Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1926, Page 2

2 s PRICES DECLARED TREBLED AT MINES U. S. Fuel Chief Also Suggests “Very Handsome Profits” Made Here. Testimony showing that the bitumin- ous operators of West Virginia have trebled the prices of “smokeless” coal since the anthracite mines shut down anAd the statement of one expert that prices to the consumer in Washing. ton would sugges: “very handsome’ profits for the retail dealers was intro- duced before the joint congressional commitiee investigating « here vesterday Georze S. Pope. chief ensineer the Government fuel vards here. took the stand yesterdny at the invitation Senator Capper. chairman of (he Senate Distriet committee, which in- auzurated the present probe. Mr. Pope had with him a brief case bulzinz with figures and facts congarnin de s of hoth sides of the conl business, and for 1wo hours he poured these into the vars of the invest rs Buys 270,000 Tons Annually. Mr. Pope said that he buys annu- ally about 270.000 tons coal. Of this all hut 12000 tons is bituminous coal. most of it in run-of-mine grada for the Government's big cen- tral ting 2nd power plants, but some it in the specially pre- paved dome sizes which mos: Washinzton sumers are burning i of anthracite. When he be- <upplvinz m prices he paid prepared apal. he ked them in teYms of which Washington zed by law to sell declured that lnst March A sinzle car of pre- conl from MeDowell heen flo he fizures to zive ton nokeless in ette of West Virgini the public had ever to turn to bit its main source of tried to huy the suy quantities and found that the had jumped fo from $6.16 to $6 ton. “That was in November. In December, however, when weather prevailed for some days, Rgain went into the market and found he could purchase this fuel for $5.60. Early this month, when inthracite niners and operators sign. 3 sement was high, it tell to d now, according to best in ion. is ascending rapldly again e signs having once more disapy After how - hus coal for 1 supply. he coal in larze Cost $9 Here, i to take November as a ment and add freight o ind that the coal which 616 ut the mines would cost retail dealers $9 a ton on the tracks in Washington. Mr. Pope said the cost of hauling his coal from the vards to the curh of his own plants was about 97 cents a ton. r. Pope was asked if he could state what the operating costs of Washinzton deale: would be. He answered that he had heard them quated all the way from £2.50 to Continuing he said th A for Mr. this line of testimon 1e Government had made an Investigation in 1922 and computed the actual costs of many citles Washington. however, was mnot in cluded amons these cities, and Mr. Pope said the committee would efther have to accept the word of local deal ers guess as to this expense on the hasi other cities. Philadel- phia’s he cited an in- stance, is & which e declared was the closest he could come to Washington. The Government fuel administration gave $2.76- as a fair wverage margin 'Very Handsome Profits. Under examination Mr. Pope de- clared that if the $2.21 margin esti- mated in Philadelphia were applica- ble to Washington. if all conditions were eq and g expenses had not increased the prices charzed hy hington's re- tail coal dealers would net them *‘very handsome profit Pressed for a def- inite statement whether he thought profits here were exorbitant, he re peated that if all condiion& tvere equal he belleved local dealers ware “charging too much.” In answer to a question Mr. Pope £aid this $2.21 did not allow any mar- gin for degradation of prepared coal In transit and it was developed that some other matters of operating ex- pense were not figured in, these ex- emptions not being cited. The coal dealers, however, asserted that in or- der to sell really prepared domestic coul they were obliged to rescreen their fuel upon arrival and lost from 20 to 30 per cent through breakage in transit. Mr. Pope said the Govern- ment did not rescreen jts fuel and that thoge receiving prepared sizes were obliged to accept it “ags is.” Admits Price Increase. An argument developed over whether E. J. McVann, counsel for the Smoke- less Coal Operators' Association of West Virginia. had testified that not more thar 10 or 15 per cent of degrada- tion was sustaned in transit. Referen, to the record showed that Mr. Me. Vann had not so testified. but when pressed 1o do so had pleaded that he was incompetent and referred the committee to retail dealers for that fact. Mr. McVann added, after the hes ng had closed, that he was will- ing to g0 on the stand and admit that the price of smokeless coal at the mines had materially increased since he had testified. J Continuing his testimony under ex- amination, Mr. Tope said he had made a careful study of the feasi- bility of community coal yards. whereby either a municipality or in- dividuals purchased coal direct from the mines and distributed it on a co-operative buasis at cost. He said this investigation had disclosed that the plan was altogether impracticable and that in the end the consumer usually found he could deal with the vetailer at ne more expense, and sometimes for les Price fluctua- tions at the mines are too great, he indicat: for community buying to become a paying proposition. Profiteering Qutside D. C. Senator Glass challenged the right of any municipality as such to enter any business in competition with “its own citizens and taxpayers.” He de- clared he thought it would be un- lawful for a city government to take such a step. Senator Glass also ex- pressed a belief that the day’s testi- mony had developed “that profiteering seems to he going on somewhere else besides Washington.” Frank E. Boal, R newspaper man from Pittsburgh, had told how he and eight neighbors had purchased a car of Pennsylvania high volatile, run-of-mine