Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1930, Page 12

ENGINEER OF TRAIN - DIES ATTHROTTLE Quick ‘Action of Fireman Saves Passengers From Disastrous Collision. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, March 24 —Pas- nger train No, 3 of the Chicago, Mil- aukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad hundered southward toward Excelsior prings late Saturday with a dead engi- eer at the throttle and only the quick ction of the locomotive’s fireman in topping the train averted a colision th a freight train. £ The incident became known yesterday Swhen the family of the dead engineer, Eeoree F. Robinson, 68, expressed the ish to give the fireman, E. E. Mijlburn, fcredit for saving Mr. Robinson’s perfect 9-year record with the railroad from ing marred. The train, from Ottumwa, Towa, was glue at Excelsior Springs at 4:51 o'clock; # freight train, running ahead of the ‘passenger, was scheduled to take the piding to clear .the main line for the faster train. Eight miles east of Ex- ‘celsior Springs, Milburn was surprised 10 see the freight train rounding a curve ‘ahead and not yet completely on a side track. When the passenger train did mnot siacken speed, Milburn shouted across the cab, and then was startled to see Robinson slumped in his seat. Milburn Jeaped across the cab, closed the throt- tle and applied the air brakes. The train slowed down sufficiently to allow the freight to get into the clear on the siding. v Milburn then ran the train into Ex- ‘gelsior Springs yards, where another engineer entered the cab. The pas- gengers . left the train at the Union Station in Kansas City without know- 4ng what had occurred Mr. Robinson died of heart disease, Dr. W. L. Wysong, Clay County coroner, «decided. NATIONALISTS LOSING GRIP ON NORTH CHINA Bhansi Forces Take Over Wireless Administration at Peiping as i Latest Move of Substitution. By the Associated Press. { PEIPING, China, March 24.—The ominal control of the Nanking Na- gnmun government over North China continues to wane, the latest move of %he Shansi forces being to take over the less administration here. £ Yen Hsi-Shan, the so-called “model vernor” of Shansi, who is co-operating th Feng Yu-Hsiang and the Kuomin- ‘hun generals in a hostile movement t President Chiang Kai-Shek, w is in complete control of the Peiping Tientsin districts. [ Northerners at _Pxe‘?\ni have faken over the telegraph and telephone , the headquarters of the National- commander-in-chief of the land, val and air forces, the residence of ‘ellington Koo, which had been set dside as a personal residence by Presi- dent Chiang Kai-Shek; the " district Euomingtang headquarters and various other institutions. The vernacular newspapers and news sgencies in Peiping and Tientsin and government offices at Tientsin also are under Yen's control. REED CAMPAIGNS IN MISSOURI FIGHT Former Senator Aids Democrats in ! Pre-Election Battle for Kansas City Offices. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, March 24—A voice which thundered in the United States mate, decrying chicanery, defying idents; which asked for reinstate- ent in its party and again for the 'mocratic presidential nomination, come back to municipal politics, where it first won public office. James A. Reed, Tetired United States ator from Missouri, is stumping for e Democrats in the city campaign re, which reaches the balloting stage hext Tuesday. Minus some of its former vigor and Bitterness which made news when “Jim" Reed arose in the Senate, the voice has been added to the ammunition trained ng-u:‘sz the common enemy of the Dem- ocrats. LAUDS FARM PROFESSION DOYLESTOWN, Pa., March 24 (#).— ‘The student who remains a farmer after uation “does so because he loves om,” Herbert D. Allman, president of the National Farm School, told the graduating class yesterday at the thirty- third annual commencement exercises. “You will be more certain of your re- turns,” Allman said, “than you would in & business or professional career. You ‘will have earned independence, whereas your contemporary city brother, the white-collared lad, because of heavy eompetition, may be still working at his nitial job.” CAFETERIA Temptin: Dishes u% Popular Prices anteed ngguzg Sale o Brings rel comfort Dmsg(lu will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT torelieve itching, blind, bleeding, or protrudin piles. In handy tubes wi tin box, 60e. KEEP YOUR DOG CLEAN * INSIDE AND OUT GLOVER’S Lasative Pills combat constipas tion and throw off poisons. 65¢. GLOVER'S Kennel & Flea Soap kills fleas and other pests; keeps coat and skin in fine con~ dition. 