Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1924, Page 4

4 03 ADOPT PLEA FOR RENT RELIEF Gathering at Central High Schoo! Petitions for New Housing Law. forth a detormin astic ter voted to resolution proposed by the League, calling upon Con- Uy to enact a pe i held under cue i the O riwm last niz ppland rental raise: ymin a “ave, 700 enth adopt a Tenants press | of ala he auspics ral High nt as during Sev- t joined ed st und inst the course of their addresse eral hunared of those pics the Tenants' League Resolution Adopted. The resolution which was adopted and addressed to Keprescatative Stu- art . Reed, chairma the Di t House committee, T “We, citizens of the lumbia, are now sufering from the chaotic conditions catsed LY the crippling the 1 rent which was duly autioriz Con- gress, and are without tranchise, and resources or aid except Fherciore we, District of Columbia 5 embied, do pray and prompt attention be s.tuation which calls 1or a Jcrmanent law, fair to land- lord and tenant alike. Presents Alternatives. Declaring that the situation would result in citier “relief or submission to tyranny,” Philip J. Doherty, chair- nan o1 the Clifton Terrace commit- tee twewve and chairman ot the evening, stated that those gathered were “law-abiding to the core, with no threais, bui merely gathered to) see what couid be aone to relieve the commumty of a serious situa- L ot u act, 1ve called you is cnough Ar m erican spirit ke Uncle Sam Ioherty trict Federa- Dloyes deciared that 5,000 Government em- ston <7 said ir tion of e lie i plost inao. the meni board losi Tenta s retlec PUFCHaaii empioye ana dec aied Mr the budeei e anizaiion ague tie adjusi- classification were th by dogh a.so feel the the the lack of the Govesn suould L 1erest Lowe. He stated that erts saia that per cent was a falr proportion to be paid a ry lor rent and that the oyes were paying to 50 per cent of earnings on rent. Mr. Lowe the registering of apartment to prevent “the menace ndlordism He also u; tenant organization s anization of the realtors owners: Speakers Heard. Warren of the 1 und the League for In- Dem addressed the those present to the fight against )5} Schwartze, nd branch spoke and league. She oi this ia vower of 30 per cent owners absentee a per lar to and buin Man: A George @Gentral Labor Un dustria meeti join hi cracy rged in Mrs. chal the of the ants zue, urged a national tenants sald that before the war she lived in a $-room house with two baths snd paid half the rent she now paid for a $-ivom apartment. Mrs. Mar- guret Hopkins Worrell of the Clifton Terrace committee dwelt on the lack r sentation in the District and requested that all present ask their friends in other States to influence their Congressmen in the matter. Other speakers were Mrs. Henry C. Browr secretary of the Tenants’ League: Mrs. Vernon Dorman and Mrs. A, W. Weikert. Letter From Low. Joseph Low, manager of the Clifton Terrace and Sixteenth Street apart- ments, srwarded a letter to the Tenants’ cague yesterday congratu- lating them upon “holding a meeting in an orderly and lawful fashion” at the Central High School. Mr. Low gave a comprehensive re- view of the cluims of the league in regard to the rent situatien in Wash- ington Mr. Low's contentions are that the cost of property to an individual is an immateri actor in determining the ratc of rentals. He points out that the owner may have received the property ax a gift and still may de- mand @ rental commensurate with the iocation and based upon the law of supply and demand, the cost of up- ep and reproduction. Pointx to Vaeancies. Mr. Low further contends that no one can raise rentals higher than what new buildings can be rented for, and points out that thousands of apartments are vacant in the elty His letter denies that financing has any bearing upon the rentals, because persons need not rent badly financed propertics. He claims high financing of buildings will trend to lower rents, as the owner would be satisfied with @ smaller income than if he put all his cash in one building. Rental legislation is scored by Mr. Low on the ground that all previous Government regulation of business has turned out a failure and that botii Federal and State public utility commissions have invarfably raised rates acd dropped into constant squabble and litigation which teuds to raisc the rat Mr. Low states that the cost of reproduction should be considered be- cause of increased values and urge: the tenanis go let the law of supply end demand stabilize conditions here end thus attract Investors