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Evening star., 1932-07-09
Law Now Requires 48-Hour
FormaIity of Application
Before Purchase.
GIVES POLICE CHANCE
FOR INVESTIGATION
Fight Against Enactment Covers
Several Decades-Blow Dealt
to Armed Criminals.

President Hoover today signed the act
of Congress regulating the sale of fire.
arms in the District of Columbia, there
by making a law for the Capital that
has been fought for over a period of
several decades.
Under the new law, no one can obtain
possession Of a revolver from a dealer
until 48 hours after filing application
to purchase it. During that interval,
the Police Department will have an
opportunity to investigate the character
OF the applicant, as well as his record,
and Will have the final say as to
whether the sale should be con-
summated.
No application can be approved by
the police until full information about
the applicant is specified on the ap-
plication
The bill also provides that all persons
convicted Of crimes while armed viii be
given an additional sentence of five
years.
Result Of Careful Study.
1t was only by harmonizing the vari-
Gus conflicting factions, as well as
exercising care in the wording of the
law so as not to prevent laW-abiding
citizens from obtaining protection Of
their homes, that Chairman Capper of
the Senate District Committee sue
ceeded in bringing to a successful
termination what many others had
1alled to achieve in the past.
President Hoover signed the bill with
out comment.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
AIR CORPS TO HAVE
TWO new STATIONS
Hamilton and Benton Fields Be.
ing Constructed for Army in
California.

Two new Army Air Corps stations,
named in memor Of Army pilots. are
making their appearance on the Pa
cific Coast in the San Francisco Bay
region. They are Hamilton Field, the
new flying field in Marin County, and
Benton Field, the new supply and re-
pair depot at Alameda.
Provisions are being made at Ham,
ilton Field for one squadron, contracts
having been let for construction Of a
200man barracks, one large hangar,
several officers and on-commissioned
officers quarters, a radio building and
other structures.
This field is named after First Lieut..
Lloyd Andrews Hamilton, killed in ac-
ton near Lagnicourt, France, on Au-
gust 26, 1918. Lieut.. Hamilton gained
nine official aerial victories and was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross and the British Distinguished
Flying Cross.
Benton Field will be the home Of a
supply and repair depot which will
serve Air Corps activities on the West
Coast and in the American possessions
in the Pacific. 1t was named after
the late First Lieut.. John w. Benton,
a native of Manton, Calf. He was a
member Of the Pan-American Good
Will Flight when he met his death in
an aerial collision at Buenos Aires, Feb
ruary 26, 1927.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
RETIRED OFFICERS
WILL BE RETAINED
Four Naval Men to Continue on
Special Tasks Despite New
Economy Act.

Four naval officers on the retired list
who are now on active service will be
retained on duty, despite provisions OF
the economy act, because of the special
nature of their work, it was learned yes
terday. Three are Washingtonians and
the fourth is engaged in adjusting fish,
cries claims in the Hawaiian Islands.
The four to be retained under the
Navy appropriation act are Capt. Dud-
ley w. Knox, in charge of the Historical
Section of the Navy Department; Lieut..
Comdr. Charles B. c. Carey, 1850
Thirty-first street; Lieut.. Comdr James
A. Saunders, attached to the Once OF
Naval Operations, and Comdr. Emmett
r. Pollock, now on duty in Honolulu.
Capt. Knox is engaged in research
work on some 100000 documents
bearing on the period from 100 to
1900, as well as some 100000 docu-
ments covering the period from 1900
to the World War and the mass OF
material bearing on the war.
Officials expect that Lieut.. Comors.
Carey and Saunders, both especially
qualified in legislative work, VIII go
back on the retired list shortly after
Congress adjourns. Comdr. Pollock Is
expected to finish his legal task some
time during the Winter
Evening star., 1932-07-09
SCIENCE WILL STUDY ECLIPSE
FROM NEW ENGLAND PASTURE
Naval Observatory to Send Expedition of
20 for Greatest Astronomical Show
August 81.

