Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1936, Page 25

HIGHWAY TAX FUND DIVERSION DENIED Automobile Association Ac- cused Maryland of Failing to Use Grants. Diversion of $20,000,000 from motor vehicle tax receipts to non-highway uses by the Maryland Roads Commis- sion from 1924 to 1934 was charged by the American Automobile Associa- tion today as the State agency an- swered with a counter attack of “mis- interpretation.” Citing hazardous conditions on the Defense Highway, the Marlboro Pike ~and other nearby thoroughfares in Maryland, the association criticized the commission for failure fully to utilize Federal funds granted for high- way work. Commission Chairman Homer E. Tabler denied the organization's charges and cited figures to show “an actual diversion of less than $1,000,- 000 since 1930, and practically no di- version at all prior to that time.” $9,000,000 for Debt Service. He declared the “non-highway uses” were “actually closely related to the construction and maintenance of State roads.” Since 1930, according to commission figures, some $9,000,000 has been spent in debt service on road bonds, in appropriations for ferry op- eration and in indirect rebates to pur- chasers of gasoline for fishing boats. The A. A. A. pointed out that some of the diverted funds had gone to oys- ter proagation. This money, the commission declared, was to give fish- ermen some return on their gasoline tax since the fuel was not used in Jhighway transportation. Commission Auditor William A. Codd called the A. A. A. charges “purely a matter of incorrect inter- pretation of figures.” Both Tabler and Codd emphatically denied that | Federal funds had not been fully util- ized. In 1934, Codd said, the Federal Government granted the State $1,591,- 000 to pay for 35 per cent of highway construction. All this money has been used, he said, and another $1,000,000 in 1935, granted on a 45 per cent | basis, has also been expended. Most of this latter sum went to the Fred- erick-Hagerstown, Philadelphia an Eastern Shore cut-off roads. All U. S. Funds to Be Used. ‘This year, Codd said, $1,025,000 was | given to the State by the Federal Gov- | ernment. Maryland matched this amopat, and the $2.050,000 has been completely scheduled for expenditure. Contracts have been awarded to utilize most of the money for construction of the Baltimore-Annapolis highway and completion of the Philadelphia road, he declared. All Federal funds will be utilized, Tabler said, with most of the money ®&.now awarded in contracts. The American Automobile Associa- tion, however, pointed out that only | §20.615 of $2,050,870 in Federal funds | slloceted by the Bureau of Public | Roads had been expended for con- struction. Codd said he did not know | where the association obtained the | data, but the “figures are incorrect.” | A. A. A Figures Denied. ‘The A. A. A. charged that the State | had submitted plans for the expendi- | ture of $382.807 of Federal funds in | & road construction, but that the| schedule has not been approved and | no plans have been presented for use | | American seamen by ‘a new set of of the remaining $1,577,447. The com- mission also denied the accuracy of | these sums. | The “less than $1,000,000” diverted | from any sort of highway work, direct | or indirkct, since 1930, Codd explained, | went into the State general fund. All | other tax receipts, he said, have gone ! into construction, maintenance, indi- rect rebates or payment of road bond debts, both county and State. No large improvements to the #~Marlboro Pike or the Defense High- | way are included in the current high- way program of some $5,000,000. D. A. R. UNIT TO HEAR | NATIONAL DEFENSE TALK, Maryland State Officer Will Ad-‘ s dress Janet Montgomery Chapter Tuesday. ! Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. | BETHESDA, Md., October 17.—The Janet Montgomery Chapter, Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, will open its Fall program Tuesday after- noon with a talk on the defense pro- | gram of the national organization | by Mrs. Margaret Coblentz of Catons- ville. The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. B. Peyton Whalen, regent of the chapter, and will be | followed by a reception in honor of | Mrs. Coblentz, who is chairman of national defense for the D. A. R. of ‘Mnryiand. Representatives of county organiza- tions who have been invited to at- tend the meeting and reception are: Mrs. A. Brookhouse Foster, president | of the Newcomb Club of Bethesda; Mrs. Donald De Lashmutt, represent- ing the Woman's Club of Rockville; Mrs. Robert Allnutt and Mrs. Upton Nourse from the Woman's Club of Dawsonville; Mrs. Austin Lamar, president of the Montgomery County Lay Health Council; Mrs. Joseph T. Maguire of Chevy Chase and Mrs. John Larcombe of Washington Grove. DEMOCRAT CLUB-PLANS RALLY IN FALLS CHURCH Representative Smith, Delegate Mackall and R. E. A. Official to Speak Friday. % By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va. October 17.