Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 2

= * 2 NEW BUILDING COD HELD UNNECESSARY Col. Keller Declares Strict, Enforcement of Present_ Law Needed. ‘Washington does not need a2 new building code if the: present one strictly enforced, Col. Charles Keller, Engineer Commissioner, asserted to- day, discussing the theater situation. And the colonel indicated plainly that the existing code w.!ll be rigidly car- ried out. A firm policy on the part of those who administer the building regula- tions is all that is needed, in the Engineer Commissioner's opinion. The Commissianer arnounced today that Loew's Columbia Theater will re- open Monday along with the Cosmos. The National already is épen and Poli’'s will resume performances in a fortnight. . Announcement Expected. Col. Keller sald he expected to have a definite announcement to make be- fore night as to the opening date of the Metropolitan Theater, one of the seven closed. The Engineer Commissioner has conferred with owners of the Mary- land Theater, on 9th street, and the Foraker, colored picture house on 20th street, and stated today that both of these places will open &s soon as they can comply with the stipula- tions laid down by the Commission- ers. AS to the ten or twelve other thea- tera which were not closed, but which the investigating committee Sug- gested sheuld be further cxamined. Col. said nothing had been found thus far to warrant closing them. of inspecting them minutel forward methodi- cally dly as other work will permit, the colonel stated. Would Print Liability Clause. All theater tickets ®old in the Dis- trict should have a clause printed on them making the owner or corpora- tion liable for damages in the event of accident. In the opinion of Oresto Natiello, a_member of the orchestra of the ill-fated Knickerbocker The- ater. Mr. Natiello, who is still at the Emergency Hospital, has addressed & letter to hator Stanley of Ken- tucky, requesting him to introduce a bill providing for such a clause on tickets. The letter follows: “Will you be so0 kind as to frame a bill and have it passed In the Con- gress that each ticket issued by any theater, amusement place or any large gathering which is held in a have the clause on ket holding liable building shall the back of the ti the proprietor, or corporation, in case of accident and damage, and each ticket to have a stub guaranteeing the safety of each holder in case of aceident, so that if any one is in- jured he may have recomrse for dam- ages, a clause similar to that printed on a railroad ticket." Corporation Counsel 'Francis H. Stephens voiced the bellef today that ity for such a law. Persons i av the right to sue for damages now, Mr. Stephens declared. BONUS ACTION SET OR NEXT TUESDAY {FIRE ON BRITISH PRINCE I IN INDIA’S PUNJAB REGION Unknown Assailants of Party Are inr Under Investigation— Agitation Among Sikhs Serious. the Associnted Press. LONDON, February 24.—The firing upon several members of the Prince of Wales' party while they were motoring from Delhi to Putti in the Punjab region of India, is re- ported by the Puttiala correspondent of the London Times. No one was hit iand the character of the assailants is not known. The palice are inves- tigating. A dispatch to the London Times from Delhi, dated Thursday, says re- | ports from' the Pynjab Indicate the | continued seriousness of the agita- | tion among the Sikhs, which is defi- nitely ussuming a political aspect, with” wild talk of a revival of Stkh rul | [ | The dispatch says redoubled efforts i{have been made to tamper with the troops and that in the villages, while families are ubsent from their homes, !the Sepoys are subjected to intimi- | aation "by members of the non-co- operationi: i _Continuing, the dispatch says that. special inierest attaches to the meet- | in& in Delhi Friday of the working | committee of the non-co-operation- listy’ congress. Gandhi's recent sus- pension of activities has gravely of- fended the hot-headed section, in- icluding the young Hindu non-co- operators and the extreme Khili- | fatists, while the older men, notably Jmal Khan, Gandhi's declared suc- or In the event of Gandhi's ar- |rest, are szid to be ready to drop the entire movement, {MANY LIVE IN MUD, ALTHOUGH PAVING, i HIGH PROPERTY TAX (Continued from First Page.) s. TH SCENE DURING BURIAL CERE- MONY AT ARLINGTON. SENATOR EXPLAINS | RESERVATION AIMS _ | (Continued from First Page.) | of Connecticut, Johnson of Califor- nia and Borah of Idaho, on the one hand, and President Harding om the other. Anybody who imagines that these men fought the Versailles treaty because it was negotiated by ing to bury the wheels of any auto- mobile which attempts to negotiate it. No appropriation was asked for it. The Commissioners asked for an appropriation of $4,300 for the paving |of 17th atreet