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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
EVANS QUITS FORCE
AFTER Is II YEARS
Detective Sergeant Will Go
on Police Retired List at
Midnight Tonight.

With 251a years of service in the
Police Department to his credit, De
tective Sergt. Harry Evans will be
placed on the retired list tonight at
midnight.
Evans. who has been in the De-
teCtive Bureau for more than 10
years. was appointed to the police
force on July /, 1900. BY a strange
coincidence, it was Policeman Walter
Emerson who broke him in" as a 20
liceman and it is Capt. Walter Emer-
son, the same man, who will bid him
goodbye as his commanding officer at
midnight, since Capt. Emerson will
be in charge Of the shift from pm.
until midnight
Evans became n bicycle policeman
at the eighth precinct in 1901, went
to the tenth precinct the following
year and in 1903 was transferred to
| the fifth precinct, on his own request.
While there, in October, 1904, he was
injured severely when his bicycle col
hded with horse and buggy while
he was riding to the Long Bridge ac-
cident, when one of the spans CaVcd
in. Evans spent eight months III the
hospital from internal injuries, suS-
tanned when the shaft of the buggy
punctured his left side, and returned
! to duty at the fifth precinct after
leaving the hospital.
He then became a guard at the
municipal bathing pools, after which
he went to the sixth precinct, where
he served as desk sergeant and pre-
cinct detective. He came to police
headquarters as detective sergeant in
1915.
At police headquarters, Evans was
assigned to duty as assistant phar-
macy inspector, specializing in anti
narcotic cases. He was we'll known
as an expert among Chinese, speaking
the language fuently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
MAY ASK GAS CO.
VALUATION INQUIRY
Commissioners to Decide on
Reques: for $4,000 for
Probe-0ther Issues Up.

Four important decisions are e&
pected to be handed down by the Pull
lie Utilities Commission at an eXeCu
tive session tomorrow afternoon a
2:30 o'clock. Three were considered
at public hearing Thursday, but az
ton was deferred pending the return
of Commissioner Cuno Fl. Rudolph.
who has been in Florida for 10 days.
The chief proposition on which the
commission will likely act Is d pro
posal TO ask Congress for a special ap
preparation Of $4,000 with which to
make an expert valuation Of the prop
erty of the Washington Gas Lighr
Co. and its subsidiary, the Georgetown
Gas Light Co. The companies recent
ly submitted TO the commission the re
suits Of an inventory and requested
that a fair valuation be placed on
their property.
The commission foresees in the re.
quests Of the companies a fight for
increased gas rates and wants the
$50 900 10 employ two valuable experts
to check up on their property. The
last valuation on the property Of the
two companies was fixed b. the com
mission in October, 1925, at approx
mately $4,000 900. II is understood
that the companies have now placed
their own valuation at a figure in 81
cess Of 500 600. 900.
4 question Of conSidera BILE moment
to the residents OF Richmond Park
on which the commission viii act. i
the proposal to extend into their ter
ritory the WoodIey road bus line o.
the Washington Railway & EleCtri"
Co. Indications are that the extension
will be ordered, but the commission.
| 1t is reported, probably will disapproye
the application Of the Capital Traction
! Co. for authorization to establish z
| de luxe motor bus line. operating from
! Thirty-fourth and OrdWay streets to
! Eleventh and + streets with 25-Cer-
! fare. The new line w5c- opposed b.,
| William F. Ham, president Of the
| Washington Railway & Electric Co. a
well as Traffic Director NJ o. EIdridee
and several residents on the projected
| route.
Reports also indicate that the com
mission may approve the application
| Of Washington Railway & Electric Co.
| to reconstruct the tracks on its Mort n
| Capitol street line from V street II
| Michigan avenue with standard sub
urban equipment. which includes over
head trolley. The North Capitol Cit
zens' Association appealed to the com
mission at the public hearing to orde.
| the company to install the under
ground conduit system as far 2 s Michi.
! gan avenue. Mr.. Ham warned the
| commission, however, that the cost o.
| this system lis almost prohibitive and
| if ordered. might force the companv
| to abandon the car line from Y street
| to Brookland and substitute bus serv
| ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

