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Rain, with slowly rising tempera ' ture tonight; tomorrow, showers and ‘warmer. Temperature for twenty-four hours eneded at 2 p.n. today—Highest, 66, at 3 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 41, at & a.m. toaay. Full report on page 7. Closing New 28,459. No. GERMAN PROPERTY -~ SEIZEDINWARMAY . PAYCLAIMSINU.S. Col. Miller, Custodian, Gives President Plan to Prevent Berlin Confiscation. SMALL ESTATE OWNERS WOULD GET PROTECTION Proposes Using $100,000,000 as Basis for Billion Credit to Re- Establish Trading. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. America’s problem with respect to German property held in ths United States is growing acute. To give back the property to the German owners, it has just been dis- covered, would mean virtual confis- cation by the German government, and the proceeds would go into the national treasury either for government uses or to pay reparations to the allied governments. Col. Thomas W. Miller, alien prop- any custodian, who has been work- ing on the tangle for months, has Presented a plan to President Hard- ing out of which it is expected a policy soon will be evolved. Three Essential Objects. Here are the essentlal objects ‘which it is sought to attain by the plan: First, American citizens, whose relatives lost their lives in the Lusitania, or who lost property at the hands of Germany during the war, shall be paid. Second, German citizens who have small estates which have been seized by the American government shall not be made to suffer unduly, but should have their property back as soon as possible, and the German gov- ernment shall be required to agree not to apply its severe tax laws to this property. ‘Third, instead of permitting the Ger- man government to conflscate through taxation the bulk of the estates held by the alien property custodian, the Ameri- can government shall use a portion of the . proc to pay American claims and a portion as collateral for a hug? trading corporation which shall help re- cstablish commercial [relations betwe:n the United States and Germany. Basis for Billion Credit. One hundred million dollars of Ger- 10an assets held by the American gov- ernmgnt would be sufficlent basis, it is calculated, for a billion-dollar credit. There are German gwners with 2 hundred million dollars of property here who have expressed a strong de- sire to have their asoets pooled in such a quasi-government corporation l'hleh would operate under the Edge law. ‘While the Harding administration is not committed to any specific pro- posals and is still welcoming sugges- tions, it is true that the plan submit- ted by Col. Miller is the first official solution which has been brought for- . The United States government is, of * course, opposed to conflacation of the German property and does not intend to sanction any such schema. mew plan, therefore, attempts to use approximately that portion of the German assets which would go to the German government instead of its citizens. Copies of the German tax law have been received here and have been carefully studied. There is nothing in America comparable to it. Capital Being Confiscated. The Germans actually are taxing ecapital and are epplying such per- centages as to make it possible for them to take away from the German owners the largest part of any prop- erty returned to them by the Amer- ican government. The theory back of the anti-con- fiscation policy of the United States government always has been that individuals should not be made to suffer for the acts of war of their government, but if the United States were to return tomorrow without condition all the property seiged from Germans, the allied governments and citizens of allied countries im- mediately would be benefited while German owners would be hurt as would American citizens whose claims against Germany are likely to re- main unpaid indefinitely so far as Germany is goncerned. The working of the German tax law is uniqué. All property or capital brought-into Germany is subject to two_separate taxes—one an “empire need tax,” which goes to pay allled reparations, and the other a general capital tax for government expenses. In one case the value of the mark is taken at thirteen marks per dollar, as of July, 1919, and in the other forty-nine marks to the dollar, as of December, 1919. To explain actually how the sys- tem works, it may be supposed, for (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) York Stocks, Page 2! Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, 7 D. C. Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1922 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. “SIAMESE TWINS” DIE FEW SECONDS APART Josefa Blazek Passes Away First—Sister’s End Quickly Follows—Brother Refuses Last- Minute Appeals for Severing Operation. By t! e Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 30.