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SCIENTIST LOOKS INTO MOLECULES Ultra-Microscope Made by Firing Bullets of Light Described. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Firing bullets of light at vibrating | targets a million times too small to be seen. thus obtaining in effect an | ultra-microscope which enables ous to look at the insides of molecules, was described before the annual meeting of the Washington section of the American Chemical Society last night by Dr. James H. Hibben of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Car- negie Istitution. ‘The method, first described eight years ago by a Hindu phyicist, has been developed by Dr. Hibben to a point where it is throwing much new light on the fundamental structure of matter, and has far-reaching implica- tions in chemistry and medicine. Light, as Dr. Hibben explained, con- sists of streams of tiny particles known as photons which travel at the terrific speed of approximately 189,000 mil=s a second. They move in waves, the length of a wave depending on the energy with which the particle s “fired.” The wave-length, in turn, de- termines the color of the light from the invisible infra-red through the visible spectrum of colors to the in- visible ultra-violet and X-rays. Molecules Are Little Worlds. All matter is made up of molecules. A molecule is a combination of atoms of different elements which are vi- brating at various rates and in va- rious directions. It is, as Dr. Hibben explained, a dynamic system of atoms —each molecule a little world by it- self. Now when a bullet hits a target | which it cannot penetrate it is de- flected at an angle—or it may be broken into pieces and the fragments fly away at various angles. In any event the bullet loses some of the energy with which it was fired when it hits something. It only had so much energy in the beginning, and part of | this has been used up. The same thing happens when a bullet of light, or photon, hits the vi- brating atom in a molecule. Only in this case less energy means a longer wave-length—and a longer wave- length means a different color. What was blue light will turn into green light and what was green light into yellow light. Roman Spectrum System. ‘This is the basis of the Roman spec- trum system, being used by Dr. Hibben at the geophysical laboratory. Light of a single wave-length is fired from & mercury lamp into a translucent substance—say a single wave-length of blue light into water. Most of it will pass through without hitting any- thing, but some of the blue photons will hit the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the water molecule. When they do this they will come out on the other side not as blue photons but as green, yellow or red photons, de- pending on how much energy the col- lision has cost them. 1t is vossible to calculate mathe- matically how much energy such a | bullet should lose when it hits an Atom of a specified size, vibrating at 8 specified rate in a specified way. The actual results can be checked against such calculations, or one can calculate back from them to determine just what sort of an object they have hit. Up to a few years ago, Dr. Hibben pointed out, the idea of “looking into | a molecule” would have been con- | sidered highly fantastic since this was vastly beyond the possibilities of any microscope ever dreamed of. | ‘Then it was found that X-ray bullets could be “fired” and from the “splash- es” on photographic plates which re- sulted from the deflections mathe- maticians could figure about where the different atoms were in the struc- | ture of the molecule. But it was as if they were standing #till. The X-ray splashes gave no in- dication how they were moving, but only their special configuration in relation to each other. The social activities in the dark world of the molecule seemed forever hidden. Now, Dr. Hibben explained, it is as if they were going on in a glass house, so long as the substance is one whicn light will go through. Minute Differences Important. The properties of the molecule— especially its interactions with other things—depend about as much on how the molecules are moving with respect 1o each other, Dr. Hibben pointed out, 8s on their special configuration. Minute differences often are of extreme importance. The changed wave-lengths of light, Dr. Hibben explained, are recorded on a photographic plate after pass- ing through a spectroscope which splits the light into its distinct wave- lengths. The method permits very exact analysis but a special technique is required to read the significance of the faint black lines which are photographed. Not only do the resulting spectra, Dr. Hibben explained, make it pos- sible to get a dynamic picture of the molecule, but sometimes provide an extremely delicate method of chemi- cal analysis, since minute amounts :: impurities strongly affect the pat- n. Co-eds Like Good Tall;ers. DENVER (#).