Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1925, Page 2

. *¥ POWER CUTFILED FOR D C. SUBURBS Residential and Commercial Users in Two Counties Given New Rates. Spactal Dispaich 1o The Star BALTIMORE. Md. December The Potamae Flectrie Power Co. of Washingion today filed a schedule of new rates for hoth residential and commercial purposes in Prince Genvges and Montzomery Counties The rates which effect approxi- mately 11.000 users in Chevy Chase Gavrett Park, Hyatisville, Bladens burs, Glen Fi Kensington. Mount Ranier, River Rockville, Takoma Park and Washingion Grove. make practically the same rate as charged he District of Columiia he first residential rate provides for a rate of 7 cents per Kilowatt hour for the first 120 hours and 1l cents rer haur for excess, with a minimum rs 75 cents 2 month. Schedule for residential heating and cook provides a rate of T cents for the <t 10 kilowatt hours, and all escess the rate of 3 rents per kilowatt. With 2 minimum charze of 30 cents a month ho Commercial Schedules. Commereial scheduie € provides for 20 ha at a rate of 7 cents per kilo watt r. and exeéss at 4 cents per hour, with minimum charge Kilowatt %22 month For public lighting and motors in huildings the schedule provides 4 cents kilowatt hour for the fArst 100 cents per honr on the next 130 hours. 3 cents per haur on the pext 4.000 hours and 21, cents per hour on all excess of 1.830 honrs, with minimum charge of i3 cents a month. Commercial schedule D pro- vides for general lighting and other commercial purposes. with A rate of cents per hour for the first 430 hours. 5 cents per hour for the next 1500 hours. 4 cenis per hour for the second 1300 houre and excess at 21y cents an hour. with a minimum charge of 75 cents a month Commereial schedule E provides f electric current commercial i poses, when demand is not iess than 20 Lilowatts, At the following fxed Brarges per month: Tweniy kilowatis £2.75: 30 kilowAtts, $2.25: 30 kilowatts §2; axcese of 100 kilowntts, $1.75. hours, 31 Energy Charge Rate charge Kilowatt next 300 kilowatt 1.000 hours, 3 5-10 an fi There is ¥ month of th af 5 and 5.10. the hours, 4 50100 next, 12.000 hours a1 2 cénts. 23.000 hours at 17310, 150,000 at 1 210, with_excess of 185,730 honre. 1 110, with a minimum charge of $55 & month Commercial schedule ¥ on industrial mators and hattaries, but not elavator motors, provides a charge of 3 and 5-10 cents for the first 1.000 kilowatt haurs, 4510 cents for the next 5300 kilowatt hours and 35.10 for the sec ond 300 kilowatt hours, with excess of 3000 kilowatt hours at a rate of 3 cants and a mintmum charge of $22.50 a month Commercial schedule G provides for 7.cant per kilowatt hour for the firsr 30 haurs. with an excese of 50 hours ai the rate of & cents per kilo watt hour and a minimum charge of €1 per month per horsepower, with a minimum charge of $25 per month Commercial Acheduls H provides for commeréial heating and cooking pur- poses onlv. with a flat rate of 7 cents for the first kilowatt hour and all ax cess at 3 cents. with a minimum charge af 50 cents a month. These rates were flled today hy Wi ligm F. Ham. president of the rom pany. in a lstter to the Public Service Commission, in which he said the campany was ready to pul them inte effect as soon as approved by the com mission. Chairman Harold E. West Isin New York attending a conference of Puh lie Service Commission of the Fastern Waterpower Ascociation and Is not expected back until the first part of next weak. when the commission proh ably will take favarahle action on the application anerg per hours GEN. MACKLIN'S FUNERAL AT ARLINGTON TOMORROW Infantry Officer, Ratired in 1908, Saw Service in Many Amer- ican Campaigns. Rarial Arlington row afternoon Brig. Gen. Jam aervices wiil he held al the National Cemetery tomor At 12:30 oclock for N. Macklin. a retired Infantry officer. who died at Lot An géles Wadnesday. He served as a private, first lieutenant and caprain in the Voluniser Army during the Civil War, and in August. 1887, was ap nointed a second litutenant in the 318t Regiment. Rezular Infantry. He took part in practically all the indian cam DAIENE in the early <eventies, 214 was on eecort duty with the builders of the Union Pacific Railroad i 1880, Later he served in the Philippinee. in Alaska and at Chicazo. He was retired for age in December. 1908, with the rank of drigadier general. n. Macklin in_survived by two srandsons—Lieut. William S. Macklin and Lieut. C. F. Macklin. jr.. in the Navy: one son. Capt. C. F. Macklin of the Naval Reserve. and a grand ann, Lieut. J. E. Mac in the Army Another son was Capt A. Macklin of the Army. now dead. Mrs. Macklin. widow of Capt. E. A, Macklin, rasides at 1655 Harvard strest Smithsonian Choice Approved. Appointinent Dwight G. Marrow ot New Vork A vacAney on the hoard of regénis of the Smithsonian Tnstitution was approved by the Housa today in acting on a joint resolution al ready Approved by the Renate. Repre sentatives of the Siate of New York wha called nup the résolution stated that the nomination of Mr. Morrow was made hy the Smithsonian anthor ities DRYS SWEEP HOUSE, 139 TO 17. IN FIRST * PROHIBITION TEST (Continued from Fivst Page.) n af =aid the Argigtant Treasury Mayflower Hotel and Secretary Andrews of had denounced them Mr. Bvrns argued it was vital to en forcement that agents be allowed to purchase ovidance, Mahes Law Unenforceable. “Of course. they can't go up to & haotlegger.” he said. “and deciare they are prohibition agents and agk to buy some evidence. Adopt thix amend ment and you make the Iaw unén- forceable. Representative Blanton, Démocrat, of Texas. Assailed the amendment and said: “It's the higher-.ups in the Gov- ernmeant who are making a farce of prohisition.” Don't_put hibition. * he said. man whose finances are invoived enforcement. " Representative Barklex. Demoerat, nf Kentueky. expreesed surprise fhat some members are showing such Ender solicitude for the haotleggert Rrther than for officers trying to ‘en- fo "ce‘v law,” the enforcement of pro “in the hands of n in Resigns and Is Dismissed GEN. SMEDLEY