Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 2

GRANDJURY HOLDS THREE IN MURDERS Two First and One Second Degree Indictments Are Returned. SHORE HELD IN ASSAULT , Auto Supply Dealer Charged With Shooting Woman After House Party. Assault to kill and assault with a dangerous weapon are the charges in an indictment reported today by the grand jury against Charles, alias | Pete, Shore, former auto supplies dealer. Shore is alleged to have shot Mrs. Bessie Denny December § last following a party -at hi: apart ment, 211 Tth street northwest. Mrs. Denny was in the Emergency Hos- pital for several weeks as the resul of her injuries. Edna Gray, colored, was indlcted for murder in the first degree. It is alleged that she caused the death of her husband, Walter Gray, August 31 last by mixing rat poison with his food. * An autopsy disclosed the presence of arsenic in the stomach of the dead man, it was stated, and a drugglst near the home of the woman is sald to have identified her as the purchaser of a rat pois Indicted in Murder. First degree murder in an indictment a colored. of Le wn, Berkley. have stabbed Berkle: ten times on a vacant lot street and North Capitol street. Virginia Jones, colored. was indict- ed for murder in the second degre She is alleged to have stabbed John S. Willlams, also colored, October 31 last. The fight occurred at 3d street and Maine avenue southwest, Mansinugkter Charged. An indictment charging manslau; 2er as the result of & traffic sec dent was reported against Samue Howard, colored. He was driving an automobile which ran over and killed Fortia Walluce, nine years old, th and V streets vest Se 1ith and v northwest Septem Others _indicted against them are: B: said to colored, near N and Leon the charges mith, car- nal knowledge; Charles Wade, violat- | ing white slave trafic Rose, carnal knowledge: Thomas L. Moran, Antonio Catsos. Henr: Bowles,FEnrl R. Halterman receman, non-support: Flynn Joscph Binns, Harry Donald son and Jeremiah Sullivan, robbery Harold M. Burton, grand larcen Gharles Mitchell, 'Lyman Stevens, seorge Bonner and Raymo s, robbers: Louls John hend Wil lexander, housebreaking and lar- ceny; Ethel L. Herndon and Robert Carter, violating Harrison narcotic act; John T. Painter, false pretenses; Joseph H. Fields, non-gupport; James J. Turner, housebreaking and ceny; John Royal Oak, Joseph Da son and Arthur Daw: violating Harrison narcotic act. OHIO’S INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE PRAISED Morgan Stresses Advantage of State Fund Over Private .Companies. act;’ Albert Advantages of the Ohio state fund for industrial insurance over self in- surance by employers were discussed by Representative Willlam M. Mor- gan of Ohlo at the closing hearing on the Fitzgerald workmen's compensa- tion bill before a special subcommit- tee of the House District committee today. Representative Morgan explained that the Ohio Chamber of Commerce maintained a workmen's compensa- tion league composed of insurance Tepresentatives. He explained that the lowest rates can be obtained by protecting employes in industry, and that it is to the interest of employ- ers and insurance companies to throw ell possible safeguards around the employes. Ohio uses every means to protect workmen and so has a big advantage over competitive plans. Representa- tive Morgan said that Representative Fitzgerald, author of the compulsory industrigl ‘insurance measure for the District, was a member of the or- ganization which fought, the exclu- sive fund in Ohio. He quoted from Carl Hookstadt, who testified that it all the states would adopt the Ohio plan it would save from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year for the employers. In Ohio 22,500 insured under the state fund in 1921 and only 450 had self in- surance. Now the latter number has been reduced to 300. Case in Massachusetts. He called attention of the com- mittee that in Massachusetts, the home state of Representative Under- hill, who is pushing a rival measure, setflements made by self-insurers in 80 per cent of the cases are only 20 per cent of what they should be. He described one particular instance where a widow was paid §2,000 when she was entitied to $6,500. The em- ployer made this settlemént, which was approved by the judge of the probate court. The widow later ap- Dealed to the industrial commission, which ruled against the employer, The employer objected on the ground that the settlement had been made and approved by the court. This case is now pending. Representative Morgan also de- soribed fifty-elght cases against the private employers after the industrial insurance commission had made its award. This was caused largely by “ambulance chaser” lawyers, who in- fluence the peopie who have been in Jured, telling them that these awards Would be overridden and that they would -be given much greater amounts. In consequence some of the suits asked $50,000 and $100,000. In the fitty-eight cases the amount sued fof was $1,710,620, or an average of 339,000 a case. The settlements re- covered were $174,480, or about $8,000 Z-case. Of this the attorneys and court costs took $61,068, or 35 per cént of the amount. The net amount per case, after 1awyers were paid, was $1,955. The stal allowed under the compensation 1w was $163,000. E Date of Settiement. The average date of settlement was two years and five months. The cost to the emplayes was $41,875. The total «coBt to the employers was $211,355, so that the insurance cost $53,000 mo; in connection with the death | n and Wilbur | Discarded Lover Stabs Woman to Avenge His Honor By the Associated Press. ] BERLIN, March 6.