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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JA CONCENTRATED RELIEF METHOD WMMENI DVIDED |GF" ComMUNITY CHEST 15 GrTeD 3 UN lAw REPGR”CapitaI Traction Executive : | Outlines Creditable Work Wets and Drys Alike Find| of Current Drive. Satisfaction in Wicker- sham Statements. (Continued From First Page.) said he was “much encouraged” by the Sepator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, who introduced the amendment under which the inquiry was made, said t! commission has exceeded its authority in considering the eighteenth amend- ent. ML wasn't my fntent that the com- mission should undertake to discuss the advisability or inadvisability of Congress having adopted the eighteenth amendment,” Glass said. “It has no right to go into that.” Borah Asks Repeal Alternative. Waving aside the Wickersham report, Senator Borah said the issue was “re- peal or no repeal of the eighteenth amendment” and that was up to the people alone. “} should like to see those opposed to the eighteenth amendment present their alternative and let the people choose between the two propositions in an orderly and proper fashion.” said the Idaho Republican, a_prohibitionist. “Every one will admit, I suppose. that gome system to deal with the liquor proble must have. Therefore. if we can e the question of repeal and what those who advocate repeal propose in place of our present plan—then let the people decide. “The general ccnclusions of the com- mission will be very satisfactory for the supporters of the eighteenth amend- “The conclusions of the individual members of the commission will be very satisfactory to those opposed to the eighteenth amendment.” Study by Citizens Urged. st H. Cherrington, general secre- tssr":vef the World A‘llianr‘e Against Al- coholism, said: “Whatever the convic- tion of the people as a whole may be, every citizen owes it to himself, to the Government, and to society fo read and consider in all seriousness every f this report.” = P ofting. divislon of public opinion 1n regard to some of the commission’s recommendations is inevitable, Dr. Cherrington said that is especially true of the suggestion that the statutory limitation of the amount of liquor which , may be prescribed by physicians and the number of prescriptions which may be iscued should be abolished. In urging that a fixed alcoholic con- tent be established for cider and fruit juices, Cherrington said the commission intended to remedy what may become one of the most difficult phases of pro- hibition enforcement. Others commented as follows: Representative Hudson, Republican, . Michigan, a supporter of the eighteenth amendment: “ think it speaks remarkably well for the amendment that a body of men of this type with & volume of material and plenty of time at their disposal should not favor repeal.” Senator Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas: “I can tell the President very much against an extra session, when he drops this and the World Court into this session.” Wheeler Asks Hoover Stand. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana: “What I want to know is where the President stands?” “In view of the fact that the com- mission itself is divided and the major- ity are for a revised amendment or sub- mission of the question to the people, T'd be interested to know what recom= mendation the President is going tq make with reference to it. No dry £hould ob to itting any ques- tion to a vote of the people.” Representative Republican, ‘The commissoners is not enforced and yet they haven’t the courage of their own convictions.” tative McFadden, Republi- ugfpmrmnsflvmh. chairman of the House Banking Committee: “I agree with the first nine para- graphs and the rest of the conclusions and recommendations are a statement of opinion as prevalent through the United States. I am not in favor of the suggested possible amendment until inability to enforce the law has been completely demonstrated.” Representative Leavitt, Republican, Montana, chairman of the House Indian Affairs Committee: “It is a fair summing up of public opinion as a whole.” Representative Adkins, Tlinois: “I quite agree with the commission in its attitude toward repeal, modifica- tion and enforcement.” “I am very much pleased with the first five conclusions. I am not in ac- cord with the opinion that there is no adequate observance or enforcement. T believe the reputed non-enforcement is a result of the organization of wets advocating repeal.” Temporance Board Lauds Report. The Board of Temperance, Prohibi- tion and Public Morals of the Method- ist Episcopal Church: “The report of the commission gives evidence of a thorough comprehension of the situation and courageous sincer- ity in dealing wiih it. It is a contribu- tion for which the country should be profoundly grateful.” ‘The board indorsed the stand of the commission in favor of existing laws and opposition to governmental partict pation in the liquor business, but with- held further comment pending study. Senator Copeland, Democrat, New York, a repeal advocate, said he was glad the commission had recommended taking the restrictions off prescription of liquor by physicians. Representative Bloom, Democrat, New York: “The administration will not admit defeat of prohibiticn. The report gets nowhere.” > Representative Stalker of New York, co-author of the Jones-Stalker enforc ment law: “I am for the report. I hope it will “It‘s: amusing. concede the law Republican, fexas: anything Democrat, Hits Both Hoover and Report. Representative Howard, Democrat, Nebraska: “The report is just like the Presi- dent’s message transmitting it to the Congress. It fails to say anything.” Representative Black, Democrat, New York: “It is quite evident from this conflict and from reading the President’s re- | port that the White House, under the guidance of the Anti-Saloon League, directed the conclusions. It is a fine mixture of tripe, hash and bologna.” Representative Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts: “The gecommendations of the report. taken as a whole, are an insult to the intelligence of the American people.” ANTI-SALOON HEAD SATISFIED. F. Scott McBride Sees Enforcement Help in Report. INDIANAPOLIS, January 20 (#).