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v WEATHER. U 8 Weather Burean Forecast) Fair and somewhat cooler tonight and tomorrow ‘Temperature—Highest, 79, at 5 pm, yesterday; lowest, 55, at 5:45 am. day. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 @ ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION iny Star. “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 as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,343 Entered as second olass matter vost office, Washington, D. C. No. 30,681. WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1928—FIF TY PAGES. * TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. \VISUAL METHOD f ”ERS UVEREUM[ 1 CALLED WRONG BY SCIENTIST OF TEACHING BY ENIHUSMSM UF !Dr. Sachs Believes System Fails to Increase Vocabularv—"Re GOTHAM WELCOME| Storm of Paper Is “Biggesty Yet,” Capt. Koehl Says, in Stage Speech. The visual method of teaching chil- | dren to read, which has supplanted the old method in most public schools in the country, is “absolutely wrong” and even has led to some perfectly normal | children being brought to mind speciai- {ists as morons by worried parents, Dr. FETE ONLY SURPASSED | Bemard Sachs of New York, vice presi- ]dent of the American Neurological So- BY ONE TENDERED LINDY | ciety, said this morning at the opening ,Mmeeting of that organization at the | United States Chamber of Commerce Hats Doffed as Bands Play Ger-|BUfne. 0 ¢ ic used in the pub- man Natipnal Anthem—Airmen lic schools and most of the parochial | schools in the District of Columbia and Prepare to Get Rest. {is the system in which prospective | teachers are instructed in normal | schools. Dr. Sachs' attack on this method f ! lowed the presentation of a paper Ly Dr. Samuel T. Orton of Columbia Uni versity on the neurological basis of ele- mentary education which went far to undermine the whole theory of feeble- Brthe A et Press. NEW YORK. May 1 —Three smiling s from across the Atlantic were today over théir second big Described by eir procession through a storm of er tape, torn pages of books, waste peper and confetti thrown from sky- pper windows was a reminder of the blizzard through which they won thei way to Greenly Island. As Capt. Her- mann Koehl said in a brief speech from the stage of the Winter Garden last night: “The storms we encountered on our fight across the Atlantic were the worst 1 have ever seen. I have never before seen a snowstorm such as the one we saw at Greenly Island. How- ever, the storm of enthusiasm we have seen in New York is the biggest storm | Jer” Seconded by Cmpm':m this the German cap! ‘was - his flying companions, Maj. James Fitzmaurice and Baron Gunther von Huenefeld. The Irish maior described New York's reception as a better show than any Nero ever Rome. P ould beimpossible to see the like of it anywhere in Europe,” he said. | B hink that this was the land T used to t e i % ; ég Besd § Pl_le 3, Column 4.) NOBILE PLANS START FOR NORTH TONIGHT General Tells Crew of Italia to Be Prepared for Spitzbergen Flight. By the Asociated Press. STOLP, Germany, May 1.—Gen. Nobile today served notice on the crew of the Italia to hold themselves in readiness to start for Spitzbergen to- night provided meterological conditions eontinue favorable. Reichswehr soldiers were also ordered to be ready to assist in a possible take- | of! Gen. Nobile said that he would rather risk arriving in King's Bay before the arrival of the supply ship Citta de M! iano, relying on the natives there to Il the Italia into the hangar, than ose out on good weather. Whether he actually starts tonight cannot be told with certainty until & few hours before the take-off, which is set for between two and four hours after midnight SIX DROWN AS SKIFF mindedness in children and the educa- tion of the feeble-minded. The visual method corsists in having {the child associate the appearance of a word with its its pronunciation rather | than learn it by spelling it out, letter | by letter, and the first step in educa- | tion mno longer is the learning of the alphabet. | Dr. Sachs insisted that the condition jof one alleged “mental defective child" ading Defectives” Dr. Orton. ; brought to his attention was entirely due to this “defective” method of teach- |ing. Even in cases where children actually learn more rapidly by this method, he insisted, the defectiveness shows up later on. new method,” he said, 