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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-05
ACTION ON RADIO
BOARD DUE TODAY
Hearing on Bill to Extend Commits
sion's Life Concluded by
House Group.

The House merchant marine COM
mittee, which meets in executive ses-
sion today. is expected to pass on the
bill extending for a year the life of the
Federal Radio Commission.
If the bill should be reported 1t
would be considered by the House under
a special rule to expedite procedure.
The committee concluded hearings on
the bill yesterday with final scrutiny
of the award of 40 short wave lengths
to the Universal Wireless Co. of Buffalo,
N. Y.
To hasten action also, the Senate
interstate comerce committee opened
hearings yesterday on an identical
measure. From Commissioner H. A,
Lafount it learned that tentative
agreement, apparently favorable to this
country, had been reached between the
United States and Canada over the
ALLEGATION of radio wave lengths.
DR.. John Nathanson, general counsel
of the Universal Co. was the only wit
ness before the House committee. He
informed his examiner. Representative
Universal Co planned a $25,000,00
point to point radio communication
service to 10 cities, without any
present intention of offering stock for
sale to the general public.
Under examination, Nathanson adj
vised Free that he did not know
whether the hackers of the company had
agreed in writing or orally to under
write the capital stock of S25, 900 900, but
he told the committee that the Buffalo
group was financially capable and
morally responsible to carry out such
an enterprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-05

1T took long effort to effect
thi S extraordinary pur-
chase from one of Americas
finest and best.knOiUn max
ers of Union Suits. NOiU ace
announce the outstanding
Union Suit Event Of seUeraL
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-05
WILL REBUILD DREDGE.

On recommendation of Gen. Jadwin,
chief of Engineers, the Secretary of War
has made an allotment of $4,000 for
the reconstruction of the dredge Talcott
with a steel hull. That dredge is oper-
ating in the Potomac River at Wash
ington and vicinity. including the i'm
provement of the Virginia channel
above and below The line of the Airing
ton Memorial Bridge. Reconstruction
of the dredge is expected to expedite
operations for the draw span of the
bridge and for other construction work
near Columbia Island
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-05
u. S. JOBS ARE OPEN.
Civil Service Commission An
nounces Competitive Examinations.

nounces Competitive Examinations.
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced the follow
ing open competitive examinations:
Supervisor of landscape gardening,
Veterans Bureau, $4,000 year.
Physiotherapy aide, hospitals of the
Veterans Bureau and Public Health
Service, at 1900 to $4,000 a year.
Physiotherapy assistant, hospitals of
the Veterans Bureau and Public
Health Service, at $l,440 to $l,740 a
year.
Farmer, Indian Service, at $1,560 a
year.
Senior hydraulic engineer, Engineer
Department at $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
Transportation and refrigeration
aide. Bureau of Plant Industry, Depart
ment of Agriculture, at $1,000 to $4,000
year.
Social worker (psychiatric) at $4,000
a year, and junior social worker at
81 800 a year, Veterans Bureau hos
pitfalls.
Full information and application
blanks may be obtained from the COM
mission, 1924 F street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-05
H0N0RS GEN. WHEELER.
President Officially Names Dam at
Muscle Shoals.

BY the Associated Press.
President Coolidge yesterday signed
an executive order naming No. 3 Dam
at Muscle Shoals Gen. Joe Wheeler
Dam in honor of the Confederate
Cavalry leader, who later served in the
Spanish-American War and was a
member of Congress for many years.
Mrs. Julia Wheeler Harris, wife of
Senator Harris of Georgia, was present
at the White House when the order
was signed. She is a granddaughter
of Gen. Wheeler.
No Dam is on the Tennessee side
of the shoals, about 20 miles above
Wilson Dam -. Y ssssa .. Y sgss-s,..s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-05
Sudden Riches Revealed.

