Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 10

ATERWAYS URGED 10 AID FARMERS *ztor Capper Declares Creat Saving in Freight Could Be Made. ~lopment of the waterways as ‘i to the farmer was discussed rday by Senator Arthur Capper ‘nsas, head of the farm bloc of cnate, at a hearing before the 1 of Engineers for Rivers and o in the Munitions Building. soke particularly to the plan for iprovement of the Missouri River vaterway, but commented on the ion of tho Western farmer gen- <cientific and unco-ordinated s of marketing,” said Senator i “coupled with high transpor- ) costs, have created a. condition " is actually depopulating our agricultural areas. e general condition of the farm- { the country can be summarized - statement that the agricultural v, embracing one-fourth of the s and onefifth of the capital L of the country, had onesixth , national income in the decade 1909 to 1919. But in 1920 agri- sl income was less than one- \ih, and in 1921 fell to onetwelfth he national income. The slight {oration during the last year or in the conditions affecting the » has raised the present income \ agricultural industry to one- | of the national income. have made this statement of the yal condition of agriculture to the urgent necessity of using ¢ means to enlarge the farmer’s the ultimate price of his o of One of those means is the cts. setion of transportation costs. The oads strenuously — and succes oppose reduction of their rates, | icularly on bulk commodities such ‘Lo farmers ship. 1t is vital, taere- .. to the farmers of the Midwest there be the fullest possible de- ‘spment and use of water trans- wtion, Actual rates in effect today show 1,000 bushels of wheat can be ied 1,000 miles by lake and ocean .mers for $20 to $30; on modern barges for $60 to $70, while the <t by rail is from $150 to $200. Over st. Lawrence and Great Lakes tel ys in the vears 1921-3, there « 258 milllons of bushels of wheat year shipped for export, at an -ormous saving compared with rail ~nsportation. But the saving would ve been vastly greater, and of fdr ire benefit to the farmers and other ople of the West, if it had been sible to load the wheat on harges along the upper Mis ppi and | issouri Rivers and float it to the ¢« 1f ports or the Great Lakes, + costly rail haul and tra se actually involved.” rex- | WISS MARY, SMITH DIES. Lifelong Resident of Capital to Be Buried Monday. Aliss Mary Belle Smith, 53 died at her home, ireet, yesterday. She rasident of Washington. One nephew, George Smith of New- +ort News, Va., and one cousin, Mis une L. Carroll, Meadville, Pa., sur- sye, Miss Smith was a member of aul's Catholic Church, where ervices will be held Monday morn- ing. Interment will be in Mount Oli- vet Cemete THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy to- night and tomorrow: colder tonight, with minimum temperature about 34 cears old, Nineteenth s a lifelong 23 loudy tonight and to-| v light rain or snow; | siightly colder tonight. Virginia—Cloudy tonight and morrow; slightly colder tomorrow. West ~Cloudy and colder tonight; tomorrow possible rain or anow. to- | | Records for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 34: 8 pm., 12 mdnight, 40; 4 a.m., 41; 8 am,, noon, 46. Barometer—4 p.n.. 30.09; 8 p.m 30.05; 12 midnight, 30.01; 4 a.m., 30.0! & a.m., 30.04; noon, 30.13. 1 Highest temperature 46, occurred at 11 a.m. today: lowest temperature, 36, occurred at 8 p.m. yesterday Temperature same date last year— Highest, 47; lowest, 42. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Today—Low tide, 1:40 a.m. and 1:38 pan.; high tide, 7:11 am. and p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 2:20 p.m.; high tide, 810 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 6:20 a.m.; sun sets 4:86 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 6:21 a.m sets 4:36 p.m. Moon rises 7:10 a.m.; sets 4:45 p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at Great Falls at 8 ain.—Tem- perature, 38; condition, very muddy. Weather in Various Citles. sun 8 twsurey Stations. Weather. cweg oy me Abilens Albany Atlanta Atlantic City Cloudy Fogey Clouds Cloudy | questions arising from phy | away rl: h g.n A‘nlnmo ng Diexo ranciso fi_ uis. 1 . Paul ttle L kane {J ASH.D.C. 30.04 FOREIGN. (8 am.. Greeuwich time. todav.) Weather. « clou el Cloudy Part cloudy Part cloudy Clear. Cloudy Clear Part_clondy Clear, Cloudy 1. Cloudy . Cloudy ¥France .. Austria Germany . MEN AND MONEY By M. S. Rukeyser (Covyright, 1926.) On the eve of the opening of the last session of the Sixty-ninth Con- gress, next Monday, the business world looks for no significant stim- ulus or inspiration from the Nation's solons. Business has come to favor a do- nothing Congress, except for routine performances. Trade leaders want primarily to be left alone, unhampered by the extension of the