25e. PREE: 104 page fius. dog book, alsoadvice by our veterinarian 119 Fifth Avenue, New York, U. S. A. Pennsylvania BY GEORGE T. HUGHES. Probably the most popular railway stock with the rank and file of {nvestors is the Pennsylvania. For one thing the dividend record inspires confidence. The | main line between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh was opened in 1854 and be- ginning in 1856, cash dividends have been paid on the capital stock at one rate or another without interruption ever since, a period of nearly three- quarters of a century. | This_includes the years covering the Civil War and the World War, the panics and depressions that have swept over the country during the interim, as well as the times of prosperity. Divi- dends have been reduced as conditions dictated, but always they have been re- | stored and the shareholders who have | held on have been well rewarded. If | any rallroad stock can be considered “seasoned” it is that of the Pennsyl- | vania. 1 Just now the railroads have been | suffering from a falling off in car load- | ings, with consequent drop in net in- comes, and the Pennsylvania has not been exempt, but judging from the rec- | ord of the past it will come back unless | railroads are to become obsolete, of | which there is no present sign. Penn- | sylvania Railroad stock, unlike that of most other carriers, is of $50 par. It pays 8 per cent, which is $4 per share, | and, according to recent quotations, sells | in the open market to yield slightly less | than 5 per cent, a fair measure of the | high place the stock takes in the esti- mation of investors. The Pennsylvania has important holdings in other companies, the chief | of which is the Norfolk & Western. | Under the recently announced consoli- dation plan of the Interstate Commerce | Commission, the Norfolk & Western is | awarded to the proposed new Wabash | system, but however that may work out, | Pennsylvania stockholders are not likely | to suffer. The risk in purchasing the stock, such as it is, is the same risk as applies to other railroad investments. | | ERADICATION IS HELD | SOVIET RELIGIOUS AIM American Committee Appeals to| Russia for More Liberal Policy Toward People’s Beliefs, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 24.—The Ameri- can Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities yesterday made public a re- port of a subcommittee, which said that Soviet religious activities are attrib- utable not to any “objection to any particular form of religion, but to hos- tility to any religign as such and to determination extirpate it for the {oomin' generation in any and every orm.” ‘The committee voiced an appeal to Russian authorities “to adopt a more liberal policy in dealing with the con- scious bellefs of their people.” ‘The committee said it was not influ- enced in making the appeal by any itical, social or economic structure of he Soviet system, but by a belief that it is “the imperative duty of all right- thinking men and women to voice their protest against grievous injustice where- ever it exists.” g In voicing its opinions, the committee said, it did “not overlook the fact that intolerance and antagonism to religious liberty have sometimes disgraced other countries, including our own.” ‘The committee has added that history has shown that persecution of religions by the state has never achieved its pur- pose, as “the sacred beligfs of mankind cannot be stamped out that way. Arthur J. Brown was chairman of the subcommittee on whose report the committee’s statement was founded. | 1 Motor cycles are becoming popular in the French colonies. EVENING STAR, WASHINGT LOW-PRICED AUTO | LINES IMPROVING Principal Manufacturers Are Con- centrating on Machines Costing Less Than $800. Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, March 24.—Whatever im- provement is taking place or is in pros- pect in automboile demand throughout the country is confined to low-priced lines, according to current surveys. The activity takes in sales of second- ! hand cars ot the higher-priced lines | that are being fed into the market at sacrifice prices. The extent to which makers are concentrating in the price class below $800 with: both - four and six cylinder models is disclosed in a count that shows eight lines now competing in this spot. They include Ford, Chevrolet, Whippet, Plymouth, Essex, Willys six, Pontiac and the recently added Chrys- ler six. It is estimated that 71 per cent of the entire sales of last year represented cars in this price division. Present