Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1925, Page 2

2 JONES JURY T0 SEE SECRETU. 5 FLE Admitted After Conference in Baltimore Court—Haynes Witness. Epecial Dispatch to The BALTIMORE, Md., September 17.— Records of the Internal Revenue De. partment at Washington were in troduced in the trial this morning in United States Court of Winfield Jones, T. Jones. M. H. Caro, lsadore ser and, Simon Kellner. on trial charged with illegal diversion of alcohol as proprietors of the Maryland Drug and Chemical Co. of Baltimore, raided by prohibition authorities last March. The records were brought to the court by W. B. Andrews. assistant chief of the field force of the Internal Revenue Department at Washington When placed on the stand, Mr Andrews said all records of the de. partment were of a confidential na ture, and he did not think he had the authority to make them public in court. Judge Soper then asked at torneys for the defense what they ex pected to do so, and, after a short con ference, directed Mr. Andrews to pro. duce the records, with the remark, “We will assume responsibility U. S. Witness Grilled. Robert H. Me of the defense records in the crossexamination William Cohen, another of the fendants, who had pleaded guilty and is being wysed by the Government in making its case against the five Wash ingtonians on trial Under srueling Cohen admitted that he had made a false affidavit in an attempt to regain his permit to withdraw alcohol which had been revoked by the depar According to the records as read by Mr. MeNeill, Cohen declared that his business represented an investment of $20.000 and that he was losing at the rate of $1,000 a month by heing unable to supply his trade with toilet and hair tonic preparations. Under ques. tioning by Mr. MeNeill he admitted that only about two or three barrels Neill ounsel then of Washington a4 the of de by Mr out of an average shipment of 20 was ! used in the manufacture of these preparations and that the halance was s0ld to the bootleg trade. Prohibition Commi; Haynes and several other offic the Treasury Department are pected to be called to the stand late today. Point Won by Defense. The defense scored a point vester- day afternoon when Robert R. man of counsel for the Jones brothers had read into the record a letter from N. T. Jones to Jesse [ aker, as superintendent of the Maryland Drug and Chemical Co.. under date of Au- gust 9, 1924, in which Jones warned Baker to be very careful of the alco- hol in the plant. and not allow the keys to the vault in which it was ke; to be out of his possession at any time. Baker acknowledgzed receiving the letter Harry N Chesapeake and Potomac Co. of Washington, read a rd of long distance calls from Jones brothers and the Caro Flavoring Co. 10 the plant of the Maryland Drug and Chemical Co.. Willlam Cohen. man ager, and Joseph Lerner. alleged hootlegger. These calls were made almost daily. William Cohen, who with the Baker brothers has pleaded guilty, vesterday testified he was running the Standard Drug Co. at 24 South Charles street holding a permit for withdrawal of specially denatured alcohol when he received a long distance call from M. H. Caro of Washington advising him that his permit had heen revoked and A i1s of Telephone that if he wanted it restored he (Caro) | could help him to get it Cohen said this was had heard o went to Washington the same night, which was in March, 1924, Caro at his store at §10 Pennsylvania avenue. Caro, he sald, told him that he could get the permit restored through Col. Winfield Jones, who had a brother in Atlanta that had great infiuence with the Government Tells of Plant’s Sale. Cohen said he was introduced to the Jones brothers by Caro in .June and had a conversation with them the frst he about getting back his permit. and | this | after being led to believe that could not be done, he sold the busi- ness to the Jones brothers for $3.000, after they had made a trip here and | inspected’ the property. On the way back from Washington, where went to collect the $3.000, he said he gave N. T. Jones the $3.000 for a 25 per cent interest in the firm. with (aro getting a like interest for get- ting the Jones brothers interested in the case, and the Jones brothers re- taining a 50 per cent interest. According 1o the Joneses. said, it would cost about $15.000 have the permit restored and then only by being issued in their name. | Later. he said, he sold half of his interest to Isadore Glasser of Wash. ington, and when the firm needed some money in fixing up the plant one of the Joneses sold half of Caro's interest to Simon Kellner, also of Washington. Shortly after starting Caro. Glasser and Kellner came to Baltimore and introduced .loseph Lerner to him, Cohen testified. gave him an order for some alcohol. Later. he said, a few Washington bootleggers came over and threatened to tell if they were not sold some of the alcohol, and in order to keep them quiet some small lots of four or five barrels were sold to them. The_alcohol, Cohen said. was bought at 70 cents a gallon nd resold bootlezgers at from §2.70 to $3, and $5 a gallon. Strange Mr. “Packard.” After Revenue Agent Nolan had made an inspection of the books and found a discrepancy of some 100 gal- lons of alcokol, Cohen said, he went 1o Washington with Baker and to- gether they went to see Caro and explained the situation. Caro, Cohen j#aid. told them not to worry that he could fix that all right, and made an ngagement for them to meet a *Mr. Packard,” said to be a prohibition {agent who could fix it up with Nolan. { Cohen and Baker were introduced fto Mr. Packard by Caro, who explain- led that Mr. Packard could fix things all right and loaned themghis machine 1o bring Packard to Baifmore, so he could look over the books. They re turned to Baltimore that night and Packard, after looking over the books, =aid it was ail right, and he would agree to have things fixed for $600. of which he was to give Nolan $500 and keep $100 for himself. Cohen said he ®ave Packard $150 thaf night and the balance several days later. Packard, he said, drove Caro's car back to ‘Washington. Cohen said he never received any- thing except his