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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
DIETETIC ASSOCIATION
ASSEMBLED AT BANQUET
Fifty Members Attend Function
Last Night in Garden House
at Dodge Hotel.

The local American Dietetic Associa-
ton held banquet last night in the
Garden House of the Dodge Hotel, with
90 members attending.
Miss Anne Boiler, national president,
was guest of honor and speaker; Miss
Grace Bulman. chief of dietitians of
veterans Bureau and president of the
local association, presided; Miss CLYDE
Schuman, head of the nutritian serv-
ice OF the American Red Cross, was
toastmiStresS; and Miss Elsie Fitzger-
aid, dietitian at the Episcopal Ear, Eye
Nose and Throat Hospital, was chair
man of arrangements
Out-of-town guests attending the BAN
quet were Miss Alma Behring, diet
titan at the Shepard Pratt Hospital of
Baltimore; Miss Gertrude Brown, chief
dietitian at st. Luke's Hospital in Rich
mond: Miss Helen Stacy in charge of
nutrition with the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co. of New York
City.
Others attending were DR.. Lillian
Storms, president of the local Home
Economics Association; Miss Grace
Hunter dietitian at Walter Reed Hos
pital: Miss Rowena Roberts, chief die
titan at Sibley Hospital: Miss Mary
Lindsey, managing director of the
Dodge Hotel; Miss Lurena Perrine, sec
rotary of the Dietetic Association, aud
Miss Alice Edwards, executive secre-
tary of the American Home Economics
Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
BALTIMORE FETES
DR.. ECKENER TODAY
Party Plans Laurel Stop to
See Suggested Site
for Terminal.

Escorted by delegation of repre-
sentatives Of Baltimore aeIonautical or
CARNATIONS, DR.. Huga Eckener, head of
the German Zeppelin industry and COM
mander of the Graf Zeppelin, left the
National Capital by automobile at 9:10
o'clock this morning for Baltimore,
where a testimonial luncheon was ar
ranged in his honor today.
En- route to Baltimore the party plan
ned stop for short time to inspect
a site on the Baltimore pike near
Laurel, Md, suggested as a possible
terminal field for the proposed German
American transatlantic dirigible ser ice
the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation Of
Akron, Ohio.
DR.. Eckener was accompanied by his
son, Knut Eckener. and Comdr. Jerome
Hunsacker, vice president Of the dirigi-
BILE organization. The / .rty is to re-
turn to this city by automobile tonight.
Monday morning DR.. Eckener will
leave Washington by automobile to
inspect several suggested sites in Vir-
ginia, going as far South as Richmond.
He will look over a 1,300-acre field at
Hybla Valley, near Alexandria, Va, and
will be escorted there by Howard Ober,
vice president Of Washington Air Ter
minals Corporation. owners of the
area; Lawrence Williams. chairman of
the aviation committee Of the Wash
ington Board of Trade, and Robert J..
Cottrell. secretary of the board.
DR.. Eckener will return to this city
for a testimonial luncheon to be given
Thursday in the Willard Hotel by the
Aero Club of Washington Chapter of
the National Aeronautic Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
NEW SHEPARD WILL
DISCLOSED IN QUIZ
Major, Suspected of Poison
ing Wife, Leaves Property
aaee to Stenographer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, March 2e.-The I'm
ger of Federal suspicion today again
pointed at Maj. Charles A. Shepard
Army medical officer, as authorities in
vestigated an assertion that not only
one, but two. of the surgeons wives died
peculiarly while he was enamored OF
another woman"
While Shepard was held in the county
jail here, charged in a Federal war
rant with poisoning his second wife
at Fort Riley, Kans., last June, the dis
trict attorneys office at Topeka, Kans.
began probe of the death of his FIRST
wife.
Previously it had been alleged that
the major poisoned his second wife be-
cause Of infatuation for Miss Grace
Brandon, 23-year-old stenographer at
Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex. The
new investigation resulted from q state
ment of James Childs of Needles, Calf.
brother of the surgeons first wife.
The Army officer denied vigorously
that there was anything mysterious
about his first wifes death.
Another development in the major
difficulties was the announcement Of
Department of Justice officials here
that a will bequeathing the majority of
his property to Miss Brandon was in
their possession.
The Federal authorities said it was
made after the second Mrs. Shepard's
death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
COL. ASHFORD GIVEN
KOBER CERTIFICATE
Pioneer in Fight Against
HookWorm Honored by
Georgetown u.

