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Evening star., 1936-03-08
ID Skeletons in Supreme Court "Closet

of final jurisdiction, must keep its
evidence of this character. There is
no one to whom 1t may be passed; nc
official agency at least.
If the collection could not be re-
duced unofficially, the court would
have some even odder skeletons on its
hands. Cue item would be a hand
car, a plain, unadorned, single-handed,
walking beam model which once fig
ured in case before the court. After
it had played its important role, the
vehicle was dismantled and carted
away by junkman. -
A MOTHER item, a literal skeleton,
which was taken neatly out Of the
courts closet was a dessicated buffalo
skull. 1t played an important part
in a case involving the Texas Histor-
ical Society many years ago. The So
ciety wanted it back. And got it.
Thomas E. Waggaman. chief clerk
in the Office of Marshall Frank K.
Green, is the custodian of the "closet"
In which rests the courts skeletons.
1t became his charge when the
court moved. bag and baggage, out Of
the Capitol into its marble home. The
skeletons got their first airing In dec
ades during that move; were brought
out into the light AFTER years In the
catacomb-like recesses Of the Capitol.
That there we're not more OF them
was perhaps the only blessing which
accompanied that historic explosion
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Eastport facilities will still be taxed
to the utmost.
THE housing program includes 100
temporary cottages of one, two and
four family type, costing approxi-
mately $4,000 each: two apartment
buildings each containing 40 indivi-
dual apartments costing approximately
s115.000, and one dormitory building
containing 81 rooms for 145 occupants
costing fully equipped with all facili-
ties, $181, 900.
I'm addition, nine permanent houses
have been constructed as part of the
project and the accommodation of
the operating personnel and for use
during the construction period at a
contract cost of S150,000."
THERE you have the detailed out
lay of the cost of Quoddy VIII
lage-the village by the sea.
All the little houses-they look like
dolls houses-are built of wood with
out cellars and with fake shutters
but they are serviceable, are heated
~ 1Olll ~ NClltld al 4lCdGnlS pldllt anu
electrically lighted, and they are rent
ed to the personnel at monthly rates
varying from $48 to $65.
The permanent houses, now occu-
pied by the Army officers at work on
the job, rent from 500 to $120 a
month. They are as fine as the $16,50O
model homes in outlying Washington.
The great big dormitory at Quoddy
Village-a dormitory that looks like
an expansive Summer hotel-has a
series of splendid rooms renting at
the monthly rate of $40 to $50 per
room.
As Gen. Markham points out: "The
rental rates. over the life of the
project, plus the salvage value of the
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Famous Exhibits of Old
Cases Find Grave in
New Building.

THERE are some pretty odd
skeletons in the United States
i Supreme Courts closet.
A couple of buckets of dust,
for instance. A few boxes of dog
cared moldy maps, a junp-gap mag
neto, a bin full of bottles (but don't
jump to conclusion), a box of an
cient grease guns, bas-reliefs, models
of everything from bridges to islands,
some old tin beer signs, and host
Of other odds and ends.
Remnants are these of other cases
heard by the highest tribunal in other
days. Fossilized remains, so to speak,
OF famous exhibits A. B, C, etc.. Of
which you may have read in years
long gone. The cases have been set
tied. but the exhibits linger on-with-
out meaning, without even marks to
identify many Of them. Skeletons, in
deedl
The collection. for all It's variety
and Its interest. 10 not nearly so large
a. one would expect Time and cir
cumstance have helped 10 keep the sub
terranean stofehouse clear. Happy Ia
that situation. too. for the court, 40 one
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Hand Car and BuffaIo's
Skull Once Parts of
Collection.

