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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
bill FOR HOSPITAL
IS SENT TO HOUSE
District Heads Ask for Con-
Struction of ChiIdren's
Tuberculosis Unit.

tFrom the $50 Edition of Yesterdays star.)
The District Commissioners today
submitted to Speaker Longworth the
proposed draft Of bill providing for
the construction of the Children's
tuberculosis Hospital.
The report today results from the APP
pointment of a committee composed of
Maj. L. E. Atkins, Assistant Engineer
Commissioner; DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of public schools; George
S. Wilson, director of public welfare;
A. l.. Harris, municipal architect, and
DR.. Joseph A. Murphy, medical and
sanitary inspector of schools. This
committee on November 81 submitted
its report to the District Commission
ers, which is included in the report to
the House today, as we'll as report
with recommendations by Dr. Henry D.
Chadwick Of Detroit, a well known au-
thority on childhood tuberculosis, who
is now tuberculosis controller of the
Herman Kiefer Hospital at Detroit, and
who acted as consultant to the District
Of Columbia committee.
Recommendation Made.
The recommendations have been ap-
proved by the District Commissioners
and were submitted to Congress today
as follows:
That site be acquired for a chill
dren's tuberculosis sanitarium building.
That such a sanitorium be an addi-
ton to the existing health schools.
That an appropriation be made for
such sanitarium on plans submitted
to the House today by the Commits
sioners.
That an appropriation of :G25, 900 be
made for the acquisition of the site
and the construction thereon of the
sanitarium and the necessary buildings
needed as an adjunct and for furnish
ing such buildings.
100000 Not Enough.
The Commissioners report that this
committee of District officials found
that it was not possible to provide a
site and buildings for properly located
Sanitarium within the limit of $50O,00O
contained in the legislation of March
l, 1929. Within this amount a Sani-
tarium building could be constructed
end equipped, but there would also have
to be provided buildings to furnish
quarters for nurses and attendants and
building for the superintendent of
the sanitarium.
The amount authorized to be appro-
priated in the legislation approved
March /, 1929, should, therefore, be
$625 900 instead of $500, 900, the Com
misSioners advised Congress.
In accordance with the provisions
made by the Bureau of the Budget, the
Commissioners submitted this matter to
the budget director, who informed them
that the proposed increase In author
ization from 100000 to $625,00O would
not be in conflict with the financial
program of the President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
MEDAL PRESENTED
TO G. U. SCHOOL
Foreign Service Branch Receives
Award in Honor of
DR.. Jorga.

