service, but the modifica- sists of D. W. Buckiey, Centerville dis~ have had st least two years' experience ;tion will make it casier for deep-sea trict, and Kyle A. Davis, Lee district. WARNING! When the $26,000 stock of brand new and floor sample furniture at the exchange fur- niture store is sold, you will never, we believe, be offered "such tremendous savings in -quality furniture. Just when grlces are goingupbyleaps and ounds we are forced to offer our complete stock at lowest rices ever. We have listed be- y a few of unbelievable bargains on sale tomorrow. you need furniture now,or will need it in the future by all means be on hand tomorrow promptly at 8:00 READ EVERY ITEM--HUNDREDS MORE NOT LISTED! 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