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Evening star., 1934-04-29
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TO Be GIVEN JURY
Phone Chart Will Be Pre-.
sented in Probe of Those
Taken in Raid.

A District grand jury this week will
be told about what police describe as
the message center" for Washington
bookmakers, in the 800 block of I
street, raided Friday by the police
vice squad.
Four alleged operators, charged
with conspiring to violate the Federal
gambling laws, we're held under bond
of $1,000 each when arraigned be-
fore United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage yesterday, and
police said they plan to take several
other defendants into custody in
the case.
One of the outstanding pieces Of
evidence to be shown the grand jury
will be a set of records of the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.,
showing where each line running from
the switchboard seized in the place
was connected, according to Lieut..
George Little, head of the vice squad.
A Department of Justice telegrapher
will tell the jury the manner in which
racing information is handled from
the various tracks in this nerve CEN
ter" and distributed to the city's
"bookieS" and others.
The raid is considered the out
standing coop of United States At
torney Leslie G. Garnett's drive against
gambling in the District.
The four defendants seized yester-
day gave their names as Anthony
Letina, A, 5400 block of Illinois
avenue; Melvin J. Grooms, %, 900
block of Farragut street; Martin j.
80. 700 block of I street. and
James T. Clarke, 80, of Baltimore.
Garnett said there will be no Police
Court or commissioners hearing for
the quartet, but that they will be pre-
sented directly to the grand jury.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
NON-C|TY PUPILS
COST IS S257,454
Fewer Than IS of 2,272
Pay District Tuition
Fees.

The cost of providing educational
facilities for nonresident pupils in
the District public schools was esti-
mated at $257, Asa, on the basis of
an average attendane of 2,272 pupils
in 1888. in a report filed with Chair
man King of the Senate District
Committee yesterday by the group of
District officials conducting the re-
organization study of the District
government for the committee.
The report was submitted by Spe-
cial Assistant Corporation Counsel
w. A. Roberts. who, with District
Auditor Donovan and a representa-
tive of the Budget Bureau, are making
the reorganization survey.
Tuition Exemption General.
Under various acts of Congress,
nearly all of the nonresident pupils
are exempt from payment of tuition.
From figures in the report it appeared
that fewer than rs are required to pay
tuition Allowing a deduction of
about $4,000 for this group. the re-
naming cost figure would be slightly
more than $250000.
The cost figures in the report in
cluded depreciation allowances on
buildings and equipment, figuring a
50-year life for the buildings and 10
year life on equipment. Four per cent
interest on the building investment
also was taken into account.
The report also contained list of
81 school buildings in which there is
congestion, and all of which have one
or more nonresident pupils.
Detailed Figures Given.
The detailed figures on non residents
for each branch of the school system
in 1888 were presented in the report
as follows:
Teachers colleges-Averag attend
dance, 90; average cost per pupil,
$294.27; cost, S8,53383.
Senior high Observation-Disclosures.
904; cost per pupil, $l88.l1; total,
$107,05144.
Junior high Observation-Disclosures,
430; per pupil, Sl55.O7; total, $685.
68O10
Elementary schools - Attendance,
TAI; cost per pupil, $89.83; total $685.
56403.
Vocational schools 81;
cost per pupil, S140.74; total, $3.50 SO.
One of the laws on this subject is
the provision in the annual appropria-
tion act that children of officers and
men of the military services, and chill
dren of other employees of the United
States stationed outside the District.
shall be admitted to District schools
without payment of tuition.
Mr.. Roberts submitted another re-
port yesterday on the amount OF space
available to each agency OF the Dis
trict government to carry on its work
and the building space for each mu-
nicipal institution 1t showed the great
majority of District activities are bad
ly crowded, especially in the District
Building.
The group making the reorganiza-
tion study has submitted series of
these preliminary reports, which are
to be followed soon by final set OF
conclusions and recommendations.
Evening star., 1934-04-29

