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Evening star., 1931-12-31
PHONE COMPANIES
PLAN EXPANSION
81, 900, 900 of $4,000, 900
Sum Will Be Used to I'm
prove D. c. Service.

The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Cos. announced today plans for
expending approximately $4,000 900 in
1882 in expanding and improving serv-
ice OF this $4,9O0,O0O will be spent in
the District of Columbia and the bal
ance in Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia.
Lloyd B. Wilson, president Of the
companies, estimated the amount to be
spent next year would be about So
100000 above that spent on 1881 con-
struction projects.
OF total net gain of $4,000 tele-
phones anticipated in the companies
territory 10000 are expected to be in
stalled in Washington, 5000 in Mary
land. 5000 in Virginia and 1000 in
West Virginia.
Aside from the s4,9OO,oOO to be spent
In the Capital, it was estimated S4.-
100000 would be used in Maryland
projects S4,250,000 in Virginia and So
100000 in West Virginia.
Major construction projects contem-
plated in the District include expendi-
ture OF S2,250,000 for telephones and
private branch exchange equipment on
the subscribers premises; $500 900
AoA SCiiIIa4 OiAiCc equipment, SSUU,UUU
for outside plant and S250,00O for land
and buildings.
Installation of $4,000 telephones and
removal of "A 900 was estimated, with
1873, ,480 phones In use at the end of
1882 anticipated. 1t also was estimated
239, 100000 calls would be made by
Washingtonians, an increase of more
than per cent over this year.
Total number of telephones in use
throughout the three States and the
District of Columbia at the end of this
year was set at 673,359, with 1885,
100000 calls expected to be made next
year, an increase of per cent over
1881.
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SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
PREVAILS AT MEETING
Logan-Thomas Circle Citizens Hold
Social Session at Residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. DuComb.

The spirit of Christmas predominated
at meeting of the Logan-Thomas Cir
Gle Citizens Association Tuesday night,
and the usual executive formality was
discarded. after brief session Of busi-
ness, for an evening of entertainment.
approximately 80 members attended
the social given at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. j. F. DuComb, 1918 o street.
Mrs. Ella M. Thompson, president Of
the association, and Miss Edna A.
Clark, secretary, officiated at the meet
ing.
The association adopted a resolution
agreeing to participate IN the contest
for the prize offered by member OF
the Federation of Citizens Associations
to the association introducing the best
resolutions during the coming year for
the general welfare of the public. The
contest date will include resolutions in
troduced during the period between De-
cember l, 1881, and October l, 1892.
Participants in the evenings enter
tainment we're Mrs. Fred Haig, with
recitation on depression; Mrs. James
Brown, piano solo; Mr.. Ison, reading;
Mrs. H. Flynn, vocal solo, and a music
and song quartet with Jonn Fletcher as
violinist, Mary Fletcher as pianist and
singing by Mrs. w. F. Fletcher and Jane
Fletcher
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or distributed among the various mu-
Seums throughout the country Work
ing models are no longer required by
law.
The difficult task of the entire NOV
ing plan is the transfer of the mil
lions of copies of the 100000 patents,
which are stored in separate boxes in
more than $50 filing cases, each flling
case section holding 10000 copies. The
cases are constructed so that they will
have to be taken apart and then put
together again on arriving at the new
quarters.
From attic to the second basement Of
the ancient building that now houses
the Patent ONCE there is almost an
endless row Of neatly kept filing cases.
Every available space has been utilized
for this purpose When they are placed
in the new building they will have
plenty of room for their growing pains
"a total of over 100000 l cubic feet
and sufficient space to last for more
than 20 years.
Rated Largest In World.
Many of these filing cases will be
housed near the new magnificent public
search room, which is 225 feet long
and TO feet wide, which surpasSes the
search room of the celebrated Ger
man Patent Office by many feet.
Nearby will be the library, which will
house the greatest collection of scien-
tific books and periodicals in the world
Mr.. Robertson said the Office has col
lected for this library a total of $4,000
books, $4,000 bound periodical volumes
and 100000 bound copies of foreign
patents.
Four vaults in the new building will
hold the original patent grants.
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.LABOR'S PROTESTS
AGAINST ROSE CO.
ARE OvERR|DDEN
Commissioners Award En-
gine House Contract De-
spite Wage Controversy.
BAC0N-DAVIS VIOLATION
CHARGED TO COMPANY
Investigation Results in Promise
to Pay Union Scale
in Future.

