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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
RAILWAY SIOPMEN
VOTE ON 5-DAY WEEK QUESTION
Employees Pass Proposed Action Avoid Lay-Ofs as
Expense Slash LOOMS

The Southern Railway shopmen are
voting on proposal by the manage
ment to go on a five-day week working
basis instead of the present six-day
week basis as plan to forestall further
reductions in the force, it became
known today.
Six crafts would be affected. They
are the machinists, blacksmiths, boiler
makers, sheet metal workers, electrical
workers and carmen.
In the shops throughout the entire
system several thousand workers would
be involved. Alexandria would be one
of the points affected.
The ballots are returnable to the gen.
eral chairmen of the employees organ
ization tomorrow at Knoxville, Tenn;
Somerset. KY: Salisbury, N. c., and
Chattanooga, Tenn.
1T was said at the Southern Offices
this morniRg that any statement would
await actio4 hY the eunnloyeA
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CONSENT DECREE
ORDERED MODIFIED
BY UTILITIES BODY
Reduces Pepco's Allowable
Return on Investment From
7 IL to 7 Per Cent.
MOVE MAKES POSSIBLE
LOWER ELECTRIC RATES
Court Action Seen by Power Com
pany to Prevent
Change.

Contending that the present rate of
return Of the Potomac Electric Power
Co. is excessive and unreasonable" the
Public Utilities Commission today or
dered a modification in the consent de-
cree by which electric rates are fixed,
reducing the company's allowable re-
turn from 7l2 to per cent.
The reduction in the rate of return
makes possible lower electric rates. but
the commission, in the order, made no
attempt to readjust existing rates. This
question, It was said, would be settled at
a rate hearing in the future.
Although no word has come from the
power company over the action of the
commission, it was regarded in public
utility circles as a foregone conclusion
that it would appeal to the courts in an
effort to prevent the modification.
Revise Sliding Scale.
The new order contains a revised slid
ing scale of allowances for rata return
under which consumers would get a
larger share of the companys profits in
excess of the per cent than under the
former schedule.
Under the former arrangement, one
half Of the profits of the company in ex-
cess of 7l2 per cent were divided equally
between the company and the con-
sumers. the consumers getting theirs in
the form of reduction in rates. In
the new plan. however, one-half of the
excess profits would be applied to rate
reduction the following year if not more
than per cent is earned. Three
fourthS of the excess profit would be
applied toward a rate reduction in the
event the returns are between and 3
per cent. and 5f6 would be applied if
the company earned in excess Of 8 per
cent.
Little Change in Rates Ordered.
Otherwise the commission ordered
little change in the existing rate ar
rangements which it claimed, the
power company earned an average net
return of approximately 10 per cent
during each of the years frcm 1925 to
1880, inclusive. The rate base valua-
ton, approximating s50,000,0c0, is
unchanged by the order.
During the course of a public hear
ing on the 25th. 26th and 9th of May,
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Freak of Nature
Keeping Icebergs
Hidden i'm North
Not One Has Been Sighted
in Ship Lanes of At
lantic This Spring.

BY some strange freak of nature the
frozen Northland of glaciers has just
presented this Spring the prize mystery
of all seafaring time, by keeping tight
locked somewhere within the vast con-
fines Of the Northern seas tie whole
feet of giant icebergs, which every year
before this had hcated with its deadly
menace INTO the steamer lanes OF the
NORTH atlantic.
Not single iceberg has been sighted
this year by the international ice
patrol, maintained by this Government
for several shipping powers Of the world
in the interest CT safety to human life
and precious cargo.
Experts of the United States Coast
Guard describe this complete absence
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LOWMAN ACCUSED
BY MAJ. CAMPBELL
Insincerity on Dry Law and
"DereIiction" Charged in
Letter to Hoover.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June 9-Maj Maurice
Campbell, former prohibition admins
traitor for the New York district, dis
closed today that he had, some weeks
ago. filed specific charges with Presi-
dent Hoover against Seymour Lowman,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. ac-
cusing him of insincerity with regard
to prohibition enforcement and of
"dereliction in Office"
Maj. Campbell made public his
charges, VIII 'ch included correspondence
between himself. President Hoover and
Andrew w. Mellon, Secretary of the
Treasury, written last month.
In statement today Maj. Campbell
said:
Il have written before taking action
myself in the hops that some of the
ardent prohib.tion.sts, whom it might
be supposed desired rigid enforcement,
would press for an Investigation.
However, as this had not hap
pened I decided to make the
charges against Seymour Lowman my
self and 50 filed with the President on
May Z. last. eight specific charges
which said 1 was prepared to prove"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09

