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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
VAN SWER|NGEN
MERCER GOES
FORWARD
Outline and Terms Of ST, $780,
100000 Railroad Deal
Becomes Known
BY International News Service,

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-Plans were
going forward here today for what
is said to be the largest railroad
merger in history, the absorption by
Orris P. and Mantis J. Van Swerin.
gen, owners Of the MCKEE Plate
system, OF four other railroad prop.
critics. The proposed consolidation,
an outline Of which became known
today, involves. $500, 100000 CAPT.
tai and nearly 1900 miles Of track.
age.
The roads to be taken over by
the MCKEE Plate-the New York,
Chicago and st. Louis-are the
Erie, Pere Marquette, Chesapeake
and Ohio and the Hooking Valley.
Wheeling and Lake Erie with the
Pittsburgh and West Virginia may
be taken in later, it was reported,
although not mentioned in the pre-.
nminary announcement.
The consolidation, according to
semi-official announcement, will be
effected through exchange Of stock
and through leases Of physical prop
critics and is subject to approval Of
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion.
Terms Of the proposed merger
are to be submitted to the various
boards Of directors at meetings to
be called Immediately and formal
offer will be made to stockholders
before the end Of this month, it
was said. Larger stockholders Of
each Of the roads involved, it was
understood. have agreed to the
terms.
The MCKEE Plate Company stock,
1t was said, would be issued in two
classes. a per cent cumulative pre-.
ferred stock and common stock
to be put on q per cent dividend
basis from the time of issue.
The general terms to be offered
stockholders Of the various roads
are said to be as follows:
For Erie first and second nre
ferred stocks, SO per cent in pre-.
ferred stock Of the new company
for Erie common 20 per cent in
new common stock.
For Pere Marquette prior pref
erence stock 100 per cent in new
preferred stock; for Pere Marquette
preferred stock 80 per cent in new
preferred stock; for the common
stock IS per cent in new common
stock.
For Chesapeake & Ohio eh per
cent stock, 116 per cent in new 6
per cent preferred stock; for Chesa.
peake & Ohio common stock &c Der
cent in new common stock: for
Hooking Valley common stock. now
owned in controlling amount by the
Chesapeake & Ohio, so per cent in
new s per cent preferred stock and
30 per cent in new common stock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
SINCLAIR CASE.
BRIEF FILED
BY j. s.
Gordon and Special Counsel
Oppose Appeal Being Grant
ed Defendant

The brief by the United States
opposing the petition Of Harry r.
Sinclair. Teapot Dome lessee, to be
allowed a special appeal from the
decision Of Justice Hoehling Of the
District Supreme Court upholding
six OF the ten counts Of the indict.
ment charging Mr.. Sinclair with
contempt of the Senate, was filed
today In the District Court of
Appeals. 1t was submitted by
United States Attorney Peyton
Gordon, and Special Counsel Atlee
Pomerene and Owen ]. Roberts.
The Government contends that
the only effect of the special appeal
II granted, will be to delay unneces.
sarily the final trial Of the case.
The council contend that any
rights Sinclair may obtain by
allowance Of the special appeal.
will be fully protected IL the petit.
ton is dismissed, and the case goes
to trial on its merits. They ask
the dismissal Of Sinclair's petition
and the remanding Of the case to
trial.
View Of Questions Raised.
The questions raised by the de.
murrer, and motion to quash, of
Sinclair's counsel, the Government
attorneys aver, are Of equally great
importance to the United States
and to Congress, as well as to the
people at large.
A legislative body must have az
full information that it may func.
ton as a court before 1t decides q
case on trial, the Government brief
declares. Government ATTORNEYS
concede that the Senate commit.
tee would have been without juris.
diction to require answers from
Sinclair II the inquiry were made
wholly without reference to a mat.
ter pending in the courts.
They assert, however, that the
OIL committee was empowered to
investigate the entire subject of
leases or naval reserves whether in
the courts or not and particularly
to ascertain what II, any, other or
additional legislation may be ad.
visable.
Unlike Daugherty's Case.
The recent decision Of Judge
Cochran in the habeas corpus case
brought oy Malley 8. Daugherty.
brother Of the former Attorney
General, against whom contempt
proceedings were instituted, had
6een quoted by Attorneys Martin
Littleton. George P. Hoover, J. W.
zevely and G.. T. Stanford in their
application for the special appeal.
Counsel for the government aver
there is no parallel between the
Daugherty and Sinclair cases.
copies OF the petition will be
mailed to the three Justices Of The
court of appeals who are on vaca.
ton. The clerk will be notified bv
each Of his decision.
An extension Of thirty DAYS for
pleading under the ruling of Jus
tice Hoehling was granted Sinclair
today by Justice Hitz of the Dis.
tr1ct supreme Court on the request
of Attorney George P, Hoover ~
Sinclair's counsel.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
CENTRAL AMERICA ABLE
TO STAND ALONE, HE SAYS