—Mohammed | Djemal Bey, an Albanian medical student, pleaded Albantan law in his defense when he was ar- raigned by a Berlin court for stab- bing his former flancee in the arm because she jilted him. “The law of my country says that disgrace can be atoned for only by a drop of blood,” the Al- banian protested. “It is not right to charge me with attempted mur- der. 1 felt that this woman had no right to humillate me by ignor- ing me. I had the right to take [ her blood in retellation for the | wrong she had done me.” The German court did not share the Albanlan's point of view. | | l | HOUSE COMMITTEE SFESPARK TRACTS Members Visit Areas Pro-! posed for Purchase in Company With D. C. Men. Needs of the District park system were impressed on members of a sub- | committee of the House District com- | mittee, which made a tour to pro- ! posed park sites this morning with a | number of representatives of the | city’s civic organizations. The subcommittee under the chair- | manship of Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont, was composed of Representatives Edward M. Beers of { Pennsylvania, Gale H. Stalker of New { York. Thomas L. Blanton of Texas iand Stanley H. Kunz of llinois. The | members visited the Patterson tract, { K1 le Ford Valley tract and the | Piney Branch Vality ‘tract. They {were accompanied by C. K. Consaul {of the Board of Trade, F. G. Coldren {of the Board of Trade committee on arks, Evan H, Tucker, president of the North: t Washington Cltizens" ssociation, and representing Federa- tion of Cifizens' Associations; Prof. ercival Hall, head of the Gailaudet College, which adjoins the Patterson tract; Melvin C. Hazen, the District urveyor, and Harry Wardman, build- er, who has suspended building opera- |tons at the Klingle Ford tract in order that Congress may have an | opportunity to purchase that tract. Both Representative Gibson ~ and ntative Kunz declared that should have acqulred these long_ ago in the interest of Representative Gibson said: “Congress should not adopt a ‘penny and pound foolish' attitude to- rd the District park system.” However, there seemed to be a dif- ference of opinion as to which were | the most important pleces of land to acquire. Itepresentative Blanton did {not seem "impressed with the Piney | Branch _proposal. terson tract, and practically the entire { subcommittee felt that the ten acres |cut out of the tract of fifty-nine acres { by the bureau of the budget should be j restored. !""Mr. Wardman told the subcommit- tee that although he did not want the land he would, as an investment, be willing to purchase the entire lower part of the Patterson tract for $10,000 an acre. A bill Introduced | on January 7, by Representative Zihl- i man, proposed an expenditure of not over §300,000 for this land. The budget bureau cut out of the lower section ten acres and reduced the price to $150,000, which members of local civic organizations declare is inadequate to purchase the land. The party then visited the Piney | Branch Valley Park, which consists of ian area of eléven acres to be purchased {under the bill at a cost of not more | than $155,000, and areas for widening i Piney Branch tract west of 16th street 1$107,000. From there the party visited the Klingle Road Valley Park, an area of eighteen acres, the pur- chase price to be not over $200,000. The land for widening the areas of the Piney Branch Valley Park west of 16th street was also viewed by the committee. Mr. Wardman showed that he had been_ offered land in the vicinity of the Piney Branch tract ten or twelve years ago for twenty-five cents a square foot and that the same land now cost $1.80 a square foot. Mr. Wardman With the other members showed the subcommittee the bulld- ing operations that he had suspended in order that Congress might have a chance to acquire the Klingle Ford tract, which would provide for con- necting Potomac and Rock Creek parks. The subcommittee will meet to- morrow morning at 10 o'clock in the House District committee room to de- committee on Saturday. DENIES MORSE PLEA 70 ADD TESTIMON Justice Slddons of the District Su- preme Court today denled the ap- plication of Erwin A. Morse, son of Charles W. Morse, New York ship- bullder, for leave to present addition- al testimony bearing on the motion of United States Attorney Gordon for the removal of Morse to New York to answer an indictment charg- ing the use of the mails to defraud. Morse was one of the men acquitted last August of a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Shipping Board in connection with war contracts. Attorney Nash Rockwood of New York, for Mr. Morse, stated that ap- plication would now be made to the court for a hearing of argument on the law points involved in the ques- tion of the sufficiency of the indict- ment_before final action is taken in the habeas corpus proceedings by which Morse is attempting to prevent his extradition to New York. Justice Siddons in denying the ap- plication to recelve further testimony pointed out that at a hearing more than elghteen months ago before a United States commissicner Morse was given sufficient opportunity to present evidence, and announced_he had no further testimony to offer. No injustice is done the accused in denying further testimeny and no right of Morse's, constitutional or otherwise, is invaded, Assistant United States Attorney General Warner was assoclated with Maj. Gordon in the prosecution. R i JOHN B. HENLEY IS DEA AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS John B. Henley, a