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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10
D. [. INSURANCE
GUT URGED

The District's fire insurance rates
should be reduced at Least is per
cent, Thomas M. Baldwin, r.,
superintendent Of Insurance., told
the District Commissioner In his
annual report today.
He recommended the appointment
Of 4 commission to investigate the
fire rate eituation here and de-
termine whether or not the District
is enjoying az low fire rates az It
should.
Baldwin submitted q chart show
ing that in the past 10 years fire
insurance premiums collected here
have totaled 1921. 931.14 and the
losses paid have totalled $685..
440.6e, or only 80 per cent.
During the fiscal year 1875 the
percentage was slightly less with
s2,771, 390.32 collected and $780,.
1871. or 80 per cent, paid out.
The insurance chief pointed out
that the National Convention Of In.
surance Commissioners recently adj.
vocated 5 per cent underwriting
profit on the fire insurance bust
ness. Such q profit II provided, he
said. by q loss ratio OF 80 per cert.
Among the other recommended
lions included in his report were the
following:
That a fun time actuary be pro-
vided the insurance apartment to
check up on the valuation Of the
local. companies.
Passage of an adequate and just
workmen's compensation law.
Establishment of an 'up-to-date,
adequate, and workable insurance
code" for the District.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10
MEAT DEALERS
To ELECT

Delegates from Detroit and PhiIa.
delphia were waging an aggressive
battle for the 1928 convention of
the National Association Of Retail
Meat Dealers, at the closing session
Of the conclave at the Raleigh
Hotel. Election Of officers also will
take place today.
Federal Standardization OF pack.
ages for bacon and dried beef was
urged in resolution adopted last
night.
w. G. Davis, assistant market
ing specialist of the Department OF
Agriculture, declared that unscru.
pulous meat dealers have been
bilking the public by buying worn.
out dairy COWS and selling them
for fresh and prime beef.
This practice has been nipped.
he declared. by stamping Govern.
raent graded meat as It leaves the
packing house,
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NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK. Aug. 10.-Cotton
turned irregular today as the result
OF severe profit-taling and increased
speculative selling. Hisher Liver.
pool cables and the continuance az
unfavorable weather in the cotton
belt were almost entirely dlsre.
garded. Fluctuations were spread
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soaring for gains Of rs cents bale,
then dipping to losses Of 81 q bale,
Trading was fairly active.
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down 20; December. 1888, down ~;
January. 1915, down 20, ana March.
1885, down Is.
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BALIIMoRE GRAM Market

Wheat-In good demand. Receipts
from West Increasing. No. 3 red
winter. $1.465h; No. red winter,
Rarlicky, $1.40%.
Corn-Fir1n under scarcity. No.
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0561sc. Receipts light.
Rye-nominaI.
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huality, SIC to $1S ton.
Flour Steady, unchanged.
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The Alaska fisherman. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1923-1932, 1927-04-15
His threats

1eactionary as LOmen. His threats
on several occasions to put skids
under Sundquist" and to see to Il
that Dick never returned to the L.
gislature would be considered brut-
ally bad taste by Tammany ward.
When compelled by the House to
apologize to members of the Fish.
cries committee, he thought that the
apology should not be published in
the journal of the House and that
he-the petted child Of the rein
deer monopoly-shOuld be immune
from the usual rules of parliament
The Alaska fisherman. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1923-1932, 1927-04-15

people of the Third Division will
legislature. 1t will always be thus
so long as the average man says
that his one vote doesn't count. Be
assured that the copper and cannery
people get their friends to the polls.
The Alaska fisherman. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1923-1932, 1927-04-15

come over 100000. and yet he vot-
cd against doing SO when Murray at
tackled that item.
We believe this man will improve
with experience and that at heart
he is true progressive.
The Alaska fisherman. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1923-1932, 1927-04-15
RALPH LOMEN
of Nome.

of Nome.
This fellow gave the worst exhi-
bition of superiority complex yet
seen in the Legislative halls. SUI
periority in Mr.. Lomen's case means
swelled head. His every action in
Dictated that he must have been rails
cd pet for he would not tolerate a
suggestion from any member that he
might be mistaken in his views of
legislative subjects. In asserting
his superiority he was intolerant.
insulting and ill-mannered His
gratutious insults to Mr.. Paul were
evidently promoted by race hatred
which leads us to wonder where the
Eskimo people will find themselves
if they are ever subject to the tend
or mercies of Lomen. His attempt
to browbeat Speaker Smith and to
hulldoZe his colleague Sundquist
were the actions of a bully. His eff
forts to embarrass Charlie Johnson,
& fisherman testifying before his
committee were resented by Scott of
Cordova who is himself almost as
The Alaska fisherman. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1923-1932, 1927-04-15
JOSEPH MURRAY