— Satisfaction with the Wickersham Com- mission report was expressed by F. Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, today. He is here to attend a meeting of the diana League. “It's a good report for us, and what we had a right to expect,” he said. “I notics a-number of-things which n- | Message of Distressed Is Laid on Doorstep of Every Citizen. BY J. H. HANNA, President of the Capital Traction Company. Once again Washington is to be asked to contribute as generously as it may to the Community Chest, which in the City has proved beyond any_question that it is very much worth while. T beli many reasons, are two which appear to me to be out- standing. The first is the fact that with such an agency functioning the task of rais- ing a large sum of money—and it is a task, no matter how much disposed to give many persons may be—is placed in the hands of that agency and the trained men and women who serve the hospitals, homes and other institutions which are members of the Chest are free to devots their encrgies tu the ac- tual work of elleviating suffering and want and caring for those who need care. Those of us who are famillar with conditions before the Chest was organ- iz:d well remember how many different campaigns were launched and carried through each year. There were dozens, scores of them. There had to be. Each welfare agency now in the Chest was compelled, in some degree at least, to depend upon _contributions from the public. To get those contributions re- quired planning and organization and effort, much of which today flows in the channels in which they belong, that of the service each particular institus tion performs. My second chief reason for my strong two years of its existence in the Capiei | in the Community Chest for | but among the others | J. H. HANNA. belief in the Chest is because of its ability to concentrate public attention | upon the annual drive and thereby arouse not only a civic sense of responsi- bility for raising the amount needed, but to bring that sense of responsibility more sharply home to each of us who is reg- | uarly employed and who should count the chance to give far more than a| mere duty—a chance to serve his fellow men and women, the boys and girls of | | the city. i ‘The Community Chest some way or other reaches all of us. It lays the | messag> of the helpless, the sick, the | unemployed, those Who need guidance | along right lines, on the doorsteps of all. In the campaign this year, when there are thousands of persons out of work, I am sure it will be able, far more forcibly than any one agency or any two of them or any dozen, to carry that message to tens of thousands of others who are employed, who have sheélter and food and warm clothing, and upon whom the responsibility rests to lighten | the heavy burdens resting upon the shoulders of thoss less fortunate, A NATIONS PROMISE 10 AID ARMS GUT and Grandi Favor Early Assembly. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, January 20.—Disoussion of disarmament began tod1y in the League of Nations Council but the delegates did not reach the point of fixing a date for a general disarmament conference. It was said that a date had not even been agreed upon privately and there was some ground for belief that Ger- many's demand for a conference mnext November was gaining support. It was thought, however, that a more likely date is February, 1932. Aristide Briand, Arthur Henderson, Julius Curtius and Dino Grandi today joined in pledging their governments to co-operate in a prograr® from limit- ing armament and agreed that the na- tions should assemble to frame a gen- eral treaty as soon as possible. Discussion of this important issue is to be resumed tomorrow and it was ex- that a eonference date would be agreed upon after full debate. Today's expressions orl the, subject followed a report on the Prepératory Disarmament Commission. Briand Sees Reductions. Briand, in an address reviewed the League’s work for peace and expressed the conviction that the disarmament program has been so well advanced that tain an agreement which will be the be- ginning of progressive reduction of arms. Both Curtius and Grandi urged that a date for an arms conference be de- cided upon. The Italian Minister, re- ferring indirectly to the naval difficul- ties between his country and France, declared this source of frritation would be eliminated before the next arms conference. Security, he said, must be of arms reduction, but must not be made an essential preliminary to re- duction. Henderson, in an address, denounced the system of military alliances which has prevailed in Europe. _Holds Covenant Supreme. Of several nations called to mind by the utterance, France perhaps has the most extensive system of military alli ances, having grouped herself with Bel- gium, Poland, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Rumania in defensive military agrezments. “Some people say that the drift has already begun toward the old system of alliances for warlike ends, and that these alliances are undermining the au- thority of the covenant and the League,” Mr. Henderson commented. “This is dangerous talk, for in my opinion no alliance can be made that |is not subject to the covenant, and the authority of the covenant is supreme. | No government, however powerful, can either desire or venture to flout the League or violate the League obligations it has undertaken.” | ‘Curtius, who followed the Englishman to the floor, repeated Germany's - "0- | test, responsibility. 