Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1925, Page 2

EIGHT PCT. RETURN HELDDUETOC. &P. Bankers, at Rate Hearing, Say Loans Otherwise Would Be Difficult. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telaphone Co. should be permitted to earn “at least” 8 per cent on fts fair valuation, the Public Utilities Commission was informed today by three local bankers called by the company as financial experts to testify it at the opening this morning the hearing on the advisabi of reducing telephone for witnesses were Eugene E. Thompson, investment banker; Robert V. Fleming, vice president of the Riggs National Bank, and John Poole, president of the Federal-American National Bank. In response to ques- tioning by Attorneys Dozier De Vane Alexander Britton, for the tele- phone company, all expressed the opinion that investors would hesitate (0 lend money to a busimeas com- parable to that of the telephone com pany if it were not permitted to earn, not only a net minimum return of 8 per cent but, in_addition, to set up an adequate surplus and depreciation reserve fund. Distinction Is Drawn. The w sses, in explaining cur rent rates of interest and returns on money in the District, frequently were interrupted by Engineer Commissioner Bell and Maj. W. E. R. Covell of the commission and by Willlam McK. Clayton, representing the Federation of Citizens' Associations. Both Col. Rell and Mr. Clayton sought to dif- ferentiate between the financial status of a corporation which has a monopoly in its line of business and & firm hav- ing competitors, indicating that the former should be in a position to func- tion with a greater degree of pros- perity than one compelled to meet competition. Attorney Britton brought a laugh from the participants, including the Commissioners, when he inquired if competition was “any worse than con- trol by a commission.” Issue Is Explained. At the outset of the hearing, coun- sel for the company advised their witnesses that the question of fair valuation was not being considered at this hearing, the commission already having fixed $18,500,000 as the fair ,valuation on the property “used and {useful.” The whole purposs of the :present hearing, it was stated, was to idetermine on the face of this valua- ition the fair rate of return that ishould be allowed the company. £ Mr. Thompson declared that if a sblic utility earned less than 8 per nt it would be exceedingly difficult | for an inv ment banker to filnance fit. At this point Mr. Clayton sought ito show that the telephone company i in a4 very prosperous state, being associuted with the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co. and having available great financial backing. Comparison Is Drawn. Col. Bell asked Mr. Thompson to i compare the relative risks to investors finvolved in the purchase of telephone istock and stock of firms having com. {petition, such as street raflways com ipanies, Mr. Thompson replied that fthe telephione stock would be looked fon with more faver than the street railways stoc { Replying to a querys® Maj. Covell, M. Thompson expresged the opinion that the credit of vhe local telephone scompany would not'Be injured locally ‘were it to separate itself from the parent concern. Mr. Fleming and Mr. Poole testified much along the same Tine, corroborating Mr. Thompson's statements regarding what bankers considered a falr return for a going concern such as the telephone com- pany. The hearing, which began at 10:30 a'clock, adjourned at noon, with an agreement to convene again this afternoon. “STONE MOUNTAIN DONOR DEMANDS GIFT RETURN | Munitions Inventor Calls Upon As sociation to Reinstate Sculptor Borglum. Br the RALEIGH, April 20.—De- mand that the Stone Mountain Me- morial Association either re-engage Gutzon Forglum as the memorial | sculptor or return his subscription to e memorial fund, submitted in the | form of a claim deed of trust expected | to amount to $100.000, is made by Les- ter R. Barlow, consulting engineer of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in a latter to the association published to- | day by the Raleigh News and Ob- server. Mr. Barlow, whose subscrip- | tion is in the form of a deed of trust | for a third interest in a claim against the Government for use of inventions during the wu conferred with Mr. Borglum here vesterday. The letter asks that the deed be re- turned to the donor ntil such time as | the association may decide to go ahead | h its original plans and re-engage | Mr. Borglum. CAPT. PEYSER MISQUOTED| ‘Jews Good Citizens, He Declared, at Argo Lodge Banquet. Astociated Press In the report of the annual ban- quet of Argo Lodge, No. 413, Inde. fpendent Order of B'nai B'rith, pub- lished last evening in The Star, Capt. Julius 1. Peyser was incorrectly quot- ed, he declared, as saying: “We can’t ‘be Americans all the time. because we have to be Jews once in a while.” Capt. Peyser explains that what he did say was “that the Jews could be igood citizens at all times, and that ithe Jewish religion is not {nconsistent inor does it conflict or interfere with iAmericanism.” 7 Capt. Peyser further quoted a noted minister, saying “that the Jews throughout the world were charged | with being internationalists, and | whenever the nations of the world, varticularly the countries of FEurope, would give the Jews civil, political or wilgious rights, then in that event the Jews would be pleased to be na tionalists in the land in which they were born or which they had adopted.” SAFETY DEVICE PLANNED.