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WEATHER. Fair tonight and much change in temper: tod lowest, ended at at 2 p.m. e | pm toda Full report on page 4. tomorro not -ature. Temperatare for twenty-four hours Highest, 52 at 5 i i Closing New York Stocks, Page 19. Noo 28,120. post Entered as second-class matter officeWashington, D. C. he Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, MONDAY, (O APRIL I The Associated t credited to paper and also 1 | Saturday’s Sunday’s use for republic Press is excl 1om of all Dews dispatches r not o'herwise ciedited in i e local mews published be publication of special rein are also rescrved. Net Circulation, 91,777 Net Circulation, 95,070 * TWO CENTS. SENATE RECEIVES PEACERESOLUTION FROM COMMITTEE Vote to Report Knox Meas- i ure, Modified to Include £ Austria, Was 9 to 2. ONLY DEMOCRATS VOICE ¢ OPPOSITION TO ACTION Chairman Lodge Announces He Will Call Matter Up Tomorrow and Make It “Unfinished Business.” The Knox peace ported favorably today by the Senate foreign relations committee. the democratic committee voted in opposition and indicated that they would carry their fight to the Senate floor. Although the committee made no decision as to the time for bringing the resolution before the Senate for Gebate, Chairman Lodge said he plan- ned to call it up tomorrow. The vote on the measure was 9 to 2, all the republicans supporting it. The two democrats present— Pomerene, Ohio, and Pittman, Nevada —voted in opposition. Other demo- crats who were absent were given the privilege of recording themselves with the opposition later. ; Minor changes only were made in the resolution as revised by Senator Knox of Pennsylvenia, its author. The principal change was to amplify the section to end the state of war with the imperial Austrian govern- ment. making it s'milar to the pro- vision to end the status of war with the German imperial government. In presenting the resolution to the Senate, Senator Lodge gave formal notice that he would call it_up to- morrow and make it the Senate's “unfinished_business. 3 Senator Underwood of Alabama, democratic leader, asked if “reason- able” time would be allowed for de- bate, and Senator Lodge gave him such’ assurance, adding that he hoped a vote would be reached quickly. Senator Underwood replied that there was no disposition on the democratic side to delay a vote unduly, but that he and other democratic’ senators wished to discuss the resolution. Similar Resolutions in House. Two joint resolutions terminating the state of war between the United States and Germany and between the members United States and Austria were in- troduced in the House today by Chairman Porter of the foreign af- fairs committee. TYROL PLEBGIE ONBY GERNANY “Sentimental” Vote Shows Overwhelming Number in Favor of Union. By the Associated Press. province of Tyrol, who took part yester- day in a “sentimental plebiscite” relative to fusion of that province with Germany, voted overwhelmingly in favor of such a union, it is indicated in advices re- ceived from Innsbruck. Innsbruck was a busy city vesterday. At least 95 per cent of the people par- ticipated in the plebiscite. 90 Per Cent Favor Fusion. PARIS, April inety per cent of the votes cast in the province of Tyrol, v Austria, yesterday in the plebiscite to] express the sentiment of the people rela- | tive to fusion with Germany were favor- able to such a union, according to in- formation reaching Paris today noon. The piebiscite held in Tyrol Sunday was planned for the purpose of showing the sentiment of that Austrian province relative to fusion with Germany. The voting, in reality, means nothing else an the registry of public opinion as to <uch a union. Allied representatives in Vienna made representations to the gov- ernment_of the Austrian republic rela- tive to the plebiscite and Austria issued orders forbidding order was ignored. DISTRICT MAKING FIGHT FOR WATER SUPPLY ITEM “ Representative Zihlman, in Can- vass of Subcommittee, Urges Fund for Work. Failing in an eleventh-hour effort @ to get a water supply item in the Army bill, Representative Zihlman of Maryland today interviewed members of the appropriations subedbmmittee handling District deficiency estimates, with the view of having the deficiency bill provide for a new conduit. In their deficiency estimates, sub- mitted recently to Congress, the Dis- trict Commissioners requested an ap- propriation of begin work on a ne made the recomm v conduit. They endation in view of the seriousness of the water situa- tion, and in order that the House *might still have the matter before it, should the Army bill fail to authorize Q an appropriation for a new conduit Should the deficie bill be re- ported without the water item sub- mitted by the Commis rs, the fight for water legislation at this | wession may be shifted ate, instead of being the floor of the House Parliamentary objections, it is be- lieved, would be raised in the House, whereas an opportunity will Le af- forded in the Senate to have the water needs of the District consid- ered favorably in committee sessions. WALKER SETS RECORD IN MOTOR CYCLE RACE LOS ANGELES, Calif.. April 25 to continued on the Sen- Otto Walker established what was said | 10 be a new world record on the speed- N way here yesterday when he won a . -mile motor cy ace in 14 min 118 sec., an average speed of 1032 miles an’ hour. The previous record of 14 min. 458 resolution was re-| Two of | i pire and more drastic measures are VIENNA, April 25.