Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Flah- tonight and tomorrow; coatinued Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at ? p.m. today; Highest, 71, at 3 p.m. yesterday; I » B L"li 7 yesterday; lowest, 51, at 5:45 y. Full report on Page 16. " ClosingN.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 21 28,631. Entsred as second-class matter post officea Washington, D. C. No. BRITISH R WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ' WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1922—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. . paper and aiso Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is excl the use for republication of credited to it or not otherwise credited in this the local news published hrret:. All rights of publicatior: of special dispatches berels Saturday’s Circulation, 81,445 Sunday's Circulation, 87,975 v TWO CENTS. USH ATLANTIC FLEET TO DARDANELLES; 'WAR LOOMS AS TURK ARMY INVADES NEUTRAL ZONE DREADNAUGHTS TO BACK TROOPS IN BLOCKING KEMALIST ADVANCE; ALLIED FORCES PREPARE ATTACK Officials Confident Combined Forces Will Be Sufficient to Repulse Threat to Straits. BATTLE PLANS ARE DRAWN UP BY CHIEFS IN CONSTANTINOPLE British Dominions Promise Quotas to War on Turks—Munition Factories of Empire Start 24-Hour Work. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 18.—The entire British At- lantic fleet is being sent to reinforce the Mediterranean squadron for the protection of Contantinople apd the Straits of “Darda- nelles. = This undoubtedly will create the most formidable armada ever assembled in an area of like size. embracing the most modern dreadnoughts, battle cruisers, destroyers, submarine and air craft carriers. British officials here feel confident that if the allied land forces are not sufhicient to check an attack on the Dardanelles by the * Turkish nationalists the combined fleet, together with French and Ttalian war vessels, widl be niore adequate. There is an increased feeling of | Constantinople as a result of Great Britain's energetic measures. The . highest military authorities declare the Turks will not commit the folly of opposing suche overwhelming forces. The allied commanders here are meeting today under the presi- dency of Briz. Gen. Sir Charles Har- ington to discuss measures for de- fense of the capital and the. Straite, They are expected to bring out the complete unity of the French and Italian forces. It is now ascertained that only | 26,000 Greek soldiers remain under arms out of the army of 250,000. These are in Thrace, detention of Greece is seri-| v } State Department Requests Admiral Bristol to Take Relief Measures. which territory by ously doubted here. 3. | Rear Admiral Bristol, American i high coriimissioner at Constantionple, Gen. M. C. J. Pelle, French high|wan Tequested today by the State commissioner, started for SmyTna | Department for specific information last night to confer with Mustapha fas to the number of Amerlcan citi- Kemal Pasha. {zens, native or naturalized, in need Dominions Respor |of relief as the result of the re- TORONTO, Ont, Septqmber 1§—!occupation of Smryna by Turkish Canava s preparciness for the prompt | forces, and also their present where- mobilization a|abouts. force of about 5,000 men for early Admiral Bristol last week Teported dispatch to Constantinople in re- | that fourteen naturalized Americans sponse to the call of Great Britainfrom the colony in Smryna were was the subject of discussion in many ; missing, but has not mentidned this Quastareliere: today. imatter since, and the department There seemed to be no doubt that asked just how many naturalized the Dominion could provide a well . Americans were still unaccounted for. tralned, composite force of veteran Officials here are inclined to believe troops, have them equipped and onthat the fourteen reported missing the way to the seat of war within a Probably left the city with relatives Taw el Y before the Turkish forces cante in. At the main armories yesterday| The department also asked Admiral * there were aiready on hana quite a|Bristol as to thie number of native number of men waiting to offer their | Americans remaining in Smyrna. It services when required. They were| has been estimated that from fifty nearly all seasoned veterans from the : to sixty American business men or great war. | missionaries were in the city at the In some quarters it was suggested } time of the Turkish occupation and that Canada’s contributfon might|no definite advices as to how many take the fcrm of a large and well|of these left the city or as to those equipped air force, which it was said | who elected to remain have been re- 2ould be raised and dispatched on one ceived. i 2 d *! Admiral Bristol's reports and also and equipment of [ meakiatuotice: " | communications from the legatlon in - g % | Athens and the counsel general at LONDON, September 18.