| Eldridge to Try Out Markers at Car Stops An upright marker will be tried | out by Trafic Director Lldridge as an added protection for those safety ones for street car passengers that are designated only by white lines painted on the streets. ) Mr. Eldridge says that he has no! intention of replacing street-car load- ing platforms with these markers. Concluding their two-day visit to Washington in a whirl of activity, hich embraced a_ reception at the White House, a 36-mile trip around the city by automobile, a luncheon conference on world capitals at the Mayflower Hotel. and anather con- ference on.pan-American capitals at the Pan-American Union, delegates from a dozen countries of the world were leaving Washington today with the vision of a greater capital, in- dividualistic in design and conception and unique in its development. The combined Washington plan— the concept of Maj. Charles Plerre L’Enfant and the supplementary de- velopment of the McMillan Commis- sion of 1901—stands today among city planners of the world as one of the finest pleces of work ever developed for a great capital city, the more than 100 delegates from foreign nations were told at the luncheon conference at the Mayflower. They went to the Mayflower from the White House, where the President and Mrs. Coolidge received them at 1 o'clock. Smoke Screen Deplored. Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts; Gen. Per shing, Frederic A. Delano, president of the American Civic Association, under whose auspices the two-day meeting was held, and other dis- tinguished architects, city planners and civic workers spoke at the lunch- eon meeting, while an exposition of pan-American countries was presented at the concluding meeting at the Pan- American Union last night. During the course of the luncheon Washington was declared to have been made by an angel, when the devil came in and said, “I will make it a New York,” and Raymond Unwin, & British architect, deplored the growth of unfavorable conditions at the fringe of the city and the smoke which cuts off one of the flnest vistas in the world—that of the majestic Washing- u;n Monument, with its background of w Washington, with its magnificent panorama of river and wooded high- land, does not suffer by comparison with the capitals of European coun- tries, Mr. Moore told the conference at the luncheon. Rome hsa its Tiber, London its Thames and Paris itsSeine, he said, adding that when he stands at Hains Point, looking out over the broad vista of wooded hills and mag- nificent river, he gets a new view- point on the Washington of the future and goes back to the city with an entirely different point of view of de- velopment. Nothing can take away the individuality of Washington, with the beautiful Potomac flowing by its door,” Mr. Moore sald. Urges Diverting Freight. Mr. Moore characterized the L'En- fant plan as a good plan for the city. One hundred years after the L'En- fant plan, & new commission—the Me- Milan commission—came into exist- ences, he recalled, and extendedthe old plan, holding it up as the greatest conceptién of a capital city ever de- veloped. During the interval between the two plans many ‘“excrescences’ had appeared, Mr. Moore declared, al though they had but a slight effect on the proper growth of the city. is that some. DIRIGIBLES READY *‘Our one trouble toda T0 AID EXPLORERS Shenandoah and Los An- geles Prepared to Rescue Arctic Aviators. While the MacMillan Arctic expe- dition, under the auspices of the Na- tlonal Geographic Soctety, is carrying out it plans in the far North, the dirigibles Shenandoah and Los An- geles will be “standing by” at Lake- hurst. N. J. ready to dash north- ward on word that one or both of the Navy planes and personnel have disappeared. 1t was emphasized at the Bureau of Aeronautics today that should one or both of the Navy planes hecomo lost. there would be mo way in the world of finding them in that rexion with the methods of transportation Comdr. Donald B. MacMillan and his force would have at hand. With the U. S. S. Patoka stationed at some point off Newfoundland, ono of the dirigibles could operate from the ship, which has a mooring mast. The distance to Axel Heiberg Land, where the planes will make thelr base, is roughly 2.500 miles, and either of the two dirigibles could get to that point from Lakehurst in two days' fiving. The method of rescue {to be adopted would be, providing the winds are normal, for the airship to fly low and a greatly reduced speed and drop a ladder, or in the event the personnel are unable to grasp the ladder. to attach a rope about them and haul them up. Naval aviators expressed no doubt but that one or both of the dirigibles could find any missing party in that region owing to the long cruising radius of the airships. As daylight in the Arctic will then be continuous the ships' advantage will be corre- spondingly enhanced. i Secretary Wilbur is giving con- sideration to the suggestion for an ad- ditional plane to be kept in reserve, but one unseen obstacle developed to- day In the form of space aboard the Arctic vessels for a third airplane. Comdr. MacMillan is understood to have sald that the ship to carry the two amphibians selected would not have room for anything else. That is why he decided to take the Bowdoin along. Keep vi’arks F fee Of Waste Paper, Is Plea to Public Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, director of public buildings and parks, today appealed to the cit- fzens of Washington to aid in keeping the parks clean of loose er. P othing is so detrimental to the attractiveness of the parks as this scattering of