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Evening star., 1933-08-23
TWO HURT IN AUTO
CRASH WITH TRUCK
Miss Ruth Tuckerman, Debu-
tante, and John N. Hickey,
Reporter, Victims.

Miss Ruth HollingsWorth Tuckerman,
deputante daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter R. Tuckerman of Bethesda, and
John M. Hickey, newspaper reporter llv-
ing at the Shoreham Hotel, were in
jured early today when the automobile
driven by Hickey crashed into District
Government truck parked near the
north end of the Highway Bridge.
At Emergency Hospital Miss Tucker
man was said to be suffering from cuts
X-ray photographs were to be taken to
learn if her arm was fractured. Hickey
was reported to have suffered head in
jurieS and X-rayS were to be taken to
determine If his skull was fractured.
Both will recover it was said at the
hospital. Police previously had reported
that Miss Tuckerman had received in
ternal injuries, but further eXamina
ton proved this not to be the case, it
was said.
Both Miss Tuckerman and Hickey are
widely known here in social circles. Miss
Tuckerman, who is 18, made her debut
last year. Hickey is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry N. Hickey of the Shore
ham. His father is a veteran news
paper man.
The crash was due, it was said. to
the heavy rain and the fact the wind
shield wiper on the Hickey automobile
had stopped working short time be-
fore. The parked truck was used to
haul materials in connection with work
being done on Highway Bridge, from
which the old street car tracks are
being removed.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
APPOINTMENT MADE
FOR y. S. OIL CASES
J. Howard Marshall, Interior De.
partment, Special Aid to At
torney General.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Appointment of j. Howard Marshall,
Of the Interior Department, as special
assistant to the Attorney General in
charge of oil cases. was announced yes
terday as the Government bent its
efforts toward controlling petroleum
production.
Marshall was appointed as the In
terror Department prepared to bring
action in the Federal court in East
Texas against some operators believed
to have violated recent Federal orders
prohibiting interstate shipment of crude
oil or its products produced in viola
alton of State laws and regulations.
For some weeks, Marshall has been in
the East Texas and Oklahoma City oil
fields surveying conditions and compil-
ing information for use in prosecuting
violatorS His new. appointment was
recommended by Secretary Ickes to
enable him to sit in for the prosecution
in Federal courts in the oil areas.
Marshall. formerly attached to the
Yale School of Law, was appointed in
the solicitors department of the In
terror Department on June 26. as a
special oil expert along with Norman
Meyers, a Federal power commission
counsel Meyers Is to resign from the
power commission this week to devote
full attention to oil matters in the
Interior Department.
In addition to prosecuting violators
of the oil order, Marshall will engage
in production control work under the
petroleum industry code.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
Priest Offers apparent Solution
To Age-Old Mathematics Enigma
Father Merrick appeals to Jesuit
Scientists to Find Error in Fermet
TheOrena Proof.

Put any numbers whatsoever into Fer
mats theorem and raise them to any
power whatsoever. The sum Will not
equal any other number raised TO the
same power.
Take. for example. and raised to
the third power. They become q and
"a. The sum is 91 There is no cube
root of 81, which is a whole number.
And so on, presumably, to infinity.
There Is no use testing it. The worlds
most celebrated mathematicians have
spent weeks trying to find a single
actual case which did not fit the
theorem, and have failed.
Possibility of Exception.
But this is not proof acceptable to
mathematicianS So long as proof re-
mains impirical there is always the pos
sibility of an exception. And since the
number of numbers and powers to which
they can be raised are both infinite
everybody in the world might cover
sheets of paper with figures "a hours a
day forever without finding an excep-
tion and still not prove that there could
be no exception.
What is demanded is conclusive proof
that there cannot possibly be an eX-
ception.
Says the Encyclopedia Britannica
Everything indicates that it is true
although it has not been proved. That
it has not been proved is one of the
most amazing facts in present-day
mathematics, and for this reason alone
the great celebrity of the problem is
perhaps justified The many attempts
to solve it by competent mathemati-
clans have led to number of remark
able developments in theory. including
very abstract conceptions and profound
results arrived at after long chains OF
reasoning. The offering of the Volts
kehl prize has led to several thousand
erroneous proofs
Evening star., 1933-08-23
SOUTHERN BUILDING
is SOLD AT AUCTION
L. E. Smoot Bids $4,000 With
First Trust of 81 ,455,0O0 on
Office Structure.

