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: RADIO COMBINATION DECLARED AT WORK : Attempt to Charge Coolidge $2,500 to Broadcast Speech, Rumor Told Committee. _ COMPOSERS' VIEWS OPPOSED § Pooling of Copyrights Objected to i by Hotels. Nathan Burkan, counsel for the So- ciety of Authors, Compo. lishers, told the Sena nts com- mittee today that “it was understood” an attempt had been made to charge President Coolidge $2,300 for broad- casting his Lincoln's birthday ad- ; dress. Asked if the President had paid for the address, the witness said he “hoped not." Radio manufactur: telegraph companie: adeast- ing agencles are active ; combination for mutual benefit, Bur- kan said. Amendment Ix Proposed. The committee is Dill bill, which wc broadcasting statio ment of copyright d out through thei lephone and | - | turers’ , | night at the association’s annual ban- - | quet Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers, “We would do the same In their place,” he conceded. *“But they com- prise. nevertheless, a trade octopus always reaching out to more and more control.” Charge Made Hotels. Hotels recently were served with a notice by the society, he sald, of an increase of 40 per cent and more in rates to be charged upon copyrighted musie, He suggested the law be modified either to prevent collection of fees for performances at which no cover or entrance charge is made, or to limit the rights of an author either to printing and selling coples, or to per- forming his work. At present the holder of the copyright has both. “The copyright law 1s being used as a legal blackjack.” Sydney Cohen, president of the Motion Picture Thea- ter Owners' Assoclation, told the com- mittee. * basic charge of 10 cents per seat per year is being enforced by the composers’ orgamization,” he said, “whether a theater has a 100- piece orchestra or one mechanical pi- ano.” DEPLORES FOREST FIRES. CHICAGO, April 18.—Two acres are burted over, annually, for every acre made treeless for beneficial purposes, “a disgraceful fact” John W. Blod- gett of Grand Rapids, Mich., president of the National mber Manufac- Association, declared “It is conservative to say,” he add- t reforestation in the United 75 per cent a fire problem.” | | | THE PASTOR, AS DEPUTY, BRINGS VILLAGE WAR Appointed After Charging Lax Dry Enforcement—Ouster and Re- tention Demanded. By the Associated Press. LESLIE, Mich, April 18.—This vil- lage is split into factions because of developments in connection with the recent appointment of Rev. Lloyd Mead as deputy sheriff, and his charges that local officers have not enforced the prohibition laws. Three petitions are in circalation, one of them demanding the pastor's removal as deputy sheriff, and the other two Iinsisting that he be re- tained. Wednesday night a flaming circle was burned in the yard of Rev. Mr. Mead's home. The fire depart- ment extinguished ‘the circle. It is contended by the pastor's friends that the symbol was plac: his yard by the Knights of the Flam- ing Circle, an organization said to have been formed in opposition to the Ku Klux Klan Rev. Mr. Mead was offered a -deputy sheriff's badge after he had publicly charged that the public officers were not doing their duty in enforcing pro- hibition laws, Women’ to Be Delegates. asserted, twelve out of the [ By the Associated Press. me forest states have no| RALEIGH, N. ., April 18.—In the ¢ dealing with forest fires, and | same whera four y a few of them have anything © an adequate system. “It is the public, careless of its - |campfires and thoughtlessly tossed d cigarette stubs that causes - proved a resolu- the thousands of forest fires,” Ba a-half of the dele- gates-at-large to the women. man suf- ic virtually The Satisfaction Trio! conven- | g EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. NAVAL OFFICER DIES AS PLANE CAPSIZES Lieut. Commander Louis C. Schei- bla Is Thrown in River Near Dahlgren, Va. LIEUT. McMURRAIN SAVED Accident . Occurs After Landing Had Been Made. Lieut. Commander Louis C. Scheibla, U. 8. N., attached to the bureau of ord- nance here, was drowned yesterday in the Potomac River, near Dahlgren, Va., when a Navy seaplune in which he was a passenger capsized. The pilot of the ship, Lieut. S. B. McMurrain of the bu- reau of aeronautics, was saved. The plane had just alighted on the water when watchers on the shore saw it turn over. Commander Scheibla and Lieut. McMurrain were thrown into the water. and the two swimming toward ehore. A boat with rescuers started out, but before it reached Com- mander Scheibla he became exhausted and sank. Funeral services will be held at Tabler's undertaking establishment. 1526 L street, northwest. tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. The body then will be taken to Arlington national cemetery, where full military honors will be accorded the officer at 1:45 o'clock. Commander Scheibla was born in Cincinnati, Ohfo, in 1885 and was ap- rointed a midshipman to the United Naval Academy from Coving- . Ky., in 1903. 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