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Evening star., 1932-09-02
EFFORT TO AGREE
ON GAS RATE FAILS
Arlington Officials and Utility Rep
resentative Refer Question to
Virginia Commission.
By a statr correspondent Of The Star.

BY stan Correspondent Of The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,
September 2.-Finding themselves hope
lessly at odds at q parley held last
night to reach a compromise on gas
rates In Arlington County, counsel for
the county and the Washington Gas
Light Co. today again referred the mat
ter to the Virginia State Corporation
Commission for decision.
According to G. o. Basham of Airing
ton County counsel, the discussion
lasted hours, but the opinions of the
county and company were so different
that an actual attempt to adjust the
rates was never reached.
The question of a reduction Of the
rates of the Rosslyn Gas Co., subsidiary
of the Washington Gas Light Co., has
been before the State Corporation Com
mission since April, 1881. When the
commission made recent announce
ment that it would render a decision
about the 1st of September, it was re-
quested to withhold action until coun-
sci for both sides had made an attempt
to reach compromise. In view of the
failure Of the parley 1t Is expected that
the commission will be ready to an
nounce its decision within q short time.
The present domestic rate in Arling-
ton County is s1.50 per thousand cubic
feet. The county mas requested the
State Corporation Commission to order
this reduced to $l.15 per thousand cubic
feet.
Evening star., 1932-09-02

occupy a stand in front of the District
Building. These include Gov. Albert
C. Ritchie of Maryland. the District
Commissioners, officials of the Board Of
Trade and the Committee of Judges,
headed by Wallace B. Robinson.
Inspector z. w. Brown, acting su-
perintendent Of police, has announced
that a special detail c. more than 100
police will be assigned to duty along
the route of the parade to handle the
crowds.
Representative Clifton H. Woodrum
Of Virginia informed the Board OF
Trade yesterday that he has arranged
for a band concert to be given Sunday
afternoon on the eass plaza Of the
Capitol by the Bedford, Va. Fire De-
partment's Band, consisting OF SO
pieces.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
RITES TOMORROW
FOR GIRL SUICIDE
Daughter of Fredericksburg
Mayor Took Own Life,
Coroner Declares.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Septem-
Der 2.-Funeral services will be held at
home here at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning for Miss Elizabeth w. Payne,
IS, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. r. j:
Payne, who ended her life with a pistol
shot through. the head yesterday after
noon A verdict of suicide was rem
dered by Coroner John E. Cole after
collaborating with four Washington ,po-
lice detectives, who were called in when
circumstances at first indicated pos
sibility of foul play ''.''.,
First opinion of physicians that the
bullet had entered the head from the
left and emerged at the right and the
apparent absence of powder burns had
given rise to belief that she might have
been murdered. An autopsy and X-ray
pictures, however, clearly established
that a .32-caliber bullet had been fired
at close range above the right ear and
passed out the left side. No note or
memorandum of any kind to indicate
cause for the deed was found, but 1t Is
known that her health had not been
good for several months and that she
was prone to worry over business con-
ditions
The girl, one of the most popular and
attractive young ladies of the city, was
discovered on the floor of the office of
her brother, Robert B. Payne. for whom
she worked. shortly before o'clock yes
terday by Robert Olney, business asso-
ciate, when he returned from lunch. It
was customary for her to be alone in
the ofice during lunch hour. Olneys
pistol, usually kept in the office safe,
was lying nearby. Miss Payne died at
4:3O O'Clock without regaining con-
sciousneSs.
Her father, a practicing physician,
had taken Office yesterday as mayor,
having been elected in June without op-
| position.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
OUTSIDE OWNERS
| Of GAS COMPANY
FILE EQUITY SUIT
Resist Order of Commission
to Divest Themselves
of Control.
DENY ITS RIGHT TO SAY
IF LAW WAS VIOLATED
Declare Courts Must Pass on AL.
legation in Regard to La
Toilette Act.