3 | *It is np use to talk disarmament.” he said, “until the parity of security is | nearer realizatio Grandi, in a short address, said that | security is an essential factor in de- | termining the degree of disarmament, but is not in the view of the Italian | government an escential preliminary. | Agrees With Henderson. Briand agreed with Henderson as the necessity for disarmament if the | menace of war is to be escaped. He | praised the work of the disarmament commission. . | M. Briand said that he regarded the { forthcoming first disarmament confer- ence merely as a phase to be followed by others. He foresaw the conference as resulting not only in the limitation of arms but in appreciable reductions. | He denied that recent years had seen {increases in national armaments, as- 'serting that really there had been a | decrease by many nations and he listed {his own government as one who had cut her armament. He spoke of de- {mands of the Soviet Union for total | disarmameént at this time as quite vis- fonary. I am sure will be helpful to the en- forcement of prohibition,” he said after | scanning the report. ‘““The report’s sug- gestions will intensify the work. It should challenge States to do their duty In relation to enforcement, and it should, likewise, challenge dry organi- zations to intensify their work so that | public officials will live up to their oaths of office and.do their part in enforcing the prohibition law. “The report seems to be practically in our favor, since only’ two members recommend repeal of the eighteenth amendment.” ‘The national superintendent urged that if appropriations for enforcement work are increased, as suggested by the commission, a large part of the increase be spent for educational work. Briand, Henderson, Curtius| the next conference cannot fail to at-| | considered in determining the degree | | against inequality of disarmament to | RUSSIAN PRESS DENOUNCES FISH Brands Report “Skyscraper of Insolence” and “Impudent and Ridiculous.” By the Associated Press. | press today turned shafts of ridicule | against the American Representative, | Hamilton Fish, jr, in long editorials | denouncing his recent report to the | Congress of the United Stafes on his investigation of Communist activities in | | that country. | The newspaper Izvestia calls the re- | |port a “skyscraper of insolence,” and | | the newspaper Pravda says of it: “Of | all anti-Soviet documents in the recent past the Pish report is the most impu- dent, insolent and ridiculous. It is 90 pages of abisurdity based on forged docu- ments. “Fright of Bourgeoisie.” ‘The report, says Izvestia, indicates the i “fright of the bourgecisie” that 'hel Soviet Republic may succeed in its industrialization plan and that if Amer- | ican economists do not deny its charges | it will indicate that “fear is making | the American people blind.” “Development of Soviet industry,” the’ newspaper says, “should make for better economic relations between the United | States and the Soviet Union. If Amer- ican capitalists think otherwise we shall find other countries which will regard Soviet purchases from a business view- peint. There can be no imports with- | out exports, and we can't believe that | jthe United States, the world's most | | capitalistic country, should be afraid of | | the growth of Socialism in Soviet Ru: | sia, against which Fish and his com | mittee are howling. If it is afraid it/ indicates that the breakdown of capi- | |talism in the United States is closer | than the most optimistic ever dreamed.” Deny “Dumping” Charges. | The newspaper, in denying charges/ |of “dumping” in American markets, | asserted that Russia still imports more | than she exports. It declares that the | charges of the Fish report are a p tion for economic embargo against sian_goods. | “When he asks an investigation of | the Soviet timber industry,” the edito- | rial continues, “we can tell him to take ! his feet off the table because he is not at home. We are accustomed to insults | | from the United States, but we never | expected such insolence as this demand | that America withhold recognition from | Soviet Russia and at the same time | investigate economic conditions in the | | Soviet Ution.” JOB OF DECORATING AUTO SHOW BEGUN | Movement of Cars Into Auditorium ‘Will Begin Friday, Murphy Announces. ra. us- Preparations began today at the Washington Auditorium for the open- ing of the Eleventh Annual Automobile |Show on Saturday night under the auspices of the Washington Automo- tive Trade Association. With Richard J. Murphy as show manager, the work of decorating the two floors of the Auditorium was be- gun and will continue through Friday, when the movement of cars into the hall will begin. Most of the cars to be shown at the ishow will be priced cheaper than last | year, and all of them will have me- | chanical improvements. Outstanding features of the changes are the advance of down-draft carburetion, longer and lower bodies, and the fact that five cars this year have gone to the “free wheeling” principle. The show will open next Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock, and will include an exhibit of accessories. The show will be open from 3:30 to 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Janu- ary 25, and for the remainder of the week the doors will open at 10:30 a.m, to remain open until 10:30 p.m. The show will close January 31. ANACOSTIA PARK LAND PURCHASE IS APPROVED Assistant War Secretary Indorses Deal for Tract North of Benning Bridge. Col. F. H. Payne, Assistant Secretary of War, today approved the action of Maj. Joseph D Arthur, jr, Corps of Engineers, in charge of Federal eng!