Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1929, Page 5

THE. EVEXNING STAR. WASHINGTON, Offered Umpire Post " BOYDEN OFFERED COMMISSION POST Prospective Successor to! Late Judge Parker Is Reparations Expert. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Hoover has offered the v. eant post of umpire of the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, until recently held by the Jate Judge Edwin B. Parker of Texas. to Roland W. Boyden of Massachusetts Mr. Boyden is one of America's for most international authorities And ranks particularly as a specialist in the field of German reparations. During the three or four years preceding the | formulation of the Dawes plan, in 1 Mr. Boyden was the “unofficial repre sentative” of the United States on the Reparations Commission and was sta- | tioned at Paris. ROLAND W. BOYD! Sixty-three years old and a graduate | most important_practice in New Eng- | land. Thomas N. Perkins of that firm BERTRAND CLARK MOORE was honorably mentioned a year ago New Hampshire as a representative of | Bertrand Clark Moore. 65 vears old, qQuished the umpire's post on the Mixed | Mr, Moore was appointed a clerk in would have recommended Mr. Boyden | uars adjudication and it is anticipated that.|a daughter. Mrs, Alma Moffett: a broth- settlement of important patent claims, | RO $160,000,000 TAX SLASH ment during the war in connection with | settled except claims arising out of The administration’s $160,000,000 tax- Hon 'depot explosion at Black Tom. N, | bY President Hoover. The bill had been of Harvard and of its Law School, Mr Boyden is a member of the Boston firm | of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, | which probably has the largest and was an associate of Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan in this year's reparations tonference at The Hague, from_which | DIES AT HOME HERE the Young plan emerged. Mr. Boyden | s i 3 Clerk in District Auditor’s Office as a possibility for the Secretary of State in the Hoover cabinet. It was | Had Been 111 for Seven understood that hfs name was put for- 5 ward by Senator Moses, Republican, of | o New England in the new administration. | clerk in the District auditor's office, Reliev oy { where he had served for many yvears. e arl G | died at his home. 1338 Randolph street, Had Judge Parker lived and relin- |today after an illness of seven weeks. Claims Commission to take the presi- (the water department in March, 1904. dency of the Parker School of Foreign |In June of that year he was trans- Affairs in Washington. for which he | ferred as a clerk to the office of the provided by will, it is believed that he | property superintendent, and in Jan- s his successor. Judge Parker had | tor's office. He was a native of Corunna, mapped out a definite and systematic | Mich, plan for vinding up the remaining| He is survived by his widow, Mrs German and American claims awaiting Helen M. Moore: a son, John Moore: if ‘Mr. Boyden accepts the President’s | or, Willlam Moore, and a sister, Mrs offer, he will “carry on” the program | w. F, Roberts. i i formulated by Judge Parker. This pr Funeral arrangements af to be an- vides, amon other things. for early [ nounced later. including demands by American citizens | e for infringement of German patents owned by them and which. they con- tend, were used by the German govern- | SIGNED BY PRESIDENT submarine construction, i e Practically all of the important Amer- | Hoov, ith fcan claims against Germany. especially | b M St ek those in excess of $10,000. have been | Signature to 1 Per Cent Re- sabotage in this country and those con- ' duction in Income Levy. cerned with German_chemical patents. | The principal two sabotage matters re- Jate to the Black Tom, N. J., ammuni- t hed through Congress to obtain final J., in July, 1916, and the Kingsland, N. | 11 . > fire in 1917, which destroyed the | Snactment before the Christmas holi- plant of the Canadian Car & Foundry |92 . 3 Bt e Black Tom afair represents | THere was no ceremony incident to a clalm of $20,000.000. The chemical the President’s signing of the bill, whicn : automatically became a law as his sig- patents apparently involve & lepatiques= | SIOMEHSHlY Decame Ko i i ides for a flat 1 per cent reduction The alien property custodian, at the | ProY e the Gesan patents were sclud.