Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1929, Page 3

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PRESIDENT | SEEK ACTION BY U, | INNEWS PRINT COST Publishers to Put Situation in Paper Trade Up to Government. | | BY the Assoclated Press. { NEW YORK, December 9.—A resolu- | tion calling on the paper committee | and ths board of directors of the Amer- {ican Newspaper Publishers' Association | to take up with Federal authorities the ||| question as to whether there is any redress open in the news print situation | through Federal action was adopted to- | day at the special convention of the | association called to discuss proposed pincreases in news print prices. | The resolution, which was introduced | by Fleming Newbold of The Washing- Star, said: “Resolved, That the paper committee and board of directors be requested to take .up with Federal authorities the question as to whether there is any re- dress open to this situation through | Federal Government action. | Two Courses Suggested. | Before the resolution was adopted two courses of Government action had been suggested. S. E. Thomason, pub- lisher of the Chicago Times and former member of the association’s paper com- mittee, had suggested a congressional | investigation of the news print industry. | E. K. Gaylord of the Oklahoma City, Okla., Times, had beliéved the Attorney to take action against the alleged mo- | nopoly. Chargés in the report of the paper committee, which was presented to the [ convention at its opening today, that the | alleged combination of Canadian news I print manufacturers, which amounted to a monopoly, has been carried out “through the good offices of the pro- | vincial governments of Ontario and | Quebec,” were denied partly from the 1 floor. e | Charles A. Webb of the Asheville, |N. C. Citizen said he believed the ||| premiers of the two Canadian prov- TIRE BARGAINS ‘We have a limited quantity of NEW tires taken off of new cars and traded in on John Boyd Dunlops at these low prices. 29x4.50 Goodrich $6.90 29x5.00 K. Springfield and Fisk, $8.40 30x5.00 Goodyear $8.76 29x5.50 Fisk ‘ LEETH BROS. 1220 13th St. N.W. FOR RENT APARTMENT 7 Large Rooms 2 Baths Unfurnished Three Exposures, Overlooking Beautiful Gardens Sedgwick St. Building th TILDEN GARDENS Apply to Manager Cléb Building Conn., Ave. at Tilden St. Phone Cleveland 5334 ARRRRLRLRRRRERARLRY G————————————— SPECIAL_NOTICE. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS eopteacied by any one othef, than myselt GEORGE W Pl_n.w yself. HENDERSON, 1511 Kingman NOTICE 15 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE nnual meeting of the shareholders of thi isgs National Bank of Washington, D. C Tor the election of directors and Lo trans- action of such other business as may come before the meeting, will be held at the banking house, 1503 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, on Tuesday, January 14. 1930. e polis 'will remain open from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock noon. GEORGE_O. VASS. Cashier. _ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE annual meeting of the stockholders of the Washington American League Base Ball Club will be held at the offices of the club base park, Washington, D. C.. on Tuesday, January 17, 1930, lock noon, for the urpose of electing a board of directors for he ensuing vear, and for such other busi- ness as may be properly brousht before said meeting. EDWARD B. EYNON, Jr it AR e ____Secretary THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of the Columbia Permanent Building or Association of the District of Columbia the election of three directors will_be he on Tuesdav, December ;0. 1920, At 7:30 p.m. t the office of the asiociation. No. 733 2th st. n.w.. Washington. D, C. FRED A." SMITH, NOT IN BUSINESS FOR MY HEALTH, BUT for the health of your business. Multi- graphing, Mimeographing, Addressing, Print- ing. ACE LETTER SHOP. 215 Dist. Natl. Bank Bldg. Fr. 7143 __Open 8:30 am. _ fTANCE MOVING — WE ng faith with the public since about our_country-wide service. 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Wednesday. | Dec. 11. 8 p.m. Public cordially invited 3rd f1.. 