Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1934, Page 22

B2 = GIANT TELESCOPE | “EYE" T0 BE CAST Pouring Starts Today to Replace Mirror Devel- oping Flaw. By the Associated Pres CORNING, N. Y., December 1.—| The second pouring of the 200-inch ! “eye” for the world's largest telescope, | which will open to man's vision a| universe 27 times larger than his ! greatest telescope now see, is ready | to begin here at daybreak tomorrow. | In the center of a huge building of ' the Corning Glass Works there is a | roar which has been growing for three | weeks, until today it equals an ex- press train doing 70 miles an hour. The ground-shaking noise comes from | the great oven where howling gas jets | have heated the special glass for the | “eye” for three weeks. 1 Its temperature now is 2.800 de-, grees Fahrenheit, close to & third the heat of the surface of the sun. The glass forms a small lake, its mass 65 tons, its intensity enough to burn a large city if it could be sprayed with- | out cooling. H Last Word in “Eyes.” ’ This roaring glass giant is the last word in weeks of preparations be- lieved to assure a high degree of per- | fection for the great mirror. | Tomorrow's eye will be a substitute for the mirror poured here last March before a large crowd of spectators, astronomers, educators and scientists. ‘The first mirror was marred when some of its “ribs,” a part of the bot- tom of its mold, broke loose. This time air-cooling, one of sci- ence’s newer tricks, will be used to prevent a recurrence of this accident. Nearly five weeks ago the condi- tioning of the materials for tomor- row's eye was begun in the oven, which is approximately 30 feet long. 15 wide and 10 high. Heat Problem Met. The first problem was the fact that nothing is known which will stand a sudden onset of the terrific heat needed to produce the purity and toughness of the giant mirror. To meet this the interior of the empty oven was gradually heated for 10 days. This permitted the lining bricks to make slow changes in crys- taline structure. Then a material which resembles almost white seashore sand, a little coarser than ordinary, was fed into the oven twice an hour for 24 hours daily for three weeks. This slow feeding gave time for gas, principally carbon dioxide and air, to escape from the melting silicate. This gas formed about 10 per cent of the original weight of silicates and boric acid fed into the oven. The final result today is a purified mass of glass too white-hot for the eye to look at without glasses. First Mirror Retained. The mirror cast last March occupies & large room near the furnace, its proportions apparently perfect except for the missing ribs on its under sur- face. These, the glass experts say, can be drilled out without risk. The first mirror, like the one to be poured tomorrow, is the proverty of the California Institute of Tech- nology, which will erect the great telescope at Palo-Mar Mountain, r.ear Los Angeles, in co-operaticn with the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washinzton. What the astronomers intend to do with the first mirror they have not announced. So far as the glass- makers now see, this first mirror can be completed to make two of the giant eyes, if tomorrow’s pouring is success- ful. The néw glass materials de- veloped for it already have given as- tronomy a spurt. Five other large telescopes are the result. Four of these mirrors already are made, a | 76-inch for the Toronto Observatory, | 8l-inch for the Texas telescope of the | University of Texas and the Univer- sity of Chicago, 61-inch for Harvard and 85-inch for Michigan The fifth is another 60-in-h for | Harvard, which will be peured prob- | ably next week. OF FIGHTING SEAWAY | i i Power Interests “Masking” At- tacks on Roosevelt Plan, Charges F. P. Walsh. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., December 1.—| Frank P. Walsh, New York power, authority chairman, asserted today | that utility interests and their finan-| cial sponsors, operating behind the | “mask” of antagonism to waterway | development, are the “real” opponents of the St. Lawrence River project. Speaking at the City Club, he de- clared “This opposition is directed, not only against the St. Lawrence Develop- | ment, but also against the President's | entire power program which is de- signed to provide each section of the | country with a public yardstick for | electric rates.” The fight on the seaway, which! prevented ratification by the United | States Senate of a necessary Canadian treaty last year. Walsh continued, “has been stressed to prevent the public from realizing that this is a; power fight just as truly as the 10- year struggle to save Muscle Shoals power for the people was a power fight.” The authority three recent developments had “un- masked"” the power interests. These, &s listed by Mr. Walsh, were realiza- tion that the Tennessee Valley Au- thority was succeeding; the publica- tion of the New York authority re- port on rates which showed “the extortionate character of electric rates maintained by regulated private mo- nopoly,” and President Roosevelt's speeches at Tupelo, Miss., and Bir- mingham, Ala. in which he said the entire country should share in the benefits already under way in the Tennessee Valley. chairman asserted | | l ANNE ARUNDEL LIQUOR COMMISSIONERS PICKED Ritchie Appoints Board to Super- vise Licenses in Two Districts. ANNAPOLIS, December 1.