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9 . D. . CORPORATIONS SHOW GANS IN 1% Total Gross Income Sets New Record—Millionaire Is Added to List. Corporations in the District of Co- lumbia broke all records for prosperity in the calendar year 1926, according to the latest statistics of income made pablic by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Local corporations piled up a rec- ord-breaking total gross income of more | arrived by last night and early today. | than half a billion dollars in 1926, with | After registering plus fours and other | - kindred tox a net income after deductions of 8 987,475 and an income tax of $8,671,069. Many Firms Show Loss. This_compares with a gross income of £498.652,148 in 1925. net income of $64,- 493.229 and tax paid of $8.119,191, ac- | cording to the returns. While there were bigger gains on the | part of successful business houses in the city in 1926, there were on the other band considerable losses reported by @1 firms. which showed a total asleit of $7.733.936, as compared with 672 firms reporting losses the previous vear, with a total deficit of $4,510,589. In the group of Washington's richest individuals there was a curious shifting of position, according to the individual income tax returns for 1925 and 1926. One new millionaire, whose identity 1s concealed, achieved the distinction of climbing to the local peak of an income of more than $1.000.000 in the | year 1926. There was only_one per-| son in this class here in 1925. accord- | ing to the figures. but in 1926 there | were two. 74 Earn Over $100,000. The group of persons receiving an| income of more than $100.000 in a year | declined. however, from 80 in 1925 to 74 in 1926. This comparison is shown in the wealthy class in this city as| follows: | No. of retu 1825, 57 1 arns, Income class 1926 £100.000 to £150.000 1 | .000 300.000 to $750. £1.000.000 to £1.500.000 Totals ...... . 80 4 The total number of individual re- turns here fell off from 43.293, in 1925, to 40024, in 1626, while the total net income tax from individuals also_fell off during the same period from §5,718,- 046 10 $5.526.436. Although there was no officlal com- ment forthcoming from the Govern- ment as to the reason for the big in- crease in business here, the theory was advanced among some persons that the falling off in individual incomes may have been partly accounted for by the recent decentralization of Government employes, which sent many to the fleld. One significant factor in the local returns, as compared withf the country, was the percentage of population filing returns. In this respect Washington leads the entire country, with a per- centage figure of 7.58. California is second, with 7.31, while New York State is third, with 6.666. The bottom of the list is occupied by South Carolina, where only .76 per cent filed returns. The Bureau of Internal Revenue also made public a preliminary report on re- turns of net income for the year 1927, which were filed up to August 31 of this year. RITES FOR CA'PT. WO00Ds T0 BE HELD TOMORROW Final Services at St. Gabriel's| Church—Interment With Honors in Arlington Cemetery. Funeral services for Capt. James F. Woods, 58 years old, Spanish-American and World War veteran, and examiner in the U. S. Veterans Bureau, who died at his home, 4807 Illinois avenue, Sat- urday, will be conducted in St. Ga- briel's Catholic Church, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. ‘The services will be under the direc- tion of the Vincent B. Costello Post, | American Legion, and the Spanish ‘War Veterans. The present commander and past commanders of the Costello Post will be pallbearers. Capt. Woods had been ill for about two weeks, following an operation. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eliza- beth S. Woods; a daughter, Miss Mar- | garet Elizabeth Woods, and two sons, Charles R. and William M. Woods. w RATHER THAN PAY FINES FOR PROTEST (Continued From First Page.) when he was put in jail, charged police with a preconceived plan to "rmlrnud"' the paraders to jail and prevent them from presenting their case to Secretary | Davis. He charged his party was put four in a cell and slept on the floor among cockroaches. Thomas also scored the jail fare, yet he said he would do the same thing again if he felt the cause were worth it. He went into a long discussion of the course of Soviet Russia, comparing them with what he described as “the capitalist courts of America.” Others of the leaders presented much the same argument. In passing sentence, Judge Hitt said: “These people all come here to make protest against the laws of America. If they don't like the laws of the Unit- ed States, I don't see why they don't find some country whose laws they do like and go to it Ten banners, one of them demand- ing the withdrawal of Marines from Nicaragua and the other nine dealing with release of John Porter and prepa- ration for what was termed another capitalist-imperialist war, were pre- sented as evidence to the court, but were objected to by Mr. Given. The paraders, many of them in their teens, composed of 10 girls and 19 men, were arrested shortly after noon Saturday in front.of the State, War and Navy Building by Detectives Ogle and H. E. Brodie. after they had made a complete circuit of the building. They were paraded to headquarters, where they were photographed and finger- printed Saturday night immigration officials from Baltimore spent a long session with the men of the band examining their papers and passports to check up on_their residence in this country. The four paraders sent to Juvenile Court are Philip Shinberg, 14, of the 1300 block Seventh street; Abraham Brooks, 14, 900 block Florida avenue; Florence Plotnick, 12, 400 block Rhode Island avenue, and Helen Colodny, 16, 3400 block Warder stree‘. HARBOR WORK PLANNED. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 12 —The board of engineers for rivers and har- bors of the War Department will meet | the W. A. Picrce Lumber Co.. died in | with representatives from Baltimore Thursday in Washington to discuss harbor improvements here. ‘The report of Lieut. Col. Pettis, Army engineer at Baltimore, will be read and ronsidered by department engineers, G. H. Pouder, director of the export and import bureau of the Baltimore Asso- ciation of Commerce, will head a dele- gation of business and shipping men who will attend the hearing, and ad- vocate a deeper harbor and ‘_, THE 'EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS GATHER IN CONVENTION Fall Session of Association Opens Today at Virginia Beach—Ban- quet Tonight on Program. By the Associated Press NORFOLK. Va.. November 12—With little thought of business cares, pub- lishers throughout the Nation were ar- riving today at Virginia Beach for the annual Fall session of the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers’ Association. opening at 3 pm. At this session, the banquet tonight and sessions tomorrow and Wednesday a number of speakers, {among them Gov. Harry F. Byrd of | Virginia, were to be heard { Primarily golf and sightsceing held { the attention of the visiting newspaper | men! More than 200 publishers were ex- pected here for this gathering and of that number approximately half had and paraphenalia. known golf was taken on and the chase of the little white ball {over ‘the Princess Anne Country Club { 20lf course begun. There was , some golfing by first arrivals yesterday Edward H. Butler. publisher of the Buffalo (N. Y.) Times and presi- dent of the association, was to call the | assemblage to order this afternoon. SAY EXTRA SESSION ISNOTNEGESSARY to the links, Reed and McNary Believe | Farm Problem Can Be Settled Otherwise. Convinced that Congress will have| ample time this Winter to deal with farm relief legislation, Senators Reed of Pennsylvania and McNary of Oregon, who held separate conferences with | President Coolidge today, do not think an extra session of Congress for this purpose will be at all necessary. It is understood that President Cool- idge, who is at this time giving ~con- siderable thought to this proposed legis- lation, has been advised that this is the | viewpoint of many other Republican members of the Senate and House. Subject for Short Session. Both Senators McNary and Reed said at the White House today that they consider it the duty of the coming short session of the Seventieth Congress, which commences next month, to dis- pose of this subject. Both think that Congress will have plenty of time. “I think that it is the duty imposed upon Congress to deal with farm relief at the first opportunity after it meets,” declared the Oregon solon, who is chair- man of the Senate committee on agri- culture. “There is no reason why this | administration cannot deal with this | and other important problems. Con- gress will have time to take up this matter immediately after it meets next month.” Senator McNary has almost com- pleted a revised bill hich deals with all of the problems of farm relief as set forth in the measure which met the disapproval of President Coolidge, and the vetoing of which resulted in the farm bolt at the Kansas City conven- tlon. The measure of necessity elimi- nates the equalization fee, but follows very closely in other respects the old | McNary-Haugen bill, as well as amplify- ing the“wiews expressed by President- elect Hoover in his speech of acceptance and at St. Louis. It is the opinion of Senator McNary that he will be able to | so word his bill that it will meet with the approval of most of the backers of the original McNary-Haugen bill and be in such form that it will be passed without any extended controversy. Farm Relief Conferences. Incidentally the series of conferences designed to secure adequate farm relief at the short session of Congress to which the President has been looking forwa:d were initiated by the visit of Senator McNary to the President today. He already had talked the matter over with Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Farm Loan Board,- who has furnished the Executive with his views of what is needed from the standpoint of that body. Wednesday the annual meeting of the National Grange will begin here. ‘There is very great interest in it because President Coolidge will address this con- vention and is expected to set forth in detail his views on what is needed fo: the farmer in the light of the result of the recent election. The administra- tion, it is now certain, is determined if possible to so cleai the decks of issues of controversy that President-elect Hoo- ver will not have to call Congress to his assistance unless he so desires. The farm relief which is to be jammed through at the short session will all be submitted to Mr. Hoover by the congressional leaders for his approval. In this connection it was learned that | Senator McNary also discussed with the President at his visit today the status of the Muscle Shoals bill, which was given a pocket veto by Mr. Coolidge following