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CONPANIES OPPOSE PLAN 10 CONTINUE CAR RATES 2 YEARS Officials' Unwilling to Tie l I Takes New Chair l Hands for Definite Period, | Senate Hearing Told. BLAINE MAY REQUEST LOBBY PROBE ACTION Considers Asking Inquiry Dealing With Activity for Former " - Merger Proposal. The provision to continue present rates of carfare for two years loomed s one of the chief points of issue in the pending . street railway merger’ plan, when officials of the companies told the Senate District committee at,a public hearing last night they were unwilling to have their hands tied for a definite period on the fare question, with the District Supreme Court now considering ‘Whether: Tates are adequate. An up development at the hearing ‘was the intimation by Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin that he is considering .sking the Senate lobby investigating committee to inquire as to | what legal services were engaged in seeking action on the former merger plan in the last Congress. Senator Blaine revealed that he had this in mind when he said it was his understanding that one of the lawyers who appeared before the committee last | year represented the North American Co., and added that he “may want 0 | ask some questions about that before | another committee.” Senator Blaine is a | member of the Senate lobby committee es well as the District committee. Another Point Aside from the fare question, the hearing developed that the other chief point of conflict in the deliberations will be whether changes in the utilities law to establish a new method of appealing to the courts in utility cases should be | enacted as part of the merger agreement or in separate legislation. Several mem- bers of the Sena TRer. President John H. Hanna of the Capi- tal Traction Co. and President William | . Ham of the Wi lectric Co. be established as well as bnmn“ng:a Sxrm 4 that the articles of incorpo n merged company be approved by the commission. ” Wants P. E. P. Co. in Merger. Mercer Johnston of the People's Leg- islative Service urged that the Potomac g ic.llk.elll.lonh- to some of the provisions of the Capper of the Senate com- at the close of the hearing believe further public hear- be necessary. most of the hearing was taken up with a logal debate over es- tablishment of a n°w court procedure for utility cases by amending the utilities law, there is the possibility of getting over this obstacle in the me{.er | negotiations by handling the question af court procedure as ceparate legisia- | jon. On the question of what the rate of car fare should be while the commis- zion is revaluing the merged company, however, it appeared from the testi- mony taken last night that this section of the merger plan will be the chief issue in dekflnlnmf whether a merger egreement is possible. Hartman Points to Saving. When Senator Vandenberg asked the Utilities Commission to state its side of the clause guaranteeing against an | increase. in fares for two years, Com- missioner Harleigh H. Hartman pointed out that the. companies will effect a saving of at least $500,000 a year through, merger, and that this phase of the situation is not before the court in the pending street car rate case. Mr. Hanna contended the question of how much would be saved from me T and how soon it would begin to_show “is a matter of opinion.” Mr. Hanna and Mr. Ham both ex- pressed confidence they could establish that the companies are not earning a { Teasonable return now in ““'m“jme Washington College of Law. Mr. Ham testified that to fix any defi- | ‘with the highest court decisions. nite time for continuation of present fares “would be an insurmountable ob- Jection” to acceptance of the merger. | Senator Vandenberg asked him if the companies were not in accord a year or two ago with the proposal to declare & moratorium on the fare question pend- ing a revaluation. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Utilities Commission, was the first ‘witness at the hearing, explaining the essential differences between the pend- ing plan and the one of last year. amendments to the utilities d changes in court pro- ld affect all public service in the District, and a3 1 present tilitles’ side of the ques- |tion of court procedure, when appeals are taken from decisions of the com- mission. At the request of Senator Blaine, Mr. DeVane promised to submit the lan- guage he believes should be used in amending the law with regard to court procedure. | Senator Capper, at the close of the | hearing, invited n before the submit briefs. T, any citizens wi commif ho had | PROF. WILLARD HAYES YEAGER. ‘The Depéw chair of public speaking, established at the George Washington University by Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew as a memorial to her late husband, will be dedicated with elaborate ceremonies in Corcoran Hall at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Representative Pish of New York will be the principal speaxer. Presided over by Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the university, the ceremonies will witness the formal as- sumption of the Depew profassorship of ublic speaking by Willard Hayes ‘eager, the first incumbent of the chair, Mrs. Depew, now a resident of Wash- ington, will be present at the cere- monies. The presentation of her gift will be made by Ju Charles Henry Butler, and John Bell Larner, trustee board chairman, will accept it on behalf of the institution. Mr. Yeager will speak at the dedica- tion on Mr. Depew as an orator and | upon his contribution to the art of pub- | lic_speaking. Formerly Qu;hl::nd o!’h“‘:: drpfir“nen: of public speal at the University of nll!plgh. Prof. Yeager has had wide ex- perience as a teacher of spesch and is | the author of several works on that sub- | t. FLOGR OF BRIDEE 10 BE REPLACED Reinforced Concrete SIabs§ to Be Placed on Ana- ! costia Span. Reconstruction of the entire floor Anacostia will be ‘The t involves replacement of &: plates with reinforced con- crete slabs and the laying of a new halt surface. The hand ralls also be replaced. The work will cost $120,000. More Work Contemplated. Capt. Whitehurst also announced that supplemental contracts would be award- ed early in March for a number of im- provements on highways, sidewalks and alleys. Contracts already have been awarded for a large amount of hway work in the Spring, and the additional work contemplated has been made pos- sible by an unobligated balance in the 1930 appropriation of the surface divi- sion of the highway department. Surface Replacement. ‘The supplemental contracts will call for replacement of 58,000 square yards of asphalt surfaces, 50,000 square yards of alley paving, 20,000 square yards - of sidewalk paving and 50,- 000 lineal feet of roadway improve- ments, involving the - col v of concrete curbs and gutters ‘and new asphalt roadway surfacing. This work is estimated to cost $500,000. The Spring work now under con- tract calls for 80,000 square yards of new concrete paving and the replace- ment of 48,000 square yards of con- crete surfaces. JUDGE 0’TOOLE RETURNS TO MUNICIPAL COURT Senate Confirms Nomination With- out Debate—Appointed to Bench in 1921. The nomination of Judge Mary O'Toole for another term on the bench of the Municipal Court of the District was confirmed by the Senate late yes- terday wihout debate. Her reappoint- ment previously had been reported hron ly by the Senate judiciary com- mittee. Judge O'Toole received her first ap- mmmum 1o the bench in 1921 during e Harding administration, and was reappointed by President Coolidge in 1925. Judge O'Toole was born in Ire- land and came to this country when {8 young girl. She has lived in the District since 1905 and studied law at AIR PROGRAM CHANGED. | “Russian Shadows” to Be Presented Instead of “Romeo and Juliet.” Part one of the opera “Russian Shadows,” will be broadcast by WRC tonight instead of the scheduled tabloid version of “Romeo and Juliet,” it was announced by the National Broadcast- mg Co. The announcement of the change was made too late for inclusion in the detailed program. Same Minister Performs | . Sentiment, joined with a determina- tion to start anew, brought a man from ot Mr. Ham, in arguing t the two- | year continuation of exisf fares, said ‘many tracks change would be necessary {5 bring about the anticipated econo- ‘mies under merger, and that the finan- ‘of ' the new be such as to af ital. ——— Air Officer to Speak. !, The City Club will hold its January !m{mm,vfihmfi. |:Arthur 1. Ennis of the information di- Army Air vison, Bervice, speaking on Mon! [¢/Batety Factors in Aerenzutics.” Lunch- | paciiy vesterda b2 zcr o4 ot 12:30, SE ‘Wilmington, Del, and a woman from the Canal Zone to the rectory of Rev. G"Eu’r'n?