Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1924, Page 17

RECEIVES MEDAL AWARDED FOR PHILIPPINE SERVICE. Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, deputy chief of staff of the War Department, decorating Col. Perry L. Miles of the United States infantry, with the Distin- guished Service Medal for heroism in action in the Philippines in 1899. Col. Theodore Schultz received an award for bravery on the Mexican border in 1914. MOVIE AND SWIMMING STARS right) GATHER AT PALM BEACH. National Photo. Of course, Betty Compson (second from nd Johnny Weismuller (right) are.the bright particular stars of the group. The others are “Stubby” Kreuger, “Bob” Skelton and Miss Nettie Sheets. The latter is a fancy diver who “doubled” for Betty in the “water stuff” of a new photoplay made in the south. TER FAMINE PERIL IN D. C. | - CITED IN CONDUIT FUND PLEA ~ Tnvestment Company Wins Suit for ‘ Report to Board of Trade Urges $2,500,000 Appro- | priation for Next Fiscal Year—Self-Government NOTE AGAINST ELKINS " ESTATE HELD VALID! $150,000 Paper and | Interest. | APPEAL WILL BE FILED Family Disputes Authenticity of Obligation. The estate of Richard Elkins, son of the late Stephen B. Elki United | States senator from West Virginia| nd brother to Davis Elkins, now rep- esenting that state in the Senate, must pay $176.075 to the Equitable Investment Company, a Washington Corporation, according to the verdict of a jury in Circuit Division 2 of the District Supreme Court. The verdict represents the face value of & note for $150,000 and inter- est since April 19, 1921, the date of the | paper. Davis Elkine, Stephen B. Elkins and the Davis Trust Company, executors of the estate of Richard Elkins, puted the authenticity of the note. The case has been on trial for sev- eral weeks before Chief Justice Mc- Coy and the jury. Experts in hsnd- writing and typewriting and typiug machines from all parts of the coun- ‘ry were called on behalf of the El- i.ins estate. . According to_the declaration filed June 26 last, Richard Elkins made “ind delivered the note in question tc John Richmond, payable in eighteen | months, and Richmond transferred | liis titlé to the plaintiff company May ' 23. Mr. Elkins died June 30, piior to the maturity of the te. and the executors declined to| onor the claim against his estate. | Attorneys Donaldson, Johnson &' for District Favored by Judge Peelle. Necessity of increasing the appro- priation for carrying on next year of the new water conduit above the amount allowed by the budget bureau was pointed out in a report presented to the Washington Board of Trade’ last night in the New Willard Hotel. Dan- ger of a water famine, with accom- panying pestilence, is a possibility which the District faces every day and will face untll the new conduit is completed, it was declared. Representatives Charles L. Underhi'l of Massachusetts and Tom D. Mc- Keown of Oklahoma and former Chief Justice Stanton J. Peelle of the United States Court of Claims delivered ad- dresses, Mr. McKeown outlined a plan of self-government for the Djstrict which, he said, he would put in the form of a bill to be introduced within the next few days. Reports also were received from the special committee on rent legisiation and from the parks and reservations, insurance and fire protection and mu- nicipal finance committees. Cites Gen. Beach's Report. After reviewing the condition of tho prdsent aqueduct, Francis R. Weller, chairman of the water supply committee, said that Gen. Beach, cof of engineers, had recommended to President Coolidge the importance of “appropriating a sum of at least $2,500,000 to carry out the work of the new conduit the next fiscal year, stating that “any less sum may seriously imperil the health and prop- erty of the people of the District of Columbia.” 4 “Your committee feels,” the report says, “that there is no more im- portant matter confronting. the at- tention of our citizens at this time | committee. Frailey and G. F. Snyder, represent- 'than the early completion of the ad- g the Bikins estate, will ask foF & 'ditional water suply project. and new trial, it is expected.. The plain- until this project is completed we are Hif was represented by Attorneys in danger at any time of suffering Beale & Norris of the New York bar from a water famine in this city, re- and by,H. R. Burton and T. T. Marye sulting in a great lose of life due to of the local bar. iepidemics and disorganization in all !governmental and private businesa” The report also took up the matter of efforts to obtain high-water pres- sure for the District, for fire-fighting purposes, and pointed out that there P U. S. WORKER SUCCUMBS.