conditions point to a con- tinuation of this trend in the coming months, thus shifting the stress from the low-priced sixes, for which the range was between $800 and $1,000. This condition, it #s conceded, is brought about by Ford competition. To meet it his rivals are emphasizing low price wherever possible and are making concessions in trading. One large pro- ducer of a low-priced six has gone to the length of bringing out quantities of 929 cars, representing overproduction, and offering them in the $600 class, with a trade-in allowance to be de- ducted. (Copyright, 19 RETIRES AFTER 21 YEARS Dr. Stone Resigns Pastorate Due to Duties at Princeton. CHICAGO, March 24 (#)—Dr. John Timothy Stone, for 21 years pastor of the fashionable Fourth Presbyterian Church, asked his congregation- yester- day to accept his resignation so that he could devote his entire time to his work as president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. For a year moderator of the church’s General Assembly, Dr. Stone, in 1918, declined a call to the FPii Presby- terian_Church of New Yo ~ ASTHMA DISAPPEARS Recovery Dife to Discovery of Basic ° | Cause of Bronchial Asthma. I Indisnapolis—H. H. Cornet, Uncas- ville, Conn., sends a messa gre interest to’sll who suffer with Bron. chial Asthma. He tells of his results from using the remedy based on Dr. Fugate's discovery of the basic of underlying_cause of Bronchial Asthma nd Hay Pever. Mr. Cornet's letter d to take Dr. Dr. Fugate's Remedy sure Godsend to Asthma sufferer: Later Mr. Cornet wrote:. “I sure am’ feeling fine. Have not had an attack since a year ago this month. It seems 50 good to be able to g0 out in the open and work and feel all right.” similar letters from flered with Bron- nt of or an_ import: te's discovery Fev H The Fugate Co. Y 5 i 8. Indianapolis, Ind. BY CLINTON COFFIN. Associated Press Financial Writer. Now that the Senate has comvleted the new tariff bill, or practicaly so, analysis of its foatures becomes p sible, and the first disclosure that the study makes is that afier all the year’s bother, astundingly little is going to be done by Congress to change ' existing import schedules. The tariff commission has prepared a summary of what the fiercely contested votes of the House and Senate have done, in a dollars and cents way, and the only conclusion that can be drawn from it is that remarkably small | change is intended as compared with present law. The commission figures that the pres- ent tariff law as applied to the imports of the United States for 1928 would pro- duce $512,000,000 in customs duties; that on those same imports the new tariff as it was passed by the House would produce $638,000,000, and that the rates as they have been cut by the Senate would make the bill in its present form bring in $578,000,000 on the 1928 volume of im) . Further, the increases as made are shown by the commission to apply al- most_entitrely to agricultural products. About $30,000,000 of the increased duties as the Senate has voted them run to foodstuffs of general classes, and an- other $16,000,000 comes from the in- crease in the sugar duties, Wool and woolen products are allowed about & $6,000,000 increase, and the long list of schedules for manufactured products | come out to practically the same as| present law. \ Further, there are two prime matters of administrative ngement in the bill which might have great economic significance. One of these is the Senate provision for encouraging farm exports by allowing the issue of export deben- tures—which is hardly likely to be ac- cepted—while the other is the abolition of the present flexible tariff provisions, by which the President and the Tariff Commission can vary congressionally fixed rates to meet changing condlitions of production. It is probable thst the No matter how serious your case, write for this free ‘bookle -Adverti: t. Inner Spring Mattress contest yet to come will revolve more about these two matters than about rates. ‘While there are only 180 first-class railroad corporations in the United States, the study of the House commit-~ tee investigating railroad ownership has so far identified something like 200 holding and investment corporations which have been created largely for the purpose of holding railroad stock. As a preliminary to the committee hear- ings on the subject Dr. W. M. W. Splawn, its special counsel, is address- ing a questionnaire to these owning cor- porations, asking them for a voluntary statement of the rail securities now in their possession. Investment trusts, holding companies |and corporations