A gold medal in honor of the visit of
DR.. Nicolas Jorga of the University of
Bucharest, Rumania's leading historian
was presented yesterday to the George
town University School of Foreign Serv.
ice by its assistant dean, DR.. Thomas H
Healy, who several years ago headed a
delegation of Georgetown professors and
students that visited Rumania as guests
OF the government.
DR.: Healy explained that the purpose
OF the medal was to encourage the
School In furthering intellectual CO.
operation between Rumania and the
United States. In March DR.. Jorea will
deliver one OF the series of public lee
lures at the School of Foreign Service
on the international situation.
In recent years number of George
town students have since visited Ru-
mania in pursuing their Summer stud
les. Through the former American Min
ister to Rumania, DR.. William S. Gull
nertSon, Whois member of the execu-
i've iaculty at the Foreign Service
SchooI, Georgetown has enjoyed close
relations with many educators in that
country. DR.. CulbertSon is now Am
bassador to Chile.
=, The medal will be awarded in June to
the student in the course on political
ana diplomatic history of Europe who
submits the best essay during the wear
on some phase OF Rumanian history
LIT: Jorga conducts a mission school
IN Bucharest, in addition to a large
university for 20 girls of different ma
tlonallt1eS. The work was sanctioned
py the late King of Rumania,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
sou. KOHL.ER'S CASE.
ORDERED RETURNED.
Court Rules Corrupt Prac-
tees Act Valid in AppIica-
cation to Elective Officers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, February 4.-The
State Supreme Court today ruled the
corrupt practices act constitutional in
its application to elective officers of the
State 1t ordered returned to the Cir
cult Court an action to Gust Walter j.
Kohler from Office.
Those who sponsored the action
against the governor were: Phil La
Toilette, William T Evjue, Glenn D.
Roberts and Alvin c. Refs, Progressive
leaders, all of Madison.
air. governors political opponent had
charged he spent approximately $780,
600 in his campaign for governor. The
statutes limit the amount to $4,000.
The court based its opinion on the
fact the question involved the validity
of the corrupt ana illegal practices act,
there being no contention that the ale
legations Of the petition were not sum-
Gent If the art were valid.
Gov. KohlerS counsel hau argued
that the qualifications of the governor
and the method by which he might be
removed from Office were prescribed by
the Constitution and that thereby the
power of removal was placed beyond the
Legislature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
FAKE OFFICERS GET
$500, 900 IN LOOT
Five Ransack Home in Chicago
and Leave in Stolen
Auto.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February Alive courte-
Gus robbers called at the e. B. Mallers
home In Kenilworth, q North Shore
suburb. at 2 o'clock last night. police
said, and for nine hours ransacked the
house, taking a leisurely departure in
the xMallers' automobile at 4 am. to-
day with jewelry, silverware, clothing
and money valued as high as 100000.
Mallers. owner of a downtown sky
scraper, belittled the robbery and fixed
the loot at $4,000, but admitted the
band had sacked his home and left
MIN without an extra suit, shirt or
scarf. The first report to police said
the loss might reach a half million.
Posing as policemen and threatening
the butler, the five men gained en-
trance to the house last night and were
still in charge when Mr.. and Mrs.
MallerS returned at am. Four of the
men confronted the couple in the hall
way and the fifth trapped the chauf-
teur In the garage. The Mallers and
the servants were herded into closet.
They were nice about It," Mallers
said. They simply locked us all In the
cedar closet. They left some time after
4. We got out about 6. They cleaned
the house of everything-even my
shirts, ties and underwear. They got
two fur coats of my wife, some jewelry.
and we're still checking the rest. I'm
wearing the only suit I've got now"
The robbers piled the loot into the
Mallers' automobile and drove of,
abandoning their own inexpensive car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
CUTS 100000 ITEM
FROM PENDING BILL
Senators Omit Appropriation
Made in House Measure for
Roads Bureau Laboratory.

An item OF 100000 for the erection
OF laboratory for the Bureau of Public
Roads, either in Washington or else
where, in which to carry on road-build-
ing tests, was eliminated from the agri-
cultural appropriations bill as reported
by the Senate appropriations committee
today.
The item was written into the bill
When II passed the House several weeks
ago. During the hearings before the
Senate committee members inquired
INTO the possibility OF having the Bu-
reau OF Standards carry on road-build-
ing tests for the Bureau of Public Roads.
Reason Assigned for Elimination.
A number of years ago a small ap-
preparation was made for the erection
OF such a laboratory on the Arlington
experimental farm of the Department
OF agriculture, but 1t was explained to
the Senate committee that the building
has not been erected there because offi-
Gals felt that the experimental farm
probably would be given over as an ex-
tension Of the Arlington National
Cemetery.
The agricultural supply bill is the first
of the annual appropriation measures to
be reported out by the Senate commit
tee. and Senator McNary of Oregon
gave notice he would endeavor to take
1t up in the Senate whenever there is
lull in the tariff debate.
Agricultural Bill Total.
AS reported by the Senate committee,
the bill carries total of $153, 64S, 227.
for all activities of the Department of
Agriculture, net increase of 1868. 557,
over the House bill. The Senate COM
m1ttee gave the Weather Bureau an in
crease OF $40, 900, of which $4,000 would
be for gathering information concerning
air navigation and the balance for q
frost-Warning service.
Other increases were: Bureau of Plant
Industry, 1880; Forest Service, 500
500: Bureau of Entomology, $44,4O0;
Biological Survey, $76,157, and Bureau
OF Agricultural Economics, $388,557.
In addition to cutting out the public
roads research laboratory item, the Sem
ate committee made decrease of $25,-
600 in the Bureau Of Chemistry and
Soils.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
FOR LIEUT.. COL. KERR
Former Executive officer of Medi-
cal Center Is Buried in Ar
lington Cemetery.

