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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
DRAMA GUILD PLAY
TO Be SEEN NOV. 70
First in Series of Four Is Set
for TWo-Day Run-TWo
Yet to Be Chosen.

Preliminary plans for the presentation
OF plays during the coming season were
discussed at a meeting of the admins
tratlve council OF the Drama Guild of
Washington. meeting in the Cosmos
Club, yesterday.
The first of a series of plays THE
Trial of Mary Dugan," by Bayard Veil
Ter, Is TO be presented at the Wardman
Park Theater November 20 and 81
Clifford Brooke. we'll known stage direc-
tor, who last Summer directed the
National Players here, has been asked
to supervise the first production, it is
announced Negotiations with Mr.
Brooke have not been completed, it is
said. The rehearsalS for the first pro-
duction have begun
Other plays to be presented by the
guild include: If I Were King" bv
Justin Huntley Mccarthy. and two
other plays to be selected from a group
Of six which includes The Devils Dis
ciple." by George Bernard Shaw: The
Squall," by Jean Bart; Wake Up Jona-
than by Hatcher Hughes and Elmer
Rice: Mary. Mary, Quite Contrary"
by st. John Ervine Sun Up" by Lulu
Volmer. and Ned McCobb's Daughter"
by Sidney Howard
All the plays are to be presented at
Wardman Park Theater except the
final production, which will be pre-
scented in the Sylvan Theater.
Members of the council attending the
meeting yesterday were Robert D.
Chase, j. Minor Dorey. Mrs. John Otto
johnson. Capt. Ray C. Montgomery and
theatrical critics representing the
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land expressing their regret they
couldn't attend
This was followed by appointment of
committee on rules and credentials,
after which State Senator j. W.. Web
ster OF Solomon's Island delivered an
address Of welcome. Just before the
luncheon recess a report of the cour.
Gus nnanceS was presented
AT this afternoons session E. Lee
LIE Compile, Maryland State game war
den, spoke on wild Life" He was fol-
lowed on the speakers platform by DR..
w. B. Bell of the United States Bio
logical Survey, who discussed The
Wild Duck Situation"
Fisheries Worker Speaks.
The remainder of the days program
included speech by Lewis Radcliffe,
deputy commissioner of the United
States Bureau of Fisheries, on The
Need for Black Bass Protection" cleo
ton Of officers for 1882 and an oyster
roast On the shore of the Patuxent
River.
Tomorrow's program includes ad-
dresses by DR.. v. Pruit University of
Maryland professor of zoology and az
rlculture; Seth Gordon, president Of the
American Game Association; Lieut.. Col.
z. Seymour Bullock, representing the
Walton Leagues national hedaouarters
In Chicago, and DR.. Raymond A. Pear
son, president Of the University OF
Maryland
The English government is extending
a Tree PUBIC school system in Pales-
tine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
MISSING ELEMENT
NO. 81 IS FOUND
Leaves Only One Of 81 Sub
stances Composing the
Earth Undiscovered.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October ia new
substance, the missing element No. 81
has poked part of its face into the
view Of science.
Ninety-two elements long have been
known to comprise every material sub
stance composing the earth. but two
OF them known only by No. 81 and IS,
never have been found definitely.
Positive Identification of this sub
stance IN samarskite, lustrouS black
compound, was announced yesterday
afternoon by Cornell University.
According to this evidence, 81 is a
Solld, is 1nSoluble in water Is extremely
lnfiammable and is the most light -sensi-
tive material yet found anywhere.
While the Cornell experiments do
not yet show the color, science long
has expected that No. 81 would be
white, lustrous metal.
The information developed at Cor
nell Immediately gives the new scien-
tific baby potential job in electricity.
1t may make the worlds best coating
material for photo-electric cells, the
electric eyes which by reason of their
films Of light-Sensitive metals, far out
do human vision
The Cornell discovery was made by
Jacob Papish, professor of spectroscopy.
1t was made with the aid of spectro-
scope, the same instrument which
astronomers use to detect the substances
OF which stars are made.
He obtained from the coal black
samarskite, Sulphate which is a mix
ture containing sulphur and oxygen,
and in this identified the number 81.
The small amount Of 87-bearing ma
terial in his laboratory is reckoned as
priceless, with a theoretical value ex-
ceeding radium.
The new element has not been iSo-
lated, that Is, separated in pure FORM
II 1t were separated with present facil-
tiles 1t probably would burn up.
Evidence of existence of both 81 and
IS in a number of compounds was pub
liShed few months ago by Prof. Fred
Allison OF Alabama Polytechnic Insti-
tute. He used method combining
polarized light and magnetism.
Prof. Louis M. Dennis, head of the
Department of Chemistry at Cornell.
said of Papish's work: The finding of
element 81 is one of the greatest scien-
tiflc discoveries of our time"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
BIDS FOR 4. ROAD
PROJECTS SOUGHT
Proposal Asked for MaSSa-
Chusetts Avenue Exten-
sion in Montgomery.
BY HOWARD NJ. BAGGETT,
STAT Correspondent Of The Star.