—Josefa and Rosz Blazek, the “Siamese Twins” died at a hospital here early this morning. Josefa's death occurred first and was followed in a few seconds by the death of her sister. Physicians had declared early in the night that in the event of the death of one of the sisters the other would die quickly, as their biother, Frank Blozek, fiad refused to permit an operation which would sever their bodies. The twins had been in the hospital ten days. Josefa was ill with yellow jaundice and that was followed Dby pneumonia. Shortly before her death Rosa was afllicted with bronchitis. Preparations had been made for the severing operation and the physiclans were ready to make every effort to save the life of at least one of the women. All Hope Abandoned. Hope of saving the life of Josefs was abandoned at midnight accord- ing to Dr. B. H. Breakstone, chief of the surgical staff at the hospital. “I tried to get the consent of the brother to operate to save the life of Rosa, but he refused to give his per- mission,” added the physician. Dr. Breakstone explained that a delicate . operation would have been necessary. Before their death he had expressed the opinion that the physiological affinity of the twins was so vital that if one should die the other might also succumb before the §1.900,000 HOTEL TOBEBUILT HERE Hotel President, New Jer- sey Avenue and C. Construction of a $1.500,000 hostelry, to be known as the Hotel President, on the site of the old Meigs property, New Jersey avenue and C street southeast. opposite the House office building, has been begun by the Han- ford Hotel Company. The hotel will comprise eight sterjes -apd will.contain three hundred rooms, divided into one, two and three-room Suites, rvations for which alresady have. been made by many membars of Congress, it is said. The design of the new structure, in keeping with the architecture of the House office bullding, was approved some time ago by the Fine Aris Com- mission. Indiana limestone will te used for the exterior of the first story, with light buft brick facing for the upper stories. Concrete and steel will be used in the construction. Housekeeping Accommodations. Seventy of the suites will be provid- ed with electric kitchenettes, with automatic refrigeration. The refrig- eration feature will apply to all rooms. The hotel is planned to contain latest conveniences for guests, the builders declare. The first floor will contain the lobby, administrative offices, dining rooms, banquet and ballrooms. The ballroom is to be provided with a stage and screen, with equipment for the pro- jection of motion pictures. Having a frontage of 210 feet on New_ Jersey avenue and of 190 feet on C street, the building will cover a triangular plot containing more than 20,000 square feet. Because of the unusual location and the shape of the plot, every room/in the hotel will be open to sunlight and alir, there being no courts. Completion of the plans of the Commission of the Fine Arts for improvement of the Mall will give the hotel residents an .unobstructed view from Capitol Hill to the Lincoln Memorial. ~ Officers of Company. The company plans to complete the hotel early in 1923. Officers of the jcompany are: Maj. H. A. Gillis, president; H. J. Staley, vice presi- dent, and Walter B. Guy, secretary- treasurer, all of this city. E. Harris Janes of New York is the architect, and Weed & Stanton of New York, the contractors. Removal of the old Meigs home, which_ has occupled a part of the site for almost a century, Was started this week. It was one of the famous landmarks of Washington and housed many noted tenants. WOMEN ARE MAKING THINGS HUM AFTER WINNING ALL TOWN OFFICE. Special Dispatch to The Star. DESLACS, N. D., March 30.—This is the first town in the United States to be entirely governed by women. At an election held last week eight married women were swept—to use-_ a household expression—into office. Today they pointed with pride to the record of their first _forty-eight hours at the reins of the community government. Among the first reforms they have declared for is a 9- o'clock town. Any one who Is caught roaming around hereafter at midnight will be given a chance to get over their highfalutin’ ideas in the calaboose. No more will there be all-night poker games in the back room of the Com- mercial Hotel. No more will pocket flasks be tolerated. The curb lizard is to have his walking papers, while the dip, the camel walk and the shimmy have had “finis” writterr for them inside the boundares of Des- But that is not all. Today the “city mothers” brought down from the shelves the musty statutes that in the past have been entirely neglected by the men. They are to be examined