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contrary, he said, "the political con-
troll Of business eventually will give
us chaos. 1t will delay the working
out of a permanent solution. We
should not reject everything in the
old economic order. but should build
upon it. We should not set aside our
old civil and political liberties and
our representative form of govern
ment, but should adapt that form Of
government to modern needs.
IF I did not believe that with all
their faults democracy, representative
government, free speech and a free
press, were best suited to the genius
of our people should not be alarmed.
If I did not believe that in the long
run the private ownership Of property
and its use without undue political
restraint was desirable. I should not
be disturbed at Communstic or Fascist
tendencies Countries not so long &C
customed to free representative gov
ernment may not find despotism OBJ
jectionable For Italians and Rus
SLAMS 1t may be entirely appropriate.
But in America believe that We have
been working along better lines, more
suited to our own. habits Of thought
and more likely to lead to q per-
manent solution Of the problems Of
this age"
Evening star., 1934-03-27
BY the Associated Press.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
27.-Heavy water may show scientists
how to manufacture chemicals in cool
places instead of some Of the expen-
sive, high-heat crucibles common in
present industry.
This substance, which looks and
tastes like water, and was virtually
non-existent a year ago, today brought
together an all-day symposium OF
some of the country's most disttn-
guished chemists to tell their discov-
cries at the American Chemical So
ciety meeting.
DR.. Hugh S. Taylor. head of Prince
ton University's chemistry depart
ment told Of mixing the ingredients
of heavy water at hundreds Of de-
grees below zero. The water Is heavy
because its hydrogen is double weight.
In the intense cold the Princeton
chemists brought together both the
heavy hydrogen and the lightweight
kind, which forms ordinary water.
Hydrogen Needs No Heat.
In spite OF the cold the heavy and
the light hydrogen atoms reacted"
freely with each other. They mixed
together to form various kinds Of hy-
drogen.
This proved, DR.. Taylor said. that
in industrial synthesis, where high
heat is used, it is not the hydrogen
which needs the expensive tempera-
lures, but some of the other chemical
substances.
It indicates the possibility that
chemicals can be found that will re-
act under low temperatures, Dr. Tay-
lor said, resulting in tremendous
Improvements in the yields Of alco-
b and ammonia.
He told also Of the curious action
of engines placed in heavy water.
Engines are minute chemicals. usu-
ally crystals, that control most life
processes. One such engine ac-
counts for the fermentation Of yeast.
But in heavy water, DR.. Taylor said,
the yeast ferments sugar only one
ninth as fast as in ordinary water.
Evening star., 1934-03-27
.|CKES PRESENTS
REPORT 0NP.W.A.
AIlotments to February IS
.TotaIed So, 1893, ,207,Oe8,
He Tells Senate.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes has forwarded to
the Senate a special report on his
stewardship of the $1,000 900 900 pub
lie works fund in response to resolu-
tion by Senator La Toilette, Repub-
lican, Of Wisconsin.
Up to February IS, Ickes reported,
allotments totaling s2,39S, ,207, ,Oes had
been made. These funds had ac-
counted for the direct employment of
4,6l3,925 persons at the latest date
for which figures were available. This
estimate, he pointed out, included civil
works employees and those in the
Civilian Conservation Corps. Both of
these programs are financed from
public works funds.
Withdrawals Not Stated.
While no statistics were given on
indirect jobs created by the fund,
1ckes said indirect and industrial labor
resulting from public works construc-
ton was lin excess of the direct
labor"
The allotments were divided between
Sl,l00,983,l3l by legislative act or ex-
ecutive order. $l,378,846,755 for Fed
eral projects and S818,377,212 for nom
Federal projects. No figures were
gwen on actual money Withdrawals
from the Treasury.
The Secretary reported 6,1O6 appli-
catlons Tor loans and grants amount
ing TO S3,423,0 ,024,774 still pending be-
fore his organization.
Rescinded Housing Allotments.
