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A—14 #» CRIME QUIZ GETS REPORT ON VICE [N EACH PREGINCT Randolph Reveals Probers Already Have Informa- tion on Conditions. ALL POLICE CAPTAINS WILL BE SUMMONED May Be Judge I i | | Each Officer Will Be Asked to! State Problems in His Own Locality. Information about vice and crime econditions in virtually every police precinct in the District has been given the Special Crime Investigating Com- mittee of the House, Chairman Ran- dolph revealed today as he prepared to resume the investigation next week. For that reason, Randolph said, every police captain is to be called to the witness stand to discuss condi- tions in his particular precinct. Two captains already have been questioned Rhoda J. Milliken, head of the Wom- €n's Bureau, and James E. Bobo of the second precinct. Capts. Edward J. Kelly, third precinct, and Jeremiah Sullivan, fourth precinct, %ill be the first witnesses before the committee when the hearings are resumed Mon- day at 10:30 a.m. To Explain Problems. Randolph explained the examina-‘ tion of the police captains would fol- | low one direct line with a view fo} ceveloping the problems in each pre- cinct. The captains first will be asked 1o unburden their troubles and then | they will be questioned about condi- tions reported to the committee. Capt. Bobo was told by the com- mittee when he was on the stand two days ago that two gambling houses are operating in his precinct. ‘The location of each was revealed and Capt. Bobo promised immediate action. Other captains, it was said, can expect similar disclosures when they take the stand. Garnett Decision Unknown. Randolph said the committee had not yet reached a definite decision on the proposal to recall United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. Four of the eight committee members have urged that he be recalled to explain certain cases which have not been brought to trial and to amplify his recent statement that gamblers are responsible for the attempt to discredit his office. Garnett has promised the committee | that 30 gambling cases now on the | docket would be brought to trial at | the current session of the District Supreme Court. MILK BILL REHEARD BY SUPREME COURT Virginia Attorney General Ap- peals for Support of Con- trol Measure. FORPLAY ADVSED Council on Recreation Also Recommends Fulltime Director. The Advisory Council on Playgrounds and Recreation has recommended to | the Commissioners that a District recreation commission to supervise and control all -ecreation and playgrounds | facilities 1n the Cagital be established. | Under the council’s recommendation | the commission would be headed by a | fuiltime director of recreation and would be composed of nine members to be selected by the District Commis- sioners, the Board of Education and the superintendent of the National Capital Parks Office. Each of thej groups would appoint three members. Surveys Recommended. ‘The council, which was set up in January by the Commissioners, also recommended a survey of the present system of charges and concessions | through which pert of the existing | recreational activities are at present | carried on. | A study also would be made of the | possibilities of the use of fees tc sup- port recreational activities; a single permit agency for using the pln_v-“ grounds wculd be created, and a single | consolidated budget to finance all pub- | lic recreation in the Capital would be established. It was urged by the council that a study be made of the ownership, con- | trol or title of all lands purchased under the Capper-Cramton act to ex- )Iend the park facilities, and that l]l’ publicly owned property needed and | suitable for recreation be made avail- | able to the new control agency, Outgrowth of Report. | The council’s recommendations are | |an outgrowth of the District Com- | missioners’ studies of the Weir report | {on the city's playgrounds made for | the National Capital Park and Plan- | ning Commission. The report submitted to the Com- missioners was signed by Leifur Mag- nusson, president of the council; Charles C. Glover. jr., vice president; Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, vice president, By the Associated Press. i RICHMOND. March 9.