Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1924, Page 17

FRIENDLY RELATIO! sador to Mexico, marking the resumption of friendly relations between the neighboring countries. center and Ambassador Warren on his right. GOV. TRINKLE AT NEW YORK at the opening of Roosevelt House. . Alderman, president of the University of Virgini: rtis Demorest and Dr. A Ww. C Left to right Frinkle. M TCITIZENS' BODIES . TOMEET JOINTLY { | Associations in Qutlying Sec-j tions to Seek Schools and Police Precinct. meeting of seven citizens’ 1 the outlying sections | t will be held next Mon- | ght in the Takoma Public Li- © the auspices of the Ta- Citizens' Association. The | which called for 7:30 | lock, b presided over by Wal- | Irey, president of the Takoma Association, i j the joint meeting 1 | discuss matters of special interest th associations affected. These tters include an additional police inct in the ontlying section north of the tenth pre t, a junior high sehool, a Nnorth Washington Senior School, double-tracking the Traction hranch from 14th and Colorado avenue to Dis- , and the extension of fe avenue to the Dis eting. is rk The « Representatives Named. The following citizens' associations avill be represented Monday night: President Charles W. , Bright- wood Association: President Charles Chillum Castle nest H. Pullman, | ociation; President | Dickson, Sixteenth Street | ssociation; President Jesse Sixteenth Strect High- | AsSociation; President Edgar n. Pincy Branch Road As- and President Walter Irey, ma Park A ation, me of the jeiations will at- 1 end in a body. ident Charles A iker and_Seere Leland T. Ath- on he Federation of Citizens® tions have also accepted in- be present the | first meeting of its kind ever held in the suburban sectign of the city. Reception Committee. The reception committee re Ing the Takoma Park Citizen “iation is composed of the follo ert D. Lawson, chairman; 1 Clyde vice chairman W. A. Ho . G. Mygett, F Tdravano, 0. Macallister, Mrs. \lenca_Lamond, Mrs. H. Mrs. B, Clyde. Shade, W. A. Hooker, Mrs, C. s. F. B. Reppert and Mrs. .\, Langley i President as Pre S to INVITED BY CHAMBER. City Heads and Legislators Asked to Meeting Next Week. District Commissioners and s the House and Senate District affairs have invited to.attend the meeting Washington Chamber of Com- merce at New Willard Hotel next Tuesday ht. At that time there ! ill_be laid before the chamber for iscussion the proposed legislation #iving to the District Commissioners more power in administering District of the report on the water sunn'y of trict and imperative need of 3 ing sufficient funds to continue ihe work that it may be completed at 1he earliest practicable date will be discussed. - COMMISSIONED IN 0. R. C. Levin M. Price of 3145 Mount Pleas- ant street, has been commissioned by the War Department as a secomi] ilsutegant of infantry, Organized Re- werve Corps of the Army. CELEBRATION The ceremoni Gibbo ORCHESTRA CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, this evening, beginning at 5:45 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. Progra March, “Navy Blu Zimmermann Overture, “Jubel”...Von Weber Entracte— (a) “The Last Rose of Sum- mer” (request) . . Flotow (b) “My Dream Moon" (Pop- ular)....Rose and Russol from musical _comedy, ngerine’ Saunders Characteristic Desecra- tion Rag”.... .....Arndt ‘Waltz popular, “Indian Moon"” (request) . ..Jones Finale, “A Sm! o a Long, Long Way Akst “The Star Spangled Banner” Gems 'END OF CENSORSHIP ON SCHOOLS ASKED North Washington Citizens’ Asso- ciation Condemned Education Board Gag Rule. |SEES * CO-OPERATION LOST Favors Assembly Hall for Langley Junior High. Condemning the recent ruling of the board of education, which calls for the censorship of all school news before it is submitted to the news- the North Washington Citi- ‘Association last night, at a meeting in the Church of the United Brethren, North Capitol and R streets, voted to request that body to reconsider the ruling at the earliest possible moment. The protest resolution, adoptéd unanimously, was introduced by Brig. Gen. Charles H. Ourand, chairman of the school committee. He said he did not believe that the board realized how much the ruling would keep the happenings in the schools from the public. Washington Topham said _that within thirty days the public would have no way in which to know what the public achools are doing, unless the rule is rescinded. If the rule re- mains in effect, he added, It will mean that the board of education will lose the co-operation of the public that it has had. The speaker ex- plained that under the ruling no one Except Supt. Ballou or,his assistants is permitted to give out information. Urges Co-Operation With Police. Captain Robert E. Doyle of the eighth precinct, in a brief address, urged co-operation between the pub- lic and the police. Dr. J. C. Bradley, representing the American = Society for the Control of Cancer, told of the dangers of cancer and the importance of early treatment of the disease. At a short business session Harry W. Klotz, chairman of the press and postal facilities committee, urged that the association indorse the measure before Congress for an in- crease in the salary of postal em- ployes. The association adopted a resolu- tion, sponsored by the North Capitol ;and .Eckington Citizens’' Association, to request the installation of an as- sembly hall in the Langley Junior High School. ‘W. S. Ayres was elected a delegate to the Federation of Citizens' Asso- ciations. The executive committee was authorized to pass upon the measure_which would give additional powers fo the District Commission- ers. The president, Robert M. Yost. was authorized to appoint a repre. sentative to-the public-weifare com= mission. 