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\ WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow, mild temperature. ! Temperature for twenty-four hours - ended at 2 pm.: Highest, 19, at 3 pm. yesterday: lowest. 52, at 3:30 am. today. Full report on page 24. No. 28,145. JUSTIGE GOULD DIES UDDENLY AT HOME . OFHEART TROUBLE Associate Jurist of D. C. Su- preme Court Succumbs After Fall in Faint. HAD WORKED AT HIS DESK AFTER A RESTLESS NIGHT Attended Court: Session Tuesday. Had Leg With Sprained Ten- t dons Set in Cast. JUSTICE ASHLEY M. GOULD. Ashley M. Gould, associate justice of the District Supreme Court, per- sonal friend of President Harding and Vice President Coolidge, and prominently identifled with bench and bar for about thirty-five years, died | suddenly this morning at 11:25 o'clock at his home, 1703 Q street. Death was dus to heart trouble. He was sixty- one years of age. Y Justice Gould had been in apparent- 1y good health previous to a few min- utes of his death. He attended court iezday, but-on returning home that «vening _complained of his left lez | burting, - About a wmonth age he| ~prained several tendons of the leg, but scemingly had entirely recovered. Upon reaching home his #M¥icith | Avisedthat the leg again be put in a cast. which was dome. fince that time he has not left the house. Dowastairs for Breakfast. Getting up this morning. he went downstairs to breakfast with his wife. He said tbat he did not feel so well, having spent a restless might, but later decided that he would do some work. - He sent for his secretar: Margaret C. Kroll. who reached the Touse about 11 o'clock. Shortly afterward Justice Gould walked out of his room with the aid of a cane and fell to the floor in a faint. Mrs. Gould at once sent for Dr. George Barton, who, upon arrival, administered various stimulants. The Justice failed to respond and, al- though conscious several moments before the last, died about 11:25 o'clock. Deputy Marshals Arrive. Beforc hie death, J. T. Kelly andj H. B. Fields, deputy marshals, in Justice Gould's court, arrived and were with him at the emd. Marshal Splain also arrived shortly before the | justice expired. Within a few hours | many lawyers and personal friends, | including John Laskey. United States district attorney, called to offer con- dolences Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Surviving Justice Gould are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Morris Gould; a son. Ashley M. Gould of California, end threc daughters. Mrs. Gordon Hlarrow, Mrs. Manue] Quesada and irs. Marion Anderson, all of this city. Boru in Nova Scotla. Ashley Mulgrave Gould was born at_Horton, Nova Scotia, October 8. 1559, the son of Charles Edward and Mary Jane (Fuller) Gould. He studied 1or college in the public schools of Closing New York Stocks, Page 29. he & intered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. JAPANESE ADMIRAL SCOUTS IDEA OF WAR WITH UNITED STATES HONOLULU, May 19.—There will be no conflict between the United States and Japan, it was declared by Admiral Sotokichi Uriu of the Japanese navy and R. Naskinishi, chairman of the parliamentary party from the Japanese diet, Whick left here today, continuing a journey to the United States. “I believe in less diplomacy and more get-together spirit.” said Ad- miral Uriu. “There never will be any serious trouble between our two countries. If you get to the bottom of all things I think you will find that our hearts are just the same as yours.” The Japanese parliamentary party is proceeding to the United States to study parliamentary con- ditions and affairs in general. Admiral Uriu, graduate of An- napolis Naval Academy in 1881, is going to attend a class reunion. IMNIE. CURIE HERE 10 RECEIVE GIFT OF RADIUM GRAM President to Make Presenta- tion This Afternoon—De- lighted With Washington. “What a beautiful aity!” Such was the heartfelt tribute of Mme. Marie Curie, the eminent Polish scientist, who came to Washington today to receive from President Hard- g the gram of radium which is the tribute paid her by the women of America. Mme. Curie's spontaneous tribute to the springtime beauty of the Na- tional Capital came after the “Ad- venturer,” the car of Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, in which the scientist rode from Union station shortly before 9 o'clock this morning, skirted the Capitol. Mme. Curie turned to Mrs. William Brown Meloney of New York city, national chairman of the Mme. Curie radium fund, and said: “Such broad streets and beautiful | It's the way people ought to | parks! live. Greeted at Uniom Stationm. The distinguished woman scientis ‘was met at Union station upon her ar- rival from New York by Mrsa. Vernon Kellogg, acting chairman of the local committee, in the absence in-Europe of Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss; Dr. and Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, Dr. Richard B. Moore and Dr. Charles L. Parsons of the bureau of mines, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Brady. The party accompanying Mme. Curie from New York included her