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Evening star., 1935-05-18
ORDERS EXTENSION.
OF BUS ROUTE.
Utilities Commission to Add
to South Washington
Service June 23.

Extension Of the South Washington
with the downtown business section
will be made June % under a new
order of the Public Utilities Commits
sion
At the same time, the line will be
extended from its Eastern terminus
near the Navy Yard to Barney Circle,
at Pennsylvania avenue and Seven
teenth street southeast.
The changes were ordered late yes
terday as a result of determined
campaign for better service which had
been waged for some time by the
Southwest Citizens Association and
other groups The line now runs from
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing to the Navy Yard.
Direct transfers to practically every
line of the Capital Transit Co. will
be made available to Southwest resi-
dents under the new plan.
Westbound, the buses will 90 west
on Pennsylvania avenue southeast to
Fifteenth street. south to K street,
west to Ninth street, south to Potomac
avenue, west on Potomac avenue, M
street and Water street to Twelfth
street, north on Twelfth to New York
avenue and then east on New York
avenue and I street to Tenth street.
On the return trip the buses will
go south on Tenth street to Consti-
tuition avenue, west to Twelfth street
and south to Water and then back to
Barney Circle over the same route.
The changes have been under study
by the commission for some time and
the order is part of the general re-
routing of the lines of the Capital
Transit Co.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
SUSPECT IN THEFT
Is HELD TO JURY
Man Taken After Gun Battle
Held on Charge of Assault
With Weapon.

Kellory Holmes, alias Abe Stein, 80,
who was captured by police early
Sunday morning after a gun battle In
rear of 4024 Fourteenth street, was
held for action of the grant jury
under $25,000 bond on a charge Of
assault with deadly weapon by
Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court
yesterday.
Holmes arrest by three policemen
in plain clothes occurred after a
special detail had been placed in
the Northwest section of the city to
capture the perpetrators of q large
number of housebreakings.
Holmes was chased into the alley
by Policemen Harold r. Hammersla,
Edward z. Hall and Richard F. Nc
Carthy. When they reached the alley,
1t was testified, Holmes opened fire
with q revolver and they exchanged
shots until Holmes jumped through a
window into the apartment of Mr..
and Mrs. J. r. Morgan at 402E Four
teenth street. IT,.
When frst arraigned yesterday
Holmes was charged with housebreak-
ing, but the charge was later changed.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
MACARTHUR FAv0RS
HOUSE R. 0. T. C. BILL
Denies Any Conflict Over Plan to
Take 1900 Graduates An.
nually Into Army.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Denying there was any conflict be-
tween the War Department and the
House Military Committee over its
provisions, Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
Army chief of staff, today Endorsed an
amendment to bill which would
authorize President Roosevelt to select
1900 Reserve Oficer Training Corps
graduates annually for one years duty
with the Army.
Seventy-five of each years group
then would be given permanent COM
missions In the Regular Army.
Published accounts of conflict
Of views over the bill to utilize r. O.
T. C. graduates in the Army have no
basis of fact" Gen. Macarthur de-
clared. 1.-The War Department is
heartily in accord with the bills pro-
visions"
Evening star., 1935-05-18
M'LEAN STRICKEN,
FLOWN HERE FOR AID
Former North Carolina Governor
Is Reported Resting at
Emergency Hospital.

