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'SERVICE AT COST FOR MERGER ASKED Report of Washington Rail- way and Electric Avoids Pending Bill. Still insisting that a merger of the | ailways of Washington should | street be based on a which would provide a turn upon the valuation of the con solidated company. the board of direc tors of the Washington Railway and Electric Co., In its annual rep the stockholders, made public vester day, avoided any reference to the bill serviceat-cost plan, now pending in Congrees designed to | “4nduce” a voluntary consolidation. Only a briet portion of the report was devoted to the proposed mergeér. but to it was appended the joint letter which the Washington Raflway and Electric and the Capital Traction Com- panies sent to the Public Utilities Com. mission lagt November, containing the plan on which they would consent to a unified operation. “During the year considerable pub. licity has been given to the subject of a merger of the sgreet railway lines of Washington,” said the report. “Re. peating what was stated in the an- nual report of 1919, and again in the annual report of 1925, a merger should, in our judgment, include the railroad lines of our companies and the Capital Traction Co. located with- | State of Maryland as well as| in th within the District of Columbia, and should be combined with a plan for| service at cost providing a reasonable return upon the value of the property and at the same time assuring the car rider service at cost. “At a recent hearing held by the Public Utilities Commission on by the chairman of the commission that the companies outline to the com- | mission legislation that. in their judg ment, would.form a basis for merger. This request was given careful con sideration at joint conferences of com mittees of the two companies, and in | response thereto a letter was ad dressed to the commission.” | Loss Suffered by Company. The report showed that the company suffered a loss of 708,473 revenue pas. sengers during the year as compared with 1925, or slightly less than 1 per| cent. The primary cause of this con-| tinuous loss in traffic, it was explain-| ed, is the increase in the use of pri- | vately owned automobiles, the registra- tion of which increased 12.6 per cent during 1926 over the preceding vear. “The increased vehicular travel on the street has not only had effect upon | the volume of traffic handled on our| lines, but frequently interrupts and| greatly delays the movement of cars,” the report declared. An intimation that the board favors a restriction on parking downtown as a remedial measure is contained in the subse. quent sentence, which reads: “Investigation of traffic conditions made in other cities have proven the relative high value of street cars in the handling of mass transportation to, through and from the more con- gested areas, with the result that remedial action has been taken by the city authorities restricting the park- ing of privately owned automoblies, and thereby making possible more rapid and less hazardous movement of street cars, with consequent added and improved service to the car-riding pub- Ue.” * Although the rate of fare was the same last year as in 1925, and the passenger total fell off, the report called attention to $773,200.48 credited «to profit and loss. The gross income of the company for the year amounted to $6,161,733.29, of which $5,012,619.98 represents the gross earnings from operation. The operating expenses, including depreciation, taxes and mis- cellaneous charges, totaled $4,140,222,- 69, and the interest on the funded debt and payment of dividends on both com- mon and preferred stock raised this figure to §5,578,374.55. « Miseellaneous items credited to profit and loss amounted to $189,841.74, “In ‘spite of the lack of adequate earnings from operations of- the rail- ‘way companies,” the report continued, “the policy of liberal expenditures for maintenance and reconstruction of ;l’lqzsnlnd structures was continued. in Bus Operations. Attention’ also was called to the loss of $175,916.58 from motor bus operations, but the directors appeared. optimistic over this method of trans- portation, saying, “The results for the { year 1926, are somewhat more en- couraging ' than at any time since we entered the field of this form. of transportation.' Added congestion on the streets, the report pointed out, increased slightiy the liability to accidents over the pre. ceding year. Seventy-five of the ac- cidents, it was said, were with-au- tomobiles. The final section of the report is devoted to the Potomac Electric Power Company, which, the directors emphasized, enjoyed a large increase in the volume of its business, having #0ld 13.7 per dent more electricity than during 1925. The company now bas 122,748 meters connected to its lines, a gain of 17.7 per cent over those connected at fhe close of 1925. The program of capital expenditures for the current calendar year, the report explained, is the largest in the history of the company, being in excess of $5,300,000. $50,000 Waste Inquiry Asked. President Coolidge yesterday asked Congress for a Commerce Department appropriation of $50,000 to investigate uses of agricultural wastes, such as wheat hulls, corn cobs, cotton seed hulls and vegetble and fruit refuse. . ; A U. S. Map For Every Home Office and School. Have you an up-todate United States map, with the zone: populations and areas of State: lists of large c chart, electoral votes, tables and other basic data? The Information Bureau of The Star i& able to offer such a map to its readers for mere post age and handling charges ‘The map is 21 by 2% inches, in full colors, on heavy super 1 endered paper. Reverse side has pictures of 48 Government offi \ cials, a map of the City of Wash- ington and other important and interesting material Use this coupon. The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, 21st & C Sts. N.W Washington, D. C. Enclosed find ten cents in stampe (or