Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1923, Page 12

12 ASKS REORGANIZING OF FREIGHT RATES Joint Resolution Introduced by Representative Hoch of Kansas. Reorganization of ‘the freight rate structure of the country by the Interstate Commerce Commission fis ordered in a joint resolution intro- duced today by Representative Hoch of Kansas, a member of the inter- state and foreign commerce com- mittee. This resolution, Representative Hoch explains, is in comformity with the very defini recommendation of President Coolidge in his me ge when he said, “Competent authorities agree that an entire reorganization of the rate structure for freight is nec- This should be ordered at nt recommenda- explained Rep- ‘should be followed with the lea: The t 48 that the pres structure of the country has long needed overhaulin “Practicall r many s points out, s been flat horizontal in- wrea: Which took no account of changed conditions. ¥ronounced Inéquall e Whatever inequality and malad- Justments there were have been made Vastly more promoun by these horizontal increa These’ Increases ve mot only perpetuated the old justments, b a aken no elopinent the arts of the country nd have ta no account of the zreatly changed value of many com- modities. *“The reorganization of the struc- ilure is, therefore, ne ary in order reasonably to reflect natural and proper developments of the country as o whole and to give their eco- omic adjustments as far differ- only general change Hoch As Official Guide! At U. S. Capitol The first woman guide in the Na- tional Capitol was appointed today by Sergeant-at-Arms dJoseph G. Rogers on recommendation of Representative Burton French of Idaho. She is Mrs. Blanche Lingo Sykes. She came originally from Ohio, but has been living in Wash- ington for about thirty years. She is well known about the Capitol and was formerly employed in the Capitol telephone exchange. DISCOVER BODIES OF WOMEN IN FIRE Officials Believe Mother and Daughter Lured to Farm and Attacked. By the Associated Py JEFFERSON, Ga., December 17— Sheriff Colller and his deputies today continued their investigation into the finding of two bodies, believed to be those of Mrs. Mag fitteon-year-old daughter in the ruins of n bandoned farmhouse near Clarksboro. vesterd: morning. The -authorities have established that the woman and_ her daughter! left their home here Saturday night to ®o to Athens in response to a purported. ation from relatives The invitation did not come from s, Sherlff Collier sald hé ed, and with all indications & to the women having been from the home and slain, his tigation centered about the er. The husband of ‘Mrs. Simons has identified the body as that of his wife. He told Sheriff Collier that he took his wife and daughter to the station Saturday night to board a train for Athens. The sherilf aid his trail of the Simons and her| , dated De undated letter fr nouncing Mellon' thority’ to' th missione EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Woman Is Named' F inds Tribe of By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, Decém! covery of a tribe w he believed to have antedated the anclent Egyptians was reported the National today to Trade Council by Joh bertson, a_manufactu ita_Falls, Tex., on his return from a South American to and a haif, These people, kno Machigina, speak a language very ruction to milar in con lish, he reporte ship trees in thelr ancestors in the biblical flood tree The tribes i headwaters of the Am Mr, Culbertson said, vaded forests never trated by white man , an the GOVERNOR PROTESTS INSPECTION Il’inchoc Says Wording Hobbles State Police in Enforcing Dry Law. By the Associuted Press, HARRISBURG, Pa clause in a distillerfes in Pennsylvania. t Pennsylvania_ sta; t them “during hours,” was_criti ot in a letter to K prohibition made public here last 'hé m M Sec Mellon. ot declared fulfillment of S promise to tradition escaped extiction . December 17.— new form madifications permits, agreed to by the federal off clals as a res of t recent request of e- police, t ber 17.—Dis- hose peoples on South Foreign n Giffen Cul- rer of Wich- is today far safer he report most_hon ur of a year in the world is own as the throug women.” To the n, wor- that d they by nbing ve the nazon, wher he had i before pen would do to better PERMITS Senator | tion of “ | John, | that he w providing | te police may ordinary bus i by Go: R Hayn mmission night ommunication, in reply to an r. Haynes in form of Says he governor’ retary of the 1 he refused to | eive Towa, & com- Tree Worshtpers , Antedatmg the Egyptmns} He declared that many writers world. a woman so respected as among these people, and the only danger to conditions attributed much of the anti-Amer- jcan sentiment found in many coast cities. Internati Of Any Party, | | Declares Borah: Borah candidate for the | dent on the progressive Coolidge Aroused Disfavor Through- DES