Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 17

King Neptune’s “surgeons” operate on Allan Hoover, son of President-elect Hoover, as part of his initiation into the select society of “shellbacks,” as the baitleship Maryland crossed the equator. seen stretched out on the operating table as one of the many “landlubber” victims of the sport enjoyed One of the first pictures received here of President-elect Hoover in Peru. embassy at Lima, the photo shows, left to right: Counsellor Mathew E. Hanna of the embassy, President- elect Hoover and Dr. Pedro Rada Y Gamio, Peruvian minister of foreign affairs.—Associated Press Photo. by old Neptune’s cohorts during the traditional ceremony. SEAL SALE TOPS 0 PER GENT MARK Hospitals of City Take Active Part in Campaign to Get $4,000. Cash receipts from the Christmas ‘Health Seal sale as reported at head- quarters of the culosis Association, 1022 Eleventh street, up to noon today, represented the sale of 2,250,- 000 seals at a cent each toward the goal budget of $40,000 necessary to carry on the health service of the association for another year. From Mrs. Agnes H. Stewart, director of the occupational therapy department for the benefit of patients at the Tu- (berculosls Hospital, came the report this morning that sale of Christmas seals is being pushed by the several hos- ‘fi“l wards. Each of these has chosen captain under the general direction fot Miss Naomi McKenna, assistant in jthe occupational therapy work. These hospital teams already have called for 50,000 seals and are arranging to have them mailed to customers not seen in rson. ‘This hospital work is being further sided by the display of the numerous art objects made by patients in a public sales store in the Cavaller Apartment House at 3500 Fourteenth street, where Christmas seals also are on sale. Mrs. Stewart is in charge of this sale, which will continue all week. Returz? <=5z, ¢ rrell wke e slow- ing down, although many thousands of seal allotments have. not yet been heard from. Officers of the assoclation ask that all who have received seals by mail on approval will remit for seals or re-, those not wanted, using the mmped envelope which was sent with m. Train Kills Pedestrian. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. December 17— John Starr, colored, 37 years old, was killed by an eastbound Baltimore & Ohio train at Westmore, a mile from here, while crossing the tracks yester- day about noon. The Record of Santa Claus is almost reached by Star classi- fied advertisements, which make over 100,000 calls in one evening. No salesman could make that many calls in many days. Therefore, let a Star classified advertisement sell your home, the liquor. first farm, automobile, excess office equipment, piano, furniture or anything you no longer need. increase Forest Is Planted To Provide Girls With Hope Chesis By the Associated Press. near Broussa boasts of a forest of hope chests. A Jlarge tract of land on the outskirts of the town to the municipality is belonging reserved for this forest and every tree bears the name t"‘rgelg‘h‘:: townsgirls. For cen! been the custom for/every father in Tschekirge fo plant a tree whenever a daughter is born to him and to mark the tree with that daughter’s name. When the baby girl grows up and it is time to start the hope chest, without which no Anatolian husband can be won, the father cuts down the tree, sells the wood and with the proceeds the filling of the hope chest begins. POLICE, SEEKING THIEVES, FIND CACHE OF LIQUOR Three Charged With Possession, But Only One Held Under New Ruling. After being warned that two colored men had entered premises in the 1900 block of Biltmore street with apparent intent to rob, Detectives R. L. and R. A. Williams followed and report that they found 175 quarts of alcohol, 20 quarts of rum and 5 quarts of gin in the house. Police say Mary O'Hearne and Jere- miah R. O'Hearne were standing guard over the alleged liquor. having seen the colored men, but are said to have admitted ownership of ‘Waldron Davis, 1200 block of C street, was arrested as he left the building, having in his possession five quarts of gin and four one-half gallon jars of alcohol. The three people were taken to No. 8 precinet and charged with possession. However, Davis is the only one who can be held on the charge, according to the ruling made today by United States Attorney David A. Hart, as the entry was made on the pretext of lo- cating the colored men and without going through the formality of procuring a warrant, FEGmIa TR 7-CENT CARFARE RATE AGAIN UP FOR HEARING New York City, Under Court Or- ders, Files Amended Briefs in Interborough Controversy. By the Associated Press. Complying with an order of the Su- sreme Court requiring the filing of more concise briefs by all parties to the con- troversy in the Interborough 7 cent carfare case, the City of New York to- day filed in the court a new brief of ’l):la‘pues, or 82 less than its former lef. While retaining all the salient féa- tures of the former brief, counsel for the city have re-written their argu. ments opposing the order of the statu- tory three-judge court which author- ed the fare increase from 5 to 7 cents pending fina! action on the case. ‘The eity emphasized that should be sustained, New Yorkers' Winston-Salem, N. 1 would be required to pay annually $2. 