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change in temperature. Temperature for twen ended at 10 p.v. last nij 40; lowest, 32.8. Full report on page 8. WEATHER. Cloudy today and tomorrow; proba- bly snow or rain today; mot much ty-two hours ght: Highest, l | i he Sundiy Stac. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every block and the regular edition is ivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. No. 933.—No. BLACKHAND TERROR REGN ENDS WITH ARRESTSIN 4 CITES Five Murders, One Shooting, Three Death Plots Bared in Baltimore and West Va. 28,776. BELLE LEMONS SLAYING AMONG THOSE SOLVED Clergyman and Two Chiefs of Po- lice Were Marked by Gang to Die. B the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., February 10. ~—A series of murders and dynamit- Ings, covering a period of two and one-halt years in Clarksburg and Fairmont, W. Va, and Unlontown, Pa., has been terminated by the ar- rest of nine men in this region and two In the Pennsylvania city, Clarks- burg police officials announced to- night. at Baltimore and Lumberport in con- Other arrests have been made nection with the case, which the police bl officials described as “a k hand reign of terror.” Murder Is Specific Charge. The men held in the county jail here were arrested at Fairmont and in this The against them is the murder of Jimmy city. specific charge Papara, alias Jimmy Little, who was killed three weeks ago tonight. Word of the arrests was withheld from the public until the police had rounded up all suspects. | According to the police, they ob- tained written statements from a number of prisoners, clearing up sev- eral murders and dynamitings and Dlots to kil well known residents of Clarksburg and Fairmont, including | the chiefs of police of the cities. | Crime. mentioned In these statements, the police said, included: Other Crimes Mentioned. i The murder of Belle Lemons, Fair- | mont girl, whose body was found on | & 2olf club links near Baltimore. | Shooting of Angelo Cambria, Union- wn banker. urders of John Lacava, Clarks-| burg taxicab driver: “Biz Joe” Cenite of Clarksburg and Rocco Vergiilione | of Fairmont. | Among those marked for death, po- | lce said, were the Rev. T. E. Gainer | and Chiefs of Police Wolfe and L. D. | Snyde: t LEMONS MURDER SOLVED. Police in Baltimore Seek Two More | of Blackhanders. | Br the Associated Press, | BALTIMORE, “ebruary 10.—The : murder of Belle Lemons whose body was found near the Rolling Road Golf ,Club July 13, last, has been solved, according the police, by the arrest of seventeen members of a | black-hand gang. A recruit in the | gang, the police said, committed the | 1o after it was ordered by leaders, | use the woman had Jilted one of them. With | seventeen persons under | arrest here and in Fairmont and Clarksburg, W. Va., police are after two more members of the gang. Six other murder: cording to the po- Yice, aro charged against them, and the police declare they have evidence | of a score of dynamiting and murder- ing plots. Patsy Corbi was arrested here at| Jhis home in Westport, where he and | his parents conduct an ice cream | place. Corbi surrendered to the police | after the crime, and challenged them | to hold him. They let him go, but never stopped watching him. Other arrests are: Angelo Buna, known as “Big Angelo,” Fairmont; Richard Ferri, alleged Irmont boot- legge: Gus Jurgo, a Fairmont bar- ber; Philip Canezaro, called “Big Nose | Phil” of Clarksburg, alleged boot- | legger and agent for the gang; Joe Sergi, business man of Fairmont, said to be a gang der; Philip Micoichi, | | barber of Fairmont; Nick Salamand, | shoemaker in Fairmont and alleged | agent of the gang; John Leccese, known as “Little John,” alleged boot- ! legger und agent of the gang in! Clarksburg; Joe Maleno, Pete Bisck- aldi, Salvatore Urso, Frank Berri, Joe Gagliastro, Frank Barberman, Tony Musci and John Treco, TRosario Dimarco—the “Big Rosie” ~—with the diamonds in his shirt and the scar on his cheek, who was men- tioned frequently in the case last July, is dead now. Bella Leman was his girl and the police declare the gang pianned to “wreck” him and to start by taking away his girl, Bella Leman. The last they heard from “Big Rosie” he was in Chicago. He was not hiding from the police, but from the gang, and three weeks ago, when he had made $15,000 and was building a new kingdom for himself in the Chicago underworld, they got him. Chief of Police L. D. Snyder and Frank Amos, state's attorney in Fair- mont, with Laco Wolfe, the police chief of Clarksburg, and John Shier, a Clarksburg detective, acted for the West Virginia authoritles. Late last week the trap sprung. Not a man of the gang seemed to ¥now what he was arrested for. None of them worried. They thought, 5o the police say, that they were being locked up for little bootlegging jobs or for Entered as sacond-class matti Post_office Washington, Dr O. De Valera Ready For Peace; But Wants Election By the Associated Press. LONDON, = February 11.—The Sunday Express says it under- stands Eamonn De Valera will ac- cept Liam Deasy’s peace terms on condition that elections are held on the one clear issue, namely, that Ircland should be a free state or a republic. GERMANS AROUSED BY FRENCH GAG ON - PROTESTS IN RUHR 'Sharp Note to Paris Says Attempt to Avoid Discus- sion Is Evident. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 10.—The German charge d'affaires in Paris today hand- ed the foreign office a note from his government, protesting against the French note declaring the French government would receive no more protests against action by the forces of occupation in the Ruhr valley. "The French government,” says the erman note, “thereby raises the pre- | tension that all it has done and ail {it intends to do, according to its own | good pleasure, ought to be accepted lin silence by the German govern- ment. “The German government can see nothing in this measure, which is against all the rules of international | relations in time of peace, but an in- | | avoid objective discussion of the Ger- |man srgumenta” The note concludes with the asser- tion that this attitude will not pre- {vent the German government from formulating criticisms of the meas- ures taken by France. | Fed | dication that, conscious of the juridi- cal weaknevs of its point of view, the French government desires to TERMS OF GERMAN NOTE. French Questions Answered Jan- uary 31, Says Berlin. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 10.—It is offi- cially announced that the German charge d'affaires in Paris today hand- ed the French government the fol- lowing note: “With its notp of February 4 the French government sent back the note of the German embassy of Jan- uary 31, at the same time intimating that it could in the future receive no more communications containing any criticisms of the reparation findings or the measures taken as a’result thereof. “In reply thereto the German gov- ernment must first point out that the returned German note contained an answer to several French notes, in wNich the French government im- puted various breaches of the peace treaty to the government of the reich. “The Reich government has not made any mention of the reparation commlission’s decision, but merely called attention to the fact that the German action censured by the ¥rench government was simply an inevitable consequence of the march into the Ruhr, contrary to the treaty. Question of Legality. “In seeing criticism of the meas- ures of the reparation commission therein, the French government ev: dently takes the stand,that the repa- ration commission by its decision of January 26 at the same time ac- knowledged the legality of the Ruhr action, but, even should that be so, the reparation commission could only glve an interpretation of the peace treaty by unanimous decision. That was not the case on January 26. “If the French government, more- over, once and for all declines to listen to the German representations, it is demanding that Germany should tacitly acquiesce in everything it thinks fit to do. That would be con- trary to all the rules of peaceful in- ternational intercourse. The French | government,, in its consclousness of the weakness of its legal position, is | apparently desirous of evading the necessity of bestowing careful con- eration on the German objections. That will not, however, deter the Ger- man government from voicing its ob- jections in accordance with law and justice.” President Ebert and several mem- bers of the cabinet are proceeding to (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 1 WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1923.—EIGHTY-FOUR PAGES. SHIPPINGBILL FACES NEW OBSTACLES AS SESSION NEARS END Advent of British Debt Meas- | ure Presages Fight in Ranks of Majority. MAY BAR LAME DUCKS FROM VOTE ON SUBSIDY Debate Limit Program by Senator Jones Promises Sharp Fight in Chamber. With Congress adjourning sine die at the end of unother three weeks, the troubles of the much harassed administration shipping bill have multiplied so that even its friends said last night that Its ultimate fate was shrouded in increased doubt, Several new plans of attack upon the bill were laid yesterday, and a compromise move among republicans I desiring drastic amendments was in- | stituted at a conference with Presi- dent Harding at the White House. Senator McNary, republican, Oregon, author of several amendments modi- fying the subvention and other pro- visions of the bill, together with sev- eral other senators, discussed a com- promise plan with the President, but action went over until this week, when Chairman Lasker of the Ship- ping Board is to be consulted. Win Preliminary Victory. In the Senate during the day ad- ministration forces won a preliminary victory when they were able by a vote of 31 to 26, to order that the Senate morrow to resume consideration of the bill. Seven republican opponents of the shipping bill voted with the democrats against the proposal, but the totals were halled by administra- tion senators as a barometer strength if they could bring the bill to a vote. Administration leaders claimed fifty-three pledges for the bill, but some of these were said to favor radical revision. Late yesterday after another speech of nearly five hours by Senator Fletcher, democrat, Florida, agginst the bill, Senator