with the utmcst care. If there is anything in them ‘which will aid in making Deslacs { a place of heavenly rest, the ‘woman government is for it. The " new line-up contains: Chairman of the village council, Mrs. . L. Halverson; trustees, Mrs. T. M. Filbert and Mrs. G. L. Johnson; assessor, Mrs. D. V. Berry; treasurer, Mrs. Mal Shafer; ident, Mrs. E. C. Kinyon; city marshal, Mrs. F. W. Ward; justice of the peace, Mrs. Rebecca Barnes. Their initial movement truly was typical of the sex. Assum- ing, possession of the town hall they doned dust caps and: aprons and with brooms, mops, soap and ‘water proceeded to clean up the entire building. Four ancient cus- pldors, targets for masculinity for years, wers dragged from the council room and thrown into the ashcan. Today they followed the clean-up procedure and ventured the opinion that it will take least a week to make the old building a fit habitation for clean otm:tm-. h After that, they say, everybod; look out. Bl % There was no_ fluke election. A few husbands oppo Mr. Ward announced that he would not_vote for his wife for marshal. Whether he made . good that threat no one knows, nor cares, least of .all Marshal Ward, . Who, in the final analyi now the representative of the law, Work Already Started: on| band of flesh and bone that joins them could be severed. Although the twins possessed sep- arate respiratory and cardiac sys- tems, Dr. Breakstone explained that they had only one set of secondary digestive and procreative organs. The operation, he said, would have neces- sitated the building up of a part of the digestive and other essential or- gans to save the life of one twin. Eleven-Year-0ld Son. Rosa was once married, her name being Rosa Blazek Dvorak. She is survived by a normal eleven-year-old boy. Her husband was a captain in the German army and was killed in action In 1917. She was married fif- teen years ago. Josefa never married. The little son, Franz, has been at the bedside of his mother, who, un- til within the last few hours was less critically 1l than Josefa. The twins were the second oftspring of a normal parentage in Czechoslo- vakia forty-two years ago. There were four other children, all normal and all still living. The father is also sald to be alive, his age being eighty-five years. The mother died a year ago, at the age of sixty-five years. During a tour of the world the twins acquired considerable wealth. They died without making a will, al- though their attorney, J. L. Triska, has been at the hospital several days in the hope that they would be in condition to dictate the document. Brother Stands Firm. As the women grew weaker last night physiclans pleaded with the brother to permit an operation, hos- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) DENOUNGES CLAINS OF POLITIGAL RIFT Mondell Declares Congress and President Are in Fullest Accord. Congress and President Harding are not at loggerheads, despite the im- pression created by ‘“certain writers and certain newspapers,” Representa- tive Mondell, Wyoming, republican which he sald he had prepared for de- livery as an address in the House. “The fact is that -instead of the President and Congress being at log- gerheads; as thesé writers ana jour- rals would have the country belleve,” stated Mr. Mondell, “there never has been a time in my quarter of a cen- tury of experience in Congress when the relations between the President and Congress, particularly the House of Representatives, were more plea: ant, cordial, sympgthetic and harmo- nius than at the present time. President’s Views Adopted. “Any one who will take the trou- ble to read the recommendations of President Harding to this Congress from time to time and to examine the record of Congress, will find that practically all of these recommenda- tions have either been written into law or are in process of enactment, and this spplies particularly to the record of the House.” The republican leader sald he in- /vited comparison with any period of American history and challenged any one to find a record of “finer rela- ticns or more harmonious co-opera- tion” between the President and Congress. There has béen a general and substantial accord, he added, not only on matters of primary im- portance, but in the consideration of many questions of policy and detail. Declaring that there seemed to be a “systematic attempt” on the part of varlous newspapers and writers to create the impression' that there was frictlon between the executive and republican congressional leaders, Mr. Mondell asserted that “the anti- bonus campaign of gertain metropoli- tan newspapers has given us the finest example we have yet had as to the length to which some people are willing to go in a campaign of nisrepresentation.” Efforts are also being made, Mr. Mondell declared, to make