Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1928, Page 5

. ASKMARKET SITE NORTH OF AVENUE Foes of Southwest Location File Petition With Senate Committee. Advocates of a site north of Penn- sylvania_avenue for the new Farmers' Market have begun their fight to have the Senate change the action taken by the House in passing a bill for location of the market in-the Southwest near the river front. Their first step was the filing of a| petition with Chatrman Capper of the | Senate District committee yesterday | afternoon, summarizing the arguments that have been advanced at past hear- fags on the subject against a Southwest location and in favor of some point rorth of the Avenue. They stressed the argument that the largest propor- tion of food consumers are in the area north of Pennsylvania avenue. The brief was signed hy the following: James G. Yaden, Citizens' Advisory Council; Mrs. Virginia White Speel. District Federation of Women's Clubs; A. J. Driscoll, Mid-City Citizens’ Asso- ciation: H. A. Friday, speaking for a large group of Maryland farmers: Alex Gude and Stanley Lowe, the Pomona Grange of Prince Georges County, Md.: J. W. Jones. Montgomery Coun Bureau; Herbert Thompson. rep: ing Montgomery County farmers: J. Harrison, H. J. Kiein and F. J. Ward, | representing commission merchants; S. | B. Shaw. Maryland State Department of Markets, and T. B. Symons. chair-| man of Prince Georges County Pomona | Grange committee for relocation of the | market. | CAPITAL GROWING NEAR 600,000 MARK, | FIGURES INDICATE| (Continued from First Page.) between 1910 and 1920 or between 1920 and 1925, the 1920 or 1925 census figure is retained and no estimate is made: Table of Gains. Estimated population . July 1, 1928 0.620 *120,013.000 | 2,573,000 474.000 1.944.000 4.556,000 1.090.000 1,667,000 244,000 552.000 1,411,000 | United States Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut . Delaware Dist. of Columb: Maryland ..... Massachusetts Michigan . Minnegota Missiippi Missouri 360,350 10,385,227 2.559.123 646.872 5.759.394 2,026,283 789 389 8.720.017 604.397 1,683,724 636,547 2.337.885 4,663,228 449,396 2.428 2.309.187 1.356.621 1.453.601 Oregan . Pennsylvania Rhode Island .. South Carolina.. South Dakota .. 1.587.000 West Virginia.. 1.724.000 Wisconsin . 2.632,067* 2,953.000 Wroming 194,402 247,000 *Provisional estimate. data regarding births, deaths. immigration and emigra- tion from 1927 to 1928 not being avail- able. “Population January 1, 1920; decrease 1910 to 1920, :Population January 1, 1920 fPopulation, State census, 1925. | . FALL'S DOC:I'.OR ORDERS | TRIP TO WEST COAST| By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex. March 14—The EI| Paso Times says that Dr. H. T. Safford, physician attending Albert B. Fall, has recommended that the former Secre- tary of the Interior be taken to the Pacific Coast because weakn of his heart has made a lower altitude de- sirable It was said at the Fall residence that Mr. Fall's condi made it impossible 1 state when he could make the trip. Dr. Baflord has s d that it would be tmpossible for the former cabinet member 10 attend the Fall-Sinclair trial set for April 2 at Washington. Harry P. Sinclair was returning w New York 1oday after several days’ visit with Fall LR W W ww EXFXEXEXZRK Important Offering Coty Face Powder with Perfume Sgicicl Combination' Puck- age—a Trial Size Bottle of Perfume—a Box of Coty Pace Powder—Both at the Price of Powder Alone 85¢ Now you can see the artis- Powder and Perfume in the ssme odeur. This Package gives you of trying 1, &t no cost apport for the perfume. In the favorite Coty odeurs and Blane, Kachel Shades Naturel | this time to fix a valuation or a rate PO§ | night _THE_FEVENING STAR. TWASHIN MISS ANGELA GINGRAS, 26 at the New National Theater for Friendship House. STORY HOUR AT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE Conducting the Saturday afternoon story hour. The Twentieth Century Club will give a benefit performance on March TRADE BOARD ADVISES MERGER OF LINES WITH LIMIT ON VALUE Fixing Amount or Rate of Return on Capital Permanently Declared Unwise. Maryland Night Big Success. . Approval of the proposed plan for!special policemen, and the cost of pav- consolidation of the transportation unrs::‘l::-a;‘xf:rl;&‘surh a? is i;x(clgmtTl to or- v ol v ic repairs. as been es- of the District now being studled by |fimated that this would amount to the Public Utilities Commission, with a | about $300.000 annually. and no real suggestion that it would not be wise at |objection