The out-of-town owners of the Wash
igton Gas Light Co. today moved their
battle with the Public Utilities Commis-
sion into District Supreme Court BY
means Of bill in equity seeking to
restrain the commission from ENFORCING
an order in which they had been tolc
to divest themselves Of ownership ano
control Of the local company.
The plaintiffs in the suit are tn,
Washington & Suburban Companies of
Boston. the Chase, Harris, Forbes Cor
poration of New York and the Public
Utility Holding Corporation of America
The commissions order, which wa.
passed May Z, however, named a num-
Der Of corporations heading up in the
Chase, Harris, Forbes Corporation after
testimony had been introduced in a
hearing before the commission showing
most OF the stock in the local company
Is now owned by an intricate network
Of corporations all over the country.
Acquired Stock In 1929.
The local company was acquired by
outside investors in 1929, most of the
stock changing hands at $125 a share
On the Washington Stock Exchange
today the price is S75 asked and $50
bid.
After the control of the local COM
pany had passed into outside hands, the
commission and the foreign owners
locked horns in series Of skirmishes
when it was found that money was
being paid by the local company to
members of the chain of outside cor
porations as engineering charges and
the like, and these practices were
finally stopped. The commission went
through long public hearing, at which
testimony showed that at that time the
local company was practically in the
hands of Albert A. Peirce, president Of
the Central Public Service Corporation
Of Chicago, and Of the Central Public
Service Corporation and associated orr
ganizations.
Following this came the order for the
outside corporations to divest them
selves of control in the local company
on the ground such control was a
violation Of the La Folette anti-merger
act. The suit today is the answer to
this order.
Corporation Reorganized.
The Central Public Service Corpora
ton has itself recently been organized
into the Central Public Utilities Cor
poration and has taken over assets in
the former corporation formerly ap-
praised at $400, 900 and new ap-
praisal Of $189, 100000.
The suit today claims that a public
hearing was held over the petitioners
protest and that the findings of fact
made by the commission are without
warrant in fact or law.
The claim also is made that the COM
mission has no right to judge whether
the La Toilette anti-merger act had
been violated, but that the courts must
be the sole Judge of that.
The petitioners were represented by
Attorneys McKenney, F1annery and
Craighill Of the local bar, and Arthur
H. Dean Of New York.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
COMMODITY PRICES
RECEDE SLIGHTLY
Second Sustained Advance
of Wholesale List Is
Checked.

The Labor Departments Bureau OF
Statistics reported today that the Sec
ond sustained advance Of wholesale
commodity prices has been checked,
the level for last week reeeding slightly
from that of the week before.
The average price of 7s4 commodi-
ties dropped three-tenths Of per cent.
although the upward trend continued
in two groups of articles, hide and
leather products and textile products,
It was pointed out. Building materials
and house furnishings goods showed no
change, but all other commodity groups
went down, including farm products
and foods, the two which had shown
the greatest strengthening.
Well Above Low Points.
Despite last weeks drop, prices have
risen in eight Of the 10 weeks since
June 1s, and are still considerably
about the level of that date, 1t was
shown. Moreover, an analysis Of private
commodity prices figures received in
the Commerce Department, covering a
smaller number of items, showed sharp
rise in the week ending August 27,
which was the greatest since compila-
ton Of weekly index was begun.
The information supplied the Com
mere Department indicates the level OF
ITO important commodities advanced "a
per cent last week, at the close OF which
the level was IA per cent higher than
on May 28.
The private figures point to q rapid
upward trend in textiles, foods and
hides. Cotton and silk prices jumped
% per cent; cotton yarns, sheetings and
broadcloths rose 10 to is per cent.
Prices of pork rose 10 per cent, and
butter and hard Winter wheat were up
z per cent In the private index. Rye
prices advanced per cent, and prices
OF Spring wheat, oats, barley, beef, lard,
poultry, coffee and cottonseed oil were
to per cent higher.
Increases Shown.
OF ITO commodities covered, 81 were
higher on August 81 than on May %,
and II were one-fourth higher. Light
and heavy hides were rs to 81 per cent
higher; pork and silk a half to two
thirds higher, and rubber and calfskins
were up nearly half.
At the end Of July. wholesale prices
in Italy, according to the Commercs
Department, were fractionally higher
than at the close of June, the first
advance since last March. July month
" average prices for Finland were 2.3
per cent higher than they were in June,
which was the first gain since January.
The August Is prices in Norway were
/ per cent higher than those Of
July Is.
The statistical bureaus index num-
ber Of wholesale prices for the week
ending August 81 stands at 65-2, as
compared with 65.4 for the week end
ing August 20. This index number is
weighted according to the Importance
Of each of the 784 articles and based
on the average prices in 1925 at 100.
Evening star., 1932-09-02