Funeral services for Lieut.. Col Robert
w. Kerr, Medical Corps. U. S. A., who
died in New York Friday, were con-
Quoted in the Red Cross house at Wal
Ter Reed Hospital today at 10 O'Clock.
Capt. Alfred C. Oliver, Chaplain Corps,
u. S. A., stationed at Walter Reed,
officiated Interment was in Arlington
Cemetery.
Col. Kerr was formerly executive
officer of the Medical Center, including
Walter Reed Hospital.
At the time of his death he was
professor of medical science and tao
tics at New York University and Belle
vue Medical School. in New York, He
Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose
G. Kerr, and three brothers, one of
whom is a major in the Regular Army
During the Meuse- Argonne campaign
he was surgeon of the nth Division
He was among the first officers to be
wounded. For gallantry in action he
was given a d. S. c. and decorated
by the French government. He was
among the last troops to return from
overseas in 1920.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
MASSEY MAY BE SENT
TO POST IN LONDON
Canadian Minister Suggested as
Successor to Peter G. Larkin,
Who Died Yesterday.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special OlSpaJCn 10 Inc star.
OTTAWA, Canada, February 4.-vin-
cent Massey, Minister to Washington,
is likely to be next Canadian high COM
missioner in London, in succession to
Peter G. Larkin, who died in the Brit
ish capital yesterday, it is believed here
George Washington Stephens, former
head of the Saar governing commission
IN l923-26 and variously cabinet min
lister, may be accredited to the White
House to replace Mr.. Massey.
Sir William Clark, British high COM
missioner, will probably occupy the first
permanent official residence here of a
representative of Great Britain or any
other country as a result of negotia-
tons for the purchase of Earnscliffe,
once the home of Sir John Macdonald,
first prime minister of Canada. It's
owners, heirs of the late DR.. Charles
A. E. HarriSs, are expected to accept an
offer of between $4,000 and 500, 900
from the British government, which
plans to transform the historic resi-
dence into permanent home for high
commissioners.
Copyright, 1897
In connection with news dispatches
stating that Vincent Massey, Canadian
Minister to the United States, might be
transferred to London as high COM
missioner, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Peter C. Larkin, the lega-
ton commented today that it was with
| out knowledge of any changes in per-
! sonnet. The reports were described as
based on conjecture"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
YOUNG WIFE ASKS ANNULMENT j
OF WEDDING SHE DIDN'T REALIZE
Spanish Couple Couldn't Understand English When
Judge Said 'Man and Wife"

into the court room of Judge Thomas
Lynch.
before the court. A new document was
handed them, and they departed.
Came the date set for their mar
riape-June /. AS the day dawned the
girls brother was shot and killed by
robbers on the street. Senorita Felips
was obliged to call off the wedding, for
there was family to support.
That was last June |. Now the
senorita finds herself sonora, having
learned that among other things said
by the court that day in May was II
pronounce you man and wife,
Speaking through an Interpreter YES
terday, the 18-year-old girl asked that
the marriage be annulled. The petition
was taken under advisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04

the automobile blue book" the manual
which fixes the value of used cars. But
Tax Assessor William P. Richards said
that hereafter any machine which Is
able to run, irrespective of its age, is
to be assessed at $50 and the owners
required TO pay tax of 81 year.
The tabulation, compiled by Charles
A. Russell, assistant tax assessor, who
directed the distribution Of the tags
under the new law requiring the pay
ment of personal property tax in ad-
vance, also showed that 95,987 pairs
Of tags were issued, producing a total
revenue in the form of personal prop
erty tax of S196, 69946 OF the total
tags issued, however, 2,197 yielded no
revenue either IN the form of personal
property tax or the license fee. These
tags were given to the Federal and Dis
trict governments and members of the
diplomatic corps, all of them being
exempt under the law. Seven hundred
and eighty-nine of these free tags were
issued for so-called pleasure cars, 122
for motor cycles, 316 for heavy COM
mercial vehicles, 459 for light CONNER
c1al vehicles, ID for unclaSsified COM
mercial vehicles and for an electric
machine.
Although the new tag-issuance law,
which was effective for the first time
this year, prevented any motor vehicle
owner from escaping the personal prop
erty tax, District officials are unable
to determine the increase in the amount
OF revenue from such tax over preced-
ing years. Tax Assessor Richards point
ed out that in past years the tax on
motor vehicles was an item in the
general personal property tax, which
also included taxes on household fur
nishing and other personal property
and a comparison therefore is difficult
The bureau of efficiency, however. he
said, estimated several years ago that
the District was collecting about 70
per cent of the personal property tax
on automobiles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
GREAT SMOKY PARK
TRANSFER THURSDAY
Tennessee and North Carolina Dele.
cations Will Give Land
Formally.

