Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1928, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes THER. U, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder to- morrow afternoon and night; minimum temperature about 35 d at 3:30 legrees Temperature—Highest, 45, p.m. yesterday: lowest, 29, at 7 am. today. Full report on page 9. WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION ¢ Fhening as fast as the papers Sta Closing New York Stocks, Page 14 are printed. Yu_lgtl{y's Circnlflit}l_l, 105,2515 WASHING Entered as second class mattel post office. Washinzton. D, 30,621. No. TON, I),” 92 = MARCH 1928 —FIFTY PAGES. (/) Means Associated Press. C., FRIDAY, TWO CENTS. * STEMARTHDITED Sy LSt e N T BY GRAND JURY ON - ONTENPTCHARGES Head of Standard 0il Di- rectors Accused on Two Counts Here. Two Flyers and Native. Forced Down in Snowy Wastes and Given Up for Dead, Reach Post. jwell. It gave no details, merely stat- since | Ing: “Airmen safe, Port Burwell." FURTHER DETAILS SOUGHT. | By the Associated Press, WINNIPEG, March —Lost | February 17 in the snowy wastes of the Arctic Circle, two aviators and a native were reported safe at Port Bur- | well on Hudson Straits. The aviators | are Flying Officer A. A. Lewis of Winni- peg and Flight Sergt. Terry of the LEAD TO TRUE BILLS | Northern air Patrol. | Twelve days ago Flying Officer Le! R | Sergt. Terry and a native left Port Bur- Counsel Agrees to Have Defendant | well on a patrol and observation trip. Agpear for Arraignment | Several hours after they had left, 2 i | Lewis reported by wireless from an un- in Short Time. | known position that he was landing on | f0 hate been vec et i y | los s | ficially one of the messages received to- B atea e | day said the missing men reached Hud- | ',“-‘h?;"t‘{ff‘{ o o adisna, was | Immediately search was organized. |son Straits at midnight, and that thelr | av on two counts of contempt for re- | 214 dOB teams were pressed Ino SrV- \orq yeceived from the flight lieutenant & " | 1ce to carry other searchers. The miss- vell. fusing to answer questions about the ', A at Burwell, on the straits. B o ot cetcbrated Liberty bond | INE airmen carried emergency rations | Authorities believed the three men | oil ““)M.“Q of the Continental Trading |@nd were otherwise well equipped, but nl"ac‘hm OBH‘I"'wf“ entirely by 1lm-tr own 1 profits of the Conti Dome | hope had practically been given up for efforts. Officials here presumed the men | Co. asked by the Senate Teapot Dome | }DC had P a = P 10T Souzht rest and sleep as soon as they commi X s g . rcached the straits. and until they are T heen disclosed that the Conti- | The message anmouncing their safety recovored from their exposure the full pental made $3.000.000 by selling oil was sent here by Flight Lieut. A. A. details of the adventure will not be e advance of 25 cents a barrel to | Lelleh of Winnepeg, from Port Bur- available. the Prairie Gas and Sinclair Crude Oil | FOR 250 0D LIBEL T FRALYNGPRLEY FRSELE Stewart, the indictmont charges, when | called before the committee February 1| Arrives From Boston After William McAndrew, Former Chicago Schcol Head, refused to answer the questions on the grounds that they not pertinent | Seeing Metal Bestowed on Mother. Brings Action. 2 OTTAWA, March 2 (#).—Further de- tails on the safe arrival at Hudson | Straits of two aviators and a native i who were reported lost in the Arctic | Circle, was sought today by the radio branch of the Government Marine De- partment. | Since the first message was received | at Winnipeg, announcing the arrival of | the three at Hudson Straits, no addi- ! tional information had come to the | marine department up to late this morning. The first message is belleved | | to have been received also at Louis- i | | i to the inquiry and that the committee | risdiction in conducting | into the disposition of | 3,000 of which went to | A'bert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior, | after the Teapot Dome lease. The oil man was recalled February 3 | and again asked the same questions ! 2nd refused to answer. He was arrested | by the Senate that night. but secured | his release on a writ of habeas corpus | before he could be arraigned at the bar | of the Senate. Stewart was .