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Evening star., 1935-11-12
UTILITIES PROBE
TO BE EXTENDED
House Lobby Committee Plans
to Investigate Four More
Companies.

The House Lobby Committee today
planned to turn the spotlight of IN
vestigation on four more of the coun-
try's gigantic utility holding companies,
which, it has been informed, took part
in the fight last Winter to defeat the
Wheeler-Rayburn holding company
bill.
The Standard Gas & Electric Co. OF
Chicago heads the list The others are
Electric Bond and Share, Common
wealth and Southern and Public Serv-
ice Of New Jersey.
The foundation for the inquiry is
being laid by william H Collins, COM
mittee counsel. who has spent several
months gathering data,
Already the four companies have
been asked by the committee to sub
nit reports showing their respective
expenses in connection with the lobby
campaign and the names Of individ-
uals who were remunerated.
The committee, however, will not
begin its investigation of the four
companies until it finishes examina-
tion Of Howard c. Hopson, reputed
master mind" Of the Associated Gas
& Electric Co..
Hopson is to be recalled to the wit
ness stand as soon as the committee
resumes its public hearings. Repre-
sentative O'Connor. Democrat. Of New
York, chairman of the Lobby Com
mittee, plans to fix the date for re-
newaI of the hearings within q few
days.
Disclosure of Hopson's personal in
come during the period he built the
Associated into a utility colossus is
the chief aim of the committee in
recalling him to the witness stand.
He also is to be questioned about the
1000, 900 Associated borrowed from
various banks to fight the utilities
hill and how 1t was expended
Evening star., 1935-11-12
CITY HEADS STUDY
REMOVAL Of SNOW
Night Time Parking Ban
Discussed as Phase
of Problem.

While considering establishment
of the nighttime ban on parking on
major thoroughfares during the Win
ter months so as to facilitate snow
removal, the Commissioners today
asked Corporation Counsel Prettyman
/ to determine if the Washington Rapid
Transit Co. should be required to con-
tribute to such work on Sixteenth
street.
Prettyman also was asked to rule
on whether the Capital Transit Co.
should be required to contribute
money or workers for clearing snow
off Connecticut avenue. That ques-
ton arises because of the removal of
street car tracks from Upper Con-
necticut avenue.
At the same time, the Commission
ers referred to Traffic Director Will
liam A. Van DuZer a proposal from
the Public Utilities Commission for
re-establiShment of the night time
parking ban on streets used by street
cars and busses. The utilities body
also suggested that other streets, on
which there is heavy vehicular traffic,
might be included
The Utilities Commission and En-
gineer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan
were convinced the experiment from
January l to March IS with the park
ing ban proved great aid in clearing
main highways after snowfall. 1t is
expected the ban will be renewed
again this Winter. in some form.
The Capital Transit Co. last year
paid some of the cost of snow re-
moval, that pertaining to street in
tersections on which there we're street
car tracks. Also, it operated its own
snow plows.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
CUMMINGS HONOR GUEST

Attorney General Cummings will be
the guest of honor at the Optimist
Club luncheon tomorrow at 1890 pm.
at the Mayhower Hotel.
Henry Schaffert. past international
president, will present two resolutions
to Mr.. Cummings that were passed by
the seventeenth international conven-
ton, held in st. Louis last Summer.
One is the Endorsement of the sys-
tenn of juvenile and domestic courts
now operating in Ohio. The other in
dorsed the efforts being made by the
Bureau of Investigation of the De-
partment Of Justice. under the guild
ance Of J. Edgar Hoover, In combating
organized crime.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Trick to Get Alimony Receipt
Is Charged to Man by Ex'Wife
Bethesda Woman Asks
ID. e. Court to Send
Hin, to Jail.
Ordered to ShO,u Cause
Why He Should Not Be
Held in COnfeynDf.

