Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1926, Page 2

ZIHLMANWELFARE BILL S APPROVED House Subcommittee Favors Measure Backed by Dis- trict Agencies. | A favorable report on (he Zihiman | hill to create a hoard of puhlic wel | fare along the lines advocaied by the | commission on welfare legisla tian will he made 10 the House Dis. triet gomgnittee by the suhcommitiee whick held hearings he subject today. A few changes agreed fo hy request of Mrs from New ler such a ire ciple involved consoiidate in fare the funciic eeparately by the Roard of Charities. | the Board af Children’s Guardians and | the trusiees of tha National Training Sehacl The action of th House siuhcommit toe & in harmony with the de cision of the Senate District commit tee a fen davs azo in reporting faver abi h » <ponding public mittee at th Norton. Representative biit (hey were not of | 10 chanze the prir the bill. namely. t hoard of public wel- | performed the suheo for Girls today ' Senate the cory A by Senator Capper Many Supported Bill. Among those whs nave attended the subeommittee mestings and explained why people of the District are anxious 10 tinate various welfare activities of the District rnment were: AMiss Mabel | former District Commissione Frank B Noves. viea president toard of Children’s Guardians Thomas | Wast, a former agen ard of Guardians nt of| he Board of ¢ iardinns At the pregant time Othels who attended Mrs. Willlam I, Mary €. Hohday hamberlain and Fvan H of the A Norton vide that when of welfars shail tions or homes of as the child. Before it the bill provided that o he placed under the inf same religlons faith ast surviving parent by those present that was satisfactory M g is terent plan of handling we similar to that advocated by Sepator Cerry. which would place the full ve &pongibility for directink welfare activity In the District Commissioners with fwo executive directors. one for charftable functions and the other to manage penal institutions. The sub. committee. however. voted in favor of the Zihlman hill. which has the hacking the (ommissioners and the incal welfare agencies amendmenix proposed and agreed 1 practicable the hoard place children n he same faith was< amended child wonl c» of the of the nmen: 0 pro- A thet Tt a aif re work Provides Board of Nine, The Zihiman bLill provides for a hoard of nine members appointed by the Commissioners, in which would be | vested all of the powers and duiies { now performed =eparately hy three | independent hoards. Thers would be a paid director of welfare. appointed by the Commigsioners. upon recom mendation of the welfare hoard. Although Mrs. Norton was not cer tain she would make a minority re. port, she said she would reserve the ight 10 do s0. Representatives Keller and Houston favored the Zihiman bill Mra. Noyes told the subcommitiee t memhera of the existing boards | ware in favor of abolishing those | hoards hecause thev fell that in doing &0 they wera creating in the proposed hoard of public welfare a beiter sys em of handling these prohlems. Mr. Keller abserved thai one of the facte which made him favor the hoard of public welfare pan was the spirlt shown by the membars of oxisting heards Migs Boardman, who member of the commission nn welfare iegisla tion, also told of the advaniages that would come from en.ardinating these agencies DIPLOMATIC SERVICE NOW OPEN TO"WOMEN Wright Says Some Posts. However, Might Unpleasant. Prove Very Thers I no ohjection on the part of State Dapartment officials antering the foreign service, 1. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, <aid §n an address a1 4 meeting of the District League of WVomen Voters, hald at the American Association of University Women Ruilding vester day, but under exisiing conditions in some places under the jurisdiction of the service i1 would he extremely un pleasant for them to dn «o0. There ar however. some places where women can serve. the speaker pointed out. and two women already All such posi tions. Mr, Wright spoke of the ideals of the 'Foreign Service Department stressing equal apportunity for ail Many men have risen from the | “ranks" to responsible positions, he | sald Mrs vest RICH FARMER MlSislNG. Al to women T MeNary luincheon was hostess Charies at rday s Available Men in Uxbridge, Mass.. Asked to Join Search. UXBRIDGE. Mass, February 11 (). —Every available man in Ux- hridge was cafled upon here to asefar in the search for Samuel Seazvave, waalthy farmer who has not heen seen | in his usual haunts for more than a waek Seagrave’s voung wife was found Aead in & gasfilled room at the Her bert Hall Sanatorinm, Worcester, yes. terday. Patrick J. Carmody. chief of police ordered the search after he, in com: | pany with Patrolman Edgar Peel and saveral other men. had fought his way through the storm and deep snow drifts for six miles to the Seax home, which wax found in disorder: SOLD BRITISH PLANS. Fx-czarist Office; ‘S;vs England Paid 825,000 for Red Army Detaii. LENINGRAD. Russin, Fehruary (P).ZAt yesterday's seseion of trial of the 45 alleged Fsthonian s an ex-czarist officer. Nicholas Viadi- mirovitch Paderna. testified that he! had sold a plan of the organization of the Red army o Col. Frank, rep- resenting the Rritish intelligence | service, for 25,000 t Resides thix, he asmistcd many monarchists and others to cross the Russian frontfer clandesiinely, re- celving a large fee in each case. Plan Memorial to Wesley. LONDON, Febriiary 11 (#).