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Evening star., 1932-01-24

ming or tomorrow.
The Ambassador OF Mexico and Sc
nora de Puig Casauranc will be joined
today by the latter's brother-in-la and
sister, Senor and Sonora de Ortiz, who
will be their guests at the embassy for
a few days. Senior Ortiz is Mexican
Minister to Great Britain and Is en-
route to London from Mexico City.
The Minister of Switzerland and
Nine. Peter will return this evening
from New York, where they went yes
terday to attend the banquet last eve
ming Of the Swiss Society of New York.
The Minister of Finland, Mr.. Astrom,
will be host at dinner Wednesday eve
ming in honor of the Secretary of State
and Mrs. Stimson.
The Minister of Austria and Nine.
Prochnik will entertain company at
dinner Tuesday evening, February Is.
The Minister and Nine. Prochnik also
will be hosts at dinner Thursday eve
ming at the legation.
The Minister of Sweden, M. Bostrom,
will entertain at dinner Thursday eve
ming in honor of the Secretary of State
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column 50
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Mrs. Doak to Receive
Last Time of Season
At Hotel Wednesday
Mrs. Mitchell. Wife of the
Attorney General. Cancels
Her Usual At Home.

Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the Attorney
General, will not receive Wednesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Doak, wife of the Secretary Of
Labor, will receive Wednesday after
noon at the Willard for the last time
this season. Mrs. Doak will observe
her days at home informally later in
the season in her suburban home, Notre
Mid, in Virginia, overlooking the Po-
torf1ac River.
Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, wife Of
the Chief Justice, will not receive to-
morrow.
Mrs. Crowther, wife Of Representative
Frank Crowther, will be at home in
formally from to o'clock tomorrow
afternoon in her apartment at ITO
Maryland avenue northeast.
Mrs. Gordon, wife Of Justice Peyton
Gordon of the District Supreme Court,
Continued on Page 4, Column 2)
Evening star., 1932-01-24
MRS. WALTER
TUCKERMAN,

Chairman for the BIZ
centennial Colonial Ball
at the May1ower Hotel
the night of February p.
Sketch from Harris-Ewing Photo.
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CONTINUED on Page Z, Column y
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The Chief Justice and Mrs. Charles
Evans Hughes were hosts at dinner last
evening, having as their guests Mr..
Justice Willis Van Devanter, Mr.. JUS
tice and Mrs. George Sutherland, Mr..
Hatton w. Summers, Judge John Bar
ton Payne, the president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce and Mrs
Silas H. Strawn, Mr.. and Mrs George
B, Mcclellan, Canon and Mrs. Anson
Phelps Stokes, Rev. DR.. and Mrs
Charles A. Richmond, Mrs. Alvin T.
Hert, Mrs. Hennen Jennings and Mrs.
Frederic A. Keep.
Mrs. Hyde will entertain at luncheon
Wednesday at the Mayfiower in honor
of Mrs. Albert L. Reeves, wife Of United
States district judge, Kansas City, Mo,
who is the guest of Senator and Mrs.
Roscoe S. Patterson.
The chief of naval operations, Ad-
miral william v. Pratt, and Mrs. Pratt
will entertain at dinner Tuesday
evening, February 2, In honor of the
Evening star., 1932-01-24
Schroeder-Norris and
Other Eneaeements

Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Schroeder Of
TITS Morningside drive, announce the
engagement Of their daughter, Miss
Katharine, to Lieut.. George E. Morris,
ir., U. S. c. and G. S. Of Minnesota.
No date has been set for the wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Millstein of
1928 Sixteenth street northwest, an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Gertrude, to Mr.. Abe West Of
Georgetown.
Evening star., 1932-01-24
White House Reception
To Members of Senate
Was Unusual Success
Similar Fete to Be Held This Week in Honor of
Representatives and Their
Families
be the chief manner in which to cele-
brate his anniversary.

