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Matters | are temporarily deadlocked by the op- | posing views reflected by the House White bill and the Senate DIl bill. | The House measure leaves super | vision of radio in the Department of | Commerce. subject to the co-operation |of a Federal radio advicory commis- | sion to be appointed by the President. | The Senate measure takes radio en- tirely out of the Department of Com- merce and places it under the control of a ‘“radio commission” with pow- ers ar independent as those exercised | by the Interstate . Commerce Com- | mission. | Some time ago the interstate r,om~‘ merce committee of the Senate re-| ported ont the Dill bill, which amend. | ed the White bill to the point of | nnikilation. If the Senate passes | { the Dill measure (as the House passed | the White measuve) the project then | goes 1o joint conference hetween the | two houses. fhat development is /| v wihin the next few days. Sen DIl heiieves there is ample op- | tunity for a meeiing of minds on | rival points at issue, and conveys | impression that a compromise | proposition, fairly satistactory to all | concerned, is attainable. Against Another Bureau. Opinion fs widespread that is so desirous n adio on a definite legislative basis, | without further delay, that he would noft withhold his signature from a satisfactory compromise bill. On one point only is Mr. Coolidge apparent dead set in his opposition. He disapproves the setting up of an other new bureaucratic agency such 15 the Radio Commission contemplated The President strong- that radio can best be supes vised an existing administrative branch of the Government .under executive control. | One of the outstanding factors in | the congressional situation is the per- sonal opposition to Herbert Hoover | on the part particularly of certain United States Senators. The Senate interstate commerce committee is de- seribed as “full of anti-Hooverism especially among its Republican mem bers. These are Messrs. Watson (chair man), Cummins, Fernald, Gooding. Couzens, Fess, Howell, Goff Pine and Sackett. But just which of these mem- | bers have ‘‘Hoover complexes” is nat | known. The Democratic members of the committee are Messrs. Smith, | Underwood, Pittman, Bruce. Dill. Wheeler and Mayfield. Some of them are known to be among Mr. Hoover's detractors. The theory has been that the Secretary of Commerce Is “run-| ning for President” and that he wants | to “boss” radio for personal and parti- | san purposes. As a matter of fact, Herbert Hoover is on record in favor of any legisla- tion that will relieve him of respons- ibility for radio control, limited as is | the power in the direction now vested | in him. The White measure not only | confers wide authority on a Federal Radio Commission, acting with the| Secretary of Commerce, to say who shall or shall not receive licenses to maintain broadcasting stations, but v hold: | | | contains an appellate provision Would Appeal to Courts. Under this provision persons dis-| satisfled with the joint decisions of | the Secretary of Commere and the advisory commission shall have the right to go to the United States Courts | for redress of grievances. The ad-| visory commission, the White proposal sets forth, shall not be in session in| any one year for more than 120 days. if such a body is set up, under Representative White's suggestions, the Chicago Federation of Labor, for | instance, which i8 now at loggerheads with the Department of Commerce because it cannot secure a license to broadcast over a preempted wave length, automatically would be at lib- erty to ask the Federal bench for a, decision as to its rights. Senator Dill, who has made deep, study of the whole radio program, in | national, international and historical | aspects, has written into his measure | several points he considers of essential importance. These include: 1. That any broadcasting stations that give or sell space on the air to a political candidate or party must be under the compulsion to give the opposing candidate or party an equal opportunity to be heard by the. air | audience. Same Charge to All. 2 2. That rates at which air space | is sold to advertisers or others shall apply equally to all, without special privilege, preferential prices, or re- | bates of any sort not enjoyed by each and every applicant. | 3. That Government radio stations | shall be at liberty .to handle com- | mercial radio business (transoceanic | in particular), in free competition with | private radio companies. Senator Dill says that Government stations have | enjoyed revenue as high as $200,000 & | year, reducing by that much mainte- | nance costs totaling $1,000,000 a year. The great broadcasting companies now furnishing the public so vast an amount of instrction and entertain- ment by radio are frankly convinced that unwise radio legislation will seri. | ously cripple the development of public service by air. They, too, share the administration’s anviety for legislation at the present session of | Congress, but they hope it will be | of the broad-gauge kind designed to | promote, not retard, the progress of the world’s newest ¢hannel of com- | munication. Lack of legislation at ' this session is likely to postpone ac- tion for at least a year, nothing be- ing likely at the short session of the | expiring Sixty-ninth Congress next . Winter. ' | | | (Copyright. 