“u’ at St. St ns’ and the tion Episcopal Church yes- There, in & reminiscent of their youth, Paul L. Hughes ndbmrjorh W. Hughes again nounced by the same church, y and sexton of the ness. Dud!ey remembered the ccuple, | ground for the new setting VOWS pro- ter 14 years g ey e for » his bride of 19, Burton Mon in that ca- he and Dr. | The Foening Starf WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930, 81 CHARGES PLACED AGAINST BAND OF B COLORED YOUTHS Confessions Account for Rob- beries in Southwest Section *Buring Last 3 Months. WELL ORGANIZED GROUP HELD NIGHTLY MEETINGS Policéman Allen Capfures Leader, Who Implicates Others, After 15-Block Chase. When 81 charges of housebreaking, robbery. of pocketbooks, petit larceny and destruction of private property had been lodged against eight colored boys confessions last night, they said there might be more cases in which they had figu during the last two or three months, but their memories were ex- hausted and they could not remember The boys were arrested Sunday by Precinct Detective W. C. Curtis and Policemen F. R. Gue and O. E. Allen. to the officers, the apprehen~ tion of band accounts for a goodly proportion of the robberies and thefts in the Southwest section of the city during the past three months. ‘The boys are said to have formed a well organized band, which held nightly | meetings in the home of one of the group and planned their operations. The alleged leader of the gang, El- mer E. Olden, 16, of Cullinane court southwest, was captured Sunday on the Highway Bridge when he fell from fa- tigue after a 15-block chase by Police- man Allen. He is said to have impli- cated two others and they, in turn, told the names of the remainder. ‘The boys are: Olden, Elijah Jackson, 17, and Overton Jackson, 16, brothers, living in the 700 block of Ninth street southwest; Leroy Jackson, 15, a cousin, of the 1500 block of C street southwest; Robert Douglas, 18, of the 400 block of K street southwest; Henry Scott, 16, of the 300 block of M street southwest; Frederick Wheeler, 17, of the 1000 block of Sixth street southwest, and George Gaither, 16, of the 200 block of I street southwest. The youths are said to have held their meetings in the home of the Jackson brothers, BREAKING OF GROUND FOR CHURCH HOME SET ST Episcopal Ceremonies to Be Held Saturday—Bishop Freeman to Speak. Ceremonies incidental to breaking iscopal Home for Children will be held Saturday after- noon at 3 o'clock at Nebraska and Utah avenues. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, chairman of the home board of incorporators, will deliver the invocation. Mrs. Hoover has been in- vited to turn th_ first shovelful of earth. The nine-acre site, donated anony- mously, lies to the southwest of Chevy Chase Circle. The cottage unit plan, as recommended by District health au- thorities, has been followed in the plans. One-third of the necessary sum of $350,000,° Bishop Freeman reports, is available. Of this, Dr. William C. Rives has contributed $50,000, equivalent to cost of one of the buildings. - LECTURER WILL TELL OF ANGKOR DISCOVERY Pictures of Explorations in Cam- bodia Will Be Shown Nation- al Geographic Meeting. Angkor, site of the picturesque an- cient metropolis of Cambodia, will be described by Miss Lucille Douglass be- |fore the National Geographic Society | members tomorrow evening at the ‘Washington Auditorium. Miss Doug- lass will fllustrate the lecture with mo- tion pictures and with lantern slides colored by herself of the picturesque people and ruins, some of which have hitherto been inaccessible. Miss Douglass followed the exploration of archeologists who were seeking {o translate insériptions on temples. The translations alter the dates of some of the larger monuments and consequently give a.new spectus upon the art and culture of the Khmers. In' company with the archeologists Miss Douglass also examined the new excavations at Ta Prohm and