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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
GOV. RICHIE GETS
BID TO SHAD BAKE
Members of District Committee and
City Heads Also
Invited.

Gov. Albert G. Richie of Maryland,
members of the House and Senate Dis
trict committees and District and
Baltimore municipal officials have been
invited to attend the annual shad bake
of the Washington Board Of Trade
May "a at Sherwood Forest.
Among those to whom invitations
have been issued are the three District
Commissioners, the three assistant engi-
neer commissioners and Mayor Broen-
ing of Baltimore.
Arrangements for the affair are 60
ing rapidly forward under the direction
of Herman Carl, chairman of the shad-
bake committee, and an elaborate pro-
gram of entertainment Is being sched-
uled. Transportation to Sherwood
Forest will be by automobile and bus.
Each person attending the shad
bake win be presented with IS souve-
niers, donated by manufacturers and
merchants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
SHORT GAS MEASURES
BRING FINES TO THREE
Filling Station Employees Assessed
$500, 800 and 800, Respective
", on Inspectors Evidence.

One gasoline filing station employee
was sentenced to pay 5000 or serve
100 days when arraigned In Police
Court yesterday on two charges Of Civ
ing short measure Of gasoline to mo-
torist, while two others were given
fines Of 500 In lieu of which they are
to lose 60 days freedom each for the
same offense.
Police arrested Paul J. Craven of a
Lord Baltimore station on Eleventh
street near New York avenue on the
complaint Of Inspector A. J. Carrico
that he had purchased gasoline that
tested short of the amount for which
he paid. Once, Carrice stated, he
bought five gallons Of gas which was
100 ounces short, and on another oc-
casion the same amount ordered proved
to be so ounces less than standard.
H. N. Lear, employe of Lord Baiti-
more station at 1913 M street, was fined
500 after he was alleged to have given
a measure 102 ounces short, while
Roger Herow, employed at the same
station, failed to give Mrs. Florence
Vanderhoof 20 ounces for which she
had paid. He received similar me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
ACTION ON DISTRICT
MEASURES ASKED
Hearings on Taxi Regulation
and Education Board
Bills Slated.

The Senate District committee will
be asked during this week to take action
on four measures on which hearings
have already been held, and viii also
hold hearings on two additional bills.
On Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
the committee will consider the bill to
enlarge the powers Of the Public Utility
Commission to regulate the taxicab
business, on which various taxicab
groups have asked to be heard.
The Capper bill to provide for election
of the Board of Education by the people
of the District will be taken up at a
public hearing at Q o'clock Friday
afternoon.
The measures on which arguments
have been heard, and which Chairman
Capper plans to lay before the COM
mittee for decisions during the week
are: The bill limiting the power Of the
District Supreme Court In reviewing
decisions Of the utilities commission, the
street railway merger resolution, the
proposed loan for Development Of the
Municipal Center and the Howell
prohibition enforcement bill.
The Senate appropriations committee
Is expected to meet in executive ses-
sion tomorrow morning to consider the
District appropriation bill, on which
the District subcommittee, headed by
Chairman Bingham of Connecticut, has
been at work for several weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
1900 AUTOS ENTER
BUSINESS SECTION,
SURVEY REVEALS
Schoolboy Patrol Measures
Traffic for Parking Com
mittee.
EXPERT WILL ANALY ZE
RESULTS OF RESEARCH
Col. Grant Heads Group Formed
to Solve Downtown Terminal
Facilities Problem.