orbit to the earths equator, the eccen-
tricity OF its orbit, the ascending node
of its orbit on the equator, correspond
ing to the vernal equinox on earth.
The procedure is to calculate the
orbits OF the sun and moon as closely
as possible from the present values oi
these elements. If these values were
absolutely correct, there would not even
be an error of a millionth part Of a
second. The eclipse offers an oppor-
tunity to check up. The Naval Observ-
atory astronomers plan to make ex-
tremely accurate time observations OF
the instant the shadow of the moon
first touches the sun, the instant when
the eclipse becomes total, the instant
when its totality ceases, and the instant
the moons shadow clears the sun.
Checking and Predictions.
These observations will not check
absolutely with predictions The Naval
Observatory mathematicians will check
them back against the recorded values
and thus make minute corrections in
the six elements used in prediction
Every eclipse at which good observations
can be made makes it possible to get
the elements little more accurate
The only way this can be done is by
the slow process of waiting for eclipses
and following them up, no matter where
they take place.
Actually, it was explained. the orbit
of the sun is "out" from what woulc
be predicted from the values of the
elements by about a second and a hall
mean longitude and the orbit of the
moon by about five and a half seconds
This has been determined from pre-
vious eclipSes and allowance made fol
it in predicting the coming celestial
phenomenon.
But the Naval Almanac Office has
gone to extraordinary extremes to pre-
dict this eclipse with absolute accuracy
There are "eclipSes" of stars other than
the sun which take place quite frequent
ly. The shadow of the moon gets
between the star and the earth. Mr.
Robertson has used the data from 1872
of these occultations of stars, including
some made as late as April 20, to make
corrections in the orbit of the moon.
This has resulted in a change of ap-
proximately five seconds mean longitude
from the orbit which would have been
predicted from the elements alone. He
used occultation observations from the
Naval Observatory, Georgetown Col
lege, the Union Observatory of South
Africa, Mount Holyoke, Amherst and
Wellesley Colleges, and other observa-
tories scattered through Europe and
Asia.
The second interest of the Naval OBJ
servatory is in the positions Of the stars
surrounding the sun. Unfortunately
there will be few visible stars close to
the sun when the eclipse takes place.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
LONG HITS MOVE
TO KEEP GARSAUD
Louisiana Senator Vigorously OPP
poses Reappointment to Federal
Power Commission.

Senator Huey Long, Democrat, of
Louisiana, vigorously opposed before
a Senate committee yesterday the
nomination of Marcel Garsaud as a
member Of the Federal Power Commits
sion.
President Hoover reappointed Gar
saud to the commission and the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee is con-
sidering what recommendations to make
to the Senate
Long maintained confirmation of
Garsaud's appointment would be cal
most traveSty" on justice, and sug-
gested that the committee investigate
the commissions activities. He said
he felt it would find that public
rights have been given to the power
trust"
Garsaud appeared in his own behalf.
In answer to an accusation by Long
that the commission had issued q
majority Of permits to Electric Bond SS
Share subsidiaries, Garsaud presented
table which showed only a few per-
mitS had been issued and said so far
as he knew none went to bond and
share company.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
AGRICULTURE CLERK
RETIRES UNDER ACT
Robert M. Reese, Real Estate Of
fcer and Veteran Employe, Quits
U. S. Service.

Robert M Reese, TO- who served the
Department of Agriculture for Al years
and until year ago was chief clerk, is
another veteran Government employe
to be retired because of age by opera
ton of the economy act. At the time
his name was stricken from the rolls of
active workers, he was real estate officer
with wide powers and duties.
Mr.. Reese entered the Agriculture De-
partment when j. Sterling Morton was
Secretary. Since then he has served
under seven other secretaries, including
James Wilson, who occupied that post
for l6 years.
During his service he has seen the
department grow with enormous strides.
At first it occupied a single building in
the Mall and now its offices are in As
buildings which soon will be consoli-
dated by the Federal building program
The food and drug act has been passed,
county aid inaugurated, the Bureau OF
Public Roads established and Federal
aid given to road building. These are
few of the changes made since Mr.
Reese entered the department
Mr.. Reese lives in Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The Naval Observatory has picked
out a front seat in a New England
pasture for the biggest astronomical
show in history.
Capt. j. F. Hellweg, superintendent
of the observatory, yesterday announced
the selection of hilltop near Littleton,
Me- approximately in the center of the
State. for field observations of the total
eclipse of the sun August 81. The local
observatory will send an expedition OF
20 men. The site was selected after
Capt. Hellweg visited great number
of available hilltops in the path OF to-
tality. 1t is almost exactly on the
middle line of the eclipse, and records
over many years indicate that IT Is
more likely than any other spot in the
area to have excellent observing
weather. Setting up Of field equipment
will start soon.
Meanwhile the Naval Observatory
mathematicians have recalculated the
time and path of the eclipse and believe
that they have predicted it within a
fraction of a second. 1t will be the
outstanding eclipse Of the generation,
perhaps of all time. Scores OF obserVa-
tories the world over are planning 10
observe it. 1t has none of the bad
habits of eclipses in general-of taking
place in out-of-the-way places or at
inappropriate seasons. This one, which
will be visible in Washington. has a
path of totality over one Of the most
thickly inhabited sections of the world.
where astronomers can observe it in
luxury and can set up the most 1ntrl-
cate instruments they desire as carefully
as they please Moreover, 1t Is hap
pening in Summer, when the llkeli-
hood of good observing weather is eX-
cellent, and in a region OF fairly stable
weather, so that predictions can be
made with some assurance.
Last in Midwinter.
Seven years ago an eclipse covered
roughly the same area, but in MidW1n-
ter.
More astronomers will observe it than
have been present at any other eclipse,
because the International Astronomical
Union will be meeting in New England
at the time.
The Naval Observatory observations
are directed primarily at two objectives,
each concerned with poSitional aStron-
omy First is correction of the orbits OF
the sun and the moon. The orbit Of a
heavenly body, it is explained by James
Robertson, director of the Naval Alma
nae Office, depends upon six elements.
If these were known exactly it would be
possible to predict with absolute &C
curacy The six elements are: The time
of rotation on its axis, the semi major
axis, or one-half the largest diameter
Of the elipse which it describes in its
annual journey; the obliqutty OF Its
Evening star., 1932-07-09
BOY DIES OF INJURIES
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Two Other Persons Are Seriously
Hurt in Crashes-0ne
Driver Held.

