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Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23
CARNIVAL DANCE
CHRISTMAS EVE

El Centrans will net have to seek
amusement outside on Christmas
Eve but will find plenty OF enter
tainment in the city according to
members of the veterans hous-
ing committee who will sponsor a
carnival dance on that occasion.
Bob Rice's orchestra which has
proven SO popular, viii supply the
music which fact alone promises
a delightful evening.
Tenth foxtrot contest in the
series will be held tomorrow and on
New Years Eve the winners OF
the 10 contests will compete in a
final contest for the grand prize.
The dance will begin at o'clock,
December "a, and a big time is
promised those who attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23
Women Desire To
Aid Housewives

Those women wishing extra help
in serving Christmas dinner are
asked to communicate with Mrs.
Bertha Judd, 233. head of the
foreign adult education depart
ment OF Central high school.
Mrs. Judd knows of a number
of women from the Americaniza-
ton classes who would be glad to OBJ
tain work and will refer them to
women wishing assistance.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23
SOCIAL CALENDAR
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Christmas program, s:3O, Four
square gospel church
Christmas party, 1880, NJ. 4.
church
Christmas party, 7:3O, FIRST
Baptist church
McCabe-EucalyptuS farm CEN
ter, 7:45, McCabe school
o. f. S. No. 276, 8, Masonic
temple
Troop 25, B. S. A. $50, Nc
Cabe
Troop 21, b. S. A., 7:l5, Pres
byterian church
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23
Sunday School
Parties Tonight

Two Sunday schools will hold
their annual Christmas treats to-
night for the children and both pro-
mise to be gala affairs.
Methodist Sunday school party
will take place at 7:30 in the So
cial hall and the First Baptist
church will hold its school party
at the same hour in the church.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23
CRUSADERS WORK FOR BEER

FORT WORTH, Tex. U.P)-The
Crusaders, national organization
working for modification of the
18th Amendment, are determined
Texas farmers shall know the ben
efits of beer. More than 200, 900 cir
culars describing how return Of
beer in Texas would mean $70,000,-
600 in revenue for brewers and jobs
for $4,000 were mailed to farmers
Throughout the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23

Miss Florence Glenn, home
demonstration agent, is COOP
Grating with The Press by Of
fering timely recipes.
Cream Pie and Its Variations
IL cups milk
az tablespoons cornstarch or
81 tablespoons flour
Is cup sugar
3 egg yolks or
! to . whole eggs
a teaspoon salt
Scald the milk. Mix the corn
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23
sI,227,O6 IN LICENSE FEES

HELENA, Mont. [U.P)-Montana
counties have received $1,227 .063
from the sale of state automobile
license plates, Austin B. Middleton,
registrar Of vehicles. reported. All
money collected from license plate
sales is distributed TO the counties.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23

Roberts Union center, San Joa-
ouin county with 291 members is
the largest farm bureau center in
the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23

A completely revised edition Of
Evening star., 1932-01-27
BRUTALITY CASE
IS NEARING END
Bremmerman, Testifying in
Own Defense, Denies
Beating Prisoner.

The third-degree trial Of Policemen
Charles r. Bremmerman and Hollis H.
Clark, charged with beating Thomas
McKeever Williams, a 17-year-old col
ored prisoner, last June, was approach
ing its end IN the District Supreme
Court.
Bremmerman took the stand In his
own defense and, as Clark had done the
day before, denied beating or mistreat
ing the prisoner, or any of the :ieVen
or eight other colored boys being ques-
toned at the time about various petty
thefts and housebreaking cases.
He was on the stand only during the
morning session of court. During this
time Bremmerman declared he had re-
fused to make a statement about the
case to Department of Justice inveSti-
eating agents because he did not think
they would give him fair treatment in
the matter
He denied warning one Of the boys
not to tell anything about the alleged
pedIlnBS 10 IHe feueIdI agents UuG al
mitted he had tried to find out from
another man what one Of the Govern
ment witnesses had told the Depart
ment of Justice Investigators.
The Government intends to put on
four witnesses in rebuttal during the
afternoon. 1t was doubtful whether
attorneys in the case would sum up at
this time. 1t is thought probable that
the case will not be turned over to the
Jury until late tomorrow
Evening star., 1932-01-27
LECTURES ON HEALTH
TO BE GIVEN HERE
First of Series of Talks Next Sun
day Will Deal With Appen-
dicitis.