it appear that there is a wide rift between the President and republican leaders in Ccngress over legislation affecting {the Army and the Navy. “I venture the assertion,” he stated, “that the President’s view with re. gard to the military establishment is much more nearly in harmony with the action which has been taken by the House than it is with the attitude of the majority of the newspapers and newspaper writers who have as- sumed to know and to promulgate his views.” WOULD TRANSFER LAND. 17 Parcels Along James Creek Canal to Botanic Gardens. Under a joint resolution introduced today by Senator Hale, the chief of jengineers, United States Army, would be authorized to transfer to the juris- diction of the joint committee on li- brary eighteen reservations owned by the United States lying along the site of the old James creek canal from Maryland avenue to P street south- vnv for use in connection with the ot: nic Gardens. The resolution was referred to the committee on public bulldings and grounds. Today’s News in Brief.|: Aviators leave Spain in 4,000-m! transatlantic flight. Page Hush of {dleness falling on coal in- dustry as strike nears. Page 1 Mondell declares President and gress are in closest possible acco! Page ile 1 Con- rd. 1 Lawrence, Page 3 ‘Textlls strike paralyzes Mass., cotton mills. Maryland fewer elections bill defeat- ed by vote in house. Page 10 United States health center sought in House bill. Page Labor official charges industry ocuts living wage. Page 13 Scottish Rite official demands lmnr{' help bulld nation. 55 Page 1 Creditors of United States Mail Steam- ship Company attack ship board’s atf de. % Page 20 LAW RESTRETIONS INPEDE PROGRES " OF PLAYEROUNDS Equipment Rapidly Deterio- rating Beyond Repair Be- cause of Many Handicaps. CONGRESS ACTS PREVENT 'ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS Many Kind Offers of Citizens Re- jected—Funds Also Lacking to Make Purchases. Inabllity of the local officials hav- ing playgrounds under their supervi- sion to maintain the equipment in a good state of repair, owing to the re- strictions contained in appropriation acts, has caused much of this’ mate- rial to deteriorate beyond any possi- ble repalr, it is pointed out. The re- sult has been to put a great obstacle before the efforts to keep the play spaces for the children up to a stand- ard that would meet the demands of the children at all times. Little elasticity is provided in the law, and the officials are held down to its strict’ letter. For instance, residents and associations here who have found the play spaces:in their vicinity showing deterioration in the equipment which makes it unsafe for the children have offered to those in charge of the playgrounds new equipment with which to replace the old, provided those in charge would provide for its crection. While the officials would be only too glad to ac- cept the offer and get the equip: ment, they cannot comply with the terms providing for its erection, ow- ing to the provisions of the law. ' Kind Offers Refused. There are a number of offers on flle in the local playgrounds headquar- ters in the District bullding to fur- nish equipment to replace that worn out in some of the play spaces. But they got as far as the files and that was all. The officials could do no more than show as best they could an appreciation of the spirit of those who offered to buy the equipment. Mothers and fathers of little children realize the value of having well equipped playgrounds for their chil- dren, and to such an extent that they are willing to pay for 'equipment. leader, declared today in a statement |But they are prevented from even helping out 'in this situstion unless, af c-um.uo& can fapt-‘the whale bill of furnishing the equipment and then paying for its instal i & ber of school ‘the ehildren’s burear re- ported, “the eqbulpmem has worn out and has not been replacéd because appropriations have not béen made In recent years for purchasing hew ap- paratus for grounds already equip- ped, In this matter of upkeep of equipment the school authorities labor under the disadvantage of not being able to replace worn-out equip- ment, as under the wording of the ap- propriation act the money for grad- ing and equipping must be expended wholly on ‘new’ playgrounds, and like- wise the sums designated for ‘main- tenance and repair’ are not cofistrued as syailable for purchasing apparatus. As & result, In many of the older yards the equipment is beyond repair and yet cannot be replaced. Owing to the limitation on the use of appro- priations, moreover, it is even difficult to place apparatus that is from time to time donated. It would seem that some rellef should be given the au- thorities in the way of funds for re- pilacement and to meet such situa- tions as that brought