Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1926, Page 5

FIELD EXPEDITION STARTS TOMORROW Abyssinian Trip to Begin as Heads Leave Chicago; to Hunt Secret City. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, September 4.—The scientific, big-game huating expedition of the Fleld Museum of Natural His- tory, the Chicago Daily News and the North American Newspaper Alliance, of which The Star Is a member, into mysterious Abyssinia will get under way témorrow with the departure from Chicago of Dr. Wilfred Osgood and Alfred M. Bailey of the museum staff. Dr. Osgood, who is 10 lead the ex- pedition, will pick up Jack Baum, re. porter of the expedition, and the other members of his party between Chicago and the port of Jibuti, in French Somaliland, whence they are to strike off into the little-known mountain em- pire over which the Queen of Sheha once’ ruled, there to hunt strange animals, including the strange nyala, known as “the Queen of Sheba's an’ telope.’ Walting for them in Addis Ababa, the inland capital of Abyssinia, the explorers will find two and one-half tons of equipment and supplies, ship- ped from Chicago weeks ago. i All-American Equipment. | There w be no corner stores to Tun to in the wilderness which the expedition is going to explore. Food, medicines, camp equipment, pack- . guns, ammunitlon, scien: > supplies—all had to be purchased in advance and shipped with c The expedition's equipment haps_the most thoroughly Au.erican stock ever carried on an ploration. It is probable that no other important expedition ever went to the “black continent”—the continent of llons and rhinos and eroco iles--with none but American guns. Ponderous Englich elephant guns have until now been considered a necessary part of an African explover's gear, hut Dr. Os- good and his companions will do all their shooting with rifies and shot- guns made in this conntry. Kermit Roosevelt is contribnting one of the big guns. It is a Hofman 875 that he carrled on the memorable Simpson-Roosevelt-Field Museum ex- pedition after the ovis pod. Next to the guns on which the Jives of Osgood and his ~ompanions may depend in the bix-wame country, the photographic equipment commanded the greatest care. Suydam Cutting Photographer. Suydam Cutting, millionaire sports- man and court-tennis champion of America, is to be the expedition's of- ficial photographer, assisted by the equally expert Bailey. He will carry a still camera and the fine Akely motion picture machine with which he made his stirring record of the Roosevelt brothers' ovis poll trip. A reflecting camera with a 15-inch tele- photo lens, for photographing distant game with close-up clearness, is pagt of the equipment. Then there will be a hand camera for each member of the party, and an automatic flash- light apparatus for night photog- raph v With all that equipment them, readers of The Star c on stirring photographs of Ab: game and scenes, along with storles of the expedition's adventures. Outfitting the party invoived an in- teresting footnote to American his- tory. The American pack saddle, which shared honors with the covered wagon in the conquest of the West has all but passed into the historical museum stage. Dr. Osgood decided right at the start to include 24 pack saddles in his equipment, so that he wouldn't have to depend entirely upon native gear. Getting the saddles took weeks of work. There were none in Chicago or St. Louis or Den- ver, the erstwhile outfitting places of Western expeditions. If a Kan: City firm hadn't dug some out of back corner Dr. Osgood might have had to hire saddlers to oke the needed gear from old model Camp chalrs and cots are among the things shipped out to Addis Ababa. African travelers aren't able to do without such furniture, after the American fashion. The Abyssinian Jungles are full of deadiy snakes with a liking for human bedfellows; the wise traveler sleeps well off the ground. Voraclous tropical ants must be considered, too. On thelr account the expedition's furniture will be of steel, and all canvas will be treated with chemicals unappetizing to ants. Must Carry Much Food. While game abounds, other foods will not be available, so the expedition will carry into the wilderness about balf the food the five white men of the party will need in mine months of exploration. The expedition fs to spend months or more in the wilds of A sinla, hunting the rare fauna of the country, exploring regions never visit- ed by white men and looking into such reported mysterles as » remote walled eity and a disappearing river. Dr. Osgood has hopes of