Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1936, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D.C. POLICEMAN'S |[Washington | BABY DOG SAVED |LYNCHBURG DENIES CHARGE S PROBED Nice Investigates Arrest While on Case in Prince Georges. Gov. Harry W. Nice of Maryland today was investigating the report of & Washington policeman's arrest by a Prince Georges County constable fol- Jowing the District policeman’s appre- hension of & man on assault charges in nearby Brentwood last September. ‘The Washington officer, Pvt. W. D. ‘Huskey of the second precinct, assigned to vice investigations, reported he was held under $1,000 bond by a justice of the peace on a charge of aiding and abetting assault. After filing of the complaint with Ma)j. Ernest W. Brown, the report was #ent to the District Commissioners who subsequently referred it to Gov. Nice. In a letter from the State's chiet executive revealed today, Nice dJe- clared: “I will not tolerate lack of co- operation or discourtesy on the pait ©f my appointees.” Huskey reported that he tralled an sutomobile from Fourteenth and Q streets to Thirty-fourth and Cedar #treets, in Brentwood, some seven blocks across the District line. Dressed in plain clothes and in his own auto- mobile, Huskey chased the ecar at a high rate of speed before he finally ap- prehended the driver, suspected of vice violations. Accompanied by Citheen. The Washington policeman, on duty at the time, was accompanied by a District citizen. = When the chase -ended the suspect assaulted both men, Huskey testified, and he was forced to blackjack the offender. After arrival of county police, Hus- key and his companion and the ar- rested man went to the Hyattsville police station, the District officer said. The magistrate placed Huskey and his colleague under $1,000 bond apiece on assault charges, and the Washington policeman was not released until sev- eral hours later, when local officers Investigated the case. All charges were subsequently nolle prossed by State's Attorney Alan Bowie. Huskey complained that the magis- trate and county officer used vitupera- tive language during the hearing in the Hyattsville station. He said they were “very indignant and spoke very sntagonistically of the District of Co- Jumbia police in general.” Appointed by Nice. Responding to the District Com- imissioners’ report on the matter, Gov. Nice pointed out that the magistrate had been appointed by him and had been asked for a complete account of the affair. He said complaints of the county police force should be made to the county commissioners and character- ized the attitude of the magistrate as “anything but dignified, and he cer- tainly deserves a reprimand.” The Governor said his administration would “function in complete harmony and co-operation with your depart- ment, and any breach of this co- operation will meet with very prompt correctional measures at my hands.” In a report to Maj. Brown, sent a week after Huskey's arrest, which oc- curred September 25, Inspector James F. Beckett of the first district recom- mended that “no part of this matter be considered prejudicial to Pvt. Hus- key.” He pointed out, however, that *certain indignities have been hurled Bt the personnel of our department and much embarrassment caused us over this episode.” 21 AUTO DEALERS’ } LICENSES HELD UP| Unsettled Traffic Charges Result } of Offenses by Prospective , Buyers of Cars. License applications for 21 Wash- Ington automobile dealers are being withheld pending settlement of traf- fic charges against them, practically all the result of offenses by prospec- | tive purchasers of cars. In most cases, the dealer has known nothing of the cases until advised by the police traffic officials, as the of- fenses have been committed while the cars were in the hands of prospective customers, Capt. Milton D. Smith of the traffic squad explained. In any event the dealer is the one to suffer. If the prospective pur- chaser eventually bought a car the dealer is reluctant to attempt to col- Ject a fine. If he did not purchase a ear, the trouble and inconvenience in- volved makes such & course im- practical. The dealer usually ends up by paying. Most of the cases do not Involve more than two or three vio- lations. Huge Bond Issiie i For Roads Again Issuein Maryland Nice Brings Long-Term Highway Building Plan Out Once More. 8y the Associated Press, . ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 12.