Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 2

2 MATHER BUILDING Fire Regulations Governing Film Exchanges Will Be Complied With. Work will be started immediately to place the Mather building, G street between Sth and 10th streets, in strict compliance with the new fire regula- tions governing motion plcture film exchanges. This statement was made this after- noon by Roger J. Whiteford, attorney for Mr. Mather, following a long con- ference with Commissioners Oyster and Keller. This building houses two- thirds of the thirty-one film ex- changes in Washington. Fire Chief George Watson and Corporation Coun- sel Stephens attended the conference with Mr. Mather's attorney. Plan Completed. Mr. Whiteford stated that plans for the remodeling are completed and on file in the building inspector’s office and a contractor has been practically engaged to begin work The new fire rules, which became effective yester- day, call for a sprinkler system in all tuildings housing film exchanges and a separate vent pipe from each film vault in the building to the roof. The attorney estimated that it will cost Mr. Mather between $30,000 and $40,000 to make the necessary renova- tions. The task will require about three mont A representative of the fire marshal's office made an inspection tour of all the film exchanges this morning. ‘Warrants to Be Asked. Chief Watson stated this afternoon that he would apply to the Police Court late today or Monday morning for warrants against three other ex- change companies not located in the Mather buildin The chief said that in view of the steps taken by Mr. Mather to put his building in compliance with the regu- lations, all of the exchanges in that building will be permitted to keep in their vaults the fllms that are to be used from day to day, removing all unnecessary films Mr. Mather further agreed to place watchmen on each floor of the building where ex- changes are located every night un- til the necessary changes are made as a fire precaution. MAN HELD UP, ROBBED. Woses Galloway, colored, 10 Decatur luee northeast, reported to the police e was held up by two armed white men about 0 o'clock last night. He reported the loss of $45. Report was made by Morris Berman, 925 D street, that three small boys visited his store last night and one of them took a revolver, he said. Harry Simpkins, apartment 31, 1433 T street, told the police of the theft of wearing apparel valued at $125. The theft was committed in the hallway of the apartment house about 7:30 o'clock last night. Walter Tucker, 2201 Queen’s Chapel road, told the police that his pocket was picked of a pocketbook contain- ing 331 at New York avenue and 9th street several days ago. TOBE MADESHFE| Relatives of Men Who Died Since general bonus, tinued the statement. has not opposed a bonus merely on account of the amount of money that is involved. Attention has been called RULES NEWSPAPER MAN HOLDS MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED PROFESSION By the Associated Pres: BOSTON, March 4.—A newspaper man is & member of a learned pro- fession under a’ruling just made by United States immigration of- ficials in Montreal. The decision was given in the cage of a native of England, resi- dent for years in Canada, who left the Dominion the other day for Boston, there to pursue his occu- pation as a newspaper man. Late at night’ he was roused from his train berth by an immigration of- ficer and was compelled to leave the train and submit to an exami- nation by a board of officlals at the border to determine whether he came within the scope of the law which prohibits bringing alien labor into this country under con- tract. He was quizzed as to his ante- cedents, his ooccupation, the num- ber of years he had followed it (which were many), the conditions under which he purposed going to the United States, the extent of his resources, the size of his fam- ily, ete. The issue, proving too big for determination by the border offi- cials, was referred to the imm gration authorities at Montreal, Who decided that he was not under the ban of the law, because as a newspaper man he was a member of a learned professfon. CONSIDERING BONUS FOR RELATIVES OF DEA| D Discharge Would Profit Un- der Proposal. An added provision to the com- promise soldiers’ bonus bill, under which the immediate relatives of men who died since their discharge from the service would receive adjusted compensation, is under consideration by majority members of the House ways and means committee. A de- cision is expected on Monday. Sponsors of the proposal favor pay- Ing such relatives the face value of adjusted service certificates, on the same basis as is proposed in the bill for service men generally. This would equal the amount of the ad- Justed service pay, plus 25 per cent. They estimate that the cost to the Treasury probably would not exceed $25,000,000, and argue that