Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1924, Page 2

MAY BARCHALIAPIN INDEVIL ROLE HERE Previous Contract Cited as Preventing Engagement With Local Company. Whether or_not Feodor Chaliapin wiil play the Devil in Washington in January Is a question of the moment that is leading to much controvers His scheduled appearance as Me- phisto with the Washington Opera Company and as Boris with the Chi- cago Opera Company within the short span of two weeks threatens to dis- *upt the usual tranquil reserve in lo- cal opera circles The fnharmouious notes veached the ears of the opera devotees . Washington involve charge Mrs. Katfe Wilson-Greene, whi cert bureau arranged for the Opera Company’s appearance here, that Mr. Chaliapin “cannot be adver- tised to appear here prior to his date with me,” and counter statements by Edouard Albion, director of the Wash- ington Opera Company, to the effect that he has a signed contract with the artist which is binding. Abnounced in Summer. Last summer Mrs. Wilson-Greene's bureau announced that Chaliapin ould sing in one of three perform ances to be given here by the Chi cago organization during the wee Tebruary 9. Later Mrs. W Greene stated that the opera in which he would appear would be Moussors aky's “Boris Godonouv." When Mr. Chaliapin was in Wash ington In recital several weeks ag 1o announced he would like to sing in opera with the Washington Opera Company. Last week Director Albion of that company stated publicly that a definite contract had been signed by the Russian to appear in a produc- tion of Gounod's “Faust.” The Chicago company, through its tour manager, C. A. Shaw, and its local manager, Mrs. Wilson-Greene, then camo out with its flat denial that Chaliapin could appear with the local company as announced. Denfed by Mrs. Greene. Chaliapin could not be advertised to appear here in concert this Fall, had it not been under my manage- nent, as I am also managing opera appearances,” Mrs. Wilsor Greene declared last night in a state- ment. “Moreover. it was four months prior to the opera date for persenta- tion.” As $45.000 was underwritten last Summer for the Chicago Opera Com- pany appearances, and Mr. Chaltapin i3 a leading feature of these appear- ances, some of my guarantors have already objected to preliminary ad- vertising.” Hurok, Chaliapin’s manager, has been notified in New York by Her- Bart M. Johnson, business manager of the Chicago Opera Company, that “owing to objections made, the com- pany could not permit Challapin to sing on the date, January 26, in Washington, with another opera or- Zanization,” according to a statement made yesterday by Mr. Shaw. Albion Issues Statement. Mr. Alblon, in a statement night, said: T have in my possession a signed contract calling for Challapin's ap- Dearance in the role on the date and at the place I announced. “This contract has been studied by ©Col. Arthur O'Brien, one of our guar- antors and most enthusiastic support- urs, who has declared it is legally binding. The contract was signed after consultations between myself and Chaliapin and S. Hurok of New York, the personal manager of Chalfa- pin, and a man whose reputation Aer knowing lLis business is accepted everywhere. Challapin is an artist of wide experience, who would not lay himself open to critictsm by sign- ‘ng a contract he could not legally keep. Furthermors, 1 am Informed, the contract was signed and approved by Mr. Hurok after the Chicago Opera management had assured him that Mr. Chpliapin was free on the dates necessary for our performance. I oite this to prove that any complaint at this late date is not spontaneous with the Chicago Opera Company officers. “The reason advanced by Mrs. Greene for her objection to Chaliapin's appearance with the Washington Opera Company {s that it would hurt the box office sale for his appearance with the Chicago company, in a different opera, the following month. This is ridiculous. “Chaliapin can draw four full houses » season in Washington. “I hereby publicly offer Chaliapin a second engagement with the Washing- ton Opera Company, after his appear- anoe with Chicago. Welcomes Chicago Company. *“We have no quarrel with the Chi- oago Opera Company. Its casts include many great artlsts, several of whom we have had In our past performances. 