New York Rumor Has Doheny
Behind s5OO,OOO,OOO Anal
gamation Plan.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, January 30.-The
Herald-Tribune will say tomorrow
that Edward l.. Doheny, president OF
the Pan-American Western Petroleum
Co. who left New York today for the
West after comforting three days with
bankers and oil men, soon Will appear
as the guiding influence in a far.
reaching consolidation of Western oil
properties.
Among the companies most promi-
nenlly mentioned are the PanAmer-
lean Western Petroleum Co, the Cen
eral Petroleum Co. and the California
Petroleum Co.
The information available tonight
did not indicate whether the negotia-
lions involve retirement of Mr.. Do
heny from the oil industry in which
he has been q notable figure for many
years, and the transfer of his one re-
naming property OF Importance. the
Pan-American Western. to other in
terests, or whether this company is TO
be the keystone of the proposed re-
alignment with Mr.. Doheney as the
dominating factor. There have been
reports that he wished to dispose of
all of his oil holdings and retire.
The suggestion has been made that
the grouping may be so extensive as
to embrace. besides the Pacific Goa ST
interests. some of the important orga n.
izations in the Midcontinental field.
The banking house Of Blair & Co
some time ago effected a mer-
ger of the Barnsdall and Waite Phil
lips Companies and 1t was reported at
the time that the Sims Petroleum
Company, the Independent Oil and
Gasoline and other companies might
be brought into this alignment.
The fact that Blair & Co
-z,ured in the purchase of control of
the Pan-American Petroleum and
Transport Company from Mr.. Doheny
and associates, and that this house
still has relations with Mr.. Doheny,
has strengthened the reports that the
Blair program for Midcontinent con
solidation might be extended farther
West.
A merger of California Petroleum
with Pan-American Western and Gen
eral Petroleum would make the com
bined firm q formidable competitor OF
the Standard Oil Company of Califor
mia with O0,O0O,0O0 of assets since
the acquisition of the Pacific Oil Com
pany.
At the time of the sale of the Mexi
can and Eastern properties of the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans
port Company, it was understood that
Mr.. Doheny received 100000 for
his holdings in cash and notes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
DANCE MUSIC REVIVAL
STARTED IN KITCHEN
Ford Inspired to Take Up Work
by Hearing Veteran Michi-
gan Fiddler.
By the Associated Press.


DETROIT, January 30.-The renais
sance in dance music which Henry
Ford is sponsoring through the re-
vival of old-time tunes and with the
aid of many old-time fiddlers, had its
inception in the kitchen of a modest
home outside of Big Rapids, Mich.
1t was here that Henry Ford, on a
vacation trip North with Thomas Edi-
son, Harvey S. Firestone and a few
other intimate friends, first saw "Jep''
Bisbee, maker of violins and fiddler at
old-time country dances.
"Jep"-Nr Jasper Bisbee of Paris
Mich" as he registered at Detroit's
leading hotel as the guest of Mr.. Ford
is SO years old.
"He is the father of the movement
back to the old-fashioned Dances" Mr..
Ford said. at was listening to him
and his old-fashioned tunes that
helped to crystalline my belief that the
time had come for a revival of the
old dances. A very fine old man is
Jasper, and he knows his business"
Ford first heard him in 1922, and
shortly after "Jep" came to Detroit to
make the first contribution to Mr.
Ford's Americana of dance music
Later Mr.. Ford sent him East to Mr..
Edison's laboratory, where some of
the aged fiddler's choicest selections
were perpetuated in the monograph
reproduction rooms.
"Jep" played drum for the soldiers
in Detroit in 1861. Later he con-
Quoted a drug store and sold tea and
coffee. At other moments he played
reels, schottisches, polkas, quadrilles
and called dances at country gather
ings. At SO, yep" still is able to dance
q jig.
1 was going to die, but I'm fooling
EN-. I run 40 rods every day of my
life and I'm SO. Yes. that's lot of
years."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Artists in Paris
Using Sidewalks
To Exhibit Wares