from Irving to Kenyon, {2nd for $11,500 for Kanyon street {from Mount "Pleasant street to 18th istreet. Both these appropriations fuiled to come gafely through the bu- reau of the budget, and the people of | these two strocts will have to strug- igle along for another two years ithrough mud and mire. The streets arc budly cut up, have only cinders for a roadbed and are in the heart of a section of high-class homes border- 1ing on the beautiful Rock Creek Park. One of the worst streets in this section ls Jefferson street east of |14th strest, tho scene of fine detach- cd homes. Residents there and people { who visit on this street are compelled to park their cars on 14th street near the loop. It would mean hours of hard wark to try to negotiate this street, as any kind of vehicle will Ipromptly sink into the mire. Efforts have been made here to provide some sort ¢® foundation by the placing of piles of broken wood in the ruts, bu® these are just driven deep Into the mire by the firat vehicle which passes. The Commissioners asked for an ap- propriation of $3.600 to pave the first 200 feet of this street, but it was cut out in the bureau of the budget. $7.000 Appropriatien Escapes. However, just two squares south of this, Ingraham street east of 14th strect, a street badly in need of a sur- face and running through & new sec- tion being fast developed into fine homes, an appropriation of $7,000 for paving paseed safely through all the pruning knives. This was the owly a democratic President has ample proof of the error of such & view when the same republican nators are oftering reservations to a treaty nep:gllaled and signed by a repub- licap President, and, indeed, one of their own former colleagues. A fundamental conception of con- stitutional rights has developed which is_destined to have a far-reaching effect on American affairs for years to come. “The question is entirely unre- lated to any personality in Congress or to the occupant of the White House,” explained Senator Brandegee. “Jt in solely & Qquestion of under- standing the constitutional phases of the words ‘United States govern- ment’ Under the Constitution the government was divided into thres E EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, arts—legislative, executive and judi- lc’hl. T gI'lrll!ly believe neither the executive nor the legislative want to encroach on the other. I know lh‘; the interpretations which are place! upen the duties of the prealdential office differ from time to time. A man llke President Harding may have one idea and Mr. Wilsan might have another. 1 am not looking at the question from the personal viaw- point, for these differing conoeptions may rise to trouble America long after we of the prement generation are dead. Language of Tresty Vitak “Suppose, for inatance, that ten or fifteen years hence Russia has been restored and encroaches on the north- ern half of the Ial khalin now claimed by Japan. does Japan nd of Sal What dq7 She calls & conference of powers u*fler the terms of the four-power treaty. The preamble uf the treaty s {ts purpose is to ‘maintain’ the ights of Great Britain, France, Japan :ngd :h‘; United States in relation to D. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1822, ROMA VICTIMS BROUGHT HERE FOR BURIAL IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CitSMETBRY ALCOHOL PLOT REVEALED; () paCiciC B ATLAMTIC PHUTES 1ii PHOTOGRAFH SHOWS SOLDIERS REMOVING ONE OF THE CASKETS FROM THE NORFOLK AND WASHING- TON STEAMER AT 7TH STREET WHARF. ROMA BUCKLED UP, WITNESS ASSERTS Looked Like Dead Weight in Four Roma Victims, Borne Here On Steamer, Buried at Arlington Four of the victims of the Roma Maylon and Majs, Fx;anhk and Chisum. airship tragedy that occurred off| A representative of the quartermas- in Hampton roads Tuesday were burled | Lo Eéneral took charge of the remains following their arrival. A detail of today with full military honors In|eight enlisted men from Bolling Fleld FIVE CARLOADS SEIZED Former University Student and Co- lumbus, Ohio, Business Men De- clared Involved in Deal. CHICAGO, February -25.— Chicago prohibition agents announced here today, following their return from a two weeks' investigation in three states, that they had undovered a plot to flood Chicago and other large cities in the Ctn!rJ states with grain alcohal, to be used in making “boot- leg” whisky. They sald the prin- cipals had been arrested at Columbus, Ohio, and that five carioads of al- cohol had been confiscated in four different cities. The investigation was started three weeks ago following the arrest of Ned J. Burns, former Ohio University student, who was taken by prohibi- tion agents when, they alloge, he at- tempted to unload a carload of al- cohol here. He said the alcoho! had been shipped to him to be soid to Chicago druggists, and that he