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, Aug.
S.-William s. Rowe, director gen.
eral Of the Pan-American Union, to-
day told the Institute Of Politics in
meeting here that the United States
should keep it's hands off Central
American politics and not try to
set itself up as the guardian of
the small republics to the south.
The United States, however, has
a deep interest in the progress and
prosperity Of the Central American
republics, Rowe asserted, and should
lend its moral support and influ.
ence to any movement looking to.
ward the federation Of the five re.
publics into q Central American
union.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
MISS LILLE LEE ZIMMERMAN.

Last rites win be held at the
home Of her cousin, Robert II. Zirn-
norman, 1925 B street northeast.
for Miss Lille Lee Zimmerman.
who died at Peak Island, Me-, sud.
denly yesterday.
Miss Zimmerman was In her
fifty.fifth year and had been a
teacher in the Washington public
schools for thirty-five years. She
began her career as teacher at
the Congress Heights graded school
in 1889, was transferred to the
Van Buren, school in 1898. where
she taught until 1908, when she
was transferred to the Buchanan
school and later to the Lennon
school. She had taught in the
Hine Junior High school ever since
1t opened.
Miss Zimmerman was the daugh.
ter Of the late Archibald and Eliza
Zimmerman. She 10 survived by
three cousins. Interment will be
In Congressional Cemetery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
Births, Marriages, Deaths
Phone Notices to Main $780, Obituary Desk
MRS. EMMA DAVIS PECK.

Word reached Washington yes
terday Of the death of Mrs. Emma
D. Peck, at the home of her son
in Binghamton. N. Y. after a long
illness.
Mrs. Peck was a resident of
Washington for fifteen years. She
is survived by two sons, Clarence
M. Peck. at whose home she died,
Theodore Peck, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
four daughters, Miss Sybil Peck
and Mrs. r. J. Lamb, of this city;
Mrs. w. H. Mckay, Of Bradford,
Pa, and Mrs. T. b. Newbold, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y. Interment win
be in Brandt. Pa, Saturday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
IRISH ENVOY
BUSY WITH
DUTIES
Smiddy Spending Summer
Here Getting Ready
for Ministership
BY JEAN ELIOT.
EETNHE Minister Of Ireland and

KKNVAE Minister OF 1r0LanQ ana
Mrs. Timothy A. Smiddy
Il will be the guests Of honor
ut dinner this evening Of the British
Ambassador and Lady Isabella
Howard"
This Is an imaginary quotation
from the society columns Of the
Washington Times about three
months hence, when in all prob.
ability the diplomatic representa-.
tiveS Of "Ould Oireland" will be
adding scintillation to the brilliancy
Of a gay season in Washington.
Professor Smiddy-thus he Is
likely to be termed until he has
worn for a while his new honor Of
Minister Plenipotentiary from the
Irish Free State, which as yet has
not actually been conferred-is
spending the summer here, putting
his political house in order.
One can get him by telephone
at the Investment building, at Fiji
teenth and K streets, into which
he has recently moved his offices
from the Wilkins building. I be.
ieve. And before that he was
established in the Munsey building.
You see he has been in Washing.
ton intermittently since 1922 when
he first came as Envoy Extraordi.
nary for Ireland Of the Dali
Eireann to this country.
It Is bit difficult to try to get
en interview with him now for
he is feeling the delicacy of diplo.
macy In speech, and so despite any
Irish impulses, he is keeping silent
on things that may be considered
serious.
Professor In Cork
Before Coming Here.
This potential Irish minister was
D professor of economies and dean
Of the faculty Of Cork University
In Ireland before being sent to this
country two years ago. He has
written several articles on com.
mercial and economic subjects
which have been published in Vari-
pus journals.
Professor Snliddy's companions
here have been Drawn largely from
his associates at the Cosmos Club
OF which he Is a member. Just
now he has an apartment at Ward.
man Park, believe, where he will
probably remain until the arrival
OF his wife and children, or some
Of them, from Ireland.
He Is a bit doubtful when this
will be for there are six children
-four daughters, one son and /
am not sure whether the baby ls
q girl or boy-and the older ones
are in school. So when the other
members of the Smiddy family are
to come to Washington is a cues.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
FLORISTS

