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Evening star., 1938-01-23
RATES
HEARINGS TUESDAY
Public Utilities Commission Nav
Order Reduction in Basic
Return.

Officials of the Public Utilities Com
mission yesterday completed arrange
ments for the public hearings Tuesday
on the rates to be charged this year
by the Potomac Electric Power Co.
under its sliding scale plan.
The commission has indicated it
may order a reduction of the basic
rate of return on an agreed valuation
from 6.5 to 6 per cent. II this is done
the consumer rate reductions for this
year may exceed 100000.
Each year since the sliding scale
plan was adopted for the power COM
pany, more than II years ago, there
has been reduction in consumer
charges. Suggestion that the basic rate
of return allowed the company be
reduced to per cent is based on the
fact that under court decision on
rate of the telephone company the
latter was allowed return of approxi-
mately per cent.
Final figures on the net return to
the power company during December,
and during the last calendar year, are
not yet available. These figures are
expected to be made public about the
time Of the public hearing Tuesday.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
.Ex.ENVOY DODD
TO SPEAK TONIGHT
Members of Panel for Session of
Town Hall at Rialto The.
ater Announced.

Members of the panel for tonight's
session Of the Town Hall of Wash
ington, at which William E. Dodd,
former Ambassador to Germany. will
discuss international problems, will be
the following:
Felix Morley, editor of the WASH
ington Post; the Rev. Edmund A.
Walsh, vice president of GEORGETOWN
University and dean Of the School of
Foreign Service: Miss Janet Richards,
lecturer, and DR.. Philip M. Brown,
former professor Of international law
at Princeton University.
The session will be held in the
Rialto Theater, beginning at S:15
o'clock.
The second half of the current
Town Hall lecture season will begin
next Sunday. when william c. De
Mile, motion picture producer, di-
rector and author, will be principal
speaker. His subject will be, Does
the Public Get What It Wants?"
Reservations for the remaining
lectures are being taken at the Town
Hall office, Room $50, National Press
Building
Evening star., 1938-01-23
CHARLES P. CLOSE
GUEST AT LUNCH
Veteran Of Agriculture Depart.
ment Is Honored by Group
of Associates.

Preparing to retire from the Gov.
eminent after ~ years in the DEPART
ment Of Agriculture, Charles p. Close,
senior extension horticultural, yester-
day was the honor guest of q large
group of associates at a luncheon
where he was presented with a set of
encyclopedias and . diamond set kew
from, Epsilon Sigma Phi Fraternity.
The presentations were made by A. B.
Graham and c. w. Warburton, director
Of extension service. Reuben Brig
ham. assistant director, presided at
the luncheon.
A native Of Michigan, Mr.. Close WAS
graduated from Michigan State Col
lege In 1895, and received the degree
OF master Of science in horticulture
there In 1897. He is a member of sev-
eral learned societies, and before en-
tering the Department of Agriculture
was engaged for several years in hor-
ticultural research and teaching in
Maryland Agricultural COLLEGE and
experimental Station and in similar
institutions elsewhere.
Mr. Close plans q trip to Scotland
this year to attend the Internat ational
horticultural Congress. His home is
In College Park.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
WORK 0NPOTOMAC
.[EVEE WILL START
Construction of Flood Con.
troll Project May Get Under
Way Tomorrow.

