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PARIS ASSEMBLY
VOTING REFORMED
New Electric System viii Be
Ready for Deputies After
Vacation.

PARIS (NAN.A.) when the Dep
uties come back after the parliamentary
Summer recess they will find the new
electric voting system ready for use.
Its installation viii have cost about
$4,000.
Each member will find four buttons
in front of his bench. BY pressing
them he. will be able to vote for OF
against indicate that he wishes to alb
stain for voting or rectify a vote al
ready cast
If the experiment succeeds, the re-
form will affect parliamentary life to q
very considerable extent. In the Brit
ish House of Commons members vote
by passing into one Of the division lob
bies. In the French Chamber, when
'scrutin" or division is challenged and
the Presidents estimate Of those who
rose to support a motion Is not &C
cepted, members have hitherto voted by
placing a bulletin" in an urn, the
''bulletin" varying In color to indicate
"for' or against"
These bulletins bore the name OF the
Deputy voting and were kept in his
private locker, so that by giving his
key to friend, Deputy used to be
able to vote without being In the Cham
Der at all.
Only Present Can Vote.
with the new machine installed,
members will have to be in their places
in order to vote The prospect of going
home little earlier in the morning
will not compensate them for having to
attend more often, they feel Moreover
as the Able DesgrangeS has pointed out,
the old leisurely method of voting gave
time for reflection and the ballot-paper
examinations have saved a good many
ministries
One Deputy, NJ Bellanger, has been
agitating for the introduction of some
new method of renewing and refresh
ening the air in the Chamber. He says
the present method of ventilation by
means of apertures in the ceiling is de-
fective and inadequate. SO terrifying,
indeed, is the amount Of carbonic acid
gas breathed by members during their
aIl-night sittings that during an ex-
pertinent at the end of one of these
recently a dozen guinea spigs were as
phyxiatd with a quantity OF the air that
was collected.
Perhaps excitement makes the air
all the thicker. 1t is not unknown for
the Right and Left Wings of the Cham
Der to advance upon each other in two
solid phalanxes and engage in pitched
battle, while the more ordinary method
of demonstrating dissatisfaction is to
bang the lid of ones desk, the combined
bangings of many Deputies preventing
the speaker from being heard.
President overtaxed.
But II life is somewhat hard and
oppressive for the ordinary Deputy, it
has been suggested that it Is becoming
altogether too difficult FOR the President,
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Iowa Girl, Second
Cousin of Hoover,
Married by Father

~ the Associated Press,
WEST BRANCH, Iowa, August
13.-NIiss Edyth Marie Harvey, a
second cousin of President
Hoover, was married here Sunday
afternoon to William Glenn Har-
bit of Mount Vernon, Iowa.
Rev. Guy Harvey. father OF the
bride and the Presidents cousin,
performed the ceremony at the
Friends Church. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Harbit were graduated from
the West Branch High School.
President and Mrs. Hoover sent
the bridal couple a wedding bou-
uuet Of white roses picked IN the
White House conservatory.
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office the average rate here Is two births
to one death. July's decrease Of births
however, Is thought by them to be but
an average seasonal drop.
persons received treatment at the city
clinic. Mrs Elizabeth Jackson. nurse
in charge Of infant welfare work, re-
ported 29l visits of babies to the health
once center, and lot visits to the Po-
tomac clinic. Thirty-eight new babies
were admitted to the clinic, and 33l
visits made to homes, according to the
report.
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Ships Deck on the Roof.

The new wing of the Polytechnic Hos
pital, in New York, has a roof garden
which is fitted out to represent the deck
Of q ship, to be used by convalescent
patients and as q playground for chill
dren under treatment at the hospital
It has several features which bear out
the resemblance to the promenade deck
OF an ocean liner, with regulation
steamer chairs scattered about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13

henge, in England, that they mark war
riors' graves or are stones connected
with sun worshipers, and 50 on 1t is
well to recall that we know very little
OF the religion Of the Dr1lids: in fact,
one Of their laws was, DO not discuss
religion among yourselves" Other laws
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13

were; Women may become judges"
mo child shah be reared in q city, hut
only In a village" and Caesar has ieft
the testimony that lit Is law Of the
Druids that no man shan Be richer than
his neichbor."
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No Children in Cities.

