Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1922, Page 2

(] JAM THREATENS SCHOOL OPENING Enroliment of 67,000 Tomor- | row Promises 2,100 | Increase. PART-TIME NECESSARY Congestion Expected to Be Great- est in History Despite i | nouncement was made today at the | will be opened in full Monday morn- Expansion. % | Washington's public schools witl | throw open r doors tomortow morning for new scholast year confronted with the gre conges- tion in their history. Additions to six 1 the ding, new be opened for the first schools and Kingsman, wil time, but the extra accommodatious | they will afford. accordimg to school officfals, will not materially relieve the overerowded conditions i The beginning of the new term Will] fiud ail of the high schools operating | on either u double shift or overlap- hile a number of pu- | ping syst ed schools will be | me e per day's sehou | cent o v Otticials ot A fident that the enro I reach und probably exceed 87000 —an in crease of 2100 uver the peak of Lh last scholustic year registrat £ the au 5,000, while will not be Graded School Additions to the which will open tomc > opluion o beyond wrollment Jetober 1 t th following schuuls: M Buchanan, Deanwood, Mott, Wheatley and the John Funds for the erection her with those school Were pro- appropria- the new 0f these annexes Lok for the replacement of the Bel and the Smothers additic vided in the last detleien: n hill. Construction School i expected January tion, funds upon the completic buildings within the specified the deficiency not been started befor wddi- i ntingent other (ppropriatio ¢ the are has bill, Opening of the new additions, ficials emphasized, will not make it possible for them to discontinue the of the one-room portable build- s, The portables at the schools rected schools 0 been es have red expected re the anne: ave Dbeen tr where congestion the greatest is |RECTOR SLAIN WITH | the objective of their stroll. And there | they ! statement that he had seen several of these let- | With their student bodies zreatly enlarged. n. Western and Mc- Kinley high schools will begin the| new school year on the two-shift system of operation, while Central) and Business will run on what school officials describe as an overlapping arrangement. somewhat similar to the dual shift plan Despite the emergency neasure for accommodating Its overflow by running on the double-shift scheme, Eastern will press into use four port- ables. Two of these one-room struc tures already have been placed on the grounds adjoining the hool, v{mle, the other two will be crected within the next ten days. Charles Hart, principal of Eastern, said last night that by October 1 he expected the -enrollment at the sohool will have reached 1,175, a net increase of 171 over the peak enroll- ment of last year. By using the four portables and crowding students into laboratory rooms Mr. Hart said the schools would be able to aceom- modate the new students until Feb- ruary 1, when new KEastern will be ready for 0CCUDANOY. » The_buflding contrastor sured Mr. Hart that new Eastern will be completed by December 1. Instal- lation of equipment will then be| rushed in order that the school can he occupied at the beginning of the second semester on February 1. The morning classes at bastern, Mr. Heart pointed out. will operate from 8:30 to 12:30 p.m., while the afternoon shift will from 1 to § o'clock. The afternoos classes will be composed entirely of first, second and third semester students. with the exception of the cadets ami out- of-town children in this category. Mr. Hart has planned to place them in the morning classes, which will be composed almost exclusively of upper olass students. Two Hours te Report. Mr. Hart wants all of his morning class students report tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Students who are slated for the afternoon shift will not be required to report until 1 m McKinley High School's enrollment, according to advance figures, will reach 1,650, an increase of about 100 over last year. The morning shift at this school will run from $:20 to 1 pm. The afternoon shift will start at 1:15 and end at be seven periods in the morning and six in the afternoon. Like Eastern, the first semester and a portion of the second semester stu- dents at McKinley, with the exception of the cadets. will be enrolled in the afternoon classes. Arrangements will he made whereby the freshman cadets will be placed in the morning classes 1o enable them to attend military drills. Authorities at McKinley want all of their students to report tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. A