Evening star. [volume], January 15, 1937, Page A-10, Image 10

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Former Fuel Administrator
Began Career as Locomo
tive Apprentice.
Funeral services for Francis R. Wad
leigh. 72. Federal fuel distributor dur
ing the Harding administration, who
* died yesterday in the Alexandria, Va.,
Mr. Wadleith.
Hospital, win oe
held at 3 pan.
tomorrow in
Blandford Chap
el. Petersburg,
Va„ his wife’s
former, home.
Burial will be in
the Bla nd tord
Memorial Chapel
there.
Mr. Wadleigh,
an international
ly known author
ity on coal, had
served the Gov
ernment and pri
vate interests in
many important capacities. He also
had been consulting engineer for many
large interests in fuel matters and
had written books which are regarded
as standard reference works on coal
and mining.
A native of Muncy, Pa., Mr. Wad
leigh was graduated with a bachelor
of arts degree from Princeton Uni
versity in 1883.
Subsequently, he began his career
as a locomotive shop apprentice with
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona.
Pa., and afterward served four years
as locomotive fireman.
Serviee With N. & W.
Next, he went with the Norfolk St
Western Railroad Co., which he served
successively as coal inspector and in
structor, a road foreman of engines
end then as locomotive engineer.
During a period from 1898 to 1908,
he served interests as fuel engineer,
coal salesman and coal inspector.
This work took him to South America,
Cuba, Panama and Europe.
Later he served with the Chesapeake
& Ohio Coal & Coke Co., and other
. interests until around 1912, when he
became associated editor of Coal Age.
He made trips to Mexico. Europe and
South America in connection with
engineering work, coal preparation,
sales, etc. This work covered a period
through 1916.
From 1917 to 1919, Mr. Wadleigh
was chief engineer of the International
Coal Products Corp. of New York.
Subsequently, until 1920, he served as
export sales manager, manager of the
New York office and consultant for the
Weston Dodson & Co., Inc., New York.
In 1921 he was assistant to the presi
, dent of the Tuttle Corp., New York,
4 During the World War he prepared
a, report for the War Department on
coal in Southwest Virginia and served
with the Emergency Fleet Corp.: pre
pared reports on coal for the United
States Shipping Board and was a mem
ber of the Pennsylvania State Conser
vation Commission.
Coal Division Chief.
In September, 1921, he had become
chief of the coal division, Depart
ment of Commerce. In September,
1922. he was made assistant Federal
fuel distributor and some two months
later was made Federal fuel distribu
Young Washington
A studious interest in the history of oil in the United States
is shoivn by Marguerite Watson, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
D. H. Watson, 810 Emerson street, who is a member of grade 6-B
at Job Barnard School. Tomorrow: Gerald Steinberg, son of Mr.
i and Mrs. A. J. Steinberg, West School. ■—Star Staff Photo.
tor. He continued to serve until Sep
tember 22, 1923.
Other Government work during the
period until December, 1923, included
service as commercial fuel engineer,
Bureau of Mines; chairman of the
Coal Committee, Federal Purchase
Board; vice chairman of the Coal
Strategy Board, Navy Department; as
member of the Coal Purchase Com
mission, Department of Interior and
Department of Commerce; assistant
to the chairman of the Emergency
Coal Distributing Committee, and rail
transportation assistant to the Secre
tary of Commerce.
From 1924 to 1929 and again in
1931, he was consulting engineer of
the Bureau of Mines. In 1926 he was
editor of Coal and Coal and Coke
Trade Journal, New York; technical
editor Combustion and American
editor of the Compendium in London.
From May, 1931, to February, 1932.
he was ionsuiting engineer of the
Alaska Railroad in Alaska. He also
had served as consulting engineer for
various other organizations and
corporations, both in this country and
abroad.
i Mr. Wadleigh was a member of the
Users of Coal Committee of the Amer
ican Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgical Engineers; a member of sev
eral committees of the American
Society for Testing Materials, the
Princeton Engineering Society, and
the Franklin Institute's Committee on
Science and Arts. Formerly he be
longed to many other scientific
societies.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mariana Rogers Wadleigh; two daugh
ters, Mrs. Ivan J. Watson, New York
City, and Mrs. L. P. Cottman, Larch -
mont, N. Y.; a son. Francis R.
Wadleigh. jr„ L*rchmont; two brothers,
Henry Wadleigh, Vienna, Austria, and
Atherton B. Wadleigh, Dos Cabezos,
Ariz., and two grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Wadleigh had lived in
Alexandria the past few years. His
death followed a long illness.
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Given Decree in Absence.
O. L. Amsler, principal of Boys’
High School of Decatur, Ga., received
his degree from the North Georgia
College at Dahlonega in 1918. while
serving with the United States In
fantry in the trenches in France.
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USE AS A
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RATES REDUCED
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E*g«T successive reductions in the last ten yean in Long Distance tele
phone rates have made your dollar reach more miles or cover more calls,
as you like. The latest reduction becomes effective today, January 15.
