Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1933, Page 4

ADVANCE FORESEE I TRANSPORTATON Joint Committee States 1 Sound Policies Will Result E From Intensive Study. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 30.—After three months of intensive study, the joint Committee of Railroads and High- way Users yesterday issued a report which the joint chairmen called “a distinct step forward in the develop- ment of sound public transportation policies.” A statement by Gen. W. W. Atter- bury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Alfred H. Swayne, vice president of General Motors, and also of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, who served as chairmen, said: “This report will be laid immediately before the National Transportation Committee of which the late Calvin Coolidge was ghairman. This action is taken in accordance with a request made some time ago by Mr. Coolidge and his associates, that they be given an opportunity to study the results of our investigation. il “Among the important and difficult questions upon which full agreement has been reached are those relating to taxation, recipro: co-ordination of highway administration, and grade- crossing separations. “Common ground has been found on many aspects of regulation and some phases of dimensional control of ve- hicular movements. “Rate regulation and the length and weight of vehicles are the subjects upon which it has not been possible to reach complete agreement. For Further Discussions, “1t is our hope and expectation that, as future conferences are held and facts are developed, even the present differences will disappear. To this end, ‘we are recommending to our sponsoring bodies that our committees be con- tinued for further discussions. . “We regard the achievements of “the resent report as a distinct step forward fn the development of sound public transportation policies, as it is always wiser that economic problems should be solved by conference rather than by legislation. * * *” The report tion of polic “The public is entitled to the benefit of the most economical and efficient means of transportation by any instru- mentalities of transportation which m2y be suited to such purpose, and no legis- lation should be enacted which has for its purpose the stifling of any legitimate form of transportation. The supreme test must always be the interest of the public. The public’s right to the selec- tion of the agency of transportation which it wants and which it finds most useful must be respected.” Among the points on which the con- ferees agreed were these: “Common carriers of persons and Eropeny in interstate commerce on ighways should be under the jurisdic- opens with this declara- tion of the Interstate Commerce Com- | mission or other properly constituted Federal tribunal and should be required to obtain certificates of public conven- ience and necessity.” Consideration should be given, before such certificates are issued, to the ef- fect the proposed service would have on existing transportation services, and the financial responsibility of the applicant should be considered. Common carriers in intrastate com- merce certificates of necessity and conven- {ence after the same consideratons. Requirement on Busses. “Adequate ' requirements should be mposed upon common carrier busses in interstate commerce (and also in intra- state commerce) to insure just and rea- sonable rates, with provision for pub- lcation thereof and adherence thereto, and proper inhibition against undue discrimination.” Contract carriers in both interstate and intrastate commerce should be re- quired to obtain permits from the proper authorities, and “make adequate provision as to financial responsi- bility.” Contract busses in both interstate and intrastate commerce should be required “to observe minimum ‘rates fixed by Tegulatory authority and comply with rules and practices applying to rates and services as may be prescribed by such_authority Private carriers of property who en- gage in transportation on highways of commodities not of their own procuc- tion, for hire, and private carriers of persons operating on a ‘“share-expense or other irregular fare basi: both in inter and intra state commerce, should be required to secure a license from the proper authoritie: “Requirements as to qualifications and hours of service for drivers, as prescribed by the regulatory authority,” should be observed by all carriers. “All carriers should be required to observe regulations as to safety devices and measures, size, weigh operation of motor vehicles.” “‘Opportunity should be given for rail carriers to cngage. either directly or through subsidiarfes, in motor vehicle service on highways on equal terms with all others, * * “State laws requiring railroads to make capital expenditures for grade crossing elimination in excess of capi- talized savings in therefrom should be repealed.” Share in Costs. “Motor vehicles should pay the entire cost of the State highway system. They should also pay a part