Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1928, Page 7

b ‘ . s STHE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 19, 192! READYTH WeEk Transit Company Officials| Drafting Reply to Efficiency | Bureau Report. | ‘The reply to the transit companies to the merger reports of the Federal Bu- reau of Efficiency and Dr. Milo R. Malt- ble, New York valuation expert, is being | drafted today with a view to having it | completed for the Senate District com- mittee before the end of the weck. An outline of what the answersis to contain was discussed at an' executive conference of officials of the Washing- ton Railway & Electric and the Capital Traction companies and Harley P. Wil- son, author of the merger and | principal owner of the Washington | Rapid Transit Co., yesterday afternoon at the Potomac Electric Power Co. | Building. The conclave lasted from shortly after 3 o'clock until 5:45, but no | intimation was given by the conferees | of the questions discussed. Decision Held Secret. Willam F. Ham, president of. the Washington ‘Railway & Electric Co., who acted as spokesman for the group, announced at the close of the conference that it bad been decided not to give out for ' publication the matters dis- cussed. Mr. Wilson subsequently ex- plained that it would be unfair to| Senator Capper and his committee to | disclose the views of the railway exec- | utives prior to submission of the reply to him. | Aside from Mr. Ham and Mr. Wilsdn, | those who at the meeting were | ot s Togsiont of the. Oanc| ital Traction Co, and G. Thomas Dun- lop, his-counsel; J. E. Heberle also of that ;8. R. Bowen, vice presi- dent gereral counsel of the Wash- 1 & ilway and Electric Co., A. G.| . that “company, Eugene E. Thompson,| Neal of that company, Eugene E. Thomp- | son, member of board of directors of | that eompany, and Brice Clagett, coun- | sel for Mr, Wilson. | Meeting Will Be Held Again. Another meeting of this group will be , ! held before the report is sent to Sen- | | ator Capper. . The date,” however, has not been determined. . i Senator Capper has-announced that the | reply of the tramsSit companies would | be turned over. to the Efficiency Bureau | and Dr. Majthie for any rebuttal com- | ment they cared to make before his | co;rtmlme formally considers the Te-| PAUL JAWORSKI, Who has been sentenced to die at Bellefonte, Pa., for the slaying of I L. mp during a hold-up, in which a pay 1 car was dyna L WHY HE SOLD_EIQUOI;.— s TR Did It to Educate Children: Is De- fendant’s Plea. CHICAGO, December 19.—William Grescius’ desire to have his children well educated was used as a defense when he went before Judge Walter Lindley on a dry law violation charge yesterday. Grescius’ attorney, aftcr entering a lea of guilty, explained that his client ad taken up bootlegging as a means of sending his children to school. The daughter is attending a private school in Boston, and the son is a student at Purdue University. Grescius' was given a 30-day jail sentenc RELIEVED see ICKLY Carter’s Little Liver Pills Purely Vegetable Laxative move the bowels free from pain and unpleasant aftec effects. They relicve the system of tion poisons which many times cause be given .-.i‘& bsolute_confi member of the 3 All Druggists 25¢ and 75¢ Red Pacl kages. 'CARTER'S Iz P ead 14 the HEADACHE EUGENE O’NEILL SPENDS RESTLESS TIME IN MANILA Trailed by Newspaper Men Seek- ing to Establish His Identity. | By the Assottated Press. MANILA, December 19.—Trailed by newspaper men seeking to establish his | identity, Eugene O'Neill, American play- | wright, today found in Manila but little of the rest and seclusioh he has been seeking since his arrival in the Orient. | O'Neill, who came here from Shang- ‘hal yesterday under an assumed name, | was ‘positively identified today through his passport and correnspondence and notebooks bearing his name. Choosing to remain aboard the | steamer Coblenz, which brought him | here, O'Neill spent a restless night last | night, due to the heat and the noise in- cidental to the loading of cargo. He looked haggard this morning. SHANGHAI, China, December 19.— It was announced today at the Astor House Hotel, American dramatist, had been staying, that he had left. - Apparently yesterday’s announcement | by the hotel that O'Neil was still there was a hoax fo enable him to depart secretly. iy More than 1,500,000 bushels of carn were shipped from this country to Cuba in the past yeal uarters Sts. NW. . when Eugene O'Neill, | o ~PAY ON ELECTRIC BILLS CRITICIZES HARRIS BILL. Mexican Newspaper Says Labor Smuggling Will Continue. 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