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Evening star., 1925-07-29

situation. because of the amount of
traffic and extent of territory in
volved. is that of the transcontinental
railroads meeting the competition of
the intercoastal steamship lines.
Denies Discrimination.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
points out that the Interstate Com
merce Commission has repeatedly rec
ognized the principle involved as be
ing sound economically and not re-
sulting in any detriment to or dis
elimination against the intermediate
territory. The Senate committee hav-
ing the bill in charge last Spring re-
Quested a statement from the commits
sion. This statement was strong
recommendation against the passage
of the bill, in which all IL commits
sioners concurred except Commission
er Campbell, who comes from Spo-
kane, and who was for many years
attorney for the intermountain inter
ests in connection with this contro-
versy.
The Gooding bill practically would
destroy all competition between rail
and water lines, seriously cripple the
railroads of the country and deprive
the shippers of the benefits resulting
from competition. The transconti-
be severely injured if not permitted to
compete with steamship lines for over
land traffic. These railroads normally
haul large numbers of empty cars
westbound to take back lumber, fruit,
fish and other products of the West,
and should be permitted to make rates
under which they can utilize these
cars to the best advantage.
Sees Burdens Lessened.
"The only way they can meet the
situation is by maintaining rates at
intermediate points, where water
competition does not exist, on a rea-
sonable basis and make such lower
rates to terminals as will give them a
share Of the traffic. Whatever they
can make on this, over and above the
additional or out-of-pocket cost of
handling the traffic, increases their
revenue to that extent and lessons the
burdens which the intermediate COM
munitieS would otherwise have to
bear"
There matters rest 1t wifi be for
Congress or the Interstate Commerce
Commission to decide. But until the
'1ong and short haul" freight fracas
is composed peace between the ''tn-
land empire" and the coast will be
an iridescent dream. 1t is the sore
thumb of politics and economics in
Washington, and it will not down un-
til it is settled. 1t is a bigger thing,
because of the vital issues at stake,
than Washington's other family row
whether Mount Rainier shall be re-
christened and called Mount Tacoma.
With the merits and demerits of this
tragi-comedy 1 am dealing on another
occasion. Gilbert and Sullivan ought
to be alive to immortalize it. No one
else can do 1t justice.
Copyright. 1925)
Evening star., 1925-07-29
DOUBT THAT SUICIDE
SM|SS|NG SCOTT
Police Say Description From
Reading TaIlies Little With
That of Robert.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 29.-Scant belief
is held by the police that the uni
Identified man who shot and killed
himself in a Reading, Pa, hotel yes
terday is Robert Scott, brother OF
Russell Scott under sentence OF death
for killing a drug clerk in a hold-up.
Robert has been South since the
killing, which Russell says his brother
did.
The description of the suicide, who
cut all labels from his clothing and
left note, Il am nobody from
nowhere" tallies only slightly with
that of the missing Scott. Since Rus
sells two escapes from the galloWs
a few hours before the time set for
his hanging attracted national atten-
tiop Robert has been reported found
in various parts of the country.
The dead man was described as
about 25 years old. 145 pounds. gray
eyes, light brown hair, feet inches
tall, gold tooth in upper jaw and small
scar on temple.
The Chicago police description of
Robert said he was 25 years of age,
feet IL inches tall, 160 pounds.
blue eyes. medium complexion, heavy
brown hair and slim nose; no scars.
Father Is Uncertain.
Thomas Scott. father of Russell and
Robert, said he could not tell from
the description whether the suicide
was Robert.
II should have to see the body, '
he said.
Meanwhile alienists continue to ex-
anime Russell in ''murderers' row
in the county jail. pending a hearing
Monday to decide whether he has
become insane since his conviction.
The State. determined to send him
to the gallows, and the defense, de-
termined to save him, will each sub
NIT testimony of specialists.
Scott's mother and his wife, with
the aid of Detroit clubwomen, have
rented a storeroom there and have
arranged for mass meetings of pro-
test against his execution. A plan
to raise additional funds for his de-
fense also is under way.
Evening star., 1925-07-29
WASHINGTON STATE
INTERNAL ROW HOT
Seattle, Tacoma and Spo-
kane in Bitter Tilt, But
Prosperity Gains.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

