Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1925, Page 2

2 L) THE EVENING § DIPLOMAT MAY GET ERSHING'S PLACE General’s Patience Exhaust- ed., Refuses Compromise in Arica Case. Ry Tohn 1 War DAVID LAWRENCE. Pershing. hero of the nd master of the many 4 and emharrassing siuation Adeveloped in the interallied com in France. has fallen a & irreconcilable temperaments of Peru. His patience his sense of fairness will Cotnel that mand vietim Chile h nd is ex sted and him to compromise. his t permit dent with < his illness 'n nstances the mili 1o the diplomat shing may return. there determine | e ol e Gen may he an election 1 Jsasssion of T e At polititca disputed provinces the accommoda lied t ena that will have to nd it all ane chanees on the will he the eminent from a A soldier tance witeh outlined the condi considered 2 fal who helleved pline and straight-from ler methods. he framed a t would have insured ahsolute But the kind of an election he prescribed probably would nei have many ps he Reinz a soldier United recepted 1 of political and human equ the I'nited States doesn’t rmit of strictly fair <ense of the word ering and other Aesiz S, Situation Similar, The tion alections here is ms of voters Carolina parts n fo n election in Sout the Democratic in of #he machinery &0 should azree in advance to it officials trom all election nybody vhich ent hdraw - nd " from pert ap time. has bean in territory finally acreed ry forces. Pery of influence he withdrawn any without he ) possession for of the many yvears withdraw her insisted that potential or First. Paru election. then Chil conditions laid i yuted milit form from provinces aren’t really ch to either country pride demands which needs an outlet t robahly make hetter them while Chile At times heen inclined to consid ha settle and Pern has hinted at the same noth countries have not had that idea at the same time. .Jnst now Pe inks she win the election : Chile has an idea the Pershing jons will mean a loss of the ter worth but na victors. Bo he ea use of bizs itor he of the nnder President arbitrator tion is heing ed United States whom the elec ducted. It will he ifficult for the United States to send any one in Gen. Pershing s place. Yet A new set of circumstances may arise to snlve the problem. The new for ~ign minister. Senor Mathien, has just lefi \Washington. where he held the nost of Chilean Ambassador. There ix stinct hope here that he will work A setrlement. In other words diplamacy takes A hand again. and when Gen. Pershinz get hack here in the middle of January and takes a the time mav he opportuns for hi= commission to resume work nnder Allered conditions. or it may he that health will nat permit him to re and a more Aexible Individual take his place. 1t may he said in advance that no election will he con sidered fair by the losing side. and officials here are heginning 1o feel that it would have heen much hetter if the T'nited Stares had not acceptad the joh of tion, passing it on instead to e his turn PERSHING RIDES DATLY. Keeps in Physical Condition Prior ARICA Gen. John I ha ment December Pershing. although ad planning an early return to United States for demtal treat continues 1a take dally exercise with the advice of his Each dav he either rides long walks. He is careful averworkinz, hut continnes abreast developments in with the Tacna-Ariea plehiscitary commission which he i= the tral chairman n Arica the zeneral regard in the of Per shinz's deparinre is that his absence at this time regrettahle in view of the favorahle trend the plebisciia activities have taken since the of the discussion of the elec Jaws, However, it is it Pershing permanent harm ne to the plebiscite nezo. and the maintenance of his health fs a consider of first im. periance NEW CONTROL LIGHTS TO GO ON SATURDAY on Sixteenth Street in accordanee physician akes ceen connecrion feeling en in o prospect he. realized ame serj- Gen in wonld be Installation Completed. Except for Set- ting Timing Devices. svnehronized antomatic insialied: on H ard U Saturday n zhts conirol recently hetween on t was Sixteenth he afternnon nounced taday aclack, | hy M Eldridge. di Me ¥ neers of the which manufactured the sig Washington perfecting the christening o company nale are their operation ceremony The master control. located at ort Circle. has heen put in operating or der. except for the setting of the tim ng devices \r. Eldridge apd Col. 1 . Moller sistant trafic director, w will survey traffic on Sixteenth streel this afternoon pre- lminary to setting the devices he lights are so located that they » vesible to approaching traffic far rizhi-hand corner of in- ere are three lights od. zreen and amher is a signal for stop. cantion siznal. and the the nal 10 start All turns he made on the areen light. In ing lefi-hand rurns motorists are inetructed 1o draw np around the Intersection, wait until the green light faches trafic move in the npnosite direction then to com- the turn irector Kldridgse warned that no machine or pedestrian should attempt 10 cross an intérsection on the amber light. Those caught in the intersec- tion when the caution signal flashes. however, <hould clear the intersection a h the engineers arscetiona The nal— zht amher a for 1o and A hnepital costing ahont £1.000.000 < to be erecied in Tokio from funds contributed hy the American Red Crosa, r TAR. WASHINGTON D. C., WEDNESDAY, g OPERA OF RED MEN TO CONTAIN INDIAN RATTLE AND DRUM MUSIC Some Omaha Airs Used| Unchanged by Cad- ‘ man. Work Presents Life Tribe From Own !’oim of View. of cociated Pross CHICAGO. December opera. Daoma Charles Wakefield wood. Calif, mn Oper sdnce by 20— The