More than 1900 passenger auto
mobiles enter the downtown business
section at Pennsylvania avenue and
Sixth street from 8 am. to 6 pm, &C.
cording to count made by members
of the schoolboy patrol for the auto
mobile parking committee, which Is
making a study of the relation Of
traffic conditions and business.
Figures gathered Thursday revealed
that during the hour Of maximum con-
gestion at this point, between $3.50 and
$3.50 am, more than 1900 automobiles
passed the intersection. The afternoon
peak was reached between 4:30 and
$3.50 O'Clock, when 1t was found that
1,160 cars passed the location.
These preliminary figures were made
public last night by Charles w. Eliot,
I'd, city planner Of the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission
and vice chairman Of the joint parking
COMMITTEES, which is headed by Lieut..
Col. u. s. Grant, Sd, director Of public
buildings and public parks.
1890 Used One ThOroughfare.
In a count Of the heavy traffic on
Sixteenth street it was found that more
than 5000 outbound cars used this
thoroughfare during the day, while the
inbound cars numbered 1900.
This count was made as part Of o
general study being conducted by the
automobile parking committee, seeking
to arrive at solution of the terminal
facilities problem in the downtown
business district.
This data, cleaned at 81 intersections
OF the city, through the cooperation Of
the American Automobile Association,
the metropolitan and park police forces
and the schoolboy patrols, will be ana
lyzed by DR.. Miller McClintock of the
Erskine Bureau for Traffic Research,
Harvard University. DR.. McClintock
and Mr.. Eliot are enthusiastic over the
work done by the schoolboys.
Study Fund Being Raised.
The automobile parking committee
Is seeking to ascertain how many peo-
pie 60 in and out of the business dis
trict in normal business day. The
methods Of transportation by which
these people get in and out Of this
area are likewise the subject of inquiry
by the committee. This body, of which
Col. Grant Is chairman, includes rep
resentatives of the District Commits
sioners, the National Park and Plan
ming Commission, the chief co-ordina.
tor, the Traffic Council, the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, the
Board Of Trade, the Chamber of Com
merce and other interested agencies.
These trade organizations are now en-
gagged in raising fund Of $1,000 to
finance the studies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
LIQUID EARTH-CENTER 1000
MILES BELOW SURFACE PICTURED
Florida Scientist Denies Conception Of
Biologists That Center
Is Solid Iron.

such heat that the earth never would
have cooled to q solid.
Investigations Of earthquake waves,
he insisted, indicate that below approx
mately $500 miles the earth's substance
becomes liquid in highly compressed
state. He pointed out that the tenn
peratlre becomes progressively higher
as one goes toward the center. II this
continues all the way at the same rate
be obtained 1000 miles below the sur
face. At a comparatively short dis
lance, he said, the temperature would
become so high that molecules, chemi-
cal combinations of atoms Of various
elements, would be decomposed, release
gases, and that at the end the atoms
themselves could not remain stable IN
the intense furnace.
Under this theory, he said, the earth
center would contain about IS per cent
of oxygen, in keeping with the amount
of this element that would have been
contained in the material torn loose
from the sun, Judging from the present
composition Of the suns outer layers.
The ionized elements, he pointed out,
would weigh approximately is grams
a cubic centimeter compared with
weight of 80 grams a cubic centtmeter
on the surface.
Composition UnreveaIed.
DR.. L. H. Adams Of the Geophysical
Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington insisted that spectre
scopic analysis of the composition Of
the sun did not penetrate sufficiently
below the surface to reveal what was
the original composition of the earth.
He said that the highest temperature
possible for the earth's center under
the stellar tide hypothesis was only
about 10000 degrees, and those estl-
mates placed 1t at very much less.
BY means Of electrical discharges
equivalent to weak lightning discharges
In gases he has produced q physical
condition which seems to approach
that of the interior of stars, DR.. e. Q
Hulburt of the Naval Research Lab
oratory told the physicists. Ordinarily
the atoms Of gases excited by electric
ity produce light. This Is because the
valence electrons, or odd electrons IN
the outer shells of the atoms, are agt-
tated by the discharge. The light from
each element produces O different
spectrum.
Hulburt produced discharges Of
$4,000 volts In hydrogen, helium, oxy-
gen and nitrogen and instead Of differ
emit spectra for each element obtained
only q single continuous spectrum fol
all Of them. At the intense heat OF
the interior Of star it Is believed that
all elements are stripped of their un-
balanced outer electrons which pro-
duce their characteristic light, so that
there would be no difference In thei1
Spectrums.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

