Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1929, Page 2

2 W Y HEADS URGE THO NEW BRIDGES Replacement of Calvert .Street and Klingle Ford Spans to Be Sought. ‘The District Commissioners are con- sidering sending t6 Congress a bill authorizing replacement of the Calvert street and Klingle Ford bridges on Con- necticut avenue, at a jolnt cost of $2,200,000. Of this $1,500,000 would be spent on Calvert Street Bridge, which the Commissioners will seek to have replaced with a monumental structure harmonizing with the present “Million Dollar” Connecticut Avenue . Bridge. The remaining $700,000 would be spent on the Klingle Ford Bridge, over Klin- gle road. The draft of the legislation has been prepared by the Engineer Department of the District goverhment, and is on the desk of Engineer Commissioner Willlam B. Ladue. Col. Ladue is ex- pected to submit it to the Board of Commissioners at its Friday meeting. Underground Conduits May Be Urged. The draft is understood to contain a provision calling on the Capital ‘Trac- tion Co. to place underground conduit construction on the two bridges, and the Commissioners may decide to order this form of construction as far as Cleveland Park, or at least as far as the end of Klingle Ford Rgidge. The underground trolley construttion on the bridges would be in line with the action taken with respect to the Key Bridge, where this type of construction was in- sisted on because it was felt trolley poles would mar the harmonious lines of the bridge. In 1922, when citizens of Cleveland Park made a determined drive to secure underground conduits throughout Connecticut avenue, there was a tacit understanding reached at the District Building that the matter should lie over until it came time to reconstruct the bridges named. The money sought for the bridges would be taken out of the surplus to the credit of the District in the Federal Treasury. If the authorizing legislation is passed, $750,000 will be sought in the next available appropriation act for commencing work on the bridges, $500,~ 000 f ' the Calvert street bridge and $250,000 for the Klingle Ford bridge. Removing Old M Street Span. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY | SRR & i man and injuring another. i 29 1929, WHERE FLOOR COLLAPSE TOOK LIFE Foreground shows where flooring gave way this morning in an apartment under construction here, killing a work- —Star Staff Photo. Auto of Former American Minister to China Am- bushed in Desert. Rev. Henry A. Bilkert, Com- panion in Car, Killed by Wahabis Tribesmen. By the Assoclated Press BASRA, Irak, January 22.—Charles Work on removing the old M street bridge. over Rock Creek in the vicinity of Twenty-eighth street is now under- way, an appropriation of $250,000 being available during the current fiscal year for the work. This bridge has been ‘closed to traffic for several years. Of the money to be spent, $177,000 will go for removing the present struc- ture and replacing it with the new bridge, the balance being used for run- ning a sewer pipe under the stream and a AS-mch water main along the bridge. Assistant Engineer Commissioner Her- bert C. Whitehurst, who has executive charge of the bridge department, esti- mates that the work of removing the old bridge will take about a month and that the new structure will be ready for traffic in about a year. e DELIGHT P. ARNOLD WEDS L. N. TAYLOR Girl Who Won Annulment From “Prince” Married Last Week. Miss Delight Potter Arnold, whose marriage to the self-styled Georgian rince, Roufat Magometoff Haliloff, ormerly a dancer at a local cafe, was annuled in /November, 1926, has been. married to Louis Willard Taylor of Bol- ton umfln!, N. Y. ‘The wedding took place January 14, but formal announcement was not made until last night by the bride's mother, Mrs. Davis G. Arnold, 1661 Orescent place. The ceremony was performed at Melrose, N. Y., by the Rev. Ernest Van Renssalaer Stires, son of the Bishop of Long Island, Mrs. Arnold said, while her daughter was on & visit. No Wash- tonians attended. e bridegroom, the son of John Gates Taylor of Bolton Landing, N. Y., first met Miss Arnold at a party here some time ago, her mother said. At the resent time they are in New York City, Eut it has not yet been decided where they will make their home. The bride's father is Maj. Davis G. Arnold, asic- ciate counsel of the United States Veterans' Bureau. The latest venture into matrimony of Miss Arnold recalled her sudden mar- riage to Haliloff here April 13, 1925, after soclety circles had watched with interest the court paid her by Martin Marshall Marston, prominent clubman. The honeymoon of Haliloff and his bride was interrupted at New York when their baggage was seized in a breach of promise suit, and the ro- mance went on the rocks in Europe, ac- cording to testimony at the annulment proceedings in a Rockville court later, when the bride reputedly discovered that her husband was wanted in sev- eral countris on criminal