Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1932, Page 19

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FEBRUARY 21, 19 BILL FREES ISLES INABOUT 19YEARS Senate Committee Agrees on Basic Principles After Compromises. By the Associated Press. Independence for the Philippines in about 19 years is the object of a bill to be drawn this week by the Senate Ter- ritories Committee. The basic principles of the measure were agreed upon in an executive ses- slon of the committee yesterday after compromises had been reached on pro- visions of the Hawes-Cutting and Van- denberg and King bilis. Drafting the legislation will be started next Wednes- day. With the Hawes-Cutting measure as 8 base, the bill will provide for an! island plebescite at the end of 15 years, dating from the adoption of a consti- | tution, Limit for Imports. hile, Philippine imports to the and fuil d to the exces Immigration into the United States | also would be restricted during the trial period, but the committee has yet a_quota receding the there would s on_all ents to ed s, These would be reciprocal, applying also to American exports to the islands. The committee disapproved the pro- posal to make the taritl changes all at once rather than by what Chairman Bingham of the committee called grad- uated “step-ups.” The bill could not become a law until it had the approval-of the Philippine Legislature or a convention called espe- clally to consider it. Compiete inde- pendence would depend on the result of the plebiscite. Cardinal Points Approved. “This wo independence aw about 19 said Senator Bing- ham. He figured at least 4 years for action by the island Legislature or con- vention and framing of a constitution. The five cardinal points of the measure were approved by big majori- ties. Only two Senators—King, Utah, and Broussard, Louisiana, both Demo- crats—held out for a 5-year trial period before the plebiscite Senators Hawes, Democrat, Missouri, and Cutting, Republican, New Mexico, authors of the bill upon which the final draft will be founded, wanted & shorter period. but consented to 15 years on the final vote. Secretary Hurley, who figured in sev- eral hot exchanges before the commit- tee last week in pressing his contention the Philippines were not ready for in- dependence, was questioned briefly yes- terday. He left several documents with the committee. ARLINGTON BRIDGE OPEN TO MOTORISTS TODAY Span and Mount Vernon Boulevard Will Be Closed Part of Time Tomorrow. The Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway will be open to public travel again to- day, but will be closed for part of the afternoon tomorrow while the Bicen- tennial celebration is being held in Alexandria, Va., it was announced yes- terday by Capt. R. C. Montgomery, U. S.. A, superintendent of the Uhited States Park Po! As soon as sident Hoover, mem- bers of the Federal and District Bi- ns and other dig- Park police, public buildings guards and a detail of 50 soldiers from Fort Meade will supervise traffic along the highway and parking for the Bicene tennial ceremonies. HOOVER INSCRIPTION ON 600-FOOT FLAGPOLE Dedic der Auspices of Elks of Seven States. flagpole. 600 feet high, is to be dedicated at Hoover Dam tomorrow, will bear the following insc; ion written by President “Here man builds his vision into stone that gencrations to come may be blessed.” Senator Smoot of Utah, in calling at- tention vesterday to plans for the dedi- cation of the flagpole, said the inscrip- tion has been cast in brass beneath the reproduction of the likeness of George Washington and placed on the pole, which is situated on the edge of a_precipice overlooking Hoover Dam. The pole will be dedicated under aus- pices of the Elks of the seven Colorado Basin States. The Governors of these seven States also are expected to attend. HELD FOR ASSAULT Gas Station Manager Is Arrested for Striking Policeman. James L. Cannon, manager of a gas- oline station on M street betwcen New Hampshire avenue and Twenty-second street, was arrested on an assault charge yesterday after he is said to have struck Policeman W. A. Fish, fourth precinct. The alleged assault occurred in the filling station. After taking Cannon to the third pre- cinct, Fish went to Emergency Hospi- tal. where he was treated for minor in- jurfes. Cannon subsequently was Te- leased on $10 collateral LEAGUE SEEKS MEMBERS zaak Walton Chapter to Continue Campaign Six Weeks. A campaign for new members will be carried on by the Washington Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America during the next six weeks, it was an- nounseg yesterday. The local chapter has among its membership many notables in conserva- ton work including _Government offi- cials and educators. Dr. M. D'Arcy Ma- gee is president. The membership campaign will be car- ried on by all chapters. thus affording, officials said, those desirous of lending helpful service in