Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1925, Page 3

RUSSAIS ROPPED FROM RS PAC U. S. Delegate at Geneva Holds Her Meighbors’ Fears | Must Be Considered. By the Associated Press. NEVA, May 22.—The interna- tional conference on trafic in arms today eliminated Russia from the list of countries whose ratification is nec- essary to make the arms traffic con- vention effective. This action Wwas taken after Rumania presented an amendment providing that the pub- licity provisions of the convention would not be operative for Persia, Poland and Rumania until Russia edhered ta_the convention. The discussion today indicated the general conviction and anxiety on the part of Russia’s neighbors was sin- cere and an effort must be made to frame the convention to meet the situ- ation. Representative Theodore E. Burton, chairman of the American delegation, drew attention to Russia’s refusal to participate in the Geneva conference and added that Russia had shown no interest in the attempt to control the traffic in arms. He said he belloved the fears of Russia’s neighbors could ot be disregarded, but suggested that eny reservations should apply to all countries bordering on Russia, in- <luding Finland, Esthonia and Latvia. ENGINEERS WILL MAP WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS A survey is being made of the Founds surrounding the White House v engineers of the office of public Vuildings and public parks for the pur- yose of ing a plat of this area. It is the intention of Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, who is personally in charge of this work, to turn out a plat show- Sng every detail within the historic grounds. The plat will, for instance, ot only show the location of the AWhite House building, the executive cflice, the east and west terraces, the police guard house and the principal drives and walks, but it will show the location and the size of the many trees, bushes, plants and other shrub- Very and flowers, and every other ob- »{ of interest within the grounds. hfs is the first time that such a map las been prepared and its completion 2 being looked forward to with in- crest _— SPECIAL NOTICES. SWANTED—L Washington. sington, Dl anster, 605 N. ew York. - Philadelphia. 4 Atlanitic City. Corfigan's Y i e Fr 5104 I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY Gebts or bills contracted by any other than Imveelt. JOHN W. SHEKLES. 609% Newton . CHAUFFECR WILL D) the hour. Call N R. Mitchell. * WANTED—A RETURN LOAD OF FURNL ture from New Sork. Philadelphia or Balti- Thore. 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Acting Comptrolier of the Cu o herehy cerit. 3 that “The North ational Bank of ashineton” in the city of Washington in the District of Columbin is authorized i tommence the business of Banking as Dro {75ed in Section Fifty-one hundred &nd sixty- Tine of the Revised Statutes of the United Stales: LONVERSION of Northwest Savings Bank of Washingion. D. C., with & A Office and one branch. Jocated il the iy ot the city*'cE 1) Washington, District of Columbia. (Seal) RO TESTIMONY WHEREOK withens my hand and Seal of this Eleventh $ay ot May. 17 1925. S ANNUAL_STOCKHOL ) the D. €. Land and Will be heid at 8 p. GV AT A wial_meeting_of the “shareholders of NOrthwest National Bank of 1 be held on Juna 10._1025. at 4:30 oclock pm.. at the main office of the Rige Latfonal Bank. 1503 Penneylvania ave. nw. Whahington, D. C.. for the purposs of voling on & resolution ratifying and confirming the fction of the board of directors of the North. West National Bank in_entering into wn Sement with the board of directors of fie Riggs National Bank of Washington, Dr providing for a consolidation of thess Tio “associations under the charter and. title of “The Riges National Bank of Washing: ton. D. C.' GREGG C. BURNS. Vice Presl- | 3 VEN THAT A SPE- | meating of the shareholders of the Rigks National Bank of Washington. D. C., will 5. at 3:30 o'clock at the main office of the Rixgs Natios 1503 Pennsylvania ave. new. Wa nkton. D. C.. for the purpose of Voting o Fedotution ratifying and confirming the astion the hoard of directors of the Rigrs Na: I’ Bank in. entering into an agreement 1 the hoard 0f directors of tha Norih: st National Bank of Washington. bro: Viding for a consolidation of theas two" as: tociations under the charter ‘an: The, Riges National Bank of W D.C* RQBERT V. FLE Vice President and RPET A D STORIN 14 V st n.w. TTURI i anos TWETHERILL. 1519 Wis. ave. n. 