Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1922, Page 1

‘WEATHER. Falr tonight and tomo! change in temperature. Temperature for twenty: ended ‘at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 84, at . 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, am. today. Full report on page 7. rrow; little -four hours 59, at 6:30 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 28,648. i No. Entered as secol nd-class matter post office Washington, D. C. KEMALISTS INVADE NEUTRAL ZONE IN PORTE CITY AREA Cavalry Appears on Ismid Peninsula Front 65 Miles From Constantinople. | AGREEMENT AT MUDANIA READY FOR SIGNATURES Greeks Show Alarm at Terms, Pro- posing Evacuation of Thrace in Ten Days. ted Press. STANTINOPT Fritish general h the appearance of Turl i<t cavalry at Kandra, stantinople neutral zone. Kandra is approximately sixty-five miles east of Constantinople, near the Black sea coast of the Ismid penin- = October 5. lquarters reports sh national- in the Con- This is the first reported violation by the Kemalists of the Constanti- nople neutral zone, although Turkish cavalry has repeatedly violated the neutral zone around Chanak. on the <outhern shore of the Dardanelle The Ismid peninsula offers the on direct approach on Constantinople for Jand ferc PARIS, October 5. special di patch from Angora s that orders | have heen issued to the Turkish mil- | itary ‘uate the neu- Minor immediately. Iry already has be- from the Darda- tral zones in The Turkish gun to withdraw melles section. AGREEMENT IS REACHED. Pact Expected to Be Signed at Mu- dania Today. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, Octoger 5.—An agreement | has been reached by the conference ! of allied and Turkish military lead- | ers at Mudania, and will be signed some ti; . according to private dispatches received here. The main lines of the agreement, says the Figaro, are: First, the British and Turks both to withdraw from the neutral zone on the southern shore of the Darda- | e British_to ilipoli and | nd the line formed-by Granicous and Scamander; the Turks agree that the! in in Constantingple dur-| ing the negotiations! on eon- dition that Kemalist civil authoritles | are also installed there. reek army to evacu- hin ten days. If the Greek government refuses to give the necessary orders, the allied fleets are to blockade the Greek ports and the TKemalist forces cross the Dardanelles Second. allies rema and drive the Greek troops out of Thrace. The dispatches do not say whether | representatives accepted | these conditions. i inople _advices late last night said the Mudania conference was on the verge of an agreement on | all points of the Turkish proposals | with the exception of that relating | 10 the allied occupation of the west- | ern line of the Maritza river in| Thrace. and that argument on this | | proceeding. The allies were said to have agreed to turn over Thrace to the Turkish army within thirty days and to have secured the assent of the Turks to the establish- ment of a definite line of demarca- tion between the British and Kemal- ists in the Chanak zone, placing them out of rifle shot of each other. GREEEKS SHOW ALARM. Say Their Representatives Have Not Had Opportunity. Ty the Associated Press. ATHENS, October 5.—Consterna- tion was caused here by a Constan- tinople wireless message picked up late last night by a local station, purporting to give the armistice con- ditions arranged by the Turks and the allies at the Mudania conference. The conditions outlined in the mes- age include the occupation of eastern Thrace by allied forces and Turkish zendarmes up to the line of the River Maritza and evacuation of the province within ten days by the ireek army, failing which the allied fleets would blockade Greece. vernment officials declare the | Gireek delegates have not yet had an opportunity to present their views at Mudania. and efforts to confirm the above report are being made. Consider Appeal to U. S. It is understood that the officials are considering an appeal to the Tnited States for assistance in ob- taining a Just solution of the ‘Thracian question. The Mudania conference is -belng watched by the Greeks with mingled fears and hopes. To save Thrace, dethrone Constantine, oust the gov- ernment and punish those who in-| capably governed Greece in the past was the popular basis for the recent revolution. 