charges. Haliloff then admitted he was not a member of the nobility, but held the Georglan title of “first bey” in Tiflis, which could be translated no better than “prince.” The decree for annulment was is- sued November 27, 1926, on petition by the bride's father, who 177k the action _ as she was under age. Testimony at the proceedings also showed that Haliloff had issued mény bad checks. EDWARD E. CROCKETT, FORMER TEACHER, DIES Montgomery County Man Served Potomac and @len Echo 85 Years. Edward E. Crockett, 68 years old, died vesterday at his home at Concord, near Bethesda, Md., after a brief illness of pneumonia. Mr. Crockett was born in Damascus, Md., but spent most of his life as prin- cipal of county schools at Potomac and Glen Echo, Md. He started his teach- ing career at 19 and was retired, after 35 years’ service, in 1916. In 1918 he accepted appointment in the War De- partment and served several years. Besides his widow, and two daugh- ters, Mrs. Willis R. Lansford and Mrs, Joseph 8. Harper, Mr. Crockett is sur- vived by a brother, Winter Crockett of ‘Washington, and two sisters, Mrs. C. S. Mullinix and Mrs. George Hahn of Baltimore. Mr. Crockett was a member of the Jr. 0. U. A. M. of Cabin John, Md. This organization will conduct the funeral services at Herman Presby- terian Chwch at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. 42 ‘FLV CASES REPORTED Two More Deaths Bring January Fatalities to 47. Forty-two cases of influenza were re- ported to the District Health Depart- ment today, and two deaths from the cisease. Thus far, in January, 1,598 cases, and 4% deaths from the disease have been reported. R. Crane, former American Minister to China, today told his own story of the desert ambush in which his com- panion, Rev. Henry A. Bilkert, an American missionary, was slain, but from which Mr. Crane escaped un- scathed. Mr. Crane said that when the Ameri- can party left Zubler, a trading town 12 miles from Basra, on the edge of the desert, they saw some Iraqul tribes- men making excitedly for Zubler with their camels and flocks. s News travels quickly in the dese: and the J‘reibeu‘:en undoubtedly had d of raiders’ a] 5 he";v: weren't warned g¢ Zubler,” con- . Crane, “ nnuran'y i;e thought that the danger was nof - mediate and determined to proceed. “When we were about 50 miles south of Zubler, shots rang out, fired at a distance of about 200 yards. The driv- ers of the two cars with great presence of mind swerved and went full speed. ‘But the shots were whistling about us and Mr. Bilkert was hit in the shoul- der, the bullet probably affecting the spinal cord.” ‘Upon receipt of the news of the am- bush, air force machines were sent in pursuit of the raiders, but saw nothing. Official quarters believed that the attackers were scouts ahead of the main body of raiders. It is the custom of the Wahabis to send out scouts on horses, which are more fleet than the camels of the main body. A second automobile carrying I. CLARK’S EVOLUTION STATEMENT BRINGS FLOOD OF MESSAGES (Continued From First Page.) he taught in his classes, but which he did not dare to publish in the face of the dogmatism of his time. One of his students did publish his ideas, however, in a German book which now is ex- tremely rare. It may be interesting to know that Linnaeus had approximately the same ideas as those which I have advanced, although he was not in pos- session of the concrete evidence. “Biologists will realize that this theory does n:t' destroy the Darwinian theory of natural selection producing changes within groups. But they never have been able to explain the gaps between the groups themselves, Take, for exam- ple, the sea urchins and the star fishes. They are rather similar animals but are considered as distinct groups. It might be assumed that there was a gradual progress, due to natura} selection, from one to another. But there are actually no gradations between the two, either living or fossil. Moreover, 1 say that any animal representing a middle step be- tween them could not have lived he- cause no intermediate physical struc- ture capable of maintaining life is possible. Brings Up Missing Links. “The challenge of the new theory,” Dr. cm'llx 1“c]::lntmued. “is to produce the missing " Dr. Clark realizes fully, he sald, that the sensational feature of the theory, from the popular viewpoint, is in its implications on the descent of man. Anthropologists maintain that man descended from an ape-like ancestor and is a close relative, though not a direct descendant, of the present-day anthropoid apes. In support of this a great deal of skeletal evidence has been recovered from caves and river banks. These skeletons, showing ape-like cre tures with brains approaching the hu man brain, have been accepted as “missing links.” They will be found, Dr. Clark insists, not to be missing links at all, but apes whose reconstruction has been misin- terpreted. There is no evidence, he in- sists, of a missing link ever having ex- isted