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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
SWITCHING CHARGE
HERE TO Be PROBED
Southern Coal Operators to
Testify in Board of Trade
Investigation.

An investigation of switching charges
on freight handled in the Washington
area, which are Said to have vital eff
feet on retail prices in the metropolitan
district Of the National Capital, will be
started tomorrow afternoon by a spe-
cial committee of the Washington
Board of Trade, headed by John j.
Esch, former chairman of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
This study is an outgrowth of the
vigorous protests made by local trade
bodies and business interests over the
considerable boost made in freight
charges to Washington from the South,
affecting shipments here of Southern
bituminous coal, and at the initial
meeting of the committee tomorrow
Southern coal operators interested in
the recent coal case before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission will tes-
tifv
TIE purpose of the Investigations of
the special committee, it is announced,
is to gather all possible information
from interested parties, including the
several railroads, in reference to the
problem. .
1t is pointed out that in the Wash
ington area, unlike most other large
cities, there is no stated definite
charge for all freight handled here in
switching operations, different charges
being assessed for the handling of
freight from. one local point to an
ether over the different railroad ter
ninal yards.
The special committee of the Board
of Trade consists of Mr.. Esch as chair
man, E. j. Murphy. president OF the
trade body; w. w. Everett, general
manager and vice president of Wood
ward g. Lothrop; E. G. Graham presi-
dent of the National Electric Supply
Co.; Harry Blake. president of Barber
g. Ross, Inc; Jesse G. Adkins, attor-
ney and c. Phillips Hill, president of
Doubleday-Hill Electric Co.
. Among witnesses to appear at the
meeting tomorrow are r. H. Gross, Bos-
ton, Mass, president of the New River
Coal Co.; Stanley Higgins, secretary and
traffic director of the New River Coal
Operators Association; M. L. McGarvey,
president of the New River Coal OPP
orators Association and W. A. Rich
ards, president of the Pemberton Coal
& Coke Co. and president of the Wind
ing Gulf Coal Operators Association,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
GRANITE PURCHASE
0. K. BELIEVED NEAR
$500, 900 Worth of Stone for
Arlington Memorial Bridge
May Be Authorized.

The way was paved today for the Ar
lington Memorial Bridge Commission,
headed by President Hoover, to place its
stamp of approval on the purchase of
about 100000 worth of granite to go
into the~water gate and plaza at the
Washington terminus of the bridge.
Indications were that the recommen-
dations to the commission were that the
North Carolina Granite Corporation of
Mount Airy, N. c., and the John Sven
son Granite Co. of Concord, N. H.,
should be awarded the contracts. The
North Carolina firm furnished the gra-
mite that has gone into the super
structure of the bridge, and it is
planned to have the Rock Creek-Poto-
mac parkway approach in harmony
with the bridge proper, this firm is in
preferred position as it is also a low
bidder. The Fine Arts Commission has
passed on the plans for the placing of
the granite, and it is expected that
about September l a contract will be
let by Lieut.. Col. u S. Grant, Bird, exec
utive officer of the commission, for
placing this granite in position.
The Swenson firm bid $139,430 for
the contract for furnishing granite for
the curb and steps of the watergate,
while the North Carolina firm bid $127,-
900 and $279,000. as the low bidder for
the contracts of furnishing granite in
the form of ashlar for facing and the
high-class material desired for the cop
ings and balustrades Half a dozen
firms in various parts of the country
sought the contracts for delivering the
granite in Washington.
Complete delivery of all the granite
is called for by May l of next year
The granite will be stored in the vicin-
ity of Twenty-sixth and B streets, near
where the -Lowrance Co. of
Statesville, N. c., the contractor for
the foundations of the water gate and
the parkway approach, is now at work
Firsts deliveries of the granite are to
commence soon, and the first contract
is to be completely fulfilled by Novem-
Der IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
D. c. AIRPORT PLANS
FOR NIGHT SERVICE.
Commercial Station at Hoo
yer Field Rapidly Equip
ping With Lights.

