Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1922, Page 3

Lord Bdcpn Stuffed -l gaffhffiflf, JMR H“GHES GU[ST : ’ OF PERSIAN ENVOY \ ence in making what was probably Honored at Luncheon at Le- the first experiment in cold stor- age. He left his coach one snowy gation on Occasion of ~ “No-Rouz.” day some 296 yea: . ago to collect snow “in order to ubserve the ef: fect of cold on 1!+ preservation of the fowT's flesh.” 1le never recov- ered from the effects of the expo- sure. In his last letter he wrote that the experiment with the SNOW ! Secretary of State Hughes was the had “succeedgd excellently well.” | guest of nhonor at a luncheon given today at the Persian legation by the minister, Mirza Hussein Khan Alai, on the occasion of the Feast of No- Rouz, or the Persian New Year day. Other invited guests included: The French, Chilean, Belgian and Bra- Now in the ice boxes of more than half of Washington, it’s pire Ametican Ice that keeps the fowl fresh and sweet wntil it’s ready to roast, broil, fry or . fricassec. Representative Linthicum of Mary- land, :tepresentative Porter of Penn- d sylvania, Robert Lansing, Fred Mor- ris Dearing, Robert Woods Bliss, Phra Sanpakitch, the Siamese, charge t OMPANY , !daftaires; Dr. 4. C. Millspaugh, Fred K. Neilson, Warren D. Robbins, W. Morgan Shuster and Ali Asghar Khan. - Minister Makes Address. [aAfter tio toasts to His Imperial | China, Secretary Mellon of the Treas- try, Senator Pomerene of Ohio; Original g brief address in which he explained the significance of this national fes- tival of Persia. P “In_America and Europe.” he saia, lie ar day Is celebrated in n when the earth is often | covered 1 v [ Day, w gins to warm {the carth into fresh Ife and spring is ushered in with the entry of the Aries. The vernal equinox has &al- 3 been .a. great. festival among Aryan peoples and we Persians have inherited the No-Rouz and its at- Caramels oth at G No Branch Store times. It is a period of feasting and the guests with a sma For Your Player Piano April Showers—Fox symbolic offering to prosperity in the Ne Everything Musical 1222 G.St. N.W. | health of the eminent statesman. M. Match Your Odd Coat j mankind.” With Our Special TROUSERS 465 Save the price of an en- ; e Y | tire new suit. All col- {sic. including some Persian melodies ors, sizes, patterns. f will be given. | | EISEMAN’S | BRAUN CASE CONTINUED. 603-607 7th St. N.W. decorations was green, white and red, | ments were a peculiar attraction. ¢ in Suit Involving Bergdoll. | ustice Batley of the District Su- c . preme Court yesterday heard testi- mony in the suit of Charles Braun, Making Slip Covers |a brother of Grover C. Bergdoll, the —up in the mewest stuffs at | draft e . against the alien prop- THE MOST REASONABLE Phone pRICES that'll Give you best Main Materiais, workmanship and | Ly or “Grover. continued until March AZEE 1003 9th St. NN\W. |court will hear testimony on the 277Ses us also rbout Window Shades. AINT UP! . CLEAN UP! emy act. Braun, on the witness stand. said | brother estimates, 't us o thy » x. FERGUSON 1114 9th St. N.W, Ph. N. 231-23% 8 | 5on Charl, PAINTING DEPARTMENT Braun -had his name changed by it was state tost this spring. SPECIAL NOTICES NOTICES. zillan ambassadors, Minister Sze of! Majesty the Shah, President Harding jand Mr. Hughes, the minister made a In Persia ! | beneflcent luminary into the sign of tendant ceremonies from Zoroastrian | rejoicing and lasts ten days, during 5 which none but the most imperative work is done.” a e s In accordance with Persian cus- . [tom. the minister presented each of 1 Persian gold coin and some wheat and rice—a vish'one’s friends > Y “We » — - | ACCOMpany this gift.” continued the trot...... o st No. 1737 |speaker. “with the £ s ibashad.” thta means ‘May it be propi Three O'Clock in the tious to you. I venture to follow this i Vo custom of m atry and say to you Mormn;i ceeceens...No.. 1880 ] custom o % On the ’Gin "Gin Ginny | The minister said the ancient Per- e - | sian people, as they once more enter Shore—Fox trot..». No. 1846 jupon a new vear. are convinced -that struggle between right On Sale at and wrong the genius of good will triumph over the powers of MCHUGH & LAWSON S, omsi St it sl the minister said: “I drink to the — | Hughes. whose brilliant leadership of the Washington conference has won him the admiration and respect of | faot ! The national dish of Persia. the| polow, made of rice and chicken, was | served. The general scheme of floral | ithe national colors of Persia. ‘The irooms were decorated with beautiful Persian rugs and embroideries and | some handsomely carved brass orna- |ne Senate District committee tomor- From 4:30 to 7 o'clock this evening there