7 EVENING harles Beecher Warren, presents his credentials to President Obregon of Mexico, President Obregon in Wide World Photo. inia’s chief executive was one of the honor guest were a part of the Jefferson week celebratio; Mrs. A. Burton Hepburn, Gov. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood TEACHERS' SALARY BILL IS HALED| ! School Officials Declare Measure Is Beneficial * and Civic Asset. The public school teachers’.pay bill, recently passed by the House with a few changes, was heartily indorsed by James T. Lloyd, president of the board of education, and Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of ‘the public schools, at a hearing yesterday after- noon before the Senate District subcom- mittee on education. Dr. *Ballou said that in his opinion the bill would do more than anything else proposed for the benefit of the public schools here. He pointed out that it has the support of all of the school officials, the teachers and the public. One of the amendments proposed by Dr. Ballou would authorize teachers who come here from other cities to have their former service credited to them in allocating them. He said that Washington must rely on outside sources to obtain many of the needed teachers. ’ Enlists Out-of-Town Teachers. Dr. Ballou said that about 100 teach- ers are brought into the public schools here from other cities each vear, and that it was fundamentally important that they should be brought here, since the normal schools in Washington did not graduate sum- cient supply to meet the local needs. Senator King of Utah questioned Dr. Ballou on the proposed increases in salaries, and the latter pointed out that the last general change in the law fixing salaries for the teachers was enacted in 1906. The salary schedule, he said,,was much lower than in Other cities’as large as Wash- ington. Senator King asked also about the number of supervisory ofii- cials, saying that it was his impres- sion 'there were too many. Dr. Ballou replied that in 1306 thirty-two such_officlals were pro- vided for, and this was increased to thirty-five in 1931, and that now it was proposed to return to thirty-two, | three of the supervising principles being returned o the teaching stafr. | Number of Supervisors He pointed out that the number of supervising officlals in the schools here is less_in. proportion.than the number in Salt Lake City, Utah, a city of about 150,000. population, and where there are five school ofilclll!l who_get more than $4,200, while in the District only one official, the su- perintendent of schools, receives as| much or more than $4,200. | Mr. Lloyd strongly urged the com- mittee to restore to the bill the salary proposed originally for the superifntend- ent of schools—$8,000 for the first. year and an additional. thousand’ dollars for the mext two -years, with a maximum of $10,000. The House passed the bill with th.l superintendent's salary at $7.500. Mr. Liloyd pointed out that in other cities comparable to Washington -the salary paid is $10,000, or more. No_further hearings will be held on the bill, Senator Capper of Kansas, chairman of the committee, said. He hopes to be able to report the bill to the full District committee this week. Chemical Reserves Meet. Election of chairman, -vice chairman and secretary of the chemical war- fare service reserve was postponed until the May meeting, &t the session held last night in the Graham build- ing. Capt. Irvin V. Todd, assistant | executive officer—of the.-Washington units of.the organized resérves, spoke. STAR, WASH A-PRINCESS IN WASHINGTON. INGTON, ‘D. C, - TUE DAY, Little Princess Priscilla Bibesco, daughter of Prince A. Bibesco, minister from Rumania to the United States, and the Princess Bibesco. PROHIBITION AGENT ON THE Photo taken at the legation yesterday. National Pboto. STAND. Brice F. Armstrong, Chi- cago prohibition agent, who testified before the Senate committee investigating the Department of Justice yesterday. breweries were “under protection” Chemists Here Melt He alleged certain National Photo. in the Windy Cit: Thorium Oxide; Most Refractory Substance Known C. O. Fairchild and M. F. Peters at Bureau of Stand- ards Report Scientific Achievement—6,400 Degrees Fahrenheit Necessary. C. O. Fairchild and M. Peters, chemists at the bureau of standards, here, have just succeeded in melting the most