SEATTLE, Wash, July 29.-Like
all Gaul, Washington State ought to
be divided into three parts. There
is incompatibility all over its $4,000
square miles of land and water. Rival
aspirations among the leading cities
Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma
have bred a species of antagonism so
bitter and deep-Seated that 1T Is
wonder the Evergreen State thrives
and flourishes as bountifully as it as
suredly does. The differences that
agitate the trio are far more than To-
cal. They ramify through the inter
ests of Washington at large. Town
and country alike are involved in
their settlement and in the contro-
verSieS that range around them.
Let it be said at once that there
are few external signs Of Washing
tons intra-Sta chickering's. Pros
perity is immense and omnipreSent.
There is going to be another bumper
crop of wheat. alfalfa. fruit, hay and
vegetables. The lumber industry is
in splendid shape. The great port of
Seattle, gateway to Alaska and the
Orient, is throbbing with activity and
growing in Importance and metropol-
itan splendor hour by hour. Tacoma,
farther south, is also community
and harbor that is steadily expand
ing in magnitude as a factor in the
trade of the Pacific coast and the
Far East. Spokane, capital city OF
the Inland Empire" eXudes Vlgor,
progress and plenty.
Evening star., 1925-07-29
OF j. s.
SAILORS PAY HIGH
Sydney Officials Deal Dras-
tiCally as Attacks on
Visitors Grow.
By the Associated Press.


SYDNEY, New South Wales, July
29.-Attacks on sailors of the United
States fleet. which is visiting here,
seemed to be on the increase today.
The authorities are giving severe SEN
tences to those responsible for the
offenses.
Visiting newspaper men were ten
dered a dinner last night by the
Australia Journalists Association.
The first mail from the United
States since the arrival of the fleet
was received yesterday on the steam
er Ventura.
The battleship West Virginia has
been awarded the fleet pennant for
proficiency in gunnery.
A feature of certain social functions
in honor of the feet personnel has
been attendance of persons who pub
licly announced their intention of
boycotting the fleet during its visit
here.
Evening star., 1925-07-29
Railroads Denounced.

The railroads are accused outright
of wanting to kill the Panama Ca
nal. One of the deadly arguments
used by Spokane is a statement at
tributed to Henry Blakeley, freight
traffic manager of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad, who once said: I'VE
would all be better off today if some
body filled the canal in" That, ac
cording to the intermountain folk, is
the milk in the Western transporta-
ton coconut. It's the increasing i'm
portance of the isthmian waterway
as a competitor that is irking the
railroads and, as Spokane sees it, i'm
pelling them to bleed" the whole in
termediate country lying between the
Mississippi and the Pacific in order
that they may fight the growing men
ace Of sea-borne traffic to the coast.
Seattle, speaking for herself and
her sister ports on the Pacific, denies
these soft impeachments. 1t contends
that the enactment of the Gooding
bill would have very serious conse-
quences. 1t asserts there are many
situations throughout the country
where the railroads cannot compete
for terminal traffic unless authorized
to maintain lower rates at the ter
minal points. The most important
Evening star., 1925-07-29
CROPS HIT BY STORM
NEAR BELTSVILLE, ND.
Telephone Poles Along Washing
ton-Baltimore Boulevard Felled
During Wind, Rain and Hail.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BELTSVILLE, Md, July 29.-Sev-
eral farms near here were hard hit
by a small sized hurricane late yester-
day, wind, rain and hail leaving a
wide swath.
On the farms of T. A. and John z.
Sellman crops were beaten down by
hail, the haybank and grape arbor of
John Arminger were practically de-
stroyed, and a number of telephone
poles were felled along the Washing
ton and Baltimore boulevard. Con-
siderable damage resulted from water.
The wind was blowing from the
northwest and was heaviest about
o'clock. Several nearby communities
felt the storm. No one was injured.
Evening star., 1925-07-29
Bill to Come Up Again.