power of government in the economic fleld. Business men are conservative in poli- tics, vet they are not set against change. Business leaders want auton- omy in effecting changes. They wish to work out the new formulas of trade policies and technique in their own laboratories and in their own experi- ence, unhampered by politicians. Business leaders expect no serious interference from the forthcoming short session of Congress. They be- lieve that the pro-business policies of Coolidge and Mellon will guide the new deliberations of the lJawmakers. Apprehension Over Cotton. There i8 some slight apprehension lest the political economy of conserva- tive Southern lawmakers may be al- tered by the recent slump in cotton, and that as a result they may join forces with the farm bloc from the grain belt in demanding laws to fix prices on agricultural commodities. Financial opinion in the East almost unanimously holds that such legisla- tion would be in the nature of a quack remedy and would do serious harm to the economic fabric. In conformity with the anti spirit, the rallroads of the country are op- posed to leglslation which will seek to abolish Pullman surcharges. On the constructive side the legis- lation which business would welcome most would be that authorizing fur- ther tax reductions, particularly acts designed to cut the rate on corporate profits and to abolish Federal inheri- tance taxes. McFadden Bill Favored. Business men and bankers, through their accredited organizations, have expressed approval of most of the Mc- Fadden-Pepper bill, which, as passed by the Senate, provides for the re- charter of the Federal reserve banks and for lberalizing the provisions governing national banks in order to enable them to compete on more equal terms with State institutions. State bankers and State banking assocfa- tions have opposed certain phases of this proposed new legislation, which apparently has fair prospects of being enacted. Business men and bankers inside and outside the railroad field are in- clined to favor—although there is by no means unanimity of feeling—fur- ther clarification of the provisions of the transportation act authorizing vol- untary mergers and consolidations by the adoption of the Parker bill, which is likely to win support in both houses of Congress. There s some feeling that the act as it now stands bars immediate con- summation of mergers by compelling the Interstate Commerce Commission to develop a general plan before ap- proving specific railroad cases. The National Chamber of Commerce has petitioned Congress to remove ob- stacles to _consolidation, _including ical valua- tions, the status of minority share- holders and the position of short or weak lines, and it has expressed the hope “that such action will constitute one of the most important activities of the coming session of Congress.” THE BUSINESS OF GETTING AHEAD. Need of an Investment Program. Broadly speaking, you can acquire only one of two things with your sav- ings. You can_either buy property or wealth itself, or claims against | property or wealth in the form of securities or mortgages, including in- surance and savings bank deposits, both of which are secured by diversi- fied holdings of securities and mort- gages. The most common form of property purchased for investment purposes is real estate. Land or land and build- ings constitute something tangible, definite, certain. The buyer of real estate perceives precisely what he is getting. 1f he buys it outright—an unusual plan—no one can take it from him or foreclose on him. 1t is secure within his grasp as long as soclety recognizes the rights of private property which confer owner- ship of a specified piece of wealth on an individual in whom title lies. Fortunes Made and Lost. Of course, fortunes are made and lost in real estate. If you pay an unduly high price for land and build- Ing: u may find yourself unable to resell” except at a los Nelghbor- hoods change and values shift. How- ever, in a growing country like ours the perpetual growth of the popula- tion tends to add an unearned incre- ment to the value of all well selected real estate. A mortgage on real estate is a claim to property. The selection of mort- gages is a highly technical procedure and vou will ordinarily rely on expert Jjudgment. In the realm of securities there are two broad classes—stocks and bonds. The new fashion is to emphasize the worth of common stocks for long-term investments, but unless you are skilled in choosing between the wheat and ! the chaff and are sufficlently supplied with investable funds to assure your- self a high degree of diversification you are mor~ likely to get what you want in good bond: Good Bonds Favored. Bonds ordinarily represent a prom- ise of a corporation or a government to pay back a specific sum borrowed at a specified date