In commenting on private and
semi-public low cost housing and slum
clearance projects. Ickes said:
Experience has unfortunately
shown that many of the private prof.
ects submitted were conceived rather
as a means of utilizing unsuccessful
land subdivisions controlled by the
applicants, than as a means of meet
ing definite need for low cost hous-
ing"
The Public Works Administration
recently rescinded housing allotments
totaling $23,000,000 and roade the sum
available to the Federal Housing
Corporation which is preparing to
begin several projects Immediately.
Evening star., 1934-03-27
Bandit Frightened Away.

PICTOU, Nova Scotia R.-The BAN
dit who attempted to hold up Joe Ma
har, butcher, laid his plans carefully
enough. Knowing Mahar brought the
days receipts home with him IN his
wagon every night. he waited for him
in a quiet lane leading to the house.
Previously he had cut SMahar's tele-
phone wire. He had brought a rope
to tie Mahar and further delay notifi-
cation of the police. When Mahar
drove up the lane the bandit poked q
rifle ct him, ordered him down of
the wagon. Mahar got down-on the
other side of the wagon, ratified a
coffee grinder he held in his hand to
sound like the chamber Of q revolver
turning over. The bandit got the
idea-and ran.
Evening star., 1934-03-27
NAVAL AIR STATION
TO GET new HEAD
Comdr. Alfred E. Montgomery to
Become Commanding Officer =
in June.

The Naval Air Station at Anacostia
will have a new commanding officer in
June, when Comdr. Alfred E. Mont
gomery. now on duty in the Office OF
Naval Operations, is scheduled to take
over the job. Comdr. William &
Harrill is now temporarily in COM
mand.
Ccmdr. Montgomery present as
signment deals with the movements OF
aircraft throughout the service. He Is
a native of Omaha, where he was born
June -, 1891, and graduated from the
Naval Academy in 1912. He was in
submarines before he took up flying at
Pensacola, Fla. Later he commanded
observation plane squadrons and was
senior aide on the staff of the COM
mander of the Aircraft Squadron OF
the Scouting Force. In the Asiatic, ne
served on the experimental aircraft
carrier Langley and assisted the COM
mander in chief in aviation problems
in the Orient.
He became a commander in April.
1882. and has served in the Office OF
Naval Operations since June last. He
will take over command of the Naval
Air Station at Anacostia when the big
shift in naval commands takes place,
some three months hence.
Evening star., 1934-03-27
Heavy Water Seen Obuiating
Need Of High.Heat Crucibles
american Chemical Society Group
Hears Revelation of Ne,o Properties
of Mysterious Substance.

Another engine, catalase, found In
the blood, works only half as fast
in the presence Of heavy water. This
engines job is to destroy the hydro
gen peroxide in blood.
The retarding effect Of heavy wa
ter. DR.. Taylor suggested. explains
why 1t has been found poisonous" to
small fish and plants. It is not, he
said. toxic like carbolic acid, but cuts
down the normal speed Of life proc
eSses.
Sugar dissolved in the pine trees
sap is an essential medium for pro-
duction Of the South's annual crop
Of turpentine and resin. Discovery
of this sugar was reported by J. Al
fred Hall and DR.. Eloise Gerry Of the
Forest Products Laboratory Of the
United States Department Of Agri-
culture, at Madison, Wis.
How a pine tree produces turpen-
tine and resin is still a mystery. There
is none in the tree. 1t forms at a
cut in the bark. and has been called
a wound" product.
Thinking Takes No Energy.
Close examination of the turpen.
tine and resin exuding from pines
shows that it contains minute amounts
Of sugar. The sugar seems to be the
secret Of the pines ability to send
through its sap the materials which
form the turpentine and the resin.
Thinking may seem like hard job,
but some kinds, at least, require just
exactly no human energy whatever.
This was reported by Robert C. Lewis
and Gladys L. Fredericks Of the Uni
versity of Colorado. In investigating
the amount Of energy consumed by
the body at rest they noticed that
even a slight tenseness Of muscles.
even when person is unaware Of 1t,
raises his energy rate.
