Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1935, Page 6

LONG DICTATORIL ROARSINACTIN Civil Service Commission | Considers Ousting of Police Chief. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La, January 1.— Huey Long’s dictatorial commissions are in action for the start of the New Wear, setting utility rates and firing locs] police officers. His pet State Civil Service Commis- slon heard evidence behind closed doors and took under advisement ! t Clint C. O'Malley, Lo e "ot Alexandris, be fired from his job so that Gov. O. K. Allen, Long's man, could appoint & Long chief of police for Alexandria. Then the Louisiana Public Service ission, composed of LOng sup- cm::‘;!, fssued an order for residential water rates in Baton Rouge to be reduced from 40 cents to 30 cents & thousand gallons and the ‘Kingfish’ took his first step toward reducing rates with his dictatorship. ‘The reduction order was announced Jast night by P. A. Prye, secretary of the Public Service Commission. The order was aimed at the Baton Rouge Waterworks Co., one of four utilities which Long has had cited to ghow cause why ‘reasonable” rates should not be established. The commission said action would be taken to reduce rates of other utllities in the State. o WOMAN SUCCUMBS TO BURNS IN HOME Exploding Lamp Blamed for Ac- cident at 44 Fenton Place. Neighbors Give Aid. Bertha Williams, 36, colored, died fn Freedmen's Hospital yesterday of burns received about 7 :30 last night when a fire broke out in a room on the second floor of her home at 44 Fenton place. She told police the fire started when a lamp exploded, ignit- ing her clothing. Neighbors saw smoke coming from the home and rushed in to drag Mrs. Williams from the blazing house. Although an inquest had not been ordered this morning by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald, police held her husband, Charles Williams, 44, col- ored, for investigation. STATE INSURANCE POST TO GO TO KETCHAM Former Representative to Be Named Commissioner by Mich- igan Governor. By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich, January 1— Gov.-elect Frank D. Fitzgerald has announced he will appoint former Representative John C. Ketcham of Hastings State insurance commis- sioner. Ketcham will succeed Charles E. Gauss of Marshall. The new appointee is & lifelong Re- publican. He represented the fourth district in Congress from 1921 until the Democratic landslide in 1932, serv- ing six consecutive terms. He was aster of the Michigan State Grange from 1912 to 1920. Later he was State lecturer of the grange. 1935 Eclipse Show :By Sun to Be Best : Seen in 130 Years But Only Two Will Be g Visible in U. S., the First February 3. By the Associated Press. * PASADENA, Calif, January 1.— he sun of 1935 will present its great- st show of eclipses witnessed on the earth in 130 years. Prof. Alfred H. Joy, secretary of the Carnegie Institution’s Mount Wilson Observatory, said yesterday the sun and moon together will offer seven eclipses, the largest number possible in any one year. ‘The moon will pass between the sun and the earth five times and the moon will be in the earth’s shadow twice. Not since 1806 have the sun’s rays been partly blotted from the earth so many times. It will be the second series of five solar eclipses in one year since 1255 and there will not be an- other such number until 2485. ‘There have been seven eclipses in several years between, but always in a four-three combination. This year there were two lunar and two solar eclipses, none visible in the United States. And here is the rub for the 1935 ghow—only two eclipses will be visible in the United States. Prof. Joy said a partial eclipse of the sun will be visible over the United States February 3. A total eclipse of the moon will be visible over the entire United States July 16. The last total eclipse of the sun visible in the United States was Au- gust 31, 1932, and there will not be ;nother seen in this country until 945. | a_sure warning” can be prevented the regular use (uticura SOAP o uticura INTMENT Buy (liticura Today _ . __THE.EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, -D. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, ‘1935. TWO YOUNG GIRLS HELD AS NARCOTIC SUSPECTS By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, January 1.—The 18- was also the name of another Chi- cago girl seized with her in a raid | yesterday. The other girl was in Flower Hos- pital, in serious condition with & self-inflicted stab wound. The name given for her, Muriel Morrelle, was runner, was seized with the girls in the raid. The girl in the hospital is 20 yeers old. She claimed to be Mor- relle’s wife. U. S. Trade Increases. VATICAN CITY OFFICIALS UNDERTAKE REFORMS VATICAN CITY, January 1.—Pope Pius ordered a shake-up in the civil of Vatican City, Marquis Serafini, to proceed to the reform of the offices of the governorship. 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