will be a reception at the lega- tion. Mme. Jusserand, wife of the French ambassador, will assist the 5 in receiving. A prografh of mu- Col. Keller Defends Plan clalm of Mrs. Emma €. Bergdoll, the mother, who seeks the return of $750.000 said to have been illegally !seized under the trading with the en- he | had no business dealings with his Menarak | avenue, being hnuled to the grow 2 paoburak | Webate uced to alt benenth itx wh MERGER MEASURE WILL BE REPORTED (Continued from First Page.) much higher tax than at present, and this would ‘ relieve the Washington 'way and Electric Company from paying part of the tax it now pays Mr. Hanna said that, as a matter of the Capital Traction Company had not been the. “sole obstacle to merger.” He said his company had gone a long way in offers it had made to aid in bringing about a )| merger. Yet, he said, the company is the sole target in this effort to force a merger. There will be a regular meeting of row afternoon at 2 o'clock, it was an- nounced today. This mgeting was not called in connection with the merger bill, it was stated. 3 Col. Keller, the Engineer sioner, & member of the Public Util ties Commission, which has put for- | ward the plan for a tax on operating income, defended the plan, saying that It was not intended as a punitive measure, but that it was designed to tuke from the Capital Traction Com- 'Further Hearing Planned March 27 | pnay excessive profits paid to that company by the public, to which the company had no right, since by the peculiar aituation here the Capital Traction Company was enabled to make from 11 to 12 per cent on its fair valuation. There was some discussion as to whether the profits of the Potomac Flectric Power Company, owned by the Washington Railway and Elec- property of the|tric Company, should not be used to The hexr_lng Was | help swell the profits of the latter when the | company in the event of a merger, {and some of the witness gave it as their opinion that this should be per- mitted. Mr. Hamilton described the organi zation of the Capital Traction Com pany in 1895. He said that the com- pany had gone through lean years in the ‘past, that the losses sustained af- cr_since 1916 and had i €all up Ferzusan for painting | Faid his mother $15.000 in cash for 2‘;%;:;}?eafisptgxnolre";n‘:;tmi:tn?»’\\lv:llg is our motto. § | the note in question. Asked where he | of replacing these losses until tha | EOL the money Braun said he always | profits made in the years 1919-20 had | kept a reserve of $25.000 since he|enabled the company to return the c. f | \vas twenty-one years old. Mrs. Berg-~ | $§00,000 so lost. The dividends of the | doll testified in corrobpration of her | company, he said . had ranged from 0 to $7.00, anid had averagei about $6 othrough the years. aluation Criticised. The witness criticised the public utilities _valuation placed on the Wi, N T 2 FOR | SC HEALING. GOURSE | Capital Traction Company. That val- debts unlexs rneted ACKER. Cap.tol 1 oon silence daily. Phone | uation, he said, was begun in 1914, and the report was made in 1319. ARDN Phone Columbia 2376. The valuation, he said, was given as of 1914, wh it should hav> been given as of 1919. He said that the commission also had refused to al- low the company to include in fits | seRI X HINT: BRUSH-NU RE. 3 ha non stock of tie |in water. 00.000. which has been a 2 kes sit gallons of P. - : ck @ laif gallon of Januars i o f LEANER. A fair valuation' the stock and bonds news 15 floors. suves a coat | Of the old Georgetown and Washing- s llm‘i:d powder used | ton company amounting to 100.000. ha “Had our contention.in regard to these two points been granted,” said Mr. Hamilton, “the fair valuation of the company would have been such as to entitle us to a larger return than we now make.” - ER-| RIALTO G FT SHOP, 715 2 Make money ha S an attr nd-coloring cards. ‘We ' CARRY A B tive line of Easter and birthday card: goods _from Washington ar Pa. 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Address Box 1 r office. a) < s PRINTING LT built 9’2}:": for such worl:I:xrlutnnmg, Let this milliondollar pristing plant exe- B L’S FACTORY €ater Four Work. i 610 E st. n.w. Main 3621, The National Capital Press NOTICE. 1210-1212 D' ",'mv. = NIED BY REAL LIVE SERVIC For Specdy Printing Service |, THO%, £, JARREL, Bent. [ D AND UPET HiGH GRADB BUT NOT HIGH PRICED. | pincon taken 1o vo panc Deymes * THE SERVICE SHOP HUGO WOKCH, 1110 G n.w. BYRON S. ADAMS, 5iNRee pants. CleanUp Wack, Apeil 38| .| e o ABarioots Buy | eclrs meninime i of | Win- ¢ Becker Paint and Glass Co., CHAS. E. HODGKIN, Mgr. 1280 Wisconsin ave. Phone West 67. _ “THE ORIGINAL BIGG! your Heating Plant Made X Blodern Very Reasonably Let us turn that old steam or hot-water plant iuto an up-to-date one NOW, while prices on heating materials are down. Estimates on uest. e Biggs Engineering Co., 1310 @4th st. n.w. Tel. Frank. 