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The Washington times., 1924-03-03
AUXILIARY
HEAD ON D. c.
INSPECTION
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Florence m. Clark Will Look
Over Local Branches of
Spanish War Body.

Florence M. Clark, of Cleveland,
Ohio, president general of the ma
tional Auxiliary of the United Span.
ish War Veterans. will inspect the
District auxiliaries tonight at Z
o'clock in the headquarters Of the
Spanish War Veterans, 921 Penn
sylvania avenue southeast. Local
organizations will muster in new
members.
The work will be under the direc.
ton Of Lydia Mclaughlin, president
Of the Dewey Auxiliary: Emma Low.
EFT, president of the James S. Pet
tit Auxiliary; Rose Wells, president
of the M. Emmett Urell Auxiliary,
and Mrs. Will Van Allen, president
of the John Jacob Astor Auxiliary.
A reception and entertainment,
followed by refreshments, will be
given President General Clark in
the crystal parlor of the Ebbitt
hotel tomorrow night at $3.50. The
daughters of the veterans will pro.
vide the program and Past Depart.
ment President Mrs. Mary E. Dor.
sey will recite Our Flag"
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SU|TFOR
SECOND HAND
LICENSE
District Commissioners And
w. n. Coombe Cited To
Appear in Court.

Jacob r. Sells today filed suit in
the District Supreme Court to re-
quire the District Commissioners
and Wade H. Coombs, superin-
tendent Of licenses, to show cause
why they should not be compelled
to issue a permit to plaintiff for a
secondhand and junk shop at 1915
K street northeast. Chief Justice
Mccoy cited the defendants to ap.
pear Thursday and answer the com.
plant.
The PLAINTIFF, represented by At.
torney Milton Strasburger, declares
that in February. 1908, Abraham
Gersovitz applied for a license as
secondhand dealer at the place
which was granted and that he
thereafter sold the business to Bella
WeitZ, who in turn sold it to Myer
Kline last October, Kline receiving
his license last December. The
plaintiff got possession of the place,
and December, %. last, applied for
the transfer Of the permit, which
was refused, the defendants claim
ing that the plaintiff failed to oh.
tain the consent Of IS per cent OF
the adjacent property owners. Sells
says that the District Commits
sioners have no Jurisdiction so far
as to frame rules for the issuance
Of licenses is concerned, as Con-
gress has made law governing the
matter. The plaintiff also claims
that the coming law permits the
property to be continued for the
same uses 1t has had heretofore.
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FIVE ARRESTED.
ON CHARGE Of
AUTO THEFT
ouarreIing in Front of Saloon
Leads to Their Being
Taken by Police.

Quarreling among themselves led
to the arrest yesterday of five men
charged with grand larceny in the
theft Of an automobile from Massey
Houston, Ridge road northwest,
who was attacked and left helpless
on Conduit road Saturday night.
Detective w. F. Burke and Police.
men J. NJ. McLarney and C. H.
Ford, of the Seventh precinct, took
the five men into custody on M
street between Thirty-third and
Thirty-fourth streets northwest, in
front Of a near.beer saloon.
Those who will face charges Of
grand larceny in Police Court today
are Earl Thomas, As Quincy street
northwest Ray L. Hall, 1896 Po-
tomac street northwest; Patrick J.
Gallagher, 1919 H street northwest;
Arthur c. Tenant, $500 Jewett
street northwest, and Edgar B.
Houllahan, 11O9 M street northwest.
The police answered a call for help
to Quell a fight among the men. Ar
irving, they learned these were the
men sought in connection with the
theft Of Houston's machine.
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AUTO|ST JAILED.
10 YEARS IN
DEATH "
Frederick /. Wood, Convicted
Of Killing Little Madonna
Madden With Car,

Frederick Lee Wood. twenty.four
years old, colored, convicted of
granddaughter in connection with
the death July % last of ten.year.
old Madonna Madden. whom he
struck with his automobile. was
today sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary by Justice Hoehling,
presiding in Criminal Court No. 2.
Witnesses at the trial testified
that they noticed the reckless driv-
ing Of the accused, and had to
hurry to get out of his way. He
practically lost control Of the car
when he entered Third street from
Pennsylvania avenue, where the
accident occurred.
The child was hit so hard that
she was thrown clear of the car
onto the Sidewalk. She was taken
to the hospital, and died in a few
days.
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POLICE RESCUE
2N|EN..FRQ|M
LYNCHERS
Rush Them From Elizabeth
!. City to Norfolk When
Mob Threatens.

