Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1931, Page 2

PROGRESSIVES MAP| LEGISLATIVE PLAN Parley Shuns Third Party and Fails to Line Up Behind Any ’32 Candidate. (Continued From First P lared: “We condemn the present mmm to re-establish the caucus in convention, and we urge the importance of supporting, strengthening and im- proving the direct primary.” ‘This was & slap at former Gov. Smith of New York, Representative Will Wood, chairman of the Republican Congres- sinnal Committee, and former President Coolidge, all of whom have recently criticized severely the direct primary system. { While the Public Utilities Committee submitted no report yesterday to the conference, it is a foregone conclusion 1t will recommend, among other things, | legislation for the operation by "hel Government of the water power and fertilizer piants at Muscle Shoals. Electricity Rates Compared. Senator Norris of Nebraska, addres- sing the conference yesterday on the subject of water power and the water power trusts, said that Ontario, Canada, which has public ownership and opera. tion of electric lighting and power plants, has given the greatest demon- stration in the world of how to provide cheap electric lights. He pointed out that cities in Ontario have a rate of 114 cents per kilowatt hour for the elec- tricity which goes in to light the homes. “Look at your own electric light bills and see how they compare with that rate” shouted Senator Norris. “Com- re this rate with the rate in Buffalo, . Y. In Buffalo the charge is 5 cents per kilowatt hour, and Buffalo gets its electricity from Niagara Falls, only 18 miles away, and Toronto, which is 78 miles away, has the lower rate. That is what power-trust ownership does to you, and the rate in Buffalo is one of the cheapest for electricity in the United tates. # X':s Hamilton, Ontario, the rate for electricity mkbfl'b und" m\,\'\ the house is , cents per wal ur. %fi‘zc:ve 1y domestic rate is 8-10 of 1 cm?re that N. ‘where t is 8 cents kilowatt hour :hn:i Ymmm is only 70 miles from Niagara Falls. That is the difference between private snd public ovyynenhip. Pigure that out for yourselves. Group Holds Whip Hand. Members of the conference stressed the need of setting up some permanent machiners to draft a “national eco- omic policy” for the country. Te- port. or the Committee on Unemploy- t declared the need of such an y, and doubtless a bill providing - | nual business of more than $50,000,000. o % VIRGINIAN ELECTED Forum Speaker NEW HEAD OF FARM LOAN BOARD TO BROADCAST. JAMES C. STONE. James C. Stone, who has just been appointed by President Hoover to suc- ceed Alexander Legge as chairman of the Federal Farm Board, will make his first public utterance as head of that vitally important body tomorrow night when he addresses the National Radio Forum arranged by The Washin, Star and broadcast over the coast-to- coast network of the Columbia Broad- ocasting System. Chairman Stone's selection as the new head of the Federal Farm Board places upon his shoulders the responsi- bility for the ultimate success of the program laid down by Congress in the agricultural marketing bill. He 1is thoroughly familiar with the problems to be met, inasmuch as he has been a member of the board since its creation in 1920. He was vice chairman through- out that time. Like President Hoover, Mr. Stone looks upon the problem as & whole not so much of a farm problem as it is a national problem and that it must be solved in the interest of every line of effort within the Nation. Because of the great problem before this board, what Mr. Stone will have to say on the occasion of this radio ad- dress will be looked forward with great interest. His address will start at 9:30 o'clock and will be heard in ‘Washington over WMAL. Mr. Stone is a native of Kentucky, having been born in Richmond, located in that part of the State famous for its blue grass and burly tobacco, 53 years ago. It was as a representative of the tobacco growers that he was appointed to the board. He has devoted the great- er part of his life to the culture and marketing of burly tobacco and has for & number of years been a leading fig- ure in organising co-operative market- ing among the burly growers. He was one of the organizers in 1921 of the Burly Tobacco Growers' Assoclation, which included growers in Kentucky, ‘Tennessee, Vi nd manager and within a period of five years the organization had s member- ship of 120,000 and was doing an an- SHRINER PRESIDENT tor| - Stanley W. Brinson Takes Charge of North American Group at Miami Conclave. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., March 13.