coin) postage and handling charge for the United States Map. Name Street . reasonahle re- | to | the | subject of merger, request was made | | fund_which accrues each | contributions, PA BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Regular pay-as-vou-go contributions from the Federal Treasury to the civil service retirement fund,” strict busi individual records so that ilities of the fund could be regularly detérmined: new legisla tion to give a greater measure of ed over longer periods, and ad I justment of wide variations in retire. ment ages are recommended by hoard of actuaries in their annual re. Wi to Congress. ! This report. as submitted to the Speaker of the Heuse late yeaterday { through Secratry Work of the Interior De, { missioner of pansions, is signed by | George B. Buck. consulting actuary |of New York: Joseph 8. McCoy, Gov |ernment actuary connected with [ Treasury Department, and Herbert D, | Brown. chief of the Burea: of Bf- ficiency, who conatitutes the board of actuaries of the Civil Service retire | ment and disability fund Supplementing the report it a let ter from Mr. Buck which states that “if the Government should make an- nual appropriations equivalent to 21 par cent of the total pay roll. the {Amount based on the pay roll of June | |30, 1926 (the close of the last fiscal 1 ¥ear), would he $19,426,058." | $100,415,167 In Needed. | balance sheet of the assets and liabilities of the fund as of June 30, 1926, shows that the cash | In hand is $54,629,005, with the con {trihutions of those eligible for retire- {ment totaling $326,297,565, and the | liabilities amounting to $781. T— ! so that appropriations required froi the Government to square the ac- count would amount to $400,445,167. Two of the four recommendations of the board of actuaries are for im- provement in business practife under the existing law and two are for con- sideration when further amendments to the law are made. The first recom- mendation. under existing law, is: “(a) Appropriations to be made an- nually by the Government to cover the amount of the liability under the | vear and members’ However, which iz not covered by and to cover the in- terest. and gradually to amortize the principal of the lability which has accrued to date and which has not heen covered by contributions from either the members or the Govern- ment."” Promise of President. This recommendation has the sup- port of President Coolidge as in his budget message to Con, which he promised to submit an esti- mate of the amount sufficient to set up the pay-as-you-go system just as soon as the actuarfal valuation was completed. The Prosident said: “Neither the estimate of expendi- ture. nor the estimate of appropria- tions contained in the Federal budget include any amount for meeting the accrued liability of the Government to the civil service retirement and dis- ability fund. The pay-as-you-go policy should apply to this fund and an ap- propriation be made to meet the accrued llability of the Government. The act of l"on,resu. approved July 3, 1926, provides for the annual submis- sion of a budget estimate of ap- propriation for this purpose. Such an estimate, however, requires an actu- arial valuation of the fund under the new law. This valuation is under way, but is not vet completed. When completed, I shall submit to the Con- gress an estimate of the amount re- quired for the fiscal year for this purpose.” The second recommendation follows: “(b). The Government should im- mediately establish in the controller general's office, as authorized by the new law, a system of records to show for individual members of the fund the amount which they have contributed, together with information as to age, length of service, and such data as are necessarv for an actuarial valuation. The liabilitiés of the fund can then be definitely ascertained from time to time. Furthermore, these records will furnish a basis upon which claims of members may be properly audited before payment." Further Recommendations. The second two recommendations, for amendments to the law, are: “(c) The benefits should be graded so that employes with longer periods of service and longer periods of con- tribution recelve greater henefits than those with less service who will have contributed less. “(d) The ages of retirement should be adjusted so that the wide varia- tion which now exists will be reduced to only such differences as may be justified by actual differences in the service requirements and the length of life of employes of the various occupational group: Legislation pending hefore Congress ie discussed by the board of actuaries. ! A measure has been introduced at this session of Congress to provide for the retirement of employes on demand on the completion of 30 years of service, regardless of age on all al- lowance of three-quarters pay. In a previous report of the board of actu- aries figures were presented to show the enormous cost of such a measure. Under the plan as it operated in the past, when no_ contributions were made by the Government, and the balance in the fund appeared asx a surplus, inasmuch as no liabilities against it were taken into account, employes could not be convinced of the very valid financial reasons of the Government against adopting any such policy as that of retirement after 30 years regardless of age. Question of Inequality. “If the Government makes appro- priations to pay accruing cost,” the board of actuaries says, “it is reason- able to suppose that before any such amendment receives consideration cal- culations will be made to determine the amount of the increase in appro- priation of the Government which would be required should the amend ment be adopted. After the employes obtain these figures, either from their own advisers or from the Govern ment, they will appreciate the mag- nitude of their demands. The very fact that employes will be required to analyze their own proposals in the matter of cost may tend to make their