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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-14
Barclay On Bridge

3 and 8. At only one table did
the South player put his club @
on the first trick.
This caused the man in the
West. Edgar F. Tierney of Spring
field, Mass, to put on his think
ing cap''. Since the deuce had not
appeared, he knew that his part
ner did not have three cards. IF
he had, they would have been the
8, 8, and deuce, in which event his
partner would have played the
deuce. East therefore had either
doubleton consisting Of the 3 and
deuce, and was starting a high
low, or else the was singleton.
Consequently, West knew positive
ly that the declarer still held the
club 8 and possibly the deuce.
With this dependable reading,
Mr.. Tierney laid down the club A
and then followed with a third
club, which his partner ruffed.
The diamond A thereupon~set. the
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The Washington times., 1937-03-12
Easter FrOCkS
81 SO

Easter Bunny fans going to look darling in these
charming little acetate frocksI Many cute styles to
select from in fresh plain shades and prints trimmed
In white or contrasting colors. Sizes to 9.
Kann's-FOurth Floor
Evening star., 1937-09-23
THREE APPOINTED
TO c. j. LAW STAFF
Dr.. BiIIig, Shaughnessy and
Ryan Are Added to
Faculty..

Dr.. Thomas c. Bullig, senior at
torney with the Social Security Board
and former professor Of law at Duke
University and West Virginia, was
among three additions to the law fac
ulty of Catholic University announced
today by Rev. DR.. Robert j. White,
dean of the school.
The others are M. Quin Shaugh-
messy, senior attorney wish the Sc
curities and Exchange Commission,
and James F. Ryan, who returns to
Catholic after three-year absence.
A member of the PENNSYLVANIA bar
and the bar of the Supreme Court,
DR.. Billig also has served on the
faculties of Washington and Lee, Cor
nell, Ohio State and Northwestern
Universities. In 1884 he was ap-
pointed director of legal research for
the National Recovery Administration
and became senior legal analyst for
the Presidents Committee on Eco
nomic Analysis which prepared the
nnal review OF the accomplishments
of the N. R. A.
DR.. Billig will teach courses in per-
Sonal property and the administration
of decedents' estates.
Shaughnessy, who received his law
degree in 1882 from Harvard Univer-
sity, where he was member of the
Harvard Law Review and the Board
of Student Advisors, was an assistant
solicitor in the Interior Department
and was connected with the Recon-
struction Finance Corp, the Treasury
Department and the Petroleum Ad-
ministrative Board prior to his work
with the S. E. C.
He will teach graduate course in
problems in securities regulation.
Ryan is former professor at the
University of Iowa and De Paul Uni
versity. For many years he was a
practicing attorney in Davenport and
Dubuque, Iowa, and is graduate of
Iowa State. He will teach a course in
taxation.
Evening star., 1937-09-23

When Bode was found wandering in
Northeast Washington early last week,
he was carrying 1,494 in his pockets.
Investigations by police have revealed
that he had approximately $4,000 in
German bonds deposited in five banks
in New York City and Hoboken, N. j.
In addition, Bode is believed to have
possessed $4,000 in insurance annui-
ties and additional money in a deposit
box III another Hoboken bank.
BODIES body is still at the District
| Morgue. Police have been trying to
locate relatives, and they have received
many inquiries from persons who be-
lieved they are distant relatives, but
none established concrete proof, Capt.
Keck said today.
The sister named in the will was
Wilhelmine Brabetz; the brother, Fer
dinand Bode, and his two nieces,
Lisete and Martha Bode.
From BODIES bankers in New York
and New Jersey, police learned he had
worked as photographer in New York
and lived in rooming house in Ho-
boken until 10 months ago, when he
was forced to give up his Job because
! Of Ill health.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
LIBRARY BRANCH
MOVE REPORTED
City Heads May Seek Fund
in 1889 Budget for Ana
costa Site.