general as- sembly will then be held at which the students will be assigned to section teachers. Central High School will operate on the overlapping system. The first shift will run from 9 am. to 2 p.m. While the afternoon classes will begin at 1 o'clock and continue to_4:50. Robert A. Maurer, principal of this school, expects a net increase of 100 in_the enrollment Shifts at Western High School will operate as follows: Morning from £:30 to 12:15 p.m.. and afternoon 12:45 to 4:30, Dr. Elmer 8. Newten, prin- cipal of the school. expressed the be- lief that the enrollment would t¢tal at least 1,000. The peak enroilment at Western last year was 964. First, second and third semester students, according to Dr. Newton, will be put on the afteérnoon shift, while the upper class students will attend the morning classes. Dr. New- ton announced that all of his first, second and third semester students should report in the merning at 11 o'clock, while the others will be re- quired to report at 9. Business High School, like Central, will have the overlapping system of operations. with -the morning shift running from 9 to 1 p.m. and the aft- erneon shift from 12 noon to 4:30 p.m. The freshmen will be placed in the afternoon classes. Allan Davis, has :iS'! committed the crime,” There will | ! towns. SEABOARD AIR LINE SIGNS WITH MEN All Shops to Be Open on Faull Sche@ulue Tomorrow, Offi- cial Says. BALTIMORE, September 16.—An- oftice of $. Davies Warfleld, preaident of the Seaboard Alr Line, that the agreement had been signed by the railroad and the men for the settle- mnent of the strike, as adopted in Baltimore and approved by the policy committee of the railway employes’ department, American Federadon of Labor. . Mr. Warfield stated that all shops ing next, working two shifts of eight hours each. This, he said, will enable the railroad to rapidly catch up for time lost during the strike. HIS SEXTON’S WIFE (Continued from b he countered by telling her that h wife was missing. Mrs. Hall then went to the police station. It was not until nearly twenty-four hours later today that Ravmond Snyder aod Pearl Bahmer went to stroll in Russeys lane, a quaint, rus- tic way known by voung swains of the countryside as Lovers' lane. The apple tree midway down the lane was found the bodies of the rector and the sexton’s wife. Polid ered as to whether foot- under the tree. Light winds had carried several of and cards some distance two bodies. Mills, in his to the authorities, asserted the notes from the ters. and declured that they were written by his wife to their children while she was visiting in the south- ern part of the state this summer. e detectives declare they were writ- ten to the reetor. Ome of the letters, bearing no salu- tation and no signature and written in pencil, read: our Physical Inspiration. You are a true priest. You see in me merely your physical inspira- tion Was Pan You are the priest. s his people to religions? God mak. enjoy themselves deeply Another in the same handwriting read: “Please do not laugh at thi 1 know I'm a crazy eat, but 1 can't be different. Charlotte talks. then Dan asks questions, then he annoys, Is0 how can | write?” Dan and Chariotte referred to in note are Mrs. Mills' two children. Detectives checking up on the ovements of Mrs. Mills after she left her home Thursday night learned that she wa® a passenger on an in- terurban trolley car which connects ew Brunswick and several nearby She rode to the end of the which was reached about §:20 The line’s end is a short known as the iine. o'clock. distance from a farm Phillips vlace, which sey's lane. | County authorities promised that {an arrest would be made in a few {hours, but declined to say whether ithe person would be ‘a man or a | woman. Coroner Long, in a statement. said: | “There is no doubt this was a dou- | ble murder. The shots entered the {body in such a way that any theory {that one of the pair shot the gther. |and tden committed suicide is absurd. !T anv of the opindon that the murder was not committed where the bodies were found, but that the bedles were traneferred’ to the spot in an auto- moblie. “I_have not the slightest idea who said County Detective George Totten after he had questioned Mills, Letter Confe; Love. The county prosecutor ordered an autopsy on the body of Mrs. Mills after it was learned that she had been a patient In Middlesex Hospital cur- ing January and February of this year. In one of the later letters given out by the authorities Mrs. Mills the police said, addressed the recior as “dearest” and referred to