A series of monthly lectures by lead
ing physicians on public health topics
has been arranged by the District Med
ical Society, beginning Sunday after
noon at o'clock, with a discussion of
appendicitis.
These lectures will be given at the
same hour each Sunday in the Medical
Society Building, 1718 M street. The
speakers on the first program are DR..
William Earl Clark DR.. E. A. Merritt
and DR.. H. H. Kerr.
On February 81, DR.. c. c. Little,
former president of the University of
Michigan and now director of the
American Society for the Control OF
Cancer, will lecture on the cause and
cure of cancer.
On March 13, Karl De Schweinitz,
author of Growing Up" and THE Art
of Helping People Out of Trouble" will
discuss The New Family" This meet
ing will be held under auspices Of the
Social Hygiene Society.
tuberculosis will be discussed April
2 bv DR. Kendall Emerson, managing
director of the National tuberculosis
Association, at a meeting sponsored by
the District Association for the Pre-
yention of tuberculosis. Prenatal
Care" will be discussed April "a, by Dr.
Prentiss Wilson. On the same program
DR.. Joseph S. Wall will speak on Child
Hygiene
Evening star., 1932-01-27
RAILROAD RECAPTURE
CLAUSE ATTACKED
Witness Urges Repeal of Plan
Under Which Strong Roads
Aid Weak.
By the Associated Press.

BY ne Associated Press
Repeal of that clause Of the tranSpor-
tatiOn law which authorizes the Inter
state Commerce Commission to collect a
part of the excess earnings of strong
railroads and use it to help the weaker
lines was urged today before a House
committee
John E. Benton. solicitor for the Ma
tiOnal Association Of Railroad and Utll-
tiles Commissioners one Of the first
witnesses to appear before the Inter
state Commerce Committee in its hear
ings on a bill to repeal the recapture
clause told of the difficulties surround
ing its enforcement.
Benton said that for the Government
TO attempt to collect the money owed by
railroads under the clause would in
volve it in the most gigantic program
of litigation ever before contemplated,
much less undertaken, by any govern
ment at any time
New valuations must be made each
wear, he said to determine the income
for that wear
Repeal of the reCapture provisions
will not mean giving the railroads S370,-
100000" he addeG The Interstate
Commerce Commission neither has that
amount nor any prospect Of getting 1t.
Benton said his association, there
fore favors making repeal of the re-
capture clause retroactive.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
WITNESSES DIVIDED
ON POLICE SOBRIETY
Two Go to Trial as Result of
Charges Following Sum-
mer Camp Party.

The Police Trial Board heard contra
dictory testimony today as to the So
briefly of Policemen R. A Williams and
Charles Flynn. charged with conduct
unbecoming officers. Both officers are
members of the vice squad Of the third
inspection district.
The charges against them followed
their participation in a party at Sum
mer camp near Canal road on August
%. Following the party Harry L.
Troop, who operates ferry across the
canal, was beaten by one Of three men.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Chester
Gray sought to show Williams and
Flynn, together with another man, COM
posed the trio.
Miss Lois Gledding, a resident at the
Summer camp, testified Williams and
Flvnn were intoxicated, but two other
policemen and Fred Troop, son Of the
ferry operator, said Williams and Flynn
were sober
Early this afternoon Luther Kline
third precinct, went on trial before the
board on charges that he had struck
colored woman.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
Interested Parties Invited to
Testify Before Sub
committee.
OPPOSITION GATHERS
TO FIGHT PROPOSAL
Commission and Street Car Off,
cials Probably Will Be First
Witnesses at Session.

The legislative proposal granting au-
thorization for a merger of the trac-
ton facilities in the DistIBct will be the
subject of a hearing starting tonight
at 8 o'clock in the House District Com
mittee room before the Public Utilities
Subcommittee of the House District
Committee.
Expected TO Testify.
Gen. Mason M. Patrick, representing
the Public Utilities Commission, repre-
sentativeS of the traction companies,
and Lieut.. Col u S. Grant, 3rd, eXecu-
tive officer of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, Will
probably be the first witnesses.
Chairman Black of the Subcommlt-
tee has not called any one to TESTIFY,
but has invited the various interests
who already have registered their in
terest in this legislation.
These include officials OF the WASH.
ington Railway g. Electric Co. Capita
Traction Co, Washington Rapid Tran
sit Co.. the Public Utilities Commission
the corporation counsel, Judge Louis
c. Barley, Harley P. Wilson and Johr
]. NoOnan.
Opposition Is Strong.
Considerable opposition to the merger
is anticipated, and the subcommittee
expects it will have to show that a
considerable saving for the taxpayers
and riding public may be effected be-
fore merger is authorized by Congress
The other members Of the subcom-
mittee serving with Chairman Black
are Representatives Gilbert, Kentucky;
Smith, Virginia; Horner, West Vir-
ginia, all Democrats, and Bowman
West Virginia Whitley, New York, anc
Mcleod, Michigan, all Republicans.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
SH0USE APPEALS
FOR S1,5OO,OOO FUND
Declares, in Radio Address, Demo
cratic Party Was Never Po-
litically Stronger.