Former Gov. Angus W. Mclean of
North Carolina was reported resting
comfortably in Emergency Hospital to-
day after flight in an airplane ambu-
lance from Atlantic City, where he was
stricken in hotel yesterday.
While he would not discuss the ma
ture of the former Governors illness
other than to say he had not been
operated on, DR.. Matthew White Perry
said his patient was not in immediate
danger and that he was pleased with
his condition.
Accompanied by DR.. Perry, Mclean
was flown here In a Coast Guard am
bulance plane piloted by Lieut.. W. S.
Swinton. The physician went to the
resort city yesterday.
Mclean went to Atlantic City about
a week ago from New York, where he
had gone on business He was stricken
shortly after going to the hotel, where
he had hoped to rest.
Mclean suffered from an attack Of
pneumonia last Summer, but DR.. Perry
said he fully recovered.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
COUNTY LAUNCHES
DRIVE TO COLLECT
ON OLD TAX CHECKS
Nearly $4,000 Tied Up in
Drafts Returned to Mont
gomery Treasurer.
WALKERS BONDING FIRM
STUDIES AUDIT REPORT
Failure of Official to Comply With
Order Is Charged by Board
Attorney.
y a STAFF corresnondsnt Of rh. STAY

By Stad Correspondent Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, May 18.-Coun-
sci for the Montgomery County Com
missioners today began efforts TO col
lect S12,984.28 on checks accepted
in payment Of county taxes, but re-
turned by the banks on which they
were issued because Of insufficient
funds.
The checks were obtained from
County Treasurer j. Forest Walker
after the commissioners had been
informed that they had been held by
the county several years without any
attempt to realize the sum they repre-
sent other than the original effort
to cash them.
The information regarding the
checks was contained in the report
Of an audit on the treasurer's books
indicating failure on the part Of the
county to collect $88 ,S22 78 in taxes
during the 1928 levy years.
A representative Of the Fidelity 6s
Deposit Co. Of Maryland, the firm
holding Walkers bond, called at the
court house yesterday and studied
the audit report, but left Rockville
without making any comment on his
examination.
Meanwhile, States Attorney James
H. Pugh has begun study Of the
audit, which has been submitted to
him for consideration.
Edward Peter, counsel TO the COM
miSsioners, said this morning the
checks had been turned over to him
hU the hnard hm k,aE
already talked with several of the
persons who issued the checks in pay
ment of their taxes and opened nego-
tiations for payment.
The attorney pointed out, however,
that some of the checks have been
held for such prolonged period that
they have been rendered worthless by
the three-year statutory limitation
He said that only through voluntary
payment can the county collect the
amounts represented by some Of the
checks.
Peter declared two OF the checks
were issued as early as 1926, several
years before Walker took Office.
He stated that the minutes Of the
former county board show Walker
explained to the commissioners on
June %, 1888, that he had been un-
able to cash the checks accepted by
his Office and was allowed credit for
them on his tax returns.
The attorney said, however. that
Walker failed to comply with an order
of the board directing him to turn
the checks over to Joseph c. Cissell,
who was county attorney at that time.
for collection.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
J. H. VAN WAGENEN,
j. S. OFFICIAL, DIES
Civil Engineer Was Member
of International Boundary
Commission.

James Hubert Van wagenen, United
States member of the International
Boundary Commission, United States,
Alaska and Canada, since 1929, died
yesterday at Garfield Hospital.
Born November 8, 1881, son of
Isaac and Margaret McClintic Van
Wagenen of Corning, Iowa, he re-
ceived his degree in civil engineering
at the University of Missouri in 1908.
He Joined the Geological Survey in
North Dakota as a topographic engi-
neer the following year.
Assistant engineer of the Illinois
Highway Commission for short time,
he joined the Boundary Commission
in 1910, in which he had charge of
field parties in Montana. North Da-
kota and Minnesota until 1915, when
he became the commissions chief
engineer and devoted his time to sur
veying sections of the American-Ca-
madam border.
Served on Business Board.
Member of the Board of Surveys
and Maps, he served as chairman of
LAIC SOullS1l
Commission to investigate devices for
stabilizing business for the unemploy-
men conference called by President
Harding in September, 1921.
Mr.. Van Wagenen was president of
the District of Columbia Section,
American Society of Civil Engineers,
in 1925 and last year was president
of the Washington Society of En-
gineers. A member of the Cosmos and
Federal Clubs, he also belonged to the
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Fraternity.
Survived by Widow.
He is survived by his parents, his
widow, Mrs. Lois Andrews Van Wage
men, and two daughters, Elizabeth and
Marcia Anne.
Services were to be held today at
the Gawler funeral chapel at pm.
Burial will be in Corning, Iowa, Mon
day. Honorary pallbearers are Wilbur
j. Carr, DR.. William DeKline. Don H.
Sawyer. G. H. Birdseye, A. L. Baldwin,
Capt. r. s. Patton, Capt. Paul c.
Whitney, Raymond J. Norton, c. H.
Spencer. George F. Schlesinger, Jesse
Hill and Paul Wooton.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
GIRL OF 4 KILLED
IN AID FATALITY
Two Other Children and Five
Adults Injured in Traffic
Accidents.