Washington, she declared, sis very,
very pretty city, and so pleasant. All
the people are so kind"
Asked about her impression of New
York, she answered, "Oh, I was there
only few hours"
Before coming to the Capital Nile.
Benoit' visited Philadelphia and Read
ing, Pa. Concluding her work here, she
will go to Cambridge, Mass. to study
briefly at the Harvard University BuSi-
ness School. The Chamber of Com
merce of Paris" she said, has similar
school, 1t is called the Centre de
Preparation aux Affaires."
This is her first visit to the United
States, but, having studied in Great
Britain, she speaks excellent English.
Like a French person." she confessed.
Young, vivacious and attractive, Mile.
Benoit Is a drastic contradiction to the
common, stereotyped notion of an
economist. But, talking with her, one
soon discovers she has had the training
and experience which equip her to deal
intelligently with intricate problems CT
economic character. On her return to
Paris she will lecture before the French
Statistical Society on the results of her
Investigations here.
During her stay in Washington Mile.
Benoit is guest at the Dodge Hotel.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
REGATTA FUNDS SOUGHT

With the event just two weeks of and
the necessary fund less than half sub
scribed, the various committees of the
Presidents Cup Regatta are redoubling
their efforts to raise $1,000 to promote
the races.
ALI of the big Gold Cup boats will
be In Washington to compete. accord
ing to Rear Commodore L. Gordon
Leech. chairman Of the Racing Com
mjttee. Business houses are being
solicited for additional Frophies.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
TWO MEN HELD FOR JURY
IN FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
Victim Was Struck by Car in Alley
and Died Later in Emer-
gency Hospital.

Two colored men were held for grand
jury action at coroner's inquest at
the District Morgue today into the
death OF Murray Harrison, So, of the
1000 block of Monroe street north
east, who died In Emergency Hospital
Wednesday night from injuries received
when struck by an automobile In an
alley in the rear Of the HOO block of
Twentieth street.
The men held are James E. Sullivan,
81, Of the 5000 block of Sherman ave-
nue., said to have been the driver of
the automobile which struck Harrison
and William Marshall. 81, of the 1900
block of Temperance court, who was
riding with Sullivan at the time, held
as an accessory.
Harrison was struck Wednesday aft
ernoon while standing in the alley near
the door Of an automobile repair shop
in which he worked.
Evening star., 1932-09-02

tional Capital Committee of the Board
CT Trade that approximately 20 special
trains will convey the more than 10
fire and police department contingents
from many Eastern States into the
District Saturday and Sunday for the
parade. Sergt A. G. Bcrgagni, grand
marshal and director of the event, said
more than 10000 persons will partici-
pate in the march
Following the procession down Penn
sylvania avenue band and drum corps
contest will take place at the Sylvan
Theater, south of the Washington
Monument, after which the nearly so
cups and several cash prizes will be
awarded winners of the various con-
tests of the parade.
The parade will be reviewed by a dis
tinguished group of guests, who will
Evening star., 1932-09-02
PROTEST HEARING
ION CUT IN RELIEF
SET FOR TUESDAY
Monday Evening Club Asks
District Heads to Consider
Retention of Scale.
ONLY HALF OF NEEDY
= VISITED BY WORKERS
Money Is Being Spent at Rate of
$4,000 Weekly, Report of
Work Discloses.

A protest against 40 per cent cut In
the scale of unemployment relief, filed
by the Monday Evening Club, will re-
ceive a hearing by the District Com
missioners at 10 O'Clock next Tuesday
The protest, from Leifur Magnusson
president of the club, asks that the
club be heard before the cut goes into
effect, although the reduction was order
ed last Wednesday.
Part of the cut proposal 1t IS under
stood, contemplateS lowering the wage
paid for made work. from 35 to Is
cents per hour. Last year the rate was
IS cents per hour, and that rate as
cents) is the scale insisted upon by the
District on contracts for construction
work as the prevailing wage"
Demands are Greater.
The club asked for a hearing on the
ground that its members feel great con-
Germ that the relief should be so ad-
ministered as to minimize as much as
possible the suffering caused by un-
employment"
The letter reads:
Press reports indicate that the num-
Der of applications for unemployment
relief far exceeds the expectations and
has created a much larger demand
upon the appropriation than was an
ticipated These reports are also to the
effect that a policy may be considered
of spreading relief thin The Monday
Evening Club took an active part in
supporting the appropriation for unem-
plOyment relief and its members feel
great concern that the relief should be
so administered as to minimize as much
as possible the suffering caused by
unemployment
"For these reasons the Executive
Committee of the Monday Evening Club
has requested me to ask If 1t would not
be possible for representatives of the
club to confer with yourself and the
Board of Public Welfare before any
action is taken that might lower relief
standards.
$4,000 Spent Weekly.
I'VE are sure you will understand
that we make this suggestion in the
spirit of the highest cooperation, hop
ing 1t may contribute to better under
standing Of local affairs and strengthen
the hands of the Commissioners in
dealing with difficult situation"
The 40 per cent cut was ordered be-
cause of the fact that. although only
slightly more than half of those who
have applied for relief have even been
visited by workers of the fund admin
istration, the money Is being disbursed
at. the rate of more than $4,000 pei
weak, and 1t is feared the money will
be entirely exhausted before Congress
will have time to pass another appro-
priation bill.
THE money snent I'm to last week WAS
based on the bare necessities of life,
and the 40 per cent cut will, therefore
bring the payments that much below
what the relief administration recog.
nizes as bare necessities"
The fund available is $3.50, 900, o.
which not more than 10 per cent may
be used for administrative expenses
OF this fund more than SAC, 900 has al
ready been spent. The unemployment
relief work will complete its fifth weel
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1932-09-02