When you are in Carnac in France,
and you 60 out to see the mysterious
Druid menhirs. which are among the
most impressive in the world, you will,
of course, be told, as you were at Stone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13
ALEXANDRIA REPORTS
CASES OF DISEASE
July Finds Town Healthy-Ty-
phoid, Scarlet Fever, Measles and
whooping Cough Are Listed.

Special Dispatch to The star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, August 13-Only
IL cases of communicable diseases oc-
CURED here during the month of July,
the monthly report of DR.. William L.
Schaffer, city health officer, shows
Three each of typhoid fever, scarlet
fever and tuberculosis and single cases
of measles and whooping cough are
reported.
The birth rate of the city decreased
considerably with only % births record
ed as against "a deaths for the month.
According to officials of the health
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
HOWARD CO-EDS
LEAD MEN

Women students at Howard
University again excelled the
men, as high honors for the clos
ing quarter showed 13 members
of the former group made an eX-
cellent average while only six of
the latter sex maintained an A
rating.
Fifteen of the students we're
registered in the college of edu-
cation and four in the school of
liberal arts. Eleven of the honor
students are graduates of Dunbar
High School of this city. They
are Rosetta Berry, Mary Burke,
who was an honor student last
year, John P. Harris, Cecie Jen-
kins, also a 1880 honor student,
Virginia Jenkins, Marie Moss,
Charles Lotion, Ruth Matthews,
Alma Ridgeley, Beatrice Adams
and Anna Cooper.
The other students are Mary
Robbins, Dallas, Tex; Oscar De,
Priest, Chicago; Gladys Fitzger-
aid, Baltimore; Rietta Hines,
Providence; Leroy Scurry, jersey
City; Ivan E. Taylor, New York
City; Charles Thomas, Mt. Clair.
N. j.; Theodore Williams, Macon
Ga.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06

CATHERINE RYAN
THE LAST performance of
"Winifred's Wedding" a musi-
cal comedy, will be presented
tonight in Immaculate Concep-
ton Church Parish Hall as the
seventeenth semi-annual offer
ing of the Opera Players Club.
Among those taking part is
Miss Catherine Ryan, of 1913
Eighth st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
G|ANONN| GETS
18 MONTHS

Capt. Frank Gianonni, former
Austrian naval officer and owner
of the converted subchaser Anna,
moored off the sea wall at East
Potomac Park, was sentenced to
serve 18 months in jail by JUS
tice Jesse C. Atkins in Criminal
Court today, following his convic-
tion several weeks ago on charges
of grand and petit larceny.
The indictment charged Cap
tain Gianonni with the theft of a
S75 radio belonging to William P.
Ames, of Clarendon. and electrical
equipment belonging to Robert
Malsten, 1926 B st. N. W., from
other boats moored to the harbor
Captain Gianonni recently in,
stituted' suit against the Govern
ment to recover 100000 damages,
alleging that he had been illegally
detained at Norfolk. Va, by the
Coast Guard and his boat had
been damaged while being toWed
by a Coast Guard vessel. He was
bringing his boat, single-handed.
to Washington to press his claim
when he became exhausted from
starvation, collapsed near Fort
Washington, and The Anna was
toWed to Washington by an Army
bOat
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
Brokerage House Clients
Planning Joint Suit

triCt Supreme Court named 2O9
of the company noteholders as de-
PENDANTS with the receivers, Julius
I. Peyser and Henry P. Blair.
Tomlinson told the court that
he is the builder of an apartment
house in the 1400 block N St.
N W., and that on october 30,
1880, he approached the Swartzell,
Rheem and Hensey Company to
secure a 100000 loan to finance
the project. He claims that he
gave promissory notes for this
amount and has heen advanced
only $70,311.
NotehOlders Named
The petition is the first of its
kind to be filed as TOmhnson
takes the view that the bankrupt
firm was agent for the notehold-
ers and he asks that the indi-
vidual 209 be required to pay, pro
rata with their respecti 'e hold
ings, the unpaid balance of the
loan or the amount which the
firm will be unable to meet.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06

Elimination of waste motion
and the filing of duplicate suits
in court is to be sought in con-
certed action by attorneys repre-
senting numerous clients affected
by the crash of the SWartzell,
Rheem and Hensey Company.
Twenty lawyers met late yeSter
day in the Fendall Building and
appointed a committee Of 5hr4e,
Arthur C. Keefer, C. C. James
and C. T. Clayton, who will act
as clearing house" for all suits
instituted by note-holding clients:
13 More Suits Filed
Thirteen persons applied to the
courts yesterday for a -eturn Of
notes deposited by them with
Swartzell, Rheem and Hens 9y.
They we1e ordered to present
their cases in court February 10.
Similar petitions which we're flied
earlier are returnable today.
Frank Tomlinson, a local
builder, in a suit filed in the Dis
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
BLIND WOMEN
To GET JOBS
Times Staff Photos
LOOK BETTER NOW

