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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
MUSCLE SHOALS
VOTE IS DUE
|lSENhT
Underwood Measure IS *
pected to Pass-Jones
Plan to Be Final
BY KENNETH CLARK,
International News Service.

The Underwood Muscle ShoaI:
bill faced its first big test il
the Senate today. Under a unani'
nous consent agreement, the up.
per chamber was to vote on The
measure at 4 o'clock.
For five weeks, the bill, into
which has been incorporated
amendments by Secretary of War
Weeks, has been knocking around
the Senate chamber. It would
carry out in general the Muscle
Shoals recommendations of Presi-
dent Coolidge, that is, providing
for governmental operation of the
project only after every effort
had failed to lease it to private
interests.
Measure lis Substitute.
Under the provisions of the bill,
the Secretary of War would have
until September to consummate
a lease. That failing, the property
would be run by the government.
The measure came before the
Senate for a vote as a substitute
for the Norris straight out govern.
mental ownership bill, reported
favorably by the Agriculture COM
lnlttee, which previously rejected
the offer of Henry Ford.
Chief difference between the
Norris and Underwood plans, inso-
far as government operation is
concerned, is that Norris would
stress the development and distribu-
ton OF power at Muscle Shoals
while Underwood would lay the
greatest emphasis on the manu-
facture of fertilizer.
Party Lines Give Way.
Party lines were smashed on the
ballot lineup today. Consistent
administration Senators planned to
support the Underwood bill. Pro
gressives and number of Demo
Gratis were united in opposition,
favOring the Norris bill.
Should the, Underwood bill pass,
many administration S.Alators an
nounced they would Immediately
join in a move to adopt the Jones
plan, referring the whole question
to a special commission for years
further study and investigation.
This commission would consist of
the Secretaries of War and Agricul-
ture and q third member appointed
by President Coolidge. 1t wotld
have to report back next December
recommendation for disposing of
Muscle Shoals.
Margin to be Close.
Indications pointed to passage of
the Underwood bill by fairly close
and then adoption Of the
Jones plan.
Senator Norris, (Rep.), of Nebraska.
that chances for the Under.
wood bill were better than even.
1.-THE Underwood bill may be sub.
stituted for my bill today but it
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KIN GIVEN BULK
Of TWO D. c.
ESTATES
Servant is 6equeathed 5000
and Bedroom Suite in Will
Of Emma r. White

Emma r. White, who died Janu-
airy 5, by her will dated May is,
1924. filed for probate today, leaves
$4,000 to her sister, Lillian G..
Spangler; $1,000 each to her nephew,
Charles S. Dakin and her grand
niece, Ruth l.. Dakin Daisy Pull
press, a servant, is rendered with
$500 and suit of walnut bedroom
furniture. The rest of the estate is
to go to a niece. Nellie r. Carver,
who is named executrix.
The Farmers and Mechanics Ma
tional Bank of Georgetown, named
executor OF the viii of Heman
White Chaplin, who died December
26, last. today asked that the will
be probated and that letters tesa.
menary be issued. The esate IN
cludes premises at 1922 Thirty-first
street northwest. valued at $4,000:
furnishings. $4,000; stocks and
bonds. 100000; life insurance policy.
S. 900. and cash in bank, $15.S6.
The next of kin and heirs are three
children, Christine Chaplin. OF New
York; Lieutenant Robert T. Chaplin,
of the United States army, and
Henry d. Chaplin, of New York.
The will bears date of September "A,
1923.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08

Carrying $32,335, s27, D. c,
Measure Is S.. 600, 900
Above Last Year

The largest District appropria-
ton bill in history, carrying in
creases over the record Budget Blu
reau recommendation Of so $685.
SGT, probably will We reported 70
The House SATURDAY 81 early next
week. BY the House Appropria-
tons Committee.
The Increases allowed By the
committee, II Is understood, will
bring the total for tile District to
approximately $6,0OO,OO0 above
the total carried in appropriations
for the current fiscal year.
Lump Sum Plan. Urged.
The bill, 1t Ii stated, is based
upon the appropriation OF a $4,000
900 lump sum from the Federal
Treasury rather than upon the ifs.
cal ratio plan, discarded during the
last session Of Congress.
An effort to establish the lump
sum plan as permanent legislation
will be made at the present session
OF Congress.
Congressman Louis C. Cran1ton
OF Michigan. author Of the lump
sum provision in the last appro.
priation bill for the District, has
introduced a bill fixing the lump
sum as the permanent plan for the
guidance of Congress.
The Cramton bill, referred today
to the House District Committee,
also provides for the crediting to
the District of its surplus revenues
OF $4,438, 1892, now held in the
Federal Treasury.
The District appropriations sub
committee concluded it's hearings on
the local supply bill yesterday after
noon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08