9-year-old child died as a result
OF traffic injuries and two other persons
we're hurt seriously in automobile acct
dents yesterday. The child. Henry Tur-
ner, colored. Of 1919 p street, was run
down Thursday near Fifteenth and p
streets and died at Gallinger Hospital
yesterday.
George H. Parkman, 80, of the 1900
block OF n street. and Mary Bobskill, I9.
OF the 1900 block of Sixteenth street.
were removed to Casualty Hospital after
Parkman's car was in a collision at
Fourth and D streets northeast with a
machine operated, police say, by An
drew r. Charters, 40. of the first block
OF M street. Charters escaped injury.
Parkman was treated for cuts and
bruises and possible fracture of the
skull, and the girl for severe lacerations.
Hospital attaches today described their
condition as fair"
The automobile which ran down the
Turner child was operated by Gonevia
Maxfeld Pierre, 38, of the 2200 block Of
L street, who was held in technical Gus
tody for the inquest, probably Monday.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
"FOX" AND MEANS
RETURN TO CELLS
Back in Separate Wings of D. c
Jail After Not-Guilty Pleas to
Baby Hoax Charges.

Norman T. Whitaker and CASTOR B.
Means, alleged conspirators in the Lind
bergh ransom swindle through which
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean was de-
frauded of $1O4 900, are back in sepa-
rate wings of the District Jail after
entering pleas Of not guilty yesterday
before Justice F. D. Let's in District
Supreme Court.
Whitaker is seeking services Of an
attorney to advise him in his predica-
ment. He has been unable to raise
100000 bond demanded by the Gov
ernment The former patent attorney,
described by Federal agents as THE
Fox" of the Means plot, reserved the
right to change his plea after consulting
a lawyer.
In court Means and Whitaker con-
fronted each other for the first time
since the United States Bureau of IN
vestigation began its investigation and
surveillance of them. There was no
exchange of greeting. Means is await
ing appeal from l5-year sentence for
defrauding Mrs. Mclean.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
GROUND is BROKEN
FOR NEW EXTENSION
Third Wing to Be Added to Exten-
sible Building of Agricul-
ture Department.

Ground was broken yesterday near
the corner of Twelfth and c streets
southwest to mark the start of actual
operations on the big extensible build
ing for the Agriculture Department.
The power shovel used is the first of
a large array OF equipment to carry
forward the remaining five wings of
the building. between Twelfth and
Fourteenth, B and G streets southwest
Two wings in the middle Of this area
already are completed and occupied
The new ones are to be done in about
two years.
The contractor, Arcnberg- Fried Co,
Inc, Of New York, plans to construct
the wing to run along Twelfth street
first Others will follow in a staggered
system so as to allow departmental ac-
tivities to move into their new buildings
before their present quarters nave to
be torn down.
Most of the buildings in the western
end of this area bordering on Four
teenth street. have been vacated, the
occupants moving into the two new
wings of the extensible or so-called
South" building.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
SONS OF PRESIDENTS
SECRETARIES AT CAMP
Walter Johnson's Boy Also Among
Big Group at Y. M. c. A.
Tract in Maryland.

