Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1928, Page 17

District school officials got a ington a took a flight in a big tri-motored Fo; Field. Some of those who went up take-off. Left to right: Assistant Loomis, Henry L. Gilligan, member" and First Assistant Supt. Stephen Shadow boxing aboard the U. d its layout of school building: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. WEDNESDAY, oA OCTOBER 10, 1928.~ bird's-eye view of Wash- At esterday, when they rd monoplane from Hoover are shown just before the Supt. Haycock, Pilot Ray of the Board of Education, E. Kramer. —Star Staff Photo. S. S. California. The spacious detks of the big dreadnaught afford ample room as an outdoor training quarters for boxing members of the crew preparing for the interfleet tournament. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. GAS PROBERS SEEK |SCHOOL MENRENEW 0 SPEED HEARINGS Engineers Asked to Simplify| Inventories in Study of Reproduction Cost. Hearings on the revaluation of the | Washington Gas Light Co. settled down today to & detailed consideration of. the | gost of reproducing the mass of ma-| chinery and miscellaneous equipment { that make up the gas-manufacturing | system. Facing & prospect of several weeks of such testimony, the utilities com- mission adjourned shortly before noon untdl tomorrow morning to enable en- gineers of the company and the com- mission to index their separate inven- torles of the gas company property so that comparable items in each inven- tory may be Teferred to more readily. Up to this point, considerable delay has been experienced in locating the | same item in both inventories. | Simplified Method Sought. | The Commission also is still consider- | Ing the possibility of workinug out some simplified method of going into the in- | ventory or reproduction costs, but tp to | this time has not agreed to any Gefinite plan. One suggestion which has been brought o the attention of the Com- mission is to have the cngincers confer for the purpose of segregating those jtems on which they are in agreem:nt, those items on which the difference is slight, and those on which they are un- able to come to any agreement. It was | explained that under this proposal the | work of the engineers would not be final in any case, but would w1l be re- ported to the Commission for determi- pation. Might Reduce Testimony. The only purpose in following this plan would be to reduce the volume of testimony that would have to be taken in the hearings. Members of the Com- ission said they had been informed that this proposed method of havin the engineers go over their differences is followed by the Interstate Com- merce Commission in valuation cases. It was still problematical this after- | hoon, however, whether the plan would be followed in'the gas case. Robert O. Luqucer, engineer for the | company. devoted another day to detail i testimony of how he arrived at the re production cost of various items of ma chinery in the company’s inventory It was unofficially estimated today | that a month may be necessary to cover | all of this testimony relating to one! factor of reproduction costs, after which the commission still would have to go fnto the value of land, accrued de-| preciation and intangibles before getting gown to the final determination of fair | yalue for rate-making purposes. NAMED WIL.BUR’S IDE. Alexander J. Doyle today was ap- pointed private secretary to Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur. Mr. Doyle succeeds John B. May, who has been appointed chief clerk of the Bu- | feau of Aeronautics. T"Mr. Doyle has been with the Navy partment for eight years, during the st three of which has been confi- @eatial clerk to Mr. Wilbur, | started. . pital FIGHT ON STORES Too Often Detrimental to Pu- | pils” Discipline, Zoning Board Hears. Public school officials today renewed their fight before the Zoning Commis- sion to prevent establishment of stores in the vicinity of Western High Schoel, the Filmore School and the new Gordon 7 assistant super- | intendent of schools, told the commis- | sion that the school authorities are | firmly convinced that certain types of | stores in the neighborhood of schools are detrimental to disciplinary inter- ests. Stores, he declared, are t0o often takn advantage of by pupils, who “skip” classes to hide from teachers, aside from selling pickles, candies and other foodstuffs which children should not eat between meals. the game. right: Saturday. Lady Nancy Astor saw her first American foot ball game in many years at Charlottesville with Capt. Luke of Virginia Capt. Cooper of South Carolina, just before —Associated Press Photo. She is shown (right), and Gov. Byrd, four former governors and Lady Nancy Astor compose a notable group of Virginians who ;athered at Richmond to attend the Governor's Ball. In the front row, left to right, are former Govs. Henry