Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1929, Page 17

The Foening Star WASHINGTO 10 ) C, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929. PAGE 17 —— CONGRESS SOUNDED ON CHANCE OF VOTE . ON'D. C. AIRPORT Joint Commission Confers With Leaders on Possibil- ity of Legislation Now. BILL MAY BE bELAYED UNTIL WINTER SESSICN Bingham Prepares Tentative Bill as Working Basis for Board's Consideration. The joint congressional comm considering the airport needs of Was ington decided today to confer immc diately with the leaders of the Senate and House to find out whother there is a chance of adopting airport legisla- tion at this special session, Pending the outcome of thesc con- ferences, the commission is delaying| final decision with regard to the meas- ure it will propose on the subject. Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, and chairman of the com- mission, said that personally he regard- | ed the necessity for making a start on | airport facilities for the National Capital as en emergency matter and hoped it would be found possible to | take some action at the earliest possible | time. | May Delay Bill. It it should develop that Congress would not be able to give time to an airport bill at this session, the commis- sion may not bring out its bill at the present time. Another meeting of the commission will be held Thursday, after the leaders have been conferred with, and if the conferences have been en- couraging the commission may bring forth a bill at that time. The commission had before it at the executive session a tentative outline of a bill prepared by Chairman Bingham, which, he said,was submitted to the other members merely as a suggestion. The Senator has not disclosed the de- tails of the measure he has in mind. Senator Bingham pointed out today that the commission has lost no time in gathering evidence on all phases of the airport subject and has now reached the point where little more remains for it to co until Congress makes funds available. Many Sites Suggested. The hearings held several weeks ago showed that the District Commission- | ers, officials of the Department of Commerce and some of the local efvic | groups favored placing the airport on Gravelly Point, on the water front just | below Hains Point. The hearings also | brought forth the suggestions relating | to a score or.more of inland sites in | the suburban areas surrounding Wash- | ington in Maryland and Virginia. There was considerable discussion | given to the suggestion that all large cities would require more than one air- port and that one solution might be to | have a large landing field in the suburbs | and a centrally located terminal to dis- charge passengers and mail. All of | these proposals are before the commis- sion_for its consideration in drafting the legislation. | Another _important question con- fronting thé commission is whag recom- | mendation it shall make as to how the costs of the airport should be borne by the Federal and District gov- ernments. ORATORY FINALISTS 10 BE ENTERTAINED | | Sightseeing Arranged for Six Boys and Two Girls Next Sunday. i Plans are being completed: today for | fhe entertainment of the eight final-| ists in the Sixth National Oratorical | Contest, who will be in the Capital | over the coming week end to compete | for the high school oratorical cham- | pionship of the United States. I While no formal program will be ar- ranged for the six boys and two girls for the days preceding the contest | finals Saturay night, so that no de-| mands can be made upon their reserve | power, which they will need so much; in the meet itself, a day of pleasing | sight-secing will be staged for them | by The Star next Sunday. The boys and girls and their parents or friends | Who may accompany them to, Washing- | ton will leave contest headquarters in The Star Building at 10 o'clock Sunday | stranger's devotion. | nobotly | other. | pointed weapons, something like min: | ture bayonets, with which they strove | Alta Vista Neighborhood Is S Perpetual Battle Between Jol Gotint AllexiaNthie Tover)io BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Out among the iris-bordered lanes of Alta Vista there is a love triangle which has all the neighbors talking. It seems that about a month ago a newly-wed couple inspected the neigh- borhood, picked out a choice location and erected a home. The cozy little love nest was entirely the product of their own labor, since they were thrift folks, both being from familles of ex- pert builders. They not only attended to the construction, but the materials. When the home was finished the couple moved in with the intention, an- | nounced unashamedly, of rearing a large family. Both had been members | for hundreds of generations had had numerous _progeny. The neighbors smiled and waited for the first faint ones in the new home. But about this time a strange, dark gentleman moved into the neighbor- hood. mysterious past, he aroused consider- able interest among the ladies of the community. He let fall melancholy hints of blighted love and a broken heart. Among those who looked upon him with gracious kindness was the new bride. Tactless Declarations of Love. In a short time he had fallen head over heels in love with her. He was, with that nothing should stand in the way of their love, not even