Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1931, Page 3

THE EVENING SPEECH BY BUTLER T0 BREAK SILENCE First Talk Since Reprimand to Precede Series at Points in South. | BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Cautioned, but not cowed, Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler returns to the ora- torical firing line this week. The com- mandant of the United States Marines at Quantico, fresh from the turmoil of the Mussolini incident, is en route to South Bend, Ind, today for an address in that city tomorrow night. Gen. But- ler will speak at the Midwinter dinner of the Knife and Fork Club, one of the famous Western social organizations be- fore which, from time to time. many of the Nation's leading spellbinders appear. Senator Brookhart, Republican Progres- sive of Towa, was recently on the South Bend club’s program. Talk to Begin Series. Gen. Butler’s talk in Indiana is ap- parently the opening gun of the series of lectures he has long been planning to deliver. At any rate, he has arranged to go to the South in March and give some more talks in Dixie. A Cleveland “lyceum bureau,” which features Win- tertime addresses by outstanding men and women, has been angling for a con- tract with Gen. Butler for some time.* Apparently he has accepted at least a limited number of engagements, of which the South Bend date is one. Contrary to popular belief, officers of the United States Navy, including the Marine Corps, are not “muzzled” while on the active service list. Any sem- blance of “muzziing” that existed up to that time seems to have been abolished during the regime of Curtis D. Wilbur of California as Secretary of the Navy. Wilbur was in office during the aviation squabble stirred up by Brig. Gen. “Billy” Mitchell of the Army over the loss of U. S. S. Shenandoah. Soon After that tragedy the Navy Department issued a regulation setting forth that it ‘would be perfectly all right for officers to make speeches, provided that manu- scripts of their remarks were filed at headquarters. There was no require- ment that these manuscripts should be submitted prior to delivery. They could be sent in practically any time. The department let it be understood that the only form of censorship involved was that which an officer’s own sense of responsibility and professional con- duct imposed upon him. Subject Not Disclosed. Officers on active duty—as in the present case of Gen. Butler at Quan- tico—must go through only one formal advance preliminary in the case of an address away from their stations. ‘They must apply for leave and it is seldom withheld. They state the ob- ject of their proposed trips, say how ng they need to be away, notify their superiors where they can be reached in case of emergency and that's all. If speech-making officers sometimes for- get to send in copies of their remarks, nothing, usually, is done about it. Once in a while officers notify the depart- ment as to the title of their talk. Often ft's announced simply that they're going to make some remarks. That suffices, too. What Gen. Butler has up his sleeve for his keenly expectant audience at South Bend tomorrow evening has not been disclosed. That he will watch his step, especially in connection with events which just stirred two con- tinents, is a foregone conclusion. The reprimand administered to him by Sec- retary of the Navy Adams, in pro- claiming abandonment of the court- martial, specifically admonished Gen. Butler on that score. Some of the “Fighting Quaker’s” ' friends think he may choose the Indiana address as an occasion to foreshadow his resignation from the Marine Corps and to a nounce his eventual entry into the po- litical arena of Pennsylvania. 3. COSTELLO AND D. McINROY, TRADING 15 the name of the Columbia Cabinet Works, located in the rear of 1124 22nd st. n.w., are hereby notified to call at 2039 K st. n.w. d pay storage on the goods stored in the above named premises . = _GARRETT A. 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The lack of uniformity in the meter reading period, it was pointed out, makes it difficult for some consumers Lolvunderstand the fluctuations in their ills. For instance, the December bill covered a period of 28 days, the Janu- ary bill, 3¢ days and in some cases 35 days, and for February the company has arranged a billing period of 29 days though the month contains 28 days. This will be done, it was said, to equalize the short billing periods. The most vehement complaints re- ceived by the commission came from | persons who purchas'd automatic gas | heating equipment, and claimed that | their bills appeared to be running in| excess of estimates given them for the | s0-call"d heating season by representa- tives of the gas companies. Investigation of these complaints, it was said, showed that in a number of | instagnces consumers were under the impression that gas for house-heating purposes was to cost them 60 cents a thousand cubic feet, which