refractory substance known to sci- ence—thorium oxide. Hitherto this has resisted all degrees of heat applied to it and was reduced finally at a tem- perature of nearly 6,400 Fahrenheit. Thorium oxide is used commercially in incandescent gas mantles. It does not melt in the temperature attained by gas flame, which heats it white hot. usually is seen in the form of a fluffy white powder, which, upon heating to It high temperatures, usually shrinks in ‘volume. The melting experiment was carried on in connection with research in melt- ing platinum. The thorium oxide was melted in order fo make from it a crueible in_which” to pour the molten platinum. No matter how high a de- ETee of temperature hitherto had been brought to bear on it there was some CALL HOWELL PROPOSAL “DISGUISED PLUMB PLAN” Railroad Shopmen’s Delegates Tell Senators Amendment Would Provoke Another Strike. By the Associated Press. The proposed Howell amendment to the transportation act, was termed “the Plumb plan in disguise,” statement made public today by a delegate representing western system associations of shopmen here to pre- sent their views to the Couzens sub- committee of the Senate interstate commerce committee. They declared that the amendment, if passed, would “cause another na tionwide railroad strike Inside of two years.” ; The delegation disputed the positiot of the standard rail unions that the amendment provides for fepresenta- tion of employes ‘“on a majority basis.” and denounced it as denying representation to numerous members of railroad shop associations and independent railroad associations. The delegation comprised C. E. Anderson, president, Shop Employes ‘Association, Union Pacific System; A. G. Fleck, chairman, executive board, Shop Crafts’ Association, Illi- nois Central; J. W. Gibbons, secre- tary-treasurer, Supervisors' Assoeia tion, Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe, CITY CLUB TO MEET. ‘Will Hold Annual Feature Thurs- day Night. The City Club will hold its annual meeting in the clubhouse on Thurs- day, at 8:30 p.m. Nomination of officers and_governors of the club and reports from the present officers and chairmen of the committees will be the principal business transacted. After the business session, which is planned to be made as short as pos- sible, & smoker, buffet supper and en- tertainment will be held. = The ad- mission to the meeting will be con- fined to the members of the club, membership cards for the current quarter being necessary for admis- sion. H. E. Stringer is the present presi- dent of the club and the six retiring governors are C. . Crane, Claude W. in al shrinkage left, so the experimenters decided to take this out by melting the thorium itself, an almost revolutionary |gxperiment 'in the uso of tremendous eat. Melts at 3,200 Degrees The exact details have not been | revealed at the Bureau of Standards. | It was helted in a hollow form in a | heap of some powdered substance. Nothing else could be used for it melts at a temperature found only in { the electric arc, hot enough to melt or vaporize other container. Platinum melts at a temperature of about 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit and it is announced that the melting point of thorium was at least twice as pecial value of crucibles made | of this substance is that molten platinum may rest in them for some time without the thorium oxide to bo detected in a spectrascope and so permitting the metal to be purified. Science for a long time for some method to al BUTLER ORDERS POLICE STATIONS TO USE RADIO Chasing Bandits to Be Facilitated by Equipping Philadelphia Officers With Sets. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April $.—Instal- | lation of radio equipment in all police station houses and all motor equip- ment in use by the department was ordered today by Director of Public Safety Butler, following successful tests of portable apparatus on his own car. Each station will be equipped with a receiving set, a sending set and a loud speaker. Au- tomobiles will have portable having ear phones. It is planned to install transmit- { ting apparatus in city hall tower to direct bandit-chasing cars. 'YACHT OWNER PROTESTS. Fights Libel Action Arising From ‘Whartf Fire. George Warrington, owenr of the yacht Courier, against which a libel has been filed in the District Su- preme Court by Alexander J. Taylor and Wesley Taylor, owners of the tug James O. Carter, for reputedly salvaging the yacht during the re- cent fire on the water front, has filed an answer denying the yacht was in any danger and asserting the tug's owners are not entitled to any com- pensation. Through Attorney Harry A. L. Barker, the yacht's owner as- serts that the crew of the tug in- jured his vessel to the extent of §1,000. He asks the dismissal of the el. —_—— HOTEL SALE DELAYED. gage Postponed to May 5. The proposed sale at auction of the Roosevelt Hotel, 16th and V streets northwest, to satisfy a first mort- gage, to have been held yesterday afternoon, was postponed until May 5, at 2 pm. A number of