Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1935, Page 3

DEMOCRATS' BALL PLANNED TONIGHT Organization Will Begin Cel- ebrations in Honor of Roosevelt. Roosevelt's flfily-thlrg rthday celebration, which will reac! r'ls clln}’ax tomorrow night with the | holding of benefit birthday balls in all parts of the United States, will be ushered in here tonight with a “pre-birthday” ball sponsored by the Young Demn('raulcif the District at flower Hotel. th; f;e’ém ceremony at the stroke of midnight will signal the beginning of the official birthday celebration, which | will conclude tomorrow night at the| official birthday ball at the Shoreham | otel. HTomght‘s ball at the Mayflower will be a benefit affair, as will that of tomorrow night at the Shoreham, proceeds going to the care of children crippled by infantile paralysis. Artists of the Cosmopolitan Opem| Association, following their pre_senla-; tion of “La Traviata” at Constitution Hall tonight, will go to the Mayflower to participate in the program at the ball. President Among the en- | tertainment fea- tures at tonight's affair will be a dance series by Miss Marian D. Venable, who be- fore she came to Washington was premiere dans- euse of the Chi- cago Civic Opera Co. She has con- ducted dancing classes at the Children’s Hos- = pital under spon- Marian D. Vemable. 0 0 ot Dr. Custis Lee Hall to help build up the the bodies of the afflicted patients there. It is planned, according to Ray-. mond J. Walter, president of the cratic Clubs of America, that “offi- cial Washington will first attend the there go to the ball at the Mayflower.” “The evening’s double bill.” he said, #is expected to prove an outstanding event in the history of our organiza- tion and will be an appropriate pref- ace to the ceremony ushering in the President’s birthday. Tickets for the official birthday ball at the Shoreham tomorrow night will be sold tonight at the pre-birthday ball at the Mayflower. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Bingo party, benefit Ladies’ Aux- fliary of Columbia Lodge. Interna- tional Association of Machinists, 60 M street northeast, 8 p.m. Dinner, Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute, University Club, 6:30 p.m. Dance, Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks, Hamilton Hotel, 9 p.m. Dinner, Washington Association of Credit Men, Hamilton Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Ball, Young Democratic Club, May- flower Hotel, 9 p.m. Dinner dance, Kansas State So- Randolph Queétioning Maj. Brown today. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1935. Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia (right), chairman of the House subcommittee investiga- ting crime conditions in the Capital, as he questioned Maj. E. W. Brown, superintendent of police, at the hearing —Star Staff Photo. and stores consumers. Urban Schedule “A." Present rate. First 50 kilowatt hours at 3.9¢ Next 50 kilowatt hours at 3.3c Next 100 kilowatt hours at 2.0c Over 200 kilowatt hours at 1.5¢ Minimum ¥ Urban Schedule “D.” First 100 kilowatt hours at 3.8¢ Next 150 kilowatt hours at 3.4c Next 3.300 kilowatt hours at 2.9¢ Over 3.550 kilowatt hours at 2.0c Minimum .....cc000000.40.80.75 Electric Rates Proposals Tentative Reductions Would Have Greatest Effect on Bills of Residential Consumers Using 50 to 100 Kilowatt Hours. Rate changes, as suggested by the Potomac Electric Power Co., would District branch of the Young Demo- | nave the greatest effect in two groups, the domestic, or residential con- sumers in the District, and the commercial, apartment house, office building The greatest change would be brought about in the opera at Constitution Hall and from | pills of those residential consumers who use between 50 and 100 kilowatt hours. “Urban schedule ‘A’” represents the District residential consumers, and “urban schedule ‘D’ ” represents users of electricity for commercial purposes. The following tables give the reduction in rates. the number of consumers in each group and the aggregate saving to each group: i Number of Consumers, 130,655. ! i | under consideration by the Public First Next Next 100 kilowatt hours Over 200 kilowatt hours Minimum Number of Customers, 18,987, First Next Next 2,900 kilowatt hours at 2 Over 3.150 kilowatt hours at 2.0c Minimum ......c00000000..80.75 Reduct'n. 3.9¢ 3.1c 1.9¢ 1.5¢ Proposed rate. 50 kilowatt hours 50 kilowatt hours at at at 100 kilowatt hours at 3.8¢ 150 kilowatt hours at 3.2c 9c 0 57,018 PARENTS AWAITING WORDOF ELOPERS Mr. and Mrs. Cooke Still| eiety, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Banquet, Society of American For- esters, Shoreham Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Supper dance, Ohio State Society, Shoreham Hotel, 9 p.m. Reception to grand matron and gmnd patron, O. E. S., Willard Hotel, pm. Bingo and card party, benefit orphans’ fund of Cherrydale Council No. 11, Daughters of America, No. 3 Mackey street, Cherrydale, 8 p.m. Meeting, Washington Vegetarian Society, 907 Fifteenth street, room 308, 8 pm. TOMORROW. ‘Turkey dinner, Bible school of H Btreet Christian Church, Sixth and H streets southwest, 5 to 8 p.m. Dance, Hotel Greeters of America, Without Information as to Daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Howard de Walden | Cooke of Chevy Chase, Md., waited | in vain today for word from their | daughters, Jane and Anna, who are | believed to be in Florida following 20- | year-old Jane's elopement Friday with | the family chauffeur, George Scar- lette, 21. Meanwhile, Mrs. Cooke has not withdrawn a warrant which she swore out for Scarlette on charges that he | made off with $5000 worth of her | jewelry, which she gave him to take to a jeweler for cleaning. According to her attorney, Webster Ballinger, the warrant will be withdrawn “if and when the jewelry is returned.” The three young people left in an | automobile registered in Jane’s name | cutting telephone wires at the Cooke Chapter No. 31, Maryland Club Gar- dens, 9 pm. President’s birthday ball, Shoreham Hotel. Musicale, Miss Helen Jepson and Richard Bonelli, Mayflower Hotel, 11:15 am. Dinner meeting, District Medical Bociety, Mayflower Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, Acacia Lodge, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Dinner, Pennsylvania delegation, Women's Patriotic Conference for Na- tional Defense, Mayflower Hotel, 6 pm. Meeting, American Philatelic So- efety, Carlton Hotel, 8 p.m. Address, Dr. Abram Simon, on “The Glory That Once Was Egypt,” Ward- man Park Hotel, 11 a.m. SPECIAL NOTICES. pe DATLY TRIPS MOVING LOADS F'IYL loads to_and from Balto.. Phila.. ew York ~Frequent trips 10 other ern cities “Dependable Service Since 1896 THE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE CO.. Decatur_2500. 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Jane and the chauffeur were married in Washington and then went on to North Carolina, where the three | stopped with Scarlette’s parents. Monday night the girls’ aunt, Mrs. John J. Madigan, jr., of the Broad- moor Apartments, received a tele- phone call from Anna saying they were on the way to Florida and would come home to explain everything after a vacation in the Winter playground. Ballinger said today that no fur- ther word had come from the three and their whereabouts was unknown. ‘The attorney said Mr. and Mrs, Cooke would not determine their attitude in the matter until they had a chance to confer with Jane and Anna. Mixed Signals Blamed Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. CLYDE AND BONNE RELATIVES JALED Mothers Included in Arrest of 18 Persons on Charge of Aiding Couple. PEPCO VALUATION BEING CONSIDERED Public Utilities Commission Seeks to Determine Equitable Profit. Valuation of the entire properties of the Potomac Electric Power Co., with a view to determining if the 7 per cent profit allowable under the present sliding scale is equitable, is Utilities Commission on a motion made yesterday before the rate body by William McK. Clayton, chairman of the Utilities Committee of the Fed- | eration of Citizens' Associations Clayton and William C. McClellan, president of the power company, en- tered into a heated discussion of the | company’s rates early in the hearing. | Clayton contended that the company’s rates are excessive, in view of the cheap money available and the earn- ing power of other companies of like investment. To Determine Rates. The utility commission has before |1t the question of whether the rates for the ensuing year will be based on the figures submitted by the com- pany or upon those given by B. M. Bachman, chief auditor of the com- mission. If the schedule of the com- pany is accepted, the rates in the Dis- trict and nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia will be reduced 1.2 per cent. The figures submitted in the sched- ule by Bachman would bring about a slightly greater reduction. The commission is expected to decide to- morrow in an effort to put the new rates into effect by February 1, it By the Assoclated Press. ! DALLAS, Tex., January 29.—The | mothers of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie | Parker, slafn outlaw couple, were | among 18 persons in jail today as Federal authorities brought a Nation- wide drive against harboring of crim- inals into the Southwest. | Other relatives of the notorious | couple, killed in Louisiana by officers | last May, were included in the blanket | indictment charging a conspiracy to | harbor and conceal Clyde and Bonnie from May 20, 1933, to May. 1934. United States District Attorney Clyde Eastus headed the six-month- long investigation that ended with the arrest of the suspects in a sudden | drive yesterday. “The indictment,” he said, “alleges 80 overt acts and sets forth the facts that many banks would not have been robbed and eight or nine police offi- ers would still be living had persons named in this complaint not helped Barrow and Bonnie Parker to evade the law.” The defendants will be brought to trial on February 22 before Federal Judge William H. Atwell here. Eastus said a maximum seutence of two years | or $10,000 fine could be imposed for | conviction of the charges. Henry Methvin, betrayer of the bandit couple, was named among the group indicted. He tipped officers to the whereabouts of Clyde and Bonnie shortly before their violent death. Mardi Polaner, quartermaster of the ill-fated Mohawk, holds up his bandaged hand to take ocath at the United States