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Evening star., 1932-04-06

The bicycle was an efficient mode
of transportation for a traffic officer
back in the days when Washington had
a speed limit of II miles an hour, but
police officials today decided that the
vehicle is obsolete in police work and
ordered abolition Of the bicycle brigade
July /.
twenty-five bicycle officers will lose
their mounts as a result of the order.
Most of them will be assigned to foot
patrol duty.
The hazard Of riding a bicycle on
traffic -congested streets was given as
one of the reasons for the order. Police
officials also realized that a bicycle OH
Ger cannot peddle fast enough to catch
speeding motorist and his effective
ness in traffic work. therefore, Is mate
rally reduced.
with the passing of the bicycle Of
ficer. police authorities are understood
to be giving serious consideration TO
bringing back the horse in police work.
The mounted officer disappeared sew
erai years ago In washington, but New
York and Chicago are said toehaTe met
Evening star., 1932-04-06
LIQUOR RUNNERS
BLIND POLICEMAN
TO STOP PURSUIT
Auto Escapes as Smoke
Screen Containing Chemical
Is Turned on.
OFFICER is FORCED
TO ABANDON CHASE
Encounter Second of Kind in Week.
Second Car Also Makes
Getaway.

Rum runners. who apparently are
waging a chemical warfare against
Capital police, scored again today when
a heavily-loaded machine escaped from
Patrolman J. z. Kenney of the sixth
precinct station by using a smoke
screen mixture that temporarily blinded
the officer.
Kenney had to be taken to Walter
Reed Hospital for treatment after
which he was relieved from duty by
Acting Lieut.. John H. Norris and sent
home.
The policeman was in a patrol car
shortly after 3 o'clock this morning
when a sedan sped through the inter-
section OF Fourth and Taylor streets,
narrowly missing Kenney's car.
Policeman Gives Chase.
Kenney gave chase and the man rid
ing on the front seat of the sedan beside
the driver turned on the smoke screen.
The patrolman, blinded by chemical
used in the mixture, was forced to give
up the pursuit and pull to the curb q
short distance away.
Fellow officers took Kenney to Walter
Reed Hospital after he managed to drive
back to his station. STAFF physicians
treated him.
The chase was the second of the week
in which police have been Smoked"
with new types of mixtures. A car
throwing out a screen in which ether
was used forced two motor cycle police
men and a radio scout car to abandon
pursuit several days ago, but it was
seized by vice squad detective in a
garage soon afterward.
Roadster Escapes Police.
Earlier last night a high-powered
roadster escaped from a fourth precinct
radio scout car by outdistancing the
police machine in chase from Fifth
and D streets southeast to Highway
Bridge.
Policemen c. P. Paul and George
Norris, members of the scout car crew,
pursued the auto when they saw 1t
speeding down D street, but were un-
able to overtake it before it reached
the Virginia end of the bridge. A num-
ber Of jars of whisky we're tossed from
the machine, they said.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
POLICE BICYCLE UNIT ABOLISHED.
HORSE MAY RETURN TO SERVICE
IS Officers Give Up Their 'Whees July l. but Equine
Mounts Considered by Authorities.

with such success with horses in police
work that Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glass
ford, superintendent of police. and his
executive staff have discussed the feasi-
bility of using the horse again in the
Washington department.
Horses were used by police in WASH
ington principally in the outlying sec
tions, where beats were long and the
developed sections few.
AS a result the horses got too fat
grazing in the open fields along the
beat, and the horse-rhounted officers,
as a rule, also took on superhuous
flesh. so that neither made a snappy
appearance.
If the horse comes back in the
Washington department, it will be un-
der a different plan. Gen. Glassford,
it is said, would want well bred horses
of the Cavalry type and military-ap-
pearing officers to mount them. More
over, the mounted officers would be
assigned to the congested section, as IN
New York and Chicago, where there
would be no fields In which to Craze
and no temptation to get fat
Evening star., 1932-04-06
LUCIAN VAND0REN MADE
MARINE RESERVE MAJOR
Vice President of District Bar As
sociation Served as Captain
During World War.

