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5 FParis, WEATHER. Cloudy and unsettled this afternoon tomorrow and tonight; change in temperature. zm' twenty-four hours Full report on page 7. New York Stock Market _No. 29043, Temperature p.m. today: Highest, 53, at 2 pam. yesterday. Lowest, 47, at 7 a.m. today. Entered as second-class matter post_ofice Washington, D. C. fair; no ended at Closed Today z CONFLICTING VIEWS ON EXPERT INQUIRY GIVENTO CABINET Jusserand Confers With Cool- idge on Reparations ls-. sue Before Session. - " EVENTUAL AGREEMENT STILL HELD POSSIBLE Tinal Decision May Await Further Exchanges Between Paris and Washington. With a icting view before tod tement of the Iurc rican complete s the pean al- govern- Kingl of the An weighed pains whether the American aid in an ex- “parations inquiry. it, a ¢ bort In no quarter was the tic indication would be s any authen- soon a decision in what' direc- opinions high officials It was apparent, how- of an eventual agree- been lost, how eached, or n of were tending that hope ment had not Jusserand Sees Coolidge. before F cabinet dent Coolidge nbled for their Tuesday meeting Ambassador of K called at the ite House and spent twenty min- uics with the Chief Executive. £4id he had come primarily to pay his respects, but left inquirers to their own infere s to what sub- Jects may have been discussed. Yesterday the ambassador, just back from Paris, talked for more than two hours with stary Hughes, «utiming the reasons why Premier P'oincare objects to the unrestricted Teparat uiry favored by the United s and anparently at Britain, Italy and ass ance ium. The jong conference between the cretary and the French plenipo- tentiary” led to many rumors of a compromise on the one hand and of ~_deadlock on tij For none of these was the basis in the outgiy of resnonsible officials. Both s State Department and at bassy it was emphasiz- present delicate stage itions what passed at must remain a closed th ed that in t of the negot the conference took. ther Parleys Likely. quarters it . that further ex- Washington In authoritative indicated changes intended howeve: between o unders two governments, must be awaited be- fore there could be a final decision. Jt was said authoritatively that noth- ing had transpired to finally the hope of administration iy an agreement permitting American in the proposed inquiry. or Premier Poincare to continue in his presena position undoubtedly has become increasingly difficult since ihe British, Belgian and Italian gov- ernments all have indi ness to accept an unrestricted in- vestigation, -lecaving France alone to bear the burden of responsibility for failure of the new plan for solution | door had | draw | win agree- | !Vermont normally is republican, and :]ioll(iv:«l wiseacres say there are no | signs of an upheaval. j elected to Congregs, four in New York jand one cach in Illinois, Vermont and | North cCarolina. jcaused by deaths, and one to fill the | i place left vacant by the resignation {of Dale, Vermont. and | insure a -clearer! nding of the position of the| dispel | oflicials | ated a willing- | lc hauncey Depew Votes for G.O.P. ‘As Usual’ at 89 By the Associated Press. NEW \\'ORK. November 6.—One of the’ early voters today was Chauncey M. Depew, who, despite his eighty-nine years, went with Mrs, Depew to a voting place in West 55th street. He predicted the election of a republican assembly, but declared himself uncertain as to the other contests. “I believe I am the oldest voter in the district,” he sald. An official replied that he was, adding that he also was the most reliable, “Well, T've been voting sixty- nine vears and have just got into the habit.” he replied, “and I have always voted the same ticket.” 3 STATES BALLOT TODAY, MAINLY ON LOCAL GONTESTS Kentucky Expected to Fur- nish Only Indication as to National Trend. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 6. —With few issues having a bearing on the next presidential campaign involved in to- way the national is blowing. Only one new member of the United States Senate is to be elected. He come from Vermont to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Senator Dillingham, whose term would have expired in 1927. Porter H. Dule, republican, and Park H. Pol- lard, democrat, a cousin of President { Coolidge, are candidates for the place. { The prohibition issue is involved, Dale tavoring enforcement, Pollard advocat- | {ing modification of the Volstead act.