Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1928, Page 17

WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, Agnes George De Mille, who is appearing as guest artist In three original pantomimic dances with Adolph Bolm’s Ballet tonight at the Washington Auditorium. The dancer is the daughter of Wil- liam De Mille and niece of Cecil De Mille, the screen producer. LUSK AGAIN ASKS SUBMETER INQUIRY Discrimination Is Charged to Potomac Power Co. in His Letter. A second request was made by Rufus S. Lusk, executive secretary of the Op- erative Builders’ Association, today to have the Public Utilities Commission order a public hearing to clarify the question of sub-metering of electric GUGGENHEIM FLIES HERE FOR MEETING. Head of Foundation Will At- tend Conference on Aero- nautics Tomorrow. Piloted by Lieut. James Doolittle, for- mer Schneider Cup race winner, Harry F. Gugzenheim, president of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion | of Areonautics, flew here today from | | New York to attend a meeting of the | current by owners of large buildings to | American delegation to the Interna- their individual tenants. Mr. Lusk, in a letter to the Commis- sion, charged that discrimination is be- ing practiced by the Potomac Electric Power Co., in that some of the large building owners have been compelled to stop the sub-metering practice and others have not. Claims Expiration of Limit. “On September 8,” Mr. Lusk wrote, “the Commission granted the Potomac Electric Power Co. 30 days to ‘correct’ cases of sub-metering at that time ex- sering in Washington. “Sixty-four days have elapsed since that date and by no means have all of these cases been corrected and the Commission has not set a date for a public hearing. “In the meantime, the power com- pany has been endeavoring, to use a very mild term, to force various owners to stop submetering of current. In some cases they have made threats, stating that the owner was violating an order of the Public Utilities Com- mission. To our knowledge no such order exists. “In the list of buildings, 21 in num- ber, in which submetering was being practiced as outlined in the letter from the power company to the commission dated September 4, there are certain mis-statements of fact. We have in- vestigated some of these buildings and find that the status of the cases as outlined by the power company is not the true status. In one case their re- port says that a contract had been let for the wiring changes; this has not been done. In another case it stated that action was expected in a few days, whereas the owners have re- fused to do anything for over three months. “Glaring Example” Not Mentioned. “And the most glaring example of sub-metering, one of the largest hotels in Washington, is not even mentioned in the list. “We respectfully request that a hear- ing be granted in this matter. It is evident that a discrimination now ex- ists between the building owners who are sub-metering and those who can- not do so. The power company is pow- erless to stop it, since it has been try- ing to do so for eight months, and in the more important cases where sub- metering is going on the owners have refused point blank to discontinue, and in our opinion they are within their rights in so doing. “Whether sub-metering be legal or not, and we are firmly convinced it is legal, there can be no question but that the present discrimination now existing between the owners who are sub-metering and owners who cannot do so is contrary to all public utility practice. The matter can only be set- tled by a hearing, which the commis- sion has promised us, and the sooner this is done the better. Early Hearing Is Asked. *“As long as the commission delays tional Civil Aeronautics Conference to- | morrow at the Department of Com- merce. The flight here was made in an Army 0-11 observation plane, leaving New | York at 9:55 o'clock this morning and landing at Bolling Field. Lieut. Doo- little has been assigned by the War Department to assist the Guggenheim Foundation in its research work to lessen the menace of fog to the aviator. At tomorrow’s meeting of the Ameri- can delegation, of which Mr. Guggen- heim is a member, plans will be made for the international conference ses- sions to be held in this city Decem- ber 12, 13 and 14. The membership of the delegation, appointed recently by President Cool- idge, is as follows: Orville Wright, the | guest of honor of the conference; Sec- retary of Commerce William F. Whiting, Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecti- cut, president of the National Aeronau- tic Association; Assistant Secretary of State Nelson T. Johnson, F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics; Edward P. Warner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, William P. MacCracken, jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics; W. Irving Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of the air mail; Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh, Dr. Joseph S. Ames, chairman of the Natlonal Advisory Committee for aeronautics; Mr. Guggenheim and Les- ter D. Gardner, president of the Aero- nautical Chamber of Commerce. CHARLES MOORE HONORED Chairman of Fine Arts Commission Decorated by French President. Announcement came through the French