APPROPRIATE Funeral Tokens
GUIDE Bros. Co., 1912 r st. N. W.
AFtistio-ExpFOssivO-
Prompt Auto Delivery Service.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

James 9. Medley, 26. and Doris q.
Conklin. %. The Reverend c. e. Fully.
Amos w. Jillette. ~, Goldsboro. N. c..
and Ruth c. Burton. 81. Culpeper, Va.
The Reverend A. e. Spielman.
John r. Foley, 43, and Mrs. Willie A.
Mozingo. IS. The Reverend T. E. Davis
Melvin Davis, 81, and Freda Thorn
ton. 49, Pittsburgh, Pa The Reverend
p. L. Mitchell.
Joseph o. jackson, %. and Hester
GARNET %. The Reverend W. J.
Howard.
Otto ]. Hardwick. az, and Gladys NJ.
Clinton, 10. The Reverend H. Powell.
Stephen Curry. ~. and Mamie Duran,
"a. Atlanta, Ga. The Reverend w. r.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
Lehigh Seeks Loan

The Lehigh Valley railroad ap.
piled to the Interstate Commerce
Commission today for authority to
issue and sell $12, 900, 900, 900 Of gen.
eral consolidated 8 per cent mort.
gage bonds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-08
MRS. ALICE w. vOLLMER.

OAoId4 OcIF1CSS Will OS uStO NJ
2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in
Hysong's funeral parlors, for the
remains Of Mrs. Alice W. Vollmer,
who died at her home. 500 L strest
northwest, Wednesday night.
Mrs. Vollmer was a native Of
Germany, but had resided in Wash
ington for thirty-eight years. She
Is survived by her husband, Her
man Vollmer, two sons, Charles G..
and Milton r. Vollmer. Of this city,
and a brother. Julius Schnorr, Of
Woodbury.. N. ]. Inherent will be
private in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
BIRTHS.
John y. and Josephine r. Erttsr,
Raymond W. and Mary o'Neir boy.
Thomas II. and Myrtle J. Serrin. girl.
Charles L. and Sarah A. Armen-
trout, boy.
James II. and Maud Beattie, boy.
Henry r. and Hattie Perkins, girl.
Arthur N. and Lora R. ChreitzberE.
girl.
Dennis X and Helen B. Tucker. boy.
Frank and Lillian Bonner. boy.
Doremus ana Dorothy whitcraft, boy,
Horace H. and Corrine Curtis, boy.
John H. ana Dora Jenkins, boy.
Clarence and Lula Nelson, boy.
Edward and Mildred Dyson, girl
Leon and Anna Madden, girl.
Alexander and BERTHE Diggs, boy.
John r. and Sarah Hawkins, boy.
John A. and Mary L. Anderson, boy.
DEATHS.
Henrietta n. Kelly. 90 years, The
Marion.
Charles schradsr. 90 years. U. s.
s. H. Hospital.
Powhatan Hall. SO years, No. 1SA
Tenth street northeast.
Christiana c. Coleman, 81 years, No.
s21 Florida avenue northwest.
George ID. Phillips, 80 years, No, I'll
I street northeast.
Mary e. Redding, ~ years, No. 732
Tenth street southwest.
Mary q. johnson, 10 years. No. SAT
Lamont street northwest.
Minnie c. Miller. IS yearA Garfield
Hospital.
Julia D. Egerton 50 years, No. ITS
California street northwest
Alive Vollmer. 6S years. Providence
Laura C. Burke, e5 years. No. el3
Sixteenth street northeast.
Randolph H. Western. years, No.
1909 Georgia avenue northwest.
Lula Walker, IS years, Galltnger Hos
pital.
Joseph James. months. Childrsn's
Hospital
Infant Of Leon and Anna Madden,
8 days, No. 1870 Howison place south.
west.
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FRANCIS-Suddenly. on Thursday. Au-
gust T. 1894, at his residence, BOG
East Capitol street. AUGUSTUS
WALKER FRANCIS, beloved husband
Of Nellie Entwistle Francis.
Funeral to be held at eG East
Capitol street, on Saturday, August Q,
Ct p. m. 1ntermsnt at Glenwood
HELTON-On August IL 1924, at II
p. M. at her residence, 0021 Fifteenth
street northwest, MARIAN v. Hell
TON. beloved wife Of Doctor A. r.
Helton ana mother OF Roy HOlton.
Funeral services At w. w. Cham
bers' funeral pariors. 140o Chaplin
street northwest, on Saturday, August
9. at $3.50 p. m. Intorment At Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
WALeON-On Thursday, August Z, 1924,
at her residenc0. 1888 North Carolina
avenue. ELIZA p. WATSON. widow
OF Charles r. Watson.
Funeral services at her late resi-
dence on Monday. August II, vt 1880
2. m. 1nterment At Arlington Gene
terry.
ZlMMERMAN-sudde at Peaks. Is
land. Portland. Me-, LILLE LEE ZIM-
MERRIAM, daughter Of the late Arch
tbald M. and Eliza r. Zimmerman.
Funeral from the residence Of Ro-
bert n. Zimmerman, 1126 b street
northeast on Saturday. August 8. at
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-17
Musical Warning Horns
Demanded by Parisians

