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TIFF CHOICES LIKELY TO WAIT President Still Faces Difficul ties of Filling Commis sion Places. kr the Associat'd Press. With only one month remaining in irhlch to select the six members of the reorganised Tariff Commission. Presi dent Hoover yesterday still faced the unexepected difficulties that have arisen In the choosing of a chairman. Day after day since he was directed by Congress two months ago to re organize the commission within 90 days Mr. Hoover has canvassed the various names submitted to him and several al ready have bepn offered the chairman ship and have declined it. The Chief Executive, it was explained yesterday, thus far has found himself in the predicament of wanting men who will not or cannot accept and of being pressed to appoint men who do not measure up to the standard he desires. Patriotic Service Wanted. Mr. Hoover is known to be seeking a type who would not consider the post merely for the remuneration, but who can be prevailed uport* to serve as a patriotic duty. Realizing, however, that tha chair man of the new commission is to be a storm center in much of the future controversy over the tariff act. partlc , ularly thteflexible provLsions, and that in December they must run the Sen ate gantlet for confirmation, those to whom Mr. Hoover has tendered the post have been reluctant to serve. Some progress is reported to have been made by the President in the se lection of the other members of the commission, although no names are be ing announced pending selection of the chairman. Indications have been given at the White House that Edgar B. Bros sard of Utah, now' chairman of the commission, end Alfred P. Dennis of Maryland would be the two Incumbents retained. Power Body Difficulties. Meanwhile, Mr. Hoover also Is having difficulties with the newly created Power Commission. Undecided whether the law permitted him to make recess appointments to this body after the Senate failed to act upon his three nominees, the President sought a legal opinion from Attorney General Mitchell. This has been received at the White House, and w'hile not yet made public is understood to hold that the law is not specific upon the matter. As a result the Attorney General failed to aay affirmately that the recess appoint ments could be made, but at the same time held there was no provision •gainst it. Claude L. Draper, chatiman of the Wvoming Board of Equalization; Ralph B. Williamson, Yakima. Wash., attor ney. and Marcel Garsaub, port engineer of New Orleans, were submitted to the Benate without their names being acted upon during the final days of the spe cial session. Since receiving the Attorney Gen eral's opinion the President has given little study to the matter, it was said today, but the view was expressed that Mplww some question came up that would make vital the naming of the commission, no recess appointments would be given. VIRGINIA TOWN SELLS ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT Waynesboro Officials Dispose of 1111111168 for Sum of " $300,000. Special Dispatch to Tha Star. WAYNESBORO, Va., August 18.— Waynesboro Joined the long list of cities disposing of their municipal owned electric light plants to private companies yesterday, 'when the citizens voted, 610 to 302, to sell their utility to the Virginia Public Service Co. for $300,000. The public service company will fay 6150,000 cash for the plant and fran chise and 6150,000 over a period of eight years, without interest. The money will be used to enlarge school facilities and for other much-needed municipal improvements. MRsTmARY UHL DIES Xount Savage, Md., Woman Suc cumbs After Operation. Special Diipatch to The Star. MOUNT SAVAGE, Md, August 16. Sirs. Mary Uhl, wife of the late Charles Uhl, died at Memorial Hospital, Cum berland, yesterday, following an opera tion to which she submitted Tuesday night. Her husband, who died in Oc tober, 1918, during the influenza epi demic, was a merchant and partner of his brother, G. Clinton Uhl, chairman of the Maryland State Roads Commis sion. Mrs. Uhl was a member of St. Oeorge's Episcopal Church. She Is survived by one son, Harold, and two daughters, Margaret and Erma, at home, and five sisters, Mrs. Fannie Btille, Baltimore; Mrs. Margaret Casey, La Plata, Mo, and Mrs. Price Poland, Mrs. Lawrence Barth and Miss Jerllla Henckel, Mount Savage. ,15OTHR0WN*0UT0FW0RK Wagon Plant at Lynchburg, Va., Forced to Cloae Down. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG. Va, August 16 —One hundred and fifty men employed by the Thornhill Wagon Co. here, have been thrown out of employment by a close down of the plant, which. It Is said, is a direct effect of the drought. "Dry weather has dried our business for the present,” an official said, "but we are confident that the shut-down will I he only for a few weeks." For months the plant has been run fling on good time. —~ ' l l • Ha Take* Revenge on Peer*. Hector Gordon Meek, 39, a school- Blaster of London, believed he had a grievance against the government, so proceeded to smash a window at the peers' entrance to the House of Lords. When taken to the Bowstreet Police Court the man stated he wanted to bring an injustice to notice. Scholar W ould Make Photo From Capitol Portrait of Morgan Special Dispatch to The Btar. WINCHESTER. Va, August 16 Permission to photograph a portrait 1 of Maj. Gen. Daniel Morgan, in the l Capitol rotunda. Washington, for the Winchester Historical Society is being sought in Washington by Dr. Floyd Flicklnger, faculty member of William and Mary College, who Is doing research work for the society in the Congressional Library. The Morgan portrait, said to be a strikingly true likeness, is one of a number of other generals grouped about Gen. Washington at the Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown. It and many other portraits will be printed In * book dealing with the history of Winchester soon to be is sued by the society. j SOVIET WOMAN OFFICIAL DIRECTS I SPENDING OF 2 BILLION A YEAR Finance Commissar Has Job Comparable to Mellon s —Only Member of Sex in Cab inet Makes Only $l5O a Month. Br the Associated Press. MOSCOW. August 16—A modest, self-effacing mother directs the spend ing of nearly two billion dollars annually for Soviet Russia. And she still can make all her own clothes and do her own cooking! Barbara Nikolaevna Yakovleva holds one of the world's biggest Jobs. She is Russia’s commlsar of finance, a post comparable to that of Andrew W. Mel lon, Secretary of the United States Treasury. Salary la Small. • Her salary is $l5O a month—a tenth of Mellon's—although millions of rubles pass through her hands daily. She is the only woman member of the Soviet cabinet and only one other na tion, England, has a woman cabinet member. Once an obscure revolutionist, hunted by the Czar's secret police. Mme. Yalov leva watches expenditures of the gov ernment with the shrewd eye of a care ful housewife. In her vast financial household she employs 15,000 men and 2,000 women. She, herself, toils 16 to 18 hours a day. Sundays and holidays included. She lives in a small. 5-room flat near j a workers’ settlement with her aged ! parents and her two children. Still Can Scrub Floors. Her husband, also a revolutionary, is superintending constriction of a big factory at Saratov, on the Volga. Years of privation and hardship taught Mme. Yakovleva to be Intensely practical. That is why she does rot conceal the fact that she can still scrub floors, wash clothes, make all her own dresses and do her own cooking. OVER PAR. CHICAGO BONDS END SPELL Financial Difficulties Follow lowing Vast Improvements Clearing Up. BY LEO J. RYAN. CHICAGO, August 16.—Herculean improvement projects, upon which hun dreds of millions of dollars were spent, and herculean complaints about snuan dering money have )>een the back ground of the 17 yea w during which Chicago's bonds have lever sold above par. The spell was broken when Halsey , Stuart <te Co. bought $7,000,000 worth of the city’s bonds for $7,022,750, and today the city fiscal fathers were point ing with pride to the horizon of fi nancial peace. Projects Materialising. The millions were poured, at least a large part of them. Into projects which gradually are materializing as the Chi cago plan. These include a new parked lake front for 20 miles, the conversion of the old South Water street of his toric squalor into the classic double decker Wacker drive, the chiseling out of a new channel for a portion pf the Chicago River that had a kink in it. and the outer drive system of fast au tomobile speedways along the lake. Many long streets were widened, nu merous bridges erected and the Navy pier was built a mile out Into the lake. Also included are the sites of the majestic new home of the Field Mu seum and the famous Soldiers’ Field, where Tunney and Dempsey battled the "battle of the century” In the rain. “The unfortunate' flurry caused by tax delays is all over," proclaimed George K. Schmidt, city controller, to day. “Once more Chicago sees day light ahead in its finances." Treasury Finally Ban Dry. After almost continuous complaints from one local source or another over a period of years that the city spent money like a drunken sailor, the city’s financial situation reached its climax last Winter when, with no taxes col- ! lected for two years, the treasury ran i so completely ary that there was no money to pay teachers, policemen and! thousands of other public servants at Christmas time. Banks and financial I houses refused to buy any more tax an- j tlcipation warrants on which ready, money could be raised. The situation was finally met. in des GEORGE WASHINGTON’S PLANS FOR CHURCH VESTRY CARRIED ON Architect’s Drawings for Fairfax County Building to Be Submitted to Congregation. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August '-6 i Architect's drawings for the proposed j vestry at Pohick Church, in Fairfax County, several miles below this city on ] the Richmond-Washington highway, have been received and will be submit ted to the congregation in the near future. The vestry is to be built after plans I for It drawn by George Washington This Fully Guaranteed All-American HOT-WATER PLANT American Easy Payment Plan H ’ Fully installed in 6- MlBH&i f IS room house .. . ~ J||t| '||Cl eludes 18-inch boiler, iIHHIHI £ || radiation. insure the health - IH I.IIP and comfort of your family this Winter raO * by installing this Guaranteed A m e '^HULJH'^Wn|- can Radiator plant. CALL OUR GRADUATE ENGINEERS and explain the facta... AMERICAN HEATING “SET 907 New York Ave. Nat. 8421 THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C.. AUGUST 17. 1930—PART ONE. | She wears no jewelry or other em j belli.*hment and does not believe in ; short skirts, lipsticks, face powder or ■ i expensive dress and lingerie. Her ha i bitual garb is a plain, inexpensive white : shirtwaist with black skirt and lisle I stockings. >| Looks Mother’s Part. 1 1 To your correspondent she looked the part of a good mother, a woman of quiet- demeanor, neatness and great charm. She is 45, fair, with blue eye*, chestnut hair and a soft, even voice. Her only hobbles are mathematics, music and the radio. She holds a mas ter's degree In higher mathematics and is an excellent pianist. She sometimes finds time to go to the theater, the ballet or a concert. Her present high post was won by the hardest toil and unremitting serv ice to the revolution. Five times she was exiled or impris oned by the Czarist regime, spending years in Siberia. She knew and worked with Lenin and Trotsky. Shy About Self. She is shy about herself, extremely reluctant to. discuss her own life, ; achievements or talents, insisting It is I the system, not the individual, that ! counts. "Our government gives every one an equal chance for success." she said. “I must not be regarded as an excep tional case. All women In the Soviet Union are given the same opportunity. Many other women besides myself hold Important executive positions. Several are presidents of Regional governments. “Within a few years we probably shall have hundreds of women In high administrative posts.” Farmer Is Third In Family to End Life by Hanging By th* Associated Press. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.. August 16. —The third member of the Yates family to die by hang ing at his own hands was found swinging from a leather thong today. Conrad Yates, farmer, who had several times threatened suicide because of recent court entangle ments. apparently committed sui cide during the night. Yates' grandfather and a broth er, Grover Yates, hanged them selves. peration, by the formation of a Special Citizens' Committee, headed by Silas Strawn, Internationally known attor ney. A special session of the Legisla ture was called during the Spring to enact several items of fiscal reform I legislation which the committee recom ; mended. A tax assessment revision which, had been under way for two years was com pleted and taxes, unpaid since 1928, began to flow into the treasury in July. With the collection of the 1928 taxes theoretically completed on July 10 members of the Citizens’ Committee announced that more than $100,000,000 of the city’s total debt of $250,000,000, exclusive of bond issues, could be re tired Immediately. Five-Year Payments Planned. In anticipation of regular tax pay ments from then on a five-year pay ment plan was outlined under which the last of these debts was to be paid by May 1, 1935. The $7,000,000 bond Issue sold yes terday was authorized by the special session of the Legislature to pay old city debts. The per capita bonded debt of Chicago is comparatively small under statutes of limitation. FACES DEATH TRIAL Virginian Is Indicted After Bon Is Fatally Burned. Speci*l Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., August 16. —Kelly Farmer