Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1927, Page 6

_ COURT MAY-SELECT MAYOR TOMORROW +.. Indianapolis Row Becomes More Complex as Four Claim Office. By the Associated Pres INDIAN Ind., October 29 multiple m: ralty situation of Indianapolis trickled off into legal un- derbrush tods i the certainty that the status quo—two mayors in office and two mote in the offing— will be maintained until next Monday afternoon. At that time, Judge Joseph Milner, JOHN J. MITCHELL AND WIFE DIE IN CRASH NEAR CHICAGO 73, International Banker, Started Career as Mes- @ senger Boy. Auto Hits Ditch After Col- lision—Chauffeur Es- capes Unhurt. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 29 Mitchell, sr.. head of Chicag largest financial institution o rationally known as a banker, d Ir itchal were killed in an auto- | in Superior Court, will rule on the motion of Ira M. Holmes, appointed | through former Mayor John L. Du- | vall, to have the court dissolve der, temporarily s from interfe ley, appointed actng ¢ rival cou ts argued the question before i esented such con tradictory of the situation that he took the case under advise- ment. Public interest slumped, once the spectacle of dual control had lost its edge, and operations of munictal departments, except those invohtig finances, had the appearance of nsr- | mality. | Aitack Tnjunction Method. Holmes' ar of lawy Judge Milner that an inju s not a y Negley ingel in out before he resigne Clinton H. Givan, said the most Holmes could be acting city controller. Jolmes wa; ing city controller between the time Duvall resigned as mayor and the time his wife resigned as acting mayor,” Given said. “The law makes no provision for an acting city controller becoming mayor. When a mayor resigns, the city controller becomes acting mayor, but if he or she then resi| acting mayor, the des that the’ council by electing a Imes never had mayor or acting mayor."” was, temporar any claim Meeting of Mayors. The comedy of the two acting mayors was re-enacted at City Hall Both claimants appeared for Hello Mayor Holmes.” No business of importance was transacted. ‘s proceedings were watched | with interest by Walter Myers, Demo- cratic candidate for mayor, defeated by Duvall in the 1925 election, and Joseph L. Hogue, city controller of the preceding administration of the late Lew Shank. They both assert title to the place. Myers said Duvall's disqualification through conviction of violation of the corrupt practices act made the may- : oralty revert to Myers. Hogue, in turn, said the entire election in which Duvall got the place was outlawed and that the mayoralty reverted to him as the surviving head of the “*Shank administration. During the afternoon police mus- tered by Negley guarded the mayor’s office. Holmes forces made no at- tempt to enter. Locksmiths. acting at Negley's orders, also changed the | locks on the doors. Theretofore both sldes had keys to the establishment. T T e FIRE INSURANCE RATES IN CAPITAL DECLARED T0O HIGH (Continued from First Page.) able. During the fiveyear period under consideration there was paid in premiums the people of the District $10,247,000, and there was re- ceived by them as reimbursement for losses, $3,900,000. Had the premium | rates charged in the District been re- duced 80 as to produce the ratio of -losses to premiums that obtains throughout the country, the total premiums collected would have been approximately $7,014,400, which would have been a saving of $3,232,600. Thus the companies are collecting over $300.000 annually as excess premiums in a locality where the cost of doing business is low. States Establish Rates. “Some of the States have insurance departments that by law are given suthority to adjust rates and in one State all rates are made by a State d rather than by the board of underwriters or rating bureaus. It seems highly desirable that the in- surance department in ‘the District should have legal authority to control rates 8o as to prevent discriminations 2s between similar risks and to pre- vent discriminations against all Dis- trict risks as compared with the rest of the United States. Coupled with the authority to control rates, author- ity should also be given the superin- tendent of insurance to supervise the adjustment of losses.” The bureau’s report w: prepared by V. G. ohn Payne, two of vestig and was transmitted to the commissioners Ly Herbert D. Brown, chief of the bureau, with an offer to render any - ance toward carrying out the recom mendations, The report at the outset points out that the insurance laws of the Dis- trict are Inadequate and out of date. | It further declares that while the primary function of the department of ipsurance is the proteétion of through a careful ex- amination of the records of life in- surance carriers by accountants and actuaries, there is only one employe o the department with sufficient knowledge of insurance and account. ing to make a satisfactory accountir examination. Also, it said, there is no one in the department who can make an a amination. Actuary Is Suggested. “Without adequate there is no assurance panics are solvent rondition to pay el the report added. mes