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[Geneni v | Ghe Sundlay Star MTONALD BALKS ATTESTIMONY ON SLAYING MOTIVE Prosecution Hopes to Clinch Case With Gambler’s Story. INTENDED VICTIM MAY RISK INCRIMINATION| State Considers Forcing Him to Tell of Previous Attempt to Take His ife. BY JOHN H. CLINE. A potential rupture in the “com- | pleted case” against the slavers of | Allen B. Wilson was seen last night in the disclosure that (Mickey) bullets that killed Wilson tended, may refuse to testify for the prosecution. McDonald, who had extensive gambling interests in Washington. was not & witness to the murder of | Wilson, but investigators believe he | has information which would be helpful to the prosecution in fixing ® motive for the misguided attempt to murder him A close friend of McDonald’s however, pointed out that if the murder plot grew out of gambling activities, any testimony he might give along this line would make him liable to a possible prosecution. May Stand on Rights. Under these circumstances, it was gaid. McDonald might decide to fall back on the constitutional right to refuse to give testimony tending to incriminate him. Evidence gathered by police shows McDonald was asleep when Wilson was shot down in front of his home, in Takoma Park, last October 23.| The investigation following the shoot- ing. however, revealed that an earlier attempt to kill McDonald was made | by wiring dynamite to the starter of his automobile. When the gambler tried to start his ear the crude bomb exploded, but he escaped without injury. Police, how- ever. are convinced identity of the men who planted it and that they are the same ones who later killed Wilson It was believed that under the law of Maryland he might be compelled to testify concerning this first attempt on his life. Testimony of this nature, it was pointed out, could not tend to incriminate McDonald and might go & long way in establishing the iden of the murderers. May Not Be Needed. One official closely identified with the investigation expressed the belief the killers can be convicted without McDonald’s testimony. but admitted a full disclosure by the gambler would be helpful at the trial “I think we have a good case,” he faid, “McDonald or no McDonald. | Sheehy to Request Gardiner’s Arrest On Assault Charge Expected to Cdll Wit- nesses as Result of Row in Court. Vincent A. Sheehy, who figured in a fist fight in District Supreme Court Thursday, is expected to bring wit- nesses before Assistant United States Attorney David A. Hart in Police Court Tuesday in an effort to secure an assault warrant for the arrest of W. Gwynn Gardiner, former District Commissioner. ‘The two gray-haired attorneys, who were opposing counsel in the Nixon divorce suit, were principals in the row which occurred at the counsel table in Justice Jesse C. Adkins’ court a minute or two after the judge had declared a mistrial and left the room. Sheehy appeared at Police Court yesterday and asked for a warrant, but agreed to wait until an informal hear- ing can be held Tuesday. Gardiner was attorney for Mrs. An- nette Pauline Nixon, second wife of | ing the decree obtained previously by Capt. Nixon in Pennsylvania was in- | valid. The mistrial was declared after | Gardiner asked leave to amend his | declaration by naming Nixon's third wife, the former Anna Cooke of Chevy Chase, as co-respondent, COL. CODPER FACES TRIAL TOMORROW Financial Deals of Former Banker to Be Aired at Hearing. Col. Wade H. Cooper, once presi- | dent of three local banks, is slated to | 20 on trial in District Supreme Court | tomorzow on a charge of misapplica- tion of funds of the defunct Commer- cial National Bank. His case probably will not be reached until afternoon, court house until Tuesday morning, depending on | are disposed of. For nearly a week opposing at- torneys are expected to delve into the intricate financial transactions which WASHINGTON, D. C, LOGAL EMERGENCY RELIEF OFFICIALS 10 DISCUSS NEED Unemployment Board Seeks Administrative Fund Allotment. SOCIAL SECURITY BODY IN LIKE PREDICAMENT Federal Group, With $112,610 to Name Key Officials to Examine Programs. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Hopeful of an immediate allotment of administrative funds for the Dis- trict Unemployment Compensation Edward | Capt. Thomas Hay Nixon, U. S. A, | Board, directors of the local program McDonald, for whom the | Who was represented by Sheehy. MIS. | expect to confer this week with mem- were in- | Nixon was suing for divorce, contend- | porg or representatives of the Federal Social Security Board. Up to this time, the local group has been en- tirely without funds, the preliminary work being done by regular employes of District departments. In a like predicament, the Social Security Board has been forced to borrow aides from other Federal de- partments. In both cases, however, develop- ments of the past few days have opened the way to administrative