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. followed Partly cloudy ended at 10 p.m. last ni 85; lowest, 67. Full report on page 5. WEATHER. tonigh fair; moderate temperature. Temperature for twenty-two hours tomorrow ght: Highest, | L No. 899.—No. 28,539. —_— FALL OF CANTON AKES WAY FOR ~ PEACE IN CHINA Fresident Sun Fugitive and * Southern Regime in Com- plete Collapse. TO REORGANIZE OLD REPUBLICAN PARLIAMENT Southern and Northern Elements Expected to Join Hands Through Chen's Coup. ung Ming, formerly civil governor ot Kwantung province, whose troops seized Canton Friday, announced to- day that the South China of Canton government has been terminated and that henceforth Canton would unite with the north in recognizing the old republican parliament. Dispatches from Canton describe the collapse of the southern government as complete, Sun’s military forces crushed and the former Canton presi- dent himself a fugitive. Advices received here vary as to the details of what are called tha last hours of the southern constitutional government nor is it definitely known how much fighting preceded Sun Yat Sen's flight. I Reported Fight at Palace. One dispatch from American sources in Canton declares that Sun's bod: guard continued to hold the presi- Gential palace in the face of the as- Saults of Yecui's troops after their Jeader had taken refuge aboard a gunboat and departed for Whampoa. Another report said that Chen Chi- ung Ming's forces, commanded by Yechui, suddenly surrounded Canton, seized the forts, invaded the city and marched upon the palace. The fall of the southern leader is said to have been the result of an 2greement between Gen. Wu Pei-Fu dominant military chieftain of north- ern China; President Li Yuan-Hung and Chen Chiung-Min, formerly Sun | Yat-Sen's supporter, but who later came out in favor of a reunited China. Would Speed Up Plads. Official circles here assert that the elimination of Sun Yat-Sen will mean speeding up of the plans to reunify the country. However, they issue the warning that a counter revolution may develop if Sun is able to gather enough troops about him to launch a drive to regain Canton. Unless Sun Is able to retrieve his lost authority it is believed that Chen Chiung-Min's coup will result in many southern members of the old republi- oan parliament proceeding to Peking and constituting the necéssary gov- ernment quordm to put that legis- lative body in legal motion again. Dr Sun Yat Sen, called by his sup- porters the father of the Chinese re- Public and the life of the democratic revolution of 1911, which resulted in | the death of the monarchy and the| birth of the republic, was born in| Kwantung province in 1866. He was educated in Hong Kong and Honolulu, T. H., where he lived dur- ing two separate periods. Sun leaped | into prominence as a Chinese revolu- tlonary leader in 1896, when he was kidnaped in London, allegedly with| the connivance of the Chinese legation, which represented the Manchu dynasty. He regained his liberty when the British government took cognizance of the affair. In his years of exile Sun traveled the world, welding Chinese scattered in various countries into an anti- | monarchical organization. When the revolution of 1911 broke out and was in 1912 by the abdication of the boy emperor, Hsuan Tung, the republican government sot up at Nan- king elected Sun Yat Sen president. Boon after he retired in favor of Yuan Shih-Kai. but when Yuan turn- | ed traitor to the republican cause and mttempted himself to ascend the; dragon throne Sun vigorously op- posed him. Following Yuan's coup, the then Premier Tuan Chi-Jui dissolved the republican parliament and with that anti-democratic stroke in 1917 the constitutional government of South China, which yesterday collapsed, came Into being. Sun fled to Canton, taking the navy with him, establishing the South China government and continued to pe its dominant figure until he fled republican parliament, and with fhat @ay with Chen Chung-Ming’s troops Pattering at the gates. DENIES POST OFFERED. LONDON, June 17.—A Hongkong @ispatch received here today quotes Dr. Wu Ting-fang, former Chinese minister to the United States and for- eign minister of the southern Chinese government at Canton, as denying that he had been offered the premier- ehip of the new central Chinese gov- ernment ynder Persident LI Yuan Hung. Recent Peking dispatches have an- mounced an offer of the premlership to Dr. Wu Ting-fang by President Li, &nd the appointment of Dr. W. W. Yen as acting premier with the under- standing that he would be made pre- ier in the event Wu Ting-fang re- fused the post. p ROME 0. K’S AUSTRIAN LOAN. ROME, June 17.—The foreign af- fairs committee of the chamber of deputies today approved a bill grant- -4ng a loan of 70,000,000 lire to Austria. Entered as second-clase matter post office Washington, D. he Sundy Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1922 —EIGHTY-TWO PAGES. POINCARE VISIT FAILS TO ENTHUSE ENGLAND Policies for -Which He Stands Believed Inimical to British Interest and People A re Alert. BY A. G. GARDINER, Britain’s Greatest Liberal Editor. By Cable Dispatch to The Star. Copyright, 1922. LONDON, June 17.