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Evening star., 1937-06-22
THOROUCHTRANS|T
PROBE PROMISED
House Subcommittee Will
Begin Exhaustive Inquiry
Thursday Morning.

The most exhaustive investigation
of the Capital Transit Co. since the
merger of Washington's mass trans
portation agencies was promised today
by Representative Dirksen, Repub-
lican of Illinois, member of the spe-
cial subcommittee of the House Dis
trict Committee which will conduct
the inquiry.
The investigation is scheduled to
begin Thursday at $50 am. and
probably will continue at least three
weeks
Representative Randolph, Demo-
crat. of West Virginia has been Sc
lected by Chairman Norton of the
District Committee to direct the
probe because of the thoroughness
with which he supervised the sensa-
tional crime investigation several
years ago. Dirksen, however, expects
to play prominent part. In fact,
it was at his insistence the District
Committee ordered the inquiry.
To Study Financial Structure.
All ramifications of the transit COM
pany from the time of the merger
are to be inquired into by the sub
committee. These include the finan-
cial structure, as we'll as rates and
service. Dirksen said developments
also may lead to study of the powers
of the Public Utilities Commission
you know" he declared, there
have been murmurs of dissatisfaction
with what the commission has done"
Dirksen said he is particularly anx-
ious that the minority stockholders
OF the company-those who live in
Washing ngton-"avail themselves of the
opportunity" to appear before the
subcommittee and express their views
as to what may be wrong with the
transit system.
He will urge the committee. how
ever, to approach the investigation
from four phases, in the order named
l. Interest of the public in trans
portation conditions.
&. interest OF the stockholders,
particularly the minority group, since
the North American Co. of New York
has the controlling interest
3. Interest of the employees.
4. Interest of the company in pro-
viding adequate service at reasonable
rates.
Dirksen Bills Basis.
The nucleus Of the inquiry will be
two of Dirksen's bills which Mrs Nor
ton has referred to the subcommittee.
One would abolish one-man car op-
erations. The other would fix the
maximum rate of bus and car fares
by congressional mandate at 7 cents.
Dlrksen said he is particularly anx-
ious that the subcommittee delve into
the companys financial structure. be-
cause he cannot understand why it
has been unable to pay any dividends
and provide better service at a lower
rate of fare.
The transit company has retained
E. Barrett Prettyman, former District
corporation counsel to represent it
during the hearings before the sub
committee. He already has gathered
data to submit during the course of
the inquiry.
Evening star., 1937-06-22

Poultry raisers OF nearby areas are
advised to bring their prize layers to
the Washington Zoo this Fall and let
them see egg laying that is egg-laying.
In late August DR.. William NJ Mann,
director of the Zoo will be back from
the Orient with strange little birds
that are half the size of chickens, but
lay eggs 10 times as large
They are called maleoe, and Dr..
Mann has just captured several in
Sumatra. according to word received
here. Maleo hens cover their i'm
mense eggs with mounds of earth and
then forget all motherly duties. A
young maleo breaks out of its shell
ready to fly and take care of itself.
The expedition has searched through
Evening star., 1937-06-22
Zoo to Get Birds That Lay Eggs
10 Times as Large as Chickens

the tropical isles of the Netherlands
East Indies. 1t is sponsored by the
National Geographic Society and the
Smithsonian Institution. Mrs Mann,
an animal expert in her own right,
is accompanying her husband, as are
two keepers from the Zoo, Malcolm
Davis and Roy Jennier.
Wild pigs, tree kangaroos, dwarf
buffalo, cassowaries, rare birds Of
paradise and huge pythons have al
ready joined DR.. Manns party. They
should enjoy it, for they eat from the
best equatorial bill of fare. A days
menu includes 700 bananas, sacks of
green grass, baskets of Indian corn,
papayas, bird seed and beans as well
as the usual Oriental dish of boiled
rice
Evening star., 1937-06-22
HURT
IN HELPING POLICE
CAPTURE FUGITIVE
J. M. Jamison Is Knocked
Down by Man Fleeing
in Wild Chase.
THREE PURSUED IN CAR
AT 80 MILES AN HOUR
Policeman Also Is Injured When
Motor Cycle Overturns After
Collision.

Jesse M. Jamison, 45, president Of
the District Firefghters' Association,
received severe head and shoulder
injuries early today when he was
Knocked down by a colored man
whom police were seeking to arrest
Evening star., 1937-06-22
Woman's Leg Broken in Leap.

