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Evening star., 1936-04-02

Matteson, acting District engineer for
the Washington area, explained today
Supplemental water supply must be
ready for use at the time the maxi
mum capacity for the Dalecarlia plant
is reached.
Schmitt pointed out that a years
preliminary study will be necessary
and year or more Of work will be
required on detailed plans for con-
struction. Three or four year, OF
actual construction work would be
necessary after Congress supplied
funds.
The proposal &c obtain part OF
Washington's water supply from the
Patuxent River has practically been
eliminated. schmitt said. The Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Commission
has its eye on the Patuxent supply.
Several schemes are in the minds
Of engineers
Schmitt anticipated that the new
water supply plant would have a ca :
pacity Of not less than 10000, 900
gallons daily. Some Washington wa
ter is purified at the Dalecarlia plant
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NEW WATER PLANT.
PLANS SPEEDED
Districts Growth Shows
Auxiliary Facilities
Needed by 1850.

Washington's rapid population
growth in recent years is causing the
United States Engineer Office here to
speed up plans for an additional water
supply system 80 years sooner than
anticipated.
This was learned today at the
United States Engineer Office, which
has now started preliminary studies
looking to construction of an auxiliary
water supply plant to the structure
on Conduit road near the Maryland
line.
The Army engineers, anticipating
Washington's population growth at
the time funds were sought from Con-
gress for the construction OF the
Dalecarlia filtration plant, shortly
after the World War, calculated that
1t would serve the needs of Washing
ton until 1880. Because of the influx
of people here, due to the New Deal
and other factors, the Army engineers
now say that the maximum capacity
Of the Dalecarlia plant will be
reached in 1850.
s5,000,0O0 Gallons Daily.
While Washington's daily consump-
ton Of water varies with heat and
other considerations, the normal daily
average now is around $4,000, 900 gal
Ions. In time Of excessive consump-
ton the daily demand has been as
high as l22.000,000 gallons. The
rated maximum capacity Of the Dale
carlia filtration plant, when installed.
was 5000, 900 gallons per day.
But the Army engineers cannot wait
until the maximum capacity is
reached. E. A. Schmitt, senior engineer
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Hauptnann

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Evening star., 1936-04-02
D|RKSEN WATCHES
ELEVATOR INQUIRY
Representative Says Impair.
tiaI Committee Should
Pass on Fatality.

Representative Dirksen, Republican
of Illinois, an active member of the
House District Committee, revealed to-
day he is watching closely develop
ments at the District Building in con-
nection with the renewed investiga-
ton of the elevator accident at 1911
Georgia avenue. which resulted in the
death of 13-year-old Harvey Crowell.
The boy lived in the apartments at
that address.
Dirksen said. in his opinion, the
inquiry should be conducted by COM
mittee of impartial structural and me-
chanical engineers who are not in any
way identified with the District Gov
ernment.
Full Facts Desirable.
"A number Of elements apparently
were involved in that accident" said
Dirksen, "and the only way to arrive
at the truth in developing the exact
facts is to have an investigation i'm
partial in character and which has
for its objective nothing more than a
full disclosure of the facts involved.
The matter is of public Importance
for the simple reason that at any time
any person intruSts himself to an
elevator in hotel, commercial build
ing or apartment house he does so
with sense Of insurance it's perfectly
safe.
Public Interest Concerned.
ut would appear that the interests
OF the public would be we'll served oy
an impartial investigation whereby the
public would be reassured and the
facts brought to light.
The committee of investigation
should consist of a group of struc-
tural and mechanical engineers who
have no interests in the apartment
house in which the Crowell boy was
killed. or identified with the Inspec-
ton Division of the District govern
ment."
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! Bronx to appear before the grand
jury. At his Bronx home Condor
offered no comment on the reports.
AS Parker waited in the witness
room nearby. guard was placed be-
+ side him, so that he could not talk
to other witnesses Leo Rogers. as
sistant prosecutor, said he had or
dered this done.
Autopsy Doctor Arrives
DR.. Mitchell, Mercer County ply
sician. who performed the autopsy
on the body of the slain baby. arrived
at the prosecutors Office a little after
II o'clock
The physician, who is also county
Republican chairman. said he had
been called to appear before the jury
Eight officials and guards from the
New Lisbon Colony arrived at the
court house about 1880 am
The Lindbergh ransom notes, re-
quested by the jury. had not arrived.
1t was learned that Hauck had told
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of
the State police, he had no objections
to the jury's request. providing the
notes were taken before the jury by
Capt. Russell Shook
Similarity in Writing Denied.
A prosecution source said Albert S.
Osborne and Eldridge w. Stein. two
OF the State handwriting experts at
Hauptmanns trial, had compared the
ransom notes with specimens OF Wen
derS handwriting, and had told the
Hauptmann prosecution there was no
similarity.
The Governor emerged from the
grand jury room at noon. He had
been before the jury for an hour and
Is minutes. He had no comment to
offer on his appearance.
A police guard hustled him through
the crowd jamming the corridor, got
him into an elevator and he was
rushed to the street. Again his guard
hurried him through the sidewalk
crowd to a car.
About the same time Attorney Cen
eral Wilentz was leaving the state
house, at the other end of town for
the court house. He said he had not
been told to come at this time, but
had decided to be available.
Goes to Prosecutors Office.
When Wilentz reached the court
house he went to the prosecutors
Office. He had nothing to say.
Back in the State House, it was re-
ported, Stein and Osborne, the hand
writing experts, were comforting with
Capt. Shook.
The attorney general was called into
Evening star., 1936-04-02