-etumedd; to !l:he cus!gdy‘ of the Senate ten ys later when | 2 " = o Justice Jennings Bailey refused to mm,char:es A. Lindbergh landed here at the writ of habeas corpus permlncmu” o'clock cn his mah.z from Boston. holding that the questions were perti-| The colonel and his ~hiee passengers nent and that the committee had full | were met at the field 5y Mai. Thomas %;flssdei;t‘cn HHP was “‘;’1‘_ ‘flkenflb;'or'-’ G. vanphier, Harry K. Knight and B. he Senate, however, as his appeal from | : fott the. 0K @ E hi & By atriot of oliibia | T Manoniey. | Rty el the gleldiiat ¥ once for New York by motor. Court of Appeals acted as a stay of lh(‘[ el i frmro ity e ! brought his plane to a stop L climbed | b0ard had held more .han a score of | o meetings extended over five months' | WilliAppear Seon. [out and, cvading photographers and | quring” which time McAndrew's term The two questions Stewart refused o interviewers, went at one o the walting | as superintendent expired. answer were whether he knew of any|aytomobile and was driven to the Hote! | Mr. McAndrew tefused to attend the one concerned in the bond deals of th" | gijymore Later in the day Lindbergh | latter part of the trial and bis attorneys Contirental Co. or whether he bad d'S°| oy ccneduled to attend 2 onference at | 8150 walked out at the Jast session. Yes- | (;)5:‘! meubm_;_i(mugé;n: vgessaearg:‘ the headquarters of the Daniel Gug- ‘:.gn:;y “l;s m‘?ie puh%n' a. l‘.-lllrr written & inclair, rapot o€, 3 lependent ol - whether Sinclar had discussed them genheim Foundation for the Promo- | g s g g fl%"‘;,“{ag:g with him. alation | B of Aeronautics. | the schools out of politics. 1n it he de- The indictment charges a violation | I nied each of the charges made egainst of section 102 of the criminal statutes, | him, characterized the entire proceed- | = |ings as “ballyhwo” und gave what he | egulasly: H | termed the “facts™ in the case. » Senate committee to refuse to answer ' A Lindbergh and three friends nooped | “No bill of particulars was filed today. pertinent to the subject under | from the East Boston Airvort at 743 only the praecipe, or formal declara- . The section provides that any | g'clock this morning for a destination | tion of the suit, being enteced, | one found guilty of the misdemeanor | which the transatlantic fiyer declined to | shall be fined not more than $1.000 nor | gisclose. than $100 and sentenced to not! "Col. Lindbergh was driven to the field | than 12 months or less than one|py Rear Admiral Phillp A. Andrews, | month in jail | commandant of the Pirst Naval District, | "As soon as the indictment was handed | with whom he had passed the night.| < down Jesse C. Adkins, Stewart's coursel | ge spent half an hour insoccting the was notified. He had agreed to have| five-passenger monoplane in which he Stewart appear for arraignment as sOON | arrived here yesterday to see his| 25 possible after the indictment. MY |mother, a Detroit school teacher. | Ackins said that Stewart would appear ' awarded an honor medal by the National | within a short time. | Education Association. | BOCKEFELLER MAKES INQUIRY. Mother Leaves Today. R | Mrs. Lindbergh was not at the field, Stewart’s Resignation Ready it Any| allhough’ ar;: was expecdl:d to fly back S to Detroit later in the day. Time. flays Statement. | Those with Lindberglr were Maj. W. NEW YORK. March 2 (®.—John D.| B. Robertson and Harold M. Bixby of Rockefeller who declined to vote | St. Louts, and H. Allan Sullivan of New for or agal e election of Col. Rob-| York, representing the Daniel Guggen- ert Stewart as a director of the Stand- | helm Foundation. Weather conditions | zrd Oil Co. of Indiana at yh!.urdaysl were good i meeting of stocknolders, is still seeking | Last night Col. Lindbergh saw his/ facts znd is now taking. and will | mother honored by thousands of her| e such steps in the matter as he associates who made her a life member | 5f the National Education Assoclation. | Presentation to Mrs. Lindbergh of the | gold key symbolic of the highest gift | within its power was the high light of | the closing session of the convention. | Shortly before, Lindbergh addressed the | convention with a plea for inclusion in | | the school curriculum of at least