Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1924, Page 2

VIEWS ON CHANGING |Airship Captain ' SCHOOL HOURS VARY| Loyal to Plans Capt. Peyser Delays Presentation of Plans to Board of Education, DARKNESS ONE PROBLEM Traffic Dangers Downtown Plea for Late Opening. The proposal of Capt. Julius I Peyser, president of the Public School Association, to change the opening and closing time of the publis schools will be held up for the time being, in order to determine the sentiment of all sections of the eity. It had been planned to submit the proposal to the board of education today. Reports from members of the School Association appointed to sound out their neighborhoods on the For Pole Flight A telegram from Capt. Frank R. McCrary, commander of the Navy dirigible Shenandoah, promising his loyal support for the Navy's plan for a polar expedition, wi made public today by Secretary Denby. Tha message denied that either Capt. McCrary or any offi- cer under his command at Lake- hurst, N. J., had been the souyce of published stories that he was not in accord with the plan for use of the Shenandoah in the expedition. ““The plan as favored by the Secre- tary of the Navy,” sald the tele- gram, “receives our loyal support, and we will do our utmost to pre- pare and carry out its successful ‘accompiishment.” BIRGFELD TAKES NEW TREASURY POST proposal indicate that the demand Sworn as Chief Clerk and Super- for a change in the opening hour of school varies as to the time in dif- ferent sections. In the mideit borhood and its environs a change to 9:30 a.m. would be welcomed. Mothers point out that they would be able to give the children some training in housework in the extra half hour and that their fears concernini the safety of little ones crossing busy streets when traffic {s heavy would be re- lieved. “In many of the far outlying sec- tions, it would not be nece: change the hour,” Capt. T “In_fact the eugKestion has made to Investigators that schools be asked to begin at 8:45 In- stead of 9. Lighting Hindrance. “Late classes would. not matter so much if it were not for the obsolete lighting systems ,or no lighting sys- tems at all in many schools. There is little doubt that the improper lighting is now affecting the eyes of puplls on dark day: Capt. P ier has asked that all persons interested send expressions of their approval or diapproval of the change in school hours to 208 Wilkins building. It is unlikely he will suggest the matter to the board of education until nfter the school association meets next Friday night in ‘the boardroom of the District ‘. building. CELEBRATED BRITISH THEOLOGIAN IS DEAD Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould Was Author of “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” ser said. been By the Associated Presa. LEW TRENCHARD, England, Jan- uary 2.—Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, English novelist and theologian and author of “Onward Christian Sol- diers,” died today. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, or downtown neigh-{ intendent of Department Before High Officials. PLATT ALSO TAKES OATH Becomes Special Assistant to In- ternal Revenue Chief. Frank A. Birgfeld was today for- the | mally installed in the office of chief clerk and superintendent of the Treasury Department with impres- sive ceremonies, witnessed by high executives of thé department and by more than 100 employes of the chief clerk's office and the office of the su- pervising architect. Immediately preceding the adminis- tration of the oath of office to Mr. Birgfeld, his predecessor, Wilmer G. Platt, who stood at the side of the in- coming official, took the oath as spe- clal assistant to the commissioner of internal revenue, to which post he has just béen elevated by Secretary Mellon. Samuel H. Marks, assistant chief clerk, who directed the ceremonies, administered the oath to both men and oftered congratulations to them. At the close of the ceremonies, those present formed in line and passed be- fore Mr. Brigfeld and Mr. Platt to shake their hands. The first to greet the new chief clerk were Mrs. Birg- feld, Miss Junet Birgfeld and Kenneth Birgfeld and Miss Cecelia Atchison, Brief addresses were made by Mr. Platt, Mr. Birgfeld and James A. Wet- more, supervising architect of the Treasury, of whose office Mr, Birgteid was a division chief. Mr. Birgfeld declared that Mis slogan in the new office would be “Co-opera- tion” and asked for the loyal sup- port of the staff whom he will direct. Beautiful floral offerings were pre- sented to both of the newly appdinted officers. Chiefs and assistants of practically every division and bureau of the Treasury were present at the instal- lation ceremonies, which took on & festive aspect. At the close of the author [reception to those present the new of many books during his seventy |Chief clerk at once took up his new vears of literary activity, was best known as the writer of the hymn “Onward, Christlan Soldiers.” also wrote “Now the Day Is Over,” “Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow” and “On the Resurrection Morning. He would have been ninety