the matrimonial bonds that held her to another. In | reckless moments he even declared that he would kill the husband if he con- tinued to stand in the way. Moreover, it began to be apparent in the social | circles frequented by the young couple that the wife herself was not disap- | proving very strongly of the handsome ‘There was a great deal of scandalmongering over the sit- uation, which was entirely new in the annals of Alta Vista. The husband seems to have been a simple, honest fellow who would wrong and suspected nobody of wronging him. He did not wake up to the situation which was threatening his domestic happiness until the in- truder actually came to his home and asked him to divorce the wife so that | she might marry her admirer. Then he got mad. He ordered the stranger off his premises and threat- ened to stab him if his shadow ever fell on the doorstep again. The lover was no coward. He thought no more of mutder, he said, than of eating a worm. The devious pathways of his past were strewn with murders. If the husband did not care to step aside peacefully he would be obliged to kill him, although he wished the unfortu- | nate spouse would be reasonable about | it, because murders were messy affairs for one who had been born and bred a gentleman, Both spoke in such loud tones that the _altercation aroused the entire neighborhood. They stuck their heads out of their homes to listen. “The profanity was terrible,” says Mrs. Jen nie B. Wren, who lives next door. thought they were drunk.” declares | Rufus A. Cardinal, whose home is in | hearing distance. Arouses Neighborhood “It was loud enough to arouse the neighborhood.” is the more conservative description of Mrs, James I. Hamble- | ton, landlady of the disrupted love nest | who wants to see peace restored. The row ended temporarily when the | irate husband threw the intruder out on his head. But he was not to be baffled | 50 easily. The next day he was back | again with the same insistent demands. | They fought again for a long time, | striving in grim earnest t» kill each | Both were armed with sharp, | to pierce vital spots. Finally the per- sistent lover fled. But the next day he was back and once more they fought. For two or three weeks, every | day, he has followed the same pro- | cediire. | The husband is always successful in | defending his home, but the lover is persistent cuss who has vowed a sacred | | vow that he will win the object of his | affections or perish. They fight in At first they swear | deadly earnest. t and at each other as they thn Love Triangle Sets Folks Agog transported | { of large families and all their ancestors cries to denote the presence of -little | A handsome bachelor with a | utter tactlessness, declaring everywhere | | steady condition approaching him. plit by Fierce and Apparently hn Patrick, the Husband, and r the Favor of Mre. Catbird. | parry, the fight has pro- gressed for a few minutes they lapse into_ silence to save breath for the crucial test. First, the husband will | get the intruder fat on his back and | apparently be on the point of stabbing { him through the heart. But so great is the skill of the other that always before the deadly dagger thrust goes | home he is able to get to his feet and | usually to get the husband on his back. They quit finally when both are so exhausted that they hardly can stand. Wife Puzzles Neighbors The attitude of the wife puzzles the neighbors. She always is an interested | watcher in the duels, but apparently is so affected by the devotion of both her admirers that she will help neither. | This has made her unpopular in the little village, whose inhabitants are lined up with the two deadly enemies. Some say the husband is a crude yokel who doesn’t deserve such a pretty wife anyway. Others declare that one who invades the sanctity of another per- son’s home deserves death. One neutral observer is James T. Hambleton, director of the Depart- ment of Agriculture bee investigations laboratory. who, the other day, made a futile effort to restore peace. During one of the fights he approached the fighters, who were so engrossed in their murderous efforts that they did not see him coming., and picked them both up in his hands. But even this made no difference. ‘They struggled not to escape but to get at each other. Mr, Hambleton lectured them kind- |1y but firmly on the rules of etiquette— | the ruction they were causing in a | quiet neighborhood, the sanctity of do- | mestic relations and the duty of broth- jerly love. Both simply cursed the | would-be peacemaker and cursed each | other. The instant they were released they fell to fighting again, Meanwhile the family life apparently is blighted. The normal expectation of the innocent prattle of infants in but after WCORMACK GIVES PLEDGE T0 FIGHT - FOR DISTRIGT VOTE Tells Lincoln Park Citizens It Is Wrong People Are Denied Voice. SCORES CONTRIBUTION TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT Declares Middle Ground Is Within Intent of Framers of Constitution, Declaring that he came from a State where people have not forgotten that without representation is 3 Representative John W. Me- Cormack of Massachusetts, in an ad- dress before the Lincoln Park Citizens' Association at the Bryan School last night, pledged his support to the resi- dents of Washington in