Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1927, Page 7

FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1927 SMALLER PROFITS gf{’REI]IBIED IN 198 q;mme’rce_Mment Ex-| Jpert Mentions: Interindustry | i"was Shsnea t headquarters. i ¥« Competition in Report. *#Profitiels prosperity” with sharp | petition in most lines and narrow WBfits was pictured today as the busi shess outlook for 1928. Ray M. Hud- | , of the Commierce Department, de- ired that purchases and volume of ‘output will be greater than this year, even though the profit per unit of Bale will be Jess, according to business | {éaders with whom the department “has been in recent communication. | Sharp competition will mark the busi- | mess progress of the year. « Mr. Hudson iaid the prospect for | smaller profits in 1928 to a non-appli- | jon of simplific nd standardi- | ion to current problems. “In seeking for of smaller | 4 we may well | “Scarface” Capone's Ends When Police Put Him in__]iaili wociated Press. 1, December 16.—Al arface) Capone, Chicago gang lead- | er, was atrested today as he alighted | from a Santa Fe Railroad train at| the Union Station here. The police ' turned out en force to meet him and Capone had gone to Los Angeles | with two friends for a rest, as he ex-| plained to police in that city, but| found he was an unwelcome guest. Larrival of their chief. Recreation Trip Newspaper stories of his arrival in| California led the hotel in whiche he | was oceupying a luxurious suite tojle mand his departure. Two Los Angeles detectives luter accompanied Capone | and his party to a train and saw them Safely on their way back to Chicago. | Four gangst Union Station wers fore the train from the West pulled in Revolvers were taken (rom them and they were placed in cells to await the (0T OF CONGRESS AIR REPORTS HUGE Equipment for Broadcasting | Proceedings Would Require $3,300,000 Expenditure. not the new, fnter-industry competition, has result-| ed in lowering prices before those #conomies in production which would sustain profit at the wer prices have n realized. We m also que: whether high-pressur o combat hand-to-mouth buying o jabsorh hitherto id inused pro- | ‘ductive capacity, his ne yereased the | Bosts of duing business. And ag Whether or not the demand for and the consequent ditersifica their costs to carry, well as manu. facturing and selling s. product have run up inventor L “One major result of sgreater individual prosperity is the growing demand for more style, foc jore beautiful things, for more art | #n industry. Recognition of this de. mand has added mare varietics to| many a manufacturer’s line and in sjeases where obsoleted virieties have | not been dropped. this diversification | has undoubtedly increased inventories and likewise production and sales | In such simpiification | ‘of the line to cu numbers only | ~ would relieve some of the hurden. | Bfforts to keep pace with too rapidly | changing styles have also cut into | otherwise pormal profits. Too high | frequency of change is alv - MAJ. C. L. BYRNE BURIED ITH MILITARY HONORS Officer Who Met Acciden- /Death at West Point to % "Rest in Arlington. Military honors marked the burial in the Arlington National Cemetery this afternoon of Maj. Charles L. . Byrne, United States Infantry, who was accidentally killed at West Point. N. Y., Wednesday by stumbling into a deep quarry. Born in this city Feb ruary 9, 1888, Maj. Byrne was gradu- ated from the Military Academy in June, 1911, and reached the grade of major in June, 1418. He was on duty as an instructor at the Military Academy at the time of his death. His widow, Mrs. Melette T. Byrne, ac- companied the funeral party to this The palibearers were: Majs. Thofp- son Lawrence, Infantry; William E. Larned, Ordnance; Paul W. Baade, Infant Charles A. Schimelfenig, Ordnance; Joseph C. Mehaffey, Corps of Engineers, and Herbegt A Dargue, Air Corps, all former ssmates of the deceased, and Capts. Frank E. Linnell, Infantry, and Waiter C. Rath- The War and Navy Departments would not be able 10 broadcast the proceedings of the Senate by radio throughout the country without ex- pending a large sum for new equip- ment at various locations, according to a report submitted to the Senate in response to a resolution adopted in 1924, in which the Secretaries of War and Navy were requested to study the feasibility of such a broad- ast. 'he resolution also sought informa- tion as to the possibility of equipping { the prevalent | the Senate chamber with a public ad- system to enable members in all of the hall to hear clearly the v edings regardless of the tone of “ | such an installation “is impractie: at the present stage of -the a radio or telephone transmission. With regard to the broadcasting of Senate proceedings throughout the land the report es the conclusion that it would require an initial ex- penditure of $3.300.000 and an annual s0st of approximately $1,188,400 for up- | keep and maintenance. The subject was gone into by a joint commission appointed by the Secre- taries of War and Navy, and the re- port outlines in detail the obstacles that would have to be overcome. “In the past five years,” the report states, “the widespread Interest in bro: asting has forced the Army and out of the frequency band normally used for broadcasting of speech and music. Consequently, the Army and Navy have no appara- tus in this particular band worthy of mention. Tha frequency used by broadcasting stations determines the frequency bands of all existing broadcast receivers, and in order to reach the listening public all broad- casting must be within the required bhands. As a natural result the Army and Navy would he required to purchase suitable broadcasting transmitters for installation at.their various stations.” FIGHT TO SEE WEDDING. ‘Women Wait for Hours for Glimpse of Lady Mary Thynne. Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON.—Women waited for hours [for a glimpse of the bride, and some ‘of @hem fought, and fainted, in the or that followed the' wedding of Lady® Mary Thynne to’ Lord Nunburn- holmme at St. Margaret's, Westminster. It- was the outstanding social event of ‘the season. The bride herself had been bridesmaid to hoth Princess Mary ‘and the Duchess of York, and received gifts from the King and Queen, whom | the Senate filibuster. many in the crowd outside the church expected would attend. Heraldic marked the wedding. service PLIT-SECOND Starting . . LIGHTNING ‘“ndl:nf::r{;:.se'Q et Service . . . For your convenience . STATIONS are on the job in Washington. And as many more in nearby Virginia, Maryland and the city of Baltimore. There’s a LIGHTNING Motor Product for every car and every purpose. And a LIGHTNING Service man who’s on his toes to please you with promptness, courtesy . . . expert advice when you need ALIEN PROPERTY BLUP N OLSE Measure Is Practically Same | as One Lost Behind | Filibuster in Spring. S AR | By the Associated Press. With the tax bill approved and sent | to the Senate, the House today took | |up its next big lezislative task with the opening of ~debate on the lo standing measure to return alien property seized during the war. The bill is almost ident with that which passed the House last sessior, only to be lost in the jam caused by Immediate payment of 50 per cent | >t German claims is provided, with the remainder to be settled in installments up to a limit of §100,000,000. It also_provides for immediate pay- ment in"full of claims not exceeding $100,000 held by American citizens against Germany. and for complete payment of such claims ultimately. Early return of 80 per cent of Ger- man property held by the alien prop- erty custodian and eventual return of the remainder also is stipulated. WILLIAM S. McCJRDY DIES AFTER S4ORT ILLNESS Union Army Veteran, 82, H;d‘ Lived Here Since 1890 Funeral Monday. William S. McCurdy, 82 years old, Union Army veteran and retired proof- reader of the Government Printing Office, died at his residence, 1108 E street northeast, today after a short illness. He had been a resident of this city since 1890. Mr. McCurdy was a native of Wheeling, W. Va. He was a member of Joppa Ladge, F. A. A. M., and of Capitol Chapter. Royal Arch Masons. Funeral services will be conducted at the Ninth Street Christian Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Benjamin H. Melton will , officiate. Interment wiil be in Glenwood Ceme- tery, with Masonic rites at the grave. He is_survived by five sons, A. J.. C. P., William C., George L. and Wai. ter M. McCurdy, all of this city; two daughters, Mrs. Willlam J. Scheu of Washington, Pa., and Mrs. C. G. Forney of Clarendon, Va.; 10 grand- children and one great-grandchild. BUYS HISTORIC TRACT. RALEIGH, N. C,, December 16 (#). —W. O. Saunders of Elizabeth City, president of the Kill Devil Hills Me- morial Association, today said the as- sociation has acquired title to a tract of more than 200 acres of the beach lands at Kill Devil Hills, where Wil- bur and Orville Wright made the first airplane flight in 1903, The tract will be offered to Congress soon as a site for a monument to com- memorate the Wrights' achievement. ur . split-second . . 60 LIGHTNING it. COMMISSION PLANS BUILDING SESSION Group Will Discuss Federal | Pregram at Special Meet- ing Tomorrow. The Public Buildi Commission will hold a specidl meeting tomorrow, when it is understoc eial problems | of the Government struction pi gram will be sonsidered any problem: awaiting actis i new legisla nding in gress with po: a vote ne Monday i expected | mittee on publi indicated today he ex action on both his bill for e the triangle south of Pen- venue and the $100,000.000 Reed bill for additional constr throughout the country. The vo! be taken, he said, under suspension oi the rules fers With Mellon. t the Treasury Do e nees with Mellon, As nt charge of the public building. prog and Supervising Architect Ji Wetmore. Meantime the Tre Architectural Cons jts meetings at the forward the plans for t velopment. 1t is likely that some of | their plans may be submitted tom yow to the Public Buildings Comm sion, Report to Congres District Commi vored the Southwest site for the ers’ market. which now rests on the | site for the Internal Revenue Building, | is expected to hasten the work of the Jatter structure. Just how soon the | sheds may he moved remains to be de- | veloped. The Treas Depar¢ment | has funds available to take them down | and move them to a mew location, but under a decision of Controller Gen- | eral McCarl, the Treasury may not | use these funds to re-erect the sheds. | The Commissioners must obtain funds for this. In their report they esti- mated a sum of $55,000 would be |! needed for- this. | Press Condemnation. Condemnation proceedings are going through the final stages for acquisi- tion hy the Government of anotber | part of the Internal Revenue site, known as square No. 350, bounded by Tenth, Eleventh, Little B and C streets. When title is turned over to | the Government old buidings there will be razed and the site prepared for excavation. Although a steam shovel is now in operation on one square of the rev- enue site, the contract under which i is working calls for excavation of only || about one-fourth of the eventual site of the building. The farmers’ market and square 350 occupy the other three- || fourths, and the Treasury is hoping to get this three-fourths for going ahead on excavation and construction early next year. Details of when this wil! be worked out have not yet been decided. Coroner Exonerates Motorist. Special Dispatch to The Star, ROCKVILLE, Md., December 16.— James F. Salkeld of Washington, D. C. was exonerated last nigitt in the death of ‘George M. 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