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NORIK AM ICAN
WILL BEAR MAJOR
SNARE IN DEAL
Will Revise Plan for Divest
ing Itself of W. R. & E.
Control, Says McClellan.
UTILITIES COMMISSION
IS ADVISED OF PLAN
Holding Company Will Pay Ex
penses Incidental to Deposit
of Stock.
The North American Co will revise
Its plan for divesting itself of owner
ship control in the Washington Rail
way & Electric Co. so it will bear the
major share of the cost of the re
sultant transaction in stocks, the Pub
lic Utilities Commission was advised
today by William M. McClellan, presi
dent of W. R. & E.
The statement was submitted to
the commission in reply to a series
of questions raised when copies of the
original plan of the company indi
cated the W. R. & E. would be bur
doned by cost incident to the substi
tution of 1,625.000 new shares for the
outstanding 65,000-odd shares of com
mon stock in W. R. & E.
Trust to Be Temporary.
Replying to another question. Presi
dent McClellan explained that the
trust to be set up as a depository for
the stock incident to the proposed
transfer would be temporary.
The Utilities Commission had asked
McClellan these questions as to the
cost of the stock transfer:
"Why were all of the costs incident
to the carrying out of the terms of
this agreement placed on the W. R. &
E.? What is the estimate as to the
aggregate expenditure to be made un
der this deposit agreement? And what
are the estimated expenditures inci
dent to the filing of reports, prepara
tion of proxies and other similar cor
porate data?”
To this question. President McClel
lan replied today:
"It is not intended that all of the
costs incident to the carrying out of
the terms of this agreement should
be placed on W. R. & E. The North
American Co. will pay all expenses
incidental to the deposit of the stock
which it owns with the depository
and the expenses in connection with
the original Issuance against such
stock of the certificates for participat
ing shares down to and including the
transfer of such shares from the
names of the underwriting bankers'
nominees into the names of those
who puiehased the shares from them.
"The W. R. & E. will take up the
expenses from that point forward, such
expenses being in effect equivalent to
those which the Washington company
would have if its own stock were sub
divided into 1,625,000 shares and dis
tributed to the public.”
65,000 Shares of Stock.
There are now 65,000-odd shares of
W. R. & E. common stock, of which
the North American Co. owns some
62,000. It is proposed to issue new
shares at the rate of 25 for each one
of the existing shares. The holding
company hopes to sell the substituted
shares to the public at a price up to
*30 per share. This sets up expecta
tion that the North American Co.
would reap a return of some $22,000.
000 on that price basis. Further ex
plaining the North American plans
Xor sharing the cost. President Mc
Clellan said:
"The North American Co. will pay
the fixed fee of the depositary and the
subdepositary, if any, covering all de
posit shares, for the first year or por
tion thereof during which the deposit
agreement is in effect.
“The W. R. & E. will pay any ex
penses incidental to the deposit with
the depositary of the 2,803 shares of
its common stock not owned by the
North American Co. and the expenses
of issuance of temporary certificates
for participating shares against such |
stock. This expense, it is estimated,
will not exceed $1 per share for such
shares as are deposited.”
Cost Estimated at $25,000.
In conclusion. Dr. McClellan esti- i
mated that the exepense to the W. R.
E. would not be greater than
*25,000 for the costs incident to the
Atock registration and transfer about
Which the Commission raised ques
tions.
*, In the meantime. William A. Rob
erts, people's counsel before the Dis
trict Public Utilities Commission,
■clrew up the outline of a report
Analyzing the plan of the North
•American Co. to relinquish control of
Jhe W. R. & E. and the Potomac Elec
tric Power Co. The report will be sub
mits to the utilities commission and
the Securities and Exchange Commis
sion which must approve the plan.
Roberts does not propose to make
.the report public until after Novem
ber 21, the final date on which the
Uorth American will be permitted to
jfile amendments to its registration
Statement. There has been no inti
mation from the company, however,
.Whether it will seek to make any
changes.