—Arguing | that the law was for the protection of a vital industry. Attorney General | . A. P. Staples yesterday asked the State Supreme Court of Appeals to recon- sider its decision holding the 193¢ Virginia milk control act unconstitu- tional. The attorney general, as a member of the State Senate in the last session of the Legislature, was patron of the measure which set up regulations for the control of the milk industry, in- cluding prices. The court several months ago threw the law out as invalid, holding the milk industry was not a business af- fected with a public interest, and making particular objection to the price-fixing provisions. Subsequently the court granted yesterday's reargu- ment of the case after it had received numerous petitions for a rehearing. S. D. Timberlake, jr., of Staunton, counsel for R. J. Reynolds and other milk producers of the Staunton area, argued that the act was unconstitu- tional particularly in that it was in contravention of the Virginia bill of rights. N. F. F. E. Unit Holds Party. A benefit bingo party for Local No. 2. National Federaticn of Federal Em- ployes, will oe neld at 8 o'clock tonight at the local's headquarters, 710 Four- teenth street. William Walsh, General Accounting Office, is general chaitman for the entertainment. - “Fast One” Is Laid | To Roosevelt on! P.W.A. Fund Fight| Gives Ickes Job of Ex- plaining Gotham Bridge Issue. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt was credited by Becretary Ickes today with “pulling & fast one” on reporters who wanted to know what the Public Works Ad- ministration is planning to do next in its controversy with Robert W. Moses, New York Republican. Ickes weeks ago ordered that pub- e works funds for the Triborough Bridge in New York City should be held up as long as Moses holds office both as New York parks commissioner and secretary of the Bridge Authority. Moses, who oppoged Gov. Lehman of New York in the last election and 1s a close friend of Alfred E. Smith, has declined to quit either post. The President was asked about the controversy at his press conference yesterday. Remarking good-humoredly that he and Ickes both were on the spot, Mr. Roosevelt said the public works administrator might have something to say at his next regular press conference. “The President pulled a fast one and they all fell for it,” Ickes chuckled afterward. “He was trying to alibi for himself.” ‘The works administrator said his order regarding Moses still “stands and it is going to stand like the Rock of Gibraltar.” He asserted he “did'nt know yet what I'm going to say Tues- ” but invited reporters to a con- and Mrs. Ernest F. Parkinson, secre- tary. BANKRUPTCY BILL IS BEING DRAFTED! Lawyers, Credit Men and Bank- ers Completing Work on Mod- ernizing 0ld Law. The closing session of a three-year conference on the vast project of mod- - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SYKES EXPECTED T0BENAMED TO APPEALS COURT Retires as Head of Com- munications Board and Prall Gets Post. VACANCY ON BENCH BELIEVED TO BE NEAR Judge Refuses, However to Dis- cuss Change—Former Mississippi Supreme Justice. By the Associated Press. Eugene O. Sykes, who yesterday stepped down as chairman of the Fed- eral Communications Commission, to- day was expected in informed admin- istration quarters, to be appointed a member of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals when the first \‘a-} cancy occurs, Sykes, it was announced at the White House last night, asked to be relieved as chairman of the Com- munications Commission, and Anning S. Prall of New York was named chairman in his place. Judge Sykes refused today to dis- cuss the change, but it was reported that one or more of the justices of the District Court of Appeals will re- tire shortly and Sykes be named in his place. Sykes was a justice of the Miss- issippi Supreme Court before Pres dent Hoover named him a member of the old Radio Commission—predeces- sor of the Communications Commis- sion. His experience on and Communications Commissions was believed to offer special value to the Court of Appeals which passes on all suits filed against or by the Com- munications Commission Prall is a former member of Con- gress from New York. Judge Sykes will continue as a member of the commission, at least temporarily. ‘The shift becomes effective Monday. Sykes’ nomination was opposed by Senator Bilbo, Democrat, of Missis- sippi in committee hearings on the ground the former had interfered in the politics of Mississippi. The nomi- nation, however, was confirmed The President wrote to Sykes, say- ing: “In expressing my appreciation of i your work as chairman during the period of reorganization, may I also express my great satisfaction that we are to have the benefit of your con- tinued service as a member of the 'CONGRESS HALL'S OLD GUARD DINES Representatives and Senators of Historic Group Hold An- nual Banquet. The davs of the “old guard” were lived again last night when mem- bers of the Congress Hall Association, composed of Representatives and Sen- ators who at one time resided at the old Congres Hall Hotel. gathered at the Roosevelt Hotel with their wives for the association’s annual banquet. Speaker Byrns and Senator Robin- { son, majority leader of the Senate, were the principal speakers. The hotel was torn down to mal way for the new House Office Build- ing, but as Senators and Representa- tives put it last night, “the old days there will never be forgotten.” Mrs. Ed Taylor, wife of