473,925 more i street care Iaye, STHE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928.° Taken at the American —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. burgh, Ashmand of Washington and Jefferson. Harpster of Carnegie Tech and Holmer of Northwestern Grandniece of John D. Rockefeller weds. ‘Twelve captains are included in the selection of the best collegiate foot ball talent of the year for the all-Eastern team which will meet a picked Pacific Coast team in the annual charity game at San Francisco, December 29. This photo was taken as the squad held its first practice at Chicago Saturday. The 12 captains, left to right, front row: Delp of Penn State, Howell of Nebraska, Bennett of Indiana, Guest of Lafayette, Fox of Pitts- Brooks Emeny of Salem, Ohio, and his bride, the former Miss Winifred Rockefeller, leaving the chapel of St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York after their wedding Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jobn D. Rockefeller, jr., were among the prominent New Yorkers at the wedding. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Second row: Nowack of Illinois, Raskowski of Ohio, Wagner of Wisconsin, Gibson of Minnesota, —Associated Press Photo. Jones FALLS CHURCH ASKS LOWER BUS FARE TEST Question Whether Company Would Lose by 5-Cent Rate in Town Would Be Determined. ‘They denied Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., December 17 State Corporation Commission to order a reduction in bus fare within the limits of the town for two or more months in order to study the effect on the income and business of the Washington, Mary- land and Virginia Bus Co. presented by Mayor Bethune asks for ruling creating a special 5-cent zone he town. Lester Hooker, chair- man of the commission, who came from Richmond Friday to hold a s dicated to Mayor Bethune 5 or more citizens who, with C. E. Arnold, president of the bus com- pany, attended the hearing, that the commission will take prompt action. Spokesmen for the town pointed out that with a rate of 25 cents from the terminal at Twelfth street and Pennsyl- vania avenue to Broad street in Falls rch, it was inequitable to charge cents for the trip from Broad street to Fast Falls Church station, a distance of less than one mile. Arnold said tne company was not able to give the reauction if it entailed a loss in income or meant acting as a feeder to one of the street car com- insult to Bolivia. ‘The Pan-American Conference of Washington, the Council of the League of Nations at Lugano, the Argentine Republic and the Vatican have all taken steps to prevent a war. The.Council of the League hesitated to take any action until it became ap- create a widespread feeling that the League was more European than world- There was also doubt as to how the United States might view any League intervention, bus this was dis- t. sipated when a precedent was found | ment. in similar action in 1921, -after Costa Rica and Panama had ended diplo- matic relations over a boundary ques- | on. The Council meeting, as expected, gave opportunity for numerous “eye-to- eye” talks on the big European prob- lems of German’reparations and evac- ulation of the Rhineland. Gustay | for many years, were reduced from 328 Stresemann, German foreign minister, Lovettsville Pastor Installed. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LOVETTSVILLE, Va., December 17. —The Rev. A. 8. Peeler, formerly pas- tor on the Lower David's charge out of was _installed as pastor of St. James Reformed OUTSTANDING WORLD EVENTS OF PAST WEEK BRIEFLY TOLD By the Associated Press, ‘Who shot first is the question be- tween the South American disputants. Paraguay insists, that the 35-man gar- rison of Fort Vanguardia fired the first while Bolivia maintains that the initiative came from an attack by 300 Paraguayans. She is so certain| making the subjects parallel. of this that she has notified all con- cerned that she will consider no medi- ation until Paraguay has made repara- flon for what is considered & gross. wjaidemaras of Lithuania finally agreed to this with the understanding that the penalty element of the investigation |t should be dropped. With this question put aside tempo- rarily, August Zaleski, Polish minister of foreign affairs, started an acrimo- nious debate with stlreselxtr‘mmjl o;exl' t}:; rights of German minorities in Poland. parent that failure to do so would | pERS, 01 QTN o this exchange at Lugano were coincident with official advices from Warsaw telling of a bitter attack upon Germany in the foreign affairs committee of the Polish Parlia- 1 THREE HURT IN AUTO. Car Occupied by Fairfax Attorney's Family Is Overturned. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, December 17.—The automobile of John Rust, attorney of Fairfax, was overturned yesterday on the Little River pike near Ilda when struck, police say, by an automobile | tr: driven by Kemp Furr of Middleburg. Mrs. Rust was shaken and bruised, Miss Eleanor Rust was cut on the head and young Anne Hooe Rust was cut John Rust, jr., driving, mann, Aristide Briand of France and Sir Austen Chamberlain of Great Bi 1t became known that this “big three” had about agreed that while experts were examining the reparations prob- lem negotiations for evacuation should be continued by the governments, thus The troublesome frontier questions between Lithuania and Poland are also about the eye. to go to a board of experts. Premier escaped without injury. tives Joseph L. Hooper and Byrd Vin- cent_of Michigan were driving behind DIES AT AGE OF 93. Mrs. Christina Keim Was Widow of Union Veteran. Mrs. Christina Keim, widow of Mor- ris Keim, a Union veteran of the Civil ‘War, died Friday at her residence, 1329 Longfellow street, at the age of 93. Mrs. Keim was born in Germany and spent the early part of her life in New York and Virginia, coming to Washing- ton]:n lil" 47 {enas ago. She is survive Mrs. Vanderbelt Quick and Miss (ruary 14, 1883, Maj. Niles was grad- {uated from the Military Academy in Peasants Win Victory in Rumania, Jullu Maniu's position as head of the Peesant party government in Rumahia was_consolidated by a smashing elec- toral victory. The party won 361 out }College in 1923, and attended the Naval ‘War College in 1924. His entire service | reproduction cost doctrine, and that cases involving this question are pend- ing in the United States Supreme )y two dnugh% Crowds surging around President-elect Hoover’s car just after he landed at Callao, Peru. One of the most enthusiastic greetings the President-elect has received on his Latin American good-will trip was given him in the two Peruvian cities, Callao and Lima. —Associated Press Photo. ’ . Two tugboats and their crews had a narrow escape when one side of the big steel drawbridge span- ming the Hackensack River in Jersey City, N. J., collapsed as it was being lifted to allow the boats to pass with a tow. The 500 tons of steel crashed into the river just as the tugboats neared the passage. The side in the water was up in the air like the far side when it crashed. —Associated Press Photo. President Requests Senator Schall to Show Him Dog Guide By the Assoclated Press. At President Coolidge's request, Senator Schall of Minnesota went to the White House today to show the Chief Executive the German police dog he uses as a guide. ‘The dog was trained at one of ' the German schools where dogs are taught to lead the blind, and was presented to Senator Schall a year ago by a friend in Ger- many. REPORTED UNFINISHED | Contract Time Expires Today With | ‘ Week's Work Needed for “Finishing Touches.” The contract time for completion of | repair work on the Highway Bridge e pired today with about a week’s worl still necessary before the finishing | touches, Assistant Engineer Commi sioner Herbert C. Whitehurst an- aounced. ‘The Farris Engineering Co. of Pitts- burgh, contractors for the work, will be required to pay the District Govern- ment $50 a day in liquidated damages for each day after today on which work is done on the bridge, plus all ex- penses incurred by the District for in- spection work. The downstream side of the draw span has not yet been touched. The asphalt cover on this must be torn up, the steel buckle plates underneath re- moved and a steel I beam substructure installed. This must then be covered with a laminated wood structure and asphalt surface. All other work is complete with the exception of about two thirds of the asphalt laying required between car -acks. MAJ. E. W. NILES DEAD; VICTIM OF APPENDICITIS Maj. Ellery W. Niles, Coast Artillery Corps, attached to the office of the chief of Coast Artillery, Munitions Building, and who resided at 3703 S street, died at Walter Reed General Hospital, yesterday, from ap- pendicitis. His widow, Mrs. Blanche E. Niles, has not yet completed arrange- ments for the funeral, but it is probable that interment will be in the Arlington National Cemetery. Born at North Chesterville, Me., Feb- June, 1905; from the General Staff School in 1922, and from the Army War was in the Coast Artillery Corps, in which