salary of $75 a week and that the profits were given to Caro and N. T. Jones. Asked by Dis- trict Attorney Woodcock what he thought the profits had been, Cohen said he estimated he had given Caro about §10,800 and Jones $20.000 or more. The money was always paid \. T. Jones at the Washington Hotel, Cohen said, and was always in cash. Cohen told of bringing a check for $3.000 over one time and handing it to Jones, who threw it on the floor, saying he did not want that, he want- 8d cash, Xeliner, who. waa.there. at, up again MeNeil, | ment. | Car- | Fox, an emplove of the | his permit being revoked. | and met | he | Cohen | (e who | 0! §4 | COUPLE SPENT $990,000 IN 5 YEARS, COURT HEARS 1$60,000 a Year for ‘“Reasonable Is Asked by Mrs. Ida May Symington. Expens By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September Arguing for alimony of $60,000 a year for Mrs. 1da May Symington, whose husband, Thomas H. Symingten, sued her for divorce, Max D). Steuer, her attorney, toda% said In Supreme Court that the couple during the five vears of their married life spent a total of $990,000. He maintained that Mrs. Symington, having become at- customed to such luxuries, required 60.000 & year for remsonable ex penses. “It would strain the ordinary man's imagination to grasp the extreme luxury in which the couple lived said the lawyer. He told how maintained a $300,000 home at Morri town, N. J. a Florida houseboat which cost 200,000, a sumptuous home at Palm Beach. Fla. and in addition had an apartment in the most expensive apartment hotel in the world. “Flocks of servants” were employed. he said Justice Wasservogel reserved de- cision. CATHOLIC COUNGIL SESSION IS OPENED {Mass at St. Martin’s and | Flag Raising Launch Gath- ] ering of Men. fifth annual convention of the tional Council of Catholic Men opened this morning with a 1 mass sung by Bishop Sha- Martin'd Church. After the delegates went to tin's to attend the f a flag and flagpole School by the St iN | wa | pontific han, in St {the m, | Mount 3 | presentation [to st Martin's | Martin's Council, { The Navy Band flax raising. plaved s of Thee while the . The flag was fo 1 to the school by president of the While the band plaved “The Star Spangled Banner.” (George Maurer of | St. Martin's Council hoisted the flag. | “My Country, ndience ally pre- Robert Mc- sent Chesney. Flag Legend Recalled. | W. W. Husband. Assistant Secre- tary of Labol was the principal speaker. He narrated the old Danish legend of how King Waldemar, while !leading his forces into batle, saw a silver cross in the red of the evening sky and, considering this an answer to his pravers, adopted it for the fla which ix the oldest na- | tional banner in existence. He said | that the greatest praise that can be given the American flag is to say that {1t exemplifies the Nation's strength of irhaxatlm He added: I wonder if the true nificance of the American flag is not just as great when it is hoisted above an American school as when it floats above the stronghold of u defeated enemy. To me our flag fly- | |ing above an American school is al-| ways a most Inspiring thing. and I| |am glad to be with you this morning to congratulate the voung folks of St. | Martin's parish on the splendid gift | which St. Martin’s Council has pre- | sented to them.” | Taking advantage of the presence of ithe out-of-town delegates, Mr. Hus- | band called to their attention the lack of tranchise in the District. A= a rem- | edy he suggested that as only one-third of the resiients of the Dis | trict of Columbia are native born. the others could. by renewing their con- | nections with their home States. still secure a voice in the Government. Iks of Loyalty. Admiral William Benson. 1. 8. N..| retired. and national president of the association, gave a brief talk, princi- { pally 1o the children. He urged upon { them the necessity of their loyalty to ! the flag and reminded them of the responsibility which rests on them to | uphold it. Rev. Eugene Hannan. former pastor | of St. Martin’s Parish, also spoke { briefly, commending the gift and the | spirit in which it was given. After those present had given the pledge of allegiance to the flag the iroremnny closed with a march by the Navy Band. The convention was formally opened noon today at the lLa Fayette Hotel, with Admiral Benson presiding. | Today's session will be devoted to re- | ports from committees. organization of other committees and other pre- liminaries. The address of welcome was given by Rt Rev. Joseph| Schrembs. | Two business sessions will be held | ! tomorrow, followed by a dance and | reception at the new clubhouse of St. | { Martin’s Counci The convention | will officially close Friday night, but | a special conference of laymen will he held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Many men_ prominent in the Church, will come here for this con- ference. BULL'S ATTACK FATAL. Dies of Injuries Received | When Beast Fought Car. WILKES-BARRE, Pa.. September 117 (®).—TInjuries received Monday when his automobile was charged by a bull and wrecked proved fatal to- day to Thomas Lynch, Wilkes-Barre, in'a hospital at Sayre, Pa. The acei- dent occur: on’ the highway to Owego, N. Y. The bull, led by its owner, hecame infuriated as motor cars whirled by. selected the Lynch car for attack and caused the driver to crash into a concrete wall. Two other passengers were injured. MUST STAND SUIT. Justice Hoehling, in Equity Court, vesterday overruled three special pleas ax to the jurisdiction of the court made by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, a Maryland mu- nicipal corporation, which sought to evade jurisdiction of the court in a damage suit. Margaret (. Magruder recently sued the commission for $25,000. alleging personal injuries when she fell into a ditch at Woodside, Md., December 13. |The commission contended that it could not be sued here since the local office was merely maintained for ac- commodation of Maryland residents employed in the District. This answer was not allowed to block the suit. | { of Denmark at | Man ST R Alumni Plan Activities. A program of Winter activities will be mapped out by the executive