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Smyrna times., 1935-10-03

preciate that it is not another
oil burner, nor another fur
mace, but an entirely different
way of getting heat from
cheap fuel oil.
Thousands of owners have
found in it not only a new
Evening star., 1935-06-01
.FINGERPRINT PLAN
TO IDENTIFY PUPILS
War Department Expert Will
Take Records of Students
at Eastern High.

As an initial step in his efforts to
have every child fingerprinted for
identification in case of accident. kid
naping. amnesia or death, Christopher
Bennett, flngerprint expert of the
War Department, Tuesday ill begin
taking the prints Of pupils Of Eastern
High School.
Bennett, a member of the Inter-
national Association of Identification
said his organization would sponsor a
bill in Congress to promote finger
printing of all children.
He began his work of advocating
fingerprinting 81 years ago when he
watched frantic mothers rushing from
one morgue to another trying to
identify their children after the burn
ing and sinking of the excursion
steamer General Slocum in the East
River near New York, with loss of
1921 lives. OF the children aboard,
1854 of the dead we're never identified.
Bennett explained that fingerprint-
ing of children has nothing to do with
criminal practice, but that it is the
best safeguard for parents in case of
mishap to their children.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
WITNESSES PLAN
BAPT|SMAL RITES
$4,000 Hold First Session
Today-Rutherford to
Speak Tomorrow.

With the world wide address of
their leader. Judge Joseph F. Ruther-
ford, scheduled for broadcast tomor-
row, the $4,000 members of the hosts
of the Witnesses If Jehovah, aclding
their first general meeting, al the
Washington Auditorium this after
noon will meet at the Takonla Park
swimming pool tor baptismal service
under direction Of T. j. Sullivan
The baptismal Will be preceded by
talk at the auditorium. where the
large crowd of devotees have forced
those in charge 10 set up chairs on
an adjoining park space to take care
of the overflow. Anton s1oerber
Washington representative of the Wit
nesses said he expected more than
10000 persons 20 De present tomorrow
to hear their leader
This morning was spent by the Wit
nesses, who call themselves the Watch
Tower Bible Tract Society, in house.
toulouse canvassing of Washington.
Baltimore and suburbs with their
literature. Along with each tract
given away. for nominal contribu-
ton. the Witnesses preach a short
sermon on their aims, encouraging
each listener to attend the meeting.
The first meeting of the afternoon
session opened at 2 o'clock at the
auditorium, with talk by M. c. Har-
beck, director of the organization in
Central Europe. with headquarters in
Bern. Switzerland. This was followed
by the talk by Sullivan and the bap-
tismal service was to be held later in
the afternoon.
A service of praise and declaration
of principles will be held at the audi
torium at o'clock tonight and will
be followed at 1880 pm. by discourse
by A. r. Goux.
The general meeting opened Thurs
day and will continue through Mon
day. with several prominent speakers
on the program.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
continental TRUST
ASSESSMENT MADE
Controller of Currency 0'Connor
Levies 100 Per Cent Against
Stockholders.

Controller of the Currency J. r. T.
O'Connor has levied a 100 per cent
stock assessment seairlst stockholders
of the Continental Trust Co.. which
was taken over oy the now insolvent
Commercial National Bank. Col.
Wade H. Cooper was president Of both
concerns.
The Continental Trust Co., which
was located at Fourteenth and H
streets. continued IN existence as
corporation even after merger into
the Commercial. and was not declared
insolvent until the Commerciaf Ma
tional became irlsolvent in February,
1898.
A court case now is pending con-
cerning a conflict If claims between
the two institutions. The long-pend-
ing case against Col Cooper also
hinges around financial transactions
involving both Of hese institutions.
There are 10000 shares Of stock in
the Continental, on which assessment
Is 500 o share. ~
Evening star., 1935-06-01
Ne,u Message From Houdini
Doubted by Magicia1,s' Society

the code are Mrs. Houdini, Houdini's
brother, Harden; his attorney.
Bernard M. L. Ernst. and Julian j.
Proskauer of New York.
Houdini left $4,000 In trust with
Ernst for any one who could prove
he had received his code message.
The claim will be investigated after
the convention, which closes tonight
with a second public performance in
Wardman Park Theater beginning at
8:15 O'Clock.
Harden Houdini, who carries on
the Houdini tradition, will be among
the performers. Others include Mack
Holden, a veteran vaudeville enter
tainer, whose spectacular shadow
graph" pictures have won him wide
recognition.
The magicians will be occupied this
afternoon with IN election OF officers.
Heated contests are expected over sew
eral positions.
This morning 1000 Of the city's
underprivileged children were guests
of the masicians at special perform.
ance In Keith's. Theater.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
DR.. GROFF'S FUNERAL
MONDAY MORNING
Brother of Local Merchant Will
Be Buried in Rock
Greek Cemetery.