was a representative of the Consolidated Drug Company in Columbus. There, they say, they found that several business men had bought 190,000 gallons of alcohol from the government, to be denatured, but the agents say fhat instead it was shipped to other cities, 10 be sold to saloon- keepers. Other cities where carload lots were seized were Wheeling, Ya: Dayton, Ohio, and Covinston, SEEKINFLUENCES BACKING OPEN SHOP Labor Heads Vote to Probe Extent of Bank and Cham- ber of Commerce Pact. A resolution instituting an investi- gation “into the extent chambers of commerce and banks over the nation have assisted and in- Epired so-called ‘open shop' cam- baigns against labor,” was adopted at today's session of the executive councll of the American Federation of Labor. President Gompers and Secre- tary Morrison, with the co-operation {of the banking committee of the fed- eration, headed by Maithew Woll, Wwere authorized to coaduct the in- quiry and report. Speakers before the councll urged that evidence of co-oporation with the movement they regard as anti- unfon on the part of the infiuences {namecd had been increasing. Numer- ous cases were cited as Instances and it was urged that the federation take steps to establish the fact and to con- sider what means of defense or re- talfation might be adopted. The council, after a woek's session on business matters and federation policy, was prepared to wind up fts meetings today. / _A resojution reaffirming its opposi- tion to injunctions as a weapon agzinst labor strikes and calling upon orzanized labor to ignore such orders when issued by the courts was adopt- .dl at yesterday's session of the coun- cil. ‘The resolution reads, in part, as fol- lows: “The only possible and practical remedy in the face of a power so jusurped and so completely unjustifiel ilies in a flat refusal on the part of la- bor to recognise or abide by the terms {of the injunction which seems to pro- {hibit the doing of acts which the jworkers have a lawful and guaran- teed right to do or which seeks to to which | IADNITS HE WROTE THREATS OF DEATH George E. Long, 40, War De- partment Clerk, Released After Ronfessina. GEORGE LONG, Photographed as he was leaving the District building yesterday. “One of the fincst bits of detective {work I have come s in a long time” was the characterization which W. J. Durns, chief of the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice, yesterday gave to the search and inquiry into 1t ack hand” notes recelved by pr Wash- ingtonians which resulted in narrow- ing down the inguiry to George I, {Long, forty years cld, a clerk in the bureau of insular affairs of the War Department, living at 1910 N street northwest, yest R Longz, according to the polic mitted authorship of the note White, former a ;B T e, ad- Scott Townsend. ot Try to Get Money. The inquiry developed that he had made no effort to get the money, and iad no intention of pulting it to his own benefit, even though he had obtained it but that he wus im- bused with an intense desire to aid poverty-stricken children. Regarding the inquiry, Mr. Burns, i ons and domin.. Arlington cemetery. The Norfolk | reported to him cnd remained until the | compel workers to do those things ing for New York last relief provided in this general sec- fon to’ which, of (i and Washington steamboat South.|bodles were removed ~The remains|which they have a lawful and s red that “it was real de- tion. course, Is broad enough to cover such | Bow, Civilian Tells ArMY |iana, bearing the remains, was | Forcs iiien to - Ariinzton cemetery Ly & | anteed right to refuse to do.” ork” in tracing down Much money could well be spent on |an aggression as Russia might start il 4 Kl 2 mc":fi o . D % | Education of adult workers was the { author of the notes. Here's the way = eyl the improvement of many of the|toward the Sakhalin Island. Now l . B d urned into & funeral ship, and a ot |?'- held for Ma). V: f; | keynote of discussion at Thursday's|he toid the story Republican Majority of Com- |streets out 1ith and 16th street way. | Japan's rights in that isiend Are o nquiry Board. Aheavy guard of honor was placed| Hurlals were held for Maj Vautemelr meeting of the executive council. The | There was no clue to work on ex- Many fine homes are now being bullt | matter of dispute today. Yet article around the flag-draped caskets, cov- | Ao caPk, Mabry at 11 o'clock. and fof | council, after discussion, adopted a|cept the similarity of a number of . - " there, and the streets, for the most | two of the four-power (reAty requires | By the Associated Press. ered with flowers, which held the bodies | aster Sergt. Murray and Staff Sert lresolution confirming its agreement to All_that operatives mittee Considers Confiden- |rart. are of the cinder variety, which | conference of powers whenever a&-| NORFOLK, Va, February 25.