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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-14

DR.. Dorsey criticises as none too admirable,
and shows why China might hate us with no
little bitterness. Read this remarkable article,
If Wtyr Chinaman-only one Of eight
brilliant features in July Cosmopolitan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-14

and the jealousy that. acid-like, ate into
the happiness Of his second wife. . around
these strange elements Miss Watkins has writ
ten most gripping and unusual story which
she calls Ahmoay ). in July Cosmopolitan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-14

Pictures of written messages COW
ering the area of a post card are
being sent by radio between Berlin
and Vienna in three seconds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-14
Officer Is MObbed
While Chasing Youth

PHILADELPHIA. June 14.-Pa-
frolman Charles Holland was mobbed
and badly injured after he had
snased two boys bathing in a foun-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-14
MAURINE WATKINS

TINE young author Of
i that remarkable drama,
Chicago" contributes a
story that opens with one of
the most startling ideas that
ever began a narrative
A husband his 6rst wife
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-14
GEORGE A. DORSEY

WHO wrote that amaz-
w ing best seller, "Why
We Behave Like Human
Beings" tells what all the
shooting's for in China. This
fascinating article reveals our
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-14
"The Day After Tomorrow"

He coming world weird will you Strange, towering
buildings televSion bureaus automobiles that fly
airplanes that crawl along the roofs of the srees
Men all the earth will and talk each other almost
Instantly We will tap the earth for power produced from the atom
and transmitted by wireless Individuals will fly with little
effort moths Such rapid communication may make necessary
universal language social system and the erasng national
boundaries. His series begins in July Cosmopolitan
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-14

pistol and shot twice into the
paving. The two youths who started
the fight escaped.
Three more patrolmen, attracted
by the shots, dispersed the crowd
and ended the fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
DEAN WILBUR SPEAKS
ATT LENTEN SERVICES
Religion Offers Companionship, He
Says, at Laymens' Meeting
in Keiths' Theater.

Loneliness is akin to sin, DIR. w. A..
Wilbur, dean of George Washington
University, said in discussing 1.-THE
Companionship of Jesus" at the
Lenten services held at Keith's The
alter today, under the auspices of the
Laymen's Association OF the Episco-
pal Diocese of Washington in coop
Grafton with the Federation of
Churches Of the District.
There is no fellowship in sim" DR.
Wilbur said. Religion offers com
partnership. All orthodox thinking has
as its basis companionship with
Jesus" he stated
Comdr. c. T. Jewell, u. S. ~, re-
tired, presided today. Prayer and
benediction were offered by Rev. II.
w. d. Wilmington, executive secretary
Of the Columbia Association of Bap-
fist Churches. There will be no serv-
ice tomorrow.
On Monday. Tuesday and Wednes-
day of next week Rev. Dr. Arson
Phelps Stokes, canon of Washington
Cathedral, will be the speaker. On
Thursday DIR. Howard A. Kelley of
Baltimore will speak. On Friday DIR.
L. r. Devine of American University
will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
HADLEY SEES DANGER
IN CONTROL OF RATES
Says Unless Economic Principles
Are Fully Understood, Disaster
May Be Repeated.
By the Associated Press.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, March H.
Unless the economic principles behind
rate control are fully understood, 1--WE
are likely in the near future to repeat
on a broader scale our disastrous ex-
periences with railroad control from
1910 to 1920" President Emeritus
Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, who is
a director of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford and the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroads, says in
an article in the forthcoming issue of
the Yale Review.
Things are a good deal better to-
day than they were in 1917" says DIR.
Hadley in the article, but the rail-
road situation as a whole is far from
being a sound or satisfactory one.
Many railroad systems are now show
ing a good net income, and a few are
showing a large one. But the average
return on capital invested in rail
roads is not nearly so great as most
people assume, and the danger from
adverse legislation is very much
greater.
SIN order that the control of rates
NAV be effective and not disastrous,
we need more light all around, at
present we don't see deep enough
into things to have economic principles
to fall back upon. Unless we get such
principles, we are likely in the near
future to repeat on a broader scale
the disastrous experience with rail-
road control from 1910 to 1920"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
HEADQUARTERS OPENED
FOR WOMAN'S MEETING
World Welfare Conference Will Be
Held in May at Carlton Hotel,
It Is Announced.