coal a great saving. Edgar Wallace, a former miner and now affiliated with the American Fed- eratfon of Labor. told the committee that if there had been any tremendous increase In prices at the mines it was not due to labor expenses. the miners are being paid the same wage for mining $6.60 coal that he re- ceived for minine $2.41 coal. He de- clared also that there had been a tre- mendous drop in freight rates from the West Virginia field during the last six months, none of which had heen subtracted from the consumer’s bill. Mr. McVann, however. volunteered the information that this so-called drop was simply afirmation by the Interstate Commerce Commission of a step the railfoads had taken yea before. : » of margin < mines | counties | mild | he | hope of the | |ington auxiliary” was to BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Behind a “For Rent” sign in the big plate-glass window of a store in the fashionable Connecticut avenue shop- Ping quarter there lurks the story of a short and snappy squabble among some of the prominent Republican women of the country. Until two or three weeks ago the store was the headquarters of the “Washington auxiliary” of the Women's National Republican Club, with headquarters in New York City. On the eve of the opening of the World Court fight in the Senate, the club planted its ban- ners in Washington, signalizing Its ar vival with a fashionable luncheon pai- tv attended by more than 150 Republi- can women from all parts of the United States. The ostensible purpose of the demonstration and the Wash- su “'Coolidge administration policies, pecially the World Court. But early in January, to the surprise of all con- rned 0. 1107 Connecticut avenue suddenly’ went out of busin Thereby hangs this tale. Tt ap- peirs that the Women's National Re- publican Club, of which the vivacio and beautiful Mrs. Charles H. Sabin of New York is the directing spirlt; took the fleld in Washington without the advice or consent of the Leazue of Republican Women, of which Mrs. Virginia White Speel of Washington is the president. Mrs. Speel was in complete ignorance of the Waomen's National Republican Club’s Washing ton campaizn until she saw it name emblazoned on the hig window on Connecticut avenue. Nor were the rezular Republican Isaders of the District of Columbhia—Samuel J. Preccott and T. Lincoln Townsend moting “Coolidze policies™ here at the seat of action. When Mrs. Speel and her associates in the League of Re puhlican Women, which is officially affiliated with the G. O. P. organiza- tion in the District of Columbia, sought counsel as to the attitude they should assume toward the Wom en’s National Republican Club, they were advised to let it severely alone. Objections Cited Vigorously. And they did. is. all but one of them did. Mvs. E. A. Harriman of Washington, who is a vice president of the League of Republican Women. drove up to 1107 Connecticut avenue arily language o Mrs. James F. Curtis of New York vice chairman in charge of the Women's National Republican Club trao vigorons and paid her respects in ex-| [ man: aware of the club's schemes for pro- | THE EVENIXG G. 0. P. WOMEN’S CLUB DOES EXIT, LEAVING RUMOR OF FIGHT BEHIND “Washington Auxiliary” of National Body and Local League Fail to Get Along at All, and World Court Gets by Sans Aid. to ear-witnesses of the dialogue, Mrs. Harriman left M Curtis in no doubt that Republican Women of the District of Columbia. who have borne the brunt and fought the good fight for the G. O. P. through four successive national campaigns, didn’t at all like the idea of being erly ignored at Washington when solidge policies” needed promotion. Mrs. Curtis—whose husband is the New York lawyer representing Count ess Karolyi in the latter’s attempt to enforce her entry into the United States—is a concilintory and ciever politician. Butgt is not of record that either her natural charm or detailed explanations mollified the represe: tive of the Leazue of Republican Women. Later on, Mra. Virginia White Speel. the league’s exectitive, attended one of the meetings of the “New York interlopers,” as the Wash- ington O, P. ladies led them. But the hatchet was never burled. The new vear was not very old before the Women's National Republican Club put up the shutters on Con- necticut avenue. They did so many days before the World Court was even approaching the harbor of safety. The League of Republican Women there- fore seems inclined to think that the “New York crowd,” finding itself more or less ma »ned in Washington, de. cided to fade out of the picture with out walting to put its influential shoulder to the World Court wheel on Capitol HIlI W, affivers According shington Officers. The of 1 Washington branch of rhe Women's National Re publican Club are (o were) Mrs. James Car azter. chair man: Mrs. James F. Curtis. vice chair Mrs. Alvin T. Hert (vice chalr the Republican national com Mrs. fames W. Wadsworth David A. Reed, Mrs. Geerze Pepper. Mrs. Frederick Gillett. Mrs. Guy 1. Goff. Mrs. Charles L. MeNary, Mre. Francis Warren Mrs. T. Douglas Robinson, Mrs. Rich ard Aldrich, Miss Helen Amory Ernst and Miss Katherine Judge. One of the incidental grievances of the Leazue of Republican Women is that it was members of that organi- zation. chiefly Mrs. Speel. who as long ago as 1912 founded the National Republican Club” and con ducted campaigns under that name in 1912, 1916 and 1820. In 1921 New York Republican women founded their Women's National Republican Clit and. as the Washington women hid never copyrighted the name. they found themselves unable to prevent its nse hy man of mittee), dr. Mrs, Wharton others (Convright. 