The National Capitals, first COM
mercial airport to be supplied with
lighting equipment for regular night
operations probably will be ready for
night service this week. The installa-
ton Of flood lights has been completed
at Hoover Field, near the south end of
Highway Bridge, and boundary lights
are being installed today.
The first test flights with the new
permanent hood-lighting equipment
were made last night. Nine flights were
made without difficulty by Capt Ira G.
Eaker, operations manager, and Pilots
Roger Scott and Charles w. Carneal
using student type training plane and
o-passenger planes.
The lighting equipment to be in
operation this week will include flood
lights, boundary lights and q lighted
wind direction indicator.
Boiling Field, the Army flying field
in Anacostia, has been the only flying
field in the vicinity of the National
Capital equipped for night flying. The
Navy side Of the field also has been
lighted.
Capt. Eaker last week was in charge
of test flights of the Patrician. largest
passenger plane in the United States
today, which has been put into service
on the Colonial Boston New York run.
Capt. Eaker few the ship over the
route for two days. He also Checked
out" the two pilots who are to handle
the ship regularly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08

which closed at noon yesterday the local
experts had things their own way.
Earle Stimson, First Lieut.. Hugh Ever
EFT and Ralph Mccarthy each shot 500
out of a possible 500 and tied with five
others for first money in the 50-yard
match. Stimson repeated with 500
possible" at the 100-yard range and
did not have to divide with any one.
Capt. Jensen took fourth with AGA out
of 500 and Mccarthy made 49l. The
200-yard event was awarded to Capt.
c. S. Shields with 491 out of 500, while
thirteenth money went to Stimson with
street. National Capital Rife Club, left
the field far behind him in the %
caliber pistol matches. winning the 90
shot SloW-flre event with 173 points out
of possible 200 and the second half of
the re-entry match with 100 out of 200.
All pistol firing was from the 15-yard
point at the standard American target
having a 3.36-inch pin ring and a 5.54-
inch nine ring.
Gov. Morgan F. Larsen. whose Sum-
mer home is on the rife range, visited
the firing line and took a few shots at
the 200-yard target with a 23-caliber
rifle having a telescope sight When
he first arrived he was very indignant
that his order of no firing on Sunday
had been violated But after running
a few los and 9s he was in such good
humor that he granted official permis-
sion to use the range next year on the
Sunday following the Fourth of July.
1t is rumored that 4 diplomatic range
officer had telephoned orders to the pit
officers while the governor was putting
the gun sling on his arm and getting
into position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
HOOVERS UPHELD
BY KHAN WIZARD
Evans Says Presidents Wife
Followed Custom in De
Priest Affair.