prominent Ma- son, member of an old Baltimore family and recently appointed ag chief "supervisor of agencies of the 4 ‘JK The first place visited was the Pat- |g, SEEK 0 EQUALLE 1.0 FREGHT RATES | Trade Board and B. & 0. Of- ficial Would End Schedule Aiding Baltimoreans. Amicable {rates into adjustment and out of of freight | { i | i | i Washington, {which have handicapped Washington jmerchants in their competition to get isome of the business which goes to | Baltimore, is in sight, according to E. F. Murphy, chairman of the industr {interests committee of the Washing- ton Board of Trade. This announce- |ment_was made tollowing a meeting |in the board's rooms in The Star {bullding this afternoon, at which ap- {peared D. M. Fisher, representing the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The committee has been diligently on this freight adjustment 1 for some time and Mr. Murphy is par- {cicularly pleased ~that the matter seems near adjustment in an amicable |way. It was pointed out by ! Murphy that Baltimore and Washing- ton draw their supplies from prac- tically the same eastern territory, and that Washington pays a higher rate because it is forty miles further. However, when the local merchants sell their goods in their southern markets, they have to pay the same freight rates on it, although Wash- ington is forty milés nearer the d tination. This gives the Baitimroe merchants a handicap which to some extent stifles the competition. As soon as the freight rate matter is out of the way, Mr. Murphy sald, his committee would begin the dis- cussion of a change in rates with the express companlies, through whaich the Washington merchants suffer a |similar handicap, and there Is every bellef now the express companies will make an adjustment as soon as the unfairness of the present rates is pointed out. JO3-HUNTING COLLEGE MAN “HUMILIATING” Presidents of Universities Take Counsel on Failure to “Cash In” on Higher Education. BY ROBERT T. Special Dispatch to The Sta: NEW YORK, March 6.—College’ and SMALL. cide upon thelr recommendation, which | University. presidents are not unmind- will be placed before the full’ House | ful of. the shafts of fierce criticism which have been hurled at the under- graduates of both sexes recently, but they are very generally agreed that what are.referred to today as ‘“col- leglate” eccentricities are but a pass- ing phase of youth which will correct working Mr. | en. Other parks were Although the imperial Russian gov- ernment has long since passed into oblivion, the stately mansion on 16th street formerly the czar's embassy Is stll technically the property ot that fallen throne, as far as the land records of the District are eoncerned The United States has not recog- uized the soviet government now in mtrol of Russia, but since the em- | bassy property has remained in the | name of the imperial government on { the records, the District government exempts it from taxation. _Thv, official home of the former | Russian ambassador, scene of many elaborate state functions and regard- ed one of the most ornamental atic properties, has been esti- to be worth over half a mil- { lion dollars. No One to be Ansessed. ! But. in the opinion of Assessor i Richards, there s another good rea- ison why the property is exempted from local taxation, and he express- ed it by asking: | . “Who would we assess it to or col- | lect the tax from if it were not ex- j empt?” Finding the answer to the query should prove interesting to those who {love puzzles District officials say there is a prec- edent for the present policy of ex- GLASS CASKET CASE IN HANDS OF JURY Verdict Is Awaited on Charges of Conspiracy to Defraud Against Promoters. in The conspiracy case against James W. DeCamp, promoter of the Crystal Glass Casket Company: Ralph A Howe, former vice president of the company, and Edwin C. Reed, one time secretary of the corporation, was subinitted today by Justice Hitz to the jury in Criminal Division 1. The jurors were deliberating over their Verdict late this afternoon. The trial has been in progress for stveral weeks and the government contended that De Camp and his as- sociates concocted a scheme to de- Czar’s Embassy Building Still Free Of Taxation by District Government Mansion on Sixteenth Street Silent as Tomb W hile Ownership Issue W aits on Soviet Recognition by United States. ives of loeal clvic organizations Inxpecting proposed Patterson Park visited by the delexat! hl from t the | not been the Russian emba taxation, despite the fact present government has recognized. Several years ago, When the Mexican government had mot been recognized by this country, Mexican embassy property was |ilarly exempt from taxation | courtesy and comity betw tions. All indications are that the Distriet will continue to carry the | Russian property as an embassy for emption purposes for some time to | | come i Vested in Kerensky Regime. 1! The official papers in the office of the District recorder of deeds show the title invested fn “tle imperial Russian government,” an institution that ceased 1o exist in the spring of 1917. As as the United States government concerned, through the acts of the De- partment of State, it belongs to the | Kerensky government. Unofficially the Department State knows there has been no rel y government for a matter of nearly six years. Officially, however, its records, as shown by the diplo- matic list, revised to February, 1924, credits Berge Ughet, a Kerensky agent, as the financial attache of | Russia, and the State Department continues to recognize him as the custodian of the mansion which today stands sealed like a tomb. LAKE POLLUTED, CITY DEPENDS ON SPRINGS Cleveland Gets Strong Taste of Phenol and Chlorine From Erie. empting 1 then ! yet the sim- | n na- | ar of ! Ke- | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 6.