The report, according to Roberts,
Itontains a thorough analysis of the
blorth American's plans, together
With an explanation of any relation
ship it may have with the La Follette
Anti-merger act, and the street rail
way merger act.
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r CHILD IS IMPROVING
i? ■■'
Daughter of Ball Player Reported
on Way to Recovery.
Si The 2-year-old daughter of Alvin
4‘Jake'’ Powell, centerfielder for the
.Washington base ball club, was re
torted well on the way toward recov
ery at Sibley Memorial Hospital today
Jrom the ruptured apuendix, which
she suffered Friday.
I The girl. Joan, was rushed to the
Jiospital by her father on Friday
might, but an operation was too late
lo prevent the rupture. Three blood
■transfusions were required to save her
■life.
^ Air Day Success.
Irish aviation day 4n the Irish Free
Ctate this year was a record success.
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Adelaide Moffett Begins Study
Of Medicine in New York
■ ■ II — »,
Gives Up Singing Career
in Favor of Becom
ing Doctor.
Adelaide Moffett, attractive and
talented daughter of former Federal
Housing Administrator James A.
Moffett, after several false starts to
ward careers and marriage, today is
turning her attention to a new occu
pation, the Associated Press reports.
As a student of medicine. Miss
Moffett is now enrolled in Russell Sage
College at Troy, N. Y., applying her
j self in "dead earnest" to the question
of determining her fitness for the
medical profession. Miss Moffett en
rolled at the college about two weeks
ago, the Associated Press reports, to
take a pre-medical course. Meanwhile,
her numerous society interests are
shelved temporarily.
The popular "Addie" made her debut
j in New York in 1932 and a short while
| later came to Washington with her
| father when he became one of the New
Deal executives. Aside from her so
< ciety activities here, however. Miss
Moffett had aspirations and a good
enough voice to become a professional
singer.
Armed with these two qualities, she
went to Florida and obtained an en
, gagement as a night club entertainer
under the name of Diana Dorrance.
Discovered, she was persuaded to re
turn to Washington, but soon entered
a radio contest and sang her way to
the national semi-finals and a new
ADELAIDE MOFFETT.
surge of ambition to follow a singing
career.
An affair of the heart intruded
about this time and Miss Moffett’s
engagement to Henry Gibbins, jr.,
former Central High School foot ball
captain, was announced. Gibbins is
the son of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Henry
Gibbins. The marriage wras planned
for early this Pall, but the match was
broken off before that time and Miss
Moffett returned to New York when
her father left Washington.
i CITY HEADS STUDY
REMOVAL OF SNOW
I
Night-Time Parking Ban
Discussed as Phase
of Problem.
While considering re-establishment
of the night-time ban on parking on
major thoroughfares during the Win
I ter months so as to facilitate snow
removal, the Commissioners today
asked Corporation Counsel Prettyman
to determine if the Washington Rapid
Transit Co. should be required to con
tribute to such work on Sixteenth
street.
Prettyman also was asked to rule
i on whether the Capital Transit Co.
should be required to contribute
money or workers for clearing snow
off Connecticut avenue. That ques
tion arises because of the removal of
street car tracks from Upper Con
necticut avenue.
At the same time, the Commission
ers referred to Traffic Director Wil
liam A. Van Duzer a proposal from
the Public Utilities Commission for
re-establishment of the night time
parking ban on streets used by street
cars and busses. The utilities body
also suggested that other streets, cn
which there is heavy vehicular traffic,
might be included.
The Utilities Commission and En
gineer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan
were convinced the experiment from
January 1 to March 15 with the park
ing ban proved a great aid in clearing
main highways after snowfall. It is
expected the ban will be renewed
again this Winter, in some form.
The Capital Transit Co. last year
paid some of the cost of snow re
moval. that pertaining to street in
tersections on which there were street
car tracks. Also, it operated its own
snow plows.