192¢ BOOK SALE CONTINUED. | Salvdtion Army Reports Success in | Service Department’s Work. | The Salvation Army bargain sale | of books and magazines has proved so successful that Brig. Myles Picker- ing -of the socisl service depnm'nenl‘ has decided to continue it for the next | two weeks. | The sale, which is being held at 117 | Pennsylvania avenué northwest, has | attracted many book-lovers during the | past few days. The volumes to be ! disposed of include works of science, | law, music, art and many other sub- | jects. Several thousand magazines of | an educational character are being | sold at & few cbnts a copy. The| proceeds of the sale will assist in carrying out many charitable projects | planned for the coming hot months. | —— | White House Aide Relieved. | Capty Robert L. Walsh, Air Service, attachdd to the office of the chief| of the Air Service and also serving | as junior aide to the President at the | White House, has’been relieved from | further duty in this city and ordered | to the A Langley 'Field, instruction. Va., for a course of James Bennle, who retailed. 50,000 | Bibles in Europe, died recently in London. | marked contrast with his reception Air Service Tactical School, |, Early raorning line-up at the "Clar on the question whether Arlington County will endon TUESDAY. \ls, showing voters expressing their sentiment by means of the ballot | bond itsell for $750.000 for installation of water m: has been given by Congress for the connection of the county with the United States Government supply at Dalecar- the lia reservoir. The three magisterial districts of the county are voting as a unit and the failure of one or more to of placing | 8pProve the bond issue will have no effect on those approving. ains. Authority PRESIDENT BORNO - GUEST OF COOLIDGE. Luncheon at White House Follows Visit to Agriculture |} Department. Offcial formalities of welcome hav ing been effected late yesterday President Louis Borno of Halti today | set out to study American methods of government. President Borno devoted his first day In Washington to an investiga tion of this Government's adminis- tration of agricultural policies. He left his hotel early, unaccompanied by his consort, and was driven to the office of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, where he discussed briefly with the latter the general trend of agricultural problems in Haiti. , ‘After his short visit with the Secre. tary he was escorted to some of the | principal bureaus and divisions of the department in pursuance of his desire to obtain first-hand garding Government this country. Other Places Visited. | He went to the office of Dr. John | R. Mohler, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and learned about Uncle Sam's supervision of the live stock industry: dropped in the office of Acting Chief Olsen of the Bureau of Agricultural FEconomics and dis- cussed American methods of produc ing and marketing farm commodities: jumped uptown to the Bureau of Public Roads, on Fourteenth street opposite the Willard Hotel, and asked Chief Thomas H. MacDonald about our system of Federal co-operation in road building. and concluded his tour down on F street, at the For- estry Service President Borno appeared particu- larly interested in America's refores- tation policy, explaining to Col. W. B. Greeley, chief forester, and E. A. Sherman, associate forester, that Haiti is confronted with a serious for- est problem as a result of the wide spread denuding of the isiand’s wood- ed areas. Guest at White House. Following his hurried round of the| bureaus, the Haitian visitor returned | to his hotel and prepared to luncheon at the White House, in ac ceptance of an to the presidential couple yesterday by President and Mrs. Coolidge. This afternoon the pair were to in- spect Fort Myer and Arlington Cem- etery, escorted by high military offi- cers and a squadron of cavalry. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier will be included in the tour. Tonight they will be guests of honor at a din- ner in the Willard Hotel, tendered by the Dominican Minister. Minister and Mme. Price will hold a reception for the guests tomorrow night and an- other will be given in the Pan-Amer- ican Building Thursday night. . The guests at the White House luncheon to President Borno and Mme. Borno were Secretary Kellogg. the Minister of Haiti and Mme. Price, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the Secre- tary of Commerce: the Undersecre- tary of State and Mrs. Grew; J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State: Everett Sanders, secretary to the President, and Mrs. Sanders; Gen. and Mrs. John W. Russell; Mr. and Mme. Leon de Joan, and Dr. 8. Rowe, director of the Pan- American Union; Dr. William W. Cumberland, Capt. Roche B. La Roche and Lieut. Phillippe Cham. Col. S. Cheney, Capt. Wilson | Brown, jr., U.'S. N. The Haitian executive's arrival in the Capital was’accomplished in an atmosphere of quiet formality, in procedure in in New York Friday, when he was greeted by jeers from some elements. Escortéed to the White House by J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, President and Mme Borno were received by President and Mrs. Coolidge, who shortly afterward re- turned the call by visiting the couple at the Haitian Legation. Secretary of State Kellogg and Dr. L. S. Rowe, director of the Pan- American Union, met President Borno at Union Station, where a few hun- dred persons had gathered to witness the arrival. As the presidential party reached the plaza exit the Army Band struck up the national anthems of Haiti and the United Statee, in turn. The party stood at attention until this greeting had been completed, and then posed for a score of news photographers. President Borno removed his hat, displaying a rather high forehead, topped by straight gray hair. He is of rather tall stature. A small mous- tache and a pair of gold-rimmed eye- glasses embellished his face, which is of brown complexion. He wore for- mal attire of black coat, pin-striped trousers cand patent leather shoes. Mme. Borno, of much lighter com- plexion, wore a black and white checkeéd coat and back hat of straw. With the couple on their arrival was Assistant Secretary of State Wright. The introductions at the station were in "French. 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La a—Puerto_ Barrios =ziR3RgS iR Fort St. George—Berm: Bonheur—Buenos Aires —_————————————— through a drizzle of rain across the east front of the Capitol and down the south driveway of the Capitol grounds to Pennsylvania avenue. The proces- sion moved along the Avenue to Fif- teenth street and thence south of the Treasury and north on East Execu tive avenue to Pennsylvania avenue again, passing in front of the White House. The route then was through Jackson place and north on Seven- teenth street to the De Sales street entrance of the Mayflower Hotel, where the presidential party will make their headquarters during their five day stay here. The Haitian couple were carried in White House cars to meet President and Mrs. Coolidge. who repaid the courtesy shortly afterward at the Haitian legation. Dr. W. W. Cumberland, American financial adviser to the Haitian gov- ernment, who. with Leon de Jean. minister of foreign affajrs; Capt. Roche B. La Roche, Lieut. Ofmar Cham. J. J. Morgan and the Haitian Minister and Mme. Price, accompanied Presi- dent Borno from New York, declared it was his opinion that the unfriendly demonstration accorded the Haitian executive In New York was staged by paid hecklers. He said he was un- able to identify any Haitians in the crowd. 83333338 & Z>>r; g 8 5700-2 8th St.N.W. (Corner Madison) Six unusually large rooms, tiled bath ‘with built-in, . tub, concrete jotet- T L1 While | ARLINGTON COUNTY " VOTING ON BONDS | All Factions United in Move to As- sure ¥Victory for $750,000 Securities Issue. | Special Pispatch to Tha Star CLARENDON, Va.. June ~Re- publicans and Democrats are working side by side. and the entire political machinery of the county has been put iinto play, to get out the largest vote ' possible for the $750,000 water bond |1ssue which is being voted upon today. | This is no political fight. All factions are working to assure that Arlington | County may connect with the United States Government reservoir at Dale 4 |carlia. and that all residents may have an abundant supply of pure water. leaders in the movement iseem confident that today's vote will | show a great majority for the bonds, they are taking no chances. The | “water bond election campaign com mittee” recently formed with subsidi {ary committees in all of the voting precincts is sald to have laid its lines well, and the prospects are that they will see to it that every qualified voter except those physically incapacitated et to the polls. Since a few minutes after 4 o'clock this morning. when the polls opened. committee members with automobiles have been stationed at railroad