| political “wind Seven new representatives will be Six of the congres- sional elections are to fill vacancies | In Illinois and North Carolmnd the democratic candidates will have no major party opposition. Slight inter- est’ has been manifest I the other races, with the possible exception of the twenty-fourth New York distric where a close vote is forecast Thomas A. Doyle, democrat, has slight opposition in Illinois, ‘where he seeks the place left vacant by John Rainey, democrat. - In North Caro- | Judge John A. Kerr is unoppo: d § succeed the late Representative ! Claude Kitchin. Ernest W. Gibson, | republican, and Burton E. Bailey, | democrat, are candidates in Vermont. | Three states—Maryland, Mississippi | and Kentucky—will elect governors. | ew York, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland will elect members of the state legislature. Philadelphia will hold a municipal election. b day's off-year elections, there will be| jlittle in the results to indicate which He { here for a BY ENCAERBOCKER | tice s Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0 b Ve ¥ Star. WASHINGTON, 'D.’ C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1923_THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ‘IZIJEAIJ,%TRAPPEIJ BY MINE EXPLOSION | INWEST VIRGINIA Little Hope Held Out for Men Imprisoned in Wreck- ed Shaft. ~ RESCUE SQUADS BRING 23 SAFELY TO SURFACE State Orders All Inspectors to }lnsh to Glen Rogers Working to Help Reach Missing. By the Associated Prees. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Ndvember 6 —-Twelve bodies have been taken from the shaft mine of the Raleigh-Wyo- ming Coal Company at Glen Rogers, Wyoming county, in which an ex- plosion occurred this morning, and little hope Is entertained for thirty men still within the workings, the state department of mines reported at noon today. Sixty-five men were in the mine at the time of the explosion and twenty« three were brought out uninjured, in addition to the twelve bodies found by the rescue squads, the officials of the department said. Their report, they declared, came from the com- {pany’s office at the mine. R. M. Lambie, chief of the state de- partment of mines, left here for Glen Rogers this morning after giving or- ders to assemble all mine inspectors there. At the department offices it was said that the report of the ex- plosion there gave few details Glen Rug?"s is in a. mountainous sectlon of Wyoming county very dife ficult of access. It is connected with a branch of the Virginian railroad at Maben, and the only wire conncetion is a telephone at the office of the company. ion about the ex- | plosion w newspaper men | by J. A. Smith, traflic manager of the | company here,.and Carl Scholz, pres- | ident of the chmpany, said to be on his way to Glgh Roger RESCUEJf TRAIN STARTS. | | | i | W. Va. November 6.—A al firsffaid train, bearing crews from mined in the New River and| Winding Glf fields, was made up | quick run to the scene of the fatal explosion at the Glen Rogers mine. ———— FIRST/SUIT WON~ The nickerbocker Theater Com- pany !l(lu_\‘ won the first civil case brougly against it for damages grow ing ot of the collapse of the roof of thegtheater January 28, 1922, Jus- ddons in Circuit Division 1 di- rected the jury to return a verdict exonfrating the company from re- KLAN EDITOR HELD ONMURDER GHARGE Arrest Follows Slaying of Simmons’ Attorney—Case Goes to Grand Jury. 13 By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, November 6.—While Solicitor John A. Boykin asked the Fuiton county grand jury today to in- dict Philip E. Fox, editor of the Night Hawk, official organ of the Ku Klux Klan, the prisoner refused to add any- thing to his statement that Capt. W. S. Coburn bad threatened to “ruin him,” in explanation of why killed the attorney late vesterday. Investigators and city detectives questioned the prisoner last night at the police headquarters and at the jail, where he was removed several hours after the killing, . Mrs. Fox, wife of (the man who killed the attorney of the Simmons faction, was prostrated at the apart- ment on Wesley refused this morning to admit news- paper men. - Since he was arrested Fox has been held incommunicado under heavy guard and without bond on a charge of murder. Two Eyewitnesses. There were two eyewitnesses to the shooting, according to the police. Mrs. M. A. Holbrook, Coburn’s stenog- LEAGUE STUFF Thanksgiving (! ’ 0 N W U Proclamation 60 cents “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is, ddiutgvd ;:h"uy- "?o?n‘u a::: Sunday norning to irgton e per morith. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Yesterday’ s Circulation, 93,411 TWO -CENTS. SAYS TURK CONCESSION WAS OFFERED STINNES Chester Rights First Tendered Ger- man Magnate, But Negotia- tions Collapsed, Is Statement. By the Associated Press, LONDON, November 6. An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from Con- stantinople quotes the newspapers there as\stating that Col. Cldyton- Kennedy, representing the Ottoman- American Development Company, of- fered the Chester concessions in Tur- key to Hugo Stinnes, the German magnate, but that the negotiations collapsed. Herr Stinnes, it was said, preferred to deal directly with the Turkish gov- ernment after the expiration of the American option on November 15. BALL PROPOSES SOLDIERS REPLACE TRAFFIC OFFCERS Senator Declares Problem of Inadequate Force Would " Be Solved. Abolishment of Washington's “inade- quate traffic enforcement officers” and substitution in their place of enlisted men from the nearby Army and Marine posts was suggested today by Senator Ball to the Senate District committee of which he is chairman and which is making a epecial investigation of the traffic situation here. enator Ball told the committee that Washington is a government city, and he shot and| avenue just off | | Peachtree road, according to a man | who answered the door bell and who Issued by President Coolidge | In his Thanksgiving proclamation made public throughout the United States today, President Coolidge referred to the death of President Harding and the Japanese disaster as being the two great tragic experiences which deeply affected the American people dur- ing the year. . His proclamation in full follows: he American people. from their earliest days, have observed the wise custom of acknowledging each year the bounty with which Divine Providence has favored them. In the beginnings, this acknowledgment was a voluntary return of thanks by the community for the fruit- fulness of the harvest. Though our mode of life has greatly changed, this custoy has always survived, It has made Thanksgiving day not only one of the oldest but one of the most characteristic observances of our country. On that day, in home and church, in family and in pub- lic gatherings, the whole nation has for generations paid the tribute due from grafeful hearts for blegssings bestowed. “To center our thought in thM way upon the favor which we have been shown has been altogether wise and desirable. It has given opportunity justly to balance the good and the evil which we have experienced. In that we have never failed to find reasons for being grateful to God for a generous prep®nderance of the good. Even in the least propitious times, a broad contemplation of our whole position has never failed to disclose overwhelming reasons for thankfulness. Thus viewing our situation, we have found warrant for a more hope- ful confident attitude toward the future. “In this current year we now approach the time which has been accepted by custom as most fitting for the calm survey of our estate and the return of thanks. We shall the more, keegly realize our good fortune if we will, in deep gincerity, give to it due thought, and, more espeeiully, it we will compare it With that of any other community in the work ‘The year has brought to our people two tragic experiehces which have deeply affected them. One was the death of our beloved President Harding. which has been mourned wherever there is a realization of the worth of high ideals, noble purpose and unselfish service carried even to the end of supreme sacrifice. His loss recalled the nation to a less captious and more charitable attitude. It sobered the whoie thought of the country. ‘A little later came the unparalleled disaster to the friendly people of Japan. This called forth from the people of the United States a demonstration of deep and humane feeling. It was wrought into the substance of good works. It created new evidences of our international friendship, which is a guarantee of world peace. It replenished the charitable impulse of the country. “By experiences such as these, men and rations are tested and i | refined.” We have been blessed with much of material prosperity. We ! | shall be better able to appreciate it if we remember the privations others have suffered. and we shall be the more worthy of it if we use it for their relief. We will do well then to render thanks for the good and show by our actions that we have become needs more traffic officers than any other city in the countrs. He pointed out that as it is almost impossible to get sufficient funds from Congress for additional traffic officers, it would be feasible to use the soldiers and ma- rines stationed near the city for this work. ‘ The service men were used to aug- ment the traffic force during tHe Shrine convention, Senator Ball re- flected, and as a result there was not a serious accident, despite the greatly increased automobile and pedestrian traffic. The service men when trained properly, he declared, would make good traffic officers. Scientific Study. the traflic situation was urged by William F. Ham, president Washington Railway and Electric committee as a representative of the Washington Sgfety Council. A thor- ough scientific study of traffic condi- tions;-he said, undoubtedly would give Washington a better code of regula- tions, and improve materially the ex- isting situation. “The accident hazard that has come through increasing atuomobile use has been so sudden that a need has not been felt for protective