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The Washington times., 1936-03-16
COACH SERVICE
BUSES FACE
ABOLITION
P. u. c. Ready to Order
Losing Line to Chevy
Chase Dropped

Abolition of the de luxe Chevy
Chase coach line, the extra fare
service operated by the Capital
Transit Company, between Chevy
Chase and the Union Station, will
be ordered today, it was indicated
by the Public Utilities Commis-
sion.
Inaugurated at a fare of Is
cents, the line prospered from the
start until the financial slump.
When patronage began falling
off, the fare was cut several
years ago and is now 20 cents
cash or 5 tickets for IS cents.
Further Decline
When the company abandoned
street car service to Chevy Chase
last fall and substituted bus Serv-
ice, the patronage of the coach
line rapidly declined.
Chairman Riley E. Elgen and
Vice Chairman Richmond B.
Keech, of the commission, declared
that recent checks by commission
investigators revealed the patron
age of the line on an all-day basis
has now dwindled to two persons
per bus.
They estimated the line is now
running at an annual loss of $10,-
900 per year, when compared with
revenues Of the more profitable
years.
Other Problems
At a meeting this afternoon
with transit company representa-
tives, the commission members
will call upon them to show cause
why the lines operation should
be continued in the face of its
present losses through competition
with the company's regular bus
service.
Commission members stated
that some of the buSSeS now run
ming cirtually empty on the de luxe
line could well be used in bolster
ing up service on the express line
running during morning and eve
ming rush-hour periods to Takoma,
and planned to take up this mat
ter with the company officials at
the conference.
Other problems due for discus
sion involve the progress of the
street car rerouting program, now
in progress.
The Washington times., 1936-03-16
Kind Lady Rescues
Boy Lost in Park

Bill Stamper, S. of 1921 G St.
N. E., was back safely in mammals S
arms last night after wandering
aimlessly through Potomac Park
during the afternoon.
A kindly old lady, who forgot
to give police her name, took Bill
to police headquarters. Police
contacted Bills mother and all
was set right again.
The Washington times., 1936-03-16
Trip Abroad Prize
In Girls Essay TEST

The night of May 10 will be
lucky for some girl student at
Immaculate Academy. That night
at the Willard Hotel, one of 20
winners in an essay contest will
receive, as first prize, a trip to
Europe.
Girls of the third and fourth
years of the high school have all
submitted their essays. The trip
is a gift from an anonymous
friend. Rev. John Cartwright is
completing the itinerary.
The Washington times., 1936-03-16
D. {. AUT0ISTS
UNITE FOR
BATTLE
Prepare to Garry Fight
to High Court on
ReVocations

Preparing to carry the fight
to the United States Supreme
Court. if necessary, more than
two-score District motorists have
joined the court action testing
the constitutionality Of tn e
powers of the District Board Of
Revocations and Reservations, it
was disclosed today.
Arguments on a preliminary
injunction to restrain the board
from suspending, for a 15-day
period, the automobile operators
permit of Calvin B. Hartman,
are scheduled to be heard before
District Supreme Court Justice
Peyton Gordon, today with the
possibility that many other
motorists similarly situated, will
ask leave to intervene.
Called Arbitrary
1t was revealed today by At
torney H. Mason WEIGH, who
filed the injunction suit, that a
large number of persons have
called his office and offered
funds to aid in carrying on the
fight against what is termed
the arbitrary action of the traf-
fic board.
These individuals have even
gone so far as to organize q COM
mittee to take concerted action in
the case, it was revealed and have
virtually assured the necessary
funds to further the court action.
Paul A. Dwyer, ITO Fourteenth
st. N. w., is the temporary chair
man of the committee. Mr.. Dwyer
made it plain that he is not in
traffic difficulties. but has ten
dered his services purely to facili-
tate an orderly organization OF
those who wish to coperate in the
court test.
Lack of Standard
In the petition filed by Welsh,
the complaint is made that the
Act of Congress giving the Dis
trict Commissioner the power to
revoke permits for whatever in
fractions of the traffic laws they
see fit, fails to provide a standard
to which the Commissioners must
adhere. This was one of the
prime legal points raised in the
famous Schechter Poultry case,
in which the United States Su-
preme Court invalidated the NRA.
One of those who have joined
the committee to test the law to-
day had this to say:
"I am not a traffic viOlatOr,
but as matter of principle,
wish to see this thing fought out
ON legal territory. / do not agree
that the best way to handle the
SO-called traffic problem here
is to require all automobile own
erS to keep their cars off the
streets, which is what the traf-
fic authorities seem to be doing.
GLAD TO HELP
Intelligent regulation of traf-
fic will solve the problem. 1t can
not be solved by depriving own
ers of the right to use their
property. think the present reg
ulatiOn is plainly arbitrary and
subject to many abuses, so 1 am
going down the line with the
resources 1 can spare for the
purpose, to see a court test on
the question"
Whether he will invite the mem
bers of the committee to formally
intervene in the current suit, Mr..
Welch would not say today, but
he expressed qualification when
told of the developments over the
weekend.
Such positive expressions of
sympathetic cooperation, will en-
able the test to be made without
hardship on the petitioner, he
said.
The Washington times., 1936-03-16
Speeding, Second Offense