- neering projects in the District, involv- ing the purchase of land on the left bank of the Anacostia River north of Benning Bridge for inclusion in the de- velopment of Anacostia Park. ‘The property thus acquired includes 33> acres of fast land and 3,702 acres of marsh land. It was part of the es- tate of Henrietta Fowler and was ac- " quired at & cost of $29,500. | day, | MOSCOW, January 20.—The Soviet . | 85 00t CHEST DONKTINS NDW TOTAL 3475 Increased Efforts Adviséd| as Second Day’s Work Nets $90,770. With the addition of $90,770 today, the Special Gifts Committee of the Community Chest increased its total in the two-day campaign to date to $347,065. Newbold Noyes, chairman, thanked the workers for the efforts they have displayed, but pointed out they were falling behind. He said they must raise an average of more than $125,000 daily through next Monday in order for the unit to live up to its pledge of obtaining $1,000.000 prior to the opening of the campaign proper. “I know you are all doing what you think is the best you can,” Mr. Noyes declared, “but if it is, you are facing de- feat. In order to succeed you must | obtain one and a quarter subscriptions each daily for $1,000 per person.” Personal Visits Advised. ‘The chairman added the telephone “is a prett: lead instrument to talk charity over.” He said letter writing was even less effective. He insist2d that the potential contributors be visited personally. ‘The $90,770 from 90 The total the drive $2: 5. In line with the reports of yester- today’s announcement containe numerous increased contributions. Move than a score of persons gave larger amounts, scme of them doubling their pledges of last year. Amceng the new contibutors was Mrs Eleanor Patterson, editor of the Wash- ington Herald, who gave $5.000. Of 12 subscriptions reported by a team led by Mrs. C. C. Glover, jr., nine wer> larger than those of last year. . Colladay Appeals for Quota. Of the individual groups the five do- nations received by the solicitors led by s, totaling $16.000, constitutod st team showing of the day. Community Chest workers must pro- duce 100 per eent results this year, be- cause 1931 is a period of readjustment, restoration and recovery, Edward F. Colladay, chairman cf the Campaign Committee, declared last nighteat a rally in the Raleigh Hotel. Addressing the section chiefs, keymen and their, assistants of the group solici- tation unit, Mr. Colladay stressed the importance of presenting a graphic picture of charity fleeds fo the public in crder that the goal of $1,950,154.40 might be reached. Others Contributing. Yesterday's contributors were: Anony- mous, $10,000; Eugene Meyer, $1,000; the Riggs National Bank, $8500; Mrs. reported today came individuals end_ companies yesterday, the first day of RO Florence S. Keep, $5,000; S. Kann Sons | Co., Inc., $5,000: George Hewitt Myers, $5,000; Mrs. William C. Eustis, $5,000; Mr. and Mrs. Adolph C. Mille Christian Heurich, 000; Charles C. Glover, $5,000; Senator and Mrs. Lawrence C. Phipps, $5.000; the Palais Royal, Inc. $4,500: William M. Ritter, $4,000: A. Lisner, $4,000; James Parmelee, $3,500; Mrs. Willard H. Brownson, $3,200; Mrs. Chauncey Depew, $3,100; H. L. Rust, $3,000: Frank B. Noyes, $3,000; Senatcr Dwight W. Morrow. $2.500: Mrs. John L. Proc tor, $2,500; Frank R. Jellefl, Inc., $2500: Byron S. Adams. $2,500; St Patiick’s Church, $2,400; Newbold $2,100; Mrs. Joseph Himes, Mr. and Mrs. Whitman Cross i Mrs. James D. Morgan, $2,000; Coleman Jennings. $1,600; Mrs Henry C. Sheridan, $1.500; and M. A. Judd, $1500; Mrs. C. Riley, $1,500; Mrs. Charles C. Glove $1,500; Mr. and Mrs. Corcoran Thom, $1,500. Mr. and Mrs, Hugh A. Thrift, $1,500; Mrs. Alice M. Parmelee, $1.500; Mrs. ' A. Lisner, $1500; Willam Hahn & Co. $1500; Charles C. Glover, jr., $1,500; Mrs. Perry Heath, $1.400; Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Gold- smith, $1,300; Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann, $1200. Mabel T. Board- man, $1,200: Fleming Newbold, $1,20 Mr. 'and Mrs. E. F. Colladay, Meivin and Leopold Behrend, § Kings Palace, $1,100; Mr. and Mrs George Otis Smith, $1.100; Arthur Ma $1,100; Joseph P. Tumulty. $1,100: Dan- jel L. Hazard, $1000; Mr. 