Whether or not an attic is par
ticularly provocative of poetry
hardly anyone knows. Ask to ex-
plain why. poets preferred the
dusty caves to the more comforta-
BILE quarters, Moore declared that
he could not: the question of ex-
pense, he. said. was the prime fac
tor in garreteering.
One year ago Moore spent the
winter in a garnet in New Orleans
in the Pontalbo building, overlook.
ing the Old Squrae, in the French
Quarter. While there a coterie OF
Bohemians was formed, of which
Moore was the central figure. This
group. styling themselves the
"Quidnuncs," set about to launch
fugitive magazine to be called
lie Vieux Care"
A stranger coterie perhaps never
existed in America. There was
Tufick Saba, an Assyrian artist,
whose charcoals have recently &C.
casioned considerable comment;
George Thielscher. a young Ger
man: Dialmia Belvedere. Spanish
Italian born in Algiers; Neff Harris
man, author; William Long, art
list: Dorothy Day. author of The
Eleventh Virgin" Patricia Talbot
short story writer: Emile Fazende,
composer and authority on Voodoe
ism and Creole legends: Rosemary
Miller, dancer and model: and IA
long list of other odd Bohemians
who spent half of their time in
Moore's attic. which came to be
known as the "Garret of Gro
tesqueries."
The magazine never reached the
streets. The group was forced to
flee when Moore had tilt with an
erratic landlady. This person has al
ready become a legend in the quar-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08

Secretary Tells Committee q
BattIeships Should Be Con-
Verted to Oil Burners

determination and conversion OF
TOUR capital battleships of the
American fleet into oil burners will
raise the American battIeship ratio
TO It's authorized treaty strength OF
o-a-5. Secretary Wilbur today de
clared before the House naval af
fairs committee.
He admitted this would not raise
the entire navy to the 5-5-3 ratio
ana he recommended adoption OF
his twenty-year building program
With new construction for next
year to bring this about.
1.-THE statements made by me to
the House Appropriations Commit
tee and my annual report coIupre
hensively cover my views o1ethe
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Poet Graves an Attic
to ""Do His Stuff

Carrots and poets fast becoming myth in America
only in the Montmartre of Paris would expect to find
songsmith starving attic atelier yet suddenly
pears in midst craving garrett high.
This Herbert Moore erstwhle journalist, and wan
derer advertised recently of the local to this
effect Garret attic wanted by young poverysricken
poet Preferably furnished overlooking park
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
HEARING ON
PHONE
RATE
Utilities Commission Will Take
Testimony Jan. 1sReduc-
ton in Doubt

The Public Utilities Commission
today announced that revision Of
rates of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company would
Be considered al . hearing on
January Is.
Major William r. CoveH, As
sistant Engineer Commissioner, in
announcing This hearing, said that
the commission experts are now
at work cheelling up on an in
ventory recently made ~ the cDm-
pany.
Doubt As to Result
I'VE cannot tell at this time
whether the commission will have
lower rates to propose at this
hearing" Major Covell declared.
"Our men are now at work study
ing the results OF the company's
inventory and determining under
present conditions the reduced
telephone rates are justifiable.
Earl v. Fisher, executive secre-
tary of the commission, and Byers
Mex. Bachman, chief accountant,
are in charge of the investigation
to determine whether a modified
rate schedule is possible at this
time,
The Utilities Commission set the
date for this hearing at a special
meeting today.
Depends on Inventory.
The commission three months
ago initiated q move to lower tele-
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
SOLDIER MAKES GOOD
AND REPAYS KINDNESS

