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t 70.0; lowest, 56.7. what warmer tomorrow. Full report on page 5. WEATHER. Fair today and tomorrow; o some- Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night—Highest, No. 896.—No. 28,518. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. BLIZZARD CLEARED * OF TREASON AFTER ", FIVEWEEK TRIAL State Fails to Prove Overt Act During Miners’ March on Logan County. JUBILANT CROWD HAILS VERDICT WITH CHEERS Jury Out Six Hours and Ten Min- | utes—Fifteen Other Indict- | ments Await Trial. | By the Associated Pres CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., May 27- {Bill" Blizzard, boyish mine union official, was freed of the charge of treason by a jury In the circuit court | of Jefferson county tonight, and from ; the moment court adjourned was the | center of a cheering crowd that ¢ shrieked its rejolcings and congrat- ulations In the courtroom and on the ! streets. ! The jury had been out for six hours and ten minutes when it returned the verdict, just as arrangements were | being made to adjourn court until Monday, { Before the verdict was announced Judge J. M. Woods cautioned against | any demonstration, and his warning was heeded during the tedious | moments while the form of the verdict was properly recorded. But Sheriff | W. O. McCaughtry had not finished the formality of adjourning until Monday before the cheers broke out. | Blizzard and his wife were com- Pplaining of sore hands long before the throngs of friends and strangers had finished their congratulations. | “It's a year since I have felt so| happy,” was Mrs. Blizzard's comment and her husband in the center of an- | other handshaking throng called out | “Good old Jefferson county.” Other groups gathered about Bliz- | zard's mother, who accepted their | congratulations with a beaming smile fhat warred for mastery over the| little catch in her voice. < Children Call for Daddy. “You're mighty glad if you're as lad as I am,” she assured one of the | friends who clasped hef hands. Mrs. Elizzard’s mother, too, was showered with congratulations, and so were lit- tle Billy and his four-year-old sister Marguerite, but the excitement and| noise meant little to the tired chil- | dren and they hung tight in friendly arms and begged to be taken to! % 1 “daddy.” When the jury returned its ver- dict, it read: “We, the jury, find for the defendant.” the form for civil| cases, and T. C. Townsend of defense counsel Immediately asked that the| form be changed. Court Clerk C. A. | Conrad hastily wrote on the back of | the indictment which the jury had brought from its room, “We, the jury, find the defendamt not guilty of the charge in the indictment,” and it was signed by D. B. Shoemaker, the fore- man. Mr. Conrad then read the re- vised form to the jurors and each gave his assent. ' The jury had been locked up since April 27, exactly a month, while it was trying this case and before ad- | journment Judge Woods announced ¢ these jurors were excused from any further service at this term. ! All seats and all possible standing ! room had been packed, not only dur- | ing the arguments today, but through- | out the long wait this afternoon and | . tonlght while the jury deliberated.| Some, indeed, stayed during the recess | for supper, although most took the | opportunity to get their evening mail | “without fear of missing any of the | interesting proceedings. Townsfolk | mado up a large part of the crowd,! but there was a little sprinkling of | miners and union officials remaining Colutn (Continued on Page 5, NAVY’S SCRAPPY ° TO FACE SCRAP 8pecial Dispatch to The Sta NEWPORT NEW the town where | Lizzie of the Navy” came back today,; not as a heroine, but as an orphaned | auper. In the early 90s she steamed | »r the first time out through the * misty Virginia capes, flag-bedecked, bluejackets energetic and with her proud commander on her bridge wav- ing acknowledgments to a cheering mass on the shore and saluting pass- -, ing craft. Now she is back, flagless, crewless—cheerless—none to do her hos She who made history in the Span- ‘ish war off the southern coast of Cuba; who combed the seas in the late titanic struggle for freedom in a search for submarines threatening America’s troopships, is to be reborn a German ship. i The strange business of scrapping American war vessels to be sold as junk to the Germans, and then re- built for their commercial trade, is in the hands of J. L. Bernard of Ber- nard & Co., & nationally famous ship- builder. e Needed in Germany. “There is a great and increasing, demand for ship plates in Germany,” he sald. “The Nashville is well con- structed. Her plates are standard in -« size and so it will be possible to break her up in such fgshion that another ship can be constructed from her material. The prices that the (Germans are offering are very liberal and practically all of the_material in lmégnuu will be available for use | r. 