newspapers over the lawns, and, notwithstand- ing the greatest vigilance on the part of the maintenance force, it is impossible to prevent unsight- liness unless the public fully co- operates,” he said. Park police are provided with small cards, which they are in- structed to hand to all seen read- “ing newspapers in -the parks. They read: “These are your parks. Help keep them clean. Place all waste paper and other trash in the receptacles. Do not leave food or othér picnic waste on the They will be given an experimental srial for use at points where Platforiné ‘aré pot uselds round. Your co-operation in this 5 ter’ will* kéep his ‘park ‘beau- A THE -EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDN WASHINGTON PLAN INDORSED BY FOREIGN CITY EXPERTS Delegates From 12 Nations End Session Here—-Pro- gram Under Way Declared Finest in World. War on Smoke Is Recommended. times we forget the Washington plan. We should ever keep before our minds adherence to the well/ thought out ideas along which Washington is to be developed. We can do no better in 1932, when we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Georze Washington, than to consecrate our- selves anew to a carrying out of the Washington plan.” Mr. Moore also referred to the smoke nuisance in the city, asserting that the American ideal holds that the more smoke the more business. e proposed that through freight destined to points north or south, instead of being routed through Washington, should go around the city, a recent de- velopment in city planning which has received the indorsement of many en- gineers and planners. Contrast to New York. New York suffers by contrast with Washington in its lack of beauty and its park development, Dr. Robert Schmidt, director of 'the Regional Planaing Federation of the Ruhr, told the Juncheon conference. Although a great business development, New York has lost sight of the human element, he said, while Washington, on the other hand, appears to have develop- ed along esthetic lines suited to its place of beauty as well as utility. Dr. Schmidt punctuated his remarks by humorous allusions to New York as a city where men live in ‘“‘very high houses, like pyramids.” ‘Washington should continue to de- velop its individuality and not ape the plans of other capital cities, Mr. Unwin declared, while Gen. Pershing, im a brief greeting to the delegates, welcomed them to Washington, and sald the Army had done much to de- velop the city. Other speakers at the luncheon' included Ebenezer Howard of England, M. Joseph Bussomplerre of France, Dr. Arie Keppler of Amsterdam, Holland, and George B. Ford, president of the national con ference on city planning. Immediately at the conclusion of the luncheon the entire group was taken in automobiles on a trip around the city, where the points of civic interest were pointed out and brief explanations of the relation of present development to the Washington plan made. Southern Capitals Shown. A brief descriptive address on South America was made by Frank R. Wat son of Philadelphia at the Pan- American meeting last night, at can countries were shown. Dr. Jacobo Varela, vice chairman of the governing board of the Pan- American Union, presided, and brief responses were made by several of the pan-American delegates. An _exhibition of photographs pre- sented to the Pan-American Union through Senor Ignacio Lopez Ban calari, delegate from Mexico, was shown, while motion pictures, pre- sented by Senor Ruben Diaz Irizar of Cuba, representing the mayor of Havana, were also shown. The exhibit material from the Latin American countries, showing the progress in beautification of the capi- tal citfes, will be on exhibition for two weeks at the Pan-American Union bulldin PRIDE IN ANCESTRY FADING, SHE HOLDS Genealogist Asserts Amieri- cans Don’t Care What Their Forebears Were. The majority of Americans don't seem to care s continental whether | their ancestors were kings or horse thieves. This_conclusion was Indicated by Mrs. Carol Syron Valentine, Wash- ington genealogist, who spoke before the League of American Pen Women at the Shoreham today on the diffi- culties of her work. Only about one out of seven of the younger generation will send in data requested for family records or even pay any attention to the letters, sha said. “This is a deplorable condition,” she continued. “I know that there is a tendency to say that one should |stand on his own feet and on his own {work in the world rather than de- pend on ancestors. This is partiy true. But I do not see how anybody can deny that it is a fine thing to r;)n\'s a good ancestry. It helps every- oA The work of the genealogist is full of human interest. . Notable and ro- mantic characters, whose existence has been unsuspected, continually are turning up in the ancestral list.” Miss Margaret Wade, Washington newspaper correspondent and social secretary, spoke on the work of re- porting social events. She objected to the use of the word ‘“society” in newspaper headlines when some prominent nerson gets into trouble, as- serting that good manners and good morals go hand in hand, and when one deviates from either caste is lost. Miss Helen Rowland, newspaper feature writer, gave the Pen Women some practical advice on entering syndicate work, which she indicated was perhaps the best paid literary field of the time. Other talks were given by Jeanne Robert Foster, edi- tor and poet, and Rheta Childe Dorr. Mrs. larry A. Colman presided. Following the talks, reports and rec- ommendations were made by chairmen of the various groups of the