Charging her husband tricked her
into giving him receipt for alimony
he did not pay, Mrs. Dorothy r.
Sangster, 1888 Montgomery avenue,
Bethesda, Md. asked District Supreme
Court today to send him to Jail for
contempt of court.
She quoted him as saying he was
lying awake at night" trying to think
of ways to beat her out of mainte-
nance payments.
At the request of her attorney, Jean
M. Boardman, Justice Jennings Bailey
ordered the husband, Charles r.
Sangster, to show cause why he should
not be held in contempt.
On September 20, the court ordered
Sangster to pay his wife $40 month
for the maintenance Of herself and
their two minor children.
When the last payment was due,
November 6, Sangster is said to have
made an appointment with Mrs Sang
ster to give her the $40 owing at that
time. She told the court her hus-
band placed his pocketbook on the
table and requested her to write q
receipt. Believing he was acting in
Evening star., 1935-11-12
HAZEN HAS ALIBI

Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen ap-
peared at the District Building today
sporting a black eye. He volunteered
to all comers he got the ornament"
from a kick from shotgun.
The Commissioner was taking a few
shots at clay pigeons yesterday when
the shotgun struck on his shoulder
and jammed against his cheek.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
NIXON DECLARES
TRIAL UNHEEDED.
Second Wife Made No Ef.
fort to Contest Divorce,
Court Is Told.

Capt. Thomas Hay Nixon. u S. A.,
who is fighting an attempc by his sec
ond wife to set aside their divorce.
told the Adams County, Pa, court
yesterday, according to an Associated
Press dispatch recGyed here, that his
former wife made no effort TO contest
the divorce proceedings at the time Of
the trial last August.
His second wife. Annette Pauline
Finneron Nixon, former show girl, also
has filed suit here against Capt.
Nixon. who married Miss Ann DeWal-
den Cooke of Chevy Chase. after the
Pennsylvania divorce proceedings.
The second wife's Washington suit
was declared mistrial by Justice
Jesse c. Adkins OF The District Su-
preme Court after counsel presented
an amended complaint naming the
third wife as correspondent on the
theory Capt Nixon's divorce from wife
No. was invalid.
District Attorney John P. Butt Of
Harrisburg, Pa, filing NiXon's answer
in the pennsylvania proceeding, SUD-
mitted affidavits TO uphold his con-
tention the second Mrs. Nixon and her
attorneys knew of the divorce suit and
avoided subpoenas and other notices.
One of the affidavits was from Mrs.
Howard De Walden Cooke, mother of
the third wife, quoting Attorney W..
Gwynn Gardiner, Washington attor-
ney for the second wife, as saying the
pennsylvania divorce is more worth
less than the paper on which it might
appear" and asserting he did not in
tend to have his client appear in the
Pennsylvania court.
The hearing here was thrown into
an uproar when Gardiner and Vim
cent A. Sheehy. attorney for Nixon,
came to blows in the court room.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Gigantic Cheese
Sent to Roosevelt
Won't Set Record
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A 1,250-pound cheese is on its
way to President Roosevelt from Wis
consin. but a study of history revealed
that it was not likely to set any rec
ord either for size or duration.
1t will be larger than the 1885,
pound cheese, which Chesire, Mass,
admirers sent Thomas Jefferson, and
the presentation ceremonies of which
will be duplicated by President Roose-
velt's Wisconsin admirers.
But a dairy farmer of Sandy Greek,
Oswego County. NJ Y. sent Andrew
jackson . 1,400-pound cheese-four
feet in diameter and two feet thick.
Despite the lavish hospitality Of
Jefferson, his cheese lasted more than
a year and half.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
TAXI ZONE APPEAL
DUE TO Be HEARD
BY JUSTICE WHEAT
Head of Cab Drivers Union
Has Asked Court to En-
join Enforcement.
HEARING SCHEDULED
FOR THIS AFTERNOON
Counsel Expected to Argue That
Rate Is Arbitrary and
Unreasonable.

