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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
F. w. LARNER is DEAD;
LONG RESIDENT HERE
Retired Official in Engraving Blu.
reau Succumbs at 75-Funera1
Will Be Monday.

Frank w. Larner, rs years old. for
mer assistant chief of the wetting di-
vision of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, died at his home, 1904 TWEEN
ty-second street, yesterday. He had
been retired from the Government serv-
ice about seven years.
Mr.. Larner was born at Bladensburg,
Md. but had lived nearly all of his life
in this city. During the Civil War he
was page in the House of Representa-
tives, while his brother, William, was
page in the Senate. He Is survived by
his widow. Mrs. Alcinda K. Larner: two
sisters, Miss Carolyn Larner, associated
with the United States embassy at
Madrid, Spain, and Miss Mary Larner
of Washington; brother. Winfield
Larner, and two daughters, Mrs. M. l..
earle and Mrs. M. L. Beck Of Wash
ington.
Funeral services will be held from his
home at IL o'clock Monday morning..
Interment will be private at GlenWood
Cemetery.
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FREE PORTS Benefit
SEEN BY O'CONNOR
Shipping Board Chairman's Inves-
tigation Shows Aid to Mer-
chant Marine.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman O'Connor of the Shipping
Board, after lengthy investigation of
the situation, has concluded that free
ports or foreign trade zones, properly
located in some of the existing ports
of the United States, might have a
stimulating effect on port growth and
foreign trade"
The report points out that the free
port has proved successful in Northern
Europe, but adds that the geographical
and economic position of the United
States is not analogous to that Of
Europe. ....
In favor of the free ports, to which
raw materials from abroad are brought,
manufactured and then reshipped with
out duty, the survey cites that they
would aid in the development of trans
shipment and consignment trade, and
would thus build up the merchant ma
rine. All of these benefits are said
to come about as the result of the
elimination of the customs dues in the
free port zone.
It is pointed out that an analysis
of the free port situation in Europe
indicates that an excessive number OF
competing free ports in the same trade
area generally tends to defeat their
purpose.
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DEATH Of CHEMIST
DECLARED SUICIDE
Coroner Issues Certificate in
Asphyxiation of Bureau of
Standards Worker.

Mental strain, said to have been
brought on from overwork, Is believed
to have led Norman W. Metcalf, a.
year-old chemist at the Bureau Of
Standards, to take his life in q locked
gaS-filled room used by him as a lab
oratory, yesterday. Corner j. Ramsey
hewitt is expected today to certify to
death by suicide.
The body was discovered by Theo-
Kleinschmidt, an employee of the
bureau, lying stretched across the
floor in the room. Illuminating gas
was escaping from a nearby tube, all
the windows were closed and a blanket
was wrapped around the head and
shoulders Of the body. The odor of
escaping gas detected across the hall
way from the little laboratory used by
MetcaH led to the discovery Of his
body.
Metcalf's widow and 4-year-old son,
Harold lived with him at their home,
$50 Thirty-third street. Mrs. Metcalr
is suffering from severe shock as the
result of her husbands death. Her
mother and father, from Ohio, are here
visiting her. The dead mans father
was notified and Is on his way here
from Wisconsin.
Metcalf was engaged in ascertaining
the mechanism Of charcoals, clayS and
general absorbentS in his laboratory
research work and this process, 1t was
said, necessitated the constant use of
a Bunsen burner supplied with illumin-
ating gas as well as room that was
entirely closed and free from draft. An
independent gas tube about seven feet
in length, which had been connected
with another gas outlet. was stretched
across the room to a spot near the place
where the body was found.
DR.. hewitt has withheld issuing a
certificate until he has talked with Met
Calls widow to determine whether she
desired finding by him or a coroner's
inquest.
Metcalf first began his work at the
Bureau of Standards in the division of
chemistry, under DR.. E. w. Washburn,
in July, 1928, and is said to have
planned to continue there until next
March to take advantage of the Peer
less Clay and Minerals, Inc. scholar
ship awarded him by the University Of
Illinois. where he received the degree
Of master Of science before coming to
Washington.
His research studies in working for
the bureau was to have been applied
by him on his thesis for the degree
of doctor Of philosophy, which he had
hoped to receive next year at the Uni
verSity of Illinois. He received his
bachelor of science degree from Ober-
lin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03

shipment Of complete family Of father,
mother and child Is unprecedented, and
il all arrive alive, students of ape fam
lily life will have an exceptional oppor-
tunity for observation. It Is dangerous
to arrive at conclusions on the develop
ment Of an ape, DR.. Mann said, merely
from watching babies in captivity apart
from their parents.
The Zoo already has one Malay bear,
which Is the gentlest and most playful
of all the bears. but which must be
kept In a metal-lined cage, since it will
gnaw and scratch its way through the
thickest boards. The Himalayan bear
probably is an allied species, which sell
dom has been seen in captivity.
The bamboo rats, DR.. Mann said,
probably are large subterranean rodents,
living in caverns among the interstices
OF bamboo roots and seldom seen by
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
LEGION REPORTS
INSANE CROWDED
New Jersey Patients, With Wait
ing List, Crawl Over Each
Other to Bed"

