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Evening star., 1932-02-17
CONGRESS TAKES HAND
IN STRIKE OF AIR PILOTS
SABBATH Tells Cermak Armed Men
and Amateurs Are Being
Recruited.

The first major air pilots strike in
history took on an aspect Of national
importance today as a half score OF
members of Congress, alarmed by
threats to the safety of all air transport
operations if present conditions con-
tlnue, joined in concerted efforts to up
hold the rights of all American air
transport pilots.
In a telegram sent to Mayor Anton
J. Cermak of Chicago, Representative
A. ]. SABBATH of Illinois charged that
armed strike breakers are being en-
ployed by Century Air Lines and that
Inexperienced pilots are being recruited.
Representative Melvin j. Mas OF
Minnesota. World War pilot and holder
OF a majors commission in the Marine
Corps Aviation Reserve, called upon
Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for AaronauticS, to make
the most rigid examination Of the quail
ifications of the strike-breaking pilots
and to impose drastic minimum stand
ards for such pilots.
Representatives j. o. Fernandez, Kent
Keller, Fiorello H. La Guardia and
Clyde Kelly sent kilograms to E. l..
Cord. president of Century Air Lines,
denouncing his line for lowering the
rilot standards.
Evening star., 1932-02-17
CHEST RECEIVES
S751 DONATIONS
Campaign Deficit Reduced to
$187,242-ReIief De-
mandS Increase.

With the unprecedented demand Of
relief organizations threatening to be-
come even heavier, new contributions
Of s751- yesterday reduced the Com
munity Chest deficit to s187,242.10 in
the drive for s2.601 900.
Students of the Madeira School do
mated $500, the largest gift of the day.
This increased the standing of the
school unit, headed by Sidney F. Talia-
ferro. which exceeded its quota during
the campaign proper.
Volunteer solicitors of the metropoli-
tan unit added several pledges to the
days total They sought additional do
nations from those who had already
subscribed as we'll as new gifts from
persons who had not contributed be-
fore. The workers pointed out the dire
needs of organizations affiliated with
the Chest.
Meanwhile, many new pleas for food,
fuel and clothing were received at the
Council of Social Agencies, 1418 I street.
This constantly increasing demand for
help proved a problem to the agency
heads. They had anticipated enlarged
appeals on account of cold weather
coupled with general business condi-
tions, but had not expected the volume
actually encountered.
New and additional gifts yesterday
included 81, anonymous; $40. anony-
nous; $40, anonymous: 5000, an
onymous; S5, Paul Barsch; s25,
Wilmer T. Bartholomew; $50, Charles
Henry Butler-John A. Kratz; $40,
Maj and Mrs. j. D. Byers; SIS,
Alice L. Carr: $40. Garnett V. Carter;
So, Mary Owen Dean (additionaD; So
Florence H. Dunlop; SIS, Miss Mary
L. Hannah; SIG, in memory of J. S
Holbrook; S. H. P. Kimball; $500
Madeira School pupils; 81, Harriet E
Porter; S25, Mary K. Porter; SIS, Miss
Selma Anne Rupert; 81, Morris Smell
low, and $40, DR.. William D. Writ.
Evening star., 1932-02-17
COMPANY FIGHTS
PHONE RATE CUT
Holds Reductions Impossible
Without Impairing Fair
Rate of Return.
Telephone rates cannot be reduced at

Telephone rates cannot be reduced at
this time without impairing the fair
rate of return of the c. & p Telephone
Co. officials announced today in reply
to criticism heaped on Maj. Gen. Mason
M Patrick, chairman of the Public
Utilities Commission, by the House Dis
trict Appropriations Subcommittee for
alleged inactivity" in seeking lower
telephone charges.
Changes and improvement in service
last wear, the company officials pointed
out. paved the way for telephone sub
scribers to save S101, $50 year. Saw
ings for the last four years, it was said,
amounted to 1901 900.
Although the >company's rate OF re-
turn last year amounted to 7.34 per
cent. the average for the last five years,
it was said, was 6.42 per cent.
Dial Cost Removed.
The return of 734 per cent in 1881,
according to the officials, was due to
the fact that the cost of the dial Sys-
tenn installation was removed from the
capital account of the company. Con-
tempIated additions to the dial system
this year, coupled with uncertain eco
nomic conditions, officials predicted,
will cut the 1882 return to about 6.5
per cent-a rate too low to enable the
company to reduce telephone charges
and maintain dividend payments to
stockholders.
A large portion of the $101,250 saw
ings to Washington subscribers, 1t was
said, will result from the abolition OF
toll charges on calls to nearby Mary
Evening star., 1932-02-17

