Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1923, Page 2

OIL MAY START POLITICAL FIRES Senate Investigation Fraught With Many Pos- sibilities. U. S. LEASES UNDER FIRE Resignation of Secretary Fall De- clared Voluntary, Despite His Being Center of Rumors. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Oil, the international trouble- maker, may furnish the fuel for the fires of domestic politics before long. Senator La Follette, who fizured in the batt ged by the n the middle of the Taft administra- tion, is one the hunt for disclosures that will in general justify the as- sertions of his group that the present administration has favored private in- terests as against the public W A re-opening of the entire of the government’s negotiations with the Sincluir Oil Company with respect | o oil leases in the famous Teapot | Tome region is now in process as a | consequence of a Senate resoluton of | inquiry, but the testimony being| sought by the Wisconsin senator just | now doesi't turn upon the details of § the lease, which will be thoroughly | nvestigated by the public lands com- mittee, but certain collateral phases of the deal itself. namely the pur- (hase ami sale of securities which | ‘were affected by the making of the lease insurgents record President’s Stand. | President Harding ¢ be known that he st Sec- retary Fall of the te went did_in making the lease. The view of Mr. Fall has been that he made the best contract possible to get the oil out of Teapot Dome for the benefit of the American Navy. Mr. Harding feels U the record will prove this, and Secretary Fall himself has been most anxious th ry fact wbout the negotiations be made pub-| lie. He has insisted from the time the | subject was first mentioned in the Senate that it be probed to the bot- tom The developments thus seem to indicate that Senator La Fol- Jette has changed his tactics and that Yie is not seeking at this time anyhow to discuss the merits of the lease. | The Wisconsin senator seldom | closes his hand dva sut_when | began on Thursday to scek the| records of the Hyva Corporation, a holding company in which lair family owns practically 1 of the stock, he did so. Iver since the lease wae made there have been rumors current that various persons | who were “on the inside” knew about | the making of the Teapot Dome lease | and were able to profit acc i Tt has even been hinted that friends | of men high in public have prof! ~d through advance knowledge what the government would do. Stocks Affected. & biticial not responsible fect their actions pr the outside world of finance. Many a government statement has in the past vent stocks up and down. In fact. the entirc “leak” investigat i December, 1916, centered around the sending of the American government which made s g0 down becuuse of the T that the companie would have their contr rated by an carl Just what the how as to the effect Dome lease on the private £ various individuals it That's entire \part ausstion’ of whether zood one for the govern or one that favored priv as against the public wel Rumors About ¥all. In this connectior has been goinz the several months—namely sary Fall would retirc fr net because of the di vestern republicans with Dome lease. The zroups which ha to the government would aw away 0il from nearhy properties wned by the Mr. Fall d sign from ® those who edicted that a relationship existed between the Teapot - affair and Lis retirement said, “T told you so There §s every reason to believe that Secretary Fall didn't resign on that| wccount at all, and when the investi- zation of the Senate develops his friends_are sure this viewpoint will Le confirmed. Mr. Fall gave as his reason the need for personal atten- tlon to his private business. The President offered him a place on the Supreme Court of the United Stat This was a mark of confidence in self, but it can be stated pogitively that the President holds Mr. Fall in \igh esteem, and would like to have nim remain in the cabinet. Resignation Voluntary. Albert Fall, however. did not want to stay s 'resignation was purely voluntary. He found himselt out of tune on many administration policies with other members of the eabinet. His long vears of aggressive warfare in the Senate have made Albert Fali a fighter and an individualist. He is very much like the star foot ball player who can’t somehow harmonize | his play with the rest of the team Whether the fault was in the speed of his colleagues or whether it was in the belligerency or positiveness of view of Mr. Fall himself, nobody but . psychoanalyst wiil ever be able to Zoll. But whoever succeeds him will find that oil will be for the next two ears u_most perplexing issye in west- ern polities. let what Interior De far would { | | of | which Naturally governm f fortunes s too early | of attack. from Tease another rumor rounds here for that Secre- m the cab- tisfaction of the Teapot certain oil pr Coprright, 19231 —_— WAIT U. S. ADVICE IN COAL PARLEYS (Continued from First Page.) defended their refusal to meet the United Mine Workers of America on a competitive fleld basis by pointing to those indictments in Indiana, The first business before the con- vention today will be the presenta- tion by the miners of demands they want incorporated in the new agree- ! forest in this region has lof the | today, making s | the territory i RE ment. The principal one, they have disclosed, is the two-year clause. Oth- ers were characterized by the leaders as planks already well known or of rela- tively smail importance; for instance, the long-sought six-hour day, lve-day- week minimum, which, they believe, will eliminate seasonal production and assure them steady work. Operators are expected to receive the demands and caucus, returning with the proposed counter-demands. Appointment by each side of sub- committees to consider the demands of each probably will follow. WIFE “LOST 60 POUNDS.” Claiming to have lost sixty pounds a8 a result of alleged cruel and inhuman treatment on the part of her husband, Sara K. Nash has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce from John O. Nash, an_employe of the telephone company. When they were married June 2. 