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RCH 11, 1927 LOCAL AND NEARBY SCHOOLS D. C., FRIDAY, I 'RELEASE OF DR. KNUTT HOUCK NEW RAIL MERGER - IDEALAID TO LOREE Would Unite His Interests to' Pennsylvania System Is | Rumor Received Here. A new alignment of railroad finan- clal intevests opposing the Nickel Plate-Chesapeake & Ohio consolida- tion on the one hand and proposing an entircly néw consolidation of in- terests tying together the Pennsyl- vania Rallroad and the holdings of L. *. Lovee in the Lehigh Valley and ppeared probable today coming to the Capital that the Loree-Pennsylvania interests have g ne for creation of a New York-St. Louis line which may reach the Southwest through the Loree interests in that section of the country. At the same time the rumors con- necting Mr. Loree with the Pennsyl- vania appeared to set up railroad financial combinations involving the J. P. Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb groups in opposition to each other through the interlocking ramifications of boards of .the railroads invelved. The new consolidation scheme - ported, setting up a fifth mid-west eastern railroad consolidation in addi- tion to the four alteady proposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, appears to definitely align the Loree interests with those of the Pennsyl- vania, represented by Kuhn, Loeb against the Van Plate and New York Central interests represented by the international bank- ing house of J. . Morgan and Uom pany. theory that RS a4 new ra Mr. now appears road consolidation giant, taking the place of the Harrimans and Hills of other d: before the establishment of the Interstate Com- merce Commission. Move Not Formally Made. Loree A consolidation proposal to tie to-| gether four Southwestern lines, all now controlled by the Loree interests, is now before the commission for de- cision. The new proposal, to create another line between St. Louis and New York, has not been formally laid before the commission even though rumogs have persisted for several weeks thut the Loree-Pennsylvania in- terests contemplate this step. The unverified rumors have it that Mr. Loree, president of the Delaware & Hugdson, chairman of the hoards of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, know: Fasily Il { Knutt ingen-Nickel ‘} Out of the rumors came the| LEAVES WIFE'S FATE UNSOLVED Ve Her Dead or Imprisonecl as Former St. Elizabeth Pyschiatrist Is Freed From Johns Hopkins. With the release yesterday of Dr. Houck from Johns Hopkins Hospital and his immediate depar- ture for his mother's home in Wis- consin, the strange disappearance of his 28-year-old wife from their Con- gress Heights apartment last De- cember apparently had been added to Washington's list of unsolved mysteries. Mrs. Houck vanished from r home hefore dawn on December 16 and has never been heard from since. Two days later her hushand, a_ psychiatrist on the staff of St Elizabeth’s Hospital, was found wan- dering the streets of Hornell, N. ¥ garbed only in his underw babbling incoherencies about After month of investigation during which they were frequentiy isted by the authorities of other cities, the police admuited that ‘hey were at a loss to know whether Mrs Houck had been murdered or com- mitted suicide, or whether she had fled from her husband following a violent quarrel and buried her iden- tity permanently. Fate of Mrs. Houck Unknown. There the case stands today. No person, 8o far as the authorities have been able to learn, knows whether Mrs. Houck 1s dead or alive, or what fate overtook her the night she dis- appeared, leaving her 21; vear-old son to the care of a father who was plung- ing over the brink of a complete men- tal breakdown Mrs. Houck's parents, Mr d Mus. John Walter, of Canton, Ohio, zre con vinced, however, that their daughter is dead. In this opinion they are join- ed by their son, Earl V. Walter, and a son-in-law, Capt. Ben E. Clarke, Bertillion expert of the Canton Po. lice Department, both of whom assist- ed in the early investigation in Wash- ington for several da. “Until T see Gladys again I shall never believe that she was not mur- dered,” her brother declared this week to a reporter for The Star, who went to Canton for the purpose of determin- ing whether Mrs. Houck had sought refuge with her parents. To this Mr. Walter, her father, nodded assent and a short time before her mother, broken- hearted over the tragedy that over- took her daughter, had expressed a similar view. Wrote Frequently to Son. Dr. Houck wrote numerous letters h n as the “Katy,” and the Kansas City Soutkern, will turn over the Lehigh Valley to the Pennsylvania in return for assistance by the Pennsylvania in securing a Lackawanna - Wabash through line to Kansas City through St. Louis. Such a consolidation would have the effect of joining New York directly with the Southwest over a Loree-controlled road. Although the commission lust year held that the Nickel Plate-Chesapeake & Ohio consolidation appeared to be in the public interest, it disapproved the application of the Van Sweringen group on the ground of improper financing. The Van Sweringen inter- ests are now supposed to be working on _another consolidation scheme em- bodying many of the physical aspects of the old proposal, but with changes in the financial operations of the merger. Rail Option Expired. Mr. Loree two years ago secured a two-year option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, running from Pittsburgh to New York and connecting through Pittsburgh with his Delaware & Hudson lines, which might have given him much the same alignment he now is sald to be seek- ing. This option expired at midnight, February 28, and the board of the B. R. & P. declined to renew it. When the scheme will be laid before the