Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1928, Page 7

'WILSON BARES PART . fiI_EAGUE WI“. MAK ] BUS LINE WOULD IPPEALTONATIONS Council to Urge Spain and Brazil to Reconsider Withdrawals. (Continued from_First Page.) paid $10.000 for their 375 shares of bus Stock, Wilson explained. on exactly the | same basis paic him for his stock. Wil- son owns 98 per cent plus of the stock in the transit company. 1 In advance of the organization of the new company. Wilson outlined. he would bring about an entire liquidation of the bus line and transfer t3+the new com- pany its feasible assets. 4 | “This would not add a cent o the rate base.” he declared. and explained that the bus line asks for no rate of 1e turn. Such a liquidation of “h* bus line, he testified. could be brought about in 0 days ' Wilson outlined as benefits to be de- rived from the merger & saving of ap- proximately $1.000.000 through re- routing and other changes. Under an cxamination by Willlam A. Roberts of the Federation of Citizens™ Assoclations, Just before the noon recess. Wilson ad- mitted that he had never gone behind a public utilities commission’s _decisfon | in secking a fair rate of return in all | his experience in utility enterprises. | Roberts tried to pin him down to & direct answer as to whether he be-! lieved the District Public Utilities Com- mission Would be less fair after Wilson | had sald "he had always heretofore | obtained rates of 8 per cent or more. ' The traction official sald he did ot bolieve the local commission would be | less fair and cicclaimed the insinuation | when Roberts suggested that it was the purpose to seek a fair return through Congress 1 th examination revealed "’I:\l: Wilson has sold out =all his traction ho'dinzs cxcept stock in the transit compan~, the traction cnate testy- fying that he did not consider street | railway investments a good proposition. | In spite of the faet that he did not know how much the transit company | Jost last year, Wilson claimed it would | be on a profitable basis by the time it is taken over in the merger m:rrfl_urntv through new and improved business | methods, Re the Assaciated I GENEVA, March 8.—The Council of the League of Nations today took steps calculated to stay the withdrawals of Rrazil and Spain from the League Prancesco Jose Urrutia of Colombia. presiding at the Leanus meeting. called 2tiendon 1o the approaching expiration of the potice of withdrawal of the two countries) He proposed that an appeal be sont them to reconsider the situation Senor Urrutia sugeested he present resolution at which staxe Jotter signed by the president of the Council in behalf of its members. Each member of the Council support- r was adopted. Terms Nearing Close. ch, Senor Urrutia would cease 1o b at the next meet- and Spain at the In opening his said that Brazil member of the Lea ing of the Council following mecting 1t wou wrong for us to remain silent or confine ourselves o & ion of regret.” he said. “1 d not hestitate to invite governm to consider whether the reasons which caused them 10 resign Are SO strong in 1928 that they bound to take the final step. 1 't think the Council should be de- terred by any fear that it might meet nfavorable response and that the Cowfvil's prestige might suffer. 1 “I cannot preaict what the action of the two governments may be. The coun- cil. however. can give one more UNQue: tionable proof of the value not only but the League as a whole sets on T collaboration and remind them nion of their coun‘ries of importance t» the vorld n they must maze within the next few months™ He then proposed the apvea! be 1made in the form approved. Sir Austen Chamberlain. British ‘or. ts Quotes Stock Price. In the purchase of the minority bus stock. Wilson testified the plan would contemplate treating each share exactly i alike The price quoted by Wilson for the | 375 minority shares would be $28 on a | par value of $10. Mr. Wilson said it was entirely prob- able he had paid too much for his stock THE E\’ENTNG-QTA‘R. WASHINGTON, D. . THURSDAY. MARCH &8 Next to Last Home Of Vanderbilts on . Fifth Ave. Doomed HOFFAANS CASE WATS ON CHEMST Analysis of Dead Girl’s Stom- | ach Delays Action Before Grand Jury. By tha Associatad Press. NEW YORK, March 8.