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- UTILITIES WARNED ON REGISTRATION “Committee Chairman As- serts Act Will Expose Them to Drastic Results. By the Assoctated Press. An industry spokesman warned utility holding companies yesterday that registration under the New Deal's utility lJaw would expose them “to the possibility of drastic and desn—uv:v.n'el consequences.” H Foreshadowing a long-drawn court | struggle, Philip H. Gadsden, chairman of the Committee of Public Utility | Executives, added this statement: i “They (holding companics) have a right now to carry their appeal to| the courts. * * * In so doing, each company also has the right to seek a test of the constitutionality of the law as applied to its own particular con- ditions. By the act of registration it might impair its legal status in sub- sequently making such a test.” Congressional Arguments Cited. Gadsden said each company must determine the registration question for itself, and listed for their con- sideration opposition arguments raised at the Capitol against enactment of the law. . The registration deadline is Decem- | ber 1. Coincident with Gadsden's| statement, reports persisted that most companies would not register, espe- cially in view of a Baltimore Federal court decision holding the law un- constitutional. The Securities Com- mission, administrator of the act, has | warned. however, that failure to reg- ister will cast legal doubt on many of the companies’ major activities. | On another utility front the Federal | Power Commission issued a report showing consumers pay for electricity | under 30373 rate schedules—24.029 private and 6,344 public. The com- mission said these schedules, repre- senting more than 98 per cent of all in the country, were submitted by! 3,193 private and publicly owned elec- tric utilities. d 10 Schedules Per Company. The commission said the rates averaged 10 schedules per company. Divided, the municipal companies averaged 4 against 17 for private com- panies. The December 1 registration with | the Securities Commission constitutes | The town of Manasquan, N. J, partially under water after being pounded and battered by northeaster. 1 Storm & notification by a registering com- pany that it intends to register more fully later. Information is filed to enable the commission to determine whether 3 holding company must be eliminated under the abolition clause of the act. “It is not surprising, then, that the officers and directors of these com- | panies are filled with concern and are giving so much time and thought to the problem.” Gadsden said. “They | have in their keeping the welfare of | mullions and investors.” (Continued From First Page.) hit by a 55-mile gale. Coast Guards on Outer Long Island said the tide rose 18 feet above normal. An unidentified seaman was washed overboard by huge combers which | crippled the Boston freighter Hart- welson 25 miles offshore in the At- | lantic from Ocean City, Md. The | freighter, after drifting helpless in a 55-mile gale for more than 12 hours, | was able to proceed slowly under its own power to refuge in the Dela- ware Breakwater. Breakers Defeat Helpers. Coast Guardsmen at Ocean City Branch, N. J., had started to crumble under th Eastern seaboard will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1935. ‘Wreckage of a water front home on Oak Island Beach, Long As Storm Vented Its Fury on Eastern Coast High waves crippled the Jersey ocean front yesterday. Scattered timbers show this breakwater at Long e battering of huge waves during the storm. Damage along the the raging Island WAR GOODS SALES BRING GONFLICT Effort to Prevent Shipments to Italy and Ethiopia Held Unsuccessful. By the Associated Press. A growing conflict of opinion was apparent today between the Govern- ment and some business men over con- tinued sales of war supplies to Italy and Ethiopia. Announcing a two-fold policy of keeping the United States clear of war and at the same time doing what it feels it can to encourage peace, the Roosevelt administration has sought to discourage American trade with the belligerents, particularly in essential war materials. That this effort has been unsuccess- ful so far is indicated in the official disclosure that American shipments of “key” commodities to the war zone have increased since the fighting be- gan despite strong governmental warn- ings. The names of firms making the shipments have not yet been re- vealed. However, Government agen- cies are keeping a daily record of them. News dispatches told today of the sailing of the freighter Farnham from Boston for Italy with 5,000 tons of scrap iron and steel. The vessel, reputedly operated by Italian capital, is bound for Genoa via Sydney, Nova Scotia, and