Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1935, Page 17

Washington News BOWERMANNAMES NEW GEORGETOWN BRANCH'S STAFF Ralph L. Thompson to Be in Charge—Other Shifts Are Made. EARLY OCTOBER SET FOR FORMAL OPENING 5,000 to 6,000 Books in Peabody Library to Be Transferred From Curtis School. he Zoening SHhar WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935. Branch Librarians Shift Announcing that the new George- town branch of the Public Library will | be opened early in October, Dr. George | F. Bowerman, public librarian, today made far-reaching shifts in the staff of the library throughout the city and added several to the staff. | Dr. Bowerman took this action on the eve of his departure for an ex- tended European trip, planning to sail from New York Friday, returning late in September. | The books of the Peabody Library, housed in Curtis School, have been turned over to the Georgetown branch, Dr. Bowerman announced. The librarian of the new George- town branch, at Wisconsin avenue and R street, will be Ralph L. Thompson, who for several years has been in | charge of the Mount Pleasant branch. His place at Mount Pleasant will be filled by the transfer of Cecil J. Mc- Hale, who has been the branch libra- | rian of the Northeastern branch since | its opening in 1932. | Miss Swift Named. 4 Northeastern’s new branch librarian will be Miss Iva I Swift, who will be promoted after several years of suc- cessful service as readers’ adviser at the central library. | Mrs. Helen T. Steinbarger, who has | recently completed 10 years of service | as readers’ adviser at the Mount | Pleasant Branch, will be transferred | to a similar position at Georgetown. Miss Ellen Overlock, now librarian of the central reference room at the downtown central library, will be in charge of the Treference service of the Georgetown Branch. Miss Alice James from Mount Pleasant Branch, | will be in charge of the adult charg- | ing desk. The children’s staff will consist of Miss Sarah Coleman, from Central Library, as children’s li- brarian; Miss Evelyn Turpin, from | Central Library, as assistant children’s | librarian, and Miss Mary Trundle, | from Tenley Subbranch, as reference | librarian. One of the, changes in the staff of the Central Library not linked with the opening of the Georgetown | g)55 collateral from 31 persons charged | Branch is the appoirntment of Miss Caroline Shurtleff as readers’ adviser in sociology, succeeding Mrs. Louise Reiner Stebbing, who has resigned after nine years of service. Mrs. Steb- bing made a notable record, especially in advising parents and teachers on the literature dealing with child prob- lems, Dr. Bowerman said, and in con- tacting all locai social service agen- cies and meeting the needs of their members. Miss Shurtleff is a gradu- ate of the University of Michigan, and studied education and sociology at the University of Southern Cali- fornia. Library Inspected. Dr. Bowerman made a rersonal in- mtlun of the new Georgetown ch yesterday for the last time be- fore sailing for Europe. With him were Miss Clara W. Herbert. assistant librarian; Thompson ana McHale. Dr. Bowerman learned from J. H. ‘Wright of Bahen & Wright, contrac- tors, that the building will be finished by August 15. Dr. Bowerman expressed gratifica- tion and declared the contractors had done “an excellent job and a speedy one.” He explained that owing to the completion of the building it might have been possible to open the new branch by September, but tuat certain factors due to appropriations and books would delay the opening until some time early in October. The book stock for the branch is not yet ready, he said, and the congressional appro- priations for personnel provide a staff for only nine months of the present fiscal year, beginning Octcber 1. Dr. Bowerman explained that past experience in opening other branches has been that it takes from 10 days to two weeks of hard work after a library building is completed to get books an the shelves and all of the details ar- ranged for the rush of readers who al- ‘ways come as soon as & new branch is opened. The Georgetown branch building, of ‘Colonial design, will be the largest branch building in the system. The congressional appropriation provides for a staff of 19 persons, including two janitors, exactly the same number as have been provided at first for both of the other large branches and which quickly were found to be inadequate. ‘The book fund provided for the first stocking of the Georgetown branch and for the first year of opening, Dr. | Bowerman explained, was $30,000, less than is needed and less than that provided for Mount Plesant. 