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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13

low-boiling petroleum products used as
dilutents belong to the aliphatic or
non-coal tar class of chemicals" says
the industrial bulletin Of Arthur d.
Little, Inc. "A result of the develop
ment and widespread use of the nitro
cellulose lacquers has been that the
production of aliphatic chemicals az
the United States increased over thir-
teen-fold In the interval 192l-l923,
namely, from 81 100000 to nearly 28l, :
100000 pounds annually, of which
about two-thirds now appear to be
used in the lacquer industry.
1.-The production Of finished coal-tar
chemicals in the same interval in
creased only about threefold. from
about $4,000, 900 to about 10000, 000
pounds annually. America is winning
a pre-eminence in the field of aliphatc
chemicals like that once held by Ger
many in the coal-tar field"
The bulletin predicts that 'the I'M
mediate future should witness the pro-
duction of new types of lacquer-pro-
ducing substances. probably synthetic
resins, that will be cheaper and more
stable than nitrocellulose, and capable
of producing films of improved f1exi-
bility, adhesion and resistance to alkali
and acid"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
ROAD WORKERS STRIKE
SEA SHELL DEPOSIT
Discovery in Colorado Pronounced
Relic of Sea Which Once
Covered West.

FORT MORGAN, Colo. (SpeciaD =
While road workers were excavating a
pit for gravel to surface highways IN
Eastern Colorado they discovered vast
bed of sea shells, nearly 10 feet dep
and covering an area of more than five
acres. The huge bed. which biologists
state is a relic of the post-glacial period
when the Western part of North Amer
lea was covered by great sea, was
found near here.
The most unusual feature of the
discovery was the fact that the top Of
the bed was within three feet of the
surface, but as the country where the
shell bed is located is sandy. 1t is APP
parent that the shifting sand has been
blown and washed away by centuries
OF erosion. Biologists from the State
University of Colorado, who have ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
ART OF LACQUERING
SHOWING PROGRESS
Modern Methods Now Accomplish
in Two Days Work Formerly
Requiring Weeks, Is Claim.

Our modern lacquers may justifiably
be considered as one of the seven won
ders of the modern age. Automobile
bodies. once requiring weeks to finish.
are now completely lacquered In less
than two days. And the finish is much
more durable that the old paint and
varnish jobs. This Is not because the
nitrocellulose which forms the base is
new. 1t has been known In one form
or another for about so years. It's use
as lacquer remained until the devel-
opment of a cheap solvent that would
render solution suitable for spraying
and would still dry quickly
"TheSe new LACQUER solvents and
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amined the vast shell bed, believe that
it would have been exposed In o few
years.
As sea shells are used to build high
ways In some of the Southern States.
this vast bed will be used TO surface
the highways of Eastern Colorado,
more than 1000 miles from either
ocean. The shells. which are fossil
ized break very easily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
import" ENGLISH WORDS

! Every once in a while the French
language isn't quite big enough, so an
English word is imported. The latest
is crash" in the sense of failure or
collapse" and, strangely to Anglo
Saxon eyes, it is spelled "krach." Every
day in the papers one may see that
something has "krached"-a diplomatic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
develop the system in Washington and
throughout the Nation.

throughout the Nation.
Schoolboy patrols will function In each
school vicinity beginning with the school
term September %, and the dinner last
night was given over largely to dis
cusSion of the duties of patrolmen III
cooperation with the pupils. The work
was praised by Inspectors w. @. Shelby
and E. w. Brown, assistant superln-
tendents Of police, and William II. Har-
land, director of the TRAFFIC Bureau.
r. L. Haycock, assistant superintend-
ent of schools. and Selden M. Ely, SUI
pervising principal for safety In the
schools, also spoke In support OF the
activity and the system itself was de-
scribed by Howard M. Startling. director
of safety of the A. A. A.. and George T..
Keneipp, manager of the association
District division.
Also present were Lieut.. B. A. Lamb
and the Is policemen assigned to the
traffic work: Privates j. E. Scott, c. H.
Lutz, Charles A. Strobel. Thomas M
Poland, P. L. Lynch, A. M. Green. How
ard G. Brown, Preston C. Wheeler. E
H. Hinson, William Wright, Cornelius
r. Gibson. j. r. jenkins and John
Maher
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conference, or an insurance company,
or bank, or what-not. Another famous
English word to be incorporated into
French recently, with different official
spelling. is "coquetael" for cocktail"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
SCOTT URGED
FOR HAITI COMMISSION