‘:n individual and corporation income turned over some 5,000 of them to the | faXes on 1929 1"00"‘195» then newly organized Chemical Foun- | e enactment of the measure was dation of America. Varlous proposals | for deciding who now is entitled to | Ate and House. compensation for these patents have! THE WEATHER | HOSPITAL UNABLE TO WEET DEMANDS Phenomenal Growth of ‘ Children’s Institution. I The work of Children’s Hospital has | shown a phenomenal increase, and the | institution is faced with the problem ot early provision of additional buildings or of being unable to meet growing de- | ! mands for service, Thomas B. Sweeney, | on behalf of the board of directors, de- ! ,clares in a repost to the corporate ! members of the nstitution, made public today. i | i i Hospital Overerowded. With work increasing by leaps and bounds and with every department run-! ning to full capacity almost continu- | ously, the greatest problem confronting the institution is the question of keep- | Retires From Duty IVAKES NO CHANGES - INLEFT-TURN RULE Drafting Group of Committee, on Uniform Codes Hears Plea of Eldridge. The drafting committee of the gen- | eral committee on uniform traffic codes in the United States this morning fafled to make any ahange in the existing ‘eft-turn Tule. The left-turn question, from Wash- ngion's viewpoint, was injected into | he drafting committee deliberations | his_morning by Assistant Director of [raffic M. O. Eldridge. Mr. Eldridge vleaded with the drafting committee to | aid him and his_superior, Traffic Di- | rector W. H. Harland, in 'their efforts 1o keop in force in Washington the | rotary left turn. i E. GREGORY. | | REAR ADMIRAL D. . C.. TUESDAY. DECE MBER 17, 28 IDAHO OFFICIALS | G0 ON DRY TRIAL U. S. Attorney Opens Prose- cution With Statement of Former Police Chief. 1929, Br the Assoclated Press COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, December 17.—The Federal Government, in court here today, was well under way in its attempt to prove that 28 North Idaho officials and others had participated in a widespread conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws. Attacking first the case at Mullan, in which the mayor and many trusices were indicted. Hoyt E. Ray. United States attorney, said he would support with evidence charges that the city of- ficials of Mullan encouraged liquor law violations, collected licanse money for the operation of dispensaries and made , 1909, made a clerk in the audi- | ling up with demands, Mr. Sween reports. “Our present space already 1s | overcrowded, and we must either pro- | vide new buildings or ccase to grow, | he adds. “The board of directors is REAR ADMIRAL GREGORY WILL RETIRE SATURDAY conscious of this condition, but as yet' by Hoover has taken no definite steps pending the ¢ hospital survey of all hos- | pitals of the District, which will be e under the auspices of the Amer- | % # Toan Pbite. Health Ap.xw\dznon. : | Docks Bureau. The survey is to be made at the re-| o . o » qun‘-.\: of the ‘Washington Community | Rear Admiral Luther E. Gregor | Chest. Dr. A. C. Bachmeyer, widely | chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks | known consuitant, has been engaged | Navy D-partment. will be relieved from to analyze and determine the needs of | active duty about Saturday and will | cach hospital in the District and to | proceed to his home. today's official or- uggest. incidentally, standardized | der- at the department showed. Admural methods for all to follow. Gregory vh\;c r;:\r':sh;\‘lt:h ?fifln;nkl:l : rear admiral, whic as held for the | L %4 B years as head of the bureau. | Last vear 35000 children were treat- | President Hoover sent to the Senate fed by departments of Children’s Hos- | yesterday the appointment of Capt. | pital” and for 29 the number will | Archibald L. Parsons, chief engineer of | have increased to more than 42,000, Mr. | the Navy, to succe:d Admiral Gregor | Sweeney reports. Of this total, 4.796 | Capt. Parsons will have the rank of | were treated in the hospital proper, 23.- | rear admiral. ST | JRDJENKING Capt. Parsons Chosen forthcomis for Chief of Navy Yards and 6165 social service visits were made. 12,345 were treated in child welfare | | clinics end 1370 were handled in nu- | wition clinics. | |~ Mr. Sweeney in his report attributes ! to the administrative work of the super- | intendent, Miss Mattie M. Gibson, the | phenomenal growth of the institution. | [ “Pedestrians and motorists,” Mr. Eld- dge said, “are thorcughly sold on this rotary left-turn idea in Washington. I | hope' the committee will help us to re- | ) . 