Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1923, Page 2

BUILDING LAW MaY SOLVED. C. PARKING Garages Under Structures; Provided in Proposed Amendment to Code. PLAN PUBLIC HEARING Commissioners First to Receive and Look Into Suggestions end Criticisms. Washington'’s automobile parking problem may be partially solved if a Pproposed amendment to the building regulations is adopted, providing for basement garages under buildin . Officials of the engineer depart- ment have been planning a careful revision of the entire building code since Col. Charles Keller took office as Commissioner, and, it was learned last night, a tentative revised draft is now complete: Tt is understood that the proposal | for basement garages s one of the innovations recommended in this tentative draft, which will be dis- tributed within a week or two among the builders and architects for study. The thought of the Commissioners in submitting the tentative draft to every Jocal agent conn ed with the building business is to obtain oonstructive criticism and sugges- tions. All to Be lnvestigated. When these suggestions have been recefved the building experts of the eity government will go over them, and all that seem desirable will be woven into the tentative draft. But oven then the Commissioners will have only a semi-final code. | Aiming to get the fullest possible | dogree of co-operation and advice in framing a new code, the Commission- ers will submit the semi-final copy | %0 a public hearing. 3 The code then will be dressed in its final terms and adopted. The system which the engineer department plans to follow should make the new regu- lations as modern and complete as it | is_possible to get them. he present ‘buikling regulations do not specifically prohibit basement garages, but no special provision has | been made for them. H City officlals have learned within | the past few days that a company planning a new office building in the center of the city has made inquiries at the District building as to the possibility of providing for a storage place for automobiles in the base- ment. Fireproofing Neceasary. Under the tentative revised building code such garages would be permit- ted only in strictly fireproof build- ings. And even in such buildings the garage room would have to be espe- clally fireproofed with automatically closing doors. Machines would enter and leave these subsurface garages by way of inclined runways from the street, Subway garages have been advocated from time to time as an effective means of reducing parking congestion in the heart of the city, but the present sug- feoton to provide for them in the new ullding code is the first step toward their introduction in Washington It 18 probable that in rewriting the code all sections dealing with the height of buildings will be eliminated, #ince this feature of construction work is now controlled by the zoning law. When the tentative draft of the code goes out the builders and architects will be given until March 15 to submit their views on it. LENROOT ASSAILS + DRIVE OF “WETS" Senator Declares Legislators Would Violate Oaths by Modification. { By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 10.—Advo- cates of modification of the Volstead act to permit the sale of light wines were criticised by Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin in an address before the Alumnl Association of New York University Law School tonight for asking members of Congress “to de- liberately violate their oaths of office.” "That Congress could constitution- | &lly increase the alcoholio percentage of ‘beer to between 2 and 3 per cent s admitted,” Senator Lenroot maid. “Whether it should do so is a matter of policy. But to go beyond that, or permit the manufacture or sale of light ‘wines would clearly violate the eight- eenth amendment to the Constitution, Right to Ask Repeal. “It is the right of every citiz advocate modification or rapeal of ;:Ite‘zalx;\teenéh amendment, but no | en has the right to to violate ita teaert T ConETSSS enator Lenroot, whose plea wa for a return to ‘government by 4 oconstitution which he declared had not outlived it usefulness, also as- sailed proponents of ‘“an’ insidious propaganda to destroy the power of the Supreme Court to pass upon the validity of acts of Congress. He declared that “the end of the republic would not be far distant: 12 the proposal to permit Congress to override a Supreme Court decision on nality a two- Vote wers adopted. i Woman Judge Speaks. Miss Florence I. Allen, jud Onic *supreme. court, Whe. Sis. Sas dressed the association, urged that the \Ereat bolitical parties adopt nks calling for non-parti = tion of ‘Judges. PRer oo Politics has o place in the courts, “It has a legitim 2 in_othef branches of - our . goveres mental life, because political parties, it the function properly express leg- itimate differences of opinion between different groups of people; but when it comes to the courts they have but one function. It is not their func- tlon to express different opinions as between different groups of people. It is their function to apply and in- terpret the law, and to do that with one thought in mind only; namely, the facts of each individual case, the law applicable in' each case, and the Justice of each case.” 8he opposed appointment of judges as a solution, however, declaring an appointive judiciary was no more free from political influence than an elected judiclary. BRITISH SHIP RAIDED. NEW YORK, February 10.