Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1922, Page 3

(TESREALNEED | poaecemmmor FOR NEWEST COURT Recorder for Latest World Judicial Points Out Its Characteristics. By the Assoclated Press. THE HAGUE, February 10.—The differences between the two interna- tional courts now established at The Hague peace palace, which are fre- quently confusing to the public, were explained to the Associated Press cor- respondent by A. K. E. Hammarskjold, the: official recorded for the new court of justice set up under the auspices of the league of nations and which will hold its first public meeting on February 15. The previously created permanent court of arbitration (the league of nations court is called the permanent court of justice), will be called upon next June to decide a case between Norway and the United States relating to claims for damages by Norwegians against requisitions made by the Emergency Fleet Corporation of the United States Shipping Board. Fixed Body Needed. “It has been felt for some time that the court of arbitration was not really permanent,” said Mr. Hammarskjold. “An agreement of the parties involved “was required in order to make it com- petent. The parties were represented on the tribunal by members of their own nationality. Even the material law of the court depended upon the Wwishes of the states concerned. “What was needed was a court al- ways available consisting of a limited number of judges holding regular sessions and basing their discussions on defined rules laid down, not by the parties concerned, but by general in- - ternational law or by treaties or, more generally deciding according to the principles of law. In other words, what was needed was a court that would be entirely independent of the parties concerned in its cases, a court that might be able vigorously to con- tribute to the formation and develop- ment of international law by its in- dependent judgments, and that would constitute a real jurisprudence.” Intended to Be Judicial. Mr. Hammarskjold pointed out that the new court was intended to be a judicial, and not an arbitral institution. ~ Otaer- wise, he said, it would merelw duplicate | ‘The Hague court of arbitration, in favor of whose continuance the Paris peace conference had pronounced. The league of nations court's statutes contain an optional clause whereby the ‘various members of the league may acknowledge the compulsory features of the court's jurisdiction. Such acknowl- edgement _has been given by elghteen states: Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Denmark. Finland. Haiti, Holland, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nor- way, Panama, Portugal. Salvador, Sweden, Switzerland and Uruguay. Tae adherence to this feature by Brazil was conditioned upon one of the great pow- ers accepting this clause. 4 By this clause, one signatory in effect: concludes a convention with all the other sig- natories of the clause agreeing to accept the court’s findings. This clause constitutes, therefore, the serious beginning of the trans- Pplantation into international domain of the principles and jurisdiction that have been maintained for centuries within the various states. 0ld Court Not Superfluous. “The states will prefer to address themselves.” said Mr. Hammarskjold. “to_abritrators chosen by themselves and intrusted with the conciliation of conflicting interests on a basis of legal considerations rather than to have” recourse to a tribunal consti- tuted with a view to applying the strict principles of law. But it is not correct to say that the old court should be regarded as superfluous on this account. “There are numerous questions Which states prefer not to submit to the protracted and costly procedure of arbitration. but which they prob- ably would hasten to bring before a court, where the expenses are not out of proportion to the importance of the affair. Those questions are arising almost daily which affect only slightly the political action of states -—questions that: are now solved ac- cording to the wishes of the stronger. ‘To bring disputes of this kind within the scope of justice and to create real jurisprudence in those domains are missions of the new court, which, in themselves, would suffice to make it an extremely important factor. Net Appreciable Factor. Arbitration has not been able to TO MAKE DEATH BY GAS MUCH MORE BIFFICULT BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 11— Suicide by gas will be more diffi- cult from today on, and accidental death from the same cause will be reduced, according to Di. H. G. McAdam of the city health depart- ment. A new device, a by-product of the war, has been adopted for use by the city to resuscitate il- luminating gas victims. Dr. Yandell Henderson of the- laboratory of applied physiology