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Evening star., 1925-02-22
BUS LINE TEST SUIT
PROPOSED BY BELL
Commissioner Writes Sena'
tor Copeland Utilities Body
Invites Friendly Action.

A test case in court to settle the
question of the Utilities Commissions s
authority to grant bus lines to street
railway companies was suggested as
a possibility by Engineer Commits
sioner Bell, chairman of the commits
sion, in letter to Senator Copeland
last night.
The Senator, a week ago, wrote to
Col. Bell, challenging the legal power
of the commission to authorize the
trolley companies to enter the motor
bus business.
In reply Col Bell declared the COM
mission disagrees with the view
taken by Senator Copeland. and add
ed that the commission would be glad
to cooperate with any one in a
friendly suit to settle the issue.
VIII Not Present Arguments.
Col. Bell told the Senator he would
not present legal arguments for the
following reasons:
The street railway corporations
are at present operating IL bus lines
under permits issued by the Public
Utilities Commission during the past
three years. 1t is evident that should
the Commission now hold that these
permits were issued illegally and are
therefore void, 1t would result. in an
action in court by the street railway
corporations to protect their capital
invested in these busses.
Feeders to Car Lines.
Moreover, many of our citizens
would protest the withdrawal of their
motor bus service. These bus lines
are operated in general as feeders to
the street railway systems, with
transfer privileges. They were op-
Grated last year at net loss Of s54,-
S48.47. 1t is manifest that no indie
pendent bus line could replace this
service.
1T is clear that this matter must
be settled in court if 1t be pressed,
Continued on Page 4, Column 3.)
Evening star., 1925-02-22

Mr.. Borglum said there were no
funds available to distribute the
coins he had designed as a tribute
to the South from the North and
from which money was to, be de-
rived for carrying on the memo
rial project. More than a million
of these already had been .minted,
he said.
'"The sad, destroying fact is,' he
asserted. "the South as a whole
is not building the memorial. is
not guiding the building Of the
mem orial; the South is not even
properly informed or made a part
of the memorial council"
The sculptor said he would not
"even consider the abandonment
of so splendid thing" His
statement did not make clear
where the Opposition" was COM
ing from, but-charges there were
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1925-02-22
ARRIVING THRONGS
FORECAST CROWD
FOR INAUGURATION
Committee Permits Erection
of Reviewing Stand Before
the White House.

Washington has begun to prepare
in earnest for the quadrennial duty
of formally inducting into Office an
other new administration for the
Nation.
with the inauguration of Pres i'd ent
Coolidge and Vice President Dawes
only 10 days distant, the next few
days will see the city once more
donning its familiar attire of en-
blematic bunting and getting ready
for the enthusiasm that is an insep-
arabic part of every Inauguration, de-
spite a policy to hold the celebration
within the bounds of modest sim
plicity.
Vanguard Pouring In.
Undeterred by official announce
nlents both from the White House
and the chairman of the Washington
committee that the inauguration of
President Coolidge will not be snowy.
the vanguard of the army Of citizens
which is coming from every corner
of the Nation to see or participate in
the ceremony has begun already to
pour through the gates Of Union
Station.
AS a result. the dozen or more
committees entrusted with the care
of these visitors have begun to press
into existence eleventh-hour plans
more in keeping with the size of
the crowd which has announced it's
intention of "whooping things up a
bit anyhow" Most important of these
is a decision, reached late yesterday,
to build at least one public review
ing stand in front of the White House.
Stand to Accommodate 5000.
After once voting not to erect any
stands along Pennsylvania avenue in
front of the White House and turning 6
down a number of offers from private
individuals to build seats along lower
portions of the avenue, the committee
yesterday accepted an offer from a
local contractor to construct a stand
with a minimum capacity of 1000
chairs. The stand will be operated
by the builder.
Col. Frederick A. Fenning, secre-
tary of the Washington committee,
said that the stand probably will be
built to hold 5000 persons. The COM
mittee specified that no seat in the
stand may be sold for more than
$3.50, including war tax, except
boxes. which may bring $3.50 a seat,
also including war tax. Additional
stands may be constructed along
Pennsylvania avenue below Fifteenth
street.
Tickets for the seats in the Lafay-
ette Square stand will be on sale at
the Washington committees head
quarters, in the Gridiron Club room
of the Willard Hotel beginning
Thursday morning. This arrange
ment was made for the convenience
of the city's guests, who also are
swarming into headquarters for tick
cts to the concert that is to be given
in the Washington Auditorium on the
evening of Inauguration day.
Rudolph to Take Part in Parade.
1t was announced that Commits
sioner Cuno H. Rudolph will appear
in the parade, representing the Dis
trict in the second division with the
Continued on Page 4, Column II
Evening star., 1925-02-22
CAPITAL TO HONOR
FOUNDER Of NATION
City-Wide Demonstrations
Are Arranged Tomorrow as
Tribute to Washington.