Preparatory work on the flood con-
troll levee. which will extend from
the Monument grounds to the Lincoln
Memorial. to complete the Capital
City's protection against ravages of
the Potomac. will be started this
week, probably tomorrow, the Office of
Maj. Walter D. Luplow, district engi-
neer for the War Department for the
Washington area, announced yester-
day.
First will come removal Of the wire
fence skirting the rear Of the Navy
and Munitions buildings and inclos-
ing the departmental parking lots A
field base and storehouse then will be
constructed. Footings for a concrete
retaining wall will be laid the entire
distance behind the two buildings.
The new levee will connect the Lin
coin Memorial terrace with the slope
OF the Monument grounds, thereby
cutting OF all possibility Of flood
waters reaching buildings in the heart
Of the city, especially as tide gauges
have been placed in all sewers since
rowboats drifted last on Pennsylvania
avenue.
Seventeenth Street Only. Gap.
Seventeenth street will be the only
gap in the flood-control works. It
would be necessary to sandbas this
thoroughfare in case of floods, it was
pointed out.
The levee at the Monument
Grounds will take the form of fiat
tened slopes and viii! be in the neigh.
borhood Of 600 feet wide to fit into
the landscape. 1t will be planted to
blend with the rest Of the park area.
1t will raise the present level feet
and will be virtually unnoticeable, en-
gineers said yesterday.
Behind the Navy and Munitions
Buildings the levee will be backed
on the north by a concrete retaining
wall so as not to restrict parking space
there. 1t will raise by feet the
level of the present temporary levee,
thrown up by c. c. c. workers two
years ago.
Work to Cost $136,5OO
Inc entire job will cost $136,500
and Is expected to employ at the peak
of the work 300 Works PROGRESS Ad.
ministration workers, getting 40 cents
an hour.
Engineers said yesterday the project
should be completed by June 80, the
end OF the current fiscal year. The
Monument Grounds section will be
completed by early spring, it is hoped,
so that it may be seeded.
The elevation Of the levees above
the low water will be 20 feet.
Mes nwhile. the engineer ofIice an
nounced work on the levees at Boiling
Field is progressing rapidly, and should
be completed in the spring.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
CHEST
FIXED TOMORROW
500 to Attend Annual Ses-
sion to Hear Reports of
Group Officers.

More than 500 representatives of
Government departments, labor unions
and various professional organiza-
tions have accepted invitations to
the annual meeting of the Community
Chest to be held at 8 pm. tomorrow
at the United States Chamber Of
Commerce Building. Reports of the
president, Clarence Phelps Dodge: the
director. Herbert L. Willette. jr., and
the campaign director. Randolph G.
Bishop. will be presented.
In addition to the annual reports,
the program will feature a dramati.
zation Of Chest work here, based on
actual episodes occurring in Wash
ingtons poverty-stricken areas. Den
mis- Connell, well known Washington
dramatist, will act as narrator, while
choral parts will be taken by Boy
Scouts. Girl Scouts and a double
quartet from the Twelfth Street Y.
M. c. A.
Representatives of the Y. w. c. A.,
Episcopal Hospital. Children's Hos
pital, Friendship House, st. Josephs
Home and School, the Jewish Com
munity Center and the Community
Chest also will appear in the sketch
directed by Miss Rita Beuchert Of
the Blackfriar's Guild Exhibits OF
charts from the Council of Social
Agencies and photographs from the
Washington Housing Authority will be
on display.
Last week, volunteer Chest speakers
began a series of personal visits tc
welfare agencies with the view to OBJ.
tanning rst-hand information regard
ing the needs of the city in prepara-
ton for the campaign next fall. Miss
Lydia Burklin, head resident OF
Friendship House, where the speakers
paid their first call, told the grour
Of the work Of the settlement in car
ing for many families who otherwise
would be forced to apply for relief
elsewhere. She pointed out that the
work of the settlement is reducing
juvenile delinquency in the area.
Their next visit will be with the
officers of the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society Thursday, when they
will hear talks by Miss Gertrude
Bowling, director of the visiting nurses
and Ray Everett, director Of the So
cial Hygiene Society.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
SCENES OF EUROPE
Color Lantern Slides to Be Shown
Wednesday Night.

Scenic gems from Europe may be
viewed free by the public in illus
trated color lantern slides, which An
ton Baumann, German lecturer and
traveller. will show at 3 pm. Wednes-
day in the Departmental Auditorium,
Constitution avenue and Thirteenth
street NV, under auspices Of the
National Park Service,
While some American scenes will be
shown, the collection is devoted main
" to glimpses Of Germany, Hungary.
Csechoslovakia. Sweden, Scotland, Ice
land, spitzbergen, LApland, Norway,
YugoslAvia, Turkey, Caucasus, Italy,
Corsica, svitserland and Greece.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
Vivisection Bill Up.