—Residents of me! planned to enforce German obedience. the voting, but this| 00.000 with which to | NAMED AS FALL AID. Francis M. Goodwin Nominated As- sistant Secretary of Interior. | Francis M. Goodwin of Spokane, | Wash., was nominated by President Harding today to be assistant secre- tary of the interior. Robert H. Lovett of Illinois was nominated to be assistant attorney | zeneral and Theodore G. Risley of Illinois was selected as solicitor for the Department of Labor. GERMANY HOLDING TARIF AS THREAT American Pork Trade May Be Ruined if U. S. Keeps Aloof of Reparations. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. America’s hand may be forced by Germany in the controversy over reparations. While the United States is reluctant to participate directly in the settlement of the reparation que tion, word has reached the govern- ment here that the Germans are plan- ning a prohibitive tariff on American pork products. Should the contem- plated action be taken, the export trade in fats would be ruined and the Germans would be able to sell their vegetable oils at an advantage. The feeling here is that the United States ought to have something to say over the question of German tariffs. The reparations commission set up by the Versailles treaty was to have complete power over the regulation of incoming and outgoing commerce. On that commission America was to have a member. President Wilson asked the Senate to i permit him to name an American com- missioner, but the Senate foreign re- | lations committee declined. The treaty fight was at its bitterest stage then and Mr. Wilson never renewed the request. Situation Has Changed. The situation has changed material- 1y, however, and evidence accumulates showing that unless the United States promptly exercises an influence in the reparation controversy, American trade may find itself under handicaps much the same as are now exciting the ex- porters of pork products. The Harding administration has late- 1y been moved to take a more active part in the allied councils because of these very tariff complications, and the recent decision to attend all confer- ences, even though the representatives | of the United States are unofficial ob- servers, is entirely due to the trade situation. Some members of the administration cannot see how the United States can avoid entangling herself in the repara- tion controversy. The Germans are unwilling to beg the allies for conces- sions, but are anxious to negotiate through America as a third party. How much this is due to the in- fluence of American business men abroad who are friendly to German interests because of prospective trade, and how much it is due to German pride, i8 not yet clear, but the Washington authorities feel that the task of mediation is inescapable. ‘When the Germans wanted to end the war they appealed to the United States for an armistice. There is a vast difference between acting as umpire—which Mr. Harding declined to do—and acting as a medium of transmission for the reopening of negotiations. Disposition Here to Ald. The disposition here is to do every- thing possible to help the allies get together with Germany, but not much hope is held out that anything can be accomplished until after May 1, when the French ultimatum will ex- This is, therefore, the critical week. The cables between Berlin and Wash- ington are just as busy as if the United States and Germany were at peace and as if diplomatic relations had been resumed. The United States commissioner at Berlin, Mr. Dresel, i3 just as much an ambassador and is occupying as important a position as any full accredited envoy abroad. ‘The American government is in con- stant consultallion with the allies and recognizes, moreover, that the slightest leaning toward the German side of the controversy will be ex- aggerated abroad and produce com- plications making it even more diffi- cult for the allied demands to be granted. Proposal to Tell Story. The German counter proposal, how- ever, will in_itself tell the story of the future. If the offer proves to be half way acceptable and a sufficient basis for parleying, negotiations will be resumed, but French opinion seems to be strongly against any compro- mise. The French belicve that Germany must come the whoie distance or else there will be another futile exchange of notes and tricky refusals. The British are ready to do busi- ness with the Germans on a compro- mise ba: If America were engaged in the parley, the influence of Ameri- can business men anxious for German markets would probably be alongside Ilhn British merchants, and a compro- mise scheme might be worked out. { But the French are hoping the United States will keep hands off. They are not altogether pleased at the as- ! sumption by the United States of the job of mediation, even though under international practice it is customary | for mations to exercise their good of- fices. i (Copyright, 1921.) CRUISER RACING TRAIN FROM MIAMI TO N. Y. MTAMI, Fla., April 25.