1909, Mrs. Nash rays, she weighed 130 pounds and now only tips the scale at seventy pounds. Her husband started the new year, the wife declares, by kicking her down- stairs and degerting her without means of support. Eahz represented by At- torney George @ Gertman. President Is Up, But Forbidden To Leave Room President Harding, who was con- fined to his bed yesterday suffering from an attack of grip, had suffi- ciently recovered this morning to alk about his room. Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the Presldent's personal physician, forbade him going to the executive offices, however, and all engagements were canceled. Gen. Sawyer issued this state- ment at noon: “The President is considerably better today. He has been advised, however, to remain in his room until tomorrow at least.” President Harding was caught in the epidemic of grip that has con- fined hundreds of prominent Wash- ingtonians to their beds the last week. Gen. Sawyer indicated yes- terday that the executive had suf- fered only a mild attack. HARVEY SAILS SATURDAY Ambassador to England Will Leave to Resume His Post. NEW YORK, January 19.—Ambas- sador George Harvey, who returned from Washington early today after having been a guest at the White House since January 2, will return to his post in London Saturday, his secretary announced today. He will il on the steamship America from Hoboken at noon. His early return to Loundon, it was said, was actuated by the desire for his officlal representations at nego- tiations Involving the refunding of the British war debt to this country. It had been generally reported that would return to England with the British debt commission, which also arrived here this morning after the erence in Washington. The com- however, will sail on the Olympic, GERMANS TIE UP TRAINS IN RUHR AS FRENCH SEIZE MINES, BANKS AND TAXES ntinued from First Page.) tha port houses in Canada and Holland, which have been supplying the Ruhr with cereals and other food. have given notice that shipments could 1ot be continued. Orders Cause Disgust. ¥ o-Belglan order forbid- th of “Deutschland “Die Wacht Am under alty of a fine of ma x months' impris- is recelved with disgust. 1t a real hardship, for ings of the Ruhr trequently found an und other patriotic ding Ueber Rhein” 200,600 onment promis. the pent-up workers ha outlet in By the occupation veek, continue to esistance for eco- financial lines. To a neu- observer this appears to have put the French on the defensive. The control commission, however, adopts an optimistic attitude, asserting that the German civillan and the Ruhr wvorkingman will be the first to suffer rom su Trying 1 The Fre doing every provide food that the embar Ly the reich ¥ rovide ¥Food. issert that they ar hing in their power to for the workers. but ssments put forward y render their task ible. In this event, they de- France will hold Berlin re- sponsible before the world for any misfortunes that may befall the Ruhr population. R the BIN Associnted Pross IEN, January 19.-—The o Seized he branch s been put the occupying forces. Reichbank here b a French guard. Inspectors Take Over Customs. By the Associated Press. COBLE January French chief inspectors took over the custotms districts of the Rhineland omplete ring around e will be done few days in the Ruhr valley e inspectors at the same time seized the customs funds, forests and coal taxe: Branch Banks Confiscated. By the Associated Press, LONDON, January 19.—All the Cer- man branch bank and tax colleetors and newly occupled territory of neland have been confiscated by he French authorities, says a Central ews dispatch from Berlin Coke Ovens Seized. By tie Associated Press. RECKLINGHAUSEN, January 19.- ench troops today took possessiol four coke ovens belonging to th reich, and arrested the director, Herr Rochstein, who refused to hand over the records. LITTLE EFFECT FELT. Only Trouble for Pains of French in First Week. under h in a ofices in the old | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 19.—After a week of France's “economic grip” in the Ruhr, it seemed here today that M. Coste and Gen. Degoutte had received little more than their trouble for thei pains in their attempts to enforce re prisals. A few coal barges intercepted here and there and an occasional coal train reconsigned were the only fruits of the occupation apparent in the capi- tal. Indeed, it was said that more coal was shipped yesterday to places out- | side of Tuesday. Supply May Be Cut Off. It is feared that the reluctance of shippers to move coal on the Rhine in the face of confiscation by the French may result in a complete shutting off of the domestic supply. So far, one of the chief effects of the occupation noted here has been the whirlwind toboggan slide taken by the mark, which was accompanied by the raising of the Reichsbank bank dis- count rate from 10 per cent to 12. it is pointed out that such a momentous event as the outbreak of the world war served to increase the rate only 1 per cent—f{rom 6 per cent to 6. Forbidden to Co-Operate. Officlals and workmen of the state railroads have been forbidden to co- operate in any way with the efforts of France and Belgium to get coal out of the Ruhr. The executive council of the Imperial Union of German Industries has de- cided to telegraph Fritz Thyssen a mes sage expressing “gratitude and pride at the manly attitude” of the Ruhr in- dustrials, and urging them to continue to_hold out. Dr. Buecher, acting chairman of the council, said 'that Germany's watch- word must be to hold out under all circumstances. He asserted that the French nation would eventually realize that Premier Poincare'’s policy was disastrous. SPANISH PRINCESS IN U. S. NEW YORK, January 19.