Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1930, Page 3

FISCAL RELATIONS | GROUP DISPERSED Holaday W|res Hls Uncer- | tainty as to When House Study Will Start. Members of the special committee of the House appointed by Speaker Long- worth to study fiscal relations between the Federal and District governments hate not had time since their selection | & few days ago to make plans for be- gihning the inquiry. ! “I do not know who was appointed | chairman of this committee and. there- | money. fore, do not have any idea as to the probable time that the committee will | etart its work.” said Representative William P. Holaday of Ilinois, in a message to The Star today. | Members Have Dispersed. Mr. Holaday is at his home in George- town, Tl and the other six members of the committee also had departed for their homes when the appointments were made. In view of the fact that Congress. has | fust concluded the work of a long ses- ! gion, the probabilities are that this special committee will wait until near the end of Summer before tackling a | detailed study of the fiscal relations | probiem Representative Mapes of Michigan i whose name was at the top of the list when the personnel of the committee | announce motoring to his! in Grand Rapids. The other | members of the committee are Repre- sentatives Frear of Wisconsin, Beers of Pennsylvania, Crisp of Georgia, Collins of Mississippi and Patman of Texas, Created by Simmons Resolution. The committee was created under a gesolution offered in the House by Rep- resentative Simmons of Nebraska, ehairman of the subcommittee on Dis- | trict appropriations in the House. He obtained action on the resolution im- mediately after the House conferees had yielded to the Senate by agreeing o raise the Federal contribution toward the current District appropriation act | from $9,000,000 to $9,500,000. The committee was given authority #0 study taxation in the District and to recommend changes. The appoint- ment of the House committee is ex- pected to lead to a renewal of the con- test over fiscal relations in the next session, but the contention of the Sen- | ate that $9,000,000 was an inadequate | Federal contribution has been greatly strengthened by its victory in the cur- rent sppropriation act. SCHURZ FOUNDATION | TO ADVANCE CULTURE Promoters Will Foster Relations Between United States and Germany. B the Associated Press. NEW YORK. July 12—The char- tering of the Carl Schurz Memorial | Foundation, to promote cultural rela- tions between the United States and Germany, was announced Thursday. Ferdinand Thun of Reading, Pa.; | Paul M. and Felix Warburg of New York, Julius Rosenwald of Chicago and Henry Janssen and Gustav Ober- laender of Reading are the principal sponsors The foundation will foster exchanges of students, professors, scholars and lecturers; promote the teaching of Ger- man in American schools and col- leges and develop interchange of litera- ture. HOSTILE TRIBESMEN KILLED IN INDIA Field Gun Explodes During Bom- bardment of Frontier Posts, With 25 Believed Dead. By the Associated Press PESHAWAR, India, July 12.—Sev-| eral Mahsuds, hostile tribesmen, were | killed Thursday night when a field gun | belonging to a Lashkar of the tribesmen | burst during a bombardment of the! frontier scout posts near Sararogha. The Lashkar subsequently left Sara-| rogha, some of the tribesmen dispersing while others engaged in random attacks on the scouts. It is believed the tribes- | men suffered about 25 casualties in the accident OWN FUNERAL SERMON WRITTEN BY PATIENT Nebraskan; | After Operation, Refutes Belief in Immediate After-Life. in Cntlcnl Condition Br the Associated Press OMAHA, July 12.—William B. Wyckoft wrote his own funeral sermon before submitting to a serious operation. His condition yesterday was said by hos- | pital attaches to be eritical Wyckoff, a deep student of the Bible, said his sermon refuted the belief of immediate after-life He is an uncle of Frank Wyckoff, Uni- versity of Southern California sprint star g S, P SPECIAL NOTICES. i wit NOT debts “that JESSE M. DONN. Jr EE RESPONSIBL ted for b FLOYD 15 FOR ANY giher than KIDWELL, - P CONGRESSIONAL | ! ficials of the local carpenters’ union as | although | MacBeth, 'WALKER ‘SHIPWRECK’ | scooting back and forth yesterday in a | try their luck for bigger fish. | another. 