VICKS3URG. Miss L4D.-How it
feels to find yourself rich Unexpectedly
could be told by William Blaney, As
year-old former aviator He received
first notice of a $4,000 legacy from
an article in local neWspaper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07

and south line in about lat west longi-
tude
After the plane had been flown to
point few miles west of the range, it
was headed southwark and Capt. Nc
Kinley mapped the range from the
closer angle. In the midst of the noun
tain chain was a remarkable glacier.
1T was the most beautiful glacier I
have ever seen," said Comdr. Byrd. 1T
was or 10 miles wide and perfectly
smooth as 1t ran up to the plateau
above. At the bottom Of the glacier
and exactly in the center was square
stone mass rising like a monolith out
OF the snowy slope. 1t was wonderfully
beautiful with the sun shining on 1t
above it,"
The plane few southwark against the
wind for nearly half the way to King
Edward Land and then a shift in the
air provided another tail wind, which
to the point where the land running
east from King Edward Land runs into
Marie Byrd Land and found there a
sort of valley leading between the new
range and the eastern end of the Alex
andra Mountains.
Open Water Is Sighted.
On the western side of this depres-
sion was q large open space of water.
lar in from the sea. Cracks ran out
from the sides as If there were a strong
current underneath. On the south side
OF the pool the ground rose sharply
upward to an elevation of about 1000
feet. There were several of these pools
in the valley. some of them in the low
est part Of the depression, showing that
there was an inlet flowing in there from
the sea under the ice. 1t has started
much speculation in camp as to whether
this Is the beginning OF the theoretical
connection between the Ross and the
Weddell Seas. Only further exploration
to the eastward will clear up this point
and 1t Is possible that the water merely
indicates a deep bay. in which the
Rockefeller Mountains and the outcrop-
ping rocks OF the Alexandra Mountains
are the island tops of an archipelago.
The course OF the plane extended
southwark through this valley until the
solitary mountain east of the Rookie
Teller range which was seen last year
lay to the westward. Then the course
was again changed for Little America.
The plane passed north Of the single
mountain and over the deeply crevasSed
area just east of the Rockefeller range
which showed in the photographs taken
last year. The wind headed the plane
mere anu 10 was SenI W lower dlJl-
tude. where there was not so much
resistance. In about an hour and a
half after leaving the mountains dis
covered last year the plane came over
the camp and made a perfect landing.
Ever since then this camp has been
talking Of mountains and barriers and
plateaus and what lies south of the
new mountain chain.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
SHOEMAKER LOSES
$1,000 IN SWINDLE
Adds Savings to Prove Honesty.
All Goes in Confidence
Game.

An old confidence game yesterday
cost Leo Briguglio, Italian shoemaker
his savings of years-$l ,3O0-and shook
his belief in mankind.
Briguglio, who operates a shoe shop
at 1902 Fourteenth street, met another
Italian there several days ago and yes
terday his new acquaintance brought
around another fellow countryman.
The latter told Briguglio that he had
proSpered In this country and, to show
MS gratitude, proposed to give $4,000 to
crlppleS and other unfortunates as a
farewell gift before his return to italy.
Briguglio was to distribute the money.
but to prove his honesty, he must put
money of his own with 1t. He agreed.
and drew $1,000 from the bank.
He thought he saw the 5000 put with
his $1,000 for Safekeeping in a strong
box which the other italian furnished
When Briguglio opened the box later
1t contained, in addition to a roll of
paper, just six 81 bills, to pay him for
his labor at the bench since 1921.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
MCELAND REVUE" GIVEN
AS CARNIVAL FEATURE
Will Be Repeated at
Two Performances Tonight
at Y. w. C. A.