be the chief manner in which to cele-
brate his anniversary.
washington's Bicentennial ball to be
held at the Mayhower is fast coming
into shape and will, Of course, be chief
of the many balls held in the Capital
on the night of February %. The
Capital Is made up of population
from every State in the Union, with, OF
course, a considerable number of
natives, so the many States balls are
assuming almost as much importance
as the one given Immediately under the
patronage Of the Bicentennial Commits
sion, with Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman
as chairman.
For months past history has been
enriched by bits of literature forgotten
or lying away In old family archives
or in musty trunks and packages, now
brought forth to serve as fitting links
in the chain Of historic happenings
in America, and now comes the won-
derful moving pictures Of the past in
series Of balls and plays and pageants
to enchant the public. The ball, how
ever, that is awakening the greatest
interest of any is that at old Gadsby's
Tavern in Alexandria, the very place
where the last birthday ball was given
for Gen. Washington and which he in
person attended.
1t was on the night OF February %,
1899, that the famous soldier tread
a measure and joined in the merry
making. Ancestral trees will be shaken
for all their perfect fruit and the Alex
andria committee Of the Colonial
Danes Of America in the State Of Vir-
ginia, assisted by the Mount Vernon
Chapter, D. A. r., and the Wash
ington Society, the latter second to no
other group in the States, as 1t was
organized just after the death OF Wash
ington by a group Of his friends In
Alexandria.
SO the ball in Gadsbys Tavern will
carry out in every detail the ball Of
1899, with the descendants Of those
who attended the ball taking the lead
ing uarts. The menu for the plenteous
supper will be the same as for that
event, and served in much the same
manner. while the dancers will tread
old-fashioned measures to the fiddling
which inspired their ancestors on that
night.
Evening star., 1932-01-24
BY SALLIE v. II. PICKETT.


As the White House official program
wears on the events become more and
more interesting and the marvel Of the
administration is that 30 many sena-
tors and their families graced the re-
ception in their honor last week. 1t is
spoken Of by those who have watched
the social events of the White House,
as the largest representation of sena-
tors ever seen at once in the mansion.
The old custom Of passing ones invita-
tions on to Just any one who wished 10
20 seems to have found its cure in Mrs.
Hoover's arrangement of a reception
especially in honor Of. the members OF
the august body.
This week a similar reception in
honor Of the Representatives and their
families will be held, and while 1t Will
be lust as brilliant and friendly as was
the reception last week, 1t will be very
much larger. Mrs. Hoover, who mas
been indisposed for several days, ex-
poets to recover in time to resume her
strenuous program. Mrs. Hurley pre-
sided at a White House dinner Tor her
An informal one-Friday night, but
this was not a special innovation as tne
history of the White House carries
MANY instances of members OF the
family, executive or otherwise, reneV-
ing the First Lady Of her duties tenn
porarily.
While Mrs. Hoover expects to add
several concerts to her list OF engage
r,ents this week, music in its noblest
s1,ise will go TO her when she and the
President entertain the great Polish
statesman and artist at the White
House on his arrival Monday. This Is
the first of a series Of five concerts
benents-to be given by Paderewski in
this country, sponsored by Mrs. Hoover,
with the proceeds to go to the unem-
ployed. Such dignitaries as the vice
president, the Chief Justice and Mrs.
Hughes, the Secretary Of State and
Mrs stimson, Mrs. Taft and Mrs.
woodrow Wilson will occupy boxes.
Mrs. Hoover is also a box holder for
the Philharmonic Symphony concert
IN Constitution Hall Tuesday afternoon,
when Bruno Walter, conductor from
Coyent Garden, London, will direct
Mr.. Walter will be entertained at the
German embassy and will have the
Ambassador and Frau Won Prittwitz
und Graffron in box to see him direct.
There will be q dinner for him at the
German embassy Tuesday night, sort
of a German love feast and certainly
q typical German supper.
Nothing stirs the members OF society
and the citizens all over the country
60 much as the approaching Bicenten-
NAL celebration. When one remembers
how the first President and general
often cheered his soldiers by giving a
dance, what part such festivities played
In his life in Virginia, in New York
after his Inauguration, and elsewhere,
IL Ia fitting enough that balls should
Evening star., 1932-01-24
Italian Ambassador Guest
OF the Minister of Egvpt
Mobile Giacorno de Martino and Donna Antoiinette
Martino to Be Entertained
at Dinner.

The Ambassador will return this eve
ming or tomorrow.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
Magnet in Research Work.

During the World War four gigantic
magnets were built for use abroad. Two
were sent to France where they are still
at work, and the other two were des-
tined for use In China, but they were
never sent TO that country because of
the declaration of the armistice
Through the generosity of several Or
ganizations interested m scientific de-
velopment, the parts or one OF these
magnets has been presented to the
University OF California and will be
used by Prof E. .. Lawrence and DR.
M. S. Livingston of the physics depart
ment IN the continuation OF their work
on the nucleus of atoms
This magnet when completed will
weigh 85 tons, the largest in use for
scientific purposes. The next largest in
laboratory work is that at the French
Academy of Sciences at Paris, which is
only half the size Of that to be installed
at Berkeley.
Evening star., 1932-04-30