Indi composed by Cadman of Holly and which the Washing Company is planning was described here yveste Ay Mr. Cadman as “the first opera written from the Indian point view The lihretto Nellie Richmond vas written by Mrs. | Eherhart of Brook- | Ivn and Francis La Flesche of Wash- | inston. D, C.oa Government ethnolo. | CHARLES zist and the last chief of the Omaha | of Indians their sonz he nusic comprises 60 Omaha tribe { Blue Water,” an Indian melody. The hemes. and some will be sung to!story of the opera Ix described as a the accompaniment of rd rattles. | true Indian tradition and deals with <and ratties. Indian drums and the Omaha vow of friendship. Indian Aageolets. A number of the| The two leading male characters melodies will he gennine Omaha airs | fall in love with the same girl, result nnidealized. taken fr an Omaha ing in the violatlon of the friendship reservation in Nebraska code. a deadiy sin in the evex of the Indian. Kvery phase of the opera is La Flesche et Cadman and Mrs Eberhart and became interested in | true in Indian tra n, Mr. Cadman declares an Indian opera after he had heard CONGRESS MAY AIR ARLINGTON FARM CHARGE THAT TARIFF | PROPOSED AS PARK BY FINE ARTS BODY IS SERVING POLITICS | First WAKEFIELD CADMA The land of the Sky Waontinued from First Page.) (Continued from Page.) has ceased to represent disinterested and non-partisan independence. A serious obstacle to the considers tion and correction the commis <ion’'s problems ix due 1o the t that & public has heen denied access to number of the commission’'s most pportant reports and Andings, and 1 it has therefore not been possible the public to be properly informed the commis: n's work congressional investigation of the Tavifl Commission under the flexi ble provisions wo Ar to be an | indispensable forsrunner of any legis lative correction of the present little undersiood and regrettable situation Iending such an investigation. con rmation hy the Senate of the United States of new appointees 1o the Tariff Commission— including Commissioners Brossard and Baldwin —should be post poned ‘pproximating 200 feet in width, run i ni om the west end of the Avling ton Bridge 1o the Valley of Virzinia and through with and Sonthwes 1o the Pacinie ( The plan of the Fine Arts Commission would have its | Virginia terminus located several hun dred feet north of the hridze itself connecting with it by a wide drive wav on Columbia Island The present Military road would be straizhtened out to conform with the rectangular line of the new wall of Arlinzion Cemetery and would he crossed At o point much neacer the viver hy the new | Vernon 120-fo0t roadway With the present new to Alexandria At a p Highway Rridge. thi w thont tie concrete nt south System of Parkways, The Fine Arts « | fiture Washington with magnificent Parks and parkwavs on hoth sides “Until adequate assurances are giv.|0f the Potomac River from the Key en that the member<hin of the Tariff | Bridze in Georgetown to the High Commission will le safeguarded by | WAY Bridze pussibly helow it liw and will conform to the standards | "he develoy of disinterested public service, it x| the Military falr to ask that no further appropia. | ROSSlYn will bring the Virginia ilon for the commission’s work he au. | °f the river in harmony with the BoFIZEA by Goncsean: {tomac Park development on Senator Norrix has in recent months | \Washington side and carey out attacked the appointments made by |[1G€2 of the ariginal meetings of President Coolidze, to the Tariff | Natlonal Park Comission. which Commission, the Federal Trade (om in 1922 work on a plan mission and the Interstate Commerce | PATK development in the aress ©“ommission. on the graund that the |*19e of the city iself administration wax seeking to serve | , The pla the upproval the interests of big business rather | 2Merican Civic Association thAnito fae1sbe (he! mas Biar duatinch| Bomane n‘ithe linteveat' af. Aauslon to serve on these commissiona in the | Nt of the outer park areas aronnd s ok Washington and recently hald a con T 6 Lt et us e e s iR ference, at which time such develgp dishonesty in this matter. Senatgr|Ment was discussed. It also was din. Norrig said today. “hut I do charge |©SSed At <ome length a1 that the power to select the personnel | <iVen by John Barton Payne. a of these commissions is heing used 1o Prestdent of the assoctation. three subvert the real rensons for their cre. “W*#KS 220.and at that time approved SHion. WHeh You TG A ohiiant| by Anatviavial imembers or e N personnel in office who iz opposed to|1100a1 Capital Park Commission the law. vou in effact nullify the law., | EVE IN PROHIBITION HISTORY PLANNED Tariff Commission was first created he (Continued immission s v o road o Arlington and e Po- the th the he for ot zan to of the which is of | had had great hopes for it. He xaid | that the flexible provisions of the tar iff law if properly adminiatered should be a benefit. But that when & commission that was supposed to be | hi-partisan continuously nsed the flex- | ible provisions of the law to increase rates, and not 10 lower them. and de. cline to lower rates that should he lowered. then the law had been nulli fAed wnd worse, One Reduction Made. from_First Page.) hined with those of District Buckner, against atured ‘aleohol ance of a fensive “The liquor Attarney hootlezzers of de assumed the appear sweepinz pre-New Year of consisting of as ver diluted whiskies, wines, cordiale and llauors. was sefzed in ‘1wo raids in ) i on. 1 fhe law have heen In effect | Ludd It wax worih a1 wansi noe 2 recommended increases in allion and wonld have sold f o dozen or more cases. and has