the pay- ments would be a matter of simple Justice. OPPOSES NEW BONUS PLAN. U. S. Chamber of Commerce States Its Objections. A general bonus pald through cer- tificates. is just as objectionable, from the point of view of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, as such a bonus paid in cash, Joseph H. Defrees, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, de- clared in a statement Issued last night. “The chamber’s opposition however paid “The chamber to a con- to the money requirements because of their importance and the financial ?rflblems and consequences they en- ail. Similar reasons demand public Alla Hammond, a colored employe attention to the plan now being con- of the District government, living at sidered by a committee of Congress. “Some features of the certificate 143 A street northeast, reported to the police that he was blackjacked and robbed of $23 by three colored plan now under consideration by the House committee on ways and means men last night on New Jersey avenue between H and 1 streets. are even more objectionable than the original bonus bill. that certificates should be used as It is proposed Closely questioned by Detective Cornwell, in charge of the detective collateral for loans at banks, and office at night, Hammond Is said to have adnritted he: was- not -robbed. Hamond$, exdlanation. of the: re- port was that he had spent his money the night before and did not have the amount of cash he should have sent his children in Philadelphia. HIs re- port was wite.drawny ¥ d HOPES FOR FRIENDSHIP. President Wires td Colombia After Treaty Ratification. President Harding, it was announced last night, has sent a telegram to Acting President Holguin of the republic of Colombia. expressing the hope that as a result of the exchange of ratifications such loans should be rediscounted at the federal reserve banks. purpose means return to war condi- tions,- under which the reserve banks held large amounts of loans secured by government war obligations. of the problems of readjustment has been to get this paper out of the re- serve banks and other paper of simi- lar kind out of other banks. progress has been made, progress will be undone by the new proposal. Such a One Great but this “Loans of this character have no place in the commercial banking sys- tem. They found their entry only in & wag emergency. g0 into t;‘m federal re!g“’e system ex- cept such as are speedily and sui self-liquidating. it A principle means No loans should Violation of inevitable this of the treaty with Colombia “all mis- understandings which ‘have existed may ~ wanish and all obstacles which could prevent a resumption of the historical friendship between tie people of the United States and the people of Colom- bla may be swept away, and that from this time on each year that passes will make closer and more cordial the rela- tions between the two republics.” Messages of congratulation have been exchanged, it also was announced, be- tween the acting secretary of state here and the minister of foreign affairs of Colombia. CONCERT CHANGE MADE. Society of the Fine Arts Revises Program. Owing to the closing of the audi- orium of the Central High School for been obliged to make the follow- /g changes ig its program. The con- cert by Francis Rogers, which was to have been given Monday evening, March 6, will be Tuesday evening. March 7, at the First Congregational Church, 10th and G streets. The lec- ture by Prof. Burton, which was to _have been given Thursday evening, March 9, has been canceled. The con- cert by the Flonzaley Quartet on March 13 will be given in the Masonic Temple Auditorium. 4 s — W.H. COVERT DIES IN WEST ‘Well Known Washingtonian Suc- cumbs in San Francisco. ‘Word has been received of the death of William Henry Covert, well known printer here for many years, who died this week in San Francisco, Calif. Mr. Covert had been suffering from asthma and had gone west in hopes of recovering his health. Mr. Covert was born in Washing- ton, Ind., fifty-six years ago. When seventeen years of age he entered the county paper of his father's, Jacob Covert, where he learned the trade of a printer. Coming to Washington he completed forty years service in that line. His sons, William B. and " Charles A. Covert, both printers of this city, are of the third generation of printers in their family. Surviving him, besides his sons, are his mother, Mrs. Maria Covert, and a sister, Mrs. G. L. Austin, both of this city; a brother, Charles G. Covert of Evansville, Ind., his wife, Mrs. Fannie Booth Covert, now visiting relatives in Oakland, Calif., and four daugh- ters, Miss Marie Covert of this city and Mrs. J. T. Buck, Mrs. C. Anthony ‘Wolfe and Miss Helen Covert. Inter- ment will be in Evansville. —_— TRAFFIC RULE ORDERED. Madison Place for North Bound Trafic 7 to 12 P.M. Madison place from Pennsylvania avenue to H street will be for north- bound