A liquid earth-center 1000 miles be-
low the surface, at temperature ap-
preaching 10000 degrees centrigrade
and more than half Of which is COM
posed of oxygen, was pictured before
the American Physical Society meeting
here yesterday by DR.. A. A. Bless OF
the University of Florida.
Bless denied the commonly held con-
ception Of biologists that the earth's
Of the earth as determined by gravity
measurements, he explained, Is much
greater than would be the case If it
was composed entirely of the same ele-
mentS that make up its crust In ap-
proximately the same proportion. This
has led to the iron-heart theory, since
a nucleus of solid iron at the center
would give the required weight.
Dr. Bless insisted that the same extra
weight would be provided by the action
Of intense heat on the atoms Of the
common elements of the earth's surface.
BY temperature of 10000 degrees they
would be intensely excited, collide with
each other at high velocities, and be-
come "ironized" by knocking OF each
others electronS. Hence, the atoms
would be packed closer together, since
much of the bulk of matter Is due to
the spaces between electronS, and there
would be a sufficient increase in weight
to account for the weight of the world.
Iron Theory Impossible.
The "iron-heart" theory holds that
during the millions of years while the
earth was cooling from a gas to q solid
mass, the iron, being the heaviest ele-
ment, naturally sank to the center,
leaving very little mixed in the outer
crust. This is impossible, Bless con-
tends, because If iron acted like that
in very hot bodies all the iron in the
sun would sink to the center. It is
generally admitted, he said, that in the
beginning the earth was torn from the
sun in a gigantic tide raised on the
suns surface by the passing Of another
star. Then the earth would be COM
posed Of the same materials which now
can be detected by the spectroscope in
the outer layer of the sun and very
little iron would be found.
Actually. he insisted, the amount OF
iron detected in the sun Is about In
the same proportion to other elements
as 1t Is found on the earth's surface.
There Is not enough to account fol-
the vastly additional amount necessary
for an iron center. Bless also insisted
that while the heavy iron was supposed
to be sinking, the elements heavier
than iron would sink also These in
clude the radioactive elements, radium
and uranium. 1t now Is generally ad-
mitted that they are confined to the
crust. If they were concentrated al
the center, he said, they would generate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
REICHELDERFER PLEDGES
BEST SERVICES TO CITY
Commissioner Delivers Brief Ad-
dress az Honor Guest Of
q. w. Alumni.

DR.. Luther II. Reichelderfer, presi-
dent of the Board of Commissioners
pledged his best services to the people
of the District, whom he said are so
situated that they "can neither hire
nor fire" their Commissioners, in brief
address to the General Alumni Associ-
alton Of George Washington University,
whose honor guest he was at luncheon
in the La Fayette Hotel yesterday.
Commenting upon the new position
he holds, DR.. Reichelderfer declared
that the very fact District citizens have
no voice In the Commissioners selec-
ton makes him and his associates on
the board more appreciative of the re-
sponsibilities borne by the offices they
hold. He asserted that for the present
his slogan will be stop, look and listen"
in the administration of his official
duties. In the same talk, the Commits
sioner expressed pride in his associa-
ton with George Washington Univer-
sity, which he attended more than 80
years ago.
Besides DR.. Reichelderfer, DR.. John
A. Foote, president of the District Medi-
cal Society, and DR.. Courson B. Conk-
lin, secretary of the society, also were
guests of the alumni association. The
guests were presented by DR.. Oscar Ben
wood Hunter, president Of the general
alumni association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
TACOMA BUSINESS MEN
HERE FOR C. OF C. SESSION
Party Is Making Goodwill Tour
of u. s. and will Visit 10
Cities.

Making q goodwill tour of the
United States, 40 prominent business
men Of Tacoma, Wash, are arriving
here today to attend the annual con-
vention of the United States Chamber
of Commerce.
The party is TO visit 10 of the lead
ing cities and will talk with various
members of Congress while here In the
interest of securing Federal aid for
their State projects. They will also
seek to interest people in the oppor-
tunities In that section Of the country.
The party arrives at 8:15 this morn
ing and gives breakfast to the WASH
ington delegation in Congress and other
guests. On Tuesday evening they win
give q banquet at the willard Hotel
r. G. Brewer, president of the Tacoma
Chamber of Commerce, and 8. A. Per-
kins. former Republican national COM
from that State; John S.
Baker, Tacoma capitalist and chair
man of the board of the Tacoma
Oriental Steamship Co., are In charge
Of the party. They viii he received by
President Hoover Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
JUNIOR LEAGUE ELECTS
MRS. CHASE PRESIDENT
Others Chosen at Annual Meeting,
but Duties Will Not Begin
Actively Until Autumn.

