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Evening star., 1934-01-23
NEW POWER RATE
EXPECTED TODAY
Public Utilities Schedule Is
Designed to Reduce Bills
$4,000.
The Public Utilities Commission was

The Public Utilities Commission was
expected to announce today the new
electric rates for the current year in
tended to reduce electric bills by ap-
proximately $4,000 If the Potomac
Electric Power Co. does the same
amount of business this year as last.
Although no formal announcement
has been made there Is reason to be-
lieve the commission will accept the
various rates exactly as they were Of
fered by the company last Thursday.
In drawing up their order for the new
rates, it Is necessary for the commission
staff to produce a document nearly
80 pages long which includes all of the
service regulations in addition to the
rate schedules, and only routine work
on this remains to be done
Schedule A Of Interest.
OF chief interest to residential Gus
toners Of the company is the new
schedule A. which has been constructed
so as to make it possible for house
holders to install heavy duty appliances
such as ranges without going to the ex-
pense of putting in an extra meter.
As worked out by Peoples Counsel
Richmond B. Keech, the new schedule
A not only accomplishes this, but makes
it more economical for those residen-
tial consumers at present using two
meters, whose monthly consumption
runs above 408 kilowatt hours, to
change to a single meter.
In schedule A the rate for the first
so kilowatt hours remains unchanged
at 39 cents per kilowatt hour. For the
next so the rate Is reduced from 3.6
to 33 cents per kilowatt hour.
Rates to Be Reduced.
Under the old schedule the next so
XVIII. is sold at 80 per XVIII. and
all over $50 XVIII. at 2 cents. This
is changed in the new proposed Sched-
ule so that the next 100 XVIII. will
sell for cents per XVIII. and all over
200 at 11a cents per XVIII. Thus,
when a customer uses more than 200
XVIII. per month on schedule A, he
will be getting 1t cheaper by One-half
of a cent per XVIII. than was possible
under the old schedule K.
As to residential customers who now
have a singlS meter, the schedule will
reduce the bills Of those who use IS
XVIII. or more in any month. Those
who use less than IS XVIII per month
will not receive any reduction.
The schedules put forward by the
company give residential consumers the
benefit Of 474 per cent of the proposed
reduction, commercial customers sos
per cent and street lights 1.8 per cent.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
BOYS CLUB OPEN HOUSE
TOBE HELD NEXT FRIDAY
Parents and Friends Of Members
Invited to See Organization
in Operation.

Annual open house of the Boys
Club Of Washington will be held at
$50 O street Friday evening" at 7
o'clock, to be followed by the fifteenth
annual meeting of the trustees.
Parents and friends Of members
have been invited to visit the club
during open house, and the public will
be welcome. Every department will be
in session and under normal operation
SO visitors may see how it functions.
The shops will have their completed
work on exhibit. The games depart
ment will have an attractive program
and the physical department will en-
tertain the visitors with a double
header basket ball game featuring the
Boys Club Varsity and Shoots Cafe
against two visiting teams. There is no
admission chrage for these games.
Boy guides will be in readiness to
show guests through the building and
explain the activities.
At the annual meeting Of the board
Of trustees. Frank r. Jellef. president
Of the board, will preside. Charles M.
Fyfe, managing director. will make his
annual report.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
PARLEY OPENS TODAY.

BY the Associated Press.
SINGAPORE Straits Settlements,
January 23.-The long-arranged con-
ference of British, Australian and New
Zealand naval commanders, due to be-
gin today aboard the Kent. flagship Of
Admiral Sir Frederick Dreyer, COM
mander Of the British China station.
was expected last night to have far
reaching importance in British naval
policy in the Far East. t,
In addition to the Kent, two other
big cruisers, an aircraft carrier and
several smaller warships were assem-
bled
The conference nominally is held an
nually for a discussion of defense.
British possessions, trade routes and
related matters, but 1t has been held in
abeyance since 1921.
The proceedings will be secret, ex-
cept for anything that Admiral Dreyer
may care to communicate.
The agenda was not published, but 1t
was assumed it would include consid-
Grafton of Japan's naval development
in relation to British interests.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
ONE FREED IN FRAUD CASE
Omission in Indictment Brings Ac-
uuittal to Chicagoan.

