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2 - COAST NAVAL BASE S LRGED BY KAHN California Representative Is White House Caller—Phipps to Push D. C. Bills. Representative Julius Kahn of California, chairman of the House committee on military affalrs, an ard- ent advocate of the proposal for the | government to bulld a new naval base at Alameda, Calif, called on Presi- dent Coolidge today. Representative ahn said that this and several other | matters pertaining to the War De- | vartment were discussed during his ! talk with the President, He declared that benefits to be de- by having the base at this on_the Paciflc would be 80 many ihat no time should be lost in start- ing the project. Financlal and {ndustrial, as well as political conditions in the far north- Wes: were briefly described to the Tresident today by J. H. Leonard of Chehulis, Wash, former member of the legislature of that state and & leading figure in republican politics fn that section. Mr. Leonard said Tresident Coolidge's administration thus far has met with general ap- proval. Phipps to Afa D. C. Senator Phipps of Colorado, chair- man of the subcon ittee on appro- priations of the Senate District com- milttee, who saw the Prewident today, id he called for the purpose of pay ing his respeets and to make an en- | sagement for a future conference ut an early date, and he will take up & number of matters aftecting the * District of Columbia. ‘ormer Representative Ernest Lun- | deen of Minnesota called on the I'resident today to urge him to op- pose any efforts to bring the United States dircctly or otherwise into a working agreement with the league of nations. The proposition to have this country participate in an inter- national court of justice also was opposed by Mr. Lundeen latter is president of the ican Club of Minneapolis, which an active part in the fight inl against the entrance of the Tnited States into the league of na- tions. Mr. Lundeen told the Presi- dent that there were many millions )t citizens who were opposed in 1920 | «nd there would be many more of the same hue in 1 . ars. iarrect Taylor Upton, vice chairman of the executive committee © the republican national commit- tee, who is in personal charge of the women's activities of the re- publican party, introduced to the President today Mrs. David Todd of | Youngstown, Ohio, Mrs. Todd has | Leen active in local politics, and was an intimate friend of former Presi- dent and Mrs, Harding, and accord- | ug to Mrs. Upton will be a candi- | date for delegate from her state to thie next republican national conven- tion. —e——s FEDERATED CHURCHES ' TO DISCUSS DRY ACT Council to Take Up Duties of Members in Respect to Liquor Laws. The du church members in con- nection with law enforcement, “‘with especial referbnee at the present time #0 the eighteenth amendment and pro- hibition legislation,” will be one of the chief topics of discussion by the | executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches at Iits ann mecting, in Columbus, Ohfo, Decem- r 12, Thirty communions, having an_adult membership of 20,000,000, | will be represented, according to| plans made public here today. | Among those who will_deliver ad- dresses are Dr. Robert E. Speer, presi- dent of the council; Bishop Willlam F. McDowell of the Methodist Epis- copal Church; Senator Borah of ldaho; Fred B. Smith of New York, ono of the organizers of the recent *‘citizenship conference” held bere, nnd Dr. Daniel A. Poling, president of the Urited Society of Christian En- Several dig Eastern Ch for the first taries of the Orthodox 1 will be in attendance time as guests. Those who have accepted invitations in- iude Archbishop Alexander, head of the Greek Church in America, and Archbishop Panteleimon Athanassi- ades of Jerusalem. RECORD POULTRY DISPLAY | Uncle Sam Big Exhibitor at Bal- timore Show. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, December 3.—The poultry division of the United States Department of Agriculture has as-| sembied the most complete nationally owned exhibit ever prepared for a poultry exposition to be placed in the Baltimore show, which opens at| the 5th Regiment armory tomorrow. M. A. Jull, chief of the poultry divi- sion at Washington, will be in charge of the exhibit, and will give a 8eries | of lectures. 'Other government ex- | perts who will lecture are Joseph P. ! Quinn and A. R. Lee, both of the gov- | nment experimental station at | Beltsville, Md. | HEAVY FREIGHT MOVING. Increase Marks Installation of New Rail Equipment. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., December 3.— Indications point to one of the heavi- est freight movements this week through tre Cumberland gateway in | the history of the Baltimore and Ohio and Western Maryvland lines. Build- ing materfal, live stock, commodities | and coal from points west will make | up_the bulk of the freight. The blg movement will alzo make up for the curtailment during the Thanksgiving holiday. The railroads have received additional motive power, and rolling stock, it is said, was JURY HOLDS DRIVER GUILTY IN DEATH CASE Lipphard Bays He Did Not Know Car Had Struck Miss Jenkins. Adolph Lipphard, jr., thirty yea old, today was blamed by a coroner’ jury for the fatal accldent to Miss Mary L. Jenklus, fifty-two years old, 1216 B street northeast, at Massachu- setts avenue and A street southeast, Thanksgiving night, while on her way to 'a wedding in the Chapel of the Nativity. Lipphard was held for the action of the grand jury. He furnished a bond of $2,000 for lis appearance. Lipphard declared he knaw nothing of the accident. He 8aid he was driv- ing in the vicinity of the Chapel of the Nativity about the time