Washington, the city, will lead the
Nation tomorrow in paying homage
to Washington, the man, commemo-
rating the 193d anniversary of his birth
with impressive ceremonies sponsored
by patriotic societies, civic organiza-
tions and representatives of public
and private life Of the Nations Capt.
tai.
While the wheels of Government
business and private industry remain
motionless for the day, because they
could not properly show such respect
today, and in compliance with a
proclamation issued by the Commits
sioners of the District Of Columbia, un-
usually extensive exercises will take
place in appropriate parts of the city.
so closely identified with the life of
the country's first President.
Although two organiZations-the
Washington National Monument So
ciety and the Society OF Natives OF
the District of Columbia-will lay
wreaths today at the base OF the
great memorial shaft on the Mall
for which the former body Is the
honor guard, the round of observances
will begin publicly tomorrow at 1890
am, with Simultaneous celebrations
by organizations whose members
proudly claim descent from revolu-
tfonary ancestors-one at the Audi
torium. under auspices of the Sons of
the Revolution in the District of CO.
lumbia, with II other groups par
ticipating. and the other in Memorial
Continental Hall, under joint aus
pices of the District-of Columbia So
ciety of the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Daughters of the
American Revolution and the Children
of the American Revolution.
Tributes at Noon
Half an hour later the Association
of Oldest Inhabitants of the District
of Columbia, in accordance with an
nual custom, will hold a patriotic
meeting in the Union Engine House,
Ninteenth and H streets, and at noon
another series of memorial tributes
will be rendered, viz, the reading Of
Washington's Farewell Address be-
fore the Senate by Senator Ashurst
of Arizona, the laying of a wreath
on the statue of George Washington
in Washington Circle by Commits
sioner Cuno H. Rudolph, and the
holding, at the La Fayette Hotel of
the annual memorial services of the
District of Columbia Society. S. A. r.
Continued on Page 4, Column p
Evening star., 1925-02-22
HERRIOT WINS FIGHT
FOR NIGHT SESSIONS
French Premier Gains Point and
Stirs Wrath in Demand for
Action on Budget.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 21.-Premier Her
riot, after delivering an ultima tum to
the Chamber of Deputies demanding
g. night session for work on the bud
get, won his point this evening by a
vote of 119 to 58.
The opposition, noting absence of
many governmental supporters,
sprang a surprise. attack on M. Her
riot by insisting upon a public in
dividual ballot by roll call, thus pre-
venting deputies from voting for
their colleagues by proxy. The op-
position at the moment was in the
majority in the house.
Government followers. hurriedly
summoned by telephone, began ar
riving in evening clothes, and dinner
Jackets and with intensely angry ex-
pressions on their faces at being dis
turbed at their dinner. or theater en-
gagements. They were jeered by the
opposition.
The first ballot brought no quorum,
but 1t was not long before the gov
ernment was in the ascendency.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
H0UGHTON LEAVES BERLIN

BERLIN, February 21.-Baron Won
Nathan, the new German Ambassador
to Washington; Foreign Minister
Stresemann, virtually all the mem
bers of the cabinet, British Ambassa-
dor Lord d'Abermon and representa-
tives of all the foreign embassies in
Berlin, as well as many members of
the American colony. were at the sta
tion tonight to say farewell to Ameri-
can Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton
and his daughter Matilda, who left
for st. Moritz.
They are joining Mrs. Houghton for
a fortnight's vacation before Mr..
Houghton enters upon his new duties
az the successor of Ambassador Ksl-
1ogg ut LonAen,
Evening star., 1925-02-22
TODAY'S STAR
PART ONE-3e PAGES.

