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A2 wx® PERIL TO INVESTOR SFEN I NEW DEAL Policy on Holding Companies Declared Threatening Savings of Many. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. For some people the depression is just beginning. They saved their money in years gone by. invested it in what years ago were considered gilt-edge securities and today the Roosevelt administration stands ready to destroy some of those investments on the ground that abuses have ap- peared in the financial managements which need correction. H The extent of the deflationary movement going on today is some- what obscured by the fact that many lines of business are really improving. The fate of the investor who hap- pens to have the securities of hold- ing companies, whether in the elec- tric light industry or any other busi- ness, has come to be somewhat of an issue upon which sentiment is rap- idly erystalizing. PFor if the PFederal Government can destroy holding com- panies in one industry it can do so in another. Here is one of a large number of letters received by this correspondent apropos of the holding company problem: Specific Case Cited. “About 20 years ago I invested $5,- 000 in the A. N. Co. 3 per cent pre: ferred stock. The company was in- corporated in 1890. and 10 years ago I invested $5.000 in the 6 per cent preferred of a conservative company, A E&W. “I read your article about taxing mc holding companies and regula- tion. Do you, sir, think that in a country like hours, with our Consti- tution, these companies could be de- stroyed by the Federal Power Com- mission with the sanction of the President? I know since he was Gov- ernor he has never been a friend of utilities. The stocks are so low that to sell now would be to give them away Myself and wife are over 60 years old and the loss of our investments at this time in life would be a great blow to us. What shall I do?” Letters like the above are coming to members of Congress as well as the administration Million Believed Threatened. The answer made by some of the officials here is that it is “just too bad"; that other people have lost money, too, and that old investments cannot be safeguarded. But some of the let- ter writers say if they lose their life's | savings they will have to go on the dole and they can't see how the Gov- ernment is benefiting itself by adding to its relief rolls. Of course, the number of persons in this class, the small holders of secur- ities in utilities, may not be more than | & million individuals, but they and ! their dependents feel the acuteness! of the threat. To them the idea of | destroying holding companies is not | an academic question at all, but a con- crete menace to their means ive- of live: | The possibilities of deflation, how- ever, are not confined to these in- vestors. Many banks have made loans on utility securities as collateral, and if the Government proceeds with its | announced program banks will have | to call certain loans and perhaps sus- tain losses. Change in Policy Hinted. | Within the last few days there have | been signs of recognition by the ad- ministration of the deflationary chag- acter of its policy on holding com- panies, and this has prevented what otherwise might have been. disastrous liquidation on the part of those who | wanted to sell before all values were wiped out. Indeed, some recovery in market values of these securities has been evident. This arises solely out | of a belief that when the administra- tion gets face to face with the facts it will not go to extremes. Certainly the deflation that began during the Hoover administration did not help recovery, but added to the unemploy- ment rolls. In this case the deflation is having a twofold effect. It is threatening the income of those who have saved as well as those who have manipulated or been guilty of abuses. Also, it is preventing the re-employment of per- sons who would be put to work if the funds so much needed in order to replace wornout or obsolescent equip- ment could be obtained through re- financing operations. But with the sword of Damocles hanging over old investments, new investors are not likely to be obtained. (Copyright. 1935.) MINE MEETING CALLED PITTSBURGH, February 1 (F)—A call was issued yesterday for a confer- ence of operators and union leaders | Pened in the Appalachian soft coal region to meet at Washington February 18 and discuss renewal of contracts with the United Mine Workers of America. The wages, hours and working con- ditions of approximately 330,000 miners will be decided. Present con- tracts expire April 1. A 30-hour work week is expected to be the chief stumbling block to an early agreement. Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY, Senate. In recess until Monday. Munitions Committee probes naval bidding. Judiciary studies 30-hour week pro- posal. Finance Committee continues social } security hearing. Appropriations Committee considers relief bill. House. Debates Treasury-Post Office appro- priation bill. Ways and Means Committee hears ‘Townsend plan author on security legislation. Agriculture Committee considers 1935 farm credit act. YESTERDAY. Senate. Completed action on R. F. C. exten- sion and passed several minor bills. New naval bidding collusion charges mittee open ings on Black 30-hour week bill. Assistant Secretary Tugwell testified cotton exports before Agriculture Committee. Appropriations Committee studied relief bill. Hoeuse. Adopted conference report on R. P. C. extension bill. Sent $40,000,000 seed loan bill to conference. social security. Military Committee approved addi- tion to 50,000 men and 400 officers What’s What Behind News In Capital Long Has More Trouble Than He Can Handle With Bayonet. BY PAUL MALLON. Kingfish is not getting along as well as he appears to be. Behind those recent clashes in Louisiana is more trouble than Huey can handle with a bayonet. Up to now the people against Long THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRID';&Y, FEBRUARY 1, 1935. Marooned Men Rescued in Ice-Locked Chesapeake (CONTINUED COLD IS INDICATED HERE Mercury Drops to 6 Above and Thaw Fails to Materialize. With the official thermometer at he ‘Weather Bureau registering 6 de- grees at 7 a.m. today, the cold wave here was scheduled to continue for several days, at least, according to the forecaste: Forecasts of ‘“not quite so cold” are made, however, for tonight and tomorrow. The thaw pre- in Louisiana have been those with |viously expected by the forecaster to responsibilities, the business class and | %8in yesterday is nowhere in sight. women's club groups. They could not | A check of Weather Bureau statis- afford to fight him with his own | tics today showed that only once since slightly soiled weapons. January 23 has the official tempera- 1 gossiping with increasing awe about The Baton Rouge uprising was different. It was fomented by workers. They can be as rough as Huey and more so. Apparently it is #rue some of them were Standard Oil workers, thrown out of jobs by Huey’s tactics. Any one of them may take @ notion at any time to crown the Kingfish with a radio set, an alley apple or any- thing handy. Those in the know say Huey needs his bodyguard now more than ever before. Disturbing Facters. There are several subsurface factors in the business situation which do not show up in the figures, The Supreme Court will have before it con- tinuously from ncw until Summer a | | large number of cases affecting many | °" lines of industry. The uncertainty is already having a deterrent effect. Also there is the question of holding com-! pany legislation. It is planned only for utilities, but there is some un-| certainty about it. Likewise the full effect of railroad pension payments | (about $175,000,000 & year) is just now | | beginning to be fully felt and is dis- i turbing from a financial standpoint. These are minor influences now. | They may be overridden if the natural acceleration of business continues, but they should not be overlooked. Fractionally-witted politicians are Huey Long and Father Coughlin since the wreck of the World Court. If you put a dictaphone in the congressional cloak rooms you would hear a surpris- ing number of political tradesmen avowing that they are the two biggest political leaders outside the White House. This idea has been more or less poll-parrotted around the country as an open secret. The White House itself is supposed to believe it. The truth is the really wise poli- ticians laugh at it. They figure it out this way: A great many people are dissatisfied with their lot. As long as they are dissatisfied, some of them will cheer any speakers who also ex- press dissatisfaction. But as far as organizing national political move- ments on such a basis (a serious Long- for-president campaign in 1936, for instance), it does not seem to be possible. ture been above the freezing point, 32 degrees. That was on January 29 when it climbed to 36 degrees. 1 Below in Park. Sub-zero temperatures were regis- tered today in Rock Creek Park, where police said it was 1 below: along the water front at the Potomac Boat Club, where an unofficial thermometer registered 5 degrees below, and at Cheverly, Md., where 4 degrees below zero was recorded. The thaw failed to materialize, the forecaster said, due to the failure of cold air over the Eastern section to move toward the ocean in accord- ance with earlier indications. Had the cold air moved to sea it would have been replaced, it is pointed out, by more temperate currents from the ean. The official temperature at the Weather Bureau had risen to 13 degrees at 10 a.m. and to 16 degrees a half hour later, but was not ex- pected to go above 20 during the ! day. Ice Blocks Boats. The smaller boats in the Potomac River continue to be tied up by the ice. Steamships operating between