Emmett j. Scott, colored judge on
the municipal bench of the District of
Columbia and secretary and treasurer
of Howard University, was suggested
by Representative Hamilton Fish of New
York to President Hoover today for APP
pointment to the commission proposed
by the President to go to Haiti to make
an inquiry into the affairs of that He-
public.
Representative Fish is a member of
the foreign affairs committee of the
House and while indorSing the PreSi-
dents proposal to appoint a Haitian
commission of inquiry told the Presi-
dent that at least one well known coll
ored American should be appointed to
that body. Besides Judge Scott, Rep
resentative Fish suggested the names of
James Weldon Johnson. author and sec
rotary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
and Representative oscar De Priest OF
Illinois. He assured the President that
these three colored men are well quail
fed to serve on such commission and
would be helpful in assisting the admsa-
istration in the salving of the difncult
and delicate problem which the United
States is now facing in Haiti.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
SONG IN W LOBBY BEGINNING
OFD.C. GIRLS OPERATIC CAREER
Emma RedeII Gives First
Hometown Concert in Ma
tionaI Theater Today.
Acclaimed in Many Old World
Capitals and Has Toured
in South America.

An operate career that had its in
ceptlon IL years ago this month at an
informal concert in the lobby of the
Washington Y. M. c. A. will reach a
Story-book climax this afternoon, when
Emma Redell, former Southwest wash
ington schoolgirl and Stenographer,
sings before a distinguished audience at
the National Theater.
1t will be the first formal concert
given in her own hometown by the now
internationally acclaimed soprano since
she sang for the Y. M. c. A. and vari-
GUS church organizations more than a
decade ago.
Seated in her room at the Willard
Hotel today, Miss Redell recalled how a
solo she sang with unframed voice be-
fore a small group of men and women
in the "Y" lobby one December night
in 1917 started her on the path to
fame.
always Loved to Sing"
81 always loved to sing" Miss Redell
explained, land I readily accepted in
vitations to appear in church concerts
and similar programs. About the only
training I had was from the music
teacher at the Jefferson School in
Southwest Washington and from Mrs.
Robert H. Dalgleish, a private teacher
here. was not thinking of opera
then.
II had learned tipping and shorthand
at Business High School and was work
ing as a stenographer for local drug
concern. Neither my parents nor
could afford special training for my
voice, but cultivated it as much as I
could by singing at every opportunity.
THAT night IL years ago at the
Y. M. C. A. was the turning point. In
the audience was a foreign trade ex-
pert of the Department of Commerce, Mr..
Joseph Marcus, who was great lover
Of music and an ardent follower of the
opera. had never heard of him before
that night, nor he Of me. But after the
concert he sought me out and was
lavish with his praise. He declared
had a voice of great promise and he
offered to assist me in obtaining special
training.
Gives Miss Holt Credit.
"Mr. Marcus introduced me TO Mrs
Isabelle M. Hopkins, also an opera en-
thusiast. and Mrs. Hopkins was suffi-
GENTLY impressed to bring me into con-
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tact with Miss Annabelle Holt, promi-
nent New York voice culturist. Miss
Holt has been my teacher and close
friend and adviser ever since. I give
Miss Holt credit for any success I have
attained on the concert and operate
stage
Miss Redell told of the struggles
which preceded her achievements as a
singer She said she worked as wait
ress in Massachusetts, in order to pay
for food and lodgings and meet the ex-
penSe of voice instruction. Determining
to make her debut as concert Soloist
in other chimes, she went to Europe and,
after a personal canvass of theatrical
agents, finally landed an engagement
in Germany.
Emma Reoell's career as a star of
grand opera became assured in Europe.
She has been acclaimed in many of
the capitals of the Old World and has
made tour as far as South Africa.
First Hometown Concert.
"This is my first concert before the
hometown folks" Miss Redell said,
land I must say am rather excited
about it. Before leaving washington
I expect to look up some of my old
friends down Southwest and elsewhere.
I came to Washington from Baltimore
when was just 2 years old. and II
has always been home, sweet home To
me-"
What ever happened to Mr.. Marcus
the Department of Commerce MANI"
the reporter asked.
well" Miss Redell replied, with 4
smile, 81 am not supposed to let you
in on that professional secret, but since
it is of local interest, I'll tell you
We were married more than a yeai
ago!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
ICY STREETS FAIL
TO TIE Up TRAFFIC
Several Cars Go Into bitches
Off Highways in Near
by Area.

