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Evening star., 1933-02-11
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HOUSE ON MONDAY
Rainey Fixes ''District Day"
for Study of Various Lo.
cal Measures.

Twenty-Five bills affecting the District
Of Columbia await House consideration
Monday. House Leader Rainey has set
aside that day as District day.
These measures include: A correc-
ton to be made in phraseology of the
street railway merger bill; protection
for the District Government by requir-
ing notice within a specified time after
an accident, as result of which a suit
against the District is to be filed; regu-
lation OF the sale of securities;
authorizing of repairs to Casualty
Hospital; regulation of small loans;
permits to allow amateur boxing;
amendment Of the teachers salary act;
permit for a sale of District property
on Brothers place southeast; amend
ment of the estate and lost property
law, so the property clerk may dispose
of articles held after three months in
stead of six months; provision for a
board to license electricians; authoriz-
ing of the sale of the old Potomac
School property on Twelfth street
southwest; provision for quarterly pay
ment of taxes with notice to home
owners; correction of the insurance law
on corporations with a 1la per cent
tax to clear up legal controversy;
amendment of the act regarding en-
ployment of minors: incorporation Of
the big brothers and big sisters move
ment; making specific exception under
the law covering degree -conferring
institutions; making specific excep-
ton regarding income of charitable
institutions; exempting from taxation
property of the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Colonial Danes and the
Daughters of 1872; provision Of relief
for Jenny Bruce Callahan. and provis-
ion for reappointment OF George N.
Nicholson as policeman.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
DEE TO Be BROUGHT
HERE FOR TRIAL
Detective to Leave for Miami
to Take Alleged Bank
Bandit.

Detective Sergt. Floyd Truscott was
to leave here shortly for Miami, Fla,
to bring back Edward A. Dee, under
arrest there on, charge Of having
participated in the attempted hold-up
last October 81 Of the Washington
Mechanics Savings Bank, 34o1 Con-
necticut avenue.
A warrant charging Dee with par
ticipation in the hold-up attempt was
issued by United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage about two months
ago. Truscott obtained the warrant.
he said, after employees Of the bank
had identified photograph OF Dee.
Dee. according to Associated Press
reports from Miami, was arrested on a
charge involving woman, set forth
in bill of criminal information filed
by the Dade County solicitors ofice.
Following his arrest. 1t was learned
he was wanted by. Washington police.
and he was turned over to the sheriff
pending the arrival Of Truscott.
Of detectives. has asked Miami police
to search for three other men believed
to have gone there with Dee
The attempted hold-up was frustrated
by William E. Matthews, 21-year-old
teller, who stepped on tear gas device
instead Of complying with the bandits
commands. Matthews dropped to the
floor behind the counter as q bullet
from the bandit leaders gun whizzed
past his head. With tear gas rushing
from jets in all parts of the bank, the
bandits fed. Their automobile was
found abandoned a short time later.
Dee, who. according to Inspector
Burke. has been arrested several times
In connection with similar crimes in
and near his home town. Philadelphia.
was questioned some time ago in con-
nection with other bank robberies here.
He Is IS.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
GRADUATES OF D. C.
SCHOOLS HONORED
90 Out of SO American q. Stu.
dents Honered Attended
Institutions Here.

Twenty-Five graduates of Washington
High Schools are among the 80 students
OF the College of Liberal Arts of Amer
lean University who were awarded
semester honors at assembly yesterday
by Dean George B. Woods. The honors
were awarded on the basis of scholastic
attainments for the first semester of
this year. with higher standing re-
quired for the upper classmen than for
freshmen and sophomores.
The graduates from local high schools
nonored today are as follows: Martin
Aliwne, Elwood Backentoss, Mrs. Gene
We've Blew, George Barber, Catherine
Church, Kirkley Coulter, Jane Esch.
Alice Louise Ford, Henrietta Goodner.
Margaret Hedgcock, Georgeanna Hid
Anne King, Dorothy Kirsch. Sara Mot
ley, Nell Moon, Helen Nordlinger. PAUL
me Pariseau, George Sanderlin. Meta
Scantlin, Esther Smith. Joseph SUM-
mers and Mary Lesta Wakeman.
Honors were awarded to the following
out-of-town students: Kathryn Brown
Margaret Coe, Scott Champion, Marjorie
Cowles, Harold Harbaugh, Robert Mar
Gus, Katherine Reuter-, Lawrence Rice
Myron Simpson. Kathleen Smith, Mar,
garet Spiller and Melvin wheatley.
These students are distributed bv
classes as follows: Freshmen, 8: scpho-
mores, l3; Juniors, 4, and seniors, 8.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED
FOR SEWER PROJECTS
Five Jobs to Be Completed for Dis
trict at Total Cost
of $15,244.