here and Norfolk and tugs are forced to break through thin ice in the channel in making their runs. The fire boat and a police boat from the harbor precinct make runs each day to break.up ice. Thousands of adults and children continue to enjoy coasting and skat- ing. Only one injury attributed to the slippery streets was reported by police in the past 24 hours. Miss Bettie Louise McCormack, 17, of 4518 Forty-ninth street, a student at the Immaculate Seminary, was treated by a private physician for bruises about the legs and hip, received yes- terday when she slipped and fell while en route home from school. ) THOMAS SEES RULING FAVORING GOLD CLAUSE Senator Tells B'nai B'rith Adverse Action May Make Amend- ment Necessary. Confidence that the Supreme Court will uphold Congress in its gold de- cision was expressed last night by Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla- homa, In speaking at an installation meeting of the Argo Lodge, Order of B'nai B'rith, at the Willard Hotel. Senator Thomas said “it will be up to Congres again” if the court holds Never Will Get Together. Proof of that point lies in the fact that, while Long, Coughlin, Upton Sinclair and others have some of the same following, they have never got together on anything, and never will. Huey is secretly trying to build up a national political organization through these share-the-wealth clubs out through the country. He has fabulous figures as to the number of them. No one knows how many there are, but every one knows, in- cluding Long, that it will be extremely difficult to organize them into an ef- fective political party. Huey is reputed to be wealthy and can throw in enough money to make quite a fight, but President Roosevely will have more money than Long, after the $4,800,000,000 relief bill passes. This will make a rather effective political antidote for Long-evity. Furthermore, the New Deal has a hidden Long of its own under wraps. He is Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, who fights the Long way. Bilbo is being groomed as the man to take on Long for the administration through the South in the next campaign. Two Men Suspended. Scandal tongues are wagging again about a Texas irrigation project. In- terior Secretary Ickes started it byl pushing for grand jury action here, and acting mysterious about it. nothing more happens than has hap- on recent similar grand jurid- ical moves by the New Deal (the internal revenue case, War ment frauds, etc.), it will not be very sensational. | As the inside story goes, Ickes has suspended two men, one in the de- partment here and one in Texas. complaint was made by a large New York building corporation against them because the Government asked for bids only on wood tiles, which prevented the clay tile New Yorkers from bidding. The case also may ! involve a $347,000 engineering fee | which is to have been ob- | tained by a firm with which a Gov- ernment official may formerly have been connected. The country may not care any- thing about the World Court fight, hut Washington will never forget it. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt made little effort to hide his displeasure at the tactics used against the World Court by some of its adversaries. When he congratulated his floor | leader, Robinson, he stressed the| word “honorable” in such a way as to leave certain obvious inferences. The encomium heaped on Rob- inson was justified. He let the Court go to a vote, knowing it | that the Court only dissatisfaction expressed is that White tige may suffer. It but certainly no one believes the Sen. ate is rebelling against the N¢ ‘The Court situation in peculiarities that @tol) the gold act unconstitutional. He said a constitutional amendment may be necessary if this happens. of Argo Lodge installed at the meeting were Alfred . Bennett, president; Alfred Goldstein, vice pres- ident; Leon Katz, warden; Moe Offen- berg, financial secretary; Morris Gar- finckle, treasurer; Stephen Sills, guardian, and Dr. Charles Masseches, Max Bernstein, Leopold Freudberg, ' Joseph Kaufman and Isaac Lapidus, trustees. Treasury Invites Bids. The Treasury has invited bids on | 56000000 ISSUE URGED FOR STATE Bonds to Carry Mary- land to September. By the Associated Press. 