SILVA SLAYING SET
FOR GRAND JURORS
Frederick Murder Charges Will
< Be Presented Before
Body Monday.
By tb^ Associated Press.
FREDERICK, Md.. November 12 —
Alfred Brown, 25-year-old colored
man. will be presented before the
Frederick County grand jury Monday
on a charge of murder in connection
with the torch slaying of Manuel
Silva.
State's Attorney Sherman P. Bow
ers yesterday announced the case
would be presented when the jury
meets for its regular session.
The man, who boxes under the
name of Young Bobby Burns, was
formally charged with Silva’s death.
County officers took him to Silva's
home yesterday to go over the scene
of the crime.
His remarks. Sheriff Roy Hiltner
said, were substantially the same as
those made in a statement allegedly
confessing he killed Silva in the 44
year-old ship’s carpenter's home, then
sought to burn the body in a fire
place.
Silva's charred and battered body
was found near Dawsonville, in Mont
gomery County.
Sheriff Hiltner quoted the prisoner
as admitting he felled Silva with an
iron bar during a quarrel. Hiltner
said he believed the victim's body
then was thrust up a chimney, feet
first, soaked with coal oil and at
tempts made to burn it.
Gigantic Cheese
Sent to Roosevelt
Won't Set Record
By the Associated Press.
A 1,250-pound cheese is on its
way to President Roosevelt from Wis
consin, but a study of history revealed
that it was not likely to set any rec
ord either for size or duration.
It will be larger than the 1,235
pound cheese, which Chesire, Mass.,
admirers sent Thomas Jefferson, and
the presentation ceremonies of which
will be duplicated by President Roose
velt’s Wisconsin admirers.
But a dairy farmer of Sandy Creek,
Oswego County, N. Y., sent Andrew
Jackson a 1,400-pound cheese—four
feet in diameter and two feet thick.
Despite the lavish hospitality of
Jefferson,' his cheese lasted more than
a year and a half.
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MAN AND 4 BOYS
REPORTED MISSING
—
Farmer With $100 Planned
to Visit Brotffer After
Sojourn Here.
A man and four boys, reported
missing, today were objects of search
! by police.
j The authorities were asked last
Joe Bane.
uignt 10 iiuiii ior
Joe Banc. 28.
Marion County.
W. V*.. farmer.
who disappeared
October 14 while
visiting his sister.
Mrs. Cynthia
Raber, 1333
Eleventh street.
When last seen.
Bane said he in
tended to drive in
his Ford coupe to
Harrisonburg. Va.,
for a visit to his
brother Frank.
He never reached
Harrissonburg. Relatives fear he has
J met with foul play. Bane is believed
to have had about $100 with him.
| He is about 5 feet and 6 inches tall,
; weight about 150 pounds and had light
j browTi hair and blue eyes. He was
; wearing a brown suede jacket, blue
i trousers and a light gray hat.
Three boys missing since Sunday
are believed to have gone away to
gether. They are Linwood Litton, jr„
17, of 607 Elliott street northeast:
James Adams. 17, of 609 Elliott street
northeast, and Lewis Horman, 17, of
1 1010 Florida avenue northeast.
It is believed the boys may have
started on a hitch-hiking trip to Cali
fornia. Neighbors said Litton had
mentioned such a trip and that he
had disposed of his bicycle supposedly
to obtain funds.
Police today broadcast a lookout for
16-year-old Raymond Vidi, 213 E
street, reported missing from his home
since Sunday. His mother, Mrs. Mary
Vidi, told police the youth *s about
5 feet 2 inches tall, has brown hair
[ and eyes and when last seen was clad
in a suede Jacket and brown pants
and shoes.
Miss Gertrude Grace Hill. £0. who
had been missing from her home at
1841 Columbia road since Saturday,
when she left after leaving a note
stating she would return shortly, was
reported by her niece, Miss Jean Hill,
to have been located.