out by offers to turnish equipment.” Children ‘Lesing Grounds. It was pointed out that unless this situation can be chinged the equip- ment in various play spaces will de- teriorate fast, and it will be almost an endless task to try to bring the play spaces and equipment for the local children up to a point where it will meet the full demand. As the equipment decays it will throw the children on other nearby grounds and thus aggravate an otherwise serfous congestion now prevailing. This brings up the point as to what is adequate play Pl ground authorities, it wa. those familiar with the sit: not in complete accord number of square feet per child which should be set aside in allotting playground space. Schenectady, N. Y., according to the experts of the children’s bureau, stands for sixty square feet per child. John Nolen, city planning ex- pert, has recently succeeded in get- ting New London, Conn., 10 accept & plan providing one acre of play space for 300 small children. This means 145 square feet per child and is the unit adopted by the Playground As- sociation: of America. In the early days of laying out the school playgrounds around old bulld- ings in Gary, Ind., it was asserted, Superintendent of Schools Wirt adopted a positive minimum of forty- seven square feet per child. Play Areas Increased: Since . that time he has increased the areas until the following situa- tion exists: The first new school that ‘was built had two acreas; the second, four acreas, and the third, eleven acres, and now the standard provided for all public schools in Gary is a twenty-acre tract, ten acres being set aside for school bullding with considerable out-door equipment and ten acres adjoining Ddeing reserved as a public part. nneapolis is working for one'acre. of little chil- 's playgrounds for every 15,000 of the population, plus one acre for sports for every 10,000 population. In a recent survey in Cleveland, Ohio, minimums were. fixed for chil- dren of varfous ages ranging from 6500 children per acre from the ages of four and five' to 300 per aci those nineteen to twenty years fo of 13| DIVA HAS SERIOUS INFECTI/ SAN FRANCISCO, March 30.—Mary Garden is suffering from “sinus in- fection,” but may be able to sing in the “Jugsler of Notre Dame” Friday, anounced today. The AUTHORIS HUMBLED | IN DUEL WITH FISTS Harry Leon Wilson Trains, Challenges Artist and Gets Pummeling. By the Amsociated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, March 30.—Harry (L.eon Wilson, natlonally known author and playwright, and Theodore Criley, artist, fought a duel last Saturday, according to a story printed in the San Francisco Examiner today. There were no clashing blades nor silver- mounted pistols. It was fought in a sheltered glen near Carmel, artist colony, seventy | coast, and at daylight, the traditional hour of duels. The weapons were fists, encased in riding gloves dind backed, ir Wilson's’ ocase,. with a. welght of speclally trained bone and muscle. E Criley won. Feud of Long Standing. According to the Examiner, the feud was of long standing, arising from a quarrel after a New Year festivity. Criley said he was attacked in letters ‘which came through the mails and by messenger, but that he made efforts to meet Wilson to discuss the situa- tion. ‘When Wilson left for Honolulu early in the year i1t was thought to mark an armistice in the feud, which was well known in the artist colony. But a letter was said to have been written by Wilson to Criley before he sailed saying he would be back. His vaca- tion time was spent in tralning— walking, swimming, boxing. He re- turned from Honolulu in fine trim. Criley Didn’t Want Second. A challenge was Issued, the story. runs. Wilson said he would bring two seconds and suggested his op- ponent be similarly provided, but it. Wilson suggested soft riding gloves worn over firsts otherwise quite hard. . Criley accepted the challenge. It sald that Mrs. Criley e:lcledw.l promise that he fould not strike the first blow. -He appeared alone and ;yoll(z no word until the end of the uel. ‘Wilson paced off a space the size of a ring. Old English rules were n:— proved, providing that a_knockdown constituted a round and for intervals of three minutes between rounds. Your Round, Says Wilson. ‘Wilson stepped into the ring, strip- ped to his undergarments and waited while Criley removed his glasses and his coat. With a cry of “Now,” Wilson landed the first blow. Criley's promise to his wife was no longer binding him. There w: men stood chest to chest and traded blow for blow. After three minutes of battle Wil- son went down. *Your round,” gled to his feet. ! The second round was shorter, Wil. son went down again. Five ro:unds were fought, according to witnesses. At last Wilson stayed down. ‘he gasped l|nfl strug- Not Through Yet. “You win,” he said, “but don’t think I am through with you. T've just be- gun.” “I am always at your service.' plied Criley.