who will place their money in the erection of more bulldings, thus creating a greater supply. He closes his letter to the league by pointing out that the Government employes should press for more adequate Wages. “HANDS OFF,” BRITISH WARN OUTSIDERS IN EGYPTIAN ISSUE ntinued from First Page.) sumed, but no instructlons, added, could possibly reach within 48 hours, Officials of the league point out that Persia could make an appeal in behalf of Egypt under Article X1 of the cove- nant. Clause 2 of this article de- clares it to be the friendly right of every member of the league to bring to the attention of the council or the assembly any circumstances affecting international relations which might threaten peace or good understanding. Should Persia make such & move, it is thought that under Article XVII of the covenant Egypt could be invited to accept the obligations of member- ship during the hearing of the dis- pute with England under such condi- tions as the council might deem just. Why They Cried. J From the Edinburgh Scotsman, She—Why did everybody cry during the death scene? They must have known that the actor wag not dead. He—Yes; that was just ity S they Geneva wnent | District of Co- | together to had | ie told UL S-FRENCHAMITY |Guest at Franco-Amerigan Banquet, He Says Nations Have Same Ideal. YORK, November 29.—Jules and, French ambassador to the United States, will relinguish his aington post early in tie new after 22 years as chief of the jomatic mission, tonight wis guest ef honor at a farewell ban- quet by three IPranco-American or- sanizations. the Prance-America So- the Federation of Fren. and the American Soc French Legion of Hono Reminsclne pleasantly in response to tomsts and tes, Amb Jusserand drew upon the wealth his experience in the United States during five pres‘dential administra tions to {llustrate the fundamental {reasons for and the progress of Franco-American amity. ! The occasion. he said, filled him | with emotion and reminded him of'a {dey, 22 vears ago, “when a new- | comer to these lands saw for the first | time rising above the waters up to the clouds, against n Babylonlan | of human work. the Statue of | Liberty lighting the world—a French | Welcome for a Erench visitor, the me who is still for a . few more weeks the ambassador of France to the United States. All those years the early welcome of the statue has held true for Am- bassador Jusserand. Hix Pnrtiag Wish. “When, leaving these shores said in closing his address, “I shall look at her and see her diminish on the horizon, a parting wish will go to her: ‘Ralsc aloft thy torch, oh, Lib- erty! May it ceaselessly continue to light the world, and under thy guld- ance may the French and the Ameri- lecan nations remain faithful another, united, loving, forever. From his first days in America, Am- bassador Jusserand sa'd. he never felt s I¥ing in a forelgn land. 2 banguet fn Parls.” he de- . "an American general could say with truth, ‘the French ambassa- dor s lucky: whichever way he crosgses the Atlantic he goes home'” Also from the first, M. Jusserand said, he never forgot the symbolical greeting of the tue of Liberty that told him to remember how two struggling nations born of revolution had moved hand in hand toward an ideal “which will be fully reached some day in lberty, equality and justice.” The ambassador conceded the two nations were not quite alike, but the ground work was the same, he said, based upon liberty, equality and fra- ternity and the three fused in justice “On these lines our democracles can report progress” he sald. “In ancient times, rulers, God-like, sat on high thrones and humanity squatted on the ground. ‘There are no longer any such exalted seats In our coun- tries, but there are chairs for all” With all their difference, French and American temper have much In common, said the French envoy. He recalled the early history of the r Hances th to one experiences, to illustrate that both peoples are at the same time prac- tical and sentimental “We are hard-working races,” he sald, “very attentive to the bargains we drive, but when an appeal is made to sentiment we melt.” Doubtrul About Memoirs. The French ambassador sald he didn't know whether he should ever write memoirs. ‘““Most ambassedors do, but they are not bound to” he added But he expressed the hope of writ- ing at least an article telling of the memorable sights he witnessed in the United States during the War. Then, he sald, he saw a nation puri- fied, sublime, the only contest being as to who would be best. All depriva- tions