While a fiery cross famed over a
gathering Of the Ku Klux Khan at For
estville, Md, DR.. Hiram Wesley Evans.
imperial wizard of the Khan, declared
in an address Saturday night that the
''De Priest followers and the fifteenth
amendment should be charged with re-
sponsibility for the unfortunate Incl
dent at the White House"
The inviting of the wife of Repre-
sentative oscar De Priest to White
House tea DR.. Evans called "one of
those customary obligations that Mrs
Hoover could not well escape"
IF the Negroes had followed the in
violate rule of social etiquette with re-
spect to the White House." he con-
tinued, call of the fuss raised would
have been avoided. 1t has been the
any social news that it desired else
nothing was said about it. Certainly
the guests at any function could not
assume the prerogative Of the host or
hostess.
1T was all this father made of it
that has resulted in strained feeling.
Il do not think the Hoovers were to
blame. They were the victims of the
fifteenth amendment. The Hoovers
have never made practice Of enter
tanning Negroes in private life"
This De Priest, who owes his free
dom from slavery to the thousands of
white men who died that his race might
have it, recently in a speech cast as
PERSONS on the white race" declared
DR.. Evans.
Discussing human liberty in America,
DR.. Evans said
This country is too great to be con.
ouered. If American liberty is eva
lost, it will be by cession to a foreigt
agency or by pollution within.
However noble its purpose and how,
ever may be the safeguards place.
about it, the entrance of the United
States into any permanent agency such
as the World Court is the beginning Of
cession of liberty which would in
volve us in untold difficulties through
the years, and finally would cause us to
lose our liberty and the right of fna:
elf-determination at the time wheE
grave international questions come UP
for solution"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
ID. C. SF1ARPSHOOTERS TAKE
RIFLE HONORS AT SEAGIRT
Two-Man Team LaureIs Are
Captured by Local Pair
in Eastern Tourney.
Ralph Mccarthy and Earle
Stimson Win From
Field of 40.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SEAGIRT, N. j., July 8.-Two mem
berS of the National Capital Rifle
Club. Ralph Mccarthy, 1882 Quincy
street, and Earle Stinson, Barr Build
ing, won the Eastern two-man team
match over a field of 40 entries by a
very close decision, according to an Of
fetal bulletin, published by the Eastern
small-bore tournament yesterday.
Three teams each scored 773 points
out of possible 800 over the 100 and
200 yard ranges, and since two of them
made the same total at each range it
was necessary to determine which
team had the greatest number of hits
of lowest value. Paul Handbook, Roose-
Welt Rifle Club, and j. A. Wilners,
Frankfort Arsenal, were unfortunate
enough to have a seven" in the 300
yard string and were awarded second
place.
c. S. Neary and F. O. Kuhn of the
Remington Rifle and Gun Club, Bridge
port, Conn, had l point more in the
100-yard range, but l point less in the
longer range than the other two, and
therefore were given third place. Sixth
Columbia National Guard representa-
tives, Capt. Just Jensen of the Ord
nance Department and Capt. Clarence
F. Shields, Company E, 121st Engineers,
who together totaled 767 points out of
a possible 500. OF the II prizes in the
individual grand aggregate, which COM
prises the scores made in the Palma,
SpenceK the Eastern individual cham
pionship and the Camp Perry special
matches. three were taken by Capital
marksmen. First Lieut.. Hugh Everett,
jr. Company D, 121st Engineers. made
1895 points out of a possible lips for
fifth place; Capt c. S. Shields, 1882,
eighth. and Earle Stimson of two-man
team fame, same score, ninth place.
d. C. Record Broken.
The Roosevelt Cup was taken home
by the winner of the event, j. A. Will
ner Frankfort Arsenal Club, 1908 out
of i.125. Shooting 1852 and 1850, the
States of Connecticut and New York
both broke the record of 1888 and
2,400 established last year by the Dis
trict of Columbia in the Interstate
team match and finished first and Sec
ond. respectively.
third with 1887, while Pennsylvania
took fourth and last place with 1881.
New Jersey and Ohio failed to enter
The use of iron sights are compulsory
in this event because it is fired over the
DeWar course, which consists of 20
shots at the 50-yard 089-inch BULLS
eye and 20 shots at the 1oO-yard 2-inch
bull's-eye.
The combined National Guard and
civilian team which represented the
District of Columbia and the individual
scores are as follows: First Lieut.,
Thaddeus A. Riley, Company /, 121st
Engineers. 393 out of a possible 400;
First Lieut. Hugh Everett. 1913; Capt. G.
S. Shields, $50: Team Capt: j. c. Jen-
sen. 389: Ollie M Schriver, Central
High School coach, 1886, and Eric New
out of a possible 400.
In the unlimited re-entry matches
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
RITES FOR cosMo sPANo
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Services Are Scheduled for 8
O'clock in italian Baptist
Church.

The funeral of Cosmo Spano, 59-year-
old contractor Of 1927 Connecticut ave-
nue., will be held tomorrow morning at
9 o'clock in the Church of the Redeem
err, italian Baptist Church. 1900 Kirby
street. He will be buried in Glenwood
Cemetery. Mr.. Spano died at his resi-
dence Saturday, after an illness of sew
eral months.
Born in Italy, he has been In business
In Washington for the past 26 years.
coming here from Scanton. Pa, where
he spent the first year after arriving in
this country. He was a member of the
Italian Lodge of Sons of Italy. Sur
viVing him are his widow, Mrs. Vincenza
Spano: two daughters, Mrs. Frances
Agrusti and Miss Nellie Spano; three
sons, Joseph, John and Edward Spano,
all of this city; sister, Mrs. Mary Cain
of New York, and two brothers, Ralph
and Antelo Spano, also of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
WIFE PREFERS POVERTY,
LEAVES RICH HUSBAND
Goes Back to Work in Restaurant
After Spouse Becomes Wealthy
Through Oil Find.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES; July 8.-Preferring
poverty to wealth. Mrs Claude Derring
has gone back to work in a restaurant
in the San Francisco Bay district and
her husband, former railroad brakeman.
now owner of valuable Wyoming oil
property, has secured divorce.
Dear Claude" Mary Derring wrote
in the letter Derring showed in court as
proof of his wifes desertion, you Won
Ger why I have forsaken the luxury you
gave me to return TO the old restaurant
life. but 1 can't stand expensive things.
Remember, you gave me a book one
tinme and. read in it Poverty grants
to those she loves the only urge of
life-the boon of desire That's me"
The two we're married about 6 years
ago before oil was found on the rail-
road mans Wyoming homestead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
Ingalls, Brings Own
Plane to Anacostia
Naval Air Station

