Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1922, Page 3

APPEAL T0 COURT ON FARES IS LIKELY Attorney Prepares for New Move if District Board Favors Company. DISCRIMINATION ALLEGED Briefs Declare Capital Traction Earns Higher Return Than H W.R. & E. The Public Utilitiex Comm expected to render its decision to- morrow or Saturday. denying the ap- plication of the Federation of Clti- sion is zens' Associations for a reduction in fare on the wction lines. There is a poss ¥ that the case may go into t wurts if, as now seems assured, the co tinues the present of fare to both companies. At least William McK Clayton, representative of the federation at the hearing. has indicated that if the decision is against him he may ask t its next meeting to the courts. . it s Lnown. have ports of sible court action and are pre- ing carefully decis Be-| The 18,000 Washingtonians who use fore d up i jon. which |unlimited telephone service have cau s now in a roush the com- | for iving thanks today, as the Utili- ixsion fortificd itself with a legal | ties Commission yesterday approved pinion from Corporation Counsel | of a reduction of 50 cents a month in Stephens are to its right to mai the cost of that service. & uniform sapeake uand Po- uch Telephone Company announced ! Court Decislons Quoted. The briefs submitted by McK. Clay- ton and Charles T. Clayton of Colum- Heights also indicated that court action was being given conslderation. For. In chose briefs, the citize resentatives quote e &epport of their contentlon that it s crimination to allow the Capital ¥ to earn a higher re- Howed the Washington d Eleetri fow . the fi decision as to whether the case shall be taken to court will rest with the delegates whe make up the federation, when they come to consider the findings of the commissioners. Belleves Trafic Is Iswue. In its forthcoming decislon the wtilities commission again will call attention to the disruption of street car trafio which it believes would re- sult from two different rates of fare. Mr. Stephens has advised the com- mission that there is nothing in the Jaw to prevent them from keeping the rate of fare uniform and that it re- mains only for the members of the commission to use their best judg- ment as to which is in the public in- terest—one rate for both roads or separate fares for h. SPECIAL NOTICES. Soam. PASQUAN, TEACHER OF PIANO AND Yoice, No. 1 C_st. s.c.. South Capital. Linc. 1881-J. Wrong address Telephane Direce tory. pages 438 5%6. ded* WANTED—A_VANLOAD OF FCRNITURE FROM BOSTON, DEC. 4th AND 6th: LAN- CASTER. DEC. 6th. WEEKLY SERVICE FOR SMALL LOTS TO AND FROM BALTIMORE. WILMINGTON, PHILADELPHIA AND NEW TORK. THE BIG 4 TRANSFER CO., INC. 1125 14th ST. N.W. 2139, WEBATHERSTRIPPIN| for_lowent _price: Main 14 METAL glazing Phone WANTED—A_ VAN TOAD OF ‘0 PITTSRURGH ON DEC. lst, h. S0z BIG 4 TRANSPER COMPANY. INC 1125 14th st. n.w. Main ‘2139, OGN AND AFTER THIS DATE will not be respensible for any bills contracted by myself. JOHN Perwyn, Md. WIRING—OLD HOUSES A SPECIALTY. RE. pairing. Estimates piven. E. R. VOGELS %21 South Carolina ave. Line. 7237._ 6" WANTED_TO CARRY A LOAD OF FUE- ‘Washington to Raltimore, Phlila. city, SMITH'S TRANSFER FURNITCRE 2nd, 8th and TVELY unless HERMA v witchboard operating. See “Ladies” Female Help Wanted. = High-Class Printing Backed up with Prompt Service The Million Dollar Printing Plant The National Capital Press 1210-1212 D st. Heating Plants Repaired. Coal 1s too high to waste. Get the amount of heat from your plant by havi us put It in perfect condition. R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. He Dept. 1114 9th st. Ph. M. 2490-2491. PRINTING = SERVICE that meets the most ex- scting demand. THE SERVICE SHOP, BYRON S ADAMS, Eiyres. *_512 11th B¢ Shedd Sells Radiante Fire 706 1oth Shienild, Car Hester place _Fixtures, ete. " Lyon One-pige Heaters Yuel Savers, Inexpensive. Onuickly Installed. Stoves, Ranges & Furnaces | Corrngated Garage Metal Lyon, Conklin & Co., Inc, 930 E 8t. N.W s Puts HEAT m Heating.” Biggs Heating Plants Zstand np under_the most severe ARE | e e TTHE | Water Plants that ‘are coal navers Well as heat giverw. . Prices BEST | Keasonabie: - The Biggs Engineering Co. WARREN W. BIGGS, Presideat. 1810 14th st . Tel. Frank 7. "~ No More Leaky Roof me apply ome coat of Liquid Asbestos R g Cemiat (5 any ind. ot soo . 1 guaran- | tee sume. Alwo sold fn bulk. $1 gal. in 5- Buckets, del. in D. C. Estimate free. 3. BON CLARK. 