—Three speakers will address a po- litical rally to be staged by the Young Democratic Club of Falls Church at Madison School Friday night, officials annouaced today. Vincent De Witt Nicholson, gen- eral counsel of the Rural Electrifica- tion Administration; Representative Howard W. Smith and State Delegate ¢ John C. Mackall of Fairfax will be the speakers. The meeting will be presided over Py Harnett C. Keith, club president. i Leningrad Thriving City. This city, the former capital of the Czars, was the birthplace of the rev- olution and today it passes an active industrial life with a thriving harbor and the essentials of the new Russia, such as the Putilov Metal Works, the Smolny Fortress, the Winter Palace, which is now a museum, and the Her- mitage, one of the great art galleries, Wwhere lie the crown jewels of the Romanoffs, The ancient brilliance of Catherine the Great is shown in a series of wonderful palaces at Diets- koye Belo. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 18, 1936—PART ONE. A few hours after this picture was take: Barrou, shown here in an “iron lung,” died. Boy Dies After Year in Iron Lung n in Bellevue Hospital, New York, 14-year-old John The boy had been in the apparatus for more than a year, suffering from poliomyelitis paralysis. Johnny is shown surrounded by performers from a rodeo who visited children in the hospital. performance they went to his When they found the room and serenated him. boy could not get out to see the —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. New Laws Protect Whales Threatened With Extinction By the Associated Press. Eskimos wielding their homemade | harpoons today became virtually the | only people in the world legally au- | thorized to kill a right whale. Slaughter of 14 varieties of the huge mammals was forbidden to| Commerce Department regulations issued under a Geneva treaty of 1931.| Twenty-six nations already have | signed the pact for protecting types of whales threatened with extinction. Because whale blubber is a favorite item on Arctic menus, the rules will not apply to Eskimos hunting with their own boats and weapons—which aren't expected to bother the whales much, anyhow. The Government hinted broadly that it doesn’t care whether extinction threatens Moby Dick—the legendary great white whale of Melville's sea tale—and all his brethren. They are sperm whales, sea-going murderers Wwith teeth like railway spikes, and legal targets for any | cream and other cosmetics. fisherman's harpoon. Their special kind of oil, once prized for high- class candles, now is rarely used for | anything except the blending of cold | The new regulations are primarily intended to protect the right whale, an amiable creature with a mouthful of thin, elastic sheets called whale- | bone. These teeth would aardly harm a minnow, and are good for two | things: 1. Straining small shell-fish into the beast's gullet. 2. Bracing ladies’ corsets. (Corsets, like whales, long have been threatened with extinction, but some ladies still wear them.) Slaughter of the gray whale, animal once plentiful along the Pa-| cific Coast, also is forbidden by the new rules. Porpoises and dolphins | are not protected, and a few other types of whales may be killed if they are out of the baby class. These game laws are expected to have little effect on the American whaling industry—a sadly deflated business, both in terms of dollars and romance. Last year United States seamen hauled in exactly 583 whales, valued at $499,491—about 2 per cent of the world supply. Once a dashing and perilous pro- fession, whaling has been tamed by modern science. Today the typical whaler hunts his victims from a steamer’s deck and shoots them with explosive harpoons fired from can- non. Dead whales are pumped full of compressed air to keep them afloat until they can be towed to a factory which extracts the oil. British and Norwegian whalers even send floating factories into Antartic waters to process the animals as soon as they are killed. 01d Ships Make New. 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Then down through the years many willing witnesses, becoming more posi- tive annually have definitely fixed the swallows’ arrival as March 19 and de- parture as October 23, conceding only & few hours possible variation on either O{hen here, however, have not been 50 certain. There are even some who | 5! say the birds straggle in for days before and after St. Joseph's day and depart likewise around San Juan day. To explain the swallows apparent mass arrival, they say this: ‘Two years ago, George Cantwell, Los Angeles County Museum ornithologist, said the swallows leave here about the same time every year because their insect food supply gives out about that time, and the same is true of their departure from South America for California. — Cocoa From Africa. ‘The Gold Coast of Africa produces vast quantities of cocoa beans, Dizzy Stork Nears Toronto With Baby Marathon Ending Mrs. Bagnato’s Bambino Likely to Be Last in $750,000 Contest. By the Assoctated Press. TORONTO, Ontario, October 17.