CHICAGO, January % R.-An
omission in the indictment yesterday
brought directed verdict of not guilty
for one of the seven men on trial for
conspiracy to defraud the Security Life
Insurance Co.
John w. Seids, jr., asserted he was
known in that manner and that his
father, DR.. John w. Seids. ST., Moline,
secretary of the Edwin Hult & Co.,
always used the senior" with his
name. AS the name in the indictment
appeared without either Junior" or
senior" specified. the court ruled
young Seids acquitted.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
WIRE DUMPING CHARGED

~ the Associated Press.
Woven wire fencing and netting from
Germany is being dumped" in this
country and an extra duty should be
imposed, according to Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau.
He said the domestic industry sis
being and is likely to be injured by
reason of the importation into the
United States of woven wire fencing
and netting from Germany and that
such woven wire fencing and netting
Is being sold and is likely to be sold
in the United States at less than fair
value"
The Secretary Of the Treasury also
eaid reports of the dumping Of electric
motors from England were mot justi-
1ed."
Evening star., 1934-01-23
RUPTURE OF ASTOR ENGAGEMENT
CONTINUES TO PUZZLE SOCIETY
Mother of Eileen Gillespie Is Glad She Vas Able
to Open Daughters Eyes in Time-Bride
Vas to Receive 5O.ROOm House.

II can assure you there Is not word
of truth in that statement" she said.
They certainly did not quarrel about
anything like that.
Mr.. Gillespie and I were at the
dance, too. Mr.. AStor and my daughter
left early. I suppose they wanted to
talk. Sunday night-late Sunday night
we issued the announcement that the
engagement had been Cancelled"
News that the wedding. scheduled
for February 6, had been called of was
a complete surprise to eight debutantes
chosen as bridesmaids.
They learned there had been q quar-
rel, they were very sorry. but they were
as reticent as young Astor. who said
details of the quarrel were very, very
personal"
The breakup caused a halt in nego-
itationS by Astor for purchase Of So
room home in Newport, R. l.. as we'd
ding gift for his bride.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
"a ON RE-EMPLOYMENT
REGISTERS GIVEN JOBS

Thirty-four persons were given posi-
tions from the Unemployment registers
of the Civil Service Commission IN the
week ended January 20, according to
the commissions report. The statement
also showed 20 more reinstated or
transferred.
There were persons from the Dis
trict and s6 outside added during the
week.
There now are something more than
400 District eligibles on these registers.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
TRAFFIC BUREAU SETS
RECORD FOR ARRESTS
Last Weeks Total 666- Many Of
tenders Charged With Violat-
ing Parking Rules.

The Traffic Bureau today pointed
with pride to its record of last week
the largest in its history.
Monday to pm. Saturday, ss6 arrests
were made by Traffic Bureau officers.
This was exclusive of arrests made by
precinct policemen for traffic offenses.
OF the 886 there were 127 for speeding,
and more than half Of the remainder
were for parking in restricted areas
notably in zones wherein parking is re-
stricted from to $50 am. and 1 to s
pm.
Friday was the big day of the week
and the biggest ever recorded in the
bureau, with 100 cases booked.
Sixteen Of the speeding cases were
second offenses and two were third Of
fenSeS.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
SECRETARY PERKINS SETS
NEW STYLE IN REPORT
Reveals Definite Labor Program in
Brief, Instead of Reviewing
Past Year.