traffic only from 7 until 12 p.m., under an amendment to the trafi regulation ordered by the Commissioners yesterday. ‘The purpose of this rule is to pre- vent congestion of automobiles bringing patrons to the theater in that block. Police of the third precinct had attempted to eaforce the one-way rule there in the evenings, but the Police Court dismissed the case of a motorist who refused to obey the policeman’s order on the ground that Madison place was not ted 8 one-way strest in the nl& and other evils which are sure to fol- l‘:wl violation of sound banking prin- ciples. “It may be expected that evil ree sults of such a plan as has been pro- posed will be Increased as detalls are announced—such details as the terms of fl;e loans and the rate of redis- count.” ASK CONGRESS TO ACT. Mount Alto Hospital Patients Urge Adjusted Compensation Bill. Resolutions calling upon Congress | to enact the adjusted compensation bill and stating that the American Legion, in urging passage of the bill, is carrying out the request of all former service men and women, whether disabled or not, are contained in a petition prepared for submission to the House today and signed by 113 patients at Mount Alto Hospital. The resolutions call attention to the work of the legion in urging legisla- tion of benefit to the disabled veterans and enumerate the various soldier measures which the legion has been successful fn having enacted. Among ¥em are: The first Sweet bill, increasing temporary total bene- fits to the disabled from $30 a month to $80 a month; the appropriation of $18.600,000 for the construction of permanent hospital; urging the passage of the consolidation bill, establishing the Veterans’ Bureau; the bill allowing time spent in voca- tional tralning to apply as residence upon & homestead; the bill granting the right of retirement to disabled emergenoy officers, and in urging sufficient appropriations for depart- ments of the government providing hospital care, compensation, insurance and vocationsl training. SHIP SUBSIDY PLAN ‘GIVEN SUPPORT (Contimmed from First Page.) use it agalsst America and American shipping. “I claim the same right for my coun- try to estadlish a merchant marine as other countries enjoy," continued Com- missioner Chamberlain, who then gave instances of what he termed “for. eign interference” in American affairs, and said: “When I feel a thing deeply, T say it, and I wish to God everybody in America would do the same, and speak ?rn last and all the time for Amer- ca. ‘A_direct subsidy never built up a merchant marine in any country in the world,” he declared. “Those countries which have sub- sidized the most have accomplished the least. “The experience of the United States is that the policy is vicious. Commissioner Chamberlain stated that secret and insidious foreign in- fluence is seeking to destroy Amer- fca's effort to build and maintain a merchant marine, and declared that these influences rejoice in the “impo- sition of strictures that tend to preju- dice the American people against lelndlns financial support to our ship- ping.” Other addresses made at the con- cluding session of the convention tc- day were by Charles H. Potter, J. Howard Pew. Emil P. Albrecht and Edward A. Filene. Senator Westey L. Jones of Washington spoke at a dinner held at the hotel last night, his subject being the steps netessary to bring about an American merchant marine. H. H. Raymond spoke, inflation | THE EVENING STAR, SAYS DISTRIBUTORS GET MILK PROFITS Producers’ Association Head Charges Producers Do Not Get Proportion. ‘Washington milk consumers are forced to pay year in and year out an average of from. 4 to 6 cents per gallon more than consumers in Balti- more, although the producers receive only half a cent a gallon more than is paid on the Baltimore market, accord- ing to charges made today by Dallas Berry, president of the Maryland- Virginia Milk Producers’ Association, before the Lampert subcommittee of the House District committee, which is investigating the Washington milk situation. Mr. Berry gave figures for March, 1922, both-in Baltimore and in Wash- | ington in answer to statements made | by attorneys representing the dis- tributors at the milk hearing. He emphasized that in spite of the big difference in price paid here by con- sumers, as against Baltimore, and the relatively small difference paid to the producer, the producers for the Balti- more market are not required to have their herds tuberculin tested or to sifow a satisfactory farm score. Mr. Berry reminded the subcommit- tee that the discrepency in price pald by the censumer in Washington as against Baltimore does not in any way ;Nu’lll the producer for the local mar- et. Former State Senator J. N. Barnsley of Onley, Md., accused Raiph Fort, who conducts'a dairy laboratory at 1341 New Jersey avenue' northwest, hunfair discrimination against tne farmers in