A bid of $4,000 was the only offer
made at public auction yesterday for
the Southern Building. nine-story office
structure at Fifteenth and H streets.
and it was acquired by L. E. Smoot OF
the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corpora
ton, subject to first trust of 81 ASS 900
The total selling price of S1.48O 900
did not include taxes and interest due
Mr. Smoot said he represented himself
in the transaction. Vernon G. Owen
was auctioneer at the sale, which was
advertised by Donald M. McNeale and
the National Savings & Trust Co. as
trustees.
The structure, built in 1910 at a cost
of approximately S1,000,0O0. has a cur
rent assessed valuation of S2,217,22O, of
which S1,332, ,72O represents land and
1884, 500 building. The building was
erected by the Southern Building Cor
poration at the instance Of a group of
Southern philanthropists as memorial
in the Capital to the South.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
FINAL DRY DRIVE"
SEES z INDICTED
approximately 1,200 Viola
tions Charged in District
Supreme Court.

Local prohibition enforcement agen-
cies began what they believe is their
last big drive today with the return
of an indictment IL District Supreml
Court charging % men with conspiracy
to violate the national prohibition act.
The Indictment, prepared BY Assist
Orcutt sets forth 10 overt acts and
charges the commission Of apprQM-
mately LOO violations Of law. The
alleged violations cover Illegal posses
! sion, transportation, sale and solicita.
tion Of orders fof liquor.
Seven of the accused were arrested
two weeks ago. They are Aaron Trach.
tenberg, Charles Jones, Joseph Munitz
Meyer Belasco, Romulo Gentilucci
George Jcnes and William J. Quirk
Two of the defendants, Morris S
Beaner and Harry Murray, are serving
in Lorton Reformatory.
The following are still at large:
Edward Lewis Martin. Jay Riegel, Ma,
Uretsky. John Scopelliti, John Thoma:
Coles, Raymond F. Hart, Murel Richard
Juhl, Joseph Ward King, William
Branch, Thure Wilson, Clayton Aber.
nethy, William Stone and Donald c
Parker.
The indictment charges the defend
ants had two main headquarters in
the city and several drops" or garages
and similar places where liquor was
unloaded after being brought into the
city. The Government will seek tc
prove liquor was brought here from
Baltimore, Southern Maryland ane
New Jersey for distribution to the re.
tail establishments. During the pas
few months more than' so automobile.
allegedly used by the defendants ir
transporting liquor were seized by
police. Shipments of alleged liquor
confiscated ranged in size from so t.
300 gallons.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
POISON LABEL ACT
IS HELD IGNORED
Food and Drug Official Re-
ports Survey of Local
Retailers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fTtSS
w. G. Campbell, chief of the Food
and Drug Administration, said today
a survey showed many retail dealers in
the District of Columbia were not COM
plying with the Federal caustic poison
act which requires specific labelling OF
poisons.
Campbell said inspectors of his ad-
ministration visited druggists, paint
dealers and other retailers in the Dis
trict early this year to inform them OF
the labelling requirements of the Fed
eral caustic poison act.
Later, he said, in order to deter
mine the effect of this educational
effort. official samples of caustic poi
sons were obtained from IS dealers. An
examination of these samples showed
I Campbell said. that So were either not
labeled in compliance with the poison
act or carried no labels at all.
He said that routine preliminary
hearings required by the law, were now
being held to permit the druggists and
other dealers to show why the cases
should not be referred to the Depart
ment of Justice for prosecution.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