—Stanley W. , Portsmouth, Va., was elected president of Shrine Directors’ ciation of North America in concluding sessions of the group’s annual conven- tion yesterday. He succeeds William I. MacDonald, Oakland, Calif. Nashville, Tenn., was selected for the tor | 1932 convention, set for Pebruary 16-18. of | ey A. Gain cause of rolonged strain on the va- rious public Tnd charitable funds used Says Leaders Have Falled. The report declared for the creation of the “necessary public machinery of planning and control” to meet emer- @encies such as exist today. It assert- ed that the leaders of American indus- , with rare exceptions, have failed this crisis to assume responsibility to keep their workers employed and American’ industry at work. “There is longer any question that the con- ot of business cannot be left to blind chance,” the report continued. The committee went on record as “deploring the failure of our Federal lutgarmu to make provision for the millions of American citizens on the e of starvation at & time of gen- agricultural and industrial break- down.” It said the adjournment of Con- gress at the time of a great national crisis is an evasion of its primary duties. The eommittee provided for the ap- pointment of a subcommittss to & survey of the present state of unem- ployment and distress in this country, and added: “It is the sense of this committee that if the facts of this sur- vey reveal the necessity of such action & special session of Congress must be demanded to prevent widespread star- vation.” It criticized the veto of the Wagner unemployment bill by President Hoover and announced that subcom- mittees would be appointed to prepare & sound legislative program, dealing with the following subjects: Employ- ment offices, unempioyment reserve or insurance funds, the problems involved in planning for stabllized industry, the place of public works in industrial stabilization, increased purchasing pow- er and the shorter work-day week, co- ordination of relief and stabilization activities of Federal, State and Jocal governments, Tariff Act Criticized. ‘The committee on the tariff, headed | Senalor Costigan of Colorado, criti- d the Smoot-Hawley tariff act, as- serting that it had failed to give jus-! tice to the farmers, and that it had ipcreased instead of lowering duties on many articles, thereby increasing prices, and that it had contributed to the de- pression and distress in the country to- day. It proposed a revision of the tariff | Iaw and said: Administrative and other tariff Other officers named today were Syd- Wichita Palls, Tex., first vice president; Robert E. Osborn, Hast- ings, Nebr,, second vice president; Louis C. Pischer, Charleston, 8. C., was re- elected secretary-treasurer. Elected to the board of were William Asnip, Philade] Glover, Harrisburg, Pa., and Bengel, Louisville, Ky. Many of the approximately 1,000 per- :‘n:n:‘ ;:m'::mg tl&hoonvent:m left for lay. ers took trais their homes. e vernors Iphia: Ear] George P. sentative Government, by Sen- ator Cutting of New Mexico, declared ‘mfl“ the excessive use of money in elections and for a sf ening of the corrupt pracsices act. It declared for the speedy submission of the Norris lame duck” amendment to the Con- stitution, It attacked usurpation of legislative power by the courts and called for the passage of an anti- injunction law by the next Congress. It lee support to the direct primary and criticized efforts being made now to return to the caucus and convention system of nominating candidates for public office. It supported & proposal to have members of ti lation and administration. It proposed legislation to “punish official lawlessness and declared that legisiation should be enacted to make effective the protect the rights of free speech, free press and free assembla “The rights of minority groups must be_respected,” the report said. ‘The committee also emphasized the value of unofficial and non-partisan bureaus of research in the problem of government. It recommended a detailed study of the following problems: Effec- tive methods for extending the presi- dential ry system and for the abo- lition of the electoral college; more ade- quate control by Congress of policy and lawmaking hitherto delegated to ex- ecutive departments and commissions; the elimination from the floor of the houses of Congress the great mass of. private, local and sectional bills, leaving Congress iree to give more adequate consideration to major measures and | the rules of the House. ‘The Committee on Public Utilities did not submit & report to the confer- ence, not having had time to prepare a report. It was announced by &mwr Norris i would prepare such a report and lay it before the committee which called the conference, which in turn would make it public. Lenten Service changes should include more certain standards for the prompt and efficient determination of excessive tariff rates, and the recapture by Congress of the tariff-changing powers now exercised by et Tacifl Come ‘I’:fimhflul legislative cl £ SILILI ST New York Avenue i Presbyterian Church I N 12:20 to 1:00 O’Clock