- Criley formerly was & business man and retired to devote his time to the study of landscape painting. Mrs. Criley has been under a doc- tor's care since the affair, “The whele thing was childish,” Criley said. “It was schdolboy stuff.” —_— TWO KILLED IN ITALY. Renew: s Te- ed Outbrenks Between Fas- cisti and Socialists. By tle Associated Press. ROME, March 30.—Renewed out- breaks between the Fascist! and socialists are reported in various sec- tions: of Itdly. . ‘ The anarchist, Musetti was shot ": and killed near Carrara, in Tuscany, 1 alking with his. wife al T e A cre. the Fanintl s He was shot by ti In Parma was killed in’' en encounter between socialists and Fascist! E?rlng the trial of several soclalistd charged with_disorders. A bomb was thrown from a third- story window at Leghorn, wounding -two of hom miles south of here on the Pacific} Criley declined to bring friends into | D. J. CALLAHAN NAMED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER Steamboat Company Official to Fill Vacancy Caused by Resignation o A. Edwards. Daniel J. Callahan was appointed a member of the Board of Education to- day by justices of the District Supreme Court, to flll tae vacancy created by the resignation several months ago Daniel A. Edwards. Mr. Callahan is supreme treasurer of the Knights of Columbus, second vice president of the Norfolk and Washing- the National Bank of Washington, a member of the Rotary Club, the City Club and the Washington Board of Trade. He was born March 26, 1867, at Portsmouth, Va. During the war Mr. Callahan had charge of the war savings stamp drive in Washington and received offictal com- mendation for his successful work. He was awarded the decoration of the Order of St. Gregory by the late Pope Bene- lumbus war activities. 0B HONT STRANDS TIYOUNGD.C MEN | Rail Line Recruits, Refusing to Be Strikebreakers, Ac- cuse U. S. Office. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND Md, March 30— | Twenty-seven youns Washington ymen are stranded hara and may have | to depend upon the Associated Char- jitles to get them back home. ‘When they arrived here last night 1to work at the, Western Maryland | railway shops they sald they did not { know ‘they were coming as strike- breakers. According to C. F. Baggest, 419 10th street northwest, one of the spoke: men, they were misled. Baggett, who has & family and has been out Ko( work for three months, says he {was told at the United States em- !ployment service, at 1410 Penn- I-ylnma avenue, that there ‘was no strike, but a few men would not work for the wages offered; that war wages were over. Describes Offer Made. He said the men were advised that boilermakers, machinists and black- smiths were wanted, the shop here was in full blast and everything was going. He said steady work was promised at $6 a day for ten hours, with room and board free until the first pay was drawn, and this should not be taken from the pay, but there- after the worker must pay for his board and lodging. Baggett declares that at the em- ployment service they were told they would go_to Hagerstown, but when they reached Union station another destination was announced—Ridgeley, W. Va., opposite Cumberland, where the Western Maryland shops are lo- cated. It was also held out., according to Baggett, that if the-men became dis- satisfied thelr fares would be paid back home. Baggett's statement was coroborat- {ed by H. L. Hibbs, 324 K street north- west. . i There was great excitement when (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) CAPT. AMUNDSEN FLYING FROM N. Y. TO THIS CITY Explorer Trying Out Plane: Which He Will Carry to North Pole. By tle Associated Press. CENTRAL PARK, N. Y.. March 30.— Capt Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the south’ pole, hopped off for. Wash ington at 12:12 pm. today, in the all metal monoplane Which he will take with hiri When he starts from Seattle June 1 to drift across the north pole in his vessel Maude.” Today's flight was' made both as a test of the ship and in order to per- mit the explorer. to confer With gov- ernment officials regarding plans for his polar expedition. It was raining when ‘the plane took off from this Long Island airdome. The machine will land at Bolling Field. 2 Harold Lewis piloted the - plane. Watching him intently was Lieut. Oscar Omdel of the Norwegian navai air force, who will handle the con- [trols on the monoplane’s polar flights. h’? ‘Washington confer- an’l;h 'fi,h un-lg:‘t‘h. purmn .'r. of s 1l r - Teceipt there of tohes h he expected Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispstches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and ‘also the local news published herein. ton Steamboat Company, s director of | dict for his part in the Knights of Co-; All rights dispatehes of publication of special herein are also reserved. " Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,108 | | | | ! AVITORS H0P OFF INOEEANFLGHT {Hope to Make 4,000 Miles‘ | From Spain to Brazil in 60 ! Hours’ Flying Time. | l By tle Associated Press. i LISBON, March 30.