—Premier Poin- care's visit to London this week end arouses very little public enthusiasm. The French Bismarck has never touched the English imagination and public opinion is changing slowly tut profoundly under the influence of the French policy of which he is the chief inspiration. The change would have come before but for the pro-French attitude of a portion of the influential English press, the Northcliffe newspapers being mere echoes of the wildest extravagances of the boulevard press. The glamour of the war helped to obscure the vio- lent conflict of the interests of the twos countries. That now is passing and the naked realities are becoming visible. England, living by external com- merce, finds her trade perishihg un- der the ruin organized by France. Twenty per cent of our working popu- lation is unemployed, living by doles, costing the nation $500,000,000 an- nually. The demoralizing effect of this vast outdoor relief is alarming. Taxation is crushing. There is no sign of recovery. No Recovery in Sight. It is being vealized that there is no prospect of recovery while the French military dictatorship of Europe strangles all activities. The Wash- ington conference was the first real awakening. The public here - was shocked by the revelation of the astounding French submarine aims. Genoa increased this disquiet. The silence as to the meaning and the facts of the French policy of the last three years is breaking down. The enormous military dominance of France no longer is ignored. It is realized that there is no parallel that can be drawn since Napoleon tram- pled over Europe. Her armies are undiminished. Her aerial force is nearly twenty times in excess of that of England. Her devastated regions still are unrestored, German labor having been refused, but the con- struction of her strategic railways in northern France is colossal. Her black troops are settled on the Rhine and the employment of the enormous military reserve. of Africa to make good the declining French population now is frankly accepted as a French military policy. Political and economic disruption seems to be the main motive of Poin- care. The master Poincare policy seems to be the dismemberment of north and south Germany and French domination over the coal and iron re- sources of central Europe. The re- lation of all this to the paralysis of British trade now Is apparent to the public. We desire to rémain friends with France, but still there is a general conviction that European peace alone will restore European prosperity and that France writes “no thoroughfare” over every path to peace. Grave Responsibility. No one more than Lloyd George recognizes that he is gravely respon- sible for the power he gave to France to distate the policy during and after the war. It suited his domes- tic political purposes to be popular in France. He pald an extravagant price for this luxury. ‘He now realizes that the tide of public gpinion 18 turning and that nothing but a dras- tic reversal of French opinion and policy can prevent a serious rupture. He has become instead of the hero of France the particular target for the animosities of the French news- papers. The attitude of the French press, like that of her music halls, long hag been surprisingly hostile to England, oftentimes brutal and fmsulting. In England the strength of the liberal movement against a military agree- ment with France is powerful. Labor opinion is emphatically the same. The feeling on the subject has been strengthened not afone by a sense of the calamitous policy upon Wwhich France has embarked, but by a grow- ing kmowledge of the origin of the war and the share which the Poin- care policy had in it. The mind of serious students is becoming pro- foundly disturbed by a Heepening con- viction that Germany was by no means the only culprit. Liberal sentiment is growing rap- idly under the influence of the post- war policy to repudiate French mili- tarism the same as Prussian militar- ism, and this is the feeling that over- shadows the visit of Poincare today. SAYS BULB TRUST AWES DAUGHERTY Untermyer Declares Attor- ney General Will Not Budge to Prosecute. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 17.