were accepted cheerily, not one was imposed. Requests o a of the country, he sald, made the other regions indignant because they could not join in the sacrifice. When France needed gasoline, the Ambassador recalled, Washingtonians gave up pleasure automobiling to such an extent that his old coach- man had no difficulty maneuvering his old-fashioned horse-drawn car- riage into the stream of Sunday trafic on Sixteenth street. The success of such appeals, the loans of immenke magnitude, the valor displayed at the front, and the impatience to be there wege all due to sentiment, a commeon Franco- American trait, said the Ambassador. It was sentiment awakened by in- juries received, by the danger threat- ening the country and ‘“sentiment also for an ally of long ago,” he added. ‘An intimacy has been created be- tween us for having lived those war days together,” the diplomat contin- ued. “Innumerable friendehips from the highest to the humblest, beginning with the five American Presidents to whom I have been accredited, a sen- timent of gratitude, and why not say in one single word, a sentiment of love binds me to vour country. In discussing the affairs of my country it seemed that I was discussing our common affairs. Frénch Contributions. “We remember. With, I hope, par- donable pride, that in the cornerstone of some of the chlef structufes erect- ed on this side of the ocean, a French medal has been laid as an amfilet bespeaking prosperity. The first and only treaty of alliance was with Frante; the first ship in the incipient American Navy was from designs suppilied by us, the first treaties of any kind, amity, commerce, navigation, consular serv- ice, arbitration—I had the honor of signing that one-—were with France. The plans for the Federal Capital were supplied by that Maj. L'Enfant &0 devoted to the American cause, that his atrival here preceded that of young, enthusiastic, chivalrous Maf- quis de LaFayette. The voluntary cession of Louisiana was the corner stone of American greatness, Only yesterday, not figuratively in this | case, but really, the cofnet stone of the young and already famous Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Letters was laid by Marshal Foch.” Lenders Pay Tribute. Tribute to Ambassador Jusserand's service was paid by Elihu Root, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, George Wickersham and others. “He reported our pecople to his country Wwith accufacy and deep knowledge,” sald Mr. Root. “I won- der how far the people of either country understand the debt they are under to Jules Jusserand, fof what he did during the great war. At the time when propaganda had begun to irritate, at the time when it seemed that a multitude of Smaller issues ‘were being thrown sicross the path. ways, In his unerring judgment he knew what not to do. He escaped the mistakeés the representatives of other countries freely made.” Nearly all of the best cane for mak- ing the mouthpleces of saxophones and similar musical instrumehts is grown in one district in the Wouth of France, where peculiar local condi- tions of soll and climate produce wood of just the supple sensitiveness and durabllity required. A publics, as well as his own wartime | part ! FiARRIS 5 EWING The Chtel Executive s € @ Mrs. Coolidge are shown in the upper inxet x they entered thelr box in the big Bal timore stadium. The inxet at left center ix Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, an enthusiastic rooter for the Midshipmen. Admiral Henry I'. Wilson, commandant of the Naval Academy, nnd Mrs. Wilton are xhown in the lower right infet. The other pictures show the parades of the West Point Cadets and Annapolis Middies preceding the line-up of the teams and give some idea of the size of the attendance. GARBISCH’S KICKING GIVES CADETS 12-0 WIN OVER MIDDIES (Continued from First I ge.) Harding, Cadet field general, reeled off a 33-yard run from Kkick-off, the longest dash of- the afternoon, to start this drive, which the carry over the final chalk mark until the sailors stiffencd for their big defensive stand. Garbisch Recovers Ball Garbisch himself paved the way for | when he recovered | blocked kick in Navy territory, after | his first goal which Gillmore led a 20-yard charge to striking _distance of the Middy uprights. Two intercepted passes, one by Hewitt and the other by Gill- more, opened opportunities for leader. Four times the Army had the ball inside Navy's 20-yard line and a touch- | down seemed imminent, but occasions, the Navy's heav: far outweighed its rivals, dows goal. The