Permanent headquarters for the
Woman's Universal Alliance have
been established at the Carlton Hotel
and the world welfare conference will
be held by the alliance during the first
week of May in that hotel, it was an.
nounced today.
The Woman's Universal Alliance Is
sponsoring the erection of the Moth.
ers' Memorial in Washington, a
building described as of service ITO
commemorate the names of great
mothers and great women and to per.
form practical and definite service for
the mothers. homes and children of
the country
Mrs. G. c. Calhoun, president of
the alliance, said today that the
theme OF the conference will be a
comparative analysis between the
women of all countries as Wen as
the different States of the Union in
their educational, civic and govern :
mental activities and the exact
status of their position in the diff
ferent nations. Embassies and leea-
tons in Washington are being in
Vlfed to cooperate in the interests
OF the conference, it is stated.
James Cameron and DR.. David
n. Mitchell, late president of Cum
oerland University of Tennessee have
been made members of the executive
committee of the alliance. A must
cal program is being arranged for
the conference under the auspices of
Richard Copley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
COAL MEN FILE BRIEF
CLAIMING RATE HIGH
Railroad Charges Termed Unjust
Carriers Place Supporting
Views Before Commission.

The Potomac Electric Power Co..
FadeIev & CO., coal wholesalers OF
Washington, and Agnew d CO., coai
retailers, today filed with the Inter
state Commerce Commission a brief
declaring that the freight rate OF 80. -
per ton of coal from West Virginia
mines applied to all Baltimore d ONO
deliveries in the District of Columbia
and to Benning, ID. G., on the rem
syIvania. is unjust and unreasonable.
Through c. r. Marshall, attorney for
the coinplainants, they contend that
the present practice of applying rate
of S2.S4 to Pennsylvania-CheSa peaka
and Ohio in the District OF Columbia,
except to Benning, and except TO de-
liveries on the Baltimore a. ONO Is
unduly prejudicial, and that just
reasonable and non-discriminatory rate
for the service would not exceed Sz.S4.
MANY precedents were cited in the COM
plant TO justify the claim that sZ:o4
rate should apply on all coal deliveries
from West Virginia to Washington de-
livery points.
At the same time supporting briefs
were filed by several operators asso-
Citations in West Virginia and BY orher
rail carriers serving competing terri
tory. The Pennsylvania, IN @nothef
brief. claimed the rate of 1913 would
be subnornal If lowered. citing many
precedents for it's claim.
The filing of briefs marks another
step in a 1ong-standing controversy IN
which several local coal dealers ana
the Potomac Electric Power Co. claim
the PENNSYLVANIA and b. ~ y. charge
unfair rates for coal deliveries In
washington. Claims Of all the com.
plainants and intervenors were heard
before an Interstate Commerce Com
mission examiner several weeks ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
THEFT FOR F|NERY
COSTS MOTHER PAY
$50 Retirement Forfeiture
and Withholding Salary
Ordered in Decision.

Mrs. Grace l.. Crawford of River
dale, Md, who is on probation under
a prison sentence of two years FOR
theft from the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing of $50, which she con-
fessed stealing to satisfy her daugh-
ter's longing for pretty clothes, must
forfeit the $50 out Of her retirement
pay and lose all pay for her services
from the last pay day prior to the
date of her dismissal June 20, 1925.
This was decided today by Con-
troller General McCarl in an important
decision involving not only the case
of this woman, whose confessed lar
ceny for her daughters sake aroused
much interest at the time of her trial,
but involving also a principal of pay
forfeiture which may be far reaching
in its influence.
Claim For Pay Denied.
Mrs. Crawford commended she was
due pay in arrears amounting to
S22.93 for working from June Is to
June 20, 1925, but this was denied by
the controller general, who went deep
ly into legal precedent, even citing
IAN established English rule" that
servant or employe who is dis
charged for good cause forfeits his
rendered."
The retirement fund to the credit of
Mrs. Crawford, which had been held
up on account of her case, amounts to
$123.14, according to the Commissioner
of Pensions, and from this McCarl or
dered the disbursing clerk of the Blu
reau of Pensions to pay $50 to the
Treasury Department to redeem the
stolen bills, and forward the re-
mainder, $43.14 to Mrs. Crawford.
An interesting argument was sub
mitted on behalf of Mrs. Crawford,
that she would be liable only for the
cost of manufacturing the currency in
question, as it had not been completed.
Conductor Caused Arrest.
The manufacturing cost amounted
to approximately cents, as against
the $50 face value. The eight notes
were printed on both sides and com
plete except for the seal and serial
number.
Several of them had been passed in
Washington before Mrs. Crawford was
finally apprehended through the viei'
lance of a street car conductor, who
recognized one of the $40 notes which
she submitted for purchase of 81
worth of tokens. He notified the Sec
ret service.
McCarl held that the Government
had been damaged to the extent of $50
instead of cents, as the Treasury had
to redeem the notes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
w. C. CLOTH ORDERED
!. TO APPEAR APRIL Il
Arlington County Commemorative
Attorney Cited in Action for
Removal From Office.