1 welcome {ts appearance in Washington. Many of the guarantors of the Wash- ington Opera Company also are guaran- tors for the appearance of the Chicago company. ~ “Mrs. Greene's statement that ‘some’ of the guarantors object to Challapin's appearance with the Washington Opera Company Is an unmerited reflection on these pudlic-spirited men and the wom- en who are patronesses of the Chicago appearance. “1 resent this, T deny the truth of any statement or Inference that these men and women desire to harm Washing- ton's own opera company. On their be- half. I challenge Mrs. Greene to make public the names of those of her guar- antors who object to Chaliapin’s ap- poarance with the Washington Opera Qompany. If there are such, the peo- ple of Washington are entitled to know their names. Believes Singer Free. Jacques Samassoud, conductor of the Washington Opera Company, and a close friend of Challapin, expressed the opinion that the Russian is fres to fng with the local opera company, ‘There is nothing in his contract to prevent it.” he said. “It is merely a question of ethics.” Meanwhile Mr. Albion proceeded with preparations for Chalfapin's a. pearance in the role of “Mephisto next January in the new Washington Auditorium. He announced yesterday the =cift of 500 tickets to “Faust” students in local universities and high schools. Three hiundred of the 500 tickets will be forwarded to Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of public schools, for distribution among the students of the high and normal schools and the remainder will be sent the universities and to Gonzaga Col- lege authorities. Gonzaga was se- lected because it has the only Catholic high school in the city, Mr. Alblon said. Tickets will be given for other per- formances of the Washington Opera Campany and the practice will be con- timued annually. e THREE HELD IN MURDER. Man Charged With Killing; Vic- tim’s Wife and Son Arrested. GORHAM, Me.,, November 15. Charles H. Flelding, 35, of Portlard was arrested tonight charged with the murder of Alphonse Cote, 35, near his home here on November 7. Mrs. Lottie F. Cote, 40, wife of the dead ™ ead Ralph B. Sanborn, 19, her son by & former marriage, were held LRl that have last 15 AREIN RUNNIG FOR WALLACEPOST Coolidge Faced With Record Scramble for Office. Kansan Favored. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Coolldge has never faced such a scramble for high federal | office as Is raging around him in con- {nection with the ecretaryship of 1‘.\xr|fu|luro Farm politics 1s being i played with a vengeance. No fewer than 15 names, cach strongly sup- | ported, are on the list of avowed or | receptive candidates for the port- !(ulln Washington {s full of poli- 1 tiolans in connection with the meet- ing of the Land Grant Colleges and the Prexident's farm-inquiry commis- sion. Who is to be Henry C. Wal- |lace’s successor {s the fopic upper- | most in their minds. A candidate hitherto little men- ned—Dr. Willlam M. Jardine of ansas—has bounded prominently into the forefront because of the backing he enjoys. He {s said to be the preference of Herbert Hoover. Dr. Jardine, who is president of the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, was the last publicly announced membcr of the Collidge ‘arm Commission Foe of Pr. Jard t arm Bill. “boom” attracts | attention arm leaders is an outspoken foe of the MeNary- | Haugen bill. Tn an article contrib- uted to the official organ of the United States Chamber of Commercs, The ation's Business, in June, 1924, Jar- dine smote the bill hip and thigh. The article was entitled “We Must Stop Exporting Wheat.” Dr. Jardine declared that “the effect of operation of the measure will be to pyramid prices, increasing the cost of manu- factures. Thus exports of non-agri- cultural products would be curtailed, large imports would break over the tariff wall, and a serious wave of un- employment would be created.” Inci- dentally Dr. Jardine suggested that the scrip system proposed by the Me Nary-Haugen bill would invite cor- ruption Conflict on Marketing. The reported backing of Dr. Jardine by Mr. Hoover causes farm politi- clans in Washnigton to recall the faud between the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture over con- trol of certain farm activities. A par- ticular conflict has been raging over the marketing problem. Secretary Hoover is an apostle of the theory that agricultural marketing matters ought to be within the Department of Commerce's jurisdiction exclusive- {1y, Farm leaders acknowledge that Hoover has become’a potential {nflu- ence in the administration on agri- cultural policy. The Secretary of Commerce will have two close friends on the Coolidge Farm Commission- the ause he other is Ralph P. Merritt of Califor- nia, who was active in the manage- ment of Hoover's presidential ambi- tions in 1920. Mr. Merritt is promi- nent in the Coast fruit industry and in co-operative marketing work. An- ther Californian on the Farm Com- mission is Fred H. Bixby, president of the American Live Stock Associa- tion. Mr. Merritt was Callfornia food administrator under Hoover during the World War. List of Candidates. The candidates for the Secretary- ship of Agriculture, with thelr par- ticular’ claims to favof, are as fol- lows: Dr. Willlam M. Jardine, president of Kansas State Agricultural College. Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Tllinois ,who, though perhaps more strongly backed than any other pos- sible selection, to date refuses to con- slder appointment Gov.-elect Howard M. Gore of West Virginia, and now acting Secretary of Agriculture. President Coolidge thinks highly of Mr. Gore not only because of his agricultural knowl- edge, but also because of his help in winning John W. Davis' home State for the G. 0. P. Considered doubtful whether Gore, even if asked. renounce his gubernatorial post for the Agricultural portfolio. Louis J. Taber of Ohio, master of the Natlonal Grange and member of the Coolidge Farm Commisslon. Grange members actively supporting his can John W. Coverdale of Iowa, now with the Grain Marketing Company at Chicago, formerly secretary of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; prac- tical farmer. Murray D. Lincoln of Ohio, sacreta- ry of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federa- tion. . Dr. John Lea Coulter, president of the South Dakota State Agricuitural College; author of the Norbeck.Nel- son bill to loan money to the North- western farmers for diversified farm- ing purposes. Farm Radio Pioneer. Merbert Myrick of Massachusatts, proprietor of numerous farm jourrals and ploneer in radio service to farm- ers throughout the United States. Dr. Elwood Mead of Indiana, irri- gation engineer: appolnted director of reclamation in the Department of the Interior by President Coolidge in April, 1924. W. A. Gilbert of Massachusetts, commissioner of State agriculture during Mr. Coolidge’s governorship and regarded as personal friend of the President. Col. C. H. March of Minnesota, named as chairman of the Republican State committee at instigation of Coolidge leaders; novice in politics and therefore appointed over heads of Old Guard, but now held in high esteem at White House for organizing defeat of Farmer-Labor party in Minnesota. Mrs. March and Mrs. Coolldge are said to be friends. E. H. Thompson of Massachusetts, formerly an officlal of the Bureau of Farm Management in the Department of Agriculture, president of the Land Bank at Springfield, Mass. Tennesseean Is Suggested. Dr. Tait Butler of Tennesses, editor of Progressive Farming, widely circu. lated throughout the agricultural South. C. W. Pugsley of North Dakota, president of the State Agricultural College, and successor of Senator Ladd in that post. Formerly assist- ant to Secretary Wallace at Depart- ment of Agriculture. Raymond A. Pearson of Iowa, pres- ident of lowa Agricultural College. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under David F. Houston, now presi- dent of the Land Grant College and Experiment Station Association, which recently met In Washington. President Coolidge thus has a wide latitude of choice, geographically speaking. Two candidates for the Secretaryship of Agriculture from Massachusetts are a novelty, Mas, chusetts being very low in the scale of agricultural States. (Copyright, 1824.) WOMAN DIES IN BATHTUB FULL OF SCALDING WATER By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, November 15.—Death by drowning in a bathtub filled with calding water was the fate of Mrs. Blanche Agnes Willlams Heye, 50 vears old, divorced wife of George Gustave Heye, in the bathroom of her oat haid IgRighte . . | day after the surprising news became Dr. Jardine of Kansas {s one, and the | | whelming | terpreted would | { where THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 16, 1924—PART 1. DISTINGUISHED MEN SUGGESTED FOR AGRICULTURE PORTFOLIO IN CABINET AND AIDES RESIGN Zagloul Takes Chamber by Surprise, Blaming In- trigues for Act. By the Associated Press, CATRO, Egypt, November 15.