No longer does Joe hail from Nc
Carthy. He now halls from Cordova
no need however to change his
politics.
Joe is a born leader of men; force
full, vigorous, relentless. Even
Ralph Lomen, the jumping jack of
the last legislature feared Joe for
when Joe cracked his whip, it cut
the string Of the jumper.
However attractive Murray might
be as a human being, he is a reac-
tionary of the worst type. He OPP
emily fought for Big Interests and de-
serves the praise of Johnny Walker
Troy. Together with Ben Grier,
he opposed raising the tax On the
Kennecott Mine from l and A96
to go. They argued that it was
ell wrong to tax that mine more
than $4,000. On its net income of
over $4,5OO,OOO for 1925. They
both fought and defeated the pro-
posal to tax the nonresident even
so low as $25. each. They fought
against increasing the tax on traps
so as to equalize the cost and thus
give our residents a chance to feed
their families in Alaska.
Joe Murray was chairman of the
Judiciary Committee and held back
many of the bills entrusted to his
committee so that, altho most of
them finally passed, they could not
be signed by the Governor until
AFTER the legislature had adjourn
ed. This many good lawyers say in
validates the law. OF course, Joe
would have saved this embarrass-
ment If our eminent Governor had
not become so interested in a card
game (was it poker) that he could
not attend to his duties as govern
or by attending the closing hours Of
the legislature as other governors
had done before him.
We suppose however, that the
send him (Joe) back to the next
Evening star., 1927-11-20
ROAD RESEARCH BOARD
TO MEET DECEMBER |
Highway Group of National Coun.
Gil to Discuss Building
Methods.

Latest developments in the realm
of highway engineering research will
be discussed at a meeting of the High.
way Research Board of the Division
of Engineering and Industrial Re.
search of the National Research Coun-
ell in this city December / and :.
Sessions will be held at headquar.
ters of the council. Twenty-first and
streets.
One of the more important reports
will be that of the committee on low
cost improved roads," which will EN-
brace extensive researches covering
approximately a year and half. The
report will include a description OF
virtually every type of low-cost road
as well as recommendations for the
construction and maintenance of sec
ondary roads.
The board was organized to prepare
a comprehensive national program foi
highway research, to assist organi
cations TO coordinate their activities
in connection Herewith and to collect
and distribute information of re-
search
Evening star., 1927-11-20

application may lead to the same
thing. They know tnat if they do
not settle cases promptly and fairly.
eventually the policy holder will te-
come Disguised with private insurance
enterprise and Will demand just the
thin- the in sur2rce compa nies fear,
peoples fund.
Hope for Improvement.
Il do not think that such fear
is the motive impcllinS the majority
of companies. Although they may
not be fully in sympathy with the
law. nevertheless they are helping
In is administration il the Corfiden.
hope that the small defects that now
are apparent will be worked out
equtably and satisfactorily"
The rest of the Nation may do
about compulsory automobile liabil-
ity insurance as it pleases. so far
as Mr. Goodwin is concerned. He is
certain of its merit and in regard
to the attacks upon the law il is
not to be questioned that he knows
and clearly recognizes its weaknesses
better than any one else. Its appli-
cation will be simpler and more eff
fective when certain minor, technical
changes have been made, he is con-
vinced.
AS to the basic worth of the law
there is not the slightest question
in his mind. He is completely con-
WINGED thst insurance to compensate
the innocent victim of a motor acci.
dent is just as vital today as good
brakes are to preventing that acci-
dent
A big ma ajoritt of Massachusetts
people are with him, not only because
of their belief in the soundness of
the principle he advocates. but also
because they believe in the fairness,
intelligence and integrity of the man
himself.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
PUPILS REPEAT PLAY.
Western High School Glee Club
Gives Threc-Act Comedy.

'The Belle of Barcelona" a mu-
sical comedy in three acts. by Charles
Ross CLANCY. was repeated last night
al Western High School by the West
ern Glee Club, under direction of Miss
Lucy G. Lynch and Miss Bernice
Wagner of the music department of
the school.
Principal parts were taken by the
following: Stephen Nyman, Jean AL
len. Elizabeth Seeds, Carol Simpson.
Marie Louise Duncan, Everard Meade,
Perry Rutherford. Godfrey Crevke,
Jack Narela. Fletcher Henderson
Katherine Smith, Helen Middleton.
Nancy Pore, William Zepp, William
Draper and hewitt SmoOt.
The cast was assisted by Span.
ian girls chorus" of 81 voices, a
boys chorus" of II voices and .
special dancers. Alice Wine is presi-
dent Of the Giee Club.
Rich deposits of aluminium clay and
iron have been found recently in Ice
Ia nd
Evening star., 1927-11-20