Routed from bed by smoke from a
IRE on the first floor, Katherine Lee,
"a, colored, Of 81 F street southwest,
leaped from a second-story window
shortly before o'clock this morning.
Her left leg was broken. She was
taken to Providence Hospital The
fire was put out with slight damage
Evening star., 1937-06-22
Holiday Bill Introduced.

A bill fixing the observance of
New Year day, Washington's birth
day, Memorial day, the Fourth of
July and Thanksgiving day on the
nearest Mondays instead of on their
present dates has been introduced
in the Senate by Senator johnson,
Democrat, of Colorado. The measure
was referred to committee.
Evening star., 1937-06-22
NAVAL OFFICER DIES
Capt. Brantz Mayer Passes Away
in Merton, Pa.

Capt. Brantz Mayer of the Navy
Supply Corps died on Sunday at his
home in Merton, Pa, the Navy De-
partment today was advised, and while
funeral arrangements have not been
completed, interment is to be in An
napolis, Nd. He was 81 years old and
served at the department, in the Bu-
reau of Supplies and Accounts, from
1929 to 1888, when he was appointed
aide to the staff Of the commander
of the Battle Force.
The captain Is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Mary Kelly Mayer.
Evening star., 1937-06-22

after a wild chase
through do W n
town Washington.
Policeman A. j.
Kaskeski of the
Traffic Division,
also was injured
before one of the
fugitives, who de-
scribed himself as
James Sims, Is.
C ol lore d, ! s 0 0
block of Twelfth
street, could be
subdued.
Kaskeski an d
Policeman H. w.
,1foro
Evening star., 1937-06-22
$225,000 Plane Purchased.

Toxic Imperial University in Japan
has purchased a $225.000 airplane.
Evening star., 1937-06-22
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the Navy Band at the District
War Memorial in West Potomac Park
at 7:30 O'Clock tonight. Lieut.. Charles
Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, as
sistant.
Evening star., 1937-06-22

BY the United States Army Band
In the formal garden, Walter Reed
General Hospital, tonight at $50
o'clock. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, lead
er; Karl Hubner, assistant leader, con-
Quoting.
Evening star., 1937-06-22

BY the Soldiers Home Band in the
band stand at 7 o'clock tonight. John
s. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant.
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
OUR SECRET, SELF-MADE BARS

