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Evening star., 1926-02-16
Fire Fought 40 Stories Above Broadway;
Men on Roof Saved in Thrilling Fashion

More than 100 charwomen were
driven from the building, carrying
mops and pals.
Firemen carried hose to the upper
floors in the elevators. which operated
continuously, with the exception of
one, which stalled between the twenty.
eighth and twenty-ninth floors with
five firemen in it. They had to chop
their way out. e.
Five firemen suffering from smoke
suffocation we're attended by ambu-
lance surgeons after the fire
The fire was discovered by a steam
filter in the basement, who say sparks
among the electric cables.
The building fire-fighting force of
nine man fought the blaze with fire
eXtinguishers until they saw it was
beyond their control Then four alarms
brought out a great array of fight
ing apparatus.
The old Equitable Building, on the
same site, was destroyed in a spectac-
ular blaze January 8, 1912 In that
fire the water froze almost before
touching the burning building and the
ice-coated structure smoldered for
days afterward. Millions of dollars in
securities were found safe In the
building.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
SWEDEN TO BLOCK
CHANGE IN LEAGUE
Will Keep Spain and Poland
From Seats on Council
With Germany.
BY F. A. MACKENZIE.

BY Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News
STOCKHOLM, February 16.-Swe-
den absolutely refuses assent to eXten
sion of permanent membership or
other membership on the council of the
League of Nations to any country ex-
cept Germany, the correspondent
learns on high authority.
Since unanimity Is necessary. this
decision nullifies the international
movement now afoot to give Spain
and Poland seats on the council. Spain
puts herself forward as representing
Spanish separating powers. Poland is
pleading the necessity of balancing
Germany's entry.
France, desiring counterbalance
against Germany, strongly supports
the Spanish and Polish claims.
Austen Chamberlain, British foreign
minister. also is reported to have given
certain promises, but the writer's in
formation is that England may sup
port Sweden's stand.
Sweden takes the position that the
extension of the membership of the
council, except for the entry of a great
power like Germany would lower the
status of the league and disturb the
balance between the council and as
sembly.
Copyright. 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co..
Evening star., 1926-02-16
RetributiOn Comes
To Sender of Those
PeskyTimeS Signals

Revenge is sweet. especially
when it can be brought about in a
perfectly legally constituted man
ner.
This is the opinion today of Judge
John +. Mcmahon. ardent radio
enthusiast, who was presiding over
Traffic Court last night when Wal
ter c. Myers, bToadcaster of the
Arlington time signals from NAA
was brought before him to answer
to charges of speeding.
Myers admitted exceeding the
speed limit, but stated that he was
hurrying to the wireless station to
start the 10 o'clock signals.
Judge Mcmahon told the defend
ant that many people would not
care If he never got there to inter
rupt the political and musical pro.
grams that are on the air at that
hour.
Thereupon the magistrate, with
. out show of regret, imposed a
fine of S15.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
Members of House Group
Virtually Agreed on Five
Years of Construction.
TWO GREAT DIRIGIBLES
ARE INCLUDED IN PLAN
Also ASKS Building of 1000 Plane..
Moffett Figures Cut
40 Per Cent.