two young daughters, Irene and Eve; Dr. Edward H. Rogers, her physician; Maj. and Mrs. Meloney and William_Meloney. The party was greeted by Mrs. Kel- loj and the other members of the local committee, and escorted to the waiting Adventurer. No stops were made by the party until 17 Massachusetts avenue, the | home of the Third Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, was reached. It is here that Mme. Curie will be entertained during her visit here. The Adventurer was run ' rather slowly in order to give Mme. Curle ample opportunity to take in the beauties of Washington—at - this sea- son of the year, perhaps, at its prettiest. Drives Through Reck Creek Park. Mme. Curle spent the remainder of the morning quietly until 11 o'clock, when she was taken for a short ride through Rock Creek Park. Although some few pedestrians seemed aware of her. and bowed, the great number of people todey were ynaware that the machine passing dirried one of the great women of her age. Upon_ her return from Rock Creek Park, where she again expressed ad- miration for the beautics of the Na- tional Capital, Mme. Curie ate lunch- eon in her own room, not even her daughters being present. Her daughters look forward to a round of entertainment while here. Their mother expects to conserve her energics for the presentation of th radium at 4 o'clock this afternoon a the White House and the other func- tions which she must attend. e tiny bit of radium, in a polishe: case and embedded In 130 monm g lead, 1s (o be presented o Mme. Curie in_the presence of a distinguishe thering nguished Ceremony of Presentation. Mrs. Harding will greet Mme. C: and then the President will preoic: her with the golden key with which the little case containing the radium Mme. Jus- Hampshire county. Mass, and 1877 |may be opened. Mrs. Hughes, wife of entered Amherst’ College. He was |the Secretary of State; &raduated from that institution in 1551, and immediately came to this | city as the representative of a New England newspaper. After serving as correspondent a short time, Mr. Gould was appointed to a clerkship in the Post Office Department. and Jater was transferred to the Depart- ment of Justice He began the study of law at Georgetown University lLaw School in 1884, and Boon after obtaining his degree was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He resigned his posi- tion in the Department of Justice April 1, 1885,”and established a law practice at Kansas City. Mo., remain- ing there until September 1, when he returned to Washington. He became secretary, and soon thereafter president, of the Wash- ington Title Insurance Company, which posifon he resigned to be- <ome assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Febru- ary 1, 1898, Appointed by McKinley. Mr. Gould was appointed by Presi- ;dent McKinley to be United States |attorney for the District May 1. 1901, 1891, } serand, wife of the French ambas. sador, ‘and Princess Lubomirska, wife of the Polish minister, will assist in the presentation. Much interest centered today in the two daughters of the distinguished woman scientist. Irene, who is twenty- three years old, is a scientist in her own right. while Eve, who is just six- teen vears old, is regarded as a beau- titul girl, with a great love for and devotion to music. Mme. Curie was simply dressed in black upon her arrival here. The sight of the Capitol, the wide streets and the parks, which so appealed to her, seemed to lighten up her eyes and take away some of the tired look that rested in them. Because her health will not permit her participating in a strenuous round of social events, the local committee has arranged to keep the entertaim- ments down to the minimum. Addreases Meeting Tonight. Tonight Mme. Curie is to address a meeting to be held 1n her nonor at tie New National Museum. The Mme. Curie radium committee announced today that the official tickets for the WASHINGTON, HARD T0 SOLVE OUR STREET RAILWAY - PROBLEM JUSTLY How Shall We Distribute Equitably the Cost of Car- rying Long-Haul Traffic at a Loss? THEODORE W. NOYES. Editorial Correspondence of The Star. II. In solving equitably our street railway | problem the primary responsibility for | ding means of carryving long-haul | who have benefited by this wise policy | in the past. It is just that they should | | tirst come to the rescue. The main loss is falling and will in- evitably fall upon the Washington Rail- | ay and Electric Company stockhold- ers. The common stockholders, who have enjoyed increasing dividends and for a | time great increase of stock quotation valuesthrough the contributions of exces sive electric light profits, and of savings | through underpayment of workmen, and through stock manipulations, are now called upon to pay back some of their past profits and to cease to enjoy pres- | ent and, for a time at least, future| profits. ‘Indeed, they have been threat- ened with confiscation of their principal. The Washington Rallway and Electric stockholders have suffered for errors of judgment of their agents in handling a | strike of their employes and in mis- judging