Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1929, Page 2

NFBRASKA UTILITY FIRMS UNDER FIRE Witness Says He Was Told of Contributions to Rail Board Race. By the Associated Press A statement that he had been told | that Nebraska utility companies had contributed to the 1926 primary cam- paign of Thorne Browne, who unsuceess- | fully sought re-election to the State| Railway Commission, was made in lh(“ Federal Trade Commission’s utilities investigation today by Horace M. Davis of Lincoln, Nebr. | Davis, after previous rofusals to| answer, named F. E. Helvey, secretary of the Insurance Federation of Nebras- ka, as the man who gave him the information. He identified Helvey only upon the insistence ‘of Commissioner McCulloch, presiding, after questions by Robert E. Healy, commission counsel, were ignored | Letter Is Introduced. A letter of May 5. 19 from Davis to John N. Cadby. secretary of the Wi consin Utilities A clation, was intr duced in reference to the Browne de-| feat | “Our people were particularly inter- + ested in him,” Davis wrote, “and lost ! immeasurably in his defeat. They figured they owed him something true enough. He is a judge, a philoso- pher, methodical, studious, impelling in + personality, opinionated and naturally ! executiv Healy wanted to know why Davisi ! wrote that the utility interests felt they ! owed Browne something. and the wit- ! ness said this was because they felt , Browne had been satisfactory to them in dealing with matters which they had before the railway commission. ] “Our company ecxecutives,” Davi i letter continued. “have an unconscious i feeting that they want some supermen | to study Muscle Shoals, Boulder Dam !} « and other such big matters and tell the | H H. A, Huffstutiz: 2nd his 13-year-old bicyci CYCLIST, 69, PLANS ¢ executives what to think, so that they { will have more time to golf and play | 3 hooky. Mr. Browne is the very boy to ! do that for 'em. When Browne was | 1 effered & good place at Washington and | | threatened to go our men engaged him | ¢ instanter, but without thinking just; ; what they would do with him. You| i can see the logical result. They look £ upon him as a judge and upon me as a “ secretary, a hired man. I cannot bring myself to the point of working under Browne. I will work with him—he and | T have been the best of personal friends | for 20 years—but I can scarcely become a clerk.” Letter Outlines Work. Another letter introduced, written in + May, 1924, by Davis to A. Flor, Electric i Bond & Share Co., New York, outlined i the work being done by the Nebraska s+ utility information committee at that * time. ! “We have had a very high-class lec- + ture course at the Nebraska University,” 4 it said, “with such men as Martin In- 1. sull, Maj. Forward, Dean Raymond of ¢ ITowa State University, Carl Jackson, L. ! 0. Ripley and M. H. Aylesworth among + the speakers. We can't ring up receipts i in the cash register for such efforts. + but there are reasons to believe that j the profession is dignified by contact + between such authorities and university i people. { “We are very averse to brass band ! methods and not a small part of our i success is due to personal contact with + such organizations as State bankers, ¢ State Manufacturers’ Association, in- | & surance groups, good roads organiza- | | tlons, State Teacher Association and the + State Press Association and others. ¢ More than that, we undertake to keep ! an eye open to happiness at the state- 4 house .and are measurably in touch “ with developments in the political organizations. We are knee deep in a . Survey of the forthcoming legislators I and can venture something of an ap- | + praisement of the issues to be met and | 3 the temper of the 4 ¢ Davis testified that the utility com- | % penies had financed the sending out of a questionnaire by O. O. Buck, sec- retary of the Nebraska Press Associa- % tion, to newspaper- editors. One- intro= duced into evidence was .signed by ; John Berney of the Bartlett Indepen- % dent, which answered an inquiry | whether public_ownership of utilities | was as profitable for newspapers as private ownership in the negative. Although his officlal connection with | the N. E. L. A. in Nebraska has been | ing his “splash” wet streets stuffing circulars in folk: doors, and he’s getting 25 cents an hour | hospitals three different times—once in KLEIGLIGHT DEBT Man Left Los Angeles for New York on 13-Year- | 0ld Bicycle. ] Movieland ambitions strike age as | mercilessly as youth and that's why | H. A. Huffstutler, 69-year-old house painter, cook and odd-job man of Idaho Falls, is pumping his way across the continent on a 13-year-old bicycle. He wants to- make a big enough “splash” of some sort—any sort—for a chance to sell his wheel, his “splash” and himself to the glaring god Klelglight. | Huffsiutler is in Washington now, | with not much more of his trip to New York to be done, and today he is mak- | y tramping about the | for it. Not much money, but he can | get his eyeglasses repaired, and perhaps, | for the tan one that's wearing out now. | Finds Temporary Job. The man—old only in the number of | years that have passed since his birth | in Birmingham, Ala.