Jones, republican, Washington, the administration man- ager for the measure, proposed another agreement to curtail debate in an effort to bring about a vots Under the plan each senator would be limited after February 16 to one hour on the bill and thirty minutes on amendments. If the bill should not be passed, s still sharper limit would become effective February 20. Oppo- nents of the measure indicated they would refuse unanimous consent for such an agreement when it was brought up for action tomorrow. Debt Bill Interferes. Although Senator Jones' program contemplates holding the bill contin- uously before the Senate until Feb- ruary 20, at least, senators in charge of the British debt funding bill re- ported to the Senate yesterday from committee, said they would move to bring it up early this week, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. This move is expected to have the opposition of Senator Jones, who said yesterday that If laid aside once more, the shipping bill would be virtually de- | feated. With republican leaders thus in dis- agreement, the bill's opponents were | preparing new moves against the pro- posed legislation. A motion tomor- row to recommit thé bill, possibly with instructions to adopt some of the McNary amendments, was planned from the democratic side, While re- publican advocates of the Capper truth-in-fabric bill were planning a motion to have it supplant the ship- ping measure. Another hostile move faced by the ship legislation was a plan to bar Jame-duck senators from voting if a rall-call should be reached. This, it was sald, would deprive the admin tration side of its margin Insuring passage. Republicans of the new progressive bloc and some democrats were sald to be co-operating on a res- olution which would deprive retiring members of a vote, on the ground that the shipping bill was an issus ber. -— CARICATURIST IS HONORED. PARIS, February 10—Jean Louls Forain, the caricaturist, today was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Leon Bonnat. \Bride, Lost in Heart of N. Y., Phones She’s O. K. After 4 Days By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 10.—Mrs. James McGregor of Great Falls, Mont., bride of five months, whose disappearance last Tuesday started a city-wide police search at the request of her husband, was found today in Brooklyn, where it was said she had been visiting friends. At the Continental Hotel, where the bridal couple registered when they came here to celebrate a be- lated honeymoon, it was said that McGregor had received a telephone ! call from his wife this afternoon say- ing she was “all right” and not to worry, but that in his excitement the husband had forgotten to get her address or phone number. He later checked out of the hotel after he is believed to have been in- Mrs. Ms>Gregor parted from her husband in Times Square last Tues- day to telephone some friends, agree- ing to meet him later at the Hotel Cadillac. McGregor sat in the lobby until midnight, but she did not ap- pear. For three days he wandered about the city in search of her and last night called upon the police for aid. The MoGregor separation is the third case recently in which hus- bands and wives have been lost in the swirl of New York. The most pathetic case was that of Joseph Gallo, sixty-one, of Fairfax, 8. D., who arrived here last Novem- ber with his wife on thelr way to Czechoslovakia. They became sepa- rated in & subway jam. Several days later he found his wife in the morgue. meet earlier than usual to- | of | figuring in their defeat last Novem- | i LEAGUE WOULD BAN WARS IN AMERICAS President Brum of Uruguay Reveals Proposal for “New World” Union. PLANS FORMATION HERE Headquarters Would Later Be Moved to Some Other Nation, Probably Panama. By the Associated Press. dent Baltasar Brum of Uruguay today made public the plan for an associa- tion of American nations, which the Uruguayan delegation is to lay be- fore the pan-American congress at Santiago, Chile, next month. The proposed Statutes would admit to membership not only the sovereign states of the American continent, but also the islands and territories of the continent depending politically upon countries situated on other continents, provided they have their own diplo- matic representative in at least one American country and expressly declare they are in & position to carry out and enforce the obligations inherent in the formation of the assoclation. Members would be allowed to retire from the as- soctation after giving two years' notice. Principles and Objects. The principles and objects of the association would be. First, to encourage the idea that international relations are founded on the principles of justice and soli- darity, without taking into account differences of race, opinion, language, customs or religion. Second, to intensify inter-Ameri- can friendship, cultivating the senti- ment of solidarity among the mem- bers, and bringing about increased knowledge of each other. ‘Third, to contribute to the increase of the friendly relations of the mem- bers with the other countries of the world. Fourth, to solve by means of arbi- tration investigating committees or by the mediation of other