Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1931, Page 4

- RALS SEEK RATE INCREASEATONCE 1. C. C. Receives Petition for i 13 Per Cent Freight Raise. _ (Coutinued From First Page) must some time be made up," the peti- tion declares. Economic financing has been respon- sible for the maintenance of railroad eredit in the face of adverse business, the petition sets forth, and in relations to the securities of the carriers it is insisted that they must be kept up, that additional capital may be obtained for further improvements. s The actual return of the Class 1 car- iers from 1921-1930, inclusive, has been, Youghly, $2,575,000,000 under the 5.75 r cent return prescribed by law, it is Brougnt out. For the first four months of the year it is estimated at 2.24 per gent = Taking up the question of wages, pre- umably in anticipation of any question at might be raised as to the possi- bility of cuts, the petition. outlines the steps that would be necessary in any negotiations toward thiy end, and says: “A conclusion: of proceedings affecting all classes of railway employes could not be expected within & period which would enable the result to beé taken into con- sideration in tlie present emergency.’ ‘Wages Would Stand. ‘Then it adds: “Concerning the wis- dom of initiating such & controversy at this time, it is assumed that there will be no substantial difference of opinion. "The policy of the Federal Government, concurred in by the managements of amost leading industries, is that the re- wival of industry and commerce should dbe predicated, for the time being at least, upon’ the maintenance of existing twage scales, “Begause of this policy and because of f#he fact that even in the absence of such & policy the question of railway wages would réquire a long period for its disposal, and because the condition “of these carriers does not admit of such i prolonged delay in the provision of & emedy, the managements of these car- {lera have not seriously considered at is time initiating controversies looking to the determination of the reasonable- ness of railway wages. They have con- cluded that if that question must be met and dealt with it must be at a later stage. Raising the jssue of passenger fares, the _carriers say that the rate, now gen- eraily 3.6 cents a mile, is not susceptible of a raise, as “the disuse of railway fa- cilitles by owners of automobiles and the increase in the extent of motor bus service make it evident that passenger traffic will not sustain further in- creases.” Nor de experiments that have been made in reducing passenger fares lead to the belief that cuts would stimulate raffic, the petition says.. To reduce fare to 3 cents a mile would, on the basis of operations in 1930, exclusive of commutation receipts, mean a loss of $109,300,000 in gross passenger reve- nue, it is said, and “it is impossible to see where passenger traffic exists tribu- tary to steam carriers which would make up that deficiency.” Declaring . that & “substantial amount” of freight traffic has been di- wverted to trucks, the petition says that *it is not possible to mage a Teliable estimate of the amount of rallway traffic which is now subject to motor truck competition under existing rail- way freight rates, and still less is it possible to make & reliable estimate of the extent to which any given increase in railway freight rates would further @ivert traffic from the railroads to this form of transportation.” Competition now, it says, appears enerally to be in hauls of from 150 to 00 miles. Short-Haul Competition. “The rate structure of the steam car- friers, it continues, is particularly wani~ lnf in_that flexibility which would en: @ble them to meet this competition. Heretofore, it amplifies, the Tule has Peen to make rates relatively higher for short hauls, because terminal ex- aenses are constant and longer hauls nd to absorb them. i ‘This principle is embodied in the in- tate commerce act, but the carriers gay “it is becoming prohgble that the le of ratemaking hereafter should be roduct and that for the shorter- dis- nces the rates should be relatively and for the longer distances, here the motor truck competition B | ot effective, they should be relatively ‘higher., s+ “This would frequently result in [ ghrough rates exceeding the sums of local rates. In order to establish “Such a rate structure s radical recon- uction would have to. be made and measure of relief from the provisions { the law never heretofore contem- lated would have to be granted by | e commission. Revision May Be Necessary. “It may also be that extensive , ®hanges in the classification of com- i modities will be necessary. The pres- nt classification, as revised from time time by the carriers and the com- ission, with the applicable rates, con- itutes the most elaborately refined djustment of charges to services which n be found in the economic structure f American business. It has been, and . & vital factor in that economic tructure. Consequently an extensive vision may be attended with far- hing consequences. ““The classification is based upon vari- s factors, such as the value of the icle, its weight as compared with its Ik, the risk of its transportation and competitive relutionship of the ai icles in the various classes. These fac- rs are much disregarded in the harges made by motor trucks, which re very largely made upon the basis space. “This is merely a partial statement of e problem of truck ‘competition. It dicates that the problem is one of 1t further ery probable that no comprehensive rogram affecting all traffic competitive ith other forms of transportation can worked out at any one time in the ture, and that, on the contrary, par- icular descriptions of traffic will have be taken up from time to time.” ‘The carriers ask that the rate increase made effective by the issuance of entage supplements instead of the riffs that would require t four months, and that it apply to t rates and charges, including int rail and water rates and charges, ith such adjustments in the case of coke and other bulk commodities preserve existing differentials, ut which will not affect the principle volved. It is further urged that the hearing hich the commission will hold on the roposal be of limited character. ‘The last general rale increase went to effect in 1920 to take care of corre- nsequently, it is contended, even with posed increase they would still | dog. e proj lower than 1920-21, WANTS FRUITS EXEMPTED, @ead of Commission Merchants League Cites Huge Costs. s 1 W pieces by the relentless waves, was forced on the rocks. 1 " § MEN ARE BLAMED FOR BUYING SLUMP Woman Mauazlné Head Tells Advertisers: Purchases by Women Hold Up. By the Associated Préss. ess depression. ‘The lrghr was Miss Catherine Me- Nellis of New YCI.'gullflen! of Tower Magazines, Inc. e addressed the Pederation of ‘Women's *~ Advertising ul bs. She said it was the men, and not the their. and, | nevertheless contributed to the decline in business. Refefs to Hoover. Asking why we don’t include women in the discussions of economic prob- lems, Miss McNellis referred to i dent Hoover's speech in- Indianapolis as i example, “He didn't say a thing about women,” *| she said, “as though they had no part HE Pacific coastwise steamer Harvard, which grcunded off Point Arguello, Calif, recently, is being pounded fo The 500 passepgers were Tescued by the U. 8. 8. Louisville soon after the ship —A. P. Photo, cent freight rate increase, Robert F. Blair of Cleveland, president of the National League of Commission Mer- chants, wrote to the heads of all rail lines asking that fresh fruit and vegetables be exempted from the higher tariffs. Pointing out that transpportation charges collected on these commodities in this year of low prices may be as much as 80 per cent when compared with the farm value of the commodities, Blair says an increase in these rates “would not only be unfair to the grow- ers and shippers, but would be likely to Teduce the total tonnage,~ which would seriously affect our business, and would more than likely reduce the revenues of the carriers by a decrease in shipments.” $40,317,015 Increase Feared. Citing data to show that the trans- portation cost, when compared with the actual farm value of the fruits and vegetables shipped, was 54.91 per cent in 1930, 3883 per cent in 1929, and 56.40 per vent in 1928, in his letter to the executives, Blair writes: “Using the 1930 lonnage as & base. 8 horizontal increase of 15 per cent ap- plied to the freight revenue paid by this industry would produce an increase in transportation costs amounting to ’panlea have agreed to suppo: $40,317,015.75. If the total anticipated increase in railroad receipts due to the rate increase is $400,000,000, the pro- duce trade, if the volume of 1930 kept up, would pay sbout 10 per cent of the total amount of the increase. “Last year our traffic amounted to 1.28 per cent of the total number of ¢arloads moved and for this service we paid the railroads 7.11 per cent of the total freight revenue received by them for moving all traffic. It hardly seems fair that & business which already pays 7.11 per cent of rallroad revenues for hauling 1.28 per cent of the tonnage should be locked to to take care of 10 per cent of the increase.” BACKED BY INSURANCE FIRMS Heads of Life Companies Reported Behind Rehabilitation Plans. NEW YORK. June 17 (#).—It was reported in Wall Street today that heads of several life insurance com- rt the rail- Toads in their efforts to rehabilitate their earning power. It is understood insurance company presidents are planning further con- ferences to decide what form their support of the railroad efforts to in- crease freight rates should take. Insurance companies hold over $3- 000,000,000 in railway bonds. In addi- tion, mutual savings banks hold about $1,300,000,000, and commercial banks about s much. It is sald in banking circies that there has been no action as yet looking to concerted action on the part of bankers to support the rail- roads’ petition, RUNAWAY WIFE HELD WITH TWO COMPANIONS New England Party on Way to California Charged With Lar- ceny in Cleveland. By the Associuted Press, | CLEVELAND, June 17.—Mrs. Hazel | Partridge 31, of Templeton, Mass., and two youths, with whom, according to police, she ran away from her home, | will appear in court here today to answer charges of petit larceny. The boys, neighbors of Mrs. Partridge, are | Helge Strom, 22, and Bruno .'rom, 18. They were taken Wito custody by a | policeman Sunday on complaint of a rooming house proprietor. Police charge they stole $10 worth of clothing. Police said they were told by Joseph A. Partridge, husband of the woman, that she and their children, Marion, 14, and Ernest, 12, left home May 26 in ihe family automobile, along with the neighbor boys. They were heading for California when arrested. Partridge sald hé wus ready to forgive the entire family if they would return home, officials were informed. AR, NEW YORK, June 17 (#).—The New York Times says Alan Fox, whose ef- fort to iuclude an attack on Mayor Walker's private life in a report of the City Affairs Committee of the National Republican Club brought forth a storm of controversy. has been omitted in the selection of members of the clubs standing committees. Announcement by the new president, James G. Harbord of the personnel of the Standing Committee, disclosed that Kenneth M. Spence had replaced Fox as chairman of the City Affairs Com- mittee and that Fox had not even been named to membership on any of the standing committees. | estimate of $950,000,000. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Buffet supper, Alpha Omega Alumni Club, Hamilten Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Dinner, Washington- Credit Men's As- sociation, Hamilton Hotel, 5:30 p.m. Benefit card party, Royal Neighbors of America, Thomas Circle Club, 1326 .Mmu:hunttu uvenue, 8:30 p.m. | ditorium, Twenty-fourth apd K streets, 18:30 pm. FUTURE. Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Washington Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Picnic, Martha Washington Lodge, Rock Creek Park, tomorrow, 5 pm. Lawn fete, Resurrection Chapel, Fif- | teenth and G streets northeast, tomor- ! w, 7 p.m. . DEFICITINCREASES 000000 IN DAY Tréasury Believes Year-End| Figure Will Drop Below $950,000,000 Total. By the Associated Press, The billion-dollar Federal deficit in- creased more than $8,000,000 tedsy de- spite early tabulations of the second quarter Ineome tax payments, - The defici® stood at $1,099,903,068, as | compared with $1,091,809,366 on the | preceding day. | ‘The statement for the close of busi-| ness June.15 showed . early ubuhuou“ brought the second quarter income tax | payments {o-$11,948,411. The first'day’s | receipts i the first quarter were | $13,100,000. Despite today's unexpected increase in the deficit, Treasury officials still be- | lieved the year-end figure on June 30 would drop below President Hoover's A large increase in general expendi- tures accounted for the larger deficit total on June 15. Ordinary expenditures on that dsy came to $24,684,602, ufter a gradual | reduction in the dally outlay -had brought the preceding dsy's figure o only $7,227,716. The sudden increase, Treasury offi- clals explained, wus due to & jump of $7,500,000 in the postal deficlt coupled with an increase in public debt interest requirements of nearly $3,000,000 over the preceding day. i Judging by the March returns, offi- clals did not expect.the largest lotal of income tax receipts to show until figures for the flnancial day of June 17 had been compiled. In March, the sec- ond day after the final date for paying first-quarter installments showed an in- crease in receipts of $48,129,000, or more than three times the first day. «On the third day receipts went to the high mark for the quarter, $152,958,752. POLICE HOLD THREE BOYS AS FIREBUGS Youths Being Questioned on In- cendiary Blazes and False Alarms. Three boys, 10 to 14 years old, were being held at the Receiving Home today for investigation in connection with & number of recent incendiary fires and s series. of false alarms turned in from the northwest section. The boys were taken into custody yes- terday after one of them, seen by & patrolman in the vicinity of Cook School when an unsuccessful attempt was made to fire that bullding last Sunday, was questioned. He is sald to have implicated his two jons along with six or eight others, who will be picked up and ques- tioned before police and fire officials complete their inquiry. None of the fires caused any serious damage as they were guickly discovered and extinguished. PANTS TORN BY DOG WORTH §8, JUDGE MATTINGLY RULES IN CASE Warning to Canine Owners Issued in Trial—Plaintiff Not Satisfied With Court’s Decision. you allow your dog fo bite & nezhbnr pants the material cost will be 88, a to & ruling yesterday of Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court in the trial of Daniel Spriggs, colored, for having an unm bull- ‘The corporation . counsel’s assistant asked for a fine against Spriggs, but not damages for Wi Allen, colored, when_the latter turned the tide in his own favor by exhibiting: torn_pants. ‘Did tha “No, sir,” said the dog' owner A ‘He tore them jumping:over a fence.” “The dog bit them,” insisted Allen. “It doesn't make any difference,” sald the judge. “They were either torn by the dog or because o& the dog, you, Spriggs, pay Allen $8 for the pants, and you don't get the pants, either.” “Judge,” continued Allen, not satisfied | with the séttlement, “do you know that 18 us cent of peopie bitten by:dogs get ral 44 CLUB MEMBERS SETTLED N GAMP to Fifth National Event, Here. By the Associated Press. ‘The pick of the Nation's farm youth—156 boys and girls and their leaders—poked their heads out of tents near the Washington Monument this morning and were welcomed to the fifth Natjonal 4-H Camp. m the four corners of the country. the campers, chosen in their States for excellence in raising pigs, growing corn, making clothing, planning meals and other farm and home projects, will par- ticipate in educational round table dis- cussions and sightseeing. ‘The camp is pilched on the Agri- culture Department grounds. General assemblies will be held each morning, with excursions around the city in the afternoon. ‘AL their assemblies they will discuss choosing & vecation, sdjustment to modern economic and soclal conditions and other problems imporiant 1o rural youth. - Capt. Taylor Branson, leader of the Murine Band, which has conducted a special monthly radio program for 4-H Club members, will be justalled as #n honorary member Friday morning. Before camp is broken, June 23, the members will place wreaths on’' the tomb of Washingtun st Mount Vernon and on the tomb of the Unknown Sol- dier ut Arlington. Nevada is sending a delegation this year for the first time and the recently organized unit in Porto Rico will also be represented. Each State sends two boys and two girls besides club leaders. WOMAN KILLS ATTORNEY FOR “WRECKING LIFE” Foster XK. Hale of Mobile, Ala,, Bhot When She Visits His Office. By the Assoclated Press. MOBILE, Ala., June 17.—Foster K. Hale, jr. 52 years old, prominent Mobile attorney, was shot and killed here last night by & woman who told police she was Mrs. Willie Mae Clausen of Phoenix, Arig. She was arrested in the attorney’s office and police quoted her as saying she shot Hale because he vrecked iny life.” At s hotel here it was said e registered from Phoenix with Wil- wmm Pugh, her 16-year-old son by a former marriage. Her present hus- band, Frederick Clausen, lives in Wash- ington, D. C. Hale died in a hospital. Police said he told them Mrs. Clausen came to his cffice last night and when he in- formed her he would not see her again she drew a pistol and fired twice, Hale was married, but was not living with his wife. UNDERWOOD DEVYILED HAM LOWEST COST IN VEARS | Why Suffsr With Painful CORNS Lift Them Out With NO PAIN! NO BOTHER! in_the economic struggle.” Part of the answer to the depression, she continued, lies in reaching women in the homes in & more vital way. If we can inspire the women of this country with a stronger urge to buy.” she sald, “this depression soon will be over.” “What 20,000,000 Want.” Answering the question, “What 20,- 000,000 want,” Mrs. Anna Steese Rich- ardson, director of the Good Citizen- ship Bureau, included in the category good clothes, bridge, cigarcites and culture. “It used to be that we said ‘be good and be happy,’ ” she told the adver- tising women. “Thats been_ changed now to ‘be good looking’ and hold your husband.’ ” Mrs. Richardson said women want culture, but of a different kind than formerly. News Into Books. * “For instance,” she sald, “many mdre Benefit card party, St. Stephen's au- | 156 Boys and Girls Welcomed | women this morning tead about that poor girl Starr Faithfull than the speech of Piesident Hoover. What women are interested in is front page news trans- lated into books and magazines. They're more concerned about Gandhi refusing to wear s swallow-tail coat and about child marriage than about the cultural ‘buckground of India. ~ She said women 1o longer responded to the superficial in advertising. * “You can't kid the women any long- er.” she said. “You've got to be hon {est 1t you want your product to go over.” Bridge Chosen President. Don. U. Bridge of Indianapolis was today re-elected president of the News- paper Advertising Executives’ Associa- tion. The election was held in connec- { tion with the annual convention of the | Advertising Federation of America. Alvin R. Magee of Louisville was re- elected vice president and Robert Wolfe of Indianapolis secretary-treasurer to succeed Irving Buntman of Milwaukee. ‘The only change in the Board of Di- rectors was the choice of William T. | Rodgers of Boston to succeed Carl Slane of Peorla. Di re-elected were L. M. Barton of Chfcago, Leroy Herron of Washington, William Keenan of In- dianapolis and Fred I Archibald of Omaha. Archibald, who is_advertising direc- tor of the Omaha World Herald, was awarded the trophy given snnually by Al Shuman of the Fort' Worth Star Telegram for the most unusual cam- paign by a newspaper. Gov, Albert C. Ritchie warned Amer- ican business that if it does not find the > have remedy for umn:gmt that Govern- ment will seek remedy and find it, when he spoke last night before the conventlon, ¢ “I1f business does not "r:l“' that this ly remedy, the Government, uitimate objective is to care for its citi- zens, will seek the remedy and find it.” He advised business that if it wants to be free from goveinmental interfer- ence its duty is to develop a high order of self-government and. idustrial statesmanship, “Cense Tariff Efforis.” business complains of too much QGovernment in business, then it should cease its own efforts to put Government in business through excessive tariffs to | the powerful and subsidies to the privi- leged few. It stould stop lookiny to ernment to police it and subsidize ) d to cure the ilis of its own & ‘The Pederal Government, he'said, has erected a tariff wall s0 high it destroys American export trade at the time when American_business needs it most and ‘has brought reprisals from foreign coun- tries whose trade we need and whose will and friendship we ought to ve. J ‘ecog! corporate business has not only the right to exist, but it has as provided it engages in no practices un- fair 10 others and leaves the door of opportunity open to al ‘The problem today is to give stability and security to our_economic system,” he said. Economists scanning the economic horizon told the federation yesw§rday of their optimistic views of the future. “Country Faces Facls.” Dr. Lewis H. Haney, director of the Bureau of Business Research of New York University, said that the coun- try “has ceased to listen to bunk about ‘b\llgltll and is now at last facing the acts.” More than 2,500 men and women of the advertising fraternity are present, approximately 1,500 of them from other cities, The attendance is three times that of last year. The increase was attributed, in part, to the interest stimulated by business conditions. Newspaper executives, some of whom have been apprehensive over the effect of radio advertising on the use of news- told by Bruce Barton, chairman of Batten, Barton, Durstine & O.born, Inc., that radio, television and similar devices “cannot supplant the printed that lie in human nature itself.” ' Cites Statistics. Barton cited the fact that psychol- ogists say men and women receive but 20 per cent of their impressions by ear; that 80 per cent travel to the brain through the eye, Irving M. Peteur, Chicago, ident of the Public Utilities Advertising Asso- clation, said public utilities will be urged to maintain and, if possible, in- crease advertdging in dally newspapers. The group meetings dealt also with agriculture. Charles E. Murphy, pub- lisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, urged | business to help agriculture get back |on its feet by forming a national coun- cil of 100 business executives to put | agriculture on a sound business basis by giving the farmer real intelligent | business leadership. COMMUNIST LYNCHED MEXICO CITY, June 17 (#).—Dis- | patches from Morela said an unnamed German Communist had been lynched in the Santana Maya Church near there yesterday after he had interrupted the services and delivered an anti-religious speech from the pulpit. ‘The worshippers became so infuriated at his acts, it was reported, that they hanged him from & beam. Many ‘women assisted. The priest and several society matrons were detained pending an investigation. 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And, of -course, the su- perior grades—beginning Caring for Feet Is Better Than Curing Them : ~Bur‘tfs 1343 F Street Park your car in the Capital Garage at our expense much right to grow big as to stay little, | J papers as an advertising medium, were | ;.- word because of fundamental reasons | GRICE HEADS C. P. A INSTITUTE GROUP. JAMES B. GRICE, ‘Who was elected president of the Dis- trict of Columbis Institute of Certified Publle Accountants Monday night. Oscar Bernstein was. elected vice president nd Wayne Kendrick secretary-treas- urer. STRIKERS PICKET 15 MINES IN OHIO Twelve Arrested for Minor Dis: orders and Judge Prepares to Ask for Deportations. By the Associated Press. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, June 17.— Pickets were estahlished at 15 coal mines in the Belmont County district by strikers today while deputy sheriffs investigated the cutting last ht of ultzhonf wires to the Powhnmh‘n dis- Twelve strikers were arrested for minor disturbances about the mine );‘{;)pefl:leb b?l’e;li:dully‘ kl‘h:d National iners’ Unlon Ppicke only five mines of this district. e Sheriff Howard Duff and 75 deputies | attempted to maintain & patrol of the | 15 mines, but were unable to cope with | the pickets at times, he said. Prosecutor Waddell said he was check- ing the records of those arrested and will ask Federal authorities to deport all those who cannot prove citizenship. Policeman’s Wife Dies. Mrs. Maude Washington Williams, wife of Policeman Ellsworth Williams, ninth precinct, died early today at her home, 764 Columbia road. She was a member of the women's branch of the NORTHWEST SEEKS DROUGHT RELIEF Red ,c'ross Reports 38,545 Needy Families Being Cared For. By the Associated Press. Red Cross officlals sald yesterdsy 38,545 fanilies still were receiving ald in drought-stricken States. Two of the Northwestern ‘States al- ready threatened with crop destruction from lack of rainfall this r the list. They are Monhnl,e:nd.)'rflrm Dakota. Ten chapters are engaged in relief work in the former State. Other States Hit. Moisture shortages been report- ed for Idaho, Wi o a also, but Red ice. l:?m.zm as to the number of States in which relief work was pro- ceeding was not forthcoming from the organization. Pending the fiscal year- end financial statement due at the end of this month, no estimate was avail- able of the amount of unexpended funds left from the $15,000,000 the organiza- tion devoted to drought relief during the Winter and Spring. Reaches 600,000 Familles. The Red Cross relief in 22 States, it was said, has now reached more than 600,000 families, with an estimated to- tal of 2,700,000 persons. 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