finding creatures unknown to sclence. Louis Agassiz Fuertes of Cornell University, one of the foremost orni- thologists of the day, will he a mem- ber of the expedition. He will study the birds of the region, while Dr. Osgood and Mr. Bailey catch and classify the animal Jack Baum, a reporter with a rare <kill for telling stories of adventure, will be the reporter of the expedition. By courler, telegraph, cable and by short-wave radlo, too. he will keep readers of The Star informed of the expedition’s progress. Baum Is now in Paris. Dr. Osgood and Mr. Bailey will join h here. Dr. Fuertes and Mr., Cuttinr are to pick up the main party in New York. The five will sail together for Jibuti. They will be in Addis Ababa some time early in October, ready to start | ving n count six and paint Sevan vachts in a line—one of the most unusual regatta for “R” boats. The Machree, winner, i s third from the left. LA FOLLETTES GRIP ISSUE INWISCONSIN Stalwarts’ Slogan is,“Smash Madison Ring”’—0ther Top- ics Screen Real Goal. Follette progressives the fundamental issue is the perpetuation of the La Follette principles of government, which for want of a better name have been called progressive. From the point of view of the stalw: fundamental issue is the smashing of the Madison ring, the La Follette organization, carrying with it the re- turn to more conservative principles of government. When Senator La Follette dled something more than a year ago the stalwarts thought they saw a chance to win back control of the Republican organization in Wisconsin. They hoped that the La Follett> organiza- tion would crumble, that conflicting ambitions of ‘various La Follette lieutenants would crop up to aid in the wreck of the old organization. The first opportunity for a trial of strength came a year ago, when the La Follette progressives put forward Robert M. La Follette, jr.. as their candidate for the Senate to fill out the unexpired term of his father. Young Bob, as he s known to distin- guish him from the late Senator, aft- er a vigorous campaign, won in a walk. The stalwarts ihsisted this was a mere sentimental victory, the followers of the senior La Foilette voting for the son out of respect to his memory. Second Test at Hand. The second test is now at hand. Not by the widest stretch of the imagination will it be possible to at- ! tribute to sentimental reasons the victory of Gov. Blaine over Senator Lenroot or of Attorney General Ekern over Secretary of State Zimmerman. | 1f they occur, such victories would be notice that the people of Wisconsin are still wed to the progressive prin- ciples of the senior La Follette, and could not be construed otherwise. ormally the progressive vote in consin is 60 per cent or more of the whole. It would seem inevitable, therefore, that candidates opposed to the La Follette progressive candidates would have to gather in a very con- siderable number of progressive votes o it they are to win; or else split the ! progressive strength by having in the field more than one progressive can-| didate, The anti-La Follette candidates are trying their best to win to themselves Progressive votes. Senator Lenroot, for example, asked the stalwart con- vention not to indorse him. He did not want the stalwart stamp, which might hurt him in the race with Blaine. He will get the stalwart votes in any event, except those of men who were angered because of his management of the campaign against oung Bob last Fall, when at the in- tance of Lenroot, State Senator Wil cox was ditched in favor of Ditmar to make the race for the Senate, after La Follette had won the Republican nomination. Calls Himself Progressive. Zimmerman is proglaiming himself a La Follette Progressive in litera- ture and posters. As a matter of fact he was selected by the late Sen- ator several vears ago to run on the Progressive ticket for secrefory of State. He proved a good vote getter and won by the largest vote ever cast for a candidate in Wisconsin. The hope of the stalwarts that the La Follette Progressives would come to blows has been realized at least in the case of Zimmerman, who is on the nyala’'s trail. (Copsright. 