'EX-OFFICIAL IS HELD Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. —The Republicans are trying to get rid of the chairman of their National Committee. They can't throw him out. he knows where the body is buried. The next time they hire one, his contract will have a two weeks’ cancella- tion clause in it They think this fellow don't add the proper class to the party. The Republicans that will lend d'gnity and the Democrats that will lend some want a man to the office, want a man Yours, | wn,L ROGERS. DENY CARPENTERS REPLACED LATHERS Laber Offrclals Say Union| Workers Would Not Break Rules. Emphatic denial that union car- | penters are taking jobs vacated by union | Jather® who went on strike July 1 in | support of their demands for a $2 in- rease in wages was made today by of- | the sirke. which has tied up part of the construction of a number of large build- ng projects, continued in force. While union lathers would not be at work today, regardless of the strike, be- cause they arc on the five-day week schedule here, which now is virtually the universal rule in the building trades in Washington reports were that the controversy as yet has not been settled, hope is held out that an amicable agreement would be reached. Cause of Denial. Spokesmen for the group of employ- ers involved reported Thursday that in at least one of the building projects affected by the strike, work had been resumed by substitute workmen, who were described as being “union men of a trade other than the lathing, who had been out of work.” Later these sub- stitute workmen were described in em- ployers’ circles as heing union carpen- ters. & Denial that these statements by spokesmen for the employing group were true was made today, however, by Richard H. Burdette and John I. Swarthout, business agents, and John president of the Carpenter’s District Council. Mr. Burdette declared that if any substitute workmen were engaged on | any of the building projects to replace | the striking union lathers, they were not and could not be members of the carpenter's union. Union Rules Strict. He said that the union would not permit union carpenters to take the | places of striking members of another union trade and further did not be- | lieve that a member of the carpenters’ | unjon would be willing to violate this union rule. The union lathers are demanding an | immediate increase from $12 to $13 per day and a further increase to $14 per day affective October 1. This has been refused by the Employing Plasterers' Association. A number of conferences have been held between the employers and the union spokesmen, but an agreement had not been reached this morning. PROVES FISH STORY Coast Guard Finds Mayor Safe After Exciting Shark Battle. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 12—A tale that Mayor James J. Walker was ship- wrecked somewhere along the Atlantic Coast turned out yesterday to be a fish story. Rumors that Barron Collier’s power yacht Florida, with the mayor aboard, was aground sent Coast Guard craft search from Montauk ~ Point, Long Island, to Newport, R. I After the search had ended by finding | of the Florida swinging safely at anchor off the Montauk Yacht Club, Mavor | Walker returned to the Florida to teli of a battle with a shark. Fishing for small fry near shore grew tame, he sald, so he suggested to Capt. Charles Thompson of the fishing boat | Montauk, that they go out farther and About 10 miles out a huge shark’s fin cut the water within striking distance The barb found its mark and so did Towing the boat at a rapid clip, the | harpooned shark started for the Gulf Stream. Shark and boat flew through the wa- ter for 15 miles before the shark escaped, carrying with it the twn harpoons. 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Jaul Cole, former secretary of the Seminole County | Election Board, was found guilty lof the murder of Ernest Irby, for- mer Texas banker, by a district court jury. which recommended the death penalty. Judge George C. Crump an- nounced zentence would be pronounced | next Saturday and Cole was returned to former election official was | charged with shooting Irby to death near Lake Wewoka last March 24 be- cause Irby refused Cole's demand that | he not testify against him in Federal Court. where a liquor charge was pend- | ing against Cole Frank Hunt, former Tulsa lawyer, also | faces a charge of murder in connection | | with Irby’s death. | OIL FIRM ENTERS CHINA | | ‘Umun Company Plnns Retml Trade on Extensive Scale. SHANGHAI July 12 (#).