an| | elementary study of aerpnautics | | With Mrs Lindbergh and her son on | | the platform were Gov. and Mrs Alvin | her career, the dirigible Los Angeles | T Fuller, W. P, McCracken, Assistant| was speeding up the Atlantic coast to- | 1y of Commerce, and Joseph M. | day for her Lakeburst, N. J. hangar, Gwinn, president of the department of | which she left last Sunday morning superintendence of the association. fand completed a nonstop Slant " France Field, Panamu Canal Zone. Lindy Secks Private Life. AU 6:15 o'clock this morning the Los | As the crowd was leaving the hall Angeles had been in the alr exactly | Miss Charlotte Wells, 23, of Cambridge, | Ve days ana five nights | ther fell or was ',.m,..d'i,y the erowd | Delayed by reports that conditions under the wheels of the automobile of | Would be bad for landing at her New | Rear Admiral Philip A. Andrews, in | Jersey station, Lieut. Comdr. C. E.| *| which Lindbergh was riding Rosendahl, in charge of the eraft, | A rear wheel of the macnine passed | Changed 15 previous plans o start the | over one of the girl’s feet. A police- | second lap of the voyage home from man jumped on the running hoard and | Panami Wednesday and remalned | direcied the chauffeur U halt, ‘The girl | OVer night in Guacanayaba Bay, Cuba, | was sent o a hospital | Dy the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 2.—Mayor William | Hale Thompson was sued for $250,000 on libel charges today by William Mc- | Andrew, former superintendent ot | schools, suspended five months ago on | charges of - insubordination and anti- | Americanism Mr. McAndrew's trial before the 2oard | had | of Education ended this week after the | By the Associated Press. i CURTISS FIELD, N. Y, March 2.— | | Secretive About Flight. BCSTON, March 2 (#).—Col. Chflrl‘:d IRIGIBLE PASSES OVER CHARLESTON { | 'Los Angeles Headed Back| ! Home After Trip to Canal Zone. By the As A Pross, CHARLESTON; 8. C., March 2.— The dirigible Los Angeles passed over Cherleston, 8. C., at 12,25 pan. ‘The big ship approached the city from the westward, turned over the town and headed northward toward the navy yard. She was flying at an estimated helght of 1.000 feet, and the big sfiver hulk glistened in the bright sunlight. After one of the longest outings of 1 thinks proper, one of his associates de- clared in a prepared statement today. t was given out at Mr Rockefeller's offize at 12 Broadway. b of “one of his assoclate: 4. was not di | ““The publisced correspondence which Rockefeller has had with Seuator sh,” the statement said, “showed that Col. Stewart had offered 1o vesign ym the Indizna company on request view of this offer and of the fact that nis resigration is avaliable at any time, it is clear that nothing would oppusing Col. Stew- art's re-election yesterday “Mr. Rocks ler has in his spundence apnd in his testimon; learly that if and when he vart’s resfgnation thould would 1ot hesitate U reque IS £80C oncerned Juscketeller i seekir now taking angd w the matter as he 3 50,000 Indiana Co. Mr | 1ro; In er stockholders of § ed, 1t 1y feller must not the « Rocke! FEDERAL AN | House today approved the feature of 1service and who later | position 1s open, | SECOND STEAMER DOCKS REAPPORTION BILL WINS SUPPORT OF HOUSE COMMITTEE Measure Compels States to Readijust Delegations in Congress by 1931. U. S. SURVEY DEMANDED IF ACTION IS NEGLECTED New Representatives Would Be Elected at Large, With Shift of 24 Forecast. By a vote of 10 to 8 the House census committee today approved a bill to provide for reapportionment of the House membership upon its present size, 435 members, on the basis of the 1930 census. The measure would provide that if (he House failed to carry out reappor- ont by March 1, 1931, that the ary of Commerce would be directed to certify to the clerk of the | House the States that would gain mem- | and_ the States that weuld lose | The clerk then would be directed to | inform the respective States. Pending the redistricting by the respective States Legislatures, all members in States losing representation would be elected at large and in States gaining member- ship, the new members would be elected at large. ‘The committee in reporting the bill did not state which States would gain and lose