A8y 1MycEm0GlOWBA NGW0 GOEVlCOa
I NORFOLK, Va. March S.--After
escaping from the hands OF q mob
bent on lynching them, two badly
scared ,colored men are locked in
the Norfolk city Jail after a fast
ride early today from Elizabeth
City, N. c.
One, Lew overton, is accused
Of having pushed william balance.
mate on a tug: boat. into the waters
OF the Pasquotank> river last Fri
day. Balance was drowned. Yes.
terday afternoon when his body
washed ashore at high tide, indig-
nation ran high and many threats
were heard.
Late at night a mob of 800 men,
many Of them masked. surrounded
the Jail bent on wreaking ven
geance on Overton and another
colored man named White, held ON
a charge Of robbery. Sheriff Reid,
backed by city police, talked with
the mob leaders and by persuasion
succeeded in making them retire
for a short time.
Realizing that the mob would
again storm the Jail in greater
numbers, the sheriff slipped his
prisoners out rear door, hustled
them into a swift car and with a
deputy and city policeman made
the fifty-five mile run to Norfolk
in fast time.
The men will be held in the Nor.
folk Jail until the Elizabeth City
authorities deem it safe to take
them back.
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France Steals Words.

PARIS, March 3.-The French
Academy incorporated into the
French language and adopted in Of
fetal dictionaries the English words
bookmaker, Boy Scout, camping.
challenge, and champion.
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Electric Heaters in Zoo,

Monkeys in the Lincoln Park ZOO,
at Oklahoma, will enjoy electric heat
from now on, through the installa.
ton by the commissioner Of public
property of electric heaters in the
cages,
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WORK ON PARKS.
TO Be PUSHED
THIS SPRING
Many Improvements Planned
With. Inadequate Funds at
city's Disposal.

Extensive improvements in the
parking system of the District are
proposed this spring by the office
Of public buildings and grounds, 1t
was learned today.
The principal features of the
spring and early summer work of
the park engineers are the con-
struction of five tennis courts on
the reclaimed Anacostia flats; com.
pletion of q roadway through Rock
Creek Park, affording connections
between the Sixteenth street dis.
trict and Walter Reed Hospital; O
roadway to the golf house in East
Potomac Park, allowing easy access
from Fourteenth street, and erec-
ton of q comfort station at Hams
Point.
Rough Grading Done.
Water pipes have been laid in
the Anacostia plot, water being sup.
piled from the vicinity Of the Penn
sylvania avenue bridge. Work ON
| the courts will begin in the late
spring. Rough grading OF the flats
| half way from the Anacostia bridge
to the Pennsylvania avenue aQue-
duct has been completed.
This project and the establish
ment of a well.equipped comfort
station at Haines Point were the
principal improvements provided
this year in the limited appropria-
lions. The station will be com.
| plete in every particular to provide
for tho throngs that visit the point
| In the summer months.
The Potomac Park roadway Is
designed to relieve congestion near
| the club house on the golf course.
| Under the present arrangement, it
has been necessary to establish a
one.way system and motorists COM
| ing from Fourteenth street have
found parking difficult.
Making Money Count.
All road work planned by the Of.
flee Of public buildings and grounds
probably will not be completed until
the summer, when warm weather
will make it possible to oil the roads
properly.
A road is to be built along the
Anacostia Park some time in the
future. At present large quantities
Iof cinders, ashes, and other filling
are needed to grade the section cor
lrectly in preparation for surfacing.
| Considerably more work toward
the Identification of Washington
was in prospect several months ago,
but was prevented by lack of funds.
The office, in working out its spring
plans, is wrestling with every item
in order to stretch its scanty dol
lars to the utmost.
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and will stretch across Staten
Island from a point opposite Perth
Amboy, N. j., to st. George. where
the ferry departs for Brooklyn and
Long Island. .>te,
This affords a convenient route
for autoists who come across New
Jersey from points west and who
would like to reach the sea-girdled
stretches of Long Island without
going through the congested heart
of the metropolis. The boulevard
is as yet only partly built, its pres.
ent length being not quite seven
miles, but eventually it will cover
Is miles in almost a straight line.
Most Americans, like to keep go
ing" by night as well as by day.
They will be able 10 do this on
Hylan Boulevard, since the city
authorities have contracted for an
installation of highway lighting
units throughout the length of the
road. The 6.7 miles so far built are
to be thus lighted at once by 119
of these units.
The lights will be spaced 300
feet apart, and mounted on stand.
ards 80 feet 8 inches in height. The
| usual standard MaZdo lamps, of ESQ.
| candlepOwer, used in these units
will be installed, and the effect will!
be to illuminate all Of the roadway
without any wastage of light into
the adjoining country side. This is
| accomplished by the efficient nest
| reflectors used in these units, which
| allow $50 candlepower lamps to de-
liver many times that volume of H.
| Illumination upon the road.
This is the same highway light
ing unit which has made lasting
impression upon many autoists and
automobile associations since it first
appeared several years ago. 1t is
the unit selected for lighting the
ideal stretch of the Lincoln high
way.
Paths for Pedestrians.
This new Staten Island houle-
ward will probably become noted
for one characteristic. 1t will have
side paths for pedestrians, CORE.
spending to the sidewalks of city
streets. That will remove from
pedestrians and autoists alike one
of the haunting strains of auto.
MODELLING on highways-the constant
necessity of watching out to avoid
the hitting of pedestrians by autos.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-14
CAS- ENGINE MAY
GIVE WAY To
BATTERY
New Device Expected to Be
Perfected in Year,
Scientist Says.
BY G. w. HOPPER,
C~smoDOlItan News Service.