—Denver University co-eds listed the qualifications they desire most in the men they date. In the order of preference, they want: A pleasing conversationalist; an intellectual; an athlete; the matinee idol type; one who is quiet and re- served: the fellow with plenty of money to spend. At the bottom of the list, co-eds agreed, is the date who “knows it all” and doesn't mind advertising the fact. Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. Senate: : Considers extension of Recon- struction Finance Corp. La Follette Committee continues civil liberties investigation. Wheeler Committee studies new chapter in Van Sweringen rail deals. Banking Committee takes up extension of stabilization fund and President’s power to devalue dollar. House: In adjournment until Monday. Coinage Committee considers bill to extend President’s monetary powers. Appropriations Subcommittees continue hearings on deficiency and regular appropriation bills. Agriculture Committee opens hearing on crop production loan bill. | A YO in Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SAFETY MEN. HE ways of would-be aviation inventors are wonderful to behold. Every airplane acci- dent which makes the front pages brings to the Commerce De- partment a score of proposed inven- tions or suggestions for improving conditions. Most of them find their way to the desk of Irving R. Metcalf in the development section of the Bureau of Air Commerce. One of them contained & sugges- tion for the old problem of reducing the noise from airplane engines and propellers. The inventor suggested installing a microphone behind each engine to pick up the sound. This would be carried inta the fuselage of the airplane, where it would be “am- plified into a box” of special construc- tion “and there suppressed.” Another gentleman asked that 24 representative young Americans be selected to meet specifications he would supply and preposed to confer with them in person on means of im- proving the airplane in accordance with directions which he claimed were to be found in the Bible. He was fussy about the conference room, which he described in detail. Over the door was to be a large rainbow upon which his name was to appear. * ok ok x UNEARTHED. Three years ago, Miss Mary Rome borrowed a book from a friend. Recently, she began work on a new job—in the same office in which another woman, who had borrowed the same book from the same friend also was employed. “That woman has had my book ever since you returned it, Mary,” said the friend. “I wish you'd get it back for me. Tell her you want to read it—that I said you could borrow it. Well, Mary got the book and, looking through it, came across a poem she had dashed off in pencil three years before! * x % % | PUE. HEY are pretty efficient, these modern chain stores, in the ar- rangement of their —merchandise. However, it takes the elfin innocence of a puppy sometimes to disclose cer- tain features on which the merchan- dise arrangement is not so sound as the experts think. | | Mgy, Do, /r/ | ‘Take, for example, the case of a little girl and her pup in a Chevy Chase store the other afternoon. They went promptly over to the book counter, where the child stood for a few minutes scanning the juvenile literature stock. Beneath that coun- ter, exposed to full view, is the store’s assortment of rubber balls. As the girl eyed the books, the pup eyed the balls and although she went out with- out making a purchase, the pup fol- lowed at her heels stumbling over a rubber ball that he had selected as the most colorful thing he had ever laid his teeth on. * x * % ONE-PRICE CRIME. UNG fellow around town was a rage the other night when he came out of a Connecticut avenue apartment to find his un- locked car pushed half way across a ticket. Pocketed the ticket mumbling and went his way. Somewhat later when he arrived at an embassy dance, he was even madder to find absolutely no parking places within blocks and blocks. He circled around a bit, then swooped straight into the space marked “en- trance—no parking.” Got out of his car, stuck the ticket back on the windshield and went into the party. Proving there is at least a law of averages in the line of justice—noth- ing happened the second time. o ok % SLIPS. THERE was one man in the women's dress department of one of the larger department stores on F street the other day. He sat by the door of one of the booths where, quite obviously, his wife was being decked out in something new. For a long time he was morose and silent, but