under the proposed reappor- tionment plan. During hearings on the measure, however, varfous unoflicial | estimates were submitted. One esti- mate made by William M. Steuart, director of the Census Bureau, csti- mated the gain and loss as follows® States gaining representation—Cali- fornia, six; Connecticut, one; Florida, one; ichigan, four: Montana, one; New Jersey, two: North Carolina, one; two; Washington, one; Arizona, one. | Total, 24, States losing representation — Ala- bama, one: Indiana, two: Towa, two, | Kansas, one; Kentucky, two: Louisiana, one: Maine, one: Massachusetts, one: Mississippi, Missourd, four: Ne- braska, one; Jersey, two: North Da- kota, one; Tennessee, one: Vermont, one; Virginia, one. Total, 24. NUITY OF §1.200 FAVORED ; | | \ | Civil Service Committee Ap- proves Amendments to Lehlbach Bill. The civil service committee of the | the Lehlbach bill to increase the maxi- mum annuity to $1,200 The committee also approved an| amendment to provide that those who are retired on account of injury in recover within one year shall be given a position in| the Federal service comparable in rank | and salary to the one occupled at the time of retirement, or, if no comparable the beneficlary shall continue to receive his retired pay until such time as he Is allocated back to work. Another provision approved permits the annuity of thos: already on the retired role to be brought up to the same level as the beneficlary would recelve under the liberalized law. The committee also agreed that an annuftant should have the right t) select any 10 years of continuous serv- fce s u basis from which the govern- ment would compute his annuity pay. Further hearings are to be held and the board of actuaries is to be asked for a report on what the liberalized re- nt Taw will probably cost. rings are to be held March 8, on Fish bill mirman Lehlbach after the execu- tve session today, declined to confirm reports regarding the action taken by the committee, WITH EPIDEMIC ABOARD President Plerce Reaches Honolulu With Among Steernge Passengers. Pneumonin Outbreak moored to the tender Patoka | The fiyer wid Teporters that he | Informed that the weather would be | “hoped W return to private Wfe for a tme” He declined o say whether he would retire permanently. ““The meet- tonight 1s my last official function, My plans are ipdefinite wfter that” BANDITS GET $4,000. POLAND HELD READY *T0 MEET LITHUANIA ¥ovno Report Baye Warsaw Agrees s March 17 Four Men Hold Cashier and Wife in Woods All Night. KINGSTREE, 6 C, March 2 (A% | The Planters’ Bank of Hemingway was o[ robbed here early today by s band of four men, who late last night kidnuped DL “Taylor, cashier, and his wife and held them in the woods, near town, un- Ul the hour for the Gme Jock on U bsnk vaull o open his morning The gobbers got more than $4,000 socording 1o the story wid Shenft 1, ¥, ke here today ) Wy ain st the wns b wseed for s istanice Gusing e negotia s e selected Lrayue Snis e Koty c10ig i Ui b goverumen Constructed in His TANGIER PE.ACE NEAR. MADIIL. March Premier | 4fu|m chalr” he had constructe Prits e vera confimed today sl | caused the death lust ntght great progrens bad been miade Wwird 8 Kenneth P Brouks, J6-yesr-old Wigh pettienent Ui e SChud sentor yeutrel wiie o e pe “Che oy, unclad except for u pair Gone belweer i P - cotton trunks, vas found in the e th Jusdr b the 0 by other atement | Handeut 1 which vires - leading Tiom Je dight ciread 4 oy the A Ait Bivem | BPOISANE, Wash [ experiment, apparently March 2 W test regald 16 b made 1egaioing 1 b an electy siivd & 116-Year-Old Boy D;'cs in "Electric Cha An| an | | favorable for docking today, the »m|,| By the Associuted Jresn s cut loose from the Patoka’s mast | HONOLULU, March exterday at 10 am., turned west-ger was dead and five others were sent ward along the Southern Coust line of |t hospitals here when the lner Presi- Cubs and flown over the sland. She |dent Fierce, from Manila, docked at ) | pussed over Mavana at 5:55 pan. and (pm, Honolulu time, 14 hours ahead of | spent most of the night over the Btralts | schedule, due to an outbreak of pheu- L of Florida and South Atlantic Const. | monla among steerage passengers. | Navy Department officals hold that| at no thme