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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
WRAPPING CONTEST WON
BY ARLINGTON PUPILS
Clarendon Youth and Livingston
Heights Miss Capture First
Prize in Competition.
Special Dlspatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va December 27.-
Jack hester Mccarthy of / Fort ave-
nue., Clarendon, pupil Of the Matthew
Fontaine Maury School, and Louise
Grant of Livingston Heights, a pupil
of the Thomas Nelson School, today
were announced as the winners of the
Christmas wrapping contest conducted
under the supervision of the county
health department, with the Business
and Professional Women's Club the
Creative Arts Club and the committee
handling the county Christmas seal
sale cooperating. Milton Stewart and
Katherine Leigh, both of Ballston, re-
ceived honorable mention.
Each of the victors will receive So. SO
in gold offered as first prizes in boy
and girl classes by the Business and
Professional Women'S Club. The con-
test was open to all Of the county
school children up to and including the
age OF IA, and approximately 800 par
ticipated. The purpose of the contest
was to stimulate an interest IN efforts
being made in the county to fight tu-
berculoSiS and demand for the seals,
the proceeds from the sale Of whicH
furnish the only means for carrying
on the work.
Judges in the contest were Mrs. >.
A. Mcknight, president of the Creative
Arts Club; Mrs. Perry L. Mitchell and
Mrs. L. w. Ellis, members of that or
ganization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
JEWISH FORENSIC
TEAMS TO COMPETE
Will Debate Cultural and Pc.
liticaI Aspects of Zionist
Program.

Members of the District Zionist
movement, the Hadassah, Mizrachi and
other affiliated groups interested in the
Jewish homeland movement have been
invited to attend the public debate on
zion1sm which will be held Sunday
evening at $3.50 o'clock in the Jewish
Community Center.
Teams representing the Washington
and Philadelphia Y. M. H. A. will de-
bate the question, the local team sup
porting the negative. The question is,
Resolved: That Palestine should be
developed along cultural rather than
political lines"
The local Y. M H. A. team is COM
posed OF .1Sidore Siegal, Martin Shelf
ferman, and Sidney Zlotnick, all ex-
perienced debaters. The team was
coached by Louis E. Spiegler, president
OF the District Zionist Organization.
Benjamin Hinden, David Wallace, and
Ruby Jacobson, other members of the
Y. M. H. A. debating squad assisted in
preparing material for the debate. Hin
den represented the District in the
National Oratorical Contest several
years ago.
Burnett Siman, president of the as
ISOLATION, will serve as chairman. The
board of judges will be headed by Dean
w. A. Wilbur of George Washington
University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
SAYS COMMISSION
CAN BAN RADIO FRAUD
Harold La Fount, Fifth Zone Mem.
Der, Takes Issue on Subject
With Others.

Harold A. La Fount, fifth zone mem
Der Of the Federal Radio Commission,
today took issue with other members
who have said that the commission
cannot censor programs and therefore
would be powerless to ban false medi-
cine advertisements from the air.
Eugene o. Sykes, vice chairman. said
that the commission has no Jurisdiction
In this matter, which was brought to its
atCentlon in letter from Health Com
missioner Wynne of New York.
La Fount said he considered the COM
mission has much more power under its
direction to decide on public interest,
convenience and necessity" than it now
exercises.
Granting that the advertising Is
fraudulent, believe that under the act,
the commission can take the stations
that persist in permitting such adver-
Using of the air." said La Fount. Ger
tainly fraudulent advertising does not
serve public interest, convenience nor
necessity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
FINAL RITES HELD :
FOR CAPT. J. P. AULT
Officer Killed by Explosion At
tended to Grave by STAFF
Associates.

