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Evening star., 1933-03-13
GROCER GOES TO TRIAL
FOR MURDER OF WOMAN
Prosecution Is Scheduled to Start
Today in Staying Several
Weeks Ago.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, March 13.-The
trial of R. A. Eames, grocer, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Louise Ferrell,
is scheduled to open in the Corpora
ton Court today. He is reported to
have recovered from nervous attack
for which he was treated at hospital
necessitating previous postponement
Of the trial until today.
Eames has. made no statement re-
garding the shooting Of Mrs. Ferrell in
his home adjoining his store several
weeks ago and no indication has been
given as to the nature of the defense.
Evening star., 1933-03-13

-
Wagner's die
Meistersinger,"
Schubert's "Un-
finished SYM
phony" (No. 8,
in B minor, the
second m ov e.
m e mt fro m
r S h aikovsky's
Symphony No. 6.
called the PA
thetique." and
Ravel's "Bolero."
The soloist was
Frank Gittelson,
violinist con-
er t m aster Of
the N a t / on al
Symphony Or
Evening star., 1933-03-13
WILL STUDY BUDGET
Mclean Civic League Committee
to Probe Fairfax Estimates.

Specia, Dispatch to The Star.
MCLEAN, Va, March 13-The Nc
Lean School and Civic League has ap-
pointed Kirby w. Taylor, Elmer O.
Fippen. Henry Huschke, Mrs. Theodore
M. Corner, Mrs. Bruno Wittig, Mrs.
j. Hunter Mack and J. P. Frech a
committee to study the Fairfax County
budget and report their recommended
tions for community action to the meet
ing of the league April 3.
The league has voted to pay $50
bill for free dental work in the school
dental clinic for children whose parents
were proven to be unable to meet this
expense.
Evening star., 1933-03-13
Gittelson and Orchestra
Win Ovation at Concert.

"HE final Sunday Afternoon
concert Of the National Sym
phony Orchestra, which took
i place yesterday tn Constitu-
ton HALL, was the occasion
for the performance Of q program
Of numbers that have become favor
ties with the Washington public.
The program was composed Of the
Evening star., 1933-03-13
Irish Bombing Probed.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, March
13 R.-Authorities today were investi-
eating bomb explosion on the Great
Northern Railway line between Dun
murray and Lambeg Saturday night.
The malefactors escaped group Of
policemen near the scene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
CARTER WILL HEAR
LOBBYIST ANSWER
Two G. P. O. Employees Ex-
pected to Answer Charges
in Person.

Frank S. Lerch, assistant foreman
at the Government Printing ONCE, who
for many years has been delegate from
the Typographical Union to the Gen.
trail Labor Union, and James E. Renrie,
a proofreader, both of whom were sus-
pended last week by Public Printer
George Carter as "ringleaders" in a
pool to finance a lobby to get back
pay they claim Is due on earned leave
taken from them under the economy
act, expect to make their answer to
the charges in person to the public
printer late today or tomorrow.
Carter said today, however, he has no
with the two men. and
whether there will be conference with
them depends on the nature Of their
written reply.
Lerch. who received an expression of
confidence from the Central Labor
Union last night. said he expects a
gagged a lawyer, but will make his own
answer. which he expects to present
separately from that of Rennie, since
each is an individual case. Mr.. Lerch
maintains that he did not hire the
alleged lobbyist, did not collect the
funds and that his only part in the
pool was to pay to the depository bank
his quota of $21 go.
The papers in the case on file in the
office of the district attorney state that
the alleged lobbyist" Frank j. Gard
ner. $500 Fourteenth street, was en-
ployed by Rennie.
Lerch, in attending q meeting Of the
Central Labor Union last night as a
delegate, asked from the floor that the
union take no action on the charges
made against him by the public printer
until the matter had been adjudicated,
dts he hoped that there would be no
prejudice among his fellow craftsmen
until he has had his day in court.
R. A. Dickinson, president of the Cen
trail Labor Union, said that after Lerch's
statement he had assured Lerch that
the union has confidence in him. He
has performed faithfully several i'm
portant matters entrusted to him by
the union, it was said, and the union
does not see any reason to change that
confidence and does not propose to take
any action in the matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
Settle Spends Night Sealed in Bali

