Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1927, Page 2

- RADIOLIGENSES AWAIT HEARINGS Permanent Issue to Con- tinue on Present Wave Bands Presents Problems. The Federal Radio Commission will not issue permanent licenses to broad casters to continue operating on their present wave bands until after the publie hearings scheduled by the co! mission for March 29. 30, 31 and April 1. So lengthy a study must be made of the various technical prob- lems entering into the problems af fecting broadcasting that the commis sion has decided not to issne any broadcasting licenses of permanent character until the views of broad- casters can be learned through per- sonal testimony and by replies to the questionnaires which are to be sent out next week 0. K.'d For Unexpired Periods. In the meantime all licenses issued to radio operators as individuals, vali at the time of passage of the new radio law. February 23, have been ex tended for the unexpired period of such licenses. This order applies principal- 1y to persons holding operator 'slicenses for ship communication and to the great army of radio amateurs, of wi 7 there are about 20,000 in the United States. Al of the latier class have successfully passed the examina tions for their grades and the comm sion feels it unnecessary to impos kecond examination before expiration of the licenses now in force. Warning Issued. Stations which jump off their as signed wave lengths may find them- selves in danger of losing their 1i censes after the program of license as signment gets well under way, of ficials of the commission intimated to- a the same time indicating that s gap in the present 10-kilocycle separation between stations may be- come necessary in order to space out the greatly increased number of sta- tions seeking permanent licenses. The task of patrolling the air to see that stations remain on their assigned wave bands and do not deviate so as to form “side-band” interference with others, falls to the radio division of the Commerce Department, headed by W. D. Terrell. Sykes Speaks to Milli Speaking of ‘millions s, to an invisible audience over a ‘“hook-up” of 40 radio stations from coast to coast, Acting Chairman Sykes of the Ra lio Commission declared that serv ice to the listening public is the domi- nant force behind all actions of the commission. Only once before in the history of radio had such an extensive station combine had such a vast audi- ence, when President Coolidge’'s Wash- ington birthday address was relayved over all America and across the seas. Mr. Sykes emphasized the magni- tude of the task of regulating radio by pointing out that more than 18,000 transmitting stations are operating un- der Federal license. He compared the broadcasting situation to a crowded city street without well understood traffic rules. = little interference with legitimate radio traffic will be made as possible, Mr. Sykes said, to eliminate ‘*the danger of accident.”” The commission is counting principally on the broad- casters for advice, he added, because he considered them likely to suffer most from “accident Opposes Partial Solution. “We cannot solve this problem over- night, nor would you want us to at- tempt any partial solution which, though it might clear away one local difficulty, would do so only to set up 'II:Q‘:I troubles elsewhere,” Mr. Sykes DR. FREDERICK A. COOk MARYLANDPARK BILL PROGRESSES Obstructionist Tactics Fail. New Government Measure ! Also Moves Up. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLE Staft Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 18.—The park and planning commission bill, providing such a body for Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties to handle the development and improvements of those areas in the regional develop. ment scheme of the National Capital, successfully passed through attempted dilatory tactics in the House of Dele- gates here today. when the measure was taken up for a second reading with amendments. ‘The lone opposition came from Dele- gate Danlel C. Joseph of Baltimore, who moved that the measure, which was favorably reported by the Mont- gomery and Prince Georges deleg: tions, be recommitted to the judiciary committee, He pointed out to the and &s such should go to one of the standing committees. He said was a provision in the supplementary budget for an appropriation. Defended By Spealer. Speaker E. Brooke Lee, Spring, surrendered the chair Delegate Lawrence P. Williams St. Mary's County delegation, silver to of and Joseph motion to recommit. Speaker unanimously favored by the Montgom- ery and Prince Georges delegations, There is nothing of a State-wide nature in the bill, he said. He added that when the committee was con- idering the supplementai budget it could strike out the provision for the payment of the commission, if it so desired. The motion of Delegate Joseph, he said, would do than to delay the bill, and perhaps make it impossible to get it passed in the closing days of the Legislature. If such a motion prevailed, he told the House, it will be a week or more before the bill comes back to the House for consideration, and then it will get lost in the Senate. He pointed out that an important question of local self:government was involved and it affected no one except the people of the two counties. They, he went on, have examined the meas- ure thoroughly; in fact, have given it more consideration