D. BU Who resigned from the Marine Corps today to continue as director of the department of public safety in Phil adelphia, only fo be told by Mayor Kendrick that he did not wish him to e as a “resigned” Marine offi- ARMY HESITATES ON POLAR FLIGHT Ford Engineer Told Author- ity of Congress Is Essen- tial to Project. A profect for a polar flight has hee presented to the War Deprtment by William D. Mayo. chief engineer for Henry Ford. but officials have decided consressional authority would be nec. Ary for Government parcticipation. Mr. Mayo discussed the project with hoth Secretary Davis and Maj. Gen Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service, suggesting that the Army should lend fiying equipment and per- sonnel. The question was referred to the legal hurean of the War Depart- ment and an adverse opinion was given Need Congr es: <&’ Consern The proposal was for a non-stop Alght from Point Barrow, Alaska. to pitzhergen next Spring On the basis of the legal opinion. Mr. Mayo was advised that if Congress acted favorably on a resolution Authorizing the War Department to lend equipment and personnel it weuld Lieuts. transpolar John A, Ma James H. Doolittle, Army long-dis tance flight record-holders, are under stood to have volunteered to attempt the transpolar alr expedition and to have made known their desires in this connection to Gen. Patrick when he visited McCook Field. Davton. Ohio on a recent inspection trip. They have not. however, filed a formal ap plication for the detafl. See New Diffi The project is regarded hy Army Air Service officers who gained con «iderabls experience by participation In the world-round Alight. as Involving difficulties of a naturs entirely new to aviation. Recause of the ahsence of bases. specially consiructed plane would have to he provided for such a polar expedition. For these and other reasons Army Air Servica officials ax pressed douht today as 1o whether even with congressional authority adequate arrangements to insurs the succas of the flight would he made ax earh as next Spring. FLYERS ASKED TO TAKE TRIP. eady and ties, relief and Doolittle Invited Pilot Plane. By tha Associated Preas NEW YORK, December 22 A non stop airplane flight across the North Pole, possibly backed by Henry Ford, is now in pro t. according to re ports current Partial substantiation of the report contained in admission by MecCook Field anthorities at Davton. Ohio, that two of the'hest known fivers had been invited te pilot plane from Paint Barrow, Alaska,. to Spitzbergen across the top of the world Although Mr. Ford conld not he reached last night. executives at his factory sald they had no knowledge of the proposed flight. and added that it might be one of the mans propositions constantly placed hefore the manufac turer MacReady to Ford Owns Plane. Mr. nirplane owns an helieved Ford has turned his attention to manufacture recently, and all.metal plane which. it is will b used on the proposed fight. Information here indicates that Mr. Ford conferred with those in terested in the flight some weeks ago Vilhjalmur Stefansson. the noted tie explorer. is said to he the mov ing spirit of the expedition. which it is thought will leave next April or May. Those ciated with him are George H. Wilkins, English explorer, veteran of two South Pole dashes, and Stefansson’s companion on previous expeditions: Dr. Isalah Bowman. di rector of the Ameriean Geographical Society, and Malcolm Alexander Smith, hi-year-old Alaskan prospector and ex plorer. Wilkine and Bowman have gone to Detroit to ses Mr., Ford, Noted Airmen Invited. Lieuts. John A. MacReady and James H. Doolittle of MeCook Field hav heen invited to g0 on the polar trip. It is understood they have hesn asked to visit Detroit to give their opinion of the feasibility of the proposed flicht They regard the Aight as& practi ‘anA would like to undertake it Lisnt. MacReady. with Lieut. Oak 16y G. Kelly. made the first trans continantal airplane Alight a few vears ago. Lisut. Doolittle holde several air records And won the recent Schneider enp race at Raltimore The proposad route ix 1.425 miles— 560 from Point Barrow fo the Pole and 825 miles over the tip of the globhe to Spitzherzen, on the other side, Flea Powd.er Order For Ship Depletes Supply of Town Ar By the Asanciated Press PLYMOUTH. England, ber 22.—A wireleas demand by the linar Rotterdam for 3 pounds of flea powder to be used for the hene fit of a cargo of silver foxes brought about A famine here in this neces sary drug. The ship had on board 161 foxes from the United States. They lived in €ueh proximity on the voyage as to require the powder before they could be landed. The whols town of Plymouth had to e searched be- fore the order could be completely filled. 2 Decem- . THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. . TUESDAY, DECEMBER DRIVE TO REDUCE * RUBBER WASTE ON 'Nation-Wide Campaign s Urged by Hoover—Sees Blow at Monopoly. SeeRinz hetter ntilization of ribber “in order to free the country from the imposition of unrensonable prices for rubber imposed by the Kast Indian rubber combine.” the National Rubber Arsociation and the National Automo bile Chamber of Commerce have joined in a cnmpaign to effect a reduction in the price of rubber, Secretary Hoover announced today The two organizations include the mosi important rubber and antomobile manufacturers, and the movement which they will initiate will be Nation wide The movement san consumption to_cut down Amerl of rubber was or- ganized within a few hours after the House had ordered an inquiry charges of A British monopoly of the sources of vubber production. Mr. Hoover conferred here Iast night with spokesmen for the National Rubber Association and the National Automo. bile Chamber of Commerce. Asks General Support. Secretary Hoover said he hoped that avery user of Y owner and service Would assist in the campaign. We reduce our consumption of rubber by per cent without de. creasing the use of our cars A single mile.” Mr. Hoover sald. “if we will simply rvepalr our tives in time and uge them carefully. We ask for no