bettering wild life conditions in America an opportunity for effective accomplishment. AKRON PLANS MAIL TRIP Navy Dirigible to Carry Philatelic Load to Pacific Coast. The Akron, the Navy's giant dirigible, is to carry 150 pounds of philatelic mail on a trip to the Pacific Coast mn the near future. Mail intended for the Akron should be sent in care of the postmaster at Lake- hurst. The domestic air mail rate of five cents an ounce will apply on all letters and no mail will be received later than noon February 28. The date of the flight has not been ann ition at Dam Tomorrow Un- | Scribes Honor Jim Preston VETERAN OF SENATE PRESS GALLERY RECEIVES GIFT. by members of the press gallery. | BY JAMES MORGAN. Twelve varieties of Washington are depicted on the postage stamps issued by the Government in honor of his 200th birthday anniversary tomorrow. but the Postmaster General insists that only one of them looks the least like him. That is the Stuart portrait, be- cause the old 2-cent stamp has pasted it on the minds of all of us But Stuart admitted he did not paint Washington as he saw k> man All the features” of Washington: he said. “were indicative of the strongest and most ungovernable passions.’ But Stuart left no trace of these in the calm serenity of the pictured face. He carefully retouched and smoothed them out just as he padded the sunken | mouth with cotton and puffed out the lips to conceal the effect of a badly fitting set of teeth. | Who knows, then, which of the 12 varieues of Washington on the new stamps looks like him? Or, indeed. what he locked like? No cne! Here is a man Americans think they know all about. Yet can any of use be sure we wouldn’t pass him in the street without recognizing him? | Likeness Contradicted. The most familiar of all the portraits {is the Atheneum Stuart, so called be- i cause it is the property of the Boston Atheneum. That likeness, which the entire Nation carries in its mind’s cye, is flatly contradicted by Savage's pic- |ture "of Washington, “which usually i hangs in the Fogg Art Museum at Har- vard, but is now on exhibition at Wash- | ington. | Here is a plainer, simpler, stronger man. The art may be crude and hard, {but somehow you are convinced you | have seen a real person and a rugged | one, if not the real Washington. Then there is the bust at the old North | Church, Boston. When Lafayette saw | this he said: “This is the man I know {and more like him than any other portrait.” If we do not know what Washington looked like outside, it is even more dis- quieting to reflect that we do not know | NEW TRANleTTER FOR STATION WRC, | ————— Plans for Installation Are An- nounced by Vice President of Company. Plans for erection of a new and up- to-date transmitter for Station WRC | were announced yesterday by Frank M. Broadcasting Co. in Washington. An application for authority to in- stall the new equipment already has been filed with the sup- ervisor of the third radio district in Ba ltimore, and probably will be forwarded to the! Federal Radio Com- mission _this week for approval. mitter will be of 1,000 watts power, but will be operat- | ed with 500 watts | power, the same power now being | used by the sta- | tion. The new equipment will be | installed in the| Riggs Bank Build- | ing, Fourteenth streeet and Park road, Frank M. Rassell. transmitter. will be used. Improved quality of reception is ex- pected as a result of the erection of the new transmitter. Construction work on the news transmitter is ex- pected to begin within three months. The transmitter is expected to be in operation in the late Spring. Although the new equipment will re- place the present transmitter. there will be no interruption to WRC's radio service while the change is being made. Construction work probably will take place in the early morning hours, dur- ing the time Station WRC is off the air. WRC is Washington’s oldest radio station and has been in operation since 1923. It was opened August 1 of that year by the Radio Corporation of America. It is now owned, managed | and operated by the National Broad- casting Co. The same antenna also Stamp Collections Old Coins Autographed Letters BOUGHT AND SOLD HOBBY SHOP 743 14th St. N.W. DL 1272 PIANOS FOR RENT WORCH'’S 1110 GN.W. superintendent of the Scnate press gallery, who is better known as “Jim™ | to hundreds of newspaper men he has aided during his long term on | Capitol Hill, was presented a silver coffee service and a bounteous check | Miss Ruth Finney, Capitol correspondent for & newspaper chain, is shown presenting the gift to Mr. Preston.