SpccUAHS1 SccONu O11cnSc
James Duncan, 113O Fifth st.
N. w., SIS.
Edward Long, 3OS Tenth st.
S. E., SIS.
Glen B. Craig, 63S C st. N. E..
$40.
Arthur E. Green, 4417 J st. N. E.,
$40.
Speeding, First Offense
Pat Frank, 4224 Sixteenth St.
N. w., $40.
Clyde S. Cooley, Maryland, SIS.
Wales c. Vernon, Potomac, Va,
SIS and $40. two convictions.
Daniel Dooney, los Eighth St.
S. E., $40.
George Klotz, Maryland, $40.
The Washington times., 1936-03-16
NeagIe May Head Group

President Elmer F. Neagle, Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter of the
Rainbow Division Veterans, ex-
poets to lead a delegation of more
than 200 veterans to the national
reunion at Kansas City, to be held
July 13, IA and Is.
Evening star., 1936-02-02
Three Courses Facing Democrat
Insurgents i'm November Ballot

other kind of walk out" would be
merely to initiate what one distin-
guished Democrat did in 1896. After
Bryan had captured the party organi-
zation. had taken the nomination for
himself and written a free silver"
platform, a large number of Demo-
Gratis, as I have said. formed a third
party with separate ticket of con-
servative Democratic candidates for
President and Vice President. But
some Democrats then, like some DEM
ocrats now. were unwilling thus for
mally to separate themselves from
their party. They took refuge in the
course that was indicated by Demo-
cratic Senator Davis B. Hill of New
York. After Hill returned to New
York from the convention at Chicago,
a reporter asked him, Are you a
Democrat still?" Senator Hill replied
that he was "a Democrat still-very
still" So, in the situation that will
arise next June, one possible course
for Democratic opponents Of the New
Deal Is merely to walk out and re-
main still and silent.
In the present situation the final
step In decision comes, of course, in
November, depending on whether or
not the anti-New Deal Democrats
nominate third ticket. those of
them who oppose the New Deal can
either vote for the independent Demo-
cratic ticket. if 1t exists, or can vote
the Republican ticket: or they can.
to. return to ex-Gov Smiths figure
of speech, keep on walking on tour
so prolonged that they will not vote
on election day
Yet in so momentous a situation as
the present, it would seem futile
thing for Americans so eminent as ex-
Gov Smith to confine their partici-
patton in a great crisis to merely
taking a walk" In such condition
as the present, and from men SO
highly placed. something more than
mere silence seems likely.
copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-02-02
EVEREST ASSAULT
PLANNED BY GROUP
GrizzIed Mountain Climber
Defies Doctors to Seek
$4,000 Foot Goal.
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON. February Hugh Rutt-
ledge, grizzled mountain climber. will
lead an expedition up .29.000-foot
Mt. Everest soon, although doctors
have warned him he might die If he
reached an altitude of more than
1900 feet.
But Ruttledge is determined to
reach $4,000 feet, perhaps higher. AS
leader, he insists he must be ION the
Job when his younger colleagues
launch the final assault to the top
of the worlds highest mountain.
Members of the expedition estimate
it will take approximately Is hours,
fighting desperately every step Of the
way, to scale the last 1900 feet of the
Himalayan monarch and return to
the highest base camp.
The party will be equipped with
portable short-wave receiving and
transmitting sets. capable of sending
messages about 10 miles to one of the
base camps. Thence. they will be
relayed to Darjeeling, India, and then
flashed out to the world.
1t is planned to take the wireless
at least as high as base camp No 5
at 25,700-the highest land point ever
reached by a wireless station
They will set out from Darjeeling
about March IS, and expect to reach
the first base camp, $50 miles distant,
late in April.
Evening star., 1936-02-02