persons absorbing enough of sets | Roosevelt Auction to Satisfy Mort- ‘APRIL -8, 1924. REPRESENTED LAND OF LILLIPUT AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Like a delegation from the mythical coun- try, came these midgets to see President Coolidge yesterday afternoon. theater, and it only required one taxicab to take all of them to the White Houze. FAR FROM INVESTIGATIONS AND SENATE COMMITTEES. children in their Washington home. The two older boys have newspaper routes ing their eamings toward college educations. REPORTS PROPOSALS i FOR HIGHER POSTAGE New Sends Edge Details for Meet- ing Differential Salary Increase. OPPOSES BLANKET RAISE Plan Would Boost Mailing Costs | | behalf of the adm $43,000,000 Yearly. Increased postage on second, third creases in various postal service fees are recommended by Postmaster Gen- eral New in sending to Chairman Edge of the join post offices his ‘differential Salary” increase plan as an alternate to bills for increasing postal salaries now before Congress. The Postmaster General condemned the pending bills, which would au- thorize straight increases to postal workers as “unwarranted” and said these bills would increase postal ex penditures by $150,000,000 a year. Has Alternate Plan. His alternate plan calls for meet- ing proposed salary increases by creasing all postal rates except first- class matter. This would bring in approximately $43,000,000. The salary increases suggested as a substitute by the Postmaster Gen- eral were worked out on a scale of an increase of $200 for clerks an carriers $600,000 annual revenues, and $100 in first-class offices having less than $600,000 annual revenues, and in all second-class offices. “The total amount of increased ex- penditure which _this _alternative would carry is approximately $43,- 000,00 The increases would amount to $2.419,920 for second, third and fourth class postmasters, $10,487,895 for as- sistant postmasters, clerks and super- visory employes, $7,010,300 for city letter carriers, $6,210,000 for the rail- way mail service, $7,500,000 for the rural delivery service, $3.997,360 for clerks in third-class postoffices, $168.- 990 for post office inspectors and the remainder for other classes of em- ployes. The increases in postage and fee rates suggested are: £ Second-class matter, $4,985,000, by increasing rates on advertising mat- ter 135 cents a pound in first and sec- ond’ zones, 1% cents in third zone t in fourth zone. A Siass master, $500.000, by in- corporating in fourth-class matter all third-class matter above eight ounces. Fourth-class matter; $30,100,000, by increasing parcel post rates, begin- hing at mine ounces to and including eighth zone, and on the pound rates %o and including seventy pounds for local delivery and for first, ‘second and third zones; increasing rates for fourth, fifth and sixth zones from nine ounces to five pounds, and for seventh and eighth zones to four pounds. Insurance fees, $1,750,000, by in- creasing fee from 3 to 6 cents and 5 to 7 cents, the lgo;ml 25 cent fees re- ining unchanged. T OF b Service, $1,200000, by in- crea#ing fee from 10 to 12 cents for up to $10, establishing a 15-cent fee for collections from $10 to $50, and continuing 25-cent fee for $50 to $100. Registry . service, $1,100,000, by in- creasing fee from 10 to 12 cénts and charging 1 cent for return receipt when requested. Special delivery service, $900,000, by increasing fee to 15 cents fof articles from two pounds to ten pounds, and 20 cents for articles of ten pounds and over. Money order service, $2,761.000, by rate increases averaging 2 cents per order, there being slight increages in most 'instances and decreases in oth- ers, under this schedule: Not over were present to participate in the |$2.30, 5 cents; over $2.50 and under Owen, W. 1. Eynon, E. C. Graham, |sale, butat theappointed hour Thomas | $5, 7 cents; over $5 and under $10, 10 M. D:'Rosenberg, S. J. is at present one vacancy on the = e filled on- Thurs- day_night, Dowling, of Thomas Dowling & Co. auctioneers, announced that he ha been instructed by the parties at in- terest to announce the postponement. cents; over $10 and under $25, 12 cents; over §26 and under $50, 15 cents; over $50 and under-$75, 18 cents; over.$75 and under $100, 20 cents. % in first-class offices having DEBARRING OF ALIENS WITH DISEASE UPHELD Supreme Court Rules on Refusal to Admit Wife of Chinese. Aliens afflicted with a dangerous contagious disease and incapable of naturalization, the Supreme Court held vesterday, can be debarred from admission. The question Francisco by Chung Fook, a native- born ssion of his wife. The government insisted that does s ex- cluded from naturalization SRR | MUST PROVE LOSSES subcommittee on | IN RAIL RATE CASES Supreme Court Holds Mere Publi- cation of Lower Price Brings No Lisbility. DECIDES FOUR COMPLAINTS Lowest Published Figure Not Nec- essarily Maximum. The United States Supreme Court in an opinion by Justice McReynolds yosterday held that shippers who were charged higher rates for short hauls than the