1t will be exceedingly difficult for those now governing Greece to tell their followers that the chlef aim of the revolution—the retention of Thrace—cannot be achieved. The suggestion s made that if oriental Thrace must be lost Greece insist upon some kind of autonomous rule these, and, above all, an agree- ment that no Turkish troops shall exercise dominion over the country— in other words, Turkish sovereignty without military control. Gen. Nider has been appointed com- mander-in-chief of the Greek army. The government hopes further to re- inforce the army through the popular call for volunteers for service untll the end of the conflict with Turkey, jssued by the minister of war yes- terday. Greece feeéls that her readiness to defend Thrace must be taken into ac- count both in arranging the armi- atice and later at the peace confer- gnce. —_— BANS MAINE HUNTING. AUGUSTA, Me., October 5.—Maine's hunting season which opened Monday has come to an abrupt close by g proclamation from Gov. Baxter sus- pending the season and prohibiting the carrying’of firearms in the woods. This action was taken because of merfous outbreak of forest fires. Th ban on ‘hunting will be lifted, it was announced, should heavy rains drench out the fires. | James | of liberty and property so long as the U. S. Destroyer Reported Fired On by the Turks The report that an American destroy- er was bombarded by the Turks while taking off refugees at Aivali, a town north of Smyrna, first carried in a Reuter's dispatch from Athens, is re- peated in a dispatch from Athens re- ceived today by the Greek legation. Tre legation dispatch gave no details. Neither the Navy nor the State de- partment today had any confirmation of the reported attack. SHOP GRAFTS GET 24 HOURS MORE 10 'Richberg Cha.rges Lack of Good Faith on Part of United States. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, October 5.—Counsel for the striking raflway shop crafts to- day were given another twenty-four hours to file their answer to the gov- ernment’s suit for a nation-wide per- manent injunction. Donald Richberg, attorney for the shop craft leaders, criticized the atti- tude of Attorney General Daugherty and Solicitor General Beck and at- tempted to read into the record a | long letter to Mr. Beck, but on ob- | 3 Esterline, the Judge the reading. Mr. Richberg suggested that the court call in the other two circuit judges to assist in trying the case, reserving the right to make a formal motion to that effect later if the court rejected the suggestion. He argued that the government's bill was suffi- cient notice on which to call the other judges, within the meaning of the law providing for the filing of :tion of Blackburn assistant solicitor general, H. Wilkerson stopped ! a certificate by the Attorney General. ! The argument will be continued to- morrow. % Mr. Richberg also served notice he will present a motion asking for a bill of particulars from the govern- ment before filing his answer. Says Good Faith Lacking. Mr. Richberg accused the Depart- ment of Justice of lack of good faith in the proposal to expedite final disposition of the injunction case against the rail strike leaders. He declared that he and associate counsel had “held a very unsatisfac- tory conference” with Beck after a futile attempt to see Attorney General Daugherty in Washington with ref- review of the interlocu handed down by Judge September 25. The shop crafts’ attorney said he would “Beek to obtain protection of the rights of the defendants through orders which the court may enter and through procedure, which the court may adopt, despite the manifest opposition of the Attorney General to the entry of any order or the adoption of any procedura which will protect the defendants from the abuse of official power.” Raps Equity Procedure. +“The use of the summary equity pro- cedure to obtaln a tentative conviction of 400,000 men of criminal conspiracy upon evidence found solely in an undi- gested mass of ex parte affidavits seek- ing with hearsay and perjury, has been made the means of depriving these men 23 on interlocutory _injunction remains in force,” the letter said. Safeguards protecting “the vilest, most notorious criminal caught red- handed have been denied to 400,000 in- dustrious, law-abiding citizens and their chosen leaders,” the letter continued. ‘WOULD APPEAL DIRECT. An_invitation that an agreement be reached between the government and counsel for the striking shopmen as to the facts in the Chicago injunc- tion case, was the basis of the pro- posal made by the Department. of | Justice to Donald R. Richberg, attor- | ney for the shopmen, in answer to his request for information as to the department’'s attitude regarding ef- forts to expedite further judicial consideration. Solicitor General Beck, in a letter written to Mr. Richberg following the latter's appearance here early this week, suggested that.the shop- men counsel submit such a state- ment of stipulated facts, which the department would consider with a view to deciding whether it was sat- isfactory to the government as a basis for further action. Would Hasten Appeal Acceptance of such a