sta. tlons, crossroads and other strategic ¢ man or woman who is accosted ‘with “Have you voted?” If they haven't, and are qualified to do so. they are invited for an auto ride, with the nearest polling place as the destination. The polis will close at sundown, 7:36 o'clock this evening. The board of supervisors at | regular meeting at unanimously voted to file a letter from the “Citizens' Committee for a Sound Water Plan,” asking that the | election on the water honds be post- ponéd for 30 or 60 days. The motion to file was made by Supervisor, Wil- liam J. Ingram, who stated that the letter, which was signed by Beverly F. Rogers, represented a committee of 13, of which only two were citizens of the county. The board voted the appropriation of $500 to Dr. P. M. Chichester, coun- ty health offiter, for the construction of a dog pound on the scavenger fleld. The health officer was also authorized to call for bids for a dog catcher, who will be required to furnish necessary equipment. Purchase of the scaven- ger fleld, which the county has been renting. was also authorized. This will cost the county $12,000, it was said. When the proper facllities are pro- vided for handling dogs, the tag and muzzle law will be strictly enforced. it was announced ist the courthouse DROWNING IS EXPLAINED. Scout Camp Officials Point Out Victim Was Trespasser. Boy Scout officials today called at- tention. to the fact that a boy who {was drowned vesterday at Camp | Woodrow Wilson, the Scout camp at {Burnt Mills, Md., was not only not a Scout but a trespasser. The victim was a colored lad em ploved as a_caddie at the Indian Spring Golf Club, who, with two of his companions, in direct disobedience of “No Trespassing” signs, went swim- ming in the deep pool used by the Scouts. 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Myer. the visitors, ensconced in a White House lmousine, proceeded Main 5904 JUNE. 15, 1926 CHILE ORDERS ALL NEGOTIATIONS | (Continued from First Page.) rights; that the Peruvian official plebiscitary personnel has been im- led, even subjected to assault, in an effort to discharge the necessary appropriate plebiscitary duties; that there have been general deliberate misrepresentation and suppression of, real facts by the local Chilean au- thorities and by the local Chilean ress; that the conditions above out- lined have been brought about not only with the knowledge and implied approval of the Chilear. authorities, but in many cases with their con nivance, evidenced by failure to re- strain the criminal activities of cer- tain so-called patriotic and political organizations, whose operations have been accompanied by unmistakable evidence of official support and ap- proval. - Could Not Overlook Facts. ““The hopes of mankind are fastened upon arbitration as a means, perhaps the only means now available, for settling disputes between nations and preventing the desolation of war. But even these considerations could not justify me in closing my eyes to the truth or in deliberately sanction- ing & proceeding which I am con- vinced by force of indisputable evi- dence would have been not omly in conflict with the award of the arbi- trator, but contrary to the agreement for a plebiscite not violative of the rights of one of the nations concerned. Arbitration was never intended as a cloak for such a wrong. 8 “Notwithstanding the failure of this great effort, let us hope that some means may yvet be found for settling in a peaceful and just manner the controversy over Tacna and Arica, which has for so many years troubled the relations between Chile and Peru.” The text of Gen. Lassiter's resolu tion, approved by the vote of the Plebiscitary Commission, follows: “The Plebiscitary Commission, in the exercise of its duties and func- tions under the award, hereby formu- lates and declares its findings and !conl‘lu»lons as follows: i i Subject to Chilean Laws. “1. PurBuant to the terms of the { treaty of Ancon, the plebiscite ter- ! ritory has Temained and still, remains | subject to Chilean laws and authority. In these circumstances the creation | and maintenance of conditions proper { and necessary for holding a free and fair plebiscite, as requested by the treaty and the award, constituted an obligation resting upon -Chile. This obligation has not been discharged, and the commission finds, as a fact, that the failure of Chile in this re gard has frustrated the efforts of the commission to hold a plebiscite as contemplated by the award and rendered the task impractical of ac- complishment. 