By the Associated Press.
The annual report Of Secretary OF
Labor Perkins sets a new low mark for
wordage, and also a new style.
What she had to say about the de-
partment took only six pages and five
lines; instead of summarizing the activ-
ties Of the past year. she set down q
definite labor program.
Her recommendations, nine in num-
Der, dealt with old-age security, en-
ployment service, mediation, unemploy.
ment insurance, sterilization of employ
ment, low-cost housing, safety Of work
ers, State and Federal cooperation and
conference methods.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
MICHIGAN AVENUE DR.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASOClateQ PreSS.
NEW YORK, January 23-Society's
still wondering what caused the breach
between John Jacob Astor, Sd, New
York's most eligible bachelor" and
Eileen Gillespie
II feel very badly over the thing"
he said. Il still care very much for
Miss Gillespie. She is very fine girl.
You may be sure that the breaking Of
the engagement was entirely her idea"
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie, mother
Of the girl. had this to say
I'm glad I was able to open my
daughters eyes in time. Although her
views and mine may have been divided
once. at the present time We are abso
lutely in accord"
Mrs. Gillespie emphatically denied
published reports that the first rift
came during a dance Saturday night
at which young Astor danced several
times with one Of the other guests.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
ALLENBY REPORTED
At NAVAL PARLEy
Commanders of British Ships
Will Discuss Far East
Conditions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. January 23.-The Labor
ite Daily Herald said in q dispatch
from Singapore today that 1t was ru-
mored Field Marshal Viscount Allenby,
after a secret dash from Java. had been
placed aboard the cruiser Kent for the
British Naval Conference.
He had been in Java. the newspaper
said, reputedly to discuss with Dutch
authorities the problem Of the defense
of Dutch East Indian possessions In the
event of a Far Eastern attack.
The paper said strict rules were laid
down for keeping the negotiations
aboard the Kent secret.
The cruiser was anchored in the
most inaccessible part Of the harbor
the newspaper said. and heavy guard
was posted on the gangway establishing
a forbidden zone in the region of the
ships
Evening star., 1934-01-23
$4,000 OF FRENCH Wine
is SEIZED IN MICHIGAN
Conhsca tion Is Made Under New
State Law Banning Possession OF
Beverages for Sale.
~ the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
DETROIT. January 23.-William j.
Nagel, managing director Of the Mich
igan Liquor Control Commission, yes
terday ordered seizure Of one and half
carloads Of French wines under the
new State law. prohibiting possession
Of such beverages for sale except by
the State. The wines are valued at
$4,000.
They have been in the warehouse of
G. Viviano, Inc, an importing firm.
Nagel said the seizure was ordered on
information that the wines were to be
trucked to Cleveland.
Nagel said the importing company
eontended the wines were shipped in
before the liquor control act became
effective.
Evening star., 1934-01-23

Lice" and from then on kept his face
well guarded from the cameramen.
1t Is alleged Layton already has re.
ceived some $11 1000 from the scheme.
although the bust was to be purchased,
through some OF Dykaars friends. for
$4,000. Laytons account in a locai
bank, however, was said to carry q
credit Of only $40 when investigated.
Layton said he could account for all
funds contributed and could expl3in
discrepancies between the amount said
to have been agreed upon as purchase
price for the bust and the amount COL
lected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01
A Thought for Today
Keep Out Of It

We would not be surprised to find the retail Beer, Wine, and Liquor Merchants Association of Connecticut withdrawing from the political field entirely as the re- suit of several recent happenings. At a mass meeting held in this city Tuesday afternoon, at which liquor dealers from all sections of the state were present, the president of the above organization was rather roundly assailed for recently issu- ing public statement in which he placed the group definitely behind the candidacy of States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn.
 It's dangerous business for any non- political group to do such thing as that. It is also an injustice to the democratic party, to Governor Cross, and to all the democratic candidates for public office. We'd say the same thing if the statement had been changed around the other way, too. We don't like to see business groups become political-minded. And public en- dorsement of candidates is something that might we'll be divorced from any liquor group. It's one way to turn public opin- ion against the latter.
 It's the writer's own personal opinion that liquor laws or their administration are not properly the right of any political party to debate Liquor should not be an issue which dictates the choice of public official to any candidate. We warned of this last summer before either of the major political parties had held their state conventions. It was at time when liquor dealers, hotel and restaurant owners were uniting to launch campaign that would only end with the securing of their de- mands from the 1885 Legislature.
 At the time we said that this group could become powerful lever in the ap- preaching campaign if some person was strong enough to control it. But we also said that it would not be conducive to good government to seek such an end. We hold to this opinion. No group, such as the Retail Beer, Wine and Liquor Mer- chants Association of Connecticut, should attempt to persuade voters That does not deny them the right to seek laws that give them the right to earn an honest liveli- hood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01
A. & P. Closing Prophetic