com- mittee of the Business High School Alumni Association at a meeting next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the office of A. C. Houghton, 1516 H street. Plans also will be discussed for the organization's annual vaudeville show to be held in November. the time, got the check cashed, Cohen said, and gave the money to Jones. The same thing happened on another occasion, when he brought over a check for $2,000, signed by a man #ald to be a partner of Lerner, present for the| | ruunril,; {ton will continue to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 19z3. CLEARING STREETS AFTER SNOW HAS CREATED PROBLEM HERE New Plan to Be Put Into Effect This Year in Effort to Handle Situation—Lack of Funds Has Been Handicap. TRACTION REPORT WILL BE STUDIED Officials of Both Lines Will Analyze Survey to Decide on Merger Question. Ofcials of hoth street rajlway com- panies announced today that as soon as they receive complete coples of the transportation survey made by the engineering firm of McClellan & Junkerfeld they will make a careful analysis of all the facts collected to determine what conclusions they he- lieve should be drawn from the docu- ment. George E. Hamilton, president of the Capital tion Co. said he would not attempt to venture a pre- diction as to how the findings of the New York engineers might affect the movement for a sireet car merger untll he has studied the entire report The report wax made public in chap- ters over a period of two weeks, but 18 not vet available in printed form. Samuel R. Bowen, vice president of the Washington Raflway and Electric Co., maid that as soon as his company was furnished with a complete copy of the survey it prebably would be turned over to the company's own engineers and accountants for analy- 8is to see whether they agree with the various facts edu 1 by the New York engineers. Survey Sweeping. The survey, which came to a close yesterday, was undertaken last April at the expense of the North American Co. of New rk, a4 publl ility con- cern which has some Investment in local utilities. There were iwo general objects in view in having the survey niade, namely, to determine how Washing. | ton’s transportation problems might be improved and to find out what the | possible results of a consolidation of the lines would he. Although the North Amerfean Co. provided the fund of $50.000 to pay for the inquir: {1t was made under the supervision {the Public Utilitles Commission, and resulted in the assembling of detailed Information on every question enter- ing into the operation of the street car and bus lines (Jerhups the most outstanding fact dev private automobile has become a most important factor in the transportation of people to and from work, and that it is about twice as expensive as street car riding. based on a per passenger per mile standard of calculating cost Growth Predicted. Another important prediction made by the engineers was that Washing. &row as it has in recent vears and that it will reach an ultimate population of a million people within the present city Iimits. not to speak of the rapid growth hat is occurring in the metropolitdn area of nearby Maryland and Virginia. of Washington. Co. last March made came on the heels of passage by Congress of an act authorizing the railway companies to merge, with the proviso that the plan of consolida tion be ratified by Congress. If the study which various agencies will now make of the transportation report leads to the final conclusion that a merger is desirable, as officials of the Utllities Commission believe it will, i is likely that a definite pro posal may be iaid befors the next sessfon of Congress, AIR PROBE IS BEGUN; MORROW IS NAMED BOARD’S CHAIRMAN (Continued from First Page.) closeted with them for a little more than half an hour the entire meeting adjourned to the rose-embellishe@ gar- dens back of the White House and posed for the camera men. Secret Service men, however, kept the re- porters beyond talking distance. The members of the board are: MaJ. Gen. James G. Harbord, retired, of New York City; Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, retired. of Washington, D. C.; Dwight W. Morrow of Engle- wood. N. J., lawyer and banker; How- ard E. Cofin of Detroit. consulting engineer and expert in aeronautics: Col. Hiram Bingham of New Haven, Conn., Senator, formerly in the Air Service and member of the Senate committee on military affalrs; Repre- sentative Carl Vinson of Milledgeville, Ga., member of the House committee on naval affairs; James S. Parker of Salem, N. Y., chairman of the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce;, Arthur C. Denison of Grand Rapids, Mich., judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; Wil- liam F. Durand of Los Angeles. The cabinet room was used for the first session of the President's air- craft investigation board. Should the policy of having future meetings open to newspaper men be adopted, how- ever, it is likely that the committee will be given use of one of the large committee rooms at the Capitol, where the crowd of newspaper men assigned to report the proceedings of the inquiry in detail could be accom- modated comfortably. It is unlikely that quarters in the War or Navy Departments will be used. Acting Secretary of War Davis was closeted with the President twice this morning. The first time was a few minutes after 9 o'clock and the second after the President had ex- cused the investigating board to -its own inclinations. Mr. Davis declined to explain the nature of either mission to the executive offices. MRS. W. L. CULLEN DIES. Sister of Head of Citizens’ Ad- visory Council I11 for Two Months Following an iliness of two months, Mrs. Clara E. Cullen, wife of Willlam L. Cullen, died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy G. Rich- ardson, 7 Poplar avenue, Takoma Park, Md. Mrs. Cullen was a sister of Jesse C. Suter, president of the Citizens' Advisory Council. The deceased was a daughter of the late George J. and Mary K. Suter and was born at the family home on [ street in this city October 8, 1863, She was married twice, her first husband having been the late William F. Reichenbach, who