—Gar A. Wood, Detroit and New York manufacturer and sportsman, left here at midnight in his 900-horsepower, 50-foot cabin cruiser, the Gar IL Jr. in a race to New York against the Havana special of the Atlantic Coast Line. He has set a 41-hour schedule for the run and if it is without mishap it will carry him into New York three niser records in the regatta February. 21 NEW YORK, April 25.—A steam | shovel used in excavating the site of a proposed modern epartment build- ing today was driving its nose to- ward a dilapidated, one-room shack on Washington Heights. wherein re- side eighty-four-year-old Martin M. Molenaor, his son and daughter, claimants of $500,000.000 worth of the vaxt and thick?y setiled acreage to be seen from their doorstoop. These hundreds of acres. stretching sec. for the distance wus established by Albert Furns at Fresuo, Calif., Febru- &5F 32 of this year, * ( Y in all direolions, were included more than a century ago in the estate of ‘Willlam Molenaor, who died in 1812, GERMANS OFFER 10 PAY 200,000,000,000 MARKSINU.S.NOTE Proposal Suggests Scheme of Payments Over Period | of 30 to 42 Years. |DELAY IN TRANSMISSION HERE STILL UNEXPLAINED lOflicials Puzzled as Day Wears on Without Word From Com- missioner Dresel. By the Associated Press. E BERLIN, April 25.—The payment by ;(‘.crm:m_\' of 200,000,000,000 gold marl { for reparations is, roughly, the proposal submitted by Germany for transmission to the allies, according to sources close to the government. (Germany's proposals, it was learned. [efrain from Proposing the assumption ¥ Germany of the al s to t aasmany allied debts to the The payment i a of the 200,000,000.000 marks will be spread over a period of from thirty to forty-two years, or less, according to Germany's economic Te- covery. Economic Pledges Offered. Economic pledges in the way of lic pleages o way of goods and participation in German industri are offered as guarantees, it is stated. The offer, it is indicated, inclines more toward the terms formulated by the allies at the Paris conference last nter than to the jermany at the London conference, joiie Serman government is retrain makin; ublic i to the United St e President Harding, it is explained, an opportunity to consider and make in- quries concerning it, if he desires, be fore forwarding it to the allies. The allies, under the decisions reached in Paris in January, demand- ed that Germany pay 226,000,000,000 gold marks, or approximately $56,- 500,000,000, the payments to be spread over a period of forty-two years. Germany’'s _exports, in ~addition, would bear an export duty 0 80 to the allies. for i mll Ry an identi: n the German counter proposal submitted in London on Maren 1. Dr Walter Simons, the German foreign minister, offered what the allied ex- ports estimated to amount to approxi- mately $12,500,000.000, of which, Ger- many claimed, $5,000,000,000 had al- ready been paid, leaving the actual German offer about $7,500,000,000. This offer was coupled with the con- ditions that upper Silesia should re. main German and that free com- mercial privileges throughout the world should be restored to Germany. DELAY IS UNEXPLAINED. President and Secretary Hughes Likely to Call Ambassadors. There has been an unexplained de- lay in the transmission from Berlin of the German counfer-proposals on rep- arations which were handed last night to American Commissioner Dresel at the - German capital. State Depart- ment officers had ‘expected to have the document before them at the beginning of business today, but when they reached their offices they found that it had not reached the department. The German memorandum was un- derstood to be a lengthy one, and if such was the case it probably was not put on the cables until very late last night, as considerable time would have been required for coding it | Frobably “an equally long time will be necessary for its decodin, after its arrival here. £ Deeline to Comment. In advance of the receipt of the document administration officials de- clined to comment on its reported con- tents, nor would they indicate whether it would be made public immediately after its arrival. It was generally ex- pected, however, that the text would be withheld until Secretary Hughes could confer with President Harding and with the French and British ambassadors. As the forenoon wore away with- out any sign of the German note, offi- cials began to be puzzled regarding the delay. They could offer no expla- nation as no word had come from Commissioner Dresel. It was indicted that the department was without information as to the contents of the German communica- tion. EXPERTS TO CONFER. Allies to Meet Before Supreme Council Convenes. PARIS, April 25—A conference of allied experts will be held in Lon- don preliminary to the meeting of the supreme council on Saturday next, it was announced here today. At this conference France will be represented by Louis Loucheur, min- ister of the libera regions; M. Seydoux of the French foreign office and Plerre Cheysson, inspector of Ainances. PARLEY HERE DISCUSSED. Jusserand Reported to Have Talked ‘With Secretary Hughes. By the Associated Press. LYMPNE, England, April 24.