—Cus- toms officers raided the British steamer Parima, lying &t her pler in Brooklyn early today and confls. cated 500 bottles of Scotch whisky ocoancealed in coal bunkers. A further search was ordered in the belief that 150 cases would be found in obscure of the ship. The Parima ar- rived Thursday from the West Indles. ! DANUBE FLCODS BUDAPEST. BUDAPEST, February 10.—Thou- sands of families in the suburbs of Hudapest were forced to flee their ‘homes this morning by the over- flowing eof the Danube river. waters tonight were receding, jbidden the Volcano Breaks Into Big Eruption After Long Quiet By the Associated Press. HILO, Island of Hawaii, T. H., Feb- ruary 10—Mauna Loa, Hawail's 1 termittently active volcano, which looks down from its 13,000-foot ‘el vation on the perpetually active vol- cano of Kilauea, has broken out in an eruption of large proportions, ac- cording to reports received from the Hinds ranch, which has a clear view of M na Loa's dome. Rising from the summit are great clouds of smoke, through which the sun is seen shining like & bronze ball. Last night a slight earth tremor shook the island. The seismograph at the Kllauea observatory timed the tremor at 8:30 p.m. The last great eruption from Mauna Loa occurred in September, 1919. The lava poured down the mountain slopes to the sea, thirty miles dis- tant. The lava geyser at the sourc of the flow was estimated by ob- servers to be 300 feet high and 300 feet in diameter. BODIES OF MARINES FOUND IN POTOMAC Believed to Be Two Who Have Been Missing From Quantico. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKBURG, Va., Febru: 10.—Decomposed bodles of two uni- dentified enlisted men of the United States Marine Corps were found on the Virginia side of the Potomas river yesterday by fishermen, one being along Stafford shore near widewater and the other near the Chatterton wharf. Both had apparently been In the water several weeks. The bodies are believed to be two men of the 10th Regiment, who dis- ppeared from Quantico early in De- comber. Two marines were reported bsent without leave and —were hought to have deserted. The re- mains are being kept and measures taken for identification. It is mnot ositively known if they are the two missing men. Finger prints will be compared with Bertillon classification on records of Murine Corps. GREAT U. S. ARMY OF ’20 FADES—SOON SONS MUST DEFEND FLAG (Continued from First Page.) after discharge, they will have at- tained the status (having acquired dependents, engaged in essential occupations, incurred disabilities. etc.) of average citizens and would be available (‘held for service’) in the same proportions as obtained with those registered under the last draft.” New Blood Sought. Application of the census bureau death rate, coupled with the knowledge gained of average con- ditions surrounding its age groups involved by the calling up for ex- amination under the draft act of millions of citizens, gives a clear vision of what time s doing to the great _body of tralned soldlers poured back into the country after the armistice. That is the basis of the War Department cacula- tlons as to probable exemptions, and the basis, too, to the pressu: for filling up the organized r serves with new blood each year into an unfailing reservoir of fighting strength, at least par- tlally ready to answer the call to arms. By age groups,” the veterans above thirty-six years in 1918 will have ceased to exist from & mill- tary viewpoint in 1925 and of more than 135,000 in the thirty-six-year class, some 20,000 might still be ready for a call. By 1930 all of those above thirty-three years in 1918 will be gone and by 1936 all who were above twenty-eight in 1918 have vanished from the charts, By 1940, the youngsters who were twenty-three years old when 1918 brought them to the colors will show a bare 22,000 still ready for active service and by 1945, the elghteen-year-old youths of those hectic days of war could muster robably only 5,310 veterans of St. ihiel and the Argonne to follow the flag again, —_— GERMANS AROUSED BY FRENCH GAG ON PROTESTS IN RUHR (Continued from First Page.) Karlsruhe for a discussion on Sunday with the Baden government of the situation. : AIR PATROLS ON DUTY. Coal Control Posts and Train Movements Watched. By the Associated Press. DUESSELDORF, February 10.—Air patrols began flylng over the Ruhr today, watching the various coke and coal control posts and the movement of trains in the direction of the fron- tiers. Thé French have completed the installation of &n airdrome near Due! seldorf, and airmen will inspect the entire occupation frontiers daily. The French are slowly improving the rallroad service; the movement of cars entering the Ruhr yesterday in- creased to 2,800 and 1,600 departed. This is about one-twentleth of the normal service. The municipal authorities have for- opulation to accept soup from the French free kitchens; the burgomaster of Bochum informed the French that these kitchenc were not necessary, that the Germans were well able to take care of themselve a that, in any event, “should famine come to the Ruhr, owing to French occupation, the Americans had prom- ised to organise a relief commission.” 