evening in the home of Mrs. August
F. Laufer, 635 M street northeast.
Bethlehem Chapter was entertained
with a program. as follows; Slections
by Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Palmer on
guitars, speciality tap numbers by
George and Ann Filgate. accompanied
on the piano by Mrs. Elsie Harvey
Weaver: pantomime, And the Lamp
Went Out" with cast of Mrs. Vir-
ginia Gray. Mrs. Mary Hinton. Mrs.
Mae Smith. Miss Reta Wilson and
Mrs. Irene Darnall; songs by Bennett
Jonscher, Edward Barham, Tom
Green. Billie Green and Claude
Pickens.
The Endowment Committee will
hold card party at Southern Diaries
February at 1880 pm.
Make reservations for the star point
banquet at the Continental Hotel,
February 8 by calling Mrs. Shirley,
Lincoln 7309-R.
The officers will meet at the temple
Wednesday at $50 pm. for q re-
hearsal with Mrs. Teachum.
Mrs. Vera Morris. matron o. Joseph
H. Milans Lodge Chapter, announces
the meeting Thursday evening In
Northeast Masonic Temple, when a
reception in honor of the grand ma
tron will be held
The Sunshine Committee will hold
. card party February 18 with Mrs.
Lula Smith, 429 Ingraham street, 8
o'clock.
The Past Matrons and Past Patrons
Association of Martha Chapter held
banquet at Mrs. KS Toll House last
Saturday. The following of1cers were
elected: Past Matron Emma Mason.
president: Past Patron Henry G.
Wonderly, vice president; Past Matron
Mabel r. Larcombe (re-elected), Sec
retary-treasurer.
Junior Past Matron Bertha johnson
and Junior Past Patron Charles E.
Miller were indicted by Past Matron
Emma Mason and degree team.
The Auxiliary Home Board will
meet February II at the home Of Mel.
lie Mae Anderson, $40 A street north
east. at 8 pm.
The chapter will hold reception In
honor Of Grand Master Otto Roepke
at Naval Lodge Hall next Friday.
Evening star., 1936-02-02
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South is declarer of a four-spade
contract. The king of hearts is
opened. and the ace of hearts con-
tinued. South ruffs the second heart
trick, and now realizes that once he
can exhaust the opponents trumps
he can run the rest of the tricks in
diamonds and clubs. Therefore he
goes right after them by the play of
low trump. He does not play ace
and small. because in the event that
either opponent holds four trumps, he
will be able to exhause all the declar-
er's trumps and run his hearts One
of the opponents naturally wins. and
undoubtedly plays club or diamond
Declarer takes this and now lays down
the ace of trumps. If both opponents
Evening star., 1936-02-02