William C. Cloth. commonwealth 5
attorney of Arlington County, Va.
must show cause on April 21. why he
should not be removed from office,
under a rule issued today in the
Circuit Court of Arlington County by
Judge Samuel ID. Brent.
Mr.. Cloth is charged with drunken
ness In public places in a petition 10
the court filed March 2, by Thomas
ID. Baltic. editor of The Chronicle.
a county weekly. Five specific in
stances of intoxication are alleged in
the papers presented to the court. the
alleged misdemeanors ranging over
a period of several years.
Cloth accepted service of the rule
without comment. except to state that
he will present his defense In complete
form on the day fixed for hearing the
case. He previously had announced
his confidence of being indicated.
when his answer is heard.
The commonwealth's attorney con
tends that the fling OF the charges
are the result of politics." lie is =
candidate for reelection at the next
county election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
AMERICANS IN FORE
AT LEAGUE SESSION
Delano and MacCormack of Wash
ington Argue on Persian
Opium Problem.
BY the Associated Press.


GENEVA. Switzerland, March Ii
Two Americans took leading roles in
the League of Nations council session
today, during discussion of the plan
for substituting other crops for the
opium poppy in Persia.
Frederic A. Delano of Washington.
as president of the Leagues commits
sion on inquiry in Persia, presented
his report in behalf of the League.
Col. Daniel Mccormack of Washing
ton, sitting on the council board as
Official representative of the Persian
government, of which he is financial
director, argued against certain pro-
visions in Mr.. Delano's recommen-
dations.
The Delano report urged reduction
of the Persian output of opium by 10
per cent annually. Col. Mccormack
explained that Persia was only willing
to accept trial period of three years,
as the League program would disturb
the country's economic life unduly.
No decision was taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
RULE ON DISPENSING
POISON In HOSPITALS
Chicago Health Official Issues Reg
ulations, Following Recent
Deaths of Infants.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, March 11.--Taking a
lesson from the recent hospital deaths
of six infants fed boric acid instead of
sterile water, DR.. III. N. Bundeson,
health commissioner of Chicago, to-
day promulgated new regulations to
govern the dispensing of poisons used
in hospitals.
At the same time the current issue
of the Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association, in its hospital num-
Der, seized upon the opportunity to
spread the lesson throughout Ameri-
can medicine.
1.-THE deaths of six infants in a
hospital to which mothers came for
the safe care that a hospital should
provide must not be permitted to pass
without the lesson of the accident
being driven home to the personnel
of every hospital in the country" said
the journal. 1.-THE guardians of the
well have only partial responsibility;
the caretakers of the sick and of the
infant have responsibility that is COM
plete, that demands eternal vigilance,
that permits no escape. Their re-
sponsibility can not be lightly as
sumed, and, once taken, must be
borne to the utmost of human
strength and wisdom"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
SUPREME COURT HEARS
KODAK SUIT ARGUMENTS
Uohn w. Davis, Counsel for East
man Co., Urges Refusal to
Order Laboratories Sold.