— Demonstratio of sympathy by the populace of Cairo were held here to- known that .Zugloul Egyptlan Premier, had presented the resignation of his Cabinet in the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber had met to elect president and other officers, and no body expected anything unusual, but the Premier, in & brief statement, an- nounced that he had informed the King he was too tired to continue in office and must tender his resignation. The Premicr added that he hoped to be happier as an ordinary member of Parliament. With a wave of his hand he left the chamber, accom- panied by his ministers. Confidence tn Zagloul. The members appeared to ULe stunned, but soon adopted a vote of confidence in Zagloul an over- majority and then ad- Pasha, the a journed. The premier and his ministers re- patred to the Senate, where a similar statement was mads by Zagloul Efforts are being made to induce the cabinet to withdraw its resigna- tion. To a number of deputies and senators who visited him tonight for this purpose Zagloul sald, “I cannot work amid intrigues.” This was in- | as showing that, In addi- | tion to divergencles of opinion in the cabinet itself, there have heen at- tempts to undermine Zagloul's au- thority Subject to Attacks. The cabinet of Sald Zagloul Pasha, Egyptian Natlonalist leader, took office January 28 last, after the Zag- loul party elected an overwhelming majority of the deputles. He has been the object of attack by extremists among his party, who urged a more determined stand in dealing with /| England over the question of Egvp- tian control of the Sudan and the con- tinuation of British military forces in Egyptian territory. Last Summer Zagloul Pasha went to Europe and late in September pro- ceeded from the continent to London, he had extended conferen with Prime Minister MacDonald in an effort to reach an understanding over the pending questions. It was announced in London last month, however, that because of the attitude the Egyptlan premior had adopted, an agreement between the British and Egyptian governments had been found impossible. On his return to Cairo late in Oc- tober Zagloul Pasha declared it was his intention to keep up the fight for the country's complete independ- ence, insisting upon the principle that “not a single foreign soldler skall remain on Egyptian soll.” The British attitude in the London nego- tlations was explained as based on unwillingness to abandon Great Brit- ain's share in the protection of the Sucz Canal. N OPIUM CONFERENCE NEARLY DISRUPTED (Continued from First Page.) Britain could never agres to un- limited shipments of opium on the mere strength of import certificates and referred to the case of one of the far eastern countrles, where high of- ficlals were &rresleld for complicity an oplum scandal. mr{e qsutloned whether Great Bri- tain could continue to have confi- dence concerning export of opium under such conditions, maintaining it would be violation of The Hague opium,convention. Sees Blow nt Japan. That the country to which Sir Mal- colm referred was Japan was made olear when M. Sugimura jumped to his feet and sald that the guilty Japanese officlals had been properly punished. He declared that Japan could produce evidence of crimes committed by officials of other gov- ernments in connection with the oplum trafic, but would not do so at Geneva, because it was bad kind of_politics. The Indian delegate declared that India was an opium exporting coun- try and would always reserve the right to refrain from exporting when it had no special agreement with other countries. He continued: | “The Japanese representative has | made a threat. It Japag) possesses unfavorable information ~concerning the officials of other governments she should disclose it or should never have alluded to it.” M. Sugimura then ocharged that India's interest {n the opium problem was “mainly economic,” and insisted that the discussion was being car- ried to & low level. If Japan was to be suspected when she desired opilum shipments for legitimate pur- poses, then no accord reached at Geneva would be signed by Japan. M. Sze, for China, arose and smil- ingly said that all the trouble came from secrecy in the subcommittees. and that the conference might be saved if what went on in the sub- committee rooms could be known by all the delegates. Amid great confusion the confer- ence adjourned untll Sunday morning. The Clifton Hill Rustler suppo: the place where you get married is called the altar, because that is heging here ths Warris Enng Upper, left to right: Frank O, Lower, left to right: Dr. Elwood MEXIGANS CANCEL JAPANESE GRANTS Extensive Fishing Conces- sions in Lower Cali- fornia Revoked. Mead, John Lee Co The thrilling story of Washington's | grim traflic problem Is to be told in graphic fashion on the screens of fiva of the city’s leading motion ple- By the Associated Pross, MEXICALI, Lower California, Mex- | {co, November 15.