Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1935, Page 41

1. SAVINGSBANK SUT WEEHED Payment of $256,500 to De- positors Hangs on Justice Wheat’s Decision. Payment of $256.500 in dividends to | depositors of the closed United States Savings Bank hangs on the decision of | Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of Dis- trict Supreme Court, in a case brought before him late yesterday. This was disclosed by George P.| Barse, general counsel of the Treasury Department’s Division of Insolvent National Banks, at the conclusion of a hearing on a motion to dismiss the | suit brought by the bank to compel | the Controller of the Currency and | the Secretary of the Treasury to lift the receivership of the bank and re store it to its officers. Distribution of a 15 per cent divi- dend to depositors, who already have | received a 65 per cent payment, has been made possible through a Recon- struction Finance Corp. loan, and is| being delayed by the suit, which rep- | resents the latest effort of Col. Wade H. Cooper, former president, to regain control of the bank he once headed. | Barse declared Chief Justice Wheat took the motion under advisement after Barse and his associate, George B. Springston, had argued that all substantial issues in- volved in the suit already had been passed on by the local courts. | Philip H. Marcum, bank attorney, contends the courts never have had before them the question of the bank’s solvency at the time it was placed in the hands of a receiver. He claimed this action by the controller was uu- Jjustified and intended to destroy the institution. A report of the receiver Carter B. Keene, last Summer. showed the bank not only is solvent, but also has sufficient funds to restore its capital structure, Marcum stated. R e ‘ MISS PERKINS HITS | INDUSTRY ‘ATTITUDE" Charges Unwillingness to Meet | Labor Halfway in Quest of Better Standards. By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich, October 18— | Becretary of Labor Frances Perkins, in | an address here last night, charged | American industry has shown “an un- ‘ willingness to co-operate with labor and meet it halfway” in quest for | adequate living standards and working | conditions. | Secretary Perkins said “the last two years have seen an improvement in | this condition, largely due to the Gov- | ernment’s encouragement of workers in exercising the right to organize into labor unions.” Miss Perkins defined the New Deal social security program’s goal as “a good life for the average man and | woman.” Such a standard. she said. “will have as its slogan the truism | that ‘man is entitled to the right to | live in return for the work he has | done' rather than the old one that *man must work to live.’” She declared capitalism, as it exists today, places labor in a role not fnr! different from serfdom because “man | 1s not master of himself—he is not in- I dependent. He has no voice in set- | tling his daily wage and he cannot de- cide whether it shall continue beyond | today.” | Service Orders ARMY ORDERS. Callan, Maj. Gen. Robert E., ordered to report to the Army Retiring Board, Baltimore, Md. Brett, Maj. Serano E., Infantry, from. the Hawaiian Department to temporary duty in office of the Chief of Infantry here. Chittick, Maj. Martin B., Chemical Warfare Service Reserve, from Chi- cago, Ill, to active duty in office of the Assistant Secretary of War here, November 10. | Parks, Maj. Victor, jr, Chemical | Warfare Service, from Edgewood Ar- scnal, Md, to Walter Reed General Hospital here. { The following-named officers of the | Specialist Reserve ordered to active | duty November 4, under the assistant | chief of staff: Waller, Maj. Curtis L., | ‘Tallahassee, Fla.; Bennet, Capt. Hiram ‘W., Washington, D. C.; Newbold, First Lieut. John L., jr., Washington, D. C. | MARINE CORPS ORDERS. Stack, Capt. Frederick E., on or about November 1, detached Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Unit, Georgia School of Technology, At- lanta, Ga., to Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. Taxis, First Lieut. Samuel G., orders to M. B, Parris Island, S. C., modified; on expiration delay, ordered to Ist Brigade, F. M. F., M. B,, Quantico, Va. Asmuth, First Lieut. Walter, jr., &bout November 4 detached 1st Bri- gade, F. M. F, M. B, Quantico, Va., to 4th Marines, Shanghai, China, via U. S. S. Chaumont, sailing from Nor- folk, Va., on November 9, 1935, McCaffery, First Lieut. Joseph P, about November 1 detached M. B, ‘Washington, D. C., to 1st Brigade, F. M. P, M. B, Quantico, Va. Cauldwell, Lieut. Col. Oscar R., y about October 18 detached 1st Bri- gade, F. M. F., M. B, Quantico, Va., | toF. M. F, M. C. B, N. O. B, San Diego, Calif., with delay of seven days en route. Ames, Maj. Evans O., about October 21 detached 1st Brigade, F. M. F., M. B, Quantico, Va., to F. M. F,, M. C. B, N. O. B, San Diego, Calif., with delay of seven days en route. Lowell, Maj. Roy D., about Novem- ber 1 detached M. B.,, Quantico, Va., to M. B, Parris Island, 8. C. Hussa, Pirst Lieut. Norman, detached Department of Pacific, to M. B, Wash- ington, D. C., via U. S. Army transport Chateau Thierry, sailing San Fran- cisco, Calif., November 9. Lake, First Lieut. James B., detaghed N. A. 8, Pensacola, Fla.,, to 1st Bri- gade, F. M. F,, M. B, Quantico, Va. Stop thatWatery Head Cold @ Balanced in medication for safe, frequent use, Pene- tro Drops en nasal functions and give Nature the help to fight off colds, preventing many of them together.Contain ephedri and are clinically tested. 