— |73 with flowers, which held the bodiesy Harris at 11:30 oclock = Hongrary fco-operate with the Workers' Educa- |a L BT Tt A do not stand up under present-day traf- | gression by an outside power develops| o, (aarey by eB AL S iy eatiofo e Lo iwhg glven es 1 l’:l“ en;r.r- z;i : ) autsmeir “were | tjon Bureau of New York in endeav paper, typewriting characters and : - fic, and which are very expensive to|over ‘said rights' It doesn't define i t 2 r Majs, James Muir, D. H. Torrey, W. H.ioring to aid adults to obtain the bene- | envelopes. The start wazs made by tial Print of Bill r D! " : Do and if we | gating board into the causes and cir-| The Southland completed her sad | Frank, C. H. Brown, B. O. Lewls and i . e e al Print of Bill. maintain, requiring road gangs al-|what ‘said rights’ may bs an Joutney up the Potomac andl dochedl Herboit o I fits of university training, and the|piacing the wetermark on the paper {most constantly to keep them in any |do not nasw say that we have the right | cumstanced surrounding the disaster 1 J0URRY, VP the POLomBe and docieed | Herbert O'Leary. Honorary pallbear-|federation will authorize a committee | with that used in the War Depart- The republican majority of the ways | kind of shape. to determine for ofi;l;l:u‘:w:l!‘l;ll'::: to the acmi-dirigible Roma at Army |5t Y3y’ Dhopirget Whart this morning |era for Capt. Mabry were Capta. 0. 8 to frame a working agreement With|ment burenu of fnsalar affairs. Then and means committee are today con- ‘loAh‘:lr(;‘la‘:x‘d";Iu:{w‘ez; f‘.‘e&u;')r‘!l::n:lz tho ‘:-elxl:'lll :':: ‘g:mno“ of 'having | supply base, &uesday, killing thirty-four [ Maj. 'Walter H.'Vautsmeir, Capt. Dale | and Burdette 8. Wright. and Lieuts. E‘il L'y’rru;;‘.ok“mm iracieriind the the typewriting bezan to figure. sidering a confidential committee | & : the District 1ine, | aaeuiesced in them. men, was begun at meadquarters of the | Mabry. Master Sergt. James Murray | ¥. Carey and George W. Goddard, e naractorised the Leaven Indeifble Trace. int “No. 3" of the bill f Tere’ | s Te esd oE repall. partizal | A en "' conferance s called it 1§ and Staff Sergt. Lee M. Harrls. Honorary pallbearers for Master |ing ever devised for i e e The typewriter, according to Mr. bonus which they expect to report out | bad sectio L7 Mugtto) ::.:w";;‘:z the purpose of the conference | liminary investigations have bee nying the remains from Norfolk |sioned officers from Bolling Field, and | Sessions of the council will continue|ihe user as does the pencil or pen. on Tuesday, definite actlon having been postponed yesterday until that date. This confidential print would author- ize the five-alternative-plans bonus, without any suggestion as to how the money should be raised to pay it, and includes a specific provision that pay- ments shall start by October 1, of his date having been set stence of Chalrman Ford- ney, who sald, in effect, “unless that is ‘done the republican party will be defeated,” and Representative Tread- way of Massachusetts, replied, in ef- fect, “If that is done. I say, the re- publican party will be defcated.” Vote Five to Four. By a vote of five to four yesterday the special subcommittee of republi can members on financing the sol- diers bonus reported to the fu!ll res publican membership the recommen- dation that a bill should be reported without any suggestions as to how to raise the funds. If this is done, and it is expected that it will be done, there isa general belief that the House will pass the bill, and President Harding will veto it. It is also forecast that the re- publicans favoring a sales tax, an- ticipating the President’s veto, will coalesce with the democrats in fight- ing the committee bill. Separate Votes Taken. In the conference of the special subcommittee on finance yesterday separate votes were taken on a pro- posal to incorporate a sales tax and also on the proposition to include only an insurance feature, which Fresident Harding in his letter to Chairman Fordney said need not be delayed. The vote rejecting the sales tax was seven to two—the two for it _being Representatives Longworth of Ohio and Bacharach of New Jersey. ‘The vote rejecting ®he insurance- only feature was six to two, the two in favor being Representatives Wat- son of Pennsylvania, aml Treadway ef Masachusetts. The delay until Tuesday in taking final action is understood to be largely in order that a reflex may be had on how the country would take the no-finance-plan bonus bill, and in order that some members of the com- mittee may 5" direct word from President Harding as to whether he will stand to the direct implication in his letter that he would veto the bonus bill if it were not based on a sales tax. CONGRESS TO CONSIDER DISTRICT BILLS MONDAY District legislation is promised an- other inning in the House on Monday, the regular District day. Chairman Focht of the House District commit- tee had not expected another day so soon after Wednesday of last week and Monday and Wednesday of the week previous, but House Leader JMondell announced toddy that Dis- trict legislation would not be set aside on Monday. It is probable that -the long-de- layed pawnbrokers bill and the snow and ice removal bill will receive con- sideration. The pawnbroker legis- lation was de]afied by the iliness of Representative Ben Johnson of Ken- tucky, former chairman of the House District committee. Georgia avenue. 