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Evening star., 1934-04-26
BANDIT WOUNDS
WOMAN IN HOLD.UP
Strikes Mrs. Ethel s. Weller With
Revolver, Then Flees With
Husbands Money.

Angered when she screamed for
help, bandit early today struck Mrs
Ethel S. Weller, 26, with gun, in
f1icting cash on her temple, and
fed after robbing her husband, M. N.
Weller of 81.
The Wellers, who live at the Cor
dova Apartments, Twentieth street
and Florida avenue, told the police
they had driven to Twelfth and Mon
roe streets northeast to deliver a let
ter when they were accosted by two
white men.
AS Weller, a real estate operator,
got out of his car one of the bandits
pointed a gun at him and demanded
his money. Alarmed, Mrs. Weller,
who remained in the machine, cried
out. and in an apparent attempt to
silence her the bandit struck her with
the gun. The holdup men then ran.
Mrs. Weller was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where three stitches were
taken to close the cut on her head
Evening star., 1934-04-26
DAUGHTERS OF 1872
PICK MRS. WEINMANN
Arkansas Clubwoman and Politi-
cal Leader National Society
President.

Mrs. John Francis Weinmann.
prominent Arkansas clubwoman and
political leader, was elected president
OF the National Society, United States
Daughters of 1912. at the closing ses-
sion yesterday of the societys 42d
associate council meeting at the Will
lard Hotel. Mrs. Weinmann defeated
Mrs. j. Harris Baughman of Louisiana
for the post.
More than 200 delegates and dozen
pages attended the meeting here from
various parts Of the country.
Other officers elected yesterday were
Mrs. Daniel w. Snyder of West Vir-
g1nia, second vice president, and Mrs.
Willis Hitzhing of Tennessee, librarian.
The curator of the society was pre-
sented with a miniature Bible, dated
1913, and deck of cards which once
belonged to Commodore Stephen De-
catur, by the New Jersey unit of the
society at the closing session.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
TRADE BODY OFFICERS
POLLED ON PARKING BAN
Leaders of Four Associations
Asked to Indorse Position
of Special Committee.

The directors and officers of Wash
ington's major trade bodies were being
polled today for Endorsement OF the
stand taken by their representatives
on the downtown parking ban at two
special meetings yesterday.
1t is expected the recommendations
which grew out Of yesterdays ses-
sions will be approved by the govern
ing bodies of the four trade groups
Board Of Trade, Chamber Of Com.
merce. Merchants and Manufacturers
Association and Seventh Street Busi-
ness Mems Association. The nature
Of the proposals has not been re-
vealed.
Arrangements are being made for a
delegation representing the trade
organizations To call at the District
Building tomorrow to present for
mally the recommendations of these
bodies for substitute plan for the
drastic parking elimination on F. G
and Seventh streets.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
TEN TRADE BOARD
POSRUP TO VOTE
Election of Directors Will
Be Held at Annual Meet.
ing Tonight.

Ten new directors will be elected
by the Washington Board of Trade
at its annual meeting in the May
flower Hotel at 1880 o'clock tonight.
1t will be the last meeting of the
entire board until October.
Fourteen have been nominated for
the 10 posts. Officers of the board
are chosen at a subsequent meeting
of the directors.
The official list of nominees to be
voted on tonight includes DR.. Level
lyn Jordan, attorney; Ralph L. Polio,
manager, Mayflower Hotel; A. C..
Case, vice president and general man.
ager, Palais Royal; Theodore w.
Noyes, editor, The Star; Adelbert w.
Lee. real estate man; Lloyd B. Will
son, president, Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co.; George c. Shinn, at
torney; Odell s. Smith, secretary
treasurer, Norfolk & Washington
Steamboat Co.; E. Murphy, presi-
dent, E. ]. Murphy Co.; John H.
Hanna, president, Capital Transit Co.;
Fred A. Smith, secretary-treasurer,
Floyd E. Davis Co.: j. Harry Cum
ningham, president. Lanman Engrav-
ing Co.; E. c. Graham, president,
Hamilton National Bank, and Robert
v. Fleming, president, Riggs Ma
tional Bank.
Richmond B. Keech will be Judge of
the election, with Raymond M. Flo
rance, c. P. A., auditor
The Membership Committee of the
board will be honored at the meeting
tonight for work accomplished during
the last year, resulting in the addi-
tion of more than 400 new members.
Fred A. Smith is chairman of the
committee.
An entertainment program has been
arranged for the meeting.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Continents Aren't Drifting
Il part, Observation Indicates
Scientists Disproue Theory That Arose
From Jigsa,O Nature of
World Map.