Prah Khan. INJURED AFTER ARREST. Georgetown Student SBuffers Broken Left Arm. While struggling with a policeman, who was arresting him for disorderly conduct in a restaurant at 1707 Penn- | sylvania_avenue early this morning, Robert Compton, 21-year-old George- town University student, fell on the icy sidewalk and suffered a broken left arm_ Policeman George M. Stewart of the third precinct was summoned to the restaurant about 1:45 o'clock this morning. Police reported that Compton &rgm!ed vigorously and struggled all way to the police box at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. COUPLE GOES TO SAME CHURCH FOR SECOND WEDDING IN 14 YEARS Ceremony for Reunited Divorced Pair. Hughes and his wife were divorced four years ago. She went to Balboa and he entered business in Wilmington. Out of & correspordence there devel- oped & desire to live ther again, intent upon wiping clean the slate g:ed to meet on the sce: ted at 1515 Newton street not on Fourteenth street. Senti- it took care of that. Mr. Dudley said it was the first time he had married a couple after a sep- t.m chn"tfl:; told T he , but when their story remembered the: earlier ceremony in at the fourth precinct on their own | The visit of | n 160 BUDDHAS FIND HAVEN IN MUSEUM, RECORD DISCLOSES |Prince Guatama, Founder of Faith, Is Included in Collection. CROWDS PASS TEMPLE WITH HARDLY A GLANCE Tibetan Manuscript Is Among Rarer Articles in This New World Shrine. | BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ‘Washington has its Temple of the 160 | Buddhas, | _But the placid, contemplative Prince Gautama, father of the religious faith | of nearly a quarter of the human race, goes unworshiped, if not unhonored, in what may be his greatest shrine in the New World. He has come, in a sense, to his own mystical Nirvana of endless peace and forgetting. The crowds which ascend meswuo(m;t!mplewlhlmfi backward glance. with s the activities of those about him, the pursuit of knowledge of the material world, are of no concern to one who considers that creation altogether as a vestment of sin and sorrow of which life must divest itself if it is to attain happiness. . S. National Museum, Prince Gautama Siddhartha, the son of Sudd- hadana, in his many incarnations has arrived at Nirvana. Some of Statues Well Known. While some of the more conspicuous Buddha statues in the national collec- tion are well known to the general pub- lic, the great variety of them was hard- ly suspected until the publication this week of the catalogue of the comparative religions collection arranged before his death by Dr. Immanuel Casanowicz. He listed a total of 160 statues, together with a great number of sacred objects used by the Buddha's followers, most of which would be strange indeed to the mystical religious philosopher if his wooden eyes could see them. There is the bronze Buddha of the Five Wisdoms, seated in dreamy medi- tation with eyes almost closed, a circu- lar halo of wood behind his d. It was cast in Japan in .1648 by Saburobi- yoye Katsutane, son of the great caster, { for Shichirouyemon Tadannori Taka- |mine and his wife who “desire the { blessings of & future life” for the souls of their mother, fathers, six unnamed relatives and themselves. It was con- secrated by the shonin Kwanseikudatsu of the Soclety of the Distinguished Pure Lotus. Then there is the giant teakwood | Buddha, standing 6 feet tall on a lotus flowe. pedestal, a diadem studded with colored stones around his forehead. The lotus is the queen of Indian flowers to which a special sanctity is attached, and both Hindu and Buddhist divinities are often represented as standing on a lotus pedestal. One of the most ornate is the 7-foot which was his favorite practice. The body and robe are painted yellow, the lips, insides of the nostrils and plercings of the ears red. The eyes are wide open, and the full lipped mouth wears a faint smile. Over the statue is thrown a mendicant’s robe. On the palm of the right hand are painted in red, blue and green an open and closed lotus. The sole of the right foot is adorned in the same colors with wheels, lotuses and figures of an elephant and lion. The wheel with a thousand spokes was one of the marks of a Buddha. It meant