Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1928, Page 17

President-eléct Hoover arriving at Corinto, Nicaragua, on his Latin American good-will tour. shaking hands with Maj. Gen. Feland, commander of the United States Marines He is in Nicaragua, with Charles C. Eberhardt, United States Minister to Nicaragua, waiting at right to greet the President-elect. Mrs. Hoover is seen at left shaking hands with others at the pier. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. youngsters help the fiyers. About fifty were enlisted for this job of painting a huge “sign t” for airman on a rooftop. A directios arrow points to the Los Angeles airport, telling that it is 11 miles distant. The sign is plainly read from a height of 1,000 feet. —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. DISTRICT OFFERED SITE FOR AIRPORT #erial League President Tells Dougherty of 'Plans for “RAir Junction.” Proposed plans for the development of a $2,000,000 “air junction” on a 2,- 000-acre tract about 3 miles southwest of Alexandria, Va., were outlined today to Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty by Henry Woodhouse, president of the Aerial League of America. Woodhouse $ffered the District a portion of the site for a municipal airport free of charge and an option to purchase it at post 1f it desired to do so. The large tract, said to embrace the sncestral homelands of George Wash- g;mn and George Mason, already has n_acquired, Woodhouse said, by a “public-spirited” group of capitalists, who are represented in Washington by Edward Stafford, son of Justice Wendell P. Stafford of the District Supreme Court. According to Woodhouse, the site has a frontage of more than 2 miles on the Washington-Richmond high- way, is within sight of the Pptomac River and has an ideal terrain for an air field. Steps will be taken immediately, Woodhouse declared, to develope by pri- vate capital, the tract into a great center of aeronautic and scientific ac- tivities, to be known as the Washington Air Junction. Planes already have been landing on the grounds for two years, he said. . Woodhouse explained that if the Dis- trict accepted his offer to use the air junction for a municipal air port, it {Agri should in no way interfere with devel- opment of the proposed municipal air port at Gravelly Point on the Potomac. ‘The latter, he pointed out, will not be edequate in size to accomodate the great air liners of the future which would land at the air junction, and that the Gravelly Point air port could be used as a landing field for smaller planes operating a form of “shuttle service” between the' central transfer point and Washington. Woodhouse left with Commissioner Dougherty a set of maps and plans of the proposed development wgether| with 2 letter outlining the project in more detail. “The City of Washing?on,” the letter said, will have the world's best airport end scientific center without cost. The same policy will be applied in the case of the District of Columbia. We shall | make available the facilities without | expectation that the District will pur- chase any of the land, but if it is de- | Signs of Winter in balmy Florida. John D. Rockefeller, octo- genarian oil king, gets out for his first round of golf on his private course at Ormond Beach, Fla. the Winter. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Piney Branch Citizens’ Association will meet, 8 o'clock, at Hamline M. E. Church. Lincoln W. R. C. will meet at G. A. R. Hall, 8 o'clock. National Capital Post, No. 127, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, will meet, 8 o'clock, at Pythian Temple. Election of officers. Writerseraft Club will meet, 8 o'clock, at Thomson Echool. Stanton Park Citizens’ Association will meet, 8 o'clock. Address by Dr. George Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, and by Mr. Harris, municipal architect. Play by school children. Music; re- freshments. ‘Takoma Park Citizens’ Association will meet, 7:30 o'clock, in Takoma Park Public Library. Congress Heights Citizens’ Associa- tion will meet, 8 o’clock, in portable bl;‘fldh‘llg‘ Congress Heights Baptist Church. Northeast Washington Citizens’ Asso- ciation will meet, 8 o'clock, at Ludlow School. Meeting followed by short en- tertainment. Refreshments. FUTURE. Chemical Society of Washington will meet Thursday, 8 p.m. in assembly room of the Cosmos Club. Papers will be given by members of the Farm Waste Division, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils—P. H. Croggins, Max Phillips and Orville E. May. The Business Women’s Council will meet tomorrow in lecture room of the Church of the Covenant. Mrs. Morti- mer Lane will conduct the