For one man the rate jumped 145
per cent from holding the muscles of
his arms rigid. Finally they tried
having patients Just imagine that
their muscles were tense. This form
of mental exercise registered exactly
zero in the energy scale.
Evening star., 1934-03-27
TABLEAU DEPICTS
COUNTY EPISODES
High School Students Pre-
sent st. Marys Outline
in Play.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

= LEONARDTOwN, Md, March 81
A tableau outlining the early history
of st. Marys County and Colonial
Maryland was presented by students
OF Margaret Brent High School here
last night at the Maryland day cele-
bration held in Duke Auditorium by
the st. Marys County Oratorical So
ciety.
Attired in Colonial costumes and
wigs the students re-enacted before an
audience that taxed the capacity of
the auditorium the principal events In
Maryland's early history, including the
first mass on st. Clements Island.
James Cough played the role of Fa-
ther Andrew White, first missionary
in the Colonies.
The celebration was presided over
by DR.. Charles v. Hayden, former
member of the State Legislature and
president of the society, while the
principal address was made by States
Attorney Herbert O'Conor of Baltimore,
who spoke on the history Of the coun-
ty and the objects of the Tercentenary
Commission.
Henry Burroughs, jr., of Chaptico,
a student at Margaret Brent High
School. was presented by State SEN
ator j. Alan Coad with the medal
which he won in the oratorical con-
test held by the society two months
ago.
Evening star., 1934-03-27
BY Gable to The Star.


AUCKLAND, New Zealand, March
27.-"Admiral Byrd is a regular fel-
low and treated us fine. He called us
the three musketeers' and just be-
fore our return be chatted with us
and wished us luck"
Michael Pitcher, one of the three
New Zealand stowaways who sailed
to Little America last December
aboard the steamship Jacob Rupert,
thus warmly praised the leader of the
South Pole expedition on the arrival
of the trio here after three months Of
thrills in the Antarctic. His COM
panions were Robert E. Christian and
Geoffrey B. Wrey, also Of Auckland.
The eldest of the three is % years old.
Every returning member Of the
crew of the Bear Of Oakland, which
brought us back, received a testi-
monial," Pitcher said, Ito which Ad-
miral Byrd added few lines in his
own hand commencing their good
work.
"Madhouse Aboard Ship
Although accustomed to knocking
around the world, Pitcher did not find
his experiences aboard the Byrd flag
ship and at Little America exactly
to his liking.
1T was a sort of madhouse on
board the Jacob Rupert" he said,
with the incessant yapping of dogs,
the cackling of poultry and the low
ing of COWS in competition with the
jargon of many tongues and dialects.
At Little America we went to the
talkies in the company of cows and
dogs and poultry and tried to dis
tinguish the synchronized utterances
of the film actors above the medley
of farmyard noises.
Personally, I am not so keen on
the ice. There is nothing attractive
about being shut up in darkness for
months. I could enjoy knocking
around the frozen wastes, but sitting
down and waiting for an opportunity
to do something does not appeal to
me-"
The Americans love Of the dra-
matte was brought home to Pitcher
in the course of several incidents.
"A sensation can apparently be
written by any American into SEEM
ingly commonplace incidents" he OBJ
served. The misfortune of sledge
dog which fell overheard on the way
south, the fate of two fowls which
tumbled down a ventilator into tin
of hot water and speculation on the
yield of ice to each person in the
world if the icebergs were collected
Evening star., 1934-03-27

the allegations are true, we will have
to revive it under the new DEAL"
Various members Of the professional
group in Washington declined to dis
cuss the Writ charges. taking the at
titude that there had been no spe-
cific allegations against any particular
individual.
Privately. some of them called the
whole affair "joke."
Evening star., 1934-03-27
Admr. Byrd Is Praised by Trio
Who Sto,oed A,oay aboard Ship
Testimonials Are Presented to Each
Member of Bear of Oakland on
Return to Ne,u Zealand.

