Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1935, Page 50

ROBERTS ASSAIL GAS RATES AGAIN Cites Figures for Cincinnati as Much Lower Than Capital’s. Gas and electric rates in Cincinnati are being cited by People’s Counsel William A. Roberts as examples of | what might be accomplished here 1f | vigorous efforts were made by the public. Lower gas and electric rates in the | Ohio city were listed by Roberts yes- terday in a letter sent to W. C. Magathan of the Citizens' Association of Takoma, D. C. “You will judge from this that the residents of the District have been lulled into a sense of well being by some rather effective propaganda, and that it will require ernest and vigorous efforts to obtain the full concessions from our operating utilities to which we are entitled in view of the very modest amount of taxes which they pay in support of the local govern- ment.” Cincinnati Rates Cited. Roberts reported the Cincinnati gas rate is 75 cents for the first 1,000 cubic | feet, 70 cents for the next 1,000 feet, | 65 cents for the next 2,000, 60 cents for the next 2,000, 55 cents for the| next 2,000, 50 cents for the next 2,000 and 45 cents for all over 10,000 feet consumed by domestic users. Rates charged by the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies are to be considered by the Public Utilities Commission at a public hear- ing beginning May 15. The call for| this investigation was made just prior to the announcement that the com- | mission had found the value of the| O’Connor Chides English Professor For Poor Spelling House Rules Committee €hairman Also Finds Split Infinitive. By the Associated Press. Representative John J. O'Connor of New York, chairman of the Rules Committee, thinks Dartmouth pro- fessors of English should not wander far afield. Upon receipt of a letter from Prof. Stearns Morse of the Dartmouth Col- lege Department of English, O'Connor replied: “Dear Professor: “I have your letter in which you express such emotion in behalf of the Lundeen bill. “I know the President would be happy to know that you voted for him and would greatly regret that any of cur college educators were dis- appointed in him. “As to the Rules Committee sub- mitting ‘suppinely’ (your spelling, not | mine), you are mistaken. “I know in your letter you did not intend in another place to split an infinitive. “Yours very truly, “JOHN J. O'CONNOR.” SENATE LOBBY PROBE PREPARATIONS BEGUN| Neely Appointed Head of Sub- committee to Make Inquiry on Subject. By the Associated Press. A lengthy Senate investigation of lobbyists was indicated today after appointment of Senator Neely, Demo= | As the two gorilla men seized doned hope that she would ever again reach safety. Then, suddenly, & vhite man, nearly nude, dropped from an overhanging branch. and with it he belabored the girl's assailants until they relinquished their holds. AIR TEST DEVICE FOUND SUCCESSFUL Double Parachute Has Apparatus | for Determining Living Spores | in Upper Regions. | A double parachute device, carrying | a tube as sterile as a surgical dressing, which is one of the most unusual pieces | of apparatus developed for collecting | scientific information in the upper air, | has just been successfully tested over Washington. It is planned to use the contrivance next June in the balloon | flight to be sent into the stratosphere companies for rate making purposes | crat, of West Virginia to head a sub« ,hqer the auspices of the National | to be $16,993,000. Rates Begin at 91.5 Cents. | committee to make an inquiry on the | ‘The present gas rates for domestic consumers are 91.5 cents for the first 1,000 feet, 83 cents for the next 2,000 and 77 cents for all in excess of that amount. These are the net charges.| Subcommittee are Senators Hatch,’| including allowance for the present | r | Republican, of Nebraska. 8.5 per cent discount. Officials say comparison of electric rates is more difficult, but that on |ists was made five years ago by a the basis of a six-room house, where | Senate committee. & 9 kilowatt hour consumption prevails Jfor a month the consumer’s bill here would be $3.19, as against $2.85 in the ©Ohio city. This dates back to last Summer. Since then there has been & modest reduction in the District power rates. SHIP MAY BE NAMED FOR ADMIRAL BENSON Washingtonian on Destroyer List to Be Submitted to Sec- retary Swanson. The Navy Department is consider- | ing naming one of its new destroyers after a famous Washingtonian—the late Admiral William S. Benson, war- time chief of naval operations. Admiral Benson. who died May 20, 1932, lived at 2420 Tracy place for years afer he retired from the service upon reaching the statutory age limit of 64 years September 25, 1919, follow- ing 47 years’ active service. In 1920 he was appointed chairman of the United States Shipping Board and President Harding continued him subject. Hearings will be held on a bill by Senator Black, Democrat, of Alabama to require all lobbyists to register. Other members of the Judiciary Democrat, of New Mexico and Norris, A 10-month investigation of lobby- Geographic Society and the Army Air | Corps. | ‘The purpose of the device is to de- | | termine whether living spores are | floating in the cold but sun-bathed re- | gions of the stratosphere. The test was made from the airship Enterprise | by Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director of | 1 FRIDAY 4 PM.—8 PM. SPECIAL SEA FOOD DINNER 60c WALLIS CAFE 617 12th St. N.W. &s_a commissioner of that body. Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, is having a list of names for new de- stroyers prepared and Admiral Ben- son’s is among them. The list will be submitted shortly to Secretary Swan- son for approval. Admiral Benson was a personal friend of President Roose- velt while the latter was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. WILL ADDRESS D. A. R. Peter F. Snyder to Speak to Na- tional Defense Committee. Peter F. Snyder, who was Assistant Secretary of Labor in charge of ad- ministering the deportation laws dur- ing the Hoover administration, will address the National Defense Com- mittee, District of Columbia D. A. R., tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at the May- flower Hotel. Mrs. William M. MacKellar, chair- man of the subcommittee on immigra- tion and deportation, has arranged the program, and Mrs. Rice W. Means, State chairman, will preside. FOOD 12.6% HIGHER Figures at End of March Com- pared With Those of Year Ago. 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