progress. For the Federal administra- tion, an allotment of $112,610 of emer- gency relief funds was made avail- able. With this sum, appointments | of several key officials, as well as a number of minor assistants, are ex- pected. One of their first duties, then, will be an examination of State and District programs for unemploy- ment compensation, old-age assistance, aid to blind and aid to dependent children. Supplementary Events. Grants to supplementary local funds will be made for the last three of these programs, probably starting with the first quarter of 1936. In the case of the unemployment com- pensation programs, however, the Fed- eral aid is to be in the form of ad- | attaches said, and may not be called | minjstrative allotments entirely and it is on this fact that District officials he knows the the speed with which other msrters‘: are basing their hopes of immediate | financial aid. Completion of the first draft of the | District regulation for administering | the program constitutes the principal followed the so-called merger of the | Continental Trust Co. with the Com- | | mercial National Bank, out of which the indictment against Col. Cooper arose. At opposing ends of the counsel | table will be William E. Leahy, who | has figured in many prominent trials, | and Assistant United States Attorney | Irving Goldstein. Justice Daniel W. | O'Donoghue probably will be on the bench. For two years Col. Cooper and his affairs have attracted widespread at- | tention. Since the bank holiday of March, 1933, he has fought to regain | control of the United States Savings | local development. One section of these regulations already has been made public and the final half is to be released tomorrow. Hearings on | these proposals are scheduled to start | on November 4 at the District Build- ing. With the District likely to play its familiar role of laboratory for ex= perimentation in the social security | field, local officials plan to discuss all | of their administrative proposals with | the Federal administration during the coming conferences. Executive Director John A. Marshall of the District Board said yesterday However, a motive is always a hard Bank, which he headed when the | he had given consideration to the ad- thing to prove, and I believe he can help us in this respect if he will.” Lieut. Floyd Truscott and Sergt Earl Hartman, members of a special Investigating squad assigned exclu- sively to the Wilson case. were still out of the city last evening. The na- ture of their mission has been closely guarded, but it is believed the *“loose ends” of the case will have been gathered when they return. Once the investigation is completed, 1t was pointed out, some time will be required for assembling and studying the evidence before it can be pre- eented to the grand jury, which does not meet in Montgomery County un- til November 11. It was expected this will take a week or 10 days 2 Held Incommunicado. So far as could be learned, for sev- eral days police have not questioned the suspects under arresi. Presum- ably they have secured all the in- formation they can from the held men. Those under suspicion are John (Slim) Dunn, serving a 15-year rob- bery sentence in Alcatraz; Altert S Button. in the District jail as a parole violator, and Dewey Jenkins and Wil- liam Cleary, held incommunicado in police precincts Police are also holding several other men indicted secretly for this purpose. 1t was believed, however, the only pur- pose in holding them is in the hope of obtaining additional information. EATON REPLY HITS HORSE-BUGGY AGE President Told Representative Has Not Been Clergyman in 16 Years. By the Associated Press. Representative Eaton, New Jersey Republican, suggested to the Presi- dent yesterday that his mailing list of clergymen was “almost as far be hind as the ‘horse and buggy age. The suggestion was contained in a formal reply to the President’s re- quest to clergymen for advice, counsel eand comment on the New Deal's ac- tivities. A copy of that letter was addressed to the Rev. Charles A. Eaton. “I find on my return to office your Justly famous letter to clergymen, bearing the address of Rev. Charles A. Eaton, Watchung, N. J.” Eaton wrote the President. “As I have not held any pastoral position since 1919, it would seem that your ministerial mailing list is at least 16 years behind the times—almost as far behind as the ‘horse and buggy age. “My views on your administration are set forth in House Joint Resolu- tion 342, which I introduced in the House of Representatives July 1, 1935, and copy of which I inclose here- with.” In the resolution Eaton cited a number of instances in which he said the President had broken pledges con- tained in the Democratic platform of 1932, and invited him to address a joint session of the House and Senate to explain why those “solemn cove- nants and pledges” had been disre- garded. [ | Col. Cooper was president of both in- | | holiday