—rode into Wash- ington two days ago. He had little | change left then, but he needed more to | experiments cover the repairs to his wheel. He tried to find a job. Somehow, other men were out on the same hunt; men who | didn’t have gray hair and whose bodies didn't bend under quite so many years. At last the thought maybe newspaper men could tell him where to go, and in ‘The Star office last night, someone sent him to the Central Union Mission. ! They took care of him down there, | gave him the distributing job and prom- ised him food and lodging until he earns enough to continue on his journey. Huffstutler began his long grind at Los Angeles September 23. He would have made much better time in reach- ing Washington, only he was laid up in a little place in Western Oklahoma, when a severe throat irritation made it ’ . . H . * H severed, Davis testified that he still re- § ceives an average of $150 a month in | ! connection with the ~preparation of | + digests of State news for circulation in | 2 its bulletin. | H Holds Publicity Dropped. | i Earlier in the hearing today Davis | 4 declared his organization had ceased | § distribution of pamphlets and publicity | ¢ releases last Spring. | % _ Earlier in the investigation testimony | tivity against adoption of the Walsh { Scnate resolution, which ordercd the | Gity. 4 present inquiry, and that much of this | t ¢ was handled through publicity chan- | 1 nels. Testimony also was given that | . connection with the work, some of it | ¢ going to widely known men who op- | 1 posed the resolution. | 4+ Davis said the joint committee still ¥ tssues bulletins periodicaily, but that | 4 they are not sent to newspapers. He | # testified that issuance of publicity mat- | % ter had tapered off gradually until it was discontinued entircly last March or April. Negotiations aye now under way * however, he added, to get out publicits & rcleases aboul the commission’s inves- 3 tigation * Cemmissioner ¢ whether * inquiry, and the witness assented. 7 said there was no thought of reviewing ¢ the past and that the materlal would * be solely i connection hearings, when the financial phase, as | % ordered by the Walsh resolution, is to be gone into. . RAID SQUAD REMARKS DENIED BY LETTERMAN | Says McCormick Case Re- port MecCulloch inquired | with future | % Hesse H Satisfactory to Him. | Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent | % of police, said today he had received | % a written report from Sergt. Oscar J.| ! Letterman, head of the lquor raiding | ¢ squad, in which Letterman denied re- | + marks attributed to him in published | § articles to the affect that certain mem- bers of the raiding squad were “crooked.” Maj. Hesse declined to give out the full report for publication, but told of contents in substance. The published cles told of Letterman’s answering question by Attorney Harry Whelan in a liquor case heard in Police Court on Monday by saying that Frank Mc- 4 Cormick had not been arrested during a raid at 212 Ninth street because someone was crooked. Letterman’s re- port, according to Maj. Hesse, said that . . v o i * I [ ¥ Whelan had asked if he knew every- | thing that went on at the Ninth street = . address and that he had replied that he did not as “‘there were lots of crook- ed things going on there.” Maj. Hesse sald that he was satis- fied with the report which had been backed up by statements of other per- {and the motorist whé felled him was | |t + was given to show that the joint com- | o ; mittee had played a major part in ac-|e |21, of Stone Harbor, N. J. { mony will be performed by Rev. Ge impossible ‘for him to pedal any far-| ther; again in Afton, Okla., where he was struck by an automobile. He was| in the hospital for five days that time, never found, although his car hurtled | into a ditch and burst into flames. | Spell of Influenza. Then his last hospital stay was in Uniontown, Pa.. where he fell a victim o influenza. That took 15 days of his| time, He reached Washington by way | f Cumberland, Hancock and Fred- | rick. i The man’s tltimate goal is New York Once there, perhaps a return| rip; but, anyway, it's the movies for | him. “I wanted to make a splash some- country—well, I'm 69 now, be 70 next month. That's a splash, isn't it?” BROTHERS WILL MARRY. | Double Ceremony Will Be Held | Here Tonight. A double wedding ceremony will be { held tonight at 4027 Ninth street, when Walter F. Klotz, 19 years old, and h]s‘ brother, Willlam C. Kliotz, 21, will be be married to Miss Muriel L. Gehring The_c ge H. Eveler. | of the sons at the trial and that the incident was now, as far as he was concerned tlosed. L} of Standard: pontvon lifting chains are attached " THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25. 1929.° le on which he is crossing the continemé. —Star Stafl_Photo, SUBMARWE SAFETY INGS PASS TESTS Approved in Strenuous Labo- ratory Study—Will Be Tried Out Under Actual Conditions. | By the Associated Press. Naval officers satisfied themselves yes. terday that the raising of sunken sub- marines by means of steel rings attached to the craft is practical from a labora- tory standpoint, but whether it will work under actual conditions still remains to be determined. The first laboratory tests with the rings, which were suggested at the time of the S-4 disaster when more than a score of lives were lost, were held yes- terday at the Burcau of Standards, and afterward officers expressed satisfaction over the results. It is planned to conduct further tests on the submarine S-4, which has been reconditioned for experimental work. make enough at that rate to get his| The submarine now is en route to Key bicycle out of the repair shop, where ne | West, where new tests are to be held. | stowed -it for adjustments; enough to | At Key West the Navy also proposes to test out for the first time a lung escape | too, sufficient to buy him a new scarf apparatus designed by Lieut. Charles B. Momsen of the Bureau of Construction | and Repair, and the diving bell rescue plan, Extensive Tests Planned. After these tests, the submarine will | be taken to New London for extensive with the rings. Lieut. | Momsen, with Dr. G. H. Mankin of the Naval Medical Corps, will leave for Key West today. “Though the possibilities of combining the use of the rings to raise sunken submarines with other