Four-yesr- Jane Fowler, 1923
Holmead place. was fatally injured by
an automobile early last night while
playing in the street near her home.
The girl. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. Paul Fowler, was struck by an
automobile operated by Miss Marian
S. Voshall. II, of the 3400 block of
Quebec street. Miss VoShan told
police the child darted from behind
parked automobiles into the path of
her car before she had time to apply
the brakes.
Tenth precinct police released Miss
v. Voshall. for appearance at cor
oner's inquest Monday at 1880 am.
42nd Death in 1888.
The death Of the Fowler child was
the forty-second traflc fatality in the
District since January J..
Two other children and five adults
were injured in other traffic accidents
yesterday.
Nine-year-old Robert Quinn, 1881
Massachusetts, avenue, was coasting
on a scooter at Forty-f1rst and Gar
rison streets when his scooter came
in contact with the automobile of
Bernard NJ. Wise, SO. of 1902 Forty
fourth street, throwing him to the
roadway. He was treated at George
town University Hospital for possible
internal injuries. bruises and shock.
The other child injured was Evelyn
Proctor, 6. colored, 1437 Duncan
street northeast. She was knocked
down by an automobile driven by
Myron B. Howe, 1917 C street north
east, and her head and face injured.
She was treated at Casualty Hospital.
While crossing at Fourteenth and
Q streets Elizabeth Mapp. AZ, colored.
1914 Corcoran street. was knocked
down and severely injured by a hit
and-run driver. She was treated at
Emergency Hospital for a fractured
ankle and injuries to her knee and
face Police said the only informa-
ton they have is that the car was a
dirty blue roadster.
Hurt Boarding Street Car.
While boarding a street car at
Pennsylvania avenue and Third street
southeast Martin Riley, "a, of Laurel,
Md, fell and suffered a painful spine
injury. He was treated at Providence
Hospital.
James Graham, 64, Of 300 Sixth
street, was knocked down at North
Capitol street and New York avenue
by the automobile of Beverly Newton,
1912 First street. His left leg and
arm were fractured He was treated
at Emergency Hospital.
Mrs. Anna Hilbus, rs, Of 302 H
street, was slightly hurt when knocked
down in the 400 block of E street by
taxicab driven by Ramon G. Ma
lima. 1120 Sixth street.
Policeman Rudyard Y Hesse, Traf-
flc Bureau, was bruised and his leg
injured when he lost control of his
motor cycle in the 6oc block of c
street and the motor cycle struck a
parked taxicab. He was given first
aid at Emergency Hospital
Evening star., 1935-05-18
TWO PRINCIPAL SHIPS
OPEN FOR APPLICATION
New Schools tn Open Next Sep
Observation-Disclosures for Post
Must Apply by May 81.

Superintendent of Schools Frank W.
Ballou announced yesterday he will
receive applications for principalships
of the two new high schools scheduled
to open next September.
The schools are the woodrow Wilson
High in the Chevy Chase Tenleytown
area and the Anacostia Senior-Junior
High School serving Southeast WASH
ington.
Both jobs pay basic salary of $4,000
per year, with annual increases of 500
until S4,500 is reached.
DR.. Ballou said he already has on
file a number of applications. The
candidates need not be in the local
school system. ALI applications must
be In by May 81.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
COMDR. HENRY S0ULE
DIES AT NAVY HOSPITAL
Retired Officer Served From 1917
to 1925 With Bureau of
Navigation.

