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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
EARLY PROHIBITION
DECISION IS ASKED
Justice Office Cites Uncer-
tainty of Enforcement In
Supreme Court Petition.

BY the Associated Press.
Seeking TO end uncertainty regarding
the validity Of the eighteenth amendA
ment, the Justice Department had be-
fore the Supreme Court today q request
that an early hearing be given Its APP
peal from the decision Of Judge Clark
of New Jersey.
With the request was o brief setting
forth concisely the Governments dis
agreement with that jurist's conclusion
that the prohibition amendment was In
valid because ratified by State Legis-
latures rather than constitutional con-
ventions.
Argument II Brlsl.
The Governments brief, written by
the solicitor general and Assistant At
torney General Youngquist, In charge
OF prohibition, with the aid Of four
other attorneys, filled in its entirety
only 1B pages, most Of which were given
over to quotations from other laws and
rulings. Its summary Of the case said;
Article v of the Constitution pro-
vides that amendments shall be valid
when ratified by the Legislatures of
three-fourths of the States or by con-
ventionS in three-fourthS of the States,
as the one or the other mode of ratifi-
cation may be proposed by Congress-
1T was held by the court below
(Judge Clark that the generality Of
this language should be modified by
principles of political science and that
an amendment such as the eighteenth
amendment could be constitutionally
ratified only by conventions in the
States.
Denies Ambiguity.
4. zf
Article v Is clear and entirely free from
for the construction adopted by the
court below. This court (Supreme
Court has said The language Of the
article is plain and admits no doubt Of
it's Interpretation
Justice officials were of the opinion
the Supreme Court would set date for
the argument on its next opinion day,
January IL. It is at present in recess
until next Monday. The court will
recess again on January 20 until Febru-
airy "a, and the Governments repre-
se1ltatives are hopeful the case will be
heard before that.
Dry Law Collapse Charged.
Meantime, a discussion of the Clark
decision in a statement issued by the
Congressional Districts Mobilization
League COugdAIieu OAAC docSA eIVn Itidk VIC
collapse Of prohibition enforcement Is
so complete" the Government cannot
protect the medicinal whisky in its
bonded ware houses, and that this is
being sold, cut and adulterated while
still under Government seal"
Another statement, issued by the
Anti-Saloon League, viewed with OPP
timism conditions of the past year and
forecast for 1881 no material change ex-
cept improved enforcement.
The Wickersham commission itself
continued work with only a bare ma
jority of the members present. They
were still uncertain as to how soon they
coAld hand in their report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31

laboratory Of the Cleveland Clinic as
part of 6r. George washington cries
researches into tn fundamentals OF
living tissue, we've shown yesterday.
The radiation is called mitogenetic,
which scientists are inclined to believe
is ultraviolet light. having the wave
length of the ultraviolet used In the
curing of rickts and giving sun tans.
Exposure for the photographs require
approximately 100 hours. On the mega
tive the radiations make dark gray
semi-circular splotches.
New Use for Radio Knife.
New use for the radio knife were an
neunced by the Westinghouse x-ray Co.,
which had It on display at the research
exhibits. Technique was recently de-
veloped. according to w. A. zerbe, in
charge OF the display, whereby 1t could
be used for cutting out cancer, without
the spread of the malignant cancer cells.
It has also been discovered that the
knife can be made to cut under water,
making some heretofore major opera
tons simple minor ones.
The knife cuts by means of rapidly
osclllAtifig electric current.
THE Russian revolution is the most
significant event in modern history" ac-
curding to DR.. Leslie A. White.
DR.. White. who is assistant professor
Of anthropology at the University of
Michigan, made this statement in a
paper entitled AN Anthropological APP
praisal of the Russian Revolution"
Capitalist socity cannot continue to
exist" he said, 1T has almost realized
itself, ana signs Of disintegration are
visible on all sides. And already q post.
capitalist society has formed itself In
our midst"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
SCIENTISTS PROTEST
D. C. BILL BARRING
DOGS IN EXPERIMENTS