Representa- tive Taylor of Colorado and chair- the Radio | SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. NEW TERMINALS HELD NEEDLESS BY HEAD OF BUS FIRM Merrill Opposes Commis- sioners’ Plan to Have Off- Street Depots. GEORGETOWN GROUP PROTESTS CHANGES Citizens Say Lines to Virginia Should Continue Over Key Bridge. Necessity for an off-street terminal for the Washington Rapid Transit Co. was denied before the Public Utilities Commission today by E. D. Merrill, president, who said the company now maintained no terminals in the con- gested downtown area, but merely | stops in that zone long enough to pick |up and discharge passengers. ‘The company, whose lines run to | Sligo, Silver Spring and other nearby | Montmogery County points, maintains | stops on Twelfth street between F and | G streets and at Eighth street and Market space. | | Merrill said the Washington Rapid | Transit Line is the only direct trans- | portation supplied from the nearby business section of the Capital. | 3 S e | Officer Tells House Group His test y ted that of | i other bus Tine operaters who oppasea | 30 Are Employed in Washington. groom and the senior Mrs. Dern. the commission’s plans to force them to obtain off-street terminals to re- | place the curb terminals now in use. Today's session concluded the taking e of testimony in the case. | The Communist party has “cells” or Nearly 400 patrons of the Washing- | chapters in the civilian organization ton, Virginia & Maryland Coach Co.|of virtually all the country’s navy residing in Georgetown and nearby | yards, according to information given | Arlington County, Va.. signed a peti- | a subcommittee of the House Military tion to the Public Utilities Commis- | Afflairs Committee by Comdr. S. A. sion protesting the proposal to change | Clement. the bus route from Key Bridge to| In the Washington Navy Yard, the Miss Helen McCollam, after their wedding this morning. R.F.C.S NAVY YARD REDS Dern’s Parents Greet Newlyweds Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern are shown greeting their son. Willism, and his new bride, the former 1 Left to right: Secretary Dern, the new bride and bride- T A simple ceremony in Mount | Pleasant Congregational | Church, attended by members | of the family and a few inti- | mate friends. William B. Dern, | second son of the Secretary of War, | was married today to Miss Helen M. McCollam, a pretty secretary whom he had met while employed in the | Reconstruction Finance Corp. Among those in attendance were Secretary and Mrs. Dern, their two jaughters, Mrs. Harry Baxter and Miss Betsy Dern, and several grandchildren. The bride was attended by Miss Margaret Chadwick, a fellow worker | at the R. F. C. She was given in mar- | riage by her brother, William E. Mc- | Collam | ecretary Dern’s Bride In Simple Church Wedding —Star Stafl Photo, rectly in front of the altar. After | the ceremony. the laughing bride and bridegroom were beset by scores of newspaper photographers. They sub- | mitted with good grace while fiash ' bulbs illuminated the church and | even consented to pose before depart- ing on their honeymoon. They left | immediately after the ceremony in a, chauffeured limcusine for an unan- | nounced destination The couple plans to return to Washington and visit their parents here before leaving in several weeks ! for the West. Friends of the couple | said their plans after that were “un- | certain.” Young Dern recently has| been employed in Denver, Colo. | ‘The bridegroom, who is 28, met his €| Among those present were: | Arlington Memorial Bridge. The petition followed the testimony of John Paul Jones, representing Georgetown interests, who asserted that the bus lines on M street are “absolutely essential” to the welfare | of that section of the city. Cost Held Prohibitive. For the second time the commis- sion was told that the cost of off- street terminals would be prohibitive Leon Arnold, president of the W., V & M, asserted that “any cost what- ever” at present is beyond the ability of the bus lines to meet. The petition also asked that the | line’s terminal be kept at its present location, Twelfth street between F and G streets. W. A. Van Duzer, direc- ! tor of traffic. recalled to the stand, reasserted that the busses there add | to the congestion of traffic in that busy area. 1100 “TALKING BOOKS” “Hnlf of Number Desired Already i Obtained, Committee Chair- | men’s Reports Show. Plans for obtaining a total of 100 “talking book” machines for this city were discussed yesterday at a meeting of the Washington -Talking Book Committee at the home of Mrs. George H. Dern, general chairman. Reports were received from many committee chairmen, and it was said that more than half of the 100 ma- chines planned for this city already had been obtained. Mrs. |May Collins Vories, co-chairman; Mrs. George M. Morris of Junior League, Mrs. Hugh