—Samuel Un- termyer took another fling at Attor- ney General Daugherty today in a statement issued as he stepped aboard the Majestic for a vacation in Eu- rope. In connection with the Attorney General's announced program for prosecuting war fraud cases, the counsel for the Lockwood committee charged that because the ‘“Morgan influence is too strong to withstand, Mr. Daugherty simply will not budge” toward prosecuting the Gemeral Elec- tric Company for the monopoly the committee alleges it holds over the electric light bulb business of the nation. vIf Attorney General Daugherty. shows as much organizing ability and desire to punish powerful war fraud offenders as I have experienced in the twenty-five or more anti-trust cases in which we have been vainly trying to get action from him for ‘more than a year, we shall soon have plenty of horn-tooting and other forms of publicity and camouflage, under cover of which a few little fellows may be crucified and every really influential offender will slide out under cover of the noise,” said Mr. Untermyer. Having His Experiences. “Mr. Daugherty Is a grand past mas- ter in that art. I have had and am still having my experiences with him. If the public wants to see him in ac- tion, in the perfection of his skill in protecting one big interest—the fruit of long experience as a lobbylst—I commend to its study his perform-. ances in the General Eleetric case, in which I have for six months been - vainly trying to get the prosecution. The cases are exceedingly plain and simple. They could be prepared in two weeks by the averagé law clerk, but.the Morgan influence is too l(ron‘_‘ to withstand and he simply will not budge. I have offered to take charge | without expanse to the government, but whenever that is suggested, he gets hard of hearing. He don't act! and he won't permit any one else to| act to break this criminal monopoly. ! “At no time in the history of that exalted office within my memory, not | even in the ‘palmy’ days when; Palmer was trading everything in sight for delegates, has it been so dominated by politics or character- ized by ineficiency. If Mr. Daugh- erty really wanted a drastic and fear- less exposure of the war-fraud con- tracts' he would have welcomed an investigation by a committee of Con-| gress of his own party. * * ¢, “Before the thing is over the whole business will be so thoroughly dis- credited that there will bé a public investigation anyhow. I wonder how long the people are going .to put up MCORMICK MUM AS TO OPERATION Millionaire Treated by Well Known Gland Trans- planter. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. June 17.—Mystery to- night velled the exact nature of an operation performed on Harold F. McCormick, chairman of the executive committee of the International Harv- ester Companw Monday night, the news of which became public tonight. At the Wesley Memorial Hospital it was first denied that Mr. McCor- mick had been a patient, although it later was admitted that he occupied an entire wing, which had been walled from the rest of the institu- tion to insure privacy. The operation was performed by Dr. Vietor L. Lespinasse, widely known surgeon, who issued the fol- lowing statement: “Harold ¥. McCormick is a patient in the Wesley Memorial Hospital under my care. He has been in the hospital some time] and has under- gone a minor operation. He was here principally for rest, both mental and physical.” Gland Report Evaded. Dr. Lespinasee, members of the hospital staff and of the McCormick family refused to discuss widely pub- lished statements that Mr. McCormick had been the subject of a transplan- tation of glands, with the object of obtaining an extension of the $ears of his youth. Late today Mr. McCormick was vis- ited by his eldest daughter, Murlel, and later by his youngest daughter, Mathilde, and Howard Colby, a clase friend of the family. When Mr. Col- by was leaving the, hospital he was asked by a newspaper reporter if Mr. McCormick had undergone a gland- transplantation operation. “You had better ask him,” he re- plled. “He is smoking cigarettes and feeling fine.’ g Shortly afterward Mr. McCormick received several reporters, sitting up in bed. In answer to questions, he said that he was feeling “fine,” but when asked regarding the nature of the operation, he declared: Refers Them to “Desk.” “You might inquire at:the desk,” and added that he had no statement to make. Dr.'Lespinasse asserted that he had known about the transplanting of monkey glands long before Dr. Voro- noft of Paris. He asserted that he had now discarded this and operated with human glands. He said that he had been interested in this work, the object of which is the rejuvenation of human being, for the past fifteen years. Mr. McCormick was reported at the hogpital to be resting easily tonight. None of the nurses was permitted to leave hfs quarters. / Mr. McCormick is-fifty-one years old. Some months ago he Was di- _ (Continued on Page 3, Columa §.) (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) — NN NO CHANGE IN COMMENCEMENT ORATION STYLES. [6-YEAR-OLD GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE Poison Draught Laid to “Foolish” Romance by Her Parents. POLICE INVESTIGATE ACT Young Man Friend in Next Room When Miss Nellie Fraser Takes Her Life. Miss Nellie Rand Fraser, sixteen- year-old daughter of Orville Fraser, member of No. 10 fire truck company, died at Emergency Hospital late last night