Declaring the Democratic party to
be politically in a position never
stronger" Jouett Shouse, chairman
of the party's National Executive Com
mittee, last night launched an appeal
for a sl.500OOO victory campaign
fund for the forthcoming presidential
battle.
Il think Democrats everywhere con-
cede the usefulness of the work that
has been carried on by cur national
headquarters in Washington since the
Spring of 1929" he said.
IF that work can be properly eX-
panded and enlarged during the sue
ceeding six months we shall have the
election won before our nominating
convention is held-and that can only
be done through the success of the
victory drive"
Shouse said Chairman Raskob of the
National Committee had pledged $780,
900 and Vincent Astor and Pierre S.
du Pont s25,000 each.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
PAY RAISE BAN
ACTION DELAYED
House Puts Aside Agriculture
Measure to Consider Rail-
way Working Hour Bill.

Action by the House on questions
affecting the personnel in the Federal
service on the provisions of the agricul-
tural appropriation bill, which would
establish a precedent for all the other
appropriation bills, was delayed today
temporarily in order that the Inter
state Commerce Committee might have
the opportunity under the calendar
Wednesday program to bring in urgent
measures.
This was only a temporary delay,
however, and the objection to
unanimous consent for dispensing with
calendar Wednesday business was only
an order to force action upon one par
ticular measure. affecting work hours
Of railway employees.
Before the House adjourned last
night it had completed in committee of
the whole its action on the agricultural
appropriation bill as far as the two sec
tions at the end of the bill prohibiting
promotion or salary increases in the
Department of Agriculture up to July
/, 1888.
These sections Of the bill are being
bitterly opposed by many members, and
by the National Federation Of Federal
Employees, which protests that it is
serving notice to all the unemployed
that they can expect no jobs on the
Government pay roll at least before
July l, 1888
After these two sections are disposed
of today in the committee of the whole
and the bill comes up in the House
itself Representative Simmons, Re-
publican, Nebraska, ranking minority
member on the subcommittee that
drafted the bill, intends to offer a
motion to resubmit, carrying with 1t a
provision for a per cent reduction in
personnel for the department. Oppost-
tion to Representative Simmons pro-
posal is led by Chairman Byrns of the
House Appropriation Committee.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
CAPT. DRAM ALONE
ON ENGINEER JOB
GotWaIS Is III and Dawson
Is at Mothers Bedside
in Chicago.

The quota Of four officers Of the
Engineer Corps of the United States
Army assigned to direct the engineer
ing activities Of the District govern
ment was reduced to one today. Capt.
Hugh P. Dram, who is the junior among
the three Assistant Engineer Commits
SionerS, was today acting Engineer
Commissioner. The arrival of Lieut..
Robert E. York. assigned yesterday to
replace Maj. H. L. Robb, is not eX-
pected for at least six weeks. He is
stationed in Oregon and will travel
here by way of the Panama Canal.
The order transferring Lieut. York here
is effective February 10.
Engineer Commissioner John c. Got
walls has been absent for nearly seven
months on account Of illness. He is
now under orders to report to the
Army Retiring Board. Maj. Donald A.
Dawson the senior assistant, is in Chi
cago, where his mother is seriously i'll.
Nobody could be found at the Dis
trict Building today who is personally
acquainted with Lieut.. York. Capt.
Dram. a fellow member of the En-
gineer Corps, said that he had never
heard his name mentioned in connec-
tion with the vacancy created by the
sudden transfer of Maj. RObb. Com
missioner Herbert B. Crosby, who re-
tired two years ago as a major gen.
eral in the Army. said that he had
never heard of Lieut.. York.
The assigning of lieutenant to an
important post in charge of the Dis
tricts building activities came as quite
a surprise. This post has usually been
filled by officers ranking as captains
or majors. AS far as can be recalled,
no lieutenant has ever been assigned
as Assistant Engineer Commissioner
before.
Lieut.. Carl Schilling was assigned
last year as an aide to Maj. RObb in
handling the problems of the District S
building program and he is still on
the job.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL
COIN NOT TO BE MINTED
Treasury Announces, However,
New Quarter Dollar Will Bear
Likeness of Washington.