—Gov. Ritchie today appointed the Board of License Commissioners of Anne Arundel County to supervise licenses in the third and fifth districts. George B. Woelfel of Annapolis, ‘Thomas W. Wilmer, Ferndale, and ‘Thomas W. Pumphrey of Pasadena, were appointed to serve for one year. The third and fifth districts voted to allow the sale of liquors at the recent election. Five other county dis- tricts voted to remain dry. I'C.; Arthur W. Dean of Boston, M: | Frederick Ex-Kaiser’s Sons THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 2, 1934—PART ONE. Hold Reunion The four surviving sons of the former Kaiser pose for the first photograph taken of all of them in many years during a recent family reunion in Potsdam. ‘The fifth brother, Prince Joachim, died in Potsdam in 1920. Left to right, Prince August, the Crown Prince Wilhelm, Prince Oscar and Prince Eitel Friederich. —Wide World Photo. HIGHWAY EXHIBIT HERE 15 PLANNED W. P. McDonald May Suc- ceed Capt. Whitehurst as Road Builders’ Head. William P. McDonald, president of a large construction company in New York City that bears his name, is ex- pected to succeed Capt. H. C. White- hurst, director of highways of the District of Columbia, as president of the American Road Builders’ Associa- tion. Officers will be elected at the thirty second annual convention and high- way exhibit of the organization in Washington January 22 to 25, in clusive. McDonald, to- gether Wwith a slate of other proposed officers, has been nomi- nated by a com- mittee appointed ! for that purpose at the last con- vention in Chi- cago in January. | Free Telephone | At White House | Taken From Press | Talk won't be so cheap around . the White House press room here- after. A free public telephone, once in almost constant use, has failed to reappear in the resplendent | | corer quarters accorded the | 1 press in the newly rebuilt exceu- tive offices. A nickel pay station || stands in its place White House attaches wouldn't comment, but it was presumed that economy was the reason. | | | | When the free telephone was in } | use each conversation cost the Government about 3 cents. The phone bill was said to have been in excess of $1,000 annually | ‘ By the Associated Press | PUGH FILES REPLY INRECOUNT PLEA REPUBLICANS FACE BATTLE IN SENATE Intensive Fight Looms for Floor Leader in Mary- land Assembly. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, December 1.—An in- tensive intra-party fight is in prospect for the Republican floor leadership of the State Senate. It promises to be even more complex than the Democratic battle for the presidency, because State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer of Prince Georges County remains the outstanding can- didate for that office, despite the can- didacy of three others, while there is no outstanding candidate for the minority floor leadership. Should Gov -elect Harry W. Nice in- dorse a candidate, he would, of course, | | immediately become the chief con- | | tender for the office. Demurrer Claims Law Fails | to Provide for Extra Tabulation. The other nomi- | nees are: Vice presidents —Paul B. Rein- hold of Pitts- burgh, Pa; Cant. Whitehurst. 0 R pou of Raleigh, N. C.: Grover C. Dillman of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Stanley Abel of Taft. Calif Treasurer, James H. McDonald of New Haven, Conn Directors, for term ending 1938— Edward Costigan of Washington, D. Hoitt of Boston, Mass. Charles T. Hayes of New York City T. S. ODonnell of Phoenix, Ariz; Thomas S. Stephenson of Altoona, | Pa., and Charles M. Upham of Wash- ington, D. C, who is the engineer- director of the association Officers also have been nominated for the city and county officials’ di- visions of the organization. In the city officials’ division, the nomina- tions follow: President, Dudley T. Corning of ! Philadelphia, Pa Vice presidents, Nathan L. Smith of Baltimore, Md.; W. E. Sheddan of Jacksonville, Fla.; Grover C. Dillman of Grand Rapids, Mich.,, and Harvey W. Hicks of Pasadena, Calif Directors, for term ending 1938 J. W. A. Bollong of Seattle, Wash.; George Cobb of Baltimore, Md.; W. E. A. Doherty of Philadelphia, Pa.; Maurice O. Eldridge, Washington, D. C.: D. L. Erickson of Lincoln, Nebr., and Henry A. Yancey, Petersburg, Va. Nominations for officers in the county officials’ division follow President, George C. Wright of Ro- chester, N. Y. Vice presidents, J. A. Bromley Annapolis, Md.: C. C. Thacker Nashville, Tenn.: J. W. Mavity Newton, Kans, and Stanley Abel Taft, Calif. Directors, for term ending 1938, Lloyd Bowman of Santa Cruz, Calif.; J. T. Bullan of Shreveport, La.; Ben T. Collier of Clarksdale, Miss.; C. H. Overman of Bagdad, Fla.; A. P. Shaw of Wilmington, Del.; W. O. Washing- ton of Brownsville, Tex. and Allan Williams of Ionia, Mich. The convention will draw to Wash- ington approximately 5000 of the country's outstanding highway offi- cials, engineers, contractors and manu- facturers. One of its features will be an exhibit of the latest developments in road-building equipment and of of of of | terials. 