A. Drum. Army unit; Mrs. W. D. Leahy, Navy unit, Mrs. Albert N. Baggs, grey lady unit; | SOUGHT FOR CAPITAL! | Mrs. Arthur Mullen, Catholic unit; man of the Congress Hall Association, Mrs. David Pressler. Jewish unit: | subcommittee was told, there are 36 | Communists, and in the Brooklyn | yard the number is much larger. Clement pointed out that if an emergency arose, it is not unreason- able to assume these Communists | would follow the party's policy of sabotage. Questioned as to why the Commu- nists had not been removed, Clement explained that they had been ém- ployed through the civil service and could not be discharged without cause. “The Communist par Clement said, “is something that you don't know where it begins or ends. It is very hard to tell, with the exception of a small group, who are running it “In a very vital spot. we will say the Washington Navy Yard, if an emergency comes along and Wwe, knowing that the Communists have | the policy of sabotage—they say %o and it must be—it is not unreasonable to assume that they are put there for.that purpose,” Ciement recommended favorable ac- tion on the McCormack bill to pro- | hibit any one from urging members { of the armed forces to disobey rules. 'ROOSEVELT WORKING ON NEW MESSAGES Continues Policy of Leaving Re- | sponsibility for Program in Congress' Hands. | By the Associated Press. | President Roosevelt entered today |on what he intended to be a quiet | week end to be spent for the most | part in planning one of possibly five more messages he will send to Con- | gress. The bride’s father, William A. Mc- ' bride while they both were employed | | Collam, a bricklayer, was prevented at headquarters of the R. F. C. here. | by illness from attending the wedding. When Dern left Washington to go Young Dern’s brother, James, acted as = West several months ago, he and Miss best man McCollam were secretly engaged. They Less than 50 relatives and friends | recently announced the engagement. | were in the big church when the pas- The bride chose for her wedding tor, Rev. Ruscell J. Clinchy, entered costume a light blue afternoon dress from his study with the bridal party. blue hat and blue shoes. Dern was { The Dern family occupied a pew di- dressed in a derk business suit. YOUTH DEFENDED DRUG BILL HELD ATCONFERENCE S UNNECESSARY \Dean Wicks of Princeton‘Counsel for Publishers Says | Addresses Three-Day Trade Act and Postal Session. Laws Adequate. | Youth of lday is recovering its BY the Associated Press | moral balance, Dean Robert R. Wicks _ Postal laws and the Federal Trade; of Princeion University told the United Commission act are sufficient for con- | Christian Youtn Conference here last | trol if properly enforced, and the en-; night. He ,poke before a group of more | actment of the Copeland food and | than 700, meeting for the first evening | rug bill is unnecessary, in the opin- session of a_three-day conference at ion of Elisha Hanson, counsel for the| the Calvary Baptist Church. American Newspaper Publishers’ As- | Declaring religion was the only scciation, who testified yesterday be- | thing between the ycuth of the country | fore a Senate commerce subcommittee. | and despotism, Dean Wicks referred to . Hanson offered several amendments | | Russia, Italy and Germany in saying | to the bill, one to strike out a section | “the youth of America is learning to | Which would permit Federal agents respect the power to win human wills | to demand from the publisher the} | as compared with the practice of at- | names and addresses of corporltiunsi tempting to force obedience through | advertising in his publications. He ! power.” | said this was an unnecessary invasion | | The conference opened yesurdny“” business relationships. The act, an outgrowth of the hotly- [ - - ‘"Tegg“;;;cflrl 53&:;;";;3 | contested “Tugwell bill” introduced in | delegates. = | lowed a morning meeting of 150 min- | the Senate a year ago but not enacted, | isters and adult leaders. Outwardly unconcerned over the)| ernization of the Federal bankruptcy | Was active in arrangement of the act, passed in 1898, was in progress | banquet. Senator Connally of Texas today at the United States Chamber | Was toastmaster and former Senator S ICoterte Heflin of Alabama added a bit of life Mrs. A. A. Stockdale of Women's Council, Washington Federation of Churches, Protestant unit; Mrs. Wal- ter K. Handy of the Revolving Fund | dilatory action on Capitol Hill on his | legislative program to date, Mr. Roose« | velt is going ahead with more pro- | posals in the near future. Dr. Daniel A. Poling, president of the International Society of Christian | | Endeavor, delivered the opening ad- | | dress. Youth leaders from New York, Fifteen lawyers, credit men, ref- | to the evening. erees in bankruptcy and bankers from all parts of the country are almost ready with the final draft of the bill which they