statement, Mr. Beck pointed out, would eliminate the necessity of taking thousands of pages of testimony and thus would have the effect of materially hasten- ing the appeal. In case counsel for the shopmen declined to agree to such stipulation, Mr. Beck said, two courses only seemed open to the government. One was that the testimony producted in the preliminary hearing before Judge Wilkerson be accepted as final testi- mony for_ the ultimate hearing and the appeal on constitutional grounds be carried out. In such case, Mr. Beck said, the government would be willing to lend its every assistance to expedite spch appeal. The only re- maining course, the Solicitor General said, would be to proceed with the case In the ordinarysjudical manner, taking _testimony _ throughout the United_ States regarding .the various acts of alleged illegality which fol- lowed the strike call and completing to the last detail the government's preparation for defense of an appeal, Favors Direct Appeal. “It seems to the department,” Mr. Beck's letter continued, “that the best method of expediting the cause is to follow the course which would permit of a direct appeal to the Su- preme Court of the United States. Presumably that court will, sooner or later, be called upon to conpsider the respective contentions of the parties to this litigatio and even if the course which you suggested, of §av- ing three circuit judges sit as a court of first instance, were now practica- ble, in view of the fact that a district judge already has taken cognizance of the case, the cause would not be expedited, but, in our judgment, de- layed.” 3 DISCUSS PARCEL POST. OTTAWA, October 5.—A suggestion from the United States ital authori- ties that the present und six ounce weight limit on parcel post be- tween the United States and Canada be raised was debated yesterday, without a decision being rendered, at a conference of Canadian postal officials called by the postmaster general as the preliminary to a coming parley between represent- atives of both countries. Some officials maintained that if the limit were in- creased to eleven poundm e incoming :Inlm-t ‘would be increa five to six imes. erence to an early final hearing or a} WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER ANSWERL.S.SU 50 70 100 DROWNED INSEEKING REFUGE FROM FOREST FIRE Vietims Crowded From Wharf While Trying to Board Rescue Ship. 5,000 LEFT HOMELESS BY FLAMES IN CANADA Property Loss Will Run Into Mil- lions; Fire Is Still Burning. NORTH BAY, Ontario, October Forest fire refugees arrived here t day from Haileybury and reported that between 50 and 100 persons had been drowned when they were crowd- €d from a dock where they were try- ing to board a rescue ship. Another report brought by the refu- gees was that scores had been in- jured and several trampled to death when flames swept the Catholic Church and caused a panic among! hundreds who had gathered there for safety. Among the refugees who arrived on the boat were Michael Burns, his wite and five children, who were rescued from their blazing home at Hailey- bury, on Lake Temiskaming. They de- clared the crush at the dock was in- describable and that many were push- , screaming into the water. Train Service Crippled. “At least fifty were -drowned, and possibly a hundred,” declared A. P. Whitlock, a traveling representative of Swift & Co., who was badly burned about the arms and hands. He had got the burns while working with a rescue squad at North Cobalt. The T. and N. O. railroad is selling PRt “‘blind” passage to refugees who wish to leave North Bay. It agrees to take them only so far as tho line may still be found to be passable. Motor scouters go out ahead of the trains to investigate the tracks which' in many places have been warped out of shape by the heat of burning freignt cars. { The entire countryside is covered ! 1 | with dense smoke. Soon after midnight George W. Lee, chairman of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario rallway issued this statement concerning the fire now rag- ing north country “Over thousand people have been rendered homeless. The loss of Jife is considerable and {s mounting. The towns of Halleybury, 3,500 people; North Cobalt, 1,000; Chariton, 500 and Heaslip, 250, are totally destroyed, and the town of Englehart has been partially destroyed. That 'part of New Liskeard west of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario tracks has been totally de- stroyed. ‘The situation at Cobalt is clear. There is a small fire burning one mile away with a mild southwest wind blowing. “Three trains with twenty-four | cars, containing 1,400 refugees, have left Cobalt for North Bay. Other trains are being prepared as rapidly as_possible. “The property loss will obviously | run into millions of dollars. The| fire is still burning briskly, fanned | by a subsiding wind. i “There is no prospect of rain and the fire will have to burn itself out.! “The T. and N. O. tracks fronting the stations at Halleybury, North Cobalt and Heaslip were destroyed, the ties burned and the rails warped. It is impossible to maintain traffic. “This is the hardest blow the north country has ever received.” SIX TOWNS DESTROYED. | By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, October 5—The forest fires which have been raging for the past twenty-four hours in two widely separated regions of Canada—north- ern Ontario and the valley of the St. Maurice river, in Quebec—have cost a number of lives, destroying six towns and, according to reports, reaching the Canadian capital- this morning, now threatens other towns unless rain comes quickly. North Liskeard was today added to the list of destroyed north Ontario towns. Two stone houses alone mark the spot where the village had been. glhludbelleved several inhabitants per- ished. s Other Towns in Peril. Filrefighters reported that it would be almost impossible to prevent the fire from reaching other towns along the Temiskaming and Northern On- tario railway. The St. Maurice valley conflagra- tlon was swooping down early today from the mountains to the village of St. Mathieu de Caxton, which was al- ready surrounded by flames and to Shawinigan, Grandmere and Grande Piles, which were covered by a heavy smoke pall. Quick action by fire fighters saved the village of St. Lam- bs’l‘rl"l Inflsha'inlfilm e first relief train from -Cobalt ar- rived at North Bay today with 510 refugees, who were immediately lodged in private homes, churches and public institutions. More Trains Rushed. Other trains were rushed to Cobalt to remove thousands of homeless refu- gees, who fllocked there from the des- zm’l}_';d t;mnu. e sisters of Providence Hospita! the Roman Catholic Anglican, H':tho’: dist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches and the new courthouse of Halleybury were burned to the ground by the flames which destroyed the town in less than two hours. Inmates of the hospital Were removed in auto- mobiles to Cobalt. Premier Drury arrived in North Bay early today to keep in the relief work with George Lee, chairman of the T. & N. O. railway. Smoke Pall Over Montreal. MONTREAL, October 5.—Montreal was overshadowed with dense smoke today from the many forest fires that are raging throughout e eastern portion of the province of Quebec. The sky was hidden by a gray pall, making the burning .of electric.light in the city’s offices necessary. The |long batting practice. odor of burnin wodd was in the air. Ships on the St. Lawrence were being navigated with great caution. TU. 8. ELECTRON EXPERT QUITS Dr. Lewis M. Hull, who for several years has been engaged in studies of electron tubes in the radio laboratory of t.'lldo bureau of standards, has re- signed to t & position as director of research of .the Radio Frequenoy Laboratories at Boonten, N. J. . Toeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION = K“7 ny Sfar. 1922 -FORTY-TWO PAGES. Member of The Associated paper and also the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwire credited in this the Associated Press Press is exclusively entitled to || the local news published hereln. |/ A1l rights of publication of special @ispatehes berein are also reserved. * Yesterday’s Circulation, 92,212 TWO CENTS. N News Note: YANKEES PINHOPES ONSHANKEVS AR Barnes Giants’ Choice to Op- pose Huggins’ Crowd in Second Game. By the Assoclated Press. POLO GROUNDS, Robert Shawkey yclept * . Y.. October 5.— 'Bob the Gob™ iand curveball flinger extraordinary of | the New York Yankees, faced the Glants this afternoon in the second joust of the world's series tournament. The National Leaguers having won the initial tilt, Manager Huggins sent Shawkey to the pitching mound to baffle the Glants In their course witit his_mystifying hooks and fast ball Jess Barnes stood ready to oppose Shawkey. The Giants, coming on the fleld this afternoon as the visitor's club, believe they have the series as { good as won. “We have the Indian sign on the! Yankees,” said Frank Frisch, the Giants' ‘middle sacker, “and I think the Yanks are beginning to thjnk so. They have never won a series from the Giants. You know psychology plays an_important part in the old game."” The Yanks threw off the gloom this afternoon of their first defeat and hoped to emerge from the batting’ slump that has gripped them since the be- ginning of the last five games of the American League season. Babe Ruth Hopeful. “0ld man psychology ain’t playing in this serfes,” said Babe Ruth, talk- ing at the clubhouse about Indian signs. “When