322 CASES HANDLED BY CULPEPER JUSTICE Number Is for First Five Months of Operation—Divided Into Thtee Groups. Special Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., December 1.—In the nearly five months that the trial justice system has been in force in Culpeper County, a total of 322 cases has been heard before Judge C. E. Reams, jr, who finds offenders are divided into three general classes— drunks, violators of motor vehicle laws and felonies. Only six persons have been tried for | driving while intoxicated, three of these in the first month. The largest fine given by the Trial Justice Court was for driving while intoxicated, $100 and 90 days in jail. The smallest fine imposed, $1, for an old colored man who, exasperated by the teasing of some youngsters of his own race, had “frailed” them well. A sentence of six months in jail was meted out to chicken thieves from another county who were caught. Sev- | Bailey, | eral jail sentences of from 90 days to 4 months have been given. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 1.—A claim that Maryland laws make no provision for recounting votes cast in elections of State’s attorneys was made in a demurer which James H. { Pugh filed in Circuit Court here to- day in answer to the petition of Wal- ter W. Dawson for a recount of the recent Montgomery County State's at- torney contest Tt law regarding elections of State’s attorneys, according to Pugh, ratic candidate, who defeated son, a Fusion party nominee, by 46 votes, merely requires that the outcome of the election be certified by the Board of Canvassers to the judge or judges of the Circuit Court embracing the county effected by The election. Petition Assailed in Law. The court then passes upon the qualifications of the successful candi- date, Pugh told newspaper men. He| said that the law makes no provi- | sion for recounts even in the event of a tle, but leaves it to the court to decide which candidate shall re- ceive the position. It was further charged in the de- murrer that the petition of Dawson is “bad in substance and insufficient in law” and also claims that the charges of irregularities in the elec- tion made in the petition are *too vague, too general and too indefinit; to authorize or warrant the. “relie: which Dawson seeks. No Effort at Delay. | It further asserts that the petition fails to state a case. The demurrer, filed for Pugh by his attorney, Isaac Loeb Strauss, of Baltimore, was accompanied by an affidavit signed by Pugh to the ef- fect that the demurrer was not filed or entered in an effort to delay the proceedings. Judge Hammond Urner is expected to set a date for the hearing on Pugh's demurrer, as well as those filed by the defendants in the two other contested election pending cases, within the next few days. FIREMEN TO ELECT ARLINGTON STAFF Expected to Develop Over Selection of Pres- | | ident. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON, Va., December 1.— Officers of the Arlington Volunteer Fire Department will be elected at the annual meeting Wednesday night here, | with a contest expected to develop in | the balloting for president. John A. ;Dawkin& president for three years, is | not a candidate. Two men have been nominated for | the post, and it is expected other nom- | inations will be made from the floor. | The nominees are George F. Cook and | Julian Tapp. Other nominees include: Vice Pres- ident, Arthur D. Stickley, 2d; for sec- | retary-treasurer, Elmer J. Blackmer, | incumbent; for asisstant secretary, Henry Bone, incumbent, and Preston | Snoots; for fire chief, A. C. Scheffel, | | incumbent, Carl Scheffel and William | Clark; for deputy chief, Carl Scheffel, | incumbent, Erwin Bailey and William | McAtee: for fire captain, Willlam Clark, incumbent, Paul Scheffel and | | Charles Snoots; for lieutenant, Erwin | incumbent, Willlam McAtee and Chester Flemming; for fire mar- shall, Preston and Carl Snoots. | Others in the running probably would retire and the Governor's selection be elected. Some | observers believe, however, that the in- coming Governor will not take a chance on offending members of his own party by taking a hand in the caucus. Beauchamp Is Out. Senator