4-POWER TREATY ORDERED REPORTED WITH RESERVATION (Continued from Firat Page.) | approved, twelve to one, Senator { Borah alone voting in_ the negatiwe. | “Only two of the arms conference treaties, the general far eastern and Chinese tariff pacts, now remain he- {fore the committee. They will be taken up next week, and although some of the committee members have shown a disposition to discuss the tariff treaty in committee, it is not i expected that a report will be long delayed. Formal presentation of the treaties approved today is to be post- poned by Chairman Lodge of the com- mittee until he can place the whole series before the Senate. | REED WANTS HARVEY BACK. Assailing the serfes of arms con- ference tieaties in general, Senator Roeed, democrat, Missouri, yesterday lafternoon launched into an attack on | George Harvey, American ambassa- !dor to Great Britain, who, he said, should be recalle? because of his recent address at the Pilgrims’ So- ciety dinner. { “I'happen to be the only democrat, if 1 remember correctly,” said Sena- ltor Te:d, “who made & speech de- fending the appointment of Mr. Har- vey. 1 withdraw that speech. I adorn myself with the sackcloth of | repentance, 1 put the ashes of con- { trition on my brow. “The Congress of the United States ought to demand his recall. We ought to put in his place a 100 per cent American, who halieves in | America first_and all the time, and who ean put his legs under British mahogany without loping his head.” In his discussion of the Pligrims’ ! jdinner the Missourl senator read a {rhyme, beginning “Sing a song of six | pence, a bottle full of rye,” but added ithat it would “take something more befuddling than rye” to produce i some of the sentiments expressed in Mr. Harvey's speech. The ambassa- dor's reference to the common inter- ests of the United States and Great | Britain was characterized by Senator Reed as “treasonable, if it were not idotic.” “These same thoughts,” centinued | Mr. Reed, “run through the arms con- ference treaties. I have no doubt that Mr. Harvey saw clearly through the mists and clouds that must have en- veloped him_the real purport of these covenants. He saw that America w. about to give up her dominance of the Pacific; that she was to confirm by treaty the right of Japan to two belts of islands that lie between the United States and the Japanese coast; that we were about to enter into a treaty by which we agree to protect all of Japan. : “Tr's’ time to have an_ American President. It's 'time to have some American diplomats, It's time to have to ‘arrive at an understanding or an ‘:d]:s!mam.' ‘What actually happen: delegate or am! or represents the United States at that conference. An agreement 18 reached. Since Sakhalin is an island, the only means of protecting it | by navy or by economic boycott of the offending power. Now It may develop that the publio sentiment of ‘America is against war with Russia, or that we of tais country do not believe Japan has a right to the island in ques- tion. What 1 want to prevent is some American President getting up and say- ing that an agreement been reached under the terms of a treaty ratified by the United States Senate whereby a con- forence of powers determines the most efficient means of maintaining the rights vered by the treaty. w"\%’lm L{. immense powers which the executive has of ordering warships to any quarter of the lobe—and sailing orders are usually an xfnnerly secret— We may wake up and find ourseives on the threshold of war witaout a voice as to whether we want to commit ourselves to war. It is said that this is underatood in the language of the treaty, and we who read Engl and are familiar with our own constitutional system may be in agreement about it, but I want every- body in Japan and Russia and elsewhere fn the world to understand that Con- has_absolyte freedom of action and that the ratification of rt.llu:"_ tmg sn’t put Upon us any m g‘\fils‘l!ir?: goo what we shall do in the future when confronted with the ques- tion of maintaining anybody's rights in e Pacific.” Believe Reservation Needed. Mr., Brandegee believes President Harding himself holds the same view about the rights and powers of Con- gress, and probably feels that the reservations are unnecessary because he himself would surely consult Con- , and would in advance of mak- are ing any serious move find nut whether Congress approved. But with the ever-growing wer of the cu- ), n like Senator Brandegee be- Hres Ml " whsia, remove. at oncs any doubts In the minds of foreign gov. ernments if into the four-pows r were written a specific reser- :vr.e‘?