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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
URGES LEGISLATION
FOR RETIREMENT LAW
Donovan Reports on Conditions
Affecting 5000 Per Diem
Employees.

Additional legislation will be necessary
TO give the 5000 per diem employees OF
the District government the benefits OF
the retirement law, according to re-
port submitted to the Commissioners
today by Daniel j. Donovan, auditor
and budget officer.
The report is based on a study Don
ovan made of the retirement act at the
direction of the Commissioners, who
several months ago decided to take
steps to have the benefits of this act
apply to the per diem workers as we'll
as the employees on the annual pay roll.
Donovan recommended that confer
ences be held between Daniel E. Garges,
secretary to the Board of Commission
ers. himself and other department heads
to learn definitely whether the per diem
employees want the change.
Since coming under the provisions of
the retirement law would mean de-
duction of 312 per cent from the
weekly wages of the per diem workers,
Donovan thinks that this feature would
not prove attractive to large group Of
the employees. In certain cases where
service of per diem workers has been
continuous the auditor believes way
may be found to bring them under the
operation of the present law He cites
decisions of the Commissioners 20 prove
that they have no right to accept any
and all employees who may choose to
come under the law. They may be ac-
cepted, however he said, as classes, but
not as individuals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01

ing opposition amcng the Protestant
clergy against Gov. Smith.
Their meeting took place in the
crowded Supreme Court chamber.
They spoke animatedly for about five
minutes, but after the brief interview
neither would vouchsafe what the other
had to say.
Mayor Walker was presented to the
court by Charles L. Craig. former city
controller of New York. Papers COM
plying with the courts regulations for
admission to practice before 1t previous
had bene filed with the clerk Of the
court
The mayor. speaking to newspaper
men before the court opened, let 1t
be known that he thought seat in
the United States Senate the most
attractive public office in the land"
The mayor was presented to the court
so that he could be associated with the
New York City counsel when the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit fare rate case
comes up later In the month. The case,
scheduled for today, was postponed, due
to the illness Of Samuel Untermyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
100000, 900 ear-Old
Germ Resuscitated
For Science Study
Micro-Organism, Found
in Rock, Seen as First
Stage of Life.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Calf, October Am
nouncement by DR.. G. B. Lipman, pro-
fessor of plant physiology at the Uni
versity of California, that he believed
he had revived heterogeneous which
had lain dormant in rock for 100,0000 900
to 200000,000 years, was under the
scrutiny of science here today.
The announcement which was made
by DR.. Lipman, who reported his dis
coveries to the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, said
that these ancient organisms not only
lived, but even reproduced their kind
under culture. At least one, and per-
haps two, of the organisms so pro-
duced were declared by DR.. Lipman to
be totally unlike anything known to
science up to the present.
Followers of DR.. Lipman said that If
the process could be continued with
variations, the modern world might
have an opportunity to examine living
organisms perhaps similar to those
first on earth, and that discoveries re-
garding the first generation of life
might be forthcoming.
Date to Pre- Cambrian Age.
DR.. Lipman began his experiments
a year and a half ago with rock from
Canada of the pre-Cambrian age, the
first period of geological history.
All the resources of modern bac-
teriology were used to prevent the cul-
lures in which the micro rganiSms
were placed from coming into contact
with free air or other agencies by
which modern bacteria might invade the
ancient rock.
DR.. Lipznan said some of the pre-
Cambrian rocks had been exposed to
the air within comparatively recent
times, but that he took every possible
precaution to use sections of the rock
so encased by other rocks that organisms
sealed up there were practically certain
to have been isolated.
From these sealed up rock centers he
took micro-organisms apparently dead,
and placed them in culture plates, again
sealing them from all contact with the
modern world.
In this manner he said. he produced
spore-bearing rods, appearing in chains.
which he was convinced were an indi-
genouS to the rock itself. Evidently the
ancestors Of the heterogeneous found
had been Spore- producers, and their
tiny offspring had been able to seal
themselves up somewhat in the manner
that larvae are sealed up in cocoons.
Found in Grand Canyon.
Dr. Lipman also obtained other rock
from the Pliocene age, estimated at
from one to two million years ago, and
duplicated the experiment The PHO
Gene rocks were taken from the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado.
DR.. Lipman said that although these
heterogeneous we're. in comparison
with the pre-Cambrian growths, only
geological infants, the experiment had
one advantage over the other, because
the rock had been obtained from a
great depth leaving room for little doubt
that modern organisms could find their
way into the cultures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
PLAN INDIVIDUAL
ANT|-SM|THF FIGHT
Capital Methodist Ministers
to Wage Campaign Against
Liquor.