INDIANA, Pa, Jan. S.-Fifteen
new $40 bills was the Christmas gift
Of an unidentified soldier to A. r.
Palmer, a business man of Heshbon.
near here. The money, attached TO
q note reading, From Your Soldier
Bum who has made good" was re-
cefved by Palmer today. The post
mark on the envelope was unread
able.
Palmer befriended the soldier
three years ago, when he appealed
for something to eat at the Palmer
house in heavy snowstorm late
one night. He was clad in a tat
tered uniform. Palmer fed and
clothed him, lodged him for the
night, and then gave him money.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
VAlDE HIP PU I
UP BOND FOR
ME ANS
Former Federal Agent on Trial
For Plot Says Banker
Came to His Aid

NEW YORK, JAN 8.-Gaston q
Means. former Federal agent under
$4,000 bail on a charge of conspi
racy to obstruct justice, sprang q
sensation at his trial before Federal
Judge Walter Lindley today by re-
vealing that Frank A. Vanderbilt, in
ternational banker, had furnished
bond for him.
Means, whose testimony in the
Teapot Dome was feature of the
oil scandal, said he persuaded Van
derlip to approve his bond during
the investigation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
PUTNAM To
ESCAPE
PRISON
TERM
Victim Holds to Charges, but
Thought He Would Only Be
''Tarred and Feathered"

Standing pat on every one of the
scrdid charges she hurled at her
father last July, fifteen ear-Old
Mabel Putnam, of Ballstof, Va,
today signed statement in which
she vowed that she would go to
jail before she would see him suf-
fer because he is alleged TO have
been intimate with, her months
both before and after the death of
her invalid mother.
William G. Cloth, prosecuting
attorney for Arlingten county, to
whom the girls statement was
addressed, said he expeced that
her father would be released from
jail today on his personal bond
and that the statutory offense
against him would be role pressed
ut the February term Of court.
Didn't Realize Gravity
Mabel childishly said today that
she was given the impression that
her daddy would only be.tarred and
featherec and chased out Of town
because OF his offenses against her.
hut she now realizes that he might
be sent to jail and even be put
to death, and she cant bear this
prospects
The dramatic statement of the
little. girl, as made public today,
follows:
January Z, 1925.
William c. Cloth, prosecuting
attorney for Arlington county:
Il desire to inform you that
the story that I have .old you
about my fathers relations with
me is true in every detail and
that this story was not given
due to any influence brought by
you or any official of Arlington
county
voluntarily by me to Miss Ward
and yourself. However, / do
not want my father i'm Jail and
do not want him punished, and
under no circumstances will
testify against him, even though
the story is true, except ! am
forced to testify by torture.
81 viii go to Jail before I will
testify and will not testify then.
I would not have told IL it
had not been for Mrs. Wynn, who
told me that my father would ne
tarred and featIe7'ed and sent
away. I did not understand that
be would be put I'm Jail and may
be sentenced 10 die; for II had
known this / would not have
told her."
Unable PUTNAM.
ssSubScrihed and sworn to before.
me, the undersigned notary
public, this 9TH day of January.
Emma A. Wheatley, notary
public.
Mabel and her little brother will
be placed under the guardianship
OF relatives as soon as possible, it
was said today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08