An apparent solution Of the age-old
enigma of mathematicians, Fermat's
last theorem, was presented before the
American Association of Jesuit Scien-
fists, meeting at Georgetown University
yesterday, by Rev. Joseph P. MeTick,
professor of mathematics at Holy Cross
College.
Father Merrick said he had checked
and rechecked page after. page of his in
tficate mathematical pfocedure WITHOUT
being able to find any flaw In his
reasoning, and be appealed to other
Jesuit mathematictans to try to find the
point where he had gone wrong, If ii
exists.
1T would be presumptious to claim to
have solved this problem" he said
since so many have tried and failed
But wish somebody could show me
my mistake"
If his fellow Jesuits cannot find a
flaw. e indicated he will be ready tc
lay his solution before other American
mathematicians and if they agree tha'
he has succeeded, he may make appll-
cation for the Wolfskehl prize.
Prize of 100000 Marks.
The University of Goettingen. Ger
many, established in 1907 an award oi
100 900 marks known as the Wolfskeh
prize, for the first successful demonstra'
ton of this theorem. But despite hun
dreds of laborious attempts to win this
the secret has remained in the grave
of Pierre Fermat, one of the greatest
mathematicians of all time, who dice
at Toulouse in 1865,
Efforts to solve this problem, while
futile so far as their immediate obJec'
was concerned, have been responsible
for some of the most far-reachine
mathematical discoveries Of the las
three centuries, because of the trains o
reasoning which they have aroused.
Fermat himself wracked his brain fol
years to prove his own theorem, ou,
without success. After his death there
was found written by his hand on
margin of one of his books:
Il have discovered truly remarkable
proof which this margin is too small II
contain"
He gave no hint as to what his proo1
was. Ever since. his theorem has haC
position in mathematics akin to thai
of squaring the circle or trisecting tht
triangle-although it is somewhat more
complicated mathematically and theo
retically more susceptible of solution
It has, however, attracted little atten
ton among laymen. compared to tht
more spectacular problems.
Here's the Problem.
Here is the theorem:
Xn+Yn=Zn. provided "n" is num-
ber greater than 2, cannot be true
TX, Y and z, Of course, can be an!
numbers whatever greater than /. u
other words, no two numbers can b.
cubed, for example, or raised to tn
third power, and their sum equal th'
cube of any other whole number. Tit
same is true of any two numbers RAISED
to the fourth, fifth or sixth powers
and so on to infinity.
With the squares of numbers it i
different. For example, the square o
3-that is 9-plus the square of 4
that is 16-equal 25, which is thu
square of S. Such case could neve
be found, Fermat said, with power
greater than the square.
This may be provedsto the reasonably
satisfaction of anybody by experiment
Evening star., 1933-08-23
CUTS WRIST WITH RAZOR

William Lee Nelson. So, Of the 1900
block of D street southeast, while sit
ting on a bench in Lincoln Park last
night, cut his left wrist with a razor
Sergt. L. G.. Purtlebaugh of the United
States Park Police reported today.
Nelson was taken to Gallinger Hos
pital and treated there. Nelson, radio
inspector. is unmarried and is unem-
ployed, he told Sergt. Purtlebaugh. Nell
son said he is living with his sister an
the 1900 block of D street southeast.l
Evening star., 1933-08-23
HORSE SHOW POSTPONED
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, August 23.-Disap-
pointment was keen among the juveniles
in Loudoun County this morning when
a steady downpour of rain caused post
ponement of the first annual Rockbridge
horse and pony show. scheduled for this
afternoon at "Rockbridge," home of
Mr.. and Mrs. David NJ Rust, near Lees
burg. The show will be held Friday
afternoon Of this week, beginning at
2:30,
Evening star., 1933-08-23
OUTING TO BE HELD

The annual outing of employees Of
the Washington Railway Relief Asso-
citation and affiliated organizations is
scheduled to take place tomorrow at
Glen Echo. A long. varied list of ath-
letic events has been completed and
prizes will be awarded. Dancing will
end the days entertainment. The
Committee of Arrangements: G. F.
Jones, H. r. Farver, c. M. Sharpe,
r. L. Bready, P. Nutwell, g. p Taylor,
q. B. Scholtes. L. F. Trudewind, Frank
Keeley, M. Wellington, A. v. Hawkins,
Miss L. F. Curin, DR.. g. A. Weaver,
r, S. Brooks and Mrs. M. B. Blakeney
Evening star., 1933-08-23
INVESTIGATE INJURIES
Police Probing How James C.
Schrover Was Hurt.

Police today were conducting an in
vestigation to determine how James c.
Schrover, 40, of 1890 w street, who was
found unconscious last night on the
sidewalk. received his injuries.
Schrover was treated at Casualty
Hospital for badly bruised eyes and may
have a skull fracture, it was said He
was taken to the hospital by a motor
ist when found at Sixth and c streets
northeast.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
Colored Boy Hurt in Fall.

Jerome Hart, 7, colored. 1400 block
of Corcoran street, was in Emergency
Hospital today with injuries received
yesterday when he fell from a brick
garage in rear of the 1400 block of N
street. The boy is reported to have
received fractures of both arms and
may have a skull fracture.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
R, F, C:WOULD PREVENT
NAMING PARK RECEIVER
D. c. Supreme Court Asked to
Deny Motion of Bank De-
positors' Committee.

The Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ticn today asked the District Supreme
Court to deny a motion by a depositors'
committee of the Park Savings Bank
for appointment of a court receiver for
that institution.
The depositors' committee had denied
the Treasury Department had authority
to appoint the present receiver. con,
tending the banks charter had expired
at the time. Through Attorney Will
liam C. Fits, the R. F. c. contends
this position is not sound.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
Plan Reunion at Beach.

