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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-03

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-03

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
MANY BODIES WILL
HONOR WASHINGTON
Nearly 100 Organizations United
in Plans to Observe
His Birthday.

Plans for the observance at Polls
theater. at IL o'clock the morning of
the 22d, Of the birthday of George
Washington, call for the participa'
ton of nearly a hundred national and
local patriotic organizations.
The principal speaker will be James
NJ. Beck, former solicitor general of
the United States. Carmi A. Thomp-
son, commandments of the United
Spanish War Veterans, will be intro
duced by Commissioner Cuno II. Ru
dolph, and will preside.
4 musical program, including mum
bers by the United States Marine
Band, and vocal numbers by distin.
guished soloists and the Washington
Quartet, will follow. Ri. Rev. James
+. Freeman, bishop Of the Episcopal
Diocese Of Washington, will give the
invocation.
The entire ceremony will be broad
cast by station WRC of the Radio
Corporation Of America.
Brig. Gen. George Richards, L. S.
NJ G.. will be the chairman of the
District of Columbia Federation for
Patriotic Observance, under whose
auspices the various organizations
will compose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
100000 Feet Space
In 2 u. S. Buildings
S'Coing Alleging"

Adv: "Found-Two hundred
thousand feet of floor space in two
large Government buildings. Well
lighted, heated and commodious
rooms. Ample for all forms Of
office work"
Two hundred thousand feet of
Office space in the Pension Build
ing and the Interior Building,
vacated and made available for
occupancy by other Government
units by order of the Public
Buildings Commission going beg
ging for occupants. The Labor
Department wants 1t with reser-
vations). the Commerce Depart
ment wants 1t (without reserva-
tions) and the National Guard Of
the District Of Columbia wants a
large part of it for an armory. So
far. although 1t has been available
for more than two months. it's
use has not been agreed upon.
Most of 1T was to have been
used by the Labor Department
under a schedule of transfer of
ing, but the Labor Department
found the rooms too large. Until
it's building is taken over by some
other agency the Pension Bureau
WIZ remain in it's own structure.
In the meantime many thousands
OF feet of floor space, made ready
for the Pension Office in the In
terror Building. are not In use.
And facing ousting from its
armory at 472 L street, the Dis
trict Guard hopes to get the COM
modious Pension Building for its
activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
EARLY TAX ACTION
IN SENATE is SEEN
BY FOES AND FRIENDS

Continued from First Page.)
ana the Increase Of the tax on cor
porations from 1912 per cent to 1315
per cent are other matters of contro
Versy, which may be expected he.
tween the House when the bill goes
to conference.
' Big Supply Bills.
AS soon as the tax reduction bill is
out OF the way, Senator Warren of
wyoming, chairman of the Senate
appropriations committee, will insist
upon taking up some of the big sup
ply bills, which have been waiting for
their day in the Senate. None have
yet been passed although several have
been prepared for consideration of the
Senate
BESIDES the appropriation bills, farm
legislation and the foreign debt settle
mentS are pressing for consideration
The House already has passed the adj
ministration bill to aid farm co.oDera
tives by the establishment in the De-
partment of Agriculture of a division
OF cooperative marketing. That bill
mas been referred to the Senate COM
mlttee on agriculture. 1t will not be
opposed In committee and will. if is
believed. pass the Senate with little
difficulty. The co-operatives are
| united in favor of it. The House com
mittee on agriculture is still strug
CLING with the problem of the EXPORT
able surplus crops, and probably will
| not report out bill for several weeks.
War Debt Bill.
The bill ratifying the settlement of
! the Italian war debt to the United
States negotiated by the American
| War Debt Commission has been passed
by the House and is awaiting action
in the Senate. The bills ratifying the
! debt settlements with Belgium and
several other countries also must be
| acted upon.
The Senate has still to receive a re-
port from the privileges and elections
! committee on the contest of Daniel r.
! Steck, Democrat, for the seat occu-
pied by Senator Brookhart, Repub-
| lican The subcommittee which has
had charge of the contest is about to
report to the full committee, and in
dividual members Of the subcommit-
tee have indicated that the report will
be adverse to Senator Brookhart.
Furthermore, the prediction has been
made that the full committee also will
concur in this view of the case. In
any event, it Is probable that the con-
test will be carried to the floor of the
Senate and there fought out. The
case is expected to come before the
full committee for action this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
STRESSES
BUILDING NEEDS
House Committee Cites Haz-
ardous Crowding of Work.
erS and Records.