With six members of his exploration
staff attending, funeral services for
Capt. James p. Ault, who was killed
November % in an explosion aboard the
Carnegie Institute research vessel. the
yacht Carnegie, in Apia Harbor. West
ern Samoa, were held today In the Yves
ley M. E. Church. Interment was pri-
vate in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Arriving in Washington yesterday,
after q trip across the country, to at
tend the funeral, four members of the
crew and two of the technical staff Of
the vessel gave the first verbal account
Of the catastrophe. They are Fritz Lying
dorf, steward: Elmer Unanderm, second
watch officer; Henry Jentoft, third
watch officer; Oscar Backgren, cook;
S. L. Seaton and w. E. Scott of the SCI
entif1c staff.
Capt. Ault, resident of Washing
ton, had been with the institute rs
years, serving the greater part of the
time in ocean exploration aboard the
Carnegie. AS commander of the Car
negte he had directed three extensive
surveys of the North and South Pa
cif1c Ocean, his last voyage being the
most comprehensive ever undertaken by
the institute. In Washington Capt.
Ault was widely affiliated In scientific
club circles.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mamie T. Ault, and two daughters, Eve
lyn G. and Marjorie p. Ault.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
HOLD-UP VICTIM
SLUGGED WITH GUN
Duplicate Key Robberies Are
Reported Among Holiday
Series.

Petty thievery and banditry take no
account of the Christmas spirit and
Yuletide festivities.
Wilbur r. Atwill, 923 Seventh street
northeast. was robbed last night at the
point of pistol when he stepped into
an alley in the rear of 704 H street
northeast. A colored man drew a pistol
on AtwiJl and struck him on the head.
Atwill told police he remained quiet
while the bandit took $33 from his
pockets. A description of the hold-up
man was furnished the police.
Robbed by Duplicate Key Worker.
Property valued at $3.50 and So in
cash were stolen yesterday from the
apartment of Elizabeth johnson, 2422
Ontario road, by a thief who gained
entrance by use of duplicate. key. A
cluster diamond ring valued at SITS,
the property of Lawrence Redmond, was
included in the loot.
Another duplicate key worker en-
tered the home of William Reed, 200 NJ
street southeast, during the absence of
VAC Aolhlly yCoCCLN dy dLlu olOlc ~ WOul-
ans coat valued at $110 and a suit of
clothes valued at SIS.
Some light-fingered gent jimmied
open the apartment of William C. Dun
kins, 1749 t street, yesterday and stole
wearing apparel and linen valued at
$95. Thomas Carens, 4428 Greenwich
parkway reported that on Christmas
day a coat valued at SIS vanished from
his home.
Two Autos Stolen.
Automobile. thieves made away with
two machines last night. Milton
O'Connor of Hagerstown, Md, parked
his car at Pennsylvania avenue and
Nineteenth street and told police some
one made off with the machine and a
suit case and wearing apparel left in 1t.
Dr. A. B. Coulter of the Wardman Park
Hotel said his machine was stolen from
in front of the hotel. The car con-
tanned bag of jewelry and clothing
valued at 500.
Police are searching for three colored
lads whom Joseph Block, 621 Four-and-
a-half street southwest, believes re-
lieved him of a fat rooster and four
ducks which he had left in COOP out
side his store yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
Store Man Hurls
Milk Bottles at
Bungling Bandit
Robbery at 700 First St.
Southwest Spoiled by
Deliverymen.

A foot race down F street southwest
with the intended victim of a hold-up
raining milk bottles about the head of
the would-be robber terminated the
futile attempt of lone gunman to rob
the store of Herman Goodman at 700
First street southwest.
Goodman opened his place of bust
ness at O'Clock this morning, as usual.
and a few minutes afterward a man
walked into the store and asked for a
pint of milk. Procuring the milk from
the ice box, the storekeeper returned
to the counter to find himself gazing
into the barrel of a revolver
Put 'em up" the burglar COM
manded.
The man then felt Goodman's pockets
for money, and finding none, ordered
him to open the cash register, which
Goodman said later contained SIS.
At this point milk man and his
helper walked in on the little party
to make early-morning delivery. Fright
ened by the intrusion the robber
pocketed his revolver and fled through
the doorway.
Goodman grabbed an armful of
empty milk bottles from a box near
the door and started down F street
in pursuit of the robber, but the lat
ter, spurred on by the barrage of fly
ing glass, soon outfooted the store
keeper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
SCIENCE FAILURE
TO LEARN SECRETS
OF MINERALS TOLD
Ries Says Origin of Coal,
Oil and Phosphates
Still Is Obscure.
SOCIETIES HOLD SESSION
AT NATIONAL MUSEUM
Papers of Abstract Nature and
Glaciation Problems Taken Up
at Today's Meetings.