than any other piece of legislation in recent vears. There are certain general prin- ciples which we must formulate as our guides in determining how in- terference between stations may best be eliminated in the interests of the listening public. “It is, I think, a very fortunate thing that these plans, and their ap- plication to each special case, are not made by the law the duty of any one man. Hege is a problem fn- volving many millions of dollars in- vested in adcasting equipment, half a billion dollars of annual sales of radio sets and supplies, and, by all odds most important, millions of American people in whose lives radio has come to play an established part. Asks Patience of Public. “ We are approaching our task in full recognition of its importance and magnitude. We are under no obli- ations, political or otherwise, except to the radio public. We ask your help, and also, for awhile, your patience. I can make you only one promise, and that is that in| evervthing we may do we are going 1o be guided by the principle that the right to broadeast is dependent, not on selfish interest, but on serv- ice to the listening public John ¥. Dillon of California, the Pacific Coast member of the com- mission, greeted the radio audience in a short address in which he dedi- | ‘They want the bill passed and have a right to get it because they will pay the expenses. “If that is the case,” Delegate Jo- seph interjected, “then why are the proponents afraid to have it go to the judiciary committe for examination there”? Speaker Lee replied that the delegates did not want the measure delayed. Called General Legislation. Delegate Joseph said that there may be a lot in the bill to which there ma. be objection and added that when two or more political units are interested in the bill it becomes general legis- lation and under the rules must go to a standing committee, Delegate George L. Edmunds, Rock ville, chairman ef the Montgomer: delegation. took issue with thiy state- ment of Delegate Joseph and pointed out that this Is purely a piece of local legislation and uld not be call ed general under consideration from we ask | any angle. Delegate Burton A. Ford of Prince Georges County took the floor in op- position to the motion and pointed out that the bill affected only the people of Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties, These people, he said, de- sire the law passed and do not want it lost in the final rugh. That is the reason, and the only one, for opposing | the motion of Delegatée Joseph. he said. the floor Lee took cated the work of the commission to the public interest. DEVINE URGES CONTROL OF CRIME BY TEACHING U. S. Holds Unenviable Position, Dean Says at Keith's Theater Lenten Services. United by States can be eontiolled teaching respect for er persons in the schools, homes and churches, Dr, IZ. dean of the ican Unive the Lenten ter today Crime in the only raduate Schooi of Amer sity, said in his address at services at Keith's The. ield under the auspices of the Layimen's Service Association the Episcopal Diocese of Washington in co-operation with the Federation of Churches of Washington “The moral and religious fields are underge E reat revolutionary changes.” Dr. Devine said. “The United States holds an unenviable po. gition among the tions of the carth, As we are looked upon as leaders in arime. We cannot hope to control Yiolence by violence. We cannot look 1o the | conditions g love wen Joh wervices v Our and only hope is in teach respect for our fellow 8. Bennett presided at today's Rev. R. Nicholson, pastor of the Rhode Island Avenue M. P. Church, offefed prayer and benedi tion. Miss Ritchie Mclean, member af the Washington Quartet, sang a solo There will he no or Sunday . Abernethy st Church, will deliver three addresses. He will 1 Tuesday and Wednesda i 'IMPR TAMPA, Fia.. March George A. Munch diploma mill, said to have been oper ated here since 1921, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the Fed- eral Penitentiary at Atlanta and a fine of $1,000 in Federal Court today - tice of an appeal was filed by defen: attoreyn, services tomorrow On Monday, Rev. Dr. W the first of also speak ~w e ISONED AND FINED. I8 P Dy Ld . Devine, | of | lice 1o control present crime | pastor of Calvary Bap. | convicted head of a | Speaker {and pointed out that the bill carries | no State appropriation of any kind | and has no jurisdiction outside of the | two counties adjacent to the Capital. | He entered a strenuous objection to { any attempted delay. | again The motion then was submiited to a roll call of the House and was lost | by 100 to 1, Delegate Joseph being the only one to vote in the affirmative. Following this test, certain amend | ments were adopted without opposi- tion from any source and the bill was passed on the second reading and now | goes over to next week, when it will { come up for third and final reading | and passage. When this measure was laid aside the House took up the | changing the form of government in | Montgomery County. The House | adopted the favorable report submit ted by Delegate Bdmonds and then { proceeded to a xecond reading of the | bill, during which several amend | ments changing the wording were {adopted. The bill then went to a | third reading. 