Reports that the Commissioners
will seek funds in the 1889 District
budget for the purchase of a site
for branch library in Anacostia
were circulated today at the District
Building.
AT the same time officials of the
Engineer Department ran into a diff
ficult problem when they opened bids
for construction Of the Petworth
branch library. for which funds were
provided in the 1887 and the 1898
fiscal year appropriation acts.
The officials found that the lowest
bid came from the Ross Engineering
Co. of this city, which offered to do
the work for $4,000, but this firm
submitted no bid for an alternative
proposal under which the cost of
furnishing the building would be left
to separate contract. The Lacchi
Construction Co. of Baltimore sub
mitted a bid totaling sl89.427. There
were u bidders in all.
District officials said it might be
several days before they would know
hnally who was, in fact. the lowest
bidder, or whether it would be neces-
sary to readvertise for bids, unless
it be found that the Ross Co. in
tended to include the cost of the
furniture in its offer, even though
it did specifically SO state under the
alternative proposal.
Congress appropriated s75,000 to
start construction of the building
in the act approved June %, 1886.
and at the last session, when ap-
propriating s105,000 to complete the
building, raised the authorized total
cost from s150O0O to $3.50, 900, be-
cause of the increased cost of labor
and materials.
The Board of Trustees of the Free
Public Library has urged the Com
missioners to seek an appropriation
OF s15,500 for the purchase of the
site for the Anacostia Branch Ii
brary, which would serve Anacostia.
Congress Heights, Randle Highlands
and other southeast communities.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
w. M. SHEA RESIGNS
AS GARNETT'S AIDE
Assistant U. S. Attorney Had Held
Post 10 Years-Is Praised
by Official.

The resignation of Walter M. Shea.
an assistant United States attorney
for the past 10 years. was announced
today by United States Attorney Les
lie c. Garnett. Shea will enter private
practice here.
Mr.. Shea was one of the most
capable members of my staff and rem
dered very valuable service to the
Government" Garentt said. "He has
lost only one case since I have been
district attorney"
Shea has represented the Govern.
ment in all war risk insurance suits
brought here since February, 1882.
disposing of approximately 500 cases
with loss of only two. Those two now
are on appeal. This record is the best
established by any Government at
torney in the country engaged in
similar work.
Entering the district attorneys Of
flee April. 1924. as secretary to Justice
Peyton Gordon, then United States
attorney, Shea was appointed an as
slstant in 1927. Because of the ma
ture of his work in recent years, in
1885 he was made special attorney
OF the Justice Department. retaining.
however. his position on the district
attorneys staff.
Born in Chillicothe. Ohio, Shea
studied at the University of DAYTON
and later at Georgetown University
Law School, where he was graduated
IN 1925. He is married, has three
children and lives at 1922 Van Buren,
street. His new law Offices are in the
Denrike Building.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
SUIT CHALLENGES
BUSINESS TAX AS
INTERSTATE LEVY
n. W. Berry Asks Injunction
to Halt Collection by
D. C. Officials.
FEARS PROPERTY LOSS
WITHOUT DUE PROCESS
Plaintiff Cites Power to Prevent
Violator From Engaging in
Future Enterprise.

Pending in District Court TODAY was
suit brought late yesterday to test
the constitutionality of the Districts
new business license and gross re-
ceipts tax
Filed by Howard W. Berry. adyer-
tlsing man, the suit asked that local
ofhclals be entoined from collecting
the levies.
. Through Attorneys Richard L. Ted
row and William Cogger, he contended
tne tax imposes burden on interstate
commerce and provides for taking of
property without due process of law.
Five Days to Reply.
The suit was directed against tts
District Commissioners, Collector of
Taxes Chatham Powers and A. F..
Brooke, director of gross receipts tax
collection. Notice was served on them
to fine within five days their reply to
motion for temporary Injunction.
which accompanied the suit.
Berry told the court that even
though his business involves interstate
commerce, the tax collection officials
will force him to pay $40 business
license fee and a tax of two-fifths of
l per cent of the gross income of a
partnership of which he was a member
during 1886.
The law provides for the retroactive
tax on 1886 receipts.
Quit Partnership in January.
During that wear Rep~v r1oi,,tod as,
he was a member of the partnership
OF Spangler and Berry, but on January
3, 1897, his partner. Ralph Spangler,
took over the entire business and Berry
established the Howard w. Berry Ad-
vertlsing Agency, with Offices in The
Star Building.
He said he was uncertain whether
the retroactive tax will be levied on
him or his partner or both for the
1886 business.
Should he be required to pay it, he
could not do so, he said, and the Com
missioners then would have authority
to prevent him from engaging in busi-
ness, thus depriving him of his prop
erty without due process of law, he
stated.
Pointing out that the statute pro-
vides no method for a tax refund
should it be declared invalid, he said
he would be irreparably damaged II
required to pay the levy.
II he refuses to pay, he declared.
ne also will be subject to criminal
prosecution.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
CHURCH OF EPIPHANY
OFFICERS CONFIRMED