SILVER SPRING, Md, october 10
Bids for four Montgomery County road
improvement projects, one of them for
the extension of Massachusetts, avenue
from the District line into the county,
are advertised for. today by the State
Road Commission. The bids will be
received at the Offices of the commits
sion in Baltimore october 27
Bids on six other Maryland highway
projects, three of them in Montgomery
County, have been received by the COM
mission and contracts are expected to
be awarded within a few days. Bids on
two other Montgomery County projects
will be received at Baltimore october 20.
Included in the list of bids sought
in the advertisements published today
is the project for the widening to SO
feet and Improvement of Frederick ave-
nue. through the town of Gaithersburg.
TIE advertisement requesting bids on
the Massachusetts, avenue extension
project calls for the construction of one
section of concrete highway and a con-
crete girder bridge, the highway to run
from tie District of Columbia line to
Little Falls Branch, a distance of 0.73
miles.
The new pavement is to be 20 feet
wide, while the bridge will have a o.
foot span ana be Al feet in road width.
This paving will extend the avenue
from the Washington line to the site
of the proposed underpass at the Bal
timore & Ohio Railroads freight line.
State Roads Commission officials
state that the construction Of one Sec
ton of the road at this time will en-
able the contractor for the underpaSs
to transport his materials over the i'm
proved road and result in a saving of
approximately $4,000 in the cost of the
underpass.
If the bids are satisfactory, the State
Roads Commission has announced, the
contracts will be awarded Immediately,
so that the work may be done during
the present construction season.
The bids already received include
those for the construction of one mile
of concrete highway from the end of
the Germantown-Darnes road To-
ward the latter place. The NJ. j. Grove
Lime Co. of Lime Kiln, Md. is an
nounced as the low bidder, with price
of S36.815.
The LOOMS Construction Co. of Wash
ington is announced as the low bidder
on the modification of the curve on the
ColeSville road near Franklin avenue, a
distance of 0.20 miles, concrete. with a
figure of S3,546.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
ARLINGTON CHEST
PLAN ABANDONED
County Declared Not Ripe for Com
munity Charity Pro-
posal.
BY a stan Correspondent of The Star.