the adjournment of the last session of Congress. There is a differ-! ence of opinion among the leaders in Congress as to the status of this bill. Some take the view that the veto must be submitted to “Congress for action. If it is there is no question that the veto will be sustained, unless some of the “lame ducks” reverse themselves. On the other hand, certain of the members of the Congress believe that the pocket veto was the last word so far as the bill is conerned. Senator McNary said that he planned to ask the Attorney General for an opinion on the | subject Senator Reed stated that the primary | object of his call on the President was to urge an increase in the tariff duty | on plate glass. He asked the President | to boost the duty 50 per cent, so that | the manufacturers of this commodity in this country may be better able to meet the competition abroad. At the request of Senator Fletcher of Florida, President Coolidge agreed o | receive next Thursday afternoon the members of & motor caravan from Flor- ida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, which is on its way to Richmond, Va., to participate in the meeting of the Atlan- tic Coastal Highway Association. | WILL SEE PRESIDENT. Florida Governor-Elect and Others | | | i Due Thursday. On the invitation of Senator Flet- cher of Florida, President Coolidge agreed today to receive Thursday a motorcade headed. by the Governor- elect of Florida, Doyle Carlton, and a number of mayors and presidents of chambers of commerce of Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia, who are to attend the annual | Atlantic Coastal Highway meeting at Richmond. A. H. BROWNING DIES. A. Harris Browning, 40, salesman for | Sibley Memorial after a short illness. Funeral services were conducted at his late residen 3930 Morrison street, ! today at 11 o'clock. Interment will be at Harrisonburg, Va. A native of Culpeper, Va., Mr. Brown- ing was the son of the late B. W. and Ella Rixev Browning. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lena Effinger Browning, and a brother, Lloyd Brown- ing of West Point, Miss. Hospital Saturday | FIVE-YEAR LIBRARY PROGRAM FAVORED ! Gibson Subcommittee Re- port Indorses Expansion and Development Here. 3 | The report of the Gibson subcom- | mittee of the House committee on the District of Columbia, which has fust been printed as a Government docu- ment, contains a strong indorsement of the 5-year program for the ‘expansion land development_of the local Publie Library system. The section of the re- port on the Public Library reads as follows: The subcommittee heard testimony from the librarian, library trustees and representatives of citizens' organizations as to the necds of the Public Library for cxpanding and developing its facilities to serve the rapidly growing popula- tion of the District of Columbia. The Public Library now consists of a central library, three branch libraries in separate buildings, and two subbranches in’ public school buildings. The library has more than 300,000 volumes and for the fiscal year 1926 soaned to the public approximately 1,300,000 books. Resources Declared Inadequate. 1t is evident that the library renders a large and efficient service, making it a potent supplement to the public edu- cational system of the District. It is also evident that the library’s resources | and equipment are’ altogether inade- quate o meet the legitimate demands of a library scrvice arising in the school and in the adult population of the District. This condition, in the opinion of the subcommittee, has developed solely because the library has not yet Dbeen enabled to expand its facilities so that it shall in fact and in accordance with the act of June 3, 1896, establish- ing the library, consist of a central library and such number of branch libraries so located and so supported as to furnish books and other printed matter and information service con- venient to the homes and offices of all residents of the said District. Testimony before the subcommittee disclosed that among 35 American cities above 200,000 population Washington, though twelfth in population, ranks next to the bottom in the number of branch libraries. Among cities smaller than Washington, Cincinnati has 28 branches, Minneapolis 21 branches, In- dianapolis 19 branches. Portland, Oreg., 17 branches; Louisville 15 branches Kansas City 15 branches and Oaklan Calif.. with less than half Washington's population, 13 branches. Five-Year Program Provisions. T> meet this situation the subcom- mittee has introduced a bill into the Houce providing a five-year program of library expansion and development. During this period the legislation would provide for the establishment of 11 ma- jor branch libraries in separate build- ings to serve the population residing in the thickly built-up areas not having such facilities. It would also provide for the appropriation of such sums, be- ginning with the fiscal year 1930, as may be necessary in the aggregate to cairy out the program. The efficiency and economy of the five-year program is evident, as it would permit the library trustees to dev2lop the library system, not in a hap- hazard manner, but in accordance with a well formulated plan. ‘The library bill referred to in the re- port was H. R. 16953. It was introduced by Representative Gibson at the second session of the Sixty-ninth Congress. It has not yet been introduced in the Sev- enticth Congress. The publication of the strong indorsement of the. legisla- tion