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Evening star., 1933-12-30
WAGNER TO RETIRE
AS LABOR UNIT HEAD
Will Remain as Member of Arbi-
tration Board When Replaced
as Chairman.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Wagner of New York will
leave active direction of the National
Labor Board as soon as President Roose-
velt can find a successor, but he ex-
poets to remain associated with the
arbitration unit he helped develop.
The Chief Executive now is looking
for chairman since the congressional
duties of the Senator are expected to
require most of his time after January
8, and the Labor Board has developed
into full-time tribunal with crowd
ed docket.
Wagner, although recognizing the i'm
possibility of handling both jobs, had
associates announce yesterday that he
did not intend to separate himself en-
tirely from the board, even when re-
placed.
Evening star., 1933-12-30

fallen so that when
I reached the scene
of the crime we've
been discussing and
walked across the
long grass of the
unkempt lawn my
ankles were really
wet.
Carefully exam
lining the impress
sion in the grass
W h ere the dead
body of beautiful
Madeline Humbert
had lain for sew
eral hours. 1 picked
up a small 6 oil d
clasp. I then sat
down on q nearby
rock and dried NV
Evening star., 1933-12-30
FIRE DAMAGES STORES
Coney Island Blaze Quickly Con
trolled by Firemen,

BROOKLYN, N. Y, December 30
@.-F1re broke out in a Coney Island
drygoods store early today and for q
time firemen feared 1t would spread to
numerous frame buildings nearby.
Fear Of frozen fire hydrants from the
bitter cold caused f1remen to sound
three alarms Immediately, but they had
little trouble extinguishing the blaze.
Before the fire was under control, how
ever, It had damaged shoe store and
a warehouse.
Evening star., 1933-12-30
DISTRICT MAN URGED
Group Holds Municipal Architect
Should Be Washingtonian.

Recommendation that the new mu-
nicipal architect, to be appointed soon
by the District Commissioners. be select
ed from among qualified Washington
architects was made yesterday by q
committee representing the Building
Trades Employers Association.
The group, consisting of E. ]. Murphy,
e. A. Rule and j. r. Skinker. also urged
on the city heads that whenever possible
all materials and equipment needed for
the civil works program here be pur-
chased in Washington. They also urged
that only residents Of Washington be
employed on C. w. A. work here.
Evening star., 1933-12-30
HEADS COMMISSION
G. s. Ferguson Becomes Chairman
of Federal Trade Body,