the nc- cldent happened, but did not recall other objecl. Detectives Keck and Mansfield produced witnesses who identified his car as belng the une that struck Miss Jenkins and Mis. J. J. Davis, her sister. (.. COAL GONTROL PROPOSED IN BILL I. C. C. Bureau to Regulate Quality and Transportation Asked by Treadway. Establishment in the Interstate Commerce Commission of an anthra- cite coal bureau, where all persons engaged in the coal business, includ- ing the miners, would be required to register, and where authority over shipments of cars and quality of coal would rest i3 proposed In a bill in- troduced today by Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts. The basis of the bill, Representa- tive Treadway says, is the declara- tion of public interest being para- mount to private monopoly, founded on the report of the United States Coal Commission. A similar decla- tion appears in the grain futures act. which has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court. The bill would write into federal law the principle that anthracite coal is a factor In the current of commerce for the welfare of the peo- ple, and cannot be diverted to pri- vate monopolistic benefit. A director for the proposed bureau is provided for in the bill. This ai- rector would have authority over shipments of cars. and would estab- lish suitable quotas using the state as a unit. He would also have direct supervision of the quality, having the expert assistance and advice of the bureau of mines Cites Pennsylvania Power. The difficulty of the preparation of the bill, fe " «mphasizes, comes in the necessity of dividing the intrastate from the .n- terstate features of the legislation. Several very glaring causes of the present high prices are within the province of the state of Pennsyl- vania, he sald, which cannot be cov- ered by this bill. It is hoped, how- ever, that public opinlon will be suf- ficiently aroused within and without the state to bring about action there, Representative Treadway said. He stated that he has prepared a reso- lution establishing a apecial com- mittee. If it Is found that the com- mittee on Interstats and foreign com- merce will have the time to devote to this measure there will be no nood of a specfal committee. ALIEN BAN DRAWN STRGTER N BIL Quotas Limited to 2 Per Cent of Blood Relatives and Gen- , eral Immigrants. Designed to supplant the present immigration law, which expires next June 30, a bill will be introduced in the House today by Chairman John- son of the immigration committee providing for the division of pro- spective Immigrants into two classes —close blood relatives and other aliens—quotas ‘for each to be fixed at 2 per cent of the varlous nationals in the United States in 1890, The present law limits immigrants to 3 per cent of natfonals in this country In 1910. The measure, Mr. Johnson said last night, is the result of two years' work and study on the part of members of his committee. The bill will he known as H. R. 101, TUnder the bill parents and children of American citizens would be exerapt from the quota count, as would be bona fide students, ministers and cer- tain members of the learned profes- sions. Aliens already In the United States having first papers would be able to apply for the admission of husbands, s and children within quota limitations, while allens in- cligible to citizenship would be de- nied the right of permanent residence. In brief, the measure carries meth- ods, declared Mr. Johnson, “by which all 'soctally inadequate aliens contem- plating emigration to the United States {shall be weeded out at the source and that the burden of proof as to inade- quacy, delinquency ‘and criminal tend- encles shall be placed hereafter on the allen rather than on the United States.” Mr. Johnson said enactment of the measure also would abolish division of families, with unnecessary hard- ships; would reduce the number of im- migrants and increase the desirability of those admitted. sane asylum for the rest of or the reform school, either, —_————— the world never in better shape. SHOT IN ARGUMENT. Row Over Religion Results in Casualty. CHICACO, December 3.—Sigurd | Hemming. wealthy superintendent of the South Rc-.d Balt Company of South Bend Tnd., was shot and seri- ously wounded last night by Andrew sapdegren, Chicago architect, his life-long friend. ‘Hemming sald that they had been drinking and that his friend became angry when they began to argue over raligion. Sandegren was arrested at his studio apartment, where the shooting occurred. WOULD CURB JUDGES. currence of Craig Case. Proposed Bill Would Prevent Re- Federal judges would be prohibited from determining the guilt or inno- cence of persons ordered up for con- tempt committed outside of their courtrooms, under_a bill proposed by Represeptative Stengle, democrat, New York. He said the bill was de- igned to prevent recurrence of such ntences as that imposed by Judge rer, upon Controller Cralg of New CHIEF DEPUTY CHOSEN. Sweeney Expected to Serve Under Fink at Marlboro. Special Dispatch to The Star, UPPER MARLBORO, December 3.— Samuel E. Sweeney of Melwood dis- trict has been recommended by the county demceratic committee for chief deputy sheriff, Hervey G. Machen of Hyattsviile'| will, it is reported, be second deput; Sherifr. He was defeated for. sherift several years ago by EIf S. Harrison of Queen Anne: district, republican, by a small margin. Sheriff-elect Fink probably will take the oath of office about December 15. BOARD MAY DELAY ACTION Election of Head for Education Body Probably Deferred. Election of a presflient to succeea Danfel J. Callahan, who resigned sev- eral weeks ago, probably will be deferred by the board of education until the latter part of this month, unless the justices of the District Supreme Court appoint a successor to Mr. Callahan before the regular wemi-monthly meeting of the body Wednesday. Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the board, and James T. Lioyd are veing seriously considered for th presidency, it was sald today iIn that his car struck a pedestrian or| Representative Treadway | The United States, | {he continued, no longer can be “the in- THE EVHENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. POLL SHOWS BONUS, AHEAD OF TAX CUT Firm Opposition to Mellon Plan Certain to Develop in Congress. That Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's tax reduction program ls to meet strong opposition in Congress from senators and representatives who would prefer to glve veterans of the world war a bonus is showp in a poll of the members of Congress taken by the New York World and several other New York papers, In reply to a letter requesting some indication of whether their constit- uents, speaking through them, would choose Secretary Mellon's proposal *“to increase taxes that would follow from & soldler bonus,” the World received 144 replles from members of both houses. Of this number sixty-elght wrote that they favored tax re- duction above all else, fifty-six pre- ferred the bonus and twenty declined to commit themselves. In Favor of Bonus. An additional elghty-two members of Congress were interrogated by the other New York papers—fourteen senators and sixty-elght representa- tives. Six of these senators and twenty- elght of the representatives came out flatly for the tax reduction #rogram of Secretary Mellon. Five senators and twenty-one representatives dis- approved it and three Benators and nineteen representatives were non- committal. Of those approving the Mellon plan eight declared they were for a bonus, too, and eleven of the non-commijttal congressmen also placed themselves on record as In fayor of the bon “This makes a total of 226 mem- bers out of a grand total of 435 rep- resentatives and 96 senators who ex- pressed themselves,” sald the New York World this morning. “Of this number 102 were for the Mellon plan, 82 favored the bonus and 42 wrote themselves down as in doubt, repre- senting the most illuminating cro section of congressional opinfon that has yet been secured.” Some Want Both. Many of those members of Congress who would not commit themselves made it plain that their uncertainty was due to thelr doubt as to whether Seoretary Mellon was correct in as- serting ‘that there could not be a reduction in taxes and a bonus, too. Some of those who favor the bonue flatly declared that they could not understand why both the bonus and the Mellon plan were not possible. _ Senator Copeland, democrat, of New York, was in the latter class. With him ‘In a more or less lukewarm fashion was Senator Edge, republican. | of New Jersey. and in hearty accord vas Senator Cummins, republican, of Other senators who would like to see the bonus passed were Senators Jones., republican, of Washingto |Senator Ferris, republican, Michiga: Senator Couzens, republican, Michi- gan; Senator Sheppard, democrat, Texas; Senator Hareld, republican, Oklahoma; Senator Harris, democrat, of Georgia, and Senator Caraway, dem- ocrat, of Arkansas. Opposed to the bonus or in favor of the Mellon plan, or both, were Sen- ator Moses, republican, of New Hampshire; Senator Fernald, repub- lican, of 'Maine; Senator = Magnus Johnson of Minnesota: Senator King. democrat, of Utah, and Senator Ernst, | republicdn, of Kentucky. JOHN R, HENDLY, 69, IS DEAD AT HOME HERE Long Interior Department Er- ploye and Promirent as Masen, i John R. Hendley, for twenty years an employe of the United States bureau of educaslon, and prominent Mason, died Saturday at his residence, 943 E street southwest. Funeral services will be held at the restdence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. In- {terment will be in the Presbyterian .cemetery, Alexandria, Va. Mr. Hendley was born in_ Alex- andria sixty-nine years ago. For the past twenty years he was connected with the education bureau, being in charge of publications and supplies. He was subseduently chief of the | mimeograph and addressograph sec- | tion. At the time of his death he was | in_ charge of the multigraphing, | mimeographing and addressing of the Department of the Interfor. He was active in Masonic circles. being special delegate of the bureau | of education in the Trowel Club, organization composed of Master Ma. sons of the Interlor Department. He was a_member of St. John's Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Mount Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, and Washington Command- ery of Knights Templar of the Dis- trict of Columbia. He was also active in_the Eastern Star. Early In his career he worked as compositor on one of the Alexandria papers, and was for a time in the rall- Toad business. He was a well known figure on the Potomac river, and transported many pleasure parties up | and down the river on his large i yacht, the Rosalie. Surviving him are his wife, . Mrs. iRosalle Hendley, and a son, Will {Hendley of the Poll's Theater staff. —_— SEEKS TO OUST GERMAN UNDER ALIEN LAND LAW Prosecutor Files Suit to Dispossess Property Holder in Wa: ington. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., December 3.