Speaker This Week Dr. C. R. Brown of Yale University Auspices Federation of Churebes power of the Federal Government to | MEYER AND GREEN TOTESTIFY ON WAR Policies Commission to Re- sume Hearings on Plans on Next Monday. ‘The War Policies Commission will resume hearings next week on methods of equalizing the burdens and mini- mizing profits in the event of a future war, with Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and Wil- liam Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, among the witnesses to be heard. Mr. Meyer will be one of several who will give the commission their views Monday, while Mr. Green will appear Tuesday afternoon. If this country should ever again have to go to war unified operation of the rallroads could be accomplished within 24 hours through a plan of hav- ing a Central Committee co-operating with the Government from Washing- ton, but with each road continuing under its own mansgement, Daniel ‘Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad told the commission yes- terday. The commission is holding hearings to prepare recommendations designed to equalize the burden and minimize profits in future wars. Mr. Willard said the method he out- lined for handling rail transportation in any future war was similar to the policy followed by England, and said he thought it wculd work better in place >f the procedure followed in this country in the last war. Mr. Willard told the commission that if the Secretary of War or some other Government official in time of war would tell & group of responsible railroad ex- ecutives what the Government wanted done, it would be done. Opposes Referendum. Commenting on Bernard M. Baruch's plan to “freeze the entire price level of commodities” at the outbreak of any future war, Mr. Willard described it as an interesting p ition and said that if it could be done, “and a way found to administer it, it might be_very effective. ‘The rallroad executive said he would want to study it more closely and con- sult with economists before expressing a definite and final opinion on it. Mr. Willard definitely opposed the idea of having a referenfum tote on going to war except in cases of attack or invasion. “I am not in favor of a town meet- ing to determine whether we will make war,” he said. “It would be all over before we got ready.” Mr. Willard sald he was in favor of doing everything possible to avert war, and is one of those who believes that one of the best ways to prevent war is to be prepared, within moderation. Mr. Willard, who preceded Mr. Baruch as chairman of the War Industries Board early in the World War, told the com- mission that board was hampered in the early days by lack of authority, that he made recommendations to President Wilson, some of which were reflected in later legislation, including the Overman law, which made the War Industries Board more effective. Against Property Seizure. Mr, Willard said that if it could be arrangsd, he thought a man in time of war should make no more than he made by his own efforts in time of peace and under peace conditions. He said he certainly was in favor of taking the profits out of war, but is opposed to & pry that would take any one's for the use of everybody with- out any return. Willard said that within five days after this country entered the war the executives of 707oF more railroads met in Washington and within a few hours had given a committee power of attor- ney to bring about co-ordinated opera- tion. This occurred before the Govern- ment decided to take over the railroads. For future emergencies he suggested the formation of a group of officers selected by rallroads, to be contact with the ‘War Department, with skeleton plans prepared in advance, so that no time would be Jost in bringing about unified operation subject to control by the Sec- retary of War, under the management of the roads. R. H. Aishton, president of the Amer- ican Rallway Association, inted out that six years ago the War iment and the railway executives adopted a tentative plan for operating rail car- riers in time of war, which is still in effect, and under which a rallway presi- dent is designated as a point of con- tact with each corps area commander to deal with him concerning questions of executive policy in that area. Tells of Reserve Commissions. ‘While MraWillard was testifying, Sec- retary of War Hurley asked him if the implied war-time powers of the Presi- dent had proven sufficient in the early days of the World War t6 make the War Industries Board the success it was at the close of the war, Mr. Wil-| lard said they were not sufficient, due |to restrictions that remained in effect | from peace time. | Secretary Hurley explained the plan | under which approximately 14,000 in- | dustrialists have been given Reserve | Officers’ commissions in connection with the industrial mobilization plan, AUTHS ARE