— A proposed road building program— eenter of which is a gigantic bond Issue—was before the Maryland people 8gain today. Gov. Harry W, Nice announced yes- terday he was seeking to evolve’s long-term plan of road building for the State “based on scientific lines and unhampered by political consider- Ation.” The Governor mentioned the bond issue which would finance it, but did not indicate the size of the Pproposed issue. ‘The plan was first broached last March, Then last June the Governor spoke of it again, saying & bond issue of approximately $100,000,000 should be floated. Nice said his tentative plans in- tluded four main points: Building of a new primary road system of dual highways—consisting of two-lane dual highways' with at Jeast & 10-foot grass plot in the center, Improvement of the present roads and their incorporation into a sec- ondary road system, Improvement of lateral and dirt roads. ‘The floating of a bond issue, to be spent on a “pay-as-you-go” basis in from § to 10 years and serviced from the present gasoline taxes without in. creasing those taxes or the BState property tax. \ ¢ | ments which boasts an escalator, Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. GUEST. N UNINVITED guest attended a wedding in a Petworth A church last week and some- ‘what upset ithe principals, but afforded diversion for those who occupled the pews. Just as the wedding march drew the procession toward the altar in walked a big, white cat who, with confident demeanor, followed right behind the bride the full length of the aisle. ‘The bride was much concerned that the train of her bridal dress would tempt the cat to pounce upon it and thus halt the march to the altar. But the cat appeared to sense the solemnity of the occasion and kept Jjust to the rear of the bride, follow- ing her in a gait which synchronized with the music of the wedding march. As the ceremony proceeded the cat leaped upon a stand which held a big bunch of yellow and white chrysan- themums, investigated these, looked over the minister's shoulder as he read the service and generally made himself at home. Just before the bride and groom responded with the last “I do” the janitor succeeded in corralling Mr. Cat and put him in an adjoining room. This, however, was not the finale for the cat vaulted to an open window and arrived in front of the church just as the wedding party came out. He stood there, still dignified and still curious to the end. * x % % MONSTER. 1t young Jimmy Larkin, fr., grows up to be @ man who makes ‘mountains out of molehills, his mother will remember the Arst time the tendency manifested it 3self in the boy. Jimmy, aged four, came to his mother’s room in great trepidation the other day to report there was “something awful” in the kitchen. A check-up disclosed that the “something awful” was neither a mouse mor an insect as Mrs. Lar- kin had suspected, but a large Vir- ginia ham soaking in a kettle there. Jimmy simply had scaled it up to the proportions of & water monster. *x xx ile evidence of the Post Office Department's ability to deliver meagerly addressed letters came to | light this week when a Maryland firm sent out scores of circular letters which, after the name of the ad- dressee and his street address, bore the notation “S. S, Md.” They were all properly delivered in Silver Spring. But the question arises what would | happen if one addressed a letter to Mr. So and So at “C. C., Md.” Would | it go to Cottage City or Chevy Chase? | * x x & UP. ESCALANR-!. you would think, would have lost their strangeness in Washington after a couple of years. Well, they have not, as those who spend their working lives in escala- | tored enviroments can teil you. In one of the downtown establish- everything stopped the other day while astonished personnel and patrons| watched a woman well beyond the giddy years make her way up the “down” escalator. She had to struggle pretty hard against the current, but she made it. * % x % PHRASE. UDGE WALTER J. CASEY is a stickler for dignity and decorum in his jury branch of Police Court, but even the solemn justice cracks an occasional smile when Bailiff Barney Baruch sings out: “Everybody keep your seats until the jury passes out,” as that deliber- ative body starts to leave the court room. L ON THE MARCH, Morris Leikner is gradually head- ed toward town. He is not moving very rapidly—just @ block a year— but his progress has been astonish- ingly steady. Mr. Leikner has been in Wash- ington for three years. The first vear he lived on First street. The second year it was Second street and this year he is away up to Third street. His friends have calculated that the way Washington is growing toward the west, it will be adle to keep ahead of Mr. Leikner unless his rate of advance suddenly is accelerated. * % % % MAC AGAIN. ATRICK McGROARTY, the writer of foreign news mentioned in this colimn as having newspapered in Panama, is sbout to be mentioned again in connection with his appetite. Despite a normally lightweight ap- petite and welterweight stature, Mr. McGroarty has an amasing food ca- pacity at times. One day recently Mr. McGroarty missed his breakfast and worked all day without eating. That night, he went t0 a restaurant and ordered breakfast—eggs, coffee, etc. Quite nat- urally, even this didn't satisfy his inner man. He ordered up & sandwich | been penniless in Buenos Aires; he has | SOUGHT BY MANY Woman Who Saw Infant Dragged From Woods Fights to Keep !t." (Picture on First Page.) By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, November 12.