public sentiment. They have perhaps deserved to pay and have cer- tainly paid heavy penalties; they have not, they contend, deserved capital pun- ishment. They urge that the company ought not to be declared bankrupt or forced into bankruptcy when its assets. present and prospective, are recognized asg of such great value, and when the causes which compel it to do an increas- ing business at an increasing loss are obvious, are mot attributable primarily to it, and may be corrected. Obligation of Long-haul Suburbanite. | Another beneficiary of the wise| public policy of carrying long-haul passengers at a loss is the suburban- ite. For many years these long-haul passengers have been transported at the same flat rate as the short-haul passengers, at a loss, the unprofitable suburban lines of the W. R. & E. being carried by the urban trunk lines and by the profits of the Poto- jmac Electric Company and by the savings from inadequate wages to em- ployes. Now the wages of employes have been enormously increased, the profits of the electric company have been cut down and the flat rate to be paid by urban passengers to bear the whole burden of carrying the unprof- itable long-haul traffic has reached, cf necessity, a figure which drives pas- sengers to the competing line if there is a differential in fare, and which imposes an undue burden upon the passengers of the other line (largely short-haul passengers) if the flat rate is the same on both roads..The long-haul suburban passengers have reasonably resisted a zone system, which multiplies the fare unduly without meeting the deficit in full (the company claims) and without as- suring the better service which should accompany increased fare. But since the task of earrying them at less than cost and in increasing numbers during war time is largely responsible for the breaking down of | the road, should they not reasonably irespond to the demand of the sit- juation by paying through transfer {charge a slight temporary increase | over the urban flat rate for “their transportation? And should not the long-haul suburbanites, recognizing that they are being carried at a loss on broad grounds of public policy in order to build up the Greater Wash- ington, cheerfully contribute, as tax- payers, to help meet this loss and become the earnest advocates of some.| system of tax readjustment to this end, like that proposed in the past by the District Commissioners? Obligation of Tazpaying Community. What is the obligation of the tax- payer—the general public—the mu-| i portant factor in city development, relieving urban congestion, minimiz- | ing slum development. this cheap | rapid transit enabling thousands to own homes and raise families in wholesome, healthful surroundings. This development has alse added mil- lions to the city's taxable property | and has thus increased largely the i:-ny'n tax revenues. The national government, which is also the local government, and the capital community having thus bene- { fited by the suburban upbuilding and tax revenue increasing services of the | company. rendered at a loss o far as | suburban service is concerned, and | having. by indirectly increasing wage “scales and by cutting down electric light profits, rendered the | company unable to bear the whole burden of this unprofitable transpor- tation, and having by the importation of more than a hundred thousand war workers vastly increased during war time the number of these long-haul, un- {profitable passengers—are under an {equitable obligation to note these serv- ices of the company fn the community interest in the past. and, so far as it can be done without injury to others, to correct the obvious injustices of the situation. The community, the local-national government, can recognize and meet its cquitable obligation by wise and consid- erate action in the Public Utilities Com- mission and in Congress. Since it has brought the company info financial straits by cutting down its electric light profits, by increasing its labor wage ex- penses and by swelling enormously the number of long-haul passengers, which it carrles at a loss, the government has_already recognized that it should {adjust railroad rates in such manner as, { vithout injury (o the public, to offset [effectively the losses which it has im- | posed, and it should also 8o readjust ! I i nicipality? The Washington Rallway !and Electric Company by cheap flat- | rate suburban fares has been an im- 3 issengers at a loss, distinetly in the| community interest, falls upon those | 4 [ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. (., FRIDAY, N N A 77 7 PRESIDENT ZAYAS INCHARGE N CUBA Cheered Upon Assuming Of- fice by Pledge of Fealty From Recent Opponent. By the Associated Press, HAVANA, May 20.