old tangle over Chartreuse liquer. 1t
involved the monks of ancient France.
The Western Well Works was a
party to a case which deposited one
of the most freakish skeletons in the
courts collection. The latter Is q
model of we'll head, an odd pump
like contraption which has been dis
colored by age and dust. The piston,
which still pumps up and down. emits
eerie, mournful squeaks when the long
unused handle is disturbed.
The residue of this controversy in
cluded a considerable amount Of ex-
pensive, heavy equipment. but junk
man has disposed of all save the
skeletal model.
Nearby is an ordinary shingle-nail
barrel. Its shadowy interior consti-
tutes the grave Of such oddities as a
concrete gun. a rusted iron crank, a
wooden model Of a bridge section from
which q man once fell to his death.
The man7 His name Is buried deeply
In the records of the Supreme Court.
One looks at the long-buried ex-
hibits. He wonders for a moment
about the cases they symbolic who
won7 Who lost7 But. OF course. II
makes no difference now.
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buildings. will in large measure liqui-
date the investment for housing
facilities"
Those opposed to the idea say. that
is true, unless these stage houses
fall down before their allotted span
of life. or the project is abandoned"
So the battle of Quoddy wages.
AS you travel through the State
of Maine the natives have queer things
to say about Quoddy. Most of them
see no reason why Uncle Sam should
be throwing away all this money"
They are frugal lot, these citizens,
and they ask. speaking of Quoddy.
What good will it do-except to give
employment to those on relief? Where
would they ever sell the power? Who
wants it?"
THOSE are the questions asked. All
right, let's look at the map. It
Is no diSrespect to Eastport to say
that this is the jumping off place.
When you buy a railroad ticket to
Eastport, the man at window is likely
to say: That's about as far as you
can go on the Atlantic Coast and
still remain in the United States"
One more jump and you are either
in Passamaquoddy Bay, part of the
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in the building on November 6, 1898.
Cne of the losses of this blast was the
cryptful of exhibits which had clus-
tered about the courts operation
through the years. No loss, it seems,
could have been more easily bearable.
The evidence was no good to any one.
1t had outlived its usefulness and its
conversion into ashes and splinters
was one of Natures happiest ideas in
connection with the otherwise unfor-
tunate explosion.
Times mists conceal the stories be-
hind many Of the exhibits, but not all
of them.
The two buckets of dust, for ex.
ample. They began life as two
buckets of Mississippi mud. The State
of that name and its neighbor, Louis
lana, were engaged in some kind of
legal squabble. The mud was an ex-
hibit which played a part in the set
tlement. A lot of District of Colum-
bit dust has been mixed in with the
original deposit since 1t figured in the
courts deliberations.
A ND the bottles. Echoes Of famous
cases stir family when the bin
which holds them is disturbed.
Twenty years ago they ceased to be Of
importance: became ghosts. The
David ink case. one set Of them helped
10 settle. incidentally. one bottle of
this group still has Ink In II, The
other set Of bottles goes back 10 an
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Model Village Only Tangible Devolp-
ment at Scene of What May Prove Man,
Greatest Engineering Feat-Or Failure.

power can be generated To remedy
this obstable to continuous power
some of the power already in exist.
ence will be used to pump water to
the high-level reservoir This water
will then be released through the
turbines of a second generating sta
tion while the main station remains
idle.
That is about as near as this project
can be explained. The story goes
that Hugh Cooper got the idea of
harnessing the tides at Passama-
quoddy Bay when he went to Campo
bello Island jim 1919 to rest after an
illness. On his front porch, day after
day, he watched the tremendous rise
and fall of the tides sweeping in from
the sea and rushing back.
EVEN before he became President.
Franklin D. Roosevelt became in
terested in the idea of harnessing the
tides at Passamaquoddy, for he, too.
had gone to that section of the country
to recuperate from an illness. And
he, too watched the tides rush in and
out. 1t was but natural, then. that
Government aid should be given the
Passamaquoddy project when private
capital vanished
So stands Passamaquoddy. Its
critics claim there is no economic
justification for the work None at
all. In the controversy that is just
getting started they claim that the
cost of developing power at Passama-
quoddy will be greater than in any
other part of the Nation. So far no
one has given an official estimate Of
this cost. Yet the engineers at work
there admit that the cost will be
greater than the general average
throughout the country. One report
made shows that coal could be hauled
from Pennsylvania to Passamaquoddy
oIio q oCCdlAI PAdAlt NACIlSA W plOuuS
power at a lower cost than will be
possible by harnessing the tides.
Also there is almost complete agree
ment on both sides of the fence that
no need exists for more power in
Maine unless those new industries set
up their plants on the shores of Passa-
maquoddy Bay.
Industry may or may not follow
the power which would be drawn from
the rise and fall of the tides on the
coast of Maine.
That is something which only the
future can answer. A remoter future
which will come after many sharp and
bitter words have been exchanged for
and against the wisdom of a project
that represents one of mankind's most
venturesome undertakings. Its sue
cess or failure transcends purely
national interest.
So stands Passamaquoddy today.
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and watches the development Of a
great city on the site of this small
Maine town.
Every once in awhile you run into
an enthusiast, and here you have the
finest of them all in the person of Mr..
Emery. An Eastport boy by birth, he
left his home town for other ports,
but he came back some 20 years ago
and determined to make good where
he was born. He has. He gets out a
snappy little paper and through that
medium spreads the gospel of the
good town and the good neighbor. To
listen to this man. who lives in a
charming little home that breaths the
very soul of New England-the New
England of old-you feel as if this is
the place, and the only place on earth.
where the more abundant life can be
lived. Better, you begin to believe
that if there is ever to be a boom
town IN America, and money rush,
as in the old days, Eastport will be
the scene of all the activity.
HERE is the way Mr.. Eaton paints
the picture-in vivid colors:
when Quoddy Dam is completed,
when the tides have been harnessed
and cheap power is available, great
factories will spread around the ter
rain-to take the places of the sardine
factories that moved away"
And what great factories will these
be?" he was asked.
well, that-in a way-is a sort of
secret. One of Dexter Cooper's main
jobs is to interest the great manu-
facturers of the Nation in this part
of the development. He is the man
who will bring the great factories to
Eastport. While I cannot tell you the
Evening star., 1936-03-08
By John Jay DAILY.