Embassy yesterday that Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of | Fine Arts, has been awarded the deco- | ration of chevalier of the Legion of | Honor by President Doumergue of! France. The avard to Mr. Moore is in recog- nition of his services in connection with the preservation of the plan of Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant for the devel- | opment of the National Capital, ‘metering in an effort to get them to stop. The power company knows full well that if there has been any viola- tion of the law they must be as guilty as anybody, since in many cases, as we shall prove at a public hearing, they not only knew that the building was o be sub-metered, but urged the own- ers to do it, planned the necessary lay- out for sub-meter installation and sold the meters. “Now, because of other reasons, the company wants sub-metering discon- | tinued. They are annoying their cus- tomers, who are in many instances those whom the power company itself persuaded to sub-meter. This should stop. For this purpose and to settle having a hearing, the power company the whole question of the right to sub- American University co-eds Swedish costumes in which they will appear in folk dances next Friday night at the “Foreign Dinner” of the Women’s Guild of the university. Left to right: Misses Alice Hetzel, Elizabeth Hill, Esther McVey, Ruth Rinkel, Elsle Sand- berg and Elizabeth McVey. wearing Diplomatic representatives of South American countries and officers of local patriotic societies gathered for the decoration yesterday of the statue of Gen. San Martin, the South American here, in Judiciary Square. Dr. Don Manuel E. Malbran, the Argentine Ambassador, delivered an address. —Associated Press Photo. It's a long stride from this forefather of dirigibles to the Graf Zeppelin of today. The old craft is the British dirigible Nulli Secundus, constructed in 1907 and considered a wonder of its day. It is shown here as it made one of its first trial flights. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. When Georgia Tech knocked Vanderbilt out of the Southern Confern ce title race at Atlanta Saturday. Lumpkin, Tech halfback, is seen being stopped after a dash through tackle in one of the consistent gains that gave the Golden Tornado a 19-to-7 victory in one of Dixie’s biggest battles of the gridiron year. —Associated Press Photo. Cornell University students ran things to suit themselves at the Hotel Astor in New York yesterday. They took over management of the hotel for a day as a practical aid in their college work to fit them for hotel exe cutives. Fred Guillot, the Astor chef (left), is showing three of the students how things should be run in the kitchen. COMMITTEE REPORTS |“Refiner’s Fire” Found Marked in Book: New Light Shed in Knaak Death Inquiry HEARD BY PUBLISHERS Groups at Work on Problems Con- fronting Association, Norfolk Convention Told. By the Assoclated Press. NORFOLK, Va, November 13.— Newspaper -publishers of the Nation today listened to reports from standing committees of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, which indicat- ed that those groups were functioning in a manner to bring about solution of problems confronting the organiza- tion. ‘The second business session of the annual Fall convention was being held at the Cavalier Hotel, at Virginia Beach, this afternoon after the con- cluding round in the golf tournament on the Princess Anne Club links. The first of the reports presented came from F. E. Wines, manager of the mechanical department of the as- sociation. This reviewed the work of the committee since the 1926 Fall convention recording the results in ef- fecting savings through elimination of waste in certain particular departments. Advertising printing improvement is sought by the publishers and the as- sociation has at work an executive committee composed of E. K. Keefe of the Newburgh, N. Y., News, chairman; George M. Rogers of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, E. W. Greene of the Christian Science Monitor, Boston; George M. Stone, New York World; Leo D. Deveze, Brooklyn Eagle, and John Rosebach, Buffalo News. Co-op- erating with the publishers are repre- sentatives of a half dozen advertising agencles. Mrs. Kathleen ifnlhnll Dies. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., November 13.— Mrs. Kathleen Haney Marshall, wife of Willilam P. Marshall of this city, died Saturday afternoon from pneumonia at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hailey, at Keysville. Mrs. Mar- shall, a bride of two months, went to Keysville last Tuesday for a visit with her parents, and her death occurred after two days’ illness. She is survived will continue to harass, worry and meter, we request an early hearing on by her husband, parents, a brother and threaten owners who are now sube this case.” n three sistess By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 13—A page from a book on religion, with the phrase, “The refiner’s fire,” under- scored, turned new light today on the death of Miss Elfrieda Knaak Navem- ber 2 from burns inflicted, she said, in “purification rites” in the Lake Bluff, 111, police station furnace room. The book, found among Miss Knaak’s private papers, spoke of the “purifying process of pain.” “It is grander