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Evening star., 1935-12-04
COMMISSION TOLD
MOST GAS USERS
ETF|VE-CENT CUT
Figures Show New Rates to
Benefit Small Consumer
Slightly.
"PR0M0TI0NAL" SCALE
ATTACKED BY ROBERTS
Firm Official Tells Utilities Body
4S Per Cent of Total Reduction
to Go to Big Customers.

Calculations showing the largest
body of customers of the Washington
and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. would
be given the smallest amount of reduc-
ton in rates under new schedules of
fered by the concerns were before the
Public Utilities Commission today as
scrutiny of the proposed rate revision
was resumed.
Attention was centered on this point
after officials had dwelt on features Of
the proposed sliding-scale plan for an
nual correction of gas rates, and the
question of an accounting of plant
costs and revenues pertaining to divi-
sion of service between District and
suburban customers.
Peoples Counsel william A. Roberts,
who has championed adoption of the
sliding scale plan, late yesterday
turned his fire on "promotional" rates
suggested by the companies as sequel
to the sliding-scale arrangement by
which they hope to boost the sale Of
gas.
Under examination by Roberts,
however, E. j. Boothby, vice president
and general manager of the COM
panies, declared the rates proposed
were mot as promotional as they
should be-"
LAB Per Cent Cut.
officials calculated that customers
using only 1000 cubic feet of gas
month would receive a reduction of
but l48 per cent a month below the
present rates, including the existing
8.5 per cent fiat discount on bills.
On the other hand, it was shown that
customers using between 1000 and
10000 cubic feet would benefit by
reduction of 3.93 per cent on their
bills, and that customers using more
than 10000 feet would have reduc-
ton of 155 per cent. For the whole
domestic schedule bracket, the amount
of the reduction was figured at 41O
per cent.
Boothby told the commission that.
Of the total of S167,120 to be applied
in rate reductions to the domestic
schedules below the present discounted
rates, 48 per ceSt or s80,155, would
be available to customers who use more
than 10000 cubic feet Of gas per
north.
Boothby explained that the average
bill for the domestic customer was for
$500 cubic feet. Under the old rates
the charge for 5000 feet would have
been $3.50. With the present 85 per
cent discount this has been cut to
$2.58. and under the proposed new
rates would be S251.
Hits Scent Cut.
Roberts declared this would mean
a reduction of cents a month in
the bills Of the largest class of GUS
toners.
The calculations include the small
apartment customers with other small
domestic consumers. The amount of
the cut for the home owner was cal
culated to be about IL cents on
monthly bills.
Boothby replied that the S5 per
cent fiat discount that has been in
effect since 1882 was unscientific, i'm
proper and unjust and that conditions
resulting from it had affected the pro-
posed new rates. In planning the
new schedules, he said, the COM
panies had to take up some of the
changes that should have been made
in 1882.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
TaUO Sisters Die
With, Hour, One
As Result of CT T;ef

Two sisters died yesterday Of heart
attacks within an hour, the death of
the second being attributed to shock
and grief over the death Of the first.
Mrs. Lille M. Baird, 81, wife Of
William j. Baird, was fatally stricken
at her home, 1103 G street northeast.
A short time later. her sister, Mrs.
Laura ". Wagner, rs, employed in a
downtown department store, was sum-
moned home to the G street address
and died soon after arrival
Double funeral services will be held
at the residence tomorrow ct 2 pm,
and will be followed by double burial
services in Congressional Cemetery.
Rev. C. H. Jope, pastor of the Ninth
Street Christian Church. will officiate.
Mrs. Baird and Mrs. Wagner were
natives of this city and lifelong resi-
dents here. Their parents were the
late Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Plant.
Mrs. Baird is survived by her hus-
band, son, Lester P. Baird, and two
stepsons, Harvey and Murray Baird.
Mrs. wagoner's nearest kin was Mrs.
Baird.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
PRISON HEAD HERE
TO BE CONSIDERED
Commissioners to Be Addressed
Friday by Citizens Back
ing Peak.

Proposed appointment OF new
general superintendent OF District
penal institutions will be considered
again by the Commissioners Friday.
At that time spokesmen for the
Southeast Business Mems Association
and the Council of Southeast Citizens
Associations will appear to urge Sc
lection of Col. William L. Peak, now
superintendent of the Lorton Reform
atory and formerly head Of the Dis
trict Jail.
The Board of Public Welfare has
recommended selection Of Harold E.
Donnell Of Baltimofe, Maryland State
superintendent of prisons. The board
has asked several times that the Com
missioners act on its recommendation.
Capt. Thomas M. Rives, superin-
tendent of the jail, also has been sug-
igested for the post, now held by Capt.
M. M Barnard, who Is several years
beyond retirement age.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
D. c. DRyS OPEN
CONGRESS FIGHT
House Committee Is Bonn.
barded With Pleas for
Guyer Bill.

