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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
General Harms Rouse Queries
about Guarding of Rest of City
Reserve Trucks Called Into Service and Firemen
OF Duty Summoned. Plenty of Extra Hose
Held at All Engine Houses.

Did you ever stop to wonder what
happens in case of a second fire when
all the trucks have been called out
on general alarm?
Have you ever looked at a jam
Nee fires. when the hose was appar-
emily in an unsolvable tangle and the
trucks seemingly as badly mixed up,
and wondered how the Fire Depart
ment meets another simultaneous
emergency?
The same questions have been raised
by Fire Department officials and a
solution worked out.
With the sounding of a general
alarm, calling out practically every
piece of apparatus in the city, back
in Fire Department headquarters a
man gets busy on the telephone All
over the city go his calls summoning
to emergency duty all the men who
are at home on their days off" New
emergency companies are formed with
otflcers also off duty, pat in charge.
Hold Reserve Trucks.
In spite of the hand to mouth con-
dition of most of the supplies of the
District the Fire Department has
managed to accumulate four or five
reserve trucks. These trucks are
meant primarily for repIaceme
work when any of the regular equip
ment is temporarily laid up for re-
pairs.
With the sounding of general
alarm, they are restored to active
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
FRENCH PLAYS UNABLE
TO SUCCEED IN AMERICA
Handling of Themes and Lack of
Originality Believed Two
Reasons for Situation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 26.-The return OF
two French theatrical companies from
the United States has started a dis
cussion as to why the position of the
French stage in that country is so low.
No living French author, it IS pointed
out, can boast Of having conquered it,
although such a conquest is the secret
dream of most of them, as Eldorado
was once that of the Spanish adven-
turers.
Other nations can boast of successes,
IL nisoted, such as England with Ber-
nard Shaw, Italy with Pirandello, Ger
many with 1.-THE Miracle" Hungary
with 'The Swan" Czechoslovakia with
Capek and Russia with Stanislavsky
and Balief, so that Frances failure
connot be attributed to Americas not
welcoming foreigners.
The doings of the Theater Guild, the
Equity Theater, and the Provincetown
players are cited as proof that it can
not be said the French authors are too
intellectual for America. One sug-
gestion is that while many of the Amer
Jean plays are not lacking in audacity,
they rarely treat with disrespect the
idea of the family, whereas the French
theater habituaIly does exactly that. A
second handicap suggested is that the
French authors successes are largely
due to their mastery of dialogue and
that their themes are rarely novel or
greatly varied, whereas the American
demand is for plays in which the subject
Is not a mere accessory, but the thing
which counts most.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26

service, and the newly formed crews
assigned to them. These trucks are
dispatched to points so located as to
give the maximum protection to the
greatest area possible.
In every truck house is located
ample hose to take care of all re-
quirements. The average truck car
ries from 1,500 to $500 feet of hose.
Back in storage are from 800 to
1000 feet ready for emergencies and
to replace hose used in a fire while
the latter is being given time to dry.
Can Care For Several Fires.
The emergency trucks are loaded
up with this surplus hose at what
ever engine houses they are assigned
to.
In case the second fire should be
sufficiently serious to require more
than the reserve trucks, others are
detached from the big fire, abandon
ing their hose and proceeding to the
scene of the new blaze. En- route,
they stop at the most convenient en-
CINE houses and load up with fresh
stock.
No serious emergency has ARISEN
along this line, so far, but If you
have any fears, you may rest assured
that the Fire Department Is ready.
The present reserves can take care of
several minor fires during a general
alarm blaze and 1t is comparatively
seldom that the fires ever get beyond
the minor stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
HOTEL LAW COURT
TEST TO BE DELAYED
Absence of Counsel to Cause Con.
tinuance of Rate-Posting
Amendment Case.