ACCUSED OF TAXICAB ROBBERY; BOY TO BE QUIZZED| (Continued From First Page.) send, the sedan pulled suddenly along- side and crowded him to the curb. ‘Two young men got out, the hacker stated, and forced him into their ma- chine. They then drove around the way and through the Monument rounds where, West said, he was forced to hand over his money. ‘The sedan then sped to an alle near Thomas Circle. Here, West nn{ he was forced to alight and pushed into a back yard, where he was beaten and thrown to the ground violently several times. He sald the two young men kicked him before they ran to their machine and drove off The hacker said he then went to the nearest telephone and reported the affair to police, giving them the license number of the sedan and descriptions of his alleged assall- ants. Laurence Auth denied the charges in the face of a lengthy grilling by police today. In the Summer of 1928 Prancis Auth assisted a girl companion to a bell buoy and swam four miles to shore for aid after both of them had been swept from a motor boat in Chesapeake Bay during a severe storm. Auth swam with Miss Milstead to & bell buoy half a mile away and discov- tfll:g that there was room but for one e buoy he swam to a nearby shore. N | Miss Milstead was rescued by a Coast Guard cutter attracted to the buoy when the buoy bell ceased to rin:h Miss Milstead had mn'gouly stopped the bel from ringing with the hope of attract- ing attention. Auth gained & reputation as a stellar athlete du his four years at Mount 8t, Joseph's College, Baltimore. Einstein Escapes Interviews. HAMBURG, Germany, March 13 (). —Prof. Albert Einsteln will be-spared the ordeal of being interviewed by newspaper L.en when he lands at baven this evening on his way home from his American visit. At his own urgent and repeated re- g:.:r"' Teporters wm- ¢:z‘: * today elr customary lege riding Cuxhaven on the boat train to inter- G STAR, WASHINGT TWO FALL O DEATH AT CHICAGO HOTELS A. H. Revell, Furniture Deal- er, in 9-Story Plunge—An- other Drops From 19th. By the Associated Pres: CHICAGO, March 13.—Alexander H. Revell, one of Chicago's leading furni- ture dealers, leaped or fell to his death today from his apartment on the ninth floor of the Drake Hotel. His wife, who was in the apartment with him, was hysterical when hotel employes reached her and was unable to answer questions. Revell was 73 years old. Revell was born in Chicago and be- came president of the Alexander H. Revell Co. in 1879 and in later years was chairman of the board. He was active in civic organization, particularly in reform movements. He was a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the World's Columbian Expo- sition in 1893. He was at one time a member of the Chicago Board of Edu- cation and also trustee of Northwestern University. ’ Prominent in Golfing. His furniture store at Lake street and ‘Wabash avenue, the northeast corner of the Loop, is one of the largest in the downtown section. Revell was prominent in golfing eir- cles, having ol the Illinois Senior Golf Association and being & member of Onwentsia and Old Elm Clubs. He once won the amateur championship of Germany. Miss Louise Johnson, secretary to Alexander H. Revell, jr., who succeeded his father as chairman of the board of the Revell Co. six months ago, said the elder Revell had been having trouble with his eyes for several months, and that she believed he fell from the win- dow accidentally. Attended by Nurse, Because of his poor health Revell was attended constantly by a male nurse. He had just been given a bath by the nurse this morning and was not fully dressed. The nurse stepped out of the room for a moment and when he re- turned Revell was gone. His body was found on the roof of the hotel res- taurant. o Besides his widow and Alexander Revell, jr., the furniture man is sur- vived by two.other children, Mrs. Loring R. Hoover and Richardson Revell. Leaving a note directing that the Philadelphia Trust Co. his “adminis- trator,” be notified of his death, Alfred Mase of Philadelphia leaped or fell to death from a room on the nineteenth floor of the Y. M. C. A. Hotel today. Mase registered at the hotel Mareh 9 and asked for the highest vacant room in the building. Detectives examining papers in bis suit case found indications he was formerly a street car conductor. ‘There was no mention of relatives, U. S. AGENTS ASKED T0 AID IN PROBE OF GAS TRANSACTIONS (Continued Prom First Page.) companies. The purpose of the inves- tigation now under way is to show just how far this relationship extends and whether a basis exists for invoking the La Pollette act, which forbids a for- eign utility corporation from owning or controlling & Washington public utdlity. Mr. Roberts was sent to ton, head- quarters of the now apparently defunct Seaboard Investment Trust, and its suc- cessor, the Washington Suburban Com- panies, to ascertain the financial struc- ture of the new holding company. Mr. Bride was in communication with him soon after his arrival there at 7 o'clock this morning, and instructed him spe- cifically to find out how the new holding eornrny proposes to earn all of the bond interest and the guaranteed in- terest on preferred stock, as set forth in the prospectus of the $6,500,000 bond issue floated March 1. Date given Mr. Roberts was to the effect that the Washington and Sub- urban companies has undertak=n to pay $777,500 & year in fixed return on the new securities, whereas the four operat- ing companies that must be depended upon to earn this return have in the past yielded less than $500,000 & year in net income. Letter Tells of Change. Although Donald McPherson, general counsel for the Central Public Service Corporation, denied several days ago LhrvuJ‘h ‘Wilton J. Lambert, attorney for the Washington Gas Light Co, that the corporation had a manage- ment contract with the Washington & Suburban Cos., a news letter distrib- uted in Washington financial circles by Ayer and associates of Chicago said: “The Washington Gas ht Co., the Alexandria Gas Co., Wasl n Sub- urban Gas Co. and the New York & Richmond Gas Co. have been placed under the management of the Central Public Service ation and here- after will be operated as integral parts of its system.” ‘The letter of Ayer and associates de- clared that the information it col tained had been approved by the Cen. tra] Public Service Corporation, one of its clients. ‘The Central Public Service Co 8- tion, according to information {'l ered in Washington financial ecircks, has total assets in excess of $300,000,000, and recently its earnings have been at the rate of $39,000,000 a year. Organized in 1923. The company was incorporated in Maryland on November 1, 1923, as the Southern Gas & Power Corporation. According to Standard Corporation rec- ords, the Central Public Service Cor- poration furnished, last year, one or more classes of utllity service to 468 communities in 24 States and 2 prov- inces in Canada. While it has furnished electricity and manufactured gas in most of the communities servied in the past, the ion has more recently entered the natural gas production field in a substantial way. Communities in land, Virginia and West Virginia are among those which have been served by the company for some time. Utility plants at Lynch- burg and Rosnoke, Va., are amoni those closely connected with the Chi- cago concern. Properties controlled by the corpor- ation include electric power stations with 292,787 horsepower capacity, 6,785 miles of transmission lines, gas plants with daily capacity of 81,403,000 cubic feet, and 6,616 miles of gas mains; also water pllmrln' lants with total daily capacity of 8,635,000 gallons with 76 miles of connected mains, and 400 miles of electric rallway trackage. Standard tion records states that the Chicago corporation had some 47 subsidiaries connected with its last year, the franchises of these sub- sidiaries, with few exceptions, extending beyond 1949. PATHE VALUE SOUGHT NEW YORK, March 13 (#).—Appoint- ment of three appralisers to fix the value of the stock of Pathe Exchange was asked in Supreme Court yesterday by Joseph H. Basker of Boston. He con- tended assets were worth $20,000,000, with prospects of future increase, when Pathe was sold to Radio-Keith-Orpheum Iast December for' $4,630,789. Basker said in his petition that the 1-“ annual rt_of Pathe, made in 929, showed, assets to be valued at $11,549,888.44. D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 193%. us Loses Bout With Cupid FAMOUS WRESTLER AND MASSACHUSETTS GIRL WED. Gus Sonnenberg, the former Dartmouth College foot ball star, who is recognized as heavyweight wrestling champion in certain parts of the country, and his bride, Miss Marie Elliott of Belmont, Mass., leaving the Little Church Around the Corner, New York, after their marriage, March 12. —A. P. Photo. GAS ACCOUNTING (TRUCK CURB URGED SYSTEM CHANGED Revenues and Expenses in Appliance Division to Be Separated. Steps designed to save gas consumers | TOSAVERALROADS Seaboard Air Line Official Asserts Situation Is Ex- tremely Critical. Commercial highway carriers which of the District approximately $125,000 | are eating into railroad revenues should a year were taken by the Public Utilities Commission today in an order directing | the gas companies to abandon April 1 the practice of including revenues and n:ua in connection with the gas ap- pliance business in the operating rev- enue accounts. | ‘The order stipulates that all reenues received from and the expense' con- | nected with the buying and selling of | gas appliances be kept separate from any operating revenues or expense ac- count pertaining to the revenues from service, Not to Be Counted. The order also declares that such revenues shall not be taken into con- sideration in arriving at any rate for gas_service. Prior to the issuance of the order the commission sent a tentative draft to the companies for their comment. George A. G. Wood, president of the Washington Gas Light Co., replied that while the company had no objection to the segregation of its revenues and expenses accruing through merchan- dising and jobbing operations, it felt that the proposed order would be “un- reasonable and unfair.” B. McK. Bachman, chief accountant of the commission, had previously told the commission that the removal from the company's operating revenue ac- count of the revenues derived from the sale of appliances would withdraw ap- proximately $125000 a year, now charged to operating expenses. Saving to Consumers. ‘This amount would, in effect, he said. he a saving to consumers, as it would no longer be taken into consideration in the determination of gas rates. While there has been a concerted movement throughout the country to segregate the accounts of the appliance business of public utilities, Mr. Bach- that only one State com- ‘Wisconsin—had actually issued an order similar to the one promulgated by the District commission. WARDMAN FINANCE CORPORATION PUT IN RECEIVERSHIP (Continued From First Page.) cent delay in announcing the decision has been due to the illness of Gardner L. Boothe, statutory agent and attorney here for the corporation, as Judge Woolls stated several days ago that he did not want to render the decision until Boothe could be present. ‘The annual meeting of the corpora- tion was scheduled to be held here last October 20, but just prior to the meet- ing Attorn Kennedy and Barker, for the plaintiffs, filed & suit for the a pointment of a receiver and an i junction to prevent the holding of the annual meeting. In their suit the stockholders’ com- mittee, through their attorneys, charges that Wardman, Bones and Hobbs fraudulently issued to themselves 22,991 shares of common stock in the discount corporation. The assets of the com- pany, they claim, are frozen in approx- Imlkl{ $832,000 worth of preferred stock in the Wardman Realty & Con- struction Co. It is the stock of this latter company which is said to be held by the Hotel Management & Securitics Corporation, which failed to meet the interest due March 1 on the $16,000,000 bond issue. Wardman and Bones were among the many witnesses presented during the long equity hearing. Wardman said on the stand that he had personally put $40,000 into the defendant corporation, tock ledgers to show that only 39 shares of preferred stock were in Ward- man’s name, Wardman further stated that when the refinancing of the ‘Wardman companies involving the $16,- 000,000 was completed in 1028 he esti- mated that the conxnl had $10,- in various prop- Bones, who preceded Wardman on he stand, blamed the present condi- loln on the collapse of real estate alues. Bogota Gets City Planner. BOGOTA, Colombia, March 13 (P).— | . 'and Bartholomew, city planner, of 8t. Louls, Mo., arri y to advise Bogota on elvic beautification t>ont of conditions, and bet- | theaters were opened in Bri year, be destroyed if this is necessary to pre- serve the railroads as the fundamental transportation agency of this country, W. L. Stanley, representing the Sea- board Air Line, now in receivership, as- serted today at the Interstate Com- me“r:,cn Commission motor-rail co-ordi- na Stanley, former vice president of the Seaboard and now public relations counsel for the receiver, gave his views under cross-examination by William H. Chandler, trafic manager for the New York Merchants’ Association, who had sought amplification on a statement by sudnley covering regulation of trucks an Urges Territorial Ban. Stanley had recommended a regula- tion providing that no motor vehicle be permitted to operate in a territory “adequately served” by a railroad unless g;:;e was a “living wage” there for Chandler’s query then as to whether the rail executive favors elimination of the motor carriers from the field where their competition prevents railroads from operating profitaby, brought an emphatic afirmation. Stanley told Chief Examiner Leo J. Flynn, in charge of the hearing at the Willard, that State regulation of high- way traffic had failed in the South, due to insufficient funds, and that Federal intervention was necessary. State Laws Held [gnored. Carriers ignore the State laws, he said, getting a laugh with his assertion “that there are more bootleg truck op- erators in Georgia than there are boot- leg_moonshiners.” Service, rates and taxation of all car- riers should be equalized, Stanley said. Even the private trucker who handles his own goods should be regulated, he said. The railroads can never be displaced, but must remain as the backbone of transportation, Stanley asserted, but he added that under existing conditions the outlook “is not only serious, but alarming.” Traffic Man Testifies. 5 He followed 0;) t.ge stand G. Z. Phil- ps, nger traffic manager, and R. T, Pm;., assistant general freight agent of the Seaboard, who testified to the extent that busses and trucks were cutting into the line's revenues. Phillips, explaining a supplementary bus service which the road discontinued because of loss, sald it demonstrated that busses. when forced to operate with a view to the economics involved, could not prosper. Railroads Face Crisis. Rail carriers as a whole face the most serious situation since the war, and the trend is toward a breakdown that _would be a ‘“national calamity,” Dr. Thomas Conway, jr. president of the Cincinnati & Lake Erle Rallroad, testified yesterday afternoon. Dr. Conway, the last of the witnesses presented by a group of electric inter- urban lines operating through Iilinois, ‘Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and Mich- igan, offered their recommendations for regulating truck traffic, which, it had been testified, is destroying rail revenues. Both common carrier trucks, oper- ating between designated terminals, and contract vehicles, going where they will, should be regulated, he declared. Co-ordination Is Desired, In effect, they would only be per- mitted where the service they furnish is deemed necessary and then only under such conditions as entail com- plete co-ordination with existing essen- tial transportation agencies. Operations, even including rates, would be under the administration of joint State boards, with the Interstate Commerce Commission acting as a court of appeals. He favored a co-ordinated service under which trucks would perform the actual pick up and delivery of freight at terminals, d_the loaded truck bodies themselves be tween rail heads on fla scale comparable to highway rates, George 8. Lee, vice president in charge of traffic of the Railway Express Agency, told of the inroads on this business made by the trucks. Lower rates and less rigid requirements were blamed. HREENPE ‘Two hundred new motion-picture last 3,300 VETERANS GET §13.300.50397 Washington Regional Office 23 Days Behind Work in Acting on Loans. ‘The Veterans' Bureau has mailed out 36,000 checks for a total of $13,500,- 503.97 since the granting of 50 per cent Joans on adjusted service certificates was begun two weeks ago today. Although the line-up outside the doors of the bureau faded away & few days after the loans began to be made, applications by mail still are being re- ceived in such large numbers, it was said today, that bogh the day and night forces of the bureau are being taxed to the limit. Office 23 Days Behind. ‘The Washington regional office has received so many applications, it was explained by the regional manager, Maj. E. T. Hitch, that the office is virtually 23 days behind. In other words, an application filed today would not have & check go back on it for 23 days. ‘With both day and night forces work- ing at top speed, Maj. Hitch assured veterans that everything possible was being done to expedite loans, but that veterans should not expect their checks until many days after filling applica- ns. Speed Is Increased. The total amount loaned up until last Priday was only $5,194,030.86 from the two offices, so it is plain that the mu chinery at the Veterans' Bureau is in- creasing its speed of production, as well as the amount of money going out. ‘The number of applications arriving daily now amounts to about 25,000 at the central office and 4,000 at the growing number of applications. Yesterday, for instance, the central of- fice mailed out 3,947 checks in the sum of $1,419,582.15, and the regional offi mailed out 948 checks-worth $332,816.92. Exceeds All Expectations. Meanwhile, Prank T. Hines, adminis- trator of veterans' affairs, reported to President Hoover today that the Vet- erans’ Bureau had exceeded all expec- tations in issuing checks for loans. ‘Within the first week closing March 7 the bureau had received 966,793 appii- cations and had mailed 105,766 checks, totaling $40.358,811. It is ex] d, the administrator told the President, that the output will in- crease at least 50 per cent this week and shortly reach a peak of at least 200,000 per week. GUDE BROS. CO. WINS Local Florists Again Get First Award for Best Copy to Newspapers. For the second consecutive time Gude Bros. Co., local florist, was awarded first prize for the best series of general newespaper ads on flowers, the pres. entation being made at the annual National Flower S8how sponsored by the Bociety of American Florists and Order -of Horticulturists and recently held at Cincinnati, Ohio. ‘The award was a large original painting in ofl. Co. advertising \ The Gude Bros. ac- count is planned and handled by Mal- vertising colm D. Lamborne, local ad | writer, {HACKED BROTHERS TO AVENGE ‘SLAVE’ SALE, SAYS CHINESE (Continued Prom First