1926, by North American News. paper Alliance ! PROBE OF D. C. AFFAIRS TEMPORARILY DELAYED House Committee in Charge Unable to Hold Meeting Until After September 15. Investigation of the administration of the municipality of the District ©of Columbia—by a special subcommit- tee of the House District committee which was authorized to make suc a study before Congress reconvenes— will not be started until after Sep- tember 15 Representative Ernest W. Gibson & of Vermont, who was chalrman of the earlier subcommittee which made & preliminary investigation which the full committee felt showed cause for | 8 more comprehensive and detailed investigation, wrote to members of the subcommittee from his home in Brattlehoro, Vt. suggesting that progress be made and saying that he could give attention to the mee!in:s! { between the 4ih and 11th of Sep- tember. The replies received, however, in- dicate that no meeting could be held before September 15. Three of the members have primaries on the 14th fighting Ekern for governor. One of the House members, Representative Schaffer, formerly a La Follette man, has come out for Zimmerman. Other- wise the ranks are still intact. The specific issues involved in the present campaign include the wet and dry question, the World Court, farm relief, the repeal of the Esch-Cum- mins transportation act, the plan of taxation put into effect by the ¥ro- gressives, which the anti-La Follette leaders insist is driving big business out of the State, the Mellon tax law, the Fordney-McCumber tariff act and the Madison ring. The Madison ring, according to Len- root and Zimmerman, is composed of Senator La_Follette, Gov. Blaine, Ekern and Phil La Follette, second son of the late Senator and at present prosecuting attorney of Dane County. The charge is that this coterie gets together in a backroom in Madison and decides who shall be candidate for office and who shall not, and what the policies of the Progressive organi- | zation shall be.. They say this is subversive of good government and entirely opposed to the primary method of selecting candidates for which the late Senator La P““e“ei stood. Reply to Stalwarts. | The La Fuoilette Progressives reply | this charge that the stalwarts, nging to the old convention plan, | get together a handpicked convention | and select their candidates. They rts the T¥ea for a month, and they ail go to- PARIS MERCHANTS CLOSE STORES DURING VACATION Many Pull Down Shutters, Tack Up Sign and Call All Business Off for a While. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 4.—“Formetur Annuelle” is a sign on many of the small stores of Paris during August, and American tourists are astounded that so many Frenchmen in. business shut up their stores for a month and £o away on a vacation. Stores of all classes which are family affairs just ! lower their tron shutters for a month | and the whole family goes to the sea- side or a moumdain resort. The American may take his vaca- tion, but he sees that “business as usual” gontinues iIn his store; the renchman believes that the family ould get away to the country or the gether. He Is sure his clients will be back when the store opens and, any- way, he argues, many of his clients are away on vacation. so why should he keep open for the few who remain? several candidates in a primary for the same office and the Stalwa tered only one, it would be a foregone conclusion that the stalwart candi- dates would win. As between Senator Lenroot and Gov. Blaine an issue stressed in the campaign has been the World Court, which s defended by Lenroot and at- tacked by Blaine. Blaine has attack- ed Lenroot hecause of his vote to seat former Senator Newberry of Michi- gan, charged with excessive expendi- tures of money in his campaign for the Senate against Henry Ford; be- cause of his vote for the Esch-Cum- mins act, for the part he played in the Teapot Dome ofl investigation and for his vote for the Mellon tax law. Len- root, on the other hand, has assailed ! Blaine for his part in the Madison ring, for the Wisconsin tax plan, which he insists is driving business | from the State, and for his adminis tration generall, { The wet-and-dry question crops up: | | Blaine is an out-and-out wet, favoring | repeal of the Volstead act and the, eighteenth amendment. ILenroot, who voted for both and has heen consid- ered a dry in the past, has gone so far.as to say he will abide by the de- cision of the voters in November when they may hold a referendum on the proposal that 2.76 per cent heer be legalized. This referendum may or may not materialize. The Anti-Saloon League has challenged the legality of holding the referendum on the ground | that it was merely provided for by resolution of the State Legislature and not by an act making appropriation for conducting the referendum. This matter is now before the. State Su- preme Court. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment has placed full page advertisements in a num- ber of the Wisconsin newspapers, which read: Plea for Beer Made. “Don’'t send Mr. Lenroot to Wash- ington if you want beer.” The advertisements also strongly urge the nomination and election of Goyv. Blaine to the Senate. There is a third candidate for the Republican” nomination for Senator, Frank J. Kelly, an attorney. He an- nounced himself as a wringing wet candidate, but has been heard from practically not at all. The t-and-dry question enters also into the race for the gubernatorial nomination. Ekern is regarded as a wet and is opposed by the Anti-Saloon League. He has stated the Volstead act should be modified. But he has not stressed this issue in the cam- paign. Zimmerman, who has been accused of being connected with the Ku Klux Klan, is regarded as a dry. W. Stanley Smith, who has been in- surance commissioner, is a fourth candidate for the Republican nomina- tion for governor as an out-and-out wet. The race for Republican nomina- tions usually settles the elections which follow in November here in Wisconsin. _But that has not pre- vented the Democrats, the Socialists and the Prohibitionists from also en- tering candidates in the primaries this vear. The Democrats have put up Thomas M. Kearney of Racine for Senator and Virgil S. Cady of Baraboo for governor. The Socialists have named Leo Krzycki for Senator and Herman O. Kent for governor, both of Milwaukee. The Prohibitionists will vote for three candidates for the gubernatorial nomination and for two for the senatorial nomination. Might Run Independents. The La Follette Progressives have an ace in the hole which they may use if they lose the fight for either senatorial or gubernatorial nomina- tions in the Republican primary. Some of them are talking seriously of {running Phil La Follette as an Inde- pendent if Ekern is defeated for the gubernatorial nomination or Blaine is defeated for thé senatorial nomina- tion. The younger La Follette has made a record for himself as prosecut- ing attorney in Dane County. an orator of much ability | campaigned all over the State for hi father and his brother, and recently for the La Follette Progressive ticket. He bears the charmed name La Fol- lette. If he gets into one of these races there will be a lively campaign. The stalwarts who, a year ago, de- and, of course, are busy about their | point out that if the La Follette Pro- | clared they did not take Senator Bob own re-elegtion int: ts. 4 leotion interes! gressives were foolish epough to enter \ La Follette, jr., seriously, are begin: N ‘ national Republican politics, MAJH. A. DARGUE 0 LEAD AIR FLIGHT Will Command Army Corps’ Trip Around South America With Five Planes. By the Associated Press. Maj. Herbert A. Dargue has been selected to command the Army Air Corps flight around South America. A tentative list of the other offi- cers to participate in the flight in- cludes Capt. Arthur B. McDaniel of | Kelly Field, Tex. to be second in command; Capt. Ira C. Faker, sta- tioned at Washington: Capt. Clinton . Woolsey of McCook Field, Ohio: First Lieuts. Bernard S. Thompson, Phillips Field, Md., Leonard D. Wed- dington, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Charles McK. Robinson, Fort Crock- ett, Te: Muir 8. Fairchild, Langley Field, Va.: Ennis (.® Whitehead, Wright Field, Ohio, and John W. Benton, Crissy Field, Calif. Diplomatic preliminaries have not vet been completed for the flight, which is to start from Kelly Field. Five planes will make up the squad. ron and the plans are to have two officers aboard each. WHIPPING OF TWO GIRLS PROBED AT BRISTOL, VA. Description Given by Victims of Three Men They Say Drove Them to Lonely House. By the Associated Press. BRISTOL, Va., September 4.-Po- lice are seeking three young men who Thursday night forced Blanche Stone, 22, and Lilly Frick, 24, into an automobile, drove them three mil out of the city to an abandoned house and there administered a severe whipping with leather straps, the girls told police here today. They said they then were taken to the roadside and told to walk back into the city. Both reside here. They were on thelr way home, they said. Descrip- tions of the men were given. Large welts were visible on their bodie: The girls are well known in this cit. After trudging back they went to their homes and later reported the affair to police. . BRINGS LUCKY CAT HOME Opera Star Returns With Feline That Helped Win $34,000. NEW YORK, September 4 (@).