1924 ) | | Looking 1S IN MYSTERY FOG How Detective’s Card Seem- ingly “Walked,” Puz- zle to Court. Some of the mysterious aspects of the famous Chinese murder case en tered into testimony offered for the prosecution at the second trial of Ziang Sun Wan today when two wit nesses told of a visiting card having heen deposited through the door slot of the Chinese Educational Mission on the evening of January 1919 and of its having been found two diys later on a table In the rear room of the first fioor harles H. Bradle: assigned to the tenth that time, testified he called at the Mission House about § o'clock the evening of the 29th and was unable 10 get a response to the door bell. Although no reason was stated by the witness for visiting the house. he said he left his visiting card after several attempts to get in. About 6:30 p.m. on -January 31 Thomas Judge of Atlantic City. N. J., and at that time captain of the tenth precinct. testified he found Mr. Brad- ley's card on a table in the rear room the first floor. Saw Light Burning. Bradley made several efforts to get into the mission house on the night the prosecution claims the triple murder took place; and even made an examination of the rear. He said he saw a light burning in the back room of the third floor at that time. through the: door into the hall, Bradley said he saw a derby hat and a light colored muffier on the hat rack. On a chalr nearby wag an overcoat, he added. Mr. Bradley said, after he gave up hopes of seeing uny one connected with the mission, he wrote, “1-28-18— 9 pm.” and put the card through the mail slot. As he left the place he remembered he had put the wrong date on the card, explaining it should have been 29, as that was the day he_called. Neither the prosecution nor the de- fense, on cross-examination, brought out the purpose of Bradley's visit to the mission house which, according to testimony offered to date, showed he was the last man to seek entrance before the crime was discovered. Likewise, no light was shed on who removed the visiting card from the inside hall back to the rear room be- tween 9 p.m. January 29. and 6:30 pm.. January 31. the time it was found by Capt. Judge. Bullets in Evidence. The closing hours of the morning session were occupied with testimony of Detective Sergeant Fred Sandbers, finger-print expert of police headquar- ters, who identified numerous photo- graphs of the intertor of the mission house showing the pogitions of the three bodies and general condition of furniture. These and photographs of a check stub were admitted in evi- dence along with a .32-caliber revolver, two empty shells, a garter found lying on the floor near the body of Dr. T. T. Wong: two empty shells at the door between the parlor and the hall; 15 cartridges and three empty shells found in a drawer in the kitchen cab- inet; one shell found in a drawer of a detective. precinct at | the kitchen table; one cartridge on the flaor of the office and under the desk: two bullets, one in the floor and the other imbedded in the wall of the kitchen, and a box of 26 cartridges found in a desk on the third floor near the back window. Star Witness on Stand. Detective Sergt. Harry Evans testl fied to his searching the bodies of Dr Wong, Ben Sen Wu, for whose death Wan is charged, and C. H. Hsle for valuables. He said he removed n watch, chain, ring.and bill fold and fetter from the body of Dr. Wons: of finding the right trousers pocket of the second body pulled out and a plece of money spotted with blood 1y ing beside it, and of ncihing on thc third body. Dr. Kang Li, the Government star witgess, identified a book bearing the A WAN MURDER TRIAL Pictures Seized After Judgment Against Kubinyi The Vietor Kubinyi coliection of pictures and diagrams depicting emotions. which hix heen on ex hibition at Central High School. i8 now in the custody of . S Marshal Snyder. Following the fs- suance of an attachment by the Disirict Supreme Court vesterday at the request of Mis« ¢ Larimore Keeley, Washington lawyer, who mise be effected the marshal will painter for $1.600 for professionai services, Deputy Marshals Clark- son and Ceremile took possession of the collection and had it re- moved to the courthouse. There are 44 paintings in the collection. Unless a_settlement or compro- holds a judgment against the probably offer the collection at aue- tion. The collection has heen displayed recently at a series of privite gatherings. And students had heen invited to see the pictures at a showing at the Mayflower Hotel Sunday night. SEEKS INSTIGATOR OF SCHOOL STRIKE Ballou Gets Clue Which May Lead to Important In- formation. Indication there will be an after- math of the recent student strike at Armstrong Technical High School as a protest against the demotion of Capt. Arthur C. Newman, principal, was given at the Franklin School today. i} Dr. Frank W. Ballou. superintend- ent of achools, Is holdinz daily confer- ences with Asst. Supt. of Schools Gar- net ¢. Wilkinson. Following a conference held between Dr. Ballou and Mr. Wi'kinson today, it was learned that Dr. Hallou has been quietly informed .as tu the iden tity of some one, presumably in the school system, who cin give a great deal of light regarding events which led up to the strik-. Dr. Ballou sald that he had sum- moned this person to his office for a conference. The investigation of the school officials i3 being made at the direction of the Board of Education, which decided it was their duty to de- termine whether the pupils resolved to “walk out” of their own accord or Wwhether they were “managed” by em- ployes of the school system or their parents. A successor to Mr. Newman, who February 1 is expectad td take up his new duties as military instructor of the tenth-thirteenth divisions of -col- oréed schools, is expected to he named tomorrow or Saturday. Dr. Newman's demotion voted at the last meeting of the board is effective January 31. CLUB LADIES’ NIGHT. “Ladies’ night” will be held at the