reduced | hay much afier it hod Lesm <o <6 the duty in one case. the Importation [ pui on the market. Appareine o of quail Into thix country. The SUAT | filuting §t wae sised (o oiatue for Auiy was recommended for reduction. | e RioneRolatne hut by a divided vote and with one | i\ more men member of the commission debarred | nigni by Mr. Buckner's agents. mak from taking part E inz a total of two women and 14 men Thomas 0. Marvin of Massa-|iaken in two days. Among those ar. chuserts, the present chairman of the | cilad was Giovanni (3nn) ta said. was recognized as a high protec- | \as arromied encen ot ar tioni The Senator #ald ‘that hel|iiimen 1o oanciierday. and charac theugit it would be an excellent idea | i aicunol rade o 0 the 1o have Ruckner sald the price of alco the chairman of the 'l'armi My ommission changed once a year Xol bootleggers had Almost qusd jumping from $1.50 nn The vears visions of has Tariff Commission in the three during which the flexible pr were arrested last in the o with the Federal Trade | overnila ommission. In that way, he said. | e ys o0 s omEnt there would he less control of the ma- | > i chinery of administration by any one man or zroup. Mr. Marvin has heen | chairman for a number of vears. | The Tariff Commission is by law bi- | Fight Cars of Aleohol Unloaded, partisan. At present the commission | Tiibane Dedtaces i« composed of three Republicans, Mr. | CHICAGO. December 30 (#). - The Marvin. 8. H. Baldwin of New Tork | and Fdgar B. Brossard of Utah, and | pjcago Tribune sa 5 o Alfred P. Dennis of Maryland. vice ofmp:ne -sl:.,vnhl;]xnnlw.\;\:)lmjr:lnékeg' i chairman. and Henry H. Glassie of | philadelphia. have been unloaded in he District of Columbia, Democrats. | Oak Park and Maywood. suburbs. for and Edward P. Costigan of Colorado, | New Year eve bootlex sales. despite Progressive the extra vigilance of Federa stood. ix thoroughly out of sympathy | Each of the cars contuined 77 with the manner in which the com-igallon drums. a total of 30.000 gal mission has conducted itx work. He lons. which sold on a daclining mar succeeded William S. Culbertson of ket here at prices sveraging $7.30 Kansas as vice chairman. Mr. Cul-igallon. the newspaper save, 1 bertson. who was appointed Iinited 'previous price was $4 a galion Siates Minister to Rumania several | The Tribune estimates thai a gross monthe ago. was also frequently in (profit of $213.000 was made on an conflict with other members of the | investment of $12.000 in the a hol. commission over the administration | which was produced for 40 cente of the flexible tariff provisions gallon.” Bootleggers worked all day The appointments of Commission- yesterday carting away the aicohol ers Baldwin and Brossard are still 10/ and diverting it into sales channels, be confirmed by the Senate. They 'the story savs. have heen serving in recent months' Arrival of the shipment is said Dy under recess appointments. When the Tribune to he known at the Fed- they come up for confirmation some eral Building. where officials are of the Senators will discuss the en.' &rooming their forces to combat New tire question of the commission. Sena- | Year eve violations. Al holiday rrix sald today that they should | ieaves of prohibition agents have been onsidered in open executive ses. canceled and ‘“dress suit” squads sion {have been summoned to appear for % - ! final orders today for cafe, reataurant MISS OYSTER TO WED. | 4nd cabaret duty Datelcammistio A Ragatexwin | CHECK ON COMMUNISM Be Bride of Clark G. Diamond. ipmwnml‘ Stoppeds Clark G. Diamond, business associ- Army Under Supervision. ate of the late James F. Oyster. for.| mer Distriet Commissioner, today ob-| LONDON, December 30 (#).—Com- tained a license to marry Miss Helene | munist propaganda in the navy al- Ovster. only daughter of Mr. Oyster. ready having been dealt with by the Mr. Diamond is 29 vears old and his|authorities. they now residence is given 1629 Columbia | ward the hreaking up of similar prop- road. Miss Oyster resides at the Ar- aganda in the army. The army e apartments. Rev. U. G. B.|council has issued a letter to all com- Plerce is mamed as the offciating|manding officers calling attention to clergyman. a leaflet recently distributed among Mr. Diamond it named in the will of | the troops throughout the country by the late Commissioner as co-executor | Communists. The letter expresses With hie son. Norman W. Ovater, and|confidence that all ranks will resent i« given one-third of the interest of | the efforts to beguile them into dis- the deceased in the twa corporations |lovalty. known as James F. Oyster. Inc.. and Norman W. Oyster, Inc. The remain ing interest goes to e son and daghier. ¥ CHICAGO GETS SUPPLY. a he in English dye manufactu ing an agreement with save the industry. < are urg Germany to A Alexandria-Mount | hnehean | vies | 50- are turning to- | ... HEADS AMEND BILL ONPICKETING Blanton Measure to Prevent Breaches of Peace For- warded With Changes. An amendment Rlanton's hill the public peace in the | by picketing was proposed hy the Dis to Representative hreaches of triet cansed to prevent | trict. Commissioners today in & report | on the measure sent to Chairman Zihl | man of the H he Commissioners pointed ont that ey believe legixlation on the | subject of picketing Is necessary. h under the ruling of the courts prose cutions cannot be xustained ai pres ent nnless in connection therewith ' here ix aciual disorder or obstruetion of the footway, sidewalk or xtreet. use District committee Police Lack Authority. Moreover, the Commissioners ex plained that the Police Department has no effective means for preventing the display of hanners and other de. vices dexigned to influence persons to e he amendment suggested by the Commissioners would extend the pro visions of the hill to prevent pickeiink the White House. foreign embas public xch offices or _resi- dencex of foreixn officluls and oMcers of the Federal Government. 