will present to the Judi- | ciary Committees of the Senate and | House for consideration. Sitting with the men, who volun- tarily have given their time over the three-year period for this work, are representatives from the Justice, Treasury, Agriculture and Commerce Departments. Chairman of the group is Paul H. King of Detroit, a referee in bank- ruptcy and chairman of the Bank- ruptcy Committee of the Michigan Bar Associdtion. In the conference are | members of the American Bar Asso- ciation, Commercial Law League, Na- tional Association of Credit Men, American Bankers’ Association, Na- tional Association of Referees in Bank- ruptcy and other organizations. MINING DEVELOPMENT BILL URGED BY POPE Speaking in favor of his bill, which would provide $100,000,000 of the pro- posed $4,000,000,000 work-relief funds for the dual purpose of developing the mining industry and furnishing a large scale self-liquidating relief pro- gram, Senator James P. Pope, Demo- crat, of Idaho, last night to the ‘Washington Public Affairs Forum, said that wealth must first be produced be- fore it can be distributed. Senator Pope told the gathering that the program provided for in his bill would greatly enhance the na- tional wealth as well as develop the resources of tin, manganese, mercury, antimony and other minerals for which the United States is now al- most entirely dependent upon other countries. He said such a project would act as a stimulant to the pri- vate mining industry. The bill recently was favorably re- ported by the Senate Committee on Mines and Mining and is expected to be put on the Senate calendar withinas few days. D. C. ONCE WETTER ‘What is now the District of Colum- bia was once just another swimming hole for fish and prehistoric sea monsters, Dr. N. H. Darton declared last night in an illustrated lecture before the Pick and Hammer Club of the United States Geological Survey at the Interior Department. First submersion was when the ocean rolled over the District. Later the area was flooded by the Potomac River, and the general uplift of the land with the receding of the river created what was later to be the geological foundation of the city, Dr. Darton said. A Committee of the Lions Club, and Miss Adelia Hoyt of the Depository | Committee. HELD IN STREET FIGHT Man Accused of Assault in Park- ing Argument. One man was lodged in Emergency Hospital last night and another was Reported to Legation. arrested and charged with assault | - L as the result of a fight said to have | President Trujillo Molina of the started during a parking argument Dominican Republic notified the lega- at Ninth and H streets. | tion here today that a complete re- Daniel Brent, 40, of the 4000 block organization of the foreign service has of Chesapeake street, suffered a cut | been effocted. mouth and shock, police reported, | Hereafter, according to advices, Pres- when knocked to the pavement by |ident Molina will send diplomatic rep- | SERVICE REORGANIZED Dominican Republic Change Is { Bert McClallan, 29, of the 1200 block | resentatives to all countries in the of Holbrook street northeast. Americas. This is said to be the first McClallan was released on $25 col- | time the Dominican Republic has lateral after being booked on a charge | adhered to all principles of pan- of assault at No. 1 police station. Americanism. He remarked at his press conference P vesterday that he had five fields from which to choose in writing his next mitted early next week, but he smiled away inquiries on specifying them. There is every sign that Mr. Roose- | velt is ready to stick it out with Con- | gress for his program if it takes all | Summer. So far he is leaving f s responsibility for action with the congressional leaders. . | Dakota Approves Liquor Bill. | PIERRE, SE. Dak., March 9 (#). | The South Dakota Legislature Thurs. | day approved a bill which, if Gov. | Tom Berry signs it, as expected, will |give the State legal liquor for the first time in 19 years. The bill was approved by a conference committee from the House and Senate. Woman Named Outstanding Local Flyer Mrs. Genevieve Moore Savage, wife of Capt. Charles M. Savage, Army Air Corps, last night was designated outstanding local aviation leader in 1934, and is shown as she received the Washington Air Derby Association Trophy. Mrs. Savage took a leading part in local and national flying competitions, organized and was president of the ‘Washington Woman Pilots’ Association and led in creation of a local chapter of the 99ers, national organization of woman flyers. The Washington Woman Pflow( Assoclntian’.lunder Mr;. ?;vm's leadership, last Fall staged at rt one of the largest air meets for woman fiyers ever held. Colleg;eP :::w‘:{ipghe derby trophy from Chester H. Warrington (left), holder of the award for 1933. Harrison “Buddy” Somerville (right), president of the derby group, presided at the