during her erulse southward | Ihis s the second vessel to arrive 1 and back has the Los Angeles renched |4t Honolulu from Manlla within the maximum speed, although she | PSL month with w pneumonts, eptdemic chicked off 83 miles an hour at one [WMONR steerage passengers. CPhe liner {time with & tall wind. Only about half | President Cleveland arrived on February {of her maximum eficiency has been H “I‘:'”x'n :1 hos) ;ml.l cases n:ul wn:‘(l ‘:n:n * 4 pinos died en routs Jand were employed, they sy o Rt ok o | None of the cabin snengers aboard the Cleveland or Plerce wis reported \PEOPLES MAY ACQUIRE O0’'DONNELL DRUG STORES Acquisition of the O'Donnell chaln of | downtown drug stores 1s planned by the oy | Peoples Drug Stores, it | today | Formal announcement of the pui- chise of thiee O'Donnells stores i the bushiens section i expected o be mido Monday or ‘Tuesday. The stores are locited ut 604 Ninth e stroct an 1405 M st 1 M. G Gibba, preside Diug Stores corpors dented that the transaction had been ) pleted. He snld he was “not veady at esent’ o make wny Announcement, hut that & formal announcement might 2 | ; 1 Ohio Bankers Indicted, FINDLAY, Ohlo, March 2 () Thivty-five indictiments chargng officers und directors of the Arecad Hank & Bavi, diin, Ohilo, with embezzdement of $273.619 64 wer returned toduy by the Hancock County wrand Jury r Room as Ex periment street, » [ were attaehed, encireled the ankles and | Lof the Pe te Phe current was contiolled by sl switeh held i the youth's Police scouted w sutcide theory when parents, Mr. und Mis, dohn A was reported | CLAYTON RENEWS YALUATION: ATTACK INMERGER HEARING | Federation Representatives PG 0N XS fi;w’nh VS ) \\‘; ;\‘{ 3 bl J Seek to Show North American Co. Holdings. COMMISSION RESERVES DECISION ON MOTION na Says List of Stockholders Has Been Filed With Con- cration of and Wi ¥ renewed their attack today on the 000,000 valuation which is designed to | serve as the initial rate base for the SENATE CONTINUES ON TRAIL OF BONDS Major Portion of $3,080.000 Continental Profits Still to Be Found. | Ohio, three; Oklahoma, one; Texas, | P¥ the Associated Press While some additional progress has been made, the Senate Teapot Dome committee still was in quandary today as to the final resting place of the major portion of the $3.080,000 in prof- summated in this country by the Con- tinental Trading Co. of Canada. Testimony yesterday by Will H. Hay: former Postmaster General, that Harry F. Sinclair had given him $260.000 in Liberty bonds, but got back $100.000. for use by the Republican national com- mittee in 1923, after the oil operator had leased Teapot Dome, led the in- vestigation committee to believe it nad jat’ least partially traced more han g, far o, to give members of ths $2,000,000 of the profits. Fall Got $233.000. A recapitulation of its efforts to dat follows: ‘That $233.000 of the bonds went from Sinclair to Albert B. Fall after the lease yas signed, although only $196.000 of this amount has been traced directiy to the account of the Canadian corpora= tion. A belief by the committee that the $260,000 turned over to Hays by Sin- clair to help extinguish thNe Repubiicun national committee deficit from the 1920 presidential campaign, which Havs directed and supervised as chairman of the party’s national committee, repre- sented part of Sinclair's profits from the Continental transaction. ‘That $800,000 of the bonds went to James E. O'Neil, former president of the Prairle Oll & Gas Co. has been that this amount was deliv- ered by O'Nell's son to W. S. Fitz- Prairie company, on May 20, 19 at the direction of the father, who trav- cled from Paris to Montreal to make restitution of his share in the profits Chairman Nye of the committee, how- as replacements, since their serfal num- bers did not check with Continental securities, Blackmer Got $750,000. That $750,000 of the bonds went to H. M. Blackmer, former chairman of the board of the Midwest Refining Co., who, like O'Nell, Is a missing witness in_the oll ltigation. Hays testimony vesterday was that Sinclair handed him the $260,000 in Liberty bonds in 1923 after the Contis nental had gone out of business, but he knew aothing of the Canadlan com- pany at that time Remembering that the former