1t rea 1t <hall he unlawful, lkewise, for 1ny person to do sny of the thinga forth in the preceding =ection for the purpose of influencing any oMcer fn any officld or public mutter of the United States Government or the Dis C of Columbia. or any foreign of ficial. minister or ambassador. a1 his office o official place of husiness, or at the residence of such officia Consolidate Two Sections, The Commissioners also recommend {ed that the present sections 3 and 4 of he bill consolidated Into A new section 10 bhe known section 1. 10 read as follows That whoever shall provision of this act vectly or indirectly employ any othe. person 1o viclate the same. <hali be punished by s fine of not less than $20 nor mare than $200. « imprison ment for not iese than five dayvs nor than 80 dave o hoth such and imprisonment. Prosecutions =hall be conducted in the Police of the District of hy corporation counsel ssistanis, With these amend issioners said they inton’s bill. 'BUS MERGER HINT STOPS HEARING ON EXTENSION PLEAS Wontinued viclate any who shall di more hy fine Court the his Columbli or by one of enis the wonld fay 1t of the area hetweer | from First Page) public service readily agreed af the Capital The action came as A ¢ The postponement was hy represeniatives raction of the hus company stinct surprise to public utilities experts who regard the move #s another definite step toward a voluniary merger of the hus svstems The undercurvent of opinion alse indf ted # willinzness on the part of the North Americin Co. new owners of the Transit C'o.. 1o unify the hus sys tem that service .without h competition cauld “a given Will Offer Substitute. Hoover 1old the commission that officials of the hus company and the Capital Traction Co. would conter and frame a composite petition 1o be filed in lieu of several petitions now pending for extension of hus sutes. John H Hanna. vice presi dent of the Capital Traction Co.. 1m mediately expressed the desire of his mpany to confer with officials of | the bus company #nd proposed that the petftion of the streei car com pany for permission to operate a line downtown on Sixteenth street | postponed. After the two companies had indi cated their intention to co.operate it was ohvious that the commission fa vored the submission of a co-opera tive plan and agreed readily to defer further testimony until a later date William McK. Clayton. chairman of the utilities committes of the eration of Citizens' Assoriations. wise voiced his approval of the cednre, My he Amendment Sought. The petitions which the commission had before it at the hearing included A requet for extensidn of the bus line of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. | from Buchanan to Longfellow street on the Silver Spring route. and a ques: for the amendment of two par; 2raphs in a recent order autho Loperation of the line. The bus company asked that “local passengers mav he carried in the Dis- triet of Columbia as authorized under existing permits.” and that “the profit #nd loss and other financial accounts of the Maryland extension of the com- pany he kepi- separate and distinct from the accounts of the operatio within the Diatriet of Columbia. I'nder the present order the latter paragraph provides that all materials, expenditures for labor, work of em, ployes and busses, shall be kept sep arate in the reports of the company $3.000 Lost Monthly. The present Silver ccording to F. W. Doolittle, vice dent of the North American Co., cannot continue to operate under ite | present management unless the losses 7 $3.000 2 month now being sustained lare counterbalanced in some way. The bus and traction companies an- nounced that they would hold a con- ference in the near future In an effort to work out a plan by which service in the territory reached by the Silver Spring line could he improved. When the hearing opened at 1 o'clock this afternoon Mr. Clayton { presented his petition for a reduction in tares on the lines of the Washing- ton Rapid Transit Co. from five tokens | for 45 cents to six tokens for 10 cents. Mr. Clayton also petitioned for re- ciprocal transfers without additional charge to car or hus riders at Thir- teenth and F streets and at Seventh street_and Pennsylvania avenue, and that the tokens of the street railway lines and the busses be interchange. able. Spring bus line, Nine Points Presented. Nine arguments designed to show that the company can reduce its fa to six: tokens for 40 cents and still | earn & fair return are set forth in the [ brief The chief one contended that the company earned a return of 21.3| per cent on its investment during the | first eleven months of the current calencar year. Another point_brought out by Mr. Clayton was to the effect that the de- preciation set up by the company is ‘excessive”; that $3,800 is charged against maintenance for advertising as well as an item of 37,000 for legal ex- penses and $18,000 for accident insur- ance. | Mr. Clayton also pointed out that salaries of the hus company officers | amounting to $12.000 a vear “is not only unfair and unjust to bus riders, | who must pay it through their fares. but wasteful and proflizate in man- | ravages eastern {capital a by ! high | pearance of resting at 130 '$205 Collection | Completes Last . 2 ()pportumtles The members of the second dis- trict conference of volunteer work- ers of the Associated Charities closed the remaining Christmas Opportunities. Nos. 11 and 13, by turning in $205, which they had col- lected for the fund. it was an- nounced today. This means that all the 34 children and 18 adults in these 14 families are assyred of maintenance throughout 19 According 1o plan_ under which the funds ars distribvted o the families a ledger acosunt is opened in the name of each one of the opportunities. The sum budger- ed and raised for cach one is credited 1o the particulur family and drawn against each week by checks in the name of the family The district visitor keeps in close touch with the mothars and thil dren in each zroup to advise and befriend the family throughout the vear. Any zifte for the opportunities which may he hereafior received will ha credited to one or more of the 14 families. 10 he used to meet any unexpecied cmergency ar 1o zive care for a longer period of time RAVAGE OF FLOODS GROWING IN EUROPE Big Cities Hit — Hundreds Dead—Troops Called Out as Pillaging Begins. By the Accaciated Pross PARIS. December central are hour 30, Floods in their news of overfliowing their nrope increasing tver hrings iditional { ks, Trafslyvania. western Rumania and Hungary heing disas trously affected. The governments of ania and Hungary are hurriedly rdopting measures tn.cope with the situation. Al available sappers. as veil a8 other are being rushed s affecte and a call has heen wade for volunteer helpers, troops Plllaglng Be Pillaging has hegun n szovernment martial summarily dealt with. from reporis thus far received 1o esii te more 1han approximately the loss of life. but it undoubtedly exceeds The material i« extremely heavy. In addition damages 1o houses and other buildings thousands horses and other stock have drowned Relgrade is now and the Ru has laimed thieves may he It ix impossihle man law, so that " loss heen threatened by water from the melting snow in the Car- pathians, which is swelling the Dan nbe. The water is heginning to creep into lower parts of the city and many villages in the environs of the s hian nder water Far to the north. in Poland tula Qs rising. There already Wl near Cracow, and Warsaw hound 1o e affected. the in a xeems till Rising. The French rivers continue to rise slowiy. The officials are optimistic as regards the Paris district. but when the mase of water accumulating in the tributaries of the Seine comee down about January £, Paris and ita suburbs apparently are bound 1o suffer badly. The waler in the Danube at Vienna has risen f', feet. At Rucharest many refugees from Transyvivania are ar- viving. They describe the loss of life in the vallex of the Szamos River as extremely heavy. Kodies, fntermin- zled with debris. are flosting through the town of Torda A long stretch of theParis-Constan- tinople Raflroad track has been washed out between Arad and Tosvis Express trains are heing diveried over « roundahout route French Rivers Great Britain Hit. December 30 (#).— Rapid the <now and continued heavy rains are causing floods in many parte of Great Britain. Vast tracis of land ave submerged. The Rivers Wye and Monnow in Darby are rapidly rising. The Avon ix seven feet out of its banks. Much farm land along the Dee. Severn and he Clyde is inundated Glasgow experienced tide vesterday. The water rose within ‘a foot of the tep of the quay walls, giving the ships the ap- street level. All shipping was suspended as a pre- cantionary measure JLLONDON thawing of an unusually to Flerce Gale m AMSTERDAM, Holland. Holland. December (#).—A fierce gale and torrential rain over most of Holland have caused serious dimage. Most of the rivers have overflowed their banks. At Tholen. an island in the River Scheldi. a motor hus was blown into the river, s«ix oaccupants haing drowned agement of A company charged with the public interest and accorded many priviléges and exemptions this pul lic service company is granted.” Other Arguments Given. Other points brought out in Mr. Clayton's brief follow: (1) Through a company Virginla, organized, managed by the president of the tranait company. that company makes all fts purchases of gasoline, ofls and tires, amounting to considerably more than $100.000. “Ii has been claimed that the company pays more for gasoline than its competitors,” said the brief. “It does not buy on the open market nor through competition. (2) That the amount allowed for materials and supplies for the vear 1925 of $28,008.30 s extravagant and wasteful and runs heavily and strong: Iy against the people who are called upon to pay more than 20 per cent a vear on this amount o the company. (3) The working capital set up st $35,480.12 1= questioned by Mr. Cla ton. “Why working capital for a| business conducted on the ‘cash and carry’ basis?’ he asked. ‘““The com- pany makes a turnover every day and closes ihe day with notning but cash | on hand. Why do the bus riders have to provide the company with $35,000 cash in advance and then p company interest on that amount at the rate of $7.000 a vear? Sees 25 Per Cent Earned. “The company is collecting depre ciation from the bus riders at the rate of $75,000 a year—the commis- ! sfor. permits the company to pay 4 cent interest annuaily on this 1o the bus riders. The com puts it back in the business and 25 per cent annually from per fund pany collects the bus riders. terest—one to the other—that the company pays six times less than the people. pay is merely a happening, an every day incident in the regula tion of public utllities in the interest | of the public. Tt is suggested that the company has ample workng cap ital fn its depreciation fund. and this fund is collected