817 14th st n.w ROOP AIRING, PAINTI Bpoutin: or nigh reasonable pric Nort) or jax Roofing Co.. 2038 18t ‘WANTED- RETURN rom New York, Phtlad . J.; Richmond, Va.. a Smith’s Transfer & Storage _1313 0 Bt North A Printing Service -'—oflll'inq exceptional for n rom Baitimore. Md, The National Capital Press| 50, 1210-1212 D ST_N.W. ROOFING—by Koons . Slag_Roofin, Roof - Painting Phone Na 6: mate, Roofing Company. District 0933 119 3rd St. S.W, "KOON: inces were without blame in the mal ter, that their only interest in the sil uation was to see a stabilization of the newsprint price, and Adolph Ochs, pub- | lisher of the New York Times, added | that he personally believed Premier | Ferguson of Ontario to be without | blame in the situation. Resolution Is Adopted. | Mr. Ochs, whose newspaper owns a half interest in a paper mill and whose | paper therefore would not be affected | by any rise in prices, said that his com- | pany was producing paper at a cost less than other paper companies were credited with saying their costs were. A. R. Graustein, president of Inter- national Paper and Power Co. which | is credited with controlling 60 per cent of the newsprint output of the conti- nent, was quoted as having said his company'’s costs per ton were $40. An- other company said its costs were $50 a ton. The present price of newsprint {is $55 per ton and several companics | already have announced they will ask | $5 per ton more in their new contracts. With the adoption of the resolution the convention was adjourned. The paper committee immediately went into executive session to formulate its plans for presenting the case to Government authorities. Ere}zmunutlves of -several news print manufacturers were said to be in at- tendance at the convention, but none of them spoke from the floor. ‘There were about 100 publishers from the United States and Canada at the meeting. An indepenent investigation of news- print production costs was urged today in a report of the paper committee. rging that a virtual monopoly Cha: exists through the formation by most of the newsprint manufacturers from which American newspapers secure their supply of paper of the Newsprint In- stitute of Canada, the committee re- ports that “the present difficulti-s com- plained of,” which the institute says necessitates higher rates, “are the natural sequence of overexpansion in the past and the present uneconomic conditions. Lack of Information. Continuing the report says: “At no time has your committee had information from the Newsprint Insti- tute or from individual producers con- cerning the actual cost of manufac- turing newsprint paper, and it there- fore recommends that an independent investigation be made of newsprint production costs and the return to the mills under ?l’evailln‘ price, on actual investment of capital. held | AT~ THE LOAD OF FURNITURE eiphta. Atlantie City. nd i Lo 343, facilities | a discriminating clientele | manufacturers group, known as Ticon, . Tinoine. d Re- “Since the increased price announce- | ment Canadian press agent sources have | sent out to newspapers and news dis- ributing organizations propaganda to the effect that publishers, particularly |in the United States, view such price | increases as essentially reasonable and | as an evidence of the desire of Canadian | procures to stabilize conditions. No such | comment, however, has reached your | committee.” Expanding its charges of monopoly, the report says: “Following the demise of the late | canadian News-Print Co., Ltd., & new | group was formed during the Fall of { Jast year, known as the Newsprint In- | stitute of Canada, from the officers of | which we have sought, but failed- to | secure, information regarding its pur- | pose or details of its operation. | Extent of Membership. “From other sources, however, your | committee is informed that the insti- tute includes among its membership nearly all of the newsprint mills of Ontario and’ Quebec, some of which | are said to have become members un- der pressure. |, “While heretofore there has been at {least a semblance of competition and E | independent action on the part of mem- bers of the institute, we are now, a cording to the best information aval able, confronted with a combination held together for a period of five years under penalties for breach of agreements so great that all must obey the will of the majority. “The tonnage is pooled, production controlled and price and marketing conditions fixed to the end that nearly all mills within the Provinces of On- tario and Quebec, whether of high or | of low cost production, may be kept in operation on an equal percentage of capacity, thus perfecting an absolute monopoly, wholly eliminating competi~ tion, and thereby subverting the law of supply and demand.” The newsprint institute, the report continues, carries _on its activities “under the good offices of the provin- | cial governments of Ontario and Que- bec,” and it charges further that an effort even had been made to reach an understanding with European manufac- turers to regulate prices. Efforts to Negotiate, “Our bulletin of October 18 contains a very complete report of the efforts of the North American newsprint manu- facturers to negotiate with European manufacturers to bring about stabiliza- tion of world markets by organizing an international bureau of statistics,” the report says, “the purpose of which we interpret to be to induce the European manufacturers te increase their prices |in_ this market or abandon it alto- gether, “We are informed that the Enropean will meet with North American manu-. 930.’ Addressing the convention at its opening session, Edward H. Butler, president of the association, said that | the condition was such, with some mills announcing increases ‘n price and others reserving decision on new con- tracts, that “newspaper publishers are unable to make satisfaglory coptracts General's office should be appealed 10| [chtu.r'ers in Quebec during February, ! P ;rl:.h any degree of certainty as to the future.” The purpose of the convention, he said, was to have a thorough discussion of the problem and to adopt some con- crete solution. One Hundred in Attendance. About 100, publishers from the United States and Canada were in attendance when the convention opened. The re- ! port of the committee was presented by W. G. Chandler of the Scripps-Howard ' Newspapers, the chairman. After the report had been read, ¢.:- eral publishers expressed their views, includirig Hilton W. Brown, secretary of the Indianapolis News. Most of them favored an immediate investigation of the newspaper manufacturers as was urged in the committee report. Mr. Butler, however, said that on jadvice’ of counsel no motion would be ientertained at this time looking toward ‘deflnue action by the publishers, iusmmmm " TREASURY SERES Certificates Maturing De- cember~15 Are Made Pay- able Starting. Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. Secretary Mellon announced yesterday that he had authorized Federal Reserve banks to redeem in cash before ma- ! turity, at the holder’s option, Treasury certificates of indebtedness of series TD, 1929, and RU-2, 1929, which are payable on December 15. ‘The order becomes effective Decem- ber 10 and the certificates will be re- deemed at par and accrued interest. The first series bear interest at 4%, per cent and the second at 43 per cent Approximately $700,000,000 in the two issues mature on December 15 and the Treasury has announced an issue of about $100,000,000 in Treasury bills and $325,000,000 in Treasury certificates to meet the financing. The total of the new issues, with income tax payments on December 15, is expected to provide funds to meet the issues and operate the Government until next March. At the same time Secretary Mellon announced that subscriptions for the nine-month issue of Treasury certifi- cates of indebtedness, bearing 3% per cent interest and dated December 16, had been closed at the end of business on_Saturday. The issue was offered Friday morn- ing and the quickness with which the offering was taken was accepted by the Treasury officials as demonstrating the | attractiveness of the short-term Gov- ernment securities to investors. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. . TODAY, Business Women's Council bazaar today from 3 to 9 p.m, at the First Congregational Church. Chicken din- ner will be served from 5 to 7 o'clock. U. 8. S. Jacob Jones Post, No. 2, American Legion, will hold its month- ly meeting at the Thomas “Circle Club, 1326 Massachusetts avenue, tonight, 8 o'clock. Installation of officers. Members of fl’/le Aero Club of Wash- ington Chapter of the National Aero- nautic Association will be guests of the District of Columbia Air Legion at a lecture in_the legion headquarters, room 711, International Building, 1319 P street, at 8:30 p.m. Lieut. Noble C. Shilt, ground school instructor of the legion, will be the speaker. Northeast Citizens’ Association will meet tonight at 8 o'clock Ludlow School, Sixth and G streets northeast. Important business. Brookland Citizens’ Association will meet this evening, 8 o'clock, in the Masonic Hall, Twelfth and Monroe streets northeast. Important commit- tee reports to be considered. Stanton Park Citizens' Association meets tonight at the Stanton School, 8 o'clock. Switchboard demonstration. FUTURE. A