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Evening star., 1935-02-01
FOUR ARE OVERCOME
BY GAS FROM STOVE
Woman Staggers to Neighboring
Roomer With Grandchild
to Call for Aid.

Mrs. Ella Loefier, her two children
and grandchild were overcome by
escaping gas this morning from a
kitchen stove left burning to heat
their rooms at 412 H street.
When the grandchild, Dorothy e
Garner, nearly two years old, became
sick, Mrs. Loefier sent her son, Rob-
ert, 18, for its parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Michael Garner. 906 street. Mean
time the escaping gas affected the
others and carrying the Garner child
Mrs. Loeffler staggered dizzily to a
neighboring roomer for help.
"Take this child" she said. "and gel
the others in the room there" Feel
ing faint she then dropped on a bed
Jack Trumbull. 9, and Ruth. IA
we're found unconscious on the f1ool
by other tenants. All Of her children
are by former marriage. Mr.. Loef-
fer was out at the time.
The Fire Rescue Squad and Casu-
atty Hospital ambulance responded tc
calls and gave the children first aid
The mother had sufficiently recovered
by the time of their arrival, but ac-
companied the children to the hos
pital for further treatment. Their
condition was listed as undetermined
there.
Evening star., 1935-02-01
PRESIDENT TO GET
|. PAY BILL SHORTLY
Senate and House to Vote
on Conference Report
Early in Week.

The deficiency measure providing
for return of the last 5 per cent OF
the Government pay cut on April l
will be sent to the White House early
next week.
Senate and House conferees reached
an agreement yesterday afternoon on
all provisions of the resolution, and
the only action remaining to be taken
on Capitol Hill is for the Senate and
House to ratify the conference report
The Senate, which will act first on the
report, has recessed until Monday, at
which time the deficiency measure is
slated to go quickly through its final
parliamentary stages.
The pay restoration amendment was
not actually an issue in conference,
the House having instructed its con-
ferees to concur in the proposal. The
work of the conferees. therefore, re-
lated mainly to other provisions In
the resolution. which carries supple
mental operating expenses needed by
several Federal agencies for the re-
mainder Of this fiscal year.
One Of the next questions affecting
Government personnel to be consid-
cred in Congress is the proposal to
place New Deal employees under civil
service Senator Logan, Democrat, OF
Kentucky is chairman of a subcon-
mittee which will start hearings Feb
ruary Z on Logan's bill to require all
those who have been appointed with
out regard to civil service to obtain a
civil service status by taking non
competitive examination.
The only exceptions would be those
cases where appointment is made by
Executive order. or where appointees
have to be confirmed by the Senate.
Evening star., 1935-02-01
FIREMAN TO GIVE
BLOOD FOR BOY, 2
Eighth TRANSMISSION Ordered for
Tubercular Patient-Sick
Girl Offered Aid.

Two-year-old Ronald Sutton, who is
desperately ill from tuberculosis at
Children's Hospital, was to undergo
his eighth TRANSMISSION today with
blood given by City Fireman Harold
Donovan, one Of more than 200 VOL
unteers who answered a radio appeal
from Ronalds 21-year-old mother.
The long illness has sapped Ronald's
resistance, and additional transfusionS
probably will be necessary in an effort
to build up his strength. He has a
rare type of blood matched by only a
few volunteers and these latter may
be called later. Blood for the first
seven transfusions was supplied by
Ronald's mother, who was weakened
by the sacrifice.
Meanwhile, there were results from
newspaper and radio search for
blood from some person recently re-
covered from streptococcus infection
or severe sore throat, to furnish trans
fusions for Patricia Carlisle, 9, Of 1851
Montague street, a patient at Chill
dren's Hospital with streptococcus
throat infection. The unusual re-
quirements could be met by only one
out of a large number of volunteers
and It was planned to use this blood
today. W
Evening star., 1935-02-01
LICENSES
HERE TOTAL 1866
Fewer Permits Sought Than
Last Year, A. B. C..
Board Says.