congress, and there were addresses by visiting members. The book fair at Woodward & Loth- rop’s was continued this afternoon, with talks by Emma Speed Simpson, Helen Rowland, Ida Clyde Clarke, { Ruby Vaughan Bigger, Alice Carter Cook, Elizabeth Hyde, Dr. Mary Meel Aikeson, Edith Allen and Edna M. Colman. > MASTER PLUMBERS’ SILENCE ACCEPTED AS PAY RAISE 0. K. { (Continued from First Page.) Painters’ Association both reached a decision at a single meeting. You have requested us to obtain the writ- ten support of the contractors and operative builders; this has been ob- tained, but despite all our efforts you still persist in a policy of side-step- ping this issue. “By the stammering. halting and stuttering method you have handled this situation we are forced to be- lieve that you are willing to grant an increase in wages to the deteri- ment of vour businese, our business and the public's interest. We shall therefore act to meet this situation. “RUFUS 8. LUSK, *Executive Secretary.” which motion pictures of pan-Ameri- | |FACTORY WRECKED, | WORKERS BEATEN Invaders Use Blackjacks and Iron Pipes—Labor Trou- bles Blamed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 29.—Ten men, armed with blackjacks and iron pipes, invaded the Fast Side cloak and suit factory of Schenider, Shanofsky & Seidman today, beat up 25 persons in the shop and wrecked several thou sand dollars worth of machinery and cloth. Police believe the attack was the outgrowth of a union fight. Phillp Shanofsky, one of the owners of the factory, may dle of injuries inflicted by the men. Charles McGarry, a city fireman, was serfously injured. One of the men was captured, but the others escaped in two waiting auto- mobiles. Caused by Labor Troubles. The attack was caused by attempts to unionize the shop, one of the own ers told the police. He sald employes had been Intimidated and that the foreman was assaulted twice last month. The attack was made, according to a plan, the police said. The ma- chinery was pushed over, and pieces that did not break were broken with iron pipes, flat irons and wrenches found in the shop. Cloth was hurled over the shop, and then the attack was directed to the employes and owners. The assault was so sudden, Shanof- sky said, that the feeble efforts to fight back were ineffectual. He said he tried to save his machinery, but was attacked with blackjacks, and soon fell unconscious. The only wom an in the factory, Miss Eva Cooper, of Brooklyn, was not molested McGarry, who was walking along the street on his way home, suffered a fractured jaw when a chisel thrown in the fight, fell from the sixth floor of the building, which is in East Broadway. PLANT BLAST TOLL MAY REACH THREE Two-Story Brick Structure Laid Flat by Explosion—Debris Hurts Many. By the Associated Press. MALDEN, Mass., April 29.—The death list from an -xr:‘lnllwn which wrecked a part of the plant of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., on Commer. cial street in this city, today may reach three. officials announced after a preliminary check-up. Two em ploves known to have been at work where the explosion occurred are miss- ing. and a third is dying at a_hospital. Half of the building used by the company as a varnish and cement de partment, a two-story brick structure 75 feet long, was laid flat by the ex- plosion, which is belleved to have orig- inated in the varnish room. Robert M. Stewart of Malden and John F. Nolan of Everett, who were at work |1in that room, are missing. M. G. Mc- Mackin of Revere, another employe, was blown out of the buflding and sus- tained injuries which physicians said would probably be fatal. The main part of the factory, 30 feet distant, was rocked by the blast. More than 3,000 workers employed there rushed for the open under a barrage of bricks and other debr ral were slightly injured whe: eaped from windows. Fire which followed the explosion was soon brought under control. The damage was estimated at $75,000. —_— 14TH ST. BUILDINGS HELD WITHIN LAW Court Refuses to Order Destruction for Alleged Property Deed Violation. Justice Hoehling of the District Su- preme Court today refused to direct the destruction of three stores erected on the east side of Fourteenth street northwest between Girard and Har- vard streets on the complaint of resi- dents of Girard street that the bufld- ing line covenant written in the desds to all the property in the block pro- hibited bulldings to the building line. ‘The court held that it would be in- equitable to require the tearing down of these bulldings in view of the changéd conditions on Fourteenth street and after the lapse of time since the erection of at least one of the structures. Thomas R. Townsend and his wife and Catherine Rothrock brought suit to compel Margaret E. Kennedy, Rose O'Hanlon and Joseph Marchi, owpers of the stores, to remove the buildings. After a hearing Justice Hoehling dis- missed the bill of complaint. Attorney George C. Gertman ap- peared for the plaintiffs, while the de- fendants were represented by Attor- neys Syme & Syme, Louis Ottenberg and James F. Splain. Says Ruling Far-reaching. Attorney Conrad H. Syme, former corporation counsel, who represented Mre. Kennedy, declared the decision of Justice Hoehling to be of far. reaching character, although its ap- plication was only to the properties mentioned in the suit. The practical result, he claimed. may be to remove all restrictions against the complete transformation of the east side of Fourteenth street between Clifton street and Park road, so that stores may be built to the pavement. He said the building inspector had been refusing permits while the litigation was pending, and it now remained to be seen whether permits will be granted. In the event of such per- mits, he suggested, further litigation might be involved if objections are made by other property holders. WEDS ARGENTINIAN. Miss Gwendolyn Robinson Bride of Rich South American. ] BIARRITZ, France, April 20.