Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1935, Page 4

TV A LAWLAX ICARL DECLARES Clash Between May and Maverick Enlivens House Hearing. (Continued Prom First Page.) he considered it “a fraud on the com- mittee, not good evidence and an out- rage.” “If T weren't in Congress and it would not be undignified to say s0,” he said, “I would say it's lousy.” The committee is split over the T. V. A. legislation, already approved by the Senate, which would give the Authority specific permission to sell surplus electricity. It also would in- crease the Authority’s bond-issuing ca- pacity from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. No Expectation of Pay. Cassidy explained that he was & consulting engineer and that he had spent a week poring over the audit without any compensation and no ex- pectation of receiving any. He said he was responsible for writing into the original T. V. A. act a provision re- quiring an annual audit of the author- ity's operations. He said he had never received a “thin dime” from any utility, and at the request of some T. V. A. official once filled out an application for a T. V. A. job. Cassidy admitted some portions of the mimeographed statement were his own, and pointed them out to the | committee. Morgan interrupted to say that sev- eral other portions also were Cassidy’s rather than parts of the audit itself. When Maverick wanted to know from whom Cassidy had obtained fees lately, the latter objected that it was an improper question and refused to swer. ou are mysteriously paid by some * Maverick remarked, “and then this power company puts this out.” “It's not mysterious,” Cassidy re- torted. “I had no knowledge the ex- tracts were mimeographed until I came to the committee hearing yes- terday.” The audit took exception to many . A. expenditures, but both Mc- and Morgan have said they thought all differences might be ad- Justed satisfactorily, Contracts Questioned. Use of rented automobiles, the pur- ¢hase of dairy cows and the letting of contracts without competitive bidding were disclosed as some of the opera- tions questioned by McCarl. The T. V. A. report was the first an- nual report of the authority as re- quired by the act setting up the organ- ization. Four copies were made, one going to President Roosevelt, two to the T. V. A. and one retained in McCarl's office. The audit was not made public, but any member of Congress is permitted to examine McCarl's copy. Repre- sentative May studied the audit and it was on his notes that most of the ques- tioning has been based. The T. V. A. balance sheet as of June 30, 1934, disclosed a net deficit of $62,910.17. Other data collected by May showed* That the agency had taken in re- ceipts of $1.345,065, as against ex- penses of $12,438,346, a difference of $11,093,281, That the T. V. A. act requires the agency to “maintain its principal office in the immediate vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala.,” but that “head- quargers of the board, however, and the general offices of the organization . o . ville, Tenn.,” and that “Knoxville was designated as the principal office of the authority by a board (of T. V. A. directors) resolution in August, 1933. F; $24,829 " Deficit Cited. That the Electric Farm and Home Authority had a deficit or Joss to June 80, 1934, of $24,829. That “the nature of exceptions established consist of purchases with- out competition in violation of section 8709 revised statutes; modifications of specifications; emergency purchases unsupported by showing of emergency; awards on basis of personal prefer- ence; dual compensation; excessive al- lowances and reimbursement of travel- ing expenses to prospective employes; | payment of pay rolls without admin- istrative approval; payment for power | plants, transmission lines and real estate acquired without having clear title thereto; rent for land occupied by Civilian Conservation Corps camps pald at rates higher than for land pur- chased outright.” May found statements in the audit that the T. V. A. had invested $161,796 in autos and trucks, yet paid as high s $8,000 a month for rented cars. The audit also said T. V. A. bought @ herd of 25 cows and & bull in May, 1934, at prices ranging from $50 to $950 a head. were established at