Bible class from 6:45 to 7:15 p.m., and there will be a concert by the Lovette Choral Club, Eva Whitford Lovette, director. Miss Marjorie F. Warner, of the staft of the United States Department of jculture Library. will speak on “Life Histories of Gardening Books” before the American Horticultural Society, tomorrow, 8 p.m., in the lec- ture room of the new National Museum. Public invited. Concert by the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra tomorrow, 5:30 pm., in Stanley Hall. John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton Point- ner, leader. Brightwood Citizens’ Association will meet December 14, 8 p.m., at Bright- wood Bank. A car¢ party will be given by the Lineal Society of the Spanish War to- morrow, 8 p.m., at Chestnut Farms Auditorium, Twenty-sixth and Pennsyl- vania avenue. H. W. Gibson of Boston, lecturer at Boston University and Bowdoin College, will deliver an address at a luncheon of the Lions Club in the Mayflower Hotel firous of owning its own municipal air- | Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock. rt, then we shall gladly make the and available at purchase price, as we do_not desire to make any profits. but only to aid in supplylng the Nation's Capital with a suitable airport.” RAIL WRECK CLEARED. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., December 10.— Three hundred miners returned to work this morning at Lonaconing after hav- The American Gold Star Mothers will hold a special meeting tomorrow, 8 p.m., in lobby of P. Q. Building, Government Hotels, opposite Union Station. Northeast Boundary Citizen’s Asso- ciation will meet tomorrow, 8:30 p.m., at Burrville School. Election of officers. A special meeting of the District Retail Druggists’ Association will be held tomorrow, 8 p.m., at Raleigh Ho- tel. Lee Williamson will deliver an address on “Co-operative Buying, Sell- ing been idle four days, the suspension beiag the result of a wreck on the West- ern Maryland Railway, which cost the company $50,000 and prevented delivery of cars until it could be cleared away. An engine and five cars were derailed &t Pinehill Bridgs, wrecking the bridge. ing and Advertising, by the Independent Retail Druggist.” Buffet luncheon. Paul Pearson will preside. ‘The Reservoir School Parent-Teacher Association will meet tomorrow, 7:30 Pp.m. “Stories of Mmfl"'wfll be told by HOWARD . BIL PASSED BY SEWTE Substantive Law to Obviate Annual Difficulty Over Appropriation. With the present session of Congress only a week old, legislative action on one District of Columbia measure was completed today when the Senate passed the bill, approved by the House last Spring, providing substantive law for the annual appropriation for Howard University. » Congress has been appropriating funds for the university many years, but since establishment of the budget sys- tem, items for the work have been sub- ject to a point of order in the House. Each year the Senate has restored to the appropriations bill the allowances stricken out in the House, and they have been retained in the final passage of the annual supply bill. The measure approved by the Senate today clears up this situation. The bill is now ready to go to the President for his signature. The. bill to establish a new farmers’ market on the river front in the South- west section was reached on the call of the calendar in the Senate today, but action once more was postponed at the request of Senator Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland. This measure passed the House at the lasb session, but there is a controversy among members of the Sen- ate over the question of location, and, although the bill has been before the Senate a number of times, has never reached a vote. Another local bill remaining on the Senate calendar since the last session, to increase salaries of the District Com- misisoners, was objected to this after- noon by Senator King, Democrat of Utah, who pointed out that he opposed the bill at the last session. Senator King said that he would continue to object to it, but understood that the aim of the measure indirectly under the Welch law for a general increase of Government salaries. FISHER CASE NEAR END. Jury May Retire This Afternoon to Decide Fate of Doctor. Special Dispatch to The Star. KEYSER, W. Va., December 10.