National Press Club tonight, with a dinner and a musical entertainment, featuring the chorus cheir of the Church of the Ascension nnder the direction of Albert Hsirred and Miss Jessie Masters, concert contralto. The dinner will be xecved Letween 6 and 8 o'clock. the musical rogram to begin at 10 o'clock. Asrsisting in the musical program will be a double quartet of well known singers in Mr. Harned's voeal classes, Including Jessle Masters, irene Cole, Reba Henderson, Mamie Rouse, Eu- gene Dahl, W. Madison Tavlor, W. M. Peckham and Mr. Harned. signature of Ben Sen Wu, which was used by him in his ¢la Washington University. The book was offered and accepted in evidence. The defense, on cross-examinatlon of Dr. Li, inquired if he came to America from China voluntariiy to testify in the second trial. and the witness re. plied he was requested to come back and testify by the Chinese Minister and others. At George | S Nomen's | | {In e | riv | added | prize all his life TAR, WASHINGTO! D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 1926. EARNEfilE AWARDS FIGURE IN CARNEGIE BRAVERY AWARDS Two Men, One Dead, Num- bered Among 29 Persons Singled Out for Honors. Awards for heroism, one posthum- ously, carrying with them medals and in one case a pension aggregating $80 a month, have been made to two Washington men by the Carnegle Hero Fund Commission. A bronze medal for heroism has been awarded, the commission an- nounced today, to Mrs. Dayton Baird Miller. widow of a former Washing- ton clergyman who gave his life in a vain attempt to save his 10-year-old nephew from drowning in the waters of the South River last August. Mrs. Miller also has been awarded a pen- sion of $76 a month and $5 a month for her 8-year-old daughter, Julla The widow and daughter of the dead hefo live at 757 Quebec place 4. P. Spellbring Also Named. James P. Spellbring, of 1880 Second street been awarded the medal and has heen offered a com- plete college course, probably at the unegie Institute of Technology. He vas also Involved in the double trag- edy at Edgewater, Md.. on August 22, 1925, which cost the lives of Dr. Mil- ler and his nephew, Frederic Ride. nour, of New York. Spellbring bat- tled the waves and currents of Ches apeake Bay for more than 30 min utes in an attempt to save voung Ridenour hefore the lad slipped from his grasp and was drowned. Spell 19 vears old, northeast, has Carnegle hero | bring almnst gave hix own life in the | attempt for he was pulled in a boat unconscious. The awards made to the fwe \Washington men were among the 29 recognized as acts of heroism the Carnegie commission. Four- teen of those cited lost thelr lives. “each case ® bronze medal was ed. Miller will find the cash award goes with the useful. Mrs. Miller has not vet been officially notified of the award. She works {n & law office in the Southern Buflding. Widow Very Gratified. by awar Mrs that I am most gratified with the award and feel very deeply the generous sentiment behind i1, Mrs. Miller said “1 hope vou will make it plain that 1 sincerely appreciate it. particulariy as it will ald fn the support of my family.* Spelibrin vollege may receive a complete urse &t the Carnegie In stitute of Technology at Pitishurgh or a cash award. hut has not been notified as to further aws A | representative of the commission dis ege cduca hut ar cussed the matter of a ¢ tion with him a month ago at no decision pellbring is an apprentice plati- worker emploved in a jewelry at Connecticut avenue and I, str Somewhat nervonus and ahashed by his public proclamation as & hero, he sald he was very glad to receive the Cargenie medal and that it is something he will Spellbring told of double tragedy near Annapolls Summer in a haling voice, re counting the detalls in a tone that showed his vivid recollection accident that cost two lives nearly claimed his own He paid high tribute to Dr. Miller as a “man and a hero.” declaring that the clergyman had sacrificed his own lMfe in an effort to save the life of his nephew. Youth Slips Overboard. Ly of six, including Dr. Miller, his wife, a hoat captain named Mooney, and his wife, the Ridenour youth and Spellbring, had gone out on the South River fishing. Return- ing in the teeth of a wind, 10-vear- old Frederic Ridenour, plaving on the gunwales of the boat, suddenly slip- ped overboard Without walting to throw off a heavy sweater, Dr. Miller leaped over- board and held the hov up, while a current steadily swept them farther from the boat. As the boat captain attempted to turn the engine went dead and the tiller rope broke. leaving the boat helpleas. With the wind sweeping the craft away from the pair in the water and a current pulling them fn the opposite direction, Dr. num shop the tast A | Mifer was seen to be growing weaker. Life preservers were thrown over- board. but he ecould not reach them wtih the weight of the boy on his back. Spelibring to Rescue. Spellbring, seeing his plight. dove overhoard without removing a sweater or shoes and swam to the struggling pafr in time to take the boy from Dr Miller's back. As he did so Dr. Miller went down and did not rise to the surface. Struggling againat the our- vent and the waves that slappad-him constantly, Spellbring swam with ths voungster toward the drifting boat. Twice the lad hroke away and twice Spellbring dove beneath the surface to recover him. The third time the boy went down Spellbring could not find him and so | weak was he with his prolonged im mersion and his battle agairst the choppy Wwaves that he himself sank. As he came to the top, Rlmost uncon- xcious, he grasped u life preserver that had drifted near him. To this he clung until the boat could be hrofight to him. Ile was taken aboard totally unconscious, and Mgs. Miller, who had just seen her husband drown before her eves, worked over him