Explaining many of the death-dealins
plants Of the tropics, Col. Bailey K,
Ashford, Medical Corps, noted authority
on tropical medicine and pioneer In
the fight against the "hookworm," de-
livered the 1880 Kober Foundation lee
ture last night in CASTOR Hall, George
town University. before officers and
members of the District Medical Society
and others.
Only within the last 10 years has the
medical profession viewed with SuSpi-
cion the deadly menace Of many strange
plants In tropical clineS, Col. Ashford
said. His lecture dealt with the sig
nificance of mycology in tropical medi-
cine" At least one-third or one-half
Of the skin diseases, he explained, are
Of a theological nature.
At the conclusion Of his lecture, which
was illustrated with lantern slides, DR..
w. Coleman Nevis, S. j., president OF
Georgetown University, presented him
with the Kober Foundation lecture GER
tifcate awarded by the trustees Of the
university.
DR.. George M. Kober. dean emeritus
Of the Georgetown Medical School. who
provided for the foundation in 1928,
introduced Col. Ashford and referred
to his work in helping eradicate the
klOOhWOAAA Al IN1SO anu bAAC 0OAS4A-
ern States of this country. Col. Ash
ford is professor Of tropical medicine
at Columbia University and also CO.
operates with the tropical medicine bu-
reau of the University of Porto Rico.
Yesterday was the eightieth birthday
anniversary of DR.. Kober, and the vet
eran dean was presented with q bronze
plaque bearing his likeness, gift from
the medical faculty of Georgetown.
The plaque was the work OF Henry
K. Bush Brown, local sculptor.
DR.. Kober, a native Of Germany, came
to this country in early youth and hac
q distinguished medical career in thu
Army before beginning the practice o.
medicine in Washington about so years
ago. He was dean of medicine a
GEORGETOWN ~ years and for more thar
40 years on its faculty before his recen
retirement to become a regent Of thu
university.
DR.. Kober has been an active cru
sader against tuberculosis and formerl!
was president of the District Medica
Society. A few months ago he resigned
from the District Board Of Public Wei
fare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
FEDERAL ATTORNEY
REFUSES PAPERS
AGAINST HARM0NS
Continued From First page)

Continued From First Pagel
non-co-operation in liquor cases. Mai.
Pratt read the account and called on
Can't. Etott for an explanation.
At the same time Mai Pratt made it
clear that he did not favor Capt. Stott's
action in this case, pointing to a Sec
ton Of the District code referring to
the offense of illegal entry, and saying
Stott might have violated that section.
Stott's answer as to the newspaper
accounts, however, was to deny the i'm
puted criticism, coupled with the fact
that the district attorneys office agreed
to prosecute the case, changed Pratt'S
view, and he declared himself satisfied
and the incident closed. Maj. Pratt
said that any doubt he had as to the
legality of the entry of Stott was re-
moved by the decision of Assistant
United States Attorney David Hart to
prosecute the case against the man ar
rested in the raid, Frank j. Smith.
Mr.. Hart said further that If Capt
Stott had asked him for a warrant for
this particular place on reasonable
cause" only, he would have issued 1t.
His records show, he stated, that on
March S the same place was raided
and that the same man, Smith, was
arrested. This, coupled with the fact
that the entrances were heavily bar
ricaded, would have been ample for
issuing the warrant. Mr.. Hart said.
Mr.. Hart said that the case would
be vigorously prosecuted to establish
definite precedent, but that he felt
that it would probably be thrown out
of court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
WIFE SUES REVENUE
BUREAU EMPLOYE
Helped Riley J. Ratteree Rise to
$500 Salary, Says Separate
Maintenance Action.