to suffer,” said the book, ‘“because, rightly viewed, it is sure to perfect the soul. It is impos- sible to know true joy—the heights of joy—until you have known correspond- ing depths of pain. This is the process called ‘the refiner’s fire’” The last three words were underscored. Miss Knaak was found semi-con- scious in the police station basement, her legs, arms and head badly burned. In the days before she died she per- sisted in her story that she alone had inflicted the burns, and a coroner’s jury last week returned a verdict accepting the young woman’s story. Investigation by county authorities and by the girl's family has continued in ths belief that a second person had a part in the affair. ANNULMENT IS ASKED. Man Alleges Wife Was Married Prior to Their Union. Blas Reyes, a native of Porto Rico, sald to be employed as chef for Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, today asked the District Supreme Court to annul his marriage to Ada Sinclair Reyes, 2531 Q street. He says the woman represented her- self as unmarried March 18, 1915, when he went through a marriage ceremony with her. It was not until 1925 that he discovered that she then was the law- ful wife of Charles Carson of Fairfax County, Va., he charges. He separated from her on learning of her previous marriage, he told the court. Attorney Raymond Neudecker appeared for the petitioner. FILM OWNERSHIP URGED. German Advocates Government Taking Over Industry. BERLIN, November 13 (#).—Govern- ment ownership of film interests was advocated before the budget committee of the Reichstag today by Karl Severing, minister of the interior. He argued for this departure on the ground that it would break the strangle- hold of private monopolies on the in- dustry, safeguard the intellectual in- ;fire!fl g‘l‘ !l';e republic l:xmli-. raise the m productions to & er artistic standard, 3 Hoover Will Get Presidential Honors In South America By the Associated Press. Although he still will be offi- clally a private citizen, Presi- dent-elect Hoover will be given full presidential honors by the Latin American countries which he will visit on his trip aboard the Maryland. Mr. Hoover thus will be en- titled to a salute of 21 guns on entering the ports of South Amer- ican countries. The State De- partment, it is understood, has communicated with the South American governments and sug- gested that Mr. Hoover be treated as if he were already the Chief Executive of the United States. CELLIST TO APPEAR. Miss Daisy Jean, the Belgian cellist who entertained thousands of soldiers during the World War by her recitals in hospitals, will be presented tomor- row night at 8:15 o'clock in Central Community Center by the Community Institute of Washington. She was decorated with the Order of the Crown by King Albert and, on behalf of the Belgian people, the Queen presented her with a rare old cello of Ttalian workmanship. This will be her fixst public appearance In Washington. —aAssociated Press Photo. BROWNE IS ELECTED BETHESDA FIRE CHIEF Defeats Charles Morgan in Race to Be Successor of G. Wady Imirie. Dudley Browne, Washington patent attorney, and a resident of Chevy Chase Gardens, was elected chief of the Bethesda Volunteer Fire Depart- ment last night, to succeed G. Wady Imirie, who resigned recently. Mr. Browne defeated Charles Morgan of Montgomery avenue, Bethesda, the other candidate for the post. Jessie Barber was elected assistant chief over William Hartley and John Imirie was re-elected secretary and treasurer. Andrew Pugh was elected captain and John Sumner lieutenant of Com- pany, No. 1. Arthur Oldfield was elected captain and George Stangler lieutenant of Company No. 2. J. Fred Imirie was elected captain and- Ham- mil Compton lieutenant of Company No. 3. ‘The officers were elected by the mem- bers of the volunteer companies and will serve for the coming year. GIVEN TAKES OATH THURSDAY MORNING Will Assume New Duties as Police | Court Judge After Ceremony. Assistant United States Attorney Ralph Given, who last Saturday was appointed Police Court judge, will be administered the oath of his new office by Justice Peyton Gordon in the United States branch of Police Court at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Following the ceremony Mr. Given will enter at once upon the duties of office, taking his place on the bench in the same branch of court where he has been prosecuting cases for the last 27 years. Mr. Given fills the vacancy caused by the death last Summer of Judge George H. Macdonald. Judge Robert E. Mattingly of the Municipal Court, | have Helen of Troy on a California campus. Miss Doris Tennant as she appeared in the role in'a benefit pageant and play given by the co-eds of the University of Southern California, at Los Angeles. —Wide World Photos. HOOVER IS PRAISED INFLETCHER MOVE Brazilian Envoy Sees Genius in Carrying Ambassador on His Cruise. By the Associated Press. ROME, November 13.