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80. OF the thing in Law.
81. Thickly.
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38. A prophet.
80. Genus Of seaweeds.
40. RevoltS.
Al. Moved swiftly along.
AZ. Word of denial.
43. country
As. Legal document.
48. Bitter plum.
49. without: French.
SO. Small island in lake.
54. Pendent cones of ice.
ST. Nothing.
So Daubed.
so. A structure.
60. A geological formation.
63. Competed
64. Members of a Jewish sect.
65. Coins of ancient Greece.
Down.
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2. COMPUTED.
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4. Poisonous viper.
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Evening star., 1932-04-30

Remove
where strikes make
The Washington times., 1932-10-15

age rental was Spills and the
average value of owned homes,
$4,778.
Over 3 per cent of the families
Of the country lived in homes
valued at $4,000 and over. In
the $3.O00-$4,999 class was found
22.3 per cent, while 7.6 per cent
lived in dwellings valued at less
than $1,000.
In the District the average
rent was $4428 a month as COM
pared with $41.94 per cent in
New York. In South Carolina,
Alabama and Mississippi, the
average rent was less than $40
a month.
New York Second to Capital
The District showed 478 fami
lies paying more than 5000 a
month and only 482 paying less
than $40.
The District was far ahead in
the percentage of homes over
$4,000 with ALL. New York rank
ing second with SO per cent.
The average value of owned
homes in Washington was $9,246
as compared with $7,492 in New
York.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
THEFT TRY ENDS
WITH ARREST

After a police scout cruiser
chased him more than a block
through the downtown section
Leroy Porter, colored, %, the
600 block Callan St. N. E., was
arrested today in connection with
an alleged attempt to steal dia-
mond ring from the Kur Jewelry
Company store in the 400 block
of Seventh st. N. w.
Porter and companion, Win
fred Coleman, colored, 81, the 600
block L st. N. E., were examining
rings on a tray when the sales
man, Harry G=eenberg, missed
one. He held Coleman but had
the wrong man, police said later.
Porter, who police say had the
ring, ran and was pursued by
the cruiser into blind alley near
Sixth and D Streets Northwest.
Policeman S. P. Smith captured
him after scaling a fence. Porter
and Coleman were held for in
vestigation at the First precinct.
The ring and a wrist watch
were found on Porter and knife
on Coleman, police say,
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
J.. 8. CAFESHELD
NOT FEDERAL

Restaurants operated in Govern
ment buildings by the Welfare and
Recreational Association are not
Government operated, Lieut.. Col.
U. S. Grant, director of Public
Buildings and Parks, held today.
His statement was made in a
stirring defense of cafeterias and
lunch counters operated through
out the District in Government
structures. 1t accompanied de-
tailed report of "Government-
operated" cafteriaS sent to the
Shannon committee, which, last
month, requested Colonel Grant to
answer a QUESTIONABLE submitted
by the National Restaurant ASso-
citation. The latter organization
charged the Government with
operating restaurants in competi-
ton with private business.
The welfare body is not
Government agency, Colonel
Grant insisted today. Other
cafeterias in Government build
ings are operated because it was
found that the public conces-
sions provided unsatisfactory
service,
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
NOW
NEARS END
Staff Photo

Promising an end to 81 years of
controversy over the landscaping
of the Washington Monument
Grounds, a committee appointed
by Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant. director
of public buildings and parks, has
drawn up two proposals which
will be submitted next month to
planning and art commissioners.
Both plans depend almost en-
tirely upon systematic planting of
trees to frame the base of the
Monument, the more formal plan
requiring much grading. The
grading plans will not endanger
the foundation of the shaft, it is
said, a difficulty encountered in
previous plans.
Advantages of the two plans are
that the informal one would per-
nit a long range vista of the
Monument from Virginia Avenue
while the other would offer a
large circular area opening on
Seventeenth Street, facing the re-
flecting pool and Lincoln Me-
mortal.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
Trade Group to Hear
Fire Chief Watson

Fire Chief George S. Watson
and Traffic Superintendent E.
w. Brown will be guest speakers
at the meeting of the Federation
of Business Mems Associations
of the District of Columbia next
Thursday night at $50 o'clock
in the Ann Clarendon Club, 1900
block Rhode Island Ave. N. w.
A dinner will proceed the meet
ing. The chief business will be
the election of officers.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
REPORT READY
On CHANNEL