1 “children who h: been able to read | for several years are unable to get a ynew word. The average child by the | older method had the help of the audi- tory means of spelling out the world. The teachers insist that the method is good, because they are able to teach reading more rapidly. It is unfortunate that there is not more co-operation be- tween the teaching profession and the néurologists.” Dr. Orton had just pointed out that | children who were apparently unable to |learn to read responded very well in general intelligence. Some of them. he pointed out, are extremely clever in the | | use of objective visual materiall’—that | is, blocks, pictures, etc. | The most serious rase called to his! | attention, he said, was that of an 18- | vear-olg boy, who, despite training | was unable to read any better than a | first-grade child, yet when a pictorial | | test was applied to him he made one | | of the best grades on record. | The child when it enters school, he said, is at a new stage of mental de- velopment. Hitherto everything has been directly auditory or visual, and the stage where hearing ed on Page 2, Column 6.) CAPITAL T0 GREET FLYERS TOMORROW U. S. Officials Plan Reception for Crew of Monoplane Bremen. | Through its official representatives in | Washington, the Nation today is pre- jparing to welcome members of the |crew of the transatlantic monoplane Bremen upon their arrival at Bolling Field tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock by plane from New York. The official reception will be accorded by Secretary of State Frank B. Kel- logg. the acting Secretary of War, F, Trubee Davison: the German Ambas- sador, Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron: the Minister from the on Following the welcoming ceremonies, they will be escorted to the limits of the Army reservation by F Troop, ]M Cavalry, commanded by Capt. J. G. | Boykin. At the edge of Bolling Pleld they will be met by an escort of the Metropolitan Police, which will accom- pany them to the Mayflower Hotel. Only four cars will be in the official procession, the first the second the Cerman Ambassador, ‘;henll:flr‘d‘ thn‘l’:’o: &:‘Iflf!’ and the ous r. vison, . ‘Warren and Mr. MacCracken. | At the Mayflower Hotel the flyers | will be saluted as they step to the pave- | ment from their car by E Troop, 3d Cavalry, commanded by Capt. James M. | Bhelton, while an appropriate air will be played by the 3d Cavalry Band, | After a brief breathing spell the fly- jers will receive representatives of the press in their suite at the hotel and at noon will be recelved by President Cool- | idge at the executive office of the | White House. An hour later they will be entertained at luncheon by President and Mrs. Coolidge. In the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the af will visit the Tomb of the Une | known Boldier, where separate wreaths will be placed 1o mark the respect of the | German and Irish representatives, The | visitors will be met at the west end of the ampitheater by Brig. Gen. H. O, carrying the fiyers, | BERLIN APPROVES ANTIWAR TREATY | Agrees to U. S. Proposal for Pact Among Powers of World. | By the Associated Pross. | With a declaration that “this new | guarantee for the maintenance of peace | must give a real impulse to the efforts | for carrying out of general disarma- ment,” Germany has agreed to the American proposal for a treaty among the world powers renouncing war. Her answer, made without reservation or qualification, was given in a note to the United States under date of April 27, and made public last night by the State Department. The promptness with which the Ger- along, well pleased Secretary Kellog and other officials. Had Briand Propesal. They were particularly gratified with the reply in view of the fact that Ger- many had before her at the time the proposal of M. Briand embodying France’s ideas for a renunciation of war treaty. Except to say that the Ger- man note spoke for itself, Secretary Kellogg refused to comment. Declaring Germany “welcomes most warmly the opening of negotiations for the conclusien of an interndtional pact | for the outlawry of war," the note said that while that country’s League of Na- |tions and Locarno treaty obligations must remain inviolable, nothing was |seen in these pledges “which could in lany way conflict with the obligations | provided in the draft treaty of the United States.” “On the contrary,” it added, “it be- lieves that the binding obligation not to use war l?