'HOUSEBREAKER GETS 3-YEAR PRISON TERM Richard A. Lee, colored to the penitentinry for today by Justice Hoehlin, Division 1_for housebreaking. was arrested Pebruary 24 about o'clock in the morning in an alley in rear of 805 1 street with his arms full of clothes. On investigation was three sent senthal had been looted For an assault husband of his step-daughter, Smothers, colored, wis given a t {of two vears in the penitentiary | imposed by Justice Hoehling on 1" Mackabe slored. for William Penning, forgen Chapman. colored gery, and cent Hawkins, grand larceny Lena and Tssac obs were tenced for violating the nati hibition law. The woman hilin sen ro. was sentenced to serve 90 days jail. fixed at §1,500 for the man and for the womans House that it was general legislation | sentence period. he |some instances pardoning power not wanted to study the law because there | enjoyed by. the President,” he said. took the floor to speak against the |by pardon and will be forced to re- leader Lee told the House the biil was [tends pardon or commutes the sen No MOre | peen made on thi measure vears in Criminal Lee 3 the po- lice found that the store of David Ro- with a pistol on the Joseph m | rrerms of one vear at Occonuan were | > ding: | Hitz Monday Grace | torney's office today. Vin- | Hoover has fc was fined | Court of THE EVENING [ewoc ] |LEGALITY OF COOK PAROLE DISPUTED District Attorney Expected to Press Test in Federal Ap- pellate Court. By the Associated Press Legality the five.year parole granted Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic explorer and oil promoter, vesterday by Federal Judge James C. Wilson at Fort Worth, Tex., is expected to he tested in the United States Circuit Appeals While Attorney General Sargent and other officials of the Department of Justice so far have refused to com ment on the probationary order, ex- tended yesterday under the 1925 Fed eral probation act. it is regarded as certain that District Attorney Zweifel at Fort Worth will be instructed to press for action on the appeal he al ready has announced will be filed This immediately would throw the question into the higher Federal court, amd possibly start legal proceedings that would be continued until the United States Supreme Court would be reu ed. Serving 14-Year Senten Dr. Cook, who still claims to be the original discoverer of the North Pole, now is serving a 14-year sentence at Leavenworth Penitentiary on convic tion of misuse of the mails for oll stock promotion. He will be paroled to Erskine Williams, Fort Worth at torney and churchman. While the new parole law has been used in a number of instances by judges during the two years since its adoption, Government attorne at Fort Worth raised the same objection that was pointed to here in that a judge did not have the authority tc grant probation after a prisoner had begun serving his sentence. This apparently is the main issue raised so far as the Department uf Justice is concerned, and its determi- nation is expected to have far-reach ing effect. The department took an active part in bringing about Cook's convietion. Judge Claims Control. Judge Wilson, in granting role, held that the new law is a “radi cal departure, without parallel,” afd gives the trial judge control over the the pa prisoner until the termination of the “The act gives district judges in The judge stated in his opinion that he original sentence against Cook was excessive and that if served the full time he would be 75 vears old when released. Probation virtually amounts to suspended sentence and at the end of the five-vear period Cook will be eligible for complete freedom he turn to prison unless the President ex- tence. No Final Test Made. - Under the new law judges are em- powered to revoke or modify condi tion of probation, but no specific ref erence is made to whether such clem- ency could be accorded after a part of the sentence is served. The Justice Department said no final test has ever point. At the hearing in Fort Worth six cases were cited, one from Arkansas holding a judge did not have author- ity to pardon after a sentence had begun, while another case, from Ari- zona, was interpreted as holding the opposite. Conflict also was said to exist in the other four decisions, MUSIC COMPETITION SET FOR TOMORROW Capital's Representatives in Na- tional Contest Will Be Chosen at That Time, Local artists and student musicia will compete tomorrow morning at 10| o'clock at the Frankiin Square Hotel for the honor of representing the Capital district at the biennial con vention of the National Federation of Music Clubs be held in Chicago April 18- winners of the s eral conte will compete for large cash prizes at Chicago. Win- ner similar contests in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland also wili compete in the local comftert, which is open to the public. The judges of the contest are: Her. man €. Rakeman, C. 1. Christiani and Henri Sokolov, for violins; Mrs. Mae Brooks, Bdouard Albion and Dr. Alex- ander Henneman, for voice, and Amy . Leavitt and Helen Fetter, general music. Three auditors will be selected from the visiting State officers and chairmen. Following the contest ants and judges will be entertained at a luncheon by the District of Colum- bia Federation of Music Clubs, under whose auspices the contest i3 being held. Al the Chicago national contests the student winners will be awarded £150 in cash and artist winners be given $500 for first prize and $15 for second honors. A special ope) voice prize of $1,000 will be given by the National Opera Club of America for u female voice of outstanding quality. 