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 80. = Open-alr
art salons have caught on in
Paris. Born in Montmartre, the
idea has spread to other parts of
the city where the streets are not
so busy that an outdoor picture
show is a nuisance. The latest to
he held. by permission of the pre-
feet of police, was along the aristo-
cratic boulevard Of st. German,
under the auspices of a, group OF
painters known as the arts
market"
Pictures are placed against the
walls, hung on the iron protectors
around trees and on racks along
the sidewalks. Many an artist
writes his name in chalk on the
asphalt opposite his exhibition.
Prices run from so to 1000 francs
($2 to S4O), the president of the
arts market" said, and besides sell
ing their work, many of the eX-
hibitors pick up orders for per
traits, illustrations and other work
which helps to make them known
and keeps the pot boiling"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
ALIEN CUSTODIANSHIP
REPORT is REQUESTED
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A resolution directing the alien
property custodian to furnish the
House with full report on the
activities of his Office was introduced
yesterday by Representative Fish, Re-
publican, New York.
Among other things was a "com-
plete memorandum of lawyers and
law firms given fees in excess of
$4,000.
Mr.. Fish said he had the highest re-
gard for former Senator Switzerland
of West Virginia, the custodian and
his predecessor, the late Frederick c.
Hicks, and that his resolution was
promoted by desire to ascertain what
phases should be investigated.
1.-The sooner the alien property is
returned to it's rightful owners" Mr..
Fish said, land the bond issue of
s250,O06,000 proposed by Secretary
Mellon is agreed to, the better for all
concerned, especially for the reputa-
ton Of America for fair dealings, for
adhering to her traditional policy re-
garding the seizure of enemy private
property, and practicing what we
have already preached
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
EASY DIVORCE BLAMED
FOR MARRIAGE WOES
Baltimore Prosecutor Says Women
Have Become Grasping and Men
Averse to Yoke.
Special Dispatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, January 80. - -
woman expects to get a pension To-.
life when she is married-and when
she stops being married she doesn't
intend to let the pension stop" This,
according TO States Attorney Moser,
accounts in part for the overworked
divorce mills.
AS for the husband. one of his chief
faults is his desire to be as footloOse
after his marriage as he was in bache-
lor life. This is perhaps why wives
think so hardheartedly about pen
sions-and why both think 50 much Of
divorce.
"A woman who took her troubles t.
divorce court in the old days was de
classe. Her friends and relatives
ostracized her. She was outside the
pale. so TO speak. Today divorce has
become so easy and common people
seek it before they have given mar
riage half a chance"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
FULL HEARING ON GASQUE BILL
WILL BE GIVEN HERE THIS WEEK
Washingtonians to Be Allowed Ample Opportunity
to Bring in Grievances Against Present Method
of Naming Board of Education.

tains that the Capital City is in "a
peculiar situation" and pleads for the
witnesses to give him testimony which
will wipe away his present indisposi-
ton to fall in line" on the Gasque
bill
Proof that the members of the sub
committee are taking their task
seriously was seen last week when
two new members were added to the
subcommittee. Mr.. Gasque and Rep
resentative Robert G.. Houston of
Delaware. and Chairman Reid refused
to set a time limit on the hearings.
Chairman Reid specifically emphasized
that he intends to give all who have
complaint against the present method
of appointing the Board Of Education
opportunity to be heard.
1t Is understood that the trip DR.
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent:
Ernest Greenwood vice president of
the board, and Municipal Architect A.
l.. Harris made last Summer to get
ideas for the construction of new
schools under the f1ve-year building
program, will be brought up at the
hearing as an example of unnecessary
waste of money and expenditure of
time.
Air Newman Case.
1t is also expected that the recent
demotion Of Capt. Arthur c. Newman
as principal of Armstrong Technical
High School and the refusal to per-
nit a colored teacher to move with
her children to the new John F.. Cook
School will be placed before the sub
committee as cases where the Board
of Education has ignored the unified
protests of the colored parents of the
city.
DIR. Ballou and members of the
Board of Education have been in
vited to attend the hearings and are
expected to take the stand before the
hearings are concluded.
Chief Justice Walter I. Mccoy an6
other District Supreme Court judges
at present charged with the duty OF
appointing members of the Board OF
Education, also are expected to appear
| before the body this week and give
| their views on the GasQue bill. It is
generally understood that the judges
do not regard the board appointments
| as a judicial function and would favor
being relieved from this responsibility
Other members on the subcommit
| tee are Representatives Frank L
| Bowman of West Virginia and William
| c. Hammar of North Carolina
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
LISTED AS BEST SELLERS

