Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1922, Page 2

HOUSE COMMITTEE * TAKES UPSCHDOLS Hearings on Appropriations Continued—Columbia Hos- pital Also Is Considered. Hearings on District school appro- priations aud appropriations for Co- lumbia Hospital were continued to- day before the subcommittee on Dis- trict appropriations of the House District committee. New items of appropriation total- 1ing $21,000 for schools for tubercular children were considered. One item was for $5000 for maintenance of schools for tubercular children. Supt. Ballou and Assistant Supt. Kramer were questioned by Chairman Davis of the subcommittee whether the new appropriations indicated that tuber- culosis was gaining in the District. They explained that there was & marked decrease in tuberculosis, but that the diagnosis was becoming more exact aad meore children were coming into these schools. They ¢X- plained two new buildings are being built, one for the white pupils, and that the Harrison School on 13th street 1s_being rebuilt for colored pupils.. For the former $9.000 is asked for equipment and furnishings, and for the latter, $7,000. Site Decided Upon. Dr. -Ballou sald that it may be stated that the Commissioners have decided upon the site at 1th and Upshur streets for the new school, for which §$150,000 has been appropriated, although there is litigation to pre- vent its being built at that place. Chairman Davis commented on the absence of the president and members the District school board from the ! hearings. sa‘d that a few years ago the schoel board used-to-come to the hearings “without a subpoena be- ing issued” and that they testified at 1he hearings. Chairman Davis asked that the names of the present board Le put-into the record. In questioning Dr. Ballou and Mr. Kramer as to whether the compulsory school ~law was being entorced, Chairman Davis obtained the reply from Mr. Kramer that the present and does not regulate the school attendance of boys be- iween fourtcen and sixteen. They are allowed to leave achool at fourteen, but cannot be compelled to go to work be- fore they are sixteen. Mr. Kramer said that the boys ought either to be in school or at work, and asked for & law ‘with some teeth n 1t Deelares Law Fails. Another illustration that a parent can send a child to school for one day, then keep the child out for three days and continue this nitely. particularly interested Repre- law is defecti sentative Buchanun of Texas, who said that in this way the law failed | 1o take care of those children for whom. it was particuiarly intended. Mr. Kramer said that the small number of truant officers &ppropri- ated for also prevents Adequute en- forcement of the law. He pointed out that infractions of the law could be followed up only in the case of chil- dren who were registered with the schools and then remained out. There are hundreds oi other cil- dren, he said, who have.never been Tegistered, and with the present force of truant officers the school authori- ties are not able to go out and hunt up these absentees. Bighteen new puac torce, including eugineers, assistant engineers, cleciriciuns, nremen, jani- tors, laborers and night watchmen are asked for in the estmates, Taese include mew engineers at the Business High School, Central High Scnooi, Western High Scaooh oid Eastern High Schooi; additional laborers at the H. B. Covke. wnd Wnatiy schoofs;~ which beeorie ’:\\‘emy-mom buildings, 2 night ggtchman . L o i Mgl L TR tricians and additional assistant engi- neer and coal passer in the McKimwey an eiec- Mahual. Training ~Schogy. irician and fireman Ak ‘Training School, and (®D new jaui- tors for the new school north of ‘Lin- c¢oln Park and tne new school tor tubercular pupils. Approprintivns Asked For. The total appropriation asked Janiors i $250.840. : An incresse from $10.500 to $12,350 is asked for the medical inspection service. It was brought out tnat this contemplates no increase nel, but covers prospective increases in alaries for inspectors.. Othyr school appropriation items for process indefi-{ n the janitor's | in person-i '——A—_w—dd New Silver Dollar ew Sought By Hundreds At Treasury Office Hundreds of persons benleged the office of the cashier in the Treasary Department today to secure part of the firat insue of the mew allver dollar, ‘whteh made its first appearance todny n Washington, New York, Philndelphin and Denver. The Treasury kad omly $10,000 of the mew currency, and by moon mere than $6.000 Rad bhéen M- sued. Only $500,000 of the 1921 faane hud been atamped in the Phliadeiphia m| Dies for the | mew 1922 allver doltar, whieh ix the ndme dn the 1931 Quilar ex- | cept for nre helog: | made at indelphia and will e avallable shortiy. Preaident Hardimg at e White Homse iant Wedn ¥y was given the first dollar to be stamped. DAIL DEBATE BITTER AS LEADERS RENEW TREATY DISCUSSION —(Continued from First Page.) North Tipperary. Tyrone, Louth d xford—yesterday “added their voices to the chorus approving the treaty. The unanimity of the farmers on the question is a notable fawture of the demand for ratification. They have held”scores of meetings through= out the country and, without excep- tion, have afirmed their support of the pact. Opponents of the brought cut & new orxan, Republic of Ireland, and it was looked upon &s a new factor in the {situation. Today's papers here dis- jcussed it with a note of satisfaction. 