‘t):; showing that Congreas is the authority when anything in- \‘r‘:‘)‘l‘v‘lng the n!c of force is uintem- plated. European governments have their own quick remedy when their prime minister or foreign secretary in the midat of & negotiation does yomething which the people do not like, Over- night & ministry can be overturned. Recently Premier Briand was forcad out of power in the midst of a treaty negotiation which his parliament did not approve. Under the American system, there Is no immediate check on the executive it he chooses to 1d-| fore Congress. That's why the Bran- degee reservation may be ragarded as aimost & constitutional development designeg to give the people & greuter voice in forelgn affairs. (Copyright, 1822.) SHOWN STAR'S TROPHY., some one at court of §t. James!President Shakes Hand With 80 who does not believe that whatever benefits Great Britain benefits us. Mr. Harvey ought to come home almost be willing to repeal the hibitory law to get him back.” GAS WIPES OUT FAMILY. SANTA BARBARA, Calif, February Boy Scoufs. "p,‘;‘f \ President Harding today recelved Troop 40 of the District of Columbia local council of the Boy Scouts and wag shown The Evening Star inapec- tion trophy won by that troop. / The President shook hands with 25.—Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Gray, their | each of the thirty boys of the organ- two_children, a boy of six and & girl of three, besides a nurse, Miss Lillian Spencer, were killed today by inhal ing carbon monoxide wh water heater. g2, ich | The troop when filled the Gray home here from & gas | Prealdent waa b ization and complimented them in high terma of praise for thair loyal and efficient service to their order. o by Chuies . King, its scoutmaster, g made both by Langley Field officers and officers especially detailed by the War Department, and these will be submitted to the board. It is the intention of the board, act- ing under instructions from the War Department, to bring ont every fea- ture of the crl‘h before the report is made. . Seemed to Lose Buoyancy. +Just before the Roma started her fatal nose-dive she seemed to buckle up close to the bow, apparently briging the nose of the ship from left to right. It looked to me that there wae dead weight In the bow; that there was no gas in that part of the bag to hold up the nosg. She appeared to lose her buovancy." This today was the sfatement of Walter Simms, a civillan, who was at piér 6, Army base, when the Roma crashed Into the earth and was wrecked. Mr. Simms was one of the {mpor. tant witnesses heard by thé board from Langley Field that Is investi- gating the disaster. Nothing officlal regarding the re- sult -of the investigation will be given out until the report reaches the War Department in Washington. Bodies Burned and Scared. Capt. G. B, West, medical officer who examined the bodies as they were re- moved from the wreck of the airship, described the nature of the burns uftered by every one of the victims. One description did for all, for the bodies were burned and seared alike, he told the board. It is understood that medical officers will testify that the great majority met death from burns, some having been asphyxiated and others being crushed to death by the steel girders and supports. Following Capt. West, officers and taches of the Army base testified to the position of the Roma in the air when she was first seen approach- ing the reservation from a northeast- orly direction. Pescribe Their Impressions. Beveral described thelr jmpressions when they first saw the airship, and all agreed that they thought she was in trouble, The statements ag to the rudder sup- ports apparently glving away on the left-hand side, throwing those on the right into a vertical position, were practically the same as made the aft- ernoon ef the tragedy. The members of the board are Majs. D, Johnson, J. H. Jouett and J, Me- Murney. ail stationed at Langley Pleld. The board will probably be in session at the Army base all day. Testimony will also be taken at Newport News gnd Langley Field. FAVOR HELIUM GAS. Cabinet Decides to Ask Appropria- tion From Congress. It is underatood that it was decided at yesterday's cabjnet aession to request Congress to appropriate a liberal sum for the production and conservation of helium gas. This is believgd necessary by the President and his advisers as one means of averting airship fires. There Is no mistaking the fact that the President