by the committee raises the ques- tion whether Representative Gibson will not reintroduce the bill and press for its enactment. INCREASES VALUE OF GAS COMPANY New Estimate to Utilities Commission Places Figure at $29,751,235. A new valuation of the Washington Gas Light Co., submitted to the Public Utilities Commission today by Willlam V. Burnell, appraisal manager for Stone & Webster of Boston, set the value of the company's property at $29,751,235, an Increase of $2,310,425 over the figure set by R. O. Luqueer, the company’s first witness. Burnell accepted the valuation of land made by the appraisal committee of the Washington Real Estate Board as $2,895030. He estimated material and labor at $16,141,781. This figure in Luqueer's report was $14,654,920. General construction costs, according to Burnell, were $4,030,000, against were put at $462,000, working capital at $1,250,000, ‘cost of financing, $1,240.000; going value, $3,605,000, and unfinished construction, $127,000. No Depreciation Included. Mr. Burnell's estimates did not in- clude any amount for depreciation of property. Luqueer had reported that the property was depreciated to the ex- tent of $829,710. H. Carl Wolf, commis- sion engineer, claims this figure should be $2,800000. This is one of the big points in dispute between the com- mission and the company. Burnell, however, included an item in_general construction costs ~which had apparently escaped Luqueer’s atten- tion. He set up an item called “law expenditures during_construction,” and placed this at $115,000. The “going value,” about which an- other big controversy is expected to develop when the commission’s Wit~ nesses begin to testify, was defined by Mr. Burnell as “the cost of transform- ing the bare physical property of the company into its present operating status as a going concern.” He an- alyzed his going value items as folows: Tuning up plants, $49,000; training personnel, $391,000; records and sta- tistic: $108,000; new business, $1.- 734,000; interest after construction on unused property, $1.254,000; taxes after construction on unused property, $69,000. Lengthy Exhibit Filed. At the start of the hearing Mr. Bunell filed a 52-page typewritten exhibit, going into great detail of the appraisal of the property. Swagar Sherley of counsel for the company then started to examine him as to each item in the order that they appeared in the exhibit. It is expected that examination of | this witness and his_cross-examination will take a week. The company then | will submit another witness from an- |other engine..ing concern with still an- other appraisal, and the same process will be repeated. | Honesty Rewarded by Find. | KINSTON, N. C. (®).—Willie Lang- | cion, colored youth, saw an elderly white man drop a dime. Before he could |return the coin the owner had driven off in his automobile. Willie cranked his own flivver and overtook his man 11 miles away. “You may Kkeep the dime,” the latter said. (@ Luqueer’s $3,621,890; organization costs ; D. C. MOXNDAY, NOVBNDER 1 Es e 1928. Members of the Flower Guild this morning recelved the prize chrysanthemums the Department of Agriculture greenhouses for distribution to the sick. Department of Agriculture, Mrs. R. B. Graves Matthews, Mrs. George C. Thorpe and J. Wise Byrnes, superintendent of the greenhouses. Farquharson, Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, PRIZE MUMS GO TO SICK IN HOSPITALS . which have been on exhibition at Left to right in photo: H. J. Smoot of the Mrs. Wilbur R. Tufner, Mrs. Charles —Star Staff Photo. OIL DEAL INVALID, SARGENT DECIDES 'Cat Creek Contract Is Held lllegal in Ruling by the Attorney General. The contract involving the sale of Government royalty oil in the Cat Creek Field, Montana, with the Lewis- town Oil & Refining Co., was held illegal by Attorney General Sargent in an opinion made public today at the Interior Department. Secretary Roy O. West immediately advised the Lewis- town Oil & Refining Co. by wire that delivery of oil under the contract would | be stopped at 7 a.m. November 19. The Interior Department announced that the various lessees in the Cat Creck field have also been notified by wire that beginning at the same time the Government would collect its royalties from them in cash. pending negotiation vf & new contract for the disposition of tne royalty oils. The department added hat steps will be taken in the immedi- ate future to advertise the royalty oils in the field for sale under the provisions of the applicable law. Follows Salt Creek Ruling. Following in the main the decision he laid down recently on the Salt Creek royalty oil contract, held by the Sinclats interests, Attorney General Sargent de- cided that the Cat Creek contract is invalid because it contains a clause giv- ing an option of renewal not provided for in the ‘advertisement for bids and. he added, because “the Secretary of the Interior under the statute had no au- thority to grant such an option of renewal.” ‘The contract with the Lewistown company was made by former Secretary Albert B. Fall in December, 1922, the Interior Department said, and “after exercise by the contractor of an option for renewal provided in the original, was renewed by the First Assistant Sec- retary in March, 1928, on the recom- mendation of the General Land Office and the Geological Survey.” RESULTS FROM NEW RADIO REALLOCATION (Continued From First Page.) erodyning with stations occupying the same wave. The first night hubhub was not en- tirely