Formal transfer of an area Of 10000
acres of land in Tennessee and North
Carolina, which will make the dream
of great national park in the Great
Smokes region a reality, will take place
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock at
the Interior Department. A group OF
distinguished citizens of the two States
chiefly concerned, members of the park
commissions who recommended eStab-
lishment of the park and the proposed
Shenandoah Park, members of the two
State delegations in Congress are to at
tend the actual tender of the land title
to Secretary of the Interior Wilbur
The land to be transferred lies in the
largest wilderness area east of the Mis-
sissippi and will form a nucleus to
which will be added other thousands OF
acres for the establishment Of the
Great Smoky Mountain Park.
The North Carolina delegation will be
headed by Gov. o. Max Gardner and will
include Dennis G.. Brummitt. attorney
general of the State, and L. r. Varser
assistant attorney general. In addition
the following members of the NORTH
Carolina Park Commission will attend
the ceremony: Mark Squires, chair
man: Eugene c.. Brooks, secretary:
Verne Rhoades, executive secretary; D
M. Buck, John @. Dawson, Plato D
EbbS, r. T. Fountain, ]. A. Harrison
Stuart w. Cramer, jr.: j. Elmer Long
Harry l.. Nettles and E. S. Parker, jr.
Gov. Henry H. Horton of Tennessee
will head the delegation from that
State, which will include the following
men: John r. Aust, assistant State
attorney general and members of the
Tennessee Great Smoky Mountain Park
Commission, as follows, Col. David C.
Chapman, Frederick A. Ault, j. M
Clark, E. e. Conner, Henry E. Cotton
L. B. Allen, A. E. Markham and B. A
Morton.
Henry w. Temple, chairman. and
Glen S. Smith, executive secretary, OF
the Appalachian National Park Com
mission also will be present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
FIRST WIFE SUES FLYER
FOR SEPARATE SUPPORT
Divorce Granted Lieut.. Leslie Ar
mold Is Set Aside by Geor-
gia Court.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, February 4.-Papers
In separate maintenance suit filed last
October by Mrs. Mildred Avery Arnold
against Lieut.. Leslie p. Arnold, Army
around-the-world flyer. were served as
the aviator stepped from his automobile
yesterday at the home of his present
wife, Priscilla Dean, motion picture
actress.
Lieut.. Arnold also was served with an
order to show cause why he should not
pay for the support of his first wife
pending trial of the maintenance action.
The flyer married Miss Dean in Au-
gust, 1928, and at that time considered
himself divorced from Mrs. Mildred
Avery Arnold, having obtained a decree
in Atlanta, Ga, in 1925. Last Summer,
however, the first Mrs. Arnold succeeded
In having the Georgia court set aside the
decree on the ground that she had not
been notified of the bringing of the
divorce action. Arnold Is appealing the
action in an effort to uphold the divorce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
CASTLE PROMISES
JAPAN FRIENDSHIP
Security in Orient Will Not Be
Challenged at London,
He Asserts.
BY the Associated Press.