rescue methods, like the lung escape apparatus, have not | yet been determined, they are all a part of the Navy's program of providing sure rescues from submarine disasters,” Lieut. Momsen said. “The tests at Key West | will be followed immediately by tests of the rings at New London.” The ring tested yesterday, known as a “pad-eye,” was designed by Lieut. Carlton Shuggs. It was similar to the ones which were attached to the S-4 following the disaster of December a | year ago. The S-4 was raised by means of two pontoons attached to 4-inch rings at Great Pond, Block Island, recently. In the new tests, more pontoons, probably six, will be used in an effort to determine the actual practicability of this method as to speed and general feasibility The rings yesterday were attached to a model of the hull of the S-4, which was suspended in an Emery machine— a mammoth device arranged, with hy- draulic compresses, to exert a pull or push of hundreds of thousands of pounds, and to record the pull or pres- sure exerted. Drama in Tests. Even to the men used to witnessing the performance of the mighty Emery 4 more than $400,000 had been spent in | how and this stunt of riding across the | machine—and to thinking in terms of its 2,300,000 pounds of power—the test provided two hours of intense drama. At first, the pull was increased with broad jumps, starting at 40,000 pounds, then 1up to 180,000 pounds, but after that more gradually. At 480,000 pounds the plates inside the test-section began to buckle. From this figure pressuie was applied in steps of 1,000 pounds each. At 530,000 pounds, the ring snapped, but the hull model remained intact. The scientists, engineers and design- ers proclaimed the ring a success—at i {married. The younger boy will take as | least from the standpoint of the lab- fiese (ould aeinte pnly 1o S Meide/Mis Dotorhy M. Veon: 18, of | noatiry st g | Philipsburg, N."J. and the elder will | it would bear 530,000 pounds of pull, This demonstration that they said, fnsured its lasting qualities | under the pull it would receive from the pontoons by which submarines would | be lifted. 4 \lm shows, left to right, Licut. Charles Momsen, Navy diver and Inventor ung,” and L. J. Briggs, chief of the Division of Mechanics of the Bureau watching the Highe machinie, with a pulling capacity of 2,000 fors vhich. was wsed to test the sieel “pad eyes” on submarimes to which '=—® & A Pl | FIGHT INTO SENATE jBoard Opposes Simmons’ Proposal Governing Appoint- ment of D. C. Teachers. | The Board of Education will carry | to the Senate its fight against Repre- entative Simmons’ proposal that the preference . in appointing teachers be limited to the first 25 per cent of the District normal school graduates. Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the school board, will seek to have the proposal withdrawn entirely or have | one substituted which would authorize the establishment here of a four-year toachers’ college, none of whose grad- uates would be aided by any priority ruling in teacher appointments. At the same time, the Board of Ed- ucation will ask also that the clause which the Bureau of the Budget at- tached to the item for starting construc- tion of the new Business High School, that the fund be appropriated only if the old Business building is used as an elementary school for colored chil- dren be dropped. | Board of Education members and| members of the school official stafl, ' headed by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent, are unaminous in the opin- ion that removal of the priority clause in the act of 1873, which protects nor- mal school graduates from unfair com- petition with graduates of four-year courses, would work a severe handicap on the local graduates so long as their ! school offers only a three-year course, | which will go into effect only next year, 'as the course at present is only two | years, | Dr. Ballou, although reported in some lch‘nles to be in favor of the open com- petition suggested by Representative | Simmons, explained _ today that he | would favor such method of appointing | Washington school teachers only after local candidates for the positions would have available a four-year teacher- | training course in the normal schools. | He reiterated his statements made be- fore the House subcommittee that Washington normal schools produced as well equipped potential teachers as any institutions in the country offering only a two-year or three-year course. Dr. Ballou made it plain that the pri- mary consideration should be the fur- | nishing of Washington schools with the | best obtainable teachers, but he was | equally emphatic that local aspirants | to teaching positions should not have their chances for appointment im- | perilled by the mere lack of proper pub- | lic facllities for their training. MATHER'S SERVICE - LAUDED AT DINNER | Albright, His Successor as National Park Chief, Shares Honors. As a testimonial to Stephen T. Mather, former director of the Na- tional Park Service, and a welcome to | his newly appointed successor, Horace M. Albright, the president and execu- tive board of the American Civic Asso- clation entertained at a dinner last night in the Cosmos Club. bers of the Senate and House committees on public lands were among the guests invited to meet the execu- tive staffs of the two organizations. Frederic A. Delano, president of the American Civic Association, who was toastmaster, introduced the speakers, who paid tributes to the outstanding service rendered by Mr, Mather during his 12 years in helping the development of national parks throughout the coun- try. Sincere regrets were expressed over his resignation, due to a physical breakdown, and a welcome extended to Mr. Albright, who is to carry on the work for the National Park Service. Calls on Dr. McFarland. Mr. Delano gave a brief account of the part the American Civic Associa- tion played in the creation of the Na- tional Park Service and is still taking in the development of the national park system. He called on Dr. J. Hor- ace McFarland of Harrisburg, Pa., past president of the association and chair- man of its committee on national parks, to give a brief history of the interest- ing beginning of the National Park Service. Dr. McFarland paid a high tribute to Mr. Mather's services, and expressed the gratification of all mem- bers of the American Civic Assoclation in the appointment of Mr. Albright as his successor. “No man,” he said, “is better qualified by experience and tem- perament to carry on the wonderful work started by Mr. Mather than his co-worker and strong personal friend, Mr. Albright.” . Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan, author of the bill to extend the park system in the District, which | the executive board of the American Civic Assoclation had indorsed at its annual meeting earlier in the day, told of Mr. Mather's work at the Capitol on behalf of park development. He gave assurances that Mr. Albright would have a continuance of support in working for the future of the system under the new administration. Nye Gives Assurance. Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Senate public lands committee, like- wise gave assurances of his interest in the development of the parks in Wash- ington and his desire to promote only wise legislation for the extension of the national park system. Chairman Don B. Colton of the House committee on public lands recounted personal experi- ences with Mr, Mather, which he said had impressed upon him the love the former director has for the great out- of-doors. Responding to Mr. Delano’s toast, Di- rector Albright devoted his talk also to his experiences while working with his predecessor, and gave assurances of his strong desire to carry on the policles laid down by him. | __The annual board meeting in the | Union Trust Bullding yesterday after- ! noon was attended by Mr. Delano, as | president; Mrs. Edward W. Biddle of | Philadelphia and Dr. McFarland, vice presidents; Dr. John M. Gries of Wash- ington, Dr. James Ford of Washington | and Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. George B. | Ford of New York, Warren H. Manning of Boston, Dr. John C. Merrlam of | Washington, Electus D. Litchfield of 1 New York and Col. Samuel P. Wetherill, | jr., of Philadelphia, members of the ex- ceutive board; Miss Harlean James, ex- ecutive secretary, and Mrs. Albert Lee ‘Thurman, associate secretary. | ‘The board adopted resolutions bear- | ing on the National Park policy in gen- { cral and the development and beautifi- cation of the park system in and around ‘Washington. It urged the acquisition of the Potomac River front, on both sides, | from Mount Vernon to Great Falls for | the George Washington Memorial Park. | way, and extension of the Rock Creek | and Anacostia Parkways into Maryland ’ before suitable areas are put to other uses. In recognition of the expenditure of millions of Federal funds for the con- struction of Federal buildings in Wash- inguon, the board also urged Congress to enact the amended Luce-Shipstead “bill to controk the architectural appear- ance*of private buildings facing on all ul Zille vackn T 'SCHOOLS TO CARRY 0SGAR UNDERWOOD [A® [S TAKEN BY DEATH |Cerebral Hemorrhage, Para- lytic Stroke and Relapse Prove Fatal. | (Continued From First Page.) _ | reared in the Northwest, he was wholly associated with the South since all his public service had been as a Represent- ative and Senator from Alabama. Unlike those of some of his contempo- raries, his career was marked by little of sensationalism, but his long public life nevertheless was not wholly without its dramatic moments. He was the first of the young Democrats to break lances with Willlam Jennings Bryan when the Commoner still was a commanding force in the councils of the party. Their dif- ferences arose over the Underwood tariff, and the stand taken by Mr. Un- derwood required a courage which again was demonstrated a few years later when in the then prohibition South he met and vanquished for the Senatc Richmond Pearson Hobson, ‘a leader of the dry cause and a national hero of Mertimac fame. The Senator’s friends declared it was this same courage that led him publicly to denounce the Klu Klux Klan in 1924 when he was seeking the presidential nomination. A desire to serve his country wherever possible led Senator Underwood to ac- cept membership on the American com- mission to the Washington Arms Con- ference. This service, taken from the hands of a Republican President while all of the bitterness of the inter-party fight over the League of Nations still rankled, undoubtedly cost him the Democratic leadership in the Senate. 2 leadership he was not loath to surrender, since his party had lost control of Con- S8, : !r;‘mt elected to the House of Repre- sentatives from the Birmingham district of Alabama in 1804, Mr. Underwood as- | sumed leadership of the Democrats there when they took control of the | House in 1911 and on the record he made within a year, his friends ad- vanced him for the presidential nomi- nation at Baltimore. Mustering nearly 100 votes, he remained in the fight until the forty-sixth ballot when his name was withdrawn without either his thrown to Woodrow Wilson. Refusing to be considered for the vice presidential nomination with Wil- son, he continued his service in the Houss and through his parliamentary skill he sontributed materially toward ministration a period of far-reaching legislation. At the same time he brought country-wide recognition to himself as