The origin of some of the earth's
products most essential to civilization,
such as coal, oil and phosphates, still is
obscure, President Heinrich Ries Of the
American Geological Society told a
joint meeting of that group with the
meteorological and archaeological So
cieties at the National Museum last
night.
While it is generally known, he said,
that these materials are the result of
the decomposition of living things in
past geological eraS, the physical and
chemical processes which they went
through still are subject to theories.
Oil Richer in Hydrogen.
Coal, he said, was derived from ter
restial life, but peculiarities of distribu-
ton of some kinds lead to the belief
that the material must have been held
in solution in water and distributed
over large areas by winds, natural flow
and other causes. OIL on the other
hand, comes from life in the sea and is
richer in hydrogen than coal for some
unknown reason. Present efforts to dis
cover the exact method by which oil
beds are laid down under the seas were
praised by Prof. Ries.
The phoSphates, he said were I'M
uOuUJCuly IIlc IcoulI u dLllIIIdl ucCOlLpO-
Sition, but their large spread over APP
proximately 175.000 miles in the West
tern United States in beds from one to
five feet thick raises the question as
to whether they were the result of
gradual accumulation of the dead crea-
lures of vanished inland sea or
whether there was a wholesale killing
of the life in this sea at one time.
Soue Due tn BACTERIA.
Some of the phosphate deposits, he
said, may have been due to bacteria, be-
cause notwithstanding bacteria are
known to exist.
The sessions at the Wardman Park
this morning were devoted to scientific
papers of an abstract nature, with the
following taking part: Stephen Taber,
Columbia, S. c.; Parker D. Trask and
C. c. WI, Princeton, N. j.; A. A. Baker,
c. H. Dane and j. B. Reside, jr.. Wash
ington; George H. Chadwick, Catskill,
N. Y: Frank F. Grout, Minneapolis;
william H. Hobbs, Ann Arbor, Mich;
Robert T. Hill, Los Angeles; A. c. Lane,
r. B. Newcombe and w. A. Thomas,
Tufts College, Mass; Morris r. Leigh
ton, Paul MacClintock and Harold r.
Wanless, Urbana, Ill; Edward B.
Mathews, Baltimore; Warren j. Mead,
Madison, Wis; William j. Miller, Los
Angeles; Charles c. Nook, Metuchen,
N. j., and Raymond c. Moore, Law
renee, Kans.
Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, director Of pub
lie buildings and parks, presided at
meeting on problems of glaciation this
afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
Personal Tax Must Be Paid
Before New Plates Can
Be Issued.
1929 PLATES ARE GOOD
ONLY UNTIL JANUARY 81
Adjoining States Arrange Reel
prOcity in Handling Drivers Who
Are Late With Numbers.

Final preparations are being made
Tor the rush of auto tag BUYERS ex-
pected at the District Building next
Thursday. when 1880 tags 60 on sale.
Carpenters are putting up the long
counters. where the line of cash Gus
toners will flll out their application
blanks, have their cars valued for tax
purposes and get their tags.
More people visited the personal tax
office yesterday than in any previous
day he can remember, according to
Charles A. Russell, in charge of the
ONCE. Practically all Of them wanted
the new tax law relating to automo-
bileS explained.
Tax Must BE Paid.
According to the new law, beginning
In 1880 no auto tags will be sold unless
personal property tax has been paid on
the car. Therefore, when car owners.
apply for their new tags they must pay
their personal taxes. The matter win
be made as easy as possible. After Sc
curing and hlling out the application
blank for the tag, in the usual manner.
the tag is handed to one of the assist
ant assessors, who will be in the line.
This assessor will look up the value Of
the car and tax it accordingly and viii
write on the form the amount of taxes
payable. The car owner will then move
on to the cashier. pay him the sum
named by the assessor, plus 81 for the
tag. That is all there is to 1t.
Rate is $1.7O Per 500.
The payment of the tax takes care Of
all taxes on the car up to December 81,
1880. Since most owners have already
paid their personal tax up to June 80,
1880, the amount to be paid is one-hah
OF a years taXes-from July to De-
cember 81. The rate is $1.70 per 500
of the cars valuation. Thus for a per-
son owning a car valued at 500 the
tax bill will be one-half of $1.70, or IS
cents.
The 1880 tags are the same color as
the present yellow and black, but
with the arrangement reversed. The
1929 tags will be honored until Janu-
airy 81, 1890. After that any District
motorist driving with 1929 tags will be
subject to arrest for using dead tags.
Arrangements have been made with
nearby States to give reciprocity In the
matter of honoring the tags.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
WOMAN'S INFERIORlTY
HURTING MODERN HOME
Mrs. Harvey Wiley Condemns
Double Legal Standard of Pres
ent-Day Morality.