| oy ble ASSOCIdLeO HTeSS.
TOXIC, February 4.-William r
Castle, jr., United States Ambassador tc
Japan, said today that whatever may
be accomplished. at the Londan Naval
Conference, I am sure that nobody will
suggest to Japan any sacrifice endan-
gering its national security or challeng-
ing its preponderant naval strength in
the Orient"
Making his first public utterance in
Japan in an address at dinner of the
American-Japan Society in his honor
the new Ambassador said:
ct is wonderful thing to be a rep
resentative in Japan of a Nation de-
string nothing but friendship. I know
Of no two nations whose interests more
thoroughly coincide than those of
Japan and America.
Praises Japanese Policies.
"Just as we believe that the inf1u-
ence of the United States on the
American continent is a guarantee of
peace, so do we believe that the power
of Japan in the Orient is power due
to the vigor and forward-lookin ma
ture of its government and people,
which leads to order, progress and
peace in the Western Pacific"
Continuing, Ambassador Castle said:
President Hoover did not send me 10
Japan to insist upon the American view
point in such controversies as may arise
in London. He sent me in order that
there might be some one in Toxic able
fully and frankly to express his ideas"
Referring to the effect of the develop
ment of aviation on naval values, the
Ambassador remarked:
This shows how dangerous and I'M
wise may be the stirring up of popular
opinion by the press of any country
American press, for example, said so
much about 10,000-ton cruisers that
many people believe that the conference
will stand or fall on this type.
Two Stand Together.
Would it not be more accurate to
say that the conference will stand or
fall, according to the measure of good
will of the participating nations? Here,
certainly, Japan and America stand
firmly together"
Ambassador Castle said that "if we
have agreed to live in peace, surely
We can discard some of the weapons
that we have forged against each
other"
The Ambassador then turned to the
subject of Chinese relations, saying:
1T is absurd to talk Of friction be-
tween Japan and America over the
development Of the great potential
markets of China. There, more than
anywhere else, should be cooperation,
instead of rivalry. Japan needs Ameri-
can raw materials to manufacture what
the Chinese want; America needs the
good will of Japanese traders in China
in the distribution of American-made
goods.
I'VE may differ at times concerning
the best method of helping the Chinese
to attain political and economic stabil-
ity. but our fundamental aims are
identical-the upbuilding of a pros
porous and contented nation. We have
no quarrel on the subject of China. I
can see none even family looming in
the distance"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
COURT OF APPEALS REVERSES
$500 "STOLEN KISS" JUDGMENT
Opinion Based Contradictory Declarations in Plain.
tif's Testimony.

The judgment of the District Supreme
Court for $4,000 for a stolen kiss" rem
dered several months ago against vasilios
I. Chebithes, former head of the Greek
Society of the Ahepa, in favor of his
former secretary, Mrs. Madeleine Mac
Nance Price, was reversed today by the
District Court of Appeals in an opinion
by Justice Josiah H. Van Orsdel Mrs.
Price had accompanied Chebithes to
Chicago for an international meeting of
the society and the incident was alleged
to have occurred at the Drake Hotel,
where the society had its headquarters.
Because the trial justice required a
witness for the defendant to tell that
he had been indicted for the crime of
forgery In Philadelphia when the law
provides only for evidence Of convic-
49, tho ease was xevAExed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
PRESIDENT DELAYS
NAMING CITY HEADS
UNTIL TWO ACCEPT
Continued From First paRe.l


self was completely surprised xs.., he
arrived back at Washington from an
inspection trip in answer to a communi-
cation from the Secretary of War and
received word that the President
wanted him to take over this local post.
Wants Time TO Consider.
The communication which brought
him to Washington informed him that
the President desired his presence here,
Quite naturally the general was at a
loss to give an immediate reply when the
tender was made and later in the day
when he discussed the matter with the
President himself at some length he
asked permission to think it over for at
least overnight, but gave assurances that
he was an old soldier and was ready to
serve in any capacity his superior Off
Ger desired. In discussing the selection
OF Gen. Crosby and Mr.. Brown, asso-
CiateS OF the President today, while in
dicating that the President had asked
these mer to serve and expected them
to do SO, said that no actual appoint
ments have been made and would not
be made for q month or so,
Neither Gen. Crosby nor Mr.. Brown
was willing to discuss the matter for
publication. Gen. Crosby has been a
resident of Washington during the four
years he has been chief of Cavalry and
is well known in this city. Mr.. Brown
has been here a number of years and
is especially well known, principally
because Of the close relationship of his
ONCE with the individual employees of
the classified service of the Govern
ment. During the past year or so his
Office has been actively engaged in look
ing into the affairs of the District gov
eminent. 1t is understood that it is
because of Mr.. Browns knowledge and
MS long experience as head of the Blu
reau of Efficiency and his demonstrated
capacity as an executive that Presi-
dent Hoover sought him as one of the
heads OF the local government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04

1.-THE record furnishes no room" saws
Justice Van orsdel. for holding that
the foregoing error is harmless. THE
sufficiency of the evidence to sunnort
the verdict has not been challenged hv
a motion for directed verdict. and we
are, therefore, foreclosed from ino,Iir.
ing into that question. It may be s,Io-
gested, however, that proof of the as
sault is based substantially upon the
testimony OF the plaintiff alone, and
her testimony Is so badly impaired by
letters, made subsequent to the alleged
commission Of the assault, that it leaves
her case at best a frail structure on
which to hang verdict and Judgment.
1t is unnecessary, therefore, to con-
slider the other assignments, since the
error already pointed out Is sufacient
t. justify o reversal"