I see him pinch hit- ting for me or out there sending them past the batters I'll give him a tum- ble. Anyhow, his name is not in the 1ist of eligible players.” Huggins brought his players on the fleld early and put them through a ‘The mite man- ager said his club would probably start to hitting on all cylinders at once, and there would be a batting orgy of unrestrained violence. Some thirty-odd thousand folk came out to see the sport, but the early rush for the unreserved sections was missing, and the crowd flitered into the upper stands and bleachers as slowly as on some late September day when the cellar champions are playing the home folks in foot ball ‘weather. > “ ‘Weather Inspires Hurlers. The reserve stands, sold out to ca- until the players took their fielding workout. October had resurrected a day from July's hot wave and another sultry afternoon gave the pitchers an incentive to turn on their speed. Nick Altrock and Al Schacht, buf- foons of base ball, came out to amuse the early comers with their antics, while a brass band whiled away the minutes that dragged until “Babe” Ruth and company, garbed in home uniforms of white, broke into the pic- ture through the wooden gate that leads from the clubhouse to the play- ing fleld. ) The bleacher crowd began to as- semble at midnight and he was still there at 7 o'clock waiting for the gates to open. About 5 o'clock he had company. Eight big patrolmen arrived and with customary vigor saw to it that the line kept strict order. The crowd was Raymond Degeer of Stamford, Conn., and he formed his own line, held his own place and did his own resting as the best he could, | while the policemen watched him to see that he did not get unruly. ‘The batteries for today’s game were J. Barnes and Snyder for the Glants and Shawkey and Schang for the Yan- kees. Pitchers Are Photographed. Murray, right-hander, some round-house curves for the Yankees to hit, and it was noticed that Ruth was choking his bat and shortening his swing. Bob Shaw- key was the only Yankee pitcher to take part in the batting practice. - ‘The winners of yesterday's fray with their traveling uniforms of gray, with white stockings, were welcomed with loud cheers as they marched across the fleld. The friend- 1lest feelings seem to prevail among the players of the opposing nines. ‘They hobnobbled with each other, made mental calculations of the size of the crowd and possible box office receipts, while “Irish” Meusel of the Giants and Wally Pipp, Yank first- sacker, quiently debated the relative merits o?thelr ‘war clubs. Meanwhile Jess Barnes and Bob Shawkey, pro- ve pitchers, were photographed shaking and wishing each other suc- cess, perhapa. The bleachers were packed to ca- pacity when the Giants began their batting praotice, while there were only a fil pouring I?‘. g | { up with the radical elemen . I\ PR | 0 g ) 1 ‘ln 1 Entire Country All records for drought have been broken in the District by the present rainless period, as part of the gen- eral widespread drought throughout the country which the weather bu- reau characterized as ‘“serious” to- da ot a trace of rain has been reg- istered by the weather bureau here since 4:30 a.m.. September 12, making a total of twenty-three days during which not a drop of rain has fallen here. Fair weather, with no change In sight, was forecast locally by the bureau today. Crops Threatened. This is the season of the year when droughts seem to occur, according to weather bureau records, but in the rast the rainless periods were mnot as long In duration, nor as wide- spread In the serious damage now MONTANA POLITICS But Not a Candidate, in Senate Race. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HELENA, Mont., October 5.—Politics in Montana, as in Towa, Wisconsin and North Dakota, is topsy turvy. Persons—and not parties—are domin- ant. There are no national issues. Whether a man labeled republican or another labeled democrat goes to the Unifed States Senate turns on state issues and here, as in North Dakota, the democratic candidate is a conservative, while the man who ts to such an extent that old-line republicans { will be found supporting the demo- cratic ticket in large numbers. Speaking of persons, instead of parties, Gov. Joseph Dixon is respon- sible for the upheaval in Montana. | pacity for the series, did not fill UP{ g will be remembered as having represented this state in the United States Senate- and as one of the original insurgents who managed Col. Roosevelt's pre-convention fight for the presidency in 1912. He was elect- ed governor two years ago on the regular_republican” ticket. He won many democratic votes because he was considered a conservative, as compared with B. K. Wheeler, former TUnited States attorney, who, with the