was declared, and only yester- | day received his latest rebuff when | Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat dis-| | missed a suit to compel restoration of | the bank to its officers. The indictment on which Col. Cooper will be tried is in four counts and | charges misapplication of a total of | $48,550 of Commercial funds through unsecured loans to the Continental | Trust Co. during the period in which | stitutions. Goldstein said, however, the Gov- ernment will attempt to show misap- | plication of $362.453.06 from the time | of the merger on January 18, 1930, to | February 27, 1933, when the Com- | | mercial closed its doors. TWO ANNIVERSARIES Assistant Police Superintendent | | Has Two Reasons to Celebrate. Assistant Police Supt. L. I. H. Ed- wards simultaneously celebrated yes- terday his 55th birthday anniversary and his 37th wedding anniversary. He and Mrs. Edwards, who made | a surprise appearance at Edwards’ of- | fice at police headquarters, were con- | gratulated by Police Supt. Ernest W. | Brown and other police officials, and were presented with a large basket of flowers by the force at the administra- tive headquarters. Edwards has been a member of the force for 32 years and assistant super- intendent since March, 1932, | lAuto Bac:k-F iring To Scare Ducks Is Held Law Violation | Practice of Drivers Near Sanctuary Assailed by Parks Official. Barred by Federal law from hunt- ing wild game at the National Bird Sanctuary at Roaches Run along the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, some car drivers have evolved a new trick of deliberately back-firing their motors to scare the ducks and other birds off their feeding and resting | grounds there. This was revealed yesterday by Frank T. Gartside, assistant superin- tendent of the National Capital Parks, who said this is a direct violation of Federal law, which covers the un- ne disturbing of wild water fowl, feeding or at rest. At the sug- gestion of one of his subordinates, Paul F. Hodge, who keeps an eye on the bird sanctuary, Gartside has in- structed the United States Park Police patrolling the highway to keep a sharp look-out for duck-scaring motorists. The gun-like report is made pos- sible, Hodge explained, by cutting off the ignition, loading the motor with gas and then turning the ignition on again. Hodge is convinced this action is deliberate, for he followed a num- ber of offensive motorists, and after they had passed Roaches Run they Tdid not back-fire their motors, he said. ministrative amount necessary for the local organization, but has formed no | final estimate as yet. Among the fac- tors which leave him still uncertain as to local financial requirements is the question of whether the franking priv- ilege is to be extended for official mail of the District Board, he said. Similar in Other States. Although the District problems loom large to local officials, members of the Federal administration are faced with the task of reviewing the same sort of questions for many States. In the field of unemployment compensation, for instance, seven States already have laws enacted and are dependent to the same extent on the Federal Gov- ernment for administrative funds. Some of these undoubtedly are desir- ous of getting started at once in setting .| up their organizations. As for programs for old-age assist- ance and aid to the blind, some 35 | States already have laws embracing the former, while nearly 30 have blind pension laws. More than 40 States have programs for aid to dependent children. Since all of these may ex- pect a review of their plans before the first of 1936, in order that they might receive supplementary grants for the first quarter of the new year, the board faces this extensive task. In receipt of the emergency allot- ment, the Federal board probably will appoint an executive director, a gen- eral counsel and one or two other major officers during the next few days. Board Chairman John G. Wi- nant has been out of the city for sev- eral days, but is expected back by Tuesday. By that time, it is expected that formal organization of the board will take place, with the appointments to be made almost immediately. Merrill G. Murray, associate con- sultant of the President’s Committee on Economic Security, and Thomas H. Elliott, assistant solicitor of the Department of Labor, have been ful- filling most of the duties of director and counsel during the last few weeks. BUDGET HEARING TO GET DATA ON PLAYGROUNDS Keystone Auto Club Special Com- mittee Seeks Million for More Facilities. The Keystone Automobile Club was notified yesterday by Acting Budget Director David W. Bell that its Spe- cial Playgrounds Committee will be granted time at the budget hearings to present arguments in support of more adequate funds for outdoor recreational facilities to reduce the traffic hazards to Washington chil- dren. The special committee has made an extensive study of playground