The Federal Trade Commission's
attack on the Eastman Kodak Co.,
tnyolving charges Of monopoly in
moving picture films, was up for oral
argument today in the Supreme Court
The Government contends that the
company owns three laboratories
which 1t threatens 10 use in making
prints from the film negatives should
the Allied Films Laboratories Asso-
citation. now engaged in making the
prints, refuse to use Eastman films
exclusively. The court has been
urged TO enforce the commission's
order directing teh Eastman Co. TO
dispose of the laboratories.
John w. Davis, counsel for the
Eastman Co., insists that the Court
of Appeals at New York City was
right in refusing to order the sale
OF the laboratories, contending that
their ownership did not constitute un-
fair methods of competition or an
effort to create a monopoly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
BANK CASHIER ENDS LIFE.
Indiana Institution Closes Doors
After Suicide.

BUNKER HILL, Ind, March IL up.
The Farmers State Bank here was
not opened today following the finding
OF the body of A. M. Zehring, as, cash
Ter In a rear room. Zehring had shot
himself through the head.
no motive for behring's act is
known. The bank was reported in
good financial condition a month ago
by State examiner, according to an
official. The bank will remain closed
until a check-up can be made.
Several business men Of Bunker Hill
said today they had been worried over
the condition of the Farmers State
Bank Tor several weeks and particu.
larry so since the failure of q bank
at Onward and the closing of another
at Galveston recently.
1t is known that Zehring was in
Peru yesterday for conference with
bankers TO negotiate a loan Of 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
LOCAL AND NEARBY SCHOOLS
ENTERED IN ORATORY CONTEST
Fifty-nine Institutions In Capital, Mary
land and Virginia Are Preparing for
National Match May 27.

genie III. Osbourn. principal; Miss Lulu
ID. Metz. chairman.
Swavely Agricultural High School,
Eli Swavely, principal. j. r.. Walter,
chairman.
Nokesville High School, I. n. Fl.
Beahm, principal and chairman.
Haymarket High School, Miss s. IL.
Hindle, principal. Miss NJ. r.. Brewer,
chairman
Falls Church High School, Miss
Maude d. Hobbs, principal. Commit
tee: Miss Margaret Fravel and Miss
Anna Henry.
Fairfax High School. Thomas Chap
man. principal. Committee; Miss Jes-
sic Payne and Miss Faye Sprinkle.
Franklin Sherman High School at
Mclean, Miss Mary NJ. Snead, prin'
cipal. Miss Elizabeth Matheny, chair
man.
Oakton High School. ]. Fred Cum
ningham, principal. II. G.. Cunning
ham, chairman. and Miss Dorothy
Otley.
Aide High School. w. Il. Tyler
principal and chairman.
Leesburg High School. A. 5. Jen
kins, principal and chairman.
Ashburn High School, Clarence
Monroe. principal and chairman.
Lincoln High School. n. X. Sanders
principal and chairman.
Round Hill High School, w. ID. Pott
principal and chairman
Herndon High School, Miss n. Greg
DRY Edwards, principal and chairman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
THREE OF BANDIT
GANG GET 10 YEARS
Two Others, First Offenders,
Get 5 and a. IL Years,
Respectively.

Sentences of 10 years each in the
penitentiary were imposed today by
Justice Hoehling on three of the gang
of five bandits, four white and one
colored, which, after stealing a car
in Georgetown, January IS, rode across
the city and held up stCrekeeper at
1900 East Capitol street and robbed
him of $50. In the stolen automobile
they drove into Virginia, where a
store was broken into, and while traV'
cling at 65 miles an hour on their re-
turn the stolen machine was wrecked
near Mclean, Va. The bandits escaped
injury and were brought to Washing
ton in a passing automobile.
Archie r. Benson and Joseph j.
Binns, both white, and Henry G. Har-
i-s, colored, were each given sentences
of 8 years on the joy-ridinS charge and
10 years for the robbery. the sen
fences being allowed to run concur
rently. Samuel r. Copeland, 20 years
old, first offender was given 3 years
on the joy-riding charge and years
for the robbery, the sentences to run
concurrently. Maurice j. McClanahan,
% years old, also a first offender, who
aided the Government in the prose
cution of Harris, who stood trial, was
given years for the joy-ridlng and
years anu hi"iA'ii0 va N'AS
charge.
Benson and Binns had criminal
records, the court explained, and Har-
ris had also served time for violating
the national prohibition act. Justice
Hoenling depIored the prevalence of
crimes of violence by youths in this
district and warned that young men
starting out on a life of banditry
should expect to receive the punish
ment fixed by law. The probation law,
he pointed out, does not assure per-
son the right to commit his first Of
Tense and go UNPUBLISHED
McCIanahan cried while sentence
was being passed, but the others took
their punishment apparently I'M
moved. Counsel for McClanahan has
told the court that the boys father
is seriously i'll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