Interstate Commerce Commission, if at all, is conjectural, and certainly it cannot be kuown whether the com- mission would favor such a scheme. The suggested merger is not in line with the proposals of the commission for consolidation of Eastern and Mid- western roads to form a powerful railroad group in those sections of the country. Great activity in the stock of the Wabash for several weeks past, during which it rose to about %6, dropped to 65, and is now around 70, appears to be in part the basis for some of the rumors. Mr. Loree, or his interests, are supposed to have ac- quired about 37 per cent of the stock of the Wabash. LR TN SUPREME COURT HEARS KODAK SUIT ARGUMENTS Pohn W. Davis, Counsel for East- man Co., Urges Refusal to Order Laboratories Sold. The Federal Trade Commission's Mttack on the Eastman Kodak Co., Involving charges of monopoly in moving picture films, was up for oral mrgument today in the Supreme Court. The Government contends that the ©“ompany owns three laboratories which it threatens to use in making prints from the film negatives should the Allied Films Laboratories Asso ciation, now engaged in making the prints, refuse to use Fastman films exclusively. The court has been urged to enforce the commission’s order directing teh Eastman Co. to dispose of the laboratories. John W. Davis, counsel for the Fastman Co., insists that the Court of Appeals at New York City was right in refusing to order the sale of the laboratories, contending that their ownership did not constitute un- fair methods of competition or an effort to create a monopoly. RUG CODE ADOPTED. Advertisers Agree to Drop Use of “Wiltpn Velvet” as Incorrect. A code of standards for advertising rugs was adopted by the Furniture, | Carpet and Upholstery Association of Washington, meeting in the Ebbitt Hotel last night. \According to the adopted code as presented by Louis Rothschild, direc- tor of the Better Business Bureau, the term “Wilton velvet” shall be dis- continued as incorrect. A rug by virtue of its process of manufacture is_either “Wilton” or “velvet.” * The code permits the use of the term “velvet (Wilton type) rugs.” ‘Wilton rugs must be specified as either “wool” or “worsted,” however. Also since a rug is either a “‘tapestry” or a “Brussels,” the term “tapestry Brussels” will be discon- tnued "for the more accurate “tapestry (Brussels weave) rugs.’” Major Hurt at Polo Club. MANILA, March 11 (#).—Maj. Ed- win M. Hardy of the Army general staff here was injured at the Polo Club today when accidentally struck in the eye with a polo mallet. Cuba Talks to England. LONDON, March 11 (#).—Radio telephone service was opened today between England and Cuba. Godfrey Locker-Lamson, undersecref for to his son. Most were phrased with material to delight a child, making no reference to the missing mother. Some were illustrated with quaint- looking elephants and cows and other animals. Only one mentioned Mrs. Houck to any extent, In this Dr. Houck told his son not to worry, that the whereabouts of his mother was not the business of “any damned re- porters,” “But some day she will come back to us, old man, and when she does she will be even kindlier and more lovely than ever,” the letter added. The Star reporter had gone to Can- ton because of the belief that was prevalent in Washington that she had sought refuge there with her family. All members of the family expressed surprise that such a view should have been taken. They declared they even offered to put up a reward for infor- {r‘;:';loa‘ luvg(nfu lv;;mher d,ueovery, but e Wasl n ice 3 oo them not 1o B0 o D4 ask “1 know Gladys is dead, or else e AMERICANS IN FORE | AT LEAGUE SESSION Delano and MacCormack of Wash- ington Argue on Persian Opium Problem. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, March 11.— Two Americans took leading roles in the League of Nations council session today, during discussion of the plan for substituting other crops for the opium poppy in Persia. Frederic A. Delano of Washington, as president of the League's commis- sion on inquiry in Persia, presented his report in behalf of the League. Col. Daniel MacCormack of Washing- ton, sitting on the council board ms official representative of the Persian government, of which he is financial director, argued against certain pro- visions in Mr. Delano’s recommen- dations. The Delano report urged reduction of the Persian output of oplum by 10 per cent annually. Col. MacCormack explained that Persia was only willing to accept a trial period of three years, as the League program would disturb the country's economic life unduly. No decision was taken. - —e DEAN WILBUR SPEAKS AT LENTEN SERVICES Religion Offers Companionship, He Says, at Laymens’ Meeting in Keiths’ Theater. Loneliness is akin to sin, Dr. W. A. Wilbur, dean of George Washington University, said in discussing “The Companionship of Jesus” at the Lenten services held at Keith's The- ater today, under the auspices of the Laymen’s Association of the Episco- pal Diocese of Washington in co-op- eration with the Federation of Churches of the District. “There is no fellowship in sin,” Dr. ‘Wilbur said. “Religion offers com- _panionship. All orthodox thinking has {as jts basis companionship with Jesus,” he stated. Comdr. C. T. Jewell, U. 8. N., re- tired, preeided today. Prayer and benediction were offered by Rev. H. ‘\\'. D. Millington, executive secretary | of the Columbia Assoclation of Bap- tist Churches. There will be no serv- ice tomorrow. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- day of next week Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of Washington Cathedral, will be the speaker. On Thursday Dr. Howard A. Kelley of Baltimore will speak. On Friday Dr. E. T. Devine of American University will speak. CHARGES POISON ATTEMPT Husband Says Wife Put Drug in Icing of His Cake. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 11 ).—Asserting that his wife put poison in the icing of a cake, J. H. Barr, an undertaker, filed affidavit in city court today charging her with administering poison with intent to Barr said he started to eat some of the cake but noticed a peculiar taste. He took samples to the State board of health, where traces of poison were found. Barr said his wife left a few days ry for affaivs, talked with Havana at 130 pm, ago, taking his insurance policies with her, then | : | vietim. + | Houek held prisoner somewhere,” Waiter, her mother declared. “She loved me too well to let me suffer this way. She would have gotten in touch with me, T am positive. She called me up by long distance every holiday, and sometimes several times a month. Do you think she would SUSP now, for any reason? would give anything 1 own to know definitely what has been her fate.” In releasing Dr. Houck the ities at Johns Hopkins Hospital offer- ed no explanation, nor did they say whether Dr. Houck had been cured of the mental illness of which he was a They explained that Dr. had requested . them to say nothing and that they would follow | his wishes. Some days before, how- ever, heads of the hospital had inti- mated to a Star reporter their belief in_Dr. Houck’s insanity. When the reporter asked for in- formation about Houck, the resident physician in charge of the Phipps psychiatric clinie, where the patient was hospitalized, said he was obliged to maintain absolute secrecy about all patients under his After being told that some doc had questioned the authenticity of Dr. Houck's in- . however, he replied: “Well, do you think for a minute that we would have kept Dr. Houck if he had been feigning? 1 can only add that Dr. Houck is showing some signs of improvemen He declined to amplify that statement. Declared Insane Here, Psychiatrists at St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital, Gallinger Municipal Hospital and at Walter Reed Hospital also are known to have decided that Dr. Houck was insane. The psychiatrists at the first two expressed a belief that he suffered from a form of insanity which might give him lucid periods for several years at a time, but that recurrent relapses were probable. Although the doctors at Gallinger Hospital admitted a physician with his knowledge of the particular dis- ease his symptoms indicated successfully feign the depression, they added that after studying his case for several weeks they felt confident that Dr. Houck's was a truly patholog- ical case. Doctors who had him in charge elsewhere during the succeed- ing weeks expressed a similar view. * Dr. Houck's mother, who is also a physician, said she entertained no doubts as to her son’s fnsanity. She said he had suffered a similar spell some years ago, when he was a mem- ber of the staff of the Mayo brothers’ clinic. Quarreled Night of Disappearance. Dr. and Mrs. Houck had a quarrel the night Mrs. Houck disappeared. Dr. Houck admitted to newspapermen and detectives that he had torn his wife's clothing and that he had seen her slip out of the apartment later. Members of Mrs. Houck’s family said they had been told the quarrel resulted from Dr. Houck’'s resenting a visit paid them by two members of the staff of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Dr. Houck wanted to be alone and to study. In a fit of anger, it is said, he snubbed his callers and went to bed, leaving Mrs. Houck to entertain them alone. The two physicians left shortly and Mrs. Houck took her husband to task for his treatment of his guests. This, her relatives said, led to the quarrel in which Dr, Houck admitted having beat her. |HEADQUARTERS OPENED FOR WOMAN’S MEETING World Welfare Conference Will Be Held in May at Carlton Hotel, It Is Announced. Permanent headquarters for Woman’s Universal Alliance. have been established at the Carlton Hotel and the world welfare conference will be held by the alliance during the first week of May in that hotel, it was an- nounced today. The Woman’s Universal Alliance is sponsoring the erection of the Moth- ers’ Memorial in Washington, a building described as of service “to commemorate the names of great mothers and great women and to per- form practical and definite service for the mothers, homes and children of lh;ficoumry," rs. C. C. Calhoun, president the alliance, said ,o'd;;. that t}?: theme of the conference will he a comparative analysis between the women of all countries as well as the different States of the Union in their educational, civic and govern- mental activities and the exact status of their position in the dif- ferent nations. Kmbassies and lega- tions in Washington are being in- vited to co-operate in the interests of the conference, it is stated. James Cameron and Dr. David E. Mitchell, late president of Cum- berland University of Tennessee, have been made members of the executive committee of the alliance. A musi- ::I pro;gram is being arranged for e conference P Be contatince under the auspices of FORD PLEA AMENDED IN $1,000,000 LIBEL SUIT By the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 11.