1f deserving, the winner of | this contest will be given a hearing by the Metropolitan Opera Co. De borah Nadworney and Katherine Meisle, grand opera stars, began their careers in this way. SINCLAIR PLANS REST ON NEW JERSEY FARM Leayes City, to Return for Trial With Fall April 25—New Trial Sought. [ The ts here the contest- New York oil Jury in Crim- Division of the District Su-{ preme Court Wednesday night on af charge of contempt of the Senate, lv‘\'vl Washington yesterday afternoon for fm in New Jersey. Sinclair to take n brief rest before plunging into his business connec- tions in New York, which, however, will be interrupted April 25 for his (rial, with former Secretary of the In terior Albert B, Fall, on a charge of conspirdcy to defraud the Govern- ment. His presence in Washington again will be required, and it Is esti- mated that he will have to remain here about a month. eorge P. Hoover, clair in the contempt ing & motion for a will bhe submitted to s st nclair, convicted by unsel for S| ase, is prepar new trial, which Justice Willinm ted at the at- ler the rules| r days in which to file motion. and Monday will mark last day of the allotted time { Should the motion be denied, Justice Hitz will pass sentence on Sinciair | ine the $250 for 4 first offense and the man in An appeal was noted, bond being | sometime $500 | From that®sentence the defense will appoal. which ranges from one month to one year in jail and a fine of $100 to $1,000, in the next few weeks. - { Reed STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY, CONGRESS GIVES GENEROUSLY FOR SEWER AND WATER WORKS Sanitary Engineer Gets $253.390 More Than Last Year as Rates Take Drop—Other Revenues Fall. Note—This is the third of a series of ariicles on Capital inprovement result ing from the last District appropriation 0il1."4 final article will appear tomorrow. The sewer and water departments which perform u service essential t the continued growth of the city fared well at the hands of Cong in the appropriation act for the fis vear 1927.28 1. B Gordon, sanitary engineer, will enter upon the new fiscal vear with $1,700,390 for all classes of sewer construction and maintenance, as against $1,447,000 for the year draw ing to a close. This not only is an increase of $253,390 above current allotments, but represents an ad- vance also of §98.890 above the recom- mendations of the budget bureau. 1. 8. Garland. superintendent of the water department, will have for the new fiscal year a total of $1970,510, an increase of $676,319 over his cur rent appropriations of $1,204,191 Perhaps the development of great est interest to taxpayers in connec tion with these two departments is the fact that on July 1 the special assessments for laying mains will go down automatically from $3 to $1 per front foot in the case of sewers and from $2 to $1.25 per for water mains 1l oot Present Rate Defeated. The House appropriations commit tee made two attempts to continue the present rates. The necessary pro vision was stricken from the District appropriation bill on a point of order in the House, and when it was late ritten into the second deficienc bill and approved by the House, the Senate appropriations committee elim- Inated it again. The House might have been able to restore the language to the deficlency bill in conference, but that measure never reached the stage of conference, having failed to pass the Senate in the flibuster of the closing days. As a result. the rates revert automatically to those fixed by law a number of years ago 'he reduced assessment probably will not affect the future expenditures of the sewer department, since appro- priations for that department are made from general revenue and the assessments are merely deposited in the Treasury as a source of general revenue. The water department is in a dif ferent situation, In that water revenue collections are applied directly to the expenses of that departmendt. The income of the water department therefore, will be somewhat reduced during the coming fiscal y and may have some effect on the amount to be appropriated for that depart ment n the fiscal year 1929. Mr. Garland expects to derive $175,000 from the $2 assessment for laying mains to new houses in the current fiscal year, but he has not attempted to estimate what the §$1.25 rate will produce next year. Expeet to Keep Pace. It has been a problem for both the sewer and water departments in re- cent years to keep pace with build- ing operations 1n extending house service connections. The sewer fund for this class of work, however. has been increased in the new law from £400,000 to $500,000, and in view of this increase the sanitary engineer expects to be able to keep more nearly abreast with applications for exten- slons during the coming vear. The corresponding fund for water main extensions is the same for next year as at present, $250,000, but Con- gress authorized the water department to make two big trunk main exten- sions during the coming fiscal year that will represent a large outlay, and to meet which the water department was authorized to augment its own revenue collections by drawing funds from other sources, As a_general rule, the water depart ment s self-supporting from water rents and ussessments. In the new law, however, Congress gave the water de- partment an unexpended balance, left unobligated by another department in 1925, to lay 9,000 feet of 12-Inch main in Alabama avenue southeast, at i cost of $42,800, to supply a community which has been depending on wells. The new main will extend from Branch avenue to the District line. New Project Costl; The other hig project in the new law is for the laying of 21,000 feet of 48 inch main from Nebraska and Wis consin avenues to Georgia avenue and Military road and to build an ad dition to the Reno Reservoir, To meet this unusual expenditure, which is necessary to link a part of the distribution service with the new water supply system, Congress dfrect- ed that $336,500 of the cost should be taken from the general revenues of the Distriet, The new law also carries $60,000 for the erection of a new tower at the Reno Reservoir to improve serv- ice to the high points in the city served from that reservoir. The fund for the construction of suburban sewers was raised by Con- gress from the current allotment of $550,000 to $648,890. This additional $98,890 will be used to complete the Piney Branch trunk sewer to clear the way for the paving of streets in the Manor Park section. Anacostia Tmprovement. The next item of importance in the sewer program for the coming yvear is the initial allotment of $60,000 to be- ®in the upper Anacostia interceptor, a continuation of the interceptor pipe below Benning. This project is de- signed to intercept the two sewers that now empty into the upper Ana- costia River from the east side, just below the National Training School for Boys. It fits in with the Anacos- tia Park development and will call for $438,000 in addition to this first allot ment. Another installment be spent in the coming fiscal vear @n the upper Potomac interceptor, where four sewers from the north western corner of the District still empty into the river at the foot of Nebraska avenue, Weaver place, Chain Bridge and the District Line. Funds are already available to com- plete within this fiscal year the Rock Creek interceptor. Of the $250,000 In the new appro- priation act for the construction of a_new bridge across Rock Creek at M street, $38,500 will have to be spent to reroute a main trunk sewer from Georgetown, which now runs through the understructure of the old bridge. The new bridge is being so planned that the sewer will be carried around of $50.000 will BISHOP RUSSELL DIES N CAROLINA Widely Known Here as Rec- tor of St. Patrick’s Church From 1908 to 1917. tev. Willlam T. Russell, of the Roman Catholi of Charleston, S. C., and for- rector of St. Patrick’s Church of this city, died today at Charleston, S. (., according to an Associated Press dispatch. He was widely known in ton from 1908 until 1917, served as the rector of St Church. He left this and a host of friends in March, 1917, to assume charge of the Charleston diocese. Fducated at Loyola. Bishop Russell was 63 vears old. He was the son of William T. and Rose R. Russell of Baltimore and was educated at Loyola College, Baltimore; St. Charles College, Md., and In the American College in Rome. He also Sspent four vears in theological studies at St Mary's Seminary. Baltimore and two vears at the Catholic Uni- versity. He was ordained a st June , 1889, and w astor of Jerome's Church at Hyattsville, from that vear until 1894, when he was called to Baltimore to assume the post of secretary to the late Cardinal Gibbons. He remained in post from 1894 until came to this city Patrick’s Church. Made Bishop in 1916. In June, 1911, Kather Russell, as pastor of St. Patrick’s, nominated and designated a Domestic prelate to Pope Pius X, with the title Monsignor, and in December, 1916, he was elected a bishop, being consecrated the fol lowing March. Bishop Russell tight Bish The D..D., dioces merly Washing- while he Patrick’; Roman Catholic St Md. Baltimore in that 1908, when he s rector of St. gained recognition as an historian of Maryland by the publication in 1907 of his work en- titled “Maryland, the Land of Sanctu- ar * He wrote the history of the archdiocese of Baltimore for the Cath- olic Encyelopoedia and was a member of the American Historical Association and the Maryland Historical Socie PATIENT FLE.ES HOSPITAL. Man Escapes From Psychopathic Ward at Walter Reed. ward A. a_patient, es Westover, 27 years old, aped through a window of the psychopathic ward of Walter Hospltal last night and police were requested to search for him. Hospital attendants and police had scoured the territory near the hos pital without result. = Police were told Westover may have worn only pa jamas when he disappeared. He was admitted to the hospital three weeks ago from an Army post. BANS LISBOI\; PUBLISHER. Portuguese Government Sends Dr. Fernando Pizarro Across Frontier. LISBON ugal, March 18 (). Dr. ¥ rdo P . director of the newspaper Correio Da Manha, has been conducted over the frontier. He was expelled for issuing a circular a few weeks ago to well known mon- archists in terms which the Govern- ment considered offensive to the pres- ent regime. Por | | | occupying the White it ingtead of in its archway. o Dies In South SHOP WILLIAM T. RUSSELL WRIST OF PRESIDENT STRAINED IN SETTING HANDSHAKING RECORD (Continued from Fir and pump-handle shake to the out- stretched hands as the long lines file past him, but he gets a firm hold on these hands and then gives a strong quick pull, his object being to hurry the line along as much as possible. It was that constant pulling for long periods that is credited with having strained the President's tendon. Is Quickest Handshaker. . Besides having a record for shak- ing hands with the greatest number of White House callers in recent years, President Coolidge also has the reputation of being the quickest handshaker. At least he can move a long line of callers more rapidly than any of his immediate prede- cessors. He can dispose of 50 hands a min- ute, or 3,000 an hour. So proficient and expert has he become that the policemen and other attaches han- dling the crowds in the outer rooms have difficulty keeping the line mov- ing fast enough to keep up with the President. This is particularly no- ticeable when huge crowds are going through the iine such as on occasions like the public reception at the White House on New Year's day. It is a common sight to see the people in this long line, sometimes stretched through the White House grounds and down Pennsylvania avenue nearly as far as Seventeenth street, running to keep up with those ahead of them in the line filing through the executive mansion. Has Shaken 200,000 Hands. Since August 2, 1923, when he suc- ceeded Warren G. Harding as Presi- dent, Mr. Coolidge has shaken hands with approximately 200,000 people. The actual count of handshakes at the White House during Mr. Cool idge’s administration up to the pres- ent time s 190,638, However, this count does not include the handshak ing done by the President away from | the White House. Of the more shakes given by than the 190,000 sident House, 1364 were at the Executive office. The re- mainder were the handshakes incident to the New Year receptions and the receptions incident to the social sea- sons at the White House, During the Army and Navy reception February 17, which wound up the secial senenm hand- since MARCH 18, 1927. 1 FORD'S PROPOSED MMERGER REJECTED I. C. C. Disapproves Consoli- dation of Toledo and Ironton Railway Properties. By the Ass Henry date his Dy Railroad prop corporation we by the Interstate Con sion The commission dismissed an en tire series of applications made by ord interests which had been fought by a small group of minority stock holders who would have been required I's als to consoli roit, & lronton rties into o single new disappiroved today \erce Commis- to sell out their Detroit, Toledo & Ironton stock Bought by Ford in 1920. In 1920 Mr. Ford bought control of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton and ob- tained all of its common stock with the exception of a small amount, for which he was reported to have of fered . large price. Later he organ izad a new company, the Detroit & Ironton, which obtained permission to build branch lines serving the larger system, and he also acquired the Toledo-Detroit Co.. operating an electric railroad He first approached the two vears ago with a proposal to have the Detroit & Ironton lease the line of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, but withdrew that application while the minority opposition was being pre sented. Another Proposal Turned Down. The next proposal, on which the commission announced its decision to day, was to have the entire property of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton;: sold to the Detroit & Ironton, with the latter company issuing 12,208,000 shares of new common stock and $10,- 985,500 in bonds. The minority stock- holders of the Detroit, Toledo & Tron- ton would have been disposed of in the transaction by being required to accept_in cash an appraised value for their Detroit, Toledo & Ironton stock. “That there is discrimination against the minority appears from the fact that they are given no choice,” the commission said, “but to accept the cash equivalent of the value placed upon their stocl ymmission Contention Disregarded. The commission held. however. that it unnecessary to consider the contention between the Ford interests and the minority. The Ford applica. tion, it held. should be denied be- cause provisions of the law permit- ting railroad consolidation have not come into effect, particularly in that the commission itself has not laid down a general plan for consolidation. Accordingly the project, including the various security issues and transfers, was dismissed as premature. Alternative Is Suggested. “We suggest that if it that the public interest would be served by unified operation of the properties here in question,” the de- cision concluded, “a proposal there- for should be submitted for our con sideration in_an application by the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton for author- ity to acquire control, under lease, of | the property of the Detroit & Ironton. The suggestion the commission made proposed just the reverse of the plan presented in behalf of Mr. Ford, in that it would leave the new com- pany to be operated as a part of the old company, and would not disturb the minority’ status. FLDRIDGE SIGNED LETTERS ON LIGHTS Conference of Probers and Firm Officials Show He Saw Some Correspondence. was is believed The conference between the .l';t'nls' of the Crouse-Hinds Co. of Syracuse, Y.. who the traffic signal lights and other supplies to the D trict Traffic Bureau and the District Commissioners, with Herbert D. Brown, chief of the United States Bu reau of Efficiency, and investigators of that bureau, is expected to be com pleted