Appointment Of new officers of the
Laymens League of the Church of
the Epiphany were confirmed last night
at meeting of the league in the parish
house, at 1877 G street.
The officers include T. M. Medford,
secretary; E. E. Thompson, delegate
to the general Episcopal Conference;
Vernon NJ Green, treasurer, and r. F.
Daw, L. w. Cook and c. H. Ourand,
members of the Executive Committee.
The league was addressed by the Rev.
ze Barney T. Phillips, rector of the
church and chaplain of the Senate;
Gen. Albert Cox, chairman of the Red
Cross Speakers Committee: and
George w. Beatty.
Beatty outlined program for fu-
ture meetings, including addresses by
Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington cor
respondent of the London Times; Arno
B. Cammerer, director of the National
Park Service, and Representative Sol
Bloom of New York.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
Police Find Ragged Wanderer
Left Will for $4,000 Estate

A will disposing of the thousands of
dollars in bank deposits and insur-
ance annuities of Herman Bode, the
malnourished wandered who died in
Gallinger Hospital last Saturday night
refusing to give any details of his past
life, was discovered by Washington
police today.
The will, which appointed Adolph
Meyer of Hanover, Germany, as ex-
ecutor, was found in one of four pieces
of baggage which arrived at police
headquarters today from New York.
1t was dated April "a, 1928, according
to Capt. Ira Keck, assistant chief of
detectives, who read its contents to
reporters.
Capt. Keck said it specified that all
Bodies real and personal property
believed to be valued at nearly $20,-
o00-be equally divided between a
sister, brother and the two daugh-
ters Of another brother. In naming
Meyer as executor, the will allowed
him 5000 and expenses for the ad-
ministration of BODIES last testament,
and specified that no bond should be
required.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
Young Aduenturers Thumb
Wrong Car; School Break Ends

The broadcast from Hartford head
quarters asked police of the Con-
necticut capital to look out for two
youths. one of them IS feet inches
tall, las pounds, age IA"
1T will be easy to spot him." ,Rinke
thought. He was driving his own car
to the ninth precinct station to 60 on
duty at midnight when he heard the
description.
While officer Willard A., Fiefelo
drove the scout car about, Rinke kept
his eyes peeled. There was nothing
in the Hartford broadcast to indicate
the two boys were coming through
the District, but Rinke believes in be-
ing prepared. So when he. picked up
the two, he asked: -
Aren't you boys from Hartford?'
"Yes, sir, but how did you know"
They are resigned to going back to
Hartford and school.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
Lowered Tariffs Hit.

Representative Martin, Republican,
of Massachusetts,, filed vigorous pro-
test with the Committee for Recipro-
city Information today against the
lowering of duties in the Czechoslova-
kia treaty.
Increasing of foreign importations
at this time, he said, would make de-
serted villages and towns in New Eng
land" He specially mentioned the tex
tile, shoe, jewelry and silverware in
duStrieS.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
king WILL CONFER
. ON D. c. PROBLEMS
Head of Senate Compittee
Will Talk With Sultan
and Seal,