A little White House Secretariat" is
on vacation at Camp Let's, the Y. M.
c. A Summer haven for Washington
boys on the Rhodes River, near Chesa-
peake Bay. Sons of two of President
Hoovers secretaries are at the camp,
1t was disclosed today.
Robert Joslin, son of Theodore JOS
lin, arrived at the camp today with a
group of 80 other boys. He was
greeted there by John Marshall New
ton, son OF Secretary Walter Newton.
The latter is a veteran at the camp
and leader in many of the activities.
Another newcomer is Bob johnson,
son of Walter Johnson, manager of
the Washington base ball team. Bob,
as might be expected, is a promising
ball player although only 10 years old.
His older brother Eddie has been a
camper in past seasons.
With the arrival of today's contin-
gent the population of the 2l7-acre
tract was swelled beyond the 100 mark,
not counting the staff of 80 leaders.
This is in excess of the number in
camp at this time year ago.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
ADVERTISING CLUB TOLD
OF NEW POSTAL RATES
Revenue to Meet Deficit of $145,-
900, 900, According to Will
liam G. Wood.

The new postal rates, put into effect
to keep down a steadily mounting def
cit, we're described in detail for the
Washington Advertising Club at its
luncheon Thursday by William c. Wood,
superintendent of the Division of Clas-
sifcation Post Office Department.
Mr. Wood said that unless further
legislation is enacted the old postal
rates will return to force in 1884 The
new and higher rates which went into
effect last Wednesday were adopted as
an economic policy, dictated by an es-
timated net deficit of $145, 100000 for
the department at the end of the 1882
fiscal year.
Actually, this deficit. Mr.. Wood ex-
planned. was 100000 900. but the de-
partmental credits given the Post Office
Department by the act of June 6, 1890,
for free service performed by the postal
department for other Federal depart
ments results in some savings.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
Merchants Tell Commission
ers Competition Is Set
Up Before Doors.
SMALL LICENSE CHARGE
is DECLARED UNEQUAL
Retail Grocers' Protective Associa.
tion and Georgia Avenue Business
Mems Association Object.

Complaints Of unfair competition by
hucksters were presented yesterday be-
fore the District Commissioners by the
Retail Grocers' Protective Association
and the Georgia Avenue Business Mems
Association.
The complainantS said hucksterS
who often stand directly in front oi
their doors have to pay a license fee
small IN comparison to the taxes ano
other costs incidental to operating q
store, and that huckSters are not sub
ject to health inspections and oher
regulations imposed on storekeepers.
The complaint was turned over tc
Acting Corporation Counsel Vernon L
West and Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Edward H. Thomas for investiga-
ton and recommendation.
Among those at the conference were
Isaac Cans, Washington Chamber oi
Commerce; Robert, Cottrell, Board oi
Trade; DR.. Paul Pearson, Retail Drug
gists' Association; John Brayshaw ano
F. A. Dodge, Retail Grocers' Protective
Association, and representatives Of the
Federation of Business Mems Associa-
tions, the Northeast Business Mems AS
ISOLATION, the Central Business Mems
Association, the District Grocery Stores
and the Southeast Business Mems Asso-
citation.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of the District also has filed
complaint with the Commissioners in
regard to practice of the huckster bust
ness in the downtown section.
The Commissioners, at the regular
semi weekly board meeting. ordered a
cut in prices Of all services and COM
modities sold by the District penal in
stitutions except that for automobile
tags, the price Of which is to remain
IL cents per pair. The cut Is general
10 per cent slash. Brick was cut 81
per thousand.
The District of Columbia Personnel
Board was designated as the agency to
handle all requests to the President for
executive orders appointing persons to
fill District vacancies under the terms
Of the Economy Act. Stephen E
Kramer, assistant superintendent OF
schools, was substituted on this board
for Mai r. o. Wilmarth.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
OUTINGS AND REST
MAY SNARE GARNER
Texan, Weak From Bronchitis At.
tack, Wants to Build Up
His Strength.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Hunting, fishing and rest are sending
a stronger siren call toward Speaker
Garner with the result that he may
succumb to one or all of them before
beginning his campaign as Democratic
vice presidential nominee.
The Texan is still weak from a re-
cent attack of bronchitis and wants to
build up his strength. He had expected
to go to Albany this week end to talk
with Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt about
plans, but Congress is still in session
so he can't.
With adjournment now apparently
coming next week, he and Mrs. Garner
hope to leave for Uvalde Immediately
after Congress quits and stay there
until early August, seeing Roosevelt
then.
want to do some fishing, and a
few animals are lying around down
there TO hunt" Garner said. II want
to get away from kilograms, telephone
calls and conferences and then can
rest"
Evening star., 1932-07-09
Bill in Committee.
BOARD TO DISCUSS
ANACOSTIA PROJECT
Engineers Seek to Fit Plans With
Those of other q. S.
Agencies.