H. j. Carr, vice president of the In
ternational Association CT Machinists,
said Southern officials had informed
workers representatives that a further
reduction in expenses was necessary and
that a five-day week would make it
possible without laying eff additional
men.
Carr said that voting on the pro-
posed five-day week began about 10
days ago and the result would probably
be known in another 10 days. He added
that no change in the wage scale was
contemplated. but said railroad officials
had intimated that the number of en-
ployeS would have to be reduced if the
number of working hours were not
He explained the vote was necessary
because the agreement between the
union and railroad calls for q six-day
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shaking Hay

New Jersey cooperative farm continues to make money
and hay 1t does not while the Shines
1t makes hay in all sorts of weather by using dehydraor
lot of good folks waiting to make hay-when
the shines But they gloomy and downcas because
the seems to have into eclipse No sum- no hay
Others forging ahead with their harvest look
ing at the sky They using all sorts of dehydrators Pro-
gressve Washington merchants for instance adjusting
prices and rewarded with two customers where only one
stood before They forgetting prices and profits
SALE emphasizing their prices and profits from vol
sales
Maybe they have found the the mystery of how
depression is cured Business Them certainly brisk
And is the time for the buying public to make hay
There Is profit In the advertising columns OF The Star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
GERMANYPLANN|NG
DEBT SUSPENSION,
LONDON INFORMED
Berlin Dispatch Predicts De-
mand for Postponement of
Payments to U. S.
BRUENING AND CURTIUS
SAILING FROM ENGLAND
Pleased With Conversations at
London-MacDonald and Hender-
SON to Make Return Call.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 9.-The possibility OF
suspension of debt payments to the
United States occupied large part to-
dav in newspaper speculation over the
results of a week end conference be-
tween German and British officials.
The Daily Mail featured dispatch
from the Vossiche zeitung Of Berlin
predicting that the Reich would demand
postponement of the 'deferable' pay
ments of the Young plan as soon as
Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and For
eign Minister julius Curt.us return from
their conference with Brit Sh of1icla.s.
On. the basis of that the Mail predlcteo
Germany might suspend reparatlons
payments next Fall.
If this occurs, the Mail said, France
and Italy might feel obliged to suspend
navments to the United Stats on tnelr
war debts and Great Britain would De
placed in difficult position in the same
connection.
New Issue Seen Arising.
The possibility of calling for general
suspension of payments to the UnlNo
states in the event of Germany's default
is occupying the minds OF european
statesmen, the paper said, and III is
abundantlv evident that grave ne"
economic issue is arising"
Informed quarters are increasingly
convinced that the promise OF lnter ,
national collaboration" at Chequers ana
the coming visit of Secretary OF StaIe
Henry L. Stimson and Andrew w. Mel
lon Secretary of the Treasury, fore
shadow a concerted move on the part OF
all nations to revi:w the general SUD-
iect of war debts and PREPARATIONS.
The political situation in France ana
the economic status of Great Britain
and Germany. it is believed, necessitate
caution. and official action will be held
in allowance until the purpose OF the
American statesmens visit is definitely
determined.
Significance is attached to Chancel-
Tor Bruening's statement before the
Anglo German Association yesterday
that he hoped the Chequers meeting
would be mot an isolated act. but
new milestone in the development OF
international understanding"
Bruening and Curtius Leave.
Bruening and Curtius left London
this morning for their homeland.
we hope your prime minister Will
nav us a return visit. We go away
pleased with our conversations with
vour statesmen. These conversations
will do much. to help forward inter
national cooperation in these difficult
times. We were especially gratified
and honored at being received by the
King" ,.A
Representatives of Prime Minister
Macdonald and of Foreign Secretary
Henderson, together with the stan OF
the German embassy. were on the plat
with smiles.
Shortly before they left, Barren
Franckenstein, Austrian Minister TO
London, arrived and engaged IN al
earnest conversation with them. Ger
man Ambassador Won Neurath accom-
panied them to Southampton, where a
British warship will pick them up ana
transfer them to the liner Europa.
TAX TASK FACES BSUENING.
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1t was understood that after discuss
ing the matter with his wife. herself
an able pilot and navigator, the colonel
decided that the added difficulty of
possible ground landings on pontoons
was outweighed by the saving of weight
which would be added by retractable
wheel gear or the loss Of time caused
by changing from pontoonS to wheels
for the hops overland.
Although admittedly a difficult feat
aviation experts who know Col Lind
bergh's skill expressed the opinion that
given soft or sandy ground to land on
he would have no particular difficulty
nor run any undue risk in using his
planes floats as skis and sliding his
ship to a safe halt. Confidence in his
ability to do this. felt by the colonel
himself and tis wife, was indicated in
the fact that. so far as could be learned
today, the flyer has not felt it neces-
sary to practice such landings before
the flight begins.
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SEEK MEMBERS OF MOB
WHO LYNCHED EX-MAYOR
Spanish Monarchist Who Refused
to Turn Over Office to Repuh-
lican Hanged at HIS Home.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, June 9-Members of
mob who lynched the retiring mayor of
the town of Solana at his home were
baing sought by the police today.
Mayor Fernando Petardo, a mon
archist who was defeated for re-elec-
ton in the last elections. refused to turn
elect when the latter appeared at City
Hall. II am a better Republican than
th"se elected" he said.
Enraged by his sta tement. a crowd
followed him back to his residence and
hanged him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
WIFE SLAYER KILLS SELF
Ponca City Indian Ends Own Life
After Staying White Mate.

