Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, JA NUARY % . 1929. D.C. BUSINESS MEN| PROTEST COAL RATE Board of Trade Supports| New River Operators in | Fighting Raise. \ Washington business interests will continue to support the protest of | Southern producers of coal against the proposed increase in freight rates to | Washington from the New River fields | of West Viffginja, from $284 to $3.13| per gross ton, it was indicated today at | a conference between S. C. Higgins, secretary of the New River Coal Oper- | ators, and Rebert J. Cottrell, secretary | of the Washington Board of Trade. | Foiowing & protest by the Southern operators against the scheduled in- | crease in which several 16cal trade or- ganizations joined, the Interstate Com- | merce Commission suspended applica- tion of the new rates pending a study | of the case. | Exceptions to Be Filed. Mr. Higgins announced today that his association next week would file a bill of exceptions to the recent report submitted by Examiner Berry of the commission, who recommended that the proposed $3.13 freight rate be made efective. The answer of the coal operators to the examiners report, it is said, will voice vigorous ebjection to the state- ment in the Beriy report, holding that testimony introduced by representatives of local trade groups and local busincss concerns interested in the coal situa- tion was “wholly incompetent.” Al the testimony of the local witnesses, it was reported, was stricken out on this ground. Economic Problem Stressed. Mr. Higgins declared this morning that local witnesses were not attempting to testify regarding the pfocess of rate making, but rather as to the “serious economic difficuities that would be en- countered in Washington, if the pro- posed rate increase was effected.” | Mr. Higgins said that the Southern | producers couid not absorb the 42 cents | differential in rates, and that if local consumers of their product continued | to use Southern coal, it would be at higher prices, due to the operation of economic laws. Appearing at the hearings on the rate case, in addition to an agent for the United States Government and the | Sputhern operators, were representa- | tives of the Washington Board of Trade, | the Washington Real Estate Board, the | Operative Builders’ Association, the | Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion and the Washington Gas Light Co. and the District of Columbia Paper Manufacturers’ Co. i Testimony Representative. The testimony of the local organiza- tions’ witnesses, in the opinion of C.| Phillips Hill, chairman of the industrial | interests committee of the Board of Trade, was representative of the views of the coal-consuming public of the District rega g economic difficulties to be encountered under the proposed higher rates, and therefore was fully competent as a part of the record of the' hearing. It was pointed out this morning by | Mr. Higgins that the Southern carriers did not desire the increase in freight | rates and made no effort to justify | their necessity. ADJUTANT GENERAL WILL BE NAMED SOON Brig. Gen. Charles S. Bridges Men- | tioned as Possible Successor to Gen. Wahl, Appointment of the adjutant general ©f the Army, with the rank of major ,general, to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Gen. Lutz Wahl, | will be made by the President within | the next few days. Brig. Gen. Charles S. Bridges, who has held the office of assistant adjutant general since July 2, 1927, and who is now acting adjutant general, is re- garded as a likely selection for the vacancy, but there are about 20 colonels in the Adjutant General’s Department also eligible for the appotment. Legion Men to Hear McNutt. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va., addresses will be delivered in this city by Paul V. McNutt, national commander of the American Legion, January 7. ‘The first will be to State commanders of posts and other post officials, at the home of local Legionnaires, in Gypsvy Hill Park. At Stonewall Jackson Hotel, Monday night, a banquet will be given in his honor, at which time he will de- liver his second addres! Clyde R. X “ler, director of the bureau of educ:..onal service at Teach- ers' College, Cciumbia University, says: “As teachers we are likely to say that all success in life must be based ca education. It did not mean it for Henry Ford; it did not mean it for Thomas Edison. Jack Dempsey had lit- tle schooling and he's worth millions. ‘Tunney’s knowledge of Shakespeare cut no figure in his financlal success.” | apparently January 4.—Two |y HOURS The Culpeper, Va., fire engine which began a 12-hour pumping test at the Municipal Wharf this morning. In Board of Fire Underwriters is shown fire engine was built in Washiogton. the photo C. G. Lauber of the National testing the pressure. Incidentally. the —Star Staff Fhoto. GLBERT CORRETS VEWS ON REPORT |Voices Limited Optimism on Reparations Question—Due Here Tomorrow. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 4.