universal dominion, the great circle of power and rule. It was sald to appear at rare intervals on the foot of a new- born child and meant that the infant would be whose chariot would roll unresisted over the world, or a perfect Buddha, destined to rule all the realms of the spirit. “Turning Wheel of the Law.” Legend has it that Gautama, as soon as he entered the world, walked seven either a universal monarch, thus symbolically taking spiritual pos- Aeum:yof the universe. In the Buddhist phraseology “turning the wheel of the law” stands for preaching the doctrine destined to traverse the world like the chariot wheels of a conquering mon- Buddhism. After Gautama received his | great enlightenment ‘at Benares he “set rolling the royal chariot wheel of a universal empire of truth and righteous- “Akain there is the Buddha of gllded wood, the right hand resting on a beg- ging bowl. The legend relates that the first food offered Prince Gautama after his attainment of supreme knowledge was by two merchants and consisted of honey and wheat. But Buddha, deter- mined to live henceforth by begging, de- cided he must h!lv;,e ll"l Almub:::l!." %r‘y the four kings of four. qu L}l: world each brought him one of gold, which he refused. Then they brought silver, emerald and ruby dishes, which also were refused. Then they joined together and brought him an earthenware bow], which he accepted and used for the rest of his life. This bowl, according to the legend, now is kept in s palace at the bottom of the sea and will be recovered again at the next incarnation of Buddha. Thus the procession of statues con- tinues, some crudely carved and some | elaborately decorated products of Ori- ental art, all depicting Buddha in the various incidents with which tradition has endowed the quiet life of the humble hilosopher. A There is the scene of his contest with Mara, the prince of the demons. Hard pressed, Buddha called upon the earth dess for help. She squeezed her air and caused a great river to flow forth, which swept away Mara and his hordes. Another shows Buddha sur- rounded by the nagas, serpents with er to transform themselves into juman beings. They were converted by Gautama and showed great zeal for the 8] of his gospels. They dwell in the center of the universe, watching over zmmre:'. and causing rain and certain maladies, In nearly all the statues Buddha is shown in an attitude of calm medita- tion. One of the most grotesque shows him being carried into Nirvana by his weeping disciples. Horns Believea to Be Actual. Among the more curious objects are the horns of Buddha, made of bronze. According to the tradition Gautama has_passed through 550 incarnations before he a) d as the savior of d. 5 horns are believed to be the actual horns of Buddha, cast off during his ‘They were found at incarnation as a bull. a shrine supposed to have been erected on the spot where the bull died. ‘Then - there are the footprints of Buddha cast from the original at Budd- ya in the Maghada Province of Tndin, Supposed, footprints ate found n all B i countries, end the devout make 3 to them. o ition the " collection contains wooden Buddha sitting in meditation, | steps to each of the cardinal points, | arch. Thus it has become a symbol of | . | brought up by the The low temperatures this week have frozen the Potomac except for some small patches of open water. photograph was made this morning from the District shore alongside the abutments of the Key Bridge. This —Star Staff Photo. TWO DRIVERS HELD AFTER ACCIDENTS Man, Woman and 2-Year-0ld Child Are Hurt in Collisions. i | Two automobile drivers were arrested on serious traffic charges last evening as the outcome of a series of accidents in which a man, a woman and a 2-year- old child sustained minor injuries. Mrs. Emily Krouse, 26, of 20 T street northeast was thrown against the wind- shield of the automobile in which she was riding when it was in collision at Eighteenth - street and Benning road northeast with a .1achine operated by Elton Tolson, colored, 22, of 1227 Car- rollburg street southwest. Walter B. Clark of the T street address was the driver of Mrs. Krouse’s car, The woman was taken g:plw in a automobile and forehead. ‘was arrested by ninth preeinct