Over-crowded conditions Of New
jersey State institutions for the mentally
Ill are such that patients have to crawl
over one another to get into their beds
the American Legion said today In a
statement pointing out that in, nearly
every State there is a waiting list for
admittance to Government hospitals.
The Legion said it was working with
the State authorities throughout the
Nation and with the Veterans Bureau
to determine the acute need Of addi-
tional facilities in Government hospitals
adequately to care for the increasing
load Of mentally sick World War vet
Grams.
william J. Ellis, State Commissioner
of Institutions and Agencies, at Trenton,
was quoted by the Legion as saying his
department was gravely concerned over
The situation as more than IL 600 mental
patients were being cared for in. State
and county hospitals which have a rated
capacity Of less than 5000 patients. He
said New Jersey was attempting to
meet the condition but at the Grey
stone Park State Hospital there are 40
per cent more patients than existing
space would allow to be cared for and
serious over-crowding exists at other
State hospitals in which disabled veter-
ans are cared for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
COL. DENT TRANSFERRED
Engineer Corps Changes Include
Shifting Maj. Elliott.

Army orders issued yesterday involve
several changes in the Corps Of En-
gineers of special local interest. Lieut.
Col. Elliot j. Dent is relieved from duty
In the Office of the chief Of engineers
Munitions Building, effective September
1, and ordered to Fort Humphreys, Va.
for duty as executive officer Of the Board
of Engineer Equipment; Mai. Dabney
o. Elliott, now attached to the oflce OF
chief OF Engineers, in charge Of the En-
gineer reproduction plant, has been Or
dered to st. Louis for duty as assistant
to the president of the Mississippi River
Commission; Maj. James j. Loving, for
mer Assistant Engineer Commissioner
of the District Of Columbia, is relieved
from duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kans
and ordered to this city for duty in the
office of the chief of Engineers as resi-
dent member of the River and Harbor
Board of Engineers.
Other changes in the Corps of Engi-
neers include: Transfer of Capt. Car
r, Shaw from Fort Lawton, Wash, to
Hawaii; Maj John w. N. Schulz from
Fort Lewis, Wash, to Chicago, and
Capt. Francis @. Fitzpatrick from Ha-
wall to Vicksburg, Miss.
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MARINE CORPS OFFICERS
ORDERED TO QUANTICO
Some Will Go on Duty There Aft
er Their Return From
Nicaragua.

Marine Corps orders made public
yesterday at the Navy Department show
that some Of the officers soon to be
detached from the I'd Brigade. Mica
ragua, will come to Quantico, Va, for
duty. Capt. Claude A. Larkin has just
been detached from the Marine base
at Quantico and will go on duty at
the Naval Air Station at Pensacola,
Fla. Second Lieut.. William w. Con-
way of the Air Service, who has been
on duty in Nicaragua. will come to
serve at Quantico, as will Second Lieut..
Robert B. Luckey.
Col. Robert H. Dunlap will come
from Nicaragua to Marine Corps Head
quarters here. These officers will go to
Quantico from the Central American
republic: Capts. Peter C. Geyer, H. H.
Phipps and Robert Blake; First Lieuts.
Joseph D. Humphrey and James B.
Hardie: Second Lieuts. Adclph Zuber.
Earl S. Piper, John c. Mum and
George H. Potter.
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Cross-Examination of Wit.
ness Will Not Begin Until
Company Closes.
J. {. HEBERLE ON STAND
EVERY DAY OF HEARING
Petition for Increase of ". R. & E.
to Follow Capital Traction
Evidence.
Peoples Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty

Peoples Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty
expects to begin cross-examination of
witnesses for the Capital Traction Co.
as soon as each has completed his ex-
animation in the public hearing before
the Public Utilities Commission on the
company1 request for an increase in
carfare On al the street car lines in
the city.
Mr.. Fleharty is busy working over the
evidence introduced thus far by the
company'S first witness, j. E. Heberle,
with the assistance Of J. Louis Martin,
his statistical aid. His questions, how
ever, Will not duplicate the ground COW
cred by Commissioner Harleigh H.
Hartman, who HIS inquired very
m1nutely into the .ompany's capital
and operating expense accounts.
Testifes Four Days.
Mr.. Heberle has been on the wit
ness stand all of the foair DAYS on
which the hearings have been held
thus far. He will still be there Mon
day when the hearing is resumed and
Judging from the exhibits stacked be-
fore him for introduction and the list
OF questions left unanswered pending
further study. he will be on the stand
at least a week more.
Mr.. Flaherty and William Mex.
Clayton, counsel for the Federation of
Citizens Associations have both re-
served cross-examination until all Mr..
Heberles evidence is In. Should these
two go into the same details on other
lines that Mr.. Hartman did as to cap
ital account and operating expenses. it
might very easily take still another
week for the first witness in the case
to be heard
Following Mr.. Heberle there will be
other witnesses for the Capital Trac-
ton Co., although none of them will
have as much testimony as he. Then
will come the entire case Of the Wash
ington Railway 81 Electric Co., which
Is joint petitioner for the increase in
fares.
Accountant Next
Next will come, probably, Flyers NICK.
Bachman, the commissions accountant,
and testimony from the commissions
stah on probable results Of fares other
than those sought by the COMPANIES
and probable savings from recruiting
OF lines and joint operation Of tracks,
and then arguments on the case. All
Of this is very likely to consume several
months before a decision Is reached by
the commission.
The commission early today incor-
porated into the present case, the
petition Of residents of Woodley road to
have the Woodley road bus line of the
Washington Railway & Electric Co., re-
routed so as to travel on Connecticut
avenue Instead of Woodley road, and
also petition by the Glover Park
Citizens Association asking that the
Burleith bus line of the same company
be extended and that street car service
on Wisconsin avenue be improved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
ADAMS FUNERAL HELD.

Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara
Handy Adams, native of this city, who
died at her home in Tulsa, Okla. Mon
day, were conducted In the Shrine of
the Blessed Sacrament, Chevy Chase,
today at o'clock, following brief serv-
ices at the residence of her brother,
Charles Handy, 5611 Nevada avenue.
Interment was in Mount Olivet Gene
terry.
Mrs. Adams Is survived by her llus-
band, william H. Adams, who brAlght
the body here yesterday morning, and
i've small children Of Tulsa, Okla. She
is survived also by three sisters and
I'VE brothers, Miss Helen and Miss
Mary Handy OF Washington and Mrs.
David Sisson Of Los Angeles. Charles
w. Handy and Levin p. Handy of
washington and Joseph W., Rudolph
w. and Thomas Gerard Handy, all OF
Brawley, Calf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
WASHINGTON MEN GIVEN
RESERVE COMMISSIONS
Maryland and Virginia Citizen
Soldiers Also Receive Rank
ings in Army.

Commissions IN the Reserve Corps or
the Army have been issued by the War
Department to Pendleton Edgar. coo
Twentieth street, as first lieutenant
and specialist; Edward D. Crockett.
962 Florida avenue. as second lieuten-
ant Of Infantry; William A. Kehoe, 1904
Seventh street, as second lieutenant in
the Medical Administrative Corps, and
James M. Henderson, 910 Decatur street,
and Austin j. Naylor, 1892 Connecticut
avenue, as second heutenants In the
finance department.
Similar commissions have been issued
to Henry M. Lowden, Gaithersburg, Md,
as first lieutenant, Medical Corps: to
John C. Hughes, Kensington, Md and
William e. Warf1eld, Damascus, Md, as
second lieutenants Of Infantry; to Lloyd
B. Kidwell, Ballston, Va, as a second
lieutenant, Coast Artillery, and to Duff
Green, jr.. Fredericksburg, Va, as a
second lieutenant of Cavalry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
GIFT TO MRS. HOOVER.

Brilliant Textiles From Guatemala
Presented to First Lady.
Brilliant textiles woven by Indians of
Guatemala have been presented to Mrs.
Herbert Hoover as a gift from Sonora
de Chacon, wife Of the President Of
Guatemala.
They were carried to the White House
by Col. MIGUEL Garcia Granados, chief
of the Guatemalan Air Corps, and Lieut..
Carlos Merlen, chief of the mechanical
section, who completed a four-hop
flight from Guatemala City In 2412
hours flying time.
The presentation to Mrs. Hoover fol-
lowed receptions to the flyers by Presi-
dent Hoover and Secretary Stimson, to
whom they were introduced by the
Guatemalan Minister, DR.. Adrian Reel
nos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
C0L0RED WOMEN TO MEET
Mrs. Stewart, National Federation
President, Principal Speaker.