'and Mrs. Eisemann, $1,000; Mr. and Mrs. Simon Kann, $1,000; Erlebacher, Inc., Dennis Upson, $1,000; Harry H. Semme: $1.000; Mis. Charles J. ‘Bell, William John Egnon, $1.000: Col. Mrs, Alexander Rodgars, $1.000; Clifford Lewis, $900; Miss Belle Sherwin, $800; B. Rich’s Sons, $300: Montgomery Blai $800; D. J. Kaufman, Inc., §750: Mrs. R. K. Tyler, $750: Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, $700; Mr. and Mrs, John B. Larner, $700; Mr. and Mrs. Anson P. Stokes, $700; Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Hart, $660: Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Flather, jr., $6256: Leonard H. Mitchell, $600; H. $600; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aldrich, $600; Giles F. Heilprin, $600; C. B. Keferstein, $600: Rutherford B. H. Lyon, $66; Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, 600; Mr. and Mrs. William Chapin Huntington, $550; Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Fleming, $525; Mr. and Mrs. Cuno Rudolph, $500; . Refzenstein, $500; Mr. and Mrs, Charles Schwartz, $500; Mil- ton Hopfenmaier estate, $500; Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Chappell, $500;: Walter C. Clephane, $500; Marion Young, $500; Mr. and Mrs. James Green, $500; Clar- ence A. Aspinwall, $500; Mr. and Mrs. Stanton C. Peele, $500; Mr. and Mrs. James A. Councilor, $500; O. J. De Moll & Co., Inc. $500;: Mrs. Eleanor Porter Jelleff, $500; G. Thomas Dunlop, $500;: H. L. Rust, jr., $500; Mrs, Wood- Tow Wilson, $500. The Georgetown Chapter of the Red Cross Relief, of which Mrs. John Ecker is chairman, has wooi yarn for knitting garments and articles of clothing al- ready cut out for sewing up, which can be had at Mrs. Ecker's residence, 1516 Thirty-first street, at any time. FEED ANIMALS VIA AIR Plane Carries 500 Pounds for Wild Life of Pennsylvania. HAZELTON, Pa., January 20 (#).— From the skies food is falling to the wild animal life hereabouts, helping to save them from starvation. A plane chartered by the Carbon County Sportsman’s Association, drop- ped 500 pounds of feed today in the woodlands where blankets of snow have made food hunting difficult for many animals. Rabbits and birds especially will be benefited, the association believes. Edison Goes South. NEWARK, N. J., January 20 (#)— Thomas_A. Edison left today for his Winter home at Fort Myers, Fla., ac- companied by Mrs. Edison and her sister, Mrs. W. W, Nichols. The in- ventor, looking as tired as he said he felt, planned to rest upon his arrival in Florida, and then to resume his experiments to obtain a rubber substi- tute from plants. The party traveled in the private car of Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer and close friend of Edison. 2 . The sign of the three golden balls was first used by the Lombards, the forerunners of the modern “uncle. Auto Show Section The eleventh annual Automo- bile Show will be held at the Washington Auditorium January 24 to January 31, inclusive. A special automobile section, containing all the live news of the show, together with interest- ing sidelights of the automotive industry, will be found in next SUNDAY'S STAR. - | legislation, 100; | The American falis, in the Nia the contour of the cres Commiscion has order { group, shown after the rock slide the The dotted line indicates the edge before the slide occurred. an aerial survey to determine the exact extent of the slide. has been made intp a miniature replica of the Canadian, or Horseshoe, falls. said there were two distinct slides, each of which sent thousands of tons of rock hurtling into the gorge.—A. P. Photo. Two evening of January 17, which changed The Niagara State Reservation As a result, the American ralls esses have been found. Both BLAINE COMMITTEE i { {Wardman Methods Intro- duced in Effort to Show “Blue-Sky” Law Need. (Continued From Pirst Page.) Co., had submitted a sworn statement | to the District government in the form jof a tax return on the furnishings and equipment of the notel, listing its value as $500,000, the appraised value of the same equipment was cited in a bond issue prospectus as $1.500,000. | “In a statement outlining the need for a “slue sky securities law, Mr.Brink- | man declared that experiences here and | elsewhere convinced him that hundreds of mortgage bond issues, fioated by rep- investors.” He said he found in his investigation there were many local bond issues which had been sponsorcd by men who ould have had no difficulty in obtain- |ing a license to sell such bonds under the type of fraud bill introduced by Senator Capper, but that these securi- would have passed muster he blue sky law proposed by enator Blair:e. In further criticizing the fraud type which last Friday was sponsorsd by joint committee of local business and professional groups, Mr. Brinkman said that the United States attorney for the District now has all the powers which he would be given urder the Capper bill, except for the | provision of an injunction by court, stopping the sale of securities found not “good.” Law Must Provide Study. Mr. Brinkman declared that the { 1aw in this regard must provide first for a parliamentary study of securitiss be- fore they are permitted to be sold. Mr. Richards gave a lengthy ex- planation as to how the District gov- |to value,” as required by law in the mak- ing of local assessments. “Our assessments,” he sald, “repre- sent the full market value of local property, just as closely as we can ar- Tive at it. A survey of our assessments in comparison with actual sales shows that the government valuation ranges between 90 and 100 per cent of full market value. Some sales run above the assessment and some fall below.” He then submitted records showing the assessed value of the - Mayflower Hotel property in the fiscal year 1929- 1930, to have been $5,.232,120. Later, Mr. vidence a circular issued in connection with the sale of bonds carrying an appraisel of the value of the Mavflower, made by Wardman, of $12,600,000. The bond issue amounts to $9,900,000. Richards Gives Figures. Mr. Richards, at the request of the committee, introduced