fourth and brightest op- portunity for a Cadet touchdown w lost when Hewitt fumbled after reaching the 7-vard mark and Qaurterback Ham- ilton recovered for the Navy. This chance came in the third quarter after Ellinger had picked a Navy pass out of the air and dashed to the Sailors’ 18-yard line on three held Navy Is Stopped. The first of the Navy's few chances to score came in the opening’quarter when a poor punt by Wood gave the Midshipmen the ball on Army's 20- yard line. Shapley led an onslaught that advanced the ball 10 yards, but here the Army held and took the ball on downs when Navy's aerial attempts proved frultless. Throughout the game the Navy re- Hed on its forward passing attack to make headway, but it seemed large- Iy haphazard, nad, except for sporadic gains, found an impenetrable Cadet defense. The second and third quartérs saw the Sailors driven back continually into their own territory, and in the final quarter, when their final aerial drive was turned loose West Point was equal to the task of turning it back. A brilllant tackle by Davidson, who threw Shapley for a 9-yard loss, helped break up the sailor advance after it had reached the 15-yard lihe in the last quarter, while a little later the Army inter- cepted a pass $hat blasted another Navy march at the 18-yard mark. All told, the Midshipmen hurled 22 forwards, completing only 5, while 7 were intercepted. Further analysis of the game showed that the Army outrushed her opponents by a two-to- ohe margin, registering 8 firet downs for a total of 205 yards, while the Navy made 5 first downs for a total advance of 100 yards. Drings Out Great Throns. Liké a great human magnet, the spirit of foot ball reached out today and brought into its fold for the Army-Navy game one of the greatest gatherings in the history of the grid- iron world. it brought to Boltimore, as & back- ground for the Army victory, the largest, the most notable and the most colorful crowd in the 27-year history of the contests between the two échools. Further, it reached to &ll parts of the Nation as seven radio stations broadcast the hews from the side llhes and then, in the dots and dashes of the wireless, it sped into the far corners of the earth. As the Army mule, slowly but surely, asserted its mastery over the Navy goat for the foot ball year of 1924, the plays that brought the 78,- 000 spectators in Baltimore's munic- i} plunging | of Gillmore and Wood threatened to | last | the | mecond and third goals by the Cadet | line, which | for | s or forced an attempt at field | IACOMO PUCCINL, From Picture Made in 1909. ipal stadium to their feet also brought either joy or sadness to the other thousands, perhaps milllons, of fans, some of whom listened-in from Dbattleships at sea and Army posts in far-off Guam. President Coolidge, Secretaries Weeks and Wilbur and others high in official life forsook the Nation's business to join in with the crowd to watch America’s two service schools in_their vearly battle. Senators and Representatives by the score turned=®ut to rub elbow with lesser dignitaries of the Gov- ernment and the just everyday cit- izen, all of whom wedged their way into the horseshoe-shaped amphi- theater. Contumes In Contrast. The gold braid on the uniforms of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps vied with the flashy colors of theif feminine companions, and the somber khakl of the officers of the Ariy showed up in marked contrast With the brightly tinted hats and coats of the wives and sweethearts they escorted. On one side of the fleld thé gray- clad Cadets, dotted with tints of yel- low from megaphones, presented a dazzling appearance, rivaled only by the blue-clad Middies, who also were set off with orange sashes and yel- low megaphones. Between halves more color was thrown into the scene twhen the Middies tossed confetti of the varied hues into the air to spell the word “Navy,” and the Cadets, not to be outdone, bedecked their cheering sec- tion with gayly colored streamers. After the fina) whistle, the Cadets, headed by a band, tumbled on the playing field in a yelling, shouting parade that eventually ended in front of the Navy stands with a bugler playing “Taps” while Gar- bisch, captalh and hefo of their vie- tory. was bourne triumphantly on their shoulders. — The public Bchool in St. Helens, Wash., wis closdd for several days recently because the entire student body had toothache an@ went to the dentist., Oniy one student, a 13-year- old gizl, attends the school. | will fall in with plans | CONGRESS STARTS WORK