—A. P. Photo. JAMES D. PRESTON, who retired yesterday after 34 years of service as SALARIES DEBATE LOOMS IN SENATE | Prohibiting Promotions and Filling Vacancies Question May Come Up. The action of the Senate Appropria- tions Committee in striking from the agriculture supply bill House provisions to prohibit salary promotions and re- strict the filling of vacancies in the service until July, 1933, may be taken up for debate and action in the Senate before the end of this week. H In eliminating these two restrictions, | | the Senate committee stated it did so | “without prejudice,” so the whole ques- ! | tion could be gone into when the bill | |goes to conference between the two houses. i i Efforts Are Expected. ! Assuming the Senate will sustain the position taken by its committee, it is expected that in conference efforts will | be made at least to modify the limita- tions if they are not dropped entirely. When it is taken up in the Senate, the agriculture bill will be in charge of Sen- ator McNary, Republican of Oregon. Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Towa, declared yesterday he is opposed to the House limitations on promotions and filling of vacancies in any form, and indicated he would object to re- storing them to the bill even in modi- fied form. The Iowa Senator does not believe economy should be practiced in Will Preside WATSON TO OFFICIATE AT INDIANA BANQUET. SENATOR WATSON Of Indiana, who will preside at the annual banquet and ball of the Indiana State Society, of which he is president, on March 2 at the Shoreham Hotel. Vice President Charles Curtis, whose father came from Indiana, will attend the dinner. Wine Export Restricted. 32—PART ONE, REVENUE FROM TAX Total of $379,475 Compared with $666,726 for Pre- vious Year. Receipts from the annual sale of delinquent tax titles last month showed a large slump in comparison with receipts for previous years, figures made public by Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers yesterday show. The sale netted the District $379,475.54 in cash, as com- pared with $666,72681 the previous year. The figures show up even more disappointingly in comparison with the sales in 1929, which yielded $800,330.06, and in 1930, which resulted in $887,- 144.32, the record figure. In the sale last month only 2,784 lots were disposed of to private pur- chasers, and the District was compelled to bid in the remaining 13955 lots advertised. The lots sold in previous years were: 1931, 5170; 1930, 8,297; 1929, 7,160. { New Scoutmasetr Named. | FAIRFAX, Va, February 20 (Spe- cial) —Rev. Royal quarters as scoutmaster of Fairfax Boy | Scout Troop 180. Lewis Coyner has been continued as assistant scout- F. S. McCandlish, Dr. F. W. SALES TAKE DROP A. Rice has been | reappointed by National Scout Head- | * B35 MISS COOK'S DEATH {Freighter on Which Girl Died in Mediterranean Returns to Boston. of the death of Elizabeth Barrett Cook, Boston soclety girl, aboard a freighter in the Mediterranean was deenened in- stead of being solved today with the ar- rival of the ship. One of the five remaining passengers on the steamship Chinese Prince, re- vealed that besides the hoaxed cable- gram announcing the death at Boston of her flance, St. George Arnold, elec- trical engineer, about which the myste; thus far has centered, Miss Cook re- ceived a second cablegram. Parley Ends in Silence. ference at the office of the British con- sul general, attended by Capt. Howard Uncles, captain of the steamer: Arnold. steamship officials, several attorneys and Miss Cook’s uncle, Albert Carroll. It terminated in silence. Capt. Uncles gave the cablegrams in his possession to the British consul, who in turn gave copies to the attorneys Neither Arnold nor his mund L. Twomey, would lication. ‘The electrical er quently has said he to see the cablegram to i MYSTERY DEEPENS BOSTON, February 20—The mystery | The second development was a con- James” and urged her not to return to ' this country under any conditions. She was then aboard the Chinese Prince in the harbor of Naples, on the eve of sail- ing for Boston, where she and Arnold were td have wed. That was on Feb- ruary 4. Shortly after, while the Chinese Prince was between Naples and Gibraltar, she was taken ill and died of what was then diagnosed as pneumonia. Inquiry Still Made. Later with the reported discovery of a bottle of ether and a quantity of sleep- tablets in her rooms tne British authorities opened an investigation which is still in progress. Miss Cook was buried at Gibraltar. The five passengers brought to Boston today on the Chinese Prince agreed that Miss Cook had been a normal person and believed she had died of pneumonia. Miss Myrtle Eileen Shivesly of Grover Hill, Ohio, an American tourist, who sought to aid her fellow traveler in her last hours, told a story of a cheerful and carefree girl who was suddenly stricken with what appeared to be a heavy cold. She saw no sign of poison nor smelled nnfi; ether in Miss Cook’s cabin, she said, = - has weight, hence it exerts & ure_upon 2ll objects it touch WATCH REPAIRING BY EXPERTS The repair of your watch does not complete the trans- action between us, but estab- lishes our obligation to fulfill our guarantee of service. All Parts Used in Our Repair Department Are Genuine Material BURNSTINE’S St. N.W. Aleng Washington’s Path First of Intimate Series Concerning Life of First President Reveals Portraits on Most Bicentennial | Stamps Are Wholly Unlike Him. Russell, vice president of the National || ‘The new trans- in the same quarters as the present | 927 G (s t DIAMONDS LISBON, Portugal, February 20 (#).