Musical warning whistles for taxi
cabs and automobiles to replace the
honking horns and shrill sirens now
used are urged by group of promi-
nent Parisians who are trying to abol-
ish harsh noises in the French CAD
ital.
DR.. NJ. Marage, leader Of the move
ment, suggests that Paris follow the
example set by M. Herriot as mayor
of Lyons, where all the municipal
service autos are equipped with spe-
cial trumpetlike horn which warns the
pedestrians with series Of pleasant
musical notes. All the cars play the
same tune, consisting of a series OF
four notes selected by musical experts
after exhaustive tests as the most
pleasant for the human ear.
If this method is not adopted, M.
Mirage suggests that all Paris autos
carry two horns-one with shrili
sound for the country and suburbs.
and the other with deep bass tone
for the city.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-17
Transportation Is Big
Factor to All Farmers

The farm and highway transport are
closely bound together. The transport
tation of his product is a most impor-
tant factor in the success of the farm
er, for all the products of the farm
travel first over the highway. 1t has
been said the requirements of a good
farmer are:
l. The ability to make a comfort
able living from the land.
2. To rear family carefully and
well.
8. To be of good service to the COM
munity.
4. To leave the farm more pro,
ductive than when he took it.
Every one of these requirements is
affected by highway transportation.
Take the first: 1.-THE ability to make
comfortable living from the land"
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-17
ROAD :.
DING
SENATOR SAYS, SPEND
MONEY ON HIGHWAYS

1--WE have provided ourselves with
the motor vehicle rolling stock at
cost of many billions of dollars. and
we must now provide the tracks upon
which to operate it." said Thomas
Sterling, United States senator from
South Dakota and chairman of the
senate committee on post offices and
post roads, in making a plea for the
continuation of federal aid in recent
address.
After outlining the need for fed
eral appropriation of $1O0,O00,000 a
year for ten years and like appropri-
alton from the states If the system of
10000 miles of federal aid highways
is to be completed within ten years,
Senator Sterling stated that he could
not say just what congress would DO
When 1t is known that the whole
sale value Of automobiles and trucks
manufactured last year amounted to
over $2,500,000,000 and that the whole
sale value of tires manufactured
amounted to $76c,000,O00 and that we
spent over $1,000,000000 for automo-
bile parts and accessories, exclusive Of
tires" said Senator Sterling, ''it does
not sound unreasonable to propose that
we should spend at least $10O,000000
a year from the federal treasury and
an equal amount by the states in order
to complete our federal highway sys-
TEN within a reasonable length of
time
I'VE must not forget that the good
roads built under this system serve
even higher use than that Of the
tourist or of the visitor or those on
pleasure bent. We must think of the
commercial and economic advantages
of system of good roads, of what
they mean to the farmer, who, on such
roads and by means of the motortruck,
finds 1t easy and great saving of time
and expense to transport, not only his
grain, but his hogs and sheep or cattle
to market. Another consideration is
the enhanced value of his land due to
the good road at his door or nearby
One Of our great economic and COM
mercial problems is that of bringing
the market and the producer closer to-
gether."
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-17
DOING WHAT WE LIKE