11ts tone was not aggressive and the {first issue refrained from personali- | ties. . 5 Papers Lrge Acceptance. This morning’s newspapers ap- pealed to members of the dall to heed the necessities of the country, one of them saying: “The dall must de- cide whether it is a democratic-or an autocratic body. Just before the dail was called to order a buzz of excitement was caused the distribution of an or- der of the day similar to the one cir- culated before adjournment, calling for Arthur Griffith’s motion for rati- fication of the treaty and Eamon de Valera's alternative proposals. Art O'Connor argued that outside “howling at the dail to sup. port the treaty” were men who had never done anything for the country. Premier Lloyd George, he said. had broken Irish unity “into a spectrum of colots from extreme purple to ex- treme red:” ‘ Michael Colli point. “The farmers have a right to speak; their houses have been burned all over the countr: he angrily ex- claimed. Mr. O'Connor retorted that'many of these who had passed resolntions were not farmers. treaty: today those interrupted at this would like to know what the head of jthe delegation in London had prom- ised the southern unionists. “;ngr play,” interjected Arthur Grif- . “If it only meant fair play,” con- tinued O'Connor. nobody would ob- ject, but if it meant placing southern unionists in place and power the Irish people would not atand for it. Turning to anather phase of the | treaty’s provisions, the deputy asked what was mmon citizenship” be- tween-Cork and Yorkshire, “When do your. constituents come in?" one of the députies injerjected. O'Connor replied that if “his- con- stituents might have changed their minds he had not. but he believed the heart of the people had not changed. mbling in Irish Lives. Pierce Beasley of County Kerry fol- towed with a strong speech in favor of the treaty. He said he had waited vainly for gome slgns from the op- ponents of the treaty of sympathy for the poor, prostrate Irish nation. Its opponents were not evén united on their formulae, some of them talk- ing fisolation and others of external association. The lives of the Irish imn G discussed under this head were $12,000 sor graduate nurses, $11,200 for free dental clinics and $18,500 for rent ot scnool buildings and grounds. An- other item of temporary room for classes above the second grade was discussed. Chairman Davis and Representative Buchanan questioned Mr. Kramer re- marding the request for §2,000 for nutrition classes 3o that nourish ment can be given at certain hours t0_the undernourished children. During the hearings yesterday the request for $35.000 for community center work was under consideration. Miss Cecil B. Norton discussed this jtem with the committee. There was some criticism regarding dancing in the school buildings and Mies Norton said that this had practically been discontimued. Americanization Schools. Miss Aiken, superintendent of the Americanizaticn schools, appeared in support of n appropriation and was closely questioned . by members of the committee, particularly Representative | Johnson of Kentucky. It was brought out that eighteen teachers are in the school and tiat the. pupils ander in- struetion are principally Greel and Italians, wko are waiters in hotels. One class is conducted at the Shoreham Ho- i6l. Nome of the teachers know the language of the pupils under instruc- tion and ure teaching them by paito- mime. These pupils range in age from 1wenty years to seventy. It’was brought out in the nearings that many of these have been in this country ten years or wore and have never done unything to- ward being admitted as citizens. Their salaries are sufficient, so that many of them make out income tax returns. Myron M. Parker, president of Co- lumbia Hospital board, and Dr. W. R. Du Fose, medical director, U. S. retired, superintendent of the hospital, appeared in support of an estimated appropriation of $20,000, Questions by Representative John- son brought out that the Columbia Hospital site,comprising 101,000 square Teet, is worth $250,000. Congress has | appropriated for buildings $524,000, s0 that the plant stands the government $774,000. Government YastMution. Col. Parker pointed out that it is purely a government institution and|for the establishment of & republie.|ana Col. e * that the principal officlais are all from | H 00 for equipment ofi people he declared were being gam- bled with. The opponents of the treaty lacked confldence in the Irish nation, Beasley declared. When the Eritish evacuated Ireland the free state would be just what Irishnien made it. he said, and they could make it a great and glo- rious land of Gaelic culture that would rival Denmark in agricultural development on co-operative lines and have its ideas put into practic: Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, said Beasley, had a real vision “to sense this Irish nation trying to be born.” They knew the piain people of Ireland and realized that a nation was not an arid abstraction but a thing of human flesh and blood. As long as the British went out of Ireland, what did it matter on what. formulae they left, Mr. Beasley-usked. Ireland had not fought for a repub- lic, but for Ireland for the Irish, he asserted. He was one of the founders’ of the volunteers, had served in the army ever since and had taken the oaths to the army and to