from theé effects of poison which she took in the kitchen of her home, 316 N street, southwest, after axcus- Ing herself to her friend, Daniel La- tayé &nd her mother, who sat in the dinlng room. Mids Praset, who was regarded s pretty by her scquaintances, was mel- ancholy over a love affair, according to statements of her father and moth- er, following the tragedy. She had given no intimation, however, that she contemplated suicide and her par- ents could not explain her act, except to attribute it to the “foolish” prank of a romantic girl. Goes Into Kitchen. The girl was eating cake with Mr. Lacayo, a Spaniard residing at 736 12th street southwest, in company ‘with her mother, when she asked her friend if he cared for a drink of water. Receiving a negative reply. the girl went into the kitchen, ad-| joining, and was heard to be busying herself with a tumbler at the sink. Returning a moment later, she cried out “I have taken poison,” and col- lapsed. S Mrs. Fraser at first was Inclined to laugh off her actions and announce- ment as “stage play,” remarking to Mr. Lacayo that the girl probably had taken medicine in dramatic pre- tense. Nevertheless, the two made the girl drink a glass of milk, which acted as an emetic. Solomon Gor- man, & grocer liviRg at 310 N street, across the street, was called and he and Lacayo rushed thé dying girl to the hospital in the former’s automo- bile. At the hospital Dr. R. J. Cot- tone, pronounced the girl dying from the poison. Efforts to revive her were futile. Father Not Surprised. Mr. Fraser was called to his home after his daughter had been taken to the hospital, and when informed of his girl's death by another daugh- ter, Mrs. Clara Robertson of 312 N street southwest, exclaimed dazedly, “I've been expecting that to happen for some time!” < He explained, on recovering his composure, that he meant by this that he knew his daughiter was young, romantic and willful and that she had taken pol- son in a fit of despondency, little|_ {Continued on Page 3, Column 8.) “coniued on Fage %, Colmn 8) ___(Continued on Page & Cotumn ) _ FLYERS REACH RIO JANEIRO AFTER THRILLING JOURNEY FROM PORTUGAL )] THE SUBJEGT OF HIGHER PRICES WOULD THREATEN DISASTER, U. S. CONTROLLER SAYS By the Associated Press. AUGUSTA, Me, June 17.—Warn- ing against any general effort to raise the prices of necessities which the mass of consumers must buy was sounded here tonight by Controller of the Currency Cris- singer in an address before the Maine Bankers' Association. There have been manifestations of a tendency of late, he declared, to advance prices in directions “where they could reasonably be considered a bit premature.” “Such a movement,” Mr. .Cris- singer said, “I feel, would just at this juncture be likely to prove _untimely and to bring unfortunate consequences. I am quite familiar with the fact that in general the tendency is to buy on a rising market and to sell on a falling market. But that does not by any means assure that business is bound to get good when prices are getting higher, or get worse when prices are getting lower. The great buying and consuming public is not going to be brought into the market by the cheerful program of asking it to pay higher prices when it has already proved unable to pay lower ones.” CLASSIEYING BILL HELD DEFECTIVE Senators Find Certain Aims Are Lost in Sterling- Lehlbach Measure. The Sterling-Lehlbach reclassifica- tion bill for employes of the govern- ment is not satisfactory in a number of particulars to some of the members of the special subcommittee of the Senate appropriations which is now considering that meas- ure, it was learned last night. One of the provisions of the bill as reported by the Senate civil service committee which has caused objec- tion, is that which declares none of the employes shall receive a lower salary than he or she is today re- celving as a result of the reclassi- fication. It is pointed out by com- mittee members that the very pur- pose of the bill, which is to equalize salaries for similar kinds of work, will be defeated if this provision re- mains in the bill K; Purposes of Bill Lost. “Employes doing filing work in one office receive $780 and the $240, while other employes doing similar work in another office receive as high as $1,400 and the bonus,” said one of the senators. “Stenographers’ compensa- tion varies just as widely in different offices of the government. If the pro- vision inserted by the civil service committe€, that no employe shall re- ceive less than at present prevails, it (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) By the Associated Press. RIO JANEIRO, July 17.