Contracts for construction of five
sewer projects in the District, having
total cost of $l5,244, were awarded yes
terday by the District Commissioners
at their bi-weekly board session.
The M. Cain Co., Inc. Of Washing
ton. was awarded a contract for the
building of a replacement sewer under
Eye street, between Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh streets. The company
submitted the low bid of $6,07l for this
work.
Contract for the construction OF re-
placement sewer under Nineteenth
street, between Eye and L, was awarded
to James Parreco & Son, Washington,
which company submitted bid of
1851.
The three remaining projects will be
executed by the r. D. Schlegel Co.,
Bethesda, Md The company submitted
bid of $l,S70 for laying a service
sewer under North Dakota avenue, be-
tween Peabody and Quackenbos streets;
81 ,099 for construction of a sanitary
sewer under Klingle street. between
Fifty-first place and Weaver terrace
and $2,623 for laying a service sewer
under Piney Branch road. between
Georgia avenue and Van Buren, street
Evening star., 1933-02-11
SCRUTINY IS URGED
|NcONDEMNAT|ONS
House Appropriation Group
Head Asks Selection of
Juries With Care.

Chairman Cannon Of the House Sub
committee on Appropriations, 1t was
disclosed today, has urged the District
Supreme Court carefully to scrutinize
the selection OF juries in condemnation
cases
The request followed Mr.. Cannon's
complaint during recent hearings on
the 1884 District budget that an award
by q condemnation jury in the Jeffer-
son Junior High School case consti-
tuted highway robbery"
Believes Award Reasonable.
~Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat, it
was revealed in the transcript of his
testimony before the subcommittee, ex-
pressed the belief that as a rule the
awards Of the condemnation juries had
not been excessive
IT recall q statement that was at
tributed some years ago to one Of the
of1cials of local street car company"
said Mr.. Cannon. at was before the
days when they used the coin boxes
and you paid your fare to the con-
ductor He said that he did not object
to the conductor knocking down sufi-
cient to buy lunch for himself and his
motorman at the end Of the line, but
that he did object when the conductor
bought house and lot every month.
Asks Close Scrutiny.
"Now. do not think we would OBJ
ject so strenuously, possibly, when
these juries make an award to a man
giving him a bonus of so, rs or 100
per cent more than his property Is
really worth, but we do object when
they begin to take the bottom out of
the United States Treasury; and I
hope that the court will scrutinize very
the selection of these juries-
there Is where the difficulty Is; there
Is something wrong about it-that they
VIII scrutinize very carefully the selec-
ton OF these juries with q view to
getting class of men who will be at
least halfway fair"
The subcommittee discussed In de-
tail with Justices Wheat and Jesse C.
Adkins the method Of selecting con-
demnation juries and both agreed that
it was wrong. Justice Adkins pointed
out that steps already had been taken
to get Congress to authorize a new
system In a bill now before the Senate
District Committee providing for the
appointment Of jury commission with
a full-time snlaried chairman.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
Three LOCAL BILLS
REPORTED IN SENATE
Measures Include That Fixing
Time for Notice of Suits
Against City.

Three bills amending existing laws of
the District were reported to the Sem
ate yesterday by the District Commit
tee. Senator Grammer, Republican, of
Washington, filed report on the bill
fixing the time within which persons
must give notice of suits against the
Municipal Government.
Chairman Capper- filed a report on
the bill to define in substantive law the
standards for the teachers colleges of
the District school system and to give
trade and vocational schools the rating
of junior high schools The chairman
also reported bill amending existing
law defining the duties of property clerk
of the Police Department.
The Senate yesterday passed a bill
broadening the powers of the District
health officer over the exhumation of
bodies and their transfer from one
cemetery to another This measure
will avoid the necessity of having Con-
gress pass separate bills from time to
time in specific cases.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
TAX SALES BRING
LITTLE REVENUE
Produce Smallest Receipts in Five
Years, Donovan Report
Shows.