the past 60 years. Thus he was able
to obtain more than 1000 COMPARE
sons of data. He found, he claims,
that any prediction made on the
cycle theory for this period would
have had just so per cent chance OF
being right. In other words, 1t would
have been no better than an outright
guess.
Kincer concluded that, so far as
can be determined from his own sta
tistical analysis of the records, there
is no evidence that weather repeats it
self in any established order. Actual
ly, he said, 1873 of such cycles have
been proposed. ranging from periods
of few months to 260 years. and
based on all sorts of data from sun
spots to crop yields, but none of them
yield results which would justify
forecasts.
The apparent cycles which have
been allegedly demonstrated by highly
complicated mathematical procedures.
he insisted. could not be made use of
in weather forecasting. For such a
purpose, he said. any cycle which was
not almost obvious once the data was
assembled, would be practically
useless.
New Members Elected.
At the annual business meeting of
the National Academy yesterday after
noon the following new members were
elected:
Dean Vannevar Bush, electrical en-
gineer, Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology; Dr. Herbert S. GaSser,
physiologist, Cornell University Med
ical School, New York City; DR.. E.
Newton Harvey, physiologist, Prince
ton University; Prof. Dennis r. Hoag-
land, chemist, University of Cali
fornia; Prof. Ernest o. Lawrence,
physicist, University of California.
Prof. James F. Norris, chemist,
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology; DR.. John Howard Northrop,
biochemist. Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research, New York: Prof
Charles Palache, geologist, Harvard
University; DR.. Thomas Milton
Rivers, physician, Rockefeller Insti-
ute for Medical Research, New York;
Dr. Edward Sapir, anthropologist,
Yale University.
DR.. Elvin Charles Stakman, plant
pathologist. University of Minnesota;
Prof. Harry S. Vandiver, mathema-
tician, University of Texas: Prof. Nor
bert Wiener. mathematician. Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology; Prof
Sewall Green Wright, zoologist, Uni
versity of Chicago.
New foreign associates:
DR.. v. F. K. Bjerknes, meteorologist,
University of Oslo. Norway. and DR..
Robert Robinson, chemist, oxford
University, England
New members of the council:
Prof. H. s. Jennings, zoologist, Johns
Hopkins University, and Prof. Roger
Adams, chemist, University Of Illinois.
DR.. Thomas Hunt Morgan. geneticist,
California Institute of Technology,
was elected foreign secretary for four
years beginning July !, 1884.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
DR.. U. G. H0UCK FUNERAL
SERVICES TOMORROW
Associate Director of Bureau of
Animal Industry to Be
Buried in Scranton.

Funeral services for DR.. Ulysses
Grant Houck, 68, associate director
of the Bureau of Animal Industry,
Agriculture Department, who died
yesterday at his residence, 1922 N
street, will, be held tomorrow at
Scranton. Pa.
A native Of Luzerne County, Pa,
Dr. Houck studied at the State Nor
NAL School, Bloomsbury, Pa, and
later was graduated from Dickinson
Seminary. He received the veterinary
degree of v. M. D from the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania in 1895.
In 1896 he was made an assistant
inspector in the Federal Bureau of
Animal Industry and was stationed
at Chicago. For the last 16 years
he directed activities of the bureaus
division Of hog cholera control.
DR.. Houck was pioneer in the or
ganization Of the enlarged meat in
spection service under the 1906 law.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
TESTS TO BE CONDUCTED
FOR ENGINEERING POSTS

A group of engineering examinations
was announced today by the Civil
Service Commission. Included are
chief topographic craftsman, at a sal
ary of $500; principal topographic
craftsman, $4,000; senior topographic
craftsman, $4,000; topographic drafts
man, 81 800, and assistant topographic
craftsman, $500. Another examina-
ton to be held is that for senior scien-
tific aide, tAonomic entomolgy. at
$4,000.
These pay rates all are subject to
the statutory deduction. Applications
will be received until May %, and de-
tails may be had at the Civil Service
Commission, Seventh and r streets.
Evening star., 1934-04-26

not be two sets of tracks on Four
teenth street between H street and
New York avenue. But the traffic in
this knot is so heavy that any change
must have very long and careful
study. Among plans under consider
alton for solving this are to take the
old Washington Railway & Electric
Co. cars coming down Seventeenth
street and instead of making them
turn left into H street, let them con-
tinue straight south on Seventeenth
street to Pennsylvania avenue. thus
getting this traffic out Of Fourteenth
street. But studies have not pro-
gressed far enough to permit of q
conclusive answer to this and many
other problems inherited from the
days of competing street car systems.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
ATTACHE REGRETS LENIENCY
WHEN THIEF ROBS HIM AGAIN