their efforts to | obtain representation in Congress. “As a member of the House from Boston,” said Representative McCor- mack, “T regret that it is my duty to help ‘decide purely local matters_ for this city. I cope from a city where there are very strong.traditions of local government. I think it is wrong that the people of Washington should be denied & voice in the Legislature that governs them. Denied Local Government. | the new home has not been fulfilled. | The love nest which should be radiant with mother-love is a dreary place. The | | sharpest-eyed neighbors have been un- | | able to detect the slightest indications | |that the stork is on his way. Al around new families of little ones are | objects of the devotion of proud moth- | ers and the tireless food-hunting of | fathers. But here the nursery is empty. Families of Catbirds. i The names of the childless couple are My, and Mrs. John Patrick Catbird, | and the ruthleds disrupter of the would-be happy home is Count Alexis | Catbird, all members of a well known| local family. The home is in a cedar | | tree underneath Mr. Hambleton's front | | window, on Locust avenue, in Alta ! | vista. 'The lawn is a popular bird | | community, which never before has had | | the thrill of a real scandal. Apparently the fight is destined to continue indefinitely. So skillful have | both contestants become that, accord- | ing to Mrs. Hambleton, they appear to | suffer no real injuries, and return to the encounter day after day as fresh as ever. But their beaks are sharp and | there is murder in their hearts. Interest in the love triangle duels seemed to have quieted, for the time| being, the gossip which went around the community a few weeks ago, when | Mr. Brown Thrasher, one of the most | pious and sedate of the rgsidents, got | drunk and disgraced him: Accord- ing to Mrs. Cardinal's account, he started out looking for a fight. Sud- denly he saw an individual who looked just like himself and in a similar un- | e flew at the stranger and struck at him | with his beak. The other struck back. | For some reasen which Mr. Thrasher's | befuddled brain could not fathom neith- | er was able to hit the other. The two kept it up for three hours, before they quit in disgust and departed. When Thrasher sobered up he tried to keep the affair a secret lest it affect | his standing as church warden, but | unfortunately it had been observed. Mrs. Hambleton had heard what she thought to be a persistent knocking at her cellar door. When she investigated | she found it was caused by Mr. Thrash- | er striking his beak against a pane of | the cellar window, trying to hit his | own reflection in the glass. He was so | engrossed in his efforts that he didn't notice her. Now his name is mud from Ca:dinal | Lodge to Wren cottage and folks | snicker when he leads in prayer. | | RAIL LOSSES CUT, CLAIM AGENTS FIND Session Here Studies Means of Stopping Needless Drains on Resources. SUBGROUP TOACT ONNOMINATIONS ‘Hearing on Hartman and Patrick Tomorrow—Lead- ers’ Views Requested. How the railroads are successfully eliminating carelessness and waste as factors in handling ~passenger and morning in a caravan of closed aute- | R H. Aishton, president of the Ameri mobiles. Col. C. Fred Cook, librarian of The Star, will be host to the orators again | ing meef | can Railroad Association, to the open- | mittee, headed by Senator Capper, at i ting of the association’s freight this year, accompanying them to points | claim division at the Willard Hotel. of interest in and about the citv, in- cluding the Tomb of the Soldier, the Lincoln Memorial, Creek Park and the Capital residential areas. The tour will halt in Alexandria about 2 o'clock in the afternonn, when an old-fashioned Vir- ginia dinner of chicken and ham will | realized the tremendous cost of care- | be served in a pleasantly informal at- | lessness, both in money and human | vited to send spokesmen are the Fed- is d ways will give the ora- who night before will have battling against one another on tors been the stage of the Washington Auditorium, showing no quarter and asking none, opportunity to become acquainted, so that when they meet again on the ship that will carry them down to Cuba and countries below, they will feel they are old friends The tour will be completed Sunday | the voung | afternoon in time to afl; Unknown | Rock | 600 freight cl exclusive | leading railroads of the United States, The conference brought together some | laim officials representing Canada and Mexico. “The railroads for some time have lives,” Mr. Aishton said, “and are ac- tively engaged in reducing it to a mini- mum. It has been brought home to the | railroads that they must improve their financial condition by plugging unnec- essary drains on their resources “Through organized effort the rafl- roads have reduced the amount of claims paid out for loss and damage to freight shipments from $119.833,127 in 1920 to $37,146,813 in 1928, or a saving of 69 per cent. “This reduction has been effected de- that the volume of The nominations of Harleigh H.