— ‘There were many would-be foster parents today for the blue-eyed, blond baby boy mysteriously brought out of the piney woods of St. Tammany Parish by a dog. Doctors at Charity Hospital said the infant apparently was about 8 days old and in good health, It weighed 6 pounds and 3 ounces. Most insistent of those seeking the child was Mrs. Louis E. Crawford, wife of a Works Progress Administration employe, making $26.25 a month, Mrs. Crawford said she stepped from the porch of her one-room cabin home near Pearl River late Tuesday to take the infant from “a great big brindle dog.” She said the animal was carry- ing it through the woods in his mouth and that the child was wrapped in a coarse swaddling cloth. Welfare workers brought the baby to the hospital here over the protests of Mrs. Crawford. “I found that baby,” she said. *“I saved his life. I'm not going to give him up. I'll move heaven and earth to get him back.” Mrs. Crawford has two sons of her own, one aged 4 and the other 2. She said “about 50” other people who saw the baby wanted to adopt it. Even the sheriff of the parish, Walter | Galatas, said he would take it. “I figure he cost St. Tammany parish about $30 already, so it looks to me | like I got a stake in him.” The mystery surrounding the baby was as deep as ever. It was thought hitchhikers had abandoned it, but the sheriff said a number of them he had detained had been released. O'Neill (Continued From First Page.) f “Strange Interlude” in 1928 gained the award for him twice more. He was last reported working on an! encyclopedic saga of American life— | a cycle of eight plays chronicling the | 125-year drama of an American family through five generations. In announcing the stupendous task, the Theater Guild called it “the most ambitious and the most interesting ever undertaken by any modern play- wright.” The saga, the announcement said, would portray the family from 1829 to 1932, in New England, New York, | the Pacific Coast and the Middle West. | One of the most prolific of modern playwrights, with nearly twoscore pro- | ductions to his credit, O'Neill's art| first budded in the little wharf theater in Provincetown, Mass. then moved to MacDougal street in New York's Greenwich Village, and finally to Broadway and “the road.” “Bound East for Cardiff.” His first production was “Bound | East for Cardiff,” | Provincetown Players, with O'Neill | | himself playing the part of the second | mate in that stark drama of the sea. | “The Emperor Jones,” also first | | produced by the Provincetown group, | established him as a front-rank dramatist. Later it became an opera | performed at the Metropolitan Opera | House. Other plays flowed from his pen. They included “Desire Under the Elms,” “All God's Chillun's Got | * “Welded,” | { Interlude,” “Dynamo,” | Becomes Electra” and * ness!"” Seldom has a playwright had more kaleidoscopic experience. O'Neill has roamed the world—South America, Africa, Europe, the Far East. He has lived in a luxurious French chateau. His present home, with his third wife, the former Carlotta Monterey, is on an island off the Georgia coast. He lived for awhile in & Coast Guard house, and wrote in the tower. One Winter in Provincetown, he had bare quarters that leaked the winds. With his feet propped on a chair, swathed in blankets, he wrote—vivid, puise- quickening dramas of life and sudden death, O'Neill does not sttend his own plays. He has seen only three of | them. “I hardly ever go to the thea- | ter because I can do a better produc- tion in my own mind,” he has said. His early plays were one-acts about the sea. Then they became longer. “Strange Interlude” was an after- noon-and-evening affair, with a din- ner intermission and nine acts. “Mourning Become Electra,” a trilogy, had 14 scenes. Now his newest project calls for eight solid evenings—a play series comparable in scope to Tolstoi's “War and Peace.” O'NEILL WITHOUT COMMENT. SEATTLE, November 12 (#).—Eu- gene O'Neill, the American dramatist, had no immediate comment when in- formed today by Dr. Sophus K. Winther, University of Washington English department, of his award of the 1936 Nobel Prize for letters. It was the first word he had received. “He wants to be sure that it's & fact: and not a rumor,” said Prof. Winther, friend and author of an interpretation of O’Neill. The dramatist and his former ac- tress-wife, Carlotta Monterey, arrived here November 3 for & year's stay in the West. “I'm doing & play,” he told an in- terviewer on his arrival, “which is dated in the period around 1860 and 1870—about the time the railroads came across the country, and I'm go- ing to make Seattle my headquarters for at least three months while I am in the Northwest. “I'll be going into Oregon and per- haps as far east as Butte to get the material I need.” SEARCH FOR BODY CRAIG, Colo., November 12 (#).