Knox- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO MacClelland Barclay Selects Three G.W.U. Beauty Winners | ELECTIONS by MacClelland Barclay, famous illustrator cf the three most beautiful girls | | at George Washington Univer- sity were announced in the | 1935 edition of “The Cherry Tree,” | | university annual, just published. | | They are Margaret Wadsworth, Dora | Ramirez de Arellano and Jeanne Krieger. The three girls were chosen from photographs. Also announced in the annual were the name of eight nominees for the “hall of fame.” All are seniors and were chosen for outstanding campus ac- tivities. They are: | Helen Elizabeth Brown, member of the Senior Council, historion of the | graduating class, member of the staff of “The Hatchet” and “The Cherry ‘Tree” and member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Pi Gamma Mu, Hour Glass | and Delta Zeta. 'CODE IS INDORSED 'BY PUBLISHER GROUP, 'Southern Newspaper Association Is Told, However, Provisions Are Unconstitutional. By the Associated Press. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., May 21.—The Southern Newspaper Publishers’ As- sociation gave unanimous approval | the Newspaper Code Authority, but | took no specific stand toward N. R. A. due to uncertainty over its future. The thirty-third annual convention | of the association voted to continue to act as a unit in relation to code policy, and authorized its president “to take ! such steps as necessary to co-operate with other organizations in code and legislative matters.” The convention’s action followed a report earlier in the day by E. K. Gay- lord, publisher of the Oklahoma City Oklahoman and Times and president of the association, in which he said he believed many N. R. A. code pro- visions now being enforced “will be held unconstitutional if they are ever passed upon by the United States Su- preme Court.” Gaylord related negotiations for ob- taining establishment of a newsprint mill in the South which would utilize Southern pine, and urged revision of the mewsprint freight rate structure for the territory. Pensions Increases Talked. British engineers in the World War may have their pensions increased 50 cents a week. Years of Rainin Drought Area Predicted by “Glacier Priest” Father Hubbard Believes Aleutians Hold Key to Forecasts. Confident that long-range weather forecasts can be made with greater accuracy and that the tremendous drought losses of recent years can be forestalled when more is known of meteorological conditions in the Aleu- tians, Rev. Bernard Hubbard, S. J., “the glacier priest,” is planning to go back to the Aleutians this Summer to make further observations, he said here today. Father Hubbard, who several weeks ago forecast the breaking of the West- ern drought, said his studies of weather conditions in the Aleutians, “the birth- place of storms,” has convinced him that several years of normal rainfall are in store for the drought-stricken areas. He is having a new type of stainless steel boat built to his order at Pitts- burgh, and in this boat he hopes, next August and September, to explore the great, unknown Taku River of Alaska to its headwaters. Father Hubbard is in Washington in preparation for two lectures, to be delivered at 3:30 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, in the Gonzaga College Theater, 49 I street. These lectures will be the last in & tour in which he has deliv- ered 255 lectures in 245 days to a total of 286,000 persons. He spoke here before members of the National Geographic Society January 25. Father Hubbard voiced the opinion that the Navy's new meteorological base in the Aleutians will prove to be one of the most important in the world. When it is cold in the Aleu- tions, he has observed, cold weather follows east of the Rocky Mountains and along the Atlantic seaboard, and when it is stormy in the Aleutians normal rains may be expected on the Pacific Coast and mild Winters in the Eastern United States. “It will require five or aix years of | doned because FATHER HUBBARD. careful scientific study to work out in detail the theories of weather de- veloped as a result of past observations in the Aleutians,” Father Hubbard sald. “When this is done I feel very | Glass. | yesterday to continued affiliation