his reports of butter-fat content Which | he gives to the distributors. He said he had” known of cases where milk was charged with a lesser amount of butter fat than it contained as shown by a test made in his presence. PRISON CAMP FUGITIVE ARRESTED BY POLICE Alabama Man Consents to Return. Convicted for False Reg- istration. Dr. Robert Willlam Jordan was the name given by a young man arrested in this city last night by Detectives Scrivener and King as an alleged fugitive from a prison camp near Aldrich, Ala., where he was serving a sentence for forgery. His capture resulted from a message recelved by the local representative of the Burns detective agency contain- ing_the information that the fugitive, R. W. Jones, alias John B. Bell, allas Leon Jones, had been writing to his wife in Plant City, Fla., under the name of Jordan. His name, found on the hotel regis- ter, he at first denied his identity, but latter admitted it and consented to re- turn to Alabama and complete his sentence. L Jones, the police say, was tried in Alabama on charges growing out of alleged misconduct with a young woman. and acquitted. He then was charged with forgery, the laws of Al- abama making it such an offense to register at a hotel under an assumed name. His conviction of the forgery charge resulted in his being sent to the prison camp, from which he es- caped Christmas day. Shortly after coming to this city, it | was stated, the fugitive engaged room and board at the home of Po- lice Sergt. J. Willard Greene, 1414 K street, and recently left there and | went to a hotel. He was stlling stocks in this city and is said to have done well. An officer is expected here | from Alabama tomorrow for the pris- oner. : 3 SECRETARY OF INTERIOR . MUST DO OWN JUDGING D. C. Supreme Court Rules De- cisions of Judicial Nature Cannot Be Made by Assistant. The Secretary of the Interior must review and pass on all decisions in the department which are of a ju- dicial nature, and may not delegate this duty to an assistant secretary, according to a decision of Justice Stafford of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, rendered today. The court ordered a mandamus to issue against Secretary Fall, to com- pel the reinstatement of William E. Baff of Worcester, Mass, who was disbarred from practice in the patent office about one ygar ago. An assist- ant secretary revidwed the finding of the disbarment board and the court held that only the Secretary could ex- ercise tne judicial function placed on him by the law. Counsel for the Secretary noted an appeal to the Court of Appeals and WASHINGTON, D. C, retiring Postmaster Genera Work, the new Postmanter General SATURDAY, NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL TAKES “MARCH 4, 1922. AR L OATH OF OFFICE. HATL PWoTo in fromt, Will Hayx, the tered the oath, and Hubert PERUSWEIRDTALE - OF DEATHS DENIED Ambassador Pezet Ridicules Age Limit ann Canni- balism. Statements by Dr. Joseph Barcroft, a British scientist, that in villages near Cerro de Pasco, in the Peruvian | Andes, lives a race which has an established age limit and kills and eats those who attain it, as an eco- nomic matter, were declared yester- day by Ambassador Pezet of Peru as “go ludicrous that werc such remarks not Invested with a certain welght, owing to the reported position of the professor, I would not trouble to re- fute them.” Prof. Barcroft recently returned from a Peruvian expedition and is now delivering a series of lec- tures at Lowell Institute. Ambassador's Statement. Ambassador Pezet's statement fol- lows: “Cerro de Pasco is the center of the largest and most important copper mining and smelting district of I'eru, and is principally worked by a pow- erful American company (The C The today. “antis" an organigation. energles | play of hosiery on Unique, 8th and E will be displayed in on living models. The display was the display. shocked and that of the sex, TOPEKA, Kan, girl were exceedingly busy|the display This time it was the anti-|Weather, and placed a sign in the feminine leg display, an effort to prevent the dis- able to see for yourself how alluring is the appeal of the new designs.” ind Monday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Early this morning, shortly after the store had opened, penheimer, manager of the estaolish- ment, received telephone me: women who entered protests against They stated they were exceedingly workers are still “ANTIS” PROTEST PROPOSED DISPLAY O’ HOSE IN WINDOW ON LIVE MODELS today because of the | window to that effect. He said at the present time he intends to give the display on Monday. “There is nothing to be shocked llving models in a | at,” he said. “It will be noticed that if there is such They devoted their | show window of Oppenheimer’s Shop the curtain of the window is drawn streets northwest. | to a point where only the legs of A large advertisement yesterday car-| the