ssT DON'T care for my work; 1t
doesn't suit me. If l could only
find something l liked and was inter
ested in, l think might get on" a
shiftless student said to to me.
AS he spoke / called to mind the
figure of an old man / had seen the
last time / passed through the country
town where l spent my childhood. He
was sitting on the station platform
whiting and watching the train go
through. He was bent, unshaven, I'M
kempt-the living picture of failure.
/ saw him first when / was seven
and he a strong young fellow OF thirty.
He was running the grain elevator
then with good business prospects, but
he didn't like it.; it did not seem to
suit him. He had talents. He sang
in the church choir, he lead the viii
Iage band, he presided at public meet
lngs. He gave up the elevator shortly
and opened a grocery store. He tried
farming and market gardening; he ran
a news stand; he was postmaster, but
he never put his best effort into any
one of these activities. because he was
not interested; he thought 1t was not
what he was cut out for. He couldn't
Just get down to it.
Fe drifted from Presbyterian to
Christian Science; his political favor
ties ranged from st. John and Grover
Cleveland to Theodore Roosevelt. He
stuck to no principle or profession. he
got nowhere because he could not find
anything that really held his interest
Men with half his talent and one
fourth of his opportunity far out
stripped him, and because he was never
willing to do well the thing at hand,
he found himself at seventy-fiye no
further than the station platform.
| see men like him every day. They
have opportunity to get training, but
they are not satisfied. they are look
ing for some more interesting, more
suitable, less exacting work. They
hold back or shift about with the hope
that they will discover some intel
lectual occupation that will thrill them
SO that they will go to 1t with con-
slant enthusiasm and without personal
effort. They fail because they can't
get what they like, not realizing that
1t is possible to learn to like almost
anything and obligatory to do our
work whether we like It or not.
No man gets anywhere who waits
until he is pleased before he does his
work. The man who succeeds does
more difficult, disagreeable, unpleas-
ant. uninteresting things than does
the average man. He doesn't whine
and look about for something soft-he
goes to 1t.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-17
Tax on Motor Vehicles
to Aid Better Highways

Owners of motor vehicles pay to the
Federal government in taxes each year
more than double the amount spent
by the government on account of fed
eral aid highway and forest road con-
struction, together with all admin
istrative outlays, according to Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace, who has
charge Of the administration of the
highway funds.
Since 1917 the government has been
collecting tax on the selling price
of motor vehicles, tires and automo-
bile accessories, and also a tax on the
use of passenger automobiles for hire.
On June 30, last year, $5S9,012. 021
had been collected from these sources.
Expenditure on highways by the gov
eminent in that time totaled 1854, 1872,
PIG. or 45 per cent of the amount
taken in.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-17
Open Windshield Ruins
Complexion of Drivers

Woman automobile drivers frequent
ly complain that driving simply ruins
the complexion" according to the pro-
prietor of a local beauty parlor." 1t
Is not the driving, nor the wind, nor
the sun that ruins the complexion, ac-
cording to the expert, but the fact that
so many women insist upon driving
with the upper panel of the windshield
open.
when woman drives car she
is inclined to open the upper half Of
the shield for two reasons" she COM
ments. First she wants the breeze,
and then sometimes the reflections In
the glass bother her vision. But it is
this very thing that rains the skin Of
the face. for fine particles OF road
dust are driven by the direct wind in
TO the pores. Detroit Motor News.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-17
SWAMP ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

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