died in 1894. In 1897 she married William L. Cullen, who is an employe of the District Government, and has since that time resided in Washington and at Colonial Beach, V “In_addition to her husband and daughter, Mrs. Cullen is survived by two sons, Willam F. and George Suter Reichenbach: another brother, Robert D. Suter of Atlanta, Ga., and tour grandchildren. Funeral services will Saturday with burial Cemeter: B L % Strike Ties Up 33 Ships. MELBOURNE, Australia, Septem- ber 17 () —Thirty-three overseas ves- sels, of a total tonnage of 325574, are Iying idle in Australian ports. A sen- sation has been caused by cablegrams from England that liners might cease runnis Australia so_long ‘a8 the amen's striie continued, be held in Glenwood I oped by the survey was that the | Wwhich is in realit ya part of the life | The decision of the North American | to have the survev | | { enusing BY WILL P. KENNEDY. (This is the fourth of a series of ar- ticles on the condition of Washing- ton’s atreets. The fifth will appear tomorrow.) The problem of keepiug Washing- ton streets open for trafc during a blizzard and promptly helping nature 1o clear away the snow and ice after a severe storm before it can do ir- repargble damage to the streets and 10 local business is one of gravest im- portance, which has not heretofore beew satistactorily met. The big storm of last January is un illustration of how inadequatelv and uneconomically the National Capital is cared for in this regard. Our laggardness in clear g & way for street traffic after the storm became a natlonal scandal, se verely criticized on the floor of Con- gress and emphasized by congressional* investigation. The method hithecto employed, of allowing nature to take its course and practically walting for the sun to clear our streets, or the expensive al- ternative of loading the packed-down snow Into trucks and hauling it away or of cramming us much ax possible into the manholes to be washed away in the sewers. hus been proved by vears of experfence to be impractical, excessively he people while business k, auto- hardship for the incalculable loss to men and expense to all tru moblle and vehicle operators. Tight-Fisted Policy. It seems to have been the general, although unwritten, policy of the suc- cexsion of Kngineer Commissioners we have had here during recent years, under whose administration the task of snow and ice removal has come, that a minimum of expense should be incurred for this work. Although in dividual members of Congress and even committes have tiraded against the laxness of snow and ice removal, | it seems to have been the general at titude of Congress to approve that tight-fisted policy. The whole official attitude has seemed to be-—“Why get excited? The sun or rain will clear the show away before we could.” Congress makes no appropriation specifically for snow and lce removal, but makesx a lump sum appropriation | of about $400,000 annually—this vear it is $430,000—for street cleaning dur- Ing the entire year. Thix is spent at the rate of about $40,000 a month throughout the year—so there is litide available for purchase of snow-remoy- ing machinery or equipment. Whenever there is a blizzard and a storm of protest is made Congress calls up the local officials and vir- tually says: “Why don’t you remove the snow like other citfes, even rural communities do? We're' here and if vou really need the money we will give it to you.” But the fact remains ongress does not make the emer- gency appropriation of $100,000 or $125,000 needed for this work Opinion Not Borne Out. Many persons, engineers, men and trafic authoritles contend that emergency or additional appro- priations are not necessary, and that properly organized and directed the work can be done for the same money, or less, that is now being spent in hauling away the anow after a storm. But a survey of many other large citles shows that they have all found snow and ice removal from the street or the more improved method of fight ing the snow while it falls, quite ex- pensive The very Tact that the District ofi- cial in charge of the street cleaning work now has a force of wings” dally square yards of street surface shows the magnitude of the proposition. The practical resuit of our delin- quent, ineffictent, uneconomical and impractical method of snow removal in the past has been that— The street car companies start out even with the storm, when the Weather Bureau reports show we are in for a severe downfall of snow, and sweep the snow off their tracks as fast as it falls, or when the snow be- gins to pile up, operating plows to keep it off their right of way. Then along come trucks or automobllea, quite naturaily seeing the easiest road, and as they swing onto or off the car tracks throw the snow back on. As a result of the District authorities not keeping the streets open the snow is packed down by trucks, many of which use heavy chains, even logging chains. As this heavy trafic bumps off of packed-down and icy humps and hummocks and ridges the pavement underneath, made brittle and more friable by the cold, is very seriously damaged. Vehicles Are Damaged. Every truck, automobile or other vehicle operated under such conditions suffers serfous and costly damage— perhaps a broken spring, wheels wrenched out of alignment. steering gear wrecked and a general strain on the car. It means that in the deliv- ery of goods to householders more trucks have to be used, and the cost of operation 1is greatly increased. Everything that increases the co of delivery must ultimately be passed on to the consumer, %o that failure to keep the principal lines of traffic open results in increased costs on the neces- sities of life to all the inhabitants. Business men's books show that the fallure promptly to fight a snow- storm means a tremendous falling off in their ‘patrona; This in turn in- creases the overhead cost, which again must be passed on to the con- sumer. The District authorities and Con- gress, in their procrastination over o removal, seem to have over- looked the fact that only a small part of the real damage of a storm s shown in their calculation whether it is cheaper to let