before the jurors. It was entirely
within the jury's power, however. to
disregard the prosecutor, as 1t has done
from the outset of the Wendell inquiry.
Wilentz Denounces Arrest.
Attorney General Wilentz was repre-
sented in authoritative sources as now
believing that the grand jury probably
would indict Wendell. The best in
formation about the court house,
however. was that no vote had been
taken to indicate how the jurors stood.
The grand jury sought to scan the
Lindoergh ransom notes to speed a
decision as to Wendell.
The star chamber body planned to
subpoena the ransom notes for COM
parison with Wendel's handwriting.
Wendell himself. bizarre figure in an
already bizarre chronicle, has offered
to waive immunity and testify.
The fourth anniversary of the pay
ment of the Lindbergh ransom was
expected to be marked by some de-
velopment in the story of Stephen
Spitz, reported to be Fastening East
from a Chicago jail to amplify his
statement that he bought some OF the
hot" ransom money at a discount
from a New Jersey gang"
Spitz, who was release from jail
yesterday when money to pay his fine
was received from somewhere in the
East claims to have some of the
ransom banknotes in a safety deposit
vault. and he has agreed to produce
them.
Challenges Prosecution.
The significance Of the Spitz story
lies in the fact that it challenges the
prosecution charge that Hauptmann
alone received the ransom money. The
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52-year-old former prisoner, who had
been convicted on bad-check charge,
was expected here today or tomorrow,
An investigation into Wendel's alle-
cation that he was kidnapped and
tortured" to force q confession" from
him-a confession which he has re-
pudiated-was begun last night by
District Attorney F. X. Geoghan OF
Brooklyn. where Wendell charges he
was kidnapped.
Geoghan sent a deputy to Trenton
last night to question Wendell in the
county Jail.
If Wendell says he was assaulted
and kidnapped and illegally detained
in Brooklyn I will take appropriate
action" Geoghan said.
d. j. Inquiry Reported.
There also we're reports in some
official quarters that the Department
of Justice was investigating the kidnap
charges, but these reports lacked con-
firmation.
In one Of his three Confessions"
Wendell mentions writing one ransom
note-the one found in the Lindbergh
nursery-but disavowing any effort to
collect ransom.
Some handwriting experts have ex-
pressed their belief that the original
ransom note and the subsequent notes
were written by different persons.
Gov. Hoffman and members Of the
Court Of Perdons which twice has
refused Hauptmann's plea for clem-
ency, received kilograms yesterday
from Clarence Darrow, noted Chicago
attorney and opponent of capital pun
ishment. expressing the belief that
Hauptmann should be given a new
trial.
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Woman Expert on Tree Rings
Would Work on Kidnap Ladder

There should be no difficulty what
ever" said DR.. Hawley, "in determining
IN a very short time whether wood
from the kidnap ladder and boards
taken from Hauptmann's attic came
from the same piece Of timber.
This method Is used with absolute
accuracy in the study Of beams cut
hundreds Of years ago. There is not
one chance In a million that wood
rings will coincide II the two specimens
are not from the same tree"
She suggested that New Jersey atl-
thorities might airmail specimens Of
the Lindbergh ladder wood here so a
study might be made before the hour
set for Hauptmann's execution.
DR.. Hawley has been conducting
research work in tree ring analysts
since 1928. In her studies Of ruins in
Arizona, New Mexico, Tennessee and
Kentucky, she has been instrumental
in completing q tree ring dating system
which now extends back hundreds Of
years.
Evening star., 1936-04-02

