Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1924, Page 2

TOTAL OF §207 004 REACHED FORG.W.U. Sum Announced by Cam- paign Committee at Daily Lincheon. PLEDGES ANNOUNCED ‘Winning Team Brings in Sub- scriptions of $4,000. A grand total of $207.524 was reached this afternoon in the cam- paign being conducted to secure a millfon-dallar endowment and build- ing fund for the George Washington University. This sum, announced at the cam- palgn luncheon held at the New bitt Hotel, paritcipated in by divi- sions four, five, six, eight and nine, was made up of the $156,312 previ- ously secured and $51.212 reported today by the teams of the five di- visions enumerated and the execu- tive committee. Elliot Goodwin, reporting for the executive committee, announced sub- scriptions as follow F. M. Kirby, $5.000: Coonley, $5,000: Mra. H. G. Perkins, $10.000, and Judd & Detweiler, $2,500. Team No, 23, Soterios Nicholson, captain. again won the American flag with total subscription of $4.000. This team won the flag last Saturday. Claude W. Owen, local campaign manager, announced that he would | give a dinner at the City Club in con- clusion of the campaign, to the team bri highest score. was the slogan used iastic members of of divisions 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 campalgn to raise a million- endowment fund for George Washington University held their business luncheon at the New Ebibtt Hotel. Indicative of the enthusiasm of the workers and of the undying love for their alma mater, the words “get or give” implied that the workers either will get the quota they have set out to raise or will give it themselves. Accordingly, the workers are not missing an opportunity to place their proposition before the people. The response, from alumni and others, has been most encouraging. University | and college men from all sections of | the country, who live in this city are responding liberally, as well as hun- dreds of men and women who never went to a university. Mrs. Avery | All recognize the great aid given | the Natlonal Capital by the univer. ty, and particularly the benefit to: comes to the city when the endowntent ! and building fund. enables it to en- large its activities along 1 lin Pledges amounting to $155,396 ward the fund were in ha when | the luncheon began this afterndon; and many thousands of dollars ware expected to be added when the teams | of the divisions had completed their reports. The meeting of half of the divisidns each day is stimulating rivalry, di¥ sions 1.2, 3 and 7 reporting vester- day. These divisions will report fo- morrow at luncheon. Students Give Liberalls. The amount on hand at the beein- ning of today's luncheon representzd | $61,248 pledged by students of the ' university. $38,648 secured by the! teams, $25.000 each by Mrs. Larz An- | derson and Judge John Barton Payrie, | $5.000 from Christian Heurich and $590 | from Robert N. Harper. ! Charles I. Corby has donated two | solid sllver pheasants, which will i presented to the woman who secures the largest total of gifts. Charlés Carroll Glover, jr., is the donor of a #olid silver pitcher, which will bs Eiven to the man who secures tha largest total. a1 Another memorial gift announced ! 15 $500 from Mrs. A. G. Wilkinso# and her daughter, Miss Luclle Wily kinson, In memory of Dr. A. G. Wil: | kinson, who received an honorary de. gree from the University fifty years | Among the alumni who pledge “tg' g6t or_to give” $300 In five years aré Alice M. Ashford, Ralph W. Benton| George Burkhead, Edna A. Clark Frederick A. Coolidge, Joseph W Cox, Rol T. Darby, I. C. Foster, James. L Karridle dr.:’ “Henry " . “Lowe.! oterios Nicholson, [arry W. Perri and Joseph L, White. ™ Reports by Divislons, 3 Results by divisions and teams up ] to and including noon were officially announced as follows: H Division 1, David A. Baer. leader, | $6,600. Team 1, Phiiip Ershler, cap- | tain, $1,325; team 3, H. Latane Lewis, § captain, $160; team 4, H. H. Semmes, } captaln, $175; team 5, Willlam H. Lin- ¥ kins, captain, $1,400: team 6, Joseph { W._Cox, captain, $3,600. Division 2, Charles i._Corby, leader, $3,757. Team 8, Dr. H. W. Jaeger, cap- tain, $1,100; téam 11, Dr. Noble +P. Barres, captaln, $657: team i2, Dr. D. L. Boréen, captain, $1,000. Didsion 3, Willlam Bruce King, lead- er, §.790. Team 13, Rev. Paul Sperry, captath, $1,725; team 14, H. T, Domer, 3600; team '16, Ulric S. J. Dunbar, cap- | tain, $1,460; team 19, Dr. O. B. Hunter, ain, $4,005. 1 ivision 7, Mrs. John Paul Earnest and Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr. leaders, $5,435; team 51, Dr. O. Josephine Balrd, captain, $450; team 52, Mrs. Dewltt Croissant, captain, $455; team | 53, Mrs. E. C. Brandenburg, captain, $838; team 54, Mrs. Henry G. Doyle, captain, $210; team 655, Miss Eliza- beth Earnest, captain, $88! team 57, Mrs. Virgil B. Jackson, captain, $1.477; team 58, Mrs. F. W. True, cap- tain, $1,120. Results Last Saturda; The divisions meeting today at their meeting last Saturday reported | a8 follow: Division 4, Judge J. Wilmer Lati- mer, leader, $4,920; team 22, E. T. Haycraft, captain, $60; teew, 23, So- verius Nicholson, captain, $4,15 team 37, J. W. Burch, captain, $40i team 38, W. D. Ham. captain, $30 Division 5, Capt. Hugh Miller, leas er, $1,911; téam 21, Prof. H. G. Doyle, captain, $1,095; team 25, Maj. A. M. Prentiss, captain, $350; team 26, D. H. Smith, captain, $266; team 27, "Wil- liam C. Van Vleck, captain, $200. Division 6, Dr. Thomas A. Groover, leader, $2,800. Team 