at stated intervals by means Of an
oxygen indicator, and samples of the
air were pumped from the ball by
those outside and examined for carbon
dioxide content The highest the car
bon dioxide content ever got was 1 per
cent at 6 am.-not dangerous concen-
tration. The amount of carbon dioxide
at other times was almost too small
to be measured.
The oxygen concentration 20 minutes
after the ball was sealed was 80 per
cent. This increased gradually until
7 am. when the concentration meas
two men left the ball, the oxygen
content was IS per cent.
There was sufficient concentration of
oxygen in the ball when the test was
concluded to have maintained a res
pirable atmosphere for about four
hours longer without replenishing of
the supply from the liquid oxygen con-
tainer, HobSon said. The container at
that time was still about half full of
oxygen, which meant that the ball
could have been supplied with oxygen
for about 16 hours longer.
Humidity Rose to 10.
No effort was made to control the
rapid increase in moisture in the air
at the outset, as the men desired to
determine how much moisture would be
deposited on the inner walls of their
prison without the use of dehumidifying
apparatus. The humidity during the
first two hours rose to ITO.
That was our only uncomfortable
period" Hobson said Settle and 1
we're perspiring pretty freely by 2 am,
although the temperature was only 10
degrees. When we started the dehu-
modifying device we got back to more
comfortable condition within 80 min
uteS"
Hobson said the temperature ranged
throughout the test from IS to 81 de-
grees, lowering mostly around 10 de-
grees, although the outside temperature
was SO cool that the observers in the
hangar wore heavy coats. Hobson and
Settle wore ordinary Summer suits.
Hobson and Settle took turns in sit
ting on small chair. the only piece Of
furniture that could be gotten in the
small space. While one sat on the chair
ana mapped the other sat on the floor
beneath an array of instruments and
metal shelves. During the flight, due
to begin in week or SO, even the chair
will be missing-to conserve weight.
Settle and Picard will carry aloft
two oxygen breathing devices. which
can be used in the event of parachute
leaps in rarified atmosphere. Hobson
is co-inventor of the Nays lung" sub
marine escape equipment, after which
the breathing devices are modelled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
LYNCH WILL PROBE
WAGE COMPLAINTS
Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci to Direct Inquiry Into
CataIano Pay Roll.

Corporation Counsel W. w. Bride to-
day assigned Robert E. Lynch, one of
his assistants, to investigate complaints
that workers for the Catalano Construc-
ton Co. are being underpaid for their
work on the colored vocational school
being built for the District at Twenty
fourth and H streets northeast.
Representatives of the Building Trades
Council called on Mr. Bride today and
discussed information to be brought out
at public hearing later in the week.
The date for the hearing is expected
to be set by the Commissioners today.
Mr.. Bride also has received a COM
plant that workers for a contractor on
another District project are being work.
ed overtime without extra pay He de-
clined to name the concern involved
In the Catalano dispute there have
been charges, denied by the construc-
ton company, that carpenters are en-
ployed at wage scale of 81 an hour,
but in fact are paid only so to so cents
per hour. The Sl-per-hour rate is that
set by the Secretary Of Labor and the
District Commissioners as the prevail
ing wage scale" required to be paid by
the Bacon-Davis act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
|P0L|CE ANDF|REMEN
| SEEKING F|REbUG
Cooperating to Find Person
Believed to Have Lighted
Fraternity House.

Police and Fire Departments were CO.
operating today in an effort to learn
who started the blaze in the Sigma
Chi fraternity house. 1912 N street,
early Sunday morning, which endan-
gered the lives of Is sleeping members
of the organization and caused approx
mately $4,000 damage.
With the release of the only person
so far arrested in the case, Uriah
Hobbs, 46, Of the first block Todd place
northeast. the investigators were busy
this morning tracking down evidence
which leads them to believe the fire
bug" was a person familiar with the
fraternity. house. Detective Sergt. w.
F. Sager is assigned to the case from
the Police Department and Inspector
Raymond Roberts Of the fire marshal'S
Office is working with him.
Prominent local members of the fra
ternity. which is the George Washing
ton University branch of Sigma Chi
National Fraternity. are understood to
have taken a hand in the case and ex-
pressed their willingness to assist in
discovering the persons responsible for
the blaze
Effort to trace the origin Of loyal
Ion can and a water can. both bearing
traces of gasoline, which were found in
the building after the fire was ex-
tinguished, so far have proved unsuc-
cessful. A thorough check of all filling
stations is being made to determine if
any equipment was missed from them
on the night of the fire.
Only three Of the Is men trapped on
the upper floors of the house were in
jured, although all were compelled to
escape by jumping to the roofs of ad-
joining buildings or climbing down fire
mems ladders after the single stairway
burst into flames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
WORKERS ON Leave
MAY WORK FOR U. S.
McCarl Says They Won't Lose Any
Rights of Recall From
Their Furlough.