Lucian H. Vandoren, vice president of
the District Bar Association, has been
commissioned major In the Fleet
Marine Corps Reserve to command the
I'd Battalion, 23d Reserve Marines, ac-
cording to an announcement made here
today.
Maj. Vandoren is a graduate Of
Georgetown University in the class of
1917 and saw service IN the Marine
Corps abroad during the World War.
He rose from second lieutenant to
captain in the war and was three times
awarded the Croix de Guerre.
George r. Littlehales, who will be
assigned to duty as adjutant of the I'd
Battalion, Goth Reserves, 9Th Marine
Brigade, was commissioned as heuten-
ant. Appointment of Felix R. Rowland
as first lieutenant in command of
Company A, 1st Battalion, goth Reserve
Marines, was also announced.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
U. S. Should Aid Generously
in Developing City,
Senator Warns.
DEPLORES LACK OF VOTE
FOR DISTRICT CITIZENS
Places Big Responsibility on Con-
gress, Speaker Tells Joint Meet
ing of Civic Groups.

Final enactment into law Of the
Mapes report would be dangerous
threat to the future well-belng OF
Washington, Senator Nye of North Da-
kota declared last night at COM
munity dinner in Sherwood Hall, Rhode
Island avenue and Twenty second street
northeast.
Speaking at joint rally of the Rhode
Island Avenue Citizens Association
and the Woodbridge Garden Club, Sena-
tor Nve said Congress should not argue
whether the taxes Of washington are
on a par with those of other cities. The
Federal Government ought to be happy
to contribute generously to you, SO that
you may build city all the world may
look up to-"
The North Dakotan took stanch
position in favor of national representa-
tion for the District.
Deplores Lack Of Vote.
"It is indeed unfortunate" Senator
Nye said that the people Of the great
est city in the country have no voice
whatsoever in determining how much
money shall be raised and how much
shall be spent in making Washington
a model city. Because of this situation
it is the duty of Congress to provide
adequately for your needs"
The recent population growth of
Washington necessitateS large-scale
schools, sanitation and paving improve
mentS, he said. There is room, he
added, for cutting of Federal expendi-
lures, but the demand for economy
should not strike at that which has
made our country great-good schools. y
Senator Nye said the solution of many
of the country'S financial ills would lie
in eliminating the present concentra-
tion of wealth in a limited class. He
advocated higher taxes on the eXcep-
tionally wealthy in order to break up
their fortunes and place more money
into circulation. He said 1t is essential
that something be done to check trend
which resulted in larger combined in
come of a group of 500 persons in 1929
than that of 100000 cotton and wheat
farmers.
Library Work Increases.
DR.. George F. Bowerman, librarian
of the Public Library, told of the in
creased circulation of books in Wash
ington's branch libraries, including one
in the Northeast.
Other speakers included Henry Gill;
gan, member of the Board of Educa-
tion: Lieut.. R. E. York of the District
Engineering Department, and w. H.
Gannaway, president of the Woodbridge
Garden Club. Charles r. Allen, first
vice president of the citizens associa-
ton, presided.
The Banquet Committee was COM
posed of Mrs. Paul o. Davis. general
chairman; Mrs. Janet W. Torbert, vice
chairman; H. D. Lambert, Miss Lorena
Mondereau, George r. Goergens. Mrs
F. G. Augustine Mr. Allen, Mrs. George
r. Goergens, Mr.. Gannaway, F. G.
Augustine, Mrs. A. H. Englebrecht, Miss
Kate Donahey, L. M. Clark, Mrs. A. L.
Foster and J. o. Bouton.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
RUNAWAY GIRLS CALL
OFF TRIP TO FLORIDA
No Place Like Home, Two Find
After Remaining Away
One Night.

Contrasting the allure of Florida with
the practical benefits of a comfortable
home, there is something to be said in
favor of the latter.
This was the opinion Of Adele Holo-
ber, 16, of l116 Seventh street, and
Fannie Epstein, Is, OF 1892 Seventh
street, as they prepared to return to
their classes at Central High School
today.
The girls "cut classes" at Central
Monday and announced their intention
of travelling to Florida. When they fail
ed to return home Monday night, police
were notified and authorities in South
ern cities were asked TO be on the
lookout for them.
Yesterday they returned home. They
spent Monday night at local hotel.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
WILL DISCUSS RUSSIA