there was speculation in Boston as to whether the British would invoke League sanctions to hold up the vessel at Sydney. At San Pedro, Calif., union marine workers were standing guard to pre- vent the American freighter Oregon from leaving port with 31,000 drums of gasoline. They were acting on a rumor that the shipment was intended for Italian fighting planes, but ship’s officers denied this. The vessel was listed to sail for Singapore. Loring (Continued From First Page.) demnity clauses in case of violent | death. The detective said his search for | the murderer had not been aided thus far by the investigations of Robert W. Hicks, Washington criminologist, although he said Hicks' findings might be valuable later should the guilty per- son or persons be brought to justice. “Please don't think I mean that | Hicks is not doing his work prop- erly,” Lieut. Itzel said. “J merely mean that his investigations up to now have not aided me in my search for the murderer. Later on his information | may be valuable if we have an oppor- | tunity to present the case to a jury.” State's Attorney Alan Bowie, who is working with Itzel or the case, denied all knowledge of handwriting reportedly found on a blood-stained piece of paper discovered on Saddle- P.W.A SLUM AID OUTLINED T0 ICKES 50 Jobs Now Under Way to Create New Community Type, Says Diréctor, By the Assoclated Press. A report by Secretary Ickes that 18,400 of the 19,500 projects under the old P. W, A. program were completed or under ccnstruction advanced the claim today that the P. W. A. slum clearance division also “has aided in giving a new direction tc the creation of housing for the American people.” A. R. Clas, director of the housing division, told Ickes the 50 develop- ments now being carried out “will cre- ate a new type of community * * *| and will contribute a gew and positive force to the betterment of American housing in general.” Clas asserted the $140,000,000 con- struction program, to which the Fed- eral Government is donating 45 per cent of the cost, would provide “a yardstick which may be used by per- sons from any income group for the purchase or rental of living quarters.” He said features of the P. W. A. de- velopments were being duplicated by concerns building for people able to pay higher rentals. Among Clas’ specifications were: 500 cubic feet of space for each adult, 250 for each child; without elevnwrs.i maximum Reight, three stories; plenty of windows, high enough to be out| of the way of children; a ban on in- terior courts and shafts so each room | will have sunlight, sarfaces easily cleaned, fire resistive construction, space for eating in kitchen to avoid the need for dining rooms, 30 per cent | |of the areas used for buildings, the | remainder for gardens and play- the stains were made. by human blood, but that he will be unable to ascertain whether it was the slain girl's blood because of the length of time it was exposed to the elements. He hopes, however, to be able to deter- mine whether it is the same type of blood as hers. The handwriting, he said, ap-| parently is a five-lettered abbrevia-! tion of a 10-letter word, followed by a numeral and a fraction. The writ- ing is in soft pencil and almost in- | | distinguishable. Hicks is having the | writing photographed and enlarged | with special process films and ex- | pects to get a clear reproduction. | The criminologist regards this as a valuable clue. If a suspect is ar- rested, he said, a statement will be| dictated to him containing the word | and the figures for purposes of com- | parison. | Hicks also has ascertained that the cord with which the girl was | strangled -does not match the ball of twine found in the basement of | ;her home. The piece used to strangle | her was in three strands, he said,| | while the other was composed of five. | | However, he is comparing the cord | DISTRICT GROCERY STORES FOOD SHOW Many Gifts of Food and Prizes PRIZES;0m fand orize and ln: | BABY CONTEST-ses over wil years no entrance fee: just bring Rite, ’ineluding - Your baby to the show. P i elnthr‘le !!'Ifll:flll.l'. Phlf!‘l'k “h'“‘l AWARDED 4 P.M. EACH DAY, machine, electric washing machi wil stove. radio, vacuum cleaner. i SANTA CLAUS ted china. spri mattress. 