between any of the major groups as far apart as man and the apes. | PENSION WORKER RETIRED AFTER 44 YEARS’ SERVICE John A. Bostic, an employe of the Bureau of Pensions, was retired today after 44 years' service. Mr. Bostic was presented a cane, with a silver band bearing his name, by Col. Winfleld Scott, commissioner of pensions. Edward W. Morgan, deputy commis- sioner of pensions, and Alfred D. Wil- kinson, chief clerk of the Pension Bu- reau, paid tribute to Mr. Bostic’s long service with the Government. Mr. Bostic was born at Columbia, 8. C., February 27, 1859, and moved to | Washington with his parents in 1876. | He entered the Government service as a messenger in 1880, being assigned to the Bureau of Education, and was lraasnsterred to the Pension Bureau in 1884. He is a graduate of the Hampton | O.|Ibn Sai CHARLES R. CRANE ESCAPES AS U. S. MISSIONARY IS SLAIN CHARLES R. CRANE. Crane,” a brother of Mr. Crane, and Charles Jones, a valet, was not hit by any of the bullets. As the cars sped away from the scene, occupants of the second car, which was open, saw about & dozen armed Wahabis on horseback. These tribesmen gave chase to the Americans, but were soon outdistanced. ‘The Wahabis are nominally under the sway of Ibn Saud and their broder raids have been a' source of trouble to the British government, which holds & mandate over the Kingdom of Irak. It was predicted today that the slay- ing of Rev. Bilkert might lead to the immediate and drastic settlement of Ibn Saud's dispute with Great Britain and Irak. Rev. Bilkert was a native of Kala- mazo0, Mich., and came to Irak four years ago after eleven years on the Persian Gulf. He was a missionary of the Reformed Church in America. Mr, Crane ‘fx personally acquainted with ud. 200 CHEST ESSAYS SENT IN TO JUDGES Editors Begin Digging Into Mass of Letters—More Arriv- ing Hourly. ‘With more than 200 essays already in the hands of the Community Chest es- say contest editor of The Star, and a score or more coming in with every mall, the board of editors of The Star which is to judge the essays today be- gan digging into the pile of letters to determine the winners of the three prizes of $100, $50 and $25. Only today and tomorrow remain for essayists to submit their work. The contest closes at midnight tomorrow, and if they are to receive the attention of the judges, essays must be in the mail and on their way to the contest editor before that time. Late essays will not be considered by the judges. Failures to Obey Rules Noted. Only a few of the essayists have not conformed with the rules of the con- test, and the major portion of the pieces so far received have been of such na- ture that they can be judged along with the best. The 300-word limit on write ings has been carefully observed. The prizes will be awarded Monday night at the dinner at the Mayflower Hotel, which will formally open the Community Chest's 1929 drive for funds for the budgets of the 57 charities rep~ resented in the chest. Elwood Street, director of the chest campaign, who furnished the in- formation on the chest's operation to the scores of essayists who have en- tered the contest, today said that the keynote of the campaign, the point of one drive for all the charities and a surcease from charity appeals during the remainder of the year, has been struck by nearly all the essayists. One Point Is Stressed. “This point,” Mr. Street said, “is the one we are particularly anxious to get across, because it will put those who are giving to the drive in the proper frame of mind to give, not as they | would to a single appeal from a single { charity, but as they would find they have give if they could total up the donations they made over a whole year to the varied campaigns, the component organizations of the chest last year. It is this more than anything else which will determine the success or failure of the chest campaign for 1929.” HIGHWAY EXTENSION MEETING IS CALLED Park High School Feb- ruary 1. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 22.— Efforts to unite all the forces working for the extension of Central avenue to the Crain Highway will be one of the principal objects of a mass meeting of civic leaders from Hyattsville, Bladens- Civic Leaders to Meet in !