until recovered. Spelibring speaks difidently of his part in the tragedy. He prefers to tell of Dr. Miller-and the part the dead hero played. “He was a man among men,’ Spellbring said. “Had he been less he might have seized me when 1 swam to him, weakened as he was. Instead he gave the boy to me and sank without a word. If he had ¢lung to me we would probably all have been drowned. Father Dead. Spellbring lives with his mother and 21-vear-old sister, Marion, at the Second street address. His father died last June. He was at the South iver. cattage of ane of his employers, . M. Leithelser, when the accident occrred. Mre. Miller bore up bravely under the shock, but collapsed hours aft- erward. Today she ix living with her mother, at 757 Quebec place. Her 8-year-old daughter, Julia, is going to school. Dr. Miller had two pastorates in Washington, but was located at the Boundary Avenue M. E. Church at the time of his death. He first en- tered the Washington Methodist Epis- copal Conference in 1910 as pastor of the Bruen M. E. Church, later accepting the pastorate of the Lang- don M. E. Church, at Langdon, D. C. He served as a chaplain in the United States Army in France. FOURTEEN HEROES LOSE LIVES. Pensions Aggregating $10,110 Annu- ally Included in Awards. PITTSBURGH, January 28 #).— The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. meeting in twenty-second annual ses- sion here yesterday, recognized 20 acts of heroism. Fourteen of those cited lost their lives in heroic deeds. In each case a bronze medal was awarded. The dependents of those who sacri- Carnegle medal | of the | and | he | Upper left: James P. Spellbring, who recelved a medal for his part in a sisting Dr. Dayton Baird Miller (upper right), who lost his life while attempt- ing to save his 10-year-old nephew from drowning. Lower: Julla Miller, daughter of Dr. Miller, one of the beneficiaries in the Carnegie award. ficed their lives were given pensi aggregating $10,140 a year. In cagses money awards totaled $9.600 for educational purposes. Five thousand dollars was award- ed for other worthy purposes. Two of the citations named women. while an other named a l16.vear-old girl. The heroes who lost their were: Ernest Newton Ohio, clergyman, died t Andover. Ohjo. August 13, 1 when he at- | tempted to save A woman from drown | ng. His widow received bronza | medal and henefits of $70 a month. | with $10 additional for two children. | Elmer I. Alcott, rural route 1, Tor rington. Conn.. 12.vear-old schoolboy, | drowned attempting to rescue a fac lives hox tancoiph, { tory hand at Torrington, Conn., July 1, 1923, His father received a hronze medal. Charles Hunter Dukeman. Curtin, Pi. railroad brakeman, killed by a | train when he attempted to save a | | man at Bells Landing. Pa. October | 9, 1924, His father received a vronze medal Arthur Brown, 9 Robinson street Canajoharie, N. Y. died attempting to rescue a farm hand from suffocat ing in a vinegur tank at Canajoharie. | October 5, 19 His widow A hronze medal and henefits monthly Charles E. Murray. box 86, Shirley, | Mass., suffocated when he tried 1o | rescue a fellow laborer from a sewer manhole at Leominster Maxs, Oc | tober 6, 1924, The widod was award | | #a & bronze medal and benefits of §2 a month. Amos Franklin Cantrell. Route 1, New Market. Ala., farmer, died at | tempting to save another farmer from a gas-filled well ar New Market, Ala.. May 14, 1925 The widow received a bronze medal and benefits of $45 monthly. with $30 additional for six children Henry W. Mevers, box 1042, Round- up. Mont.. died attempling fo save a | &irl from drowning at Roundup. June 26, 1925, His widow was awarded a bronze medal and $45 monthly, with | $35 & month additional for seven chil- | dren. Felix Hood, negro, 110 Beech street. Fairmont, W. Va.. attempted to save a mother and daughter from drown- ing at Fairmont, July 13. 1924 The widow received $60 a month, with $20 additional for four children, and & bronze medal H. Bunyan Thomas Unionville, N. (", died attempting to | | save a fellow tarmer from suffocating | |in a well at Monroe, N. C., September | {9. 19 A bronze medal and $65 | | | d rural route monthly, with $15 additional for three children, was awarded the widow William T. Knight, 418 West Second street, Blk City. Okla.. died attempting o ve a girl from drowning at| Delhi, Okla.. August 23. 1825 The | widow received $70 monthly. $10 addi- | tional for two children and a bronze medal. Edgar . Broyles, Okalona, Misw., | negro. died attempting to save a man | from drowning at Kosciuxko. Miss., July 17, 1924, His widow received benefits Gf $70 monthly, $10 additional for two children and a bronze medal. Jens A. Schmidt, 345 Yetman ave- | nue. Tottenville, Staten Island, N. V., dled attempting to save a_man from drowning at Tottenville. N. Y.. Octo- ber 10, 1925. A bronze medal and benefits of $75 a month, with $5 addi- tion for @ son, were awarded the widow. Davton Baird Miller. 757 Quebec place northwest, Washington, . C., clergvman, died attempting to rescue | & boy from drowning at Edgewater. Md.. August 22, 1925. His widow re- ceived a bronze medal and $75 monthly and $5 additional for a daughter. M. Columbus Sisco, Big Piney, Wyo., died attempting to save a man from suffocating in a mine at Quinton, Okla., August 11. 1924. His widow was awarded a_bronze medal and $70 monthly with $10 additional for two children. Other heroic deeds recognized were Miss Evelyn Marle Wertz, rural route 1. Cortiand, Ohlo, 16-year-old student, tried to save a girl from drowning at Andover. Ohio, August 13, 1925; bronze medal. Alice R. Geary, 416 Highland ave- nue, San Bernardino, Calif., 54, nurse. | saved a boy from a runaway team of | | horses at San Bernardino January 19. 1923; bronze medal. Mary Blanche Nelson, 5809 Ocean View drive, Oakland, Calif.. 