their hearts as belng “as true as steel” In this letter, Mrs. Mills is sald to have writ- ten, “There isn't a man who could make me smile as you can. I have the greatest of all blessings—a noble man’s deep, trug and noble love, and my heart s his. I am his forever.” Mrs. Hall, said to be a woman of considerablé wealth, is ten years her husband'’s senior. His age was given as forty-one. Mrs. Mills was thirty- two. The Mills and the Hall families long had.been ciose friends. On a re cent week end, the police said, Mr. Hall, Mrs. Hail's mother and Mrs. Mills had gone on a picnic to Lake Hopatcong,- N: J. Auto Footrest Fo The county authorities support their theory that the bodles were brought to the scene in an automobile on the discovery near the scene of a footrest used in the tonneau of an automobile. An alarm has been sent out by the authorities to watch for a car from which such a rest is miss- ng. The police aid that the rectors body was found, and that only a few cents were in his pockets. The police said tonight.they had found two men who had seen a woman wearing what appeared to be a linen duster hurry through the gate of the Hall home about 2:45 o'clock Friday morning and enter the house. They are Allen Bennett, whose home is near the Hall residence, and Willlam Phillips, night watchman at ‘women, which -stands directly oppo- site the parsonage of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. Saw Women Hurrying. Persistent barking of doge awak- ened him, Benett told the police. In- tending to drive the animals away, he stepped out on the porch- of his ho) in night attire. While standing ther Ite said. he saw & woman hurry up the sidewalk, push open the garden gate of the parsonage and disappear. Phillips, the police sald, also re- ported hearing the dogs barking and also saw_the woman open the gate. He said he was sitting on the steps of one of the college buildings and that after she passed through the gate she hurried across the yard and into the house. Neither of the two men o&xld lde:llllyfizh;.:omnn nor was either certain he ever her befofre. i The police guard stationed at the' Hall home earlier in the evening was later withdrawn and Willlam Stevens, borders Rus- | a9 THE SBNDAY Cavalry and artillery from Fort Myer put om a splendid show for the City Club members at their outing yemterday. This picture shows part of a battery going into action at full | #peed across the lawn. INRS, HARDING NOT | prints found in the dust at the tree} { ruots were made in a struggle. County | detectives also disagree with Coroner ! Long that the shooting did not oceur | 10 LEAVE CAPITAL White House Believed Bet- ter for Recovery Than Sea- shore or Mountains. Mrs. Harding's period of recupera- tion will be spent at the White House {und not in tuins or the seashore or else out of Washington, (to information of reliable sort {This intimation was intended to put | at rest speculation tothe effect that t | President and his wife would retl !to seclusion in some quict place away from the capital when Mrs. Harding has improved to a point where she jcould stand such a journey Because of the rapid progress be- {ing made by Mrs ering from her critical {have been various rumors { White House. Some of them, coming from persons belicved to be in the dence of the presidential family, were to the effect that the couplé were only awafting Mrs. Harding's further improvement before going on a real vacation- first one the have taken since Harding sumed his present high office. Many Places Suggested. It has been even suggested in connection that the place for the va- cation already had been decided upon. the White mountains.’ the New England coast, White Sulphur Springs and Atlantic City Dbeing among the places mentioned in these speculations. But authoritative information is just to the contrary. It is thought by those who are watching over Mrs. Harding's Tecuperation that she probably will do better by remaining at the White House. They feel that at least there would be less opportunity for any setbacks in her complete recovery. Of course, it is realized that when the early period of her recuperation has been successfully passed and she is well on the road to her old self several weeks in the moun- tains or at the seashore would be of great benefit. President Needs Rest. In this respect, it is pointed out that such a rest would be of unquestionable benefit also to the President himself, who, besides the strain he lived under during the days his wife lingered be- tween life and death, has experienced an exceptionally arduous and trying summer, due