—Gov. Abelardo Rodrigucz of the northern district of Lower California announced here today that he had canceled all the extensive fishing concessions held by Japanese on the coasts of Lower Californla The governor explained his action by the statement that the Japanese had violated the terms of the con- cessions, which now will be turned over to erests and the ted from Japan to other parts of Mexico and to the United States. | ‘The principal Japanese interests in the fishing business in the Gulf of | California waters and on the P fic | coast of Lower California are head- ed by C. Kondo, who, It is reported, will appeal from the governor's ac- tion to federal authorities at Mexico City. The concessions involved covered all fishing rights on the two coasts of the northern district of Lower California and had been extensively operated by the Japanese for a num- ber of vears. | Mexican organizations which will | take over the business have an- nounced plans for building a number | of fish-packing houses south of En senada, Gov. Rodriguez sail SUIT ON OIL LEASE NEARS COMPLETION Elk Hills Case Expected to Go to Judge Before Tuesday Night. By the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, Calit., November 15. —Completion of the Government's sult to cancel leases and contracts| held by the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company in the Elk Hills, California’s naval ofl reserves, on the ground of conspiracy and fraud, was sighted today with the agreement of counsel to place the case in the hands of Judge Paul Mec- Cormick not later than Tuesday eve- ning. The short session today was taken up with the continuance of argu-| ments by Frank J. Hogan, chief coun- sel for the defendant company, whose address was not completed when| court adjourned until Monday. Continuing his attack on the| plaintiff's charge of conspiracy, | Hogan sald: “The facts show bevond the pre- adventure of a doubt that there never was and that there was no thought | of any conspiracy In this matter until | politiclans gave birth to it Defense for Fall. Hogan dwelt at length on a defense for Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interlor, who, it is charged, re- celved a bribe of $100,000 from E. L. Doheny, head of the Pan-American interests. Referring to a mass of evidence, Hogan argued that Fall played only a perfunctory part in megotiations for the contraets and leases. “All Secre- tary Fall did in this matter was a agree with the Navy Department,” the attorney declared. Hogan, attempting to vitiate the Government's case, attacked the op- posing counsel for not calling to the witness stand A. W. Ambrose, chief petroleum technologist of the Bureau of Mines, who had been subponaed by the plaintiff. Hogan said the Gov- ernment had not dared to put Am- brose on the stand “lest the whole fruth came out aud destroy ifs casey” | sylvania theaters for a week, beginning /, and more than one reck- {st, or thoughtless jay walker, will have a rare opportunity to see himself as others saw him. Tha motion picture, filmed under the direction of The Star, with actual scenes of congestion and recklessness in Washington's traffic, is te be shown throughout next week at the Colum- bia, Palace, Metropolitan and Rialto Theaters, and on Sunday and Mon- day at the Tivoll, the last mentioned always changing its program in mid. week The film {5 to be screened to show pedestrians and motorists alike how sly impossible it will be ever 1 the National Capltal of its menace to life and limb In its own well guarded stroets until both real- ize the danger of their customary ways and help the police department to prevent unnecessary accldents. Managers Amazed. When it was shown to the mana- gers of a number of Washington mo- tion picture houses and other per- sons, they were amazed at the things they saw—men and women fighting with relentless machines for the right of way, each taking the other's passage unlawfully; fire engines and ambulances alike blockad by heed- less motorists—and eagerly agreed to give it space on their screens in the hope that it will drive its dread les- son home. The picture shows nothing but ac- tual scenes in Washington traffic. Not a single incident in the entire film, | which runs something over 500 feet in length, was staged. It is a true, ani- mated story, told in the eloquent lan- guage that is only possible through the infallible eyes of the reliable camera, the eves that cannot be ques- tioned or contradicted. When The Star sought the motion plcture as a sure means of letting Washington's pedestrians, motorists and policemen see themselves as others see them, it placed the camera man and a reporter at the city's busiest corners and told them to “shoot” just what they saw. The re- \sult was startling. Late Afternoon Rush. First they caught the late afternoon rush, pushing its way across Penn- avenue, men and women, machines and wagons, street cars and cyclists, Aghting their way from curb to curb. They mounted the camera in the tonneau of an automobile and took actual pictures of how the mo- torist must “eclbow” his way through pedestrians who refuse to heed or watch the trafic policeman's sema- phore. It can truthfully be sald that not a scene was prearranged, even Includ- ing the “accident” whereby the cam- era man happened to “catch” Presi- dent Coolldge finding his way through a traffic Jam. Turning momentarily from the mo- torist’s old battle with the pedes- trian, the camera man and the re- porter sought the assistance of George S. Watson, chief engineer of the District Fire Department, and borrowed a company of englnes. Mounting their camera atop one, they photographed the other trying to get passage. 