‘ :nmmnmm'z o.l‘ national policy coul 0 rengthen | the (undnmenulyldn of the covenant of the League of Nations and of the | Rhine pact.” Seeks Universality, { . Germany agreed with the United | States and France that the “ultimate | goal must be the universality of the | new pact.” “In order to bring about this uni- versality,” she continued, “the draft treaty of the United States seems to !open a practical way. When the states Inrut coming into question as signatory | powers have concluded the pact, Jl may be expected that the other statés will thereupon make use of the right of | adhesion which 1s assured to them | without limitation or condition.” |, The note sald that the two main ideas lying at the bottom of the initia- tive of the Prench foreign minister and the resulting proposal of the United States “correspond completely with the principles of German policy.” the reply continued, “than to see, the {on tax reduction is so simple that no | “Germany has no higher interest,” | Williams and staff, who will escort them | Possibility of armed conflicts eliminates through the ampitheater and trophy | 4nd a development assured in the life UPSETS IN FLOODED RIVER room (o the tomb A guard of honor, Floating Log Hits Craft, Capsiz- sizing It in Monongahela. Teacher Victim. By the Aswociated Press NIONTOWN, Psa May 1.-8ix persons were drowned early today when # small boat over turned in the Monon- gahela River between Masontown and | A fioating log crashed into | 111 The accident the early morning hours welore Gaylight and it wes several hours before auy report of the drownings was Greensboro, the bost and capsized 1t heppened i received The boat was used 1o fer soross the river. There w sons sboard. One of them man, escaped. he Zensth Guddis, 20-year-old her, end five negroes, whom were identified y passengers | e tine pere a colored | victims were Miss | school | none of consisting of Hemdquarters Company Washinglon, commanded by Capt. J. 1 Wood, will be present at the tomb Will Go te Capitol, Prom the tomb the fiyers will be driven to the Capitol, where it is ex- | pected they will be accorded a rousing | reception by the Senate and House After leaving the L-{uml. l)ll‘:ykwlllhl'miflu'“rl that it would not “put in ques- | 8 o'clock, when | 2 | “on thelr own” until dinners will be given by the German Ambassador at the embassy and the h Minister at the Mayflower, 1o be followed by & reception by invitation at the hotel by the three “alr secretaries In the event of rain, the War De- | pariment announced this afternoon, it Is contemplated that the fiyers will make the trip 1o Washington by train Bhould this be done, the ceremonies sl Bolling Pield will be the same The airmen are due to depart for New York Thursdsy morning et 9 o'clo AMERICAN FOUND DEAD. Mystery Burrounds Death of Mrs, W, 8. Wogy cn Prace. | B the Associnted Pross VILLEFRANCHE, France, May | (4. | HEW YORK, May 1 ~-Myslery surrounds the death of 80| party,” to be atien Americen woman, Mrs. William Suther- lend Hogg, 42 years of age, whose body wis found floating in the bay. A “blacklist only by those whose names have been blacklisted as speakers by the Daughters of the Amer- In the | jcan Revolution and the Key Men of wsence of passporte and other papers | America, will be held here May 9 the suthorities have been unsble 10| Jnyitations signed by Clarence Dar- Jocate her American address, Hor 45 | row, Morris Erost, Arthur Garfield they give any ceuse for the woman's | Huys and Frieds Kirchwey, read in part: Geath. “We notice thal your name Gppears on the roll of honor drawn up by the » ¥ Drsughters of the Am an Revolution Radio Programs~Page 45, bt s s it Kefsten of Ampirn of nations which would guarantee the ‘])l*n(.'rlul settlement of all international disputes. The conclusion of a pact such as the United States now has in view would certainly bring the nations | & good deal nearer to this goal.” Does Not Curb Defense, Acceptance of the American proposal, the note sald, was decided upon in the ton" the soverelgn right of any state to defend itself is self-evident,” it added, “that if one state violates the pact, the other contracting parties regain their free- | dom of nctlon with reference to that state. The state aftected by the viola- | ton of the pact is, therefore, not