MOINES, | Hanford Mac former national comn the American America had done the country and its people great harm in misrepresenting its conditions and peoples, “The South the safest place I know, interior American interior than any of our cities,” d. “Thé people are the st people 1 have found Nowhere “in the the explorer respect of _the comes oA Loty A provision writers who exa ators to disq in South Ame from holding Board has be tion of C| commerce col Mr. Farley's n Rext which he said he he adde the wiy al “sport much to p understanding. The geokr 1t 5 bers be appo aboard, twe d, one fr from ' the in: | countr firmed of Idaho “is not a | - the presidential nom: ty," he said yesterday, a prediction of Frank 1. Idaho, last night d soon announce for Presi- ticket lives home | nomi paassed over the lJast n of A Jonew that th s eligibili Attitude Has| 1 wits xious out Towa. = board MusICI under Towa, December 16.— ider of Mason City, ander of Legion, in a letter to D. C, MONDAY, LAW CLAUSE HELD ASBARTO FARLEY Senators Viewing Appointee Disqualified Halt Shipping Board Nomination. ~ rine act whic rman Jones of the restriction ippointment of b Not Candidate ' ing thegi along with thos: oo it o et | BONUS REPUDIATION 1 SCORED BY MACNIDER pointmen i }in getting the r G. W. U. Chorus and Orchestra to| of the merchant h is held by some s ualify Chairman Farley office on the Shipping en called to the atten- mmitt before which nomination is pending riction Quoted. cited vides for members ntation for 1 tion of the tipulates thut two mem- inted from the At o from the om_ the gulf stat terior, and ‘*ons tla nnor, a regularly con- who was sitting on Mr. Farley was | pointment lust in Buffalo. Mr. Far- s in Chie from Passed Over Without Prejudice. n of Mr. Farl without prejudice” at | “ting of the committee of Commissioners B. yresson, I. Thomp- that time | nd other ir ey considered Mr. Far- ty serionsly questioned. | t of former Chairman opposed on the sam but the oppositior in deference resident Harding that there be nd rganization of the way. ANS TO MEET. DECEMBER 17, 1923. filn dmard & n hm —~The Christmas Store - Many Beautiful Lamps Ready f or One could scarcely choose a more welcome giit for any Our Christmas collection offers a wide and Christmas Giving home—than that of a Beautiful Lamp: varied choice, large lamps, small lamps, bridge ‘lamps, boudoir lamps. ~And Lamps lamps the more artisic the home. permission - to inspect ent_ cor concerned, breweries and distilleries, with a The commo ture may be il- 4 ral situation as ar as agricultural products are con- erned. Unjust Toward Farmers. freight structure therefore upen agricultural products a slayer led definitely from Athens. The husband and father brought them [ string to it that will hobble the of- to the station and put them @aboard ! ficers of the law." a train after a note had been re-| Mr. ceived supposedly from Mrs. Simons mother asking her to come to then The conductor told the she ed having ‘brougns, them Representative William E. Green of ITowa, chairman of the House commit- Haynes explained in his letter | t€€ 00 Ways and means, made public that. arrangements had been made ‘tQ ¥, took the republican party add the following words to the per- its “repudiation” of its mits: dge of adjusted compe tion for The 1 of the world r and Gather Friday Night. chorus and orchestra of George ashington Unlversity will hulll their ting in the as versity next Frida table are the lamps, floor fashion—the lamps, more “The business which izati two o Th unjust share of the whole burden. Of course, the rate cannot be onstantly d in order to reflect every tem- hange in the market value of different commodit but @ arked change in the compa e | values of commodities ingdicated over | ble period of years cannot y justice b arded. “In agjusting es the cost of the is not the nly factor to be What the traffic can fair- i and the value of the service | > be considered. To disregard | ue of the commodity in fAXing economically un- ound. > claimed that the lat iner 5 per cent, per ent and the like during the last ten years were in any 8 ific or sound. They w ¥y expedients.” NEW CLAIM DELAYS | SALE OF CROKER BONDS must the v he fre United States Now Demands In-| come as Well as Inheritance Tax From Proceeds. By the Associated Dre WEST 'H, Fla., Decem- { forced th: ty deposit box of Mrs. Bula . Crc cal bank, which Wwas to have been made today sl been postponed until Januar: cording to no of bo: obtain made to bonds is the widow of the former Tammany rd Crocer, sr. 1l tax department yester- n income ta essment of the Croker estate. tax claim is based on the hard Croker, sr., for the Notice of this shington Decem- income of vears of 9 x was filed in Wa ned as “income” may t on all federal pay- ry income tax and sald. Mrs. in_which she is g to recover § . which she alleged he owes the Croker estate. Richard came into possession of his sther. Frank's property,” said Mrs. oker, “which anfounted to $673,633 1k 'died intestate and his brother ed as administrator. But he dl(l‘ ount for the @mount either to ther or to the surrogate’s = NAVY UNABLE TO TRACE BOATS DRIFTING ON GULF Craft Which Broke Loose From Disabled Tug Sought by Planes and Vessels. Richard Croker. By the Associated Pr ‘la., December 17.