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CONPETTTON AT MNIG HOLSTRY | Sccretary Davis Says Over- stimulation Has Worked Adversely in Coal. | warning that the entire mining | v is inviting disastrous competi- | overproduction was given by ¢ of Labor James J. Davis in | y at the convention of | Mining Congress Auring | oted to the coal situation. § g amount of competition dqubtless a stimulant, and a stimulan is sometimes needed. but the coal indus- try has been so overstimulated that it | now resembles a man in the condition 3¢ Ameri » $ession de certa known a¢ having ‘a jag on,’ " Secret s declared 5 tition in this industr has made, not for prosnerity but for ad- 7. he added. standard Lowered. Unreasonable competition. he pointed out. scems to have paralyzed some parts of the mining industry. both metals and coal. “The frightful competition has s~emed to have had a tendency to lower the standard of living not only of the workers. but of those who have invested in mining.” he said. “In the matter of coal. it is a falsehood to say that competition is the life of trade.” Secretary Davis stated that th~ indus- {riez producing luxuries or semi-lixur- | jes are striving to cheapen or break | Govn the price of coal ! The men in these industries have but one thought, how to buy cnal and | other materials as cheap as possible.” | He declared they seem to forget the| purchasing power of the coal producer is 2n important factor in the (‘r(\nr\ml("\ 1if>. | Taxation Is Protested. A protest that the mining industry “has been singled out for special forms | Chest campai of taxation and has been discriminated | ;5 against by taxation authorities general- | was lodged with the cnovention to- | ay by McKinley W. Kriegh. chief of its tax division tinue to develop and expand in sufficient | measure to meet the ever-increasing ! Fraderick A. Delano, chest president. | % ek = | eighths of an inch wide, which opérated | JOHN POOL — Harris & Ewing Photo. POOLEWILLHEAD CHEST VOLUNTEERS ' Campaign Chairmanship Ac-. cepted—3,000 to Serve With Banker. John Poole, president of the Federal American National Bank, has accepted | opposite side of the room. whici wers th> position of chairman of volunteer workers for the Washington Community | gn for funds, to begin in ry, it was announced today by 1n his position, Mr. Poole will be the | BY TELEGRAPHY | :Successful Test Reduces Time and Work of Getting | News on Printed Pages. | | | By the Associated Press. j’ ROCHESTER, N. Y., December 6. { A telegraph wire operated two news- { paper typesetting machines here to- | day at the plant of the Rochester | Times-Union. | Dispatches by wire were transferred mechanically directly to the machines, with human touch eliminated, and were recorded in lines of metal type, each as long as a news column is | wide The object of the invention is to shorten the time and work required f transfer news from the place where it | oceurs to the printed page. It is de- signed to be another s'ep in develop- ment of the distribution of the printed | word. which began when movable |\'pr‘ was_invented by Johannes Guttenberg, ! at Strassburg, in 1438. Publishers Witness Start. Today's operation was a private | demonstration held in the presence of | a gathering of men who direct large | printing and publishing enterprisss, | They weve the guests of Frank E. Gan- nett, publisher of the Gannett new: | papers, who by his backing sponsored | the invention. Walter W. Morey of East Orange, N. J.. invented the ina- | hine, known as a teletype setter and | { the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corpora- | tion of Chicago built it. The sending was done in the demon- | stration room to two machines on the | operated simultaneously from the same | wire. One was a linotype and the other an intertype. The short sending wire was made equivalent to a_distance of 140 miles by resistance coils. The sender punched a tape, seven- the telegraph wire by sending impulses | | head of over 3.000 volunteer workers | corresponding to the holes in the tape. 1f the industry is to survive and con- | /5 0o i of the elty of Wash- | At the receiving end an instrument a | ington proper and adjacent suburban | little larger than a typewriter produced ' a punched tape exactly similar to the | needs of our growing population, home | territory in soliciting funds. The cam- | sending tape. This receiving tape then jabor and other industries.” Kriegh de- clared. “th Federal Government must ! maintain a fair and just policy in the; application of the income tax law to mining.” g Mr. Kriegh was one of the principal speakers at the session in the May- flower Hotel devoted to taxation. Othe: rs| Delano stated, adding: “Mr. Poole was selected for this all- | | important position because we believe | | he is the best qualified man for it,” Mr. | “His experience | who addressed the Congress on pending in other public campaigns, his well | tax legislation were Mitchell B. Carroll. | known interest in charitable and phi- | chief of the section of taxes and COr-| janthropic work and his high prestige | porations, Departme! special assistant t division of commercial 1aWs, | j, {he community give assurance that nt. of Commerce: E. C. Alvord. | the campaign will be well conducted and 0 the Secretary of the | that we can look forward to victory in | | Treasury, and H. B. Fernald of New | this first united endeavor. His accept- | York. Amendment to Be Stndied. Congress is about to r amendment to the tax law providing for the determination of depletion al- Jowances in case of mines as a fixed percentage income, Mr. Kriegh told the convention. “The Treasury Department and con- gressional committees over a period of the last four years have been engaged in studies of depletion allowances in the mining industry.” he said. “According to the Treasury Depart- ment’s statistics of income, the aggre- gate fair value of the mines and quarries, and oil and gas wells Q( the United States, epproximates $7.000.