1314 Line. 4 Tin Roofs—Slag Roofs REPAIRED AND PAINTED. Call Main Grafton&Son,Inc., Wash. Loan & eating. Roofing_Experts CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS. NEW THOUGHT. How to Build = Life of Health and Joy | Viva M. January Friday, 8 P.M. 300 Homer Bldg. 601 13th St. N.W. £ 2 serfes of six lectures cn _the pra toal eblltm af SOTOMONS TEMPLE. Eickets for Frce Will Offering “| Park grounds thousa MEAL TICKET GONE, OWL INVADES RESTAURANT “King Mashie I” Arrives at Golf Links for His Thanks- giving Dinner. Just in time to help the public links Kolf players celebrate Thanksgiving day. a mammoth monkey-faced owl arrived at the golf cou Totomac Park some time during the night. The owl was caught in the restau- rant by Sam Miller and Al Farr. The ‘I had gotten in through a broken | window. He was perched on one of the blinds right over the lunch coun- ter when Miller found: him. Manager Loeffler and Capt. McMor- ris of the department of publio build- ings and grounds have chr owl King Mashie I. When Col. rill had ordered the cornfield cloare »ff near the third hole of the Potomac nds of mice and v home. Thi must hav o the cornficld when meal ticket was destroyed. UNLINTED PHONE RTEISUTTO 18,000 Subscribers BenefitI by Plan 0. K.’d by Utili- ties Commission. that the reduction would appear on the December bills of unlimited sub- scribers. Unlimited service will be § instead of 5 This rate cut was offered voluntarily by the company and means a decrease of $108,000 a year in revenue. The commission stated in its dec| it would continue to closely the company’s earnings. and, when conditions warrant, consider po: sible reductions in the other cla of telephone i Enarnings Above 7 Per Cent, The decision, in part. follow closely the operations of this compan: and the first ten months of the calendar vear the rate of return on the fair value of its property has been slightly above 7 per cent. The reduction in revenue of $108.000 now voluntarily proposed by the company will decrease the rate of return by approximately .07 per cent. However, the commission does not regard the existing rate of return of the telephone company as unduly great. having in mind the «quality of service furnished by this company. its attitude toward the public in general and the great value that eflicient telephone service pos- sesses for the entire community. Seen Help to Service. of the benefit that will accrue to a large body of subscribers by this reduction, a _careful study of the entire rate schedule convinces the commission that the great increase in the number of two-party line subscribers has created a harmful effect upon the quali dependahility of the s ed the telephone compauy, and that it ha |decome imperative to redress these con- o e P in part, the former relation between the three classes of residence subscribers and thereby to afford to the public in general the excellent quality of service to which they have grown accustomed in _the past and which, therefore, they today, with just reason, expect to have provided by the company. “The commission will in the future, as in the past, closely observe the earn- ings of the telephone company, and when the occasion serves it hopes to present to the company such consideration, justified by the facts, as may be in- fluential in promoting warrantable re- ductions of such other rates as are not benefited by the present order. —_— TURKEY PRICES DROP. Several Dealers Reduce Cost of Birds Here. Turkey prices took a drop yester- day afternoon, It iy said that sev- eral dealers were overstocked, and late in the day they reduced the prices in order to unload. “We sold the culls as low as 50 cents,” one dealer told a Star re- porter this morning, “but choicest stock did not go below 55 cents. Chickens and ducks also sold cheap- er late in the day. Late arrivals of country-dressed chickens overstocked the market, It is stated; and the price dropped to 28 cents. *| DARING WOMAN FLYER MAKES FRIENDS WITH LADDIE BOY. 1 % [ t } ~ in East| n | observe | “The commission has been following | s aware of the fact that during “Regardless of the rate of return and | MISS LILLIAN GATLIN, c-| Who flew from Sam Francisco to New York recently, photographed at the White House yesterday with the President's famous pet. ked the President te set aslde the first week im November as aviation -THE ~ EVENING- -STAR,. -WASHINGTON, Suburban Heights. | | | 1 GLUYAS WILLAMS | THANKSGIVING. BY W. H. CLAGETT. To God of all we turn today With outstretched arms and sing Our grateful thanks to Him on high, | Hosannah! to the King! Dim not, Oh, Lord. Thy radiant light! Stay not Thy generous hand, And still bestow, as heretofore, Thy blessing on our land! iA\ml. too, Oh, Lord, let peace prevail | Through all the world away, That other peoples soon will feel Occasion for this day! Then, when dissensions quiet down, And wars have had their fling, All nations of the earth will ery, Hosannah! to the King! BEATFACECIURT FORDRUNREANES Probation. Pay Fines or Obtain i Total Speeder Pays $17 Fines. Eight persons in the District of Co- lumbia branch of the Police Court, Judge Hardison presiding, this morn- ing were charged with drunkenness They either were fined the minimum of $10 or placed on probation. There also were two cases of disorderly con- duct, one of which was dismissed and the other defendant fined $5. Her- bert Burnett, colored, was fined $10 for ;peeding. $5 for leaving his engine running unattended and $2 for failure to have his lights burning. There was no session of the Traffic Court or of the United States branch of Police Court. MEXICAN SLAYER DIES. LEAVENWORTH, Kan, November 30.