General News-Locai, National, Foreign.
Veterans Of the Great War-Page Is.
Civilian Army NeWs-Page 18.
You and Uncle Sam-Page 18.
w. c. r. U.-Page 1s.
At the Community Centers-Page 1s.
Parent Teacher Activities-Page 1e.
Serial, 1.-The Astonishing Adventure of
Jane Smith"-Page n.
Schools and coIleees-Paees 22 and %.
Current News Events-Paee %.
Radio News and Programs-Pages 26
and 27.
New Radio Station Directory-Paue II.
FraternaI News-Page 2s.
Girl Scouts-Page %.
District National Guard-Paoe 2e.
Boy Scouts-Page 2e.
Financial News-Pages 80 and 81.
PART TwO-12 PAGES.
Editorials and Editorial Features.
Washington and Other Society.
Tales OF Well Known Foik-Paee 9.
o. A. r. Activtes-Paee 10.
News Of Women's cIubs--Page IL.
Notes Of Art and Artists-Paee t2.
Around the city-Page t2.
PART THREE--Ie PAGES.
Amusem and the Photo
play.
Music in Washirston-Page 5.
Motors and Motoring-Paees 6, and g.
Reviews Of New Books-Pase 9.
PART FOUR PAGES.
Pink Sports Section.
PART FTVE-S PAGES.
Magazine Sectjon-Fietion and Features
The RambIer-Paee 3.
PART SIX-S PAGES.
Classified Advertising.
Army and Navy News-Paee 8.
Y. w. c. A. News-Paee 8.
GRAPHIC SECTIONS PAGES.
World Events in Pictures.
COMIC SECTION PAGES.
Mr.. Straphanger; Regular Feiiers; Mr..
and Mrs.; Mutt and JEFF.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
43 MINERS BODIES
FOUNDAT SULLIVAN;
8 OTHERS SOUGHT
Rescue Workers Toll On After
Obstacles Are Mastered.
Relief Fund Open.
France Points to Need.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SULLIVAN, Ind. February 21.-Rapid
progress was made tonight in the re-
moval of bodies from the City Coal Co.
explosion wrecked mine.
Rescue workers penetrating one OF
the entries In which most of the miners
were trapped had recovered all but
eight of theS fifty-one victims Of the
blast that damaged the mine Friday
morning.
sngging Roof Impedes Work.
For Il time this afternoon rapid
progress was made in bringing out
the bodies. The rescue workers had
succeeded in improving the ventila-
ton system and in clearing away
debris, but the crumbling walls and
sagging roof this evening again put
obstacles in their path.
Bodies brought out during the day
were so badly burned Identified
tion was difficult and several were
identified enormously. Relatives
however, through scrutiny of bits of
clothing or trinkets, were able to
make positive recognition this eve-
ming.
Thus far all officials have directed
their efforts towards rescue work and
have refraincd from taking any ac-
tion toward investigation of the
causes of the disaster. Albert Daily,
State mine inspector, explored the
wrecked portion of the shaft as far
as possible today, but declared he
had no thought of inQuiring into the
explosion until the bodies are on top
of the ground. Norval K Harris
Sullivan County prosecutor, has in
dicated that grand jury investiga-
tion is an improbability. All other
county officials, through their long
experience in the coal fields, are in
clined to accept the disaster as one
that may come at any time in con-
nection with such hazardous occu-
patton as mining.
Relief Fund Started.
Relief for families of the victims
was uppermost in the thoughts of
Sullivan citizens. A relief fund was
started and committee appointed to
coordinate the work of rendering
assistance. Steps were taken also to
obtain prompt settlement of claims
under the workmen's compensation
law Although these claims will ag-
gregate more than 100000, the
workmen's compensation insurance
carried by the mine would take
care of the entire amount, officials
declared.
Funeral services for some of the
victims will be held tomorrow and
others will be buried on Monday.
Separate services have been arranged
for each
Thousands of persons houndered
through fields ankle deep in mud to-
day to get glimpse of the mine.
Intermittent rains also failed to
check the sightseers
A little band of relatives maintained ed
a faithful watch at the mine mouth,
apparently with a despairing hope
that some OF those underground
might be brought up alive. Two
undertaking establishments to which
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column q
Evening star., 1925-02-22
BY WILLIAM BIRD.

by hadlo TO The Star.
PARIS, February 21-Ambassador
Kellogg is speeding to Washington
with plans elaborated between him
self and the British foreign secretary
Austen Chamberlain, for another
Washington disarmament conference.
III continental and Asiatic powers
agree, the conference this time may
attempt to regulate submarine fleets
as we'll as land armies
1t is declared in London that Mr.
Chamberlain will personally attend
such conference if 1t is held during
the coming Summer. Here in Paris
opinions are reserved until a clearer
statement of the objects of the con-
terence is made known.
In Air for Months
This project has been discussed in
cessantly in diplomatic circles. The
most important fact is that there
have been numerous exchanges of
views between the French and jap
anese governments, which are agreed
that the question of submarine
strength cannot be regulated in the
same manner as battleship ratios
namely, by using existing strength as
a basis.
Both Japan and France have ex-
tenslve plans for increasing the num-
Der or their submarines and both in
Evening star., 1925-02-22
Stone Mountain Project Threatened
By Poverty and Jealousy, Borglum Says