the following as- sessment figures, to which the commit- tee added the private appraisal made by Ford, Bacon & Davis: Wardman Park Hotel, including the large annex, assessment, $4,777,256, pri- vate appraisal, $8,569,242; Carlton Ho- tel, assessment, $1,856,816, appraisal, $3,488,414; Boulevard Apartments. as- ment, $1,082,408, appraisal, $1,771,- Cathedral 'Mansions, . as- ‘ment, $1,105,208, appraisal, $1,623,- ; Cathedral ‘Mansions,. center, as- ment, $1,076,112, appraisal, $1,553,~ Chastleton Hotel, assessment, $1,- 521, appraisal, $2,624,670; Connecti- cut avenue and Davenport street apart- ments, assessment, $1,289,074, appraisal, $1,792.328; Highland Apartments, as- sessment, $565,835, appraisal, $874,490; Stoneleigh Court, assessment, $1,643, 948, appraisal, $2,527.843; Twenty-seven hundred Connecticut avenue, assess- ment, $279,267, appraisal, The assessment on the Department Building was given at $965,- ure of $17,147,525, and the total of ap- praisals listed above, with a large addi- tion which the committee table did not explain, reached the figure of $31,- 040,833. Bond Firms Favor Capper Bill Mr. Brinkman brought out in con- nection with the Mayflower Hotel bond issue, that both the American Bond & Mortgage Co. and Halsey, Stuart Co., bond firms having to do with the issue, were members of the Investment Bank- ers of America, whose spokesman last Friday indorsed the Capper fraud bill in preference to the Blaine “blue sky” bill. Also in connection with the May- | flower bond issue it was brought out that Wardman had made an appraisal of its value as totaling $12,600,000 and when Senator Blaine asked Mr. Brink- man if Mr. Wardman was interested in the hotel project the latter replied that he was not, except that he owned large properties nearby and, therefore, of course, was_interested in the value of the hotel. He referred to the old Brit- ish embassy and the Stoneleigh Court Apartments, both of which are near to jhe Mayflower. : It was also brought out that the firm of Lockwood, Green & Co. had appraised the Mayflower value at $11,000,000. Mr. Richards gave a lengthy account of how he and his assistants arrive at the market value of property, detailing the studies made of rentals and other income of buildings, the cubic cost of construction, the size, share and loca- CETSFIVACE PLAN | utable concerns, “had proved disastrous | ernment seeks to find the “full market | Brinkman _introduced s | |George W. Cutshall Life With Pistol at Greenhouses. Ends, |Retired Canal Boat Captain| Had Been Employed on Same Job 30 Years. A tired old man escaped from the in- finite loneliness of discarded age with a pistol shot behind the Department of | | Agriculture greenhouses today. | For 30 years George W. Cutshall, re- |tired canal hoat captain and former | soldier, had been a laborer and watch- man in those greenhouses. In the| withering of years his world shriveled to | | the routine of his simple tasks among | |the chrysanthemums, the blossoming | | cacti and the roscs. These, with the | | familiar faces of otner greenhouse em- ployes, became all his creation outside | the inward turning of his own thoughts. | Then the inexorable Governm:nt routine came to shatter everything. His seventieth birthday—retirement age— {cam= He faced the prospect of leaving | | this environment, to which his was so | perfectly adjusted, for the outside world | | which had grown far away and strange | !to him during the long years among the greenhouse flowers. Mr, Cutshall still was able-bodied..He tion of the lots and consideration of | the future use of the properties. On | top of this, he sald, is a comparison of | current sales of properties in the vi- | cinity of th> one being assessed. Citing the “difficulty” of arriving at “fair market value,” he pointed to the case of the City Club Building. He re- ported that it was sold at auction for $633,000, whereas the assessed value was $800,000, and whereas also competent real estate appraisers had declared it to be worth in excess of $1,000,000, prior to the auction sale. Mayflower Operated at Loss. ‘Thomas W. Fitzgerald, a certified pub- lic accountant, told the committee the Mayflower had been operating at a loss ever since, and before the bonds were 1ssued in April, 1928. He also said that estimates of 70 per cent of capacity occupancy, on which statement bonds were issued, was, in fact, never reached. The accountant’s testimony with re- ! gard to the Wardman security issues re- flected a condition which Senator | Blaine described as “inflated.” | “The several Wardman companies were so interlocked in the matter of their organization that it is almost impossible to distinguish among them in some cases,” Fitzgerald asserted. “In | some cases the same assest have been pledged by several different Wardman concerns in support of different security issues.” Fitzgerald testified that some of the $100 bonds, sold two years ago, sold through Halsey, Stuart & Co., are now bringing only $30 and $40. “Were they sold all over the country?” Senator Blaine asked. “Yes, and many of them to women,” Brinkman answered. Sets Loss at $3,500,000. Up to last September 30, Fitzgerald resumed, the Wardman companies sustained a total loss of approximately $3,500,000. He =said this total loss egtimate would have been increased by nearly $1,000,000 more if the financing | costs had been properly charged. In_ September, 1930, Fitzgerald said, the Wardman Realty & Construction Co. had assets of $1,800,000 and out- standing Iliabilitics of $4,458,623. The