Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1926, Page 56

NEW YORK PLANS 110-STORY BUILDING Structure to Be Started Next Year Will Be 506 Feet Higher Than Woolworth. he Ascociated Press. NEW YORK, December 18.—Man- Lattan is out to keep the record for the world's tallest building away. from | Detroit. Plans have been filed here for construction, beginning early next year, of a 110-story super-skyscraper. Tt will rise 1,208 feet from the street, excluding the flagpole. hattan's new i ¢ taller than the Book Tower, 506 feet higher than | the Woolworth Building and approxi- | mately 200 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Will Cost $18,000,000. Manhattan's new glant will be known as the Larkin Tower Building, and it will be located in the Times Square section on the south side of | orty-second street, between Eighth | Its cost is estl-| ,000, and the land it $4,500,000. plans have been filed with | \thorities by John A. Larkin, of 230 West Forty-second Street Corporation, the prospective He and his brother, Edward .. Larkin, architect and engineer, and Alexander Stark, structural en- gineer, desif¥led the building. It will{ have 1,460,000 square feet of floor space, 950.000 of which will be suit- wuble for ofiice purposes. { Wil Have 10 Setbacks. Thrac other buildings surpass it in its proposed rentable floor space. They ure the Graybar Building, near the Grand Central Station here, the Bquitable Buiiding on lower Broad- way, the General Motors Building in Tha bullding will consist of one tower piled upgn another, with 10 set- backe, or banks. Excavations for the foundations will go 48 feet 'below street level, and there will be a base- ment and two-story subbasement. It will rest on a _reinforced concrete foundation imbedded n the solid rock of Manhattan Island. The building will be served by 60 high-speed clevators, two of which will be expresses that do not stop be- tween the first and elghty-second floors. Four shuttle elevators will carry passengers upward from the eighty-second. The three top floors will be held for sight-seeing purposes. 57 AP, CLARKE TO CONSIDER EXPRESS WAGE PLEA Appointed as One of Three Arbi- trators to Hear Requests of 65,000 Workers. |LABOR RADIO TO EXPAND.| !Chnln of Stations Will Be Pro- posed to A. F. of L. Body. CHICAGO, December 18 (#).—Plans for a coast-to-coast chain of radio sta- tions, owned and operated by the American Federation of Labor, will be formulated toda- on the arrival {of Willlam Green, president. ~Mr. Green will confer with officlals of the Chicago Federation of Labor and will put the results of the conference be- tore the executive committee of the A. F. of L. at St. Petersburg, Fla., in January. It is hoped to have the stations of the chain operated as is WCFL here, sald Edward N. Nockels, secretary- treasurer of the Chicago federation and manager of the only labor broad- casting station. It is maintained by voluntary contributions from federa- tion members and others Interested. CEYLONTOUPHOLD LIMIT ON RUBBER Motion to Stand Out From British Policy Defeated by Legislative Council. By the Associated Press. COLOMBO, Ceylon, December 18.— The Legislative Council rejected a motion, recently introduced, recom- mending that Ceylon stand out from Great Britain's restriction of rubber output under the Stevenson plan. Opposition to the Stevenson plan of rubber restriction deyeloped in Cey- lon, which produces about 20 per cent of the total Britjsh output, on Decem- ber 3, when a motion expressing dis- satisfaction was placed under debate. The motion also declared that Mmstruc- tions issued by the British secretary of state on October 30 were uneco- nomic for Ceylon. These included a reduction from 100 to 80 of the standard output of rubber which’ could be exported at a mini- mum rate of duty for the current quarter. This reduction was directed because the average price of rubber fell- below 21 .pence for the quarter ending October 30. On_December 10 Colonial Secretary Amedy. sent a telegram from London stating that if Ceylon were to aban- don_rubber restriction it would have a_ most serious effect on the policy of other British rubber-producing areas and that an immediate fall in price would be likely. 4 INSTRUMENT TO TEST VOICES OF DECEASED Delicate Apparatus Will Record Speech, Inventor Says, Seeking Co-Operation of Mediums. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 18.—Spook volces are to be tested by a_ delicate instrument installed at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research. Sclentists are eagerly awalting the first trial of the new machine. Lon- don and some of the nearby citles By the Associsted Press. NEW YORK, December 18.—For- mer Justice John H. Clarke of the United States Supreme Court has ac- cepted appointment -as neutral . ar- bitrator to consider the question of wages of 65,000 express employes, it was announced today at the office of . R. Gwyn, vice president of the American RailwayExpress: Co. The a.rblm-lol?llllm E. A. steahen, vice prelldasll of the American Rail- way Express Ca., and Willlam B. Wil- son, Tormer Secretary of Labor. Hearings are expected to' begin here Tuesday, December 21, when the ar- bitrators will take up the requests of three unions for increases, ranging from 10 -cents -to- 15 cents an hour. The unions are the Order of Raflway Expressmen, the Brotherhood of Rail- way Clerks and the ,American Federa- tion of Express Workers. H. Fitzgerald and E. V. Bradley, president and vice ‘president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, will uppear before the arbitrators for the men, while the company’s case will