720,131 ACRES OCCUPIED. Population of 8,177,637 Under French Control in Germany. ESSEN, February 10.—The area now occupied by the French and Bel- gians In the Ruhr aggregate approxi- mately 720,131 acres, or nearly the ¢t Rhode Island, decording to figures announced in German quar ters. The population of this area is $,177,637, which compares with the m’:}lllon of Massachusetts and chigan. Tno“mmurv forces hold fourteen city and nine rural distriots. The total railway mileage in the Rubr 1,242 kilometers, of which two lines are militarized. GEN. TRAVIS IS ILL. SAVANNAH, Ga, February 10— Brig. Gen. Robert J. Travis, com- manding national guard artiliery in neasee, South Carolina and Geor- gia, critically 1ll here. gently returned a tri ington, and has devel op.‘ case of paeumonia, He ve- to Wash- & severe, aaid, Signs placarding the eity at every angle will be placed in service tomorrow to warn t! The point to he hammered and on the sidewalk. QUESTIONSVALID OF LC.C.OOAL POWER Cincinnati Judge Doubts Right to Issue Priority Or- ders in Emergencies. VIOLATOR PLEADS GUILTY Case, However, Taken Under Ad- visement Pending Further Investigation. By the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, February 10.—The constitutionality of the law from which the Interstate Commerce Com- mission derives its power to issue pri- ority orders during an emergency was questioned today by Federal Judge John Weld Peck of the United States aistrict court here. Judge Peck sald that inasmuch as no decision had ever been rendered as to the constitutionality of the law, he entertailned doubts whether the Interstate Commerce Commission could say who may and who may not have coal or what sections of the country may or may not have coal during a coal strike. Defers Violator's Sentence. The questioning of Its constitu- tionality came as the judge was about to sentence Edward P. Avent, Jr., u partner In the Bewley-Darst Coal Company of Cincinnati, who had pleaded guilty to flve counts of an indictment charging him with vio- lating priority orders in shopping coal to non-essential industries dur- ing the coal strike last summer. Judge Peck inquired of Frank E. d, counsel for Avent whether any fons on the constitutionality of the law had been handed down, and when he answered In the negative the judge said he would take the case under advisement for several days until he had investigated the matter. Not Gulilty Plea Changed. Avent, who was originally charged with conspiracy to defeat the prior- ity order of the Interstate Commerce Commission and with violating pri- ority orders, had pleaded not gullty to the two ndictments recently, but changed his plea to gullty today when the five counts in the first in- dictment were nolled on motion by Thomas Morrow, United States dls- trict attorney. The specific instances named in the indictments were that Avent had ought to ship coal to the Union City as Company of Union City, Mich., and the Municipal Light and Power Company of Chelsea, Mich., but in- stead had diverted the coal to cement factories, which were on the non- essential industry list, during the coal strike last summer. The government contended that the Union City Gas Comnnn&um] the Municlpal Light and Power Company were mythical con- cerns. BRITISH DEBT BILL IS NOW IN SENATE (Continued from First Page.) record of the negotiations brought before the committee, while Senator La Follette sought to summon Elliot ‘Wadsworth, assistant secretary of the Treasury, and secretary of the com- mission. Senator Smoot was reported to have told the committee that the agree- ment entered into was a modifica- tion of the original American pro- posal, which contemplated a flat in- terest rate of 3% per cent over the entire period the loan was to run. This was unacceptable to the British government and the terms finally agreed upon—3 per cent for the first ten years and 3% per cent thereafter —then were proposed. At the request of Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, Senator Walsh requested that the committee vote be deferred until Tuesday, when Sen- ator Reed expects to return to Washe ington, but republican leaders want. ed to get the measure on the Senate calendar Iimmediately. They aid agree, however, not to call it up In the Senate until SBenator Reed re. turned. Early Vote Expected. Committee democrats opposing the legislation agreed not to resort to obstructive tactics during Senate con- slderation of the bill and republican leaders were hopeful of getting a vote after debate of one or two days. There were some indications, however, that the discussion would be rather gen- eral and that several senators would insist upon more information regard- ing the debt negotiations than has been made public. Only one minor change was made in the House bill. This is an alteration of the text, and the expectation was that if it should be approved by the Senate the House would acoept it without sending the measure to con- ference and thus delaying final con- gressional action. Senator Harris, democrat, Georgia, yosterday introduced an amendment to the funding bill, his pending bill to add three democrats to the Ameri- can debt commission, which now con- sists entlirely of republicans. The Har- ris bill has been before the finance committed for several months with- out action but with republican lead- ers recently disposed to give it their home is “The Heckless Driver Is a OBREGON SAYS HE WILL DEPORT CLARA PHILLIPS ‘Declares Mexico Will Offer Mur- deress No Asylum if She Is Found There. LOS ANGELES, February 10.