A plan of individual service to the
anti-Smith cause by Methodist ministers
of the Capital was adopted today at
meeting of the Methodist ministers Or
ganization at the Methodist Building,
which turned down the proposal for
concerted action and took the stand
that the individual minister's judgment
would be the basis on which the fight
would be conducted during the present
campaign. In statement issued after
the meeting, the body said:
we are not preaching politics. We
are preaching righteousness and re-
form
The statement further says:
I'VE conceive the major issue involved
In the present political campaign to be
the prohibition question. On this issue
whether We will or no. we are to have
national referendum. The outcome
will be vital. In spite of the over
whelming sentiment of the country and
dry Congress, it is possible to throw
into the discard the eighteenth amend
ment and the Jaws enacted hereunder.
Capable legal minds have already shown
us how wet President may do this.
The cry of security is not warranted.
Our only hope is in the issue at the
ballot box.
I'VE are not making a partisan state
ment. The members of this body are
divided in party fealty. Upon the
prohibition issue we are unit. That
is a moral question and not a political
one. Moral reforms belong to ministers.
They have helped to produce them.
We are pledged to the prohibition re-
form by century and half of sacri-
flee and effort. We are ready to fight
for THE preservation of the reform
WhicIr%e have helped to achieve
I'VE register our solemn declaration
that no element Of religious bigotry
enters into our activity. If the names
and parties and principles were re-
versed our stand would be unchanged.
The proper attitude of the Method
campaign is set forth in the declaration
made by the General Conference of that
church.
LAS to the method by which each
minister shall serve this cause and help
to defeat the enemies of Righteousness
and reform, that is entirely a matter for
individual judgment. We are not
preaching politics. We are preaching
righteousness and moral reform.
I'VE are seeking to conserve a great
reform which we helped to achieve The
welfare of every home and of every
child in the country is involved in the
outcome. Our duty is clear. We have
our marching orders. We cannot be ST.
fenced by Misrepresentation. boycott OF
persecution. We have taken our stand
as church and have done so in advance
OF party positions and candidates. and
we purpose to maintain it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
Mayor Walker Waits, Whole Hour, Too,
For Presentation to Supreme Court

The Hon. James j. Walker. mayor
Of New York city. in all his sartorial
splendor, today was presented to the
Supreme Court of the United States
and took the oath to practice before
the highest tribunal of the land.
The court made the usually tardy
mayor wait more than an hour, during
which time he took occasion to say
he did not believe he would get the
Democratic nomination for Senator
from New York at the New York State
Democratic convention, now in session
at Rochester, and to pass the time Of
day talked with Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt. Assistant Attorney Gen
eral and arch-foe of his friend, Gov
AL Smith.
Before the meeting of Mayor Jimmy"
and Mrs. Willebrandt. the former, dis
cussing the woman Assistant Attorney
Generals legal ability. spoke highly of
her work in her official position, but
added, Her very ability in her legal
line is more or less proof of the fact
that she is not an expert In other
lines" APPROVES Of her methods OF rally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
EXECUTION SYSTEM
IN D. c. DENOUNCED
Grand Jury Asks Special
Chamber Be Set Aside for
Electric Chair.