Russia and the Viking Empire" will
be the subject of an illustrated lecture
at $50 o'clock tonight in Wesley
Heights Community Club by Harold
Brenton Macdonald, travel lecturer,
who recently returned from a trip
through Soviet Russia and has long
been familiar with Scandinavia. Mr..
Macdonald will use colored lantern
slides to illustrate the changes which
have taken place in Russia under the
Soviet regime. . in.
Evening star., 1932-04-06

principal parties involved in this pro-
posed legislation, the fact of the matter
is that the North American Co., a
holding company, Is even more vitally
interested. The latter company owns
practically all of the stock Of the Wash
ington Railway & Electric Co., which
in turn owns the Potomac Electric
Power Co."
Public Doesn't Benefit.
"The Washington Railway g. Electric
Co." another part of the minority re-
port stated, receives its power at less
than cost and sells the excess power oo-
tanned under its arrangement with the
Potomac Electric Power Co. to other
companies at substantial profit. This
results in the Potomac Electric Power
Co. losing a substantial amount OF
revenue. The general consuming public
suffers by this in that their electric
rates are not reduced to the extent that
they should be under the consent de-
gree. which provides that a certain por-
ton of excess profits shall be reflected
in reduced rates for the succeeding year
Inasmuch as the Washington Railway
g. Electric Co and the Potomac Electric
Power Co. are one tboth owned oy the
North American Coz it is highly ad-
yantageous to the holding company that
the profits in question go to the Wash
ington Railway e. Electric Co., rather
than to the Potomac Electric Power Co.
because of the consent decree. BY per-
mitting the railway company to receive
its power at less than cost and to sell
excess power at profit, the North
American Co. gets the entire benefit. OF
this profit, whereas, in fact, a portion
of this profit under the consent decree
should be reflected In reduced rates to
the public"
The minority stated that, while the
Washington Railway & Electric Co. has
permitted the profits realized from the
| sale of power to go into operating reve-
nue., technically there is question as
! to whether or not 1t could be required
to do So"
Evening star., 1932-04-06
D. c. POSTAL RECEIPTS
FOR MARCH INCREASE
Total Put at $4o4, ,O3O, as Against
$4S4, 529, Same Month
Last Year.

Washington was one of five cities in
which postal receipts in March showed
an increase over the corresponding
month last year, according to figures
made public today at the Post Oflce
Department.
The receipts here last month were
$494 ,03066, as compared with SABA
52987 for March of 1881. This rate
Of increase was 1876 per cent.
Other percentage increases were:
Dayton, 5.8l Hartford, Ali: Brooklyn,
174, and Worcester, Mass, .04.
The Post Office Department figures
covered receipts from SO selected Of
fees. The total revenues last month
were s26.676802.46 as compared with
$50, o,178, ,375.67, or decrease Of ll.6
per cent.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
DR.. PATTERSON TALKS
ON WORLD ECONOMICS
Will Be Chief Speaker Tonight at
First Meeting of Newly
Organized Academy.

DR. E. M. Patterson. president of the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science, will be principal speaker
tonight at the first meeting of the
newly-organized Academy of World
Economics in Brookings Institution, 722
Jackson place
His subject will be World Econom-
les" Mare Peter, Minister from Swift
zerland, will be honorary chairman.
A large number of diplomats scholars
and others interested IN world affairs
have accepted invitations to the meet
ing. which begins at o'clock. and in
augurates a series to be held during the
coming year.
The academy is affiliated with the
Academy of Political and Social Eco
nomics and plans are being made to CO.
operate with similar organizations
throughout the world.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
HOUSE TO CONSIDER
D. C. BILLS MONDAY
Promise Obtained From Garner
and Rainey, Mrs. Norton
Announces.

Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict Committee announced today she
has received promises from Speaker
Garner and Majority Leader Rainey
that all of next Monday will be given
over to consideration of District
legislation.
There are Is District bills on the
calendar awaiting action, Mrs. Norton
said, most of which are non-controver-
sial, and she expects to be able to get
action on all these measures.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
WET BL0CS IN HOUSE
PUSH 2.75 BEER BILL
Decide to File Petition Tuesday to
Bring o'Connor-Hull Measure
to Floor.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Confident they can force still one
more vote on prohibition in the House
this session, the Democratic and Re-
publican wet blocs have decided to file
a petition Tuesday for bringing the
O'Connor- Hull beer bill to the floor.
This measure designed to legalize
2.75 beer and tax it cents a pint, Is
before the Ways and Means Committee
as a revenue bill, but the committee
has declined to report it. If the petit
ton receives the needed las signatures,
the vote may be brought up May 9.
Representative O'Connor, Democrat,
of New York, one of the authors, said:
I'VE believe sentiment against pro-
hibition is growing so fast that we will
have even a greater vote on legalized
Notwithstanding beer than on the sub
mission Of the eighteenth amendment" )"
Evening star., 1932-04-06
CHURCH TO REPEAT
"PILGRIMS OF THE WAY"
Drama to Be Presented Again To-
morrow Night at First Con-
gregational.