members, all conflicts of an international char- acter of whatever nature. Domination Held Peril. The plan as drawn up sets forth that the association considers danger- ous to peace and its own' security any attempt by any nation of apother con- tinent to extend its domysfation, either in the form of colonization, mandate or protectorate, to any region of the American hemisphere. Also any in fringement of the rights of a member by a country situated on another con- tinent would be taken up by the as- sociation. The association would adopt meas- ures to prevent any war which would affect directly or indirectly’ any of its members. It would consecrate the principle that every question which, according to the laws of the individual members should be judged by thelr own judges, in no way should be removed from its natural jurisdiction by means of diplomatic claims, except in cases where justice gambling. They have learned now |formed where in Brooklyn he could |She had dled of a heart attack Il-l". denied. It would also declare Grhat the real truth is, meet. Mra, McGregor, 1 tributed to hysteriss RoBBIN' GOOD MONTEVIDEO, February 10.—Presi- | Uiy ;qn'fiu To LISTEN To ey Act TODAY’S STAR . PART ONE—36 Pages. General News—Local, National, Foreign. Community Centers—Page 17. Radio News—Page 18. Art and Artiste—Page 19. | Schools and Colleges—Pages 22 and 23. | Book Reviews—Page 26. Financial News—Pages 27 and 28. World War Veterane—Page 35. Clasafied Advertisements—Pages 29 to PART TWO—14 Pages. | Editorials and Editorial Features. | Washington and Other Soclety. D. A. R. Activities—Page 6. Girls and Their Affairs—Page 13. Serial, “The Scarlet Tanager"—Page 13. Spanish War Veterane—Page 13. PART THREE—10 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- | play. | Music in Washington—Page 5. | Motorists and Motoring—Pag Fraternities—Page 10, i PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S8 Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. ROTOGRAVURE—S Pages. | World Events In Rictures. ! COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; Mr. and Mrs, BRTISH DEBT BL ISNOW N SENAT Measure Passed by House Reported to Upper Body. Goes on Calendar. | 6to9. Approved by the finance committee, 8 to 3, the bill passed Friday by the House, giving congressional sanction to the British debt settlement agree- ment, was reported formally to the Senate yesterday. Chairman Me- Cumber indicated that it was his in- tention to call the measure up the middle of this week, but whether it would be possible to displace at that time the administration shipping bill, now the unfinished business of the Senate, remained to be developed. One republican, La Follette, Wis- consin, and two democrats, Walsh, Massachusetts, and Gerry, Rhode Island, voted against the bill in com- mittee, while one democrat, Willlams, Mississippi, supported it. The seven republicans voting for a favorable report were McCumber, North Dakota; Smoot, Utah; Watson, Indiana; Cur- tis, Kansas; Dillingham, Vermont; Calder,: New York, and Frelinghuysen, New Jersey. Brief Hearing Held. A briet hearing on the bill' was held by the committee behind closed doors, Senator Smoot, a member of the American debt commission, going in- to some details of the negotiations with the British commission. He de- clined to answer a number of ques- !tions put by senators on the ground that the informatigh was of a highly confidential character. Some committeemen thought more information than that supplied by Mr.' Smoot -should be obtained before the committee acted, but they were outvoted. Senator Walsh wanted the ~—(Gontinued on Pags A Column 3 | | | > Faicanon ACT G TUT-ANKH-AMENS ToMB A:“ :E = -thgk RESIDENTS ,“‘;g_» VICE- { =) FEATURES OF THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE GRIDIRON CLUB. MAY LOSE THEATER DISASTER CLAIMS Knickerbocker Attorneys De- clare Suits Were Filed After Company Was Dissolved. LAST HOPE IN DELAWARE Victims' Agents Must Sue in State Courts, Though Statute of Limi- tations May Bar Actions. Legal representatives of persons killed outright at the Knickerbocker | Theater disaster may be unable to recover damages from the Knicker- bocker Theater Company if the Dis- trict Supreme Court upholds the claim of Harry M. Crandall and other former officials of the company that the corporation had “died” before suits were instituted here and the re- ceivers of the company would have to be sued in Delaware. The law sets a limit of one year in this District in which to bring suit for fnjuries resulting in death, and unless the Delaware statute has a different time limit, such suits would be barred, it is stated, because more than one year has elapsed since the root of the building collapsed Jan- uary 28, 1922. Receivers Are Named. Mr. Crandall, through Attorneys Wil- ton J. Lambert and R. H. Yeatman, advised the court yesterday that the supreme court of Delaware had dis- solved the corporation on an applica- tion flled last July. James E. Manter of Wilmington and George B. Fraser of this city have been appointed recelivers and their bond fixed at $90,000, he stated. The order of the Delaware court required that all claims against the company must be presented to the receivers. As receivéers cannot be sued except by leave of the court appointing them it may be necessary for suits to be brought in Delaware by victims of the disaster and their legal representatives, Smyrna Harbor Mined by Turks; 2 New Warnings By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 10.