help of the Non-Partisan League, be- came the democratic nominee for served- up t seats left in the u governor. Democrats Back Wheeler. Today Mr. Wheeler is running for the United States Senate and the old- CENTERS ON DIXON Governor Is Storm Center, {Commission Anxious to Re-! Mrs. Senator Felton's successor will be elected before the convening of Congress. Threatened By Record-Breaking Drought threatening to crops in all parts of the United States. From Seeptember 14 to October 6, 1910, was the greateest period of drought in the District in the past, but on two days during that period slight traces of rain were registered by the instruments at the weather bureau. In contrast to that, the present perfod has been absolutely “bone dry.” From September 13 to October 3, last year, also was rainless. Forced to Give Up Farming. On account ©f the record-breaking | downpour of September 2 last, when 5.16 inches of rain fell, the September rainfall here was 3.59 inches above the average September, but this was solely due to the big rain of Septem- ber 2. ‘Hearing first-hand information as to the extent of the present drought in_the_great grain states of the middle “(Continued on Page 2, Column WOULD ERECT NEW 1.5, BUILDINGS NOW place Old War Structures Near Potomac Park. Early erection of modern office buildings for the government on the Pplots of land west of 17th street, north of B street, now occupied by temporary government buildings, which sites are being purchased under a special ap- propriation of $1,500,000, is contem- plated by the Public Buildings Com- mission. This commission, consisting of a | Chairman and ranking members of the { House and Senate committees on pub- | won the republican primaries is tied | lic buildings and grounds, the archi- tects of the Capitol, supervising archi> tects of the Treasury and the officer in eharge of public grounds in the city of Washington, is enthusiastically behind any public buildings bill which will give additional government-owne buildings in Washington to house all goverinment activities. It is the hope of members of this commission, as well as members of the House and Senate committees on public buildings and grounds, that such a public build- ings bill for the National Capital can be put through in the next session of Congress. Asks Better Car Service. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the public buildings commission, has of the Public Utilities Commission be found to afford increased trans- portation facilities for that section bounded on the north by Pennsylva- | | (Continued on Page .2, Column 4.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) The Wor + A S usual, The Star will lights on the world series. street side of The Star simultaneously depicted " Grounds. Foster, dean of the base ‘Washington full and complete details and side- will be in operation every week day on the 11th Yankees or Giants win four games and take the title. Each play will be accurately and almost A corps of special writers, in addition to the Associated Press, will also tell about the games from all angles. These will include Denman Thompson, sporting editor of The Star; John B. try, and Ring Lardner, who will give his unique and inimitable conceptions of the big battles. Id Series give the base ball fans of . The electric scoreboard building until either the as it occurs at the Polo ball scribes of the coun- addressed a letter to the chairman| expressing the hope that a way can? NEEDS OF PUBLIG LIBRARY SET FORTH BY THE TRUSTEES Annual Report Shows an In- creased Use of the Book Collection. ESTIMATES FOR SUPPORT | MUST RUN THE GAUNTLET Southeast Branch Soon to Be Open- ed—Mount Pleasant Branch Next to Be Built. The development of the Public Library system, its achievements, the extension of its service, with the sup- port required for its enlarging work, | are covered in the report of the board of trustees, filed with the District Commissioners today. The report, signed by Theodore W. Noyes, president of the library board, points out the increase in the use of the present library plant, which circulated from the main library and the Takoma Park branch over a mil- lion volumes Jas{ year; and the defi- nite progress that has been made to- ward securing additional branches for | | extending the library's usefulness. “The southeastern branch, with site | purchased by municipal appropria- {tion and with building donated by | the Carnegie Corporation, is now | nearly completed,” the report states, | “and will soon be open to the public tand utilized for the benefit of the | 30,000 Washingtonians in that sec- tion of the city. Mount Pleasant Branch Next. “For the Mount Pleasant branch, | the next to be built, in accordance with the librarian’s plan as approved Dby the trustees, the promise of $100.