with | ‘These three George Washington University coeds were selected by MacClelland Barclay, artist, as the most beautiful girls in the student body. Top, left to right, are Dora Ramirez de Arellano and Jeanne Krieger. Below: Margaret Wads- worth. —Star Staft and Casson Photos. John Busick, associate editor of | “The Hatchet” and business manager of “The Cherry Tree” and member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Pi Delta Epsilon. | Amanda Chittum, prominent in dramatics, secretary of the senior | class, and member of Sigma Delta | Phi, Delphi, Hour Glass and Kappa | Kappa Gamma. Bernard Fagelson, senior manager of athletics, member of the student council, member of the senior council !snd member of Omicron Delta Kappa, | Steel Gauntlet and Phi Alpha. Gretchen Feiker, prominent in | athletics, president of the Women's Athletic Association for three years and member of Chi Omega and Hour Adele Gusack, prominent in dram- atics for four years, and member of FREE ART SCHOOL GROWTH REVEALED Convention Discusses Duty of Groups to Their Com- munities. Discussion on the responsibility of art assoclations to communities occu- pled the atiention of delegates to the twenty-sixth annual convention of the American Federation of Arts, meeting in the ball room of the May- flower Hotel this morning. Free art schools, set up for instruc- tion in the fine arts, were described by Florence M. McIntyre, secretary of the Memphis, Tenn., Art Association. She told of the credits being given which were equal to those of other outstanding art schools. Courses were offered in fine and applied arts and crafts, Another study of a similar develop- ment was offered by Mrs. John P. Baird, president of the Pine Arts Club of Little Rock, Ark. She sketched a similar movement in that city, tell- ing of the growth of a school from small membership to an attendance around 250. There also was an art exhibit which attracted great atten- tion, listing 496 entries. ‘The panel brought out the fact that America is becoming art conscious. More people, it was said, are interested in painting, dramatics and music now than in any other time in the history | of the country. The panel discussion was under the direction of F. A. Whiting, president of the federation. Those who took part in it were Mrs. Baird, Adele Brandeis, Loulsville Art Association; Esther I. Booth, president of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Art Associa- tion; Mrs. A. C. Guffy of Beaver, Okla.; Mrs. M. F. Johnston, director of the Art Association of Richmond, Ind.; Florence McIntyre, Mrs. Joel L. Priest, secretary Boise, Idaho, Art | Association; Edward B. Rowan, di- rector section of paintings and sculp- ture, Treasury Department; Mrs. Wil- liam Sloane, chairman of Norfolk (Va) Museum of Arts and Sciences, and Mrs. Seth Thomas, Fort Dodge | (Iowa) Federation of Art. Hour Glass, Sigma Delta Phi, Alpha Eta Epsilon and Alpha Epsilon Phi. | Walter Rhinehart, president of the | senior class, associate editor of the | Hatchet, editor of the Handbook, chairman of the first George Wash- ington University scholastic press con- vention and member of Omicron | Delta Kappa, Pi Delta Epsilon and Sigma Chi. Henry Ruley, member of the basket ball team, Phi Theta Kappa, Phi | Sigma Rho and Sigma Phi Epsilon. The Cherry Tree this year is dedi- | cated to Dean Henry Grattan Doyle of Columbian College. | Betty Bacon is editor, and members of the editorial board include Harry Ames, Helen Bunten, Muriel Cham- berlain and Eldridge Loeffler. MISS CLEPHANE TO TALK Legal Aid Bureau Head to Ad- dress Nurses’ Class. Miss Beatrice A. Clephane, director | of the Legal Aid Bureau, 1018 Ver- mont avenue, will address the senior | class of nurses at Freedmen's Hos- pital at 2 pm. tomorrow. Her talk will be one of a series on various phases of social work in Washington, Growth of the Legal Aid Bureau, | which is a member of the Community Chest, was stressed by John S. Brad- | way, secretary of the National Asso-| ciation of Legal Aid Organizations, | who visited the local agency recently while attending the conference here of the American Law Institute. | Delegates to the convention this afternoon visited most of the art gal- leries In Washington under the guid- ance of local artists. At 4:30 the delegates will attend a garden party at Dumbarton Oaks, the Bliss estate at 3101 R street. COTTON INDUSTRY ACTIVITY 85.3 PCT. Operations for April Compare | With 92.9 Per Cent in March and 104.5 a Year Ago. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The cotton spinning industry was | reported today by the Census Bureau to have operated during April at 853 | per cent of capacity, on a single shift basis, compared with 929 per cent during March this year and 104.5 per cent during April last year. Spinning spindles in place April 30 totaled 30,770.400, of which 23.853,816 were active at some time during the month. compared with 30,779.586 and 24571314 for March this year, and 31,011,200 and 26,450,750 for April last year. Active spindle hours for April totaled 6,057.601,513, or an average of 197 hours per spindle in place, compared with 6,662,549,593 and 216 for March this year, and 7,260,010,234 and 234 for April last year. D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1935. It Was Easier to Get In Than Out the hares. TREASURY ORDERS BAN ON IMPORTS OF SILVER COINS (Continued Prom First Page.) | of the coinage of some countries has | become more valuable as bullion than in the form of coins, tending to cause its destruction and sale as bullion. “A usual method of dealing with this problem has been to call in sil- | ver coins and change the silver con- | tent. An embargo on the export of | the old silver coins is usually & neces- | sary supplemental measure. Those participating in the importation into the United States of silver coins cov- ered by such embargoes are aiding the violation of the laws of the country in question.” New Sections Added. ‘The Treasury explained the new | | order simply amended regulations is- ! sued to carry out the silver purchase act by adding three new sections. They were: “Section 12. Importation or trans- portation into the United States—Ex- cept as otherwise specifically provided in section 14, no person shall import or transport into the Continental | United States any foreign silver coin, or any other conventional pieces or forms of silver commonly used in any foreign country as money or coin, ex- cept under license issued pursuant to section 13 of this order. | “Section 13. Import licenses—The | Secretary of the Treasury, subject to such regulations as he may prescribe, acting directly or through such agency or agencies as he may designate, may issue licenses authorizing the importa- | tion or transportation into the Conti- | nental United States of such silver | coin or other conventional pieces or | forms of silver which he, or the desig- nated agency, is satisfied: Governments May Ship. “A. Are required to fulfill an obliga- | tion to deliver such silver in the Conti- | nental United States, incurred or as- sumed by the applicant on or before the effective date of this order. | “B. Are shipped to the Continental United States by, or on behalf or with the consent of, a recognized foreign government, foreign central bank, or |the Bank for International Settle- ments | “C. With the approval of the Presi- dent, for other purposes not inconsist- ent with the purposes of the silver | purchase act of 1934, or the silver | agreement executed at London on July | 22, 1933. | “Section 14. Exempt silver coin— | Silver colns of a monetary value equal | B e ————————————— LIFETIME FURNITURE ... RUGS ... CARPETS ... BEDDING ... DRAPERIES .. ., RADIOS ELECTROLUX has so many conventences . .. makes any woman’s Iife more pleasant everythi & Co. hopeful that we will have learned something which will save mankind great losses and suffering.” Father Hubbard said his two com- panions in eight years of exploratory work in Alaska—Kenneth Chisholm and Edgar Levin—were to arrive in the Aleutians today to begin a long period of observation and study. He expects to join them in August and to remain until October. The death in Alaska this week of Frank Dorbandt, pilot, who flew Father Hubbard over the great Aniak- chak volcano and miles of hitherto unknown country, may force a change in his plans for the Summer trip. Father Hubbard said that he had planned to fly over the unknown Taku ice cap, but that this might be aban- of Darbandt’s death, N ADDITION to its outstanding