Separate maintenance is asked in q
suit filed in the District Supreme Court
against Riley j. Ratteree, Si8 Ninth
street northeast, chief Of section In
the audit division Of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau by his wife, Mrs. Lola M
Ratteree, Takoma Park, Md. The wife
says she aided her husband to advance
from q salary Of 500 per month to
$500 annually in 10 years, only 70
have him desert her October IS, 1928
She was then advised by letter, she
states, that he was leaving her perma-
nently and that he would thereafter
send her 500 per month for her sup
port This agreement has not been
kept since last october, the wife says.
They were married June ~, 1917, and
the wife says since their separation her
husband has shown no interest in her
welfare, although he owns an expensive
automobile, lives in expensive hotels
and is often seen In the company OF
another woman.
Mrs. Ratteree says as the result Of
her husbands actions she has been
forced to discontinue her studies at
the washington College Of Law and
her health has been so affected that
she cannot much longer continue her
work at the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Attorney John G. Kramer
appears for the wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
TRUST Co. CLOSES
DUE TO SHORTAGE
Institution Patronized by
CooIidges Has Sales Man.
ager Arrested for Theft.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, March 90.
The Hampshire County Trust Co.,
suffering a shortage of approximately
$685., 900, closed its doors yesterday less
than two weeks after Harold r. New
comb, manager Of its savings depart
ment, was arrested charged with theft
of its funds.
Newcomb, who Of nights was the
leader of a popular Jazz orchestra, was
arrested on March IT, specifically
charged with the theft of $4,000. He
was held in defaul of $4,000 bail.
The disclosure resulted in heavy with
drawals Of deposits, developing to the
proportions of a run which resulted in
the State Banking Department taking
over the banks affairs.
An excited group of more than 100
persons, moved by rumors OF shortage,
milled about the doors of the bank
this morning and it was necessary to
call several policemen to maintain or
der.
Former President Calvin Coolidge and
Mrs. Coolidge have accounts at the
bank, but were not disturbed over the
conditions at the institution. A state
ment from the office of the former
President said that Mr.. and Mrs. Cool
idge had not withdrawn their money
and felt that If was perfectly safe"
Arthur Guy, State bank examiner
said the trust company has deposits
of 100000 In its commercial depart
ment and $1.575, 900 in its savings de-
partment, capital of $4,000 and I'M
divided profits, including surety COW
erage of $4,000.
In a joint statement, Ralph Hemen-
way, president, and John w. Mason,
chairman of the directors, said:
There are assets enough to pay the
depoSitors In full"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
JAMES DOUGLAS DUNDAS
DIES AT THE AGE OF SO

James Douglas Dundas, SO years old
native of this city and for number OF
years engaged in the brokerage business
in Philadelphia, died there yesterday
The body will be brought here Monday
and funeral services will be conducted
in st. Paul's Catholic Church, Fifteenth
and " streets, Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock. Interment will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Mr.. Dundas is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Florence Tybout Dundas; his
mother, Mrs. Mary Pamela DundaS OF
this city; three brothers, John Marion
Dundas, F. de Sales Dundas and Jo-
seph Anthony Dundas, and two sisters
Sister Mary Oswald of the Sisters OF
Notre Dame and Mrs. Frances H
Hodgson.
Mr.. DundaS was a son Of the late
william oswald Dundas and grandson
of william H. Dundas, second Assistant
Postmaster General, and of John Mar
ron. third Assistant Postmaster General
under Presidents Pierce and Buchanan
He was widely known In this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
MRS. STEVENSON LEADS
FEATURE STORY FORUM
q. w. q. Journalism Class Hears
Discussion of Writing by
Magazine Contributor.

A forum on the feature story was
held yesterday afternoon when Mrs
Victoria Faber Stevenson, feature writer
and contributor to current magazines
addressed the journalism class at George
Washington University and led in the
discussion by the class of this subject
Describing the feature story so widely
used in newspaper magazines as facts
presented in the form of fiction" the
timely and Interestingly written, Mrs.
Stevenson discussed sources of material
manner of dealing with feature SUBJ
ject, and the daily news as forming the
nucleus of the feature article.
She is director of the feature writing
group in the District of Columbia
branch of the National League OF
American Pen Women, and also is ma
tional treasurer of the league.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Continued From First Page.)
Of naval arms and the preservation Of
the peace of the world"
One thing has been made clear by
the American delegation in Londo1
through its spokesman. That is the
United States will not enter into any
treaty which can be construed as an
obligation, moral or otherwise, to take
up arms If conflict should arise be-
tween European nations. Until some
definite proposal of a treaty nearly for
consultative purposes is put in more
concrete form neither the President nor
the delegation is expected to define
their positions on the matter further,
While some of the older "irreconcil-
ables" in the Senate. among them SEN
ator Borah. and some of the Democrats,
including Senator Swanson of Virginia,
have issued statements declaring their
opposition to the negotiation by this
country for consultative pact, none
knows with definitenesS what kind of
proposal is to be made, If it is made.
1t appears certain that large num-
Der Of the members of the Senate will
rely upon the American delegation and
President Hoover when 1t comes to pass
ing on any treaty that may come out
of the Naval Conference. Some of
them privately have already declared
this to be a fact and have refused to
join in public condemnation of the
hypothetical consultative pact sugges-
ton until they know what that sugges-
ton may really be and what is to be the
attitude of the American delegation and
the President.
Assurances Required.
The American delegation, it is be-
lieved here, must be given some assur-
ance that France and Italy will come
into a flve-power naval limitation
treaty and that France will agree to a
substantial reduction in the total ton
mage which she has so far demanded
before the delegation considers a con-
su,tative pact.
Should it become possible to bring
about a five-power naval treaty, with
real cuts in the size of the navies, the
view taken of a consultative pact, which
does not commit the United States TO
take up arms or to become involved
in every difference of opinion that may
arise in Europe, may be decidedly diff
ferent on this side Of the Atlantic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
byrd BARK DRIVES
DESPITE SQUALLS
City of New York Logs 208
Miles in Day in Heavy
Seas.
BY DIR. FRANCIS ID. CONAN.
BY Radio to The Star and the New Yor
Times