of Caroline County, charged with responsibility in connec tion with the death of his 8-year-old son Stephen, who died May 30, as a result of burns received when a neigh bor’s barn, which he entered at the in stigation of his father to steal gasoline, caught fire, was indicted on four counts by the Caroline County grand Jury charging voluntary manslaughter, arson, lsrceny and breaking and enterjpg a building. The trial was set for Au gust 18. when he was a member of the parish and which were uncovered In church records about a year ago. At the time the plans were drawn by Washington, lack of funds is understood to nave prevented the building of the structure. Contributions with which to build the vestry will be asked from the more than 50,000 tourists who have registered at the church In the past three years. The building will be dedicated in 1932 on the bicentennial of Washington’s birth. !G. 0. P. IN GEORGIA ! DENIES BOLTING Southern Republicans Adopt Resolution That Repudiates Newspaper Reports. i r • By the Associated Press. [ ATLANTA. August 16 —J. W. Arnold. ' chairman of/a factional Georgia State Republican central committee, Issues a statement today saying the Southern : Republican organization met here yes f terday and adopted a resolution re t pudiating the Interpretation placed by . newspapers on the actions of the body • at its organization meeting two weeks • ago in Savannah. • At the Savannah meeting resolutions | ‘ were adopted severely criticising the • administration factions ot Postmaster '■ General Brown, which are handling in several Southern States business nor ’ mally transacted by the State organ izations. « Lon Cunningham of Huntsville. Ala., \ as secretary, and Arnold as chairman. ’ signed the sttement telling ot yester- I day’s action. The statement said newspapers in ac counts of the Savannah meeting had designated members of the organization ' as "bolters.” and made It appear that , the organization was formed tor the i purpose of setting up an independent ; party and had indicated the organiza tion was opposed to President Hoover i and his policies. It declared these Interpretations to be "untrue and with out any foundation of fact whatsoever.” The resolution affirmed the group’s loyalty to the President and pledged, him support, and added: "We further declare that the highest purpose of this organization is, by the co-ordination of the Republican forces of the several Southern States, to promulgate the principles of the Repub lican party as had been enunciated by its leaders. We hope to build up a strong Republican party, representative of the South and expressive of the will and Ideal of Southern people.” At the Savannah meeting, the South ern Republican organization,, went on record as charging “a fabricated, tem porary political set-up In the South had been created” to control delegates to the next national convention for personal, selfish aggrandizement. The | group at that time said it “condemned | such practices and shall devote its time, personnel and effort to eliminate this method of procuring them-in the future.” It also lauded the leadership of Col. Horace A. Mann, who had charge of the Hoover campaign In the South but who has not since that time figured as a leader In administration councils of the party. Both Mann and M. O. Dunning, col lector of customs at Savannah, Repub lican candidate for the United States Senate and supported by the Arnold group for national committeeman from Georgia, were scheduled to attend the meeting, but Arnold said neither was , present. Arnold declined to give the names of those attending either the meeting of the Southern Republican organization yesterday or the State Executive Com mittee today. STAUNTON POLICE HUNT SLIPPERY DETECTIVE R. G. Kirby, Who Disappeared After Contracting Debts, la Wanted by Authorities. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va., August 16.—Local authorities are endeavoring to "detect” Detective Kirby. Early last February R. G. Kirby came to Staunton and opened a de tective agency. He took a suite of rooms in one of the prominent office buildings here and styled his firm the American Detective Agency. He had associated with him for a short while Allen G. Blencowe, local fingerprint ex pert, and for a time was kept quite busy with detecting problems, both of a private and public nature. Some weeks ago he left the city suddenly, telling friends he would re turn shortly. He did not and has not, and now local sleuths are sleuthing the slippery sleuth armed with two war rants sworn out by local business men for bad debts, and a Federal warrant alleging