—A John Wasley hbi-centenary is to he cele. brated by Lincoln College.” Oxford, next month, the founder of Methodisn having been elected a fellow of that collage 200 years ago. ’ The rector of the college has invited leading lights in Wesleyanism tn & banquet and meemorial service. & {ROUTS BAND OF FIVE | | moutheast, | and | atreet Iy | Two Held and One Is Said to Have | store 1obberies which recently | tectives and THE EVEN. Terror to Intruders LIAM F. MEYERS, | PROWLING IN GARAGE Owner Shoots One, Captures Two and Sends Other Pair Flying to Open Spaces. L wtreet night Willlam F. Mevers bLecame gy last when he discovered five color up Lo no goud fn his gurage. | his av v had subsided one of truders wis in Cisualty Hospitad with | let wound, (wo were thinking things over in a cell at the fourth precinet and the other two were sald {0 be headed for the open spaces and | still going Mr Mevers, of 629 ordinarily slow 10 anger, hecame cirious over the actions of tha uninvited quintet in his back- yvard He decided 1o investigute, with the aid of his revolver. Sneaking around 1o the rear through another yard. he became firmly convinced that the visitors were not there for prayer meeiing. He became quite angry as the reall- 'WILL RESISTTYROL ACTION BY LEAGUE Mussolini Says Italy Will Re- act Strongly to Inter- ference Move. By the Asociated Press | ROME. February 1' —Ituly declines | | any proposal 1o bring the alleged i1} treatment of the German minority in | the upper Adige ve the Leagne of Nations for tment Thix hax been announced by Premier Mussolini in unmistakable terms to the lialiun Nenate. re explicity.” 1 | that the non-Tallan speak- | Ing population in the upper Adige d not constitute & minority as o | strued by the pence treaty. Itah |deex not accept any dixcussion of thix matter in anv assembly or council and will react with the grealet energy against anv plan of thix na- ture. These are nat menaces. produc- five of dilemmas: they are undeni- able affirmations. with force and dig nity, as i the custom of new ltaly. which many Germuns make the | grave mistake of not vet knowing Answer to Strresem: ‘, This statement wax made in answer (o the suggestion made by D Siresemann. German foreign minis- ter, in hix address to the Reichstag wppenling to the League of Nutions | to_settle the vontroversy The state sume tme membership t L 1ent was mude about the ey s application for i the 1 of Nu- received at Geneva Mussolini reasserted that ltaly w I dechine to perm physical or cult 1 violstion of her frontier, The upper Adize reglon, he said, did not | helong to 4 Germanie cultural com- munity, and Italy would continue her policy of “Roman equity” in territory the p exsion of which, cultural as well as physi I, was essential to the safety of Italy Denles Any Brutality. Replving: 1o the charges that Ger- mans had heen treated hrutally, the premier continued: “It ia false that In the upper Adike violence and ter- ror relgn. as hax heen waid by Dr.! t zation dawned. Suddenly he exploded then s when the excitement be- gan. No firsthand deacription of meiee wax availnble today. but there were the cold facts testity that | S Ashton. aliae Buck Young. of avy place southeaxt was shot and Willlam Jackson of 1111 Seventh utheusi and Joseph Irving Wade o Sighth street southeast were thoroughly cowed by the time | Policeman J. W. Connors arrived vn the scene | Mr. Mevers' anger dvesn’t last long | he mizhi have captured the other Also, It 18 reported. At any rate was working splendidiy while it lasted, ARRESTS MAY CLEAR UP DRUG STORE ROBBERIES the or two. Confessed Part in Three Affairs. | i f | ! Police bLelieve thut & series of drug | puzzled them will be cleared up by an in- vestigation into activities of two men | now in custody { The men are James Robert Steele believrd to be a Washingtonian Who gave & Philadelphia address his arvesi. who has been charzed with househreaking. and Raymond H. Ball. who gave a G straet address. who stll Is being held | under & technical charge of in vestigation According to the police a confession has heen ohiained from Steels ad-! 