—Plans of the Union Oil Co. of California to enter the Orlental retail market on a large scale were disclosed here yesterday with the arrival of company official from South China. Standard Oil Co. of New York, Asiatic Petroleum of Great Britain and the ‘Texas Co. now share the Chinese mar- and Capt. Thompson heaved a harpoon, [ M2 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. Lawyers in Youngstown- Bethlehem Trial Confer on Testimony Procedure. By the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 12— | Attorneys battling over legality of the sale of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation todny took advantage of the week end adjournment of court to plan shorten- ing of the hearing by two or three days. The opposing counsel called a con- ference to agree upon a statement of facts in the hope of materially short- ening the mass of testimony. Monday Elton Hoyt, II, of Cleveland, a partner of Pickands, Mather & Co., ore concern, will be called to the stand in continuance of efforts of those op- posing the billion-dollar merger to show that considerable Sheet & Tube stock was voted illegally in favor of the deal, Henry Dalton, also of Cleveland, and another Pickands;, Mather partner, { testified that his concern spent $9,000, 000 for Sheet favor of the consolidation and received a loan of $800,000 from Bethlehem for a few days. The hearing is on the suit filed by Myron C. Wick, jr. and the Interna- tional Shares Corporation of Cleveland &s stockholders. The plaintiffs, who are affiliated with Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland capitalist and generalissimo of the anti-merger forces, contend that the merger was fraudulently negotiated and that the terms of four shares of Bethichem for three of Sheet & Tube holders. CIVIL WAR VETERAN WINS $100 ALIMONY 85-Year-Old Husband Gets Decree From Wife, 83, on Grounds of Cruelty. By the Associated Press. MONTROSE, Colo., July 12.—Emory C. “Dad” Brooks, 85, Civil War veteran, sued his wife, Eva, 63, for divorce and $100 alimony. He won both in a court Jecision today. The charge was deser- sion and cruelty. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and Sailings From ew York. ARRIVED, Santa Clara--Valparaiso . Arcadian—Bermuda Columbus—Bremerhaven Berengaria—Southampton Siboney—Havana Toltec—Puerto Cortez. DUE TODAY. Leviathan—Southampton Jume 28 | Jul Comilas.Havaia Drotthineholm - Gothenburs DUE TOMORROW. ort_Limon nt Rooseveit- Ul Pre: Hnmhu Carmania— Southampton - Samaria—Liverpool Karisruhe—Bremerhaven United States—Copenhagen Transylvania—_Glasgow Statendam—Rotterdam . DUE MONDAY. JULY 14 American Shipper—London Veendam—Bermuda Pan_America—Bermuda Bremen —Bremen ... Conte Biancamano—Genoa Venezuela—San_Francisco Coamo—Santo Domingo City. San Juan—San Juan. Cristobal—Cristobal . Adriatic—Liverpool . Minnetoni don Yoro—Kingston DUE TUESDAY, JULY 15. Garrillo—Puerto Barrios ‘ H CetamieLa Gelba DUE WEDNESDAY, Elisa—Valparaiso Valparaiso JuLY Santa i Southern Gross rBu»m\s Aires Munamar_—Nassau Sixola—Kini ) Bourdonnais. Bordeniix |10l DUE THURSDAY, JULY 17. Arakuaya—Canadian cruise Silvia—Trinidad Fort St. George—8t. John's. Virginia—Kingston Mauretania—Southampton. DUE FRIDAY. JULY 18, Siboney— Havana Arcadian—Bermuda DUE SATURDAY, JULY 19. Albert Ballin—Hambure. Lafavette—Havre ............... Sinaia- Marsellies OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILING TODAY. Seythia—Galway and Liverpool. Bermuda-_Bermuda. Nerissa—Halifax and St. John's De Grasse—Plymouth and Havre, Cleveland—Galway and Hamburg. Siboney—Havana Britannic—Cobh and Liverpool Pastores—Havai a. Crisiobal and Port Limon ~Santiago, Kingston and Puerto Bar- | Toltec—Puerto Cortez Bridaetown—Puerto Colombia American Merchant—Plymouth, and Hamburg Esseauibo—Havana, Valparaiso. City of Alma—Novorossiisk and Odessa. Exchester—Valetea Catherine—Santo Domingo City, City Mirlo—Aruba Shawnee- Virginian Cherbourg Cristobal, Callao and Canada Pacific’ Const BAILING TOMORROW. Toltec—Porto Castilla and Porto Cortez. SAILING MONDAY, JULY 1. Hamilton—Norfolk. SAILING TUESDAY, Pan-America—Bermuda Columbus—Plymouth, Cherbourg and Brem- erhaven Marques de Comillas—Cadiz and Barcelona. SAILING WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, Berengaria rg and Southampton. Veendam— Bern.uda Hamburg—Cherbourg, Hsmburg Bremen- merhaver