Sale of properties in the District last
month for non-payment of taxes pro-
(duced the smallest amount of receipts
lof any of the last five years, accord
4 ing to report submitted to the District
Commissioners yesterday by Maj. Daniel
j. Donovan, District auditor.
Only 10 per cent of the properties
offered for tax sale in notices published
December IA were purchased by private
interests, in the sales conducted by the
District collector Of taxes, Chatham
Towers, on January 10 to l8, and the
remainder were bought in by the Dis
trict itself, the auditors report shows
In the tax sale last month. 2,089
pieces Of property were sold to 40 pur-
chasers for S270,093, the auditor re-
ported. In the first notice of that sale,
published December last, 27,000 prop
critics were advertised for sale, and in a
second notice, on December IA last,
10000 properties were listed.
In January, 1882, 2,784 pieces of
property were sold to &c purchasers for
$379,753. In January 1881, 5,170 prop
critics were sold to 48 purchasers for
S667 243. In January, 1890. 8297 prop
critics were sold to 48 purchasers for
1887, 7,l44, and in January, 1929. 7.160
properties were sold to 49 purchasers
for S800,330.
The data was compiled by George H.
kidwell, field examiner of the Office of
the District auditor.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
URGED FOR INSTALLATION
OF RADIOS IN EVERY PRECINCT
Value Stressed by Commissioner Crosby and Supt Brown
at Budget Hearing.

Funds for installation of radio loud
speakers in every police precinct station
house were urged by Police Commis-
sioner Crosby and Supt. of Police
Brown during recent hearings On the
1884 District budget before the House
Subcommittee on Appropriations.
A section of the transcript of the
hearings. released today by Chairman
Cannon, showed that Commissioner
Crosby and Maj. Brown, both stressed
the value Of radio in police work, and
pointed out that loud speakers in sta
ton houses, would keep every precinct
informed of developments at head
quarters. The plan under consideration
is to have the speakers connected by
telephone lines to the broadcast panel
Of the transmitting station. Otherwise,
each station house would have to be
equipped with q short-wave receiving
set.
Maj Brown told the committee that
37,447 messages were flashed out from
the Police Department radio station In
Evening star., 1933-02-11

1882. and that minutes was the aver
age time for police car to reach the
scene of trouble
Restoration of the old Fourth Pre-
cinct Station in Southwest Washington.
which is now consolidated with No. 5
IN southeast, was recommended by Po-
lice Inspector Albert j. Headley. His
request followed q petition from resi-
dents Of Southwest Washington. who.
said they are not getting adequate po-
lice service.
Inspector Headley disclosed that the
present fourth precinct has a popula-
tion OF 66,4l4, as compared with % ,965
in the old fourth precinct He said he
believed this to be "a considerable re-
sponsibility for one captain to assume"
A change In the system of selecting
jurors was advocated by Chief Justice
Wheat of the District Supreme Court
He said the present procedure is archa-
ic and inadequate. and recommended
employment of a regular salaried jury
commission with the power to issue
subpoenas.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
COL0RED MAN is HELD
IN PURSE SNATCHING
Prisoner Trailed to Hcme by Pass
erby-Microscopes Worth $500
Stolen From G. w. u. Locker.

Third precinct police today were
holding colored man for investigation
IN connection with a pocketbook
snatching last night on Sixteenth street
after he had been trailed to his homo
in the 1900 block of Fifteenth street by
o passerby, who notified police.
The man under arrest identified him
self as Howard Dawson, 80 He was
trailed by H. P. Spears, 431 Ninth
street.
The pocketbook containing 81, was
snatched from Blanche Healey, 100
block Of Sixteenth street, while she was
at Sixteenth and Caroline streets,
police were told.
Thefts of articles, totaling $50, in
three instances, also were reported to
police.
Charles Merry. superintendent of
buildings at George Washington Uni
versity, reported two microscopes,
valued at $500, were stolen from a
locker in the building at 2025 @ street.
Liquors and cigarettes, valued at $3.50,
were stolen from drug store at 1864
Wisconsin avenue by some one who
entered through a transom. Fifty
dresses, valued at 5000, were reported
taken from a dress shop in the 1900
block Of Fourteenth street.
Evening star., 1933-02-11

