Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1925, Page 2

e o » RUSSIAN MISSION SEEKSTOVISITU.S. Prepares to Tour Principal| ! Nations to Purchase New Machinery. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star ani Cliscago Datly Xaws. MOSCOT, Octobe: sion, representing t ernment &nd manufuc preparing rance, America for mack needed to try T'he commissi ever sent ubroad ve between The actual date of pends upon the celer visas are me f the count mission hopes to vis cipal gov trusts, 6 hoslovekia, England, nade to place crders equipment Russlan indus- will depurture American State Departinent’'s recent| refusal to grant permission to the atlst, Abram Joffe, to visit States that the be allowed to visit Aw Seeks Latest Tdeas. ad of sing machinery nts in oper he latest Various The principal turing trusts sending be the metallurgic. cotton, food, sugar, trical and polgraphl “The commission is extre tous to visft the United States, one member of th nmission to the writer. N Iy for the purpose of discussing possibie terms for the pur chase of equipment, but to secure new 1deas from person: of manu- facturing plants now in a position where pr trial establishnier must re-equip ¢ ment is now st task “With new we w and erect nev latest method ever country are adopted in Russla m We re ictance of Amer- ‘an manufacturers to extend credit to ue; however, certain amount of of that and con- rept nment high oftic ofl, rubber, al, ele: this stupend naehinery of the latest to remodel old plants iving th BARRING OF TRUCKS ON SOME STREETS ASKED BY ELDRIDGE (Continued from First Page.) from Good Hope roud to the District Yine, “The speed of passenger vehicles on the above designated arterfal high- ways shall not exceed 22 miles per hour except iwhere permission of a greater speed is {ndicated by an offi- ofal sign, in which event the peed designated on such sign shall not be exceeded. Right-Hand Turn Curbed. Tn the list of proposed changes the traffic officials have recommended a paragraph deflnitely providing that wherever there is a traffic signal ve- hicles shall make the right-hand turn on the green and left-hand turns on the red. One official of the traffic office ex- plained that at present many motor- ists seem fo believe they can make the right-hand turn at_any time. This official said it was his understanding that under the proposed mew ryle ve- hicles making « lefthand turn would continue as at present {o draw up near the officer on the green signal and wait for the change of traffic to turn. Tn connection with which would permit spec <peed limits on the arter: in the outlylng sections, a paragraph has heen recommended to govern the speed of commercial vehicles on highways as follows: “Commercial vehicles equipped with Hd tires on two or more wheels s 1 not be oper- ated upon any of the arterfal mentioned fn section B, Dh (h) of this article, at rate of speed than 1 and commerels aquipped with pneumatic tires shall not exceed a speed of 15 miles py hour on such arterial hikhway Special Regulations. The following other amendments | were included in the list lald before the Commissioner © passenger vehicle shall be oper- ted at a greater rate of epeed than 3 miles per hour, and no ('nmn\(‘r(’lal' tor vehicle shall Le operated at a ater rate of speed tl er hour on the Highway Bridge, Klin. gle Bridge, Calvert Street Bridge, Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge or An: Bridge. 1 paragraph 1—""No vehicle shall | werated on the Chain Bridge at a | ter rate of speed than 10 miles hour. nor shall any vehicle pass another vehicle moviug in the same direction on any_part of said bridge." Article VIL. Section 8, omit para- zraph () and add a new para- zraph (h). | “Applicants for identification tags! for motor vehicles shall give the true | name of the owner of the vehicles for which tags are intended. In the case of identification tags for vehicles for hire, or for commercial vehicles, the business address of the owner of the vehicles for which tags are intended may be ziven. In all other cases, the correct vesidence address of the owner of the vehicle shall be given. “Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this paragraph, or who obtains identification tugs by any misrepresentations whatsoever, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. Art. X, sec. 12, amend paragraph by adding “Provided that vehicles or loads moving over any highway on three or more axles mot less than 90 inches upart shall be exempt from the gross weight limitation of 28,000 pounds; provided further, however, that such vehicles or louds comply with all other provisions of this paragraph.” Abreast Parking Regulation. Mr. Eldridge also tr: new rule al increased n 12 miles | ve the problem raised the Merchants and Manufacturers’ 1 highwavs | ! from THE EVENING KTAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1925. MITCHELL’S COURT-MARTIAL PROVES BATTLE OF KEEN WITS Colonel’s Counscll Con- trast in Type to Prose- cuting Officer. Reid’s Bold Attacks Show Scant Respect for ROBERT T. SMALL. The Mitchell court-martial up to this time has been largely a battle