Heralding the fight to be made at
the forthcoming session of Congress
to restore prohibition in the District,
dry leaders in various sections began
bombarding the House District Com
mittee today with Endorsements of the
Guyer bill.
Representative Guyer, Republican,
of Kansas introduced the bill at the
last session of Congress, and Senator
Capper, Republican, of the same State,
sponsored a companion measure in
the Senate. Primarily, the two bills
are designed to dry up Washington as
the Sheppard act did before enact
ment of national prohibition. =
When Guyer introduced the bill
last July / he did not anticipate any
immediate support, but believed it
would serve as basis for future leg
islation to dry up Washington. In
the meantime, however, prohibition
forces throughout the country rallied
behind the measure, believing its
enactment would precede the return
of national prohibition and history
would repeat itSelf-Washington would
go dry before the Nation.
Liquor Dealers Active.
In anticipation of the impending
fight for return of prohibition in the
District, liquor dealers are under
stood to be planning vigorous cam
paign of opposition. The first move
is expected to be made by the Associ-
ated Beverages Association of Wash
ington, which meets tomorrow at 8
o m. in the Willard Hotel.
Representative Dirksen, Republican,
of Illinois, who sponsored legislation
at the last session of Congress which
brought the so-called hidden bars"
into the open, plans to tell the organi-
zation what steps to take to combat
the dry movement.
"I am going to oppose every effort
to force prohibition on the District"
declared Dirksen.
He is a member of the House Dis
trict Committee, which will have to
pass on the Guyer bill before it
reaches the House calendar.
Before Subcommittee.
The Guyer bill, incidentally, is now
before the Judiciary Subcommittee of
the House District Committee, headed
by Representative Palmisano, Demo-
crat, of Maryland, wet. Palmisano
is not in Washington and it is not
known whether he plans to hold pub
lie hearings on the measure.
At the last session of Congress
Palmisano was successful in prevent
ing action on bill to tighten the Dis
trict gambling laws by failing to have
public hearings on it. He may follow
the same tactics with respect to the
Guyer measure. The gambling bill is
still before Palmisano's subcommittee
as well as the dry bill.
Senator Capper has not returned
from his home in Kansas and his
plans for forcing action on the dry
bill in the Senate are still in doubt.
He is a member of the Senate District
Committee, to which the measure was
referred.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
120 WOMEN ARE GIVEN
TRAFFIC EXAMINATIONS
Three-Day School Shows Films
Portraying Features of Auto
mobile Accidents.

An examination in traffic regula-
tions was given some 100 women to-
day after completion Of the three-day
traffic school" conducted at the
Evans-Palmer Motor Co., Fourteenth
and L streets.
The school was sponsored by the
Federation of Women's Clubs, the
American Automobile Association and
the Parent Teacher Association.
Each day films have been shown
portraying the realistic features OF
automobile accidents. In conjunction
with the films, speakers from the A
A. A. and the District Bureau of We
hicles and Traffic have explained traf-
fic regulations, and the proper pro-
cedure in avoiding accidents.
The examination today was admin
istered by a representative of the Bu-
reau of Vehicles and Traffic. Those
passing it will not be required to take
regular traffic tests necessary to Sc
cure an automobile license.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
STORES ON TRIAL
IN WEIGHT DISPUTE
Charges That A. & P. Sold
Poultry at False Measure
Heard by Jury.