1t was a real run, with belle ringing and everything, but it meant nothing in the lives of some motor- ists. Ambulance Delayed. Then the ald of Emergency Hospi- tal was sought, and the camera man caught motorist after motorist driv- ing blandly ahead of the ambulance that was trying to get an injured man to the hospital before his life might ebb away. Finally the assist- ance of Inspector Albert J. Headley, director of the traffic bureau, asked and cheerfully given. He assigned two policemen to help control pedestrian trafic at Four- teenth and G streets to show how safe Washington's streets might be made i{f he were given enough men to station the necessary number at the busiest intersections at the peak of their rush hours. It was during this experiment that President Coolidge #2d his garty badpengd alons, sal % was | Lowden, Dr. Willlam M. Jardine and Howard M. Gore. ter and Col. C. H. March. \CAUGHT IN ACTION, TRAFFIC ‘ VIOLATORS PUT INTO FILMS| D. C. Motorists and Pedestrians Before The Star’s Camera—Scenes Show Menace to Life and Limb. | | the President displaved an excellent example of just how an intelligent pedestrian would walk Next Sunday was selacted as the day to present the picture, because it was necessary to have additional prints made in order to show it in| flve of the leading theaters simul-| taneously. Those five are the Colum bia, Palace, Metropolitan, Rialto and| Tivoll, where the film may be ple- tured ‘under the best possible condi- tlons to make its screening perfect. SEES SLIM CHANCE FOR WORLD COURT Swanson Believes Action on Tribunal Unlikely in * Short Session. Senator Swanson of Virginia, rank- ing Democrat on the foreign rela- tions committes, sald yesterday he did not expect any action at the short | session of Congress on the World | Court proposals. No action can be| obtained in the next Congress, he added, unless President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes “push the matter more vigorously and determinedly than they have in the past.” 1t is impossible, the Virginla Sena- tor said, to pass either the Pepper World Coyrt resolutfon or the one favored by Presidents Harding and Coolldge and Secretary Hughes by a two-thirds majomty because of op- position of “a large number of Re- publican Senators,” unless some have changad their views as a result of the election. “I introduced at the last session of the Senate, when no Republican would do so, a resolution to make ef- fective the recommendations of the two Presidents and Secretary of State | to accept the protocol establishing a World Court,” he asserted. “Senator FPepper of FPennsylvania Intrsduced & resolution creating a new World Court entirely different in formation from the existing one. My resolution received the unanimous support of the Democratic members of the foreign relations committee and one Republican member, Senator Lenroot, Wisconsin. All of the other Republicans voted against the recom- mendation of Presidents Harding and Oo?l[dl'e and Secretary Hughes. “A minority report was filed by me and concurred in by Democrats opposing the Pepper resolution and favoring adherence to the protocol. These resolutions never came up for conslderation in the Senate.” —_— DAYTIME GUNMAN ROBS AVENUE SHOP (Continued from First Pag returned again yesterday afternoon, asking for the woman who showed hm-:l tah:e rings. When she approached, an, splayed the card of ri declared, he sald: ol “Keep still or Il blow vour h off. I'll take them now. Don't move:d After getting them, she said, the man warned her under peril of her life not to move for five minutes. Stanley, at the First precinct, stated that he was a former marine, recently diecharged from the Naval General Hospital here, after an operation. He sald he had been in this clty about six weeks, and that he was a locomotive fireman by trade. . According to the police, he was arrested .once before in a shooting case In Wyoming, for which he was freed. Police declare that a revolver was found on his person with