—Capts. Sacadura and Coutinho, the Portu- guese transatlantic aviators, com- pleted the last leg of their oft-in- terrupted flight from Portugal to Rio Jadeiro today. They arrjved here at 1:40 o'clock this afternoon from Victoris, 260 miles distant, having left that city at 9:35 o'clock this morning. s — All sorts of difficulties were en- countered by the two daring Por- tuguess fiyers. They started from Lisbon -early in April and used three hydro-seroplanes in thelr ef- fort. On the first 1ap they flew to the .Canary and then to the Cape Verde islands. BSubsequently they reached St Paul rocks, some 300 miles off. the Brasiljan coast, but their machine was smashed in an attempt t6 land. from Portugal 'to the Island of Fernando Noronha, off the South American coast, which was to be the aviators' next stopping place. In view of the difficulty of landing at the St. Paul rocks, the airmen planned a round trip flight to the rocks from Fernando Noronha without touching at the outer point. On this attempt they met ‘with another mishap, while head- ing back for Fernando Noronha, a stalled engine compelling their descent. .Only the motor of the machine was saved. The airmen were picked up and taken to,Fernando Noronha and _there awalited the arrival of a third machine. Thereafter they en- countered . little difficulty. . They continued the flight, arriving at Pernambiico on June 5. They made stops on the fiight from Pernambu- co to.Rlo Janeiro at Bahia and- committee | TWO MEN CHARGED WITH BOAT MURDER Earl Figart of D. C. and Wil- liam Waters of Alexandria to Face Grand Jury. BOND IS SET AT $7,000 Witnesses Describe Riot of Wed- | nesday Night, When Mc- Cormack Was Killed. Charged with the murder of Louis McCormack, twenty years old, of 1137 5th street northeast, in a riot on the {steamer Charles Macalester Wednes- day night, Willlam Aldred Waters, twenty-seven years old, of Alexan- idria, and Earl Johnson Figart, ltwenty-aix. of 629 A street southeas! were held yesterday at Alexandria to await a preliminary hearing Wed- nésday. Bond was set at $7.000 each, after a conference between Judge Robinson | Moncure, Police Judge Duvail, Chiet lof Police Goods and Mayor J. M. Dun- can of Alexandria, in which Head- quarters Detectives Springman and Darnall of this city participated. Figart was released last night. Judge Moncure last night issued an order for a special grand jury to meet at 10 o'clock Thursday morn- ing in the corporation court for the | purpose of probing the stabbing of | McCormack. He directed Chlef of | Police Goods to summon all of the | witnesses in the case to make the investigation thorough. Fail to Identify Pair. i Two Washington boys who were taken to Alexandria yesterday failed to identify Waters or Figart as par- ticipants in the fight on the boat. An Alexandrian, however, identified Waters, it was declared, as one whose hand he bandsged upon the docking [of the boat at Alexandria, and as the one who said that he had been in a fight on board, according to the | police. Waters, the police say, told them the cut on his hand had been made by an automobile license tag. and also that he had been {n a fight aboard the Charles Macalester on Wednesday night. Another testified that Waters was obstreperous during the excursion trip. The story that the two Washington boys tell is that a rather tall young man and & shorter one were seen by them on the night of :the fatal stabbing on one of the lower decks of the Macalester. The smaller one was heard to request a knife, it was declared, and the larger one was seen to pass an object to him concealed beneath his coat. The smaller one was then alleged to have challenged any one on that boat who wished to fight to come to him. The Alexandria police have been working with full force night and day upon the case since the occurrence. Mayor J. M. Duncan has taken an active part in the investigation which has re- | sulted in the detention of Waters and Figart, and Washington police last night iissued a statement congratiilating the Alexandria force on its work. There was a conflict of authority yesterday afternoon between Police Justice Duvall, Alexandria, and Judge Moncure of the corporation court, Alexandria, over the question of the right to fix the bail bond for the two men held. Without going into a preliminary investigation, Justice Duvall an- nounced that the bonds of Waters and Figart would be'$2,500 each, Judge Moncure announced that the bond would be $7,000 for each. Accordingly, he telephoned Justice Duvall to this effect. Two hours afterward two men H | appeared at police headquarters and gave a baiMbond for $2,500 for Waters and Justice Duvall declared the pris- oner released. Judge Moncure, on the other hand, told the police not to re- lease Waters' on this bond and di- rected he not be released until a bond in the sum of $7,000 was gfven. Figart’ was released on furnishing a bond'in the sum of $7,000, given by ‘William . E. Hamilton 5 i ther, Mrs. O O tfeon, and. T, Ernest nlion'e Member of The Associated credited to Al rights dispatches the Associsted Press Press 1s exclusivel; tled the use for republication of sl mews dispeiches it o not otherwise credited in this paper and alfo the local \ews published Lerein. of publication of special Lerein are also reserved. » TWO ARMY FLYERS BURN T0 DEATH WHEN PLANE FALLS AT AIR CIRCUS By the Associated Press. 