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Co. went on trial before a jury in
Police Court today to answer the first
of "a charges of selling short-weight
poultry.
The company, through its attorney,
Caruthers Ewing of New York and
Memphis, lost in a skirmish regarding
admission Of evidence of the principal
Government witness. Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Elwood Seal is prose-
cutting.
1t is charged by the Department of
Weights and Measures that short
weight purchases were made in II of
the company's 180 stores here. More
than one case was brought from pur-
chasers in some stores.
Woman Purchaser.
In the first case, it was set forth
that Mrs Helen Exley, acting for the
Department of Weights and Measures,
purchased two chickens on August 2
in a store at 1928 Wisconsin avenue
and that the chickens weighed ap-
proximately ounces less than the
weight for which paid.
The defense sought to have Mrs
Exley's testimony stricken out on the
grounds that after the chickens were
weighed, Mrs. Exley paid $103 without
having been given the weight by the
clerk who served her.
The motion further charged there
was no testimony to show the scales
Of the Department of Weights and
Measures were any more accurate
than those on which the chickens
were weighed in the store.
The motion to strike out was over
ruled by Judge Gus A. Schuldt and
each subsequent motion based on the
same contention was likewise denied.
Inspector TeStifies.
Inspector w. G.. Diller of the
Weights and Measures Department
testified he accompanied Mrs. Exley
to a point near the store and waited
for her while she made the purchase.
The chickens were weighed on the de-
partment's scales Is minutes after a.
legged purchases, both prosecution
witnesses said.
The only defense witness called to
the stand before recess was G. L.
Lehman, manager of the meat de-
partment of the store. He could not
secall the sale to Mrs. Exley and
stated that all sales slips were thrown
away after the days work. hence he
could not say whether he made a sale
Of $103 on that day.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
MRS. MACARTHUR RITES
Services Tomorrow in Manila for
Generals Mother.

Funeral services for Mrs. Arthur
Macarthur, 80, mother of Maj. Gen
Douglas Macarthur, will be held to-
morrow at Manila, P. l.. according to
the Associated Press. The body will
be brought here for burial in Arlington
Cemetery.
Mrs. Macarthur died yesterday at
Manila after long illness. Her son,
Gen. Macarthur, former chief of staff
of the United States Army, is military
adviser of the commonwealth govern
ment Of the Philippine Islands.
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Evening star., 1935-12-04
STREET CAR AND BUS
HEARING SET DEC. is

December 16 was set today by the
Public Utilities Commission as the
date for holding a public hearing on
the Capital Traction Co.'S bus and
street car service.
The hearing will begin at 10 am.
In the offices Of the. commission in
the District Building. Commission
members had tentatively agreed on
December II for the hearing, but
granted postponement to give citi-
zens' associations time to prepare evi-
dence they wished TO present.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
ADDRESS TO BE MADE
BY FORMER GOVERNOR
DIR. Charles H. Brough to Speak
at Arkansas Society Recep-
ton Friday Night.

DR.. Charles H. Brough, former Gov
ernor Of Arkansas, will speak at the
annual reception and dance of the
Arkansas State Society in the ball
room Of the Willard Friday evening.
The address, scheduled for 9:l5 pm.
will deal with plans for the celebration
Of the State centennial next year.
The reception is the first Of two ex-
pected to be given by the society this
Winter. 1t is open to all present or
former residents Of the State and
their friends. Jake o. Rhyme is presi-
dent Of the organization,
Evening star., 1935-12-04
STEEL PRESIDENT DIES.

BALTIMORE, December 4 Especially.
Gilbert A. Wehr. president OF the
Baltimore Steel Co., died Of pneumonia
yesterday at- Union Memorial Hospital
Evening star., 1935-12-04
MOONEY POST "IN AIR"
Postmaster General Undecided on
Appointee.

The Washington postmastership Is
still up in the air, Postmaster General
Farley said today. The Postmaster
General said several letters had been
received on behalf of applicants for
the post now held by William l..
Mooney, but no consideration had
been given to the appointment OF his
successor.
MONEYS tsrm expires February 8.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
Rabbi Lectures Tomorrow.

DR.. Abram Simon, rabbi Of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation, will
lecture at II am. tomorrow at the
Shoreham Hotel under auspices Of the
Sisterhood of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation,
Evening star., 1935-12-08

Beautiful and ornamental. OF precious
wood, hand-rubbed to a glowing. gleam-
ing finish. Slvered metal dial. pierced
hands. Streamline Tambour. or cabinet
electric-both self starters.
Evening star., 1935-12-08

Hand-rubbed mahogany. artistically in
laid electric clocks. With silver or gold
metal dials. Choose the Streamline Tam
bour-Self-Starting Electric Cabinet
Alarm - or Cabinet Self-Starting Desk
Clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-04-19

per cent for his money. and he can
only have it for IL months.
Then here Is farmer No. 4
who has made an emergency crop
and-seed loan from that particular
bureau in the Farm Credit Admins
tration. He is paying per cent
on his loan for one year, but he can
only have up to $500.
"The fifth farmer is borrowing from
the Commodity Credit Corp, also op-
Grated by the same Uncle Sam. This
farmer Is paying per cent for his
money, but he is getting a grand deal
out of it, because the Government
recognizes as basis o. collateral. corn
at As cents a bushel and cotton at
IL cents pound.
Right next to him Is another
farmer borrowing from the Regional
Agricultural Credit Corp, which is
now in process Of liquidation, but
which has large loans outstanding
He Is paying So per cent for his
money to the same Government.
Here is a seventh farmer. He is
living on a subsistence homestead. He
gets his money for 8 per cent, although
he must have an income of approxi-
mately $50 to 500 a month before
he can make the loan in the first
place.
Right next to these seven farmers
is cooperative farming institution
which is borrowing from the same
Government. under the marketing act
of 1929, and getting its money as low
as one-half of per cent. That makes
eight farm loan contracts, all differ
ent."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-04-19