The Junior League Of Washington
held its annual elections Friday in the
Junior League club rooms at 1900 Q
street, when Mrs. Rowland Chase, 3rd,
former first vice president, succeeded
Mrs. Sydney Thomas as president. ,
Mrs. Cary Travers Grayson. wife Of
Rear Admiral Grayson, U. s. NJ, was
elected first vice president; Miss Anna
Carter Greene. second vice president;
Miss Sallie Hews Phillips, recording
secretary; Miss Elise H. Alexander, COR
responding secretary, and Miss Kath-
arine Dunlop, treasurer.
The new officers of the league viii
not begin to actively function until the
return of society in the Autumn, and
Mrs. Thomas will carry on with the
seasons program, which is practically
closed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
CONFEREES TO RESUME
RETIREMENT PARLEYS
Senate and House Members Seek
to Adjust Differences Over
Civil Service Bill.

Senate and House conferees on the
civil service retirement bill are expected
to meet this week in another effort to
adjust the differences in the form in
which the measure passed the two
branches of Congress.
Senate members Of the conference
have held a number of informal ses-
sions In the last two weeks to study the
new plan of retirement embodied in
the House amendments, but indications
are that this week they will resume dis
cussion of the question with the spokes-
men for the House. No intimation has
been given, however, as to the probable
outcome of the conferences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
SCOUTS DISAPPEAR
Two Boys Unheard From After
Leaving for Camp.

Packing their camping equipment and
setting out for a Boy Scout camp on
Riggs road, James Prudhomme, IS years
old, and his brother, Tom, 10, left their
home at 4213 Seventh street at noon
yesterday and have not been heard from
since.
Police of the District, Maryland and
Virginia were brought into a hunt for
the two youngsters last night when the
the camp.
The boys have had considerable ex-
perience in camping out, their mother
told police, and had remarked several
times recently that they would like to
90 to North Carolina to camp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
HEARINGS TO CONTINUE
Small Loans Bill Testimony by op-
position to Be "Interesting."

Hearings are to continue tomorrow
House District committee on the small
loans bill, sponsored by the Russell Sage
Foundation, which proposes to legalize
a rate of 31a per cent month on loans
up to $500.
Representative Lampert Of Wisconsin
asked for special hearing tomorrow for
the opposition and promised that he
would MUSTER. some VERY interesting
witnesSeSp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
SLASHED IN HOLD-UP
e. Nos Comeau Says One of Two
Co1ored Men Used Razor.

Slaslsed on the left wrist with a
razor by one of two colored men when
ne resisted an attempted hold-up last
night in the Capitol grounds, near
Peace Monument, E. Nos Comeau, 40
years old, 1706 r street, escaped as the
colored men fed without taking any
of his money.
Comeau was treated at Emergency
Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

Luther H. Reichelderfer, Admiral
Charles e. Riggs, DR.. L. s. Rowe, Mrs
Elmer Schlesinger, Rev. DR.. Arson
Phelps Stokes, Frederick G. Walcott, DR.
and Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
HUSBAND SHOOTS BRIDE
IN MISTAKE FOR YEGG
Woman Tiptoes Into Hall as
Spouse Goes for Revolver
and Is Fired Upon.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 26.-Mrs. Philomena
Chiarenza thought she heard burglars
wednesday night; reused her husband,
Matthew. A.
toed into the hall to investigate.
Matthew did not hear her leave the
room; saw dim figure. fired.
Mrs Charenza-bride Of five months
Is ia critical condition from the wound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
PLANS MEDICAL COURSE

Of Senator, to Enter School.
Miss Florence H. Brookhart, daughter
OF senator and Mrs. Smith w. Brook
mart OF Iowa, is preparing to enter the
medical school Of George Washington
University this year.
Miss Brookhart, who has been taking
a pre-medical course at the university,
mas received notice that she has quail
ned Tor entrance to the medical school
When she graduated from high school
at Washington, Iowa, In 1927, Miss
Brookhart was one OF the 10 honor stu
dents Of her class.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14
HARNESS FIRM
is FORCED OUT
BY AUTO GAINS
Three Partners Promise to
Care for Ancient
Wooden Horse.