between Representative Frank R. Reid of Il nois, special counsel for the flying lonei. and Col. Blanton Winship, the law member of the court. Representa- tive Reld has proposed, and Col. Win- {3bn has disposed. For three duys | there has been s legul wrangle. It has Leen too much for the average roldier. He has looked on more or less aghust. But Col. Winship has grasped every situation —not only grasped it but throttled ft. He hus been a stirring example of military eflicfency and preparedness. After every knotty argument batween con- tending counsel, Col. Winship has im- diately announced: ‘T am prepared to pass on this queston.” Alway And e, Against Mitchell. ) time’he has passed against the the remainder of the court concurring and announcing that the opinion of the law officer has be come the ruling of the cous The: a striking contrast, Reid and nship. Reld is tall, spare, sharp-featured and sharp-tongued. His voice is rather thin and rasping and he Is given much to slang. He ad- dresses the august court as “You peo- ple.” He spins things “right off the reel.” He spenks of the court “taking him on.” He has referred to the court as “greater than Cod Himself” and has characterized the whole proceed- ings as an attempt to “lvnch a truth- teller.” ~As the trial has progressed the Illinels congressman hus grown bolder and bolder, and at the last sit- ting could scarcely conceal the evl- dences of his contempt for the whole | proceedings. Col. Winship fs soft-spcken, having the tongue of the South. Ie s gray of mustache, but there is only a sprinkling of white hairs on his head. He has kindiy, but keen, gray eyes. A gruduate of the Untversity of Geor. gla. he entered the Army during the Spanish War. During the World War he served as judge advocate general of the first American Army in France. He wears on his breast the ribbons of the Distinguished Service Medul and other decorations. Ile is one of the best lawyers in the Army, an that is why he was selected to kee the members of the Mitchell Court | straight ou their law dectstons. Prosecutor an Ex-Judge. Of course, there is also a more or continuous duel between tve Reld and Col. Sherman , the judge advocate, acting as prosecutor. Col. Moreland is a graduate of the Law School of Cornell University, and served for elght years as judge of the Supreme Court in the Philippine Islands. The arguments against C'ol. Mitchell have come from Col. Moreland, but the declelons have come from Col. Winship, and so the real “scrapping” has been across the court-martfal table. Representative Reld is trying to make the court as uncomfortable as | possible with his threats to call Presi- | dent Coolidge and Secretary of War Davis as witnesses to face Col. Mitchell, since they have been record- ed as the chief accusers of the aviator. He also has objected to the court pro- ceeding under the regular court mar- tial manual, because he says the court took itself out from under that man ual when it decided the Mitchell case was different from all others and had to be treated in a different manner. Col. Mitchell pleaded not gullty 10 times when finally he was arraigned. And each time he added a little em- phasis, until the last one sounded like the explosion of a 1,000-pound bomb. (Coprright. 1826.) |mended to liberalize the restrictfons, and also Includes a few new one-way streets: Article xif, section 15. Add para- graph (3-1), I street from Seventeenth to Elghteenth street, two-hour park- ing, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Add paragraph (I-1), Eye street from Seventeenth to Eighteenth street, two- hour parking, 8§ a.m. to 6 p.m. Omit paragraph (m) and add & new paragraph (m), K street from Ninth street to Eighteenth street, two-hour parking, 8 am. to 6 p.m. Add _paragraph (o-1), O street be- tween Wisconsin avenue and the Hyde School, on the north side of the street, no parking at wny time. Add paragraph (r-1), Eighth street G street to Mount Vernon Square, two-hour parking, 8 am. to 6 p.m. Add paragraph (aa-1), Fifteenth street from K street to Massachusetts avenue, no parking on the west side, 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m., and no parking on the east side, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Omit paragraph (ab) and add a new paragraph (ab), Dupont Circle, be- tween west end of Connecticut ave- nue and north line of Massachusetts avenue, no parking at any time. Amend paragraph (ac) by striking out_the twords “Massachusetts ave- nue” and inserting in place thereof the words "H street.” Amend paragraph (af) by out the words ‘one hour' serting in place thereof the words “two hours.” Parking on Seventeenth Street. Add paragraph (af-1), Seventeenth street from K street to Massachusetts avenue, no parking on the west side 8 um. to 9:15 am., and no perking on the east side 4 pm. to 6 p.m. Amend_paragraph (ap) by adding “for a distance of 100 feet north from Biitmore street.” Amend paragraph (aq) by striking out the words “No parking on the east side from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.” Amend paragraph (as) by striking out the words “both roadways” and «dding in the place thereof the words the east roadway.” Add paragraph (as-2), Connecticut avenue from a point 100 feet north of Kalorama road to the south end of the bridge there shall be no park- ing at any curb at any time on the west roadway. o S Add peragraph (az-1), New York avenue from Ninth street to Thir- teenth street, two-hour parking § a.m. to 6 p.m. 