con- ditions, gathering data which it con- tends proves the imperative need of $1,000,000 for additional playground spaces. The committee is composed of C. Melvin Sharpe, William C. Miller and E. S. Hege. Bell's action was in answer to a| communcation addressed to the Bud- get Bureau last week by Sharpe, ex- pressing concern about “the appalling number of trafic accidents occurring in the District, particularly to small chfldrmvhmhthenr?" v SUNDAY b WHEATLEY T0 HEAR PROBE. TESTIMONY Allen Asks Bar Head to Help Judge Misfeasance Charge Evidence. H. Winship Wheatley, president of the District Bar Association, will sit | with Commissioner George E. Allen | as judge in public hearings on charges | of misfeasance in administration of | the office of inspector of buildings. | The Board of Commissioners had asked Allen to conduct the hearings since he is the one Commissioner who has no direct connection with the building inspection department. The public airing of complaints was to have started October 16, but was postponed to October 30 at the request of W. Gwynn Gardiner, former District Commissioner, now counsel for Col. John W. Oehmann, building inspector. Declaring he might possibly be | accused of being “pro-District Gov- ernment,” Allen asked Wheatley to | help him judge evidence on - nine | specific charges drafted by Assistant | Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal and Chester H. Gray. Friends of Col. Oehmann have de- clared he will “say plenty” when he | takes the stand in defense of his department. HARD OF HEARING T0 OBSERVE WEEK Daily Programs Arranged, Start- ing Today at Club Rooms, 1116 Vermont Avenue. | Hard of Hearing, 1116 Vermont ave- nue, has arranged a daily program for national hearing week, beginning to- day, it was announced last night. The American Society for the Hard of Hearing is sponsoring the event. | The club rooms of the local league week from 10:30 am. to 9 pm., ex- | cept Tuesday and Saturday. Tues- | day the rooms will be open from 10:30 to 1 pm., and on Saturday from 2:30 until 9 pm. Miss Betty C. Wright, executive di- rector of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing, will speak at 12:45 pm. tomorrow over Station WOL. Her subject will be “A Week to Listen.” At 4 o'clock Dr. Hugh Grant Rowell of Columbia University will discuss “Better Ears Through the Years” over Station WRC. Dr. Fred- erick N. Sperry of Yale University Medical School will speak over Sta- tion WISV at 4:45 pm. on “Hearing from Coast to Coast.” Other talks will be given Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Classes in lip reading will be con- ducted tomorrow and Thursday at 8 p.m. in the club rooms of the Wash- | ington League. Classes for the hard | of hearing will be held at the Epis- copal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital Tuesday, the classes for colored being at 7 pm. and for white persons at 8 pm. AUTUMN LEAVES BURN ON THEATER MARQUEE Dozen Pieces of Apparatus Rush to Earle Building—Sign Is Damaged. Flaming Autumn leaves used as decoration on the marquee of the Earle Theater brought more than a dozen pieces of fire apparatus to the scene last night. Slight damage to a sign on the fropt of the theater resulted and a capacity audience in the theater at the time was not aware that there had been a fire. A short time later fire starting from a carelessly dropped cigarette destroyed an awning on the Far East Restaurant, two doors*up the street. Firemen said-there was no connec- tion betweén the two fires. Hunter Dies of Wounds. RACINE, Wis, October 19 (#).— The first fatality of the Wisconsin hunting season, which opened today, was reported when Henry Carrington, | 52-year-old farmer living near Union Grove, dled of wounds suffered when The Washington League for the| will be open each day during the MORNING, OCTOBER (Story on P Returned to her family after a| nine-month absence, little Nancy Lou Herb slept peacefully between “brother” and “sister” while her parents celebrated. And there will be a celebration lot; Nancy Lou when Halloween comes | around. Her mother is going to give | a party for the 3-year-old miss and have on hand ali of the 20 chil- dren in the apartment house at 407 Fourth street where the Herbs live. | last January, and it took a court| writ to bring her back to her parents, | Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Herb; so the re- joicing was understandable. | It seems an infant son, Ronald, was born to the Herbs last January, adding a fourth to the trio of Jackie, Constance and Nancy Lou. Mrs.