Stuart and E. Lee Trinkle, Gov. Byrd, Lady Astor, and former Gov States Senator, and A. J. Montague. In the second row Action in the War Department polo tournament ,V"csterday as the 2d Corps Area team, from Governors Island, defeated the 16th Field Ar- tillery of Fort Myer, 14 to 8, on the Potomac Park Field. Although the Artillery four spotted the visiting team a four-goal handicap, they proved good enough to win without it. The two teams put on a hard/riding, snappy game for Washington polo fans. Getting acquainted with Williamsburg. John D. Rockefeller, jr., greets Alexander Pleasants, 78-year-old ex-slave and assistant church sexton in the old Virginia town, which Mr. Rockefeller is restoring to its appearance of colonial days. —Wide World Photos. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. A fortune goes up in smoke after train wreck. When a tank train of 27 cars filled with gasoline was day the gasoline quickly caught before being consumed. The fuel I wrecked at Zyba, Kans., the other fire and burned for several hours loss was estimated at $60,000. —Wide World Photos. Oppose “Spot Zoning” The application Haycock opposed was for a first commercial classification for property west of Thirty-fifth street be- tween S and T streets. He was sup- ported by Hugh Frampton, who declared that a commercial area in this neigh- borhood would 'introduce spot ' zoning “in violation of every known principle of zoning.” Rufus 8. Lusk of the Operative Build- ers’ Association, who appeared before the commission to indorse an applica- tion which would allow a row-house de- velopment in the area between Thirty- ninth and Fortieth and W and Calvert streets, charged that existing zoning | regulations were forcing residents into apartment houses. Before the war, he pointed out, there was one apartment unit to every three homes in Washing- | ton and this ratio has gradually in- | creased until last year when apartment | units reached 65 per cent of all units “That ratio of apartment nits,” he declared, “is the largest of any city in the country with the excep- tion of New York and Chicago.” Urges Greater Height. Karl W. Corby urged the commission to increase the height limitation from 90 to 100 feet on the nurses home of Emergency Hospital to permit, the hos- authorities to erect a solarium wi \]!11 an open-deck roof and a parapet wa The commission also was requested by Dr. A. L. Miller to raise the height restriction on the site of the proposed Columbia Medical Building at Nine- teenth and I street from 90 to 110 feet. Demands for space in the new build- ing, he said, made a two-story addi- tion necessary. The commission has & number of other applications for zoning changes under consideration. The ma- jority of them ask the commercial status for property now zoned for re dential use. . 14 Convicts Escape. HUNTSVILLE, Tex., October 10 (/). —Fourteen convicts, ' including _three charged with arson for the burning of five buildings on the Wynne State Pris- MADANE WALSKA LOSES DUTY FIGHT Must Pay Customs on Jewels and Other Effects Valued By the Associated Press. Mme. Ganna Walska, wife of Harold | F. McCormick of Chicago, will have 10} afier drifting pay duty upon her jewels and personal effects, estimated to be worth $2,500,000, if she keeps them in the United States. This decision was reached today by the Treasury Department, which sup- ported the action of the collector of customs at duty against the valuables. Mme. Walska, who came to the United States to make an opera tour, protested the attempt to asse: against her valuables, and left entire collection in New York City to await the results of her appeal. Camp. commissioner of customs, in a decision approved by Secretary Mellon, considered the claim that she was a Paris and that her jewels and gowns would return home with her, but held that nevertheless they were dutiable. It was indicated at the hearing that if the decision went against her Mme. Walska would return her effects to Paris and make her tour with ornaments and garments obtained in the United States. — Democrats to Speak. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va, October 10.—Cecil on Farm near here last week, escaped from the farm last night. The men Conners of Leesburg, Va., and Miss Dell Clark will address a meeting of the New York in assessing a | foreign resident permanently located at | [FOUR COUPLES DRiFT 13 HOURS By the Associated Press CHICAGO, October 10.