meas- ures,” said Mr. Ham. of today Is not adequate to meet this hazard. I believe this is due to the lack of realization that the hazard is here. .of Congress.” Unfair. | sauze A contlnuous engineering study of | of the! Company, whe appeared before the| “The machinery | It is a great problem | that_calls for the urgent attention | HOSPITAL SUPPLIES NEEDED WHEN SOLD, COMMITTEE HEARS Public Health Agent Says About Fourth of Bargains Were Really Surplus. NO WARNING OF SALE GIVEN, DOCTOR CLAIMS Marine Hospital Head Tells of Fruitless Efforts to Get Some of Supplies. Less than one-fourth of the three million dollars’ worth of property at Perryville, Md., sold to Thompson & Kelly, Inc., of Boston, by the Veter- ans’ Bureau for $600,000 was really surplus, the Senate investigating com- mittee was told today by C. H. Bler- man, representative of the public health service at the Maryland sup- ly depot. Bierman said the rapidity with which the property was moved “aroused suspicion” in his mind and also created “indignation.” “Can you recall now anything that casts honor on this transaction?" asked John F. O'Ryan, general coun- sel for the committee. “Not from the evidence heard here,” Bierman replied. I have Knew of Sale Two Dayw. Bierman said the first information he had that there was to be a sale was on November 13, two days before the loading of the cars began. Then Lieut. Commander Charles R. O'Leary, in charge of the supply division of the bureau, and Mr. Thompson of Thomp- son & Kelly, arrived at Perryville to arrange for the removal. At that time, Bierman contimued, the public health service had not received the 20 per cent division of all of the property that had been awarded to it at a conference of interested ~government officials six months before the sale was made. Repeated but unsuccessful efforts of the public health service to get Forbes to turn over to that service all of the sheets, bandages, and some other of the staple articles at Perryville, subse- quently sold surplus properties by Veterans' reau, were described Dr. Frederick C. Smith, in charge of public health service_marine hos- pitals and relief stations. Surgeon General Cumming wrote Forbes, he said, that these materia could be used by the public health service at a “tremendous saving to the gover ment.” Notified Health Servick, Dr. Smith testified that Forbes ad- vised the public health ‘service on September 15, 192 that it was the purpose to dispose of the supplies at Perryville, and asked that this service arrange to remove the 20 per cent of the stores which had been allotted to it. It was not until after the sale was made that the public health service knew that it was the purpose to dispose of the property by a sale. The public health service, Dr. Smith went on, lacked storage space for its portion of the supy and made re- ts for such Some Regulation: Present traffic regulations as a that has come to us, peated reque ©f the reparations tangle. i rapher, and Mrs. Oscar Weyman of | space. Finally spongibility for the death of George At the same time it is recognized | | stronger, wiser and truer by the chastenings which have been imposed the aid of Brig. Gen BOTH SIDES SEE VICTORY. here that M. Poincare h Jar support in France and that Hughes at White House. While it is recognized that questions ©of detail about the 1. oposed inquiry | should be adjusted at the quickest possible moment, it is the opinion in some quarters that it may be several days before a final understanding is reached. Ambassador Jusserand's call at the White House preceded by only a few manutes the arrival there of Secre- tary Hughes, prepared to make a general report on the whole situation. Answering the inquiries of news- paper men as he left the executive offices, the ambassador said: “I came primarily for the purpose of aving my respects /to the President. Whether or not we discuss the fine weather, or politic: 1 leave to your clever minds to guess. Conference Result Secret. Whether Ambassador Jusserand, in the lengthy conversation in which he presented the views of his government 10 Secretary Hughes yesterday, had in- dicated any possibility of a recession in Jrance’s stand for restricting the ecope of the study by economic experts had not been disclosed. Before the Krench ambassador went the State Department, information had reached ‘officials here that Great Britain, Italy and Belgium had reached an accord on the form of an invitation for American participation in the in- «quiry. Hope was expressed by a gov- ernment epokesman that France could be induced to join in a full inquiry, but no_indication “was given as to what course the United States might pursue should the allied governments fail to reach an agreement. War Debts Not Topic. Earlier yesterday Secretary Hughes conferred ‘in his office with Secreta- ries Mellon and Hoover. It can be ¢siated