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Evening star., 1933-01-18
AGREEMENT NEAR
ON NELECTR|C RATES
Pepco and Commission Ex-
pected to End Differences
at Session Today.

An agreement on the electric power
rate negotiations between the Public
Utilities Commission and the Potomac
Electric Power Co. is looked for at the
third session of the commission and
power company officials, scheduled for
3 pm. today
An all-day conference was held
Monday and a th-ee-hour session yes
terday in an effort to find some way to
end litigation now going on and effect
a reduction of rates.
Plans Are Exchanged.
1t is believed the parties are near
an accord having reached the stage of
exchanging written plans for getting
out of court and settling the new rates.
The present rates were arranged as
a temporary expedient last February,
designed to reduce the power company's
profits by $860000 per annum and to
last until the Court of Appeals could
settle controversy over the commits
sion's act in setting aside a decree of
Equity Court signed in December. 1924.
by which electric rates had been an
nually adjusted up to last year.
Last month the commission opened
negotiations by asking for an agree
ment for further reduction while the
litigation is in progress.
Huge Costs Foreseen.
The present state of the negotiations,
however, Is understood to contemplate
a winding up of the court case by
agreement and an immediate reduction
OF rates BY such step both sides
would save thousands of dollars in costs
incidental to litigation.
Peoples Counsel Richmond B. Keech
has announced he will not approve any
settlement which does not acknowledge
the commissions right to have set aside
the 1924 consent decree, and the COM
mission is believed to support him On
this point.
Evening star., 1933-01-18

BY the Associated Press.
r OLLYWOOD. Calf, January
18-Two of Hollywood's for
eign-born actresses, Marlene
i i Dietrich and Maureen O'Sul-
livan, today announced their
intention of saying farewell to the film
colony.
Miss Dietrich. who has had consid-
cradle trouble with her studio over Sc
lection of stories. as well as a director
for her productions, said she would
leave next Spring for her native Ger
many to join her husband, Rudolph
Sieber. German film director. She gave
a farewell party for Sieber, returning
to Germany after brief visit with his
Evening star., 1933-01-18
HOOVER AGAIN DEFIES
NOMINATION EDICT
President Nominates Henry F
Holthusen as Minister to
Czechoslovakia.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Again defying the edict Of Senate
Democrats that they would oppose rati-
fication of any appointment sent to the
Senate by the President, Mr. Hoover
yesterday forwarded the nomination of
Henry Frank Holthusen. New York
lawyer, to be the new American Min
ister to CZechoslovakia
Hcithusen is a graduate Of Colum-
bia University and the Columbia Uni
versity Law School, and was associated
before the war with the law Office of
Cadwalader, Wickersham g. Taft En-
tering the Army as lieutenant. he
was promoted to the post of major
After the armistice he served for time
as judge advocate of maritime affairs
at New York and later at Hampton
Roads, Va.
Holthusen also served for a while as
special assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral, and more recently has acted as
counsel in the United States for the
Latvian and Esthonian governments.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
MOSELEY TO TAKE
GEN. DRUMS POST.
Deputy Chief of Staff and
Corps Commander to
Exchange Duties.

Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley,
deputy chief of staff of the Army. and
Maj Gen. Hugh A. Drum. commander
of the 5th Corps Area, Fort Hayes,
Ohio, are to exchange commands.
Gen. Moseley is being relieved auto
matically, after four years, from his
general staff duties at the War Depart
ment on February % and will return
to active troop duty at Fort Hayes. The
deputy chief of staff. who has been Gen.
Douglas MacArthurs right-hand man
since September, 1880, will not leave
Washington Immediately, but will re-
main on temporary duty in Gen. Mac
Arthur's Office for at least month
after his relief occurs.
Prior to being appointed deputy
chief of staff. Gen. Moseley served as
executive officer for the Assistant Sec
retary of War.
Filled Two Posts.
During the absence of Gen. Mac
Arthur in Europe recently. and during
much of the presidential campaign,
Gen. Moseley filled the dual role OF
acting Secretary of War and acting
chief of staff
His record of So years in the Army
has been one of the most distinguished
Of the general staff officers. Before the
World War he was member OF the
commission which prepared report on
reorganization of the United States
land forces. which was incorporate7 by
President Taft in message to Con-
gress. He served on the Mexican border
in 1916 and during the World War was
chief of the fourth section of the Gen.
eral Staff of the A. E. F. In recogni-
ton of his services during the war he
was awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal and was decorated by Belgium,
Great Britain, France and Italy.
After the armistice Gen. Moseley con-
Quoted the negotiations with the Meth
erlands which opened the Rhine for
supplies and eventually for the evacu-
alton of the Army of Occupation in
Germany He also served with distinc-
ton on mission to the Near East.
Served Along Border.
Before coming to Washington for his
last tour of duty, he had served again
along the Mexican border
His successor as deputy chief of staff,
Gen. Drum, was appointed to the Regu-
lar Army from civil life in 1898. Like
Gen. Moseley, he is a graduate of the
various Army service schools and served
along the Texas border and at Vera
Cruz as assistant chief of staff to Maj
Gen. F. D. Funston.
During the World War, he served a
year at general headquarters of the
A. E. F. and thereafter through pc
riod of active operations under Gen.
Pershing in the st. Mihiel offensive and
later under Lieut.. Gen. Hunter Liggett
He became chief of staff of the service
OF supply in April. 1919.
After the war Gen. Drum was de-
tailed to Washington in 1928 as as
sistant chief of staff of the operations
and training division, remaining here
until 1926. He was made commander
of the 5th Corps Area at Fort Hayes
in 1881.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
SCHOOL REPAIRS TO AID
DISTRICT JOBLESS ASKED

Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict Committee today received a resold-
ton from civic organization urging
adequate school funds for repairs and
improvements of school buildings and
grounds in order to keep a maximum
number of unemployed at work on these
District properties.
The resolution had been adopted by
The Mount Pleasant Citizens Association
and was sent to Mrs. Norton by John
De La Mater, secretary of the associa-
tion.
The resolution emphasized that the
superintendent of schools had stated at
the joint conference in December of the
Parent Teacher and Citizens Associa-
tions that number of unemployed men
needing relief could be usefully en-
ployed in considerable numbers at man.
ual labor on school properties.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
6,378 DIAMONDS FOUND
ALONG ISLAND HIGHWAY
Gems Valued at $4,000 Recovered
Where Jeweler Tossed Them
in Philippines.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA. January 18-Apparently
nearly all of the thousands of diamonds
thrown recently upon a roadside by
Emmanuel Strauss, Manila jeweler,
have been found, as yesterdays search
recovered only II gems. The total of
Jewels found has reached 6.378, with an
estimated value of $4,000. The hunt
continues.
A civil suit for s71.O00 was filed
against Strauss by Estrella del Norte,
alleging peculations of this amount.
Previously authorities had said
Strauss would be charged with short
age of $57,361 in his accounts with a
jewelry firm fir which he worked
Police asserted Strauss, who aided in
searching for the diamonds. had thrown
them along the roadside and reported
at first he had been kidnapped and
robbed.
Evening star., 1933-01-18

wife, at a night club in Hollywood last
night. Maurice Cheyalier was among
the guests.
With Miss O'Sullivan it's a case OF
"home sickness" she said Friends say
the young Irish actress has lost all in
terest in Hollywood since she broke of
a supposed engagement with James
Dunn. actor.
That is a sore subject" Miss O'Sul-
livan said, refusing to comment further
I'm home sick" she added. But
that isn't all. Pictures are too much
of strain. One is never quite ones
natural self. What shall I do when ]
get home? Just be a home girl again,
| suppose
Evening star., 1933-01-18
POSTAL SAVINGS MOUNT
$500, 900, 900 IN A YEAR
Reach 5000, ,32s,726 at End of
1882, Though Increase Is
Short of Record

Postal savings jumped nearly $780,
600 600 in 1882 totaling 5000 ,328. .726
on December 81. This is compared
with $605, 1898, 749 on December 81, 1881
The increase was not a record. as de-
posits for 1881 showed an increase of
1851 1877 ,946 over 1880, when they were
$243, 795, 1893
Postal savings depositors are limited
to an account of S2,500 and receive 2
per cent on their money, which the
Post Office Department redeposits with
banks. For several years the annual
report of the Postmaster General has
recommended that the limit for de-
posits be boosted to $4,000.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
Taxpayers Group to Meet.