5 tain the regulation. Tt is far safer than | Chief of police. the Government's first [ witness yesterday, testified that he col- any other method of turning. and. due | jecieq $697 o month from liquor deaters 4 ; , and o¥erators of vice dens and turned | Washington. it is & solution of our lefl- | 4]l of the money over to the city trea i b lur, to defray expenses of government Plea to Be Considered. {ana civie improvements. = He said that | o ayor Arthur J. Harwood supplied him Mr. Eldridge was assured that the ; ol commitiee would take into considera- | & Jist of persons from whom to collect | tion his plea. The rotary left-turn, it mone Defense attorneys wrung from Need- | was_explained by Mr. Eldridge. is'1n | ham the admission that he had been effect only at lights and polic>-patrolled | discharged as head of the Police De- intersections, traffic everywhere else | partment and that later he swore that turning according to the provisions of | he would “get” the trustees who die- | the Hoover Code. . missed him from office if it “takes my | The need for a far deeper study of | 1ast cent and the rest of my life.” He | the speed question in traffic and on'said he laid the case before Federal au- the open toads was stressed by Dr.|thorities soon after his dismissal. Miller McClintock of the Albert Rus-| Ray said he would prove that Sheriff | sell Erskine Bureau of Traffic Research, | R. E. Weniger had said that the en- Cambridge, Mass, He pointed out that | forcement of the prohibition law was speed is an anomalous factor in auto- | matter for Federal officers and that he | moblle sufety, declaring that, while | would discharge any of his deputies speed is responsible for all automobile | who attempted its enforcement. Weniger accidents for the reason that if there | indicted with two of his deputies were no speed there would be no con- | and nearly threescore officials, busine: tact, at the same time speed could not| men and private citizens in 10 | be_attributable for any automobile ac- the region. cident for the reasons that a perfect | g - . driver in a perfect automobile coul drive atany speed he desired without|GANGSTER IDENTIFIED casualty. | 1 no arrests except in case where a “fee” was refused. Marcus D. Needham, former Mullan North Dakota, would insist that the Senate vote on | | the qualifications of Grundy. | tends that Grundy's participation as a money collector and contributor in | i reduction measure was signed yesterday | The tax slash | i received with elation in both the Sen- | In 1871, the year after the hospital was | 224 visited the dispensary. From that time forward the numbers fluctuated until 1919, the year before Miss Gibson | became superintendent, when a total { of more than 5,000 were treated in the | hospital, as compared with 42,000 for the past yea Mr. Sweeney also voices praise for the service of the medical staff, headed by Dr. Franch Leech. Children’s Hospital is a charitable in- titution, maintained by the income { from its “still inadequate” endowmeni, | plus an amount paid by the District which covers about half of the sum nec- { essary to provide for charity patien: { sent to the hospital by the District | Board of Public Welfare, plus gifts from other expenditures, ceived from the Community Chest. A total of 1927 indigent children | were cared for during the past year and 1,869 patients paid something for their service. Patients discharged as cured | numbered 1,360 and 3,440 were found sufficiently improved to justify their re- { moval from the hospital and only 65 were not improved, | Cites Hospital Wor established, records show that 94 pa- | tients were treated in the building and | friends to cover special equipment and | The annual deficit | | of about $80,000 is made up of funds re- | SUIT'IS SETTLED {Inventor and Broker Reach Agreement in Case Out- side of Court. The suit filed last July in the Su- preme Court of the District of Columbia by Arthur D. Lord, a broker of 120 Broadway. New York City, against Charles Francis Jenkins of this city. widely Known inventor of television, for commissions totaling $612,500, has been settled out of court, according to an order of dismissal filed in the case by Attorneys Cromelin & Laws today. According to the claim of Lord. as set forth by the declaration filed by him Iast July, he is engaged in the business of a broker, and Jenkjns came to him and 'employed him to' find a suitable purchaser for his television patents annaratus and equipment. Jenkins at that time was said to be the owner of the capital stock of Jenkins Labora- tories, Inc., which company held the patent rights in television at that time. The sale was to be made either through | Conditions