G.utzon Borglum, the sculptor,
who is carving a huge memorial
to the Confederacy on the face of
Stone Mountain in Georgia, an
nounced in statement here last
night that no funds remained for
carrying out his work, and that
the association created to pro-
mote the project has "shrunk into
a local habitation with scarcely a
name
Mr.. Borglum, who is in Wash
ington in connection with financ-
ing the memorial, said the time
limit on the present central group
in the work is expiring, and that
mo approach has been made" to
meet his wishes or those of the
owner of the mountain that jus
tifies further cession of granite"
There is no contract with me
to complete the work" he said,
NOR is the agreement in existence
equitable, fair or even carried out
as II is" Al
Evening star., 1925-02-22
YOUTH HELD IN EXT0RTlON
PLOT AGAINST WOMEN
Kenneth Wiltshire Arrested as He
Was Receiving "$5, 600" From
miss Longfellow in Cambridge.
Z the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass, February 21.
Kenneth Wiltshire, 10, whom the
police charge with authorship of ex-
tortion letters sent to three prominent
Cambridge women during the last
three months, was ~aFresssd tonight on
bridge where he had kept an ap-
pointment with a messenger boy who
was to have delivered $4,000 from
Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Miss Longfellow had received sew
eraI extortion letters. Acting on in
structions from the police and COM
plying with the directions of the let
ters she sent a messenger boy with
a package to the bridge.
Wiltshire rode a bicycle to the ap-
pointed place and after accepting the
package was arrested on the charge
of threatening to kill. In default of
$500 bail he was locked up.
He is lame. and in that respect
answers the description of the man
described in earlier letters as the
one to whom the money should be
paid.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
FRANCO GERMAN TRADE
PACT SEEMS ASSURED
Viewpoint of Both Countries Be-
Eeved Conciliated as New
Formula Is Found.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. February 21.-Negotiations
on the Franco German commercial
agreement. which have been going
on for the past three months with
Indifferent success and threatened
rupture, again assumed a more opti-
mistio aspect today. The French
minister of commerce, M. Raynaldy,
and the head of the German dele
gates, Herr Trendelenburg, appear to
have reached a new formula which
conciliates the French and German
viewpoints. 1t is thought that they
probably will be enabled to draft a
-protocol agreement covering both a
modus vivendi and the final treaty.
The next plenary meeting is fixed
for February rs. In the meantime
the two delegations will work on the
new suggestions.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
ITALY BOMBS SHIP.
Four Hits Registered by Planes
Test to Be Repeated.

CAMPANIA. Italy. February 21.-
During airplane bombing experiments
here today. a ship was bombarded
from planes at an altitude of slightly
more than 3.100 feet, the bombs strik-
ing the target four times out of f1ve
The experiments are to be repeated
with movable target.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
''Fr0n Press to Home
Within the Hour

The Star is delivered every evening and
Sunday morning to Washington homes at
90 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000
and service will start Immediately
Evening star., 1925-02-22

Continued on Page s, Column 81
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: Continued on Page 2, Column 81
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-10-22
REvOLUTIONIZING FARM PLEASURES

"The United States is fairly blanketed with
radio service so that the farmer, anywhere,
merely has to choose and tune in on what he likes
best With superpower stations this will be in
creasingly true.
After the days work, when the supper dishes
are cleared away, the farmer and his family can
gather around the open fire in winter and listen
to the music of Grand OPERA conscious the while
that the voice of the prima donna reaches them
by radio before it is heard in the Diamond Horse
SHOE or in the back row of the orchestra circle for
such is the speed of radio as compared with the
speed of sound waves.
Il believe that radio has greater application to
the farm and to farm life than to any other phase
of our national life Gen ]. G. Harboard Pres
Radio Corporation of America
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-10-22
IMPROVED FARM CONDITIONS

The improved purchasing power of the farmers
this fall will do much to uphold the general eco
nomic we-being of the nation through the
winter.
Cotton producers will receive approximately
S1,500000000 for their crop and wheat farmers
near 81, 000,O00,O00, both about the same as last
year.
This is the second fairly profitable year for the
farmers and will go long way toward leveling up
regional conditions
Evening star., 1925-04-13
CHAPTER v.
L Consent to My Arrest.