CONTINUED From First Pagel
in the District of Columbia afford every
safeguard against the infection OF I'M
necessary suffering upon the animals.
"No legislation of the character pro-
posed in this bill has ever been enacted
in spite of the efforts Of anti-vivisec-
tionists in this country and abroad for
many years.
This association, with membership
of over l9 900 and representative Of all
the sciences of nature and of man, Is
confident that il the members of Con-
gress become fully informed Of the in
fury which would be inflicted upon the
progress Of curative and preventive
medicine by such legislation H. r. bill
1894 will not receive their favorable
consideration"
Develop Malaria Cure.
Canary birds affected with bird
malaria have helped make possible the
development of piasmochin. a drug that
cures malaria In humans, 1t was re-
vealed today.
Plasmochirl was recently developed
in Germany as direct result OF ex-
pertinent with canaries affected with
malaria, said Dr. Reginald d. Man.
well Of Syracuse University, speaking
before the physiological section Of the
American Association for the Advance
ment Of Science.
lone OF the great advantages OF plas-
mochin over quinine is the ability OF tne
former to destroy the creScents OF
plasnodium," said DR.. MAXWELL. These
are the crescent-shaped germ cells OF
malaria.
How plumbers made by students have
thrown new light on educational work
was explained by Benjamin Q. Gruen-
berg of the viking Press. New York. He
held that what teachers take to be
the students failure to UNDERSTAND
often is really the teachers failure to
make clear.
Similarity in words, he said. is one
cause of such misunderstanding as IL
Illustrated by q pupil, who said:
"Acrimofly, sometimes called holy. Is
another name for marriage"
A misunderstanding Of the teacher
definition OF the word peculiar leo 70
, this one:
: Teacher-What three animals are
peculiar to the Frigid ZoneP
Student--The lion, the elephant and
the giraffe would be peculiar to the
Frigid Zone.
IN false differences by the student
Mr.. Gutenberg attributed this one:
"A grass widow is the wife Of a dead
| vegetarian"
Faint Aroma Of Almonds.
II the earth should bump comets
| tail the air might take on faint aroma
OF almonds. it was declared before the
astronomical section.
The presence in the tails Of ID comets
| of cyanogen, a colorless gas known on
/ earth and having an alfinondlike door.
was reported By Prof. n. T. Bobrovni-
| koff OF Ohio Wesleyan University.
| Changing the species Of plants with a
! big magnet has been tried with results
that give hope of success at the United
States Department OF Agriculture. the
| scientists were informed
1 The magnet is made by the electric
current from a 20-horsepower gasoline
generator, its coils connected TO q ITO Or
! 300 volt source Various plants we've
placed la the field OF this big magnet.
with the idea that the electromagnetic
radiation might affees their chrome
somes, the threadlike substances In cells
which govern plant species, shapes,
colors and fruits.
DR.. Q. r. sprague Of the Bureau Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
LEGGE SEES DOOM
OF SHORT SELLING
Will Come to Grain Trade If
Restrictions Are Not
Enough, He Holds.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The opinion that short selling on
grain exchanges ultimately will be elini-
mated was expressed today by Chairman
Legge of the Farm Board.
In response to questions, the chair
man made clear that he favored a re-
striction of short selling rather than
its prohibition. He expressed doubt,
however. that short sales could ever be
restricted, and said if that proved to be
the case he would have to go further
and favor their elimination.
Trading on a basis OF eliminated short
selling, he said, would probably result
in the trading of about four times the
actual grain that is handled instead of
the trading Of 20 times the actual grain
under short-selling methods.
The trading Of from three to four
times the actual grain, the chairman
said, would be done by the elevators,
the miller and ware house man, who
with others want legitimate hedges on
their wheat.
Hazard Seen in Restriction.
The chairman's statement was made
in reply to questions on statement in
Chicago yesterday by Peter B. Carey,
a vice president of the Chicago Board
OF Trade who said further Federal re-
strirtions on trading might cause the
exchange to close.
Legge expressed the opinion that it
was improbable the exchange would
close. He did not advocate that course.
Properly regulated" he said, the
grain exchange has a useful function to
perform
The chairman advocated that grain
exchanges should not be permitted to
establish their own regulations, which