— One. hundred miles by automoblile, then 25 miles on horseback, s sher- ift’s party followed a circuitous trail today to a remote spot on the snow- swept slope of cold mountain to reach the body of & man. Searchers believed it would prove to be that of L. O. M. Lucero, Denver court reporter, lost four weeks ago on & deer hunting trip. Arthur Sparks, | & rancher, who sighted the body yes- terday, said it law among pinion pines ABATTOIR PERMIT Case Paralleling District Problem Is Discussed in Washington. A recent abattoir problem in Lynch- burg, Va., paralleling that which now confronts the District Commissioners, ‘was solved decisively by the refusal of the City Council to issue a permit, it 'Was reported today. ‘This information was relayed to the Commissioners by Charles F. Consaul, vice chairman of the Executive Com- mittee of the Committe of 100 on the leral City. It was a matter also which had been brought to their at- tention by officials of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion, Prompt Action Taken. Lynchburg had experienced odors and complaints from an existing abat- toir, according to City Manager R. B. Hart, and when a second company wished to engage in the meat-render- ing business in the same industrial area, the City Council took prompt ac- tion to bar it. Hart said, further: “The City Coun- cil was s0 thoroughly convinced of the justification of the complaint made against the establishment of another plant, even in the same loca- tion as the existing plant, that the petition was forthwith denied. Furth- ermore, the Couficil ordered prompt investigation made of the existing plant and ordered it to minimize the objectionable features as much as possible. The matter of sewage from the plant has given trouble for some time, particularly in the operation of a disposal plant, and this and other features have been the cause of com- plaints and consequent inspections at frequent intervals by the city author- ities.” Secretary of Interior Ickes, who is enabling the Commissioners to build & new sewage disposal plant with loans from the P, W. A., frequently voiced the opinion that waste matter from the proposed rendering plant in Washington might possibly cause damage to the sewers. As in the case at Lynchburg. the Gobel Co. is proposing to re-establish & meat-rendering plant and stockyards | in the Benning area, justifying its position on the ground an abattoir has | been operating on the site for many years. Investigation Begun. ‘When Secretary Ickes and the Com- mittee of 100 on the Federal City heard of the experiences of Lynchburg | authorities, F. H. Walton, an authority | | on abattoirs of the Indian Bureau, was | sent there to investigate. | A recent communication from the city manager explained some of the troubles experienced. | The existing plant in Lynchburg, | while a great improvement over pre-i vious crude slaughter houses, was said to be the cause of many complaints on account of the business conducted, | which, while obviously a necessary | one, is of the “nuisance” type. | “This, in my opinion,” City Manager | Hart wrote, “is too well recognized to need any elaboration. The city au- thorities have endeavored to ameliorate | staged by the | the conditions complained of, which, | Publican aside from the general character of the business, naturally tend to de- preciate residentia! property, is a con- stant annoyance by reason of smells and traffic nuisances. “Further objectionable features re- sult from emptying of plant wastes into sanitary sewers. * * * This plant | does not attempt to render or to un- | dertake certain work which would un- | doubtedly cause terrific complaint, | The rendering of bones, entrail fats, inedible offal, etc., is transferred out- | side of the city to a rendering plant. | “I do not think the operators of the abattoir would think of undertaking such work in the city if it could be | construed as a legitimate part of the | abattoir operation, which I doubt. Undoubtedly any action to increase the causes of complaint would result in more severe control by the city, so far as possible for the city to pro- ceed In that direction.” MISSION CHANGES BROADCAST HOUR Saturday Night Programs Begin Hereafter at 7:45 0'Clock. ‘The Central Union Mission's Sat- urday night half-hour broadcasts over | Radio Station WOL will begin here- | after at 7:45 p.m., instead of 8:30 as| heretofore, it was announced by John | S. Bennett, the mission superintendent. ‘The new schedule will be in effect next Saturday. The programs are featured by sing- ing by the Mission Glee Club, made up of “converts” of the mission, and by interviews with men the mission has aided. The glee club over a period of years has consisted of from 11 to 33 men. Its personnel changes rapidly. Over a period of five years it has had a total of more than 500 members. Men from all walks of life have received the mission’s help. The list includes men of many professions and vocations, such as lawyers, preachers, florists, electricians and upholsterers. | In the radio interviews Bennett| seeks to get answers from those aided which may be a help to some one | else. To aid in its work, the mission today opened its ‘appeal for its annual budget. The sum sought for its various activities is $36,460. The appeal will be made nearly entirely by mail, said Bennett. to Roosevelt _(Ool;unzed; From First Plle.)