moroseness and silence are two other things that come to an end in this world. “May I make a suggestion?” he finally boomed, his voice carrying to the distant reaches of the depart- ment. Apparently he was told that he could. “Then. shorten the slip which goes with that dress. Her slips are always showing.” Oblivious of ihe attention he had attracted, he dropped back into his silent contemplation of a world full 6f women whose slips show. * ok kX PRIVACY. A McKinley High School boy— we don’t know his name, but they call him “Eddie” and he lives at 105 Rhode Island avenue northeast —has solved the problem of how to carry on telephone conversa- tions with his girl friend without having his family overhear every word he says—and, perhaps more importantly, without going out to a pay booth. At least, that’s what we make of what we saw as we walked past his house the other day. Eddie was on the front porch, telephone in hand, with the wire coming through the bottom of a mearly- closed window. And, as we passed on, we heard him shout: “Get away from that window—can’tcha see I'm talking?” * % * x SPELLING. SFELLING of names is purely sec- tional—take the word of Mrs. Polly Hi & Ramsy of ; 3 side street and decorated with a traffic | HE SIMPSON MURDER CHARGE DROPPED Prosecutor Asks Dismissal of Slaying Case Against Band Leader. BULLETIN. NORWICH, Conn., January 15 (#).—Robert A. Simpscn, blond band leader, was acquitted of charges of murder and rape today by & court of three judges. EVENING By the Associated Press. NORWICH, Conn,. January 15.— Prosecuting Attorney Arthur M, Brown today asked dismissal of murder charges against Robert A. Simpson, blond orchestra leader, on trial before a three-judge court on charges of at- tacking and murdering 17-year-old Ellen Sullivan. Brown'’s request came after the State had rested its case against the 23- year-old bandsman and during argu- ments before Justices Ernest A. Inglis, Kenneth Wynne and John R. Booth for dismissal of both the rape and murder charges contained in the indictment. “I do not feel,” said Prosecutor Brown, defeated Republican candidate for Governor last November, “that the State has proved the guilt of Simpson beyond a reasonable doubt. I there- fore join with the defense in asking that your honors dismiss the charge of murder. “I have never asked a verdict that I| did not believe in myself. I am not going to ask one this time.” | “There cannot be murder in this | case unless there is rape’ Brown | previously had said after closing his | case with the testimony of two doctors | as to the jnternal injuries Miss Sul- livan suffered before she tumbled 25 feet to a concrete sidewalk outside a dance hall at Ocean Beach early in the morning of last July 18. POPE DELAYS RITES | INITIATING ACADEMYj Illness Causes Postponement of Ceremonies Originally Set for February 6. By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, January 15— ;Pope Pius today postponed inaugural | ceremonies for the new pontifical Academy of Science because of his illness. The academy’s opening originally | had been set for February 6. although | the holy father had not expected to | attend. Vatican sources said if the Pope continued to improve he might cele- brate mass in the chapel adjoining his bed room next Sunday. The 79-year-old holy father was lifted again today from his bed onto a wheeled divan after a restless night, in which his sleep was broken by in- termittent pain. | He discussed church affairs at great length with Eugenlo Cardinal Pacelli, ‘papal secretary of state, Vatican | sources said. ‘ Although his fitful sleep was trou- | bled with pain during the early morn- | ing, the Pope’s condition was officially | reported as stationary. | Attendants lifted the holy father to | his wheeled chair—a specially con- structed divan which allows his vir- | tually immobilized legs to remain hori- | zontal—and pushed him into the ad- ! joining chapel, where he heard mass. JOSEPH M. SEMMES EXPIRES IN MEMPHIS ‘Man Who Resembled Gen. Lee ‘Was Born Here—Attended Georgetown U. Joseph Malcolm Semmes, 84, native | Washingtonian, whose remarkable re- | semblance to the Confederate leader | frequently prompted his friends to eall | him “Gen. Lee, died yesterday at | Memphis, Tenn., it was learned through the Associated Press. | Mr. Semmes’ father, B. J. Semmes, was & major on the staff of Gen. Lee. After the Civil War, Mr. Semmes at- tended Georgetown University here. Mr. Semmes was a second cousin of Admiral Raphael Semmes of the Con- | federate Navy. Until prohibition Mr. Semmes was in the wholesole liquor business in Memphis. He leaves five sons, one of whom, J. Malcolm Semmes, jr., lives in | Alexandria, Va., and four daughters. The other