CLARENDON, Va, october 16.-The
idea Of community chest for Airing
ton County was abandoned at mass
meeting of delegates of interested or
CARNATIONS here last night. The vote,
which was overwhelming, was taken
after two hours of discussion.
1t was the consensus of opinion OF
those opposed to the chest that Airing
ton County is not yet ripe for such a
move and also that it would be too late
to organize a chest this year If 1t were
approved in principle.
The decision follows a study that was
inaugurated nearly year ago and in
which nearly all organizations in the
county were invited to participate.
Last nights meeting was presided
over by John C. Gall. Among the Or
CARNATIONS represented were:
The Board of Public Welfare. Mon
arch Club, Rotary Club, American
Legion, American Legion Auxiliary,
Rosslyn Business Mems Association.
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Arlington
County Civic Federation. Catholic
Charities. knights of Columbus, Red
Cross and Daughters of Isabella.
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will be received with all Of the pomp
and glory incident to such an occa-
sion, and at IL o'clock will make an
address on the Yorktown battlefield,
where many thousands of persons will
be gathered. The party will luncheon
on the field, and following a review
OF the pageant depicting the surrender
OF CORVALLIS, the President and his
party will return to the battleship and
mead back to Annapolis. The party
VIII go ashore at Annapolis early Tues
Gay morning and will be back at the
White House before 9 o'clock,
Mrs. Hoover returned to the White
House this morning after an absence of
several days in Buffalo, N. Y, where she
participated in the National Convention
of Girl Scouts.
$50 Stations to Garry Talk.
The detailed program for a Nation
wide radio hook-up Sunday night to
open emergency welfare and relief cam
paigns throughout the United States
was announced yesterday in New York
by Owen D. Young.
With President Hoover speaking from
Fortress Monroe, the program will be
carried by $50 stations from TO pm
Ine National BroadcaSt1ng and Column
bia Broadcasting systems will be oper-
ated as one unit.
Walter s. Clifford. director Of the
Presidents organization on unemploy-
ment relief. will introduce Mr. Hoover
from New York. Will Rogers will speak
from California.
John Philip 6ousa will lead the Ma
rine Band in selections from Fortress
Monroe and the Philadelphia SYM
phony Orchestra, with Leopold Stokow-
ski conducting, will play.
Vocal solos will be given by Nine
Lily Pons and Nine. Sophie Braslau
from New York and Lawrence Tibbett
from San Francisco.
The program is one of series to be
given during the compaign. from Octo-
Der l9 to November 25, said Mr.. Young,
chairman of the Committee on Mobili-
zation of Relief Resources.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
SOLDIERS SEIZED
AS AUTO THIEVES
Arlington Police Report Finding
Two Men Stripping Stolen
Machine.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COUR T
HOUSE. october 16.-With the arrest
last night of three soldiers stationed
at Fort Myer, Arlington County police,
under the direction of Sheriff Howard
B. Fields. say that they have broken
up band of automobile thieves which
has been stealing cars in the District
of Columbia and abandoning them in
Arlington County after stripping thsm.
The men arrested are Charles Pope,
20: Steve Joebe, 25. and E. D. Will
hanson. Pope and Joebe are charged
with the theft of an automobile and
Pope and Williamson with carrying
concealed weapons.
Pope and Joebe were discovered last
night by Policemen William E. Thomp-
son and John R. Burke on the old
Multere estate in Fort Myer Heights.
They were allegedly engaged in paint
ing a roadster that is said to have
been stolen in Washington on Oc-
tober 13.
According to Deputy Sheriff Harry
woodward, Pope and Joebe admitted
the theft of the car and involved
Williamson. who later was arrested
short distance from the military reser-
VatlOn. POPE, IL is claimed is on 10
month probation in Washington for the
theft of an automobile.
While Pope and Joebe admit only
the theft of the one car, police say
that they have been finding an aver
age of two abandoned automobiles a
week in the neighborhood of the
reservation, all of which have been
traced to Washington owners.
When arrested, Pope had a .32-caliber
automatic pistol and Williamson a re-
volver of the same caliber, police
claimed
Detectives from Washington were
scheduled to question the men today
in an effort to learn the extent of
their participation in automobile thefts
in the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16

Bushey, England. Parish Church off,
Gals are worried over the loss Of the
church key, one foot long and 300 years
old.
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HOOVER DELAYS
WEEK END TRIP
Business Will Keep Him at
White House Until Tomor-
row Afternoon.