unexpected. To all listeners, the commission says: “Be patient. Give the stations a chance to shake down on their new assignments. It may take weeks, maybe months before the full effect of the reallocation can be gauged.” Battle in New York. Only one real “battle of the air” was fought last night. That occurred in New York when New York City of- ficlals defied the commission's order and insisted on broadcasting the full program from municipal Station WNYC, thereby breaking into the programs of statlon WMCA, with which it had been ordered to divide broadcasting time. One of the WMCA programs halted, however, when WNYC went on the air with the services of a Christian Scien- tist Church. City officials have de- clared they will ignore the Radio Com- mission’s order pending a hearing. In the congested broadcasting centers of New York and Chicago reports indi- cated that some stations could be i separated more easily and that there was ‘a noticeable increase in the volume of others. Some of the Chicago stations however, reported that they were swamped with telephone and telegraph messages demanding to know why they could not get, the programs they wanted. could find the missing stations. Reports From Various Sections. An Associated Press dispatch from Kansas City said that announcers and operators throughout the Southwest in- timated that the first reports were of little value as many stations have not completed their equipment for the change. However, stations reported generally, according to the dispatch, that many fans were finding the new dial marks with excellent reception, despite the unexpected bucking from regenerative apparatus. None of the six Kansas City stations, it was said, had completed alterations necessitated by the reallocation changes, the lacking adjustment in most cases being the crystal panel designed to steady ocilations. ‘Texas radio fans generally, judging from reports, were happy at the im- proved reception they said was evident, although several stations in this State received complaints. The Pacific Coast listeners apparently had little trouble in tuning their sets, and the stations there received only few queries and complaints. Reports from Atlanta indicated that fans in the Southland had varying degrees of luck with the new wave length assignments. Static and squeals, it was said, rewarded most fans at Columbia, S. C., but in North Carolina ‘WBT at Charlotte was reported clearer, while at Raleigh station operators said atmospheric conditions in that vicinity might have caused some interference. From Nashville came the wail that the air was full of howls and reception was “terrible,” but earlier in the even- ing fans had reported no radical change in conditions. Down Miami way static cut capers and fans were prevented from having a fair test, although some said that the air seemed to be “full of stations.” Many asked where on the dials they| Rearmament Vital To New Control of Anti-Aireraft Gun By the Assoclated Press. New anti-aircraft fire control apparatus for guns, developed in the last year by the Coast Artil- lery, has resulted in the need for immediate rearmament of the Army's anti-aircraft gun units. The new equipment surpasses the war time material in the ser- vice, Maj. Gen. Andrew Hero, jr., chief of the Coast Artillery, said in his annual report to Secretary of War Davis, made public yester- day. The improvements were deemed so extensive, he added, as to require rearmament. BIOGRAPHIC BOOK BIFT T0 PRESIDENT Learned Societies Present Copy of First Volume of Their Publication. A copy of the first volume of the Dic- tionary of American Biography was pre- sented to President Coolidge at the ‘White House this noon by a committee of the American Council of Learned So- cieties. ‘The presentation was made by Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, head of the depart- ment of American history at the Library of Congress; Dr. Allan Johnson, editor- in-chief of the dictionary, and Waldo G. Leland, permanent secretary of the council. The dictionary, the compilation of which has been undertaken by the American Council of Learned Societies, represents an attempt to present bio- graphical sketches of all Americans who have made noteworthy contributions to any field of human progress. The first volume, jyst completed, includes most of the first two letters of the alphabet. There will be 20 volumes in all, which will be issued henceforth at the rate of three a year. ‘Work Brought Down to Date. No comprehensive work of this sort has been available up to the present. Existing dictionaries of American biog- raphy now are antiquated and restricted in their scope. They are devoted espe- cially to the careers of soldiers, states- men and clergymen, while the present volume will devote equal attention to artis scholars, scientists, educators, physicians, inventors, business men and many other classifications. In all there will be more than 16,000 biographies. ‘The only restrictions adopted were against persons now living, who will be treated in supplementary volumes after their deaths, persons who have never lived within the present territory of the United States and British officers whose service in America_was subsequent to the Declaration of Independence. In preparing the list, different groups were asked to submit their own lists. These lists then were submitted to other specialists, who revised them with additions and omissions. Scope of Work Outlined. Each biography seeks to present a complete picture of the man rather than a mere formal statement of the chief events of his life. Heredity, physical and social environment, childhood, edu- cation, character, temperament and physical appearance of the subject are portrayed. To insure accuracy of de- tail a staff is maintained at the Library of Congress to check on dates, titles, etc. Prof. Jameson has general direction {of the undertaking. Other members of the committee are Dr. John H. Finley of the New York Times, Prof. Frederic L. Paxson of the University of Wis- consin, Mrs. Iphigene Sulzburger of New York, Carl Van Doren, Charles Warren and Dr. Allan Johnson. Dr. Johnson is assisted by an editorial stafl composed of Harris E. Starr, Prof. Ernest S. Bates, George H. Genzmer jand H. W. Howard Knott. 