The failure Of the modern home to
come up to its traditional virtues is due
in part to the inferior position given
the married woman under the law, ac-
cording to Mrs. Harvey Wiley of Wash
ton in a radio address last night spon-
sored by the National Woman's Party.
Mrs. Wiley, who is chairman of the
home makers council of the Woman's
Party, was elected national chairman of
the organization at its recent conven-
ton in Washington.
I'm some States the mother is not
legally the parent of her child" Mrs.
Wiley said. In almost every State
there is legal double standard of mo-
rality between husband and wife. In
other States the property of the wife is
entirely within the control of her huS-
band, and in some even the earnings
of the wife belong to the husband. Laws
of divorce and separation discriminate
against the wife and mother. The laws
of inheritance are fiagrantly unjust to
the woman"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
HEARINGSON DISTRICT
BUDGET NEXT MONTH
No Definite Date Fixed, but Meet
ings Scheduled Between jan
uary Is and 20.

Hearings on the District appropria-
ton bill for the fiscal year beginning
July l next are to start between Jan
uary Is and 20. No definite date has
yet been fixed.
The District Commissioners, the
District auditor and the heads of de-
partments are to be called in first for
q general conference and to have the
subcommittee headed by Representative
Simmons of Nebraska go over with
them the subcommittee method Of
procedure In seeking Justification for
the budget estimates and to get true
picture of conditions in the various
branches of the municipal adm!nistra-
ton,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
COMMUNITY CHEST
SUPPORT BESOUGHT
Hebrew Relief President Ap-
peaIS to Phi Sigma Sigma
Sorority Women.

Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, president
Of the United Hebrew Relief Society,
in an address last night before the Phi
Sigma Sigma Sorority convention, urged
that women participate in charity work
in general and in Community Chest
campaigns in particular, because "Serv-
ing others brings greater compenSations
than any Of the activities in which
women fritter away their lives"
Mrs. Goldsmith, whose charity work
began in her early youth, and who is
member of the Welfare Board and
a board member Of numerous philan-
thropic agencies, made a special plea
in behalf of the Community Chest, and
asked those present to cooperate in
the coming campaign here.
Makes for Better Lives.
zone of the great ways of serving
our people and all human beings in
need" Mrs. Goldsmith continued, sis
by working for the Community Chest.
It has made for better lives. It has
brought better understanding, and 1t
has frightened the lives Of the under
privileged.
Let met invite you-for I need not
plead with you-to join the great army
which is enrolling again in the Serv-
ice OF the Community Chest This
army seeks to vanquish want and ugli-
ness. 1t seeks to make lives better
and brighter. Every dollar you will
help collect for the Community Chest
will save some one from despair or
bring some one new hope and new
opportunity"
mo one is too important and no
one Is too humble to enlist in the
Community Chest army Of workers and
helpers. The principle of the Com
munity Chest is that no gift Is too
small and none too large, as long as
1t represents what the giver can act
ually afford. There Is room for every
one In this great army of workers"
Jews Must Respond.
There is every reason why our peo-
pie should do even more than their
share. Our own social service agencies
are generously included in the Com
muntty Chest. We must respond by
doing our share. But we must do more
than that, for in addition to being
city, and as such we want to do our
duty by our fellow citizens"
Il hope you will enlist in large num-
bers and help make the second Com
munity Chest campaign even greater
than the first and more significant It
is blessed to give but twice blessed to
! give and teach others to give. Let
us, as a people, in consonnance with
| our fine Jewish traditions, help in this
great enterprise"
The Phi Sigma Sigma Convention
meeting was held at Wardman Park
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
HELD WITHOUT BAIL.