The conditions surrounding executions
at the District Jail came under the fire
of the rtiring grand jury, which, in re-
port today, termed them "deplorable,"
and said separate chamber should be
set aside for the electric chair.
1t is the second time that such a
recommendation has come from a grand
jury. On the previous occasion, the
Commissioners, in reply, said that an
execution was gruesome enough without
having constant reminder of it in the
shape OF a death chamber. Now, the
chair Is placed in hall when used,
then put away after it has served its
purpose.
Hope for Early Change.
I'VE wish to emphasize say the
grand jurors. the deplorable conditions
surrounding the electric chair In the
first place there should be room for
this chair where it could be made sta
tionary doing away with the necessity
of pulling 1t around into one Of the
dining rooms every time it is used In
the second place, it is quite long walk
from the death cell to the chair 1t is
necessary to go down flight of steps to
reach the chair. We hope this condition
will soon be overcome"
The jurymen, who made an inspection
Of the District penal institutions, were
strong in their praise of the general Sit
uation in the report which was sub
mitted to Justice Peyton Gordon.
The report, in part, follows:
I'VE, the members of the grand jury,
wish to recommend Mr.. Barnard, super
intendent of Lorton Reformatory, Deco
guam, and District of Columbia Jail. Oil
the way our reformatory at Lortc1
Occoquan, and the District of Columbia
Jail is conducted.
I'VE wish also to comment on the wav
that the tomato cannery is conducted
The men who peel the tomatoes are
dressed in white, and everything is very
sanitary.
In all of the various shops we found
the most up-to-date machinery and
equipment, except in the laundry. There
We found several men doing the laundry
in an old bath tub set up in a frame
work to keep it from tipping over. They
have nice place for an up-to-date
laundry machine, but we are told they
have no appropriations for this ma
chine, We hope this deplorable con-
dition will soon be rectified, as we are
informed some of the men have good
clothes down there that they do not
want mussed up in this make-shift
laundry. They launder their own clothes
and naturally this takes up quite bit
of their time, so you cannot blame the
men for not wanting their clothes
messed up. Everything else on the place
looks so nice and efficient, that the
laundry or the lack of a laundry, is
really an eyesore.
Auto Tags to Be Ready.
After seeing the rapid progress which
is being made in getting out the 1929
automobile number plates, we feel rea-
sonably sure that the District of Column
bia will not have to wait for the tags
this year.
AT Occoquan we found everything
in very good condition except some of
the sleeping quarters which were barely
ha-itable, but the new ones will be
ready to move into very soon now, so
the prisoners, have something to look
forward to at least.
Maj. Peak has everything in wonder
Continued on Page 2, Column S.
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STUDENT IS KILLED
IN FRAT INITIATION
Electricity Sent Through Bed
Springs Fata!-Death
Held Accident.
BY the Associated Press.

AUSTIN, Tex, october 1.--Nclte
McElroy, 19-year-old University of
Texas student and an athlete of Hous-
ston, Tex, was dead today the victim
of mock Delta Kappa Epsilon Fra
ternity initiation, which turned from
bit of student horseplay to tragedy Nc
Elroy died last night few minutes
after being shocked by light wires, con-
nected by a rheostat to two sets of
bedsprings through which he crawled as
part OF the additional fraternity ritual
for neophytes.
Two physicians, who examined the
body, declined to say whether fright or
the electricity itself caused death.
Strength of the electrical charge which
entered his body was not determined.
District Attorney Moore, who insti-
tuted an immediate investigation by
questioning upper classmen Who par
ticipatod in the initiation. early today
had not announced an inquest. No ar
rests had been made.
Says Student tainted.
The fraternity issued a statement
saying the youth tainted during the
stunt, through which. it was asserted,
five other students had preceded him
and to which 1874 other students had
been subjected during the local chap
ter's history.
Fraternity members expressed the
opinion that the youth probably touched
an exposed live wire leading to the
springs. He fell screaming to the floor
and lapSed into Inconsistencies. His
fraternity brothers attempted to revive
him, but when their efforts proved
futile they carried him bodily to Seton
Inf1rmary, block distant, where ply
sicians worked over him in vain for 80
minutes with a pulmotor.
McElroy was said to have been fed
raw oyster saturated with castor oil as
part of the mock initiation preceding
the bed springs stunt.
Father Is Houston Broker.
The youth, who was a member of
the university foot ball team was
sophomore. His father. W. A. McElroy,
is president of the McElroy Bond &
Brokerage Corporation of Houston An
older brother was graduated from the
university recently.
In announcing later that there would
be no inquest the district attorney indi-
Gated the fraternity members would be
called before the grand jury for ques-
t!cning merely as formality.
Dean V. l. Moore said there probably
would be no action by officials of the
university.
1T simply was a terrible accident
that could not have been forcseen," he
said
Fraternity men said the rheostat had
not been turned fully to it's 1l0-volt
maximum when McElroy collapsed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
PO|NCARE REEVES
ARDEBT PAYMENT.
|NPASSE WITH u. S.
Premier Again Links German
Preparations With Frances
Settlement.
SAYS CUT MUST APPLY
IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
Stand Is in Direct Opposition
...+ to Recent American
Declaration.
By. the Associated Press.