—The list of royalty now in the United States was augmented yesterday when Prin- cess Alicia de Bourbon, first cousin of the King of Spain, accompanied by Countess La Cauzeniere of Florence, Italy, arrived on the steamship Pres- ident Polk. The princess and_her companions are on their way to Flor- ida, preliminary to a tour of the United States. —_— Henry Ford makes $264,026.41 a day. We are glad we are not Henry. We could never have nerve enough 1o take a day off.—American Lumberman, the occupied area than on credit institutions | the | Famous Film Star Succumbs to Illness ! | WALLY REID DIES, VICTIM OF DRUGS (Continu sympathy to his widow, and the tiny daughter | adopted some time ago. the dead actor were many The son of Hal Reid, famous as a writer of melodrama, did not want to be un actor, it is said, but desired to be a motion plcture director “I never wanted to be an_adtor,” friends quoted him, *“and 1 still don't want to be an actor. The promoters Jiked the shape of my nose or some- thing, and I was powerless to do what I wanted to do. But they're not going to get awuy with it forever.’ Reid was a member of the Order of Elks, and it was announced the lodge would conduct public funeral services Saturday afternoon. The body will be cremated, in accordance with Reld’s wish, Broken by Drug Fight. Reid died in the Hollywood torium, in which he had been under treatment for more than a month. The direct cause of death, according to physicians at his bedside, was congestion of the lungs and kidneys, induced by the patient’s recent nerv rding to Dr. G been attending R tered the sanatoriu health was broken br himself little Billy the Reids Tributes to sana- Ac S. Herbert, who since he en- the actor's L fight to use of nar- by six feet tall and whose normal weight was 185 pounds, had lost sixty pounds during the past several weeks About a week ago relatives was improving and would be able To resume work in the studio of the “famous Players-Lasky Corporation {by July at the latest. » | Collapsed in November. | “I am winning the fight, mamma i\\'u. his invariable greeting to his I\\|f~- when she called on him Mrs. Reid said her husband contracted the ldrug habit during an illness nearly {twe years ago. i |, His fatal siege began last Novem- ber. when. while working hére on | picture, he suddenly collapsed. jwas advised to take a long rest, {started on & mountain trip with il. id, and Teddy Hayes, his tr On his return to Los Angele his con- ditlon showing no improvement, went to the sanatorum ortly before Christmas his fam- {ily made public the cause of his breakdown.” Mrs. Reid declaring sh. iheh. ved the rformation might a jin arc ng the American people to thie necessity of suppressing the cotie traffic ARLINGTON BRIDGE ' PLANS THREATENED BY FIGHT FOR DRAW (Continued from Fi aid {1ts existence should not be threatened i by destroving its business., he sald. {He predicted a great future i clared that if water access to city was ha red this development would be interfered with. Elimi tion of the draw, he said, would debar from Georgetown harbor any but low iving ecraft. The draw could be ssxfully ncorporated in the stru ture without sacrificing the memoria { aspect. he stgted i Mr. Tyler expressed the opinion that erecting the bridge without a draw ould be equivalent to erecting a | monument of some sort in the middle | of the street car tracks, merely be- | cause it was “artistic. | Mr. Stohlman asserted that elimina tion of the draw would seriously af- fect Georgetown's growth as a com- mercial center. The community is avored by unusual transportation facil- ities, he explained, viz., canal, harbor and ‘railroad. Mr. Dennis of the Southern Trans portation Company said that his zes supplicd coal to the Washing- Gas Light Company and that would be unable to get under bridge as proposed without a draw. On being questioned by Col. Sherrill as to the feasibility of re- constructing them so that could, he replied that he would rath- er give up the trade. Col. Sherrill remarked that if he held his trade o lightly his protest shouldn’t carry much weight, anyway. Mr. Dennis i explained that it would cost about 1$90,000 to reconstruct a barge. 