Creston L. Beauchamp of Somerset County, who served as the G. O. P. floor leader during the last | session, will not be a member of the next Legislature. His successor, Sen- ator-elect Harry T. Phoebus, who re- tired from the gubernatorial contest to run for the Senate, is considered a candidate for the floor leadership. Three men who served in the House of Delegates during the last session and have since been elected to the Senate also are considered candidates. They are Harry W. La Gore of Fred- erick County, Robert B. Kimble of Allegany County and Ernest W. Miller of Washington County. Baile and Fine Running. Other candidates for the floor lead- ership include Senator J. David Baile, who was re-elected from Carroll County, and Senator-elect Melvin L. Fine of Baltimore City. A complex situation also is antici- pated in the Republican party regard- ing the floor leadership in the House. Gets Flowers for Grave. At a recent political meeting at Glasgow, Scotland, a woman threw | bunch of white flowers at the candi. date with the request that he put ! them on his grave. 7 ITALY WATCHING JAPAN IN AFRICA Commercial Expansion Be- ing Corsidered With Treaty Proposal. By the Associated Press. ROME, December 1.—Japan’s threatened expansion into African territories where Italy has extensive | colonization, it was revealed tonight, is being carefully considered in con- nection with Japan's invitation to join her in denouncing the Washing- ton naval treaty. A government spokesman said Italy was not yet ready to reply to the invitation, although information had been received from Paris that France had refused a similar Japanese pro- posal. With the return of King Victor Emmanuel aboard the royal yacht Savoia from the African colony of Somaliland, it became known that Italy’s policy with regard to Nippon- ese expansion had undergone definite clarification. Situation Worsens in East. Alessandro Lessona, undersecretary of colonies, stated the new position in a recent speech at Naples: “In the Far East” he said, “the | political situation tends to get worse. In the face of the complexity and importance of European interests in this region of the world Japan, for the first time in history, offers the example of a people of 80,000,000 inhabitants extraordinarily developed economically, industrially and in a | military way. “The more one restrains the Japa- | nese expansion in the East, the more she will try to expand in other sec- tions and in other continents as is proved already by Japan's activity in | Abyssinia.” It was understood that despite this | viewpoint, the Italian government will | not accept Japan's invitation, but | that in itself the invitation has caused government circles to view the so-called Japanese problem with in- | creased interest. Africa Seen as Objective. Signor Lesona in his recent address said that Africa could very well represent the final objective of Japa- nese expansion N “To draw the black continent into her own orbit would signify for Japan not so much an acquisition of power,” WEATHER OUT | WARMTH IN he said, “as a means of depriving Europe of the possibility of using it for the defense of her civilization.” Africa, the undersecretary of col- onies pointed out, is a fertile field of action, source of new energy and of inexhaustible resources. It is there- fore sufficiently vast so that all Eu- ropean powers may develop in a par- allel manner in different sectors. 'BEAUTY PAGEANT | S;ATED IN VALLEY | Event at New Market December | 12 Will Include Surround- ing Towns. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW MARKET, Va., December 1.— A beauty pageant December 12 is! being mapped as a climax to the many smaller pageants held in this area during the Fall. Plans call for a valley-wide con- test to be held at New Market, in which Miss Shenandoah Valley will be chosen. Another feature will be the selection of Little Miss New Mar- ket from entrants between the ages of 3 and 6 years. A movie feature has also been arranged, which stars William Haines, screen star, born in the Shenandoah Valley. | Paul McDaniel of New Market is 1 in charge of arrangements, and judges will come from Washington. Silver loving cups will be presented to winners. Those so far eligible to compete for Miss Shenandoah Valley are Miss Christine Artz, Strasburg; Miss Madeline Foltz, Woodstock: Miss Frances Evans, Edinburg: Miss An- nette Evans, Mount Jackson; Miss Nancy Lonegran, Harrisonburg, and Miss Hilda McDaniel, Shenandoah. Miss Catherine Driver, winner at New Market; Miss Elinor Harrison, | winner at Broadway. and Miss Esther | Monro of Luray will probably rep-| | resent those towns. Our LOW Monthly Payments Fit Any Budget. 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AMES, June Knight, the movie actress, and her husband, Paul 8. Ames, shown shortly after their marriage at Chicago City Hsll yesterday. The newlyweds léft for New York. At one time Miss Knight was re- ported engaged to Max Baer, heavyweight champion. —A. P. Photo. BUSINESS MEN TO MEET ON KIWANIS PROPOSAL SILVER SPRING, Md. December 1.