The Federal Trade Commission yester-
day designated Commissioner Garland
S. Ferguson, jr, as chairman for 1894.
He will succeed Charles H. March.
Ferguson, a Democrat, appointed BY
President Coolidge in 1927, advanced
to the craftsmanship under rules which
call for rotation of the post among the
commissions membership, each member
being chairman for one year.
Ferguson comes from Greensboro,
N. c., where he was an attorney. As
q member Of the commission he has
been particularly interested in the Sc
curities act.
Evening star., 1933-12-30
SENTENCED TO GALLOWS
Alleged Slayer Will Be Hanged in
California.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 80 [P.
Eddie Anderson. convicted OF killing
Hewlett Tarr, theater cashier, in q hold
up November %. was sentenced by Su-
perior Judge Louis H. Ward yesterday
to hang on San Quenttns gallows next
March
Evening star., 1933-12-30
YEAR END REPORTS
DOUBLEAP. WORK
News Service Market Bureau
Sends Three Tables
in One Day.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 30-While
a large part of the world was starting
of on long New Year week end today
the market department of the Asso-
ciated Press hung out the busy sign
and pitched into the biggest job of its
kind ever undertaken by press service.
Because the last day of the week
and the last business day of the year
coincide the work of an ordinary Sat
urday was doubled for the men and
women who transmit tabulationS of
security transactions to Associated
Press newspapers. Three complete sets
OF tables were on the days schedule
the regular daily report, the weekly
tables and the year end recapitulation.
Altogether some 10000 lines of tabu-
lated matter was involved and as five
groups Of f1gureS-SaleS. high. low, close
and change-are sent on the financial
wires. this meant $4,000 groups. If
printed in single newspaper column
width, the whole report would occupy
about Al columns.
Enough for Novel.
Many newspapers publish their tables
IN double-cOlumn measure, which would
increase the space required to more
than 10 full pages of an ordinary news
paper. This is sufficient reading mat
ter for a long novel. The complete re-
port, of course, is not printed in one
edition Of any newspaper. the weekly
and annual tables being published over
the holiday week end
Fast automatic telegraph machines
which print on gummed tape and the
use of coded forms make possible the
handling Of this tremendous volume Of
tabular matter. Those in charge Of
the transmission expect to have all the
material in the hands of newspapers
by 5 pm. Eastern standard time or
shortly thereafter. despite the fact that
the tables cannot be completed until
after the exchanges close at noon. The
coded forms make it unnecessary for
the telegraph machines to spell out
the names of stocks and bonds. Tho
names are printed on the forms and
the tape pasted in a space opposite
them.
Many Transactions.
The tables report transactions on the
New York Stock Exchange. the New
York Curb Exchange. the Chicago Stock
Exchange and various smaller eX-
changes. Separate tables are sent for
stocks and bonds on the big board" "
The annual recapitulation is nearly
twice as long as an ordinary daily re-
port because some time during the year
there have been transactions in every
one Of the 4,500 securities listed ty the
three exchanges.
Today's record-breaking job was in
the hands of the Associated Press reg
ular crew of trained tabulators and au-
tomato telegraph operators. under the
immediate direction of George A. Wy
Helen RrOu-r0 and K6nneth
Wilde, chief operator of the depart
ment
Evening star., 1933-12-30
THIRD EYE FOUND
Scientists Told Crayfish Has Sight
Organ in Tail.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, December 80
Jp.-The crayfish has an eye In his tail
at the very end Of it. This discovery
was reported to the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Science
yesterday by DR.. C. Ladd Poser Of Har-
ward Medical School. This third eye
sees more slowly than the normal eyes.
How much 1t sees Is not known except
that it can perceive light.
Evening star., 1933-12-30
MI INu TE
Gan You, al
SOIWH~kE

Dr. Fordney Is professor Of eriminol-
osy at famous university. His advice
cities when confronted with particularly
battling cases. This problem, which has
ONLY ONE POSSIBLE SOLUTION. has
been taken from his casebook covering
hundreds of criminal investigations.
Evening star., 1933-12-30
Keeps Job 81 Years,

Aaron Poore. who recently celebrated
his golden wedding. has worked on the
same farm near Winborne, England,
for 81 years.
Evening star., 1933-12-30
Gifts Cost 81. 500. 900.

Gifts cost one big British tobacco
company s7,50o, 900 IN the last year.
Evening star., 1933-12-30

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Evening star., 1933-12-30

parueS?"
A few grins and heavy silence greeted
his remarks, as he continued.
During the night a heavy dew mad
Evening star., 1933-12-30
Glass Day.
BY HI, A. RIPLEY.

IC ONE of you fellows don't look
~ so alert this morning" smiled
Prof Fordney cycling his class
~ In criminology. Whats the
matter? Too many holiday
Evening star., 1933-02-03

Is made easy by the retention Of the
twelve month year.
The defects Of the present calendar
are summarized under six heads. The
basic fault, Of course. is that Of the
disagreement between the astronomical
year and all human effort to measure
time by practical theory. A period Of
365.2422 days simply cannot be equi-
tably organized into usable integrals.
1t is conceded, therefore, that no
utterly ideal calendar ever can be
designed. An approximation is all that
may be hoped for. The twelve-month
scheme certainly has obvious advan-
tages over the thirteen-month arrange
ment proposed by another group of
reformers.
To the average citizen the whole
subject Of calendar correction may
appear to be academic. 1t will be
scientists, statisticians. economists and
research workers who will look with
favor upon any sensible plan for sim
plifying their labors. To most of these
no argument in behalf of the general
idea is necessary. Every man or
woman, dealing with comparative
figures, must have longed for an i'm
provement of the kind indicated.
Life grows increasingly complicated,
and any endeavor to oppose that
tendency deserves support. The goal
Of progress is not chaos, but rather a
more pervasive order. A better calen-
dar would help.
Evening star., 1933-02-03
Calendar Reform.