has been heard to this pro- sal. 3. The offer of the owners to give of return for the merged company which | public representation upon the board never could be changed, was voted last | of directors of the new company should by the Washington Board or‘bv accepted. Trade. Then going into the valuation angle The valuation and maximum rate of |and saying “it would seem that the felt, should be left to the Public Utilities | and that it may involve a very sub- Commission to decide | stantial concession from their legal Referring to the proposed $50.000.000 rights,” the committee added: valuation for rate-making purposes and | s the plea that the merged company “be | Important Issues Involved. entitled” to a 7 per cent rate of return,i “However, to determine these ques- the board, in ldonth;;r! = l;'Diofl sub;‘uom requires examination of many e by e e AT of | matters of fact, the study of intricate plan, added. however, that the proposals | accounts and consideration of rather seemed “reasonable.” 'nlcs questions of law. We do not feel 5 justified on our present knowledge in Maryland Night Program. { making definite recommendations upon Action on the merger question was | these points. The Public Utilities Com- taken at the “Maryland Night” session | mission is established for that very of the board, held at the Willard Hotel, | purpose, and has all the facilities to preceding a discussion of plans for re- | obtain the evidence. We are content gional development of the National |to abide by the judgment of the Public return to be allowed. the trade.body proposal of the owners is reasonable,| Capital and surrounding territory and the efforts now being carried forward for co-ordination of programs in Mont- gomery and Prince Georges Counties and the National Capital. A score or more of Maryland officials were special guests of the board, and addresses urging greater co-operation in the interest of Greater Washington were made by Senator Tydings of Mary- 0 | 1and. Maj. Brooke Lee, Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates; T. How: ard Duckett, member of the Maryland- National Capital Park and Planning Commission: Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Build- ing and Public Parks and Secretary of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, and Clarence White the Annapolis Chamber of Com- merce. Representative Zihlman, chair- man of the House District committee, was unable to attend. District Com- missioner Dougherty welcomed the Maryland guests, and E. C. Graham, president of the Board of Trade, who presided, lauded the spirit of co-opera- tion evidenced by officials and citizens of Maryland. The meeting was simi- lar in purpose to the recent “Virginia Night” meeting. when pledges of greater co-operation between the District and Virginia were made by spokesmen for both jurisdictions. Board’s Stand Reviewed. In presenting the merger resolution to the board, Mr. Adkins pointed out that for many years the Board of Trade has urged consolidation of the transpor- tation fact'lties of the District, declar- ing that the trade body should exert such a merger, “if this can be done able to the public and to the property owners."” The committee gave its merger views as follows: 1. The merger should include the jbus lines. Al transportation facilitics {in the District should be under one ‘OU:I"U] . |, 2. The new company should be re- lieved of the expense of crossing or | | Seeing Is The last crucial test peapie will not believe ha fuce to believe anything 1 “secing is believing.” Y oi sitht and emphasize i Yet regardless we jo by inposing undue strain £ i | | RN AN = =\ & sult Etz at regular interv; TSNS 801 11th N. every effort possible to help bring about | upon terms which are fair and reason- | guard our eves and maintain that seeing is helieving attitude natorally for a much longer period if we con- :fcc Etz and See Better® Utilities Commission upon the amount {of the valuation and the rate of return. | “However, we suggest that it may Inot be wise now to fix a valuation or {a rate of return which never can be |changed. It would be wiser, we think, |to fix these figures for a period to be | agreed upon with the property own- ers, say, of 10 years or more. If during |that period values should change or | the legal principles applicable to the | valuation of the public utility proper- |ties should be modified. then either side could ask for a revaluation or for |a change in the rate of return. | " “With these suggestions we recom- | mend that the