years old on January 28, He began his duties. He | Changes in Stations of Army and Navy Officers Of Interest to Capital ARMY, Col. George F. Hamiiton, cavalry, career as & writer at the age of | having withdrawn his application for twenty and published works of fic- tion, history, folklore, religion, travel | his retirement has bee: and mythology. Demon Churchman,” June, 1923 “Onward. Christian Spldiers,” “Now the Day Is Over” were written in 1864. appeared He resided on the ancestral estate [ at Lew Trenchard, north Devon, where his family had lived for near- ly three centurles. retirement January 1, the order for revoked. accepted the The - President has His last book, “A{ resignation of Second Lieut. G. W. R. in | Wilson, 16th Infantry. Brig. Gen. Benjamin Alvord, assist- ant adjutant general, has been or- and | gered to Hot Springs, Ark., for treat- ment at the Army and Nevy General Hospital. Capt. M. C.Leonard, Coast Artillery orps, at Walter Reed General Hos- pital, this city, has been ordered to Denver, Colo., for duty with organ- ized reserves. Capt. W. J. Kelley, Reserve Corps, He also was a prolific writer of | has been detalled to duty in the mili- movels and works on history, travel and other subjects. In one of his books, “Through Fire and Flame,” he recounted the romance of the | detailed to tia bureau, War for three years. Capt. H. H. Ristine, fleld artillery. at Camp Lewis, Wash., has been duty with Idaho Department, the courtship which led to his marriage— | National Guard at Boise; Sergt. Jo- a romance that upset the conserva. tive views of the England of his]to time. seph Lambert, Coast Artillery Corps, duty with the Oregon National Guard, at Marshfield, and Sergt. When vicar of Horbury, Yorkshire, | Clarence Kay, Coast Artillery Corps, 1n 1868, In the course of his duties ne |to duty With the New York Nationai fell in love on sight with Grace Tay- lor, the daughter of a mill hand, who Guard, at New York city. Master Sergt. Emil Becker, quar- was_herself employed as a factory (termaster Corps, at Fort Myer, Va. hand. He obtained permission of the |and Sergt. Monroe Head, 10th Caval- parents, sent the girl away to be|ry; at Fort Huachuca, Ais., have been educated and a few years later mar- ried her, he himself announcing the marriage bans. . GEDDES COMING BACK TO BID U. S. GOOD-BYE retired on account of age. —_— RAILROAD IS SUED. Chapin-Sacks Company Charges It Overpaid. Repayment of a sum totaling $1,- Here Envoy’'s Physicians Insist on An-|744.80 and interest for several months other Six Months’ Rest to Save Eyes. By the Associated Pross. LONDON, January 2—Sir Auck- land Geddes, retiring British ambass- ador to the United States, left Lon- is sought in a complaint filed with the Intestate Commerce Commission today by the Chapin-Sacks Company of Washington' in_which the Penn- sylvania Raflroad Company fs named as_respondent. The Chapin-Sacks Company claims the railroad company overcharged the Washington concern to that 'extent in_handling _shipments of milk_and don today for Amerfca for a month |cream from Taneytown, Md., via Han- of leavetaking before his resigna- tlon becomes effective. Frank B Kellogg, the new American ambas- sador, and Post Wheeler, counselor of the embassy, bade him godspeed at Waterloo station. Replylng to inquiries about his health, Sir Auckland said he felt bet- ter than at any time for years, and that it seemed almost mbsurd to think of resigning his Washington post on account of {1l health. Never- theless his doctors had insisted that unless he endured another six-month rest all they had achieved for his eyes might be undone. COAL-DUMPING RECORD BROKEN BY N. & W. ROAD By the Associated Press, ROANOKE, Va., January 2.—The world record in coal dumping was broken by the Norfolk and Western Rallway Company at its Lambert Point plers whep it -dumped 899 cars, or 61,509 tons of coal, between 7 o'clock Monday morning and 7 o'clock yesterday, according to information received at the general offices of the company. The previous high record of coal dumpings of the world was also held over, Pa, to Washington and other southern points. The railroad com- pany, the complaint states, exacted total freight charges of $1,802.99, when the charges should rightly have been but $58.19. . FIRST ARREST IN TWELFTH Teacher Entered on Clean Blotter for Speeding. ‘The first arrest in the newly opened twelfth police precinct was placed on the blotter yesterday. The defendant gave his name, address and vocation as Marion Richard Vickers, twenty-six years old, a teacher, residing at 1625 K street northwest. He was charged with violating the speed regulations. He put up §10 collateral for his ap- pearance in the Traffic Court for trial. When the collateral list was called to- day in that court Mr. Vickers failed to wer his name and the collateral was He was arrestod by Motor Policeman K. L.4Potts in Rhode THIEF OF SAINT’S ASHES i BURNED ALIVE BY MOB utomatically forfeited. ’ e 15iana avenue. by the road, with 52,063 tons in one By the Associated Press, day. BELGIAN PRIEST SHOT BY MONGOLIAN TROOPS b Star and X Dy Cable hmfiw:l:lh ;fi!