—If Clara Phillips, escaped Los Angeles murderess, is found in Mexico she will be deported, President Obregon declared in a cablegram to the Los Angeles Examiner which that new. | paper will print tomorrow. The me sage was sent in reply to one from the Examiner asking the president whether Mrs. Phillips would be turned over to American authorities if locat- ed In the southern republic. It sal “I do not conslder it justifiable to arrest and dellver at the northern frontler of this nation criminals who have crossed the line to evade justice while reciprocity has not been tablished. * ¢ ¢ “The government is firmly resolved not to be converted into an asylum for delinquents and in cases like that to which you refer you may con- sider it a settled case that they must leave the territory.” LEAGUE WOULD BAN WARS IN AMERICAS (Continued from First Page.) that the nationality of the land of birth {s established for the son of a foreigner born in any American country. Obligations of Members. The members of the assoclation would have the following obliga- tions: Fiirst, to fulfill the resolutions of the councll and assembly. Second, to respect the territorial and political integrity of the other assoclated nations, obligating them- selves not to ga to war until three months after the pronouncement of an arbitration award. Third, to prohibit the sale or ex- port of arms or munitions of war to a { private person. Fourth, to prevent the transit of arms and munitions which are not destined for governments. Fifth, to assure liberty of traffic and tranait. The project establishes that if an associated or non-assoclated country should refuse in case of conflict to obey decisions adverse to it, or should irefuse pacific solutions, preferring to tmpose ite will by force, the assocla- tion would break diplomatic, com- mercial and financial relations with that country, and also prevent its holding relations with the associated nations. Council and Assembdly. The authorities of the association would be a council, assembly and secretariat. The council would be formed of the representatives of nine nations. Ths term of office of the members of the council would be six years, and two-thirds of the mem- bership would be renewed every two years, the Trepresentatives to be chosen by majoritv vote of the as- sembly. The presidency would be renewed annually. The represéntation of a nation on the oouncil would be suspended if it were governed by a de facto gov- ernment until such government was recognized as de jure. The duty of the oouncil would be to carry out the decisions of the assembly and a@es to the fulfiliment of the prin- ciples and objects of the association, for which purpose it would enforce such measures as it deemed oon- venient. Ome Vote to Each Member. The assembly would be formed of representatives of all the members, each holding one vote, Ordinary ses- sions of this body would be held at least once yearly, while extraordi- nary sessions could be called by the council or at the request of five countries having a_total population equalling at least half continent. The secretariat would be organized on the basis of the pan-American union, with headquarters in Washing: ton during the formation of the as- sociation, after which it would be removed to some other ocountry. Dr. glrnn.xulu‘[fltl Panama as & favora- o site. A statement was issued today by the secretary of President Brum giv- ing denial to the declaration attribut- ed to the president that Urugusy would be pleased to see nations out- side of those of the American con- tinent at the pan-American congress in_Santiago. The statement declared that Pres- ident Brum had said only that Uru- guay would be pleased to see all American nations represented. Late News Is Broadcasted Throughout Washington by the 5:30 Edition | @he Foening Stz Every news-gathering sends the final reports from everywhere—in- cluding the financial finals. “It's All in The 5:30 Star” For sale throughout the city ‘bylmnbwlmd Criminal.” Some of the signs are ‘These. warnings are being posted by the Washington Safety Council. GET 54 BODIES IN DAWSON MINE Rescue Work, Hampered by Blizzard, Again Moves Forward Rapidly. 