and his cabinet are stirred by the reports incident to the Roma disaster and that they feel ‘convinced thet the loss of life in the destruction of the big dirigible would have been ity had the craft g reduced are Mrs. Vautsmeir, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. | Agpew, Dr. Mabry and two other| members of Capt. Mabry's family; | Sergt. and Mrs. Gabriel, Maj. West- over, Lieuts. Byron, Burt, Junius, ! Smith and othiers, 'who were met on the | pler by Maj. Gen. Patrick, Maj. Lin- | coln, Lieut. Hodge, Master Sergt. | filled with helium gas Instead of hydro- gen gas. Regarding the matter of an appropriation, it is understood that SBec- reurz Fall of the Interior Department laid before the cabinet meeting consid- erable data concerning the production of helium and also the draft of a tenta- tive bill providing for an increase in the production and conservation of the product. Zeppelin Negotiations On. In conection with the disaster to the Roma and the luem‘llnf change in plans of the air service lighter-than- air craft program, it was disclosed yesterday that diplomatic negotia- tions are now in progress between the State Department and Germany over | the proposal that Germany should build a Zeppelin dirigible for the United States under the American reparations allotments. A difference has arisen, It was said, over the ques- tion of whether the amount of the American _reparations _ allotments would cover the coat of the ship. Speaking for the Navy Department, Sgcretary Denby made It plain that unless this was so—and that no addi- tional expense in the construction of the %eppelin would devolve upon the United States—the Navy Department would withdraw its request for the dirigible. \ ‘The Versailles treaty provided that Germany should furnish thirteen Zep- pelin airships to the allles—these craft to be divided among the allied nations The United States ive two of the ships. after six had been delivered to the al. lles, the remaining seven were illegal ly destroyed in Germany, afd the reparations commission demanded their replacement either in cash or in new airships, DENIES SQN WROTE LETTER. HAMPTON, Va., February 25.—Rob- ert Smythe, father of Lieut. Clifford E. Smythe, one of the victims of the | Roma disaster near Norfolk Tuesday, rrived here today from Chicago and e Out a statement denying that his son had written him a letter, just after the dlirigible's trial flight to Washing- ton, that it was so unsafe it would be “criminal” negligence to HY her ggain without making changes In her con- struction, CHICAGO, February 35.—Robert M. Smythe, jr., brother of Lieut. Clifford F, Smythe, one of the victims of the Roma disaster, today reiterated his statement made last Wednesday that he had seen letters from his brother in the air service declaring the Roma unsafe, “The letters were addressed to my father or my mother, who gave them to me to read,” he said today, follow- ing the repartad denial of the state- ments credited to Lieut Smythe by his father, Robert M, Smythe in Hampton, Va., yesterday, Motors Working Poorly. don't recall exactly what they except that the motors were working poorly and that Lieu Smythe returned from the Roma’s trial trip by train, I have every rea. son to think that Dr. Nicholson's statements are true, 2s he was a very close friend of the family and corre- sponded with my brather regularly.” It was Dr. J. M. Nicholson, who gave out what he sald was the text of Lieut Smythe's letters expressing the opinion that the Roma was unsafe. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Smythe, sr., will arrive in Chicago tomorrow besn afternoon with the body of their son. for Staff Sergt. Harris six non-com- missloned officers from Belling Field. Tha services were held before large number of the personnel of Bolling Fleld, relatives and friends, who attended to pay final tribute to the four who had honorably given up their lives In their country’s service, INTAYLOR MURDE Are Unable to Substantiate Harry N. Fields’ “Confession.” By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., February 25. —Interest resulting from the “confes. slon™ of Harry N. Fields, in Detroit, as to certain alleged details of the murfler of William Desmond Taylor, film director, was subsiding hare to- day, with outspoken expressions by officials of their disbelief in Flelds' statements. They declared they had ?;:n.fi:::i? to ;lllh‘;llnllate lg)' ;l ons Fiolds Detroit authorities. jpadeitalithe The Investigation resolved jtseif locally largely into a resumption by the police of rupning to ground the tips” on the mystery that were said to be reaching the various offcials as during the days after February 1. e Actress Enmeshed, 'ROIT, February 25—, picture actress whoyrnnks‘h?