(Aryhnd' D. C. SCHOOLS FACE CURTAILMENT PLAN Elimination of 18 Teachers in 1930 Bill May Cause Gen- eral Retrenchment. A program of retrenchment, affect- ing both curricula and teaching per- sonnel administration, faces Washing- ton public schools next year as a result of the elimination of 18 of the proposed 33 new school teachers in the 1930 ap- propriation bill as it was reported to the House yesterday, it was revealed at Franklin Administration Building today. According to the specified classes of sdlaries allowed in the bill, the 15 teachers thus provided for include one elementary school teacher and seven senfor high school and seven junior high school teachers. With this allow- ance, school officials declared this morn- ing, the most serious effects will be suffered by the elementary and the senior high schools. Commenting on the treatment accord- ed the school system in the bill as whole, however, the official staff was unanimous in the opinion that “it is a good bill,” affording the schools fair treatment. The teacher cut, in the face of the amiable attitude of the members of the subcommittee during the hearings on the school needs, however, was ad- mitted “a big surprise.” Effects Explained. Explaining the effects of the elimina- tion of 18 of the teachers, Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent in charge of high schoois, and Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools, said that with the extension of the normal school course to three years next year, at ieast three of the high school-salaried teach- ers will be placed in the Wilson Normal and the Minor Normal schools. This would leave, at the most, only four addi- tional high school teachers to be di- vided among the District’s eight senior high schools. The situation may become even more acute, if the addition of one year to the normal courses requires more of the seven qualified teachers. With one more teacher for the ele- mentary school system, which has been uuwented with the opening of new bulldings, and further handicapped with ever increasing enrollments, the situation can be met only by recruiting teachers for regular classroom worl from the corps of special subject in- structors. This would necessitate the narrowing of the education afforded ‘Washington children in the public schools by reducing the hours of in- struction In music, drawing, physical training, manual training, domestic sclence, nature study and gardening and speech correction. If demands iced upon the schools next September ncrease materially over this year's en- rollment, Mr. Kramer said, it would not be impossible to imagine the com- plete abandonment of one or more of the special subjects. “Public education is the only busi- ness in the world which cannot turn away its trade,” Mr. Kramer comment- ed. “When the children of the city come to us and to our buildings for an education, we've got to take them in.” Special Courses Reduced. ‘The number of special course teachers already has been reduced from 228 in November, 1926, to 193 at present, and further inroads upon this staff cannot help having direct effect upon the curricula of the public school system, it was pointed out by officials. Another means of coping with the reduced num- ber of teachers, they said, would be the shifting of the school children from building to building in an effort to equalize the pupil load which each teacher would be required to carry. This, however, often would make it nec- essary for pupils who live in one section of the city to travel to an entirely dif- ferent section to go to school. Washington’s Community co-ordinated. Greater good is expected effort. effort. To further interest in the Star, are eligible to awards. Essnys Contest Editor of The uary 23. Their merits will be judge Star. burg, Moun{ Rainier, Bennings and Normal and Agrjcultural Institute at Hampton, Va; resides with his family at 1323 R &,¢et. other communities bordering . ton, to be held im the' M High School, February 1. CHEST PUBLICITY PLANS EVOLVED Arrangements Under Way to Make Program Most Com- plete Since World War. ! Plans for perhaps the most com-! | plete publicity campaign since the days | of the selling of Liberty bonds here during the World War are under way to aid in the Washington pommumly Chest campaign for funds here Janu- ary 28 to February 6. Huge “thermometers,” 24 feet high, containing large hearts with a mercury | | column to be controlled by the number of dollars raised, will be one group of the things of interest when the cam- paign is under way. As outlined at a meeting of the Chest publicity unit, C. Melvin Sharpe, chair- Eman, in the Willard Hotel yesterday, the mercury will be raised each day during the clmp!‘lg;r:‘ to show the amount of money raised. Under present plans. it is hoped to have one of the thermometers placed in front of the District Building, one in front of the U. S. Treasury Building and one at the Patent Office. They will be placed on tall poles, where they may be readily seen by the many thou- sands of persons passing those places daily. Tentative plans also were outlined at Mr. Sharpe's meeting for placing hundreds of Community Chest posters on the street cars, the first of these having been put on cars today. In ad- dition pictures showing and telling of the Community Chest and its needs are to be shown in practically all of the city’s theaters, while posters will be placed in stores and at other places. Various business concerns have agreed to place suitable Chest posters on their delivery trucks and automo- biles. The managements of the local radio stations are arranging for a pro- gram of broadcasting frequently ad- dresses on various phases of the Chest