published rates on long hauls on the same railroad and in the same direction can only re- cover such actual damages as they can prove. Justice MoReynolds de- clared that the fact that the rate for the longer haul was lower than the rate for the short haul would not of itself establish which of the two was|barrassed by the the unreasonable rate. The question reached the court in four cases. Skowed Higher Rates. In all of these cases the evidence showed that the raflroads had in offect without the permission of the| Interstate Commerce Commission rates which were higher for a short than for a long haul. The shippers in the lower courts succeeded in re- covering alleged overcharges on freight, the essential charge being “that the carrier demanded and re- | colved greater compensation for transporting freight for a Shorter distance than its published rate for transporting like property for a longer distance over the same route and in the same direction.- It was contended by the shippers that under the long and short haul clause the lower published rate be- came the maximum which the carrier could charge, notwithstanding the higher published rate, and that any amount collected above the rate for the long haul amounted to an illegal exaction, recoverable without other proof of actual damage and without regard to the intrinsic reasonableness of either rate. Must Prove Loss. Pointing out that the shippers had not asked an injunction against il- legal rates, the court said that it was an_ effort “to secure something for it- self (themselves) without proof of pecuniary 10ss consequent upon the unlawful act.” Congress has not given any indica- tion, the court said, “of an intent that persons not injured might, neverthe- less, recover what, though called dam- ages, would, really be a penaity, in addition to ‘the Denalty. payabie to the government.” was raised at San| tizens of Chinese parentage, in ( the | |1aw which admits the wife and minor {children of naturalized citize: | not apply to a wife who b and fourth class mail matter and in- | They are appearing at a Jocal National Photo Senator and Mrs. Burton Wheeler and their the afternoon, bank- Copyright by Keystone View STONE CONFIRMED; | INTERESTS SCORED La Follette Organization At- tack on Law Practice Fol- lows Senate Action. | The nomination of Harlan ¥ of New York to be Attor was confirmed by the Senate yester Action was taken in executive sion, with few senators in attendance. and was understood to have beer after only brief di sion. The no ination was favorably reported by judiciary committee last weelk, { Expected Here Soon. Mr. Stone is now in New York, b advised President Coolidge today he would arrive here tomorrow to takc up his duties. Enumerating a list of corporation { for which the law firm of Mr. {has acted as counsel, the F | Legislative Service, of ‘which Senz { La Follette of Wiscon declared today in a sta would appear from the fa the appointment of Mr. Stone dictated Ly Wall street interes particulariy by J. P. Morgan & ' il at least be completely sat { tory to them.” Connections Are Cited. {_The statemecnt listed seven com panies retailing the firm of Satterlee Canfleld one, with which Mr (Stone has been associated while deat {of the Columbia University School |of Law, and also gave the corporite connections of the firm of Sullivar |Cromwell & Co.. with which Mr. Ston | was to have Lecome associated on re ! tiring as Columbia dean in June { “Itis obvious 'the statement cor | cluded, “that Mr. Stone as Attorne General will either be biased in hi | administration of the office of Attor ney General, ‘or will be greatly em ssity of pr |cuting former clients and corp { tions in which his firms.and law part ners are financially interested. . | PATENT HELD INVALID. High Court Ruling on Machine for 1 Tire Manufacture. | The Sicberling patent on a machina for manufacturing pneumatic tire shoes was declared invalid vesterday by the | Supreme Court. The third ‘court of appeals sus- | tained the of the patent grant- led Frank A. Sieberling, but the sixtl |circuit court of appeals, in_a case brought against the Firestone Tire ane Rubber Company, held the patent ir valid, because of a prior Belgian in { vention and also because it was an ag gregation of well knowen parts, not con stituting a patentable invention. The Supreme Court yesterday reverses ! the decision of the third cireuit cou of appeals. Tire manufacturers ger erally were interested Jn the outcome | expected' to have a material beari upon that industry. i e S Plan Memorial Program. The annual memorial services fo members of Morning Star Lodge, > 40, 1. B. P. 0. Elks (colored), died during the past vear, will conducted by the lodge Sunday nigh at 8 o'clock, in Dunbar High School auditorium. ' Addresses will be mad by George E. Bates, grand secretary of Newark, N. J., and Mrs. Elizabet] Carter of Annapolis, Md., vice grand ruler of the Ladies' Alxillary. Charles S. Hill will be master of ceremonies and Samuel E. Jones is in charge o1 arrangements as chairman of the cdemmittee.