— Virtually all of greater Cleveland de- pended on springs and the distribu- tors of distilled water for their drinking and cooking supplies today. This situation, one of the most acute in the city's history, was brought about by the strong taste of phenol and chlorine in the water pumped trom Lake Erie. Hundreds of Clevelanders stood for hours awalting their turn at seven approved springs. They were armed | comber, fraud the purchasers of the stock of with jugs, bottles, pitchers, pails and the company and in furtherance of |even wash tubs—in fact any kind the alleged conspiracy used the malls | of utensils in which they could carry to persuade investors to buy the stock. | water home. So great was the rush the defense claimed that | that policemen were stationed at the 1h52\‘::'(l:rsled‘.u:mver had any intention to|Springs to see that each person left defraud; that they believed caskets after they had obtained a gallon of Sotld be made of glass so as to be|Water so that the next in line could commercially profitable and that it|move up. was not shown that any one had suf- The lines at the various springs in fered loss, although $165,000 worth of different parks diminished but little itself. The recent attempt to attribute im- morality and unsavory conditions in the east side dance halls of New York to the college spirit, turned loose in a lower stratum of society, almost broke the camel's back of tolerance in the universities, but even that has been allowed to go by without seri- ous comment from the university heads. A far greater problem than a few youthful excesses, a few smart and sophisticated college sayings, is en- gaging the attention of the college faculties and the older alumni of the country’s Institutions of learning. Atter Graduation, What? They are endeavoring to find out | what becomes of the college man after graduation and why. They are won- dering if something is wrong With the college courses as they have been fol- lowed for generations and why It is that 80 few college men actually apply in after life the studles to which they devoted o much time in their college years. ‘There is in progress today an ex- change of views between college heads on this subject and there is no doubt that it s attracting the most serious attention of the country's higher edu- cators. ob hunting” by the college grad- uate is one of the humiliating aspects of the situation. President Angell of Yale has called the attention of his fellow educators to this subject and bluntly has said that no one famillar with the process of job hunting by seniors and young graduates can feel entire satisfaction with the methods often employed at present, nor with certain of the results achieved. Must Go Into Business. A Greek letter fraternity recently made & poll of its members who had been graduated from twenty-six dif- ferent institutions. Out of 400 names canvassed it was found that twenty- than it would have cost under the state | Equitable Life Insurance Company |five graduates had become teachers, fund. “ho, employes and the employers have both found that insurance is cheaper under the state fund, and for that reason thoy are patronizing the state fund rather than private com- panies or self-insurance, Representa- tive Morgan told the committee. He lald before the committee sta- tistics compiled by the Ohlo State Manufacturers’ Association showing that the average rate paid for all in- dustries in Ohio is 1.5636 per cent while in New York it is 3.4237 per cent, in Californla 2.5876 per oent, in Michigan 2.0891 per cent, in Illi- nols 2.0418 per cent and in Kentuoky 2.32, so that in all these statea the rate is higher than in Obio under the state fund. ! Miss Mathan A. Tata, admitted as an advocats of the Bombay high xfl. is a tull-fledged English bar- et of this city, dled of pneumonia at’ the Ebbitt Hotel today, foliowing a 'fl'el\k..bt)gn&-iu = e ly wi sent to Baltimore this afternoon, where funeral serv. :’cel and interment will be held Mon- ay. Mr. Henley was formerly connected with the Metropolitan I‘l{ Insurance Company for many years, and had for the last eleven years beén located at Dayton, Ohio, as an official of that compan: He was a member of the Shriners of Dayton, and of the Con- cordia Lodge of Masons of Baltimore, Md. He was the son of the late Ran- dolph and Mrs. Mary F. Healey of Baltimore. s Mr. Henley was considered a man of exceptional ability and wide ex- perience, and although connected with twenty-four were lawyers, nineteen were physicians, elghteen engineers, nine were editors or publishers, three were chemists and more than i were engaged in business. e was. fiired on this basis that only one graduate in four from the university intends or is permitted in after life to make use of the things he learns in his college vears in the sense that those Who foliow the pro- ns do. Three-fourths of all the college. graduates, it can be estimated, go into business pursuits, casting aside their degrees in letters and not em- ploying in any direct manner the academic or cultural courses they followed in school. How to Make Living. Some of the educators apparently the Equitable Insurance Company but | are becoming convinced that it must a short while, is sald to have made | become the function of the university b emnr all with whom he came in [ not to .teach a man alone how he | cont ¥ S bunould tves but How. to makea-iiving, befor the stock was sold. ‘The business might yet be made a success, it”was contended, when the holders’ of the stock might realize on their invest- ment. Attorneys T. Morris Wampler, Harry A. Hegarty and Robert E. Lynch rep- reum‘fd the accused, while Assistant United States Attorney Bilbrey con- ducted the prosecution. LABOR CABINET STARTS ON INDIAN PROBLEMS Naming of Committes Held First Move in Plan to Appease Natives. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 6.—The cabinet has decided to appoint a committee to censider Indian affairs, with authority to consult the members of the secre- tary for India's council, members of parliament Interested in India and representatives of Indian opinion, ac- cording to the Dally Herald. The labor party, adds the paper, gards this as the first stép towar meeting the insistent for further: consideration o for self-goyernment. —_— e The United States is a commercial nation. The percentage of persons engaged in literary and scientific pur- suits is not so great as in most of the European countries. Therefore the student trained along utilitarian lines is leaving his more literary fellow far behind in achlevements outside the college walls, or at least In the first achievement of making a living. Colleges, it is admitted, are being forced to consider new courses or the extension of present courses dealing with what may be called the com- mercial side of life. Help to Choose Career. President Angell believes thi great deal can be done by assisting the ‘student in choosing his course and estimating his own fitness for dif- ferent life occupations. Most stu- dents upon entering college have the vyaguest sort of notlon as to what their future is to be, and they drift along ‘without any particular purpose in_mind other than the advantage of & “higher education.” Educators who have discussed this subject with the writer naturally re- sent the overcommercialization of the colleges. They also resent the motion that the university shall devote its=if to teaching a man Solely along the lines of becoming a financial success. Yet they all seem to agree that voca- tional ~amd- technical .lines must be atressed to &'larger extent then ever at midnight. In Wade Park at that hour there were sixty men and wom- en. At Rockefeller Park the same number were fighting drowsiness, while the same condition existed in Edgewater Park and at other springs which given a clean bill by the health department. One woman at the Wade Park spring said that she had come four miles for the water. Not only was the water of Lake Erle charged with a strong taste of manufacturing plant phenol, but it was saturated with chlorine putsinto the water at the filtration plant. The situation was brought about by a thaw of the ice allowing the phenol to flow into the lake past the in- takes. —_— SPANISH RETREATING BEFORE MOROCCANS By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 6.—The Tangier correspondent of the Dally Express says the recent action in Moroceo re- line declares, ng through in wedge formation in the direction of Midar (Nador), a short distance south of Melilla, where the Spanish' headquartsts is situated. The rumor comes from Gibraltar that Melilla is burning, REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE, Infantry, Artillery and Stores Sent Bpanish Army. By the Assoclated Press. MADRID, March 8.—A.lflvll of the first Spanish reiaforcements at Melilla is officially announced. Infantry, ar- tillery and stores are going forward from Alicante, Valencia and Barce- lona, ~The Spanish commander-in- chief and. his staff are on their way to_Tafersit. Fifteen _ soldlers, including two lieutenants, were wounded when the rebels atticked a Spanish convoy, which took refuge in a blockhouse. Spanish_aviators have bombed Beni Medlien, Beni Buyar, Cuenca "and Kert. MUNDELEIN AND HAYES TO GET CARDINALATES, By the Associated Press. 'ROME, March 6.—Archbishop Hayes of New York and Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago have been nominated as HAWKS SCHEDULED FOR FOREIGN POST Department Information Head Likely for Service in Turkey. State Stanley Hawks, chief of tie divi- sion of current information, Depart- ment of State, who was recently ap- pointed a secretary in the United States diplomatic service, is scheduled for service in an eastern European country, probably Turkey. He will be succeeded as head of the informa- tion bureau by Hugh Robert Wilson of Tilinols, recently transferred to [ this city from Tokio, where he served the United two s emb Mr. W counselor at for more on has been in th: than 3 d Imatic service about twelve vears and | Was $178 has served at Lisbon, Portugal; in Guatemala, and in Buenos Aires, Ber- lin, Bern, Vienna and Tokio. He was stationed in Berlin in 1916 and again in 1920, when he was attached to the United States commission and counselor of embassy. He was ap- pointed secretary of class one in De 1919, and still holds that rating. He was graduated from Yale University In_1906 and then studied at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Poll- tiques, Paris. For three vears anpd a half he was employed by a whol sale house in Chicago and in Dece: ber, 1911, entered the diplomatic serv- ico, after examination. He is re- garded as especially well equinped for his new duties at the State De- partment, involving the dissemima- tion of all official information to the public. 