and its work and appeals to the public to ald in making the Chest campaign a | | success. Plans for the latter were out- lined yesterday by Vincent Callahan, advertising director of station WRC. The various newspapers also have agreed to donate generous space in the papers for chest advertising purposes, in addition to having chest posters on their delivery trucks. Meetings are scheduled as follows: January 28, opening meeting of the campaign at the Mayflower at 6:30 pm.; January 30, report meeting at the Willard at 12:30: January 31, report meeting Mayflower, 12:30; February 1, report meeting at Mayflower, 12:30; February 2, report meeting at May- flower, 12:30; February 4, report meet- ing at Mayflower, 12:30; February 5, report meeting at Mayflower, 12:3f February 6. closing meeting at M flower at 7 o'clock. Employes of W. B. Moses & Son, the first store to report 100 per cent en- rollment in the chest fund, are found to have donated actually more than they were expected to give, g them “more than 100 per cent efficient.”” Em- ployes of Demonet’s, Inc., are also more than 100 per cent subscribed. Other stores are orfinnmx:f with the idea of beating out t! ready registered. Capital Traction employes will meet at the Cosmos Club tonight, at which time Rufus Lusk will explain the pur- pose of the Community Chest and the $hat Cvety emapioye of the company has every employe of company a chance to contribute to the Chest. John Poole, campaign chairman, will §) at _the Cleveland Park Club tonight, Mrs. Philip Smith will in- troduce him. Community - Chest Bpeakers were heard at meetings last night as fol- lows: Retail Credit- Men's Association’s banquet at Raleigh Hotel, President Stephen H. Talkes, speaker; Lincoln Park Citizens' Association, at Bryan School, J. E. Jones, speaker; West End Citizens' Association, Western Presby- terian Church, Attorney Harold Marc] speaker; Joshua Evans’ group of work=- ers, Cleveland Park Co tional Church, Elwood Street, speaker; Zion Baptist Church, Helen Story, speaker; Ne&hborhmfl House, Randolph_G. 0p, aker; Cleveland Park Branch, Y. W. C. A, Mrs. Fred Wright, aker. C. Melvin Sharpe s last night, Mrs. J. u;o eld Riley %;sé ‘\INOL and Mrs. Lester Pollock over WIFE OF MINNESOTA REPRESENTATIVE DIES Mrs. Catherine B. Maas Expires at George Washington Inn After Daughter's Birth. Mrs. Catherine Bole Maas, wife of Representative Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, died in the George Wash- ington Inn yesterday afternoon after a baby daughter had been born to her earlier in the day. Mrs. Maas was born in 1899 in St. Paul, Minn,, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bole. Attending the local and public high schools, she entered the University of Minnesota, where she specialized in English and journalism. On completion of her college course she married Mr, Maas. Mrs, Maas is sur- vived by her husband, her daughters— Maryanne, 7 years; Patricia, 3, and the infant; her father and mother and sis- tgr. an. Willard 8. Howard, all of St. aul. Mr. Maas, Dr. Bole and Mrs. Howard will accompany the body to St. Paul. Funeral arrangements will be made there by Mr. Maas’ family. The daugh- ter just born was taken to Providence Hospital. 5 Prizes of $175 cAre Offered for Community Chest Essays Chest drive is near. Through it the city’s giving to charitable projects will be to be achieved with organized Citizens everywhere are uniting for the great fund-raising These funds are to be distributed to 57 organized charities of the District during the course of the coming year. coming campaign The Evening Star today is offering prizes totaling $175 for the best essays .to be written by Washingtonians on the advantages of the Community Chest in the National Capital. These essays must be under three hundred words in length. All persons in Washington, except employes of The Manuseripts must be submitted to the Community Chest Star before Wednesday, Jan- d by a board of editors of The That essay deemed best will be awarded a prize of $100. | || Second best, $50, and third best, $25. Be sure and enter your essay early. Do pot gelly. G. Left to right: Misses Helen Taylor the leaders in the beauty and popula: George Washington University. FORMER OFFICER PLAGED ON TRIAL Charged With Assault to Kill| Gas Station Employe in August, 1927, Edward M. Taylor, 28 years old, for- mer policeman, was placed on trial to- day in Criminal Division 1 before Chief Justice McCoy to answer an indictment charging assault to kill and assault with a dangerous weapon on Willlam S. Mc- Breen at a gas-filling station at 2637 Benning road northeast August 30, 1927. Taylor is sald to have had a quarrel earlier in the day with Henry Pinke, another employer of the station, and is supposed to have mistaken McBreen for Finke. Taylor was not indicted for al- most a year after the alleged occurrence. Assistant United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins, who is conducting the prosecution, is