'GERMANY 0 REST | Will Permit Allies to Assume ‘ he Sunday Star. . WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1922, =EIGHTY-FOUR PAGES. AMERICANS FLEE AS YAQUI BANDS MURDER MEXICANS Indians Pillage Towns, Kill Residents in Three Weeks’ Reign of Terror: Refugees Reach Border. By the Associated Press. TOMBSTONE, Ariz. May 21— Wholesale murders and robberies by Yaqui Indians in Semora were re- ported here today by additional| American refugees arriving from the Yaqui valley. No Americans have been killed thus far, they said. All the victims of the latest outbreak have been | Mexlcans. : For three weeks in the vicinity of Esperanza the Indians have been looting and slaying, according to the arrivals. Many Mexicans have been killed and many are missing. Americans residing In the district HER CASE N LOAN | Inability to Carry Out Demanded Reforms. CABINET IN AGREEMENT Wirth to Inform Reichstag Memo Will Be Based on Hermes Agreement in Paris. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 27.—The German cabinet has concluded its three days’ discussion on the reply to be made to the demands of the reparations com- mission respecting the May 31 pay- ments. Chancellor Wirth on Mon- day will inform the reichstag that the German answer is virtually based on the memorandum agreed to at Paris between Finance Minister Hermes and Sir John Bradbury, Brit- ish member of the commission. The reply will not contain specific reference to a force majeure reserva- tion, but will permit the allies to as- sume that Germany will consider herself incapable of carrylng out financial and other economic reforms unless she receives an international loan ‘of adequate proportions and on reasonable terms. 3 The cabinet Is now awalting a reply from Karl Bergmann, undersecre- tary of state, who is réported to have been instructed to inquire at Paris whether the reparations commission will agree to a date later than March 31 as the date for the cessation of inflation, and also will permit the issuance of additional paper in the event of a catastrophic fall of the mark. Opposition to Loan. Opposition 1s developing in indus- trial circles here to an international loan for Germany, based on the opin- ion that while it would for a short time stabilize exchange on marks the ultimate effect would be to un- deremine German industry, forcing Germans out of the world markets. | Pessimism has apparently gained the upper hand in quarters capable of judging the situation, where the at- | titude toward a loan has lately ¢hanged. / 1 Industrialists express the belief that the entente in proposing a loan are con- cerned not with Germany's well-being, but mereely with their own desire to be freed from German competition in in- ternational marts of trade. They say ‘hat German industry and trade would lose enormously on pending or- ders and that new orders could mnot be thought of. . It “(Continued o pointed out in these circles ‘LIZZIE” HOME SALE TO GERMANY The Nashville was built here In’ the early 90's, at a time when the indus- trial depression in the United States was very great. The clty was then less than half of its present size. The Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company secured the contract to bulld her practically at cost prices, because business was so dull that it was necessary to keep the expert per- sonnel of the yard together. She was put Into commisslon and as one of the vessels of the “white squadron” of the United States Navy saw service in various sections of the world. Many Voynges Made, In the interest of recruiting for the American Navy, before it became necessary to reduce the enlisted strength to its present figures, the Nashville made many voyages and many men who added to the glory of Mississipp! as far north as Cairo, 1L, where many young farmer boys €x- changed the plow for the honered livery of Uncle Sam, During the recent war the Nash-: ville was on duty in the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean, For months she cruised out of Gibraltar seeking German submarines. It is likely that her plates will be used to make 2 German passfijger liner and. it is well within the bl some day she new guise in this originally was cofstructed.’ are fleeing to the border for safety. travelers say. An American farmer near Esperanza was robbed by the Indians of six thousand pounds of flour and was threatened with death. Many native stores and homes near Cocorit and Bacum have been plun- dered. Both villages were captured and held by the marauders several days. _ Several townspeople wero slain, the travelers reported. Armed bands of Yaquis ranging from five to fifty are roaming the Esperanza valley. Petitions have been sent to the state government of Sonora asking for troops. The cause of the up- rising is unknown to the Americans. “WRITINGS” CONNECT N. Y. PRISONER WITH TAYLOR MURDER CASE By the Assoclated Press. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 27.