A T THE tip end of the State Of
~ Maine, the fartheSt point eaSt
~ in the United States, is the
little town of Eastport-or
Moose Island. Not far away, mile OF
two, is Passamaquoddy.
On Passamaquoddy Bay, the town oi
the same name, is the site of what is
officially known as the Passamaquoddy
tidal power development. Unoficially
they call it the Quoddy project.
If you have not heard of that project
1t means you are not power conscious
for this is supposed to be one of the
most adventurous engineering expert
mentS OF all times, the first large scale
attempt to harness the tides and con-
vert water power into electrical energy.
Rest assured, you will hear a lot
about Quoddy as the current political
campaign gets under way-for there
are two schools of thought on this
subject.
One school describes this venture
into the unknown as the Peter Pan
project, the dream child of the New
Deal.
The other believes that history is
In the making at Quoddy and that
given time and $40,0O0,OO0 the tides
will eventually wait on all men.
While Quoddy is only nov stepping
into the limelight the project &C
tually had its inception more than a
decade ago. 1t evolved as the dream
OF an electrical engineer, Dexter
Cooper, who happens to be a boyhood
friend of President Franklin D. Roose-
welt.
Indeed, it is the Presidents personal
Interest in this project which brings
about its present state of confusion, ar
admirable example Of cause and effect
AS the story goes, President Roose.
welt when boy sailed his boat up anc
down the far stretches of Passama.
quoddy Bay. With his mother 1t
lived in Summer home on Campo.
,bello Island, on the Canadian side
just across from the American town ot
Eastport. NeXt-door neighbors were
the Coopers.
NOW it happened that the Cooper
boys, Hugh and Dexter, went into
engineering. Dexter saw the possibil-
tiles of doing something with the tides
Of PaSsamaquoddy. At this point or
the map the tides drop anywhere from
18 to "a feet each day-the greatest
variation on the face of the earth
with one or two exceptions.
So it came about that, after build
ing dams with his brother at Keokuk
Iowa, and in Russia, Dexter Cooper
set upon doing something for his old
home town. He interested the Gen
eral Electric Co., Westinghouse, the
late lamented insult interests and
others. With contributions averaging
about $85, 900 apiece. Mr.. Cooper gath
cred the neat little sum of $350,000
to make the preliminary survey and
get started at Passamaquoddy. That
was back In the halycon days.
Then came the depression, and the
stock market collapse.
About the end OF 1890, when pros
pcrity had Just made that disappear
ence around the corner. Mr.. Cooper
found that all his actual support had
vanished Quoddy was at n standstlil.
Then Franklin ID. Roosevelt became
President and the p. w. A, along with
I'll Ia alphabetical brothers. came
Into being.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Forty -Million-Dollar Project for Har-
Messing Tides Destined to Play Flaming
Part in Political Oratory This Year.