—Dr. Alfredo Zayas, upon assuming the office of President of Cuba today, was cheered by a ca- blegram from Gen. Jose Miguel Go- mez, his opponent In the bitterly con- tested election of last November, ex- tending his felicitations and promis- ing his co-operation. The liberal party, of which Gen. Gomez 18 leader, engaged In a “lesis- lative strike,” following the an- tion, and it was only recently that it took part in any of the work of the congress. Gen. Gomez is at present in Néw York, and his cablegram was constdered an indication that his party will actively participate in the future work of the Cuban govern- ment. Emphasizes Need of Economy. Policles to be pursued by Dr. Zayas as president were indicated in one of his recent addresses, when he empha- sized the need of econdbmy in govern- mental expenditures and declared he would recommend to the congress the reduction of the budget from $136,- 000,000 to $60,000,000. Conditions of unemployment expected on the com- plction of the sugar harvest could be met, in part, he said. by giving idle men a chance to work on central highways, construction of which is planned in four provinces. Negotiation of a new commercial treaty with the United States was approved by Dr. Zayas. As means of | solving the acute financial stringency, he advocated an extension of the moratorium; aid for banks by the is- suance of adequately granted paper currency and formation of a co-oper- ative organization of Cuban banking nstitutions. Zayas Author and Lawyer. Dr. Alfredo Zayas, the new presi- dent of Cuba, is an author and law- yer. He is sixty years old and was educated in the University of Havana. During the Cuban war of independ- ence he was a delegate of the revo- lutionary party in Havana, and his activity in this connection becoming discovered by the Spaniards he was arrested in September, 1896, taken to Spain and later incarcerated in sev- eral prisons of the Spanish govern- ment in Africa. After the war he was freed and, returning to Cuba, entered upon an active political life. He was the founder of the patriotic committee, secretary of the constitu- tional convention and took a leading part in organizing the national, the liberal-national and llberal parties. He also was one of the jurists who helped to form the consultative com- mittee, appointed to draw up the or- | ganic laws of the island republic’s executive and judicial powers, as well as the laws relating to provincial and municipal institutions. At dif- ferent times he occupied the post of prosecuting attorney, judge and un- dersecretary of justice. During the revolutionary movement of 1906 against the Estrada Palma admin- istration Zayas was head of the revolu- tionary committee, and after Palma's fall he was clected vice president of Cuba. Writer on Primitive Cubans. In the world of letters Dr. Zayas is best known as an authority on the origin and history of the primitive Cu- bans, on bibliography and questions of Cuban law and political economy. From 1890 to 1893 he was publisher of a num- MAY nouncsement of the result of the elec- ¢ laccident ber of periodicals. He is a member of the Academy of History and for cleven years was president of the Sociedad Economics. Dr. Zayas has announced that one of the first acts of his administration will be to negotiate for a modification of the 20, Quadruplets Bring Letter to Parents From the President NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 20. —Mr. and Mrs Michael Salzo, parents of quadruplets born re- cently, today received n letter of congratulation from Presi- dent Harding. One of the four was mamed | Warren Harding, and the Presi- | dent expressed hin appreciation | of the compliment. THO EXPLOSIONS | | INU.S. LABORATORY! Blasts Blow Out Windows in Bureau of Markets—Instru- ments Damaged. A spark in a new plece of machin- ery used for the measuring of mois- |gram. ture content in grains caused two ex- plosions in the grain standardization laboratory of the Department of Ag- riculture’s bureau of markets today. Windows were blown out of the labo- ratory by the force of the explosion | $12.000. and valuable instruments were dam- aged seriously. The. centrifuge, the instrument in which the explosion occurred, was virtually demolished, it was said. The occurred shortly before luncheon period at noon. Occupants of the laboratory noticed the sparks in the centrifuge and rushed out of danger when it was realized that nothing could prevent an explosion. oFllowing the first report came an- other distinct and fairly powerful ex- plosion. Walls Badly Damaged. The walls and ceiling of the labora- tory were badly damaged by the smoke and heat. The fire depart- ment's prompt response is credited by officials of the bureau with pre- venting further damage. Other labora- tories on the same floor in which ex periments were taking place were vir. tually undamaged. The grain standradization labora- tory is housed in the west wing of the department. occupied by the bu- reau of plant industry. Today’s News in Paragraphs Hope for voluntary merger of traction lines abandoncd. Hesiy [ Justice Gould dies suddenly of heart trouble at his home. Page 1 Col. Harvey’s promise of U. S. co-opera- tion in allied councils lauded by Brit- ish press. Page 1 simplicity o mark funeral of Chief Jus- tice White. Page 2 American in soviet prison driven insane by brutality. Page 5 Message_from Vice President Coolidge stirs Presbyterians at Winona Lake, Ind. Page 