is the basic rate, but they failed to take into consideration the ~additional demand charge, which runs the actual rate higher than this amount. Burner Cost Increases. One of the most recent complaints came from Amy C. Weech of 1338 Eighth street, who purchased a conver- | sion burner last Fall and-sajd an_esti- mate was given her that the bill for the heating season would not exceed $25( The first bill received, she said, covered a period of 24 days and was slightly in excess of $23. “I was very well satisfied,” she declared. “The next bill for December was $63.66. I wrote a vigorous letter of protest to President Wood of the gas company, but got no reply. The January bill was |$54.98. I cannot and will not pay it.” She also declared that she had kept the temperature of the house regulated to 70 degrees in conformity with con- dition on which the estimate for the heating season was based. In this tem- perature, she declared, she had been cold “all month” and used an oil stove in addition to the furnace to keep warm. “Please do what you can and do it quickly,” she told the commission, “for my checking account will not stand such bills nor will my morale.” Protests Furnace Burner Cost. Leon A. LeBuffe, who also purchased a conversion gas burner for his fur- nace, complained to the commission that while the rate is suppos>d to be 60 cents a thousand cubic feet, the ad- ditional demand charge has run his bill up to 74 cents a thousand cubic feet. In reply, the commission advised Mr. LeBuffe that if any agent of the gas companies had informed or led him or any consumers to believe that the total cost of house heating would be covered by a charge of 60 cents a thousand cubic feet of gas consumed, “this was manifestly wrong, unjustified and not in accord with the raves fixed by this commission.” “When the commission fixed this space heating rate, including the maxi- mum use charge,” it said, “it did not nor does it now regard this charge as being merely for the privilege of using gas, nor as a royalty or penalty im- posed on large consumers. Any utility furnishing its product to consumers should endeavor to base the charge to any one of them upon the cost of sup- plying his needs. This cost is made up of several items—(1) commodity cost, in other words, so much per 1,000 cubic feet; (2) customer cost, so much, for example, for reading meters; (3) & | demand cost, covering the expense to | the company by reason of the fact that that it must at all times be ready to | supply to any customer the demand | which he makes. Naturally the com- | modity cost will increase with the amount of gas used, and likewise the demand cost will be determined by the amount of gas which at any time the customer may desire to use.” Objects to Salesman’s Claim. J. G. Massey of 3714 R street com- plained to the commission that a sales- {man for the gas companies, used the | 60-cent rate as an argument in selling |him automatic gas-heating equipment and discovered that it did not include all charges, when the actual bill may figure at any rate between 67 and 75 cents. or perhaps higher. “The Washington Gas Light Co., hav- ing failed properly to explain the de- imand charge at the proper time,” Mr. | Massey declared, “the customer having had the experience referred to, he feels | that something was ‘put ever’ on him.” | George B. Fraser of the gas company, in response to this complaint, said he was sorry that there had been some | misunderstanding with the represent- | the customer to believe scmething had been “put over” on him. Mrs. C. J. Schaeffer of 801 Quack- enbos street, another conversion burner purchaser, said she was given an esti- mate of $148 for her heating bill over a seven-month period, but the apparatus had consumed more than 50,000 cubic feet of gas between November 17 and December 20. “This surely does not | agree with their eéstimate,” she de- | clared. | The commission referred Mrs. Schaef- fer's complaint to the gas company, and Grorge A. G. Wood, president, replied | that her consumption was running “somewhat in excess of the estimate, but this was due to difficulties experi- enced in adjusting her vapor system to | automatic heat.” | Threatens to Remove Furnace. Mrs. Robert O'Neill of 3805 Thir- | teenth street wrote to the commission | and said she could not understand why | AR AN AP A AR AP DA ADAATS EP | NOT?| {4 Clumsy, unsightly § glasses are no longer necessary. Modern craftsmans| her gas bills are higher this year than last for the operation of her.gas fur- nace, particularly in view of the rate reductions which went into effect last October. “I am so tisfled,” she said, “I am thinking about having the furnace taken out.” An investigation by the commission of this complaint showed that the con- sumption this Winter had been higher. but the net charges were lower on a count of the reduced rates. Other Complaints Cited. ‘The commission recently asked the gas company for an explanation of a transaction in the case of Mrs. Antoin- ette Barnesby of 700 Sixth stree north- east, who complained rhe had been given an estimate of $145 as the cost of operating a conversion burner through the current heating season, and no mention was made about the maxi- mum use charge. She said her bill for November was $30 and in December it amounted to $54. President Wood replied that the com- pany records showed the estimate given Mrs. Barnesby was $244 and, accord- ing to the bills rendered, the total bill for the heating season wculd be $235. Mrs. John Als, 2466 Tunlaw road, complained to the commission that she is finding it expensive to operate her gas furnace, despite the fact that the weather this Winter had been moderate. “If there is no hope or intention of lowering the rates,” she said, “I will have to have it removed.” Peter M. Dorsch of 7800 Orchid street, and Daniel Masterson of 1305 Kearney street northeast, are among the others who complained of high gas bills. Masterson asked the commission whether the “supposed reduction” for the average householder, who consti- tuted the “great majority” of consum- ers, was “merely a gesture.” “I am wondering whether the Public Utilities Commission,” he said, “is under the im- pression that a real reduction in the cost of gas to the great body of con- sumers was accomplished.” NAVAL ACADENY HAS HOLDAP SCARE Annapolis Sentry Reports Machine Gun in Auto Near Pay Office. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 16.—Spe- cial detachments of marines, sailors and midshipmen patroled the grounds of the Naval Academy here Saturday night and yesterday following an alarm sounded by a marine sentry near the pay office Saturday night that he had seen a powerful motor car containing a machine gun and belts of ammunition near his post. There was a hint of the suspicious days of the World War following the report and the special patrols of sailors and midshipmen were ordered out, but Do trace of the armed car could be ound. The sentry stated that the car con- tained but one man when it stopped near the pay office, but that four others were loitering in the vicinity. The driver of the car stopped near the sentry's post and gave an opportuni- ty for looking into the car. The marine stated most positively that he saw the machine gun ready for action and belts of ammunition ready for use. While the sentry was telephoning the alarm into headquarters the car left the vicinity and was not seen again. It was suggested that an attack on the pay office for purposes of robbery was contemplated. ' TRIAL SHOT TO DEATH Killed by Business Partner, Who Surrenders and Claims Self- Defense. By the Associated Press. KANNAPOLIS, N. C., February 16.— A man awaiting trial for murder was ihotcu to b\‘::l“h near here late yesterday Yy his iness partner, who had relped bail him out of jail. m Bill Etheridge, 50, charged with slay- ing John Hinsley last October, died instantly when Henry Norris, 30, his gnrmer in a grocery stofe fired a pistol ullet through his chest. Norris surrendered to police a few minutes after the shooting, saying he had shot the older man in self-defence after they had engaged in an argument as to where they would play poker. —_——— WELCOME AWAITS CUBANS Mexican University Opens Doors to Students of Closed Schools. MEXICO CITY, February 16 (#).— Authorities of the National University sald last night they would receive with open arms a party of Cuban students reported coming here to study because of the closing of the Cuban University in Havana. They added this policy would be ex- tended to all Cuban students wishing to continue their studies here while the University of Havana is closed. FREIGHT HOUSE BURNS NEW YORK, February 16 (A).—A warehouse piled high with merchan- dise and about 15 freight cars were partially destroyed early today when fire attacked the Long Island Railroad Freight Station in Long Island City. Railroad officials declined to esti- mate the damage or suggest the origin until more thorough inspection was possible. - Look Your Coal Bin Over Today Some of Washington's worst recorded blizzards came without warning in February. A full bin of Hessick's D & H An. thracite now is your best possible insurance against a cold house and costly illness. And, remember, it isn't the size of your order, but “How well we can service that order” that counts with Hessick. Call District 0744 now. You'll thank us for the suggestion later. STAR, ' W/ SHINGTON, NEW POWER BODY FACES FIRST CASE Hearing Tests Authority Over Large Group of Current Projects. t By the Associated Press. The new Federal Power Commission came to its first hearing today faced with a challenge of its authority over a large group of water-power develop- | ments. The Appalachian Electric Co. sent | representatives to argue the contention it has advanced that the Federal agency has no jurisdiction over its proposed $11,000,000 plant on the New River near Radford, Va. The principal