—A conversation which is reported to have taken place between the French ambassador at Washington, M. Jus- serand, and Secretary of State Hughes respecting the German note, has become the subject of much in- terest here. The conversation in substance as it reached Lympe fol- lows: Secretary Hughes informed M. Jus- serand that it was not certain the United States could submit the Ger- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CLAIMANTS OF $500,000,000 WORTH N.Y. CITY LAND ABOUT TO LOSE HOME ueathed the land to three sons and aughter. Claiming that disposition of these lands by his grandfather's heirs was contrary to the provisions of the will, the present occupant of the hut end 1 could prove their title rights. Sev- cral years ago a supreme court de- but still they remained. Ordered by a contractor to move, they refused, and now, like the tick- ing of a clock. cach plunging of the team shovel's nose brings nearer the closing hour of the Molenaor regime. ¥ : 4 which the allies summarily rejected. ! States in order to give | of 12 per leaving a quaintly worded will, which | his children have been there eight | years, hoping against hope that they | ion blasted the hopes of the trio. | SENATORS PUT ON D. C. COMMITTEES Final Appointments Made To- day and Vital Bills Refer- red to Their Attention. Organization of the District Senate committee was completed today by the appointment of the various sub- committees. The bills which have been introduced and the nominations! received from the President were re- ferred to the appropriate subcom- mittees. Members of Subcommittees. The list of subcommittees follow: Judiciary—Senator Dillingham of Vermont, chairman, and Senators Jones of Washington, Weller of i { i i Maryland, Pomerene of Ohio and King of Utah. Public utilities—Senator Ball of Delaware, chairman, and Senators Capper of Kansas, Gooding of Idaho, Pomerene of Ohio and Sheppard of Texas. g Education and labor—Senator Cap- per, chaiyman, and Senators Jones, Cameron "of Arizona and King and Stanley of Kentucky. Insurance and banks—Senator El- kins of West Virginia, chairman, and Senators Gooding, Capper, Glase of Virginia and Pomerene. Public health, hospitals and char- ities—Senator Weller of Maryland, chairman, and Senators Ball, Good- ing, Sheppard and Glass. Streets and avenues—Senator Good- ing of Idaho, chairman, and Senators Dillingham, Elkins, Stanley and Shep- pard. Incorporations—Senator Jones of Washington, chairman, and Senators Dillingham, Cameron, King and Glass. Police and fire department—Senator Cameron of Arizona, King and Stanley of Kentucky. Ball to Handle Merger Bill. Senator Ball, chalrman of the full committee, is chairman of the sub- committee on public utilities, which will handle the legislation for the proposed merger of the street car companies in the District. Senator Ball said today that it was his pur- pose to give the committee of six representing the street railway com- panies and the District Commission- ers, now working on a merger plan, an_opportunity to complete its work before taking up merger legislation in the subcommittee. Several merger bills already introduced were today referred to the public utilities sub- committee. The subcommittee on streets and avenues, of which Senator Gooding is chairman, will make a trip some time this week to view the streets which the Commissioners have proposed to close and for which several bills have been introduced. Today’s New in Paragraphs Germans offer to pay allies 200,000,000, 000 gold marks in note to U. §. Page 1 Germany holding tariff as threat to U. 8. Page 1 Federal officials are preparing to arrest L W. W. members under conviction but out on bail who do not surrender by midnight. Page 1 Plan to consolidate U. 8. rallroads into five great systems proposed. Page 1 Senate District subcommittee completed today and important bills placed in their hands. Page 1 Congress to be urged to give $5,000,000 for District school needs. Page 1 Senate agrees to compromise on submis- | sion of reclassification bills to com- mittee. Page 1 Woman delegates arriving for congress here. Page 2 Six million taken in year's mail rob- beries, half recovered. Page 2 George M. Oyster dies at hotel in At- lantic City. Page 2 Police and soldiers seeking to secure prisoner ambushed in Ireland. Page 2 Methodist bishop tells President of Mexican conditions. Page 3 Temporary three-month settlement pro- posed for British mines. Page 3 Gompers denounces campaign for “open shop.” 2 Page 4 ting crows cause $1,200,000 annual e o Gkiahoma- Page 5 relief expenses detail “&9&“"’”&" ool Commitiee e ¥ Page 11| | Alleged murderer leaps from fourth story in hotel avoid arrest. Page 12 Furtger steps planned to save C. & O. | canal Page 13} American Army of occupation regarded | | by Europe as model. Page 13 | Fifty-thousand-dollar drive for Instuc- tive Visiting Nurse Society starts oft with rush. Page 13 | A. R. Willis, chemist in government em- ploy, drowned in Potomac. Page 13 Daylight saving in effect in biggest in- dustrial centers in east. Page 14 . 