Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1928, Page 1

\WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and much colder tonight; min- mmum tentperature about 18 degrees; to- morrow increasing cloudiness. Temperature—Highest, 58, at 4:30 pm. yesterday: lowest, 41, at 8 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing New York Stocks, Page 14 7 Sta “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier every city block and system covers the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast a« the papers * are printed. B post tered as second class matter office hington. D. C. 30,614, WASHINGTON 24, 1928—FORTY D. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY SECRET VOICE TRANSMISSION PICTURES OF MISERY REVEALED IN COAL AREATO SEWATORS Families of Strikers Live in Barracks on Only Few Dol- lars Weekly. NON-UNION WORKERS MAKING SCANTY LIVING Conditions Form Breeding Ground for Ultra Radicalism, Pas- tors Declare. BY BEN McKELWAY, Stan vo PITTSBURGH Pa. February 24.—A Ppicture of squalid filth and misery. of idleness and hopeless suffering. with a | background ot sinister and vindicuive hate. is being unfolded here in the bituminous coal fields around Pitts- burgh to members of a subcommittee of the Senate interstate commerce com- mittee. Senator Couzens of Michiga declining a few days ago to go on this | tour. referred to it as a “circus. | mizht be called a senatorial slumming | trip but it is no circus. One forgets | that there are such things anywhere a wave length so low that few stations | in the world as circuses when one goes. with this subcommittee. into the homes of striking mi who looks into the | OVER RADIO IS Bell Telephone Engineer Dis- | plays Apparatus at City Club. | | [“Electric Brain” Translates Jumbled Speech to Hearers. dip has become an accomplished fact. Using a combination of high and ion frequency transformers to distort human speech and jumble it to make it unin- telligible to the human ear. Sergius P Grace, general commercial engicer ot the Bell Telephone laboratories. today ‘d(‘monstramd before a group cf enai- | neers, scientists and business men at i Club forum that seeret voice ansmission is now possibi An clectric translating brain which picked up the intentionally intermin- aled high and low frequencies. rearrang- | »d them n their proper places. modulat- ed them and sent them through loud speakers in proper relation did the trick and convinced the audience that secret voice transmission by this meth- od 1s a scientific fact. Protects Ocean Lines. Practical application of the device, it was pointed out, would protect the transatlantic long-distance radio tele- phone service from the ears of all ex- cept those for which it is intended. At present the messages are transmittcd on | | | | | | have apparatus which can be tuned to pick it up. but the new device will as- sure secrecy under any condition. DEMONSTRATED Secrecy in voice transmission by ra- | GRACE. tained all the original froquencies or tones in the voice of the speaker. Then he held in front of the horn a microphone n an_ordinary telephone | recewver, which picked up the jumbled speech, conveyed it to an electric trans- lator, rearranged it in proper form and broadeast it through loud-speakers in the room. ers burst forth with a volume several times louder than th> phonograph, with |the original speech in English and | clearly understandable by the audience. Sound Grows Fainter. As he moved the microphone away |from the phonograph the sound from the loud-speakers grew fainter, and the jumble from the record on the machine | dominated the sound transmission. As | he placed the microphone closer to the (/) Means Associated P TWO CENTS. Immediately the loud-speak- | Using phonograph records of inverted | horn the translator again took up its HOOVER HESITATES ' TOTAKE STAND ON FLOOD AID EXPENGE Secretary Declines to State Opinion on 20 Per Cent State Contributions. REFUSES TO CRITICIZE WAR DEPARTMENT PLAN Says More Information on Eco- nomic and Financial Mat- ters Is Needed. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Seccretary Herbert Hoover, who for months had charge of floed relief work | in the Mississippt Valley last vear. to- |day urged upon the Senate commerce committee the need of prompt lcgisla- tion for flood control. The Secretary, pressed closely by Sen- {ator Hawes of Missouri, declined to say i specifically whether he believed the pro- posed 20 per cent contribution of the | States affected to the cost of flood con- trol projects was just or not. More detailed information regarding |the economic and financial questions involved is necessary, Mr. Hoover told the committee. He favored a recent suggestion by President Coolidge that' a commission should study the problem | CITIZENS CONDEMN faces of idle—always idle—groups of speech, Mr. Grace played a record on a Jounging men. who watches children | machine from whcse horn issued a form trving to play in black and slimy mud | of speech which was entirely unintelli- and retuse or who goes down into the | gible to the audience. but which re- | task. ‘The demonstration was arranged by R. G. Hunt, advertising manager of the ! Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. strikebreakers lie sleeping in their coal stained pit clothes. Today's tour by the committee and the one vesterday. which began this| peripatetic trip through the coal fields. | may cgive a one-sided picture of the| situation resulting from the walkout. or lockout. cr whatever one chooses to call it, that bagan last April. For ves- terday and today the subcommittee. composed of Senator Gooding of Idaho, chairman: Senators Wheeler of Mon- tana, Wagner of New York and Pine of Oklahoma, is in the hands of union officials Tomorrow there may be an- other side. for then the operators, if stuffy. darkened bunkhouses. where | | they care to. will be given an oppor-| tunity to show the Senators what they have to contend with in operating their mines with non-union labor. Investigation Is Remarkable. In many ways this is a remark- able senatorial investigation. There are no shining mahogany tables. behind which the inquisitors may sit and dig out the facts from willing or unwilling witnesses. There are no committee rooms, with gleaming. ehandeliers, or audiences composed of curiosity-strickén | but highly genteel ladies and gentlemen. | In place of all the paraphernalia and the i ceremony usually accompanying a Sen- | ate m\mmnnmmnwnl automobiles, along a slippery, wet road. The first two are occupled by the four Senators and the Senate officials who accompany them. The others b2af newspaper reporters. one or two union officials and a covey of photographers. The cavalcade reaches a village that squats unattractively at the foct of a ba:ren o, close against high mountains of mined coal. The houses in the village are all alike, two-story frame structures, hideous to lock at. with ther windows and doors boarded up Nearly all of them are vacant But near them are other houses. built of unpainted bozrd and of that archi- tectural Cesign usually followed builders of chicken houses. They are one story high, about 15 feet deep, and they may stretch for as long as a city block. These are the barracks erected by the United Mine Workers to hous: the families of striking miners, evicted last December from the homes pro- vided for them by the coal companies and which now stand vacant. bearing *“No Trespassing” signs. The sutomobiles plough through deep mud as they turn out of the road and come to a stop Children, scores of them: mothers with children in their arms or wugzing at their skirts. and idie ppear from nowhere and swarm sbout the visitors. It is not i: 1at members of the United Btates Senate drop in for a call, and there is considerable excitement. Senators Enter Houses. Senztor Gooding chooses W enter the guarters at one end of the bar- racks His three committee members go 1o with him. and behind them a dozen or s0 Jostiing newspaper men end photographers crowd way “This is the house of Joe ck not &t home, and neither is Mrs. Steck fout of their eight children are Just finishing lunch The youngest 1 #bout 2. The oldest may be 7 They ve been drinking arm coffee end esting bread covered with jelly A reporier asks tor Mrs 45 working. Taking in was ks what Mr. Bleck s doing “Oh, he do nothing. He striking” The commitee walks througl four rooms. crowded with beds erips and 8 hewrozeneous arra estic equipment. while the newspaper porters rall mlong and the camera set up thelr tripods and plead for One of the Benators 15 ssked 1o L down at the tabie and ge I ture taken with the four rather startied youngsters. As b does s the 1oom 1 Cleared and the parly proceeds W oan olher home Mre W U i plaire v the Benston st week she has recelved s ) el of sl from the upon. bt no mes shie gels 94 B week und bes sds in Lhe background Bhe ig. He the und fnutru- b day and vx- ing the am Blaml) as the GOt Vhe mess 1 s from ricke dren manege v ner puts & aullar b of 8 yowling youn wittee leuver Eight Live in Two Roums. Ghariie Bipinskl wnd his wife Jive with Uhelr sz chldren i s two-reom 5 the dirty han 1 and the wom Joe i | of do- | 6BELIEVEDDEAD IN MINE EXPLOSION Two Lives Lost With Hope for 16 Others Abandoned in Arkansas Blast. | By the Associated Press FORT SMITH. Ark., February 24— Two men were known to have been killed and 16 others were believed to be dead as the result of an explosion today in a mine of the Mama Coal Co at Jenny Lind, Ark. 11 miles from here. Rescue workers were handicapped by fire in the wrecked mine. Approximately 125 men were in this and copnecting mines at the time of the blast, but all except 18 escaped. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. Rescue crews were directed by Claud Speigel. State mine inspector. and W E. Pendlcton, president of the company and were sent into the mine imme- diately Ambulance and doctors from this and | other nearby points have been rushed to the scene. The blast came from the back section of mine No. 18, which with mine No | 20 connects with mine No. 3. Those | Who escaped were said to have worked their way through mine No. 20. Those who escaped held little hope that any of those remaining in the ex- | plosion area still were alive | " Operations in nearby mines were sus- pended immediately and all efforts di- rected at rescue of the trapped miners e 150 SAMOANS TAKEN BY ISLAND POLICE i Two Back Up Action Against Na- tive League. By the Assaciaten P WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Febru- Lary 24.—A wireless message from Apla, Samoa, says white and native Samoan | police. covered by naval partles from | the Australian cruisers Dunedin and | Diomede have arrested 150 members of the 1llegal police force. The tllegal force | was organized by “The Mau," or League | of Bamoans. There were no disturbances, but the priwmers waved sticks and chanted | tribal songs en route to the police sta- tion The crulsers were sent as a precai- tion, after the administration advised the gzovernment conditions were serious and any action taken by the official po- lice might be regarded as a signal for general retribution by “The Mau.” RETIREMENT BILL UP. House Group to 8tudy Liberalizing Plan Tomorrow. gislation o liberalize the civil serv- ment Jaw will be considered in sesslon Wmorrow morning by the House evil service committee More than 100 members of the House already pave indorsed the propossds for libera! izing the sct, and have urged that the commitiee report out a bill, so that ac ton can be tak Jon o Congress I 35 expected that committee will call upon vart ernment officials o testity 5 the operation of the act, and o estab- el where and how inlquities exist which do an Injustice U certuin groups I the Government service MRS. COOLIDGE BETTER. Australian Cruisers Sent to! en during the present | JADWIN SUGGESTS " FLO0DADPLA Calls for Contributions by| States, but Provides for Payment Meratorium. Calling for contributions by the Mis-' sissippi Valley States to supplement the | Federzl Government's appropriations, | Maj. Gen. Jadwin, chief of Army En- | ginzers, today submitted a draft of a proposed flood control bill to Repre- sentative Kopp of Iowa, a Republican on the Hous® flood control committee and leader of its minority group. | ‘The measure proposed a method nf | delaying payments of the contributions | where the valley States were unable tn meet the assessments. The bill pro- vides a 20 per cent contribution to the actual construction cest by the Btates which also would furnish the land and rights of way for the proposed flood- wavs and levees | It said “the Secretary of War on th: recocmmendation of the chief of | gineers may waive or agree to a post- ponement” of the contributions *“in «pe- cial cases” The bill which calls for a Federal appropraition of $260.960.000 leaves the entire work of flood control under the supervision of the chief of Army Engineers and the War Depart- ment with the Misstssippi River Com- mission acting in an advisory and cu- operative capacity. ‘Another provision for the continuance of work where the communities are | unable to pay thelr share is provided | in a section of the measure, which says: “In an emergency funds appropriated for the execution of the project may | be expended in the maintenance of any | levee when it is demonstrated to the atisfaction of the Secretary of War that the levee cannot adequately be maintained by local interests.” | The proposed measure sets wside | $2.000,000 for the survey of tributary rivers