cabinet officer had testified In 1924 that Sin- clair had contributed but $75.000 to- ward the Republican deficit, Sel Walsh, Democrat, Montana, and Brat- ton, Democrat, New Mexico, questioned Hays closely on the point plained that since he was not asked cfore the court about further amounts and planned at the tme to return all of the money to Sinclair, he did not volunteer information beyond that about the $75,000 donation. Of the Wtal, $100,000 was returned to Stnclalr as not needed, Hays said, add- Ing_that S during the 1920 campalgn because of the national committee’s declston to keep individual contributions below $1,000. He declured he knew o! no one who had glven as much as Sinelatr toward wiping out the party deficit LINDBERGH BILL PASSES. Measure Authorizes Flyer to Ao cept Forelgn Honors, “The House bill authoriging Chatles A Lindbergh to accept gifts and decorn- tons from forelgn governments was ap- proved today by the Senato and sent to Prestdent” Coolldge After pussige of the measure, Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, - said that while he’ hud not opposed the bill, he did not bellove that such . cours should be followed by Congress “1 hope Col. Lindbergh dechines to accept any sueh gifts or decorations from other nations,” he added. WARSAW GETS LOAN. City Contracts for $10,000,000 at T Per Cent. WARHAW, Match 2 (" ‘The city with & Hew $10,000,000 0, The Loda Tex- York nvm for loan, with possibl 000,000, at T pey its from an overnight oil deal con- | ‘estimony | patrick. chairman of the board of the | ever, has termed these returned bonds ators | Hay; ex- | Inir had not contributed | 'HOUSE DIVERTED AS MEMBER 'PRODUCES EXHIBITS OF ALCOHOL ;Dry Representative Makes Protest Againstz ! “Passing Drinks"—New Yorker Raps | ' Poisoning of Industrial Product. | _e i Republican e ouse was, fienthect sl o | Wikcouli recalledil(hAR (ormier Repr=: eriod of diversion today by Represent- g 4 : Do Eirovicts Democzar, of New York, | sentalive Upshaw of Georgla, an ardent Who brought in a collection of test dry. once had displayed empty whis tubes and botles containing grain |bottles in the House chamber, saying alcohol and poisons to fllustrate a that Ye had picked them up In the speech on the poisoning of industrial | waste-; aper baskets of House members. alcohol. | “While Linthicum, Schafer and Repre- | Sirovich was permitted to proceed | sentative Black, Democrat, New York, | after he had assured Representative | were arguing for permission for Siro- | Cramton, Republican, Michigan, an |vich to proceed, Representative Garrett | avowed dry, that he would not use any |of Tennessee, the minority leader | |of the paraphernalia which he had ! crossed over to the Republican side of | | spread on a table in the well in tront | the House and conferred in an under- | of the Speaker's chair. | tone with Cramton. Shortly after that | Cramton said he did not wish any|Cramton announced to the House that |laboratory experiments performed nor if the only use Sirovich proposed tc !any passing of drinks between members. | make of the bottles and test tubes was | This brought a ripple of laughter and | to let them rest on the table he would Cramton again interjected to warn that | withdraw his objection. Representative Schafer, | i |"if the New York member should go Finally gaining the floor. Sirovich e House |said that he was a physician and a {Hquor on the floor of the House," h total abstainer” and had never writ- jwould urge that disorderly conduct |ten a prescription for whisky or alcohol. | charges be preferred. 1Appb‘m<e. in which Cramton joined. | The Michigan member's questioning | greeted this statement. | of Sirovich brought Repxesemanw] Sirovich declared that the purpose of Linthicum, Democrat, Maryland, to his | his speech was to make a protest, feet in protest. He said that the New |against the placing of poison in i Yorker was proceeding within his rights | dustrial alcohol for enforcement of ti and that several years ago former Sen- | prohibition laws. He said this pra: | ator Stanley of Kentucky, then a House , tice had caused many deaths and that | member, had even gone so far as to'as a person “interested in humanity” make whisky on the H ! | h> desired to register a protest. STREET GAR STRIKE FAVORS MEMORIAL Conference With Mayor Senate Library Committee I Walker Scheduled as Labor | Would Authorize Road to Walkout Impends. i Mount Vernon. 