'S LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 17.—A lieutenant and a sergeant from the photographic section of the Army alr service were burned to death when their airplane fell near a crowd of spectators at a benefit air circus exhibition here this after- noon. The fliers killed were Lieut Robert E. O'Hanley of the 7th pho- tographic section, 88th Squadron, and Sergt> Arthur Opperman of the same organization, both stationed at Camp Knox, Ky. The men occupied a De Haviland plane. They went the length of the field at an altitude estimated by spectators to be 300 feet. A sharp bank was made on the turn and the plane slipped and crashed to the ground, pinning the airmen under the wreckage, The wreck- age then burst into flames. The two dead airmen were first off the field and intended to pho- tograph stunt flying which was to have been part of the air circus. HOUSTON, Tex., June 17.—Capt. ‘Thomas Shea of Kelly Field, was killed instantly at Ellington Field late today when his airplane crashed to the ground from an alti- tude of 150 feet. SHP SUBSIDY BILL 10 AWATT TARIFF House Leaders Tell Presi- dent Passage Likely Early in July. PLAN TEN-HOUR DEBATE]| Mondell Says Liquor Sale Angle to Be Settled When Meas- ure Is Discussed. { By the Associated Press. Under a compromise plan suggested to President Harding yesterday by House republican leaders, and which, it was sald, did not meet his dis- approval, the House will take up the ship subsidy bill immediately after the Senate has passeil the tariff bill. While the question will be con- sidered further at White House con- ferences this week, Chairman Camp- bell of the rules committee, who outlined the situation to the Presi- ent, declared last night it was ‘morally certain no action will be| taken on the subsidy bill by the House until the Senate has concluded consideration of the tariff.” | Meanwhile party leaders professed | to be relieved that a solution of | an admittedly vexatious problem had | been reached. It meant, they said, | that the President's insistence that | the bill be put to a vote prior to adjournment would be met and oppo- sition on the part of some republicans to hasty action withdrawn. | | See Passage in July. How long it might be before the | Scnate ended its tariff fight no mem- | ber of the House would predict.| Leaders dcelared, however, that if the suggestion laid before the Presi dent by Mr. Campbell was definitely | accepted, the House about July 1| could begin three-day recesses to | run approximately a month. A quorum would be needed to send the tariff bill to conference, and with | this out of the way these members | believed the ship subsidy bill, once | before the House, could be passed or | defeated within a week. The republican steering committee and republican members of the rule committee had scarcely begun a joint meeting vesterday to discuss the sub- sidy situation, when Mr. Campbell was hastily summoned to the White House. Returning to the Capitol, he explained that he had told the Presi- | dent of some opposition in the party | to consideration of the bill without full opportunity for studying its pro- visions and before the ceuntry had had time to understand it. There was a frank exchange of views and, while the President insisted the bill should not go over until the Decem- ber session, leaders were informed he would not object to a reasonable delay, provided a vote was reached before the summer adjournment of Congress. Liquer Angle Noted. | The President had been informed, leaders said, that Injection “of the liquor angle” had put a new phase on the situation. Representative Mondeli, the repub- lican leader, announced that the House would be glven an opportunity to vote on the ship liquor question. Fines Propesal in Bill. The proposal to impose fines on! ships of forelgn or domestic regis- try which touch American ports on voyages on which liquor was sold was incorporated in a separate bill istroduced yesterday by Representa- tive Edmonds, Pennsylvania, ranking republican of the merchant marine committee. Mr. Edmonds Indicated he might offer it as an amendment to the subsidy bill, and Representative Bankhead, democrat, Alabama, de- clared he would offer his amendment to deny any part of government ajd to ships on which the sale of liquor was permitted. A resolition which would give right of way to the subsidy bill was for- mally presented by Chairman Greene. 