of the cost oi county or township highways” and part of the cost of “arterial routes through cities.” “The apportionment of special tax among motor vehicles of various types should be based upon use of facilities required.” All motor vehicles should pay a gaso- | line tax; passenger automobiles should pay a registration fee graduated ac- cording to weight or horsepower; busses and other vehicles carrying passengers for hire, a registration fee based on mileage operated and graduated accord ing to seating capacity: trucks, a reg tration fee “graduated so that it increase mcre than directly weight.” “Special taxes levied upon motor vehi- cles using highways should be devoted entirely to highly purposes.” “States should enter into reciprocal agreements for issuance of special li censes for commercial vehicles to cover States other than the home State at equitable rates to be determined by the conditions which prevail. “No vehicle should exceed a total outside width, including any load there- on, of & feel.” with the exception of certain “existing vehicles.” “No_vel unladen or with load, should exceed a height of 12 feet 6 inches.” WOMEN DELAY SESSION Recent Death of Mrs. 0. H. P. Bel- mont Causes Postponement. vill with The regular February meeting of the District Poets’ Council, which was to have been held Thursday night at Alva Belmont House, headquarters of the National Weman's Party, has been stponed until March 2 because of he recent death of Mrs. O. H. P. Bel- mont, president of the National Woman's Party. The program sched- uled for Thursday will be carried over to the March meeting. SR AT T Costa Rica shipped nearly 2,000.000 punches of bananas to the United Gtates this year. should be required to obtam1 speed and | operating expenses ; l March 4. FIRST INAUGLRAL STANDS GOING UP Work Started in Front of Capitol and White House. Few Get Jobs. With only & small number of jobs available for the hundreds of idle car- penters applying, construction work was | | started today on the grandstands in | front of the Capitol and White House for the Roosevelt. inaugural ceremony and parade March 4. Twenty-four grandstands, with a total seating capacity of 59,000, are to be erected in the next few weeks, ! and work on other units will begin | shortly as material and funds are | available. | . Scarcely more than 350 carpenter | jobs, it was said, would be available | for this temporary work. | Early today a long line of carpenters | waited on the sidewalk in front of the | White House in hope of employment. | Only 15 men were put to work on this | | first unit of the traditional court of | | honor, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, | John N. Garner and their families, to- | gether with the special honor guests | and governmental officials will view the parade as it passes the Executive | Mansion. Unit to Employ 75. The reason why so few men were em- | ployed at the start was easily explained | as only the ground timber for the| grandstand has arrived. | Work is expected to start later in | the week on the huge grandstand on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, facing the White House, from which 10,000 visitors will have seats to view | the colorful parade. As work progresses | on the Exectitive grandstand 1t was 5. | timated between 75 and 80 men would | | be employed on that unit. A somewhat | larger number will be engaged in con-| struction of the grandstand at the| Capitol, where the President-elect and | Vice President-elect will take their ogth | of_offie. | It was estimated that the executive grandstand would seat about 1,800 spe- cial guests.. These are limited to the | “gueszs Mr. Roosevelt has invited, as| well as to members of Congress and the | judiciary and other high officials. From | | the court of honor, extending down the |avenue to Twelfth street, the historic ! thoroughfares will be lined with special | grandstands. | All but the $2 seats, would be covered. There will be slight departure in the structural de- signs from those erected for the prev- jous inauguration. The stands will be built generally lower so as not to extend back as far as formeriy. This is to maintain a passageway behind the stands so as to avold any blocking of pedestrian traffic on the sidewalks. Parade Air Marshal Chosen. Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the Army Air Corps. has been ap- pointed air marshal of the Roosevelt in- it was said, EISEMAN’S Seventh and F | Style and Value in These All-Wool SUITS \ 18 ' NOTHING DOWN Just Pay $6 INMARCH $6 IN APRIL $6 IN MAY Suits of style and quality. Suits that will wear and hold their press. They are pure, hard-finished worsteds, in colors that can be worn {throughout the entire year. | —_—— Workmen today began. actual construction of the stands before the. Capitol where Frauklin Delano Roosevelt. will take the oath of office next —Star Staff Photo. Lodging Offered “To Gentleman Or Legislator” By the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala., January 30.