snnual presentation m;umgdrngwnmm \ banquet last 8tat Photo. | message, which probably will be sub- | rinceton, Baltimore and tihs city are leading discussion groups in consid- eration of problems concerning re- ligious living, world peace, liquor, eco- nomic order and race questions. | | The more than 200 delegates at- | tending the evening banquet were ad- | dressed by Miss Edna Werner of Baltimore on “Christian Youth Build- ing a New World.” Today's session was opened at 9 | am., followed by addresses by Dr. Jesse M. Bader of New York, secretary | of the department of evangelism of | | the Federal Council of Churches. Dr. | Harry N. Holmes, field secretary of | the World Alliance for International | Friendship Through the Churches, | also was scheduled to speak. Dr. Paul | | Eddy of New York, one of the secre- | | taries of the International Council of | Religious Education, was listed to speak at 2 pm. Discussion groups were to continue their work under supervision of Dr. Harold I. Donnelly of Princeton Seminary, chairman of the United Youth Movement. B — SUICIDE VERDICT GIVEN IN DEATH AT HOSPITAL Police Drop Investigation of Case of Miss Norcia, 25, Found Smothered. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald has issued a certificate of suicide in the death yesterday of Miss Anna C. Norcia, 25, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital patient, who was found dead from suffocation in her bed in the surgical ward with her mouth and nose covered with adhesive tape so she d not breathe. 'he verdict closed a police investi- gation, launched shortly after the young woman had been found by two nurses and a supervisor at the hospi- tal. Her face was buried in a pillow and one of the nurses at first thought she was asleep. Miss Norcia had been a patient at the hospital since September and was suffering from an organic brain con- dition. —_— SPEAKS ON SCIENCE Member of Board of Lectureship Is Heard. A. Hervey-Bathurst, C. S. B, of London delivered a lecture on “Chris- tian Science: The Kingdom of God Within Us,” last night at First Church of Christ Scientist. Mr. Hervey-Bathurst is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the mother church, the First Church of | would give the Secretary of Agricul- | ture power to regulate the advertising and branding of foods, drugs and cos- metics, in addition to the present | authority held under the pure food act to suppress or seize any commodity | found injurious to health. Hanson's assertion that the Federal Trade Commission act gave adequate control of advertising was supported by E. L. Davis, chairman of the com- mission. He protested transfer of any_authority from the commission to the Secretary of Agriculture. “If any commodity is impure or dangerous to health,” Davis said, “the Bureau of Public Health of the De-; partment of Agriculture can handle the case by suppressing its distribu- tion. “But if the question is merely one of extravagant advertising or wrong statements about the therapeutic value of products, then the Federal Trade Commission can step in.” STORE FORFEITS $20 IN HOURS VIOLATION Health Office Charges Women Were on Duty Longer Than Eight Hours. A $20 torfeiture on a charge of | violating the female eight-hour labor law was inade in Pclice Court yester- day by the Nuvo Stores, Ralph Beyda, manager, 3116 Fourteenth street. The alleged offense occurred February 16. The information charged the store violated the law in that it employed Aimee Baker and Evelyn Adkins longer than eight hours a day. The com- plainants were M. Louise Simpson, M. R. Haynes and J. W Milspaugh of the health office. Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed- ward M. Welliver recommended that | the store officials be permitted te for- feit the $20 instead of standing trial. MAVERICK IN TRAFFIC LEADS POLICE CHASE No. 6 Precinct “Cowboys” Round Up Bovine Fleeing From Slaughter House. Two amateur cowboys, riding the range for No. 6 precinct, lassoed or otherwise captured a maverick yes- terday after a wild chase. ‘The cowboy-policemen tried to cut the stray out of a traffic herd at Sev- enth and Madison street. But the fugitive eluded them and led the pair & merry, round-about chase to the Brightwood car barns. There the policemen cornered their quarry and led her back to No. 6. The cow bore no brand, but it de- veloped presently she had slipped the ABANDONINGTWO ARPORT STES I RUMORED LIKELY House Subcommittee Will Have Report Ready hy Wednesday. CHILLUM AND BENNING ARE FAVORED BY SOME Many Other Localities in District, Virginia and Maryland Also Have Been Offered. Rumors that both Gravelly Point and Washington Airport may be aban- doned by the House subcommittee now working on the local airport situation were circulated in aviation circles to- day. Members of the subcommittee, headed by Representative Randolph of West Virginia, refused