—An ame; plea of attorneys for Henry For s tendant in a million-dollar libel suit in- stituted by Aaron Sapiro, Chicago at. torney, was filed in Federal Court late yesterday. The plea was amended on the order of Judge Fred S. Raymond. Grand Rapids, Mich., after Sapiro’s attorneys attackekd it several days ago. Sapiro, who directed the suit Ford and the Dearborn Publishine Cor publishers of the Dearborn Indepen: dent, based his action on a charge that a series of articles in the magazine classed him as the “leader of a Jewish couspiracy” in connection with the or- ganlzation of co-operative m; associations, " g earing of a motion/ of the plaintiff to stk ot oe e the defense plea will be heard Monday, e selection of a jur. Tuesday. ST e i |BANK CASHIER ENDS LIFE. Indiana Institution Closes Doors After Suicide. ?jl'NKER HILL, Ind., March 11 (#). —The Farmers’ State Bank here was not opened today following the finding ‘uefrt.!ne lt;ody of A. M. Zehring, 45, cash- n a rear room. Zehring h himself through the head. s i No motive for Zehring’s act is known. The bank was reported in good financial condition a month ago by a State examiner, according to an official, The bank will remain closed until a check-up can be made, Several business men of Bunker Hill said today they had been worried over the condition of the Farmers' State Bank for several weeks and particu- larly so since the faflure of a bank at Onward and the closing of another at Galyeston recently, It is known that Zehring was in Peru vesterday for conference with ise the THREE OF BANDIT GANG GET 10 YEARS Two Others, First Offenders, Get 5 and 4 1-2 Years, Respectively. Sentences of 10 yvears each in the penitentiary were imposed today by Justice Hoehling on three of the gang of five bandits, fowr white and one colored, which, after stealing a car in Georgetown, January 28, rode across the city and held up a storekeeper at 1500 Fast Capitol street and robbed him of £30. In the stolen automobile they drove into Virginia, where a store wag broken into,and while trav- eling at i n honr on their re- turn the stolen hine was wrecked near McLean, Va. The bandits escaped injury and were brought to Washing- ton in a passing automobile. Archie R. Benson and Joseph . Binns, both white, and Henry C. Har- ris, colored, were each given sentences of 3 years on the joy-riding charge and 10 vears for the robbery. the sen- tences being allowed to run_ concur- rently. Samuel R. Copeland, 26 years old, a first offender, was given 3 vears on 'the joy-riding charge and § years for the robbery, the sentences to run concurrently. Maurice J. Mc(lanahan, 22 years old, also a first offender, who aided the Government in the prose cution of Harris, who stood trial, was given 8 years for the joy-riding and 4 years and 6 months on the robbery charge. Benson and Binns had records, the court explained, ris had also served time for violating the national prohibition act. Justice Hoehling deplored the prevalence of crimes of violence by vouths in this district and warned that young men starting out on a life of banditry should expect to receive the punish- ment fixed by law. The probation law, he pointed out, does not assure a per- son the might to commit his first of- fense and go unpunished. McClanahan cried while sentence was being passed, but the others took their punishment apparently un- moved. Counsel for McClanahan has told the court that the boy’s father is seriously ill. COAL MEN FILE BRIEF CLAIMING RATE HIGH Railroad Charges Termed Unjust. Carriers Place Supporting Views Before Commission. m a. criminal Electric Power Co., Fadeley & Co., coal wholesalers of ‘Washington, and Agnew & Co., coal retailers, today filed With the Inter- state Commerce Commission a_brief declaring that the freight rate of $3.13 per ton of coal from West Virginia mines applied to all Baltimore & Ohio deliveries in the District of Columbia and to Benning, D. C., on the Penn- sylvania, is unjust and unr sonable. Through arshall, attorney for the complainants they contend that the present practice of applying a rate of . §2.84 to Pennsylvamia-Chesapeak> and Ohlo in the District of Columbia, except to Benning, nd except to d:-- liveries on the Baltimore & Ohio is unduly prejudicial, and that a’ just, reasonable and non-discriminatory rate for the service would not exceed $2.84. Many precedents were cited in the com- plaint to justify the claim that a $: Ah«l rate should apply on all coal deliveries from West Virginia to Washington de- livery points. 3 4 ‘At the same time supporting’ briefs were filed by several operators’ a ciations in West Virgi and by mhr‘_r vail carriers serving competing terri tory. The Pennsylvania, in znother brief, claimed the rate of $3.13 would be subnormal if lowered, citing many precedents for its claim. The filing of briefs mark: step in a long-standing cont which several local coal de and the Potomac Electric Power Co. claim the Pennsylvania and B. & 0. charge unfair rates for coal deliveries in Washington. Clajms of all the com- plainants and intervenors were heard before an Interstate Commerze Com- mission examiner several weeks ago. KOLLANTAY DENIES TALK The Potomac 'mother OF QUITTING TO LECTURE Informs Soviet Agency in New York She Does not Intend to Appear in America. By the Assoch NEW YORK, 2 y Alexander Kollantay, Soviet Minister to Mexico, is not returning to Moscow and is not seeking permission to enter the United States, she says in a tele- gram received today by the revresent- tive of the Soviet news agency in vew York. )\elt was recently stated that an Amer- jcan publisher, who is preparing a translation of a mnovel by lantay, had requested the partment to permit the S0 mat to enter the United Statcs as a lecturer. Referring to this rumor, Mme. Kollantay sent a telegram to the New York bureau of the telegraph agency of the Soviety union, in which she said: “please give refutation to rumos of my leaving my post in Mexico and of my intention to lecture in the United States. Both rumors are en- tirely wrong.” e ONE M;N EXECUTED, PAL 1S REPRIEVED, IN MURDER Inter- 11.—Mme. North Carolina Governor venes at Last Moment to Save Condemned Negro. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., March 11— Robert Lumpkin, negro, was executed at the State prison here today for the murder on December 24, 1925, of Chief of Police M. B. Rogers of Rowland, Robeson count Booker Williams, convicted with Lumpkin and slated to go to the elec- tric chair at the same time, was granted a repricve by Governor Me- Lean. Both the negroes had been prepared for the death March. Lumpkin was said to have been hopeful of a reprieve and prayed continuously up to the mo- ment_officials led him: from his cell for the death march. FOUR-IN-ONE BOTTLE. Gentleman Pays $5 for Carrying Variety of Liquors. NEW YORK, March 11 (P).—A four-in-one bottle is the same as any other to the customs man. A gentle- man arriving from Nassau on the Munargo brought with him a bottle containing four separate compart- ments and four corks. The bottle held creme de menthe, apricot brandy, quantro and ben dictine. On the theory that a bottl bankers to negotiate a loan of §40.000, bottle he was fined the regular THEFT FOR FINERY COSTS MOTHER PAY $80 Retirement Forfeiture and Withholding Salary Ordered in Decision. T Mrs. Grace L. Crawford of River- dale, Md., who is on probation under a prison sentence of two years for theft from the Bureau of Tngraving and Printing of $80, which she con- fessed stealing to satisfy her daugh- ter's longing for pretty clothes, must forfeit the $80 out of her retirement pay and lose all pay for her services from the last pay day prior to the date of her dismissal June 20, 1925. This _was decided today by Con- troller General McCarl in an important decision involving not only the case of this woman, whose confessed lar- ceny for her daughter’'s sake aroused much interest at the time of her trial, but involving also a principal of pay forfelture which may be far reaching in its influence. Claim For Pay Denied. she was to Mrs, due pay Crawford contended in arrears amounting but this was denied by the controller general, who went deep- Iy into legal precedent, even citing ablished” English rule,” “that a servant or employe who is dis- ‘harged for good cause forfeits his rights to compensation for services rendered.” The retirement fund to the credit of Mrs. Crawford, which had been held up on account of her case, amounts to $123.14, according to the Commissioner of Pensions, and from this McCarl or- dered the disbursing clerk of the Bu- reau of Pensions to pay $80 to the Treasury Department to redeem the stolen bills, and forward the re- mainder, $43.14 to Mrs. Crawford. An interesting argument was sub- mitted on behalf of Mrs. Crawford, that she would be liable only for the cost of manufacturing the currency in question, as it had not been completed. Conductor Caused Arrest. The manufacturing cost amounted to approximately 6 cents, as against the $80 face value. The eight notes were printed on both sides and com- plete except for the seal and serial number. Several of them had been passed in ‘Washington before Mrs. Crawford was finally apprehended through the vigi- lance of a street car conductor, who recognized one of the $10 notes whick she submitted for purchase of §$2 worth of tokens. He notified the sec- ret service, McCarl held that the Government had been damaged to the extent of $80 instead of 6 cents, as the Treasury had to redeem the notes. P R, RULE ON DISPENSING POISON IN HOSPITALS Chicago Health Official Issues Reg- ulations, Following Recent Deaths of Infants. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 11.—Taking a lesson from the recent hospital deaths of six infants fed boric acid instead of sterile water, Dr. H. N. Bundeson, health commissioner of Chicago, to- day promulgated new regulations to govern the dispensing of poisons used in hospitals. At the same time the current Issue of the Journal of the American Medi- cal Assoclation, in its hospital num- ber, seized upon the opportunity to spread the lesson throughout Ameri- an medicine. “The deaths of six infants in a hospital to which mothers came for the safe care that a hospital should provide must not be permitted to pass without the lesson of the accident being driven home to the personnel of every hospital in the country,” said the journal., *The guardians of the well have only a partial responsibility; the caretakers of the sick and of the infant have responsibility that'is com- plete, that demands eternal vigilance, that permits no escape. Their re- sponsibility can not be lightly as- sumed, and, once taken, must be borne to the utmost of human strength and wisdom.” HADLEY SEES DANGER IN CONTROL OF RATES Says Unless Economic Principles Are Fully Understood, Disaster May Be Repeated. By the Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 11.— Unless the economic principles behind rate control are fully understood, “‘we are likely in the near future to repeat on a broader scale our disastrous ex- “| periences with railroad control from 1910 to 1920,” President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, who is a director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroads, says in an article in the forthcoming issue of the Yale Review. “Things are a good deal better to- day than they were in 1917, says Dr. Hadley in the article, “but the rail- road situation as a whole is far from being a sound or satisfactory on Many railroad systems are now show- ing a good net income, and a few are showing a large one. But the average return on capital ,invested in rail- roads is not nearly so great as most people assume, and the danger from adverse legislation is very much greater. “In order that the control of rates may be effective and not disastrous, we need more light all around, at present we don’t see deep enough into things to have economic principles to fall back upon. Unless we get such principles, we are likely in the near future to repeat on a broader scale the disastrous experience with rail- road control from 1910 to 1921 skl DUCHESS OF YORK HAS ATTACK OF TONSILITIS Traffic in Vicinity of Her Hotel, Nelson, New Zealand, Diverted to Other Streets. By the Associated Press. NELSON, New Zealand, March 11.— The people of this busy city are figura- tively going on tiptoe.out of considera- tion for the Duchess of York, who is suffering from a mild attack of ton- litis. " Her hotel is in one of the busiest streets, but when it was learned that she was having difficulty in sleeping, e authorities diverted all traffe, ey also ordered traffic on neighbor- ing streets to proceed qul and warned autoists not to sound thelr ns. no;‘m duke, who has continued his ENTERED IN ORATORY CONTEST Fifty-nine Institutions in Capital, Mary- land and Virginia National Match May 2. Fifty-nine schools in Washington and the nearby counties in Virginia and Maryland have enrolled in the 1927 National Oratorical Contest and the puplls in those institutipns are preparing in earnest for the strenu- ous intramural competition, which will precede the selection of school repre- sentatives, By the last week in March most of the schools will have selected their spokesmen. The competitions between schools will begin with three group| meetings on April 2. These meetings between spokesmen for groups of schools will be followed by district final meetings. The territory of The Star is divided into 10 districts, the winner in | each of which will receive $100. The first district finals (for Loudoun, Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William ‘ounties and Alexandria in Virginia) will be held April 7 at the Washing- ton-Lee High School in Ballston. The last of the 10 district final meetings :vm be held at Hyattsville, Md., April 4. The grand final meeting in The Star’s area will be held May 4. The winner on that date will receive an additional $200 and a Summer tour of Europe with all expenses paid, as well as the right to a place in the national finals, which will be held May 27. The national champion will receive a hand- some silver loving cup and will com pete against the representatives of six other nations in an international meet ing in V hington on October 14. A handsome the international winner also. Teachers in Charge. The contest is under the super- vision of a committee of teachers in each high school. The schools enrolled and their principals and committees follow: Central High School, Alvin W Miller, principal. Contest committee: Miss Hester E. McNell chairman; Miss Charlotte R. Farrington, Mrs. Lola Hutchins, Mrs. E. C. Kojouharoff, Miss Dorothea ¥. Sherman, Edmund 8. Noyes and L. Hoover. Business High School, Allan Davis principal. Miss Cora McCarty, chair- man; Miss Esther Galbraith, Quincy Adams Eastern High School, Charles Hart, principal. Miss Kate D. Bucknam, chairman; Miss Bertha G. Gardner and Isaac B. Simon. McKinley Manual Training School, Frank C. Daniel, principal. Mrs. Eda B. Frost, chairman; Miss Genevieve Marsh, Miss Theora Bunnell, Andrew Vliet, Miss Rhoda Watkins, Dr. Fran- cis Hemelf. ‘Western High School, Dr. Elmer S. Newton, principal. Mi ] chairman; Miss Isabel Pickett, Mk Clara Stutz, Miss Sue H. Gardener, Miss Elizabeth Bessez, Miss Alice Wood. Armstrong Technical High School, G. David Houston, principal. Miss R. Moryck, chairman; J. Hunter, ‘Thomas, Miss C. West, Mrs. M. Rubel, Dr. H. Bailey. Dunbar High School, W. L. Smith, principal. Dr. Eva Dykes, chairma Miss Sadie Daniel, Neval Thomas, Wi liam Brewer, Miss Mary H. Skinner, Miss Juanita Howard, Cyrus Shippen. ‘Woodward School for Boys, Y. M. C. A., Ross M. House, principal; Stu- art Cuthbertson, chairman. Holton Arms, Mrs. J. M. Holton, principal; Mrs. Alice Chase Raine, chairma Sidwell’s Friends' Select School, T. ‘W. Sidwell, principal; George C. Cul- bertson, chairman. Devitt Preparatory School, Dr. George Devitt, principal; Frederick ‘Wright, chairman. Emerson Institute, Paul Bansfield, principal. Immaculata Seminary, Sister Mary Cyril, principal; Sister Eugenia, chair- man. Gonzaga High School, Father J. C. Davey, principal; Father Francis J. Coyne, chairman. Holy Cross Academy, Sister Supe- rior Antonine, princi) St. Cecilia’s Academy, Sister Eloise, principal; Sister Kathryn Marie, chair- man. St. John’s College, Brother Alfred, principal; Brother Augustine, chair- man, St. Paul's Academy, Sister M. Gerar- ‘eure, D dine, principal; Sister M. Rose Eileen, chairman. Immaculate Conception Academy, Sister Mary Agnes, principal; Sister Madeleine, chairman. Notre Dame Academy, Sisters of the Holy Cross, committee. Maryland Schools. Rockville High School, L. Fletcher Schott, principal and chairman. Gaithersburg High School, Thomas W. Troxwell, principal and chairman. Bethesda High' School, T. W. Pyle, principal; Miss Ludelie Hinaman, High School, W. D. Mul- linix, principal and chairman. Georgetown Preparatory School, Garrett Park, Rev. Thomas A. Em: met, principal; Rev. Philip Finegan, chairman, and Rev. George E. Kelley. Hyattsville High School, K. J. Mor- ris, principal; committee, Miss Vir- ginia Spence and Miss Day Wolfinger. Laurel High School, J. J. Hinson, principal and chairman. Takoma Park-Silver Spring High School, Mrs. Evaline Beebe, principal; Miss Marian Schwartz, chairman Bowie High School, Harry R. Hughes, principal and chairman. Brandywine High School, T. Carlyle Martin, principal; Mrs. T. C. Martin, chairman. ; Upper ~Marlbord High School, Floyd R. Cromwell, principal. Com: mittee: Miss Edna Miller and Miss Maud Gibbons. Baden High School, W. R. C. Con- nick, principal. D. J. Miller, chair- man. Surrattsville High School, Clinton; Louis High, principal. Miss L. C. Sterling, chairman. .\lulll‘g{en Consolidated School at Mitchellville, R. E. Terry, principal d chairman. “Mecmmcm-mc High School, James Greenwell, principal and chairman. Charlotte Hall Military Academy, Maj. James Bentley, principal and hairman. 