TRUCK GROUP ASKS
JOINT COMMITTEE
Would Meet With Rails and
Shippers to Discuss
Harmony.
Appointment of a Conference Com
mittee, comprising an equal number
of spokesmen for the truck operators,
railroads and shippers, was favored
yesterday at a meeting of the Execu
tive Committee of American Truck
Associations. Inc., to insure harmony
among the three groups.
Under the resolution adopted the
"participating bodies” would be the
national trucking organization, the
Association of American Railroads and
the National Industrial Traffic League.
Ted V. Rodgers is president of the
truckmen's organization.
Such mutual action is necessary, it
was said, in view o the declared policy
of Congress in the Federal motor car
rier act, which gives the Interstate
Commerce Commission jurisdiction
over commercial motor vehicles in
interstate commerce.
In the interest of highway safety
the Executive Committee also adopted
a resolution urging truck operators to
discourage hitch-hiking and not to
pick up hikers.
Attending the meeting were John
F. Winchester, Newark, N. J.; Hugh
Sheridan, New York City, Harry E.
Boyson, Philadelphia: J. F. Bowen,
Denver; WilUam C. Winkler Chicago,
and W. L. Stodghill, Louisville, Ky.
HAZEN HAS ALIBI
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen ap
peared at the District Building today
sporting a black eye. He volunteered
to all comers he got the "ornament”
from a kick from a shotgun.
'T'he Commissioner was taking a few
shots at clay pigeons yesterday when
the shotgun struck off his shoulder
and jammed against his cheek.
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P. W. A. GIVES CASH
FOR CONSTRUCTION
OF APEX BUILDING
$3,665,000 Allotted for
New Home for Federal
Trade Board.
MOVE ENDS DISPUTE
OVER TRIANGLE PROJECT
Opponents Hold Structure Will
Cut Off View of New
Archives Edifice.
Construction of the so-called Apex
Building on the small triangle east
of the new Archives Building at Penn
sylvania and Constitution avenues'will
be expedited under a $3,665,000 allot
ment made today to the procurement
! division of the Treasury Department
| by the Public Works Administration.
The Apex Building will be the new
home of the Federal Trade Commis
1 sion. Administrator Ickes announced.
1 and will house overflow agencies of
| the Government as needs occur.
The building will round out the
I triangle development.
uesignea oy Lawaiu n. dciuutu,
Chicago architect, the plans for the
Apex Building have been approved by
the Fine Arts Commission and the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Decision to build on the small tri
angle east of the Archives Building
ends a controversy which at one time
brought out considerable opposition to
rearing a structure that would possibly
obstruct the view' of the monumental
building housing the Government’s
archives.
Ickes said today that with the allot
ment of construction funds it was now
up to the Procurement Division of the 1
Treasury to get the work under way.
The Federal Trade Commission oc
cupies cne of the old temporary struc
1 tures at Twentieth street and Con
! stitution avenue. That site is being
! developed for the recently authorized
Federal Reserve Building, and the
commission is preparing to move to
the Rochambeau Apartments on Con
necticut avenue and an adjoining
building.
; Both the Fine Arts Commission and
j the National Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission it was said, will be
the overflowing agencies destined to
j occupy space in the new Apex Build
| ing. They are now located in the
Navy Building, which is already over- !
flowing into some corridors.
The opposition to erect the new ;
building on the apex triangle was led I
by John Russell Pope, architect of the !
j Archives Building, which Is soon to be !
1 occupied. His main objection was
based on the ground that it would off
set the monumental structure which
now is the end building in the Fed- :
j eral triangle and commands an un
1 obstructed view from the base of the j
j Capitol.
The site also had been tentatively
| selected at one time for the proposed
I memorial to Thomas Jefferson, which
now will have to be located elsewhere.
As far as could be learned today
specifications for the building have
not been drawn up in the Procure
ment Division, which will have com
plete charge of all building opera
tions.