A bill to prevent vivisection Of AMI
mab tn the interest Of science will be
considered by the Subcommittee on
Public Health. Hospitals and Charities
Of the House District Committee
Thursday at 10 am. The meeting
was called last night by Representative
Jenckes. Democrat, Of Indiana, the
subcommittee chatham.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
THOMAS HITS FEDERAL j..
PROPAGANDA STATES
New jersey Republican Expresses
Belief $4,000, 900 Is Being
Spent Annually.

By the Associated Press.
Representative Thomas, Republican
OF New Jersey expressed belief ves.
terday ths administration Is spending
$50 200 annually to maintain "the
largest staff of paid propagandists
known to American Government"
We can never have economy and
lower taxes in government until We
have some semblance of sanity" he
said IN statement. "They 20 hand
In hand. And, we can never have any
semblance Of sanity until We rid our
Government Of the New Deal bubble
blowers"
He said every alphabetical agency
had . publicity stan Of from 4 10 IL
persons. =
Evening star., 1938-01-23
SHOT CLEANING GUN
Man, 20, Treated at Hospital for
Wound in Arm.

Accidentally shot while cleaning q
shotgun, William T. Wilson, 20, Of
1875 Potomac avenue Sc, was treated
at Casualty Hospital late yesterday for
. wound In his right forearm.
Police reported Wilson was shot
while IN the front room Of has homs.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
CONNOLLY REELECTED
Again Heads New York State
Democratic Club Of Capital.

Peter J. Connolly, administrative
assistant in the solicitor generals
office of the Post Once Department,
has been reelected president Of the
New York State Democratic Club of
Washington.
Other officers are Mrs. Eva Steiner,
first vice president; Leonard Klotz,
second vice president; D. N. Theodore,
third vice president; Frederic Frost,
recording secretary; Dorothy Misner,
financial secretary; Betty Ruth, treas
urer, and Dorothy M. Ebert. sergeant
at arms.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
Land Given to Tenants.

President Cardenas of Mexico has
distributed over. $4,000, 900 acres of
land to tenant farmers In the isst
three years In his land distributor
projecte
Evening star., 1938-01-23
Car Hangs on Precipice.

A car containing three. men skidded
IS yards on q curve in the Alps Of
Switzerland and stopped with two
wheels ovsr . loo-foot prectpics.
Evening star., 1938-12-25

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20
Gambler, Crack Passer,
Ready TorHeave Them
Pep Parade Called
Off; P. A. System In
stalled for Game; Vir-
ginians Rated Much
Stronger Than Locals

Henderson high school Bulldogs
will take to the air here Friday
against Lawrenceville in an effort to
get their first victory of the season,
Ind indications are they will mix
considerable razzle-dazNle with the
aerial attack, trusting such offensive
maneuvers viii reward them with
touchdowns.
The kickoff is set for $50 o'clock.
In Billy Gambler, Coach Bing Miller
has one of the best high school pass
ers in this section, but his receivers
are nothing to rave about The boys
Just don't seem able to hold the heaves
of Gambler.
Lawrenceville is said to be strong
ier than South Hill, the eleven that
conquered Henderson last Friday IA
to o. Last year, Lawrenceville turn
ed back Henderson to 6.
The Bulldogs will not be at their
best tomorrow. Several of the players
have minor ailments that may not
keep them from the game, but will
slow them up considerably.
Robert Rideout will be at center,
having been shifted there last week
when injuries took all center talent
from the Bulldogs.
> Coach Miller was doubtful today of
his starting lineup, and may make sew
,eral changes before the opening whis
tie.
No Pep Parade
The schedule pep parade of the stu
dent body tonight has been called off,
due to the fact that the band will
have a busy weekend, and will not
be able to participate in the parade.
The band will be at the game for a
program during the intermission.
p. A. System Planned
: Fans at tomorrow's contest, accord
ing to Coach Miller, will know what
is happening on the field, for l.. K.
Griffith will bring a play by play de-
'scription of the action through a pub
lie address system. This will give the
fans a keener insight into what is TAX
ing place on the field, and make the
game more enjoyable.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20