on authority that the question of allied war debts to.the United States was not touched upon at this conference. The fact that all three secretaries are members of the debt commission has led to some specula- tion in view of assertions in France ihat the French government would be willing to concur in an unlimited in- quiry into Germany’s capacity to pay, provided the question of interallied debts also was to be discussed. Speculation of this nature was characterized as “altogether wild” in yesponsible quarters, ated authoritatively that'the Wash- ington government had not changed jts view that the reparations qles- tion and that of interallied debts were in no way related and should 1ot be joined in the proposed confer- ence concerning Germany's economic capacity. 2 POINCARE GETS U. s. VIEW. 10 Jusserand Reports on Conference ‘With Secretary Hughes. "By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 6.—Ambassador Jusserand’s cabled report on his caon- versation with. Secretary of State Hughes in Washington yesterday re- | ceived .by Premier Poincare today, was sald at the foreign office to have ,made a pleasing impression - thers, (Continued on Page 2, Columa 4.) 5 ey » ~ much popu- | it | would be difficult for him to recede. | It was reiter- | T Kentucky Eyed by Nation for Hint as to National Trend, By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky. With fair weather pfomised Kentucky voters went to the polls today to elect a full state ticket, a full mem- bership for the lower house of the general assembly and half of the state senate. William Jason Flelds, representatiye in Congress from the ninth KentucKy district and demo- republican opponent, Charles I. Daw- son, were scheduled to vote in thel: home precincts and then come t Louisville to receive “the returns™ the headquarters of their respectiv: parti Men and Women in this state marj§- ed their ballots with admonitioxs from campaign speakers from bo'h parties ringing in their ears that tional political leaders were wat ing the result of the Kentucky elge- tion in hope of finding a clue to the possible trend in the 1924 presidential eleetion. Speakers for the republizan cause during the campaign have mar- shaled before their auditors in ve?xl review the accomplighments of ghe twin party administration—state and national. Oratical shock troops ofsthe democratic party have countered ¥ith attacks on the administrationy of Gov. Edwin P. Morrow, republican incumbent, and broadsides were: di- rected at the national administration. (Continued on Page 4, Column ,1 Using a radiometer based ch the same principle as the little %y of black and silver vanes whigh re- volves in the opticlan's window, Dr: C. G. Abbot of the Smithsonian In- stitutiori has succeeded in megsuring the heat of the stars to the handred millionth degree. : The experiments, which were car- ied on at Mount Wilson, Calif;, with the aid of the great 100-iach reflector there, began in July, and the fesults are regarded by officlals heri as of the highest importance to &cifntists. Nine stars were observed,: Rigel, Vega, Sirius, Capella, Procyon, Alde- baran, Betelguese, Alpha, Herculis and Beta Pegasl, representifig the principal types from the bluj down to the very red ones. < Outcome Is Surprise.y Astronomers have a very jdefinite tmpression,” sald a statemeny at the institution, “based on other inds of studies, as to what sort off results | might be expected from th;o heat spectrum investigations. ut the outcome proved a greatsurprise. For instance, Vega Sirlus arg classed sogether as both blue-white fydrogen November 6.— | cratic candidate for governor, and hl% r |'s. Freeman, who was employed in the |orc estra of the theater, and who met Idc h in the disaster. Suit had been brought on of the widow behalf of Freeman by Oscar Wp Underwood, jr., as administrator .fl'fllc dead musician on the theory | tifat the company had failed in its | @4ty toward its employes of furnish- ing a suitable and safe place in whic ke was to work. Counsel for -the i plaintiff showed that in 1917 a me- Fhanic who was placing laths for the {ceiling of the theater noticed a sag- &ing roof and that one of the sup- porting beams was out of plumb, and by another musician employed there that he had called the attention of the manager of the theater to the vibrations of the roof when the two were on the top of the building about four months before the collapse. Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert, R. H ! Yeatman and E. T. Bell for the com- | pany, in asking for an instructed ver- dict, pointed out that the plaintiff had failed to show any specific act of neg- ligence which was the proximate cause of the collapse of the roof, and as the doctrine of the happening of the ~accident ‘importing negligence does not apply between master and servant such failure of proof was vital to the case of the plaintiff. Attorneys Archer, Chamberlin & Smith noted an exception to the rul- ing-of the court and will.take the case to the Court of Appeals. In granting the motion the court said he did so reluctantly, but his judiclal duty compelled him 'to so act, jalthough he would much prefer to have left the responsibility to a jury. Under the state of the evidence the court said the jury could only specu- late as to the cause of the disaster and a verdict so returned could n have been upheld by the court. Radiometer of D. C. Scientist " Measures: Heat - of the Stars| i SRR, - stars, with few lines showing in their photographic_spectra and_both sup- sun. “Judge of the astonishment 6f the Mount Wilson observers to find Vega shows its maximum spectral heat a great way farther toward the violet than Sirius, whose maximum heat is not very much nearer the violet than that of our sun. Still more remark- able is Rigel, for it shows two max- ima, One occurs, as expected, quite as far toward the violet as that of Vega. But the other, the greater one, occurs very near that of the sun.” Need Better Instrument. [ The mnew study, astronomers be- . -leve, will give a lever to attack the difficult task of learning the physical nature of the stars, although it was said that although the present device can measure one-hundred millionth of a degree, the instrument for next !| year's work must be able to measure a billionth of a degree or better. The instrument used, known as the Nichols radiometer, consists- of two vanes suspended by a thread of two quartz fibers each one ten-thousandth of an inch thick. When moved by a beam of light on one vane, the tor- sion of the twisting thread was com- ‘municated to_ a microscopic mirror and & beam of light was reflected o! iopened fire. posedly nearly twice as hot as the; Cleveland, a client, were in the office at the time. They said Fox fired four shots and' that Coburn toppled from his chair, dead, as Fox threw down his revolver after the last shot and left the office. . Both said that Fox made no statement before he Mrs. Holbrook said that Fox had visited the office a few moments before, but, findinfi Mr. Co- burn busy, had left. He returned a few minutes later and opened fire without ‘a_ word, she said. ed with the Klan when he was arrest- ed, but newspaper men identified him as’the publieity agent of the organi- zation and the police produced a.copy of the Knight Hawk, which bore his name as editor. Declares Others Marked. Dr. Fred B. Johnson of San An- tonio, Tex., issued a statement that | Fox had visited him at the home of { Emperor W. J. Simmons the night be- | fore, and announced that he had been (sent there to kill him (Johnson). According to Dr. Johnson’s state- ment, Fox said also that Simmons, E. Y. Clarke and Coburn were marked to go. Coburn_won the military title of |captain by service in the National |Guard. He seryed on the Mexican ! border during 1916 and 1917. When Camp Wheeler was established lat Atlanta he was stationed there for more than a year and went overseas in the early fall of 1918. He saw action in the final drive of the war |and was wounded twice in action, once being reported dead. Upon_his return from France he engaged in the practice of law here and entered actively into politics, and became connected with the Ku Klux Klan as attorney and later as or- ganizer. He was assigned in 1921 |region. While in California he fig: | ured in the Inglewood rald trial, but was_acquitted. His final act in Klan affairs was the {filing late yesterday for Emperor Simmons of the petition for an in- junction to prevent the organization of the women of the Ku Klux Klan, or similar organization, by Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans. PHONE OPERATORS CALL i DETROIT VOTERS TO DUTY Newsboys Also Remind Customers of Election—Mayor Doremus { Seeks Another Term. By the Assoclated Press. PETROIT, November 6.—Unusual efforts to bring But as large a vote as possible featured the municipal election here today. In addition to the efforts of individuals and organi- zations- to get voters to go. to the polls, 150 telephohe operators called 70,000 subscribers this morning and reminded them of the election, while newsboys asked each customer if he had voted. Mayor Frank E. Doremus., former member of Congress, is candidate for re-election. He is opposed by Thomas E. O'Brien, who received a few votes in the primary election. A city clerk, treasurer and & nine members who compose the city council are_other officers to be elected. Six amendments to the city charter also will be acted i Fox said that he was not connect- as grand dragon of the Pacific coast/| upon us people. ber, as Thanksgiving day, | | throughout the land. homes and their usual places of Forty-eighth. (Seal.) “By the President: “CHARLES E. HUGHES, “Secretary of State. FOSSIL MAN'S