pre- | vented from taking up arms on its | own part against the breaker of the peace. In a [mu of this kind to provide express| | ¥olation seems (o the Cierman govern- | ment unnecessary.” Those on D. A. R. "Blacklist” Plan Pasty: iWould "Make the World Safe for Humor™ | fca. Bome call this honor roll & black- | Mst. It includes United Btates Benators, | Communists, ministers, Boclalists, Re- | bublicans, editors, housewives, lawyers-— most of us, in fact "Members of your famlly may come; we assume them to be at least slightly | Unged from association with A “Yours to make the world safe for | humor” | The affair will he held at the Level | Club, and addresses will be by Mr, Dar- {row, Art Young, Dorothy Parker, Me~ i Allister Coleman and Hoywood Broun, y for the case of a| TAX CUT MEASURE OF S2B000000 1S UPBEFORE SENATE Smoot Declares $212,000,- | 000 Surplus in Sight Fixes Limit of Reduction. DEMOCRATS PREPARED | TO DEMAND $325,000,000| Parties Disagree Over Amount of | Slash to Be Made in Cor- poration Rate. By the Associated Press | The $212,000,000 surplus in sight for next year represents the maximum re- duction possible in taxes at this session. in the opinifon of Republican members | of the Senate finance committee, Chair- | man Smoot reported today in laying be- | fore the Senate the committee’s $203,- | 000.000 measure. “Even this amount,” Senator Smoot said in his report, “must be reduced by additional expenditures called for during the fiscal year 1929 by new leg- islation.” ‘The committee chairman gave notice | he would ask the Senate to take up the | measure on Thursday, and although a sharp fight is in prospect, with Demo- crats prepared to ask for a $325,000,000 | reduction program, leaders expect to| dispose of the measure by the end of next week. No Minority Report. Senator_Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the committee, announced today he would file no minority report because “the issue be- tween the Democrats and Republicans explanation is necessary.” He said he would present the Demo- crats’ $325,000,000 plan on the floor. The main difference between this and the Republican scheme is for a greater cut in the corporation rate, which the Democrats would slash to 11 per cent. Explaining the numerous changes made by the committee in the $290,- 000,000 House bill Senator Smoot re-| vealed that the House provision for repeal of the automobile tax was ac- cepted at the expense of a greater re- duction in the corporation tax than had been planned. The Senate committee voted to cut the 131, corpordtion rate to 12!: per cent, instead of to 11': per cent, as approved by the House. “Your committee recognizes,” the re- declared, “that the corporation tax considerably out of line in comparison with the individual rate, and believes Nevertheless, the amount available for revenuc reduc- tion. Auto Tax Repealed. “"Had the automobile tax been re- tained, there would have been available a -urrlua sufficient to justify a reduc- tion In the corporation rate to 11 per cent. However, the automobile man- ufacturers stated that they preferred the repeal of the sales tax to a reduc- tion in the corporation rate and that the railroads and others joined with them in advocating the repeal. Accord- ingly, it was necessary to recoup the loss by denying a greater reduction in the corporation rate.” | As for the Garner provision in the | House bill for a graduated scale of rates | on corporations with incomes of $150,- 000 and less, Senator Smoot reported this was stricken out “upon the ground that it cannot be supported upon any sound principle of taxation.” ‘The committee report listed the fol- lowing as the main features of the bill as sent to the Senate: “(1) The total revenue reduction is but slightly in excess of $200,000,000, an amount within the margin of safety, as compared with a reduction proposed by the House bill of $289,735,000, an amount considerable in excess of that warranted by the condition of our treasury. Graduated Tax Unsound. “(2) The graduated tax on corpora- tlons proposed by the House bill, a form of taxation which 1s unsound and with- out justification, from either a theoreti- cal or practical point of view, is elim- inated, “(3) The intermediate surtax brackets are readjusted so as to remove the out- standing inequalities of the present law, under which certain classes of Indi- vidual taxpayers are paying