Presumably calendar reform Is as old
as the calendar itself. Even the earliest
of attempts to measure the months and
days must have had its critics. Ger
tainly, the Gregorian scheme has been
the object of almost continuous agita-
tion, The literature on the subject is
both ponderous and various. Literally
hundreds of persons have indicted its
faults. The diffculty has been that
most of the plans of correction have
been complicated and confusing, con-
Trajectory in character, unscientific IN
detail if not as whole.
The World Calendar Association, New
York, recently has published an at
tractive pamphlet on the subject. Brief
ESSAYS by Rear Admiral Frank B. Up
ham, Rear Admiral w. A. Mofett. Gov.
A. fairy Moore, Henry w. Bearce and
Herbert H. Rapp are included in the
contents. Each Of these writer's attacks
the problem from a different angle. but
all seem to agree in advocating the
adoption Of a world calendar in which
January, April, July and October would
have thirty-one days each. all the other
months thirty days, and a so-called
Year day follow the thirtieth Of Decem-
Der, with a Leap day after the thirtieth
of June in Leap year. This scheme, they
say, "is balanced in structure, perpetual
In form" The first of January, New
Year day, under its provisions. always
would fall on Sunday, and each month
would have twenty-six week days. The
whole year would be subject to equitable
division into four quarters of thirteen
weeks, or ninety-one days. The spon'
sors declare:
The revised twelve-month year in IT.
even quarters conforms to the seasons
recognizing natural laws. Comparison
are easily obtained; changes involved
require minimum of adjustment; ex
penses are not increased for business
and the consumer; religious and secu
lar holidays are stabilized, and tn
Transition from the old to thu new orde
Evening star., 1933-02-03
The Children's
Hour of Horror
From the Chicago Daily News.

From the Chicago Daily News.
Parental complaint is heard against
q surfeit Of blood and thunder in COM
merctal radio programs designed espe-
cially to intrigue juvenile interest. Many
letters on the subject have reached the
Daily News from disturbed mothers.
Parent-teacher associations are discus
sing the effect of that sort Of mental
diet on child minds. An adult revolt
seems to be brewing.
1t IS alleged that at the twilight hour,
when 8-year-old Jimmy tunes in, the
serenity Of the home Is assailed by
raucous growls Of desperate hoodlums.
shrill screams Of terrified victims. rattle
OF gunflre and groans of the dying. In
an atmosphere shivery with stealthy
plotting and sanguinary with violent
deeds, the temperature of Jimmys i'm
agination rises to fever heat. Later
he kicks of the bedclothes and arouses
his slumbsring parents with yells of
nightmare panic.
Girls Of tender years, no less than
boys, have developed taste for the
radio successor of the dime novel, They
listen with gasps Of creepy fascination
to blood-curdling drama that, by vocal
and initiative sound, carries intenser
thrill and horror than does the printed
WORD.
Theorists will differ as to the harm
full effect such entertainment may have
on the immature, beyond a temporary
overstimulation and a crowding out of
better provender for thought and
emotion. It is certain, however, that,
although it may profit the sponsors of
the programs. 1t contributes nothing
desirable to the mental equipment Of
the child; and if 1t alienates adult ap-
proval obviously 1t will not long profit
the sponsors.
1t is to be regretted that material of
SO dubious a sort should be used when
there is so vast a reservoir of heroic
deed and stirring adventure, of whim-
sical fancy and magic wonder, on
which to draw for childrens programs.
In days when crime is social problem
of first magnitude. feeding crime thrills
as leisure time enjoyment to infant
minds is surely to be deprecated, and
good homes are justified in resenting
an invasion of the undesirable, so easily
made and SO difficult to prevent. More
over. to provoke such resentment
scarcely can be wise business policy.
Evening star., 1933-02-03
Interstate Tax Conference,
the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