14 Ambassador Harvey reveals U. S. policy toward European affairs in his first address in London. Page 18 Young bride is found brutally murdered in woods. Page 2 Maj. Koch wins steeplechase at close of horse show. Page 16 Exposition on national parks here is pro- posed. Page 17 Suspect in Wall street explosion iden- tified as wagon driver. Page 17 Gov. Morgan of West Virginia pro- claims martial law in Mingo county. Page 17 Chevy Chase workers for Presbyterian Church erection fund report they are nearing goal. Page 30 [} [ ny Star. 1921—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. CURTIS PROPOSES D. C. SCHOOL FUNDS i Offers Amendment to Second Deficiency Bill Covering Big Program. Appropriations for public school build- ings and grounds totaling $1,549,000 are proposed in an amendment to the second deficiency appropriation bill offered to- day by Senator Curtis of Kansas. In- cluded in the total is $10,000 for the pur- chase of a site for a branch of the free Public Library in the southeast section of the city. In addition to the direct appropria- tions proposed, Senator Curtis has in- cluded authorization for the Commis- sioners to enter into contracts for future construction amounting to about $400,- ooe. The amendment introduced today by | Senator Curtis is in effect his proposal for an emergency school building pro- The item for school buildings and grounds proposed are as follows: An eight-room extensible building on the site in the immediate vicinity of the Mott School, $140,000. For the purchase of additional land adjoining the John Eaton School.j For the erection of an eight-room addition to the John Eaton School, $140,000. * $300,000 Building Authorized. e Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all mews dispatches credited to It or not dtherwise ercdited 1o 1kis For beginning the erection of a junior high school north of Taylor street and ®ast of 14th street on land| owned by the District, $100,000, and | the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract for the buildin, at a cost not to exceed $300.000. For the purchase of a site for a| junior high school building in the| vicinity of the Gage. Emory and Eckington Schools, $50,000. For beginning the erection of a junior high school on the site in the | vicinity of the Gage. Emery and Eck- | ington schools. $100,000, with the lim- it of cost fixed at $300.000. For a site in the vicinity of the Smothers School, $5,000. For the erection of a four-room | building on the site to be purchased | in_ the vicinity of the Smothers = School, to replace the Smothers School, $70.000. For the purchase of a_ site for a! sixteen-room extensible building in ! the vicinity of Lincoln Park, $30.000. For the crection of an eight-room | extensible building on the site to b purchased in the vicinity of Lincoln Park, $140.000. For the erection of a four-room ad- dition to the Monroe School, $75,000. For the purchase of a site adjoining the Lovejoy School. $6,500. $40,000 for Site. For the purchase of a site west of 16th street northwest, in the Ingleside section, $40,000. For the purchase of land adjoining | the Phillips School. $9.000. For the purchase of a site for a six- teen-room building adjoining the Bu- chanan School, $30,000. Yor the erection of an eight-room extensible _building adjoining the Buchanan School, $140,000. For the purchase of a new site in; the vicinity of the Bell School. $20,000, and for the erection of an eight-room building on that site, $140,000. Tor the erection of a building for tubercular pupils. $150,000. For repairs and alteratiosn of the Harrison School used for colored tubercular children, $17,000. For the purchase of a site in the vicinity of Woodley Park, $140,000. For the purchase of land adjoining the Armstrong Manual Training School, $20,000. For the purchase of additional land north of Hayes School, $5.000. For the purchase of additional land edjoining the Emery School, $8,000; additional laml adjoining the Pea- body School, $20,000; additional land adjoining_ the Adams School, $15.000; additional land adjoining the Webb School. $15.000; additional land ad- joining the Harrison School, $15,000. 1 | nothing to do with the greatest or- cially |1 paper and also All rights of publication of special dispatches berein are also reserved. the local news publisa < ieren. | | L i | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 9},131 TWO CENTS. “DISCREDITABLE,” SAYS SENATOR HITCHCOCK OF HARVEY ADDRESS Ambassador Harvey's Pligrim’s dinner address vesterday was de- scribed today by Senator Hitch- cock of Nebraska, leader in the fight for ratification of the treaty of Versailles by the Senate, as discreditable performance.” “Col. Harvey evidently forgot that he was speaking as the am- bassador from the United States, said Senator Hitchcock in a formal statement. “His address was filled with improprieties. His attempt to commit Harding's administration to his own narrow and extreme views on the league of nations may suc- ceed. I shall be very much sur- prised, however, if President Hard- ing gave him the authority to do 