—President-elect Hoover's idea of visiting Latin America was a “stroke of genius completed by choosing Ambassador Fletcher as a member of his entourage,” in the opin- ion of Baron Teffe, Brazilian Ambassa- dor to Italy. “‘Mr. Hoover's sojourn in Brazil will at consequences which are im- possible to calculate now, but which will be emphasized by the presence of such men as Ambassador Fletcher (now American_envoy to Italy), who knows Brazil and is a true and sincere friend of my country,” said the Brazilian Am- bassador. “Futhermore, Mr. Hoover will find in Rio Janeiro an American diplo- mat, Edwin V. Morgan, whom I ht call an honorary Brazilian, owing to his long residence there and his thorough and sympathetic knowledge of the en- tire country. E “Mr. Hoover will have everywhere in Brazil the warmest reception, everybody having admired him as a man, as a philanthropist and as a statesman. With the wide experience acquired by traveling practically over all the world, he will certainly realize the possibility existing in collaboration between the United States and Brazil, and he will realize that in 10 years Brazil will pro- duce and develop what it takes a cen- tury to do in Europe. “The only way of being in accord and working together for mutual interest is knowing Brazil well, and that is what the President-elect is about to do. Un- der his impulse Brazil, which is as large important markets for the United States, as proved by the fact that America alone exported to Brazil 36,000 automobiles—or 100 times more than the number exported by some of the most advanced manufacturing coun- tries of Europe.” WALKER POST OF LEGION Harlan Wood, Department Com- mander, Among Speakers at Armistice Gathering. The James E. Walker Post of the American Legion held its annual Armi- stice reunion at 1502 Thirteenth street last night, with addresses and poems of war times. One hundred members of the post heard speeches by Harlan Wood, depart- ment commander of the Legion; Dr. T. Edward Jones, post commander; Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard University, and Paul J. McGahan, na- tion al committeeman of the District for the Legion, Musical numbers were rendered by James B. Lomack, Lester Dorsey, Har- rison Smith, Mrs. Elmer Coyer and Dick Hall. Clarence C. H. Davis delivered an address, paying tribute to the dead heroes of the World War, and the poem, “Flanders Field,” was read by Camp- bell C. Johnson. as Europe, may become one of the most | ry HOLDS ANNUAL REUNION! ROTHSTEIN ESTATE FOUGHT BY FATHER Seeks to Become Joint Tem- porary Administrator of Slain Son’s Wealth. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 13.—Counsel for the relatives of Arnold Rothstein, slain gambler, obtained from Surrogate John P. O'Brien today an order to show cause why Abraham E. Rothstein, father of the dead man, and “a com- petent and disinterested person to be designated by the surrogate.” shouid not be appointed joint temporary ad- ministrators of the estate. The order directs Maurice Cantor, Samuel Brown and Willlam Wellman, named executors and chief beneficiaries in the will; Mrs. Esther Rothstein, the gambler's mother; Mrs. Edith Lustig, his sister, and Edgar and Jack Roth- stein, his brothers, to show cause be- fore the surrogate Friday morning why the appointments should not be made. ‘The Rothstein parents received noth- ing under the will signed with a cross on the gambler’s deathbed. The sister received nothing, and the brothers got $50,000 each and 10-year interest in small trust funds. The estate was largely divided into trust funds, all eventually going to the executors. ‘The order was obtained on petition of the father, who contended “upon in- formation and belief” that his son was mentally incompetent at the time of the signing of the will, and added that where his son was married to Carolyn Rothstein, a large portion of the estate “Is alleged to have been devised in said alleged will to a certain woman named Inez Norton in no way related to him or his family, either by blood or mar- Fpey S ‘The widow was left a life income from one-third, of the estate, and Miss Nor- ton, a former show girl, the income for 10 years from one-sixth of the estate. IN WORK FOR VETERANS Report to Medical Council Makes Recommendation Relating to Re- gional Offices and Hospitals. The regional offices of the Veterans® Bureau throughout the country should be operated in conjunction with Vet erans’ Bureau hospitals whenever pos- | sible, according to a special committee report today to the medical advisory council of the Veterans' Bureau. The report, made by Dr. George M. Piersol of Philadelphia, recommended that the two combined agencies should be under the administration of a medi- cal officer, which was the outstanding feature of a morning of reports from xarious comittees to the council. Miss Clara D. Noyes, director of the nursing service, proposed that a post- graduate school for nurses be estabe lished. The council has under consideration numerous problems relating to the med- ical treatment of veterans and admin- istration of bureau affairs. American Dies in Brazil. RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, November 13 ‘To relieve the congestion of freight (#).—An agency dispatch from Sao who has been sitting in Police Court|on the Magdalena River in Colombia, a | Paulo reports the death of Leonardo since Judge Macdonald was taken sick, railroad has been built to transport! Yancey James, an American dentist, will return to his regular position after goods along the bank opposite rapids He was 56 years old and had long been Mr, Given is sworn in. which have delayed steamers, in ill health, \