BY Radio to The Star and the New York
Times.
ON BOARD THE CITY OF NEW
YORK AT SEA, March 27.-With every
bit of canvas drawing, our passage
through the roaring forties" promises
to be q record for our old bark.
Today at noon we were 805 miles
out of Dunedin. Our position was lati-
tude 40 degrees Al minutes s., longi-
tude 172 degrees % minutes W., about
245 miles from the Chatham Islands.
In spite of squalls and heavy seas,
we made 200 miles in the preceding "a
hours This is the best speed the ship
has made on the present expedition.
In a sense, the run of 372 miles for
all of yesterday was notable, but We'd
nesday, March rs, on the calendar was
AZ hours long for us, since on that day
we crossed the 180th meridian, the date
line to the East.
AS far as we could see, there was
no special celebration, unless 1t were
that on the second Wednesday, doubt
less in order to keep his weekly menu
straight, George Tenant, our cook OF
Little America fame, gave us the same
turnips and bread pudding that had
meekly looked up at us the day before.
Our enthusiasm for this sort of life
grows as we learn or regain familiarity
with running of a square-rigged ship.
But for some Of us it is still a bit diff
flcult to be Of much value aloft, es-
pecially when the ship heels over and
an uneasy feeling arises in the pit Of
the stomach.
We all hope to be real "shellbackS"
before long, when we get rid Of the
head colds and stomachaches we ac-
quired ashore.
(Copyrisht. 1880. by the New York Times
Co and the St. Louis st-Dispatch. All
rights for publication reserved throughout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
RUSH COMPLETION
OF CENSUS VAULT
Presidents Proclamation
Brands as "Secret" All In
formation Gathered.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An immense vault, flreproof, Is being
rushed to completion at the Census Blu
reau here to receive the 1880 census
secrets" which everybody will be tell
ing within the next 30 days.
Strictly confidential" is the stamp
placed by Presidents proclamation on
every item the people of these United
States may tell TO the 10000 census
takers, who will start circulation
through city and countryside Wednes-
day morning.
Any one Of a possible 10000 questions
may be answered freely and frankly, be-
cause all answers will be locked In the
vault.
There need be no fear that any dis
closure will be made regarding any in
dividual person or his affairs" Presi-
dent Hoover's fifteenth decennial CEN
sus proclamation read.
He could make that assurance be-
cause of the way the Census Bureau
keeps secrets. The bureau itself Is being
housed, pending completion of new
Department of Commerce Building, in
temporary wartime structures down on
the Mall. The only fireproof structures
Of the lot are for the census schedules.
Back to the very first census, 1870,
the reports are kept under lock and key
in steel cases within cement structures.
These are guarded by caretakers who
give them anti-moth and anti-mould
treatments. Miss Mary c. Oursler, for
II years in charge of records, would
not permit even one peek at 1910 VOL
unne lying on a repair table.
A census official explained schedules
were considered sealed for so or so years
until they ceased to be personal and be-
came genealogical.
Thus what you tell the census taker
this year may come out again In about
1880 or 1890.
The 1880 vault, now under construc-
ton, Is far larger than any heretofore
built. It will receive all original records
lust as soon as the first swift tabulation
suueezes out the human interest and
substitutes cold statistics" One trip
through an amazing machine and each
individual becomes an abstraction-juSt
SO many code perforations punched in q
piece of cardboard, to be tabulated as
iiterate or illiterate, gainfully employed
or unemployed. or whatever happens TO
be in compilation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
MRS. WARD TAKES
FUND FROM c. j.
Withdrawal of 100000
Reported Due to Dispute Over
Instruction in Music.