and apportioned were some Of the
items broadcast to the world.
I'VE certainly got thrill when the
Jacob Rupert narrowly escaped dis
aster through the breaking up Of the
ice. Judging by the stir created In
America, people there got an even
bigger kick. This happened in the
Bay of Whales when we were unload
ing the stores. was one Of party
of eight men marooned on an ice foe
when the fringe Of the pack ice broke
suddenly.
"The ship was tied to the ice by
cables secured to timbers buried in
holes in the ice field some distance
from the sea. An alarm was given
that the ice was breaking about 80
yards from the ice anchors. Commo-
dore Gjertsen gave orders for the
party to cast off the berthing ropes
and I was among-th seven men who
rushed with Capt. Verleger to do the
job.
"As soon as we had leaped ashore
and cast off the ropes the ship start
ed to steam away from the ice. We
WC4C dull4Ou1ihCd IVA . oCIOlAN, d1ld
then through rnegaphone Commo-
dore Gjertsen shouted to us to make
our way to the Pressure Ridge camp.
The gap in the ice was slowly widen
ing as we cleared 1t with leap and
started for the camp few miles away.
Relates Personal Experience.
"Some 20 men were employed at
the east and west caches making their
way with the stores to Little America
We joined them. For three days we
had to wait for the Jacob Ruppert's
return and suffered some discomfort
through the lack of suitable clothing
and snow glasses.
Another experience, less fully
chronicled, perhaps, caused another
chap and me more concern. The sea
front of the ice was continually
crumbling and disappearing. BY the
time we sailed for New Zealand on
the Bear of Oakland the original land
ing site on the ice had vanished. On
this particular day George Kerr and
I raced to knock out the toggles of
a bow hawser and by the time we
had run back toward the ship she was
moving. The gangway was out of
commission. We ran along the treach-
erous edge of the ice until We saw
ropes hanging from the starboard
bow. 1t was a case of risking jump
or being left. as the Americans termed
1t, to browse on the ice. We made
it and dangled between the side of
the ship and the ice until we were
pulled on board"
Evening star., 1934-03-27
U. S. Refuses $40 Donation.

ATLANTA R).-A resident of Dali
ton, Ga, sought to pay the Govern
ment $40 income tax which he didn't
owe. IT just naturally want to pay
something, and am enclosing my
check for $50" he wrote to the In
come Tax Bureau. Il pay State and
county taxes and see no reason why
I should not pay some Government
tax. ] am proud of our Government
arid feel we should all put our shoul-
ders to the wheel" The check was
returned. The Government is not
permitted to accept such donations.
Evening star., 1934-03-27
NEW VOTING PRECINCT
CONSIDERED IN LAUREL
Mayor Fetty Calls Council Meet
ing to Study Record Bal
lot Prospect.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LAUREL. Md. March 27.-Anticl-
pating record vote in the municipal
elections April 16, Mayor John H
Fetty has called a special meeting oil
the Town Council for tonight to con-
slider creating an additional precinct
An indication of the widespread in
terest in the coming election was
manifest yesterday when 230 names
were added to the books by the regis
tration officers. The Board of Regis
tration Officers will sit again on
April 2.
Two complete states are in the field
One, the citizens ticket" is headed
by Councilman Walter D. Lanahan
His opponent in the race for mayor is
Capt. Julian v. Anderson, commander
of the local National Guard company,
who heads the progressive ticket"
Evening star., 1934-03-27

ernmental omnibus with all the bur-
dens of business. Their simple faith
in the adequacy Of politics to solve the
intricate problems of business and
economics is amazing.
In Adjustment Process.
Government as well as business Is
still in the process of adjustment to
the problems of the machine age The
machine age in America is not over
so years old. Sixty years ago the
country was agricultural and nom
mechanical. It was not very different
from the United States in the time of
the Revolution or England in the
reign of Elizabeth. The age OF ma
chinery has brought new problems.