_ the President again today for an hour’s study of budget figures. Budget matters as well as power pol- icy was discussed by the President after his conference with Bell, Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the Pederal Power Commission, and Basil Manley, & member of the commission. Secre- tary of Interfor Ickes, who also is pub- lic works administrator, ‘conferred with the President regarding budget matters and regarding a number of public works projects which are under consideration now for allotments. Mr. Roosevelt also conferred with Secretary of Commerce Roper and Gov. Eccles of thé PFederal Reserve Board. Later this afternoon the President will meet with his cabinet and during this session there will be a recess in the discussions sufficient to permit the D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1936. Acadefily Gets Famous Schooner Mrs. S. V. Makaroff presenting title to the ocean-racing schooner, Vamarie, to Midshipman R. B. Woodhull, regimental commander of midshipmen, at Annapolis esterday. Left to right: Admiral David Foote Sellers, superintendent of the Academy, Woodhull, Makaroff, a former captain in the Imperial Russia n army, and Mrs. Makaroff. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. D. C. VOTE FIGHT SEENPROGRESSING Prospects of Results Never Brighter, Citizens’ Joint Body Told. Prospects of results from the long struggle for national representation of the citizens of the District are brighter today than ever before, the Executive Committee of the Citizens’ Joint Committee for National Rep- resentation for the District of Co- lumbia was told yesterday. Representatives of seven of the or- ganizations present, all but one of them with Nation-wide ramifications, expressed their optimism for future success during the session in the library of the Washington Board of Trade in The Star Building. “We believe this is a golden oppor- tunity,” Arthur Clarendon Smith, president of the Democratic League of Washington, said. “We believe we are going to go places this year. For one thing, the local Democratic clubs are in line 100 per cent.” Sees New Reason for Hope. “We have some reason now for hope we have not had before,”” Paul E. Lesh, vice chairman of the joint committee, said. “The present political trend is to move. A new thing is more welcome today than it was a few years ago. We have something here that seems | almost revolutionary, and with a Government ready to listen to new things, we have much brighter chances.” Both Malcolm 8. McConihe, Demo- cratic national committeeman for the District, and Edward F. Colla committeeman, recorded their support of the campaigp. Colla- day, who was forced by business to be absent from the meeting, wrote & let- ter making known his position. Urges New Enthusiasm. Theodore W. Noyes, chairman of the joint committee, who presided, and whose long fight in beha!’ of representation drew much comment from the speakers, urged the com- mittee members on to new enthusi- asm. “We all recognize that this is. the time for us to push and to push vig- orously. That the women's organiza- tions have enlisted 50 thoroughly and 50 heartily in the cause is an in- spiration to us all.” Among the women's organizations which reported active backing of the proposed representation amendment not only on the part of the local branches of the groups, but by the national bodies, were the Voteless D. C. League of Women Voters. the District Federation of Women's Clubs and the Women's City Club. Mrs. Patten Reports. Mrs. Alva A. Patten reported that the Young Democratic Clubs of Amer= ica were behind the move, and Miss Etta L. Taggart, chairman of its Com- mittee on National Representation, recorded the support of the Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations. Added to these bodies were the Democratic Board of Commerce. The women of America who speak through the General Federation of Women's Clubs are making a study of the question of an enfranchised Dis- trict. Mrs. Harvey Wiley, former president of the District federation, said: “The Federation is getting out a booklet on the matter, giving both the pro and con, to educate its members concerning the problem,” she said. Mrs. Wiley added that the Women's City Club, of which she is president, is putting its full strength behind the campaign for representation. Most of the speakers emphasized the need for support from the voting citizens in the 48 States. “Next week we are going to have a joint meeting with our Maryland and Virginia members to plan with us how to prod the Congress,” Mrs. ‘William Kittle, president of the Vote- lal‘ld. District League for Women Voters, s Operates in 36 States. “The Voteless League operates in 36 States, and in every one national representation for the District is & major plank,” Mrs. Charles H. Wes- ton, chairman of the department of government and its operation of the Voteless D. C. League of Women Voters, said. “We have recently been giving lec~ tures on civics to the students of Mount Vernon Seminary, and to these girls from 22 States around the coun- try we have explained the voteless situation of the District.” Mrs. Patten, representing the League of Young Democrats, said: “We have done all we can in Washington to spread our idea to our members, and we are especially pleased to have much support from the Southern States.” Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, honorary vice president of the Soclety of Natives, reported that in a tour of the country this Summer she obtained the signa- tures of citizens of 47 States, all but New Mexico, to & petition urging adoption of the national representa- tion amendment. Commerce Boards Aid. “We laid this proposition last June before the national convention of the Junior Boards of commm,m ’”m N, Maguire, chairman of ational Representation’ Comniittee of the ‘Washington branch of the organiza- . tion, said, “and the convention voted unanimously to support the amend- ment. We convinced the delegates there that the national representation had important national aspects. “Now we want to try to acquaint the bulk of Washington people with what we are trying to do, in order to get full local support. We intend to ask our board to appropriate funds to supply a prize. Then we hope the five public high schools each will hold | tion of national representation for the District, with an elimination contest for the prize.” votes we need in Congress for our |amendment until we can create in the congressional districts back home | some force that will lead the Rep- | resentatives and Senators to think it | will cost them some votes not to sup- | port it,” John H. Small, former Rep- resentative from North Carolina and now president of the Georgetown Citizens' Association, said. Te Mail Letters. | Jesse C. Suter, vice chairman of the | committee, reported that the commit- bers of Congress the District’s problem and acquaint- ing them with the knowledge that they are not only members of the National Legislature, but of Wash- ington’s “city council” as well. With the letters, Suter said, will be sent coples of the black bordered article entitled “The Day—November 3, 1936,” which appeared in The Star last election day, commenting on the | pride of the citizens of the 48 States in their freedom to vote and the hu- miliation of the citizens of the Dis- trict in their disfranchisement. Senator Capper of Kansas and Rep- resentative Norton of New Jersey will be asked to reintroduce the amend- ment, Suter said. The subcommittee | on Congressional hearings expects to | arrange for hearings on the proposal in the Seventy-fifth Congress. day, Re- | TALK WITH SPIRITS HELD IMPOSSIBLE Mrs. Houdini Challenges Mediums Who Claim Proof of Com- munication With Dead. | Bs the Associated Press. ! LITTLE ROCK, Ark., November 12. —Mrs. Harry Houdini, widow of the world-famed magician, said last night she was “firmly convinced that com- munication with the dead is a human | impossibility and I chalienge any me- | dium who proclaims tangible proof.” | She stopped here overnight en route from her home in Hollywood to visit her mother in New York City. On Halloween Mrs. Houdini conducted at Hollywood her final and unsuccessful attempt to communicate with the | spirit of her husband, who died 10 years ago. She told of trying -constantly throughout the 10 years to communi- | cate with Houdinl, and said that “as | fantastic as it sounds, in the beginning | T did believe there was a means of | communicating with my husband | along the lines of spiritualism.” ‘ “We formed a pact during the early part of our married life toward this | end.” she said. “Because we were pro- | League of Washington and the Junior | fessional magicians, naturally it was logical to assume the possibility of |such a phenomena. Mr. Houdini was | & brilliant man, an accomplished stu- | dent, inventor and scholar as well as | s magician; so who can blame me for believing my husband capable of per- | forming such a miracle?” Abattoir (Continued From First Page.) of the Gobel site for a future housing project, was represented at the hear- ing today by two aldes. They were Howard A. Gray, director of P. W. A.'s Housing Division, and Carl F. Farbach, legal counsel. Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and chairman also of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, also is taking & leading part in pro- testing slaughter house preparations in the newly developed Anacostia area. The Ruhland committee urged in its favorable report that the Commis- sioners give immediate consideration to the zoning regulations to prohibit establishment or enlargement of ab- batoirs in the District unless the ap- proval of the Zoning Commission was given. Such a regulation might have served to hold up the issuance of a permit permitting the Gobel Co. some time #go to dig foundations for its pro- jected plant near Benning road and Kenilworth street. Anywhere a declamation contest on the ques- | | “In my opinion we will not get the | | tee intends sending to all new mem- | letters explaining | ENTIRE GABINET LIKELY T0 RESIGN Act of “Delicacy” Would | Give President Free Hand to Appoint. B the Associated Press President Roosevelt's entire cabinet may resign before his second in- auguration next January 20—but that's just an old cabinet custom, With conjecture rife concerning the probable make-up of the next cab- inet, a White House attache expressed belief the 10 present cabinet officers would tender their resignations near the close of Mr. Roosevelt's current term “as a matter of delicacy,” thus leaving him free to reappoint whom he desired. At the State Department, however, experts on precedent said neither Am- bassadors nor Ministers would submit resignations inasmuch as the election produced no change of administra- tion. Changes in Custom. ‘Where the cabinet is concerned, a search of treatises on the subject in the Library of Congress disclosed some changes in custom over the years, especially regarding the reappoint- | ment of cabinet members by hold- over Presidents. “Originally, a person nominated and confirmed to a cabinet position held his office without a new appointment and a new commission under a Presi- dent succeeding himself,” one his- torian wrote, “but a custom grew up that when a President, elected to & second term, desires to retain any member of his former cabinet, for him to renominate such a person to the Senate.” President Wilson, however, did not go through the formality of renomi- nating the members he retained in his second cabinet, the writer said, and neither did President Coolidge when he succeeded Harding. These Presi- dents just retained certain old cabinet members without reappointment, Indefinite Appointment. In the early days of the country, cabinet members were not appointed | for any fixed term, but an act of | Congress in 1866 provided they should | hold office during the term of the | President by whom they were ap- ;pomud and for one month there- | after. Now, White House sources said, | they hold office “at the pleasure of | the President.” | A clause to this effect was inserted | in the commissions issued cabinet of- | ficers by President Jackson, and White | House officials said present-day com- missions retain the stipulation. Another side light on presidential | the Constitution requiring organiza- | tion of such a body. One clause pro- | vides that the Chief Executive may require in writing the opinions of any Eo{ the principal officers of the execu- | tive departments, but nowhere is he specifically directed to form them into | & cabinet or to consult them. DR. DAFOE UNWORRIED BY CHICAGO SUMMONS | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, November 12.—Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe remained in seclu- sion at his hotel today, apparently un- worried by s process server who pur- sued him in Chicago. His only comment as he arrived in New York last night was that he in- tended “going to bed early.” A spokesman sald, however, that Dr. Dafoe, who attends the Dionne quintuplets, did not know what the summons concerned, Fred Davis, a photographer, who accompanied the doctor, said it concerned a promoter’s suit for breach of contract, resulting from the failure of efforts to exhibit the quintuplets at the Chicago Cen- tury of Progress exposition. process server and tossed the sum- mons to a Chicago newspaper man just as Dr. Dafoe's plane took off. CHICAGO, November 12 (#).— Chief Deputy United States Marshal J. E. Tobin said today Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, medical adviser for the Dionne quintuplets, was legally served here yesterday with a summons in a $1,000,000 breach-of-contract suit. ‘The summons requires the doctor's appearance in Chicago during the December term -of the Federal Dis- trict Court. The - pending litigation involves a dispute over the right to exhibit the five Dionne daughters. ight Final Delivered in the City Full Sporits Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World, Whatever it is, you'll find 1t in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c & month, Call National 5000 and service cabinets is that there is nothing in | Davis related that he met the PRESIDENT GIVES GRANGERS PLEDGE Message Tells Session Fight for Farm Equality Will Be Pressed. B the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 12.