- 000,000. This amount may be termed the ‘capital sum’ for purposes of de- vletion. If the methods applied in the Getermination of annual depletion al- Jowances do not permit this capital <um to be restored to taxpayers in the | mining industry_free of income tax.| then the industry is mot Teceiving the ‘reasonable allowances’ provided by Jaw. No part of this capital value | should be taxed as profit from the | mining and zale’ of the product. The | annual depletion allowance of the min- ing industry should be equivalent to the value in place of the mineral extracted and sold. | At the present time the law pro- des for depletion of oil and gas wells as a fixed percentage of gross income. | The joint committee on internal rev. enue taxation may recommend a per- | centage-of-net-income basis for deple- tion of mines. Whichever percentage plan is proposed, it must be adequate io provide for the return to the mining taxpayers the value of their mineral in place ever the life of the mining properties. Any other change in the depletion basis or in the methods for the determination of the depletion al- lowance must have for its purpose the maintenance of the capital return of | the mining industry free from income tax, or it will be opposed by the entire | industry. Any effort that may be made | now to change the fundamental prin- | ciple of depletion whereby the Federal | Government may subject to income tax 25 profits that portion of its gross re- | cefpts which represents a return of its | capital values employed-in the industry | would be manifestly udjust.” New York Supplants London. | Foreign mining taxes and double | taxation relief were discussed by Mr Carroll. “The United States has been | a pioneer in granting relief from double taxation.” he said. Under some of the treaties European nations and under the Geneva conven- tion. he pointed out. the state of ori- | gin foregoes its tax on certain items of incomes in favor of the country of resi- | dence. “The benefits under such arrange- ! ments are obvious,” Carroll said. “If the Americans were exempted from tax | abroad on certain kinds of income. they would then pay tax only in the United | States st a lower rate than that in many foreign countries. and the United States Treasury would collect ite full tay Mr. Carroll stated that in practically every country where mines or ofl wells exis® special provisions concerning them | are found in the national tax laws. He | analyzed the tax laws of various for- cign countries. including those of Great Britain, Canada. Germany. of Latin America. | Owns Antique Lawn Mower. ROCKLAND. Me. (£ —One th earliest models of lawn mowers is owned here. The teeth of the gears are pegs cast on the rims of the drive wheels. 19 Days to Christmas THE TUBERC UL O 5 CADY GoT PAPA A GOOD T0B NOwW 1N THE PICKLE WOIKS. IF HE wi TO TRUCKIN' KE wouLp = ¢ T BACK @\svnn?mwx 2 (| Christmas seals help prevent Relap:cs consider an | 2 Frence and i | sional committees to make arrangements | ihe Christmas holidays. | anee also indicates that the Community | | Chest can command the_enthusiastic nd effective support of Washington's | mos: important and busiest citizen. i Called Best Combination. | “we foel that with Mr. Poole as| | chairman of the campaign committee land Charles J. Bell, chairman of the | board of airecters of the American Security & Trust Co. as chairman ¢f | the budget committee, we have the best | possible combination of citizens to give | assurance that the campaign will be { well conducted: that it will raise the amount which is needed by our member agencies: that only the necessary amount will be asked for and that the fund which is raised will be economicaly and effectively distributed in the places of greatest need,” Mr. Delano continued. “1 have accepted the position of cam- paign chairman, although I am tre- mendously busy, because I think it is the greatest opportunity for leadership which the community affords,” Mr. Poole said. “The Community Chest campaign will be for the largest amount ever raised for local charitable needs at one time: it will reach more citizens; it will enroll more volunteer workers: it will unite in one tremendous appeal, Catholic, Jew and Protestant. people of all races and all creeds in the name of that cherity which s commen to all religious beliefs and a fundamental part of our common humanity. I believe that the Commun- itv Chest not merely will raise the funds that are necessary for these more than 50 social agencies with the greatest pos- sible economy of energy and funds but also will be most powerful in developing a unified civic spirit and in helping $0 bring unitv in other forms of com- munity endeavor. Counts on Willing Aid. “The appeal of the Community Chest is so great that no citizen. no matter how busy he is, can afford to refuse its call. I am counting on Washington's leading citizens