Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 10

A—1 FEDERATION HAS STORMY SESSION Montgomery Body Hears Acrid Discussion Until 1 This Morning. BY WILLIAM S. TARVER, Staff Correspondent of The Star BETHESDA, Md., March 10.—Charges and counter charges that delegates to the Montgomery County Civic Federa- tion were motivated by politics in their attitude toward the ~applications for membership of the Kensington Cham- ber of Commerce and Kensington Board of Trade were heard at the federation meeting_here last night, which was thrown into a foment by the acrid dis- cussion. ‘The fight centered principally around Maj. E. Brooke Lee, county Democratic administration leader, who _injected politics into the discussion when he Jeged that the Membership Committee was “trying to keep our people out and let in our enemies” He was opposed by George H. Lamar of Rockville, chairman_of the Membership Commit- tee, and Jo V. Morgan of Edgemoor, & member of the committee, who threat- ened to “resign and walk out of this hall” if some action repudiating Brooke | Lee's charge against the committee was not taken. Both Bodies Admitted. | In the end the Membership Commit. tee's report, which recommended_only the admittance of the Kensington Board | of Trade, was amended on motion of | Maj. Lee and both bodies admitted to membership in the federation. The discussion of the question was | extended over more than two hours, | with the meeting recessing immediately | after a vote was taken a few minutes before 1 o'clock this morning until | Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, when it | will reconvene for consideration of in- | completed business. | It was agreed that the report of the Membership Committee was to be the last matter to be taken up last night, before 1t was presented by Mr. Lamar. The report set out that it was the adopted policy of the federation not to admit an organization which substan- tially overlaps the territory of another. Declared to Overlap. It was stated that the two Kensington organizations overlap since they both sought admittance as quasi-business | bodies from the same ccmmunity. The | committee found, however, it was as- | serted, that the Board of Trade more | mearly complied with tie requirements of a quasi-business organization than did the Chamber of Commerce and for this reason its application was recom- | mended for favorable action by the meeting. It also was recommended that final action on the application of the Cham- ber of Commerce be deferred to permit it, if s0 desired by its members, to amend its by-laws “so as to avoid over- lapping, to permit memoership from both sexes, and to adop: a name in con- vith the character of a citizens’ association Edward H. Jones, a member of the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce, imme- diately cbjected to the report which he said should be called “Much Ado About Nothing” and which did a grave in- justice to The Kensingion Chamber of Commerce. He alleged that the cham- ber's application was in the hands of the committee during December, 1930, and was held up. Says He Leaned Backwards. “I never heard of a membership chairman before who leaned over back- wards to keep people out,” he declared. “Mr. Lamar leaned over backwards to get the Board of Trade in but I won't fight with him about that.” Mr. Jones then offered the motion that the report be not concurred in and that the Membership Committee be dis- charged from further consideration of the two applications. This motion was amended by Ralph Lee of Woodside, so as to provide for the admittance of both grganizations. President Stephen James ruled that a motion to discharge a committee re- quired a two-thirds vote. The vote was taken and stood 28 for and 26 against, failing by virtue of the twosthirds rule. Following the defeat of Mr. Jones' motion, Maj, Lee sought to amend the committee's report so as to provide for the admittance of both organizations. West Would Still Control. “There is no need to fear that the eastern section of the county will con- trol more federation votes than the western side,” Maj. Lee asserted. *“Ad- mit them both and the ratio will still be more than two to one favoring the west. “The so-called Democratic county administration composes less than 15 per cent of this body and we never ve tried to get any one into it, but when active politicians on the other side 1ry to keep cut our people we are going to object. “No people in the county dislike me more than the delegates of the Board | of Trade, yet I am urging that they be | taken in | “It was the Membership Committee | Takes Pleasure the Appoi Mr. L. G. Sizer for Many Years Manager of The Raleigh as the Manager of The Roosevelt Protests Jail Treatment VG STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1931 FORMER REPRESENTATIVE RESENTS PRISON EXPERIENCE. By the Assoclated Pre: ALTIMORE, Md., March 10.