28, Dr. Everett M. Ellison, captain, $300; team 29, Dr. J. Mallory, $1,050; ‘team 31, Dr. D. T. Birtwell, captain, $1,000; team 35, Dr. N. N, Saller, captain, $450. Division 8, Mrs. William E. Cham- berlain and Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff, leaders, $2,720. Team 60, Miss Leila Hardell, $400; tear 62, Mrs. Wilfred C. Gilbert, captain, $1,100; team 63, Miss Olive Prescott, $315; team 65, Miss Rhoda Watkins. captain, $905. Division 9, Miss Evelyn Jones and Miss Elizabeth Webb Wilson, leaders, $3,6556; team 66, Miss Freda Egbert, ~aptaip, $650; team 67, Miss Emille 31 White, captain, $2,105; team 68, Miss Julia McCord, captain, $325; team 70, Miss Agnes Messer, captain, 3422.: team 71, Miss Néuman, captain, $1 SNOWFALL AT ATLANTA. First Flurries of Winter Whipped by Strong Wind. ATLANTA, Ga, February 6.—The first snowfall of the winter flurried down on Atlanta early today. The flakes were of hominy variety and fell in flurries whipped by & strong wind. ‘The thermometer dropped to 7 de- grees below freezing at an early hour this morning. Snow is today forecast with colder weather for to. B e | tens jin { Beach. | w { squad, [ THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN( REEDOLCONPANY CONNEGTION TOLD iNo . Relation Between Mis- souri Senator and.Reserve Lease Affair. An. article tar yesterd was published In The stgned by Frederic William Wile stating that Senator James A. Reegof Missouri, democrat, has been and is engaged as counsel « On behalf of certain oil interests. T. V. O'CONNOR. CONFESSES HELPING STEAL 30 AUTOS Conscience-Stricken Witness Tells of Thefts in Norfolk and Washington. By the Associated Press, NORFOLK, Va. February 6.—Be- cause his “conscience hurt” him, Louis P. Starns yesterday took the stand in federal court and disclosed the al- leged methods pursued by a gang of automoblle thieves that operated ex- vely throughout the east, prin- cipally in Norfolk and Washington. Largely oit Starns' testimon; Hutchins, the first of eight men under indictment to face trial, was found guilty. Bond was fixed at $10.000 pending argument for a new trial. Starns testificd that he and associates stole more than automobiles changed identifi marks, and sold them. Most o ars, he said, were stolen in W ington and brought to Norfolk, where they were overhauled and chanked, so to escape detection as stolen property Hutchins and Starns were arrested Denver, Col., last August. The latter testified that he had urged Hutching at that time to make a 1 breast” of the automobile Tt and that Hutchins had threatened to “cut his liver out” if he disclosed any of the secrets of the utomoblle theft ring. Starns was formerly In charge of the state rifle range at Virginia his thir| IN NORFOLK AS WITNESS. D. C. Detective to Testify on Stolen Automobiles. Detective H. M. Jett, the local automobile squad, is in Norfolk as & witness in the cases involving the thefts of cars from this city. Approximately twenty cars were stolen here and taken to Nor- folk, it is stated. Howard Hayman, alleged member of the part: was arrested in this city last summer by Detective Eugene Davis of the automobile squad and charged under the Dyer act with tal Ing a stolen car to Norfolk. He also vas_charged with false Dretenses in connection with _one automobile transaction, it being alleged that he obtained $1,000 from a resident of Norfolk for a stolen car. Following the arrest of Hayman, members of the local automobile the Norfolk police and rep- resentatives of insurance companies conducted an investigation of the al- leged wholesale thefts of cars that were taken to Norfolk and sold. Hayman is under bond for his ap- pearance In this city. 20 PUPILS STRICKEN AFTER VACCINATION Exposure to Freezing‘ Weather After Inoculation Causes Iliness, Is Belief. member of By the Associnted Press. CONCORD, Mass., February 6.—A defect in diphtheria toxin anti-toxin caused, the authorities believe, by ex- posure to freezing weather, has aused illness to nineteen boys and a girl, students in the Concord Academy, who were inoculated last Tuesday. They were in bed today with swollen limbs, sore eyes, nausea and other ailments. “Dr. Charles Hutchinson, who inject- ed the toxin anti-toxin, said that the gerum had been tested in Washington #nd Boston, but had been subjected 1) terrific cold in coming from Boston to Concord. #The zero weather,” he sald, “must have unlocked the toxin anti-toxin, 8ét the anti-toxin free and left the The fact that freezing weather would turn this blessing to a ‘menace has never been known be- o was understood that Dr. Bels Schick, the Austrian sclentist who in- vented the serum and who now is in Néw York, might come to Concord today to learn more fully just what had happene| MEMBERS OF HOUSE T0 INSPECT STREETS ‘The Commissioners will take mem- bers of the House subcommittee in chsrge of District appropriations on a miotor tour tomorrow of the streets for. the improvement of which funds are: being requested in the estimates. The oity heads today completed neayly two weeke of testimony be- fors the subcommittee, in the course of ‘hich they submitted evldence in support of every item in the new appropriation bill T{lo desire of the subcommittee to make ‘a personal - inspection of the uniraproved streets of the city is regarded by the municipal authorities as an indication of the keen interest the subcommittee members have taken in local needs this year. CANADA LOWERS FLAGS. Emblems Fly at Half" in Wilson’s Honor. OTTAWA, February 6.—Flags on all government buildings throughout Canada were lowered to -half mast esterday as a tribute to the late ex- Frosidens Wilsaa, Mast \ Leon §. | { An investigation by The Star today showed that the Universal Oil Prod- ucts Company, of which Senator Reed is one of the local counsel in Kansas City, Mo., does not own any oil lands nor any interest in any refinery; that its property is a bpatent for | “cracking” process, by which crude L0l Is refined and gasoline and other i by-products are extracted. i The investization shows, also, that {Senator Reed does not represent any {oil-producing companies and has ver represented any in the past, The process for cracking oil. to which the Universal Oil ®roducts Company lays claim, was discovered some years ago by the late Jesse A. {Dubbs. The Cniversal Oil Products (0. was organized, with a son, C. P. bbs, us a member, to handie this e s, and a suit filed against Oil Company of Indiana the patent has been in- ol ne i1 L the S | contends that | fringed ! was filed in Kan- i 916, seeks merely | w t the Dubbs' pat- jent been infringed, and in the bill {of complat filed in connection with the suit no mentfon is made f Any sum of money as damag Should the suit be successful, then an ac- counting must be made by the Stan- dard Oil and other companies which have been using processes infringing the Dubbs patent. A master in chan- cery has been appointed and testi- mony is being taken. One of Many Lawyers. Senator Reed ig tne of many coun- sel emploved in this case. The case of the Universal Oil Products Com- s against the Standard Oil Com- and through it against the Do- and Sinclair oil interests—the ests which have been involved in the naval oil reserve leasing scan- —which used the processes of the ndard, through contract with that compan: In fact, sults will be filed soon. 1t is reported, against Doheny and Sinclair the Universal Oil Products Com- Y, charging infringfiement of patent also.’ It Is eaid that the successful outcome of the suit of the Universal company would be greatly helpful and in the interest of Independent as well as the entire in- icenses are freely grant- terms by the Universal any to all producers by the Uni- i |40 = aT Mother of Five, 24, And Attractive,’ Held Bandit Head By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 6.—Mrs. Mary Cody, twenty-four years old, blond, bobbed-haired and attrac- tive and the mother of five chil- dren, was arrested today on sus- piston of being the bobbed-haired girl who has led a score of Brook- lyn bandit raids In the past few weeks. Mrs. Cody and two men, roomers in her Brooklyn flat and the sup- sed members of her hold-up and, were taken in a raid. The police sald they found in the apartment a sealskin coat and a strikingly-colored turban corre- sponding to the description given by hold-up victims as the garment and hat worn the “bobbed- haired bandit” leading her depredation: Mrs. Cody, who 1s separated from her husband and whose five children are in institutions, denied she was the widely sought bandit. SUPPORT OF RELIEF URGEDBY ALLEN General Asks Hostility Cast Aside in Aiding Starv- ing Germans. in' Americans ought to put aside hos- tility toward the German people and co-oparate whole-heartedly in the rellef of starvation among them, Maj. den, Henry T. Allen, retired, Who commanded the American troops on the Rhine, declared today before the House forelgn affairs committee. Appearing as a witness at a hear- ing on various proposals to appro- priate funds for relief work, Gen. Allen said: Investigators for the American com. mittee for relief of German children, of which he is chalrman, report that up to 20 per cent of the children applying at six years for admission 100l had to be sent home as unfit to attend. ‘Our committee in Berlin has cabled Allen, “that the reliet feeding & supplementry meal to 625000 children, but should be feeding fully 2,000,000 a needy. Our advices dition service is to increased starvation and that the German government is withholding statistics of death re- sulting from hunger and despair. “The highest peak need will come at the last of March and early in April. Between that period and the next harvest it is predicted that over versal company, whether large or is | 20.000.000 people will be ut pendent on outside charit. {BREWER DISCLAIMS CHARGE HE MISLED PRESIDENT HARDING Never Met Late Executixe Until April 18, 1922, Says Statement—Cites Reasons for Believing Engraving Bureau Action Wise. Positive disclaimer of the charge that he misled the ‘late President Harding in connection with the dis- charge of heads of the bureau of en- graving and printing is contained In a statement by Charles B. Brewer filed as an exhibit to his suit for an injunction to prevent interference by officials of the Treasury and De- partment of Justice with hisx posses- sion of bonds, seeurities and other documents by which he expects to prove hix allegations of irregular- ities at the bureau. Mr. Brew ays: “I‘am fully a that 1 am gen- erally credited with being the onc who ' ‘misled’ President Harding in the discharge of the twenty-eight em- ployes.of the bureau of engraving on March 31, 1922, and have been peatedly 'so charged in the public ]press, The President had seen fit to remain silent, and when the charge |was first made, in February, 1923, 1 sent him word that my lips were sealed. I have persisiently refused to be interviewed, but I hereby dis- claim any responsibility for his act. Denles