About 1000 members of the -four
Greek orthodox churches of Washing
ton are expected to attend reunion
Sunday at Seaside Park, Chesapeake
Beach. Nicholas Panouchoculas heads
the committee for the outings program
of foot races and athletic contests. Pic
mic luncheon and dancing are also
scheduled.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
Deaf Group Plans Outing.

The National Fraternal Association
for the Deaf will hold its annual ex-
cursion Saturday at Seaside Park.
Chesapeake Beach. Wallace Ellington
is chairman of the Arrangements and
Entertainments Committee. Several
hundred hum memP4 are expected to at
Evening star., 1933-08-23
FAN CUTS OFF LEG
Metal Worker Critically Injured in
Congressional Library.

The right leg of Charles H. Beach,
80, of 1875 Wolfe street, Alexandria, Va,
was cut off below the knee when he
slipped and became caught in the far
of ventilating shaft at the Congress
SIGNAL Library this morning
Beach. a sheet metal worker, was re-
pairing the shaft when the accident &C.
Cured He was taken to Casualty Hos
pital where physicians reported his con-
dition as serious.
Evening star., 1933-08-23
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
TOMORROW.
TO-DAY.

Dinner meeting. Washington Asso-
citation of Credit Men, Hamilton Hotel,
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1933-08-23

Luncheon, Phi Gamma Delta Fra
ternity, University Club, 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1933-08-23

Luncheon, Cornell Club, University
Club, 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1933-08-23

Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Mayhower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-09

tagged, as the smugglers have become ver
alert to the danger Of detection by thed
Government authorities. The mounted IN
spectors enjoy the reputation of getting thei
man." after due and careful investigation
the merits Of the case, and every one Of til
captures so far have been vigorously proS4
cuted in court, and the pilots also reporte|
to the officials of the aeronautic section 4
the United States Department of Commerce.
Last Fall series of dramatic captures of
smuggler in the air by the United States Bord(
Air Patrol dispelled forever the illusion that III
Government was helpless to capture an airplalI
in flight. AS this particular type Of captu1
was made on three different occasions
Mounted Inspector Deuel., the prestige Of tlI
service was very greatly enhanced and n
interest of the Treasury officials in Washingtd|
rose to a high pitch Of enthusiasm whenev
air protection Ct the Mexican border vi
mentioned.
The case in point concerned a pilot who e.
joyed a very enviable reputation from the hyiI
he did during the World War with the America
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-09

closer inspection at a few yards, actually proved
to be q peach orchard in full bloom.
Fortunately. the customs planes are all Of
the best possible type as they are usually Of
expensive models with ultra-modefn motors
that may not have any great speed, but are
capable Of standing a good deal Of punishment.
Each plane Is practically torn down by the
customs men and thoroughly overhauled before
being put into service and the pilots are thus
assured that their aircraft will be in good
shape for any unusual duty.
Weather. to the Air Patrol, means just about
what 1t does to the airman pilots, as it IS
frequently necessary to carry on in spite of
clouds and the threat Of a storm hurrying over
the mountain tops. chase may start some
where near the international boundary line and
wind up later in the week at some town like
San Angelo Tex. Meantime, the customs pilots
may have had only the little creek beds Of
the Santa Fe Gap available for forced land
ing. and low shrubs near the Rio Grande as
the most luxurious airport used as a base
All the planes have to be carefully camou-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-09

ANGSTERS Of the air seem a re-
mote menace to the average citizen.
But straws in the smuggling wind
of the last two years indicate that
racketeers and other criminal MEM
beers of the under world have taken
Evening star., 1933-09-17

United States Secretary Of the Navy.
Z Y WITHIN recent weeks President
"a Roosevelt has approved the
NN ALLEGATION from the funds of
the national industrial re-
cnueru act of $238 600 600 for
Evening star., 1933-09-17
South Africa Uneasy
Over japanese Imports