Despite the strong protest of Wash
lngton'S organized labor, the District
Commissioners today awarded to the
William P. Rose Co. of Goldsboro, N, c.,
contract for the construction of a
new truck and engine house on the
west side of Thirteenth, between K and
l. streets, on the company'S low bid
of $152,80O
This company, which has the con-
tract for construction of an addition
to the Woodbridge School, has been the
target of attacks from organized labor
ever since it started operations in
Washington. The latest had to do with
an alleged practice of the company in
compelling its workers to sign pay rolls
showing they had received union wages
prescribed by the Commissioners under
the terms of the Bacon-Davis act,
whereas, in fact. the workers had re-
ceived less
An investigation into this complaint
by the corporation counsePs office re-
suited in a promise by the company
to maintain the union scale in future
and to pay workers the difference be-
tween the amounts actually received
and the amounts called for by the
wage scale, retroactive to the date
when the wage scale was ordered by
the Commissioners.
The union representatives took the
attitude the company's practices re-
moved them from the class of ere
sponsible bidders" But the Conmis-
sioners, on a certificate from the Dis
trict auditor that the back wages on
the Woodbridge addition job had been
paid in accordance with the promise,
overrode the objection and awarded the
contract
The new house will take care of
No. 3 truck and No. Is engine, now
housed at Fourteenth street and Ohio
avenue. The old building will be torn
down to make way for buildings to be
put up by the Federal Government.
The third floor of the new house will
be devoted to medical clinic for the
Police and Fire Departments.
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SHORT CIRCUIT HURTS
TWO UNDERGROUND
Power Company Employees Victims
of Blast at Fourteenth Street
and Constitution Avenue.

Two employees Of the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. we're slightly burned to-
DAY in a fire and explosion caused by
the short circuitlng Of electric wires in
a manhole at Fourteenth street and
Constitution avenue.
The men, James Stanbury, So, of 36l8
o street. and Ralph Stark. 26 of 1000
New Hampshire avenue, were working
in a manhole on Constitution avenue a
few feet from Fourteenth street when
a short circuit caused an accumulation
of sewer gas TO explode.
The top Of another manhole 20 feet
away, was blown into the air and an
Agriculture Department building at the
corner of Fourteenth and Constitution
avenue shaken by the explosion.
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DEATHS HELD NATURAL
Woman and Man Stricken on Street
Expired of Heart Attacks.

Certificates ascribing death to natural
causes were issued late yesterday in the
cases of woman and man, who were
stricken while walking on the street.
The woman, Miss Clara Martha Hoe
fer. 81, of 1928 P street, was stricken
while walking only a block from her
home Persons nearby saw her fall TO
the pavement and summoned an ambu-
lance from Emergency Hospital. She
was pronounced dead on arrival at the
hospital and was identified there several
hours later by her brother, w. r. Hoe
fer, 1921 Sixteenth street
The man was John McCullen. 81, of
1922 W street southeast, who fell to the
sidewalk while in the 400 block of Ninth
street. The Fire Rescue Squad was
summoned, and, after giving first aid,
rushed him to the hospital. He died
there about a half an hour afterward.
His death was ascribed to heart disease.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
DINNERS TO Be GIVEN
FOR C0LORED JOBLESS
BLACK Billy Sunday" Will Speak
at Cosmopolitan Baptist
Church Tomorrow.