insolvent the be revoked. How nay become hope ¢ insolvent v gonscquent heavy losses 1o the polic holders before the department | of the insolvency hecause the gnent is not equipped to fuarial examination n view of this cc mendation was amination of the examinations that the com- dition, a_recom le that the ex- District companics be strengthened, and that an actuary be added to the personnel of the in- e department p report also s 1s possible that people are selling in-| surance in the District without license, and that irance i8 being laced by District azents and brokers s that_are not licen: As both of these prac flict with existing law, the bureau urged that legislation be souzht to give the superintendent power to revoke licenses for dishone sted that it | in ot tices are in cc ers and so | The insurance department at pres- | ent, the report explained, can prevent | t selling of insurance without | s, but it has no power to ex- amine the records of agents or brok-| ers, %o that there is no way to stop th: placing of insurance in un Qmpanies. el of the mayor | stantly. |w fo | would mobile accident near here today, while en route from their Summer home at Lake Geneva o C funeral train In trying to avoid striking automobiles and persons a cluste ! halted on State H ve two automobil shed in a dense fo; Mitchell chauffeu . John Bradley, o the locked the wheels of the big closed car in which | | M Mitchell were riding ound and pitch h. r. and Mrs, The machine spun into the roadside di Wife Dies Instantly. Mrs. Mitchell, formerly Mary Louise Jewett of Bristol, R. I, was Killed in Her neck was broken. Mr, Mitchell wa rescue ased his body from eckage of the automobile. He was ind still breathing, however, and was rushed to the Libertyville office of Dr. R. L. here he dicd iwo hours skull and a ¢ Bradley, the ¢ clear of the wreck ind with minor cuts and bruises. In another week the great banker have been 74 years old. His appearance belied his years, however and he had planned for many more years of business. He was one of Chic men in his own heading the Illinof Jo., with assets of § was a director in enterpr assets of more than $1,610.090,000 Among them wer Internatic Harvester, wealth Edison and the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. Held Home First, With all of his personal financial achievements, however, Mr. Mitchell was said by his friends to have held his home of first interest. He was married at the age of 37, 10 yvears after he had become one of Chi- cago's youngest bank prl’sid(‘n@. and became the father of five children, three sons and two daughters. “I mean a_home, not just a hous he had said in giving the most impo; tant requisite for happiness and su cess in life. “I never take the bank home with me. When I finish my day’s work in the office, the office is forgotten.” Nevertheless, his climb from senger boy to bank executive rapid, and it was said of him that he escaped richest me never left work until his desk was| cleared each day. In his prime financial interests, Mr. director of the First National of York, Manhattan Trust Co., New Yor Trust sas City Southern Rail- way Co., Chicago, Rock Island & Pa- cific, Chicago & Alton, Western Union, Chase National Bank, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and many other corporations. Starts as Messenger. His banking career was begun in 1873, when, despite the fact that his father was a director of the old Illinois Trust Co., he took a job as messenger. By 1878 he was cashier, and his talent for banking had begun to show itself. Early in 1880 he became president, the youngest executive ever placed in charge of a Chicago institution of such importance. ‘With him today at the end was only one of his five children, William. The others were widely separated. John J., jr., was on a ranch in Texas, and arrangements for him to fly to Chicago immediately were made. Louise, the second daughter, who was married just a monthi ago in a colorful cere- mony at the Mitchell Summer home, sailed for England September Relatives sought to communicate with her. The other daughter, Gwendolyn, was en route to Chicago with the body of Edward S. Hunter, her father-in- law and former Chicago real estate operater, which Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were hurrying to meet when death overtook them. The suddenness of Mr. Mitchell’s passing shocked La Salle street, the financial district, the Chicago Board of Trade, of which he long had been a member, and startied the city gen- erally. Titchell wa. Dawes Pays Tribute. Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States; Mayor Thompson, the heads of other banks, the Board of Trade and many others paid him tributes. Dr. Taylor, who attended Mr. Mitchell in his final hours, also is coroner of Lake County, in which the fatal accident occurred. He said an inguest would be held next week Mrs, Mitchell for many years had been a leader in Chicago society. That she never had aspired to undisputed leadership was attributed to her great love for her home and five children, The two who died together alw: liad shared everything in so far as it ble for them to, friends said 3 married to Mr. Mitehell in 1890. She was born in Bath, Me. Hundreds who did not know Mrs, Mitchell personally knew her by sight. Of stately hearing, with beau- tiful white hair ard dark eyes, Mrs. Mitehell was a figure for admiration at each public appearance. She was a member of nightly Club and was active in the interests of the Art Institute. Believed in the Fort- Home. a brother of Dr. J. R. Harvard Universit a of students of She wa Jewett of I 21-Jewel Illinois Watch Adjusted 6 Positicns $25 Real Diamond Bargains Ectcbliched 32 Years KAHN OP 617 7th authorized x ago to meet a believed to be dead when | the | in_addition to other | THE SUNDAY JOHN J. MITCHELL, SR, sald to have ruled her have made the standard more in ac e W than sometimes t| realth and prestige. | The Mitchells believed in the spirit | of home. Holidays, anniversaries and | fete days wers family affairs. As | | ideas and to )f her home h Victorian case with | cco! the children matured their marriages were into the families of friends and | | the home circle was enlarged rather | than broken. WILL FLY TO CHICAGO, | Mitchell's Son Speeds North After News of Deaths. SAN ANTONIO, October 29 (P).— | {Join Mitchell, jr, arrived here iate t8day from a ranch near Encinal, | Tex.. en route to Chicago, where his father was killed in an automobile accident. He made the trip here in an automobile, and will leave in a plane of the National Air Transport Co. for Fort Worth at 5 am., where he will catch one of the regular air mail planes for Chicago. He is scheduled to arrive at Chicago at | 130 p.m. Sunda; A plane flew here from Dallas to- day to meet him, but Mitchell post- | poned the trip until morning to avoid | the hazards of night fly DUPLICATE OF BYRD PLANE IN GAPITAL Navy Testing Three-Engine, Four-Purpose Fokker for Marine Corps. The latest addition to the air force of the Marine Corps—a Fokker three- | engine monoplane equipped to be used as a bomber, a troop transport, a cargo plane or an ambulance plane— | arrived at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, yesterday from the Fokker factory at Hasbrook Heights, N. J., piloted by Bernt Balchen, test pilot of the America, which carried four men on a transatlantic flight under the command of Comdr. R. E. Byrd. Shortly after its arrival, Lieut. 8. W. Callaway, chief of the flight test section of the Naval Air Station, took | the plane aloft with nine persons in | the cabin in addition to himself for a | one-hour flight preparatory to accept- ing it formally from the factory on be- half of the Navy. The Fokker four- purpose plane, as it is designated, will be put through the regular rigor- ous schedule of testing by Lieut. Cal- laway and the other test pilots at the station and if it meets service needs satisfactorily will be turned over to the Marines and placed in service im- mediately. Duplicate of America. ‘With the exception of a few square feet less in wing area, the big mono- plane is an almost exact duplicate of the America. In place of the large gasoline tanks which the America carried, the new Marine ship has in- stallation to carry out any one of the four purposes for which it was dw- signed. With his heavy load Lieut. Callaway flew about Washington and at intervals permitted the plane to fly on two of its three engines, which sustained it perfectly in normal flight. The addition of the big Fokker monoplane to the Marine Corps alr force marks the largest plane that organization has with the exception of two or three antiquated Martin bombers, which are being weeded out to make way for the newer equip- ment. Taking Plane to Florida. Balchen returned to New Jersey last night and tomorrow will fly a three-engine Fokker monoplane to Key West, Fla., for use on the Key West-Havana air _service recently nized by the Pan-American Air- Upon his return to the r factory from that mission he vill pilot a Fokker “universal” single engined monoplane, equipped to fiy as a seaplane, to the Cuban govern- ment, which recently purchased one of this type. ALUNNI TO MEET HERE. Associated Pennsylvanai Clubs to Hold First Session Nov. 7-8. The Associated Pennsylvania Clubs, an organization of the various alumni ocieties of the University of Penn- vlvana, will hold its national confer- nce in this city November 7 and 8. ecretary Work of the Interior De- | partment i« president and Maj. F. Granville Munson secretary. There will be two wessions each University Club. At noon ident Coolidge tes, and the hold a banquet at the Club on the first night { on will | clubs Wrist Watch 14-Kt. Solid White Gold $15 VERY FINE A TF'%L,TA" E NE € TICAL CO. St. N.W. STAR, FLIGHT ABANDONED BY MRS. GRAYSON Woman Flyer Returns Plane‘ to New York—To Confer With Builder. By the Associated Press. OLD ORCHARD, Me., October Frances ayson tonight an- nounced the return of her amphibian plane, the Dawh, to New York tomor- row. with the words, “In my disap pointment of today, I can only strive for a bigger greater success for to- morrow." Mrs. Grayson made known her de- cision in a dramatic way at the flying camp she had maintained here for al- most three weeks. when, with only a few moments’ warning, she handed L