5,000 Books in Transfer. Georgetown’s book fund, he ex- plained, fortunately is to be supple- ‘mented by reason of the fact that the trustees of the Peabody Library in the Curtis School have turned over that collection to the Georgetown branch. Not all of its books have been found suited to the needs of this branch, Dr. Bowerman said, but prob- ably between 5,000 and 6,000 volumes from the Peabody Library will help to piece out the books obtained by pur- <chase. Many of these Peabody books | mnow are being rebound and all will bear a separate bookplate with a por- trait of George Peabody, who gave the fund with which the library has been maintained for nearly 60 years. One of the features of the aew branch is the Peabody room, on the second floor; to be used as a meeting place for citizens’ associations and other organizations, but also and espe- cially for exhibits of Georgetown ma- terial, books, pictures and museum ob- Jects. This Peabody room, where there will be prominently displayed a portrait of Mr. Peabody, will be in charge of Miss Eva N. Gilbert, who. for many v'n ‘has been the librarian of the IF Ralph L. Thompson (upper left), who has been appointed librarian of the new Georgetown branch at Wisconsin avenue and R street, shown being welcomed at the doorway of Bowerman, public librarian. Insert: the new building by Dr. George F. Cecil J. McHale, librarian at North- eastern branch, who has been shifted by Dr. Bowerman to the Mount Pleasant branch to succeed Thompson there. —Star Staff Photos. 3 PERSDNG TAKE N2 GAMING RADS $155 Collateral Is Posted on Charge of Disorderly Conduct. Two gambling raids late yesterday on New York avenue today had netted | with disorderly conduct, but mo ar- | rests were made on charges of | gambling. | At the first place raided, in the 900 block of New York avenue, 15 .were arrested, while an equal number | escaped over a roof, down fire escapes land through trapdoors. | 16 Arrested Later. Sixteen others were arrested a short | while later in a place in the 1200 block. | All taken in custody elected to forfeit their $5 collateral posted on the dis- orderly charges. Police claim to know the persons | running the establishments, but say | they have been unable to get suffi- | cient information against them to | apprehend them on gambling charges. | Both places raided were sparsely | furnished rooms on third floors. | Racing information was being ob- tained over several telephopes, officers said. Part of Harassment Policy. Lieut. George M. Little, head of the vice squad, said the raids were in:line | with a policy announced several | months ago of harassing gambling places known to exist, but where it has been impossible to obtain the nec- essary information to arrest the pro- | prietors on gambling charges. | Yesterday’s raids were conducted by | | Sergt. George Deyoe of the vice squad. | | He was accompanied by Detectives | Roy Blick, | Eagan. |ROBBERY RE.PORTED | CONFESSED BY TWO Arrested at Carthage, N. C., several days ago while driving an automobile rented in Washington, Paul Healey, 22, and William Rappe, 23, are re- ported to have confessed to robbing Mrs. Anna Vinci, wife of a delicates- Twelfth street northeast, last Friday. After taking $25 from the woman, the youths, both natives of nearby Maryland, are said to have told po- lice they hired a car which they promised to return the same night. Instead they drove to North Carolina, | where they were arrested in connec- { tion with a hold-up there. Detective Frank O. Brass. who went | to Carthage to question the youths, will seek to have them returned here for trial. Peabody Library. She will be paid from Peabody funds. Vacancies Filled. Dr. Bowerman pointed out that ap- pointments to present vacancies had all been made with exception of tnose in the very lowest grades, and that the library now has on file hundreds of applications from persons having the required qualifications. Dr. Bowerman, who was given a longer vacation-than usual this year by the library trustees, will sail on the American Trader from New York on Friday, accompanied by his 'ate wife’s nephew, John W. Graham of Albany, N. Y. They will go to Lon- don, then sail on the Stella Polaris for a three weeks’ cruise to the Baltic capitals, and will visit among other cities Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsingfors, Leningrad, with a rail trip to Moscow, and returning to cruise to Riga, Revel, Gdynia, Danzig, Hamburg, through the Kiel Canal to Calais and back to Harwich. They return on the President Roosevell in New York September 27, Oscar See and Robert | sen proprietor in the 3300 block of | FOURD. C. BILS Two of House 'Measures Are to Promote Law Enforcement. | Four District