—The case of Dr. Otto Fisher, charged with having caused the death of Miss Lonnie Muriel Beckone, student nurse of Har- risonburg, Va., by an operation, may reach the jury late this afternoon. Arguments are being heard this morn- ng. gdrs. Emma Irwin, wife of 86-year-old Dr. H. H. Irwin of Woodstock, Va., on been accomplished | & (%28 TOBAGCO TAX REACHES NEW PEAK Revenue Tops Receipts From Al Sources for Any Year Before 1915. The American people have taken to the cigarette, whose popularity has enjoyed an amazing growth, but the old “plug, twist, fine-cut and smoking to- bacco” are much less in demand. ‘Tobacco now pays more taxes than the Government formerly received from all sources of internal revenue. ‘This was indicated today by Com- missioner of Internal Revenue Blair, who declared in his annual report that the World War was largely responsible for a change in the tobacco habits of the country. While the commissioner did not mention the- increased smoking habits of American women in his re- port, it is acknowledged by officials that this new group of customers, which they think is rapidly growing, also has had much to do with the increased con- sumption of cigarettes. Taxes Show Big Increase. ‘While the total tobacco taxes for the past year 1928 showed a big increase over 1927, it was the cigarettes largely which caused the increase, Commis- sioner Blair pointed out. Collections from tobacco taxes for the year 1928, he said, reached a new high mark, amounting to $396,450,041.03, an increase of $20,279,835.99 compared with the previous year. These total collec- tions on tobacco alone in 1928, the com- missioner said, “exceeded total internal revenue receipts from all sources for any year prior to 1915.” “Contributing to the total” said the report, “was the record collection of $301,752,588.34 in taxes on small cig- rettes, an increase of $22,824,026.53 compared with the previous year, and comprising 76.11 per cent of the total tobacco taxes collected. Another record was _established by the collection of $7,461,354.90 in taxes on snuff, an in- crease of $553,690.26 compared with the previous year. The collection of tax from this source during 1928 was greater than for any preceding year. The steady increase in the tax payments and cansequent consumption of snuff is un- accountable, unless it has to some ex- tent supplanted chewing tobacco. Decrease Distributed. “Receipts from taxes on chewing and smoking tobacco during the year amounted to $62,774,542.43, a decrease of $2,295,652.83 compared with 1927, This decrease is proportionately dis- tributed among the several classes, namely plug, twist, fine-cut and smoking the witness stand, denied insinuations | toba that her husband performed a prelimi- nary operation before Miss Beckone came to Keyser, Mrs. Mekkin Sveinson Perkins. Vocal music by Miss Mildred Sherier, Jobn C. Howard and Roy Crouse. Christmas carols. Refreshments. Rev. Jason Noble Pierce will give a visualized sermon of “A Christian,” Thursday, 7:30 p.m., at First Congre- gational Church. It will be followed by a photoplay, “Ben Hur,” by Gen. Lew Wallace, illustrating the sermon. Church supper, 6 pm., in the Sunday school room of the church. cco. “Collections from taxes on large cigars during the year amounted to $22,879,- 374.93, a decrease of $665,306.88, com- pared with the previous year. “A total of $355,436,797.15, or 80.65 per cent of the total tobacco tax re- ceipts, was collected in the following States: North Carolina, $204,473,504.55; Virginia, $61,482,169.10; New York, $32,- 916,253.29; Pennsylvania, $16,134,581,79; New Jersey, $16,021,280.10; Ohio, $12,- 369,107.52; California, $12,045,890.80.” Discussing administration of the In- ternal Revenue Bureau, Commissioner Blair said that as a result of changes and of a closer administrative atten- tion to personnel matters, the person- He arrived the other day to spend —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Drugs Are Traced To Dead Letter Office Package Federal narcotic inspectors fol- lowed a clue to the dead letter office of the Post Office Depart- ment Saturday to make a seizure of drugs. Acting on information that a package believed to contain nar- cotics was in the dead letter of- fice, Inspectors E. K. Rabbitt and John W. McDonald obtained a search warrant from United States Commissioner Turnage. ‘They reported finding about 90 grains of drugs in one package and obtained the name of the ad- dressee. DALE BILL ACTION - CONFERENCE TOPIC Date of House Vote Will Be Con- sidered at Committee Meet- ing Tomorrow. Headed by Robert H. Alcorn, a com- mittee composed of officers of national organizations representative of more than 300,000 Government employes, had a conference with House leaders in the Speaker’s office today. As a result of this conference, the guestion of when the Dale bill to liberalize the civil serv- ive retirement law will be allowed to come up for a vote in the House will be considered as a special order of busi- ness by the House steering committee at_its meeting tomorrow. ‘The House leaders attending the con- ference today were Speaker Longworth, House Leader Tilson, Chairman Snell of the rules committee, and Chairman Lehlbach of the civil service committee. The Dale bill already has passed the Senate and a special rule was reported in the closing days of the last session of Congress by the House rules commit- tee, to give it privileged status in the House. The majority House members are pledged to vote for this bill which is expected to pass even over the Presi- dent’s veto, any time it is allowed to come up for a vote. . Fall Injures Trainman. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md, ; Dlec}ftmb"d 10';— Charles Montgomery, freight conductor of the Hagerstown & Frederick Rail- road, is at the local hospital in a serious condition, suffering from a fractured skull and concussion of the brain, sus- tained when he fell from a moving train near Middletown, Md. nel had been reduced and the cost of operation lessened. Reduction of Employes. Between July 1, 1927, and April 30, 1928, the commissioner said there was a reduction of 294 employes in the Wash- ington force and a decrease in pay_roll amounting to $712,020. - “In the fleld service,” he said, “ef- forts were made to secure highly train- ed technical and clerical personnel in order that the basic audit of income tax returns might proceed at the most rapid rate possible. This occasioned an increase of 196 employes in the fleld service during this period and a pay roll increase of $501,920. “A total decrease of 98 in person- nel, with a consequent saving in annual Zay roll expenditure of $210,100, was herefore effected from July 1, 1927 to April 30, 1928." : | J ! President-clect Hoover and his party on the pier at Amapala with officisls of the Honduras govern- ment just before their departure. Mrs. Hoover carries a bouquet of flowers. At right of Mrs. Hoover is Am- bassador Henry P. Fletcher, who is making the tour with the President-elect. —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. . President-elect Hoover has had to demonstrate a good deal of sure-footedness in some of the land- * ings he has made from the battleship Maryland on his good-will A choppy sea is tossing the Mary- land’s barge here as sailors reach for a grip on the pier at L'Union, Salvador. Mr. Hoover is waiting in the Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. stern to climb up the pier steps. DEAL T0 DROP GAS APPEAL PROPOSED Concessions Are Asked of Board to Wind Up Val- uation Case. Representatives of the Washington Gas Light Co. today called upon the Public Utilities Commission to discuss with its members what concessions the commission would be willing to grant in return for the company's agreeing | to a dismissal of its appeal in the | District Supreme Court from the com- mission’s valuation findings of 1917. President Ord Preston of the com- pany was accompanied by Swagar Sherley, Geerge P. Hoover and Benja- min S. Minor, his lawyers. Peopie's Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty, tion Counsel William W. Bride and As sistant Corporation Counsel Robert E. Lynch, also attended the session. Overture Without Results. As far as could be learned fr those attending the session, there w:;'el no tangible results from this overture. Last Wednesday the commission ruled that it would proceed no further with the company’s present valuation case until the appeal from the previous valuation had been settled. It was understood that the attitude of the company officlals today was one of seeking to learn what advantages in the present case would accrue to them i;ilmi;he dismi&saxll.“:ut &l’nt the commis- was unwi agre definite mncesslon: e Board to Consider Proposal. After the company officials left, the commission remained in executive ses- sion for more than an hour. At the end of this Chairman John W. Childress announced that each member had agreed to think the case over individ- ually and that another executive meet- ‘1;115‘ enrl tt‘?l:mcamml.zsslo"nv would be called ITOW or - ci¢¥hon gt.s ’xt,ltitude. I e hear! on the present = tion case wuf!be reaumgd a:‘ lov .;‘:1. Thursday, and the commission must reach a decision before that time. LADY HEATH WILL FLY HERE FOR RECEPTION Aviatrix Will Be Honor Guest of National Woman’s Party 1 Tomorrow Evening, Lady Heath, famous woman aviatrix of Great Britain, will be the honor guest at a reception tomorrow evening of the National Woman's Party at its hndttxutem Lady Heath will arrive here by airplane tomorrow from Rock- ford, Ill, to attend the sessions of the Corpora- | Gridiron Club Head ROY A. ROBERTS. ROBERTS PRESIDENT OF GRIDIRON CLUB Kansas City Star