} Carl Hookstadt, Labor Department, 3 Dies at St. Paul, Minn. Word has been received here of is no satisfactory reason for the fail- ure to install this protection., Discuss Power Project. Taking up the matter of water- th t x power development at Great Falls, w2y .d"‘“,h °fl c:""‘l ';""k’ adls eXbert|the estimated cost of which would be statisticlan In the bureau of statls- 344,421,000, Mr. Weller said that the tics, Department of Labor, in the St. | committee is not ready to either rec- Luke's Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., Sun- . ommend or report adversely on the g project, but desired merely to call day night, following an attack of attention to the fact that the project pneumonia. Funeral services and |is being authorized, based upon the burial will be at his old home in, report of one government engineer Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, from this proposed plant, particularly | for a number of years, until the plan is fully loaded. Certainly, if th power cannot be developed 'and sold | at cost less than the present cost of developing power from the Benning | plant such a project will not meet ith the approval of the citizens of shington. If this project is car- ried out the citizens of Washington will ultimately, directly or indirectly, pay a large part of the total cost, and therefore we are all vitally irter- ested in knowing that the project is both sound from an engineering and an economic standpoint. We recom- mend that this project be reviewed hy a board of eminent and ex- perienced disinterested engineers be- fore the project is either finally ap- proved or rejected. Report In Adopted. The report was unanimously adopted. The board also approved the re- port of the special committee on rent legtslation, which was read by William T. Galliher, a member of the It already has been pre- sented to the committees in Con- gress and made public and recom- mends that if Congress fin’s it necessary to extend the rent law, it should not be donme for a period greater than one year. Joshua Evans, jr., reporting for the committee on ‘municipal finance, recommended immediate tax reduc- tions. The report was adopted. Fred G. Coldren, chairman of the committee on parks and reservations, brought in a report containing sev- cral resclutions, all of which were unanimously ~ adopted without de- bate. One resolution urges the necessity of extend'ng the improve-, ment of the Anacostia river flats above the Bennings bridge, and fur- ther urges that the provision here- tofore included in the appropriation | acts limiting the improvements to: the flats below the bridge be oltmi- mated in the appropriations for the coming year. Another resolution puts the bonrdl on record as actively supporting and Urging an early survey of the banks of the Potomac river from the High- way bridge on the Virginia side and the Key bridge on the Washington side to Great Falls; also a survey of | an_appropriate fort boulevard, con- | necting the civil war forts in the out- £kirts of Washington, with a view to future developments for park and parkway purposes. Another resolution urges that Con- gress include in the pending appro- priation bilis an appropriation of $100,000, to be immediately available, to enable the chief of engineers to' promptly construct a roadway. on Piney branch from 14th street, under !are Raymond T. Flannery, Thomas J. | s styles for young men. eaters witheut buttons will be worn, usually with one safety pin below the second buttonhole. And rakish caps of the overseas variety, worn at a slight angle, are in vogue. Wide World Phate. OLD FRIENDS OF BROOKLYN BASE BALL. THE RAINMAKERS OF CALIFORNIA. The brothers Hatfield—Paul and Charles—who produce rain counties, California. for Ventura and San Bernardino They claim to have successfully carried out twenty-three rain contracts, and their pay is $1,000 an inch. Manager “Uncle Robbie™ Robinson, and Ambrose, the mascot of the team, watching the rookie- trying out under the burning Florida eun. Copyright by P. & 4. Photos. problems and how to deal with them He reviewed the history of tne ins tions upon which the government is | founded, and said that the number of government officers who were guilty of wrongdoing v o neg igible that if segregated they all could be gotten | into a room less than fiv t high The misuse of power by the fow, he said, Jeads to distrust of the many developments da. not ind cate i drift- | ing_toward b He urged t commercial body should Congress of its attitude on taxe: and said that tax and revenue bilis shypuld be kept | out of politics. | Underhill Explains Bill. | Representative Underhlll spoke on workmen's compensation and told of the forces that were boring from | within to destroy the government in- stitutions. He told the board that business men do have more interest in insurance than just merely writ- ing a check for the annual premiums. He said it was wrong to say that workmen's compensation is_for the protection of the laborer. It is for the protection of the community, he added. - He said there were paid lobbyists, purporting to epresent organized fabor, who wefe Aghting the com pensation measure and said he didn’t believe that they were doing it in the interest of the laboring man. Mr. Underhill asserted that if busi- ness men would organize as others had organized they would get better treatment in all legislative bodies. Referring to the mixing of govern- ment and business, he said there was too much government in business and not enough business in government and cited a long list of the govern- ment's failure in business enterprises. Representative McKeown _briefly outlined his ideas for a territorial government for the District, provid- ing for a house and senate and a representative in Congress. He pro-. posed that lump-sum