| Hartman and.Gen. Mason M. Patrick | | to be members of the Public Utilities committee of the Senate District com- “Washington is a unique city. You have 1o government in the sense that other American cities are governed. You are denied local government and repre- sentation in Congress. Taxation with- out representation is contrary to the fundamental principle for which the people of Boston stood when they threw the British tea into the harbor. It s, as unjust in 1929 as it was in 1775, “This is one city in which the entire United States is interested. It belongs to the whole country. It is strange that | its people are denied the political rights enjoyed by other Americans. As a new member of Congress I would like to see the people of this city continue to de- mand their rights, and I assure you I will support to the limit the movement to remedy: your condition. ~ e “There may be some details about the plan that is now being proposed to which I have objections, but when it comes to voting on a proposal to give the inhabitants of Washington a voice in their Government I shall resolve all doubts in their favor. Feels Contribution Inadequate. “personally T feel that the $9,000,000 contribution which the Federal Govern- ment has been making annually toward the cost of the local government is in- adequate. everything in my power to see that the Federal Government increases its con- tribution. “Washington as the Capital of the Nation occupies a position different from that of other cities. The Federal Gov- ernment owns a great proportion of the property here. I feel that the Federal Government _should be as_liberal as possible with this city. The Federal and city governments are so close here that | it is practically impossible to separate them. “Because this is the one city in the Nation where the Federal Government is supreme, from which all Federal power radiates, it is only right and proper that the Federal Government should treat this city with extreme fa- vor. It is in a class by itself. Because it is the National Capital it has cx- penses to meet that other cities do not have. It is because of all these consid- erations that I shall resolve all doubt in favor of the people of Washington as against the Federal Government. Promises Aid in Work. “You in Wasl statehood and should not do so. ington can never gain But | there is a middle ground, for which you | are striving, that is within the intent of the framers of the Constitution. There is a way that the people of this city can be given the rights of American citi- zens. 1 believe in the fundamental prin- ciples that the Government should be close to the people—that the people should have a part therein. “If you carry on, molding public opinion and presenting to Congress your grievances, I will aid you all I ‘can. Keep up the good work, 5o that you can pass on to the next generation better conditions than you enjoy today The association adopted on motion by W. C. Thom a resolution in favor of regulating traflic around Lincoln Park to one-way rules and against the pres ent taxicab stand at Eleventh and East Capitol streets. A protest against the proposed increase in the gasoline tax was adopted. GROUP OF 7 GRADUATES. | freight traffic was described today by | Commission will be acted on by the sub- | Red Cross Certificates Issued to Home Hygiene Class. Seven young women of the District | I promise you I shall do| DFALLON DECISION HELD UNLIKELY T0 - AFFECTD. C.LINES 'Cost of Reproduction at Pre- vailing Price Always Used - in Fixing Value. | |CAPITAL TRACTION CASE BELIEVED TOUCHED UPON Utilities Experts Think Question, Ruled on by Appeals Court, Can Be Reopened. The decision of the United State Supreme Court in the St. Louls & O'Fallon Ralroad case is not expected |to result in any substantial change in | the valuation of public utility properties | for rate-making purposes in the Dis- | trict, according to opinions expressed | by authorities on local utility questions. “The cost of reproduction at prevail- | ing prices, which the court held should be only an element in valuation, it was | | pointed out, always has been used as | | the dominant factor by the Public | Utilities Commission in determining the value of Washington's utilities. Where the decision will have its most pro- nounced effect, it was said, will be on } the courts whose decisions have been | more favorable to the utility compantes | |in all disputes over valuations made by ;‘ | the commission. i Lower Value Held Possible. ! The Capital Traction valuation case is one which the utilities experts be- lieve can be reopened under the O'Fal- lon decision and a_lower value probably | | established. In this case, it was ex-| plained, the Court of Appeals recog- | nized the cost of reproduction.as the | only measure of determining the value | of the company. | After a cursory examination of the O'Fallon decision, Ralph B. Fleharty. | | people’s counsel before the commission. | explained that in his opinion, the court | had done nothing more than to reaffirm | several of its former decisions on valu- | ation and the principle laid down in | the Smyth-Ames and otner often quoted cases. i he Supreme Court” he declared. | “never has said that the reproduction cost is the only element to be taken | into consideration. What it has said is | that the cost of reproduction, historical | or book cost, the general condition of the property, service that it renders to | the public, and the value of that serv. ice, all are elements which should be "akrn into consideration. The court also has recognized that depreciation ' | should be considered and deducted from | the value otherwise obtained by appli-| cation of the different elements. Says They Applied. Mr. Fleharty pointed out that while the utilities commission followed no prescribed formula in fixing the value of the local corporations, the reproduc- tion cost theory had been applied per- haps as the dominant element. For instance, he explained that the com- mission’s original valuations were bgsed |on the cost of reproduction in 1914, | during an era of low prices, and brought |up to date in 1919 with the additions |and betterments taken at book cost, | which did not allow any enhancement |in_value. The Court of Appeals in the Potomac Electric Power Co. case, however, he explained, ruled that the commission had committed an_error prejudicial to the power company by finding the re- productjpn value as of 1914, rather than | in 1919 and thereby had deprived the | company of an_increase in value over {that five-year period. This case was | |taken to “the United States Supreme Court, but it refused to take jurisdic- | tion, and the decision of the Court of | Appeals became final and binding. In the Capital Traction Co. case, | which had been held up pending a de- | | cision in the power company case, the| court, Mr. Fleharty explained, brought the 1914 values as found by the com- mission up to date by applying the | principles laid down in the power com- | pany case. Other Cases Cited. “With respect to the Potomac mxocmcl | Power and Capital Traction Cos.” Mr. | Fleharty said, “we have court valua-| tions which are in accord with the prin- | | ciples laid down by the Court of Ap- peals of the District and the United States Supreme Court. In the cases of Washington Railway & Electric and Washington & George- town Gas Light and Chesapeake & Po- tomac_Telephone Companies, however, | the valuation is carried on the commis- sion’s records in accordance with the | findings of the commission, which found the 1914 values and brought them up to date through additions and better- | ments. These cases are still pending in | the courts and have never been carried to a conclusion.” | a meeting called for 3 o'clock tomorrow | of"Columbia Chapter of the American | afternoon. | Red Cross' class in home hygiene and It will not be a public hearing, but a | care of the sick received their certifi- e cates of graduation today from Gen. | number of the civic and trade organi- | Ceorge Barnett, chapier chairman, at | zations of the city have been requested services in the chapter house, 821 Six- | to send representatives to the meet- | teenth street. They are: Elise Alex ing to give the subcommittee the benefit | ander, Elizabeth Brawner, Cynthia Hall, of any views they may care to express. | Ellen Nolan, Ratherine Stringer, Mar- The organizations that have been in- | garet Stringer and Mrs. Helen Martin. Earlier in the day John H. Burr was presented with a_medal and three serv- jce bars, and Clarence M. Pendleton with a medal and seven service bars for their work in ng instruction in life | saving during the past year. Both are { instructors at Howard University. eration of Citizens' Association, the Citizens' Advisory Council, the Central Labor Union, Board of Trade, Chamber | of Commerce and Merchants and Man- | ufacturers’ Association, Up to the present time the only pro- test has come from E. C. Riegel of the | Washington Consumers’ Guild, who also i has been asked to appear tomorrow ! Present, indications are that both nomi- ions will be approved. Man Knocked Down by Light. John Barrelt, 58 years old, 2223 R ticet, was knocked down by a falling {are light at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus la<t night. He e s Mr. Fleharty pointed out that in the | recent revaluation proceedings befare | the commission in the gas company | case, he was proceeding along the gen- eral lines of applying the principles laid | down by the Supreme Court—the con- sideration of all elements, and not the cost of reproduction alone. Blaine Merger Discussed. While the O'Fallon_decision is con- | sidered as a severe blow to advocates | of the so-called prudent investment | theory as the only method of valuation, the utility experts do not believe it will eliminate the Blaine amendment | from consideration in the local transit | merger resolution in Congress. The | Blaine plan follows the prudent invest- | | ment_theory, which is based on the actual money invested in a utility. Sen- | ator Blaine’s proposal, if adopted, it | was said, would become a part of the | merger agreement and would therefore | GIFT OF LINCOLN FAMILY The new Lincoln Memorial Tower of the New York Avenue Baptist Church, which will be dedicated next Sunday, the 126th anniversary of the church. MEMORIAL TOWER 10 BF DEDICATED Four Services to Be Held in New York Avenue Presby- terian Church Sunday. Four services will be held in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church next Sunday in connection with the dedica- tion of the Lincoln Memorial Tower, a gift of Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln and famil; Next Sunday also is the 126th anniversary of the church. The._gift, which includes chimes, clocks and flood lighting of the spire, will one of the most striking me- morials to President Lincoln in the city. He attended the church during both of his administrations. Sons of Pastor to Participate. Two sons of the Rev. Phineas G. Gurley. Lincoln's pastor, will partici- pate in the services and several mem- bers of the Lincoln family are expected to attend. The first service will # a historic pageant at 9:45 o'clock. At 11 o'clock, the actual dedication will take place, with the Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo de- livering the sermon. He will be as- sisted by Dr. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor emeritus, and the Rev. George G. Cul- bertson, assaciate minister. At 6:30 o'clock, a young people’s serv- | ice and tea will be held. This meet- | ing will be addressed by the Rev. Alvin B. Gurley of Germantown, Pa., and the Rev. Richard H. Gurley of Radnor, Pa,, sons of Lincoln’s pastor. Dr. Radcliffe to Preach. The fourth service will be held at 8 o'clock in the church. Dr. Radcliffe will preach on the historical back- ground of the occasion. Col. Walter C. Clephane, trustee, will preside. At 2 o'clock Saturday a wreath will be placed at the Lincoln Memorial, and at 2:30 another wreath will be laid on | the Rev. Gurley’s grave in Glenwood Cemetery. CRACKSMAN QUITS ROBBERY ATTEMPT Batters Combination of Safe, but Leaves $30 Loot Behind. After laboriously battering the com- bination from a safe in the office of an American Stores Co. grocery at 1420 Twentieth street early today, a cracks- man grew weary of the job and aban- | doned it, leaving intact some $30 ins The robbery was discovered early this morning by J. R. Ashton of the third precinct, the patrolman on_the beat. He telephoned the manager, C. B. Maye, 724 Roxboro place. Several fingerprints were photo- graphed by headquarters detectives on the surface of the strong box, which apparently had resisted the efforts of the intruder for several hours. The burglar left through a side door he Lad Jimmied, taking his tools with him Nothing was missing from the groce stock, Mr. Maye said after a check-up. LEGION AUXILIARY PLANS FOR ANNUAL POPPY SALE Trofits Go to Needy Families and | | —Star Staff Photo. WADOO TOHEAD *NEW AR COMPANY Scuthern Skylines to Link Capital and Pacific by Plane and Rail. ~ NEW REAL ESTATE LAWS FOR DISTRICT BELIEVED CERTAIN Indicated as Result Brookhart’s Move for Investigation. of SUBCOMMITTEE ADOPTS SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION Blaine Says Contents Will Be With- held Until Reported to Entire Group. New laws for the District of Colum- bia relating to the sale of securities, the handling of real estate transac- tions, and the foreclosure of mortgages are virtually certain to be drafted as a result of action by Senator Brookhart, | Republican, of Iowa, in urging an in- vestigation of financing operations here, it was indicated today. The subcommittee on banks and in- surance of the Senate District com- mittee met this morning and unani- mously adopted a substitute resolution for the one introduced by Senator Brookhart, but Senator Blaine, Repub- lican, of Wisconsin, chairman of the subcommittee, said the contents of the | new resolution would not be divulged until it has been reported to the entire committee, Chairman Capper of the District committee, probably will call a meet- ing within a few days to receive the resolution as rewritten by the subcom- mittee today, Although the subcommittee did not disclose the nature of the recommenda- tion it prepared this morning, some ir- dication of what this action may bc was given in the Sena‘e yesterday when Senator Blaine told his collcagues that it was his purpose to find out “the ce- fects in the system in the District cf Columbia” and to mend it if possible. He had previously outlined wherein he believed the present laws of the Dis- trict are inadequaie. Senator Plaine also made it clear in his speech in the Senate yesterday that it was not his in- tention to undertake “to indict any one, either to convict them or find them no* guilty.” He said that function rested with the Department of Justice. These developments are taken &s an indication that the subcommittee is likely to center its efforts on the prep- aration of new legislation dealing with the subject of securities and mortgage financing. William Gibbs McAdoo, former Secre- | fary of the Treasury, will be chairman | of the board of directors of a new | aeronautical company, incorporated un- { der the laws of Delaware, which will | operate a Southern transcontinental | |and Atlantic coastal air-rail passenger. | | mail and express service and engage in | | the manufacture of airplanes, it was | announced today. The corporation will be known as the | Southern " Skylines, Inc. The trans- | continental air-rail service is expected | to be operated on a 46-hour schedule | {from New York to Los Angeles by wa | of Philadelphia, Washington, Danville, | Va.: Atlanta, Birmingham, Jackson. ss.; Shreveport, Dallas, Fort Worth, | | Midland and El Paso, Tex.; Phonenx, | | Ariz., and San Diego, Calif. | 1 Feeder Line Considered. There is also being considered a line | from St. Louis to New York by way of | Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Dayton, Co- | lumbus and’ Pittsburgh, with a feeder {lne from Pittsburgh to Washinzton. | | The coastal line planned will be operat- | cd from New York to Washington as a | part of the transcontinental route and | it