and in the mean- time to pay a stated rate of interest. The bondholder is always a creditor of the borrower. Ile relies on the promise to pay of the debtor. If the borrower fails in any essential to live up to its promises, the creditor can at once protect himself by throwing the corporation into receivership. In the case of a government the bondholder, however, must rely on the good faith of the borrower. The sheriff will not proceed against sovereign states. Shares of stock represent part own- ership in a business enterprise. The stockholder i{s never a creditor, but a partner. He assumes the business risks. The payment of dividends is al- ways within the discretion of the board of directors. The preferred merely has a priority over the com- mon in respect to dividends and as- setg The directors need not pay divi- deilds on either class of stock, but cannot pay any on the common unless they meet the prior demands of the preferred. Best Order for Investments. These elementary facts should be clear in your mind as you formulate your investment policy. Don't vaguely ask, “What's good in the market,” but remember that securities fill definite needs and the first step is to analyze vour requirements and set up your soal s You should-start your investment structure with commitments in which the element of safety is high. Gradu- ally as your most urgent requirement re met you are in a position to as- sume greater risks and to give more consideration to the question of yield. Insurance and an account in a savings bank should come first, then possibly the purchase of a home, then the ac- quisition of good bonds later the pur chase of préferred stocks, and finally mmon stocks. o (Copyright. 1926.) | | CHAPLINS TO FIGH CASE OUTIN COURT Comedian and Wife Ex- change Tart Accusations After Negotiations Fail. By the Associated Press. ' LOS ANGELES, December 4.— Overtures for a truce between Charles Chaplin and his estranged wife hav- ing failed, they settled down today for a finish fight in court after an exchange of statements which brought some of the family skeletons out of the luxurious closets of the film comedian’s Beverly Hills mansion. Chaplin late last night issued a statement to the Associated Press in which he denied Mrs. Chaplin's charges of cruelty. He declared he had opened his circle of friends to her with the intention of making her happy, but that she preferred ac- quaintances of her own and enter- tainments staged withqut the presence of Mr. Chaplin. He also charged she had abused the privilege of unlimited credit he had granted her in the shops and cafes of Los Angeles. Shortly after this statement w.s is- sued Mrs. Chaplin countered with one in which she accused the film come- dian of avoiding her because she was “not intellectual” and of calling her family “yellow.” She also maintained she had made many of her own clothes after marriage. $1,000,000 Request Reported. The latest break foljowed a confer- ence between attorneys for both Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin at which an effort was made to learn what kind of a property settlement would be neces- sary to keep the case out of cour No ‘announcement was made, but the new outbreak was taken to mean that no agreement was reached. George Beebe, representing Mrs. Chaplin, has been talking about sums in excess of $1,000,000. Mrs. Chaplin left the Beverly Hills home of the motion picture star Tues- day and announced she would never return. This followed an early-morn- ing party at the home which ended when Chaplin ordered his wife to turn | thé guests out of the house. ~ Yesterday Mrs. Chaplin indicated she would not ask an absolute divorce but would seek separate maintenance. The statements follow: Mr. Chaplin’ | _“I have read Mrs. Chaplin's accusa- tions of cruel and inhuman treatment. Such absurd accusations 1 em- phatically deny. Describes His Efforts. “I have done everything possible to make Mrs. Chaplin happy in a rational way. My sole desire has been to maintain a sane and peaceful, happy home for my wife, my babies and | myself and I bhave done everything | possible to contribute to this, | “I surrounded her with every com- fort and granted her every desire. “Her mother lived with us, in fact, | her whole family had the free run of my house. If this constitutes cruel and inhuman treatient then I do not | know the meaning of the words. Im- mediately after our marriage I allowed nited credit with all cafes, stores in the city. Perhaps ing these tastes was a mistake, these privileges have been abused. ‘Very often I have returned from work only to find that she had been out all day, leaving the babies alone | with the nurse, or on other occasions I would find a party of strangers at my home to whom I had never been introduced. “I have lived in Los Angeles 15 vears. I believe I have gained