An appeal from the Public Utilities
Commissions order last July setting up
the prevailing 0-30-5O-70-cent taxi
cab zone rates was scheduled for
hearing this afternoon before Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat in District
Supreme Court
Bernard L. Henning. president Of
the Cab Drivers Protective Union,
Local No SAB. has asked the court to
enjoin enforcement of the order.
which he contends is unlawful and
unreasonable Some time ago Hem
ming lost his hackers license because
he refused to charge the rates sreci-
fed by the commission.
Cites Adkins Ruling.
A ruling two years ago by Justice
Jesse C. Adkins that prescribed zone
charges are illegal because discrimi-
natory still controls the local taxi
situation. Cary E. Quinn. attorney for
the union official. contends.
He is expected to argue further
that the rates set by the commission
are arbitrary and unreasonable and
are not based on adequate data. The
commission held extensive rate hear.
ings last Summer.
Hinman D. Folsom, a special as
Sistant corporation counsel. will rep
resent the Utilities Commission, which
maintains Congress in the last ap-
preparation bill gave it authority to
establish uniform zones and rates. II
admits that it was without such au-
thority previous TO enactment CT the
new law.
The appropriation act retains the
prohibition against use of funds to set
up meter system and specifically
provides that the money appropriated
may be used to establish uniform
zones and rates
Right Of Appeal Limited.
The same Congress also abolished
the right Of appeal to the District Su.
preme Court from Public Utility Com
mission orders on any except purely
legal grounds, but Henning's injunc-
tion petition was filed two days before
this law became effective.
Quinn said the union has between
300 and 500 members.
The courts ruling on the case will
affect the entire taxicab business here,
however, and go far toward establish
ing how much authority is possessed
by the Public Utilities Commission.
E. Barrett Prettyman. corporation
counsel. and several members Of his
staff were on hand today to hear
arguments n the case, and the court
room was crowded with taxi drivers
and their families and friends.
Evening star., 1935-11-12

good faith, she made out the receipt,
and he Immediately placed it in his
pocketbook and refused to give her
the money, she told the court.
Sangster is quoted in her petition
as saying: II have the receipt. This
is my trick. This will last until the
21.t, when the next payment is due.
I can't fool you with this trick more
than once, but will think of some
thing by the next time to beat you
out OF your money"
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Fireman's Luck.

SEATTLE Np.-Ffreman z. M. Kirds
automobile burned because he couldn't
find fire alarm box.
He drove his flaming machine o
mile and ran half a mile before he
found q box. Then a slow freight
stopped the fire truck that responded.
Kird walked home
Evening star., 1935-11-12
BAYH WILL Be GUEST
AT DINNER THIS EVENING
Civic Welcome Will Be Given to
New Director of Health and
Physical Education.

Birch E. Bayh, new director Of
health and physical education in the
District schools, will be guest of honor
at Z o'clock tonight at dinner at the
Admiral, 1640 Rhode Island avenue,
to be given by the Physical Education
Association of the District.
The purpose Of the dinner Is to well
come Bayh to Washington. and the
hosts will include men and women en-
gagged in physical education. athletic,
health and recreation activities in the
Capital.
After the dinner the mems and wom-
ems sections of the association will
hold separate business meetings.
Ruth H. Atwell, George Washington
University. is president Of the asso-
citation, and Max harrington, also OF
G. w. u, is secretary-treaSurer;
Miriam Spaulding, Mount Vernon
Seminary, is president OF the wom-
ems section, and Louis Holmes, Powell
Junior High School, heads the mems
section.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
FUNERAL SERVICE HELD
FOR WILLIAM G. ASKINS
Military Ceremonies Conducted at
Arlington by U. S. Marines
and Guard.

Funeral services for William G.
Askins, 81. were held at Arlington
National Cemetery last Tuesday, with
military ceremonies by the National
Guard and United States Marines.
Mr.. Askins formerly was a member
of the Marine Corps. having served
18 months in the West Indies and
later at Quantico, Va, where he was
at the time of his honorable discharge
In recent years he had been an active
member Of the National Guard.
Funeral services we're conducted by
Rev. Charles B. Austin and DR.. George
Quick.
Mr.. Askins, who lived at 2644 Tenth
street northeast, died November 3 at
Emergency Hospital. Surviving are
his widow, Mrs Virginia Askins; a
daughter. Bette Lee; his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Robert l.. AskinS, lilo l.
street, and sister, Mrs. G. c. Bar
ham.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
MISSING MAN FOUND
q. S. Worker, Gone Since Satur-
day, Is Located in Hospital.

Cornelius Loring. 58-year- for
mer Government worker. who disap-
peared from his home Saturday, was
located by relatives last night in
Emergency Hospital. where he was
taken after becoming i'll on the street.
Loring. brother-in- Law of Police
man S. F. Goggins. 2011 Monroe street
northeast, was taken i'll shortly after
leaving the latter's home Saturday.
Evening star., 1935-11-12

surge Of ambition to follow a singing
career.
An affair of the heart intruded
about this time and Miss Moffett's
engagement to Henry Gibbins, jr..
former Central High School foot ball
captain, was announced. Gibbins is
the son of Brig Gen. and Mrs. Henry
Gib5ins. The marriage was planned
for early this Fall, but the match was
broken off before that time and Miss
Moffett returned to New York when
her father left Washington.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
CHILD is IMPROVING
Daughter of Ball Player Reported
. on Way to Recovery.