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 19.-"Condi-
toned" Johnny and normal" Jimmy.
experimental twins. celebrated their
Sd birthday anniversary yesterday.
Johnny was the infant who for
two and a half years was reared by
the Normal Child Development Clinic
as a test while his mother, Mrs.
Dennis Woods. raised his brother.
Although they had received diff
ferent training, the twins assaulted
their chocolate cakes from almost
identical angles and came up with
almost identical smears on their
faces.
The only discernible difference was
that Johnny, who was trained along
athletic lines, gobbled up candles and
all, while his more thoughtful brother
steered course between the candles
Before the confectionery onslaught
the athletic twin displayed how well
his muscles are co-ordinated by climb
ing to the top of bureau in his
parents modest walk-up apartment
and jumping nimbly to the floor,
while his brother displayed his mental
grasp of things by counting to fifteen.
Johnny then proceeded to bite q
visitor on the leg.
Both boys. blond, curly-haired and
chubby, have exceptional lung power.
Johnny can roller skate and swim,
but his brother talks more plainly
and seems more practical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-04-19

bring himself to believe it would be
"any great favor to a tenant farmer"
to change him into q proprietor, 10
view Of the existing condition of agri-
culture. He doubted whether this Is
the time to take the proposed step.
Attack Delays Vote.
Vandenberg's speech was part of a
combined Republican, Democrats at
tack that delayed vote on the farm
tenant bill until, possibly, this after
noon. Administration leaders, how
ever, were confident of passage.
In describing the varying terms
under which Uncle Sam deals with
different farmers in typical cases,
Varfdenberg said 1t Is fortunate these
farmers do not live next to each
other, so that they, probably all of
them, never gather around the same
stove in the same country store to
compare notes"
Here Is the first farmer" Vanden-
berg began. HE has obtained loan
from the Federal Land Bank. Origi-
nally he paid S per cent, but now he
is getting the money for AZ per
cent. His loan runs from 20 to 80
years. and is made on the basis of
so per cent of the value Of the farm
Right next to him Is a farmer
who is borrowing from the land bank
commissioners. He is paying per
cent on a contract running from 10
to 40 years, but he may borrow on
rs per cent of the value of his land
Right next to him is farmer who
Is borrowing from the Production
Credit Association. He pays 5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-04-19
EIGHT FARM LOAN
METHODS SCORED
Speech of Senator vanden'
berg Delays Vote on
Tenant Measure.
BY J. A. OLEARY.

The story of how the Federal Gov
eminent gradually has built up eight
different methods of making loans to
farmers, all on varying terms and con-
ditions, was described to the Senate
yesterday by Senator Vandenberg, Re-
publican, of Michigan.
He was discussing the pending
Bankhead farm-tenant bill, which
aims to give tenant-farmers chance
to become proprietors Of farms. This,
Vandenberg said, would create ninth
variety of farm-loan contract. To
these nine he added two more farmers
the one who is not borrowing from
the Government, and the one whose
farm Is not mortgaged at all.
Il do not complain that we have
extended these credits" said the
Michigan Senator. II complain that
they are not co-ordinated."
Senator Vandenberg commended
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of Ala
bama, for the humanitarian object of
the bill and said he concurred with
the general philosophy Of it. He
added, however, that he Is unable to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-04-19
HITLER POWDERS
POWERS Warning
Note Ordering Status Quo
on Rhine Tied With League
Rebuke.