a large number of interesting friends. These triends loyally welcomed Mrs. Chaplin upon our ‘marriage. I have given frequent dinners and gutertainments in my home, believing my friends would interest Mrs. Chaplin. My friends have often entertained us, but Mrs. Chaplin has all too frequent- ly indicated that she preferred friends of her own whom she preferred en- tertaining at restaurants and at my own home without me. | “I regret the necessity of making | these statements, but I will not tol- erate slanderous falsehoods from any one. igned) “CHARLES SPENCER CHAPLIN.” Has Made Some Clothes. To which Mrs. Chaplin replied: “Money doesn't always bring hap- piness. The fact that he has given me money and arranged credit at the stores was merely his method of at- tempting to console me for his fre- quent absence from me and the| babies. Nor does his furnishing me with money and credit mean that he was a good husband or a good father. Since I have heen married to him I have made many of my own clothes, and it is only recently I have bought any at the stores. As far as the question of friends is concerned, he would never meet my friends, as he always insisted that th ‘were common. | Te continued to tell me that I| should not expect him to spend all of his time with me. He sald that he couldn’t bear to do so, as I was not intellectual. le has threatened repeatedly to make me sick of him, as he said that I and my family were ‘vellow.’ He is now holding the clothing of my babies, of myself and of my mother at his house, and refuses to give it to us, . Mrs. Chaplin said she did not in- tend to try her case in the news- papers, but that she could not afford to permit his statement to go unan- swered. The court, she declared was the place where he would have to bring proof of his assertions. Father's Offer Declined. The offer of Robert E. McMurray, of Wichita, Kans., father of Mrs. Chaplin, to help her in her marital troubles with the film comedian, was refused by the daughter last night. McMurray had accused his divorced wife, Mrs. Chaplin’s mother of ex- travaganc Mrs. Chaplin said: “Due to the fact that my father hasn’'t contributed flve cents to my support since I was 21 years old and now, through the newspapers, insults me with his reported offer to help me and my mother, who has always ad- vised me against extravagance, I will not accept his help nor do I need his sympathy. “As far as my mother is concerned . witness 1 can prove that she is not in any way to blame for my troubles with Mr. Chaplin. And when the time ar- rives, the world will know why my mother lived with he at different times during my married life.” S e COLLAPSES IN STREET. Indian Chief Suffering Unexplain- ed Injuries. ROCHESTER, N. December 4 (P).—Authorities are seeking to solve he mystery of an Indlan who llapsed in the street after de- manding medical attention from a pedestrian. He mumbled that he was Chief Evening Star, from Oklahoma, and that he was driving an automobile from New York to Cleveland. He thought he was in Buffalo and had been in an accident. He was band- aged about the chest and hand. He was taken to a hospital and 1 be questioned more fully POKER PORTRAITS. LL SEE THAT A RAISE YA TwWo R-RIPE, b R-R-RoYyAL, R-RED BERRY Bo:;‘ae \ ] BUCKOS . SAY, BiLL,HOW ‘BouT DEPoSITIN G ACHIP e, TH' CEMTER. OF TH'TABLE? Vs NOT TH' PRINCY 0 QUIT Now \F B N ) A BIG WIMNER 1 WASH'T Suerd BuT LL STicK Tice FIWVE AN GNE Sou ALL A CHANCE - CoME BALw =5 %> 330 INCLUDING- MY THAT LEAVES ME C FOR OMNE CENTON T DOLLAR THERE'S #50 sTace. WE SETTLE WHICH MAKES ME WINNE AN EIGHTY CENTS, | Don™T FEEL . RIGHT ABOUT QUITTING, = RIGINAL 280 PLUS. & Two TDLLARS) HEM TM SO FAR. WA HEAQ BUT 75 FIVE O CLoC WILBUR'S LETTER PUTTING GAG ON ROBISON IS READ TO JURY (Continued from First Page.) plied: “He was the source of certain of these reports.” “What did you tell Doheny?" asked Hogan., “That's exactly what I have no right to tell you,” replied the def>nse witnegg. | Uses General Terms. “Tell the court and jury, then. said Mr. Hogan, and here Justice | Hoehling interrupted and directed the | to relate the conversation, which finally resulted in his doing it | in general terms and without the men- tion of names or nations. Robison has been reliedgupon by the defense to prove that part of the opening statement which Mr. Hogan frankly made to the jury, and which | set forth the fact that Admiral Gleaves had reported Japan was mob- ilizing and preparing for an attack upon the Philippines and Hawaiian Is- lands. Fight for Better Terms. | Capt. Robison made a determined fight on behalf of the Government for higher royalty oil in a series of con- ferences held between the Govern- ment and Doheny's company, he testi- | fied just before court adjourned. Al- though Secretary Fall had, with Dr. H. Foster Bain, drawn up a com- promise