Mrs. Sallie w. Stewart of Evansville,
Ind. national president of the Colored
Woman's Clubs, will be the principal
speaker at mass meeting to be held
by the Districts State Federation of
Colored Woman's Clubs at $3.50 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon at the Metropolitan
Baptist Church. on r street between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Woman
members from all parts Of the country
are expected to attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
STAYSlN NICARAGUA.

One of the outstanding Marine Corps
heroes In Nicaragua, First Lieut.. Her
man H. Hanneken, who captured
Jairon, the right-hand man of San
dino, bandit leader, is going to stay
in the Central American republic when
the other Marines depart for home
soon.
Lieut.. Henneken, who has been with
the I'd Brigade of Marines, is now with
the Nicaraguan National Guard de-
tacfment, the native constabulary
force, officers at Marine Corps head
quarters said today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
GIRL SWALLOWS POISON.
Irene White in Hospital, Her Con-
dition Undetermined.

Irene White, % years old, OF 1919
Ninth street swallowed poison shortly
after 6 o'clock yesterday evening while
seated on a park bench near Eighth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Passersby summoned police and the
girl was sent to Emergency Hospital IN
She was treated by DR.. John Schwarz-
man of the staff, who said her condi-
ton was undetermined.
Police were informed the girl had
been respondent for some time past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
POLICE STAY 2 BANDITS.
Gun Battle in Apartment House
Basement Follows Robbery.

KANSAS CITY. August (P.-Two
unidentified men were killed and James
Dwyer. patrolman. was wounded slightly
last night in a gun battle which oc-
Cured when police corralled bandits
in the basement of an apartment house
after following them from the robbery
of filling station.
Dwyer was shot in the arm when he
and two other officers started into the
basement after the men. More than
so shots were exchanged before the
bandits fell before charges from riot
guns.
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Horace J. Nickerson Found Dead.

Horace j. Nickerson, Sc years old, who
recently came to this city from Mary
land, was found dead In his apartment
at 1855 Calvert street about o'clock
yesterday afternoon by his son, Earl
Nickerson. Coroner J. Ramsay hewitt
gave certificate OF death from natural
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21
EAX ENFORCEMENT
RAPED BY DORAN
- - OssA -
Says Police in Many Cities Have
:. Unholy Alliance With Un.
- dervor:a Criminals

New Haven, Ccnn., Feb. 2l.-(R-
Sbeaking at Yale university last
night. James M. Doran, prohibition
commissioner, placed much Of the
blame for unsatisfactory conditions as
regards prohibition in some commun-
lttes to "the abject failure of local
Huthority to assume its proper obliga-
ton and enforce the criminal law"
GF1e said that the movement on the
part Of some local authorities to evade
their responsibilities took form as
soon. as the prohibition act became
lay and that in some cities corrupt
Political machines, through the police
department. made an unholy alli-
ance with the underworld and con-
trfbuted in no small degree to the
building of illicit liquor rings"
Zone of the prohibition administra-
tors" he asserted, whose headquar-
ters is in large eastern city, told
me that he was of the opinion that
during the past year more speakeasies
were raided by the local police fol
failure to pay graft than for the fact
that they were obviously violating the
state law as we'll as the federal law.
1s"The SNUG merchant, who drink.
hts highball in complacency in hi
club. Is beginning to see the connec.
ton between liquor lawlessness tha
finances criminals and extortior
rackets on business. How many othel
cities. large or small, need cleaning
can be left to the conjecture of tn,
respective residents"
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21
Mandan Rail Body
Sets Program for
National Speaker

9. G. Van Eman, Chicago. assistant
national secretary Of the Benefit As
ISOLATION Of Railway Employees. will
give q lecture to the Mandan organ
izati0n Of the association at 8 p. m.
tomorrow.
This was announced today by NJ. 8.
Kraft. Mandan secretary.
The lecture, which Is illustrated
with moving pictures. will be given at
Carey Hall, 3l2 West Main street,
Mandan. A musical program haa
been arranged also.
A card party and luncheon viii be
given after the lecture and all Bis
marck a.ia Mandan members Of the
organization are invited to attend
according to Mr.. Kraft.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21
Equal Rights Asked of
Legislature by Women