sons are Granville M. Semmes, Gary, Ind.; B. J. and Thomas J. Semmes, Memphis, and Georgel Semmes, Jacksonville, Fla., and the daughters are Mrs. Eleanor Semmes Humphrey, Memphis; Mrs. Fred S. Stoepel and Mrs. Frank S. Van Dyke, Detroit, and Mrs. Lewis B. Anderson, Larchmont, N. Y. Funeral services were held today in Memphis. MAL. CHARLES W. FOSTER | RITES TO BE TOMORROW | Services at Walter Reed Chapel Canceled—Officer Won War Decorations. Burial services for Maj. Charles W. Foster, 45, U. S. A, retired, who died last Saturday at Denver, Colo., will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Arlingtor» National Cemetery. There will be no services at Walter Reed Chapel, as originally planned and announced, the War Department sald today. Maj. Foster held the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Croix de Guerre, with Palm, for his World War service overseas. He was a brother of Mrs. Wallace De Witt, wife of Brig. Gen. De Witt, assistant to the surgeon general, sta- tioned at the Army Medical Centes here. | Nickel Plant Started. Japan’s first nickel-producing plant is being constructed in Gumma Prefec- ture, where it will have a mine said to contain 30,000,000 metric tons of ore. ——————————————— Virginia becomes plain Ramsey in Maryland. Mrs. Hurshman denies, however, || that she has a “modern streak of contrariness” as told in Wayside Tales recently. She operates “Ye Olde Ramsay House” on King street in Alexandria. The house has been standing since 1748; but despite the huge sign on the front and a bronze placque put up by the Virginia Con- servation Society marking it as an historical site, modern femininity gone “arty” paints her own signs and spells it “Ramsey.” | National Guard calling Brooks. | that, | been identified,” he said. STAR, WASHINGTON Some of the 2,000 Workers’ Alliance members, here to seek increased appropriations for relief and works projects, are shown shortly after their arrival this morning to present their cases to Congress and administration officials. RIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937, —Star Staff Photo. La Follette ‘ (Continued From First Page.) ed to Hanna's implication in the flog- ging also was developed by G. C. Giles, chief of detectives of Birming- ham; Charles J. Lenz, oil dealer, and George M. Brooks, salesman, who un- covered the first evidence leading to Hanna's identification by Gelders. After such identification was made, | it was testified, Brooks became fearful of his life, started drinking and started carrying a gun for protec- tion. He feared he was “on the spot,” it was testified. The committee recessed shortly be- fore noon with the announcement it would hear testimony on labor poli- cies of the American Bridge Works of Pittsburgh on Monday unless one of the witnesses called is still ill Both the T. C. I. and the American Bridge Works are subsidiaries of the United States Steel Corp. Says Telephone Calls Made. During Giles' brief appearance he testified that Chief of Police Hollums of Birmingham had conferred with W. R. Sims, in charge of special deputies of the T. C. I, after the flog- ging. At times, Giles said, calls were | made from the department to Bir- mingham telephone number 3-2664. Chairman La Follette then intro- duced a letter from the telephone company stating that the number was an unlisted one paid for by the T.C.1. Lenz then took the stand to tell of Brooks' fear after becoming in- volved in the case. “Brooks was pretty nervous.” Lenz said, “after he got involved in this case and he borrowed a gun. He told me he was afraid he was ‘on the spot.”” 1 Asked what developed. Lenz then told of Maj. Harry E. Smith of the After Lenz testified, Brooks was less nervous and said he might “take a vacation.” Brooks on Stand Briefly. Brooks took the stand only briefly to confirm the testimony of Lenz. Haigler then told the committee of | his conversation with Capt. Hanna. “He asked me where I was and I told him I was in Clanton. That's the place they beat-the ‘Reds,’ Hanna said, and I told him I didn't think much of that business. | “He said he'd like to take a bue' ball bat to some of them, but I told | him I didn't think that way. “Hanna told me he was with the IT. &1L Cowherd's first contribution was to tell the committee that the number | 3-2664 was Hanna's number at the T. C. 1 plant. | “Pal, what are we going to do with | this so-and-so Gelders?” Cowherd | quoted Hanna as saying on the after- | noon of September 23, the date on | which Gelders was flogged. “I'm not going to do anything,” Cowherd said he told Hanna. The next day, Cowherd said, he made a list of six names and handed them to the head of the Alabama State Federation of Labor and pre- | dicted the