appropriations be provided, to be expended by the | local government, declaring that the | representatives of the people here ' were in a better position to say what | should be done with the funds than members of Congress, who came from | far and wide. ! On motion of Charles F. Consaul. ; the board gave a rising vote of | thanks to the speakers, after which | a buffet supper was served. DEBATERS TO MEET. Georgetown Prep ~and Bflflmoni Teams Clash Tomorrow Night. The Philalethic Debating Society of i the Georgetown Preparatory School | and the debating team from the Loy- | ola High School, Baltimore, will meet | at the former school, Garrett Park, Md., tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The question will be: “Resolved, That the | Filipinos are now ready for complete ' independence.” The Georgetown team will defend the negative. Members ' Hallahan and Edward J. Dennis, with W. L. Friary as an alternate, while ! members of the Loyola team are Hugh A. Meade, P. R. Coulter and |ever floating through Harvard, Ill, tomorrow. Mr, Hookstadt had been connected with the bureau of labor statistics about ten years, and” was the author of many books on compensation in-, surance, He spoke before many or- | <anizations ‘on accident compensa- ; tion and has written several books ! on the subject. H Mr. Hookstadt resided at 1435| (irard street northwest, this city tle was a member of the Bannock- | urn Golf Club and was rated as| whose experience has not been along the lines of water-power engineerins. For' the committee Mr. Weller e pressed the belief that before a proj- ect of this magnitude is adopted a comrhission of experienced hydro- electric _engineers shoul = dbe- select. ed to investigate and consider its feasibility and the possible financial returns that might result. “The findings of such a commission would be comprehensive and conclu- sive,” hé says, “whereas Maj. Tyler's report does not include all necessary elements of cost to make the project Richard C. Law, with Lawrence R. McHugh as an alternate. ' The judges for the debate are Dr.| | James A. Gamson, Joxeph I Breen ! | Dr. John Foote, Dr. Wilfred Barton and Dr. George Hlls, x“s"fi b%' (t)hn: the: point that such & ro: 5 Georgetown Preparatory School Or- relleve much of tho trame cengestion | Ciestr Will be a feature. now existing. 1 The board adopted tho report of| Representative Thomas L. Blanton | the committee on insurance and fire [of Texas, father of the provision in protection which was presented by |the police pay increase bill for one Davis M. Lea, chairman, which urges the adoption of the Underhill work- | the 1aw, will speak to the Policemen’s , men's compensation measure for the | Assoclationof the District of Colum- the Tiger bridge, to Rock Creek park way, and to construct such a nlrk-‘ v from the Zoological Park fo the of ock creek, Potama s ook and thence to The committee called attention toi “ne of the leading golfers of Wash-) elements of Fn 0 ington. He was a member of al : “From a study of the reports there Masonic organization of Illinois. (i, Gerious question in the miinds of & e . your committee whether or not there Anclents protected the hoofs of |would be any saving in'the cost of thelr horses with some covering. ' power to the citizens of [ Washington District on the ground that it carries | out - the American principle of - equal | opportunities for all and favoritism for none. It opposes the Fitsgeraid | measure. Judge Peelle spoke on present-day ‘biatonight at- the Pythian Temple, 1012 Sth street northwest. Miiton D. Smith, president of the association, has extended an invitation to all mem- bers of the police and fire departr ments to be present. Copyright by Kadel & Herber BELGIAN AND ITALIAN WIN ADOPT LITTLE ARAB ORPHAN. and his wife, Alice Terry, returne they brought with them little Kado Abd-el-Kadir. legally adopted in this country. -DAY BIKE GRIND. Speed kings of the bic When Rex Ingram, movie director d to New York from northern Afric: The lad will b: Copyright by P. & A. Photo Marcel Buysse of Bel- gium and Maurice Brocco of Italy, who won the annual six-day event at Madison Square Garden, New York. The victors were showered with pink roses by the race fans who saw the final laps of the long trip around a short track. AUTO SHOW CROWDS !Piney Branch Residents, Backing . BREAK ALL RIZZGORDSE Police, Employ Night Watchman Wide World Photo. ISAYS U. S. DIPLOMACY IS AWED RY JAPAN Cars as Whole, Not Special Fea-“Dl‘StI’i’L‘l Handicapped by Shortage—3ill in Congress pcian Declares Adequate Han- tures. Prove Greatest Attraction. EACH A TEMPTATION iPositionx Changed to Facilitate Moving of Visitors. All_attendance records for local au- tomobile shows were shattered last night at Convention Hall, according to Rudolph Jose, chairman of the show committee of the Washington |Automotive Trade Association. With ‘the return of dry cold—weather, grimage —even though the motor fan pil- to the auto show hegan early, and they were still coming, Ji says, almost up to the closing hour last night. What makes this year's show is not | the glitter of nickeled radiators, the gay decorative scheme, the snappy models, no yet o the appealing music the alr, but rather an array of what is