11,000 Contributors Listed. The first eight volumes are now well under way. There are more than 1,100 contributors. The publication of the first volume will be celebrated tonight at a dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, which will be attended by several hun- dred scholars. Speakers will include the German Ambassador, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz-Gaffron; Jameson, Dr. Willlam A. Neilson, presi- dent of Smith College; Dr. Edwin R. A. Seligman of Columbia University and Linda Eastman, president of the Amer- ican Library Association. MISS N. M. CURTIN DEAD. Funeral Services Tomorrow at St. Anthony’s Church. Miss Nellie M. Curtin, 49 years old, died Saturday at Sibley Hospital fol- lowing a short illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Brookland, and interment will be_in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Miss Curtin was born in County Kerry, Ireland, a daughter of Mrs. Ellen and the late John J. Curtin. She is survived by the following brothers and sisters: * Mrs. Daniel Britt of Cazenovia, N. Y.; Nora A. Patrick J. and Laurence J. Curtin and Mrs. Eliza- beth Rogers. all of this city. The funeral will be held from the home of Msr;; Rogers at 3000 Ninth street north- € \ Dr. | LONDON IS SILENT ON HOOVER'S TRIP Press Reports His Proposed Visit to South America, but Withholds Comment. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 12.—The coming South American trip of Herbert Hoover has attracted much attention here, but only limited comment. Newspapers generally have printed news articles concerning the projected journey, but with the exception of the Sunday Ob- server, they have refrained from edi- torial comment. The Observer published a leading ar- ticle on the President-elect and in it said that already he had realized the cardinal truth that unless America be conscious of her qualities and proud of their manifestations, she could not fully occupy the post of leadership which she has attained. The article continued: “Elected because he is the embodi- ment of the national spirit, Mr. Hoover's first act is to plan a visit to the States of Central and South America. This tour is his first deed of national service. “Incidentally, it refutes the charge that Mr. Hoover upholds an exclusive and ignoble materialism. It is as the standard bearer of national ideals that he will survey the nearer environment of American foreign activities.” Low, the cartoonist of the Evening Standard, today depicted Hoover as perusing his plans while seated on a rustic bench. In the background Win- ston Churchill, chancellor of the ex- chequer; Gustav Stresemann, German minister of foreign affairs, and Ray- mond Poincare, premier of France, were shown as peeping over a hedge and as saying: “I wonder if he still takes an interest in European relief.” LA PAZ EXTENDS INVITATION. LA PAZ, Bolivia, November 12 (#).— United States Minister David E. Kauf- man yesterday sent the following mes- sage to Herbert Hoover: “President Hernando Siles and the minister of foreign affairs earnestly request me to do all I can to induce you to come to La Paz while on your South American voyage, believing that the American interests here are im- portant. A special train will await you at Arica, taking 10 hours to La Paz. deem it a great honor and pleasure to see you here and to make all arrange- ments.” HOOVEE IS EXPECTED TO START NEXT WEEK~ ON GOOD-WILL TOUR (Continued From First Page.) freedom, truth and faith in God came with those exiles o'er the waves,” the worshipers sang. The chaplain, in his opening prayer, the people of the United States and the President-elect.” Dr. Barton took as his text the fifth verse of the second chapter of Hebrews: “But not unto the angeis hath he subjected the world to come.” Around this theme he wove a picture of an ideal world—free from wars and hatred and unrighteousness— and here called the dream of “The Optimist, Jeremiah,” about a day when the people should govern themselves under a ruler ‘raised from among Ve lh%_l’g:e! orld to come,” the minister pointed out. will be one of widespread prosperity, good government and peace. Fixing his eyes upon a large silken service flag. showing that 3,393 Stan- ford boys fought for their country in the World War, Dr. Barton said: “Eventually this must be a warless world, or none at all. I am not a pacifist. 