1t Is doubtful If President Hoover will
get away from Washington before 4
o'clock tomorrow afternoon to go to
annapolis, where he will embark on the
oattleShlp Arkansas to spend the week
end in the waters in the vicinity of the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay prepa-
ratory to attending the Sesquicentennial
ceremonies at Yorktown Monday.
The Presidents party on this expe-
dition will include. besides Mrs. Hoover,
Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, wife Of
the Secretary Of the Navy; Admiral
w. V. Pratt. chief of naval operations,
and Mrs. Pratt; the Presidents three
secretaries, Walter H. Newton, Law
renee Richey and Theodore Joslin:
Capt. c. r. Train and Col. Campbell
Hodges. naval and military aides, re-
spectively, and Capt. Joel T. Boone.
White House physician. The party will
include also a score of newspaper cor
respondents and news photographers
and the customary number of Secret
Service operatives.
Business Delays Departure.
The President had originally planned
to leave Washington today for this week
end trip, but business necessitated his
being at the White House. 1t was said
in his behalf today that Mr. Hoover's
work tomorrow will not permit him to
leave his desk until some time in the
afternoon. Although no definite time
has been set, it is thought that he will
depart about o'clock.
The journey to Annapolis will be
made in automobiles. There will be
more than dozen cars in the motor
party and from the Maryland State
line on TO Annapolis large contingent
OF Maryland State police will act as
convoy. At Annapolis, the party will
be received by the commandant of the
Naval Academy, who will escort the
President to the dock, where the party
will go aboard small boats to be taken
to the Arkansas, which will be an
chored 1t the mouth of the Severn
River, about 4 miles away.
Cadet Parade Cancelled.
1t had been planned to have the
President review a parade of the corps
OF cadets. but because of the lateness
of the hour he will arrive at Annapolis
and the fact that the cadets will be
absorbed in foot ball contest about
that time, it is understood this feature
Of the program has been abandoned.
Immediately after the presidential
party has been put safely aboard the
Arkansas. anchors will be raised and
the big battleship will then start on
its journey down the bay 1t is under
stood that the vessel will head for the
Virginia Capes, where it will steam
around leisurely on Sunday before
heading back 10 Old Point Comfort.
where at ocl1ck in the evening the
President will make a radio address at
the home of the commandment at Fort
Monroe, formally opening the drive for
funds to be conducted by communities
throughout the country for unemploy-
ment relief
The President then will return TO
his ship. The big vessel will then leaf
around near the Roads preparatory to
departing for Yorktown
The President is scheduled to 60
ashore at 9 o'clock Monday morning He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
FACTORY INCREASES
ALL EMPLOYEES PAY
Brake-Lining Manufacturer Says
Go-Getting Policy Has Added
Sales and Profits.
BY the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND. October Robustness
is so good at the S. K. Wellman Co.
brake-lining manufacturers. here that
every employe has had Is per cent
increase in salary this year.
j. T. Seaver. vice president, said the
company has overpowered the depres-
sion by going after new business every
Gay and by constantly experimenting
to improve the quality of our product"
The Wellman Co.'S sales in dollar
values were 20 per cent higher in the
first nine months of 1891 than they
were in the same period a year ago
despite "a per cent price cut on their
product in January. 1881. Measured in
feet, the sales of the company's prod
uct were 48.9 per cent greater this year
than year ago.
Seaver said the net profit has climbed
along with the sales and is running 80
per cent higher than last year.
Japan expects its 1881 raw silk pro-
duction will be below demand and that
100000 bales held from last year will
be disposed Of
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Card Party Planned.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. October IS
fSpeciaD The Finance Committee Of
the Falls Church Parent-Teachers' AS
ISOLATION. Mrs. Maybelle Mills chairman.
is giving a card party tonight in the
auditorium Of Madison Elementary
School to raise money to defray the
debt on the stage curtin which was pur-
chased last Spring Reservation CT
tables can be made through Mrs. Har-
mon Green.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
SEIZED LIQUOR JARS
WILL GO TO CHARITY
1ntoxicants in Prince Georges to
Be Poured 0ut-Containers to
Be Used for Preserves.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

UPPER MARLBORO. Md. October
Unsuccessful liquor raids made in the
future by Prince Georges County police
will become acts of charity under an
order issued by Chief j. J. Crowley yes
terday.
The new order directs that the bot
ties ard jars containing seized liquor
shall be emptied and turned over to the
Associated Charities. They will then
be sterilized and used in the canning of
fruits for the families of the countyS
unemployed.
Formerly it has been the custom of
police to destroy the glass jars in dis
posing of seized liquor.
Yesterdays order was the second step
taken by Chief Crowley during the week
to assist the work of charitable organi-
cations IN the county. Two days ago
he turned over several hundred caps for
glass jars which can also be used in
the preserving and canning campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
Woman, lO4, Born
During Presidency
OF Jackson, Dies
Special Dispatch to The Star.