generally conceded to be the finest, most practi- cal and most trustworthy motor cars ever grouped under one roof in Wash- .ngton. Generalizations go a-begging when the " visitor steps into Convention Hall and commences looking the cars over, for each car is a show in it- self, each model being generously supplied with unique features-of de- sign and appointment, each tempting he visitor to take the wheel and go pinning over the hills and far away. Will Deliver Goods. It isn't because the 1924 car has four-wheel brakes or balloon tires or air cleaners or vibrationless mo-, tors, but because it is built to deliver the goods, regardless of the variation in design adopted by its makers, It is the opinion of Chairman Josej that when the springtime display lights are turned out for ‘the last time and this show has folded its tent there will be more people to look back upon 1924 with fond mem- ories than have glanced backward on any previous automotive year, be- cause the present exhibition is one of the first in which the character of the manufacturer and dealer is also on display. Some clever piece of mechanism under the hood may catch your eye for the time being, but before you pass judgment upon any of the cars at the show you that the biggest feture of the year is the fact that the big improvement in any car is the car in its entirety. In anticipation of the crowds that have thronged this year's show, the management made ‘every effort to arrange the displays so that it is pos- sible for visitors to nove from one car to another without keeping strictly to the aisles. This has added much comfort and convenience to seeing the show, and has made it pos- sible for large crowds to attend and remain -throughout the evening. Intereat seems to be divided equally among the unusual variety of ex- hibits, which include open and closed passenger cars, motor trucks, light delivery vehicles, ingenious devices |in the mccessory line, an auto body | paint, a prize béauty at the N. M. A.- A.A.’A. booth; and even a motor boat now manufaciured by Dodge Bros. The decorative scheme {s “more day off in seven for the guardians of | pleasing than ever, but one has to: admit that it would'still be a very at- tractive show if there were nothing else in decorations but the cars them- shives. ‘The show will continue throughout kv present week, opening at 1 o’clock im the afternoon and closing at 10:30 at might. are bound to discover | to Add 20, W hile City Officials Say 300 Are Needed. i . | The latest evidence that Washing- ton has outgrown its police force furnished by a group of property owners in the Piney Branch section. who have engaged a night watchman to guard their homes. The night watchman has always been a familiar figure in the down- town district, but it is something new Mor these private officers to be seen in a residential area. Frequently when some disturbance occurs on the street a voice will be heard in the crowd: “A policeman is never around when you need him. Facts and figures gathered at the Dis- trict building tend to show that be- cause of the limited number of men the pi afoot. Handieapped by Short Foree. Police officials realize that the smaller the area assigned to a foot- man the more efficiently it will be protected, but herein lies the point: Maj. Sullivan has approximately 700 miles of open streets to patrol and 538 men with which to do it. At a glance that would appear to be al- most a man per mile, but, unfortu- nately, those 700 miles must be pa- the 538 patrolmen into three cight- hour shifts, and you have 150 men guarding the entire District of Co- lumbia trom Georgetown to Anacos- tia and from Takoma Park to the {PHIPPS IS ELECTED DELEGATE AT LARGE Unanimous Choice of 60 of 63 Counties in Colorado—Work Is Also Chosen. | Senator Phipps. ‘of Colorado has ibeen elected a delegate ‘at large to | the republican national convention in ! Cleveland by an overwhelming vote. Ho received the greatest number of | votes of all the candidates for this joffice, and was the unanimous choice s of. sixty counties out of the sixty- three in the state, ~Among the other | delegates at large elected is Secre- jtary Work of the Interior Depart- !ment. - In a telegram to the republican state convention where the dele- gates 10 the national convention were { elected, Senator Phipps said: “I believe our people are thor- { oughly aroused to the importance of { electing true republicans to repre-| Sent them in the state and federal | offices . and .that the action taken now will lay the sure foundation for Success in the November elections. The hysteria which has taken controi | of ‘opposition leaders will- have no | 1aating effect ‘on true Americans. We may place every reliance upon the Steadfastness and ability of our Presi- Qent, Caivin Coolidge. to continue in sately guidimg the ship of state.” allowedfithe department a majority of | es have beats that could be | patrolled better on roiler skates than | trolled every hour in the twenty-four. | Proceed a step further, by dividing | | water front, at any the da Officia th given hour of believe a police- at headquarters cts will explain why and that they also will tell why Commissioner Oyster and Maj. Sullivan have been advocating a