— Anna Fitziu, whose voice delights Chi- cago operagoers, is back from France with a black cat and most of the| $34,000 that the feline helped her to win. Anna was out some $14,000 at Vichy's, equivalent for the Sam Mad- dock’s place of Edna Ferber's book, until she fed a hungry stray cat and took it to the casino with her, Then luck came her way so quickly that she was offered 50,000 francs for the cat. ning to change their tune. He is no longer a joke to them. He has gained in strength throughout the State since he was elected and has seen service in Washington. The stalwarts say that he merely. copied his father, but forget that the Progressives arc much pleased because he does follow in_his father's footsteps. If the Progressives win this year, Senator La Follette's leadership will be greatly strengthened. He will be- come the senior Senator from Wiscon- sin, and will have served through an entire Congress before Blaine can en ter the Senate. He will have suc ceeded in bringing about the electior of another Progressive Senator and a Progressive governor, for whom he has campaigned = vigorously in the last month. On the other hand, ii the Progressives lose this year, he will have to look to himself when he comes up for re-election in 1928, Money Not Lavishly Used. The campaign in this State, from the point of view of money expended, is a mere nothing when compared to the campaigns of the primary elections this year in Pennsylvania and Illinois Senator Lenroot has made demands for an investigation by the Senate campaign fund investigating commit- tee, headed by Senator Reed of Mis. souri and of which Senator La Fol- lette is a member, but without success. Senator Lenroot, like Senator La Follette, stands to win or lose much on Tuesday. If he wins and is re elected Senator in November, he be- comes an outstanding figure in as the leader who has brought the Republi cans out of the Progressive wilder ness. If he loses, his political deatl knell has been sounded. Notwithstanding the report that Lenroot and Zimmerman are playing the game together in this campaign enator Lenroot and his supporters |eral Electric EPTEMBER pictures ever sn apped. Pictured at San Francisco (Iurin‘lhe fourth annual Pacific coast regatta CHICAGO TO GET GIANT TURBINE GENERATOR Machine, Now Being Built, to Be First Unit of Largest Plant of Kind in World. By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., September 4.—A gigantic turbine generator set, which will be the first unit of the largest steam generating station in the world, is being built by the Gen- Co. for installation on the Take Michigan shore of Tna'wa It will be operated by the Insull in- terests to furnish electricity .. Chicago district and Indiana. The electric company announced that the energy from the, 280,000- horsepower machine will be sufficient to operate 100 Panama Canals, or take care of the electrical needs of a city of 1,700,000. Coincident with the purchase of the turbine generator in the Middle West, the world’s largest generators in ca- pacity and physical dimensions are belng manufactured by the General Electric C'o. for shipment to the Cali- fornfa Edison Co. in Southern Cali- fornja. Tt f{s estimated they will be able every 24 hours to do the work of one-sixth’ the population of the coun- try, if all were working men. VIRGINIA ASKS’ PRISONER. Tyree, Whose Machine Guns De- fled Posse, Held in Kansas. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va. September 4.— Gov. Bryd has forwarded a request to the Governor of Kansas for Gil- bert Tyree, wanted in Nelson County for breaking jail in 1921, and with machine guns in July of this year defying a posse. Tyree is reported to have worked in the mines of West Virginia for | some time after his second exploit. Frequent reports came to this State of the capture of the man. There was a reward of $250 for his arrest. He was taken several days ago in Leavenworth, Kan: insist that this is not the case, that he has kept scrupulously away from the gubemuth contest. WINNER ANOUNCED IN LAWN CONTEST W. B. Lydenberg Given First Place—Others Awarded Prizes and Praise. W B. Lydenberg of 2908 South Dakota avenue was announced the win- ner in the 1926 lawn and garden con- test of the Rhode Island Avenue Cit- izens' Association at a special meet- ing in the Sunday school hall of the Sherwood Presbyterfan Church last night. The lawns were inspected by Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell and B. Y. Morrison, expert of the Department of Agriculture, Tues- day, at which time the winners wgre chosen, but the names of those who had the coveted honor of winning prizes were not made known until last night. General artistic arrapge- ment of a premises was considéred in_the judging. ' There were 30 prizes in all, while 20 additional persons