seli-denial, simply want batter uss. Our tires are like our clethes in_time saves nine. The manufact s declare that there are ample supplies of rubber In the world, but that they have héen held up by an Easi Indlan rubber rombination and by rubber has increased from 3a A pound to an average of $1.10 month. A vear ag Mr. Hoover ‘he combine deciared that 35 was A reasonahle price. He added that the differ=n now démanded by her and speculators amounts on our 1000000 pounds of annual rubbar imporis 1o nearly $700.000,000 per vear and means an additfonal charge of $30 10 $70 & year on evary automo- bile user, Tire Prices Up 30 Per Cent. Pricas of automobile tires in Wash ington have risen about 30 per cent since last June The Secretary repeatedly has at iacked the British rubber combination, And recently he sounded a warning that unless there was a changa of policy determined steps would taken in this country to meet the sitn ation. n 3 station cents last <l rderin day the flou an investigation vester - acted on a resolution by the Republican leader. Rep nia tive Tilgon of Connecticut, and with the support also of ranking members of the minority party Th> resolution also directed vestizating committee to inqu the situation as resards other prod ucte. ineluding coffee and pulpwood and the campaign launched today by Recretary Hoov Apparantly was in tended partly as a warning of what might he doné in other industriés where forsign monepoliss exist. ENORMOUS PROFIT SHOWN. tha in & into Revelation In London Concurrent With Demand for Prohe. the Associated P LONDON. Decembar —Revela- tions of big profits in rubher hers have heen made simultaneonsly with news from Washington that allezad manipu lation of crude rubbar pricas by Rritish colonial governments will he the suh. ject of a congressional investigation Thers also are statements that a tem porary fall in the price of rubber may he expected during the vear, hut that unless consumption ie severaly cur. tailed it will he in excess of full pro. duction within a vear or twe British rubber companies are de- clared the Daily Express to have increased proflts by about £50,000.000 during the vear 19 America’s pt chases, exceeding £ 100.000.000, form. the greater part of thix enormous transaction. As a consequance of the large earnings many €1 rubber shares have rixen to £4 and £8. Brit By ish plantations furnished in the neigh- | borhood of one-half duction, or about 250,000 tons. Some of the speculators in Are asserted to have lost heavily last week when spot prices, due largely to American influences on the market, dropped neariy a shilling. Thére was a partial veaction, however, at the and of the week and the situation ia not being viewed with general alarm on the market, where Tt is nsserted that the law of supply and demand must finally determine prices It i&« not known whether Parliament, before adjourning for the Christman holidaye, will take up the charge of bad falth made hy Representative Hull of Tennessee against Great Britain, with regard to alleged manipulation of crude ruhber. or of the statement of Representative Tilson, who proposed the investigation of the rubber altua- tion which is to be held by the Con- Rress, (hat Americans were paying $700,000,000 annually ak “tribute to Great Britain hecause of its control of rubber prices.” If Parliament does not take up the matter before it rises for the holiday racess it cannot be dis. 2 the new session starts. LANGLEY MAY RESIGN. the world's pro. House Committee Understands Ac- tion Depends Upon Final Appeal. The special House committee ap. pointed 10 investigate charges againat Representative John W. Langlay, Re. publican, Kentucky. who was eonviet ed of conspiracy fo violate tha na. tional prohibition Act. reported today that it understood he would resign from the House in vent his appeal to the Supreme Court failed. The committea held that it was net the policy of the House to take metion AgAINRL A member accumed of orima until the court of 1ast resort had passed on the cass. . Typhoid's 3d Victim in Lansing. LANSING. Mich., December 22 (#), —Typhold fever, said to have orig. inated at a church dinner in Faton Rapids. Mich.. November 18, claimed its third vietim with the death last night of Mrs. James Stebbins of this city Luren D. Dickingon, former lieu- tenant governor and one of the 24 stricken, suffered a slight relapse yes. terday. = . ol Accepts League Post. SENEVA, December 22 (). —Fred. eric A. Delano of Washington has cabled his Acceptance of the presi- dency of the Laague of Natlons com- misgion, which is to proceed to Per sia to study the possibility of substi- tuting other crops for the opium PoppY. A phonograph lending service ia 4 part of the work of the Publlc Library of Springfield, Mass, into | automoblles and every | A patch | speculators until | conts | he | rubber | ed until early in Febrnary, when ! [PARKING PROJECTS MAY BE LOST | UNLESS FUNDS ARE PROVIDED { Commission Organic Act Authorizes $1,100,000 | Yearly, But Budget Allows Only $600,000. " Some Purchases Imperative in Near Future. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Parking projects needed in the beau bills in Congress for many years. In Klingle Valley the encroaghment of tification ar the Natfonal Capital to |puilders had ‘v;'":;;::l’“‘i"?':":&"'fd’ conform with plans for developing a poject 3 N 2 great’ metropolitan district here are [and much of the Piney Branch proj- likely to be loat forever to the eity i"" has heen destroyed by the lI'lhpr Ang Nation unieas sieps are (aken to ings | Ciomi “huilding avations ave Congress provide the full amount i 1:||lhnrln: lnnlr;flll_\' for the use of the | In this project the city owns a {National Capital Park Commission, it |Tight of way down the valley, and it {\wan pointed out today. The commis |ventually will be Arkansas avenue. | Alon'a organic act authorizes an ap. | But the right of way does mot run propriation equal to 1 cent for each !0 the t side of the bridgse, but hits inhabitant of the United States, or |Sixteenth street a short distance to $1,100,000. However, the initial