Furloughed Government employees
may accept seasonal or temporary en-
ployment either in their own or other
agencies of the Government without los
ing any of the rights of recall from fur.
Tough or transfer, Controller General
McCarl ruled today.
McCarl'S decision was made to the
Civil Service Commission. That estab-
lishment said it raised the question be-
cause Qualification had been asked by
engineering employees cut off from the
Interstate Commerce Commission, who
were seeking places in the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration. the Interior
Department and the War Department.
The controller general said, however.
that the rule is limited to employees in
voluntarily furloughed and cannot be
extended to the appointment of employees
on voluntary leave Of absence without
pay. 1t is to be understood. Of course,
that an employe cannot be given a per-
manent or indefinite appointment and
continue to hold his status as an ad-
ministratively furloughed employee from
another position"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
CITY HEADS RECEIVE
PROTESTS ON DUMP
Abandonment of Trash Burning on
East Side of Anacostia River
Held Unlikely, However.

District officials have received several
protests against the establishment of
a trash-burning dump on the east side
Of Anacostia River. north of Benning
road, which was placed in operation
July / as a result of the closing Of the
southeast incinerator by congressional
edict.
Complaints have been filed by the
Potomac Electric Power Co. because of
the nearness of the dump to the Ben
ming Power Plant on the river at Ben
ming road and from owners OF the old
Benning Race Track property. where
some race horses are quartered.
District officials, however. do not see
how the dump can be abandoned since
Congress has forbidden operation this
year of the incinerator at First and O
streets southeast, and since the one
other incinerator, In Georgetown, can
not burn all District trash.
An attempt will be made to keep the
trash dump smoke to a minimum. Of
ficials say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
BUY-IN-W WASHINGTON
URGED BY LITTLEPAGE
G. of C. President Endorses Cam
paign in Radio Address Over
Station VOL.

Endorsing the Buy in Washington
movement. Thomas P. Littlepage, presi-
dent of the Washington Chamber of
Commerce, in radio address over Sta
ton VOL last night declared buying
outside of the Capital constituted "a
lack of any individual feeling of re-
sponsibility"
Ninety: mine per cent Of everything
that human being needs for his well
fare and comfort can be purchased in
Washington just as cheaply as any
place else" he declared, adding that
more than $20,000.000 year is spent
by Washington citizens outside the
Capital for things that can be bought
here lust as good and just as cheap"
The Chamber president spoke under
the auspices of Washington,
Inc, recently incorporated organization,
whose objective is to stimulate home
sEdustry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
BY REX COLLIER.

1AVING emerged safely from self
imposed Imprisonment with
Lieut.. Comdr. Thomas G. w.
L i Settle in the sealed metal ball
which will carry Settle and
Jean Picard to the stratosphere at Chi
cago shortly, Frank Hobson. submarine
ventilation and escape expert, returned
to the Navy Department today with
prediction that all world records for
altitude will be broken in the balloon
fight.
An overnight test Of newly devised
submarine ir-conditioning apparatus
installed in the globular gondola proved
complete success, Hobson disclosed
today. Hobson and Settle locked them
selves in the 7-foot sphere for more
they were entirely dependent on arti-
ficially renewed atmosphere.
I'VE were SO coy and comfortable
that We took turns in mapping during
the night" Hobson declared. Every
thing functioned perfectly and when
we left the ball we were feeling fine.
except that We were a little cramped
from the close quarters"
The experiment was conducted at
Akron, Ohio, where the recently COM
pleted gondola was suspended from the
roof of the huge Macon hangar. Aides
were on duty outside the ball to see
that the prisoners did not suffer from
any %ishap' but their help was not
Test Was Severe.
The test was one Of the most severe
to which the new submarine air-con-
ditioning devices have been subjected
The naval equipment was provided and
installed through the cooperation of
Hobson and DR.. Perry Borgstrum,
another submarine air expert on duty
at the Nays Bellevue Research Lab
oratory.
The naval devices are expected to
enable Settle and Picard to remain
in the alright ball for "a hours, if
necessary, while exploring the rarified
heights of the shakespeare, some IL or
more miles above the earth.
During the test at Akron the air in
the gondola was maintained at pressure
of Z of an atmosphere. or little more
than half that of normal air pressure
Incidentally, the reduced pressure
spoiled plans of Hobson and Settle to
hold an impromptu feast on beer and
pretzels presented to them by friends
just before they entered the ball. 1t
was found the beer was inclined to
spout like a gevser when the bottle cap
was lifted The pair managed to dis
pose of one bottle by puncturing the cap
with nail, but even then the beer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
MAJ. CHARLES DAILY
WILL BE RETIRED
Former West Point Foot Ball
Coach to Leave Service July
81 for Disability.