Steamboat Ii Service probe of the disaster. He said “mixed” steering signals caused crash with the Talisman., His hands B ‘were. injured. in the collision, | the was said. The greatest reduction of $73293 would be brought about in the do- mestic schedule, affecting 130,655 consumers, particularly the second block of that group. The class “D” consumers, com- posed of consumers in the District for general lighting. power and in- dividual motors for commercial pur- poses, would save $57.018 under the new schedule. A saving of $3,759 would be brought about in the rural domestic group, while the class “C” | group, made up of apartment house and office building consumers for mo- tor and lighting purposes, would save $4.249. The company’s figures set the re- ductable for 1935 at $139,894, while commission’s figures run to $147,500. William A. Roberts, people's coun- sel, objected to the acceptance of the company's figures as final, con- tending that they should be substan- tially reduced as to several chargeable items and increased as to the reduc- tion in rates. He asked the com- mission to make a thorough study of several of the items in the state- ment on revenues and disbursements before making its decision. Himan Folsom, special corporation counsel, representing Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman, an- nounced at the hearing that Andrew Sangster, a well-known accountant, has been busy for several months making a thorough investigation into the retirement payments by the com- pany of the original $6.000,000 im- pounded fund created over a period of litigation before the consent decree by the District Supreme Court by which the sliding-scale system was established, with an allowable profit on investment of 7 per cent. It was brought out at the hearing that the electric company has set aside 2 per cent of its revenue for promotion of new business. Rufus S. Lusk, secretary of the Building and Loan and Managers’ Association of the District, filed & pro- test against classes “C” and " of the schedule as discriminatory against apartment and office buildings. Also Files Protest. Charles J. Rush, secretary of the Waslington Real Estate Board, also filed a protest against these two classes on similar grounds. The Comgmissioners hearing the case of the electric company were Riley E. Elgen, chairman; Richmond B. Keech and Lieut. Col. Dan I. Sul- tan, District Engineer Commissioner. The company was represented legally by P. A. Bowen and a force of experts of the company assisted Dr. McClellan in the presentation of evidence. — e WHERE TO DINE. 20th and R Sts. N.W. “Speaks for Itself” Southern Menus a Specialty . .. Turn idle moments ini olde: ?u-—vlm ife you enje: e, &v“ LD - FASHIONED " RISIN > COUNTRY SAUSAGE=br drep. in F~ formal _and delicious COCRTAIL berore dinner. P.5.—~Our drinks are prepared by LUNCHEON, TEA, DINNER | IMERIT PROMOTION URGED FOR POLICE Schulte Favors Abolition of Present System in Crime Probe. (Continued From First Page.) of the department to stamp out the | game and the difficulties encountered in procuring sufficient evidence against numbers operators. He said the bill recently passed by the Senate | to strengthen the gambling laws would give the department a potent weapon, because it would make the possession of numbers slips or paraphernalia prima facie evidence of guilt. Maj. Brown then pledged his co- operation to the committee and ex- pressed belief that the crime inquiry would be beneficial to Washington as well as to his department, He said it is his aim to keep the department “clean and honest.” Success Is Forecast. ‘When he made this statement Rep- resentative Schulte said: “I am mighty happy to hear you | make that statement and for this Teason—there is no question in my | mind but what something will be de- veloped. We will develop something | out of this investigation. Personally, | I feel we will go places and get evi- dence and we want you to help us to bring in individuals so that we may ask them questions. And I do not think there is any question but what there will be a great deal of ilght thrown on the gambling situation in the city of Washington.” Schulte added that since he had| started the investigation his office had | been swamped with telephone calis from persons who would give the com- mittee information, but that it was not his intention to use any hearsay evidence. Brown to Be Recalled. The committee adjourned until Fri- day at 10:30 a.m., when Maj. Brown will be recalled to the witness stand. At that time it is expected he will ask for the name of the police captain or other officers who it has been inti- mated during the inquiry are asso- ciating with underworld characters. Immediately preceding adjournment | Representative Randolph, Democrat, | of West Virginia, chairman of the in- vestigating committee, read a letter| from Corporation Counsel Prettyman | offering the services of his office dur- | ing the inquiry. The committee, how- ever, deferred action on the offer. FUNERAL CONDUCTED) FOR WOMAN MARINE Janet Constance Kurgan Buried | at Arlington With Mili- tary Honors. Janet Constance Kurgan, described | as the first of three women inducted into the paymaster's department of | the Marine Corps here