is planned to extend it from Wash- {ington to Miami by way of Richmond, Va.; Raleigh, N. C.; Columbia, Augusta, | savannah and Jacksonville. | ""An additional routemis contemplated ! from Chicago to New Orleans via St. | Louis, Memphis and Jackson, and a further connecting route from Cincin- | nati to Dallas by way of Louisville, | Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock and | Texarkana, Tex. | ~The operating organization is to be | headed by James C. Edgerton, vice | president and general manager, an air | mail pilot and executive of long stand- ing. Mr. Edgerton was a lieutenant in the Armv Air Service during the World | War and was the first air mail pilot to complete a scheduled flight in the United States, Went With Air Mall. He completed the first mail flight be- | tween New York and Washington on May 15, 1918, when the seryice was| inaugurated by the Army. en the | Air Mail Service was taken over by | the Post Office Cepartment in August. | 1918, Licut. Edgerton was transferred | v the request of the Postmaster Gen- | 1 and became superintendent of fly- | ing operations of the air mail system. | Later he organized and became super- intondent of radio of the Post Office Department, establishing the first aero- | nautical radio stations in this country. There will be associated with the op: eration of the company a number of men prominent in various transporta tion, manufacturing. banking and other enterprises. Mr. McAdoo, who was the builder of the first tubes under the Hudson River in New York and who was director of the American Railroads | during the war, has becn interested in | aviation ever since he made his first flight during the World War. ! Cuts Mountain Hazards. He has been studying the possibilities of commercial aviation in the United | States for the last two or three years ! and in addition to being interested in a | fAiying field near Los Angeles, Calif,, he ! has pérsonally made flights within the last year over large parts of the routes to_be covered by the new company. Those interested in the company state that the principal route linking | pose: After the District committee acts on the resolution just prepared by the sub- committee it will then be reported to the Senate for whatever action that bedy may decide to take. CHARGED SECOND TIWE WITH SCREEN Convicted a Few Days Ago, Claude 0. Soper Is In- dicted Again. Claude O. Soper. convicted a few days ago of possessing an automobile | equipped with a device for emitting vapor commonly calld a “smokc screen,” was again indicted today for a similiar offense. Policeman Miles Znamenacek April 19 chased a car in which he says Soper was riding, but the accused escaped, leaving the car to be seized by the police, who found the device, it is claimed. Soper has not been sentenced in the former cass. John Dawson. 36, was indicted on a charge of setfing up a gaming table and of taking bets on horse races. He was arrested April 27 in the 1300 block of E street following a raid by the vice squad. under Sergt. Letterman, after & policeman had made bets on horses running in Maryland. Marked money was found on Dawson, the police | claim. Operating a “numbers” game is charged in an indictment against James A. Goven and George M. Carter. Louis E. Ridgway, a taxicab driver. is charged with grand larceny. He is said o have failed to return a quantity of | jewelry left in his cab by a woman pas- enger April 6. Jones-Stalker law violations are charged in three indictments, naming four persons. Ann Bovello and Angelo B. Bovello, are charged with sale and fon. March 3; Clarence Ashe, transporting and posession, April 10, and William G. Donaldson, transporting and posession, April 12. Violations under_the old law are alleged against | Jack Hawkins, Alphonso Beneditti and Morris Cohen. Others indicted and the charges |against them include: Smithson Banion and Robert Murray, housebreak- ing: Stewart A. Bird, Carryl Pugh, Jo- seph J. Milans and Clemon W. Taylor, | grand larceny: John T. Brown. Ambrose | Young. William C. Pinkert, Joseph Cole= | man, Raymond Taylor, Carlos H. Bene |nett and John Lee. joy-riding: Harry. | | Smith, James R. Simms and Thomas Cole. | The grand jurors ignored the follow= ing cases: Beverly Fields, James Black= well, Hollis R. Smith, joy-riding; Rich= ard Brown and Michael Giuffreda, | housebreaking, and Benjamin 1. Grover, | forgery. HIGHWAYMAN ATTACKS VICTIM, USING BRICK was taken to Emergency Hospital and | be safe from adverse court rulings, such treated for a minor injury of the head. | as the O'Fallon case. {LONG TIME RESIDE!