to the numerous difficuit and serious situations that arose and which required his constant attention. Early in the year the President and Mrs. Harding had planned to enjoy a long vacation in the summer hy jour- neying through the west and up to Alaska, but because of the tariff and other important matters hanging fire they abandoned, early in the summer, all ideas regarding such a trip. “Probably we will get our long vasa- tion next summer,” was the way the executive expressed it just a week or 80 before Mrs. Harding became ill. PRESIDENT DECIDES ON VETO FOR BONUS (Continued from First Page.) nywhere ording a illness there about the this, over the veto. The general bellef at gold watch was missing when the|the Capitol was that far more than|was sent to France along with & num- majority [ ber of other District boys. the necessary two-thirds could be obtained there to override the veto. The bonus bill, bearing the signa- tures of Speaker Gillett gnd Presi- dent Pro Tempore Cummins of the Senate, was taken to the White House late today by Chairman Ricketts of the New Jersey State College for |the House committee on enrolled billa | gyneral arran, and Representative Thompson, an- other republican member from Ohlo. Generally bills are transmitted to the | | Bill at White House. As the Treasury had closed for the day at that time, the bill remained at the White House. It is expected, how- ever, that it will be sent tomorrow to Secretary Mellon for his examination and an opinion. This is the usyal course of procedure. From the Treas- ury it would be returned to the Pres- ident for his action. . Just before the bonus bill reached the White House there ‘wgs presented at the executive offices a “request” to ‘'the President from_the Chamber of Commerce of the Unfted’ States to veto the bill. The request, in _the form of a brief, was accompanied by the quiet of the moun- | Harding in recov- | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C: 1 | | rings with their AUTO RACER KILLED; CRASHES IN FENCE inyed from nees, they had i ‘ i automoblle of his father, Dr. James A. Hunter, “He slowed down right in| front of us on the northern stretch, but | | | i | | | we passed him just as we came to the | turn, Something struck Frank in the {right jaw and then everything went bla, When I came to I was in the car alone in the middle of the field, and | had my hands on the prongs of the| steering wheel, which had been broken. | Frank had fallen out of the machine. | They pulled me out’and took- nte to the | hospital.” Confused by Dust. At the turn for the home stretch, where the accident occurred, a cloud of dust hung over the place, and it is belleved that Norris, in endeavoring to |avoid hitting the car that, according to ! Hunter, had given him so much trouble arpund three-quarters of the first lap, turned toward the fence. There was enough space in the fence between the top bar and the ground to permit the small car to pass through under normal conditions. A heavy cloud of dust hung over the turn, however, which, it is believed, caused Norris to fail to see a four-inch post in the cen- ter of that particular section. His head struck the post causing a fracture of the ekull and throwing him from the machine. A second later it struck Hunter on the forehead, but with much less force. The steering wheel was also broken, but the car ran on into the field with the unconscious Hunter as its pilot. It came to a stop about| thirty feet from the place it went through, with but verv little damage to it. Net Experienced Driver. Norris was not an experienced driver, having ridden in his first race in this vicinity several weeks ago. However, the lack of experience cannot be {all blamed for the accident, according to Hunter. Norris was born in Georgia, but came to Washington with his parents when he was three vears old. He attended the public schools and was & student at McKinley Manual Training 8chool when the Mexicyn border uprising drew him into service with the District of Colum- bla Nationgl Guard. He was still a member of the District field artillery | when the United States entered the war and was sent to Camp McClellan, Ala. Later he was commissioned a 1leutenant and became an instructor. He Several months after his arrival in the war zone, he applied for the aviation corps and was accepted. He saw consider- able fiying service and after the armi- stice was signed remained with that branch for about a year. He was sta- tioned at El Paso at the time of his resignation. - He is survived by his father and mother and a sister, Miss Helen Norris. femunu have as yet -not been made, but it 18 expécted he will be buried in Arlington with full military honors. ‘Hunter is a vocational training stu- executive offices by House messengers. | dent, he having received disability while serving in the Navy during the war. He is now employed at the District pumping station. FALLOWS WILL FILED. His Unmarried Daughter. CHICAGO, September. 