Attention Focused On
Furman-State Contest

Raleigh, Oct. State
Game Threatens To Steal Show"
screamed headline on the eve Of
last weeks gridiron classic here. And
from what the visiting newspaper men
said, the contest did exactly that.
Again this week the Wolfpack threat
ems to steal the show in its Saturday
afternoon game with the House of
Magic from Furman university, for
Coaches Williams (Doc) Newton and
Dizzy Mcleod of Furman believe in
wide-open attack in which everything
goes.
Their relations started off with one
of those proverbial bangs back in
1886, when Newton took a poppy Dav-
idson team to Greenville and came off
second best in a 1914 gridiron duel
that went down in history as the most
sensational gridiron battle ever
fought in the Palmetto textile center
The lead changed hands at every
touchdown and spectators were hard
ly able to return to their seats from
cheering for their favorites before
the opposition had risen up and gain
ed the advantage.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20
FootbalI'Fan ans
Get Chance To
Catch Breath
Daily Dispatch BrSeau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh. Oct. 20.-Gasoline tax col
lections in North Carolina this week
end are likely to take sharp drop
as football-mad fans get chance to
catch their breaths and take a Sat-
urday off from dashing madly over
the State to see their favorites in ac-
lion.
All nc~'l>cr~ &C. the States Big Five
are schedu.~I-ln fact there are two
civil war battles slated-but, barring
upsets so unexpected as to be near
miracles, there isn't enough doubt
about the outcome of any game to
start any real safaris moving along
the highways. N
At Davidson, North Cardinals Tar
Heels will get chance to relax in
their so-called contest with Gene Me-
Ever's dull-clawed wildcats; About
four touchdowns is a fair estimate
of the Heels superiority on the basis
of seasons play-and that's conser-
yative. ~H tss
At Winston-Salem, as they dedicate
the Bowman Gray Stadium. Dukes
Blue Devils will haveS to keep a
weather eye peeled for Wake Forests
twinkle-toed backs, but all omens and
portents point to a Methodist victory
over the Baptists, and with plenty to
spare. OF all the melees involving Big
Five squads, however, here is the best
chance for a fire and birthstone af-
fair. Peahead Walker and his men
haven't forgotten that sixty-something
to nothing massacre of last year and
they'll be cunning for Wallace Wade's
men. At that, and conceding Wakes
strength, the main issue is whether
the Foresters will be able to put the
first smirch on Dukes unscored-upon
cscutcneon.
Here in Raleigh, the State Wolf
pack, apparently good team except
when ovcrawed by University of
North Carolina jerseys, rates so far
ahead of Furman's blown-out Hur-
ricane that not even Homecoming
Day ballyhoo has been able to rouse
any enthusiasm. Yet they do say that
South Carolina team is better than
it's record. and may spring real sur
prise. ~ ~ "A N
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20
Duke Getting Set For
Contest With Deacons.

Carolina at Chapel Hill a week from
Saturday, it just cannot be done The
Blue Devils are getting ready for
Wake Forest and for Wake Forest
alone. The Carolina game, no matter
how important, will have to wait for
its time. And, incidentally, the fact
that Duke is meeting tough Wake
Forest while the Tar Heels play a
far below average Davidson team
may have a great bearing on the out
come of the annual game of games.
Wake Forests sophomores demand
respect and the wise teams give it 10
them Their record tag season shows
only two mishaps. The Deacons have
lost to North Carolina, 14-6, and to
State, 1877. But in both of these
games they made far better showing
than the score indicates. The Caro-
lima score might well have been 70.
| They played on even terms with N. G..
State from the standpoint of Stats
| tics.
| Most of the folks in PARKWAY places
have and will continue to pick Duke
| to win easily But they are judging
the Deacons according to past years
| They have not seen this years outfit
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20


The Newton-McLeod rivalry carried
on into last year, when Doc came TO
state. Again playing in Greenville,
the Newton lads found themselves con
IronIed with an OF handicap and it
was only because of the headwork of
Eddie Berlinski and E. v. Helms that
0eate was able to tie the score at TT
ana come Off with draw. State man
aged to touchdown and Eerlinski
squatted behind his scrimmage line
just IN front Of Helms, for whom he
was 10 hold the ball on an attempted
placement kick for extra point. Back
came the ball and in charged the big
powerful Furman line. Little Eddie
GRABBED the ball, chunked it to Helms
and yelled, sFollow mel" Helms did
ana as Eddie blocked out a would-be
tackier' Helms skirted end for the tie
ing point.
states rivalry with F'urman dates
pack to 1902, when the then Purple
hurricane racked up a scoreless tie
ana 5-2 victory. In 1926, State lost
o-Sl and in 1921, OBJ. And in 1886 tho
locals won their only game from
Furman. The score. was go.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20
DAVIS AND STEED
. STAR AT DAVIDSON