ROCKVILLE. Md. January IS (Spe-
ciaD. - The subcommittee Of nine
named last week by the Special Budget
Committee of the Non partisan Tax
payers League OF Montgomery County
to study the county's operating ex-
penses to ascertain how they might be
slashed so as to permit substantial re-
duction in the county tax rate for the
fiscal year which begins July viii
hold another meeting here tonight.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CONSOLIDATION SOUGHT
Senator Bratton Believes Co-ordina-
tion Would Save Nearly
$4,000, 900 Year.

BY the Associated Press.
Consolidation of the Interior and Ag-
riculture Departments will be proposed
70 the Senate within a few days by
Senator Bratton, Democrat, of New
Mexico, who estimates this would save
at least S50,000,000 yearly"
Bratton is preparing a bill for the
consolidation, which he hopes to intro
duce TINS week. 1t would authorize the
PRESIDENT to consolidate, adjust and
coIrelate activities and abolish dupli-
eating functions.
The New Mexico Senator said he felt
that as the major activities of both
agencies dealt with the countrys land
they should be in one unit.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
URGES VETERANS GROUP
Steiwer Would Appoint Special
Senate Committee.

The necessity for creating a special
committee in the Senate to handle vet
erans legislation and TO relieve the
Finance Committee of this work, was
urged last night by Senator Steiwer of
Oregon in an informal address before
Vincent B. Costello Post, No. Is, Amer
lean Legion.
Senator Steiwer referred briefly to
the bonus issue and said If Congress
eventually passes some initiation meas
ure, the Patman bonus bill represents
the safest proposal of this sort, because
it is definitely limited in scope to obli-
cations already acknowledged by Con-
gress.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
Hyattsville Firm Organized.

BALTIMORE, January 1s (SpeciaD
The National Capital Manufacturing
Corporation, Hyattsville, Md, has been
novelties. etc. The capital stock con-
sists of 500 shares, par value $40 each,
and Henry A. Hennig, Kathryn A.
Levitt and David Levitt, all OF Hyatts-
yille, Nd. are the incorporators.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
U. S. BAR SELECTS CITY
1888 Convention Will Be Held al
Grand Rapids, Mich.

TAMPA, Fla, January 18 (P1.-The
1888 convention of the American Bar
Association will be held in Grand Rap
ids. Mich, next August, the Executive
Committee decided at its Winter meet
ing here yesterday. The date probably
will be set today.
This was the principal matter decided
at the meeting and the only announce
ment made at the close of the session.
Grand Rapids was chosen in response
to an invitation by COMMITTEES of the
bar of that city, which came to Tampa
to present 1t.
The National Conference on Uniform
State Laws probably will meet in Grand
Rapids week before the American Bar
convention. The Executive Committee
of the conference is in session here and
a definite announcement will be made
after a meeting date is chosen.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
Curfew Stilled by Accident.

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., January Is
Pi.-The warning note of the 8 o'clock
curfew, which sent children scurrying
home, has been stilled. A wire leading
to the steam whistle atop a 75-foot
stack fell down and the City Council
said there wasn't any money available
for the job of putting it back
Evening star., 1933-01-18

1t was impossible to say which woman
was killed first. But evidently Mrs
Buckner was struck as she arose from
bed and started toward the door One
blow on the head felled her. The muir
derer stepped forward and struck her
full in the face with a weapon.
In Mrs. Ilsley's room there was ter
rife struggle. She was hit about the
head and face repeatedly. Her arms
were bruised. Under her fingernails
physicians found skin and hair from
her assailant's head Analysis showed
this TO be the skin and hair Of a col
ored man, they said A bloody iror
bootjack found in her room was be-
lieved to be the murder instrument.
When the women were dead the
slayer returned to Mrs Buckner's room
and washed his hands in a basin there
police believed. Then he ransacked hel
bureau and took money and jewelry
Nevertheless, robbery was not believed
to have been his motive. for $2.500 ir
diamonds on Mrs. Ilsley's hand, money
in her purse and expensive furS in hel
room were not touched.
Fled In Stolen Car.
Next the murderer went to the three
car garage and broke open the door
The only car INSIDE was loCkeu. SIOlni
back to the small house, he broke {
pane out of a basement window ant
entered the garage underneath tn,
residence. There he took small sedal
and drove 1t out, The car was dis
covered abandoned near Highway Bridg'
here.
Inside was a note authorities believet
Crawford wrote 1t was the addres
OF a farmer near Herndon, Va. GoinI
| TO that place. police were told, mai
resembling Crawford and Irlen.
stopped there overnight on January II
/ took down the address OF the farm an
promised to send back some none
| when Crawford got back TO Middle
| burg, where he worked for some ricl
| folks"
On the basis of this evidence tn
grand tury returned an indictmen
charging Crawford with the murder.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
ARM BROKEN BY AUTO
Robert McDougal, IA, Victim OF
Accident on Florida Avenue.