police and charged with reck- less driving. Nathaniel S, Applewhite, 46, of 632 North Carolina avenue southeast, a taxicab driver, is being held at the fourth precinct on a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor as the result of a rollision at Fourteenth and Water streets southwest with a car driven by George A. Coulon, 34, f 1808 I street. - Thomas Thron, col- ored, 29, of 303 Second street south- west, a passenger: in the taxi, was taken to Emergency = Hospital in the fourth precinct patrol and treated by Dr. J. E. Lewis of the staff for lacera- tions to his forehead. Two-year-old Patricia Mellon, daugh- ter of Fern G. Mellon, of 9 Magnolia parkway, Chevy Chase, Md., sustained cuts to her face and nose when her father’s automobile .was in colMsion with another machine at the north end of Highway Bridge. The child was reated at Emergency Hospital by Dr. Lewis. The second:car was driven by Richard Ross of 1212 Second street southwest. POOL IS SUSPENDED Snow Causes Ice to Have Too Rough a Surface for 1 Sport. Skating on the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial was called off today, | due to rough ice. This announcement was made after officials of the Office of fPubH: Buildings and Public Parks had | surveyed the pool. | During the past two days numerous | skaters enjoyed the lggfl. watched by United States Park Police and other officials of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, it, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks. —_— Pershing and Mayo to Be Guests. Gen. John J. Pershing and Rear Ad- miral Henry T. Mayo, commander-in- chief of the United States Fleet during the World War, will be guests of honor at the annual dinner of the Military Order of the Carabao, Saturday evening, February 8, in the Willard Hotel. The dinner is scheduled for 7:30 o'clock. scores of statues of the &erwnllmu in the very populous Buddhist panthegn, personifications of the various aspects of nature and of the fears and aspira- tions of the people. There is Amitabha, the bodishattiva of boundless 1lig) blue-headed Tse-pa-med, the long life; Kuang-Yin, the less of merey; hxu':ntle.lza’e god of ":n’?lu; reya, who is yt appear on the next incarnation of Buddha, and kindl{ Drolma, the savioress of hu- manity. Then there is Mahakala, the black onefi who is the Devil of the | Hindus. But he also is represented here by a statue of his Japanese fica- tion ‘as Diakoku, the smiling Japanese god of wealth, the demon having been transformed into a fat Chinese trades- man holding in his hand a magic ham- merl.mn single stroke of which gives weaith. Among the rarer articles of Bud- dhist worship in this new world shrine of Gautama is a Tibetan manuseript, written in gold letters on 366 ornate cardboards, of the,Prajna Paramita of “‘means of -rmmannt the other side of wisdom,” consis of mythical dis- courses suj ivered by Buddha to supernatural hearers. Yy ve{: nagas, the serpen men, from the bottom of the sea and delivered to one of his later disciples, This was a present to the National Museum from the government of Ine there is the full” for Buddhist every turn of ornate Buddhist it pligrimages and present | each, of cvercome by their recital. ited for lacerations to her nose and | ord Engineers Working In Nicaragua Want Records Will Be Sent Back to U. S, By the Associated Press. Soft strains of music are sought by members of the Army Engineer Bat- talion which is now distributed deep'in Nicaragua engaged in surveying the route for the proposed new canal, and any effort to wish them “harsh, squeaky” records will be resisted. The engineers have reported to War Department that seven camps had been established and duly named after outstanding men. Some have electric lights. Three have radio, all have puri- fied running water, but matter to be atten is music. One of the officers asked that there be sent by the next boat “two tal machines and 50 records of varied, soft, able, cheerful, melodious al offensive rec-~ 5 ncem Hurley, of Army predecessor, Maj. Gen. Jadwin, are among those for whom camps have been. named. \EPISCOPALIANS HOLD MINISTERS’ MEETING Brooklyn Pastor Conducts Confer- ence on “Expository P;nehing." . G. M. Williams of S. Paul's