8317. WARREN W. DIGGS, President. Plan for Spring Repairs Hot-| —now andBloolé to ss for Bed | Fencing, Blinds, Doors, 2 i &y Sash| Wall Boards, etc. - e bosisese: l'u::f: Sy ymf isbe o520 M. Barker Co, Inc. | 1R ONCLAD bt Sar "t PILLOWS As we did hers. . “ROOFING OLD STY irther notice West 1865-J. 21¢ The Shade Shop ‘W. STOEES BAMMONS, 830 13th St. W35, - - We Make Window ,Shades to Order—Factory Prices ROOF LEAK? Don't postpome the necessary repair work. Do it now! Service is our motto. R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. St. Phone North 331-22% 1114 oth - Service + Exezrmnce commissions. $1 gallon, in 5-gallon | Shown 210 From two leading manu- | Traction Company on the fair valua- 1 apply same and | tion now fixed was 10.26 per cent m leaks 5 . Es- 7 or weokly; part time | timates furnished free MADISON " CLamk, | &nU of the Washington Rallway and MAIN 766, 7 ent on Vi B lotrolas. that the rerouting of cars would result in little saving. He referred Coment, put on with & brush, on any kind of | {0 & recent heoring before the Public no. Utilities Commission, when it was hat the return of the Capital Electric_Company, 4.37. Added to- gether, he said, the earnings would SINCE 1873 average only 7.17 per cent, which would not permit of a real reduction of fares if the two companies were merged and operated together. Mr. Hamilton said he thought that tke street raifways were entitled to an 8 per cent return on. their valua- tion, Merger Declared Public Demand. Chairman Ball of the District com- mittee told Mr. Hamilton that the merger was a pubNc demand, that the Capital Traction Company had no right to 10-11 per cent-returns on its valuation, and such money was taken unfairly from the people and ALL LINES OF INSURANCE. AccoMpa.|Should be given back. E. Mr. Hamilton retorted that it was not fair to single out the Capi! Traction Company ‘and tax its profits while the other company was per- mitted to go practically untaxed in the name of merger. He said that it was not legal to compel a mergor, and he predicted the 2,200 stockhold- |ers of the Capital Traction Company would resent such an effort to force a merger. He said he believed a merger would result /much more . | quickly if no “club” were used. He said that three major companies were involved in the proposed mer- ger plan, the Capital Traction, the ‘Washington Railway .amd Electric and the Potomac Electric power companies. Under the plan ad- vanced only.one, the Capital Traction, was to be made to suffer. o Mr. Hanna pointéd out that the question as to’the fair valuation fixed by tke Public Utilities Commission for the ipower . company was D { courts; that the Court of Appeals held in a divided opinion that the val- uation should have been as of 1919 instead of 1914 in the case of the power_company, overruling tke Dis- téict Supreme Court. The. case will come before the Supreme Court of the United States eventually, he sald. 1f the court should finally decide that the valuation shduld be made. in sc- cordance with the contention of the company, Mr. Hanna said the pro- posed excess profits tax would not'be “a_serious thing” for his company. He said that he saw-nothing in the Ifilnn ~cuator King said he was opposed | to the tax feature as manifestly un- Abe Martin Says: Lafe Bud is sellin’ stock in a company that's t' make quick silver fer movie tears. If mother ever gits a six-hour day somebuddy’s goin’ t’ go broke payin’ fer overtime. (Copyright National Newspaper Serrice.) proposed tax which would force a merger or make the stockholders of his company agree to a merger. Mr. Hanna declared that the Capital Tractlony Company {s operated eco- nomically today and is rated one of the strongest street railway com- panies in the country. He said, how- ever, that there had been a falling off in the number of passengers car- ried, amounting to .Something over 2 per cent, since the first of the yea as compared to a similar period la year. If a merger of the companies wers effected, Mr. Hanna said, the main_ saving wouid come from the merging of the power plants. He, to. d_there would be little overhead saving, practically none, in rerouting oftcars; that there was no surplus of trackage in the District and tfat the advantage would be to the companies rather than to the public. Mr. Hanna said that the street car companies were constantly operating under competition, with ‘each other omobile and the He said that the 5-cent fare, or 8ix tickets for a quar- ter, charged in 1914, was a higher fare than the fare charged today, when everything was taken into con- sideratipn. > He pointed out that in 1914 the conductors and motormen were pald $2.256 a day and now they are paid $5:60; that coal cost $3.30 a ton, and today it oosts $7.60 a ton, and that other materials and labor had gone up correspondingly. When these charges go down, he said, there would be a reduction in fares. He predicted that the pay of the motor- men and conductors would never ap- proach again the low level of 1914, and added that they should not. A 5l-cent fare on the Capital Trac- tion lines last vear, he said, would have meant that the company Wwould e had no earnings at all. , “What would you 4o to cure the Situation here?’” demanded Senator King of Utah. ‘Would Eliminate Tax Feature.. “I would pass the bill permitting the merger of the companies with- -+ the tax feature,” replied Mr. & fair, and Senator Stanley.of Ken- tucky said he was inclined to that view also. A Mr. Hanna said that with oné-third of the “trackage in tne city proper the Capital Traction Company had carried 48 per cent of the passengers. He in- tal | sisted that it was because of the good service and the traditions of the com- pany gunt this was so. W. F. Ham, speaking, for the. Wash- ington Railway and; Electric Company, VITAMIN | rrov OCEAN DEPTHS | . Under N ian seas, Nature stores in the cells of the liver of the tue codfish an oil that is farrichet in vimiflenghanmyoi_hufo;mo“at. : SIMU of Nature’s bounty of health-building supplies this d the P o tfio:u:fildubn'invinfibérdn malnourished, rickety child, it is food and. form. For | Electric Company was entitled to a|children, when there will soon be! AGAIN OPPOSE SITE OF HEALTH SCHOOL Foes of Local Tuberculosis Project Supported by Three Associations. Another effort to sway the Com- missioners from their decision to erect the health school for tubercular chil- dren near 14th and Upshur streets was made today by representatives nl‘l three citizens' associations, who ap-: peared before the city heads at the District building. Residents of the community recent- | ly obtained a temporary injunction in | the District Supreme Court on the contention that the lynd in question Wwas not acquired for the purpose of erecting such a school. Law Asked of Congress. Following issuance of the tempo- rary restraining order the Commis- sioners asked Congress to enact a law authorizing the Use of the 14th and Upshur site for that specific purpose. The associations which appeared in opposition locating the school north of 14th and Upshur were Piney Branch, Sixteenth Street Highlandg and Brightwood. E. R Woodson, spokesman for Sixteenth street highlands. injected a new point in the e when he declared that ercti 1 school at any location will not do a much to restore these children th as the holdinz of open-air| classes for ahem in each section! where any of them live. i Mr. Woodson asserted that to segregate these fifty or seventy-five children In a special school a long distance from their homes marks them as objects of pity and causes other children to shun them. “Medical men agree,” Mr. Woodson said, “that the only cure for this disease is fresh air, sunshine and|] We Have the Book You Want When You Want It PEARLMAN'S BOOK SHOP 933 G S o G- D. PEARLMAN bappiness, and I submit that you cannot provide them with those things in a building.” Will Have Open-Afr Classes. Engineer Commissioner Keller i plained to Mr. Woodson that it is and Conmecticut | blanned to hold open-air classes at ted to the memory of Danlel | the Health School. except in incle-| ment weather. Clinton R. Thompson, | chairman of the school committee of 3 the Piney Branch Citizens' Associa- urged the passage of the bill permitting | tion, argued it would be an unwise the merger. ....+| firancial proposition to devote so He pointed out that the Public Utili- | yaluable a site as that near 1ith and ties Commission, ever since 1914, has|Upshur streets to a school for the fteld that the Washington Railway and {accommodation of a small number of higher rate of return on its valuation need for the erection of new business | than it has received. The commisgion. | and technical high schools. he said, had taken the view there should E. ~Henderson of Piney Branch) be some relief from legislation by Con- | and MF. Randolph of Brightwood As- | gress. He said that his company | sociation also spoke. earned 3 1-3 per cent, or $660,000, less than it should on tne fair valuation e Shilgeed the ‘.:'fp";r cent tax now LOSES HER $10,000 SUIT levied on the franchises of the str FOR BREAcH OF PROMISE' car companles, saying that as things are today his company gets no return on its franchise, but what