beginning, for = little while, we
are free.
"When you're a child" the
nurse said to Harriet, cts all
right, you accept everything.
You have almost nothing to put
between yourself and what's
around you. Later you think,
How ugly the world ISL After
ward that changes, tOO-and
then you don't see anything"
You start as you read these
words. thinking how deeply they
reveal what has happened to your
own spirit. For once you, too,
accepted everything" It h r
was almost nothing to put be-
tween yourself and what's around
you" no diStorting hate or grief
or fear. Once you, too, had the
bright, straight vision Of a happy
child whose eyes, as yet, have
known no film of sin or sorrow.
Then gradually the picture
altered. The scene itself was I'M
changed. The people and the
places were the same. But you
were different. You were no long.
er the innocent, trusting child.
Secretly your mind had created
things "to put between yourself
and what was around you" e. bars
>. bars Of sorrow, malice, conceit,
greed, envy, resentment.
WALLED IN
And slowly but surely these
self-imposed bars have walled you
in limited your outlook
warped and dimmed your vision
Think back examine your life
with ruthless honesty then
answer this question:
How often do you see people
or events clear and straight
without the diStorting shadow o.
suspicion? How often do you &C
cept life happily, truStingly, a!
you did hen you were a child
Bars. You have shuddered al
the pallid faces of maniacS peer
ing through barS. Did you evel
realize that you, too. are spend
ing your life behind bars? YET
NIGHT GO FREE ANY MO
MENT-IF YOU CHOSE!
This column welcomes and
requests comments. Letters
presenting personal problems
ndy also b. sent. All letters
tDiIl be handled confdentiGlIy
and GnStDered promptly If
stamped addressed envelopes are
ilcludedJ
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
| Syndicate. Inc.)
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that the PreSl' Sen. Z. X. Reynolds
dent will accept o compromise,
but he now has several Of his adj
visers busy sitting public reac-
ton to find just how the people
stand, and he will follow sound
public sentiment.
Reorganization: There won't be
any wholesale reorganization OF
the Government this session. Con-
gress will not turn over to the
President the Government agencies
it now controls and outside OF a
few minor shifts, it will stay just
like it is.
Relief: Congress will not go be-
yond the billion and half figure
recommends. by Congress, but it
might lower the figure in line with
an economy drive.
Taxes: Any plans under way for
new taxes or tax revisionS must
be delayed until the economy
move Is definitely outlined and the
relief bill is finally reported.
Adjournment: September looks
like the month. There is a lot Of
talk, however, Of dates from July
to october. One factor not usually
taken into consideration is that
group Of members now maintain
year-around homes in Washington
and they do not favor breaking
session up between July and Sep
TENDER.
At any rate, that's the way Sena
tor Reynolds thinks about these
problems.
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found the parallel. For many
decades back, the curve Of sun
spots jiggled up and down with
the curve of average stock prices
on all the bourses of the world as
if each had been responding to
the same coSmic baton.
That was all the scientists could
make Of it. AS to why storm
on the molten surface of the sun
should have anything to do with
our sudden yen to go out and
scalp an eighth, they had nothing
to say. They made an exhaustive
report, showing, all the curves, en-
tombed it in Harvard Quarterly
and, presumably, forgot about it.
But, nearly two years later, two
maverick news stories, struggling
into the news corral, total
strangers to each other so far as
the news desk was concerned.
again raise the ghost of the Har-
ward report. On April %, the
stock market dived right over q
cliff. It was distinctly an inter-
national collapse; in England, it
marked the most serious financial
debacle Of years. There were four
days down in the slough, and the
market has since been just limp
ing along.
SUN.MONEY CURVES
And at the end of that four-day
period there was another, quite
possibly irrelevant but certainly
interesting bit Of news. Out Of a
clear sky-that'S what you need
if you are a Sun-Spot kibitzer-Dr.
A. G. McNiSh, Of the Carnegie In
stitution, and DR.. r. S. Richard
son, of the Mount Wilson ObServa-
tory, reported cataclysmic mag
netic storms on the sun and a
general all-around angry solar
kick-up which-we're not quoting
the above scientists here-coin-
cided with the stock market hee-
bie-jeebies.
The "long arm of coincidence"
would reach that far, Of course:
but going back to the Harvard re-
port, there Is another detail to be
noted. The Harvard researchers
pegged ultraviolet ray radiation as
a dependable and discernible re-
flex of sun-spot activity. Their
curves of the last decade or so
paced stock prices to the ultra
violet ray, with the latter put
down as a sun-spot derivative.
A week after their first report
on the solar storms, Drs. McNish
and Richardson explained that
the ultraviolet rays have pro
nounced effects on mundane at
fairs - upsetting telephone and
radio communications, bedeviline
ship and airplane compasseS and
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invisible, Selt-lmpoSed bars Of her
own grief and fear.
By day, by night-even when her
first, desperate raving had ceased
and her body had returned to
seeming Sanity-the shadow of
those invisible bars lay upon her,
walling her in, dimming and dis
torting her vision of life.
To escape from the asylum
barS-that, in time, proved a COM
paratively easy task. But to escape
from herself to cast off the
invisible bars of her own delu-
sion to see life straight again
and unshadowed that was in
finitely more difficult. Yet, until
it was done. she could never be
really free.
FIRST NOVEL
A woman, young, warm with
life, struggling to rise out Of the
grave she has made for herself
struggling to come back to
normal peace and happiness
that is the theme around which
MILLEN BRAND has written his
great first novel, 1.-THE OUT.
WARD ROOM" just published by
Simon and Schuster. A tremen.
dous book (Read it. You need it,
AS simple as a Scalpel-and as
ruthless in its probing. A frigl-ten
ing book. because it bares not only
the secret Of one darkened mind
but Of all
Your secret and mine, as well as
Harriet Demuth'S. For we, too
see life through bars Self-im
posed bars which dim and diStort
our vision. And our life, too, is one
long struggle to free ourselves
| from our self-made cells. In tht
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The Human Side of the News

of the spectrum, also touched off
by rampant sun spots. he wouldn't
want to get singed again and
would stay out of the market. and
would thus depress prices. But
somehow it doesn't seem quite
convincing.
I had an opportunity to examine
the Harvard sun-money curves in
minute detail. One puzzling thing
about them was the revelation
that it was the really planetary
financial, business and economic
curves which showed the closest
correspondence to the solar dis
turbances. The savants ignored
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-11
SCHOLARLY