to confirm or deny the rumors, but said they would have a report ready for the full District Committee by Wednesday. It is understood that members of the subcommittee have conferred with holders of property in other sections, among them the formerly proposed but rejecied sites at Chillum and the former Benning race track. Some of the members of the subcommittee, it is said, are inclined to fa.or one or other of these sites. Work Is Not Finished. “I can't say anything about the nature of our report,” said Chairman Randolph today. “We haven't fin- ished our work yet. We will meet again Monday morning and may have to meet Tuesday to complete our work. We are aiming toward submitting our report to the full District Committee at its meeting Wednesday. There is nothing more to be said about the matter now.” For weeks the subcommittee has listened to testimony from scores of iocal witnesses, most of it in support of either Gravelly Point or Wahing- ton Airport. Many other sites in the District, Maryland and Virginia have been offered to the committee. Serious objections have been made to both Washington Airport and Gravelly Point and it is understood that some members of the committee, despairing of ever reaching an agree- ment on either location, are ready to | turn to the Benning or Chillum sites as an alternative. Site Previously Considered. The Benning site previously had been considered and abandoned by other congressional committees, which have considered the local airport problem in recent years because of testimony indicating that it is too small, lies in an area subject to fogs, and is surrounded by serious hazards, notably the seven towering brick chimneys of the electric power plant near Benning Bridge. The Chillum site, northeast of Catholic University, also has been pro- posed a number of times and has been inspected by several congressional committees, but was dropped from consideration because of expense of grading. lack of suitable avenues of approach to the city. distance from the hotels and downtown section and for other reasons. Board Stand Reiterated. Reiterating the long-standing posi- tion of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in favor of Gravelly Point as the preferred site. its chairman, Frederic A. Delano, in a letter to Randolph today wrote: “It is my earnest hope that your committee. having taken such com- plete testimony, will proceed to ad- just the financial question as seems equitable, and recommend Gravelly Point as the central commercial air- port for the National Capital.” Delano informed Randolph his commission’s conclusion in repeatedly indorsing Gravelly Point “has not been dogmatic, for consideration and study has been given to more then 48 different sites in and around the District of Columbia,” and “consul- tation has been had with the vari- ous authorities concerned and with other experts.” Delano said the question of who shall finance the airport has caused delay. {DEMONSTRATION GIVEN ON WAVE MECHANICS U. | Hears Dr. Gamow, Who Formu- lated Radio-Activity Theory. | Science Audience at G. W. | A demoastration of the theory of | wave mechanics, which has done much to explain the innermost structure and i behavior of the atom, was given by Dr. George Gamow, visiting professor of theorstical physics at George Washington University, before an audi- ence of scientists last night at the university. Wave dynamics, Dr. Gamow ex- plained, gives a complete explanation of why the atomic nucleus in some elements :tays without change over long periods of time before break- ing up. The young Russian scientist, who in 1926 Jormulated the first theory of radio-activity, will give three more lectures in his series on ‘“Modern Physics” at George Washington Uni- i On March 22 he will talk on “Artificial Transformations of Ele- ments”; April 5, “The Structure of “Cosmic Rays.’ RAIN DUE TOMORROW Part of Day May Be Sunny, Bu- reau Says. Yesterday's sleet storm gave way to clear and warmer weather, while the Weather Bureau predicts partial- ly cloudy and warmer weather for tomorrow. Sunny skies may prevail tomorrow, bureau officials said, but: rain is expected by nightfall. The temperature last night dropped to 25 at 7 p.m., one degree lower than on the same date last year, while the warmest prediction for to- day was about 40 degrees, which was the same high recorded for this date last year. — POST MAY STAY VACANT President Roosevelt indicated yei' terday a vacancy on the Securities. Commission resulting from the retire- ment of Ferdinand Pecora uf New York might not be immediately filled. Pecora’s term would have expired in June and the possibility was indicated noose at a slaughter house. There was some relief at the pre- cinct when the owner called for his that his place ight not be filled much before that time. Pecora ‘quit the commission to become & New York \ {