Arraigned in Police Court yesterday
for an alleged statutory ofTense against
Ruth R. Kanode, 16-year-old blind girl
of the 1000 block of L street, Adrian
A. Duvall, 30-year-old truck driver Of
the 1000 block of H street, was held
for grand jury action without bond after
a preliminary hearing before Judge
Ralph Given.
Testimony revealed that Duvall was
arrested Tuesday by M K. Raspberry
of the park police after a warrant had
been sworn out by the girl which was
based on an attack said to have been
made on May 2, last.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
SPEAKER TO DISCUSS
0LD-AGE PENSION LAWS

A discussion of old-age pensions and
the laws governing them will be held
breakfast at the Occidental Hotel
Abram Epstein, secretary of the League
Tor Old Age Security. will explain the
bill for old-age pensions now pending
In Congress, while the informal discus
sion will be led by Senator G. c. Dill of
Washington and Representative Phil
Swing of California.
Ethelbert Stewart, chief of the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics, will
preside. The meeting is public. Reser-
vations can be made by calling Deca-
tur o204.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
CHILEAN ATTACHE
IN MOTOR CRASH
Comdr. PoIiCh and Wife Mar.
roWIy Escape Serious Injury
in Skidding Auto.

Comdr. Juan Polich, naval attache OF
the Chilean embassy, and his wife, Mrs
Vinka Polich, narrowly escaped serious
injury yesterday when the machine in
which the diplomat was riding skidded
on the icy street on Woodley place at
Woodley road and crashed into an cleo
trio light pole. Comdr. Polich and his
wife were slightly cut by flying glass
from the shattered windshield. They
were treated at the Office of a nearby
physician.
Eyewitnesses, police said, related how
the machine Swerved around and
parently lost control of the car as it
skidded when he was attempting to
make q. turn.
Con1dr. and Mrs. Polich reside at
BOAT Porter street.
Martin D. McQuade, 81 years old, OF
1884 Connecticut avenue, chief clerk of
the Washington Gas Light Co., was
painfully injured last night when the
machine he was driving was in col
lision at Harvard street and Argonne
place with an automobile operated by
Macbeth Y. Weber, IS years old, OF
4242 Thirty-flrst street.
The injured man was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital and treated for a
strained back and shock. His condi-
ton was not regarded as serious.
C. P. diff, 80 years old. living at
1920 Eleventh street, suffered lacera-
tions to the forehead last night when
run down on Maryland avenue at H
street northeast by a machine driven
by Anthony C. Willett of Pomfret. Md.
He was treated at Sibley Hospital and
sent home.
While responding to a fire last night
O fire truck operated by Pvt. Dennis
Gray, IS years old, of No. % Engine
Company struck the parked automobile
of William G. Graves of 1915 X street
in the $500 block of Georgia avenue
No one was injured, and police re-
ported that only slight damage was
done to the machine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
BUREAU TO GIVE PARTY
FOR SERVICE CHILDREN
Veterans Bureau Entertainment
Tomorrow Afternoon Is
Annual Event.

The fourth annual Christmas party
for the children of the Legal Service,
United States Veterans Bureau, will be
given by Maj. William Wolff Smith,
general counsel of the bureau, and Mrs.
Smith in the general counseIs Office
tomorrow afternoon.
Inc invited guests include both the
children and grandchildren of the at
torneys and others in the Legal Service.
approximately so children will attend.
entertainment will be provided in the
form OF motion pictures, fancy dane
ing, souvenirs and the usual refresh
ments. The ages of the children who
are expected to be present range from
6 weeks to Is years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
RAILWAY EXTENSION
PERMISSION ASKED
Chesapeake Beach Line Would Es-
tablish Ferry to Eastern
Shore.

The Chesapeake Beach Railway Co.
yesterday filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission an application
for q certificate of public convenience
and necessity for the extension of its
line by establishing a ferry between
Chesapeake Beach, Md, and a point
on Trippe's Bay, near Cambridge, on
the Eastern Shore of Maryland
This ferry would shorten the dis
lance by road or rail from Washing
ton to Eastern Shore points. 1t would
carry passengers and freight, and it is
planned to put two boats into service
If the authorization is obtained.
The proposed eastern terminus will
be at a point about 10 miles from
Cambridge. The distance between this
terminus and Chesapeake Beach is
about 10 miles.