From the New Orleans Times -Picayune.
The first interstate conference on
taxation will be held in Washington
next Friday and Saturday, under the
auspices of the American Legislators
Association. Its primary purpose is the
study of ways and means 20 reorganiZe
taxation in the United States on
sounder fairer and more bearable basis.
1t will consider among other things,
the always troublesome and now men,
acing problem of double taxation. We
discussed the associations plans for
this conference in December, when they
were outlined in its official publication.
State Government. Its Organization
Committee received Endorsements Of
the project from many State executives,
including the then Governor Of New
York. who enters the White House next
March. The call for the meeting next
week followed their approval and as
surances Of hearty cooperation.
The Senates and Houses of Repre-
sentatives of all the States have been
asked to name delegates from their
own respective memberships. Each
Governor is asked to send as his repre-
sentative one or more of the principal
fiscal officers" of his State. The con-
ference and its leaders will be in close
touch with representatives Of the Fed
eral Congress. There will grow out OF
the meeting. it is hoped. permanent
organization to carry on the fight for
an equitable and bearable tax system,
with Federal. State and local levies
properly co-ordinated.
The movement is admirably timed A
subcommittee of the Federal House has
just submitted its report on the evils
Of double taxation. The American peo-
pie are tax conscious" as never before
and militant in their protests against
tax excesses expressions and abuses
The incoming President openly advo-
Gates "a better synchronized Federal,
State and local taxing system" If a
constructive and equitable plan of solu-
ton can be worked out and agreed upon
now. while public opinion is alert and
there is vigorous Nation wide demand
therefor. it NAV win much speedier
adoption bv National and State legisla-
tors than itS advocates have dared until
recept1v n hOpo for or ov,oy, droov, of
Evening star., 1933-02-03
A North American Alliance

from the New YORK Sun.
Although there are obvious obstacles
to the formation of continental union
consisting of Canada, Mexico and the
United States, which is suggested by j.
A. Velenzuela, the Mexican consul in
Pittsburgh, the thought behind the sug-
gestion is interesting, and its mere dis
cussion would have the advantage of
bringing into stronger relief the practi-
cability of self-Sustenance by the north
ern subdivision of the American conti-
nent The three nations are capable
Of producing practically everything that
is required to supply the necessaries
and luxuries Of life. Their disclosed
natural resources would make them in
dependent of other lands If the energy
Of their peoples were directed to at
tainment Of this end: what lies beneath
the soil within their unexplored or
jurisdiction no man can guess.
It has long been the policy Of the
United States to encourage the purpose
Of Bolivar looking toward hemispherical
cooperation. Since Blaine made his
distinguished contribution to this object
the Pan-American Union has been an
increasingly potent factor in the elimi-
nation Of misunderstanding and the
propagation Of good will. Canada, as q
dominion Of q foreign power, was and
Is ineligible to membership in the union.
which Is composed Of the republics of
the three Americas; what its develop
ment as q member Of the newly ordered
British political establishment may
bring about is question not now to
be answered.
Outside of the Pan-American Union,
there have been several associations Of
American republics. an example of
which Is that formed by the Central
American nations, which, binding them
selves not to recognize within their
jurisdiction governments set up by revo-
luton or unconstitutional methods,
maintained this attitude consistently
for years, until the unrest of the present
disturbed times has led some Of them
to move to end It. It Is easy to say
that, because of the present movement
to terminate this compact, it has failed,
but this Judgment should not be ac-
cepted ofihand, for the good the treaty
has done must not be overlooked. It
was q bold experiment, and from its
operation valuable lessons are to be
learned.
Evening star., 1933-02-03
Hitler on the Job.