NEW YORK, March 2s.-The New
York World today said Mrs. Justine B.
Ward of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y, has with
drawn a 100000 fund for q new
school of liturgical music founded by
her at the Catholic University, Wash
ington, D. c., because the works of
composers later than Palestrina have
been introduced in the school.
Instead, the fund will be used in
various schools that are interested in
the Gregorian chant. Mrs. Ward, long
known as philanthropist in musical
fields, specifics in the articles of in
corporation of the Dom Mocquereau
Schola Cantorum Foundation, which
supplies funds for the new school, that
ali modern vocal music for the church,
including all composers since the time
of Palestrina, is expressly excluded from
the purposes of the organization"
In the controversy that developed, the
World says, Mrs. Ward demanded that
the Rev. DR.. william Dies Longchamps,
director of the school. retire. When the
Catholic University failed 70 act I'M
mediately upon her demand Mrs. Ward
decided to cut the school on the
foundation fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
WRECK AT PHILADELPHIA
Is FATAL TO FIREMAN

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, March 90. - All
traffic over the main line of the New
York division of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road was tied up early today as re-
suit of a freight wreck on the line
here last midnight.
Railroad officials said it would take
all morning to clear the five tracks Of
debris. Passenger trains were rerouted
over the Trenton branch and were ar
irving in this city 80 minutes to 2
hours late.
Fireman Arthur Robinson died from
injuries received in the crash, while
Engineer John Hagan was critically
hurt.
The locomotive of the train, bound
from New York to Wilmington, Del,
left the rails near Frankfort Junction
and overturned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
MEG HANICAL MUSIC HELD
HANDICAP TO VOCATION

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 29-Holding that
mechanical devices have greatly less
ened the possibilities of music as a
vocation, the Music Supervisors Ma
tional Conference yesterday pleaded for
fostering of music as "a grace in life
that may add to the beauty and exalta-
ton Of spirit of our people"
The conference, in resolutions. pledged
encouragement of all forms of musical
interest and urged greater emphasis on
solos and small ensembles in music
contests.
Prizes ranging from a cornet to a
trip to Europe were awarded yesterday
to supervisors by exhibitors of musical
instruments, who held an exposition In
conjunction with the conference. George
Wahlstrom Of Ashtabula, Ohio, won the
trip to Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, this evening at Stanley
Hall at $3.50 O'Clock. John s. M. Zim-
hermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner,
assistant leader.
March, "Fi-Fi" Zimmerman
Overture. ''FingaPS Cave. .MendelSshon
Entr'acte-
ta) "Pensee d'Amour". ......... Ely
(b) ION the Riviera. ........ Baron
Excerpts from musical comedy
"A Stubborn Cinderella. Howard
Fox trot, Sonny Boy" (requested),
Jolson
(requested) ........,..G reenberg
Finale, 1.-The Arcade. Pryor
THE Star 6pangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
MRS. TAFT GETS MEDAL
AWARDED TO HUSBAND

Mrs. William Howard Taft today was
in possession of a grand cross of the
order Of Polonia Restituta, which was
conferred upon the former President
and Chief Justice of the United States
by the Polish government in 1924.
Ambassador Tytus Filipowicz yester-
day presented the decoration to Mrs.
Taft. 1t is an award of gratitude Of
the Polish people, Ambassador Fill
participation in the unwilling of the Pu-
laski and KoSciuszko monuments here.
The decoration could not be pre-
sented to Mr.. Taft while he was Chief
Justice. Later his health would not
permit the presentation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
LAST RITES ARRANGED
William s. Stephenson to Be
Buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Funeral services for william S.
Stephenson, 56 years old, of S3l New
Hampshire avenue, an employe Of the
Prohibition Bureau, United States
Treasury Department, who died in the
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos
pital Tuesday, will be held at the col
ored Elks' Home, 301 Rhode Island ave-
nue., tomorrow afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
Interment will be in Mount Zion Gene
terry.
Stephenson came to Washington in
1906 and served successfully as laboreT
and messenger in the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue. from which he was
transferred TO the Bureau Of Prohibi-
ton.
He is survived by a son, William r
Stephenson of this city, and daughter
residing in Arkansas.