materials may be possible. OF course,
1t would be much more expensive than
obtaining the oil readymade from the
earth. The Geological Survey chem
lists are chiefly interested in the light
thrown by the experiments on the ac-
tual process Of petroleum formation.
Specific Gravity Measured.
Among the difficulties in the past
has been that Of determining whether
petroleum came from sediments of an
cient sea bottoms or beaches. The oils
from dead sea animals are light and
float on the surface. It has been hard
to understand how in the distant past
they got to the bottom of the sea and
were kept there. The alternative has
been the formation of these sediment
ary deposits on the ancient beaches.
The accidental discovery of this pc
culiar substance from the disintegrated
herring ship shows that they actually
become bound up with heavier mineral
substances in the sea water itself in a
comparatively short time. Very careful
measurements Of the specific gravity of
the substance were made. 1t was
found that it was just heavy enough
to sink to the bottom under ordinary
circumstances
A dificulty with making deductions
from the results Of the investigation
is uncertainty about the origin Of the
substance, for which the Geological
Survey chemists have only the reports
of the finders. They have been unable
to find exactly how long ago the her
ring ship sank or the condition of the
water.
In any event, they believe results
have been brought about in a total
lapse of considerably less than a half
century very similar to those which
were supposed to have required geo.
logical ages.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Dance, Curley Club, Continental
Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner dance, Delta Theta Phi Legal
Fraternity, Broadmoor. 9 pm.
Supper dance, Beta Chi Sorority
Shoreham Hotel, 10 pm.
Valentine masque dance, Reunion AS
sociation, Junior o. u. A. M. Masonic
Temple, Fourteenth and U streets
southeast, pm.
Banquet, Washington College of Law
Mayhower Hotel, 1880 pm.
Banquet, Educational Association of
the District, Mayhower Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Dinner dance. League of Coast Guard
Women, Mayfiower Hotel. $3.50 pm.
Dinner. Military Order of the Carabao.
Willard Hotel, 1880 pm.
Dinner dance, Sigma Pi Esther Chan
ter, No. 5, Past Matrons and Patrons.
o. E. S., Willard Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Dinner dance. Alpha Delta Sigma
Fraternity, Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Dance. Joseph H. Milans Lodge Chap
ter. No. Al, o. E. s., Masonic Temple,
Rhode Island and Mills avenues north
east. $50 pm.
Card party and dance. Trinity Chap
ter, 0. z. Roosevelt Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
ORATORY CONTEST
ADVISERS NAMED
Students Planning to Take
Part Begin Study of
Constitution.

With the second semester in the Dis
trict public schools settled in its regu-
lar routine, the active participation of
the high school students In the Tenth
National Oratorical Contest, which is
sponsored here by The Evening Star, is
definitely under way.
Students are beginning their research
into subjects pertaining to the Consti-
tuition of the United States so they
may prepare their orationS with a view
to increasing interest in and respect for
1t. This work in each school Is being
directed by faculty committees under
the guidance of the respective school
principals.
Committees Announced.
The school oratorical contest commit
tees were announced today as follows:
Central High Scf1ooEDr. Harvey A..
Smith, principal; Miss Hester McNally,
chaiman; Miss Charlotte harrington,
Miss Grace johnson, Miss Alace Du-
breuil. Miss Sara Lynch, Miss Dorothea
Sherman, Mrs. Lola Hutchins, and Miss
Edith Kojouharof.
Eastern High School Charles E.
Hart, principal Mrs. May C. NORM,
chairman Miss Marian v. Hummer.
Miss Louise Moore, Mrs. Lola Hall, and
Charles c. Guilford.
Mckinley High School-Frank C..
Daniel, principal; Miss Gertrude DON
naly, chairman; Mrs Mabel Martin.
Mrs. Aileen Frazier, and Miss Louise
Kingsley.
Roosevelt High School-Allan Davis,
principal: Miss Cora McCarty. chair
man: Mrs. Edna Smith, Miss Mar
guerite Donnally. Mrs. Merwin Mace.
and Miss Alace McCauley.
Set-up at Western.
Western High School-Dr. Elmer S.
Newton, principal; Miss Isabel Pickett,
chairman; Miss Rose Stutz, Miss Clara
Stutz, Miss Sue Gardner, Miss Alice
Wood, and Miss Elizabeth Dessez.
Armstrong High School-G. David
Houston. principal; j. B. Hunter, chair
man; Mrs. E. B. Howard, Mrs. E. w.
Smith, C. M. Thomas and c. o.
Planchet
Cardoza High School-R. M. Mat
tingly, principal; Mrs. H. M. Skinner.
chairman; Miss Ruth A. Weatherless,
Miss M. OH. Williamson and Mrs.
Louise Lovett.
Dunbar High School-W L. Smith.
principal; Miss Lillian S. Brown. chair
man; Mrs. H. o. jackson. Mrs. /. M.
Davis, Mrs. j. NJ Harley, D. B. Good
loe ana c. S Snippen.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
DAMAGES AWARDED
Potter Family Collect From Insur-
ance Auto Which Struck Them.