—Suit has been filled in superior court here scate the holdin in this e Ot Frans X. Freidnoter as the fnauguration of a campaign to eject | a1l allens from lands following the decree of the United States Supreme Court sustaining the Washington en land laws. e A esecutor adked in the sult that the various holdings of Freid- hofer, & German, be confiscated by the state because he is “an alien resident and has not in good faith declarsd his intention of becoming & sitisen nited State otT}l';. state law provides no remu- neration for the lands of aliens that onfiscated. T ihe county prosecutor said that additional suits will be filed against other aliens holding lands under deed or lease. v COMMODORE VEEDER DIES Retired Naval Officer Was™ Com- mander Under Farragut. Commodore Ten Eyck De W. Veeder, | U. 8. N, retired, died at his home in Greenwich, Va., Saturday, after: a short {llness, in his sixty-ninth yeer. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1873, and at one time commanded the Hartford, former flagship of Admiral Farragut. Later he commanded the modern battleship Alabama in the crufse around the world in 1907. He also served as commandant of the navy yard, New York, and as superintendent of the Navay Observatory, this city. In 1893 he married Miss Mary Green of Savannah, Ga., who survives him, with two sons, Licut. Ten Eyck De W. Veeder, jr. of the Navy and M shipman~William S. Veeder at the Naval Academy. Paris was the first city in which fire :mm were used, the date L it A {eral years, Map showing location of groun Dintrict of Columbia by Ch: indicated by heavy black 1t MT. VERNON DRIVE BILL INTRODUCED Representative Moore Also Proposes Bridge and Cession Measures. Bllls authorizing the bullding of a boulevard from Washington to Mount Vernon, looking toward construction | of a bridge to replace the old Chain | bridge and to cede certain territory to the state of Virginla, were intro- | duced today by Representative R. ‘Walton.Moorg of. Virginia. Representative Moore's bridge bill calls for an investigation and report of the condition of the Chain bridge, with a view to determining its suffi- clency for present purposes, and, if not sufMclent, looking to the con- stfuction of a new bridge. For sev- Representative Moore ex- plans, the Engineer Commissioner of the District has found the bridge so weakened as to make it necessary to | 1tmit the load in any vehicle which is allowed to paes over it. The Commissioners have heretofore, in- dorsed the proposition. Sought for Many Years. i The bill to authorize construction and maintenance, under the super-| vision of the Department of Agri- ulture, of a boulevard between Washington and Mount Vernon is an| attempt to accomplish legislation that | has been sought for many years. It is understood that this bill, which was offered in the last Congress, has the support of the bureau of puolic roads of the Department uf Agricul- | ture. i Representative Moore's third bill | proposes to cede to the state of Vir-' ginla a parcel of land at Alexandria ! ontaining about forty-five acres, | which, under a recent decision of the ! Supreme Court of the United States, ia held to be within the limits of the District of Columbia, but over which it is impracticable for the District to exercise jurisdiction. | Several bills to authorize the con- struction of public buildings at poin in Virginia near Washington, includ- ing Alexandria, where the Post Office Department has reported that the present building s wholly inade- quate, were also (ntroduced today by Representative Moore. —_—— Soroptimist Club, Wallace-R. Farrington, governor of the territory of Hawall, will be the quet_and installation of officers of the Soroptimist Club, to be -held at Rauscher’'s tomorrow. Commissioner and President Ruby Lee Minar of the club also will_speak. Mrs. Ethel K. Poliard is chairman | members being: Miss Florence Alex- ander, Miss Genevieve C. Gearmore, Mrs. 1da Humphrey Browning, Miss Lanman, Mrs. Harriet Hawley l.ocher,i Mrs. Helena Reed, Mrs. Jennie M. Ryan, Miss Marguerite Sitgreaves. 1 By the. Associated Press. LACROSSE, Wisc, December 3. burned to death, and many of the 135 ; nuns at St. Rose Convent narrowly escaped in a fire w! gutted the esterday. 4 The convent is the mother house of the Order of Franciséan Sisters of in_1869. The loss Is estimated at 176,000. 1L ater M. Pancretia, portress of the on the third floor by firemen. During the fire the nuns continued the service of perpetual adoration, St. Rose Chapel of Perpetual Adoeation. one of the finest churches in the western part of the country. St. burned hullrll?l. l't." not damaged, lls savin nr’:’h:‘fl: Rnn‘mnnn! is m'b:‘l‘ll!‘: ly the mother house, but also The Wosmal training school of the sisterhood, which specializes in hos- —_— JAPANESE SEE FLYERS. PENSACOLA, Fla., December 3.— days at the Pensacola e i Htation have left for New York. Those in the naval party were Lieuts. Fends, jand K Governor of Hawaili -to Address principal speaker at the annual ban- Rudolph, one of the honor guests, of the banquet committee, other, Margaret Gillesple, Miss Caroline Sister M. Ledwina, seventy, was dormitory wings of the convent here Perpetual Adoration, and was built convent, was carried from her room which is & feature of the order in its Rose Chapel, although & part of the establishment of the order, pital and school work. Four Japanese naval officers who T. Muori, 8. H, Kato les C. Glover, L prnent e S O o 5 S D presented to ummissioners of the Boundaries of the park are $100,000 PARK IS GIFT 'TO D. C. IN NORTHWEST (Continued from First Page.) the most magnificent trees in the Dis- trict, and the .ravines and hillsides which are found there add greatly to its attractiveness for park purposes. This park is ideally located in a sec- tion of the District that has no parks. Alded Rock Creek Project. “Mr. Glover's public-spirited gen- erosity In presenting this parkway &nd children’s*playground for the use