the author of a tariff bill which sup- planted the famous Payne-Aldrich act. After 20 years in the House, he moved over to the Senate. His fame had pre- ceded him and with the death of Sen- ator Thomas Martin of Virginia, he was chosen Democratio leader, a place he held until 1921. Reelected to the Senate in 1920, he announced just before the expiration of his second six years’ term that he would not be a candidate to succeed himself in 1926. Meantime, he had pur- chased Woodlawn on the Potomac River, a part of the original Washing ton estate at Mount Vernon, and there he made his home part of each year. Helped Break Cannon Power, Enurlngucon'reu in the days of iron rule of publican speakers, Under- wood had a part in breaking the power of “Uncle Joe” Cannon and later in liberalizing the rules of the House. By his energy, he gained a place on the judiciary committee and later served on the ways and means and appropriations committees, two of the most powerful of the House. Leadership in the House as it is known today began with the selection of Underwood by the Demoerats for the place in 1911. Prior to his recogni- tion as floor chief, leadership had been dictatorship under Reed, Henderson and Cannon. Commanding an almost unwieldly majority, Underwood found _himself faced with & difficult task. His first concern was the writing of & new tariff act, a subject to which he had devoted years of study. He wrote a measure which he declared was “true to. the principles of Democracy.” President Taft vetoed that bill in the late Summer of 1911 and when the Democrats were returned to full control of all functions of the Government in 1913, the bill was rewritten and signed j by_President Wilson. Under the Underwood leadership were enacted also the Federal reserve act, the farm loan act, the Clayton anti- trust act and all the others in the long list of legislation that went to the statute books during the first four, or ‘‘peace years,” of the Wilson adminis- tration. Despite the tremendous drive that was made against the Federal reserve act, ‘Underwood kept ‘his forces solidly in line on that issue, & feat which up to that time had been almost without precedent. His service in the Senate was little less conspicuous. He had early appoint- ment to the appropriations committee and, owing to the fllness of Senator Martin, had charge of many of the enormous war lfpmm‘ltflon bills. Tax legislation also felt the influence of his guiding hand in the dlnl when the Nation was bearing an unheard of bur- den in order to defray much of the war cost in a single generation. In the period immediately following the war, the Democrats lost control of Congress and Senator Underwood’s op- portunity for the directing constructive work came to an end. Always fair even to the bitterest of his political op- nents, his friends declared that he ad a natural distaste for holding con- tinuously a critical attitude toward all the works and ways of the opposing party, which is an essential part of minority leadership. Harding Spoke for Him. ‘This was one of the reasons why he did not offer for re-election as minority leader In 1922. It, perhaps, also was due to this recognized trait that Presi- dent Harding turned to him in seeking a Democratic member of the Washing- ton Arms Conference. The President and Mr. Underwood had been close personal friends in the Senate and in 1921 Mr. Harding made a trip to Ala- bama to speak in praise of the Senator before the “home folks.” Mr. Harding and the Senator had differed directly, however, on the League of Nations. The Senator consistently opposed reservations to the Treaty of Versailles and just before the final vote by which the treaty was rejected, he proposed the issue be left to the voters in 1920. Senator Harding accepted that challenge and the League became one of the chief isues in the compaign in which Harding was sent to the White House. As a member of the Arms Conference, Senator Underwood sat on the com- mittee on Far Eastern affairs and his assistance proved of enormous value in the working out of the Chinese cus- toms question. Although relinquishing his party lead- ership, Senator Underwood remained a power in the party councils. He was a leader in the fight against the Ford- ney-McCumber tariff act, which in 1922 supplanted the law bearing his own name. He was prominent also in the opposition to the soldiers’ bonus and conducted a long fight for the leasing of Muscle Shoals. Born at Louisville, Ky., May 6, 1862, the son of a lawyer, Mr. Underwood spent his early life in Minnesota. St. Paui was a military outpost, and throughout Underwood's boyhood i streets were filled with Indians. His family having returned to Louis- fi:le in 1875, young Underwood received . # &t knowledge or consent and his strength { making Wilson's first four years of ad- | ! Takes Part in Pursuit of| Oriver of Alleged Death Auto. Calls Police and Ambulance as Husband Holds Suspect. A woman's desire to get an auto- mobile vietim to a hospital and the determination of her husband to ap- prehend the man who ran him down was the combination which last night resulted in the capture of an alleged hit-and-run driver, after Frank Archive, 54 years old, of 601 New Jersey avenue, had been fatally injured. Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Newburgh of 1630 Fuller street, with their 11-year- old son, Charles, were driving on Mas- | sachusetts avenue mnear North Capitol street on toelr. way home after a visit to Walter Reed Hospital. A tour- ing car, occupled by Calvin Richard- son, colored, 27 years old, of 933 N street, passed them. A few feet farther on they saw the machine veer to the right. The auto- mobile slowed down with a jerk, they | said, and a moment later its rear wheel passed over a man. Machine Moves Away. According to Mrs. Newburgh, the ma- chine proceeded slowly for a few feet, dragging the man’s body which had | become entangled in the rear bumper. | After a momentary pause, in which | the figure became disentangled from the bumper, the machine moved away, a plece of the victim's clothing trail- ing in its rear. | Realizing that their own car was too small, Mrs. Newburgh sald she told her husband to overtake the other machine | and compel its driver to take the in- | jured man to a hospital. | Newburgh accelerated the speed of | his car and drew up alongside the | machine driven by Richardson. Lean- ing from the side window, Mrs. New- | burgh called to him to turn around | and take Archive to a hospital. The colored man, she said, laughed and | drove ahead at a faster rate of speed. ! REST IN FATAL ACCIDENT CAUSED BY CAPITAL WOMAN MRS. FREDERIC NEWBURGH. Newburgh again overtook the other machine and crowded it against the curb, forcing the driver to stop. He ordered Richardson to return to the scene of the accident, and the colored man complied. Follows Other Car Back. Newburgh foliowed the other ma- chine back to the place where Archive was lying. Reaching the spot, he got out of his car and went over to | Richardson's machine, he said, to make | sure the latter did not drive away. Meanwhile Mrs. Newburgh had gone ! to the Harris Hotel nearby, where she ! persuaded several other men to go to her husband’s assistance. telephonied for the ambulance. Policeman R. B. Strong of the sixth police and an precinct arrived and took Richardson | to | into custody. Archive was taken Casualty Hospital in the police patrol. He died several hours later of a frac- tured skull. Police are holding Richard- son for action of the coroner. He is sald to have confessed his part in the accident, Ly Police’ were told that Archive had been out of work for some time. The exact manner in which he was struck has not been ascertained. BLAINE VALUATION " PROPOSAL DELAYS MERGER DECISION| (Continued From Pirst Page.) the committee should have the merger resolution printed, showing the amend- ments that have been made by the sub- committee, and then have a public hearing to get the views of the local citizens on those changes and also on his amcndment. Holds Public Protected. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York ed Senator Blaine “if it wouldn't wise to try to convert the commitlee first?” Senator Vandenberg interrupted to say that he thought the subcommittee had done everything it could to protect the public intefest and that he did not think the impression should be made that the rights of the public had not been considered. Senator Vandenberg said he believed the public’s interest had been safeguatded from the outset by the emp] ent as adviser to the committee of Dr. Maltbie, who, he said, was a most public-minded expert. Senator Blaine told the committee that some of the local Eitizens believed that the Potomac Electric Power Co. should be included in the merger of the street rallway lines and indicated that this was :\gflf the questions he thought Jocal citizéns should be inyited to.pre- sent to the committee before it acts. Chairman Capper anriounced, follow- ing adjournment, that the meeting of the committée tomorrow morning would be public. When the committee met this morn- ing Senator Blaine made public for the first time the text of his valuation amendment which led to all of the dis- | cussion at the meeting. Provisien Inserted. It seeks'to amend the public utilities law by inserting the following pro- vision: “That the commission shall value the property, actually used and useful for the convenience of the public, of every ruhuf utility within the District of Co-~ lumbia. “Each such valuation shall be based upon the amount of the prudent invest- ment either actually made in such property, or with it would have been necessary to make to build up such Property by reasonable methods and at reasonable cost during the period of actual construction. “For the purpose of determining the amount of the prudent investment in the property of any public utility, the commission shall ascertain the original cost of suech property to the date of determination, except that if such orig~ inal cost is not to be ascertained from reliable records or if the prudence of the investment in the property of any public utility is doubtful the commis- sion shall utilize for the purpose of de- termining the amount of such prudent investment all the information obtained from its investigation of the property | and accounts of the public utility and of other public utilities.” Revision of Valuation, Then follows a section directing the comm to keep itself informed of all expenses and improvements in order to keep the value up to date. It pro- vides that net additions and better- ments shall be valued on the basis of the amount of the additional invest- ment, prudently made. It would require the commission, from time to time, to revise its valuation. The valuations determined in the foregoing manner would form the basis for rate-making purposes, and the valu- ations so made would have to be re- ported to Congress in the annual report of the commission. Blaine Amendment. The Blaine amendment would further | amend the utilities law as follows: “In the exercise of its power to deter- mine and fix just and reasonable rates, tolls, charges and schedules for any public utility, the commission shall de- termine upon and fix such rates, tolls, charges and schedules as will reimburse the public utility for the reasonable cost of the service furnished. The reason- able cost of the service furnished shall be the amount necessary (No. 1) for reasonable operating expenses, includ- ing taxes