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THE EVENING SUBSIDY OR PURCHASE OF SHIPS ABROAD HELD SOLE HOPE OF U. S. Palmer Tells Business Men of Sea Trade Ills—Hoover Would End Overlapping of Government Functions, Explaining Need. _(Continued from First Page.) difficult to arrive at a method where- by the differential in costs may be paid to the shipowner or to the ship- buflder, or both, for the reason that a subsidy has lately been looked upon with great disfavor. “We should always keep In mind that foreign trade is carried on In & freo and open market and that the shipowner who is handicapped by high construction costs, and conse- quently excessive capital charges, cannot compete in this trade. “There 1s serfous doubt as to whether the subsidy principle can be rehabilitated in our country. The difficulty s partiy that our experience Wwith it has been tainted by gcandal: in other words, it is popularly be. lieved that subsidy more or less im- plies graft. Therefore, it is doubtful whether the distinction can = be plainly drawn between an unquestion. ably good subsidy and a possibly bad one. 1If, finally, the subsidy principle should 'be definitely abandoned, it would seem impossible to extend the principle of protection to the mer. chant marine in a manner and to the extent that will be necessary to place our ships on a competitive basis with thelr forelgn rivals. It follows that this negative attitude may leave us practically committed to Government operation indefinitely. “Government aid based on the principle of flag discrimination on in- ternational routes, unquestionably in- vites and brings about retaliation. The immediate effect may be advanta- geous, but the result in the long run 15 likely to be bad.” A request for study of the frelght- rate problem as it applies to the farmer was made by Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. , “it should be possible in adjust- ing freight rates to take into con- sideration both the market value of farm products as reflected over a rea- sonable period of years and the in- fluence inevitably exerted by freight rates over the economic development of particular regions and the coun- try as a whole. I am convinced that the value of service to the shipper of carriers in rate making.” “Farming is the oldest big indus- try we have,” Secretary Jardine con- tinued, “and the farmer knows his business from centuries of experience. Any individual or group that tries to stem the tide of agricultural progress is certain to suffer for that rashness.” Farm Outlook Improves. The agricultural bad luck which has afflicted business in the West since the war seems definitely at an end, Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pa- cific Rallroad, told the chamber. The West is dependent fundamen- tally on agriculture, Mr. Gray sald, and the depression due to the hoof and mouth disease, drouths and greatly decreased snowfall, which depleted the irrigation reservoirs, has been felt everywhere. Last Winter, he said, was unusually severe, with greatly in- creased snow, and this is having a crops were hurt and wheat injured by Winter kill. The Pacific coast cities, he said, for the first time, were beginning to draw from the Middle West for food prod- ucts, with the result that railroad prosperity seemed on the increase. Mr. Gray was introduced by Presi- dent Grant as one of the most out- standing self-made men in American industry, having risen from a tele graph operator to the head of one of the Natlon’s greatest rail systems. Hoover Wants Waste Ended. Elimination of waste in overlapping governmental agencies through reor- ganization of administrative functions was advocated by Secretary Hoover at last night's session of the conven- tion. Former Representative Samuel E. Winslow of Massachusetts, who was chairman of the House commerce committee, also was a speaker. “What we need,” said Mr. Hoover, *is three primary reforms: First, to group together all agencies having the same predominant major purpose under the same administrative super vision; second, to separate the sem judicial and the semil. ' ive and advisory functions from the adminis- trative functions, placing the former under joint minds, the latter under single responsibility, and, third, we should relieve the President of a vast amount of direct administrative labor."” Opposition of vested officials, the | disturbing of some vested habit and the offending of some organized | minority, with paid propagandists aroused, the Commerce Secretary as- serted, have thwarted such a pro- gram, although ‘“every President from Roosevelt to Coolidge has urged upon Congress a reorganization of the executive arm of the Government.” NEW RUM-RUNNING ROUTE IS DISCLOSED BY LIQUOR SEIZURE (Continued from First Page.) | and there ain't no kick in it.” An-| other Détroiter said that perhaps, like old wine, “Fergie's foam’ would im- prove with age. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League of America, crossed the line as an observer, he gaid. For 30 minutes, he sald, he sat in a Fort Erie hotel with a bottle be- fore him on the table, but did not drink. e e “The whole thing is a joke.” he re- t apparent that this stuff doesn't satisfy the fellow who wants the real thing. Its sale is going to result elther in a weakening of the present Ontario liquor law or in a re turn to the sale of every type of liquor. Uncle Sam will observe the experfment with his tongue in his cheek and continue to speed up law enforcement.” Mr. Wheeler sald he saw no as “staggering drunk,” but s . He ch: acterized the beer as “slops.” The saving feature of the law as he saw it was that bars were taboo. All was very one e | licensed hotels or restaurants. Gro-| cers can sell it for home consumption | by the case. i The bottles are labeled “4.4 proof spirits by weight,” which means that | by volume the alcoholic content is 2 per cent. Eight hundred Aspensaries did rush business throughout the prov- ince. Ferries from Detroit to Windsor were jammed. Chairs and tables were at a premium. Complaints were made about persons drinking while standing up. Hotel proprietors insisted the men had been served while seated, but rose to make room for newcomers. Sell 600,000 Drinks. The manager of the British-Ameri- can Hotel in Windsor reported more than $1,500 profit for the day. It is estimated that 600,000 glasses of beer | were consumed in Windsor alone. No ! arrests were reported. The prevailing | price was 25 cents a bottle. The beer | was not as vet on tap, glasses being | ‘ | [ | : sw. | split from bottles Woman _drinkers were Jle malds were employed by many hotels to aturact paonage. Attor- s | zovernmental || De Moll Piano Co. numerous. || “Nor will we ever attain this until Congress will authorize the President or some board, or a committee of its own members, to take the time to do it.” he declared. “On the executive side of the Fed- eral Government,” he continued, “we have grown to have more than 200 different bureaus, boards and com- missions, employing several hundred thousand people. For the most part, they have been thrown hodgepodge into 10 different executive depart- ments under cabinet officers. But there are more than 40 independent establishments either directly under the President or directly under Con- gress. “The big thing is to bring these kindred agencies together under one authority, so that their overlapping edges can be clipped and their fights stopped. The divided responsibility, with absence of centralized authority, prevents the constructive and con- sistent development of broad national policies.” Needs Conservation Policy. “The Government should have a continuous, definite and consistent policy directed to intelligent conserva- tion and use of national resources,” Mr. Hoover continued. “But it can have no such policy so long as re- sponsibility is split up among half a dozen different departments. 5 ““The recent occurrences in oil leases are a fair example of what may hap- pen by the lack of a single-headed responsibility in such matters. No policy of real guardianship of our re- serve resources will exist until we put all conservation business in the hands of an undersecretary for con- servation, with the spotlight of pub- lic opinion continuously focused upon him “The same is true of our deplorable lack of a definite and organized mer- chant marine policy—a thing_ which has caused the waste of a few hun- dreds of million dollars which might have been saved had the Government from the beginning concentrated all administrative matters - relating to shipping under a single responsible officer for merchant marine. 1 may remark, incidentally that I would not place the job of liquidating the war fleet under such an official. That is a temporary job requiring a specialist. Preventive of Fraud. “The largest of the independent es- tablishments is, of course, the Vet- erans’ Bureau. It is my belief that if this bureau had been directly re- ponsible to a cabinet officer there would have been, as in the case of other departmental bureaus, so many more safeguards in management as to have prevented the frauds which have been exposed i{n the courts in the recent history of that bureau.” “There is one side of the Federal Government,” he added, “that is cer- tainly not sufficiently expanded to- day—that is sclentific and economic research and the promotion of public interest by voluntary co-operation with the community at large.” Mr. Winslow told the business men that Congress is and has been in re- cent years composed of members who possess average capacity as great as those of any earlier period. men, but it does contain men of high average intelligence, patriotism a desire to work well and do the right thing,” he insisted, ascribing the criticism being heaped upon that branch of the Government to pro- moted propaganda. embers Congress have all they can do with their office, commitee and floor work. For the most part, they want to do it and do it well, but if they are to be deluged, as they are time and time again throughout a session, with jcommunications meaning nothing but | the result of some great propagund- ist influence, they have neither time nor strength to think and to work as they should and as they desire. The general accomplishments of Congress indicate a membership of | honest, patriotic men deserving gen- eral encouragement and public co- operation.” Oppose Coastwise Change. The transportation group yester- day afternoon approved and sent to the resolutions committee an expres- fon favoring instructions to the American delegation to the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce con- vention at Brussels next month to oppose