—Premier| §ohons A00 o0 ot San ot (ot Hughes of Australia, after consulta- i exact number of American citizens tion with his cabinet, announces that evacuated from Smyrna and as to the the Austrafian government is prepared "{“’“;‘r"l:::“‘lfi:::“l‘;"? Toweohand to send a contingent to the near east| roragees. are forjitiess if necessary, according to a dispatch| The American from Melbourne. The leader of uminox lrepll{e& n.Js lyel! m"t};e reml:elt for 5 “la plan for joint relief work on a country party in the Australian parli- |y 5" scale, but department officials ament, W. Page, supports the pro-|today took occasion to express the posal to send a contingent from Aus- | full confidenge of the Washington tralia, but the leader of the labor|BOvernment in the admiral’s ability party opposes it uniess it be preceded | L0 deal With the diffult situation i facing him. by a referendum. His opposition i®, War department orders today as. based on the ground that Australia signed Maj. Sherman Miles, fi 2 {artillery, as American military at- :‘:‘_ not ret recovered from the recent |, e at Constantinople on the staff iof Admiral Bristol. The Army officer Military authorities at Melbourne,K was directed-to proceed to his new say that good officers and men are |post “without unnecessary delay.” + ready for the proposed campaign. N)lllt l(llel‘ 18 a son of Lieut. Gen. Rash Munitions Supplies. elson A. Miles, retired, and has had By the Associated Press, PARIS, September 18.—The British government has ordered all small arme and ammunition factories in the united kingdom. to work twenty-four hours at full capacity in preparation for any Turkish eventualitles, ac- cording to news reaching private sources here today. British Cabinet Meets. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON September 18.—The Brit- ish cabinet held a conference -today over the near eastern crisls. §ig- nificance was attached to the pres- ehce of the ‘Earl of Cavan, chief of staff, of the army; xr Marshal Sir Hugh Montague Tréachard and a prominent representative of the ad- miralty, all of whom carried dis- patches and maps. 25 ’ Neutrality Vielated. LONDON, September 18.—A Times dispatch frém the Dardanelles o telegraphic communication with all server in foreign wars. —r—e- HUNGARY IS ELECTED T0 LEAGUE OF NATIONS Unanimously Voted In by Assem- bly After Little Entente Accepts Count Banfty’s Pledge. By the Associated Press. of the league of nations sembly today. Delegate$ Loudoun of Hollond tola the assembly that Count Banfly the minister of foreign affairs, had given ample assurance that Hungary would satisfy all her obligations. p- Delegate Osusky of Czechoslovakia thé as-| to certain facts which-he said in-| dicated that obligatory military ser-| i vice was still in-éffect tm Hi Ar; t mi the g immsdiately cusid the | Sl T, UL o Sk, Hungacy, £gsiant ik Opash g it _sinos Fr o INtarEeD prohidited it Howsver in view of|pany 11 equipment for 58 Bl e are rooras o e [ SSRENRSETS, ST et B e ST i 51 CAUGHT IN SMYRNA commissioner has | called the attention of the assembly|the presence of WAY T0 ENTOMBED ARGONAUT MINERS Three Weeks’ Drilling Ends as Exploration Crews Prepare to Enter. DOCTORS AND NURSES WAIT AT TOP OF SHAFT | Engineers Say 24 Hours to Lapse Before First Body or Live Victim Reaches Surface. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Calif., September 18.— Rescuers working from the adjoining Kennedy mine penetrated the Argo- {naut mine, where forty-seven men have been entombed more than three weeks, shortly after 5 a.m. today. Announcement that the hole had been drilled into the Argonaut work- ings was made by E. C. Hutchinson, president of Kennedy Mine and Mill- ing Company, through whose work- lings the rescue work is beipg con- + ducted. Hutchinson said the hole proved that the 3,600-foot level of the Kennedy mine and the 4,200-foot level lof the Argonaut mine had been con- nected. o i 1 . i The opening connecting the Ken- nedy mine with the Argonaut work- size necessary for th: passage of the| rescue crews, it was anhounced offi- cially at 6:45 o'clock. Engineers at the mouth of the mine | said at least twenty-four hours would | be required before the first body or | rescued miner could be brought to the surface. Several days may be re- quired for exploration work before mfdboc“" of men are found, it was ; said. The great force of the draft blow- {ing trom the Kennedy into the Ar- { gonaut mine Indicates that there is ino cave-in on the 4,200-foot level of the Argonaut, tbe rescue officials de- | clared. 