1t calls for ten hours of debate, —_— ' GERMANY CUTS DEBT. |lation estimated at FIVE CENTS. $100,000 GRANTED FOR NEW BRANCH LIBRARY FOR D.C. Carnegie Corporation Offers Funds for Institution in Mount Pleasant Area. GIFT IS CONDITIONED ON SUPPLYING OF SITE COmmissiqnen Will Try to Obtain Appropriation From Congress to Buy Ground. Funds amounting to $100,000 to provide for the erection of another branch library in Washington have been granted by the Carpegie Cor- poration, it was announced at the monthly meeting of the board of trustees of the Public Library Friday night by Theodore W. Noyes, presi- dent of the board. It is planned to erect the new library in the populous Mount Pleasant residential district The amount allotted by the corpora- tion is regarded by the library trus- tees as an installment from funds originally promised by Andrew Car- negie In 1903, when he offered to give the money needed to furnish all the branch libraries required by Wash- ington. The sum set apart for the new building is to cover the cost of its erection, in accordance with plans satisfactory to the Carnegie Corpora- tion, and also will cover indispensabls permanent furniture and fixtures and architect's fee. The gift is con- ditioned on the supplying of a sult- able site. ° Sites Already Offered. The library trustees have decided that the next branch library shall be located in the populous Mount Pleas- ant residential and apartment house section. A considerable number of the users of the central library come from this section, which has a popu- from 75,000 to 90,000, including many with keen ap- petites for books and reading. It is thought by the library trustees that | the branch should be located between the 11th street car line on the east and the Mount Pleasant line on the west—that is, on or near 16th street— provided a suitable site can be se- cured. Although good library sites are get- ting scarce and high in the Mount Pleasant section, a number have al- ready been offered to the library trus- tees, including one that is especially desirable located at the corner of La- mont and 16th streets. This site is owned by Mrs. John B. Henderson, who, in consideration of the fact that this branch library will be a large and beautiful building, has offered to sell the site in question at consider- ably less than what it would bring it sold for residences. Commissioners to Act. At the request of the library trustees the Commissioners of the District of | Columbia will try to secure from Con- gress an appropriation to purchase the branch library site in a deficiency bill before the adjournment of the present session. A year ago Congress appro- priated $10.000 in the second deficiency bill for the purchase of a site for the southeastern branch library. That ap- propriation established a precedent for the purchase of branch library sites and it is believed that Congress will make the necessary appropriation of $25.000 required for the site for this new branch in the near future. In connection with this grant by the Carnegie Corporation of the funds for his new branch library building, the istory and conditions of the Carnegle offer of branch libraries are of interest Coungress Failed to Act. In 1803, on the occasion of the dedica- tion of the cetral library building, Mr. Carnegie offered the library trustees the money necessary to build all branch library buildings needed by Washington. Congress at that time failed to pass the enabling legislation authorizing the acceptance of the entire gift. Not till 1910 did Congress authorize the accept- ance of $40,000 to erect the Takoma Park branch library building. When in 1919 the library trustees re- opened the quebtion with the Carnegie Corporation and asked for funds prom- ised by Mr. Carnegie to carry forward the branch library building program, they found that Mr. Carnegie had left 10 instructions in his will to supply the money. The Carnegie Corporation was finally persuaded to give on its own initiative the money required, $67.000, for another branch building and in the second deficiency bill of 1921 Congress authorized the acceptance of the money fox the southeastern branch library and ap}mpmted $10,000 for a site. That branch ltbrary is now being erected and it is expected that it will be opened in the autumn. Trustees Much Gratified. On April 27 the library trustees asked the Carnegie Corporatiop for $100,000 for the branch now proposed for the Mount Pleasant section and 1recently received a favorable re- sponse. ‘The library trustees are much gratified at the outcome, espe- cially in view of the recent announce- ment of the secretary of the corpor: tion to the effect that the corporation ! 1s not making eny new appropriations for the erection of library buildings. The present allotment is condidered by the library trustees as the supply- ing by the Carnegle Corporation of another installment of Mr. Carnegie' original offer. The library trustees. By the Assocjated Press. BERLIN, - June 17.—Germany’s floating debt, on June 10,. was 387.- | 574,765,000 marks. This shows a de- crease of 1,600,000,000 marks during the v 35 however, believe that it is quite' im- portant that this allotment should be promptly accepted in order not to risk | the ‘complete withdrawal of the offer of the branch library bulldings se piuch needed by Washington. =