nature do most of the snow removing, even if it does damage the street structure. Care- ful students estimate that the cost on the public from wear and tear and wreckage of trucks and automobiles and the increased cost of delivery is many times greater than the expense of properly removing the snow would be. Solution Is Offered. As an illustration of the constructive criticlsm made by competent authori- ties, we quote Col. James B. McChord, United States Bureau of Public Road formerly engineer of highways Philadeiphia, who installed there the | system of fighting the snow as it falls. In ap article two vears ago in The Star he salk ““T'he recent snowstorm in Washing- ton would not have caused anything like the inconvenience it did if there had been thirty or forty heavy auto plows, beginning on the evening of Saturday, January 28, and working throughout the night and following day. It costs comparatively little to equip a motor truck with a plow blade. It might readily be done at the Army, Navy or Post Office garages or machine shops in Washington quite cheaply with surplus war materials, of which the War Department has such large stores. The Government trucks are operating in Washington in large numbers and are under the con- trol of the Engineer Commissioner, having been recently placed under his jurisdiction as chief co-ordinator of motor transport by the director of the budget. It should, therefore, be with- in the power of the District efficials te prepare almost immediately “the expensive and prolonging | business | “white | at work on 6,000,000 | 1 | 195,000 cubic yvards of snmow which mast cities find ‘hax molved t most important factor of the problem. Following the storm last Winter and the resultant outburst of indignation trom the public because the snow was allowed tn block the main businéss streets, the Engineer Commissioner, Lieut. Col. J. Franklin Bell, after a conference with representatives of the Washington Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association and District officials. approved nization of a joint committee nean representatives and Dis trict officials to consider the problem of snow removal. This committee consisted of John Newbold, president of the Merchants' Transfer and Stor- age Co.; J. H. Hanna, superintendent of the Capital Traction Street Rail- way Co.; Charles J. Columbus, execu- and Manufactu William E. R. . awsistant to the Engineer Commissioner, and Morrix Hacker, superintendent of the street cleaning department, under whose imv mediate direction the snow removal comes. —considering generally the r the blizzard, next decidin should be done in the evept of a heav) snowfall and finally drdfting recom- mendations as to the amount of equipment and men necessary form this work efficiently Storm Conts $25,000. They found that the cost to the city of Washington as & result of that one heavy snowfall was very great. A conservative estimate by the highway engineer, C. B. Hunt, of temporary repairs only to streets and roads was $25,000. It was found that the life of the streets had been conaiderably shortened. probably. Testimony by the most competent authorities before this committee showed that there was a very great loss to the stores and business houses, due to the stifiing or paralysis of business. To business concerns, particularly those using a large number of vehicles, the cost was exceasive, because of the fact that this equipment suffered severely. There was found to be a large amount of damage done to private automobiles, the amount of which the ‘committee confessed itself unable to calculate. The inconvenience and annoyance were inestimable. To all of these conditions the committee felt should be added the extreme danger of fire apparatus being stalled, as was the case three years before, and the possible danger to public health. The investigation showed that Weather Bureau reports: show that the average snowfall per season the City of Washington fs slightly under 20 inches, that the average number of snowfalls of over 2 inches is 3% per vear and that the maxi mum number of such storms in any one season in the last 15 years is 7. Survey Other Cities. This business men’s-offictals’ Joint committee made a canvass of other clties to show their practice and ganization for snow removal. The replies showed that as a rule only the congested business areas and the Mc highways are attended to. It was decided that in the {mterests of public service the first thing to do is to take care of those streets on which car tracks are located. This should be done by having plows continually at work on these streets, beginning when the snow reaches a depth of two inches. The resulting rows of snow should in turn be again | plowed back toward the gutters un- tl they can eventually be hauled away, pushed into a sewer manhole or be melted by the sun or washed away by the use of Fire Department hose. It was estimated that this work would require the use of 35 plows, each to cover four miles of street. It was figured that there would be 1,170,825 square vards of street sur- face and that with a six-inch snow the job would be to clear away in six days. Allowing the sun or rain to do about half this work, it was calcu- lated that it would require about 2,000 men and 264 trucks per day for six days of elght hours each. It was further figured that the crosswalks of the downtown area to be kept open would require one man per crossing. or approximately 100 men at $4 per ga 2,170 Men Needed. In all it would need, the committee estimated, 2,170 men. The avallable city employes trom the Street Cleaning Department, the Highway Department, the Sewer Department and the Water Department make a total of only 405 men. Most of the per diem employes are decidedly averse to snow removal work, and especially at night. Con- tractors can be depended upon to fur- nish 260 men and it was figured that from other sources 200 more men could be obtained, making a total of only 266 men that can be counted upon out of the 2,170 required. It is evident, the committee found that it will be necessary to provid mechanical equipmemnt to replace men for shovelling snbw into trucks. After conferences with manufactur- ers the committee reported’ that nec- essary equipment for loading snow to make up the deficit of the men re- quired cowld be purchased for about $55,000—and then It would be neces- sary to use the mechanical equipment about 16 hours = day. The total estimated cost for han- dling one snow of a depth of about & inches is $67,636. Based on the Weather Bureau report of snow rec- ords here, the committee agreed that the amount to be made available for handling snow during the whole Win- | ter season should be at least $125,000, or practically twice the amount for one big storm. Action Is Recommended. ‘The committee recommended: 1. Plow all street car streets and main traffic lanes, starting work when snow veaches a depth of 2 inches. 2. Remove all snow from business district and other congested areas. 3. Keep open crosswalks in resi- dential and business areas to the e tent possible by existing “white wing’" force. 4. Establish an emergency fund of $125,000 for snow removal for each Winter. 5. Purchase,certain specified equip- ment, the total cost for the new per- manent equipment being $150,000. Now, just where do we stand facing the coming Winter, with the experi- ences of last Winter and t! of the business men’s Dis’ s joint committee as a First let us emphasize that there are two distinct phases of the snow g&—sm. plowing, and second, re- Plans for this Year. Recognizing, as the committes agreed, that the first duty is to open up driveway areas alongside the street car tracks, so that the vehicu- lar traffic will not turn in on the street car tracks and block street car trat- fic, the spperintendent of street clean- ing, after conferences with officials of the street rallway companjes, has charted out 11 railway, routes on which plows will be operated prompt- ly_when u“?.h.n.' starts falling. Last year the mechanical equipment for this work was imflld::m "nny smow-fzhiig woter Rlow equIAMERN, then had fourfiusher trucks with This committee studied the problem | Who was putting Ladly, 1ok 3% { match { from the rains of the last three days. in | BARNES S 12 P ON HACHARLANE Fina! 18 Holes for Golf Cham- | pionship of World Is on at Columbia. | | James M. Barnes of New York, | holder of the British open golf cham- plonship, Ainished the first 18 holes of the concluding match for the world | golf championship today at the Co- lumbia Country Club 3 up on Willie Macfarlane of New York, who is the | holder of the American open cham- pionship Parnes had while Macfarlane had 75 hole advantage gained by morning put him 12 up on_Mac- farlane for the world title. Barnes started the last 36 holex 9 up on Mac- farlane as a result of matches played in Philadelphia last week Putting Is Poor. Barnes was out in 34 t against 36 for Macfarlane one up at the tur Coming in, the British open champion had the last nine holes in 37, while Mactarlane Mac fariane took three putts in the thir- teenth, sixteenth und eighteenth greens. Had he taken only two putts | ach of these thr greens the match this morning would have ended all square. The final 18 holes started this afternoon at score of 71| The three- | Barnes this a medal morning and was 2:30 o'clock. { Conditions Are Good. ! MacFurlane and Barnes started the | first half of their i-hole final under favorable conditions for a big golf The course of the Columblia Country Cluh was soaked and heavy Stretched out to its maximum length of more than 6,700 vards, the | Columbla course, as it is being plaved today by the two national champions -leaders of the world in golf—stands | as one of the hardest tests of the kame in this country. It is made doubly diffcult by the lack of roll from the booming tee shots of the twin_ titleholders, Needs Super Golf. othing short of super golf and | orresponding letdown by Barnes | will permit MacFarlane 1o ecatch the tall Cornishman and win the world title. The American open champlon, however, is capable of | rising 1o extraordinary heights of | skill as he did in winning the cham plonship at Worcester in June, where he played the first nine holes in 31 five under par. A sireak of golf of lhx! nature will go far toward cut ting down the heavy lead Barnes en- joved at the outset of the final match. The final half is being plaved at request of Barnes, American title at club in 1921. Two 18-hole rounds will settle the champlonship. The morning round started at 10 o'clock and the after- noon round was scheduled 1o get under way shortly before 3 o'clock. | of the match Columbia at the who won the the Washington MCcKINLEY-SMITH SENATORIAL FIGHT IS STIRRING ILLINOIS (Continued from First Pag Chicago, by 88,000, and the only thing that pulled him through was carrying the Stater outside by 100,000. Say Reward Is Deserved. One of the reasons put forward by friends of Col. Smith for his support in that he has been such a good Re- | publican and has run for office o | often he deserves a reward. But to | this the McKinley men reply that his record of service to the party is no better than that of the Senator. Me- Kinley has been a faithful Senator, as | he was member of the House for | many vears before he entered the | Senate. He has cared for the interests | of his constituents in Illinols untir- | ingly. He has been a strong sup- | porter of President Coolldge in his ! policies of the last two years. Doubt.