1 sent three sons and 160 boys of my church into the World War."” Dr. Barton forecast a great moral revolution of “godliness .and right- living,” that “must encompass all in- dustry, all education, yea, all politics.” “Not unto the angels hath God com- mitted this program.” he concluded, “but unto the servants of men.” The closing hymn had the words “God bless our native land, firm may she ever stand, through storm and night” A large choir led the singing from a choir loft high above the front entrance and in front of the deep-throated me- n m%r‘:nel g{gla\hud Memorial Church is a show place of California with its gor- geous mosaics and hand-carved lime- stone and Italian marble. Originally it had a tall tower, but this was shaken down in an earthquake and was not replaced. The building was erected by Mrs. Leland Stanford in memory of her husband, founder of the Univer- sity. The stone walls of the auditorium are decorated with gold and colorful | ceramics, and the vaulted dome is sup- ported by gigantic redwood arches. There are 60 memorial windows of stained glass. The congregation was requested to remain until Mr. and Mrs. Hoover had left the church. As they emerged they were confronted with a score of motion picture and news cameras. to say nothing of dozens of the snap-shot variety, held by enthusiastic amateurs. | To Attend Lecture. All club women of the District of Columbia have been invited to attend an illustrated lecture by Dr. Wherry, on “Wild Flower Conservation.” to be given at 7:45 o'clock this evening at the Na- The altitude will not brother you. I would asked God’s blessing on “Thy servants, | ? ISURRESTS SURVEY OF WELFARE NEEDS Community Chest Director Urges Collection of Figures for Fund Distribution. | i 1 | [ | | | | i | Preparation of a “human welfare | weather map” of Washington in con nection with the distribution of fu | for charitable purposes was advoc: | by Elwood Street, director of the { munity Chest, in an address today at | a luncheon meeting of the Council of Social Agencies at the Young Women's | Christian Association | “The nearly fifty districts into which | Washington has been divided by it i citizens’ associations,” he suggested | “should be the basis for a community | wide collection of figures as to the rela- tive standing of each district in respect | to disease, poverty, delinquency and other factors in human welfare. “If this material could be collected month by month and figured out in | proportion to the population of these | districts, it would be possible to prepare { month by month and year by year sort |of & ‘human welfare weather map’ of | washington, which would show where the storms and floods of distress are to | be found, as well as where the calms of greatest well-being exist. Cites Possible Results. “Not only would the relative ‘wellth’ and ‘illth’ of each district be shown, as compared with all other districts, so that local pride might be aroused and efforts of citizens directed toward im- proving the conditions which are shown to need attention, but also improvement of depreciation of any district. in com- n with its own record, would be shown. This information would be of the greatest value to social agencies. to health officials and other groups inter- ested in human welfare, as well as to business groups, such as real estate dealers, who thus might know the direc- tion of community development and act accordingly in their transactions. “Action on the comparative figures thus gathered could be taken by the present citizens' associations and by councils of district or neighborhood agencies, made up of representatives of all the groups and organizations ac- tive in these districts, which could work in co-operation with the citizens' as- sociations. Plan Seen as Success in St. Louis. “Such a plan already is well in St. Louis, Mo., and, tation to meet the local situation, might well work out here. Mr. Street illustrated his talk with stereopticon slides of charts and pho- tographs of the district statistics and activities of St. Louis, from which he has recently come to Washington after over seven years as director of the St Louis Community Council and Com- munity Fund. 1 S SHIP WITH 350 ABOARD SINKING OFF VIRGINIA; | 10 CRAFT RUSHING AID | (Continued From First Page) __ help, the radio call for help received ! at Coast Guard Headquarters indicated. The position given by the distressed ship was aproximately 250 miles off Cape Henry. The cutters will not reach the position of the ship before tomor- row morning, Coast Guard officials here stated, pointing out that the ves- sel is in a precarious predicament be- cause of the heavy listing. ‘The Vestris, bound from New York for the Barbados with passengers and cargo, sailed from New York Saturday, presumably running into the heavy gales which battered the Atlantic coast on_ Saturday night and, in the storm, suffered a heavy shifting of her cargo. ‘The Coast Guard cutters which have been rushed to her aid have been de- tailed, one to tow her and the other to steer her into port when they have picked her up. The Manning is to take her in tow while the smaller Mascoutin will endeavor to direct her course. D. C. MAN DROWNED AS CAR LEAVES ROAD Archibald P. Atkinson, 25, Loses Life in Louisiana—Two Com- panions Are Saved. Archibald Parks Atkinson, 25 years old, of 1724 Q street, was drowned earl; today when an automobile in which he was starting on a hunting trip with two | companions capsized in Bayou Terre | Aux Boeuf on the Shell Beach road near New Orleans. The others escaped after a terrific battle for their lives under water. Atkinson started on the trip with Ralph Chamberlain of New Orleans and William Weigand, a reporter on a New Orleans paper. After the car had skidded from the road and turned over into the bayou, Chamberlain kicked his way through