Flooded with inquiries concerning a
Washington Bicentennial commemo-
rative coin. the Treasury Department
today officially denied that there was
any special coin, but explained that
the new design for the regular quarter
dollar will soon be approved, will bear
the likeness of Washington and prob
ably will be in regular circulation
through the banks late in February or
early in March
Strictly speaking, commemorative
coins are always issued for a special
purpose, turned over to an agency IN
charge and sold at a premium, some
times twice their face value The new
quarter dollar will be available only
through the regula channels of cir
culation, the Federal Reserve Banks
and regular banks, and will circulate
at its face value of 25 cents. and not
at premium. The piece will carry
the face of Washington on one side
and a special design on the other.
They will replace the present quarter
dollars, which will no longer be minted
by the Government.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
.BUY-IN-U. S. MEASURE
REPORTED TO HOOVER
Mrs. Kahn Reveals Bill to Have
Government Use American
Materials.
By the Associated Press.


President Hoover was informed today
that legislation to require the Govern
ment to purchase American made
goods-recommend yesterday by the
Chief Executive-already had been in
troduced in Congress.
This information was taken to Mr.
Hoover by Representative Florence P.
Kahn. Republican Of California, author
of the measure. She said the President
was pleased to find such bill had
been introduced and gave it his indorSe-
ment.
Her bill, however would make it man
datory that all Federal branches pur-
chase domestic products rather than
foreign made, while in his letter to the
House Yesterday qualifications as to
reasonable price and quality were sug-
gested by Mr. Hoover.
Reports have piled up on the Chief
Executives desk that some Government
departments were purchasing from
abroad because of low prices, due to
abandonment Of the gold standard by
some European countries.
Mrs. Kahn said she heard the Navy
Department had purchased a consider
able supply of foreign beef and that
many Federal construction projects were
using Belgian cement.
She said arrangements already had
been made to hold hearings on her bill
Evening star., 1932-01-27
SENATE PASSES BILL
ON THEATER SEATING
House VIII Consider Measure to
Assure Public Is Informed of
Standing Room Only

The Carey bill to require theaterS in
the District to give patrons adequate
notice when seats are not available IS
on its way to the House for considera-
ton having passed the Senate yester-
dav afternoon without debate.
The bill in its present form, will not
interfere with the sale Of tickets to per-
sons who wish to stand in the lobby or
in the rear of the theater until seat
is available. but is intended to assure
ticket buyers Of information as to
whether they will have to wait for seats.
The measure also makes it unlawful
for any theater employe knowingly to
give patrons misleading information as
10 the availability of seats. When all
seats are taken on any floor of the
ater. signs to that effect would be dis
PLAYED near the ticket booths, and in
theaters of 1000 or more capacity pub
lie announcements would have to be
made in the lobbies when seats are not
available.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
GAS COMPANY GETS
Until TUESDAY TO
FIX LOWER RATES
Keech Awaits Announcement
of Voluntary Cut Instead
of Filing Petition.
FAVORABLE ACTION
BY BOARD EXPECTED
Pepco and Utilities Body Fail to
Agree on Commercial Electric
Light Reduction.