the dall but, like ‘Eamonn De Valera, he de- clared, his oath meant a pledge to do his best for Ireland. s lled the | ir Play” Promised. The extent of the step Ireland was | to take was less important than its direction, continued O'Connor. He | TOGANBYBIL ORXTEAGHRS ‘Retirement Law Extension Is Now Pending Before Sen- ate Committee. Extenslon of the retirement law for teachers of the public school system, as proposed in the bill now pending before the Senate District committee, would affect twenty-elght teachers, the names of whom were received by the committee today from the Board of District Commissioners. Special legislation by Congress is heceswary to Include tliese twenty- elght former teachers in the benetit of the retirement law, because they were not on the pay roli when the retire- ment law became effective a year ago. In giving their approval of the bill, the Commissioners expressed the be- Ihet that a definite date should be {fixed beyond. whicn the proposed amendment should not extend. This date they suggest be fixed as June 20, 1506, which i3 the date of approval of the present organic act of the school system. .. They further éxpress the bellef that énnuitles under the proposed bill should be limited tv the minimum al- lowance of $420 per annum, fixed by existing law, and that these annulties should be operative from the date of the approval of the teachers' retire- ment law, January 15,.1920. Temchers Affected. The teachers who would be affected by the proposed amendment wure: E. L. Duvall appolnted September, 1877, resigned June, 189%; M. C. A, Luzenby, appointed May, 1877, re- signed March, 1800; E. W. Dyer, ap- pointed September, 1881, resigned April, 1901; M. G. Kelly, appointed September, ' 1869, resigned- October, 1906; M. 'A.° Tate, appointed July, 1865, resigned October, 1906; M. R. Hampson, appointed January, 1889, resigned ‘April, 1909; E. A. Vorhees, pointed September, 1866, granted erpetyal leave October, 1910; C. L. lson, - appointed- September, 1872, granted’ perpetual leave May, 1911; Phoebe Holmes, appointed September, 1897, resigned June, 1911; M. P. Wil- son, ‘appointed November, 1876, grant- ed perpetual leave January, 1912; §. B. Brown, appointed Séptember, 1876, granted perpetual leave October, 1912 E. J. Young, gppvinted October, 1876, grinted”perpetual leave Octo- ber, 1913; A. M. Dutton, appointed July. 1875, granted perpetual leave October, 1913; M. C. Garst, appointed July, 1875, granted perpetual leave October. 1913; M. M. Dyer, appointed July, 1877. granted pervetual leave October, 1913; F. G. Whitney, ap- pointed ‘March. 1893, resigned Febru- v, 1914; M. V. Slater, appointed Oc- tober, 1899, resigned November, 1914; G. M. Parker, appointed July. 1987, Illr:lmed perpetual leave January. 1915 L. Godey, appointed Septem- her. 1869, granted leave October, 1916; A. Chesney, appointed September, granted perpetual leave Feb- 1916; Leonora Merritt, appoint- 1388, resigned October. 1918 ruary ed July Francts Schweinhaut, appointed Oct: ber, 1888, leave October, 1916. M. F. Barker, appointed September, granted 1877, granted perpetual leave, June, 1919; 1. Fisher, appointed Septem- ber, 15| A. T. Howard, appointed March, 1868, granted perpetual leave January, 1918: H. P. Spencer. ap- pointed January, 1869; E. V. George. appointed November, ' 1888; granted A perpetual leave March 1, 191 L. Lofton. appointed - November, 1900; granteé perpetual leave, September, 1918. Specinl Cases Cited. It will be noted, says the Commis- sioners’ letter, in orie ¢aise {he teacher resigned from the school service June, 1898; another, March, 1900; arother, April,”- 901, and another, October, 1905. These separations, therefore, occurred prior to the passage of the present organic act of the schools on June 20, 1906. The several other teachers resigned or were granted perpetual leave folowing that date. Difficuity will arise in the considera- tion of the cases of the tegchers who resigned prior to June 20, 1908, un- less some definite provision be con- tained ‘ in_the Jaw extending the amount of anruity to which they shall severally be entitled, or a new basis established for determining the respective annuities, as the provisions of the present retirement law cannot be applied to their cases. : garding . teachers who resigned the passage of the act of June 20, 1906, and who were not assigned by the board of education to one of the salaries prescribed by that act. COLUNBIAHOSPTAL NEW YEAR BAL Brilliant Event Promised To- night for the' Benefit of the Institution. The New Year ball of Columbia Hos- _Under the free state, continued the | pital will be held under the auspices Kerry deputy. Ireland might be made | of the woman's board of the institu- Gaelle-speaking in two generations. If the opponents af the treaty car- ried their point. “concluded Beasley, the case would be like the cperation which the doctors described as pe {l(;c:‘ly successful, only the patient ed. RIVALS WIDE APART. By the Associated Press. 5 LONDON, January 3.