—“Writings” found in the cloth- ing of Frank (Mac) Doran, held by the local police on a second de- gree assault charge, connect the man with the murder in Los An- geles of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, county authorities sald tonight. They re- fused, however, to make public the nature of the newly discovered “writings.” Doran maintains silence in his cell in the county jail, refusing to make any statement. It was definitely learned today that Doran is not the man sought in Chicago for the murder of two policemen. District Attorney Aldrich told reporters that the “writing” safd: “Convinced the authorities I have nothing to do with Taylor cas Doran, it has been known, spends his time in pacing his cell and making notes. The district attor- ney tonight said that personally he did not believe that the memo- randum can be considered as Im- plicating Doran. WARD DARTS HOME ON BEING RELEASED Dodges Reporters Phoning Wife When $50,000 Bond Is Provided. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., May 27.— Walter S. Ward, wealthy baker, who has confessed to killing Clarence Peters, former Navy man, regalned his freedom this afternoon. After two nights in the d!nn county jail he was released: by Sheriff Werner under $50,000 Bail. There he jumped into a motor car and hurried out of town, after tele- phoning his wife that he was re- turning to his home in New Rochelle. Ward had waited since noon ‘for his lawyers to rush down from New- burgh, where Supreme’Court Justice Seeger had signed an order for his release under heavier bail than the $10,000 under which he was held be- fore being rearrested Thursday. Of- ficlals of the courthouse had been notified that Elwood M. Rabenold, | chief counsel for Ward, was hurry- ing to bring the money and every- thing was made ready to recelve him. Father Provides Cash. Shortly after 3 o'clock Mr. Rabe- nold arrived. He went at once to the county clerk’s office and deposit- ed cash sald to have been provided by George S. Ward, Walter’s father. Then he went to the sheriff’s office, where Ward was walting for him. Formalities were soon over and Ward shook the sheriff’s hand. In the rear of the jail, which is connected by bridges with the court- house proper, Ralph Ward, brother of ‘Walter, was waliting In-a coupe, either the same or the twin of the machine which Ward says he drove the night Peters died with a shot through his heart. Ralph Ward had his motor running and appeared to be waiting for his brother. ‘Walter stepped from the courthouse door. Reporters closed in, asking for a short statement. Ward turned, slipped back to the corridor, ran through the building, sped down the esplanade in front and leaped into an open touring car which was standing there walting for him. It was learned later that Harry Mercer, an automobile salesman and a deputy sheriff of White Plains, owned the big machine which whisked ‘Ward out of towh. Card Mystery Solved. Sherifft Werner made an official (her officers administered the oath to |statement just after Ward was re- leased in which he said that the {the navy’s history in the recent war. | playing card found at the Ward home !On one ocecasion she penetratea the|was not part of Peters deck. He added, however, that the deck which Peters had was marked, bogh as to size of cards and suits, and asserted that condition might “possibly have a bearing on the story. More anonymous letters same into District Attorney Weeks' office to- day. The one he considered most im- portant, however, was from the same man who wrote earlierMn the week saying he could give information After | | SQUASH CENTER DISCUSSES THE SENATE TARIFF DEBATE MAYABANDON DAYLIGHT-SAVING IF SUPPORTERS ADMIT FAILURE President Would Amend Order If Re- quested by Departments—Demand for Repeal Still Growing. ’ LNGOLNMENORAL MAY 0T FEATURE Imposing Dedication Wil Overshadow All Other Ex- ercises of Day. * NOTED MEN TO GATHER Program to Follow Arlington Ob- servances—Events to Be Held Today and Tomorrow. { Dedication of the great Lincoln Me- morial Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock ,will give observance of Me- morial day in the National Capital a “touch of glory” such as it never has bad before, when the President of the United States and two former Presi. ally open the fittingly simple, yet plendid, temple' in honor of their great predecessor. In the morning there will be the usual exercises at the Arlington am- phitheater, in which the Grand Army of the Republic and allied organiza- { tions will participate, leaving Arling- ton national cemetery &t the conclu- sion of exercises there to participate in the Lincoln Memorial dedication. Other Observances. At the same time observances will be held in other cemeteries through- out the District and nearby, with many observances taking place today and a few tomorrow, but the central point of the entire list of ceremonies will be at the foot of 23d street, where the Lincoln Memorial stands. There arrangements have been made to handle a million people, if necessary, a loud speaker being in- |stalled to carry every word uttered to those standing in the great stretches of green beauty which sur- {round