Senator Ebert D. Thomas Of
Utah, a scholar, in commenting on
Mothers Day and woman's place
in this world, puts it this way:
"Sad to relate, man, In his
muddy thinking, deemed educa-
ton bad for women, because the
only women he knew who
were capable Of getting an edu-
cation were those who slipped
to the level outside the ordinary
circles.
There have been exceptions.
But they were few and far be-
tween.
cit has been q mans world.
Woman has had q place for
worldly h0nOrs, and when chiv-
airy ruled the thoughts Of men
and knights were bold, women
were fought over. In ancient
Troy, and times since, they have
been the cause Of war.
women have always been
worth fighting for. And ever
since Adam left the garden to be
with Eve, men have done many
things for their women: or, to
state 1t differently, women have
done queer things with their
men,"
I said he was a scholar.
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instruments for electrical meas
urement, causing food shortages
and, to a certain degree, affecting
the human organism. The bodily
effects are in eye trouble and in
the burning of the skin.
That doesn't bring us much
nearer a rational correlation Of
stock prices and sun spots, except
for one consideration. If violet
ray radiation is bad for the eyes,
a big-time speculator might mis-
read the tape on a bad sun-Spot
day, and make a lot Of losing bets.
Or, if he had his skin burned by
the infra-red rays at the other end
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-11
American Red Cross

THIS city glad to have in its midst the two thousand
delegates to the annual convention of the American
Red Cross.
These delegates represent great humanitarian move
ment with ramifcations which are world wide.
Their presence here honor to the National Capt.
ta in which is located the busy headquarters of the
ganzation.
The convention of the Red Cross is particularly in
eresting to Washington this year because of the
features of the gathering will be the honorng of of
the city's outstanding women-Miss Mabel T. Board
man.
Thrty-seven years ago Miss Boardman entered the
service of the American Red Cross as volunteer
worker.
As secretary of the organization she is still one of its
most active members.
It is for this lengthy valuable and honorable service
that the delegates gathered here paying honor to
Miss Boardman
It is pleasure for Washington to be able to join in
paying tribute to Miss Boardman whose excellent civic
record is well demonstrated by her work not only with
the Red Cross, but Commissioner of the District
of Columbia.
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By Edwin C. Hill

sharp ups and downs on any SIN
gle exchange, which might have
been caused by manipulation, and
so compounded q curve which was'
as nearly as they could make it. q
register Of world conditions on any
particular day.
And it was this curve that the
sun spots, in their rise and fall and
their output Of ultraviolet ray
radiation, faithfully followed. And
the interesting thing about that
is-merely interesting and not evil
Dental, I insiSt-that this last
slide Of the stock market was
more distinctly Of planetary scope
than any we have had for a long
time.
It is to be noted from the Har-
ward report that Old Sol Is more
apt to get spotty when common:
ties are involved-they checked
previous commodity and business
curves back nearly 100 years, with
astonishing correspondence with
sun-Spot cycles. And this late April
slump was not only planetary but
it jolted commodities right down
to bedrock. From Johannesburg
to Bombay, through Budapest,
Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Paris,
New York and Shanghai, it ran
right around the world and
dumped copper, tin, zinc, nickel,
wheat and rubber.
Being just a railbird and an
amateur, so far as both stock
prices and sun spots are con
cerned, I have viewed all this
calmly, but the thing became q
hangnail in the days news and ]
wanted to talk to somebody about
it. A scientist friend told me the
Harvard inquiry was sound and
important, but that no scientist IN
the world would dare say sun
spots affected stock prices, or try
to explain why, If they do.
MAIN CONCEhN
Then I saw another friend, a
keen businessman who has been
Wall Street operator for years.
He was eagerly interested. as ]
told him Of the Harvard report
and the recent juncture Of sun
spot disturbances and the market
slump. He listened tntently'
Then he said:
"Can they predict sun storms?
Can they tell us in advance
about high or low ultra-viOleS
radiatiOn?"
Spots or no spots, EccleSiaSteS
was right when he said, There Is
nothing new under the sun" Some
of us just want to know, and some
Of us Just want to know how x
get a bet down. So it has beer
since the first cave man chiSelec
the first tablet Of the Human SidG
of the News.
We may range among the star
for q while, but we always CONF
back to our main concern-sIr
vival, the circumvention Of nature
whether we understand her or not
And Just think what Cagltostro
skinning Rohan and even shrewde
men with his fake alchemy, woul'
have done with this sun-spo
thing! Making his own use o
the Harvard report, he would hav'
peddled ultraviolet ray prediction
until the Spectators had nothInI
left to gamble with.
Copyright 1897. by King Features
! Syndicate. 1nA.O
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Marry Go Round
Bv Helen ROWLAND