16.—The whl of the late Bishop Samuel Fallows, head of the Reformed Episcopal Church of 'North América, left -his $15,000 estate to his mmarried. daughter, Alice Katherine Fallows, it was_disclosed tcd{v when the in- $trument we's filed for probate. ‘The daughter and her sister, Mrs. Willlam Mayer of Saratoga, Calif, Fallows of Bishop Leaves $15,000 Estate to| oot the clay pigeons. This City When the City Club guests weren't .lll.yln‘ base ball, running races or watching modern knights on horseback spear chance to picture shows a trapshooting group. Club’s Outin’ Jest Grand Big Frolic From Soup to Nuts |Sojers, Tiltin’ Knights, Pretty Ladies an | Big Eats Make Barbecue at Noyes Farm Swell Affair, Says Dopey Dan. BY W. H. CLAGETT. And were you at the City Club's big nual -barbecue? And did you keep on stickin’ round until the feast was through? And if so can I call on you to back this statement up, That never have the likes been seen since Hector was a pup! Dear Folks: Had annual outin's, sich as that staged by the Washington City Club at the Noyes farm, near Sligo, Md., vesterday been in vogue durin’ the lifetime of Elizabeth Akers Allen I'm mighty much afraid her immortal Jewel about time takin' a turn back- ward in its flight, so's to make her “a child again, just for the night, would never have been written, as the chances are the good lady woulda belonged to her local organization, and thurfere had no occasion to pray for the switchback! For buh-lieve me, old tempus not only flitted rearward for the moren 800 enthusiasts who participated in the stoopendous frolic last night, but _durin’ the afternoon in the bar- gain, and from the first feature, a red-hot ball game between the bache- lors and bgrsdlmu of the elub, until the last strAins of Home Sweet Home shooed the weary dancers happy to their slumbers to revel in dreams of a day well spent, every merrymaker on the grounds looked and acted like youngsters Blessed by a perfect day, .long lines of automobiles began to arrive at the beautifyl estate as early as noon, and by 3 e'clock, when the crack E troop of cavalry from Fort Myer, under the leadership of Lieut. Crowe, had all eyes astarin’ by its wonderful manouvers, commercial Washington was -sprawled all over the greensward! $ Riders Is Awful Swell. ‘The burning bush trick of these mar- | | velous riders, together with bareback stunts of Troopers Tommy Elliott and Bill 8mith won oodles of applause, but not one whit more than did the splen- did drill of Battery F of the 3rd Field Artillery, also from Fort Myer, and in command o eut. Harden. S soldier boys, these! e O'courss the headline attraction of the whole ‘entertainment was the tiltin" tournament by ‘“ye knights of the clubbe,” and no sooner had Charlle Demonet, big noise of the general com- mittee, signaled his aides, Frank Bry- san, Bd Danenhower and Oscar Thorup, to clear the field for the ten partici- atin’ lancers, than the classy Navy 0, with Charlie Benter wigwaggin'. eut looke for fair and th qu_ds of doin's! R ime had to be dedycted from thi: event to allow for the gnt‘n:\’::e! of Charles W. Semmes, grand marshal ‘of the tournament, who dashed on. the field all dolled out in_yaller sash n’everything! Charlie rode a_prancin’ steed and looked every inch a 16th cen- tury’ cavaller. No, he didn't wear =, wig! After much titlin’, some good some—well, never mind—Ray. Ssml;:;’. Charlie's baby brother, showed his early Maryland trainin’ fercin’ saven Tings outa nine tries, and thereby liter- ally gallopin' off - with ‘first nors, which were a’ silver cup; presented by Arthur J. Sundlum, and the privilege of selectin’ the queen of the tourna- menc latér in the evenin’, which he did ke a regular Bonnle Prince Charlf &%klgu ]u the most bn-u:&nl ladye Mrs. Semmes, w danced the first nu: Yo he ed to name the three ladies in waitin' 1q tha queen, and they strajghtway beckoned . Mrs. Doing, Mrs. Wil C. Hanson and Mrs, G. L. Sanford: The judges in the tiltin® match were E.. C. Owen,. Royce Hough, George P. Hoover and Harry (Honey- boy) Evans, who also acted as an- nouncer! It might be said here that as a tilter Fred Mackenzie is an ex- pert business ma Other tilters to also run were Bill Davis, Bill Yost, Oscar