only one cartrldge ia it { of landowners First Snowstorm Fails in Attempt To Blanket City Faillng miserably in the ta usually performed by the fir enowstorm of the year—to cover the city with a sparkling mantle of pristine whiteness—Washing- ton's first one dumned some sticky slush in the streets yesterday afternoon and left the city for parts unknown. Eager newspaper photographers clasped their cam- eras yesterday and walted pectantly for enough snow to en- able them to get a picture which would be run in next Sunday's rotogravure entitled, “The Capitol in a Snowstorm or “Washins- ton's First Snow.” But it was in vain. The snowstorm fifvvered Coming on the heeis of an all day rain—the first in four wecks of perfect Indian Su T weatl er, the Enow was accompante a drop in temperature which s the mercury down to one deg abqve freezing. It failed to stic in the city straets, b ered tl fields in outlying sections of t\ District with half an inch or so. There will bs no more of it, tha Weather Bureau eaid last night Today and tomoOrrow are expec: to be fair, with little change temperature. Urges Ban on Unfair Action by Landlords. Deolaring that it was the des the Clifton Terrace tenants' comn tee of 12 to have the public stand that the rental ralses that bu! than the ap. man P. J. Dohes issue, ate ing of the bod the £o0 that evictions c out in cases where festly “unfair Mr. Doherty der the e the U s become the az lord. T emergen. by Mr. Doherts should be no He also re as the posst to raise Sales and Resales Scored. The statement Is “The tenants’ commi session tonight, was desirous the public should understand the rentals now preposed tically 100 per cent over vaillng at the apex of 1920, “Clifton Terrace was sold Wardman in 1320 a have been made since been submitted to w A third has been resi tenants, who feel that t sary, because i{f no rem to this increase there remedy in other p ton to_w! “In behalf in a recent statement crease would not exceed 1 of the present rental Justify, crease in based on the earning pc the indications of the value of rentabls real other new owner basis, and there ha able succession of owners { building recently, by another in could add still further to the ren and values. Turn Argument on Shortage. “The argument that the ho emergency has passed is logic argument that there is no e justification now existant for increases. If war influences ar and a large number of vacant a ments exist, ency exists because normal co are restored, there is no e justification for a general ren crease 100 per cent over nor “We Insist that a gov ing a procedure for t tenants for the non-payr is not powerless to legislat vent the unfair and unrea ercise of such dra terfarence in the Lo The laws that provide f tions may be €0 amended th may be a mandatory evictions by the ha States marshals where been affirmatively established the rentals establis reasonable and equitable un nomic and general welfare tions. “Though the courts may deny the legislative powers tha right act on rentals as such. there is no doubt whatever that the legislature may prohibit the courts to exercise Jurlediction in eviction cases where they are manifestly unfair under rea- sonable standards of enlightened public opinion. ‘Would Restrain Selfish. prac- exiets as ba the arke estate. An- T “Congress may prevent States officers from being the active instruments of injustice and extor- tion; states may slm There have been too 1 where the law has been the in ment for the will of the callous hard and unjust upon the victims of circumstances. A law which may put a widow out of her homs and place her few sticks of furniture upon the street Is not powerless to prevent such occurrences where the elements of the case show that to exerciss thi strong arm of the Government would be unreasonable, unjust and in- equitable. “By legislation applied to a limita- tion of the exercise of the judicial power to this extent there may be a method of indirectly controlling op- pressive measures by the small class fnelined to harsh coarser practices.” THREE MEN ARRESTED IN MILL POND TRAGEDY the Violation of State Liquor Law Is Charged After Probe of J. J. Travers’ Death. By the Associated Pres WHITEFIELD, N. H, November 15, —As the result of the Investigation into the death of James J. Travers, | whose body was found in a mill pond here on November 5 Emile Dube, Edmund Fournier and John Keir, all| of Whitefield, were arrested toda charged with violation of the State liquor law. They were held for Superior Court in Berlin in December. Persons who had been with Travers on election night told the investiga- tors that Travers had been drinking. the