—Joe Martinez, Mexican, who killed Capt. A. H. Leonard and stabbed seven other guards at the federal penitentiary Tuesday, November 14, died last night. succumbing to a bul- let wound in the stomach. Martinez had his skull fractured during the fight and was also shot in,the leg. Martinez was convicted of murder while with the American expedi- tionary forces in France and was under a twenty-year sentence. No known relatives survive, and he will be burfed in the prison cemetery. Miss Gatlin week, —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. THANKSGIVING MR, MINNIE PEELS THAT HIS RELATIVES MUST BE THE MOST EFFICIENT EATERS IN THE WORLD., AS HE FINISHES SERVING THE LAST, THE FIRST (S READY FOR MORE — AND SO ON, JUST LIKE CLOCKWORK. (C) Wheeler Syn. Inc. CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE Looking intently into the crystal ball, the soothsayer read why the fates think some prominent persons occasion to be grateful on this day of Thanksgiving. WE ARE THANKFUL The Post Office Department has much cause for gratitude on this Thanksgiving day. It is thankful for the spirit of good fellowship which has Here is what prevalled through the year past. he found: i For the climination fi President Harding—That while {ljy sctvice ofithe wivarchy fund:a Turkey abroad may not be dis- Sereadlugwpuiicapprectivign membered, the big bronze gobbler of the worthy. Fora en at the Whito House is not protected ving mutual recog- nition of the rights of others by the allies. and the protection of their good Vice President Coolidge—That the name. jokesmiths have pretty nearly ex- hausted the subject of his taciturnity and that there is nothing else for them to “pick on him™ about. Secretary of War Weeks—That his West Point boys did not wait until “after the ball was over.” New of Indiana--That Ty not only likes company, but it. For loyalty to the service of our government. For a better understanding of obligations to each other. For public recognition of our respective places in community lite. For pride of the new slogan: Smile.” Senator mi: cupation and I et -elect Alfred E. Smith of New York—That to the voters of his state there wax more truth than poctry For less sclfishness and more in the expression, “You know me, co-operation, less repression AL and more freedom, more “We can do that” and less “It can't be done.” HUBERT WORK, Postmaster General. “PRESIDENT'S OWN" SCOUT TROOP DINES Host to Parents at Child’s Restau- rant—Representative Ketchem Speaks. wards of New Jer- proved in fact, balloting, antic « —That Congress came to the A to be Old Father D. shows digposition to recognize thix ational Capitol and not municipality of Wash- ington. CITIES WARNED AGAINST SEIZURE OF HARD COAL Fuel Distributor Spens Declares Practice Tends Toward Chaos and Shortage. Members of Troup 70, Boy Scouts “The President's Own,” with a parent or home representative as the guest | of each, held an informal dinner a* Child’s restaurant last night. It was decided to make the occasion an an nual one. Each boy had earned thc money necessary to pay for his own and his parent’s supper. ‘This troop, which is known as th. “President’s Own,” because it Is at tached to the Fourth Presbyterian Church, of which Colin H. Livingstox the national president of the Bo: Scouts, is & member, is sald to be th only troop In the District to increas: its membership above the usual allot- ted number of thirty-two. The pres ent membership is seventy. Following the dinner Representativ. John C. Ketchem of Michigan, Mr. Ljv; ingstone, Linn C. Drake, assistant ex- ecutive secretary of the Washingt. Council of the Boy Scouts of America and Rev. Isaac Ward, pastor of thc Fourth Presbyterian 'Church, deliv~ ered short addresses. E. S. Middleton, scoutmaster, de- livered an address of welcome. an¢ told of the work of the organization Dimetrie Demanacesco, founder o the Boy Scout movement in Rumania who was to have been present i company with the Rumanian minis- ter, was called out of town at the las® minute. Federal Fuel Distributor Spens last night warned communities which have seized anthracite shipments in transit through thair territory, and local authorities who have counte- nanced the step, that