Thorup, Dewey Zirkin and D. A. Sanford, and after they had fin- ished John Love and J. B. Sinclair of Silver Spring, Md., professional jousters, showed the assembled mul- titude just how it should be done! Tennis 'N Base Ball, Too. Owin’ to frequent interruptions the ball game. was a sort of continuous performance, but from the best in- formation procurable—Umpire Jim Wheeler, who is a married man—it was said the Benedicts won out by the score of 4 to 0! That's Jim's ver. sion of it! Henry E. Stringer, presi- dent of the club, who was here, there and everywHere, told me the unmar- ried parties had good grounds for a protest, as did Commissioner Rudolph. who saw -more of .the conflict than anybody present! Anyhow, 1 know that Cecil Dowd put it on Karl Efker in the tennis mateh, in two_straight sets, 6-—2, 6—1, and that Fred Berens won the fat man's race; with Charlie Pardoe second. Also that George Killian kissed the tape first in the thin guys’ scramble, with Jimmie Platt only a whisper behind! The same two fin- ished likewise in the potato race, much to the disgust of scores of other entrants, but when Mister Ru- dolph challened any fat man on the place for a match race, all hands cried “Enough” and beat it for the barbecu Bill Eynon- and Claude Owens' refereed these events The result of the tug-o-war will never be decided! The old men at the party had the youngsters pulled several feet over the line when some- body discovered that Fred Berens, anchor, had tjed the rope to a tree, and for protection of the shrubbery the match was called o .Throughout the afternoon sich highly . respectable pastimes as bowlin', trap shootin’ (I said trap). pinochle and bridge whist were run- nin' full blast, the prizes for which will be announced when the contest- ants wind up! 2 t's abs’lutely superfluos to add that the barbecue was a winner! Hones' folks, at one.time the line reached clean into the next county, and the way them clubmen went after the big roast ox and other delicatessens woulda made a bird with indigestion feel perfectly tur- rible! A feed, I'd call it! Frank Fen- wick and Ed Dannenhower get honor- able mentions for this! Pre-ceedin’ the ball, which was held in the spaclous old house, and lasted until the wee sma’ hours, radio con- certs, a rippin’ battle-roval by some colored brethrer, and presentation of all prises by our old friend Cy Cummings of Maryland. God bless you, were held! - The grounds, after were a fairyland, with myriads of varied-colored lights, and all told, a more enjoyable entertainment hns ever been pulled off in this neck of the woods, then it sure hasn't been my geod for- tune to be amongst the guests present! I _thank you, DOPEY DAN. P. S~—1 might mention here that the courtesy of the Federal thi Crawford and -Carter FLOQD OF PAPER MONEY. Austrian Crown Now Worth Little More Than Cent. The circulation of paper money in Austria exceeded a trillion crowns at the beginning of September, accord- ing to a cable to the department of | commerce from Trade Commissioner | Upson, Vienna, end the exchange value of the crown fell to one and @ half hundredths of a cent. The depreciation of the crown has made nearly impossible the purchas- ing of necessary raw materials from | abroad. . Likewise a limited suppiy | of foreign exchange has made it difficult to finance such purchases and to meet maturing obligatio; Numerous sales in many industrie from goods on hand, especially to foreigners who had come to Austria to take advantage of the exchange | situation, have resulted in a deple- | tion of stocks, with slight hopes for an early replenishment. Conferences | held by Chancellor Seipel in several | neighboring countries during the | past month show the extreme gravity | and international pelitical signifi- | cance of the Austrian problem. LEADERS ASK MORE MONEY FOR ROAS {Civic Committee Tells Gen-| eral Lord of Deplorable Highway Conditions Here. 1 1 | | | {BUREAU TO HEAR CLAIMS Damage to Nation’s Prestige Seen in District’s Failure to Keep Up Lee Highway. the the | . | a for of An appeal for more money jrmmdl,\' deterforating streess | District was made to Brig. {Lord, director of the budget, by | committee representing thirty’ civi | traternal and patriotic organization: at a conference yesterday in the | budget office Gen. Lord assured the committee that if its members and the Com- missioners could convince him at | the hearing on the District estimates | !that the need for the street repair| items is so great as to justify re-| { ductions being made elsewhere the budget. the plea would be favor- !ably considered. He