principles which
all pls yers will
do well to follow.
For instance,
you are the de-
clarer. The OPEN
ing lead is made
and the dummy
is spread. Before
pl I'M g from
d u m m y, you
should study the
entire situation.
taking the bid
ding into account
and endeavor as
far as possible to
Evening star., 1936-02-02
u. S. IRON AND STEEL
EXPORTS SOAR IN 1895
3,O67, 1886 Tons Largest Since
Days of War-Japan and
Italy Best Buyers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department report
ed today that 1885 shipments of iron
and steel products we're the largest
since the World War.
The 1885 total of 3067336 tons
was 10000 over 1929, and it compared
with 2832,413 tons in 1894.
Scrap iron and steel accounted for
SO per cent of the 1885 total and in
creased IS per cent over 1924
Japan. Italy Canada. the United
Kingdom and Mexico, in that order,
we're the largest buyers of iron and
steel products.
Evening star., 1936-02-02

The Auxiliary Home Board Com.
mittee will meet at the home OF Ruth
Huntington Newcomer, 600 Keefe,
place. Tuesday evening
The Ways and Means Committee
will conduct a dance and card party
February II at the Brcadmoor Apart
ment.
Chevy Chase Chapters meeting
Tuesday evening will be devoted to
business.
The Ways and Means Committee
will hold its annual dance and card
party February 81 1T the Meridian
Mansions 2400 Sixteenth street. For
reservations for cards call Mrs. FELTON,,
Cleveland 1914.
The officers of Brightwood Chapter
will meet at the home of the patron
915 Hamilton street, Wednesday at
8 pm.
The next meeting will be February
13, mems night. when Brigntwood and
Stansbury Lodges will be special
guests and Valentine party will be
held.
st. Johns Lodge Chapter will cele-
brate its 22nd birthday anniversary
tomorrow at the temple. The honored
guests will be the grand matron, grand
patron, charter members Of the chap
ter and 1886 matrons and patrons.
The chapter will have charge of the
religious services at Masonic and
Eastern Star Home February 9 at
o'clock.
The Auxiliary Home Board OF Naomi
Chapter will hold a card party Tues
day at pm. at the home Of Mrs.
Maud Brenizer, 4600 Sixteenth street,
with Miss Anne Guilford and Mrs.
Mary Burke as assisting hostesses.
The chapter will hold a bingo party
Friday evening at Chestnut Farms
Dairy Auditorium, Twenty sixth and
Pennsylvania avenue. For details call
Mrs. Ruth Lawrence, District 5172.
Matron Julia Haslett announces
Lebanon Chapter will have Valen-
tine party at the next meeting. The
Lebanon Players will have charge Of
the entertainment and dancing.
A business meeting Of the Lebanon
Players will be held at Roosevelt High
School Wednesday evening.
The Star Point Society will meet
Thursday evening at the home Of
Mrs. Rae Carl. Hostess, IN addition to
Evening star., 1936-02-02
Nine Fined in Miami Raid.

MIAMI, Fla, February l GP-Four
alleged race horse bookmaking estab-
listments were raided and nine per-
sons arrested by police here yesterday
as they continued their drive against
gambling.
Those taken in custody we're fined
a total of 1925 last night in Municipal
Court. Four were convicted of oper-
atlng gambling equipment and five
were convicted of possessing gaming
devices.
Evening star., 1936-02-02
FEARING KIDNAPERS.
LONDONER ASKS GUARD
Keith Williams. Wealthy Pro-
moter, Tells Scotland Yard He
and Daughter Threatened.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 1.-Keith Will
liams. wealthy promoter. appealed TO
Scotland Yard today for protection,
asserting he and his 15-year-old
daughter had been threatened with
kidnapping.
He said a man had telephoned that
you and your daughter will be
bumped Off" and that another threat
ened to beat him One attempt was
made to kidnap him outside his hotel
last week, he asserted
Williams was accompanied by
bodyguard yesterday when a law suit,
in which he alleged he vas cheated
out of thousands of pounds at a FASH
ionable Mayfair gambling party for
charity was dismissed.
Evening star., 1936-02-02
WRONG HOUSE WRECKED
Workers Start to Tear Down
Building Next Door.