—The next to the last of several palatial homes once owned and occupied by the Vanderbilt family on Fifth avenue has been turned over to the wreckers. ‘The house at 666 Fifth avenue was sold last year to John D. Rockefeller, ir. and is being torn down to make way ifor & six-story commercial building The only remaining Vanderbilt ¥ Further moves In thé case of Louls W. Hoffman, a physiotherapist. now awaiting action by the grand jury in| home on the avenue is that owned onnsction with the death of Miss| by Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt at Eleanor Lehman, 30 K street, must wait | Fifty-frst, ctreet, a block from the on the report of the chemical analysis | onb being'demolished. stomach. Miss Pearl McCall, mmnm‘-ONEs"s 'ON LEAVE, RESIGNATION DENIED United States attorney, sald today. i Miss Lehman, who ‘died on a treat- ment table in Hoffman's office Satur- | hibition Official Obtains Release ;From Duties to Go to day after she had received a spinal| Ohio. adjustment treatment -for a ‘headache, | is ‘alleged to have taken heavy doSes ! of aspirin’ during the day, and local | chiropractors claim this ‘may have | Prol caused her death, rather than a ver- | tebral dislocation as claimed. by .Dr,| J. M. McDonald who performed the | inquest at the Distriet morgue, * | qua LEGION HEARS DUTY IN NATION’S DEFENSE Ninth Anniversary - Speaker De- scribes Founding of George Washington Post. The responsibility of the Legion in the fight for an adequate national de- fense was the keynote of all speakers at the celebration last night by George | Washington Post, No. 1, of the ninth | anniversary of the formation of the American Legion. After the speeches |a dance was held at the post’s head- rters, 1820 T street. C. J. Painter, post commander, gave | a brief sketch of the founding of the | Leglon. On February 5, 1919, a group |of veterans met at Cosmos Club and formed the George Washington Post, No. 1, he related. On March 7 of | that year the Legion was formally | launched, and from the local post it | spread throughout the country. The work of the Legion in Iowa was | detailed by Charles S. Robbins, Assist- | ant Secretary of War. Ma). Gen. Amos | A, Fries, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, told Legionnaires that some day | Congress and the people will become cducated to a point where national pre paredness will need no special adve cates. Other speakers included Col. E. Lester Jones, first commander of the 1928, EAST HYATTSVILLE TAX | PROTESTS PRESENTED Spactal hapaleh to Tha Star. | | UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 8. ' —Taxpayers of Hyattsville election dis- | trict appeared before the Prince Georges | county commissioners here this mom-j ing, protesting the valuations placed on their property in the general reas- sessment of real and personal property. | The Hyattsville people were not so nu- | merous as have been the groups from | some other districts who have appeared | recently, but many owners sent in their protests by letter. 3 ‘The delegation today was made up of property owners in East Hyattsville acreage. given all owners, starting other Hyattsville Souvenirs at Bergling's Addltion, sections 1 and 3 ..,\I’.',SSF.’i Hyattsville Hills and of those owning |the Government Tomorrow a_hearing will be | : property | down t| z ik pel | n the building Will Push Case. The stomach analysis is expected to | show approximately the amounts of this drug taken by Miss Lehman during the y. The analysis will not be com- pleted before tomorrow or Saturday, it Miss McCall said, an effort will be made at_once, Hoffman announced yesterday that he had engaged T. Morris Wampler as his attorney and that he had no in- tention of discontinuing his practice un- til the case is disposed of. The case is arousing intense interest both among the local medical fraternity and the chiropractors because of its possible bearing on the proposed new . medical practice act, now awaiting ac- i tion by the House, which stresses fun- damental educational requirements for the practice of ain, of the healing arts in the District of Columbla. Doubts Cause Was Dislocation. C. Richard Smith. president of the Washington Chiropractors’ A sciation. |'safd that while tie practitioners of this « school of healing have no direct in- terest in Hoffman. who is a physio- Contrary to general belief. James F. Jones has not resigned his position as | deputy commissioner of prohibition to become director of finance of the city { was said st the District chamist's office. | tho® Tresaurs toane © Vs Joarned at Once the report is made and a tran- | seript of the inquest testimony received, | Although Mr. Jones Is now in Youngs- 'town, and it was indicated when he left that he had resigned. it was learned to- | to place the case before the grand Jury | day that what he finally did was not. to resign at all, but to arrange to obtain | from the Government “leave without | pay.” This leaves no vacancy in the office | of deputy commissioner of prohibition, and so Mr. Jones' chalr and desk are | still waiting for him at the Prohibition | Bureau | Meantime the duties of deputy com- | missioner are being handled by other officials in the Prohibition Bureau and | his work from time to time is shifted, | as the occasion requires, among severai high officials of the bureau. At present |th whole executive responsibility of | the bureau rests upon the shoulders of Judge James J. Britt, who is general counsel. Prohibition Commissioner Do- ran and Assistant Commissioner Ofte- dal are in Florida checking up on the campaign against smugglers who at- tempt to furnish liquor to the Winter George Washington Post; Representa- | tive Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota. John | Miller Kenyon, departmen: commander; Paul J. McGahan, past department com- { mander, and John Thomas Taylor, vice | chairman of the national legisiative Opening | committee. 