Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1930, Page 4

REY ROBLEN SEEN INHUSLE SHOALS Private Operation May Be Big Issue in-1932. BY MARK SULLIVAN, Omitting prohibition, the key to prac- gcl-fly eveiything I current politics is uscle Shoals, One might reasonably add future xlflmu alsg, Musole Shoals and the principle ved in it com- es the most acute Dational political ue, again excepting only prohibition. Muscle Shoals and the principle of public ownership is acute/ in the con- gressional situation and 18 the key to whether or not there will be a party truce. It is acute in the mational sense and the principle involved will be the second most important issue, if not the first, in the presidential situation in 1932. The decisive step in it is just now in the making. Main Issue Outlined. | ‘The issue is bstween public operation of Muscle Shoals and private operation. Between these a historic battle will rage in the session of Congress immediately shead of us. If the battle should come to a decisive and prompt end, there may be no_special session- of the new Congress. If the battle is not conclu- sive, there will probably be a special session with the considerable conse- quences that would follow. Te bring the situation up to the pres- ent moment, the Progressive Republi- cans in the Senate, led by Norris of Muscle Shoals. It is almost a religion with them. ity of | Some of the sorority pledges of George Washington University who posed for The Star photographer yesterday. e, e ve been earn. | Seated. left to right: Helen Clark, Delta Zeta: Ann Netickoven, Zeta Tau Alpha; Julla Fick, Sigma Kappa: Virginia e Democrats, AT A o ‘operation_ of | Hawkins, Pi Beta Phi, and Marcia Stauffer, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Standing, left to right: Helen Mitchell, Alpha Delta Pi; Frances Jones, Alpha Delta Theta; Roberta Lankford, Phi Delta; Maxine Duvel, Kappa Delta, and Iantha King, Phi Mu. CHURCH AIM CLEAR TO BISHOP MANNING Agrees With 11 Rectors, Who Class Work Both Protestant and Catholic. By the Asseciated Press. NEW YORK, November 18.—Bishop William T. today said he was thoroughly in accord with a statement issued to 11 Episcopal congregations here Sunday. . The statement expressed the bellef that the Protestant Episcopal Church called itself both Catholic and Protestant. It was interpreted as a reply to a recent sermon in which Bishop ermlnfi sald that the church ’l: fundamentally and definitely Cath- olic.” Bishop Manning, in yesterday's state- ment, cited another portion of his ser- mon, in which he said: “But while the Episcopal Church bears witness to the great fact of Apostolic order, she stands also, and with her whole soul, for evangelical truth. As one of the our greatest bishops in this church, John Henry Hobart, so clearly proclaimed, she is as truly evangelical as she is truly Catholic, both of these truly and both equally.” tions was signed by 11 rectors and 3 former rectors and set forth that the name of the Protestant Episcopal United States, and that every candidate for ministry in the communion must take an ordination vow of conformity to the doctrine, disclpline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Backs Rectors’ Stand. “I have noticed in the papers this morning a statement signed by several of our clergy of the diocese of New —Star Staff Photo. York,” read the statement from Bishop A bill prepared by Norris for public operation passed both Houses in 1928 but was vetoed by President Coolidge. Then last Spring Norris again carried his bill through the Senate by a vote of 45 to 23. In the House, however, a determined opposition developed against gablil: operation. a vote of 197 to 114. with a view to-the presidential election in 1932. say, in the words of Brookhart of Iowa, that there has been a “verdict of the people” on this question. The progressive Republicans ‘The progressive Republicans and ‘The House passed & | s,me Democrats will press their pub- 1 of its own for private operation bY | jic_oneration bill. Superfically 1t | consume time out of the short three- Their pressing will was a deadlock between House and Sen- | monih session. The consuming of time ate. Fundamentally it was a deadlock between the principle of public owner- ship of utilities and the principle of | o will threaten passage of the appropria- tion bills, and will thus bring prospect f a special session. If the progressive private ownership. The deadlock con-| pepyplicans’ bill for public operation is tinues and composes the central situa- resisted, they will then say that it is tion in the coming Congress. | the resisters, and not they, who are Questions Considered by Voters. Fall came the primaries and elections. causing a special session. 'That will be, Meantime through the Summer and |if the strategy of political argumenta” fairly plausible “passing of the Much art will be practiced to In those elections, public sentiment de- [ PICE", ) MUTR 400 W B0 B Hoow veloped not on Muscle Shoals specifi- cally but i favor of the principle of | v ublic ownership which is the heart of ".’he question. In the elections in Ore- gon Pennsylvania, New York, Ten- t us pass our pub- lic-operation bill and there need be no special session. Resist it and you will bringing & special session on your nessee and several other States, Ver-| o, heaq' diets were "ndml wh:ch :h" m::fi. preted as strongly favoring the public ownership side of the electric utility question. More accurately, these el tions expressed a strongly critical atti- tude toward private public utilities as now operated. Candidates running lcfl offices on platforms favoring either pub- cussion about a s the real core of the there shall be a p&li cal moraterium ward to 1932, the broad issue which may be Basis of Special Session Talk. is the real core of all the dis- al session. It is juestion whether co-operation. for- the presidential election of lie ownership or stern regulation of pri- desctibed, though only vate ownership won sensational vic- tories. Politicians of both parties and | P! all shades