Free New Year dinners to the eolored
unemployed and former slaves will be
given tomorrow from 1:30 to s O'Clock
in the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church,
1917 Corcoran street, by the United
Federation of Ministers and Laymen
Welfare Council of the World.
After sermons by DR.. C. P. Dixon OF
Virginia, known as the BLACK Billy
Sunday" at II am. and 8 pm, free
coal tickets will be distributed among
the needy colored persons An appeal
was made today by sponsors of the free
dinner to send clothes, shoes, food and
coal for distribution among poverty
stricken families to Mrs. Julia Sears,
chairman of the Women's Relief Com
mittee, 1917 Corcoran street.
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THE largest 10-cent store in the
world selling only one product
will start moving at midnight
4 tonight into its new quarters,
the largest and finest designed
home of its kind to be found in any
section of the globe.
The store is the Patent Office, one
of Uncle Sans oldest and most impor-
tant organizations. It has occupied its
present quarters on T street between
Seventh and Ninth streets for 81 years
and will move into the north wing Of
the SI7,500000 new Commerce Depart
ment Building.
This establishment which has been
so ably directed by Commissioner
Thomas E. Robertson for the last 10
years sells 10000 copies of patents daily
at 10 cents each to persons residing in
all sections of the world. Therefore,
Mr.. Robertson has dubbed it the
worlds largest 10-cent store. Total re-
ceipts for the office last year were
S4, SOS, ,377. including patent and trade
mark fees.
Work to Continue.
While the contractor is taCkling one
of the greatest single moving jobs ever
undertaken. the office will continue TO
function. although under serious handl-
caps. The sale of copies of patents, the
recording of patent grants and the eX-
animation Of applications for patents
will not be halted.
All the moving will be done at night
and Commissioner Robertson said he
hoped to have his personnel, numbering
735 professional and TOO clerical en-
ployes, transferred into the new build
ing within 21 days. The old building
according to the present plans, will be
renovated and part of it will be occu-
pied by the Civil Service Commission.
Each night during this period lum-
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ing of Edward Kines, A. F.. Sievers
end c. R. Smith, also was elected.
Carlton Talley, William L. Amonette,
jr.; N r. King, Mr.. and Mrs. James
N Bonum and c. Edward V. Fall were
admitted to membership. President E.
G. Sievers presided.
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months, the other two being Of slight
consequence.
Carver had been employed at the re-
search laboratory since December, 1917.
He had the rating of leading ordnance
man He was native of Washington
Lane was classified as a laborer and
for seven years.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
AUTO INJURIES FATAL

Mrs. Maria L. Tompkins, SO, of 61O
Third street died in Casualty Hospital
today of injuries received Saturday in
an automobile accident. She is said to
have run into the car operated by John
B. Ballinger, 25, of 1927 West Virginia
avenue southeast.
Mrs. Tompkins was treated for q
head injury at, Casualty Hospital.
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Births Reported.

Howard H. and Lily FoUgnoy, boy
FGVa~d J. and Adrlcunc Duffy. hoy.
plane c. and Ruth I Curry. boy.
Charles X and June SuracL girl
Robert c and Sara A Watson, girl.
Henry and Angel Marsnisn. girl.
Stay and Mol!le CsroVay, poy'
John Z. and Katherine Lee, girl
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Is Prisoners Hurt in Riot.

HAVANA. December 81 (P).-Fifteen
prisoners we're reported to have been
injured today In q riot at the Principe
kprison. -....-.. .---.-.---.-. -..s..-.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
HOOVER GETS D. A. R. BID
Considers Invitation to Address
Annual Congress Here in April.

Annual Congress Here in April.
An invitation was extended to Presi-
dent Hoover yesterday to address the
annual congress Of the Daughters of
the American Revolution here on April
ID.
Mrs. Gilbert GroSvenor and Mrs.
Clyde Kelly, who extended the invita-
tion, said he had taken 1t under advises
ment
Evening star., 1931-12-31
MELLON Rejects PLEA
Turns Down Request for EN- barge

on Wrapper Tobacco.
Secretary Mellon has turned down the
plea for an embargo on wrapper to-
baccO.
Senator George of Georgia was in
formed of the decision today in q letter
from Assistant Secretary Lowman of
the Treasury.
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Dogs Killing Deer.