bills, two of them urged by the Crime Iavestigating Committee to promote law enforce- ment, were favorably reported to the House today by the House District | Committee. This was the last meeting day for this session, and these bills | are expected to be considered in the is scheduled for August 12. One of these bills was sponsored by Representative Chauncey W. Reed, Republican, of Illinois, a member of the Crime Committee and former prosecuting attorney in Chicago. It proposes - to increase peralties for felonies and provides that on convic- tion of a second felony the criminal be sentenced to the maximum term | law enforcement bill defines bribery, | with a penalty of six mcuths to five | years in jail tional Capital Park and Planning Commission, which authorizes an ex- change of certain park lands near Western avenue and West Beach drive for other lands more suitable in development of Rock Creek Park trict, was also favorably reported. This permits the Government to swap certain lands it now owns for a pre- ferred strip of land now privately owned. The fourth bill approved by the committee permits construction and maintenance by the Decatur Corp. of certain pipe lines in the Southwest section. 'BYRNS RAISES HOPE FOR LEAVE BILLS | Passage Tomorrow by Adoption of Special Rules Speaker’s Desire. Encouragement for Government em- | ployes who have been impatiently wait- ing for the 30 days annual leave and 15 days sick leave bills to be passed was given today by Speaker Byrns. He said, “I hope these bills will be passed tomorrow by adoption of the two special rules. I am tired of prognosticating just when the House will ‘pass these measures, but I hope and believe they will be passed by the House tomorrow.” Friends of the Government em- ployes, including members of the Civil Service Committee, said today that Senate leaders that if the leave bills are passed in the House tomorrow the Senate will act promptly upon them before adjournment. GAS VICTIM SUCCUMBS Mrs. Elizabeth W. Oaks Found in Apartment Wednesday. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Oaks, 30, of 3331 N street, who was found in her apart- ment - last Wednesday suffering from the effects of poison tablets and gas, died in Emergency Hospital early today. The woman was seen lying on the floor by a girl playing in rear of the apartment house. The janitor broke into the apartment and found gas flowing from the kitchen stove. o A A A Aide to Speak. ‘William E. Byrd, jr. assistant to the administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, will speak at & luncheon of the Junior Board of at 12:15 pam. t GVEN APPROVAL House on the next District day, which | provided for such offense. The other | The bill recommended by the Na- | and the street system of the Dis-| they have received assurances from | INCUMBENTS WIN ARLINGTON FIGHTS; BIRRELL DEFEATED Rosenberg Nominated to House Over Alexandria Veteran. FAIRFAX NAMES WOMAN TO SUPERVISOR’S POST Rust Victor Over Reid for Vir- ginia Senate—Fields Beats Odenthal. | Arlington County Democrats yester- | day indorsed all present officials to carry the party banner in the general | election, while Fairfax County voters for the first time in history nominated |a woman for a seat on the Board of | | Supervisors as they gave sweeping vic- | tories to State Senator John W. Rust | and Judge Paul E. Brown, the latter a candidate for Commonwealth's attor- | ney. Another high light of the balloting was nomination of Maurice D. Rosen- | berg to the Alexandria seat in the Vir- ginia House of Delegates. He garnered 1,291 of the 2,814 votes cast in the city to defeat Capt. George H. Evans, retired Army officer, and the veteran J. Fred Birrell. Loses Arlington. Rust lost in Arlington County, but was supported by Alexandria, Fairfax |and Prince William voters, and de- | feated his opponent, Hugh Reid, for- mer member of the House of Delegates, by 1,000 votes altogether. In Arlington Sheriff Howard B.| | Pields, Tressurer Charles T. Jesse, | Commonwealth’s Attorney Lawrence W. Douglas and Board Members Eliz- abeth Barron Magruder and William E. A. McShea wén. C. Benjamin Lay- cock, deputy commissioner of rev- enue, received the nomination for | county clerk, having bested three op- | ponents, I. Chance Buchanan, Ralph E. Remington and Lyman M. Kelley. Fields Beats Foe. Laycock's vote was 2,143, with Bu- chanan receiving 1315; Kelley, 611, and Remington, 1,333. Fields carried 10 of the 11 pre- cincts, losing only Clarendon by 28| votes. The total vote for Fields, |3,370; Odenthal, 2,266. Jesse defeated Board Member Harry | A. Fellows by 3,288 to 2,409, losing | only the Lyon Park precinct and this | by 47. | Out