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with Hoeppel for the latter's Annap-
oils appointments. 1t was one Of
these, according to the Government,
that Hoeppel plotted to sell to Ives.
Pine pointed out, however, that Burke
was not a party to the alleged con-
spiracy.
The jury, composed Of 10 men and
two women, was selected in rapid
time after both the Government and
the prosecution had eliminated eight
members of the panel on challenges.
Every precaution was taken by both
prosecution and defense to select a jury
unprejudiced against the member OF
Congress, Army men, or legislation In
which Hoeppel is interested.
The prosecution sought particularly
to ascertain whether any member OF
the panel was interested in the Town
send old-age pension plan, which
Hoeppel has supported. Since HoeppeI
is a retired enlisted man in the Army,
the defense questioned the panel about
their relationship with service men
and especially whether any of them
have relatives who ever sought adn1is-
sion to the Military Academy.
The jury follows:
G. Gordon Bailey, Roy F. Carly,
Mrs. Dorothy L. Gordon, Sewell
Shreve, Benjamin j. Nyce, George H.
Heine, Mrs. Marie f. Hayes, Charles
E ODaniel, Marvin W Peers, Sheri-
dan S. Kleindienst, Oscar w. Logan
and WoodSon G. Martin.
The alleged connivance is said 10
have occurred between May 26 and
June 6, 1884, after which time Ives was
within six months of the maximum age
limit for entrance to West Point. He
previously had been a member of the
lacrosse team which represented the
United States in the 1882 Olympic
games and had been an almost unani-
nous choice for the a1l-America Ia
crosse team while at Johns Hopkins
University, where he also played foot
ball.
Both Hoeppel and his son have
been at liberty under $500 bail each
since indictment.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
PARKS IS KISSED
] |NARMY DEFENSE
Draws Town Hall Derision
for Denying U. S. Fought
Aggressive War.

A Town Hall audience which hissed
Representative Tilman B. Parks of
Arkansas for his assertion last night
that no American soldier had ever
fred a gun in an aggressive war heard
Sir Norman Angel, noted British
Iaborite and author, point out the
path of collective security as the path
Of peace.
Parks, a member of the panel
auizzing Sir Norman on his address,
Evening star., 1935-12-09

ready approval of his listeners
Sir Norman, who spoke on why
q World Wanting Peace Gets War, -
declared that when such degree of
organization has been reached that
an attack on any one member of the
international community would be an
attack on all, there would be no at
tack on any.
Britain's course at Geneva in the
9talo-E Ethiopian crisis was spiritedly
defended.
Imperialists Oppose Course.
England has been charged with
pursuing a selfish and imperialistic
policy with regard to Italy" he de-
clared, but sight is lost of the fact
that all the imperialists in England,
the old guard, are bitterly opposed to
the present course at Geneva, and the
main support in Britain, as in France
and the Irish Free State, is the parties
Of the left, the working class"
He attempted to spike justification
Of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia fol-
economic reasons, denying that the
problems of Italy can be solved by the
acquisition of new colonies.
African colonies are not going tc
provide an outlet for any European
state" he declared, "for Africa already
has a native population Of low stand
ard OF life with which Europeans can
not compete"
Endorsed by Lewis.
Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington
correspondent of the London Times
was member Of the panel and heartily
indorsed everything his countrymar
said. but pointed out that nation:
foreign policies are generalization
quired in an anarchic world, and the
problem is to reconcile these fruits
of anarchy with the new system basec
ON international order.
Other members of the panel wert
Frederick j. Libby, executive Secre-
tary of the National Council for Pre-
vention Of War. and Maj. Gen. Pau
B. Malone, in command Of the 9th
Corps Army Area.
John w. Studebaker, chairman oi
Town Hall, presided last night for the
first time this season.
Next Sunday night Gaetano Sal.
venini, former member of the Italian
Parliament and opponent of FaScism
will speak on "The Ways of Dictator
ship"
Evening star., 1935-12-09
UTILITY SPL|T-UP
.LOSSESARE Barred
U. S. Power Body Advises 3
State Units of Line Cut.
ting Results.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
The power commissions of three
States have been advised by the Fed
eral Power Commission that the Con-
necticut Power Co. is suffering Sc
rious economic losses" as the result OF
severing interstate lines to avoid
Federal jurisdiction.
The power company cut its trans
boundary lines when the holding COM
pany act was passed, admittedly to
remain under the authority only OF
State commissions.
The commission, In announcing its
communication to New York, Con-
necticut and Massachusetts agencies
also released correspondence between
itself and Samuel Ferguson, Connecti-
cut power chairman.
Willing to Experiment.
A letter from Ferguson said that
"at present I am out from under and
can afford to stay so, but, as I hate
to see unavoidable waste going on
day by day. I am quite willing to
make the experiment of a trial mar
rage"
Ferguson, the correspondence show.
ed, had suggested commission inter-
probation where the lines might be
rejoined, but the commission replied
it did mot think that any bushes:
is entitled trial marriage with its
government"
Writing the three State agencies the
Federal Commission said:
1T would appear that the severance
Of these interstate connections is nov
causing and must inevitably cause Sc
rious economic loss to all Of the com.
panies involved and ultimately to thu
people Of the States which they
service, ss"
Cost Increase Feared.
while these economic losses woult
appear, for the present at least, K
fall primarily upon the stockholdeTi
Of the companies, the destruction o.
these interstate connections will i'm
pair the reliability Of service and in
crease the cost of power supplied K
domestic, commercial and industria
consumers"
The severed lines we're between tn,
Connecticut Power Co., the Contra
Hudson Gas & Electric Co. in New
York and the western Massachusetts
companies.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
D. C. YOUNG DEMOCRATS
REFLECT R. J. WALTER
Attorney Also Chosen Chairman
of State Central Committee.
Clubs Plan Dance.