‘un Dafly News, SHANGHAI, Achille Soenen, attached to the Bel- glan_mission, was shot by disbanded |saw him ocarryin troops, who Jooted his home at Ho-{an urn bearing the ashes of kizo, West Mongolia, near the pres. ent terminus of ‘the Peking-Suiyuan ratlroad, g to private tele- Teceived here. Father Soenen’s Belglan.com escaped. % January 2. — Father|in - the ochurch, extinguishi; AVEZZANO, Ttaly, January 3.— Frapcesco Tomel met desth hands of the infuriated townspeople atter ke frem the ~church hers martyred u-lng‘ patron: a xano.. He was ten, trampled upon and then saturated with gasoline and |'mo; burned alive. 4 ‘The man had out the electrie wires: ligh ness, Notwithstanding the dark owever, a group of peasants from the church e of the sal; ‘The crowd seised knooked him down and then d;‘.’::i his body through the streets.’ ‘While he was 1 alive ih“h*‘o- lne: was poured over his thing ard & match applied. His boly was, incinerated, i “{that ' time | 8t ‘the | ¢o be called, been caught stealing | relios . of | wara ¥ of Aves-{'in comnection with it. the | wound in Senator D. Frazier of North Dakota (left), and Senator Magnus Jolinsen of Mimnesota, photographed during their ax-wiclding hout yenterdny, at the home of John W. Clbron, 1621 S5¢h atreet aonthenst. o " NEWS PRINT FREIGH RATE TO BE PROBED Hearings on Rail Tariffs on Ship- ments to D. C. and Baltimore Begin Tomorrow. Investigation of freight rates on news print paper, in which eight ‘Washington publishers, the Washing- ton Publishers' Association and five Baltimore publishers and one New York publisher have become parties, | will open tomorrow at the Interstate Commerce. Commission before Exam- iner W. B. Hunter. The investigation 1s being made as a result of com- plaints from the publishers about rates on news print paper to Wash- ington and Baltimore from mill points in New England, northern New York state and, the Dominion of Canada, There has been much controyersy during the last few years respecting the alleged unreasonablencss of the Washington and Baltimore rates on this product. Although lack of ad- justment of the rates has been brought to the attention of the car- riers many times during the past ten years, and the carriers have promised both the commission and the public to adjust the rates, they have not yet worked out_satisfactory rates to Balt more and Washiugton. As a result the hewspaper com- plainants have formally petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for relief. T. D. Geoghegan and Mason Manghum will appear for the com- plainants. DR. H. 0. MARCY DIES. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 2.— Dr. Henry Orlando Marcy, noted sur- geon and former president of the American Academy of Medicine, died yesterday, in his eighty-seventh year. He was credited with having brought into use in surgery the buried animal suture (kangaroo temdon). He served in“the clvil war as assistant surgeon and surgeon and was appointed med- ical director of Florida and later medical director on Sherman’s staff in_the Carolina campaign. Dr. Marcy was president of the American Aeademy of Medicine in 1884 and of the American Medical Assoclation in 1892, & member of the British Medical Association and a fel- low of the American College of Sur- geons. LOVE OF CHAUFFEUR FOR MOVIE ACTRESS BLAMED IN SHOOTING (Continued from First Page.) diamond bracelets, and wearing a dlamond hatpin. Both were greatly excited. Miss Normand sat in a chair in the captain ot detectives' office with her head buried in her arms. Miss Purviance paced the floor. “Oh, why, oh why did he have to use a gun?”’ she exclaimed again and again, gesturing despair. At the receiving hospital Miss Pur- viance rushed to Dimes, threw her arms about his neck and cried: “Oh, Courtland, L love you! Please don’t die! Kelley, or Greer, chauffeur for Charles Ray, motion picture actor, he told police. He is rather smaller in stature than Dines, was formerly a land called that fact to the atten- tion of the police, officers sald, re- marking that ‘he “wouldn't have & chance with him (Dines) in a fight.” After all parties to the affair had been _ questioned, Misses _Normand and Purviance were released. Kelly was booked at the city jail on & charge of assault with a deadly weap- on with Intent to murder, and prep- arations were made to remove Dines to_a private hospital. Miss Normand’ connection with last night's shooting recalled the statements_she made in the case of William__Desmond Taylor, movin, icture director, who was found ds o his nomo here February 2; 1923, In her statement at that time, Mi Normand said lh'hwl; drlvh-enfllo (h: Taylor apartment by her chauffeur, af o William Davis; that h walted for her outside while she chatted with the director and that she left the apartment about 8 p.m., and' was driven to her home by Davis. The next morning Taylor was found dead of a pullet woupd. . Both-In Taylor Case. The names of both of the film ac- tresses who were present. at the shooting of Dines figured i the in vestigation of the unsolved murder of Willlam Desmond Taylor, prominent motion pioture director, who . was killed here