- ONGESS has opened its heart
to the pleas of $4,000 children
to help Commissioner Of Fish
~ cries Henry OMalley out OF
predicament and will give him
$4,000 to operate the magnif1cent
aquarium in the Commerce Depart
ment's new building.
While the departments S supply bill for
1893 has not yet been approved so sure
we're officials today of the fund that
the aristocracy of fishdom has been or
dered to congregate here to permit
citizens and visitors TO ascertain at
first hand Who's Who" in the fresh
water streams of the Nation.
The fish, numbering 400 and OF all
cclors of the rainbow, will be brought to
WASHINGTON within the next month and
will be placed on exhibition in the
aquarium.
Best Species Sought.
Orders went out today rom the de-
partment's Bureau of Fisheries to Gov
ernment hatckeries from Maine to Call
fornia and to friends TO send the best
species in their collections to the
aquarium. which is equipped with 40
tanks and when fully stocked will be
the largest fresh water piscatorial expo
sition in this country.
Already the bureau has on hand the
famous Spencer. 15-year-old sturgeon:
and 124 other fish. In recognition OF
his aid to biological advancement, OFF,
cials have ordered Spencer placed in
a main exhibition tank and he will be
crowned the king fish" of the exclu-
sive 400
Contractors yesterday pronounced
the aquarium completed and turned it
over to department officials. While 1t
has not been formally accepted, Com
missioner Henry O'Malley has ordered
the tanks prepared, with marine growth
decorations to make each fish feel at
home.
This will require about 10 days work
and, when completed, Spencer and his
tribe. now housed in tanks in the old
aquarium at Sixth and B streets, will
be moved in tin containers to the new
building.
Fish Parade Planned.
At the same time a regular fish pa
rade will head toward the Capital City.
in the ranks will be rainbow brook and
land locked trout: salmon from the in
land streams of the Atlantic and Pa.
cIfic Coasts and small. but beautiful
fish from the sub-tropics.
From an Alaskan hatchery 5000 miles
away Will come tne celeDTateu pldCh
fish. Part of this journey will be made
increased in ice, so hardy is this speci-
men, officials say this fish can bounce
like a rubber ball.
The trout, salmon, black fish and
other varieties will require low tempera-
ture water at all times. while the sub
tropical fish will have to have their
homes heated above the 72-degree mark.
The aquarium is equipped with water
and air conditioning machinery.
From the Mississippi River will come
a long-whiskered, flat-nosed cat to
mingle with the perch and sunflsh. In
one of the three floor tanks will be old
Oscar. This turtle has been with the
bureau for so gears. Other turtles will
be brought here to keep him company.
Frogs to Share Tanks.
Croaking a lullaby in the lower
bayous of Louisiana is bullfrog. which
will, with other croakers, eventually flnd
a home in another one Of the floor
tanks. This is going to be quite an ex-t
pertinent for bullfrogs do not thrive in
captivity. They must be fed on moving
objects and breakfast, lunch and dinner
will be served them from the end OF
moving stick.
Evening star., 1932-02-17
DEANS OF WOMEN
OPEN SESSIONS
Gather as Vanguard of 1000
Educators Who Will Meet
in Next Eight Days.

The vanguard of $4,000 educators who
will assemble in Washington during the
next eight days met at the MayfoWer
Hotel today when tire National AsSocia-
ton of Deans of Women convened its
sixteenth annual meeting.
Within another two days the 1000
delegates of the Department of Super
intendence of the National Education
Association will be here for that groups
sixty-second annual convention. BY the
same time. various other grcupS OF
allied educa tional organizations. bring
ing an additional 1000 persons to the
Capital. will convene.
Congress itself has accorded recog-
milton to the army of educators con-
verging on the Capital in the interest
of their profession by postponlng the
hearings on the public school estimates
so that the District school officials and
board members might attend the various
convention sessions. This reason was
given this morning by Chairman Can
non of the House Subcommittee on Ap-
propriations.
Rabbi Goldenson Speaks.
Business sessions of the National As
sociation of Deans of Women was begun
with a luncheon meeting at l O'Clock
this afternoon. At that time. Rabbi
Samuel H. Goldenson of Pittsburgh de-
livered the initial address of the con-
clave on What Is Justice?"
Following the luncheon series of
round table conferences for members
only was held throughout the hotel.
The general topic of the woman deans
was announced as "Squaring With the
Changing Social and Economic Order"
but the round table sessions today are
on a variety of topics, some of which
are only slightly allied with the general
theme
Among the items under discussion
this afternoon are Training for Intel
lectural Appreciation of People" De
velopment of intellectual Interests in
High School, and international In
terests."
The sessions will be resumed tonight
when Dean C. S. Boucher of the Uni
versity of Chicago and Frederick Win
sor, head master of the MiddleseX
School at Concord, Mass, speak on
Honorable Substitutes for College"
The college deans will continue in
session through Sunday, overlapping
the sessions of the Department of
Superintendent.
Others on Program.
Prominent among the speakers on
the deans program is Cornelia
Sorabji, president of the Federation Of
University Women in Calcutta, India.
Miss Sorabji will be the speaker at the
associations annual banquet, tomor-
row night.
The Committee on Local Arrange
ments for the deans convention in
cludes Mary Louise Browne, American
University. general chairman; Adele
H. Stamp, University Of MARYLAND; ;
Jessie Coope, Mckinley High School;
Helen C. Hastings Mount Vernon Sem
mary; Florence Boehmer, State Teach
Evening star., 1932-02-17
BLIND FLYING TESTS
PROPOSED FOR PILOTS
Suggested Amendment to Present
Regulations Makes Examina-
tions More Rigid.