daily from patrons of the line.” | DECEMBER 30, operating In the State of | controlled and | Both sides pay in- ' 1925. RAILROAD MERGER PROJECT ATTACKED Attorn2y Says Van Swerin- gens Will Clear Enormous Profit From Deals. Bs the Associated Press Arguing against the Nickle Rallroad merger. H. W. Ande representing Chesapeake and minority stockholders, fold the Inter- state Commerce Commission today | that the profits of O. P. and M. J Van Sweringen and their associates In the plan would total $86.361,765. The project was characterized Mr. Anderson as & purely financial one and he urged that it be not approved by the commission. Criticism of the vhole career of the Van Sweringens | in the raflroad world marked the de velopment of Mr. Anderson’s argn- ment. Plate Use Private Cars, “There are curions thinge abou all of the Nickel Plate organizations he said. “That railroad has seven vice presidents, few of whom have any duties. but all of whom use pri vate o for travelinz ahout Do they all travel on pas Commissioner Camphell asked “1 don’t know.” Mr. Anderson re- sponded it when we wanted one | of them to testify in this case we found he was traveling around with | hix family and another man and his family. looking at condensed n.m.‘ plants il over the United State hen. whenever the Van Swerin zens have anvihing to do they or ganize A separate corporation—Ilook At the numbers of them. in this rail road consolidation. When vou find 0 many they constitute prima facie svidencs of fraud The slleged bensfits and savinge | they have alleged can he made out of this consolidation relate almost exclusively 1o henefita 1o thess cor poration—not to the public or the transportation structure of the coun- | trv. The merger is of no good to the public. 1t is illogical and uneconomie. here is abvionsly no business rela tionship of anv consequence heiween these five sysiems. The real purpose i« that of henefiting the promoters and hankers of thisx group of railroads Whenaver thess genilemen Kot (o A crisis anvwhers and needed help he continued. “the New York Ceniral was right there. They headed into the xame banking house. Mr. Van Sweringen said the Nickel Plate was not a little brother to the New York Central, but I am sufficiently familiar with financial expedience to say that| the whole thing proves the reiation. <hip was 4l least very close Had Trustee Relationship. After the Van Rweringens got con- trol of the Chesapeake and Ohio they huilt up the Aeposits of thut rallroad with J. P. Morgan & Co.. the TUnion Trust Co. in Claveland and tie Fiist National Bank in New York. And hen fiom these same insritutions the Van Sweringans obtained loans. | had a proposition ‘like that in court one time. trving 1o defend a diractor who had obtained loans from a bank where his corporation deposited. and the judge held that mv client. hecause of his trustes relationship. had to turn back whatever ha had bhoughi with the barrowed moneyv to the cor poration. Al through the Van Swer ingen manipulation their trostee e lationship existed I have now shown vou that the Van Sweringens are raking in profits £16.000.000 from the air rights of the Cleveland terminal. while thay are taking £14.000.600 move in the acaui sition of rapid transit facilities. Then there. is that Calumer Co. transaction in Chicago. where they rake $1.600.000 mare from the acauisition of lands for the Nickel Plate railroad - money hat really belongs 1o the stockholders of the railread. From the handling of the secw of these raflroads now in the Plate treasury they take more final figure is $86.361.765 —the of what they will make. clean up thie transaction. Then there iz $16, 373.000. which would go to the mi nority | stockholders of the Nickel | Plate.” SAYS SOLAR SYST BY PLANETS C Hiom Dies Suddenly JOHN G. HODGES. J. 6. HODGES DIES OF HEART DISEASE Prominent Was Business Man and Active in Fraternal and Civic Circles. John G. He 3 of the bookbinding establishment 2es vears old E street, prominent in local fra- ternal and civic circles and a resident of this city for the past 55 vears, heart disesse at his residence Juclid streer today Mr. i horn phis. PPm. and came he parenis when a child. il lished 323 I Hall sireet southwest, later to 311 Ninth He for 20 venrs in Evening Star Butlding annex Hodges pur- chased the huilding on K streei seven vears ago. His forbears had been in the hookbinding husiness vears. Mr. Hodges had heen health up the time of his and had taken an active part affairs of his husiness He was a past master Noves Lodge, No. 32, F and past high priest Pleasant Chapter, No. 13 He was A member Mount Pleasant Couneil. No Royal and Select Masters, and of Columbia Com mandery. No. 2. Knights Templa He also was a member of Alm Temple of the Mysiic Shrine and of Kallipolis Grotto. He was # mem ber of the Rotary Club since jts organization and had also been active in the work of the Board of Trade Mr. Hodges is survived by his wife Mrs. Rosalind R. Hodges: one son and one daughter. Graham B. Hodges and Mrs. Dorothy Dean, both of t city. also hy fve sisiers and one other. Mrs. Thomas Dowling, Wil mington. Del: Mrs. Amie Keller. Mrs Rohert Callahan, Mrs. Edward Thiele and Mrs. Albion Marsall, all of this eity. and Fdward R Hodzes of [rvington. N. .. Funeral arrangemenis have not hean made died 1343 ex 1iladel- with K was in r-and maovin ocated business at street The Mr zood death the of A of R of Temple A, M Mount AL M also Thieves Strip Church Tree. Thieves stripped a Christmas tree in the Columbia Heights Luthe Church, Eleventh street and »ad. last night. of 32 electric hulbs and stole 40 hoxes of Entry was obtained through