Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1925, Page 16

16 FARMERS DENAND HUDSON BAY ROAD Political Forces of Western Canada Ready to Fight to End on Issue. A Press. AL, January 31-—An army marching on Ottawa. In the van- i of the procession is a banner With the strange device—"On to the Bay.” The banner bearers are the elacted representatives of the “west” In Canada and they will plant their ban- mer firmly on the top of the clock tower within sight of every man com- Ing to the capital next Thursday when the governor general, represent- ing his majesty, King George, opens Parllament with all the pomp and ceremony of British tradition. “On the Bay” is the war cry and d men of the prairfes who have picked upon the completion of a line of rallway from the wilds of northern Saskatchewan of the Arctio Circle their fight with issue of the Clash of Interests. ains less than two d the East more and the new po- ent of the United States revolt of the farm bloc e Western States is paralleled in )n of Canada with a bit- an intensity of purpose the challenge of the Unit- look like a contest with ck, helmet and pads com- with the taunting defiance of gladiators with the cestus, Both parties favored the buflding of this road for many years when ghesiis ngling for the farmers’ votes it is repudiated by the two old | but is unanimously tndorsed by every progressive in the nd as the merchants of the West are dependent on the grain growers, Manitoba, skatche 1 Alberta are a in pr - the completion of the road. Work Dropped Since 1818 ately $17,000,000 has al- expended on this road and been stopped since the 1918. It is estimated that take from = $8,000,000 to to the ravages of other two or three o road. It would t of Regina more than les nearer Liverpool, as to how long each , under the Arctie circle, the terminus of the road, open for shipping. Advo: heme say the port has ‘a streal of rus west 1s in deadly earnest about his road. It has ever in its wildest moments, talked of secession from the empire and there will be strong words nd bitter taunts whon the matter ls more debated on the floor of the Will Fight to Death. On the skil the polit of the issue, Minister he per- yminion adding another K, the pro- will fight him fight him to nds w te cleph, Eressives of the w tooth and nail and w the death Will the prime minister surrender and offer a hope of a few promised millions in order to prepare the way for an election in August? And if he da as repre- King, 7 throw BAND CONCERT. Concert by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, Marine Barracks, tomorrow at 3 p.m. Willtam H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader. March, “General Heywood," Santelmann Overture, “Joan of Arc.” Sodermann (a) Valse lents, “Sinistra,” chulz (b) Caprice, “Dancing Moon- .__beams" .. Ward Excerpts from “Dream Girl," Herbert .Waldteutel Czibulka From the .....Nicode (&) “A" Legend From La Province” (allegretto). (b) “Moorish Dance Song” (moderato). (c) “In the Tavern” (allegro giocoso). Marines' hymn, The Halls of Montesuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” 'NAMEE COMING 0 RADIO REVUE Popular Announcer, Who De- scribed World Series, Ex- pected as Participant. Walts, “Dolores”. “Scene de Ballet”. Suite @'Orchestra, South” .. Graham McNamee, the popular radio announcer, who described the world series games and other important events for the radlo audience, is expected to come to Washington to participate in the radio revue to be presented in the new Washington Auditorium Wednesday night for the benefit of the Washin ton radio hospital fund, Thirty or more of Washington's most prominent radio artists in additton to the three service bands—Army, Navy and Marine—the broadcasting dance orchestras, the Le Paradis, Le Java Cafe and Wardman Park Hotel, and the an- nouncers at both WRC and WCAP wiil take part in the revue. Other partici- pants who will speak in person to their invisible audience are Frederio William Wile, Willlam Hard, both Washington newspaper correspondents and political analyists; Harold Phillips and Leonard Hall, dramatic editors of Washington newspapers. Special programs have been arranged for the revue by the leaders of the three service bands. The Army Band will play as Its feature a speclal a rangement of World War music, writ- ten by Willlam J. Stannard, leader. Capt. Willlam H. antelmann of the | Marine Band and Charles Benter of the | Navy Band also have planned some- | thing novel. Miss Gretchen Hood, | dramatic soprano, will appear as the | guest sololst with the Navy Band. he stage setting in the auditortum will be a reproduction of a model broadcasting studio. The microphone, announcers and all other studio requi- sites will be In evidence. The four announcers, Willlam T. Plerson &nd Paul Gascolgne of WCAP and Feland | Gannon and George F. Ross of W R(,I will conduct the revue from the stage | just as they do programs at the sta- | tions. Leading Soloists in Program. i The first part of the revue will be| presented from the studio and w! introduce 30 of the leading solotsts of the National Capital who have been heard over the alr, as well Peggy Albion, the children’s bedt! story teller at WRC, and others in the large cast. - The second part of the revue will bring to the stage the thres broad- casting dance orchestras. Jazz music will be on tap for more than an hour. Tickets for the revue are on sale at all the downtown Peoples Drug Stores, as well as those at Fourteenth street and Park road and Eighteenth street and Columbia road Tickets also are being sold at the auditorium All seats are reserved. 