he reached tne grade of major of 387 Parliament seats and the Liberals, Keim, and a son, Alfred H. Keim. She who kept the Britainu brothers in power dchile also leaves six gran great-grandson. Lynchburg Gets New Pastor. Spetial Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURGH, Va., December G. C. Crutchfield of Sbo';:ldll:. has pted torate of the United Christian Church here, and will give full time to the|an church after a contract with the Berea | them were unpaid. It is understood C., | that the action resulted from a protest leted. He is a graduate of Elon by the American Government against it EE i i i stsns - W20 @lleged illegal procedure, in the old Parliament to 14 in the new. early restated his country’s position| Italy went ahead with Mussolini’s the h:wo subjects were distinct and program for making the General Coun- t complete evacuation of the | cil of the Fascist party the real gov- occupied territories could not be ex-|ernment force of the kingdom. .pected until reparations had been fixed. ut on the same day in Germany Hermann Mueller, the chancellor, said that speedy removal of the allied troops would be only right and just. The reason for the Stresemann at- titude came out several day: [ ations had Conversations between Bulgaria and Jugoslavia at Geneva seemingly fixed up their frontier difficulties, wire and fortified posts have been the rule there, but Bulgaria promised to keep the Macedonian revolutionaries in s later after ! check and her peaceable citizens are to held by Stresse- have free access to Jugoslaviay Christian Church, near Graham, N. HIGHWAY BRIDGE REPAIR | MERGER REVISION MEETING CALLED All Interested Parties to Con- vene Today to Discuss Plan Changes. An effort to work out a modified plan for merging the local traction lines is expected to be made at the conference this afternoon between the Senate sub- committee and representatives of the companies, the Utilities Commission, People’s Counsel Fleharty, the subcom- mittee’s expert, Dr. Milo R. Maltbie, and representatives of the Bureau of Efficiency. It will be the first time these various groups have gathered to survey the | situation since the Bureau of Efficiency and Dr. Maltbie filed their reports analyzing the merger plan as presented |to Congress and suggesting certain revisions. Although a definite conclusion is not looked for at this preliminary meeting, the interchange of views is expected to throw some light on the question of whether it will be possible to have a merger plan enacted at this session of Congress. A majority of the subcommittee of five Senators handling the vroblem is understood to be in faver of modifica- tion of the present plan. At the same time, indications are that the subcom- mittee members want to see a merger accomplished at this session if possible. It is probable, therefore, that today's conference will resolve itself into a discussion of the extent to which it is possible to obtain an agreement on changes in the plan of unification. The clause in the unification plan as presented to Congress, which would fix the value of the merged companies at $50,000,000 for a 10-year period, with a provision against any change in fares for one year, is almost certain to be one of the chief topics of discussion. Dr. Maltbie disapproved of this figure and advised the subcommittee not ta write an' agreed valuation into the legislation, but to leave that question to be determined by the regulatory body. The Bureau of Efficiency recommended tentative acceptance of the $50,000,000 figure to hasten the benefit of the merger, suggesting that there is nothing in the agreement to prevent the com- mission from starting work on a new valuation following the merger. ‘The Efficiency Bureau pointed out that the Interstate Commerce Com- mission has adopted a method of valu- ation which results in a lower value than that arrived at by the current in July, 1920. During the World War| Court. The Efficiency Bureau suggested he served as a lieutenant colonel in the | that if the court approved the I. C. C. National Army. method the Public Utilities Commission American Ships Are Released. CANTON, China, December 17 (#). could revalue the local traction lines in accordance with the court decision. Dr. Maltble told the subcommittee it was not customary to write definite —The Canton government has released | Valuation merger contracts. two boats of Standard Oil Co. of Another question likely to be dis- New York with their cargoes of kero- cussed is the arrangement that should sene, together valued at about $55,000,| be made for the payment for electric d di:nelsud charges that u:(es on | power obtained by the merged railway company from the Potomac Electric Power Co. Both of the experts' re- ports recommended clarification of the it DOWEE Clavise, VA