beauty, its silent operation and unusual economy, Electrolux has so many desirable conveniences . . . a modish new latch that opens the door at a mere touch, interior light, temperature regulator, trigger tray release, ice cube release, vegetable freshener, egg and fruit racks, ad- justable shelves to accommodate tall bottles and dishes of varying size. You will find in Electrolux ing you have wanted, and especially ithose features which mean true economy of time, effort and operating costs. Inspect the Electrolux at Mayer Electrolux Air-Cooled Gas Refrigerators as Low as $118.90 Electrolux available, too, kerosene operated, for country cottages. MAYER & CO. Between D and E Seventh Street EXCLUSIVE WASHINGTON MEMBER GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE MAKERS' - GUILD at the time of entry to 110 or more per cent of the market value of their sil- ver content and United States silver coins may be imported or transported into the Continental Unied States without the necessity of obtaining a license under this order.” MEXICAN BAN IN EFFECT. ‘This dog was found with his head in a can and he couldn’t get it out. Two rabbits also were found in the can. Apparently he had run them into it to his sorrow, Jacksonville, Fla., mechanics cut him out and rescued —A. P. Photo. ‘Unltzd States’ embargo on import of silver coins being shipped into the United | States from Mexico are those sent by‘ | the government to the mints in Philadelphia, Denver and other cities. These coins will be melted and used to make new 50-cent pieces of a small- er silver content. The export of silver coins from Mexico by any one but the COMMUNISM SPREADING, KIWANIS MEETING TOLD Dr. B. W. Black Declares Up- risings in Industry Planned by Radicals Within Unions. By the Assoclated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 21— Kiwanians in their international con- vention here were told that “the Com- | munistic movement is spreading.” Dr. Benjamin W. Black of Oakland, Calif., chairman of the United States Committee of Public Affairs, said “up- risings which today harass industrial communities in the Nation are not, in & proper sense, strikes at all.” “They are planned Communistic revolutions, directed by radicals in the name of labor and working from within the unions,” he said. The Canada public affairs group de- cided the aim of Kiwanians and all people should be to bring proof that “war is the world's greatest menace” and urged ‘greater support of the League of Nations.” REWARD VALUELESS SAN FRANCISCO (#)—Miss Iona Russell went to court in an unsuccess- ful attempt to collect & $10 check, | given as an unasked reward for res- | “I went to considerable trouble to locate the owner and asked no re- ward,” she told the Small Claims Court. “But when the check was ten- dered, I accepted. Then to find it had been a worthless check made me angry.” MEXICO, D. F, May 21 Wednesday & ROSEBUSHES No Such Bargains Ever Offered Before AUTUMN, bright yellow and crimson shaded. BRIARCLIFFE, rose-pink. TALISMAN, scarlet and yellow shaded. SENOR, bright scarlet. 8§ NIR, yellow. HOLLYWOOD, pink. F. R. PIERSON, red. RAPTURE, pink. GRUSS an TEPLITZ, double crimson. EDITH NELLIE PERKINS, orange and salmon pink. MARGARET M'GREDY, orange-scarlet. EVERBLOOMING CLIMBERS GRUSS an TEPLITZ, double crimson, PRESIDENT H. HOOVER, maroon, orange and gold shaded. SUNBURST, yellow shaded to orange, TALISMAN, yellow and red shaded. REGULAR CLIMBERS SILVER MOON, creamy white. MARION MANIFOLD, velvety scarlet, GARDENIA, yellow, l 8c each 6 for $1.00 : ().— | government has been forbidden on Financial experts, commenting on the | pain of prison -penalties. The court held there was no legal | obligation. May 22nd and 23rd GARDEN SPECIALS SHRUBS, while they last, 18c each; 6 for $1.00. CALIFORNIA PRIVET, 18-24 inches, 25 for 75c; $2.50 per 100. GREEN BARBERRY, 18-24 inches, 10 for 75¢; $5.00 per 100. RED BARBERRY, 18-24 inches, 25¢ each. SILVER MAPLES, 8-10 ft. high, 98c. SIBERIAN ELMS, 16 to 18 ft. high, $1.98, TOP SOIL, 100 Ibs., 65¢. SHEEP MANURE, 25 Ibs., 90c: 100 Ibs., §2.25. CATTLE MANURE, 25 Ibs., 90c; 100 Ibs,, $2.25. BONE MEAL, 25 Ibs., $1.00: 100 Ibs., $3.50. IMPORTED PEAT MOSS, 22-bushel bale, $2.45. 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