having arranged to put in extra cable
to take up the slack. No gas mains
cross the bridge.
Rock Creek Valley on both sides of
the bridge will be roped off for a sale
distance while the bridge is moving,
and squads of police will be on had
to keep the expected crowds back
There will also be police detail to
prevent too many people from leaning
on the rail of the Taft Bridge. from
which a fine view of the entire pro-
ceedings may be had.
Patrons Of the Connecticut avenue
street cars. during the time the bridge
is being moved, will be carried across
Rock Greek in a shuttle bus line
operating over Taft Bridge. AS soon
as the bridge has been moved. how
ever, and the tracks connected up to
the temporary trestles, street Car serv-
ice will be resumed.
While most of the work now being
done on the bridge is in preparation
for the move, there is also consider
able activity in preparation for the
new permanent bridge. One of the
piers for this bridge will be on the
bank of the creek, and cofferdam is
under construction to keep the water
out of the excavation while the engi-
neers are digging down to bedrock for
the foundation of the pier.
Evening star., 1934-04-29

United States Attorney Leslie C..
Garnett, who has resolutely refused
to appoint women to his staff, at
tended a luncheon in honor of Fed
eral Judge Florence Allen yesterday
and was put on the spot" by At
torney General Cummings and all the
feminine guests.
1t was all in fun. but Garnetts
face redeemed noticeably as the men,
bars of Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority,
all woman LAWYERS, vigorously ap-
plauded the pointed remarks of Mr..
Cummings.
I'm all candor," declared the At
torney General, Il must pay tribute
to the sturdiness of character and the
intimidity of spirit which permits the
district attorney to be here at all"
District Commissioner Melvin C.
,Hazen, another guest. also took the
United States attorney to task for his
supposed aversion to feminine as
s'stants.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
SUGAR BEET GROWERS
AGREE ON CONTRACTS

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 28.-Chester C..
Davis, administrator of the A. A. A.,
tonight announced that representa-
tives of Western sugar beet growers
and the Great Western Sugar Co. had
reached an agreement on 1884 con-
tracts.
The meeting was called after many
growers refused to sign contracts Of
fered by the company for the coming
season and delaying Spring planting.
Terms of the agreement announced
by Davis include parity payments to
growers on a regional basis. The
growers were advised it was too late
for the Federal authorities to under
take review of 1894 contracts but that
under the terms of the pending Costi-
gan-Jones bill such action was con-
templated next season.
A conference Of A. A. A. executives
and sugar men of the East, also
scheduled for the day, was delayed by
the protracted meeting of the Western
representatives.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
Removal to Take
Bridge From Two
Precincts to Third

Removal of the Calvert Street
Bridge to a point 80 feet south
OF its present location will trans
fer jurisdiction over the span
from the eighth and tenth pre-
cincts to the third precinct. it
was disclosed at police head
quarters last night.
At present, it was pointed out,
the eastern half of the bridge is
in the tenth precinct and the
western portion in the eighth
precinct. The third precinct, on
the other hand, extends to a
point approximating the south
ern side of the span.
The change in jurisdiction was
brought out, it was explained, at
a conference arranged to map
out plans for handling traffic on
the bridge.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
100000 IS SOUGHT
TO REMOVE STEPS
Application for P. w. A. Funds Is
Made for Work at Patent
Office Building.

Application for a $4,000 alloca-
ton of Public Works Administration
funds to remove the south steps of
the old Patent Office Building, so that
F street may be widened between Sew
enth and Ninth streets, is now be-
fore Assistant Secretary Chapman of
the Interior Department, who con-
siders such projects for Public Works
Administrator Ickes.
Arno B. Cammerer, director of the
National Park Service, in a letter to
Chapman, pointed out that in view
of the approaching completion Of the
Archives Building, short way along
Eighth street, the steps of the old
Patent Office structure should be re-
moved speedily. He cited the recent
recommendation of the Fine Arts
Commission that the steps be de-
molished. Maj. John c. Gotwals, en-
gineer Commissioner, likewise is in
terested in having the steps removed,
SO that traffic conditions on street
may be improved Similarly, num-
ber of civic groups have urged that
the steps be taken down, to improve
the flow of traffic.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
Loudoun Educator to Speak.