—Members of the Alabama Legislature, coming here for the special session which convenes to- morrow, saw this “for rent” ad- vertisement in a Montgomery paper yesterday: “Permanently, to gentleman or legislator, two lovely connecting upstairs rooms.” augural parade, it was announced yes- terday. He will be in charge of all air activities, place durng the inaugural period. It is expected that an imposing ar- ray of aircraft will maneuver over Washington while the big parade is taking place, alihough the plans for aerial activity have not been definitely developed. There will be a large con- centration of planes, however, (gom gexn;‘l:y Army, Navy and Marine DS elds. Gen. Foulois will co-ordinate his ac- tiviges with those under the direction of QGen. John J. Pershing, grand mar=- shal of the inaugural parade. Announcement was made yesterday that the famous “Richmond Blues.” a striking feature of every inauguration In which they have taken part, have accepted an invitation to appear in this year's affair. Scores of other State military units also will participate. Ar- rangements are being made, it w said, for parade entries from Penns vania, Georgia. Iowa, Alabama, Vi ginia, New York and New Jersey. A great many more applications are ex- pected to be received during the next few weeks. Officials of the Parade Committee announced they probably will have to revise the number of or- ganizations which can enter the parade below" the limits fixed at present. Union Station Facilities, -« Mrs. Blair Banister, chairman of the Housing and Hospitality Committee, has further extended the use which the committee intends to make of co-oper- ating agencies by accepting an order from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for its facilities at Union Station, in the Touting of iraugural visitors di- | rectly from the station to accommoda- | tions which may be assigned to them. ‘The Grandstand Ticket Sales Com- mittee, of which Melvin D. Hildreth is executive secretary, has banked more than $8000 from the sale of tickets. Applications for reservations have been rfcl:l{sed for $8,000 worth of additional tickets. Switzerland sent 2,200,000 pounds of a | Silkk and rayon products to Great Bri- tain last year. | »A ss service and civilian. taking | N ou want peo- LEGION AUXILIARY HITS MONEY GROUPS Includes Federal Council of Churches in List of “Un- American” Organizations. By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, January 30.—The Americanization Committee of the American Legion Auxiliary Saturday named the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Women's In- ternational League for Peace and Freedom, and the National Council for Prevention of War as working to “de- stroy our Government.” Mrs. Willlam H. Cudworth of Mil- waukee, chairman of the committee, said in a report to the Auxiliary’s Executive Committee that these or- ganizations were “most frequently heard from” of all “un-American” groups, adding they are working “per- haps quite unconsciously, but just as surely to destroy our Government as ever did the enemy in the Great War.” Hits Noted Educators. The report also labeled Prof. John Dewey of Columbia University, Prof. Alexander Mikeljohn of the University of Wisconsin, Prof. Paul H. Douglas of the University of Chicago, and Prof. John Lapp of Marquette University as “university professors who add their voices to the chorus of un-American propaganda.” “Dozens of organizations work in a great interlockage in a determined effort to change existing principles,” the report stated. “Political groups include the Public Ownership League, the League for Political Action, the People’s Lobby, the National Unemploy- ment League, the Conference for Pro- gressive Labor Action, the National Popular Government League, the Peo- ple’s Legislative Service and many more. Held “Foreign-Inspired.” “The American Civil Liberties Union, the League for Industrial Democracy, the American Society for Cultural Re- lations With Russia, the International Labor Defense and others all seem to know much about the activities of each other.” ‘The report closed with the state- ment that “these most virulent” or- ganizations are “largely foreign-inspired soclalism into schools and colleges, to fight legislation refusing citizenship to aliens who decline to promise loyalty to our Government, and to fight the "deponlnon of alien agitators.” |ADVENTISTS RAISE Per Capita Contribution in 1932 Is Reported at 30.4 Cents a Week. A total of $1902,888.41 was con- tributed by members of the Seventh- Day Adventist faith in the North - | American Division Conference in 1932 | for the advancement of the foreign missions of that denomination, it was | revealed today in the annual report of | W. H. Williams, undertreasurer of the foreign mission board. With a membership of 120,259, the total mission gifts represented a per capita contribution of 30.4 cents a week. The Seventh-Day Adventists operate thission stations and churches in scores of countries and in 455 tongues, and | despite the problems reared