When you choose suit, you choose by color,
fabric and fit. But now, millions of men have
added new standard quality in the selection
of suit. The trousers must be closed with
the Talon slide fastener!
They are going, many thousands of them
every day, to the clothiers who feature this
tailoring refinement they have dis.
covered it means extra convenience, and secur-
ity, plus better trouser appearance!
Evening star., 1936-04-02

Continued From First Page)
action affecting the Lindbergh case is
pending.
Under the death warrant he may
execute Hauptmann any time during
'the week of March 30" which may
possibly mean as late as Sunday night.
The warden, if necessary will ask
the sentencing justice, Thomas w.
Trenchard, to define the exact limits
Of "the week Of March 30"
4. The fact that other so-called
new evidence" such as the story of
Stephen Spitz that he possesses Lind
bergh ransom notes which he brought
from persons other than Hauptmann,
remains to be inquired into.
Reports from Chicago today said
the money to pay the fine necessary to
obtain Spitzs release from Jail (where
he was serving a sentence on bad
check charge) was furnished by Gov.
Hoffman himself. The amount was
1892. the balance of $1,000 fine.
Wilentz Holds Power Exhausted.
s. The further fact that Gov. Hoff-
man is so definitely committed to OBJ
tanning a complete solution" of the
entire case that many believe he will
find some way to delay the execution,
even though Attorney General Wilentz
his official legal adviser. has held that
his reprieve powers are now exhausted.
Other authorities, however, are re-
ported to have offered a contrary
opinion which the Governor. in the
case Of extreme necessity, might elect
to follow.
Hoffman Appears Early.
Gov. Hoffman, who injected himself
into Hauptmann's case last october
with nocturnal visit to the death
house. appeared at the court house
shortly after the grand jury convened
and went before the body.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz,
who headed the prosecution forces at
the Pennington trial of Hauptmann.
was closeted with aides at the State
House prior to going before the inves-
tigating BODY.
The grand Jury started to hear the
Governor soon after his arrival. having
disposed Of DR.. Jones as the first wit
ness.
Kept at New Lisbon Colony.
1t was at the New Lisbon colony
that Wendell was kept for four weeks
by Parker while he was obtaining the
several statements from the man.
The Governor declined to accept
o subpoena to appear before the grand
jury, saying that he would appear
voluntarily.
The Office of Prosecutor Erwin E.
Marshall reported that DR.. Condor,
the "Jafsie" of the ransom negotia-
tions, was on his way from the
Evening star., 1936-04-02
Rules of Contest

Any one can enter except cur
employees and members Of their
families. Suggested names must
be submitted on entry blank
found in each loaf Of this
NEW bread. No others will be
considered. Send rs many sug.
sestions as you desire. but only
one on each blank.
Contest ends Saturday. April
4. Get your suggested names In
now. The decision Of the judges
will be Ana1. Mail all sugges-
tions on your entry blanks to
Dutch Baker Boy, 9th and Mon
roe SITS. NE.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
Whiskers Voted by City.

CENTRALIA, Wash. LP).-The peo-
pie have spoken and thereTl be
whiskers at the Pioneer Days celebra.
ton in August.
When worlen loudly objected TO men
forsaking razors after July 4 a hirsute
election was called. Women could vote
as well as men. The results last night
showed $50 for whiskers, 27o against.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
By the Associated Press.

~ sAS nocowAetcd ASsbs
ALBUQUERQUE. N. Mex, April o.
The services of a woman tree ring
expert were placed at the disposal Ct
Gov. Harold Hoffman Of New Jersey
today to aid his efforts toward further
solution Of the Lindbergh kidnap-
Staying.
DR.. Howard D. Brand, head Of the
University of New Mexico Archaeology
Department. wired the Governor last
night that DR., Florence Hawley was
willing to attempt identification of the
ladder used in the crime. and wood
later taken from the home OF Bruno
Richard Hauptmann.
The young blond scientists method,
originally developed by DR.. A. E.
Douglass of the University of Arizona
to establish the age of timber taken
from historic ruins, consists Of
microscopic measurements OF the an
nual rings which form the grain pat
tern Of wood.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
WHAT is THIS
NEW BREAD