0il Supply Affected. Mr. MecQueen, representing the gas company, said that in addition to de- pending ‘on the harbor facilities for coal, the company got its oil from sea-going tankers which would be unable to dock were there no draw in the bridge. Col. Sherrill inquired if a pipeline to the gas plant for convey ing oil would solve the question. Mr. McQueen thought it might. b Mr. Luckett stressed the point that fifteen sea-going vessels docked in Georgetown during the past nine months. Mr. i ton th the’ ohlman interjected that the future and not the present traffic must be considered, to which Col. Sherrill replied that, judged by past statistics, traffic would decrease in the future rather than increase. Bridge or no bridge, the colonel said in his opinion traffic would decrease. The loss to commercial interests by elimination of the draw, he believes, would be negligible. At this point Mr. Oliver presented resolutions of theGeorgetown Citizens’ Association opposing a drawless bridge, supplementing the paper with an oral protest, Clearance for Railroads. Charles S, Smith of the Columbia Granite and Dredging Company de- plored any move that would result in an investment loss to business men, such as would result, he said, if shipping into Georgetown harbor were restricted and the wharfage thereby made less valuable, R. W. E. Bowler, representing the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, ask- ed Col. Sherrill if the bridge would provide clearance for railroad tracks on the Virginia shore, as contemplat- ed by his company. He was told that provision would be made for this. —_——— Manufacturing industries in Hol- land are going through difficult times. An endeavor is being made by many establishments to cut down wages and increase the working hours to get into a more competitive position, but such proposals are meeting with mueh opposition from the ~labor ! unions. they | he | {combination. a few of whi jeorgetown and Washington and de- | ibone of contention | poration { tions | chairman, expected to get the com- THEATERS HERDED INTO BIG COMBINE Most of Legitimate Houses in Country in Trust to War on “Gougers.” CAPITAL IS $50,000,000 Erlanger, Shuberts and Others Foremost in Realm Reported Soon to Sign Up. News reports bring the intercsting information of the formati gigantic theatrical trust affecting theatrical properties and through them the greater part of all plays in this country. It is reported that the biggest theater combine ever at- tempted in the United States has been virtually completed and now awaits little more than the signing of the formal papers whereby a vast majority of the theaters in New York and throughout the country, includ- ing Washington, will pass under one control, thereby creating something like a monopoly of houses in which legitimate theatrical enterprises can find lodgment. A. L. Erlanger, formerly of the well known firm of Klaw & nger, is quoted as virtually admitting that the principal factors of this combine will be the Shuberts and himself and that Charles B. Dillingham, with his three blg New York theat the Hippodrome, the Gaiety the Globe, was expected to be a party to the merger. Later reports indicate that Arch Selwyn, Sam H. Harris and other independent theatrical produc- ers have expressed cagerness to jo the big combine, which is beinz talk ed of as u $50,000,000 ration Exactions fn Other Cities. The reason for this action leged to be the cxactions of theater owners in New York and other large citles, into whose pockets 100 I share of the revenues have the result of & gouging process together with higher salar rat nd big wa is the underlying sed combine outstunding | expla ¥ n of letting the in the matter Both Mr are said E al- features, it great innov n on the deal scriptions to stoe r and Lee Shub dmitted that the public would be ir to invest freely re is that New York i something that here found impossible it is explair dent pre argain between two boc but will be obliged cept the best terms vouchsafed them by the single asency Some Independent Owners. aid to Le fift < offering legiti here are few oods. the Selwyns it M. M Frazee but the York houses of such men alrcady i close with one or the ¢ arty nibine now under w The Shuberts and Erlanger, it mated, now control about f of the available houst ing to the best informatior ble, they control the stages t out the cou ry in about th proportion. The following i in the plan is offices. si three theate mate 5 i such z her ur-fifths obtain bugh- York theat Erlang. are independently owned or operated The Em lohe Miller's, Belasco. Hudson, Hippodron 30x, EMing ie eighth Street, Klaw. M. Cohan, Vanderbiit, New an Theater Shubert's Comblnation. The the d in combination, h tions to » New presen s are uberts aters list to which some as ownerst apply, are: Broadhurst, rden, Ambassador. Shubert Central Astor, Apollo, Times Square, Selwyn, Booth, Longacre, Moro: Princess, Frazee. Garrick, Maxine E liotr's, Ritz, Republic, Bijou, Little. | Century Theater and Roof, Jolson's | Comedy. ~ Forty- ational and Bel- excep- operation Winter Bayes r theatrical re g names of nd man favoring the deal, the theaters ment d being among those to be swallowed up in the big combine incly the National Theater in Washington. The Shuberts already own or virtually cc the Garrick and Poli’s her ibout 550 theaters throughout the country for w » they book the attractions, 1t is understood that A. L. Erlanger to be the president of the new combine, or corporation: but the power delegated to Lee Shu as | the actual manager has the This ¢ up when the Shuberts and Mr. Erlanger were about to sign articles of incor- sty The owners list of SENATORS TOUR CITY IN COMPLETING BILL The Senate appropriations subcom- mittee has nearly completed its con- | sideration of the District appropria- | bill and nator Phipps, as mittee together on the bill this after- noon. Senator Phipps and other members of the committee made another tour of inspecticn today of various proj- ects proposed by the District Com- issioners. he subcommittee is not making public at this_time the amendments Which it is making in the bill, but the redrafted bill will be made public after it has been passed upon by the ful committee and ordered reported to the Senate. First Helicopter {5t strom { parato; {will be JANUARY 19, 1923. SAYS TIMEKEEPE FLEDU. . SLEUTHS Henry Jones Says Tegger- strom Told Him He Was Going to Leave. BOTHERED BY DETECTIVES Witness Declares Missing Man Wished to Conceal His Identity. By the Assoclated Press, BASTROP. La., January 19.