in February, 1 Edna Purviance was.a n bor’ of the slain man and told of having seen*his home brilliantly lighted lats on_the night of the killins, Mabel * Normand came forward as the last person found by the police who saw the murdered director alive, She had been with him alone within fiftty minutes of the timeefixed by physicians as the hour in which he died. Her picture was in the dead man's locket. The “Taylor case,” as it has come developed a mys- for the investigating, officers. H alet, Ed. rmer valet - el ‘The film director's Sands, still Taylor's body was foun 'morning of r-bmgr 2, 1922, on_th floor of his luxuriously furnished ‘Bachelor a ent, Tatal - bullet ® neck. B X ASKS WOMAN'S WORK CUT. RO ‘week for' JOHNSON: LOSES SECOND “FARM CHORE” CONTEST Senator Frazier “Outwinds” Fiery Minnesotan—Host Has Supply of Wood Cut. {. After suffering a_defeat in a milk- {Ing_contest with Secretary Wallace Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota was “outwinded” by Senator Lynn D. Frazier of North Dakota yesterday in a wood-chopping bout at the home of John W. Gibson, 1621 25th place south- east. Both the senators, it is understood, by their exhibition in handling thé ax proved experts and hard workers, for Mr. Gibson, the host, has a good supply of fuel as the result of three {hours work. Assisting he wood-chopping competition the host. N. Mason, secretary to Senator Frazler; W, keel, Vernon Senator Fral and W. Paul Gibson, the host’s son. Mrs, Johnson and her iwo daugh- s and Mrs, Gibson and Mrs. Frazier were the onlookers during the con- test, which “got up” & good appetite for ‘the dinne: COMMITTEE COMPLETE. With the acceptance by four promi- nent women of posts on the advisory woman's committee of the mothers’ memorial tower to be erected here by the Woman's Universal Alllance, the committee now s complete. ~and further plans for- the memorial will go forward, Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, presi- dent of the alliance, announced last night. The new members are: Mrs. Cor- denio Severance of St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. Lewis Nixon of New York, Mrs. Richard_Stevens of Castle Point, Ho- boken, N. J. and Mrs. Louls de S. Simonds of Charleston, S. C. The com- mittee now consists of Mrs. Alexander Biddle of Philadelphia, Mrs. George I. Bird of Maine, Mrs. George Dewey, Mrs. John Allen Dougherty, Mrs. Thomas S. Ryan, Mrs. Lyman S. Ken- dell and Mrs. Charles W. Wetmore of this city, Mrs Harrison Gardiner Fos- ter of Kentucky, Mrs. Oliver Harriman of New York, Mrs. James M. Thomp- son of New Orleans, Mrs. Carter Har- rison of Chicago, Mrs. R. T. Wilson of New York, Mrs. Royal S. Copeland, Mrs. Horace Dodre of Detroit and Mrs. John Temple Graves of this city. Mrs. Calhoun announced that the plans and literature for the memorial have been financed, and the outlook is 80 bright that she will leave Wash- ington shortly for & complete rest in the south. —_— 116 NEW YEAR ARRESTS. Twenty-six arrests for intoxication were reported by the police during the twenty-four hours ended at 8 o'clock this morning, forty-nine having been made during the preceding twenty- four hours. Four charges of illegal possession and sale of liquor were preferred against persons arrested yesterday. Total of arrests the first po- lice day of 192¢ was 116, much sma er number than the average. Speed arrests numbered twenty-four, while violations of minor traffic regulations were charged against twenty-one persone. WOMAN SHOT IN ARM. Benzetta Kincaid, colored, twenty- eight years old, was treated at Emer- gency Hospital today for a bullet wound In her right arm. Charles Kin- caid, twenty-six years old, husband of the wounded woman, is sought by the police, his wife alleging he infiict- ed the wound. They quarreled, the wife stated. STATE R. R. BOARD. UPHELD BY COURT South Carolina Tribunal Reverses Own Decision in Southern Road Controversy. f By thd Associated Press. COLUMBIA, 8. C., January 2.—Re- versihg its decision handed down a few inonths ago, the South Carolina supreme court, in an opinfon filed here today, heid that the state rail- road commission was within its pow- ers in ordering the Southern Rall- way Company to construct passenger sheds at Blackville, S. C. The court asserted in its first opin- fon that the transportation act of 1920 had deprived the state regul tory body of practically all its jur ciction over interstate rallroads. rehearing, before an en banc sion, with circuit judges particip ing, was allowed upon motion of at- torneys for the commission. The Blackville shed case, as it be- came known, attracted attention be- yond the borders of South Carolina because of the fisht being made in several states to preserve to the state regulatory bodies certain of their original powers over the railroads. In South Carolina, according to opinions expressed by members of the railroad commission and others, the original decision practically abolished the commisston so far as its control over the railroads was concerned. — o STAMP EXHIBIT SHOWN. Prize-Winning Selection at Wood- ward & Lothrop. The Post Office Department