of a total vote of 5,509, Douglas | received an even 3,100, with Emery N. Hosmer 1unning second with 1.502 and John Paul Jones trailing with 1,007. In addition to Mrs. Magruder and McShea, those winning nominations for the County Board are George M. Yeatman with the high score of 3,109 F. Freeland Chew with 2,620 and James Buchanan with 2557 votes. The vote for the other four board | carftiidates was Leo C. Lloyd, 2.201; C. W. Lee, 2,076; Thomas R. Mechem, 1,690, and Edward Duncan, 1,994. Brown Gets Largest Vote. Judge Brown received the largest vote of any Fairfax candidate in the primary, defeating George B. Robey, 2,288 to 1,054. | With three opponents, Miss Edith Rogers of the Dranesville district took | the honor of being the first woman | nominated to the County Board, de-| feating her closest rival, T. A. Wams- | ley, 289 to 168. George F. Harrison and E. E. Gillette, other candidates in the race, received 134 and 73 votes, respectively. Nomination is equiva-| lent to election. Dr. F. W. Huddleson, veteran county treasurer, was given 1,442 votes against 1,214 for C. C. Carr, his near- est opponent. O. W. Whitley, a third candidate, received 688 votes. Unofficial returns indicated C. H. Powell, incumbent on the Boar of Supervisors from the Falls cnurch" district, had defeated his rival, John W. Kerns, by the scant margin of ‘twa votes, Powell receiving 234 to | 232 for Kerns. Others Renominated. Other incumbents on the board were renominated in each case with sub- stantial majorities, the results being: Chairman W. F. P. Reid of Mount Vernon district, 240 votes; J. B. Par- nell, 167; Providence district, G. Wal- | lace Carper, 816 votes; O. B. Camp- | bell, 294; Centerville district, D. W. Buckley, incumbent, 150; John Fergu- son, 126, and R. Colton Lewis, 131. The primary brought about the breaking of a long-existing deadlock on the Alexandria Democratic Com- mittee. One of the two factions of the party seeking control of the commit- tee, obtained 10 of the 12 committee seats. Previously, the committee had been divided, 6 to 6. Carlin Sent Back. Results of the committee election sent three committeemen, Charles C. Carlin, jr; Dr. O. A. Ryder and| Charles Davis, back to their committee seats, and saw two members seeking re-election from the sixth ward, Charles E. Burgess and William Sellers, defeated. The vote by wards for committee posts was: % First ward—Armistead L. *Boothe, 293; Charles Davis, 237; Jack How- ard, 183; Dr. E. A. Gorman, 58. Second ward—Powell Roberts, 304; Clyde C. Lamond, jr., 295. Third ward—T. Wilfred Robinson, 375; C. C. Carlin, jr, 264; Walter Cline, 163. Fourth ward—R. Samuel Luckett, 275; Dr. O. A. Ryder, 257; Robert V. Duncan, 211; Dr. Carl Dreifus, 140; A. E. Burns, 22. 3 Fifth ward—Richard L. Ruffner, 429; Orlando H. Kirk, 256; Louis E. De Moll, 170; Joseph Everly, 160; Joseph | H. Kretschmer, 83. Sixth ward—Alan Prosise, 270; Ar- thur Campbell, 254; Charles E. Bur- gess, 184; William Sellers, 134, e B Institute to Hear Dr. Jaeger. The National Institute of Adult Education will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the studio of the American discuss the Italo- | an Alexandria funeral establishment, | staying with her daughter, was held | protection and a .32- caliber auto- Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep A “bentharium” is lowered into Chesapeake Bay off Solcmons Island to investigate the home life of fishes. Left: Dr. R. V. Truitt, director of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, enters the undersea chamber, assisted by Gilbert Klingle of the Maryland Natural History Society. after peering through the porthole of the submerged chamber. him up. <@ FAIRFAX Afl[]RNEY‘Life on Bay Floor Is Surveyed From Diving Bell at Solomons 0 ACT-IN SLAYING Alexandria Inquest Leaves Decision in Yakel Case Open. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August After a lengthy coroner’s investigation late yesterday, it was decided to let the Fairfax County Commonwealth's | attorney decide whether the fatal| shooting of George A. Yakel, 58-year- | old retired contractor, by his young and pretty wife was justified. Mrs. Nancy Lee Yakel, 24, who killed her reputedly wealthy husband early | in the day after he forcibly entered their little home at Belle Hawen, near | here, was turned over to her attorney | for appearance at Fairfax Court| House. Commonwealth's Attorney Wilson | M. Farr said today that Mrs. Yakel, | who expects to become a mother in | & few weeks, will not be compelled to | come to the court house until her con- dition permits. Carefully Guarded. In passing the case on to higher authorities, Coroner C. A. Ransom | issued a formal verdict of “death by | homicide.” Reporters were begrudg- ingly admitted to the inquest, held in and the principal testimony, that of Mrs. Yakel and her mother, Mrs. Hortense Elliott, 42, who had been behind closed doors. Mrs. Yakel was carefully guarded from photographers by her attorney, Andrew W. Clarke. It was brought out at the inquest that Yakel was jealous of his wife and had threatened to kill her if she | did not vacate their Belle Haven home before he returned from Reno, where he had gone to obtain a divorce. Mrs. Yakel had appealed for police | matic was lent her by a friend. ‘Women Were Awakened. Shortly after 2 am. yesterday Mrs. Yakel and her mother were awakened by loud knocking and cursing. Mrs. Elliott tried to telephone police, but the wires had been cut by Yakel. Mrs. Elliott went out the back aoor to arouse neighbors and, picking up the automatic, Mrs. Yakel fled from the house as she heard a glass door crash in. Unable to find his wife, Yakel drove his car around the block looking for her. He stopped near the house, got out with a flashlight, spotted Mrs. | Yakel hiding in some shrubbery and | started toward her. To warn him she was armcd, Mrs. Yakel fired wide of her approaching husband. He did not stop, however, but flashed the light in her face. She shot again. When Alexandria police arrived they found Yakel dead with a oullet through the heatt. His wife was sit- ting on the grass nearby, the auto- matic still in her hand. Yakel has two grown children v a fermer mariage, while Mrs. Yakel Las a 5-year-old daughter by her first hus- band, a Washington automobile dealer. U. S. BUILDINGS TOURED BY BRITISH PHYSICIANS Visitors Stop Here En Route to| Association Convention in Australia. Visiting British physicians en: route to a convention of the British Medical Association in Melbourne, Australia, toured Washington’s public buildings today and then were entertained at a luncheon by the International Medi- cal Club. They will leave at 4:15 p.m. for San Francisco, where they are to meet another party of British doctors and sail for Australia August 14. The party, numbering 110 physi- cians, their wives and children, ar- rived yesterday, visited the White House, were received at the British Embassy and went on a sight-seeing tour to Mount Vernon. The luncheon today was at the Mayflower. DIVORCE ASKED IN RENO Mrs. Irene T. Perkins, formerly Miss Irene Trigg, of Washington yes- terday filed suit for divorce at Reno, Nev., against her husband, Frank H. Perkins of 156 Adams street, a pub- lic school teacher in this city, on | as well. grounds of cruelty and non-support, Commerce in the Lee House tomorrow | Hotel. Dr. Walter H. E. Jaeger will | The couple was married here Decem- | into a taxicab ber_ 24, 1024, P “Bentharium” Takes Three to Bottom of Chesapeake to Study Fish, Crabs and Oysters at Home. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SOLOMONS ISLAND, Md. August 7—The private life of fish in Chesa- peake Bay is no longer private. All yesterday and far into last night | men descended in an undersea cham- | ber called a “bentharium,” and peered through a glass porthole at marine life in the bay here. The experi- ments were the first of a series to be conducted by the Chesapeake Bio- | logical Laboratory and the Maryland Natural History Society. Construction of the curious diving | device required a year. Gilbert Klingle of the Natural History So- ciety and Dr. R. V. Truitt, laboratory director, plan to take it all over the bay for exhaustive eye-witness studies of fish, crabs and oysters. Can Go to Deepest Levei. The “benthariim” was lowered yes- terday with successive human cargoes to depths ranging to 25 feet. It is possible, however, to explore the Chesapeake to its greatest depth, 183 feet, and Dr. Truitt said this would be done later. A trip in the “bentharium,” to the group which dove in it yesterday, proved more fascinating than fright- ening. Suspended by chains in a square-cut well on a small raft, the | device resembles a large, cylindrical | boiler with tentacles—the air and phone connections. It has two port- holes, one 23 inches in diameter and the other 1 inch. In the top is a small opening, just big enough to admit a man of average size. The air exhaust is made of common gar- den hose and serves as a telephone The air intake, also of ordinary rubber hose, is connected with a small pump. This correspondent descended yes- terday with two others to get an idea of how the scientiste will spy on fishes. After the three had wormed into the chamber, half filled with sand bags, Joseph C. White of the Natural History Society, pulled a heavy plate over the entrance and bolted it