4 Convict Who Escaped Confesses to Pastor Who Pays Return Fa:-e PARKERSBURG, W. Va., April 25.—W. T. Robinson, superin- tendent of the Parkersburg Union Mixsion, yesterday pro- vided fands to transport Joxeph Abrams to Columbus, Ohio, where, Abrams told him, he ix wanted to serve out three years and xix month of a fifteen-year mentence in the penitentiar: Abrams, Supt. Robinson said, came to his mission, professed conversion, and told the story of hix excape elghteen months ago. He xaid he intends to give him- self up on reaching Columbui 00000, TAX CREDIT WIRED U Government Fails to Meet Upkeep Fund Dollar for Dollar. The $4,000,000 to the credit of the| District of Columbia in the national Treasury, which represents money paid in by property owners in the District as taxes, and which was not met dollar for dollar by the federal government in funds for the upkeep and development of the National Capital, has been wiped off the books, according to Chairman Focht of the House District committee. The residents of the National Capi- tal have been expecting that this $4,000,000 would form a nucleus of a big fund which would be devoted to public school buildings, adequate wa- ter supply and other permanent im- provements at the seat of government, Chairman Focht on the eve of the first meeting of the District committee to consider the school building program, the problem of water supply and simi- lar matters of vital interest to the Dis- trict of Columbia made the announce- ment today that *the good people of Washington in their plans for develop- ment of the National Capital had better forget once and for all the alleged $4,000,000 District surplus because it was merely a_matter of bookkeeping and is not existant. Whatever plans the Dis- trict committee in Congress may make for improvements in the District will be oblivious of any such supposed surplus and the District residents must prepare to pay their share of the increased ex- penditure. Makes Statement After Conference. Chairman Focht admitted that he made this statement after conference with legislative leaders, and that the decision is final as regards the Dis- trict getting any legislation which might consider use of the four-mil- lion-dollar surplus. Chairman Focht today introduced a number of bills at the request of the District s reprasenting their program of legislation to be laid before the District committee at its first mecting for the Sixty-seventh Congress tomorrow. One bill proposes to prevent fraud respecting securities offered for sale within the District and to provide summary proceeding. It proposes to registrar persons selling securities in the District. Another bill would amend the act to regulate the business of loaning money on security of any kthd and by persons, firms, corporations other than national banks, licensed bank- ers, trust companies, savings banks, building and loan associations and real estate brokers in the District. Other Billx Introduced. At the request of the District Com= missioners Representative Focht also introduced a bill to make the neces- sary survey and prepare a plan of a proposed parkway to connect the old civil war forts in"the District. Also by request of the District Com- missioners he introduced a hill to au- thorize the widening of 1st street northwest. Another one of the Commissioners’ bills provides for the sale by the Com- missionerss of certain land in the Dis- trict acquired for a school site by deed from George H. Dare and wife dated June 25, 1869. Another bill | would authorize _the Commissioners to close upper Water street between 21st and 22d streets northwest, lying between Potomac Park and square No. 88 in the District. Representative Focht reintroduced a bill formerly fathered by Representa- tive Johnson of Kentucky at the re- 1 and shoots himself to | Quest of the Commissioners to authorize | the opening of a minor street from Georgia avenue to 9th street northwest, which would relieve congestion of traffic near the base ball park. SENATOR ELKINS IMPROVES. Continued improvement in the con- dition of Senator Elkins of West Vir- ginia, who has been threatened with appendicitis, was reported today, and the scnator's attendants said they expected him to be out in a few days. & [ | | SUPPORT OF IH ASKED INSENATE La Follette Makes Emphatic Address Advocating His Res- olution for Recognition. The cause of Ireland was placed in the Senate today by Senator La Follette, republican, Wisconsin, who in a prepared address advocated his resolution proposing recognition of the *Irish republic.” “Ireland is today a test of real Americanism,” he said. “Those who today most actively oppose recogni- | tion of the independence of Ireland in her struggle for freedom from | Great Britain are of the same mind, the same flesh, the same blood, as the tories of 1776. favor recognition States of Irish independence upon the great fundamental princi- ples of human liberty which were written into the Declaration of In- dependence.” Pleads for Freedeo: “I believe that Ireland should be free—as free and independent as any nation on the globe,” he told the Senate. “T believe she should be as independent and have as complete dominion_over her own destiny as England, France or the United States, and by the same right—the inherent right of every nation to a govern- ment deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed. 