i CINCINNATI, Ohio. Jan. IA
Science is at work on an electric
battery designed to ''revolutionize
the automobile industry" and make
the motor vehicle OF the future an
electrically driven car. Within a
year this battery should be per-
fected, it was declared here.
Coal is to be the chief generating
mower of the new battery, accord
ing to DIR. Edward w. Washburn,
OF the division of chemistry and
chemical technology Of the National
research Council of Washington.
Doctor Washburn, as chairman of
the chemical section Of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advance
nlent of Science, led the discussion
on this topic.
Explains Action of Coal.
Coal" said Doctor Washburn,
burns through the action of the
elements. When 1t burns, or oxid.
ICES, through this action, there is
no fire, but merely a gradual eating
away. In the same way iron burns
when 1t rUsts, but there is no fire.
This burning" the scientist ex
planned, releases heat energy. II
is the purpose of the experimental
efforts made to transform this heat
into electrical energy.
Molten glass has been used az
! electrodes for the proposed new
battery, in laboratory experiments
An astounding amount of electricity
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was generated, but the battery has
still to be put to practical use.
Electric Efficiency Is High.
1.-THE experimental batteries are
powerful but not sufficiently 80 for
the demands automobiles put upon
them. If the new battery is evolved
successfully. 1t will supplant COM
bustion engine automobiles with
electrically driven ones. Electricity
is from 80 to IS per cent efficient,
compared With only a rs per cent
efficiency in the present motor
vehicle" i.
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appointing to Senator La Toilette,
who no doubt expected the results of
his pet project to be much less IA
vorable to railroad capital.
Mr.. La Follette's academic hobby
OF 1913 became of immense practi-
cal significance in 1920, for the new
transportation act hinges the ques.
ton of rate making, on which the
fortunes Of the railroads depend,
solely on the value Of their prop
erty.
The. commission allowed valua-
ton of about $4,000, 900, 900 for the
carriers as a whole, whereas Sem
ator La Toilette and his group con-
sidered the roads worth no more
than two-thirds of that amount.
Effect on Farmers.
Since under the present plan,
rates are to allow a fair return
on valuation, the figures agreed
upon have a direct bearing on the
rates which passengers and ship
pers must pay for transportation,
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schedules which have a very i'm.
mediate effect on the cost of living
and the status of the farmers.
senator La Toilette, acting, as
ne says, for the people, is evidently
anxious to punish the carriers for
some or the economic sins of. the
Drews, Goulds and FisKn Or an
earlier generation, but he WIN find
the process of netting out eternal
justice exceedingly difficult. 80
ownership of railroad securities
has shifted radically in recent
years. To large extent the car.
rlers have passed from the handa
OF a few millionaires to a tremen-
, dously wider group. 1 -. :. )
Under the recuperatiYe impulses
released by the transportation act
OF 1920, the full benefits of which
were approached for the first time
IN 1928, the railroads have. been
IN a process Of restoring their van.
ishing credit, upon which future
growth depends. 4 ..,3s.
Requirements Of Carriers ii ,.ts
The carriers ra III u whole, which
fare entitled according ;to the act,
to az fair retarn Of 5 per cent,
earned at@least@ per cent last year
on the, valuation tentatively fixed
by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
Mr.. La, Follette's new bill would
change the, whole basis for fixing
values. hEe proposes that value be
/ based entirely on reports or esti.
mates Of original costs. -.
Up to the present the Interstate
Commerce Commission has been
taking into consideration, besides
original cost, at least two other
factors-the cost of. reproduction
and the cost of reproduction less
depreciation.
Prices in 1914 have been re.
garded as standard. but since then
the average of commodity prices
has risen some so per cent.
La FoIlette's Task Huge.
Representatives of the carriers
have urged the Interstate Com
Emerce Commission to consider go
ing concern value and apprecia-
ton also.
The Senator asserts that his pro-
posal would reduce the nation 8
freight bill by hundreds of millions
of dollars. The student will also
ask. will it tend to ruin railroad
credit by making earning power in.
adequate to acquire new capital2
1t is probable that it will.
Private operation cannot be sue
cessfully continued, unless the roads
are enabled to earn enough on true
property value to attract investors
to supply new funds for additional
capital improvements.
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WILLIS. SCORES
R|G.H.BIEYERS
Of rum ] ! !
Senator Puts Them in Class
With Bootleggers-Drys
Open D. c. Campaign.