PONCA CITY, Okla, June 9 Dr.
Returning at daybreak to his home
near Washunga, where last night he
shot and killed his wife, white woman,
Toby Farnsworth, 35 years old, a Kaw
Indian, committed suicide today.
Sheriff Joe Cooper of Kay County
was at the home investigating the STAY
ing of the woman when FarnSworth
returned, pseped in a window and asked
If his wife were dead. The sheriff said
he replied in thu Affirmative and that
the Indian then Shot himself
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TAX TASK FACES BSUENING.
Problem offered in Subduing Clamor
Over Emergency DEGREES.

BERLIN, June 9 (P).-One OF Cham
celIor Bruening's first tasks when ne
gets back to his office tomorrow after
the week end visit to Chequers Will De
to subdue the clamor OF various polltl-
cal parties for alteration OF tne new h,
president Won Hindenburg last Satur-
day. 49, 10 will,
resist all efforts to change the DEGREES,
despite the heavy burdens they place
upon the people, and demand that they
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ANCIENT CITY UNEARTHED
Johns Hopkins Archeologist Finds
olynthos, Destroyed in 34s B. C.

ATHENS, June 8. [P.-Prof. David
Moore Robinson, archeologist of Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, today
informed the Greek government of
successful excavations by Americans at
destroyed by Philip of Macedon in
343 B. G. and was a subject of
DemoStheneS' orations,
Several houses and a portion of the
ancient city were discovered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
SEATTLE WATER FRONT
THREATENED BY FIRE
Half a Dozen Buildings Destroyed
as Strong Wind Fans
Blaze.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, June 9.-Fanned by a
strong southwest wind, q three-alarm
fire swept through half dozen build
ings on the lower end of Seattle's
water front early today. The fire was
brought under control after raging
about two hours.
The fire broke out about am, and
soon a large section of the water front
was ablaze. The flames endangered the
terminal of the Pacific Steamboat CO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
YOST ELECTED HEAD
OF SAVINGS BANK
East Washington Institution Also
Names Other Officers for
Coming Year.