reminded thel | committee, however, of the dtermina- tion of President Harding to keep {the expenses of the government within its revenues. i | " The Commissioners and the com- mittee, Gen. Lord said, will be given| |ample opportunity at the hearings o | {be held by the budget bureau to pre- | sent their claims for good roads along ! with other items in the District esti- | mates. in Pleased With Reception. | The committee apparently was ! pleased with the sympathetic hearing ! granted by Gen. Lord. It was com- {posed of Claude M. Bennett, chair {man, vice president of the Lee High- {way Assocfation; Dr. S. M. Johnson. general director of the Lee Highway ! Association; Charles F. Roberts president of the Kiwanis Club: M. O. Eldridge of the American Auto- mobile Association; Thomas Bradley, president of the Washington Board of Trade, and Col. Clarence O. Sher- rill, officer in charge of public build- ings and grounds, who appeared as a_member of the executive committee of the Lee Highway Association. n. Lord was told by Mr. Eldridge that_the appropriations for roads in the District during and since the war ad been decreased. while traffic had increased fourfold; that seven miles of the Lee highway thrqugh the Na- tional Capital compared very unfavor- ably with the highway through Mar land and created a bad impression on thousands of tourists, and that auto- mobile owners pay the greater pro- portion of the taxes assessed in the District. He_ also pointed out that { arvland had made restrictive laws hich compelled the motorists of the District to pay fmmense amounts in license fees, which went to the Mary- land treasury, and that Maryland re- fused to enter into a reciprocal ar- rangement with the District because of the bad condition of its streets. Neglect Is Destruetive. Col. Sherrill emphasized that the prestige of the nation required the | main thoroughfares be put in and kept in good condition. He pointed out to Gen. Lord that some of the items in the District's budget might go over one or two years without serious loss, but tha! any further neglect to repair the rapidiy deteriorating streets would be destructive and, if delayed. would entail appropriaiions three or four times as great as would be re- quired_to put them in condition now. Mr. Bradley made it clear that the comittee was not asking for exces- sive appropriations or for anyv ap propriations for the development of suburbs, through street improve ments, but only for & -sufficient amount to promote the investment already made in pavements that had deteriorated to such an extent that if they. are not soon repaired the will have to be entirely rebuilt. The committee's interest, he said, is in the main arterial roads of the District, such as the Lee highway, the road to Frederick, and similar roads af- fording ingress into and egress -out of the city. Smooth Road to Pacific. The Lee Highway Association, Dr. Johnson sald, already has secured the ca-operation of a series of states, cities, towns and communities from the south bank of the Potomac to San Diego to close all of the gaps and smooth out the rough places in the Lee highway. and by July 1 of next year it is the associaiton's in- tention to have a smooth road to every mile of the 3,000 from the Dis- trict to the Pacifle coast Dr. Johnson also declared that the pavement conditions from New York city to the District line on the Bladensburg road are good, and that tho gaps and rough places in the seven . miles of the Lee highway, through Washington should be elimi- nated 8o that the tide of travel flo ing over the highway route through the city would not find Washington's section comparing unfavorably with he rest of the road. He pointed out, owever, that while the Lee Highway Agsociation is particularly interested in a single thoroughfare it did not wish to appear to ask for any prefer- ential treatment, but is co-operating with the various other organizations represented on the committee for the program as outlined by Mr. Brad i | | thelr guns | Hart's 110 do with NAB ALLEGED HEAD INHOLD-UP MURDER Baltimore and D. C. Sleuths Seize Joseph John Hart in Room Here. WIFE ARRESTED FIRST Accused Slayer Said to Have Been Trolley Conductor Here at One Time. Joseph John Hart, alleged by | police to be the leader of the mex who recently shot to death, in Bal timore, William N. Norris, paymaster of a chemical works, and robbed hin and his assistant of more than $7,000 surrendered to local and Baltimore detectives about 6 o'clock last night as they burst, revolvers drawn, into his room st 2148 Pennsylvania ave nue. Hart, taken