appro. | the north of the bridge. It is desirable priation on which the commission has | that the right of way to the bridge been working this vear was $600.000, |Droper be obtained, so that a drive And the budget this year carries the WY may be carried under the bridge same amount b and into Rock Creek Park. When Thece are several projects which the |8uch a project is completed persons commission is anxious to get quickly |0 that section will he enabled to 10 preserve them for the park aystem, |drive downtown through the Rock but the limited funds will prevent Creek and Potomac Parks without them from heing purchased for some |hitting any of the heavy traffic of the timeé. With the frst appropriation | ¢ity, and it will relieve Rixteenth many small projects which have heen | street of much of its heavy traffic. {pending for years were grabbed up ax | jauickly as possible, conslstent with | {protecting the Government from being |overcharged for the lands. But even | Have Lessened Dumping. Under the present order of things the Government does nol own any land east of the east line of the hridge, and it is possible for the own ers of this land to flll in up to the hridge and build houses fronting right this structure. There is enough money on hand purchase about | one-third of this and nego tiatlons now are under wav for Thess negotiations were opened carried on only afier the Government threatened condemnation proceed ings. The negotiations also have had the effect of stopping the dumping there to some extent. The District vuthorities are doing some ash dump ing. but only under the direction of the paik anthorities, who are exer cising some control now over the changing lines The Pattareon raflroad tragke i0iidn avenue northeast 18 s of the projects which the commission will not to able to touch for vears at the present rate of appropriations. Efforis have heen made specificaliv to interest the House Disteict committes in this Another large profect which néeds prompt atiention i Foundry Valley couth of the Archhold tract. which coded to the Government, The ntter treet runs only down tn Ree | ervolr road. and If the Government i« | to Asvalop the vallev, it was pointed | out, it must have the land seuth of this roadway and into the river: nther wise there will he no place to dump the waters in the uppér packway Building and recrading alreadv have wtarted ihe heighta west < thia profect. and it je within the realm of <ihility that the development Vil move eastward and info the val ley. which. of course. will requirs a Al mearing the destruetion of the valley forever for park purposes There i« the | Fort Stevens H tract. which was partially destroved [aL this time of providing the full| Pofore the Government funds Bacene ;Fhluufll of money anthorized hy law made to get as much of thin an pos. Importance Is Realized. sible. 1t ix realized. however, that it i i ¢ will be a long grind with the compara commisalon realizes tively small amount of money avail of getting many able The Tark ‘ommie«®ion could | projecis promptly and sattle many of these proiects prompt purchirse them, but whan the first ||: swith full protection to the Gov {monex hecame available it gave it arnment. If A large enough fund were jattention to projects which were im- | prnvided immediately. and then eould peratively needed In the park proj- give irs attention to vircin lande along acta and the deatruction of which fo) | the watershads which it is desired to such purposes was threatened. Even | preserve. RBut. in the meantime. it in these some had been partially de. ved by the encroachment of build. | Year's Funds Gone. Other projects the commission {«uMcient funds a i to will he gone before | project, v rench them nunless e provide by Con iRvess 10 enable that body to go ahead, Iaccording to Maj. Carey Brown. as. alstant diractor of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the Na tional Capital and chairman of the {eity And park planning committee of the Xational Capital Park Commis {sfon.” The fund for this vear has heen {entirely apent or obligated. the last of it being held the negotiations for {a small portion of the Piney Branch tract which runs from Fourteenth and | Upshur streets, in southwesterly di rection. to the Tiger Bridge on Siy teenth street, following the course of Piney Branch now covered into sewer main, Reveral orzanizations of the realizing the handicap forced {commission by the Aparatively | #mall funds and the work to he ac {complished. huve sinried moves to have Congress provide for the pur- chase of particnlar tracts. Several of | these tracts were carried in a hill [ which was pending in Congress for vears. and Anally resulted §i7 the or- | ganization of the National gapital Park Commission. It out as unlikely that Congréss wouid make apecial provision for any tract having provided » commission make such purchases “ It wae faid by thome in close touch with the commission’'s affaire that it wonld he I better for such orzanizations and {others intereatsd in particular tracts to concentrate their efforte on the appropriation committees in an af TOrt to gel them o sae the advisability et east of the ed ity the! is ! | | ta an ! ie famous The poriance the im- of these ix anxious to {with the funds available the commis- | must hurriadly apply itssif 10 impara \ sfon was nnahle 1o gat which had hesn all the lands named in <pecific tive projects and let the rest n, less greater funds are provided un FRANK A. MUNSEY DIES AT 72: NOTED PUBLISHER FOR 43 YEARS ‘an olive branch and met | The first number of the new Mungey's | | Colorful Career Marked by Triumph of Resourceful- | ness and Courage Against Enormous Odds—Be- i gan Magazine Without Money Backing. | (ontinued from First Page.) Herald. one of the oldest in the country the New York newspapers and merged with it Sun. the Herald's senior by two vears. which Mr. Mun | general manager: Mrs. Dewart, A Walker, Stewart Olivier, Gilbert T Hoges. C. T. Dixon and E. 8. Friendly, |sev had purchased in 1916 and con | businaas assoctates of the editor, and a | solidated, with