schedule, Robison said he was not satisfied with this. *“When I told Secretary JIull I thought I could do better he said he could not get it out ‘of the old man’ and he| hoped T could.” At the final conference, early in December, which was for the contract to build additional storage fac for Navy fuel oil, Robison i deadlock had been reached. “I was doing my best for the Gov- ernment,” Robison declared, “so T ap- pealed to Mr. Doheny. I said, ‘T ap- peal to you as my friend to fix it for God's sake, so the Navy won't get bilked in this." “‘Doheny said: of being bilked this is The witness added that with this declaration by Doheny he accepted the royalty schedule. On his return to the y Depart- ment Robison said he reported to Den- by and told him he bad “lost out” on the royalties. nby, the witness tes- tified, said: “It's all right, Robison;| you have done very well.” Robison Letter to Fall. { Mr. Hogan then read to the jury a letter from Robison to Fall, in which the former accepted the schedule of rovalties, and also another letter in which Robison told Fall the contract for the additional tanks entirely satisfactory with the Navy Depart- ment and an advantageous one for the Government to enter into. July Is Brought Back. The jury, having been excused while counsel ued the admissibility of the gag-rule letter and testimony bearing on the war plans, was brought back into the courtroom to hear Jus- tice Hoehling’s opinion. Mr. Hogan then read the letter to the jury. The defense attorney, following this, abruptly asked the witness to resume his testimony regarding the confer- ences he had held with officials prior to the awarding of the April 25 con- tract. Robison sald he was in consultation with Bureau of Mines officials and in- formed by them of the attitude of J. J. Cotter of the Pan-American Co. that he preferred acceptance of the “A” bid rather than the “B" bid. Questioned about the preferential rights, clause, he testified that he had been informed that the Interior De- partment had succeeded in changing this clause so that it would materially benefit the Government. He next related a conference in Sec- retary Denby’s private office at which he went over the rough draft of the contract of April 25 with the head of the Navy Department. Both suggested some changes, he said, and Denby told him to go ahead after these changes had been made. This rough draft was submitted to the judge advocate gen- eral. Memorandum Identified. Robison next identified a memoran- dum which he presented to Secretary Denby, outlining the basis of-his con- ference with Doheny In December, 1921, This was & technical description s | hest | tary Government's interests fully tected Mr. Hogan produced : communica- tion of Doheny to Robison dated No- vember 6, 1922, Attached to it was the outline of a supplemental proposal American Co. offered. in his letter stressed fon in southern C declaring that the develop- ments in the naval reserves had served to increase production and bring down the basic price of oil from $1.60 a barrel to 60 cents. pro- Larger Storage Facilities. The supplemental 1 has figsured heretofore during trial outlined additional storage facili- ties which the Pan-American Co. proposed to erect at Pearl Harbor and points on the Pacific and Atlantic in return for additional least a1 reserves in district No. During the cross-examination of out that the chief of naval engineer: had told Mr. Cotter of the Dohen company a little later that while he was interested in the supple- mental offer the Pan-American Com- pany would have to do considerable more than it proposed to do at Pearl Harbor in order to get additional areas of naval oil reserv bout that time, somewhere along {he middle of November he recalled, Robison received orders from chief of operations to go ahead and fnere: Harbor from 1,500,000 barrels to 3,000,000 barrels. This order was sanctioned Secretary Denby, and he took up the matter with the Bu- of Yards and Docks. Hogan brought out that to the Robison’s recollection Secry I was absent from Washing- ton from early in September until late in November, 1922, Robison said that he continuously informed Denby of progress in connection with the proposed plans in Pearl Harbor. After emphasizing that he was a aptain” and not an ‘“admiral.” Robison detailed the origin of hi acquaintanceship with the Dohenys, which, he sald, occurred during the war when he mustered young Doheny into service as a lieutenant on the U. §. S. Huntington which he then commanded. Since that time he had met the senior Doheny ez Mr. between the two families could be described as “friendly.” Robison became chief of the Bureau of Engineering, October 1, 1921, which detail carried with it the rank of rear admiral. Six days later he wrote to Doheny telling him of his good fortune munication in reply. Up