— They readied the bassinet tonight Jor Mrs. Grace Bagnato's twenty-fourth bambino; and a dizzy stirk wheeled wearily into the final fortnight of Toronto's baby derby. Mrs. Bagnato's twenty-fourth off- spring—*“the doctor says it should be all over by Monday"—will probably be the stork’s final contribution to the child-bearing marathon. and the barristers can pick it up from there. Mrs. Matthew Kenny, however, in- sisted tonight that sir stork would make one more stop at her house be- fore the executors of Charles Vance Millar’s “uncommon and capricious” will close the books at midnight Octo- ber 31, and go into a huddle. Mrs. Kenny believes all other Toronto mothers are just wasting their time, so far as winning the rich prize of $750,000 (estimated) is concerned. She insists that she has borne an even dozen babies that qualify under clause 10 of the Millar will, which ys: “All the rest * * * of my property ® **Igive * * * to the mother who at the expiration of 10 years from my death has given birth in Toronto to the greatest number of children as shown by the registration under the vital statistics act,” Other mothers, eyeing the Millar bequest over the tousled heads of their smaller broods, do not believe the stork can stagger up to the Kenny doorstep again before October 31. Mrs. Kenny's last child was born eight and & half months ago—Febru- ary 4—and lived only a few hours. He was to have been named Charles Vance Millar, after the wealthy bach- elor lawyer-brewer-race horse owner The bench | Toronto Mother Claims 12 Births In 10-Year Contest TORONTO, Ontario, Cctober 17 (#)—Who is the Toronto mother who has borne and prop- erly registered the most children since October 31, 19262 With the end of the “contest” only two weeks away, the leading claimant to that distinction to- night is Mrs. Matthew Kenny, claiming to have borne an even dozen babies in the period speci- fled in the late Charles Vance Millar's eccentric will. Under that will a fortune, estimated to- day at $750,000, is bequeathed the most prolific Toronto mother. If Mrs. Kenny is unable to substantiate her claim the for- tune may go to one of the fol- lowing: Babies Name. Mrs. Arthur Timleck. Mrs. John Nagle Mrs. Pauline Clarke (Mme. X) 10 Mrs. Joseph Bagnato. 9 Mrs. Bagnato is expecting another child “almost any minute.” who sought under his will to make motherhood financially worth while. If Mrs. Kenny is unable to back up | her claims by records at the Bureau | of Vital Statistics, then the race may become & photo finish, with three— |-and probably four—mothers tied wita | 10 qualifiers each. The baby Mrs. Bagnato is expecting | “almost any minute” will be her tenin in the 10-year period. Should she bear twins, she would become the | leader, excepting Mrs. Kenny. All of | Mrs. Bagnato's 23 children, however, | have been single births, * B3 is that many people believe Mrs, Kenny may have trouble in proving her greater claims. The 33-year.old mother, however, insists there will be “plenty of proof” at the proper time. HOPE SAYS LANDON KNOWS FARM NEEDS Kansas Republican Declares G. 0. P. Victory Would Bene- fit Agricultare. By the Associated Press. ‘TOPEKA, Kans,, October 17.—Rep- resentative Clifford R. Hope, ranking Republican member of the House Ag- ricultural Committee, said in a state- ment today that election of Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential nominee, would be “a great political victory for the farmers of this Na- tion.” Declaring Landon has a ‘“better farm background and understanding than any man who has ever been nominated,” the Kansan said the Re- publican farm plank is “the most liberal and constructive declaration ever made on agriculture by sny po- litical party.” ‘The statement, issued through Re- publican State headquarters, added: “Alf Landon has pledged himsel?, if elected, to fulfill all outstanding oblie gations to the farmer; to coftinue cash benefit payments; to put into ef- fect a real conservation prograwm; to preserve the American market for the American farmer; to provide adequate credit at reasonable rates for the pur- chase and refinancing of farm homes; to give the fullest attention t¢ crop insurance, and to inaugurate a long- time land-use program.” “These pledges,” the statement said, “fit the needs of the Kansas farmer. * * * Gov. Landon keeps his pledges.” Products of the Bahamas. Products of the Bahama Islands are linens, hosiery, perfumes, woolens, gloves, brushes, carved coconut shells, walking sticks and black dolls in na- ‘The reason so much interest is cen- tering upon the three “mothers of 10" tive dress. Also sea shells and beads, made of colored seeds, and liquors.