any attempt to remove Amer- ican limitations on the country's coastwise trade. This group also was informed by representatives of automotive interests and State public service commissions that they favored regulation of busses and trucks as common carriers in interstate commerce. The domestic distribution group passed on to the resolutions commit- tee an expression supporting the posi- tion of the Department of Agriculture in its effort to curb speculation on grain exchanges., H ney General Nickle ruled that the law contained no s discrimination. Women, he said, might drink as well as serve the beverage. ~ Minor disorders at Windsor and other cities were due principally to crowded dining rooms. Hotel man- agers, who had reserved every avail- able table for night customers, were obliged to clear out the afternoon throngs. Several times the supply of beer ran out. While trucks speeded hitherto and thither with fresh sup- plies the crowds grew restless. The pilgrims trickled home reluc- tantly, leaving behind in Windsor alone about 200,000 good American dollars. Hundreds stayed over night at hotels to be on hand for the sec- ond opening, at 7 a.m. today. Women Not Welcome. VANCOUVER, B. C., May 22 (#).— Beer parlor license holders today re- ceived word from Hugh Davidson, liquor board controller, that they need not serve customers if they do not want to. This removes objections to the new law based on the impression that it required them to serve all comers. Several beer halls today bore signs discouraging feminine patronage. 100 i i Sold on Easy Terms i i | I Traded-In ||| Upright | § Pianos Kimball Upright and many others at this special price, $100. WONDERFUL VALUES 12th and G Sts. N.W. ‘ongress is not made up of super- | and | of | | classified as the natural post-war reac- STATETO SELECT SHEPHERD JURORS Defense Declares It Will Ac- cept First 12 Passed by Prosecution. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 22.—The first 12 men decided upon by the State as a jury to try William D. Shepherd on a charge of killing his wife's millionaire ward, Willlam N. McClintock, with typhoid germs, will be accepted by the defense. Shepherd's attorneys said they would do so to halt talk of defense tampering with jurors and witnesses, which has been investigated since Robert White, State witness, disap- peared, and Phillp Barry, a venire- man, said he had been “approached" by & man who said he was acting for the defense. James C. Callan, politiclan, named by Barry, denied through his attorney that he had made any attempts to “Ax" a juror. The attorney said he would surrender Callan to the prose- cutor. Officlals said Callan was charged with intimidating witnesses in a murder case several years ago. Miami Clue Fruitless. While the county grand jury con- tinued its investigation of White's disappearance, search for him extend- ed to Miaml, Fla., where State's At- torney Crowe was told he had fled. Miami authorities did not find him at a given address and detectives were sent on roads to Jacksonville to inter- cept him, should he come that way. White, before he vanished, gave de- fense attorneys an affidavit withdra ing an original statement that Shep- herd had been connected with C. aiman, head of a small science school, Arthur Byrne, a private de- tective employed by the defense, was reported to have told the grand jurors. Byrne was sald to have testified that White had told him his life had been threatened and that the original state- ment had been drawn from him by in- timidation. The State planned to use White in corroboration of Faiman, who confess- ed he supplied Shephéerd with the typhoid germs for a promise of $100,- 000 from McClintock's estate A different story of White'’s disap- pearance was reported told to the £rand jurors by William Adams, blind news vendor, who satd White told him he had been offered $25.000 and a fur- nished bungalow in Florida to leave Chicago. “Adams said White told him he intended refusing the offer. Meanwhile the progress of selecting a jury has been backward. Two State peremptory challenges reduced the tentative jurors to two, one less than had been obtained last' Monday when the triai opened. Seventy veniremen have been questioned, 20 excused by agreement, 42 because of prejudice or opinions, & by State peremptory chal- lenges and 1 by a defense peremptory chalienge. BUSINESS DEMANDS TAX CUT, GARY SAYS AT STEEL INSTITUTE ontinued from First Page.) unreasonable, we cannot expect to sell. | We ought never to charge more than is fair. If that shall be our attitude and the consumers are convinced of | it, they will buy whenever they are| in need.” Enumerating the infirmities of busi- ness, Mr. Gary asserted that possibly the worse disease afflicting the busi- ness structure of the United States was the ‘“abnormal, unnecessary, tmid and fllpoised mental attitude of the managers themselves, including the steel executives.” Business men, he declared, were becoming too eastly alarmed at minor recessions, with their fears at times becoming con- tagious to the