then justice to employes who have contri- | the | partment and Winfield Scott, com- | the | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JANUARY 16 Y-AS-YOU-GO CONTRIBUTIONS | URGED IN ACTUARIES' REPORT| {Regular Appropriations Are Advocated, With Greater Means of Justice in Reti rement. | signed to Improve the ing Jaw rather than simply (o make it more costly and more favorable to certain | groups of employes, with possible dix :Ad\llflfix! to other emploves | proposed amendment here discussed.” the hoard of actuaries explains, “an | employe with 30 years of service would receive the same-allowsnce as one with 50 years of service, although the 50-year amploye has rendered many more years of sérvice and con- | tributed more than twice as much to | the fund.” | It is the opinion of the hoard of | actuaries that before advocating or adopting new legisiation to liberalize further the benefits for those who are | now moat favored both the Govern- | ment_and the employes should give consideration to the removal of such | inequalitiex as this in the existing law and should atiempt to Arrange the | plan %o that it will operate with great- | er fairness to those who under the |original law and who under the amended law are given henefita which are nefther proportionate to the amount of their contributions nor to the years of service which they have rendered. Liabitities Are $781,371,737. The report shows that the total labilities of the fund have a present | value of §781.371,737. Of this amount $49,071,310 will be paid to present an nuitants who have heen retired on Account of age and $8,981,096 10 pres- ent annuitants who have been retired on account of disability. The re mainder or $723,339, 331 represents the amount. which will be pald in benefits to present employes. The employea’ future contributions, or $326,297,565, plus the amount of funds in hand, $54,629,005, will cover approximately 49 per cent of the total cost of hene- fita. The report states that if the Gov- ernment were to make a contribution of .48 per cent of the pay roll annually this contribution, together with that of 3.50 per cent by the employes, would equal 3.98 per cent, which ia the nor- mal contribution. ' This contribution would be sufficient to cover the con- tinuing cost, but it is not sufficient to cover the liability on account of service rendered by employes prior to the establishment of the fund in 1920, when no contributions were made, nor does It cover credit for service since that date, during which time the Gov- ernment has made no contribution whatever and the contributions of em- ploves have been used to pay all the benefits, . Method 1s Explained. The liability on account of this past service, according to the actuaries’ report, may be obtained by deducting from the total Mability of the Gov- ernment the value of the future con tribution which would he payable by the Government at the normal rate of 48 per cent. An actuarial calcula- tion shows that a contribution from the Government equal to .48 per cent of the pay roll of present employves has a present value of $45,133,512. If this amount Is deducted from the items of $400,445,167, shown as the value of the Government's prospective appropriations, $355,311,665 is left as the amount which must be placed in the fund to offset the lack of contri- bution in the past. If the contributions for the accrued liability are made according to this plan another table in the actuaries’ report shows that a contribution equivalent to 5.90 per cent of the pay roll would bhe sufficient to support the plan. The employes contribute 3.50 per cent, which may be considered as An offset against the normal contribu- tion rate. The actuaries calculate that if the Government were to begin immedia 1y to contribute to the fund at the rate of 2.40 per cent of the pay roll it would pay the normal contribution and interest on the amount of the ac- crued liability the firat year. The sec- ond year the payment of 2.40 per cent would “pay -the- mormal contribution, and if the pay roll had increased in amount it would pay slightly more than the interest on. the accrued liabllity: and would begin to liquidate the principal amount. Actual Liquidation Possible. As the employes are paying an arbitrary contribution of 3.5 per cent of their salaries, the actuaries point | out. t the Government might properly contribute the round sum equivalent to 2.5 per cent of salaries jnstead of 2.4 per cent and in this manner it would actually begin the liquidation of the accrued lability even it the pay roll did not increase. If the pay roll does not increase the actuaries report that contributions at this percentage may be expected to liquidate the accrued liabilities in 63 vears; if the pay roll increases by 1 per cent each year the percentage will liquidate the acerned Mability in approximately 40 years; if it in- creases by per cent each year, 32 years will be reqiiired for the liquida tion of the accrued Nability, while if the pay roll increased by 3 per cent each vear the period required to liquidate the accrued liability would be only 27 years. After stressing what they consider several important pointa in respect to the retirement act as it existed before the recent amendment, the board of actuaries in its report to Congress comments on the retirement act as amended July 3, 1926, 01d Plan Held Unfair. The main points stressed in regard to the old law were: First, the hoard believed that the plan was unfair to employes because it exacted uniform contributions from employes on the basis of their full salaries and then provided benefits based on limited sal aries irrespective of the employes’ age, so that certain employes paid a small part of the cost of their allow- ances while others with greater serv- ice and apparently greater claim to consideration from the Government were forced to pay practically the en tire cost of henefit Second, the retiring allowances were on the average too small to offer a_ satisfactory means of retiring em- ployes. Third. No system of records to pro- tect the Government and the em- ployes was provided for under the act. Fourth. The system was not deemed properly financed by appropriations to cover the currently accruing Habil recommendations of a nature de. ity %o that the Government was piling By the Associated Pre k BERLIN, January 15.