that she was married 1OC Gae EeS6
of her natural life, seeks a divorce
because she finds that her natural
life came to an end at the altar.
At this time Of year, some women
have such a housekeeping complex
that they would not build a castle
in-spain without filling it with
kitchen shelves, vacuum cleaners
and plenty Of linen closets.
The average bridegroom would
understand more about love II he
could just forget a lot Of things
about it that he never should have
learned. ~
The girl who marries a reformed
woman-hater is taking an awful
chance: but the girl who marries
an untamed woman-charmer has
all the cards stacked against her.
The meanest thing that a
woman can do to the philandering
husband is to divorce him, and
thereby put him right back into
danger again.
After all, the old porch ham,
mock didn't crash into q telegraph
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-11
ON LOCATION

Permanent places have now been
found for the two Nebraska
statues. They are bronze likeness.
es Of William Jennings Bryan and
julius Sterling. Morton. For the
unwilling they were placed in the
rotunda Of the Capitol and inter.
fered with a full view Of one Of
the historical paintings.
The Bryan statue has now been
moved to Statuary Hall and the
Morton one to the corridor on the
House side, a floor below.
The Morton statue was so heavy
it had to be lifted up with block
and tackle, turned over on its side.
carried outside on the rotunda
floor, and then back in again on
the floor below.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-11
Wise Words

Ingratitude, my lord. is a nail
which driven into the tree of
courtesy, causes it to wither; it is
a broken channel, by which the
foundations Of the affections are
undermined; and a lump of SCOT,
which falling into the dish Of
friendship. destroys its scent and
flavor-BaStil.
Men learn while they teach
Seneca.
God warns his hands at mans
heart when he prayS.-MaSefleld.
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-
and the less
cock sure you
get about both
stars and hu-
mans. Several
years ago, Har-
ward University
teamed up its
aStr o n o m ical
a nd economic
IA c VI ties, as
previou sly re-
ported here, in
a search for a
possible paral-
lei between sun
spots and stock
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He says there
are five Ques-
lions Of para
mount import
ance In this
country today
50 far as Con-
greSS Is con-
cerned. His an
swers to them
run like this:
Court Plan:
C on gressional
mail shows In
terest Is lag
ring. There Is
no dication
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LITERARY NOTES

Marquis w. Childs, Washington
correspondent for the st. Louis
Post Dispatch. is the author Of
Washington Calling" novel on
Capitol politics, which reaches the
bookstands from the publishing
house of william Morrow & Com
pany, tomorrow.
Although it is fiction, it is a
timely story about the manner IN
which judicial appointments are
made and fits In nicely with the
present discussion of the Presi-
dents judicial reorganization
plan.
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It isn't true that you can alwaySff
spot q bridal couple. Some people

are polite to each other after years
and years Of matrimony.
The reason why it is so hard for
a man to win an argument win
his wife is because . woman sim
Div can't understand logic that
doesn't agree with the facts.
Nowadays, nearly every girl
bitches her wagon to q star "a
career, q profession, or a job, but
she wants q husband, too, to act
as q parachute.
Many q woman, who believed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-11

For S e v e n
years 81 n C e
the shock Of a
b e ! o v e d
brothers vio-
lent death had
bludgeoned her
into insanity
Harriet Demuth
had seen life
through bars.
The steel bars
Of an asylum.
And other bars,
crueler, tighter
than steel, and
casting blacker
shadows - the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-11
CONVINCED

In her best grand.lady manner
she boarded the Senate subway
car and said:
"Take me to the White House."
s'But this car doesn't 60 to
the White House." the operator
said. ....s
81 know better" she retOrted
iciIy. "DO what I told yOu.'
It looked like a deadlock, so the
operator ran over to the other
end Of the line under the Senate
Office Building. She looked
around, saw the track Just made