'Add paragraph (aaf-1). Pennsylvania avenue from Nineteenth street to Twentfeth street, two-hour parking, & a.m. to 6 p.m. y ‘Add paragraph (aa ‘Wisconsin avenue, no parking at any time on Association of enabling commercial ve- hicles to stop abreast of parked ma- chines to make deliveries, regulation would read as 'All vehicles must park with- in 8 inches of the curb when there is avallable, and if no space is available within a reasonable distance, a vehicle may stop parallel and as near as practicable to parked vehicles only for the purpose of letting off or taking on passengers or while actu- ally loading or unloading merchan. dise; provided, such vehicle is atiend- 1 by a licensed operator, who shall at all‘times be within sight or call of such vehicle, and provided further, that no vehicle shall be so parked Tor a longer period than 10 minutes.” The foliowing changes wers recoms| the west side between P street and Volta place, nor on the east side from a point opposite the south curb of P street to a point opposite the north curb of Volta place. Ad4 paragraph (aal-18). Florida ave- nue and Ninth street between Sixth street northwest and Sherman ave- nue, no parking on the south side, § am. to 9:16 a.m., and no parking on the north side, ¢ p.m. to 6 p.m. Add paragraph (aai-14). Sherman avenue between Florida avenue and New I{amphsire avenue, no parking on the west side, 8 a.m. to %:15 a.m., and no parking on the east side, 4 p.an. to 6 p.m. Add paragraph (aai-15). Around pub- lic at Seventh street, Pennsyl- avente and Market space, twe- Repre- | parking | Above: €01 SHIP. Below: REPRE NTATIVE FRANK R. REID. hour parking at all curhs, § am. to 6 p.m. Add paragraph (aai-16). Around pub- e parks east and west of Ninth street between Pennsylvania avenue and Vir- ginla avenue, two-hour parking at all curbs, 8 A, to 6 p.r Add paragraph Gl park at Tenth stree nsylvanin avent ng at all curb: Add pub | treat { hour parking 16 pom. Id paragraph (aai-19)—At the nortih and south eurb of the publi park in McPherson Square, no park- ing, § a.m. to 9 or 4 pm. to 6 p.m.; two-hour parking, 9:15 am. to 4 p.m.; at the east curb, no parking. 4 p.m. to § p.am.; two-hour parking, § a.m. to 4 p.m.; at the west curb, no parking § a.n 5 am., and two- hour parking. m. to 8. p.m. Add paragraph (aai-20}—Vermont avenue, between H street and I street, two-hour parking, § a.m. to 6 p.m. Add paragraph (sai-21)—At the east and west curbs of the public park in Franklin Square, two-hour parking, § am. to 6 p.m. Add_ paragraph ) — Piney Branch road from Butternut to Cedar street, no parking on the west side at any time, and from Cedar street south to the alley on the east side, no parking at any time. Add paragraph (aai-28)—Vehicles shall not park at any time on the Key Bridge or on the south approach thereto. Busses shall not load or un load pussengers on the Key Bridge or on the south approach thereto, Add paragraph (aai-24)— tol street. between H an two-hour parking, § a.m. to 6 p.m. 'Add to articles XV, section 18, para- graph (r). At all intersections con- trolied by traffic signals, right-hand turns shall only be made on the green signal and left-hand turns shall only be made on the red signal: provided, that-nothing in this paragraph shall affect pedestrian right of way at crosswalks when the pedestrian is complying with the provision of ar- ticle II, section 2, paragraph (a). “Amend article 3 sectton 19, paragraph (h) by adding—and north of Pennsylvania avenue for west- bound traffic only. Add paragraph (r-1). Jefferson place, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, to be used by eastbound traffic only. “Add paragraph (z-1). P street, from Twenty-eighth street to Wisconsin avenue, for westbound traftic only. “Add paragraph (z-2). Dumbarton street, from Wisconsin avenue to Twenty-efghth street, for eastbound traflic only TUNLOADING PLAN FOLLOWED. Arcund pub- s and twohour park m. Around Thirteenth street, B ank avenue—two. 1 curbs, 8 an. to i i The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association notified Traffic Director Fldridge yesterday afternoon that it is in accord with the new regulation as recommended to the Commissioners to solve the problem o. delivering mer- chandise on streets where it 18 impos- sible for delivery trucks to stop at the curb. | Mr. Eldridge’s proposed new rule would permit such vehicles to stop abreast of purked machines for 10 min- utes provided the driver remained within sight or call of the vehicle. In the letter the merchants fin- dorsed the plan of leaving a short wpace neaer each intersection down- town free of all parking to enable ve- hicles to stop long enough to take or let off merchandise. — MACMILLAN IS GUEST OF HONOR AT LUNCHEON Dr. Grosvenor Is Host at Cosmos Club to Returned Arctic Explorer. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, en- tertained a number of guests at lunch- eon today at the Cosmos Club to meet Comdr. Donald B. MacMillan, leader of the MacMillan Arctic expedition which | recently returned from its Summer's work, under the auspices of the Na- tional Geographic Soclety, with the United States Navy co-operating. Those invited to the luncheon were: Dr. L. A. Bauer, Charles J. Bell, the Minister of Norway, Mr. Bryn; Albert Bumstead, Comdr. R. E. Byrd, jr. U. S. N.; Admiral C. M. Chester, Dr. Frederick V. Coville, Admiral Edward ‘Walter Eberle, U. S. N.; John Joy Ed- son, Franklin L. Fisher, Dr. John Foote, Jacob Gayer, Ralph A. Graves, Gen. A. W. Greely, Melville Grosve- nor, J. R. Hildebrand, George . Hutchison, George Judd. Neil M. Judd, Rudolph Kauffmann, John Oliver La Gorce, Grover Loening, Comdr. Donald B. MacMillan, Stephen T. Mather, Dr. John C. Merriam, Commissioner B. ¥, Meyer, Dr. B, Morley, Judge John Barton Payne, Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson, Dr. George R. Putnam, Lieut. Benja- min Rigg, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Robinson, Dr. Carl B. Scofield, ls:)r. Chhlrlen She!do‘l;.'lb).r.’r:mpwsim mith, Secretary vy, Maynard Owen Willlame, ? CARNEGIE MEDALS GIVEN FOR 32 ACTS Fifteen Awards Made to Families of Persons Who Gave Lives to Save Others. | By the Avscciated Pross. PITTSBURGH, October 31.—Thirty- two acts of herolsm, in the commis- slon of which 15 lost thefr lives, wers recognized by the Carnegie Tero Fund Commission at its Fall meeting hers yesterday. Two girls were among those to receive medals, Four silver medals and 28 bronze medals were awarded, in addition to $7,260 annually to the dependents of the heroes who met death. The com- misslon also awaded $: to be ap- plied as it may sanction; $1,700 to dis- abled heroes and §2,000 for the other worthy purpose: For educational purposes $8.000 was set aside, and in 10 ‘cases $8,500 was awarded for worthy purposes. R CHURCH COUNCIL HOLDS PROHIBITION LAW IS JUSTIFIED (Continued from First Page) outlawed in th 1 States as the enemy of soclety ““3. To urge local, State and Fed- eral governments to co-operate with increased vigor against the present or- ganized resistance to the prohibition law until as adequate enforcement of that law has been secured as of any other social legislation.’ “The administrative committes has seen nothing in the report of the re- search department to justify any modi- fication whatever of the position thus taken by the council on the prohibi- tion issue. The polity of national pro- hibition, as the report shows, a8 adopted by the American people b the overwhelming votes of their elec ed legislative assemblies. This has been reairmed by s forities wherever lenged. Cites Reasons for Law. “We would remind those good citizens who by thefr personal example und public utterances are lending countenance to those who vi In r country’s laws of the re: ns which led to the adoption of the eighteenth amendment. It rests upon thres fundamental considerations: st, the bellef that in dealing with giguntic soclal eviis like disease or crime individual liberty must be sur- rendered in the interest of effective cal control: second, the belief that the liquor trafc s such an evil—a onviction which i3 gaining strength all T the world, and which has re- cently found officlal expression report of the spectal drink of the Univers: ference on Life and Work at Stoc holm; third, the experfence guined by a generation of experiment with sub- tutes, which has led the advocate temperance to conclude that only drastic Federal action could bring about the eradication of the evils they were fighting. Prohibition was not a policy adopted hastily or without due consideration, and it is not to be mset aside merely because great difficulty Or even lemporary reverses are en- countered in carrying it out. The report makes clear the remark- able social galns which followed upon the adoption of prohibition—a lower- ing of the death rate from alcoholic disease, a remarkable lessening of de- pendency due to alcoholism, a great reduction in drunkenness and other results of a socially desirable sort. It also calls attention to the part un- doubtedly played by prohibition in im proving business and cconomic cond tions, and. above all, points out the indisputable advantage gained by the abolition of the saloon. At the same time, the report reminds us that na- tional prohibition has not Vet been glven a fair opportunity to vindicate its full value to the physical, eco. nomic, soctal and moral life of the Na- tion, and calls .attention to serious dangers to which it {s at present ex- posed. “The Federal Council gratefully recognizes the splendid service which has been rendered by the agencles especlally authorized by the churches which for many decades have labored persistently and effectively to secure the adoption and the maintenance of prohibition. The council pledges its active co-operation with all agencies which are ready to make a sustained and constructive effort to uphold the prohibition