se- curely from within. Hot, But Air Good. “Lower away,” he called through the hose pipe telephone. The chamber was hot, but the air was good and there was room enough. It would have been easy to take notes or make sketches and photographs, which is what Mr. Klingle and his associates intend to do. Right: Roy Robertson, in diving helmet, ascends P. Yingling and Irving Hampe are helping —Star Staff Photos, With a clanking of chains the “prison” was lowered, swaying slightly. | ““Hold ‘er,” said White, “I want to | see if she leaks.” “She” did—a few drops splashed on the writer's lap. White tightened the | bolts and ordered the descent. | "It was a bright day and light fil- | tered down through the green water. There was no sensation of pressure. A school of tiny silver “mummichug” fish darted past the porthole. A few | paused and seemed to return our stares, | “How's the air?” rasped the hose telephone. | “Okay,” said White. [ Diver Goes Down. Roy Robertson, a laboratory worker, donned a diving helmet and plunged down beside the chamber. Peering through the porthole, he looked like | some ghoul from another planet. White ordered the bell up after | going only a small distance beneath | the surface, but subsequently Dr. Truitt and two others dove to the bottom, 25 feet, in the “bentharium.” It was cooler where they went and darker, but Dr. Truitt reported through the telephone that they could see the flash of a camera bulb. “What else can you see?” he was asked. ° “A Norfolk spot just went by,” came a voice from the tube. Society and General PAGE B—1 MORE VAN CARS SOUGHT T0 0FSET OPERATORS' RAE Change Urged on Utilities Body Would Affect 20 New Trolleys. HANNA MEMORANDUM SENT TO COMMISSION Company Head Declares Econ- omies Are Necessary to Make Up $700,000 Increase. ‘Fhe Capital Transit Co. today pro- posed to convert its 20 new street cars tc one-man operation, in a move to effect savings because of the $700900 wage-increase granted trainmen and bus operators. The cars, of an advanced type pf construction, are suitable for one-man cperation, but when their purchase was approved by the Public Utilities Commission, that agency stipulated they must be operated by two men, a conductor as well as a motorman. A memorandum outlining arguments for the requested shift in the use of the cars has been sent by John H. Hanna, Transit campany president, to the Utilities Commission, it was learned today by The Star. The commission will not act hastily on the proposal, particularly in view of protests which have been made in the past by some civic groups against one-man car operation. It was said the commission would have the matter analyzed by its legal counsel, as well | s by its chief engineer Fred A. Sager, | for a check on the savings angle. $55,000 Savings Foreseen. If the company is permitted to con- vert the new cars into one-man opera- tion, it was estimated, the company would gain a saving of approximately $55000 a year. President Hanna states that due to the $700,000 wage in- crease it will be necessary for the company to effect all possible econ- | omies. He stresses the necessity of preserving the company’s credit. Hanna also argues that the percent- age of one-man cars now in use here in relation to the whole number of cars | is the lowest of any comparable city. | Some cities have one-man car opera- | tion exclusively, and in other cities the percentage is much higher than in the | District, he reported. ‘The Capital Transit Co. pay raises were announced yesterday. The board of arbitration which granted the increases made them retroactive to April 1. The new pro- visions call for: | An increase of 10 cents an hour to trainmen; a raise of 5 or 6 cents an hour in the differential between one- man and two-man car operators; the reising of bus drivers to equality with one-man car operators; an increase of five cents an hour to shopmen and other employes. 59-Cent Wage Lowest. The new scale puts trainmen on two-man car operation at 59 cents an hour for the first three months, 63 cents for the next nine months and 65 cents thereafter. One-man car operators and bus drivers will receive 65, 69 and 71 cents for the three A ferry boat putt-putted across the they could hear its engines. Other facts about the “bentharium” include: Its displacement is 4 tons, it is 6 eter. f It can withstand more than 18,750 pounds of pressure to the square inch. Valuable to Study. It will be invaluable to the com- pletion of a study of marine life | mating, feeding and other biological developments. An electric connection’ can be made which will permit taking a strong searchlight within the chamber for deep water and night observations. Likewise, a