A jury in District Supreme Court
Yesterday returned verdicts for $4,000
in favor of Lois Potter. 4. and $4,000
for her father. D. w. Potter, 1924
Quincy street. for injuries received by
the child when struck by an automobile
OF the Hartford Accident and Indem-
nifty Co.. 925 Fifteenth street.
They were represented by Attorneys
Welch, Daily and Welch.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia--Partly cloudy
and colder tonight, minimum tenn
perature about IS degrees; tomorrow
fair and colder: moderate west and
northwest winds
Maryland-Partly cloudy and colder
tonight. possibly snow flurries in the
mountains; tomorrow fair and colder.
Virginia-Partly cloudy and colder
tonght> and tomorrow.
West Virginia-Partly cloudy and
colder tonight, possibly snow fiurries in
northeast portion; tomorrow fair and
slightly colder.
Outlook for February 13 to February Is.
North ard Middle Atlantic States
Snbw in north and snow or rain in
south portion Tuesday night or We'd
nesday and again about Friday: Cold
at beginning of week, not so cold Tues
day. colder Wednesday night or
Thursday, not so cold toward end of
week.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
DR.. COOPER HONORED
U. s. Commissioner Invited to Din
ner by Education Association.

ner by Education Association.
The District Education Association
Will honor Dr. William John Cooper,
u. S. Commissioner of Education. at a
dinner tonight at the Mayfiower Hotel.
The dinner, to begin at $50 o'clock,
marks the fourth anniversary of DR..
Cooper's induction into office.
Speakers will include Chairman Mary
Norton of the House District Commit
tee, and DIR. Joseph Roster. president
of the National Education Association.
Dr.. Harold e. Warner. president of the
District Education Association, will pre-
side.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
German Leader Dead.

BERLIN, February IL (P.-Dr Carl
Heinrich Becker, 56, former Prussian
minister Of education, died last night
Of pneumonia,
Evening star., 1933-02-11

FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
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Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
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Weather In Various Cities.
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The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Automobile lights must be turned on
oEe-half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1933-02-11
River Report.
port for Last "a Hours.

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
rlaar todov
Henderson daily dispatch., 1933-12-15
Shaping of Federal Policy
Depends on Supreme
Courts Ruling Now
Sought
ACTION ORIGINATED
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Judge Hayes Held Since
Prohibition Had Beeen Re-
pealed, Defendants Could
Not Be Punished for Vic
latirg Statute That Had
Been Eliminated

Washington. Dec. 15.-(AP)- The
government today sought an early
decision by the Supreme Court on a
case to shape Federal policy in hant
ling prohibition litigation.
Solicitor General J. Crawford Biggs
asked the court to review on January
IS n case from North Carolina. in
which two mon were discharged on
tho g"ound the eighteenth amendment
had been repealed.
The decision was delievered by
Judge Johnson j. Hayes i'll the middls
district of North Carolina. The de
PENDANTS were charged with con-
spiracy to violate and with actual
violation of the national prohibition
law.
Judge Hayes took the position that
repeal of statute pending a prose-
orrion FOR an offense which it Greats
stops all prosecution and deprived the
COATS OF authority to impose SEN
tence even though the defendants
were convicted.
Rvrltm Gibson and Claude Cham
! bers. Guilford county men, were the
defendants. Chambers pleaded guilty
TO the indictment. but when brought
10 trial last December filed appeal III
abatement in which he objected to
the court entering a sentence against
him on the ground the eighteenth
amendment had been repealed. Gibson
demurred to the indictment on tn
ground it did not state an offense be-
cause the eighteenth amendment had
been repealed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1933-12-15
But Will Hamper Business as
Little AS Possible, Sec.
retary Morgen-
thau Saws
RATES WILL AWAIT
BUDGETCOMPLETION
Principle of Committees
Plan Is Approved By Trea-
sury Head, However, High.
er Surtaxes Would Be Lev
led on Large Incomes In
Coming Year

Washington, Dec. 15.-(AP)-De-
claration of the administration inten~
ton to plug ''any loopholes," but ham,
per business as little as possible, Act
ing Secretary Morgenthau today re-
commended drastic revision of the in
come tax laws before the House WAYS
and Means Committee.
The Treasury head, appearing for
the first time before a congressional
committee in that capacity, withheld
his recommendation on specific in
come tax rates. The budget must be
completed he indicated. before the
rate is named.
At the same time however, he ap-
proved the principle of the commit
tees plan. The House group suggested
that, intead of the present four per-
cent on the first $4,000 of net income
and eight percent on the balance,
there be single four percent rate.
Increased SurtaXes would be levied on
large incomes.
Reading only the high spots Of his
suggestions before turning over the
exposition Of details to Professor Rose
well McGill, Treasury tax expeM, Nor
genthau made no estimate of how
much the government might gain
from rewriting the income tax law.
Aides indicated. however the Trea-
sury felt the return would be nearer
100000 900 than the committees estl-
mate of $27O,OOO,OOO.