by surprise, was unabis to put up any resistance, hoisting his hands over his head quickly as Head quarters Detectives Arthur Scrivene and Edward J. Kelly, followed by number of Baltimore « h reputation despera« criminzl. the detectives were pre pared to balk any that Ha» might make but their raid had bee €0 carefuly planned out with such a dr tic swiftne that the cornered man was not ful aware of the intrusion for an in Long Search Ended. nd was carr The arrest of Hart ended an ex tensive search, which had been ducted by police of many cities si pore 1 ot 1 takon w oW Socolow, has 1ot hended, although men and women have be custody during the past fc Hart e time alf a doz 1 the with tha Headquarters ction by llen Knowle ge that Hart was e Pel Ivania a was obtained Ly the yesterday. Immediate Baltimore detectives h “harles Burns, tectives, came spector Clifford Gra and went to the av . accom- Detect - local force WMaived. visited the ned that Hart was Tien. notifying €0’ leagy detectives swooped down on the b ding and, drawing revoll- ers. walked into Hart's room “Hart, we want you over in Balt more on a murder charge,” exclaimen Detective Lieut. K “That's 1ot plied, as he nd chagrin me We're going to take you back to timore and charge you with mur- Extradition 1 Scrivener alone and as in his room th, first place led his surprise “What are vou going de, tize detective countered Hart “waived extrafitton Follow - ing his reffusal to discoss the charge against him with the officers. he was taken back SOUTHERN REFUSES T0 FIRE NEW MEN Demand by Union and Dis- sent by Road Breaks Up Conference. to Baltimore Demand by union leaders that st men taken on during the strike be dis- charged immediately upon return of | strikers to their jubs was understood to have broken up a conference here vesterday between Southern railway officials and general shoperaft chair- men, which was designed to bring about a settlement on the basis of the Warfield-Willard-Jewell agreement. This became known several hours after the conference had broken wp. with neither side indicating definitely whether the negotiations would be ro- sumed. Later A. M. McGilliv chairman of the committee of uni leaders, conceded that dismis men taken on during the strike was one of the demands made. Senfority Rights Safe. Representatives of the road, it learned, refused to consider the mand and told the union leaders that signature of the agreement must pre- cede discussion of details. The posi tion of the road was said to be that o willingness to take back the men o strike with seniority rights unim paired, but unwilling to promise dis charge of men taken on during the strike as a condition to return of the strikers to work. The road was fur- ther represented as holding that this demand was beyond the Warfield-Wil lard-Jewell agreement. Mr. McGillivray, in saying that the unions had made such a demand “We did not demand, however, the removal of old employes who stuck to jobs whem the strike call went was de- Another Parley Likely. The union spokesman added that the Southern officials had “refused ab solutely to discuss dismissal of the men taken on during the strike any other issue until the ‘Chicago agreement’ first was signed.” “This we could not do. as there were several complicated questions which had to be adjusted before the ‘Chicagc agreement’ could be signed.” Mr. McGillivray indicated that he and his colleagues would ask roi officials for another conference, al- though possibly not until early In the week. ACCEPTS NEW POSITION. Dr: D. 1. Andronesseu of Emerso: N. J., has accepted a position with the r ' rough National Bank, will present movin' piotures of th barbecus at Loew’s Palace Theayter all principal of the 'school, expects his Mrs. Hall's brother, enrollment to increase about 100 over L et t0] ded 53 that the crowd of idlers which waiee lefter from President Julius H.|and brothers, Edward gl mber, Barnes, who asked Mr..Harding's con- | New York and:Charles 8. Fallows of up ‘in this event, 'Bil sidergtion of the chamber's brief as|Saratoga, Callf.. were. named exe-|Doing, ir, who speared three "do\lch‘-l department of agriculture of Rumanin Diy for adequate Improvement and T 1 n P 5 ohief of the department of plant proper maintenance of the main arterial roads of the District. last year's maximum, which. totaled ! ered before the parsonage did not 1. approximately 1,250. A R D v A Mystery Story disturb Mrs. H H ting an argument for a-vet nuts” and Ed two, were allow. {‘ this- week, startin' tomorrow night! nesd ol iy ay, ,.,Begi‘ns' in The Evening Star September