Wardman Real Estate Prop:rties, Inc., has $4,000,000 in bonds which will fall due during the coming year, and has ml_lge no provision to meet them, he said. Mr. Brinkman then told the commit- tes that the several Wardman organ- | izations had rais:d money through the sale of first, second, third and fourth mortgage bonds He explained, how- ever, that these bond issues were other- wise identified for purpos:s misleading prospective purchasers. “The term ‘first and refunding mort- gage, which appears in some of the advertising matter, was, apparently, nothing more than deceptive language designed to make bonds appear as a first-mortgage issue,” Senator Blaine stated. Smith Co. Method Cited. Mr. Brinkman asserted this method of financing was virtually the same as that employed by the F. H. Smith Co., several of whose officials are now fac- ing criminal prosecution for their ac- tivities in this connection. Senator Blaine offered Paul V. Keys ser, representing the American Invest- ment Bankers' Association, a chance to express his opinion regarding the bond issues. “I have no doubt there has been in the past an overoptimism, which, in some instances, has gone beyond this to the extent of being unreasonable,” Mr, Keyser said. “We have all agreed on the need of better protection here. Our group only disagrees with you as to the particular method which might best be followed. Mr Addison asserted the present bill would stifie development in the city by precludi financing operation until after the buildings had been completed |and assessed.” second-mortgage | v G i 34 'VETERAN WATCHMAN, FORCED TO QUIT WORK, KILLS HIMSELF GEORGE W. CUTSHALL. —Star Stafl Photo. asked for extension. This was granted twice, for two years each time. Came his seventy-fourth birthday and it could be given no longer. The old man must go—into the voild of ~mpty hours, death’s counterpart, which lies between the end of usefulness and the grave itself. George W. Cutshall left the green- houses December 31. But day after day he came back to this littl island of the familiar in the greai emptiness of wait- ing. But somehow or cther the bonds of routine had been cut. Howsoever his old associates might welcome him, he was somehow a thing apart. So today he visited the greenhouses for the last time. He walked through to Twelfth street, drew a revolver and fired two shots into the ground. Sev- eral men standing nearby tried to re- strain him. He ran from them to the clump of bushes, placed the barrel of the revolver in his mouth and fired. He was pronounccd dead by a physician from Emergency Hospital and the body ordered taken to the morgue, ‘Was Son of Veteran. Mr. Cutshall roomed at 1209 North Capitol street at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Berkely Payne. He was injured in an automobile accident this Summer. Mr. Cutshall, a native of Washington County, Md., was captain of the old mule-drawn Chesapeake & Ohio Canal boat Evening Star as a young man. He was employed by Lewis Miller, mule dealer and store proprictor of Cumber- land. He had regretted the pacsing of the old canal, which, he said, “was home.” Following his canal boating, Mr. Cut- shall enlisted in the Army Signal Corps in 1885, and upon the expiration of his enlistment he married in Maryland and moved to Washington. His father was Solomon Cutshall, who was killed in the battle of Gettysburg in Gen. Han- cock’s command. Mr. Cutshall was 2 member of the ‘“President’s Own Garri- son,” Army and Navy Union. SPECIAL RED CROSS FUND REACHES $307 Six New Contributions for Drought Relief Campaign Range From $1 to $250. Six new contributions to The Star's special fund for the Red Cross were received today, boosting the total to $307,50. The donations ranged from $1 to $250. They will go toward the $100,~ 000 quota of Washington in the $10.- 000,000 drought relief campaign of the Red Cross. An additional donation of $5 for the Community Chest was received. Other subscriptions may be mailed or taken to The Star. They may be made in cash, check or money orders. The latest contributors: Cash (for Chest) . Cash (for Red Cross). B AR et Ada M. Drake . Total . - BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanlcy Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “The Gallant 26th’ Overture, “Knight Templars”. Entr'acte— ‘By the Japanese Sea”.. Hauenschild “Butterflies” . .Clements Selection from grand opera, “Sicilian ‘Vespers” . Verdi i 5 Valse g{emem, ‘Ballroo; $307.50 A aiverde hatter,” Oki-Albt Life' rivkaus Spangled Eand EDTORIALS PRAK. ROADBEAUTY HOVE sults, Says American Motorist. ‘The American Automobile Associa- tion, which has waged for years a systematic campaign for the preserva- tion of highway beauty as a benefit to its millions of motorist members, has directed wide attention to the unifica- tion of effort back of the local move- ment for “cleaning up” the entrances to Washington as a preliminary to the 1932 Bicentennial celebration. Itself an active supporter of campaign, the District of Columbia Division of the A. A. A. has devoted a leading editorial in its current issue of the American Motorist to what is being done here for the beautification of the highways. “Concerted action on the part of clvic assoclations, architects, highway enguiee.c, newspapers and others is finally accom ing what was impos- sible for the individual to do, the beautification of highways into Wash- ington as a preliminary to the Bicen- tennial,” the American Motorist says. “Daily newspaper columns are filled with news of citizens’ meetings where