Albany, N Y, Feb. 21.-P)-Fem-
inists. carrying proudly the banner of
equal rights and with Nine. Gamma
Walska as their chief spokesman,
have placed before New York legisla-
tors their arguments for separate
donicile, compulsory jury service for
women and equal guardianship rights
for both parents of minor children.
Nine. Walska, the wife of Harold Nc
Cormick, cited how she recently was
held liable by the United States GUS
<oms court for certain effects on the
ground that her husbanGs home was
her own although she had declared
Paris as her separate home.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21

chairman OF the committee and the
chairman Of the delegation:
"Were you compelled 70 take the
office you now hold?"
mo-"
"You sought the office Of your own
free will and accord?"
'Ye.es."
III you should resign, would It Be
difficult or impossible to find 4 ca
pable man to take your placer"
"No-o."
"Then, II the salary Of the office Is
insufficient, why don't you resign and
take up some other work?"
That ended that matter that time.
The law Of supply and demand, you
see.
%. J. LOKKEN.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21

have been arranged that tarunsfs
misht buy swset clover ana Alfalfa
iced through local agents.
The schedule follows: parshaIl.
Feb. q, I p. M: Van Hook, Teb. =.
10 1. m.: stanley, Feb. =. ! p. n;
Powers Lake. Feb. -, ! p. M: White
Earth, Mar. q. 1 p. m: plaaa, March
8, 3 3. M; Belden. Mar. Z, : y. m;
Ross, Mar. Z. 3 p. M: Toga. Mar. =
Z .. M: Powers Lake, Mar. :, 3 p. m.;
and Palermo, March 3. :. n.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21
able to bear It, the aged and the
widows and orrhans.

able to bear It, the aged and the
widows and ORPHANS.
North Dakota Is not the only state
that has suffered from bank failures.
Many other states have had the same
trouble.
believe the remedy lies In govern.
ment owned and operated postal sav-
in~s banks.
The amount Of postal savings ac-
cepted at the present time Is 30 small
1t does not prove Of much help.
believe the law governing these
deposits should be amended SO that
at least five thousand dollars could
be deposited in such postal savings
accounts.
Postal savings banks flourish In
many countries, and are the refuge
Of the poor. In them they place their
hard earned savings, knowing noth-
ing can take them away, and that
they are under government protec.
ton.
It Is true that many times banks
fail when their officials are honest
and trustworthy, but it i; also true
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21
Peoples Forum
AS SEEN AT HOME
Walcott. N. %.

Editor, Tribune:
Do the times change and we with
them? The writer received almost
all Of his common school education
in a Richland county rural school
with its noisy states, wood burning,
drum type stove, double seats, and,
dearest Of all, counterpart Of that
historic old oaken bucket. that iron
bound bucket, that hung in the well.
How many a heaven-brewed draught
that bucket drew!
None Of the teachers were college
bred or normal trained. Most Of
them. perhaps all. were foreign born.
There was no law compelling the
teaching of the Constitution. Yet,
within the confines Of that school,
house. he was taught respect for the
Constitution and learned 1t by heart,
right there, word for word, amend
ments and all. Later on when he be-
came a high school teacher, he had
the members Of his classes in civics
learn the Constitution by heart, word
for word, amendments and all. None
of the students seemed to suffer any
evil effects from this infliction. but
all of them, SO Tar as known. appear
to live honorable lives.
* \ \
This story may be true and 1t may
not be-. It is here told essentially as
heard. Once upon time, so all good
stories begin, q delegation Of elective
officials appeared before legislative
committee urging the passage Of q
bill increasing the salaries Of said
elective officials and those whom they
represented. The chairman Of the
legislative committee was distin-
guished gentleman from Cass. When
the delegation had finished their plea
there ensued this dialog between the
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21

IDLE th..r ~ \. yields BY growing
sweet clover and have seen their Gown
produce buckets full of good, rich
milk AFTER consuming alfalfa hay.
: ike says.
Few counties In the state have less
alfalfa per farm than has Aountrail
county. he says, and because farmers
are finding livestock more essential
to the success OF their business the
demand for alfalfa ID on the increase.
A series Of meetings In the county
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-21
M0untrail Farmers
Planning to Plant
Clover and Alfalfa

Stanley, N. Dak.. Feb. 2l.-Sweet
clover and alfalfa are in great de-
mand In Mountrail county this year.
&C riding to &. A. Tis.,c. county ayr
cultural agent.
Farmers Rave seen their ncightors