] cannot clearly remember what !
did at the moment. 1 seem to see
myself, q man of stone, with the re-
ceiver to my ear, listening vainly for
some further sound, all my faculties
strained toward that unknown room
where Beatrice had suddenly ceased
to speak. So intense was the effort
that it left me weak and trembling
The first concrete thing to break in
upon that awful moment was the
voice of the concierge.
What is il. monsieur" he asked
in astonishment. Are you iil?"
I pushed past him and dashed up
the stairs, repeating mechanically,
Beatrice! My God, Beatrice"
Halfway up 1 encountered De
Blanchegarde and Rehmy descending.
II must have been looking quite
CHASTITY, for, before 1 could speak,
CASTOR cried:
MY poor friend! What has hap
pened?"
They've got Beatrice 1 said.
"Beatrice?' he repeated.
He was for a moment at loss, not
remembering her part in the story.
The lady who took the document
to Lavelle," said Rehmy, who never
forgot details.
Castor, with his quick instinct for
romance, at once knew that Beatrice
was more to me than a casual friend
He pressed my hand impulsively.
Usontin1Ied in TomorroWTs Star
Evening star., 1925-04-13
BALL0U SEEKS OPINIONS
ON COMMERCIAL COURSE
Calls Georgetown Organizations to
Discuss Proposed Innovation
at Western.

Representatives of the civic and
school organizations of Georgetown
have been invited by Supt of Schools
Frank w. Ballou to confer with him
at Franklin School tomorrow afternoon
at $50 o'clock on the plan to intro
duce commercial course at Western
High School
AT the meeting of the Board of
Education held January 21," said a
notice sent to the organizations by
Dr.. Ballou, "the board approved the
proposal to introduce q commercial
course at Western High School, be-
ginning September, 1925. Since that
time some citizens associations have
Endorsed this proposal and others
have asked that the matter be re-
considered
The organizations invited to send
delegates to the conference include
the Georgetown Citizens Association
West End Citizens Association.
Western High School Home and
School Association, Burleith Citi-
zens' Association and Cathedral
Heights Citizens Association
Evening star., 1925-04-13
BY FRANCIS BEEDNG
copyright. 1925, BY Little. Brewa a Co }

| went down through the deserted
and silent building, still numb with
the shock of our discovery.
AS l went UP to his desk, the con-
cierge was just hanging up the re-
| ceiver after informing the police.
With some dificulty ! got through
to the pension where Beatrice was
staying and inquired for Mile. Har-
vel. L was informed, to my amaze
ment, that Mile. Harvel was i'll.
''Hl?" 1 exclaimed, taken with a
sudden deadly fear. Are you sure
of that?'
proprietress, "but hospital nurse
| and a doctor have just called and are
even now in the hall, asking TO be
taken to her room. You may speak
TO Mile. Harvel yourself, if you like
And before l could say another
word she had put me through TO
Beatrice's sitting room, which Bea-
trice shared in common with two
other girl friends, and which pos
sessed a telephone.
A moment later l heard her voice.
Its Tom speaking" ! began hur-
riedly. Are you all right. Beatrice?' %
Quite all right. Tom. So you got
safely away?"
a
proprietress Of your pension has just
told me you are ill.,
Nonsense. / was never better"
We'll, she says there's a hospital
nurse and doctor inquiring for you
downstairs"
Impossible. Tom"
Are you alone?"
Yes"
Listen, Beatrice" L said, earnestly
Don't on any account let anybody
come into your room: Do you under
stand? Nobody at all, on any pre-
text whatever-at least, not until
have seen you myself. l shall prob
ably come around or send you a mes
sage within the next half hour. Mean
while, can you tell me anything
about the document / left with La
velle?"
He worked upon it before dinner
DO you know what he did with it
afterward?"
Yes. He put 1t safely away
] hesitated g. moment, but decided
almost at once not to tell Beatrice
yet about the murder.
Then you know where the docu-
ment Is conceaIed?'
Yes, Tom. Is it safe, do you think,
to tell you on the telephone?"
w must TlSk II. must get nOtO
Of that paper at once
We'll, it's rather amusing. We
wondered what would be the safest
place, and we hit on one at last that
was absolutely sure. Even if you
knew where it was, 1t would take at
least a month to find it,"
rs it somewhere in the secre-
| tariat?"
yes"
Does anybody. except LavelIe
know where IL is?"
waited anXiously for her reply.
Nobody in the world" she an
swered, except, of course, your hum
BILE servant"
Beatrice" I said, Il must get the
document Immediately, and Lavelle
cannot for the moment be found.
want you to tell me at once where
1t is concealed"
Certainly, Tom" she replied. ''You
will find the document
And then ] heard the fall of q
telephone receiver to the floor, a sort
of gulp and thin, strangled cry
followed by utter silence.