80. Neither the ambassador to Great Britain nor the ambassador to any other country is the one to announce the foreign policy of the United States.” Senator Hitchcock said that ““Col Harvey's flings at former President Wilson were indecent.” and that “Col. Harvey's analysis of the mo- tives which led the United States to enter the war is a disereditable performance. “That analysis.” he continued, “puts the United States on the low- est possible level, and seeks to be- cloud, if not to besmirch. the great record made by this nation in that crisis of the world's history. “Col. Harvey's description of an Anglo-American alliance in the the vision of Brittania and Colombia hand in hand for mutual benefit hardly expresses the aspirations of the American people.” HARVEY'S PROMISE OF U.5. AIDLAUDED BY- BRITISH PRESS Purpose to Sit With Supreme Council on Silesia Issue Hailed With Satisfaction. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 20.—Newspapers of this city this morning featured the ad- a dress made last night by George Har- vey, the United States ambassador to Great Britain, at a dinner given by the _Pilgrims. Announcement made by Mr. Harvey that he had been directed by the State Department in Washington to represent America at the proposed meeting of the supreme | council at which the Silesian question is to be considered, and he declared that the United States, under no pos- sible circumstances, could be led into participation in the league of nations. Press Welcomes Frankness. Only two or three newspapers com- mented editorially upon the ambas- sador’s speech, apparently because of the late hour at which Mr. Harvey spoke. These journals cordially wel- comed the ambassador's expressions of friendship and his frankness. and commended his address in general. The Daily News, however, declared itself perplexed by America’s repudi- ation of the league of nations, that newspaper having been a whole- hearted champion of the league. It inferred from Mr. Harvey's addre: that the United States actually agrees with the objects of the league, but it exclaimed: Yet the United States will have ganization ever created for the fulfill- ment of the league's high purposes, and this is not because America dis- approves of any one of the objects of | the league, but becauwse her people at the last election gave a decisive vote against the party of one of the league’s chief founders. Is this policy or politics? mestic politics or international ‘Will Still Co-Operate With U. S. The Chronicle remarked: obody here has any desire to prescribe the channels in which America’s good will may flow, and just as we gave Mr. Wilson straightforward co-operation in founding the league, 80 we will co- operate Harding outside the league.” The Daily Express welcomed espe- the ambassador’'s pronounce- ment on the league of nations, which it described as “the end of an expen- was | ss | If the latter, is it do-; in the same spirit with Mr.| HOPE ABANDONED FOR A VOLUNTARY TRACTION MERGER |Utilities Commission Reports Differences Too Great to Be Reconciled. | FIVE SCHEMES FOR UNION OF SYSTEMS SUBMITTED Capital Company, in One Proposal, Tells Board It Is Willing to Run Under Reduced Fare. All hope of bringing about a wol- untary merger of the Washington Railway and Electric Company and the Capital Traction Company was | abandoned today by the Public Utili- ties Commission. Th.e commission issued a statement outlining, in brief, five plans of merger that were proposed and threshed out in the conferences be- [:;eeenmngems of the companies and mmission duri th =% ng . the past The statement concludes with the observation that the differences be- tween the companies “are so great as to be irreconcilable.” Willing to Accept Reduced Fare. In its second plan for consolida- { tion. submitted to the conferees, the Capital Traction Company told the commission it is able and willing to | operate under present conditions at a | reduced rate of fare. On this subject | the Capital Traction heads stated | _“We Tfail to find in the plans sub- | mitted any reasonable assurance of any considerable reduction in fare. The Capital Traction Company. as | now directed, and under existing con- tions. will continue to give mood | service. and is able and willing to do | %0 on a reduced far Control Is Stumbling Block. Tt is apparent from a study of the plans for merger presented by the two | companies that the question of { which would control the united sys- {tem was the one big stumbling bloc Before giving out the statement at the District building the Commission- | ers sent copies of it to the chairmen of the Senate and House District committees. Now Up to Comgress. The only remaining possibility for a union of the two roads now rests | with the committees of Congress. And even there the drafting of legisia- tion on the subject probably will | prove as difficult a job as that faced { by the Commissioners in attempting to get the companies 1o unite volum- tariiy. The statement of the commission | contains probably the most compre- | hensive exchange of views that has {ever been given the