— President Roosevelt messaged the National Grange Convention today that a “fight to achieve real equality for agriculture” would be pressed fore ward. The President's message was & greeting for the 70th birthday anni- versary of this farm organization, which has members in 35 States. It was sent to Louls J. Taber, national grange master, to be read at a birthday party this afternoon. “Through you as master of the National Grange, I wish to send my greetings to the merbership,” the Pres= ident’s message said. “As you meet this week in anniver= sary session the Grange looks back upon 70 years of steadfast effort to improve American agriculture as a business and as a way of life. The Nation needs strong leadership today. “We have made progress in the fight to achieve real equality for agrie culture, but we must strive to cone tinue this progress. Natinal and ine ternational problems demand the earnest attention of groups such as the Grange, to the end that our dem= ocratic processes may be brought to bear effectively upon their solution. I congratulate you, my fellow members of the Grange, upon your record and join with you in your determination to go forward.” Mr. Roosevelt, a Grange member for 25 years, holds the organization's highest honor—the seventh degree— which 10,000 members received hers today. Grange Pledges Support. A pledge that the Grange would eo- operate with President Roosevelt came from the farm organization's leader yesterday with an assertion, however, that farmers themselves preferred to control any permanent Government farm program. National Master Taber told the ses- sion: “The grange pledges to this ad« ministration any assistance, co-opera- tion or support it can render. “We have faith in the Government and its administrators, but we think farmers themselves best know what agriculture needs. “This administration has great op- portunity to make an outstanding contribution to national welfare by correcting injustices wherever found, by completing the great work of proe moting liberty and human welfare, Legislation Changes Needed. “We believe that the worst of the emergency has passed and that some of the temporary legislation should be replaced or amended. “If there is to be a permanent, practical, continuous farm program to restore and maintain farm pros- perity and farm purchasing power, that program must provide for guid- ance and control by the co-operating farmers themselves.” Edward (Continued From Pirst Page.) _ King Edward might marry Mrs, Simpson and abdicate. The magazine arrived at the cone clusion there was little possibility of either development. Under the subheading, alace Battle,” the Week asserted a “battle royal” was underway in court circles between the “old guard,” which ree sents the King's friendship with Mrs. Simpson, and the ‘newer type of courtier,” who apparently thinks Mrs. Simpson is “ace high.” The Week commented on the are rival of “chopped up” American pa< pers in Britan and added: "It has become obvious a very great deal has ! been said in the United States about | the King and Mrs. Simpson.” It went on: “It is true that if any two persons so placed as Mrs. Simpson and the King were to fall in love, their sit- uation would be one of intolerable | difficulty, and therefore there is no | doubt its possibility is an absorbing subject of study for the American press and a profitable object of spec~ ulation for the British Stock Exe change. Brokers Not Quiet. “For, though the English press has been silent in the matter, the same cannot be sald for the insurance brokers. “The difficulty of finding a valid reason for having an insurable in- terest in the King's marriage hasn't prevented a brisk business from being done in insurance against this possi- bility. “Even more symptomatic of the | frank gambling which is based on | hints and rumors of the King's private | affairs are the rates quoted for post= nement of the coronation. “Actually the most important factor in any calculation of the possibility of postponement is the Duke of Con- naught (the King's great-uncle). It is thought the duke is at present in’ good health, but he is now a very old man, and were he to die suddenly on the eve of the coronation, the ceres mony might well be postponed. “This factor might account for & | slightly higher rate than usual, but ertainly does not explain the present ‘ate nor the special rate of 8 per cent, | which on this occasion, for the first | time, is being quoted against postpones ment for causes other than the death | of & member of the royal family, the | King's liness, or war, —_— MICHIGAN QUADRUPLETS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL, ILL Condition Not Serious, Mother Says—Expected Back in Classes in Week. By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich, November 12— The 6-year-old Morlok quadruplets, Edna A, Wilma B, Sarah C, and Helen D., were confined to their home with & mild kidney infection today, but their parents believed they would return to school in another week. The mother, Mrs. Carl A. Morlok, » former nurse, said the quads’ con- dition was not serious . She was at & loss to explain the ailment, since the little girls have had no colds or chile dren’s disease recently. Deputy Prosecutor Dies. LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 13 ().—Robert P. Btewart, 53, chief deputy district .attorney since 1928, died today of a heart atiaak - » \