be 1 ted by Mr, Gwyn. ORIENTAL RUGS MAY PAY $50,000,000 MORE DUTY U. 8. Starts Investigation Into Valuation of Imported Products by Calling Dealers. By the Acsociated Press. NEW YORK, December investigation that may lead to the basing of duties on Orlental rugs on their value in the American market— about thr.ce that in the foreign mar- ket—and thus adding approximately $50,000,000 to the yearly: customs receipts was under way today. F. J. H. Kracke, appraiser of the port of New York, who started the inquiry, ~ Las summoned leading Orfental rug importe: nd thelr books, and it has become known that one of the purposes of .the investigation is to determine whether the original markets are price controlled. The butt of the .nvestigation is the Chinese rug market, it was said. Oriental rugs are now subject to a duty of about per cent of foreign manufacturing value. Their value in the American market is much higher. The imports of Orlental rugs are es. timated at about $50,000,000 annually, but this value is increased to about $150,000,000 in the American market. 18.—An SUICIDE IS IDENTIFIED AS FAMOUS BANDIT 1tat® Ende His Lite When He 1s Trapped by Police in French City. By ths Assoclated Press AUXERRE. France, December 18.— ‘The body of a man who committed suicide on Monday when trapped by police yesterday was identified as that of 8ante Pollastro, notorious Italian bhandit chief, who fled recently from Italy. The body was identified by two Itallan. carbineers. Pollastro, for whom an intensive search was kept on both sides of the Ttalian fromtier since December 12. ‘was \riously reported to have start- ed for the United States or to be ter- rorizing Northern Italy. He was pursued into France after hie most recent crime by a coachful of carabineers and an automobile loadec with Itallan gendarmes. The arriva of these men in Nice excited the popu lation and for a time threatened Franco-Italian complications. Sends “Auto Girls” Home. . ‘The chancellor of the University of Illinols is proving he meant it when an order was Issued forbidding studet to cars while going’ to school there. Fight violators of this rule, three of them girls, have been sent home. The chancellor, noting the direction our so-called ‘“higher education,” says the Capper Maga- zine, heading, is applying the Vsanss. . boast of 10 or 15 experienced medi- ums who specialize in producing the direct or indirect spirit voice, and in- ducements have been made to several of them to appear before the appa- ratus at various times. 3 ‘The instrument was conceived by Prof. Harrv Price, director of the national laboratory, and was de- signed to establish definitely whether alleged spirits of dead persons do actually speak from space, as is con- tended by spiritualists at seances. Prof. Price says his apparatus is abso- lutely fraud proof and will provide the most drastic test ever arranged for any medjum who will agree to an experiment. AT e i e Pl COLLEGE HEAD IN GOWN BURLESQUES DAISY CHAIN With Flowers in Hair, He Carries Sheet in Good Imitation of Vassar Custom. By the Associated Press. LEXINGTON, Ky., December 18.— A college president and the male head of the institution’s art department, clad in nightgowns and with flowers in their hair, participated in a bur- lesque of Vassar College's famed daisy chain at a meeting of alumnae of Vassar and the University of Chi- cago here Tuesday. The incident took place at-the home of President Frank L. McVey of the Unlversity of Ken- t\gcl;y. one of the bearers of the daisy chain. His companions in the lark were Prof. C. M. Sax and four woman resi- ;' dents of Lexington, the latter gradu- ates of Vassar. A sheét was used as a daisy chain and the bearers, it is sald; moved in an excéllent imitation of the Vassar processional. Dr. McVey and Prof. Sax were pressed into service as carriers of the . daisy chain awing to the absence of a sufficient number of Vassar gradu- ates to stage the march, it was ex- plained. COBHAM WINS MEDAL. | PARIS, December 18 (#).—Sir Alan Cobham, British aviator, who now fs visiting the United States, yesterday | was awarded the annual gold medal conferred by the International Aero- nautic Federation. ~Representatives of 18 nations participating in the meeting voted his recent flight from London to Aust 1ia and return the greatest flylng feat ‘of 1926. Second prize was awarded to the Spanish engineer, Ricardo de la Cler- va, who developed the helicopter. | Third prize went to Capt. Georges { Pelletier Dotsy for his Mediterranean flight. Germans participated in yesterday's meeting for the first time. 130 West 420d u.';‘m- Yok, N. Y. PEanaNTy, N RANTI] . L Hof u.-k}? O B Foiomee - o B s WASHINGTON, RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, world renowned contralto, who has been successful in avoiding the radio microphone since last January 31, is Msted as_the principal artist on the Atwater Kent program tonight, which will be broadcast by WRC in connec- tion with 14 other stations. The fast closing year marks her golden jubilee as a singer, her 65th birthday and the twentieth anniversary as an American cltizen. Mme. Schumann-Heink will be as- sisted by Miss Florence Hardeman, violinist, and the Atwater Kent Or- chestra, under the direction of -Louit Edlin. Stewart Willie will serve a: her accompanist. She will sing three groups composed of nine numbers, in cluding Franz Gruber's “Stlle Nacht, Heilge Nacht,” which will give an ap propriate atmosphere to her program. WRC's other Sunday night musical entertainment consists of the regular program from the Capitol Theater in New York City and the third of the series of Peoples’ Vesper