Board of Trade approve | the merger. and that copy of this report {be forwarded to the people’s counsel for presentation to the Public Utilities Commissian.” Personnel of Committee. ‘ Serving with Mr. Adkins on the spe- clal merger committee were Giles L. Baker, lawyer; Raymond M. Florence, public accountant; W. A. Hill, real estate man; Carl D. Loos, lawyer; A. K. Shipe, lawyer; Ernmest G. Walker, newspaper correspondent: 5. B. Hege, railroad official, and Ralph Lee, jr., insurance man. Mr. Adkins is presi- dent of the District Bar Association. Two of the speakers on the speciai | Maryland night program, Senator Tyd- |ings and Maj. Lee, voiced regret over | the action of the House in passing the bill which would exclude children of residents in Maryland suburbs of the National Capital from free use of schools in the District of Columbia Their declarations brought a vigorous round of applause from the more than 500 members of the Board of Trade present. | . Senator Tydings sald that there are children of District residents living near the District boundaries. who are at- ténding Maryland schools because they are nearer to their homes ard that it 1s “ridiculous” for Congress to debat~ tne propriety of the question of some 2,000 or even 3,000 Maryland children said to be attending schools within the District of Columbia, because of the Believing of helieving is seeing. Most I what they read, many re- hey hiear. but every one says all recognize the importance ts importance many times a opardize our sight's efliciency upon our eyes. We can saie als of time. SPINDLERS W. M. 2704 all and Deliver lean Men’s Suits Ladies’ Dresses Spring Coat and Press ... 98¢ . $1.50 up s ... $150 1an‘a'rr convenience or their desire to | get the best education possible. ! Even if this bill should be enacted into law, Senator Tydings declared, | “vou may be sure that pupils living in | the District of Columbia wishing to at- | tend Maryland schools never will find | the doors of such schools closed to | them.” | Maj. Lee sald Marylanders regretted the attitude of the House in deciding to bar free use of the District schools to children of parents who live in Mary- land but work in the District, for the most part, and charged that such an action is “lack of co-operation” with the nearby Maryland communities in Greater Washington, especially in view of the fact that District schools are maintained, in part, by Federal funds. However, he added, an emergency fund of $200.000 is available which can be [ appropriated for the construction of additional school facilities which will take care of the additional Maryland pupils, should they be deprived of use of the District schools. | Both these speakers, however, lauded the Capital and s Federal and municipal authorities for co-operation | along manifold lines in the interest of Greater Washington and cited many | cases where both Washington and sub- | urban communities in Montgomery and | Prince Georges Counties are being im- | praved along co-ordinated lines. They | cited the tremendous advantages to be derived from cosoperation. Improvements Are Cited. Lee, who won a high tribute from Scnator Tydings for his work |along these lines of co-operation, painted a word picture of the great {amount of improvements being carried |out in Montgomery and Prince Georges | Counties, i schools, parks, and pointed out that Maryland- ers are vitally concerned about the future of the National Capital, due to the fact that they buy here, trade here and help support Washington, and have caught the vision of what Greater Washington Is and will be. “What we need is even greater co- operation between Washington Congress, sitting as the city council |of this city. He outlined the work of | the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commisison, of the two | bl-county commisions, which have been {set up to carry on the improvement projects in the Maryland . suburban communities. He pointed out that be- cause of the outstanding need of co- ordinating the development of suburban communities the Maryland Legislature had abandoned the one-time practice of creating small towns and small | taxing areas and create instead large |suburban districts with commissions empowered to plan, tax for improve- ments and enforce rulin; UMBER MILLWORK PAINT HARDWARE Whatever Your Needs Talk With Us First! Small Orders Given Careful Atten- tlon—No Delivery Charge J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Ave. N. 1343 Font Faint Maj He wanted a ciga- rette badly. So bad- ly that he “mooched” one from a pack ona fellow smoker's desk. “Never saw that kind before,” he said to himself as he struck a match. A glow, a puff, ex- hale, and ‘‘Gee— never tasted that kind before, either! ‘“That’s pretty good. What kind is it—let’s see. York- town Cigarette. “I'm going to buy some.” And so another smoker is won over by Yorktown’s blend of seven friendly to- baccos that go with one another like seven good pals, All harmony—no discord. Twenty for 16e. Larus, Richmond, Yirginia traffic _ arteries, | and | by Frank P. Leetch for the river and NEW STOCK WIZARD WASTICKET SELLER M. J. Meehan, Chief Figure in Wall Street Boom, Rose From Ranks. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14.—A man who 20 years ago was selling tickets at a Broadway theatrical ticket agency to- day was credited with putting over one of the most sensational coups in Wall Street history. He is Michael J. Meehan, who almost singlehanded engineered the sensational rise in Radio common, which carried the stock up 50 points in four trading days, brought him a fortune of mil- lions of dollars and a severe case of nerves, Just how much he has made in the past four days, which have seen the ex- change record for sales volume twice broken, he probably does not know him- self and estimates in the Street run from $5.000,000 to $15,000,000. Among Big Speculators. He has pushed Durant, Livermore, Cutten and the Fisher brothers into the background, and today is the “big- gest man” in speculative Wall Street. There is evidence, however, that he is on friendly terms with all of them and has probably had some help from those sources during the past four hectic days. He literally and actually “made the move” in Radio, gave most of the orders. filled most of the bids and churned the stock around at a million-dollar clip, which left Wall Street gasping and try- ing to guess what “Mike” Meehan would do next. Even the bears, who have taken one of the worst whippings in years, pay tribute to the dashing drive that for daring and success Is out- standing. Twenty years ago when passing out bonds totaling more than $1.800,- 000 have been issued for road construc- tion and improvements, which made possible the widening and repaving of sections of Wisconsin avenue beyond the District line, of Connecticut avenue extended, the old Brookeville road, Bradley Lane and the projected new thoroughfare running from Silver | Spring _to Bethesda, and eventually to Great Falls, work on which, is expected to be started during the coming Sum- mer. | Co-operation Is Praised. Col. Grant, discussing generally the plans and progress In the work of re- gional development of the National Cap- ital, declared that “nothing has been more inspiring than the co-operation that has come from those administer- ing the affairs in nearby Maryland com- munities.” He, too, paid tribute to the work of co-operation performed by Maj. Lee in laying groundwork for the re- gional planning work in Maryland sec- tions. and praised the Board of Trade | for furthering the friendly spirit be- tween the District and Maryland. On motion by Odell S. Smith, a di- rector in the Board of Trade, the or- ganization unanimously adopted a reso- lution pledging the fullest support of {he organization along co-operative ines. Reports weis subiiitted to U boand | 3TON, D. €. WEDNESDAY., MARCH 14. 1928, tickets. Meehan met Charles Morgan, one time newspaper man and later a big scale stock broker. Worked Up From Bottom. Morgan at the time was in the mar- ket and Meehan went to work for him, handling a few wires on the Curb Mar- ket. After several years he started out for himself with little success. He had one severe setback, but with the ald of a few friends, staged a comeback and eight years ago bought a seat on the exchange when they were selling between $85,000 and $115,000. He made progress slowly, but finally became a speclalist in Radio common and immediately became bullish. He started his accumulation of the stock ,at around 85 or 90. Radio started out quietly when General Motors began to move two weeks ago. Then quicken- ing its pace it went on a rampage of its own, which brought it from $98.25 last Thursday to a close of $146 a share yesterday. At one time it reached $160. Meehan's firm now holds four other exchange seats in addition to his own. EASTMAN EXPEDITION LOSES AFRICAN FILMS AS PULLMAN BURNS (Continued from First Page.) graphing. A number of valuable photo- graphs aiso were burned. 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