As yet little or nothing of the real inside of the A. & P. Chain Store episode out in Cleveland has been clearly brought out in any of the meager facts at least divulged to the public. Latest advices are that in all probability settlement will De forthcoming. This is heartening news, provided all disputes are equitably ad- justed. Whether they will be or not, re- mains to be seen.
 However, it emphasizes the fact which the Waterbury Democrat has brought out several times, not only in respect to It's own field, but all others as well, that mass production and mass distribution do not pay. The public, we think, is fast coming to realize that the few pennies 1t may save from the above mentioned sources .aEe withdrawn from them as whole in far greater proportion than the slight savings effected.
 x To go into the growing evils of the broadening chain system would en- tail a recitation of too many things to Catalogue in the space at hand. But 1t will suffice to say, that from every angle you Etake it, the loss to any community where ! the chain has succeeded in closing up the independent, is inestimable.
 The A. & F. incident out in Cleveland we think is probably a forerunner of such an idea. No doubt the chain system has been honest enough in it's main in tention, namely, in getting it's product down to the rock bottom price, but in so doing has helped to defeat its main pur- pose inasmuch as low as it's prices are, many are not paid enough to take ad- vantage even of them.
 The American public, we think, is awakening to better realization of these things in these days of depression. It has given them an opportunity to think things over and out of these last few years of sober reflection has come what might be more aptly termed a "bloodless revolu- tion'. That it is such, is to the everlasting good judgment of the American people, for from it undoubtedly will come much good for future years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01

The Commonweal is receiving this week the congratulations from the journalistic world as well as the social and literary classes. The periodical merits the praise it has received. It is readable and timely magazine that discusses world affairs ana the theater; the latest books and socl- ological subjects. It is a review that one can little afford to miss reading.
 Among those who have written con gratulatory letters that The Commonweal has published in the current issue IS Hon. orable Wilbur l.. Cross, governor of Con necticut. MT Cross writes in part: I congratulate The Commonweal on the oc- casion of it's tenth anniversary. The times call for the best thought and the most un- selfish leadership. The moral and spirit ual elements that are supplied Tn The Commonweal constitute the che indls- pensable ideal toward which the world must strive"
 Other letters of congratulation came from His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, archbishop of New York, Profes- sor William Lyon Phelps of New Haven, John J. Raskob of New York, and Rev Wifred Parson, s. J., also of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01
Super-Ships

The troubles of the, great British and French shipping lines are sad, indeed, and so are the disappointments of British and French citizers as their boasted super ships are superseded by still larger rivals. The Queen Mary, launched so happily few short weeks ago, was the pride of Great Britain because she was the largest ocean liner afloat. Rumors even then said that the Normandie of France, almost completed would be larger, but the Eng fish refused to contemplate the possibility.
 The Normandie's launching is now not t-too-distant event, and adready it is said authoritatively that she will actually be "just few feet longer" than the Queen Mary. Length is not the only meas urement in ships size, however, so the British are hoping that their favorite's tonnage will still lead.
 The French are worried on another point They take it for granted their ship is the largest of all, but they say they will be handicapped in profitable use of her by the stability of French money and the de- preciation which has taken place in British and American money. These rivalries are just as stupid as big navy rivalries. The cost is already excessive. What will it be when each of these ships has bigger and grander sister ship?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01