Note: A personal uisit to Passa-
r1aquoddy discloseS that utile
there is little tangible behind its
fascinating name, there is much
that is intangible. The name
"Quoddy" is destined to play a
prominent part in the headlines in
1896. It's full meaning is sketched
in the tollo1Cing article, after a
thorough inspection OF the scene.
Evening star., 1936-03-08

ID Map showing the Passarhaquoddy tidal power project
~ Left right: Maj. Gen. Edward NJ Markham chief
of Army Ensineers three visiting railroad officials, and
Lieut. Col Philip B. Fleming, who is directing the project
excavation work (5) Administration building, under
construction. (6 Drilling rock quarry. G) and (S)
These views taken from the point illustrate the
height of the tide flow at Eastport Me.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
OIL HEADS FEAR
GASOLINE SURPLUS
Storage Reaches New High
of $4,000, 900 Barrels;
Curtai|ment Urged.

tIt hSSOCldtcu FTeSS.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Amer
lean Petroleum Institutes Committee
on Supply and Demand recommended
today a curtailment in the amount
of crude oil run to refinery stills in
order to reduce surplus gasoline in
storage to an economically desirable"
level.
In report to be published in the
institutes April quarterly. it was
stated that excess gasoline in storage
has been caused by weather which
during the first quarter of this year
hampered transportation and also
boosted the demand for heating and
industrial fuels, causing gasoline pro-
duction which was not used.
As of March 81. preliminary esti-
mates place the amount of finished
and unfinished gasoline in storage at
100000 barrels, a new high peak
some 100000 barrels over a year
ago and about 100000 barrels
higher than at the end of 1885.
The committee suggested the need
for liquidation of 100000 barrels
and cut in the crude run to stills
to daily average of 2,76O,0Oo barrels
for the next six months so that gaso-
line inventories by September 80 may
not exceed 51,Ooc,OoO barrels.
Domestic demand for motor fuels
in the second quarter of this year
was estimated by the committee at
121 100000 barrels, a gain of 81 per
cent over the same period of 1885,
and for the third quarter at 13O,-
100000 barrels. an increase of 6.5
per cent.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Chinese Bank Agency Linked
With Government SiIuer Policy

will fall a large part of the burden
Of controlling the new non-metalic
currency system which China adopted
last November when the monetary
unit was severed from its link with
silver.
Financial quarters have seen a close
connection between the departure of
the Far Eastern republic from the sill
yer standard and the United States
Treasurys silver-buying policy which
forced the value of the white metal
sharply higher over period of months
last year.
Despite the fact that most Wall
Street experts see Burgess job as an
other facet of the silver problem, he
firmly refuses to comment on the
Treasury's policy.
He said of the banks function:
"As result of the establishment
Of the new currency system the bank
will undoubtedly take an important
part in monetary management-it
will assist In maintaining exchange
stability. That's the whole story in
0 nutshell"
Evening star., 1936-04-12
FEDERAL PROGRAM
W|DENS VISTA FOR
ELECTRICAL GOODS
Rural Power Plans Promise
Vast Potential Market
for Industry.
BY FREDERICK GARDNER,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

