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RAILROADS DENID RATES EXTENSION Stocks Slump After I. C. C. _ Rules Emergency Sur- charges Must End. By the Associated Press. Holding that the situation which warranted their original authoriza- tion no longer exists, the Interstate Commerce Commission yesterday re- fused to extend beyond December | 31 emergency freight surcharges of class 1 railroads. The carriers had asked that the emergency rates be extended. until action is taken on petitions for a gen- eral revision of rate structure. The existing emergency schedules had been in effect since April 18, 1935. Open- ing of hearings on revision of the rate structure is set for January 6. The carriers maintained that the emergency charges had yielded an ad- ditional $10,000,000 a month and that | their financial condition was too “crit= ical” for that revenue to be lost. Bonds and Shares Unsettled. The ruling brought in initial un- easy selling of railroad bonds and shares in New York markets. | Dissenting opinions to the majority's | refusal to extend the rates were sub- mitted by Commissioners Mahaffie and McManamy. Mahaffle said recov- ery of business was not yet sufficient to guarantee rail income sufficient for | maintaining equipment and forming & | eredit basis. McManamy, holding & similar view, | also contended that safety might be “adversely affected by a reduction in | the carriers' revenues.” During the de- | pression, he said, expenditures for maintenance were cut and the results | “now are becoming apparent in our accident record.” Traffic Increase Cited. The commission majority held thal Freight traffic has been on the in- crease throughout the current year, particularly in this last quarter. | A “continuing revival of try” would result in still more rail traffic. In certain instances emergency tharges “have had a restrictive effect on rail traffic and it is to be expected ' their removal may result in some in- crease in traffic.” STOCK PRICES TUMBLE. indus- | _ State teletype system. | Arlington Board of Assessors will hold Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, Dec. 20, 1936. PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. 60,000 parade in Havana for sugar tax as Gomez meets advisers. Page A-1 Nanking to open drive today for rescue of Gen. Chiang. Page A-1 Marie of Rumania may visit with Ed- ward in Austria. Page A-1 Madrid forbids Christmas merrymak- ing at battle front, Page A-8 NATIONAL. Wide hunt pushed for plane after faint radio call. Page A-1 Four ordered arrested in escape of life-term convict. Page A-1 U. S. neutrality proposal approved at Buenos Aires. Page A-1 President’s family gathers for Christ- mas observance. Page A-1 Government and labor both move againat General Motors. Page A-1 L C. C. refuses extension of emergency freight rates. Page A-2 Landon, Hamilton and other G. O. P. leaders in Capital. Page A-2 Battle for House leadership grows more strenuous. Page A-5 Three prison officers ousted after es- cape of a life-termer. Page A-6 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. 65.000 gifts for needy received at toy matinees. age A-1 Christmas sales here already highest since 1929, Page A-1 Edith Maxwell takes job in cafe pend- ing appeal. Page A-2 Rain-swept streets boost traffic acci- dents; one dead of injuries. Page B-. Charles O. Gridley named 29th presi- dent of Press Club. Page B-1 Senator Byrnes would give President reorganization powers. Page B-1 Home nursing care here limited, Dr. Ruhland reports. Page B-1 Fiscal Committee drawing report to President. Page B-1 More than 3,000 extra workers on job at D. C. Post Office. Page B-1 School and playground plans to be co- ordinated. Page B-1 Legend of bear trapper gathered for | park visitors. Page B-2 Maryland Police Committee to seek Page B-3 series of hearings. Page B-3 in Alexandria in 1938. Alexandria City Council told of num- bers racket. Mansion that figured plot changes hands. SPORTS. in Napoleon Wave of Selling Hits Market After 1. C. C. Decision NEW YORK, December 19 (P).—A wave of selling hit the stock and bond | markets today following the Inter- gtate Commerce Commission's denial of rail freight surcharge extension. Prices tumbled sharply. | “ Obligations of carriers led the #lump, but losses were extended gen- @rally to other departments. Stock Prices were down from $1 to $4 a re, while bonds sagged as much as per $100 face value. ' “The decision caught markets by sur- | in the last hour of trading. In| e stock exchange trading became 30 | active the ticker tape was at times| @s much as seven minutes behind floor trading. The rush was of lesser force in bonds, where declines also were less, broad in character. " After Wall Street had taken time p reflect, & more hopeful sentiment evailed. Observers pointed to the | mmission’s conclusion the necessity | for emergency freight surcharges had | ended. 