DANVILLE, Va, october 10
Mrs. Malinda Long, who was be-
lieved to have been the Oldest per-
son in this section of the country.
is dead. She was 104 years old and
had lived through a long epoch OF
history, most of which was clear
in her mind until she died. She sue
cumbed early yesterday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. d. G. Holt. in
Caswell County. N. c., 10 miles south
of here. She had no specific all
ment, but died from the infirmities
of age, having been in coma sew
eral days.
Mrs. Long was born in 1927, dur
ing the second half of President
Andrew Jackson's administration,
and lived through "a succeeding
regimes.
Services will be held this after
noon and interment will be near
RoXboro, N. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
WALTON COUNCIL
OPENS CONVENTION
MaryIand-D. C. Regional
Board Gathers at Solomon
IsIand-Magee Presides.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star
SOLOMON'S ISLAND, Md, October
16.-With DR.. w. Darcy Magee of
Washington presiding, the second an
nua' convention of the Maryland
District of Columbia Regional Council
of the Issac Walton League of America
opened here today
Although it was originally planned
to hold the three-day conclave in the
new Marine Laboratory, just comple1eI
at cost of $4,000, the building was
not available, and the delegates as
sembled in the Parish Hall.
Hoover Letter Is Read.
At this mornings session. DR.. Magee.
president of the organization. read
letters from President Herbert Hoover
and Gov. Albert c. Richie of Mary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16

The English government is extending
a free public school system in PaIes-
tine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16

Bailey's are determined that
everyone shall own a Radio.
Bailey's have taken even the
beautiful Brunswick out of the
luxury class with their low
down payment and easy terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28

Territories? This question Is answered By the
two words-economy and efficiency. No one
Of the 10 Federal departments located at the
seat OF Government is housed under one roof.
Bureaus and services of these 10 departments
are scattered all over the District of Columbia,
in some instances miles from the buildhng in
which the head Of the department is located.
Many Of the department bureaus and inde-
pendent Government establishments are housed
In temporary wartime structures that have
outlived their day. while others are In rented
buildings entirely unsuited to the work q tho
par ticular office occupying them.
The Department of Agriculture, that is
charged with the expenditure of about $780,
DOC, 900 year in the promotion of agriculture
in its broadest sense. is housed in 81 different
buildings located in various sections of the City
Of Washington Seventeen of the buildings in
which branches Of this department are housed
are rented buildings, two temporary wartime
structures. the others being Government owned
Many Of the Governmental buildings In
which the department is housed are small
brick buildings originally built for residential
purposes and are located in the five squares
recently acquired for the extensible building Of
the department and in the square acquired for
the central heating plant. This extensible
building when completed will cover five entire
city blocks. The steel frame work for the first
unit. which will occupy the entire block bounded
by B and c streets and Thirteenth street and
Linworth place southwest, is now in place.
When all Of the units of this extensible building
are completed all OF the services of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture in the City Of Washington,
with one or t&o minor exceptions, van be
brought together under two roofs-the main
administration building and the extsnsible
building.
THE Department Of Commerce that Congress
has charged with the promotion Of our
foreign and domestic commerce. our mining
manufacturing. shipping. fishery and trans
portation interests and for which activities II
allows the department about $50, 900 900 0 year.
is housed in 20 buildings in the City of wash
1ngton exclusive Of the Bureau Of Standards
group OF buildings. Three of the buildings in
which this department IS housed are temporary
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