—Four girls {and four young men were rescued from the middle of Lake Michigan yesterday in a waterlocked cabin cruiser whose leaking seams kept them in constant fear of sinking for 13 hours With an old coffee can they bailed | the craft in relays, while a chilling fog settled around to blanket their hopes of rescue. Hungry and cold, some of them had seasickness added to the misery and suspense of the long hours their craft rode aimlessly upon the water, 25 miles off the Chicago shore IN WATERLOGGED LAKE VESSEL Part of Clothes Used as Distress Signals. Girls Take Turns in Bailing Out Craft. All available fuel was burned in futile fires. Portions of clothing were sacri- ficed to make banners to attract the attention of passing steamers. The ominous alarm of a fog horn at one period filled them with the fear of being run down by a freighter, but the ship passed without seeing them. The steamer Sheboygan, Kenosha, Wis., to Chicago, came upon them yes- terday afternoon and brought them safely to shore. The girls were Barbara Eastlack, Marguerite Williams, Pauline Anderson and Jean Lyad; their companions, Frank Davis, Jack Cooper, Edward | Fayes and John Schroeder. GUARD OFFICERS TO MEET Adjutant Generals Called to Con- ference at Fort McPherson. ATLANTA, Ga., October 10 (#).—Na- tional Guard adjutant generals from eight Southeastern States have been called to a conference at Fort McPher- son here to discuss National Guard af- fairs, said an announcement today from 4th Corps Area headquarters. The exact date of the conference has not been selected, although Maj. Gen. Richmond P. Davis, area com- mander, has tentatively set October 23, Those expected at the conference in- clude Brig. Gens. J. Van B. Metts, awed a hole in the floor of the ong Smith-Robinson-Moore Club to be held i Raleigh, N. C., and James C. Dozer, C. building remaining iatact after the fire, A Fridag night. Columbia, S. CLAIMS HOOVER VICTORY. | McNary Sees Oregon, Wash., and California in G. 0. P. Column. CHICAGO, October 10 (#).—Senator Charles L. McNary, co-author of the McNary-Haugen bill and chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and forestry, told James W. Western manager for Herbert Hoover, that the Republican presidential nom- inee would carry Oregon, Washington and California. “After a careful study of the political situation in the Far West, I have every reason to believe Mr. Hoover will carry the Pacific Coast States by substantial majorities,” said the Senator, who was on his way East from his home in Oregon. LOWER SEWERLEVY 1S RECOMMENDED Urges $3 Rate Be Cut . to $1.60. Reduction of the assessment on abut- ting property owners for the laying of service sewers from the present rate of $3 per front foot to $1.60 was recom- mended by the sewerage committee of the Washington Board of Trade in & resolution adopted yesterday afternoon. Rufus 8. Lusk, committee chairman, contended that under the existing sys- tem property owners on an average are paying about 94 per cent of the total cost of service sewers, The proposed new rate would levy on an average of 50 per cent of the total sewer cost on owners of abutting property, which, he declared, was the intent of Congress. J. B. Gordon, superintendent of the District Sewer Department, presented figures on the cost of the laying of serv- ice sewers, and gave a description of sewer facilities in the District. He sald that for the most part the storm sewers proved adequate to care for the heavy waters, but that, due to silt washed into the sewers, they were clogged at many points, leading to the impression that the sewers were inadequate. He said that it cost the District gov- ernment $5,000 to remove the mud from sewers, at one point, due to the de- 00d, | nuded ‘section of land near there. Storm sewers generally are adequate, he said, with the exception of a few points, including Bladensburg road and H street northeast, Sixth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast and on Connecticut avenue near Garrison street. ‘The committee adopted a resolution urging that a study be made of possible |means of preventing the denuding of land .as a means of minimizing sewer SOREWS Board of Trade Resolution|day and was followed on the witness | Gov. Smith hits the campai Claude A. Swanson, now United the governor’s staff. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ign trail again. The Democratic standard bearer and Mrs. Smith are greeted by friends on their arrival in New York last night for a day of conferences before head- ing South tonight. They pass through Washington while the city slumbers in the early hours of to morrow. —Associated Press Photo. ASSAULT GHARGE Part in Alleged Attack on Rickert. Marked by continued attempts on the part of defense counsel to introduce matter relative to the alleged beating of a witness to the Ambassador Oyster | House raid by members of the ralding {party and repeated rulings by Judge Robert E. Mattingly that this testi- mony was irrelevant, the case of four men charged with sale and possession of liquor as the aftermath of the raid went into its second day of Police Court today. complaint of E. A. Rickert that he had been assaulted provoked an inquiry by the United States attorney's office, | brought denial today from Deputy Pro- | hibition Commissioner John J. Quinn