2. Jn consequence of its expenses and observations throughout the course of the plebiscite proceedings, the commission has the settled con- victions that further prosecution of the plebiscite proceedings in an effort to hold the plebiscite as contemplated by the award would be futile. “The commission cannot ignore its paramount duty under the award to hold only a free and fair plebiscite, as contemplated by the treaty and the award. and not to hold a pleb- iscite which would not be in accord with the intent of the treaty and the award. ““The Plebiscite Commission accord. ingly decided upon the grounds above stated, first, that a free and fair plebiscite, as required by the award, Is impracticable of accomplishment, and, second, that the plebiscite pro- ceedings be and are hereby terminated, subject, however, to the formulation and execution of such measures as may be required for the proper liqui- i | i i Look at it and it use it and you anfsm vet devised for suffe F9u, SEE the aimple H general improve bad inecugated the instrument thor Ap expert from New York Citv [ request you to call. make a i thout _charge. i your deaf friends. { conve lon.. the hearing. | | i 1 g i | lj o i jf arownd ! i @ in Use warm weather Mohair SUITS The' low * of more than Alternate use satisfactory wear. today with our standards of exactness even more exacting 14th and G Streets N.W. 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Fallure apparently is about to bring | to a swift termination the efforts of | Washington to settle the old Chilean- Peruvian controversy over the two lit tle Pacific seaboard provinces of Tacna and Arica. | A slight hope of avoiding complete ! collapse of the negotiations still was | in the minds of officlals here today. | and President Coolidge continued ready to take whatever steps he | might find practicably, either now or | in the future, to bring the twd South American nations into accord. But the swift developments of the past 24 | hours generally were conceded to have dealt a severe blow to the prospect of | a settlement. i It is believed almost certain that the | threat of a break-up in the arbitration at Arica, undertaken by the President himself, will carry to defeat the sep. arate mediation proceedings instituted by Secretary Kellogg between the Chilean and Peruvian ambassadors in | Washington. The presidential arbitration was un dertaken first by President Harding. who hoped to find a way to remove | trom Latin American politics an issue { that had led to a generation-old con- troversy and several times had threat- ened to lead to war. Once the territory of Bolivia, the | two provinces passed under condi- | tlonal control by Chile a half century | ago after a war that invoived more | or less directly all of the South! American Pacific seaboard nations. | One of the conditions of the peace ! treaty, however, was that a plebiscite | should be held at some future time to determine whether Chile or Peru should remain permanently in posses: | sion of Tacna and Arica. Chile and Peru never were able to, agree on the conditions for such a plebiscite, however, and Harding called representatives of the two gov. ernments to Washington, where they drew up a protocol, leaving it to the President of the United States 1o de- | cide how the sovereignty of the provinces should be determined. After | | Harding's death his successor in the | White House was designated to suc. | ceed him as arbitrator. In an award | handed down a year ago last March | Mr. Coolidge decided in favor of a plebiscite and he designated a com- mission of Chileans, Peruvians and Americans to go to Arica and super- vise arrangements for the voting. Pershing Began Work. Gen. Pershing at first headed the American group at Arica, but he made little progress toward an accord be-| tween the Chilean and Peruvian groups on the conditions that were to govern the election. When he was forced by ill health to return to this country last January he was succeed- ed by Gen. Lassiter, upon whose mo- tion the Plebiscitary Commission de- clared yesterday that the “fair and free” plebiscite provided for in the presidential award had been n‘ndered! impossible by the attitude of Chile. Foreseeing such a result, Secretary Kellogg has been seeking for several weeks to secure an agreement for settlement of the controversy by di-| rect diplomatic negotiations, and with- | out a plebiscite. He has advanced sev- | eral alternative bases for solution, ' under one of which a share in the ter ritory would go to Bolivia, despite | the fact that in 1904 she made a treaty with Chile resigning all her | previous claims to consideration in the settiement. i The Secretary’'s negotiations, which | i have languished from the start. today remained barely alive. ‘A notification from Chile that she could not proceed with the discussions was expected momentaril i st and smallest device in the worid: theater, over radio, telephone and De with us on the abore day. 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