The Easter drama, Pilgrims of the
Way" presented at the First Congre-
gational Church Easter night, will be
repeated tomorrow evening at $50
o'clock in the church auditorium, Tenth
and G. streets.
The play was written by Dorothy
Clarke Wilson and the cast is headed
by Tudor Wilton, as Barnabas, and
Patricia Nolan Palmer, as John Mark.
Other players are Gail Wilton, as Mary,
the mother of John Mark; Josephine
Peters, as Mary's maid; George Field,
as Saul of TarSus, and Walton San
born, as the messenger.
The drama is to be presented by the
Young Peoples Society or the church
and is directed by Miss Nell Berghout,
director of religious education.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
GEORGE G. PHELPS DIES
SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME
Post Office Employe Here for SO
Years to Be Buried Friday
Afternoon.

George G. Phelps, an employe of the
City Post Office for 33 years, died sud-
denly today at his home, 7o4 Kennedy
street He was a son of the late James
o. and Mary E. Phelps and was born
in Erie County, Pa.
Funeral services will be held at the
home Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock,
followed by burial in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Besides his widow, Lila A. Phelps, he
is survived by a son, Lawrence W..
Phelps, Of this city; daughter, Mrs.
Ethel M. Collins, Winterhaven, Fla; two
grandchildren, Lawrence and Francis
Phelps, Washington; sister, Mrs. Edith
M. Macdonald of this city, and two
brothers, Earl v. Phelps, Long Island,
N. Y, and H. Glenn Phelps of the
Capital.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
DEMOCRATS TO STAGE
FIRST RALLY TONIGHT
Pro-Roosevelt Forces in Capital
to Hold Open Meeting at
Willard.

Democrats of the Capital will stage
their first political rally of the present
campaign tonight when the local
branch of the Roosevelt League of
Clubs holds an open meeting at the
Willard Hotel at o'clock in the inter-
est of the presidential candidacy of
Gov. Roosevelt of New York.
Senator Clarence c. Dill of Washing
ton and Senator Cordell Hull of Ten
nessee will be the principal speakers.
In addition, talk on the history of
organized Democracy in the Capital will
be given by John B. Colpoys, second
vice president of the league group, who
is chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee here,
John F. Costello, Democratic National
Committeeman for the District, is presi-
dent of the local league.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
ELLSWORTH FUNERAL
HELD THIS AFTERNOON
Retired Laundry Official and For
mer Sergeant at Arms at Cap
itol Was 80 Years Old.

Funeral services for James H. Els
worth. 80, of 3027 Fifteenth street. re-
tired official of the Manhattan Laundry
and sergeant-at-arms at the Capitol
during McKinley'S administration, were
held at Chambers funeral parlors this
afternoon. Burial was in Rock Greek
Cemetery. Rites were conducted by La
Fayette Masonic Lodge, of which Mr..
Ellsworth was member.
He died Sunday at Sibley Hospital
after an illness of two weeks.
A native of South Bend, Ind, Mr..
Ellsworth came to Washington after re-
ceiving his early education there. He
attended George Washington University
and Columbia University Law School.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
HOOVER SEEKS TERMS
IN BEET SUGAR FIGHT
BY the Associated Press.

ny the AoSOCldtcu EISoo
Representative Simmons. Republican,
of Nebraska said today President Hoo
yer had agreed to request Secretary
of Agriculture Hyde to look into the
sugar beet situation in Montana, Wy
oming Nebraska and Colorado to seek a
higher contract for beet farmers from
the Great Western Sugar Co.
After a conference, Simmons said he
told the President the company was Of
fering a contract that lis unacceptable
to the great body of beet farmers" Ne
gotiations for contract have broken
off.
The Nebraskan said Mr.. Hoover had
expressed concern" and had promised
to request the Secretary to lend his
good Offices.
"It is imperative that that industry
continue" Simmons said, land that the
sugar company offer a contract that
the farmers can accept"
Evening star., 1932-04-06
D. c. BUILDING HAS FIRE

A small fire in the basement of the
District Building this morning filled the
upper floors with smoke and excitement.
The fire itself, however, was extinguished
in a few minutes. Chief Engineer George
S. Watson had only few feet to travel
to respond to the alarm.
Paraffn melting on a stove is said to
have boiled over and set fire to pile
of rags and mops.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
OLD HEATING PLANT
MUST SERVE AGAIN
Shelving of Unit to Serve
Northwest Area Gives
Task to Grant.