—The ] eivil marriage of Gwendolyn Randolph | Robingon, daughter of Moncure Robin- son of New York, to Martino de Alzaga Unzue took place yesterday at the city hall of Anglet, near here, where the bride lives. The religious mar- riage was celebrated today in the Church of Sainte Bugenie. in Blarritz. The bridegroom, member of a wealthy Argentine family, is a suc- cessful racing motor driver. . Infant “Print” Made Mandatory. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 20.— Gov. Pinchot today signed a bill mak- ing it mandatory to finger or foot nt infants born in public or private | | day. | today and tomorrow will be allowed KSDAY, FOUR DIE INBLAZE ATPORTLAND, OREC. Apartment Dwellers Are Trapped in Their Rooms as Fire Sweeps Through. By the Associated Press PORTLAND, Oreg., April 23.—Four persons were killed and two others were injured, probably fatally, in a fire which early today swept the Hen- dricks Apartments here Yorty tenants escaped from the building, which contained 45 apart- ments. E. Sullivan, 55, died from in- juries sustained when he leaped from the fourth floor and rissed a fire- men's net. The flames raged for more than an hour before firemen could enter the building to search for bodies, which were found huddled in the rooms. The bodies of Miss Clara Shore, 20, and Miss Frazier, 20, wers found in their rooms. The body of A. Lawr, a blind victim, also was discovered in his room. P W, CALFEE LEADS IN GOLF TOURNEY Score of 88 Best in First Part of Qualifying Round at Indian Spring. A score of 83, made by P. W. Calfee of the Washington Golf and Countr Club, was the lowest score turned in up to 1 o'clock today in the qualify ing round of the Indian Spring Club golf tournament. A high wind com- bined with a slow course to make the ®oing difficult for the many players who played their qualifylng round to- None of the leading golfers about the city started this morning, but the scores this afternoon are ex- pected to be lower, with some of the better players starting their qualify- ing rounds. Other scores turned in today follow N. B. Frost, unattached, 89; George R. Holmes, Indian Springs, 91; W. B. Vogel, unattached, §3; J. T. Mone Argyle, 94; Garden P. Orme, Colum- bia, 94; Roger Coombs, A. J. Cummings, Columbla, 97 McCarter, unattached, 97; C. A. son, Columbia, 101; H. A. Combs, Kirk side, 104; George H. Parker, Indian Springs, 104; W. L. Heap, Indian Springs, 105; William_Patterson, In- dian Springs, 106; J. E. Collins, unat- tached, 109. Large List of Entries. A major part of the impressive fleld of more than 170 players entered in the first big golf tournament of the season about Washington left the first tee at the Indian Spring Club today. Much more than half the fleld started today, the first of the two day's devoted to the qualifying round of the tournament, which will end next Saturday. Every player of note about the city has entered the tournament, and the entry list is larger than that of last year. Entries include Roland R. Mac- Kenzie, the District champion; Albert R. MacKenzie, former Middle Atlan- tic champlon; Walter R. Tuckerman, a former holder of both titles; George J. Volgt,” former public links cham- pion, and many other golfers who now hold or have held championships about Washington. Miller B. Stevin- son, last year's medalist and winner of the Chevy Chase tournament, will play tomorrow. The younger generation of golfers about the city is well represented by the junior MacKenzle. John F. Brawner, the junior champion: Karl F. Kellerman, jr., and other young- sters, who are coming rapidly to the front in tournaments. Today's qualifying round was play- ed over a course made soft and soggy by the heavy rain all day yesterday, which made ground rules necessary. Dr. J. R. De Farges. chalrman of the tournament committee, announc- ed that players in the medal rounds to improve the lie through the fair- ways. JOHN MARSHALL NAMED ASSISTANT TO SARGENT West Virginian Succeeds Rush L. Holland as Aide to Attorney General—Active as Republican. President Coolidge today appointed John Marshall of Parkersburg, W. Va., to be Assistant Attorney General, to succeed Rush L. Holland. who re- signed recently to practice law in this city. P Mr. Marshall was born at New Cum- berlang, W. Va., {n 1881, and has been active in Republican politics of that State. He was graduated from Beth- any College in 1902, and in 1903 re- ceived an A. B. degree at Yale Univer- sity, and the following year'a law de- gree at West Virginia University. Mr. Marshall was assistant United States attorney for the northern district of West Virginia from 1908 to 1812, and was special assistant to the Attorney General from 1921 to 1922. —_— THREE RECKLESS DRIVERS GIVEN HEAVY SENTENCES 8150 Fine and 30-Day Jail Term Imposed on First of Colored Trio. Three defendants. convicted of | serious traffic violations. today drew heavy penalties before Judge Isaac R. Hitt in the Traffic Court. ‘ Vester Tate, colored, convicted of driving while intoxicated, was ordered | to pay a fine of $150 and serve a jail sentence of 30 days. James H. Dickerson. colored, con- victed of the same charge, was given the alternative of $150 fine or 60 days in jail. Albert Misher, colored, at present serving a 90-day jall sentence for transporting liquor, withdrew his de- mand for a jury trial and plead gulity to a charge of reckless driving, and was given the alternative of paying $100 or serving 30 days in jail. FAST TRAIN DERAILED. BETHEL. Vt., April 20.