card party for the benefit of St. James' Catholic Church, Thirty-seventh street and Rhode Island avenue, Mount Rainfer, Md., will be given in the audi- torium Tuesday, 8 o'clock. Miss Ger- trude Wedemeler and Mrs. Lillian Berry will be hostesses. Syracuse University Alumni Associa- tion men’s luncheon will be held tomor- row at Women's City Club Coffee Shop, 22 Jackson place, 12:30 p.m. 9 Civitan Club will hold a dinner meet- ing tomorrow night, 6:30 o'clock, in the gold room of the La Fayette Hotel. Elec- tion of officers. Meeting of board of directors at 5:30 p.m., immediately pre- ceding dinner. A discussion of the present political situation in the Balkans will be chief feature of the lecture on “Current Topics,” which Mrs. Georgette Ross Howard will give tomorrow morning at the American Association of University Women, at 11 o'clock. This will be the last lecture of the series Mrs. Howard has been giving this Fall at the club. A second series will be inaugurated aft- er Christmas. Ladies' Ald Society of M. E. Church at Eight street and North Carolina ave- nue southeast, will holds its annual sup- per and bazaar tomorrow and Wednes- day. Supper served from 5 to 7 p.m. The mustering of the Henry W. Law- ton Auxiliary, United Spanish War Vet- erans, will be held tomorrow evening. 8 o'clock, at Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street. All interested are wel- come. Good Will Chapter, No. 36, O. E. S., will give a card party at Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast, Wednesday evening, 8:30 o'clock. Public invited. Col. F. A. Ramsey, U. S. Marine Corps, will speak on “Haiti” at the luncheon meeting of the Washington Round Table tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., at the University Club. League of Republican Women will give a dinner tonight at the Men's City, Club, 6:30 o'clock. Walter Newton, one’ of President Hoover's secretaries, will speak on “A Secretary’s Day at the White House.” Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the Republican State com- mittee in the District of Columbia, also will speak. Mrs. Virginia White Speel, publican national committee will be toastmistress. e, Fire Menaces Canada Town. CHATHAM, Ontario, December 9 () —Fire raged through the business uc)- tion here tonight, badly damaging the New Garner Hotel and several stores on’ King sbreet and menacing other busi- ness_establishments. An unconfirmed report was that a man had been trapped and burned to death in the hotel. Will Rogers Says: f BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—With Mr. Hoover pleading with everybody to spend all this money, I wonder what a Jittle gentleman in a rented frame house in Northampton is thinking. The idea of such spend- ing will make him turn over in his bed of magazine manuseripts, ‘This Ramsey Macdonald on his peace mission visited the wrong country; it was Haiti where he be- onged. D I CAPITOL GROUNDS . FUND MEASURE UP House Group Considers Sup- plemental Estimates Call- ing for $1,277,746. The House appropriations committee has before it today supplemental esti- | mates of appropriations calling for prompt appropriation of $1,277,746 sub- mitted by the President for enlarging the Capitol grounds in accordance with provisions of the act approved March 4 last. This, the President’s letter sub- mitting the recommendations of the architect of the Capitol and the Budget Bureau emphasizes, is supplemental to the estimate previously submitted in the budget message and is tg remain available until expended. The budget estimate recommended an appropriation of $3,614,668 for en- largement of the C-nitol grounds as recommended in th: same bill of March 4 last. This means that the President and Budget Bureau have recommended a total of $4,892414 for development of the proposed bcautiful parkway between the Capitol and Union Station, included in which is the provision for a new oad avenue from the Union Station to nnsylvania avenue at Second street. Thess appropriations are expected to be carried in the legislative appropri- ation bill and the architect of the Cap- itol intends to start the actual develop- ment work just as soon as funds are available. Th= message sent today pro- vides that this appropriation, when made, shall remain available until ex- pended, even though the work is not completed within the fiscal year. RECORDER OFDEEDS SOON T0 QU P Impending Resignation of A. G. Froe, District Official, Reported to White House. Arthur G. Froe is contemplating re- signing