Special Dispatch to The Star
PRINCETON. January 30.-Two
books on evolution were best sellers
during the last year, according to an
announcement of the Princeton Uni
versity Press today, which said the
American public is taking an increas-
ing interest in science.
These two books are "Heredity an6
Environment" by Prof. Edwin Grant
Conklin. chairman of the department
of biology at Princeton, and The
Dogma of Evolution" by Louis
Trenchard More, dean of the Gradu,
ate School Of the University of Gin.
cinnati, who was vanuXeum lecturer
at Princeton this year.
Prof. Conklin's book, first published
in 1915, has gone into l3 printings
Sales have reached $4,000 copies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

Washingtonians will this week be
given ample opportunity to attempt to
prove to the seven members OF Con-
gress on the House subcommittee in
charge Of the Gasque elective school
board bill that this city's school sys-
TEN suffers by the present method Of
selecting members of the Board OF
Education, and residents here should
be accorded the privilege of voting
for the nine members who compose
that important body.
Every one of the members of the
subcommittee has either placed him
self on record during the two hearings
held last Wednesday afternoon and
night that they either have a decidedly
open mind" on the matter or are al
ready convinced the GasQue bill
should be enacted into law. Repre-
sentative F'lorian Lampert Of Wiscon-
sin and Ailard H. Gasque, author Of
the bill. are the two avoWed support
ers of the legislation.
Tits Are Expected.
Lively tits over the past record of
the Board of Education are expected
when the hearings are resumed next
Thursday evening at 1880 o'clock, in
the caucus room Of the House Office
Building. as the hearings were ad-
journed to enable District residents to
assemble their list OF ln1uStlCeS,|
which they claim they have suffered
at the hands of q selected Board Of
Education, and Mrs. Mary T. Norton
of New Jersey, member of the sub
committee, to make a personal tour Of
the schools of the city.
Mrs. Norton will be accompanied in
her tour of the Washington schools
early this week by Mrs. Giles Scott
Rafter, president of the District of
| Columbia Parent Teacher Association.
Mrs. Rafter is expected to show Mrs.
Norton that sensational testimony al
ready given the subcommittee was war
ranted. Mrs. Norton will report her
findings to the other members of the
! subcommittee.
Reid Is Chairman.
Representative Frank r. Ried of I'LL
| nois, attorney for Col. William
| Mitchell during the latter's recent
court martial, is chairman of the sub
! committee. He has indicated that he
| is not opposed to District residents
voting for their Board Of Education
members providing it will not serve
| as an entering wedge for general en-.
! franchisement, but he stoutly main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

of the Hamilton Hotel and Nicolus
Sabatine of the Mayflower Hotel
The Irving Boernstein Orchestra
will furnish music for the ball, while
Robert Stickney, local pianist, Will
execute specially. Dorothy Doge
will dance, as will 10-year- old Baby
kishner. The dance will start at
pm. and continue until 2 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Chicken Gives Up Diamond.

Mrs. Raymond Adams of Gloucester,
England while dining on roast chicken
noticed her lip began bleeding. In
vestigation showed that in the mouth
full of meat was a diamond. 1t was
assumed that the chicken had picked
UP the diamond in search for grit and
that the gem had worked its way into
its flesh. A jeweler appraised the
stone at 500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
French a Dinner Language.

Sir Austen and Lady Chamberlain
have set a new vogue in London. 1t
is the custom Of conversing in French
fetal dinners. 1t is going hard with
those in high society and oficialdom
who have not learned the tongue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

those who real.
lied the funda
10 @ n I u | impor
[ a II c Q o f the
event. \ ma
jority of Germans
are busted these
days with other
matters Of Ger.
man origin.
This has been Il
week of ROYALTIES.
There was first
the published in
terview with the
I O Z IN @ Z kaiser,
who, in order TO
parade again in
his film role as
hero and martyr,
l,anitnl III kinds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TODAY.