I The 2-year-old daughter of Alvin
FJake" Powell, centerfielder for the
washington base ball club, was re-
ported well on the way toward recov-
sery at Sibley Memorial Hospital today
from the ruptured appendix, which
she suffered Friday.
The girl, Joan, was rushed to the
hospital by her father on Friday
might, but an operation was too late
TO prevent the rupture. Three blood
transtusions were required to save her
aife.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
HONOR MRS. NEIGH
Birthday of Late Head of Neigh.
borhood House Observed.

The birthday anniversary of the late
Mrs. Clara Danielson Neigh, who
served as head resident of Neighbor-
hood House for years. was observed
last night at the settlement with q
program Of music and dance.
A ceremony known as lighting OF
the lamp Catena" was held, during
which the lamp was renamed the
Clara Danielson Neigh Lamp" The
program included q dramatic selection
and instrumental and vocal offerings.
Evening star., 1935-11-12

night to hunt for
Joe 3 ane, %.
Marion County.
w. Va. farmer,
who disappeared
October IA while
visiting his sister.
Mrs. Cynt h a
r a b er, 1898
Eleventh street.
When last seen,
Bane said he in
tended to drive in
his Ford coupe to
Harrisonburg. Va,
for a visit to his
brother Frank.
He never rea ched
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Business Men to Elert.

Election Of oficers Of the Columbia
Heights Business Mems Association
will be held at meeting tonight at
$50 pm. in the Tompkins Building,
$3.50 Fourteenth street.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Court of Hardship.

The Free State government has
been petitioned to establish a fair
tent court to deal with individual
cases of hardship.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
MAN AND 4 BOYS
REPORTED MISSING
Farmer With $1OO Planned
to Visit Brother After
Sojourn Here.

A man and four boys, reported
missing. today were objects of search
by police.
The authorities were asked last
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Air Day Success.

Irish aviation day IN the Irish Free
State this year was a record success.
The Washington times., 1935-11-18

This is about Mrs. I. M. Blunt,
who goes about Staying people and
shattering situations with her
tactleSS remarks. Is she a popu-
lar woman? We leave that to
you!
The slip she has made this time
is: "Oh, good morning. Why, I
hardly recognized you-you have
aged sol"
We might go on telling how
Mrs. Blunt blurts out secrets;
bursts in on people at the wrong
time; invites people who don't like
one another to her parties; asks
the price of her friends purchases;
and unlimited, diSciplineS her sis
ter-in-law'S children!
But few of us are so lesson
perfect in tact that the mention of
the phrase WAS my face red!"
won't bring to mind some embar-
RAISING situation in which we said
or did exactly the wrong thing!
So let's see what prominent pSy-
chologiH says about the value OF
tact and how it may be cultivated.
Tact" he says, "makes or
breaks a personality in contact
with other personalities. Lack OF
tact has lost golden opportunities
for people of exceptional ability
The Washington times., 1935-11-18

to 35 minutes to reach the re-
quired degree of doneneSS. One
pound of carrots will probably
be sufficient for four.
Turnips are on the market in
great abundance. If there is a
question as to their freshness, test
with your finger nail. If the in
cision does not fill with liquid,
your turnip is probably of the
Stringy variety. Allow "a pound
per serving and cook 20 to 25
minutes.
A pound or two quarts of peas
in pod serves four persons. Peas
should be watched carefully as
overlooking will destroy the
brilliant green that makes them
such a tempting looking vege-
table.
Emphasis is placed these days
on brevity in cooking vegetables.
String beans, which once were
boiled with bacon for hours, by
modern methods of cookery need
only 80 minutes on the stove.
The rule is to cook until barely
tender-never until soft and
muShy.
Vegetables cooked too long
have Vitamin c and perhaps B
destroyed. Vitamin C, of course,
aids in the checking of dental
decay and B is the substance
that stimulates our appetiteS
and maintains healthy nervous
system.
If vegetables are cooked whole
or cut lengthwise valuable
mineral substances are retained.
The Washington times., 1935-11-18