—Rival groups In the dail eireann, which met foday to take final action on the treaty of peace between Ireland and Gieat Brit- ain, were seemingly as wide apart this morning as they were when the dafl tion tonight at the Witard. Statements by committee members n charge of the arrangementx indi- cate that the event will be ofe of the most interesting of the winter season. The proceeds will go totvard the es- tablishment of a clinic for women and toward the linen fund, which has been greatly depleted on account of extraordinary demands during the past year. Mme, Swze Homor Guest. Mme. Sze, wife of the Chinese min- ister, will be the guest of honor. The adjourned for the Christmas hollday. | O¢cupants of tlie boxes will be Coun- Advices from Dublin were discourag- | tess Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyl, Mrs. ing, and it was declared the situation |yra Copléy, Mrs. George Hewitt Myers, there was dominated by partisan|jrs Robert spirit. Some observers asserted there was little prospect of the opposing Sec- tions settling their differences. Thel Edward Eyerett. Voods Bliss, Mrs. H. P. ‘Wilson_of Hollin Hall, Mrs. Daven- rt White, Mrs. Victor Kauffmann, rs. Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs. Mrs. _Robert F. extremists were said to be determined | Mackenzie, Mrs. William Eric Fowler, in thefr people that acceptance of the treaty: involved abandonment of the claim 'Their work, however, was safd to efforts to persuade the Irish|ars. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. George Mesta, Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett, Mrs. Ernest Green, Judge Martin Knapp Hltam Phelps Eno. The committée -in_‘charge of the, the federal service, including the sur- | futile, and there were general pre- d h . ' e meral of the Army, the surseon | dictions that the dail elfeann Would | Loty Headed b e and s JONR general of the Navy and the surgeon |pass favorably upon the convention.|y,” Newbold as vice chairman general of the public health service. Col. Parker brought out that the in- stitution is not paying, although the ‘board of charities pays for all of the wo-called free patients. Col. Parker presented the pay roll of the hospital, which shows that 120 employes are receiving $4,800 a month. . Questions by members of tlie com- mittee. brought out that the hospital has_a working and emergency fund of 000, and that this is & trust fund te carty out the purposes of the government at the hospital. i SEIZBE HIBERNIAN HALL. By the Asmociated Tress. - BELFAST, January 3.—The Hiber- nian- fl Eskra, County Tyrone, was se) today by a party of Sinn Feiners. One section of the party held = Sinn Fein court at the old school- house, . and others visited homes of Catholffes and -demanded their rifles «nd_shotguns in the name of the re- ‘publioat army. . Many refused to comply with this %'n’wwn the Sinn !\m Jaft with threats that those decl! would be shot. L ) Some correspondents asserted that the acceptance of the treatyswould be due to abstentions from voting rather than the strength of those supporting its ratification. In any event final de- cision was not expected before Thurs- day. 3 ' % CARDINAL IN TREATY PLEA. g::“; By the Associated Press. BELFAST, January $.—Cardinal Logue, the primate of Ifeland, ad- | President, heads' dressing the comgregation In. the Atmagh Cathedra), asked it to pray “that it might please the Mm&n\y God to_save them from #uoh 'mis-ikon Figod, ey Sidnoy Bailo Yortune” as the rejection of the Anglo-Trish treaty, which held forth in chafge of tickets. Mrs. Victor Kauff- mann is in charge of boxes: Other members_of the committee aré Mrs Thomas Bradley, acting preeident of. the board; Mra. Joseph Hampson, Mra. William_A. Hill, Mrs. Reéve .Lewis, Mrs. Malcolm McConile, Mré. Géorge Myers, Mrs . Hewitt Wells, . L. Tanner and Mrs, David u Bose Gaillard. Mis. Hardlag Hfi' 2 Arre. Warren G. Hardlng,. wifé of the list o Patron- PEn S s dos. Qedte cvans Hughes, eaks, Ta® Comeirus - anderbill | M Charits J. Bell, Mra. Charies = dward witt v Bugend Meyer, Mra. Mra. the only hope of pesce and tranquillity | Francis B. Nash, Mrs. Delos A. Blod- to Ireland. The only alternative to ratification,{ Green, Mrs. R was thatiH. declared Cardinal Logue, the country would be thrown back into a state &ven more drastically op- pressive than that through which it hed ‘;\au{ nm‘ hlm sderm ve Wab ReCOMALY fob 3- .J progress of the eounty, A6 Q Mra. Ernest obert Woods Bliss, Mrs. F. Dinock, Schmull, Mrs ibson Fahnestocu‘r&rl 3. 3 Glover, fs. Victor Kauffmann, Mrs: hu%e.h:: gett, Mre. Geo! Mest: THR - EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, | woman This statement also holds good re- | e or | cani were granted perpetual leave after |Of, D. O, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1993; NAMED AS BOARD OF JUDGES .FOR STAR'S ESSAY CONTEST|BREAD DOWN TO 5 CENTS. Left to right: United States Sen- ator Arthur Capper, Mr: B. Sworm- stedt and Justice W, P. Stafford. POLICE COURT VAGRANCY CONVICTIONS REVERSED Woman Wrongfully Held When She Had $1,000 in Bank, Ap- pelate Body Holds. Two decisions of the Police Court un- | der the "vagrancy” law were rever today by the District Court of Appe 1.! in opinions by Chief Justice Smyth and | Justice Robb. The chief justice held that Hilda Rose was wronglully convicted when the tes- timony showed that she had $1,000 to| her credit fn a bank. It was the duty| of the prosecution to show that the amount was not sufficlent for her sup- port and not merely to question the niethod by which the money was &c- cumulated, the court held. That the woman might have been charged with some other_crime does not mbke her & vagrant. The costs of the appeal were ascessed against the District. In the other case, In which Justice Robb read the court’s opinion, the con- viction of Lucretia Lewis was set aside. The testlmony here showed that the was regularly employed as housekeeper at n weekly stipend of $10, board and lodging. The fact that her employer’s house had been suspected by the police does not make her amen- able to the vagrancy act, the court stated. ROOT ROBBED OF WINE. Rare Stock Taken From Arms Par- ley Delegate’s Home. UTICA, N. Y. January 3.