of Yale University is the discov- erer of the method. He perfected it after many years of study and collaboration’ with officials of the United States public health serv- ice, the bureau of mines of the Department of the Interior and the American Gas Assoclation. Details of the discovery have not been revealed. SOLDIER BONUS TAX | PLAN AGREED UPON Passed by Majority Members | of House Ways and Means’ Committee. An_eight-item soldiers’ bonus tax schedule was agreed upon by the majority members of the House ways and means committee yesterday and transmitted to the Senate, finance committee, which provides for ralsing | $316,000,000 to meet adjusted com- | pensation requirements. The pro- posed levy on checks wagy rejected. The program agreed upon is: Two and one-half per cent on the undivided profits of corporations, estimated to yield $22,000,000. On parcel post packages on which the postage amounts to 25 cents or more, a tax of 1 cent for each 25 cents or fraction thereof, $20,000,000. Tax on Gasoline. One cent a gallon on gasoline, $70,- 000,000. Twenty-five cents per horsepower | on_automobiles, $50,000,000. Double the present 10 per cent tax | on admissions where the charge ex- ceeds 25 cents, $60,000,000. Double existing documentary stamp taxes, except in the case of sales or transfers of capita) stock, on which the rate would be increased from 1-50 | of 1 per cent to 1-10 of 1 per cent, 1$64,000,000. } An increase of 50 cents per 1.000 in the tax on cigarettes, $25,000,000. Would Tax Tobacco. An increase of 2 cents a pound on smoking and chewing tobacco, $5.000,- Members of the Senate finance com- mittee discussed this program with the House subcommittee members for Inearly an hour without any conclu- sions. The conference was resumed today and after an agreement has been reached the plan is to present | the program to President Harding.for his views. Meantime, another subcommittee of the House ways and means committee will continue work on the bonus bill jitself_and it was the hope of Chair- tman Fordney and others to have the completed measure with the appended tax program ready for the House within a week or ten days. | | con.ribute appreciably to the develop- iment within the family of nations of | the idea of justice and law. Arbitra- tion, from its very nature, is to solve a certain conflict rather than be the instrument for the realization of Justice.” “That is both the strength and weakness of arbitration. But what arbitration failed to do is for the permanent court to realize. “To create, little by little, by pra tical and successful solutions, a co: science of justice within the com. munity of nations; to make that com- j munity love the conception of justice, and to compel nations to feel and ap- | preciate the invaluable :blessings of i law—thac is what thosel who equally far from sharing the thoughtless en- thusiasm of some and the unwar- rantable skepticism of others may | confidently expect from this new in- ! stitution.” SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. OFFICE PEOPLE DESIROUS OF RIDING TO and from their work in a closed car, driven by & careful younz man, moderate price, should phone Lincoln #474-W. 13° NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS. IF ANY. 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TURBERVILLE Formerly of Turberville & Harding Electric Wiring, Fixtures, A lies, PpP: 1719 Conn. Ave. N.W. Phone North 9407. ‘W. STOKES SAMMONS. 830 13th St. %=, Get our estimate on factory- made Window Shades. ! sight. PLACED CEMENT BAND IN TOP OF WALL ON COLUMBIA ROAD|, - Firepi'oofihg Compfa'ny Official at Inquest States Work Was'Doneb to Add Strength, Y Though Not in Contract. Plicing of an additional band of cement around the top of the Colum- bia road wall of the Knickerbocker Theater, not called for in the speci- fications, and by way of strengthen- ing, was admitted before the coro- ner’s inquest yesterday by Richard G, Fletcher, general manager' for the Hammett Fireproofing Company, con- tractors on the job. Fletcher told the jury that when the wall had reached the top, and after a conference with Frank L. Wagner, the general contractor, he recommended, because of its helght and curvature, that an additional cement band be added to strengthen it. Mr. Wagner agreed with him, he testified. He admitted, during in- terrogations, - that the specifications and his contract did not call for this, but it was decided upon after the wall was completed. Questions fail- ed to bring from him an admission it was necessary, the witness insisting on his statement that it was his be- lief that it would strengthen the wall. When adjournment of the inquest was taken yesterday afternoon until 10:30 o'clock Monday morning the end of the inquiry seemed to be in There are still