A survey of how Washington
Channel can best be improved was
pleted today after four
months preparation by Distrio
engineers. Bearing the signature
of Major j. D. Arthur, jr., chief
District engineer. it was for
warded to the board of engineers
for rivers and harbors.
If the report wins the approval
of the board, it will go to the chief
of engineers and then to Secretary
of War Patrick j. Hurley for final
inspection and presentation to
Congress.
Revelation of details of the re-
port prior to its presentation to
Congress is prohibited, but it was
learned from an authoritative
source that the 1882 report re-
duces considerably the $4,000,000
asked in the 1929 report; favors
a marked increase in docking and
anchorage facilities for yachts and
small craft. and advises fewer
piers.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
MAY GET
COUNCIL SPLIT

Court action by council mem
bers against the town of Hyatts.
vile was threatened last night as
the mayor and council voted S
to 4 to reduce road assessments
for Wine Avenue.
Last nights action followed a
series of stormy meetings in
which the legality of the proposed
reduction was assailed by four
counCilmen.
Originally estimated to cost
property owners $6.51 a front
foot, improvements on Wine Az.
enue were assessed at 1882
front foot. Following vigorous
the council agreed last night to
keep the assessment at the orig
inal figure. .
Maintaining that general road
funds cannot be appropriated to
make up the difference and
benefit particular group Of tax
payers, the minority group on the
council last night indicated that
the matter might be carried into
the Prince Georges circuit court.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
BAR MEET OVER,
PLAY LURES
LAWYERS
Attorneys Go on a Sightseeing
Trips Today; Lord Reading,
Paul Reynaud Heard

With formal sessions con-
cluded, the members of the
American Bar Association to-
day devoted themselves to
sightseeing in and about Wash
ington.
Four all-day trips were devised
for their entertainment, and
members were finding that each
had its special attractions. One
group went to Fredericksburg,
another to Annapolis, a third to
the races at Laurel, and a fourth
on siX-hour trip down the
Potomac.
Banquet Tonight
Tonight the final event of the
meeting will be the annual ban
quet, at the Mayflower, at which
Justice Roberts, of the Supreme
Court; Owen D. Young, and
other notables will speak.
In addresses yesterday, the
Marques of Reading and Paul
Reynaud declared that the aims
of their respective countries,
Great Britain and France, are,
like those of the United States,
for peace and democracy.
Lord Reading defended British
rule in India as wise and benefi-
cent. Both Lord Reading and
Reynaud last night were made
honorary members of the associa-
ton.
WilkerSon Aid Seen
An unexpected but important
development toward the close of
yesterdays final session was the
presentation and adoption, by
large majority, of a resolution
opposing the efforts of organized
labor to prevent the confirmation
of judges by the Senate.
The resolution apparently is in
tended to aid the promotion of
such judges as James H. Wilker-
son who have gained the enmity
OF organized labor by decisions
unfavorable to labor.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
THUGSRUNW|LD
IN SERIES Of
ROBBER|ES
Four Men, Armed and Masked,
Hold Up Motorists and
Wound Two Girls

Police today were baffIcd in
their hunt for four armed
thugs who last night shot two
young women and stole two
automobiles and $50 in series
of holdups in East Washington
and the adjoining Maryland
territory.
The wounded girls are Miss
Rose Vaccaro, 18, of the 400 block
of Eleventh st. S. W., shot in the
thigh, and her cousin, Miss Mary
Vaccaro, first block of V st. N. w,
shot in the ankle. Both are in
Sibley Hospital.
Four Wear Masks
In company with a third girl,
Miss Mae Hyman. 18, of the 300
block of E st. N. w., and two
sailors, j. Vincent, %, attached to
the U. S. S. Cormorant, and AL.
bert Pettingill, of the Submarine
R-3, the shot victims were stand
ing beside their parked car on the
Defense Highway near Buena
Vista.
An automobile containing three
white men and a colored man drove
up, they told police, and, holding
them at pistols point, the thugs
robbed Vincent of SIT. Before
they drove away, one of the thugs
deliberately shot the two young
women. All of the four wore
handkerchiefs over their faces.
Accident, Girls Think
The girls said today they
thought the shooting was an acci-
dent. Mary Vaccaro said:
"The rObber seemed a little
nervous and his trigger finger
apparently slipped. don't
think he meant to shoot"
The robbers automobile was
identified as one stolen a short
time before from Thomas Fowler.
Of Ritchie, Md, a brother of
Lieut.. John H. Fowler, ballistics
expert of the police department.
Fowler reported that he was
held up while his car was parked
in Anacostia Park. He and a
young woman we're robbed of the
machine and $35 in cash.
Woman Held Up
While District of Columbia,
Maryland State, and Prince
Georges county police combed all
roads near the scene of the Buena
Vista robbery, the thugs returned
to Washington, held up Mrs. De-
borah E. Lawson, 43, wife of a
patent attorney, Wilfred E. Law
son, of the 34OO block of Twenty.
fourth st. N. w.. at Franklin
Street and Mills Avenue North
east.
They took her machine and SO
and returned to Maryland, where
they are believed to have held
up another machine on the Bal.
timore Boulevard. State police at
Laurel received a report of the
occurrence but the victims refused
to give their names. The rob-
bers got nothing.
They were last seen on the
Riggs Mill Road near HyattsVille
several hours after they began
their series of holdupS. Mrs.
LaWson'S car had not been found
today.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
Labels Are Ordered
On Meter Rate Cabs