—The attempted flight from Lisbon to Pernambuco, ! Brazil, was started this morning, the | naval captains Sacadura and Coutin- ho taking the air at 7 o'clock. They hope to make the transatlantic pas- | sage of more than 4,000 miles in sixty 1 hours' actual fiying time. They expect %0 arrive in Brasil by April 1. The first stop will be at the Canary Islands, thence the route is by way of the Cape Verde Islands and Ferrnando Noranha, a short distanze northeast| of Pernambuco. Safety Preeautions Taken. The flight from the Cape Verde Is- lands to Fernando Noranha i3 at- tended with considerable risk, a8 the only precaution taken for the safety of the aviators has been the station- ing of three Pegtuguese craisers along the line of flight. A report received about noon said the seaplane was sighted off the coast about fifty ' miles southwest of Lis- !’)on in latitude 38.08 and longitude 18. i { The aviators on leaving expressed the hope of completing the first stage of their jourmey, to the Canarie: io- night. The machine in which the aviators are making their flight is a hydroair- plane. It is of comparatively small dimensions, and this, in connection with the great distances to be trav- ersed over water and the scant pro- vision for patrolling the course, has caused their expedition to be re- garded here as extremely hazardous. Final Jump 1,700 Miles. The first two jumps the Portuguese aviators have planned to take are more than one thousand miles each, to the Canaries and then to the Cape Verde Islands, while the last stage of their contemplated flight, to the Bra. zilian coast, is nearly 1,700 miles. This final jump, if accomplished, will be second only in overseas distance to that of Capt. Sir John Alcock in hi notable transatlantic flight from Ne: foundland to Ireland, more than 1,900 miles, in the summer of 1919. The flight of the American naval seaplane NC-4, from Newfoundland to .the Azores, earlier in the same year, was approximately 1,200 miles. SAMONSCENCE BULDNGFORD. Washington is to have a new mil- lion-dollar building erected for the National Academy of Sciences through the contribution of the Car- negie Corporation of New York. Assurances that all obstacles to the location of this building at 22d and B streets will be removed by legis- lative action, were given today by | Chairman Focht of the House District committee after he had visited the site In company with Paul Brockett. agsistant secretary of the academy and aessistant librarian of the Smith- sonian Institution. In order to erect this building, it will be necessary to close a short; street known as Upper Water street. | This has been opposed for sentimental reasons, because it is one of the streets iaid down in the L'Enfant plan for the National Capital. Chalrman Focht said today that this street is useless and that the closing of it will in no’'way interfere with traffic, be- cause the' new bullding will be en-! tirely surrounded by streets. Now in Smithsenian. The National Academy of Sciences now_has_ its hegdquerters in the Smithsonian Institution.. The presi- dent {3 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secre- tary of the Smithsonian, and the home secretary is Dr. C. 6. Abbot, as- sistant secretary of the Smithsonian. The treasurer is Dr. F. L. Ransome of the geological survey. 5 The new bullding will be of three stories and basement. The first floor will be given over to a library of the national academy, and a reception hall for meetings. There will also be some exhibits on the first fioor. The second and third floors are to be d voted to the office for officers of the academy and quarters for the na- e e Rt e w! a D! lor 21 of ‘the. leading aclentific ‘men ot i | | America, announced. TWO CENTS. HUSH OF IDLENESS ALREADY FALLING ONCOALINDUSTRY Miners Prepare to Lay Down Tools Tomorrow at Mid- night and Sit Back. PREDICT LONG STRUGGLE AT CONFERENCE TABLE {Little Hope Held of Agreement Be- fore Nation Begins to Feel Pinch of Shortage. | BF tie Associated Press. , NEW YORK, March 30.