—A re-| ward of $1,000 advertised in local pa- | pers for the arrest and conviction of | thieves who recently robbed the resi- dence of Elihu Root, on College Hill, | Clinton, disclosed the fact that the thieves took from the house a choice stock of wines, some of ‘which were of ‘great age and rare vintage. Tho value of the stock is not known. as Mr. Root and members of his family are in Washington, but it way safd to amount to many thousands of dollars. SPURN PROFIT-SHARING. | 100,000 Krupp Employes See Dan- ger to Socialism in Plan. y Wircless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyeight, 1922, BERLIN, Germany, January 3.—The workingmen's councils of the Krupp Tron aird Steel Works, which employ more than 100,000 men, have rejected ‘s proposition made by the firm to in- wugurate a mutual profit system, through which the men would be able 10 buy stock in the industry and share tn its. profits. In declining tite offer the workingmen characterized it as ~another attempt to undermine the ftundamental ideas of socialism and to cause the workingman to work longer @nd refuse-to strike in the belief that Bs a stockholder he would profit by steady, uninterrupted work. The fact is that the stock held by the laborérs would be infinitesimal and that the talists would ‘get all the benefit this work.” The vote on the proposition was al- mbst unanimously against it. OFFICER ENDS LIFE. Navy Lieutenant Worried Over Pending Reduction in Pay. 1,08 ANGELES, January 3.—Lleut. hn Eberwine, an officer on the de- stroyer tender Melville, was found dead In his quarters on that vessel resterday with a bullet wound in his %ody. l'!ellow officers said that he had been despondent. He was one of several hundred officers who would suffer loss of rank am a result of recently ordered changes in the Navy. TWO DIE BY POISON DRINK. ipotal in New York Since Christmas Eve Ts Seventeen. NEW YORK, January 3.—Two more deaths from poisonous alcoholics were reported today, bringing the total sirie Christmas ‘eve to seventeen. More than 100 patients have been taken to Bellevue Hospital alone. CANADA MINTS NEW COIN. fiv&Cent Piece to Be Bimilar to Nickel in This Country. OTTAWA, January 3.—Canada is to ‘have a new five-cent piece, similar to the American nickel. The ol coin has been | criticised because of its resemblance in size to & dime. Minting of the new coin will ted_this k. DR. A. T. STUART. DELEGATES AWAIT i HOME ADVICES ON | SUBMARINE RULES | __(Continued from First Pag ) promptly as possible. Of course, the! time fs being utilized by the naval| experts in dealing with the chart for| replacements of capital ships, the meth- 0ds of “scrapping” naval vessels to be followed, the question of limiting the use of merchant vessels as cruisers in time of war. etc.” All of these matters &re very technical, but they are matters that must be Included in the naval treaty which is being prepared for the signature of the five powers called here to_consider limitation of armaments. | It is the hope of the conterence! committee that this treaty will he ready to present to the conference at Bn open session this week, after the Root submarine proposals and the proposed limit of 10,000 tous on all auxillary craft. except aircraft car- riers, have been disposed of. The French are still waiting to hear, it| is #aid, about the limit of 10,000 tons proposed for auxiliary vessels. It is &xpéeted they will agree to this pro-| posa i e in Far East With regard to the problems. of ChinA and the far east. no change in| the situation was manifest today.| Clearly it has been the desire of the conference to put the naval limita- tion gquestion behind it before plung- ing again into the far east matters. The delegates to the conference, it is said. have not been greatly excited | over the published report that the | French and Japanese have an agree- | ment looking 1o a Japanese protec- torate over Siberia, although they have read the reports with Interest. The denials of the French and the Japanese, so promptly forthcoming, have checked the possible effect of the reports publithed by the unof- ficlal delegation of the far eastern republic, now seeking a hearing from the conference. In British and Italian quarters it was indicated today that the charges made by the Chita delegation had not been given serious consideration o ar. If there is shown a desire on the part of the Japanese to have the new four-power treaty relating to the Pacific islands interpreted so that it shall not apply, to the homeland of Japan, the Britfsh will make no op- position, it was said by a spokesman for the British today. Lively Sesslon Promfsed. The next meeting of ths conference committee on the far east—not yet chlled—may develop into a lively affatr, particularly if the Chinese delegation persists in its desire to brihg the SBhantung question and the question of the twenty-one demands before the conference for con- sideration. These are matters which the Japanese insist rest between the Chinese and the Japanese alone. There was some pessimism today as to the probability of an agreement| being reached on the far east which the Chinese delegation would be willing to sign. In that event it| would be signed by the eight other powers assembled here. It is well understood, however, that if China does not subgcribe to the agreement that fact will lead to increased op- position in the Senate to the pro- posed treaty on the far east. TWINS NOTE 71ST BIRTHDAY. SPARTANBURG, 8. C, January 3.