Chancellor Hitler is no Stacker. He
has been on the job only four days. but
has already dissolved the Reichstag
decreed new elections for March S,
ordered the Communist party to desist
from public meetings and put a curb
on Social Democratic manifestations
In one of his spare moments the new
chancellor broadcast to the nation q
denunciation of the revolution which
dethroned the Hohenzollerns and es-
tablished the republic In 1918. More
than fourteen years have passed" the
NaN chieftain thundered, since the
unhallowed day when, daxzled by prom
Evening star., 1933-02-03
Zoo Ground Hog Not
A True FOrecaster
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Please do not try to run In on U.S.
q Zoo ground hog as a weather prophet.
Being q prisoner, he is not at liberty
to give evidence Of his own free will.
He can not be expected to produce an
untrammeled and unfettered progllos-
tication when all weather people are
wondering whether Mr.. Woodchuck will
storm and splutter for the next six
weeks or spring gentle Spring upon
us before Winter has wandered on its
way.
No. sirl To get . genuine weather
prediction you must go out in the
country and find q free and independ-
ent ground hog-one as unconfined In
his ways ard doings as the birds of
the air.
But you can not get a weather pre-
diction from a ground hog this year.
No, sir! On account Of the depres-
sion, the ground hog is so thin that it
takes two Of those animals to cast a
shadow!
Yes, sirl JOSEPH w. CHEYNEY.
Evening star., 1933-02-03

liam Conley Of West Virginia. The del
egates consist for the most part Of
members OF State Legislatures, and their
purpose IN convening at the National
Capital Is to evolve ways and means
for avoiding conflicting taxation" by
the Federal and State Governments
The prime mover in the conference,
called by the American Legislators As
sociation, is its founder, former State
Senator Henry w. Toll of Colorado
Gov. Roosevelt has given the confer
ence his formal blessing.
x X x
Pacifism and militarism are repre-
sented in at least one American family
Miss Dorothy Deter, live-wire moving
spirit of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, at
Washington, which would scrap all
armies and navies, has a brother who
is an officer In the United States Navy
x X + X
Perhaps when President Hoover de-
livers his ''valedictory" before the Ma
tional Republican Club of New York
on Lincoln's birthday anniversary, to be
celebrated this year on February 13
the retiring Chief Executive will learn
Of movement, originating in Manhat-
tan, to adopt national Hoover day"
The suggestion emanates from G. o. p
admirers of the President in New York
and Is being propagandized by the chief
York Herald Tribune. Among the
various ideas projected Is that Mr
Hoover's birthday. August 10, be made
the day to be celebrated In his honor
Another thought is that March 3, "the
last full day on which Herbert Hoover
will serve our country during the
present administration" would be ap-
propriate.
Mrs. Margaret Sanger, invincible
chairman Of the National Committee on
Federal Legislation for Birth Control, IS
preparing for q last-ditch fight on the
movements behalf. Leaders rejoice
that their bill has now scored the far
thest legislative advance yet made-the
fact that 1t has reached the Senate
Judiciary Committee. for q vote. Mrs.
Sangers exaltation is tempered by the
fact that Of the two members Of the
subcommittee reporting out the bill one
was for IL and one against. The birth
controllers are bent upon getting Sem
ator Norris full Judiciary Committee to
consider the measure before the expi-
ration of the present Congress. Sena-
tor Hastings, Republican, Of Delaware
Is the chairman Of the subcommittee
and responsible for the favorable re-
port, which Is the result Of hearings on
the bill last May.
Eddie" Toland, brilliant young men,
Der Of the District Of Columbia Bar
and law partner Of Bill" Leahy, who
has Just won an epoch making prohi-
bition case before the United States
Supreme Court, may not know his
Hebrew classics, but he ought to realize
now that there's. something in name.
The Supreme Court, through majority
opinion rendered by Justice Brandeis
has practically wiped out the l2-mile
limit. The case around which the de-
cision revolves was the seizure two
years ago of the British vessel Mazel
Tow. "Mazel Tov" in Hebrew means
good luck"
Copyright, 1881