WORCESTER, Mass. February l
(P).-A wrecklng crew employed by
Clinton bank made a slight mistake.
Asked to tear down an abandoned
tenement house at 81 Nashua street.
they started to tear down a dwelling.
now unoccupied, at 35 Nashua street.
The roof was of yesterday before
bank official discovered the mistake.
Late in the day the crew began put
ting it back on
Both places are owned by the bank.
Evening star., 1936-02-02
Order of the Eastern Star

Zelda Newman, matron Of Trinity
Chapter. has been appointed grand
electa in the Grand Chapter, by the
grand matron.
Columbia Chapter will observe Mems
night on February 10. with members
of all Masonic bodies in the Mount
Pleasant area as special guests.
The choir has chosen Mrs. Bessie
Abbott as secretary and will meet to-
morrow at the home of Miss Ethel G.
Calvert. 1904 Thirteenth street, with
Mrs. Adeline E. Woods and Mrs. Helen
", Heizer assisting.
The Association of Past Matrons
and Past Patrons elected officers as
follows: Mrs. Mary E. Eppelsheimer.
president: DR.. Lyman F. Kebler, vice
president; Mrs. Antoinette L. Fischer,
secretary treasurer.
The Auxiliary Home Board has
chosen Mrs. Rose L. Hidde as vice
chairman, and Mrs Doris F. Cope as
secretary treasurer.
The Ofacers Club elected Mrs. Flea
nor Bartram as president; Mrs.
Frances B. Fritts, vice president: and
Mrs. Pauline G. Luxford, secretary
treasurer.
The Sunshine Committee chose
MIS-. Mae G. Clark as secretary-treas
urtr.
The annual dance and card party
will be held at Wardnian Park Hotel,
February 20.
Fidelity Chapter will meet next
Thursday.
A Dinso party will be held at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs Karl T. Berry,
min, 1911 Lamont street, Wednesday
ats pm.
Congress Lodge Chapter will meet
tomorrow evening. Matron Ella v.
Everett announces the degrees will be
conferred.
"A oingo party will re held Wednes-
day by the Home Board Committee at
THE Northeast Masonic Temple.
A rummage sale by the Ways and
Means will be held February 81.
The past matrons and patrons Of
Joppa Lodge Chapter met for dinner
at Sholl's Cafe on Fourteenth street
January as. After dinner the presi-
dent, Mrs. Bessie jackson, called the
meeting to order, followed by cards.
The degrees will be conferred IN
Areme Chapter next Wednesday night.
Evening star., 1936-02-02

CAMUEL TURCHIN, who earned his
way through Jamaica On. W
Teachers College by shaving his class
mates, last week turned out his first
three pioneers of his unique public
school barbering class.
It's at New York's East Side Con-
tinuation School, but We challenge the
statement that there's another class
in the shave-and-h haircut art in any
public school in the country. These
first three graduates of the class
Turchin persuaded the Board of Edu-
cation to let him undertake. by the
way, are just is, and already have jobs
as a reward for their two years of
trimming the hair and shaving the
stubbles from their own classmates
heads and faces.
For three hours day of these two
years. they studied the history, theory
and practice of harbering Their
class room has one genuine and six
makeshift barber chairs, Over the %
chairs for class room lectures hang
the inspirational signs visible in the
picture.
Turchin teaches. for the practical
side of the business, IL cardinal points
which he makes his students learn by
heart.
MY boys accept these ethical points
as gospel" he says That's why we
may be starting an era of better bar
bering."
Evening star., 1936-02-02
WIFE DEFENDS SHOOTING
Denver Girl Says She Did Not
Intend to Kill Husband.

DENVER February / CP).-Mary
Elizabeth Smith. IS, charged with
numbering her husband, Robert. 10.
said on the witness stand Yesterday
she didn't mean to- shoot him.
She cried as she related she and her
husband we're married after they
learned she was expecting baby
In her statement to police. she said
she shot Smith last November because
he started suit to annul their marriage
and she feared it would deprive the
baby of its legal name.
Evening star., 1936-02-02
Actor Succumbs at IS.