the New York Press. | | grandniece of Mr. Munsey. Mrs. Allan | The eider James Gordon Rennett had | | W. Mansfield of Meriden. Conn.. and |founded the Herald, and Charles A, | | Dr. Oastler Dana developed the Sun. Tha merged | The funeral arrangements publlcation was called the Sun and announced later. the New York Herald for a time, and What disposition Mr. then changed simply to the Herald. ! of his large state, which included his At the same time The Evening Sun., twn Naw York papers. probably will [another Munsey newspaper, was not be made known until the filing of | changed to the Sun his will. Mr. Munsey i€ understood 1o have heen interested in a chain grocery syatem in New York and to | have held extensive intereata in vari- ®. His aggregate wealth general report to have reached several million dollars President Sends Condolence Message of condolence from [Presi dent Coolidge and other high public officials came to the associates of Mr. scribed as “one of those many bare. Munsey when hie death became footed country hovs who start life with ! known. Messages ware received from | more in their heads than in their pock- | Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, ma-|ets.” He attended thé public school |ority leader of the Senate: Represent- [of Mercar for a while. but soon felt the ative Bertrand Snell of New York. urge to make monev. His first job war Representative Hamilton Fish of New |in the country atore, where he served York, Senator Jamex W. Wadsworth, |a% general utility boy. jr.. of New York. William Howard| From there ha went to a telegraph Chief Justice of the United | offce, learned to handle a key, and Herbert Hoover, Secretary of |WAS sent to Augusia. then An im- Commerce; Postmaster General New,|Dportant publishing center. Hia work Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Sen.,Decame an obsession, and he hated it. Ator Arthur Capper of Kansas, { He knew he could do big things. The During his varied career as news.| four walls of a telegraph office, he paper and magazine publisher, Mr. Wrote vears afterward. “were to me as Munsey edited or owned about a score, the cage to a tiger vearning for the| ot Dublications, boundless freedom of the jungle.” 'l was so sure of myself,” he con. tinued, ““that I would willingly have given 10 yvears of my life, without com- | pensation, for a chance with some of the big concerns of the country—ra roading, steel manufacturing, shipping, banking or any of the great stapie in. dustries.” Longed ta Be Publisher. Gradually the publishing germ | |entered hia blond. He drew up alab: orate plans for a magazine, and suh. mitted them to various persons with money, but “an anterprise so hazard- ous ax publishing. and managed by a man who had no practical experience, | will be Munsey made % Like Alger Character. The early life of Mr. Munsey, as he |forged gradually ahead in spite of countless disappointments and bitter reverses, was not unlike that of an Alger hero. although his ultimate suc- |cese outdid the imagination of even |that famons writer. Rorn in the little town of Meércer, Me.. August 21, 1854, he has been de | Reached City at 28. Munsey was 28 vears old and a tele- graph _operator when he arrived in New York one cold, bleak day In the Winter of 1882. He had come down to the metropolis from Maine, bring- ing all his property with him. It con- sisted of a gripful of manscripts, the clothaa he had on. and $40 in cash. He was going to start a pub- Hahing buriness [esking a focussing point for what he feit cartain, aven at that time,’ would one day he a great anterprise. he engaged a little room for an of- | fice, bought an eight-dollar table and a | i not appeal to them. | couple of cheap kitchen chairs, soma Finally ' his scheme was laid hefore | pens and a bottle of ink. and tha $40ja man more daring than the rest—a {was gone. Frank Munsey was broke | stockbroker—and arrangements were in the world's greatest city, where made to begin publication of the even the mighty must fight to|Argosy. The broker agreed to supply hang on $2,400, and Munsey, having $500 which With all his troubles ahead of him, | he had saved, promptly invested it in he atarted to work and two months | manuscripte. With these he started Iatar appeared the first number of the | for New York. Argosy Magazine—then an illustrated! 'When he had opéned his little office, weekly paper of sight pages for boys | he drew one of his new kitchen chairs and girls. Horatio Alger. jr., was one [UD t0 the $8 table and wrots for the of the contributor This was the be-|$2.500. A few days later he collapsed ginning of a struggle which hax had | Over that same table. The broker up few. if ay, paraliels in the publishing |in Maine had changed his mind. He | world. would keep his money. This Mr. Mun- i sey described as “‘jolt No. 1.” Next he took his schema to a p lisher, who offered to bring the mag: zine out in his own name. retaining Munsey aa edigor and manager. Two months later “the first number ap- peared, and three months after that the publisher failed. This was “‘jol Neo.-2." The insolvent publisher owed the editor and manager of the Argosy something more than a thousand dol- lara in salary, which the latter took His moat notable achievement in|for the good will of the infant weekly the newspaper flald came in February, | papsr. Writing of thia period, he de. 1920, when he acquired the New York scribed it as ‘the fbeginning of a Won Publishing Fame. Forty vears later, after one of the most remarkable demonstrations of hewing success out of faflure ever {seen in that particular busineas, Frank Andrew Munsev had hecome one of{ { the foramost publishers fn the United ! States, numbering hit newspapers and magazineg by the score and his wealth By the millions. It bhad been a fight evary step of the way, and not once did Juck lend A hand with the burden. | Winter | &round | price. iof clrenlars direct | ton, 29 1925 Ll President Pays Munsey Tribute; His Death Shock President Coolidge pald a tribute to Frank A. Munsey, publisher of the New York Bun, whose death occurred today, in a telegram