— %, W. Wall and ‘Mrs. B. ¥. Dodd, twins of this city, celebrated their sevent: first birthday anniversary yesterday. They have never missed a birthday anniversary together. Both are in the best of health. PROF. KELLY MILLER. WANTS REPAYMENT OF LOAN BY FRANCE (Continued from First Page.) ‘of money on increased naval arma- |Sideration by the committee on com- ment, “Resolved by the House of Repre- sentatives (the Senate concurring). That it is the desire of Congress tha government of the United States ad- Vise such nation, or nations, through the proper channels that the payment of obligations now due to the United States will be acceptable.” Reavis" Statement. Mr. lows: “The United States feels very great sympathy for the distress of Europe #side from any selfish interest we may have in.the matter. 1 do not doubt that Congress will be willing to fund the- European debt as sug- gested by the administration if the necessity for it is made apparent. But with France standing unmoved before the prayers and pleading of mankind for a tranquil world. and asserting the intention of vastly in- creasing the ‘moft barbarous and in- human implement of war, viz, the Submarine, I think it is time to wipe the tears 6f =ympathy from our eyes and try to see with clearer vision Reavis' statement was as fol- {what the present situation ponenda,{ Freneh Armament Program. “France has today an army larger than had Germany at any time before the war. She not only declines to re- duce it, but insists upon perfect free- dom of action to increase it. Her po- sition with reference to naval in- creases comprehends the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars. Surely no nation in the fimanclal dis- tress in which France is alleged to be would be contemplating such an ar- mament program. “France is a sovereign nation, and as such is free to follow her own in- clination. But the people of the United States, believing that huge armaments are as provocative of war today as insist that the program which France has mapped out, shall be paid for with her money and not with ours.” FLEET OFF FOR CUBA. Units at New York Sail for An- nual Maneuvers. NEW YORK, January 3.—Units of the Atlantic fleet, which have their ‘winter base at the New York navy yard, sailed today for Guantanamo, Cuba, for their annual target prac- tice maneuvers, The destroyer ten- ders Blackhawk and Bridgeport were the first to leave, followed by the bat- tleships Wyoming and Arkansas. The cruiser Columbia, with Fleet Commander Admiral Hilary P. Jone on board, and the destroyers Lea: Dickinson and Charles Ausburne will sail Saturday. BANDITS GET $10,000. Hold Up Collectors in Los Angeles Store. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 3.—Three bandits, armed with sawed-off shot- guns, held up three collactors for a drug company in its stome on the busiest street jn the downtowh quar- ter today 2nd escaped in an automo- bile with a sum estimated by the concern at about $10,000. . PROMINENT AT COLUMBIA HOSPITAL BALL TONIGHT. the 1 Figuré Reached in New York for First Time Since 19186. NEW YORK, January 3.—For the first time since 1916 the pound loaf of bread yesterday was mold yor § cents by one of the largest nation- wide chaln store organizations. During the last five vears the pound loaf has sold Rs high as 10 cents. Last May it was reduced to 7 cents, and this was followed by a cut of another cent last Beptember. Bince then officials of the organiza- tion declared the prices of in- gredients and overhead expenses have been sufficlently reduced 1o war- rant the re-estabiishment of the nickel loa! CONGRESS MOURNS PENROSE’S DEATH (Continu, from First Page party to represent the Houso and Sen- ate was dispensed with. Gov. Bproul Prebable Nuccemsor. Prediotion that Gov. Rproul of Penn- { sylvanla would within forty-elght hours announce his intention of re- v:!g,nll:’g 10 mccept uppointment s nited States senator to succeed the late Boiew Penrose was made today by Senator Watson of Indiana, one of the republican leaders-of the Senate, after u cail ut the White Houne. peoenator Watson said that Lie had been In conversation with the Penn- sylvaniu governor .