— Manuel Hetrick, former Okla- homa Representative in_Con- gress. sentenced last October to six_months in jail g?n c}ll‘nrgu that he helped make moonshine liquor, made a protest here yesterday about the treatment he said he was accorded at the Centerville, Md., jail. Herrick was released Sunday. food was bad and the bedding dirty, he asserted, and added that he was denied many privileges other prisoners enjoyed. Herrick told District Attorney Simon E. Sobeloff that the other prisoners‘were | permitted to stroll to the post office for their mail, attend motion picture shows and to take walks in the country. But he said he was not permitted to leave the jail. Silent on Plans. The former representative, who served one term in the Harding admin- Istration, was given transportation to St. Mary’s County in Southern Maryland, where he was arrested last Summer while working at a still as a $15 a week handy man. He would not say what his plans were. Wiliam F. Airey and Pius B. Ennels, the 1atter colored, sentenced along with Herrick, also were released. Herrick asserted at his trial here that he took the job at the still to obtain evidence, but Federal prohibition offi- cials at Washington denied that he had been given a commission as an under- | cover man, Herrick said he lost 46 pounds during the time he was in jail. Continuing his allegation, he asserted “One pris- oner, a privileged character, got the other prisoners down on me. They would wash the walls with my clean | shirts and put rotten eggs between the sheets on my bunk.” Jailors Deny Charges. “They'd throw wads of wet paper at my head, and a boy living nearby used to shoot nails at me from his air rifle The | | five large rooms with only the big door MANUEL HERRICK. “I've got facts shere that will blow the roof off if they ever go into them.” Queen Anne County Jailors denied all the charges. They said, “He tried to make trcuble for us from the day he arrived until the day he left. He was treated kindly and received the same food as the other prisoners. He was confined for the most of the time on the second floor where, with a few oth- er prisoners, he had the run of four or | adi downstairs locked.” ‘The jail officials said no prisoners were allowed to attend moving picture shows or go to the postoffice or take walks jn the country. | that brought politics into these pro- ceedings. Mr. Lamar went out of his way to solicit the application of the Board of Trade.” Face Flushed With Anger. At this point Maj. Lee was inter- rupted by Mr. Lamar, who jumped to his feet, his face flushed with ange and shaking his finger in Maj. Lee face, shouted, “That statement s not true.~ You injected politics into this.” As Mr. Lamar continued in a violent tone, Maj. Lee appealed to the chair- man: “Mr., Chairman, I would like to finish what I have to say. This gentleman called me @ liar and I haven' called him_ anything.” Then Maj. Lee proceeded with the statement that the committee “was try- ing to keep out our people and let in our enemies.” As soon as Maj. Lee sat down Mr. Morgan obtained the floor. “I thought Brocke Lee was a fairer man,” he vehemently declared, “than he has shown himself tonight. He is the only man who has attempted to bring politics 1nto this federation, and | 1 am ashamed of him. If no action is taken repudiating Brooke Lee's state- ment I will resign and walk out of this hall.” This statement was greeted with a round of applause by the delegates. The Lee amendment was put to a vote and carried by 45 to 12. The amended committee report then was adopted unanimously. NANCY BOWEN PLANS SLAYING GUILT PLEA Indian Woman, 65, Will Admit Charge of Manslaughter in Marchand Death. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 10.