Responsibility. “If it be a fact that President Hard- ing was misled, it was not I who mis- led him. I had never met President Harding until April 18, 1922, “Though I had no’ voice in the matter, from what I incidentally knew of the situation then and from subsequent information which _has ome to me, my opinion is that he was not misled, and the situation as disclosed to him fully justifies his act. From what is set out below it can be scen that vice and dishonesty of em- ployes was protected by superfors and by cliques—and this in a financial institution which demanded Integrity beyond question. had mafe a report to the At- torney General on the duplicate bond situation of December 21, 1921, con- cerning _ various divisions® of the Treasury. and {ncidentally in that report made reference to the bureau of engraving in connection with se eral very questionable proceeding: seemingly concerned in the bon: situation, as they had been' repeated to me. But I ended the report with the statement there was uncertainty and injustice might be done unless records were examined. And I also repeated my former request for au- thority to inspect the records. When Harding Saw Report. “The President never saw this re- port until August, 1922. I had been informed that he had stated on May 10, 1922, that he had never seen it, and in August following, when I 'sub- mitted a digest of the audit made after the discharge of employes, I asked him. and he repeated to me, that he had never seen it and asked for it. I was unable to find a trace of it in thé Department of Justice, and furnished him a carbon copy of ;tsz;lllholll the exhibits, in August, “If further proof that the President was not influenced by my report is needed, it will without doubt be fur- nished by a perusal of what that re- port stated. “Such perusal will show irregularities of so grave a nature charged to divisions of. the Treasury other than the bureau of engraving that had he, regardless of the warn- ing that uncertainty existed, based nis action on this report he would unquestionably have not Hmltefl“lha discharges to the division affected. Attached to the petition is a state- ment of an employe of the bureau, addressed to Mr. Brewer, in which he points out that certain numbers and errors on the alleged spurious bonds indicate irregularities. Statement of Employe. The bureau employe says: “Since I was thirteen years old, in 1878, I have been continuously employed at the bureau of engraving and printing and am familiar with all types of numbers used now and throughout the liberty loan issues. “Referring to the duplicats bonds ‘which you showed to me in the Union Trust Company’s vaults today of the fourth 43 issue and particularly to the make-ups of this (temporary) issue of $50, $100 and $1,000 denomi- nations enumerated below, I am able to state definitely that the numbers appearing on these bonds are such as to show that the bonds were not among those legitimately numbered for issue. My reasons for this state- o bu- -placad on n only show them not Wa but have heen some manner {mpossible to have been done by type unless some other means also was employed. No such numbers re ever printed at the bureau of engraving and pritning. Other Errors Charged. “Other bonds Indicate mome addi- tionul treatment and two of them are both make-ups and neither is the bureau type. Altogether you showed me thirty-three (33) bonds of this thousand—all of type different from the burea: nds shown me, No. % per cent, had th characteristics and was the bureau type-—that fs. the “make-up” was not. The duplicate of this appeared entirely genuine. “The thirty-eight (38) $50 bond: numbered 5128090 lowest and 5126505 highest, appesred to be the bureau type, but were printed with a con- stant error in an angle at which the numbers were impressed impossible In bureau methods. The last nine of these bonds no press could have im- pressed the nambers on and one bond had the same characteristics stamp- ing it false. Reanonw for Statement. He explained his reasons as follows: “My reasons for the above state- ments are that the ink appearing on these bonds is entirely too thick to have been printed in any manner possible by the bureau’s presses. The appearance is that they were printed by rubber stamp or other method. As to this, I am unable to state definitely. 1 can say positively, however, that they are not the bureau 1s Another reuon[!url my statement hat on practically every b which is listed as notybping The bac Teau's the numbers are impressed on same with a constant error which would be humanly impoesible accord- ing to the methods used in printing the “make-up” bonds at the bureau, Many of the figures appear to have been touched up after the impreasion had been made. It is also moted that in many cases the ink has run through the paper, which does not happen in the bureau’s p-inting.” MILITARY POLICE COMPANY FORMED Lieut. Raymond M. Peake in Com- mand, and Lieut. Boyer, Second. The 29th Military Police Company, District of Columbia National Guard, composed of two officers and Aifty en- listed men was mustered in at the armory, 427 L atreet northwest last night. This is the first organization of military police to be given federal recognition in the District. Recruit- ing was started several months ago and a high-grade personnel enlisted. First Lieut. Raymond M. Peake, is commander and Rudy M. Boyer is second lleutenant. The following named officers re- ported to two examining boards ap- pointed by