| Herb's health was poor for a while, and when a friend suggested Nancy Lou go with her to San Antonio, Tex., 20, 1935. Scene on Arlington Memorial Bridge early today after three cars collided, resulting in the death of one man and the injury of three persons. age A-1) 9-Month Legal Fight for Girl Of 3 Ends on Mother’s Lap for & month, the mother gratefully agreed. No letters came North, and after more than a month had passed Mr. last night | ang Mrs. Herb became alarmed. They | | appealed for aid to the Children's | Protective Association, which obtained custody of the little girl the day after Easter. The Herbs were told their friend and her husband contended Nancy Lou had been given to them for adoption, but that a Texas court had taken charge. ‘Then after months of anxiety word Nancy Lou had been in Texas since | came to the Herb home yesterday that | gt the far-off stars, view th Nancy Lou was waiting for her mother at Union Station. She had been brought to Washington by Miss Lucy Smithers of the San Antonio Child- | ren's Protective Association. Herb didn't see his small daughter until some hours later. “Who's the child?” he inquired as, he found Nancy Lou seated on his | wife's lap. Then all of a sudden he knew. | TUESDAY DEADLINE FOED FOR BODNG P. W. A. Projects in $1,- 000,000 Park Improve- ment Plan. ‘The National Capital Parks yester- day announced a Tuesday deadline on bids on e group of P. W. A. projects included in the $1,000,000 park im- provement program. The projects and opening dates of the bids which will be received at room 1665, Navy Build- ing, follow: Completion of structural feature in Meridian Hill Park, Florida avenue and Sixteenth street, including side- | walks, steps, curbs, seats, reinforced concrete fountains, reinforced concrete and wooden benches, ornamental lighting and remodeling of the ex- |isting lodge into a shelter house. Opening date, November 15, at 11 am. Paving and installation of water | supply system and other miscellaneous | work in Marion Park, Fourth, Sixth and E streets southeast. November 6, 11:30 am. Construction underground comfort | stations in Lafayette and Frank- | lin Parks. November 5, 11 am. Planting material in Marion Park, November 7, 11 am. Constructing macadam base, bitumi- nous concrete surface, roadway pave- ment, concrete curbs and drainage system in the Washington Monument Grounds, in conjunction with the flood control progrem. October 28, 11 am. Construction of a police lodge in Rock Creek Park on Beach drive near Military road. October 31, 11 am. Installation of air conditioning sys- tem in conference room of Department | of Commerce. November 4, 11 am. Grading and top-soiling adjacent to the Memorial Approach drive, be- tween the.Boundary Channel Bridge and the memorial entrance to Arling- ton National Cemetery. October 29,11 am. Constructing an addition to the mez- zanine floor in the third wing, first floor of the Interior Department. No- vember 1, 11 am. Park officials expect to call for fur- ther bids under the program tomorrow and Tuesday. GIRL EEETS SENTENCE FOR “FALSE PRETENSE” Claims She Was Replacing Loaned Cigarette Case by Using Woman’s Account. An attempt to justify her act by claiming she was seeking to replace the loss of a cigarette case loaned to another woman failed to save Ruth Dawson, young and pretty, from a 60- day sentence on false pretense charges in Police Court yesterday. Police claim the young woman went to a large downtown department store and used the charge account of Mrs. Eli Rubin, 6611 Sixteenth street, in making purchases totaling $9.43. She was arrested as she left the store. She told police she had loaned a $25 cigarette case to & Mrs. Eli Rubin REGULAR SALARY HELPS ORCHESTRA Decision on Pay Policy to In- sure Success of Sym- phony Group. A decision to pay National Sym- phony musicians a regular salary in- stead of reimbursing them for re- hearsal and performance periods ap- parently-has assured the continuance of the orchestra. In announcing the change of policy yesterday, C. C. Cappel, business man- ager of the orchestra, pointed out the former small income of players made it imperative that they find other means of making a livelinood. Averaging only $640 during the season, players have drifted to or- | chestras in dance halls and theaters | at the close of the regular concerte. in order to make more money. Cappel's announcement came on the eve of the opening of what officials of the orchestra expect to be its most | successful season. The first of its series of Sunday concerts will be held in Constitution Hall tonight. With the reception of the National | Symphony during the Summer, when open-air concerts were held at the Fotomac Water Gate, Cappel said, the orchestra now becomes an integral part of Washington life instead of the experimental group it has been up to this time, The orchestra’s climb to musical peaks has been precaricus but with | the new era of salaries makes the group’s future very bright, Cappel de- clared. PR NEW.PLEA OF DELAY FOR GRAYSON DUE | Defendant -Indicted in Park Sav- ings Shortages Declared Still in Precarious Health. A request for further postponement of the trial of John Cooke Grayson, former Treasury Department official, indicted in connection with shortages of the defunct Park Savings Bank, will be presented to