five witnesses to be heard, and it all depends on the length it is found necessary to interrogate them whether the inquest will be completed Monday. Two dis- interested engineers are on the list, and .it is probable that their testi- mony will take some time. But there is the hope now of those conducting the inquiry that the whole matter may be given to the jury shortly! s I after noon Monday. ‘Will Tell of Tile' Work. The first witness to be heard Mon- day will be Harry Freeman, foreman for the Hammett Fireproofing Com- pany, contractors for the tilework on the Knickerbocker, from whom information will be sought as to the reinforcement. concrete inside the tile blocks. The two engineers who are to give expert testimony are R. J. Frankhouser and E. C. Ruebsam. Frank L. Wagner, general con- tractor for the building, will be re- called to the stand. He has been in- structed'to bring with him, for this examination, papers from his_files, which will show all the details of asking for bids, specifications, con- tracts, etc. As yet, the probers have been unable to have produced in the record a copy of the specitications for materials to be used on tae work, and this point is expected to be pressed at the resumption of the in- quiry on Monday. R. W. Geare, the architect, testified that he could not find his_specifications, although he produced other_papers bearing on tle construction. He did state, however, that they should be on file in the building inspector’s office. Thomas L. Costigan, who was com- puting engineer in the building in- spector’s office at the time the Knick- erbocker plans were examined, and Who passed on them, is to be recalled to the stand Monday. It is probable that he will be asked regarding the specifications for the buildinsg. Bricklayer Adds Little. Joseph O’'Comnor, a bricklayer, of 3319 ‘; street, who worked on the Knickerbocker, the first witness yesterday afternoon, did not shed any material light on the cause of the disaster. He testified that he heard the iron workers on the job talking about one beam over the main entrance to the playhouse not having enough wall bearing. Before leaving the stand, however, he stated, in answering Coroner Nevitt, that the beam to which he referred did not fall and is still in place. . He told the jury he left the job before the roof framing was put im Fletcher who lives at 4800 Chappell lane northwest, then was called. He said he was general manager for the firm_that put in the fireproofing at the Knickerbocker. “Did you superintend, the concrete work?” asked District Attorney Gor- don. “Only in a general way. We had a superntendent, Harry Freeman, on the job,” witness replied. In answer to a question by the district attorney, Mr. Fletcher ex- plained that the roof of the theater was a three-inch concrete slab, rest- ing on the steel beams and reinforced with wire mesh. THe district attorney asked him if the wire mesh was drawn taut, or if it was higher at one end than the other. The witness replied that there was no way to draw it taut, that it was rolled out the full length of the roof in its natural position, supported by wooden frames, which were removed after the poured concrete had “set.” Depended Upon Bea “Did you inspect the work? Maj. Gordon. Yesr “While in progress?” “Frequently.” Mr. Fletcher said they didn’t depend on the walls for support of the con- crete slab. The beams, he continued, carried the slab. The slab may have borne only an inch on the ,wall, he testified. “Did_ the stability of the building depend on how that wire reinforce- ment was placed?” Coroner Nevitt asked. “I wouldn’t say that the general stability depended on it,” the witness answered. Would Carry Load. He testified that a beam could be knocked out in the building and that the wire reinforcement would carry the slab load. Asked if the wire was raised over the beams, he testified no effort is ever made to do this in a slab three inches thick. The board of engineers h':‘d found fault with failure to do " asked this. “Fault has been found with insuf- ficient reinforcement of the end pan- els of the slab,” Maj. Gordon sug- o ont 11 wh “I don’t recall what wa tthtIglrtlculln" 2 onejn o you put anything in - quired by the lvaclflc\tfona?"noatll::d Ringold Hart, assistant corporation counsel. Put Concrete in Tiling. “We put concrete in the top tiling around the Columbia road wall.” “Why did you do that?” Mr. Hart pressed. “Because it ‘was a high wall and curved, and I thought it would strengthen it. Mr. Wagner agreed with me.” He did not recall that he had re-. ceived any additional compensation for this. “Were the sheets of tile tied to the wall?” Coroner Nevitt asked. “There was one place I discovered they were not tied—between the Co- lumbia road and stage wall.” “Can you tell why the