tod They are checking over invoices and supplies that have been broughf into question by irregularities in the con- duct of the bureau regarding purchase of traffic signal lights as disclosed at a hearing before the Gibson subcom- mittee investigating the municipal ad sold GOV. HENRY L. WHITFIELD, Of Mississippl. GOV, WHITFIELD DIES IN MISSISSIP? Cancer of Bone, Which Caused Amputation of Leg, Proves Fatal. the Associated Press JACKSON, Miss., March 18. — Gov. Henry L. Whitfleld of Mississippl died at 4:41 o'clock this morning. He succumbed to cancer of the bone, which first attacked the left leg, caus ing an amputation on November 30. Several days ago, after having re turped to executive duties, he was again forced to his bed. Mrs, Whitfield was with the gov- ernor in the executive mansion when he died. At the death of Gov. Whitfield Lieut. Gov. Dennis Murphree of Pitts- boro automatically became chief ex ecutive of the State. Gov. Murphree, who it is expected will be administered the oath of office in a few days, is 41 vears old. He is a former State senator. At Pitts horo Gov. Murphree published the Pittsboro Monitor. He is nfarried and has four children. INSULL S AGCUSED AS 100,000 DONOR Dever Group Issues State- ment Alluding to Power Behind Thompson. By the Associated Press. b GHICAGO, March 1S.—Samuel In- sull, Chicago publie utilities executive, recently cited to the Senate for con tempt of its campaign fund investi gating committee, today was named indirectly by’ the people’s Dever-for- mayor committee, as contributor of $100,000 to William Hale Thompson's 1915 campaign fund and as the “man behind Thompson,” “Samuel Insull, the public utilities magnate of Chicago and surrounding territory, refused to tell the investigating committee to whom he had contributed a specific sum of $40 000" said a statement by the com- mittee ““According to Thompson, this did not go to Mayor Dever. Pérhaps Thompson can tell who got this $40,000 A Never Real Mayor. “As a matter of fact, William Hale ‘Thompson never was the real mayor of Chicafo. He called himself the mayor for eight vears, while the man behind Thompson van the town.. He wants to be called mayor again. Then who would run the tow Who is the man behind Thompson now? “Here are the facts: “In 1915 Thompson solemnly prom- ised to battle for the people against the public utilities. “‘He didn’t tell the people that Sam- uel Insull had contributed $100,000 to the Thompson campaign. Insull was then and s now the head of the gas company, the electric company and the elevated railways and the overlord of the street railways. “Thompson didn't tell the people that he owned $117,300 of stock in Insull's Commonwealth Edison €o. Three-Cornered Fight. The statement was one of the most ministration. During yesterday’s conference it was disclosed that some of the official correspondence directing the ship- ment of these supplies was signed by M. O. Eldridge, traffic director, who hud testified at the Gibson hearing that he knew nothing about these transaction: Tt was said that the letters were dictated by Col. I C. Moller, suspended assistant traffic di- rector, who was the engineer of the bureau, and signed by Mr. Eldridge in a routine way It is usual In important matters, such as ordering the traffic signal lights, for the higher administrative officer to have his attention called particularly to such letters, it was stated. the. President shook hands with 2,097. It was shortly after this event that the President first noticed the pain in his wrist. It was given some simple treatment and soon disappeared only to return within a few days. This pain came and went fairly regular although accompanied by no great pain or inconvenience until several days ago when the pain became acute. Has X-Ray Taken of Wrist. then that the President's physical adviseers prevailed upon him to have an Xray taken of his wrist, This revealed the swollen ten- don and the evidence of a foreign fluid. The principal reason for tightly bandaging the wrist, it was explained, was with the view of producing suf- ficient pressure to force the fluid from the wrist, 1t is needless to say that the at- taches at the Executive Offices were glad to see the daily receptions abol- ished. Tt necessitated no little amount of work on their part to handle the pws. These forms of receptions, with their accompanying presidential hand haking, became the vogue during the iministration. President son did not hold any at his office during his administration, nor did President Taft. Col. Roosevelt received great numbers of callers at his office, but most of these were official callers or mare or less known to the Execu- tive and not representative of the pub- Jic in general, as were the crowds that madeyup daily lines that have filed thro President Coolidge’s of- it was startling developments of a three- cornered campaign of Thompson, Wil- liam E. Dever, the Democratie incum- bent, and Dr. John Dill Robertson of the People’s Ownership, Smash Crime Ring" party preliminary to the mayoralty election April 5. The campaign has been vitriolic, and Dever and Thompson have hurled short and ugly words at each other. Mr. Insull is abroad. CLIENTS OF “LOAN . SHARKS” ARE ASKED T0 AID PROSECUTOR (Continued from First Page.) honest business house does not have to rob its customers or evade the law to be prosperous and make a decent liv ing.” Mr. Horner took