FUNERAL SERVICE HELD
FOR WILLIAM G. ASKINS
Military Ceremonies Conducted at
Arlington by U. S. Marines
and Guard.
Funeral services for William G i
Askins, 31, were held at Arlington |
National Cemetery last Tuesday, with ;
military ceremonies by the National j
| Guard and United States Marines,
j Mr. Askins formerly was a member
of the Marine Corps, having served
' 18 months in the West Indies and j
| later at Quantico, Va., where he was j
j at the time of his honorable discharge.
! In recent years he had been an active
member of the National Guard.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Charles B. Austin and Dr. George
Quick.
Mr. Askins, who lived at 2644 Tenth
street northeast, died November 3 at
Emergency Hospital. Surviving are
his widow, Mrs. Virginia Askins; a
daughter, Bettie Lee; his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Robert L. Askins, 1110 L
street, and a sister, Mrs. G. C. Bar
ham.
Giant Tree Shifted in Union Square
Here's one of the biggest tree moving jobs—offic tally termed by the horticulturists a Zelkova Serrata,
with a ball of earth enfolding the roots some 25 feet in diameter. This tree, one of the features of the old
Botanic Garden, was in the path of The Mall vista. So it was moved some 250 feet to a new location
east of the projected site for a new memorial, to balance the Meade Memorial, which is on the north side
of Union Square, just west of the Capitol. —Star Staff Photo.
NIXON DECLARES
Second Wife Made No Ef
fort to Contest Divorce,
Court Is Told.
Capt. Thomas Hay Nixon. U. S A,
who is fighting an attemp: by his sec
ond wile to set aside their divorce,
told the Adams County, Pa., court
yesterday, according to an Associated
Press dispatch reesred here, that his
former wife made no effort to contest
the divorce proceedings at the time of
the trial last August.
His second wife. Annette Pauline
Finneron Nixon, former show girl, also
has filed suit here against Capt.
Nixon, who married Miss Ann Dc-Wal
den Cooke of Chevy Chase, after the
Pennsylvania divorce proceedings.
The second wife's Washington suit
was declared a mistrial by Justice
Jesse C. Adkins of the District Su
preme Court after counsel presented
an amended complaint naming the
third wife as corespondent on the
theory Capt. Nixon’s divorce from wife
No. 2 was invalid.
District Attorney John P. Butt of
Harrisburg, Pa., filing Nixon's answer
in the Pennsylvania proceeding, sub
mitted affidavits to uphold his con
tention the second Mrs. Nixon and her
attorneys knew of the divorce suit and
avoided subpoenas and other notices.
One of the affidavits was from Mrs.
Howard De Walden Cooke, mother of
the third wife, quoting Attorney W.
Gwynn Gardiner. Washington attor
ney for the second wife, as saying the
"Pennsylvania divorce is more worth
less than the paper on which it might
appear.'' and asserting he did not in
tend to have his client appear in the
Pennsylvania court.
Tire hearing here was thrown into
an uproar when Gardiner and Vin
cent A. Sheehy. attorney for Nixon,
came to blows in the ccurt room.
MISSING MAN FOUND
U. S. Worker, Gone Since Satur
day, Is Located in Hospital.
Cornelius Loring. 58-year-old for
mer Government worker, who disap
peared from his home Saturday, was
located by relatives 'ast night in
Emergency Hospital, where he was
taken after becoming ill on the street.
Loring, a brother-fn-law of Police
man S. F. Goggins. 2011 Monroe street
northeast, was taken ill shortly after
leaving the latter’s home Saturday.
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Court of Hardship.
The Free State government has
been petitioned to establish a fair
tent court to deal with individual
cases of hardship.
Trick to Get Alimony Receipt
Is Charged to Man by Ex-Wife
Bethesda Woman Asks
D. C. Court to Send
Him to Jail.
Ordered to Shoiv Cause
Why He Should Not Be
Held in Contempt.