until that time he had no duties with respect to oil leases, he testified to Mr. Hogan’s questions. Then on the 10th of that month, Denby placed him in charge of duties previously carried out by the fuel officcr, and he automatically became Na sentative in charge of fuel oil. Toward the close of that month a conference was held in Fall's office to discuss the proper ‘methods of reducing the los of Government oil in the petroleym reserves, “Bain and Ambrose,” he sald, “advised that wess bordering the private ones be drilled, to prevent further drainage.” Plan to Exchange Oil. The witness recalled the stand he took for the Navy, declaring that his service had gotten nothing up to that time, although the ofl had been sold for money and was being turned into the Treasury. He also recalled having told Fall that “there was a plan in the Navy Department for exchanging crude ol for fuel oil, and that a wiser way to acquire it would be to store .0 After negotiations for the storage of the oil had begun Admiral Latimer produced an opinion on the legality of the proposed contract, and Secretary Denby said “that seems to settle the matter,” the witness said. Then the Pearl Harbor storage proposal was taken to Denby for action. “T don’t recall what I said to him,” ! said Robison, “but it was followed by a remark that he wished me to go head with the project.” Hogan in- sisted on what Robison had said, but I the witness repeatedly said he did not {recall. Then he was asked if Admira, | Latimer, Denby and himself had re. ferred to the naval problems involved in the project, to which the witness replied they had. of the oil reserves and questions in- volving them. He mentioned in it that Secretary Fall was greatly inter- ested in the mattey, but wanted the “What did you say?” asked Hogan. “I don’t remember what I sajd.” There followed sovi Questions li-| over to the court f proposal which | the | Robison, the defense attorney brought | the | e the storage facilities at Pearl | everal times | and, the witness said, the relationship | and received a congratulatory com- | along this line to which the witness, ibly flushed. repeatedly sought refuge behind “I don’t remember.”” Counsel Presses Inquiry. Juniping up from his chair and rush- ing toward the witness, Hogan de- manded to know with whom Robison had talked since he was subpoened, and if he had received instructions from the Navy Department regarding his_testimony Robison hesitated and then produced the letter, but refused to show it to Hogan, explaining he would turn t Justice Hoeh- ling read the paper and saw no objec tion to it. Then it was read to the ! jur, Robison protested against publicity heing given to this and also insisted | that the information he had acqui as an officer of the Navy was as | from the case at issue. i Offered in Evidence. The letter was dated November 30, 1926, and had been presented to LRobi- son on his arrival here Thursd: Hogan offered the letter in evide: hut Roberts objected, and the defense attorney then had it marked for iden- tification. Step by step Mr. Hogan's examina- tion of Robison revealed the various negotiations in the Navy and Interior Departments which preceded the con- ferences, between the naval enginer- ing chief and the elder Doheny on ofl { lease plans. Included in tie recital | was his version of the “patriotic ap- | peal” made to the oil man in an effort | to_interest him in the Pearl Harbor | project, involving one of the secret | war plans of the Navy in the Pacific. | Karlier in his testimony Robison had veferred to his friendship with voung .Doheny. who served as a | junior reesrve officer under him_dur- {ing the war. Through the son Robi- son later met tho father and discussed the naval reserves with him. During | December, 1921, Iwheny, jr., at- | ranged for a conference between his | father and the engineering chief in Washington. Mr. Doheny told the ad- miral that his associates were not in- torested in the Pearl Harbor project. | Tt was then that Robison appealed to { him on patriotie grounds. | , Robison declared he then told Doheny “how horrible war is” and “about the power of our Navy to hold Pearl Harbor in force to relieve from danger of the degradation of war the | entire Pacific Coast.” | Value of Pearl Harbor. “I told him that if Pearl Harbor | were strongly held by American | naval forces that the effect of it! would be the extension of our frontier | | 1o the westward by 2,000 miles and | the rendering of our mainland coast | safe from. any major enemy opera- | tion. T recited conditions as they | obtained then and attempted to per- suade him that this was an oppor- | tunity to accomplish 'a very definite | good for his country.” | "Mr. Hogan asked if Robison had | reasoned with Doheny regarding the | effectiveness of having an adequate | supply of fuel oil in