—A seven- passenger limousine, stolen two years ago, dismantled and sold in pieces by thieves to three junk dealers, has been restored to the owner in run- | ning condition by the Berlin police. { All it needs is a coat of paint. | “More than a dozen policemen and | detectives worked on the case off land on. Armed with the numbers of all parts of the stolen car, which is owned by a wealthy industrialist, the police gathered them in hit by bit until the police garage mechanies were able to restore the car as it was ( when stolen. » Car S;.o]en. Dis:mantled, Sold for Junk In 1925, Returned to Owner In Berlin They found the motor in a second hand accessory shop four months after the theft was reported. The chassis was found in a junk vard. The owner was satisfied to take back that much of the car, but the police assured him it would pay to wait. Two weeks ago they found the hod: in another junk yard, and a few days later a cop rang the doorhell of the industrialist’s home to tell him that his lost automobile was waiting outside. Out of gratitude for the painstaking detective work. unequaled in Berlin, the owner gave $200 to the police sick benefit fund, p 7 ‘nder existing law, and under the | POLAND ARRESTS MANY COHMONSTS Three Parliament Members in Group—American Dol- lars Pay Radical;. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, January With the arrest of many Communists today, hig Commumst plot, al I 10 have been inspired from Russin hax been disclosed. For several months the Polish government suspected the existence of a strong Communist or gAnization working in co.oper with the Soviets on Polish territory A long and eareful investigation un covered evidence that the organization was operating throughout Poland, even In the western provinces, Z ing the Communist movement is charged, spying for Russia. 32 Taken in Warsaw. In Warsaw 32 persons reated and the police disc ion were vered ar that the organization was directed hy deputies belonging fo the White Rus sian Communist party: they were re celving thousands of American dollars from Moscow. The majority of those arrested and involved in the affalr, however are not White Russinn.i, For the first time in the existenc of the Polish Parliament, aid not respect the immunity of Deputies and arrested the three Dep tles concerned. Their names are Ta raskeievich, Voloshian and Mikhailov- ik, Arreata Stir Deputies. The detention of the Deputies made A deep impression In Parliamentary clrcles and the Speaker of the Diet has asked the minister of justice for detailed informatfon. According to the constitution, the courts reserve the right to place Deputies under ar- rest when caught in flagrant acts, but must release them immediately on_the Speaker's request. Numerous arrests in connection with this plot have heen made in va rious places throughout Poland. COATS LAST 10 YEARS. PARIS, January 15 (). Premier Poincare’s economies have halanced the 1927 budget but many small functionaries have raised a great cry about their own budgets which are badly out of balance, The forest guards’ worst complaint was what they called the govern- parcimony™ in clothing them The guards get a new overcoat every 10 years, a coat every five vears, and A cap every three years, while a pair of trousers is officlally admitted to be worn through in two years. T T—— up a tremendous accrued liability to be met by future taxpavers or to he repudiated with hardships and em barassment to employes. An examination of the new law to determine how far the defects of the original law have heen removed in- dicates that while the new bill is an improvement over the previous law, the plan is still so inequitable that the board of actuaries believes it will ultimately have to he amended. The act as amended does raise the amount of the annuity and therefore comes nearer to providing an adequate means of retirement. lLess frequently can the complaint be raised that em- ployes eligible for retirement have to continue in active service simply be- cause of the inadequacy of the maxi- mum_benefit_allowable, But probably the most important change for the betterment of the sys tem from the standpoint of the em ployes. and surely the most important from the standpoint of the country is the evident Intention on the pari of the administration to provide for a systematic method of liquidating the Government's liability under the fund. Such a change means that hereafter both the Government and the employes will have a true knowledgeof the actual cost of the system by which em- ployes’ contributions hereafter made will be kept intact. This is vastly im- portant to the financial stability of the system because every employe is entitled to recelve in any event the full value of his contributions, with interest. The Government will pay to the fund the amount of the em- ployes’ money that has already been disbursed in the payment of annuities to other employes and will hereafter cover its accruing obligations for that part of the annuities which are not provided from employes’ contributions. The adoption of this policy will he beneficial to both employes and the vernment, the actuaries emphasize. When a new employe enters the sery- ice both he and the Government will currently ‘get aside in the fund the cost of his henefita as he earns them, and when he reaches the retirement age all of the costs of his service will have been paid, and he can depend on the retirement fund to pay his benefita without calling on some fu- ture generation of taxpayers for con- tributiona. The Government will benefit, be- cause by adopting such a policy it Introduces Into the plan a positive safeguard against unwittingly adopt- ing_legislation which will involve it in heavy future liabiliti Every change in the annuity system which would increase either the immediate outlay or the ultimate obligations of the Government s immediately re. flected in the annual appropriation, since the appropriation is based on the actual aceruing liabilities as deter- mined by acturial calculation. Such a knowledge of cost tends to keep the plan on a conservative hasis and to foster the adoption only of henefits which are fair to the Government and fair to the employes. | which got secrei code from which it was learnad | the police | GEORGE YOUNG 1927—PART 1. HOLDING LEAD IN CATALINA CHANNEL SWIM (Continued from First Page) crossed tha channel, as he announced. Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass, quit the race at 8:18 o'clock. Channel Swimmer Gives Up. Charles Toth, Boston, who lists the awimming of ‘the English Channel among his achlevements, gave up the marathon at 7 o'clock Peter Meyer of Cincinnatl, in a bright green bathing cap and greased the color of the surface of the was following 2 or 3 miles hehind the front row, but seemed to have plenty of strength. Those who had watched Miss Bar- rett from the start said she had not changed her steady, measured stroke and showed no more effects of the long grind at the end of 7 or § miles than she did at the end of the first. Martha Steager of Portland, Oreg. | was far to the rear of the men lead- |era but was plugging along dogged)y. Jean McKenzie of Carpinteria, calit, who pooh-poohed a bathing #nit in favor of ungduiterated axle grease, was lifted from the water at about 5 o'clock nearly overcome from the engine fumes of a motor hoat to windward. Patrick Purcell of San Fran- and Gene Jordan, Los Angeles, dropped out just hefore darkness set tled over the course. Swims Far Bebind, Don McRae of Long Beach was be- hind the women but that-didn't werry him apparently for he plugged cheer: fully along. Arthur James Compton of. Long Beach wam in the same trough but when the shadows began to deépen he crawled up In the hoat. ed bygthe rules of the contest om even placing a hand on the gun % of the aitending hoats and under the watchful eve of officlal ob- servers, the contestants - were fed liquids through rubber tubes. Mrs. Charlotte Schosmmel was driv- en from the water by a cramped leg At 5:30 o'clock. She was taken aboard her launch, which headed for San Pe- dro. Mrs. ¥choemmel injured a tendon in a workout a week ago and it is believed this forced her to call quits, Aside from the cramp she was in good condition, On the steamer Avalon, Harry Lang- don, film comedian, broadcast the news of the swim to a station on San- ta Catalina Island, which in turn re. layed it to 14 stations in California. The cold water took its toll soon after the start. Red flags—signals that the swimmers had given up fluttered here and there over the course. As fast as the aignals went up, speed boats put up their noses and raced to the swimmer to assist in putting him aboard his convoying boat. Avalon Is Hospital Ship, The Avalon. with newspaper men and guests aboard, equipped as a hospital ship, took care of those who needed medical ald. As a launch, with A spent entrant, came alongside, a sling was lowered and the patient rushed to the saloon where doctors and nurses got to work without delay. Nausea, due to taking aboard too much sea water, threw a few out of the race. All were reported doing well aboard the improvised hospital ship and most of them were able to %0 below for refreshments after re- ceiving a vigorous rubdown. As the afternoon waned, the sea panorama revealed an open expanse of water with occasional heads and attending rowboats, indicating swim- mers still in the race. More speedboats and other craft were impressed into service by race officials in an attempt to keep a defi- nite check on all contestants. Constantly lengthening stretches of water separated the swimmers in striking contrast to the crowded ocean of the morning outside the isthmus cove. Water temperatures in the channel ranged from 54 to 68 degrees, official testers reported. The icy water was due, mariners believe, to the almost unprecedented cold wave which vis- ited southern California during the holiday season. Leader Forced Out. V. M. Summers quit the race hefore f o'clock after a game struggle had carried him to a commanding posi- tion among the leaders. The current from the north which he was attempt- ing to battle in making a straight- across swim to the San Pedro Light- ship proved too much for him. Randolph Teaburg of Mobile, Ala., gave up at 6:15 p.m, Herman A. Polsin of Seattle, Sew- ard D. Holley of Venice, Calif,, and Richard T. Johnson, San Pedro, were cheerfully paddling along in the rear of the aquatic procession. Howard D. Chaffee of Calif., shouted, * er at every stroke! Jack Wolvniec of Venice, Calif., who late last year came within a mile and a half of victory across the San Pedro Channel, gave up at 5:45 p.m. Mrs. Schoemmel put up a game bat. tle in spite of her injured knee. She took two small allowances of beef broth early in the day, and shortly before she left the water she had two lumps of sugar. She also took some orange juice to relieve her swollen tongue. When taken from the water her injured leg was floating stiff on the surface. Spiros Spingos, San Pedro, crawled into his observer's hoat and gave up at noon, Many Drop Out. Ninety-six starters walked out into the piacid waters of the cove when the starting gun was fired and headed toward the open sea where a trim Coast Guard cutter rolled easfly, wait- ing to lead the tortuous way across the ley cold channel. Out of the original list of 154 men and womrn who applied for a chance at the two prizes—$25,000 for the first person to cross the waterway, and $15.000 nd- ditional for the first woman to Ninis 102 were at their stations on the sand at 11:20. Six of these failed to buck the chilling water. When the race was little more than half an hour old, the first signal was holsted—from the convoying hoat of Lee clsc Ventura, getting strong: If You Tire Easily —if you should also have a persistent light cough, I of weight, some chest pains or hoarseness you may be developing consump- tion and you should lose no time to See a Doctor or Have Yourself Examined at the Free Health Department Clinic 409 15th 8t N.W., Tuesda. at 2-4 o'clock. Fi To Prevent Consumption 3. Thursday y evenings from T 1. Avoid house dust and impure or close day or night. 