Comdr. Henry Soule, q. S. N, re-
tired, 500 Cameron street, Alexandria,
from 1917 to 1925 with the Bureau
Of Navigation here, died today at
Navy Hospital.
Born September "a, 1866. in Ohio,
Comdr. Soule enlisted in 1884. Ap-
pointed acting gunner In 1893. he
was commissioned ensign in 1901.
After much sea duty he was appointed
to the Bureau of Fisheries here in
1914 and retired a short time later,
only to be called into active duty
again In 1917.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Jessie D. Soule. Funeral arrange
ments will be announced later.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
LAUNDRY FORFEITS S25
Inspectors Charge Violation Of
Female Labor Law.

On recommendation of the corpora
ton counsel's ofice, Carroll's Laundry,
Fourteenth and r streets, of which
Charles w. Litchfield is president. was
permitted by Judge John P. Mcmahon
in Police Court today to forfeit S25 on
. charge of violating the female eight
hour labor law.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
TOMORROW.

Meeting and buffet supper, Alpha
Chi Sigma, La Fayette Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
OHIO CONTESTANT
ORATORICALS WINNER
Medals Awarded Joseph r. Spit
zig, Jr., of Cleveland and James
r. Garland, Connecticut.

Joseph r.. Spitzig, jr., of Cleve-
land won the annual Rector's Ora
toricals last night at Catholic Uni
versity with speech entitled Peace
or Folly" 49,. 49,.
James F. Garland, New Haven,
Conn, speaking on Holiday of the
Gods" was adjudged second best.
Gold medals were presented to the
winners by Bishop James H. Ryan,
rector of the university. Ansel F..
Luxford. moderator Of the Shahan
Debating Society, was chairman.
Judges were Bruce Mcclure, execu-
tive secretary of the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration; Ugo
Carusi, executive assistant to the At
torney General, and Representative
Otho p. Weayin Of Iowa,
Evening star., 1935-05-18

Dance, Amazon Club, La Fayette
Hotel, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-18

Meeting, Mercantile Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 1870 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-18
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY,

Dance, Sigma Beta Sorority, Broad
moor Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-18

Cuban carnival, Phi Gamma Pi
Sorority, Theta Chapter, Club Habana,
10 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-18

Dance, Young Democrats Of Capitol
Hill, Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm.
The Washington times., 1935-11-01
Central Ready for War
In Defense of Beauty

To the Editor Of The Times:
For the past week I have fol-
lowed your articles called the
beauty war" in high schools. 1
have noted the pictures Of the
prettiest girls western. Mckinley
and Woodrow Wilson High schools
can produce. I admit that they
are very beautiful. but I do not
think they can compare with the
girls of Central.
To prove my statement, I Sug.
geSt you send a representative to
take pictures of the girls at Cen
tral High, where beauty speaks for
itself through the eyes of the
camera. We challenge the camera,
the only medium through which
We can function, to present our
beauties to the eyes Of the public,
which must be the ultimate judge.
MICHAEL VLAHOS.
The Washington times., 1935-11-01
CIearings in u. 5.
Least in 6 Weeks

Although aggregating the small
est total in six weeks, bank clear
ings the week ended october 80
recorded the sixteenth consecutive
gain over a year ago, according
to Dun and Bradstreet, Incorpo-
rated.
For the country the current
amount was $4,840, ,431, 900 against
$4,424, 49, 900 the same 1884 week.
However, it was $809, ,466, 900 under
the previous week.
New York City clearings were
$4,000, $4,000. up 3.4 per cent
from the 1884 period, while the
aggregate for outside centers was
1887 ,672 900, up 20.9 per cent.
Largest gains compared with a
year ago were reported by Pitts
burgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi
cago, Detroit, Louisville, Omaha,
Kansas City, Dallas, Portland and
Seattle.
The Washington times., 1935-11-01
ELECTION
STIRS WIDE
+. INTEREST
BY A. J. DRISCOLL,
Citiaens Association Editor