PEOPLES Counsel Richmond B. Keech
said TODAY he would delay presenting
his petition for reduction in gas rates
in Washington until at least next Tues
day.
This statement followed verbal as
surances from President George A. G.
Wood of the washington Gas Light
Co. that a rate reduction proposition
initiated by the company would have
been acted upon by the Board Of Di-
rectorS at that time.
Keech explained he would prefer to
let the company make reduction vol
unfairly. but that If the new rate sched-
uIe is not filed by Tuesday he would feel
impelled to petition the Public UtlhtleS
Commission to reduce the rates.
New Schedule Prepared.
He added that. in a telephone conver-
sation with Mr.. Wood last night, the
latter had informed him that at the
suggestion of the local management OF
the company. engineers had been work
ing out a new rate schedule for the past
several weeks.
Keech quoted Wood as saying the new
schedule would be presented TO the
Board of Directors not later than Tues
dav and as predicting the action of the
board would be favorable.
Keechs desire to bring about rate
reduction at this time is based prl-
marily on statements made by the gas
company officials, at the time Of rate
changes in October, 1880 that the new
schedule would result in a decrease in
the company's revenues Of 100000 dur
ing 1881.
Increase Shown.
Keech said the company's reports
show this decrease has not taken place,
but that on the contrary, complete
figures for 1881 would probably show
an increase in earnings Of approx
mately S500,000.
The matter of reduced electric rates
for commercial customers Of the Poto-
mac Electric Power Co. remains un-
settled.
Although the commission yeSter-
day established new rates for domestic
consumers, it was found impossible to
arrive at new Set-up Of the compl-
Gated rates governing commercial con-
SumerS.
OficialS Of the commission and the
company are working out these rates.
They are expected to be announced
shortly.
Evening star., 1932-01-27
Commission Incorporation,
Defeated in House Vote,
Will Be Asked Again.
APPROPRIATIONS CURB
MAY BLOCK D. c. BILLS
Mrs. Norton Reads Letter, Signed
by Garner and Rainey, Asking
Few Expenditures.

The House District Committee today
ordered the bill, which already has
passed the Senate, authorizing incor-
poration of the District of Columbia
George Washington Bicentennial Com
mission, redrafted to meet objections
met on the floor last Monday, when
Chairman Norton called this bill up
under unanimous consent.
Speaker Garner had advised that a
new bill on the subject be introduced,
but the committee decided today that to
expedite the enactment of this legiS-
lation, the status of the bill, having
paSSel the Senate, should be preserved
so that the changes made to meet OBJ
JectlonS in the House might be sent to
a conference with the Senate.
The committee discussed amendments
to meet the House objections, and the
corporation counsel will redraft the bill
so that the groundwork will be laid for
a favorable report at the next meeting
OF the House District Committee.
ID. C. Bills May Be Blocked.
Chairman Norton read to the COM
mlttee letter signed by Speaker Gar
ner and House Leader Rainey, Identical
copies of which had been sent to the
chairmen Of all House committees, ask
ing that all legislation recommended to
the House should be held down strictly,
SO no additional appropriations would
be authorized. In this letter the House
leaders said: 1T is our sincere hope
that no bill authorizing additional ap-
preparations will be reported at this
session unless very compelling and
urgent reasons can be shown" District
legislation, apparently blocked by this
prohibition, includes the authorization
OF $4,000 for the Eastern Dispensary
and for Casualty Hospital, Chairman
Nortons bill for old-age pensions and
the Commissioners bill for a training
for policemen and poucewomen.
Evening star., 1932-01-27

Several decades ago Navy admiral,
who was a dilletante art collector on
the side, smuggled strip of canvas
out of Italy. On the homeward voy-
age he locked it in his cabin and per-
sonally guarded it.
Returning to Washington the admi-
raj framed the picture and hung it In
dark hall corner. where it was
pointed out to only the most appre-
Ciative of friends.
That" the admiral would say
probably is the best of my collection.
Visitors duly admired work
wrought in the classic style, dirt
smirched and mottled like many an
other unrecognized, neglected old mas
ter.
When the admiral'S properties were
disposed of after his death the canvas
was purchased by Franklin Barber
Clark noted portrait pairter and ex-
Evening star., 1932-01-27
PAINTING ADMIRAL SMUGGLED
FROM ITALY IS LUCA GIARDANO
Experts Classify Seventeenth Century Canvas Bought for
Song" and Restored by Franklin Barber Clark.

pert on the restoration of paintings.
Clark applied his skill to the reno
vation of the work, was convinced it
came from master hand Specula-
ton attributed the piece to every one
from Rubens to Michelangelo. Had it
been painted by the latter, it would be
the only such work in America.
Yesterday guesSes were Stymied. Ex-
pert opinion classified the canvas as
Luca Giardano, created in the seven
tcenth century, The apparent title,
"Chronos Breaking the Wings of Eros"
was confirmed. Father R. G. Gerrer
of Notr2 Dame, authority on the Ital-
ian masters, painter of an official por-
trait of Pope Plus x, gave the work
progenitor, saying it probably had been
cut out from larger canvas. Thus
was explained the fact one foot is
missing from the figure of Chronos.
MI Clark bought the canvas "for a
song"