model, from the knee down, will ried the announcement that “Hosiery | show. These models will not display one of our windows ' as much as those who are attired in There you will be! bathing suits at any of the bathing beaches or on the streets. I intend to have the display Monday unless something unforseen prevents.” Although no police detail was need- | ed to keep the curious away from the Sylvan Op- | window this morning, it was notice- l able that around 10 o’clock and there- after male after male, and in many instances females, ked up to the | window to get a view of the display of stockings on living models. The =sign, “Display postponed until Mon- advertised for today ages from such a display by | living mndel!h\voul;‘li lower the morals | day because of the weather,” greeted e said. Mr. Oppenheimer said he called off | they intended to return Monday. GIRLS DENOUNCING $87 BUDGET CROWD STORE IN BARGAIN HUNT By the Associated Press. | them. Several were heard to remark | comment and the stocking incident, March 4.—Topeka’s | the crowd was orderly. Members of unconvinced | 4. gngtration against what they be- e nan oo per o poration), avith | that $87.05 is a reasonable outlay for | jieved - to be an unjust clothing many million dollars’ capital. It Isthe |clothes for a vear, as given in testi-| budget. headquarters of a large American col- |mony by a department store sales- —_— ony, composed of the officers of the company and their families; -here is, besides, an important Peruvian popu- lation. This town, although at such a high_altitude (over 14,000 feet above sea level) is only one day's raliroad journey from Lima, the capital of Peru. “While denying In the most emphat- ic manner that any such revolting and absurd customs exyst in Peru, it might be asked that, if they did, how could they continue to flourish, ap- parently with impunity, at such close proximity not only to the capital, but to the town of Cerro de Pasco, With- out the practices coming to, the knowledge of the government author- ities. to that of the American com- munity of the town and to the count- less travelers, who all include a trip to the mines in their itinerary? “Fantastic Story.” “It is certainly extraordinary that the residents of Cerro de Pasco them- selves and the innumerable travelers trom all over the world should have apparently all agreed, for so many years, to keep the occurrences secret until the advent of the learned pro- fessor, who recklessly betrayed the trust and launched the fantastic story upon an, I hope, incredulous public. “That the native population around the mines does not live in luxury is not to be denied; but their methods of living compare very favorably with those of the workers in the mining districts of Cornwall, Lancashire and Yorkshire, in England, which I have visited. It is, indeed, lamentable to find the name of an apparently repu- table person given as the authority for such a farrago of misleading non- sense and deliberately untruthful state- ments."” woman before the dustrial relations. saleswoman. apparent leader, an’s clothes cost year. gathered upon the What! they said. clothe The counter, where A half-frighten the stockings. as she snatched set and the $7 budget. declared that if the holding of the court is sustained a number of-de- cisions involving land grants may be placed in jeopard. —_——— MANY AFFAIRS BANNED. Restricting Auditoriums Blow to State and Citizens’ Group. Restrictlon of public school audl- toriums to the use of students, urged by the Commissioners in a communi- cation to the board of education, is virtuglly a death blow to the com munity center activities in the opinion of school officials, who are today making preparations to enforce ail the recommendations of the city heads. First steps to outline a pro- gram of the activities that can be carried on in the school buildings by the community centers, under the recommendation of the Commission- ers, were taken at a conference be- tween Superintendent Ballou, Assist- ant Superintendent Kramer and Miss Cecil B. Norton, general director of the community center department of { the publia schools. After a hasty interpretation of the Commissioners’ suggestions, school officials voiced the belief that not only would the musical concerts and lec- tures scheduled to be given in the high school auditoriums be restricted, but that the meetings of the citizens’ associations and state societies held in the graded school assembly halls would have to be prohibited. Many jmeetings and receptions, it was pointed out, have been planned by the state socfeties in the various school assembly halls this month, and all of them will have to be pro- hibited. HEARING ON MARCH 15. Mr. Hoover to Attend Colorado River Commission Sessions. Secretary Hoover probably will leave Washington March 11 for Phoe- nix, Aris., to conduet the hearings there of the Colorado