21 but following mitting he was implicated (n robberies | At the drug stores of G. O. Brock. 3936 Georgia avenue: Nathan Reiskin, First street and Florida avenue, and | Gearge . Monk, at 5505 Georgia ave. | nue. where prescription Hauor. includ- | ing champagne, was taken. A charge of housebreaking in connection with of the atore of Margaret Pennaylvania heen 301 has avenue southeast, placed against him. Ball was arrested by Baltimore de turned over to the local cent Today in Congress SENATE. (onstderation of the tax reduction Hili continued The judiclary committes adopted the Walsh geport on the Aluminum Co. of Am@rica by a vote of 9 to 1, providing for an investigation of the company by the Senate com. mittee The commerce committee held a preliminary hearing on the Bruce resolution for an inveatigation of the sale by the Shipping Board of 200 tied-up ships to Henry Ford for scrapping The committee on education and labor appointed a subcommitiee to consider the Rubinson bill for the adjustment of coal strikes. The committee on public lands held & hearing on the Smoot land grant bill. HOUSE. Army appropriation bill discussion in the House. House Leader Tilson asked unan- imous consent that Immediately after reading of the journal to- morrow. Lincoln's Gettysburg ad- dress shonld ba read. The speak- or Appointed Reprementative Vail of Colorado to read the address. - Suhcommittees of“the House Din- trict committee today conducted hearings on the general welfars hill 10 establish a public weltare commission replacing three exist- ing boards; on legislation, design- ed to improve street railway trans- portation facllities in Washing- ton, and on the McLeod and Kyale bilis o abolish capital punishnrent in the Diatrict. Patents committee conducts hear- ing on bill to prevent fraud in the Patent Office. Naval affairs committee continues hearing on five-year building pro- gram with Admirals Eberle and Nhoemaker as principal witnesses. Interstate Commerce commlittee considers railroad labor board hill in exectitive session. Forelgn affairs committee con- tinues hearing on embasey bill with Secretary Hoover and Dr. Juliug Klein as principal witnesses. affaira committee con- tinues hearing on proposed depart- ment of national defense. Immigration committee contin- uew hearing with Edgar Wallace, representing the A. F. of L., and Representatives Cellar of New York and Royal Johnton of South Dakota as witnesses. Indian affairs' committee holds regular meeting in executive ses- sion. Rivers and harbors committes continne hearing on ice plers in Ohio river. Merchant marine committes in executive seesion considers White radio_control bill. Judiclary committee holds regu- lar meeting In executive session. t under | &1l the Germans of the world Held. and repeated by Stresemann feebly. That the German newspapers lie demonstrated by the xtatements teachers, hotel men | and war vetersns living in the upper | Adige, who have without any pres- wure. manifested their sympathy t ward the Htalian government ' unquestionable that it Auxtro-Germans had won sl that which is Italtun foday they would have bruially suppressed ii from the Brenner Pass to Lake Gavda “Germuny intends to assume. with- out and within, spiritual tutelage of as well | Adixe. he- the as of these few the upper who even hefure the war did not long to the Reich, NITTI BLAMES PREMIER. | | | | Claims He Himself Had No in Tyrol. BERLIN: February 11 (#)— Former | Premier irti of Italv. in an hnur-} view with the T'aris correspondent of | Vorwaerts, expresses conviction that the southern Tyrolese will never be disloval to Italy, provided it is treated fairly. He remarks that there were never untoward incidents fn the Tyrol while he was premler, and takes x slup at! Mussolini by declaring that “only | { Ignoramuses could dare to belittle Ger- | man culture.’ The measures taken against the southern ‘Tyrol minorities are much | like those taken against Italian oppo- | nents of Fascium, he savs. In con. | clusion he pleads for friendship he. tween the two peoples, ‘roubles MPFACK ON ITAL Bavarian Premier Sa | | He Was Mis- | ROME, Fehruary 11 (). -Premier Held of Bavaria. whose, sapsech before the Bavarian Parliament waa cited |by Premier Mussolini in his attack upon Germany, is quoted by the ape-| cial correspondent of the Papolo Di| | Roma. in Munich, as declaring that | he has alwayx been and still ix friend- Iy to Ital His parllumentary speech was ap- | parently incorrectly reported, he sald. | He had merely asked that Italy ac- | cord to the German-speaking popula- | tion of souihern Tyrol the same rights a8 to langnsge, achoolk and religious instryction as were given other citi- 7ena of Italy and her colonies. He denied emphatically that any boycott movement against Italy had been officially sponsored by the Ba- varian government. and expressed the opinfon that even the unofficial move- ment would be abandaned If liberty of language were given the Germa in southern Tyrol. Censorship in Tyrol. VIENNA, FebMuary 11 (#).