point of panic. He ad- vised a more optimistic viewpoint, merely for a psychological effect. Other diseases of business were | | i tion, political agitation against sound business policles, excessive living costs resulting in higher wage rates and destructive competition. $ “Perhaps all of us, producers and consumers, need to be vaccinated with the necessary virus against the dis- ease of selfishness, inliberality and lack of consclence,” said Mr. Gray. Explaining that large = business units, particularly in the fron and| steel industry, were not receiving as much in net returns on the capital | emploved as before the war, the steel executive recommended that business be readjusted so as to bring all lines and divisions into fair and reasonabie proportion. Thief Takes Clothing. A thief last night broke open the display case in front of the clothing store of Joseph Oxenberg, 1314 Sev. | enth street, and took an assortment of silk shirts, a_dozen pairs of socks, silk neckties and a pair of khaki tro: sers, it was reported to police today. Th vas valued at $40. f | | i FOR SALE AT ONCE Open For Inspection This Evening 6-9 P.M. 1321 Irving St. N.W. Just OF 14th St. Priced Right Vacant N. L. Sansbury Co., Inc. 1418 Eye St. N.W. Phone Main 5004 Realtors. BILL—JACK—_RALPH SYION OPTICIANS PRESCRIPTI A A ¥ and G Sis. P phene Frankiin 171 For Rent Offices Phillips Building 15th and K Sts. Desirable space now avail- able, single or en suite. All rooms outside, well ventilated, bright and airy. Above all, very reasongble rents. Tnspect. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, i Canadian ports, have tended bar along | western tip of the country—here the | |into the picture of a greater and far- Accessions to Blockading Daily as Government Fo Warfare Against Foreign Rum Smugglers. BY WILLIAM P. HELM, JR. More Coast Guard ships are on the Way—many more—ships enough to swing a rum-proof cordon around the entire coast line of the United States, Atlantic and Pacific. They are com- ing fast now from the bullder's yards and are golng quietly into service as they come. Hardly a day passes that the Coast Guard armada isn't strengthened. There’'ll be ships enough to make America dry from the sea, in the opinion of officials, Wwhen the last of the fleet takes the water. Not wholly dry, perhaps, but dry to all intents and purposes; dry save for the occasional rum runner, who, through luck, daring or skill, plerces the tightening cordon. Eighteen months ago the Coast Guard told the Treasury that, given the boats, it could stop liquor smuggling from the sea. The Coast Guard got the boats. | Not exactly what it wanted, for it was given destroyers, and old ones at that, when it asked for new cutters, but close enough to the requisition to enable it to redeem its word, virtually in full. ‘Three hundred foreign ships are in the liquor-carrying trade. Vary that number by half & score, more or less, and you have the strength of the whisky armada that, at one time or another, has rocked saucily at anchor off the American coast. Names of these vessels, their owners and masters, their habits and strategy, are known to the Coast Guard. Numbers Equalized. When the new fleet is fully in action there will be a Coast Guard vessel of some description, destrover, patrol boat or picket, for every rum carrier ever seen off our shore. Boat for boat, the smuggler wil be matched. Of swift 75-foot patro] boats alone there will be sufficient in the new govern ment armada to station one of them, if necessary, every 50 miles of the 10,000 bathed by the oceans east and west. It s not the present plan to string out the new armada, superior though it be in speed and seamanship, in any such tenuous line. Rather it will op- erate in squadrons, efficient, quick and patient. The blockade of that part of rum row which stretches from New England down to the Delaware line is a sample of the tactics that will be followeq under the present plan of campalgn. What has been done already in spectacular fashion off this section of the coast is but the opening of a new campalgn. From 80 to 100 rum car- riers, mostly from West Indlan and the line recently put to rout by the new Government fleet. That has been the richest market, perhaps, and has attracted more floating saloons than any other. Campaign Expanded. Numerous_though the rum sellers have been off this section of the coast, | they are outnumbered more than two to one by smugglers operating along other sections. Along the South At- iantic littoral, down through the Florida Keys, doubling around the Gulf to the Mexican line, off Southern California, along the farthest north- waters keels. It is part of the new campalgn to | ail have washed rum carrler| smash rum row at these points, too. ||| Newly arriving vessels of the Coast | ard fleet are swelling the Govern: ment's armada to the point where it can swing into this secondary phasé of the fight. Long before the Sum- mer wanes the memory of the assault | on rum row, off New York, will fade ther-flung assault on rum row wher- ever