Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1934, Page 7

MAIL BILL REPEAL | SPIKED BY HOWELL Aviation Commission Chief Says Future Airmail Pol- icy Being Studied. No suggestion ever has been made that the Federal Aviation Commis- sion should ask repeal of the Black- McKellar airmail bill, Chairman Clark Howell said today in the first formal statement from the commis- sion since it completed its hearings and began the work of formulating a Federal aviation policy. “We may,” Mr. Howell said, “suggest certain modifications which we are sure will have the approval of Senator McKellar and Senator Black, but the matter has never been discussed, di- rectly or indirectly, by the commis- sion and will not be until taken up in the usual order in its deliberation con- cerning the recommendations we are to make.” Policy Overhauling Hinted. Replying to published statements that the commission had decided on a thorough overhauling ot the airmail policies of the Post Office Department, Chairman Howell said the situation in this respect is the same as that regarding the McKellar-Black law. “We do not expect to deal with the matter of mail cancellations as ordered by the Post Office Department, nor with anything else that pertains to the past,” he continued. “We are dealing only with those things tnat apply to the future.” To Confer With Farley. Howell announced that members of the commission have a conference with Postmaster General Farley at 11 am. Tuesday. The purpose of ihis conference, Chairman Howell ex- plained, will be to obtain the Post- master General's views “as regards the relations of the Post Office De- partment with the air transport sys- tem, not as regarding anything that has happened in the past but solely with reference to fixing a definite policy for the future.” The Aviation Commission reported its tentative conclusions to the Presi- dent at a conference this week and is understood to have received his ap- proval of the major points of its pto- gram. LIFE OF BOY HINGES ON “ONE IN MILLION” Rare Blood Transfusion Perform- ed After Radio Appeal in Infection Case. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 14.—An army of tiny white soldiers, rein- forced in the nick of time, gave prom- ise today of winning their unseen war for the life of 12-year-old Stan- ley Walker, gravely il of a strepto- coccus infection The tiny soldiers, white corpuscles, swept against their sinister enemy, the streptococci, with the aid of af new army from the veins of a care- fully selected blood donor. The battlefield was Stanley’s blood- stream. The ally was the “one man in a 'million” whose blood was of the same type as that of the boy, carry- ing white corpuscles trained for such & desperate engagement. Today there may be another trans- fusion. The donor whose blood was injected into Stanley’s veins is Leon Zaskevich. He was selected from among mere than 200 volunteers after & radio appeal. WASHINGTOl:l ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WILL MEET Thomas R. Henry and Austin H. Clark to Speak at Cosmos Club Thursday Night. Thomas R. Henry of The Evening Star and Austin H. Clark of the Smithsonian Institution will address the 260th meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences in the assembly hall of the Cosmos Club next Thurs- day night. Henry will discuss “Science, News and Newspapers.” He believes the at- titude of the newspaper toward science is largely determined by its own evolu- tion as an institution and its heredi- tary attributes. Continuing the general subject of introducing science to the public, Clark will discuss “Science and the Public.” He believes detectives solving } nature's mysteries and thus furnish- ing the data for fascinating serial stories are scientists to the general public. The meeting will be open to the public. UNIONS ASK ABOLITION OF EFFICIENCY RATINGS A. F. G. E. Seeks Replacement by System of Automatic Promotions. Abolition of the present system of eficiency ratings will be sought by Government unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, accord- ing to a statement today from the American Federation of Government Employes. Instead, automatic promotions, such as now prevail in some branches, will be sought uniformly throughout the service. This would eliminate “injustices,” @ccording to the federation. The Civil Service Commission is making a study designed to improve the promotion system, but nothing definite has been developed. SCOTT TO TALK ON ITALY Professor Will Give Illustrated Lecture at Embassy. Dr. Kenneth Scott, professor of Latin in Western Reserve University, Cleveland, who has been on a tour of study in Italiah provinces in Africa for many months, will give an illus- trated lecture tomorrow evening at the Italian embassy on “Italy’s Colonial Renaissance in Northern Africa.” He is being presented under the direction of the Archaeological Society of Washington, which last year ar- ranged through Arthur Stanley Riggs to have Dr. Scott make the inspection of the Italian Libya. Baby Adoptions Increase. CHICAGO, December 14 () — Miss Bertha Healy of the staff of St. Vincent's Foundling Asylum says applications for Yule babies for adop- tion, always heavy as the holiday season nears, have increased 20 per eent over last year. « --- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY,” DECEMBER 14, 1934, Birthday Celebrated Scene at the second anniversary dinner of the local unit of the Na- tional Association of Cost Accountants, showing Willlam H. Churchill, president, lighting candles on the birthday cake. Others in the picture are Past President A. B. Gunnarson (in rear) and Eric A. Camman, na- tional president. The local chapter, headed by wu-; liam H. Churchill, controller of Peoples Drug Stores, is made up of treasurers, | controllers and auditors of local con- cerns and of Government accountan! 1t is one of the 45 branches of the | national organization which, with 7,000 members, is the largest accounting or- ganization in the United States. Among the guests at the birthday celebration were Stuart McLeod, sec- retary of the national organization; Goodwin P. Graham, president of the District of Columbia Institute of Cer- | CAT SHOW ENTERS PAIR OF NOTABLES General Pershing of Alley, Ranks and Midnight Prize Prospects. Once upon a time General Pershing was an alley cat and Midnight used to lie on the counter of a corner grocery store. Now ey're mates and between them they have taken enough cat show ribbons to decorate a May pole. The General and Midnight are only two of the nearly 200 entries in the fifteenth championship show being held at the Arcade under aus- pices of the Washington Cat Club, but vhey are almost certain to win a couple of prizes. At least that's the opinion of their owner, Rexford L. Holmes, an adver- tising man, who lives at the Annapo- lis Hotel. He ought to know because since he acquired his two pets about four vears ago they have been at- | tractions at cat exhibitions in the | East. | General Pershing is still an alley | cat despite his new found glory, | Holmes says, and he showed it last vear when he was entered in a Phila- | delphia show. A couple days before | the show he went on a tear and came | home with a scarred face. He was | doctered up, however, and captured a | ribbon. Both of Holmes' cats are solid black. ‘The show opened this morning and will close tomorrow when the felines will be judged by Miss Anna M. Ray. Treasury to Offer New Issue. Another issue of 182-day Treasury bills will be sold on a discount basis to the highest bidders in the face value of about $75.000.000 next Mon- day, it was announced today, by Secre- tary Morgenthau. Ye. —Star Staff Photo. tified Public Accountants; Corwin D. Edwards, assistant director of the staff of "the Consumers’ Advisory Board: George H. Parker, chief ac- . | countant of the Public Works Admin- istration, and Wilford L. White, chief of the Marketing Research Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domes- tic Commerce. Dr. White gave the principal address at the technical ses- sion which followed the meeting, talk- ing on the “Uses of Accounting in the Determination of Marketing Poli- cies.” PRICE INDEX RISES A slighE increase in wholesale com- modity prices during the week ended December 8 was noted yesterday by the Labor Department. The bureau’s index number ad- vanced 0.2 point over the previous week to 76.7. The number is based on average prices for 1926, with 100 representing that average. Foods declined from 75 to 74.9. Farm products advanced from 71.1 to L. REAR ADMR. COONTZ IS CRITICALLY ILL Suffers Heart Attack Soon After Funeral of Rear Admiral Halligan. By the Associated Press. BREMERTON, Wash, December 14 —Rear Admiral Robert S. Coontz, retired, author of a “Navy-second-to- none” policy under President Hard- ing, was in a critical condition today after a serious heart at- tack. He is 70. 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