—The Herzog Presa Agency saya the prefect of Bolzano, southern Tyrol, has for- bidden newspaper men to send any news from that region without sub- mitting it for censorshlp. It adds that Infringement of the order will result in severe punishment and ex- puision, U. S. IS TAKING HAND TO OPEN NEW COAL PEACE CONFERENCE ‘ont and the variou introduced to deal with it. The subcommitiee, It was sald, would get down 1o work immediateiy on the matter and determine what, In it opinion, was best to be done. The subcommittee has before it particular- ly the Robinson bill for the estab- lishment of a board of industrial ad- justments to deal with controversies in the coal Industry. FACTIONS GATHERED. Miners’ and Operators’ Negotiating Bodies in Phiiadeiphis, PHILADELPHIA, February 11 (#). —Another serious effort to end long anthracite strike is being made, This time the acene is again in Phila- delphia, where the operators and miners broke up their last pariey on Februa 2 The negotiating committee of the operators and the sub-acale committee of the miners gre in Philadeiphia, but not in direct touch with each other. The operators are at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, while the miners are at the Bellevue-Stratford, across the street. Both sides deny there is anything directly pending between them. In tact, each gave the same reason for assembling here—"legislative '~ mat- ters.” The negotiating committes of the operators with a number of other coal company representatives arrived yes. |to death today { thl the weatbound car had pull | atreet IRL, 11, ISKILLED BY STREET CAR Child, Just Out of School, Dies Instantly as Wheels Pass Over Body. Darting out from behind & v-esl-‘ bound street car a short distance east of Sixth sireet on Pennsylvania ave nye southeast, 11.vear-old Ruth Money of 514 I street southeast was crushed by an ensthound street ar, while two schoolgirl companions | barely escaped a like fate hy jumping to & snowbunk ut the side of the car tracks in the nick of time Beryl Gilbert, 12 vearn Rixth street, who. with her 14 vear-old sister, Margaret, was with Ruth. en route home to luncheon, at the time of the accident, aaid that they had waited at the easternmost edge of n car stop platform just east of Sixth street un 1 out n we sgarted running across the Bervl sald.. ©1 war newrest that was foming. and M garet was next and Ruth was furthes away. We Aldn't see the car at first, but when we did. we jumped—Marga ret and | did—inio the snowbank and Just got out of the way in time 1 think Ruth tried to run ahesd to gel ont of the wav of the car. Wa saw her being drugged aiong. and we were | #0 frightened that we just hoth ran home crying. The car didn't seem 10 be going very fast. either “1 don't know just how it all ha pened, for we didn't know that R had been hit until we turned wround from the snow bank and suw her lndgr the wheel: Children Often Warned. Miss Langley, principal of the Wal- lach School, said thut continually | warnings had besn given children s to the danger of crossing At car tracks except At points whers they could see in each direction on the K on as he maw (he childrén, Mo torman John Raxter of 2228 Nicholson southeast, appliad the hrakes. ricka indicated | hetween 26 it Nas finally The ehfid's body | vid, of 315 Th tracks, the car t but marks on the car that the car Drogre and 30 feei - hefore brought to a #op. was mangled. Baxter and Julian Clatterbuck of 4604 Fourteenth street, the conductor, | were being held this afternoon pend ing orders of the coroner at fhe fifth precinet. ice Are Investigating. Capt. Santord of the fifth precinct | and Inspector Stowell were «on (he scene supervising an Invesiigation immediately after the accident. Clatterbuck told newspaper men after the accldent that it meemed to him that the car slid a bit after the brakes had been applied spparently due to the condition of the tracks, which were wet with melt ing snow. Ruth, the daughter of Mr. and Mri T. R. Money of 514 D strest south- east, ia one of 13 children. having & sisters and 4 hrothers. The oldest lster ia 89 years nld. while the young- eat 18 8, And the brothers range in age from 37 to 24 vears. The little girl was in the fAifth grade of the Wallach School. MAY SEEK RENO DIVORCE. Mrs. Glendenniag Establishing Ne- vada Residence. RENO, Nev.. February 11 @).