1t Is when you leave the irrigation
realm and come into the more heated
zone of the long and short haul con-
troversy that you find Spokane and
Seattle in something akin to battle
array. In May, 1924, the United States
Senate passed the bill introduced by
Senator Gooding of Idaho, amending
section of the interstate commerce
act, commonly known as the long
and short haul clause. The purpose
of the Gooding bill is absolutely to
prohibit the railroads from charging
less for long haul than for a short
haul in order to meet water compe-
titlon. The competition in question is
that which is offered by intercoastal
boats carrying freight between the
Atlantic and Pacific Seaboards through
the Panama Canal. Attempts to pass
such legislation have often been made,
but until last year a favorable vote
was never secured in either house of
Congress. The Gooding bill is bound
to recur in the form of new legisla-
ton in the next Congress. To pro-
mote its passage, as well as to con-
duct what they call a general war of
defense against the vagarieS of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, 10
lntermountain States have formed the
intermediate Rate Association" with
headquarters at Spokane.
AT present these States are not sub
Jected to discriminatory freight rates
in favor of the coast terminals. But
they feel they are in constant danger
of them. At this moment Western
railroads have pending before the In
terstate Commerce Commission appli-
cations for increased rates that would
work benefit to the terminals and, as
it alleges, direct harm to the inter
mediate territory. For years and at
heavy expense the intermountain peo-
pie say they have been compelled to
remain on sleepless guard, to ward off
this menace to their prosperity. 1t is
with a view to destroying it perma-
nently that the Gooding bill is so
paSSionately advocated.
Evening star., 1925-07-29
Aged Cannon Ball Is Dug Up.

A steam shovel excavating for
building operations east of Bladens-
burg road brought up a rust-coated
cannon ball, believed to be a relic of
the war of 1912, when the British
troops marched to Washington. Mel
vim c. Hazen, District surveyor, dis
played the old relic TO city officials to-
day and said that Joseph B. Latimer,
the finder. plans to turn 1t over to Dr.
William Tindall, who has always been
a keen student of local history.
Evening star., 1925-07-29
Now's the Time
to Serve Icy Drinks

There is nothing so refresh
ing as the tinkle of ice against
the tall glass, and the colored
glass spoon shining through
adds a tempting note. With
plenty of sparkling American
Ice in the refrigerator and a
supply of fruit juices, tea,
coffee and cocoa, you're al
ways prepared for the thirsty
guest.
Old-F fashioned Lemonade
Juice and grated rind Of 8 lemons,
pintS Of tpdter, 2 cups OF sugar
syrup. Serue IUith cracked Amer
fcdn Ice.
Evening star., 1925-07-29
TREASURY WORKER DIES.
Miss Bernadette Martin Succumbs
to Long Illness.

Miss Bernadette Martin, for sew
eral years an employe of the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, United States
treasury Department, died at her
residence, in the Falkstone Courts,
yesterday after a long illness.
Miss Martin was a member of St
Pauis Catholic Church, Fifteenth and
V streets. She is survived by her
mother, Mrs. Jennie Martin, and two
sisters, Miss Veronica Martin and
Miss Justina Martin, all of this city.
and two brothers, Leo and Clement
Martin, both of New York. The body
will be taken to New York this after
noon for burial
Evening star., 1925-07-29
Cities Far Advanced.

| Surveying this triumvirate of
! buStling centers, each of them as ad-
| Vanced as Eastern cities three times
! their age and size, an investigator
| finds it a little difficult TO realize that
| beneath 50 much bignesS there should
| be smoldering a family quarrel or
so acrimonious dimensions. WASH
| ingtonians freely concede the exist
ence of the squabble, though they
don't like to discuss it with outsiders.
Some of them think their State might
be bounding along at an even more
substantial clip if Seattle, Spokane
and Tacoma comported themselves IN
State wide terms rather than in the
parish pump spirit.
/ ran bang into one of Washing
tons major internal complications as
soon as l crossed the Montana and
Idaho State lines and found myself
at Spokane-a splendidly up-to date
city literally carved out of the wilder
ness hardly more than 60 years ago.
Spokane still owns allegiance to the
State of Washington, but considers
itself, in fact, the natural metropolis
of large segments of no fewer than
four States. These comprise the IN
land Empire comprehending eastern
Washington, the northwestern corner
of Idaho Including the Occur d'Alene
mining country, a slice of western
Montana and the northeastern chunk
of Oregon. Spokaners seriously plan
some day to convert the Inland I'm
pire" into a brand-new State of the
Union. They have already picked out
name for it-Lincoln State.
Wants River Developed.
The verdant arrival from the East
is assured that the economic interests
( of eastern Washington and it's trib-
utary territory are SO vitality different
from those typified by Seattle or Ia
coma that the individualist emotions
and ambitions of Spokane have very
real, and not an imaginary, founda-
ton. Then the Fastener learns what
is most on Spokane's mind. Two
things are paramount. First of all,
| Spokane wants the Federal Govern
ment to spend $250,000 900 on develop
! ing the Columbia River Basin trriga-
! ton project. Then it wants the In
! terstate Commerce Commission to be
debarred by act of Congress from al
| lowing the railroads to haul freight
to Pacific Coast terminals at lower
rates than they land it at inter
mediate points in the intermountaln
regions. The irrigation scheme and
the long and short haul proposi-
ton lie so heavily upon Spokane s
heart and soul that no other single
subject, national or international, is
considered worthy of discussion while
they remain unsettled. For their OBJ
session with them, Spokaners advance
valid reasons.
On the Columbia Basin project
Spokane is not at loggerheads with
the Seattle and Tacoma crowds, "
even though it is crusading more or
less single-handed for a scheme so
mighty in it's possibilities that not
only all Washington, but the whole
Northwest-indeed, the entire country
will benefit from it's development.
Gen. George w. Goethals, who was
commissioned to survey the project
in 1922, reported that it 'is as much
a national one as were the Panama
| Canal and the Alaska Railroad, and
| will, If completed, add much more to
the national wealth than either of
| them"
The project is a grandoise plan to
irrigate and reclaim roundly 2,OOO,-
Evening star., 1925-07-29
DESCRIPTIONS DIFFER.
Reading Police Say Suicide Is Not
Robert Scott