taxes dis- proportionately high in comparison with other taxpayers, “(4) The privilege granted aMliated corporations of filing consoliddted re- turns, which the House bill denled after 1028, Is restored, with certain necessary amendments to eliminate the adminis- rative problems of the present law. () The provisions of the present aw relative to dividends out of surplus accumulated prior to March 1, 1913, eliminated by the House bill, are re- stored, “(6) The section of the House bill | (section 104) attempting to strengthen | the provisions of the existing law rela- tive to attempted evasions of surtaxes by incorporation by an arbitrary and artificial definitlon of ‘personal holding company’ s stricken out, “(7) Most of the administrative pro- | visions of the House bill, which were given retroactive effect, are either elim- l'lllwd or made effective only as to the utur “THE PENALTY” “Golden Rule” Film Produced by The Evening Star To further traffic safety is being shown today along with the regular program at The York Ga. Ave. & Quebec Tomorrow The Fitm Will Be Shown at The Home Il 1230 ¢ s N THE LAST FLIGHT. SINCLAIR SAYS HE GAVE HAYS $160.00 FORG.0. P DEFICIT {0l Man Received $757,000 in Continental Deal, Sen- ate Probers Told. {PORTION OF HIS ADVANCE ! TO PARTY WAS RETURNED Magnate Avers He Does Not Know What His Politics Are Now. Bares Personal Transactions. By the Associated Press. Harry P. Sinclair, making his long= awaited appearance as a witness befcre the Senate Teapot Dome committee, | testified today that he received $757,000 CALIFORNA PCKS CANDDATESTODAY Democrats Have Contest Between Smith, Reed and Walsh—Hoover Unopposed. By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.—With' fair | weather forecast as an aid to turning out a heavy vote, Californians today | cast ,their ballots in the presidential primary for three Democratic candi- iates, a Republican and a prohibitionist. The three-sided Democratic contest was petween Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and Senator Thomas J. Walsh | of Montana. To the victor, ‘political forecasters declared, may go the nomi- | naticn at Houston in June. | THE tic race is so uncertam that 1t possibly, but not probably, may result In the election of a split ticket. | Thirty delegates will be elected, eight being delegates at large and having only half a vote each. Last May Be High. It is possible for the last delegate on one candidate’s ticket to receive more votes than the high candidate on an op- position ticket. Observers said there was a bare bility of the three Democrats dividing the 26 votes. Herbert Hoover, a favorite son, was unoj in his bid for the 29 Repub- lican delegates to the Kansas City con- vention. Daniel A. Poling of New York, prohibition candidate, also had no op- vosition for his party’s 30 delegates. Democratic managers issu state- ments today declaring their candidates would win, while supporters of Secre- tary Hoover appealed to the Republican to roll up a huge vote for its effect throughout the country. That the result of the Democratic contest will be in doubt until the last ballots are counted was the opinion ex- pressed by most observers. Two Bond Issues. ‘The Democrats have a total registra- tlon of 465,793, an increase of 126,493 since four years ago. The Republican registration is 1,245,514, compared with 1,012,701 four years ago, an increase of 241,813, . Bond Issues also were on the primary ballots, San Prancisco voting on two issues for bonded indebtedness of $65,- 000,000 for confpleting the Hetch Hetchy water supply project and pur- chasing the Spring Valley Water Co., and Los Angeles voting on a $6,000,000 bond issue for an airport. In San Francisco, where voting ma- chines are used, the polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 pm. In other parts of the State the polls open and close an hour earlier. NAMING OF COLORED LEGISLATOR EXPECTED By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, May 1.