State pathologist reported traces of alcohol were found in the organs and said Travers was dead before his body was ihrown ipso $he Fateh Tnited | or | NEW RATING WORK -~ NOW UNDER WAY Publicity for Efficiency Deci« sions Point Yet to Be Determined. % yesterday the Gowern- ment departments and establishments §et about ghe task of applying tha new efficlency rating to all employes of the Government in the civil serv- fce in the District of Columbia. When the ratings are completed. as of November 13, any changes of h may result the same time it was learned the Personnel Classification »ard has called a meeting of de- partmental and establishment heads | for next Thursday morning at the | board's offices to consider the dis- matter of how far the Gov- ent shall go in carrying out the | prov s of the law to make tha {efficiency rates “open to inspection.” The new rating, developed by tha Bureau of Eff 7, and approved by the Personnel Claasification Board, been in the hands of departmentat enough for them to be- acquainted with the system in st of the departments, it was be- a by i of the Classifica- Board, the actual work of rat yes started tod May Take Six Weeks. however, is of muck mag pecially in the larger bu- hat it probably will take any - om one to slx weeks to ratd iduals who come under the Tha cer doing the rate s in each ins'ance be the rvisor of the employe to be rat- The ons rext above the super- | visor will rate the supervisor, and so jon up the scale untll the highest persons under the rating will have ed by their supericra a iwo grades er tha howe » which r the provisions of rating—the two top and the e de us t Thus It {s seen the top grades of ces making fro 38.000 be rated Little New Machinery. Leliaved that littls new have to be & p t departments and e s to handle the new e will authorized the { Efficiency to promulgato ratings fof the Government has resulted in establishment ards. Th will no most of the depart- the new effici- creass in salary ted by depart- ment heads wil operation of the of the approprie- s vear tes that the total num the grade shall not excesd ¢ the compensation rates the classification act for will prevent of persons who rcentage whi ntitie them to promotion was e factor in the prospect the where not been ex 3 lump sur ™ it is pos: be considerable January 1 take place, {t hose cases where new rules in effect with rating system it will necessary to demote. ty of the results of the eff rating, as provided in the act, will b the next classifi, n board To get the o ions of the T morning 1en the whole matter fference of opinfon is to exist among the various as to what should be done publicity of the officlency rat The law provides as follows current ratings for each g s thereof shall be open to by the representat cation) board, and by of the department under to be determined by the atter consultation with the de- heads | known oyes tions WAY OPEN FOR TRANSFER OF DENVER-RIO GRANDE | Federal Court in Colorado Denies Application of Minority Bond holder to Stop Sale. | ted Press R, Colo., November 15.—Tha i“‘a’\ immediate transfer of the Denver and Rio Grande Weostern Rail- ocad to its new owners under reor ang recently approved b ate Commerce Comn cleared today when Fe J. Foster Symes denied t Palmer of bondholder, the case and preve as Judge ite the fact that Palmer's at vs served notice that an appea! would be carried to higher courte, Judge Eymes' action today over | Stepped the last obstacle in the patt { of formally confirming the sale of th {road to the Western Pacific and Mis sourl Pacific Raiiroads October 20. | Palmer’s appeal will not prevent con tinuation and completion of the sale ails of receivership and transfe will be completed within a week | 10,000 HUNTERS OUT. ;Adimudm:ks Woods Filled With Delayed Sportsmen. { Special Dispateh to Tae sia- SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., November 15.—With at least 10,000 hunters, in the woods the Adirondacks went hunting today, the esecond of two days consolation granted after tha 14 days’ ban by Gov. Smith to pr vent forest fires and the last day of the legal open season on deer and bear. Two inches of snow and tempera- tures just above freezing, made hunt- ing conditions ideal, and early re | ports indleate a record killing of ldeer. No casualties had been re | ported here up to 6 o'clock D Gen. L. W. Colby Dies BEATRIC Nebr, November 1 Gen. Leonard Wright Colby, veteran of the Civil, Indian and Spanish- American wars: Assistant United States Attorney General under Presi- dent Harrison, and for a generation a leader of the southern Nebraska bar. died here late today, following = long Jilnoss,-