Failure Of Congress to permit expen-
diture Of $750,000 for the proposed new
heating plant for Government buildings
in the Northwest area, bounded by New
York and Constitution avenues and
Seventeenth street, places upon Lieut.
Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, director of public
buildings and public parks, the burden
of attempting to make the old heating
plant at Eighteenth street and Con-
stitution avenue do for another Winter.
Plans Already Drawn.
The present heating plant, which has
been in operation for a great number
of years, is located in the building ad-
jacent to the Federal Trade Commits
sion. Col Grant and his associates
already have drawn up plans for the
proposed new central heating plant, de-
signed for location near New York and
Virginia avenues, and were expecting
to call for bids on this within the next
couple of months. As the money was
made available some time ago. Col.
Grant proposed to award a contract
before the expiration of the current
fiscal year, on June 80.
The site occupied by the present
heating plant is required by the Pan
American Union to erect its $1,000, 900
office building, but under the action of
the House Economy Committee 1t ap-
pears that this project will have to
wait, unless the Union wants to con-
struct part of the building when the
Federal Trade Commission yacates its
quarters.
Old Plant Needs Repairs.
There has been considerable discus
sion concerning the s750.000 central
heating plant, which was designed as
a standby emergency plant, compile
mentary to the heating plant being
constructed by the Treasury Depart
ment near the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing The heating plant, under
Col. Grants program, would be con-
structed so that a more pretentiouS
building could be built around it after
the question of the new War and Navy
has been definitely settled.
Considerable repairs are thought
necessary on the old heating plant If
it is to be made to do service through
another Winter
Evening star., 1932-04-06
CELLS ARE VENTILATED
New Equipment Installed in First
Precinct Police Station.

A ventilator system was installed
yesterday in the cell room of the first
precinct police station and similar
equipment will be placed in other po-
lice stations here before the arrival Of
Summer
Meanwhile, Capt. William E. Holmes,
first precinct commander, is preparing
to add 20 new cells to the dozen al
ready in the station. The new cells
will be placed in a room in the rear
of the station, used as the District
morgue before the erection of the
present morgue.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
PLAN STAGGER HOURS
Chief Clerks Will Consider Pro-
posal Tomorrow.

Chief Clerk E. w. Libbey of the Com
District Commissioners the chief clerks
of the various executive departments
and independent establishments would
meet to consider the possibility of adopt
ing plan for staggering Office hours as
a measure of helping reduce traffic con-
gestion in rush hours.
The meeting will be held at 1890
o'clock tomorrow in room 2064 of the
Commerce Building. The plan was
suggested by the Traffic Advisory
Council.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
INHABITANTS TO MEET
Union Engine House Decorated for
Army Day.

Historic old Union Engine House was
gayly decorated today in observance of
citation of Oldest Inhabitants, Of which
George B. Jackson is chairman.
Mr.. Jackson raised 10 large flags ON
poles along the iron fences on both
Nineteenth and II streets, arranged flags
on the building itself, and also dec
Grated the interior OF the hall for the
meeting of the association tonight.
Col E. G. Bliss, chairman of the
Committee on Work Creation, will be
the principal speaker at the meeting
tonight. which starts at 1880 o'clock
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Evening star., 1932-04-06
RECTOR TO TAKE POST

by Bishop Freeman.
Rev. A. J. Wilder will be instituted
by Bishop James E. Freeman next Sum
day at IL o'clock as rector of st. An
drew's Episcopal Church, New Hamp-
shire avenue and v street.
Bishop Freeman will preach the SER
mon and there will be special music.
Evening star., 1932-04-06

FrICb htfu IUU Of0at'
"The public is, in principle, in favor
OF a merger of the local street railways,
but the price exacted by the resolution
Is too great" the minority report began.
In explaining their opposition TO the
power clause continuing the present ar
rangement between the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. and the Washington
Railway & Electric Co. which would
apply to SO per cent Of the current OF
the merged car system for the next ID
years. the minority stated:
while It would appear that the
Washington Railway 81 Electric Co,
the Capital Traction Co. and the Wash
anRton Rapid Transit Co. are the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-26

In putting and short approaching:
where physical strength Is not re-
Quired, women golfers should be, and
many are. as good as the men stars.
Mrs. Glenna Colett Ware, out
standing American women player over
the last 10 years. declares good put
ting Is matter of lightness of touch.
smooth stroking and complete relax
alton.
Those annoying four footers are not
nearly so nerve-racking or democrat
izing to men as they are to women
players. A man makes his decision
and sticks to 1t. A woman's mind Is
apt to stray from her original decis-
ion. Women can accurately deter
mine the slope and speed OF the green
but many forget 1t when they address
the ball. Some Of them think more
of keeping the head still and looking
at the ball, which is only half of the
picture.