| A preliminary conference with Dis
! trict officials on local problems likely
to come before the next session OF
Congress was planned for today by
Chairman King of the Senate District
Committee.
Before leaving tomorrow for Hawaii
the Senator wants to go over the
Districts probable legislative needs SC
the Commissioners and their aides
can be working on an outline of legis-
lation while he is away, the Senate
chairman explained.
With that purpose in view. he
expected to meet at noon with Engi-
neer Commissioner Dan 1. Sultan and
Corporation Counsel ElWood Seal. The
Utah Senator expects to be back by
November /. He is a member of a
delegation of about 20 Representatives
and Senators that will study the
Hawaiian government and proposed
changes, including the advisability of
comforting statehood.
The future course of taxation in
Washington after this year looms as a
major local issue for the next session,
King pointed out, and probably will
figure in today's conference. When
Congress recently imposed approx
mately 100000 of new taxes on
District residents, it recognized the
temporary and emergency nature of
the tax program by providing funds
for survey during the recess to form
the basis for revision when Congress
reconvenes. The gross receipts tax on
business and professional groups, for
example, was made a one-year levy in
anticipation of renewed study of the
whole tax structure next year.
Senator King said also he still is
in favor of legislation that would in
crease the general powers of the Com
missioners over municipal affairs.
This has been advocated by King for
number of years.
A variety of local bills that were
pending but not passed during the
recent session should be considered by
the Commissioners in outlining a pro-
gram for the next session, the Senate
chairman added.
The Senator also is interested in
the housing facilities of the school
system and expects to make personal
inspection of school buildings either
before his departure, or shortly after
he returns.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
Generations of Dogs Get LOS
Tested in Search for 'Brains''
Agriculture Department Trying to Find
Out Ho,u to Breed Smart Shepherd
ers in BeItsuiIIe Experiment.
By a Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
BELTSVILLE, Md, Sept. 23.-What
makes dogs act as they do? Why is
one smart and another stupid; one
gentle and another vicious; one a good
sheep-herder and another simply bored
by sheep?
The Agriculture Department is seek
ing the answers in experiments with
dogs of various breeds and cross
breeds at the National Agricultural
Research Center here.
Results OF. the experiments, it is
hoped. will enable the department to
tell farmers how to breed better sheep
herding dogs, and reveal valuable in
formation about the inheritance of in
telligence, temperament and special
traits by animals in general.
The experiments involve mating
dogs of different breeds, some with
similar and some with varying domi-
nant characteristics, and then keep
ing a scientific check on the intelli-
gence and inherited traits Of the off,
spring through several generations.
Started 2 Years Ago.
The work started nearly two years
ago with importation of five pure bred
Hungarian Pull sheep dogs. famous
in Europe for their smart shepherding
of sheep flocks. These have been mated
with a German shepherd or police dog,
working collie, chow and a scottie.
Will the combination of two shep-
herding strains in the Puli-German
shepherd and the Puli-collie offspring
produce a sheep dog superior to either
of its parents? Or will other traits of
the chow and scottie perhaps help to
produce still better dog for the pur-
pose?
DR.. w. M. Dawson, in charge of
the project, said the experiments
have not gone far enough yet for
any definite conclusions to be reached.
A simple test serves to compare
the intelligence and learning ability
of the parent dogs and their offspring
Dawson checks the length of time
it takes to train the different dogs
to lie down at blast upon a me-
chanical whistle. and to arise at two
blasts. This obedience to signals is
important in sheep dogs.
Smart Ones Need Five Lessons.
He also keeps a close check on
the differences in temperament of
the cross-bred offspring. More COM
plete tests probably will be worked
out, he said, to provide for compre-
hensive "psycho-analysis" of the dogs.
The smartest, most responsive dogs
learn to lie down promptly at the
sound of his whistle after from five
to eight lessons, Dawson said, while
some of the least intelligent have
failed to learn this simple trick in
18 tests. Three pups from a Chow
mother and Hungarian Pull father
were found 10 be very intelligent,
while two others of the same litter
we're among the most stupid tested
so far
In training a dog to lie down auto
matically at the whistle signal, Daw-
son first blows his whistle and points
Evening star., 1937-09-23

Two young adventures from Hart
ford, Conn. who said they were on
their way to Texas for the life of a
cowboy, thumbed a ride early today
and got action from police squad
car going slowly by them at Rhode
Island avenue and Eighteenth street
northeast. However, the officers in
the car merely took them to the
Receiving Home, where they are stay
ing until word comes from Hartford
to send them home.
Jack Allen Hyfield and Lloyd Chris
terson, the boys who heard the call
Of the plains, probably would be we'll
down in Virginia if. Henry Rinke, the
non-driving policeman in the scout
car, had not heard earlier in the eve
ming q police radio broadcast meant
for the officers Of Hartford.
Evening star., 1937-09-23

to the ground. with a hand in which
there is a piece of meat which he
has let the dog smell. Generally he
has to push the dog and force it
down on the first few tests The dog
learns that to get the piece of meat
it has to lie down at the signal. This
becomes a habit-establishe what the
psychologists call a conditioned reflex
There now are as dogs housed in
modern kennels at the Research Gen.
ter They drink gallons of milk
and eat 80 pounds of beef a day.
The food is carefully measured, the
amounts varied from time to time
and records kept of how the dogs get
along on different amounts of food
Evening star., 1937-09-23
$4,000 ALLOTTED
| FOR CREEK BRIDGE
Span Across Stream South
of Taft Bridge Is Now
Assured.