— Mrs. Allcia Glendenning, roster daugh- ter of Alfred I'du Font, powder mag- nate, s establishing a rvesidence in Reno, which, she said. “ultimately may iead to her filing auit for divorce. Mrs. Glendenning refused to discuss her reported marital dificuities and in- sisted she was In the West for her health. She admitted. however. that she might seek a divorce eventually. Mrs. Glendenning married Harold Glendennnig. son of a Norwalk, onn.. ostman, in 1922 while he was in Eng- and and studving at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. | Spacial tnspareh ¢ | the District al right, fro elary Close view of Gen. Per HANGES INBUS LINES ARE ASKED el hin, W. R & E to Discontinue: Temporary Service Between | D.C. and Forest Glen. | P The & Md.. Feb made t BALTIMOF Application wax Rervice Commission this the Washington Railway and Electric Co. for an order 1o discontinue ita temporary hus service heiween the District line and Forea Glen. and unry 11 the Public morning by | postponement for one vear of the time for resumption of rafl operations tween such points Application was made hy the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co. for aper tion of a hus service through territory in the neighhorhood of Silver Spring and asking to change a route grant Iast November when permiskion w iven to operate an Intrastate hus line | \etween tha Disirict line and siigo. | Applicntion was made hy this com. | pany also for permission 10 operate an intrastate motor vehicle service from Rrookeville pike to Triangle, thence along the old Hock ville pike to Ville street, one block west of Warren roud FIND TITLED GIRL HANGED Had Called for Mussolini Toast in Berlin. BERLLN, February 11 (®).—The dody of farchioness Gabriele di Serra, sister of the (erman Actress Maria Oraka, was fonnd hanging in her room in the RBristol Hotel last night. The | police belleve she committed suicide. | The marchioness returned to the hotel early veaterday morning, after having been sjected from a fashion- able West End club. where she caused excitement by repeatedly shouting. “Viva Mussolini”" and urging others present. including a number of Italian film actors, to rise and join in a toast to the Itallan premier. ‘The marchioness (nee Brindermann) wax 26 years old. She was born ati Ekaterinoslay, Runsia. Sends Supplemental Estimate. By the Associated Pres A supplementa} estimate of $119 to cover expenses of the Interstate Commerce Commiasion in checking up Accounts as to regulation of commerce and in inforcing safety regulations war sent 1o the House yesterday by President Coolidge. HAMILTON RESIGNS ment it 1s helieved it will come from the operators’ side. The operators’ negotiuting committee is in constant touch with other coal company | resentatives, ift whether the p movement will get anywher Iy matter of conjecture. If some new basis of settlement is decided upon among the coal com- panies It {8 expected it will be at once made known to the miner: The union leaders are here to con- sider ‘anything that might come from the mine owners. No engagements, 50 far as can be learned, have heen made for Mr. Lewis and W. W. Inglis, chairman of the operators’ negotiating committee, to meet, nor for the full committees of the two sides to confer. Alvan Markle, neutral chairman of the joint wage conference of minera and operators, is registered at the Unlon League Club here, close to the Ritz-Carlton and Bellevue-Stratford. Thus the machinery for & conference is ready. Would Force Meeting. HARRISBURG, Pa.. February 11 (#). —Negotiating committees of the anthracite operators and miners would be called upon by the Pennsylvani Legislature to resume negotiations at once some place within the State and terday. John L. Lewlis, president, and Thomas Kennedy, national secretary. treqeurer, came in early today, and later the other four members of the miners’ committee arrived. 1t anything develeps toward & gettle. to remain in mession until an agroe. ment ix reached. under a resolution presented in the House today by the committes on mines. It waa laid over until the next seasion, which will be held Monday nights AT TRACTION HEAD F (Continued from have labored to give force and effect to the conclusions and policier of the board, which have been and are to give to the people the highest standa of : to the public a full recognition of its rights: to safeguard the Interests and property of the security holders, and at all times to meet the duties tions imposed by charter and “Whatever of successtul accomplish- ment has resulted from my effort is dne in large measure to the wise direc- tion of thir board. to the co-operative npirit of the entire operating force/ the fine service of our tralnmen, to the fidelity in service of David 8. Carll. long time vica president, and until 1916 general