impersonating a Federal offi cer. the latter for a substantial taxi bill which he had charged to the United States Government. PAGE COUNTY POOR HOUSE: ENLARGEMENT NEED SEENj Special Dispatch to The Stsr. RICHMOND, Va., August 16—Addi tional buildings will have to be erected at the Page County Poor House If all those desiring admittance are accom modated, according to Supt. John A. i Cave. t Crop failures and unemployment | have caused the greatest number In years to ask food and clothing for the : coming Winter. Due to Increasing de- i mands, Supt. Cave has been compelled to assign two and three inmates to beds ’ ordinarily occupied by one person, i f 1,111 I— ■ I ■«"I" I. -g'-'I—.1 . ■ ■ - ■- - ill I I {Bp fwnmg gftef . , , * I JL^fIYERTISEMEIITS IfcSt tIVEB HERE I Stewart’s Pharmacy—6224 3rd St. I Is a Star Branch Office When you need help of course MdEjlw you are in a hurry to fill the position. You’ll find the quick* est way is through a Classified Advertisement in The Star. It will bring you responses promptly; from the best class MB of help in every line. |fl|W Leave the copy for The Star Classified Section at The Star Branch Office in your neighbor hood. There will be no fee in THE connection with Branch Office A-OVE sign service; only regular rates are DISPLAYED Ch * r ** d ' BY The Star prints such an over- AUTHORIZED vhelmingly greater volume of STAR Classified Advertising every 1 BRANCH day than any other YVashing- OFFICES ton paper that there can be no question as to which will give 1 ... you the best results. “Around the Corner” is a Star Branch Office ■4 111 " CANOE CLUB WINS PENN CLUB TROPHY Washingtonians Successfully Defend National Champion ship at Bristol Regatta. Special Dispatch to The Star. / BRISTOL, Pa.. August 16—The Washington Canoe Club successfully defended Its national canoe champion ship here today on the placid waters of the historic Delaware in the annual joint regatta of the Middle States Canoe Racing Association, wfiich war. sponsored this year by the Young Men's i Association of the Anchor Yacht Club. Bristol. The boys from the banks of the Po tomac ran up a grand total of 40 points in the junior and senior events to cap ture the Penn Athletic Club Trophy, emblematic of the national club cham pionship. while the Pendleton Canoe Club of New Yoik finished in the runner-up position with 24 markers, 16 points behind the two-time champions The Gothamites barely eased Into second place ahead of the Cacawa Canoe Club of Tacony, which gained third place on the championship ladde; with a total of 23 points, one less than the number scored by the Harlem River bladesmen. The Philadelphia Canoe Club was next in line with 15 counters to Its credit, while the Bristol Young Men’s Association was 1 point behind the Quakers with 14 markers. Potomac Canoe Club of Washington with 6, Dundalk Canoe Club of Balti more with 3 and Tuscarora Canoe Club of Belleville. N. J., with 1, closed out the scoring. A record crowd of aquatic sport en thusiasts lined the banks of the Dela ware from 2 o’clock in the afternoon until 8 o’clock In the evening to watch the fast-stroking paddlers from the District of Columbia gain national honors for the second consecutive year by scoring an even 20 points in both the junior and senior divisions. The winning paddlers exhibited their best form in the junior grade double blade event, when their crew flashed home ahead of a fast field of rival i canoeists In the good time of 3 min ; utes 10 seconds. The victorious crew—composed of Florence, stroke; Dunn. No. 2: Connor, No 3; Mawson, No.- 4 —trailed the Cacawa boat up the river until the last 25 or 30 yards of the half-mile pull, and then the stout-hearted lads from the Capital City put on a great sprint, which put them across the finish line a scant 2 yards ahead of their Tacony rivals. The senior one-men single-blade title was captured by 4he fast-traveling Ernie Miller of the Poto mac Boat Club, another Washington entry Milier finished a full length ahead of A1 Bauer, representing the Bristol j Young Men’s Association, who was sec ond while Spencer of Washington Canoe Club took third money in the event. Miller’s time for the distance was 4 minutes 4'-j seconds. Hplland of the Entertaining Club annexed first honors In the Junior singles in 4 minutes 11 seconds, with McNutt of the Phila delphia and McGulgan of Washing ton trailing in the order named. Parry and Carl Knight, member* of the Two-Bdade Quad Shell which re presented the United States in the 1924 Olympics, stroked their way to a bril liant victory In the senior tandem stngle-blade event, with a Pendleton duo second and Dundalk third. The time was 3 minutes, 5 4-5 seconds. Senior team single canoe—Won by Washington Canoe Club. P. and H. Knight; second, Pendleton Canoe Club; third, Dundalk Canoe Club. Winner*’ time, 3 minutes 4 4-5 seconds. LEGION OFFICERS NAMED XaffMi, M. Lewis, Jr., Heads Fred •rickaburg Post. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va.. August 16. —Magnus M. Lewis, jr., has been elected to succeed Col. Brooke Payne as com mander for the coming year of the Bowen-Franklln-Knox Post of the American Legion of this city, E. W. Baker was chosen vice com mander, Dr. R. N. Lanier, adjutant, and E. C. Curtis, sergeant-at-arms. C. L. Jenkins was renamed finance officer and Capt. Gunyan M. Harrison is to continue as post service officer. The election of an historian to relieve Col. Payne was deferred until a later meeting. CORN STALK HAS 50 EARS Freak Growth Found Near Glen Allen, Va. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., August 16.—An In teresting freak from a Henrico County cornfield was brought to light here. On a stalk where one ear would generally grow 50 very small ears were found. It was taken from the farm of C. C. Bowles, near Glen Allen, and was found there by Dan Thornton. The 50 miniature ears are covered with corn silk and were attached to the stalk through only one stem, JACK PICKFORD AND HIS BRIDE Jack Plrkford, motion picture actor and brother of Mar.v Pickford, and his bride, Mary Mulhern. former New York stage actress. They are shown at Pebble Beach, Calif., Just prior to their marriage. —A. P. Photo. MAYOR OF DANVILLE 38 YEARS, WOODING AT 87 STILL IS ROBUST Veteran Head of Virginia Town Has Paid Less Than $lO in Doctor Bills While in Office. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va„ August 16.—Capt Harry Wooding, referred to as America’s oldest mayor in the point of service, marked off another milestone in his long and eventful career yesterday when he observed the thirty-eighth anniver sary of his first election as mayor, on August 15, 1892, a post which he has held since continuously. After 38 consecutive years in office, Capt. 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A dozen times in subsequent elections have candidates sought to defeat him, but he has always triumphed. City Sergt. P. H. Boisseau is the only public official now in office who held sway when he took up the reigns of government. B-3 FOOD IN STORAGE Q DECLARED LARGE Virginia Stocks Said to Tend: to Discourage Possible Shortage. . By the Associated Press. RICHMOND. Va, August 16 —Cold storage supplies In Virginia tend to dis courage any of a food short age in spite of the drought's devastating effects. The July cold storage report of F. C. BreazeaJ, director of the dairy and food division of the Department of Agricul ture and Immigration, shows that the • amounts of 17 commodities in storage were greater on July 1 than on July 1, 1929, while only five showed a decrease for the year. The greatest amount of any com modity on hand was that of frozen pork, 2,034.220 pounds, a gain of 624,165 pounds over the amount stored on July 1. 1929. Miscellaneous meats were slightly less than a year before, with 1.180.800 pounds, a drop of 117,186 pounds since July 1, 1929. »-■■■-.. Tong Oil From Many Source!. Unless you have an intimate acquaint ance with the manufacture of paint you will never have heard much about Tong oil. For many years the source of supply has been China, where the oil was extracted from the Tong tree by 1 very primitive methods and shipped * about the world to be used in the man ufacture of paint. During the war there was a great and sudden demand for it ■ from all quarters. It' was required for the treatment of airplane wings to pre vent them from becoming waterlogged. ' China could not meet the demand, and thousands of acres of oil-producing trees were laid down in America. Since • then America has had practically a monopoly of the world’s supply and has been producing 50,000 tons annually. Realizing the enormous importance of t the industry, the authorities at Kew * began some years ago to raise Tong trees and to experiment with them. It has now been found that they grow readily in New Zealand. Australia. India and Africa. Big plantations have been made in these country, and within a few years it is hoped fhey will be able to provide all the Tong oil that is re quired in Great Britain. ——— • There were only 10 cases of murder of persons over 1 year old in London last year, the average for the last 20 years being 22. Two Rooms, Kitchen * and Bath, $42.50 Cambria-Majestic 1324 26 Euclid Street N,W.