obviously are to the interest of the
traders rather than to the producer or
consumer, except as approved by the
Secretary of Agriculture"
The further restrictions desirable, he
said, would involve a consolidation OF
the administration Of the three differ
ent laws affecting trading. These laws
the warehouse act and the grain fu-
utres act Each of these was enacted
at different time and has different
division for administration.
Views on Marketing Act.
Legge said such consolidation
would probably be welcomed by the
Board of Trade. and traders generally.
Questioned further, he replied that
one Of the purposes of the agricultural
marketing act was to limit speculative
trading
IF we succeeded in eliminating the
exchange without legislation it would go
down In history as some achievement,
wouldn't it?" he asked.
Legge said he did not believe Carey's
statement represented any well con-
sidered policy or program Of the board. y
He also termed the Carey statement
as "petulant expression"
If the grain exchange at Chicago
should close, Legge believes something
would be found as a substitute.
At the present time, he said, live
stock, representing about 35 per cent
of the financial value of all agricul-
tural products, Is handled without an
exchange. Wheat, he said, represented
about 8 per cent. Legge said wheat
could be sold over the counter the same
as live stock.
BOARD CLOSING LIMITED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
HINES CLARIFIES
CERTIFICATE ISSUE
Outstanding Veterans Pa
perS Have Maturity Value
of $3,420,0O0,OO
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Cognizance is being taken by the
administration of the growing agitation
among veterans of the World War with
respect to the casfing of their bonus
certificates. The problem is so COM
plicated that much misunderstanding
has arisen concerning it, and various
bills have been introduced in Congress
which, If adopted, would mean a cash
payment by the Government of $1,000
100000. This has been opposed by
the Treasury Department, and has led
now to clarifying statement by Gen.
Frank T. Hines, administrator of vet
Grams affairs, who comedies that Con
siderable misunderstanding has arisen.
Billions Outstanding.
There are at present outstanding
3395,00 certificates with a maturity
value of $3,420 900 900, or an average
of more than $1,000 each.
When Congress, in 1924, passed the
existing law. provision was made where
by the veterans could borrow on their
certificates, after the latter had been
In effect for two years, an amount based
on a reserve value At present it is
estimated that most of the veterans
can barrow approximately 22la per cent.
or a little over 1928 on the average
certificate. 1t has been calculated that
about 100000 veterans have already
borrowed to the extent of approximately
$500, DOC, 900 and that $425 O0O, 900 more
can be borrowed during the year 1881,
making a total loan value of the exist
ing certificates Of about $725, 100000.
The Veterans Bureau has been lend
ing heretofore at the rate of 100000
a month, and now. due to the large
number that will become eligible for
loans in 1881, approximately $20.000,000
will be loaned during the month OF
January
mo doubt" says Gen. Hines, "the
availability of these funds will be helpful
to those veterans who find it necessary
to make loans at this particular time
100000 Loan Applications Expected.
The machinery of the Veterans Blu
reau has been geared up to take care
of all demands, and it Is anticipated
that more than 100000 veterans will
make application for loans on their adj
justed service certificates during the
month of January.
It is too early to say whether any
nsw legislation will be pressed for
passage during the present short session
but the administration feels that during
the next two months the elasticity of
the present system of borrowing on
bonus certificates will be tested and If
any notifications are needed they can
be presented at the December session.
Meanwhile. some of the members OF
Congress are comforting with veteran
organizations to determine whether any
change in the existing plan should be
made.
The particular impetus behind the
movement at present is a belief that the
advancement of funds to che veterans
will put money in circulation and help
those who may be unemployed. The
Treasury Department, on the other
hand, is opposed to any increase in ex-
penditureS at this time which would re-
quire an increase in taxation, because
the latter might be an influence in re-
tarding business recovery.
(Copyiig light 1907
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
BOARD CLOSING HINTED.
Chicago Executive CriticI1es Conditions
Of Market Trading.