CARELESS and sometimes law-evading own
~ ers who have let their dogs run free In the
Pisgah National Game Preserve, in North Caro-
hna soon won't have their dogs unless their
luck runs good.
Managers have noticed the dogs running
game and have sometimes found evidences that
they have killed some of the deer they have
chased. In other cases the deer have been
chased out of the preserve and brought around
to unprotected land where the owners OF the
dogs have legally shot the deer.
The dogs caught at large IN the preserve
hereafter are to be impounded.
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This Is q specimen of one form Of double
squeeze" play in which both adversaries are
forced to make fatal discards. South should
start to build up his squeeze by leading the
aces Of spades and diamonds, discardhg club
on the latter Now comes the four OF diamonds,
trumped with the i've. The ace Of hearts lead
takes out East's only trump and compels West
to discard a club. for . spade discard by the
latter would Immediately set up declarer's
entire hand On this South throws his little
spade.
Now the king of hearts lead puts East under
the hammer. With the king Of diamonds and
two clubs left. he must throw away one. II he
chooses the diamond South discards the little
club and gets the last two tricks with his club
ace and diamond jack: II he chooses club
South discards the diamond jack and gets the
last two tricks with his ace and I'VE of clubs.
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Il Laqv a Week.

Are artificial bids ethical If explained to op-
ponents when made, or should they be explained
in advance?
They should be explained in advance. Other
wise when one is not made the partner receives
information which the opponents do not. The
failure to make the artificial bid tells your
partner you are unable to make 1t. Whenever
q player using the artificial one-club or two
club bid TO proclaim any hand containing great
strength does anything else his partner knows
he does not possess such q hand. The OPP
ponents also are entitled to know it.
The same is true of the most artificial bid Of
an-the two no-trump denial in the forcing
system, after an original forcing two bid, which.
instead of disclosing general strength does not
reveal any strength at all. Hence, if the Fore
ing system is being used and the partner Is
going to use such denial no trump to keep
the bidding open, the opponents should be
appraised of that fact in advance.
The official regulations of the American
Bridge League governing this question read as
follows: Pairs using arbitrary conventions or
declarations which imply to their partner other
meanings than the words employed indicate
should announce and fully explain these con.
ventions at each table before starting play.
The player on the left Of the declarant shall
have the right to ask the declarant II his
declaration has any conventional meaning to
his partner
Has player the right to ask his opponent
whether double is business or information?
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eyros. DO they take punishment and verbal
chaStisenent in a human manner or are they
condoned?"
bridge expert is, first of ALL a human being,
with his share of the various shortcomings to
which all humans are heir. He is merely a
person who has more or less natural aptitude
for the game, also a great liking for it. and
has supplemented these traits with faithful
study and practice to give himself the infor-
nation necessary to use his talents most effec-
lively. He cannot rid himself of his natural
human traits, however, if, indeed, he should
wish to.
The worst duffer ever born makes no worse
mistakes than thoSe perpetrated upon occasion
by the greatest expert. The chief difference is
that the duffer makes them frequently, the
expert seldom. This applies not only to mis-
tasRS in bidding and pay, but likewise to the
most serious mistake bridge player can make
losing his temper upbraiding his partner
so that the latter loses his.
Even in this, though, many Of the best have
been known to err and rave like naniacs over
. careless or stupid bid or play by partner.
zone is fed up" continues the interesting
correspondent, Louis s. Dunbar, with the
hands published here and there under the
names of leaders of bridge, and the perfect way
in which they are managed Do the big shots
always read the cards rightly? If not. why
not? And where do they get the authority to
tell the world how to do so?"
No bridge expect has yet been known 20 claim
perfection, though there has been one instance
of a man who has come very close to claiming
1t. The true expert in any line knows how great
are his shortcomings and how vast Is the field
OF fact which no one mind can ever master. It
Is so with the great physician If he refrained
from writing medical book simply because he
knows he is not infallible and that there is
much still to be harmed, every young doctor
would have to figure the whole thing out for
himself instead of having the advantage Of the
older mans knowledge.
The clientele and following of bridge expert,
whether writer, lecturer. teacher, or all
three, built upon his proved ability to enable
people to play the game more eficiently and
derive more pleasure from it. Let us hope that
perfection viii never be demanded Of US, for
Unn3 win ever be able to deliver it.
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NORTH

Nurth's pass and East's one spade are obvious.
9outh has no such clear-cut question. There
are two apparently useful moves he can make
either double to show his general strength with
the equivalent of about three defensive tricks,
or bid trump to disclose both his
strength, well distributed, and the fact that he
has two probable shoppers in the hostile suit
bid at his right. OF these two. the no trump
O. preferable for various reasons.
II South should double and West should
happen to bid hearts, North, with no-trump
type Of hand, coulj not possibly bid no trump
with heart stopps Re he could not have
spades stopped. Ii .-..lth. however, shows his
spade shoppers with no trump, North can raise
the bid over adverse hearts If he has the latter
stopped twice
= 1t SO happens that North has q hand with
which he will bid two diamonds over either
declaration by South, West passing In either
esent. II this comes after . double South
Sllccld bid two no trumpS, whereupon North
gOes to three diamonds. South has no way OF
knowing that 10th has any high-card strength,
since North not strong enough in high
cards to bid three after the double, and theTe.
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BY SHEPARD BARCLAY.