—Ernest W. McIntyre, attorney for Nancy Bowen, | 65-year-old Indian woman cherged with murder in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Clothilde Marchand last year, announced - today that the Seneca woman would plead guilty today to a| charge of manslaughter. Nancy was scheduled to appear in County Court today for trial on the murder charge. Nancy admitted on the witness stand that she killed-Mrs. Marchand, but de- clared the crime was instigated by Lila. The plea was entered before County Judge F. Bret Thorn, who did not im- mediately fix a date for senterce of the aged woman. The law provides a pen alty of imprisonment not excceding 20 years for this offense. i Nancy testified in the prosecution of | Lila Jimeson, admitting that she beat| keep Congress and the State Legisla- to death’ Mrs. Marchand, wfe of an artist, with whom Lila was on intimate terms, Action, England, may have a “dry” public house where non-intoxicating drinks will be sold in Announcing ntment of A limited number of transient and housekeep- ing suites, both furnished and unfurnished, are now available. The Roosevelt offers every facility and con- venience to its guests. building is a delightful grocery store, barber and beauty shop. Under the experienced supervision of Mr. Sizer are a corps of highly trained employes pledged to the comfort and welfare of our guests. The Roosevelt l6th St. NW. (Between'V Available within the restaurant, drug store, and W Sts.) | WYBRIDE PLANNING DRY ORGANIZATION |Anti-Saloon League Head Holds Wets Gaining and Urges Local Unit Drive. By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla,, March 10.— Plans for a gigantic, Nation-wide or- ganization to espouse the cause of pro- hibition were outlined today before the | | Southern convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America by Dr. F. Scott Mc- ride, general superintendent. He suggested formation of units of prohibition supporters in townships and counties throughout the country to as- | sist State organizations, which, in turn, would correlate their work with the national association. “If we are going to take care of this second _campaign -against prohibition,” Dr. McBride declared, “we must depend largely on what is done back home in the counties and townships in carrying on our legislative program. Hold Wets Organized. “We cannot take care of such a plan unless _the people are organized; we | can’t fight a battle against any army that is organized with an army that is not organized.” He said there are 10 more prohibition | advocates in the House and 10 more in the Senate today than when the eighteenth amendment was voted. “Not only are there more drys in Congress,” he added, “but the dry sen- timent is even stronger. “Congress every election since prohibition was | voted. In 1928 there were more drys | elected than at any other time and we | | also elected a dry President. Sees Constant Peril. | “In 1930, however, the wets have | taken an advance. Multi-millionaires | have taken advantage of dry inactivity and have elected some wet Senators | who should have been defeated by drys. | | “If three drys in each of 30 States | | were to be defeated by three wets in | each of those 30 States, the majority |in the House would be wet, but we stiil would have enough dry States to keep | prohibition in force. But whenever the | House has a majcrity of wets there would be mighty little comfort for us. | We must not merely hold our own, but | | tures dry. | company, after a public hearing.” | England Power has been getting drier | - | appr ar T POWER FIRM HIKED | VALUE, QUIZ HEARS U. S. Trade Body Accountant Finds $20,469,859 Rise in Merged Assets. By the Associated Press. R. E. Barnes, a Federal Trade Com- mission accountant, testified today, at a hearing into the affairs of the New England Power Asscciation, that he found a “write up” of $20,469,857 in a series of consolidations centering about the Narragansett Electric Lighting Co. of Providence, R. I. Barnes said the “write up” was a change in book value of the Narragan- sett company-and other related sub- sidiaries without an increase in capital assets of the concerns. During the mergers and consolida- tions the United Electric Power Co., & subsidiary of the New England Power Association, was formed to acquire the assets of the lighting company. Its name, Barnes said, was later changed to the Narragansett Electric Co. He said the entire series of transactions led to the control of the lighting com- pany and United Electric Railways, also of Providence, by the New England Power Association. Value Hiked $20,000,000. The ledger value of the capital as- sets acquired from the Narragansett Electric Lighting Co., as shown by that company’s books just prior to the ac- quisition, was $31,345,251.32, Barnes de- clared, adding that these capital assets were entered on the books of the Nac- ragansett Electric Co. on the acquisi- tion date at $51,815,108.89. The total “write up” of the capital assets of the old company, as shown by the books of the new company, was $20,469,857.57, Barnes testiried. Barnes sald_the electric plant investment of the Narragansett Co. was “written