LOVETTSVILLE, Va, April %
(SpeciaD 20. L. limerick, superin-
tendent of Loudoun County schools,
will discuss Optional Form of Coun-
ty Government" at the Lovettsville
community meeting Thursday at 8
pm. In addition to this number
several vocal and instrumental selec-
tions will be contributed by Mrs.
Joe Payne, Mrs. c. E. Conway, Mrs.
CREDIBLE Lee George and MISS Hazel
Long.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
Police COnfiscate
First Still Since
Dry La,o Repeal

Responding to a fake shooting call
from a house in the HOO block of
Sixth street southeast last night, Po-
hceman Watson Salkeld, of No.
police station, found in operation So
gallon liquor still, said to have been
operated by a good sized steam en-
gine. The still, the first found in the
southeast section since prohibition re-
peal, was confiscated, along with II
barrels of mash.
The remainder of the apparatus
was dismantled, but the steam engine
was too heavy to be removed without
the use of a large truck. No one was
IN the house when police arrived.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
Isolation of Mass 3 Hydrogen
Described to Physical Society
Tenth of Cubic MiIIineter Has Been
Obtained by Special Method
at Princeton u.

no suspicion as yet that anything OF
the kind actually existed in nature.
The announcement was made before
the Physical Society today by P. T.
Smith, w. Wallace LoAer and Walter
Bleakney of Princeton. BY the use
of an automatic recording mass spec
trograph apparatus which was de-
scribed to the society they found evi-
dence of the new material in water
in the proportion of approximately
one atom to billion atoms of ordi-
nary hydrogen. Mass 2 hydrogen oc-
cu1s about in the proportion of one
to 5000.
Bombarded Mass Hydrogen.
Because of such extreme rarity any
idea of actually isolating the material
was out of the question. G. P. Harm
well, H. D. Smith, s. N Van Voorhis
and j. B. H. kuper of the Princeton
physics department turned back to
the Cavendish laboratory experiments
and attempted to create the same
thing synthetically. But instead of
bombarding a hydrocarbon they bom-
barded the mass hydrogen gas itself
with the almost infinitely minute par
ticles of the same material. They
not only verified the British result,
but by a continued process of puri-
fication, reached the point where they
can obtain one tritium atom out of
each 5000 deuterium atoms. At first
the best ratio they could reach was
one out of 100000. Thus they are
now getting tritium out of deuterium
at about the same proportion as deu-
terium itself is obtained from ordi-
nary hydrogen.
These findings fill in the gap be-
tween hydrogen and helium in the
atomic table. Mass 4 hydrogen would
be identical with the precious sun
gas" itself. The immediate effect of
the discovery IS greatly to comphcate
study of the fundamental properties
of the almost infinitely vast number
OF hydrogen compounds.
Six Kinds of Water.
Chemists, for example find them
selves with six instead of two kinds
of water The old H20 of textbooks
boards Water may be H2O. HDO.
DIDO. THO. DTO or ITO. THO. it
was predicted. probably will be the
most common into which the newly
discovered tritium will enter-al-
though there is apparently nothing
impossible in the concept of water
composed of two atoms of tritium with
one of oxygen, or ITO Any of the
tritium compound waters must be so
rare that only an infinitely small
amount of them can be found in all
the bourdless oceans. But even so
the implications of the discovery
hardly can be exaggerated.
Dr. M A. Tuve of the terrestrial
magnetism laboratory of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington made
known in the discussion following the
report that evidence of the existence
of the mass 8 hydrogen was found
in the atom smashing experiments
there last Winter. but had not been
absolutely verified.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY
SPURS ROBBER SEARCH

Recollections of his high school days
enabled John Fisher, night manager
al filling station at Connecticut ave-
nue and Ordway street, to set police
upon the trial of the alleged robber
OF his station last Wednesday night.
Although the name of the man was
withheld by police, Fisher identified
him as claSSmate in high school,
well known as an athlete. who walked
into the Office and took S2l from
him. Fisher said he knew him the
moment he stepped inside the place.
An alleged accomplice, Truman l..
Jackson, 80, arraigned on charges of
robbery and JOY riding yesterday, was
held under $4,000 bond for the grand
jury. 1t was Jackson's appearance
in court that gave Fisher the chance
to tell police Of his former class
mate, who still is being sought.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
Blair Citizens to Elect.

BLAIR, Md, April % Especially -
Election of officers will feature
meeting of the Blair Citizens Asso-
citation Tuesday evening in the
Takoma-Silver Spring High School.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
SCHOOL BODY TO MEET
Woodlawn League Called To
gether for Tomorrow.