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa.-
The extent of the importation Of goods
of all kinds from Japan, at prices
which make local, British or American
competition quite impossible, Is causing
a lot of uneasiness in some quarters in
South Africa, and last years trade
agreement is being roundly and openly
condemned as economic suicide"
Certainly importers of American and
Canadian rubber tennis shoes, which
once had a valuable monopoly here,
have abandoned the line, and even
local manufacturers cannot sell their
shoes. formerly a good overhead ex-
pense carrier, against Japanese shoes
put on the market at about third of
the price wholesale.
There were five knitted woolen
goods factories in johannesburg not
long ago-now there are two, and the
chief executant of one of the sur
down solely through Japanese COM
a market flooded with japanese goods
at price they could not touch.
Electric irons are being landed at
Y cents, tooth brushes at l cent.
tumblers at 2 cents each-prices no
Western country can meet. Hats
which England lands here at $1.40
were instantly copied in Japan and
landed here at 81 cents each
As Japan buys only one-tenth the
amount from South Africa that South
Africa buys from Japan economists
here are asking questions.
Copyright. 1887
Evening star., 1933-09-17
Rome Censorship Board
To Face Difficult Task

ROME, Italy-A group of Romans
has undertaken the job of forming an
organization for combating unhealthy"
plays, motion pictures and other spec
tacles. The society will be known as
the Associated Italian Spectators.
The italian society hopes to outdo the
American Watch and Ward organiza-
tions in a great big way. Here the
members, besides closely watching the
stage and screen for naughtiness, will
also form their own companies and pro-
duce their own purified entertainments,
They even hope to get special rates for
theatrical performances, hotels, restau-
rants, bars and railroad, steamship and
airplane trips.
The hopeful society faces two fairly
discouraging handicaps from its incep-
ton. The first is that the Italian tenn
permanent is distinctly hostile to moral
uplift by self-appointed censors. The
second is that there is very little to
clean up In Italy.
| Copyright. 1933J
Evening star., 1933-09-17
French to Attempt Revision
OF Foreign Trade Structure

Back of this decision are the foreign
trade figures for the first half of the
current year, showing that France i'm
ported 11,000,OO0,000 francs worth of
goods, but only exported 100000, 900
francs worth. The deficit, moreover,
was not covered by tourists expendi-
lures, which dwindled enormously, or
by the income from foreign invest
ments, which is mostly suspended.
Opinion Divided.
Conservative business circles are di-
vided in their attitude toward the new
plan. It is recognized that something
should be done to correct the French
balances with the United States, Ger
many and Spain and other countries,
but the quota system Is already criti-
cized, because it is said to result in
abuses in the granting of import Ii
censes and also in high prices, inferior
quality of goods and in drastic reprisals
against France.
There is a dread, too. lest the French
government should attempt to copy
what are considered here dangerous
American operations In economic sur
gerry. .o,o
Evening star., 1933-09-17

men must be at their stations on the
Colorado. Those men must be trained
skilled to the highest degree. ready
for emergency and danger. In COM
mand are officers who know the sea and
its ways, who can navigate the ship at
greatest possible speed through the
blackness of night, fog and storm. They
must know harbor entrances; they must
know~how to avoid the hazards of reefs
and shadows and tides. They must
know how to maneuver the ship in
battle, to bring the great guns to bear
on the enemy.
Aboard this battleship are officers
scientifically trained to direct the firing
of its batteries. The enemy ships may
be out of ordinary sight, 18 or 20 miles
distant, proceeding at irregular but
great speeds, zig-Zagging running away,
advancing. discharging shells and tor
pedoes at the Colorado. There must be
exact knowledge on the part of the
officers directing the firing of the dis
| tance to be covered. the effect of the
prevailing wind on the projectiles. etc
for it is hits, not merely shots, that
count in battle.
Behind the guns must be men trained
to use the intricate mechaniSms: trained
for speed: trained to handle high explo-
sives with safety to their own ship and
danger to the enemy. In the bowels OF
the ship are officers and men skilled IN
handling giant engines, with an exact
knowledge of all the intricate electrical
devices and other mechanisms. Aboard
the ship. too, are cooks, artificers and
skilled machinists; men skilled in scores
of trades. They are necessary, indis-
pensable parts of the fighting ship-the
Nations first line of defense against
possible aggression.
Must Be Expertly Trained.
All that personnel must be expertly
trained in time of peace for the possible
emergency of sudden warfare or peace
time catastrophe. 1t must be ready at
any minute to meet an enemy, OF any
strength. that may menace our shores.
1t has been truly said that eternal vigi-
lance is the price Of peace as well as
liberty. With the world constituted as
it is today, an adequate Navy, prepared
to cope with any possible opposing force,
| is the best insurance of peace.
| The United States Navy like those Of
other nations. must be constituted to
meet the particular needs of the coun-
try. England. for instance. with its
far-f1ung colonies and possessions, has