The New Deals ambitious program
to introduce the power age to rural
America has opened broad vista for
business.
A picture Of huge potential mar
ket for electrical appliances and equip
ment helped the administration bill
for 10-year rural electrifcation
campaign clear the hurdles in Gen.
gress.
Supporters of the program insisted
the S410,000,000 authorized for it
would be matched at least dollar for
dollar in purchases of electrical goods
to Supplant muscle power on the farm.
Some say as much as 50 may be spent
for every 81 invested in poles and wire
Business Opinions Mixed.
In business quarters prospects of a
big farm and home equipment market
are mixed with visions of further
advance of Federal agencies into long
range power development
Rural electrification has been tied
in with power generation projects in
the Tennessee Valley and some see
T. V. A. as a pattern for other re-
gional authorities if the New Deal
stays in Office long enough.
Government development of ma
tional power resources is travelling a
thorny path of litigation and opposi-
ton from private industry, but that
has not discouraged paper plans.
The Rural Identification Admins
tration, endowed with a long-term
status under the new legislation, looks
to the Electric Home and Farm Au-
thority, T. v. A. offspring, as a val
liable ally for its program to bring
power to at least 100000 more farm
homes.
Placed on National Scale.
E. H. F. A, functioning as fnanc-
ing agency for dealers in electrical
goods, has been authorized to operate
on national scale. Besides providing
discount facilities for dealers. it has
been working to promote the power
age through educational campaigns.
Federal agencies claim part credit
for recent substantial gains in sales
Of electric household appliances, par
ticularly in the South.
Commerce Department figures show
1885 increases of to 70 per cent in
sales of long list of appliances, such
as ranges, vacuum cleaners, cookers,
refrigerators.
While acknowledging recovery in
consumer purchasing power as the
main influence, officials contend T. v.
A., r. E. A. and giant Federal power
projects have helped make the coun-
try increasingly conscious of what
power means to home and farm in
way of labor saving devices and COM
forts.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
AUTO OUTPUT EXPECTED
TO HIT 100000 EASILY
Estimate Called Conservative for 1896.
One Leading Producer Forecasts
100000 Will Be Reached.

A comparison of production figures
for the first quarter of 1886 as against
the period a year ago shows that
despite the fact new 1886 models were
introduced two months earlier than
usual, the production for the first
three months of the current year ap-
proximately equaled that of the same
period of 1935-slightly more than
100000 cars and trucks.
Factory schedules indicate an out
put this month of more than 100000
units. Such a volume will keep most
of the plants operating on full five
day week basis throughout the month.
The three-day week schedule that
many plants observed during the lat
ter part of February and early March
enabled most of them to keep as
semblies below distribution demand.
The result, as seen in trade circles
now, is possible delay in deliveries
when buying expands several weeks
hence
Evening star., 1936-04-12
HOLDINGS OF new YORK
BANK STOCKS BOOSTED
Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. April 11-Holdings of
stocks of major New York City banks
by AZ leading fire and casualty in
surance companies increased by 2o,s35
shares during 1885, according to a
tabulation made by the bank stock
statistical department of Blyth &
Co., Inc.
The aggregate holdings of these
stocks at the end of 1885 totaled AS
544 shares, compared with 394,70
shares held by the same companies at
the end of 1884.
The insurance companies added to
their holdings of all but two of the
IS New York banks included in the
compilation. Decreases were shown in
the aggregate number of shares held
in bank of the Manhattan Co. and
Irving Trust Co.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
CROWN CORK GETS
OPTIONS ON GLASS
Rights to Processes Barred
by Report-NeW Unit to
Start During Year.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 1l.-Charles z.
McManus, president Of Crown Cork &
Seal Co., Inc, in the annual report
issued today said the company has
obtained options on glass-making
patents.
This step was taken, it was explained,
to round the company's development
in the container business.
These patented methods and
processes will be fully developed in
the initial unit of its glass division,
which, it is expected, will be in opera
ton during this year." McManus said.
The report disclosed that Crown
Cork will pay S650,000 for all the out
standing stock of the Acme Can Co. of
Philadelphia. OF this amount S65, 900
had been paid as of March 25. The
balance of $585 900 is payable over a
period ending october l, 1896.
On February q Crown Cork ad-
vanced 100000 to Acme for the pur-
chase of a parcel of land in Phila-
delphia. Acme will improve the land
with buildings to be equipped for can
manufacture. Crown Cork agreed to
buy all the outstanding stock of Acme
on February z.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
BY the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, April lin the re-
cent establishment here of an agency
of the Chinese government controlled
Bank of China some Wall Street
quarters believed they saw the begin
ming Of a new phase in the tangled
American silver policy.
H. D. r. Burgess, veteran foreign
banking expert, who with C. H. Wang
of Shanghai will &C as joint manager
of the New York agency. was chary
in indicating the part the branch is
expected to play in the silver situ-
alton. He did go so far as to say,
however:
"The fact that the United States
Government has invited the Chinese
government to talk over the silver
problem indicates a friendly and CO.
operative attitude"
He referred to the recent confer
ences among represents tives of the
Treasury and Chinese officials at
Washington.
On Burgess and his co.uanager