of conviction are convinccd by study of the elections this month that public ownership as a principle, or at least some a tion toward it, has made strong headway toward be- coming a national issue in 1932. In this state of facts, and with the encouragemen the nrogressive Republicans in the Sen- &L, .ogether with some Democrats, are now to force Muscle Shoals to a vote in the session of Congress mm‘ next month. By doing that are collaterally, though more fun- damentally, determined to force the ublic ownership into 1 election. Intimidation Held a Factor. They think that some members of the House who resisted public operation of Muscle Shoals last Spring may have been intimidated by the handwriting issues analogous to Muscle Shoals in their own home States. The progressive Republicans wish also, and very strongly, to force President Hoover to veto or sign a public opera- tion bill and thus put him on record as certal thing can be. the sensationa wor by candida for other offices running on composed mainly of a criti t of this month's elections, fiwnd nxblle utilities. In Oregon, an nor running on what may in s0 brief a mention, as g::uc ownership won sensationelly. He t both the blican and_Demo- eratic candidates combined. publican candidate, disapproved public ownership, ran third. viding roughly, as ublic ownership of electric utilities, is in to be a major issue as any- ‘The public generally does not realize uality of the victories s for Governor and latforms attitude nt third candidate for Gover- described, dorsement of ‘The Re- who specifically In the preoccupation with inter- preting the recent elections for their bearing on prohibition, there has been neglect and consequent ignorance of their sensational bearing on ‘ownership. i — s In order to attract tourists by pro- uate accommodations, the exempt fromi duty. This freedom from duty includes plumbing, heating and lighting equip- ment as well as hotel furniture. Business Is Good1!! We are enjoying the finest Fall Business in our 33 years of Trad- ing with the people of Washington! We be- lieve in good—and Business is GOOD! ) ! D. J. 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CHICAGO, November 18.— Chicago scored today its first victory in its fight to nd the city of “public enemies” by means of an old vagrancy law. The victory came with the conviction late last night of James (Fur) Sam- mohs, one of the original 28 hoodlums named by the Chicago Crime Commis- sion as sentence of six months on the county Jail rock pile and a fine of $100. NEW _YORK, November 18 (#).— David Belasco, famed theatrical pro- ducer, was critically ill of pneumonia in his West Fifty-ninth street apartment today and none but medical attendants was itted to see him. He is 76. Telephone service to the apartment was discontinued and all visitors except his immediate mittance. The producer was stricken Baltimore while re! his latest show and was returned to the city yesterday. AUTOPSY ORDERED An autopsy was to be formed to- day upon the body of Herbert Lewis, 64 years old, who was found dead last night in the kitchen of his home, 1242 Eleventh street southeast, with twoy glasses of alleged liquor near at hand. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt ordered the autopsy performed at the District Morgue today-and also directed the con- tents of the glasses analyzed. Utilities Head to Speak. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va.,, November 17— George A. G. Wood, president of the Washington Gas Light Co. and presi- dent of the Alexandria Gas Co., will address a m g ‘of the Alexandria, Arling and Fairfax Rea 1 Estate Board to be held at the Belle Haven Country Club, just south of this city, Friday evening. values in the world. R-35—$173.80 Complete with Radiotrons “public enemies.” He faced Sammons, who, according to prose- cutors, has a criminal career dating back to 1899. was led away to a cell in the detective bureau to await the next move of his counsel—a legal effort for a new trial. Judge Edgar A. Jonas in Municipal Court said arguments on thel; Tt T T o be” tnouon would be heard Novem- T 29. Is Wanted in Baltimore. Sammons was confrorited with sn- other charge, that of burglary and lar- ceny, with siphoning of whisky several years ago, f ich held under bonds of $150,000. In addi- tion, he is wanted in robbery complaint. made in connecti ‘warehouse he was Itimore on a ‘The jury deliberated for six hours before returning a verdict of guilty on Wobbpwarp & Lo —The €hristmas Store e cl = X h was gul "It e w h:ibfhufly Reglettful of WAS employment and. di@ ot IawRully pro- vide for himself. That he was khown as a thief with- d of other Arguing that Sammons had paid his cebt to soclety for his crimes by his im. prisonment, W. W. Smith, one of his attorneys, contendéd Sammons had learned the trade of an electrician while in Toliet Penitentiary, but had been prevented by police harassment from earning an honest living. Meanwhile the arive on _.crime was to have taken another turn, with the grand jury seheduled to go into the question of whether Alfonse Capone has had any influence on the affairs. of the Chicago Police Depaft- ment. The Herald and Examiner sald eight policemen and a lleutenant had been summoned for questioning. An . automobile belonging to Roland Huff of Clarendon, Va., reported stolen Sunday night, was found abandoned near Thirty+Afth street and Volta place and identified as the one used by ban- dits, Sunday night who robbed Robert Newby of Alexandria, Va., while he was in charge of & gas station at 4812 Con- car was stolen about duit rufi ‘The an hour re the robbery. — o Missing. Child Is Found. Beventeen-year-old Mary Stanley, one of a family of 15 children, reported missing ‘fromiithe home of her gypsy family, 1236 H street northeast, since Sunday night, has been located and returned home. She was found at the home of friefds in the 1000 block of Abbey place northeast last night by s brother. oP Shop Early—Mail Early for Christmas For Christmas. .. 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