é%u?: the profession was one of the four persons who plotted the murder of William Desmond Taylor, film direc- tor, according to the story of Harry N. Flelds, under arrest here, Sherift r!.l:\‘r.lm!fl.L C;:\n of Wayne-county, an- inced, 6 sheriff Wflmln'l identity. M Was stated also tha il evidence had been unn:v:l‘dgiug:r.l which served to strengthen Fields’ story of his knowledge of the crime. A search of his effect§ digclosed re. ceipts ghowing Flelds was in Los Angeles late January, Among these rent receipt for a place in Venico, Calif, where Fields has maintained the details of Taylors slaying wege arranged. Fields, according to the sheri: stated that the qciress was not pr ent when Taylor wzs shot, and reiter~ ated that the only participants at the scane of the crime were the three he described as Wong Lee, a Chine who_did the shooting; Johnny Clark, & white man, and & Jennie Moore, ali of whom were hired t parts in the murder, BULL SETS ON RED AUTO, Farmer Appeals to Enforce Pay- ment of Collision Insurance. TOPEKA, Kan, Februsry 5.—Fred Knudson, a farmer, today appealed to the state superintendent of jnsurance for aid in ecollecting eollision insurance on his automobile. Knudson in his complaint states that he painted his automobile red, that a bull at a public sale at Orion, Kan, attacked it and that the insyrance company to even eonsider his ciaim. until Saturday. ‘DOMIND CLUB’ PoOL POLICE DOUBT TALE | T0 REACH MILLIN Society Women Lose For- tunes Through Tempting Offers of Broker. NEW YORK, February 25.—Further disclogures concerning the “Domino Club” pool, Into which Alfred Lind- say, broker, is alleged to have induced 2 score of women to pour their gold. indicated that the women's losses would pass the $1,000,000 mark, it was sald today at the district attorney’s office. -The figure originally was put at $600.000. Circulars bearing phu!o*rlnhu of the broker were being sent broadeast, but the chief search was being con- ducted in Canads. Detective Flood of the district attorney’s staff eaid there were indications that Lindsay had fled to Montreal. The grand jury Monday will start hearing testimony of society women and others who contributed to Lind- say's pool. g 'en women, headed by Mrs. Lillian B. Duke, d Duke, t! “tobaceo king,” already have been summoned to appear before the grand jury, and District Attorney Banton expected the publicity given the case would bring in more com- plaints. orced wife of James B. | Some characters are blackly written, others lightly. Some leiters are placed close together and others are widely spaced. Detectives and De- partment of Justice operatives went over the typewriting of clerks at the War Department until they settled upon one copy which matched exactly those of the threatening missives Long was taken into custody. One jletter to Mrs. Townsend had been written in jong-hand manuseript on the backs of blank checks. Long's handwriting was compared to this. He was faced with the apparent similarity of the writing. Then, ac- cording to the police, he confessed. The leaders in the investigation were Chief W. J. Burns of the De- jpartment of Justice, Inspector Clif- !ford Grant of the detective bureau {of the police department, W. G. | Walker, in charge of the local in- j vestigating office of the Department | of Justice: Detective Sergt. Patrick | O'Brien, Detective Sergt. Robert Liv- ingston and Operative J. T. Flournoy of the Department of Justice. Regarded as Harmless. Recipients of the messa accord- ing to the police, have evinced a desire not to prosecute the case against Long, who ig regarded by the police and De- partment of Justice as a ‘“harmless charity enthusiastic whose ideas have been misdirected i Long was released last might to go home to his sick wife and three chii- dren. to hold himeelf at the call of the | police. | Lorng was with the Wilson party in Paris as a_stenographer, and years pre- | vious when William Howard Taft was |8 cabinet officer he was with the lutter |in Europe. In the St. Potersburg of that day, after Taft had lent him a huge overcoat, he was arrested by the police as a suspicious character. He tried to explain, but the police did not under- | stand Lnglish. A search of his person revealed the Taft passport in his over- coat and the Russian police immediately changed their attitude, believing him to be the honored guest of the Russian empire, | 1 Writing a Result-Producing (lassified Advertisement The probabilities are that a classified advertiser wants but one applicant if it is the right one- The surest and quickest way to obtain the desired result is all there is to be known about what you have to offer, and th . ested will more sure * An indefinite Want Ad will often pro- duce by far the greatest number of an- swers, but the carefully worded ad will bring the very applicant desired. to describe in detall e persons most inter- ly respond.