Z
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WOODLAWN, Va, April 28-Walter
Shepherd, president OF the Woodlawl
School League, has called a special
meeting for s pm. Monday at the
school
Matters of interest will be taken up
and committee named to confer with
the County School Board on subjects
pertaining to the school.
Evening star., 1934-04-29
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The first announcement of the iso-
lation in nature of "tritium," or mass
3 hydrogen, was made before the
American Physical Society meeting
here yesterday.
1t was also announced that by
special method about a tenth of a
cubic millimeter of this had been OBJ
tanned in the physical laboratory of
Princeton University. A cubic milli-
meter is approximately the size of a
pin head.
The two announcements may be of
as great significance as was that of
the discovery of deuterium, or mass 2
hydrogen. three years ago. That al
most microscopic bit of heavy,
heavy" hydrogen in the Princeton
laboratory may we'll be the most pre-
cious material thing on earth because
of the far-reaching implications it
holds for the fundamental sciences of
physics and chemistry.
Building Blocks of Creation.
Hydrogen atoms are literally the
building blocks of creation-the most
fundamental of all known things. The
properties of the whole vast structure
of nature depend in large measure on
the properties of these invisible par
ticles-consisting merely of one cleo
tron, or charge of negative electricity,
revolving around one proton, or
charge of positive electricity. With
the discovery. made in part at the
Bureau of Standards here, that there
were also hydrogen atoms of differ
ent atomic composition with exactly
twice the mass of ordinary ones. and
presumably with many different re-
actions, it was realized that a vast
new field has been opened to chemis-
try. Hardly beginning has been
made upon it.
One of the first discoveries, for ex-
ample. was that there we're two kinds
of water-ordinary water and heavy
water-which promised vastly to
complicate both physical and b!ologi-
cal phenomena. Now comes the dis
covery of triple hydrogen, which may
open up still vaster field None of
its reactions or properties are known
at present. A much larger amount
must be obtained before any sys-
tematic studies can be made of it.
Discovered in England.
The first hint of the existence of
the mass hydrogen came from the
Cavendlsh laboratory at Cambridge
University in England about two
months ago. A hydrocarbon in which
ordinary hydrogen had been replaced
with mass hydrogen was bombarded
with atoms of mass hydrogen with
enormous voltage. 1t was found that
when two Of the mass 2 atoms COL
lided they formed a very unstable
atom. which almost Immediately split
up into one atom of ordinary hydrogen
and one atom of mass 3 hydrogen
which could be distinguished by the
much shorter range in air CT the
heavy atoms.
Here was actually a creation Of a
new kind of matter, but there was
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-12-20
TWO HORSES
DIE IN WELL
Animals and Sleigh Plunge to Bottom
Of Abandoned Hole When Cover
ing Gives Away.

A sad accident happened near
Grindstone Lake Wednesday of last
week when two horses and a sleigh
plunged into an old abandoned 40
foot we'll.
Mr.. Zajicek had hired George Tuck
er and Harold Tuenge, neighbor boys.
to haul wood into his basement. The
boys had taken a load to the house
and in turning around in the yard
one of the horses walked over the
wooden platform covering the we'll
and plunged through, pulling with it
the other horse and the sleigh. The
fact that the sleigh suddenly lurched
sideways perhaps saved the boys from
going into the well as they were
thrown to one side. One of the horses
was killed instantly and the other
with its back broken lived only few
hours. The sleigh was recovered.
Mr.. Zajicek who has been in the
community for one and half years
on the farm which he purchased,
was in the Cities at the time of the
accident, and neighbors and friends
will extend sympathy to him in his
misfortune.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-12-20
GAS EXPLOSION
FATAL TO YOUTH
Moose Lake Young Man is Hurt When
He Lights Match Over
Gas Tank.