5 ' They pointed out passenger traffic had increased sharply after intro-/ duction of lower rates by Eastern lines this year. The surcharge decision put life into a wavering decline that had already started. Stocks had been hesitant all morning in the face of concern | over other matters, including labor | difficulties in the automotive fleld. | GIRL TURNING TO STONE | DIES OF 0DD MALADY First Became Ill 2 Years Ago ‘When Her Eyesight Began | to Fail. Br the Associated Press. DAVENPORT, Towa, December 19.— Three-year-old Joan Ila Belk, who suffered from a strange disease which | caused slow ossification of her bones, | died today. | She became ill two years ago wnen her eyesight started to fail. Special- ists sald she was turning to stone.| After months of treatment physicians | declared there was nothing that could . be done to combat the strange malady. | She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Belk of Massbach, Il Indian Fighler’s Second ‘Death’ in 56 Years Final Passing of Will Croft Barnes Recalls Epi- sode of Frontier. By the Assoctated Press. PHOENTIX, Ariz., December 19.—The death of Will Croft Barnes, 78-year-old Indien fighter, was recorded again yesterday, 56 years after he first read about it in a New York paper. This time it authentically closed the colorful career of the cattleman, for- ester, legislator and author who died unexpectedly in a Phoenix hospital last night. In August, 1880, a band of White River Apaches besieged Fort Apache, Ariz., where Barnes was United States military telegrapher. The redskins boasted they burned the post to the ground and killed every one. Barnes said his obituary was pub- lished in the East before word could get through that the garrison was safe. In 1881 he was awarded the Congres- sional Medal of Honor for bravery in action against the Apaches. Barnes was known throughout the United States Forest Service, He was assistant forester 21 years, He also was secretary of the United States Geographic Board two years. ! Barnes received his early education in the public schools of Minneapolis and Laporte, Ind. He was a member of the New Mexico Legislature two years. Surviving ere the widow and & brother, Thomas P. Barnes, Los An- Father Time is wielding scythe an some major league vets. Page B-7 | GriMth still is anxious to get new | catching talent. -7 Bowlers have only one more week to enter Star tourney. Page B-% tomorrow night. Page B-8 | District enjoys a successful year in many lines of sport. Pages B-9-10-11 | MISCELLANY. Resorts. Washington Wayside. Lost and found. Obituary. Traffic convictions. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Civic news. Page D-4 Military and veterans' news. Winning contract. Women's clubs. Parent-teacher clubs. Cross-word puzzle. Educational. Service orders, Vital statistics. - PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. Pages E-1-13 Well-known folk. Page E-8 Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-12 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. Pages F- John Clagett Proctor. Page Dick Mansfield. Page Radio programs. Page F-3 Amusements. Page Automobiles. Page Aviation. Page Children's. Page High lights of history. Page PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. ~ Trade holds big gains. Page G-1 Faster pace set at eotton mills. Page B-5 Page A-2 Page A-3 Page A-14 Page A-19 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page D-5 D-6 F-5 F-6 F- F-7 F-1 Page G-1 | Sharp D. C. upturns fore- cast. Stocks go down (table). Rail bonds slump (table). Curb list eases (table). Stamps. Classified advertising. Page G-1 Page G-2 Page G-3 Page G-4 Page G-5 Pages G-5-11 MRS. J. R. STEVENS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Funeral Services to Be Held To- morrow Forenoon at Resi- dence He Mrs. Nettie E. Stevens, 62, wife of John Russell Stevens, died yesterday at her home, 917 Eleventh street north- east. She had become ill while on & visit in Atlanta and was in Emory University Hospital there from Sep- tember 2 until she returned to her home here Friday, accompanied by her nurse, Mrs. Stevens had lived in Washing- ton for the last 18 years. Besides her husband, she leaves five daughers, Mrs. Hoke Ray Bostian, Greensboro, N. C; Miss Janet L. Stevens, Mrs. Paul E. Everett, Miss Mary Spencer Stevens and Mrs. Willlam Carter Hun- lay, all of this city; a sister, Miss Janie C. Spencer, this city; three brothers, R. N. Spencer, this city; J. W. Spencer, Alexandria, Va., and Vernon G. Spen- cer, Worcester, Mass., and seven grand- children. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the residence. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Firemen Fixing Teys. BALLSTON, Va,, December 19 (Spe- cial) —Old and new teys for the Kiwanis Club of the county may be left with the members of the Ballston Woman, 74, Cuts Teeth. ELMIRA, N. Y., December 19 ().~ Mrs. Ida E. Dense, 74, is growing three new teeth. When she attempted to geles. His body will be cremated and the ashes buried in’ Arlingtén Ceme- 4tery, Washington, D..C., ¢ replace her false teeth after s week's Her dentist sald Washington birthday group to parade Page B-4 Page B-4 Page B-6' THE SUNDAY ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, D € I.