READING. Pa. July % CP)-Police
and morgue keepers here today said
the description of Robert Scott,
wanted in Chicago as an accomplice
of Russell Scott, condemned tosdie for
murder, does not answer that of the
man who committed suicide here yes
terday.
Laundry marks on the clothino are
those of a local man. The father of
that man said the body was not that
of his son. On the other hand, a
woman neighbor of the family said
it was.
Evening star., 1925-07-29

600 acres of arid land lying between
the Columbia and Snake Rivers in
eastern Washington through the pro-
vision of water by gravity flow from
the Pend Oreille River and it's tribu-
taries. The estimated cost is $254,-
170.351. The estimated time for COM
pletion is six years. The soils of the
irrigable lands are fertile and abund-
ant, being in all respects similar to
the celebrated Yakima and Wenatchee
Valleys, which have been turned by ir-
rigation into one of the richest fruit
growing districts in the world. There
are 2,736 square miles of land within
the Columbia Basin project, an area
larger than Delaware. Within it, un-
der irrigation, there is room for 50,-
900 farm homes, with a potential pop
llation of 10000 souls peopling towns
and cities that would automatically
spring into existence.
DR.. Hubert Work, Secretary of the
Interior, who visited Spokane in July,
encouraged the community to hope
that the project would one day bios
som from a dream into a reality. 1t is
realized that the governmental econ
omy program probably is the chief
obstacle to be overcome. The quar-
ter of a billion of Government dollars
involved Is not asked as a charitable
donation. 1t is. on the contrary, ad-
vocated not only as a first-class in
vestment by Uncle Sam, from which
he will derive enduring returns, but
one from which he will eventually get
all his money back. That is to say,
the scheme provides for repayment by
settlers, on a long-term arrangement
spread over 25 or 80 years, of all the
Federal funds spent upon the project.
Somebody has estimated that the
great enterprise will yield crops an
nually worth $212, 2,S47,312.
Have Argument for East.
Spokane talks eloquently and per-
suasively in terms of the East when
II discusses this purely Western pro-
Ject OF colossal scope. 1t points out
that when the vast acreage in ques-
ton is irrigated to produce abund-
antly of live stock, wheat, oats, bar
ley, alfalfa and grasses, potatoes. su-
gar beets, fruits and vegetables, these
products will be readily exchangeable
for the manufactured goods made in
the industrial centerS of the East and
Middle West. An efficiency expert
with a genius for statistical prophecy
has inquired out that the inhabitants
to-be of this new Garden of Eden
will consume every year 63,480 car
LOADS or Eastern manufactured prod
uctS."
Therefore. it is, when the time comes
for Congress to vote the millions the
Columbia basin project will require,
that Eastern Washington expects 1t
to be viewed as a national, and not
a sectional proposition. When Presi-
dent Harding came in contact with it
during his fateful Western tour, he
prophesied that the basin is destined
10 become the seat of a greater, in
comparably more rich and varied en-
pire of industry and agriculture than
was the Egypt which served as the
Sranary for imperial Rome" 1t is in
precisely those terms of magnificent
vision that Spokane thinks and talks
when 1t peers into the future You
cannot long be within the orbit of
those dreams, especially as you en-
Visage the bountiful results of culti-
walton in already irrigated land. with
out sharing Spokane's hopes and en-
thusiasms to the full.
Evening star., 1925-07-29
Shipping News
Arrivals at and Sailings From
New York
Daylight Saving Time.
ARRIVED AT NEW YORK.