TOMORROW: TURMOIL LOOMING' | ing (Continued from First Page.) Senate. Tt that legislation migh lack of an affirmative is conceivable, therefore, fail because of vote, under | these circumstances | Democrats Are Disgurted. Whether Democratic th the enators | ousted the Re- Demo- progressives to hamstring publicans remains to be seen. cratic Senators have expressed their disgust with the campaign waged by | Senator La Follette for President, a| campaign which cut so decply into | Democratic ranks. They condemn La| Follette's abandonment of his cam- paign in the West and return to the East in the final weeks of cam- paign. The Democratic idea was to let La Follette hait Coolidge in the West while the Democrats took care of the East. But a Democrat's embarrass a Republ anization is congenital with his political life, and vice versa. The impulse may be too strong to resist even if the op- portunity arises through the insur- gent Rdpublicans. In the House, where the progressive group also holds a balance of power, | and where for days the organization of the House was delayed at the open- dsg of the last session of Congress, no attempt will be made to read the insurgents, who supported La Fol- lette, out of the Republican party at this time, it is said Confined to Funds Bills. But at best, and even had the Re- publicans of the Senate been less precipitate in their action against La Follette and his supporters, the sailing probably would have been rough. It has been a custom, how- ever, to confine the short sessions of each Congress to little more than the passage of the supply bills for the Government. President Coolidge has a great ns set which he lacked $uring the last session of Congress, that may assist him in getting done those things which he particularly desires accom- plished, By right of an overwhelming vote of the people, Mr. Coolidge is President for the next four years. He holds the mandate of the people as Chief Executive. So far as party matters are concerned, he is the actu- al head, as well as titular head, of the Republican party. Two years hence, the entire House and one-third of the membership of the Senate must be elected. Members of Congress may find it more difficult to defy the Presi- dent in the present session than it was in the last. The President was the sine gqua non of the Republican party in the last campaign and elec- tion. Republican gains in Congress were made largely because of the great popularity of the President, and not because the people cared pal ticularly for the Republican candi- dates for Congres: fmportant Measures Up. In the Senate several important measures and a long list of less im- poftant bills are on the caléndar for consideration and action. Lying on the table, ready to be called up, i§ the President's veto of the postal employes salary bill. It is expected, however, that the first bill which will be given consideration is the defi- clency bill, which failed of action in the final hours of the last session. That measure probably will be con- nidered Tuesday. On Wednesday, un- der a unanimous consent agreeihent entered into at the last session, the Muscle Shoals bill will be taken up. The so:called Howell-Barkley bill, to abolish the Railroad Labor Board and substitute therefor regional ad- willingness to | | of | ordinarily { this country. ® o UapRig & 2 Ewmc- ) | justment boards, is one of the meas- ures which will eccupy the attention the House. It has the right of way on the suspension calendar, cor- before the House the first and d Mondays of each month would be up for considera- tion tomorrow, but the program looks to an early adjournment out of re. spect to the memory of dead meni- bers. The first thi of the big annual ap- propriation billy to reach the House will be the Interior Department bill The House, under present plans, will consider that on Thursday Civil Serviee Bill Due, Another important bill which the House may have before it for action soon is that liberalizing the ecivil ser retirement act, 8o as to in- crease the annuities paid and reduce the age of retirement of the Govern- ment employes. The Senate may be called upon to consider the: proposed adherence of the United States to the World Court. But whether any final action will be had on this proposal at this session is decidedly problematical. No doubt a demand for such action will be made vigorously by many people in The Democrats are watching the strife between the regular Repub- licans and the insurgents with amuse- ment. They are not inclined to take action now, at