'DRIVE TO WEAKEN PROBESCHARGED Senator Harrison Says G. 0. P. “Organ” Slurs Daugh- erty Committee. A deliberate campaign by the re- publican party to undermine public confidence in the committese which will investgate the Department of Justice was charged in the Senate today by Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi. Senator Harrison declared the Na- tional Republican, which, he said, was the official organ of the party, w circulating matter showing a clear Intent to destroy faith in the commit- tee. A second objective of the pro- gram, he said, was to “whitewash every one connected with the ofl scan- dal.” One of the articles quoted by Senator Harrison gave what purported to be the chronological history of the Daugherty inquiry, beginning with the early public service of Senator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, author of the in- quiry resolution, and including sugges- tions of radical affiliations of Senator Brookhart, republican, -lowa, the com- mittee chairman. The Mississippi senator warned re- publican leaders the effect of their campaign might be to further injure public confidence in all govemment of- ficials. CALIPH’S HOUSEHOLD * IN ACUTE DISTRESS By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 6.—The members of the caliph's household left behind on his departure for Switzerland are penniless and in acute distréss, no provision having been made for the eunuchs and mem- bers of the harem. A number of ¥. M. C. A. secretaries visited the palace yesterday and took food to the harem women. ALL-METAL FLYING BOAT MEETS TESTS OF FLIGHT By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March 6.— The all-metal fiying boat, Morro Cas- tle 11, which left Keyport, N. J., Jan- uary 16, for a test filght to San Juan, is nearing the end of its journey. Tuesday night, after flying against strong_trade winds for nine hours from Baracao, Cuba, the new type boat was forced to land forty miles from San Juan, but C. Y. Zimmer- mann, the Dilot, expects to_leave shortly for the destination. He re- ports that the boat has stood up well ‘under all weather and sea conditions. Besides the two members of the crew, the boat Is carrying two pas- sengers. . WIDOW OF ADMIRAL DIES. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., March 6.—Mrs. Fannie S. Beaugont, widow of Rear Admiral John C. Beaugont, died here yesterday, aged seventy-four years. She was & native of Norfolk, but had resided many years in Washington. She_is survived by two sons, Lieut. Col. John C. Beaugont, U.-8." M. C., and D. Ammen Beaugont of Phila- delphia, and two daughters, Mrs. C. A. Krez of Norfolk and Mrs. C. H, Cobb of San Diego, Calif. burial will take piace In Washington Saturdazy . AR Funeral and | '"Undertakers Want Less Gloom; Ban Somber Hearses i By the Asmociated Press. NEW YORK, March 6.—Enough l gloom prevalls in the world with- out .somber hearses passing through the streets to remind peo- ple of death, in the opinion of the Associated Undertakers of New York, who voted to disguise their hearses as ordinary limousines. _The assoclation last year elimi- nated black gloves at funerals and voted to make Its mortuary estab- lishments bright and attractive. O e i TRACTION EARNINGS FAR, HANNA SAYS Reached 7.76 Per Cent in 1923, He Tells Senate Fare- Inquiry Committee. The Capital Traction Company. in 1923, earned 7.7 per cent on the “weighted” fair value of the property as found by the Public Utilities Com- mission for that year, Vice President Hanna told the Senate District sub- committee on public utilities at a hearing today on the McKellar 5-cent street car fare bill. The rate earned on the fair value, unweighted, was given as 7.66 per cent for the same year. This was a falr return, Mr. Hanna said, but not unusually large. He said that many public utilities commis- sions In different parts of the coun- try have fixed 8 per cent as a fair re- turn, still others have fixed a smaller ireturn, and a further commission has fixed &_term above 8 per cent. In, the opinion of Mr. Hanna, the proper measure of a return would be determined by what must be paid for money in community at the time. He called attention to the fact that the present market value of Capital T tion stock is less than par—from 84 to 95, although the Capital Traction Company has had a good financial record, never having been in the hands of receivers. and a good divi- dend record, and the stock is now paying a 7 per cent dividend. Calls Division Falr, | . The division made by the company between the dividends and surplus, he said, was a fair one. The surplus | in 1 fter the dividends were paid 0. The 7 per cent div | dend amounted to $840,000. The net income per $100 share of stock was 8.49 per cent. Mr. Hanna pointed out that during the war period, when there was a great demand for money { and money brought a high rate of | interest, the Capital Traction stock sold as low as 83. The total amount of operating rev- enues in 1923, Mr, Hanna told the committee, was $4,842,619.11. The total operating e: nees, taxes and miscellaneous expenses for the same year amounted to $3,551,368, leaving an operating income of $1,291,251. A fair value on the property fixed by the Pablic Utllities Commissign was The revenue passengers 65,652,868, at an average fare of 7.02 cents. Taking the year 1914 as a basis, Mr. Hanna showed that the operating revenue had increased in 1923 over that of 1914 115 per cent; at the same time, the operating expenses, taxes and ‘miscellaneous expenses had in- creased 175 per cent. The operating income had increased 34 per cent, and the per cent of return on fair value had increased 10 per cent. The num- ber