Robert McDougal, IA, of 225 P street,
received a broken arm yesterday when
struck by an automobile. The accident
occurred in the first block of Florida
avenue. He was treated at Sibley Hos
pital.
George L. Collins, 80, of the TOO
block of Eighteenth street northeast,
was the driver of the car which struck
him, police say.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
U. S. CONCERTS SUCCESS

Lillian EVanll OF w aSnlngton
Scores Hit in Munich Recital.
MUNICH, Germany. January 18 up.
"A distinguished concert audience in
Town Hall last night took kindly to a
program of contemporary American
music conducted by Ernest Hoffman,
of Boston, including the first perform
ance in Germany of Mackinleys Ameri-
can rhapsody Masquerade, Converse's
"Flivver Ten Million" and Woodin S
Oriental Suite"
In another concert Lillian Evanti of
Washington. D. c.. a coloratura So
prano, scored with a classical program
and Negro spiritualS.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
Taxpayers Plan Session.

HYATTSvILLE, Md. January Is
Especial "A meeting of the Railroad
Employees and Taxpayers Association
will be held Friday night in the police
court room here at o'clock
Evening star., 1933-01-18
GOVERNOR HAS DAUGHTER

EITsI bdUy bUTH IN Executive
Mansion at Topeka, Kans.
TOPEKA, KanS., January Is (P).-
The Kansas Governors mansion houses
the States first baby"
She is Nancy Josephine Landon, s.
month-old daughter of the New Repub-
lican Governor, Alfred M. Landon. ard
she is the first baby occupant of the
mansion since its erection.
Representative Caldwell Davis, Dem.
ocrat, yesterday introduced in the
House a proposal to appropriate s5t
to buy baby carriage, go-cart or Other
means of conveyance for her.
Evening star., 1933-01-18
Both Badly Beaten

Within few hours, police broadcast
lookout for Crawford A stable exer-
else boy reported he saw the ex-conyict
and another colored man seated beside
O FIRE near town on the afternoon OF
January u. Suspicion at once pointed
TO Crawford.
Ofilcsrs found ertrance to the cottage
had been gained bv b-e-king glass
IN the rear door. Dc j a short corri-
dor, On the : gl7; We 7zTs, Ilsleys bed
room. On The lev Vas ldrs. 5uckner 5.
Evening star., 1933-01-18

Heard Her CaH Dog.
On the night she was slain, Mrs. lis
ley attended an prohibition meet
ing in Upperville with friends. She re-
turned about II O'Clock, stopped for a
few minutes at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Hit, declined their In
vitation to stay all night, took woman
friend home and then went back to the
cottage. A short time later. neigh
Dor, Mrs Alice Fouble heard Mrs. Ilsley
on the porch Of the cottage whistling
and calling for her dog. The dog was
in the big house with Boeing.
The next morning 8oeing arose about
9 O'Clock and walked to the cottage to
have breakfast with his sister When
he entered the house he.found his sister
dead, lying in the doorway of her bed
room, her head horribly mangled. She
was clad only in nightgown. Across
the hall, in the maids room, lay Mrs.
Buckner, also beaten to death.
Boeing hastened to the Middleburg
bank about two blocks away and sum-
moned help. Commonwealth Attorney
Galleher arrived from LeeSburg, after
calling washington police to seek their
aid. Lieut.. Sandberg, Lieut.. John Fow-
Ter, the departments ballistics expert,
and Detective Sergt. Dennis j.. Murphy
OF the homicide squad responded TO Gal
leher's call.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-21
HAPPINESS AS A FARM PRODUCT

largely self-sufficient to that pur-
pose. As the children grew up,
they went out one by one from the
home nest, to become decent, self
respecting citizens, some near, some
far from their birthplace.
But they left the farm, the ready
critic may say; none among them
clung to the soil that had nurtured
them. Yes, they left. But the point
is that these sons and daughters rep
resent profit product of that farm
on which, in their younger days, the
family was content with a merely
sustaining livelihood. They were the
farms social dividend, deferred while
their ambitions and their energies
could be applied.
But these are other times? They
are, And what is so far wrong with
the philosophy of that Hennepin
county farm family Of a generation
ago, that it may not be brought
down to date? That it can so oper-
ate may be guessed from the hope
of some who are turning farmward
The terms of yesterday may hold
good today, after all-Minneapolis
Journal.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-21
%
Value of Milk
Unaffected By
Protein in Ration