and adequate provision for maintenance, operation and obsoles- School. He then attended the Univer- slty of Virginia, where he studied law. Debating was one of the most popu- lar undergraduate courses there. Under- wood made such progress in this line that he achieved the leading forensic honor at Charlottesville—the presidency of the Jeffersonian Society. Upon graduation he settled in Min- | nesota, where he was admitted to the bar and “hung out his shingle.” From there he moved to Birmingham, where an older brother, William T. Underwood, had settled. He was lured by his brother’s accounts of the possbilities of the ;lcy s & mining and manufacturing center. Taking up his residence in Birming- ham, Underwood devoted himself to the practice of law for 10 years before offer- for Congress. Meantime, he mar- ried Miss qutnh Massie of Charlottes- ville. She died in 1900, and four years later the Senator married Miss Bertha Woodward of Rugby | Wos A I WAKEFIELD FUND SET AT 500,000 Mrs. Rust Estimates Amount Needed for Restoration of Washington Birthplace. Mrs. H. L. Rust, president of the Wakefleld Assoclation, estimated to- day that $500,000 will be required for the full restoration of Wakefleld, George Wa: 's birthplace, time for the 200th aninversay celebra- tion of Washington's birth date, Feb- Tuary 22, 1932 The Washington Bicentennial Com- mission passed a resolution yesterday assigning to the women of the coun- try the task of raising funds for the restoration work, after Mrs. John Dick- enson Sherman had made a fervent appeal to American women for their support of the project. A supplementary resolution was in-{ troduced by Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook to have a committee of five appointed to direct the work. The commission authorized the President to make such appointments as he deems necessary. 11 Acres Already Acquired. Mrs. Rust called attention to the fact that the association of which she is president has already received a deed for the 11 acres of land on which the house stands, and since 1923 has pur- chased for $12,000 additional lands for restoration of the original garden plots. The association has on hand today a fund of $23,000, to be used in stariing the work of restoration. In 1927, the Washington heirs deeded to the association the old graveyard and family vault, known as the Washington Vault, in which is burled the great- grandfather, grandfather, father and other relatives of Ge ‘Washington. This vault was built about 1667. Sees Success Assured. “With the women of the country be- hind us, the success of our project will be assured, we are confident,” sald Mrs. Rust. “And we look forward to seeing our goal reached in ample time for the bicentennial celebration. Words cannot express our gratitude to Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Cook and to the com- mission for its action. We feel sure that every American with the pride of country in his heart will want to do his share toward eflectlnf the restora- tion, so that when the labor is done he may rejoice in the knowledge that it was his loyalty which made it pos- sible to pay this fitting tribute to the man who above all others gave him his country. LEADER REPORTED EXPELLED | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 25—The Sun says today that Arthur Ford, leader of the Pirst Spiritualist Church, which meets in Carnegie Hall, has been ex- pelled from membership in the Man- hattan group of the United Spiritualist League ‘“for conduct unbecoming a Spiritualist minister.” cence, and (No. 2) for reasonable capital cost. “The reasonable capital cost shall equal the cost of money obtained upon outstanding evidences of indebtedness plus a fair return upon the valuation made under paragraph 7, with respect to the public utility, after appropriate deductions for depreciation or obso- lescence, and for the amount of any such evidence for indebtedness included in such valuation. Depreciation. “The depreciation shall be determined by the age, condition and character of the property actually used and useful for the convenience of the public, as compared with new property designed for the same use. The fair return shall be determined upon the basis of the current cost of money obtatned upon securities issued with respect to invkestmrn(.s in enterprises of similar Senator Blaine’s amendment also deals in detall with the manner in which a utility or consumer could go into the local courts to test out any | order of the commission fixing rates | | or regulations, but not including a val- uation. It is provided that all such proceedings shall have precedent over any civil cause of a different nature pending in such court, and the District 8 preme Court shall always be deemed nfi:n for trial of these cases, and same shall be tried in the same manner as other actions or proceedings of equity. Provision is also made for further ap- peal to higher courts. Some of the committee members indi- cated by their questions at the meeting today that they do not believe it would be possible to obtain action on the merger at this sessfon if the valuation amendment is made a part of the merger resolution, o e She then | in | INUEURAL PARAE FLOATSCONSOERED Subcommittee ' Studies Pro- | posal to Show Governmen- tal Departments’ Work. Plans for the participation of float represer e of the activities of the various Government departmients are under consideration by the inaugural iparede subcommittee. Maj. Gen. Apton Stephan, rman of the committer, t announced tod Under the proposal | the commitice and beir {the heads of the variou ! departments, the fleats tinctive and of the ¢ i ties. achievemcenis or partments represent an educational nature. { It is pointed out | while they parade, which is