Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 2

rg W ' THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. ¢, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 192%.° ) PUSH 6. W.PLANS | (e i stonie oI TRAPPED BY FIRE, .| 11,000,000 Pounds COOLIDGE TO DELAY FOR QUTSIDE GIFTS Campaign Leaders to Review i Progress at Luncheon at University Club. LEWIS TO VISIT CHICAGO Cups for Best Work Among Stu- dents to Be Awarded at Junior Prom Tonight. 2 Progress outside the District will be ‘discussed by the national execu- tive committee in charge of the -cam- palgn to secure a million-doliar en- dowment fund for the George Wash- ington University &t a meeting to be held tomorrow at the University Club. President William Mather Lewis plang to address the Chicago alumn{ group February 25, Frank Parker Davis is to be chairman of the Chicago difiner. Divisional and local ohairmen at work. throughout the country include the following: Walter B. Grant, Bos. ton: H. Stewart McKnight, Frits V. Bricsen, New York; Maj. M. J. Con- nolly, Delaware district; W. B. Matthews, Charleston, W, Va.; 8. N. Haws, Walterboro, -8, C.; Dr. Arthur F. Reeves, Asheville, N. C.; James H. Vrice, Greenville, 8. C.; Frank Radensleben, Aflanta, ' Ga.; Neal Bradford Spahr, Knoxville, Tenn.; Alvan B. Macauley, Detroit; William S. Fitsgerald, Cleveland, Olilo; Grier M. Marechal, Dayton, Ohio; James Tripp, Columbus, Ohioi J. Sagmelster, Cineinnatl, Ohto; C! Polk, sSt. Louis, Mo.; A. L. Jackson, Fort Worth, Tex, and Leon French, San Francisco, Calif. Meeting at Arlington. A meeting_of alumnl of Arlington and Falls Church is scheduled for tonight at the Arlington county court- house. Gilbert M. Hall will speak. W. Thomas French {s chalrman for this group. Alexandria slumni have organized under the 1eadership of Gardner Booth, 2d. The cups for the beat work among the students of the unlversity are to be awanled tonight at thé junior prom at the New Willard Hotel. This iz the premier social event of the collego year. Miss Francis Randoiph will recelve the Sphinx Soclety cup and Slgma Phi Epsilon Fraternity the Pyramid Soclety cup, A feport today from Mr. Larner, treasurer, showed $70,083 in_hand in pledges from the =tudents, with some pledges still coming in. 'The students ex- pect to reach the 376,000 mark. Following are additional pledgen reported at the meeting of workers last Friday. The next meeting of all workers {s at the Willard Satur- day at noon. The list: Late Comtribations. Qifts up to $1,000: Cooke & Bene- man, $1,000; Wade H. Cooper, $500: Oscar T. Wright, $500. ts up to $300: Ceorge P. Barse 00: Mever Cohen, $300: Alfa M vle, $300; Bustace Glyolrides, $300; James Franklin Hood, $300; Edwin A Kenner, $300; Bryan Morae, §300; Na- thaniel B. Robinson, $300; “Matthow L. Rue, $300; Marie K. Baunders, $200. Gifts' up_to $250: Edith Marshall Archer, go- Mnrfilret Ayres, Douglas K. Bulloch, $50 frits, $50; Helen L. Chatfleld, A. P. Clark, $100; H. Charl $100; William M. Crain, $5 Denby, $100; Wallace 'D. Edington, $50; Jessle Ruth Evans, $50; Mrs. H. W. Flitch, $100; Genevieve M. Fore man, $50; Mre. Fiorence- Campbell For rester, $100; J. A. D. Garber, $100 Sara 15 Garber, $50; Fred C. Gelser, 100; Anne M. Goding, $50; J. 8 Gru- or, $100; A. F. Harlan, $100; Arthur B. Heston, $250; Thomas 8. Hopkins, 2100; Harry B. Humphrey, $100: John Stuart Hunt, $100; Dr. Montgomery Hunter, $100; O Benwood Hun- ter, Jr., mo‘ M. Loulse J-}mllo. John Jay, $250; H. W. Jenks, $50: Guy M. Johnson, $60. Eldridge E. Jordan, $100; H. H. Kimball, $60; Bianche E. Lewis, $150 George W. Linkins, $260; Luther W' Linkins, $50; A. A. Lipscomb, $50; Tarmony ~ Lodge, $100; Thomas J. Luckett, $30; Lelia Michelin, $100; . W. Nelson, $50; H. R. Nelson, $50: Power Kearney Market Company, $50; Pratt, §r, $100; Albert A, Riley, $30; Charles S, Robb, $50; Fiorence H. Rogers, $60; Kenneth Romney, $50. G E. 0. Rowland, $50; W. K. Reeve . E. Shenn, 35 : Mr. and Mra. H, Sholes, §200; Liewellyn M. Stabler, $80; Standard Engineering Company, $100: Bteuart's Garage, $60; Catherine M. Tonge, $10 Miss Mar- garet J. Thompson, $100. Heman