'GEORGE SEEKS LIGHT | IN DELEGATE CHOICE| Senator Will Confer With State Leaders in Naming Hous- ton Slate. Ry ihe Associated Press i Senator George announced today that he had accepted the Invitation of the Democratic executive committee of Georgia to name the delegates to the Democratic national convention at . Houston in June. These delegates will | 1 be instructed to vote for the Senator ' for the presidential nomination. | At the same time the Senator made public a letter to G. E. Maddox, chal The Belgels 1213 G St. N.W. Spring Opening Sale Il Lovely New Dresses eizn minister. and Foreign Minister Briand of France supported him, as did rique Villegas of Chile. Helds Co-operation Needed. “It was clezr that continued co-opera- tion of Biazi! and Spain represented en immense interest.for the world.” Senor Villegas said. “an@ he thought ther should disregard sl “consideration a contingent contemparary nature. He therefore ventured to express the hop» that the appeal proposed would be sent to both Brazil and Spain as the result ©f a unanimous impulse and that it would secure the early collaboration of those two nations. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes of Cuba. #2id he was sure he was interpreting the feelings not only of the Cuban people. but the Cuban government in supporting the proposals. He declared the voice of the Cuban government . Should not fail to be heard at the same time. 85 those of Colombia and Chile and that in making the appeai to Spain. Cuba remembered the gesture of Spain in restoring the relics of the Cuban war for independence, which were long pre- served in a military museum in Madrid. These relics. he asserted. would shortly cross the Atlantic as a new sign of the peace between the two countries Wwhich were Jonz heroic adversaries and today were the best of friends % e Braml announced her withdfawal from the League in June. 1926, and Epainy en the zame vear. Neither with- . drawal. however, can be effective until the ‘espiration of 1we .years. | NEW HIGH SCHOOL AT LELAND DEDICATED Opecial Dispateh to The Star ROCKVILLE, Md.. March 8.—Dedi- cation services for the recently opened ’)'fl“‘l-cht\'? Chase High School at Lreiand were held iast night. with a large stiendance. Flags of Nation and Etate Were presented by George of Bethesda on behalf of the Parent-Teacher Association, several ad- Cresses were made and Mrs. Douglas Greisimier, president of the associa- tion, thanked the various organizations which had contributed funds and ma- terials to the institution On the relationship between school end parents. Thomas W. Pyle. princi- pal. spoke at length. urging continued co-operation. Dr. George E. Lewis, su- pervisor of school property, pointed out the nepés of keeping housing and equipment up with the growth of en- roliment. which had been 1,000 in the eounty in the last year. Dr. George L. Edmunds. member of the county Board of Education, spoke on the rela- tions of the board to the Pzrent-Teach- er Association. in the first place, but claimed he had looked to the future, believing Wash- ington is destined to be a very great city. He explained there is no relation between capitalization and the rate base in public utility enterprises. citing | & company he knew of which was capi- | talized at $10.000,000. vet had a rate base of $220.000,000. H The capitalization of the pmpos!d‘ merged companies here would $52.400.000, tentatively. He declared the proposed $50,040.000 rate base does not include any part of the net quit assets turned over, except when the new assets are converted into -extensions. | betterments and improvements. After explaining the part of the bus | line in the merger plan, Wilson weml into an explanation of the two primary | benefits h believed would accrue to the | companies and the public through the merger. These he outlined as improved service and econcmies. Outlines Survey. Ontlining the 10 different surve: made of conditions here, Wilson said he had directed his engineers to check up on all features with a view to im- proved service and a merger of the| companies with the least possible capi- 121 expenditure. He said he would not now offer a| plan for realignment and unified eon- trol under which savings could be made, but would leave that to experts who would be put on the stand. The presi- dent of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. also is to give such detalls as the eommission may require as to the oper- ation of the bus line. “Exclsive of savings in crossing policemen and ng, the merger would save upwards of $1,000.000, as. I have stated repeatedly,” Mr. Wilson declared Mr. Pleharty and Mr. Wilson engaged in considerable discussion over the possible effect that the inclusion