=" INAL preparations for the tenth
l. annual Labor day parade of fire.
men and policemen were worked
i out yesterday at a meeting OF
the Parade Committee in the
offices of the washington Board OF
Trade, sponsors of the event. Odell
Smith, chairman of the committee,
presided.
The parade, the outstanding feature
Of the Capitals Labor day program
will begin at 10:30 O'Clock, forming on
the streets north and west of the Capt.
tol and converging into the two-houl
procession at the Peace Monument. The
line of march will be westward or
Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street
and thence to the Ellipse.
It. was estimated by the Greater Ma
Evening star., 1932-09-02
PENSION CUT HIT
Fairfax s. C. v. Protests Ruling on
Gray Veterans Payments.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, September flames
Thrift Camp, Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams of Fairfax County, at a special
meeting at the home Of William Lind
say Carne, adjutant, adopted resolu-
tions strongly protesting and condemn
ing the recent ruling Of the attorney
general under which Gov. Pollard pro-
poses to cut the pensions paid to Con-
federate veterans and their widows
Col. Saunders ruling holds these pen
sions to be salaries" and thereby SUBJ
ject to the Statewide cut of 10 per
cent.
The resolution asks that the ruling
be rescinded.
Resolutions were also adopted by
,, Thrift Camp requesting the County
| School Board TO declare Lees birthday
anniversary, January 10, . school holi.
day. =
Evening star., 1932-09-02
MONTGOMERY OFFICERS
TO QUIZ FOUR HELD HERE
Quartet Facing HOUSEKEEPING
Charges to Be Questioned In
Safe Robbery.
, STAFF Cnrresnondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, September 2.
-Four men held in Washington for the
grand jury on charges Of HOUSEKEEPING
were to be questioned at the District
Jail by Montgomery County authorities
today In connection with the robbery
of a safe at the Diplomat Coffee Co.
n mere on u;t y4iy 10, In whcn yesgmen
William F. Cush, 38, of the 800 block
Adams street northeast, Washington,
one Of the quartet, has confessed to
participating in the robbery, according
to police, and has implicated his three
companions, William e. Bedell, IS, 1900
block M street; James E. Grove, 10, 500
block d street southeast, and August
Pagliocchino, 26, 1900 block M street.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
ADDRESS DEMOCRAT CLUB
Four Speak Before Ex-Service Men
in Mount Rainier Hall.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT RAINIER, Md, September
2.-Charles B. Calvert, Rice Hooe,
j. Enos Ray, chairman Of the State
Democratic Committee, and Capt. j.
Moses Edlavitch Of HyattsvilIe ad-
dressed meeting OF the Ex-Service
Mems Roosevelt-Garner Club last
night In Eluebird Hall here.
Mr.. Calvert and Mr.. Hooe touched
on the national aspects of the cam
paigu, and Mr.. Ray and Capt. Edlavitch
the Importance Of getting eligible
voters to register as Democrats and
getting out the full party vote in the
November election.
James w, Rogers, president Of the
club. conducfed the meeting.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
PRISON FACTORY FIRE
/ is CHARGED TO INMATE
Colored Boy in Cheltenham House
of Reformation Is
Arrested
Dya STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

Bya Stah Correspondent of The Star
UPPER MARLBORO, Nd, Septem-
ber Lawrence Snowden, colored In
mate Of the House of Reformation al
CHeltenham, was arrested yesterday OF
charges of setting fire to the broom
factory there Saturday afternoon. The
arrest was made by Detective JOSEPH
DaugheIty of the State fire marshal:
office. who investigated the blaze.
Saturdays fire was the third in tn,
factory in the past two years. Foul
inmates are now serving sentences OF
arson charges, resulting from the pre-
vious fires.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
SCHALL DENOUNCES +
HOIDALE CHARGES
Senator Says Election Contest Is
"Only in Childish Hope It Will
Serve as Political Bridge"