manager of the company, and to the aplendid abilities and un- tailing support of John H. Hanna, vice president in charge of operation. “Because of knowledge born of close experience in 1ong association and intimate contact, I venture to suggest for vour consideration that the principles and ‘policies in, man- agement which since the incorpara- tion of our company have guided suc- ceading adminiatrations will be con- tinued without Interruption, and car- ried forward by the election of John | H. Hanna to the office now vacated by me. “Again 1 express my gratefnl an preciation of the support and co-op- | eration in service given me through- | whom he placed at the service of the G_STAR. WASHINGTON. ¥. ¥, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926. [ | | | | | ploded oze and Maj. Gel £. Say Mexico Will Take All Property Of Catholic Church ' Re the Associated Pross MEXICO. CITY, Fehruary 11, Although there has hesn no official aAnnouncement, the Newspapers he have received what s de- fhed ax authoritative iInformation that the attorney general is pre. paring to issue an order for the na tionalization of all property of the thalic Church in Mexico. 1t also is said he fntends to pun- | ish mil per who hide church possexsions-or who violate the Mex ienn conatitution The same reports are to the ef- fect that several Spanish privsis have heen arvested in Mexico iy and sent to Vera Cruz for deporta tion. There is no confirmatinn of this Attorney Gieneral Ortaga said to day that In investigating the Arch- hishop of Mexico (City he is not ar tempting to persecute him. hut i« anly endeavoring 1o ascertain If he was vinlating the constitution. HAM URGES ACTiON BY CONGRESS T0 | AID MERGER PLANS | (Continued from First Page) the Caypital reach ax committee Teacti ment representin g Co. If they 1\ A baxix for a merger Mr. Ham feels reasonably cectain that much a basis might be acceptable to the \Washington Raflway and Electric 0. These negotiations througn the North American Co. as intermediary ‘seem the most sensible way of get the two companies together,” Hma said. Other Officials Present. Mr. Ham wag aitended at the con- ference by S. R. Bowen. vice presi- dent. and A. G. Neale, treasurer, of thehstreet rallway company. both of a ting Mr. | | for any information it desired. Both the Washington Rail- way Co. and the Capltal Traction ‘0., went thoroughly into the effect on both companies of the proposed legislation when the McKellar 5.cent car-fare bill was under consideration in_the last Congress. Mr. Ham ¢old the committee that since that time there hax been some change, the most Important being & faliing off in traffic. but the wages and material costs continue about the same. A 5.cent fare would be destrue- tive to the Washington Rallway and Slectric Co., and he believes also to the Capital Traction Co, as neither company {8 now eArning A reasonable return on a fair valuation of property as fixed by the Public Utilitiea Com- mission under orders from Congres. The purpose of the public utilities act, Mr. Ham said, was (o relieve Con- gress of the duty of regulating the companiex as it had been doing and there was nothing revolutionary in this, as it followed what had been doné in other States and was in conformity with the uction of Con- gress in establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission. “If there Is any criticlsm, it has been at the manner In which the act dministered and not of the act itselt.”” Mr. Ham said. He considers the Blanton bill, which throws the companies back on thelr original charter and imposes a fractional fare for school children. as vicious. He polnted out that it deprives the Public Utilitles Commission of part of ite obligation, but continues the balance of its functions, Ham Urges Action. Lengthy discussion followed #x to just what the effect of the Blanton bill wonld be. Mr. Ham pointed out that the Washington Rallway and Electric Co. i8 now a merged com- pany by act of Congress in 1900, and also authorized by sct of Conkress to own ' the stock of the FPo A c Electric Power Co. In this way the Washington Railway and Electric Co. | is composed of companies which re. ceived 20 or 25 charters from Con- gress. Some of these companies are atill operated as distinet entiti Submits Cost Datn. i Representative Frank R. Reid, Re- | ublican, of Iliinofe. questioned Mr. committee out. my term in office by each and every member.of this board.” am In detall regarding these distip companies;. ineluding the City | the automoblle spatie POLICE CHIEF ANDG SPANISH PREMIER ESCAPES ASSASSING Several Attempts Made on| Life of Primo de Rivera in Barcelona. By the Amsoci PARIS, February A dispatch to the .Journal from Hendave, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, save