individual been kept 1t is terse and
complete. and it has succeeded in free
ing the roads Of hundreds Of the
palpably unfit, in the opinion of Fay
State officials.
Almost daily vital new develop
ments in this form are to be noticed,
and. successful as the law has been
in this respect. it has achieved but a
fraction of the success eventually to
be attained Mr.. Goodwin is con
yinced.
AS to the charge that the compul
sorry, insurance L.: has driven many
cars of the road. Mr.. Goodwin says:
sure, it has. I'm proud OF that
fact. because the cars that have dis
appeared are those ramshackle vehi-
cies that We're the eravest menace on
our highways In the main they
have been trucks and light CONNER
cial vehicles that barely were hanging
together, and their disappearance Is
a matter of satisfaction to everyone
who may lay even the slightest claim
to consideration of the public good. y
a glance at the records shows that
Massachusetts is shy it's normal ln-
crease of $4,000 car registrations for
1927. This fact does not seem so sig
nilicant to Mr.. Goodwin He is per-
fectly willing that opponents OF COM
pu.sory liability insurance put 1t
down TO the Massachusetts law If they
wish. He is satisfied to defend the
soundness of principle that. he de.
clares. drives the unfit car as well
az the unfit motorist off the high
way"
Sales Held Below Normal.
others however are not quite of
the same mind as Mr.. Goodwin in
this respect They point to the fact
that automobile sales everywhere have
been under normal THAI peculiar To-
cal economic factors Rave been at
work in various parts s'f the State
and that on the whole, while ccm-
pulsory insurance has driven out
many cars, other factors may have
been as significant. or more SO, in the
slump in registration.
If outsiders and special interests
have assailed the law with ever-ln-
creas;ng vigor. Mr. Goodwin is par
ticularly Gratified with the reception
his own state .as accorded II. If
motorists, insurance companies and
others were opposed to il before its
enactment, they now either are COM
pletely reconcfled to it or at least
willing to give it Il trial over a
period adequate to reveal its true
worth.
Automotiye men. even. are not ac-
lively opposed to the law, except the
used car dealers, particularly those
who market the cheapest types of
secondhand machines, he declares.
Relative to the insurance compi MES,
! Mr.. Goodwin declares that since the
law went into effect they have given
the utmost cooperation. They have
done this unselhsniy, for the most
part, he believes, but those which lIaVe
been opposed to il are forced TO yield
their services.
The Insurance companies resisted
the measure largely, on the ground
! that it would pave tlve way for State
| insurance" says Mr.. Goodwin. Now
they know that any stumbling blocks
| they throw in The way Of the law S
Evening star., 1927-11-20
COMPULSORY AUTO
INSURANCE BACKED
Massachusetts Registrar De.
MES CareIessnesS Has Re-
suited From Measure.

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1927-11-20
"In the matter of a criminal con

"In the matter of a criminal con
tempt.
No. 1907. Criminal Docket 46.
"In consideration of the correspond
pnce referred TO in n memorandum
filed ty the court this day, in the
above entitled proceeding, and of the
publication, in whole or in part OF
copies of the earlier of the two let
ters referred to in said memorandum
it is by the court this nineteenth day
of November. AID. 1927.
"Ordered that the order of the
court heretofore filed in the above
entitled proceeding on the nineteenth
day of November. 1927, be. and the
same is hereby. amended in the single
particular of omittirg the name of
Mr.. Peyton Gordon. therein mentioned,
the said order in all other respects
to remain in full force.
"F. l.. SIDDONS.
"J1sticn :"
Evening star., 1927-11-20

Last year November vas one of the
worst months of the year in the mat
ter of fatal accidents. with 93 deaths.
This year. it marks the beginning of
the real effectiveness Of the law. Mr..
Goodwin declares. And. no one could
he more sanguine that this will show
up desivelv when the totals for the
year are taken. The States statistical
year ends on November so and if the
accident level for the rest of the month
continues as at present. 1927 will show
a reduction of more than 25 fatalities
over the previous year.
Evening star., 1927-11-20

Yet. in the light of the remarkable
record achieved during the present
month, the first year of the laws oper-
alton is going to show good results
even when compared with 1926. Up to
the first of November this effect was
more difficult to forcsee, as revealed ~
the official figures, set forth in the
following tabiue:
Evening star., 1927-11-20