Members of the selfish rich
class" according to Senator Willis
Of Ohio, are in the same category
as the bootlegger. Senator Willis
made this assertion Yesterday at
one of several dry" meetings held
over the city incident with the open
ing of the Anti-Saloon League con-
vention..
b There is no middle ground"
continued Senator Willis, lin observ-
ance of the law. call upon every
citizen, no matter how he may be
situated, to stand strongly behind
the constitutional amendment and
the enforcement laws"
In speeches at the Hamline Meth
odist Church and in Alexandria,
w. E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson yester-
day declared prohibition is here
to stay in spite of the liquor inter.
ests. America has set a standard
for the world.
Wayne b. Wheeler addressed two
meetings, one in Foundry M. r.:
Church and one at the Church OF
the Covenant. He took occasion
to comment on the proposal OF
Congressman Kvale of Minnesota to
tax liquor legally owned, $40 a
gallon. Wheeler said:
1.-THE rich had more liquor In the
cellars when prohibition went into
effect. just as they had more dla-
qnonds. more divorces and more dew
iltry, not because, the law gave
them any special legal right to
these things, but because they had
more money.
cellars are not so full today.
however. The $40 tax gallon
would not deter the selfish, riotous
rich from defying the Constitution,
if they wished. They would gladly
nav a higher sum to give a new
legal sanction to their holdings OF
IiuIYov -
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President And Wife
Pay Visit To Home
| OF Sick Valet

A big White House car
stopped before an unpreten-,
tious little house on S street
northwest yesterday. A liver
led footman alighted briskly
and held open the door. While
residents Of the 1900 block
CAPPED the President Of the
United States and Mrs. Cool
idge stepped out and entered
a house numbered 1902" /
A speculative crowd clotted.
around the car and it's upper
turbed attendants, while within
the house President Coolidge,
sat and chatted with Arthur
Brooks, his colored valet, who
has been i'll for several weeks.
Brooks has been at the White
House since the Taft admin
istration. The President drove
to the Brooks home after
church and he and Mrs. Cool
idge remained for about fifteen
minutes.
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GREAT PROBLEM.
BEHIND new
!. RAIL LAW
Economic Puzzle Lies in Value
and Basic Income Proposals.
Stockholders Myriad
By MERRYLE 8. RUKEYSER.
copyrighted, 1924, by Star Co. Inc. and
distributed by Cosmopolitan News
SePyiCe.)