Page.) been staying with his brothers for about two months. He explained the differ- ence in names by saying they had changed their names in order to gain admittance to this country. Was Arrested Before. ‘Young, according to police, was ar- in connection with the murder of Lee King, a narcotic informer, who was mysteriously shot to death at Eleventh and L streets. At the time he gave his name as Chin Moy Din, but police said his aliases included Chin O. Yen and Chin Moy Ten. Following an investi- gation he was released. Young previously had been arrested on October 13, 1924, in connection with & tong outbreak on Pennsylvania ave- nue in which several Chinese were killed, police said. Expressing the opinion Young is mentally unbalanced, Insj ‘Willlam S. Shelby, chief of detectives, said he would District Attorney Leo Rover to set a heavy bond for Young's release. Probe Tong War Theory. Police at first ‘expressed doubt that the attack on Lee and Sing had any connection with a tong war of any kind. Later, however, when they learned Young had participated in a tong war, they began an investigation. George Wen, leader of the On Leong tong, is assisting in the probe. Young is sald to be a member of the Hip Sing ton. Lee and Sing belong the On Leong, it is said. A loaded revolver was found in the laundry, but it had not been fired. Ancient Cemetery Found. JERUSALEM, March 13 (#).—A burial ground in which bodies were int nearly 4,000 years ago has been discov- ered on the site of old Jericho by an expedition under Prof. John Garstang of Liverpool University. Prof. Garstang sald the graves ap- peared to belong to the Bronze Age of about 2000 B.C. Many pottery vesseis and other objects were unearthed in the burial ground. ‘Hatchet Man’ PRIZE FOR ADVERTISING e rested June 12, 1929, for investigation | Ch SEA AIRLINE PLANS WAIT ONCONGRESS —_— Eckener, Silent, Leaves D. C, as Builders Say Only Studies Proceed. As a result of the failure of Congress to act on the McNary-Parker merchant airship bill during the past session, American efforts to establish transat- lantic airship service, in co-operation with Dr. Hugo Eckener, German air- ship industry leader, have come to a halt until the necessary enabling legis- lation is passed. No steps will be taken to acquire a site for the proposed American airship terminal or fo build the necessary air- ships until Congress sees fit to act on the McNary-Parker measure, which probably will be remtroduced as soon as the new Congress convenes In cember. Information received by The Star from officials of the ear- n Corperation of Akron, Ohio, the Amer- ican half of the International Zeppelin Transport Corporation, in which Dr, Eckener is interested, indicated that only the technical studies are to be continued until next December. These studies will include further investiga- American terminal site. Site Study Nears End. tion of the Investigation of sites has reduced the number of available areas to four, one Jjust concluded will prevent any definite forward steps being taken before the December session starts. Eckener Silent. likely that with some ing given to public interest In airships by the events connected with the completion and launching and trial hts of the new Navy airship here tl Summer the project of establish- ing an airship-bullding in- dustry and an American carrier line may present itself to the next more effectively.” Dr. Eckener and his assistant, F. W. von Meister, left the National Capital today by rail for New York after two fl.l’l‘ lpe'e‘t. here in conf val have an announce- mai; to make hlm‘mfl the United DRIVER IS KILLED AS TRUCK HITS BUS Claude H. Saffer of Leesburg Dies in Head-on Collision on Aan University Hospital, Washington, where he was pronounced dead. Jeffries also received treatment at the hospital for slight cuts and went home. been to Leesburg to Washington when the accident oc- curred. . sl e CAR’S DIVE IN RIVER KILLS EX-ARMY MAN Capt. Harvey J. Silverstone, Re- tired, Dies as Auto Sinks at Po; d, Oreg. By the Assoclated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg. automobile mfl into the Wi ite River here, carry- ing Capt. Harvey J. Silverstone, retired Army officer and insurance underwriter, to_death late last night. e ng know In authorities ef that Silverstone did the steep grade ended at the river bank. The identity of the driver was learned when the machine was recovered from the water with grappling hooks today. CALVERT CASE DELAYED IN DURHAM, N. C., COURT By the Associated Press. DURHAM, N. C, March of a charge of violating the laws, lodged against Charles Mount Rainier, Md., attorney, following the sulclde last Saturday of Mrs. Trucle ville, Tenn., was . R — Trial Ay MISS RAMSAY NEVITT LOSES TRAFFIC TRIAL Miss Ramsay N. ERE RS Rl but she did m:v::;‘ In spite of emphatic Traffic Court that she daughter the Tast el denials disobeyed