regime in order that there may be a conclusive demonstration of its merit as a natfonal poltey. It urges the friends of prohibition in other countrfes not to be deceived by the attempts which have been made by opponents of prohibition to in- terpret the report as a confession of failure or even of discouragement on the part of the Federal Council or of its constituent church bodtes. ““The Federal Council calls upon the churches to undertake a renewed moral crusade to strengthen the hands of those who are responsible for pro- hibition enforcement and in perticular to glve a greater measure of moral support to the newly reorganized activities of the Federal Government. It urges upon all citizens who believe in prohibition the necessity of sup- porting the law by an irresistible vol- ume of public opinion. Of those who may be out of sympathy with prohi- bitlon as a soclal measurs or who question the wisdom of the particular method by which it was adopted, it asks voluntary compliance with the law in the interest of orderly Govern- ment and in order that ,the policy it represents may be adequately tried. It appeals for a new measure of fair- mindedness and good will on the part of all in connection with this vitally important issue in order that the out- come of the great moral effort may be determined by reason rather than by prejudice and self-interest. “Especially does the Federal Coun- il urge upon the churches the nece sity for a more adequate program of education on the moral isues {nvolved in the liquor traffic. . We strongly emphasize the need for a far greater attention to this problem in the church's program of religious educa- tion. In the last analysis, law de- pends for its support upon the public opinfon which sustains it and the conscience of those who live under it. There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that legislation can relleve us of the necessity of training our youth in habits of temperate llving self-control and the practice of Chri tian citizenship. To foster such habits and to cultivate such practice is the special and peculfar responsi- bility of the church, to be ignored only at the peril of the Nation. “It is our hope and confidence that the report of the research depart- ment on the prohibition situation, calling attention as it does to the real dangers with which we are confront- ed, will stir the churches to a re- newed sense of their responsibility, not only for the enforcement of the prohibition law, but for rallying the conscience of the Nation to its sup- port. b b el Miss Adelalde S. Baylor is head ot the home economics education service of the Federal Board of Vocational Education in Washington. The serv- ice provides training in homemaking f‘or-ll girls and women over 14 years, age, o THEIR FUN IN THE SNOW TO BE SHORTLIVED pson, Richard Anderson and Wil eir snow man won't last long, according to the Weather Bureau, which fore- Cathedral Mansions this morning. casts warmer weather tomorrow and Monday. am 1. Desbry p ying in the snow in front of TACTICS OF FILM “TRUST” DRAW FIRE OF U. S. INVESTIGATORS| Block Booking, Achieved by “Unscrupulous™ Meth-| Makes Exhibitor Take Bad Moy | Good Ones, Probers Allege. od BY JAMES ROBBIN! ARTICLE 1V. sStrangling of competition well | as “unfair and unscrupul meth- ods are flatly alleged by counsel for the Federal Trade in their study of the record of the mo- tion plcture investigation They attribute most of the choking off of healthy competition (o inter- lockings of the fnterests of producer, distributor and exhibitor. Block booking, or the whole of producer’s output or none, and which i< largely respousible for the theater owner being forcad to present poor pletures, is set forth as a glaring evil in the exposition of testtmony. The “working combination” be- tween Adolph Zukor, head of the F: mous Players-Lasky Corporation, Marcus Loew in New York City awelt on at length. Own Large Theaters. Famous Players owns the Rivoll, Rialto and Criterion Theaters, in the heart of New York's Broadway thea- ter district. The Rivoll and Rialto each seats 2,500 persons. The Criterion {s smalier. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, headed by Loew, owns the Capitol, seating 5,300. The Strand. | which seats 3,300, operates under First National contract. Loew is stated to also rent the New York Theater and_New York Roof from | Zukor and Famous Players, which are in the same building with the Criterion. “This (Loew's) is the largest and strongest circuit of theaters in New York City,” Government counsel say, ‘and it has for years used Paramount (Famous_ Players) pictures 100 per cent. Fach year the Paramount product is offered to Loew first. and he has the refusal of it before it is offered to any other exhibitor or ex- hibitors in the metropolitan district The Loew houses are given protec- tion over all other theaters, with the exception in some cases of the United Booking Offices or Keith's circut theaters. The effect of this has been that the individual exhibi- tors in New York, who formerly had first-run theaters, have now been shoved aside and their houses have deteriorated