held a prisoner somewhere Mrs.
Walter, her mother declared She
loved me too well to let me suffer this
way. She would have gotten in touch
with me. / am positive. She called
me up by long distance every holiday,
and sometimes several times month.
DO YOU think she would keep me in
suspense now. for any reason?
would give anything l own TO know
definitely what has been her fate.
In releasing DIR. Houck the author
tiles at Johns Hopkins Hospital offer
ed no explanation, nor did they say
whether DIR. Houck had been cured of
the mental illness of which he was a
victim. They explained that DR..
HouCk had requested them to say
nothing and that they would follow
his wishes. Some days before, how
ever. heads of the hospital had init
mated to star reporter their belief
in DR. Houck's insanity.
When the reporter asked for in
formation about Houck, the resident
physician in charge of the Phipps
pSychiatric clinic, where the patient
was hospitalized, said he was obliged
20 maintain absolute secrecy about all
patients under his care. After being
told that some doctors had questioned
the authenticity of DIR. Houck's in
sanity. however, he replied:
wen, do you think for a minute
that we would have kept DR.. Houck II
he had been feigning? | can only add
that DR.. Houck is showing some signs
of Improvement" He declined to
amplify that statement.
Declared Insane Here.
Psychiatrists at st. Elizabeth s Hos
pital, Gallinger Municipal Hospital
and at Walter Reed Hospital also are
known to have decided that DR.. Houck
was insane. The psychiatriSts at the
first two expressed a belief that he
suffered from a form of insanity
which might give him lucid periods
for several years at time, but that
recurrent relapses were probable.
Although the doctors at Gallinger
Hospital admitted a physician with
his knowledge of the particular dis
ease his symptoms indicated might
successfully feign the depression, they
added that after studying his case
for several weeks they felt confident
that DR.. Houck's was a truly patholog
ical case. Doctors who had him in
charge elsewhere during the succeed
ing weeks expressed similar view.
DIR. Houck's mother, who is also a
physician, said she entertained no
doubts as to her sons insanity. She
said he had suffered a similar spell
some years ago, when he was a mem
Der of the staff of the Mayo brothers
clinic.
QuarreIed Night of Disappearance.
DIR. and Mrs. Houck had a quarrel
the night Mrs. Houck disappeared DR.
Houck admitted to newspapermen and
detectives that he had torn his wife's
clothing and that he had seen her slip
out of the apartment later. Members
of Mrs. Houck's family said they had
been told the quarrel resulted from
DIR. Houcks resenting a visit paid
them by two members OF the staff of
St EliZabeths Hospital.
DIR. Houck wanted to be alone and to
study. In fit of anger, it is said, he
snubbed his callers and went to bed,
leaving Mrs. Houck to entertain them
alone. The two physicians left shortly
and Mrs. Houck took her husband to
task for his treatment of his guests
This, her relatives said, led to the
quarrel in which DIR. Houck admitted
having beat her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
COURT MESSENGER HELD
ON MURDER CHARGE
Robert w. Williams Arrested Fol-
lowing Card Game Affray-0ne
Man Killed, Another Wounded.

Charged with murder, Robert Viii
son Williams, 43 years. old. of 1906
r street, colored messenger Of the
United States Supreme Court for the
last 20 years, was being held by police
today following a shooting ARRAY re-
sulting over dispute in card game,
in which Major Gaines, colored, 40
years old, of 1850 p street, was killed
and George jefferson. colored, 40 years
old, was slightly wounded.
The shooting took place in the home
of Gaines about 1870 am. today. Po-
lice upon arrival found Gaines dead
and Jefferson with a wound in the
leg. Williams was not in the house.
Gaines had been shot in the stomach.
Shortly after Detectives Cole and
Messer of the police headquarters,
with Police Chauffeur Hugh Robey,
placed Williams under arrest when
they found him driving his automo-
bile along Church street. near Fiji
teenth street, on the wrong side of the
roadway, according to police.
Jefferson was given first-aid treat
ment at Emergency Hospital and later
went home.