All American air transport pilots en-
gagged in interstate airline service will
be compelled to pass rigid blind flying
tests and to conform to more rigid
standards of training if an amendment
which has been submitted by the De-
partmeut of Commerce aeronautics
branch to pilots and operators for COM
ment and suggestions is made effective.
feature of the proposed amend
ment would require that the pilot be
able to show at least 1900 hours CT
solo flying within the past eight years.
500 houls of which must have been
spent in cross-country flying and rs
hours in solo flying at night.
The pilots, if the amendment Is
adopted must pass tests before De-
partment of Commerce flying inspector
to show their ability to fly completely
blind.
In a hooded cockpit they will be re-
quired to show their ability in straight,
level flight: shallow and steep banks
up to 20 degrees on both sides, 180 and
$50 degree turns to right and left,
spirals and recoveries frcm spirals,
minimum glides and maximum climbs.
recovery from conditions approaching
the stall climbing turns, stalls, spins,
skids aVQ slips. ~ .
Evening star., 1932-02-17
MINE RELIEF GROUP
FLAYS KENTUCKIANS
Operators and Authorities Accused
at Meeting Here of 1nsti-
tuting Terror.

The coal mine operators and authori-
tiles of Bell and Harlan Counties, KY
scene of recent labor troubles, were
condemned vigorously in a resolution
adopted last night at a mass meeting in
the National Press Club Auditorium,
called by the Independent Miners Re
lief Committee
The operators and county authorities
were charged with having instituted
reign of terror in an attempt to break
the miners strike.
The resolution further stated that
I'VE protest against the kidnapping OF
the group of writer's and professional
people and the beating of their chair
man, Waldo Frank. and the attorney
for the strikers, Allan Taub. and the
denial to them and to the strikers,
union organizers, relief workers and
newspaper correspondents of the rights
OF free speech, free press and free as
sembly.
I'VE appeal to Congress to investigate
the situation in Bell and Harlan Coun-
ties and we call upon all Americans
who believe in freedom and democracy
to rally to the defense of constitutional
rights and particularly to the defense
of the rights of labor organizations to
function freely without interference
from gun thugs, regardless of the po-
litical affiliations of the leaders OF these
labor organizations"
Evening star., 1932-02-17
WASHINGTON WOMAN
HURT IN AUTO CRASH
Hit-Run Driver Flees Scene on
Foot Following Accident in
Alexandria.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ALEXANDRIA, Va, February IT.
When her automobile was struck by a
hit-and-run. driver on the Alexandria
Washington road near Howell avenue
last night, Mrs. Ruth Smithson of 479
G street southwest, Washington, was
left injured in her badly damaged car
for some time before Alexandria police
arrived to carry her to the Alexandria
Hospital.
at the hospital Mrs. Smithson was
found to have received injuries to her
legs. in addition to cuts and bruises.
Police say the driver abandoned his
machine after it had collided with Mrs.
Smithson and knocked in part of the
fence of the Richmond, Fredericksburg
g. Potomac Railway yards. The ma
chine was said by police to bear tags
issued to Francis Cronen of 1880 K
street, Washington.
Evening star., 1932-02-17
BANDIT SUSPECT HELD
Chinese illustrates Attempt al
Chop Suey Hold-up.