—S. Parker Gilbert, who has represented the allies in Berlin for the last four years, re- turned here on the Berengaria yesterday prepared to explain to President Cool- idge, President-elect Hoover and Secre- taries Mellon and Kellogg the situation in which representatives of France, Bel- gium, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Germany will meet officially in Paris during the next few months to discuss “a complete and definite settlement of reparations payments.” This forthcoming settlement is re- garded internationally as involving the peace and prosperity of Europe, as well 2s the willingness of the Allies to pay their war debts to the United States. Agent Withholds Comment. Mr. Gilbert yesterday was disposed to keep his explanations for the highest | officials of the country, as he has done abroad in the last year in persuading the chief ministers of the allied na- tions that there was a practical neces- sity of making a settlement with Ger- many immediately instead of keeping her paying an annual sum indefinitely under the Dawes plan. “This is a good time to be silent,” he said, as reporters surrounded him on the Berengaria. He also corregted current interpreta- tions that his report is completely op- timistic concerning the collection sys- tem which he has officially_supervised for the allies during the last four years | as agent general for reparations. Agent's Optimism Limited. Mr. Gilbert's optimism apparently is limited to Germany's ability to ac- cumulate the necessary gold marks within her borders. It does not extend to what is called “the transfer problem” —that is, the problem of disposing of the German gold marks year after year in the forvign exchange markets, to se- cure the currency whichq the allies want, without wrecking the e%change value of the German currency. The transfer problem is so far from solutior:, according to Mr. Gilbert, that the German critics of his report who say he did not consider it completely, overlooked the sections whicti dealt with Germany's foreign currency operations, as Mr. Gilbert ex- | pressed it yesterday, “so far as there is || anything to be said on the subject as et editorial critics declared he had made no mention of the heavy borrowidg abroad by German nationals and by subdivisions of Germany, as well as by the government itself, which the Ger- mans held to be the only factor which made the full transfer of reparations possible so ar. Says He Mentioned Borrowing. “I did mention this borrowing.” said Mr. Gilbert. “Probably the critics in Germany have not yet read my report completely, because the German text is not yet off the presses.” Even the distribution of the English | text was only bsgun a few days ago, Mr. Gilbert explained; consequently the only copy of his report nmow in this country is the original manuscript which he has in his baggage. Printed Mr. Gilbert was told that German || !rnples will be available here within a | few deys by the next steamship. | Meanwhile Mr.-Gilbert suggested that |much of the comment already pub- | lished concerning his report was ut- tered, as by the Germans “with a po- | litical thesis to sustain.” He implied that there would be less disappoint- ment in Germany when the German publicists read more carefully through | his report of German prosperity and | apparent ability to pay, and corre- sponding less jubilation in Paris, where the report was instantly hailed as a “reparations Bible” revealing sthat France was right from the beginning in maintaining that Germany could pay all. Mr. Gilbert sald he knew nothing about any reports that his recent report was to be his last as agent general for Xrepnmuons. He said he expected to iretum to Berlin in about two weeks to resume his post and to await guestion- ing by the representatives of the allies. He plans to remain in New York at the Plaza Hotel until tonight and then go to Washington. Although he did not know yesterday what arrangements had been made for him to talk with the heads of the Government, he said that he would undoubtedly call on Sec- retary Mellon. EIGHT BROADCASTERS FACE BOARD HEARING License Renewal Hinges on Ex- planation for Alleged Variation From Assigned Channels. By the Assoclated Press. The Radio Commission today inform- ed eight' radio stations that their licenses would not be renewed until after hearings had been held because of repeated deviations from their as- signed frequencies. The stations were KPOB, Seattle, Wash.: WRHM, Frid- ley, Minn.; WMBC, Detroit; KGER, Long Beach, Calif.; WLBX, Long Island City, N. Y.; KBFJ, Los Angeles; KFWI, Sane Francisco, d KMO, Tacoma, Wash. The commission sent the following telegram to the different stations: “Ac- cording to information received by the commission, your station has been re- peatedly deviating from assigned fre- quency more than one-half kilocycle in violation of unen‘ r seven. The commission has, théfefore, set your pending application for renewal of your existing license for hearing.’ ‘The eight stations notified .oday bring the total of broadcasters warned of off-frequency broadcasting to 20. TALIANKING SRIGID TRAINING VALUABLE [Boy Prince Emmanuel Owes Fearlessness, Modesty to Guardian. | SR e By the Associated Press. ROME, January 4.