storage at Pearl Harbor “I told him,” Robison replied, “that a force in Pearl Harbor would be able to defeat twice as great a force at- tacking our Pacific Coast because of its position on the flank of the. lines | of ¢ommunication, which lines, if we | held the Hawaiian group, must be approximately 5,000 miles lon e | PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 0 Compounded Semi-Annually Assets Over $13,500,000 Surplus, $1,000,000 Cor. 11th & E Sts. N.W. 1 ||| Temporary location during _ construc- tion of our new bids.. 1004 E St. N.W. | the i heard from some meant rendering the r of our naval force at Honolulu quite twice what they would be otherwise, and I explained to him that an enemy force holding Honolulu would have the same advantage over us. Thus I strove to show him the stragetic im- portance of the holding of the Ha- wailan group in strength by the American Navy forces in the event of any war on the north Pacific.” Robison outlined for Doheny’s bene- fit, he sald, what the Navy proposed to do with regard to oil storage and at the end of his appeal to the oil man, he testified that Doheny said: | “You're all right, admiral. You can go ahead confidently and can depend on one bid at least. And one thing more admiral, if you get a bid from my company, it will be a bid that w not involve a dollar of profit to me. Robinson then told of conferences with Director Bain of the Bureau of Mines, who had just returned from his trip to the Pacific Coast. Bain as- sured him that they would get at least two or three bids from oil com- panies on the Coast, he said. naming the Standard Oil, the Associated Oil and the Pan American. Later in New York City he had din- ner at the home of young Doheny be- fore the bids were opened in April, 1922, and there again met the elder Doheny and discussed Pearl Harbor with him. Mr. Hogan inquired further into the admiral’s activities, prior and following this last interview. Robison told of one talk with Secretary Denby in which he told the Cabinet officer that he “did not think the preferential right clause in the Doheny contract amounted to much.” MUSIC THE LENOX STRING QUARTET. The second in a series of three monthly pairs of concerts by that well balanced chamber music organiza- tion, the Lenox String Quartet, was inaugurated at the Library of Con- gress Auditorium last night with the usual capacity audience in attendanc and Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, founder of this fine music-giving insti- tution, among the most attentive of | the listeners. The members of the string quartet are: Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin; Edwin Ideler, second vio- lin; Herman Borodkin, viola, and Em- meran Stoeber, violoncello. In a progrem of one modern, one semi-modern and one satisfying] classical work on the program it w without hesitation that the audience at large handed the laurel wreath toy| the memory of Franz Schubert, the Viennese whose buoyantly singing melodies and clever musicianship had that subtle undertow of vital reason for being which the other composi tions both seemed to lack. They, too, were clever and the Hungarian’s duo for violin and cello had an abun dance of melody. Even Mr. Reiser's work had a fascinating crooning lullaby type of melody, vet both lacked the effect of the composer’s | knowing exactly where he was going | and why. In thelr dallying over | single phrases until they became monotonous and in the use of con-| siderable repetition neither of these works are as convineing as the Schu- | bert number. All three composers in- dulged in that inviting pastime of playing with one short phrase at one time or another in their compositions, but how differently they handled the matters and how var: In the first : Minor, Opus 16, by the American, Alois Reiser, who Is conductor of the Mar] New York City, the opening move- | ment introduced the lovely crooning | melody with interesting handling of | its variations in the midst of discor ant phrases that sounded not unlike | chatter t a bridge-luncheon | istance. In the sec- ond movement, “Andante Molto Sos tenuto,” Mr. Wolfinsohn was provided with the much-repeated phrase which | sounded like the creaking of an in- sufficiently greased wheel on a cart traveling over frozen roads. There | was a touch of the Oriental in_ the| third movemer Poco Vivo ed Iner- | zico,” and an amusing pertness to the final callo phrase which closed the last movement. It is a modern, rather | amusing work, fi rs | ago at the Springfield but | the writer knows at least one hearer | who will flee from ever sitting | through the persistence of that phrase | in the second movement again. ed version of what generally recognized as Oriental t of melody and rhythm in hi which is his seventh work her became quite the he hour in the splendld way in which he | handled the cello, part of this work. | He has a mellow, rich-sounding in-| strument and is an artist. Mr. Wol- | finsohn does not seem to be his equal | on the violin. The almost voluptu ous invitations of Mr. Kodaly's we did not find so complete a response from his bow as from Mr. Stoeber's. One could not help but wonder what ¥ritz Kreisler and Pablo would | find to bring out in this work. It is an amusing dialogue of pizzicato pa. sages thrown with seeming careles: ness, vet definite pattern, from o instrument to the other and back again. There colorful carlcatures | of the Oriental sort of thing that | make one feel Mr. Kodaly was hay-| ing a grand time laughing up his| sleeve when he wrote the composi- | tion, Mr. Schubert's “Quartet in A Minor” is so lovely and so complete in all its parts and their relation to one another and to the ears of the audlence that there is no need to dilate upon its beauties. It showed the abilities of the quartet as an en- | semble group to flnest advantage and | proved a completely ‘charming final | number.. | This afternoon the program includes Hugo Wolf's “Italian Serenade,” Han- del’s “Sonata in G Minor” for violin | and piano, and Charles Martin Loef- fler’s “Muslc for Four-stringed Instr ments,” written in memory of Vict Chapman, an American aviator who fell in France. H ¥ ymphony Orchestra in | 4 HUNT CLUB SHOW PROVIDES THRILLS Honors Awarded for Eight Events at Season’s First Indoor Meet. The first indoor horse show of the present season was staged last night in the ring of the Riding and Hunt Club, before an enthusiastic throng of spectators. The mounts, riders and performances elicited sustained ap plause from an audience which thronged the galleries to watch eight diversified events in a program lasting well toward midnight. Thrills were plentiful as the jumpers flew over the bars or narrowly missed obstructions. The novice saddle horse class was won by Fugene Meyer's mare, Alice: second, H. R. Quinter, Smarty; third, Representative E. Carpenter, Hindu. Ladies’ saddle horses Carrico, Lengayne; second, Henry, Babs; third, H. R. Smarty. Pair saddle horses—First, James Murphy, Gallantry, and Mrs. J Maury Dove, jr., Red Cloud; second. William Carter, Sir Hercules, and Miss Elizabeth Jackson, Alice; third W. S. Johnson, S . and Miss Marguerite Bailey, Sue. Green hunters, ur jumps, four feet, for horses that have never won a blue ribbon, performance and man ner to be considered—First, ¥r Sommer, Billy . H. Carri entry; third, Miss A. F. Hedrick, Clalr de Lune. Handicap. green hunters four feet, all others four and a half feet—First, Fairfax; second Viking; third, F. Thoroughl H. rico, Lengayne; s , M. C. Hazen, : third. Maj. Koch, entry NMrx. R.OE. L 0iC. N Robby Quinter, Montouri, Car Corinth for Bucholz cup. four jumps, four feet, performance 60 per cent; appointments, conformation, M. M. Stevens, Lucky Capt. J. H. Irving, Fire Jump; thind, A. R. Hefnrich, Crésto. s were Rear Admiral Cary Norton, Louls Leeth Galliher. CATHOLIC SCHOOLS SHOW LARGE INCREASE 48,320 Children Enrolled in Balti- more, Washington and Rural Districts in Archdiocese. Speciml Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, December 4 annual report submitted by Rev. i superintendent ¢ : education in the Archdiocess of Baltimore, to Archbishop Michael .J Curley cites a marked elevation and standardization of the educational sys he archdiocese and a the number of pupils and teaching orders. report shows enrollment of itholic schools in Washington and the rural five religious orders the faculties in the hool Tt 8,320 Bultimore, istricts. re represented i 168 schools. This, the report say the larges it in the hi of Catholic education in the e. the 168 schools in the arch diocese, 128 are parochial, 26 private and 14 institutional. Twelve new schools were opened in the archdiocese during the past year. There are 1. teache 93 religious and 61 | on the teaching staffs of the schools i e MAN IS DROWNED. The body of Charles Anderson. whe lived on a small houseboat anchores near Municipal Fish Market, foot of Twelfth street southwest, was found the river mnear the about 9 Fourteent i body and David TI. , 218 treet southwest, found the n to the morgue ter, ) 3 iddle, living in Arlington County, Va., was notified. Police re ported that he accidentally fell over board this morning. Business Property for Sale Near 14th and Irving Sts. 50 ft. by 200 ft. Will Sacrifice For Quick Sale M. M. Parker & Co. Hill Bldg., 17th & H Sts. N.\W. M. 165 New Modern 6-Room Home in PETWORTH TERMS LESS THAN RENT Comprises 8 rooms noteworthy features. Small payment—easy terms. 8th & Gallatin Sts. N. Open for Inspection e d - T usy ) 3250 L_CasH_, iro < cash w. 919 15th St. N. W. Chrigtmas, 1926 SHOP EARLY—MAIL EARLY JAMES BERRY, President JOSHUA W. CARR, Sec’y FOR BETTER SERVICE