enroliing to serve cheer- fully, willingly and effectively in this their greatest opportunity for com- munity_service.” Mr. Poole, who has long been active in local financial, business, fraternal and club circles, served as chairman of the Liberty loan committee in Wash- ington for five campaigns; was treasurer of the District Council of Defense and the Roosevelt Memorial Association for the Washington district and of the Eu- ropean relief Council, and has various L:nponan! connections at the present time. BERGER HITS AT KLAN. B Soctaliet Dines Taws obillELy Years Ago. The lone Socialist in Congress, Rep- resentative Berger of Wisconsin, took a swipe today at the Ku Klux Klan in a bill which he said would re-enact laws of nearly sixty years ago against the Klan of that day. The Wisconsin men said the cam- paign had shown that “issues of tre- mendous importance were completely disregarded while the religious question | became dominant.” The South moved, | he said, only when religion was invoked. AWAIT DETAILS. { Usual Inaugural Committees to Be Appointed After Christmas. Appointment of the usual congres- for the program at the Capitol for the inductfon into office on Marct. 4 of President-elect Hoover and Vice Presi- dent-elect Curtis probably will be made | by the House and Senate shortly after The arrangements to be made by these | committees relate only to the ceremontes | at the Capitol Bullding. The usual plan | is to erect a platform at the east side | of the Capitol for the inauguration ot | the President. The details, however, will not be gone into until the commit- ! tecs have been appointed. DR. FISHER.ON ST‘AND‘ Denies He Knew Wature of Illness of Girl Who Asked Treatment, | Special Dispatch to The Star. paign is to be for more than $1,000,- | ran automatically through a small elec- : trical machine on a stand beside the! typesetting machine. The little machine | once more translated the tape holes into electrical impulses. The electric waves were carried by a | wire to an apparatus roughly resem- | bling & large human hand. fastened to the side of the typesetting machine. | Each metal finger controlled a number | of letters and characters of the typeset- | ting machine, which it released accord- | ing to hte impulse received, and when it gave the release signal the typesetting machin functioned exactly as if a hu- man operaor had pressed down the key far a letter or character. Solves Stock List Problem. | The teletype setter is a development of automatic telegraph printers, differ-! ing principally in but one respect, that it uses a tape with six punch units, in- stead of the standard five units. The extra unit is required to cover all char- actars of a typesetting machine, which | outnumbers those of automatic printers. ‘Che sponsors predict special value for | the teletypesetter in transmitting mar- | ket quotations directly into type, and an | opportunity for book publishers to save | the expense of keeping large stores of metal t{‘pe plates, Instead of metal plates, the tape may be filed, ready for | rerun when reprints are desired. One sending can operate an indefinite number of typesetting machines, either | in the same room or cities far apart. A receiving printer s provided, that, without interfering with the automatic typesetting, enables an editor to.read’, what is coming over the wire. teletypesetter stops automatically the | moment anything stops the typesetting | machine it feeds. Radio Feature Discussed. Neal Dow Baker, president of the Ine | tertype Corporation of New York, a | guest said: “The teletypsetter 18 a device of | extraordinary ingenuity which appears | destined to effect a substantial modifl- cation of the composing methods of | daily newspapers. Its practicability is not to be teriously questioned.” The possibility of operating typeset- ! ting machines by radio was discussed informally, but the builders of the ma- | chine said that feature is still in the experimental stages. P Mr. Morey, he inventor of the’ telé- typesetter, came up from the compos- itor's case. He was born in Green River. N. Y., in 1882. ‘When 20 years old he spent his nights | learning how to operate a typasetting | machine. During the past 25 years he has worked at various jobs in the print- | ing business, He began working on the plans for the teletypesetter several years ago. TRAFFIC RULES FOR JUDICIAL RECEPTION Guests at Function at White House | Advised as to | Entrance. | The following traffic regulations are announced in conenction with the ju- dicial reception at the White House tonight, | South entrance guests having cards of admission by way of the south por- tico and blue carriage cards for en- trance by the southwest gate will enter by the southwest gate on West Exec- | utive avenue and cars will leave the grounds by the southeast gate on East | Executive avenue and will be parked on | ‘West Executive avenue and State place | until called. When called, they will | proceed to the south portico by way of | the southwest gate on West Executive avenue and will depart by the south- | cast gate on East Executlve avenue. East entrance guests having-cards of admission for the east entrance and ! white carriage cards for the east gate | will approach the east gate in a south- | erly direction along East Executive ave- nue, and cars will be parked on the east | side of the Ellipse until called. When | called, they will proceed north along | East Executive avenue to the east gate. | The east entrance will be open for a mission of guests after 8 p.m. No parking will be allowed in the south grounds of the White House. Gate cards should be placed on the vight side of the windshield of vehicles, | 50 as to be easily seen by the police. This will save time and prevent annoy- | ance to guests through being stopped by | the police in order to examine gate | cards. The following roads will be closed to | vehicular trafic between the hours of | 8 pm. and midnight: Road south of | the Treasury (Treasury place), East | Executive avenue, West Executive ave- nue, road north of the Ellipse in White | Lot (South Executive avenue), road | south of the State, War and Navy | Building (State place). KEYSER, W. Va., December 6.