Count Pierre de Leusse, attache of
the French embassy, was just q little
bit sorry today he had been such a
good samaritan" to a young man
whom he caught stealing his gasoline
last night-for the culprit not only
stole the cap to the diplomats fuel
tank, but smashed one of his tenders
as we'll.
Count de Leusse discovered the
young man helping himself to the
gasoline when he left his home. 1901
Garfield street to attend a ball. He
found a rubber hose leading from his
tank to the tank Of the young mans
car.
The latter, a tall, blond young man,
begged the diplomat not to call po-
Evening star., 1934-04-26
DR.. SCOTT TO OPEN
LAWYERS SESSION
International Law Society
Annual Meeting Will
Begin Tonight.

DR.. James Brown Scott, president
of the American Society of Inter-
national Law, will open the twenty
eighth annual meeting of the society
tonight at the Willard Hotel with an
address on the treaty making power
Of the United States.
Another speaker at the meeting,
which will begin at 8 o'clock, will be
DR.. Leo S. Rowe, director general of
the Pan American Union. He will
discuss the significance of the Seventh
International Conference of American
States.
Reception to Follow.
An informal reception and social
hour will follow the meeting. The
society also will be in session tomor-
row and Saturday.
Charles E. Martin, professor of in
ternationai law and political science
at the University of Washington. will
speak on international regulations of
tariffs tomorrow at 10 am. Francis
Deak. Columbia University Law
School, will lead a discussion on the
same subject
In the afternoon Clement L. Bouve
a member of the District bar, will talk
on the legal status of aliens under
Soviet Veaties, while T. A. Taracouzio,
head OF the Slavic department. Har-
ward law library, will discuss the ef-
feet of applied communism on the
principles Of international law.
Night Session Speakers.
Speakers at the night session will
include Huston Thompson, former
chairman of the Federal Trade Com
mission; Judge Martin T. Mantoh;
George Nebolsine of New York and
Edgar burlington of this city.
After a business session Saturday
the meeting will close with a
banquet at 7:30 o'clock at the Will
lard Hotel. Speakers at the banquet
will be Undersecretary Of State Phil
lips, Alexander A. Troyanovsky, Rus
sian Ambassador; Judge Florence E.
Allen and Frederic r. Coudert of New
York
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Firemen Called
For III Wife in
Ambulance DELAY

Arnold Yanovich, a grocer, of
1923 S street, wanted to get his
wife to a hospital in hurry this
morning after she had suffered a
heart attack.
He called the Emergency Hos
pital ambulance and then waited.
He put in another call to the
hospital and waited again.
After the third call, he decided
to do something drastic. He went
down to the corner and turned in
a fire alarm.
Just as the engines arrived, the
ambulance pulled up in front of
his house. The doctor treated
his wife and said she could re-
main at her home. She was re-
ported much improved this after
noon.
Evening star., 1934-04-26

lice, explaining he did not want his
mother to learn he had borrowed"
her automobile. Besides, the young
man added, he had not stolen even
enough gasoline to get his engine
started.
Feeling sorry for the young man,
Count de Leusse went into his house
to telephone for a cab to give the
youths car push.
Returning few minutes later, the
count found the young man had
driven away. after finishing the in
terrupted job Of siphoning the gaso-
line from the diplomats tank. And,
in his haste to get away, the young
man had ruined one Of Count de
Leusse's rear tenders and had taken
the cap to the tank, besides.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
WOMAN DIES HERE
IN HOTEL PLUNGE
Ashes of Mrs. Hermine
Fasoia to Be Sent to
Native Germany.