The Wanderlusters' hike will start
from the end of the Brookland car
line at 2:30 o'clock. Mr.. Schwertner,
leader.
William Clarence Matthews Of Bos-
ton, will address the Republican Polit-
ical Study Club, o'clock, at the res
idence of Mrs. Coralie Johnson, 119
Seaton place. Public invited.
TONIGHT.
"S1eep and Dreams" will be the
subject of a talk, o'clock, at United
Lodge of Theosophists. 1871 K street.
Public invited.
The Young Mems Hebrew Associa-
ton will give an entertainment and
dance at it's building, Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
KA|SER'S CLAIMS
EVOKE BITTERNESS.
Wilhelm's Birthday Dragging
Draws Sharpest Shafts of
Noted Editor.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN

BY Radio TO The Star.
BERLIN. January 30.-America's
long-hoped-fOr decision this week to
join the World Court could awaken
an echo in GERMANY only among
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Congress-.

The United States, after many
wears of hesitancy, has joined the
permanent Court of international
Justice and henceforth will be rep
resented on the tribunal designed TO
maintain peace in the world. The
Senate adopted a resolution ratifylng
the World Court protocol last week,
the vote being &c to II in favor or
ratification. many more than the nee
essary two-thirds required. ME the
Senate attached reservations TO the
countrv's membership, these reserVa-
tions are expected to- be acceptd by
the other members OF the court. pc
fore the United States formally be-
comes a member, however, the ma
lions must approve the reservations
and to that end President CooHdSe mas
set the machinery in motion Tor Cd
tanning this approval. When all the
member nations have expressed APP
proval of the reservations the proto-
col will be signed.
Some of those. notably Senators
Rorah, Reed of Missouri and johnson
Of California, who opposed American
adherence to the World Court, have
announced publicly their intention OF
lighting the issue before the country,
and thew intend to maintain their re-
Sistance.
Adoption of the resolution was viz
tuaIlv assured from the first, but was
expedited by the Senates action last
Monday, when cloture rule was
adopted by a vote of 6S to 26. This
cut off the filibuster which had been
valiantly conducted by opponents OF
the measure, limiting each Senator to
one hours debate.
With the World Court out of the
way the Senate last week took up
the tax bill. with indications that 1t
will be passed before February 10.
Opening consideration of the bill,
Senator Norris Of Nebraska suggested
that the payment of the first install
ment Of income taxes might be post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Aviation.

The Spanish aviators who are try
ing to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
TO South America completed the sec
ond leg of their journey last week
when they flew from Las Palnnas to
Porto Praya, Cape Verde Islands
Yesterday they We're to start on the
long flight across the South Atlantic
which will bring them TO Pernambuco,
Brazil, to be guests of the Brazilian
government. The flyers plan to visit
several South American countries and
then proceed TO the United States
They will attempt return flight to
Spain.
Lieut.. John a. Macready, who has
flown higher than any other man in
America, made a try at breaking the
worlds altitude record last week
when he took off from the Dayton
aviation field in a specially built
plane, with recording Instruments
sealed. He failed, however, because
his motor was unable TO function in
the rarifed atmosphere and intense
cold, the supercharger going back on
him. The present altitude record is
held by a Frenchman, Calico, who
went 39,596.47 feet above the earth
"a distance of nearly eight miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Science.

Probably with the idea of giving
anti-evolutionists grounds for argu-
ment, DR.. Adolph H. Schultz. asso-
ciate in anthropology at Johns Hop
kins Medical School, came out with
the statement last week that evolu-
ton is still in progress and that man
is far from perfect. The number
of small bones in the little toe are
decreasing, while the wisdom tooth
Is passing, and as for the present
physical condition of mankind-his
eyes are not on a horizontal plane;
his mouth is larger on one side
than on the other, and the sides are
not on the same level; his right arm
is longer than his left; one foot is
larger than the other apd the collar
bone is not symmetrical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Economic.

Other nations besides the United
states are busily engaged in settling
their war debts. Last week Great
Britain and Italy reached an agree
ment on the payment of the Italian
debt. Italy is reported to have re-
ceiyed more lenient terms from Great
Britain than from the United States.
An encouraging result of the propa-
sGnda against high rubber prices
placed by the foreign monopoly on
that commodity, is seen in the falling
prices for crude rubber. This was
stated last week by Secretary Hoover,
Who showed that spot rubber was
selling for $1.09 a pound on December
10, while the same quality had drop
pea to 6S cents last week
After the trials and tribulations and
disruption OF business generally
brought by the war, the United States
has returned to the stability of 1915.
survey by the Federal Reserve
Board reveals that there were less
changes of price levels in 1925 than
in any year since 1915.