SePVice.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Behind the
newer quarrel between Senator La
Toilette. and his traditional foes-the
railroadH-is a subtle, elusive eco
nomic distinction.
The Senator from Wisconsin, who
As the leader of the Progressive bloc,
which is antagonistic to the present
plan of railroading, has revealed the
Issue in a new bill to amend the
Esch- Cummins transportation act OF
1920.
Mr.. La Follette's new proposal con-
Germs the question of valuation
which he first brought into the
realm of practical politics in 1913,
when his valuation act was passed
by Congress.
For more than decade, in accord
ance with the provisions Of that act,
the Interstate Commerce Commission
sion has been engaged in the tedious
task of inventorying the worth of
the nations carriers.
Results of Valuation.
The Job has been far more expen-
eive and long drawn out than origi-
nally expected.
The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion recently reported that tentative
valuations had been served in 1872
cases against which no protests had
heen filed, and in 1873 cases in which
226 protests had been filed.
Final valuations for the large and
more important carriers have not
yet been made, but the whole ten
dency of the studies has been dis.
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Use of Electricity Wide.

About sixty-five per cent of all
the mechanical energy used in
industry in the United States today
is electrical
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Electricity In Homes
Saves Backaches
For Women

Undoubtedly a man collected
the statistics on the number Of
steps that electrical household
appliances daily save women
who use them. Had it been a
woman she would have laid
stress on the number of back
aches. the use of these ap-s
pliances avoid.
With the electric sweeper for
cleaning rugs and carpets and
the electric washing machine
and motor-driven ironer with
which to do the weekly laun-
dry work much of the hack
breaking labor which formerly
fell to the lot Of women is elm
mated.
Of course, the time and step
saving that electric appliances
accomplish means much to wu-,
men as well. This gives. them
time for many things other
wise frequently impossible.
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CURRY DISH RECIPES
FOR ELECTRIC GRILL

For the women who do much OF
their cooking on the electric. grill
the recipes for curry dishes given
below will add novelty to their
menus. There seems to be a com
mon belief that only a limited
number of dishes can be cooked
on the grill, but the truth is, that
with @ little experimentation much
can be accomplished.
Boiled rice should always be
served with curry of any kind.
The rice must not be mushy; 1t
should be boiled so every grain
is whole and dry enough to enable
it's being eaten with the fingers,
If necessary.
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Master Light Switch
Puts Burglar
To Flight

A master electric light switch
which automatically turns on
the light throughout the entire
house and can be operated from
any room or any floor, recently
foiled an attempt to rob a
prominent New Workers. resi-
dence. is s"' 9s'
Only the caretaker was on
the premises whenl the burglary
was attempted. The burglar
apparently thought himself
alone and therefore decided to
have. q little light and work
in comfort. Unfortunately he
pushed the master switch and
flooded the entire house with
light. The robber was SO
startled that he fled from she
house leaving the lights on and
the main entrance door wide
open. I'LL.
This sudden lighting of the
house reused the caretaker and
attracted the attention of a
patroling policeman, but the
burglar had already departed
without the loot which had
tempted him.
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NEW BOULEVARD
NAMED FOR
HYLAN
Gives New York an Additional
Thoroughfare for Autoists
Entering City.

Tourists to New York, do not al
ways care to roll into Manhattan
on a fast train and roll around the
metropolis visiting various sights. ]"
Some of them, in this day of the
almost universal automobile, like to
make trips in their own touring
cars, and seek out the attractive
roads, particularly the fine high
ways in the suburbs of large
city. -e@
New York is soon to have such
a thoroughfare to add to some of
the others which skirt it on various
sides. The most recent of these is
to be known as Hylan Boulevard
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Ivy FAILS TO SCARE
CHICAGO SALOON MEN

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-THE presence
here of Icy Einstein has no terrors
for Chicago's saloons, cafes and
soft drink parlors, proprietors OF
which are confident they can detect
his famous DISCUSSES.
Cafe and saloon men have hired
detectives who have been trailing
Izzy for weeks, carefully tabulating
his various roles.
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PRUNE DETERIORATION
BY ELECTRICITY SEEN

Prof. A. W. Christie, Agricul.
tural Expert of the University
of California, in his address be
fore the State Prune Growers Con-
vention, predicted that within a
very short time dehydration Of
prunes by electricity will replace
the now existent sun-drying proc
ess,
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