Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1926, Page 3

(G0 NEETS TOMANE SENTOR Cummins and Brookhart Fac- tions Demand Nominee Be of Their Persuasion. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, lowa, August 6.— Towa Republicans gathered here to- day for their second convention in two weeks, with the I'ne of division in the party again discernible. Today's convention has a single purpose—to nominate a candidate for the unexnired term of Senator Albert B. Cummins, whose death came & week after the party, in regular con- vention, forgot past differences with Col. Smith W. Brookhart, successful opponent of Cummins in the June primary, and accepted him as the nominee, The death of Senator Cummins ap- parently has re-marked the former factional lines, followers of the vet- eran leader having declared them- selves as favoring only a man of his views as his successor, while Brook- hart men assert the situation calls for Brookhart to take up the fight for farm relief even sooucr than other- wise would be possibl A compromise cand. possibly a woman, has been sugscsted by as the solution to the S Lucille, who may die, to RAIL CUT DOUBTED DESPITE EARNINGS Increase Has Not Yet Reach- the hospital. IMMEDIATELY WINS SUPPORT IN FRANCE (Continued from First Page.) maneuver in defense of the franc, which slumped yesterday to 34.95 to Lucille Coleman, young colored girl, mobiles disputed the right of way. One of them landed on the the dollar. - MELLON BUSY IN ROME. Further Cenferences Expected With Mussolini and Volpi. ROME, August 6 (#).—The bellet persists in official circles that before Secretary Mellon’s departure from ‘Rome important financial matters will be discussed with Italian officials. Mr. Mellon now has had conferences with Premier Mussolini, Count Volpi, the Italian minister of finance, and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Grandl. The visit of the American Secre- tary to the Fascist premier and his conversation wtih him are declared to bave been informal, but it is asserted that another meeting between Mr. Mellon and Signor Mussolini will oc- cur within a few days, and at it the conversation will be more detailed, particularly as regards financial mat- ters. In addition, it able that there ing between Secretary Mellon and Count Volpi and other Italian officials, ostensibly of an unofficial character. In his talk with Signor Mussolini Mr. Meilon and the premier touched upon general conditions in Italy and in the United States. Neither Mussolini nor Count Volpi made any remarks or ex- planation concerning Italy’s financial condition or aspirations, and Mr. Mel- lon did not ask any questions concern- ing these matters. The debt settle- ment agreement between Italy and the United States was touched upon In a purely “historical fashion.” The conversation otherwise ranged from the weather to general remarks con- cerning political conditions and the Fascisti regime. The Itallan government is to give an official dinner to the American Sec- retary while he is in Rome. HOLLAND IS CONCERNED. Depreciated Currency Affecting Trade on Belgian Border. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. AMSTERDAM, August 6.—Dutch opinion is watching the French and iBelgian financial crisis with some con- cern. It is realized that the im- wverishment of a customer is never n the interest of a commércial coun- try with a large export trade. Moreover, Holland suffers from the severe competition of countries with depreciated currency. It is now fi q ed with Belglan goods and daily erowds cross the frontier in search of bargains in Belgium. The shopkeep- ers in the Dutch frontier towns are being threatened with ruin and have mppealed to the home minister, urging him to protect the Dutch trades peo- ple. against the competition of coun- tries with low exchange and sug- gesting the introduction of prohibitive provisions like the trade facilities act in Greap Britain. {(Covyright. 1926. by Chicago Dally News Co.) . As much as $500 a month is paid to the experts with pick and shovel who work at sinking new shafts for the great gold-mining companies on the Rand, in South Africa. ed “Fair Return” Rate of Transportation Act. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. (Copyright, 1926, by The Star.) News of the increase in railroad earnings for the first six months of this year will, after being thoroughly digested, have certain political effects. First, the railroad showing is an- other indication of the prosperous condition of the country. As such it will be ammunition on the stump for the members of Congress who ere seeking re-election this Fall and who will attribute the economic advances to the policies of the party in power. Second, it will revive the cry of the farm groups for lower freight rates S0 as to give a greater margin to the producer. Third, it may make more difficult the passage of the legislation pro- posed at the last session, whereby the war debts of the railroads to the Gov- ernment can be funded at lower in- terest rates. Farm Debate Affected. The principal effect, however, will be noted in the debate on agriculture. The railroads have been petitioned to reduce freight rates, but have always pleaded that they were not earning a fair return or the value of their prop- erty. The Government has fixed what is a fair return, the same being out- lined in the transportation act. Even in the favorable showing just made public, the railroads have not come up to the figure set as a “fair return.” When they do. there is a division of rofits under what is known as the “recapture clause,” which has been held constitutional. Until the day when the earnings of the railroads exceed the amount of the fair return, the railroad execu- tives will fight the idea of any gen- eral reduction in freight rates. They have contended that railroads cannot be judged on the earnings of any one year and that before adjust- ments can be made the railroads must have an opportunity to recoup on the years when earnings were unfavor- able and to assure themselves that the whole transportation problem has been put on a stable basis. The ques- tion of consolidations is still unset- tled. The Coolidge administration has n_hopeful that relief for the farm- er might come through the economies in’ operating expenses that would fol- mmlmn-ot strong and weak Loans Cost Less. The railroads are borrowing money for equipment and expansion at a much lower rate than they did in the years immediately following the war, but the cost of borrowing is still & high item of expense. The Watson- Parker act is expected to keep strikes and labor troubles down to the mini- mum, but the demand for higher wages will probably not be silenced. The railroads have made an excellent showing, but there is no disposition here in official quarters to regard that asthe basis for any immediate change in the freight rate situation. RETURN OF 494 PER CENT. SPECIAL NOTICES. WEL‘ (;AT 'BE RESPO! EXBL‘E FO Sy. tontraad byang one o sell: J. L. }:L&Oi’r. “i‘“ Q\l&e»i& xAl‘.“l\,;nJ EMOVAL SALE—FINE IMPORTE] ENG- B Cadlers :‘udul'x‘nrn'eugmt;rnlt Bag in & g0l b Caees w W RS S Y X 0 N ture rom New York, Philadeiphla or Balu- . 'ER AND STOB- ore. 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Class 1 railroads had & net operat- ing income for the first six months of 1926 of $494,866,776, which was at the annual rate of return of 4.94 per cent on their property investment, accord- ing to reports filed with the bureau of railway economics, which is main- tained by the roads. For the first six months of last year their net operat- ing income was $439,398,416, or 4.49 per cent on their property investment. The compilation as to earnings was based on reports from 185 railroads representing a mileage of 236,938. Gross operating revenues for the first half of this year were placed at $3,028,560,861, compared with $2,896,- 616,605 for the same period in 1925; op- erating expenses at $2,299,851,388, com- pared with $2,239,959,266; expenditures for maintenance, $1,064,005,103, an in- crease of $35,361,831 over the first six months of last year. Twenty-two class 1 railroads were reported to have operated at a loss for the first half of 1926, eight of them in the Eastern district, one in the Southern and 13 in the Western. For June, class 1 rallroads had a net railway operating income of $107, 335,654, a 5.49 per cent return on their property investment, compared with $92,148,575, or a 4.82 per cent return for June, 1926. Gross operating revenues for June totaled $639,864,683, as against $507,- 034,436 for June last year. Operating expenses increased from $376,077,689 to $890,190,450. iy WHIPPET RACES POPULAR. St. Louis Stadium. ST. LOUIS, August 4 (#).—Prob- ably no form of sport in this section of the country at the present is meeting with a more enthusiastic reception than that of racing—speed tests of throughbred grayhounds. Run over a tanbark track at a large open-air stadium here, the races are attracting _upward of 10,000 fans nightly. The certificate system of betting is used, and large sums-of hands on each event. 