South the probability Of some high-card
strength, makes 1t very unlikely that West can
possess an ace Consequently there 70 practi-
cally no danger of the heart suit being run,
and protection In the side suits Is o virtual
certainty. With this element Of safety and 30
much diamond strength in his own hand max
ing o set-up diamond suit practically positive,
South can bid three no trump with confidence.
There Is nothing to the play, for any lead
gives South set-up game. Harold E. Finnell,
who sat South and bid this hand as Indicated,
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fore, South can't tell but what North:s re-bid
merely indicates great string of diamonds.
no-trunp bid by South might be very risky,
for spade lead to East's ace might be
answered with heart lead through the king,
which would enable the adversaries to run the
entire suit South In this situation, therefore,
do nothing but raise diamonds, In which
game cannot be made.
After a no trump by South, North will bid
two diamonds voluntarily, not forced as in the
case of the double. This response, indicating to
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The Nee Problem.

On the following hand North bid one dia-
mond. East one spade, South passed, West two
hearts, North three diamonds, East three hearts,
South passed West four hearts and North 1--WE
diamonds. The king Of hearts lead held and
the jack followed. How would you play the rest
Of the hand?
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antithesis of the clipper. They were flat-sided
and blunt-nosed; sea-going wit Of about 1900
remarked that they were built in mile-lengths
and cut of In sections. The clipper was radi-
cal1y different Tt had an overhanging bow.
cut concave. with the greatest breadth Of the
ship carried well aft.
It was said Of Donald McKay's Sovereign OF
the Seas that q walking stick laid against the
huh at any point would not touch wood for all Of
its length The clippers slipped through the
water easily: the old 1ndiamen. like all other
ships of that era, smashed through the waves
by sheer force.
The Indiamen went out Of style when the
India company's monopoly on Indian trade was
broken up. Speed suddenly became essential On
that route. and by the middle Of the last CEN
tury the bluff- bowed old timer had given way
to the slim. sharp-nosed clipper-which, In
turn, was about to give way to the steamer.
THE final end of sailing ship in these days
Of steam Is tragic for one who loves the
beautiful hulls Of the odd days. Some Of the
out-moded Square-riggerS-moSt Of them IN
fact-end their days ignobly coal bargeS,
their masts removed, their deck houses taken
OH, their sides black with the CRIME Of their
cargo.
Some sailing ships, similarly dismasted and
turned into mere floating hulks are On duty
rs traders stations anchored in the lagoons Of
the South Sea Islands. Others even less for
tunate, are broken up for their tinbers and
metal fittings. or are simply abandoned on the
uud-flats at the back end Of obscure harbors.
Some Of the ships that stin exist have great
records, extending far back into the past. The
Star Of India, for instance, now acting rs
museum in San Diego harbor. was at one time
. crack passenger liner, famous throughout the
seafaring world.
For many years this ship continued In the
Australian trade, under the name Euterpe. In
- AHNm
Alaska Packers feet. and for more than 30
years she remained on that run.
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HY not present more often
the errors Of the 'ex-
perss'?" asks an enthusiast.
And what happens to
them because of such
slips? 1t would encourage
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Contract Systems.

How would you bid the following hand. North
being the dealer, with both sides vulnerable?
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q Tie BRIDGE Forum I

The world is full of oracles
Who think they know it ali,
From why you fail to make sale
Or lost game of ball
To any other kind of lapse;
No matter where you go
You'll find them always on the job
To say II told you So"
It's sad but true, they all play bridge
AT least. they think they do
And tell you how you should have
-. played
When any hand is through;
'If you had just done so-and-so,"
They pirate like professor;
There ought to be law to bar
The pesky second-guesser.