Church, Brooklyn, is the con- ference on “Expository ing” now in session at the College of Preachers of Washington Cathedral, with clergy~ men from 12 States in attendance. ' The gathering is one of a series con- ducted by outstanding men of the Epis~ copal Church. Dr. John Rathborn Oliver of Balti- more, will direct the session next week. Among clergymen in attendance this week are: Rev. Otey R. Berkeley, De- troit, Mich.; Rev. Leslie F. Chard, Dun- kirk. N. Y.; Rev. Fenimore E. Cooper, Elmira, N. Y.; Rev. John R. Dallinger, Newton, Mass.; Rev. Percy R. Deacon, Norwood, N. Y.; Rev. Edward S. Doan, Petoskey, Mich.; Rev. A. Gordon Fowkes, Neenah, Wis.; Rev. Frank Dean Gifford, Mamaroneck, N. Y.: Rev. Lioyd B. Hols- | apple, Southport, Conn.; Rev. Leopold Kroll, West Park, N. Y.; Rev. Alfred Lawrence, Chapel Hill, N. C.; Rev. Mer- | rill M. Moore, Bethlehem, Pa.; Very Rev. Roland F. Philbrook, Davenport, Iowa: Rev. Roy 8. Rawson, St. Louls, Mo.: Rev. John L. Roney, Albany, N. Y.; Rev. Carleton F. Sage, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rev. A. L. Schrock, Goshen, Ind.; Rev. Sher- rill Smith, East Dedham, Mass.; Rev. Walter P. Stanley, Toledo, Ohio; Rev. Morton C. Stone, Chamj , TIL.; Rev. Gilbert P. Symons, Glendale, Ohio, an Rev. John E. Wilkinson, Buffalo, N. Y. SPEAKS ON PALESTINE. | Dr. Levin to Address Jews on Re- building Homeland. Recent disorders in Palestine and the problems of rebuilding that country as the Jewish national homeland will be discussed by Dr. Shmarya Levin, resi- dent of the Holy Land, who is to speak at the Jewish Community Center Sun- day night, under the auspices of the District Zionist organization. Dr. Levin been active in the movement for the reconstruction of Palestine and recently conferred with British authorities in London in re- the situation with which re- Their Music Soft| i Declare Squeaky or Harsh | the | the birth rate rose from 16.29 to 1 it Officer the important | popul . _He made clear 2 BIRTH, DEATH RATES IN DISTRICT GROW Increase Shown in Figures Just Computed Covering Last Year. ‘The District'’s birth and death rates both showed slight. increases last year, tmm rfl ":a figures m‘ld':od public by E ay. death rate Mcmm 13.11 per 1,000 in 1928, to 13.45 in 1929, while Health E. " PAGE B—-1 SPECAL AVARDS FOR ORATORS NEARBY STATES Medals for County Cham- pions—National Finalists to Receive European Trip. DIVISION ESTABLISHED AS ADDED INCENTIVE Tour Will Feature Visit to Ober- ammergeau and Attendance at Passion Play. Special awards for Virginia and Maryland high school participants in the National Oratorical Contest have been arranged for by the contest com- mittee to augment the attractive prizes established for district and national winners, it was announced today. Each pupil adjudged champion of his county will be awarded a gold medal. The contest committee today made known, at its headquarters, room 404 Star Building, the prizes for the con- test and the details of the European tour which will be awarded the seven participants in the national finals, Prizes Same as Last Year. ‘The prizes will be the same as last year. The award for the pupil who rep- resents the district comprising the Dis- trict of Columbia and Maryland and Virginia counties in the national finals will be $200 and participation in the European tour. Eleven prizes of $100 will be awarded to the ers in each division in the district. The Virginia and Maryland division has been established by the contest committee as an added incentive to pupils in those States who thus will be eligible for awards of merit regardless of whether they qualify in the national finals, which is to be an event of On 'f,’," day the winners in fiu ational honors. * The 1930 prize tour, with all id, will be awarded to ‘The | disc] " Sall From New York July 2. The tour party will sail from New Assistan F 5 Schwartz, however, explained that the figures were not quite representative, as in computing the 1929 rates the same lation base had been used, on ad- Vice of the Census Bureau, as was used for 1:1“' Since O.h‘n ;%n; fihx.no, an annut increase o 5 had been calculated by ti d [Py of Mexican labor were cut off it spect to constructionists are confronted. TIGHTENING BORDER IMMIGRATION FOUGHT Texas and New Mexico Witnesses * . Tell Committee Need for Mexican Laborers. By the Associated Press. Wwhich could endanger lives the border, and Iack of Mexican -which would hamper ' develop- ment of the Southwest, were depicted igrati it | to the House immi lon commi yesterday as results which grants American countries. Appearing with a Southwest to present agricultural interests to pro, place Western Hemisphere on a quota basis, Ju Brownsville, Tex., sald might come posals to immigration H. L. Ym of that if the sup- would s development of the Lower Rio anpx‘:m Valley. 