sent to Willlam T. Dewart, general manager of the Sun. “The death of Frank Munsey has taken one of the outstanding publishers of our time,” he said. “He mtarted as a poor boy in Maine. Through energy and an indomitable will to succeed, typi- cal of our true American spirit, he conquered all obstacles in his path. A an editor he reached a position of influence in the coun- try. Hia support of measures ap- pealing to his judgment was strong and unfaltering. Mr. Munsey was a member of thé commission appointed by me to arrange for the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. The swiftnesa of his passing has been the more of a shock, for very recently he was a guest at the cabiinet_dinner.” struggle such as no man Ix Justified in undertaking.” He had no capital and no means of raising any. Many advance subscriptions had been ri ceived and the money spent. one | had any faith in the magazine and| could get no credit. | | Borrowed $300 More. Rorrowing $300 from a friend in Maine, he fought on to keep what little life the publication had. In the of 1886 he wrote his second story for the Argosy. It was Afloat in a Great City.” He out 6000 words a week by candle light after long days of strug gle at the oMce. \When he had fin ished this he looked back on the four vears of drudgery that he had lived through since coming to New York. As a reward, he found that his dabtx amounted to ahout $16,000. This was “jolt 3" the worst of all Hix serial story, _ however, had helped the «ifculation and money started 1o come in. He increased the size of thé magaziné and raised the A fast a& the monéy Arrived nsed for adveriiaing. In five| he apent $95.000 and dis. | 11,300,000 sample copies of | It wax then called the Golden Argosy He had 20 men | on thé road east of Nebraska, dis.| tributing samples. In New York he| had no hookkeeper, no editorial force no stenographer or no tvpewriter. | They were luxuries which he could| not afford Al the close erial called it was monthe tributed the Argosy of this campaign. 1887, the magazine had attained a| cirenlation of 115,000 copies and was paving a net income of $1.500 a week He wrote a third serfal. grinding out another £.000 words n week. It was called “The Roy Broker.” and added ! ‘nother 20,000 to the cireulation. Circulatio But something cirenlation soon trouble seemad inj Soon was wrong. The hegan 1o fade. The to he with juvenile publications. all of which were rap idly failing. In 1881 he started Mun <ex’s Weekly, hoping 1o aet it under way hefore the Argosy went com. pletely down. In a few months he put $100.000 into the new ventury and still it jost. He changed it to Munsey's Magazine, at 25 cents a copy, but It would not sell. Ry 1893 he had two magazines, hoth losing money, and was mare than $100.000 in debt. In attempting to lower the | price of his publications he brought on trouble with the great news di tributing company _upon whom he | was dependeni for cireulation. Determining to g6 over the head of | the company, he sent et thousands to newsdealers all over the country. telling of hix en larged magazine at a lower price. The circulars did the work. The news com- pany received orders by the hasket full. They went to Mr. Munsey with his terms. Magazine reachad 40,600 copies. Be ! fore it stopped the rapid climb it had passed the 700.000 point. Wae Turning Polnt. Thit marked the beginning of suc cess for Frank Munsey. He had heen | willing to give 10 vears of his life for a chance to get started He had ac tually given more than 11 vears—and owed $100.000. Rix months after Mun sey’s Magazine blazed the way ihe Argosy shook off it juvenile cloak and entered the fleld for adult pub. lications, Rince that day it has made | several fortunes for its owner In addition to the two publications whose histories are so closely bound up with his early life, Mr. Munsey ac. quired the Scrap Book. the Raiiroad Man's Magazine. the All-Story Maga- | 7iné, the Ocean and others, and owned newspapérs in New York, Washing- Boston. Philadelphia and Baltl- mora. He also had extensive invest. ments in other fields, and never per mitted his capital to remain idle. Mr. Munsey never married, He lived for many vears at one of New York’s fashionable hotels, and also malntained a untry estate at F 1 bethtown, X CAPITAL WORK PRAISED. {ond week on Munsey Prominent as Publisher and Banker in Washington. Mr. Munsey wa& prominently en gaged in newspaper and banking en- terprises in the National Capital for many years. He began his activities here in 1901 when he purchased the Washington Times, including its morning, evening and Sunday edi-| tions, from Walter . Hutchins, then president of the Times Publishing Co. Prior to hix assuming the editorship | of the paper, it had been formed by a group of printers, on a co-operative ! plan, and came under the control of | Representative C. G. Conn of Indiana, | being purchased in 1896 by Stilson | Hutchins. | Mr. Munsey continued to direct the Times until June 26, 1921, when the | entire stock of the company waa re- ported sold to Arthur Brisbane. He stated at the time that he parted with | the paper with great regret and that: he did it “because Brisbane offered a much greater price that it was worth | to me.” | Fades. j ! stances | respondence [ 1ogical B Out of Prison NICKY ARNSTEIN, Central figure In a $5.000,000 theft, released from Leav Itentiary today. He is spe ago to spend Christmas with rice, and their family. SHENANDOAH QuIZ ENDS—REPORT GUE BY FIRST OF YEAR (Continued from First Page.) officer is always responsible for the safe conduct of his ship. But 1= contended that In such a case as that of the loss of the Shenandoah the ve. | sponsibility of the commanding offi BECKETT CLEARED IN KILLING BANDIT Hero of Spectacular Pay Roll Hold-Up Released From Formal Arrest. A ner's jury yesterday ated Andrew Reckett, colored messen ger of Frank R. Jelleff’s store. from hiame for killing George Maxwell, o ored, one of the three holdup who attempted 1o roh him of o $6.000 pay roll Saturday. “In defense of Ilife and wropers was the reason assigned hy the jur: impaneled by Coroner J Ramsey Nevitt, for the shooting. Testimonsy at the Inquest showed that Beckert did the shooting with a revolver which he wrested from the hand of one of the attempted hold-up men Beckett was technically placed der arrest pending the inguest S day morning, when Maxwell, who lived at 9 Florlda avenue noriheas | died at Emergency Hospital. He | released from all custody after { Inquest. | Paul Kennedy Blackiston. one of the {trio arrested in the hold-up. i not_guilty to a charge of robber Police Court ftoday before Ju George M. Maedonald. 