CHICAGO, December 81 NP).-Further
Federal restrictions on grain specula-
ton may cause the Chicago Board of
Trade to close its doors, an eventuality
which, according to Peter B. Carey, a
vice president, the board Of directors
has contemplated
I'VE might as we'll; few traders are
doing any business, the Government
agencies are doing most of the trading"
Carey observed yesterday.
The present home of the Board of
Trade, a $4,000, 900 peak of A stories,
crowned with gigantic statue of Ceres,
rising 608 feet above La Sale street, has
been open only a year.
Its time we fight back at those who
have tried to make the Board OF Trade
the goat in this farrn-relief business"
Carey said.
His utterances were significant be-
cause the Board of Trade has refused
to be drawn into any controversy over
the Farm Board policies. While Min
neapolis Kansas City and lesser Boards
of Trade criticized sterilization and
other Farm Board practices, Chicago
board officials remained silent.
Carey scoffed at Legge's suggested en-
barge on Canadian wheat declaring,
None to speak Of" entered, only few
fancy kinds not grown in the United
States"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
HOLDS INDUSTRY
/. OWES WORKER lob
Has No Right to Shoulder
Unemployment on Commu-
nifty, Says Wagner.


CLEVELAND, December Sim
dustry has no more right to shoulder
its unemployed on the community than
it has to ask charity to care for its
machinery in periods of depression,
Senator Robert F. Wagner told the
Association. for Labor Legislation and
cooperating organizations last night
III the wage Garner is to be protected
in his right to work, 1t follows that in
dustry must be subjected to a duty of
maintaining the, continuity of wages" "
the Senator said
ut does not strike business as
strange that 1t continues to pay in
terest though Its capital lies idle. Rent
is collected though the plant is vacant.
In the absence OF profits, dividendssare
paid out Of surplus without so much
as an intimation that anything I'M
usual is occurring.
why should a different policy gov
ern the payment of wages?"
Dr. Leo Wolman of the association
Executive Committee, also argued that
ut is time for industry to cease hold
ing cut the tin cup to the American
public and to begin paying its own
overhead" He advocated unemployment
insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31

Z
hour for electricity for domestic Uses
other than lighting.
President William F.. Ham and Vice
President s. Russell Bowen Of the power
company made defenSes at the after
noon session yesterday of the consent
decree of Equity Court, under which
the electric rates have been annually
adjusted since 1928. Mr. Ham said that
under the decree there has been a reign
Of peace, as corltrasted to the 10 pre-
ceding years of pickering and contention
Under the decree the officers of the
company, freed from the necessity of
constant attendance at valuation pro-
ceedings and court litigation, were able
to develop it to a high pitch of eff
flciency. He was surprised that the
public should, seeing that they hadf the
lowest rate but one in the country, be-
grudge the company its 10 per cent
profit, the result OF the working of the
decree.
He quoted from editorials in the Wall
Street Journal, the Boston Transcript,
the Public Utilities Fortnightly and
other journals showing the high esteem
In which the Washington decree is held
in other parts of the country, and from
editorials in the Washington press at
the time OF the entering of the decree
congfatulating the utility and the COM
mission on arriving at a truce after 10
years of warfare.
Peoples Counsel Keech and Will
liam Mex. Clayton of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations, argued
that the dscree was never intended to
divest the commission of its rate-mak-
ing power-to reduce it to a mere rub
Der stamp of the courts II the commits
sion holds itself bound perpetaally by
the decree, then it has abdicated its
rights to act as the mouthpiece of Con-
greSs in debating reasonable rates Tor
public utilities in the District of CO..
lumbia. To adopt the rates Suhmitte0l
by the company was to assure the COM
pany q 10 per cent rate of return In
1891, rate far beyond that which Is
iJlst and reasonable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
Hyde and Caraway
Christmas Card
Argument Sizzles
Senator's ''Interest in
Starving Babies Brings
Scathing Reply.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Sweetly worded greetings for Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year had
given rise today to an acrimonious ex-
change involving mention of starving
babies, political motives and economy.
Senator Caraway, Democrat, Arkan-
sas, opened it by saying he had re-
ceived information that Secretary Hyde
sent mis- Christmas cards out postage
free under the ranking privilege ex-
tended official business.
Hyde Denies Charge.
Secretary Hyde replied he had not.
The cards sent under frank, he said,
were from the department to those who
had aided its work during the year and
to members of the Senate and House
Agriculture Committees.
An official of the Post Office Depart
ment said few cards not entitled to
frank had been sent over from Hyde
Office through an Office error, but that
the small amount of postage due had
been paid Immediately when the mis-
take was discovered.
In bringing up the matter, Caraway
said Hyde was opposed to using Gov
eminent money to succor starving babies
in drought-ridden States, but I under
stand he used it to send out Christmas
cards.
Evidence Of Official Nature Cited.
Hyde said that sufficient proof that
the franked cards were official greet
ings only "can be adduced from the fact
that. Senator Caraway received one"
1.-THE number of these cards sent out
this year" he continued, "was about
800. The postage would have been
about $18.
1.-The Senator's interest in starving
babies is very touching. 1t l. lard to
see how the payment of SIS to the
Post Office Department by this depart
ment would have changed the status
of any babies-whether starving or
otherwise. The Senator's interest in
such babies, is, I am inclined to be-
ieve, both academic and political"
Such cards, he added, have been sent
out for 10 years and he had not been
required by postal inspectors to pay
back "a lot of postage or a cent of
postage" To clear UP the matter, the
Secretary announced he was sending q
sample of the official greeting to the
postal authorities with request for
ruling on whether it was entitled to
travel postage free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
DAVIS MAY RESIGN
PHILIPPINES POST
Governor Generals Wife Has Been
in III Health-Gen. Mccoy
Mentioned for Successor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Dwight F. Davis was reported in OH
cial quarters today to be contemplating
an early resignation of Governor Gen.
eral Of the Philippines.
The i'll health of Mrs. Davis, who has
never been able to join the former Sec
rotary of War in Manila, was said to
be the principal reason.
The possibility of entering the Repub-
lican senatorial primaries in Missouri
in 1882 also is reported to be interesting
Mr.. Davis.
Maj Gen. Frank Mccoy has been
mentioned as q possible successor to the
Philippine post He supervised the
Nicaraguan elections year and a half
ago and has had experience IA the
Philippines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
UNRAvEL 15-YEAR THEFT