during the | World War and who was discharged as a corporal, was buried today with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. She died Saturday in New | York Enlisting in the Marine Corps- in New York on August 21, 1918, she | served in the office of the paymaster | at the Navy Department and in the office of the assistant paymaster at New York. She was discharged on July 22, 1929. A number of persons who had served with her at Marine Corps Headquar- ters attended the funeral, which was | held at 10:30 o'clock. PROFESSOR. TO SPEAK Dr. N. B. Fagin, professor of Eng- lish at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss “Influence of Minority Groups and Their Social Life on| American Literature” at thc Jewish Community Center Thursday night, in the first of a series of three lectures on “Social Forces in American Lit- erature.” i The lecture, sponsored by the Cen~i ter Institute, wil' start at 8:30 p.m. The public will be admitted free. | City Offers Finest | Skiing Areas, Say Parks Officials; Only 30 Found Taking Advantage of Sites in District. ‘Washington, according to officials of the National Capital parks, offers the finest skiing grounds in the Southland —and still the people of Washington are not skiing. In all the city of Washington only | 30 skiiers were found. | What the park officials want the people to do is get out the skiis. As the park officials have no skils, | all they can do is offer the skiing grounds—and this they do with a gen- | erous wave of their hands. 1 C. Marshall Pinnan, park superin- tendent, suggests the Rock Creek Park golf course as an excellent place. It| has as many slides and dips as 8 Switzerland Winter resort. The steep | fairways, Mr. Finnan pomts out, pro- | vide safe fast hills for public skiing. | TERMITES Destroy BUILDINGS We Make 2 Inspection be destroying the Ponded treatment by - the largest termite eradication organization in the world. Connecticut 1707 Ave. N.W, Rites Today DR. HARRY WALTON KENNER, Prominent druggist, who died Sunday at his home, 1416 Ingra- ham street, was to be given a pri- vate burial this afternoon, follow- ing funeral services at the home at 2 pm. Dr. Kenner, a retired member of the District Board of Examiners in Pharmacy, was 71 years old. He had lived in Wash- ington for 50 years. LIBBY 15 CENTER OF LEGAL STORM Validity of Divorce Given First Wife Questioned by Reynolds’ Family. By the Assoclated Press, WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., January 29.—A storm of legal complications raged today about Libby Holman in the court battle over disposition of nolds, tobacco heir and her late hus- ! band. In her fight for part of Reynolds’ vast wealth for her 2-year-old son, Christopher, the Broadway torch singer was confronted with a double challenge to the legality, of her mar- riage to Reynolds and the accompany- ing inheritance rights of the son born | of that marriage. Join With Former Wife. The latest court action, initiated by Reynolds' brother and two sisters, raised the question of the validity of the divorce obtained from young Rey- nolds by his Arst wife, the present Mrs. Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith. claimed her | The latter previously Reno divorce was void because she e — WOMAN IS SHOT Colored Man Held After Stray Bullet Finds Mark. ‘The curlosity of Lucinda Brown, 36, colored, put her in the hospital last night. She was attracted to the third-floor front window of her home at 1305 Ninth street when she heard shoot- ing in the basement across the street. Three shots were fired, one of the bullets penetrating the woman's left shoulder. She was treated at Emer- gency Hospital. ‘William Seymore, 45, colored, who | police said was fighting with Jesse C. | ‘Williams, also colored, was arrested in connection wjth the shooting. Jed Adams Believed Dying. Physicians virtually abandoned hope today for the recovery of Jed C. Adams, member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals and former | Democratic national committeeman monia for a week. Friends said he lost consciousness late last night. 418 6th St. N.W. \ | was ill at the time and had obtained ; it at the instigation of her husband. While asserting Reynolds’ marriage to Libby Holman was not valid, the brother and sisters of the tobacco heir proposed to divide equally Rey- nolds’ $182,000 personal estate be- tween Miss Holman, her son and the 4-year-old daughter of Reynolds’ first wife. Would Pay State Claim. A claim by the State for inheritance taxes on the entire $30,000,000 estate, estimated at more than $2,000,000, drew their contention that the divorce, | and consequently Reynolds’ marriage to Libby, were void. They offered, | however, to pay the claim without conceding its validity This was the first indication by the Reynolds family that it would take the same position as Reynolds’ first wife, who claimed the entire for- tune for her daughter on the pre- viously asserted grounds the divorce was not valid. 104 Liquor Indictments. DENVER, January 29 (£ —A Fed- eral grand jury yesterday returned 79 true bills indicting 104 persons for violation of Federal liquor regulations. Twelve of those indicted are women. 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