of the Mississippi and reservoir | investigations. “It is the sense of Con- | gress that investigation of the resources | of our rivers with a view to preparing plans for their most efficient develop- | ment in the joint interests of flood con- ! trol, irrigation, navigation, power and ! other legitimate uses is a national problem, demanding immediate and careful consideration,” the section of the measure dealing with reservolrs sald The proposed bill also contains a provision making any destruction or | obstruction of flood control works con- | struction a mi:demeanor punishable by |'a fine of from $500 to $2,500 or by im- prisonment not exceeding one year or by both Representative Kopp would not dis- close his future course in regards to the measure. He said that its sugges- ticns might be included In a minority report to the Reid $473,000,000 flood bill recently uI)pmvcd by the commit- | tee, which calls for the work without local contributions, But it has been In- | dicated by opponents of the Reid meas- {ure that the new Jadwin plan prob- {ably will be Introduced by Kopp or {one of his group. 'BANDITS GET $20,000 "IN TWO BANK RAIDS : Ten Men Rob Kansas City Insti-| tution, Trio Waits All Night for St. Louis Coup. ) i KANSAS CITY, February 24 4. ! Ten bandits, armed with two submu- | Ilhlm' guns, sutomatic shotguns and | aistols, shot up the City Bank here - dany and escaped in Lwo motor cars with { oot estimuted st approximately $20,000 Despite the promiscuous Bring by the iseven men who entered the bank, no jone wag injured, One bandit fired point | the late Gen, Goethals In charge of the | for |Plunk at 1 C Kemper, president, and and make report. | Avoids Criticism. | If any members of the Senate com- | mittee hoped to bring Mr. Hoover to an open break with the President on the subject of flood control, they were dis- appointed by the testimony of the Sec- retary today. Nor did Mr. Hoover say that the 20 per cent contribution pro- posed in the Jadwin flood control plan. snd adopted by the administration, was just to the people in the flood area. | He contented himself with saying that | the matter should be studied further.| He declined emphatically to criticize | the recommendations made by officials of “another department of the Govern- ment” than his own, the War Depart-l ment. The demand for Secretary Hoover's appearance before the Senate commit- tee had been widely heralded as a move of his political opponents, both Demo- cratic and Republican, an effort “to put him in a hole,” making him break with President Coolidge or displease | those in the Mississippi Valley States who favor his nomination and election | as_President. | The committee room was jammed with spectators when Senator Jones of | ash n, chalrman, escorted Mr. Hoover inta the room. | The questioning of Mr. Hoover was. conducted very largely Senator Hawes, who led the fight in the com- mittee to have the Secretary summoned. | & fight in which it was freely charged that Mr. Hoover's presonce was de-| manded for political purposes and to embarrass him. Senator Willis of Ohio. an opponent of Mr. Hoover for the| presidential nomination. also question- ed the Secretary. Secretary Becomes Restive. At one point in the hearing Senator Jones of Washington interrupted the | reiterated demands of Senator Hawes o know just what Mr. Hoover thought of the 20 per cent contribution plan. when it was apparent that the Secre- rary was becoming restive under the | cross-questioning of the Missourian -nd[ his evident intention of pinning him 1 | { | down, | “You are endeavoring to pin me Mr. Hoover had said to Senator ith some show of heat. nator Hawes Insisted that the com- Sel | mittee could not act upon the flood control bill without first deeiding who was to pay ti st of the work. “Of more than 300 witnesses who have appeared before the House com- mittee and this committee,” sald Sen- ator Hawes, “you are the only one who has declined to express an opinion on the proposed contribution by the States." “I think we have the Secretary opinion as far as he is prepared to gi it sald Senator Jones. “But.”" said Senator Hawes. “this is| a subject that cannot be delayed.” “I am prepared to proceed at once with the drafting of a bill, so far as 1| am personally concerned.” shot back Senator Jones. | Hawes Presses Inquiry. Senator Hawes had another question | which he pressed upon Secretary Hoov- er, whether the proposal of Gen. Jad: win that the Mississippt River Comm! sion should be relegated to an advisory | capacity merely in handling the food | control work, This brought further fencinz between Mr. Hoover and the | Senator. Mr. Hoover declined emphatl- cally to criticize the recommendations of the War Department, Senator Harris of Georgla, Democrat, came to the ald of Mr. Hoover here. | The Georgla Senator wanted to know If there are any better engineers any- where than the Army engineers, Mr. Hoover replied that he consid- ered the Army engineers as good as any In the world, and that they were - Ucularly qualified to deal with Xllld- control because they have studied that | question for years, while civil engineers | havs not been called upon to go into | that phase of engineering to the same | extent. Henator Harrls asked Mr. Hoover if did not belteve that it would be better to have one-man control of the | floud project than to have the work under the control of & commission. He called attention to the fact that Presi- dent Roosevelt eventually had td place | construction of the Panama Canal | Mr. Hoo replied that the history of the Government has shown that s cesaful - administration uld be ob- tained only when one man was in con- trol, responsible to the President | Where commissions have sought to act s ndministrators they have falled to be efMclent, he said, Mentlons Jadwin When Henator Hawes beg amination of Mr. Hoover he n his ex- promply N HOUSE VOTES DOWN | ore | reason therefor that if the present sub- | If the theory advanced | correct, then the District Is complete o/272cl S — reN Little Borah IHorner sat in a corner, Iating his questionnaire pie. He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum, And said, W good boy am | o oo 15 . CORDONMAY GFT PASS CIVIL SERVICE TEST Examination Held to Create Eli- gible List for Promotions—Chiefs HOEHLING'S POST Fresident Considers U. S. At- torney for Vacancy on Bench Here. LUMP SUM BOOST $10,000,000 Proposal De- feated by Vote of 57 to 6 After Debate. Surprised at Failures. Only 69 of the 157 members of the Metropolitan Police Department who took a civil service examination last month to qualify for promotion suc- ceeded In passing. according to a repurt received from the commission today by Ma). Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent The report contained the names and | ratings of those who qualified. This, will constitute an eligible list from %:hich all promotions are to be made| yfa). Peston Gordon. United States terday by Chairman Zihlman of the o attorney for the District of Columbia. House District committee that the O figon NAMES on the cUgible et 4 and for many years a practicing attor- lump-sum contribution by the Federal captaincy. 11 are sergeants who quali- ey in this city. is known to be under Government of $9.000,000 as its share fied for a lieutenancy and 54 are pri- serious consideration by President Cool- toward supporting the National “ap- vates who gualified for a sergeancy. idge for appointment to the vacancy Ital be increased to $10,000.000 was de- , The examination was the first con- on the Supreme Court of the District feated by a vote of 57 to 6. which ducted by the commission for the pur- of Colunbia. caused by the resignatior showed only 63 out of the 435 members bameials r\r\ce:‘rxl-miunn{‘r\figmz; Ve ?;lv‘:'l of Associate Justice Adolph A. Hoehling T jr.. more than two months ago. of the House present luring considera- number of fatlures, but attributed most tion of the District appropriation bill ' of them to nervousness on the part of This was learned today from an Representative Cramton, Republican. the men who took the examination authoritative source, and while the of Michigan. author of the lump-sum Those who failed will have another op- | President was represented as having policy several years ago. while he was POTTURILY to qualify next year. | virtually narrowed his choice down to acting temporarily as chairman of the - = Maj. Gordon, he was said to have no! subcommittee on District appropria- UPERA FES."VAI. vet reached a final decision. ENDS UNFINISHED to reduce the Federal contribution impression is that if A i from $80000_ 10 $7.000000. which m;h ot ni e Ml ok dots R also was vote jown. after T Tam- P s want to be in a position to name a suc- fon said. “I am not disposed to press cessor in the United States attorney's Failure of Sale of Orchestra Seats Causes Abandon- ment of Two Nights. A proposal made in the House yes- the 33000 (O amtendment office. He is mindful of the embarrass- ment_that might follow. inasmuch as the United States