expected to rely upon testimony of fire-arms experts, who compared the bullet which struck Me- Breen with those fired from Taylor's service pistol, which was surrendered when he was suspended from the force. Attorney Joseph Salomon for the ac- cused, will reserve his opening state- ment for the defense until all of the evidence of the Government has been submitted. e | \TALKFEST HALTING | | | | | and Elizabeth Wright, who are among rity contest for co-eds under way at —Star Staff Photo. KONARIG STOY DRAWS ATTACK Hearing of Trio in Schwenk Case Conducted in Police Court. The kidnaping story related by Ray- mond L. Schwenk, 29 years old, of the 1400 block of East Capitol street was attacked by defense counsel, E. Russel Kelly, in Police Court this morning at the hearing of the trio accused by Schwenk—Elmer Kyle Altizer, 31 years old, his wife, Sadie Christinia, 22, and Helen Wozniak, 21. NAVY BILL AGTION Filibuster Charges Are Madq Against Foes of Cruises. Measure. By the Associated Press. ’ With six weeks to go, the Senate was involved in a talkfest against the crui- ser construction bill today which for the time-. being, at least, threatens a tie-up of its entire legislative program, Charges of a filibuster against the | naval bill were renewed by irate friends of the legislation as its foes prepared to talk at length on the pending deficiency upJ;ropflluon measure. Senate leaders already have mapped out a lfimrnm aimed to force the crui- ser bill to a vote, but the tantalizing tactics of the opposition in talking at length on other legislation is forestalling even this. Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, one of the group of Republican Independents fighting the naval bill, talked for more than three hours yesterday on the pro- posed increased in funds for prohibi« tion enforcement. At the conclusion he refused the n;gll of Senator Curtis of Kansas, the Republican leader, for an agreement to vote today on amendment to the deficiency bill. Hope to Press Action. When they get the deficiency bill passed, Senate leaders Intend to return to the unfinished business—the cruiser measure—and to keep it before the Senate until a vote is taken. If neces- sary, they are Preplred to seek the cloture rule limiting debate, but this reg‘y}:res a two-thirds vote, is program involves the side-track- ing of the appropriation bills which are necessary to provide money for mext year's Government expenditures. Usually everything is sacrificed for passage ol these in order to forestall the necessity of an extra sesslon. But Herbert Hoover’s desire for the extra session has removed some of the normal pres- sure against this proposal. The filibuster, which is denied by the foes of the naval bill, is one of the most novel in Senate history. So far, not a speech in opposition to the - posal for 15 cruisers and an ais o carrier has been made. All of the talk- ing by the foes has been done on other After Schwenk told his story of start- ing out several nights ago to take the trio to Hyattsville as a favor, and winding up by going all the way to Penn Grove, N. J., under threats, Kelly attempted to force him to admit that he had driven to New Jersey of his own accord and threats made by the trio to say he had violated the white slavery law in transporting the girls prevented him from tumxng‘mh Schwenk denied that had any reason to_become alarmed at such threats. He said that Helen Wozman had stopped him and asked for a lift to Hyattsville for all three. This Schwenk consented to, as the night was cold and as a favor to them, he said. After they started on the trip he was asked fo go to a house in the 1300 block of B street southeast to get some bedding. He agreed, he said, and WASHINGTON STOCK SALE T0 BE PROBED Pearson’s Acquisition of 7,- .000 Shares of Gas Light Company Brings'Action. The recent acquisition, under ap- proval of the District Supreme Court, of 7,000 shares of stock in the Washington Gas Light Co. by Dane A. Pearson of New York, who saild he was represent- ing a group of investors, will be of clally inquired into by the Public Ut: ities Commission at its semi-weekly mee! Thursday in light of the so- called La Follette anti-merger law, which provides that “it shall be unlaw- ful for any foreign public utility cor- g:nuon. or for any foreign or local lding corporation * * * directly or indirectly, to own, control, or hold or vote stock or bonds of any public util- ity corporation organized under any general incorporation law or special act of the United States to do business in after stopping at the house they con- tinued to Hyattsville, where Altizer, he said, drew a gun and ordered him to drive on. After stopping at two places for refreshments and spending long hours on_the road, they reached Penn Qrove, where he was feleased. Pennsville, 6 miles distant, Schwenk said that he rted the case. Judge Schuldt termed the story as “remarkable,” but said that in view of the evidence he would set the bond