Maj, Gen. C. H. Muir, cotae manding the 3d Corps Ares, with headquarters in Baltimore and of Which Lieut. Col. C. Fred Cook and Maj. James R. m.bi are the pres dents, respectively, last evening to determine their fitness for promotion to the grades indicated: John W. Oehmann to be colonel, Harry E. Gladman to be lieutenant colonel, Joe R. McKey to be major, Julian S. Olff to be major, Edward H. Grove, Willlam F. Jorgenson, Clarence B. Shields, Roy W. Keesee, Godwin P. Dunn and Thomas A, Lane to be cap- tains, and Hugh H. Muir, William Buechler and Nelson T. Rebert to be first lieutenants. Other promotions soon will be an- nounced. An intensive recruiting drive to bring the District National Guard to its full authorized stréngth will be launched. i e The great Colorado river project plans for the development ef about 000,000 horsepower through the con- struction of several Immense dams, 50 the irrigation of2 mbout 5,000,000 acres of land, providing for the 'maintenance o 'Dopulation t mearly hus become so serious with | s muilea ol BUDGET HEARINGS FOR D. C. FINISHED House Subcommittee to Tour Streets Declared in Need " of Improvement. The subcommittee of the House ap- Dpropriations . coittee which ha: | been conducting Wearings on the Dis- | trict: budget #or the fiscal year be. ginningJuly' 1 next closed its hear ings with a’“fleld day” for those citi- zens who desired:to be heard, and to- morrow the subcommittee -will start on its personal streets throughout the District. They will be accompanled by the District Commissioners. Curtiss H. Shinn, chairman of the Atreet committee of the Washington Board of Trade, discussed”in detail With the subcommittee taday the con- iditlon of ‘the streets in Washington and urged an extensive program. ‘Wants Restriction Removed. Evan H. Tucker, president of the Northeast' Washington Citizens' As- soclation, urged the committee to re- move from the District, app: riation bill the limitation that has been there for three years restricting the use of funds to work on the Anacostia river below Benning bridge. He said that it is desired that work, should be be- gun above Benning brhidge and _that the engineers feel that ¢hey can finish the work below the britige better aft- er_they have begun work above it. This would not be mew legislation and subject to a point of order, he argued, ‘because the ariginal pro. provided for improvement of the Anacostia river to the District line. He impressed upon the subcommittee that the report recently filed by the engineers, showing how 25 per cent can be saved on the estimated cost of the work, removes all reason for further delay. Ask Fund for Park. Dr. Havenner, president of the Anacostia Citizens' Association, and C. A. Barker of the Randle Highlands Association appeared in support of the proposed appropriation of $50,000 for development and improvement of Anacostia Park. Mrs. Bowers addressed the com- mittee In opposition to the employ- ment of prisoners to supplement the forc at” Gallinger Municipal Hos- pital. A group of citizens from the Plney Branch assoclation appeared in op- position to erection of the tubercular { school on the site of the present hos- pital. Some women from the Southern Rellef Soclety also. addressed the committee. VIRGINIA G. 0. P. BACKS COOLIDGE Party Conwention Instructs’ Dele- gates to Stand for Him “Un- til Nominated.” | | | | The White House was greatly pleased today upom the receipt of news that the republicanstate con- vention meeting in Roanoke, Va., last night elected its delegates to the re- publican 1924 convention with posi- tive instructions to “vote for Cool- }idge until he 15 nomiffated.” In making known this action oh the part of his state convention, and the elation at the White House, C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the Pres- ident, who was elected to head the delegation, sald he was proud that his state has won the distinction of being the first to elect an instructed delegation. Sounds First Gun of Campaign. “Because of this action,” Secretary Slemp sald today, “Virginia attains the honor of sounding the first actual gun of the 1924 natlonal campaign. I am proud that I was chosen a delegate and was selected to head the delega- tion that will go to Cleveland. It also is pleasing to know that for the first time in twenty years there will be no contests regarding the seating of dele- gates from my state. isfled, and_ tQere is complete harmony in our ranks." Secretary Slemp said he has been a delegate to national conventiohs for the past twenty years, and that, according to his information, he is the firet sec- retary (o a President to go as a dele- gate to & convention that Is expected to vote on that President for the nomlis nation of his party. Bexldes Secretary Slemp, the others chosen at last night's convention in Roanoke to comprise Virginia's “big four” to Cleveland are Col. Henry W. Anderson of Richmond, who was the republican nominee for governor two years ago: John Paul of Harrison- burg and Joseph Crupper of Alexan- dria, republican state chalrman, and Who' since Mr. Slemp's appointment as secretary to the President been the active leader for his part: in Virginia. Harmony in Convention. The convention, which was har- monious throughout, and_which was unanimous for Calvin Coolidge as the standard bearer in 1924, was pre- sided over by John G. Anderson. The speech indorsing Coolidge and calling for the unqualified {nstruction of ‘he delegates to the national convention was made by Col. Henry