With the entire slate Of officers
UP for election, together with the
IL members Of the executive COM
mittee and citizens advisory coun-
Gil, q very busy session is in pros
pect for the Federation Of Citizens
Association, at its annual meeting
tomorrow night in the Board
Room Of the District Building.
The announcement by James
@. Yaden, who has presided over
the federation for the past three
years, that he will not be q candi-
date for reelection has brought
many candidates for the office to
the front. The most outstanding
appear to be L. A. CarrutherS, first
vice president of the federation,
and president Of the Forest Hills
Citizens Association, and Thomas
Ellis Lodge, delegate from the
American University Park Citizens
Association. Both candidates have
represented their associations in
the federation for several years,
during which they have filled
many important committee as
signments, and are we'll qualified
to head the organization and both
candidates are expected to pole q
heavy, and very close vote.
Harry N. Stull, another old
timer in the federation, appears
to be the only male candidate for
the office Of vice president. How
ever. should the assembly decide
upon . woman for the office, am
pie material could be found in
the following list Of delegates:
Mrs. Horace j. Phelps, Petworth;
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Sullivan,
Georgetown; Miss Elaine Eppley,
Federation Of Women'S Clubs;
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, Kalorama;
Mrs. Marie Maddox, Columbia
Heights; Mrs. George Corbin, P.
T. A.; and Miss Eta L. Taggart,
representing the WaShingtonianS.
So far 81 candidates have been
nominated for the executive COM
mittee and citizens advisory coun-
Gil, with only IL to be elected.
Those named include Kenneth P.
Armstrong, Mr.. Carruthers, w.
NICK. Clayton, Mrs. Corbin, j. H.
Coxhead, @. r. Ellis, F. A. Emery,
Miss Eppley, E. s. Hege, C. L. Nor
ris. Mrs. Phelps, H. N. Roberts, ].
A. Saul, A. F.. e. Scheer, Mr..
Stull, Mrs. Sullivan. j. C. Suter,
H. 8. Wender, Mrs Wiley and Mr..
Lodge,
The Washington times., 1935-11-01
u. 5. CLARIFIES
ATTITUDE ON
WAR TRADE

International News Service
The Government does not ex.
pect American business to suS'
pend Immediately all normal trade
relations with Italy.
1t does expect American busi-
ness to refuse italian orders which
obviously are in excess Of normal
business and due to Italy's mill.
tary campaign Of conquest in
Ethiopia.
It expects American business to
use its own discretion in determin-
ing whether italian offers are in
excess Of normal trade and to do
so with view Of not aiding italy
in prolonging its war in Ethiopia,
irrespective Of how tempting the
lure Of war profits may be.
Stronger Measures
II American business fails vol.
unfairly to resist the lure Of war
profits and endangerS American
neutrality by accepting excessive
orders from Italy, then President
Roosevelt will resort to stronger
maSures to prohibit trade with
Italy.
This, It was learned in highly
authoritative quarters today, was
the intent Of the double.barreled
statement issued by President
Roosevelt and Secretary Of State
Hull, calling on American citizens
to resist profits derived from
human lives and human misery"
and warning that the Government
was closely watching all shipments
to the belligerentS.
Authoritative quarters said it
was not expected American bust
ness should Immediately suspend
all trade with Italy, although at
tention was called to the fact that
any transactions at all, normal or
otherwise, were at the traders
own risk.
Permit Normal Business
For the present, however, the
Government is inclined to condone
the continuance of normal buSi-
ness. BY normal business is
meant the filling Of orders which
American business ordinarily
would have expected from Italy
had the military campaign not
been undertaken.
It was realized that once
League economic sanctions com.
mence to close 1taly's European
sources Of supply there might be
a tendency here to increase. the
price Of goods which Italy nor
mally purchases in this country
and which she then virtually
would be forced to purchase here.
In this connection 1t was hoped
American exporters would refrain
from taking advantage Of League
sanctions to impose price in
creases which obviously would fall
in the category Of war profits.
The Washington times., 1935-11-01
MARKET MIXED
AFTER EARLY
UPSWING
BY LESLIE GOULD