1'pon waiving a preliminary hearing he was heil | for the action of the grand jury on hond of $10.000. According to Ralph Given. assist ant United States attorney, the third | man. JTames Simpson, les in a eritica| | condition at Emergency Ioepital. and | becanuse of hlood poisonirg which ha set in from his bullet wound is not expected o racover Rlackiston farmerly at the White House. cor exoner- men un was employed possible for any member of the Sher ardoah crew to perform his duties { constanily wearing any type of para {chute vet devised In concluding his lengthy argument Comdr. Rosendahl emphatically de cer terminates at some particular point. Such & point must have been hat when everything known to man kind had been resorted 16 in the effo to save the ship. Indisputable evi dence shows that such and that in spite of heroie taken, the disaster conld heen averted. The cathgory vhich the Shenandoah must that of “Inevitable Accident Comdr. Rosendahl pledged the united support of the survivars to the rigid airship. expressed thefr faith in it naval and commercinl future a rged the enurt 1o recommend the ve. tention. continuation and furtherance f rigid airship development and oper n in the Navy The court is composed War Ad miral Hilary P, Jones. chalrman of the executive committes of the Navy ( eral Hoard: Capt. Lewis B AcF onktriction Corpe, and Comdr Towers of the Burean of Aeronautics When the court adiourned Admiral Jones said the tribunal’s goal was to render a decision by the first the new vear. The scope of the investi tion wns to examine inte all cireum- i the di determine dam age of property. infuries to personnel and responsibility for the accident. if any. The findings will he forwarded not then fan have into in ! to the judge advocate general of the Navy and thence to Secratary Withur. Seeks to Refute Mitchell Rosendahl sought to refute given by Cal. William Frank Kennadv snd Capt. . P. Clark. hoth of the Army Afr Service: Chief Petty Officer . H Collier. a_ survivor. and Capi. Anton Heinen, German dirigible experi Comdr. Rosendahl characterized Col Mitchell's testimony as& being of no value and said that for the survivors sxamine him would he “unneces. sary as well as futile.” Parts of Maj. Kennedy's testimony were declared “abeurd” by the officer, and Capt Clark’s examination. he added. re. vealed nothing except “his own value. less, groundless opinions, and his testi- mony may e dropped entirely from consideration.”” The testimony of (ol ler should not carry much weight. the officer continued, because the witness did not awaken from sieep until the hip had broken in two and therefore he could not have had a good under standing of the cause Of Capt. Heinen's testimony Comdr floxendahl sald it was very apparent that a great many made before the court “were in heat of passion and had for the'r oh. ject that of sustaining certain theories That occurred to him and from which not even the cold facts could cause him to recede. Comdr testimony Mitchell: M Lansdowne Fav After detailing the Delay. enti cor- leading to the fatal flight, Comdr. Resendahl declared Lieut. Comdr. Lansdowne had at no time protested the Mid-\West did express a preference for the sec. the gzrounds of provid ing additional time for preparation of Ianding facilities along the pro- posed route. The commanding officer dirigibie had no concrete fear weather even in the latter of the of the part of | Augnst. the senior survivor added inference. insinuation or erwise, it could be established that Lieut. Comdr. Lansdowne actually feared the weather of the firat week of September.” declared Comdr. Rosendahl, “and that fearing such. he failed to make proper representa. tions of such apprahensions. the conclusion that inevitably must be reached is that Lieut. Comdr Lansdowne, in view of the elasticity of his orders, willfully and knowingly hazarded his ship and jeopard ives of the 42 others of his by starting at the time he did.” “To believe them.” he continued, ‘as one must, should he he con: vinced of the alleged reluctance of Lieut. Comdr. Lansdowne to carry out the flight as ordered, that such an offi It by oth | cer wonld jeopardize his créw and hi ship willfully and knowingly, not only approaches ‘the heights of absurdity, ! hut slanders the dead.” Prided Selt On Record. “During my ownership.” he said “ao far as I have any knowledge, the Times never has advocated any meas- ure or stood for anything that meant peraonal advantage to me."” On Ma 13, 1813. Mr. Munsey founded the Munsey Trust Co. on the present site of the concern, E street near Fourteenth street. He was the principal stockholder and its presi. | cent. Associated with him were C. H. Pope, treasurer. who still holds that position with the company in_ addi- tion to being vice preaident, and Wil- ton J. Lambert, well known Washing- ton attorney. The present Munsey Buflding was completed in 1915. The bank conducted its regular busi- ness today, but creps was hung on the door and Mr. Lambert and Mr. Pope and other officials planned to go to New York to attéend the funeral, probably to be held Thursday. Mr. Pope, who for many years was closely associated with Mr. Munsey, praised his service to Washington, both in his editorfal And financial en- terprises. Heé recalled that it was Mr, Munsey who went to the protéction of the depositora of the United States Trust Co.. when that concern closed ita doors in Novembér. 