[ADERS []F G [] P Confessed Killers at GATHER IN CAPITAL Landon and Hamilton Are Due Tomorrow—Others Here Now. By G. GOULD LINCOLN. Republican leadership—1936 model— | will be represented in Washington in | » big way tomorrow. | Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, the | party’s nominee for President; John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and several other members of the National Committee will be here. In addition, the Repub- lican leaders of the Senate and House, Senator McNary of Oregon and Rep- resentative Snell of New York, already are here, and Senator Vandenberg of Michigan arrived yesterday. Despite the fact the Michigan Senator is anx- jous to avoid the spotlight, it keeps seeking him out. Here would be a great opportunity for Republican leaders to get together for & heart-to-heart talk—if they had anything to talk about. Just at pres- ent there seems little for the Re- publicans to do except adopt a policy | of watchful waiting. One thing might happen. Gov. Lan- don may make some statement re- garding his own personal political plans. Soon after the election the Governor, it is known, wished to make » statement taking himself out of the picture as a possible presidential nomi- nee in 1940. But whether he has changed %is mind or not will be learned—perhaps—during his visit here tomorrow. Will Attend Gridiron Dinner. ‘The object of Gov. Landon’s trip to | Washington is not political, but to at- | tend the annual Winter dinner of the Gridiron Club tomorrow night. On President Roosevelt's invitation, Kansas Governor will call on Mr. | Roosevelt at the White House at 11 |am. Landon was in Chicago vesterday National Committee declined to accept | at a meeting Thursday. They traveled | East together. Presumably they went | av length into Republican plans. Lan- | to retire from public life, and does not | intend to become a candidate for public office again. But whether he should say as much in a public state- ment at this time is questioned in some Republican quarters. If he takes himself entirely out of | the picture, who then becomes the “titular” head of the Republican | party? Usually that honor falls to | the President, if the party wins. or |is held by the defeated candidate for | President, if the party loses. If Lan- don steps out of the picture, does the leadership go back to former Presi- Furr and Lucas to renew welter feud | ong erbert Hoover? That would not | be to the liking of some of the Re- | publicans. Yet if Landon announces he is “through,” his influence is ! likely to wane. On the other hand, there are Re- | publicans who say that if Landon an- i nounces he is not to be a candidate again, it makes a new picture for the Republican party, with the field en- tirely open and the possibility of the ’de\'elepmem of new leadership: that | there will be no return to Hoover, Shied From Nomination, Possibly nothing would be more | painful to Senator Vandenberg of Michigan at this time than to have himself projected into the foreground as a leading candidate for President in 1940. He shied away from the nomination this year. He could have been nominated for Vice President in Cleveland if he had said the word. But he withheld it. Nevertheless, Vanden- berg probably will find it increasingly difficult to keep himself out of the discussions of the future of the Re- publican party | The Michigan Senator—senior Sen- | ator since the death of the late Sen- | ator Couzens—came to Washington | breathing fire and brimstone against reported plans to revive the Florida ship canal, at a cost of some $168,000,- | 000. He took a leading part in de- | strued as a warning to the Democrats. “Nothing,” he said, “is certain in politics today except uncertainty: and this applies just as much to the Roose- velt party and the Democratic party as it does to the Republican party. “If 1940 were a hundred years re- mote it couldn't be any further away in terms of political prophesy. So please excuse me from dallying with the imponderables.” Convinced Party Not Dead. From this it appears the Senator believes anything can happen between now and 1940. Of one thing he is convinced, however. The Republican party is not dead. In Vandenberg’s opinion, the next move lles with President Roosevelt. ““The issues (in the coming session of Congress and also in the next cam- paign) depend on what the President does. No one knows now what he plans to do. We must meet those issues as they arise,” he said. The retention of Hamilton as Re- publican national chairman settles one issue that was rising to trouble the Republicans. The vote of confi- dence he received from the National Committee in Chicago gives him cacte blanche to go ahead with his plans for organizing and reorganizing the party in States and counties. That will be his main task. The other is to pay off the deficit of nearly a mil- lion dollars which the committee has 