- {000 for the building has been made by the Carnegie Corporation and an most desirable site has been secured, land a municipal appropriation by Congress to purchase this site Is con- fidently anticipated.” “Extension through library branches lin new school buildings is making practical and encouraging headway. The new Eastern High School library is to be opened,” it is announced, “in February, 1923, and two other school librarles — in the Macfarland and the Langley junior high schools—are promised for September, 1923. The board of education and the board of trustees, through the superintendent of schools and the public librarian, are laboring earnestly and effectively to develop the proposed system of public school branch libraries, whose necessity and great public usefulness are manifest. Running the Gauntlet. “Library development,” the report continues, “is retarded by, the fact that the trustees’ showing of 'llbrary needs and of appropriations and leg- islation to meet them do not get to original shape, but only in mutilated form after running the gantlet of cutting and slashing by Commission- | ers and the bureau of the budget. Too often appropriation committees have | refused even to consider any District appropriative proposals except those which have been approved and sub- mitted through the Commissioners, iand recently the burecau of the budget, and too often it has resulted from this policy that when subcom- | mittee hearings have been granted | the trustees they have enjoyed only ! the privilege of explaining and de- | tending inadequate proposals, which they have not made, in a shape they can neither explain nor defend. “Since the library, by the organic act of 1896, is declared to be a ‘sup- plement of the educational system of {the District’ the trustees urge that { their estimates of library needs in respect to items and amounts should go to Congress for possible considera. { tion along with the estimates as al | tered by Commissioners and bureau of the budget, just as the estimates of ! the board of education in respect to |the public educational system (of i which the library is a supplement) are, under the provisions of the law, | thus forwarded.” The two primary needs and aims | which the trustees would like to take |in full to Congress are: One, strength- {ening of the Central Library, (a) by {increase of pay of the force, (b) by {increasing the numbers of the force and (c) by adequate new book acces- {sions, and two, extension of scope of library's usefulness, (a) through {branch libraries and (b) through ilibrary stations and branches in ! school buildings. Increased Appropriation Required. The growth of the library service and its development through branches have made it necessary to ask for large increases in the appropriations, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Area of Ten Feet Gets Rain, Rest Of Town Dry Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, October 5.—The residents of a ten-foot section of Washington street have been treated to the doubtful pleasure of being rained upon since Friday, while their neighbors, only a few feet distant, have been basking in the bright October sunshine. The phenomenon presents a situ- ation that is interesting scientists and laymen alike. Last Friday rain began to drizzle down upon a section of Washington street near Wolfe, not more than ten feet square. It gradually increased in volume until it reached the pro- portions of a fairly heavy shower. Since_that time the rain has con- tinued, sometimes heavy and at others melting away to a barely perceptible drizzle. But never has the rain moved from its ten-foot area, falling there with such regu- larity that one might imagine it to be coming from a hose directed at the spot. ‘Weather bureau officials, queried concerning Alexandria’s “wet spot,” declared it was “most re- markable, indeed,” adding that it was a “physical impossibility.” ‘The Star’s correspondent, how- ever, is known to be a truthful well as abstemious man. i option at a reasonable price upon a! Congress for consideration in their | DISTRICT ASSURED FINANCIAL NEEDS BY BUDGET BUREAU Gen. Lord Promises Aid In So Far as Funds Are Available. LIKELY TO CONFER WITH COMMISSIONERS AGAIN Further Meeting Promised on D. C. Heads’ Request for Supple- mentary Allowance. —_— All needs of the District of Colum- bia will be provided for in so far as funds are available during the next | fiscal year, Gen. H. M. Lord, director of the budget, told members of the Twentieth Century Club, this after- noon at a meeting in the Cosmos Club annex, “The District is going to be provided for in everything it needs as far as funds are available,” Gen. Lord said. J“I don’t