ConsissioASF sses Oy1tsr
today ordered the biggest ~ en-
il the police llsns "A several
years.
Re instructed Major Daniel Sui
liyarl. superintendsnt d police To
transfer three captains, six Nsu-
tenants, two sergsants and seven
privates, eighteen in AL
The reorganization virtually up-
sets the entire personnel 81 the
Seventh precinct Two Of the
men changed, attached 20 tae
Seventh precinct, gre now under
Indictment for alleged brutality
toward ! prisoner IN the Seventh
precinct stationhouse
Order Is BOnnbsIlelI.
For the good OF the service
was Commissioners Oysters explana.
tion Of his action.
The order came unexpectedly and
landed like q bombshell Into the
police department.
The changes follow:
Captains:
Tl1addeus Il. Bean from Sew
enth to Second precinct, Charles
r. Beck from Second % Ninth
precinct and Louis y. Stall from
Ninth to Seventh precinct.
Lieutenants:
Joseph w. PieFson, from Seventh
TO Twelfth; C. III. Brenlnaernnan,
from Twelfth TO Seventh; Michael
l.. Ready, from Second to Third:
Fred M. COrnweIl, from Sixth TO
Second; Guy e. Burlinganle. from
Ninth to Sixth, and william r.
Hess, from Third TO Ninth pre-
cinct.
Sergeants:
Arthur g. Belt, Seventh to Third;
Edward S. Allen, Third to Seventh.
Private for regular uniform pa
troll duty:
Ralph G. Proctor, from Seventh
to Tenth precinct: Frank M. How
ard, Second to Twelfth; Roscoe @.
Sperth, Ninth to Fifth; Harry 9.
Bauer, Second to Fourth: Charles
p. Robinson, Seventh to Eighth;
John C. Valglish, Seventh to Sixth,
and Dealmer NIilstead. Seventh 10
Eleventh.
The transfers will probably De
made in a day or two.
Made Personal Study.
Charges of brutality. lodged by
Arthur A. Davis. Georgetown resi-
dent, against Lieutenant PiersOn,
Policeman Ralph G. Proctor and
several other members OF the Sew
enth precinct are believed to BE- re-
sponsible for the switches in the.
Seventh precinct.
One captain, one lieutenant. one
sergeant and four prfvatea are
moved out of this precinct by Com
missioner Oysters order.
! Tt became known today that Cons
missioner Oyster for several weeks
has been making personal study
Of conditions in every police pre-
cinct In the city.
81 believe these changes will
work out for the best OF the serv-
Ice," Commissioner Oyster said. II
think the reorganization will bring
about better police work in these
precincts"
Lieutenant Pterson ana Policsmaa
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08

These bills are the one for the
Interior Department, Nhe one for
the Agriculture Department, and the
combined one for the Postoffice De-
partment and the Treasury Depart.
ment.
Largest Peace Appropriation.
This combined one is the largest
peace-time appropriation bill ever
passed. 1t totals $763, 309, 900.
In the year 1S36-the first year
In which the annual congressional
summary of appropriations was
issued-the total appropriations for
the Postoffice Department and for
the Treasury Department combined
amounted to $3,608 900.
For those two departments OF this
Government the scale of activities
and expenses, illustrating the
growth of the United States, has
advanced from less than 81 DOT, 900
to more than 0.000, 900 In ninety
years.
Record i'm Speed.
The speed with which the Senate
has passed these bills is believed tc
be record and has struck amaze
ment into the minds of the leaders
of the House Of Representatives, be
sides throwing into confusion those
who had planned to protract the
work of Congress in order to force
special session OF the next Con
gress Immediately after March 4.
1t is not charged responsibly any
where that the Senate's speed has
| indicated any carelessness. What
it, In fact, indicates Is a high degrees
OF Senatorial confidence in the Sen
ators who are members OF the
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ter, ESPECIALLY among the artists and
police
Moore came to Washington from
Richmond, where he did editorial
work for the Richmond Times-Dis-
patch. He also occupied an attic
there but found the Colonial City
quite suffocating and came here,
seeking some place to execute ma.
terial for a. volume of poetry.
His most recent work, "Pastels Of
Poignancy," has been favorably
mentioned He uses the French
forms, the ballads and vilanelles. and
has been compared with Francis
Villon, the enigma of French poetry.
paris in the Spring" is the cry
now. However. the winter is here
and the vendor of verses waits pa
tiently for a garnet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08

Londoners viii Live
70 Years Longer
Than Heretofore
BY International News Service.

LONDON, Jan. 8.-London
men may reasonably expect to
live twenty years longer than
did their predecessors of eighty
years ago. Likewise wives may
expect to live at least five years
longer than their husbands.
That's the information con-
tanned in the health report Of
the London County Council for
1923.
The average age OF London
men at death is now 53.S years,
while for women the figure is
SOL. Eighty years ago the re-
spective figures were BAG and
1913.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
KELLOGG DENIES HE WILL
RESIGN AS AMBASSADOR

LONDON, Jan. S.-Stories in
circulation that United States
Ambassador kellogg was to resign
from his London post have made
him ''all the more determined to
remain" it was said at the Amer.
lean embassy today.
This was the second denial in
two days from the embassy on the
subject of KelIogg's retirement.
Kellogg is attending the allied
financial conference in Paris.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
Something to Worry
About Over
Sunday