Services for Dr. Chester c Groff
81, who took his own life in Balti-
more hotel yesterday just as his
brother, Diller F. Croft. prominent
Washington wholesale wall paper
dealer returned with his family from
a world cruise. will he held at the
Wright funeral CHAPEL 1887 Tenth
street Monday 1T 10:30 am. burial
will be in Rock Greek Cemetery
DR.. Croft, who had been practicing
medicine at Ozone Park. N. Y, since
the war, came to Washington nine
months ago to open an Office ir the
HOO block of I street. He ha0 been
suffering from an incurable disease,
he said in note left for the coroner,
and in a letter to his brother DR..
Croft was a native OF Washington
and had received nis medical degree
at the University Of Baltimore.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Dorothy
Croft he leaves only his brother,
Diller F. Croft, 5000 Ingomar street.
Evening star., 1935-06-01

Claims of another psychic message
from Houdini were received with a
grain of salt today by the hard
headed, nimble- fingered members of
the Society of American Magicians In
session at Wardman Park Hotel.
The resourceful Houdini. his friends
say. has succeeded, even after death.
in carrying on his campaign against
mediums and claimants of psychic
power who would cloak the art of
magic in the dark garments Of
sorcery. .---. .--....-
Nevertheless, a message apparently
in Houdini's secret code, described
by Houdini's own lawyer as "astound-
ing" has been claimed by Mabel r.
Billinge of Norwood, r. l., the ma
gicians were told.
Before he died. about 10 years ago,
Houdini left secret code with his
intimates and promised to do all In
his power after death to commune
cate the code to the mediums on
earth
Among the living persons who know
Evening star., 1935-06-01
Kite Contests in Second Day;
Early Winners Announced
Scores of Aerial Toys Yet Remain to Be
Judged in Monument Grounds
and AnUcOStiU Park.

and Allison Childs; second, William
A. Conners and James E. Conners.
Father-and-son box. performance
First, Austin and Allison Childs; Sec
ond. william A. and James e. Conners
Father-and-son. box. performance
First, Austin and Allison Childs, Sec
| ond, William A. and James E. Con-
nerS.
Banneker Contest Winners.
Yesterdays winners at the Banne-
ker contest were as follows:
Championship-John Toomer OF
Howard Playground.
Junior class. plane surface kites
workmanship-First Rosa Selden
Howard Playground. button award;
second. Rebecca Wallace, Monroe
Playground; third, Albert Garner
Rose Park
Junior class. plane surface design
First, Nathaniel Jenius. button award;
second, Albert Garner: third, Rosa
Selden.
Junior class, plane surface, perform
ance-First. John Toomer: second
Irwin Matthews. Shaw Playground;
third. Rosa Selden
Junior class, plane surface, unique
design-First, Albert Garner; second
Rosa Selden; third. Lillian Weeks.
Junior class. box kites-First prize
for workmanship, design and perform
ance all won by Edward Holloway
of Banneker Playground. No other
awards.
Senior Class Winners.
Senior class. plane surface kites
workms msnship-First. Wesley Garner
Rose Park: second. Elmer Brooks
Howard: third. James Baylor. Howard
Senior class. plane surface. design
First, Wesley Garner; second, Alfred
Saunders, Rose Park; third, Elmer
Brooks.
Senior class. plane surface. per-
formance-First. James Baylor, How
ard; second. Elmer Brooks; third. Pat
rick Leigh, Howard
Senior class, plane surface. unique
design. performance and workman
ship prizes all taken by Wesley Gar
ner
Senior class. box kites-First places
for workmanship, design and perform
ance and button award. all won by
Edward Holloway of Banneker Play
ground
Father-and-son class, plane surface
kites-First places for workmanship
design. performance and unique de-
sign. all won by Arthur Greene, Cook
School. and his father. No other
awards.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
hog callers of the Western
plains wasted a lot OF vocal
effort on Grunt this morning
i when the piglet escaped as 500