S Ward, #100; Kunice Whyte, $100; Wil liam Ellls Zimmerman, $100. Othgrs Alding Fund. Gifta of §1 to $50: Dr. F. Denette Adams, $10; anoynmous, § wous, $1; anonymous, $1; F. Ballou, $26; Ismar Baruch, § . C. Bates, $25; Louis A, Bauer, $25; Angie M. Beckwith, $40; James W. Berry, $25: Helen L. Bonebreack, $25: Sellg C. Bres, $25; Herbert D. Brown, $26; sarah Buchalter, $2; Rev. C. H. But. ler, $26; Mildred H. Campbell, $35; Tawrence J, Cavanaugh, $5; Heary C. Rev. David nsom _Co- i, $20; 'Husel Cook, ¥i; Atherbton 3. Cushman, $25; Mrs, F. A. De Peyster, 310; Miss E. B. Dillenback, $4; Wal §55, Rynatdeon, $25; F. M. kastman, 28; Mary C. Feeley, $5; M 5 Fischer, $25. W Rena H. Flelshman, $5; B. C. Flour- H. M, Fowle P.W. Franz, §1; E. Olo Galne: T. Gover, '$35; Charles T. JMorris Hahn, $10; H. K 325; W. H. Holmes, §5; J. D. Houg] ton, $25; Frank P. Howard, $26! Mar. zaret L. Hughes, $25: Edward B. Hunter, $10; Garent W. Jex, $10; H. May Johnson, §26; Dorothy B, Kal! 35; Katherine Montge P. King, $100; H. R, V. King, $40; Rodham 'W. Klimer, §! man, $10; Richard H. Liggett, $35; B, er, $10; Dora F. McClure, $6; Nannie Jacobs' McKnight, §6: Miss Valeria Marshall, $6; Ruth P. Martines, $10 Nellio B, Merrlll, $5; Ferdinanae JMotina, §20, Bertha oyes, $26; Hu- bert B. $10; Dr. M. ‘W, Perry, 325; Horace 3. Phelvs, #io: Herbert Putnam, $10; Charles W, Richmond, $10; Anne R. C. Robinson, §6. ¢ . B. Robinson, $20; Mary L. Rob- inwon, $10; Sophle C. Robinson, §5 Ma Rose, $10; Willlam Rosan dorf, $25; Pearce flo‘nor. $35; Mary Sanger, $6; Mildred Scheets, $25 Charles Schwarts & Son, rlet Richardson Searls, #' C. Shaw, 3$26; Sallle Ralph W. Shuman Borls 1. Bkolrsky, Erwin _ F Smith, $40; Miss Maye E. Smythe, $26; W. F. and B. L Smith, $35; W. H, H. Smith, i B. E. Stonebraker, St b;fn-n Lutheran Church, . Bweet, 3d, §30; Jame Tomer, $5; SBamuel H. Thompson v.sg. Thompwon, $5; Gladys O. hoemaker, ha k-] 2; M 436, Mary 6.:°d|m'i' Agnes Waldron, $5; Mr Lzl D. Weat, 430; Winftred EWilson, $10; Sophie 32SWinfield . Worke, §b Yqbgor, §5; Dr. Wallace M. Yater, $489 the Young Men's Shop, $10. - . SYRIKE CLOSES BANKS. 2110+ AgitNe's Financial Institutions THii}ive—40,000 Employes Idle, NNA, February 10.—The strike o8k employes, which closed tour ofsthbeadargest institutions hers yes- teffiiy"became eftective today in all th¥, Phiks throughout Austris, in. the National Bank. 4 SN employes are involved. . ™2 ure askiag higher wages, REPRESENTATIVE ERNEST W, GIBSON Of Vermont, member of the House Distriet ommittee, who will bring up the shooting of Semator Greene to- Mofrew at & meeting of (he commit- e CLASHOVERBONLS REACHES CONGRESS Harrison and Rainey Take Up Discussion Between Mel- lon and Miller. The clash between Secretary Mel- 19n and Thomas W. Miller, alien prop- erty custodian, growins out of the latter's speech in New York on the bonus, has spread rapidly, reaching both the White House and Congress. Letters and statements Issued swiftly yesterday from the of- ces fo both administration offlclals and finally each submitted a state- ment of his case to President Cool- fdge. Meanwhile Senator Harrison, democrat, Mistissippl, demanded an investigation of the affair, and the matter was called to the agtention of the House by Representatives Rainey, democrat, Illinols. In a letter to Mr. Miller the Treas- ury Secretary. asked whather the alien property custodian had been Sgrrectly quoted to the effect that a “high reasury officlal” had told him the, department's estimates of the cofb 6f a soldiers’ bonus had been “Juggl in an effort to defeat the proposal. and demanded the name_of the “high Treasury official” Mr. Mollon's letter-crossed one en route from Mr. Miller, which stated that his address contained no charge of Juggled figures,” but did say that he “had been informed that an officlal of the Treasury Department had verified my statements and figures” on which bhe based his remarks about variations in the bonus estimates. Mr. Miller conferred with Presi- dent Coolidge before today's eabinet meeting. On leaving the White House ered the mat- ter a ‘closed