—Dr. Otto Fisher, charged with performina an orepation fatal to Miss Muriel Beckone, student nurse of Har- risonburg. Va., in his dffice here, testi- fied in his own behalf this mornins | | He told of being a graduate of tho medical school of the University of Maryland and the eye, ear, nose an. | throat infirmary of Roosevelt Hospital. New York. He denied knowledge of the naturs of the young woman's illness when he agreed to treat hex, Lonnie | WILL STUDY REPORT. Clayton Says Citizens' Federation Committee Will Act. i | William McK. Clayton, chairman of he utilities committee of the Federation of Citizens' Association. said today that his committee would make a study of th= report of Dr. Maltbie on the street railvay merger proposal and give itsi yews 1o the Senate committee later,” i y | mon call her into the he | en table. The | — | | the next 150,000 kilowatt hours is not 1 i | ! | | | PLAR EXLORERS AVER DIKSTER Skillful Handling of Tow Ship Prevents Crash With Byrd Flagship. BY RUSSELL OWI | | By Wireless to The Star and the New York T. B. MISKIMO! MAN TAKEé OWN LIFE FOLLOWING MURDER OF WIFE AND GRANDCHILD (Continued from First Page.) ! | shells in the first clip at his wife and | the child, then reloaded and shot him- | self. One shell in the chp in the pun had been exploded. Tiree bullets were | found lodged in the walls snd floor, These, together with the one fired .nto his wife and grandchild and himself indicates that in all eight shots were | fired. Neighbors say they saw the child playing in front of hcr home during the morning and heard Mrs. Minski- | se 1o funch about noon. Two :andwiches with a bite taken from each were on ihe kitch- Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rogers, who issued certificates of mur- der and suicide, said they probably Lad been dead about six hcurs when he | viewed the bodies last night. Police believe that Miskimon locked all the windows and doors and then | went upstairs where his wife was sit- ting by a window sewing. A half-fin- | ished garment was in the sewing ma- chine when the officers arrived. They believe Miskimon entered the room with | the gun in his hand, for his wife evi- | dently jumped up from her work an. was running for the hall when her hus- | band fired. A pistol holster and several hunting | knives hang over the mantle in the | dining_room. The pistol apparently was taken from the Bolster. Miskimon was dressed only in paja- | mas. His wife had on & white house | dress and the child was clothed in pink | rompers. | Miskimon, & former policeman. at the time of death was a clerk in the War Department. More than twenty years ago he was a station clerk at the first precinct. He later became a pharmacist | and went to Panama under Gen. Goethals. Upon his return to this | country he obtained employment at the | War Department. He and his family i | | moved into the city from Alexandria | six months ago, neighbors say. | Miskimon is survived by a son by a | former marriage, Holt Miskimon, who | lives at 119 Bates street. Mrs. Miskimon | has three sisters. The father of the girl, in Atlanta, Ga.. has been notified 5t her death. Mrs. Midkiff, her mother, who is 23, works as a clerk in a store. | ELECTRICITY RATES OF ALL TYPES CUT BY UTILITIES BODY, _ (Continued from First Page.) hours from 1.2 to 1.1 cents per kilo- watt hour. ‘The changes in schedule E are ex- pected to bring a net reduction of $38,336.20. Schedule F, for industrial motors and battery charging. The rate is reduced from 5.5 to 5.2 cents per kilowatt hour | for the first 100,000 kilowatt hours. No other changes were made in this sched- | ule. This is expected to cause a reduc- | tion of $12.583.46, or 10.08 per cent. Schedule G, for industrial motors. ‘The primary rate is reduced from 5.9 to 5.2 cents per kilowatt hour and no other changes are made. This will represent a reduction of $2902.69, or 5.27 per cent. Schedule H, for commercial heating | and cooking. The primary rate is re- duced from 5.9 to 5.2 cents per killowa't hour, with no other changes. In this class ine reduction of $180.88 or .58 per cent is expected. Schedule K, for separately metered | electric service for any residential pt pose other than lighting. ‘The primary rate is reduced from 5.9 to 5.2 cents, with no other changes. A reduction of $3.611.48, or 1.77 per | cent, is expected of this schedule. Schedule L (new schedule described above.) The demand charges previ- ously found in Schedule E will be re- duced as follows: The first 20 kilowatt | hours from 2.0625 cents per kilowatt | hour to 1.9 cents. The rate for the next | 30 kilowatt hours is increased from | 1.6875 to 1.7 cents. There is no change