stage wal was not tied to the wall to the east?” Maj. Gordon asked. “it was tled, except for a space of six feet. It was bonded sufficiently to break the wall further back in the wall.” Stage Wall Cracked Through. “I haven't any opinions to offer as to the cause of the disaster, but this wall over the stage is cracked all the way through, showing that if it has been bonded with steel rivets it would have broken,” witness vol- unteered. “How much is it, bonded at the tep,” Maj. Gordon continued. “About one foot. | _“Then there is a that is not bonded?" | “Yes, sir.” ! “Did’ you discover any nine inches shortness in any of the beams,” Cor- oner Nevitt asked. . “No, sir.” | “Why did the roof fall,” Maj. Gor- don interjected. “I don't know.” | “Was it because of the way you ace of six feet constructed it,” Maj. Gordon con- tinued. “No, sir. It would be only natural for me to think that way.” | ONPARLEY RESULTS German Newspapers Declare It-“Personal Victory” for American Statesman. BY GEORGE WITTE. & By Wireless to The Star 22d Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1922. BERLIN, Germany, February 11.— German newspapers, which e usually very slow in bestowing praise on foreign statesmen, are almost unanimous in declaring that what was accomplished at the Washington conference was a personal victory for Secretary Hughes. Conservative journals now admit that their predic. tions that nothing would be done at the conference were unfair and that much has been done to insure the world against the early recurrences of so disastrous a war as the last one was. Sums Up Results. ‘The liberal Berliner Tageblatt, in summing up the results of the con- ference, says: “Until a few months ago the situa- tion in the Pacific was so grave that experts predicted that peace there would be of short duration, but now, through the conference, peace has been insured for many years to come. The conference also succeeded in re- lieving the tension of the whole world suffering under heavy arma- ments. The United States scored again by preventing the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and it will soon be out again in the fight for. the open door in China. “Finally, the United States and Great Britain reached a complete un- derstanding on the most important points of their foreign policies and all but formed an Anglo-American al- liance. In short, the Washington con- ference ended in a victory by the United States and Great Britain over Europe.” Thep reactionary Kreuzzeitung also declares that the conference Wwill eventually prove to have been suc- cesstul ‘in putting off indefinitely the serious conflict which had been brew- ing In the Pacific since the war. Margaret Matzenauer Recital One of, the most delightful recitals of the season was given at the National Theater yesterday afternoon by Mme. Margaret Matzenauer, con- tralto of the Metropolitan Opera Com- any. % Hir voice was rich and vibrant in the low tones, and yet possessed a light, buoyant quality, unusual for a contralto, which was particularly adaptable to the rendition of sofs whimsical themes. Above all, Mme. Metzenauer sang with perfect ease, and controlled her voice so well that no apparent effort was required to hold in check the.volume'of voice at her command. Mozart's ‘“Cradle Song” was the first outstanding number on the pro- gram, for Hs quiet, soothing melody was admirably suited to the artist's voice. An aria, “Lieti, Signor” from “Les Hugenots” followed as a con- trast, for its quick runs and tril unaccompanied cadenzas and sus tained notes were in the nature of technical display without noticeable sweetness of harmony. Schumann's “Sandman” was whim- sical in its airy motif, and Mme. Mat- |1 zenguer's interpretation was exquis- ite. ' The “Sapphic Ode,” by Brahms, served to demonstrate the singer's versatility, for its despairing minor theme voiced tragedy in every note, and she sang it so impressively and seemed so deeply affected by it her- self, that the audience was almost breathless in its concentrated atten- tion. The popular “Gavotte” from “Mi- Isnon" also especially appealed to the auditors, while the *“Mexican Folk Song” arranged by Frank La Forge was so well recelved that the artist was forced to repeat it. In addition, she gave “Hedge Rose,” by Schubert; “In the Time of Rosses, by Reichardt, and “To & Messenger” by La Forge, as encores. £ Mr. Vause, the accompanist, played two charming selections of the piano, the first, “Romance,” by La Forge, and the second “Eu Route,”” by d. After being insistently recalled several times, he responded with “Lento,” by Cyril Scott. E.D. E. T STRAYER’S . BUSINESS 721 POSITIONS FOR NEW AND ENLARGED SCHOOL BUILDING Thirteenth St. NW.. (BETWEEN G AND H 8TS.) 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