Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1925, Page 5

BELIEVES FORBE ACTEDFOR BEST Routsong, Assistant Vet- erans’ Bureau Head, Ap- proved Contract. B: the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 1.—R. C. mong, assistant director of the States V obo| for the he Forbes-Thompson con- cy trial, the chief allegations in lefense contention that the award of the Northampton, Mass., Hospital | contract to the Pontiac Construction Co. of Detroit was in the best inter- est of the Government The prosecution ca Northampton one of the m pal overt acts tween Charles rector of Thompson Government Rout- ited de- held the ward to be the princi piracy be- former di- and W. . to defraud the in_a R. Forbes, bur contract the Held Speed Essentlal. R ng testified that Forbes dem- onstrated no unusual concern over the award other than apparently had been | occasioned his determination to get the foundati vossible he the bureau was d offic 1in the ilities at the uly, 1 1 ared ns in s _quickly firmed th considera witr under 1 pressure for a expansion of hospital time of the a d, that to him that Forbes of the held ss-examination committee of the ed the division rated twice upon the »n award, once on by a majority v suld &0 to the Northeastern Construction Co., Néw York, on & bid $25,000 lower than that of the Pontiac Co., in which "hompson was interested. The North- rn. bid was for delivery in 120 ainst 60 days specified in the bid. Ar engineers had vreviously recommended the North-! eastern company, acting in the be- lief that it would not be possible to execute the contract in 60 ¢ oundat Approved by Inspectors. The job was turned over to the Government with the approval of Army inspectors in a little more than the specified time, it was brought out. John J. Brennan, president of the Pontiac company, who supervised the work, testified that his firm lost $20,- 000 on the $160,000 job. Routsong asserted the the hospital construction program came upon the bureau at a time when it was already carrying a maximum load in caring for war dis- abled, and that Forbes had urged repeatedly that the en construc- tioa enterprise be placed in the hands of Army d vy units. In this aim, the witness sald, Forbes had been opposed by Charles F. Cramer, former general counsel of the bureau. burden of NEW PRESIDENT CHOSEN. Dr. Barahona, Nationalist Candi- date, Wins in Honduras. CIGALPA, Honduras, January Miguel Paz Barahona and Presentaclon Quezeda were elected Ppresident and vice president, respe tively, of Honduras They were the candida Nationall Party. The were orderly for the first time in many years. The | newly-elected officials will take office February 1, for four-year terms. Among the first acts of the new government, it was d, will be the inauguration of construction work on the new in oceanic rail- way. This is expected to bring much prosperity and the opening of large sgricultural opportunities. Peace mow reigns throughout the country. Assigned to Medical School. Maj. Robert of the Army Medical Cotps signed to| duty at the Army hool, this ci Skelton has been Medical Sc | | with 7,189, | with a loss THE EVENING STAR, W ASHINGTON DULL OUTLOOK IS SEEN FOR BRITISH INDUSTRY Continuance of Short Time in Tex- tile Mills Predicted by Review. ted Press LONDON, January of large consignments of textile manufacturing machin from Bel- fast to the United States to manu- facture automobile hoods from flax is one of the features mentioned in | the December report of the American Chamebr of Commerce in London on British trade. Another feature of the report re- gards the persistent dullness in the oal trade. For the fifth consecutive month the audit for the South Wales coal fields shows a heavy loss on the coal min; The exports in Novem- ber were as compared ber last year, almost halved £9,166,067. however, By the A 1.—The sending while the was to £5,565,926, as against The nd for anthracite, has been strong Both steel showed decreas compared with iron production in November October. The report ntions increased activity in the shipping, e ally along the Clyde, where the tonnage an three times that of 1923 index of shipping freights fell t during Novembe of American raw cotton ound 13 pence per pound, n cotton values are soar has been increased buy- from India In the woolen industry working is contemplated, the example set in the cotton trade The wool and textile index number is 222, as compared with 212 in Octo- ber. Large quantities of textiles have been exported to America and Ger many. The nd as ing short-time following trade generally has been stimulated by large expend- itures on the railw services and also by the gradually decreasing un- employment. It also makes note of the government's call of the main gricultural interests to a conference to consider a national agricultural policy HOTEL IS DESTROYED. Fire Also Damages Nearby Build- report says ing in Mount Clemens. MOUNT CL ., Mich., January 1.