placed on display today in a show window at Woodward & Lothrop's, 11th and F streets, the stamp exhibit which won peclal mention at the International stamp show last spring at London, England. The exhibit is being held under auspices of the Washington city post office, which has a branch office locat- ed in the store. Many rare stamps are included in the exhibit, which is mounted in a mahogany frame. There is a speci- men of the old airplane stamp, with the plane upside down, much sought after by collectors, one man having paid $1,500, it is said, for a specimen. The exhibit will be In the window for the remainder of the week. It came here from Baitimore, where it was on display, and will be sent to other large citles of the country. INDIANS TO SEE WORK. A delegation of Osage Indlans, com- posing the council of the tribe, will arrive in Washington within a few days to confer with Secretary of the Interior Work and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Burke concerning fur- ther leasing of oil lands on the Osage reservation. The tribe recently peti- tioned the Sécretary of the Interior to arrange for sale of oil leases on 100,- 000 acres of land. The Osage council will be accom- panied by six full-blooded Osage In- dions and by the superintendent of the Osage agency and the tribal at- torney. - —_— SEEK ESCAPED PRISONERS. Police have been asked to locate George Dixon, colored, “trusty” at the District jail, who took French leave Monday afternoon, and Charles Ashton, also a colored “trusty,” who disappeared from the vicinity of the prison yesterday. PICTURE GIFT TO PRESIDENT Semator Seldex P, Spemcer, loft, with his seeretury, Geerse photegra) maeus; and an enlnrged ph raphers of the vocational school of t:'e Veterans’ preseated se the President yesterday. - COOLIDGES LISTED " _FOR CHARITY BALL President and First Lady to Attend Function Tonight at New Willard. OTHER - PROMINENT GUESTS Proceeds . to Be for Benefit of Children’s Hospital, The President and Mrs. Coolidge will attend the annual charity ball at the New Willard tonight, thus proving their interest in the work of the Children’s Hospital and follow~ iug the precedent of the Presidents of the United States since 1870 almost without exception. Secretary of Labor Davis also. will be present. Civie Socletios Invited. An favitation to attend was ex- tended by the ball committee a few days ago -to the executive members of the Moose, Shriners, Knights of (‘:"nlulmbglu.“mmrél, Elks, Lions, Ki- anis, Civitans, City Club a: i S . nd Rotary “The ren’s Hospital ball com- mittee for the annual charity ball, to be held on January the New Willard Hotel, at ¢ Gelock, wishes o extend an invitation - ler:ld (’hfi ball. to you to at. “It Is neediess for us to dwell upon the gratification it would be luphe lable to announce that you were at- tending, not solely for financial rea- sons but because we feel that your presemce would indicate your interest in the Children’s Hospital. Secretary and Mrs. Hughe ax Guests. “The Becretary of State and Mrs. Hughed will be present as the guests of the Commissioner of the District and Mrs. Cuno’Rudolph. The Secre- lsnry L;f the ';rr‘:‘sur)', Mr. Mellon, and ecretary o ar and M Vee: haye taken boxes T esks “We hope that the charity ball, given at this time of the year, when all thoughts are of children, will ap- peal to the members of your order and that as an organization or as individuals you will attend, thus em- phasizing your sympath: with the work of the hospital and helping us to make the charity ball of Washington 8 representative gathering.” The organizations mentioned have Bill Prepared for Bureau of Budget JMaj. Danfel J. Donovan, District budget officer, has prepared a sub- stituto ‘teachers' salary bill to be submitted to the budget bureau With the bWl prepared by the board of education. This became known today, when Maj. Donovan submitted both bills t6 Commissioner Rudolph for ex- amination by him before they are Yransmitted to Gen. Lord. To what extent Maj. Donovan has revised the measure as it camo from the.school board will B0t be known untll Commissioner has Rudalph ha time to go over Maj. Donovan could not di the matter today. S SOON TO NAME CHOICE | FOR SHIPPING BOARD | President Narrows List of Eligibles Down to Only Few Men. President Coolidge s nearing a solution of some of his Shipping Board problems according to persons Wwho have his confidence and who have been closeted with him In the past two or three da; It is understood that the names be- ing considered by the Preside: a successor to Edward b el chairman of the board, resigned,| have narrowed down to only a few. It is expected the President will very shortly reach adecision. of " more than an hour y President Coolldge ‘confarred wit Matthew C. Brush, president of the Amu;lcun International Corporation of New York, who was head of the Hog Island shipbullding yard dur- ing the “war days, and has been a personal friend of the President's for | a number of vears. Mr. Brush is looked upon as one of the foremost shipping men in the United States and has an interna- tional reputation in handling