The body Of Mrs Hermine Fasola,
40. who slashed her wrist with a
safety-razor blade and then leaped
from a fourth-story window of the
Chastleton Hotel last night, was Gre
mated today, and the ashes will be
sent to her native Germany. Her
husband, DR.. Ferdinand Fasola, a
Belgian newspaper correspondent, said
the cremation was in accordance with
her last wish, as expressed in note
found in her pocketbook.
Ill for Several Weeks.
Mrs. Fasola, who had been i'll for
several weeks, was found in the hotel
courtyard shortly after 7 pm. by
Claude Novarro and Bradley Clark.
employees of the establishment. She
died in Emergency Hospital about
two hours later.
Mrs. FaSola, a member Of a wealthy
German family. had left her husband
and a friend in the lobby. after ex-
cusing herself with the explanation
she did not feel well.
AS pUlICG ItCOilStIuCbtQ Lie SulClQc,
Mrs. Fasola went to her room, re-
moved her coat. replaced her shoes
with bedroom slippers, took her rings
of and placed them in her purse,
removed the screen from the window
cut her wrist and then climbed over
the window sill and dropped to the
ground.
Note Gives No Clue.
The note found in her pocket book
offered no explanation, merely re-
questing that her body be cremated
i'll the event of death. 1t was written
in both English and German.
Earlier in the day, her husband said,
she had gone to Sacred Heart
Catholic Church and obtained the
blessing Of a priest. She was not a
Catholic, however.
Mrs. Fasola, sister Of Adolf Koerner.
wealthy German importer, had been
in this country about four years She
became the wife of Dr. Fasola about
a year ago and, since then. had been
living with him in New York. The
couple came to Washington about a
month ago.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald.
after investigating with Detective
Sergt. John G, Dalglish Of the homi-
eide squad. issued a certificate Of
suicide.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Wheat Exports Decline.

OTTAWA, April 26 LP.-Export
clearances Of wheat for the week
ending April 20 amounted to 1,497. .598
bushels, decrease of 758, 900 bushels
as compared with the previous week.
according to report issued yester-
day by the Dominion Bureau of Sta
tistics. A decrease of 746,757 bushels
was shown in comparison with the
corresponding week last year when
2,444,355 bushels were exported.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Marlboro Licenses.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April 26
(SpeciaD Marriage licenses have
been issued here to the following
Win, lsor F. Brown, 81, Brendywine,
Md, and Evelyn l.. Herbert, 81, Pts
Getaway, Md; Ernest H. Mulligan, "a,
Washington, and Ella P. Nagel, l8,
Colmar Manor. Md: John S. Mansery,
jr., 81, and Margaret E. Stagg, %, both
of Washington.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
POLICMAN'S KIN DIES
jeremiah Hepburn Was Father
of Prince Georges Officer.

BY stafi Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April 26.
Jeremiah Hepburn, 83, father Of
Sergt. Arthur w. Hepburn of the
Prince Georges County police force.
died at his home. 318 Charming street
northeast, Washington, yesterday. He
had been in i'll health for more than
a year.
A native of Washington, Mr. Hep
burn was carpenter by trade For
many years he worked at Indian Head.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Eugenia Hepburn; a daughter, Mrs.
Mabel I. Campbell; Sergt. Hepburn,
and several grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at his
home tomorrow at 2 pm. Interment
will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Business Men to Meet.

The Central Business Mems Associa-
ton will hold its annual meeting and
election Of officers tomorrow at 8
pm. at the Hamilton Hotel. Arthur
Clarendon Smith, president. will pre-
side. The meeting will be followed by
q buffet supper and entertainment.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
BYSTANDER is SHOT
Second Man Hurt in Pool Room

Seconu MAN Hurt IN Pool Room
Brawl-Third Escapes.
An innocent bystander was shot in
the stomach yesterday during a pool
room brawl in the $500 block of M
street.
George White, "a, colored, of 2117
N street, was shot as Morris johnson.
80, colored, sought to defend himself
against an unidentified assailant WELD
ing billiard cue. johnson was struck
on the head, and both he and White
were taken to Emergency Hospital.
The cue wielder, known only as
Country" was being sought today by
police.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Colombian Trade Gains.

Increased governmental expendi-
lures of public works and national
defense are causing a business i'm
provement in Colombia.
The Washington times., 1934-04-26
HORIZONTAL.