of the citizens of the District of Co- lumbia and of the nation will be highly appreciated. He has previous- Iy shown his great interest in civic affairs in many ways. He contrib- uted largely to securing Rock Creek Park, and, In fact, has had a lead- ng part in nearly all recent activities for National Capital.” Maj. Bell said today that while he was not certain acceptance of the gift required congressional approval, Re_expected to advise Congress of it Melvin C. Hazen, District surveyor, for several years has been calling wttention “to-the-need fof more~park arcas outside the boundary of the old city of Washington Outgrows Original Plan. The L'Enfant plan, Mr. Hazen sald, made ample provision for park spaces lin the center of the eity, but since | the National Capital was originally laid off it has grown rapidly toward | the District line. with very little park area beyond Florida avenue. With the available sites for parks! in the outlying sections graduaily being taken up by building ope: tions, it d& gratifying to District of- ficlals to have a iarge tract given to the city entirely without cost Mr. Hazen said the Commissioners would reserve the right to extend roadways through the new park area, | NEW U. S. CARDINALS THOUGHT IMPROBABLE |No American Prelates Have Been Invited fo Consistory, Vati- can Officials Nete. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, December 3.—In Vatican circles doubt is beinz expressed that American cardinals will be created at the approaching consistory unless Pope Plus decides to announce them at the sccret conclave. His two im- mediate predecessors abandoned the procedure followed by Pope Leo XIII, who sent the red biretta to Arch- bishop Gitbons, as had been done in the case of Archbishop McCloskey, ro- spectively of Baltimore and New York, calling them to Rome at the following cousistory to receive the red hat. Pope Plus X, Instead of adopting a similar methdd, had Archbishop Far- ley of New York, Archbishop O'Con- nell of Boston and Mgr. Falconio, the apastolic delegate in the United tates, come to Rome to be present t the consistory in November, 1911, | at which they were created cardinals, ‘The same was done by Benedict v when Archbishop Dougherty, the last ‘American member of the sacred col- llege, was created a cardinal, It’ was remarked today in Vatican ¢ircles that if Pope Pius Intended to follow the procedure of his predeces- ‘sors he already should have invited ithe American prelates he intended to elevate to come to Rome. It was thought that the pontiff not having done this meant either that no Ameri- cans were to be included in the hon- ors or that he had decided the names of any Americans to be elevated should” be = made known _ only in the secret consistory. The former hypothesis, however, was considered robable. TWO BEATEN BY GANG. Hagerstown Patrolman and Com- panion Found Unconscious, Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md.,, December 3.— Patrolman _Andrew Castle and Luther Schlouterbeck were beaten yinconslous by a gang in the Harry- town section of the city last night, when the officer attempted to arrest a member of the gang. It is believed the member felgned drunkenness to entrap the officer, against whom threats of revenge had been made. Schlouterbeck was trying to assist Castle when beaten. ° Both victims are in a serious condition. TO TALK ON SCHOOL SYSTEM. Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the board of education, will speak on “The Public School System” at a Association in the Franklin School ‘Assogiation in the Franklin School, Wednesday night at 8 o’cléck. F. L. Stephens‘will speak on “Visual Edu- cation.” improving and beautifylng our| MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1923. SHIP BOARD ASKS FINANCIAL RELIEF Preferential Tariffs or Sub- sidy Vital, Says Report to Congress. Maintenance of an American mer- chant marine can be Insured only by preferential tariffs or a subsidy, the Shipping Board declared in its an- nuval report to Congress today. Elim- {nation of discriminatory legislation as a means of indirect aid, the board held, “would secem to leave as the sole way out the assumption by the government of the excess cost of operatio “This in turn can be accomplished by either of two methods,” the re- port added. “First, by subventions to American vessels while engaged in carrying cargoes to and from United States sufficient to enable them to compete with foreign ships, or. socond, by the complete assump- tlon by the taxpayers of the entire cost of operation, the resulting losses being the country's contribution to- ward a national merchant marine. From the standpoint of efliciency and economy there can be no choice. Private operation. personal responsi- bility and individual fnitiative would require a relatively slight assistance to be placed upon a competitive b sis with forcign shipowners. On th other hand, operation by the govern- ment with its system of checks and balances has obvious and serious dis- advantages. The report listed these four fac- tors as operating to the disadvantage of Amreican shipowners: The high standard of living In the United States, with consequent cffect on labor costs, which would make “an American ship represent an in- vestment 25 per cent greater than a similar vessel constructed on ‘he Clyde. Wage Scales Higher. High wage scales on American shi “amounting on an ordinary cargo steamer to approximataly $10.