Retail and wholesale firms number
ing 1852 are selling liquor here today
under new permits issued to the deal
ers by the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board and distributed last night by
policemen.
In addition to this number, the
board has mailed out 124 licenses to
solicitors. This makes the total num-
ber of 1885 permits 1886, or 169 less
than were in effect during the past
year.
Hearings Announced.
Hearings are to be held before Feb
ruary Is on 10 additional applications
for permits, and los other applicants
as yet have not completed filing their
statements essential to hearing on
permits.
Acting under advices from the Al
coholic Beverage Control Board, po-
lice were on watch for sales at es-
tablishments whose proprietorS had
failed to obtain new licenses. Sale
of liquor after midnight under 1884
permits was illegal. and the board an
nounced it would prosecute vigorously
The board was informed several vio-
lations had been noted.
Distributed by Police.
The new retail and wholesale licenS-
eS, completed in a last-minute rush of
business at the A. B. C. Board, were
turned over to police at pm. yes
terday and were distributed last night
to the 1862 places which obtained the
new permits on time The other re-
tail and wholesale places will have
to wait until new permits arrive.
The A. B. c. Board has restored the
license to sell bottled liquor to Ida
Rods for the Annapolis Pharmacy.
The license was revoked last Septem-
Der on a finding by the board that
liquor had been sold there early on a
Sunday morning. The pharmacy clerk
accused of making that sale later was
eXonerated of the charge in Police
Court and the license for the place
was issued on an application for a
1885 permit.
Evening star., 1935-02-01
PLAY PRELIMINARIES
TO BE HELD TUESDAY
First of Series Under Auspices
of Community Center
Department.

The first of a series of four pre-
liminarieS in a one-act play tourna-
ment under auspices of the Com
munity Center Department. will be
held Tuesday at pm. in the Roose-
velt High School auditorium.
The other preliminaries will be
held there next Thursday and the
following Tuesday and Thursday at
the same hour. The finals will be
held at the school February 16.
Judges for the preliminaries will
be w. D. Boutwell,, Interior Depart
ment; William Lee Corbin, Smith
sonian Institution; McFan Kerbey,
National Geographic Magazine; Miss
Elsie Herman, Trinity College, and
Mrs. Maud Howell Smith Of the Arts
Club.
Season tickets, priced at 81, have
been placed on sale at the American
Automobile Association and Willard
Hotel Ticket Bureaus and the Wash
ington Hotel newsstand. Single ad-
mission tickets are rs osnts and re-
serve seats for the finals SO cents.
Evening star., 1935-02-01
REAL ESTATE GAIN
SHOWN BY DEEDS
Recorder Reveals 40 Per
Cent Increase in Business
Over Last Year.

Indications of substantial i'm
provement in real estate business in
Washington were seen yesterday in the
semi-annual report of the recorder OF
deeds, showing an increase of 40 per
cent in volume of business for the first
half of the present fiscal year as COM
pared with the corresponding period
last year.
Recorder William J. Tompkins re-
ported this represents total increase
of 8,521 papers filed, or daily aver
age increase of SO papers.
Referring to the increase in business
the report continued:
"a study of the nature of the bust
ness representing the increase indi-
Gates that it is of the same nature as
that enjoyed by the Office in more
prosperous days. Our records show
the increase during the recent war was
unprecedented in the history Of the
office. A fair deduction to draw from
the present upward trend is that
it is permanent rather than seasonal
or temporary"
The report also suggested the ad-
visibility of increasing the present
rate of fees to eliminate the deficit
incurred during the past seven years
In this connection the report said:
THE average deficit sustained dur
ing the past seven years, during which
time the Office has been on an appro-
priation status, is $27,761.60 per an
mum. This unfortunate and uncalled
for condition is due to the investiga-
ton and recommendation of a lay
commission under the direction of the
Bureau of Efficiency. The Office prior
to that time had functioned as an in
dependent, self-sustaining branch OF
the municipal government"
The recorder also called attention tc
the fact that the work Of the office
was about 1000 current instruments
behind when he took office.
ITO my utter amazement," he con-
tinued, "it was disclosed that IL regu-
lar clerks were dismissed just before
my advent into Office, thus impairing
its efficiency and accounting in large
measure for the 1000 deeds here men,
toned not having been spread upon
the records. Some of these employees
were very efficient"
The report also recommended the
construction of new building, point
ing out that the present structure is
not entirely fireproof and is generally
unsatisfactory Plans for the erection
of a new building at the Fourth and
E streets corner of Judiciary Square
at a cost of 100000, were prepared
several years ago. It was estimated
the cost of the new building could be
liquidated in little more than three
years under the proposed increase in
fees.
Evening star., 1935-02-01
ELEVEN PROMOTED
lin POLICE RANKS
|SWORN FOR DUTY
Claims of Irregularities in
Civil Service Exams
Declared Untrue.
| NUMBER OF OFFICERS
ARE GIVEN TRANSFERS
Shift to New Posts includes Seven
Men Without Change
of Rank.