— | master. 3 The cabinet lodagy prohibited exporta- | Huddleson and William F. Carne have SINCE 1 tion of port wine thet has noe been |been appointed members of the troop stored at least three year: | committee 'WATCHES | that way. 868, Alternative Suggested. During the Senate hearings on the Agriculture bill, departmental officials suggested several aiternatives, to avoid difficulties they believed would arise under the House provisions, by giving | the departments more leeway in econ- | omizing on personnel. The House provision on vacancies would prevent vacancies from being filled from now until the end of the | next fiscal vear, except in such cases | as the President may certify appoint- ments to be essential what he was like on the inside. For The outcome of these questions on many word pictures of him since Par- | the Agriculture bill will be followed with | | son Weems wrote the first—and not the | wide interest. because the decision on ! [| worst—biography—the cherry tree one this bill will be followed on all the have smoothed out the lines of his other appropriation bills. life and stuffed his character with cot- Y, 29 ton wadding. None cf the other immor ‘Two hundred and thirty years ago ern times is so remote and difficult to ® German mother, Maria Sibylla get at as Washington. It was mis- | Merian, and her two daughters spent two years in South America on an ex- fortune to b the father of a country : without a legendary, and we made him ploring trip to study and paint the in- sect life of the region. the first and greatest of American leg- The Julius Lansburgh ends. Furniture Co. 909 F St. Bicentennial Special for its fictitious sender. The message, presumabl Miss Cook received, was Entrance, 909 F St. The fulins Lansburgh gfurniture (o. Conducts Their Great February Furniture Sale To accommodate those who wish to take advantage of shopping, we will be open from 9 A until 2 P.M. Monday. 15% to 50% Discounts on All Furniture Reaction Sets in. Properly it has been left to Ameri- cans to try to undo what they did in making a myth of Washington. When men have exalted a fellow to the sk there comes always a reaction and th strive to drag him down. The unreality of the idol we set up palied on us, bored us. Historians and orators had talked buncombe about Washington a hun- dred years, when a reaction set in. That was wholesome, but in its vio- lence a few writers lost their heads They tried to debunk Washington in- stead of debunking the bunkers. In a | justified rage of iconoclasm they at- | tempted to smash him instead of the | idol that supplanted him No other life has been <o completely ¢ oosed to iew as Washington's. Every vear from his sixteenth has been put under the microscope. His diary, letters, even his cash account, have been studied until we know how much | beer and madeira he drank, what he | lost at cards, races and cock fights, | when ke went to church or stayed home, the price he paid for his wife's clothes and the cost of his wretched false teeth | Source of Greatness. | We know enough about Washington, | but we do not know Washington. the | man himself. For there alone we must | seek the source of his greatness; in the man and not in his dee i That we may get a little closer to Washington, the boy and the man, frontiersman, farmer, general and | President, by seeing him in his various backgrounds, I invite my readers to | join me in a motor tour along the‘ highways and byways of his life, which 1 | This George Washington Picture, 75¢ 9x12 Inches e rasning Narrow Black Frame gin in is paper on ash - ) o & ton’s 200th birthday tomorrow. With Gilt Beading (Copyright . by the North American er Alliance. - Inc.) | WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 5.HOUR SALE OF ODDS and ENDS > 10 OVERCOATS Choice of Our $ 10 | 386 SUITS ! Sizes 34 to 46 This Handsome Kroehler Group Serves as an example of the splendid values obtainable in the sale ENTIRE STOCK ON. SALE MONDAY ONLY 8§8AM.tol Pg([);m NO EXCHANGES—NO ALTERATIONS—NO REFUNDS Bell CLOTHES 916 F 715 14th 941 Pa. The three pieces pictured above, upholstered in a beauti- ful high-grade tapestry. Regularly priced for $149. Sale price for the 3 pieces.......cocoeueiininieiinn.n, Sofa and one chair for only $87.50 Long bed-davenport, lounge chair and Bunny chair, in tapestry, and mattress included—4 pieces. February sale 1 T R LR Bed-davenport, mattress and one chair, $100 $|0 Delivers Either Suite Balance Convenient Deferred Payments T he Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co.=