- 000 a year” more than the wuges on a similar foreign ship. The difficulty of raising capital in the United States for strictly mari- time enterprises, as contrasted with certain foreign countrles, where this filed is a popular one for investors. The advantage held by foreign lines through long careers in the business. “Obvionsly, if the country is to impose financial burdens upon fts shipping, it must, in order to obtain such shipping, be willing to bear from the national Treasury the high- cr costs which such impositions bring.” Failure of the government aid bill indorsed by the board to pass the last Congress made it necessary, the report said. for the board to make “other plans.” Tt then described the conferences which led to the decision to consolidate the present thirf¥-nine routes to eighteen, and to offer these at public sale. While no purchases have vet been consummated. it wa said that several promising to warrant further nego- tiations, which, it is hoped, will lead to the sale of some fmportant routes.” Pay Roll Reduced. As a result of the firmly continued policy of retrenchment, the board's pay roll was reduced in the past fiscal vear by 1.612 employes and by $2,623,- 00, “representing 31.7 per cent in numbers and 24.9 per cent in dollars” from the preceding year. The appended report of the Emer- gency Fleet Corporation gave in de- tall statistics coverlng physical op- eration of the fleet. Cargo and p senger vessels “remained nearer con- stant duringthe past fiscal year than In_any preceding year,” this. report id, with 365 in service on June 30, 1923 The chartering department re- ported charters of tankers and cargo | steamers -fo® 389 trips, representing 3,325.000 demdweight tons, the ruling Lreight rates for the yea: were below! actual operating costs. Sales duripi the year brought $30, 1135,906.96; the ships disposed of in- cluding 145 steel vessels of 878,000 tons and 237 wooden s tons: The minimum price schedule adopted by the board was announced as for steel cargo tonnage $30 per ton, for tankers, $65 per ton, and for lake-built craft, $18.50 to $26.50, ac- cording ta capacit MRS. STOKES REJOICES WITH CHILDREN AGAIN | Successful Fight Against Divorce. By the Assoctated Press, DENVER, Colo, December 3.—Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, who recently successfully combated the efforts of W. E. D. Stokes. wealthy New York hotel man, to divorce her, returned to_her home here last night. Many friends called to congratulate her upon her victory in the courts. “I am S0 happy to see my babies again,” Mrs. Stokes said. “that noth- ing eise matters, and I just want to settle do enjoy b presence. Mrs. Stokes sald she did not know when she might be summoned to Chicago to testify in the trial of Mr. Stokes, one of his attorneys and five others, who were indicted in that city, charged with conspiring to de- {fame her name. She declared she would testify when called upon to do so. WILL REVIEW REGIMENT. Col. La Garde to Witness Assembly of Engineers. The first review of the new com- pleted regiment, 1218t Engineers, will he tendered Col. Richard D. La Garde, formerly adjutant general of the Dis. trict of Columbia, at the Natlonal Guard Armory tomorrow night. This is_the first full regiment of National Guard troops in the District since the war, and the review for Col. La Garde is given in recognition of his services in post-war develop- ment of the local guard. The review will be held at 9 p.m. and will be followed by an informal dance, which will be free to all na- tional guardsmen, their friends and prospective guardsmen, Music will {he furnished by the National Guard Band, under Warrant Officer Moyer Goldman. —_— COUPLE ON LONG HIKE. Push Babies in Go-Cart From In- diana to Florida. | ace and the joy of their Leddy and his have arrived in Daytona from Go- shen, Ind., after walking all the way, carrying the bables in a pushcart, along with their provisions and lug- gage. They are en route to Orlando. They have been on the way since August. ASK HIGHER FLAX DUTY. Formal application signed by Sena- tor Ladd and Representative Young, republicans, of North Dakota, for an increase in the duties on flax from 40 cents to 60 cents a bushel, with corresponding increases in the duty on linseed oil, was filed today with the tariff commission. Senator Ladd and Mr. Young announced they would also introduce identical bills to in- crease the duty on wheat from 30 cents to 45 cents a bushel, with simi- lar increaaes On fiour and other wheat the | “seem sufficiently | although | ‘agide framecoal and ofl movements, | ips of §55,000' Returns to Denver Home After; vn quietly here at home and | FIVE KILLED BY BLAST OF /GASOLINE ON STOVE Bixth Person May Die of Burns Recelved in Effort to Start Fire. DAVENPORT, la, December 3.— Five persons were killed and one probably fatally burned by a gaso- line explosion at the home of Calvin Fordam at Andalusia, Ill, late yes- terday. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Fordam and daughter, Mrs. Ralph Wilking and daughter. Ralph Wil- kins is in a serious condition. A five-gallon can of gasoline ex-' ploded when a member of the Fordam family attempted to start a fire in a stove with some of the fluid. ——e FORD PLANS TO UTILIZE BLAST FURNACE DUST Company Considering Manufacture of Castings From Iron and Coke Refuse. By the Asmociated Press. DETROIT, Mich., December 3 Reclamation plans for the manufac- furnace dust have been put into operation here, the Ford Motor Com- bany announced. The dust, which is half iron ore and half coke, is blown from the blast furnace, and is worth- less in that state. The dust is mixed with cast-iron borings gathered from the various Ford plants and a gas flame of in- lense heat passed over the mixture. The actlon of the coke fuses the iron ore and makes it suitable for use. with a pile of dust at the River Rouge plant of the company here which i estimated at