#everal times gver telegraphone during the last two duys and “that in his opfnion the matter was practically declded, Reasoas for Desiring Speed. The particular duced ti zation reason which in- e Senate republican organi- in 10 urge speed vacaney #eft by Sena death 18 understovd to be proaching vote In the Ford-Newberry election contest. Senator Watson said today that the vote probably would be close. Gov. Bproul would succeed t, 0 the seat of fenator Penrose by resigning as governor and taking appointment to the Benute at the hands of the present lleutenant governor, Who Would succeed to the governorship. TURN TO COMMITTEES. flling the | Penrose's ! the ap- Reassignment in Senate Succeed- tmained consistent to his policies, h GANTHI T0 CONTINUE HIS FIGHT IN INDIA Directed by All-Indla Con- gress to Push ‘Non-Violence’ Program Coming Year. By the Amocinted Press, LONDON, January 2—That Mohan- dis Karameha Ganfhi remains the @ic- tator of India’s natlonal aspirations, and that his “non-co-operative” amd ‘non-violence” program wifl be car- rled out during the ensuing year, not- withstanding his failure to obtain home rule, is the outstanding develop- ment of the all-Indla congress, which closed its sessions at Ahmedabad D cember 29, according to official quar- ters here, where the reports of the congress and its general effect on In- dia’s millions are being estimated. 1t 18 stated that Gandhi, having r defeated the extremists of the left. typified by the All brotherk, and that he aiso has been victorious over the t wing element, which advocated entering the local councils and fur- thering the nationalist aims by con- stitutional methods. movement which had been gathering force, par | ticularly in Madrid Confusfon Ix Noted. Besides Gandhi's dictatoship. aspects of the congress were resolu- tions passed to “concentrate on civil dinobedience” and an attempt to de- fine the meaning of “swaraji” Offi- new cials here claim that both tions are confusing, the former 1o be carry out of ex ©f non-pay: taxes and volui- teering, a8 Iy ocut vear's congr Del latter is o answer to th charges { that bis program is Official circles : home rule definition as an expression of a desire for india to remain with- in the British empire if the British obey the all-India congress. Other- wise a demand for Independence is 0 be made. The officials point out that the question of an alternative EOV- ernment in lIndia remains unan- swered. The resclutions concerning “swaraj” is as follows: Text of Rewolution. s doubts have been expressed to the precise meaning the term ing Penrose to Be Considered. Reassignment of committee mem- bers in the Senate made necessary by the death of Senator Boles Penrose, chairman of the finance committee, it is expected, will be taken up for con- mittees the iatter part of this week. Senator Brandegee of Connecticut is chairman of this committee. With the practical certainty that Senator McCumber of North Dakota will_succeed to the chairmanship of {the finance committee, over which Mr. Penroge had long presided, there will arise a vacancy in the chairmanship of the committee on pensions, now held by the North Dakota senator. On that committee, Senator Smoot of Utah is the ranking republican, and, ! leaders said, he undoubtedly could have the place if he desired it. Sena- tor Smoot fs thus brought into the ranking position on two of the most important committees of the Senate, finance and appropriations. There was the suggestion among republican leaders that Senator Fre- named as the new republican member of the finance committee. This Se- ilection, it was explained, would foi- low seniority as well s maintain the balance which it has been sought to to representation of east and west. There were few hints as to who would be named to vacancies in the naval, fmmigration and banking and icarrency committees occasioned by the death of the Pennsyivania sena- tor. If the seniority rule is followed. however, western senators will be given places on the naval and bank- ing and currency committees and an eastern man will be added to the im- migration committee. It was decmed likely in fllling these places that pro- motions will be in the nature of transfers from committees of lesser consequence to the places made va- cant by Mr. Penrose's death. Senators said that the change in the chairmanship of the finunce commit- tee, now deep in the drafting of a new tariff law, would occasion no change in the policy of the goal out- lined when the measure reached the committee from the House. linghuysen of New Jersey would be | have on all committees with re!pecti 1 swaraj the congress res that, in the event of the h peepl ing common cause with the y India in securing redress of the | jub and Kalifat wrongs, it does wish to declare complete ind ence, but if the British remains hostile the e all cc will declare strive 1o _oppe the English plete indep It was asserted closely connected com- ifice "that the deprec made by “indian propagandis America_concerning events in Tt was impossible, they declar: Isend code messages such as that u public in Wasnington from India. The story of the declaration of an Indian republic was based on the opening addre. at a Mq m confer- ence in session at Ahmedahad, where the advocat of violer voic program which the all-Tndia congress rejected. Police Fozred to Fire on Mob. The India offic lishes a cabled repor jab government conce December 23-24 in Firozpur in_the Roh The dispatch ber 23 twelve atives were arrested determined attempts were m rescue them. The government offices and the police station were a The police were forced to fire on the | mob. The attack was renew cember 24, but the mob by the {timely arri m Alwar. Three persons were and sev- eral wounde The dispatch adds that the inquiry into the affair is continuing. {WRIT OF PROHIBITION GRANTED IN RENT CASE {Municipal Court Undertook Juris- diction While Appeal Was Pend- ing in Another Court. The District Court of App: DECLINES TO COMMENT. HARRISBURG, Pa, January 3.