The case set for tomorrow in Po-
lice Court to test the validity of an
amendment to an act of Congress
STIMULATING that the management of
hotel must post his rates in each
room and not raise them without the
authorization of the District Com
missioners will be continued one
week, owing to the absence of the
counsel, Edward F. Colliday, who at
present is in New York City.
Hotel managers in Washington be-
lieve that If the act is held valid il
virtually will give the Commissioners
the power of fixing rates and the
classification of a junior rent COM
mission.
Text of Amendment.
When the rent act, due to expire
May II. 1924, was continued for an
other year the following amendm ent
to the act was added:
Each and every hotel manager in
the District of Columbia shall keep
notice of its rates posted in each
guest room and upon a desire 10
raise said rates an application must
be made to the District Commission
ers, which, if approved, cannot be put
into effect until 80 days following,
and then a new schedule of rates
must be posted In each ROOM"
In a recent letter to the Commits
sioners from Townley T. Mckee,
president of the Hotel Mems Associa-
ton in the District of Columbia and
part owner of the Metropolitan Hotel
he requested that a test be made of
the law to ascertain its validity and
further, that the case be made against
his brother, Ralph Mckee, part owner
of the Metropolitan Hotel, in as much
as he is the manager.
I'm order to make the test case the
Metropolitan Hotel" the letter con-
cluded, respectfully declines to COM
ply with said act"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
WOMEN TO PRESS
PEACE AND DEFENSE
Conference Here Favors Enlargine
Training Camps to Enroll
100000 Youths.

A pledge to promote the cause of
peace and at the same time support a
policy of adequate national defense
"as the best peace Insurance." was
made by delegates representing 16
national women's organizations, with
total membership of a million, at
the closing session yesterday of the
Women's Conference of National De-
tense as Peace Insurance, at Ameri-
can Red Cross headquarters.
I'm the present unsettled status of
the world, living in the midst of ma
tional ambitions, jealousies and sus-
picions and hatreds," a resolution by
the conference said; eft would be puer-
lie and foolish to cast off the instru-
ments Of defense"
The conference also recognized the
necessity for vigilance in counter
acting the undermining of the 10y
atty and patriotic principle of the
youth Of the Nation" and as further
steps to strengthen national defense.
it recommended enlargement of the
citizens military training camps, now
having an enrolment of $4,000 youths,
to 100000, and the launching of a. Ma
tion-wide educational campaign with
respect to the national defense act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
SENATOR STANLEY GAINS
AT EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
Physician Says Injuries Inflicted
By Auto Will Prevent Active
Work for Present.

Senator A. o. Stanley of Kentucky,
who was struck by a hit-and-run
motorist early Tuesday, was reported
recovering today at Emergency Hos
pital, although suffering somewhat
from pains as a result of body
bruises. Dr. Daniel L. Borden, his
physician, stated, however, that it
would be some time before Mr.. Stan
ley's condition would permit him to
return to active pursuit of his duties.
Not a single clue has been uncov-
cred by the police of the first pre-
cinct in their search for the automo-
bile which knocked Senator Stanley
down at Fourteenth street and New
York avenue while he was crossing
the street early Tuesday morning.
Police, however, expect to locate
the taxicab driver who brought Sen
ator Stanley to the hospital in the
immediate future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
RADIO TENOR TAKEN
BACK TO ROCHESTER
Mario Cape1li, Who Sang Also in
Church, Faces Wife Abandon
ment Charge.

Mario Capelli, tenor, who was ar
rested after he had been singing for
radio fans through WCAP's studio,
and who sang at the First Congrega-
tional Church, which President Cool
idge attends, went back to Rochester
today in custody of Detective George
Sailer to answer charges of wife
abandonment.
According to Sailer these charges
include allegations that after having
used his wife's money to obtain and
develop his musical education, he de-
serted her. Sailer said that word of
Capelli's whereabouts was learned
through a clerk of the Rochester
Police Court, who was in Washington
sightseeing and noticed the announce
ment that Capelli would sing, dis
played in front of the First Congre-
gational Church. Knowing that a
warrant for his arrest was out, Sailer
said, the clerk communicated with the
police of Rochester,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
JUNIOR LEAGUE CHARITY
FILM TO BE PRESENTED
"The Man Without a Country -
Donated by William Fox for
Benefit Saturday Night.