—Business and professional men of Silver Spring and Takoma Park a Kiwanis Club for this area at a dinner meeting at Falkland Manor | December 10 at 6:30 o'clock. | The meeting will be held under | auspices of the Kiwanis Clubs of Prince Georges County and Washing- | ton. Arthur C. Keefer, president of the former club, and Lewis T. Breun- | inger, head of the Washington club, will preside | Invitations to attend have been | mailed to several scores of representa- | tive business and professional men in the two communities. GUILD SPEAKER NAMED | Special Dispatch to The Star. GAITHERSBURG, December 1— Rev. John E. Burke, C. S. P, of St. Paul's College, Washington, D. C, will pe guest speaker at the next regu- lar meeting of the Catholic Evidence Guild to be held in St. Martin's Hall here on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock His ropic will be “Catholicism and the Modern Mind.” | ‘The “question box” will be con- ducted by Rev. J. J. Callaghan, pastor of St. Marin's Catholic Church, and Miss Marie Stang, chairman, will pre- | side. BOARD T0 DEBATE AGTION ON ROADS Diamond Declares Commis- sioners Did Not Know of Overdrafts. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md.,, December 1.e- Steps to meet the emergency arising from the disclosure that Montgomery | County is overdrawn $255,303.52 in its accounts with the State Roads Com- | mission will be considered by the Board of County Commissioners at its meeting here Tuesday. Members of the new County Board expressed surprise at the condition of Montgomery's account, and declared that immediate attention would be | given the problem. John B. Diamond, former president of the board, stated that the revela- tion made by Gov. Ritchie this week of the financial condition of the State Roads Commission was the first inti- mation the retiring board had of the over-expenditure, Not Kept Posted. He declared that the county com- missioners had not been kept posted as to the amount to their credit with the roads group. Diamond said that while he had not been advised officially of the over- draft, he was of the opinion that the greater portion of the sum was for road maintenance. Road construction, it was pointed out, has been financed largely by Federal funds. | Pending a study of the system un- | der which the county went so far in the red, the incoming commissioners probably will not be able to take any definite steps to remedy the situation. However, Frank H. Karn and Paul M. Coughlan, two of the three Fusion R fivetube set in an attractive full- sized lowboy cabinet. Better performance than you would expect at this price. commissioners who have supplanted organization Democrats as the con- trolling power in the board, said that the board will discuss ways and means of meeting the situation when it meets ‘Tuesday. It was disclosed in Gov. Ritchie’s announcement that the county’s re- ceipts from®the Road Commission on the mileage basis totaled $259,194.22 this year. Against this sum, the county commissioners authorized con- struction and maintenance work on lateral and feeder roads totaling $449,- 285.35, of which $32,729.35 remains to be expended, while the county has an overdraft of $3,805.27 from the pre- vious fiscal year. Total Is $255,303. The overdraft in the maintenance and construction fund totaled $193, 896.40, which, coupled with $61,407.12, which the county owes the commis- slon for debt service on road bond issues, makes the entire overdraft $255,303.52, as of September 30, last. A $30,000 payment has recently been made by the county on the bond issue debt service It is feared by the new commission- ers that unless immediate steps are taken to meet the problem, road main- tenance will suffer greatly during the next year or two. It was shown by Gov. Ritchie's fig- ures that even if the county's entire allocation for the new fiscal period, which began October 1, is applied to | the debt, Montgomery's account will still be $95.257.17 in the red The local board will undoubtedly [ be limited in any action it can take by a general policy which the, roads commission is expected to adopt in regard to all counties with overdrafts. It is possible that the State authori- ties may insist that the counties’ al- lotments be devoted to liquidating the overdrafts as quickly as possible. Such a policy would leave little or no money available for maintenance. Current Topics Club to Meet. Md., December RIVERDALE, 1 (Special).—The Current Topics Club will meet Friday evening at the home of Mrs. L. L. Powers, with Mrs. Mary Worley and Mrs. R. A. Bennett assist- ing hostesses. INSURES THE WAVE A Cathedral style baby grand that brings in all Amer- ican broadcasts and police calls.