found. | New York and New Jersey are get- ting virtually no liquor now from the | sea. South Atlantic and Gulf ports will feel the drought in their turn soon. So will Pacific Coast cities. Oc- casional runners there doubtless will be who land a cargo now and then, large or zmall, but the flood tide of liguor smuggled from the sea—a tide 5711 16th St. N.W. ‘Whenever comparisons are drawn there is always a best. This home was built for those who demand the best. Exquisite rooms, luxurious bath spacious porches, ‘beautiful gard servants’ compariment, garage. Open Daily and Sunday from 9 AM.to 9 P. M. ARNOLD AND COMPANY Exclusive Agents 1416 Eye St Main 2434 Po-o% o% % o%0 o % 00 6% 4% 4% o% wqrefefe e oo adereds oo oo aeets * FREE FILM <+ With Every Camera % Purchased Here 6-Hour_Developh Frinting Service. & See Saturday Star for Announcement Hedges & Middleton, Inc. REALTORS 1412 Eye St Frank. 9503 FRIDAY, MAY 22, COAST GUARD SOON TO MATCH 1925. LIQUOR ARMADA SHIP FOR SHIP Fleet Being Made Almoslj rces Plan Expansion of that swelled to 1,000,000 cases a month at jts highest—wili recede to a trickle uniess the planned campalgn fails— and that is regarded as unlikely. Personnel Doubled. To do the job the Coast Guard has | virtually doubled its personnel. Be-| fore the building of the new fleet the Coast Guard had approximately 4,000 officers and men on its rolls. When its new fleet will be fully effective it will be manned by about 8,000 officer.s and men. Within little more than a year 4,000 officers and men have been recruited solely to fight whisky smug- glers. Once authority was given, the Coast Guard snapped into action with the anickness of clearing decks for a na- val engagement. The appropriation DLill for the construction of the new fleet was signed by the President | April 2, 1924 The Coast Guard was ready. Three days later it let con- tracts for the construction of a num. ber of its new swift engines. Six days after the President had signed the bill ‘contracts for all the engines had been let. With similar dispatch the Coast Guard proceeded to the work of con- tracting for the actual building of the fleet and recrulting the necessary per- sonnel. These phases were more com- plicated, but not a day was lost. Twenty-five examinations at widely scattered communities were held little more than two months after the ap- propriation became available. These were for the purpose of appointing officers. More than 1,000 persons took the examination. _Among them doubtless were scores of men “planted” by bootleggers, who sought by this means to get their spies Into the service. Rigid scrutiny of the records of all applicants, how- ever, reduced this danger to a mini- mum. (Copyright, 1025 ) ADMIRAL’S SISTER DIES. Miss Catherine B. Endicott, Expires as Result of Fall. Miss Catherine B. Endicott, 82 years old, sister of Admiral M. T. Endicott, U. S. N, retired, of this city, died at her home at Mays Landing, N. J., yes- | ierday, according to word received here today. Death was due to paral- ysis that followed an accident when s Endicott fell on a flight of steps about a week ago. Miss Endicott was a prominent member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was active in temperance work. Funeral serv- ices will be conducted tomorrow aft- ernoon, with interment in Mays Land- ing Cemetery. FLAT TIRE? 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The Star prints MORE Classified ads every day than all the\ other papers here combined. The rea- son is easy to under- stand. Federal Court trving the first of tw suits filed by the against the Lehigh Valley Railroad | Co. for $900.000 damages as a result of the “Black Tom" Island explosion ;ln 11916‘ today determined that the rst water, after the fire had started on land. | W determined was also pointed out portant to determine whether the f of the railroad company or on BLACK TOM BLAST TRACED TO WATER Scene of First Explosion Set- tled in Russia’s Suit for $2,900,000. By the Associated Press SW YORK, May A jury in HEARING ON PARLOR BUS/| Utilities Board Will Consider Chevy Chase Liné June 10. The Public U nounced today will be held Wednesday tion of the operate Chevy with The ti that a the imission an public District hearing Bulilding June on the applica, Capital Traction Co. tot parlor car bus service from e Circle to apitol rate of far otk th S 4 25-ce several pending before be heard at ing a feeder in the vicinity and two exten lines in the vicinit feut aven xisting b State of " | explosion took place on the| The jury's verdict was a step to- | ard fixing responsibility for the loss by Russia of approximately $2,900, 000 in merchandise and war material One of the important points to he whether the fire | started on land or on the water near the island. Judge Mack, in charging the jury that it was explosion was in the land terminal | the | Wwater. | Immediately after the jury's ver- dict had been returned, trial of the | “State of Russia’s” second sult for | $2,000,000 was started. 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