1 ~ can bring this about and Prime ister King is an astute politician Mi into the Sen- re bitter, for the molding ion than spent to carry TAX1 USERS &HARGED ABOVE LEGAL FARE, 6 OF 7 CARS REVEAL (Continued from three ti mile,” from th ate of the flood I s over the m four-mile cour casured out and in ven cabs was called panies. Two cabs| es were checked asured course. The course ired out Sixteenth street. chosen v ean and there unt of ice or me no slippage on a rates ts were same for the first d 10 cents for two-fifths or fraction e registered $1.25 just bs passed the end of the de route. As the reporter b es on a po short of 1 of the four-mile he had ted, the charge for the ride In ve been $1.15. The ut the test w the of seven ¢ the d--not much, it is neverthe- found where therefore The me- as each fact that in d of a longer run, or several runs. Test Limited to Six Lines. For the sake clarity, the cabs used and the rates they charged will be designated A, C, D, E, and F. It would obvio e unfalr to give the names of the les, as all of the taxicab companies were not tested experiment. Those chosen were ong the best known in the Distr Cab A eral hu the de it ter showed $1.25 sev- the end of ignated fo e course was reached. Charge, $1.25, 10 cents over. Cab B. This cab showed the com- pletion of the four miles at 16th and Riggs streets, whereas it should not have shown up for two more blocks, or at a marked point on Q street just east street, toward which all of directed. The cost ) cents over. This ran course and completed the approximately 200 feet over the four miles north of Q HOUSE PROBE ASKED. Bill Seeks Inquiry Into Chicago Sanitary Question. The House judiclary committee | would be authorizeede to investigate the operations of the Chicago Sani- tary District under a resolution in- troduced yesterday by Representativ Dyer, Republican, Missourt. The committee would be directed to examine status, ownership and managem the district and to inquire into the sanitary needs of the community served by it The resolution also would direct an examination of any sanitation plans that might be pending before the district, as well as a general in- quiry Into its other activities. Either the committee or a subcom- mittee would be empowered to con- duct the investigation. — e giving the public the benefit of the doubt, for this cab ran one and one- half blocks past the marker before it turned up the $1.25. The cost was was from the same cab. This cab turned up $L15 at U street and $1.25 at S street, two blocks and 200 feet from the end of the measured distance, and $1.35 on completion of tho trip which represented an overcharge of 20 cents. Cost, $1.3—20 cents over. Cab F. Same company as cab B. This cab turned up $1.16 at Florida avenue, §1.25 at S street and $1.35 at end of the route. Cost, $1.35—20 cents over. Cab G. This cab almost hit the mark. It reached the $1.26 mark just 100 feet short of the goal. Cost, $1.25 ——10 cents extra. The taxicab drivers, when their at- tention was called to the fact that their meters were reading over, seemed to be expecting a “kick.” in- stead of taking it as a bit of in- formation offcred. They said they didn't belleve that the measures were overreading, as they were “carefully checked.” Rate Cards Missing. Several of the cabs failed to com ply with the police regulation r quiring that a rate card be publicly displayed, giving the rates charged. When asked for cards, the drivers said they didn’t have them with them, but offered to tell the rates. There is @ dual control of the taxi- cab companies here. Part comes un- der the Police Department and part under the Public Utllities Commis- slon. The Public Utllities Commis- ston, under a decision of the Supreme Court, has control over those cabs at the Union Station, because they are a part of public utilities, and, in fact, pay a fee for the privilege of getting the station business. But this relates only to rates. At the Public Utllitles Commission it was sald that no effort has been made to check the moters, to see that the public pald only the published rates. Under the police regulation the taxicab companies are permitted to charge 50 cents for the first half a mile or fraction, and 10 cents for each additional quarter of a mile or fraction. But the the in- competition among companies, which have rapidly creased in number, has forced the street, or approximately 400 feet from the end of the measured course. The cost was 5—10 cents over. Cab D. TH® is the cab which is rates down to their present scale. But the fact remains that the public is paying more than it thinks it is, be- cause of the lnmunfl af the matars, THE SUNDAY REPARATIONS BODY 0 CUT EXPENSES Most Members to Forego Big Salaries—Commission Integral Part of Treaty. By the Ascociated Pres PARI reparation commi; bulkk of January 31.