Charging her husband tricked her
into giving him a receipt for alimony
he did not pay, Mrs. Dorothy R.
Sangster, 4338 Montgomery avenue,
Bethesda, Md„ asked District Supreme
Court today to send him to jail for
contempt of court.
She quoted him as saying he “was
lying awake at night" trying to think
of ways to beat her out of mainte
nance payments.
At the request of her attorney, Jean
M Boardman, Justice Jennings Bailey
ordered the husband, Charles R.
Sangster, to show cause why hi should
not be held in contempt.
On September 20, the court ordered
Sangster to pay his wife $40 a month
for the maintenance of herself and
their two minor children.
When the last payment was due,
November 6, Sangster is said to have
made an appointment with Mrs. Sang
ster to give her the $20 owing at that
time. She told the court her hus
band placed his pocketbook on the
table and requested her to write a
receipt. Believing he was acting in
a
MRS. DOROTHY R. SANGSTER.
—Warner Studio.
good faith, she made out the receipt,
and he immediately placed it in his
pocketbook and refused to give her
the money, she told the court.
Sangster is quoted in her petition
as saying: “I have the receipt. This
is my trick. This will last until the
Slot, when the next payment is due.
I can't fool you with this trick more
than once, but I will think of some
thing by the next time to beat you
out of your money."
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Will Retire
ARTHUR S. WHITCOMB.
Second leader of the Marine Band
and an outstanding cornet soloist,
who will retire from the Marine
Corps on December 1. Mr. Whit
comb is a native of England, serv
ing at one time with the famous
Coldstream Guards. In 1905 he
enlisted in the United States Marine
Band and except for a short term
with the United States Cavalry
Band he has been with the Marines
continuously. He is 56 years old.
His retirement is at his own re
| quest.
i
IS LAID 10 RAND
Manager Identifies Man
Held for Robbery of Bus
Ticket Office.
James W. Rand, 24. captured yes
terday after holding up the ticket
office of the Greyhound Bus terminal,
was identified last night as the man
who last February held up Ewart's
Cafeteria and obtained $300. Identi
fication was made through Alfred G.
Earnest, cafe manager.
Rand was trapped in a taxicab in
front of the bus depot before he could
escape after robbing E. T. MacDowell.
ticket salesman, of $434. Policeman
Paul Baicar and Station Dispatcher
Rea Ankeny subdued the robber.
Police have been searching for Rand
for seme time. There now is a lookout
for two other bandits who possibly
might have been working with him.
Rand gave his address as the 1400
block of Rhode Island avenue. He
prcbably will not go to court until
Thursday.
Manuel A. Castro. 45. a taxicab
driver, taken into custody when Rand
was arrested, was released after ques
tioning. Police were satisfied he was
not an accomplice. Questioning of
Rand was delayed until today because
he had been drinking, police sgid.
Rand also was identified yesterday
as the man who held up Burt's Grill,
almost directly across the street from
the terminal, Sunday afternoon. He
obtained $94 there.
BAYH WILL BE GUEST
AT DINNER THIS EVENING
Civic Welcome Will Be Given to
New Director of Health and
Physical Education.
Birch E. Bayh. new director of
health and physical education in the
District schools, will be guest of honor
at 7 o’clock tonight at a dinner at tne
Admiral, 1640 Rhode Island avenue,
to be given by the Physical Education
Association of the District.
The purpose of the dinner is to wel
come Bayh to Washington, and the
hosts will include men and women en
gaged in physical education, athletic,
health and recreation activities In the
Capital.
After the dinner the men's and wom
en’s sections of the association will
hold separate business meetings.
Ruth H. Atwell, George Washington
University, is president of the asso
ciation, and Max Farrington, also of
G. W. U., is secretary-treasurer;
Miriam Spaulding. Mount Vernon
Seminary, is president of the wom
en’s section, and Louis Holmes, Powell
Junior High School, heads the men's
section.