Urgent needs of the Government
for adequate housing for some of the
most important agencies in the Ma
tfonal Capital. under the $50. 900. 900
hve-year building program urged by
president Coolidge and included in
the sl65.000.000 public building bill
now awaiting action in both House
and Senate, We're stressed Yesterday
by Chairman Elliott of the House
committee on public buildings and
grounds. Mr.. Elliott is member of
the Public Buildings Commission
wrestling with the problem of hous-
Ing Uncle Sans working force
The Department of Agriculture,
occupying A. buildings scattered all
over the city, some of which are
miles apart: the Internal Revenue
bureau, working in more than a
dozen buildings, most of which are
tiretraps in which valuable and ire
placable records are daily in peril, and
the General Accounting Office were
cited as illustrations OF relief that
must be afforded.
Attacks Democrats Stand.
By the Associated Press.
Repeated attacks by a number of
Democrats on the S165 900 600 lump
sum public building bill drew fire
from Mr.. Elliott. author of the
measure.
Representative Landlord Demo
crat, Georgia. and Representative
Almon, Democrat, Alabama. both
charged the bill would favor few
large cities and that II would place
too much authority in bureau chiefs
who We're not as well qualified as
House members to judge the needs
of respective districts.
three days ago Representative
Eslick, Democrat, Tennessee, attacked
the bill on the same grounds.
Mr.. Elliott reminded the House that
the last public buildings bill had been
enacted March i, 1913. "At that
time, he said Congress realized tina
the question of public buildings had
got TO the point where something had
to be done-ConSress was running
away from itself"
He explained that Congress Their
limited the appropriations to posi-
offices having certain annual revenues
The present bill made no limitation
whatever, but left any meritorious
case eligible to relief Of the build
ings authorized in 1913, ga remained
TO be built. he said, and these are the
only given preference In the new
measure. for which separate appro.
prtation of $4,000, 900 is provided
leaving sl00.000,00O for new prof ects
lie added that more than $50 sep
arate bills for post offices had beer
introduced at the present session
seeking to authorize over $3.50, 900 900
The President" he continued "has
said thai S25.000,000 is all that can be
spent annually for this purpose I'm
less we are TO raise taxes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

a cent a pound Mr.. Meiklej john
| then threw on the table a batch of
| receipted bills, saying:
! There are my bills, gentlemen. I
| have nothing to hide. Examine them
Says Mine Prices Varied.
| 1t developed that in November, Mr..
! Meiklejohn had purchased seven car
| loads of Fairmont prepared coal at
! 1854 a ton at the mines. His freight
! was $500 and other expenses brought
| the price up 10 1925, showing a profit
! of % cents ton. Mr.. Meiklejohn
| testified that in December he bought
| the same coal for 1886 q ton at the
mines. explaining that the price was
| higher in November because there was
! a rush by retailers to purchase at
| that time.
DO you mean that the operators
| took advantage of the dealers pre-
dicament to raise their prices?'
asked Senator Copeland. The wit
ness did not answer
Turning then to low volatile. or
"smokeless" coal Mr.. Meiklejohn
| showed that he paid S7.28 a long ton
at the mines in November, making
| the price in Washington S1O.41 on
| the tracks. In December it dropped
| to $3.50 at the mines and early in
january 10 $40. NOW, however, II
| is back to S6.72 at the mines. or
| 1885 on the tracks here. The wit
ness said he had been obliged to
| stock heavily at the high tide in
! November and that he still has a
large supply of that coal on hand.
Took Profits As Salary.
Mr.. Meiklejohn was asked to .,g-
ure his losses through degradation
| and operating expenses and gave
them as $685.. including freight
| which he explained was probably a
| trifle lower than examination of his
| committee then began figuring for
themselves what Mr.. Meiklajohn's
| average buying price would have
| been, on the basis of the four fig
ures given. s7.:s. $3.50, s4.75 and
s672 a ton at the mines.
1t was found that the average would
be about $500 a ton at the mines
With the $3.50 costs added, the tota
cost would be $11.74 ton for Goa
Dictated profit of $1.76 ton. 1t was
pointed out, however. that most OF
! Mr.. Meiklejohn's coal had been pur
chased at the higher wholesale figure
He also said his costs did not include
any salary for himself, rent for hi:
yards or insurance for his business
He said he accepts his profits as hi.
: salary and, owning his yards. credit:
no charge for them. Mr.. MeiklejohI
testified thai these items would ma
terially increase the costs to othel
dealers.
e J. McVan. counsel for tn,
Smokeless Coal Operators Associa
ton of West Virginia. bore Mr.
Meiklejohn out as to fluctuations IL
prices at the mine and, asked for al
explanation, said it could only b.
ascribed to the law of supply and de
mand. When the supply is high ant
the demand low. he said, the price il
low, and vice versa. Senator Cope
land sought to bring out in questions
that the fluctuations were result o
the operators taking advantage o
the country's hysteria."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
HORSE SHOW HELD
BY JUNIOR RIDERS
Over 100 Children From All
Academies in D. C. Con-
test for Prizes.