For the second time this month,
Washington went to work today over
pavement slippery with ice, although
the present freeze is less troublesome
and likely will give way tonight and to-
morrow before slowly rising tempera-
lures.
Most difficulty was encountered on
highways of surrounding Maryland and
Virginia, where icy deposits sent several
cars into bitches. Three victims, none
seriously injured, were brought to local
hospitals.
In some instances, skidding automo-
biles delayed vehicular traffic in WASH
ington. Street cars maintained Sched-
ules, however, and bus operators proflted
by their experience of fortnight past
and had chains in readiness.
% Minimum Is Predicted.
Scattered deposits of ice over the
District probably will disappear in the
and Friday, accompanied by moderatine
temperatures.
The low extreme of Is this morning
combined with a light drizzle to pro-
duce the ice The minimum of q
degrees predicted tonight by the
Weather Bureau hardly will be low
enough to produce ice in troublesome
quantities.
The ice storm that swept Washing.
ton December was largely the result
of low ground temperatures following
the recent cold spell, and forecasterS
see little prospect of another genera
freeze.
Heavy motor vehicles had great diff
Guilty in proceeding on the Washington
Baltimore Boulevard near Laurel, Md.
this morning. Traffic was at virtual
standStill for several hours.
The local division of the American
Automobile Association received num-
Der of calls from motorists whose auto
mobiles had skidded from the high
ways of Virginia, particularly between
Washington and Alexandria. On this
stretch vehicular traffic was warned
to slow down to or 10 miles an hour
Several automobiles were pulled IRON
bitches near Fairfax.
Chains Are Advised.
The association advised motorists t.
use chains in the District, nearb!
Maryland and Virginia, although tint
icy condition was regarded as tempo
rary. Cinders were being spread thu
morning over the highway across TIT
Cumberland Mountains in Maryland
while icy highways have been reported
as far West as Ohio and Michigan.
Miss Helen BriScoe, clerk in the Office
Of the Prince Georges County Circuit
Court, was injured slightly when he
automobile, occupied by several othel
employees of the Marlboro Court House
overturned on the Grain Highway earl,
this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
CONSIDER MERGER
PLAN TOMORROW
Senate District Committee to Hold
First Meeting of
Session.

With the new street railway merger
plan and several other measures likely
to be considered. the Senate District
committee will hold its first meeting
of the session at 1880 o'clock tomor-
row morning.
Chairman Capper made arrangements
for the meeting Immediately after he
had introduced in the Senate yesterday
the joint resolution prepared by the
Utilities Commission to authorize the
street car consolidation along modified
lines. 1t will be for the committee To
determine tomorrow how it wishes to
proceed in considering this latest mer-
ger proposal.
Senator Capper expressed the opinion
yesterday that the action of the utill-
ties board in leaving out of the reso-
luton this year some of the questions
which caused dispute last year would
expedite consideration of the legiSla-
ton in this session.
It is likely that the committee will
make a favorable report tomorrow on
the bill to provide free text books in
the senior and junior high schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12