NEW YORK, Nov. QN.S0.
The stock market turned irregular
today after Steels and motors set
the pace for the early upswing'
but then reacted on profit-taking.
Chrysler slipped under the preVi-
Gus close. Bethlehem gave some
ground. Auburn lost 2 points.
General Motors was firm in ad'
vance Of Mondays board meeting
with Wall Street discussing the
possibility of an extra dividend.
q. s. Steel slipped after early
strength.
schenley hit a new high In
liquors. Kennecott bettered its
previous high and aided the other
coppers.
Phillip Morris rose a point to q
new high, and other tobaccos were
firm. owens Illinois Glass ran up
more than 2 points to a new high.
Timken Roller Bearing was
strong in auto accessories. Rails
were quiet and just about steady.
Mail order and merchandising
shares were firm. Utilities were
around best prices of the year.
Cotton was steady and grains frac-
tionally higher. Bonds displayed
an upward tendency.
The Washington times., 1935-11-01
Gas Improvement
Earnings Greater

NEW YORK, Nov. / Q.NS0
United Gas Improvement Com
pany, Consolidated net income for
the third quarter amounted to
$7,089,217 or 26 cents a common
share as compared with $7,020,275,
also equal to roughly 26 cents a
share, a year ago.
For the IL months ended Sep
tember 80 earnings totaled $780,
030,990 or $1.13 on the common
against $31,517,631 or $1.19 in the
preceding IL months.
John E. Zimmerman, president,
revealed the company had dis
posed Of its entire common stock
interest in Consolidated Gas, Elec-
trio Light and Power of Baltimore.
At the end of last year the COM
pany held 30,775 hare from which
it received $111,330 during 1884.
The Washington times., 1935-11-01
u. 5. RESERVES
BILLIONS

Excess reserve Of the Federal
Reserve System passed the three
billion dollar mark for the first
time in its history, the board OF
governors reported today. Reserve
balances on October 80, were $3.-
000, ZOO, 900 in excess Of legal re
QuirementS.
Reserve balances aggregated $5,'
653, 900, 900 and were $1,647 ,00O.'
600 higher than on october 81
1894.
Reserve bank credit was up $2,.
OO0, 900 for the week for a total
Of $2,474,000 900, an increase OF
Q per cent for the week, and IL
per cent above the corresponding
week Of 1884.
The Washington times., 1935-11-01
FAIRFAX BONDS
DEFENDED

FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE. Va.
Nov. with election day less
than one week off, advocates Of
the $ls7 900 school bond issue for
Fairfax county's public schools
today declared many schools seek
ing appropriations for repairs had
been omitted because this pro.
gram was designed to build addi-
tions, and not to repair present
buildings.
Directing their fire at the COM
munity Of Mclean, where the
strongest opposition to the bond
issue lies, the executive committee
of County Federation Of School
Leagues and Parent Teachers AS
SociationS declared:
Mclean school organizations
are demanding that their school
repairs be included in the budget
covered by the proposed school
bond issue to be voted on Novenl'
ber S. No other school repairs
are included in this budget. H.
is q program covering new build
ings and additions in overcrowced
sections-not a repair program.
There has been an accuSa-
ton that teachers have been
coerced into favoring the bond
issue. Investigation has shown
this to be absolutely false. The
teachers have never even had a
meeting at which the bond issue
was discussed.
Members Of this committee
have visited the various schools
and after seeing conditions are
convinced that the school board
has tried to meet the situation
with fairness and good Judge
ment."