public on the | question of a merger. The statement {is signed by the six conferees as j follows: For the commission, Col. Charles W. Kutz and Commissioner James F. Oyster: for the Washington Railway and Electric. William F. Ham and Milton E. Ailes: for the Capital Traction Company. George | E. Hamilton and John H. Hanna. i Commissien's Statement. For use as one element in the de- | termination of the relative values of i | the properties to be included in the | proposed merger, each company un- dertook to inventory and value ail of the property In it possession on | June 30, 1914, both within and with- out the District of Columbla. which | was not included by the Public Utili- ties Commission in its getermination of the cost of reproduction of the companies’ propertics as of that date. using for the purpose of this valua- tion the same unit prices as far as possible as were used by the commis- sion. These priced inventories as pri pared by the companies were brought up to December 31, 1920, by the in- clusion of the net additions of prop- jerty that had been made between ! June 30, 1914, and December 31, 1920, and at the second meeting of the con- ferees on April 19, 1921, these in i ventories were presented and ex. changed, so that each company could examine the compilation made by the other. These inventories as submitted by the two companies showed the following values arrived at on the basis indicated above: practical added, sive sham.” “The learue. as an instrument of the newspaper s dead, and it is best to wind up its affairs with as little cost as may be.” idealism,” Capital Traction Company. Washington Railway and El Company (including mies and the Potomac Kl Power "Compans) its subsidiary street railway com- ectric torially speech, says that the allied nations will wish to meet America more than half way. now that Mr. Harvey, like the President. has made it clear that |3f American action will be inspired by |V the desire “helpfully to co-operate.” The Express declared it saw Allies to Go Over Half Way. The London Times, commenting edi- on Ambassador Harvey's Concerning Mr. Harvey’'s statement on the league, the Times say’: “That, at least, is cleagr. We know where we stand. The league has its own sphere | of usefulness, and in working within it, American feeling or lessen American Tespect for its endeavors. We hold that partisans of the league among the allied nations should welcome un- rese American co-operatioR now offered.” we believe, it will not estrange vedly the precise and practical Most Significant Point. The Times says the most significant passage in the ambassador's speech was the announcement that the am- | bassador would Harding in the supreme council in the = represent President cussion of Silesia. ‘This decision,” says the Times, in Amerlcan co-operation the only hope for Europe’s regeneration, remarking: *There is new hope for old, war-bat- | tered Europe in the help of a younger | soul. The league of nations has found a tirmer substitute.” At a subsequent meeting of the con- ferees. each company.submitted a plan of merger based upon these values, which are quoted in full below: Proposed Merger Plan. Washington Railway _and _Electric Company. Potomac Electric Power Com- pany and the Capital Traction Com- ny. The Capital Traction Company stock at par in first preferred cumulative 7 per cent stock, participating in earnings after 7 per cent is paid on common. oting power. Washington Railway preferred stock at 71.4285 in second preferred cumula- tive 7 per cent stock, non-participating. Voting power. _ Washington Railway common stock jat 60 in common stock. No voting power. | First _preterred | Second_preferred | Common” stock . $21,971,422.00 Second preferred, to be held for future needs . 8,028,578.00 Agreement to be had on fair value, and rate of return to yvield 7 per cent on common stock. Total income requirements would be: vasilogton railway Wasiitagton railwas system terest . shingt $1,302,000.00 W carning an enviable reputation by | ne more Wekets can e Loiriouted and| the taxation of the company as fo | commercial treaty brtween Cuba and A e ] R T T T e o the manner in which he conducted | miseion will be by :n‘é‘:fog":?o';\«z; :ccvtl)‘r:pll‘s: ::‘;u::-“:; e . = e nited Binted. d’l‘; 10 = itiaimays | can representative will be the ambas. | The Capitai et the office. e R R LR i funwise t s recognize that(to have been frien X sador who frankly states ‘we get no-| Compnay bond in- 3 My, Gould Jn 1858 married Mar-{iv s announced, as Mme. Curie’s|ix miximum. peoMtani i Nith |States and to desire an expansion of e el where until we ‘abruptly put aside Egaret, the second daughter of Horare | Kealth il vt orrmet its maximum profitable "short-haul|trade between the two countrics. Some academic discussion of " theoretical Catching Live Elephants 718,083.00 3 3 traffic_and its minimum long-haul of the magnitude of this trado Is Total interest 8. - ence from this city to Takoma Fark, | fuy by Mra. Meloney, poy snation to-|ington Rallway and’ Electric Company, [meroe, imports and exports between J ties' is of the happlest augury for the | Dividends. ocating Just beyond the D ark, | day by & ",'"'_'m"”f- ut the excite-|with ita maximum unprofifable long- |Cuba and the United States amounted ln a un e work he may be called upon to o | preferred . 