window. The tree and candy to be used in A Christmas party EM CAUSED OLLIDING 1 light candy rear were AIR Engineer-Scientist Unfolds Story of Cataclysms, C lestial Bombardments and Birth of Sun and Earth at Kansa Rr the Assnciated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. December 30, The collision of two enormous hodies hurtling through space was suggested as responsible for the solar systém by | Col. John R. Millis of Cleveland. re-| 1 Army enginear. in a paper which he read here today At & joint meeting of the astronomical and mather g tical | sections of the American Assoc™ tion for the advancement of Science Col. Millix unfolded # story of cataclysms, celestial hombardments and the birth of the sun and planets of the solar system, among them the sarth. Dualistic Theory Explained. Tn explaining the “dualistic theory Col. Millis pictured two hodies, each something like one-half the size of the | present sun, coming together, “‘with a | velocity not sufficient to cause their | mutual destruction and dissipation. but smuch as to form their coalescence into the sun and probably alse producing | sufficient rise in temperature by me chanical action to account for the sun’s preseit heat.” He suggested that when these bodies | crashed together “a few relatively amall fragments were apattered out. These fragments slowly collected into | various units, now the planets, satel- | litexs and smaller bodies of the solar system. “The fragmentary matter Was pro- jected in one plane. and partook of the | resultant revolving and rotating mo- tions. which were naturally all, or nearly all. in the same sense or direc- tion for the entire system,” he said. Col. Millis agreed with proponenta of the “‘planetisimal theory™ that the earth was gradually built up by the coming together and coalescence of maller bodies. It is believed. how- ever, he added, that the earth was | @uipped with oceans, land surface: |atmosphere and even with life, when masses, comparable in size to the present asteroids revolving around the n between the orbits Of Mars and | Jupiter, “zoomed into it." | Accounts for Earthquakes. The gradual diffusion of heat shot |into the earth by such bodies results |in readjustments which may account for earthquakes. he said. Prof. Hugh Miller, dean of the col- {lege of engineering of George Wash- !ington University, Washington. ad- vocated a new profession—human en- zineering—before the engineering sec- tion of the association. He criticized lawvers and their pro- | tesaion ae “out of joint as a whole with the requirements of our present- day civilization.” “It is so much so that T believe that | half the lawyers in this country are parasites on soclety and perform no useful service. ““Part of another old profession, that of theology. has busied itself with controversies over technical matters I.nd thereby disgusted many potential !Jeadere with the church and its works. s City Session. “A new profession is needed in our complex civilization. * * * Such 4 profession, 1 believe, is the true hu man engineering profession. The hranch of engineering will inciude personnel management, husiness or zanizatio industrial organization, social organization, political organiza tion including international peace problems and many others. \We have A few men in the world today who re capable of directing such work * ¢ Al auch men should he or ganized into a soclety for the pro motion of mankind.” Tedious ohservations. over five vears at the Mount Observatory in California. have led to conclusions that may modify the famous_Einstein theory of relativity Dr. Dayton C. Miller, professor ot physics at the Case School of Applied Science and president of the Ameri- can Physical Society, Aescribed experiments. They indicate. he said that the ether drifts with at the observatory at the rate of ap- proximately 10 kilometers per second To account for his observations, Dr. Miller declared it was necessar to make (wo assumptions—first, that there 1s a constant motion of the salar system with a velocity of 200 kilo- meters per second or more foward the middle of the constellation of Dragon: second. that in effect the earth drags the ether. Ether-Drift Experiments. Einstein, Dr. Miller said. based some elements of his theory on ether-drift experiments of Prof. Michaelson and the late Prof. Edward W. Morley of Western Reserve University, which produced a negative result. The ex- periments, which sought to reveal whether (he motion of the earth thrqugh space affected the velocity of light, ‘was renewed by Dr. Miller at the Mount Wilson Observatory. ““The general acceptance of the the ory that light consists of a wave ac- ton In A luminiferous ether,” Dr. Milla» explained, “made it neceseary to determine the essential properties of the ether which would enable it 1o transmit light and to account for the optical phenomena in general “The ether was at first presumed to All all space, even that occupled by material hodies. and vet to allow all hodies to move through it with apparent freedom. The question of whether the ether is carried alonx by the earth’s ‘motion has heen consid ered from the early days of the (light) wave theory. Theories of the ether are intimately associated with the- ories of the structure of matter, and these are among the most fundamen- tal in the whole domain of physical science.” As to adjustments which the speak- er considered might have to he made in the Einstein theory. Dr. Miller suz- gested that they would not he maora difficult than in the old theory of stationary ether. \ extending Wilson the | the earth | AUTOMATIC LIGHTS CHANGED AT PLAZA No Left-Hand Turns on Red