attorney’s office has been engaged in prosecuting the oil- conspiracy cases. and he realizes that it might work to the detriment of the Government's interest if a change is made in the attorney for completion of the oil cases. It is known that the President has been favorably impressed with the mannet in which Maj. Gordon has conducted the Government's case dur- ing the oil-conspiracy trial. but more especially so during the oil-contempt broceedings growing out of that trial Moreover, Attorney General Sargent. to whom the President designated the task of investigating the aspirants to suc- ceed Justice Hoehling. is represented as having been highly pleased with Ma) Gordon's showing as a Government prosecutor. Has Many Supporters. The United States attorney probably a larger number of supporters endeavor to obtain this appou ment than any of the more than a score of other candidates. Beside White House has reason to know his appointment would be agreeabl Zihlman Questioned. In his attempt to discuss the fiscal relations between the Federal Govern- ment and the District taxpayers, Mr Zihlman was questioned by Chairman Madden of the appropriations commit- tee, by Chairman Simmons of the sub- committee in charge of the District ap- propriation bill, Mr. Cramton and Rep- resentative Blanton, Democrat, of Mr Zthlman put into the rec- d a summary of needed improvements in the District, compiled by the Wash- ington Board of Trade and District of- ficlals, which calls for & total expendi- Washington National Opera Co. which ture of €83.111.200. which is held Up has been presented at Poli's Theater Eibir ouc V.AE roriaaiar tha:peas | JUrIE He ST e wesks, was CevnEh cral Government to continue the 60-40 0 0 unscheduled close at the com- percentage provided by substantive law pletion of last performance. leaving two operas vet to be sung. it In expressing his views on fiscal r was announced today by Edouard Al- tlons Mr. Zihlman said: “I want to make clear that this sum bion. founder and general director Among the reasons for the sudden which the appropriations committee contend is a fair contribution from the roymination of the festival Mr. Albion Federal Government to the expenses of g yqy v g € eclared. the taflure of the orchestra the District of Columbla s not the re= (\1s"¢5 sell in sufficient numbers was primarily responsible, creating. as 1t sult of a developed study or research on the part of Congress or the committees thercof. but. 1 understand, wns fied did loss which continued performances upon by the distinguished gentleman Would increase rather than aliay 8 : fon Aflchigan. Mr. Cramton® who wae While he made known the enforced MRy “5“:‘_:"';:{!“;‘“““‘,‘\""‘ in ‘“"»‘ o chatrman of the subcommittee some close of the present season. Mr Alblon | p g gar ““‘1“‘\““"\“0“ n ears ago. It has been adopted by the announced definite and elaborate vlans DRIt B Assocation. appropriations committee as their idea :‘"‘ mlr promotion of a nx-»;‘\;pclaue heeii cauting ahoas flg:_n": ‘&; h;\; fair contribution. estival next season, at which tme (@0 SRS i he Tast. Investigation wax made by the two operas, Massenet's “Weriher" | WANMIRIOD for some cne to sppoiot joint committee of the House and ' And Verdi’s “Otello” which were can- i t0 BYECR REREtiess o the fact Senate 1 1012, and after serfously con- , celed 1 the present sewson’s termina- oRss I Joral Aitomers nad sidering the entire matter recommended ' ton. will be presented. Under prosent that the fiscal relationship which exist- PIAIS. & group of persons, 10 be known ed since 1878 be continued us the Friends of Opera, will be organ- “The distinguished gentleman from lzed for the express purpose of guaran- Nebraska in justifying the contribution teeing the sale of a block of 50 3 of the Federal Government gives as a Orchestra seats for each performance in that group. Upon the sale of those seats. Mr. Albion said today. rests the financtal success of the Washington The grand opera fes of the able, the President for quite a period set these aside while he looked about beyond the District. 