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Schall, Republican, Of Min
nesota, said today in statement that
the amended election contest filed
against him by Einar Hoidale was
without truthful foundation"
Hoidale, Schall's Democratic op-
ponent in 1880, charged that the latter
violated State and Federal corrupt prac-
tices act through illegal expenditures
and other actions.
Senator Schau said the contest was
filed "only in the childish hope that it
will serve as a political bridge between
now and the November election"
Evening star., 1932-09-02
BOY INJURED BY FALL
Suffers Conclusion After Tree
Climb at Hams Point.

Nine-year-old U. Carr Loftin, jr, $500
block Of Benton street, was injured
seriously last night when he fell 10
feet to the ground from tree he had
climbed on Hams Point to find locust
he had heard.
The boy struck his head In the fall
and doctors say he received brain
conclusion. He was admitted to
Georgetown University Hospital. where
he was reported slightly improved
today. y
Evening star., 1932-09-02
NAMED TO POLICE FORCE
' stan Correspondent Of The star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va. September 2.-William
Henry Brown of Park Lane was today
appointed by Sheriff Howard B. Fields
to fill the vacancy In the police force
caused by the resignation Of Roger Or
rison. Brown, who Is married, has been
q resident Of the county for about 40
years. Y
Evening star., 1932-09-02
POLICEMAN BADLY CUT
Sewers Tendons In Wrist While
Trying to Repair Plate Glass.

Policeman Hendrick Boese, 40, of No.
precinct, was severely cut about the
right wrist this Afternoon when he at
tempted to fix large plate-glass win
dow In a vacant store at Gil Ninth
street, which had been reported to him
as dangerous to pedestrians passing on
the sidewalk.
Boese, who lives at 618 Twelfth street,
was brought to Emergency Hospital by
civilian who drove the policeman,s scout
car. A preliminary examination by doc
tors disclosed that two tendons had been
severed in the wrist.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
TRAIN KILLS 2 GIRLS
NEAR LESLIE CANNERY
Workers in Plant Fail to Hear
New York-Capital Express
Coming.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LESLIE, Md, September 2. Two
girls, who took advantage of tempo
rary lull in work at the cannery, where
they were employed, to go for a stroll,
were struck and killed by Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad train yesterday after
noon.
The girls were Mary Marshall. Is,
and Anna Michael, II, both of Balti-
more.
They apparently did not hear the
New York-Washington Express until
too late.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
MAN OF MARYLAND PARK,
STRUCK BY TRAIN, DIES
Victim Was Hit on Chesapeake
Beach Railroad Tracks Near
Seat Pleasant.

By staff Correspondent Of The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Nd, September 2.
Charles j. Kline Of Maryland Park,
who was struck by a Chesapeake
Beach train. near the Seat Pleasant
terminus Monday night, died late yes
terday at Casualty Hospital.
An inquest will be held here Tues
day night, with Justice of Peace John
A. Downing presiding. A coroner's
jury, headed by Clarence Gasch, fore
man, was impaneled and saw the body
last night.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
PASSENGER is INJURED
WHEN CAR JUMPS TRACK
Woman Sustains Sprained Ankle
as Floor Buckles in Mishap
on Cabin John Line.

A woman passenger was injured
shortly before 9 O'Clock last night when
a Washington Railway & Electric Co.
street car jumped the track on the
Cabin John car line.
Miss Maude Morrow, 40, of the 1900
block of P street, received sprained
ankle when the floor buckled alter the
car left the track. At Georgetown Hos
pital Miss Morrow also was reported
suffering from shock Seventh precinct
police said the cause of the car leaving
the track had not been determined.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
DEATH PROBE ASKED
Americans Body Found in Mex
ican River.

Authorities at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,
have been requested by William p.
Blocker, American consul, to make a
fun investigation into the death of F.
". Humphrey, an American citizen, the
State Department was informed yes
terday.
Humphrey, Blocker told the depart
ment, was founded dead In the Pachecc
River, near Colonia Garcia, Chihuahua.
on August rs, under conditions indicat-
ing he had been murdered by robbers.
Evening star., 1932-09-02
Corn Roast Is Friday.

BRENTWOOD. Md, September q
Especially The Brentwood Mems Club
win hold its annual corn end weiner
roast Friday evening, September IS, at
o'clock.