being kept wi two-hour limit originally decid | would add color to the proce: ho ild be of value to tie thousands of visitors who will be in the Capital fo | the indugural ceremonics Listing Agencies Scored. | Activities of certain living accommo- dation - listing agencies of the city in | connection with taking care of visitors | who will come to the city for the ingug- | ural, were scored today by Louis Roths- child, of the Better Business Bureau, who called attention to the fact that the inaugural subcommitee, under | Chairmanship of Mrs. Virginia® White i Speel, is conducting, free of charge, such an agency for Washington house- holders. “The primary reason for this com- ment.” Mr. Rothschild said, ‘is due to the fact that there are sorhe persons advertising to housewives to list with them rooms for the inauguration. You will find these private listing agencies making a charge, probably $2 for each listing, and failing to guarantee to rent your room. It eppears that these | people may be more interesied in col- lecting the listing fee than they are in Tenting your room. At any rate, it wiil be well to investigate the official, non- profit committege first.” Mrs. Speel’s committee is maintaining headquarters at the general committee’s headquarters in the Willard, and one or more of the representatives of the com- mittee will be on duty there every day. The committee has made, and is con- tinuing to make, a careful check of the accommodations offered in the city and has fixed rates which it deems are rea- sonable, as well as co-operating in every way with the householder and those seeking accommodations, and no. charge is béing made for the service, Mrs. Speel will speak over Radio Sta- | tion WMAL at 9:45 o'clock tomorrow night on the scope and activities of her committee, Stands Layout Completed. While tickets have not been printed, the general layout of the stands along the line of march of the inaugural pa- rade has been completed, and the ticket, office will be opened on the street floor of the Transportation Building, Seven- | teenth and H streets, tomorrow, it was announced today at committee head- | quarters. Those desiring choice seats from which to review the parade may obtain them tomorrow. The ticket committee also is maintaining offices at rooms 302 and 303 in the Transportation Bullding. “Free list suspended” is the an- nouncement also made today by the ticket committee. It is anncunced that absolutely no free tickets will be issued for any sections of the reviewing stands and those desiring tickets must betoker such a desire with cash or. the equiva- lent thereof or remain ticketless. The official route of the inaugural parade has been announced as follows: The first division of the parade will start at New Jersey avenue and B street southeast, on the south side near the House Office Building. It will pro- ceed across the plaza to B street north- east; thence will go west on B street to First street northwest, south on PFirst street to Pennsylvania avenue. west along Pennsylvania avenue to PFifteentn street, north on Fifteenth street to Pennsylvania avenue and then west to Nineteenth street, where it will disband. The presidential party will ede the procession to the presidential reviewing stand. Indian Participation Hits Snag., Participation of 100 Indians in the parade, on the invitation of the in- augural committee, has struck a snag. The Indians must pay their own ex- penses in coming to Washington, and returning to their reservations, Com- missioner of Indian Affairs Burke has notified the superintendents of Indian reservations. In his letter, Commissioner Burke states that the inaugural committee has stated to him that there will be no funds available for the expenses of In- dians coming to the inauguration to march in the parade. There are no funds available from the Indian Office for any such purpose, he says. “It can be said, however,” Mr. Burke wrote, “that the inaugural committee and this office will be giad to have 100 Indians participate in the parade and as many more as may come as visitors, but it must be understood that they come here as other citizens of the United States, paying their own travel- §n| and incidental expenses to Washing- on.” and would be of that th | ! | WILL FACE GRAND JURY ON MERCHANTS’ CHARGES Man Accused of Obtaining Mer- chandise at Store Under False Pretenses. Charged with forgery and obtaining merchandise under false pretenses. Joseph A. Bailey today was held under $4,000 bond to await the action of the grand jury. Appearing in Police Court today, Balley was granted a preliminary hear- ing by Judge Gus A. Schuldt, who set bond after hearing testimony given by Headquarters Detective Ira E. Keck, who said that the man had given a worth- less check to Woodward & Lothrop's department store. He also is alleged to have secured merchandise on the ac- count of his estranged wife without permission. Detective Keck testified that Bailey was wanted in Troy, N. Y., for having mq:g & worthless check amounting to Resident of Georgetown 40 Years Succumbs to Long Illness. Jonathan Klock, 88 years old, for the past 40 vears a resident of Georgetown, died at the residence of his grandson, Edwin Summers, 3519 Prospect avenue, yesterday after an illness of several months. Mr. Klock was born in Watertown, N. Y. and moved to Virginia when six years old. He came from there o this city. He is survived by a son, Edward A. Klock; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Maus and Mrs. K. Offutt; five grand- children and two great-grandchildren, He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow aftermoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Wool, hides. rubber, tin and copper are among the chief exports of South Aperica,