-—-The Thompson Crowe ward leaders, it was understood today, virtually had agreed to name Oscar de Priest, a negro ward commit- teeman, to succeed the late Martin B. Madden in Congress. Five committeemen, Including de Priest, whose wards lie in the first dis- trict, largely made up of negro resi- dents, which Madden represented for 24 years, will name the successor, A faction opposed to de Priest de- termined today to appeal! to Gov. Small to call a special election to select Mad- den's successor, PRESIDENT FAVOR LARGE AIRPORT FUNDS | President Coolidge, who s especlally anxlous for the establishment of a munlelpal afrport in the National Cap- | ital, looks with favor upon the Stalker bill, which 18 now before the House District qommittee, and which author- 1zes appropriation of $1,600,000 for the necessary land and bulldings at Gravel- ly Point While it has been gonerally known that the President is eager for an air- port, there was a foel sonie hat he mi, o ot} Prosident | Informed the Hoflse District committee | through the director of the budge! that the appropriation involved is not | in confliet with his economy nnar.lm. The President, however, has made nc comment on other provisions in the bill He, however, approves of the genoral idea and h N representod as con- sidering the Gravelly Point site z m most favorable for this wnu various others that have been The Presie ident 1s unders to have | set BULLETIN. CORTLAND, N. Y., May 1 (#).— Thaddeus C. Sweet of Phoenix, N. Y., member of Congress, was in- stantly killed when an airplane in which he was flying from Washing- ton to his home made a forced land- ing near Whitney Point this after- noon. AIR MAIL SERVICE 10 START TONIGHT D. C. Takes Place on New York-Atlanta-New Orleans Plane Route. Washington tonight officially takes its on the.constantly expanding air route map of the United States. Twice in the past the Capital h-ls}l been a terminal for air mail, but both | instances were experimental and tem- porary in character. In the future, how- BIG MERGER “BAT” as a result of the Continental Trading Co. deal, the equivalent of which he | had just recently turned over to the Sinclair Crude Ol Co., with $142,000 in | interest. Likewise, he told the committes, under a battering examination by Sen- ator Walsh, that he had transferred Liberty bonds to Albert B. Fall, insist ing that they were for a share in Fall's ranch. Confronted with previous testi- mony that he had bought no land in New Mexico, Sinclair said he had merely bought stock in a land and cattle FUND IS CHARGED 5535 | deal. {J. ). Noonan Says $12,000,- | 000 Power Reserve Is Being Used to Influence Deal. As the largest minority stockholder in the Washington Railway & Electric Co., John J. Noonan of this city charged be- | fore the House District committee to- |day that the North American Co., seek~ ing control of the electric power here, is waiting to “gobble up” $12,000,000 in reserve funds of the Potomac Electric ever, the District will be assured of air | reserve mall service to which a degree of per- manency will be attached by virtue of being a principal point on the New York-Atlanta-New Orleans Alrway, which formally goes into operation to- night, The air mail will be welcomed into Bolling Field tonight with a brief cere- monial program in which officials of the Federal and District governments will participate. Postmaster General New will deliver Washington's mail con- signed to cities along the route to the South and Willlam P. MacCracken, jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, will hand the pilot an offi- cial airways map compiled by the aero- nautics branch of the department. Plane to Come Early. The program has been drawn up by the aviation committee of the Washing- ton Board of Trade, of which Lawrence E. Williams is chairman. While the regular schedule calls for the arrival Jf the southbound plane at Bolling Field each night at 11:30 o'clock and its de- parture 15 minutes later, Pitcairn Avia- tion, Inc., of Philadelphia, contractors, arranged to send the first plane out at ier hour in order that the cere- mony at the field could be held. Ell‘l{ this afternoon there were about 6,000 letters at the City Post Office ters are coming in constantly, and it will not be until about 9 o'clock tonight that the re- celving section for this particular t will be closed. The mail then will loaded in a big truck and rushed to | Bolling Field. Included in the post are letters from the Washington Board of Trade to simi- lar organizations in the South and let- ters from the National Aeronautic As- ! soclation to chapters located at points ong the route. A large amount of the mall, however, has been furnished by stamp collectors, and some of the letters have been held at the Post Of- fice since last November when the New ‘(Continuied on Page 2. Colun Churches Seek $200,000. Special Dispateh 10 The Star STAUNTON, Va, May 1.