‘IT Lisitors opportunity to rest for dinner | Ll A, A | spite the fact at the Mayflower Hotel as guests of | freight now being handled by the rail Randolph Leigh, director general of the | o) L ntest. It s abiMr. Telgh dinnsr.tha | Carmicrs, 1s aporoximately 1 per;fcent the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts via | the Southern States will prove highly advantageous because of the avoidance | of storms and better flying conditions | Not ‘for Flowers in Service Three Robberies Reported to Poe Cemeteries, Says Miss Cone. the orators will_choose the national | ETeater than that of & vears ABo road president of the Constitution Club. The | , Other savings effecied, bY TR national offcer o meton i the on- | tion of fuel 'and the introduction of DIES AT AGE OF 84 !Miss Augusta Virginia England Kmerican Business ClubwAsks Tags tional finals for the right to represent | ates in the international | the United § phase of the contest. FIND INFANT.STOWAWAY. ‘ NEW YORK ay 21 (P —E Valerio, 1 year old and suid 1o be voungest stowawy ever spprehended a this port, was last night at Ellis Island in the disconsolate colony of immigrant. who will have to go back to “the 5 men_discovered Elisa as her | Immortells lerio, a Portu Jonsulich line Maria Dolores V guese stewardess on the Presidente Wilson, was her ashore hidden under a shawl. the A t d old trying to carry Elisa made most of the trip hidden i R s, i ol L 8, 0 0 TSR et A0, G A, iy B RGRY, more efficient rolling stock and equip- ment, were described by the speaker. The address of welcome at the con- ference was made by Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro. H. T. Lively of | Louisville, Kv., general claim agent of the L & N Railroad and chairman of | | the Claim sgent divislon, presided at | | the open meeting. Will Be Buried at Old Home Tomorrow. Miss Augusta Virginia England, 8¢ this cily, died at her , 1016 Massa- chusetts’ avenue, today. < Miss England, although failing for | some time, was up at the usual hour this morning, but when she failed to appear &t breakfast search was insti- tuted and she was found dead on her ed. The body will be taken to her old home at Cartersville, Va. for burial tomorrow. Miss England had long been a mem- ber of the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South. She fs survived by her sister- Plays to Be Presented. A program of French plays will be presented tomorrow ufternoon at 4:30 o'clock by members of the “Les Jeunes *a society of fifth and sixth | grade pupils of Holton Arms School The performance will b> staged in the | Barker Hall, ¥. W. C. A Two come- dies, “Le Portrait’ de Madame” and ‘Stella,” and several dramatized falry ! vears old, for many & resident of | For Pedestrians Who Violate Traffic The American Business Club wants pedestrians who balk at control by who has adminis Lk P GG ashington's traffic. crossing policemen to be ticketed and | "apier gutlining the spinach cure, the sent to police precincts in the same | letter, signed by Howard E. Severe, first manner as motorists who violate traffic [ vice president of the club, continues. 3 bkt ithe _| “It boils down to this: The newspape: regulations. Pedestrlans, the club be-| y,pn¢ pedestrian controi. The streeb ca lieves, are like children. Pedestrian con- ! companies want it. The bus compane trol is like spinach. Children must take | want it. The civic clubs want it. 8 spitiacts, "but they okt Uke i, there- | TYSUIS Beteu wWaiits 1h Heaes of the fore they are forced to take tt. Pedes- jnasmuch as we started the whole thing, trians do not like pedestrian control, but it is good for them, therciore they we want_it.” should be forced to submit to it. These The club, fn conjunction with the | Commissioner Proctor L. Dougher who has administrative control over Traffic Bureau, is now conducting an experimental pedestrian control clin The American Legion Auxiliary of Washington has completed plans for its annual poppy sale Friday, when residents of the Capital will be asked to contribute to the support of families of World War veterans who have no compensation. In a statement today, Miss Gilbert A. Cone, member of the committec in charge of the sale, explained that all the profits will go 1o the needy families. She said an erroneous idea exists here that the proceeds go to buy flowers for ervice cemeteries here and in France. More than 1,000,000 poppies have been made by the veterans in hospitals this year for sale by members of the Legion Augiliary, Miss Cone said. Although Britain drinks less milk than any ofher nation, 63.000.000 gal- yere imported throughout the year. This Toute is also said to afford better terrain due to the fact that the continental divide in the West is much lower at the point | traversed and that the Appalachian | Mountains are practically avolded. | WAR MOTHERS TO MEET. EK?.’II' Adulh':\l CQD;;(Z ;llld Robsion to Speak Friday Night. Rear Admiral R. E. Coontz and Rep- resentative Robsion of Kentucky will be | principal speakers at the next meeting of the American War Mothers of the District, called for 8 o'clock Friday night at the Colonial Hotel, Fifteenth and M streets. Members of the G. A. R. and companion organizations will be lice—Apartment and Auto Raided. Charles Stevens, colored, 322 C street northeast, was attacked by a colored man and robbed of $8 while in front of 1827 Sixth street about 2:30 o'clock this morning, he told police. The robber, hi ated, dealt him a severe blow on his right arm with a brick bz« fore taking his money. - A duplicate key worker paid a suce cessful visit to the apartment of Ben- jamin T. Rome; fourth floor of 1875 Mintwood place, yesterday during the absence of occupants. The apartment was ransacked and robbed of clothing and jewelry valued at $105. Two coats. one the property of Frank Marcellino, 2138 Pennsylvania avenue, and the other of William Fuss, 829 Twenty-second street, were stolen from an automobile parked at Eighth and 1 honor guests. A section of the United States Navy streets last night. Police were told the eoats wego worll #45, Lo .