Eleven police officers, whose promo
tions were announced yesterday by
Mai Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
of police, were sworn in this morning
in Maj. Browns Office and immedi-
ately took over their new duties. In
addition to the promotions, num-
ber of transfers were ordered by the
superintendent, all to take effect i'm
mediately.
Announcement Of the promotions
followed an investigation of claims
that copies of the recent civil service
examinations had been circulated
among certain of the police who took
the examinations for promotion from
private to sergeant and from sergeant
to lieutenant. Investigators for both
the Police Department and Civil Serv-
ice Commission announced their in
vestigations satisfied them there had
been no irregularities, the announce
ment from the latter agency having
been received only yesterday by police
officials
Civil Service Promotions.
The four officers promoted as a re-
suit of their high ratings in the civil
service examination, combined with
their high efficiency ratings are: Sergt
Walter H. Thomas, until now in
charge of records in the Traffic Blu
reau, to lieutenant in the first pre-
cinct: Sergt. Lawrence r. Beall from
administrative headquarters to lieu
tenant in the Traffic Bureau; Pvt.
c. r. Wallrodt from the first precinct
to sergeant in the fifth precinct, and
Pvt. A. B. Clarke from the second pre-
cinct to sergeant in the fourth pre-
cinct.
In addition to these promotions,
which can be made only on civil Serv-
ice ratings, Maj Brown announced
the promotion of three precinct detec-
tives to detective sergeants and four
privates to precinct detectives. Pro-
NOTED from precinct detectives to de-
tective sergeants are w. j. Liverman.
who has been assigned to the inves-
tigation of traffic deaths for the Traf-
fic Bureau; H. G. Wannamaker of
the first precinct and r. S. Bryant of
the second precinct. Pvts. Frank
Ashley and r. L. Manning of the
second precinct, F. M White of the
first and r. E. Talbot of the third
were awarded the precinct detective
berthS.
One Officer Denoted.
There was one demotion announced
that of Detective Sergt. w. J. Du
Busky from the Detective Bureau to
foot patrol in the third precinct.
Included in the number of transfers
which did not affect the rank of the
officers, were those of Lieut.. N. O.
Holmes from the tenth to the second
precinct; Lieut.. j. j. Burke from night
inspector at administrative head
quarters to the tenth precinct; Sergt
j. j. Agnew from the fifth precinct
to the Traffic Bureau to take lieut..
Thomas place as head of the recol ds
division, and Sergt E. K. Shelton
from the fourth precinct to the harbor
precinct. The post Of night inspector
has been abolished.
Transfers of privates were ]. H
Dillinger from the fifth to the seventh
precinct; H. G. McDougall from the
Traffic Bureau to the third precinct
and Thomas Coyle from the Traffic
Bureau to the second precinct.
Evening star., 1935-02-01
Trash Plans to Be Weighed.

HYATTSVILLE, Md, February l
(SpeciaD A meeting of the Prince
Georges County Municipal Omcers,
Association has been called for .
o'clock tonight in the council chamber
in the Municipal Building to con-
slider proposed legislation that would
authorize the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission to collect trash
and garbage in the sanitary district
and establish an incineratos to dis
pose Of 1t.
Evening star., 1935-02-01

~ NE HUNDRED AND FORTY
4 TWO strong. the paintings
l sketches and etchings pro-
~ duced by unemployed artists
of the public works of art
project, crowd the first-f1Oor corridors
of the new Department of Labor
Building, opened this week.
Hung so thickly that they almost
touch each other, the pictures range
in subject matter from still life views
of apples and oranges to not so still
life views of woodSmen sparing trees
from the understandable to those that
seem to defy all Interpretation. Out
standing example of the latter is a
painting reproduced above. The oc~
cupants of one whole corridor of the
new building peered. puzzled and pom
dered over the answer.
The headquarters OF the Public
Works Of Art Project promises an Of
fetal decision in a catalogue of the
exhibition to be released in about three
weeks. And lest employees of the Labor
Department lapse into a sense ot
SNUG assurance that they will alway:
be surrounded by such artistic in.
Spiration. the project headquarter:
warns that the exhibition is to be
moved at the end of the year.
Evening star., 1935-02-01
C.. NJ. JONES GIVEN
COMMISSION POST
Will Take Seat as Treasurer Of
Park and Planning
Body Today.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ROCKVILLE. Md, February l.
Charles M. Jones, Rockville post
master, today was named secretary
treasurer to the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion by Gov. Harry w. Nice. He was
to qualify and assume his new duties
in time to sit with the commission
this afternoon.
Jones succeeds Thomas Hampton
of Bethesda, who submitted his resig-
nation last week. The new secretary
treasurer has served as Rockville
postmaster for five years, his commits
sion expiring several days ago. It
is expected that a new postmaster
will be appointed within few days
Evening star., 1935-02-01
INQUEST ON De S0UZA
is AGAIN POSTPONED
By a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