Orderly development of Anacostia
Park above Benning road so plans of
the United States Engineer ONCE will
fit IN with those Of other governmental
agencies, will be the objective of meet
ing of a special board on Monday.
Members Of the board include Lieut..
Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, director Of Public
Buildings and Public Parks; Maj. John
c. Gotwals, Engineer Commissioner of
the District, and Maj. Joseph D. Ar
thur. jr., War Department engineer for
the Washington area.
The group will discuss the clearance
necessary beneath the Benning Bridge
for the new parkway drive; connecting
roads dealing with the park. between
Benning road and the District line. and
the fitting in Of the program with the
National Arboretum development al
Mount Hamilton, as outlined by the De-
partnent of Agriculture.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
ARBORETUM DELAY
LAID TO CONGRESS
Congressional Action Needed
to Release Funds to Pur-
chase Real Estate.

Unless Congress takes some action
quickly on one or more pending pro-
posals, the acquisition of the five addi-
tional parcels needed for the National
Arboretum in the Mount Hamilton sec
tion near Fifteenth and H streets north
east will be again delayed for months.
The five parcels have been condemned
and the awards approved, but Congress
must release additional funds or their
final acquisition will be deferred at
least until after next December.
Condemnation awards we're agreed
upon last year and, it was pointed out
today, the owners at considerable cost
retained lawyers and witnesses to ap-
pear before the condemnation juries.
Thus, it is declared, unless funds are
released for acquisition of the parcels
the owners not only will lose the use
of the funds paid for such services, but
also will be unable to make use OF their
land due to its standing in condemna-
ton.
Fund Balance Small.
OF the 100000 originally appropri-
ated for the acquisition Of the arboretum
site, S228,53l has been expended, leav-
ing an available balance Of ST., ,468.
This balance, however, is subject to the
limitation ordered by Congress that no
parcel be bought if the price was in ex-
cess Of 125 per cent of the assessed
value of the property.
The awards for the remaining five
parcels totaled $l38,456
Proposals to remove the 125 per cent
limitation provision have been allowed
to lanquish before congressional COM
mittees and there has been no afirma-
tive action on a proposal for the ap-
preparation Of an additional sum of
| S66,990 which would be needed if the
s7l ,468 now in the Treasury were made
available.
Bill in Committee.
Congress also has before it bill au-
thorizing the appropriation Of 5000 900
to cover requirements for purchase Of
the additional parcels. but 1t also has
failed to be reported out
The Agricultural Department appro-
priation measure signed Thursday by
President Hoover contains an item of
but $4,000 for the maintenance of the
present areas of the arboretum.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
MRS. OWEN TO SERVE
IN "LAME-DUCK" SESSION
Florida Member Withdraws Res
ignation at Request OF
Garner.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Ruth Bryan owen,
Democrat, OF Florida, who had an
nounced she would resign from Con-
gress instead of serving in the lame
duck" session which she had voted TO
abolish, today withdrew her action at
the request of Speaker Garner.
The Speaker asked Mrs. owen not 10
submit her resignation, declaring the
objections to "lame-duck" members dld
not apply to the quality OF states
manship which she represented.
"I shall naturally, accede to the
Speakers request" said Mrs: owen,
Mrs. owen was defeated IN the
Democratic primaries by Mark WILCOX
a Palm Beach attorney.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
BODY FOUND IN RIVER
Death of Augustus Warner
Colored, Believed Accidental.

The body of Augustus Warner COL
ored. so. of 116 G street southwest, was
found floating in the water at the foot
of Eleventh street southwest today by
a passerby who reported to harbor pre-
cinet police
When removed to the morgue the
body was fully clothed and bore no
marks of violence. Warner was last
seen shortly before last midnight and
apparently had fallen accidentally In
the water.