PARIS. October IA speech by Pre-
inter- Poincare at Cambrey. where he
unveiled a war memorial yesterday, was
interpreted today as again putting the
question of a cut in reparations and
cut in the French debt squarely up
to- the United States.
sChe premier reiterated the French
pcaicy that any reduction of Germany's
reEarationS debt to the former allies
'rtust be accompanied by correspond
ms cut in the interallied debts to the
Utited States" Washington has always
maintained that the questions must re-
main apart.
M. Poincare insisted especially that
France still considered the interde-
p8adency of reparations and Rhineland
evacuation problems, as definitely cor
related to the interallied debt ques-
titn. His reference to deb.s was brief,
bat clear. the premier saying:
Sees Progress Blocked.
."If we are to consider the reparation
problem anew, We are obliged to re-
member that an agreement to be equi-
table must guarantee France from our
debtors beyond the integral amount of
what we must pay our creditors, clear
Indemnity for our war damages"
The premier said the peace treaties
assured France two things-security and
PREPARATION. All steps taken by France
since the armistice, even the occupation
OF the Ruhr, he said, had been made
with a view to promoting either OF
those ends.
1t was thought in American quarters
that, should the French government
rkmain adamant in such policy, 1t
would be practically impossible to make
rial progress in future negotiations re-
gArding Preparations and evacuation OF
the Rhineland without the active par
ticipation of representatives OF the
United States in the discussion.
United States Adamant.
The American Government has re-
reatedly insisted that the reparation
and allied debts questions must be kept
distinct Such was recently stated TO
be the Washington attitude when 1t
appeared that an attempt would be
made to bring the United States into
the reparation and evacuation discus
sions determined upon by France, Great
Britain, Belgium, Japan, Italy and Ger
Laany at Geneva.
M. Poincare somewhat modified the
apparently irreconcilable aspect of his
speech when toward the conclusion he
said that while France must be prudent
in the whole business of PREPARATIONS and
Gebts the government had no concealed
intention of dragging out the nego-
tiations which have been started or
making them fall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
MADE WHITE HOUSE AIDE.

Lieut.. Kenneth M Hoeffel, U. S. N,
Of the Office of Naval Operations. has
been appointed aide to the White
House, the Navy Department announced
today
Lieut.. Hoeffel was graduated from
the Naval Academy in 1917 and before
coming on duty to the department he
served aboard the light cruiser U. S. S.
Omaha. His home is at Green Bay,
Wis, and he is the brother Of DR..
Gerald Hoeffel of the Children's Hos
rital at Boston Leut. Hoehel lives at
tha Racquet Club
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
PRESIDENT TO TALK TO
EPISCOPALIAN MEETING
Will Deliver Address During Tri-
ennial Convention, Bishop
Freeman Announces.

President Coolidge will deliver an adj
dress during the course CT the forty
ninth Triennial General Convention of
the Episcopal Church, which opens here
next week In making this known today
Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop OF
Washington, and honorary president of
the Washington committee serving for
the convention, who extended the invi-
tation to the President today, stated
that no date has been set for the Presi-
dents attending the convention, but
that this will be arranged later, accord
ing to the convenience of the executive.
Bishop Freeman during his call upon
the President was accomplished by Rear
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, U. S. NJ, gen.
eral chairman Of the Washington COM
mittees arranging for the coming con-
vention, and Hugh T. Nelson, executive
secretary of the convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
ALASKA NOMINEE NAMED
FOR LAXITY IN ELECTION
Indictment Charges Thomas A.
Marqusm Failed to List Cam
paign Expenditures.