W. Ander- son. The convention elected fifteen of its seventeen delegates last night, the other two will be elected this week. Mr. Slemp explaind that these two were not elected in Roanoke be- cause the state leaders wanted to make sure that Mr. Paul, who was a candidate for delegate at large, would be in the delegation, and in the event he failed to be chosen at large, he could have been elected as one of the two delegates not voted upon last night. Indorsed by 19 States. Mr. Slemp pointed out with much pride today that althought Virginia is the first state- to actually elect an instructed delegation for Coolidge, nineteen_state conventions have in- dorsed President Coolidge. cludes the District of Columbia, whose state committes several weeks ago adopted resolutions indorsin, President Coolidge. When Edware F. Colladay, republican national com- mitteeman for the District, who headed A small delegation from this committee that went to ‘the White House to formally notify President Coolidge of this favorable action, he agsured the President that the two delegates to be sent from this city to Cleveland will be Instructed to vote for him, “first, last and all the Besides those stat that have taken some formal’action favoring Mr. Coolidge for 1924, it is a known fact, according to Mr. Slemp, that all of the New England states will send instructed delegations for him. Also, other states that have not yet been heard from will, be for him when the time comes. WOMAN SLAIN IN FEUD. ‘Was Candidate for Mayor of Town in Xouisiana. NEW ORLEANS, February 6.—Mrs. Roland Clark, candidate for mayor of Palmetto, in the recent primary, iy dead, her son and daughter are wounded, and Huey Meyer 18 in a hos- dnortally wound- '_prob: ed, as & result gun battle, ac- investigation of . ON, D C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY i | I I i \ i | | i Every one is sat-|. 18 i ' 6, 1924. 'EAK BEFOR! LITATION CONFERENCE E REHABI DR.H.WINNETTE ORR, Lincoln Neb. MEMORIAL BRIDGE ACTION DUE SOON Sherrill Says Commission Will Decide in Few Days on Recommendations. A meeting of the Arlington Memo- rial Bridge Commission within a few days will decide definitely what will be recommended to Congress as to the construction of the memorial bridge, Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, ex- ecutive officer of the commission, to- day told the Lee Highway Associa- tion, holding its fourth ann con- vention at the New Willard Hotel. Indicating that a definite project il be recommended, Col. Sherrill that indications are that the mem rial bridge will be “started very shor! laid aside to sleep for fifty years more.'” Plans for the bridge, Potomae river between the Lincoln Memorial und Arlington National cemetery, as drawn up under super- vision of Col. Sherrill, were on exhi- bition today in conncction with the convention. Declaring that the bridge will be the widest in the world, approximate- said to span the 1y 100 feet wide, with space for six { ro fifteen-foot walks, Lieut. Col. Sher- rill told the relation of the Lee high- way to the project. Lee Memorial Space. He sald that space had been set aside for the probable e memorial to Gen. Lee. and told of the proposed beautification of Colum- bia island, across which the bridge would run. Ten years will be necessary to com- plete ‘the bridge and its elaborate terraces and approaches, Col. Sherrill . It will cost between fifteen and twenty millions of dollars, he added. and will form the only appropriate entrance to the Natfonal Capital. Rome had six magnificent entrances, Col. Sherrill _said, and it is to_ be hoped that Washington, some day will have many beautiful and appro- priate entrances. but no entranee, in his opinion, will ever be more mag- nificent than'that over the Lee high- way and across the proposed Memo- rial bridge Union of North and South. The bridge will be a visible token of the union of the north and south, fie continued, and in a sense also will be & memorial to Lincoln and Lee, and s of automobiles abreast and two a fitting tribute to these puried in| riington. The Lee Highway Association will ask Congress to put the Arlington Memorial bridge on its program as the next great national memorial, now that the Lincoln Memorial is completed. A telegram was read, from Charles Henry Davis, president of the Na- tional Highways Association, ex- g the wish that the Lee high- he the first to paved from c, and thus commemorate the name of one of our greatest American The convention adjourned sessions for the day at noon, out “’ respect to the memory of Woodrow Wilson. To- morrow the delegates will be received at the White House at 12:30 p.m. CHINA DETERMINED T0 KEEP TENG BOY Efforts of Washington Mother Use- less, Wellington Koo Declares. BY JUNIUS WOOD. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, | opyright, 1924. PEKING, February 6 (By radio from San Francisco to New York.)