Two presentations OF THE Iceland
Revue" were given last night at the
Young Women'S Christian Association
as q feature of the Winter carnival
being held by business and professional
women's clubs of the association, and
two more performances of the revue will
be given tonight. at 1880 and 8 O'Clock,
under the direction of Mrs. Alice Sig
worth Morse, dramatic instructor of the
Y. w. C. A.
Booths, under the direction of eight
clubs in the department. offer a wide
variety of Christmas gifts for sale from
$50 until 10 pm. There are also
special amusement features.
THE Iceland Revue" was written by
Mrs. Morse. Those having parts in
clude Josephine and Anna Mae SIAM
baugh, Kathryn McCaffrey, Margaret
RinRrose, Lillian krause, Flora Robin
S. Mildred Cook, Vivian Witt, Sarah
McElroy, Elma Gift, Mabel Daley,
Elizabeth Roland, Ruby Collins. Marion
Halliday, Maybelle Boyce, Margaret
Burcheel, Elizabeth Findlay, Helen
Stewart Findlay, Kate REILLY, Lillian
Frizzell, Josephine Hoffman, Adele
Woolard, Helen Middleton, Dorothy
Bohannon, Suzanne Morse and Patricia
Blake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
BANKS CALL HALT
IN CHICAGO LOANS
Will No Longer Finance Local
Government Unless Pay
mentS Are Made.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 1.-Two fore
bodings of Importance plunged the
Chicago and Cook County financial
situations into deeper quandary to-
day.
Number one-Cook County's 1928
tax bills will not be ready, in all proba-
bility, until August, 1880.
Number two-The Chicago banks
show no disposition to loan any more
money on tax anticipation warrants
until some means can be devised to
repay that already borrowed.
These two announcements followed
a secret session Thursday of bankers,
city and county officials and civic
leaders. Although every attempt was
made to keep what occurred at the
meeting a secret, both morning news
papers published detailed accounts to-
day.
Already the county and city govern
ments have borrowed more than $780,
900 900 in tax anticipation of both
1928 and 1929 taxes.
Although large part of these war
rants have since been sold to New
York banking houses, the Chicago
bankers made it clear they did not
wish to continue financing Cook County
government. although admitting 1t was
a. safe investment.
Meanwhile, bankers and officials still
look to the Illinois State Legislature
for some aid in the financial tangle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, in Stanley Hall this
evening at $50 o'clock. John s. M.
Zimmerman, bandmaster: Anton Point
ner, assistant leader.
March, "Grenadier Guards. .LoSey
Overture. Grown Diamonds. :. Auber
Suite, Petite Suite de Concert"
Coleridge Taylor
LA Caprice de Nannette."
'Demande de Response"
'Un Sonnet d'Amour"
"Tarentelle Fretillante."
Gems from comic opera Monsieur
Beaucaire" .........M Messenger
Fox trot, Last Night. Honey. Monaco
ValSe de concert, THE Aero-Trav-
elers" ................ Weiss
Finale. Love, Your Spell Is Every
where" ............ Goulding
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
WALL STREET TO GIVE
BIG YEARLY BONUSES
Canvass Of Financial District Re-
Veals No Reason for
Reduction.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December THE New
York Sun says today that Christmas
bonuses in Wall Street this year will be
as generous as ever-and in some cases
more liberal than before.
The newspaper conducted canvass
If leading banking and brokerage houses
in the financial district. A Sub
stantial majority" said there was no
reason to expect lower bonuses for en-
ployes this Christmas.
Citing the record volume OF trading
on the security exchanges and Of fota-
tions of new issues, the Sun eSti-
mates that gross commissions of brok-
erS on the Stock Exchange alone this
year Appropriated $500, 000, 900 as COM
pared with slightly less than $3.50, O0O,-
900 for 1928.
Very few Of the houses queried,
bonuses would be at least equal to those
of last year had reached final decisions.
Most of them were waiting for audits
of their books as of November 80.
A few that lost heavily in the recent
market crash predicted slim bonuses,
but added that Stairs would be main
tanned almost at present strength and
that salary increases would be awarded
as usual on merit.
Oficers of the principal banks de-
plored the gloom that had been spread
by reports that bonuses in the financial
district would be cut so per cent.
With the high average Of interest
rates the banks had made good money
and their losses have been only mod
crate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
SAILORS PRAISED
FOR WORK IN WRECK
Commanding Officer of U. s. s.
Oklahoma Tells in Open Letter
of Help Given at 0nley, Va.