river commis- sion, it was said today at the Com- merce Department. Mr. Hoover, it was said, probably will go by way of New Orleans, ar- riving In Phoenix on Mafch 15, the date set for the hearings to begin. ‘The Colorado river commission, of which Mr. Hoover is chairman, was created jointly by Congress and the several states interested in' the re- sources of the river to work out plans for the development of the irrigation and power possibilities of the Colo- rado river. SENT TO CAMP STANLEY. ult Herbert H. White, fleld artil- lery, has been relieved from duty with the general staff in this city and as- signed to the 4th Field Artillery at Cawp Stanley, Tex, - R COMMITTEE TO FAVOR IM conviction, they pointed to their visit to the store last night en masse in pearch for the bargains named by the About 300 of the girls, without an | store after they had been told that the woman haa presented a budget to the | commission which is hearing evidence concerning the cost of living. in order to fix & new minimum wage for work- ing girls, showing that articles that would not make a wom Their work for the day had been completed about 5 o'clock, when they $87.55 a year for clothes!” | “Let's go and See these | groups consolidated. They headed for the store. They entered in a long,‘ its agents, have been since June, 1920, column “and _grouped the stockings, which had been listed in|complste survey, and now while the the budget were kept. wear those things, dashed them on the floor. were curious to see the §30 suit that would wear three years, the $1 cor- They viewed the articles with scathing comment. The saleswoman who had prepared | the budget, it was reported, left the | done homestly and there is every evi- store as the girls entered. ] With the exception of rather biting the soclety. Kansas court of in- In proof of thelr ASKS AID IN OBTAINING FREE MAILING PRIVILEGE Thé board of directors of the Pris- oners’ ‘Relief Society has asked Sena tor Elkins of West Virginia to aid the society'in obtaining the privilege of franking its mail, thereby making it free of any charge for handling by the postal service. Tn'a letter to Senator Elkins E. E. Dudding, spealfing for the board, sald, in part: ‘The great railroads of the country | have been for some years furnishing = o5 g | US With free passes and the coal peo more than $87.55 a| b1 ave given us our coal. We have | Been handling for the government many ex-convicts on parole and otherwise and we feel that they should do something to help out the work we are doing. 1f things go as we plan we will write about six mil- | lions of letters in 1924. | “The federal government, through crowded into the the store sold streets. g | word spread and around the ! 1d _the| jnvestigating the Prisoners’ Relief -cent” lisle | 2 Society and they have made a very ! matter is fresh and the investiga- d salesgirl produced | tors are available, it is a good time ‘Bah! Who would| for us to strike for the free mailing a girl demanded | privilege. We have done a work that the stockings and been needed for a long time and The girls have done the work in a business- like way, and we have done our work with less money than is usually spent for such purposes. The Post Office Department, if they will, know that this society is clean to the core; they know, also, that the work has been dress listed in the | dence of sincerity in the conduct of memts e SHOWING REASONS PROBABLY PROMPTING SENATE APPROPRIATIONS! PROVEMENT OF THIS STREET. and ecinders, stranded three mutomobllé trucks om this men were trying to get them out to hard ground at the axles in mire the party said they intended only a| CARUSO’S VOCAL CORDS TWICE NORMAL LENGTH AND LUNGS IMMENSE By the Associated Press. ROME, March 3.—The throat of Enrico Caruso, which was lef the time of his death to the Museum focr medical examinatior, was reproduced pictorizlly by tne Rome newspapers today. Doctors whose opinions were published de- scribed it as the most extraor- dinary development known for vo- calization. Caruse’s vocal cords were twic the normal length and his bre ing power was describe s nomenal. The epiglottis Teport as “’preposterous. PLANE OUT OF CONTROL, DROPS WITH AVIATORS Lieut. Harold Beaton and Private Sheridan Cook Narrowly Escape Death in Anacostia River. Their De Haviland plane swinging out of control in a tailspin, Lieut. Harold Beaton, twenty-seven, of the Chastleton and Private Sheridan Cook of Bolling Field, had a narrow es- cape from death or serious injury while flying over the Anacostia river and vicinity vesterday afternoon. The plane swooped into the Ana- costia river, just missing a sand and gravel wharf at the foot of South Capitol street, and Private Perry, stationed at the Bolling Field wharf for the general purpose of rescue, immediately chugged out to the scene of the wreck in a launch. He had the occupants aboard quickly and they were in Bolling Fleld quarters, shivering and dripping wet, within half an hour. No serious effects, it was stated, are expected from the immersion and the fliers are suffering only from shock, cuts and bruises. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, March 4 (Special) —Charters have been granted by the state corporation commission to three corporations with headquarters i Alexandria. They are as follow: Commonwealth Oil Company. Officers and directors Y ‘Whorter, Alexandria, president; ¥. N. Hagman. URGES EXPANDED TRAVEL FACILITIES Argentine Ambassador Says Better Relations in Ameri- cas Would Follow. ome The epiglott 4 HOBOKEN, X. March 4.— The thick as that of the deepest bass | i, e 558 PR e S ety | importanc f expanded facilities of the tongue was of such a nature as | travel Letween North and South ul)hntrmll»lhe greatest rapidity of | America as a means of promoting vibrations, thus accounting for the s ety et o, e O S pen: | their mutual interests “politically, ors voice. His 1ung bower was so |8ocially and cconomically,” was em- enormous tha l”hv could make the phasized by Ambassador Le Breton of cords of a piafo vibrate by merely | Arge; N a dre » o breathing upon them. The doctors “hf’\"’ i S aderces folay Shvang described Caruso's lungs as those EpBUER b, America, on the oc- of a superman, and declared that |casion of her first sailing in the South from head to f00i he was a mag- | American pasienger service, to which nificent singing machine | shehas been cd by the Ship- = ping ! Th steamer, formerly NEW ‘YORK, Match 4—Mrs. En- {named the Palmetin 3 has just rico Caruso, widow of the famous op- §been compleied and ronumed by the era tenor, last night spiritedly denied A n line, un ch she will cable dispatches from Rome to the effect thac her nushand’s throat had a luncheon given aboard been removed shortly after death by o1 the line, and. left to th ples Museum for e m dwelt upon scientific examination. red were yet unrealized The announcement that Rome pa- of trade between the pers had reproduced pictorially the |imited States and the republics of throat of the tenor she greeted with |[South America, and declared these ‘gllg-?lpt‘:mg': i sort. | Would be greatly fostered by more o2 pn Caruso's denlal was suppart- :lities for travel between ruso’s secretary. He branded the oy spels prejudice and er- roneous than a per Mr. Le Breton said thou- nds of Americans of the rth ted with these of the south i s works hoth ways—the mis- i them together w iplomart there n ast intained th strong arteries of trade upon the sca through whic the “generous blood of both Ame icas will circulate, thus bringing th great hearts of this hemisphere to beat in unison.” MUSCLE SHOALS HEARING WILL END NEXT WEEK Plans Announced for Completion of Investigation of Proposals to Acquire Project. In accord with the practice of lowing its members one day a w to attend to other business and gi them an opp summ: the testimon each wees the Hou military ramittee hcld no session today on the Muscle Shoals uestion. Plans were announced. however, 1 rman Kahn for ending the in- vestigation of the pri for purchase, lease, completion operation of the S project m k. Mr. Kahn trum would be his proposal and consi would b He r gretted that for the com George W. Gor nd bulider of th o has signed a cor 1 charge of Muscle | would not be {mittee to au Panama c tract to take Vienna, Va, vice president; A. B. Morris, Alexandria, second vice presi- Alexandria, se jretary Frank Michelbach, Alexandri treasurer;: C. B. Minnick, Anacosti; 7 field superintendent. The for going with M. A. Morris of Alexan- dria constitute the directors. The Brodt Realty Company. Officers are: Karl F. Brodt, Washington, president: William R. Sunderland, vice president: Alexander S. Brodt, treasurer; William H. Dumbell, secre- tary, all of Washington. The officers also constitute the board of directors. Then P. A. Roberts Construction Company. * Officers and directors ara: Preston A. Roberts, president; Peter C. Bach, vice president, and Charles | A. Kimbel, secretary, all of Washing- ton. Prof. Tucker of the Episcopal The- ological Seminary will. address the young people’s meeting of St. Paul's Episcopal Church at § o'clock tomor- row night. His subject will be, “Fel- lowship.” Mrs. Anna C. E. Titcomb, wife of James M. Titcomb. died Thurdiay aft- ernoon at her residence, Washington avenue, Mount Ida, Arlington count Three bureaus of the chamber of commerce held meetings yesterday afternoon in the rooms of that or- jfrom each to the chamber of com- {merce, to serve “ar a period of two years each. The « ‘ectors chosen from {the various bureaus follow. Harr, Hammond, manufacturers and jo bers; J. William May, publicity and convention, and 0. H. Kirk, traffic and transportation. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md, March 4 cial) and William Wright, both of Wash- ington, were married in_ Rockville Thursday by Rev. John R. Hender- son, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Charles O. Resensteel, pastor of ‘St. Joh: Catholic Church, Forest Glen. officiated_at the marriage at Forest Glen a few da: ago of Miss Helen G. Barnes of Silver Spring, this county. and Bernard C’ Murphy of Washington, the ceremony taking (Spe- place in the presence of a few rela- ! tives and friends. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Mary Gar- land Owings, sister of Mrs. J. Arthur England of Rockville and daughter| of Mrs. L. I. G. Owings of Howard county, to Mr. Linden Delaney Sum- mers of Baltimore. The wedding will take place in the spring. The directors of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society have de- clded to increase the premiums for the community booths, which made such an attractive showing at the fair last year, and will fix the { preminums ‘in this department for the [ faic this vear as follows: First, $40; {second. $30: third, $20; fourth, $10. A special building will be erected to accommodate these exhib; The directors will ask for a de- tachment of state police to take charge of the fair grounds during the four days of the fair. The county ,commissioners have given notice that they will be in daily session in their offices here during the week, beginning March 20, to revise assessments and hear appeals in regard to same. —_— MARINES TO AID ARMY. Recruiting Officers Ordered to Co- Operate in Training Plans. The spirit of co-operation between different branches of the military es- tablishment is shown by the action of the commandant of the Marine Corps in directing recruiting officers of that corps to assist in every way the plans of the War Department for the training of citizen soldiery during the coming summer. ‘Training camps will be held in nine Army corps areas. Applications for training at these camps from April 1 to June 1 may be made at recruiting stations of the Marine Corps, as well a8 at all Army posts and stations. All applicants at Marine Corps stations will be given a physical examination. by officers of the Medical Corps of the Navy. ORDERED TO HOSPITAL. Col. Samuel L. Faison, infantry, at Governors Island, N. Y.; Lieut.” Col. Perrin L. Smith, finance department, at ‘Brooklyn, N. Y., and Maj. Charles B. Gitewood, ordnance department, have been ordered to Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, for obser- vation and treatment - ganization and elected one director ! Miss Anna Marie McCreight | Shoals deve accepts the I gineers f{rom however, were Iday Mr. Go off -alled to appear Mon After the Engstrum offer is thor- oughly investigated, Mr. K he would call W. B. Mayo, engineer for Mr. Ford. Mr. Ma; returned from Detroit and it derstood has obtained Mr. Ford's proval to a number of important : terations to be made in his offer. THREAT WRITER HELD PENDING EXAMINATIOR Woman Who Terrorized Town fc7 Two Years to Be Subjected to Mental Observation. | = PITTSBUR { declaration t woman who w | terrorizing wh for two vear: {is not fit to be was made 1 Judge J. McF. Carpenter after a plea 10f no defense had been entered for Mre. ace Crawford of Tareatum. Pa., in- dicted for elleged extortion. Mrs. Craw- ford was committed to juil to await an® examination as to her sanity. Mrs. Crawford was arrested January 28 as she took a decoy package from Tarentum Church. It had been placed there at the instance of the police after | Frank C. Irvine, a bsnker, had received a letter demanding $1.000 under penalty lof death. W. A, Mcrvin, another {banker, told the court that two years iago he, too, had received similar letters Mrs. Crawford was not called to tes- tify, her counsel saving her mental con- dition made it “‘unwise.” Her husband testified that she had not been well since a surgical operation several years ago, while Dr. A. K. Weaver said she was suffering from shock, which lat sterical. March 4.—The e or insane ters like thi i 1 i became I {WORRY CAUSE OF SUICIDE. Special Dispateh ta The Star. ANNAPOLIS, March 4 —The remains of J. Burion Mustin, jr. of German- P student at S College, t who commit- aicide here yesterday by shoot- ing, will be taken to his home this afternoon. By request of his father, | there will bo no ceremony here. X | "'His father, who expected to see his son in Annapolis today, will not come here, A letter written to his classmate and Penfield Brown, indic veral matte liberation in killing ever, members of the facult dents say that bis troubles were much timated, and that he would have been able to complete uccessfull John {ted by young Mustin lose friend, W. worry over "We don’t know why th’ girls don’t buckle the'r galoshes, un- less they’re tryin’t’ make us be- lieve they’d be too tight. Ther’ don’t seem t’ be any more sober second thoughts than ther’ wuz in th’ ole days B. V. ammacright National Newspaper Sarvice..