92 CHILDREN ORPHANED Fifty Women Widowed by Explo- sion—Cause of Blast Still Is Undetermined. By the Associated Press. DAWSON, N. M, February 10— Dawson's death list In the disastrous blast which wrecked Mine No. 1 of the Phelps-Dodge Corporation Thurs- day, probably will be 120. Officials have abandoned hope of finding any of the missing men allve, it was an- nounced late today. The total number of bodies recov- ered from the mine passages reached fitty-four early tonight. The body of Albert E. English, jr. foreman, was removed shortly after 4 o'clock this afternoon. W. D. Brennan, manager of the lo- cal properties, after an exploration trip through the mine, declared em- phatically there is little doubt that all have perished. Cause Still Mystery. This afternoon—forty-eight hours after the blast—the cause of the ex- plosion was as much a mystery as it has ever been. Rescue crews were hampered early in the day by a blizzard, but the storm subsided at noon and by to- night the crews had taken the bodles of fifty-four men from the mine. Officials of the company tonight ‘were wrestling with the mass of ad- ministrative details resulting from the deaths of Thursday’s day shift Organization of a welfare department to care for dependents, burial of the victims and reconstruction of the mine were some of the activities of the large corps of company officers and employes stationed here. If none of the miners still unac counted for is found alive the disa: ter will have made widows of fifty- five women and orphans of ninety- two children, according to figures compiled late today. Three Explanatior Three probable explanatious for the blast were given by Manager Bren- nan. A miner may have carried a match into the workings, although all workmen are searched for inflam- mables. An electric wire may have caused a spark which ignited dust in the mine, or & spark from a mine car may have set fire to dust or gaves. The first bodies of mine victims are to be interred in the Dawson cemetery tomorrow. The heroic work in Dawson's under- ground tomb of scores of volunteer rescue wrokers and repairmen had Its counterpart in the more prosaic but none the less heroic work of the women in Dawaon. As fast as news of the ex- plosion flashed throughout the town the women began mobilizing for relief work. When the first rescue crew emerged from the mine late Thursday night hot coffee, sandwiches, fruit and warm clothes were on hand to bolster them up and alleviate their weariness. Phone Girls Herolnes. Hour by hour since then, as shifts changed and exhausted workers drag- ged themselves from the mine, the woman relief workers have remained on_the job. Scarcely less heroic has been the work of the two telephone operators employed in the Dawson exchange. For shi ranging from twelve to sixteen hours Jessie Sneddon and Goldie White- ley have been at their desks in the office. PLAN PUBLIC FUNERAL. Victims of Canadian Mine Blast to Be Honored Today. By the Associated Press. CUMBERLAND, B. C, February 10. ~Plans were being made tonight for & public funeral for the white men who lost their lives by an explosion of fire damp in Mine No. 4 of the Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Inc., near here Thursday night. The death list frum the disaster has been fixed officially at 33, includ. ing 19 orientals. Mayor Charles P. Parnham and the mine officials have Jolned efforts to give rellef to the destitute. The company is giving temporary relief. No. 4 was the only mine of the Canadian collie group in_this vi- cinity in operation. It had been re. opened recently, havng been closed following an explosion last August when 13 men were killed, and now is to be closed again, throwing many out of work. facility of The Star resume and sporting newsdealers. automobile driver and pedestrian that they must be here shown om street ears, am auto {D. C. BILL TOTALING | $22,778,915 SENT BACK TO SENATE (Continued from First Page.) af land, the erection of the said build- ings, and all expenses incidental there. to. shall not exceed the sum of $62,000, which amount is hereby appropriated for that purpose. Tha title to the sald property shall be taken directly to and in the name of the United States; and {In case a satisfactory price cannot be agreed upon for the purchase of said land, or n case the title cannot be made satisfactory to the Attorney General of the United States, then the latter ig directed to acquire said tract of land by condemnation and the ex- pense of procuring evidnece of titls, or of condemnation of both, shall be paild out of the appropriation herein made for the purchase of said tract. ‘The board “of trustees of said school may, in their discretion, re- move and transport to the aforesaid tract for such legal periods as they may see fit, any of the girls who may have been committed to the National Training School for Girls in the Dis. trict of Columbia, and the board o trustees of sald school shall have the same power and authority over such girls during the period of their com- ! mitment to said tract, or while they are being conducted to or from sald tract, as they now possess over such girls within the limits of the District of Columbla. ~When the bufldings herein authorized to be constructed shall be in readiness to receive girls committed to the National Training School for Girls, it shall not be law- ful to keep white and colored girls on the same reservations under the control of the board of trustees of said schoo Text of Amendment. Regarding the proposed school-home for feeble-minded the committee amendment, approved by the House, was as follow “The Commiissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and di- rected