it does get| M.s. Ida F. Maupin, a widow, ves- is on its physical valuation. The|terday lost her suit for $10,000 dam- problem of the company, he said, was |ages against Edward D. Wilburne, to give as good service as its com-!a railroad conductor, for alleged petitor with a return of only 31-3 per | breach of promise to marry her. A cent. He said that any idea of Im-:jury in Circuit Division No. 3 before mediate large savings through ll:usuce Hoehling, after Rhearing the merger was a mistake, however. veraions of both the widow and ‘ Wilburne, who is a widower, with an Less for Twelve Years: eighteen-year-old daughter, returned Charles Selden, jr., representing the |a verdict for the man. v r: ' Maupin said she made all ar- Washington and Maryland rallroad, |, pgements for her wedding which said that for ten or twelve years that| was scheduled for June 15, 1921, but road had operated at a loss, but was|on the morning set for the ceremony e Wilburne called her up and declare serving a community that needed the 3"y “Wilburne declared he and service. He referred to the company|phis prospective bride had a dis- and to the Kast Washington Helghts |agreement a few days before the o5 _| wedding date and when he suggeste: Company as the “Cinderella compa- | O IR ol f of the wedding un- which for years had been sit-j) they could better understand each ting in the ashes. The Washington | by cney ool Dotter e and Maryland, he said, operated un-{%yr JUOUT (1o, WO, &% Bavihs der a contract with the Capital Trac- |y 0% €40 PESROnC 4y S0 YO8 2 tion Company last year, had for the |l t0 Yol 99 16 BV 00, O V. first time made any money. If there pyrpe sald he considered she had | is to be a merger of the street Tail- [ ploken ‘ot the mateb. | WAYHCUmDEnIos, Attorney F. S. Key-Smith appeared | ington and-Maryland and the East!eorMie Maupin, while the defendant = Washington Heights Company should | ooq represented by Attorneys Wilton be Included and should be given fair | ¥ 2P TeDrceeRtl 1% Ay OeCHT an and treatment in the terms of the merge Charles S. Baker. Mr. Hanna and Mr. Ham both sag- gested that the bill should be amend- s ed 80 that there would be no difficulty about a merger of the Waseington Raflway and Electric Company and M . the Capital Traction Company if they were matisfled with the terms of a proposed merger, and So that they - could not be held up because some of . the other companies did not agree. Charles J. Columbus, secretary of & joint committee of civic and trade organizations, urged upon the com- mittee the desirability of a merger of the street car lines. Adequate trans- portation, he said, was an essential. A. E. Seymour, secretary of the Cham- ber of Commerce, also put in a plea for a merger. Col. Keller declared that the Public Utilities Commission, in recommend- ing the tax on operating income, had not| been actuated by hostility to the Capital Traction Company. The com- mission, he said, was anxious always to dispense even-handed justice to the companies and to the public. Secretary Hughes Cited. Col. Keller read from an opinion handed down by Secretary of State Hughes while he was a member of the Supreme Court, declaring that valuation of public utilitiés on hypo- thetical values due to abnormal con- ditions was unfair. Col. Keller said that for the same reason the valua- tion of the public utilities fixed by the Public Utilities Commission as of 1914 was the only fair way, and charged that the companies were at- tempting to take advantage of the “greatest calamity of the ages,” the war, to inflate their valuations. Col. Keller denied there was any at- tempt in the tax feature of the bill to discriminate against the Capital Trac- tion Company. He said the commi sion had found it impossible to pre- vent one street railway company, the Capital Traction Company, from mak- ing large returns while the other company was makiflg_ little, thougn there was not much différence in the character of the service given by the two companies. , “The excess profits of ‘the Capitai Traction Company, made practically under dugess,” sald Col. Keller, “should be taken away.” Col. Keller insisted that while the merger ma: result in any im- Did tl‘lis dancer have a soul? The whole world knew her; princes . fought duels over her; a king had given her pearls of fabulous value. Yet they said she never had an honest emotion. Could romance come to her? Could she, of all people, inspire greatness? Many will recognize the central figure in L A. R. Wylie's gripping story in Good Housekeeping. 7 other stories and 78 added features in GoOD HOUSEKEEPING out now ;Any Book Supplied—Current or Out of Date : roomy. 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