concerts. The guest soloist will be J. E. S. Kinsella, baritone. WABC Opens with Gala Concert. To celebrate its change of owner- ship and simultaneous shift In call letters, -WABC, formerly WAHG, went on the air Friday night with a special program that was/picked up in Washington with clarity and vol- ume. The studios of the new firm known as the Atlantic Broadcasting Company, are located In Steinway Hall, New York, and the transmitter at Richmond HIill, about 10 miles away. Under the anncunced policy of the station, the talent facing its micro- phone will be supplied in part by paid advertising features. WJR Changes Ownership. Acquisition of Detroit's high-pow- ered broadcaster WJR by the R'ch- ards-Oakland Motor Car Company was announced yesterday. It is one of the most powerful stations in the country and was erected at a cost of $150,000. A speclal studio will be constructed in the show rooms of the motor car company. The new management als: expects to retain ‘the studio in the Book-Cadillre Hotel. The station plans to continue broadocasting some¢ of its present commerclal programs. WGY Plans Christmas Feature. WGY has decided to become @ Christmas broadcast testing station Christifias morning at 6:30 o’clock the Schenectady transmitter will go on the air at 6:30 o'clock, enabling per- sons who recelved a radio set from Santa Claus to test the outfit for dis tance and quality. As most of the country will be in darkness at that hour the range of the stat'on should be very nearly that of night. Radlo Exports Reach Peak. This country’s budding export trade In radio goods reached its high peak of 1926 during October, when appa- ratus valued at $1,317,846 went to for eign_customers, chiefly Great Britain the Netherlands and Spain. This fig- ure is second only to that recorded for October, 1825, which was $81,153 high- er, and which made that month the highest export month in radio’s brief history. The Department of Commerce, which compliles the monthly export statistics, finds that our radiq export trade for October brings the total for the first 10 months of 1926 to $6,140,643. These are the latest figures available, for the returns are always nearly two months late. During 1925 radio exports were val- ued at $9,908,787. It would thus ap- pear that 1926 forelgn sales are lag- ging, but the fact is that November and December exports may swell the 1926 total beyond that of last year. They represent the large share of Christmas trade abroad, particularly that with Canada, and Commerce offi- cials still feel this year's total will equal, if not exceed, that of last year. The export statistics so far reveal Australla practically doubling the pur- chase of radio apparatus in the Amer- ican market. Argentina {s buying about twice as many American radio sets and corresponding amounts of parts. The takings of the Netherlands also have increased, but, on the other hand, Japan so far has bought only $500,000 worth of apparatus as com- pared to $2,200,000 worth in 1925. Ja- pan’s decreased demand is explained as due to overstocking last year. R ROAD HOUSES ARE RAIDED IN ILLINOIS RUM WAR Federal Agents Start Cleaning Up Williamson County, Scene of Gang Fighting. By the Associated Press. . CARBONDALE, Ill,, December 18.— Federal prohibition agents yesterday started a serles of raids on Willlam- son County roadhouses. Liquor was found at the first three places searched and_the proprietors, Nathan Riddle, A. J. Sizemore and Monroe Bulliner, were arrested and arraigned before a United States commissioner at. Ilar- risburg. These were the first Federal ralds since Oren Coleman succeeded George Galligan as sheriff. James W. 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NEW YORK, December 18.—An original Leonardo da Vinci painting, an exact duplicate of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, arrived here yesterday in a packing case in a cabin of the French liner Rochambeau. The piciure, owned by a French admiral, was brought to this country in the custody of a woman, acting as a special messenger for Edouard Jonas, New York art dealer, and ap praiser of art for the French gov- ernment. Some weeks ago it was the center iISZS—CART Y of a controversy among the art con- noisseurs. Paris reports said some art critice belleved it to be the orig- inal Mona Lisa, long in the possession of the Louvre, and that the one now in the museum in Paris, replaced after the theft of 1911, was a copy. Mr. Jonas denied that the Mona Lisa found in the cellar of the Parls headquarters was the same once re- moved f'om the Louvre, and sald he would sue for libel papers that pub- lishe@ such reports. The picture arrived yesterday is unquestionably a. da Vinei, his office sald, and it is of the same model in the same pose as the Louvre painting. It was apparently painted. it was sald, at the same period as the Louvre picture. Mr. Jonas said the painting was not for sale, but would be exhibited here for French and American charities. It was brought here, it was sald, to give American connolsseurs a view. B A ‘Those who want to invest {n a going concern should make sure which way it is going. Model 35, Onn Disl Rocsiver. Priee $70, less tubss SEVEN INSURANCE FIRMS ORDERED TO LIQUIDATE Pennsylvania Removes Suspension of Two Others on Condition of Change in Methods. By the Assoclated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa, December 18.—Seven Pennsylvania {nsurance or- ganizations—four fraternal and three beneficial—yesterday were ordered by E.nar Barfod, State insurance com- missioner, to liquidate their business. 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