With one suspect under arrest at
Gallinger Hospital, where he is being
treated for bullet wound in the thigh,
police today were searching for the sec
ond of two colored bandits who fled a
chop suey place at 1910 Eighteenth
street early yesterday under the fire of
the proprietor, James Wang, a Chinese.
Wang identified Nathan Steele, Is,
colored, first block of N street south
west, as one of the robbers when Steele
appeared at Emergency Hospital to have
his wound dressed. While admitting he
was in Wang's place, police say, Steele
denied that he knew the identity of the
second man. Wang believes he hit both
robbers, rob, RS foiling their attempt to hold
Evening star., 1932-02-17

land and Virginia. The savings on
this item alone, it was said, will total
$685. year.
The reduction in rate for handsets,
put into effect last May l, it was ex-
planned, saves subscribers $4,000 a
year, discontinuance of the charge for
change in equipment, $4,000. and re-
duction in the rate for individual lines
connected to residence intercommuni-
eating systems, S4.450. Several other
minor items involving reductions total
ing $11,500 a year, also were reported.
Among savings in the last few years,
cited. showing that the cut February
/, 1929, benefited Washington sub
scribers by S68,2OO, and the reduction
June 80, 1880, by $4,000.
Evening star., 1932-02-17

In another tank will be a school of
gold fish. In a smaller tank will be
just ordinary minnows used for fish
bait While some $4,000 children view
the fish each year. the bureau is also
going to try to make it interesting for
the adults and especially for fishermen.
Nearby hatcheries and collectors have
been advised to look out for a mate
for Spencer. officials believe Spencer
should have company
He has been one of the bureaus out
standing experiments. In 1908, COL
lectors caught him and three of his
brothers, each eight inches in length.
near Chapman's Point, in the Potomac
River.
Killed by Chlorine.
In the old bureaus aquarium they
were fed on round steak and beef hearts
and they increased in size rapidly. In
Evening star., 1932-02-17
ELOISE CROSS BURIED

Rites for Student Nurse Conducted
in Bethesda Church.
Funeral services for Miss Eloise B.
Cross, 18year-old student nurse at
Providence Hospital, were conducted
yesterday at Our Lady of Lourdes
Church, in Bethesda. Burial was in
Cedar Hills Cemetery. Rev. Francis j..
Egan offlciated.
Miss Cross, who died Sunday, was a
daughter of Roy w. Cros, Treasury De-
partment architect, and Mrs. Eloise
Cross, 4508 Ridge street, Chevy Chase,
Md. She also is survived by brother
Roy. She was graduate of Immaculate
Seminary,
Evening star., 1932-02-17

ers' College of Virginia; Winnie G. Bar
rows, George Washington University;
Marion A. Ballou. Mount Vernon Sem
mary; Helen M. Coolidge, Central
High School; Jessie M. Holton, Holton
Arms School: Elizabeth Peet. Gallau-
det College; Bertha Morgan, Cathedral
School; Anna P. Cooper. George Wash
ington University; Frances r. Connor,
Goucher College, Baltimore; Elizabeth
A. Brubaker, Lucy Webb Hayes Train
ing School, and P. Edna Thomson,
Western High School
Evening star., 1932-02-17
D. G. Man Arrested in Detroit.

Edward Franks, a former Ninth
street merchant, charged. with setting
fire to his store, who left Washington
some months ago ir alleged default OF
his bail bond. was arrested this mcrn-
ing in Detroit, according to word re-
ceived by the Office of United States
Attorney Rover A bench warrant for
his return will be sent to the Michigan
CITY,
Evening star., 1932-02-17
POSTAL SAVINGS JUMP
System Now Has More Than L.
100000 Accounts.

Postal savings on February / totaled
$658,081 ,034, and for the first time in
the history of the system, more than
1000, 900 persons had accounts.
Total deposits represented an increase
Of approximately $63 5000, 900 during the
month Of January. Deposits at the be-
ginning Of the present fiscal year
amounted to 1852 1908.
Evening star., 1932-02-17

1920, an application of chlorine in the
city water supply, officials said, killed
the three brothers and left Spencer in
bad shape He pulled through. how
ever, and is now five feet in length
and weighs close to 40 pounds.
The new aquarium will cost $4,000
year upkeep, of which $4,000 will
be expended for the service of an ex-
pert aquarium attendant and a helper.
The total population of 400 fish will
eat $4,000 in food year, and $4,000
will be used to cover the cost of trans
porting and obtaining fish from vari-
Ou5 sections.
Tie aquarium is used to large eX-
tent by schools for biology instructions.
1t also is used by the bureau for the
study of the habits of various species
and for holding surplus fish for distri-
button in nearby waters.
The Washington times., 1932-03-24