— Little Linwood Jinta Teng, the ten- year-old American, whose life of melodramd, romance and violence already has become an international issue, now is hidden in the ancestral village of his father, guarded by every device within the power of one of the wealthiest famllies in China. The Chinese government also is prepared to resist the demands of the American government to recover the child for his mother, Mrs. Florence Duft of Washington, D. C., according to Dr. Wellington Koo, foreign min- foter of the Peking government. Dr. Koo has so informed Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, American minister, in an informal conversation. Obviously, Dr. Koo was preinformed on the case. He declared flatly that the boy was born in America of an American _mother and_a Chinese father and brought to China by the mother after assassination of her husband and therefore rightfully be. longs to the family of the former husband. ° Dr. Koo contended that marriage of the boys' father to 2 Chinese girl, arranged by the groom's family while he was in London, and solemnized during his _absence, was legal ac- cording tp Chinese law and customs. Therefore, the boy belongs to the Chinese wife. He added that China would strongly oppose any attempt to extradite the lad. ECONOMIES VOTED BY PARIS CHAMBER By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 6.—The chamber of deputies today voted unanimously in principle the bill for economies in the governmental expenses for 1924, amounting to 1,000,000,000 francs. The socialists, adopting new tactics, ‘began a movement to oblige the gov- ernment to effect these economies in itary maval ction of a, | COMMITTEE READY FORTAX BILL VOTE Republicans on Ways and Means Body Have Complet- ed Draft of Measure. REPORT IS DUE MONDAY Consideration Likely to Be Delay- ed While Appropriations Are Considered. The House ways and means com- mittee will vote as 'a whole tomor- DR.WILLIS C.CAMPBELL Memphis Tens. HEARINGS FINISHED ON ITERIOR BL Senate Subcommittee Now Drafting Measure—Durkee Pleads for $205,000. mittee in charge of the Interior De- partment appropriation bill, the first !t0 be received from the House, has completed its hearings on that meas- jure and is at present at work draft- jing the bill itself for submission to the full committee. *The subcommit- Y tee will meet again tomorrow morn- ling and probably will complete its work at that time. During the hearings on the bill Dr. . nley Durkee, president of How- rd University, and D Emmet J. ott, secretary-treasurer of the uni- versity, appeared-and strongly urged that ‘the $205.000 for Howard Uni-| versity stricken out of the bill on a point “of order in the House. be re- | stored to the bill H Dr. Durkee told the committee that the failure to make the appropriation would result in greatly handicapping | rxity, particularly re medical school He spoke of the need of more well trained colored physici and point- ed out that Howard University was one of two universities for the col- fored people which give degrees in j medicine. ‘While ihe subcommittee has not vet concluded work on the bill, it is believed that the proposed appro- { priations for Howard University wili be restored when it is reported to the Senate. SANTIAGO SOCIETY J Cuban War Resume Meetings. Tho tiago de Cuba was revived—or re- sumed its sessions—at a meeting last evening at the tional Guard Armory, 472 L street. To be eligible for membership in the society an in- | dividual must have served in the { United States forces during the San- tiago campaign. Until a few years prior to the world war the District of Columbia branch of the soclety was a flourish- ing organization, but it gradually ceased its activities. The majority of {ts members had served with the 1st D. C. Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, in 1898, The call for the assembly last eve- ning was issued by Brig. Gen. E. J. MoClernand, U. S. A., retired, who was the adjutant general of the United States forces in Cuba, as_president of the national soclety. He outlined plans to enlarge the organization, and urged the District of Columbia members to resume their sessions. Col. C. A. Williams, eecretary-treas- urer of the national ‘society, was also present. With its charter, which had not been revoked, on display, those in at- tendance last evening enthusiasti- cally decided to “resume meetings iregularly.” Lieut. Col. C. Fred Coolk | served as temporary chairn n, @nd Samuel H. Jacobson temposary secretary The next meeting will be held at the Armory, 472 L street, iTuesday evening, March 4, when it is_expected all who ever affiliated with the branch will answer the roll call, The branch last evening unani- mously approved the proposition to erect & memorial and National Guard Armory in the District of Columbia, and pledged itself to do all in its power for further pending legislation with that object in view. A vote of | thanks was tendered Maj. Gen. Stephan for his courtesy In inviting ithe organization té meet at the Armory. $35,000 GEMS' STOLEN. Bandits Hold Up Jewelry ‘Store in the Bronx. NEW YORK, February 6.—Five ‘armed bandits today held up the jew- elry store of William Schnelderman in the. Bronx and escaped in an au- tomobile with diamonds and other gems valued at $35,000. RYKOFF STILL IN BED. MOSCOW, _February remier Rykoft is still confined -to his bed by tures ' heart trouble, complicated with stom- The Senate appropriations subcom- { 1 regard | HERE IS REVIVED: District of Columbia Veterans of | District of Columbia branch| of the Society of the Army of San-| row on the revenue blll, the republi- can members having completed their draft of the measure yesterday, in close conformity to Secretary Mel- lon’s recommendations, All that remains for the committee to do, according to members, is to vote formally along party lines to re- port the measure favorably to the House. The democratic members may simply vote “present.” The re- publican members of the committee | have agreed to stand solldily behind the bill till it reaches the floor. Report Due Monday. Instructions from the republican