in the rate for the next 50 kilo- | watt hours, The rate for the next 900 is reduced from 1.31125 to 1.3 cents. The rate for electricity used in excess of 1,000 kilowatt hours is reduced from 1.125 to 1.1 cents per kilowatt hour. ‘The energy charges under the same schedule are changed as follows: For the first 750 kilowatt hours there is no change. For the next 1000 kilowatt hours the rate is reduced from 2.625 to 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour. There is no change in the rate for the next 12,000 kilowatt hours. The rate for the next 25,000 kilowatt hours Is increased from .975 cents to 1 cent. The rate for changed. The rate for electricity used | in excess of 188,750 kilowatt hours is reduced from .7125 cents to .7 cents per kilowatt hour. Schedule M, affecting certain Mary- land residences, The primary rate is reduced from 10.9 to 10.2 cents per kilo- watt hour and the secondary rate from 5.9 to 5.2 cents. This is expected to result in a reduction of $553.14 or 5.78 per cent. Besides the changes in rates, the blanket charges for lighting street lamps and traffic lights were also reduced. * The bill for street lighting will be reduced $9.056.38, and that for traffic lights $2,126.49. The reduction in power rates will be | made by virtue of a compromise between | the company and commisison reached in 1924 in settlement of the company's appeal against the valuation of its prop- | erty by the commission for rate making | purposes. According to the compromise | the company each year is required to | reduce its rates if its earnings in the | p is year evceeded 7.5 per cent on its valuation. ‘The earnings in excess of this per- centage are divided in two, the com- pany taking half in cash and the con- | sumers getting the other half in re-| duced bills. At the time the compro- | mise was entered into, the rate was 10 ceuts per kilowatt hour. Each year | since then there has been a reduction | and following each reduction the com- pany has made more money. Virginia Student Buried, CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., December 6 (#).—James Keith Symmers, fr., of Rye. N. Y., University of Virginia stu- dent, who was shot and killed here late Monday night, was buried yesterday in the University of Virginia Cemetery. | bowsprit points against ! rolls slowly and gracefully to the top | wind may | things unpleasant, the weather so far | ! has been favorable, and we are going | south faster than we could have had | few minutes the drag of the haw: | under. Henry Chewning. Charlottesville auto- mobile salesman. who is accused of the killing, was siill held by police pending Jposting of a $10,000 bond for his release. Times ¢ ON BOARD THE BARK THE CITY OF NEW YORK, December 6.—The sky today is like a great inverted bowl of pearl grey, the horizon shutting in ciosely in a band of haze. Overhead the sun shines pale, surrounded by a circle colored like a faint rainbow, and underneath is this strange, narrow world of water, so small and circum- seribed to our view, so vast in actual extent. Our two shi)s are tearing along éver the high seas that break in lines of cold, sparkling white and brilliant green where the light shines through the tips of the waves. The sea is lumping unsteadily all the time, towering above the taffrail till it seems that it would come aboard to drop tons on-our decks, but the ship rises to it .ke one of ‘the sea birds, | lifting lazily as they watch us pas Fortunately the wind is a fair easter. and with most of her canvas set, the City of New York is keeping up with the Eleanor Bolling easily and making more than 7 knots, sometimes nearly 8 After every dizzy rise of the stern till the ship seems to be sliding down foam-flecked hills, it Jifts again until the sky and and over. Most every one has his sea legs now and is at ease on deck. The motion is | not_unpleasant, so easily does the City of New York ride. No expedition s ever more fortu- nate in its weather, for although this keep on rising and make . any reason to hope. Already we are far south of most of the world. The latitude of New Zealand is far north of us, so is that | of Cape Horn and even the Georgian | Islands. Most of the world is on top now, vet there is a long way to go before the barrier is reached. | Wheel Is Tricky on Tow. | It is tricky work keeping a_sailing | ship in full sail in tow of a steamship. | |and every once In a while it required | skillful jockeying to keep the vessels | in line.” Every movement has to be, watched like a hawk by the men at | the wheel. This afternoon the wheel nearly threw E. J. Demas and Jacob Bursey clear over to the other side of | the deck. | During the morning the City of New | York swung off to one side for a time | before it could be checked. and in a | T stretched between the two ships so checked the Eleanor Bolling that she | was slowed up to a point where the | City of New York hauled alongside. The Eleanor Bolling ‘could not pull ahead and the City of New York. with all sails set, could not be checked im- mediately. As soon as possible the sails were taken in and then the City of New | York dropped back to her normal po- | sition again; but it was a rather anxious | moment on’ both ships, because of the unusual strain brought to bear on the Eleanor Bolling's stern. i Oapt. Gustav Brown of the Fleanor Bolling has shown great skill in han- dling his ship. On him up to the, present has fallen a good part