Force Flexibility. | Interpreted by Dr. McClintock, who presided over the drafting subcommittee meeting, the consensus of the drafting committee was that no departure from | | the existing left-hand-turn rule as laid | | down in the uniform code should be en- | couraged. He explained that the mul- | | tiplicity of local conditions met by vari- | | ous sections of the uniform code forced | a certain gmount of flexibility in the | | code, but added, these local conditions | should not have the effect of influenc- | | ing any drastic revision of the code as it stands and as it is developing. The promotional subcommittee, the other division of the general uniform code committee, which also met this | | morning. tentatively agreed to recomgy! mend that practical politics be used to | [ the fullest extent throughout the States | of the Union to encourage their adop- tion of the uniform traffic code. and to | that end Arthur A. Thomas, chairman | {of the promotional subcommittee, ap- | | pointed a committee of three to draw up and present the result of this morn- | ing's deliberation to the meeting of | the general committee, which is being | | held this afternoon. | NATIONAL DEFENSE Man Arrested for Participation in | $15,000 Hold-up of Bank April 23, 1927. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 17 (#).— Fred R. Burke, gangster-killer, sought at St. Joseph, Mich., jumped $15.000 bail here on May 27, 1927, on & charge of participation in the hold-up of the Portland Bank on April 3, 1925. The bandits escaped with approxi- mately $4,000. wounded the cashier gnd slugged a customer. The cashier, Fred | L. Kinlgman 44, identified a photo- graph of Burke as one of the bandits and he was brought here from Detroit. | Burke also was known here as Cameron and Camp. | ment a “Come Back and All Will Be Forgiven,” Message to Old Sol By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 17.—The drear, deserted Middle West sent a radiogram to Old Sol yesterday: “Come back and all will be forgiven.” Sol has gone off for occasional toots in the past, but today it seemed that his shady career might go on forever, ‘This was Chicago’s eighth day without a glimpse of the sun. Never before since the Weather Bureau has been established has the separation lasted more than five days. And today. the gloomy prophet said, the high fog bank still would be resisting the home- coming of the prodigal sun. COMMITTEE DELAYS AGTION ON GRUNDY Nye Resolution Goes Over Until After Holidays, Due to Lack of Quorum. By the Associated Press Consideration of the Nye resolution to unseat Senator Grundy of Pennsyl- vania was deferred today by the Sen- ate elections committee until after the Christmas recess when a quorum was unobtainable. Chairman Shortridge of the elections committee also announced that.consid- | eration of the credentials of Senator Patrick Sullivan, Republican of Wyo- ming, would be deferred until after the holidays. The committee chairman announced that it was his opinion that both Grundy and Sullivan were legally ap- pointed by the governors of their re- | spective States to fill vacancies. Nowever, Senator Nye, Republican, gave notice that he the $2,000,000 Pennsylvania primary of | 1926, when Gov. Fisher, who appointed him, was nominated, disqualifies him. | The question over Sullivan's appoint< ises because of the Wyoming law, which stat>s that the governor may fill a vacancy ir Congress -only if it occurs during a session, Senafor Warren of Wyoming died during the week's recess between sessions, out Sul- livan was appointed after Congress was in session and for that reason Shori- ridge believes the action legal. “I will serve on until they have an election, unless they have some one else they want to appoint,” commented Sen- ator Sullivan today. *This isn't such a bad place. Thin men of England are complaiti- ing because they must pay the same price for underciothes as fat ones. Nye con- | i) FOUR BODIES PROBE BALTIMORE BLAZE Four Women- Lose Lives in Paper Plant Fire—Fifteen Are Injured. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, December 17.Trapped in the uoper floors while nearly 1,000 tons of paper burned, 4 women lost their lives and 15 oth were injured vesterday when the fire swept the four- story building of the Thomas H. O'Con- nor Paper Co. I, the downtown railroad district of Baltimore. Last night four separate investiga- tions were siarted Into the fire, which as yet has puzzled officials as to its oigin. Belleved to have started on the second floor, sweeping to the upper floors where' between 75 and 100 men and womer. were working, the blaze spread so rapidly that firemen had no chance to make any sort of complete investigation. More than 50 of the workers fled down fire escapes, and fire department officials expressed the belief that those who perished had gone to the cloak rooms to recover their purses before at- tempting to leave the building. Oicials of the State at‘orney's office. the chief 0. the fire department, the department of buildings and the coro- ner’s office started inquiries into the fire. : The dead are: Mrs, Tina Beirer, 55: Mrs. Anna Campbell, 20: Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, 42, and Mrs. Catherine Burns, 36, Another woman, Margaret Crist, was so badly Injured she is not expected to live. Among the injured are four firemen who were either hurt or overcome with smoke while fighting the flames. Capt John Snell of the fire department re- | ceived a fracture of the arm when he caught a woman who had leaped from a third-story window. She was but slightly injured in the fall. The paper company kept no accurate list of their employes by which an ac- curate check could be made as to the nu.nber of persons in the building at the time the fire broke out. Officials of the fire department said the building had been inspected regularly and had complied with all laws as to fire escapes and fire prevention appliances. It was estimated by officials of the company ! that there were 1,000 tons of paper in the building at the time the fire started. MacMURRAY REACHES U. S. SEATTLE, Wash., December 17 (#).— John Van Antwerp MacMurray, who re- cently resigned as American Minister o China, arrived here yesterday on the President McKinley. He is on his way to Baltimore, where he has accept=d a pro- fessorship in the department of interna- tional relations at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. MacMurray had been Minister to China since April 9, 1925, “It's anybody’'s guess,” said Mr. Mac- Murray, when he was asked what is go- ing to come out of the present trouble in * China, been made. One suggestion is that Congress should appropriate _money | Distriet of Columbia—Rain tonight | Mr. Sweeney declares that “surely. N0, o trancfer of stock of the Jenkins Lab- and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight, | Institution of this kind in the city of | oatories, Inc.. or by outright sale of the from the funds already voted for ad- | colder tomorrow night; moderate south Washington is doing better woik or de- | StSECh TG OF B8 S WD *riora set | DELEGATES NAMED Judication of German-American claima. of the Mixed Claims Commission shoula Sioe | serves greater consideration than this|yoi}y (o the court that he worked for \ review the whole patents question afresh. At any rate. it is considerea | Another suggestion is that the arbiter Ma desirable by all concerned that the issue should be tackled and disposed of with: out further delay. This was Judg: Parker's purpose, and it is assumed that his successor holds the same view. Liberal Toward Germany. Mr. Boyden has consistently favored in the past the most liberal possibi: attitude toward Germany on the pPart|northwest portion tonight; tomorrow of her war claims creditors. Writing i rain and cojder in Forelgn Affairs on the Dawes plan two or three years ago. Boyden said: Reesrds for 94 Hours. “A more generous disposition on the| Thermometer—4 p.m., 41; 8 pm., 38; 12 midnight, 38; 4 a.m. 38; 8 am,, 38. part of all of us is necessary. The Barometer—4 p.m 30.37; 8 pm, Dawes plan, good as it is. IS a stu- : pendous undertaking. involving many | 30.36; 12 midnight, 30.35; 4 a.m., 30.3 § a.m., 30.28. and important complications and sure in the nature of things to result in| occasional disappointments and to need minor adjustments. If it were undertaken by the angels in heaven 1t | would need Divine grace to make ail the angels work together for good. Blind partisans and demagogues will continue to Insist that all Germans are devils incarnate; they will belittle every | effort, of reasonable Germans and will | magnify the importance of the similar ! blind partisans and demagogues of Germany. 1 “It is for statesmen of the allies— | and assoclated powers—to lead the peoples toward a better realization of | yland—Rain, not so cold tonight: fresh south winds. Virginia—Rain, warmer tonight: to- morrow rain: warmer on the coast and colder in extreme west portion; fresh south. winds. West Virginia—Rain, slight colder in noon today. Lowest temperature, 37, occurred at 7 am. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 62; lowest, 45. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 2:59 am. and 2:57 p.m.: high tide, 8:27 a.m. and 8:52 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide. 3:51 am. and 3:52 p.m.; high tide, 9:20 a.m. and 9:44 pm. The Sun and Moon. Highest temperature, 45, occurred at ! hospital which stands ready at all hours | for the purpose of helping them | to health, but for turning into asseis that other wise might be liabilities to the communit; | Gifts, each amounting to $100, were received for special purposes during thc | year from the following: Mrs. A. B. Houghton, Mrs. Price Whitaker, Mrs. J. M. Pistell, Mrs. Anna M. Holbrook, Mr Annie C. Glover, Mrs. Stilson Hutchi: | Mrs. Herbert Slocum, C. F. Jenkins, B. | F. Saul, Charles Woodhull, Myer Cohen | 3.3, Fagin and $500 from the Elks Lodge of Washington | “In addition, the following bequ | gifts and_memorials have been giver | Gift of Mrs. Martha Given, $15,000 esiate of Miss Addie Saunders, $10,000 | Estate of Mary Gill, $7,748; Mrs. Hattic | M. Strong, $5,000; Mrs. Davidge. as a | memorial (o her father, John W. Wee! | $3.000; estate of Wilson Barnuni, $2,000: | Mrs. Dorothy Primm Memorial Fund. $1,500; estate of Mary Brown, $1,184 estate of Charles B. Balley, $500. | List of Special Gift | The following special gifts are re- | ported: | "Mr. C. P. Jenkins, eight electric fans, costing about $100; Dr. Lucile Dooley. the Christian spirit—or of true civili- | Today—Sun rose 7:21 a.m.; sun sets | hydro-therapy tub, costing $175; Rotary | several months and offered the prop- tomorrow rain: warmer on the coast | throughout the year to receive children it "s)\q stock to a number of prominent and colder in the extreme west portion, | of every race, creed or color, not only | g% (U0 “Cihie" and during the cour: of his efforts to sell the property intro- duced the prospective purchaser to | Jenkins. Jenkins, according to his an- swer filed in the c denies any liabil- ity to Lord growing out of the transac- jon. %85 December 11 Mr. Justice Bailey at the request of the attorneys for Lord, ordered a commission to issue to Wil- liam E. Hanna of 15 Broad street, New York City, to take the depositions of 22 prominent financial persons whose te: | timony was desired by Lord for the pu pose of establishing his claim. Last Friday Judge John C. Knox of the Dis- | trict Court of the United States for the | Southern District of New York granted la petition filed by the attorneys for Lord in New York requiring the appear- ance of the various brokers and finan- | clers whose testimony was desired at | hearings before Mr. Hanna, which were | to have commenced today. | When the attorneys in the case were interviewed regarding the matter, it de- veloped that a number of conferenc | were held, as the result of which an agreement_of settlement was reached between the attorners for Lord and Jenkins yesterday afternoon. The at- lorneys have refused to disclose the amount which was paid in settlement of | | Ten delegates to the National Defense Conference, to be held here January | 129, 30 and 31, were named by th Guadalupe Club, 1848, at a meeting in the Oakland Apartments, last night | Forty womian's orgenizations are to par- ticipate in the conference. The delegates to represent the Guada- upe Club are: Mrs. Colden 'Homme- | dieu Ruggles. president of the Guada- | | lupe Club; Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, | vice president: Mrs. Hughes Oliphant, | Miss Sophie Plerce Casey, Miss Julia . | Hunt. Miss Frances Walker, Miss Mar- | garetta Hazzard, Mrs. Edmund Web- ster, Mrs. Courtland Nixon and Mrs, i Henry Hubbel. | ‘The Establishment of | | | A paper on Franciscan Monasteries in California and Mexico” was dellevered at the | meeting by Miss Soohie Plerce Casey, | hostess of the club. Mrs. Noble New | port Potts told of presenting a flag to | the Aztec Society during its annual convention here. “Plans also were dis- | cussed at the mcetine for the anni- | | versary dinner of the club at the Army | and Navy Club in February, to be held in commemoration of the signing of the | treaty of Mexico at Guadalupe Hidalgo. , | The meeting was opened with prayer by Mrs. Henry Hubbel, the club chap- pation, if one prefers—to set the ex- ample by their own sympathy and co- operation with Germans of good will by helping such Germans to convince their compatriots that good will really | pays. ‘Noblesse oblige.” So does Vi tory.” | 4:47 pm. Tomorrow—=Sun rises 7:21 am.; sets 4:48 pm. Moon rises 5:59 p.m.; sets 8:50 a.