18 i | "‘xJE‘iv\'\f‘éii{x'é" ‘l;n«l i ! The Senate library committee voted D March 2.~Active prep- today to report favorably the Swanson | arations for-a great transit strike, prob- bill, authorizing construction of ably not before Monday. were being | proposed memorial boulevard from the | ;x‘mdnl&t;:n_\, but New \rr'l:s riding mil- | Arlington Memorial Bridge to Mount | ltons today saw a ray of hope. Vernon. | A conference was arranged between| The measure empowers the United Mayor Walker and William D. Mahon | States Commission for the cel on | land Willilam B. Fitzpatrick, president |of the two hundredth anntversary of | and vice president, respectively, of the | the birth of George Washington, to take | Amalgamated Association of Street and | :;‘r“:‘fl“"fi; ";l:l‘x“t*‘,;"‘l; S b Electric Railway Workers. This seemed | ; e kg t be a final effort to prevent & walk- | biece b he prst Promine 0 2 out of the union members on the Inter- | The Secretary of | Agriculture s porough Rapid ‘Transit Co's. subway | authorized by the bill to co-operate with and elevated lnes l:\l‘ A‘\‘muu»:fln) n lm\kn‘:g urveys of The differences between the I R. T | the route which would Be selected by and the union grow out of the discharge | the commission. Tvovision would be of several unfon members from the | made in the estimates for the plant company’s employ. of shrubbery and other land Prepare for Emergency. I treaumaniti kg st boulevard More than 700 men, recrutted I New | getermined by the tommission York and brought in from Washington. | The bill gives authority to the D. C. and other cities were quartered | cyotary of Agriculture to today In company car barns, beink | from any State or county, trained 1o take the places, If necessary, | or assoclation to ald the projec M"Hh\'\ ;'un::.x:‘m‘nu“:d lx:\:;"m, etk nual allotments of funds by Congre us - generally - believe strike | also would be authorized under mmld hot hr“:'"::-‘fl“‘\l>:f~‘l‘\;:‘““‘ll;l\“":{ :“\ h,m. M‘xh miv end fn view of havin o e . ] the’ boulevard completed for the Georse :“-h‘mv L. l'm l:\;‘\}h‘ll::ml;\"‘l;:ll‘;‘.lfl“ "ll‘“';'l | washington bicentennial celebration in hours. would probavly be given before | ' the strike order would be put into ef- | . foot A | . Mhtertoraugts ometats dectare onty 10| MINE FIRE CONTINUES: cent of their men belong to the A A" “rganteation wnd e wew] THREE WORKERS DEAD own L R T. Brotherhood. the company | unfon, enrolls nearly 100 per cent of | Moy Overcome by Smoke and Gas the company employes. The brother- | 3 While Fighting Blaze fu Mon- Copper Shatt, hood officlals have declaved for the 1 R officlals - the uuxuw between the, company and the Amalgamated The Amalgamated, on the other hand claims 80 per cent of the L AT, em- ployes as members trunsit commission sald its emer- geney bus plans made at the tme of a threatened strike st duly, could quickly be put into effect Lines Leased to Company. The lnes, butlt with ity capital, were leased o (he company With stip- wiations that the fare muit vemain at By tho Asw ' P | B Mont, Match @ | Badger State mine of the Copper Mintng Co. here that yeste | cost the lives of thiee men, continued today With large crews tighting ot James White, shift boss. Bdward Rarmes and William Hasty were over- | come by smoke and gas while erecting | bulkheads W the Diamond mine, ad- | Joiing the Badger State. Wik abo| B cents and that under caatam condi- | Was suspended fn the Elm Arlu mine | Hona the elty could take them over | OUIn of the fite wWhich statted i the The & R has been trying to have | 2000-100t level, was undetermined taren ralwed to T cents. Thero have been four strlkes on the LOROTO i the past 29 years, tave of Which wera won by the company, the other ending In & vompromise, . Liner Forced to Return, GIRRALTAR, Mareh 3 9 The French Liner France, due at Cadie this afternoon fram Alglers, was torved (o retin here and pub her passengers | whore when heavy seas wade 16 - | possible to put thom ashore at Oadia . Qen. Hines Monoved. Rrig Qen. Frank T 1tines today com- HINGES ONPARLEY' HIGHWAY