2. Get all the light and sunshine possible into your home. 3. Avoid raw milk, raw cream and butter made of unpas- teurized cream. 4. Eat plain, nourishing food. 5. Get enough sleep by retiring early enough. 6. Try to aveid worry. Be cheerful. Think kindly. mind acts on your bedy. Your Health Insurance A Thysical Examination Every Birthday Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis [ | | CLARABELLE BARRETT. Philip Moora of Los Angeles—-that he had decided to quit. Others followed, cutting down the field steadily 1 ntil at 2 o'clock only 80-0dd remained in the marathon. Trafts of all kinds—from rowboats to the Dbig transchannel passenger boat Avalon, churned the waters of the channel to the rear and both sides of the swimmers, A cold, foggy at- mosphere over the channl early today gave way to pleasant weather when sunshine scattered the haze and took some of the chill from the water, 8ix swimmers who at the starting point failed to take the water. They were: Martin E. Ferris, Hermosa Beach_ Calif.; £ E. Stoppey, Coronado, Calif. s Voojansky, Portland, Oreg.; Walter (. Wuiff, San Pedro, Calif.; Hartley Cald- well ‘Long Beach, Calif., and Ruth Rhodes, Seattle, Wash. FEDERATION VOTES PROBE OF UTILITIES were lined up (Continued from First Page) _ a dozen schools have grounds large enough to permit of landscaping. In lieu of this proposal, the commit- tee recommended that the municipal architect’s office carry out the proper grading and drainage of the school grounds so as (o make them available for play purposes. The federation, however, adopted another report of its education com- mittee, urging the Gibson subcom- mittee of the House to investigate the extent to which the school repair and improvement funds have been and are being used for comstruction and. other related questions. The re- ports were submitted by Mrs. H. 8. Parsons, chairman. Several reports presented by John Thider, chairman ot the committee on city planning, also were adopted One proposed the establishment of commercial air port to be controlied by the District Commissioners; an- other favored the erection in Wash- ington as & memorial to Theodore Roosevelt of a stadium seating 100,- 000 persons, which would he used for national and International events. Boulevard to Be Studied. A third report indorsed the pro- posal to make a boulevard along the bed of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal trom Washington to Cumberland. A special committee of the federation will be appointed to study the pro- posed project and report its findings. Removal of all overhead wires, with the exception of trolley wires, on Wis- consin avenue netween Massachusetis avenue and the District line was rec- ommended in a report submitted by Mr. Havenner as chairman of the com- mittee on highways, parks and water- ways. The report, which was adopted, also urged the removal of the center trolley poles in the same territory. An incomplete report on the recent organized citizenship drive, presented by Jesse C. Suter, campaign leader, showed that 4,895 applications for membership in the local organizations had beéen turned In besides 44 “for- eign’ applications, which included 2§ for the civic organizations in Mont- gomery County, Md., and 12 for those in_Ariington County, Va. Total r ceipts thus far, Mr. Suter explained, amounted to $2,161.11 and the ex- penses $1,188.95. The Devonshire Downs Citizens’ As- sociation was admitted to membership in the federation, but the application of the Washington Society of Engi- neers for affiliation was recommitted to the membership committee for fur- ther consideration. ASSASSIN OF PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT IS ARRESTED By the Associated Press LISBON, Portugal, January 15— Jose Julio Da Costa, who assassinated President Sidonio Paes of Portugal in December, 1918, for political rea- sons, was arrested outside the city yesterday and is in prison in Lisbon, He had been a fugltive for six yvears, despite strenuous efforts by the Portuguese government to seize hin wident 1 year he had led A successful revolution caused mugl Indignation. At the time a repor was circulated that his assailant had heen lynched, but it now is stated thut Da Costa was arrested at the time of the assassination and sent to a lunatic asylum here for observation. He was released by revolutionists during an uprising six years ago, and since that time hae heen in hiding, living here and abroad. | tion of Maf BOARD APPOINTEES! READY T0 CONFER ON NAGATINE BN Two of Three News Compa- nies Here Approve Police Plan for Censorship. Managers of two of the three news companies distributing the bulk of fell into line with the sugges Edwin B. Heses, that the distribut night intendent of police, | ing agencies get together and ‘agree aAmong themselves as to the elimina | tion of certain types of objectionable, wel. | publications. They not only comed such a suggestion, but de- clared their willingness to assist and co-operate with the District authori- ties in every possible way to stop the traffic in salacious magnzines at the source. 'he third agency, News Co., announced. the Washington through its | manager, Samuel Richards, an unwill- ingness fo enter into such a voluntary ference with competitors. We don't want to buck” the Police | Department or the dfstrict attorney’s office,”” said G. W, King an officer of the company, “but such a suggestion could have very little result.’ Since the Washington News ( the local office of a national e they pointed out, they could not, of their own agree to ban publi- cations they under contract to | distribute. Serious Handicap. absence of any censorship board to pass regularly upon publi- cations *before their distribution to newsstands, Willlam H. Smith, proprie tor of the Capital News Co., declared, has proved a serlous handicap to agencies desirous of conforming strict Iv to the law. Since hix arrest last July and recent conviction for selling a certain art magazine, Smith, whose sentence was suspended, sald he has repeatedly submitted new magazines to the Police Department for censor- The the magazines sold at retail here last | iper- | SENATORS TAKE UP D.C. APPOINTMENTS Consideration in Subcommit- tee Is Incomplete—Local Citizens Call on Capper. The nominations of District Com- missioners Dougherty and Taliaferro ere taken up in executive session by a subcommittee of the Senate District Committee yesterday, but considera. tion of the appointments are not com- pleted. One member of the subcommittee, Semator King, Democrat, of. Utah, was unable to be present. Since It was an exscutive matter, the other members of the subcommit- tee did not disclose what took place. The meeting was a brief one. later in the day a group of local citizens called on Senator Capper, chairman of the District committee, to seek his co-operation in an appeal to the President to consuit with lecal clvie ani trade organizations in flling future vacancles in the District gov- ernment. Members of this delegation stated that they were not protesting against any of the locai appointments notv pending before the Senate They merely wanted to discuss with Senator Capper the possibility of hav Ing the President receive suggestions from local organizations before filling vacanciex in future, they said The group was not speaking for any particular organization. It was com- posed of Admiral W. L. Rogers, Ad miral Joseph Strauss, Snowden Ash ford, I. Flather, jr.; Grover Avres and Gen. George P. Scriven. COUSIN OF CANDLERS ship before distributing them to regu- lar customers. Unable to get a definite ruling in some cases, he said, he had voluntarily” withheld the publications from public sale. “It would be a great help,” Smith said. “if there could be a_ censorship of such magazines before they are put on sale. I am trying the best I can to keep from the newsstands any publication which I think might be held objectionable, and if the news agencies are willing to do their part, it would seem that the district authori- ties should be willing to co-operate with us. Joining with proprietor of the - District News Agency, Mr. Smith declared he would be glad to attend such a meeting as Maj. Hesse suggested, in line with the recent conference of New York agenciea at which it was agreed to ban all but about five of a certain class of publications handled by them. The lack of a regular censorship board here to pass on magazines be- tore their public distribution, Mr, Smith believes, is one of the hards problems facing local agencies. More than once it has happened that the Police Department has ordered cer- tain publications removed {rom news- stands and the district attorney's office, when the matter was submitted to it by the police, has ruled that the magazines are “within the law. Have Done Own Censoring. Rather than risk arrest or prosecu- tion, the news agencies have volun- tarily done their own censoring in certain cases, but this they feel is the duty of the District authorities. “Once a magazine 15 put on the stands, hundreds of copies may be sold before it can be withdrawn,” said counsel for Mr. Smith. “If these publications ean he censored by the district attorney’s office before they are put into circulation here it would relieve the situation. ~As It is now the agencies in some cases are forced to run the risk of prosecution.” Maj. Hesse's proposal that the news distributors confer among themselves was me: by the Washington News Co. with a counter proposal that a committee of censors be appointed to pass on all publications of a ques: tionable nature. On such a commit- tee, it was suggested, there could be appointed a representative of the dis- trict attorney’s office, ministers, edu- cators and business men. _The Washington News -Co., Mr. King said, could not voluntarily enter into any agreement with competitors whereby it was possible for the repre- sentative of one agency to vote to ban a publication handled exclusively by another agency. He sald it was hard- Iy to be expected that a concern would vote to ban one of its own.pub- lications, and for that reason, could o= little good coming out of such a plan. Must Assume Risk. District Attorney Peyton Gordon de- clared frankly yesterday thta the re. sponsibility for' the distribution and sale of salacious publications was largely on the agencies and the dea ers themselves and that it was a risk which they must assume. All we want them to do is to zet the right perspéctive and keep the news stands clean.” said Maj. Gorden. The district attorney's office and not the Police Department has the final say as to whether or not a publication is of such character as to warrant prosecution of the vendor, Maj. Gor- don pointed out, in connection with certain cases in which the two depart- ments of the local government dif- fored. The district attorney’s office does not set jtself up as a regular censor to pass on publications before their distribution, he explained, nor can. it say_that any particular magazine is alright. If the current issue of a certain publication is clearly a viola- tion of the law, it can be ordered with- drawn, but the agency itself, he said, would have to assume the responsi- bility for putting it out on the stands. In Maj. Gordon's opinion, it is not a difficult matter for an agency or news dealer to disc between « publication that is clearly within the law and one that is equally open to suspicion ow If flagrantly objection- able. During the past week the Police Department Las undertaken to en- force the law as strictly as possible. One art publication, generally on sale at all the news stands, was ordered vithdrawn from a news stand on Fourteenth street yesterday and the mater has been put up to the dis- By the Amsociated Pres BERLIN, January 15.