Maj Charles D. DAILY, former Har-
ward and West Point foot ball star and
later coach at the Military Academy, is
to be retired from the Army on July
81 for disability incident to the service
For more than year Maj. DAILY has
been a patient at Walter Reed Hos
pital
Entering West Point in 1901 from
Harvard, where he gained his first foot
ball fame, DAILY was commissioned in
the service after establishing a gridiron
record at the Military Academy equaled
by few players. He resigned from the
Army after two years to become fire
commissioner of Boston and was re-
commissioned about 1918.
In recent years Maj DAILY developed
heart disease, which is an indirect cause
of his retirement. He had been sta
toned in Washington for several years,
before being disabled for active service.
When Maj. DAILY retires at the end
Of this month it will be with the rank
Of full colonel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11

The row Senator Carter Glass Is re-
ported to have raised when he returned
to his home in a local hotel Sunday
night and found a white waitress sub
stituted for his accustomed colored
boy" couldn't have been a circum--
stance to the explosion when he found
that the newspapers had printed story
about it.
The peppery 75-year-old Virginian
refused to see reporters this morning,
hut in a-te.ephone conversation vehe-
mently shouted his denial OF the pub
lished accounts of his wrath.
II had been said the Senator return
ing to Washington after a three-week
absence, at peace with the world and
bent on a good long rest, was greatly
disturbed by being served by white
waitress and annoyed by a newly i'm
ported Hawaiian string orchestra when
his first meal was served.
Accounts have 4 that the Senator
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
ROBBERS GET $1,000
IN SERIES OF CRIMES
Two Clothing Stores Burglarized;
Homes and Automobiles In
vaded; Three Men Held Up.

Cash, clothing and other property,
valued in all at about Sl,700. COM
prised the loot in hold-ups and thefts
being investigated by police today.
The Fitwell Clothing Co.. TOO block
of Seventh street, was burglarized of
clothing valued at S738.75. while Jack
Schlossberg. who conducts clothing
establishment in the same block, re-
ported wearing apparel worth 1910
stolen.
George H. Smith, 1000 block Of
Twenty-first place northeast. was
robbed of $275 in jewelry. and the
home of David L. McWhorter. 100
block of G street, was burglarized of
clothing worth SIS.
Hold-up men got $50 from Benjamin
A. Cleary. Rosemont, Va; 50 from
j. F. Richards, 1900 block of Morse
street northeast, and $3.50 from David
Jones, 1900 block of Sixteenth street.
Roy Powell, Toronto, Ontario. re-
ported clothing worth $40 was taken
from his car Thieves also visited the
machine of Minnie Green. 800 block
Of Potomac avenue southeast, taking
clothing valued at sos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
BEER TAX COLLECTIONS
SHOWED MARKED GAIN
Levies in District Last Month
$1,3O7.S5 Up, With Late
Reports Unheard.