least, on the case of enator Wheeler, who bolted the Democratic party to become vice residential nomince on the La oliette ticket. The probabilities are that the story of the prodigal son will be re-enacted in the Wheeler case. Unlike the Republicans, they have no special cause for holding a party conference at this time. Their leader, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, continues in that office. Denies Gbstructionist Alms. Senator Robinson returned to Wash- Ington yesterday and Issued a state- ment in which he said that the Demo- crats would co-operate in the passage of the supply bills. He said also there was no disposition on the part of the minority to obstruct actioron any measure of general importance, which can be fairly considered. In his state- ment he said: “The Indications are that among the subjects which will receive attention are farm relief legislation, includ- ing co-operative marketing, the transportation act as it relates to the adjustment of labor disputes, rate making and freight schedules. Senator Robinson said that he did not believe there could be further tax reduction at the present session becguse of the condition of the Treas- ury. As an aftermath of the campaign will come a report of the special enate committee appointed to in- vestigate campaign expenditures, headed by Senator Borah. It is ex- pected that a report and recommend- ations for legislation setting limits to the sums that may be expended will be filed with the Senate. - o Forty-Niners Pass Bonanza. Although any forty-niner who made good in the gold,rush to California in 1849 had no bone to pick with his fate, it is a comment that many of them and their brothers who were hot so successful walked right over a rich bonanza in the southern part of Mexico, along the Isthmus of Pan- ama, over which many of them trek- ked. Along the River of the Winding Snake many forty-niners walked on their way to the Pacific Coast, little knowing that later prospectors would find a rich fleld of oil beneath their feet. —.— In the English navy In olden times when a ship captain wished to dis- charge his crew he-had to give them notice of his Intention by taking away the tablecloth three meals in it EIGHT REPORTS DUE ON SENATE PROBES Findings Must Be Presented at Short Session, Which Begins Tomorrow. During the short session of Con- gress beginning tomorrow, eight spe cial Senate investigating committees will be required to submit final re- ports on their findings. At the last session of Congress ten investigations were authorized and only two of them were completed. The “diploma mill" which Senator Copeland, New York, was chairman, hearings and recommended two bills to Congress, neither of which has passed. One bill would prohibit the circulation through the mails of “di- ploma mill” literature and the other would create a council of universities and colleges to fix stundards for edu- cational institutions in the Distr of Columblia The Voterans' Bureau invest was completed by the committee which Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, was chairman, and the evidence turned over to the courts. inquiry, of Democrat concluded Uncompleted Hearings. The uncompleted he. dealing with _the Government leases in the Teapot Dome an fornla ficlds, admini tration Department of Justice under former Attorney General Da rty, charzes of fraud in the sale of Texas lands, conduct of the Internal Revenue Bu- reau, campaign expenditures, the Mayfleld eloction contests, Russian propaganda in the United States, and charges of the use of propaganda to influence leglslation Further hearings into campaign expenditures will be held shortiy after Congress convenes. This in- vestigation was authorized under a resolution introduced by Senator La Follette, Republican, Wisconsin, and ings are tho: the last few weeks of the campaizn when Senator La Follette charged the Republicans with using a large “slush fund.” The investigation of the Revenue Bureau was started result of a resolution introduced by Senator Couzens, Republican. Michi- gan, which directed the committee to recommend corrective legislation a the close of the hearings. Brief hear- ings were held during the Summer recess, but the committee ssed while Earl J. Davis, committes sel, and his staff of Investiga’ors as- sembled additional informat Senator Spencer, Republican, Mis- souri, chairman of the committee in- vestigating the election of Senator Mayfield, Democrat, Texas, plans to reopen that inquiry after Congress assembles. The investigation is the result of & contest brought by George E. B. Peddy, independent Democrat, who was indorsed by the Republicans in the Texas campaign. Peddy's petition charges that the Texas electlon laws were violated, and that the Ku Klux Klan influenced the election The taking of testimony in the De- partment of Justice inquiry is re- garded by some committee members as practically completed. A final re- port will be withheld pending the de- cision of the Supreme Court on the case of Mal Daugherty, brother of the former Atto neral, who refused to recognize a committee sub- poena calling for his appearance with records of his bank at Washington Court House, Ohio. The case has been advanced to December 1 on the Su- preme Court docket 011 Lease Report. A partial report was made by the committee inv ating the Teapot Dome and California oil leases at | the close of the last session, but an attempt by the Democratic members of the committee to get it adopted by the Senate failed. The partial re- port was prepared by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, and signed by a majority of the committee. Senator Spencer, Missouri, a Republi member of the committee, submitted a minority statement. It i« possible that a final report containing remedial suggestions wi be held in abeyance pending th court, decisions the tempt charges against Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, who refused to~answer questions submitted by committee members. The case is now in the Court of Appeals of the Dis- trict of Columbia The investigation into charges the use of money, advertising and propagar to influence legislation made little headway during the last session. The resolution calling for the inguiry was introduced by Sen ator Reed, Democrat. Missouri, who asked that the committee go into Fdward W. Bok's $100,000 Amarican Peace Award. When the first two witnesses, Bok and Esther Everett Lape, who was associated with the award, refused to answer quastions propounded by the committe:, it ad- journed without taking further ac- tion. A final report has not becn made, and Senator Moses, Republean, New Hampshire, the chairman, not decided whether the hearing will be pursued further. Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, who made charges of fraud in the sale of Texas lands, is determined to have the hearings pressed forward during the short session. Exhaustive hearings were held during the last gession and adjournment_was taken during the Summer reces Inter: as t of spreading Russian propaganda in the United States has not submitted a final report and Chairman Borah and the other members have reached no decision as to formally closing the hearings. Freight Increase Set Aside. Proposals of the Canadian National Railway system to increase rates on forest products by 3 cents per hun- dred pounds when moved from east- ern Canadian territory to points on the Lehigh and New England Rail- road were temporarily set aside yes- terday by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The new schedule: would have gone into effect Decem- ber 1, but the commission ordered them withheld and present rates maintained until March 31 to aliow investigation. ——————— Air Flight Pictures 01d. nerally speaking, the air has been conquered only within the last 25 years, but as far back as 1844 some of the calendars published in continental Europe showed pictures of air flights, made true enough, in the imagination of cartoonists who were poking fun at the scientific am- bitions of the day. Some of the car- toons announced air flight schedules and listed departing hours for a trip to New York, Peking and Mount Blane. Countess Farms; Count Is Maid. Countess Klepinska, who before her titled matriage was Mary Grainger, daughter of a former mayor of Louis- ville, Ky., has returned to the scenes of her girlhood, impoverished by the war. Her husband Is of noble Polish family and cannot endure hard work. Accordingly he stays at home and minds the children while the countess works on the small farm at manual }gbqr. The farm is near Crestwood, the investigation was opened during | coun- { The committee investigating charges | BOOKMAKING RAIDS NET SIX' ARRESTS Four Places Visited and Seizures Made After Long Investigation Here. Police drove a splitting wedge into what they believe to be a powerful betting syndicate here, protectad heretofore by a ramified system Vouaceeby bets on races were tele- phoned about town, with half a doz- v en arrests in four simultaneous ids vesterday on alleged handbopk Hak- ¢ ing establishments. " Tho raids