dealing primarily in rail securities may be found to run up |to thousands, observers are convinced, {and the committee does not expect to {locate all of them. Most of them are | small and represent merely the desire | to facilitate the handling of personal |or corporate investments. The enter- | prises Congress really intends to study | are the gigantic ones aiming at con- trol and management of carriers, about which the Interstate Commerce Com- mission has complained that they are making some aspects of transport reg- | ulation futile, A careful estimate of the number of | dwelling houses in the United States, just made by the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, places the total at 20,700,000. Of these, 17,500,000 are of wood construction. The interesting point about the study is that the association concludes that curef.ully organized pervised service, perience to deal National 2100 m— 16,000,000 of these dwellings are in need | of some of renovation or mod- | ernization, and material men are insti- | tuting a campaign to induce a large proportion of the work to be under- taken this year. Cheap money and the interest, of the general public n stimu- Iating business in a period when both Iabor and supplies are cheap are count- ed upon to make the campaign take hold, " A meeting in Chicago on March 27 of all the building material interests has been summoned to carry forward the program. Reviewing current business conditions, the Federal Reserve Board says in its latest monthly summary that a most important fact is that contraction of bank credit has closed in March. Dur- ing January and February bank loans | outstanding came down almost weekly, reflecting the withdrawal of capital from business enterprise. The process | reversed in March, and the board hails the fact as an indication of probable in- creasing activity in future weeks. —_— Auto bus services are reducing rail- | way passenger traffic in Germany. FURNITURE RENTING OFFICE FURNITURE Nasienal 616 E SEN.W. | Efficiency Means t Greater Profit We bring to the management of A art. | ment Houses placed ok under our charge a and personally su. competent by long ex- with every detail—from rentals to operation, W_’hile rel'ie\.zing you of all responsibility, you'll find it increases your income. B. F. Saul Co. 925 15th St. N.W. BUSINESS VOLUME GROWS. By the Associated Press. Volume of business in the United States increased materially last week, as registered by the Federal Reserve Board compilation of checks paid by banks in leading business cities. While the total of money exchange was less than in the perfod last year, it is substantially in excess of that for the preceding week. Figures for the total of thecks paid for :ne week and comparable periods fol- low: Week ended March 19..$16,518,000,000 Preceding week..........$13,611,000,000 Same week last year....$20,142,000,000 “Twilight Zone!”’ Many an investor still believes there actually is a “twilight zone” wherein he can safely, mingle two systems—speculation” and “‘invest= ment.” Only when he stumbles does he realize the truth—that boundary line is fixed! Whena man speculates with his money, he is gambling. He thinks the stock he has bought will go up, so that he can sell out at a profit + « « But the man who INVESTS his capital realizes that when he places his funds in a steady, safe security, HIS profit will NOT fluctuate with every finarcial wind, Naturally he has turned on the clear light of investigation before placing his investment —and at the head of his list will stand the First Mortgage Notes offered through the Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Company. These notes pay their owners a regular non-fluctus ating return of 6 per cent per annum, the value of the principal never wavers a penny=— and these Notes have maintained this record for almost 61 years, through all the ups and downs of this country’s expansion. SWARTZELL, RHEEM & HENSEY Co. MORTGAGE BANKERS 727 15 STREET N.W., ' . WASHINGTON D.C. Most Outstanding Bargains Tuesday ¥ 7-Pie Dinette Suite For the small home you will find this just the suite. Se new style china case, fou Seven beautiful pieces, including r pedestal leg table, lovely buffet and four chairs with velour- covered seats, Ride these regal trains to America’s wonderland Of course you're going west Park, maybe farther . this year.. . . mayhe to Glacier . Mount Baker or Rainier, perhaps, or the Columbia River country. And you'll want your wacation joys to start when you board the train! 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