of revenue passengers had in- reased 33 per cent, and the average fare paid had increased 63 per cent, while the population of the District had increased 26 per cent. Highest 1n 1921. The operating revenues in 1921 reached the highest level, Mr. Hanna showed, $5,501,200. That year the op- erating income was $1,693,268 and the return on the fair value was 10.42 per cent. That was the vear of the {highest fare received, the average {being 7.45 cents per revenue passen- {ger carried. In 1914 the opegating revenues of the company were shown to be $2,265,993; the operating expen- ditures, taxes and miscellancous ex- penses’ $1,202,300; the operating in- come $963,693" and the per cent re- turn on fair value 6.91 Mr. Hanna pointed out that there had_been large increases in business during the war period, starting -in 1917, and that the receipts for the company naturally had increased greatly, He presented to the com mittee, however, figures showing that the operating expenses also had in- creased very largely. In the early part of 1920 the peak of the operating expenses was reached, he said. In 1917, he told the committee, there had been a strike on the Washington Railway and Electric Company’s lines early in the year and the United States entered war, bringing a tre- mendous increase to Washington in population. “Both of these were fac- tors, he said, in the incre ness. I | e in busi Quixzed by McKel Senator McKellar of Tennessee, au- thor of the 5-cent fare bill, asked Mr. Hanna if he did not know that the street railway corporation operating over virtually all of New Jersey had within the last year asked permission | of the New Jersey public utilities| commission to return to a five-cent fare because the company could make S0 much more money on that basis. Mr. Hanna replied that he had heard a different report. He pointed out that in New Jersey a zoning sys- tem had been established, and that the 5-cent fare was charged for short hauls in the cities, and as soon as the boundary was reached an 8-cent fare was charged. He sald also that there were no free transfers, which meant that some passengers who for- merly had traveled for 8 cents were now compelled to pay 10 cents, since they did not have the transfer benefit. Mr. Hanna also was questioned about the effect the establishment of motor busses in the District had upon the street. rallway lines. He replied that only one line of busses had had any ap- preciable effect on the street car lines and that was the Washington Rapid ‘Transit Company, with busses operating on 16th etreet. This company, he said, carried about 4,000,000 passengers a year. It now charges 8 cents fare and N0 tickets are sold at a reduced rate. This company, he added, is asking the Public Utilitles Commission for a 10- cent fare. Mr. Hanna said that it had been proven that the handling of mass transportation in cities could not be done as economically by bus lines as by street car lines, Where the traf- fio is light, however, he eald, the bus iine is more economical. Skows Expenses Increased. Mr, Hanna told the committee that the operating expenses per passen- ger had increased from 2.69 cents in 1917 to 5.15 cents in 1923, He then described to the committee the in- creases in wages and salaries paid the emploves. He sald that in 1886 the trainmen received $2a day when twelve and thirteen hours constituted s day’s work. In 1905 this had been increased to 223% cents an hour; in 1916 it ran from 233% to 27; in 1917 the wages ran from 27 cents to 82 cents an hour; in 1918 from 32 cents to 38 cents an hour, and in that year an increase was made from 43. to 48 cents an hour. The highest point was reached in 1920 when the wages were 51 cents to 66 cents an hour, and In 1928 the wages ran from 50 to 56 cents an hour—a reduction of .28 of & cent per hour on the aver- e. The hourly rates were based on an estimated working day of ten hours, 30 days per year. Mr. Hanna described to the com- mitt also. the increase in wages pald shopmen and other classes of employes. The greatest increases, he showed, had been made to those re. ceivi the lowest salaries in 1914. He said that withia the last few days, | with. the WCARL OPPOSES LIMIT.ON POWERS & Calls House Legislation Ef- fort to Remove Check on Expenditures. Controller General McCarl is op- posed, In principle, to legislation pending in the House which would curtail the powers of his office. He 50 expressed himself in a letter to Chairman Graham of the House committee on the judiciary in regard to a bill which would support the contentions of the employes’ comp.n- sation commission. The commission is in the midst of a long-drawn-out row with the: controller, who has cut off all its funds. The bill, which was reported favor- ably by the committee to the House yesterday, was branded by Controller McCarl as “but a further attempt on f of the commission to interfere proper functioning of the audit and to undo the action of Con- gress in establishing the independent audit of government expenditures, so vitally necessary. Sees Restrictions Lifted. “If permitted, the way will be open for other individual executive offices to accomp! the same thing,” said the controller, “the ultimate and final result of which will be to re- move the legislative check estab- lished by the budget and accounting act on expenditures of appropriated funds made by the executive offices. Iy experience” he says signi cantly, “is that such a check should be strengthened rather than weak ened.” Objecting further to the tenor of the bill, Mr. McCarl added that “the evident purpose of this