1000,000 bond issue to furnish money for the State from now until Septem- | ber 30 was proposed today by a com- mittee named by Gov. Nice to advise him on Maryland's financial difficul- ties. The committee, headed by W. J. Casey, further suggested revenue measures be drafted to raise $4.000,- 000 yearly for the two fiscal years | beginning September 30. Sources Not Considered. ‘The funds thus raised would go for Iold<age pensions and unemployment | relief, extraordinary demands upon | the Treasury. What specific revenue | sources to be tapped to provide the | money was left for future study. | The $8,000,000 bond issue would | supply funds needed between now and September 30 for unemployment | relief and the State deficit. Rigid economy in State expenditures for | this period and in drawing the budget | for the next two years was urged. Nice Is Pleased. ‘The committee’s plan contemplates payment from the revenues of the | State Roads Commission sumns sv.ffi- cient to provide annual debt service on bonds for road pui . The | amounts would be $2,358,000 for the | fiscal year 1935-6 and $2,197.009 for | 1936-7. Gov. Nice at Annapolis termed the | report a “well-thought-out plan.” and said he expected to present it to the Legislature next Monday or Tuesday. Other members of the Casey Com- mittee are A. J. Hazlett, James E. Holper, Albert D. Hutzler, Oscar Leser, At left: A string of rescued boats being towed to a safe harbor at Crisfield, Md., by the Coast Guard cutter Apache, operating out of Balti- more. The cutter has been cruising up and down the ice-cluttered lower Chesapeake Bay for several days, rescuing vessels and men marooned in the ice. —A. P. Photo. Center: Nine marooned Tangler Island oystermen walking across the ice to the cutter, which took them to their homes. Cornelius Wallace, who was rescued today by the Apache At right: —A. P. Photo. from Holland Island, near the mouth of the Potomac, ‘Cutter Rescues Two Marooned * On Island After Trek Over Ice ‘Game Agent and Fisherman Taken | Aboard as Blimp Soars to Lend Aid. Nice’s Committee Proposes BALTIMORE, Pebruary 1—A $8.- | Vessels Fight By the Assoclated Fress. BALTIMORE, February 1.—Two men, 1ce-bound for 10 days, were res- cued from uninhabited Holland Island, near the mouth of the Potomac River, | today by the Coast Guard eutter | Apache, steaming through ice-cluttered Chesapeake Bay on rescue missions. One of the men was Cornelius Wal- lace, a game agent connected with the United States Biological Survey and the other. J. E. Sneade, a fisherman. Coast Guard fiyers dropped food to | the men yesterday and while the cut- ter approached the island, a dirigible took off from Washington to attempt a rescue if the cutter had been unable to reach the men. | A radio message from a correspond- ent of the Baltimore Sun aboard the Apache reported the rescue, saying: “Survey man, also one other. taken | aboard from uninhabited Holland. Marooned. Forced walk half mile on | ice to board launch.” Jee Worst in Years. Coast Guard authorities meanwhile | reported the ice between Maine and | | the Chesapeake Bay was the “worst in | B ‘The Apache has been fighting bay ice for a week, freeing distressed boats from its grip and landing stranded | watermen. | Representative Goldsborough (Dem- | ocrat) of Maryland was instrumental | in sending the Apache on its latest mission. He asked Coast Guard head- quarters at Washington for two patrol | | boats and received assurance from re- | Floes Week. Guard headquarters reported here to- day. Wallace and Sneade were rescued | from their ice-bound island by the Apache after first attempt of the ship to approach the island had failed from the east. Plunging through the heavy ice floe, the Apache finally abandoned its at- tempt to get to the men from the east and swung around to the west, finally breaking through to the island. Lieut. Comdr. C. C. Von Paulsen yesterday dropped food from his plane to the two marooned men Today a blimp from Washington Airport put out to rescue them, but turned back when informed that the Apache had ' reached them. P.W.A. IS UPHELD BY JUDGE LETTS lnjunctién Suit Dismissed on Ground Congress Has Funds Power. Declaring Congress has unlimited | power in prescribing regulations for | Hef authorities that food would be | spending money on P. W. A. projects, | provided families of Tylerton and | District Supreme Court Justice F. Smiths Islands, Somerset County, Md. | pickinson Letts today dismissed & suit Comnelius Wallace of the Biological | ! Survey and his companion., J. E. | Sneade, rescued from Holland Island | by the Coast Guard Cutter Apache to- | $75,000,000 of 182-day bills, dated ! Alan Sauerwein and Charles C. Wsl- | day, are to be landed at Hooper and | February 6 and to mature August 7. The proceeds will be used to retire a | similar indebtedness. Normal Tax and Surtax Rates, The revenue act of 1934 4 per cent on the amount of the net | income in excess of the allowable credits such as the personal exemp- tion, credit for dependents, etc. The act provides for an additional credit for the purpose of the normal tax of an earned income credit, that is, 10 per cent of the amount of the earned net income but not in excess of 10 per cent of the amount of the net income. Exemption Allowed. The personal exemption and credit for dependents are also allowable as excess of $6,000, the rate is f such excess. The sur- & surtax net income of | $80 and upon s surtax bet income in excess of $6,000 and not in excess of $8,000 the rate is 5 per cent | of such excess in addition to the $80, or a surtax of $180 upon a surtax net income of $8,000. The surtax on a surtax net income of $1,000,000 is'$533,000, and upon a surtax net income in excess of $1,000.