With more than a hundred chill
dren contesting for prizes and nearly
every riding school in the city repre-
scented, the first Junior herse show
of the season, held at Twenty second
and Z streets under the auspices Of
the Riding and Hunt Club was run
off yesterday afternoon without an
accident.
The race with teams of three from
any school in Washington was the
feature event of the show. Miss Eliza
beth Jackson and Roland Dawson
supervised the exhibition.
Winners Announced.
The winners of the different events
were as follows:
Best rider, 10 years and under, first,
Louise Myers on swift Dixon :;
second, Patricia Donovan on Razzle
Tazzle; third, Margaret Lee on
Wait and See, and fourth, Jack Pit
ney on Sampson.
Best rider between 10 and Ia: first,
Gladys Szechenyi on Swift Dixon;
second, Francis Summer, jr., on
Maid, and fourth, Elizabeth Meyer on
Frosty.
Best rider Is years and under: first,
Persis Meyers on Gray Lad; second,
c. Szechenyi on Sunrise; third, Aida
Robinson OH Halan, and fourth, Pris
ella Dove on Pollyanna-
Best team of three from any school
in the District Of Columbia: First
Georgia Mooser on Steel Jacket.
Elaine Hirschuan on Jap and Ethel
Hollingsworth on Crow; second, Mar
garet Lee on Wait and See, Mary
Burke on Pretty Maid and Jane Nc
| HRig on Play Fellow; third, ]. White
| on David, NJ. Rowland on Andy and
/. Eustis on Lariat; fourth, c. SEE
| chenyi on Sunrise, G.. SZechenyt on
Gray Lad and E. Taylor on Fleet.
Prize for Jumps.
Jumps for beginners: First, Frnes
| tine Van Der Bosch on Crow; second
| Mildred Morehead on Jap; third
Louise Meyers on Sunrise, and fourth,
Priscilla Dove on Lug.
! Open jumps: First, Francis Sun
mer, jr, on Billy; second, GeorgtI
Mooser on Crow; third. Persis Meyers
on Virginia, and fourth, Georgia
Mooser on Bobby.
/ Musical stalls: First, Persis Meyer (
on Virginia; second, Florence Meyer
on Buttons; third, Ernestine Van De-
Bosch on Grow, and fourth, Francis
| Summer, jr.. on Billy.
| Miss Elizabeth Mcconnell, Mrs
Amory Perkins and Mrs. Andre
| Cummings acted as judges and Mis-,
| Virginia Van Brecht awarded IT,
| prizes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
LECTURES TO BE GIVEN.
Four in February Planned by In
dustria1 Democracy League.