of the | burden of keeping up speed. We do not need him today, but we do not. want to let him go, for this wind may | shift and tomorrow or the next day we shall need him badly. “Brown has been keeping up the good | work he has done all along” said Comdr. Byrd as he watched the Eleanor | Bolling rolling with her amidships deck | When the ships were well under way | after the sail-doffing incident. every- thing was set again. Comdr. Byrd went aloft to take a hand in snfll\g‘ the main upper topsail, just to see what it was like. The main rigging was all patches of soot from the funnel, and | he found it was messy business. He kept on afterward and went to the! crow's nest atop the mainmast, which swung in a wide arc under the sky. Finds It a Great Sight. “It was a great sight,”” he saild when he came down. “This ship rides like a duck.” CONCRESS LEADERS T0 QUERY HOOVER i Question of Whether Farmt | Bill Should Wait for Extra ® | Session Studied. E Herbert Hoover, President-elect, will | be asked to iet Republican congressional | leaders know whether he wishes to have the present short sesston of Conzress deal with farm legislation or whether he would prefer to have such legisiation enacted at a special session of Congress | next Spring, it was learned today During the campaign Mr. Hoover promised that if the Congress did not enact farm relief legiclation at the short session, he would call a special session | for that purpose after he was inaugu- rated. That is as far as he has gone. He may decline to add anything to that | statement. ! Haugen Expresses Doubt. Chairman Haugen of the House agri- cultural committee said today after a | meeting of his committee that th ! very grave doubt, as to the pos of passing an adequate farm relief b at this sion. _The chairman said that members of his committee had discussed the feasi- | bility of putting through an agricultural relief measure at the short session and it developed that there was a real divi- | sion of opoinion among the friends of | farm relief as to how far to go to obtain | legislation. Some of the members felt that there might be difficulty in con- forming farm aid and tariff revision proposals should the agricultural bill be passed before the ways and means com- mittee has completed its formulation of a new schedule of duties on agri: cultural products, The committee adjourned without taking any definite action toward pre- These immense photographs, the largest ever made by the Signal Corps, | PAINE 2 schedule for iis procedure pn were viewed in place at the Washington end of the new Arlington Bridge this | After the demonstration | morning by members of the Fine Arts Commission. the commission decided to use sculptural groups instead of pylons as originally proposed. AT COLLEGE PARK Appare_nfly Frightened by Passenger, Bandits, Firing, Flee Without Loot. A safe in the Baltimore & Ohio rail- road statfon at College Park, Md., was blown carly today, presumably by a band of yeggmen who boarded a Balti- more & Ohio train out of Washington and made a successful getaway when | they were frightened away from the ' wrecked safe by an early morning pas- Sflnfil‘l‘ on whom one apparently opened | re. | The safe-blowing was profitless, for | although_the receptacle was virtually | wrecked by wo heavy charges of nitr glycerin, the men failed to gain access to the inner cash drawers. Had they | succoeded, they would have obtained | only $2.50 in pennies, the contents of | a slot machine, which had been placed | in the safe last night. | The robbery apparently was carefully | planned, the yeggmen timing a prelim- | inary explosion so it would coincide | with the passing of a train to drown the noise, and a second o a- to precede the arrival of the passenger train by | a few minutes in order to give them just_enough time to remove the con- tents of the safe and escape on the train, Blast Awakens Agent. E. L. Biller, station agent, was awakened at 4 am. by an explosion. As he sat up in bed to listen, however, he heard the rumbling of a passing freight train and concluded that the wheels had passed over a signal torpedo, causing the noise. He went back to sleep. An hour later there came a second | and much louder explosion. This time | So far we have not shipped any ! water, but it is too soon to crow about | it and there is a big deck load. { The dogs were all over the small| poop deck, the only place on ship| where one can stretch his legs at all, | while their boxes were being shifted and lashed more securely. They howled | and barked and gave one of their most | disturbing concerts for an hour, and | one even tried to start a fight by | grabbing a passing dog by the back. | A well directed boot ended what might | have been a good fight. « [ Most of the dogs seem fairly friendly and want to be petted, and even shake | hands; but & few snap and snarl and | seem more wolf than dog. One passes | them cautiously. Going to meals these days is rather an experience for the amateur sailors aboard. The deckload is so large that | the only way to get forward to the| forecastle is along the rail, hanging on | by a rope or boards wherever possible. | 1t is not so bad when the motion of the ship Is easy, but if she ever gets 0| jumping it will not be much fun and will be very wet. The top of the deck load would be more inviting then. The great advance made in sclence since the last Antarctic expedition was shown today when the two ’ship: communicated by wireless telephones, using the battery-operated sets intend- | ed for field work between the bases. | Comdr. Byrd on the City of New York | and Capt. Brown on the Eleanor Bolling | had a long conversation regarding the | courses and problems to be met and heard each other as distinctly as over | a land phone. | When added to this it is remembered | that every day we get a press report of | what is going on in the world and that | it is possible to communicate with many | stations daily, modern communication by means of the radio seems more wonderful than ever before. One ap- preciates it this far from home. The position of the City of New York and the Eleanor Bolling at noon today was latitude 75.07 south, longitude 172.35 east, 685 miles south of Talora Head, New Zealand. (Copyright, 1928, by the New York Times G5 "ahd. the Si. Louis Post-Dispatch. Al rights for publication reserved throuzhout the world.) CHARGES OF ASSAULT ARE HEARD BY JUDGE Woman Claims Man Hit Her Dur-| ing Automobile Ride Monday Night. } Charges of assault against Staunton L. White, 28, of the 3100 block of Geor- | gia avenue, preferred by a woman who claims he hit her during an automobile ride Monday night, were taken under consideration by Judge Ralph Given at the conclusion of the trial in Police | Court today. A decision will be ren- | dered Saturday. 1 The complainant, Mrs. Mary Bishop, | 26, of the 1100 block of Lamont Serel.‘ testified that White hit her several times after the automobile in which | they were riding had catapulted down | a 30-foot embankment in the 2700 block of Rodman road White contends_the woma intoxicated at a downtown r ) | became | staurant, Biller got up and went to a window looking out on the station. He saw a | man standing on the train platform and | started to hail him. | Without any warning or apparent reason, however, then the stranger opened fire with a pistol. shooting it apparently at random. Biller jumped back from the window and when he returned the passenger train to Balti- more was slowing down for a stop at| the station. When i: had passed there was no onme in stht. After trying unsuccessfully to arouse the occupants of another apartment in the house, where there was a telephone, Biller de- cided to go back to bed and wait for | daylight, before investigating the explo- sions. He said he was afraid the safe crackers might be in wait for him in | the darkness. There was no automo- | bile at the station, he said. Finds Window Jimmied. As soon as it was light Biller went to the station and found that & window to the office had been jimmied. In-| side were scattered bits of the safe,| wrecked cabinets, a bar of laundry soap | and bits of burned fuse. The' robbers had escaped through a door Jeading to | the men’s waiting room. | After a preliminary investigation, W. A. Hopkins of the Baltimore Railroad police, learned that a College Park man had boarded the 5 o'clock train_this { morning on his way to work in Balti- more. Members of the man’s family had heard nothing of the robbery. but | Hopkins is trying to develop the theory | tar Staff Photo. RAIL SAFE BLOWN 'STATUARY GROUPS CHOSEN FOR SPAN Commission Decides Pylons Would Not Be Proper for Arlington Bridge. After a demonstration this morning the Fine Arts Commission decided to use seulptural groups at ‘ne Washing- ton end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge instead of pylons, as originally proposed. Sculptural gronps also »ill be used at the entrance of the Rock Creek | Parkway. This decision was regched after mem- bérs of the Fine Arts Commission had farm relief during the session _ Chairman Haugen. diseussing the bill introduced several days ago by Senator McNary, Republican. Oregon, afterward expressed the opinion that the praposed measure did npt go far enough to make the ln_rlfl effective. It is without the equalization fee which characterized the twice-vetoed McNary-Haugen bill. May Prefer Special Session. Senator McNary has introduced a farm bill which is in accordance with the ideas of the administration and. it is believed, with the ideas of the Presi- dent-elect. There is a feeling in some Republican quarters that if Mr. Hoover will give this bill the stamp of his approval and indicate that he would be well pleased to have it go through at the present session. the hill could be put through quickly. There is a | feeling also that if no such word comes from Mr. Hoover, the members of (he | Senate and House. who prefer to deal | with the farm problem in a special session next Spring., will not agree to the bill's passage now. Whatever the Republicans may de- cide to do in regard to farm legislation, much will depend upon the attitude of the Senaic Democrats. If they should ‘undertake to hamstring the bill or to hold up a final vote on the measure they probably eould do so in the present short session which ends March 4. Some of the Republicans are appre- hensive lest the Democrats force & | | i | gathered from various cities at the |speclal session in the hope that they A shington end of the Arlington Bricge | Washington end of the Arilngton Bridge | o qministration. a little after 10 o'clock this morning and viewed life-size facsimile photo- graphs of an equestrian statue placcd in the exact position where the fir: shes statuary will eventually stand. Largest Photographs. The photographs are the largest ever made by the Signal Corps pholographic laboratory