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Y. after it was swept from its foundations by the high winds. occupants of the house escaped injury. (Continued From First Page.) by reason of the enforcement of the| Bankhead law. This is true for the reason that cotton is the principal money crop of the State of Georgia, and the lands of complainant are peculiarly adapted to cotton. There is no other money crop which com- plainant can profitably grow on its lands.” | Among other things, the petition! asserted that the “scheme of local pro- duction control” is not within any of the powers conferred upon Congress by the Constitution, that the tax is beyond the power of Congress and | that the act deprives persons of prop- | erty without due process of law. ; The petition was presented in be- | half of Talmadge by M. J. Teomans, | Georgia attorney general. Another Case Slated. The Talmadge request won out de- | spite protest of Government attorneys. | Stanley Reed, the solicitor general, | had contended there was no basis for the high court taking original juris- diction before lower tribunals had | passed on the controversy. Before the date the Government | the inlet with a 36-foot motor life- boat to go to the aid of the stricken vessel. Giant breakers, hiding the jetties from sight, prevented them. The three-masted schooner Lillian E. Kerr apparently was safely an- chored off Cape Henry, despite a shifting cargo. But another schooner was hunted off Narragansett Bay after reports that it was in distress. The unreported tug was the P. F. Marvin, bound for Phidelphia with one barge. Twenty-one sailors aboard the for- mer submarine chaser, the 7-B-35, leaped to safety when it was driven| ashore at Jamestown, R I The Mary Patten and Little Silver, old iron steamboats, sank at their wharf at Long Branch, N. J. Much Damage Ashore. Ashore, highways and railroads were flooded. A train was derailed by a washout near Riverhead, on Long Is- land, but there were no casualties. Deal, N. J, reported that the seas| had done $100,000 damage to its sew- | age treatment plant and destroyed a $35,000 bathing pavilion. Piers, board- walks and other beach-front struc- tures suffered all along the North | —All Photos Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto, Chest Dollars in Action Birth Certificate Liberates Youth From Jail Sentence—Mother Brings Paper Showing Age 15 and Boy Is Permitted to Go Home. Seldom does a birth certificate serve | as a liberator from jail, yet in Jimmy's | case that is exactly what his did for | home town, him, The fact that one of the offi- cers of the Bureau of Rehabilitation questioned his age as given, and took steps to check up on it, gave the boy a fresh start. Jimmy had come to Washington | seeking a member of his family lo- | cated here who might have given him work, but whom he had been unable | to find. He had drifted into the | times as 16, 17 and 18, was sentenced to jail. A message to the authorities of his seeking to ascertain if the younger age was correct, in which event the case would have been re- opened and the boy taken into the Juvenile Court, brought his mother, with a birth certificate, showing the lad was only 15. He was taken from the jail and sent to the Receiving Home for Chil- dren until the case could be adjusted. As his parents were anxious that he return home and continue his | Bowie said an old diary of Miss | having three strands. There is a dif- | Loring's had been found in the home, | ference in size and color, but Hicks| but that it had no possible bearing | peljeves this may be due to the force |on the investigation, since the 1ast gwith which the murder cord was | entry was made in 1931. | pulled and its exposure to the weather. Bowie explained that he and Itzel & fmbine b had gone through “half a bushel” of | Fenaiies et oy (o oo torn u, postcards, letters and mem- yhich the other was used, and will orandums of Corinna’s without inding | maye further tests later. | any information of value. He said | D stieec] the girl apparently had destroyed | Hicks also says he now is positive | her personal correspondence in view the girl was killed by one person. of the fact she soon was to be married | H¢ has examined her stockings and SRS it her ows o | found their backs are rubbed through, Tear and Miss Loring had planned | 8Pparently a result of the body hav- to marry in Washington on Nevember | ing been dragged over rough ground. 6, just two days after she disappeared |1 she had been carried by two peo- from her home, and three days before | Ple; he pointed out, these holes would her body was found. Bowie denied |00V Pe in the stockings that any old love letters were found. | Tizer Aamits Progress Livtie. | SUIINNININHININIGNUMNOAON Lieut. Itzel quite frankly told re- | = I | porters this morning he had made GIBSON’S | little, if any, progress in the inves- tigation. He was not called into the case until Tuesday afternoon, three days after the body was found. | By that time, practically all physical clues in the case had been turned I Is Headquarters for the General Electric SUNLAMP This is the wonderful lamp that makes available in your hom Transient Bureau and out again, and | schooling, arrangements were made