to acquire a site for a home and school for feeble-minded sons, sald site to be located in the ‘District of Columbia, or in the stat of Maryland, or in the state of Vir- ginla, and to erect thereon suitable buildings at a total cost not exceed- ing $300,000, of which not more than $38,000 shali be expended for a site, and toward said purpose there is re. appropriated the sum of $100,000, con. tained in the District of Columbia appropriation act for the fiscal year 1923, toward the erection of sultable bufldings for a home and school for feeble-minded persons, to be available immediately. If the land proposed to be acquired is within the District of Columbia, and the samo cannot be acquired by purchase at a price satisfactory to the Commissioners, they are author- {zed to condemn the same under thi provisions of chapter 15 of the code of law for the District of Columbia. U. 8. to Hold Title. “If the land proposed to be acquired is without the District of Columbia and cannot be purchased at a satis- factory price, the Attorney General of the United States, at the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, shall institute condemna- tlon proceedings to acquire such land as may be selected for said site either in the state of Maryland or in the state of Virginia, in accordance with the laws of said states, the title of said land to be taken directly to and in the name of the United States, but the land so acquired shall be under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as agents of the United States, and expenses of proouring evidence of title or of condemnation, or both, shall be paid out of the appropriation herein made of said site. ble to said home and school and the pro- oeedings with reference to securing such admission to be in accordance with law. The authorization to use a site for a home and school for feeble- minded perrons on lands owned by the District of Columbia, contained in ::le lZ:;Lr;ct l:)f, Cglumbll appropria- on or the fiscal 1 fiDantitox tha year 1923, is Anacostia Provision. Regarding the modification of the Anacostia Park development the amendment adopted by the house was: “The board of engineers consti- tuted by Public Act No. 441, approved March 2, 1911, is hereby directed to submit through the Chief of Engi- neers, United States Army, on the first day of the next regular session of Congress, a report on the desir- abllity or undesirability of continuing the said project above Benning bridge and if it 18 to be 80 continued what odifications in existng srn]ect above Bnnnlnf bridge appear desirable and in the interest of economy. Such re- port shall include such recommenda- tions with a statement of the facts and all include detailed estimates of cost under the modifications pro- posed compared with the estimates under present plans and the decrease in cost'as a re ult of such modifica- on The name of the Georgetown bridge was changed by an amendment to the full name “Francis Scott Key” bridge. Blanton Proposal Lost. An amendment offered at ths end of the school site and bullding pro- gram by Representative Blanton, which provided that the total of $1,300,000 should be paid entirely out of the revenues of the District, was defeated by a vote of 2 to 39. Representative H. Walton Moore sought to specifically provide in the blll that the colored bathing beach, for which the appropriation was con. tinued, should not be located at the Virginia side of the Key bridge. Chairman Cramton explained that Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherriil, omcer in charge of public buildings and grounds, said that this was the only site avallable. Representative Moore said_that he had assurances from the Secretary of War that the bathing beach would never be located there, and said that he had rellable in- formation that the colored peopl themselves opposed that location. The Moore amendment did not carry. GRANTED RIGHT TO0 SUE. PHILADELP Pa., February 10. —The right of New TYork city to prove a claim for $1,079,176 against the bankrupt estate of Dailey Ivins, who for ars held contracts for the collection of that city’s ashes and garbage, was sustained by the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals here today. The claim was for relmbursement of moneys spent by New York city in collecting ashes and garl after the contractors went _into tcy and their re- celver and trustees refused te OAITY: out the contracts. 2 BANKS OPEN TOMORF.OW. District Falls to Observe Lincoln’s Birthday as Legal Holiday. Contrary to an announcement made in the financial column of The Star of yesterday, the banks and financial institutions of the District will be open for business tomorow, Lincoln's birthday. The New York Stock Exchange and anks in many of the other states where the day 1s observed as a legal holiday will be closed. TOMORROW TO BE D. . DAY IN HOUSE Many Small Bills Expected to Pass Unopposed—14th Street Measure Up. Tomorrow is to be District day in the House. This has been published on the program of legislation drafted by the office of the House leader for the information of members. Much important legislation for the District is awaiting action on the House calendar. It is proposed to first pass a num- ber of small bills about which there {s no controversy—to get them out of the way, such as allowing the Shriners to use the parks for camp- ing during the big Shrine convention here next June, to change the name of Keokuk street to Military road from 21st strest to Georgla avenue, the measure to establish a board of accountancy to pass upon all appli- cants for licenses as certified public accountants. 