10,000 Nightly See Speed Tests at S 2 S London Laughing At Wine List for U. S Considerable merriment is sweep- ing through official circles over the following ariicle appearing in the London Daily Mail of July 17: Representatives of various de- partments of the United States Government are in London discus- sing with representatives of the British forelgn office, Board of Trade and Customs possible meth- ods of bringing about beiter en- forecment of the laws of the United States prohibiting the im- portation of Intoxicating liquors for beverage use. Yesterday the American prohibi- tion enforcement representatives ‘were entertained at luncheon at Claridge’s Hotel, Brook street, W., and the wines served, after cock- tails in the reception room, were: Amontillado Sherry. Zeltinger Bchlossberg, 1921. Chateau Mn.rqul;ar;'Ale!mo Becker, 1899. Cachet du Chataeu. Grandes Liqueurs. Exshaw's Brand STREET LIGHTING WORK BEGINS SOON Various Sections to Benefit by Modern Installations of Electric Lamps. Another step toward modernizing ‘Washington’s street lighting system will be taken this Fall in accordance with the plans approved some time ago by the District Commissioners. ‘The work scheduled to begin in the Autumn will be on Thirteenth street in the vicinity of Central High School, on Columbia road, Eleventh street southeast, Good Hope road, Benning road, Conduit road, R street, Georgia avenue, Sixth street southwest, M. street southwest and southeast and in the vicinity of the M Street Bridge, and the extended section of Rhode Island avenue northeast. F and G streets also will be equipped with higher powered lights. In the meantime, however, the first installment of the new electric street lamps will be continued. The work on Massachusetts avenue now is com- plete except a section in the south- east. When this is finished the high- powered lights will be placed on Ver- mont avenue from Lafayette Square to Iowa Circle and on Rhode Island avenue from Fourth street northeast and the remaining section of Connec- tiout avenue. The new lights are being placed on 15 and 18 foot poles. Six hundred and one thousand candlepower lights are being used in the improved system and are giving flve times as much light at two and a half times the cost of the old lights. DIRIGIBLE FLEES STORM. Los Angeles Goes Back to Hangar ‘When Disturbance Threatens. LAKEHURST, N. J., August 6 (#).—The dirigible Los Angeles hur- ried back to her hangar here ahead of schedule today on advice that there was a possibility of storms along the Atlantic Coast, after com- pleting radio compass tests with New England stations yesterday. She left Boston at midnight, Eastern standard time, and proceeded slowly through heavy fog, the officers guid- ing her course almost entirely by radio compass, Fushan, Manchuria, is to have a plant capable, it is sald, of producing 400 tons of ol from ofl-shale a day by the dry-distillation process. New Apartments PBighbiety 13th and Clifton 3 Sts. N\W. 1 to 4 Rooms and Bath Porches Fine View Inspect Tonight The Embagsy 16th & Harvard Sts. N.W. 1 to 5 Rooms and Bath H.R. Howenstein Co. 1311 H St. NW. stood by this lamp-post this morning waiting to cross the street. Two auto- corner, knocking down the lamp-post and sending Dry Officers 10 PROTECT GIRL Lucille Coleman, Waiting to Cross Street, Crushed by Rampant Auto. Standing on the southwest corner of New Jersey avenue and E street, wait- ing to cross the street, at 8:15 o'clock this morning, 18-year-old Lucille Cole- man, colored, of 40 E street, was crushed under the wheels of a tour- ing car which had collided at the in- tersection with a large sedan. Deflected by the fmpact of the col- lision, the touring car, operated by Lewis Walton Thomas, 46 years old, salesman, of 637 F street northeast, knocked down a lamppost just before it ran over the Coleman girl. The touring car was badly damaged. Both Legs Mangled. Private Irving Willlamson, fireman at No. 1 truck, and living, at 1509 North Capitol street, ran across the street, picked up the girl and rushed her to Casualty Hospital. Physicians operated immediately and expect to operate again later in the day. Both of her legs were mangled, one belng fractured in seven places. She also is suffering from loss of blood and possible internal injurles. Her condi- tion is very serlous, but she has a chance to live, it was sald, and it is barely possible they will not have to amputate either of her legs. Both Thomas and Edgar Raymond Clark, 30 years old, a chemist of Pitts- burgh, driver of the sedan, were charged with reckless driving by Bicy- cle Policeman J. R. Leetch of the sixth precinct. They were given a preliminary hearing in Police Court within_two hours after the accident and held under $500 bond for trial on HEAT WAVE RELIEF PREDICTED TONIGHT Thundershowers Likely to FOR RENOMINATION Democratic 'House Leader Gets About 1,200 Majority in Tennessee Race. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 6.— Unofficial returns today gave Gov. Austin Peay, candldate for Demo- cratic renomination for the third term, a lead of 1,218 votes over Hill McAlister, his closest oppo- nent, in returns from 1633 pre- cinots of 2,195 in the State. Peay's total was 176,047, and McAlister’s, 73,529, Dr.” John R. Neal, the third candidate, was far behind with less than 1,000, total voie. Finis J. Gar- rett, minority leader in. the House of Repre- sentatives, was renominated over W. W. Craig in the minth district by a majority of between 1,000 and 1,200, according to practically complete \un- official returns. In the first district B. Carroll Reece, present Representative, had a majority of 5,000 over his opponents. Joel N. Plerce and O. B. Lovett, both of Greenville, Returns from the elghteenth judi- clal district, where Judge John T. Raulston, presiding judge in the Scopes case at Dayton, was opposed by Leslie Darr, showed Darr to be leading by a small majority. jidloiree St REP. GARRETT. Give City Cooler Weather for Several-Days. Cloudy skies, with probable thun- dershowers, are expected to under- mine materially the present heat wave tonight and tomorrow, afford- ing Washington a period of more en- joyable weather, it was announced to- day at the Weather Bureau. No marked drop in the temperature was looked for today, but by tomor- row the forecaster anticipated conui- tions appreciably cooler. Yesterday’'s highest officlal tempera. although the ture was 92 degrees, street temperatures ~were several points higher. Humidity was high yesterday and today, making the heat unusually oppressive. A HEAT DEATHS NEAR SCORE. |a Southwest and Midwest States Record High Temperatures, KANSAS CITY, August 6 (®).— Bcattered thundershowers and pos- sibly cooling breezes were forecast to- day as the only relief from the heat wave which yesterday settled over the West and Southwest, sending te peratures well above the century mark in several States. Nearly a score of deaths were at- tributed directly or indirectly to heat, while humidity, which approached the saturation point in many sections, drove farmers from flelds and caused damage to crops. The highest tem- perature reported was at Salina, Kans.,, where the mercury touched 109 degrees. Sixteen Kansas points reported 100 degrees or above, with streams drying up, threatening a ‘water shortage. . Hot wintls swept parts of Texas and Oklahoma, extending into Kansas and corn. Oklahoma’s highest point was 106, at Tulsa, while Fort Worth led in Texas with 102. Rocky Mountain States recorded tempera- tures in the upper 90s, Arizona lead- ing with 98. Continued dry weather in northern Idaho and western Mon- tana added to the forest fire menace, with several blazes remaining out of control. ‘While no records were broken in the Midwest, several deaths were at- tributed to heat in Chicago and Cen- tral State cities, Unusually high hu- midity added to suffering in this sec- tion. Chicago’s maximum was 91, Cen Ill, recording the highest temperature .in this ‘with unofficial mark of 98. for the year was establi City when the mercury bit 100 de- One death resulted. Regional forecasts for today indi- cated more moderate temperatures in the Northwest, with cooling breezes over the Dakotas and Minnesota. Illinols, Wisconsin and Iowa had the Erospect of showers, while continued igh temperatures were predicted for Missouri, Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. 22 rive Bu Prince Grateful to United States. The Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolph and Princess Iuise before leaving the United States sent a message to Secretary Kellogg asking that an expression of “their high appreciation and deep gratitude” for their reception in States and cities they visited be conveyed. FLAT TI?.E? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS HEAT wa @il Oil Burner, 1411 N.Y. AVE. . MAIN 6380 August 27, Thomas was alone car, but Clark had father-in-law, whom he is stopping Apartment; his wife, Clark, and his b-year-old son, Frank Clark. All of the occupants of the sedan gs well as Thomas were badly shaken up, but they refused hospital treatment. 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