Correspondent Elected—C. S. Groves New Vice President. Roy A. Roberts of the Kansas City Star has been elected president of the Gridiron Club. The unanimous vote of the club was cast for Mr. Roberts at its annual meeting Saturday in the New Willard Hotel. Mr. Roberts Fas been a member of the club for many years and during the last year has been vice president. The club elected as vice president Charles S. Groves of the Boston Globe. J. Harry Cunningham of Washington, D. C., was re-elected secretary for his thirteenth term in that office, and Jay G. Hayden was re-elected treasurer for his third term. Members of the executive committee chosen were Richard V. Oulahan of the New York Times, Mark L. Goodwin of the Dallas News and J. Fred Essary of the Baltimore Sun. George Rothwell Brown of the Wash- ington Post was elected to active mem- bership in the club. Charles H. Titt- mann was elected a limited member, Wild Life League Meets. Special Dispatch to The Star. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., December 10.—The State convention of the West Virginia Wild Life League opened here today and will continue tomorrow. Meyor W. E. Stout delivered the address of welcome, to which President W. E. R. Byrne of Charleston responded. About 150 are in attendance. This morning was given to the reports of officers. International Civil Aeronautics Confer- ence. The reception will start at 9 o’clock. She will speak briefly at the reception about her experiences in the air. Re- ceiving with Lady Heath will be Mrs, Florence Kahn, Mrs. Katherine Lang- ley and Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, woman members of Congress, and Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, Miss Maud Younger and Miss Doris Stevens of the Na‘ional Woman's Party, 4 ‘Winchetser Child Burned. DORAN OFFERS AID OND. . DRY LAW Commissioner Preparing Re- port to Committee Fram- ing Enforcement Act. With a view to assisting the Gibson subcommittee of the House District committee in its intention of dr: | & prohibition law for the Di: | James M. Doran, pro} | sioner, today said attorneys of his | office had started work on a special | report which would be submitted to | the committee probably early this week. The drafts of several of the most successful State prohibition laws will i be stucied and will be included in text form in the report, Dr. Doran indi- cated. The present situation under which the local police work as commissioned pro- hibition agents, with dual authority, and then must be reimbursed by the Fed- eral Government prosecuting liquor laws, was declared by Dr. Doran to be unfair. Maj. Hesse Commended. Maj. Hesse, superintendent of police, Dr. Doran said, was doing the best he could under the circumstances, but the gollce here were handicaped by restric- ons. Should a District dry law be enacted by Congress, Dr. Doran said, the chief of police would have a more workable force. Dr. Doran has accumulated a mass of material about enforcement in the Dis- trict, which he plans to lay before the Gibson committee. Chairman Gibson of the special com- mittee making a study of the munici- rlll administration expects to be able to ay before the committee tomorrow the draft of the bill. Hearing in Prospect. If it is convenient for the members of the Gibson subcommittee and wit- nesses, a hearing will be had tomorrow which Mr. Gibson hopes will be the final hearing prior to the introduc- tion of this measure. If the hearing cannot be held tomorrow it will be held ‘Wednesday. Mr. Gibson will also invite as a witness Maj. Hesse, asking him to bring with him a statement regarding the number of arrests under the present law. Mr. Gibson has been informed that there has been a tremendously large number of arrests and a relatively small number of convictions. GENERAL’S WIDOW DIES. Mrs. Cornelia Marie Mason to Be Buried in Arlington. Mrs. Cornelia Marie Mason, 94 years old, widow of Brig. Gen. John Sanford Mascn, died at the home of her daugh- Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va. December 10. Margaret Price, daughter of Mrs. De- lano Price, sustained burns yesterday when her clothing ignited at a coal oil stove at the home of her grandfather, Frank Plank. Tan screaming to an upper floor, enveloped in flames. An electrician working in the house seized blanket and smof the fire, ter, Mrs. Frank McWatters, New York City, Saturday. / Besides her daughter, Mrs. Mason lvellves two n:nddc;lfldaen* levj. Ennalls ‘aggaman and Floyd T. Waggaman, both of this city. Funeral services will be conducted in the Almus R. Speare Co. chapel, 1623 Connecticut avenue, tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery,