Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1931, Page 2

HTRUN VT " NOTHERHUSBAND ’Woman Claims Body at the . Morgue, but Discovers Mis- B take at Funeral Parlors. A few hours after Mrs. Geraldine Walter had identified the body of a hit-and-run automobile victim as that of her husband, who disappeared about three months ago, she examined it again and found she had made a mistake, it ‘was learned today. ‘s ‘The error was discovered s when Mrs. Walter. who lives : Eighteenth street, calied at the Cham- bers funeral parior, 1400 Chapin street, to make final arrangements for the funeral, which was scheduled for to- morrow. Previously she and other members of her family had identified the body at the District Morgue, where they had gone after reading newspaper Accounts of the accident in which the man was killed. ‘The mishap occurred near Laurel last Sunday, and the body was taken to the morgue, where it lay unclaimed for more than 48 hours. According to Prince Georges County police, the man was struck as he was walking across the Washington-Balt!i- more boujevard at a traffic signal just outside of Laurel After the car which hit him had sped away, another motorist picked him up | and_ took 1o Casualty Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No marks of identification were found on his person, so his body was removed to the morgue. ‘When Mrs, Walter and other mem- bers of her family examined it, the face was unwashed and covered with several days' growth of beard. man appeared to be of about the same age. height ard weight as her hus- band, Mrs. Walter explained Discovers Error Later. After identifying the body, Mrs. Wal ter ordered it transferred to the unde raking establishment while she made plans for the funeral. ‘When she went to the funeral par- Yor several hours later she examined the body again. 1t had been washed and dressed and the stubble had been removed from the face. One look con- vinced Mrs. Walter the body was not that of her husband. » “The strongest proof.” Mrs. Walter #aid today, “is that my husband. who was 54 years old, had a complete set of teeth, while the man whose body I identified had only a few teeth. Aside from that, however, the resemblance 1s startling.” After informing officlals of ‘the un- dertaking establishment of her mistake, Mrs. Walter canceled arrangements f the funeral, which was to have in- cluded mass in St. Paul's Catholic Church, Fifteenth and V streets, at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, followed by burial in Barnesville, Md. Mrs. Walter, the mother of four chil- dren, has asked police to continue their search for her husband. U. S. MAY EXTEND TIME ON ITS LOANS TO WHEAT SECTION| ___'Continued From First Page) the market believes that it might sell any of this surplus wheat coming over from last year, the effect is to depress prices. ‘The mere threat of such sales is enough to keep prices lower than they would otherwise be.” Crop 't Be Cattle Fodder Out in Indiana, where the craps this Year are fine, Senator Watson said many of the wheat farmers are plan- ning to feed the wheat to hogs and cattle if the price continues very low. They can make far more out of their wheat by feeding it to live stock and later selling the stock than they can by selling the wheat itself, he sald, adding that one farmer told him within the last few days that he made 3150 & bushel off his wheat by feeding it last year, and that the same farmer hoped to make $1 a bushel by follow- ing the same course this year On Kansas farms, however, and other ‘Westetn farms where wheat is the principal if not the only crop. the Teasibility of feeding wheat is not so at. ‘The Indiana Senator said that when Congress rerwpembles there will un- doubtedly be demands for legislation for a Federa! dole, both for farmers and for unemployed. ‘WIilL Oppose U. Doles. He added that he would resist such A dole, just as he had in the last Congress. “If people were starving or freezing in this country.” said Senator Watson, 1 would vote money out of the Federal “Treasury to aid them, of course. But that did not happen last Winter, and I do not believe it will happen next Winter.” The Indiana Senator said he saw no rospect of any change by the Federal rm Board in its announced policy. which is not to sell wheat at present prices, but to hold itself in readiness to sell not more than 5.000,000 bushels a month. From other sources it is learned that the Farm Board has the backing of some of the farm co-operatives in its atand on the wheat situation. The co operstives have an interest in the sui- plus wheat and do not wish to hase the hands of the board promise not to sell any wheat no matter what may happen to aiter the wheat situation. FARMERS TO CONFER. Wheat Beh Growers Seeking Suspen- sion of Debts. By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, July 15 —Wheat farmers of the Southwest have turned 10 their bankers, implement companies a3d merchants for relief from debts which are forcing some to market grain at prices ranging as Jow as 25 cents a bushel at country shippi point The grain growers of Northwestern Oklahoma expected at least temporary relief from a conference of thel: organ 1sation leaders with machinery dealers and bankers in Enid tonight. The Chamber of Commerce of Larned. Kans., Is sponsoring a similar plan Texas growers. as well as trose in other parts of Kansas and Oklahomy. have | been asked to join WHEAT PRICES DROr. Quotations on Chicago Board of Trade Equal Lew Mark of 1894, CHICAGO, July 15 (P .—~Wheat prices, | mired in the slough of despond for a fortnight, settled down today o the bottom reached only once before in the Rigtsry of the Chicago Board of Trade A faint flurry of selling at the open- ing of the futures trading session let July wheat down to 5035 cents a bushel. the record 26, 1894. With the post-w worth about 75 cents in pre-war value, today's wheat price was figured about 35 cents in pre-war values. Pessimism over the European eco- nomic situation and a downward trend in the securities markets were the weakening factors. The overnight loss was only fractional. and the market regained its ground later. but new bot- toms had been touched in all futures months for this vear and July was at #s al-time low for Chicago. China *e radin maaication, ‘« extending com- ‘The | tied now Dby a| low price of July | Farm Board Head Answers| Its Critics, Estimating Price-Pegging Results. ] | Trading in Wheat and Cotton| | Gave Profit to Farmers | and Sellers, He Says. | Wheat and cotton stabilization has | put at least $180,000.000 into the pockets | |of American agricultural interests for | distribution into other channels of trade | This is the answer to stabjlization critics by James C. Stone, chairman of | | the Federal Farm Board, which, under | {the provisions of the agricultural mar- | keting act, authorized “stabilization of | wheat and cotton and paved the way |lor heated. controversy. One hundred million dollars is Mr. Stone's estimate of the profit to owners of wheat as the result of the Govern- {ment's efforts to bolster prices in the face of a declining market. { Says Men Who Sold Gained. | Not all of this gain went to the | | farmers, Mr. Stone explains, as the | Grain Stabilization Corporation, formed | through co-operatives to handle the | grain, bought wheat from any one who | had it for sale to maintain the price. “But,” he adds, “every farmer who | so0ld his wheat during this stabilization | period got the bcnefit of the increased i price.” In cotton the profit to producer alone is estimated at $80,000,000 to $100,000,- 000 on the 1929 crop, to say nothing of additional millions he sald were repre- sented in better values for the 1930 crop because the holdings of the previ- ous year were kept off the market. Cotton Holding Began in 1930. While the extent of Farm Board ac tivities in wheat never has -been Te- | vealed. there has never been any secret concerning cotton trading. |~ In June, 1930. the board tock over, through the Cotton Stabilization Cor- poration, formed through co-operatives like the grain group, 1,300,000 bales on which it had made loans to co-opera- tives from the previous October, on & basis of 16 cents a pound, or $80 3 bale. Added charges brought this fig- ure to about $85, and since June, 1930, an additional carrying charge of $3 or $4 a bale has accrued, bringing the total investment to something ~ever $150.000,000. Today this cotton is not worth much more than half that. It seems certain there will be a . But to counterbalance this will be the $80,000,000 to $100,000,000 to the growers because the boards action enabled the price of cotton to be maintained while the farmers marketed about 19,000,000 bales of the 1929 and 1930 crop, it is claimed. Silent on Wheat Holdings. Mr. Stone has steadfastly refused to say how much the board has invested in wheat. At the proper time, he says, there will be an accounting. In the ! meantime Mr. Stone asserts that from the time stabilization resumed last November until it when the new crcp started to move last month those who owned wheat netted $100.000,000 above what they ordinarily would have received., He concedes that the cost to the govern- ment may have been $50,000,000. Stabilization goes back two vears, when the board first went to the relief of the cotton growers. In mid-August. 1929, with spot around 18 cents, the board announced its initial loan policy of lending to qualified cotton co-operatives enough to bring the total advances to 90 per cent of the market value on cotton, on which a value had been fixed by sale or hedging. Cotton Pegged Around 17 Cents, There was some recovery, and on September 5 the board announced that cotton on which the value had not been fixed, sufficient to bring the total up to 75 per cent of the market value at time of delivery. In the first half of October average | prices in the 10 spot markets were | nearing the 17-cent mark. On October 21 the board expressed its belief that prices were too low and announced a policy of advancing tc all qualified co- operative associations such sums as supplemental loans would be made on | pI THE EVENING \STAR. WASHINGTON 1ISTONE MAINTAINS STABILIZATION i NETS U. S. INTERESTS $180,000,000 ' Al JAMES C. STONE. | would allow them to borrow from all sources up fto 16 cents for middling inch staple. On that day the aver- age price in the 10 spot markets was about 17.31. Even in the face of the stock mar- | ket crash, this held prices at a level of between 16', and 17 cents from the middle of November until late in Jan- uary, 1930, when the growers had mar- keted most of their crop, it is pointea out. Aid on Cotton Halted. Then domestic and foreign demand decreased, and prices headed for the bottom. By May it was realized that any attempt to force liquidation of the | co-operatives' holdings on which they had loarns would have disastrous conse- | quences on the cotton market and make inevitable a trcmendous loss to the board. In this emergency the cotton stabilization corporatiop was formed, under the provisions of the agriculturai marketing act, and the cotton taken off the market. The collapse of priccs and the causes, decided the board against any further stabilization efforts in this com! lity. Now, with prices still off, this eotton is being held awaiting further develop- ments, which Carl Willlams, the cotton member of the board, recently discussed optimistically, visioning a strengthened demand. Grain Loans First Step. The procedure of the board in its xl':l':"trldlnl closely parallelsd that in cotton. Unprecedented marketing in August, 1929, brought about a critical situation, and in view of the then favorable out- look for world supply and demand, the board offered to qualified co-operatives loans on the basis of 10 cents a bushel on free wheat, or 90 per cent of the value of wheat on which a price had becn fixed by future sale or hedging. ‘Then the market crash made its in- fluence felt, and on October 25 the board offered to lend to co-operatives up to stated values in the several ter- minal markets, these ranging from $1.13 to $1.25 a bushel. But the board’s fore- cast as to demand proved erroneous, due to a combination of adverse circum- tances. Winter saw pric:s slackening, and early in February the Grain Sta- bilization Corporation was formed in an effort to support the market. In common with other traders, the board experfenced a series of ups and downs for the first half of 1930, finally dropping out of the market in June, 1930, with a 60,000,000-bushel carry- over. U. 8. Price Held Highest. On November 16 last the board re- entered the market. From that time until the new crop started moving in June and stabilization was discontinued the American market was held on an average of 25 cents over the world , according to the board. At Kansas City and Liverpool, where customarily there is a wide variance, with the price favoring the British port, the difference was narrowed to a point where the figures were just about in line, and, as a matter of fact, for five mont] showed a margin for the domestic market, the quotations being based on No. 2 hard Winter here and all parcels in Liverpool. (Copyright. 1931 CARAWAY IMPROVES Arkansas Senator Leaves Hospital. | May Undergo Operation. | Senator Garaway of Arkansas left the { Naval Hospital here today and went to | { his office. {"The Senator has been suffering from a stone in the kidney and has been under ebservation at the hospital. | Physicians are uncertain whether an operation will be necessary now. and the Senator left the hospital pending a final decision. | CAPONE HENCHMAN | KILLED BY GUNMEN Edgar Smith, Accused of lurder-: | ing Vice Baron, Is Latest Victim | of Chicago Gangland By the Associated Pres | CHICAGO, July 15.—Edgar A. Smith, i bodyguard of Danny Stanton and one of Al Capone’s henchmen, wis found | shot to death in an automobile on the | south Side today. | Police received a report last night |that a man riding in an automobile with two companions had been shot.| | An all-night search resulted in the dis- | covery of Smith’s body, slumped in the | | front seat of a parked automobile. | Smith and Stanton had been ordered | iexmdlud 1o Wisconsin to be tried for !the murder last August of Jack Zuta, | { vice lord. For months, however, they | | resisted the Wisconsin authorities with | I habeas corpus proceedings and ther | ! case is now before the Supreme Court. | His exccution in the usual gangland | | “ride’ removed Smith from the picture, | but St:nton still faces prosecution for | ¢ of Zuta in a Delafield, police begafi a search todav for the two companions seen with Smith last nigkt, | There was a tentative theory that a | wem®n was linked with the killing. | Beside his body lay an envelope, ad: ressed to “Edgar’ from ‘“‘Virginii ‘ and on the reverse was 8 ciled note: “Mabel: Give this to Edgar | and tell him that Virginia sent it md~ , wants him to wear them and everything will be all right EXPLORERS SAIL . 9 .y ! Two to Go Into Labtador. | MONTREAL. July 15 #@.—H. J.| Koehler of Boonton N. J. with kis | companion, Fred Cornell, sailed abcard | the steamer Ungave yesterday for an | exploration trip to the interior of thé | barren land of Lzbrador. The Ungava. making its an oyage to Hudson Bay and Bafn | Land. carried supplics and luxuries for the people in far Nerthern . arren Interior of JHon containing polson. POISONED ALCOHOL KILLS SIX, ONE ILL Police Seeking Eighth Man in Group Which Drank Fatal Preparation. By the Associated Press. TAMAQUA, Pa., July 15.—8ix men were dead today and shother critically il from drinking alcoholic prepara- Meanwhile State police were searching for an elghth man believed to have been & member of the group. Danlel Evans, 54 years old, staggered into police headquarters vyesterday and said he was sick. Before he died, » short time later, he told police that some of his friends were ill at a camp on the outskirts of town. Officers found | two men dead at the camp, and another dead at & nearby gasoline station, where he had gone for aid. Later a motorist saw s man topple into a creek near the camp. He died soon after being taken to & hospital. The sixth man died at a hospital last night. Although about 35 men were at the camp, police believe only 8 men com- prised the group which fad obtained the poison alcohol. CUBAN SENATOR DIES; Police Believe Fatal Attack Was Result of Duel Between Political Riva By the Associated Press. HAVANA, July 15.—Senator Rogerio Zayas Bazan of Camaguep died today | of ‘wounds received in_what police be- lieved was a duel. Senator Modssto Maidique, who fled after Senator Zayas Bazan was shot yesterday, was sought by _the police. Physicians sald Zayas Basan, 49 ye: old, and former interior secretary, wi shot four times. Senator Maidique, also of Camaguey, fled in his own car after the shooting. As police reconstructed the shooting from stories told by witnesses, the prin- cipals drove to a spot in the Miramar section and arrived about the same time. Senator Zavas Bazan alighted and before he could draw his gun his assailant fired four times. A party of American tourists from the liner Virginia were said to have wit- sed the gunfire. The Senators bore a political grudge slnee“mndent Machado was elected in 192¢. p—— Shoe Prices May Rise. NEW YORK, July 18 (® —The prog- first to show depressed business conditions. is reported s to have caused shoe manufacturers seri- In ite hold were 22 eanoes. lheepaviu ously to consider the advisability of an and poulfry. upward revisies in shoe prices. DAVIS SCORES U. S AID T0 INDUSTRIES Senator Tells Rail Trainmen Government Assistance Is Unsound Plea. By the Associated Pr HERSHEY, Pa, July 15.—Govern- D. C. WEDNESDAY. JULY 15 193l “Small Fish Need Not Apply,” Says Coolidge FORMER PRESIDENT, ON VACATION, PASSES UP SIX-INCH TROUT. mental ald to industry was assailed by ; Senator Davis today unsound. A?flln[ to railroads and other in- dustries to work out “their own busi- ness salvation,” the Pennsylvania Re- publican told the Brotherhood of Rail- road Trainmen at a picnic here today those who ask relief ““through legislative channels” realize themselves such as- sistance “would be but temporary and unsound in economic precedent. “‘Despite being offered by buases, motor trucks and airplanes” Davis continued, “oblivion for the railroads of our Na- tion is so far distant that our great- grandchildren may not observe such an economic calamity.” Saying the existence of the Nation “is vitally dependent” on the railroads, he predicted rail carriers will “enjoy a fair share” of the profits of prosperity when the business cycle turns upward in the Nation. “In the case of our railroade T am certain they will manege to find their ‘way back to prosperity.” HUNGARIAN FLYERS OVER ATLANTIC ON HOP TO BUDAPEST (Continued From First Page.) as economically the plane and financed the preparation for the trip. The flight, conceived on the tenth anniversary of the treaty of Trianon. was to emphasize what the Hungarfans assert was an unfair division of Hun- garian territory after the World War. Confident of Success. Salay hat numed the plane “Justice for Hungary.” So confident was Salay that the trip would succeed that he left for Buda- June 22 to awalt the arrival of the ship. He was accompanied by Mrs. Endres. wife of the chief pilot, and his son William. Salay had hoped that the flight would start a year ago. He asked that the official start be made from Flint, Sep- tember 4 last the big plane took off from Bishop Airport here, intending to stop at Roosevelt Field, but there.de- veloped & gas tank leak, which forced a return to an airport at Grosse Ile, De- troit, where the ship had been prepared. It was necessary to rebuild the ship to overcome the leakage and it was finally decided to wait until this yea LEAVES FOR NEW YORK. Miss Ingalls Refuses Statement Con- cerning Paris Flight. ST. LOUIS, July 15 (A).—Miss Laurs Ingalls, New York aviatrix, who is con templating a solo flight across the At- lantic, took off from Lambert-8t. Louis Field at 6:25 am. (C. S. T.) today for New York. Asked about her plans after arriv- ing in New York, Miss Ingalls said “nothing definite” had been outlined and that her proposed flight would de- pend on developments “during the next few days or weeks.” “1 eannot make a statement at this time,” she said. “in view of the fact that nothing definite has been planned. As & ma‘ter of fact, I may not make the flight at all.” During her stay here mechanies at the fleld gave Miss Ingalls’ plane a careful inspection. She arrived here g from Wichita, Kans. She left Burbank, Calif,, early Sunday. ARRIVE IN NEW YORK. Post and Gatty Complete Non-Stop Hop From Indianapelis. NEW YORK. July 15 () —Wiley Post and Harold Gatty arrived at 11 o'clock this morning at the Municipal Alrport in their world-girdling plane Winnie Mae. They flew non-stop from Indianapolis. The world fiyers came here to decide on the itinerary of a national tour, due to begin within the next few days. WILL TALK OVER RADIO. Post and Gatty Will Discuss Flight ‘With Australians. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., July 15 (#. —The Post-Gatty round-the-world team will hold a long-distance radio chat with the ford Smith-Ulm globe fiyers on Saturday, with the former pair mmnnfidy and the latter in Aus- Announcement. of the plan for the two-way short-wave radio conversation was made by officials of the General Electric Co. today. Arrangements have been completed for Wiley Post and his navigator, who guided him on the re. cent record-breaking world flight, Har- old Gatty, to talk with Flight Comdr. Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, the pilot, who flew with him on his transpacific Australian hop and eventually around the world. ‘The time fixed for the talk is 6 to 6:15 am, Eastern standard time. The Schenectady short wave station WaXAF will work with the Sidney, Australia, station 2ME, with the conversation broadeast in this eountry by the N. B. Q'networl 'ost and Gatty are expected to ar- rive by air at Schenectady Friday after- noon, GET ANOTHER CHANCE. Coty Says Plane Is Ready for Le Brix and Doret, PARIS, July 15 (#) —Francois Coty. perfume manufacturer. said today that Joseph Le Brix and Marcel Doret, French flyers, would be given another ompp_lu_;tk\:nny to make n; non-stop flight o as soon as return O!:nml“pslibflh‘ e P alrplane of the same t; as the Hyrhen is ready, he said, yEleld they will be intrusted with it unless the injuries they received several days ago when they crashed near Nijni Udinsk caused 2 long delay. The airmen will reach Paris in about & week. PFfferts are being made to salvage their plane, VISIT SCENE OF CRASH. Maleney and Yerringion Mepe to Fly Plane te Brownsville, MEXICO CITY, July 15 (#).—] Maloney and “eth ‘A'errtnm::.d w:'r“a, falled in an attempted non-stop flight from New York to Mexico City, ay 2:: :‘;mtlm dbe;h where their plane — ge a forced landing on They hope to repair it and fiy to Brownsville, Tex., tonight. The airmen 8] ere b Tampico yesterday. 2 R oren CHICRESTER DELAYED. Probably Will Remain at Until Tomerrow. MANTILA, July 15 (#).— motor trouble, C. C. CI ,!e'l\;l:n(;: fiying from Sydney to Tokio, had not left Masbate, ‘capital of the island of that name, at 2 pm. today. ain there until tomorrow. He Ormoe landed there yeutesany, from Levte Isiand, Masbate intensified eompetition |. his line from the stream. T0 GOV OOSEVELT D:zmocratic Leaders Deny Presidential Nominees Are Discussed. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y. July 15.—Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Tllinois made a fiying visit to Albany yesterday for & conference with Gov, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the latter's invitation, and before he returned to Chicago he said “Gov. Roosevelt has a strong following in all the Middle West.” Each has been mentioned as the possible presi- dential nominee of the Democratic perty in 1932. Senator Lcwis sald 1932 candidacies had not discussed at the long confer- ence. Gov. Roosevelt was silent about it. ‘The Senator said the Governor was admired in the Middle West “for his inde) and particularly for his on relief from the business depression and for his attitude on international ques- tions, following closely after the ideal- ism of Woodrow Wilson.” In answer to questions, the Democrat who swept normally Republican Tlinois by around 700,000 last Fall, a victory about as great as that of Gov. Roose- velt in his campaign for re-election New York’s executive, sald the Demo- cratic party should carry the battle to the Republicans in the next national campaign. He believes the Democratic National Convention should be called ah of the Republican gathering, and that the party should ‘‘declare where the evils of Government now exist and in what way the party managers in power, are responsible, and throw them on the defensive.” NANKING COUNCIL BANS EXPEDITION INTO CHINA | French Scientific Party Barred From Sinkiang and Kansu by Telegraphie Orders. By Cabie 1o The Btar SHANGHAI, July 15.—The Chinese State council at Nanking has wired in- structions to the Sinkiang and Kansu Provincial governments to prohibit the Sino-French scientific expedition from continuing its researches in those prov- inces, following racial ili-feeling re- ported to Peiping' and Nanking by Chinese members of the party who left the_expedition. This, after the recent banning of Roy Ohapman Andrews' Mongolian ex- pedition, is the second foreign scien- tific incursion to be forbldden. (Copyright, 1991.) gl D Wife Calls Husband | Potential Bigamist In Separation Suit Names Co-respondent in Petition for Absolute Divorce. Lindsay 8. Stott, & former prohibi- tion agent, expressed admiration for the practice of Mohammedans once said he -ov::a n'up;‘e join a T sect rmitting lygamy, k'%n”:“uu ‘stott, 1512 Spring plac serted today in flling suit for an abso- lute divorce in District Supreme Court. She named a co-respondent. The couple were married at Cam- bridge, Md. February 320, and lived together until last when her husband falled to keep & i >mise not to see L".:l co-respondent again, t stated. Mo e the court that after her t the prohibition unit, :e peared to. have more money than he gd made while employed there. She sald he makes about $500 monthly, while she is dependent on her parents for support. She seeks suitable ali- Mo orney Raymond Neudecker ~ap- peared for the wife. LEWIS PAYS VISTT | ALVIN COOLIDGE, on vacation at the Coolidge farm at Plymouth, Vt., where this picture wi exhibited his skill with the rod, but also his consideration for small fish. On his third cast, & six-inch irout grabbed for the fly used for bait, but instead of making the catch he dragged the fly away slowly and withdrew characteristic answer to questicners wa: Kills Self | ROBERT G. HAND. Commissioner of accounts and deposits of the Treasury Department, who com- mitted suicide by locking himself in his age and starting the motor of his automobile. FRIARS PLAN HIGH MASS Celebration to Honor Our Lady of Mount Carmel. A solemn high mass in honor of the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel will be celebrated tomorrow morning at !9 o'clock at the monastery of the Discalced Carmelite Friars, 150 Rhode Island avenue northeast. Rev. M. J. Riordan, rector of St. Mar- tin’s Church, will celebrate the mass, !assisted by Very Rev. Father Eliseus and Very Rev. Father Paschasius of the | Carmelite community. The sermop will be delivered by Rev. Dr. John R. Rooney of Catholic University. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band | this evening at the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, at 7:30 o'clock. | Willlam 8tannard. leader; Thomas Darcy, second leader. March, “Memoria’ eitz Overture, “Precioso ....Weber | Waltz, “Dream of the Ball” .Joyce Selection from “Cavalleria Rusti- cana eiien Mascagni Deseriptive, “In a Monastery Garden" . Ketelbey tional dance, “Ja Tl:fltl AN .. Partichela March. “The New York Hippodrome.” Sousa “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Band | this evening at the Nayy Yard Band- | stand at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, | leader; Charles Wise, second leader. .Mygrant i it .. .. .Harold Solo for cornet, “Birth of Dawn.’ { Ciarke | Musician Birley Gardner | Excerpts from the musical comedv | “Algerfa”.. nEs Herbert, | Valse, “La Invitation. ‘Weber-Weing: Xylophone solo, “Intermezzso Ru Franke Musician Louis Goucher Hits from ‘“The Show Boat".....Kern Suite— “Body and Soul"........ “"Lover, Come Back to Me." tner ..Green _Chabrier Anchors gh “The Star Spangled Banner.” itol at 7:30 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur Witcomb, second leader Hymn and Processional. .. ..Carl Busch | Overture, “Benvenuto Cellini”..Berlioz | Trio for cornets, “Triplets of the | Finest'.... Henneberg | Musicians Winfred Kemp. John .. White and Frederick Wilken. | ':h‘!l;wry Ball”. 4.ms?mulnx or Saxophone, “Beautifu! Musicisn Kennetb. Douse. Andante and Rondo 1080, Mendeissohn Spanish Dances. Moszkowski Bolero , No. §, 13, No. 2. | G Minor Op. Finale to Third Act, “Rienzi’. Wagner | Marines' Hymn. “The Halls Montezuma. “The Star Spangled Banner.” |- _Hubbell | Rhapsod pana’ By the United States Marine Band | .| this"evening at the United States Cap- | made, not only s. “I don’t want him.” TEXAS “AUNT” GIVEN | CARE OF CHILDREN Family Left by Rice Phelps' Death to Live With Relative Rather Than at Takoma Park. ~-A. P. Photo, Special Dispatch to The Sta | _ROCKVILLE, Md.. July 15.—Judge Robert B. Peter, in the Circuit Court here today, awarded Mrs. Jessle A. Slater of San Antonlo, Tex., custody of four infant children of her brother. Rice Phelps, who died suddenly of a heart attack near his home, at No. 7 Boyd avenue, Takoma Park. Mrs. Aurelia B. McCormick Hill, an employe of the Prohibition Bureau of the Depariment of Justice, with whom |Mr. Phelps and the children boarded since 1929, sought to retain the chil- dren, declaring on ths witness stand that she had instituted proceedings for their adoption and that she planned to thoroughly educate them and make them her legal heirs. On behalf of Mrs. Slater, it was shown that four other sunts of the children, | three of them living in San Antonio and the other in a different section of Texas, stood ready to join the petitioner | in the education and general care of the | children, and there was evidence that | these aunts are well to do. $5,000,000 IN STOCK OF PHONE COMPANY ISSOLD TOA. T. &T. _(Continued From First Page.) | i No. 928 of June 23, Jast, which author- |ized the company to jssue $7,000.000 | worth of common atock. The notice | follows: | _“In compliance with the provisions of | Order No. 928, entered tne twenty-third | duy of June, 1931, your honorable com- mission in the above entitled matted. | the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone |Co. respectfully files this report: | “1—Fifty thousand (50,000) shares of | capital stock of the par value of one hundred dollars ($100) each were is- sued by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. on June 30, 1931. “2. Sald shares of stock were issued to and sold, for cash at par, to the | sole stockholder, the American Tele- | phone & Telegraph Co.. having been | offered to and subscribed for by said | stockholder. “3. The amount realized from the | issue of said atock was five million doi- | lars ($5,000,000). | 4. Sald amount of five million dol- lars ($5,00),200) was applied by said The Chesapeal:> & Potomac Telephone Co. |in discharging to that extent, oblig | tions on its & per cent demand notes | outstanding April 30, 1931, shown on | 2xhibit 3 to the application filed herein.” While the order of the commission | authorizing the issuance of $7,000,000 in common stock did mot specifically | state that it should not be sold to the |A. T. & T, it did state that the sale should conform to all Jaws and regula- tions of the commission. In view of the previous contention of | the commission’s counsel that the sale | to the A. T. & T. would constitute a | viold®ion of the La Follette act, it was said at the District Bullding that the | commission cannot now avoid testing the legality of the sale in the courts. The case, it was said, would have to be prosecuted by the commission through its general counsel, but Richmond B Keeeh, people’s counsel, said he would assist in the prosecution as the repre- sentative of people if the case 12 taken to court. | CAR PRICES TO BE CUT New Canadian Teriff to Make Autos Cheaper, Premier Says. OTTAWA, Ontario, July 15 (P).— Popuiar makes of autamoblles probably will be cheaper in Canada as a conse- quence of chainges ir. tariffs, Premier Bennett told tne House of Commons last night. After explaining the changes duties, in which he made mention of ca:s in the $1,200 ela: premier said: “1 do expect there will be a reduction in that class of car.” Submarine Hero Gets Medal. LONDON, July 18 (#).—Patrick Willis, ¢ | ; - - —o the petty officer who superintended tht escape of several of his shipmates when the British submarine Poseidon sank off Welhaiwei, China, has been awarded the gold meds] by King George. HILDS RALROADS GREDTS AT LT Will Be Refused if Lines Do Not Show Profit. (Continued From Tirst Page.) dollar of lost revenue with a corre- sponding reduction in expense “'As & result net raflway operating in- come has declined to & much greater rllkl’(lv! degree than have revenues,” he = During the 10 yeara from 1921 to 1930, he asserted. earnings were $2,574.- 877,000 below the 5% per cent fixed by the commission as & fair return on railroad property. Since the 1920 rate increase was au- thorized, changes downward have re- duced revenues more than $6,500,000,- 000. Parmelee said. In 1929, the year of record net earn- ings, he said the carriers as a whole carned 228 times their fixed charges and in 1930 this ratio dropped to 1.76. ‘The 1931 forecast indicates. he rdded that the earnings will be less times the fixed charges. New Low Held Set. “The rate of return ort property in- vestments,” Parmelee continued, “which stood at 2.81 per cent in 1921. incrrased in 1923, 1925 and 1926. The rate for 1926 was 4.96 per cent. which is the peak rate of return since the war There was a drop in 1927. then in- creases in 1928 and 1929, the rate for 1920 being 481 per cent. It then de- clined to 3.27 per cent in 1930 and dropped to & new low level of 2.07 per cent on an annual basis during the first four months of 1931.” Parmalee discussed at length the im- portance of covering fixed charges by a comfortable margin and the relation- ship of this problen to railway credit He said freight traffic this vear was less than three-fourths as much as two years ago and passenger