—Henry Jones of near Bastrop, employed by the Southern Carbon Company at ker, was interrogated concerning disappearance of Harold Tegger- strom, timekeeper at the plant, who was reported to have been kidnaped {and later to have escaped from his captors, at the open hearing into the activities of masked men in More- house parish today. “Did you know Harold Teeger- Feared U, §, Detectives. he left the plant on a Fri- night, and he came to my house Sunday evening. I was on the back porch when 1 heard some one in the house. I found Teegerstrom in the front. He said he was being bothered a great deal by United States detectives at the plant about the kidnaping. He said that on Fri day night a called him out of the office : 1 he wanted talk to him. man took him to an automobile which he sald had several men inside, and he grew suspicious and broke away and ran That is the reason he g me for biding out. He changed clothes, put on my hat, shoes and overcoat to » his identity, and left in two on v ‘e You received anything from I got my him because hi on it. It left he wateh which T Joaned watch had his initial in the mail. Before he me his watch to be sent to his brother and some keys to be nt to the carbon plant.” “It appeared to you he was trying to make his get-away and was try 1 his identity 2 s right.” Believes Teegerstrom Safe. Jones said Teegerstrom left hi clothes at his but they 1. ssumed Teege during the ab- nd himself at a_pic- Bastrop ame gy t home, dlsappes ana he had returned e of his wife show in fter the hearing had be Asked if h, strom now s, Jones w. but tho vas right W was omewhere in wr e’ Teege 11 he did not ht the missing man the watch mailed the United States,’ n on the box above three amps. I received it »id Yes, William law of J you ler $40. 1 him some money have not been paid L. who McDonald, McDaniel, with T. F. r here sixty, brother- of Watt Richard was iped 1 August 24, and whose mutilated bodies were found in Fourche last month, testi- that “Jap” Jones had told “whole Duniel family” would aned out” before the alleged at- mpt to assassinate Dr. B. M. McKoin led. Company ny of Guard, wh aniel Kidn D, 2 the b Louisiana has been on duty here with the Morehouse tigation, broke camp today pre- to leaving this afternoo New Orleans, its home station Cavalry Troop Remains. With the departure of the unit the ilitary forces in Morehouse will con of four automatic riflemen and forty members of the Jennings avalry troop, half here and the re- at Mer Rouge. understood no more troops brought to Bastrop, since the iroe infantry company of 100 men ply an hour and a half away, w units at other points could b brought here on short notice. Four companies were on duty in the parish at the inauguration of the open heari v [ for E st nainder Tt is M 11d said Jones did not know he was related to the Daniel family, ad that after he became aware of it asked him to forget it. “Jones said ‘We out the whole damned Daniel family before this thing is settled’ He did not seem to realize that I was related to the Daniel family. I called his and and he told me I needn’t get so had about it. 1 told him Dr. McKoln s never shot at,” McDonald said Do you know anything about the kidnaping? Knew It Hour Beforehand. “Yes, sir, 1 knew it an hour before You se time. You could hear all about xcept they didn't figure out the right parties kidnaped.” “Let's have some more of what you he { heard.’ “Well, after the kidnaping Jim Harp and I got to talking in his butcher shop about the kidnaping and he told me they should have killed them the night they caught Dan Andrews and Neelis on the Gallion road and they would not have had any more trouble with them.” (The Gal- lion road kidnaping occurred August 13y “Jim Harp told you that?” “Yes, I let it be known to him how { much i approved of it and I added a { few other words to make it more bind- | ing. | TWO ESCAPE WORKHOUSE. Former Dry Agent and Another Flee Occoquan. Life on the District farm at Occoquan, Va., proved anything but pleasant to Milton Eckstein, a former prohibition agent, who was sent there some time ago for alleged violations of law, and he took “French” leave of_the institution Tuesday afternoon. With Eckstein, who is thirty-two Two-Man Flight Proves Success By the Associated Pres: DAYTON, Ohio, January 19. For what is said to be the first time in history, a two-man heli- copter flight was made early to- day at McCook Air Field here. The de Bothezat helicopter, in- vented and built at McCook Field, was the machine used in the epochal tests, which came a little more than a month after the first successful flight on December 18, when only one man was aboard. In the machine on the two-man flight_were Maj. T. H. Bane, for- mer McCook Field commandant, and Art Smith, veteran civilian aviator, now attached to McCook Field. The helicopter. ascended about three feet from the ground, rising vertically. It descended without trouble and the flight was repeat- ed several times with both men aboard. The tests today are said to mark an important step in the develop- ment of the successtul de Bothe- zat helicopter. years old, went John Herbert, nine- teen years old, according to a message received by 'the police from the superintendent of the workhouse. Just how they effected tleir escaps is not known. MRS. HARRISON IS AGAIN IN PRISON IN MOSCOwW Baltimore Woman May Be Expel- led by Russians, Though Subject to Severer Penalty. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923 MOSCOW, January 19.—Mrs, Mar- garet E. Harrison of Baltimore is now in prison in Moscow and under cross- examination. It is probable that she will again be expelled, although un- der the Russian law she is. liable to a severer penalty for re-entering the republic after being turned out. Her travels in Mongolia, Manchuria and Chita at a critical time for the soviets caused much suspicion among thé authorities hére who regard her as a political agent. o] re going to clean I was in Bonita | Assumes Important Post At Veterans' Bureau coL. GE E. IJANS, Who was named executive officer of the Veterans' Bureau, succeeding Dr. T. Hugh Scott. SENATORDEFENDS Phipps Declares Connecticut Avenue Experiment Is Safe- guard to Traffic. IS ROADWAY PROTECTION Curbing Saves Repair Bills and Keeps Autos From Car Tracks. The curbin missloners h which the ¢ placed on the side of the newly paved roadway on Connecticut leading to Chevy Chase, in the opinion of Senator Phipps, f the District appre Senate, ex- ave left-hand venue, who has charge priation bill cellent device, which will not only the citizens of the Distric able sum of money, but w to their protection. “I notice that th, criticism in certain qu: side curb.” said Senator Phipps today T think that if reasons for this curbing were fully ned. the citi- of the District would agree that a very good thin in s an a cons been about this ters zens 1t is Effect on Car Fares. In the first place, under tl Distriet, the street railwayvs are compelled to pay for the paving of t part of the street lving betwee tracks. 1f the car com- operating on Connecticut avenu ievy Chase were compelled to 1 a concrete pavement th to Chevy Chase between its would add greatly to the expenses of the company. These expenses wo have to he paid for in the lust an sis by the people of the Distr people are anxious to obta street car fares, and, in my judgment, dd this burden to the expenses of street railway would tend to pre- lower fares. s a matter of fact, the inside curb ich is being constructed on Con- ticut avenue will keep the road- from wearing away at the edge, aving the District money it would have to pay out for repairs if there werd no curbing and the street railway company was compelled to pave between its t Broad Roadway Provided. “The Commissioners have provided twenty-foot paved roadway on each the railway tr: Chis is am e for automobiles and wagons. 't, three could pass abreast i t space. “The curbing from running acks prevents automobi on the rallway track ‘This is a very good thing and will aid in preventing idents. 1 think that the District Commissioners have ac ed very wisely in constructing this inside curb on Connecticut avenue 1 I hope that they will continue with it all the way to Chevy Chase.” NEW YORK POLICE GET Merriam to Be Returned as Parole Violator Who Snatched Bank Parcel. Louis Dunbar Merriam, alleged bank sneak and victim of the drug {habit, who appeared at a teller's counter at the Merchants' Bank and Trust Company, 15th and H street April 3, 1922, and was arrested, afte snatching a package of money and trying to escape, is under arrest in New York city, according to a mes- sage received ' today by Grant, chief of detectives. The chief of detectives was formed that Merriam and another young man were under arrest on a {charge of attempted grand larcen {and New York police inquired if I was wanted here for alleged viola tion of parole. that Merriam is wanted for that of- fense and will {nim if the New York police will sur- render him. Several weeks after the arrest in this city Merriam was ar- raigned_in Criminal Court. A sen- tence of five years was imposed and he was paroled during good behavior. It is alleged that the terms of his parole. PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES All unpaid real estate taxes of last May will be advertised for the public tax sale if they are not settled on or before January 30, Chatham M. Towers, collector, announced today. On that date the tax sale book will g0 to the printer and the sale will be held in March.‘All such bills paid dur- ing the balance of this month will bear a penalty of 8 per cent, which is 1 per cent a month from June. Property Owners may pay up in February, or before the sale in March, but the penalty then will be highe and, in addition, a fee of 50 cents for advertising will be added. Approximately 10,000 parcels, in- the sold for taxes this year. Mr. Towers hopes payment will be made on a large number of these parcels before the sale. MRS. M. A. LYTH BURIED. Had Been Resident of District for Sixty-Five Years. Mrs. Mary Ann Lyth, eighty-five years old, dled at her home, 1652 Mon- roe street, Monday. She had been a resident of Washington for sixty-five years. Mrs. Lyth was a member of the Calvary Methodist. Church. sShe is survived by two sons, Samuel and Charles Lyth; two daughters, Mr: Elizabeth Burdein and Mrs. Ros Koob, and a brother, Joseph Palmer. Funeral services were held at her. late home Wednesday noon. Inter- ment was in Arlington. INSIDE CURB PLAN District Com- | aw of | ALLEGED D. C. ROBBER| Inspector | Inspector Grant wired | send a detective for | he has violated | usual number, are on the books to be | Wave of Winter i Grip Hits Police | And Fire Forces The wave of grip and colds now being felt in all parts of the District has hit the police and fire depart- ments. Records today diclosed fifty firemen and sixty-five policemen on the sick list, Tliness has so depleted the ranks of the fire department that Chief ‘Watson today ordered back on duty twenty-five men who were on vaca- tion leave of