"HE hog-callers of the Western
plains wasted lot Of vocal
effort on Grunt this morning
L when the piglet escaped as 500
members and friends of the
Oklahoma State Society were en-
barking from the Seventh street
wharves for an all-day roundup and
outing at Marshall Hall.
What was needed was champion
sprinter instead of hog caller. for
Grunt did not take kindly to the idea
of the roundup. No Oklahoman was
going to put his brand on Grunt.
IT, this. of course. Grunt was mis-
taken. He was merely TO be enticed
to some imaginary trough by the yodels
of Oklahomans competing with Ark
ansas artists in a hog g-calling match
this afternoon.
The hog callers got a lot of prac-
tice, but it was the sprinter who
brought home the bacon. While the
Oklahomsns shouted from the decks
Of their excursion steamer. and others
dashed in the wake of Grunt. sure
footed cobble-stone jumper named
Brodus Mothershead of Water street,
made the capture.
Grunt ha0 cut zig-zag course
squealing down street. eluding auto
mobiles and a pursuing mob like a
broken field runner. Unless Grunt re.
covers from the shock it will take
some calling 20 lure him out this aft
ernoon. Experts said Grunt was one
shy pig.
Representative P. L. GaSsaway, the
Oklahoma cowboy of Capitol Hill. was
TO be generalissimo for the day oi
sport and pageantry. Besides the boat
which left with Grunt at 10 am. Other
boats are scheduled for and $50 pm
The program includes rodeo sport'
of riding and roping. the hog calling
contest between natives of Oklahoma
and Arkansas and a pageant to bt
staged by Indians at 4:30 pm.
Late this afternoon an oldfashioneo
covered wagon will roll onto thu
grounds with a typical pioneer fam
lily. equipped with all the household
effects and shooting irons necessary
to the early life on the plains.
An d-fasiioned barn dance will
terminate the roundup.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
NAVY PLANS PLANE
SHOW FOR SHRINE
Maneuvers Will Be Staged
Wednesday, June II,
for ConCIave.

The Navy plans to present on
Wednesday, June IL. an exhibition of
aircraft maneuvers for the benefit of
Shriners here for the imperial con-
clave, it was announced today by
Robert P. Smith. director general of
the Shrine Convention Committee.
Aircraft Squadron No from the
Marine base at Quantico. which in
cludes some crack flyers, will stage
an aircraft show with fancy flying
about II am. in the neighborhood
of the Navy Yard
The Navy Yard will be open for
inspection that day. and visitors will
be invited to see the various stages
of manufacture of naval guns.
Ara NJ Daniels. chairman of the
Shriners' GranlItand Seat Sale Com
mittee. announced today that more
than half of the $4,000 grandstand
seats already had been sold and that
demand was on the constant in
crease.
From Shrine temples out of town
have come many orders for large
blocks of seats along the line OF
march. Daniels said. explaining that
the temples are bringing large num-
bers of their friends and members OF
their families who will sit on the
side lines to watch their favorite
temples perform in the three great
parades.
Several Masonic lodges in Wash
ington have requested blocks of seats
for their members, the chairman
said, and many business houses are
reservine seats together for their per-
sonnel.
Grandstand "U." located on the
South side of the Treasury overlook
ing Pennsylvania avenue to the Capt.
tol. has been sold out completely,
Daniels said.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
new STREET CARS
IN USE TOMORROW
Three New Types Will Be in
Regular Service on Ross.
lyn Line.

Three of the new-type street cars
purchased by the Capital Transit Co.
for replacement of worn-out equip
ment. will be placed in actual service
for the first time tomorrow morning,
company officials announced today.
The cars will be used regularly on
the Rosslyn Seventeenth and Pennsyl-
vania southeast line. The company
has ordered 20 of these modern cars
Three more are to arrive here Tues
day or Wednesday and promptly will
be added to the service on the same
line.
AS fast as the others arrive. they,
too, will be put into the same service.
The Rosslyn line was picked because
20 cars normally are required for Its
base day operation and the company
thought it offered better policy to
have all 20 of the new cars used on the
line where they would completely pro-
vide full service.
This decision, however. might be
changed if conditions warrant. officials
said. Several weeks are expected to
elapse before all the cars are delivered
here.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
French Cabinet Fall Upsets
White House Dinner Seating g