Unanimous reelection Of Raymond
J. Walter as president Of the Young
Democratic Clubs Of the District Of
Columbia and as chairman Of the
State Central Committee was an
nounced today. He will direct the
activities Of the Young Democrats dur
ing the 1885 campaign. He Is an at
torney and was N. r. A. compliance
director for the District.
The clubs will hold q campaign
dance at the Mayfiower Hotel Decem-
Der IT. Miss Ruth Madden has been
named chairman of the General Com
mittee in charge, with John Mattern
as vice chairman. Other committee
chairmen are Mrs. Braddish j. Carroll,
jr., box; Walter Bramhall, music and
decorations; John Sobotka, publicity,
and Godfrey Wickware, floor.
Walter today announced the appoint
ment of John Bracken as chairman of
the jackson Day Dinner Committee.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
DURAND IS APPOINTED
TO TARIFF COMMISSION
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt yesterday an
nounced appointment of Edward Dana
Durand to the Federal Tariff Com
mission to fill the vacancy created by
the resignation Of John Lee Coulter
Of North Dakota, Republican.
Born in Romeo. Mich, in 1871, Du-
rand was graduated from Oberlin in
1893, receiving a Pm. D. degRee from
Cornell three years later. He served
as director Of the United States Cen
sus, with the United States Food Ad-
ministration, the Bureau Of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce and the
Commerce Departments division Of
statistical research.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
ACTOR TAKES ROLE
IN SPITE OF BURNS
Montgomery Player Plays Com
edy Part After Gas Scared
Arm.
By a Stan Correspondent Of The star.

CHEVY CHASE, Md, December g.
A capacity audience attending the
Montgomery Players presentation of
''Bird in Hand" Saturday night, wit
messed, but we're not aware, of real
drama.
Handicapped by severe burns of the
hand and arm, suffered in an illurni-
mating gas explosion at his home a
short time before, J. A. Bishop never
Eheless gave an impressive performance
In the comedy role of Banquet.
Bishop was burned at his home, 9
East Woodbine street, Chevy Chase, on
Saturday afternoon when he ignited
q match to examine the oil burner,
which had gone out during his abb
eence Saturday morning.
Unaware that members of the family
had not turned of the gas pilot light,
Bishop struck match and his arm
and hand was scared when accumu-
lated gases exploded.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
NEW CLIPPER POISED

: ALAMEDA, Calf, December Up.
--Pan-American Airways officials set
take-of time for the Philippine Clip
per's initial fight to Manila for pm.
C pm. Eastern standard time) today.
The big seaplane is sister ship of
the China Clipper, which completed
Q round trip to Manila last Friday.
Overnight stops will be made at
Honolulu, Midway, Wake and Guam.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
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Evening star., 1935-12-09
Women Tell Age.