typewritten statement to the’ news: vaper men. The purpose of the return, and the sonsequent postpone! posed flight to Copenhagen, w > confer, she said, with Igor Sikorsky. builder of the plane. It appeared pr ably that this would eliminate the 8. to ascertain,” she said thy the plane gained altitude, then lost 400 feet, according to Pilot Wil- mer Stultz, on our third attempt | at the end of four hours, when the | plane was approximately 1,000 pound lizhter, causing him to turn about |fly and head westward toward Old Or- [jn chard to gain altitude, which he failed |af to gain within the one hour before | ci the engine went bad, | ta: “I have arrived at this conclusion |in after making these attempts and giv- | de WASHINGTON, D 8,0 CTOBER 80, 1927—PART T. Returning to New York MR; ving personnel, dgment ter careful i expert s are adv, another ta whosa I have always heeded, aly i cision 1 belies ing 100 per cent co-operation to my common sense and good judgment.” ions sable before expertenced and have de. i further attempt- In making this I am exercising NEW DEVICE QUSTS STATIC FROM RADIO “Monophone” Will Also Re- duce Telephone Bills, Says Gen. Squier. | Announcing the perfection | “monophone™ to carry radio by | wireless,” Maj. Gen, George O. | retired, former chief signal officer |the Army, declared yesterday that radio of the future will be free from statle, obtained in the home on a definite monthly figure and will ulti- {mately mean lower telephone rates, {when used in connection with tele- phone lines. Gen. Squier, who is one of the American delegates to the radiotele | eraph conference now in session here, | aid that the “monophone” has been |proved sound in practice. It utilizes the present power and telephone lines and would be offered to homes on an {agreed basis of several dollars per { month. Although specific details of broad casting programs are to be worked out, he said, the telephone and power companies offering the programs would do o from their own stations through an arrangement with pres- ent “nets.” The “monophone,” small in con- struction, would be attached to pre ent electric light sockets or to tele- phones and would not interfere with | their usual use. The “monophone,” | set, would [ which would control the frequency. {1t wou'd he permanently set to the stations through which the programs ave offered, and the “upkeep” of the present radio set would be eliminated Gen. Squier declared that the three-tube by buttons a Le operated vired wireless” could only be of- fered in cities and in nearby suburban points. The plan would solve the question of wave lengths for the Radio Commission, he asserted, as it would leave the ether open for needed use and for the larger broadcasting ations. The instrument would be virtually a small receiving set wit out the parts now used to tune out static, switch stations and to cone trol volume. Batteries would be un- necessary, as the program would he brought in by wire direct from where it is heing broadcast. Enlarging upon his statement that it would ultimately reduce telephone rates, Gen. Squier asserted that it has been demonstrated that the telephone system of the United States is cnly in actual use 18 minutes per Jay. this is based on 16,000,000 telephones, he said, used on an average of six times per day for a full three minutes each day. The additional revenue to the companies from the double use of the same lines as the cost of the “mono- phone” would be low and would en- able a reduction in rates, is his opinion. Ge quier said use of the “mono- phone” would naturally cause some loss to the present system of radio, but it would be of small import com- pared to the ultimate results. WESTERN AI:UMNI DANCE. Big Ten to Have Annual Get-To- gether November 19. Alumni of Western Conference universities will hold their annual dance and get-together the night of November 19 at the Hotel Washing- ton, and more than 1,500 invitations have been sent out. Each year the graduates and former students of the colleges compricing {evening on the day of the final games of the conference. The universities comprising the conference are: Chicago, Illinois, In- di . o Michigan, Minnesota, rthwestern, Ohio, Purdue and Wig- |the Big Ten group meet for a social | JEWSINU. 3. URGED T0°AD PALESTINE Rothenberg Appeals for Firm Stand in Face of Pres- ent Difficulties. | By the | CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 29.— Assuring his hearers that the upbuild Ir * of the Jewish national home in | Palestine soon will become th- whole hearted concern of the entlre Jewich people, Morris Rothenberg of New York tonight urged delegates to the national conference on Palestine to stand firm against the difficulties that now beset them Rothenberg. who Is head of the ine foundation fund, presided at t session of the conference tonight. | Mau Samuel, novelist, review- ing achievements in Palestine in the last 10 yvears, declared that the Zion- fsts colonizing the ancient city have | done more to increase the population |and holdings than any other colo- nizing nation ever has done in a like period of time. Samuel J. 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