That they have not been solved is not
surprising. To give up the orderly
processes of study and careful ex-
Fermentation and throw the regi-
mentation Of business upon our made
quate political bodies is an act Of de-
spair. not a solution. New burdens
should be added only in proportion to
the improvement evidenced by Gov
SAAAASAb AA Aso SaPpSAty w HdlluiC
them. Many people have been stam-
,peded into the belief that our old eco
nomic system has completely failed
that it has no elements of good-and
they would try out something new, on
the theory that anything is better
than the old order. They have as
serted so frequently that the whole
economic system has failed that they
have been convinced by their own
constant repetition. They would pre-
fer any kind of experimentation to
efforts to improve the old order Hav-
ing dwelt so long upon the failure of
business, they have forgotten the in
competence of government.
Sees False Presentation.
DR.. West said that in representing
chaos as the only alternative to gov
ernmental economic control, the ad-
vocates of new economic order pre-
sent the dilemma falsely. On the
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members Of Eta Chapter, and were
entertained by Mrs. Regina M. Haines,
Mrs. Herbert A. Wadsworth and Mrs.
Merwin H. Browne during their stay
here.
Gamma Chapter. Sigma Epsilon
Sorority is giving week end party
for its members this week end at
Sherwood Forest. Among those at
tending are: Mrs. Frances Earnshaw,
Miss Dorothy Earnshaw, Miss Cathryn
Shuttle, Miss Elizabeth Owens, Miss
Julienne Ibarra. Miss Virginia Rueth,
Mrs. Maurine SINNERS, Miss Lillian
Harnell, Miss Elmore johnson and
Miss Lillian K. Lindquist. Several
other members are expected to drive
down today to spend the day with
this group.
At the last meeting Of Gamma
Chapter Miss Elmore johnson was
elected delegate to the annual nation
al convention of Sigma Epsilon, to
be held in Atlantic City, N. j., this
September. Mrs. Anna Stone was
elected as alternate.
Nominations of officers for the COM
ing year will take place at the chap
ter's next meeting on Tuesday, June
IL, at the home of Miss Lillian K.
Lindquist.
Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Gamma
will hold its regular monthly meeting
today at the home of DR.. Swisher, 2
Waverly avenue, Garrett Park. Those
without cars or who do not know the
way will meet at the north side Of
Chevy Chase Circle at o'clock. Mrs
George Pitt, jr., will be chairman of
the hostesses in charge of the social
program.
The following new officers will be
installed: Miss Gladys Powell, presi-
dent; Miss Elaine Arnaud, vice presi-
dent; Miss Irma Belk, recording sec
rotary; Mrs. Dorothy Graf, corre-
spending secretary; Miss Virginia
Kinnard, treasurer; Miss Ellen Ander-
son, historian; Miss Gertrude Spieden,
program chairman, and Miss Dorothy
Corson, registrar.
DR.. Elmer Kayser of George Wash
ington University will deliver the
closing lecture Of this season to Alpha
Chapter. zeta Kappa Psi Sorority, on
Monday, June 10, in the club room
of the Y. w. c. A. Lectures will be
resumed again in September.
A new swimming class of sorority
members was started on Wednesday,
June 6.
The following officers were elected
for the coming year: Chancellor, Miss
Adele r. Thode; vice chancellor, Mrs.
Katherine P. Griffith: scribe, Miss
Irene Jarvis; bursar. Mrs. Margaret
Jackson. and librarian, Miss Elizabeth
McGarry.
The election was held following a
dinner at the Shoreham on Monday.
June 10 Gamma Chapter. Chi Psi
Sorority, will hold an initiation at the
Shoreham Hotel, after which it
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Is the house guest of her son-in-law
and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
H. Warrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hinchliffe, jr.,
and their daughter, Miss Mary Hinch-
life, and Mrs. william Hinchliffe. ST.,
spent the week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul May. Miss Betty Hunter, whose
marriage to Mrs. Mays brother, Mr..