At a meeting of the trustees of the
East Washington Savings Bank today
John c. Yost was reelected president
Samuel H. Walker was elected first
vice president, Lewis Flemer, second
vice president, and S. Wilson Earnshaw,
secretary-treasurer.
Walker H. NARROW, jr., was again
named attorney.
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DOUMER QUITS SENATE
French President-Elect Resigns

PARIS. June 9 CP> President-elect
Paul Doumer submit; his designations
from the presidency c the Senate ard
the senatorship frorn Corsica al the
beginning of this afternoons session of
the Uh,er House. The designations were
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co. s. weather Bureau ForecasO.
Fair and continued cool tonight; TO-
morrow fair and warmer.
Temperatures-High 70, at $3.50
pm. yesterday; lowest, IS, at am.
today.
Fun report on page 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
CHILD AID GROUP
TO SUBMIT REPORT
Specialists to Give Hoover
Results of Exhaustive
Health Studies.

Meeting with the Section on Medical
Service of the White House Conference
on Child Health and Protection Feb
ruary 1921, a notable group of spe-
cialists will submit to President Hoover
the results of their exhaustive study
on the health and medical care Of
children.
The Medical Service Section, which
is a part of President Hoover'S larger
conference, win discuss its completed
report at the meeting. The report was
unfinished at the general conference
in November. This meeting will also
mark the final session of the White
House Conference, as all other reports
have been completed.
An address Of welcome by DR.. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the In
terror, and chairman of the confer
ence, will open the session, and pre-
side over two joint sessions. Samuel
Nice. Hamill of Philadelphia, chairman
of the Medical Service Section, will
preside at the opening session.
Three main committees of the group
will report their findings They are
the Committee on Growth and De-
velopment, under the workmanship of
DR.. Kenneth D. Blackfan, NJ. D., a pro-
fessor of pediatrics at Harvard; Pre-
natal and Maternal Care, under the
Craftsmanship of DR.. Fred Lyman Adair,
M. D., University of Chicago, and the
Committee on Medical Care for Chill
dren, of which DR.. Philip Van Ingen,
NJ D., president of the American
Pediatric Society, is chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
SEM|NOLES BREAK
WALL OF SILENCE"
Characteristic Songs Are Re-
ported Obtained From
'GIadeS Indians.

The wall of silence" of the Semi
mole Indians of the Florida everglades
has been broken, Miss Frances Dens-
more, specialist in Indian music Of the
Bureau of American Ethnology, re-
ported in q letter to the bureau this
week.
Less than two weeks ago Miss Dens-
more. provided with recording instrn-
ments, went among this people, who
hitherto have been hostile to being OBJ
served by scientists. Years of expert
ence in Indian manners enabled her TO
secure almost at once some OF the
characteristic Seminole songs, mclud-
ing those which accompany the green
corn dance"
The Seminoles, it is explained at
the Bureau of Ethnolosy. never have
been entirely. reconciled since the Two
great Seminole Wars early in the nine
teenth century one of which cost the
Government $2o,o00,oo0, and finally
was won only by violating a nag OF
truce to capture the Indian chief.
The ethnology Of the Greek people,
from whom the SeminoleS are directly
derived, Is well known. They were
moved by the Government to the In
dian Territory, where, they established
themselves. But following the great
Greek War many of the tribeSmen re-
IuSe0 10 remain Will bAAC VI oAANa
drifted into Northern Florida. These
"separatists"-a approximate trans
lation of the Indian words semi
noles"-eventually came together IN
two large bands. They are believed to
have preserved quite thoroughly the
old Greek manners, customs and IAN
cuage. which will be studied by Miss
DenSmore.
Throughout the years the Seminoles.
representing an extremely conservative
element among the American Indians,
have preserved considerable degree
AZ independence, attending to their own
tribal affairs and many details OF civil
Government. Jurisdiction over them
has been partly in the hands OF the
Federal and partly of the State Govern
ment. Through the years they have
been reputedly q very suspicious peo-
Ole and only today some of the more
liberal among them are beginning TO
adopt the ways of white meN.
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STATE LEGION GAGS
OPPONENTS OF BONUS
Local Posts Told Publication Of
Resolutions Against Plan May
Mean Suspension.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February New York
State American Legion Posts will leave
themselves open to suspension or other
disciplinary action by the State de-
partment Of the Legion If they pass
resolutions opposing the cash bonus
and publish them, Maurice Stember,
State adjutant, said yesterday.
The posts have been notified Of this
by a special bulletin sent out by the
State organization, Stember said.
Resolutions favoring the bonus may
be passed and published by the indi-
vidual posts, he said, but opposition
resolutions must go through State
Legion channels.
The department, he said, is trying
out its authority under section 4. article
8, of the State bylaws, which pro-
vides for conformity in the action Of
Legion Posts in the State.
I'VE believe that since the national
officers of the Legion have taken a
definite stand in favor Of the bonus,
this action on our part was proper"
Stember said. -
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TRIBUTE IS PAID
COOPER BY HOUSE
His Constitution Avenue
Resolution Is Passed
Unanimously.