U tons. From this amount of dust, Ford e gineers asscre, it will be possible to obtain sufficient iron ore for 600,000 castings. FRENCH SEEKING WAY TO OBTAIN AID OF U. S. IN ECONOMIC INQUIRY (Continued from First Page.) probable reception of an officlal in- vitation by the allied governments, if one should be sent. The unofficial response of the Washington govern- ment, it is stated, was in effect a desire to know more about the plan, and is asserted to leave the door ajar S0 that in any event unofficial Amer- ican representation could be invited. Mere Presence Suficient.. The judgment of the French dele- gation on the reparation commission is that the presence of unofficial American representatives on the committees would be sufficient to assure the success of thelr inquiries. Thus it is probable that there will be no undue insistence upon the Amer- ican authorities for officlal nomina- tions. jthat the experts, in any case, would | not be official representatives of their respective governments; they would simply be eminent persons acting junder the authority of the repara- tion commission, without direct | othicial instructions’ or connections. | MARX TEST DRAWS NEAR. New Chancellor to Go Reichstag Tomorrow. Before By the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, December 3.—Dr. Marx, the new chancellor, will introduce his re- vamped Stresemann cabinet and its official program to the reichstag to- morrow. Pending disclosure of the cabinet's policies, political specula- tion centers in contemplation of the new government's ability to steer the middle course, which it is considered would insure it the tolerance of the two powerful opposition groups of the right and left. The ~government's own organs are anything but sanguine over the out- look, while the nationalist and social- ist organs frankly warn the new chancellor that his course must be an open one, “neither between nor above the parties.” To this extent par- liamentary circles assume that the German nationalists and socialists will keep the new government dan- gling from tenterhooks and at their merey. until a critical showdown in open balloting. Sceks Plenary Powers. to authorize a provisional plenary powers bill, which will empower it to enact such emergency legislation as the economic and social situation demands. The new measure will be less sweeping in Its provisions than that voted Charcellor Stresemann, for which & two-thirds majority is' re- quired because of its constitutional character. The problems awaiting Dr. Marx's government are quite as complicated and grave as any of those which confronted the Cuno and Stresemann cabinets, and its attitude to any one of these problems is likely to incur socialist displeasure ‘or reactionary opposition. Government circles are optimistic on the question of reaching an amicable understanding with the Munich gov- ernment, now that the portfolio of minister of justice in the Marx cab- inet has been assigned to a Bavarian and four other men from the domain of Dr. von Kahr also are members of the government. Many Other Problems. The question of the future of the Rhineland and the Ruhr constitutes a far more complicated problem for the government, notwithstanding the conclusion of 'a Franco-German industrial accord, as it is still con- fronted with the task of ameliorat- ing the social distress in the occupied areas for which unlimited funds are required. Unoccupled Germany also supplies the incoming ministry with a num- iber of complexities, in the nature of growing unemployment, the currency chaos and the adjustment of the food situation, the combined gravity of which is being particularly noted ‘with the advent of the sharp winter ‘weather. " Dr. Marx is viewed in parliamen- ‘tary circles as an able jurist and & veteran parliamentarian who Is pos- | sessed of a. conservative tempera- ment which makes haste slowly, even amid hectic political environment. In this respect he is deemed to have a happy pendant in Foreign Minister Stresemann, whose political vivacity, economic orientation and forensic talents suggest an offset to the calmer legal mentality of the man who succceded him as premler. COMMENT DECLINED. Information Held Too Indefinite for Opinion Here. Information in the possession of the State Department regarding the pro- Dosed reparations inquiry’ by two committees of the reparation com- mission still is regarded here as too vague to form the basis of any final decision as to American participation. James A. Logan, American observer with the commission, is expected to report soon on details of the plan, and until he does officials here are making no comment. —_— LAW STUDENTS TO DEBATE. The first of the season’s prize de- ates will be held at the Georgetown University School of Law tonight, the subject being the election of judges by popular vote. Debaters ‘rom the Senior and Junior-Sopho- more: societies will compose the con- testant teams. . ture of cylinder castings from blast | he reclamation process was begun | The British delegation points out | Issue forces a | Dr. Marx will request the reichstag ' SEEK PACT TO END BORDER SMUGGLING U. S. Officials Give Results of International Parley at Ottawa. Elimination of border smuggling, both by “administrative arrange- ment” and by prospective treaties, will be attempted as a result of the international conference at Ottawa, Canada. This was learned today following a conference at the Treasury Depart- ment here of the American commis- slon to Ottawa with Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury Moss, who headed the commission. An official announcement from Judge Moss following the conference today, while sayving that