took place at 3 o'clock. - For four months police had been investigating and making plans.Theh , they swooped down vesterday®just as the Maryland racing season was singing its swan song. Those arrested on charges of oper- ating hand-Looks were: Samuel Rap- paport, 3 1133 ourteenth strect northwest; Willia Kerr, 30, of 1214 Wisconsin av : Walter Sond- heimer, 30, of 1229 Twelfth street northwest; Francis Arthur Schnelder, of 1621 Thir fourth street; Ben- Jan Marks, 45, of 53 P street, and Fred Alfred Melton, 34, of 1734 Seven- teenth stri northwest Numerous Telephones. Presence of numerous telephones characterized three of the four places raided, At apa of Kev iardens, where Schneider was taken. police ©y found 4 room in which here was little furniture but where there were four telephones. At John Kileen's near-beer saloon at 1314 Wisconsin avenue, where Marks and Kerr were taken into cus- tody. police allege that Marks used a small room in the rear of the saloon for taking bets and Kerr, the bar- tender, is alleged to have taken bets for Marks. There were s telephones at Rap- paport’s apartment on an upper floor 1132 14th street and there were telehones in the room where Iton and Sondheimer were arrest- ed on the second floor of 1349 R street | northwest. Police reported finding racing . n each of the places ralded chneider, Marks and Kerr, who were arrested by police of the seventh pre- cinct, posted $5,000 bonds each, while the three others, arrested by second precinet police, were released $1,000 bond each. Began Four Months Ago. Four months ago. Sergt. A. C. Belt ®tai«d to do a bit of investigating into Georgetown bookmakers. As he went from development to an- other, he said, he found a system wa employed where establishments have telephones hooked up with switch boards, located in a downtown head- quarters, from which returns were relaved from the race track as soon as they were received. A sort of a “clearing house” also was in opera- tion, according to the discoveries of Sergt. Belt, whereby a “bookie” over- loaded with bets on certain horses could lay off some of the money with others whe were overloaded on other animals. As the investigation progressed it was planned to stage as many raids as possible simultaneously, and yes- terday's maneuver was the result. Capt, Bean of the seventh precinct su- pervised the operations. The seventh precinct squad consisted in Lieut. Pier- son, Sergt. Belt, Detectives Burke and Robinson, and Policeman Bragg, while the second precinct raidng squad, led by Detective Bauer, included De- tective Rector and Gibbons. o1 one 75,000 RAIL MEN’S PAY UP 5 PER CENT | UNDER LABOR BOARD o (Continued from First Page.) { {with their employes. In article 4 of |the decision this provision was made: ““The engineers, or firemen, hostlers and helpers, as two respective classes, each class for itself, employed upon any {Individual carrier, may elect to retain rates and rules now in effect, in their | entirety, in lieu of rates and such rules specified or provided for in article 2 or negotlable questions set forth in ar- ticle 3, as the individual carriers may elect to adopt.” Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the board, explained this as meaning that the employes could retain if they de-g sired their present wage scales, operat- ing rules and negotiable rules, the lat- ter involving principally overtime pay. December 15, 1821, is set as the last {@ate for the carriers to motify repre- | sentatives of the organizations that they desire to accept or reject the pro- { visions of the decision and the em- ployes may answer not later than Jan- uary ONLY WOMAN ON SHIP. Special Dispateh to The Star. ALTIMORE, November 29.—Being chambermaid and cook on a tramp | steamer is preferable to performing the same duties in a house on shore, according to Miss Anna Sodersten, stewardess of the steamer Hros of Helsingfors, Finland, which arrived in port with a cargo of wood pulp. Until six months ago she had been cook in the house of a Helsingfors {burgher ever since she was a young girl. Then, at 35 vears of age, the monotony began to pall and Anna de- cided she must make a change. She had read sea stories and the ro- | mance of the sea appealed to her. She decided to go sailing. She Induced Capt. Alexander Lija of the Eros to ship her as stewardess. This is her third trip and despite the fact that she has to cook for 22 men, and is the only woman aboard the ship Anna likes the life and will never quit, she says. 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