by the | financial straits throughout the world, | not one missionary was recalled becauss | of a lack of funds. | The total given the missions in 1932 | was $474,135.37 less than the 1931 mis- | sion fund. Commenting on this de- i crease, Mr. Williams said that while the total was less than last year’s total in the aggregate 1932's average gift ! was four times as great as it was in 11912, “The clotk of time has been set back almost 20 years so far as the purchas- ing power of the dollar is concerned, Mr. Williams said, “yet our gifts to the missions in North America in 1912 ag- gregated $472,610.87, or an average of only 142 cents per week per member. Thus the believers in this country last | year gave four times as much to mis- ! sions as in 1912.” O * * * to fight military training, to put | BIG MISSION FUND Girl, 10, Carries " Three. Brothers To hi Safety in Fire Fights Her Way Through ‘Flames to Rescue Children, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 30.—REileen Murphy, who is only 10, fought her way through smoke and flame today and saved three small brothers from death. Eileen was left in charge of the little boys when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johf J. Murphy, went to visit neighbors. About 1 a.m., after she had dozed for a few moments, she awoke to find smoke filling the room from a fire beneath the floor. A crib on which Edmund Murphy, 2, was lying was aflame. Picking up Bd- mund she ran out on a second story veranda and deposited him. Then she ran back through the smoke and flame and carried out John, 6, and James, 5. Standing on the veranda, she screamed for help, until firemen came and her and her brothers down ladders. Eileen insisted on being saved last. John suffered serious burns of the legs, while James was less seriously burned. BOUND MAN BLOCKS BROADWAY ROBBERY Hotel Elevator Operator Slips Gag to Break Up Series of Hotel Hold-ups. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 30.—An agile hotel elevator man, although his hands were bound, managed speedily to dis- lodge a gag tied over his mouth and brought about the capture of a bandit yesterday while he was holding up the night clerk downstairs. The capture ended a series of robberies that had kept police chasing from one Broadway hotel to another for a cuple of hours. The method used by the robber was ito register, ask for a room on the sixth | floor, bind and gag the bell boy or ele- | vator man who showed him the room and then go down and hold up the | clerk. Several robberies had been com- mitted by the sarge method recently. Shortly after 2 am., after two other Broadway hotels had been held up, the prisoner, who said he was Joseph Tem- ple, walked into the Dauphin. Broadway and Sixty-seventh street, and asked for | & Toom on the sixth fioor. Barney Garland, nigit clerk, sent Mi- chael McDowell, the clevator man, to escort him to his rcom. At the door of the room, the “guest” produced a re- volver, shoved McDowell inside, bound and gaged him, locked him in, and started downstairs. Before he had reached the ground floor, however, McDowell had forced off the gag, lifted off the telephone receiver with his shoulder and informed Garland the “guest” was a hold-up man and Garland had called the police. Temple had just appeared before the desk and ordered Garland to open the safe when the lobby was filled with policemen. Half a dozen police cars had picked up the radio call from head- quarters. Police said Temple admitted having held up several hotels. They found in his pocket a notebook containing the names and addresses of seven others which he admitted he had planned to rob. | -~ | NUMBERS GAME RAIDED Waitress Is Arrested and Equip- | ment Confiscated. | Raiding an alleged headquarters of |a “numbers game” in the 400 block of New York avenue today, headquarters | police arrested a colored woman on | charges of permitting gaming, and con- fiscated @& quantity of gaming para- | phernalia. The woman arrested is Jeanette Choate, 26, described as a waitress. De- | tectives ‘Guy Rone and John Auffen- berg were the raiding officers. | A Pan-American Museum. A Pan-American department, larger than any of its present departments and which will have physical equip- ment worth between $5,000,000 and being established by New Orleans. $10,000,000. is Loyola Univer: pl:a to do business with you by telephone - of course ! Make it easy for them to call you by telephone. Include your telephone number in your ' advertising — always! 