—Victor Emmanuel III, “by the grace of God and by the will of the nation,” as his official title | runs, “King of Italy,” claims to belong to the oldest among the reigning houses in Europe. The founder of his family | | was Humbert “Albimanus,” or of the | “white hands,” who held the title of | Count of Savoy as far back as 1032 He was the first of this rugged moun- | taineering race to found a dynasty in that impregnable _region ~ between France, Italy and Switzerland. The | savoyard rui~rs ridually transformed | this small, impoverished earldom into a vast and powerful kingdom. They first stretched northward as far as Geneva, and in 350 years they gained an outlet to the Mediterranean through the pos- | session of Nice, alternately taking and | losing it, until in 1859 it was ceded to | France as compensation for the assist- ance given by Napoleon III in the war against Austria. Eyes Turn to Italy. The eyes of ‘these chieftains of the; | snowy peaks were continually turned | | toward Jtaly, with its luxuriant valleys | and wonderful climate. It took nearly | nine centuries and the work of many | generations of statesmen, diplomats, | holars, saints, and, above all, numer- | ous warriors, to gather under the scep- ter of their present descendant, Victor | Emmanuel III, the whole peninsula. | The reigning King owes many of his qualities of fearlessness, modesty and | cleverness to his early training. Sena- | tor Morindi, teacher of his majesty, | told some interesting anecdotes about the severity of the education of his royal pupil. A Piedmontese officer, Col. Osio, who |was a brilliant soldier, a strict dis- ciplinarian, but also a very cultured man, was entrusted with the care of the young prince, who was delicate and rather weak. Osio resolved to trans- form him into a strong and learned prince. The colonel obliged him to get up at 6 o'tlock every morning, Winter and Summer, & habit which the King continues to this day. A cold bath was followed by half an hour's gymnastics. Only a few minutes were devoted to breakfast, as at 7:30 o’'clock Iessons began. His majesty still retains this early custom of eating in a hurry. Fifteen minutes suffice for lunch and 20 for dinner, to the despair of his courtiers, who, having to keep up some kind of conversation during that short time, “get up from the table,” to use | their own words, “hungrier than when | they sat dow Studied Reit of Day. The remainder of the day was em- ployed in study, riding, fercing and military exercises without practically a | minute’s rest. When Col. Osio handed the prince over to Senator Morandi for the teach- ing of literature he was outspoken and emphatic in his instructions The royal | pupil was to be treated like any other boy: indeed, “greater severity” had to | be used towatd him who had “greater | responsibilities awaiting him.” Osio in- sisted that the Senator should exact | from his pupil with the utmost firm- ness the strict fulfillment of all his duties. One freezing, wet morning the prince had a bad cold, and when it was time for the riding hour Morandi suggested that on this occasion it might be sus- pended and substituted by another les- son_indoors. “Nonsense!” retorted the colonel. “Suppose we were at war, would he not mount because he had a cold?” Sense of Duty Supreme. he told him one day, thumping his fist on the desk, “tha the son of a king or the son of a cob- bler, when he is an ass, is as ass!” And turned his back indignantly. This is the kind of training that has made Victor Emmanuel a superior man, open-minded and with a supreme sense of duty. He ascended the throne at the most tragic moment of his life, when his father, King Humbert, was shot dead at Monza by an anarchist. One of his first decrees conferred the title of count on Col. Osio. TWO ARE EXONERATED IN POLICEMAN’S DEATH Owner of Auto Identified as Death Says It Was Stolen Before Tragedy. Car By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 4.—Police have absolved Maj. ‘Wilbert B. Ashby, | wealthy Lake Forest, Ill, architect, and his chauffeur, James Norton, of all blare in connection with the death | New Year eve of Policeman John Sacht. Sacht was struck and carried a block on the bumper of an automobile re- sembling Maj. Ashby's before his body fell beneath the wheels. Policeman John Barry identified Maj Ashby's car as the one which had struck him and Sacht about halm an hour be- fore the car, with its left headlight and fender dented, was found aban- doned several blocks away. Maj. Ashby said his car was stolen about an hour before Sacht was killed. In olden times holly was regarded as a sacred plant. The red berries were associated with drops of haly blood, and the spines on the leaves with the thorns composing the crown of thorns. Mistletoe was used by the Druids at their Yuletide feasts and adopted by the Christians. Happiness! Christmas joys are quickly past. 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Although the .ount and countess are now on their way to Sweden from America, they have not been informed of the fact that their names will be proposed at a big meeting of monarch- ists in Riga ot Easter time as rulers of the United Baltic monarchy, which the monarchists hope to establish. th and beauty of telle Manville and the royal blood of ‘ount Bernadotte apparently appeal to the imaginations of the radical royal- and they hope to capitalize on the ple’s popularity in interesting the public in their cause. A Riga newspaper suggests the name of Prince Radziwill of Poland as an- other possible candidate for the imagi~ nary throne. 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