The House naval committee has Vir-
tually agreed upon a five-year build
ing program for the naval air service,
TO cost 500, 900 900.
This amount is about two-fifths of
Moffett naval air chief. as necessary
to provide an adequate air service for
any emergency.
Final decision on the program is
expected by the committee tomorrow
and, if adopted. bill to authorize this
expenditure probably will be intro
duced in the next day or so by Chair
man Butler.
Program for Five Years.
In its present form the program
would authorize an annual expendi-
ture of $50, 200. 900 for five years. This
would provide:
Two dirigibles. each three times the
size of the wrecked Shena ndoah.
One thousand new planes at the end
OF the five-year period.
An appropriation, the amount as yet
undetermined. for the Navy to con
tract with the Aircraft Development
Corporation. backed by Ford inter
ests, for an all-metal dirigible.
Representative NinSon OF Georgia,
ranking Democrat on the committee,
said today that members were prac-
tically united in their views, and that
a bill to carry out a building program
already had been drafted.
MOffet Figures Reduced.
Admiral Moffet had urged that ap.
proXimately S250,000, 900 he spent in
five years. but the committee cut this
by about $3.50 ,000, 900, emitting a pro-
vision for a new airplane carrier of
the LeXington-Saratoga type, and re-
ducing by about $50 the number of
new planes to be built. 1t also ef-
fected a reduction by withholding
any recommendation for planes for
the eight scout cruisers authorized
by the last Congress.
The committee bill in it's present
form does not provide for an addition
al Assistant Secretary of the Navy
to handle aviation, as recommended by
the Presidents Air Board. Consider
able opposition against this proposal
has developed in the committee, a
number of members feeling that there
is no need for another civilian officer
in the naval establishment.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
ACTRESS KILLS SELF
IN 14-STORY JUMP
Pauline Armitage, III, Plunges to
Instant Death From New York
Hotel Window.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 16-Pauline
Armitage. an actress. who has beer
in i'll health. leaped from her room
on the fourteenth floor of the Shelton
Hotel, on Lexington avenue, today
and was instantly killed.
Miss Arnlitage, clad only in a pink
night dress, landed on the Forty-ninth
street side of the building il front
of the servants entra nee
The manager and police. at firsr
unable to identify the body. located
the room by the screams of Valerie
Brandt. Miss .Arlnita ge's maid
She told the police that when she
went to answer the telephone she
heard Miss Armitage move and. turn
ing. saw her leap from the window.
Miss Armitage had appeared earlier
this season with Irene Bardoni in
Naughty Cinderella" She appeared
last season in three different Broad
way productions, Badges" Cobra"
and Lawful Larceny"
Evening star., 1926-02-16
M'CARL AFF|RMS
RULING ON BRIDGE
Again Declares Contracts
With "Outside" Architects
and Engineers Void.

The Arlington Memorial Bridge
Commissions appeal from the COM
troller generals decision prohibiting
the employment Of outside" consult
ing architects and engineers in the
construction of the Arlington memo
rial bridge has been rejected by Mr..
McCarl. The comptroller general
merely reaffirms his previous decision
and makes no further comment on
the case.
Major U. S. Grant, Sd, execu-
tive officer or the commission, would
not comment today on the controller
generals latest decision further than
to say that he was taking the matter
up with the members of the commits
sion to ascertain what could be done.
AS the matter now stands the bridge
commission must get its consulting
architects and engineers through the
Civil Service Commission at regular
classification rates.
Two Contracts Voided.
The contracts which will have TO be
abrogated a a result of the controller
generals decision are those with Nc
Kim, Mead & White. consulting ar
chitects, and w. J. Douglas, consult
ing engineer. Under the contract
with the commission the former firm
was to be paid $4,000, with additional
fees for the services of such individ-
uals as it assigned to bridge work
plus their travelling expenses. Mr.
Douglas was to be paid 5000 a day
for such time as he spent on the
bridge In New York and $3.50 a day
for the time spent out of the city
plus the cost of the services of indi-
viduals it employed to work on the
bridge. However. he was to assign
only such other employees as were or
dered by the commission itself.
Although the act authorizing the
bridge gives authority to the commits
sion to employ professional services
at such rates of pay as authorized by
the commission, the controller gen
eral held that this provision was for
the direct employment of personal
services and must be paid for at the
rates determined by the classification
act.
May Ask Law Change.
While it Is not believed that the
act OF the controller will in any way
delay the progress on the bridge, it
was said to be probable that steps
would he taken to have the law cor
rected so that the commission could
go ahead with the contract it had
made with the architects and ensi-
neers. However. Maj. Grant would
not say what his action would be.
pointing out that it was a matter for
the entire commission to determine
after the situation had been placed
before them In detail.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
HELEN WILLS DEFEATED, 6-3, SO,
In TENNIS CLASH WITH SUZANNE
Extends French Player as
No Other Since MOlla
Mallory.
Makes Glorious Fight De.
spite Injury-Both
Cautious.

CANNES, France, February 16.-
Miss Helen Wills quest for world
supremacy in tennis has failed-but
failed gloriously
The 20-year-old American champion
went down today before the racquet
WlZardry of Suzanne LenGlen, hailed
by many as the greatest woman tennis
player who ever stepped on a court.
suffering from "A cash in the knee,
winch she sustained in a fall yeSter-
day. Helen extended the redoubtable
Suzanne as she has never been ex-
tended since her memorable default
TO Molla Mallory after the loss of a
set at Forest Hills in 1921.
The score of today'S match, the
hnal in the Carlton tournament. was
b-3. S-6. 1t was played before a
crowd that packed the stands. with
hundreds clamoring at the gates. un-
able to gain admittance. Some had
stood in line all night to be sure of
witnessing the clash of the champions.
Miss Wills staged one of the most
dramatic tennis struggles in the his
tory of the game. and the result was
in doubt until the last point.
The American girl was within
point of winning the second set when
a ball from Mile. Lenglen's racquet,
which appeared to many to be out
side, was allowed by the linesman.
Then for the first time in her
career Helen faitered She appeared
physically tired and at one time put
Evening star., 1926-02-16
MINERS MEETING
TO RAT|FY PACT
Approval of Agreement Is
Foregone Conclusion as
Convention Opens.
BY the Associated Press.