up” $18,802,608.58, the gas plant investment, $584,634.82, and the value of securities owned by subsidiaries, $1,082,614.17. “The books of the subsidiary com- panies were not changed,” Barnes said. Stock Issue Authorized. Healy put into the record a decision of the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission_in 1927 which authorized the issue of $43,860,000 in securities by the Rhode Island Public Service Co., one of the concerns involved in the series of consolidations. Healy said subssquently the commis- sion authorized the issuance of more shares and that this brought the grand total in securities authorized to about $48,000,000. Carl 'S. Herrmann, treasurer of the New England Power Association, issued a statement in which he said that the commission ~ accountant “has mot | brought out fully the transaction in | queston.” . “The commission fixed the value of | the assets in authorizing the issue | of securities by the new purchasing Herrmann added that Barnes found “that the annual dividends of the New Association upon its entire investment in Rhode Island has not exceeded 712 per cent.” WALKER SHUNS CAMERAS IN STARTING HIS VACATION By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 10.—Dispensing with the usual ceremony of reporters and photographers, Mayor James J.| Walker motored over to Jersey City ) this afternoon and boarded the 3:20 p.m. Baltimore & Ohio train for the West, bound for a month’s vacation in Palm Springs, Calif. Ordinarily when the mayor takes a vacation, there is much jocular inter- viewing, and the Walkerian wisecracks are plentiful. Today the time and place of his departure were kept secret until he was aboard his train. SPECIAL: NOW IS THE TIME TO GO TO CALIFORNIA AT REDUCED FARES Substaniial saving. New rediced fare 139254 from Washington by way of At- lanta, New_Orleans, Houston. San An- tonio’ and EY Paso to Los Angeles and Ban Prancisco. Use the tourist si oximately one-half of ate. Also special coach od instandard or tourlst Pullmans to New Orleans, and in coaches beyond. Write for illustrated booklet R. MAN, PASS. AGT.. 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Kerr, assistant to the vice president in charge of traffic on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and brought in return pointed criticism from La Rue Brown, counsel for the National Auto- mobile Chamber of Commerce. Kerr, asserting that the Louisville & Nashville was losing millions of dol- lars annually because taxation and other forms of regulation not required ot the competing highway carriers al- lowed them the advantage of cheaper rates, declared that relief was necessary to “equalize” operating conditions, Summing up testimony which was started yesterday, he advocated, among other things: ‘That only one bus or truck line be permitted to operate between specified terminals, with the exception that rail- roads already operating between these points might substitute competitive motor service. Wants Rates Fixed. That contract carriers, which do not follow a specified route, be forced to comply with a rate set up and fixed for common carriers whose operations are over specified routes, ~ ‘That a license or other form of pay- ment be fixed for highway travel by motor carriers, which it was contended to not pay costs in proportion to the use they make of the roads. So far_as the first proposal was con- cerned, Brown declared it was framed entirely to the advantage of the rail- roads, tending toward a monopoly. As for the other two, they would also constitute discrimination he said, in that they would cause rate raises to the public. Asks Joint Fares. Kerr contended that the public al- ready is bearing the cost of extra road construction and maintenance neces- sitated by the motor carriers, Brown denfed this. There would be fewer motor carriers if they had to meet the requirements demanded by the reii- reads, Kerr said. Two other principal items were rec- ommended by Kerr at today’s session, which was conducted at the Willard Hotel by Chief Examiner Leo J. Flynn | of the Interstate Commerce Commis- slon. They were: Joint motor-rail rates. More_flexible rate-making provisions of the interstate commerce act, incluc- irg revocation of the Interstate Com- merce Commission’s power to susperd retes, adjust rates to meet competition. National Defense Needs. National defense should be paramount in any study of the transportation needs of this country, and this entails Fed- eral regulation, Lieut. Col. Brainerd Taylor, motor transport expert of the Army Quartermaster Corps, another witness yesterday, said: “We can expect to have no better or more extensive system of transportation | in order to allow railroads w0 for national defense than is developed in our commerce,” he asserted. A national arterial system of railways “that must not be permitted to ened' from any cause whatever,” and the principle of supplementing rail- explained by Col. Taylor as two recog- nized policies of the War Department as “vital to national defense.” ‘These two systems, h> said, appear to set up competition in long distance transportation which, if not controlled, “may develop an uneconomic situation.” Motor transport, he said, is the logi- cal collecting and distributing agency in any co-ordinated plan of transporta- tion, and how far it should extend into l‘:‘t‘; field of the railroads is up to the er. Railroads, themselves, should be en- couraged to enter this fleld, he thinks. VICTIM'S ALLEGED SUIT LANDS SUSPECT IN JAIL Louis T. Miller, Charged With Wearing Stolen Apparel, Held in $300 Theft. Louis 'T. Miller, 20 years old, of 808 Twelfth street, was arrested by Detec- tive Sergt. Larry O'Dea last night and charged with grand larceny in connec- tion with a recent robbery at the home of Richard Ridgeway, 1619 Seventeenth street. Ridgeway was having dinner in a Ninth street restaurant when Miller walked into the establishment in a suit which Ridgeway said he ‘immediately recognized as one stolen in the robbery at his residence, along with $300 worth of wearing apparel. The victim of the burglary telephoned police headquarters, and Detective Sergt. O'Dea responded and placed Miller un- der arrest when Ridgeway pointed him out. Bl i MRS. MARY WATTS DIES ‘ FROM INJURIES IN FALL ways with trunk-line highways, venl Mrs. Mary Watts, 70 years old, 2120 G street, died at Emergency Hospital early last night as a result of injuries received the night of February 21 when she tripped over @ loose brick in the sidewalk near Twenty-first and I streets. Mrs. Watts, severely shocked and her left hip injured, was taken to the hos- pital in a passing automobile, She was the wife of F. G. Watts. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt and police of the third precinct are conducting an investiga- tion of the accident. An inquest may be held to deterpine the question of ility for the accident Towels and Toilet Tissues Prevent Contaglous Diseases Spread- ing in Schools, Factories and Homes LD'S | JOUR CHI €O “T»""’,"' -'.}. wul‘na’flhihm. very hour for 5 hou P houid bring complete comfort. ILDREN'S C MUSIEROLE For Ofice Seekers Who are Dissatisfied E seek the dissatisfied tenant for we know exactly what satisfies business men who seek an imp ent office space. 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Contributions to the Community Chest in the 1931 campaign amounted to $2,003,328.60, or more than $50,000 over the goal of $1,950,000, making it the most successful campaign in the history of large Community Chests throughout the country, John Poole, president of the Chest, said today in his annual report, delivered at the annual meeting of the Community Chest at the Willard Hotel. The luncheon meeting was attended by approximately 500 peo- ple. ‘The number of subscribers was 118,- 665, or 50,000 more than last year, Mr. Poole said, and the amount subscribed shows a gain of 27 per cent over the amount obtained in the 1930 campaign, a record for large Chests. All Washing- ton marched together, Mr. Poole said. Government and non-government, Cath- olic, Protestant and Jew, all classes and all groups contributed to the great vic- tory won by the Chest. Year of Progress. Mr. Poole said that the year now closing has been one in which, in spite | of the' problems created by unemploy- ment, the Community Chest and its member organizations have made sub- stantial progress and improvement in their methods. Elwood Street, director of the Chest, to handle of any firm in the Street sald that the Chest is to the utmost economy in order possible C! }or the new meml ip of the the increase in contributors bes m than 70 per cent, and also declared that in view of the fact that the bound- aries of ltthe Igax.dct do not include the community QGreater Washington, that the Chest would make plans to extend the service of member organi- zations, where necessary, to covel sections, with the possibility of includ- ing them all in the Chest next year. Improvements are planned in every |deperlment. he said. Gave Financial Review. Robert V. Fleming, treasurer of the ;:hm, gave a financial review of the ear. Other reports were made by Ernest 8. 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