—Fire last night virtually destroyed the Fountain Hotel here and spread to the Crystal Hotel, which was badly damaged. The fire was gotten under rol late last night after fire ap- paratus from Selfridge Field was called to aid in fighting the blaze. The Fountain, a five-story frame structure, was virtually destroyed mated at $70,000, while William Necorn National Head of Fraternity. PHILADELPHIA, January 1.—Wil- liam Necorn of Plainfield, N. J., was elected honorary grand superior of the Phi Epsilon Fraternity at the closing session of its annual con- vention yesterday. FEdward Davis of this city was elected grand superior. Atlanta, Ga., was selected for the 1925 convention. A charter was granted for a new chapter at the University of Wis- consin, A. T. 0. Organized at Hopkins. PHILADELPHIA, January 1.—In- stallation of 82 members of the newly organized Johns Hopkins University Chapter featured the opening session last night of the biennial congress of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity > Hotel Inn Phone Main 8108-8109. 604-610 9th St. N.W. $7 rooms, $6 weekly; $10.50 rooms, $8; $14 with tollet, ‘shower aid lavatory. $10: 2 in Vacant—For Colored! $250 Cash Balance Monthly home: 6 rooms, bath, hot- water heat, electric lights, cellar, front and back porches: lot 50x105 on corner— one square from Chesapeake Junction—one car fare People’s Mortgage and Investment Co. 313 John Marshall Pl. N.W. Phone F. 970 Reautiful A% year; for you; all friends and friends. STETSO E'VE had a mighty fine and we thank our friends who made it the most prosperous our stores have had. We appreciate it; and we'll try to deserve your continued patronage in 1925. May this New Year be even more happy and prosperous Happy New Year! Raleigh Haberdasher and SHOE SHOP of you — our our friends’ Inc. POSTAL RATEBIL CHANGES PLANNED Amendments Under Way to Have Completed Measure Ready on Tuesday. Anmendments to the administration postal pay and rate increase bill were in preparation today by Chairman Moses of the Senate post office sub- committee to reapportion the rate in- creases recommended by the Post Of- fice Department. At the suggestion of the joint Sen- ate and House subcommittee, which concluded hearings on the measure yesterday, a recasting of the pro- posed rate incr €s among the va- rious classas of ,mail is under consid- eration, with the form of the reap- portionment yet to be decided upon. Senator Mos expects to submit amendments of this nature at a meeting of the Senate subcommittee he has callad tomorrow for consider- ation of the bill. The committee also Is expected to reach definite decision at the meeting on general under- standing announced increases, with opportunity thus af- forded for further hearings, with a view to recommending permanent rate-increase legislation at the next session. It is the plan of administration leaders, who belleve President Cool idge’s veto of the postal salary ir crease measure will be tained, to have the new double-barreled bill be- fore the Senate by Tuesday, when a vote will be taken on the veto. A of Connecticut man has a business traightening rifle barrel D. 1005 Pa. Ave. CIVIL WAR VETERAN GETS RECORD CLEARED Fight Lasting 30 Years Enables Former Soldier to Become Pensioner. Hpecial Dispatch to The Star. MARYSVILLE, Mo, January 1-— After 30 years, during which every Representative in Congress from his district strove to bring about the re- sult without effect, David Housel, an old-time shoemaker, has received from the Government a largess in the form of clearing him from the stigma of “being & deserter from the Army Quring the Civil War.” With the vin- dicatfon comes a pension of 350 a month. The bill clearing House has been signed by President Coolidge. It was passed through the efforts of Repre- sentative Charles L. Faust. Bandits Get $68, Shoot Victim and Escape in Auto- mobile. pleasant,” said Morris Goldfarb, hotographer, to two young men in ake-eater” garb, who posed before mera in his studio at Fourteenth street and Third avenue at 6 o'clock last night. He was about to duck under the focusing cloth when the supposed customers aimed automatic pistols. “You look pleasant and come across with your mone sald the men. Instead, Goldfarb grappled with them. He was shot in the right thigh. He fell and the thugs took $68 from him and fled west on Fourteenth street in an automobile. Goldfarb was taken to Bellevue Hospita J. Kau | shooting given by Alexander T. D. €., THURSDAY INQUEST IS ORDERED IN ALLEGED SUICIDE Rupture of Spleen Revealed by Autopsy on Chauffeur Reason for Move. Arrangements for an inquest at the morgue tomorrow morning in the case of Earl H. Grant, chauffeur, re- ported to have committed suicide by shooting in Potomac Park early ye terday morning, have been completed by Dr. Herbert E. Martyn, acting coromer. The hearing will be con- ducted by Coroner Nevitt. A rupture of the spleen, disclosed by an autopsy performed by Dr. George H. Rawson, acting deputy cor- oner, suggested to Dr. Martyn the possibility of a blow having been | inflicted just before or subsequent