substantial increase in personnel. When the committees of Congress take up the appropriation bill with- in a few weeks they will find-in it provision for twenty additional {licemen. That is by no means the number the Commissioners deem nec- essary, but it Is all the budget bu- reau allowed. fathers is that the lawmakers wiil not cut it \ In former -vears members of Con- gress have had one good argument | against increasing the size of the police force, namely, that the depart- ment was not able to find men to fill all of the existing positions. From the time this country entered the world war until a few weeks ago there was a constant turnover in the force, with many jobs always unfilled. That yargument no longer stand Every post in the department is filled, and. with traffic regulations calling for the detail of additional men every day, Commissioner Oyster regards an increase in privates as imperative. Police officials believe the depart- is_brewing, In 1915 Washington had a popula- tion of 357,749, and 400 policemen available for patrol duty. In the eight years since that time 138 have been added to the patrol force, but the pop- ulation h: gone up to 435,000, and building activity has opened miles of new streets to be parolled. {HISTORY CLUB HAS FETE. Capitol Hill Organization Observes Twenty-Sixth Anniversary. Addresses, readings and a musical program featured the annual luncheon of the Capitol Hill History Club, at the Roosevelt Hotel, yesterday. The occa- | sion was the celebration of the twenty- | sixth anniversary of the founding of the | organization. | The guests of honor were Mrs. John | W. Frizzell, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, who spoke of the coming conference on law enforcement, and asked all club women for support, and Edgar B. Mer- ritt, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, who spoke on “The American Indian."” Mrs. Court F. Wood, past president of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, told of the aims and objects of the club. A reading was given by Mrs. Joseph M. Bryant, and a program of music was _rendéred by Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, soprano; Mrs. Rose Maxwell Dickey, violinist; Jobn Phillip Shaddict, bass-baritone, and Mrs. J. Harry Cun- ningham, accompanist. Members of the committee in charge. of the luncheon were Mrs. ‘Clayton Willard, chairman Mrs. V. ‘G. Austin, Mrs. Joseph C. Bryant, Mrs. G.-W. Febrey, Mrs. Charles Fisher, Mrs. E. K. Foltz, Mrs. Charles M. Jones, Mrs. H. F. Patterson, Mrs. J. M. C.'Reed. Mrs. L. B. Stine and Mrs. Court F. Wood. The officers of the club are Mrs, Edgar B. Merritt, president; Mrs. Charies M. Jories, vice. president; Mrs. J. M. C. Reed, “secrelary, and Mrs. M. B Granger, treasurer. man is not always near when trouble | po- | The hope of the city | ment_should have 300 more privates. | dling of Immigration Situa- tion Impossible. i DESCRIBES HUGE INFLUX Former Senator Heads California ; Delegation at Capitol. | S | Efforts to deal adequately with the Japanes immigration have failed former Senator Phelan of Californiz | today told the Senmate immigration committee, because of the “subser- | vient character” of American diplo macy, “actuated by fear mostly” ir | dealing with Japan. | Appearing as spokesman for a Cali | fornia delegation at the committee's | hearing on the Johnson immigratio: | bill, Mr. Phelan declared that to give ‘i the Japanese the same recognition |is accorded Europeans under quota provisions “would be to dis- criminate’’ not against them. but *“in favor of them as against the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Siamese, and other proud and cultured people.” 38,000 Women Admitted. Citing that “the federal govern ! ment by law for 130 years has drawu a_distinction between those that ar eligible to citizenship and those that are ineligible,® he asserted that sin { “adoption of the genticmen's agree | ment in 1908 35,000 Japanesc womer |have been sent in with Japanes. passports as alleged brides.” “They are prolific,’ he added, * | P ! serve both as wives and laborers i the field. | vears the Pacific_coast walianized' as is Hawail CARNARVON EXECUTORS GIVE UP TOMB CLAIMS They and Carter Sign Agreement With Egyptian Govern- ment. By the Amsociated Press. LONDON, March 13.—Howard ter and the executors of Lord - narvon's estate have given the Egyp- tian government a written und ! standing, says the Daily Mail's Cal correspondent, abandoning any claim now or in the future to anything found in the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amex CHOIR TO SING CANTATA. Program Tomorrow at Chapel ol + the Transfiguration. The choir of the Chapel of ti Transfiguration, 14th and Gallatin streets northwest, will render the su cred cantata, “The. Crucifixion” by Stainer, tomorrow evening, at & o'clock. This cantata will take the place of the regular Lenten devo tional service usually held on Friday evening. Extra chairs will be pro vided. Rev. J. J. Queally, vicar, led in or- ganization of the choir. On Friday, March 21, the preacher at 8 o'clock will be Rev. R. J. Ripley of Seat Pleasant and on Sunday eve- ning, March 23, the Bishop of North Dakots will preach the ne The tide rises and in a fe vill be ‘H: