Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1931, Page 3

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Railroads must enter the new avenues of transportation which competing agencies have set up if they are to prosper, Alfred P. Thom, general coun- sel of the American Railway As- sociation and Association of Railway ton Transportation Club at a dinner marking its twenty-fifth anniversary, at the Raleigh Hotel. ‘With this he coupled a warning that “powerful influences are at work to keep the railroads from such a course, “and criticized the “monopoly of regulation” to which, he said, the rail lines are sub- Jected. Mr. Thom'’s speech, in which he out- lined the present difficulties of the car- riers, and their causes, and outlined his views as to the policies they must pur- sue, climaxed the dinner, which brought | together members of the club, repre- senting various transportation inter- ests and their guests from official and civil life to the number of approxi- mately 200. “ites New Competition. inland waterways and the oast movement of traffic through the Panama Canal have cut s of the country's railroads t where a “crisis” has been . Mr. Thom declared, citing fig- ures to prove his contention, It is certain, he added, that the new forms of transportation have come to stay, and consequently, it behooves the railroads to extend the scope of their { operations. | “I believe,” he said, “that the future of the railroads requires that they be- | come transportation companies in al | respects rather than purely railroads.” One of the causes of the trouble in which the railroads find themselves, he said, was “an immense overproduction of transportation facilities,” built up in anticipation of handling the bulk of the traffic of the country before these new agencies appeared. Cut-throat Methods Hit. Another he laid to “cut-throat com- petition” between the rallroads them- selves. Consolidation would do much to cor- rect the latter situation, the speaker added, citing as an example of cen- tralized management the American Telegraph & Telephone Co. Summing up, Mr. Thom asserted that the “railroads will be no party in strangling competition by unfair regu- lation, but ask only that the terms of competition be fair.” With a' free competitive field then and a policy of “useful co-operation” between the carriers themselves, Thom told his auditors that the interests of the public will be protected, adequate transportation furnished and the rail- roads themselves can prosper. First Dinner Recalled. Philip P. Campbell, former Represent- ative from Kansas and a charter member of the club, who was the only speaker beside Mr. Thom, dwelt in humorous vein on incidents of the first dinner of the club 25 years ago, and lauded the stage of development which the railroads have reached. Mr. Campbell, who has attended every dinner of the organization, as has Odell Smith, who acted as master of ceremonies last night, brought out, by questioning his audience, that of those who gathered at the Raleigh a quarter of a century ago, those two, with A. J. Poston, William C. Johnson and W. W. Bowle, were the only ones present last night. As an_interesting feature of the dinner, H. B. Stevens, engineer of the ‘Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., demonstrated two vacuum tube de- vices which performed mechanical func- tions with what approximated human intelligence, A so-called “photo tube” of extreme sensibility to light operated a counter to tally the persons entering the dining hall, sorted out unlabeled yeast cakes from those carrying a label, and operated a smoke detector which automatically released carbon dioxide from a cylin- der and put out a fire. A “grid glow tube” of so high sen- sitivity that it acts instantly as any one approaches it was used in several expersments, including the operation of a siren. One of the uses to which this may be put, it was explained, is as a burglar alarm. U. P. Official Present. M. J. Boylan, president of the club, presided at the dinner and in a brief introductory talk urged the desirability of expanding. The Keystone Quartet of the Pennsylvania Railroad gave several numbers. The guests at the dinner included Representative Addison T. Smith of Idaho, Commissioner E. I. Lewis of the Interstate Commerce Commission, James L. Bality, assistant to the controller gen- e Dickerson N. Hoover, supervising inspector general of the United States Steamboat Inspection Service; Commis- sioner Herbert B. Crosby of the Dis- trict, and George S. Plitt, president of the Board of Trade. Among the rail officials there was D. 8. Spencer of Salt Lake City, who is general passenger agent of the Union Pacific System, and in point of service the oldest employe of the U. P., with which he has been associated 55 years. | | : Will Rogers BEVERLEY HILLS, Calif.—Say, we lost a fine fellow out hers today, Louis Wolheim the great actor. He was 80 ugly and tough you loved him on the screen. And when you knew him he was actually beauti- ful, and you loved him for his character. The Senate votes on the bonus bill tomorrow, Mellon is sup- posed to be such a good treasurer, that the Senate is saying, “If you are such a good treasurer, you ought to have a billlon and a half. Any- body can be a good treasurer if we don’t draw anything out, a good treasurer is a man that has it when we want it.” Spain is a monarchy tonight, yes, tonight. Sweet Peas Violets Dutch Tulips Darwin Tulips HERALDS OF SPRING— Colorful Spring Flowers in Profusion Snapdragons Freesias Primroses Narcissus Beautiful Gardenias, $1.00 Each Exhibits ‘Thinking’ Tubes H. B. STEVENS Of the Westinghouse Co., with the device which separates labeled cakes of yeast from unlabeled kes, demonstrated before the Transportation Club last night. RUSTLESS IRON NOW PRODUCED «BY CURE FOR METAL “DISEASE" NCW Furnace for Process Described Before | Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, February 19.—Green | iron, product of a new furnace, was | described to the American Institute of | gaammg and Metallurgical Engineers to- | y. It is a metal skin disease, and it was | reported upon because a cure has been | found. | The cure results in a new method | of making bright, stainless and pre- sumably rustless iron. The process was described by Floyd C. Kelley of the General Electric Co. The new furnaces get rid of all air and substitute in their heating cham- bers an atmosphere of hydrogen. In this atmosphere iron and steel receiv: the finishing process called annealing, | which is heating to somewhat less than | redness and cooling at a definite and gradual rate. Oxygen Is Barred. When annealing is done in air, oxygen combines with the iron to form part of the metal’s permanent surface. In this skin the oxygen later opens the door to further entry of oxygen which appears as rust. But if the hydrogen is sufficiently pure, no oxygen gets into the metal and the door is shut to rust. The big difficulty, says Mr. Kelley, is to exclude both oxygen and moisture. Oxygen is fickle and liable to divorce some of its molecules even from solid substances when in contact with any- thing for which it has an ity. Hence even the linings of the hydtogen furnace must be of materials capable of clinging tightly to their own oxygen. If small quantities of air leak into the furnace, the atmospheric oxygen combines with hydrogen to form water. This moisture prevents making stain- less iron. g Test Furnaces Small. Too much oxygen makes brown iron. | In small quantities it combines with chromium to produce chromic oxide, and the iron comes out dark green. The General Electric furnaces are small and | experimental, but Mr. Kelley said the principles apply to larger furnaces. Iron which grows was explained by Walter E. Remmers of the Western Electric Co., Chicago. Gray cast iron does this, he said, and the growth is permanent. The increase in volume is 35 to 42 per cent. The reasons are a | change in the graphite in the cold iron, oxygen action after the graphite change, and mechanical swelling caused by very fine fracturing. LEGGE ADVOCATES WHEAT EMBARGO & | Tells House Hearing Farmers Need Encouragement as Well as Money. Bolstering the morale of the Ameri- can farmer is as important as caring for his financial welfare, Chairman Legge of the Farm Board, told the House Ways and Means Committee, in tsetifying before that body in support of legislation to curb the importation of cheap farm commodities. Mr. Legge recommended passage of the Burtness bill providing for a 12- month embargo on wheat, feed grains and other products. Such legislation, he said, would be helpful not only to the producer, but to the Farm Board. “Anything showing interest in the agricultural producer would be help- ful,” the chairman said. “He needs a little encouragement about as much as he needs money right now.” Legge said it is “emmaterial to us whether the relief is by embargo, a tar- iff increase or a change in the Tariff Commission’s procedure.” Bill's Scope Is Defined. “The flexible provision 1§ inopera- ive on agricultural products,” he added. “The farmers don’t keep costs and at the time the relief is needed, as in the present depression, costs den't cut much figure anyhow.” ‘The bill by Representative Burtness, Republican, North Dakota, was said by the author, in & statement before the committee, to include wheat and wheat flour, feed grains, butter and butter substitutes, dried beans, eggs, in va- rious forms, and palm oil. Legge approved the list, but said ag- ricultural interests might want other commodities such as wool and flax in- cluded. Earlier in the day Secretary Mellon. in a letter to Chairman Hawley of the committee, declined to take any posi- tion on the measure. “The department deems it inappro- priate to comment on the wisdom of the policy of enacting such a law,” Mellon wrote, after stating that the “Treasury perceives no difficulty to be involved in the enforcement of the pro- g:gi!'lon of the articles mentioned in the The Treasury head said, however, certain sections of the tariff law would be made wholly or partially inoperative should the Burtness embargo be passed without amendments. ‘Wants Embargo for Year. Legge testified that while agricul- tural imports are not large in quantity | they “have a marked effect on price.” Legge said he would oppose applying any embargo for more than one year. Explaining why he believed the flex- ible tariff cannot help in present con- ditions, Legge said the commission in- terprets the requirement that compar- ative prices and costs be taken over a representative period of time to mean two years. Questioned by committee members on wheat conditions, Legge forecast that the inventory on July 1 would be less than on that day last vear when there was a carryover of 275,000,000 bushels. The Grain Stabilization Corporation now holds about 100,000,000 bushels of cash wheat, he said, or about half the visible supply in this country. TRAINMEN FAGE MAN Victim of Accident Fails to Iden- tify Member Who Pushed Him. Efforts to identify a member of the | train crew as the man who pushed James O'Brien, 38 years old, of 722 Ninth street, from a Richmond, Fred- ericksburg & Potomac Railroad Co. train Tuesday, failed yesterday when | the conductor, brakeman and baggag man confronted O'Brien at Emergency Hospital. . The trainmen, Conductor James F.| ‘Taylor, Brakeman Dewey M. Hall and | Baggageman John C. Rice, all of | Fredericksburg; Va., were taken to the | bedside of O'Brien, who is suffering| from a fractured back, by Detective Nelson G. Thayer of the fourth pre- cinct station. | O'Brien told police that he was| shoved from the train at the Seventh | street and Maryland avenue southwest station as it pullod away from the sta- tion while he wiS still trying to locate a woman to deliver a funeral spray purchased at the florist shop where he is employed. ' Taylor and Rice told Detective Thayer they did not see the man until after the accident, while Hall said he watched the man attempt to alight from the moving train and pulled the signal cord for the engineer to stop so O'Brien | could get off safely. The messenger then stepped from the train and fell, Hall said. | KA, . = Scouts to Hear Buckley. Several hundred Boy Scouts from | Washington will hear an address by Senator Bulkley of Ohio, Saturday, at | the Mount Vernon tomb of George Washington. The ceremonies will be held in observance of Washington's birthday anniversary the following day. ‘The Scouts will place a wreath on the | tomb. The boys will assemble on the | Ellipse at 9:15 a.m. to make the trip by |93I WILL BE ANOTHER Nokol. YEAR Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star every day. The great ma- jority have the paper delivered regularly every evening and Sun- day morning at & cost of 1% cents daily and 5 cents Sunday. It you are not taking advan- tage of this regular service at this low rate, telephone National 5000 now and service will start tomorTow. Pussy Willows Jonquils Lilies of the Valley 1407 H Street National 4905 . 3 Doors West of 14th St. MAY “DROWN SHAMROCK” DUBLIN, Irish Free State, February 19 (#)—1If a bill introduced in the Dail today passes before March 17 citizens of the Free State will be able to ob- Don’t forget the address CheSH |B!0 13th St. N.W.l W. STOKES SAMMONS serve the ancient custom of “drowning the Shamrock” in alcoholic beverage this St. Patrick’s day. During recent years there has been prohibition over St. Patrick’s day, Good Friday and Christmas, but the new bill would permit licensed houses to remain open for two hours on St. Patrick’s day. order too small or too large to receive our careful atten- tion, du Pont TONTINE Window Shades may be LAUN- DRY-WASHED without injury to the color or fabric. Soap and water will do the work—or you may send them to our SHADE LCAUNDRY. The cost is trifling. Jewelers . Stationers Platinumsmithe A.Kahn Inc. 39 Years at 935 F Street Sterling Silver Bread and Butter Plates—standerd size— heavy weight — threaded border. Anni- versary Sale price, 82.35 Each Sterling Silver Oxfords with 14-kt. solid gold spring. Regularly $10. ‘Anniversary Sale price, 85.95 ‘These and many other interesting specials throughout our store at reductions ranging from 15% to 50%. 39TH Anniversary Sale! 14-kt. Solid White Gold Filled Filigree Flexible Watch Bracelet, $12 reg- ulerly. Amniversary Sale price, . 84.95 SPORT STRAPWATCH- ES—for men and women; Elgin and Waltham makes, formerly $25 to $50. ANNIVERSARY SALE PRICES, $16.50 to $35 3 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, luu.sDAY, FEBKUARY 19, 3 WILL VISIT NEW YORK Dr. Ze Barney Phillips to Preach at Lenten Services There. Dr. Ze Barney Phillips, rector of the Church of the Epiphany here, and president of the House of Deputies of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, will be the Lenten preacher during next week at St. James' Epi copal Church, Madison avenue and Seventy-first street, New York City. The services at which Dr. Phillips will speak will be held at 5:15 on Tuesday, ‘Wednesday, Thursday and_ Friday afternoons. Other prominent Ep! rectors and officials will have charge of week-day services during the Lenten season. " Order your milk delivered in PATROLMAN SUSPENDED Accused of Intoxication at Home After Asking Sick Card. Patrolman John W. Hobbs of the first inct was |u38ended from duty by ut. Frank W. Varney for alleged in- toxication yester: ternoon when the latter called at the Hobbs residence to investigate the patrolman’s application for a sick card. Hobbs, who lives at 1527 Twenty-third street southeast, notified his commander one hour before he was due to go on duty that he was ill. The suspended officer was not examined by a police doctor, the customary procedure in pronouncing a policeman unfit for duty, Lieut. Varney explaining that he deem- ed it unnecessary. CREAM TOPS IT WHIPS’ REAM TOP grows on you with acquaintance. He is the most accommodating and versatile conveyor imaginable—presenting WHIPPED CREAM in the short space of 30 seconds, as the crowning touch to a dessert—or a fine rich milk—or a less rich milk for infant feeding and for adults who would fight overweight. It will make us very happy to introduce Cream Top to you. The perfectly pasteurized milk and cream he will deliver costs you no more. Wise Brothers CHevyY CHASE DAIRY Phone WEST OI183 Chain Store Group to Meet. previous conventions were held in Chi- cago. The association was at Memphis in 1927 and ILIMMP now includes most of the large and smaller chaln store organizations in cal:; cem‘xng. xAlbe'rl H. Morrill, presi- of Groce! Co., of Clndnl::tglsh prulrdyen&f.. i s g A temple was dedicated to peace b; hhe Roman Emperor Vespasian in 'Ig P J Nee Co. Two days more in which you may profit by the wonderful Values of the Mid-Winter Sale of P. J. Nee Co.‘ 4 Fine Furniture The beauty of ages, gone'by ol The Cadiz Regularly $1,375 Now $030 Others From $88 to $1,500 Come Early Please This lovely group is im- bued with the spirit of the Mediterranean. The master- ful wood carving of old Italy, the sturdy, robustness of Moorish Spain, are com- bined to make this a suite of real interest to the lover of fine furniture (which is the only kind we sell). J.Nee Co. FINE FURNITURE @ oAireet at FH - N