Another significant factor was the increased violence. This was not lost upon the admins tration.
 >BETWIXT AND BETWEEN
 And what the White House wants to avoid more than almost any other thing IS another large strike. That is one reason it has been so worried about the automobile situation. Another major strike, it is feared, would bring wholesale violence, cause Q greater cleavage between radical and labor forces in the country.
 This cleavage is definite source of worry. And what con- cerns some of the presidents ad- visers and must concern him, is that he is sitting in the middle. In fact, Roosevelt, once brand ed as the radical, now is a mere pink liberal in comparison with large body of opinion.
 That is one reason why the bankers recently decided that the day might come when he would be their chief protector.
 That also is the reason why the administration itself does not know definitely whether it is hewing a course to the Right or to the Left. It is caught be- twixt and between.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 When half dozen motorcycle cops assemble at the east gate of the White House grounds, pass ersby take the signal and gather about to see the president drive out. Though frequent oc- curence, it never fails to attract a crowd. Former presidents used the north driveway on Pennsyl- vania avenue. Roosevelt is able to avoid the steps at the front of the White House by going out at the south portico at the level of the driveway. The Direc- tor of the Bureau of the Mint is taking her vacation campaigning for democratic candidates in the State of Wyoming, where she was once known as Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross On the day of her wedding, Fraulein Gertraud Luther, daughter of German Ambassador Hans Luth- CT, posed for photoraphs for four and a half hours In giving all three of their chil- dren Henry, Robert and Jean, the same middle name, Henry A. Wallace and Mrs Wallace fol- low an old Spanish custom, in which the maternal name as we'll as the paternal is used. The name in this case is Browne. Mrs Wallace was Ilo Browne, of Indianola, Iowa The new quarter-dollar coin, showing the head of Washington, will soon have replaced entirely the older coin showing the standing figure of Liberty. This coin did not wear well; it's raised features were subject to abrasion, and the date figures disappeared. Yet, since it had been in circulation only 16 years-nine years less than the retirement age for coins "a special act of Congress was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01
MELLON PINNED TITLE BONUS
 ON OUR SOLDIERS.
Editor, Waterbury Democrat:

Your editorial regarding the soldiers bonus in Saturdays Dem ocrat entitled "Still As Perplex- ing" was appropriately titled. The entire controversy was anticipated by that Greatest Secretary of the Treasury (Andrew Mellon) when he shrewdly renamed the Adjust ed Service Certificates under the caption Soldiers Bonus. Uncle Andy was clever that way. He made the debt to the soldiers appear as if 1t were a sale of patriotism. Of course Andy didn't make more than $30. per month during the War so he figured all other Amer jeans should te on the same plane.
 The Big Boys who own the War bonds are very patriotic too. They figure the country could not pay them their interest (if the soldier boys ct what's coming to them) and these big hearted good fellows felt sorry for poor old Europe and tried to have their War Debts cancelled. After all the ar Is over and the then young fellows who were promised the sun, moon and stars without any solicitation shouldn't (now that they are older and wiser) think about those promises.
 The world moves on. and the Big Boys are in the midst of other
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01
IN TO-DAY'S MAIL
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problems. They can't see all this tomfoolery of the Government spending it's money for relief pur- poses. They want to take charge of the situation and if they can't will refuse to play ball. The only kind of a ball game they like Is when outs don't count when they are at bat. They are masters in the art of promising. Under their system we are promised two cars in every garage but get instead two families in every house.
 As far as the rank and file of the people are concerned they should be wary of all propaganda which emanates from Big Business and Big Bankers. There is scarcely family in the land that would not benefit by the payment of the soldiers bonus. The soldiers are not out to ruin the country. They are as whole the most patriotic group in America today because they are largely composed of plain everyday people. But as a group they have been educated through hardships and bitter experience and they insist on the rights of the people including their own rights.
 hayn't much in the way of an education but certainly, could understand the letter by R. o. E. that was published in last nights Democrat. sure would like to see some banker answer that letter.
 WORLD WAR vETEHA1z.