absence. All of these uniformed men are not suffering from grip, but a major- ity of them are believed to be laid up with winter colds. Only five new cases of influenza were reported to the health depart- ment today. Although there have a few cases coming in_each during the past week, Health not uneasy. UNCLE J0E OFFERS Measure After Forty Years on Committee. CARRIES $14,706,856.60 Funds Provided for Capitol Ex- penses, Library of Congress and Other Items. Uncle Joe Cannon, who has been for more than forty years a member of {the House appropriations committee and who was for more than a decade chairman of the committee, submit- ted his last appropriation bill to the House today. This carries a total of $14,706,856.60 for expenditures for the Senate, the House of Representativ the Capitol police, th oint commi tee on printing, the legislative draft- ing service, the Architect of the Capl- tol, the Botanic Garden, the Libra jof " Congress and tr government printing office, for the flsca | ginning July 1. next. The amount recommended i {03235 than the current | pridtions and is $1,06 less 1 the budget recommendations $500,000 Item Cut. ar be- appro- than | The committee d@id not allow an estimate of §800,000 for the construc- tion of additional book in the northeast court of the of 1 Congr building. It allows an increase in pay for th director of the Botan Garden fro $3,000 to $3.600, and carries ing the main conservatory stack Library an in Increases i $55. compensation appros , distributed among & Library of Congress. Out of fourteen ested for ngress to care for the of the lib with “sal book cle: in the copyright posit ary of ¢ in th rteen were {ranging from {to one chief clerk loffice at § Reorganization Recommended. in ary, allowe In the government printing office reorganization of the watch force is effecting a net reduc- tion of $3,020, and an additional mes- boy at $420 is provided for, compensation of four tele- is increased §120 senger and the phone eich per annum, operators tepresentative Cynnon's committes recommends a continuance of the plan adopted in the current law of provid- ing a working capital to the govern- {ment printing office, { the printing and binding for Congress be charged to this working cap- ital. The amount recommended for this purpose is $2,000,000, ti allowed for the current vear. Cannon's report points out that, in the opinion of the public printer, the change in method of handling the printing_appropriations, that is, by direct appropriations to the depar! ments and payment by them to the public printer for work performed, has been even more satisfactory than was anticipated. He recommends it as a permanent policy, and the ap- propriations committée recommends continuance of such provision in the current law Increase Favored. { An increase of $13,966.80 is recom- jmended in the amount fment of labor in the distribution of documents under the control of the ssuperintnndent of documents. {very large increase in the mailing lists of the executive necessitates additional employes, Mr. { Cannon reports. Four cataloguers at $900 each are provided in their places. A contlnuance is recommended of the provision in the current law re- specting_the printing of annual re- | ports. The public printer informed {the committee that under authority of this provision in the fiscal year 922 a very material saving was ef- !fected by the various departments. The cost of printing the reports de- creased from $360,436 to $180,459, or {a decrease of $179,977. An increase o! A is recom- mended for the legisiative reference service in the Library of Congress land $3,125 additional is granted to provide for a more adequate service in the library on Sundays and holi- jdays. More Money for Auton. The bill, as reported, carries an increase of $500 in the fund for main- tenance and operation of the Vice President’s automobile, also $500 for the Speaker's car. Under recommendations for the House an auditor, at $3,000, is recom- mended for the committee on ac counts. For the committee on dis- position of useless executive papers a clerk at $2,000 is appropriated for. A rearrangenfent is recommended {in the employes of the committee on Jappropriations effecting a net reduc- tion of §1,000. A legislative clerk at $3,600 is pro vided in the office of the floor leader of the House in accordance with the resolution of March 24, 1922, An increase of $40,000 is fecom- mended in the item for miscellaneous expenses in the House during the long session to be provided for in the next fiscal vear. A reduction of $5,000 is made in the appropriation for folding speeches and pamphlets. An appropriation for purchases of uniforms for the Capitol police is increased from $2.000 to $3,000. A total of $26,500 is provided for special repairs to the Capitol building, including the copper roofing, water proofing of the porticos and renewal {of steam heating lines. Proposed repairs and improvements in_ the Senate chamber and Senate office building, reaching a total of approximately ~ $100,000, are not allowed. —_— The Walla Walla, Wash., man cut- ting his third set of teeth will wear them out saying where he lives.