25 a legacy from the last campaign. Both these tasks require money. In the midst of this need for money the clamor continues for & complete de- tachment of the G. O. P. from the eralized.” at & meeting of the Executive Com- mittee, telling the members frankly that if they wished him to do & full- time job as Republican chairman, he would need a salary and traveling ex- penses. If they wanted him to re- main merely as a part-time chairman, he would practice law either in To- peka or Washington and give as much time ‘and attention to the business of the National Committee as he could. The committee decided they wanted s full-time chairman and agreed to pay him $15000 a year and allow $10,000 a year for his traveling ex- penses. Assistants Received Salaries. This is the first time that a chair- the | with Hamilton, whose resignation the | | don, it i said, has an earnest desire | rich, so that the party may be “lib- | Hamilton Jaid his cards on the table John Holsky (left) participants in the bruta Brookville, Ind. Miller of Cincinnati, as they indulged and William Kuhlman, self-confessed 1 “head and hands” murder of Harry in a card game in jail at —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. did not wish to make the chairman- ship a job only for wealthy men, for only a wealthy man could take it and give all his time to it and not receive a salary. The Democrats do not pay their national chairman, Postmaster Gen- eral James A. Farley, a salary as na- tional chairman. He receives a salary of $15,000, however, as head of the Post Office Department, and is able to live in Washington and keep in touch with the needs of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, and to travel ex- tensively. During the last four years | Farley did a big job, building up the Democratic organization all over the | country. | There is continued silence as to the plans of Chairman Farley. However, it is considered likely that he will continue in the cabinet for a while at least and that certainly he will not give up his post as national chairman of the Democratic party. What the Republicans can do in the matter of organization will depend in | part on what they do in the matter of | raising funds. Hamilton, it is under- stood, would like to have in operation a labor division. a woman's division, an agricultural division and a division dealing particularly with the colored vote, which was lost to the Republican party in the recent election. It is ex- pected that Hamilton soon will appoint a finance committee to have charge of raising funds. See Need of New Deal. | Some of the Republicans in Con- gress are talking about the need of a new deal in party leadership, par- ticularly in the personnel of the Re- publican National Committee and in party conventions. They insist that the same figures which have domi- nated past party conventions—State and national—continue to dominate They add that until these figures have been replaced by other leaders the country will not be inclined to have faith in the Republican party. There | seems nothing that can be done about { this, however. The members of the Republican National Committee have been chosen for the next four years. Resignations. it is true, could change the situation, if they were made. There have been few such resignations, however, in the past. Due to the failure of Representative Bolton of Ohio to be re-elected to the House the Republicans are faced with | the selection of a new chairman of the | Republican Congressional Committee. | | Representative Bacon of New York is vice chairman of the committee and apparently in line for the chairman- ship. If he gets it, however, New York will have both the Republican floor leader of the House, Representative Snell, and the chairmanship of the Congressional Committee. Incidental- 1y, Bacon does not fit in entirely with demand in some Republican quarters for greater simplicity and less wealth 4 | feating the project during the last in party leadership. However. he is ex- "‘;sufion of Congress. About politics tremely popular with his colleagues F-2 | Vandenberg was cryptic, and at the and many of them say he rates the "> | same time his remarks might be con- | chairmanship because of the good work he has done. | The chairmanship of the Republi- can Congressional Committee in re- cent years has gone to the Middle- west. Bolton, the late Will Wood of Indiana and former Senator Fess of Ohio, have held the job. The Middle- west today has comparatively few Re- publicans in the House. If an east- ener other than Bacon should get the place, it might be Representative | Martin of Massachusetts, who had charge of eastern headquarters in New York for the national organiza- | tion during the campaign of 1936. | G. 0. P. LEADERS MEET. | | Landon, Knox and Hamilton Dine With Chicagoans. CHICAGO, December 19 (#).