ing, increased equipment and setting
which would more dignity their work
and thereby attract more pupils from
among the group who should be avail
ing themselves of this training"
In response to the question as 10
whether an improved vocational educa-
tional program here would be set up IN
the junior high school buildings or in
a separate structural unit with its own
identity, Mr.. Kramer declared that
probably both would be necessary. ELS.
tablishment of the entire course IN all
the junior high school buildings Wou!u
be unwiSe because 1t would necessltate
duplication of much expensive equip
ment, and establishment OF the entire
course in only one building would work
transportation hardships upon pupils
living in scattered sections OF the DIS
trict, he said.
Wants Whole System Embraced.
Garnet C. Wilkinson, first assistant
superintendent, in charge OF colored
schools, expressed the hope that the en-
larged program of vocational education
will not be confined strictly to junior
high schools, but will embrace the
whole system.
AT the close of the meeting DR.. Carusi
said his committee would be appointed
Immediately. He declared he would In
v;te the presidents OF the Board OF
Lite a., he Washington Chamber OF
Commerce ~ GEi.. tint representatives 10
serve upon the We Gtional body, and
that he would try TO keep the entire
membership within o. 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
AND KELLY
CHARGES DELAYED
Tomorrow Morning Dead
Line for Proper Notice
to Two Officers.

Uncertainty prevailed today as to
whether the charges of inefficiency on
which Inspector William S. Shelby and
Lieut.. Edward ]. Kelly are to be brought
to trial before special trial board
would be served on the accused officers
in time for the trial tentatively set for
Monday.
The prosecuting staff, consisting Of
Assistant Corporation Counsel Robert
E. Lynch and Walter L. Fowler, were in
terviewing witnesses today in the library
of the corporation counSePs Office be-
hind locked doors, which were carefully
guarded by clerks. Headquarters Detec-
tive Dennis Cullinane was one of the
witnesses interviewed.
Unless the charges are served by 10
o'clock tomorrow morning the officers
will be denied the 48 hours notice to
which they are entitled. Since it is not
believed that either will waive his no.
tice, the trial would have to be post
poned.
After Lynch and Fowler draw up the
charges to their satisfaction they must
first be approved by Corporation Coun-
sci William w. Bride before being
served on the accused officers.
The charges are based on report of
the July grand jury accusing the men
of bungling the police investigation into
the death of Mrs. Virginia Hurley Nc
PherSon.
The Commissioners have appointed a
special board to try the case. 1t con-
SistS of Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner LaySon E. Atkins, chairman; j.
B. Gordon, District sanitary engineer,
and Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst. CO.
ordinator and chief engineer Of the
District. The trial will be held at the
sixth precinct station.
Won't Call New Probe.
The Commissioners refused request
of Mrs. v. C. Blackwelder of Green's
boro. N. c., sister of Mrs. Virginia Hur-
ley Mcpherson, to reopen the investl-
cation into Mrs. McPherson's death,
it became known today. The Com
missioners on November 81 in reply to
a letter containing the request wrote
Mrs. Blackwelder:
"AS you well know, this case has
been given careful consideration by a
cononer's jury and by two grand juries.
The Commissioners of the District have
no duties which would authorize them
to require a rehearing of this case by
the coroner's jury, nor by the grand
jury, and therefore they are not IN
position to assist you as requested"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
TWO ASSISTANTS
NAMED BY ROVER
]. ]. Richards and F. w.
Adams Will Be Assigned
to Police Court.