Tax collections on the sale of beer in
the District last month show a marked
increase over the total paid on May
sales. the tax assessors Office reported
today.
Up to noon today. assessments on
June sales totaled SIS, 1926. with late
reports still coming in. Assessments for
May sales totaled Slabs. The average
tax paid by permit holders for June
sales was computed at S9.99 as COM
pared with an average of s9.42 for May
sales
There were about 500 permit holders
whose sales reports for June had not
been received up to noon today, but
tax officials believed that at least
large number of these would come In
today by mail.
Tax officials may be lenient with first
offenders, but insist they will recon-
mend revocations of the permits Of beer
vendors who in preceding months have
failed to comply with the law requiring
payment of sales tax before the 10th
Of the month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
Commission Cites Court RuI-
ing Limiting Power to
Consider Efficiency.
MANY APPEALS FILED
ALLEGING UNFAIRNESS
Employees Charge Juggling in
Order to Facilitate Dismissals
of Certain Workers.

The Civil Service Commission today
formally served notice on Government
workers that it has no power to review
efficiency ratings, but that this right
is vested only in the employing officers
Charges have been freely made since
the Government retrenchment program
that efficiency ratings had been juggled
in order to facilitate the dismissal Of
certain workers, and the commission S
statement was prompted by published
story to the effect that the commission
had promised to review such instances
and had been swamped with requests
for such action.
No Power to Review.
The commissions statement said 1t
had received, as might be expected,
"a number of complaints alleging unfair
efficiency ratings of dismissed en-
ployes," but, 1t added, 1t had made
no announcement Of an intention to
review these complaints to decide If
injustice had been done. Continuing,
it said:
The commission is not empowered.
either by the civil service act, the clas-
sification act of 1923 or by the excu-
tive order relating to separation on
dCCOullI VI IeOuCllOIl VI lOICc, W Ic-
view the fairness and equity of an
efficiency rating given to an employee
by his superior officer. The commits
sion's authority is limited in reduc-
tons of force to an investigation or
audit of the procedure incident to the
executive order on the subject.
Court Ruling Cited.
Numerous couyt decisions and opir-
ions of Attorneys General have de-
clared that such questions as the dill
gence, accuracy and general perform
ance of employees are not within the
control of the commission. 1t was
said by the Supreme Court of the
United States in one case that these
are matters peculiarly within the prov
ince of those who are in charge of and
the department, and
until Congress, by some special and
direct legislation, makes provision to
the contrary, we are clear that they
must be settled by those administrative
officers
The Civil Service Commission can
investigate to see that efficiency rat
ings are made according to the regula-
lions on the subject, and that removals
in the reduction of force are made
according to the law and the executive
order relating thereto. The commits
sion cannot determine the degree Of
the efficiency Of an employe."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
WATKINS TAKES OATH
AS BOARD MEMBER
Damascus Man Appointed Com
missioner by Richie
Enters Office.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ROCKVILLE. Md, July 11-Morgan
H. Watkins of Damascus, appointed by
Gov. Richie county commissioner for
the second commissioner district, COM
prising Clarksburg and Damascus cleo
ton districts, to succeed Archie w. Sou
der, deceased, took the oath Of office
before Clayton K Watkins. clerk Of the
Circuit Court here, yesterday afternoon,
and today attended his first meeting Of
the board.
Under the appointment he will serve
until the Fall of 1884, when an entire
new board will be chosen to serve four
years.
Gov. Richie was called upon to make
two appointments within few weeks to
the position assumed by Watkins. He
first name Souder to fill out the unex-
pired term of Sherwood Duvan, de-
ceased, and Souder had been commits
sioner less than three days when he
shot and killed himself, necessitating
the second appointment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-11
BODY OF CONWAY
BELIEVED FOUND
Friends of Drowned Man Sought
to Establish linden
tifcation.

Police this afternoon recovered from
the Potomac River body believed to be
that of Charles Conway, 40, OF Philadel-
phia, who was drowned early yesterday
while going to the rescue OF ccmpan-
ion whom he was said to have told jok-
ingly to jump overheard.
The body was floating not far from
the Arlington Memorial Bridge where
Conway was drowned. Conway was
thrown into the river when a small
boat he had climbed into carsized while
he was trying to make his way to Her
bert j. Spain. 270l P street, who had
jumped into the river.
Spain subsequently was rescued by
others who were in the larger boat in
which he and Conway had been cruis-
ing. Conway, however, sank beneath
the surface and never reappeared, 1t was
said.
Police are xeeking to locate friends
of Conway 81 5 to identify the body.