big en- terprises. He said after his long con- ference with the President that the latter had gummoned him to Wash- on for scussin, S| ington ¢ & Shipping Board answered the invitation of the com- mittee by stating that their mem- bers will attend as individuals, but @s the time was short, no arrange- ments could be made to attend as organizations. OBREGON PLANS EXTRA SESSION FOR ACTION ON U. S. CLAIMS CONVENTION (Continued from First Page.) agents active in the United States, numbering fifteen, and orders against United States vessels entering any port controlled by rebels. CRUISER STORY SURPRISE. U. S. Unable Under Treaty to Sell Vessels to Mexico. By the Associated Press. Statements made by Mexico City officials that an arrangement is being made to procure four cruisers for the Obregon government for use against Mexican revolutionists along the. sea- | coast, created surprise here. The authorized statement was made at the State Department Monday that the Washington naval treaty specifi cally forbade the United States and other treaty powers from selling war vessels to any government. Article XVIII of the treaty is mandatory, it was said at the de- partment, and makes any such trans- action mpossible so far as the United States is concerned. The treaty would not prevent the comstruction by American _ehip- building concerns of war craft for Mexico, but if such contracts were made, ‘the Washington government would be required under the treaty to report the fact and specifications as to the ships to the other powers signatory to the treaty. In addition the Washington government would be required to see that such ships did not exceed in any way limits in size or armament imposed by the treaty upon war vessels of the treaty pow- ers. Neither do officials here under- stand the report from Mexico City that the Washington government is closing private sources of arms in the United States to Mexican revolu- itionists. It has been said oficially at the department that no question of an arms embargo was “before the de- partment! The statement made in Mexico City that the United States is preparing to arrest agents of the revolutionary group in this country is also looked upon as an expression of hope on the part of those re- sponsible for its publication. At no time has the United States govern- ment ever sought to arrest agents of any faction of revolutionists in any foreign country. If it came to the attention of the ‘Washington government that at- tempts were being made actually to recruit troops in the United States for use against a friendly power, however, steps would be taken to prevent such action. It was said at the War ment today that no deliveri to Mexico had been ordered and that Secretary Weeks had not reached final decision upon the equipment ‘which could be spared from American Army surplus and reserve stocks. Mr. Weeks conferred during the | morning_ with State Department of- ficials and Charge Tellez of the Mex- ican embassy, and it was understood | that details of the agreement to sell arms to Mexico would be completed | during . the day. HEARING TO BEGIN ON REORGANIZATION (Continued from First Page.) Depart- of arms 28 service agencies for all depart- ments. “These recommendation: {Brown in his memorandum, rectly to the point of correcting, so ible, the most prominent faults characterize the - or- ganization of the executive branch of the government. Generally speik. ing, their adoption would resuit, first, in the moving from all departments those functions which are extraneou: to the major departmental purposes second, In assembling under tho same departmental supervision all activities which are closely related and which, therefore, should b2 co- ordinated, and, third, the ecxtension of the control of the cabinet officers to reach a number of activities now conducted by _establishments inde- pendent of ‘the executive deparc- ments.” Mr. Brown’s memorandum contain- ed a historical etch of the exec- utlve branch of the government, showing that the first executive 1y Namew Given Prestdent. ¢ asserted that he fs considercd by the President for ap pointment as chairman of the board, but he admitted suggesting to the President the names of several promi- nent shipping men to be considered by him in making his selection of a chairman. When asked when he thought the President would make ;Retulmm:n(minuz, Mr. Brush replied at Ne thought it wou e Vet e hosigh 1d be done in a Mr. Brush sald ‘the discuss variety of subjects and he intimatec that he favored the greater part of the memorandum of proposals made several days ago by Senator Jones of Washington to the President, looking toward the development of a perma- nent policy for the board ana the operation of the fleet. Mr. Brush said that he heartily ap- proved the proposed divorecing of the Emergency Fleet Corporation from the board itself. Regarding the exten- sion_of the coastwise shipping laws of the United States to the Philip- pines, he said he was unable to give the President any help in this mat- ter, inasmuch as he knew so litlle about it. SOUGHT NO ADVICE ON CIRCULAR NO. 13 d ffom First