— Gov. Spronl declined to comment on | they were in 1914, can with justice | the prediction of Senator Watson that | he would resign to take appointment as senator, succeeding the late Boies Penrose. “I must decline any comment for the present,” the governor sald. “It is true that I have talked with Sen- ator Watson and others in Washing- ton, but I shall not make up my mind until I talk with some others whom 1 want to see. { " Fifteen minutes before the Watson prediction came from Washington Gov. Sproul told mewspapermen that he had not yet made up his mind as to what he wotld do regarding the Penrose succession. 2 It is known that strong pressure has been brought to beat on the gov- ernor to take Senator Penrose’s place immediately, and equally strong rep- yesentations have been made to him by other friends to make a temporary appointment and be a candidate later in the year. Eftect of Penrose’s Death. The governor today found a mass of letters and telegrams containing ad- vice from all over tne state. The death of Senator Penrose com- plicated the republican political situa- tion beyond anything known in the] state for years, due to the fact that tvo United Statés senators are to be elected, and that a governdr and other state officers and the legislature are 1to_be chosen. The leadership of the republican state organization, sarrying with it probably membership in the national committee, wl%o is involved. Gov. Sproul has several courses open to him. He could name a man 1o fill the Pénrose vacancy_until the mext general election in November, iwhen he could be candidate himself, or he could Texign at ‘once and have Lieut Gov. Edward E. Beidleman, Wwho { would succeed him, name him to the ‘Senpte. Lieut. Gov. Beldleman, with othérs, hay announced h's candidhcy for the governorship and here again compications might ensue, state leaders said, over the question of Gov. Sproul being compelled to make com- ‘mitments with regard to his support- ing certain ckndidates Semator Crow Continwes HL United Etates Senator W. E. Crow, the late Semator Knox's successor, 0 has announced himself a candi- te for the full term beginning n l)’n’tr to which Senator Knox s s 1o \ave aspired. iz ill in a Pittsburgh hospital. He is the chairman .of the republican state committee and a politieal friend of Gov. Sproul. When the @overnor - appointed Crow to Knox# place he issued a statement that he: telt he should serve out his term ad vérnor before seeking further: 1 honers. FUNERAL DATE NOT ENOWXN. PHILADEDPHIA, January 3.—Rel- atives of Bolds Penrose today contin- ued their Eilince as to when the funeral of the iate senator will be held. No visitors are being received in the old, fai ‘home in Spruce street, whete the ®enator was born in 1860, and wherx his body les. | White e from the I the fumerad, i nolir;ln s wilL ve private, ‘wi ot bh! & nm% from the west arrive. an opinion by Justice granted a_ writ of prohil the Municipal Court. whi taken jurisdiction of = tenant proceeding whil there pending an _appeal by the tenant the Court of Appeals from a a of the rent commi the court to proceed w was to the he would amount to depriving the pellate Court of its jurisd der the appeal from the mission, Justice Robb dc i Annie Gardner, owner premises 614 R street northwest, servid notic on her tenant, Chester A orter, th she required the property for her own use. The tenant challenged her right to possession and she invoked the jurisdiction of the rent commis- sion and received a finding in he favor. The tenant noted an appeal to the Court of Appeals and gave a supersedeas bond. Later the owner began possessory proceedings before the Municipal Court. of which that court took jurisdiction, and the ter ant then sought a writ of prohibition. FLOOD MENACES PHOENIX: | POLICE WARN RESIDENTS Turbid Waters Break Through Ca- nals—Verde River Rictes Six Feet—Rain Still Falling. PHOENIG, Ariz, January 3.—All residents of the northwestern portion of Phoenix - were notified sheriff’s office and police de early today to leave their h cause of danger from flood from Cave creek. The flood waters broke through the Arfzona and Grand canals. two large arteries of the Salt River valley irrigation district, north of Phoenix, last night and were expected to reach ‘Phoenix early this morning. Officials @eclared that the crest ‘of the flood had not yet been reached. Reports to the irrigation district headquarters indicated that the flood was spreading out more than usual, thus slowing its progress toward the city. 'l%eporln also said that rains north of Phoenix had caused a rise of xix feet fn the Verde river, which flows into the Salt river above the Granite Reef dam. This water is expected 10 reach the dam eariy this morning {and to il the Salt river below the dam almost to capacity. Rain is re- ported stfil falling in the watersheds of both Cave creek and Verde river. waters SENATOR SEES SARRAUT. By the Awsocinted Prees. Semator Underwood, one of the American delegates to the arms con ference, called on M. Sarraut, the head of the French delegation, today and !had an hour's conversation with him {on subjects relating to the conference. i *"The principal topic, it is understood. iwas the Chinese customs, which, it appears, offers numerous perplexities, Which a month's discussion has not done much to settle. Progress, how- ‘aven, it is said, was made in the con- Dbetween !Tnzrwood- M. Sarraut and Mr.