SCRANTON, Pa, February 16.-
ratification of the agreement made in
Philadelphia last Friday to end the
anthracite strike was before the sew
eral hundred miners who met in con-
vention here today to give final
sanction to the peace pact.
AS the delegates went into session,
approval of the agreement. which
will send $4,000 mine workers back
to the mines after an idleness of five
and half months. appeared to be a
foregone conclusion.
The convention held last July.
which formulated the demands of the
miners. recommended that any agree
ment be reported back to a conven-
ton or referred to a referendum of
the miners. The convention was de-
cided upon. as it gives the leaders
more opportunity to explain the vari-
Gus provisions entered into.
Agreement Explained.
The arbitration phase Of the agree
ment is not thoroughly understood by
some of the miners, and President
John Lewis, who presides, prepared to
go into detail to show that arbitra-
ton is optional and in no way compul-
sory in the event wage readjuStmentS
are considered at the request OF either
side after January l, 1927.
The morning session of the conven-
ton was taken up with completing the
organization. Gov. Pinchot, who was
invited to address the delegates, was
not present because of pressing duties
in connection with the closing days of
the extra session of the pennsylvania
Legislature this week.
The governor, however. has sent a
communication to President Lewis to
be read to the delegates.
Mines Put in Shape.
Some of the leaders hoped to end the
convention today, but there was doubt
whether the delegates could get
through debating the various para
graphs in the new agreement. In the
meantime the coal companies are
working at top speed to have the mines
ready for resumption the morning
after the pact is ratified.
The final meeting of the joint con.
ference of miners and operators has
been called for tomorrow in anticipa-
ton that the convention will ratify to-
day. At this session the six miners
and six operators who struggled in At
lantic City last Summer and in New
York and Philadelphia during the Win.
ter to arrive at an agreement will sign
the formal legal contract.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
TWO KILLED IN MINE.
Plunge 400 Feet to Death Into
Elevator Shaft,

GREENSBURG, Pa. February Is
R.-Two miners plunged 400 feet
down a mine shaft to their deaths
yesterday when an elevator on which
they were ascending from mine of
the Mount Plea asa mt -Connellsville Coal
and Coke Co. at Carpentertown failed
to stop at the surface and hit the
framework of the coal unloading plat
form.
Four other mine employees, who
we're thrown from the elevator by the
impact, landed on the loading plat
form and escaped with body bruises
The men killed were Robert Russell,
40 years old, a mine foreman, and
John Skos. % years old, miner. The
cause of the accident has not been
determined.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
Indications Are That Lump
Sum of $4,000, 900 Con-
sidered U. S. Share.
QUESTION TO BE LEFT
FOR DECISION LATER
Comparison of Private Owned and
aforementioned Property Will
Be Made by Chairman.