Construction of new bridge across
Rock Creek south of the Shoreham
Hotel and near the Taft Bridge was
assured today when the National Park
Service, Interior Department, an
nounced the ALLEGATION of $4,000
additional for the project out of cur
rent roads and trails funds. through
A. E. Demaray. the acting director.
With this supplementary fund a
total of $4,000 now is available,
some $4,000 having been allocated
last year. The project has been held
up due to lack of funds and considera-
ton of plans by the Branch of Plans
and Design. National Park Service
and the Bureau of Public Roads of the
Department Of Agriculture, which su-
pervises road construction for the park
group.
Engineers Complete Draft.
Engineers of the roads bureau have
just placed in official channels the
final draft of plans for the new
bridge. This must be approved by the
chiefs Of the Bureau of Public Roads
and the National Park Service as
we'll as the Fine Arts Commission
When the plans have run this gamut
the Bureau of Public Roads will be
ready to advertise bids for construc-
tion.
Park officials are hopeful traffic
can be maintained in Rock Greek
Valley during the bridge construction
by moving the old bridge from its
present line to enable motorists to
use it while the new bridge is being
built at the present site.
Bids to Be Asked.
The Bureau of Public Roads pro-
poses to advertise soon for bids for
grading the new highway which will
connect Columbia Island and the
Arlington Memorial Bridge with the
Lee Boulevard, near Fort Myer. Va.
An oNerpass now is under construction
spanning the railroad tracks that lead
to Rosslyn in the line of the Lee
Boulevard connection, and when this
work is sufficiently advanced a fill
will be laid down as a rpadbed for
the new highway. Temporary sur
facing will be placed on the highway
until the fill settles. Work is pro-
crossing on the new bridge at the
northwest corner of Columbia Island
across Boundary Channel.
Due to lack of funds in this years
appropriation, work will be DELAYED
on placing an extra span in the Key
Bridge at Rosselyn to provide an
underpass in the George Washington
Memorial Parkway.
When the new span is built at Key
Bridge a highway connection will
be made with the Lee Boulevard,
officials declared.
Evening star., 1937-09-23

Commissioners. took full credit" for
making the appointment, insisting it
was not case of "nepotism" He said
"the colonel had nothing to do
with it,
Hazen said Miss Sultan had COM
pleted course in typewriting and
when he found she wanted Job he
suggested she file her application
with Fred D. Allen. District assessor,
who also is ex officio chairman of the
new board which will license and reg
ulate the real estate business.
After surveying her statement of
qualifications, Assessor Allen recon-
mended her for the post as one of the
two assistants so far appointed to the
staff of John A. Petty, commission
secretary. She will receive S1,44O a
year.
Under the wording of the real estate
act, the Commissioners were given au-
thority to employ or to remove en-
ployes of the commission "at their
pleasure" In the case of most ap-
pointments to District service. the Com
missioners must select from the eligible
lists of the Civil Service Commission.
Evening star., 1937-09-23

II e W ly- created
Di S trict Real
Estate Commits
sion, it was dis
closed today.
T he appoint
ment was made
last Friday, but
was not a n =
nounced by the
c o m missioners.
as is customarily
done with other
District appoint
ments.
Melvin c. Haz-
en-. president OF
the Board OF
Evening star., 1937-09-23
Dr.. Brown to Speak.

The Civic National Forum will be
addressed at $50 pm. Sunday by DR..
Roscoe c. Brown, specialist in the
United States Public Health Service.
at the Whitelaw Hotel, Thirteenth and
T streets.
His subject will be Modern Trends
in Health Conservation. The meet
ing will be open to the public. So
Evening star., 1937-09-23
CLERK DROPS DEAD
Vernon A. Harold Stricken on
Vermont Avenue.


Vernon A. Harold, 81, a clerk in
the selective service division of the
adjutant generals Office at Fort Hum
phreys since 1881, dropped dead early
today at Vermont avenue and street.
A native of Nebraska, Mr.. Harold
lived with friends at 1775 Lanier
place since coming to Washington.
He is survived by his father, George
Harold Of Filene County, Nebr., and
several sisters. They have been no
titled of his death
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said death. was apparently caused by
a heart attack
Evening star., 1937-09-23
PETERSBURG SEEKS
NEW RADIO STATION

v II iHiH EuUllSHeI S AppllCat1On
Being Considered by Communi-
cations Commission.
PJ the Associated Press.
A Communications Commission exam
iner today took under consideration
the competing applications of the
Petersburg (Va) Newspaper Corp.
and John Stewart Bryan. publisher
of the Richmond News Leader, for
authority to construct a new radio
station at Petersburg.
Hearings on the consolidated cases
were closed today after Bryan was
heard on behalf of his own applica-
tion.
The new station would replace the
service now given Petersburg by sta
ton WPHR, recently acquired by
Bryan and his associates, which will
be moved to Richmond and begin
operation soon as WRNL.