- 000, 59 per cent, the maximum rate, is applicable to such excess, in addi- tion to the $533,000. Many taxpayers make the error provides for only one normal tax rate, that is, | lace. | Smith Islands in the bay, the Coast | \Mais 13 Steps | Where He and Pal Will Die| Mrs. Elisabeth Mais, mother of Surtax at 4 per cent on amount of surtax net income im excess of $4.000 but not ever $6.000. on $2.000. clemency for her son. By the Associated Press. . RICHMOND, Va., mnhcltfi—c ‘Il be 13 steps e oy Robert Mais when he head of the Tri-State gang of gunmen-robbers, is shown above entering the Capitol in Richmond, Va., where she pleaded with Gov. Peery for executive With her is Haley Shelton, Mais’ attorney. and Walter Legenza are sentenced to die in the electric chair tomorrow. From Chair Robert Mafs, convicted murderer and —A. P. Photo. say -by to his follow. by E g § 3 L] B 8 i #Hl ; : | g ie t : j 1 i= 5 | - | : ] i : ] 78 ¢ § i brought by A. Ames & Co, a New Jersey manufacturing concern, which claimed it had been discriminated against in public works projects. The suit was brought against Sec- retary of Agriculture Wallace, Secre- tary of the Interior Ickes and Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads. The company asked an injunction to prevent enforcement of an executive order which p.ovided all bidders for work or supplies for a Federal agency must certify with the submission of their bids that they are complying with the code of fair com- petition or the President’s re-employ- ment agreement for their particular industry. The company contended enforce- ment of this order would amount to a boycott, preventing # from bidding on highway work in New Jersey. It admitted it had never signed or agreed to the code or the re-employ- ment agreement. :Mhl\l&.l\mlflu said: pended.” The executive order com- plained of was issued pursuant to an act of Congress. U. S. JURY INDICTS MARIE M’KEEVER Baltimore Seeks to Try Associate of Mais on Armory Raid Charge. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Pebruary 1.—Armed with a_Federal indictment, Uni L MAL GEN, YRS ON RETIRED LS {Man Who Took Over Guam as Young Officer Quits Marines Post. The man who took over Guam for the United States—Maj. Gen. John Twiggs Myers—today was on the re- tired list, after 47 years' active service in various parts of the world. Re- lieving him as commander of the De- partment of the Pacific, with head- quarters at San Francisco, is Maj. & two-star genmeral. This shift in senior Marine Corps officers brings Col. Thomas Holcomb to the rank of brigadier general, in command of the schools. who was assistant to the major gen- eral commandant at the Navy De- partment before goirg to the West Coast, plans to live in Washington. Young When Isle Taken. Officials here today recalled Gen. Myers was a young Marine Corps officer, serving aboard the U. 8. S. Charles- ton, when he took over Guam in the name of the United States. During the Boxer Rebellion in China, during the siege of Peking. Gen. Myers was breveted for eminent and conspi~ucus | conduct in battle. He served in !hal Spanish-American War, in the Philip- | pine Insurrection, in the Punitive Ex- | pedition into Mexico and in the World War and commanded posts at Parris | Island, S. C.; San Diego, Calif, and | Quantico. He became a major gen- eral in October, 1931. He has been = resident of the District at various periods since 1880. Enown to the service as “Hand- some Soldier Jack.” Gen. Myers was one of the most popular officers m the corps and it is known that he had an opportunity to' become major general commandant, but declined to seek the preference. Breckinridge Known Here. Gen. Breckinridge, who succeeds him, is also well known in Washing- Philadelphia, Annapolis, Md.; Port C.; Newport, R. I, at Marine here and the Ma- rine Barracks, as well as in Cuba, and Nicaragua. naval attache in Petrograd, Russia Copenhagen, Denmark; during the World War was on duty in various parts of Europe. Gen. Holcomb, the new commandant of Marine Corps Schools, is a native of Delaware. His address is 2314 Tracy place. He has served in the Philippine Islands, China, France and Cuba. During the World War he re- ceived the Legion of Honor from Prance, the Croix de Guerre, and was cited four times by the Prench gov- ernment, and holds the Navy Cross. St. Paul Court House. today to | Flemington, N. J. at Quantico, Va., who today becomes | Friends here said that Gen. Myers, | ton. He has served here, in New York, | Panama, China, San Domingo, Mexico He was assistant Stockholm, | Sweden, and Christiana, Norway, and | VISITORS IN WRONG CITY Seek Hauptmann Court Room in ST. PAUL, February 1 (#).