eand fine intentions. We can not
all be as resourceful as the man
who picked up an old lady'S false
teeth and handed them back with
the casual remark, Here is the
brooch you dropped, lady But
tact is not a special gift. We can
all learn to inhibit our naural i'm
pulses for a moment before we
speak or act"
Wouldn't you like to know more
about tact-this priceless pearl Of
personality? Our 40-page Home
Institute booklet Improving Your
Personality" written by the psy-
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it. 1t also explains just what it is
about people-their physical,
mental and emotional makeup
that makes them pleasing or un-
pleasing personalities. It gives
closeup photographs of famous
people whose personalities won
them success. It's a simple, fas.
cinating guide to self-improve-
ment.
To get your copy, use coupon.
The Washington times., 1935-11-18
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The Washington times., 1935-11-18

Exercise Eyes
Faithfully
BY DONNA GRACE

The beauty of facial expression
depends nearly altogether on the
eyes. Lovely, sparkling eyes is
always real beauty passport,
and one that may be attained by
everyone.
There should be some training
for young people to stress the i'm
portance of eye beauty-not the
artificial makeup so much as the
training expression and care of
the eyes.
We have all been impressed
with the way children use their
eyes. The young girl who directs
her whole interest to the person
she addresses is sure to express
animation and changing emotions.
This, in a sense, constitutes eye
beauty. There is a courtesy and
flattering respect in the direct
gaze of young people. 1t will also
give them an air that demands
recognition.
This direct gaze needs tech
nique and practice, however. 1t
must be a quick, responsive look,
and never a dull, eXpresSionleSs
staring. They must learn that
it is not good form to continue
to stare with a fixed gaze at any
one, and that it detractS from
the sparkling beauty of eyes.
The correct way is to look di-
rectly at the person by whom
they are addressed, while they
speak, then release the gaze for
an instant by turning the eyes
away. Do not drop the eyes, as
it suggests inferiority. The proud,
clear open eye is more charming.
Any eye affectations, such as
rolling them about, staring up
ward or the half-closed. treroh1in~
lid are all ludicrous and detract
from ones personality.
Never strain the eyes by read
ing in a poor light. Battle them
frequently with a good eyewash
and keep them active.
You may have my Exercises for
Eye Beauty and also q good
formula for an eyewaSh. Send a
stamped, self-addressed envelope
for your reply and address Donna
Grace, Beauty Editor Of this
paper.
The Washington times., 1935-11-18

| VAIN AShAS OSAAS oy lOhJ AAOU'
But there are things you can do.
Sometimes you can build one in,
sometimes you must be content
with one that doesn't burn. Even
in some houses equipped with
fireplaces fire law forbids their
being used. So the fireleSs fire
place is quite accepted.
Built-In Fireplace
If you want the unusual in your
house and your taste runs to colo
nial or provincial furniture, re-
member that in the very olden
days fireplaces were not always
on level with the ground. Many
of them were "knee high"
The owner of a very old house
in Connecticut obtained modern
'ization credit from a private
financial institution insured by
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton and improved his home. The
dining-room of the house had no
fireplace but, strangely enough, a
dish closet had been built at the
back Of a fireplace which faced
the living-room.
Off the Floor
Taking as a pattern a house
which had been built early in the
eighteenth century, the owner had
fireplace built in exactly the
same space that the closet had
occupied. This brought the base
of the fireplace about two feet
from the floor. The doors of the
closet were left; they were opened
wide in cold weather, and in the
summer could be closed, removing
even the suggestion of a fireplace.
All the downtown stores sell
false fireplaces," mantels with
imitation stone or brick fireplace
and hearth, or mantel which
simply sits against the wall, and
you can see the paper behind it.
There are various devices and
they are often much better than
they sound.
For Dining Room
One smartly furnished house in
town has a fireplace built right
into the dining room, has andirons
laid with logs, ready to light, or
so it seems. This housekeeper
has even gone so far as to put
ashes on the hearth, to further
create the illusion of ready fire.
But as your fire would seldom be
lighted in the dining room anyway,
as it toaSts the backs Of people
sitting in front of it, nobody would
suspect that it is not real.