The February program of the Wash.
tngton Chapter of the League for In
dustrial Democracy, which conducts
a free public forum on Friday eve
nings at l712h l street northwest,
was announced last night, following a
meeting of the executive committee of
the chapter. held at the office of Marx
Lewis, chairman, at. 710 Fourteenth
street.
The schedule for February follows
o. ]. Schuster will speak on The
Basis of Personal and Social Prog
ress,' February 5; DIR. Norman
Thomas, Socialist candidate for mayor
of New York City in the last election.
will speak on Socialism in Relation
to National, Racial and Religious
Loyalties," February II; DR.. w. J
Sprowles, professor of economics at
st. Johns College. Annapolis, will
speak on The Significance of the
Scopes Trial. February 10. The con.
Guiding lecture of the month will be
delivered by Alice Thatcher Post, who
will speak on February &c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

Senate is not prepared to act on other
pending legislation on the subject. it
should act on his resolution, which
requests the President to intervene.
Referring to the effect Of the strike
on New York, he said a recent survey
disclosed that large number of the
people Of his State are forced to de-
pend on kindling wood for warmth.
In concluding Senator Copeland
said:
Last Summer during the campaign
there was one promise the Repub-
licans made which they have kept
They are keeping cool with Coolidge
That is all very well in August, but in
January, with present prices of coal
that slogan is not so popular, and
am wondering why the Republican
party does not give up its emblem OF
the elephant and take the polar bear
instead"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
URGES COAL ACTION.
Copeland Wants President to Inter.
yepe i'm Strike.

A plea for action during the coming
week on some legislation looking to a
settlement of the anthracite strike
was made to the Senate yesterday aft
ernoon by Senator Copeland. Demo
crat, of New York
The New York Senator repeated the
assertion he made in the Senate dur
ing a previous debate. that if Presi-
dent Coolidge would invite the miners
and the operators to the White House
and point out to them the seriousness
of the situation 1.-The strike would be
settled in two hours
Senator Copeland said that il the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Want to Know Informant.
French Claims Found.

Old leaden plates used by the French
government in 1149 to mark bound
aries denoting French claims IT
America, have been dug up by boys
swimming in the Muskingum River
near Marietta, Ohio. The plates are
known as the famous "Celeron plate
and are among the rarest of pre-revo
lutionary relics. The boys had melt
ed some of them into lead bullets be
fore their value was discovered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

A luncheon and turkey dinner will
be served by committee of ladies
of Holy Name parish, Mrs. A Mock,
chairman, for the benefit of Holy
Name Church. February 8. at Elks'
Hall. Luncheon, II to > pm. Din
ner, 4 to I.
Mrs. Anna =. Morgan. legislative
secretary, National Council Proven
ton of War, will address the Sister
mood of AdaS Israel congregation to-
morrow. 2:30 PIN.
The Practical Psychology Club
will meet for business tomorrow, s
pm, At the Playhouse.
The Holy Cross Club will have a
banquet tomorrow at the Lee House.
The Force-Adams Parent Teacher
Association will meet tomorrow, 3
pm, at the Force school.
The Association Opposed to Blue
Laws will have a banquet Saturday
evening ,at kramer'S restaurant, 9Th
street.
Miss Janet Richards will give her
annual talk for the benefit of the
work for poor churches at Rauschers g,
February at AIS pm.
Miss richards will review home
affairs and international relations.
Esther Chapter, o. f. S.. will give
a. dance February 10, at the Willard
Hotel. The chapter will also give a
card party April !, at the Willard.
The JohnsonPOwell-Ba Bancroft Par
ent-TeaCher Association will meet
Tuesday, pm. in Mt. Pleasant
branch public library: DR.. 6. W. A.
Iuckey will speak on the adolescent
child. Young children of mothers
wishing to attend will be cared for
in the childrens room.
4 dance for the benefit of the Beu-
salese Mission, will be given at ST.
Stephens Hall. oath and K streets,
Tuesday night. Mrs. J. +. Joyce Is
chairman of the ticket committee:
Mrs. Burns, in charge of refresh
nlents; and Joseph Degnan, chairman
of the floor committee, assisted by
Thomas ]. Trodden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Denies High Prices.