—Two men, obviously strangers, entered an pair said, and Pischer, convinced ited | they were serious, explained the Hauptmann trial was being held at|Army in 1920. He was a graduaie ¢ AVIATION MESSAGE IS HELD LIFE-SAVER Aeronautical Chamber Head Terms President’s Note “Splendid Service.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 1.—Thomas A. Morgan, president of the Aeronau- tical Chamber of Commerce of Amer- ica, today viewed President Roose- velt's message to Congress accom- vanying the report of the Federal Aviation Commission, as a possible Iifesaver to commercial aviation, Morgan's statement, issued as the chamber adjourned an executive session, called the President’s mes- sage a “splendid service.” “The aeronautical industry of the United States,” Morgan declared, “appreciates the encouragement of- fered by the President’s message, pa ticularly that part which emphasizes the serious financial conditions exist- ing in the air transport industry. “The airlines have been operating under such heavy losses that their existence is menaced. “By pointing out the immediate need for congressional action render- ing aid to the airlines so that they may survive, the President has per- formed a splendid service.” LAUDED BY CHAMBERLIN. Ocean Flyer Hails Aviation Program of Roosevelt, MIAMI, Fla., February 1 (#)— President Roosevelt’s program for aviation was commended today by Clarence Chamberlin, trans-Atlantic fiyer. Chamberlin was particularly en- thusiastic over the report of the Federal Aviation Commission to Con- gress urging that the Nation's military air forces be expanded and improved. The program. Chamberlin sald in an interview, includes most ot the points favored by aviation experts He said it “should not only inscre the aviation industry. but also the aciual safety of the country.” HITLER OVERRULES BAN ON POLA NEGRI Goebbels Had Prohibited Her From Working in Reich on Semitie Ancestry Suspicion. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 1.—Reichsfueh- rer Hitler personally came to the aid of Pola Negri, Polish motion picture star today, overruling the propaganda | ministry’s order prohibiting the act- | ress from working in Germany on the | grounds that she was suspected of | having .Jewish blood. Hitler ruled that Miss Negri could enter Germany and act in a new Ger- man film in which she is to be starred. The actress had applied personally, | several days ago, to Joseph Goebbles, minister of propaganda, for permis- sion to make the picture, but her ap- | plication had been refused. The official communique issued to- | day on the matter said: “An investi- gation instituted by the Reichsfuehrer established that she is Polish and therefore Aryan.” MEISNER TO FIGHT LABATT EVIDENCE |Kidnap Defendant’s Attorney Says Brewer, Who Identified Prisoner, Was Taped. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Ontario, February 1.— Counsel for David Meisner, on trial for the kidnaping of John S. Labatt, wealthy brewer, today announced the identification of the former Cincin- |nati and Detroit bookmaker as an | abductor would be fought. C. W. Bell, defense chief, told | Justice G. F. McFarland he would { show the middle-aged kidnap victim | who was dragged from his automo- | bile last August never saw the faces of his abductors, and had his eves sealed with adhesive tape throughout his captivity. Labatt had testified in direct ex- amination that Meisner was the man who applied the tape and that he saw him for “about four minutes” before the tape was placed over his eyes. Bell, during the cross-examination, questioned the brewery president, who yesterday ‘identified Meisner as one of the three. CAPT. JOHN BEVERIDGE DIES AT WALTER REED Army Aivator Ill Since May—! vate Funeral Will Be Held Monday. Capt. John Beveridge, jr., Air Carps, | U. S. A, died this morning in Walter Reed Hospital, where he had been ill since last May. Born in Jersey City, N. J., April 16, 1889, Capt. Beveridge joined the Signal Officers’ Reserve Corps in 1917 and was put on active duty a few days later. He was made first lieutenant in the Air Service of the Regular | the Air Service Pilots' School 3 the Air Service Bombardment Sciy | Appointed captain in 1930, his station was at Maxwell Field, Mo gomery, Ala. He is survived by his widow, Mrs} Winifred A. Beveridge, and two chil- dren, John and Joan, who are tempo- rarily residing at the Westchester ents. Funeral services will be held privately at 2:30 p.m. Monday, followed by burial in Arl Na- i tional Cemetery. 'FORMAL HEARING SET , ON SHOOTING OF B0 | By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. | BELTSVILLE, Md, February 1 ] ‘ fatal wounding of Jenkins, 14, who was shot Wednesday after- noon while eating lunch with two companions and a younger brothe: at his home in the southwest corfier of the Experiment Farm, where his father is an employe. ‘William Lizear, 17, and his brother, James, 16, companions of the Jen- kins youth at the lunch table, are | being” held in the Hyattsville of an invest