know how much the esti- |mates will total. But the general | pelicy will be to withhold appropria- i tions only where there is the least | damage done by such action.” | Details Budget Bureau Work. This substantially was the only ref- |erence to the District of Columbia finances made by Gen. Lord, in a half- an-hour talk to members of the club He reviewed the national situation in detail, however, defining the sys- | tem used by the budget bureau in as- | signing appropriations. He reviewed |also the steps taken by the budget {bureau from the time the esimates arrived to the final hearings upon | them in his office. His talk covered action of the forty-two independent offices of the government and the action of the bureau of the budget |upon their requests for appropria- | tions. Three main points he emphasized | regarding the system emploved in | cutting down superficial expenditures of the government. He said that v budget bureau was proceeding to in- stitute a system whereby expendi- tures would be cut down, first, by actual saving from current appropri- ation; secondly, by postponement of expenditures until absolutely neces- sary, and, finally, by increasing reve- nue from’ established sources. Favors Tax Reduction. He declared emphatically a position against increasing taxation, but |maintained, on the contrary, that taxes, if anything, should be reduced “The country is now fretting under the burden of taxation,” he said. “We should. strive now not for more additional taxes, but for a reduction in taxation.” The meeting was presided over by Mrs. William H. Herron. The morn- ing was taken up with submission of reports by officers and committee |chairmen. = Miss Creely, expert in demestic architecture, = delivered a | short address upon beautification of the home. advocating the improve- ment of grounds surrounding it as one of the fine necessities for improv- ing domestic architecture. The following new members were elected: Mrs. George B. Richardson. | Mrs. Russell B. Taylor, Mrs. Rosalec { McCormick _Smithy. . i Sable, and Mrs. Ei Likely to Call Commissioners. Officials of the bureau of the budget probably will call upon the Com- missioners of the District or their representatives to appear before the whole board of estimates again, in consideration of the District's appeal for a supplementary allowance to the $24,500,000 budget restriction tenta- tively placed by the budget bureau. When the Commissioners will be called has not as vet been deter- mined, it was said today at the Trea: ury, but in all likehood it probabl | will not be before the last of next | week or the week following. Preparing for 1924. The general plan of the board of es- timates, which goes over the budgetary requests of all the government depart- ments, is now to complete the initial hearings, 80 as to get a complete bird’s-eye picture of the whole federal financial problem for the year 1924. Various departments are being heard by the board of estimates, while bud- get officials are holding conferences on the slde with representatives of the department with which they are espe- clally charged. Capt. Redmond D. Stephens. who has the District and other estimates in his care, may see the Commissioners be- fore they are asked to appear before the whole board of estimates, but it is the general plan, according to informa- tion gleaned today at the Treasury, for the Commissioners or their represent- atives to be called in after the whole governmental “picture” has been sketched, and comparisons made, to put forth their claims to the additional appropriation which the District needs. Hearings Soon to Close. ‘The last of the initial hearings from departments will probably take place the middle of next week, it was learned, after which officials will then €0 more into detail, and be able from their new perspective t<.get more ac- curate knowledge of the comparative value of the various needs brought to their attention. Officials of the budget have declined to commit themselves at this early date to any course of action in the consideration of the District budget, except to give full and sympathetic hearing. When the board of estimates comes to conslder the District needs, follow- ing the presentation of the entire fis- cal picture for the year 1924, it is the hope of the Commissioners, that the urgent needs of the District, es- pecially with regard to streets, schools and certain other matters, will present themselves with more strength than before. LENIN SAVED FROM NOISE Room Lined With Cork and Pri- vate Elevator Installed. MOSCOW, October 5.— The walls of Nikolal Lenin’s sleeping room in the Kremlin have been lined with cork in order that he may be immune to noises. A private elevator. to the apartment has” been installed.