had finally become associated With | for him to do so, and Jimmy now has an older man (a paroled prisoner), | chance to become a useful citizen. must answer, another case involving | JEFS€Y 0ast. The sea cut a new inlet the Bankhead act will have been argued and possibly decided. It was brought by Lee Moor, a Texas planter, against the Texas & New Orleans Railroad, to compel it to ship cotton which had no tags attached to show | he had complied with the law. Some attorneys say the Moor case | ean be decided without action on the | validity of the act itself. Granting the Talmadge petition assured a direct | SPECIAL NOTICES. OF THE STOCK- Laundry Company trict of Columbia for the election Clors for - the ensuing vear w Wednesday. December 1Kth. e main office of the company. No. York Avi N ‘Washington. D. C.. o'clock p.m. The stock_transfer books be closed December 17th and 1Xth, EDWARD L. HILLYER. od SREUET SO CRecRREITY T WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR | debts contracted by Washington, D. C. 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Maryland. for the erection of a 12- clas. room and auditorium building for the DISTRICT LINE EMENTARY SCHOOL | Jocated in Seat Pleasant, in Prince Georges | County. Maryland Proposals mus* be clearly marked on the envelope_“Proposal,” addressed to the Board of Education.’ Upper Marlboro, Maryland. be delivered before 1% o'clock noon. December 10. 1935. at which Time they will be DUbliély opened and Tead. The execution of the work is subject to the requirements of the Pederal Emer- ency Administration of ~Public Works. ese requirements, as they affect con- tractors and subcontractors, are set forth in detail in the specifications. Attention is called to the fact that not . the minimum wage rates stated A._Construction Regulations. t of the specifications, he_opening thereof. e omtes "ot "arawings and -specifications may be secured from Upman & Adams. Architecis. 744 Jackson Place. Washington, . Deposit of certified check to the order of architects. or cash. in_the amount of $10.00 per set required. $5.00 to be | who yesterday disregarded the rain | before starting out, has pledged to into the Manasquan River. Scranton, Pa., reported 8'; inches of | snow. About 100 motorists were stranded by a drift near Wilkes- | Barre, Pa. Snow and drenching rains covered all sections of Maryland, but early re- ports indicated property damage would be comparatively small. No loss of life was reported. Ch.est (Continued Prom First Page.) Campaign Chairman Willlam Mec- Clellan. Urgency of this situation already is becoming apparent, Dr. McClellan pointed out. He has stated that hun- dreds of transient and homeless men have been forced to rely on begging to keep themselves alive. Chest agen- cies already have overdrawn their budgets for 1935 and reluctantly are compelled to turn down extra appli- cants for relief. Still optimistic, however, Chairman McClellan today reiterated his faith in his organization. He cited the members of the Metropolitan Unit, and snow and continued calling on prospects whom they might other- wise have missed, in order to obtain their part of the goal. Pay Own Transportation. “A more magnificent example of heroism was never seen on any bat- tlefield,” Chairman McClellan de- clared. “I sometimes wonder if the rest of Washington really has a true picture of what these people are doing—really understand the spirit that drives them on in behalf of their less fortunate neighbors. I won- der if Washington knows that these people pay their own carfare or use their own automobiles in this work of mercy and that every one of them, the extent of his or her resources. “To stop all this the collections in the little cedar chests passed at each luncheon meeting show that they are practically paying for their own luncheons. I repeat again that the work of this army is one of the most outstanding examples of unselfish de- sire to aid those in need that I have ever witnessed. I cannot possibly understand how any man or woman, with any means whatsoever, can re- fuse to make a pledge to one of those noble-hearted workers. “Our daily task has increased. The average which must be reported each day has gone up. We have used up d_upon return of drawines and refunded upe A a) specifications. . Superintendent of Schools, Prince Georges Co e nol825 n two-thirds of our campaign time with only & little more than one-half the L] | to the altruistic efforts of this wonder- who, by his own confession, had forced the boy to help him in rob- | bing a taxicab driver. Both were ap- i prehended, and Jimmy, who had given his age to the authorities at different amount of the goal reported, but !, still have faith in Washington, I still