Dutch Baker Boys new bread is
half white and half whole wheat
baked as one loaf. 1t Is new-dif.
ferent and deliciously tasty. You'll
like this new bread-you'n like the
change It offers-Get . Loaf today
or tomorrow from the Dutch Baker
BOY salesman in your neighborheod
or phone North 1884 for prompt
delivery to your home.
ONLY 1Oc A LOAF
Evening star., 1936-04-02

and the rest is at the Mcmillan hltra.
ton plant. The Army engineers ex-
pect to call for new bids to modernize
the Mcmillan plant next week.
Evening star., 1936-04-02

The Talon trouser fastener is
made especially for trousers.
The slider locks 40 that it can.
not slip down. Talon is preci.
sion.made always depend'
able always works easily.
Can't catch in Underclothing
because of protective under.
Zap. Makes disarrsy impossi.
bic re6nes drape and finish.
Rustless unharmed by dry
cleaning and pressing. Gives
perfect service far beyond the
life Of q suit.
Evening star., 1936-06-18
Buffet Party Must Determine Selection Of Reeshmen
Dorothy Dix Says
The Straight and Narrow Is the Only
Path for Married Woman to Follow.

ing on II I do marry. Would $40 a
month be enough to pay my mother?
GYPSY.
Answer-You certainly could not
get comfortable board anywhere else
for $50 month except in your own
home, but, on the other hand, your
board probably does not cost your
mother $50 month, as she makes no
change in the family table or the hous-
ing because of you.
How much a girl who works should
pay at home depends very much on the
financial status Of the family. II they
are poor and are having a hard time
making ends meet, then she should be
willing to divide generously with them.
But If the family is in comfortable cir
cumstances think that the girl should
be called upon to contribute very little,
If any, to the upkeep Of the house.
MOTHERS are seldom fair with
N their daughters about what they
earn. They take a daughters pay en-
velope as a matter of course, but they
never think of taking their sons, yet
girl has just as much right to the
money she earns as boy has.
I think you are quite right in want
ing to establish your own financial in
dependence. 1t gives a girl poise and
self-respect to have her own bank ac-
count, and it makes her more saving.
too, because there is no amusement
more exciting than watching a banl;
account grow.
DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1936-06-18
Are Leisure
Hours Our
OwnToday?
BY EMILY POST.
nEAR MRS. POST: Sunday is Or

nEAR MRS. POST: Sunday is prac-
tically the only time my husband
and I can spend any idle hours to-
gether at home. Or should say We
could If it were not for a friend of
my husband who invariably comes in,
unannounced beforehand, and who
stays out the day. My husband doesn't
like It any better than I do, but he
is reluctant to tell his friend to stay
away, naturally. Is there no way We
can tell him without putting the story
into so many words?
Answer-One thing In the world
We have a right to is privacy, and I
think you are perfectly justified in not
being at home to him. But the point
Of this. of course, is that if you shut
your door to him you can't, without
rudeneSS to him, Immediately open it
to any one else.
-
Dear Mrs. Post: Always, always.
always, there are certain people who
always just happen, to come in at our.
meal time on Sunday. 1t isn't their.
fault, of course, because our habits
on this one day Of an otherwise very
regular week are made to conform to
the majority vote of the family. And
dinner is likely to be at any time from
noon to 8 O'Clock in the evening 1t
doesn't always suit to invite one or two
extras to join us, and very often these
visitors are not friends whom we would
like to ask to sit with us and talk while
we finish. SO there is always the un-
| pleaSantnesS of having to leave my din
ner to get cold and talk with them in
the living room, or if they offer to read
while we finish, feel that I should
! gulp down my food, since to eat leis-
urely would mean that by the time the
meal were over they would have to go.
I suppose the answer is, Have meals
at the customary meal time in your
community" But do feel that my
family comes first What is the best
| tions?
Answer-There is, am afraid, very
little I can do except agree that If
Sunday is the one day on which the
various members of your family can
follow their own pursuits, then they
should be considered first Either you
will have TO follow the advice have
written In the foregoing letter and
never be at home to any one during
meal time on Sundays, or you will
have to put up with the inconven-
fences that you complain about Your
situation illustrates perfectly what I
meant sometime ago when I wrote
that the protection. money gives
against intrusionS Of this kind-or any
kind. in fact-always seems to me the
greatest blessing that wealth confers,
| in affording the security of the pro-
tecting barrier Of servants always on
duty.
Evening star., 1936-06-18
Exercising
Must Begin
In Middle
Rules for Quick and
Successful
Reducing.
Photo Modern Science Institute, Int
By ELSIE PIERCE