a hypothetical case of a car costing $1,500 delivered in Washington. The purchaser pays $500 cash, leaving a deferred payment of $1,000, which is to be spread over a year. The highest charge for carry- ini this account asked by any of the finance companies used by the auto- mobile dealers was $132.32 for the en- tire year. This price Included insur ance coverage, too, for the full $1,500 value of the car.and all costs. All of the companies charge about the same price, Mr. Horner showed. One dealer, whose cars are financed by the factory organization, charged but $88 for financing $1,000 deferred payment. This, too, included all in- surance for the full value of the car and all costs. The difference in the charges of the other finance corpora- tions is less than $5 in any case, Mr Horner sald. Declaring ~ the ferred to by The Star to be “nothing more than pawnbrokers,” Mr. Forner said he would not be surprised if the utomobile industry of Washington did not bring legal action to restrain them from referring to themselves as “automobile finance” companies. Such a reference, he declared, is a reflection on the honest automobile finance corporations of the District. establishments re- More than 6,000,000 pounds of soaps made in this country were used in Must Report Hourly on In« formation of Value to Department. prer prompt direeus crime. “In order aperation directed that serg bedts where hospit call at such hospit every hour during their for the purpose there is any information in session of such hospital which be of value to the departmen prosecution of its work. SEEKS ANNULMENT FROM MAN IN SPAIN Katrina Van Rensselaer, 21, Charges ex-Clerk of Embassy Was Already Married. said N Annulment of marriage is asked iz a suit filed in the District Suprema Court by Katrina Van Rensselaery 2701 Connecticut avenue, 21 years old, against Gustavo De Medina, said now to be in Spain, but who had held a clerical position in the Sapnish em- bassy. The petitioner tells the cour that she was “assumedly” married in Chestertown, Md., March 5, but has never lived with the defendant. h |declares he was already married and had not been divorced. so was in capable under the law to contract marriage with her. The plaintiff states duced to go ceremony by petition wa tiff before a that she was in through the marrias 1d and coercion. The to by the plain tary public in Cobl County, Ga. Miss Van Rensselier the defendant has left the country and has returned to Spain. Atto ney George D. Abpears the petitione De Medina is said to have Spain last week. A Miss Katrin Rensselier desertbed in the Social Register s stepdaughter of Col. John M V. 8. A CONNER IS ASSIGNED T0 5TH AREA POST Succeeds Nolan in Command. Craig Ordered to Assume Duty at Atlanta, Ga. fr: sailed o he Dunn Maj. Gen. Fox Conner, now chief of staif, has been selected command the 5th Corps Are Fort Hayes, Ohio. to succeed Maj. Gen. deputy to Dennis E. Nolan, who will on temporary duty as head of the mili- tary group of the American dele tion to the preparatory commission on arms limitation at Geneva The orders published today also show the assignment of Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, assistant chief of staff, to command the 4th Corps Area, At- lanta; G Matj. He succeed Hagood, assigned (o Philippines. While no announcement was nu as to Gen. Conner’ SUCCesso! deputy chief of staff, previous policy has been to name to that post the chief of the supply and equipment section of the General Staff, an signment now held by Frig Briant Wells. Both Gen. Nolan Gen. Conner were chief of this section of the staff hefore being appointed deputy chief of staff. Gen. Wells was on duty with war plans division of the staff before his present assignment He was dur ing the war chief of staff of the 4th and 6th Corps in ‘France. The assignments of this group of high staff officers were made in prepa ration for the taking up next mont of Army estimates for the fiscal ye 1928.29. The deputy chief of siaff and the assistant chiefs direct this work and the new appointments in the staff will insure that the same men have to do with the budgetary questions from their inception in the War Department until the Army ap- propriation bill is finally enacted next Winter. PERRY S. HEATH, 70, IS CRITICALLY ILL remain Gen duty Johnson in the da the Heath, newspaper correspondent lisher, widely known in po litical circles for many ye in critical condition at his home from a complication of discases Mr. Heath, it was said at his hon 2100 S street, today. has been in health for more than three vears his condition became serious about four weeks ago, taking a turn for t} worse within the last week. Mr. Heath is 70 years old. He pu chased the Salt Lake Tribune about years ago, and shortly thercafter established' the Salt Lakd Telegram, which he sold after a short pertod. He also once was editor of the Cin- cinnati Commercial Gazette. During a period of the early $0s, while a Washington correspondent, newspaper « history credits him with being the “most prolific copy writer in the coun- prominent and ional put a charter member of the Grid- iron Club and a member of the Na- tional I'ress Club and Racquet (lib of this city and of the Authors' Club, of London. A BAND CONCERT. TOMORROW. Ry the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 545 o'clock, John S. M, Zimmermann, lsady er; Emil A. Feastad, second leadery ’