-—Two churches here are seeking $200,000 for new bulldings. Sunday the congrega- tion of Central Methodist Church heard that a call will be made this month for $100,000 for a Sunday school plant, while the First Baptist Church is con- tinuing the “Loyalty Month" program. Readers In the various departments and { an out-of-town layman spoke in behalf | Share of stock being exchanged for three of early realisation of he congrega- tlon's dreams of a new h ome. “$78,000,000 Profit.” | Expressing his anxiety that he and! | other minority stockholders were “going | to be t " Noonan made the flat declaration that the North Amemzn} Co. stands to make a profit of close to $78,000.000 out of the merger. | Representative Gibson of Vermont in- | terrupted to remind him that the N i American Co. “already | profit of $20,000.000 out of its stock the local traction company. Gibson put Vice Chairman { Brand of the Public Utilities cammls-i sion through a rather severe grilling as to the efforts of that body to inquire | into the relations of the North Ameri- can Co. its stock holdings here and intent with regard to the merger. The committeeman joined with Mr. Noonan in declaring that the North American Co. had contributed to a jackpot to in- fluence public and legisiative opinion and he asked Col. Brand if he was familiar with the investigation now be- ing made by the Federal Trade Com- mission. When Col. Brand replied to the con- trary Gibson told him he would find some “astonishing revelations™ concern- ing the operations of public utilities in the report. Brand said the commission had ac- cepted the statement of Harley P. Wil- son relative to the stock holdings of | the North American Co.. which he ad- mitted gave it “practical control” over | the Washington Railway & Electric Co. | He declared the commission regarded | an independent inquiry as lmmuerw.i Could Not Sell Stock. Mr. Noonan stated he owned l.wof shares of stock in the Washington Rail- | & value of $1,000 a share. He declared | he had accumulated these over 20 years, | and in view of the merger, he had be- | come alarmed over the control to be! exercised by the North American Co, | when his attention had been called to the Federal Trade Commission report. Acting on the advice of Moody's repre- | sentatives, he had endeavored to sell | Hays returned been a Republican, “There was no inducement.” “But Mr. Hays told us that no one else gave approximating you did. Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, re- puted to be the third richest man in world, gave only ! been very f . I think 1 “Did you have any securit Hays' to the time he the saf000r Bares Prosecutions. “I don't think so. I think he way & Electric Co.. on which he placed | H his stock without avail. was willing to sell at $500 if he could | find a purchaser. | $500 1f he could find a purchaser. Once the North American Co. gets control of the new merged com Noonan charged that the Public Utd | ties Commission will find it has nothing | | more to do with traction matters here and would “have to take its medicine." Commissioner Brand was questioned | by Gibson as to the effect the merger would have on individual stockholders jof the Washington Railway & Electric | Co, $430 a Share. Brand explained that they would stil} { retain _ownership of their stook, oue | | and a_half_shares in the new transit (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) \Captain Stott Jolts Police Superiors Oapt. Willlam Q. Stott, who took over command of the third police precinot in the recent shake-up in the ranking personnel of the Police Dey ment, to~ day su) A requisition for nt v of his ta doors | requisition, police officials reason not vet committed himself nlud\# Ma|. the matter of dividing (i n\'u ect batween the ol governmenta, oost of 1 ral and Dise compres Sinelair ! cents a mflc Continenta! “I got &t iIn the form of Liderty bonds," he said. “They were semt W \mg over a period of two years.” an D in 1922 and extending to when 1 think it was tn the Fall of 1933 “From whom did 'm Emé'uu;“"“"m“w-m nek ? oni ‘“n;;: g on the startled--his su- | is In econnection with {the third precinot mmw | Which Representative Rlanton of Texas [ Vinited frequently whtle i Wshingten Hemens At A call Soi e ot ek &Ko the lking of Potice Authoritie, A