HORIZONTAL
HTntention
-Unit Of weight
What 10 the capital Of Della.
ware?
f2-Stalk
14-Possesses
16-City in Nevada
17-Of whom did Salome request
the head Of John the Baptist?
19-Through
21-Opponent
23-What is the most popular opera
Of Bizee?
27-One who rents property
29-Trough for carrying bricks
3O-Exclamation
32-Nobleman
33-Melodies
35-Alcoholic beveragH
37-French cap
S9-Make lace
40-Use Of a word in a fgurative
way
42-Conceited
44-Note Of the scale
45-Unit
46-In what city is the Reichstag
building?
4S-Impose as a necessary result
5O-Threads introduced beneath the
skin
62-Dandy
64-Antitoxin
6e-Animal unusually small Of its
kind
59-Moist
61-Feminine name
62-What republic occupies the
greater part of the 1berian
peninsula?
63-Pull along after
64-Venomous snake
VERTICAL
kind Of tree
@Passage in the brain
@Deserve
1Exclamation
6-Short sleep
8-Correlative Of either
9-What state exceeds all others
in the production Of maple SUI
gar?
10-Printer's measure
11-Red with gray or white thickly
interspersed
The Washington times., 1934-04-26
Introducing Mother

introducing MOCner
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
How should I introduce my
mother, who has m arried d
again, to my friends? # I say.
Mother, may I present Mr..
Brown" the person being pre-
sensed doesn't know my moth"
er's name, which, Of course, diff"
fers from mine. If say. "This
is my mother, Miss Smith, the
situation Is the same.
Being secretary of a club. I
have to write the invitations to
the speakers, also the thank
you notes that are Necessary. I
have been using the same kind
Of paper as this letter is writ
ten on, and the same form for
the letter. Is This correct? F.
In family introductions, even
when the name does differ from
ours, It is not customary to
mention the name. but it is
Derfectly correct to do this Of
we ~asn. For instance, you may
say. 'This is my mother, Mrs.
Alien, Miss Smith"
Yc.af .etter paper Is very
GOOD looking, although 1t does
seem a bit small for anything
but nuite short notes. However,
your handwriting is small, and
/ think it would be better, II
you use this note paper, for
you to spread out your note q
bit more.
That's is. instead Of crowding
The Washington times., 1934-04-26

l13-Changed position
15-Faction
1S-What famous river rises In the
Black Forest of Germany and
flows into the Black Sea?
20-Egyptian sun god
22-Body Of water
24-Greek letter
25-What was the FIRST name Of the
American poet who wrote "Ths
Fall Of the House of Usher?
26-Portion
28-Mental firmness
31-What 10 the second In sixe Of
the Great Lakes?
33-Set steps for passing over D
wall (pl.)
34-Boil slowly
36-Of what state is Butte the mose
populous city?
3S-Sense organs
41-Vegetable
43-Saltpeter
46-Forcible stroke
47-Large water wheel
48-Makes a mistake
49-Provided that
51-Hard-shelled fruit (pl)
53-Fondle
55-Plan
57-Aloft
5s-Note Of the
60-Towards
The Washington times., 1934-04-26
Correct Manners
BY Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman

your two pages, as you did in
your letter to me, space it so
that it covers the four sheets.
Don't you think that would be
better? Your handwriting Is
very good and interesting look
ing. And your letter form is
almost perfect, with excellent
and gracious sentence construc-
ton and a definite appreciation
of punctuation! In the head.
ing of your letter, spell out the
name of your fine State, and
then your letter form will be
perfect!
A Dentist Bares His Teeth
Dear Mrs. Beckman:
I hope that you will not be
offended if a mere dentist Of
fers a suggestion for your
reply to the lady who is wor-
ried over which she should re.
move first, her hat or her
coat, in a dental office.
think most dentists would
appreciate her worrying over
whether she should wear a
party gown or a sensible street
dress; whether she should eat
garlic or onions before or after
her appointment; and if she
should pay her bill that day or
three months later.
I think that you should tell
her to use good common sense
and she will not ask such q
siIIv nl1nskion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17

Z5,O00 are workers. Twelve thousand
of these are. still unemployed even
though the N. R. A. and c. w. A.
placed almost 1900 men and women
on more or less temporary jobs. Many
Of those who do work are not earn
no enough to live on and add to
- thousands being supported by
private charities and federal aid.
Where, in a city like Brockton,
worker and manufacturer, business
nan and banker walked about in a
daze, here there is an optimistic COM
olacency. Business feels cheerful be-
cause things have picked UP some 20
20 80 per cent In different fields due
chiefly to the G. w. A. money flow
'ng in here.
Among the workers the same COM
?lacency exists, not because things
are any better for the overwhelming
majority Of them, but apparently be-
cause OF an innate acquiescence to
whatever Is. They are getting crumbs
Of bread and they seem satisfied
until things get better" H aa
Descendants OF Old Pioneers
That Is one OF the puzzling things
about this area Not one out of every
hundred Is foreigner. They are
almost all native whites. descendants