names of Gelders' assail- | ants were among them. “Subsequently, three of them have Testimony involving the two identi- | fied assailants, Hanna and Dent Williams, was presented to the com- mittee yesterday by Gelders and Sergt. J. W. McClung of the Alabama State police, who was principally in- strumental in establishing their con- nection with the case. Invited to Make Defense. Both Hanna and Williams were in- vited by telegram to appear at the hearing this week to make any de- fense or explanation they cared lo, Chairman La Follette announced, but Williams replied with a denial of any knowledge of the case, while Hanna| did not reply at all. Dramatically, Gelders, young-ap- pearing crusader, who has been sol- dier, steel worker and professor of | physics at the University of Alabama, told the committee how he had been attacked by three men on the night of September 23, while returning to his Birmingham home from a meet~ ing. Thrown into the bottom of an automobile and beaten nearly un- conscious, he was driven into the country, where other men joined the trio, stripped their victim and flogged him so severely he lay unconscious until dawn. Their explanation before the flog- Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City [ Full Sports Race Results, Complete Market Flashes from Around the World. Whatever it is, yowll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and service will start at once. T0 TAKE BACK PAIR | other large buyers from receiving spe- = | ging began was that he was “med- HEARST 1S ORDERED Must Offer Old Jobs to Dis- missed Men, Labor Board Rules. By the Associated Press. The Labor Relations Board ordered | William Randolph Hearst and five | Hearst companies today to offer | Frank M. Lynch and Philip Everhardt Armstrong their former positions on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Discharge of these employes last Summer led to a strike called by the Seattle Chapter of the American Newspaper Guild and suspension of the paper’s publication from August 13 to November 25 | The guild complained the dis- charges resulted from guild activity on the part of Lynch, a photographer, | and Armstrong, dramatic critic. | After the strike was settled by agree- ment last November, John Boettiger, a son-in-law of President Roosevelt, was appointed publisher of the paper, and Mrs, Boettiger, the President's daughter, took a position with the paper’s editorial staff. The board's five-point order called for the paper to— i (1) “Cease and desist from in any manner interfering with, restraining or coercing their employes in the exer- cise of their rights to self-organiza- tion, & = = (2) “Cease and desist from in any manner discouraging membership in the American Newspaper Guild. * * *” (3) Offer re-employment to Lynch and Armstrong. (4) Give back pay to these employes. | (5) Post a notice in the editorial de- partment that the board's order woul be complied with. The order was directed at Hearst and five Hearst companies because of their corporate set-up, the board ex- plained. VIOLATION OF LAW IS DENIED BY A. &P. Firm Has Broken Any Provision of Robinson-Patman Act. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 15—The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., re- plying to charges of the Federal Trade Commission that the company hsd‘ violated the Robinson-Patman act, said today it had “not consciously” broken any provision of the law. The act prohibits chain stores and | cial discounts on purchases. A statement issued by Caruthers Ewing, general counsel for the com- pany, said: “We have not consciously- violated | any provision of the Robinson-Pat- | man act, but on the contrary have undertaken to obey it in letter and in spirit. “After the complaint is served we will investigate each transaction men- tioned therein, and the facts should not be matters of dispute.” dling” in their business. Their threat was that he would be “loaded with lead” if he told what happened. Following Gelders to the stand, Sergt. McClung told how his superior had placed him on the case with or- ders to “break it” if he needed every man on the force. McClung broke it sufficiently, he testified, so, in his opinion, indictments should have been returned against Hanna, Williams and two other men. Asked his opinion why such indict- ments were not returned, the veteran officer replied: . “You know, Senator, the T. C. L owns about fifteen-sixteenths of that country.” Both Gelders and McClung testified that the prosecuting officer made no real attempt to convince the grand juries of guilt of the men, citing cir- cumstances calculated to turn them against Gelders. News of the Day, Latest News Workers 10 (Contlnurdi From First Page) effort