that he had had any part in the alleged attack on Rickert. Quinn_further sald that he saw no one else hit Ricker, nor did he see any destruction of furniture. Following Quinn’s denfals, Harry Whelan, defense attorney, made a long statement for purposes of record in which he announced he would be able to show that Quinn was guilty of the | assault when the defense starts its testimony. Quinn was the first witness called to- | stand by Prohibition Agent Basil Quinn, | who had not completed his direct ex- amination when the court recessed for lunch. ‘Q(;inn Says He Did Not Take, The beating incident, in which the| DRY AGENT DENIES ~ ADNITS UTILITIES PAID NEWS SERVICE Oregon Man Identified Sub- scription List Totaling $84,820. By the Associated Press. Financial support given by utility in terests to the E. Hofer & Sons News | Service, which circulates from Salem, | Oreg., to between 13,000 and 14.000 | newspapers all’ over the country, was examined today in the power investi- ‘gxmlon of the Federal Trade Commis- sion. | Robert M. Hofer, manager. identifled a_subscription list which showed that $84.82080 had been received from electric and gas companies during 1927, and testified that financial support from other industries had approximately equaled that amount. The arrange- ment with the utility interests, he said, was made about four years ago at a | conference in New York. Tells of Support. Hofer said those present at the mpet- ing had included P. H. Gadsden of ‘the United Gas Improvement Co. Phila- delphia: C. E. Groesbeck and S. Z. Mitchell of the Electric Bond & Share Co., New York, and C. A. Coffin of the General Electric Co., New York. Examined by Robert E. Healy, com- mission counsel, the witness said he had initiated the meeting in seeking sup- port to extend the news service through the East. Prior to that time it had cir- culated in 15 Western States, he said, and had been receiving financial sup- port from some utility companies for about 10 years. The defendants are William Deegan, 29 years old; his brother, Francis | ‘Deegan, 20; Clarence Myers, 35, and | Burgess Frank Hart, 28. | Revenue Agents Edwin T. Goggi and Henry Thompson gave their ver: of the raid at the start of the trial § terday. Both claimed they made p chases of liquor at the oyster house c July 27, and-it was upon_these pur- chases that Commissioner Turnage i sued a warrant for the raid August 3. Although denying they had seen any | destruction of property the men admit- | ted they had drawn their revolvers when | the raiding party was heard downstairs | and ordered Myers to stop breaking | bottles. GIVES $150 FOR RELIEF. | In response to a telegram from West Palm Beach, Fla., appealing to the Adas Israel Congregation to assist their fel- low members in Florida with contribu- tions for their relief, which was read from the pulpit of the synagogue at | Sixth and I streets on September 24, $150 in checks was contributed, it was announced today by Fred Gichner, president of the Congregation, who said that the checks had been forwarded to the relief committee in the stricken area. ‘The contributions were as follow: M. Pasternak, $25; L. Buchalter, $5: S. H. Blumenthal, $5; F. S. Gichner, $15; Frances R. Schaffer, $5; Lillian Offen- berg, $10; Rabbi Louls Schwefel, $5; Isadore Hirschfield, $10; Capital Bed- ding Co., $5; Newman Brown, $25: Mago Bros. Co., $30, and John Berg, $10 Hofer said his firm had cireulated editorfals for rural papers. Missed City Press. Hofer said the service was not sent to metropolitan dailies because its ponsors were ,not familiar with the demands of that fleld The 1927 financial statement submit- ted by Hofer included the following con- tributors and amounts: Associated Gas- Electric Co.. New York, $1,200; H. M. Byllesby Engineering & Management Corporation, Chicago, $6.000; Common- wealth Edison Co., Chicago, $2,500; Commonwealth Power Corporation, New York, $3,600; New Orleans Public Serv- ice Co. New Orleans, $1.782; Philadel- phia Electric Co., Philadelphia, $2,568: Public Service Corporation of New Jer- sey, Newark, $7,500; Pacific Gas & Elec- tric Co, San Francisco, $1,200! Utah Power & Light Co., Salt Lake City, $1,200; Northwestern Light & Power Association, Portland, $2,500. Many other companies, located in widely separated States, also were listed as subscribers. Hofer sald $84,000 represented the average amount received annually by him from utilities interests, but denied that these payments influenced the sentiments expressed in reprint matter circulated by the news srvice, Numerous letters exchanged between Hofer and utility officials were intro- duced for the record, and included in several of these were estimates of the newspaper space obiained in respective States by matter sent out by the news service. It was estimated in one letter to Gacsden that 2318964 inches w ;agb_“énmd throughout the country 26,