FREMONT, Nebr. CP.-When it
cost only so cents to be listed on old
age pension rolls as simply "over 21,"
Dodge County women hastened to
pay. But tax collectors reported a
new 50 fee for the privilege must be
too high. The ladies are telling now.
Evening star., 1935-12-09


Kisses and ap-
plause when he
launched into an
grafton in de-
fense of the
American Army
and preparedness.
His plea for a
satisfactory and
sufficient army to
d. e nd these
shores" and hope
t h a t American
boys will never
have to fight
again on foreign
enj1D u,op the
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Evening star., 1935-12-09
ENVOY is WELCOMED
Lithuanian Society Holds Recep.
ton for New Minister.


ton for New Minister.
An informal reception was held by
the Washington Chapter Of the Amer
ican Lithuanian Society In the Wash
ington Hotel yesterday for the new
Lithuanian Minister, Povilas zadeikas,
and his wife, and the secretary Of
the legation, Mikas Bagdonas.
John r. Brazinsky of Georgetown
University, toastmaster at the recep-
ton, suggested that the Washington
and Baltimore societies join in OBJ
servance of Lithuanian day February
16, which has been officially set aside
by Gov. Nice Of Maryland. L. j.
Esunas, president of the society, pre-
sided.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
BOWL MAY PROVE
METEOR'S RECORD
Smithsonian Relic Believed
Prehistoric Evidence
of Phenomenon.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Smithsonian Institution said
Yesterday that simple earthenware
howl nodded centuries ago by an In
dian potter may prove to be prehis-
toric record Of the fall OF a giant
.aeteorite In Arizona.
Found several years ago by DR.. Wal
ter Hough, head curator OF anthropol-
ogy of the Institution. while member
of a National Museum expedition, the
bowl itself Is Of conventional design,
but its decoration Is unique in Indian
art.
DR.. Hough describes the marking
as "a dark-brown globe occupying the
center of the bowl and surrounded
with a field of stars. The globe Is
covered with short spines alternating
dark brown and red, and is fitted with
a beak resembling that Of the Ma
tashka monsters of Hopi mythology"
The design is sketchy as though ex-
ecuted by the trembling hands Of an
aged potter. 1t may represent. says
DR.. Hough, some happening in nature
such as a great meteor fall. There
might even be room fer speculation, it
was said, that the meteorite fall re-
corded was the one that hewed out the
famous meteor crater in Arizona.
THE design obviously is intended to
represent some dragon like. flaming
object speeding through the sky"
Ho1gh said.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
West Point Cadets to Witness
Use of Deadly Parachute Bomb
Army's Ne,c Air Weapon to Haze Pre-.
miere Before 279 Members of Gradu-
ating Class at Fort Be,,ning, Ga.

carrying machine guns and forced to
fly so feet above the ground to be
able to annihilate the enemy were un-
able to drop bombs because the plane
would be in as much danger from fly
ing fragments as the enemy.
The new bomb, he said, with the
small parachute attached and carrying
less weight than the larger one of the
bombardment ships, allow the plane
time enough to get away before 1t
drops to the ground after being re-
leased.
With the parachute, Maj. Weir said,
the flyer can assure his accuracy in
bombing as his machine gunner con-
tinues to pour q stream of bullets
at the enemy.
Because the new bombs will not
carry any explosives. the cadets will
be enabled to see first hand how ac-
curate bombing has become, at the
same time watch the whitening fire of
the newest type machine gun-one
that the Army is closely guarding and
refuses to have photographed.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
WOMAN IS KILLED
IN HEAD-ON CRASH
Husband and Young Nephew
Injured in Accident Near
Largo, Md.