DUE FRIDAY.
| Berenraria ...... Southampton, July %
| George Washington. Bremen. July %
Panama .CfisLoDal. july ID
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-26
SOCIALISTS OF
ESTHONIA STAY
IN GOVERNMENT
Aided Fascist Crush
Workers Revolt

BERLIN, June 24.-Esthonian So
cialist papers report that the social
democratic party at its recent con-
vention voted to approve the partici-
patton of the socialists in the fascist
government that carried out a whole
sale execution of Communists recent
ly.
The two socialist ministers who ac-
copied government portfolios after the
workers revolt, were permitted to
hold on to their jobs, but were asked
to urge the conservatives not to use
the defense of the republic act which
was passed after the uprising, against
other than Communists. The govern
ment is suppressing all labor organi
cations and political parties of the
workers. The socialists are treated
with special favors.
A letter was read from the labor
and socialist International congratu-
lating the Esthonian social democrats
on their support of the government
and stating that the authorities were
justified in proceeding against the
Communists with severity.
The Estonian deficit this year will
be 100000 marks. This deficit is ex-
pected to be met by a contribution
from the British treasury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-26
WORKERS NEED
$4,000 HOUSES
IN Pa, REPORT
Not Told, However, How
to Get Them Built

HARRISBURG, June 24.-Pennsyl-
vania needs at least $4,000 more
houses for workers, the state depart
ment of health announces after a
housing survey. 1.-THE people who lack
homes are living with other families
in overcrowded sections. They are
creating even in the smaller towns
the disgraceful slums where disease
and crime breed" the department re-
lates aa2
The result of living in quarters dis
tasteful to them and beneath their
previous standards of living, the
health of the children in these fam
lilies is menaced and the industrial
efficiency of the wage earners is being
impaired"
City planning and coming to elm
mate overcrowding and lack of sani-
tation is urged by the department in
addition to the immediate construc-,
ton of houses to overcome the short
age. The department does not sug-
gest who shall build the necessary
houses nor that landlords bring rents
down in vacant but more expensive
residences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-26
Picnic of Workers
Party in New York
Pronounced Success

NEW YORK, June 24-Three thou
sand comrades and sympathizers gath
cred at Pleasant Bay Park at the
Workers Party picnic, where every
man, woman and child enjoyed him
self to the limit. There was pastime
for everybody; games. sporting events
races, etc, and a wild ball game
between a team of the Workers
Party and the Y. w. L. The ball
game resulted disastrously for the
Y. W. L., who were defeated by a
score Of IS to IA.
The Juniors we're there in full force
and paraded about the grounds sing
ing their revolutionary songs-until a
storm broke and everybody had to
seek shelter. This, however, did not
dissipate the good humor of the pic
nickers. They stuck, and when the
sun came out again, the fun went on.
From 10 a. m till late in the night.
the crowd stayed and danced. They
sang songs in all languages-and
everybody pronounced this picnic one
of the most enjoyable that has been
held In this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-26
NUMEROUSL LABOR
bodies INDORSE
June 2S MEET
Defense Conference to
Aid Class Fighters

Letters from dozens of local, state
and national labor and fraternaI bo-
dies endorsing the national conference
for labor defense, continue to pour
into the office Of the Labor Defense
Council, the inltlator Of the confer
ence. Many local unions and fra
ternal organizations especially in the
vicinity of Chicago have given assur-
ance that they will have delegates at
the conference which is to be held
In Ashland Auditorium, June 2sth.
The recent decision Of the U. S.
supreme court. upholding the validi-
ty of criminal syndicalist' laws on
the books of thirty-fve states and the
wholesale falling of striking miners
in West Virginia have called forth
letters and kilograms of commenda-
ton for the timeliness and necessity
for the conference for widespread act
ivity in workers defense.
One of the features of the confer
ence is that it proposes to set on foot
q movement that will be prepared to
defend all workers, regardless of poll
teal opinion or industrial afiliation,
who are attacked legally or otherwise
for activity in the labor movement
OF for expression of opinion.