—The three men who formed the spearhead of the 1936 Republican campaign— Gov. Alf M. Landon, Col. Frank Knox and John D. M. Hamilton—held a re- union today. The defeated presidential date, his running mate and the chair- man of the party's national committee licans at a Michigan Boulevard club. | They sent out word their parley | had “no political significance.” The Governor, in apparent jovial mood, spent seven hours here—then departed for the East. ‘Landon arranged to stop off in Baltimore tomorrow to share an oyster and terrapin repast with H. L. Mencken. Landon told reporters he would bring & “sharp appetite” to Maryland. “Are you going back to farming?” | a newsman asked. “Yep,” he replied with a wide smile. Referring to the meeting of the par- ty's national committee here last Thursday, the Governor said: “I am glad to see the committee retained Hamilton and gave him a vote of confidence. He conducted & good campaign in the time he had to do it and he will do more good work for the party.” Among those who visited Landon were former Vice President Charles G. Dawes, C. Wayland Brooks, de- feated Republican candidate for Gov- ernor of Illineis; George Harding, na- tional committeeman from Illinols, and Chauncey McCormick, who head- ed the “volunteers” during the cam- paign. Two Found Dead in Snow. ROSMAN, N. C., December 19 (#).— The snow-covered bodies of Will Mitchell, about 5, and Sylvannus McCall, about 60, were found just be- fore noon today begide the Gloucester Lumber Co.’s railroad a mile from here. Coroner John Kilpatrick said he be- lieved the men frose to death early ? candi- | dined with a score of Chicago Repub- | LABOR SECRETARY IS FORUM SPEAKER [Miss Perkins to Discuss Problems of Nation’s Wage Earners. Problems facing wage earners of America will be discussed tomorrow | night by Secretary of Labor Frances | Radio Perkins over the National Forum, arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to- coast network of the National Broad- casting Co. Secretary Perkins was scheduled to speak last Monday night, but her ad- dress was postponed so as not to con- flict with broadcast by the radio chain of the Joe Louis-Eddie sunrru‘ fight. Miss Perkins is the first woman ever to hold a cabinet office and long has been recognized as one of the au- thorities on questions affecting the During the last | Summer the World Congress of Busi- ness and Professional Women voted | her the world's “outstanding woman."” workers of America. She will be heard over Station WRC, and an N. B. C. chain at 10:30 p.m. POLICE JOIN SEARCH FOR WIFE, DAUGHTER Man Asks Aid in Hunt for Mem. bers of Family Missing a Week. | Milton C. Bell of 722 Central ave- nue, Maryland Park, Md., yesterday asked police to aid him in a search for his wife and his daughter, Caro- line E. Bell, who disappeared De cember 12. Bell daughter drov him to work at 8 p.m. Saturda; in a car he had given When Bell recently her. reached his hous the followin her mother wer gone, leaving be: hind his 3-year old son. The ca 5\ ‘!\ V. & Careline Bell was parked in the private lane by the house. Bell said he had had no words ° with his wife, but he had scolded his | daughter for not attending school. She wished to go to work. he said, and at first he would not countenance this step. On Saturday, however, he had found her a job, although she did not know this at the time of her | departure. The daughter has blond hair and a fair complexion. She is 5 feet 3 | inches tall, weighs 113 pounds and | probably wears a leopard-skin coat with a brown fur collar and a brown ruffie at the bottom to match. She can be identified by two black moles on the palm of one hand. Mrs. Catherine Bell has brown hair. She weighs 135 pounds and probably wears & black pony coat. leFELOiNG RESIDENT EXPIRES AT AGE OF 84 Mrs. Martha V. Rhoderick Will |" Be Buried Tomorrow in Glen- | wood Cemetery. Mrs. Martha V. Rhoderick, 84, widow | | illness at her home, 1424 Chapin | street. | city and a member of Temple Baptist | Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Lillian R. Deland and Miss Maude C. Rhoderick, both of this city; a grand- son, F. Roderick Deland, Binghamton. N. Y.; a granddaughter, Mrs. C. J. Dowd, this city, and two great-grai children. | Funeral services will be held at 2 home, 1400 Chapin street. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. Slashes Throat With Pocketknife After Judge Sentences Him on Larceny Charge. By the Associated Press. CHARLEVOIX, Mich, 19.—William Mosher, 49, City, Mich,, of Boyne with & pocketknife a few minutes after Judge Parm C. Gilbert sentenced him to a year in prison for larceny. Mosher died tonight in a hospital. before he was taken into court said he told them, “I'll never serve s day in prison.” Mosher pleaded guilty, with two other Boyne City men, to larceny $700 forth of brass journal bearings cars at Boyne Palls an ratlroad on, Mich. 7 " DECEMBER 20, 1936—PART O SHIP CANAL HOPES DECLARED DARKER Vandenberg Says Opponents| of Project Are Now in Stronger Position. Any attempt by the administration at the forthcoming session of Congress to revive the $168,000,000 Florida ship canal project, it was made plain yes- terday, will encounter even more de- termined opposition than that which halted the work at the last session. | Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, who led the successful fights in the Senate last Summer against this and the Passamaquoddy tidal power project in Maine, declared yes- terday the case against the canal was even better now than it was then. Commenting on the hearings con- | cluded Priday by the Board of Army | Engineers, based on the report of a special board which recommended that | the canal be completed, Vandenberg | said the general situation had changed only for the worse from the stand- point of the project’s proponents. The special board’s report, he said, had been shown to be full of holes, and | the hearing has served to make the ar- | guments against the project more em- phatic than ever. | Moreover, he related that on his re- cent visit to the State he had found the people of Southern Florida more | definitely “up in arms” against the| “menace” than they were last | Summer. { In view of what he regarded as the strong preponderance of adverse argu- | ments, the Senator was inclined to| doubt that the administration would | press for authority to resume work on | the canal, even if the Board of Army Engineers should. this time, decide to approve the plan. Prior to the spe- | cial board’s report, it is recalled, Army engineers have looked askance at the project. “I can't imagine the administration attempting to press for approval of such an indefensible expenditure of | EDITH MAXWELL GETS JOB IN CAFE |Will Start Work Today as Cashier and Hostess in Richmond. BY the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va,, December 19.— Edith Maxwell was a dinner guest toe night at a Richmond restaurant. where she will go to work tomorrow as | cashier and hostess. The 22-year-old former school teacher, twice convicted on a charge of slaying her father, Trigg Maxwell, in the Wise County foothills of the Cumberland Mountains, greeted her employer, Walter Kirsch, with a cheer- ful smile and a brand-new finger wave, but she was “not at home” to pho- tographers and had little to say to re- porters. “Youwll have to talk with my brother,” she said, when cameramen insisted on a picture. Her brother, Earl Maxwell, arrived a littde while later from the home of their cousin, A. T. Dotson, in Chester= field County, and advised newsmen to “let the poor girl get a little rest.” “Tired” After Shopping. Accompanying her cousin, Miss Lu« cille Bryington, on a half day Christ= mas shopping tour, Miss Maxwell said she was “tired” after the hours of elbowing through thronged stores. Wearing a plain black dress, beret and gray coat, she went to dinner with her brother and Miss Bryington in her new place of employment, across the Washington Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. HEY are either going to have to change the title of Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of Metropolitan Police, or radio their step. Best laugh of last week in certain ether and ink circles was that pro- vided by an announcer who dragged troduced him to all the world—or maybe just a fraction of it—as Maj. Bowes. It is the nearest thing apparently has seen in many years. * x x DEAL. C. N. Clegg never conceals a pense. He recently took an interest in getting a redio place for a friend with a lot of talent as a whistler. arranged the audition of auditions— you know, the ultimate in that sort of thing. He had prepared both sides for tant—something they never had seen or heard before. At least that's what Mr. Clegg thought un- til he walked into the studio and Pinky,” and Pinky's “Hi" to every one whom he called by first names. * ® * ¥ COMBUSTIONEER. has been busy this week with com- munications from people who want to get us straightened out on certain odd words. Wayside MAJOR. announcers are going to have to watch Maj. Brown before a “mike” and in- to & corner on titles that the public laugh, even when it is at his ez~ Finally, after much negotiation, he something extraordinarily impor- heard his whistler eeted “Hi, The Department of Amplification We had a story, you remember, commenting more or less humorously 16-year-old morning, she and of Elbridge P. Rhoderick, for many | vears an employe of the Post Office 1‘\‘ | Department, died Friday after a short | }{! She was a lifelong resident of this | Octebe TO ESCAPE YEAR IN JAIL i ¥ committed suicide in | tobi Circuit Court today, slashing his throat Detectives who had searched Mosher | Port} public money at a time when it is making at least a conversational ap- proach toward cutting down Govern- ment expenditures,” Vandenberg said. He pointed out that the original estimate of the cost of the canal had | been $140,000,000, and that the figure | used during the hearings last week had | risen to $162.000.000. on the basis of the special board's report. If the cost estimate has gone up $22.000,000 in two yvears, the Senator suggested. it can be expected with prices still mounting, to rise to a much greater extent during the eight-vear period required to complete the project. (Copyright. 