5 { Fire Peril Avolded. } Crews of.men were holding the | ventilating doors on the 8,600-foot {level of the Kennedy closed in order that the draft would not-rekindle the fire in the Argonaut Tense watchers stood in the chill morning twilight, fearing and hop- ling for the first word from the res. [cus squads. They were not relatives lof the entombed men, but mine iofficials, Red Cross workers and | newspaper men. | Arrangements had been' made that the Red Cross should carry any im- portant tidings to relatives. The changing of the shifts at 1 a.m. was the only colorful-event of the night. i The lines of men awaiting the skips presented a picture of determination. | None of the miners spoke except in low tonmes. Doectors and Nurses Present. ) The rescue crews came and went to and from their tasks three-quarters !of a mile below the earth’s surface; officlals went about the various mat. | ters connected with: the miners’ des- perate efforts so far beneath them; several scores of newspaper men and women worked in what is to all in- tents and purposes a well-equipped city room. Every possible thing that can be | done for the aid of the entombed men, should they be alive, has heen done. Doctors, nurses, all the paraphernalia and appliances of a hospital await them, and, too, grimmer preparations have been made to care for their bodles should a darger fate be theirs. On the 3,600 foot level, the rescue crew battered with picks last night at, the face of the raise they cut to reach the Argonaut workings. They feared to use explosives because of the possibility that flying splinters of rock might injure some of the trap- ped men there, or that the detonation would damage timbering and cause a cave-in which would delay them hours, days, or even weeks. It was a struggle of human will and muscle against the elements, and the elements- o, temporarily,” when a survey showkd that eleven feet of,| rock, and not four or five, as the! miners had supposed, lay between them and their goal. But the miners i i | | and with long drills’ they resumed efforts to plerce the barrier and es- tablish some sort of communication. Exploring Crews Form. When word was received that the rescue workers had broken into the Ar- gonaut mine, Byron O. Pickard, en- gineer of the United States bureau of mines, took charge of the work. Apparatus’ teams with four men to each team, each headed by a captsin, were ready at the collar b¢ the Ken- GENEVA, September 18.—Hungary|2edy mine and tock the places of the unamimously, elegted @ member; sweat and mud covered rescue crews. the opening made intc the Argonaut ‘was headed by Rodney B, Hecox of the United States bureau of mines. This team was to be followed Immdhtez‘uy a t&'m captained J. Dml::an. by R, Hecox and Duncan flupl; , men _wore gibbs, or the two proto. - j gen breathing apparatus, Each ca) a cage conf and burning candles in orde: carbon [ bird oF to Jetect n dioxide or car- The two teams were the first to begin exploration work In the | {ings has been enlarged to the full} e A “ ~ | =% FOUR HOT I RIOY NEAR CUMBERLAND Two Victims in Mine Labor Fight May Die of Wounds. ATTACKERS BEATEN OFF Reports Say Mob Tried to Prevent ‘Workers From Entering Shaft. Spacial Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., September 18. —VY¥our men were shot in a riot today between striking miners and alleged strikebreakers at the Potomac mine of the Hoffa Bros. Coal Company, near Barton, Allegheny county, about itwenty-five miles west of Cumberland. Two of them are in a dying condition. The seriously injured men are Claude Rogers, who was shot in the back, the bullet piercing his kidneys, and Stephen Adams of Carlos,, who was shot in the eye, the bullet enter- ing his brain. James E. Miller of Bordenshant was shot in the arm and Russel Kaefer was wounded in the jleg. The condition of these men is not considered serious. The riot was said to be the result of an attempt to intimidate workers as they were on their way to the Potomac mine by a mob. of about 130 men, the majority of whom came to Rarton this morning in automobiles and motor trucks from other sections of the western Maryland coal mining region. The mob, according to reports reaching here,~attacked the workers with stones and clubs. The latter are then said to have opened fire on the mob_ with rifles and pistols. After the battle the attackers disappeared in the hills just beyond Barton. THOUSANDS BACK ON RAIL SHOP J0BS Many Big Roads Included in Group Restoring, Strikers After Eighty _Days. By the Assoclated Press. ; CHICAGO, September 18.—With numerous railroads of both eagtern and western groups continuing to ignore the Baltimore settlement plan, several other roads, including a few wide -experience as a military ob- Would not admit they ware beaten!big systems, today restored jobs un- der the Warfleld-Jewell truce to shopmen who laid down their tools and quit their posts eighty days ago. Estimates on the number of strikers taken back were as high as 50,000 of the 300,000 struck July 1. Among the roads which accepted the Baltimore plan were the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Seaboard Air Line, the Chi- cago, .St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha and the Green Bay and West- ern. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul alone had jobs for the Northwestern for 15, Ro: announcing they had solved 12,000, and 000. ads The first team ready to crawl through | their shop problems through employ- | Was there. He regarded it ment of new men and former strik- ers previously taken back and organ- ised into new shop unions, included the Chicago the Illinols Central, Chicago Great Western, Northern Pacific and ?lon Pacific. M. Jewell hastened to New York yesterday when the plan struck the snags of eastern opposition, not- ably on the New York Central lines, where the trouble was caused, it was explained, by demands made by strik- ers in-addition to the original peace terms.” Similar demands prevented settiements on the Southern railway. . Rallroads which refused to enter the Baltimore agreement insisted to- are asily loyes and that Bert THE oL’ WOMAN Tufn’ LwveD N THE SHOE HAD NOTHIN ON ME'. TWO COAL PITS BOMBED. Both Wilkinsburg Mines Operated as Open Skops for Six Months. By the Associnted Press. PITTSEURGH, Pa.. September 18.— Two coal mines in the Wilkinsburg section hore were damaged by bomb explosions early today. The mouth and tunnels of the Swissvale mine of the Jacoh Weinmann & Brothers | were wrecked by the first explosion. A few minutes later a bomb was set off in the pit of the Dream City mine, owned by the sama company. Both mines have operated as open shops for six months. NYSTERY DEEPENS PRESIDENT URGED 10 SIGN BONUS Legion Commander Heads Delegation in Final Appeal at White House. lVETO IS STILL EXPECTED Friends of Bill at ‘Capitol Ready to Act If Measure Is Disapproved. Representatives of organizations of former service men, headed by Han- IN CHURCH MURDER | - sce"e Of SIaylng Of Reetor’of the American Legion, hed an en- 3 2 3 | tod: to & +President and Choir Leader Still " Eiscion 1oy oiaier vomes bl Unknown to Police. now before the executive. Members of the delegation declared they de- sired to make a final appeal to the President to approve the legislation. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. o, Septem- ; Meanwhile some of the President’s 1 bor, 18.—The question of where the ! Close advisers continued their ! Rev. Edward H. Hall, rector of the | declarations that he had determined fashionable church of St John the ! to veto the measure. Friends of the Evangelist, and his choir leader, Mrs. | bill at the Capltol, however, said By the Associated Prems. i interest with that'! up hope of executive approval, but of by whom they were slain, as: were prepared, in event of a veto, to authorities of two countles began,make & prompt attempt to override today their third day's inquiry into | the President's action. the mysterious double murder. : Although they displayed unusual|{ PRESIDENT FIRM FOR VETO. | reticence on the point, it was appar-} lent that detectives working on the ! Treasury Officials Prepare Veto ‘case were not convinced that the { rector and Mrs. Mills met death be-i . Reasons;for)Congrese: neath the apple tree, in the broad| _ BY DAVID LAWRENCE. field of waving goldenrog, where the! Treasury officials today prepared | bodies were 1aid out, tenderly, as if i the data which President Harding | tor burial. will transmit to Congress in vetoing Middlesex county authorities are|the bonus bill, which has just been not officially on the case, as the spot: passed by both houses. | where the bodies were found is over | The President will contend that in { the line in Somerset county.” But | principle the bonus Is not undeserved, unofiicially they were extremely‘hu: that: America cannot afford to active about this city where, it is cer-' pay it at this time. Hanford Mac- ! tain, the tragedy had its beginning, - Njger, commander of the American I noaend and his legislative commitiee Mills, the widower of the tragedy;.Laglon, Mrs, Hall, the widow, and her brother, ; asked Mr. Harding for & final oppor- Willle, an eccentric, were the figures | tunity to present their views before about which the Investigation re-|p, takes action and this was readily : granted. But the President’s mind Is Ta Question AN Anein. made up—facts and figures furniehed All three were expected to be| by \Secretary Mellon have long -ago questioned again today—Mrs Hall | Persuaded Mr. Harding that this was = an inopportune time to increase gov- for turther detalls of her nocturnallyernment expenditure. — Very® iittle wanderings in the early hours of|that is new In the way of argument Friday morning, shortly after the!may be expected in the veto message murders are belleved to have been | sniie it nasnt changed much since Mr. Harding wrote Chairman committed; Mills, for the story of hl_l Fordney of ‘th. Eoule IWIYI alnd |own wanderings at the same time,|Mmeans committee that unless a sales land Willle for further light on his; (2X Was levied, the legislation should uncangy prediction on Friday morn- { be postponed. ing that “something terrible is going Only Chunes tn Sitwntion. tg happen. most equally in The only change in the situation \re, Hall admitted last night that|really s