Although members Of the subcom-
mittee on the District budget OF the
House appropriations committee did
not take up the question of fiscal II,
lations between the Federal and Dis
trict governments, when they started
hearings today on the S3l. 700 900 ap-
preparation bill for the next fiscal
year, they proceeded on the presump-
ton that the bill would be based on II
S9,0OO.Oo0 contribution from the Fed
eral Government instead of the 500
proportion provided in existing law.
Representative Funk of Illinois
chairman of this subcommittee. after
the hearing today said that for the
time being his policy and the question
as between $4,000, 900 lump sum con
trIhutlon from the Federal Govern
ment and definite proportion plan
VIII not be considered by the subcom.
lilttee, at least until after hearings OH
the bill have been finished and the sub
committee goes into executive session
TO determine its recommendations TO
Inc full appropriations committee and
the House
Chairman Funk however, uues
toned the District auditor. Daniel J.
Donovanr very closely regarding the
increase in taxable property in the
District of Columbia, quite clearly
eVldencing his intention TO draw com
parsons later. In round figures il
was shown that the assessed value Of
privately owned real estate. tangible
personal property and intangible per
sonal property has about doubled in
the last 10 years. This is due, in :,
considerable measure, 10 the assess
ment at full valuation rather than ~
fractional valuation as a few years
ago.
Will Compare Holdings.
MIR. Funk showed his intention to
compare the privately owned real e..
tate with the Government holdings
Mr.. Funk brought out that, in
round numbers, individual citizens
are paying total of about $4,000, 900
in taxes year as distinct from cor
| porations. It was evident that his
Dense Of the National Capital amounts
to $36, 100000 d year, the Fed
eral Government. in making 2
50 900 900 contribution, pays about
one-quarter of the cost; that the in
! dividual citizens, taken collectively
pay in taxes about half of the cost
and that the other quarter is made
up from various sources by taxes
upon corporations. fines, water rev
enueS ana various other sources.
When the hearing opened today the
District Commissioners were the first
witnesses and discussed generally, in
reply TO questions from the subcom-
mittee, the entire District establish
Inent and its needs as municipal
concern.
District Auditor Donovan was next
questioned at length by Chairman
Funk and submitted extensive figures.
as requested by members of the sub
committee.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February 16.-Forty
stories above Broadway, firemen to-
day waged a successful and spectacu-
lar battle against fire in the $50, ,000, 900
Equitable Building, one of the largest
Office structures in the world. Most
of the damage, estimated at $4,000,
was in the thirty.fourth and thirty
fifth floor Offices of Daniel Guggen-
helm and the American Smelling and
Refining Co. The blaze originated in
the basement of the skyscra per, which
is located in the heart of the financial
district near Wall street and leaped
a shaft containing steam pipes and
electric cables to the eleventh. six
teenth, twenty-fourth and thirty fourth
floors. skipping those that interviewed.
Four engineers and repairmen were
trapped in the penthouse, three-story
superstructure on the roof. chiefly
containing elevator machinery, and
were found by firemen on a narrow
ledge forty-three stories above the
street level, nearly 400 feet up.
The only ladder available was a
short one, which was placed on the
shoulders of the tallest fireman to
reach the trapped men.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
MOVE BY CHURCH HEADS.
Methodist Officials Inquire on Status
In Mexico.

Officials of the Methodist Church
South nave called at the State De-
partment to make inquiries regarding
the Mexican church situation. but as
yet no formal protest in that country
has been filed with the department.
AS a. result of the informal inquiry
the churchmen were advised that
properties in Mexico acquired by them
in accordance with Mexican law are
entitled to the same protection as
are those similarly acquired by pri-
vate interests.
The Methodist officials so far have
been the only church authorities to
take up the question with the de-
partment, despite expulsion Of Cath
olic priests and members OF orders
of that church.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
ANDERSON SEEKING
HEARING IN SENATE
Former Anti-Saloon League Head
Says He Wants to Answer
Britten's Charges.

William H. Anderson, former head
of the Anti-Saloon League in New
York, has written Representative
Britten, Republican, Illinois, announc.
ing that If the Britten resolution for
an investigation of the league ds
adopted Anderson will demand a
hearing to answer charges against
him made by the Illinois Representa-
tive.
Anderson. who served sentence in
Sing Sing Prison, said he would well
come the chance to get into the
records at Washington" facts which
would establish that his conviction
"under Tammany" was without the
slightest proof of criminal intent and
was without parallel 'in the history of
the administration Of American GRIM
inal law" He expressed the hope the
resolution would be adopted.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
MANY DEAD AND MISSING
IN VICTORIA BUSH FIRES
Australian Province Reports Most
Disastrous Confagrations
in Its History.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Australia. Febru
ary 16.-Twenty-eight persons have
perished in bush fires in Victoria and
many others are said to be missing
Nineteen fatalities have occurred at
Powelltown, in the Warburton dis
trict Seventeen persons were sur
rounded by flames on a narrow tram
way line at Powelltown and IL of
them perished. Women We'd with men
in rescue work.
The flames have destroyed houses,
timber mills and farms. Erica and
NoojeZ, small towns in Gippsland.
have been damaged. Acting Premier
Peacock says the fires are the most
disastrous in the history of Victoria.
He said the government will aid farm
ers who have been burned out
Evening star., 1926-02-16
HI-JACKERS CAPTURE SHIP
AND HOLD 1T FOR 19 DAYS
Captain Of liquor Schooner Tells
of Long Imprisonment Aboard
Own Craft