were given hon- orable mention. The first 10 prizes consisted of horticultural material to be chosen by the winners, the winner of first place being allowed §10 worth, second place $7.50 worth, third $3 and the remainder of the 10 §3 each. Silver hud vases were awarded the remaining 20 prize winners. H. J. Clay. chairman of the citizens' wns and garden contest committee, presided at the meeting while the prize awards. were made by Maj. W. E. R. Covell, assistant engineer com- missioner. Congratulating the win- ners, Maj. Covell said that if Wash ington is not the most beautiful ci in the world now it is well on its wa; toward becoming the most beautiful. The remainder of last night's pro- gram incluled an address on “Land- scaping a Small Place,” by Mr. Mor- rison, and vocal solos by Thomas N. Leef, accompanied by John J. Thomas. Beginning with second prize the vi rious winners were as follows: A. Becke, 2307 Woodridge street: Pearson, 2001 Lawrence street; A. Henderson, 2304 Woodridge street Mrs. C. M. Kaulbeck, 3018 Twenty- sixth street; H. A. street: J. P. Rodrock, Mrs. H. 1. yrtle avenue; . outh Dakota avenue; Monroe street; L. C. th Dakota avenue; 535 Kearney street R. C. Goodhart, 2913 Twentieth stree A. P. Woodson, 1601 Monroe gtreet: D. Sawyer, 1926 Kearney street: It. L. Fox, 3011 Twenty-sixth street: J. L. Knopp, 2415 Monroe street; Mrs. C. H. Otis, 1805 Lawrence street; H. A. Linger, 2305 Woodridge street: A. F Engelbrecht, 3212 Central avenue: Peterson. 3217 Seventeenth : L. M. Clarke. 2440 Monroe J. L. Mitchell, 2707 South Da- kota avenue; W. P. McDowell, 2300 Woodridge street; J. T. Breast, 2614 Rhode Island avenue; Ambrose Hig- don, 1937 Girard street: R. W. Conkli 3100 Twentieth street: J. A. Hendrix, 2631 Soutk: Dakota avenue, and J. H. Cole. 8019 Twenty-sixth street. Honorable mention was awarded to the following 20, any of whom, it is stated, might have scored higher than the 30 selected for the final judging: €3 ¢ 2607 South " Dakota avenue: G. V. Collins, 1812 Irving street; W. W. Cookson. 2420 Rhode Island avenu " Davenport Monroe street: 0. Dinger, Kearney street H. Dunn, Central avenue: E. ¢ South Dakota avenue; 3421 Twenty-fourth stree kell, 1802 Lawrence street hoe 2606 Monroe street: Mrs. Hottell, 2010 Bladensburg road: 3004 South Dakota avenu Meader, 2650 M Foerester, 3000 L. M. Allen, 160: Stephens, 300 H. G. Bergling, A 3017 Sixteenth street Morton, 2721 Hamlho street; . meyer, 1917 Jackson street; Proctor, 2501 Irving street; Rubino, 3008 SixXteenth stree . 3. Scheuch, 1925 Lawrence street: G. F. Tucker. 1900 Jackson street, and J. G. Winkjer, 1925 Lawrence street. Honorable mention for the best Ale John J STRIE DISCUSSION ! By the Associated Pross. lawn. other points not considered, 2019 Monroe FIND TWO FIRST EDITIONS OF ‘PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS’ Purchases of *“Original” Copy at Auction Sale Discover It Is ‘Actually a Second Issue. Bv the Associated Press. LONDON, September 4.—A peculiar mixup has occurred over the copy of the first edition of “Pligrim's Prog- gress,” for which £6.800 was recently paid in a London auction room. Fx- amination of the volume by the pur- chasers, a -firm_of antiquarian book | dealers, revealed the fact, hitherto un- | known, that there were two different | dssues of the first edition and that this copy was one of the second issue, which has a five-line errata at the end of the last page of the text. This discovery caused the cancella- tion of the sale, but the work was re- sold almost immediately to the origi- nal purchaser by private arrangement with the auctioneers. PLANNED IN BRITAIN Government Officials to See Mine Owners on Future Conference With Men. LONDON, September 4.—The mines department of the government announced today that representatives of the coal mine owners and the coal committee of the cabinet will meet on Monday afternoon to discuss the call of a conference of owners and workers. This is the only item of progress noted today toward a set- tlement of the coal strike. The week end holiday was observed as usual by nearly all officials and leaders of the business and industrial world. A decided effort will be made early in the week to bring together the opposing interests in the strike and secure a basis for negotiation now that the miners have shown some spirit of compromise. But although the miners say they are willing to negotiate the questions of wages and hours of .labor they insist that_any settlement must be national and include all the mines on a common basis. To that the owners object and one of their