such practices 1would “only tend toward chaos and shortage all around.” There is no possibility, the dis- tributor said, that enough anthracite of the prepared domestic sizes can he produced this year to supply the usual normal demand, particularly in ‘ennsylvania, New York and New Tersey. but there is ample supply of substitutes, including bituminous coal, eam sizes of anthracite, coke and nod. Increased use of the substitutes for domestic anthracite must be brought 1bout, said Mr. Spens, declaring it was a fairly simple matter to use steam anthracite in mixture with the usual larger sized material. Domestic users of anthracite in New York city, he asserted, should inke advantage of the steam anthra- e. He pointed out that 1,138 cars of this quantity were being held Tuesday in the Hudson river term- inals because there was no local de. mand for it. This situation, he added. also was holding the railroad equip- ment out of service when it could be used in handling other coal. D. C. MEN AT PARLEY. Five to Take Part in Interfra- ternity Conference. Washington will be represented at the interfraternity conference in New York tomorrow and Saturday by five college fraternity men. They are Cecil J. Wilkinson, 705 American Rank building, editor of Phi Gamma Delta’'s magazine; Willlam W. Bride, 3508 Woodward building, general sec- retary of Delta Chi; H. E. Allanson »f the Department of Agriculture, vice president of Alpha Gamma Rho; Walter C. Brandes, 1603 Massachu- setts avenue, auditor of Phi Sigma Kappa, and A. W. Defenderfer. gen- aral secretary of Delta Sigma Phi. Fifty-seven college fraternities will have representatives at the confer- ence, which will be the fourteenth one in the history of the interfraternity sesslons. Presidents and deans of thirty-four colleges have been invited to participate in discussions. —_— FRANK B. NOYES HONORED BY CHINESE JOURNALISTS President of Associated Press Urges Exact Understanding of America. | By the Associated Pres: | "SHANGHAI November 30.— Frank | B. Noyes, president of the Assoctate {Press, who is touring China. w i glven a farewell dinner last night by an assoclation composed of eight of | the leading Chinese newspapers here i In his response to an address Mr ! Noyes urged the Chinese journalists | to present their readers with an exact | understanding of Ameri He sailed ! today for Hongkong. — | Through efforts of the clubwomen ‘ot Jacksonville, Fla.. 4.000 half-pint I bottles of milk a day are served to the school children of that city. ! Sinece 1890—“NO PLA Finished and under construction, Homes in Connecticut Ave., adjacent to-the $1,000,000 Bridge. A section of convenience, social desirability and enhancing value. Glass-inclosed sitting room, maid’s room, 3 baths, 2 showers, lots 24 and 29 {t. front, 2-car garages, alley paved and lighted. The prices for this location are most reasonable. The terms, if desited, less than rent. $2,000 cash and $163 a month, including interest, taxes, water and insurance, and of which $94.00 is an average monthly saving. The art of furnishing is ably demonstrated by Mayer & Co. in our exhibit home, 2822 Connecticut Ave. Open to 8 P.M. BUILT BY MIDDAUGH & SHANNON, INC.,, OWNER Main 6935—10th Floor Woodward Bldg., 15th and H — D. 0, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1922. ISCHOOL ASSEMBLY HALL PLAN PENDING Dr. Ballou Considers Class- room Sliding Doors as Sec- ondary Scheme. As a means of praviding assembly halls in the public achools, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, looks with favor upon & plan being experimented with in Philadelphia school butldings, where sliding doors| are being placed between classrooms. This permits the classrooms to be | converted into an auditorium by open- ing the doors.’ ! Under this arrangement, Dr. Ballou | pointed out, classrooms with the sifd- | ing doors would have to be equipped | with movable furniture. One disad- vantage of this scheme, he said, Is that it will be diffigult to put the sliding doors in more than two ad- joining rooms without denying cloak- foom accommodations to some rooms. Dr. Ballou, however, 13 not expected to make any recommendations at the present time for the Installation un- less Congress refuses to grant ap- propriations for assembly halls in the school bulldings. The superintendent has advocated cver since becoming head of the Diatrict schonl system that assembly halls be provided in all schools of sixteen rooms or Dr. Ballou left Washington yester. afternoon for Po ¥ W direct the “Education week 5 in Washington, a feature of which i will be the conference Tuesday the representatives of mo: civic, trade and other organizations interested in public education. MAILED IN '96, LETTER BACK. 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