White House Tuesday to receive the
afternoon call required by protocol
from Nine. Lebrun.
Nine. Lebrun Is making her f1rst
visit-and it's to be as crammed with
events as Mrs. Roosevelt's regular
routine.
Though her coming Is in no sense
official, Richard Southgate, assistant
chief of protocol. will go to New York.
and down the bay. to meet her as
representative of this Government,
He'll accompany her party to Wash
ington, arriving at 1880 pm. Tuesday,
She will stay at the French Embassy
on Sixteenth street, where reception
will be held In her honor that after.
noon, in addition to the White House
afternoon call and the State dinner
that night. Next morning, Mrs. Cor
dell Hull, wife Of the Secretary Of
State, will take her to Mount Vernon.
and show her as many capital scenes
as an early afternoon departure will
permit. Then there'll be more events
in New York. A dinner on the Nor
mandie and q reception at the French
Institute.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
ARCHITECTS ELECT
D. C. MAN TO OFFICE
Washington Selected as 1885
Convention City-Baltimorean
Named Regional Director.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE,, June 1.-Stephen F.
Voorhees, of New York. chairman of
the Construction Code Authority at
the time of its notification. was
elected president of the American In
stitute of Architects at the closing
session of the sixty-seventh annual
convention here yesterday. He sue
ceeds Ernest j. Russell of st. Louis.
Louis La Beaume of st. Louis was
named first vice president and Francis
p. Sullivan of Washington second vice
president. Charles T. Ingham of
Pittsburgh was reelected secretary
and Erwin Bergstrom of Los Angeles
was reelected treasurer.
Three regional directors were
named. each for a three-year term
. They are Walter r. Mccormack OF
Cleveland, Great Lakes division; Will
liam H. Crowell of Portland. Western
division, and William G. Noting OF
Baltimore, Middle Atlantic division.
Next years meeting will be in
Washington.
Evening star., 1935-06-01

With scores of kites still remaining
to be flown and Judged, the fifth an
rual kite contest of the District
Model Aircraft League. Playground
Department. went into its second day
of competition this afternoon on the
Monument grounds and In Section c.
Anacostia Park.
Registration of entrants was sched-
uled from l to pm. and flying and
exhibition of competing kites from l
to S pm. at both contests.
Two contests were held yesterday
afternoon, at Section D. Anacostia
Park. and at the Banneker Recrea-
ton Center Winners at these con-
tests were as follows:
Anacostia Park.
Championshlp-Austin Childs, ia
ther. and Allison Childs. II, 1905 Otis
street northeast. for their tetrahedral
kite. entered in the father-and-son
class.
Junior class, plane surface kites,
rkmanship-First, william Connor:
second. Arthur Berry; third. william
Connor.
Junior class. plane surface, design
First, William Connor: second. Joe
Hall; third, Gaeton De Zabba.
Junior class. plane surface, perform
ance-First, Joe Hall; second, Mar
shall Crockett; third, Arthur Berry.
Junior class, plane surface, for
unique design-victor De Vakos.
Junior class, plane surface. for
unique performance-William Connor.
Junior class, plane surface. unique
design and performance-Collier Car
penter.
Junior class, box kites. first place
for workmanship. first place for de-
sign and first place for performance.
all won by Leon Litsis. No other
awards.
Father a nd-SOn Class.
Father-and-son class, plane surface
kites. workmanship-First. Alexandra
Macogay and Junior: second. Eugene
Del and junior: third, John A. Will
Hams and junior.
Father -and-son, plane surface. de-
sign-First. Eugene Del and junior;
second. Alexandra Macogay and jun
ior; third, John A. williams and
junior.
Father-a r-and-son. plane surface, per-
formance-First. Alexandra Macogay
and Junior; second. Eugene Del and
junior: third. John a. Williams and
Junior.
Father and son class. box kites.
workmanship-First. Austin Childs
Evening star., 1935-06-01
T. A. {. A. RUSHES
CODE SUBSTITUTE
Liquor Control Agency
Hopes to Have Plan Ready
Next Week.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
Working night and day to devise q
substitute for the liquor codes wiped
out by the Supreme Courts N. r. A.
decision. officials of the Federal AL
cohol Control Administration said to-
day they would have a plan ready
to submit to President Roosevelt early
next week.
Mr.. Roosevelt said yesterday the
court decision killed F.. A. c. A. and
by implication left it up to Congress
to decide on what, if any method OF
Federal control should be devised.
I'VE have been directed not to talk
the matter over with any one. not
even members of Congress. until the
job is finished" one asserted.
Code Adherence Pledged.
simultaneously. two branches of the
industry announced continued adher-
ence to provisions of the outlawed
codes.
without exception. we have decided
to carry on business according to the
codes" said DR.. James M. Doran, head
of the Distilled Spirits Institute. I'VE
have agreed not to cut prices or wages,
or lengthen hours"
He said the distillers. who planned
to meet today, had decided to wait for
the Government to disclose its plans
for new legislation before making any
recommendation.
Rectifiers Want Regulation.
I'VE must have new legislation. "
declared Ammon McClelland. a
spokesman for the rectifiers. I'VE have
not decided on the form desired, but
we want regulation. For the present,
practically all members of the indus
try have decided to maintain the pro-
visions of the codes on wages and
hours. I don't think there will be
much price cutting. Prices are so low
now we can't cut them"
One proposal for meeting the gap
created by the death of F. A. c. A.
codes already has been discussed
widely at the Capitol. 1t would involve
revival of a law of pre-prohibition
days under which the Treasury main-
tanned a measure of control over the
industry through system of licens-
ing distilleries. distributors and other
handlers of alcoholic beverages.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
Money Needed to Defray
Extra Expense for Ad.
ministration.
100000 ASKED TO ERECT
NAVY YARD LUNCH ROOM
Soil Conservation Service Bids
for $65,29l,SSS to Teach
Topsoil Retention.