the white memorial. Chief Justice Willlam Howard Taft, |chairman of the Lincoln Memorial { commission, will preside, and wil pre- sent the memorial, which will be ac- cepted by. President Harding in be- | half of the government gf the United | States. Members of Commission. | The members of the Lincoln Memo- ial commission are Chief Justice Taft 3t the United States Supreme Court, chairman; Representative Joseph G. Cahnon, Samuel W. McCall, Thomas R. Marshall, Nathan B. Scott, John Temple Graves, special resident com- missioner; Henry A. Vale, secretary,’ and Liout. Col. C. O. Sherrili, officer {in charge of public buildings and officer. Henry Bacon, architect of the me- morial; Daniel- Chester French, the sculptor of the status, and Jules Guerin, the artist, will occupy seats of honor on the speakers’ platform. Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lin- coln, will occupy @ Eeat of honor on the platform. ;e‘:l. Dr. Wallace Radcliffe of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Churech, where Lincoln attended serv- fcos and where the Lincoln pew is preserved, will pronounce the invo- cation, following Which will be pres- entation of the colors by the Grand Army of the Republic. An address Will then be delivered {Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) The Invisible Color 'Book Is a New Children’s . Feature of Today’s Sunday Star Real magic - comes to the children with this delightful feature. Go over the plctures with & wet brush a ball of ‘cotton and see the hidden col- dents gather with the people to form-: grounds, the executive and disbursing | Npsuaw! THEY DONT S&EM To KNOW ’ %N LAST NIGHT’S VOTE ON DAYLIGHT-SAVING Present Moving Clocks System. Ahead. 9 For | Against For | Against | Governmentemployes Others.....%..... 7 27| 131 ! 29| 125 89 75 | = Today's totals. . . 118 200 34| 293 x P t Movi Previously Recorded S;,esi:::]' ov:\nhgefi'ocks i i ! For For 1;Against | Governmentemployes 296 | Against | 2816 734 | 2019 965 ‘ 2,116 Grand totals.| 630 From information derived from au- thoritative sources the conclusion seems warranted that if the civic or- ganizations which brought about the so-called “daylight-saving” order, ap- plicable to the government depart- ments, should admit the Impracti- cability of the scheme, the hardships inflicted by it, the failure of co-ordi- nation of business activities and its i general inutility, the plan may be abandoned. President Harding, it is known, is not PRESIDENT 0. K'S POSTAL EIGHT-HOUR Change to Affect Fifty Thou- sand Clerks and Car- _ riers of Country. By the Assoctated Press. President Harding today took ac- tlon affecting more than fitty thou- sand . postal clerks and carriers throughout the country when he ap- proved . a.” recommendation of the Post Office Department for the estab- lishment of a strick elght-hour basis for postal employes. The President's approval of the plan followed a conference at the White House with acting Postmaster General Bartlett, who had explained that thousands of employes, by rea- son of tiie exhaustion of appropria- jtions for auxiliary clerks, were obliged to work from one-half to two hours overtime each day. For Additional Clerks. The President was of the opinion, it was understood, that additional clerks in sufficient numbers should imediately be put to work at all points where overtime is now re- quired in the discharge of postal be properly and expeditiously handled on a strict eight-hour basis. To make such a move possible, the Presi- dent was said’to have advised Mr. Bartlett that he would ask Congress for an additional or deficiency appro- priation to meet the issue. The- President expressed appre- clation for the fine spirit shown by the clerks who have ‘“uncomplain- ingly co-operated in the emergency by, working. overtime,” acting Pos master Geperal gaid, but . declared the men should not be compelled to work, overfime, ‘particularly when so substitus duties, in order that the mails might| | 2,864 15,973 11,817 (4,335 disposed to rescind the order putting the plan into effect, but it is -also known that he would have no objec- tions_to its amendment if the heads | of departments conclude among them- selves that it is unworkable and should agree to change the hours. President’s Position. It should be understood at the out- set that the plan did not originate | with the executive. His position upon the subject was known some time ago. (Continued on” Page 2. Column 2.) SPEEDER LOSESLIFE AS AUTOHITS POLE, Bdltimere Man Killed, Police-i man Companion Hurt, Car Line Tied Up. Oscar R. Small of 2020 Mount Royal Terrace, Baltimore, Md, was almost instantly killed and Claude Matheny, a policeman of No. 5 precinct was in- jured shortly after 1 o'clock this morning, when an automobile, driven by Small, collided with a trolley pole on Connecticut avenue, just north of the Connecticut Avenue bridge, while being chased by Motor Cycle Police- man A. A. Shockey of the sub T sta- tion. The collision broke off the iron pole and brought