Bergensfiorc—Bergen and Oslo. Drottningholm—Gothenburg Leviathan—Cherbourg and Southampton. President Rooseveli—Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburs Metapan—Kingston, Cristohal. Puerto Colombia and Santn Mar Majestic—Cherbours and Southampton. Yoro-Kingston Tachira -8an Juan. La Cabello and Maracaiho JULY 15. Southampton rbourg, Cartagens, ta. Guayra, Puerto BAILING THURSDAY American 8hipper—_London President Adams—World cruise Berlin—Southampton. Boulozne erhaven Coamo-—8an Juan SAILING FRIDAY. JULY 18 Camania-—Cobh. Plymouth, Havre and Lon- o1 Cristobal, Vval- JULY 17. and Brem- Santa Clara Callao and ‘paraiso. Statendam—Plymouth. Boulogne and Rotter- dam " Plymouth and Havre Munamar—Nassau. Miami and Havana Conte Biancamano—Gibraltar, Naples and Genox Havana -Havana. Progreso and Vera Cruz. Westeruland—Plymouth, ~ Cherbours an erp Antw SAILING SATURDAY, JULY 19. Samaria-—Belfast and Liverpool. Fort. Si. Gevrge —Halifax and St. John's. Bermuda—Bermuda Bourdonnais—Viko and Bordea Veneruela—Puerto ' Colombia, Cristobal and San Prancisco. San Juap—8San Juan Huron—Santo Domingo City California—Havana, Panama Canal and San Artnd\ln—flfl ‘muda ya_Cana ™ Cartagena, cruise. tiansand, Oslo and ket. Twenty days left to file your per- sonal, tax return. Persons living in the District of Columbia on Jul: 1930, should inquire at the office the assessor as to their taxable openha el Ulun~Hevana, Cristobal and Port Limon et iio Eantiagn. - Kinksing, Tt Limen, \ilin. Telga and Puerts Barrios Siboney—Havana pure and Adriatic-Cobh and Liverpeol on498 edenHaitien Ports livar —Buerto Qolombts Western Qcean_ 8t Thomas Virets ewion: HOPE MERGER CASE CAN BE SHORTENED has & Tube stock voted in | were unfair to the Youngstown stock- | and | Southampton and Bre- | | BOOK TREASURES | ! nt. brlrlln of (nnlrav, lt (ho lefl Priceless treasures of early printing were delivered to the Library ot Congress yesterday by Dr. Otto Volibehr, German collector. includes a rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, has been purchased by the Govern- | It was delivered in 50 cases, insured for $1,500,000. Dr. Herbert Putnam, D. SATURDAY, DELIVERED HERE The collection, which | —Associated Press Photo. AFGHANS CHANGE “MOURNING” FLAG| | New Banner of Black, Red and | | White Replaces Somber Square and Crescent. By the Associated Press. CALCUTTA, Bengal, July 12.—Be- cause its old flag too often was taken a8 a sign of mourning, Afghanistan has a new flag, on which are three perpen- dicular stripes of black, red and white, with the crescent of a mosque in the center. The old flag was a black square in the center of which shone a white cres- | cent. Diplomats and foreign office of- | ficials complained that citizens of other | nations invariably raised their hats | when passing nearby, believing it indi- | cated a funeral. Then, too, the Afghans are not a sad race and the somber black was cons ered as altogether incongruous with the | gay music and decorations in general of official functions. Its composition was | explained as indicating an age of dark- ness and a world darkened by sin through which Islam shone in a clear, cold light. The flag, designed by King Nadir Shah, is also intended to be symbolic, the touch of black being meant to con- | | vey the idea that Afghanistan for ages was held within the grip of darkness. The bright red band denotes the revo- lution into which the country was plunged after having emerged from the darkness, while the white stands for | peace and prosperity of the nation. The mosque in the center is designed to announce to the world that Afghanistan has achieved its present peace through the grace of God and shall remain un- | der the shadow of Nam lmevwr |STAY SAVES AS AILANT FROM ELECTRIC CHAIR Colored, Wins Ala- bama Supreme Court Ruling at Mose Dnnirl!. Extraordinary Session. By the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Al Danicls, colored. .convis a white woman, the electric chair yesterday by a stay of | execution, issued by the Alabama Su- preme Court in extraordinary session | yesterday. Chief Jjustice John C. Anderson said | it was the first time the court had met | in extraordinary session to decide & similar case and the first time it had | met in many years out of regular session. The court is fo take up the man's apepal | in October. July 12.—~Mose ASSOLANT IS DIVORCED PARIS, July 12 (#).