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one | half hour after sunset Condition of the Water. Harpers PFerry—Potomac and Shen- andoah Rivers clear this morning. Great Falls—Clear. sun (Copyright. 1920.) HOUSE COMMITTEE 0.K.S INVESTIGATION IN HAITI Approves Revised Porter Resolu- | tion Authorizing President to Weather. Stations. Appoint Group. Abilene, Tex Albany. N. Y. Atlanta, Ga Atlentic City Baltimore. Md.. 3 Birmingham Bismarck, N. Boston, Mass. Bufizlo, N. ¥ . Cloudy Gloudy : Gloudy Clondy Cloudy Rain Cloudy Snow Rain FoRgY Clouds Cloudy Rain Cloudy Clear Rain Clouds Cloudy Cloudy By the Associated Press The House foreign affairs committee | today approved the revised Porter reso- Tution to authorize the President fo ap- point a commission of seven to investi- | gate conditions in Haiti and report within six months. 3 W The original resolution, which was | Charlestony, 5. supported by Undersecretary of Siate | Gincinnati, Ohio 2 Cotton, merely provided for a commis- | Clevciand. Ohlo. 2 sion “io study and review the United | Gohumb! ‘cbia... States policies in Haiti.” Delroit. Mic The measuire approved today specified | £t Paso Tex. a commission of seven ~members 1o |ife “study and review conditions in Haiti | and_the policies of the United States fn that republic.” 1t also would provide $50,000 for ex- penses of the commission. Huron. S. Dak Indianapclis.Ind 2 Rain Pi.cloudy Foey Rain Glondy v | Toutsvilte, K3 | Miami, Fia Crocheting was inine _employment the Civil War Will Rogers the universal fem- o Nebr in the perind after | 2MiNd PhiladeIphia.Pa. Ariz h, Pa ) Cloudy Clear Glonay Loray Clouds Pt.cloudy Cloudy Fougy Cloudy Rain 2 Rain Clear Clouds. Phoenis. Pitron Portland, Orex | Rateizn.' N. C | Salt Lake ‘Cify Sin Antonio San Diezo. Calif San_Francisco. Louis, Mo Paul, Minn. Wash | i 2090 | 3012 | £ ! BEVERLEY HILLS, Calif., Decem- | ber 17.—1 welcome to our ancient and honorable newspaper profession. and 1am sure my co-defendants. M:. Brishane, Mr. H. G. Wells, Mr. Ber- natd Shaw. Mr. Gene Tunney, Mr Calvin Coolidge and Babe Ruth, do the same, to Eddie Cantor, my very good friend. We spent our literary apprenticeship in the same school ot hard knocks, Mr. Ziegfeld's follies We eked out a bare existence among nothing but bare backs, There was | diamond necklaces to the right of us and Rolls Royces to the left of ns. and costumes of powder com- pletely surrounding us. Those were hardship days, but great training for our journalistic future. ~Eddie specializes in Wall street and finan- cial news, he is another Roger Bab- #on, and how I envy him, for my lit- 1= efforts will always be lowly, I will Never zas further than just a police \m{ OV the affairs of Congress. . ; time. todaz ) Stations empariture, Weather | London. - TR Gionr M ’Fl 36 Clear % Closay 36, Cloudy Glanr Cloar todases Hain gland | vienna it Berlin | Stockholm, Gibraltar. ' Spain “Noon.. Greenwich time. Horla (Favall. Azores 58 “Ciirrent observations.) Eermuds 3 Porto Rico. .. 4. Cuha o) 28 8 Hamilton. | San_ Jua; | Havan; Colon. Clear one 5 1-Ply ... $1.05 3 BRANCHES orec 165 SW v & Fiy Ave N S0 C8 MW WILL ROGERS. Part cloudy | Part cloudy 80 __ Part cloudy | Club, an_electro-cardiograph, ' costing |$2,500; Mount Vernon Alumni Asso- | ciation, one electric refrigerator and | two path slabs, costing over $500; Dr.| Reginald Walker, a morgue table, cost- | ing $150: Dr. James A. Lyon, examina- | tion table and _instruments, costing | $100; Frank Edmonds, completely | equipped an eye clinic last year, and | has created a $200-per-year fund_for | glasses for those unable to pay; Mrs. | John C. Simpson, a training school ad- | vertisement, costing $120; Mrs. Corby. | equipm-nt for the X-ray room, costing | $700, and through the activitics of the | Thrift Shop the hospital has recelved | four electric refrigerators and an elec- | tric_dishwasher. “The hospital has been fortunate in ! the amount of volunteer service it has received. The following persons are de- | serving_of special recognition: Mrs F. B. Eaton has given two years of faithful_service in th- record depart ment: the work of Miss Dorothy Bierer in the child welfare and dispensary clinics; Miss Laura Towne has given six vears of work in the dispensary; Mrs. Alexander Wolf for two years has done faithful work in the orthopaedic clinies, | besides donating the use of her auto- mobile for transporting children: Miss | Winifred West, Mrs. John B. 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