—To bob or not to wob, is a question which ix troubling the women of the house of Hohenzollern. The former Kaiser dislikes bobbed hair, and his wife, Princess Hermine, wears hers long and drawn tightly bout her head. Wilhelm's only daughter, Duchess Victoria Loulse of Brunswick, also is unbobbed. But the daughtersinlaw of the former Emperor are more restive. It is und that former Crown Princess” Cecile wants to follow the exaniple of her short-haired si; Queen Alexandrina of Denmark, but Telephone Main 992 1022 11th Street N.W. Who have paid.for the above bulletin (legal »bucq). her husBand. like his father, objects The Hohenzollern bob was ac- quired by Frau Arnold Ruemann, who # Bobber:i-Hair Craze Splits Hohenzollerns, With Women on Either Side of Argument was divorced by Prince August Wil- helm. now visiting the United States. She had her hair shingled as soon as it became fashionable In Germany. Princess ‘Sophie Charlotte, recently divorced from Prince Eitel Friederich. adopted a permanent wave bob even before the dissolution of heér marriage. Marie Augustine, widow of Prince Joachim, youngest of the former Emperor's six sons, discarded her long tresses hefore Her second marriage to Baron von Leon. 4 The only Hohenzollern princess actually glorying in long haiy Is Anna Marie, wife of Prince Oscar. She de- clares she would not sacrifice her hair | for any consideration, believing it to be' the grea attribute of womanli- = DIES OF EXPOSURE - tive of Millionaire Is Found With 6 Cents in Pocket. By the Assaciated Prese. VEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Janu- ary 15.—M. A. Candler, 65, a_cousin nf Asa G. Candler, the Coca-Cola king, and of Bishop Warren A. Candler and A brother of T. C. Candler of this eity, Joseph Ottenstein, | died at 3 o'clock this morning at_ths St. Lucle Sanitarium at Stuart, Fla, from exposure. Exhausted and apparently i semi-conscious condition, the in a { picked up by Stuart police late Ia night on the Dixie Highway, south ot the city. and taken to the hospital. An examination revealed that he was Apparently without funds, axcept for 6 cents in his pockets, together with a small store of tobacco and a pipe, police said. According to, Mr. Candler, his jbrother. a son of the former Gov. Candler of Georgia, formerly was or the editorial stalf of a Georgia news- paper. He attributed his condition at the time of his death to family diff- cultles. stating that he had left Geor- gia and his friends without word, and that' nothing -had been heard of him until news of his death was received Before he died it was learped by police that he had be#n walking south- ward, cooking his meals by the way- side. Funeral: servicés will be held here tomorrow. CHICAGO TO HUNT HAWK PREYING ON PIGEON PETS Echoes of Firearms May Be Heard in Downtown Caryons of Lake City Today. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 15.—Echoes of firearms promised to _reverberate through the canyons of downtown Chicago tomorrow as hunters got out their fowling pleces tonight ‘n prepa- ration for a search for a winged vil- lain which has been thinning the ranks of the thousands of pigeons recognized as public pets. A hawk, or, from the numerons re- ports of his depredations, a colony of hawks, has invaded the downtown district where for years the pigeons have multiplied . under . cornices of skyscrapers, with their food chiefly supplied by downtown workers. It seems that it takes from two to five pigeons a day to still the maraud- er's hunger, and helplessly the work- ers in the skyscrapers have watched the killa, i CITIZENS PLAN TRIBUTE TO CAPTAIN- OF POLICE Cornwell’s Thirtieth Year on Force to Be Marked by Pet- worth Association. Capt. Fred Cornwell, commanding the tenth precinct, will receive a trib- ute from the Petworth Citizens' Asso- ciation Tuesday night, on the thir: tieth anniversary of his entrance.into the Metropolitan Police Department. The ceremony will be held in con- nection with the mon‘hly meeting of the assoclation at 8 o'clock in Joppa Lodge Temple, 4209 Ninth street, Many of Capt. Cornwell's friends and brother officers will be present. Mr. McKeown of Oklahoma will speak on District of Columbia affairs, after which the recent appointments to the Public Utllities Commission, the proposed bond issue for the District and the jury award for the purchase of ground ‘for park purposes near Sheridan Circle, will be discussed. trict attorney’s office. The police also have succeeded in obtaining several other art magazines not handled hers by any regular agency. Maj. Gordon believes that the news agencles are doing their utmost to co-operate in keeping objectionable matter off tho stands, as evidenced by the absence of many publications. previously sold elsewhere. How to Draw Up Your Income Tax For those who have' dificul- ties making out their income tax statements, and those who are unfamiliar with the new regulations, The Star is publish- ing a series of articlés covering every phase of the income tax problem, written fn such a way H0 A8 to clear up every problem for every one. The articles, which were prepared by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, will start tomorrow and run every day for 36 days. The series is based on the revenue act of 1926 and the latest regulations relating to the In tax. The reduction In rated, increase in exemption: credit on earned income, applyi Ing to earned ret income not 1o exceed $20,000, and. othep. Compariaon Wil e resénve m) .8at of 1924, are sat forth,

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