As a direct result of additional work
growing out of the recent emergency
relief appropriation act. the Civil
Service Commission has filed an ap.
plication for S691 200 with the divi-
sion of applications and information
from the new work-relief set-up.
The money is intended to be used
to meet the extra expense of admin
istrative work Of the commission in
supplying needed workers to carry
out the spending program.
The item was one of a total of 81
252,300 asked yesterday.
$4,000 for Lunch Room.
A second item for an expenditure
within the District was a request for
100000 for construction of a lunch
room in the west yard at the Navy
Yard. This project would supplement
present inadequate facilities located
at considerable distance from many
of the Navy Yard shops.
At the same time. the Agriculture
Department asked the division for a
total OF $65. 5.29l.888 for the Federal
Soil Conservation Service to teach
farmers in 20 States how to keep fer
tile topsoil from becoming duststorms
The request supplements one filed
earlier asking for $l56,298.000 for a
vast reforestation plan in ~ States
embracing the belts of semi-arid
Western areas.
s3,9O0,00 for Flood Control.
Other Federal agencies applied fol-
s4 .943, 500. including S3,900,000 asked
by Army engineers for flood contro
projects in Oklahoma and Kansas.
Harry L. Hopkins, works progres,
administrator, allotted s79.040.929 Il
~ States for June relief and S6.05l..
$50 to carry on farm aid until DR.
Rexford G. Tugwell's Rural Resettle.
ment Administration takes over that
work.
Illinois. which was cut of Fedora
relief in May during Hopkins struggle
to force increased State contributions
did not receive an allotment. but Off
cials said money would be allocated a,
soon as its needs we're determined a,
in California. Delaware, Missouri
New Jersey and New York.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
representative MAS
IS LIEUTENANT COLONEL
Lawmaker Who Disarmed Man in
House Gallery Promoted
by Marine Reserves.

Representative Melvin J. Mas, Re-
publican, Minnesota; who several years
ago took a loaded revolver from man
in the House gallery who had threat
ened to shoot members on the floor.
today was promoted to lieutenant
colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.
In making the announcement at the
Navy Department, Maj. Gen. John H.
Russell, commandant of the Marine
Corps, recalled that Representative
Mas had served with distinction as
a Marine Corps aviator during the
World War
Some time ago, the general said, the
Representative organized a Marine
Corps Reserve squadron Of flyers sta.
tened at Minneapolis. Gen. Russell
said Marine Corps officials considered
1t one of the most eflcient in the serv-
ice.
Evening star., 1935-06-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Here was a pretty problem OF
protocol.
A White House dinner party next
Tuesday night honoring Mime. Albert
Lebrun wife Of the President OF
France, and William Bertrand, French
minister of merchant marine, vas an
nounced Monday by Mrs. Roosevelt.
Blu. while the merchant marine
minister was on the high seas on the
new French supefliner Normandie,
the French cabinet fell For a full
day, the White House social arrangers
worried, but last night news reports
carried Bertrand's name In the tenta-
tive list of new cabinet members.
The puzzler was where would they
seat Bertrand at the formal White
House dinner Tuesday night II he lost
his cabinet ranking before he got there?
Until that Is settled, the place cards
couldn't 90 much beyond President
Roosevelt having Mine. Lebrun for his
dinner partner. and Mrs. Roosevelt
the French Ambassador
After q Monday visit In Orange.
N. J.. Mrs. Roosevelt will .dy to the
Evening star., 1935-06-01
R. 0. T. c. MEDAL GIVEN
HOWARD u: COMPANY

Company A was victorious yester-
day in the Howard University r. O.
T. c. annual competition. Capt. Will
liam K. Collins commanded and re-
ceived a gold medal from President
Mordecai W Johnson
In second place was Company B.
commanded by Capt. Robert A. Brown.
which amassed 81 points as against
Sc for the winner
A medal for individual excellence
was awarded to George Thornton
by Dean E. P. Davis.