- | less the administration would be glad | to see him continued in office. But the row is on, and there is promise of & spirited contest before it is all over. McKinley has a strong hold on the woman voters of the State, and the story goes that they made it possible for him to win #n 1920. He is strong. too, with the church people and the college men and women. On the other hand. he has had against him much of the labor vote in the past campaign. Party Loyalty Strong. Democrats may look with interest | on this Republican contest in Illinois. But that is about all the good it w do them. lllinois is overwhelmingly Republican. A Democratic Senator from Illinols only happens In case of a real division of the Republicans, as in the case of the Bull Moose defec- | tion in 1912, when Senator J. Hamil- ton Lewis was sent to Washington | by the Democratr for & term of six vears. The Republicans of this State have a habit, once they have nomi- | nated a candidate, of getting behind | him. A case in point was that of | Senator Deneen last year, when there | was a desperate fight to renominate Senator McCormick. Sprague, the | Democratic candidate for the Senate against Deneen, had a good war record and was a man high regarded. But Deneen swept into office with a lead of more than 600,000 votes over Sprague. Len Small, Republican, was re-elected governor after an even more bitter fight among the Republicans. —_— plows, where now they have eight. They then used six one-man graders, where now they will use four with plow attachments. Last had elght plows and this Y will have ten. So now 22 plows will be put at work promptly when the snow starts fall- | ing. Eleven of these plows are routed for a sixmile run each, along the street car route. The other 11 plows will be used to do what was never before attempted. They will be run up and down the boulevard streets named by Traffic DI- rector Eldridge, and routes are mow belng mapped out on such streets as Sixteenth street, Eighteenth street, Massachusetts avenue, Sherman ave- nue and Maryland avenue northeast. Then, when it comes to Snow re- Supt. Hacker is preparing a program to start in the morning after the storm with the largest force of men available to clear away the snow from such principal business streets as F and G streets and Pennsylvania avenue. As much as possible will be flushed into manholes. ‘A start has been made toward sup- plying motor-driven mechanical load- ers to take the place of the man- wer shovelers that cannot be found. 0 of these mechanical loaders have Dbeen ordered and will be delivered be- fore Winter sets in. In order that the streets in the busi- ness section may not be ‘piled high with snow at the gutters, shoveled off the sidewalks in front of the stores, Mr. Hacker will seek the co-opevation of the merchants. asking that they clean off only about half of their side- walks, sufficient for a passageway, after a severs storm. This will be done because it is physically impossi- ble to remove all the snow in the prin- cipal business streets during the first day of two after 8 storma -~ {on the ice, “DIVINE SANCTION” | was fined $10 and costs upon —_—— Egg on Ice Cake Is Quickly Fried By Radio Wizard | | | NEW YORK. September 17— Cook- | over cake of ice by i demonstra tions of mysterious radio power given | rday at the Radio World's Fair. | he egg was placed on a frying pan | The pan quickly became | red hot through action of waves that | l ! in, | penetrated through the ice. he trick wax done through the so- | called wireless lamp, the inventor of which also it the bulb through a | man s nead. | IN SALES PROBED Minister’s Use of Biblical | however Lines in Mine Project | Is Questioned. | 1oting By the Associated Press SAN FRANCI Stock-selling abounding in 1 quotations caused the State Corporation Comn sion to order an investigailon of the reasons why the Carson Valley Min- | ing Co. bousted of special providential influence in financing a mining enter prise in Nevada. The company ix promoted by a San Jose minister and assoclates The prospectus sets forth that the “surest guarantee of success Is the presence and approval of God” and | that “God has committed a great and exceedingly rich gold quartz” to the company. It pays $600 annual return for each $100 invested in the firm. Date of Probe. The commission has set September 25, as the date ficials of the company, among is a prominent minister of will appear to show why th should not be revoked religious claims of divine pr to investors that the commiss poses to particularly inquire The Rev. Keeney Towne of the San Jose First Baptist is secretary-treasurer of the mining company and has admitted author- ship of some of the literature, but | sald he had “tried to keep within the | law Since the organi pany in 1923 at San Jose, Calif., ap- | proximately $35 of the total capi- talization of $200.000 has been sub. ibed, the Rev. Mr. Towner said. tock was sold on the agreement that 50 per cent of the earnings would be devoted to religious work. MANY MORE TAKEN IN AUTO TAG NET Friday, | when of- whom ection n pro 1o, pastor tion of the com (Continued from First Page) -| fined $10 and costs for operating his | automobile without a Maryvland tag | and $10 and costs for failing to have a Maryland operator's permit. The | |latter fine was suspended. Bethesds Man Fined. Louis Dent of Bethesda admitted that he had no Maryland tag nor Maryland operator's permit, and was fined $20 and costs. | Roscoe J. Garrett of Rockville and Samuel Vernon Watkins of Bethesda were dismissed when they showed that the automobiles they were driving | were owned by District of Columbia firms by which they were employed C. M. Veach of Takoma Park i he had lived in that community but two weeks, having come here from orth Dakota. His car had a North Dakota tag and Judge Riggs held that in view of reciprocity between Mary land and North Dakota he would d miss this case. George Plitt, sr., of Edgemoor said he was driving the automobile of the company of which he is president, and sentence was suspended, but he was instructed to procure a Maryland license. Linden Man Pays Costs. Judge Riggs allowed P. M. Boyds- ton of Linden. to go upor payment of costs, when Boydston explained that he had started moving to the suburb only recently, and. although he spends most of his nights in Mary- land, he is maintaining two homes. He was told he must procure an oper- ator’s permit. W. A. Clem of North Chevy Chase s ad- mission_that he owned the car bear- ing a District of Columbia tag but and tag. Clarence S. Henley of Rockville received a suspended sentence, claim- ing residence in Washington. The following names were added to the list of those urrested late today Louis W. Horner. French, Walter A. Powell, La Culo, Jack T. Moss, Howard . W. A. Wallace, N. A. Winsatt, vixto Madelo and T. B. Hammeros, Stiver Spring: Ruby D. Robinson, Colesville, and John Boyd, Brookville. DISTRICT TO CO-OPERATE. Eldridge to Help Ma Tag Wal Traffic Director