United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
today announced the appointment of
two new assistants in his Office. Julian
/. Richards and Frank William Adams,
the latter colored, are the new ap-
pointees. Both will be assigned to
Police Court, Adams to take the place
of Assistant United States Attorney
Eugene Davis, who resigned recently,
and Richards will assist Assistant
United States Attorneys Hart and
kirkland with liquor violations Adams
will be in charge of gambling prose-
cutions, including the numbers games.
After the New Year Rover expects to
transfer Kirkland to the District Su-
preme Court.
Richards was born in oxford, Md,
September 81, 1894; attended the local
public schools and graduated from Bus
mess High School in this city; received
a bachelor of laws degree from the
Law School of Georgetown University
in 1923 and was admitted to the bar of
this District the same year. MIR. Rich
ards served as a second lieutenant in
the Maryland Field Artillery during the
late war, is married and has three chill
dren and has been engaged in the gen.
eral practice of the law here since 1928.
Mr.. Richards is q Presbyterian, mem
Der of the ElkS and lives at 4 Black
thorn street, Chevy Chase, Md.
Adams was born at New Haven,
Conn, SO years ago, is married, gradu-
ated from New Haven High School in
1912, attended Yale University from
1912 to 1918, attended Dartmouth Col
lege from 1913 to 1916, received the de-
gree of bachelor of laws from the How
ard University Law School here in 1925
and was admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Court of the District and of
the Court of Appeals october IL, 1925.
He saw service in the World War and
is at present treasurer of the Washing
ton bar association of the colored law
yers of this city. He is secretary of Mu
Chapter. Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, and member of Masonic
lodges at New Haven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
Darkness Prevents
Reading Lessons in
Portable Schools
Children Have to Use
Hand Flashlights to Find
Hats and Goats.

They had to use flashlights to locate
their hats and coats in one of the port
able schools at Thirty-seventh and
Davenport streets yesterday afternoon,
and the prospects are that they'll have
to do it again today.
The portables are not equipped with
electric lighting facilities, because
they're just temporary" buildings
which were set up back in 1927. So on
cloudy days, like yesterday and today,
the pupils worry along as best they can
in the semi darkness. OF course, they
have to eliminate book lessons some
times, like they did yesterday, when
Mrs. G. A. Mellman, teacher of So first
grade pupils in one of the portables,
ordered her charges to quit trying to
read at IL O'Clock in the morning.
Miss M. RonSaville, another teacher
at the portable group, was in charge
OF the afternoon shift of youngsters
yesterday. Her classes were dismissed
at 4:30 o'clock and after having elm
mated all reading lessons for the after
noon. When dismissal time came and
the youngsters went to their tiny cloak
room to get their wraps, they voiced
cries of diSmay. 1t was so dark they
couldn't pick out their own coats and
hats!
Miss Ronsaville, however, dipped into
her desk and brought out two electric
hand flashlights, which she handed to
her little charges. They gradually
found their clothes and just as the
darkest shades were settling down over
the little frame colony of one-room
schoolhouses, the youngsters filed out of
doors to pick their way homeward.
1t was slightly brighter out there
at noon today when reporter for The
Star called at the suggestion of one
of the mothers, who told of her sons
search for his coat. It looked as though
the book lessons could continue for an
other hour or two, but that flashlights
would be necessary when the after
noon classes came in. Noting these
things, the reporter slipped a drink of
water from the ice-crusted out-of-door
bubbling fountain upon which the chill
dren of the portables rely for their
drinking water in all weather and went
back to his Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
TO HEAR DR.. DICKEY
Auditorium Lecturer Is Surgeon
Explorer-Spent rs Years
in South America.

Herbert Spencer Dickey, surgeon and
explorer. who has spent Is years among
the remote areas of Colombia, Peru,
Brazil and Ecuador, will lecture tomor-
row evening before the National Geo.
graphic Society at the Washington Au-
ditorium.
When DR.. Dickey was fighting yellow
fever, malaria and beri beri he came
to know the natives well and his work
took him into primeval jungles. Once
he was captured, bound and left to be
tortured by ants. Upon another occa-
sion he was wounded by poison arrows
in an ambush attack. DR.. Dickey has
crossed the Andes I'VE times, on foot
and on mule, and has traversed the
length of the Amazon nine times.
Within the last few years DR.. Dickey
has added to his role of surgeon that
of explorer, and he took along camera
men, who have recorded scenes in the
most remote areas of northern South
America.