provision i to make it unnecessary for the cor mission or its disbursing officer account in any manner for pub funds appropriated to pay awards « the commission Wants Study by Congress, “Such proposal,” he continued 50 out of harmony with the prix that public funds may be only | fully exponded and must be promp:i: accounted for that the Congress wi undoulted!y wish to give most ser ous consideration _thereto befor: abandoning such safe procedure ar: surrendering all control over fund appropriated to pay awards of the eommission. Under the law as it n exists the commission possesses wi latitude of authérity, and in the a! sence of fraud or gross mistake i+ findings of fact are accepted witho question, but it may not make p ments from public funds in violatic of law." g The controller contends that if bill was intended to prevent his « fice from reviewing the work of commission, it does not say what means. Not Considered Binding. His office could not be considere come within the scope of the - hibitory clause in the proposed b he says, which would make the act « the commission in granting clai not “subject to review by any oth administrative officer, employe agent of the United States” The co troller would not consider such an a binding upon him, he contends. “However, in view of the action : cently found necessary for this office ¢ take with referemce to the accounts the disbursing officer of the commi sion, it is assumed the prohibitory el ment of the proposed amendment directed agalnst this office. This as sumption is strengthened by the fac that this bill was introduced 8o 0o after my action of February 11, 1924 disallowing certain items in the a counts of the disbursing officar of the commission and expressing my inte: tion of withholding approval of requ! sitions for further advance of funds. because of his persistent refusal to furnish the necessary evidence to show the legality of his payments from the employes' compensation fund,” he says McCarl Suggests Changes. The controller discusses varfous pro- visions of the blll, explaining changes which he considers necessary if the in- tent of Congress would be to grant the commission powers it wishes and to allow the commission tho right to pay compensation for vocational diseases. The subject of payment of compensa- tion to employes suffering from voca- tional diseases Is the point at issue in The commission says it can pay euch claims, The controller say it cannot. From Yesterd: —— 5:80 Edition of The Star. BETTER ADVERTISING CONTESTS PLANNED Plans for a better advertising week at a date to be fixed later, were laid before the Advertising Club of Wash- ington at its weekly Juncheon yesterday afternoon and approved. John F. Cassidy, secrotary of the club, presented the plans for the committee. The purpose, he said, is to create a more general interest in advertising as well as confidence in it, and during the week it is planned to have discus: ns for the better- ment of advertising to the end that more goods may be sold at less cost, The plan cails for the raising of a fund of $2,000 from the five news- papers of the city, to be divided into two contests, with first prizes of $500 each and five prizes of $100 each and prizes of cash or merchandise by In- dividual merchants for advertise- | ments Telating to their stores. Allen V. De Ford read a_paper on electric sign advertising in New York city, telling of the high prices which are paid for some of it, and Willlam H. Wagner, president, started a dis- cussion on'the advantages of split- ting up advertising and spreading it in_several places in the newspapers. The club had as its guests Miss Katherine Cuddy of Seattle, Wash., and Miss Betty Plass of Poughkeep- sie, both winners of beauty contests in their respective cities. —_— the trainmen, through their organ- ization, have asked the Capital Trac- tion Company for a flat_rate of 70 cents per hour, and that the company had notified the men that it could not consider such an increase at this time. He said it was expected a de- mand would be made for arbitration Pay Increased 163 Per Cen The percentage increase pald the clerical force over 1914 ranged from 31 to 110 per cent, and the percentage increase_paid shopmen from 98- per cent to 168 per cent. The number of emploves of the Capital Traction Company on Decem- ber 31, 1923 was given as 1,288, and December 31, 1917, as 1,116. . Mr. Hanna gave also salaries paid to attorneys, showing an increase of from $6,000 & vyear in 1914 to $8,000 in 1924 in one case, and from $8,000 to_$7,200 in another case. The salaries pald officers of the company have _increased, on the whole, from $40,700 in 1914 to $61,900 in 1923. The salary paid the pre dent and general counsel in 1914 was $17,500. This was -reduced in 1916 to '$12,000 and remained at $12,000 until 1920, when it was increased to $18,000, the figure today. The vice president in charge of operations re- ceived $10,000 in 1914, and today re- celves $14,000. Another vice president receives $5,000. The secretary recelved $4.600 in 1916 and a treasurer, $4,000. Today, & secretary-treasurer receives $7,000, and an assistant secretary, $4,000, and an assistant treasurer, $3,900. The chief engineer received $2.700 in 1916, and today receives $5,500; the purchasing agent received $2,400 in 1916, and to- day, $4,500. Mr. Hanna told the committee that the company owns two automobiles. which are used by its officials, and pays the operating costs. The committee will meet again to- morrow to continue the Learings, with the Capital Traction officials still om the stand.