14th Street BUI Up. One of the important measures which are expected to pass is the pro- posed extension of 14th street through the Walter Reed Hospital grounds, opening up & big suburban territory for residential purposes, thus relieving the housing oconges- tion. Effort to amend this bill wiil be made by Representative McKenzie of Illinois, acting chairman of the military affairs committee, who will seek to prevent the extension of 14th street through the Walter Reed Hospital gr The Zihiman bill to provide strict penalties for infractions of the traf- fic regulations may be called up. If this measure is likely to pass, Repre- sentative Zihlman may offer the Com- missioners’ gasoline tax bill, which insures reciprocity with Maryland in the matter of auto license tags, as an amendment. If both these bills are passed it belleved that the traf- fic_situation and the old automobile fight between the District and Mary- land will be corrected. Insurance Code May Pass. The measure providing for a new Insurance code for the District, draft- ed by Insurance Commissioner Miller after conference with the best author- ities In the country, will be one of the measures specially urged for passage. The administration s behind this leg- Representative Zihlman has prom- ised to try to get through the bill to equalise the retirement pay of vet- eran police and firemen, some of whom were retired before the advanced pay schedule went into effect and who ac- cordingly are getting less than those more recently retired. HOWARD MEDICAL FUND IS STARTED Twelve Physicians and Busi- ness Man Raise $13,000 for Endowing New School. Thirteen thousand dollars for the $250,000 endowment fund of the How- ard University School of Medicine was ralsed at a luncheon meeting of twelve physicians and one businss man Friday, it was announced last night by the university. “This is the first time in the history of the raoe that ooncerted philen- thropy has appeared upon such a scale of magnitude,” the announce- ment said. Those who made the gifts wers Dra A. M. Curtis, Michael O. Dumas, Milton A. Francls, Hamilton §. Mar- tin, 8. 8. Thompson, Charles 1. West, jr.; R. Wilder, Simeon L. Carson, James C. Dowling, E. D. Williston, W. A. Warfleld and Mortimer M. Har- ris, all of Washington, and Dr, Mar- cus F. Wheatland of Newport, R. I. To Homor Domors. “So_significant do the university authorities consider these gifts as marking & new era in the progress of the race, that it has been decided to erect a’ bronze memorial tablet to perpetuate the memory of these and simiiz: pioneers for all time,” the announcement continued, “All those who contribute $1,000, whether graduates of the university or not, and from any section of the country, will be honored in per- petuity in this fashion, no matter whether the gift {s made all at one time or paid in part, and the balance spread over a period of time not ex- ceeding three years. Final Instructions Given. Friday night about forty physicians of the city and their wives met in the new dining hall of the univer- sity and received fnal instructions for a campalgn of solicitation to be made this week for the medical school endowment fund. One hundred and thirty students now in the school of medicine have volunteered to as- sist in campaigning in the various districts of the city, which will bring the number of solicitors to about 200. The campaign will ofcially close ‘Thursday. About $65,000 already has been se- cured in cash, and pledges from the trustees, faculty, administration body, students and a number of alumni and friends of the _university. _ The amount to be raised between now and July 1 is $186,000. FRAMES NEW LiST OF TRAFFIC RULES Work of Assistant Corpora- tion Counsel to Come Be- fore Committee. LACKS DRASTIC CHANGES Regulations Are Believed to Cover Speed Limit, Right of Way, Signals, Eto. A set of concise, plainly wordes traffic regulations, covering those questions that directly involve humar satety, has been compiled by As- sistant Corporation Counsel Ringgold Hart, and will be laid before the Com- missioners’ traffic committee tomorrow or Tuesday. Although Mr. Hart's recommenda tions were not made public last night it is understood they state the speed limit, right of way at Intersections, signals for stopping or turning, stop- ping behind street cars and turning corners. It is not believed that the report contains any drastic departures from existing regulations. ~Stmplification of some of the present regulations so that their meaning will be unmistak able will be provided for in the re port, it is understood. Views Held by Oyster. Commissioner Oyster, who super< vises tfaffic problems, 18 known to be of the opinion that Washington has a sufficient number of traffic regula< tions and that the real meed in re ducing accidents is more police