into second or third runs on account of the protection afforded Loew’s. Many exhibitors testified showing how this Loew Drotection is gradually eliminating them from the industry. “J. Bradbury has operated the Olympia Theater for yvears and used Paramount pictures 100 per cent. His house was a first.run theater unti] 1921, when Loew opened his Eighty- third Street Theater in the same zone or district. After this Bradbury had to play his pictures at the Olyrpia after Loew and his house had Many similar instances of alleged favoritism shown to Loew were given by metropolitan theater owners. Advantage Is Great. A run of a week or more in a first- class theater on Broadway has a great eftact on the exhibition of a picture elsewhere all over the country. The “New York run” advertising carrfes a wealth of magnetism. Exhibitors in the smaller towns frequently call attention to the fact that a picture has been shown in one of the big theaters in & large city at a much higher price than is to be asked to see it. The advantage of New York runs is great. Such theaterr as the Capitol, Strand, Rivoll and Rialto can afford to and do pay more for pictures than the houses running vaudeville, be- cause they charge high admission prices and do not have the expense of vaudeville acts. Counsel for the respondents point out, however, that these houses have musical and other programs frequently recruited from vaudeville, Al Lichtman, president of the Pre- ferred Pictures Corporation, testified that in two years he had been able to place only 4 pictures out of 24 on Broadway, and one he placed by rent- ing a theater at his own expense. Defendants’ counsel recall that testi- mony of managers of high-class the- aters was introduced that the pic- tures were not considered what was wanted for the Broadway theaters. He rented the Criterion for two weeks for $4,000, he testified, and in addition paid $2,000 for the electric sign and paid for the advertising and salaries of the employes and orches- tra, making a total expense of ap- proximately $20,000 for the two weeks, while his receipts were $8.000. It is stated om behalf of Zukor that this was a fair rental, and the fact that Lichman was unable to make money was due to his picture. ‘The producer who does not have to rent_outright receives 25 per cent of the gross returns of & picture for the first-run showing in the first-class theaters in the key cities. Describes Independent Role. Testifying as to the position of the independent producer and distributor when it comes to competing with the producer - distributor - exhibitor, Licht- man said: “The independent producer is very much im the position of a fellow who bas tha gambling faver, somea o Commission alf | pedent s to Get town and wants to gamble, and he finds there fs only one gambling house, and that is crooked, but the | desire to gamble and his conrage are =0 much greater than wisdom that, | in spite of all that, he enters, and, hope against hope or luck against luck, and with all the percentage that is against him, he wins and then i told there are several gunmen | standing around and all he will get i $100. That is about the way it. sizing up my own ted by Governme o further ArTY OU summate the object of the con the respondents entered into gressive program ipelling and coercing” exhibitors throughout | the country to book a block of films by refusing to lease a given number of them, and that the exhibition of | this block of films took up the whole or major portlon of the exhibitors’ time, thus closing their theaters to the fllms of other producers or dis tributors. 1t a_house changed pictures weekly 1t could use 52 fims a year. If the plan of all or nothing did not meet | with the desire of the exhibitor, ft is sald, plans were discussed to lease or buy a first run house nearby. Coungel for Zukor contend there was ne proof that any theater changing pictures once a week purc! | ms in any one vear. concl applied only in small towns hanges were made three a week and several shown in « year. “Bleck booking s an unreasonable restraint,” counsel for the Government say, “because it closes the market to all ‘other producers and compels the exhibitor to take the inferior pictures in order to get the good ones. It i all-or-none policy because 1f the exhibi- tor desires to make a selection the prices may prohibit it. Half of Films Weak. “The testimony of Sidney R. Kent, a director and general manager in charge of distribution, is that in the show vear of 1920-21 Famous Players Lasky Corporation released 105 pic- tures, of which number 63 were of such a quality as to entitle them to a showing in first-class, first-run thea- From these figures it will be that under the block booking an exhibltor who was com- pelled to take all the pictures offered 8ot 68 good ones and 37 of an inferior type. As the exhibitors have to pay for the pictures contracted for whether they exhibit them or not, they cannot afford to put the inferfor pictures aside and make room for better ones, because the loss in rentals would be too great.” This also was called the “factory system” of distributing