AGE SET AT 8,000 YEARS Scientists Disprove D. C. Man’s Prehistoric Discov- ery—Is of Unique Type. By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., November 6—A group of scientists who Satur- day and Sunday studied the scene of the discovery of the bones of the pre- Columbian man féund in this city re- cently by J. P. Harrington of the Smithsonian Institution, came to the conclusion after their investigations that the man lived probably 8,000 years ago. In the group were Dr. Ralph Ar- nold, formexsly connected with the United_ States geological survey; Dr. Robert T. Hill, retired geologist of the Smithsonian Institution; Dr. W. S. Kew of the United States geological survey; \Dr. Chester Stock, professor of, paleontology of the University of California; Dr. William Meade, anat. omist of Yale University; Dr. Lansing Bloom, archeologist of San Diego. Age Hard to Compute. “The remains of the early Santa Barbara, man must be studied care- fully before a definite opinion as to their age can be expressed,” said Dr. Arnold. “It seems certain that Mr. Harrington has unearthed evidenges of a type of early American Indian of which no, other records are avail- able. From an ‘examinatfon of the ground in which they were buried, § believe the skulls are those of men who lived several thousand years ago. The decompoaition. and - fossilization in the crust which: cov- We will thus prepare ourselves for the part we must take in a world which forever needs the full measure of service. been a most favored people. We ought to be a most generous people. We have been a most blessed people. We'ought to be a most thankful “WHEREFORE, 1. Calvin Coolldge, President of the United State®, do hereby fix and designate Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of Novem- and recommend It is urged that gratitude for the benefits and blessings that a gractous Providence has bestowed upon them, and seek the guidance of Almighty God, that they may deserve a cortinuance of His favor. “IN WITNESS WHEREOF®T have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States. “DONE at the city of Washington, this 5th day of November, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-three, and, of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and® ‘We have | its general observance he people, gathering in their worship, give expression to their (Signed) CALVIN COOLIDGE. TREASURY SALARY INCREASE NETS 324 Recldssified- Pay Ranges From $950 to $3,414 for "+ 17,488 Employes. The 17488 employes of the | Treasury Department in' Washington covered by the reclassification act are to receive an average net in- crease of $54 a year above their pres- ent base pay plus the $240 bonus, ac- cording to statistics made public to- day by the Personnel Classification Board. This brings the average sal- ary for the entire department up to $1,692, . The 419 employes in the profes: slonal and scientific service of the Treasury Department are to receive an awfrage increase of $174, which brings the average salary up to 35,414, The 87 employes in the subprofes- sional service will recelve an average net increase of $59, which brings| their average salary up to $1,941. _The big bulk of Treasury employes are ‘in thé élerical, administrative | and fiscal service. These 11,891 workers are to get an average net increase of $25, which makes their average annual salary $1,840. 1 The 1,967 employes in the custodian service, whose average puy is now $918, including ahe bonus, are ad- vanced under reclassification to an average of $950, which is an average net increase of $34 a year. 5 Tr - the clerical-mechanical service there are 3,128 employes whose aver- age annull salary, -plus the bonus, is now $1,638. They will be advanced to an average of § sification. 3 A table *showing how all the em- ploy: the Treasury Department, by burenus and by services, are af 1 reclassification s printed om of today’ 5 2 under reclas- | well whole, Mr. Ham explained, are rea- { sonable, but they do not exactly meet the views of the Washington safety council. Some of the regulations he describeéd as unfair, and warned that a system of regulation must be evolved to meet the varied interests of the city. Before any changes are made in ex- isting regulations, Mr. Ham sald, there should be an impartial survey by traffic experts. Mr. Ham denounced one way streets as a hazard and recommended their quick abolition. With intelligent parking regulations and adequate en- | forcement, he said, the streets of Washington are satisfactory for two way travel. Among the many recommendations for improving traffic conditions sub- mitted to the committee by Mr. Ham, those outstanding were: Abolition of parking in the congested downtown area during the morning and after- noon rush hours, better street light- ing, the appropriation of $5,000 for the painting of white lines on the