that ad vices received from Barcelona confirm reports that several atlempi« were made on the life of Gen. Primo de Rivera, the Spanish premier, during his recent stay there Neven bombe, it ix sald, were ex in different paria of the city. One was in the doorway of the captain-genersi’s office. where Primo de Rivera wax stsyving. An other, which had been placed on the vallroad track a few miles from the station. exploded with terrific roar the moment the premier was ahout to take a train for Madrid The dispetch savs the atiempis are attributed syndicalists and Catalinist elements on the eve of the trial of alleged authors of the atrempt to blow up a tunnel through which the King's train 1 pass on ite way to Barcelona last vear TWO BODIES FOUND FROZEN IN AUTO Men Believed Slain in Ohio Liquor or Secret Society Feud. Ropes About Necks. By the Associated Proas YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio. February 11 Dominfe Russn and Sari Ruses, consing, Bath 25, were found brufRily murdared on the outskirts of the eity today, the result. police helieve, of ther a Hquor feud A secret so. ciaty plot. Thé hodies ware in an antomobile. Around the neck of each msn was twisted. a rope so tightly that it had cut into tha flesh. Roth sknlle were crushed, clothing blopd-stained and 1 with blood bodies were frozen together ice have determined that the stood out for 12 hours womun Hving nearby two_cars drive up lust snd Intérchdnge of passeugers tuke place, but she psid no attention to the incident Dominic o'clock last The and car A W naid she aso left home at 8 night, saving he war go- ing to meet his cousin. Rari’a move- ments have not been traced. Robert Wilson. goIng to work last night, noticed the parked antomohile. He saw it Again coming home thi morning. And when he investigated found the hodies Officiala expresaed thes opinion the men either were hangsd or heaten to death. FOUR HURT IN CLASH OVER BOOTLEG COAL Two Stage Knife Duel and Two Are Beaten by Mob in Scranton Outbreak. By the Associatad Press. RCRANTON, Pa., February 11 Two men are in a hospital suffering from stah wounds and were badly beaten up in a clash beiwesn sevaral hundréd men and coal bootleggers at Carbondaie today. Carbondale police rescued Thomas and George Hobbs, who were attacked by the crowd as the Hobbs brothers were hauling bags of coal from a dump. The brothers were severely handled before the police srrived. Policemen lined up the tronble- makera after many of them had caped, and In searching their ing found three revolvers, two hand axen, mimmers and base ball bais. Other weapons were thrown into the river Frank Laizzi and James Behan en- gaged in a knife duel and hoth were stabbed in the arms before polics parted them. They were taken 'o % Carbondale hospital. Suburban Corporation. the George- town and Tenleytown company and the percentage that they contribute to the entire Washington Railway and Flectric syatem. Mr. Ham said that the receipts in 1925 from the George- town and Tenleytown company were £140,715.80: from the Citv and Subur- ban, $1.076,381.78, and from the Washington Railway and Electric sys- tem receipts were $4,775.284. He submitted extenaive tabulation of statistica covering the work of the company since 1914, which showed during the war period the cost in operating expenses increased from $1.816.772 in 1914, to $2,828,580, in 1918; that the following vear it jump- ed to 34308638 and reached peak in 1920 of $: 192, Ha axplained these figures in detall, showing that the labor costs had followsd the cost of living and so made it imposstble to return to pre-war street cat fare. night | twn othere | HELD IN ASSAULT Accused in Abduction of Girls in Tia Juana Following Family’s Death. By the Amociated Pr SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 11.— Seven persons. including Zenaido Lianos, chief of police In Tia Juans, have been arrested in connection with the sbducting and sttacking of An- drey und Clyde Peteet, two American irls, In the Mexican town. ‘The Awerlcan girls had gone 1o Tia Juanu, which Ix across the border # whort dixtance from here, with their parents for a visit “The two girls, with their father and mother, Mr. and Mre. T. M | Pereet. were found in their hame last {Sarurday. all but one of them dead |&nd the other dyving from gas. which I had heen turned on with apparenty suicidal intent. Mise Clvde Detest, who was the only one of the familv alive when police visited the hame, dfed Mondav. Authorities helieve the family Aetermined upon this conrse when thev returned felt that shame had heen visited them as the result of their the Mexican town Seven Under Arreat. i | | | | and ix charged with complicity Others arrested are is Amador, Tla