An open letter of commentator has
been sent out by the commanding ON
Ger of the y. S. s. Oklahoma in praise
of the spirit Of helpfulness of q party
of bluejacketS from that ship who were
in q railroad wreck near Onley, Va, last
Sunday morning while on leave from
their ship.
The sailors had left Hampton Roads
and were en- route to Philadelphia and
New York, when the train was derailed,
killing nine passengers and injuring
others. The car in which they were
riding left the rails.
The sailors although severely lacerat-
ed and bruised Immediately turned to
rescue work, and later at a hospital as
sisted the doctors in whatever way they
could.
Their commanding of1icer, Capt. j. r.
Hellweg, referred to their conduct in
glowing terms. He ascribed it to the
disciplinary training and nigh morale
OF the men who man Uncle Sans fight-
ing ships.
In conclusion Capt. Hellweg said that
the behavior of the men of the U. S. S.
Oklahoma has reflected great credit
upon the naval service. I am very
proud to have ship like the Okla
noEna With such q crew."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
SIXTH VICTIM DIES
IN PITTSBURGH BLAST
Suburban Explosions Lead AuthOri-
ties to Cut OFF Gas in
Community.
BY the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, Pa, December IA
sixth victim of the explosion that de-
molished the Munhall Post once
Thursday died yesterday a few hours
after second blast that sent nine
more persons to a hospital, where near
ly score of others still were confined
with injuries they suffered yesterday.
Munhall, suburban borough, was
shaken for the second time in two days
while postal authorities and offlcialS of
the borough and county and the Equi-
table Gas Co., were preparing to inves-
tigate the cause Of Thursdays explo-
sion.
Hilda Anderson, Z, of Munhall, died
late yesterday Of fractured skull and
internal injuries she suffered Thursday
Parts Of Munhall and nearby Home
stead were without gas last night, the
supply having been shut OF as a pre-
cautionary measure when the belief was
expressed that gas leaks were reSpon-
sible for the explosions. Steps were
taken to protect the residents from the
cold by furnishing them with coal
stoves and fuel.
A school in TIE district was closed
and other structures were vacated on
orders of the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07

Helm in many months except for only
a moment at theater last Saturday
night"
Questioned by Jury.
Miss Mccall was questioned by the
grand jury yesterday as q result of
Helms letter.
Meanwhile, United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover announced the grand jury
which has been investigating Scrivener's
death would be prepared to report soon.
Rover said no additional witnesses are
likely to be heard next week.
The Department of Justice fingerprint
experts have failed so far to find any
clue to the identity of the person whose
fingerprint was on the Scrivener pistol
it was learned from a reliable source.
However, they will continue their COM
pariSon of prints until Ncxt Tue. day or
Wednesday. They believe Vhe print
they are searching for will be found by
that time If it ever is to be discovered.
The Department of Justice was drawn
into the case several days ago after
Sergt. Fred Sandberg, chief of the Po-
lice Headquarters Identification Bureau,
told the grand jury partial fingerprint
found on the death pistol failed to
correspond with the fingerprints of
ScriVener. Sandberg pointed to this
discrepancy in proof Of his belief that
the detective had been murdered.
Many Witnesses Quixzed.
More than three-score witnesses have
been questioned since the investigation
was launched last Monday. Included
among those questioned were numerous
policemen, several physicians and nearly
half dozen girls with whom Scrivener
had been friendly.
OF all the witnesses, Lieut.. Edward J.
Kelly, former chief of the homicide
squad, who testified yesterday for almost
two hours, gave the most extended testi-
mony. Kelly directed the police inves-
tigation which followed the finding of
Scrivener's body with q bullet through
the heart in an alley in Georgetown
three years ago. Kelly was one of the
strongest supporters Of suicide theory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
MRS. BARTSCH ABANDONS
HER SUIT FOR DIVORCE
Plea Dismissed by Court Upon Re-
ing Informed She Had Re-
Joined Her Husband.

The suit of Mrs. Signe q. Bartscb
for limited divorce from her hus-
band, Paul Bartsch, a curator at the
National Museum, in which she
charged that he treated her as a
biological specimen, was dismissed YES
terday afternoon by Justice Alfred A
Wheat on being informed that the wife
had returned to her husbands home
Attorney Charles w. Arth of counsel
for the husband stated that Mrs,
Bartsch returned to her husbands
home last Saturday night.
The BartSchs were married June d
1902, and the wife complained that her
husband was obSeSsed on the subject of
biology and in her eating, sleeping and
home relations insisted on treating her
as a biological speciment. He also
dragged her about their home by the
hair of her head, she asserted, and
once threatened to shoot their young
son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
Hill Ordered to Pay Alimony.

LIVINGSTON, Mont, December 7
Pl.--Walter j. Hill, youngest son Of
the late James j. Hill, pioneer railroad
builder, yesterday was ordered by Dis
trict Judge B. Z. Berg to pay his wife.
Mildred Richardson Hill, $3.50 month
pending determination of her suit for
divorce. He was ordered to pay also
$4,000 to the clerk of court toward her
attorney fees and an additional $1,000
to the court official toward his wife's
expenses in prosecuting the action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
BILL is REINTRODUCED
FOR AIR CABINET POST
BY the Associated Press.