streets, larger appropriations for au- tomutic_signals and semaphores for the traffic officers; jail sentences for reckless drivers, and a police court adequate to dispose of traffic cases. More policemen for trafic duty, e: tablishment of a traffic court or the magistrate system of trying cases, immediate additions to the motor and general equipment of the police de- partment and_stiffer sentencgs for flagrant violations of traffic laws were urged by Inspector ~Albert J. Headley, chief of the Washington tra fic bureau, when he appeared as the ley was asked to outline the policy of traffic enforcement in the District by Senator Ball. The inspector read a lengthy report to the committee in which he pointed out the tremendous increase in populaticn and number of motor vehicles. Needs Crossing Men. “Despite the small pdlice force, we have made many arrests for various traffe violations,” he sald. “Our great- est need to assist traffic to move smoothly is more men to be stationed at busy crossings. I would recommend that policemen be stationed for th. entire day at_the following points: 6th, 10th, 1ith, 12th, 13th and 15th and Pennsyl- vania gvenue. We are urgently in need of four men at the last-named point. Other points where we meed men are at intersections along F and G streets in the congested sections and at 14th_and Thomas Circle, as as 13th and Massachusetts ue. &Y There are less than 1,000 men on the force, with only a very small per- centage of them doing traffic duty. “What,” interrupted Senator Bayard, «“do you mean to say that there are less than 1,000 pokigemen in a city of nearly 450,000' people?” ‘That's exactly it, sir,”” answered the witness. “And a good many of them have to be in court to try the cases they have made.’ Motor Cycles Needed. ‘We need a twenty-four-hour motor cycle patrol,” continued the witness, “in order to curb speeding. We have now__only fifty-one motor-_cycles, (Continued on Page 2, Colugn %), 't | goods at Perry {ence. | goods, | Charles E. Sawyer, chairman of the pital board, was enlisted in ob- ining a permit from Forbes to use He added that “all of us anxious” to preserve the sup- for government use. ponding to questions prepared by James S. Easby-Smith, counsel for Forbes, Dr. Smith said he believed the Veterans' Bureau had given the pub- lic health service the pick of the ille and added that Forbes had been “most courteous and fair.” such space. were Sales Resumed Later. Dr. Smith said that a Mr. Blerma the public health service represer tive at Perryville, telephoned him on December 6 that the sales to Thompson & & Kelly had been stopped, and that on December & Forbes telephoned him asking if everything at Perryville was all right. The witness said he replied that it was, but added that his un- derstanding was that later the sales were resumed Commander O'Leary testified yes- terday that Sidney Bieber of Wash- ington was present at this confer- Bieber was described in the testimony of Elias H. Mortimer two weeks ago as a friend of Charles R. Forbes and as the man to whom Forbes turned when the former di- rector had failed to interest Morti- mer in an_alleged plan to remove whisky and narcotics from Perry- ville. Commander O'Leary told the com- mittee Forbes had called the confer- ence in connection with charges made by Henry Anchesfer that Bieber_ had been interested in'the contract for the sale of the surplus propert; “Anchester did not show up,” O'Leary said, “but Forbes held the meeting. Anchester, as I understood |it, was interested in getting a con- first witness at the hearings vesterday. | tract for the purchase of some other In taking the stand Inspector Headg and when he found that he could not get it he told me he was going to stop the sale at Perryville.” Deny Illegal Removal, A denial that any of the whisky or narcotics at Perryville has been re- moved illegally was made to the com- . mittee yesterday by Nebins B. Hen- drix, general storekeeper at the sup- ply depot there. The denial came after Hendrix had asked that he be questioned on the subject. He had been called to testify as to what prop- erty had been sold to Thompson & Kelly, together with the price re- ceived and the cost of the goods to the government. Hendrix asserted that much of the property disposed of at one-fifth its cost would have been useful to the bureau and that some of it soon will have to be replaced. The committee seemed most interested in the sale of 43,080 bed sheets at 16 cents each at about the time the bureau was pur- chasing 25,000 sheets at $1.03 each, Hendrix said those sold were superior to those purchased. THREE KILLED IN. MINE. Fourth Hurt When Hoist Falls in Oklahoma Workings. MIAMI, Okla., November 6.—Three men were killed and a fourth seri- ously injured 4n the Lucky Bill lead and zin¢ mine near here:this morn- ing when a hoist broke, dropping them 200 feet. -