'd go further than that: T be- lieve that this country, without vio- lating any of the usages of inter- pational law, withouti giving any other nation just cause for ill will, should do everything within _its power consistent with its own princi- Iples and traditional policy to en- Courage the recoggition of Ireland as a free and independent republic. “I stand for this country doing no more for Ireland than we have done for other small nations of the world, but I stand for this government doing no less. 1 am unalterably opposed to those who would have us abandon that traditional policy and make us by cowardly silence accomplices of the oppressors of Ireland.” Predicts De Valera Statue. The Wisconsin senator referred to last week's visit of President Harding to New York to unveil the statue of Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan pa- triot, and predicted “that it will not be necessary to wait a hundred years until an American President will un~l veil with all fitting ceremony and with the approval of the whole American people a statue to Eamon de Valera, the first President of the Irish republic. “Is it possible,” he inquired, “that the American nation has become so corrupted by the example of-,impe- rialism and is so overawed by the| eplendor and power of the British ! empire that she dare mot now chal-) lenge her right to ODDregl a nation y which she holds only military force?” Senator La Follette predicted that “this Congress will not close without st vote upon the issue of recog- ition of Irish independence.” x times within the last hundred and thirty years the Irish have ds- serted, by armed force, their right to independence from the British gov- ernment.” said Senator La Follette. “In 1783, 1798. 1803, 1846 and 1867 Ireland was a battleground for free- dom as she is today.” NATURAL GAS MEN TO MEET. PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 25.—The Natural Gas Association of America will hold a four-day convention in Cincinnati beginning May 16, it was announced here today by William B. Way, secretary, treasurer of the or- ganization. superior ‘COLLEGE GIRLS ARE TOO FRISKY, SIXTY COLLEGE DEANS DECLARE NEW YORK, April 25.—In a special dispatch from Chicago, the New York World today says: “College girls are exceeding the speed limit. So say sixty deans of schools for women scattered over Iili- nois who are in conference at North- western University. Two things were dwelt upon which in their view have reached the ‘irreducible minimum,’ skirts and sleeping hours. The deans did not make any hard and fast rules, but after discussing the reports they decided a reform was necessary and that a uniform standard of ethics should prevail. This resolution, which was sent to the parents of every girl, as adopted: ‘It is necessary for the health, the | mentality, the social clear-sighted- ness and the spiritual development of our girls that their relaxations should be fewer, with shorter hours, better chaperoning and simpler dresses; that holidays, week-ends and longer vaca- SUITS WITH SKIRTS AT BATHING POOLS, NEW EDICT ISSUED Annette 1 | Kellerman bathing su | are banned for b 1 and wom- | en who the municipal baihing Poois in Potomac Park next This was the edict today of . J. Brunner. superintenden serted this brief but positive ru in the in nouncement of ti of the pools uits with skirts required for both sexes.” Mre Erunner could not be reached today. but Mre. - Rod who super the belief is only intend. May, when mixed permitted The large muni pool at 17 and B ts will « turday, Ap! ), at 10 o k. Mixed bathing will be permitted during May. From Monday to Friday the pool will be open from 1 to 6 p.m. und on Saturday from 10 am. to 6 p.m The District health department will take samples of the water in these pools daily. At the sugges- tion of the health officer the pools wiil be limited to 150 adults at a time. DSTRCT SCHOOLS NEED 5 MLLIDNS Move to Urge Congress for Full Amount of Original Program. Five million dollars is needed to finance the original building program drafted by school authorities and de- signed to relieve only the present overcrowded conditions in the school system. The Commissioners are preparing to send to Congress soon a school building project calling for about $2.