Under auspices of the Junior League
of Washington and for the benefit of
local charities, the William Fox film
version of Edward Everett Hale's IA
nous story, The Man Without a
Country" will be shown in the ball
room of the New Willard Hotel Sat
urday evening at $3.50 o'clock. Mr..
Fox has specially donated the use of
his film production for this occasion.
The story of THE Man Withuot a
Country" concerns a young soldier
who, in a fit of evaporation, cursed
his country and her flag, and as a
penalty was forced to live his life on
first one and then another American
battleship that never touched at a
home port. Through the unf1inching
devotion of his sweetheart in youth
his pardon was ultimately secured by
her from President Lincoln. 1t is q
romance, tender as well as patriotic,
of the days of 1912.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
SPOTTY EGGS In LONDON.
Market Speciality Arouses Curios-
ity Until Cause Is Ascertained.
e OF the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON, February spotted
eggs have appeared in the London
markets recently in such numbers as
to arouse not only the curiosity OF
naturalists, but of food authorities
as well.
Investigation revealed that the
spotted eggs had been dipped in a
solution of coffee to give them a
brown tint and that in many In
stances, if left in the liquid for an
insufficient time, the eggs became
spotty after being withdrawn. 1t
often happens that eggs left in the
coffee solution long enough for the
browning process to be completed,
take on a coffee flavor.
While in some parts of the United
States white eggs bring the best
prices, it is the brown eggs which
for years have been sold in London
at a premium. 1t is only of late that
poultry dealers have taken to color
ing the shells with the coffee solu-
tom,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
c. &P. VALUATION
HEARING RESUMED
Item of So, 800, 900 in Dis
pute Today-Tax Assess
ment Taken Up.

The claim of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Co. for an item
of approximately S2,S00,000 for what
is known as going-concern value, in
it's total valuation, was one of the
subjects of inquiry when the Utilities
Commission today resumed hearings
in the telephone rate case.
Charles A. Robinson, chief engineer
of the company, testified that the go
ing concern value added to the physi-
cal value is made up of four items:
/, the cost Of organizing and training
the operating employees; 2, cost of at
taching or obtaining business; 3, cost
of maintaining completed plant until
each exchange is in operation. and 4,
cost of maintaining idle plant after
operation until all business is at
tached
Engineer Commissioner Bell, chair
man of the commission, and Maj. w.
+. r. Covell, his assistant, asked Mr..
Robinson numerous questions both as
TO the going concern claim and to the
methods he used in arriving al the
reproduction cost of the telephone
property.
Value Put at $25,OOO,O0O.
Dozier De Vane, attorney for the
company stated in answer to ques-
tion from Maj. Covell that the COM
pany will argue for a valuation of
approximately 100000 and that
the best evidence of value in this
case is Mr.. Robinsons estimate of the
reproduction cost less depreciation.
William NICK. Clayton, represent
ing the Federation of Citizens AS
sociations. requested that the com
mission consider not only the esti-
mated cost of reproducing the plant
but also the actual cost before de-
termining the present fair value for
rate making purposes.
When Maj. Covell inquired of Mr.
Robinson why the company acquired
vacant land at Georgia avenue and
Gallatin street, the witness stated
that the company expects to establish
a new exchange there son. 1t was
learned later that the new central of
fee will be started before the end OF
1925, and placed in service in 1926
to relieve the Columbia, Adams and
North exchanges
Enlargement Is Planned.
1t also developed at the hearing
that the company OWES a vacant lot
adjoining the main exchange or
Twelfth street between G. and II
streets because il expects to enlarge
that building within FIVE years
District AssesSo William p. Rich
ards took the stand at noon to explain
how he arrived at the assessments he
has placed on the telephone com.
pany'S real estate for taxation pur-
poses, which estimates totaled only
about half the estimated value placed
on the property by telephone wit
nesSes last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
10000 IN GOLD RUSH
IN SOUTHEAST SIBERIA
Excitement Causes Russia to Close
Camp and Restrict Operations
of Prospectors. :.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated fEeSs.
SEATTLE, Wash, February 26.-
Olaf Swenson, president of a whole
sale fur company here, who has just
returned from Vladivostok, said to-
day that 10000 miners have rushed
to the scene of a gold discovery in
southeastern Siberia $50 miles north
east of Blagoyyeschensk on the head
waters of the Aldon River, a tribu-
tary of the Lena
Owing to the great excitement
throughout Russia over the discovery
the Soviet government has closed the
camp, and no additional prospectors
are being permitted to enter" said
Swenson. mo person is allowed to
take out more than 5000 rubles and
no one can remain in the district
over four months.
Nine thousand rubles are con-
sidered quite a fortune and a number
of Russians are taking advantage
of the gold stampede. There are no
claims. The clean-ups are under gov
eminent supervision and exact records
are kept by government officials
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
COUGAR ATTACKS HUMANS
ONLY WHEN QUITE OLD
Mountaineers Relate Experiences
With Dangerous Animal of
Western America.
By the Associated Press.