Raymond Rupert, will take place
June 20 in Georgetown, Conn. Miss
Hunter attended her class reunion at
Trinity College last week and was en-
tertained by Mr.. and Mrs. May.
Miss Maud Harvey has returned to
her home in Dalton, Pa, after spend
ing two months as the guest of her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Lewis, on Ridgewood
avenue.
Mrs. John Northrop entertained
her circle of the Rector's Aid of AL
Saints Episcopal Church at luncheon
and bridge on Wednesday at the Con-
gressional Country Club. Covers were
laid for 20.
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National Sorority Holds
Fifth Annual Convention

The fifth annual convention of Tau
Beta Phi National Sorority, Inc, is
being held at the Mayflower Hotel
over this week end. The convention
was opened Friday evening by a re-
ception and registration in the
Chinese room, followed by meeting,
at which the officers for the incoming
year were elected. Following the
meeting the convention issue Of the
sorority publication, the It'd Bit Post,
was distributed to the members. Yes
terday at 1890 o'clock q sightseeing
trip was enjoyed by the visiting mem
bers and at 1880 o'clock Woodward &
Lothrop,s tea room was the setting for
a very attractively arranged luncheon.
At o'clock the banquet was held
in the Chinese room, with the follow
ing program being arranged by the
toastmistresS, Mrs. Mira Howard from
Atlanta, Ga, who is also national sec
ond vice president. Mrs. Howard
opened the banquet with a few words
and introduced Mrs. Regina M. Haines.
the national president, who gave
every zone a very hearty welcome.
Miss Myra K. Browne, national first
vice president, spoke on Through the
Years With Tau Beta Phi" Then
followed short talks given by the
chapter presidents: Miss Lillian Walk
er, Alpha Chapter; Miss Marion
Limbach. Beta Chapter; Miss Kitty
Lewis, Gamma Chapter; Miss Ona
Regain, Epsilon Chapter; Miss Della
Sayre, zeta Chapter; Miss Gladys Bur-
roughs, Theta Chapter; Miss Virginia
Wilson, Eta Chapter; Miss Dorothy
Leon, Kappa Chapter. and Miss Emma
Lee Mcknight, Mu Chapter. Former
national president Miss Ann c.
OLeary. addressed the convention and
presented the national president with
a gift of silver as token Of appre-
citation from the girls.
The evening was climaxed by dane
ing until / O'Clock. Today the con-
vention will close with buffet sup
per and installation of the new officers
in the Italian gardens. The commit
tee in charge of the splendid ar
rangements for the convention were:
Miss Mildred Quigley, chairman: Miss
Lillian Walker, Miss Regina Paroni,
Miss Ona Regain. Miss Gertrude
Ruzicka. Mrs. Mira Howard, Miss
Gladys Burroughs and Miss Mildred
Leon.
The sorority entertained the follow
ing girls from Atlanta. Ga: Mrs. Mira
Howard. Miss Hazel Rogers, Miss Irene
Boyd, Miss Virginia Wilson, Miss Nell
Callahan, Miss Anne Norman and Miss
Elizabeth Joiner. These girls are all
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bolt, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Deborah
Baublitz, Miss Charlotte Baulitz, Miss
Margaret Freer. Miss Florence Burn
side, Miss Clara Meats. Miss Betty
Webster and Miss Ella Martin, are to
be installed as chapter Immediately
following their third degree. which is
to be decreed at the annual imitation
banquet on June Is at the Shoreham
Hotel.
Mrs. Myra Collins. national presi-
dent. conducted the pledge service, as
sisted by National Chaplain Miss
Mariana Couch.
The three local active chapters held
a subscription dance Friday at the
Congressional Country Club.
The monthly meeting of the Nom
Academic Pan-Hellenic Association
will be held Monday night, June II.
at Wardman Park Hotel, at 8:l5
o'clock. 1t is present that all dele
gates be present.