NEW YORK. February [P).-Seth
Crane, IS, actor and singer. died yes
terday at hospital. His career began
in 1874 as a member Of John Stetson's
American MINISTRIES. Later he played
and sang in several comic operas with
the Johr Templeton company.
Evening star., 1936-02-02
THREE BURN TO DEATH
Mother, Son and Girl Victims of
Flames in Miami.

MIAMI, Fla. February tFD.-A
mother. her 7-year-old son and a
5-year-old girl we're burned to death
last night when fire destroyed a ga
rage apartment here.
The victims were identified by police
as Mrs. Evelyn Anderson, 25. Atlanta.
Ca; her son, Billie. 7. and Joan Her.
bert, 5, daughter of Mrs. Margaret
Herbert, also of Atlanta,
Evening star., 1936-02-02
SCION OF WOOLW WORTHS
BACKS MUSICAL COMEDY
James P. Donahue, Cousin of
Countess Haugwitz-Reven
to Assemble Broadway Cast.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February l.-James
P (Jimmy) Donahue. scoin of the
Woolworth family and cousin of
Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Revent-
low, was disclosed today as Broad
ways newest angel"
Louis Shurr. theatrical agent, an
nounced that Donahue would come
here from Palm Beach in a few days
to begin assembling cast for The
Felix Ferry Revue" musical comedy.
The young millionaire will foot the
salary bills for such players as Lupe
Velez. Dixie Dunbar, Hal LIE Roy and
the Yacht Club boys.
Donahue recently was escorted out
of Italy after he leaned out a hotel
window in Rome and yelled viva
Ethiopia
He explained he didn't think he
would be taken seriously"
Evening star., 1936-02-02
NO-TRUMP and suit declarations

NO-TRUMP and suit declarations
generally present different prob
lens in planning your campaign. At
no trump your most frequent problem
is to establish the low cards in your
own long suits, before the opponents
have time to establish enough low
card tricks of their own to defeat your
contract. The general rule is to at
tack that suit in which you have the
best chance to develop the greatest
number of tricks.
For example spade is opened
against your three no-trump contract
and you win the trick. You hold four
diamonds to the oueen-lack and four
clubs to the ace Dummy holds four
diamonds to the king and four clubs
to the king. Your problem is whether
to play diamonds or clubs.
The answer. of course. is to play
diamonds. You must lose the first
diamond trick and, having lost it,
there are two certain and three prob
able tricks in the suit. Ii other words,
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set up in diamonds In clubs you can
win the first two leads and lose the
third. whereupon you should expect TO
make the fourth In other words, you
have only one trick to set up in clubs
AT SUIT play. your first consider
alton must be the trump suit.
The principal point to remember Is
or not you can afford to draw
trumps. The oldest bridge story of
them all concerns the gentleman walk
ing the streets of London with no soles
to his shoes because he forgot to draw
trumps. If you can afford to draw
trumps as the first step in making your
contract. it is good policy to do so.
The following is an example of a
hand in which you should draw
tr,1n1pe
Evening star., 1936-02-02
SHIP LINE TO LIQUIDATE
State Refuses Aid to Scandinavia
America COMPANY.

America Company.
COPENHAGEN, February l LP).-
The Scandinavia America steamship
line, the only direct Danish passenger
connection with the United States,
has announced it would liquidate.
The decision followed upon an
nouncement by the ministry of trade
that the state would not aid the line.
Started in 1880, the steamship COM
pany already has scrapped three liners
and has been maintaining in service
one ship, the Frederick VIII.
Evening star., 1936-02-02

follow, the only trump out Is high
and declarer can now run down his
diamonds and clubs, letting the ruff
come whenever desired.
a MOTHER simple type of trump
play is the cross-ruff hand Here
declarer's problem is to make as many
of his trrmps separately as possible,
and his one hope is that the adver-
saries will leave that suit alone. The
following is simple cross-ruh
problem:
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