for each defendant at-$2,000 ac- tion by the'grand jury. CONGRESS’ FINANCE PLAN FOR DISTRICT ASSAILED IN HOUSE (Continued From First Page.) what I may take the liberty of calling a novel proposition, namely, that the in- terests of the yers are not so woven inevitably with the problems of obtaining gratuities, as in obtaining jus- tice. By this I mean that they DHS: not to be taxed to raise moneys wi are not spent for their benefits and the benefit of the District. “Here is the outstanding injustice in handling of the District budget. For years the tax rate has the District of Columbia.” The act, which is section 54 of the been arbitrarily set at a certain figure and the income derived has not been legislation coming-before the Senate. Money Bills Get Way. In accordance with the usual prace tice in the Senate, Chairman Hale of the naval committee, in charge of the cruiser bill, has given way as appropris= tion bills came along. But for more than ro:’r d.:‘y; nm{ ht:waesmnu has been trying on ficien pfiafiln;n bill w‘lt&mn luce‘.q ¥ nly three of the s bills sent over by ‘the House have be“e':lpyu.ed by the Senate, and only two of these have gone through the conference ;'i:m and have been sent to the White use. Senator Hale believes that when his bill is given the tryout the _j_l;nllt; dl:.den he get it :ayued.. e TS are to give ev - ity for mr:t‘c{unent. mar{';:\:r S e L , inclug e vital aj - tion bills, it hfl:e’kved they m- track it if a final vote is not obtained within a reasonable time. N INAUGURAL PARADE SEAT PRICES FIXED “Top” to Be $7.50 for Places in Front of President’s Stand, Reynolds Says. Top price for the quadrennial “big show” of the National Capital, the inaugural parade and the other cere- monies attending the induction into office of the Nation's Chief Executive, will be $7.50, it was announced today by « | - B. Reynolds, chairman of the commit~ tee on tickets and invitations, through headquarters of the inaugural come mittee at the Willard Hotel, Top-price seats will be those directly in front of the newly sworn-in Presi- dent’s reviewing stand in front of the White House, it was announced. Favor~ public utilities law (Public No. 432, n;; spent, but has been converted into the | ably located seats, it is announced, may proved March 4, 1913) further ’t‘hlt it shall be nlz’l.;vlml “tmny pub- c utility corporation organized or au- thorized as aforesaid to sell or trans- fer any portion of its stock or bonds to any other public utility corporation or any holding corporation whatsoever, un- less expressly authorized by Congress so to do; and every contract, transfer, agreement to transfer, or assignment by any said public utility corporation of portion of its stock or bonds without such authority shall be utterly void and of no effect.” Ladue Comments on Stories. Engineer Commissioner Willlam B. Ladue said today that he had read the stories of the acquisition of the stock at $125 per share by the New York buyer. He said that he would confer with Cor- poration Counsel Willlam' W. Bride be- tween now and Thursday, and ask Mr. Bride to look into the legal aspects of the purchase and advise the commission as what steps should be taken in order to learn if any law has been violated. One of the ways known to be under consideration is the calling of a public hearing, at which officers of the com- {uny ‘would be he holders of stock in the concern. It! is probable that the haser of the stock also will be called to testify, if the commission is found to have the power to_compel his attendance. 'm'rhm are m.mummn - m‘o( nockno( gas company outstanding, par value of which is $20 a share. The anti- merger act provides that “the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia shall have ’:m in eqm:lyml to dissolve any public utility corporation organized * * * to do business in the District of Columbia for violation of any provision | of this section.” A limiting clause pro- vides that in case the allegation of any bill filed In court relates to the owner- mgfi sa%cyh or \x‘:nda I‘:f a local tckr:r- n any foreign corporation, then it must be shown to the satisfac- tion of the court that such ownership includes at least 20 per cent of the capital stock in the local corporation. Sale Does Not Involve 20 Per Cent. ‘The purchase under scrutiny now does not involve 20 per cent of the stock, which would amount to 26,000 shares, but the inquiry planned will be general and directed to discovering if there is any illegal ownership resulting from this purchase, together with the other recent sales of stock on the local Stock Exchange. The recent 7,000-share sale was made by Joseph Leiter, as trustee of the es- tate of Mary T. Leiter. fhadlo et BURHANS FUNERAL RITES. Remains of Veteran Pressman Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services for Willlam W. Bur- hans, 48 years old, veteran pressman of The Evening Star, who died in Garfleld required to testify as to, leral Treasury, where it has