1036, by N. Y. Herald- Tribune.) ADELA FARRINGTON DIES Two-Month Illness Is Fatal to Former Stage Star. LOS ANGELES. December 19 (#).— Adela Farrington, 69. once noted sc- tress and former wife of Hobart Bos- | worth of the films, died at her home today after a two-month illness. Miss Farrington, a native of Brook- Iyn. N. Y. was featured in comic vadueville, opera, in stock and in on the furnace specialist who called himself a “combustioneer.” This morn- ing there was a call from a pleasant fellow who said he works for the telephone company “and gets around in a lot of basements.” If we would look on page 455 of the classified sec- tion of the company's directory, we' see a “Combustioneer Stoker Corp.” listed—in all seriousness.” Sure enough, he's right. There is such an organization, and they mean business. The telephone man said he thought they took care of a special kind of heating system. Anyhow, no more jokes about the combustioneers * % x % BOOTS. That boots make the gentleman be- came evident to a woman who got a bit of a shock the other day when a magazine solicitor managed to get her into a conversation about one of the sporting magazines. She said she really wasn't interested. “I should think you would be.” said the salesman. “I just sold it to one of your neighbors down the road. He said he wouldn't be without it." “Which one?" the lady asked, out of idle curiosity. at one time appearing with fhe late - | Marie Dressler. Friends credited her with introduc- ing the popular song of th~ '90s, “On s Bicycle Built for Two," into this country, THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly-cloudy and slightly colder today: tomorrow fair and colder; fresh winds, mostly westerly today. Maryland—Partly cloudy and slightly colder today: tomorrow fair and colder: fresh winds, mostly west- erlv today. Virginia—Generally fair today and tomorrow: not much change in temperature, said his e y e g e r West Virginia—Partly cloudy today; tomorrow cloudy and somewhat colder River Report. | very cloudy late yesterday afternoon. ! Report Until 10 P.M. Saturday. Midnieht 2 noon | 3 0 a.m, am. Record Until 10 P.M. Satul Highest. 48, 10 p.m. yester est, 4 1 | | - ago, 27, 7 am. yesterday. ecord Temperatures This Year. Highest, 105, on July 10. Lowest, zero. on January 23. TIDE TABLES. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers Year ¥ J “Mr. Taggarty,” said the salesman, clinching his argument “Taggarty? Taggarty? I don't know any one by that name.” The salesman described the house were the new subscriber lived. “Taggarty? Oh.” she said. light dawning. “You mean the groom down there?” “Well, now that I think about it, he did have on boots,” said the sales- man, and fled % x & PARKING PROBLEM. IN THE simplest terms possible, we would like to tell you the most un- believable story you ever heard about the parking problem. There is & man who lwes in Ta- koma Park who leaves his house early every morning in his own car, say about 7 o'clock. Then, along about 8:15, the same man leaves his home again in a bus. A neighbor who finally got curious about it risked permanent estrangement to ask the obvious question: What was the mean- ing of it all? X “Simple explained the man. I drive my car down early. find a park- (Purnished by United States Coast and | Ing space near the office, leave the { detic_Survey.) Today. | Hish | L% | High Pl R0 D n, today __ . | Bun. tomorrow Mogn, today . -1 | " Automobile “iight one-half hour afte Prec Monthly precipiti Capital (current mon onth. 1936 FaaDBRN DA 232238930 Various Cities. Ashevilie, N. C. Atlanta. G | Atlantic City” | pm. tomorrow in Chambers’ funeral Bos Chie: - Cincinnatl. Ohio Cheremne.” Wro leveland. Ohi Dallas. Tex: _ Davenvort, Towa_ Denver. Colo. December | i, { ks O R IRREARRINSIREY P SaTRACaR e IEEE~ 22233 & &33 [ w. | fon. D in_inches in the o date): Ave Record. ‘82 | 91 R0 %0 | 00 | a Precipi- ~Temperature— tation Max. Min, 8p.m Sat- Fri Sat. to urday.night.8p.m. 8p.m. | a6 30 38 1. 004 long they really are. 602 dence. 04 | car there, go home to breakfast and then return to the office on the bus. 8 'g.'» | In the evening I drive home in my | » own car. | That's the story as sworn to by a | most reliable operative. * x % % TIME. Judge Peyton Gordon in District | | Supreme Court the other day failed | to see the humor in the situation or | else he controlled his emotions ad- mirably. He failed to laugh when the court room crowd roared at the answers of a woman to questioning by Irving Goldstein, assistant States attorney. “Lily White,” was the reply. “Are you married?” “Yes, sir.’ | “What is your husband’s name?” “James Ferguson.” “Why don’t you use your husband's name?” “I ain't lived with him long enough, yet.” % X ox WORKER. A young man in the office, whose working days have been growing longer and longer here of late, has just discovered how He isn't even remembered where he lives. A post card for him arrived at’ the office the other morning. It ‘was clearly addressed to his resi- But it tge a post office stamp, “Not at” ana the blue penciled note, “Ask Evening Star.” Now he is wondering if he moved and has forgotten all about it. 30-OUNCE BABY LIVES YUMA, Ariz,, December 19 (#).