Maj. e. r. Campbell, a retired
Army officer, who asked the permits
sion of the committee to make Il
statement, said last year he paid an
average price Of SIPS ton for his
coal. This year. he said, he was pay
ing an average of s12.05, or 20 cents
less on the ton. Perhaps you think
that is gouging," Maj. Campbell said.
but if it is l can't see 1t quite that
way"
John Meikiejohn, a local dealer,
took the stand and denied the state
ments of a physician called by Sena-
tor Nicely yesterday, who had testi-
fed one of his patients had paid S14
a ton for high volatile Fairmont coal.
MIR. Meiklejohn said he had never
charged more than $40 ton for that
grade of coal, (which Is less than half
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Relief Costs S31S,827.

The Salvation Army's activities IL
the District during the u months enc
ing September 80 last cost s31S,8277s
according to the army's annual finau
cial report made public Yesterday. O
this amount. the Washington publ,
contributed S34487.35. Brig. Willial
Il. Barrett. local commander Of III,
army, announces that copies of III.
report are arajla bIe TO the public
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Births Reported

Herman and Delphs Schench. boy.
James P and Dimitra Stathis, girl.
Joseph c. and Dora Wheaton. girl.
Walter L. and Ethel L, Richardson. girl.
William B. and Grace Courtenay. boy.
Harry D. and Gathering Zier, boy.
Walter Z. and HELEN DeNeal. boy.
Robert F. and Virginia Williams, girl,
George A. and Evelyn Brodie. girl.
Amos and ,Inez Richman. boy.
Walter L. and Ethel Hayhoe. boy.
Roland and Pauline Kent. boy.
Charles A. and Margaret Garner. gtrls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

CONTINUED from First Page)
should be adjourned indefinitely, ito
await the call of the chairman and
that the committee members should
hold a brief executive session tomor-
row to determine what course should
be pursued. Jesse NJ. Suter. manag-
ing director of the Retail Coal Mer-
chants Board of Trade, requested
that if an examination of the books
were undertaken it include the entire
month of January. instead of until
the 18th. Senator Nicely accepted the
suggestion as an amendment 10 MS
motion.
At the outset of yesterdays hear
ing, Senator Copeland read an article
from the news columns OF The star OF
Friday. He declared the committee
was accused of not giving the Wash
ington merchants an opportunity to
present their side of the controversy.
He said he would like to see the entire
afternoon devoted to testimony from
the dealers, which they were to be
permitted 70 present as they saw hit
in order to get their figures before the
committee.
Senator Nicely protested that he had
two witnesses he wished to put on
the stand first Senator Copeland,
however, insisted that the testimony
of these witnesses be limited to 10
minutes. Senator Capper then made
d brief statement, declaring the retail
trade had been given almost half OF
the committees time before and Sena-
tor Neely added that he thought a
charge of unfairneSS was not justified
by the facts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
COPELAND Defends Dealers.

well" retorted Senator Copeland. Il
can only say that after this, there GER
tainIy should not be any demand for
anv coal, not even anthracite. in the
City Of Washington but West Virginia
bituminous. I think the soft coal
operators ought to give Senator Nicely
a million dollars and elect him to the
Senate for life in return for what he
has done for them. But from now
on, I think ve should give these re-
tailers all the time they want to pre-
sent their case in any way they wish. p"
Senator Nicely then called to the
stand witness who testified that
last November Q, a cOlored man had
called at his home and shown him a
bill for coke. to be delivered to a
woman living next door. The bill. the
witness declared. was from the Griffith
Coal Corporation and that the price
marked in the margin was s23 ton.
Mr.. Griffith, who was present, noted
the name and address of the COM
plainant. denying he had ever
knowingly charged such a price and
promising to look into the matter
The other witness was Mrs. A L.
Kennerly of 913 jefferson street
Brightwood Park. who said she had
asked the Griffith Coal Corporation to
deliver a ton of PocahontaS coal TO
| her home. She said she was quoted a
price of S13 a ton for the coal and
$1.75 additional for delivery, making
the cost at the curb S15.75 d. ton. She
ordered the same coal from another
dealer for s14 delivered the following
day, she testified. In this instance
too, Mr.. Griffith promised to investi-
gate and report back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Hotel Men Honored.

Representative hotel men from All
over the United States We're guests at
a dinner given in their honor at the
Washington Hotel last night by
Lawrence Mills. editor OF the National
Hotel Gazette.