Page.) { St. Elizabeth's, to remain at $7,000, but his allocation to be changed from grade 6 to grade 7 of the pro- fessional and sclentific service; first | assistant physician from $5,000 to $5,400. In the Department of Agriculture— Chief of the bureau of piant indus- try from 35,000 to $7,600; assoeiate { chief, bureau of plant industry, from $5.500 to $6.000: chief of the forest scrvice, $5,000 to $7,500; chief of the bureau of public roads, from $6,000 to $7,600; chief engineer, bureau of pub- li¢ roads, from $5,500 to $6.000. Department of ‘Commerce: Director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, from $6,000 to $7.500; di- rector_of the bureau of standards, | from $6,000 to $7,500; assistant direc- tor of the bureau of standards, from $5,400 to $6.000. interstate Commerce Commission: Director of finance to be reduced from $10,000 to $7,500. chief counsel to be reduced from $10,000 to $7.500, direc- tor of traffic to be reduced from $10,- 000 to $7,500, director of valuation to be reduced from §$9,000.to $7.500. Motion Is Lowt. In the minutes of the meeting ot December 21, it is shown that Mr. Graves' motion for the adoption of this memorandum _was lost, Mr. Bailey and Mr. Moffett, each stating that he would file statement of rea- sons for voting against it. Mr. Graves asked to have his views recorded to the effect that inasmuch as the board had approved the allocation of the members of the Civil Service Com- mission, the assistant director of the bureau of the budget and the assist- ant _controller general to grade 14 of the clerical administrative and fiscal service and the chief examiner of the Civil Service Commission to fgrade 13 of that service, the board could not consistently place in in- forior grades the heads of the most important bureaus of the government, all of whom, in his judgment, per- formed duties of equal or greater im- portance than those involved in the positions mentioned. I FAILS TO PAY, IS JAILED. Colored Man Fined $10 for Break- ing Plate-Glass Window. James Arthur Lewls, colored, thirty years old, was sent to jail today for ten days following a default t9 pay a $10 fine for disorderly conduct {m- posed by Judge Schuldt, in the Police Court. 2 Lewis was responsible for the breaking of a plate glass window of the®Old Plate Shop, 1113 Connecticut avenue, yesterday. ' According to the tale he told the judge, he threw a brick at another man, who ducked with the result that it struck the window. He was arrested by police- men a minute after he broke the window. The window held valuable articles, by the act of March 3. The new de- partment was intended to be the home department,” as its name im- plies, and to have jurisdiction over strictly domestic affairs, coming within the scope of the federal gov- ernment. To It were transferred from the four existing departments— State, War, Treasury and Navy—the government's . activities relating to patents, public buildings, pensions, and the accounts of officers of the United States courts, as well as those relating to the public lands and to Indian ‘War Complicates’ Work. Mr. Brown called attention to the agency created by Con s following e doption of “the federal Consti: tution was the department of for- eign affairs, which was established by the act of July 27, 1789. Its name was chan to De ment of State in Soptember of the same year. - Proposes Comsolidation. The second exeoutive agency estab- lished was the War Department with | jurisdiction over both' naval and mili- tary affairs The Brown plan pro. @"‘ the consolidation of the present ar ,and Navy depawtments, The i{.v'y Department was created -in “The first important reorganisa- tlon of the executive branch of the government. occurred in 184 sald the memorandum, “with the estab- lishment of the Intérior Departmeat fact that since the world war the government has assumed many new functions, which makes a reorgani- zation of the exeeutive departments all the more necessary. Many of the agencies then created are stiil In ex- istence and must be carried on for many years to come. e proposal for the establishment of a department of education and wel- fare,” continues the memorandum, “is from the superficial vlz:' the most rad- ical of the recommendations prmented for consideration. It ia the only new department suggested. Yet it {s no more than thé logical part of the effort to divest each existing department of ex- traneous functions and to assemble un- der unified supervision all activities which are pr should be in_close work- ing' relationship? B § THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY! J.LNUABY 2, 1924, : : r \New Teacher Salary g PRESIDENT KEEPS UP MORNING ROUTINE Despite Ordeal of New Year D Reaches Desk at Early Hour, SENATOR ERNST A CALLER Secretaries Mellon and Wallage Also at White House. Despite the ordeal of yesterday's New Year reception, the President was at his desk at his customary early hour this morning looking none the worse for his strenuous experi- ence. Following the conclusion of the reception yesterday afternoon, he changed his party clothes and went for a half hour's stroll about the