1t was formerly believed that the
composition of the milk produced by
the cow or other animal was depend
ent to a great extent on the kind OF
food which the milking animal re-
ceived That this belief was only
partly true is brought out in extended
studies made by A. K. Perkins, asso-
ciate in dairying at the Ohio Agricul-
tural Experiment Station.
Since the amount of protein in the
ration is one of the factors which is
known to have considerable influence
on the amount of production, it might
also be expected to affect the compo-
sition of the milk.
Mr.. Perkins found that great diff
ferences in the amount of protein fed
produced no consistent change in the
proportion of any of the four major
chemical constituents of milk tlactose
fat, protein, and ASH. The character
istics Of the milk protein and the
milk fat We're also studied and were
found to be practically unchanged
even by the great extremes of protein
feeding practiced.
However, one minor group of con
stituents of the milk, the non-proteir
nitrogen, was greatly increased by
high protein feeding and diminished
on the low : protein feeding, there be
ing twice as much in the former case
as in the latter. One ingredient Of
this group, the urea nitrogen, was
eight times as abundant in the high
protein group as in the group receiv
ing the ration of the opposite e,
treme. About the same Relationship
between these materials was found il
the blood serum of the same cows.
The actual amount of these mater
ials present in milk is so small Tin the
hundredths of ! per cent? that tn,
commercial value as well as the nu
tritive value. Of the milk was unaf
fected by the increase or decreas,
noted.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-21
AUTO DRIVER LOOK AT YOURSELF

1t the automobile driver took look himself.
Personal and characteristics much blame for
appalling highway death incompetence and The
who hills and who his
speeds who hogs the road and drives the side OF the highway
who and and the driver who, matter how
his skill share OF the S. 900 deaths each
The encouraging present the wide public interest N
highway an which has amazingly the last or
Traffic laws being studied Surveys Of accident statistics
being There heorzn and dealing with honest facts
with modern conditions One
the necessary steps drastic OF youthful dv
found that drivers under 20 have -
while those 40 and so have record
per better than the Automobiles should be periodically
inspected brakes steering lights Examinations OF
applicants licenses should be conducted with extreme
The automobile death and must be lowered There 10
reckless the incompetent and the mentally physically
defective and highways Sxve thousand deaths IN
years testimony the need for quick and decisive action
Washington c. H. Record Republican.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-21
EARLY CHICKS ARE
PROFIT MAKERS
By Prof. w. B. Krueck

Chicks that are started in brooder
houses in the next so days will be
profit makers this fall
1t has been definitely established
that the number of eggs received per
hen in poultry flock influences ma
terially the profit of the feeder. The
time at which the pullet starts to lay
in the fall of the year has a great deal
of influence upon the number of eggs
which is received per hen in years
time in the average flock.
Most good poultrymen aim to have
their pullets in fairly good production
by the first Of October, thereby in
creasing the number of eggs per hen
per year and also taking advantage Of
the good prices received upon the fall
market.
In order to have pullets in proper
production by this time, they must be
Matched reasonably early. Starting
the chicks late in February, March
and April enables the farmer usually
to give little more time to the prep
aration of his brooder house and to the
care of the chicks in starting them.
This is the time when he is normally
not busy with his crop work and the
chicks can have a little attention.
| Chicks that are started reasonably
early also seem to have the advantage
of showing less inclination toward dis
] ease and infection. They can be
started in brooder houses fairly close
to the residence, moved out to open
range and take advantage of green
feed when they are five or six weeks
of age The cockerels can be finished
for the better broiler market and in
most cases be out of the way before
the bad breaks in broiler prices arrive.
| These factors are important in fig
uring the net profits in the average
j farm flock and are certainly important
factors in making little more cash
from the farm flock. Keep in mind,
however, that it is more desirable and
more profitable to make your chick in
vestment in quality chicks--buy good
ones rather than to distribute your
dollars and pennies over too many in
feriol chicks because they apparently
look cheap.