pletures. Under it the independents are sald to have come in contact with a “cor- nered market." “Block booking and theater owner- ship by producer-distributor Is fatal to the industry,” say Government counsel, “because it closes or corners the market, especially the first-class, first-run theaters in the big cities, and if it continues will eliminate the inde producers. The producer- distributor-theater owner dictates the policles and prices, they pay for the pictures irrespective of the artistic merits.” LEAGUE ASKS PARIS ANSWER PROTESTS IN SYRIAN REVOLT (Continued from First Pag piracy” L “‘pro- i | missing since 1920, when France took over the mandate for Sy Denial likewise is made of a report that Col. Gamelin lost 3,000 while returning to Damascus from the rebel Druse territory. Officlal circles here expect that the chagrin of the Paris government over the developments in Damascus will culminate in the early clearing up of that_aspect of the incident that led the Washington Government to make diplomatic_representations respecting the imperiling of American lives with- out warning. Ambassador Herrick was directed to present American consular dis- patches from Damascus vigorously in the form of representations to the French foreign office. They virtually were eye-witness accounts of the af- | fair and were dispatched while the | shelling was in_progress. The report | of the recall of Gen. Sarrall was re- | garded in Washington as probably in- dicating & decision by the French government to place responsibility for the situation on his shoulders. It would seem from a report which | has reached the London Daily Tele- graph that not alone are Gréat Brit- ain and the United States perturbed over the situation, but also that the League of Nations is desirous of ac- | charge of the Ch | mortuary his writings appes certaining the situation in the man- dated area of Syria. Lo Refused admission to the bricklay- | ers’ union, John Eldred, & bricklayer's | helper, bullt his own home at Sprat. ton, England, this year, laying 26,000 bricks at night L. WHITE BUSBEY CLAIMED BY DEATH One of Last Survivors of “0ld Guard” of Correspondents. Leader in G. 0. P. L. WHITE BUSBEY. One of the last of the “old of Washington correspon White Busbey, died at 1:15 o morning a tment in the Park- from chronie one week's illness. Mr. assistant to the chairman lican national committee confidenti secretary to Cannon, remafning with Mr. until tl t retired from e. le was a long-time Wash- correspondent, being particu well known for his work ago Int an Bu reau. He was one of the veteran and most active members of the Gridiron “lub and one of the organizers of the Press Club. funeral will 1 chapel of Lee undertakin; Pennsvlvania avenue, Tuesday morr ing, the exact hour to be determined later. Dr. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor emeritus of the New Y Avenue Presbyterian °h long-time friend of th family, will officiate. The Club Glee Club will sing. The b will he mated. The pallbear will be J. Fred Bssary, Clifford K J. ¥arry Cunningl Kauffmann, Richard Edgar C. Snyder, Arthur Francls A. Richardson, and Henry L. West, the Gridiron Club Mr. Busbey wid and a _son, at_Annapolis Na r. Bushey w been born ard” nt L. former h liron Oulahan, W. Dunn, Henry Hall all members of is sury by his who was educated old, hay Ohio, in Graves ot Vien: n de experience in and his close, ions in the Na tional Capital, Mr. Busbey was much sought after as a contributor to maga. zines on political, sociological and economic questions. His particular specialty &iving a human-interest ouch to current questions, so that ed strongly to the people. He was Washington correspondent for the Chicago Inter-Ocean from 1879 to 1905, when he became secretary r. Cannon when & kership of the ) tional House of Representatives. Ie also served as secretary of the Amer- ican section of the intérnational joint m created ! treaty with Great Britain for settlement of water boundary questions between the United States and Canada. Mr. became well known throughout the entire country when he was author of “The Republican Side of the Battle of 1900,” a general discussfon of the political issues before the country. Dr. Willis J. Abbott was author of the corresponding work on the Democratic side of the con troversy. S TRACY SUIT UNSETTLED. Consent Verdict in Probate Court Will Not Halt Equity Case. Although a consent verdict was ren- dered Thursday by the Circuit Court in the case of the will of Mrs. Maude L. Atwell, admitted to probate, A. Les- ter Tracy, brother of Mrs. Atwell, ex-| plained that further litigation is pend. ing. Mr. Tracy had filed a caveat object- | ing to admission of the will to probate, This | but agreed to a capsent verdict. does not affect in any way, he said, the suit now filed in the Equity Court to set aside the sale of property which under the will had been bequeathed to his daughter, Mrs. Isabel D. Ricketts. A child’s car operated like & Fow- boat has been invented, ha in | lolph | FUNERAL OF AILES AT2 PM. MONDAY Body of Financial Leader Brought From Harpers Fer- ry to Home Here. Funeral services for Miiton