Permanent employment for
blind women in Washington is
planned in a campaign conducted
jointly by the Columbia Polytech-
mic Institute, 1903 H st. N. W..
and the Federal Board of Voca-
tional Education.
The plan calls for the training
of sightless women in the hem
ming of linen crash toweling cut
in yard lengths. Instruction in
the work is being provided by
the vocational board. and the
Polytechnic Institute announces
that it will pay 10 cents for each
towel returned to it properly
stitched.
Blind women who are interested
are urged to get in touch with H.
C. Corpening, of the Federal
Board for Vocational Education,
1923 L st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
POST
. ISSUE EvADED
D. C. ORGANIZER

1t begins to look as if Represen-
tative Louis C. Cramton tRO of
Michigan, lame duck" member,
will not become an associate di-
rector of the George Washington
Ricentennial Commission after all.
Following his verbal passage-at-
arms with Senator CaraWay CD
of Arkansas, the prospective ap-
pcintment, which carries with it
a salary of $4,000 a year, be-
came dubious. and yeSte1d day the
commission met without taking
action, apparently evadlng the
issue.
Representative Cramton asserts
he is not a candidate :or the
berth, but his friends in the
House appear determined that he
shall have it, and some OF them
have made threats that Ii is de-
MED the place, they will take
steps to have the Bicentennial
Commission abolished.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
School Board Fixes
Budqet for Fairfax

FAIRFAX, Va, Feb. 6.-The
Fairfax county school board has
handed to the board of super
visors a school budget for the year
beginning July l of $259,092 %,
approximately $4,000 less than
this year.
The estimates include $5,912.98
for administration, 5000 for the
board, $1O8,O45 for instruction in
white schools, $4,000 for instruc-
ton in colored schools and $4,000
for vocational training, $4,000 for
substitute teachers and $1,215 for
music teacher.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
Montgomery Seeks
additional Police

SILVER SPRING, Md. Feb. g..
Coincident with the plans. Of
county authorities for the de-
Velopment and extension of pub
lie parks in Montgomery county,
a bill asking for more county
policemen will be urged at the
present session of the Maryland
general assembly.
The bill, shunted aside in 1929,
has been rewritten so as to pro
vide for four patrolmen and one
sergeant at salaries of $1,000 for
patrolmen and $4,000 for the
sergeant.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
LICENSED TO WE'D

ROCKVILLE, Md, Feb. 6-Mar.
riage licenses were issued here to
William T. Moxley, "a, of Lees,
burg, Va. and katherine Wright
Bayler, %, of Purcellville, Va;
John H. Macklin, 81, and Unity
Thompson, 10. both of Washing
ton; Albert William Blaylock, "a,
of Bristol, Tenn, and Esther Eliz,
abeth Anderson, 10, of Olds, Ia;
Samuel E. Banahan, 80, and Anna
Marie Carle, 25, both of Balti,
more, and Urbane F. Baylor, 81,
and Jean White, 20, both of
Fredericksburg, Va.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
TdkOma Civic Unit
To Hear HUUenneT

DR.. George C. Havenner, pres
ident of the District Federation
of Citizens Associations, will be
the speaker at the regular meet
ing of the Takoma Park Citizens
Association. to be held Monday
night at 8 o'clock in the Takona
Park branch of the Public
Library.
The Telephone Talkies" of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Com
pany's glee club will also have
parts on the program.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
DRUGGISTS TO MEET

The regular monthly meeting
of the District of Columbia Re
tail Druggists Association will be
held Sunday night at 7::30 o'clock
in the Raleigh Hotel, Twelfth
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
More POWer Urged
For State Police

LAUREL, Md, Feb. 6.-Prompt
and efficient action of the Mary
land State police in capturing
two jewelry store robbers here
recently has led a number Of
Prince Georges county civic lead
ers, magistrates and politicians to
urge the passage of a bill giving
the State police full police powers.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06