as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, the White House has been given to understand. ‘The President is beginning to receive recommendations from political leaders in varioys States who are anxious to land this patronage, it was made known today in connection with Froe's pur- ported move. The recorder of deeds pays $5,600 a year, and for a number of years some one from the colored race has been appointed. It is looked upon as the choicest position in the Govern- ment at the disposal of a colored ap- pointee. Kansas Man Recommended. ‘The Kansas congressional delegation, evidently hoping to be one of the first in the field to make claim to this patronage, called at the White House today to recommend Martifi R. Powell, who is at present assistant librarian of the House of Representatives branch of the Congressional Library. Mr. Powell, the President was told, is a native of Wathena, Kans., and has been a resident in Washington for more than 10 years. His sponsors said also that he is an educator and well qualified to fill the recordership. It is understood that Republican leaders of Kentucky alre: have pre sented the name of a colored Repub- lican of that State to be considered in connection with this Federal position. ‘The White House has been advised by Republican leaders of Delaware that they shortly will present the name of a colored citizen of their State for this place. District Not Yet in Field. Tt is not known at this time whether or not the Republican leaders in the District of Columbia will make an effort to land this patronage for a local resident. This matter will be taken up at a meeting to be held the latter part of this week by the Republican State committee for the District of Columbia. Recorder Froe was appointed by the late President Harding. No explanation has been given at the White House why he is considering retiring. The position is one of those which the occupant holds for no definite term, but merely at the pleasure of the President. Three Die in Blast. EVERETT, Mass.,, December 9 (#). ‘Three men were burned to death today in an explosion at the plant of the Trimount Oil Co. Several others were severely injuged. 37 Yearsat . . Jewelers 97, OR MORE ington advantages this Associa Open dai Saturday on your savings 949 Ninth Jus Under q A KAHN INC. . , . 37 YEARS AT 935 F ST. Set with 20 beautifully cut di monds—in a platinum case (as tuged)—the movement is guaranteed. Truly an example value Members of the Amsterdam Diamond Exchange Build a Home Many a man in Wash- today owns his own home because of the NATIONAL PERMANENT BUILDING ASSOCIATION (ORGANIZED 1890) ¢ below New York Avenue ‘Bupervision U. WANY PAY TRBITE TO DR RGHARDSON {Memorial Service Is Held at New York Ave. Preshyte- rian Church for Savant. ‘The New York Avenue Presbyterian |Church was_filled almost to capacity | | yesterday afternoon with those whe | Bathered there to pay tribute to_ the late Charles Williamson Richardson, Washington physician, who died last August. The occasion was & memorial service undertaken jointly by the Med- ical Society of the District, by George Washington University -and by the church, of which Dr. Richardson was both a trustee and a ruling elder. The audience, which heard distinguished speakers tender praise to the reputation and the character of this native of the Capital, represented every walk of life and included Government officials of high rank, diplomats, educators, scien- tists, physiclans and permanent and temporary residents of the Capital. “I count it an honor to say a few words of appreciation of my friend and | yours,” Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, ~~cre- tayy of the Interior and a former presi- dgfl, of the American Medical Society, told his hearers. Dr. Richardson was for 43 years a member of that organi- zation and for nine years served as one| of its trustees. The Secretary lludqfi!l his former colleague, not only as member and as a worker, but as an in- valuable legislative reporter, who, re- siding in the shadow of the Capitol and with a wide acquaintance among Gov=- ernment officials, acted as a most effi- cient liaison officer for the welfare legis- lation sponsored by the association. Praised by Marvin, “Future generations will be his debtor,” was the opinion offered by Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of George ‘Washington University, who paid tribute to Dr. Richardson, who as a former student, alummi leader, professor and trustee had brought fame