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Mrs. Roosevelt Personally
Indorsed Appointee to
City Position.
Actin? on a personal indorsement
j from Mrs. Roosevelt, the Commission
ers today appointed Dr. David E
Buckingham veterinary surgeon for
j fr r District on a part-time basis at
a salary of $2,850 per year,
j The job is one which normally
; must be filled out of a list of eligibles
! certified by the Civil Service Com
| mission, under an agreement between
! that agency and the Commissioners.
In this case, however, the Civil
Service Commission told the Com
! missioners on November 4: "This office
. has no t'igibles available for certiflca
' tion at this time. An appointment
! may be made outside of civil service
• rules."
Mrs. Roosevelt indorsed Dr Buck
ingham in a letter to Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen October 28. Tile let
ter. on White House stationery, stated:
‘ My Dear Commissioner Hazen:
i "Dr. Buckingham is making appli
' cation for an appointment under you
and I just want to tell you that he has
i rendered us very good service. I can
speak very highly of him for his kind
J ness and ability.
"Very' sincerely yours.
"(Signed! ELEANOR ROOSEVELT."
Dr. Buckingham conducts a hos
pital for animals at 2115 Fourteenth
street. He has two associates there.
| In the District appointment, which
is effective Saturday, he takes the
post left vacant by the death of Dr. F.
W. Grenfell.
UTILITIES PROBE
TO BE EXTENDED
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House Lobby Committee Plans
to Investigate Four More
I
Companies.
The House Lobby Committee today
planned to turn the spotlight of m
I vestigation on four more of the coun
try's gigantic utility holding companies,
which, it has been informed, took part
in the fight last Winter to defeat the
Wheelcr-Rayburn holding company
bill.
The Standard Gas & Electric Co. of
Chicago heads the list. The others are
Electric Bond and Share. Common
wealth and Southern and Public Serv
ice of New jersey.
The foundation for the inquiry is
being laid by William H Collins, com
mittee counsel, who has spent several
months gathering data.
Already the four companies have
! been asked by the committee to sub
' mit reports showing their respective
expenses in connection with the lobby
campaign and the names of individ
uals who were remunerated.
The committee, however, will not
begin its investigation of the four
companies until it finishes examina
tion of Howard C. Hopson, reputed
"master mind’’ of the Associated Gas
& Electric Co. •
Hopson is to be recalled to the wit
ness stand as soon as the committee
resumes its public hearings. Repre
sentative O’Connor. Democrat, of New
York, chairman of the Lobby Com
mittee, plans to fix the date for re
newal of the hearings within a few
days.
Disclosure of Hopson's personal In
come during the period he built the
Associated into a utility colossus is
the chief aim of the committee in
recalling him to the witness stand.
He also is to be questioned about the
$1,000,000 Associated borrowed from
various banks to fight the utilities
bill and how it was expended.
CUMMINGS HONOR GUEST
Attorney General Cummings will be
the guest of honor at the Optimist
Club luncheon tomorrow at 12:30 pm.
at the Mayflower Hotel.
Henry Schaffert. past international
president, will present two resolutions
to Mr. Cummings that were passed by
the seventeenth international conven
tion, held in St. Louis last Summer.
One is the indorsement of the sys
tem of juvenile and domestic courts
now operating in Ohio. The other in
dorsed the efforts being made by the
Bureau of Investigation of the De
partment of Justice, under the guid
ance of J. Edgar Hoover, in combating
organised enmf..
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TAXI ZONE APPEAL
DUE TO BE HEARD
Head of Cab Drivers’ Union
Has Asked Court to En
join Enforcement.
HEARING SCHEDULED
FOR THIS AFTERNOON
Counsel Expected to Argue That
Rate Is Arbitrary and
Unreasonable.
An appeal from the Public Utilities
Commission's order last July setting up
the prevailing 20-30-50-70-cent taxi
cab zone rates was scheduled for
hearing this afternoon before Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat in District
Supreme Court.