MRS. JOSEPH NICASTERI
MISS GERDA CHRIST1AN1A,
prominent musician, of 610 1rv-
ing St. N. W., has become the
bride of Joseph Nicasteri, also
a musician. The ceremony was
performed Sunday at the Unity
Center by the Rev. DR.. Buck.
Mrs. Nicasteri is the sister of
DR.. Emil Christiani, of the
musical art here, nd FesS
Christiani, concert violinist.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
BENEFIT CARD PARTY

The Ladies of Charity will give
card party Monday night at
$50 o'clock at 2300 K st. N. W.,
the proceeds to be used for
charitable purposes.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
Welfare Club Plans
Drive for Red Cross

HYATTSVILLE, Md, Feb. 6.
Members of the Prince Georges
county welfare committee of the
County Federation of Womens
Clubs met here yesterday after
noon to formulate plans for aid
ing the county chapter of the
Red Cross in its relief drive.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
Webster Expression
School Plans Fete

The Marjorie Webster School
of Expression and Physical Edu-
cation. Sixteenth Street and Kal-
mia Road Northwest, Will give
a musicale at o'clock sunday
at the school.
Carolyn Nordica Bost, con-
tralto, and Villa Semple, pianist.
will be the entertainers, with
Martha McClelland Stevens as ac-
COmpaniSt.
The Washington times., 1931-02-06
CIVIC GROUP MEETS

The Piney Branch Citizens AS
sociation will meet Monday night
at 8 o'clock in the Hamline M. E.
Church, Sixteenth and Allison
Streets Northwest, it was an
nounced today by E. B. Hender-
son, president.
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Pillars of Porphyry.

Cordova, in Spain. is one Of the most
interesting walled cities Of Europe. It
stands on the banks Of the Guadala-
culver, where the Andalusian plain
slows with the gold of orange trees
and with silver olives, merging into the
intense blue of the Sierra Moreno and
the Sierra de Cordova, whence a purple
canopy spreads over the city at sunset.
The chief glory of Cordova Is its cathe-
oral which Borrow called perhaps the
most extraordinary place Of worship in
the world" Once a Moorish mosque
and now q Christian cathedral, the tour
ist will spend many an hour in wonder
at its labyrinth Of 800 pillars Of por-
phyry, granite, serpentine and Jasper,
which form o forest of beauty. The
great Roman bridge which spans the
river was first built by the Emperor
Augustus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
GRAIN DEALERS HIT
u. S. FARM POLICY
Declare Cotton and Wheat
Are Siamese Twins of
Depression. Z
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, october 15.-Pas-
sage of a resolution condemning the
agricultural marketing act and the re-
election of President Hugh A. Butler Of
Omaha, Nebr., marked the close OF the
National Grain Dealers Association
Convention here yesterday.
The resolution asserted that the mar
keting act had been IAN utter failure"
and declared that the business Of mar
keting agricultural products can no
more exist part Government and part
private than this country could exist
half slave and half free"
Blamed for Depression.
J, w. Evans. Houston cotton mer-
the Siamese twins of the depression.
Both products are experiencing increased
foreign competition.
Had it not been for the announce
ment Of the Federal Farm Board TWO
wears ago that they would buy wheat
at S1.25 per bushel and cotton at
slightly more than $50 bale the sur
pluses of these two products would have
disappeared in the channels OF trade
Evans said.
George E. Booth, Chicago, was named
first vice president.
Elected to Board.
Those elected to the board of direc-
tors included D. B. Kevil, Sikeston,
Mo: o. F. Bast Minneapolis; w. j.
Edwards st. Louis; L. M. Swift, Lam
sing, Mich; James H. Gray, Spring
VILE. ". Y; r. w. Kent. East Provi-
dence, r. l.; Leo Flanagan, Milwaukee;
C. D. Sturdevant. Omaha; Carl j. b.
Currie, Boston; T. B. King, Central
City, Nebr., and Sam Mason, Sioux
City, Iowa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
AUTOMOBILE PIONEER
IS HONORED BY VIENNA
Austrian Capital to Celebrate Cen
tenary of Siegfried Marcus, >
First Car Inventor.