an strict enforcement of present laws. William P. Eno, chairman of the Commissioners’ traffic committes, wa{ not prepared to say yesterday when | the committee would meet. It 18 ox« | pected, however, that some definita | announcement will be made tomor< row &8 to when the recommendas tions of the assistant corporatios counsel are to be taken up. Poster Campaign. With o 1t) s as |the Washington Safety Councl] tod morrow will launch its permanent Poster campaign to reduce socidents | The posters with the above slogan standing out in bold letters will be [placed at 100 busy locations throughe out the city. Permanent metal frames have been erected at these points and & new slogan will be posted in them every month. The safety council is well suppHed with pithy warnings that should bring_home to every motorist and pedestrian the penalty of oareless driving or walking. Four hundred taxicabs and motor busses and cars of the Washington Rafiway and Electrio Company and the Washington-Virginia Rallw: Company will carry a small poster with the reckless-driving slogan. Through the co-operation of gov ernment officials the poster also wii be displayed at the entrances to a federal office buildings. Many Forteit Collateral Emphasis was placed upon the fac that out of 28,079 arrests for viola tions of the traffic law last year, 2J,- 782 forfelted ocollateral, by Repré sentative Fred N. Zihlman of Mary- land, in reporting to the House yes- terday the bill providing for a traffc court and drastic penalties for traf- fio_violations. In his report he argued that “the procedure in the District courts of allowing violators to post a small fee and forfeit that as collateral, and then not appear is largely responsible for the disregard of trafic laws and regulations and it should be abol ished. Under the provisions of this bill, while collateral can bs posted, the offender must appear for trial and further hearing, and in case of for- feiture of the collateral, it is pro vided that he shall be rearrested ani upon conviction be subjected to the penalty of the act.” Representative Zihlman submitted with his report data showing the traffic accidents and traffic violatlons and the disposition made of such cases during the calendar year 1922 Police Figures. These figures wers compiled for Representative Zihlman by Maj. Bul- livan, superintendent of police, as follows: Accldents of every nature Accidents resulting in injory to person. Accldents resulting in death of person. Accidents resulting in property damage. Accidents ting in nefther fnjury to person nor damage to property.. Total number arrested for collidi; Total number convicted .. Total number forfeiting coilateral. Total number nolle prossed, dismissed or pending . Total number "arrested 'ch: violation of the trafiic laws lations . Total actusi Total di Total nolle pi its opening MAY LOSE THEATER DISASTER CLAIMS (Continued from First Page) 1t was suggested. The question would then arise whether the right to sue has not been lost by the passage of the time limit for those who were killed on the night of the tragedy. Same Question May Be Raised. Attorney Lambert stated last night that the same suggestion as to the dissolution or death of the corpora- tion will be filed when the time comes to answer the fifty or more sulits brought late in January by legal rep- resentatives claiming a total of $500,000 damages from the company. Mr, Lambert, speaking of the dis- solution proceedings, said the applica- tion was flled July 5 last, and one week later the recelvers were ap- pointed. The Delaware court ordered notice of the proposed dissolution filed in a newspaper in Wilmington, and one in Washington for four weeks. The publication was made &nd the final order of dissolution signed by Judge J. O. Wolcott at Wilmington, October 12. ' The company had ceased business and its property had been sold at auction prior to the applica- tion for dissolution, the lawyer stated Army Flyers to Make Trip to Porto Arrangements have been completed by the Army air service for an ex- perimental airplane flight from the United States to Porto Rico by way of Cuba, it was announced yesterday by Secrotary Weeks. In making the announcement, the ‘War Becretary sald the Porto Rican trip had been decided upon after it had been found impractical to make the flight to Panama, plans for which were originally contemplated by the air service. The flight will start from Kelly Field, near San Antonio, Tex. late this month, and will be in charge of Capt. Thomas Lanthier, now com: ;n::‘dln gu alr service troops at Rico Via Cuba Six De Haviland 4-B type planes are being equipped at Kelly Fleld, each plane with a gas capacity of 135 gallons, and other devices, including speed propellers and extra sturdy landing gears. ‘The {tinerary calls for the first stop at Lake Charles, La, then to San Juan, via Montgomery, Ala.; Arcadia, Fla.; Havana, Cuba; Camaguey, Cuba; the United States naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba; Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Santo Domingo City. The crulse will be made in easy stages, and it is expected the air- planes will arrive at San Juan In about three weeks from the tims they leave Kelly Field.