Undismayed by failure to obtain ac-
ton in previous sessions, Representative
Mcleod, Republican, Michigan, yester-
ca" reintroduced a bill to provide for
creation of a department of aeronautics
headed by an officer of cabinet rank.
Provision for such post was one oh
the main points in the aviation ex-
pansion program recommended by Will
liam Mitchell. at the time he was as
sistant Army air chief The House mill
tary committee. which considers such
legislation, refused in a previous Con-
gress to approve it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
Three Boys Drown Under Ice.

CAMDEN, N. j.. December z R.-
Three brothers. Thomas Leathead, Q
years; Edward. 8, and Frank, 6, drowned
yesterday after their express wagon ran
down q hill and broke through the ice
on Newton Lake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
DECISION IN $25O,OOO
LIBEL SUIT REVERSED
Appellate Court Acts on Charge
Made by Miss Morini, Opera
Singer, Against Otto H. Kahn.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December THE APP
pellate division of the Supreme Court
yesterday reversed the decision of Su-
preme Court Justice Henry L. Sherman,
who recently dismissed the $250,000
damage suit of Rosalinda Morini. a
singer, against Otto H. Kahn, chairman
Of the board of directors of the Metro
politan Opera Co.
Miss Morini filed suit last April. after
Mr.. Kahn had denied he ever had said
she had the most beautiful voice he
ever had heard. Mr.. Kahn's denial
came after Miss Morini had quoted him
to that effect in an advertisement in a
musical magazine and the magazine
printed it. In her complaint she charg-
ed his denial ruined her career.
The appellate court today ruled that
parts of Mr.. Kahn's letter OF denial
were libelous. 1t gave Mr.. Kahn 20
days in which to file answering am
davitS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
TOTAL OF SIS, 500 ASKED
IN TWO DAMAGE SUITS
Paul X. Duvall and Wife File
Claim Against Bottling Co.,
Allegins Injuries in Collision.

Suits totaling $75,5OO damages have
been filed in the District Supreme
Court against the Northwestern Bot
ting Co as the result of a collision of
a motor truck and an automobile June
10 last near Forestville, Md.
Paul K. Duvall and his wife, Lois
v. Duvall, of Potomac. Va, are the
plaintiffs. The husband wants $50, 500
damages for personal injuries to him
self, loss of services Of his wife and
damage TO his automobile, while the
wife places her injuries at $4,000.
Attorneys Frank j. Kelly and PeySer
Edelin, & PeySer appear for both
plaintiffs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07
MCCALL GAVE
SCRIVENER THEORY,
HELM REITERATES

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Glacier in Mountain Chain.

From hurried calculations TINS morn
ing 1t was estimated that the rangs nae
been mapped for $50 miles nO. ... oA
the seventy-sixth degree OF lStIIuae.
The mountains run in a general north
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07

Helm in many months except for only
a moment at a theater last Saturday
night"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07

Continued From First Page.)
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AGE-OLD MYSTERY
IS SOLVED BY BYRD
Discovery of New Mountain
Range Explains Formation
of Ice Barrier.
Continued From First Page.)

known approximately. 1t has fasci-
mated many men, and it lured Comdr
Byrd irresistibly. Unconquered by ship
1t has yielded to the airplane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-07


The hor,zon was then more than 90
miles away, as the plane was nying at
5000 feet, and June Is sure mat ne
saw about so miles off, where the plane
turned east, the blue line OF tne sea
running to the eastward and turning
somewhat south before disappearing
again in the east ,.,. At,
There seemed no doubt that this vast
cape was what held in that asIonisn!ng
accumulation of ice, around which ships
have had to md their way 70 the west
when sailing out of the Ross sea Ior the
Bay of Wales. 1t is anchored oy the
line of ice islands on tne coast,
grounded ice masses which hem In the
shelf ice. 1904 .o.
When the plane turned eastward toward
the mountains before heading 1or nome,
at a point conservatively estlmatso AZ
$50 miles out, Capt. McKinley snoI .
picture northward along the coasI une
which should show the northern limit OF
the mountains.
Glacier in Mountain Chain'
From hurried calculations this morn
IA