lain idle and profitless to the taxpayers. “This maladministration of the fiscal relations of the District has been of standing. By 1925, $5,257,528.75 had accumulated in this dormant re- serve, and it required the act of Con- gress of February 2, 1925, to release it and make it available for public schools and ’x%nn, “The next year the same thing hap- pened. A new dormant reserve was started because the moneys raised by taxation were not spent and were cov- ered into the Federal Treasury, with- out benefit to any one except to swell the daily balances of the Federal Gov- ernment. The next year the same thing happened, and so on from year to year, so that on June 30, 1928, there was lying idle in this dormant fund $6,200,000 of the taxpayers’ money from which they never received a cent of benefit. this condition was not due to obviously stupid mishandling of the finances of the District, it might be very justly denounced as a downright fraud on the taxpayers. “Verily, congressional meddling with District finances has made stepfathers of us all. “On July 1, 1929, this excess or surplus of unused funds will have been Increased another million dollars and by July 1, 1930, under even the appro- gemuom of the current bill there will a further augmentation of this un- used income of $1,726,000, making a total of $8,926,000. Large Unused Balance. “Reserving out of this sum $4,000,000 as the amount required to be held in r%nu‘.rv:munfle; 3’1: act of 1922 for the ol ns of \y-a8-you-go poli and a further million dofi:rs'mp;le:{ deficiencies and supplementary esti- mates, there will be lying in the Treas- ury on July 1, 1930, the end of the period covered by the present appropri- ation bill, an unused balance of $3,926, 000, or nearly $4,000,000. “With this unused balance in pros- pect, what occasion is there to scrimp and pinch and deprive the Capital of the Nation of the sanitary precautions necessary to assure the th of over a half million people? “What apology can be made to the world for the existence of 3,178 open privies polluting the atmosphere of a civilized city? “What excuse can _be made for in- sufficient sewers in Rock Creek Park, so that every heavy rain causes them d e to overflow their "repulsive into that beautiful stream that plnéxr:;md of the children of cf dist can be made is the f this “What excuse the parents of 5,000 children in 221 part- time classes in our public achookr “What excuse is there for the de- fective paving and lighting of the streets of the city, whose condition would shame the capital of the most backward nation?" p KING TO GO TO RESORT. be obtained for $5, and the remainder will go at $3. 4 The top price seats will be covered and protected from the weather. Amomm{he 45,000 seats will be of stands, under the chairmanship of Charles H. Tompkins, include the erec- tion of as many more stands as the demand might seem to justify. Naturally, it was pointed out today at inaugural headquarters, there will be more of the lower-priced seats avail- able than the top-price reservations. The exact allotments have not yet been checked closely enough for figures to be given out, and a closer study of the demand for reservations for the parade is being made to see that the proper amount of space in each price class might be available to meet the demand. 4 It was announced, in connection with the seat price figures, that the amuse- ment tax will not apply to the sale of these reservations. Already, the tickets and invitations committee has been deluged with re- quests for reservations opposite the President’s reviewing stand, and the points of vantage along the line of march also have been carefully looked over and selected by many. PAPER RACKS HIT BY JUDGE SELLERS AS LURE TO CRIME (Continued From PFirst Page.) honest intention of depositing the mone&eon the following n?::nlnl." Jug Sellers went on to say that the boxes were d‘Elmeed on the streets only lg special dispensatiun of the Dis- ;fis:d 3'3: meal n'l!;.;udd tlx:'“ mw"& ins em] to secure their removal. o 100 Money Boxes Stolen. The two boys brought ;og't this moml.ng" —l:‘nh Pfl«b“o.nll ‘e court, and Danlel' of ‘m street—pleaded m’“”\';. l'la. charges of robbing boxes at Ninth and O streets and at Thirteenth and L streets tt:ln January 1"; a&m were or- lered turned over Board "Fouts agents Tor oo newspapei . uf nts for two ne - :1 d be'.::e‘:ol from the ",:,‘:. a n stolen . the racks during — BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall evening at 5:30 o'clock. e 1. “Juarez 2.1 I we Hmlm Sunday, were conducted at the f his brothe ce of T, M. Bur- hans, 4417 Seventh street, this after- noon at 2 o'clock. Interment was in Mr. Burhans had 'l';een employed at The Star siace b Was 13 yeass ol - LONDON, January 22 (P).—It was o?hmluy :ouud today that xm;m h.mt e wi a_popul ren{n in 8 ‘on nuw&um coast o England, for his convalescence, but the Bis Bus not heen, fxed, o Sy Rob)... . 3. (a) “At Dawning" (b) “Privolous 7. “Blue Shadow"