— n Tound last night | <le boats which | from the disabled Navy { ngs about 100 miles south ay - night, accord- ' pensacola Naval r Station. Three men, Kirk. DM Young, boatswain mate; Robert Dun- eaman of Pensacola, and John 4 an, are aboard one of the_drifting craft. he N tug Alleghany of the Pensacola station and the tug Talla- poosa were in the gulf “tonight searching for the vessels, The Bay- springs left Pensacola about noon Thursday for Key West with the cagle boats in tow. The seas were rought. One of the boats broke loose, but was later recovered. Friday afternoon the tug's anchor became fouled as the tow broke loose again. The tug was disabled. The Talla- poosa later found the Bayvsprings and towed it back to Pensacola, late Saturday night. Seaplanes scouted the gulf yester- day but were unable to find the boats. Others were sent out today. The tug Alleghany is in radio com- munication ‘with the Pensacola sta- tion. WIFE WINS FURNITURE. Tsaac Notes today lost a suit in replevin which he had brought against his wife, Hattie Notes, for the recovery of household "furniture and effects valued at $3.000. Justice Siddons in Circuit Division No. 1 in- structed the jury that under the law a husband may not maintain a tort actlon, such as replevin against his wife. The jury then awarded Mrs. Notes a_verdict for the property, for which she had_entéred suit against the Se- curity Storage Company where .the furniture had been stored. Attorney E. Hilton Jackson represented Mrs. Notes. RUSH GIANT RESERVOIR. SAN FRANCISCO, December 17. .« The world's largest oil reservoir, ac- cording to the Standard Oil Company of California, is being completed b the company at El Segundo, Calif, The great bowl has a capacity of 5,000,000 barrels. It is 718 by 1,050 feet in area and is 32.5 feet deep. are eleven other oil reservoirs, £} 4Bl Segundo. ing to offic | checks and telling for what they { were sent were not returned, jO'Connell, 1321 Fairmont street north- the sheriff's investiga tlon discloses, they were met by a man_ who took them about four miles out in the country. where they were ain_and their bodies placed in the shack. to be burned almost beyond recognition. The sheriff said he be- lieved robbery figured in the morive, as the woman drew a large amount of money from the bank before leav- ing Jefferson. ’ NATION-WIDE LOOTING OF MAIL UNCOVERED Officials Believe Demented Man Is Robbing Post Office Boxes. ¢ the Asswclated Pross. COLUMBUS, Ohio, December A country-wide series of robberies of | post office boxes, suposedly perpetrat- person ' of unbalanced mind, eved to have been disclosed through the return to Secretary of Thad H. Brown today of 208 and postal money orders rep- niing $6.424.11, which should have ched him “on 'December 4 or 5. ently they were taken from the nost office box. he checks and money orders were forwarded to Brown by the First advised him thev had been recei rough the malils from Columbus Other similar packages had been re- ved by the bank, it was said: from tford, Conn., and Darby, Philadel- phia and Pittsburgh, Pa. None of the checks had been in- dorsed for_collection, but each bore criptions *J. T, jr.” and “L. .* - which postal inspectors in- terpreted as .meaning ‘“Jesse James, $r.” and “Lord Jesus Christ,” sup- posedly names under which a de- mented robber is operating. Postal authorities both here and in California who are working on the case profesy belief that the robber is a_former patient at.Camp Fremont or the government base hospital near Palo Alto.* The man they suspect is described as about thirty years old, with an impediment in his speech, and ordinarily wearing a brown, soft hat, and carrving a brief case. Since letters accompanying the Secre- tary Brown expects to have difficulty in adjusting his accounts. The rob- bery was not discovered until the California bank wired that the checks had been received there. S —— MARYLAND PENALIZES NINETEEN D. C. AUTOISTS pectal Dispatch to The Star. ‘ BALTIMORE, December 17.