the subject of highway beautification is discussed. Group after group Is aligning itself with the forces working to make the approaches as beautiful as the city itself. Photographs are being published everywhere showing unsightly billboards and the pleasing | pastoral scenes which they conceal. ! The compaign has scarcely started, but already several of the largest adver- tisers have agreed to use other means of placing their products before the public. “Worthy of Its Cause.” “Th= unification of effort with which the campaign for highway beautifica- tion is being conducted is worthy of its cause.” Affairs, Washington's weekly review of current events, also devotes space in its current issue to the “economics of roadside beautification,” in referring to the success with which local civic or- ganizations are calling upon people to favor those produets which do not *ad. vertise on the landscape.” The article reads, in part, as follows: “Encouraging indications abound that unsightly billboards, obtruding them- selves along our highways, e: ally at points of greatest natural uty or historic interest, are about to receive a little much-needed attontion. Opposition Intensified. “Opposition to this form of country- side defacement is becoming intensified and co-ordinated. Civic, patriotic and aesthetic societigs are calling with no- table success upon people to favor those products that do not ‘advertise on the landscape.” Billboard associations, ap- parently under pressure, have admitted at their Washington conference that some zoning regulations might be ap- propriate. Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia are asking authority to regulate all such signs in order to clean up approaches to the Nation's Capital, which the Government is spending so much money to beautify. “So far all emphasis seems to have been laid on beautification for beauty's sake, but there is much more involved. American tourists and residents in Eu- rope alone, spend in the neighborhood of $500,000,000 yearly. It would be dec- sirable and beneficial to our economic condition, especially at this time, if more American holiday money could be spent at home. “Intelligent self-interest alone should counsel American motor car manufac- turers, agents, tire companies, oil com- panies, real estate and hotel men’s asso- ciations, chambers of commerce. and all organizations interested in better business to co-operate in the beautifica- tion of the landscape.” 1,300 TO GRADUATE TO SENIOR HIGHS 1,073 Pupils to Enter Junior Units 2s Result of February Promotions. More than 1,300 children will enter the white senior high schools from the Jjunior high schocls and the elementary grades during the February promo- ticns, according to official estimates at the Franklin Administration Building. The same estimates credit the junior high schools with 1,076 new pupils goirg to them from the grades. McKinley High School leads the senior field with a total of 344 new- comers scheduled to enter it mnext month. Central is second with an anticipated 290 and Eastern is third with 265. Western with 208 and Business with 204 are last on the list. Of the 1,311 new high schoel students 560 are going directly from the elemen- tary schools, while the’ remaining 751 will go from the junior high schools. Gordon Junior High School, with 144 graduates, is promoting the largest class; Macfarland, with 120, is second, and Langley, with 116, is a close third. Tha first division, embracing in generai the northwest section of the city and including the congested Chevy Chase area, is providirg the greatest number of new high school students directly from the grades with 135 scheduled promotions. Hine Junior High School is scheduled to receive the largest number of recruits to the junior hgh schools from the grades with 186 pupils on the promotion lists. Langley is a close second with 176 headed its way and the Paul is third with 141, The other junior high schools follow: Macfarland, 135; Gordon, 12 Stuart, 116; Jefferson, 77; Powell, 74, and Columbia, 46. MARINES GOING TO PARIS Gen. Dunlap and Maj. Miller to At- tend Ecole de Guerre. ‘Two officers of the Marine Corps wh have outstanding World War records will soon be sent to the Ecole de Guerre at Paris for a two-year course. Officials at Marine Corps headquarters said to- day that Brig. Gen. Robert H. Dunlap and Maj. Charles J. Miller are sched- uled to sail aboard the S. S. President Harding February 18 for France. Gen. Dunlap is on temporary duty at Marine Corps headquarters here, while Maj. Miller is returning to the East coast aboard the U. S. S. Henderson following a tour of service aboard the U. 8. 8. New Mexico. $75,000 Robbery Rumored. CHICAGO, January 20 (#)—Tho Chicago Tribune said today it had learned that Mrs. Cornelia Fox of the Majestic Hotel, Philadelphia, had been robbed of $75,000 in jewelry in a dar- ing hold-up November 25. No report of the robbery, which occurred at Montrose avenue and the Outer Lake Shore drive, was made at the time, the newspaper added. A necklace of 36 pearls was listed among the stolen ar- ticles, which were insured. Deposed President Returns. PANAMA CITY, January 20 (P).-- A flurry oi comment has greeteu the return of Dr. Florencio Harmodio Ros2+ mena, deposed President of Panama, to Panama City, but it is dying down and apparently the former Chief necutive will be permitted to live un- molested in a private residence here as an ordinary private citizen. He bas been the guest of a hotel in the Canal Cone since the incidents of January 2.