A 8 WE observed at the beginning Of
this reducing series, the ideal re-
ducing course combines safe, sane
diet with some exercise. And speak
ing Of reducing and exercise makes me
think Of the book read the other
day by Dorothy Nye, famous authority
on exercise.
In it she says, eff you were sud-
denly to see your body cast in bronze
or nodded in clay, or chiseled in
marble; If you were able to walk
around 1t, as you walk around a
statue, observe it in detail from all
sides, what would you think of it?"
Perhaps some Of you have walked
around your bodies via a full length
mirror. Certainly the many bathing
suit preview" complaints would indi-
cate q sudden awareness as to figure
flaws.
Miss Nye goes on to say, 'Most
women actually know more about the
| workings of their automobiles or their
gas ranges or their vacuum cleaners
than they do about their own bodies.
They know how to care for inanimate
machines, how to keep them In run
ming order. what to do when they
refuse 10 function; and If they abuse
them they are conscious Of It,"
According to her theory, exercise
should begin in the middle. WhyP
Because the organs upon which health
and comfort Of the body depend
are situated in the middle of the
body. Glands and ductless glands
that strongly affect and regulate
the body functions are there. Yet
the middle of the body, the most
vital area is usually its most neglected
portion. For generations 1t has been
CONSTRUCTED by tight clothing. 1t Is
| more frequently thickness rather than
weight that proclaims the passing of
! youth. Middle age may arrive at 80
40, so, but invariably middle age be-
gins in the middle. That Is exactly
why her basic theory Of exercise. is:
Begin in the middle.
II you can devote 10 minutes
night and morning to exercise and
not have It bore you; If the thought
of Q beautifully nodded, graceful
flexible body makes the exercise
pleasurable. then begin at once and
begin in the middle. Stretching ex-
ercises are excellent. A few stretch
ing exercises in bed before you get
up. And another 10 or preferably Is
minutes definite exercise at night
Direct the exercise at the fatty spots.
Evening star., 1936-06-18
Helping the
Ambitious
YOungster
Encourage Child to
! TRY OwnssvWings
Fearlessly.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

"NEOTHER, Crandall's wants girl
A'A to help in the store mornings.
It's lust what want for Summer
lob"
That's good. Fine IDEA They're
good people to work for"
Miss Maria told me about 1t and
suggested 60 there right after lunch
and ask for the position"
Lunch is ready. You don't have to
wait minute"
"I'n change my dress, don't you
think?"
"If you like. The one you have on
is a very good one. though. 1t is sim
pie and workmanlike. You wouldn't
want to dress differently today from
what you will do should you go to
work there. But you can do as you
please about that, Of course. You
want to feel, as well as look your best.
Eat a good lunch. That VIII
strengthen your courage"
you'll come with me, won't you,
mother?"
ooh, no. I wouldn't do that"
"Oh, please. can't go alone"
"Why can't you? All you have to do
Is to state your errand and answer
any questions you are asked. II you
are going to go to work you certainly
ought to be able to attend to your own
business. 1t would be poor recon-
mendation for you to have me leading
you in by the hand"
Then I won't go. I just can't. I
never did such thing before. Come
to the door with me-
Not at ALL Now go wash your face
and freshen yourself up a bit: know
that nothing can happen to you. You
can do this work il you get it, and all
you have to do Is go ask for it. The
best way to get over hard place is to
go right at it and lose no time think
ing about how you'll feel"
"But I don't know what he will
say to me"
"Of course not. How could you?
And If you fretted about it for the
rest of the day you would not know.
He will say something you never
thought about and you win be able to
answer correctly. Just go ahead and
leave the rest to the moment"
Wont you help me, mother?"
Eyes, of course. While you are on
the way and until you come back I'll
be thinking Of you, holding your sue
cess in my mind, knowing that you
will be able to do all you need to do.
I'll be with you that way. The rest
you must do on your own courage, on
your own power. Don't hold fear in
your mind Keep knowing you can
do this job and you will
These first times are trying for the
young. They would like to have the
strengthening comfort Of their moth
er's presence, their fathers personal
support, but that would not do They
must 60 alone or not expect success.
They have to face the hard truth
that only what one does for himself
enriches him, stays by him, gives him
power. We can 60 with them spirit
ually, help them that way. But in
person they must 60, and alone.