PITTSBURGH, December 81 DR.
Somebody stole j. F. Bickerstaff' s
watch here-l5 years ego.
Today city detectives we're preparing
to send the watch to Bickerstaif, who
now resides in Fisher, MINI.
The watch was found in q pawnshop
recently. It had been in pawhshops "a
times since 1t was stolen, police said.
and they had a story put in the papers
about it. Out in Minnesota, Bickef-
staff read about it and got into COM
nunication with the detective bureau
here,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
MRS. MARY B. HARTMAN,
SOCIAL LEADER, EXPIRES
Body Will Be Brought From Paris
to Grave Beside First Hus-
band in u. 8.
BIZ the Associnted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 3l.-Mrs. May
Brady Hartman, New York social
leader, died IN Paris yesterday. She
will be buried beside her first husband
at Roslyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Hartman was the divorced wife
of Herbert Melville Hartman and had
lived in Paris for many years. She was
a daughter of the late Judge John Rand
Brady of Baltimore.
Mrs. Hartman was divorced from
Mr.. Hartman in 1921. Her first hus-
Hoboken, N. j., and the second was
Maj. Charles Spencer Hall of the Brit
ish Army from whom she was divorced
in 1906. Two years later she niarrief
Mr.. Hartman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
Fires Menace Observatory.

LOS ANGELES, December 81 (P.-
Seven forest fires, which Federal au-
thorities said were of incendiary origin,
yesterday menaced the famous Mount
Wilson Observatory. Six were extirD
guished without difficulty. One hun
dred men were enlisted to fight the
seventh, which A. j. Mueller, assistant
United States forest supervisor, reported
under control late last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
FARM BOARD GAMBLING CHARGED
Texas Mass Meeting Passes Resolutions
OF Protest.

DALLAS, Tex, December 81 R-
Charges that the Federal Farm Board
had "gambled" In farm products on a
large scale were made in resolutions
adopted by a mass meeting Of farmers
yesterday sponsored by the Farmers
Marketing Association of America and
the Farmers Union of Texas.
The declaration alleged that the Farm
Board had engaged in collective SELL
ing" instead Of cooperative market
ing" and demanded that cotton pur-
chased by the Farm Board not be sold
on call, but that it be stored In ware
houses where 1t actually can be SEEN"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
BANK DID NOT CLOSE

Report About Mississippi Institu-
tion Was Erroneous.
CLARKEDALE, Miss, December 81
were in error when they advised the
Associated Press yesterday the Bank OF
Hollandale had closed as q result Of the
closing of two banks In Clarksdale.
The Bank OF Hollandale has not
closed, but is doing business as usual
Ind is prepared to meet demands.
The Associated Press Is glad 70 make
tlflB 4oErection.