Mrs. Bette M. Beavers, 81, of rs
Thomas avenue, Maryland Park, Md,
was almost instantly killed and her
husband and 15-months-old nephew
injured In head-on collision be-
tween two automobiles on Central
avenue, near Largo, Md, last night.
A colored couple in the other car es-
capped unhurt
The husband, Thomas z. Beavers,
50, employe of the Washington Ter
minal Co., was treated at Casualty
Hospital for minor lacerations and
abrasions and went home.
Thomas Patrick Walker, the
nephew Of Mrs. Beavers, is in the
hospital in an undetermined condi-
ton. He has a fractured right arm
and head injuries.
Camp Springs Man Jailed.
Prince Georges County police jailed
Joseph ]. Proctor, colored, Of Camp
Springs at Upper Marlboro in de-
fault of 81 900 bond for appearance at
an inquest before Justice of the
Peace Oscar Poore in Capitol Heights
Wednesday night.
The officers say the car he was
driving collided with the one operated
by Beavers. A colored woman in
Proctor's car fed the scene, according
to Magistrate Poore.
DR.. James I. Boyd of Forestville
pronounced Mrs. Beavers dead of a
Evening star., 1935-08-04
OIL BOARDS WRITE
OWN BIOGRAPHIES
That's All Left to Do Since
Decision on N. R. A.,
Ickes Finds.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
The Petroleum Administrative
Board and the Petroleum Labor Policy
Board-which together made up the
Oil Administration-yesterday re-
ceived orders from Secretary Ickes to
write their own biographies.
Little else for them or Ickes himself,
as oil administrator, was left to do
after passage Of the skeleton N. r. A.
bill. The old oil code and the Pa
cific Coast agency and refiners' agree
ments are dead, Ickes said, while mo
agreements In the petroleum industry
have been submitted or approved un-
der the amended national industrial
recovery act"
Recalling the Presidents instruc-
tions to N. r. A. to compile similar
record, Ickes said he had instructed
the boards to print their biographies
as "a permanent record" He added:
"It will without doubt prove val
liable il done effectively, and it will
be done effectively. ! should be glad
to have the suggestions and comments
of trade associations, oil companies or
individuals with respect to the in
dustry during the period of operation
under the code, or changes subsequent
thereto, and to consider any data or
the views of anyone interested in the
subject. "'*
"In carrying on these studies, aside
from what is necessary under the Con-
nally act, there is no semblance of
compulsion of any kind. In that part
of the work already under way, my
representatives have almost without
exception been given full voluntary
cooperation"
Adding that the Oil Administration
also had the duty of enforcing the
Connally act, which forbids shipment
in interstate commerce of oil or oil
products produced in excess of State
quotas, Ickes said he intended to make
additional reduction in expenditures
of the two petroleum boards.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
FOREIGNERS HELP
POSTAL PROFITS
Money Order Business Nets
100000 to Post Office
Department.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
One Yankee trader who didn't lose
when foreign money values jumped
and fell in recent years was the Post
ONCE Department.
It cleaned up more than 100000
yearly profit on its foreign money
order business, as estimated by r. M.
Mort, acting Third Assistant Post
master General.
Like others who have bills to pay
abroad, the money order men buy
foreign exchange by bidding against
other buyers on the New York mar
ket.
Post Office Protected.
Often, in recent years, private spec
ulators have lost money in a sudden
drop Of foreign money values after
buying exchange.
But the Post Office Department is
protected against a break in the mar
ket. In the first place, it sets its
rates slightly higher than the current
exchange rate, to cover" it on any
loss.
Postal men study the money mar
ket, watch for a sudden break in the
value of foreign money. and prepare
for 1t by buying carefully.
Rates Set for Period.
With foreign exchange in their
hands, they have another protection,
North explained. Postal rates for
foreign money orders are set for a
period in advance, based on the prices
paid for exchange in New York
The rates stand until the exchange
is used up, regardless of what hap
pens abroad.
The Post ONCE Department sent
$23, 100000 abroad in 1884, and paid
out $6,000,000 in America on money
orders made out in foreign countries.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