SEATTLE, February 26.-Cougars Of
the mountains of Western America,
like tigers of the jungles of India.
don't kill human beings until too old
to obtain food otherwise, according
to pioneers in the Cascade and Olym-
pic Mountains. The views of these
oldtimers were given in a symposium
gathered by Seattle newspaper
after a cougar killed a small boy
near Wenatchee on the eastern side
of the Cascade Mountains in Wash
ington.
James Oberg related that 35 years
ago cougar followed him to his
fathers door. The elder Oberg killed
the animal, which proved to be senile
Another cougar that 80 years ago
fell upon child tagging behind his
parents on a trail had dull teeth and
claws worn to the fur. A post
norton showed nothing in the
stomach but part of leather halter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
S35O,ODO REPAv|NG
WORK BEGINS SOON
Wisconsin Avenue Project to
lnaugurate Big Street Re-
pairing Program.

Work will start Monday on one of
The most important paving items the
District has listed for this year the
resurfacing of Wisconsin avenue
from Massachusetts avenue to River
road, and the removal of the street
car tracks from the side to the mid
die of that thoroughfare. The project
is to cost $350,0OO, of which a part
will be borne by the Washington
Railway and Electric Co
This will mark the opening of the
Spring period of activity in the en-
sineering department of the District.
On Tuesday the Commissioners will
open bids for more than $500. 900
worth of street work. part of which
Is provided for in the current law and
the balance to be made available in
the new bill now in conference at the
Capitol.
Work Ia Be Pushed.
While most of the money in the,
new District bill will not be available
until July /. funds for street work
are made available as soon as Presi-
dent Coolidge signs the measure. Bids
are being sought early SO that as
much of the work as possible may be
done during the Spring and Summer
months.
The sewer, water and street light
ing departments also will become ac
tive from now on, laying mains and
installing new lamp posts.
Between now and June ! the Sewer
Department will spend SITS, 900 in
making extensions to the Rock Creek
and the upper Potomac main inter
ceptors, portion of the Piney
Branch sewer, the Twenty eighth
street sewer and the Fourteenth
street replacement sewer.
Water Service Extensions.
With a deficiency fund of $4,000
Congress adjourns, the Water De-
partment will continue to extend
water service to new houses and also
will make extensions to a number OF
trunk mains this Spring.
A tentative plan for improved
street lighting contemplates install
lation of double light posts on Penn
sylvania avenue from Fifteenth to
Seventeenth streets and the placing
of new lights on the following streets
a s rapidly as funds become availab le:
H street, Fourth northwest to FIT
teenth northeast; Sixteenth, H to
Alaska avenue; Conn ecticut avenue
and Seventeenth street, Pennsylvania
avenue to the District line, Rhode
Island avenue, Iowa circle to Fourth
street northeast, and Massachusetts
avenue, Union station plaza to Wis
consin avenue.
Clifford Lanham, superintendent of
trees and parkings, plans to place
1000 new trees along the streets of
the city this Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
EQUITABLE BUILDING
DEAL REPORTED ON
$35, 100000 to $4,000, 900 Said to
Have Been Offered for
Gotham Structure.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February 26.-The
New York Herald-Tribune learns that
negotiations are under way for the
purchase by a banking group of the
Equitable Building at 120 Broadway,
one of the worlds largest Office struc-
lures. The reported price under con-
sideration is between S35,000,00 and
$40, 100000, making the prospective
sale the largest single real estate
transaction ever recorded here.
Hayden, Stone & Co. and an uniden-
titled banking firm, the newspaper
says 1t has learned. have been nego-
tiating with the present owners of
the building, and prospects for the
sale are bright"
T. Coleman du Pont is reported to
hold a controlling interest in the
Equitable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
CONVICT YOUNG BEAUTY.
Baltimore Jurors Hold Diamonds
Obtained by False Pretenses.