issue involved is whether the 1929 water power act conferred power to regulate fully hydro-electric projects on non- navigable streams which contribute to| rivers of navigable size. Many power projects over the country are on such streams. ‘The former Power Commission of cabinet members declined to act upon the application for a modified license sought by the Appalachian ‘concern. It held the question of whether the Federal or State government had juris- diction was too important to be settled without a court ruling. Virginia has protested she holds juris- diction. West Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas sustained this wiew. Repre- sentatives of the Old Dominion were to be on hand today for the hearing. The other States also were invited to take | brief centers upon | three main points: | That the Federal agency lacks juris- | diction. | If it claims jurisdiction, then its pow- er should extend only to issuing a license that would protect navigation, | exclusive of financial regulation. That a decision of Attorney General Mitchell to the former commission sus- tained the company and should be con- strued as law until withdrawn by him or set aside by the courts. 3 DIE IN AUTO CRASH Car Hits Train and Bursts Into Flames, Trapping Trio. ‘TOLEDO, Ohio, February 16.—A coroner's inquest is to be held to- day in the deaths of two young women and a man who were trapped in their blazing automobile and burned to death early yesterday after the machine | crashed into a Detroit, Toledo & Iron- | ton freight train near here. ‘The victims were Pauls Shertzer, 22, | Toledo; his sister, Hilda Shertzer, 19, of Tiffin, and Mrs. Freeman Enbody, 20, meid in the Shertzer home. The explosion is believed to have been caused by the hot motor of the | machine being forced back by the im- pact against the gasoline tank. U. | wi th be Se! to ment Drama Guild. Elliott H. Goodwin Dies. BOSTON, February 16 (/) —Elliott H. Goodwin, chairman of the Massa- | chusetts Civil Service Commission, died of pneumonia last night at Massa- | chusetts General Hospital, where he | underwent an operation February 1. He was 57. | He served as assistant secretary and | secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League from 1902 to 1912 and | general secretary of the Chamber of | Commerce of the United States from | 1912 to 1920. From 1920 to 1926 he was | resident vice president. Dr. Enrique M. Porto Dies. HAVANA, February 16 (#).—Dr. En- | rique M. Porto, who was secretary of | sanitation in the cabinet of former | President Alfredo Zayas, died today. He was 84. Owners of private planes in Poland | are obliged to furnish air transporta- tion for military use at the call of the government. | | TR | The birth of the new Season D. C., TONDAY, Will Rogers SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Well, here we are, back home, and.what. & rip we had oyt here in all this rain and fog. One time during the trip FEBRUARY IRAIDS ON WEALTHY DUD-STIR CHICAGO 16. 1933 from Albuquer- que we gained an altitude of 75 feet above the ground. This rain over the West will do a lot of good. Last night dur- ing a forced stay in~ Albuquerque they gave us a dinner, and Frank and I, just to keep our hands in and not forget our little jokes, passed the hat for ‘a_thousand dollars to pay their Red Cross quota. See where the Republican Party had cut down on the U. S. Navy and aeroplancs to balance thair budget. They better give up a post office building and a concrete road. NEW POLITICAL PARTY HELD NEED OF SOUTH Both Hoover and Democrats Are Declared to Be Weak in Sup- port of Dixie. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 16.—Declara- tion that the “South is ripe for a new political party” was made yesterday by Howard V. Willlams, executive secretary of the League for Independent Political Action. He has just returned from the Secret Divorce Suit Code Unconnected With Drug Traffic, Says Lawyer. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 16.—Visits by Federal narcotic agents to the Chicago, homes of W. Perkins Bull, wealthy Ca- nadian barrister of Toronto and Lon- don, and Mirs. Mabelle Horlick Sidley, an American heiress, were the subject of discussion in the Gold Coast district today. Bu''s attorney said he had been in- formed that papers seized constituted a secret code for use between Bull and Mrs, Sidley in connection with a divorce sult against her husband, Dr. John Streeter Sidley of Racine, Wis. Bull and Mrs. Sidley, who is the daughter of William H. Horlick, the malted milk manufacturer, were Gues- tioned at the district attorney's office for six hours by the agents after the oiicers had entered their apartments in the fashionable Gold Coast section, presumably trying to trace the ramifi- cations of an alleged narcotic smug- gling ring. All Later Released. J. J. Harrison, head of a private de- tective agency, was also questicned. All of them were released, and the Chicago Tribune said