41, house- wife, saved a boy ffom drowning at Camp Curry, Calif., June 24, 192 bronze medal. E.”Rudolph Lane, Fremont. N, €., saved a student and attempted to save another from drowning at Bagley, N. C.. June 22, 1922: bronze medal. 3. "Ambler Shull, 735 Thirteenth street southwest, Roanoke, Va., saved s girl from drowning at Arcadia, Va., July 20, 1924; bronze medal. James H. Story, Quinton, Okla.. heiped in an attempt to rescus a man from suffocating in a 'mine at Quinton, Okla., August 11, 1924; bronze medal. Kennard N, Dudgeon, La Porte, Ind. 15, saved A farmer from a burning barn at Hanna, Ind., August 31, 1924; bronze medal. gayne W. Gilchrist, Sunset Beach, Callf.. saved a boy from drowning at Sunset Beach, April 22, 1922; bronze medal. Francis A. Murphy, 223 West Gran- by street, Frontenac, Kans., 10-vear- old school boy. attempted to save a girl from drowning at Frontenac June 7.11928; bronze medal. Joseph P. Murphy, 12, brother of Francls, who participated in the at- tempted rescue; bronze medal. Virgil I. Hosler, 1026 North Peoria avenue, Tusla, Okla., attempted to save a girl from drowning at Sperry, Okla., June 2, 1922; bronze medal. Noah V. Langston, 207 East Newton place, Tulsa, Okla, saved the girl Hos- ler went after; bronze medal. Louis L. Lambert, 48 Union street, Leominster, Mass., attempted to save two men from suffocating in a_man- hole at Leominster, Mass., October 6, | 1924; bronze medal. Michael J. McLaughlin, street, Leominster, Mass., part in the attempted rescue { Lambert; hronze medal. James P. Spellbring, 1930 Second treet northeast. Washington, D. C. ttempted to save a boy from drown: ing at Edgewater, Md., August 33, 1925; bronze medal. 90 Union | who took with SMOOT HITS NORRIS’ PROPOSAL TO GET MORE TIME ON TAX (Continued from First Page.) ure and one which should be care fully considered hy the Senate. Opening debate on the tax reduction bill today. Chairman Smoot of the | finance committee, in charge of the measure. set February 10 as the date for ftnal passage if tax reduction is 0 he assured by March 13, when first | income tax installments are due Senator Smoot sald ample should bhe given for debate, but warned that after passage of the measure by the Senate the bill must be sent to conference for adjustment of differences between the House and Senate. with a further delay while| new income bianks must be printed. | The commitiee chairman discussed principally the tax reducing points of the bill. particularly those provisions ) by which committee under a compro- mive eement of Republicans and Democrats increased the amount of otal reduction of $330,000.000 provided | by the H Bl o $352,000,000 Reductions in the income taxes pro- vided by the measure would amount to 000,000 this vear, Mr. Smoot said, which he divided as follows: In comes of less than $10.000, $52.200,000; incomes of $16,000 to $100,000, $46,- 300.000; incomes in excess of $100,000, $1 110,000, Anticipating attacks on the grounds that the new rates gave too much | reduction on incomes over $100,000 hy # slash In the maximum surtax rate from 40 1o 20 per cent and not enough incomes hetween $10.000 and $100.000. Senator Smoot declared the principle of “sound economics” was involved which looked “further than| to the interest of any individual or| group.” “The largest single source of fncome | for those having incomes over $100,000 | ix from dividends,” he said. “We have made no cut in the corporation t It ix only proper that the tax on dividends should be reduced through the surtax reduction. To tax corporate | earnings first at the 121, per cent| rate, whether distributed or not. and Again At the 20 per cent, in case of ! a distribution to persons with an in-| come in excess of $100,000, or a total of 3213 per cent. would seem to he| oing quite ax far as justice and fair- ness can permit.” d time, he Collection of Revenue. He explained that under the new tax rates revenue would bhe collected from personal incomes, follawa: Incomes of less than $10.000, $67.000, | 000: incomes of $10,000 to $100,000. | $322.000,000, and incomes in excess of | $100.000. $300,000.000. “Those who have high incomes| each yvear,” he continued, “must con. | tribute any tax saving toward invest. ment in industrial enterprises, react ing to benefit all of the people, and an additional tax contribution to the Government must result in subse- auent years from the corresponding increase in corporation earnings and | dividend distributions; those who have large incomes for the first time In their lives—that is, incomes In ex cess of $100,000—are certainly mak ing a proper contribution to the Gov ernment under a law that obliges them to turn over one-fourth of thelr ]u‘(:gl in I}IE form of taxes. Advocating repeal of the i allowing publicity of Income tax ’;‘:\:‘ ments, Senator Smoot declared It of little value because of obvious means of making false returns, which could be corrected after publication. The Treusury, he said, “has been unable to trace any additional tax receipts (..;)r:rm; fact of publicity.” ending the repeal of the inheritance tax, the committe ran man _declared “it would seem quite | proper at this time for the Federal | Government to withdraw from a fleld of taxation which ix so fundamentally and naturally within the peculiar province of e individual State.” The constitutionality of this tax he continued. “rests upon the princi- ple that it is an excise tax upon the mere incfdent of transfer of the estate at denth. and the value of the estate as A basis B e e for the application e provision in the House bill al- lowing o credit of 80 per cent o oo count of pavments to States on In- heritance taxes was assailed by Sena- tor Smoot as constituting “coercion of the States.” and he defended the retro- active cut In Inheritance rates so as | to make the 1821 schedules apply on all inheritances up to the time the pending bill becomes law rather than the higher rates in effect since 1924, This was done in “a spirit of fairness and justice to the living and the dead,” he said, estimating that it would cost 0,000,000 this vear to make the retroactive reduction. Discussing reductions made in the excise and miscellaneous taxes, Sena-. tor Smoot pointed out that It was im- possible to give all the relief asked. ch Woman Hurt in Auto Mishap. Mrs. Rose Atkinson, 25 vears old, of Niagara Falls was injured vesterday | afternoon. when an automobile owned and driven by Vincent P. Cole, resi- | dent of Buffalo, collided with another | at Rhode Island navenue and -eighth street northeast and . Bhe was treated at Sibley FIRST OF NATS G0 - TOTANPAFEB. 