Juana cafe pro- who in winted in the I'nited fter Jumping $3.500 ba'l hond Augeles after his for d peddling of narcotics Alvarez. bariender. who is have misused Audrey the girls had been from Tiajuana Hot Lianos In the crime 1. Porie in Los the atl Refugio i perlcvad Peteet ! hrought Tiajuana polic Juan York of the Hotel o after hack mzales. member of the department ang. Chinese manager Nacional. whars Audres Petest was found her fathar ! Thursday merning Ralvador Kapinoza. taxieah driver who teok Mrs. Petest on a fruitle | neareh for the girie ar Tiajnana Hot Springs. Francisco lLuis Ama: Gov Rodriguez district of Lo \ced he wi vestigation and that sonx will be punished The work of the officials in Tiajnana !last night wax continued until a late heur. During the day and night sev. ernl depositions were taken from wit who had heen gathered up uesda v officials said \ by Navarvo, hartender for northern an in- per- the “alifornia 4 thorongh the guilty now have nesses wince The given in to make they have heen uctions by Gov. Redriguez examples of those proved to have been implicated in the of- fenses againsi the Petser girle U. 8. Prohe to RBe Made. Whils the in Tiajuana can vies conanlt at Mexicali naring start a separaie proha of the allegad afrocities nunder orders from the American State Depariment An inquest inte the deaths of the etesr family will he held tomorrow The atory of the Peteet girls, as 1014 them twa davs heiore the deaths the effect that after severy apent in seeing 1he sighis of | Tiajuana they were phied with liquor and drugs by & man named Luix. who introduced them to the chief of poiice and others, Clyde was a strange hotel wnd misused. according Clyde was returned jumpad from the »utomobiie | nf her hotei. the San Diego. was found hy her father and Linana policeman the nexi day Tiafiana hotel near the pol {tion. | DEFICIENCY MEASURE READY FOR SENATE WITH SOME NEW ITEMS (Continned from First Page) ninder Ameri was pre investigation wae Frank Bohr 1o A by dave ehief <0 w ceonnt Piajnany and in front Andrey Tia n taken by the Audray their o building on the site al Fifth and Sherldan sireets northwest. §27.500 For additionsl amount for the con !struction of an eight-room a the Brightwood Park School, ) For Training School. Senate committee added $12 the National Training School and $28522.35 for the res McHenry. near Ral accordance with tha by the Secretary The 0un for for Boys toration of Fort timore, Md., in plan worked out Lof War. For the purchase and exchange of an automobile for the Vies Prasident, the committee added $513578 Provision ix made alsn for paving [ to the widows of the Senaters whn | died during the lasi year $10.000 | each, aquivalent te ana vear's salary of A Senator. in accordance with the usual custom of the Senate The payments will be made to the widows of the late Senators McCormick of Ilinois, La Follette of Wisconsin Spencer of Missour! Ralston Indiana and Ladd of North Dakota Other {tems of increase recommend ed by the committee follow A Bureau of Efficfency. salaries. $23 wov: Commission of Fine Arts x.v 400 Department of Agriculture— Forest fire weather-warning service. $2.500 fighting and preventing forest fires $800,000. Department of ot Lighthouses, damage claime ashua, N. H., pair. $28.000, Interior Department—Payment Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. §472 939.01: payment to Stevens and Ferry Counties, Wash.. $115.767.67: North Platia reclamation project. Nebrasks Wyoming. $300,000; fighting fores fires in national parks, $40,000 Department of Justice—( ontingent expenses, $7.000; assistanis fo the General, $46.000 United Niates [ndustrial Reformatory, $37.500 Navv Department—ivil government American amoR. repair of nages by storm. $11.000. Trexsury Department— Federal Farm loan Bureau, $294.695: judgments of United States courtx, $17.135.51:~judg ments of district courts, $802.80: judg ments of Court of Claims. $1.121. 308.35; audited claims. §229.982 The committee recommended tollowing decrease: Pavment to | Omaha Indians, $374.465.02. PRISONER GETS PISTOLS. | Commerce —Rureau retired pay. $35.000 $6%.60: fish haichery, construction and re the the Arms Smuggled Into Jail in False Box Bottom. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., February 11 | UP).—Discovery that two pistols and about 200 rounds of ammunition had been smuggled to a prisoner at the State Penitentiary. at Raiford, was announced here yesterday by Nathan Mayo, prison commissioner. Prison officials helieve & jail delivery plot {waa frustrated by the discovery The revoivers and ties were found in a false hottom of u hox con signed o ane of the prisoners. Three of the prisoners, ax the mest dssperate, were placed in solltary confinement.