(copyrisht. 1885, by the Associated Press)
BERLIN, April 19.-Warned by
Great Britain and Italy that they will
oppose any move to refortify the de-
militarized Rhineland zone, Reichs-
tuehrer Adolf Hitler deliberated today,
the eve of his 46th birthday ami
versary, on what stand he would
take in face of international reproof
for Germany's treaty populations.
The ambassadors of the great Euro
pean powers planned to stay close
20 Berlin during the Easter week end
awaiting what one envoy described as
a colored Easter egg containing a
serpent.
Considerable surprise is felt in dip
lomatic circles that Der Fuehrer has
not acted before this time, at least
for the purposes of counteracting at
home the bad taste left BY the Geneva
resolution.
Hitler's arrival at Munich to confer
with his advisers led many to believe
a statement may be forthcoming to-
cay or tomorrow.
Warning Given Foreign Office.
The British and Italian warning
that they would insist on preservation
of the status quo in the demilitarized
Rhineland was presented to the Reich
foreign Office by the ambassadors of
the two powers.
They also gave Wilhelmstrasse
officials assurance that their gov
ernments intended to fulfill complete
ly their obligations under the Locarno
treaty, by which the Franco German
frontier is guaranteed against viola
ton by either nation.
AS officials analysed the implica-
tlons of the Geneva vote, it appeared
that German-Polish friendship had
suffered no marked strain because of
the support Joseph M. Beck, Polands
foreign minister, gave to the tri-
power resolution.
Berlin and Warsaw gave identical
explanations of the significance of the
Geneva action, plainly indicating that
the two governments still are working
in close collaboration.
Vote Called Formally.
Wilhelmstrasse sources now express
the opinion that after all the Geneva
vote changed nothing, as it was
mere formality"
The Polish foreign Office explained
that Beck voted for France as "a
Formally"
Furthermore, the German press has
been forbidden to print accounts of
Polish anti-German demonstrations
such as occurred last week end in
Pomorze and Upper Silesia.
Hitler left his Bavarian mountain
retreat to 60 to Munich for confer
ence with Baron Konstantin Won
Neurath, his foreign minister, and
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, his arms
expert. concerning his next move.
Pending the Reichfuehrer's action,
no details were made public of the
sizzling" verbal protest British quar-
tiers said yesterday had been delivered
to Sir Eric Phipps, the British Am
bassador. by Bernard w. Won Beulow,
foreign undersecretary.
PRELIMINARY FARLEY SET.
GENEVA, April 10 LP.-A Czecho-
slovakian spokesman announced to-
day that the Little Entente repre-
sentatives had decided to invite Ger
many to attend a preliminary parley
in preparation for the Danubian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-04-19
PRELIMINARY FARLEY SET.

GENEVA, April 10 LP.-A Czecho-
slovakian spokesman announced to-
day that the Little Entente repre-
sentatives had decided to invite Ger
many to attend a preliminary parley
in preparation for the Danubian
conference at Rome in June.
The Washington times., 1935-10-23

Twenty fourth, - a. Driscoh
Twenty-fifth, and K SITS. N. W.,
within the associations territory.
Members of the organization re-
vealed the Alley Dwelling Author
ity had taken title to 23,105
square feet of improved land on
which are many valuable build
ings facing on Twenty-third and
on G St., simply to obtain four
pieces of alley dwellings within
the square which have a total
area of only Lip square feet,
which was characterized as rather
an expensive procedure for re-
suits obtained.
Authority Challenged
It was also asserted that the
Alley Dwelling Authority is ex-
ceeding the act of Congress which
created it in attempting low-cost
housing project development, or
In securing land to be turned
over later to the Federal Housing
Administration on which low.
rental houses may be erected.
The West End officials declare
the power of the ADA was limited
to purchasing only front street
property necessary in the process
of eliminating undesirable alley
dwellings, but the amount of land
secured in the present transac-
tion goes far beyond that and
that its activity in Square Sc
would indicate that alley clear
ance is not its primary purpose
there.
The Washington times., 1935-10-23
TODAY


Exhibit-Roger williams Ma
terial. Rare Book Room of the
Library of Congress. Open until
october 26.
200 P.M.-General Session,
Universalist Church, Mayflower
Hotel.
2:30 P.M.-Card Party, League
of Republican Women, Mayflower
Hotel.
$50 P.M.-Dinn.er Retail
Credit Men, Raleigh Hotel.
$50 P. M.-Dinner, Beta Theta
Pi Alumni Association, Lafayette
Hotel.
800 P.M.-Meeting, lexington
Church, Raleigh Hotel.
800 P.M.-Meeting, Chi Sigma
Sorority, Mayflower Hotel.
800 P.M.-Meeting, Washing.
ton Philatelic Society, Carlton
Hotel.
All Day-Meeting, luncheon and
Dinner, Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance, Hamilton Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Optimist
Club, Hamilton Hotel.
$50 P.M.-Dinner, Washington
Association of Credit Men, Ham
ilton Hotel.