to refute claims that “an era of good feeling” exists. Still other representatives were scheduled to visit Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead in an attempt to enlist their support in the movement for a continued and expanded relief and works program. Addressing the workers before the parade got under way, David Lasser, national president of the alliance, told them “we inform Congress that the $650,000.000 appropriation which has been recommended by President Roosevelt is utterly insufficient and. in fact, a repudiation of the mandate which the American people voiced in the recent election.” “The people voted on November 3 for an adequate program for unem- ployment relief.” Lasser said. “and we are determined that that program shall be carried out “We are asking that those on W. P. A. projects be continued on those projects until private industry provides jobs for them.” Lasser urged the workers to con- duct themselves in a militant but orderly fashion during the demon- stration, to prove “we can conduct ourselves on the same plane as those on Capitol Hill." “It is only an accident that we are | not on the Hill and they are not in Could have caught that guy who stole our place,” he added. Another speaker at the assembly was Herbert Benjamin, national sec- retary, who declared “the fact that 2.000 of us have gathered here on three weeks’ notice should be a warn- ing to the men in the Capitol, White House and, particularly, the Chamber of Commerce that we will not permit an era of good feeling to be estab- lished at the expense of misery and suffering among the public.” The workers arrived here early to- all sections of the country. New York han 700, while other sizable groups came from Philadelphia, Boston, other Eastern cities and many parts of the South and West, All of the male delegates wore paper bands on their hats, on which were printed in large blue letters: “W. P. A, Must Go On.” It was believed at first that a heavy I&idnaping (Continued From First Page) | hotter rapidly as sharp-eyed detee- | tives swiftly put together the bloody | pieces of the kidnap mystery: | A deserted shack—suspected o ing the kidnap lair. A sack of blood-stained clothing found inside, both a boys and a man’s. i A heavy knife—perhaps the one with which the boy was stabbed in | the back before he was bludgeoned | to death. A Dblood-stained automobile, stolen | and abandoned—believed to be the one in which the nude body was taken to a point near Everett and | left to freeze in the snow | A machinist's hammer picked up near the spot where a young hunter stumbled on the victim's body. Among the missing pieces of the puzzle were the 1936 license plates on the car when it was stolen trom an Arlington, Wash,, resident. Information that little Charles, ap- parently at the dictation of his cruel | abductor, wrote three letters to his family, was reported in a copyrighted story by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It quoted a source “above question.” Mayor Raps G-Men. At Portland, Seattle'’s Mayor, John F. Dore, asserted in an interview “we ! be- | | the Mattson boy if it hadn't been for the G-Men but the Government says hands off until the victim is re- turned.” (Dr. W. W. Mattson, the boy's father, requested cessation of all po-‘ | lice activities at the time, fearing the kidnaper might become terrorized and | kill his son.) Investigators sought new clues in Brushlands near Everett. Federal agents refused comment on the numerous clues, reports of arrests | | | d day by trains and busses, coming from Or any other developments. Mrs. Melvin Smith, who recently | sent a delegation estimated at more moved to San Jose, told Sheriff Lyle she recognized a newspaper photo- graph of Haynes as the man who rented the cottage on the Everett Highway. She said the man and a woman deserted the cottage in December after failure to obtain lower rent. | Sheriff Sends Information. It is about 20 miles south of the MORGAN ‘RESCUE' ARED AT PROBE Guaranty Trust Co. Board Head Tells of Loan to Van Sweringens. By (ke Associated Press. Evidence that a J. P. Morgan bank- ing syndicate ‘rescued” the Van Sweringen empire in 1930 was un- folded today before the Senate Rail- road Investigating Committee. William C. Potter, board chairman of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, testified that part of a $39.- 500,000 loan made by the Morgan group was used to close out a $19.