VIENNA (NANA) Vienna is eel
ebrating the centenary of Siegfried
Marcus, claimed by Austria as the in
ventor of the automobile. 1t was in
1860 that he opened his own shop here,
having come from the little Mecklen-
burg town of Malekin. Marcus first
car, in 1864, was run with benZine,
while that of his rival claimant, the
French Jean Lenoir, though self-mov
ing and constructed four years earlier,
was driven by coal gas.
Marcus much-improved model OF
1875 is still on show at the Vienna
Technical Museum. The inventor used
to drive about In it but the police came
down en- him for making so much noise.
This, together with lack Of financial
help discouraged him and he became
i'll and gave up his work.
Nevertheless, at the Jubilee Exhibi-
ton at the Rotunde in 1898, the Aus
trian Automobile Club showed his his
toric vehicle and testified to his hav-
ing been the originator of the modern
automobile. It was in the Summer Of
that year that Marcus died.
tCopyrisht. 1881 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc.l
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LAKE ROADS IMPROVED
Visitors to Italy to Be Surprised
by Recent Changes.

MILAN (NAN.A)-The Italian lakes
this Autumn are offering their visitors
a lovely surprise. Nearly all the roads
that run along their beautiful shores
have undergone widening and general
repairs. The new Western Gardesana,
on the Lombard shore of Lake Garda,
ran, until recently, only as far as Garg-
nano where the rocky mountainside
rising precipitously from the waters Of
the lake stopped it.
Cutting the twenty-mile road
through these rocks to Riva has tested
both the ingenuity of the Italian engi-
neers and the world famous qualities
of the Italian roadmakers. The work
has cost one and half million lire
8 mile.
Newspaper Alliance, Ine0
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TWO CENTS DONATED

Columbia q. Gets Money Teachers
Saved in Summer.
NEW YORK (NA.N.A.) .-Columbia
University has announced the receipt
Of q cash donation Of cents.
Accompanying the bequest was the
following note: I'VE, the undersigned,
leave the total sum of the savings from
our incomes during the last Summer
session for the advancement of study
in music, philosophy. history and reli-
gion. Irrna Maria Smith, Phi. D., and
Fannie Gertrude Parkinson, D. D."
(Copyright 1881. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
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SNAKE CIRCLES ARM
Arkansas Man Finds Rather Collie

Arkansas Man Finds Rather Coiled
Upon Awakening.
MELBOURNE, Ark. IN. A. N. Az
Herman Winfree woke up with cramp
in his arm.
A glance at his arm revealed
rattlesnake coiled around It,
The snake was induced to uncoi
when its head was banged several times
against a post.
%CopS right. 1881 by the Moth American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine)
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SIX-HOuR DAY ADOPTED
Du Pont Company Hopes to Create
More Jobs by New Plan.

WILMINGTON, Del, October Is up.
The Du Pont Co. announced yester-
day that work for 3 large number Of
unemployed will be provided by the
adoption of six-hour day In O number
of It's plants. The plan will be put into
effect at once by the Du Pont Rayon
Co and the Du Pont Cellophane Co..
which employ the largest number Of
workers among the various Du Pont
units.
The plants of these two companies
are at Buffalo. N. Y: Richmond and
Waynesboro. Va, and Old Hickory,
Tenn, and employ about 10000 per-
sons.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
Hipass Camp Now
In Full Swing.

Vacation camp at Hipass now is
the abode of so Imperial Valley
children and those in charge of the
camp this year. Thirty-fiye girls
and 25 boys are enrolled at this
time.
Yesterday was devoted to weigh
ing the youngsters and assigning
them places to sleep, eat, etc All
this is done in order that arrange
ments may be managed smoothly
and pleasantly.
At the beginning all children will
be papooses. It is hoped braves
and chiefs will develop as time goes
on. As they grow up" feathers will
be added to each headdress to show
the rank.
Imperial Valley residents who
visit the camp this summer are
asked to take a supply of fresh
fruits, melons and vegetables as a
treat for the campers.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06

frame cross member. If a line could
be drawn between these two points,
it would pass through the center of
gravity of the engine, showing that
the power plant is suspended in
perfect balance
The smoothness which this radi-
cally different engine mounting
gives to a four -cylinder car is ap-
parent upon riding in the new
Plymouth. The vibration forces OF
sudden acceleration and decelera-
ton are absorbed.
Combined with floating power the
Plymouth also has free wheeling in
all forward speeds This unit differs
in design from other free-wheeling
units now in use. It's operation is
controlled by a button on the IN
strment panel and 1t may be
locked out by pulling out the con-
troll.
Another innovation is the trans
mission OF the constant mesh type.
1t permits quiet, easy gear shifting
at all speeds, entirely independent
OF free wheeling. 1t is especially
valuable in permitting shift from
high to second or vice versa at
speeds up to so miles an hour even
with free wheeling locked out.