A lighted match and an open gaso-
line tank caused fatal injuries sew
erl days ago to Woodrow Nelson, 49,
year-old farm boy living in Moose
Lake township east of that village.
The young man died last Thursday
after II days of suffering from the
effects of the explosion which struck
him square in the face, rupturing his
esophagus and seriously effecting one
lung.
The accident happened when Wood
row was attempting to thaw out some
ice in the gas tank of his car. Think
ing the tank contained only water he
struck a match and looked into it.
The unfortunate young man was
rushed Immediately to the Cloquet
hospital and from there to the Uni
versity hospital in Minneapolis,
where everything possible was done
for him but to no avail.
He is survived by his mother OF
Moose Lake, and one sister, Mrs. Joe
O'Kronglis of the Sturgeon Lake COM
munity, and one brother, Kenneth.
aged IA at home.
The funeral was held from the
Hamlin Funeral Chapel in Moose
Lake Saturday at 2 p. m. with Rev.
]. o. Johanson officiating. Burial
was made in Oak Lake cemetery.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-12-20
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
BY GEORG STRANDVOLD

AS briefly bulletined here last week,
the seriously threatening danger of
war between Jugo-Slavia and Hungary
was dissipated as a result of the
prompt action of the League of Ma
tions council.
Thus the much nfaligned League
scored a second triumph within a
fortnight, for barely two weeks ear
lier that organization had sponsored,
successfully, the Saar agreement be-
tween France and Germany tending
to preserving peace in the Saar dis
trict just before and during the pleb-
iscite on January 13, 1885.
Rehabilitation was what the League
needed, too, for its prestige had suf-
fered heavy damage during recent
years for the reason that it had not
prevented or stopped the Gran Chaco
war between Paraguay and Bolivia;
nor had it hindered Japan in conquer
ing Manchuria from China; nor had
its attempt to promote international
disarmament brought single posi-
tive result; nor had it's international
economic conference in London last
year proved successful.
Next Task.
One of the tasks now confronting
the League is that of stopping the
Gran ChacO war in South America;
reports have it that Bolivia is willing
to submit to arbitration but that
Paraguay, flushed, it seems, with
some recent victories, will refuse to
cOncede the Leagues authority.
Should Paraguay persist in this at
titude there is a possibility of the
Leagues invoking the boycott clauses
of its covenant, but before that eX-
IRENE measure can be applied, other
attempts will be made to persuade
the Asuncion government that an in
ternational boycott can be a very SER
iOus affair.
Trouble Brewing.
Likewise, the League may have to
consider strained relations existing
CONTINUED on Page b
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-12-20
COUNTY TAXPAYERS
MEET AT SANDSTONE

A very enthusiastic meeting of the
Pine County Taxpayers League was
held in the Madison hotel, Sandstone,
Saturday afternoon, December Is, with
residents from many parts of the
county present.
A committee appointed at a previous
meeting to bring in legislative rec
concentrations presented a lengthy re-
port. Many of the resolutions pre-
sented by this committee were favored
by the League although in many cases
the proposals were amended by the or
ganizatiOn. Copies of the resolutions
adopted will be sent to Senator-elect
c. Elmer johnson and Representative
elect c. G. Mann The discussion OF
the proposals occupied the time of
those present most of the afternoon.
. Among the proposals favored by the
Taxpayers League were increases in
income and inheritance taxes; amend
ing the mortgage moratorium law so
that it will be more effective; turning
over one-third of the proceeds of the
gas tax to the local communities; in
creases in the gross earnings taxes on
railroads and telephone companies:
retention of the present motor vehicle
license rates; and opposition to aboli-
tion Sf townships and local school dis
tricts.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-12-20
AUTO Thieves
DON'T GET FAR

Two more hayward sons came to
grief when they attempted to perpe-
trate crime in Pine county Saturday
night. 1t was during the movie per-
formance at the New Theatre. Sand
stone, that Claire Faller and Lawson
Brown, 10 year old boys from Mime
apolis and Wabasha, respectively,
but who are located with the CCC
camp near Duxbury. climbed into the
Buick sedan belonging to Guy Thorne
and drove south with it. The car
had been parked in front of the
theater and the boys, while attempting
to make away with it were seen by
passersby and were Immediately
chased. Just north Of Friesland the
thieves lost control of the Buick and
it crashed into the ditch to be badly
demolished. They made their way
through the brush and back to Sand
stone, but the blood from cuts suffered
by one of the. boys was responsible for
their capture.
Sheriff Hannes Rypkema. local Of
ficers and possemen were on the trail
and found them in front of Madison's
Hotel, where they were arrested and
taken to the Sandstone Jail where
charges will possibly be preferred
against them. In the meantime Mr..
Thorne is the loser, being an innocent
victim of their depredations.