to his insti- tution through his scholarship in pio- neer fields. Dr. Richardson's accomplishments in the combat against diphtheria epidemics before the efficacy of antitoxins was known were _described _as almost miraculous by Dr. John A. Foote, presi- dent of the District Medical Society and dean of the medical school of Georgetown University. Having become in a brief time among the most expert users of the tube which opened and kept open throats whose constriction was causing apparently certain death, Dr. Richardson was constantly called on by colleagues for this service, often four _and five times in a single night. Dr. Foote further described his pioneer- ing in the use of antitbxins and in the study of lung abscesses. ‘“He was fore- most in every battle on behalf of public health; could all the moments of all the lives he saved have been added to his own span, he could almost have enjoyed eternity,” declared Dr. Foote. Tells of War Work. Maj. Gen. ' Merritte W. Ireland,; surgeon _general of the Army under | whom Dr. Richardson served as a colonel in the World War, told his hear- ers of the vast value of the creation |of the Army Medical Reserve Corps which included the cream of the pro- fession at that time and in which his subordinate had early been commis- sioned as representative of his specialty. Not only his professional medical labors, but his administrative staff work had been of th former chief testified. Gen. Ireland was followed by Miss Enflield Joiner, superintendent of Base Hospital No. 11, which was established and administered by Dr. Richardson and which was devoted to those soldiers suffering from defects of hearing and of speech. So many of these men, she lives as the result of the skilled care the Government for subsequent aid that the Army had been more than repaid from the establishment of a hospital which had proven a success from the very beginning and whose keynote was a spirit of optimism. gations into the causes of deafness and his invaluable contributions to the cure or amelioration thereof were described by Dr. John Campbell Merriam, presi- dent of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, with the researchers of which the former physician had long collaborated. That the enthusiasm of his boyhood for juvenile interests had never left . but had persisted in higher things throughout his long, active and useful later life, was the conviction ex- pressed by Dr. James Montgomery Beck, former Solicitor General, and a former president of the Society of Fos- sils, a group of juvenile amateur journalists who later effected an or- ganization which is still in existence. Dr. Beck’s tribute, based on a personal friendship of more than 50 years, was an appealing one. Citation of Pennsylvania Degree. President and Provost Josiah Harmar Penniman of the University of Penn- M Il | high-grade 17-jewel of extreme 5165 + 935 F Street Platinumsmiths offered tion. ly 9 to § until noon by We Have Financed Street N.W. Treasury greatest possible value, his || pointed out, leading normal, healthy || there obtained, had failed to come to || Dr. Richardson’s exhaustive investi- || Study of Effect Of Speed on Fair Workers Urged Woman’s Bureau Head Says Lack of Funds Slows Up Her Work. By the Associated Press. A study of the effect of speed on the working woman is urged by Mary Anderson, director of the Womer’s Bu- reau, in Rer gnnual report. She asked an increased appropriation for this and other special studies, say- ing that the bureau's “work was se- riously retarded” by lack of funds. Quoting Dr. Juilus Kleln, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, that workers® output has increased 53.5 per cent in the last nine years, as against 4.7 per cent for the 20 years previous, she said, “The progress that comes with modern methods of mass r-aduction can be of benefit“to the Natic only if if does not involve a disastrous amount of human waste in industry.” The problem is women’s, ,she said, since women are engaged largely in the occupations classed as repetitive, pe- culiarly susceptible to speeding up and ‘machinization. Studies of posture. occupational haz- |ards, the plece work system and the married woman in industry were also recommended. sylvania, from which Dr. Richardson held the degree of doctor of medicine and the honorary degree of doctor of science, was prevented from attendance, but Prof. George Edmund De Schwein- itz of ‘the facuity thereof, the presiding officer at the service, read the citation which had