HYATTSVILLE, Md, February L.
An inquest into the death Of Dan De
Souza, reporter for The Star and pres
ident of the Washington Newspaper
Guild, scheduled for tonight, was
postponed until February 8, due to the
absence of witnesses, it was an
nounced last night by Judge George s.
Phillips, who will preside at the
hearing.
De Souza was killed in an autoD1o-
bile accident on the Washington
Baltimore Boulevard near here De-
cember "a as he and another news
paper man, william Peake, were on
their way to Newark, N. j.. with
Christmas gifts for the children OF
striking members Of the newspaper
guild Of that city. II
Evening star., 1935-02-01

Camps, lately overshadowed by the
Civilian Conservation Corps, he said,
differ fundamentally in that they are
a part of the scheme of national de-
fense. The C. C. c. totally lacks the
military training of the C. M. T. C.
and in no wise replaces it. The C.
M. T. C. is considerably less ex-
pensive per enrollee and should be re-
animated as a defense factor, he con-
cluded.
Must Keep Steady Watch.
Although happily remote from Old
World war scores at the moment"
salad Rear Admiral Clark H. Wood
ward, member of the Navy's General
Board. I'VE must continue our policy
of keeping a steady watch on the in
ternational horizon to note and, if
need be, to smother such drifting
sparks as may fall from any menacing
confederation across either of our
ocean boundaries. Our defense against
such a catastrophe rests only in our
selves and not in international agree
ments."
so long as an honorable reduction
of naval ornaments is not possible,
this country cannot allow restrictions
(either qualitative or quantltatiVe) to
be imposed on our defensive strength"
he continued.
During the last fiscal year, we are
told, our Navy operated 3O2 vessels
which we're, on the average, only
70 per cent complemented," Admiral
| Woodward said. THE seriousness OF
such personnel shortage and its
effect on the fleets readiness for war
cannot be overemphasized. as the Navy
Department feels that IS per cent Is
the minimum below which 1t Is not
| safe to go for the larger combatant
ships, and that larger percentages
are required for the smaller ships
and auxiliaries.
"To continue to operate the fleet
! with an insufficient number OF men is
a serious menace to success in battle
in the event of an unanticipated
emergency"
Urges Preparedness.
Dr. Thomas H. Healy, chairman of
the American Legion's National De-
fense Committee, emphasized that
while overpreparedness may pro-
mote war, lack of reasonable pre-
paredness does not preserve peace
| it invites aggression.
"Our Regular Army is less than
those of Spain, Yugoslavia or Rou-
mania. The New York Telephone Co.
has more employees than Americas
standing Army. The total organized
military forces of peaceful Switzer-
land are actually larger than ours
and on per capita basis they are
SO times as great.
"If our democracy is to be safe
guarded and our democratic principles
maintained, all citizens should not
only insist on keeping our present
national defense system, but also see
that all units are brought up to the
proper strength as recommended by
responsible officials"
Evening star., 1935-02-01
DIES ON GOTH BIRTHDAY

Mrs. Alberta c. Harwood, wife of
Daniel j. Harwood, formerly with the
Government Printing Office, died sud-
denly yesterday at her home, 1860
Columbia road, on her sixtieth BIRTH
day. Mrs. Harwood, a native of WASH
ington, had lived here all her life.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Harwood
is survived by an aunt, Mrs. Mary
Edmonston, and neice, Mrs. Alice
Cotton, both of Washington. Funeral
services will be held at the S. H. Hines
funeral chapel tomorrow at 2 PM,
followed by buriaL8 3 Glenwo0d Gene
Evening star., 1935-02-01
Fireman Plan Dance.

BLADENSBURG, Md, February I
(SpeciaD A dance will be given
under auspices of and for the benefit
of the Bladensburg Volunteer Fire
Department tom4yow evening in the
fire house.
Evening star., 1935-02-01
Spanish Rebels Executed.