at the Army War College They are 16 feet 8 inches high and aj proximately two men 16 feet long. In making them 327 square feet of photographic | | paper was used, and it required two | working days on the part of be able to embarrass the new 'BINGHAM FAMILIAR * WITH D. C. ISSUES Chairman of Senate Subcommittee on District Appropriations Served With Phipps. | to- copy. enlarge and match the vari- | It had been originally intended to ous sections. piace pyions at this end of the bridgc. ut Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3rd, and the other Army engineers who are in direct charge of the work thought that the size of the proposed pylons would | be out of scale with the Lincoln Me- morial, which is only a short distance trom the end of the bridge, and sug- gested groups of statuary instead. Commission Members. The members of the Finance Com- mission who met in the open aid at the bridge end this morning, are Charles Moore, chairman: Lorado Taft of Chicago, Abram Garfield of Cleve land, Benjamin W. Morris of New York, Perruccio Vitale of New York, Ezra’ Winter of New York, John W. Cross of New York and H. P. Caem- merer of this city, secretary to the commission. Besides Lieut. Col. Grant there was also present J. C. Mehassey, engineer officer in direct charge of the bridge work under Col. Grant. The original plan for the approach to the Virginia end of the bridge will be carried out without change in the | | present specifications. that the “lookout” for the safecrackers opened fire on this man when the latter inadvertently discovered them when he came down to catch the train. No re- port was made by this man, however. The explosions also were heard J. F. Headley, stationed at the Gov- ernment experimental station at Col- lege Park. Mr. Headley said he at- tached no significance to the shots because he had heard firearms dis- charged on numerous occasions in the vieinity. A similar attempt to rob the station was made about a year ago, Biller said. A PROFITLESS SAFE-CRACKING JOB The wrecked receptacle in the B. & O. Station at College Park which was | di Senator Hiram Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut. who enters immediately upon his new position as chai of the subcommittee handling Di: appropriation bills in the Senate, is not | a stranger to local problems, having been & member of the subcommittee | under chairmanship of Senator Phipps | for the last two years. | On the important question of fiscal relations between the Federal and Dis- | trict governments, Senator Bingham voted with Senator Phipps at the last | session of Congress in support of the | amendment to restore the 60-40 ratio of apportioning the cost of maintaining the National Capital. The action of the Senate subcommittee at that time | was unanimous. and. on the original | passage of the appropriation bill, | the Senate sustained the subcom- mittee, 47 to 20. After the House had declined to yield in conference, the Senate, in the closing days of the ses- sion, receded from its poshtion in order to pass the bill before adjournment. Senator Bingham has not discussed the question since the announcement.of | his appointment as chairman. | The pew chairman plans to study closely the hearings to be held soon by | the House subcommittee on tke appro- priation bill for the next fiscal year. in preparation for the work of this sub- committee later in the session. Senator Phipps. although retiring as | chairman, will remain a member of the | subcommittee and assist in the consider- | ation of the District bill. 'REED WILL OPPOSE HOOVER'S PROPOSAL ‘Against Repealing National Origins Clause of Immigra- tion Act. By the Associated Press The first flare up in the Senate over i the recent campaign todey found a Re- | publican, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, announcing opposition to the propesal | of Herbert Hoover for repeal of the na- tional origin’s provision of the immigra- tion act. Democrats were quick to seize on the situation, and when Senator Bark- ley. Democrat, Kentucky. asked the Pennsylvanian if he would oppose a recommendation by Mr. Hoover for re- | peal of the provision he replied: “Mr. Hoover speaks for himself. I speak for myself. We have votes now | and he has not, and I will vote against any attempt to kill this provision.” Senator King, Democrat, Utah, asked if a petition presented by Reed, from the Illinois American Legion, opposing repeal of the provision, was aimed at Mr. Hoover. “I don't know whether it is aimed at Mr. Hoover,” he answered “or at Gov Smith, who opposed any restrictive im migration except based on the 1920 census.” The national origin's provision would g0 into effect on next July superseding the present system of basing the immi- gration guota on the census of 1890. Senator Reed said if it went into effect the total of immigration into the coun- try would be reduced by 11,000 annually, or to a total of about 153,685. Opposition to the national origin's | provision, he said, was coming from | those groups whose quotas would be re- ‘ duced under its workings. He sald the | German, Irish. Free State, and Scan- vian peoples were leading the oppo- hurt herself in a fall within the auto- blown up by yeggmen early today. At left is E. L. Biller, the siation agent, aru ' sition because their quotas would be mobile and became hysterical, ) W. A. Hodkins, a railroad detective, is on the right. —Star Staff Photo, recutedy