David s. ingalls,, Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy for Aero
nautics, who can have his pick of
any airplane at the Anacostia
Naval Air Station to fly almost
anywhere he pleases, and who
has flown virtually all types of
planes there, has brought his own
private plane tn this city.
Secretary ingalls, came HI at
the Anacostia station yesterday
afternoon from Cleveland flying
a Stearman two-passenger open
cockpit plane, said to be one of
three which he owns. He made
the trip here alone.
Mr.. ingalls, probably puts in
more flying time than any
member of the "air cabinet"
though all Of the assistant secre-
taries for aeronautics do a great
deal of their inspection work by
air. There are few days in the
week he is not flying during at
least q part Of the day, almost
invariably as his own pilot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
TRAVELLERS WITH BURRO .
HEADED FOR BROADWAY
Two Bogota Students Reach Mexico
City After Third Drops Out, Ill,
and His Steed Dies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO, City, July 8.-After nine
months of travel through the heart of
the tropics, a queer expedition. COM
posed of Hector Del Chiaro Capell and
Augusta Enrique Vargas, cadets in the
Military College at Bogota, Colombia,
and burro. has arrived in Mexico City
on the way to New York
Capell and Vargas originally possessed
two burros and were accompanied by
a third cadet, who was taken sick at
Talaria, Costa Rica, and unable to pro-
coed farther. The burro died from a
serpent bite in the Central American
jungles.
The remaining burro will be named
Mexico City before the expedition"
leaves for Broadway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
SERVICES FOR OFFICER.
Capt. w. P. Robb Will Be Buried
at arlington Tomorrow.

Capt william P. Robb of this city
who served in the Quartermaster Corps
of the National Army during the World
War, died at Walter Reed General Hos
pital Saturday, and will be buried with
military honors in the Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery tomorrow afternoon.
Religious services will be held at the
United Brethren Church, North Capitol
aud r streets, at 80 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. Capt. Robb lived at n Bates
street and leaves a widow, Mrs. Carrie
E. Robb, nee Greenwell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
WILLIAM INCE MARRIES
ADA WILLIAMS, ACTRESS
Son of Late Movie Producer Takes
"Miss Florida" of 1927
as Bride.
Bv the Associated Press.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, July g.
William Ince, 20, eldest son of the
late pioneer motion-picture producer,
terday to-, Ada williams, 18-year- old
actress and winner of the 1927 title of
Miss Florida"
Rev. Charles Champman of st. Johns
Episcopal Church performed the cere-
mony in the chapel of the Beverly Hills
Hotel. Nancy Drexel was maid of honor
Mrs. j. @. Williams, I'd Florence Lake
and Helen Bowen were the brides other
attendants. ArthuD Lake was best man.
Douglas Fairbanks, jr.; Thomas Ince,
I'd, and william Blackwell were ushers.
Many other motion picture celebrities
attended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
Traffic Arrests Rise.

Misdemeanors-Arre for mis-
demeanors increased steadily from 90
SGT in 1927 to 22,3l2 in 1928 to 26,699
in 1928. The figures were not CLASH
fed separately in the other years Ar
rests for intoXication increased stead
lily throughout the five. years, the
figures. i'll order. being 10,869, 1891
1886, 1892, l4,193.
Trafic-Arrests for traffic showed a
decrease in only one year. 1927. The
traffic arrests over the period were 49,
lot, 43834. 36.091, 58,8S7, the figure
for 1929 being the highest in the city's
history. Fatal traffic accidents, how
ever, remained substantially constant,
the number of fatalities. reported in
the same order. being 86, Sc, 70, SO, 80.
AS to traffic injuries. however. 1928 ap-
peared to have been the safest year.
It had the fewest non-fatal injuries.
the fewcst total casualties, the fewest
cases of property damage and the few
est total accidents.
These figures are given in the report
as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
Nourishment y Health y Economy

would only equal the present average
price of other standard eatables.
Turn a mental somersault and
learn to realize that milk, far from
being expensive. is the most econoni-
cal food on the market today. In
buying milk you get TWICE as
much Real Nourishment as it's cost
will buy you In anything else.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08

TIIOULD you spend So cents a
w quart for, milk7 You could do
SO and not be the loser. Com
parative food values and food prices
throughout North America, studied by
the Government and by leading pro-
fessors of chemistry, diets and eco
Monies, show that milk at even
TWICE its present average cost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08

An irrigation scheme under con-
sideration in Bulgaria win comprise
100000 acres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
Los Angeles Feels Quake.