OVEIDO, Spain, February / (P.-
Jesus ArguelleS Fernandez. a civilian
leader in the October rebellion, and
Sergt. Vasquez, another participant,
were executed by firing squads for
treason today.
Evening star., 1935-03-31

tainers. they soar rapidly upward. cutting
huge circles of many revolutions; then they
strike out for the home loft. This peculiarity
set me thinking of some possible electro
magnetic hypothesis which would do for the
pigeons what the magnetic compass does for
the mariner on the high seas.
Every schoolboy who has studied physics
knows that an electric conductor, such as
loop of wire. turned in magnetic field will
produce flow of electricity in the wire. One
Evening star., 1935-03-31
Pigeons6nding their wayhome.
Left DO radio waves upset
the pigeons sense of direction?
Photograph BY Brown Brothers

of the classic demonstrations of the physics
teacher is to connect coil of wire to sensi-
tive current meter. or galvanometer, and turn
the loop over, with resultant kick in the
recording instrument. Now. the coil of wire
need have no connection whatever with any
battery or other source of supply. The very
movement of the coil cuts through mysterious
lines of force of the earths magnetic field,
which are everywhere present. 1t is this mag
netic field of the earth that directs the com.
pass needle to the north.
In Lindbergh's fight to Paris, this re-
nowned aviator made use Of the so-called
induction compass, which was merely device
utilizing coil of wire carried by the airplane
through the earths magnetic field. Thus it
generated certain amount of current, which
IN turn was recorded by sensitive meter on
the dashboard. If the plane got off its course
this coil would cut through the magnetic lines
of force in slightly different direction. re-
sulting in change in the amount of current
generated. This would at once be detected by
the meter.
Have we, in the induction compass. an
analogy of some sensitive nerve mechanism
which Nature has installed in the carrier
pigeon? Let us look into the matter further.
CONTINUED on page IS)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-02
D. c. LEADS WORLD
IN PHONE AVERAGE
1881 Listed for Every 100 Per
sons in Capitalism Francisco
Holds Second Place.

washington now leads the cities Of
the world in number of telephones
per 100 population, according to the
current issue Of The Trsnsmitter,
published by the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Companies. The
number is 1881.
San Francisco, formerly the leader,
holds second place with IS. Stock
holm, Denver. Vancouver, Los Angeles
ana Omaha follow. These figures are
Of January l, 1894. and are taken
from q pamphlet called Telephone
and Telegraph Statistics OF the
World" compiled by the A. T. and
r. Co.
The average number OF telephones
per 100 people in the United States
is more than Is. Canada Is second
with about II, and New Zealand is
third with 10. Denmark, Sweden and
Switzerland come next in line. The
average for the North American con-
tinent is 1898. In Europe 1t is only
200. For the other continents the
figures are as follows: Oceania, 0.8l;
South America, OIL; Africa, OILS;
Asia. Ola.
The total number of telephones in
the world Is 32,495,S55. BY conti-
nents they are divided as follows:
North America, 18.1O7.350; Europe,
l1,3o6,e55 Asia, 1.420.539; Oceania.
737,466: South America, 651,9ls;
Africa, 27l.626.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-02
fertilizer GROUP
TO HEAR WHITESIDE
Former N. I. r. A. Board Mem.
Der Will Speak on "Self-Govern.
ment by Industry" at Conclave.

Speaking on SELF Government by
Industry" A. d. Whiteside, former
member of the National Industrial Re-
covery Board and president of Dun q
Bradstreet, Inc, will be featured on
the program Of the eleventh annual
convention Of the National Fertilizer
Association, which will be held at
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, June
10, IL and II.
Several prominent agricultural
authorities will address the conven-
ton on important business and agri-
cultural subjects. Among them will
be DR.. Henry @. Knight, chief, Bureau
of Chemistry and Soils, United States
Department Of Agriculture, who will
speak on Potash Production and
Use" and M. J. Punches, dean, school
of agriculture. Alabama Polytechnic
Institute and director of the Alabama
experiment station, who will talk on
Nitrogen in Southern Agriculture.
Direct Use of Superphosphate" will
be discussed by Prof. Robert M. Sal
ter, chairman. agroncmy department,
Ohio State University, and chief of
agronomy. Ohio experiment station.
Other highlights Of the convention
will include the annual golf tourna-
ment and the annual dinner to be
held Tuesday evening, June IL.
A considerable portion of the pro-
gram will be devoted to a review
of operations during the last year
under the fertilizer code.