+nrmines the individual case. If il
thinks the insurance company is
wrong, it directs it to write policy
f. however. it agrees that the mans
record is bad, it sustains the insur
ance company. Each case is taken
strictly on It's merits. The effective
ness of the system is indicated by the
fact that, although an appeal from
the boards ruling may be taken &c
the court, not one case ever has been
appealed
Here is provided a method of driver
discipline that eXcels anything ever
Developed Mr.. Goodwin declares
Under no other system. certainly. has
no careful and up.to-date record OF the
Evening star., 1927-11-20

to put her blind pupils into the offices
and factories of Germany, and this
has been realized. as. today. those
pupils hold commercial and govern
mental positions ranging from factory
hands to an assistant secretary of
state.
Fraulein Hirsch explained that one
of the principal courses given III the
school is stenography and typing. ana
that for this course it was necessary
to construct n stystem of shorthand in
German Braille, and special type
writer. 1t was also necessary that the
men who were to be trained for fac
tory work should receive their in
structon from some one familiar with
the factory processes. So she went
through the learning of each process
herself and then took her knowledge
back to them,
Opened to Civilians.
Now that practically all of the 2,70o
war blinded of Germany have been re
educated and in their own work, Frau
lein Hirsch said that she has opened
the school to blind civilians. both men
and women. Each year she enrolls
SOC students.
1t is comparatively easy to place
her graduates, she explained. because
of the German law passed in 1919
which requires that every employer
of % healthy employees shall take one
badly disabled worker onto his force
For each so not handicapped he must
add another of the manned. The only
other country where a similar method
is in practice. she said. is England
where the Kings roll makes it an
honor for an employer to give posi-
ton to n disabled man.
Fraulein 1irsh was received at the
White House by President Coolidge
Friday. While here she saw" the
work done for the American blind in
the Library of Congress, where Adelia
NJ. 4oyt. director. was her hostess
Washington, she said. she considered
the most beautiful of the seven cities
that she has visited while on her trip
Evening star., 1927-11-20

On the basis OF the table, The flrSt
year of compulsory liability insurance
would appear To be an accident pro-
ducer. This aspect. however is chang
ed if the figures are brought up to No
vember Is, as shown by this chart:
Noyenahp Fatalities Total for
Evening star., 1927-11-20
Dedicated Life to Work.

F'raulein Hirsch was studying voice
culture at the University OF London
when war was declared, and was de-
tanned in the British capital for sew.
eral weeks When she finally reached
Germany. number of blind soldiers
had already returned from the front
and she made up her mind that she
wo,,ld Give up her life io work for
them.
Uniting forces with the eminent eye
speciali5t, Prof Paul Slick of
Berlin, she opened the schoo! which
was 10 teach the men who were
pushed suddenly into blackness ON the
battlcfclds how to take their places
again in the world of those who could
SEQ.
Her greatest ambition, she said. was
Evening star., 1927-11-20
WORK FOR GERMAN
WAR BLIND SHOWN
FrauIein Hirsch, on Tour oil
American Institutions,
Describes Own Task.

The story of Germany's efforts to
rrllabiltate her blind. and to make
these afflicted persons self-supporting
was related by Fraulein Betty Hirsch
of Berlin. herself blind since child
hood. who left Washington yesterday
after Il tWo.daY visit.
Fraulein IIirsch, director of the
Slick School for the War Blinded, is
making Il tour of the United States,
at the invitation of the American
Foundation for the Blind. to see what
this country is doing for the care and
education of the Sightless.
While here, she lectured before the
District Association for the Blind.
outlining her endcavors of the past l3
years. which have attained such
prominence in Germany that she has
received government subsidy TO
n
Evening star., 1927-11-20
EXpCCt to Show GOnd Results.

that has never been brought ont by
opponents of the law in figures of
fered to prove the law failure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-07
SAYSDRY AGENT
WAS PAID $4,000
La Guardia Declares Bert
Rolls Salary Was 600
Per Week.

Representative LaGuardia of New
York, in a letter to Controller General
McCarl, has charged that Bert Rolls,
Federal prohibition agent, had re-
ceived a total of $4,000 for operating
Leshone de Paris, Inc, in New York,
q corporation formed by the Govern
ment for "the ostensible purpose OF
detecting diversion of denatured or
poison alcohol" LaGuardia asked for
an accounting of the money paid to
Rolls and Michael Malone, another
prohibition agent.
A letter made public today was also
addressed to Secretary Mellon by Mr..
LaGuardia, saying that Rolls was the
agent who obtained evidence against
the Morrison Hotel in Chicago, but
that This conduct was so disgraceful"
that the Government never prosecuted
the case: and that Treasury Depart
ment representatives in New York
assisted Rolls in leaving the country
in order to have IAN excuse" for not
prosecuting several cases in which he
had obtained evidence.
Mr.. LaGuardia wrote McCarl that
he was informed Rolls received a
SALARY of $1,000 per week, and in
addition was permitted to draw upon
funds received from the sale OF
poison alcohol to pay his personal
debts
In his letter to Secretary Mellon,
LaGuardia said he was informed Rolls
again was back in New York, and
asked why the Treasury Department
did mot proceed with the trial of the
indictments which you stated had
been obtained through the above
mentioned Leshone de Paris"