The Public Utilities Commission
has ordered all cabs operating on
meters to have posted on each
door signs in 2-inch high letters
to read meter rate cab" The
order also provides no driver of
cab owners shall demand a rate
larger than that he has filed
with the Commission.
The order was promulgated to
protect the public from unscrupu-
louS cab operators.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
WELFARE B D D Y
LISTS 5 WAYS
To NIP CRISIS
Report to Commissioners Sees
Funds Quickly Exhausted;
Black Outlook Shown

Five recommendations de-
signed to meet widespread un-
employment and distress in
the Capital during the coming
winter were made to the Dis
trict Commissioners today in
report of the Board of Pub
lie Welfare's emergency re-
lief committee.
Outstanding among them is
one urging the Commissioners at
the earliest possible date to
apply for another Congressional
appropriation reasonably ade-
quate" to carry the burden of
unemployment and distress which
cannot be met by private
agencies.
Recommendations Listed
other recommendations urged:
Limit expenditures of the
committee for all purposes be-
tween october and Novem-
ber Is to the rate of 100000
a month.
Discontinue any payments on
account of rents.
Appeal to the District and
Federal governments and private
owners of real estate for free
quarters for housing persons
without shelter.
Pending an additional
appropriation by Congress, the
Commissioners canvass the
possibility of obtaining, by
extraordinary means from
some source or by creation of
a deficit, additional funds for
carrying on the emergency
relief work.
Dark Picture Painted
The report painted a dark pic
ture Of suffering. It intimated
that the $350,000 appropriated at
the last session of Congress was
wholly inadequate for carrying on
the work and estimated that this
sum will be practically exhausted
by mid-November.
AS of October 8, the committee
reported 9,702 applications for
assistance has been filed with it.;
4,181 families we're being aided,
1902 cases were closed, deferred
or rejected. and 1,743 cases were
pending.
The report recited numerous
instances of suffering and de-
scribed conditions as "deplorable,
critical and desperate"
Starvation Feared
AS a result of it's study of con-
ditions, the committee found that
additional funds must be provided
by some extraordinary means"
adequately to continue the relief
work; or private agencies must
take over the major portion of
work now being done by the Board
of Public Welfare; or during the
next six months there will be in
Washington cases of destitute,
homeless and hopeless families
and the special committee believes
there may actually be deaths by
starvation"
The report was signed by Sid
ney F.. Taliaferro. former District
Commissioner, chairman of the
emergency relief committee.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
Capital Tops Even New York
In Costliness of Homes

Less than half of the urban
families of the United States live
in thei.' own homes.
Rents average highest in the
National Capital and New York
and the lowest in South Carolina
and Alabama.
The percentage of high-priced
homes and the average value of
homes is highest in the Capital
and New York.
These we're few of the fea-
lures of a survey of living condi-
tions of the American people made
public today by the Census Blu
reau.
Rented dwellings housed 12,-
351,549 families at the time of the
1880 census, while 10,503,3 1886
owned their residences. The aver
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
Teachers Honor
Guests TOniQht

New faculty members will be
honor guests at a meeting of the
George Washington University
Medical Society tonight at 8
o'clock in the auditorium of the
Medical School, 1885. H st. N. w.
The new professors will be vel
coined by DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president of the university. DR..
Sterling Ruffin will speak, and a
movietone on "Leprosy" will be
presented.
The Washington times., 1932-10-15
Capitol Policeman
EScdpeS ChdrqeS

Wilbur B. Doyle, of the Capitol
police, was freed in Police Court
at Upper Marlboro yesterday
from a charge of assault and bat
terry upon his wife, Alberta. Mrs.
Doyle failed to appear against
him. Doyle told the court that
she left home last week and
hasn't returned.