1t ts known also that & number of Republican Democratic Senators have made mo | or less serfous demands upon the Pres dent to obtain this patronage for some stantive law was continued, if the con- me frem thelr respective States tribution of the Federal Government was 40 per cent and the contribution National Opera Co of the District was 60 per cent, then Among the aritts wha will not be the tax rate that is now $1.70 could be heard until next scason. as a result of lowered to §1.20 (Continued on Page 2. Column 4) that being made on this floor by a gen- IG_SHIP NA'VY BILL PASSAGE EXPECTED tleman Who has glven consclentious study to the needs of the District for a Wainer Says He Is Chagrined at Action of ERERTION OF 3 STATUES APPROVED BY SENATE, Gompers, Cardinal Gidbdons Pioneers Would Be Given and number of weeks, and perhaps months by the gentle- | man from Nebraska, Mr. Simmons, is Monuments. The Senate today passed resolutions AULONENE erection of three new e Personally morml statues s Washington The American Federation of Ladar ] WS entpowered O put up & monument [ 1o Samuel Gompers. for many years | prostdent of that orgsnization. in A | PUDLC Teservation o be selected later | by the ditector of public butldings and public parks The Knight we have all of the sewer mains that we will need. we have all of the water mains that we will ever need. we have | all of the schools, {t 15 a finished job, beentse, forsooth, If vou ralse the con- (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) House Group. | Chatman Butler of the House naval committee and Representative Vinson | of Georgin. Demoeratic leader on that bady, believe that the 16-ahip program which the members decided upan terday asngainat Seeretary Wilbur's recommendation or 71 new war vess | sels, Wil be approved by the House They are uncertaln, however. s to when the subject will be called up on the floor Seeretary Wilbur declined to com- | t on the action of the committee than (o say that 1t the Navy at- An Exclusive Feature of (t Sunday’'s Star A Full Page of Splendid Photographs of the George Washington's Birthday Mt Columbus were ghen ALDOTILY to evect a statue of Candinal Gibbons i the small reservation i front of Sacred Heart Chureh, at Sin- feenth street and Park road The Oregon Trall Memortal Associa- ton, Incorporated, s autharized by (e hird resolition to erect & monument w the ploneers of the Pacific Narthwest. AL A slte 0 be selected by the Fine Arts Commission. The reslutions now go to | the House for approval | | m ¢ lei acen suggested to him as being avatl- | Recovers From Cold Enough Motor Trip Through Park. Mrs. Coolidge, who biss been suffer- ing from w cold for nesrly tiree weeks b recovered sufficlently b permit her w go motoring this slternoon Accom- penled by Mis Frank Blearns she arove through Iock Creek Park snd W Silver Spring, Md Mrs. Coolidge hius been well enough wobe up und around during e past | few duye, but this 1s the frst thine shic L been oul section of Wie barracks He explains he worked s & mner 1or the compeny for | 22 yewrs. wnd he ot oul bis former hiome, 20 or 40 feet sway, one of the | Iwo-sbory suructutes now boarded up and vecant Now b 85 sUoking mnd hax pothing W 6. He gels 86 & week from e union Mrs Boarfi, who lves nest door el Ve Senators of bow 1wo suikebrcakers | shot @t her & few Gay wgo from the | Fesiroad notl fer awey. Bhe brew 1eare ua one of the Senslors 4 her, and suys she it for fear of getting st A herd-hollea Pilehusgh REWSDANEr TEOTIEr whispes (Coutinued on Pege $, Column 2) # Radio Programs - Page 29 | commanded the 50 employes and imm-u customers to lle on the floor, At first the bandits forced tellers to s money boxes over the top of the cugen. Then two of the men went he- Ihind enges up money | themselves guns were Lot seooped machine wnd The February 24 () The Wellston Trust Co. of Wellaton, w sub- uth, was tobbed of approximately 600 1 currency today by thiree men entered during the night from an o upstalis, made prisoners of elght em- ployes #x they reported for work sand compelled them 1o open & Hme vault The robhers passed up $8,000 In coin, BT LOULE, | tempted to veplace its tonnage ship by | ship the law of averages would require the vuction of 184 vessels instead of 1 the tecommended He explained that the average lfe of a watship was 20 years and under that vule 184 vessels | Wotkl Be Hecessary every five years (o replace one-fourth of the Navy's total W Ta0 vessels Astitant Hecretary Wamner, o chargo of naval aviation. expressed sut- Prise that the commitiee so vegurded flhe Impartance of oruisers as o place Fihem on @ 18-10-1 vatio with atveraft carrters Heosald he was persanally ehagrinned, as he felt he had falled to make the committes teatiee (ha - Inm'r‘\l alreraft I naval development Celebration in Alexandria In The ROTOGRAVURE SECTION OF Next Sunday's Star These pictures of an event long to be remembered will appear In Rotogravure only In The Star