—Jean Assolant, transatlantic flyer, and Pauline Parker, whom he married at Old Orchard, Me.. on the eve of his flight to Europe, today were divorced by the court here. Blame was attached to both, the (‘nufl ruling that the aviator abandoned )‘lh‘ wife. while she wrote letters to him of | a disrespectful nature. The temporary | alimony was discontinued. | | Wesley insure for all time the value exclusiveness. setts | EXHIBIT W. C. & A. Omwners and | Railw: | companies in the Middle West. 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New calculations on the number of lives lost indicated 162 miners, who Wednesday went down into the shaft to | work, did not return. Ninety bodies have been recovered. At first is was believed the bodies were disfigured by the force of the explosion, but officials discovered later that the | disfigurement was only a coating of dirt | and smut. DOYLE CRIME BOOKS ON WAY TO U. S. New York Collector Obtains Library Used by Author in Writ- ing Detective Stories. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 12—The ecrim- inological library of the late Sir Arthur | Conan Doyle, which the author used for reference im writing his detective storles, is on its way to the United States, in possession of Dr. A. S. Rosen- back, New York book collector. Dr. Rosenback recently bought the | collection "at an auction in London. ! Several of the volumes were part of the library of Sir W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert | and Sullivan opera fame. Every book is autographed by Sir Arthur and many contain his notations on varous pages. EMMONS HEADS LINE Will Succeed Root as President of% Railrond. | NEW YORK, July 12 (#).—Charles D. Emmons, former president of the United | and Electric Co. of Baltimore, will take office as president of the Hud- | son & Manhattan Railroad on Septem- ber 1. He was chosen to succeed Oren Root. who resigned. Mr. Emmons is a past president of the | American Electric Railway Association. He has been associated with the Penn- | sylvania Railroad, the Boston Elevated | Railroad, and with several public utility | Hrights continuance of those Your inspec- HOUSE N. MILLER Developers | son Howard was in the first contingent Decatur 0610 JULY 12, 1930. GOLORED MOTHERS SAIL FOR FRANCE Group of 60 Given City Hall Reception Before Ship | Leaves Dock. ‘ Come out where it is cool and healthy DETACHED HOMES AT ROW HOUSE PRICES HOMES OF 100 NEW IDEAS Nuorth Woedridge 21st and Randolph Sts. N.E. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 12—Sixty colored | Gold Star Mothers embarked at Ho- boken on the steamship American | Merchant. today for France, to visit the | graves of their sons. By themselves they form one unit of the pilgrimage made possible by an act of Congress for all war mothers whose boys never came home Among them was Mrs, Lucy M. John- son. art teacher in the colored k\runch of the Pittsburgh Y. W. C. A, whose | A Beautiful New Restricted Subdivision of Over 100 Detached Brick Homes 6, 7 and 8 Rooms Colored Porcelain Bath and Kitchen Fixtures of colored boys sent overseas, “I had to come. for my sake as well as for father's” she said today. Fa- ther’s walked the floor most of the time since Howard was killed—by step- ping on a cable that carried 100,000 | volts, after he had come safely thrnugh‘ Rll the rest of it. “We'd expected him to do wonder- ful things for his race. He was a man —that's all. He never even unfolded his exemption papers that I got for him | because he worked in the post office. | We found them all folded up in his blue suit when it was sent home.” | The mothers who sailed today Wzrp} given a reception yesterday -at the City Hall—the first given any of the moth- ers since the one for the first contin- gent. Attic Play Rooms Pool Room for Adults Garages Open Fireplaces Will Be Looking for You This Evening Drive out Rhode Island Avenue to 22nd Street N.E.—then north to Randolph Street and left on Randolph to 21st. Ovpen and Lighted Until 9 0’Clock P.M. T. R. Granddaughter to Make Bow. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 12 (). — granddaughter of the late Theodore | Roosevelt, will make her debut next Sep- tember. Miss Grace Roosevelt, whose father is Governor of Porto Rieco, willl be introduced at a supper dance at the INCORPORATE 13) W STREET NOR‘I'HWEST | home of her uncle Kermit. 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