the added uncertainty about she was the woman, in the polo cost | the collsction of Interest from Eu- Whom w. < e ropean powets on the war debt. Orig- R e A L R D D inally 1t was. contended that n spits saying that she had gone to the|of the spparent deficits this year in i church, accompanied by her brother, government finance, the income from (Continued on Page 2, Coumn 83 S (ContinueRon, Fage 2 Copma® I Willie, seeing her husband who had | Inot come home the night befors. ' + Willle refused to say whether he was ‘with her. Witnesses dfd not see him |return to the rectory. Mills also has told the authorities 'of having visited the church in quest of !same hour - that his missing wife, at about the Mrs. Hall said she x strange that he had not seen her for Willle, but hazarded the opinion that th “mighy have visited different parts of the church.” ‘Two Crosses in Tree. The theory that the rector and his choir ‘leader had Been slain elsé- where anil the bodies removed to Somerset county to complichte the investigation, was baséd chlefly on conditions at the spot where they were found. Although tender notes, belleved by. the authorities to have been ‘written by Mrs. Mills to Mr. Hall Were strewn about " PERIL.” By Louis Tracy Best Mystery Story of a Year. Beginning in The Star James Mills, were slain, shared al-|they had not by any means given E-Illfl'lllllll“llllllllllllm l AN “THE HOUSE OF REPARATION CRISIS REPORTED SETTLED By the Associated Press. . PARIS, September 18.—The repara- tions crisis has been virtually settled 'by the negotiations in London of Rudolph Havenstein, president of the |Reichsbank, according to reports ireaching here today. i The Bank .of England and certain {Dutch banks hae agreed to make pos- ’alhle the payment by Germany to Bel- glum of the treasury notes due at the :end of the vear, it is declared. This {would be done by means of a loan Lfrom these sources. Germany, in turn, !would repay the loan at the end of jelghteen months, the time limit which was asked by the German government. |, Credit_for the settlement is given jto Sir John Bradbury, British mem- ber of the reparations commission. UNTERMYER JOINS DAUGHERTY FOES Accepts Proposal to Repre- sent Keller in Impeach- ment Proceedings. HOUSE PUTS OFF HEARING Strict Party Vote of Judiciary Com- mittee Delays Date Until Next De- cember—Democrats Oppose It. | N F 4 SAMUEL UNTERMEYER. WoRp : Announcement that Samuel Unter- myer would represent him in im- peachment proceedings against At- torney General Daugherty was made today by Representative Keller, re- 1 publican, of Minnesota, just prior to ?l decision of the House judiciary com- j mittee to postpone the hearing on the ilmmzchment charges until December. The motion to postpone was adopted by a strict party vote, the three demo- { cratic members, Summers, Texas; | Thomas and Tillman, opposing it. Chairman Volstead announced that the case would be taken up imme- |diately after Congress reassembled , for the short session. Representative Keller did not make ! public the letter of acceptance from Mf. Untermyer, merely stating that {the New York lawyer would repre- |sent “me and the American people.” | A telegram was immediately sent Mr. Untermyer by Mr. Keller asking {him to be in Washington to appear ! before the judiciary committee at i which the Minnesota representa- tive had been instructed his evidence in support of impeach- ment charges brought as a result of the rail strike injunction proceed- )ings initiated by the Attorney Gen- jeral. (PRESIDENT PLAYS GOLF | FIRST TIME IN TEN DAYS Mrs. Harding’s Assured Recovery From Illness Gives Him Oppor- tunity for Recreation. For the first time since Mrs. Hard- ing’s illness assumed critical propor- tions, more than ten days ago, Presi- dent Harding today went to the golf links to enjoy the Invigorating brisk- ness of the early morning air. Mrs. Harding was reported as steadlly improving and !t i{s known that it was at her earnest solicitation and the advice of Gen. Sawyer, the Harding physician, that the President today decided to indulge in a four- some of gol. He left the White Hounse shortly before 7:30 o'clock and did not return until 11. After re- maining with Mrs. Harding for a time he went to his desk in the executive office where considerable papers and correspondence and other matters of official importance occupled his at tention. The President showed that he was delighted with his outing and that the air and the exercige were of great benefit. ‘With each succeeding day Mrs. Hard- ing is showing improvement.. It is understood that the time is not far distant when she will be permitted to sit up in her room. Gen. Sawyer sald that she was today more like her old self than at any time since she be- came 1ll. l | ‘with the receipt of two plump easants brought ‘ Secretary of ' them during a ip 1o ‘noribern week. Neéw Jorsey, ! to present | She was especlally pleased ,today | P! young to the White House