believe that our citizens will respond ful campaign “army” and that Wed- nesday night will, indeed, be a great victory meeting.” One of the most dramatic and en- couraging letters ever received in the Chest campaign came to one of the solicitors yesterday inclosing a small pledge. The contributor wrote: “The fact that I have five children— all in grade school—prohibits me from contributing more. But, on the other | hand, the very fact that I do have a heavy burden to carry, brings to me the realization, as it should to all of us, that there are others in the city who are confronted with heavier burdens. And I should share with them. Could more fortunate ones, who have had a negligible amount of financial worries, and continuous em- ployment, only realize the great amount of illness, hardship and want existing in Washington, I am sure the 120 per cent campaign would go over.” ‘Whole-hearted tribute to the spendid suppbrt given by the press in the present campaign was paid yesterday by Joseph D. Kaufman, chairman of the publicity unit. “If I were not familiar with the spirit that animates the newspapers of ‘Washington, I would be literally as- tonished at the manner in which our newspapers have exploited this cam- paign,” said Mr. Kaufman. “Of course any movement which draws the sup- port of 152,000 people as the Chest did last year, is news, but our newspapers have gone far beyond that. “I do not think that any other move- ment could command the generous contribution of space that has been accorded to the Community Chest, and everybody in the Chest from the presi- dent and campaign chairman down through the ranks to every worker in the organization, whole-heartedly ap- preciates this assistance from our newspapers. “Radio stations, too, have been more than generous in their programs. Not only have they accorded time for prac- tically every request made by the Chest through our radio chairman, Herluf Provensen, but they have gone far be- yond Mr. Provensen’s program and have added special features of their own which have been of invaluable as- sistance to the campaign. “Things like these are just one more reason why Washington is the warm- est-hearted, best city in the world in which to lves” L} A new law says so. Jimmy's story is just one of many showing the work done by the Bureau of Rehabilitation, 424 Fifth street, which is one of the units of the Com- munity Chest. YULE TREE PRODUCTION FEELS HAND OF CONTROL Minnesota Limits Chopping to Help Preserve Scenic Beauty. 1,500,000 Limit Set. By the Associated Press, ST. PAUL, November 18.—Now comes controlled production of Christ- mas trees. Each of the 1,500,000 spruce and | balsam trees to be cut in Minnesota this Yuletide must bear a State tag. Conservation is the prime purpose. Forestry di- vision officials also pointed out strict regulation of the cutting will preserve | scenic beauty. Uncontrolled chopping of the trees led to passage of the tag legislation by the State Legislature. The State’s Yule tree business totals about $1,000,000 a year. Chest Broadcast. Another program in the series of remote control broadcasts by WJSV in connection with the Community Chest campaign will be radioed tomorrow at 2:15 p.m., when the remote-control crew visits the Salvation Army at 426 Sixth street. ‘These broadcasts, arranged un- der the direction of Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss, chairman of the Chest Speakers’ Bureau, have attracted wide interest in activities of the respective Chest agencies. over to Hicks, including a man's glove | found at the scene, the cord which | strangled the girl, the girl's stomach, a number of strands of hair taken from a sleeve of her coat, along with the coat itself, and her shoes. Bowie explained today that he ap- proved the suggestion by Chief J. J Crowley of Prince Georges County police that the clues be given to Hicks. Bowie said Crowley told him Hicks District Morgue, J. B. McCoy, who vouched for the ability of the crimin- ologist. of the transcript of the stories related by witnesses so far revealed certain points which had to be rechecked. He said he expected to question other persons, some of whom had been inter- viewed before in an effort to clear up these points. The detective said he has obtained no evidence of a possible motive nor does he have any arrests or definite suspects in mind. Meanwhile Hicks said he was still trying to decipher faded handwriting on the back of the blood-stained piece of paper found near Corinna's body. He said he has definitely determined LAWYERS’ BRIEFS SH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS OUR OWN Every ton of been selected watches into MONEY at— A.KXahn Jne. Arthur J. 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