next Sunday Ovder your copy from your newsdealer todav, d he had prepared without consultation | with any one else. “Of 300 witneases who have appeared before this committee and the House committe sald Senator Hawes, “‘no witness has agreed with the Jadwin plan except himself ™ Mr. Hoover sald that Henator Hawes need not expect him to discuss mattors which are entirely in other dopartments “There are two wish 1o ssk you, # e read ey by you In b food control question relates to the prom rilon of €ost 1o he horne by the Blates and the (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) l DISCOVERY OF LEPERS UPSETS RUSSIAN CITY By the Assoiated Poss ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia, February | N -The people af this ey are pio- toundly disturded by & reednt medival eport showing that 150 lepers have been found aming the streets and Wing I nelghboring vilk A panicky fear of widespread oon- | Gagion was induced by the vepwt and the government i faking v measures 1o salate the vietims of the ' dread disease, SH0L00 SE HERGERVALUATON Clayton Accuses Author of Plan With “Juggling” Trac- tion Figures. SAYS CUT IN SUBURBS TRANSFERRED TO CITY Federation Committee Maps Out Attack to Be Made on Plan at Meeting Tomorrow. $50.000.000 proposed Capital Transi cipal target of the public utili- mittee of the Federation of 15 Assoctal which met last night to perfect its plans to fight the treet car merger agrcement at a spe- cial meeting of the organization to- in the board room of the fr. ed the first broadside aluation by charging that . Wilson, owner of 98 per cent stock of the Washington Rapid Co. and author of the plan of had “juggled figures” in his valuation compu trying to fix a valuation on re- production value at the “highest com- posing that future be fixed accord- theory now that prices are ng a decline. Condemns Valuation. rring to the valuatiom, Mr. declared: hout testimony of any an inierested company . a guess valuaton first, and. third Do valuation. f we recognize this $50.000.000 valuation it is & permanent thing, e escapable later.” added Clayton. ~Con- sequently, in rerouting cars and reduc- ing expenses there can be no gquestion of & reduction in valuation when tracks are taken out or carbarns abandoned. But for an trackage or construc- ton. large totals undoubtedly will be i to this basic valuation. with an r reasing danger of higher fares in order 10 earn a return on a gIOWIng investment. which has not grown.” Another point of sharp attack was the $10.000.000 valuation claimed for the Maryland properties of the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co. which the Public Utilities Commission bhas valued at $2.800.000. - . ofcials; sec based upon the Clayicn said he has been toid at the office of the Utilities Commission that Wilsen had_voluntarily reduced this $10.000.000 figure to $4.803504. “But his reduction.” he said. “was a mere i for Wilson took that precise sum and added it to the est- ue of the District properties n Railway & Electric e total valuation was iggling of figure not changed Preparations for conducting public hearings on the street car merger agree- irtuaily completed todav by the Public Utilities’ Commission. Tle begin Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock in the poard roowm of the District Building. and are expected o continue for 10 days. An order of procedure Nas been tenta- vy . but as this may be deviated from he course of the hearings. the cor 1 does not pro- pose o make it pul “ar companies. however. it is understood. will be nity to present merger plan the owners Congress fication > { the stoc wo-thirds o ch company. by the merger the agreement. dividual com- { the presel avited to ate '§ fomorrow 3 entrely to of the has cvmpany New Survey Demanded N evaluation 1y Tepaty « ot motives, A rese © thewr plan and Qnaideration such amendmens theres A we as Delidie 10 Do necess LW the protechon o The tepnt was W the form of 8 letter 0 Ralpht B Fleharty, peogied counsel of the Pudlic Uttiities Qhanmis- shan and will de forwanded over iy sighatuie of James (b Yaden as cha man o the Advisey Councll, whe @ Ao prvskdent W the Federatha o Ciifsens Asaciations and & memder of the board of dueciors of e Washing ton Ramid Tranait O The council teservndt the tight, hows AV o sudant A later et based o the facts as develped @y the hearings defre the Pudiic Utilities Chamission Maring nent Wednesday Ravenners poposal for fee teanss G B1° . 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