T IGNUM v. IRON-HEAD
L. Puzzle Editor of The
Washington Times. announces
that on Saturday, January
10, he will publish an entire
page of crossword puzzles
in this paper.
Be sure to get Saturdays
paper, or you may not have
anything to worry ebOut over
Sunday. Lignum says it is
going to be . wham.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
Extra Session Hit by
Senate Speed

sudden unexpected and violent crimp has been put in
the idea of special session of Congress spring and
by the vigorous action of the Senate Appropriations
Committee putting through the Senate three appropriation
bills totaing than ST. 1OOOOOOOO total elapsed
debating time O. 35 minutes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
Diplomatic Reception

The diplomatic reception, one Of
the most exclusive of major events
Of the White House social season,
wi1 be heAA tonight,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-08
THE WEATHER

Fair and slightly colder tonight; minimum
temperature about 90 Friday partly cloudy;
moderate west and northwest winds
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
THE LOS ANGELES BULL

While we regret that Arizona has, by reason of
political passes and funbleS, succeeded in Jockey
ing itself into an unenvable position with it's back
to the WALL which process of muddling could have
been prevented in the earlier stages of the deve-
opment of the question: we believe that Arizona
must necessarily stay put and fight the battle out
best we can. 1t is Arizona now against the
field Of six states.
The four upper basin states should naturally
have been aligned with Arizona since their in
terests were identical. They could have been
shown that the Glen Canyon dam would have cir
cled that section with power and developed Won
derful country with@the big lake $50 miles long.
This lake in itself would help build small en-
pire in an inland country where development is
needed most
Did Arizona attempt to show Denver and the
upper country few facts of this kind?
No, Arizona did not.
Arizona was too much interested in penny
ante game of politics.
Now that Arizona is up to its neck in the lam,
it is up to us to back up fthe g-in-the-manger'
as the Los Angeles Times desgnates Governor
Hunt, until such time the reasonable, thinking
people of Los Angeles will agree that city is not
the whole great southwest.
Arizona has many insidiouS internal foes who
should be vomited up. They have lived long
enough on the vitals of Arizona
The situation in Arizona right now is not lovely.
Los Angeles has been putting Arizona on the
back east map" as "backwoods country on the
desert" Since Arizona is in this bad fix, we be-
lieve that every loyal Arizonan will help in this
extremity, to prevent the Los Angeles "bull'
from eating the hay here and enriching Los
Angeles.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
WEST ENTITLED TO FEDERAL ROAD AID

Eastern critics of federal aid to highways in
far western states forget overlook the fact that
half the land in eleven western states is owned by
the nation and by it is held out of state taxation
The attack, of course, is a complaint from east
ern states that they are taxed by the federal
government to build roads in far-away western
states in which they have no interest.
There is no charity about federal aid for high
way construction in western states. The appro-
priations are neither gratuties nor subsidies but
represent in part a return the government makes
to the states of the revenue they could collect if
these public lands were taxable.
These millions upon millions of acres of mineral
lands, national forests, Indian lands and national
parks are as much the property of the citizens of
New York Maryland or Pennsylvania as they are
of the people of the states in which they are sit
uated. And it is wholly proper that the cost of
building public roads through them should be
shared by the entire nation, particularly when it
is understood that these are not mere local roads
but arterlal highways, great trunk lines connect
ing the whole nation in vast transcontinenta
system. 1t is "a partnership in interest between
the states and the government, the cost of con-
struction being shared. To ask the sparsely set
tied states of the west to contribute the whole
amount would besto place an unjust burden on
their resources, in some instances one that could
not be borne.
The national parks and forest reserves of the
western states are the pleasure ground of all the
people. Millions yearly cross the continent to en-
JOY their beauties. But without federal aid it
would be impossible to provide the modern roads
that the tourists demand
We have gone too far with this plan of a sys..
tenn of national highways to lay down the pick
and shovel now. The federal government receives
annually much more revenue from taxes on auto
mobiles than it yearly spends on road building
OF the dollar Uncle Sam spends every twelve
month only 2.3 cents is represented in the aid he
gives to road building
However there greater reason still Iuhv Tho
western states should continue to receive federal
highway aid. The United States is the largest
property owner in these states and pays no taxes
Bee