MEASURE : proposed Capital Transit Co. at the third of the hearings by the Public Utilities Commission on the transit merger agreement, The federation representatives ako York in the Washington Rall ric and Capital Traction g out that it is of * for the car riders to rois the tracti panies n moved that, sary, bona fi Hanna on Stand. John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Traction Co., was on the wit ness stand for further cross-examination vhen Clayton and Roberts resumed their fight on the $50.000,000 valuation. Roberts said it was the purposs of the federation to show that the $62.500.000 value claimed by the companies and scaled down to $50.000,000 for merger purposes is based on reproduction costs at peak prices and that it is the du of the commission to make a new valua- f a valuation is made now.” he the value would be very Clayton opened the hearing with a request that the commission order the street railway companies to supply in- formation as to the number of cars the: i lower.” the North American Co. tly or indirectly or through agents, he traction companies. To th quests Mr. Hanna replied that mission now has information showing the equipment owned by the Capital Traction Co. its age. etc. and that | the North American Co. owns no stock in his company in such & way that it can be identified as being held by that company. Stockholders’ List Filed. “The complete list of our stockholders has been filed with Congress as of De- cember 31, 1927," declared Mr. Henna It is a bulky document, contamning 300 names. 1 am info: will be printed and it will into tne record.” William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. interjected that his company is equs willing to put that information b record. and it was at this po that Clayton asked the commissiv summon competent witnesses to testify as to the stock holdings of the Nort American Co. in each of the s way companies and subpoena necessary. “It is & very sa important feature in this case who owns the companies,” he de Hanna introduced as an company | of the total | cember 31, 19 Points to Hansel Report. Ck T howing the a | condtion and type is & 1S t0 be set up as added ¢ alignment s company will s tion_ fund “We are it of the ¢ W 1y tation survey report potatad o this company needed 500 naw ¢ Clayton added that it is { the two tra pase the info Cash Net Determined. company and ¢ Y ted in RS previous 1t the amount of cash W 0 1t by the Capital Trac- d not yot been determined. estimate. the figure would $1.800.000 and $2.000.000 ment dfd not carry the on” he declared, t the e 10 be put to pubdlic us would rep- nt that much maney ny event would be range betw i Tese no additi son Brand, misston, then ques Hanna as to whether the new coms PANY §S gOME 10 have $30 000000 as 4 rate base from which retivements must ted. The question shou d 01 What basis retirements made ald My R that the retirements shoult be made the basis at which the unit of valy carried In the $30.000 000t the @ eretion of the commission AIRMEN DIE IN CRASH. Thres British Flyers Fall, . . Mareh 2 (@ Phice membors of the Raval Air Foree Were Killed today e ihe orash of their pare rom A height of 2000 above the Ishe ot G The machine was e of @ o slationed at Basi- chureh The machine Killed in CHATHAM. Eu 1| s . b obtutned w $2,500,000 poastble extension to e Mills have loan with w #5.000,000 The olty's loan will be used 1o ansist I the improvement of Warsaw's utility nndertaking, told of s heillisnt scholastic ood hiealth and plans o thin semester — Ofcers we {1 tormed the hoy often hadexpe Pmented with chning, handeafts o padiocks wnd studicd elecuioiy, b made ently st week ‘The Peoples chalin alvendy embraces half & hundred stoves in wll parts of the city. Many of these slores were acquired from competitors in the diug neld | stanat.’g graduste pleted fve years of service as diveotor of he Veterana' Burean He was greeted At & spectal ocoaston in his offloe by ws- siatant divectors wid other oMelals, who “mmuu«l Mo with w Javge basket of owers The lmer ook six howrs to make the Ta-mile Journey fram Cadta o Qi raltar | Radio Programs - Page 34 seeied 10 be ftving att Il A spial e QI TR vight aly R fftoer Al hel h had beenn Kuked vutighs