—The interallied lon, freed from the its duties by the organiza- tions set up under the Dawes plan, will operate beginning tomorrow with smaller forces and reduced expense. The chief delegates of the allled powers will not be required to reside STAR, WASHINGTON, in Paris, but will a month, The leading delegates on the com- mission will forego thelr large sal- ar The only exception is Thomas Nelson Perkins, American member of the commission, whose practically permanent presence far trom his home makes the continuation of his regular salary necessary. James A. Logan, unofficial American delegate, has never drawn a penny from the reparations commission, being paid by the United States Treasury. He wiil continue to act in the same capacity mble once & Seek to Cut Expenses. The object of the reorganization of the commission’s work was to elim- inate all expenses for the dutles that now devolve upon the Dawes organ- ization. It was found in studying the Dawes plan that there was a limit to which the commission might be re- duced because it is, with the League of Nations, one of the principal or- ganizations through which the treaty D. Rich Pennsylvania feurs in Philadelphia. Special Dispateh to The St PHILADELPHIA, January new diversion has recently golf, bridge, house parties and on the campus. Pennsylvania ot Versailles is executed, and neither could be abolished without a revision of the treaty. word puszles. It's taxl driving. Faces are seen under black week ends at the tax! stables Boys Spend Spare Time as Chauf- 31.—A driven tea- fights right off the week end calen- dars of thirty of the best known men University It isn't Mah Jong, nor cross- caps at C., FEBRUARY 1, 1925—PART 1. TAXI DRIVING SPORT DRAWS STUDENTS Twenty-seventh andCatharinestreets, which may be recognized five other days a week not only about the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, but at the most select affalrs given by soclety. For a score of Philadelphia boy whose families make social history, have taken up chauffing as the very best way to escape the boredom of bond selling and the anxiety of an overdrawn aliowance. Sometimes the incognito is really complet and the secret of how Johnny manages never to overdraw his allowance any more is zealously guarded from a proud family. Others spend their week end in profitable labor with the sanction and hlessing of their parer Among those wWho report to Man- ager Holmes on Saturday afternoon i8 young Tom Driscoll, who formerly handled the pigskin for Princeton and now 1s at Penn. The Penn wrestling team 1s ropresented by Guy H. Wright. Charles Crawford, Horace McConnell, Wellace McIntyre, Gerald Ransom, W. T. Cutler and James Mc- Ginnis all add to the prestige of the roll of the taxl company with names which are well known in other and more exclusive lists. Young S son of Anderson Polk, 2312 Lo- ocust street, is till upon the list of the company, although he had not reported for duty for over a month Added to these names are more than twenty others, the sound of which is sweet in soclety's ear. And they are an asset to the company and a good business proposition. He's a worker, the taxi driver, he hasn't much time for social versions. “A driver hasn't any time to do the soclety act,” {¢ the con- sensus among the extraordinary chauffeurs. But the enforced lonell- ness of the drivers life is more than made up for by his adventures Around the garage a thousand bits daily lighten the toil. e McAll Mission Work by Radio. The Protestant movement in France and the work of the McAll Mission will be described by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman In an address the men's conference in_ the New Bedford branch of the Y. M. C. A., in Brook- 1yn, Y., which will be broadcast this afternoon by stations WEAF, New York, and WEEIL Boston. Dr. Cadman's subject {s “The Lure of Parie.” and | ai- SLAYER FOUND GUILTY. Gets Five Years for Killing Law- yer in Will Fight. DALLAS, Tex., January ‘rawford was found guilty of man slaughter for Ikilling Paul O'Day. lawyer, by a jury today. Tae penalty was fixed at flve years in prisor O'Day was shot and killed by Craw ford on September 11, 1924, in the lobby of a downtown build! Craw. ford admitred the killing and declared that an argum ments in & brief filed in a case contestin wiil of Col, W. L. Crawford, the de fendant’s father, which reflected upon the character of his mother &hooting w. 1 S Sale at Last. 'm vers sorry to hear your wile 1, Benjamin. Not dangerous, 1 hope.’ “Thank’eo weak now too but she be dangerous. miss, to Be Here When the Store Opens at 9:15 Tomorrow Tomorrow will be a day of Superbargams——Tremendou.s Values such as these no woman can aflord to ignore. End-of-the-Season Clean-up prices prevail all over the house. Get your share of these unusual offerings. %10 to S12.50 Boys’ O’Coats 595 gray, cinpamon; to 18 yea 0'Conts cheviot lined, color $5.00 and $6.00 Boyé’ Suits Servi Suits, in stripes of blue or cloth, brown § made in * Norfolk jackets knicker trousers. years—not $3.50 and $5.00 Boys’ Wool Swi $2.39 Wool Sweaters and slip-over styles, solid and stripes shades of tan, brow sizes 4 to ceable pencil belted style and 2.79 Sizes 7 1 sizes. £2.00 Boys' Corduroy Juvenile Suits $1.29 Oliver Twist style Oor 5 Sults boys sives 3 to B years: full round braid ars and braided cuffs; some em olote blue caters o cont sting o aud green: 18 years. faney b nt prints casion. ity, cost price. colorings. Fine grade crepe de chine, in a wide range of new and colorings on light and dark grounds, that will fashion into costumes suitable for most any oc- They are full 36 inches wide and perfect qual- cut from the bolt. $3.98 DOUBLE BLANKETS 70x80 Plaid and Plain Blar s, in all colors. Extra heav 19c DRESS GINGHAM 300 yards to close out at this below- Checks in various sizes and in. bleached muslin sturdy high count qua $2.79 sons of tubbing. 121/2c 30-in B 720 22,24 Tth St.N.W. 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Chmce of long straightline or shorter novelty styles, in black, navy, tan and novelty mix- A splendid opportunity to save on 28 Navy Blue and Tan Waterproof Coats, misses. in automobile style with belts, patch pockets and convertible collars. 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