Failure to report receipts and ex-
rcncitures under the Federal corrupt
practices act is charged in an indict-
ment reported today against Thomas A.
Marquam, who. in November, 1926, had
been candidate for the Office of dele
gate from Alaska in the House.
Marcuam is said to have been can
d,date against Dan A. Sutherland, and
although various persons and organiza-
IONS contributed total Of $4,000 for
his campaign. Ma-quam refused and
neglected to file report of receipts and
expenditures, as required by the act.
The indictment is the first Of its kind
in the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
Doctor and Plane
Lose Death Race
By Four Minutes
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october Though it
shot through the air lanes to Water
loo, Iowa, 100 miles an hour, DR.. j.
r. Buchbinder's airplane yesterday
trailed death by four minutes.
DR.. Buchbinder was speeding to
the bedside of T. F.. Brady, Swift e.
Co. manager at Waterloo, who had
been injured in an automobile acct
dent Barely two hours were required
for the flight, but the physician was
too late.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
WILL HAVE FRENCH PLANE
Military Attache Socn to Get Craft
to Aid Him in Work.

Mai. Georges ThcEault. military at
tache Of France in Washington. soon
viii have a French airplane at his dis
posal in Washington to aid him in his
official work.
He was informed today that the
French government had sent him a
n!re-cyiinder, air-ccoled 120-horsapow-
er Morane-Saimson plane, which has
arrived in New York. Mai. Th2nault
will go to New York in a few days to
ny the machine to Washington, where
t'c American Government has offered
him facilities for keeping it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
OFFICERS ARE SILENT,
Details of Initiation Death Awaited
by Fraternity HEADQUARTERS

DetduS OF lnIthtlOn Dcath Awaited
by Fraternity Headquarters
NEW YORK, October LA9.-Natonal
headquarters of Delta Kappa Epsilon
Fraternity today declined to say wheth-
er any action would be taken against
the chapter at the University of Texas,
where Nolte McElroy, 19-year-old ath-
lete, died after mock initiation last
night.
Clinton Lovett. secretary of the Ma
tional Council, said he had received a
brief telegram saying McElroy had died.
Lovett said he was awaiting more details
before any statement would be made
Lovett said the national organization
two years ago had attempted to elimi-
nate all dangers from limitations At
that time he said the use of electrically
charged bed springs, through which Nc
Elroy crawled and was shocked, had not
been encountered in the survey of ini-
tiation rituals.
Lovett has general charge of fraterni-
ty chapters under jurisdiction of other
national officers and the board Of
trustees,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
GERMAN WORKERS STRIKE
$4,000 shipyard Employees Walk
Out After Wage Dispute.

HAMBURG, Germany, October / Up
Fifty thousand shipyard workers went
on strike today over wage dispute in
Hamburg, Kile and other German ports.
Work In the yards was continued
with skeleton stats of foremen and
apprentices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
PAIR BELIEVED DROWNED.
Army Airmcn Scan Bay for Eel
low Flyer and Girl.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 1 l,Pt.-
Kissing since Fricay night, Lieut.. Faul
u. Woodruff, United States Army pilot
and Miss Grinel Gette Heynemarn
Belvedere Society girl, are believed to
have persisted while on moonlight ca
noeing trip in the bay Aviator friends
of the pilot scanned the bay from the
air yesterday, but their search failed to
reveal any wreckage Of the canoe.
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Radio Program-Pase 80
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WEATHER.

~. s. Weather Bureau Forecast,
Fair. continued cool tonight; tomor-
row increasing cloudiness and warmer;
light northeast and east winds.
observation-disclosures So, at noon
today; lowest. A, at 6 am. today.
Full report on page g.
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CONTINUED on Page 2. Column -
New Britain herald., 1928-01-27
SPELLBINDING

So daring is this great To-day drive to go out, that it has even taken our breath away. Never in our l4 years of business have we cut prices so ruthlessly. If you got bargains before, you get gigantic bargains now! Be here tomorrow when the doors open. Buy at give-away prices. You'll never get an opportunity equal to this again.