- 000,000 Van Sweringen account with Paine, Webber & Co., New York stoci: brokers. Describing the situation as “very delicate,” he said this action kept th= Van Sweringen interests from “dump- ing a million shares of Allegheny Corp. stock on the market” to protect thei: margin requirements. “Unloading” of such a huge block ¢ stock might have started a gener market decline, Potter explained “It might have wrecked & lot « banks and brokerage houses?” aske Chairman Wheeler. “If you emphasize the word ‘might," decidedly s0,” Potter answered. Earlier, Francis Ward Paine of Paine, Webber & Co. testified that the Van Sweringen accounts made up “20 to 25 per cent” of the firm's total business, and that they were “in a state of unusual tension” in 1930. Wheeler sald yesterday a Van Bwer- ingen corporation used proceeds of a $30.000,000 note issue to buy “specu- lative securities” of other Van Swer- ingen firms. - UPDIKE WILL APPEAL TRAFFIC CONVICTION Bill of Exceptions Filed by For- mer Representative's Attorney. Former Representative Ralph E. Up- dike of Indiana today filed & bill of exceptions before Policc Judge Ed- ward M. Curran to his conviction on a reckless driving charge Decem- ber 19. The bill is to be used in an appeal which has already been noted through | Updike's attorney, Robert I. Miller Updike was convicted by a jury | aiter he is alleged to have struck a truck at Twenty-first and I street No- vember 13, causing the truck to crash into a house and injuring the driver | and a passenger. Updike was sentenced last Monday to pay a fine of $100 or serve 30 days in jail, but was released on a $100 bond to await the outcome of his appeal. MORGAN MAY HEAD DISTILLERY GROUP Treasurer of Democratic Commit- tee Considers Proposal to Supervise Industry. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 15.—W. Forbes | Morgan, treasurer of the Democratic | National Committee, said today he was | considering a proposal to become su- | pervisor of the liquor industry as head | of the Distilled Spirits Institute, Inc., self-regulatory body set up by the in- dustry. Morgan said he was attracted by the opportunity for public service that the offer involved. He said he would con- | tinue his work with the Democratic committee. for which he receives $15,000 a year, even if he accepted the | rain might disrupt the parade plans, | abandoned shack where the blood- | liquor trade offer. but_cheers greeted an announcement by Lasser that the march would go on as scheduled. Following the trek to the Capitol, the marchers were to reassemble at the Labor Department, hear reports from their leaders and then depart for home. Meanwhile delegates representing striking seamen also were reported descending on the Capital in prepara- tion for a demonstration of their own, to be staged Monday. Their numbers could not be accurately esti- mated, but police believed there were at least several hundred in town. Twelve seamen picketers have been marching around the Commerce De- partment Building for several days. Many of the Workers' Alllance marchers carried banners and placards when they arrived, and these also were used in the parade. A num- ber of floats depicting the progress of W. P. A. arrived from New York to take part in the parade, however, To Counteract Propaganda. A statement issued from Alliance headquarters, at 827 Fourteenth street, said the delegates were “here to counteract the false propaganda of the powerful big business interests and their allies inside the national administration who want to influence public opinion and the Government to curtail and liquidate unemploy- ment relief without liquidating unem- ployment. “We want Congress to know we who have been on W. P. A. and simi- lar programs have been performing useful public work and services. “We want Congress to know that there are hundreds of thousands of us who are now forced to depend upon inadequate local relief, although we can and want to do useful work in private industry or on public works. “We want Congress to know that there are millions more who are un- able 1o secure either work or relief. “We want Congress to know that the wages now paid on W. P. A. are less than sufficient to provide bare existence, and that the constant rise in living costs makes existence on the present wages increasingly difficult. “That is why we are pressing for & program that will provide 2,800,000 Jobs. “That is why we are pressing our program for an increase of 20 per cent in the present W. P. A. monthly wage and for a minimum monthly wage of $40 for the South, where wages are as low as $21 a month.” The statement, while cautioning the workers to act in an orderly fashion, at the same time informed them that in case of “difficulties with the police while you are exercising your right of visiting your Congressman or Senator,” a representative of the alliance will be in the office of the Capitol police to m.shun things out. ) .