to the ground the nétwork of cable supplying electric current to operate the cars of the Capital Traction Company on the Connecticut avenue line. Scores of automobile and street cars were tled up on Connecticut avenue following the accident and lives of persons on the street were endangered by the live wires lying on the ground after they had been severed by the fall- ing of the supporting pole. Small's companion was rushed to “Emergency Hospital, where his injuries were gaid not to be serious. The auto- | mobile in which the two men were driv- ing, according to a resident of the neighborhood, was traveling at high speed down Connecticut avenue. The dead man was identified by a District driver’s license and a Mary- land registration card, found in his coat pocket. 1 ; Robert ' McChesney, who spent the evening at Wardman Park Hotel, sald he was walking -south on Connecticut avenue and saw the car driving at a high rate of speed toward him. The car swerved out to avold two cars com- road, and | committee, have themselves hopeless- ;ly divided. | member of the finance committee, last {the greatest immediate benefit. | enough to draft a plan of their own, PRESIDENTIAL PARTY ~ON,FIRST WEEK END CRUISE OF SUMMER The President and\Mrs. Harding, in company with a party of friends, left Washington late yesterday on the Mayflower for their first week end cruise of the summer in Chesapeake bay. Secretary and Mrs. Weeks, Attorney General Daugherty, Senator and Mrs. New of Indiana, A. L. Lasker, chair- man of the Shipping Board, and Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the President's personal physiclan, were among the guests on the yacht. It was expected that the Mayflower would remain offshore most of the time for two days. The tentative itiner- ary calls for her return to Wash- ington early Tuesday. FULL COMMITTEE T0 ACT ON BONUS Democratic Senators Invited for First Time to Meet- ing Tomorrow. TWO PLANSDIVIDE G. 0. P.| Immediate Relief Most Pop\;lnr With Banking Minority Member. The soldier bonus bill is to be con- sidered by the full Senate finance committee at a meeting tomorrow morning. For the first time, the demo- <cratic members of the commltteei have been invited to attend the con-1{ ferefices on the bonus bill. The re-! publican members of the committee, who for more than five weeks have | struggled to get together on a meas-’ ure that would command the ap- proval’of a good majority, if it could not have the unanimous support of the republican membership of the 1 The two plans over which the re- publicans have divided are the so- called McCumber plan, which pro- vides for certificates to be issued to the former service men, on which they can borrow money if they de- sire, much as in the case of the House bill, and the so-called Smoot plan, which provides for the issue of paid up insurance to the former serv- ice men. Immediate Relief Favored. | As between the two plans, it was indicated by Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking democratic| night that he would favor the plan which gave the former service men ““These plans have not yet been sub- mitted {o me,” said Senator Simmons, “so T cannot discuss them in detail” | He sald, however, that he regard- ed the House plan as “camouflage,” | a bonus plan that would give to the | former service men who really need- ed aid not sufficient money to help them, while it would give too much | to the men who did mot need any | assistance. ‘Would pprove Ci It he had his way, he indicated,| Senator Simmons would approve a | straight cash bonus for the former service men, relying upon the money | which this government will receive from its foreign creditors to meet the payments. He said he believed that ! interest on the forelgn debts would | be coming in soon in large amounts, | and this interest could be used. If! it was not sufficient, then some of the bonds could be sold and the pro- ceeds used or short-time certificates could be issued and retired as the! money from the foreign debt came in. Indications are that the demo- cratic members will support the Mc- Cumber plan rather than the Smoot plan, since they will not be strong ! Plan. and that eventually a bonus bill | somewhat similar to the House bill | will be reported to_ the Senate. . R MOONSHINER HAS HOOFS. ! Florida Man Hides Trail by Leav- ing Tracks Like Cow’s. { TAMPA, Fla, May 27.—In order to throw prohibition agents off the trail to moomshine stills, a Florida moonshiner has invented a shoe that leaves an imprint similar to that of the hoof of a cow, A. L. Allen, feder- al prohibition commissioner for Florida, announced today. One of the hoof-shoes was found at a still captured near Port Tampg, Mr. Allen said, and it will be forwarded Io’ Commissioner Blair, at Washington. 