5i St. Mary’s Academy, Leonardtown, Sister Mary Hubert, principal and {rman. ChYnAOmlrd Hall, Leonardtown, Bro. Ambrose, C. F. X., princifal and chair- M River Springs High School, Miss Lettio Dent, principal and chairman. MeDonough Institute at La Plata R. H. L. Reich, principal and chair- T hdian Head High School, J. H. Rice, principal and chairman. St. Mary’s School, Bryantown, Md., Father P. E. Conroy, principal; Sister Constantia, committee n. Virginia Schools. jhington-Lee High School, Balls- tox‘;',, .;. T. “}mderlum, principal. Mrs. Mar tt, cf 5 G:rwwn High School, Del Ray, Harry Baker, jr. principal. Com mittee: Clifton Moore, Miss Celia Swecker, Miss Eva L. Harbaugh, Mrs. ‘Ransom. H‘I:?anon High School, Alexan- drin, Mrs. Ruth A. Jenkins, 1 Committee: M.hlc !\'an“ ces Walker and : ‘uatt. Miss F > High School, H. T. Mon- & T chairman. ilver cup will be awarded to | Are Preparing for Osbourn, prineipal; Miss Lulu | chairman genie I D. M . v Agricultur: 1 High L J.E School, Walter, {rman. Nokesville High School, I Beahm, principal and ch Haymarket High School, Miss Hindle, principal. Miss M. R. B chairman, Falls Church Tigh School, Miss Maude D. Hobbs, principal. Commit tee: Miss Margaret Fravel and Miss nna Henr Fairfax High man, principal. sie Payne and ) Chap- Miss J fiss Faye Sprinkle. vanklin-Sherman High School at McLean, Miss Mary M. Snead, prin ICOISACESED OF ANTHU. .0 Nearly $2,000,000 Spent Here to Discredit President’s Policy, Says Gallivan. By the Associated Pross Charges that the Mexican govern ment, through its 3 and its consul g had spent nearly effort to discredit Pre and Secretary Kellogg American literature could b the asking at the New sulate, are made hy livan, Democrat. ) in an issue of the Cong ord just off the press. "he rges, which serv fdent Coolidse nd that s had fo the United States was the subject of cipal. Miss Elizabeth Matheny, chair man. Oakton High ningham, principal. ham, chairman, and Fred Cun . G. Cunning Miss Dorothy w. principal and chairman. Leesburg High School, A. kins, principal and chalrman. Ashburn High School, Clarent Monroe, prineipal and chairman. Lincoln High School. H. R. Sanders, principal and chairman. Round Hill High School, W. D. Pott, Sreg- Lairman ! McLEAN PLANS COMPLETE. High School Students Make Ready for 1 Oratory. Special Dispatch to The Star McLEAN, Va., March y M. S principal 11.—Miss of the ., and Miss Ll ginia Castleman of the high school faculty have completed arrangements for the local eliminations in the inter- national oratorical contest being spon- sored in this district by The Evening Star of Washington. The following members of the three upper high school English classes have enrolled and are preparing essays on the Con- stitution: Catherine Ash. Mathilde Berthiaume, Louise Young, Blanche Brumbach, Herbert Th: ‘Theodore Corner, Claude Jenkins, Donald Funk, Gladys Moore, Elizabeth Elgin, Eliza- beth Berry, Thomas Gheen, Dorothy Yates, Virginia Thayer, Vincent Scher- merhorn, Leslie Kidwell, Elizabeth Zoll, Ruth Tyler, Elvira Darne, Alta Lee, Martha Kadel, Louise Rindeand Mary Leigh. The six students who submit the best papers will deliver their orations on the evening of March 30 in the high school auditorium. The, Junior League of the McLean High School will give three local prizes— one of $5 and two of $2.50 eacir. The winner of the McLean contest will compete against the winning essa ists of Prince William, Arlington, Fauquier and Fairfax Counties and Alexandria City in a contest in Alex- andria April 13. The victor at this meeting will be presented with $100 by The Star. The McLean students are all con- centrating on four of the 10 possible subjects, including *“The Constitution and What It Means Today,” “Frank- n’s Contribution to the Constitution, ‘Jefferson’s Contribution to the Con- stitution” and “Lincoln’s Contribution to the Constitution.’ o Sk COURT MESSENGER HELD ON MURDER CHARGE Robert W. Williams Arrested Fol- lowing Card Game Affray—One Man Killed, Another Wounded. Charged with murder, Robert Wil- son Williams, 43 years, old, of 1305 R street, colored messenger of the United States Supreme Court for the last 20 years, was being held by police today following a shooting affray re- suiting over a dispute in a card e, in which Major Gaines, colored, 40 years old, of 1450 P street, was killed and George Jefferson, colored, 40 years old, was slightly wounded. The shooting took place in the home of Gaines about 1:30 a.m. today. Po- lice upon arrival found Gaines dead and Jefferson with a wound in the leg. Williams was not in the house. Gaines had been shot in the stomach. Shortly after Detectives Cole and Messer of the police headquarter: with Police Chauffeur Hugh Robe; placed Williams under arrest when they found him driving his automo- bile along Church street, near Fif- teenth street, on the wrong side of the roadway, according to police. Jefferson was given firstaid treat- ment at Emergency Hospital and later went home. GERMANS NOT MOLESTED IN CHINA, SAYS PASTOR s High Scbogl, Mias Eie #23A 18 ‘Waived Extra-Territorial Rights After War and Wear White Arm- bands for Immunity. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, March 11.—The Ger- mans are the only foreigners who have not been molested during the recent disturbances in China, and who are consequently allowed to re- main in the country, Rev. B. Howard Alexander, who for the past 30 years has been in charge of the Hostel in China of the Christian and Mlission Alllance of New York, said here. Rev. Mr. Alexander arrived Wednes- day from Japan with his wife and five children. After the World War the Germans walved all extra-territorial rights and trade provileges and now distinguish themselves with a white band around one ‘arm, which seems to protect them from any native antagonistic feeling, Alexander said. —_—— FAVORED FOR JUDGESHIP. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 11. Rockville Bar Assoclation at a meeting today indorsed Paul Sleman for the additional Federal judgeship created in fiarylnnd by Congress in recent ses- jon. A committee consisting of Thomas Dawson, Clifford H. Robertson and James E. Oxley was appointed to pre- pare a letter to be sent to President Coolidge. Mr. Sleman has been active in Republican affairs and chairman of the State central committee of this county. He practices law in Washing- ton and Rockville. A AR BAND CONCERTS. TOMORROW. al M. Zimmer- Fenstad, sec- accept his invitation to be occasion. the secret spondence recently exchanged between the two govel ments, were enumerated in a long statement which contained quotations from what the Representative termed a “printed insult. Refers to Mexican Official. “For the asking,” he said, “you can get, or could up to a few days ag this printed insult by application at Elias’ consulate or by mail, and of this I ha sworn and documentary proof.” Elias is Arturo Elias, Mexican consul general at New York, whose exequator Representative livar umed would be promptly canceled v _Secretary Kell The Represen who said he was impelled by duty to bring the tuation to light to demonstrate the ‘essentiality” of an inquiry, in view of the failure of his resolution seck ing information on the subject from the State Department, charged the Mexican officials with the following ‘That they have subsidized preach ers and professors to attack the Presi dent of the United States. ‘That they have financed hack writers to attack the President. “That they have underwritten radi cal, religious and uplift organizations of all varieties to circularize the country in defamation of our Govern ment. Charges Alliance With Klan. “That they have made a fiithy alli ance with the Ku Klux Klan to in Ject religious bigotry into the con troversy between this country and Mexico, and that in general they have done anything that the corrupt use of money would assist them in doing to spread falsehoods in the hope of confusing public opinion that the end that President Coolidge might be de terred from carrying out the identical policy initiated by Woodrow Wilson in protection of the rights of Ameri- can citizens." Coincidental with publication of the statement, Chairman Borah of the Senate forelgn relations committee, added a new note to the American Mexican controversy by serving notice that “no amount of criticlsm”™ would swerve him from the course he has pursued in connection with it. Replies to Oil Leader. The Idaho Senator, replying to a letter from Guy Stevens, director ¢ the Association of Producers of I troleum, in Mexico, who had ques tioned his course in seeking informa tion direct from President Calles, char acterized such criticisms as “an ex pression of that agony which comes from a fear of the facts.” He said’ there were powerful inter ests which would like to see “a com plete break with Mexico.” And while he had no desire to see the ofl com- panies or interests deprived of their legitimate rights, he disagreed with the policy which would seek protec tion by a breaking off of relations. In communicating with Calles, Sen- ator Borah said he had in mind nothing more than to secure facts from all proper sources, and I have not intended to unjustly reflect upon any one, whether they were oll inter- ests or other interes| W. C. GLOTH ORDERED TO APPEAR APRIL 21 Arlington County Commonwealth's Attorney Cited in Action for Removal From Office. b; William C. Gloth, commonwealth’s attorney of Arlington County, Va.. must show cause on April 21, why he should not be removed from office, under a rule issued today in the Circuit Court of Arlington County by Judge Samuel D. Brent. Mr. Gloth is charged with drunken ness in public places in a petition to the court filed March 2. by Thomas D. Baillie, editor of The Chronicl a county weekly. Five specific in- stances of intoxication are alleged in the papers presented to the court, the alleged misdemeanors ranging over a period of several years, Gloth accepted service of the rule without comment, except to state that he will present his defense in complete form on the day fixed for hearing the case. He previously had announced his confidence of being vindicated. when his answer is heard. The commenwealth’s attorney con tends that the filing of the charges are the result of “politics.” e is candidate for re-election at the next county election. — SENATOR KING TO URGE PORTO RICAN STATEHOQD Says He Will Introduce Bill in Next Sessiop for Admission to Union. By the Associated Press. ; SAN JUAN, Porto Ricoy March 11 Senator Willlam H. King of Utah, ar- riving here yesterday for a study of Porto Rico, said that it was his inten tion to introduce a Porto Rican state hood bill at the next session of Cou- ‘13;!-90 no reason why Porto Rico should not be admitted to the Union as a State, as the next step after en joying complete self government,” he said. Representative Edgar R. Kiess of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House committee on insular affairs, who al arrived here, said that the visit was unofficial, but was for the purpose of gaining a better understanding of Porto Rico. Army Out of Horse Show. Owing to lack of available funds, the Secretary of War has informed the Earl of Lonsdale, president of the international horse show_to be held in London this Summer, that the United States Army will be unable to represented The last time the on that in the Army was represented annual international show at was in 1924, but several officers took the petitive 5o Triving mew. astomoien