crushed chest and fractured skull
caused by the impact between the two
machines. Her body was taken TO
Ritchie Bros. funeral home at Marl-
horo. The injured were removed by
the Bladensburg rescue squad.
Body Left With Aunt.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. c. Walker, AIT
Fourth street, parents Of Thomas
Patrick, had left the baby with his
aunt for the week. They were waiting
at the Beaver home to take the child
to their home over Sunday when the
accident occurred.
Alarmed because the Beavers did
not return when they expected, the
Walkers broke into the house when
they heard the telephone ring. It was
the hospital calling to report their
baby injured.
County Policemen Oscar Beall and
Morris J. Hampton, VINO investigated,
said Mrs. Beavers was killed in front
Of the home of one Of her nieces, Mrs.
Earl Brooks.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Boy SurUiues IS
Blood Tra,ssfusiOr,s
And 8 Operations
Leaves Hospital on
Clutches but Is Orer.
loved by RecOrery.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 3.-Recovered
from an uncommon bone and blood
disease after IS blood transfusions,
eight operations and the loss of his
left leg, Harold Pfiegler, IA, today
walked out of the hospital he entered
last November and returned to his
home.
Overjoyed. the youth smilingly
shook hands with his doctors and
nurses and told them "it sure feels
swell to be going home"
Nattily attired in sport clothes,
young Harold walked with the aid Of
crutches to an automobile and was
accompanied to his home by his
father, Gustav, an unemployed musi-
clan, and an uncle and aunt, MIR. and
Mrs. John Hasselmeyer.
He must return to the institution
once week. however, for medical at
tention. He hopes to return to his
classes In q Bronx high school In the
Fall.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
WRG|N|ANS FREED
IN SHOOTING CASE
Had Nothing to Do, Lawyer
Says, With Attempt on
Rabbits Life.
BY a Stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, August 3.-The
attempt to slay C. Herman Rabbit,
well-to-do Gaithersburg cattle and
land dealer, was still cloaked in mys-
terry tonight.
States Attorney James H. Pugh
questioned Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
Spencer of Forestville, Va, at length
this afternoon, and then released
them with the announcement that he
was satisfied they had no connection
with the case.
Warrants for arrest of the Virginia
couple, who lived in Gaithersburg
until Rabbit foreclosed a mortgage
on their farm six months ago, on
charges Of assault with intent to kill,
were sworn out yesterday by county
police after it was reported that Mrs.
Spencer had threatened Rabbit on
several occasions.
Pugh said that Mrs. Spencer readily
admitted sending Rabbit five threat
ening letters but denied any connec-
ton with the shooting, which occurred
early yesterday as Rabbit drove into
q lane leading to his home
Two officers went to Forestville
with the warrants today and returned
with Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer, who,
meanwhile, had learned that they
were wanted for questioning by Pugh
and arranged to come to Rockville.
Spencer voluntarily turned over to
police a .3S caliber revolver which he
had at his residence. Although po-
lice said it apparently had not been
fired for some time. they kept it.
Rabbit was fired at three times.
One Of the bullets smashed the rear
glass of his coupe while the others,
fred as he sped away, went wild.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
By the Associated Press.

by tHe Associated fTeSS.
FORT BENNING, Ga, August s.
The Army's newest weapon from the
air-a small but deadly parachute
bombs ready for its premiere be-
fore 279 members of the graduating
class at West Point.
The cadets, here for two weeks of
witnessing warfare. 1885 model. will
see spectacular demonstration Of a
mass attack by II planes Tuesday.
Orders went out today for 10 bomb
bardment ships and 20 pursuit planes
from Langley Field, Va, and IL at
tack planes from Barksdale Field,
Shreveport, La, to arrive here Mon
day for the affair.
Maj. Benjamin H. Weir, aviation
instructor at the worlds largest in
fantry school at Benning, who pre-
pared the outline for the aerial dis
play, explained that the new para
chute bomb makes the speedy planes
far more effective than ever before.
Heretofore, Maj. Weir said, planes
Evening star., 1935-08-04
LEATHER STRIKE AREA
QUIET AFTER RIOTING
Union Workers Continue to
Picket Plant of Beggs & Cobb
at Winchester, Mass.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Mass, August ga
lull came tonight to the strife-torn
area around the Beggs g. Cobb Leather
Co., where riots have punctuated a six
day strike
A small group of union workers
continued to picket the plant through
out the day. but bloody skirmishes
which marked the strike on Wednes-
day and yesterday were lacking. A
handful of local police, however, con-
tinued to guard the plant.
Twenty substitute workers, hired by
the company to salvage leather in the
process of manufacture when the
strike was called, remained virtual
prisoners in the plant. 1t was ex-
pected they would continue to work,
sleep and eat at the plant until Mon
day.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
VICE SQUADS NAMED
Atlanta Police Chief Follows Up
"House Cleaning"

ATLANTA, August 3 (P.-Shaking
up his officers by naming two new
vice squads to work directly under
him, Police Chief T. o. Sturdivant
today followed up the "house clean
ing" started when the Police Commit
tee Of Council Thursday night dis
charged six officers.
Four of the six policemen fired" by
the committee were let out for the
non-payment Of debts, and attorneys
representing all of the discharged men
said they intended to appeal the cases
to the Superior Court and possibly 60
into the Federal courts.