| after many of the delegates arrived at | stained clothing was found. Sheriff | “Not Conscxously | the auditorium in dripping clothes, | Lyle relaved the information here for study. In its story on the “inside” of the negotiations, the Post-Intelligencer said the last of the boy's letters ap- peared six days after the boy was stolen from his Tacoma home. Five days after the last note, Dr. Mattson | made a futile attempt to contact and | pay the kidnapers in response to tele- i | phoned instructions. Told of the story, Dr. Mattson said, | “There is nothing to it.” Gus B. Appelman, a family spokesman, said: | “some of it is right. Most of it | isn't.” The Seattle Times quoted a close friend of the family as saying Dr. Mattson, attempting to pay his son's | abductors, saw two men in an auto- | mobile, one resembling the swarthy | frightened away by an accident to an | oil truck. | Hoover's Remark Cited. | This and similar reports, including a remark by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, indicated officers were seeking two men, rather than a lone kidnaper. “We won't discuss the case until we catch him,” Hoover said in Wash- ington, D. C., then added hastily, “I don't mean him—I mean him or them.” Federal Court officials here said the “John Doe” warrant filed Wednesday to make the kidnaper legally a fugitive from justice under the Lindbergh law could be interpreted to mean two or more persons were involved. More than 50 patrolmen and almost as many Federal agents, aided by local | officers, continued today to check foot by foot the wooded area for several miles around the spot where the body was found. ‘Washington State patrolmen found what was believed to be a 10-year-old boy’s clothing in the shack, 5 miles from the underbrush which shielded the body. Authorities were believed to have found fingerprints on the ransom note, on ransom letters sent to Dr. Mattson, on the automobile, on Charles’ body and in the shack. A woman’s lipstick was reported picked up near the aban- doned car. Muriel and William Mattson, sister and brother of Charles, who witnessed the kidnaping, have not looked through police pictures of criminals to find the likeness of the abductor. An authoritative source said this fact might indicate the agents know the kidnapers’ identity. PFederal Court officials said it was virtually certain the death penalty would be sought under the Lindbergh law. Two other bare possibilities are first-degree murder trial under the State homicide law or under the State kidnaping law. Death would be the | man who seized Charles. Both were | Morgan stated he had had the mat- ter under consideration for some time. A retired investment banker, he for- merly served as secretary of the Dem- ocratic committee and as deputy gove | ernor of the Farm Credit Board. | - IMRS. MARY C. CHAMBERS | EXPIRES AFTER ILLNESS [ Widow of Union Army Veteran Dies in Hospital at Age of 91. Mrs. Mary Charlotte Chambers, 91, | of 1920 S street died yesterday in Gar- | field Hospital. She had been ill since | Tuesday, when she fractured her hip | in & fall in her home. | Mrs. Chambers was, the widow of | Benjamin Dill Chambers, who was a | Point of Rocks, Md., business man and | Union Army veteran. Mrs. Chambers moved here from Point of Rocks sev- | eral years ago. | She was a member of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was | a sister of the late Dr. Edward Oliver Belt, one of the founders of the Epis- | copal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. | She is survived by three sons, Rev. B. Duvall Chambers, rector of the ‘Westover Episcopal Church at Rox- | bury, Va.; John Wesley Chambers and Alfred Coke Chambers, both of this city, and two grandchildren. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. L. A. White | and Miss Julia Belt, and a brother, McGill Belt, all of Dickerson, Md. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 am. tomorrow at the home of her sons, 2822 Thirty-ninth street. Burial will be in St. Paul's Cemetery, Point of Rocks. MRS. SPIES BURIAL 70 BE HELD IN 10WA | Revenue Bureau General Counsel Secretary Was Member of Eastern Star. Funeral services for Miss Ethel Daw- son Spies, secretary in the office of the general counsel for the Internal Rev- enue Bureau, were held yesterday in Hysong’s funeral parlors, 1300 N street, Rev. Dr. William 8. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, officiated. The body was taken to Remsen, Iowa, for burial tomorrow. Miss Spies, who lived at 1722 Nine- teenth street, died suddenly Monday. She had been a Government worker for a number of years. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Baptist Church. The funeral was attended by many of her friends, including a large contingent Pgpalty in any case. L from the Internal Revenue office. a