1913. The én- tire deposita were taken over hy Mr. Munsey and the Munsey Trust Co., and saved them from a great loss, he said. Cites Precautions Taken. Comdr. Rosendahl then cited numer- ous precautions taken by Comdr. Lansdowne to safeguard the ship and concluded with this statement: “It is, therefore, manifestly evident that he dla not knowingly and willfully sub- ject his ship and his crew to certain disaster. Likewise. it i manifestly not reasonable in any lght to draw the conclusion that it was with any marked feeling of doubt. reluctance or unncertainty that the commanding officer of the Shenandoah embarked on the flight of September, 1925.” Comdr. Rosendahl defended the re- duction in safety valves, which has been charged by some airmen as be- ing the cause of the disaster. He de- clared the vaive inatallation was ade- quate for any conditions encountered and “cannot be considered to have been a contributing cause to the loas of the airship.” He likewise defended the removal of one engine, explain- ing that it had béen replaced by a redio set of much less weight. Referring to parachutes, the officer declared that though practically every person aboard was aware of the seri- ousness of the =ituation, “there has not besen mentioned in a single in stance any desire, intention or effort 16 use a parachute for any purpose whatsoever in this disaster. Ae & matter of fact, it wou!d have been Im- was the case | measures | of his statements | the | flight | for the firat week of September, but | clared that Comdr. Lansdowna ex heusted avery possibilitv and used the utmost skill toward saving the vessel Aanger that was not to he hended, and that the <ibility of the ended. “Nor car responsibility for the | r1dental to this disa I The can he saised in |is the question of whethe | would have been of any | 1he circumsiances in savir { helieve it suftient m ention here o the pi sitfve testimony of a num nesses. well qualified opposed 1o the nesses whose ased on { conditions would have f Hives fthe 1i caved hy staving Although we are sury {of the worst commanding there he f. possible ie connectic parachutes value undec to know | imony knowledge of his case 10 save have impe were artualis led in but might eas as of others who recide nevertheless air 1ot lost atill of t lare of a zreat deal of {and commercial purposes vould be in keeping with neither trad tion nor snund Al this stage an enter such an immense amount of effort has {already heen expended. and which with slightly mors expenditure alon the present lines. will hring fe potentinl vaine and possib this type of aireraf We therefore take thie appartur |of stating that we are ready to do and KIVe nur utmost toward the contin tion and furthering of this projset And we urge upon this court the ad visability of ite recommendinz the re tention. continuation and furtherance {of rigid airship development operation in the Navy ha rigid airships. and d <hips nava husiness to ahand se on whict th ‘ths i Arguments Summed 'p. i The | inquiry { noan | mente hy Government's was closed with the nterest vesterday summing-up | Maj. Henry Leonard M. C. retired. judge advocate. and | his technical assistant. Prof. William Hovgaard of the Massachusetts Inet itute of Technology. Maj. Leonard | reated hie case “without summation without argnment. without comment and declared the Government has person or persons whom it desires inculpate or exculpate.” Prof. Hov | zaard asserted it appeared the Sher andoah broke up primarily ' an excessive sagging movems {cavsed by a violent upward zus | The fnquiry officially was | vesterday afternoon when Cha | Burgess, one of the designers o dirigible. was vecalled to correct nical data given by him en his | appearance hefors the heard of fcere. Maj. Leonard then resied | case for the Government. and Hovgaard hegan his techni | ment In the afte e = o the Seeks Only Facts, wha will The court judze advocate re | serting that there are those ! decry the results of your lahors I clared the Government “has no aspect of thig case which [t sesks (o establish: no state of facts as contra | distinguixhed from any oiher state of facts which it desires to set up: no phase of the testimony upon w hich it apecially relies or places emphasis: no person or persons whom it desires {10 inculpate or excuipate.’ Small giory to him. if any | be. he continued, “who for selfish lor ulterior purpose shall traduca i those (the Shenandoah) dead or sub- |tract from the honor accruing t those who survive. one there i= truly a caxe where the {various and complicated |airship of the Navy set out from her ibase in New Jersey on a mission to ithe West. In a few short hours she llay on the ground, a tangled mass of wreckage, with 14 of her crew, cluding her gallant commander. cold in death, and the remaining 29 saved for caveers of further nsefulness i iheir chosen profession by that dar- ing. skill and devotion to duly which have ever characterized men of the Navy In the hour of peril. * ¢ * “Ta vour lot has fallen the onerous task of dstermining the causes of this tragic event and of Assessing and apportioning the hlame, if any, which shall attach to persons in the naval mervice hy reason of the un- happy oceurrence. To that end yon have heard at the bar of this court 5 witnesses and have recefved in evidence 111 documents.” Prof. Hovgaard expressed the heliet that no excessive gas p ure was ex- perienced, although some of the auto. matic gas valves apparently did not function properly, permitting an un- even condition to develop in several of the cells. He urged a policy of auto matic gas valves for future construe- tior, not because the hand valves were not sufficient (o assure proper pres. sures or (hat they were not properly manipulated on the Shenandoah, but on the theory of eliminating the human element =o far as possible. He also advocated building of control cars into the body of airships. Ax for corrosion from caleinm chloride ir the radiators as an anti- freeze solution, mentionad by Col. Wil- liam Mitchell a= a probable cause of {the siructure disintegeaiing, Prof Hovgaard said none had nee ind | | | | that had weakened appreciaby a frame, although in time th's might have developed.