LOS ANGELES, July Lp).-A slight
earthquake was felt here at S:45 am.
today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
D. c. POLICE REPORT
JUMP IN ARRESTS
Increase of 1905 for Fiscal
Year Is Revealed in
Analysis

Although slight decrease in the
number OF felonies was noted, decided
advance in the number of misdemeanors
and minor traffic offenses served to swell
the total of arrests made by Washington
police for the fiscal year ended June 80
to 122,028, according to the report of
Maj Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of
police. The analysis was prepared by
Lieut.. L. I. H. Edwards, department per-
sonnet officer.
despite the decrease in the number
of felonies as a whole. the arrests for
murder were nearly twice as numerous
as in the preceding year. The report
shows Sd such arrests in 1929 and only
% in 1928.
During 1929 there were fewer arrests
under the Volstead act than in any of
the four preceding years, with the ex-
ception of 1927. The total for the fiscal
year just ended was 5,247.
1929 Total Much Greater.
The 1929 total, according to the re-
port, was much greater than in any of
the four years Immediately preceding,
the largest increase being that between
the 1923 and 1929 fiscal years. In 1923
the arrests numbered 103,ll3; in 1927,
9l501; in 1926, 93,024, and in 1925,
rs 1923, the reference in each case being
to fiscal years.
As in the case of criminal offenses as
whole, arrests for serious traffic vio-
lations showed little or no increase. In
some of the serious classes of traffic Of
lenses there were even>fewer arrests.
Driving while drunk, for which one
of the heaviest penalties in the traffic
code is exacted. has decreased nearly SO
per cent in the three years during
which separate figures for this offense
have been kept Speeding has also re-
suited in a decrease in the member of
arrests. But miscellaneous offenses,"
including all parking charges and other
minor violations, show up in substan-
tial increases.
Figures Given.
The figures follow:
FelonieS-Arrests in 1929 numbered
406l, a decrease over the two preceding
years. The figures from 1925 to 1928,
inclusive. are 1926, 1898, 4.245 and
4,516 This decrease was maintained
in spite of large increase in the num-
Der of arrests under the lottery law.
There were no arrests under this law
in the first three years of the survey,
o in 1928 and PSI in 1929. There
was also a substantial increase in ar
rests for murder, 54 being made in
1929. IS in 1923, 81 in 1927, 40 in 1926
and 80 in 1925. Arrests for .miScel-
laneous felonies dropped from 1888 in
1923 to 981 in 1929 There were 1927
arrests under this heading in 1927, and
figures we're not kept separately during
. the other two years.
The figures for some Of the major
felonies are:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-12

send him scampertnE franticaIly out
OF the way or the huge brass tongue.
But X was worst OF all Tor Rnarf
when Master Frank looked over the
side OF the ship. Bump-bump bump
ity-bump. he went over the waves
IL was the same then hour after
hour. Bump-bump-bumpity-bumpl
IL was useless 20 plead for M little
rest. Frank never noticed him.
Nil. Flor. Hand and Yam. how.
cver. we're extremely troubled by the
plight Of their comrads and deter
mined one day to teach the incon-
siderate boy a lesson. Knarf was
humping along ms usual over the
gether. while the other shadows
watched him from On nearby p~ort10le.
What ought to be done7" asked
Hand.
HE ought TO swim off and leave
Frank without a shadow" said Mi.
But what would "A shadow do
without CA master?" demanded Flor.
II think ! ought 10 make Frank
change places with him and see how
be likes H."
He'd only get drowned" said Yam
In disgust.
Poor Knarf was in as bad a FIX An
ever. III don't know what 10 do he
sighed
Just then N fish. mistaking Knarf
for a bread-crumb. gave MIN a sharp
nip Up sprang Knarf-high up.
Then no came down right atop the
crest Of a sullen black wave. which
naturally didn't at all like the idea
or Knarfs jumping on II, and lifted
itself angrily 10 splash him. Knarf
deftIy jumped aside and instead of
eplashing him the wave splashed
Frank-spiashed him as properly as
he deserved 10 be spanked.
"HoOrayi" cried the little shadow
children. That's the way To treat
him"
And. much 10 Knarfs relief. Frank
ran away. a. far from the side or the
boat as he could possibly get.
Cooyrtxht t9@s. Ss~spassr Feature sssics. tnn