Whatever your wants may be, there
10 always o possibility that they can be
satisfied through the many services
advertised in tOdaS's Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1932-03-24
PEACE JUSTICES HINT AT POLICE CONNIVANC
HOME EXPENSES
DISCUSSED

Adjustments necessary in the
home to meet the present eco
romic situation were outlined to-
day by Miss Mary Rokahr, exten-
sion economist of the home
management bureau of the De-
partment of Agriculture, before a
meeting of the Federation of
Women's Clubs Of Montgomery
county.
Miss Rokahr, who spoke on
Economic Facts for the Home" I"
discussed the value of household
accounting and budgeting. She
outlined methods of reducing cash
expenditures and of increasing
the cash income.
The Washington times., 1932-03-24
MASS MEETING
Of TEACHERS,
PARENTS SET
Session at Silver Spring to
Draft Welfare Plans; Will
Hear Miss Lenroot

A mass meeting of parents
and others interested in for
nation of a Parent-T Teachers
Association Council for Mont
gomery county, will be held
April 4 in the Silver Spring
armOry.
Through a joint committee, the
Parent-Teachers Associations of
Woodside Elementary, Takoma
Elementary, East Silver Spring
Elementary, and the Takoma.
Silver Spring High Schools are
planning the meeting.
Miss LenrOot to Talk
Mrs. Ronald L. Mcdonald,
chairman of the joint committee
in charge of the meeting, has
announced a program which
features talks by Miss Katherine
Lenroot, acting chief of the
Children's Bureau, United States
Department of Labor; Lacy
Shaw, president of the Mont.
gomery County Board of Com
miSsionerS, and DR.. Edwin w.
Broome. superintendent Of
schools for Montgomery county.
Miss Lenroot is author of many
official publications Of the Chill
dren'S Bureau and has twice rep
resented the Government in inter
national conferences on child vel
fare.
School Heads to Attend
She acted as research secretary
of the delinquency committee of
the White House conference on
child welfare. She is now in Okla
homa conducting a "follow-up"
conference.
The program will be opened
by the singing of Maryland, MY
Maryland" by the audience and
remarks by George w. Davis,
president of the WoodSide Par.
ent-Teacher Association, who will
preside. The presidents and prin-
cipals of the four schools will be
introduced.
The Washington times., 1932-03-24
CITIZENS HONOR
CAPT. MARKS

High officials of Washington
united last night with the Ana
costa Citizens Association in pay
ing tribute to Capt. S. j. Marks,
who recently was elevated to the
command of the Eleventh police
precinct.
Members of the District Com
missioners, Brig. Gen. Pelham D.
Glassford, superintendent Of po-
lice, Fire Chief George S. Wat
son and Corporation Counsel Will
liam w. Bride were among those
present.
DR.. George C. Havenner, presi-
dent of the association and the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, presided and presented the
police captains wife with a
bouquet.
The Washington times., 1932-03-24
SHAPIRO TERM
SUSPENDED

Justice Jesse C. Adkins in Dis
trict Supreme Court today gave
Jacob B. Shipiro, real estate opera
tor, two years suspended sentence.
Shapiro was convicted last June
25 on an indictment in IL counts
charging use of the mails to de-
fraud in connection with hidden
trusts" on property.
Shapiro has been free on bond
since his conviction. 1t was
brought out that although Shapi.
ro's acts made him guilty of the
charges againts him, none Of the
investors in his ventures lost any
money.
The Washington times., 1932-03-24
Mans AssaiLunt Gets
II Months in Jail

Arrested after an eight-months'
man-hunt by Constable Andrew
F.. Gasch, Herbert Moon, colored,
of Bladensburg, was sentenced
yesterday by Judge j. Chew
Sheriff, in Hyattsville Police
Court, to serve IL months in
the House of Correction on a
charge of assault with a danger
Gus weapon.
Moon is said to have attempted
to shoot Bartholomew Aberdeen,
colored, at Bladensburg last June.
He fled tine town soon after the
shooting and was arrested by
Gasch after his return a few days
ago.
The Washington times., 1932-03-24
maryland GETS
z HOLIDAYS

All banks, schools and county
offices in Maryland will observe
tomorrow and Saturday as legal
holidays, under a decree of Gov.
ernor' Ritchie.
Good Friday and Maryland Day
fall on the same day.
On the theory that patriotic
societies and other groups could
not fittingly celebrate Maryland
Day on a holy day, the governor
ordered Saturday to be used in
celebrating the State day.