—The hush of idlenese seemed today to be al- ready descending upon the unionized coal industry of the mation, and the anthracite minere and operators sub- committce on wage contract negotia- tions abandoned all hope of halting the strike set for April 1, and in- trenched themselves for a long strug- gle over the conference table. Strike notices have been posted in both the bituminous and anthracite fields, Phillip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers of Tnion miners, 595,000 strong, will lay down their tools at midnight tomorrow. when | their present working contract with | the operators will expire, he said. While expressing a hope for speedy negotiation of a new contract for the anthracite workers, neither miners nor operators would predict today that such an agreement would be reached before the nation begam to feel the pinch of a coal shortage. “We have been asked to substan- tiate our demands for higher wages. and we must have time to do 80,” said Xa‘b:r members of the committee of eight. Will Wait for Miners. “We are content to wait until the miners have fully presented their case. Then it will be our turn to come to bat, id the operators. With these comments, they resumed discussion of the mass of data on costs of living, wage increases, haz- ards of the industry, mechanical pro- duction and market profits, on which the union men base their nineteen demands. Among them they are stressing the demand for & 20 per cent increase to contract laborers: & minimum of $5.20 a day for unskilled day laborers; the check-off system, by which th= mine cperators collect the workmen’s union dues, and a uni- form wage mcale for machine oper- ators. s To these demands the operators have thus far made but one Answer: ‘“Wages in the anthracite industry must come down.” What percentage of reduction they will demand, the operators have not yet revealed. Other Wages Decreased. in other _industries have said S. D. Warriner, speaker for the operators. “A corre- sponding reduction must take place in the mines. Lower costs of living ‘warrant it; the inability of the pub- lic to buy coal at present prices de- mands that it be sold more cheaply. We must cut the cost of production, increase the market for coal, provide more steady work for the miner, at a reduced scale, and thereby help re- lieve the prevailing industrial de- pression.” To this Phillip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers of America, has replied that the stagnation in the coal industry is due to wasteful methods of production, excessive profits, viola- tion of the laws of supply and demand in control of markets and prices, and that costs of living in the mine areas have advanced, while wages remained stationary. ‘With a preliminary declaration that “residents of the anthracite mine region are the most prosperous in tae United States,” operators launched before the subcommittee on wage contract nego- tiations their fight against the nineteen demands of the miners as a basis for settlement of the strike set for April 1. Savings Increase $73.000,000. Speaking for the operators, S. D. War- riner, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, produced figures setting forth that bank deposits in the anthracite district had increased $75,- 000,000 in the last two yea This, he said, clearly indicates that the miners already are receiving the “saving wage” upon which they base their demand for a 20 per cent increase for contract work and $1 per shift for day labor. Phillip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Wcrkers of Amer- ica, countered with a denial that the operators’ figures. compiled by the national industrial conference board, were based on facts. The induetrial ¥oard, h. said, is “a clear-cut, open- s2hop, anti-union organization, whose igures are not authentic, but are colored and thoroughly unreliable.” Supporting thelr contention that the pay schedule should be cut in order to make possible & reduction in the cost of coal to the consumer the operators contended that, while miners demand a 20 per cent raise in wages living costs have dropped 20 per cent .since July, 1920. The battle of statistics today opened with the release by the tional industrial oconferendge board of what it termed “the most compre- hensive survey of the cost of living ever made’ in the anthracite coal flelds.” Supplementing pared for the operators, riner said: “The miners’ wages have been ad- vanced 55 per cent since 19186. their latest 17 per cent increase having been granted since the peak of war- time coste was d. It is un- reasonable that they now should de- mand another 20 per cent” READING OUT, SAYS RUMOR By the Aswociated Press. LONDON, March 30.—It is rumored, says the Pall Mall Gazette and Globe today that Lord Reading, the viceroy of India, has tendered his resignation, but that for the present no official an- nouncement of it is expected. Austen Chamberiain, who, in the ab- sence of Prime Minister Lioyd in the country, is acting head of government, toid the Associated through his secretary, however, that the re:nrin:r.l wll.ho‘l:t foundation. At the office it was said tele- were _received from the viess this survey pre- Mr. War-