Signal Under Newly- Adopted System. Convinced that the Washingtor motarist fs instinetively afraid to run past red siznal lights. even when told to do so by traffic officers assigned to assist motorisis 1o make lsft-hand turns on red tghts at the two inter sections on the Capitol Plaza controll ed by automatic signal posts, David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, toda dered that stumbling block to eas: flowing traffic there abandoned. A new sysem of traffic regulation by the two automatic lighta {s heing instalied 1oday and will be in full oper ation by tomarrow morning. Hereaftor red flashes from the wink g eves of the siznal posts will mean <top, and nothing hut stop, Mr. Lynn wid with amphasis taday. The nerves of the drivers, jumpy from many fail « 1o negotiate the nawly fnvoked Affic devices throughaut the Distriet would nat support them sufficiently to make left turns against red Ughts, the demonstiation at the Capitol appa ently showed Result of Trial. Though two traffic officers, hoth « whomn were blessed with a good sense of humor, tried for a week to teach the he of motorists who past apitol during rush that they must make left red signals, confusion res vaflic on the H rise to much Under the through traffic consideration, made « on the usual green lights w ed lights will mean explaining ieft-hand osted n ful e they Confusio ands the sweeq hours turns on Ited, with jammed and givine temper svstem, however given major tirne will b white light Il maan “Go top” and signs will he motoriste he al poste. The word in hand turns view of the sig he the fe reach svster miatic h exists 4 Cap Plaza sentatives, Goverr humbler folks will find the salling sn fidently predicte, At the south up the hill shead wh the 1 on the ney officials cete there on post 10 of street, or n front « een light right-hand turne New Jersey 1l be on f vime. et =h the going ithe nds on left They the one-way on AD: ma on the g miuke green light In the lersey nds on ie. The n New avenue which are 1o make turn down the hill ar alo 5 et #ht. which white Leti pped hy an chane t-han pull up mmke the tu will he on light will All other 1 lights when The siznal ing green Thus, traffi the Capi Jersev a fr New a hand t e sec the printed the white is <how Again v on the rth will 2 own the hill or enue and dersey a rn an sldes from in front o Ne enue making from Jeraes Avenue. out the one-wav easthoun atreet leading from the traffic t Following this north and south traf fic movement, the e signal will g0 on 10 seconds, t machines 10 make left-hand down the hill road. wh 3l movement is hlocked hy The same general employed at the north New m rig tor permi furns le ather red 1 stem | post Other Lights ( the red light hound matorists lined up avenne lights intersecting sireeis will he green. Thus traffic coming up the hill will turn right on the Capital Plaza and at the same ne cars on the plaza will o either he hill road toward Peace Mon or Delaware avenue the g Also. on (he same cavs will emerge Trom the west bound. one-way sireet, which inter- secix the plaza at the signal post, and elther west down the hill or north f the zrounds Then the lights will change to white to permit left-hand turns from the hill road onto Delaware a north hound. All ather irafic movements he stopped at the time. This like the arrangement at the post, will shine hut for 10 ser vare ather When down ument out of signal enue signal other on The third change will lights an the north and and red on the west his. Thus traffic again up the HII and onte the plaza. and <outhhound materiste on Delaware avenue mav either continue ahead or make a right hand turn down the hill to the west. These arrangements. will affic hill roads but for 10 seconds time and for but %0 seconds h a cyele of the four chans trafii the other hand o the two signals throw and green of the south will mave Mr. Lynn waid hoth sides of the at a thro Through o will rin on h of for 30 seconds each The new scheme was hy R. J. Wade of the Co.. which has installed antomatic lizhts here CHILDS’ THIEF LAYS CRIME TO NARCOTICS Had Craving for Drugs That Was Trresistible, Tunnell Tells Police. stop 1 up worked out Cranse Hind all of the A eraving for drugs and the money buy them lies hehind the act ank Tunnell. 21. in vielding n sudden impulse vesterd snatch 20 from the cashier's windew in ilds’ Restaurant don’t know why T did it: T just the monev there and couldn’t help taking it.” “Tunnel] told police 10 day at the first precinet station house where he was held after his capture by Detective Alligood in the Willard Hotel at tha end of a wild chase from the restaurant vesterday. But the vouthful robber had admit ted shortly after his arrest that he was a drug addict. When he seemed on the verge of a nervous collapse from the reaction of the chase vester day a physician was summoned and administered a drug to him. He ob. served that the physician was giving him & quarter grain of narcotic in the odermic might as woll thro v, he told the physician, the good it will do me.” Tunnell will he given a preliminary hearing tomorrow on a charge of roh hery. and meanwhile his record is he- ing investigated . Robert R. Parker, 21 who like Tunnell. gave his home as Dallag, Tex.. whei ested as an accessor? before the fact in connection with the robbery, will be given a hearing to- morrow bafore Assistant United States Attorney Ralph Given s of that for all The average income of more than 90 per cent of the working population of China does not exceed 350 a year. Peru will pay for the plebiscite in the Tacna-Arica affair by means of a tax on suzar consumption and @o- mestic mail.