425,000.00 Jooa © District | ment attending the visit to New York | haul and its minimum profitable short. | o $415.160.000 In 1917, exceeding that of ork he may be called upon to do- | westert Ln SRiNe Ho was elected, in 1357 a {and now the culmination, with the|rkaul traffic, are in different classes, and | cither Argentina. Chile, Brazil or Mex- Soyer.] TR i 4 i a 75 it.” the Westminster Gazette, in its! iv e Eithe houneliat) delerxt s apg;:e;jtprnemanon of the radium this after- | cunnot be handled on the basis of uni- | e In 1017 Cuba bought $189,875,000 i Totalaiviacnds P a v i ing the ambassador" oon. has been a severe and natural|form flat rate with uniform taxati ¢ American goods and the editorial regardi :5sador’s Jand, being the second republican who | tax upon Mme. Curic. orm Bxationjiof|iworthic 205,27 H rerv- 5 ! allusions to the league of nations, re- | 56,003 ever earsied Montgomery county. He | "Tomorrow Dromises to be a busy|" X chamuetin tax system from a tax | UPIEH (SIALCH, Purchased $225.275.000 Was an ordinary, every-day sort of job for {fers to the league as of American| Direction to be in board of directors wax the caucus noiminee of his party | day for Mme. Curle, however. wiih wosthieaCuba/SaYEAT. origin. t cts. ixty - selected at time of merger, as follows: fox speakcr of the houre of dele- | irips to th bureau of mincs ,.,,d!?,:',,:',‘..':T,fi':::;mu&?:n:?.',‘.:l..‘;,’,f",’,'. otnEIproducts Chatles I\.Iayer. He tragpcd sixty of the gi | Calls Lengue “American Child» | Five by the Capital Traction Company B ammittes and (hMCqrays and | standards in the morning “and " fto|and equitable Scheme of taxation and gantic animals at one time—and there was “The sober minds of Europe in no- | stockholders, three by Washington Rail- m | Mount Vernon in the uftcrnoon. At|would tend to expedite e bureau of mines she will d [ The following Year he contested for | {he new 10w Pressure laborators Sie the congressional nomination and for|trip to Mount Vernon is to be made 1.500 ballots was the leading candi-{gheard the Navy launch Slyph. To date. He withdrew. however. in favor | morrow night the French embassy of his personal friend. Col. George A.| (o entertain her at dinner. $900 FOR MONUMENT. Resolution for Funds to Repair Elevator Passed in Hous: way and_Electric Company stockholders and one by Public Utilities Commission. This board to continue until December 31, 1924. Each group to have power to fili vacancies and have substitutes in case of enforced absence from meetines, just merger. Obviously there in omething wrong with a tax meanured nolely hy gros income which ignores the outlay th repreaents the coxt of income. Such a tax wise repent having adopted _this American child” it says. “and if_the Step-parent has ceased to feel affec- tion for it they will, mevertheless, attempt to rear it 5o that it will be a. credit to its original home.” some excitement in it, too! may, a Read his remarkable article in the 5 Bunday | present instance, work ount = & This newspaper contends that the Capital Wants Coutrow Pearre {she will be Riven a dinner at the |posterous result of imposing a heme-| An appropriation of $900 for re- Magazme of hard logic of events has shown that|To Messrs. William F. Ham and Mil- Made Associate Justice In 1002, Polish legation. Her visit is to end | fer hurden ean pair of the Washington Monument perated neither America nor England can live in splendid isolation, and that “it is the master problem of the present time to make the British-American idea of an orderly world prevail against.the ldea of a fighting world, which still dominates most of Europe. (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ton E. Ailes, the Committee on Merger Appointed Pursuant to In- vitation of the Public Utilities Commission. “Gentlemen: “In view of the report you have given us._and the extended discus- J. (Continued on Page 28.) onday morning at 9 o'clock, when | 1902 Mr. Gould was appointed as- =& i DpoInted a3 ¢he is to leave for Philadelphia; sociate Justica of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, later be- “coming senior member. He was hon. F;d-'r by Georgetown IUniversity with elevator was mads Immediately avall- able by a resolution passed today in the House. This is part of the $3,400 ncluding | appropriation for the fiacal yorr 1333, fal bene- | byt repairs are immediately neces- - 8._approach | gary, Chairman Good of the House (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) appropriations committee announced, r Co-operation hy Everybody. Gramme Seat Here. Shall we not all of us, i PITTSBURGH. Pa. May 20.—The | those who have not been spec! gramme of radium to be presented |ficiaries of past condition: (Continued on Fage 2, Column 4.) Next Simday’s Star @ degree of LL. D, on the oceasion (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) i |