conference call for a report to the House by Monday, but its actual cou &lderation in the chamber Is expecte 1to be delayea until pending appro priation measures are passed. The proposal for a constitutional amend- ment to prohibit issuance of tax- exempt sccurities, however, will be taken up by the House tomorrow un- der a special rule, with debate limit- ed to eight hours, which means it cannot be voted upon before Friday. The republican draft of the bill car- ries a reduction of 25 per cent to ap- ply to_all personal income taxes pay- able this year. The 25 per cent reduction on 1923 taxes, which was voted by the ma- jority members yesterday, ~would mean a saving to taxpayers this year of about $226.000,000. Secretary Mel- lon has approved that section. A re- {duction of about $13,000000 in the jewelry tax also was approved today by the republican Provision was made by the ways and means committee republicans to permit pro rata distribution of any excess payments of taxes this year on later installments if the reduction in 1923 taxes is approved after the first payments are due on March 15. Rate of Jewel Tax. The jewelry tax was retained as @ retail tax and placed back at 5 per cent. The full committee had oris- inally decided to cut the rate in half. However, additional exemptions were made by the republicans, all article under $40 in value, watches unde $60, and all musical and surgical in- | struments, eyeglasses, spectacles and {silver-plated flat tableware being in- cluded in the exemption. . { " Secretary Mellon's proposed reductions {in"the income tax rates were advocated by Representative row, republican, Pennsylvania, a member of the steering committes, in remarks inserted in the Congressional Record. Defending the proposed reduction in isurtaxes to a maximum of 25 per cent. Mr. Darrow cald these laxes were evolved “during the war to make the rich pay but now they are not paying” because much of their capital was in- {vested In tax exempt securities. Mr. Darrow said he was convinced the majority of former service men would fure “better in actual dollars and cents as a result of sound revision of the taxes than they would with a bonus. | RAISE FOR TEACHERS OVER TERMS OF BILL INDICATED IN HOUSE (Continued from First Page.) iand the second and fourth Monday are set aside as District days. Tl first month in which there are fiv Mondays is next month, March. Representative Begg of Ohio, repub- {lican, urged favorable action on his {bill to exempt the property of the D. A. R. from tagation. All of this property is now mpt except three lots on’ which an auditorium is being erceted. On motion of Represeptative Kelle seconded hy Blanton, the fa orable report was ordered and Repre i sentative Gibson of Vermont was au- i thorized to draft the report. Acting _ Chairman _ Zihiman an- {nounced the appoiutment of a special | Subcommittee to consider the bill for {enlargement of terminal _facilities. Representative Jihimar himself, is {chairman of this subcommittee and ithe other members are Keller, Min- nesota: Stalker, New York; Kent of { Pennsylvania, and O'Brien, New Jer- Asks New Committee. Representative Blanton asked for appointment of a committee to con- sider the Lampert bIll, which pro- poses to reduce fares for school chil- dren, and declared that “this is the imost urgent need of the Distriot to- day.” He pointed out that there are 63,000 school thildren and charac- {terized it as disgraceful that the should be compelled to pay an eight- cent carfare. Representative Hammer said: “What T'd like to see is a general reduction in the street car fare and the sim plest way to bring this about is repeal the orgahic act of the Public Utilities Commission. The subcommittee appointed to con- sider all street rallway legislation is composed of Representatives Lum- pert, Wisconsin, chairman; Fitzgerald, |Onio; Gibson, Vermont; Blanton, Texas; Gilbert, Kentuc ; Hemmer, North Carolind, and Keiler, Minne- ota. Hepresentative Gllbert, democrat, asked the committee for some in- formation regarding the board of children's guardians, Representative Blanton gave notice that he is pre- paring @ bill on this subject. Rep- Fesentative Keller also annonced s he 1s drafting a board of childreii's guardians bill. Representative Blan- Yon said he will ask for the appojm ment of a committee to consider th legislation. Representative Gilbert told the nmittee that he was interested to know if it would not be feasible ti make allowance direct to mothers that they could support and care f thelr own children, instead of havin them farmed out. Anks Release From Duty, Representative Gilbert asked to be released from service on the insur- ance committee. Representativa Stanley Kuntz of Illinols told the committee that con- ditions in the Police Court buildinz are disgraceful. He knows from personal experience, because hé was rocently there. It would be a good | thing for the committee to Vistt such places sometimes, he said. Something should be done to re- lleve the crowded conditions and to make it possible for people Who have 1o go there to breathe purer air. He announced that he will later geek ac- tion for larger quarters for the Po- lice Court. AT Representative Blanton appeared at the committee with a considerable quantity of préofs from the govern- ment printing office and complained that & member of Congress should not be forced to read proofs, as a business man is not compelled to do 50 when he employs the services of a private printing ofios, -