incident” as far as he was concerned. Further than to say that he stood squarely on his statements that Treasury estimates of what a bonus would cost had been conflicting, he would not make any statement as to ‘what transpired at the conferenc Denies Accusation. . Col. Miller's reply to Secretary Mei- lon, which crossed the letter of the Becretary to.the allen property cus- todlan, denied that he had ever said the Treasury had “juggled figures. “Replying_specifically tb your let- ter,” sald Col. Miller. “please be ad- vised that the quotation of my re- marks of yesterday contains inaccu- racles, and to the extent of quoting, as & part of my remarks, the remarks of other speakers who were present: I did not say that you had juggled figures. Furthermore, 1 did not state that a high official of your depart- ment had told me anything. What T did say was that T had been Informed than an official of the Treasury De- partment had verified my statements and figures whic were sent you earlier today. What I referred to was a conversation I _had with a promi- nent republican United States senator, Whose name will be revealed to you with his permission or_not, If he ob- Jects to my so doing. You have been misquoted youraelf, and men in pub- 1ic life ara subject to that. “1 note your reference to the state. ments made by a men of Eubllc prominence within the past week, a it just happens that a reference w made to my office in that same gen- tleman's remarks. “I hope this will make the matter entirely clear.” Letter From Mellon. Secretary Mellon's letter to Col. Mil- ler follows: “You are quoted by the New York papers as saying in a epeech in New York sterday that a ‘high Treas- ury official’ had told you that the Treasury Department estimates of the cost of the soldiers’ bonus had been ‘juggles You are further quoted that you had been informed by the ‘high Treasury official’ that this had been done because 'it was felt necessary at the Treasury Depart- ment to use strofiger and stronger arguments against the bonus each time it came up.’ Please advide me, first, do these quotations substan- tially represent what you said in yout speech in New York? Second, if #0, what {s the name of the ‘high Treasury official’ who is the source of your information? “I am unable to find any one in the ‘Treasury Who could have given you the information which you are said to have received. The statement alleged to have been received from the ‘high| Treasury offiolal’ is false. The figu publicity by the Treasury De. partment with respect to the bonus cost were preparéd by the government actuary and represent his calculations as to the probable cost of the bonu “We have had within the past week an example of & man of public promi- nence who made statements In & eech without verification of their accuracy. Such cases should be promptly dealt with, for the public is entitled to know the truth. I will ap. preciate, therefore, an Immediate an. swer. to my request for this inform: tion. Representative Rainey, democrat, Illinols, brought the matter up on the floor of the House yesterday, he said the Treasury had two figures, to be used as conditions war- ranted in glving estimates. Senator Pat Harrldon, democ: Mississippl, suggested gre investigation of the whole contro- versy. 9 POLICE GUARD JAPAN'S EMBASSY IN BERLIN Information Recelved of Attack Planned by Gang of Thieves. By the Associated Prees. BERLIN, February 19.—The Jap nese embassy and consulate here are being protected by th. polige,: in- formation having been receivéd that an attack against the embassy was xllnn d by a gang of thieves It is ecired In Japnese aqurters that thers re no political motives behind the affair. e t 7 of Vietims Children—New York Ghetto Blaze Thought of Inoendiary Origin. BY the Assoclated Prows. NEW YORK, Febtuary 19.