r Davis, - who end gun- MORE CASH FOR DL. IF NEED IS PROVEN, SAYS BUDGET CHIEF !Gen. Lord Promises to Cover Deficit If Existence "Be Shown. e DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS TO BE FULLY PROBED Two Federal Bureaus and Commis- sioners to Gather Information for Hearing Planned Soon. If the Distric” Commissioners can prove that Washington actually needs improvements which canmot be financed from the $24,500,000 estimate fixed by the budget bureau, Brig. Gen. Lord, director of the budget. de- clared today that he would see that the city obtained sufficient additional funds to cover the deficit. While Gen. Lord declined to com- mit himself on the requests of the District Commissioners until he has ‘had an opportunity to study them more carefully, the director of the budget said the local government heads would be given every opportu- nity to prove their need of additional funds at a public hearing to be held in his office in the near future. Will Be Given Hearing. “The letter of the District Commis- sioners has come to my office too re- cently for me to have studied it as caréfully as it deserves,” Gen. Lord sald.. “Naturally I could not discuss {it fairly until I have had an oppor- tunity to do that. But I should not want to commit myself one way or the other on the question of appro- priations. “I will say, however, that the District Commissioners will be given every op- portunity to present their arguments for additiona] sums. A hearing is to be held in this office on a date to be named later. They are welcome to bring all of the witnesses they desire and this office will be glad to give;their, testimony every consideration. We, shail have our own experts here, tvo. " Needed Funds to Be Found. “If the Commissioners prove. that Washington must suffer from a lack of schools and good roads, or other neces- gities for lack of funds, and that the money cannot be gotten from the $24.- 500,000 estimate, then we shall cer- tainly have to see that the money is found elsewhere. Those departments that need money the least naturally must wait until those in most serious need have been served, if there is a shortage.” There is a general atmosphere of co- operation with the District officials among officers of the budget bureau. ‘While that department is obtaining i formation of its own and will be well ! posted on the condition of roads and schools in Washington when the hear- ing is held, the officials demonstrated an unbiased willingness to give the city’s needs every consideration. Plan to Tour City. The task of investigating conditions in Washington has been entrusted to the care of Redmond D. Stephens, | assistant to Director Lord. The Com- {missioners having expressed a desire |for the budget bureau to have one {of its representatives accompany {them on a tour of ‘inspection around | Washington, Mr. Stephens announced | today that he waits the pleasure of | those officers. In the meantime Mr. Stephens not only is conducting an investigation {of his own, but he has enlisted the ‘aid of another governmental bureau in this big task. The condition of schools and rcads are especially at- tracting his attention, and he is In possession Yof a large amount of ac- curate information, which he wiil present for the consideration of the | director of the budget at the hearing. Decline to Comment. Mr. Stephens, like his executive, |sald he maturally could not commit Ihimself in advance, but indicated that {nis information on the subjects that ihave core under his investigation is Inot to be questioned. He believes his trip with the District Commis- !sioners will serve to augment much iof the Information already collected. |{In the meantime, his investigation is_still going on. Nelther Gen. Lord nor Mr. Stephens would comment on the statement con- Itained In the District Commissioners’ letter. that the $24.500.000 estimate would barely serve to keep law and order, protect the ctly from conflagra- tion and quell riots. NEEDS PILED UP. Slashing of Estimates Have Added to Total of Unfinished Projects. Despite the fact that Washington has continued to grow rapidly during the past twelve months, the estimates of $24,532,515, while the Commissioners T taet miion 1ess than' the bureat of the budget sent to Congress a year ago. ‘ghg estimates sent forward last year aggregated $28,511,466.75. The Commis- sioners have submitted with their lg- ular estimates a list of $6,000,000 worth of urgent municipal projects, includis Bewer an schools, street paving and water rk. If the budget bureau, after oral arguments of the Commi: -“w& lél:' the ngress, ;‘;)uld be $30,894,031. ‘While this sum would be two mil- lions in excess of what the budget ureau recommended to Congress last ear, there are two things which.the District officials n&.lhould be membered: First, t much of’ work that should be going f Column 2.) gwlumed <4 Page 2, ¢ A s om0 L ssioners, -\I&Dlemenu.l items to e total estimates b4