BALTIMORE, Md, February 26.-
Mrs. Mabel Moore, 20 years old and
pretty, was found guilty of false
pretenses" in Criminal Court yester-
day in obtaining two diamond brace-
let's, valued at $4,000, from local
jeweler. The jury recommended
mercy Sentence was suspended
pending motion for a new trial.
Mrs Moore pawned one of the
bracelets a few minutes after she
bought 1t. She got $500 for it, al
though its market value was $4,000.
According to her own story, it was
not until she had bought the brace
lets that she decided to leave home.
Mrs. Moore went to Los Angeles,
where she was arrested. During the
trial it developed that Mrs. Moore
has a small child and that she is sep
arated from her husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26

The Tidal Basin yesterday gave up
the body of James Jeffries, 32-yar-old
baiIiff at Police Court. who had been
missing from his home 1905 NJ street
since January H.
r. II. Stockton of 520I Illinois ave-
nue., passing around the Tidal Basin
saw what he thought to be the head
and shoulders of a body floating on
the surface. He notified the police.
The body was taken to the morgue.
where Samuel Hill of the firm of
Moore & Hill real estate brokers.
identified it as that of Jeffries.
Jeffries was a war veteran, wounded
twice during his three years overseas
service His condition, according to
friends, produced a melancholy state
of mind.
Since his disappearance a search
was instituted under supervision of
Inspector c. l.. Grant, at the Detec-
tive Bureau, which extended into
virtually all large cities of the coun-
try. Inspector Grant was authorized
by Mrs. Louis Antonsante of Porto
Rico, sister of the deceased, to offer
$500 reward for information as to his
whereabouts.
Coroner hewitt issued certificate
of suicide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
WINDOWS GO UNWASHED
FOR SIX HUNDRED YEARS
Plea Made for Funds to Preserve
Antique Glass in York
Minister of Hull.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.


HULL, England. February q
There are windows in the York Min
ster of Hull which have not been
washed in more than 500 years, 1t
was announced recently by the Dean
of York in making an appeal for a
local fund for the preservation of
these antiques which are still in ac-
tive service. There is no collection
of English glass in the world ap-
proachig that at York Minister. said
the Dean, and If the public allowed
these windows to disappear their
like would never be seen again.
Some OF the windows which have
been in place for six centuries were
being cleaned for the first time, the
Dean asserted. and it had been found
that the belief that washing might
destroy the mellowing effect of time
on the glass was without foundation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
INSULIN SEEN AS AGENT
FOR CURE OF DIABETES
Scientists Believe Purified Product
Will Prove Invincible in Eradi-
eating, the Disease.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSocla TED Press.
PASADENA, Calf, February ga
positive cure for diabetes through
elimination of impurities in so-called
pure insulin, is being Sought here at
the California Institute of Technology
by DR.. John J. Abel, professor of
pharmocology and physiological chem
istry of Johns Hopkins University.
For some time physicians and scien-
lists have been administering insulin
believing it to be pure, said DR.. Abel
Recently he found that even the
purest contained foreign materials.
He then obtained leave of absence and
came here to continue his search for
means of eliminating these i'm
purities.
If 1t is possible to obtain insulin In
an absolutely pure and free state, its
effect on the human body will be far
more positive than it IS at the pres
ent time, DR.. Abel said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-26
HABEAS CORPUS IDEA
SUSTAINED IN DENMARK
Ministry of Justice overru1ed in
Interning Alleged Offender
Without Trial.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, February 26-The
recent action of the ministry of Justice
in ordering informed, without further
trial, a prisoner who had served four
terms for immoral conduct, has
reused a demand for more specific
legislation dealing with this class of
offenses. The Superior Court of Copen-
hagen ruled that the ministry of JUS
tice had no authority under the law
to impose internment without a trial,
and ordered the man released and
compensated to the amount of 1,2O0
crowns.
The case created a profound sensa-
ton throughout Denmark and numer-
gus prominent persons have been out
spoken in their approval of drastic
action with regard to offenders
against public morality. The author,
Olga Eggers, in an open letter de-
clared that the whole people ought
to send the ministry vote of thanks"