Many interstate rates for day, night, and all day Sunday calls of
more than 4-2 miles are reduced —the reduction ranging from 5c
to $1.00 for each three minute call, depending on the distance.
LtH" business ... for pleasure ... try one quick, clear, low-cost call!
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HOW LONG DISTANCE RATES HAVE BEEN CUT
_AS THE RESULT OF 8 REDUCTIONS IN THE LAST 10 YEARS:
RATES FOR 3-MINUTE
DAYTIME CALLS FROM
WASHINGTON
TO
Chicago, RKnoi*
Denver, Colorado
Miami, Florida
New York, New York
Sl Louis, Missouri
San Francisco, California
Station-to-Station Person-to - Porson
January 16, January 16, January 16, January 16,
1®*« 1937 1026 1937
< 3.85 $ 1.85 $ 4.80 f 2.45
9.50 4.25 11.85 5.75
6.00 2.70 7.50 3.50
1.40 .85 1.75 130
4.55 2.10 5.65 230
15.60 635 19.50 * 8.50
%
Night and all day Sunday rates are still lower.
UK CHESAPEAKE A HO POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY 7SS lMh It, N.W. MEtr.».KU« SOM
Army Officer, Who Died in
Alaska, to Be Buried
in Richmond.
Funeral services for Capt. Dale P.
Mason, Signal Corps, U. S. A., who
died in Alaska December 13, will be
held at.Richmond, Va., at noon to
morrow. Burial will take place at
Hollywood Cemtetry there.
Born in Amelia County, Va., Jan
uary 1, 1900, Capt. Mason was the son
of the late W. L. Mason and Mrs.
Mason, life-long residents of the
county. He was educated in public
and private schools in Virginia and
graduated from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute in 1920 with the bachelor of
science degree. Shortly thereafter
he was commissioned In the Signal
Corps as a second lieutenant and was
in the service of the corps in Alaska,
detailed to the Alaska Communication
System at the time of his death.
He served details at Fort Mon
mouth, N. J.; in the Philippine Islands,
Washington, D. C.; Wright's Field and
Alaska. During his detail in Wash
ington, 1929-1932, he was assistant to
the officer in charge of the War De
partment Message Center and was ac
tively associated with the erecting
and equipping of Radio Station WAR.
Capt. Mason is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Mason of
Mattoax, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Philip
Dunbar of Petersburg, Va., and Mrs.
W. J. Norfleet of Bethesda, Md , with
whom he made his home while he
was on duty in Washington, and two
brothers, Dr. W. L. Mason and Bland
W. Mason of Richmond.
Capt. Mason had been stationed at
Anchorage, Alaska, for the past year
and a half. He was on duty at that
point at the time of the death of Will
Rogers and relayed to Seattle the
message concerning his dedih.
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Bird Dialects Found.
At an assembly of bird fanciers In
London phonograph records were
played by Ludwig Koch of the songs
of birds common to Britain and the
Continent. He had made the sur
prising discovery that the continental
birds, differing in no physical respect
from th* British, sing differently.
U.S.TO AID SAMOANS
Navy Ship Will Make Special
Voyage to Archipelago.
The merchant marine itrike on the
Weet Coast has made distant Ameri
can Samoa even more Isolated, dis
rupting regular schedules, so the Navy
Department announced the U. 8. 8.
Arctic will make a special voyage
there to carry mall and supplies.
Ordinarily the archipelago Is served
by vessels of the Mattson Line, operat
ing between California, Hawaii and
the South Seas.
Filled with cold-storage products,
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FAST TRAINS
from WASHINGTON DAILY
•Florida Special
' cheatra —.Danone — Games — Hoeteea. 9Jhour*
Washington to Miami.
I Gulf Coast Limited
i Not York lo principal Flood* rorora.
; *The Miamian 'One-night-out. Ta Miami
ud Florid. Hue co.it rworu.
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ing arrival! .1 Miami, Tampa, Sarasota and Sc.
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SHIP YOUR AUTO—dc per mile. Consult
Tickel Agent lor details also about Dlan
under which both Florida coasts may be
visited without extra cost and 183k Day
Mexican Cruises via Miami.
GEO P. JAMES. General Passenger Agent
733 15th Street. N.W . Washington. D.C.
Telephone National 7835
THE STAJ1DARD RAILROAD Of THE SOUTH
the Arctic will depart from San Fran
cisco on January 30. reaching Ameri
can Sajnoa about February 33. A
couple of daya later the veaael will
make the return trip to the United
States.
Largest Dam Mapped.
All arrangement* have been made
by the Manchukuo government to
build the Orient's largest dam. Ac
cording to engineers in Mukden, the
dam. which is to be located on the
Sungari River, will be started before
next Summer. Water Impounded will
be used by a large electric power plant.
The project Is to be completed In four
years at a cost of approximately
118.000,000.
nnouncina
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as exclusive distributors in the District of
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tive problems.
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