—Dr. C. A. Eaton said tonight the 30-ounce baby born te Mr. and Mrs. A. Melendez here yesterday has “a good chance % live.” | | company | United | | “What is your name?” Goldstein 01 ' asked the woman. street from Virginia's State Capitol, Ideslgned by Thomas Jefferson. Members of the State Legislature, which adjourned today after a spe- cial session, constituted a part of the clientele on hand when Miss Maxwell arrived. She retreated, however, to an alcove until her brother arrived and few of the patrons knew she was prese ent. “She’ll get a good salary.” Kirsch said, “and won't have to do anything she doesn't want to do.” Kirsch said he talked over his proe posal with Miss Maxwell at Junch to- day. Tonight she remained a few hours to familiarize herself with the routine. Parries Question. When asked if she thought she would like the work better'than .chool teaching, she said: “I don't know; yet.” But she smiled and appeared to be looking forward to the new assign- ments with pleasure She is making her home with her family, Mrs. Ann Maxwell, her moth- er, who was jointly indicted in Trigs Maxwell's death: her sister, Mary Kathryn, 13, who testified in Edith's defense at the last trial, .and her brother Earl. on a farm in Chesterfield County, not far from the State capital. Miss Maxwell is at liberty under #15,000 bond pending argument on her motion to set aside the verdict and grant a third trial. Her first convice tion and 25-year sentence for firste degree murder was set aside by the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, M. J. Fulton, member of Miss Maxwell's counsel, declared that the second trial failed to “establish the guilt” of his client anq that the evidence only showed that she struck her father with a slipper in “self-de~ fense.” Cites Medical Testimony. He said the county coroner and three other prominent medical and | pathological authorities testified that | Maxwell could not have died as the “result of the lacerations from the slipper. or any other instrument. She was justified in striking her father and repelling his attack with such force as she deemed necessary.” “The jury in returning a verdict of second-degree murder,” he said. “dise regarded the uncontradicted evidence that the blow of the slipper was struck in self-defense and also failed to consider the overwhelming medical testimony as to the cause of Trigg Maxwell's death. “The verdict of the second jury clearly shows, in my opinion, that the change of venue should have been granted and the case transferred to “another jurisdiction, free from preju- dice and the influence of Mr. Maxe well's brothers and brother-in-law, who exerted every effort before and during the trial to secure a convic= tion.” Fulton said he believed there were “many errors” in the trial and ex- pressed the opinion that Judge Ezra | T. Carter, who presided, should set aside the verdict of 20 years' impris- | onment and order a new trial when the motion is argued at Wise March 1. “Failing to get these,” the attorney said, “I shall not hesitate to advise ' an appeal from the unjust verdict.” I haven't tried it Streamline Light Effect Proposed For Monument | Attractiveness and Safety for Planes Urged by Karl L. Gower. A novel plan for streamlining the Washington Monument with neon lights was submitted yesterday to Representative Jennings Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, by Karl L. Gower, who lives at the Central Y. M C. A. Gower also has urged Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson. chairman of the Inaugural Committee, to consider the plan in connection with preparations for the inauguration of President tRooseven January 20. Red neon lights, Gower said, should be run around all four sides of the Monument from the very top to with- in 10 feet of the ground. In addition to forming & red border around the Monument at night, which would set it off; the lights, he explained, also would afford protection for airplanes, especially in a fog. The red glow of the neon lights, he declared. is the only light with a high percentage of visibility in fog. & Gower said the present red lights projecting from the windows of the Monument are “out of date and ineffi- cient for their " “According to my plan, at 100 feet the tubing, when not illuminated, would be invisible,” said Gower. “Mounting of the equipment would in no deface the structure.” Later on, Gower pointed out, similar lighting effects could be adopted for food from an eye dropper—and is | the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. perteetly formed, Dr. Eaton said. A small the erib. L In fact, he said, these lights would bex lined with eotton is | modernize and make the Mall area “distinctly different.” .