: Chapel Hill, Oct. 2O-Bill Davis and
Archie Steed, triple-threat Backs, are
two of the outstanding performers
who will oppose North Carolina at
Davidson Saturday. Steed and Davis
have alternated as passers to give
Davidson the best record for aerial
completion in the Conference this
season. Together they have made
good 25 of So passes for total gain Of
S24 yards. Davis threw touchdown
passes to Fred Stair, halfback, in the
N. G. State and Erskine games.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20
NASH|NGTONH|GH
:NEXTFORPANTHERS
First Home Game Of The
Season For H. l. Friday
Z At 2 O'Clock

The Henderson Institute Partners
will play their first home game of the
season tomorrow afternoon at
O'clock, with Washington High, of Ra-
leigh being the opponent.
(. Coach Brown has been drilling his
team in running and pass defense, and
expects his eleven will fave a tough
contest tomorrow.
= The team has been successful thus
far this season, losing only one con-
Test.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20

Durham, Oct. 2l.TIoW TIMES DO
change.
For the past several years, Duke
has prepared for its annual game WitE
Wake Forest without mHch fear that
anything would happen out OF the
ordinary. And nothing has.
The Blue Devils have beaten the
Deacons whom they have met since
1889-in every contest they have play
ed since 1926 with the exception Of a
1913 tie to which they battled in
1880.
But times have changed.
This week as the Blue Devils get
ready for their 1898 engagement with
the Deacons, which will be played as
the dedicatory game of the Bowman
Gray Memorial stadium in Winston
Salem, they are making ready for q
major assignment.
Even though they would like to be
putting in a few ticks in preparation
for that classic of classics with North
ton October 81, when DR.. Novak vii
address North Carolina doctors II
that section of the Cape Fear Hotel a.
dinner session at o'clock.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AvERILL
Daily DIspascH Bureau,

Raleigh, Oct 20.--Commissioner of
Revenue A. j. Maxwell strolled into
the office of State Senator John D.
Larkins, head of the committee for
Four-year Terms for Sheriffs.
A moment later another gentleman
dropped by. The commissioner and the
newcomer shook hands.
s'My name is Observation-Disclosures
MAXWELL, said the arrival.
''So's mine'g replied the revenue
head. Hum, believe you even look
like Maxwell, he added.
Mortimer stared long at Allen j.
Then
II know I'm ugly, but I really
didn't think I was that bad.
Ouch!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20

CHANGING through Accident Facts,
a publication of the National Safety
Council, your correspondent was
struck by the fact that the worlds
record for most accident-less miles
driven by any commercial "fleetD of
motor vehicles is held by the Pan
handle Refinir Company, Of Wichita
Falls, Texas, whose gasoline trucks
drove 2,934,81O miles without an ac-
cident of any. sort.
1t was contrary TO the general i'm
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20

DR.. Emil Novak, eminent endocrino-
logist from Johns Hopkins Uniyer-
sity, Baltimore, will deliver a lecture
on aEndocrinology' at sGreenYille, Oc-
tober 20, at o'clock when the Uni
versity of North Carolina-spons
postgraduate course in medicine
opens there. The GreenVille meeting
will be at the Greenville County Club
A similar course will open in Whining
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20

1925 Marshall Jewell, from tele-
graph operator to superintendent, Con
necticut tanner, governor, diplomat, al
noted postmaster-general, born at
Winchester, N. H. Died at Hartford,
Feb. 10, 1888.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20

It's still next to impossible to talk
to more than half dozen State en-
ployes without hearing at least one of
them grumble about Gregg Cherrys
campaign fund assessments" There
is, undoubtedly a very strong under
current of dissatisfaction with the
Democratic State Chairman's action
in setting departmental quotas based
on payrolls.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20

preston that the big gas trucks are.
perhaps the most frequent subjects
Tor accidents.