to TOLD TO ‘LOOK PLEASANT’ | the shooting, and he deemed it ad- visable to have a jury pass upon the affair. The injury to the spleen may have been received in the fall Detectives investigating the of the chauffeur are firmly opinfon that the explanation death of the of the peck, another chauffeur, is the true version of the shooting. Miss Belle Calhoun, ments, where Grant cussed the affair with detectives Springmann and Darnall vesterday. She said she had something to eat in a lunchroom near Pennsylvania ave- nue and Fourteenth street with Grant about 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Grant, she stated, had been drink- ing and had a pistol in his posses- sion. He had shown no signs of despondency, she added, nor had he ever mentioned suicide to her. Police received a message from Charles Grant, father of the dead man, resid- ing at Washington, Ind., giving di- rections for the shipment of the son's Tuxedo apart- roomed, dis- body home. 1724 IMAN Pa Ave. “Home of the Two-Pants Suit" In the Morning —When the Clock Strikes ¢ We Start Our First 8” Semi-Annual Clearance —of our great stock of superb 2-Pants Suits. Hundreds of sterling suits, each with two pairs of trousers—reduced in three genuine reduction lots. Happy New Year! See you in the morning! Reduced to ‘07 34 47 Sizes 33 to 48—Regulars, Stouts, Longs, Shorts, Long Stouts—No Charge for Alter- ations — Deposits Cheerfully Accepted All Overcoats Reduced 23 In Three Bargain Lots ‘33 43 Garments Sold From Thirty toSixty Dollars All Tuxedos, Full Dress, Cutaways—Reduced Money's Worth or Money Back : J Kaufman 1005 Pa. Ave. Inc, 1724 Pa. Ave. JANUARY 1 ENGINEER OF WRECKED TRAINS KILLS HIMSELF Has Brooded Since Wisconsin Ac- cident, in Which Eight Lost Lives. By tue Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS, January I.—Harry J. Colwell, engineer of the Minneapo- s, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Rallway passenger train whose rear coach fell into the Chippewa River near Chippewa Falls, Wis., on De- cember 20, resulting in eight deaths, committed suicide’ by hanging at his home here yesterday. Colwell, an engineer for 21 ‘years, had never figured in'an accident. On December 20 he substituted for the regular engineer of the Soo Line's Minneapolis 1o Chicago train No. 2. He said he had looked back just in time to see the last coach of his train topple from a trestle nto the river. Although the accident was blamed to a broken switch bolt, Colwell wor- , clalming his perfect record had drew his wages, paid off the neighborhood storekeepers, returned home, ate his supper and went to the basement. Half an hour later his daughter found his body suspended from a beam with a clothesline around his neck. A verdict of suicide was re- turned by the coroner. ings and insurance, WHEELER CHEERED BY DRY RESULTS Says 1924 Saw Marked Victories and Recounts Conditions From Prohibition. Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, in a New Year's statement, declared that the year 1924 saw marked victories for the cause of prohibition. “Prohibition,” he sald, “is recog- nized as a major factor in the de creased death rates, reduced Indus- trial accldents, the cut in drunkness, alcoholic insanity and_ecrime and drink-caused poverty. Business ex- perts credit it with much of our prosperity mirrored in increased sav- a boom in home buying, the substitution of sports and entertainment for beer drinking, the growth of retail trade arpl the im- proved efficiency and earning power of all classes” Mr. Wheeler declared that dry vic- tories have culminated in the national election, adding five Senators and 15 Representatives to the “already large congressional dry majority, and alge increased d jorities in State legislatures, “spelling defeat for wet legislation T, ) ) | ! 9] SWEDEN-ACCUSES RED CHIEFS OF HIGH TREASON Charge Based on Leaflet Demand- ing Constitution Be Crushed in Election. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. CHRISTIANIA, January 1.—The most remarkable step the authorities have taken so fs: to combat com- munism is that of the state solicitor in accusing three leaders of the Mos- cow Communist party of high treason The accusation is based on a leaf- let which the party issued in con- nection with the recent elections, to the effect that the “proletariat must crush the constitution and replace it with a Soviet government.” The men are also accused of being members of the Communist party whose declared aim in the transforma- mation of the constitution by civil war and revolution The result of the proceedings s of great importance, as mere member- ship in the Communist party will be punished as high treason if the court agrees. The case eventually will be taken to a high court (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News ( Two Lieutenants Resign. The resignations of Second Lieuts H. 8. Levis and Otto Lessing of the Marine Corps have been accepted by the Sccretary of the Navy. 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