some of the proposals at the Ottawa conference will necessitate “treaty arrange- ments,” explained that “other pro- posals probably will be made effective in a reasonabie time by administra- tive arrangements.” These arrangements, It was ex- plained, “will effect an exchange of information between the representa- tives of the two governments respect- ing the clearance of vessels carry- ing iIntoxicating liquors from Cana- dian ports and the smuggling of such liquors into the United States and so the smuggling of nurcotics, silks, and othter merchgndise from the United States into Canada. Canadian Sincere in Plan, The American com ion was agreed, Judge Moss' statement sald, “that it was the consensus of opinion that the representatives of the Ca- nadian government participating in the conference indicated a sincere desire to co-operate with the United States so far as might be possible under their laws. The conference at the ‘Treasury, which was attended by all members of the American commission to Ot- tawa, was for the purpose, it was said, of conferring on the reports which Judge Moss shortly will make to the Secretary of State. At _the conterence this morning at the Treasury. in Judge Moss' office, were Judge Moss, Judge J. J. Britt chief counsel of the prohibition unit; Col. L. G. Nutt, head of the narcotic division, prohibition unit; W. lance of the State Department; n Doren, special ney customs; J. P. wford, customs as- sistant, and Judge W. E. Boren of the Department of Justice. REPORTS DECREASE IN POSTAL DEFIGIT {New Wants Business Serv- ices Placed on Self-Sus- taining Basis. The money order, and parcel post evstems should be en- tirely self-sustaining, Postmaster General New says in his annual re- port to the President, made public today. The report shows that there has been a “most gratifying decrease {in the postal deficit" during the past year, amounting approximately to $30,000,000. “It would be an ideal condition if {the department could become self- sustaining, with postage and service so adjusted as to do equal ju C4 to all the using public,” Mr. New stated, his report. “To attain this end, each class of mall matter need not necessarily contribute its entire estimated cost. Spread of Information “Public_policy, for instance, has long recognized the special claims for publications for the dissemination of information of a public character, or jdevoted to literature, the sclences or_arts. “It is a wise policy and makes for the gencral good and the public i welfare. On the other hand, there is no sound reason why the governmant should conduct a parcel business, so analogons to express, on principles other than those of sound business.” Making Cost Survey. The report states that the depart- ment is making another cost ascer- { tainment, following that of 1907-1911. When_thie results are fully known, Mr. New states, they will furnish & sasis for an intelligent judgment as | c0 postage rates and charges. | The Postmaster General made a | number of recommendations for leg- islation along those line including | authority for him to fix a charge for | @ return receipt for a registered ar- | ticle, fix the fees chargeable for reg- istration of mail matter and the limit of indemnity, extend the insurance and collection on delivery services to third-class mail and prescribe the fees to be collected for the issue of domestic money orders Mr. New also recommended that legislation be enacted to provide for | the appointment of postmasters, ot the third class by the Postmaster General, pay rent on post office prem- ises monthly instead of gquarterly, compensate employves for evertime services in excess of elght hours daily, establish motor vehicle rural routes of not less than thirty-six nor more than seventy-five miles in length, increase the Interest rate on postal savings deposits to 3 per cent and for other improvements, and amend existing laws in regard to ex- amination and renewal of officlal bonds, age retirement of certain em- ployes, leaves of absence of rallway postal clerks and moving expenses of officers and rallway postal clerks. Revenues for Year. The postal revenues for the year were $532.82 compared with $484,85 . and the expendi- i tures, and losses $570,- 823,232, compared with $552,459,732 fn The operating deficit for this year was $37,995,307, eompared with an operating deficit of $67,606,192 for 1922. The expenditures for the year included $15,392.312 in payments of undischarged obligations carried over from previous fiscal years, which de ducetd leaves §541.500,616 as the ex- penditures applying to the service of 1923 and makes a deficiency of postal revenues of 324,065,203 for the year. Mr. New stated that If the $6,000,- 000 of revenues thrown over In the succeeding fiscal year by a chamge of method and time of requisitioning stamp stock and accounting for sales and the expenditures for the depart. ment at Washington, amounting. to $3,416,647, which heretofore. has beey paid out 'of the general fund of the Treasury instead of from the postal revenues, be considered for compara- tive purposes, the deficit would be re. duced to $28,578,760. —_— MURDER QUIZ DELAYED. ' MONROE, N. C. Docember 3—The coroner’'s jury investigating thi e of Butler Funderburk, Un‘;on Jn:‘t’; farmer and merchant, found dead Saturday morning In His store with his skull fractured, adjourned until tomorrow morning, when the inquess will be continued. Meanwhile, Sherift Fowler has had two negroes, Rance McAuley and Ja- son Walker, arrested and held ‘on *TRo Sherift satd that the evil e sher! sal that the evi thus: far doveloped indicated theg Funderburk was slain by two memy and that they werp Bman) postal savings