—One Washington motorist was sent to jail for thirty days and had his license revoked for operating a car while in- toxicated, threé others lost their licenses on the same charge, and fif- teen others suffered penalties of ten to sixty days' suspension for various violations of the state motor vehicle laws, according to the weekly report of the automobile commissioner, just made public, William Dumville, 143 F street northwest, was the one sent to jail for operatimg while intoxicated, while William P. Harrison, 1818 H’ street northwest; Will® Johnson, 1765 Kalo- rama road, and Fred W. Muller, 811 Allison street northeast, had their licenses revoked. Three motorists drew a ten-day sus- pension for exceeding the speed limit of thirty-five miles an hour, being Hugh Lawlor, 2511 North _Capitol street; George L. Smith, 2614 Woodley. place ' northwest, and Edward P. west, while Willlam T. Parker, 1915 Good Hope road southeast, drew a sixty-day ~suspension for = reckless driving and failing to appear at the commissioner's office when directed to do so. Others were Alfred Moore, 624 Morton street northwest; Henry Dayly, Cathollc University: Samuel Freeman, Howard University; Miss (¢ Helen Gardner, 214 Adams 'street northeast; James Henry Plercy, 1612 9th street northeast; Mrs. G. K. Sim- ‘mons,Washington barracks; Henry Sher- man, 815 4% street southwest; A. L. Sinclalr, jr., 519 Lamont street north- west, and Mrs. Ernest Lucas, 414 East Clifton Terrace, while Mrs. Vir- gil Frazier, Washington barracks, drew a fifteen-day suspension and H. Penn, 800 E street southeast, twenty-day suspension for the same offense. ‘ i OPPOSE WOMAN BILL The woman's joint congressional committee today reiterated its stand opposing the new equal rights amend- ment proposed by the National Wom- an's Party at the regular monthly meeting at 1201 16th street. Out of the seventeen national organizations that compose the committee, eleven voiced their opposition to the Na- tional Woman's Party bill. The committee also approved of and discussed the proposed amendment for improving child labor laws. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chairman of the committee, presided. The next meeting will be lield Janu- ry is often charged, law jbring you over the mantel ! Wife—Oh, do get one with lmem-yrm ling that they gent eyves. hich I R authorizes in ‘ordinary business ‘lvania state police not The enforcement se: in its own way by ons, but I cannot system for Penn ninistration know they do rvie put needless its own re agree to sylvanis trouble enough to_enfor using twenty-four hours to work in instead of ‘ordinary busi- | St ness hour | im with the A Perfect Deer. From Life. Husband (starting handsom L are what form er hunt)—Pil | but we deer head for | re fn the library. | iated™ not so mu are in the f: an im- transacted Harding nd fifty there 1 bee inding of his position by Manuel ( t the Army | organizations Hencke! part cie ¥ ¥ n. vle Music w President Hard unde; interested in tion takes, at there be A whole generation of t be left Wit the have been repud- the com represented nell. Announcing a Timely Pre-Holiday Sale All our'better. gfade Evening Slippers Including our complete stocks—nothing reserved. Slippers whose splendour matches that ot the Rising Sun-—and which has been the talk of Fashiondom. All Fancy Brocades All Paisley Velvets All Paisley Cloths All Silvers and Golds All Velvets---and others $10 Exquisite chiffon evening hosiery in the correct shades to wear with them. 20% Discount- during this Sale on all purchases of Rhine- stone slipper buckles—which Cor. 7th & K Sts. 14 9th St. “City Club Shop” 1318 G St. the orchestra, planning o dule | to st r the numt with day, it is announc ber led whic omula F tru Musie will pre e Ode” in the (9241 to June 1 WANTS TO CHANGE NAME. loye of bureau, tc eme ¢ shes to adopt that n 1 by Attorney R. G Handsome Black Vase Lamps, with Silk Shades, varied es; $10, $18.50 and $25. Adjustable Piano Lamps, with Geor ette Shades in varied lovely color combinations, $17.50. Artis Shad had ic Junior Lam h gorgeot es—base of black and gold- fes in exquisite colorings—putty nd rose, black and gold. black and rose, putty and gold—complete, $47.50. Beautiful Silk Shades, ruching—in delightful tions, $9.50 to $13. Special, $15—Blact Lamp Bases, swith , Second floor with fringe and color combina 1d Gold Bridge adjustable any di In bras finishes, Desk Lamps, in n $2.50 to $5.50. and verde ALJust._b]c Desk Lamp:. wi nent Shades, $9.50 to $2 almost every one might choose for. Iron Table Lamp, with Shade, $3.50. Charming amp—specially priced. Polychrome, Silver or Gold-finish Con- sole Sets include juely shaped owl and 2 candlesticks, $13.50 set. Bayberry Christmas Candles, 2 yox, 35¢ to 75c. Hol ndles, and 75c box. Specml $5—Ct mp, with Shade—base of poly- \hmmc—xhadm in gold, blue S styles for 50c rming Boudoi rose Three Popular Victrolas Select Them Now for Christmas Console Victrola No. 405 | $25 Victrola No. 100 ‘ Console Victrola i 8150 (4 No First Payment Required Just Buy a Small Amount of Records Your Victrola and Records will be delivered in time for a Merry Christmas—and thirty day monthly installments. s later you begin paying the If You Do Not Know What Records to- Give —why not give a Gift Certificate—then the recipient may select any retords preferred for that amount. amount desired. Certificates for any Direct Elevator Service to Victrola Galleries, Fourth floor.