'FIVE CENTS. DAUGHERTY SHOWS 23 SENATORS ASKED PARDON FOR MORSE Reveals Records Showing Army Doctors Declared Pris- on Would Kill Banker. PETITIONS FOR FREEING HIM SIGNED BY 70,000 Caraway, Continuing Attack in Senate, Charges Daugherty “Betrayed” Taft. By the Associated Prese. Naming scores of members of the Senate and House, both democrats and republicans, and others prominent in official life at the time as having petioned for the release in 1912 from the Atlanta penitentiary of Charles W. Morse, the Department of Justice late yesterday made public the record in the Morse case “as disclosed in the official files,” which indicages, the statement said, “beyond any question that Mr. Morse was released upon the report of reputable physicianis and United States Army surgeons showing him to be suffering from a serious illness.” Freed on Medical Report. “The release came,” the statement continued, “as the culmination of probably the most remarkable public demonstration on behalf of any fed- eral prisoner ever.convicted in the courts of the United States.” Notwithstanding the “high charac- ter” of those occupying positions of “responsibility and trust” under the government, who were among thou- sands signing the petition, the state- ment said, “it was not in response 1o any public demonstration, strong as it was at that time, that Mr. Morse was released, but.solely upon the re- ports of the medical examiners.” Before the statement of the De- partment of Justice was issued, Ai- torney General Daugherty was again under attack in the Senate by Sena- tors Caraway, democrat, Arkansa and Watson, democrat, Georgl: with others joining in the debate. The Arkansas senator charged that Mr. Daugherty in acting as counsel for Morse in 1912 had “betrayed” former President Taft and now was “betray- ing” the present aéministration. He also charged that the Deparment of Justice was employing its agents to shadow senators and representatives. Keports by Physicians. Incorporated in the statement by the Department of Justice were re- ports of physicians which were part of the record of the Morde case in the department’s files. These showed that Maj. David Baker, an Army medical officer at Fort McPherson, found Morse suffering from arter sclerosis, with hyocarditis and renal sclerosis. This malady was incurable, |it was said, and Mr. Morse had “not very long to live.” “As a life insurance risk,” Maj Baker said. “I would not recommend {this patient for the short period of | thirtyadays. His sudden death is con- stantly probable.” Prior to examination of Mr. Morse by Army officers, however, civilian physicians made an examination at the request of United States Marshal W. H. Johnson at Atianta, and Dr. W. S. Elkin of that city found the patient’s health not in danger Ly reason of his confinement. Civilian Doctors Differ. “I do not believe,” he reported om November 1, 1911, “that Mr. Morse is suffering from any serious organic trouble nor is his health being ma- terially affected by his present con- finement. The nervous strain that he has been under for.the past three years would easily account for his loss in weight. I do not think that further confinement will materially shorten the prisoner's life or per- manently seriously impair his health.” Another civilian physician, Dr. E. C/ Davis of Atlanta, under the same date reporting to Marshal Johnson, took a different view of Mr. Morse’s con- dition, finding, he said, symptoms in- dicating probably the beginning of Bright's disease. “I do not believe in his present con- dition,” Dr. Davis said, “with the in- fluence of mental worry added to his physical aflments, that he would or- dinarily live more than one or two years unless treated with extreme care and thoroughly protected from arduous work and exposure. “His diet ought also to be looked after carefully on account of evi- (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) PER CAPITA DEBT OF 38 CENTS MAKES D.C. LOWEST OF 32 CITIES The government of the District of Columbia has a per capita debt of only 38 cents, the lowest among thirty-two of the leading cities of the Thnited States. This is shown in & report received yesterday by Maj. DanlelJ. Donovan, auditor, from the Detgoit Bureau of Government Research, Inc. ‘Washington, with a population of 437,571, has. &. net. indebtedness - of. $167,637.14; or 38 cents per inhab- itant. . The actual amount .of. out- standing city bonds is $4,874,000, but the District has sinking fund assets of $4,707,062.86. To Be Paid in 1924. The remaining honded debt is to be wiped out by August, 1924. The uearest to Washington fn the > Yozt smallness of its bonded debt is St. Louis, with a per capita of $20.14 on a population of 772,897, An interesting feature of the re- port is the record of bond issues which the varfous cities have mado for school development exclusively. No Bonds for Schools. Washington has not issued any ponds for schools. - Here are amounts of school bonds in some of the citles on the.list: Philadelphia, $20.366,000; Detroit, $31,115,600; Cleveland, $20.- 297,000; St. Louls, $3,000,000; Boston, $15,583,000; Pittsburgh, $9,825,800; New- ark, $11.917,200; Minneapoils, $13.- 505,500. The list also' shows Toronto, Canada, with', outstanding schéel hoxl of §19,741,989.