- 000,000, an amount insuflicient to pro- vide half of the urgent needs. Although school original program carried out, the Commissioners, after sounding out congressional leaders, believe that Congress at this time is reluctant to grant an appropriation large enough to meet all the exigencies in the school system. Nevertheless, officials of the schools, it was learned today, are making plans to wage a cam- paign to have Congress grant the $5.000,000 appropriation, and prob- ably will ask civic organizations, trade bodies and clubs to support it. Citi- zens' associations which meet this woeek are expected to take action placing them on record in favor of the original program. z City-Wide Support Given. It was pointed out today by school officials that virtually all the ecivic organizations, trade bodies and clubs in Washington indorsed the 000, 000 program last fall and winter, and therefore they will only have to af- firm their previous stand. However, | when the program is taken up for consideration in Congress school au- thorities hope that the civic bodies will send representatives there Lo urge that it be approved. The proposed $2,000,000 program. it is understood, provides for just a suf- ficient number of rooms to give chil- dren in the elementary schools in part time classes a full day of school- ing, and to remove classes from rent- ed ' quarters in churches and hLouses. It does not provide any funds for the purchase of property for school playgrounds or for sites for proposed additions to schools. provisions are made in it for aban- doning the seventy-eight flimsy portable schoolhouses, nor for reliev- ing congested conditions in the high schools. The original building_ program, which was submitted to Congress at the last session, and failed to re- ceive its approval, and which school | officials_will renew their efforts to have indorsed at this session of Con- gress, provides for classrooms. dicated that these additional rooms could benfilled immediately with chil dren who are now in part-tim classes, overcrowded rooms and quar- tered in the portables and rented and other undesirable quarter: Eighteen of the addi rooms are needed in the vision. 49 in the third, 21 in the fifth 12 in the sixth, 9 in the seventh, 7 in the eighth, 12 in the ninth. 10 in the tenth, 28 in the eleventh and 17 in_the thirteenth. Twelve of the additional rooms in the first division are wanted to elimi- nate portables, three to reduce over- size classes and three to eliminate part time classes; thirty-three of the forty-nine asked for in the third di- vision are needed to eliminate porta- bles, nine to reduce oversize classes and seven to eliminate part time Classes; eleven of the twenty-one wanted in the fifth division are need- ed to eliminate portables, nine to re- duce oversize classes and one to elimi- nate part time classes; of the twelve additional rooms needed in the sixth division, nine are wanted to eliminate portables, two to reduce oversize Classes and one to eliminate part time classes; three of the nine rooms asked for in the seventh division are need- ed to eliminate portables, five to re- duce oversize classes and one to elimi- nate part time classes. Two of the seven additional rooms asked for in the eighth division are wanted to eliminate portables, four to reduce oversize classes and one to eliminate a part time class: five of the ten wanted in the tenth division are needed to eliminate portables, four to reduce oversize classes and ome to| eliminate a part time class eighteen of | the twenty-eight wanted in the elev- enth division are needed to eliminate portables, eight to reduce oversize class and two to eliminate a part time class, and ten of the seventeen asked for in the thirteenth division are needed to eliminate portables, six to reduce oversize classes and one to| eliminate a part time class. i | | tions should not be made exceplinns:! that the present tendency to let a| young lady try everything and know everything be considered dangerous; that good times be provided sufficient in number, and yet simple in type, to gratify the natural desires of a girl, and that we earnestly ask the fathers, mothers, guardians and teachers of our girls to help us maintain these standards.’ ““The woman deans, discussing the co-ed behind closed doors, admitted the modern girl is giving a bit of anxiety. The feminine scholar of the earlier generation did not cut so many capers, it seems. “‘But we are still optimistic for the future,’ declared Dean Mary Ross Potter of Northwestern University, disseminating a few rays of sunshine. officials want the | old | No | 183 additional | School officials have in- | SENATE ADOPTS COMPROMISE ON RECLASSIFICATION Controversy Arises Over Sub- mission of Bilis to Proper Committees. | ;LEGISLATION DECLARED | APPROPRIATIONS ISSUE Measures Asked to Be Put Before | Both Committees on Civil Serv- ice and Appropriations. A compromise plan, under which the Sterling and Smoot reclassifica- tion bilis shall go first to the Senate jcommittee on civil service and then |te the commi on appropriations | was laid before the S.n this after- ,moon by Senator Sterling, chairman of the civil service commitz. fter con- sultation with Senator Smoot of Utah of the appropriations committee. The compromise plan was finally adopted by the te on a