25c, S 50c, $1 bottles. At druggists, 5 A H THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PLUMBER'S DILEMMA. E'S HAD trouble enough so we won't tell you his n.ame. But he’s a plumber’s helper. Not long ago he was called to a house in Virginia to put in some basement piping—you know, the kind you knock your head against all the time if you're tall. Working alone made it a problem because he had to put up two pipes running parallel and oniy a few inches apart. But he mastered it by bal- ancing a pipe on each shoulder and mounting a keg to set to work. There was only one difficulty. After he got the pipes fastened in place he recalled suddenly he had forgotten to e take his head and neck from between them. It took about two hours’ maneuvering before he finally released himself. S ODE TO HOME. Carved the woodwork in over Last 2 Days 75th Anniversary Tth, 8th, & the doorway of the jormer home of the late Samuel H. Kauffmann on Massachusetts avenue, adjoining the German Embassy, is the jol- lowing inscription: North Or South, East Or West Far Or Near Home Is Best * ok kX HIGHWAY COURTESY MAYBE it was the Safety Cam- paign, or maybe just the lassitude of an Indian Summer afternoon. But a taxicab and sightseeing came into the intersection at Connecticut avenue entrance to zoo simultaneously. Both stopped short and the bus the the bus had just started after observing the through traffic stop sign, waved to the taxi to come on. ‘The taxi driver shook his finger in a “no-no™ gesture and signaled the bus to proceed. This went on for three rounds of “Alphonse-and-Gaston-ing” before it | avenue. | * ok ok ok QUERY. The Police Department has a Clothing and Helmet Fund into which goes 5 per cent of rewards received by members. How long E Streets Fingerknit Boucles in colors like Autumn leaves! 888 If the hand-made look of these Fingerknits doesn’t open your purse—the lush colors will! They're the soft, delustered kind. Alpine rust, wood violet, ginger, 14 to 42 blue, green. LANSBURGH'S—SECOND FLOOR—SPORTS SHOP driver, who was on the Tight but who | | was settled and the bus swung in| ahead of the taxi and drove down the | has it been since you saw a polices man in @ helmet?, * x Kk % CAMPAIGN OF OPTIMISM. '‘HE idea that everybody has vast sums of idle money hidden away in his socks, which he dares not in- vest, seems to be doubted in the Dis- trict Building, otherwise known as ‘Washington's City Hall. “Invest your idle funds in the new United States baby bonds,” says a | huge poster in the lobby in the base- ment of the building, where it is viewed every day by hundreds of visitors. Around the words “idle funds” some clever artist has drawn a circle and placed a very large question mark out on the margin. And just to prove there is some | basis for the added financial touch, try to touch one of your friends in the building for a $5 or $10 loan. * kX X DID YOU KNOW—? The first known object made of aluminum, now a giant industry, was a baby rattle presented to the infant Prince Imperial of France in 1855, according to Pr. William M. Corse of this city, in a sympo- sium of the American Chemical Society. H. St. Claire Deville pro- duced the aluminum from which it was made, and the metal, valued Enticing at g.88 You'll bury your scruples six feet under—and you'll find yourself snatching and diving for these dresses as if you hadn’t been brought up bet- ter! For dress-up, for sports, for street—all sorts of dresses. Sizes 12 to 44, 421/ to 5215 LANSBURGH'S—SECOND FLOOR at 317 per ounce, was worth almost its weight in gold. * ok x % IT I8 THE LAW, ‘HE enactment which provided for the succession of cabinet members to the position of ranking officials of the United States in the case of ab- sence of President, Vice President, and so on, was passed in 1886. At that time, the Department of Interior was the baby in the cabinet family. That law has never been revised. It leaves out Secretaries Wallace, Roper, and Perkins as possible suc- cessors. ‘Therefore, even if a wholesale holo- | was broken off by the workme! "You're crazy _ D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1935, caust wiped out all the others, down to Secretary Ickes, these latter three could never be President pro-tem. * X ¥ % MYSTERY SHAPT. ‘ORKMEN digging to replace an electric pole at one of Alexan- dria’s principal business intersections several days ago unearthed a well of such depth and circumference that its former use had stumped even the town’s oldest citizens. The circular shaft, completely bricked, measured 36 feet in depth and 7 feet in diameter. Its top, which , Was 8 feet below the sidewalk surface at King and St. Asaph streets. Recalling earlier days of the his- toric city, old timers suggested the well was either an ice storage vault, used when ice was cut from the Potomac river in Winter and stored for ‘Summer use; a fire well, used when hand-pumper engines were em- ployed to extinguish fires as the grandfather of present fire plugs; a public pump similar to others that dotted Alexandria’s street corners a hundred years ago, or an old-time reptic tank. No one remembered when the well had been in use. City workmen dumped more than 20 truck loads of C-1 NEW SIGNALS ORDERED “Demand” Signs for Connecticut Avenue and Tilden Street. Installation of traffic “demand” sige nals at Connecticut avenue and Tile den street has been ordered by the Commissioners. ‘They also have approved a request by Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer for changing existing traffic signals at Connecticut avenue and Calvert street and at Woodley road and Cathedral avenue from the fixed dirt and rocks into the shaft to fill it. |to the flexible progressive system. if you sell these Fur Coats for less than $59 to $79!" said Mrs. Forest, our Fur Expert When we showed her these coats for an opinion; she opened several of the linings. “Hmm-m— buckskins, not flimsy doeskins . . . see, this Lapin is worked with the hairs UP, like Hudson Seal . . . good large skins, too, and stayed to prevent rips. . I've been in the fur business 32 years, and haven’t seen a better buy!” TS If you've ever in all your shop- ping life, seen Fur Coats like these at $45—we give up! We fought for each one. One Sealine was snatched from us five separate times! Each coat has its own special fashion tricks—sailor col- lars, wide armholes, overgrown Barrymores—dozens more than we can even name here. Sizes 14 to 42. o Swaggers in Congo or Black Lapin Dyed Rabbits. o Northern Bonded (indicates service) Sealine Dyed Rabbits. ® Beaverettes Dyed Rabbits. DAYLIGHT FUR SHOP—SECOND. FLOOR.