—Cap- per's Weekl: | LAST MONEY BILL. Submits Final Appropriation | the Li- | d of requiring | ame as | Mr. | for employ- | The | departments | omitted and three at $1,200 each are | WOULD CENTERU. S. | HOSPITAL CONTROL Secretary Mellon to Trans- mit Report Urging New Federal Board. Consolidation of the seven various departmental authorities op erating federal hospitals in different parts of the country under one tral responsible head will probably be recommended to Congress before the ena of this short se on, 1t has been learned. Secretary of the ‘Treasury Me it is un stood, is planning to trans mit a special report being drawn b | Dr. W. A, White, chairman of th: Treasury consultants on hospitaliza tion, which will a “federa plan for hospitali At present the erating hospita the United State and disassociated the Army, Navy terior Department, and others, Central Control Urged. These authorities should be ce tralized, according to the report be ing prepared by Dr. White and his committee of eminent physicians anc surgeons, who served the gov ernment ‘without pay. A federal plar | for hospitalization <hould be carr torward not only with an eve to th present, but to the futur the re port will point out, taking into con- sideration the need for old oldfers homes as veterans of the world war grow old, and the possible need fo marine hospitals in case the projecte American merchant marine develo; as_expected. The idea of such & pproved by Brig wyer, chief Federal Board of board, while pe functions « a various hospit e t, does cen- government is op scattered all over . under numerous mtrols, inciudinge public health, In Veterans' Burea { ead for of the g not have enough pd r, it has been pointed a ‘program of widesp it was appointed by and lacks sufficient abling authority. One of the difficuities in tering the present hospital of the government, it h ed out in circles close to the board has been sal of the v I heir own part organizatio The F. tion, which ac {the 'Presid iems, con: in charge trols, as follows chief “co-ord Forbes, direc |reau; Dr. W the ‘Treasur. General ad control, . executive orde legislative e admin progra s been poi present officiz ated cov Charl erans’ , chairm Surg ed A ultants the Un 1 th_servi Wood of the Natiois Volunteer Sc Purke, commis fairs nittee Cumming of the Gen, Georze H Homes for Disa diers and Cha sioner of The Wi ompreher nly outlin zeneral, what such reorganizatic ould be able to . for the future of the government L pitals and government beneficiaric f all kinds, but will be backed by great mass of documentary eviden: !Collected by the committee in its e tensive stu iblem it March, 191 ppointed i tar. the Treasury Mellor Building of Hospitals. The report will sive a statem the hospitals built by the committes in co ation with the supervisir architect's « nder Assistant retary of th ury Clifford. onstructio | expended $1%,600.0¢ {der the so-called A preliminary repc struction was circ ol. Clifford enate and House « lic buildings and er But the part « bearing more of a federal include sults port or an will appro t Langley t of hospital coy ated yesterday | members nittees on pu 1ds, White repo v on the probler fization plan w which the « ary to givin. locat site anc the hosy 3 Melic ppro iever bee nt befors hospitaliz: cases © ryice.” diet to @ probl faced by that is, tion of ¢ 1 the how ulatior ed me disable expeeted from t into the Arm knowledgen ing the distril the general relat to population, the men that may b ago group draft and from diseases traceable to service, the prese equipment in_the way of hospitals i the CUnited States, with analysis district_and state. the prospecti future hospital demand. an analy of transportation facilities, the relu { tion of hospital to domiciliar care, the number of beds of differer types requircd. the standard floo: ans of modern iypes of building with_elevations of hed structur: ete., the future use of these hospitals and the relation these studies t the attempted federal plan for hos pitalization on which ‘1 work of the future may be based.” Seeks Aid of States. Federal concentration of control wi {not be the only recommendation, it | learned, but the committee will al propose that the government enlis the co-operation of the states in the problem of hospitalization with a viev to each helping the other. Files of the committee indicate tha the answers of the governors wer. unanimous. Reports were turned into the committee by the governors, giv ing full account of the entire state hospital facilities throughout the na. tion, and each governor indicated he would be glad to attend a conference to study the problem of state and federal co-operation. SENATORS T0 EXAMINE D'NARY BANK STANDING Connections and Activities of Can-, didate for Controller to Be Scrutinized. ar numb Thorough investigation of the bani ing connections and activities of James G. McNary of Las Vegas, N. M., nominated to be controller of cur rency, was decided upon today by the Senate banking committee, and e subcommittee was appointed to go into hi scase in detail. Senator Couzens. republican, Michigan, newly appointed to succeed former Senator Newberry, was made chairman of the subcommittee. Other members are Senators Pepper, republican, Penn- sylvania, and Hitchcéck, republiecan, braska. The subcommittee will examine a large mass of papers secured from the controller's office and bank ex- aminers relating to Mr. MecNary's banking interests and personal loans. Additional information i3 to be se- cured tomorrow from another hank examiner, Chairman McLean said. Senator McLean explained that committee action on the nominati of D. R. Crissinger, present control- ler, to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board would be postponed until the committee concluded its recommendations regarding Mr. M- Nary. There was said to be no in- vestigation of or opposition to Mr. Crissinger's nomination mor to that of Milo D. Campbell of Michigan, also named for the reserve board. Mr Campbell's nomination may be re- ported to the Senate independently possibly tomorrow.