District Supreme Court Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue tomorrow. Prosecution has been held in abey- ance for considerably more than a year because of the precarious health of the defendant, and his qgndition again will be advanced as a reason for another delay. There have been three continuances to date. Grayson’s health has been so poor it has been impossible to arraign him. Arraign- ment as well as trial was set for tomorrow. Affidavits of two University of Vir- brought to Washington from his Char- lottesville, Va., home were flled at court yesterday, together with the for- mal request of his attorney, George B. Fraser, for a continuance. Grayson is faced with two con- spiracy indictments. One specifies he gave advance information to Robert . Stunz, former official of the bank, and had failed to sec She thought she accidentally shot in the back by a companion. 1 was an’s account, she said, claimed never to have who later committed suicide, concern- ing visits of the bank examiners. The other charges he conspired with Stunz to embeszle $4,000,of the bank’s funds. | world and are broadcast all over | ~—Star Staff Photo. PUBLIC T0 VIEW STARS NAVY DAY Observatory Will Hold “Open House” With Giant Tele- scopes in Use. The Naval Observatory will hold | I“open house” a week from tomorrow | {and afford the public an opportunity to peer through the giant telescopes time | precision instruments and see its newest scientific equipment. The oc- | casion will be Navy day. Visitors will be admitted from 9 a.m. to 4 pm. and in the evening from | 7:30 to 10:30 o'clock. No cards of admission will be necessary. Mem- bers of the observatory staff will be on hand to guide the public through the observatory. For the convenience of the public, said Capt. Hellweg, 10 stations have been arranged. One of Finest Libraries. ‘They are: The Library, said to be one of the finest astronomical libraries in the world, will contain special exhibits ot’ the Nautical Almanac Office and an exhibit of sunspot data in which much | public interest has been evinced in | the last year. The Time Service Division, from which the time is broadcast 20 times a day. The Navy's time signals are | accepted as the most accurate in the the world. The 12-inch equatorial. This tele- | scope is mounted on top of the main office building in its dome. The 26-inch equatorial. With this famous instrument, Dr. Asaph Hall first discovered the moons of Mars. It is considered one of the most ac- curate equatorials in the world. The 9-inch transit, one of the very aceurate instruments used in funda- | mental astronomical observations. | one of the most accurate, if not the most accurate, instrument in the world. The 6-inch transit, reputed to be| AGE B—1 A. A A.CRALLENGES BREAD PRICE RISE THROUGHOUT LAND Consumers’ Counsel Asks Basis for “Proposal” to U. S. Bakers. CENT PER POUND LOAF GAIN HERE NOT CITED P Association Head Puts Blame for Higher Costs Upon New Deal Program. Without making direct reference to the fact that the price of bread ac- tually has been advanced 1 cent per pound loaf in Washington, Donald E. Montgomery, consumers’ counsel for the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- tration, yesterday sent a letter to Henry Stude, president of the Amer- ican Bakers' Association, asking the basis for “your proposal that bread prices be increased.” The letter, embodying 15 questions, comes concurrently with the opening of the Bakers’ convention in Chicago today. Stude already has declared a price boost generally is in order, because of the higher cost of ingredients, ascrib- ing this to the New Deal program Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has as strongly dissented. Montgomery prefaced his question- naire with the statement that “the trade press reports” that & convention topic “will undoubtedly be ‘how to advance bread prices.’” He then con- tinued: “Consumers have a vital interest in any such discussion. In view of your proposal that bread prices.be in- creased, bakers who follow your sug- gestion owe consumers a complete and accurate explanation of the facts be- hind the price increases that have been made or are now proposed. Says Consumers Want Facts. “Consumers seem inclined to feel that an increase in the price of bread can be justified only to the extent that the cost of producing and distributing this food has actually increased. Many misleading, unsupported or inadequate statements have already appeared as to costs and taxes in the baking in- dustry.” Montgomery asks first if Stude be- lieves all bakers should boost bread 1 cent, and “are you so recommending to the convention?” After a series of questions about in- creasing costs to the bakers, Mont- gomery concludes: “The Bureau of Labor Statistics re- ports that total pay rolls in the bak- ing industry in July and August of this year are approximately 2 per cent lower than in the same months of 1934. Does this