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In view of his state- ment and te the opposition of some in the lature to my trip to the United States, I feel it my duty to go there. “I can say that if members of the Philippine Independence Mission (now in Washington) and advocates of the Hawes-Cutting measure in Congress Who are true friends of independence— among them Senator Hawes—can con- vince me that better legislation can not be secured, and that under this measure the freedom and welfare of the Filipino people is safeguarded, be assured that I will have no hesitancy in advocating the law.” Quezon has been the leader of Fili- pino advocates of immediate inde- pendence. LOBBYING DENIED. Senator Hawes Defends Philippine In- dependence Bill, Replying to charges from Manila by Senator Manuel Quezon of the Philip- pine Senate against the Philippine in- dependence bill, Senator Hawes, Demo- crat, of Missouri, who led the fight for Philippine independence, denied that lobbyists were responsible for the terms of the measure. “I consider it my duty,” said Senator Hawes, “to record the fact that the bill is not the result of the activities of a matter of fact, the only indication [that T notice of any influence coming Jof this bill. “If these interests had been allowed {to have their way, the amount of sugar | limitations would not have exceeded 1600,000 tons and, in addition, would have been the immediate imposi- tion of a graduated tariff,” ‘The bill allows the free annual im- portation of 830,000 long tons of Philip- pine sugar and no tariff imposition dur- ing five years of the life of the Philip- pine transitional commonwealth, which would govern the islands for years before complete independence is established. Senator Hawes, in his statement, urged the Filipinos, if they really want their freedom. to accept the terms of the present bill. WEISS HEADS JEWS Union of Orthodox Congregations Names New Yorker President. NEW YORK, January 30 (P).— William Weiss, chairman of the Na- tional Convention Committee of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congrega- tions of America, was elected president of the ozganization yesterday, succeed- ing Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein. Other officers chosen included Rabbi { Saul Silber of Chicago, rabbinical vice | president; Israel Gomborov, Baltimore, and Samuel Feuerstein, Boston, lay vice presidents. Police of Vienna, Austria, ere using rubber clubs when dispersing hunger marchers. lobbyists representing selfish interests, | either in this country or in Cuba. As| from these interests was plainly and | {openly in opposition to the provisions | there | 10| Indiana Beauty 'WILL REPRESENT UNIVERSITY IN BIG TEN CONTEST. | JOSEPHINE DORSETT Of Indiana University was chosen as | that school’s representative for a Big Ten beauty contest in February. —A. P. Photo, BRAND COIN COLLECTION MAY BE SOLD SOON Once Appraised at $3,000,000, Life | Hobby of Former Brewer Now Rests in Bank Vault. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 30.—The famous coin collection that the late Virgil Brand, millionaire brewer, spent the most of his life assembling and wh was once appraised at between $3,000,- 000 and $5,000,000, may soon go on the market to the highest bidders. ‘The coins, filling about 15 chests in a local bank vault, are now owned by Brand’s two brothers, Horace L. and Armand Brand, a Chicago newspaper | said today. Appraisers already are at- | tempting to place a value on the col- lection, the newspaper reported. Brand, while living a modest life himself, spent large sums in collecting the coins and was said to have ob-| tained specimens of money of every an- cient and modern country. One large collection he purchased from the late Czarina of Russia. ‘When the collection became to bulky for his own home he had it moved to| a local bank before his death in 1926. The annual storage rental was re- ported to have been in the neighbor- hood of $3,000. Births John C. and e Reported. Ge Domenico and Palma James and Alberta W p. Howard and Clara Jones. i That's the fate of outdoor RETIRED ADMIRAL DIES AT AGE OF 81 liam Henry Hudson South- erland Once Served on Famous Frigate. Rear Admiral William Henry Hudson Southerland, United States Navy, re- tired, died early today at his home in the Carlton Hotel after a 10-day illness. He was 81 years old and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Rodman Souther- land, and two daughters, Mrs. Butler Wright and Mrs. Louis Bacon of Boston. The Navy Deparment announced fu- neral services will be held at the Church of the Covenant, Eighteenth and N streets, at 2 p.m. Thursday, with inter- | ment in Arlington National Cemetery. Retired by Navy in 1914, ‘The admiral was retired in July, 1914, upon reaching the statutory retirement age, then 62 years. He was born in New York July 10, 1852, and was ap- pointed to the Naval Academy in 1869 by the President. He served on a num- ber of the famous old sailing ships of the service, including the U. S. Frigate Constellation and the U. 8. S. Hartford. In the Spanish-American War he commanded the U. S. gunboat Eagle, which aided in blockading Cuban ports, and was instrumental in capturing three prize vessels. From 1899 to 1904 he served as hydrographer of the United States, and then commanded the U. 8. 8. Cleveland. Later he com- manded the U. S. S. New Jersey, at- tended the Naval War College at New port, R. I, and in 1909 became a mem- ber of the Naval Retiring Board here. 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