accompanied the honorary degree given in 1927. A communica- tion sent by Dr. W. W. Keen of Phila- delphia, dean of American surgeons, describing his former friend as “a na- tional figure,” was read. ‘The several aspects of Dr. Richard- son's life which were incontestable witnesses to his abiding Christian faith were sympathetically reviewed by Rev. Dr. Joseph Sizoo, pastor of New York Avenue Church, who took for his topic “An Unfaltering Life.” The inspiring program opened with Handel's “Largo,” played by a string quartet, followed by an invocation by Rev. Dr. Wallace Rad- cliffe, pastor emeritus of the church. It closed with a benediction offered by Rev. George G. Culbertson. Dr. Richardson, who was admittedly a pioneer in the field of laryngology and a noted specialist in other fields, was born in Washington in 1861. He graduated from both George Washing- ton University and the University of Pennsylvania and studied abroad, both in London and Vienna. He joined the District Medical Society in 1886 and was its president when its present home was dedicated. He was a past president of numerous medical societies composed of specialists and among his many honors were fellowships in the Washington Academy of Sciences, the American College of Surgeons and the Royal Society of Medicine, London. Mastodon Tooth Five Inches Long. WALTERS, Okla. (#).—A tooth, be- lieved to be from a prehistoric masto- | don, has been found below a creek bed | A. near here. It measures 5 inches in length and 4 in width. It is to be studied by University of Oklahoma archeologists. BUSAND UTILITY Commission Weighs Com- plaint That Line Operates Without Authority. Sharp exchanges today between mem- bers of the Public Utilities Commission and officials of the East Coast Stages marked a hearing called to consider that the East Cobast line s operating busses between Washington and Rich- mond without authority. The commissioners retired to ton- sider a decision after a two-hour ses- sion. The high point of the hearing was réached when Harleigh H. Hart- man, vice chairman of the commission, asked J. L. Armour, general manager of the line, whether he realized his company was subject to a penalty of $200 for each day it has been operating the Washington-Richmond service. “Nor” replied Armour, “but I am fa- miliar with a law which provides that the commission has no authority to in- terfere with interstate traffic.” “I am not,” rejoined Hartman. “Show it to me. Armour then read a paragraph in a statute providing for the regulation of interstate traffic which, he contended, supported his argument. The witness added that his company merely had applied to the commission for a permit as a matter of courtesy. In answer to a question, he said his Mne intended to continue operation of the Washington- Richmond service, indicating his com- pany would take the case to the courts should the commission undertake to restrain it. Earlier in the hearing Armour testi- fied that Thomas Wood, another official of his line, had attempted to get authority from the commission to operate the interstate service and had been given the impression by Earl V. Fisher, secretary of the commission, that his request would be granted. Armour contended Fisher had given his com- pany an “informal order” permitting them to institute the service. Wood was called as a witness and cor- roborated the statements of Armour. He told in detail of a conference he had with Pisher shortly before the service was instituted November 27 last. Fisher testified that the slip of paper introduced in evidence by Wood in sup- port of his story was written by Fisher at the dictation of Wood, and was in no sense an order of the commission, but was merely a list of the route to be followed by the bus line in entering and leaving Washington should the commis- sion Jater grant its approval. ‘The Nevin Bus Lines, Inc., and the Southern Motor Transit Co. were repre- sented at the hearing. The former operates busses between Washington and Richmond under a temporary order, ud the latter seeks permission to oper- ate. Lecturer at Takoma Park. TAKOMA PARK, December 9 (Spe- cial).—Prof. B. R. Baumgardt, F. R. distinguished nation-wide k on the topic, | turer,” will spea | Evening With the Stars” in Columbia Hall, Washington Missionary Colleg>, tonight at 8 o'clock. UNIVERSAL FLORAL SERVICE No matter where you are or where you want flowers de- livered, we serve you to the utmost degree of satisfaction. 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