downtown section of the city and on his return to the White House went directly to the office and on als way to the lobby he dropped in the press {room and chatted in & democratic and affable manner with the newspaper men for more than ten or fifteen minutes. He said then that he en- joyed the reception and that he felt no ill effects from the long standing and constant handshaking. Few Callers Today. It may have been in anticipation of the need for a day of rest follow- ing the New Year reception that no formal engagements were made for the President at his office today, but he received a number of callers who made engagements over the phone, and in between these impromptu calls he succeeded in clearing his desk of quite an accumulation of routine business. Senator Ernst, republican, of Ken- tucky, while discussing the filling of a vacancy in the federal judiclal dis- trict in the western district of Ken- tucky, caused by the death last week of Judge Walter Evans, suggested the appointment of Charles Moorman of Loulsville. Moorman Given Migh Pral Senator Ernst said Mr. Moorman is one of the foremost members of the Loulsville bar, and at one time was a member of the highest court of that state. It is understood the suggestion was very favorably re- ceived and that the chances of N Moorman’s appointment are very good. retary of the Treasury Mellon was in conference with the President for a short time in the morning and he was followed by Secretary of Agri- cultture Wallace and Brig. Gen. Lord, director of the budget. GIRL’S STORY GIVES CLUE TO MURDER Police Convinced Man Found Dead on Base Ball Field Was Slain. By the Associated Press. PALMYRA, Pa, January "he shooting to death of Enos Robb of Palmyra on the field of the Palmyra Athletic Club here Saturday night has assumed a new aspect B8 po- lice investigated a story told them by Esther Walmer, a sixteen-year- old girl. Robb's body, with a bullet through the head, was found on the base ball field a short distance from his home and local authorities are convinced he was murdered. The girl, investigators sald, told them she was with Robb at the ath- letic field Saturday evening, when a masked man appeared and told her to leave and not to look back. Robb's daughter, iolet, the . officers _said, told thein her father left the house during the evening and shortly after she saw flashes, supposedly from a pistol. The family learned of the shooting when motorists brought the body to the home. HUERTA ORDERS 0IL TAXES PAID TO HIM Revolutionary Head Will Not Recognize Sums Sent to Obregon Party. Adolfo de la Huerta, “supreme chief of the revolution,” in Mexico, has Instructed Enrique Seldner, his agent in New York, to inform “all ofl companies” of the issuance of the decree by him that payment of petroleum production and expert taxes shall be made to the account of the revolutionary group. The text of the decree, which bears the date of December 29 and was referred to in previous reports from revolution- ary sources, was made public here yesterday along with a copy of the instruction to the de la Huerta agent. Under its terms, production taxes on petroleum shall be paid at New York or Vera Cruz and the export duty at either of these places or at the port of export. While the decree 4s designed to divert payment of production taxes from the Obregon government to the revolutionary £roup, as to _export taxes it stated that these would con- tinue to be used as provided in the de la Huerta-Lamont agreement. The latter agreement, which was entered into In 1922 between de la Huerta, who came to this country as Mex- jean secretary of the treasury, and Thomas W. Lamont, provided that such taxes be applied to the pay- ment of interest on Mexico’s foreign debt. From the date of publication of the decree, which also was dated December 29, all payments not made in accordance with its provisions, it set forth, would be considered “null and without effect.” “As the entire ofl region” de la Huerta's message to his agent said, “including Tuxpam, Puerto Lobos and Puerto Mexico, is under control of the de facto government headed by me, these companies should obey this disposition.” —— EXPLAIN SCHOOL BUDGET. Civic and Trade Bodies to Hear Officials Speak. ‘What the Commissioners and the budget bureau did to the original public school estimates for the next fiscal year will be explained to rep- resentatives of the various clvig trade and parent-teacher organiz: tions at the annual joint conference with the board of eduction In the Franklin School tonight at 8 o'clock. Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou will outline the items in the school budget as it was sent to Congress and indicate those items which were eliminated from the board's original estimates by the Commissioners and the budget bureau. Invitations have been sent to organizations by the board requast- ing that they send representatives to the conference, —_— QUEBEC CONVENT BURNS. CHICOUTIMI, Quebec, January Fire today destroyed the Good Shep- herd Convent, endangering the lives of twelve nuns, who escaped with difficulty. The loss was estimated at $100,000,