Bernard L. Henning, president of
the Cab Drivers' Protective Union,
Local No. 343. has asked the court to
enjoin enforcement of the order,
which he contends is unlawful and
unreasonable. Some time ago Hen
ning lost his hacker's license because
he refused to charge the rates speci
fied by the commission.
Cites Adkins' Ruling.
A ruling two years ago by Justice
Jesse C. Adkins that prescribed zone
charges are illegal because discrimi
natory still con'rols the local taxi
situation, Cary E. Quinn, attorney for
the union official, contends.
He is expected to argue further
that the rates set by the commission
are arbitrary and unreasonable and
are not based on adequate data. The
commission held extensive rate hear
ings last Summer.
Hinman D. Folsom, a special as
sistant corporation counsel, will rep
resent the Utilities Commission, which
maintains Congress in the last ap
propriation bill gave it authority to
establish uniform zones and rates. It
admits that it was without such au
thority previous to enactment cf the
new law.
The appropriation act retains the
prohibition against use of funds to set
up a meter system, and specifically
provides that the money appropriated
may be used to establish uniform
zones and rates.
Right of Appeal Limited.
The same Congress also abolished
the right of appeal to the District Su
preme Court from Public Utility Com
mission orders on any except purely
legal grounds, but Henning's injunc
tion petition was filed two days before
this law became effective.
Quinn said the union has between
300 and 500 members.
The court’s ruling on the case will
affect the entire taxicab business here,
however, and go far toward establish
ing how much authority is possessed
by the Public Utilities Commission.
E. Barrett Prettyman. corporation
counsel, and several members of his
staff were jon hand today to hear
arguments % the case, and the court
room was crowded with taxi drivers
and their families and friends.
MANY CEREMONIES
ON ARMISTICE DAY
Thousands Pay Respects Here led
by President Roosevelt
at Arlington.
The ghosts of America's World War
dead slept quietly today, soothed by
the honor which the Nation had
poured out on its annual observance
of Armistice day.
From President Roosevelt down to
the youngest Boy Scout, this honor
was paid reverently, its principal ex
pression being voiced yesterday morn
ing at Arlington National Cemetery,
where the Nation's Chief Executi e
addressed a throng of several thou
sands.
The day was commemorated at
Washington Cathedral in two sen -
ices—one at the tomb of President
Wilson in the Bethlehem Chapel, and
one sponsored by the Disabled Amer
ican Veterans in honor of nurses and
other women who have served the
national cause. Both were attended
by Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Wilson and a
throng of Government officials, mem
bers of the diplomatic corps, repre
sentatives of the Army and Navy and
patriotic organizations.
Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bish
op of Washington, at the Wilton
service read the wartime Chief Ex
ecutive's final message to his coun
try—the brief statement of the "road
away from revolution” as he visioned
it, including the warning: “Our civ
ilization cannot survive materially, un
less it be redeemed spiritually.”
HONOR MRS. NELIGH
Birthday of Late Head of Neigh
borhood House Observed.
The birthday anniversary of the late
Mrs. Clara Danielson Nellgh. who
served as head resident of Neighbor
hood House for years, was observed
last night at the settlement with a
program of music and dance.
A ceremony known as “lighting of
the lamp Catena" was held, during
which the lamp was renamed "the
Clara Danielson Nellgh Lamp." The
program Included a dramatic selection
and Instrumental and vocal offerings.
Fireman't Luck.
SEATTLE OP).—Fireman E. M. Kird’a
automobile burned because he couldn’t
find a fire alarm box.
He drove his flaming machine a
mile and ran half a mile before he
found a box. Then a slow freight
stopped the fire truck that responded.
Kird walked home.
Business Men to Ele“t.
Election of officers of the Columbia
Heights Business Men's Association
will be held at a meeting tonight at
8:30 p.m. in the Tompkins Building.
3330 Fourteenth street.