Eldridge announced today that he would co-operate with land in Border the Maryland authorities in requiring | persons who actually reside in Mary land but who work in Washington to register their cars in Maryland He made this statement after a trip to Rockville this morning to inquire into the arrests vesterday of ahout 50 motorists on charges involving this question. Mr. Eldridge said that the Marvland and the District have entered into a gentlemen’s agreement on reciprocity and he feels he should co-operate in carrying out the terms of the agree- ment. Under this agreement. he explain- ed, a resident of the District can re- side in Maryland for not more than three months without Maryland tags—for example, during the Sum- mer months. In deciding the ques- tion of where a man's residence is, aside from this three months of grace, Maryland holds that a man's resi- dence 18 where he sieeps, Mr. Eldridge said. It is apparent, Mr. Eldridge con- tinued, that some persons huve been living in Maryland and obtaining Dis- trict tags by giving their office a dress in Washington. 1f these people live {n Maryland for more than three months they are subject to registra- tion of their cars in that State, ac- cording to_ Mr. Eldridge. . The traffio director-called attention to one other modification, viz., that if a man resides in Maryland but works for a corporation in Wash- ington which provides him with an automobile, owned by the corpora- tion, he may drive that car to his home in Maryland. -In such cases, however, the man will have to show proof that the car is actually owned by the corporation he. works for in Washington, Mr. Fldridge explained. | nominally | September | tate to predi |is maintained on Through scientific methods of for- estry loggers of a company in Sweden return te the same timber tract for sutting every. 10 or §0 yearm LA FOLLETTE FOES BALKEO\BY RULING Plan of Republicans to Offer New Candidate Held lllegal. By the Assuciated Press MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sepfemher 17, Proposals epublican omponent« of Robert M Follette, jr., to m his candidacy with some one who did not participate in Tuesday's prmar: were halted here today b nouncement from the T conf as thought th candidate re possibili n a clat reted to mean t int proper tha pe Secretar b such an a part nominee. 1 Follette the «pp not Vs b Ttepubil can nominee. New Man Considered. The conferees’ plans around were said the ndid decisior iniel W lican, who announced expected 1o on the election September 29 to have been eliminated by ¥: Klux contldent ballot At was 1k tne indorsed by the ces Seven Foes. enter M. La will be It all who propose to lists for the senatorial the late Sen Robert it ith or designate parties actuall the ballot If the however, there licans, one and or are nee Wo will be st-Labor. These men Repubii v | nomi as Independents Demo Independent: John M ninee, an. ist-Labor nominee ather remar he conten the primary ing in so far o the election and that ing, many voters decl is witnessec the tot considerably avers less than one-half of the Victory for Progressivism. ing Bob i the vict jeclaring In th no principles t ward to the two week said he ite paid to our departed the Socialist, in a statement here is no explanation for the light Republican vote except people of Wisconsin are the Republ d are counted and they 0 not hes t the conservatives portion of the esd La Follette terrific vo! hful be found when the b will get the voters who did not On the other hand adherents point to the getting power of the you Follette. If Tuesday’s ratio of voting eptember 29 and Wisconsin Republ cast votes to their full strength of 850,000, these ad herents display figures that show voung Bob would have a plurality of approximately 215.000 over a single opponent. The late Senator carried the State when he was last elected by approximately 230,000. Has 90 Pluralit Returns from 502 precincts give: La Follette, 171,495 Wilcox, 80518 Woodward, 40688, McGovern, 18529, s La Follette wit ¥ all three oppe 0 and a plurality over Wilcox of 90,97 The results of the primary are decisive, Bruce said in a statement. “La Follette is in and both the Re- publi s and Democrats are out,” he said. "My name automatically goes on the allot September 29 in an in denendent colummn, but labeled as a Democra so that the party will be represented on the ticket “*As far as the Deniocrats are con cerned, it is evident that one faction voted for La Follette and the other remained at home. la Foilette had within his control the first essential vote 2 out {of a political campaign, complete o ganization. I entered under a handi- cap in that T went in at the eleverth hour without an organization and without a campaign fund. 1 man- aged to give the lakesto-the-ocean waterway & boost and will continne to do Felicitated by Labor. LINCOLN, Nebr., September (#).—A telegram expressing pleasure at his nomination to succeed his father as_Senator from Wisconsin was sent Robert M. La_ Folletts, ir,, by the Nebraska State Federation of Labor annual convention in session here yesterday. Hope for his election was expressed. LIBRARIES END HOLIDAYS. All Branches to Be Open on Satnr- day Afternoon. The Public Library and its Takoma Park, Southeastern and Mount Pleas- ant branches will be open Saturday from 9 a.m. U1l ¥ pan., and on all sub- sequent Saturdays, nuow that the - urday half-holidays in Government de. partments are passed for the season, it was announced toda e central librar nd the branches are open daily from 9 a.m. till 9 p.m., except on Wednesdays, when they are closed at 3 p.m. The central library will be open from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sun- days, beginning October 4. OVERBROOK HEAD OUSTED Dr. J. M. Thompson Discharged Because of Noel Escape. NEWARK, N. J., September 17 (#). —Dr. John M. Thompson, senior res dent physician at Overbrook Hospital, was discharged today by the Essex County Board of Freeholders, who had held him responsible for the es- cape of Harrison Noel, confessed double murderer and kidnaper. Dr. Thompson had refused to resign and hed threatened suit in conngstion with, the-board's Anding,