pokesmen declared today they wouldn't discuss it in any confer- ence. The government's intervention offers the only chance that a basis will be found on which a discussion between the partles may be opened with a better prospect of success than heretofore. WOULD ENFORCE ORDER. Board Stres;e:‘Need t;l Classifying Steam Engineers. Regret that the classification of team engineers is not beinis enforced in the District was expressed by the District board of examiners for steam engineers in its annual report to the Commissjoners, The board says there is an element of danger in allowing a third-class engineer to operate a first-class plant. “An order by the Commissioners classifying engineers is in existence, but has not heen enforced in recent vears,” the board reported. “First. class” engineers may operate plants of any horsepower; second-class, not over 75-horsepower: third-class, 25-hors power or less. The board earnestly urges that this order be enforced hy the police and that a period of six months be ziven for readjustment so as not to disturb existing conditions- in other words, that all engineers have six months to study for the grades they require to operate plants in which they are at present em- ployed.” The electric rail between The Hague and Rotterdam has replaced its alternating current equipment with a RECEIVERSHIP LAID 10 FROZEN FUNDS & L. Millenl & Co. Assets Placed at $9,636,987. Debts Are $6,915,324. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 4.-G. L. Miller & Co., an investment broker age concern, with branch offices in 16 States of the Fast. South and Mid west, s in equity receivership. The company, wlhich has under written bond issues aggregating $70 000,000, was thrown into receivership through delay in payment of a $30. 000 installment on a building under construction which it is financing. Assets of the company are placed at $9,636,957 and Habilities at $6.915 - 324. The Investment Banking Cor poration, a subsidiary organization also In the hands of a receiver. Survey Under Way. A survey of the company’s financial status was under way today by Law rence Berenson. appointed reecefver vesterday under $100,000 hond by Federal Judge Mack. The receivership was sought in an equity action by the 571 Park Avenue Association, on the grounds that G 1. Miller & Co. in April contracted to ay $1,425,000 for construction of & bullding at t and that failure to pay installment due August 6 had necessitated sus pension of oper for a month The compi operated exten sively in Flor < Southgrn headquarters It haw branches in Ph . Pittshurgh Boston, Knoxville, Buffal Baltimere, Pa.ie Cincinnati, Jackson- ville, Fla.: “tica, N Y.: New ashington and Columbus. Assets Held Frozen. Deputy State Attorney (eneril Winter, head of the State Attorney General's Anti-Stock Fraud Dureau said last night “The G. L. Miller & Co. recelver hip is apparently a result of their practice of pooling the proceeds the sale of their hond issues and of freezing their assets in un: e bona: that they now find them- selves unable to meet some of their underwriting liabili As far as 1 know now, this receivership does not particularly affe the safety of any of this company’s bonds. R. J. Francis. vice president of the company, said last night that a group of labor bankers and business men who took over the control of the company last July does not hold a controlling interest in the concern now. The company’s license in Connecti- cut has been indefinitely suspende.l pending an invesilgation. DR. KOCH COMING TO U. S. Democratic Leader Will Study American Conditions. BERLIN, September 4 (#).—Dr. Erich Ko ader of the Democrats in the Reichstag, who sailed from Hamburg on the Empress of Scot land Wednesday for Quebec, plans to spend considerable time in Canada and the United States studying con ditions. He arrives in_Quebec about Sep. tember 9 and will stay there a week after which he will proceed to Mani toba to inspect various German settle ments. Later he will go to Van couver and thence to the United States, traveling from San Francisco to Chicago and New York. Orleans, \ German Aerial cablew: das, Colombia, of 180 miles 500,000 s to be built by Cal have a total length and will cost more than Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W. $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 $10.50 direct-current tem, Will Not Buy 9.100 to $13,500 Take a &UR]E"’H bus today to ’ HANNON 1804 37th St. N.W, -LUCH C Members of the Operative Builders’ Association of the District of Columbia. 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