BY the Associated Press.
LUNENBERG, Nova Scotia, Febru-
ary 16.-Capt. Arthur Whynot, master
of the schooner Arthur j. BaIfour,
which has just arrived here, relates a.
story of being boarded by hi-jackers
off rum row. Eleven hundred cases of
Scotch whisky were pirated and the
captain and his crew were held prison
ers on their own ship for 19 days by
armed buccaneers.
Capt. Whynot says the hi-jackers
came alongside the Baufour in a yes
sci disguised as United States Coast
Guard cutter. They overpowered the
Nova Scotian crew and transferred the
whisky to the cutter" The hi -jackers
left on board the Balfour waited pa
tiently for the return of their com.
panions who took the whisky away,
and finally, when they did not come
back. they sailed the Balfour inshore
within a few hundred yards of the
coast and took boats and rowed to
land.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
THOUSANDS SEEK HEALTH
AT MEXICAN CEMETERY
Sick and Crippled Flock to Grave
yard Where Four Indians Are
Reported Making Cures.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LAREDO, Tex, February 16.-
Within the shadow of the tombstones
in the Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Gene
terry thousands of sick and crippled
MeXicans are seeking new lease on
life through the ministrations of four
Yucatecas Indians who refuse to ac
cept payment for their guidance. The
work of the Indians has created a
sensation in the Mexican city, oppo-
site Laredo, some seven or eight thou
sand Mexican patients from Mexico
and Texas having been attracted to
the cemetery, where they cook, eat
and sleep while awaiting their turn
to be treated.
All around the graveyard automo-
biles from near and far are parked,
while great numbers of the sick and
afflicted of Nuevo Laredo are among
the patients.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
DAVIS IS EXPECTED
To DENY COUNTESS
Of CATHCART'SPLEA
win Decide Case Today.
Has Recommendation of
Board of Review.
CONTROVERSY MAY GO =
TOU. S. SUPREME COURT
Counsel to Force Test of Law if
British Noblewoman Is Ex-
cluded by Officials.

Secretary Of Labor Davis had be
fore him this afternoon for final de
,i.iun the case of Countess Cathcart,
Er-lish nohlewoman who is held at
l.lliS Island and excluded from en-
..-,nce to the United States on alleged
plmission of acts involving moral tur-
pirUde.
The case has been taken direct 10
-hc head of the Labor Department, IN
view Of its importance. because what
rv"r the decision may be. Mr.. DAVIS
himself would he responsible whether
II" made the decision or delegated 1t
iu one of his assistants, as is usually
done in immigration cases.
The recommendation of the Board
al Review, kept a secret, was trans
mitted to the Labor Secretary short
" before noon. Officials said de-
cSion might be expected between 3
and o'clock, when a statement will
hr issued in the name OF the Secre-
..
Evening star., 1926-02-16
MISSIONARY is KILLED.
Lutheran Worker in China Meets
Death by Accident.

PEKING, February 16 P).-A dis
patch from Sinyangchow, in Honan
Province, says that d. Nelson of the
Luther an United Mission has been ac-
cidentally killed. No details are
given.
Sinyangchow was the scene of Wu
Pei-fu's recent victory over the Ho-
nan troops. The defeated forces re-
treated within the town and for a
time were reported to be holding for
eigners as hostages. Later they left
without harming the foreigners.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
H0RSEWHIPPED, HE SAYS.
Frenchman Asks $15, 900 Damases
From q. S. Film Director.

LOS ANGELES. Calf. February 1s
CP-Charges that he was horsevhip.
ped were made by Lieut.. Gerard de
AIerveuX. French aviator and physical
culture instructor of Hollywood, in a
suit filed here yesterday against r
Stuart Blackton. motion picture di
rector, for SIS. 900 damages for assault
and battery.
Counsel for De Merveux said the
charges involve an alleged assault and
horsewhipping at Blackton's Holly.
Blackton is charged with having
driven De Merveux out of the resi-
dence with accusations of insulting
Mrs. Blackton.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
Can Photograph Wilkins Party.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, February 16
~.-Holding that the Wilkins Trans
polar expedition was a public enter
prise, the District Court here yester-
day dissolved an injunction restrain
ing photographers from taking pic
lures of the undertaking. The plain
tiffs were given five days to file an
amended complaint.