2 The ures presented by Yates and pra nt Butte reches fl'mmfidtufl: reclemation projec New Mexico, of the serious .Xm- that might come to the Soythwest from cut- ting off the supply of Mexican labor led Chairman Jol of the commit- tee to announce that subcommittees would be sent there for a study before mlhnf & final draft of the bill. Flem- ing said cotton growers needed this la- bor and proposed a system of seasonal M“Mporu to assure pickers at harvest Yates said that if ill feeling should result from the legislation lives of citi- zens along the Mexican border might be endangered. He also caution: against the danger that this dissatis- faction ;:;:lulge l;juure :mmnn com- merce wi 0 and South Amer- ica and Mexico. ‘There are many persons sent to jail these MII because of quarts, but very seldom do these quarts mean milk as shg’ did n ol at Police Court today whe: Thomas was sent away for 30 T, but his case involved 18 quarts of milk and a pint of cream. ;What in the world did you do with Judge Gus A. up the police sus- THEFT OF MILK AND CREAM BRINGS 30-DAY TERM FOR “HEAVY DRINKER” John Thomas, Facing Court Second Time on Same Charge, Is Given Jail Sentence. Taising the bars inst immi- | from.hu.n e York July 2 on the steamship Amer- iea of the United States Lines, and land July 12, Nlnedl‘l Will be spent in visits to Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig July ll;‘ | ! g the mm¢ at After TEEL ! 5 B highlands party will m.br various g the Chateaux country, the bat- ¥, A Versailles, Fontainebleu and itles. Belgium the party at Brussels and in Holland visit ague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Excursions to Oxford. The Hook of Holland route will be "u'fe‘ across the mm:no clt:nn&:: party, proceeding ) make excursions to Oxford, the district and the Te coun= On September 4 the y will rom Sou ton e steam- g : t BipETEeRs g 5 will 12. contest committee. e xible oves capecially saehenting. 3 proves y enchan party. - The, tour is more like one a family or a group of friends than clients of a travel it was inted out. “The committee is now arranging for ths contest preliminarice. ANACOSTIA -OPPOSES APPOINTMENT BILL J’o;ul‘ X‘hlillo, Changing Residen: tial Status as to Commission- : ers, Among Topics. o explained that § i £ i 3398 Opposition to the Jopes bill, now pending before the Senate, which alters the residential requirements for candi- dates for District ers, was expressed in a resolution last night at & meeting of the Anacostia Citizens' Agsociation in the Masonic Hall, Four- teenth and U streets southeast. \ A resolution was also adopted urging that neither the Senate nor House Dis- trict committee make a report on the Cramton bill, until the value of the land that the Federal Government is now withdrawing from taxation in the triangle be determined. It was pointed out that a reduttion of the taxable property in the District would neces- sarily mean a proportionate reduction in the taxation income of the District. Some legislative compensation for this probable loss in eivic revenue, the meeting declared, should be made be- fore the Cramton bill becomes effective. A request - for- police protection on High street in Anacostia during the sledding season was addressed to the nxué:k t;l t.t.hl; elevel::: m;;rec'l’mt. , exp] the se of the Community Chest, was mp:ldrro by Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the association. DANCE WILL RAISE FUNDS FOR HOSPITAL SICK ROOM Central Dispensary and Emergency Alumni Association to Hold Ball February 8. then' “I drank milk," the quoth unruffied The man was arrested on street southwest by ,cum“.',f‘flf tee are: James