the closed windows of the machine and swam to shore, dragging Weigand with him. The two then pulled Atchison from the car and got him up onto the bank, but the rescue was effected too late. An ambulance arrived from New Orleans an hour later and physicians worked over Atkinson with a pulmotor, but their efforts to revive were futile. Atkinson was in New Orleans visit- ing Wiegand, who had been his cl: mate at Princeton University. son's parents live at the Q street ad- dress, but he has been in Philadelphia recently, where he was emploved by the Hooper Sons Manufacturing Co. Drowned mile ‘and | Lebi BYRD'S MEN PAY ARMISTICE TRIBUT City of New York Crew Re- late Experiences Ten Years Ago. BY DR. FRANC D. COMAN. Bv Radio to The Star New York Times BARK CITY OF NEW YOR r en-hundred m Islands, s sou crossing the rew of tk flagship o C ition. e of 11 the he qua hered on tt nel are n. British, rman fighting forces du he Great War. and following the them still relatively vouthful, told fly of their experiences and sur- roundings on the mornings of the ar- mistice. whether on the high seas or on the western front in France. Capt. Mel- ville, Tom Mulroy. Mason, Bayer. Jacob- n and Konter were on vessels widely seattered throughout the seven when the submarine menace was lift Creagh was lying wounded in a Br field hospital in F e and Bla re- cently rescued from a torpedoed trans- port. was in an American hospital in Paris. Berkner and Grenlie were in training for American forces. McGuin- ness was with German East African ¢ forces in Tanganyika, Perkins was in the Argonne with the American 32rd V] nd Coman was just outsid> Sedan, with the 22nd Division of tire French Army. More youthful members, from Pr Davies to Scout Siple, were at training camps or schools. but all without excep- tion recalled vividly the occasion which so _altered the course of their lives, Bowling along on the edges of th~ trade winds in fine balmy weather, each man is prouder at the moment to ve a members of the largest expedition that ever set out on peaceful and worthv ventures than to have borne arms against other men. no matter howevey patriotic or high-principled seems tu motive. (Copxright, by the N and the St. Louis Post-Dispat, for publication reserved th world.) | PRESIDENT PRAISED IN U. S. AND ABROAD FOR PEACE SPEECH __(Continued From First Page.) of York Times All righta ighout the genuine and honest limitation of arma- ment. Declaring that war is destructive and gains nothing that could not have been acquired by a more reasonable course, and that war_interferes with nationa progress, the President is anxious that its_causes may be lessened. Explaining that the war will have ost this Nation more than one hun- |"dred billion dollars, which he said was more than it cost any of the allies, he declared that whatever may be thought or said of this country, we know, and every informed person should know, that we reaped no selfish benefits, and that no citizen of the United States need make an apology to any one any where for not having done our duty in defense of the cause of world Hberty. He referred to comment from abroad about our isolation. stating that no in- formed person, either at home eor abroad, would blame us for not inter- fering in affairs which are peculiarly the concern of others to adjust, o when we are asked to help for stating clearly the terms on which we are will- ing to help. Wants Better Understanding. The President said, with considerabl~ feeling, that if the European powers would give a little more attention to our history and judge us a little more closely by our own record. and es- pecially find out in what directions we 4 believe our real interests to lie. much which Europe now appears to find ob- scure would be quite apparent. In summing up the President's an- nounced policy in the interest of peace. it may be said that he believes firmly in preparation, limitation and renun- ciation. Paul V. McNutt, national commander of the American Legion. who spoke after the President. declared with much feeling that Mr. Coolidge's address had been a magnificent and enlightening message and commended him upon its tenor. Mr. McNutt made a strong appeal for adequate defense. He paid a high s tribute to the soldiers and sailors of the World War for their devotion and unselfishness. He described Armistice day as one of thanksgiving because it spelled victory and peace with honor. The services were concluded with a brief address by Gen. John J. Pershing, who spoke over the radio from Omaha, Nebr, and who was prevented from being present because of the fliness of his sister. Gen. Pershing confined | himself principally to a brief recital of the stages of the war and made it evident that the entrance of America was the turning point and was the di- rect means of ultimate victory. Edward E. Spafford, past nationalp commander, presided. Harlan Wood, Department commander of the District of Columbia, opened the meeting. In- cidental music was furnished by a sec- tion of the United States Army Band. Mme. Martha Attwood sang “The Star Spangled Banner.” FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—$1.300; 2- - 3 Marinette i 1% Bewin Over.. vat ... 110 Arrow. G.. “Hi d Judge iconer entry. b Samiiel’ Robs - e George: W. “Loft-m. 1o Sehwaris entry. dE. K. Bryson entry SECOND RACE—The Jackey Club Handi- cap: purse, $1.300: 3-year-olds and upward 1_turlonx Euphrates . George De; 0 Freshman. . 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