waterproof light can be attached to the exterior of the “shell.” Mr. Klingle and Dr. Truitt were satisfied with the results of yesterday’s experiments and anxious to begin the work of notation and analysis. Greek Premier Arrives Unmet In Daylight Hastens Back to Station, But Misses Legation Reception. Papanastasiou Fails to Get City’s Keys From Countrymen. Some Greeks failed to meet a Greek | this morning in Union Station, but it wasn't because they didn’t try. Alexander Papanastasiou, premier of Greece, co-operated by going back to the station to be met after he learned that because of some chrono- metric confusion his greeters were not at the station when his train rolled in from Chicago. But it was all in vain, and the pre- mier has not been greeted in the sta- tion yet. He arrived in Washington at 8:30 o'clock, Eastern standard time, think- ing it was 9:30 o'clock, daylight sav- ing time. The delegation of welcome from the Greek Legation had made plans to hand over the keys to the city at 9:30 o'clock. Unmet and alone, the premier went to the Mayflower Hotel. Meanwhile the greeters had got wind their man was about to arrive and, jamming on top hats as they ran, hurried to the station. At the Mayflower the premier heard the greeters were on their way to the Unwilling to have them make depot. Pen Women'’s Club, at the Burlington | according to the Associated ml-vunmp,m.nwmm e would arrive at the station ‘welcomers, Time Confusion ALEXANDER PAPANASTASIOU. —Star Staff Photo. P S S s i N B But the greeters beat him, found the station bare and were gone before Papanastasiou showed up. In des- peration he returned to the hotel worn from the chase. ‘The premier expects to be here un- til Friday. He has been spending the first week of his first visit to the United States with relatives in Chi- cago. The trip to America is purely for pleasure. Rescue Unit Plans Outing. SEAT PLEASANT, Md. August 7 (Special) —The nursing unit of the Prince George County Rescue Squad will sponsor & moonlight excursion tomorrow night for the benefit of the organization. bay and the party below reported feet deep and 4 feet 8 inches in diam- | | activities, such as fish migrations, fish | | periods. | The arbitrators continued the 81;- | hour day and other working provisions | and the new scale was made effective | until March 30, 1938. The arbitrators were Frank M. | Swacker, former examiner for the In- | terstate Commerce Commission; Charl- | ton Ogburn, representing the Amalga- mated Association of Street and Elec- tric Railway and Motor Coach Em- | ployes, and Edmund L. Jones, coynsel for the company. Jones declined to assent to the award. TRAFFIC ARRESTS SET LOW RECORD Accident Increase, However, Ties Previous High Fig- ure in Drive. A new low record in the number of a week day traffic arrests since the traffic safety campaign started 19 days ago was set during the 24-hour period, ending at 8 a.m. today, with a total of 253. At the same time the number of accidents reported—a total of 30— tied the previous high record in acci- dents for a single day during the cam- paign. No serious personal injuries were reported in the traffic lists. Also due to an overlap, through delay in some of the police reports being filed, several of the 30 accidents reported had hap- pened prior to yesterday. In past in- stances the number of accidents in- cluded in a daily report have included several mishaps which occurred prior | to the 24-hour periods on which the reports were based. The lowest number of a week- day arrests prior to the period end- ing at 8 am. today was 279 for the 24-hour period, ending at 8 am. Au- gust 2. A total of 30 accidents for a day previously was last reported for the 24-hour period ending at 8 am. August 2. A total of 11 persons, five of them children, were injured in the last 24-hour period recorded, none seri- ously. Leslie Matthews, 22, colored, of the 100 block of I street, was seriously hurt late yesterday when he was knocked from the running board of an automobile in the first block of Myrtle street northeast while trying to stop the driver who, police say, had stolen a radio from a house nearby. He was brushed from the .nachine when it sidewiped a lamp .ost. Matthews was treated at Sibley Hos- pital and removed to Gallinger, where he is under observation for possible skull fracture. Police broadcast a look- out for the driver of the automobile, who failed to stop. Police Superintendent Ernest W. Brown today issued a general order instructing his command to continue their efforts toward arresting all traffic law violators. He told them to {follow all instructions previously given in special orders relating to the safety drive, *