traffic had shown severe declines, dropping ap- proximately 25 per cent for the firs: four months of 1931, as compared with 1929. Referring to reductions in rates sinee 1920, Parmelee said that had the aver- age revenue per ton mile of 1921 been maintained, freight revenues world have been greater for the 10-year period by an aggregate of $6.582.748,000. Aver- #ge Tevenue per ton mile during the period was 16.6 per cent for the coun- try at large. Tnerease in Expenditures. ‘The rallways in 1930.” he continued “maintained their/ capital expenditures on more than an average scale. As be- tween 1929 and 1930 there was an in- crease in gross capital expenditures from $853,721,000 to $872,608,000 “The financial returns in 1930 were s0 discouraging that reductions in capital expenditures were made during the first quarter of 1931. Gross capital expenditures for the three months amounted to $93,656.000, compared with & corresponding total of $223.772,000 during the first quarter of 1930. Ex- penditures for material and supplies in 1929 were $1.329,535000 and in 1930 $1.038,500,000.” Parmelee said the rallways had made an almost unbroken series of reductions in their unit expenses of freight opera- tion since 1930. From 1920 to 1930 ex- penses per 1,000 revenue ton miles were reduced from $10.66 to $7.43 and trans- portation expenses from $5.35 per 1,000 revenue ton miles in 1920 to $3.52 in_1930. Railroad taxes are entirely too high, he said. He noted an increase in every year from 1921 to 1930 in all taxes other than Federal income taxes. The ratio of taxes, he said, rose from 5 cents per'dollar of revenue in 1921 to 6.6 cents per dollar of revenue in 1930. “More than a third of the carriers” et operating revenue is being absorbed by taxes in 1931,” he said. Duffield, who followed Parmelee, told the commission the interests of 50.- 000,000 life insurance policyholders and nearly 13,000,000 savings bank de- positors were threatened by the de- crease in railroad revenues. Emergency Held Real Parmelee’s testimony was interrupted to permit Duffield to appear. The lat- ter is chairman of ‘the Emergency Committee on Railrcad Investments of Life Insurance Companies and Mutual Savings Banks, which filed a brief re- cently in support of the railroads’ ples. Duffield said that as a result of a conference of heads of banks and life insurance companies the executives concluded the margin of safety with respect to rallroad bonds had reached a point where their duty required them to make representations to the com- mission that a true emergency exists. ‘The emergency, he said, invclves “not. only the maintenance and integrity of the railroad transportation system. but the interest of over 50.000.000 life insurance policy holders and nearly 13,- 000,000 savings bank depositors.” Duffield said the committee believed possible results of a failure to proteet promptly declines in the security of rail- road Investments “would so serjously affect the public interest that the in- stitutions represented by the committee deem it incumbent on them to present the situation fully and frankly to the commission.” May Befuse Further Loan. Duffield sald that if the credit of the railroads could not be conserved the in- surance companies . d mutual savings banks would have to refuse to loan further money to them. He aaid that on January 1, 1831, in- surance companies held approximately $3,000,000,000 of railroad bonds and mutual savings banks on June 30, 193], held $1,700.000,000 worth. This 1is more than 40 per cent of all the rail- road bonds outstanding, he said. The witn<ss added that New York exchange prices on bonds had shown a deprecia- tion of more than $400.000.000. The investment policies of botn classes of insttiutions are based. he said, on recognition that they stand in the position of trustees #hvesting th+ savings placed in their custody by pelicy hold- ers and depositors. ““The primary consideration in making m‘cdh investments must be safety,” he sald. Farm Bureau to Particivate. CHICAGO, July 15 (#)—The Amer- fean Farm Bureau Federation today notified the Interstate Commerce Com mission its directors would appear hy a body during the hearing on railroas Tequests for 15 per cent increase freight rates. THREE DIE IN CRASH Plane Pilot and Two Models Are Xilled—Two Hurt. By the Associated Press. GRENOBLE, France, July 15.—Two young woman modeis employed by & Parisian dressmaking house were killed today with fHe pilot of an airplane bringing them from Cannes, Two other models were badly hurt The plane was wrecked when W crashed into the side of Croix Hau's Mountain south of here. DOG SAVES BABY’S LIFE NEW YORK, July 15 (#).—A family Pup anooxing in a warm July sun, possi- bly saved a 15-month-cld baby's life yesterday. The baby. Joseph Frey, crawled through a railing 10 the baicony of his parents’ second-story home and feil 20 feet to the pavement below. He landed on the recumbent form of the dog. Neither the boy nor the dog was hugly