BIZ United Prcss
KANSAS CITY Mo-, Feb. l4.-The
automobile age at last has caught up
with three pioneer Kansas City
business men and they have decided
to disband a business that has been
2 landmark here for the last half
century.
The sale which is being con-
Quoted by Foster Helmreich-W ag-
ner Harness Company is not being
advertised heavily the display col
umns Of newspapers. may last a
year, John J. Foster, senior member
of the firm said, and really If people
want harness these days they will
look up the shop, he added.
Foster has been in the harness
business for the last flfty-fiye years,
starting work when he was II years
old. He was forced to quit school at
that age because his parents could
no longer afford TO keep him in
school.
Partners % Years
Adolph Helnreich, second senior
member Of the firm, is known "as
the best harness maker in Kansas
City" and has been in the business
for forty-eight years.
The Junior" member Of the COM
pany has spent forty-one years in
the business. He is George N. Wag-
ner. The partnership has lasted for
the last twenty-three years.
Kansas. Cityians Of other decades
can remember when Display" the
gallant wooden horse was wheeled
out In front of the store every day.
Display" has served the part
nership continually and one of the
agreements of the men is that
Display" will not be sold to a junk
dealer but stored away in a loft
and given his annual coat of paint
and varnish.
High Priced Outfits
In the heyday of coaches and
riding horses here Foster-Helm-
reich-Wagner furnished the ma
jority OF high priced outfits.
roster ana his partners SOLD many
sets of harness that cost $1,000 or
more. Silver or gold mOuntings,
hand sewed ornaments in lowered
or butterfly designs, monograms,
gold terrets, quarter blankets of
leather or broadcloth were some of
the embellishments.
None of the partners is sure
what he will do when the business
finally is closed up. Foster. who
has Travelled extensively, may con-
tinue his trips about the world. He
is certain, as are the other men,
that whatever business they engage
in, it will not be something con-
nected with motorized age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
feet. you know" he explained care

feet. you know" he explained care
fully.
But the biggest whale Of all was
just a trifle over three miles long"
The listeners interrupted the mar
rator with jeers tinged with sincere
disbelief. The captain grew angry.
Il know what I'm talking about, 4"
he insisted. 81 measured that
whale. 1t was easy. We we're max
ing three knots an hour. I threw
the log over to make sure myself.
At eight bells we were just even
with his tail.
AT one bell, half an hour later,
we still hadn't passed him. Just
g tri1e after two bells. one hour
from the time we started, We passed
his head. And that makes him just
a bit over three miles long!"
Captain Delano was presented
with medal by Chief Police Frank
Beller, donor and sponsor of the
'Whopper contest"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14
RETIRED LAKES
CAPTAIN HOLDS
LYING LAURELS
Veteran Skipper Is Best
Fibber of All Con-
teStantS.
RUVnfted Press

BIZ United Press
BURLINGTON, Wis, Feb. IA
Anton Delano, retired Great Lakes
captain, is acclaimed the champion
1929 prevaricator of Burlington.
That title is slanderous to some, but
to Captain Delano, it carries great
significance.
When several years ago Burling-
tons aged citizens Wed with one
another for the honor of telling the
biggest "whopper," no rules or regu-
lations governed the contests.
In 1922, however, the competition
was placed ON an orderly basis.
A code embodying the following
principles was adopted: Contestants
must be at least 70 years of age,
they must tell at least three f1bs
and they must be related in ordin-
airy conversation in the presence of
one or more of the judges.
The winners champion lie" was
related only three days before the
close Of the 1929 season.
Before 7 came to the lakes, I
served my time on the seven sea-"
the captain said. "On one voyage
in bark out of Havre to Boston
we were driven far north by con-
trary winds. We passed a lot Of
icebergs, some of them bigger than
the biggest ship I'd ever seen.
Zone day we came upon a school
Of whales. There were some of the
biggest of their kind you ever saw.
Even the babies must have been
Is fathoms long. A fathom is six
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14
SEEK FLEET REDUCTION
Modification of Naval Building at
London Farley Requested.

BIZ Scripps-HolcGrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.-Pres-
sure is being applied on President
Hoover to modify the American
naval building demands at the Lon
don conference in the name of the
Hoover reduction pledges.
Following objections by Senator
Borah and others to the proposed
cruiser and battleship increases, the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom. of which Jane
Adams is head, has appealed to
the President Ito make the Hoover
reduction policy the official Amer
lean policy at the conference"