represent a reduced labor cost per pound of bread?” Former Rise Recalled. The consumers’ counsel asks also if bakers did not raise bread 3 cents a loaf from 1933 to 1934 to take care of advancing costs, and says the pub- lic will want to know what additional expense since the latter date justifies another increase. Montgomery questioned reports at- | tributed to the bakers that the price of eggs had increased 103 per cent, | saying he understood the usual loaf | of white bread contains no eggs what- ever, Montgomery said Stude had testi- fled before a Senate committee in- 1931 that flour costs are an insignifi- | cant part of the cost of bread. He asked if this view is held today. “If bakers should not follow the The clock vault, which is interest- ing for several reasons: (1) It is | probably the only clock vault in the world fitted with a submarine peri- | scope, which permits visitors to look | down into the vault from the office ispace above and see all the clocks | below; (2) it is one of the few, if not {the only clock vault in the world, specially constructed to simulate as closely as possible the principles of |a thermos bottle in order to insure absolutely uniform conditions for the precision timepieces kept there. Reflector Telescope. ‘The 40-inch equatorial, the famous Ritchey-Chretien aplanatic reflector telescope. ‘The photographic zenith tube, with which the wabble of the earth on | its axis, resulting in slight variations in latitude, has been determined for years. In addition, within the past -year this instrument has been used in the photographic determination of time. During the recent international astronomical convention in Paris it was learned that the United States was the only nation using this accu- rate method of time determination. The 15-inch equatorial, a wide an- gle photographic refractor, and the Navy's newest refractor. RAIDERS CAPTURE SCORE; {4 CHARGED WITH GAMING Vice Squad Seizes Alleged Racing Slips and Numbers Book in L Street Place. Four colored men were arrested on gaming charges yesterday after a raid by the vice squad on an alleged gambling establishment in the 1800 block of L street. Led by Sergt. George C. Deyoe, the squad seized a large quantity of al- leged racing slips and numbers books and herded 22 colored men into police patrols. Eighteen of these were booked for investigation. The four men neld were charged with setting up a gaming table, and bond was set at $2,000 each. They were listed as Wycliffe F. Morton, 2200 block of I street; James T. Knight, 500 block of Twenty-third street; John Henry Contee, ™irst block of M street, and George W. Mitchell, 600 block of ‘Greham street. Card Party Planned. (Special).—The Falls Church Wom- an’s Club will give a benefit card party at 2 p. October 26 in Mrs. P. B. Smythe's h&ml. FALLS CHURCH, Va., October 19 | proposal to increase the price of bread 1 cent per pound loaf,” the let- ter continued, “is it not true that the margin between ingredient costs and retail prices would be increased to the | level of average margins in the years 1924 to 19292" “De you urge bakers to increase margins to that level prior to the time when consumer purchasing | power also increases to that level?” 36 LICENSE BLANKS READY FOR AUTOISTS | Traffic Director Starts Tomorrow on Task of Distributing Car Tags. Foreshadowing the coming of the annual struggle over distribution of automobile licenses, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer tomorrow will | start mailing applications to the Dis- | trict’s registered car owners. Between 10,000 and 12.000 applica- lions will be mailed out each day until some 180,000 are sent to car | owners. Van Duzer estimates all will be delivered by about November 12. Applications, however, will not be sent to drivers for whom warrants are outstanding for violation of traffic laws or regulaticns. These drivers must call at the Traffic Department in person, where they will be con- fronted with their records. Applications will not reach car own- ers by mail if they have failed to in- form the department of changes in | address. The Traffic Department already has | received approximately 140,000 1936 | automobile tags, manufactured at the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va. | The remainder will be available long | before they are needed, the Traffic | Department is advised. INSTALLATION IS HELD Helen L. Linkus Opitz Takes Over Legion Auxiliary Office. Comdr. Helen Linkins Opitz of the U. 8. 8. Jacob Jones Chapter, No. 2, American Legion Auxiliary, and her staff were installed last night at a meeting at the Hamilton Hotel. Joseph Malloy, commander of the District Department, American Legion, made an address on “The Rightful Educa- | tion of the Children of Our Country.” The retiring commander, Elsie M. Pinney, was presented with a past post commander’s badge and ring. Prome Inent legionnaires and auxiliary offi- cers attended the installation. . |