the agents admitted they had no evidence. "At the same time John E. Kehoe, attorney for Bull, and detectives. | tunate affair” by T. H. Spence, Mil- waukee attorney for Dr. Sidley. raids until he read accounts of them | in Sunday's from any source that information from | Dr. Federal officers to question his wife is absurd,” Spence said. Federal —d of Mr. Bull or his papers.” Bull is counsel for Mrs. Sidley. Dr. Sidley formerly was treasurer of the Horlick Co. He recently filed a $250,000 damage suit against Bull and Harrison, charging continual shadow- ing of him by agents of Bull had undermined his health. He was unable to explain, he said, why Bull had taken an interest in his movements. Subse- gently he also filed a petition for an injunction to compel Buil to call off the Describing the agents' visit to Bull's partment, Attorney Kehoe sald: “They arrived, searched his suite and took him away without any warrant. |is He was led to understand that he was in the hands of Department of Justice | agents who were on the trail of a dope- smuggling _group. associate Mr. Bull with any such or- ganization. sugar plantations.” It is ridiculous to His interests are largely in | ‘The raid was termed a “most unfor- * A-3 CHURCH TO LAUNCH ANTI-RED CAMPAIGN [ h to Address Xeetin"tridny to Combat communi:t’,le-, ligious Was An anti-Communist movement, which expected to sweep the oountry through churches of all denominations, will be launched at St. Margaret's Epis- cipal Church, Connecticut avenue and Bancroft place, at 8:15 o'clock, Friday night, when Representative Fish of New' York, chairman of the House committee which investigated “Red” activities, wif® address a meeting of Protestant, Catho- “Dr. Sidley was not cognizant of the | lic and Jewish church people. newspapers. Intimation | Sidley might have Inspired the | DENIES RAIDS WERE MADE. Official Man Was Questioned. the wealthy He said no raids were made, that no tions in the Di Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of |send representativ narcotics, said today reports from Chi- tions to the organization meeting, and cago that Federal narcotic agents had | 2CCPtances already are being received. raided the apartment of W. Perkins Bull According to Marshall Leighton, presi- dent of the Men's Forum of St. Mar- garet's Church, originator of the move- ment to combat the Soviet Union’s anti- religious activities in this country, Fri- | day night's meeting has been calied to form a federation of all churches here in what forum members hope will result | in a Nation-wide drive in defense of the Here Says Chicago Church and the family. Invitations have been sent to churches of all denomina- ct, urging them to of their congrega- Representative Fish will discuss the Soviet menace from th: viewpoint of were incorrect, so far as he had been |the dangers it presents to the Federal able to learn. His_information from Chicago was | > that the apartment of Canadian had not been raided, but that | Bull had been called into the United | States attorney's office there to be ques- | tioned and that members of the Chi- cago narcotic force had been asked to | be_present during the questioning | Government. MAGIC STOVE would State.” time the voters Democratic part; Williams said factors in the way to South. “If Hoover were to run today he not carry a single Southern said Williams. “At the samc have no respect' for thc Jules ~ Brower, ' representing _Harrison, | characterized 'the whole affair as a “'mistake.” Local Goverriment officials said they knew nothing of the affair | or of the impounding of private papers | belonging to Bull and Mrs, Sidley. The action of the narcotic agents, who are understood to have been co- narcotic officials from Washington had | been in Chicago and that the affair was conducted entirely under the jurisdic- tion of the United States attorney. He added there was no information in the ‘Washington Narcotic Bureau concern- ing the affair. COAL $8.50 formaticn of a new party were “lack of | progressive newspapers, the shortage of liberal leadership, the resulting ig- norance of most people concerning the real facts and the fear of workers and farmers that employers will resort to intimidation and forc: operating with Canadian authorities, was taken last Friday. Attorney Kehoe saild his information was that the Government had mistaken the secret divorce suit code as having some con- Justice Department officials also said |no information on the raid had been received there | Registrations of automobiles in Bn-‘ nection with smuggling. He added there | zil have increased 351 per cent since was “‘absolutely no basis for the seizure 1925. This Is Screened Soft Coal in Stove and Egg Sizes John P. Agnew & Co. 728 14th St. Nat. 3068 | Doumergue will | American embassy as the guest of Am- | bassador Walter E. Edge. PRESIDENT IS GUEST 8. Ambassador to F-rnnce to En- tertain Executive. 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