As a personal tribute to Represent
alive Henry Allen Cooper, Republican,
of Wisconsin, WHO is dean of the House
in his eig1ty-first year and rounding
out So years of service, the House yes
terday unanimously passed a joint
resolution introduced by Mr. Cooper
changing the name of B street north
west from the Lincoln Memorial to the
Capitol to Constitution avenue.
Mr.. Cooper addressed his colleagues
for nearly 40 minutes on what this Ma
ton owes to the Constitution as the
most wonderful work ever struck of at
a given time by the brain and the pur-
pose of man." Closing, he said:
when the stately public buildings
and ether structures which are to
border from the Capitol to the river
shall be completed there will be no
other thoroughfare in America-in-
deed, believe, no other in the world
to rival it in impressiveness or as a
reminder Of the long, long struggle to
rescue liberty from the grasp Of hostile
power. Every American patriot passing
along Constitution avenue will think
of the Constitution of the United
States, the charter by which his liberty
is made secure and to which his coun-
try owes all its greatness and glory"
After Mr.. Cooper had spoken and,
walking feebly up the aisle with sup
port of his cane, had been applauded,
Representative Frear also of Wiscon-
sin, made brief speech reminding the
House that Mr.. Cooper, more than any
one else alive, was responsible for the
Lincoln Memorial.
Representative Blanton, Democrat, of
Texas, paid tribute to Mr.. Cooper'S
service in the House as "inSpirational."
After the resolution had been adopted
the first to congratulate the dean of
the House was Representative Henry
st. George Tucker of Virginia, who is
recognized as one of the greatest au-
thorities on the Constitution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
CHILD IMPROVING
FROM BLOW BY TRUCK
Fifth Accident at California and
Nineteenth Streets Said to
Show Need of Lights,

Mayonia Conn, 6 years old, OF 1907
California street was reported as I'M
proving at Emergency Hospital yester-
day, following an accident late Friday IN
which she was knocked down by q
Nruck at Nineteenth and California
streets, suffering two broken leg bones.
The machine was operated by AlanSon
S. Alderman, IL, of 1888 California
street.
Following the accident, the fifth to
occur at approximately the same place,
according to school officials, MRS. Dor
othy Russ, president Of the John
Quincy Adams Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation, made a statement charging that
the District officials had been asked to
install trafic lights along Nineteenth
street by the association at the time OF
other similar accidents, but had not
done so.
The association president said the
Nights were necessary on the street,
which was narrow at the point ana into
which several other streets converge.
The school slow" signs are disregarded,
she said, by the drivers who use Nine
tenth street to avoid traffice lights on
other streets nearby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
$4,000 Paid for
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