viva voce The bills go first to the civil vice committer. Senator Sterling offered the com- promise plan as an amendment to his { motion 10 bills to the ref civil recl; Hication committee. The controversy over which commit- tee should have jurisdiction over these bills has continued for a cou- ple of week and i the last extended back into When terling’s motion to refer th »n bills to the civil service committes came up for | consideration today Senator Smeot launched into an attack on the Ster~ {ling bill, which, he declared, was not | workable, and ‘which, he said, would { permit injustices to continue. He said | that it was evident that a propaganda {in favor of the bill was under way, judging from the telegrams which |have been received by members of {the Senate from people who know { nothing about the matter. At this point Senator McCormick of Niinois interrupted to say that Sena- tor Smoot was discussing the merits of the bill, not the question which jcommittee of the Senate should han- 1dle the biil | Believed Question of Appropriations. | Chairman Warren of the appropria- tians committee and Senator Phipps {of Colorado, both argued that the re- classification bills belonged to the appropriations committee. Senator Simmons of North Carolina, cmocrat, calledl attention to the fact j that the classification of government !emploves and the fixing of their rate of salaries were matters of legisla- {tion. and that providing money to pay the salarics was a matter of ap- propriation. He wanted to know if i the reclassification bills proposed to appropriate the money to pay the salaries. of the government employes. Senator Warren pointed out that | while the appropriation bills for the | next fiscal year have been passed, the Smoot reclassification bill pro- poses to appropriate any money in addition that may be needed to pay the reclassified employes during the next fiscal year, The compromise plan was vigorously attacked by Senator Poindexter of Washington and Senator Norris of Nebrask: Senator Norris insisted that to adopt the plan of sending the | bills first to the civil service commit- tee and then to the appropriations committee would result in much de- lay. He said, too, that it would be a | bad precedent, and that while he be- | ae | lieved the bills should go to the civil service committee he would rather see them go to the appropriations committee at the start | them sent to the two committees. | 'Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin de- {fended the compromise proposal. and argued that the plan if adopted would expedite the legislation Lobby Charged. | Senator Underwood of Alabama, | democratic leader, spoke in oppositien to the reference of the reclassifica- tion bills to the committee on civil service, and also in opposition to the compromise plan. By rights. he said, the bills should be referred to the newly created committee on expendi- tures in the executive departments Senator Underwood charged that a lobby is back of the movement to have the bills referred to the civil | service committee. | He urged that the appropriations com- {mittee was better able to deal with {the matter of reclassifying the govern- | ment employes and fixing new salaries for them. He insisted that for the" last forty years the ppropriations com- i mittee has dealt with all legislation deal- |ing with the salaries of the government emplo; Senator’ Sterling called attention to the fact that in the House three reclassi- fication bills had been referred to the committee on civil service and not the appropriations committee. RED ENVOYS AT WARSAW TO DIRECT REPATRIATION By the Associated Press. WARSAW, April 25.—Thirty soviet officials. making up the repatriation commission which will attend to the details of the exchange of Russian prisoners and refugees now in Po- land, arrived here yesterday. The commission, six of whose members are women, will be called upon to re- patriate more than 100,000 persons. There was great curiosity in the arrival of the bolsheviki, and a great crowd met them at the station and followed them through the streets. There was no trouble, however, and the Russians, after having dinner, attended a moving picture show. The bolsheviki will have complete freedom of movement in Warsaw and will be attended only by a represen- tative of the Polish government when engaged in official business. —_—— SAFE RESISTS ROBBERS. Only Small Amount Obtained From MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 25.—Three men entered the state bank- at @ol- lerville, Tenn., near this city, early today, with the aid of a skeleton key, seized Elmer Cooper, a huckster, who happened along, tried to blow open the safe, but failed, and fied after rifiing several safety deposit boxes. than to have 1 o ““The girl of today cannot be judged by the old standards, either of dress or actions. ‘She is forced to assume responsibilities much earlier in I For that reason vocational is an important essential.’ ! Cooper, Wi left bound and & e fled in an obile, freed him®$@lf and notificd the town authorities. the amount obtained was small.