14 Harris to _Lead Squad Into Trairing Camp for Sprfng Work. BY JOHN.B. KELLER. Headed by Manager Stanley Harris, the vanguard of the Washington base ball club will report at the Tampa. Fla., training camp February 14, the field general of the American League Champions announced this morning upon his rerurn from the South. An other squad of Nationals will get to Tampa February 21, and a week thereafter the entire lot of plaver: signed to Washington contracts is to be assembled at the Florida West Coast training ground. Harris also announced th three-year contract as manager and second baseman of the Nationals he signed Tuesday at Tampa will bring him into closer relationship with the business munagement of the organi zation. Heretofore the young play ing manager has confined his activi- tiex 10 the direction of work on the field, but, at hte solicitation of Clark Griffith, president of the club, from now on Harris will assist the execu- tive In the conduct of office affairs. Must Remain Here. Griffith long has wanted a resident manager for the Washington club, and Harris said that under the sew contract he will necessarily have to remain here during the greater part of the time hetween playing seasons The manager will share with Presi- dent Griffith the cluh's office at base ball park the The xquad of players Manager Har-, v 14 Mo, ris will lead into Tampa Fehrua will include Pitchers Win Warren Ogden, Fred Marherry, Harry Kellev, Clarence Thomas, Harold Smith, James Lyle, Willard Morrell and Arthur Humphreys; Catcher Bennett Tate, Infielder Charles Myer and Coach Nick Altrock On February 21 Stanley Walter Ruether, Tom 7 Alex Ferguson, veteran moundsmen. will be due at the camp. A week later the squad is to be filled by the arrival of Walter Johnson, dean major league pitchers; Catchers Herold Ruel and Henrv Severeid, In- fielders Joe Judge, Roger Peckin- paugh, Oswald Bluege, John Stewart, Frank McGee and Ernest Shirley Outfielders Joe Harris. Leon ( Sam Rice, Earl McNeely, Tex Maurice Archdeacon and Jones and Coach Al Schacht Pitcher Allen Russell, Inficider Iverett S tt and Outfielders Robert Veach nd Harry Leibold be asked to report at Tampa ary 8. Joe Harris, Peckinpat Goslin will spend a week at Springs, Ark.. for general condit ing work hefore joitning the club Florida, Johnson in Good Shape. Manager Harris said that Winter base ball fn Florida was not as s cessful as had been anticipated, there heing too many other pastimes to at tract the native and tourist in the great resort State. According to the manager, Walter Johnson. who has bheen Wintering on the Florida east coast, seems to be in excellent phy sical condition and when the time comes should he ready to give an ex cellent account of himself on the pitching mound. Harris also has received a from Fred Marberry, who Is at home In Texas, in which the relief pitcher states that the nervous ail- ment that weakened his pitching arm last Fall has been relieved and that the limb is as strong as ever. Word from other plavers Winter ing at their homes, Harris maid. in dicates that they will report for duty al Tampa eager to take up the dia mond sport once more Coveleskie, acha d also letter JAPANESE GENERAL DIES. Miura Privy Councilor for 16 Years. TOKIO, January Gen. Viscount Goro councilor since 1910, S (®).—Lieut. Miura, a privy died today. Viscount Miura. who was born in Choshu in 1846, served in the Civil War in 1877, and held various com mands in the army until his retire. ment in 1888. It was while he was Japanese Minister at Seoul, Korea | that the empress of that country was assassinated. Minister Miura was ar rested on suspicion of complicity in | released after an | the crime. but wa examination. A S Man Asphyxiated in Bed. Albert Dent, colored, 5 vears old was accidentally asphyxiated while in | bed at his home, 51 C street southeast. early this morning. Coroner Nevitf conducted an investigation and gave a certificate of accidental death. Today in Congress Senate. With the World Court out of the way, the Senate began work on the tax-reduction bill. The agriculture committee con tinued hearings on the Caraway cotton exchange bill. The railroad consolidation bill was up for further hearing before the Interstate commerce commuit tee. A subcommittee of the privileges and elections committee will meet this afternoon on the contest of Mugnus Johnson over the seat held by Senator Schall of Minne- sota. The Senate District committee continued its inquiry into coal prices here. The privileges and elections committee is In executive session today considering the contest being made by Daniel F. Steck for the meat of Senator Brookhart of Io House. Agricultura] appropriation bill being considered in the House Chamber. Subcommittee on Jjudiciary of House District commiftee congider- ed McLeod bill to abolish capital punishment in the District of Co- lumbia. Subcommittee on public utilities of House District committee con- siders Moore bill to relieve Wash- ington-Virginia Street Railway (o. from tax on all passengers oSS the Highway Bridge. Subcommittees of House appro- priations committee continue con- sideration of State and Justice, in- dependent offices and deficiency ap. propriation bills. Admiral Moffett witness at hear- ing before naval affairs committee on Bufler bill to replace the Shen- andoah. Hearing continues before inter state commerce committee on bill to abolish Raflroad Labor Board and set up a method of arbitration, mediation and_conciliation. Hear’ ings continue before committee on World War veterans' legisiation. Hearing continues hefore military affairs committee. Admittance of seasonal laborers from Mexico discussed at hearing before immigration committee. Hearing on departmental bills before Ml.n*.fl'l.k- commlittee. ! the | his | 21 SITES EXAMINED FORIDEAL HOMES Committee Directing Star’s Campaign to Select Build- ers Tomorrow. Twenty-one bullding eites lncated in all sections of the District and nearby Maryland were visited vesterdav by the general mupervisory committes in charge of selecting the final sites for The Star's model home demonstrats Each of the locations was mitted by huilders who have expressed thelr desire to he selected as one of those who are to erect of types of model homes. Headad by Assistant Engineer Com- missioner Raymond A. Wheeler, chair- man of the supervisory committee, tha members of the committee vieited each of the sites and examined them particularly in regard to thefr de- sirability and their accessibility. one the Other Sites Inspected. In addition to the tion of three ideal d @ community group, group and semi-det J. Wheeler and his ted sites for an addit row houses. @ bur co-cperative apartment Several of the builde manifested an interest ir ertaking fon of proposed erec- ached ho row-hous ed g toe Erou and nni nl h who have The Star’ to encourage the er heau be valuahle addi Ir house it 4 great mant | desire a house | onlv two in the | will | stration respect v [ ment ted who because there famil contir that design ents w general po ot ara ather persans or fa reasons Apar ment planr e ta live In ments and better anar 1 to the the cit fica Decide Locatic The commi afternoon yesterd: zathering the sites Today the comm tomorrow the lo erect the hoi The var | Star's demonst & Phelps, Shan C. & A. N. M ton W. Wa Brueninger & M. & R. B. Warre tion D. J. Dunigan Little, Douglass & Phillips, | Thornton, Ruby ILee Minar man Construction Co, H. Small & Co., Stamhourgh Construction Co., € H. Gaskine, Quick & Benson. James Prestor Wire the < Tomorrow entire notes and <p taking regard to each of the huflders ers of the ind decide e tn consid flders wh suzgestic types wi us builders wh a ¢ desire 1o erect one ¢ n & Luchs Hedges zhn Inc: W Middle L. E Dunigan itz Constr Marshall & H. L Ward er, & E and Martin Realty Co Co., Joseph Shapiro Aurora H Hom |MARSHALL, SEEKING | DEATH, IS WATCHED Inc. Slayer Threaens Suicide After Wife Refuses to Help Him. Pr the Associated Preas PHILADELPHIA January David L. Marshall. confessed of Anna May Dietrich as threat- ened take his life and Is under guard in the hospital at Moyamen- sing prison His th .""“ er prison held without the coroner. made the threat who had visited returned with report that Mrs id in his defense or further to do with hin “That's las told the detective. “What's the TNl he frank enough to tell you T will end my life at the first oppor- tunity Orders were sent once to place a specia the prisoner Descrihed by the pol amazinz criminal in Penn a. Marshall todav menial phvsi wreck sald Marshall dve ing erowds s 28— slaver revealed todav by ed him to the he had been the action of have mpar vesterdav s bail He was to when @ detective, the prisoner’s wife confirmation of the Marshall would no have anvthir the t straw,” Marshall 1sp to the prisen » ! guard over e as t} the history was 2 gua; mo=t and a s the ordenl of fac the coroner's inquest 2to the death of Miss Dietrich next Tuesday Let's rush this thin through.” he told detectives af-er his hearing. “Can’t I waive the caroner inguest” I'm willing to pass it b if vou fellows are informed that necessary, he said T must. Then I guess something else on the ANTI-DEATH PENALTY HEARINGS ARE OPENED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE First the hearing Well, if 1 there pr w must vill b (Continued from Page.) that it is impossiblle for a man on a Jury living in a community where the sentiment is strong against capital punishment to give a fair verdict if he that hanging will be the pen Mr. Hammer said that there been no execution in his home State since 1878 Mr. Houston protested that the sen. tence of life imprisonment = not ad equate, because “a man {8 never left 1o serve out his full term when sen- ced for life.” "Yx'w;.d Houston alsn emphasized that not only must punishment of the gullty be considered, tut the meral &ffect of such punishment in deter- ring others from crime. Gilbert Defends Death. Representative Ralph Giibert, Dem ocrat, of Kentucky said that there are cases in which there = no doubt of guilt and the crimcs are so heinous that no other punishmen. will s tisfy society. Such cases are tare, but, In order to safeguard socicly, pital punishment should be maintained Mr. McLeod sald he believed no State or government has a right to take & life. Mr. Gilbert announced that he re- serves the right to file a minority re- port if the committee ugrees to report the McLeod bill favorably. and request ed that no action on this measure be {aken in the House until he returns from & trip on which he ix about to i Mr. Rathbone joined him in a request und asked that no re- port to the full committee T made for two weeks, Mr. Rathhone leaving town. Paris dressmakers “desizning perfumes to go with costumes, and, for reasons of secrecy, to number in stead of name them.