— It is definitely known that the Turks have begun the laying of mines in Smyrna harbor. The forelgn war- ships have recelved two more no- tices to depart. ‘While the situation is tense, the fact that no incident has occurred s regarded as a hopeful sign. Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, who was one of the American represent: tives at the Lausanne conferen: has arrived here and conferred with Brig. Gen. Harrington, commander of the allled forces. LONDON, February 10.—A Con- stantinople dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company says the Turk: have extinguished all the lighthouses in the Gulf of Ismid, access to which is forbidden at night. —_— NOTABLES REGALED AT SPRING DINNER OF GRIDIRON CLUB: Unusually Clever Program of §kits and Songs Marks Spring Dinner. Entertaining lasg night at the New ‘Willard a distinguished company of guests in attendance upon its annual spring dinner, the Gridiron Club fur- nished them a program of song and satire upon men and affairs which filled four hours with merriment. President Harding, Vice President Coolidge, the Speaker of the House, ambassadors, senators and represen- tatives, officers and officials and many noted men from this and other citles sat around the board. Arthur S. Henning of the Chicago Tribune, the new president of the Gridiron Club, presided and welcomed the guests. The sport eommenced immediately. President Henning had just an- nounced the only two rules the Grid- iron Club has—‘ladies are always present, reporters are never present” —when a commotien occurred in the center of the hall where a score of merobers Bad. gathered, gesticulatipg and protesting. “One minute, Mr. Henning,” said the ringleader. “This dinner cannot proceed until you Have been inaugu- rated.” “Aw, let's not inaugurate him, let's impeach him. That would be more thrilling, and the people must have thrills.” “But wait a minute; he hasn't been on the job long enough to be im- peached.” “No, but he might do something and the safe thing to do is to impeach him before he His a chance to do it. Anyhow, they say he is a practical politician, and a politician is ipse dixit, ex post facto, non compos mentis and de jure a villain and a bandit.” ‘Thereupon entered the club's con- stitutional lawyer. *“Hold on there he cried. “It has repeatedly been held unanimously by the Supreme Court— Justice Brandels dissenting—that an official must be fnaugurated before he can be impeached.” ‘With this dictum pronounced, one of the charter members of the club advanced and Invested Mr. Henning with the gavel, declaring him the duly inaugurated president of the Gridiron Club. Dr. Coue came on the stage to hold a clinic. He sald he desired to de- vote the rest of his life to curing the flls of politics and Washington was the place to begin. His first patient was Senator Couzens of Mich- igan, who explained his case. T am filled with an immense desire to do things and I can't do them, he said. “I want to see the Senate run like a Ford factory, but the unfon rules on the hill result in terrible in- efficlency. I want to make the whole United States as perfect a place to live in as Detroit. If we could only abolish the government and let Henry and me run the country.” “Yours is a simple case, Senator Couzens.” sald the doctor. “You have a disease common among the young. Time usually cures it Gaze upon the whiskers of Senator Lodge. He was once young and a mugwump. Look at the ineffable calm he has achieved in the face of the impotence that so distresses yo He took Sen- ator Couzens' hands and clasped them in front of his breast, “Now keep repeating with me, T (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) Great U. S. Army of *20 Fades; Soon Sons Must Defend Flag By the Associated Press. Men who shared with Pershing the great adventure in France are passing off the stage as America’s detenders. Official charts show that their place already Is being taken by the younger brothers of the A. E. F. Tomorrow it will'be their sons who stand ready to fight for the flag. ) The charts show that of more than 3,000,000 men discharged from the war-time Army up ‘to January 1, 1920, there will be available in 1925 for class 1 serv- jce—and that means battle service, face to face with the foe—little more than 600,000 veterans. By 1930, & decade after their discharge in the prime of their fighting power, only 423,000 will again. be Feady to shoulder & musket, Millions trooped to the colors in the great war, but even the eigh- teen-year-old youngsters among them will be men weighted with cares and responsibilities by 1945. They will have married or will have acquired other dependents; they will be broken with years; many will have died; some will be working at tasks as essential as soldiering, and none will be left to man ‘the trenches. The bright day of their youth and fighting power will be but an honored heritage for their sons. “Of the 3,128,670 officers and men examined for discharge to Decem- ber 1, 1919,” says the colorless record of the War Department, 931,660 were dischatged without disability. It is assumed that by 1925, or approximately five years FIVE CENTS. D. C. BILL TOTALING SLTI8915 SENT BACK TO SENATE Item of $1,175,000 for Park- way Extensions Only Point to Be Settled. MEASURE EXPECTED TO PASS SENATE TOMORROW $550,000 Stricken Out on Blan- ton’s Points of Order Now Are Restored. Action by the House yesterday in approving items added to the District. appropriation bill will bring the total carried by this bill up to $22.- 778,915, which will be the District budget for the next fiscal year, begin- ning July 1. The Senate conferees have agreed tentatively to this. The item of $1,175,000 for proposed purchase of land for parkway exten- slons is the only item on which ths House insisted upon its disagreement. This appropriation was added by the Senate, but the House conferees have an understanding with the Senate con- ferees that if the House will not yleld the Senate conferees are ready to rec- ommend to the Senate that 1f this the only item in disagreement the Ser- ate should accept the bill as flnaliy .passed by the House vesterday. Formal action by the Senate tomor- row, agreeing to the bill as it pass- ed the House late yesterday, is ex- pected to settle the matter. One Important Change. Of much interest to the people of Washington, especially those organ- izations which have for so lo fought the proposal to locate the school for feeble-minded at Bl Plains, Va, is the amendment adopt- ed by the House which would allow the location of this Institution in the District or in nearby Maryland Virginta territory, where a suitable site can be found. Representative Cramton of Michi- gan, chairman of the House cc ferees, announced that the confer- ence report on the bill shows thc smallest increase over the House fig- ures in any District appropriation bill in the last twenty years. ill as it now stands carries $22,778,915. That is $72,000 below the current appropriations and $7 215 below the budget recommenda- tion and $1,691,070 less than the bill as passed by the Senate. As ihe bill is now drafted $5300,- 000 represents the part that the fed- eral Treasury contributes to the up- keep of the Nationa! Capital, Repre- sentative Cramton said. Items Approved. The House approved items totaling $631,000, of which 3550,000 represents items reported originally by fthe House appropriations committes and stricken out on points ¢f order by Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas, as follo Mount Ileasant branch library 000; playground sites, $25,000; and 52 school buildings grounds, $500,000. The amendments agreed to in con- ference include garbage remov $35,000; lighting, $22,000; land adj ing Dunbar High Sehool, $100,0 repairs to school buildings, $3 By a committee amendment §111,052 for the maintenance of playgrounds is to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District, while the appropria- tion of $25,000 for playground sites is to be made on the 60-10 proportion, respectively, from federal and District revenues. An item of $62,000 for the Nationak Training School for Girls is restored to the bill. An item of $15,000 for shelter, band- stands and comfort stations at Hains Point, in East Potomac Park, Is car- ried. = An increase of $2,500 for a library for the blind is included. An increase of $1,500 is carricd for the Columbia Polytechnic Insfitute Provide Deeds Office. The House voted to recede and ¢ cur in the Senate item for a building for the recorder of deeds, with the following amendment: “The achitect of the Capitol, in col- laboration with the Commissioners ot the District of Columbia, shall pre- pare plans for the erection of a fire- proof addition to the courthouse ot the District of Columbia for the use of the office of the recorder of deeds and such other activities of the gov- ernment of the District of Columbia as the Commissioners may designat including fireproof vaults and he ing and ventilating apparatus; and such plans, together with an esti- mate of the cost of construction in accordance therewith shall be trai mitted to Congress on the first da of the next regular eession.” The new language written into the Dbill by the House covering the item of $62,000 for the National Training School for Girls was as follows: «“The president of the board of trustees of the National Tralning School for Girls of the District of Co- Jumbia is hereby authorized and di- rected to purchase a tract of land of not more than one hundred and sixty acres, situated in the District of Co- lumbia or in the state of Maryland or in the state of Virginia, as a site for the use of said school, and the =aid board of trustes is hereby authorized to construct on said tract buildings of sufficlent capacity to accommodate not more than 150 persons, the plans and specifications for which shall be pre- pared by the municipal architect of the District of Columbla. The purchase price for the said tract {(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) i