—~The Wash- ingtonian, fast through passenger train on the Central Vermont Rail- road, was derailed early today at South Royalton. A broken journal on the tender of the locomotive was given as the cause. The tracks were torn up for a distance of several hundred feet, but passéngers and injury. | tinuing | Toys™ | heard | Karolyn APRIL 29, 1925. SEES AMERICANS IN FAIR WAY TO DEVELOP INTO RACE OF POETS Mrs. Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Attending Con- vention of Pen Women, Believes “Golden Age of Poetic Appreciation Is Near ai Hand. Americans are becoming a race of poets. Signs of the times Indicate that in busy, money-mad America the gold- en ags of poetic appreciation in his- tory is near at hand. Such s the opinion of Mre. Roselle Mercler Montgomery, one of Ameri- ca's foremost woman poets, who is attending the annual convention of the League of American Pen Women here this week. Mrs. Montgomery is the winner of the last annual prize awarded by the Poetry Society of America for her volume, “Ulysses Re- turns.” Mrs. Montgomery thinks that a con- siderable proportion of the educated people of the United States write verse—some of them, of course, se- cretly and, fortunately, not for pub- lication. Says Day of “Free Verse” is Past. “1 believe,” she sald, “that the day of free verse, S0 -much of which brought the art of poetry into rather bad repute, has definitely passed in the United States. The free verse writers accomplished a great deal of £ood. They definitely destroyed the ‘golden moon and deep-voiced hounds’ school of poetry, which had been in herited from the old masters. They swept away a vast body of poetical tradition which was incumbering ef- forts at original expression. They have cleared the way S0 that we now can return to rhyme and meter, which seems the proper poetical expression, ;«nhum any ‘deep-voiced hounds’ bark- ng. “It is doubtful, of course, whether we have any poet of the highest rank in America today. But we must re- SPRING FESTIVAL BEGINS TOMORROW Neighborhood House Fete to Last Through Saturday. Public Is Invited. Nearly 300 children of Neighbor- hood House, 470 N street southwest, will take part in the annual Spring dancing festival of the clubs associat- ed with that house, beginning tomor- row afternocon at 4 o'clock and con- through Saturday. The board of governors has extended an invitation to the public to attend the festival and both Neighborhood House and its gardens will be open each afternoon and evening. Many Interesting features have been arranged. ‘The Dance of the will be interpreted by Nursery bables and “'Spring and “Dance of the Flowers” by Kindergarten, and “The Coming Spring,” a_masque, by girls of the junior high school. Sixteen pretty girls will appear in “The Cross-Word Puzzle Dance.” Each performance will close with a “Maypole Dance.” Select Queen of May. The girl who has proved herself to have been the best Neighbor dur. ing the year is selected as Queen of the May, and this part of the pro- gram always provides interest for both the plavers and the spectators. The queen may come from either the kindergarten or the high school, it matters not so long as she has been a worthy Neighbor of outstanding merit. All of the program is not reserved for girl players, for the boys have thelr share of entertaining, too. There will be a May-day revel, a blacksmith song and a cowboy dance on calico bronchos for the boys. Another fea- ture is the magic room, where will be found wondrous trees bearing ice cream, household goods, “lemonade and candy as their fruit. Street to Be Closed. Saturday, the last day of the festi- val, the District Commissioners have ordered all traffic shut off from N street in the block occupied by the Neighborhood House, and there the processional march, crowning of the May queen and the dances of the flowers and the fairies will be held. The United States Marine Band will furnish the music, and the revelries will end with the maypole dances. Sight of these will be set up, and all the groups of children will dance and sing around the May queen. The festival will open at 4 o'clock tomorrow and Friday afternoons, and Saturday at 5 o'clock. Supper will be served daily from 4 to 7 o'clock, and the evening performance is at 8 o'clock. AMERICAN JEWS LOYAL, UNTERMYER DECLARES Palestine Foundation Head Denies «“Internationalist’ Charge of Princeton Professor. By the Asaociated Press. . NEW YORK. April 20.—The loyalty of American Jews to their country was defended last night by Samuel Untermyer, president of the Palestine Foundation Fund, at_a testimonial dinner in honor of Emanuel Neu- mann, retiring executive secretary of the furd. Mr. Untermyer, replying to reports published recently that Prof. Philip M. Brown of Princeton had said American Jews were not loyal be- cause they were “internationalists, stated that Prof. Brown's conception of the purpose of Zionism was “gro tesquely ignorant and mendacious.’ He placed much of the blame for “Jew-baiting” on the newspapers be- cause such attacks, he said, were always prominently featured by the|teams are working to raise the Dis- | ress. & Many other es in this country, Ir. Untermyer said, have helped the @®people in their home lands without incurring the charge of disloyalty. COMPOSERS FACE “MIKE.” WRC Will Broadcast Concert From Pen Women's Gathering. The first annual festival of music by American woman composers, to be held in Memorial Continental Hall, under the auspices of the League of American Pen Women to- morrow night, will be broadcast by station WRC, beginning at R:40 o'clock. Secretary of State Kellogg will preside at the festival. Among the composers who will be in their own Well= Bassett, Florence Parr-Gere, pianist: Glenn Hier and Tlarriet Ware. Others who wili participate are the Davison Glee Club, the United States Marine Band Orchestra, the Monday Morning Glee Club, the Wilson Ner- mal School Glee Club and the chorus of the H, Le Roy Lewis Studios. The soloists will \nelu‘d: Gretchen Hood. soprano: selections are | Fthel | Terry, tenor, and ' member John Keats when we make such a statement. Who can say defi- nitely that some obscure verse writer, | whose claims, perhaps, are ridiculed | now, will not emerge into history as| one of the greate: masters of all| times? It is hard to make a definite | statement. Who {8 our greatest liv-| ing poet in the United States? Per-| haps Robert Frost. Perhaps Edna| Millay. Perhaps somebody we never | have heard of. Definite Statement Difficult. “The subject is so intangible that 1 find it very difficult to make any definite statement. This fact remains —there are poets and poets swarming about us. Look about you in this convention. Almost every woman here s writing poetry, and perhaps the most numerous individual class are those who are devoting their greatest attention to poetry. “With such a prospect it seems to me impossible to say poetry had its last great golden age in the Victorian era and that the mechanical spirit of the times has killed it. People are turning to poetry for rellef and rest With so many practicing the art it seems Inevitable that something really great must result from so much ef fort.” Mrs. Montgomery herself is a rather striking character in poetical history. She never tried verse composition un til middle age, with the exception of a few amateurish translations of Hor- s a schoolgirl. Turning to po- after her children were grown, this middle-aged Southern woman in New York suddenly found herseif fa- mous. WOVEN OF LAT ANERIA GREETED Represent 13 Southern Re- publics at Conference on Progress of Suffrage. Delegates from most of the new world nations gathered about a round table in the Columbus room of the Pan-American Union buflding to day for the second all-America Wemen's Conference. The purpose of the session is to discuss the political progress of women in the Western Hemisphere and to lay plans for further advances. Delegates are in attendance from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Porto Rico and Urugua as well as from the United States. There are unofficial delegates from Ecuador and Peru. Mrs. Catt Presides. The meeting was called to order today by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, honorary president. Dr. L. S. Row director of the Pan-American Union, welcomed the delegates, saying that the pan-American movement required the co-operation of the women of the two continents. Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the League of Women Voters, welcomed the visitors in behalf of American women. Mrs. Bertha Lutz vice president for South America, re- sponded » The aims of the association as! adopted at the first conference in Baltimore three vears ago were read | by the secretary, Maria Suarez de Coronado of Columbia. Mrs. Catt then outlined the objects of the pres- ent conference. Delegates from the various coun- tries then told of the advances made in the past three vears. Most of the addresses this morning were in Span- ish, the native tongue of the majority of the delegates. Guests of Mrs. Lansing. The conference adjourned a. noon for luncheon with the United States section of the Pan-American Wom- en's Committee at Rauscher's. Mrs. Robert Lansing, first vice pri e of the Pan-American Women's Aux- {liary, was hostess and welcomed the delegates. Mrs. Glenn Levin Swig- gett, executive secretary, spoke on the work of the section. The discussion of the progress made in the past three years will be con- tinued at the afternoon session. EPISCOPAL FUND TOTALS $35.30 $13,663.79 in Contributions Announced at Luncheon Today. Additional contributions to the Jap- anese restoration fund. a drive for which is being .conducted by the| Episcopal Church, were announced today as §$13,663.79, which brings the total to $35,300.68, at the daily report luncheon held at the Epiphany Church. Rev, Dr. Robert Johnston, rector of St. John's Church, presided at the luncheon and announced the | results of the campaign. He de- tailed & number of gifts for the fund which have been sent to him direct and told of the success with which | the different men's and women's | trict of Columbia’s quota of $100,000. Bishop Freeman Speaks. Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of | Washington, addressed the workers, asking each of the team members to keep up sheir good work and thanking them for the splendid results which have been obtained. He said that his | good wishes followed each of them in their daily work and he felt confident that the goal will be reached The women's team headed by Miss Anna McGowan was announced win- ner in the daily competiticn, its vie- tory being the third in succession. Team results announced today were: Women's teams, $£3,813.80: men’s teams, $2.426.99; speclal gifts. $7.423. Report luncheons wlll be held to- | morrow and Friday at 12:30 o'clock at the Church of the Ascension and on ¥Friday afternoon at the Church of the | Epiphany. Japan Reconstruction Fund | leaders in a conspf TRBESVEN ENTER FRENCH OROCE) | Brother of Abd-el-Krim Leading Contingent. Clash Is Feared. By the Ass PARIS, April i Mohammed, brother of Abd-el-Krim, roccan rebel leader, has entered the French zone of Morocco at the head of a big harka or tribal contingent, according to official information received by the French government. Marshal Lyautey, Governor of French Morocco, has sent a regiment of reinforcements, but it is stated the French will not attack the tribesmen unless provoked. Extensive military precautions are considered necessary, becauss it is feared that as soon as the feast of Ramadan is over, in a few days, the tribesmen’s religious fanaticism wil force Si Mohammed to attack or lose prestige among his followers. ted Pre GREEK PATRIARCH QUITS AFTER TREATY SIGNING Athens Dispatch Tends to Confirm Report of Agreement ‘With Turkey. By the Associated Prees LONDON, April 2 Telegraph dispatch from Athens says the Greek patriarch Constantinos, who was expelled from Constantinople by the Turks, consented to abdicate after the signing of a Greco-Turkish agreement. —An Exchange The above dispatch follows clossly upon advices to the Exchange Tela graph from Constantinople, but. ure confirmed from any other source, te the effect that an agreement had been signed settling all the problems affects ing Turkey and Greece. The chief problem at issue has beerf fulfillment of the clause in the treatw of Lausanne providing for the exs change of minority populations. The § Turks professed to be acting on the authority of this clause when they ejected Patriarch Constantinos from Constantinople on January 30 last. JONES BROTHERS BAILED. Granted Until Monday Pleas to Liquor Charges. BALTIMORE, April Jones of Washington, D. C., and N T. Jones, Atlanta, Ga., wers granted until Monday next to file pleas to in dictments charging conspiracy to vio late the prohibition law. and wers released on $2,500 bail eac United States Commissioner Supples yvester day. The two men, sons of the An Saloon League director for Georgia are alleged to have been the ring to divert alco hol from Government warehouses to the bootleg trade through the Mary land Drug and Chemical C, REDS AND BULG;Rv TROOPS IN BATTLE, LOSSES ARE HEAVY (Continued from to File 29 —Winfield First Page) munists out of underground tu: where they had taken refuge. In many places, according to the Tribuna's ~ dispatch, the explosions blew up parts of the street paving The Communists appeared to have large supplies of ammunition and 2 large storehouse of explosives was located at Communists’ quarters suburb of Sofla, the dispatch adde Some of the Communists escaped from their underground resort afte: the government troops had d mited it and took refuge in the near Sofla, where they are eaid have been joined by & number of other Communists, all of whom are believed to_be heavily armed. The Tribuna's correspondent also telegraphed a report that president of the Bulgarian supr. Court has been killed by a commu who broke loose from his guards while awaiting trial. BRITAIN RENEWS WARNING. is . LONDON, April Replying to » question in the House of Commc today regarding the Bulgarian situa tion, Foreign Secretary Chamberlain | said the British government ““had not ceased warning the Bulgarian govern ment against any acts of indiscrimi. nate reprisal or repression of the cou stitutional opposition He sald the British government realized the danger that might well exist, and that the Bulgarian govern ment was fully aware of the British view and of the unfortunate effec any policy of reprisals would have on public opinion in Great Britain VOLUNTEER ARMY FAILS | B the Assoclated Press SOFIA, April ~T! Bulgarian government is considering callink one of the army classes to the col ors, as it has been unable to get the 10,000 additional volunteers re- cently authorized by the Council of Ambassadors at Paris to pacify the country. The American Minister to Bulgaria Charles S. Wilson, categorically deni the statement attributed British Labor parliamentarians visit ing Bulgaria that he, either officially or unofficially, represented to Bulgarian government the nec for moderation toward those arrested after the bombing of the Sveti Kral Cathedral. The killing of 'another terrorist suspect near here after a desperate struggle with the police is reported Discovered carrylng revolvers and bombs concealed in two er baskets, the man killed an official who attempted to arrest him. Police traced him to a house, but he took refuge in a nearby canal, from which. for six hours, he held the police at bay. He was finally bombed to death, but only after seven police- men had been killed. The Social Democratic party, it was announced today, has decided to re- frain from the usual May day demon- strations this year. Tn a communique issued yesterdav i stated that in consequence of interpretations of official declarations regarding the recent communist outrages. the Bulgarian government declares {t never suspect- cd nor had tho slightest reason to suspect the Jugoslav government of any complicity in the crimes ITALY WARNS JUGOSLAVS. MILAN. Italy, April correspondent of the that Premier Mussolini of Italy has “Armly but courteously” informe ity it erroneous —The Sofia ecolo wires ked for, $100,000.00 Total announced today, $35,300.68| | Jugoclavia that Ttaly will not tol erate any action by Jugoslavis against Bulgaria.