of the bus line in the merger would have on he valuation Wilson finally made it plain that i’ there were a revaluation at some future time, the revaluation so far as rate- making purposes are concerned would P. take into consideration the additions therapist. they belleve that the colony in that Stat testimony at the Inquest, which stressed | "Ate o e teen i Youngstown the conclusion that Miss Lehman died | for some time. but his status.at the of a vertebral dislocation, gave the |Treasury still leaves him on the rolls as public a false impression and that the | “on leave without pa truth will come out only with the re- % port of the District chemist. A leopard skin was recently presented He has made hundreds of similar | | adfustments himself, Smith said. and | !0 the Old Boys' Pipe Band of County docs rot believe It would be possible to | DOWN, Ireland, to be worn as an apron cause with the hands such a dislocation | OV the drummer. as was described. New Minister Confirmed. The Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of David E. Kaufman of Pennsylvania to be Minister to Bolivia. He succeeds Jesse S. Cottrell, who re- signed recently because of his health. Four-Month Fire Ql;efiched. LYKENS, Pa. March 8 (®).—Work was resumed on a full-time basis at the Short Mine colliery of the Susquehanna Colliery Co. today after the extinguish- ing of a fire in the colliery which had | burned since last October. Three hun- | dred men are affected. | tary of the Wreco Co. and Gruehl is a vice president of the North American Co.. d is said to hold his shares as personal property. Mr. Roberts, who was given wide tude in. questioning officials about valuation, believes he has laid the foun- dation for later arguing that $14,498.100 must come out of 'm: $62,500.000 chlmk» 28 &' profier rate. ed by the com base value of their properties, reducing it thereby to $48.002.900. Roberts con- tendcd that since the admitted com- | bined accrued’ depreciation of the two car companies was §7,249.050. and the compauies were to enter the merger | undepreciated, all depreciation should be removed from valuation. & | Twice the sum of actual hook de- valuation should ne deducted. Roberts . argued, because the accrued depreclation was based on 1914 prices, which the companies clatm have doubled since In every other respect than deprecia- tion the companies have based costs on | JOSEPH M <14th St at R—Pot. 1631 Maintenance—Kanaus Ave, and betterments of the bus line only the doubled reproduction prices. from the date of the merger agreement. | Lists Stockholders. William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway & Electric Co.. introduced & statement yesterday of persons holding 1 per cent or wore of the capital stock of his company. There are five of these: The North American Co., with 48550 shares: Crane, Parri & Co., 13802 shares: Arthur W. Pisher, 2117, Edwin Gruehl, 1,850, and John J Noonan, 1,500 Crane, Parris & Co. s said to be holding its shares for the North Ameri- -0 A rURNITURE ' can Co.. making that corporation’s hold- | ings less than 62,352 of the 150,000 out- standing shares. This was sald by others than Ham. Fisher is the secre- HOME OF THE BUDGET PLAN | | man of the committee, requesting that the committee meet in the near future to advise with him and to sugges! delegates and alternates to be appoint- v ed from the various districts and the State at large. the purpose of avoiding responsibility. Senator George said, “but to enable me ta wisely and properly exercise power conferred upon me." in your S TUDEBAKER. | t the “This request is submitted not f the cReynolds Conn. Ave, at R—North 6375 & Upshur St ‘al. 1082 occasion of their openinz will feature a most —— away within 45 days after the company receives official not mmmoeqed,m When this ilding 18- demolished there will be left standing on the site D. C. FIRM TO RAZE e | of detention. The Treasury Department | has- asked the District Government to vacate this structure, but the Commis- sioners still are uncertain as to whers the Women's Bureau and its prisoners will go. . In the meantime s for the Com- merce Buflding have moved steadily ahead, and it is expected more contracts ‘The Hechinger Co. of this city today | will be let before long for more exca- was awarded the contract for tearing ‘fl!;;':!v,m ti opalE o ek down the big wartime structure Rnow: |, Y e N nother step on the Internal Revenue as Annex No. 2. at Fourteenth and B o attetnoon Buflding project this afterncon when streets. which formerly hpused the in- bids for tearing dowis the eastern hal! come tax. unit. d. 3 of the ers’ et 2 The Hechinger firm ‘was the only e ey et when proposals were opened | days agn, which offered to pay | All others asked the Government. to pay them for tearing Hechinger Company Is Only One to Offer to Pay U. S. for Tearing Down Structure. | Georgia Official Dies. ATLANTA. Ga.. March 8 (#.—8. 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