K. Ailes, president of the Riggs National Bank who died yesterday, will be held Mon duy afternoon at 2 o'clock, at his home, at 1620 T street northwast, with private interment at Rock Creek Ceme tery. Rev. Pather John A. Curran of Har. : 1l offictute, whila leming, Willlam J. Flather, . Glover, jr.; Avi icorge O. Vass and Hil kinson, vice presidents of National Bank, will bear the casket of sir late leader to s tipal resting concluded ese arTangement this morning on who es flowers be sent. The body of Mr. Ai a5 returned to Washington from Harpers Ferry midn, last night, panted b members of his fami e i quest that Bank in Mourning. pall of gloom hung over iul district this morn nullified ull except bu; Th which ent of well in was deep mourning, { only routine business heing tran Hundreds of expressions « y were received from pointe throughout the Nation, including cor dolences from Charles Mitch president of the National City C Percy H. Johnston, president of th. Chemical National Bank of New York City; John J. Cornwell, general cour sel of the Baltimore and Obio Rail road Co., and Gov. George J. Sea; | head of the Federal Reserve Bank ! of Richmond | The mourning will continue unin- | symp: t Monday. The ington Stock Exchange will take the day of inasmuch a= member of | W | appropriate | burtal, as signal the decease the excha The Distri ation has : tion on honor, a | ibta. Bankera’ ppointed a delegation e to pay tribute at the grave of ved member, while th zton Clearing House Associa pay a shnilar honor. Party Is Canceled. The Washington Chapter, Institute of Banking, of w | Alles was a one who rt) its Halloween meriean h Mr graduate, and financ s already car party schedule rganization: h a step can ba : 1 banking ac the Rig n, as well as all | others, wliii be forced to remain open on the 1. But business | win the minimum, witl matters given attentlon. U. S. TO PUSH TRIAL OF MILLER IN HUGE ALLEGED BRIBERY ned _from First Page) various ways in connection witi investigated by the in other scandals Sena The indictment charged the alleged conspirators with defrauding _ the United States by “deceitfully submi: ting notices of these claims to the } Attorney General of the United States for his approval In connection witt his allowance of claims of the Sw corporation, as notices of clain nder oath as required by law,” whe: | the persons purporting to have ad | ministered the oath at Basle, Swit erland, had no authority do & It also accused them of “deceitfuli | submitting to said Attorney Genera »r inducing him to approve said writ ten claims, numerous documents i support of said claims” not comph |ing with requirements of verificatic , and also of “deceltfully sul to the Attorney General fc approval as properly vertfie the written clalms unverific contrary to law and pra | by tice." In setting forth seven alleged ove: acts, the indictment said: aid John T. King, on May ¢ ¢ e in New York, intr duced Richard Merton to Jesse W Smith. aid Richard Merton on July @ 1921, went to the Department of J | tice "in Washington with George I { Willlams, and there was introduce by Willlams to A. R. Johnson, jr., spo- cial assistant to the Attorney Geners = ¢ * then In charge of the alfer property custodian's position of the Department of Justice. “Swid Richard Merton on July 2 * ¢ ¢ in New York paid T. King $50,000 aid John T. King on Augus 1921, * % * in New Nork, paid § 000 fo said Jesse W. Smith Merton Came Here. d Richard Merton on Septembe: 21, in Washington presented to the Attorney General, by the hand ¢ George E. Willlams, numerous papers pertaining to the claim of the Swiss corporation, including the notices of { the claims and the applications for allowance thereof required by law, an: | written statements purporting to tain the applications. | “Sald_Thomas W. Miller, on e nber 21, 1921, in Washington, wrot« two letters to the Attorney Gener: {transmitting said claims and receu | mending_their allowance. | “Said Richard Merton on October 1 1921, * ¢ ¢ in New York gave to | said Thomas W. Miller, John T. Kinz land Jesse W. Smith certain bonds, of | the par value together of $391,000 to wit, the second and fourth 4% per cent Liberty loan permanent bonds of that par value herein above mer mentioned.” ——— | FORMER JUDGE DIES. Thomas S. Hargest SBuccumbs From Auto Injuries. HARRISBURG, Pa., October I’ (®)—Thomas S. Hargest, father of Judge William M. Hargest of Dauphin County courts, and himself a former judge of the twelfth judicial circuit courts of Virginia, dled here last night of injuries received a week agv when he was struck by an automobile He was 79 years old. Mr. Hargest, who was a native of Baltimore, formed a volunteer coni pany here during the Civil War, and after the war ended remained in Vir ginla. He was appointed assistan! judge of Shenandoah County and later Judge. Governor of Rome Named. ROME, October 31 (#).—In confor ity with the cabinet's decision to kiv: i the capital a separate government 1 der the supervision of the ministry © the Interfor, Signor Cremonesi, who has held the oftice of royal commis- sioner for the city, today was named Governor gt L/