—Thirteen lives were enuffed out In a few minutes in a fire, believed to have been of in- cendiary origin, which early today swept from basement to roof of a Svestory tenement In the heart of New York's lower East Side ghetto. S8even of those killed were children. The blase flared up the staircase, fanned by a draft from the open frent cli‘.:ur, blécking escape of the eight fam- es. Some of thoss in the two upper stories, awakening to find the flames at their bedsides, met death before they could even try to dash out. At Mother's Bremat. Of the dead, five were boys and two irls, four women and two men. One of the children was am infant, whose charred body was found at the breast of its dead mother. The fire was discovered by a pass- Ing policeman. He rushed up the staircases, hammering with his fists on doors and shouting a warning. Flames stdpped him before he reached the upper stories. . Jump te Nearby Roof. Those on the third floor of the Lifschitz and Faber families, includ- ing Mrs. Lotta Lifschitz, ninety years old, jumped to the roof of a lower adjoining building. Mrs. Lifschitz was assisted through a skylight on the adjoining structure and taken unin- Jured, to the street. One of the first families to realize the danger was that of Harry Schwarts, seventy-five years old, who lived with Kis wife. Yetta, sixty-six, on the second floor. In their night clothes, they walked into the smoke- filled hall ‘and aroused thelr next door nolghbors. Then they stepped out of their windows to a narrow cornice above the stores, which were on the ground floor. inch by inch, they crawled along thelr perilous path to the tenement next door. Alex Hockl was dragged from a fire escape where he had collapsed after ap- parently trying to save women inside the ' building. Sylvester Connell, awakened in his apartment in the ad~ joining house by the screams of ter- ror-stricken women in the burning building, rushed to the roof and lean- ing over the edge with an almost superhuman effort, dragged the un- consclous man to safety. Catches Child In Arms. Fire Lieut, Platz caught in his arms a ohlld who had jumped or been thrown from an upper story window. Police belleve that the entire Bar- rett family which occupied & top floor apartment was wiped out with the exception of a niece, five years old, who was taken to & hospital in a cricital condition. The bodles of Mrs. Barrett and two of her children, Wil- liam, one year old, and Margaret, twelve, were ldentifled; one of the men was belfeved to be the father, William Barrett. GREENE IS FIGHTING GAMELY FOR HIS LIFE (Continued From First Page.) National Capital, was mpted in his visit to the Whita House by a d sire to do nothing which would { terfere with the President's own i vestigation of the shooting. His d. sire, however, was to have the Di trict committee and Congress act t safeguard the clty against future ac- cldents of this kind. After his visit at the White House ‘and after the White House had made public the purpose of Representative Gibgon's visit, the latter said that he Pronoses to bring the matter up t morfow morning at & meeting of the House District committee. / Representative Gibson will ask the District committee to seek the advice of the District Commissioners and of Commissioner Haynes, in charge of prohibition enforcement, and all oth- er parties concerned, to the end that & model bill may be drafted. It is probable that hearings will start at once. Will Aftect Oficers, Pointing out that the shooting of Senator Greene gives a different as- pect to the éffort that has been made for,many years to get adequate legi 1atfon restricting the sale and use of deadly weapons, Representative Gib- son sald that while his bill will cover generally the male and use of deadly Weapons, it will also be designed to cover their uss by federal officers and District gdlco, that the innocent pub- lio may be properly safeguarded. “No event in recent years has %o served to call attention of the public to the Indiscriminate use of firearms as the lamentable accidental shooting of Senator Grgene,” sald Representa- tive Gibson. “The fact that the man charged with the act was in the performance of his duty . pursuing an evader of the law does not justify shooting Into a crowd. ed street and endangering thé lives of innocent passersby. A thorough in ugnlog should be made and such tion taken as will bétter safeguard the public. Slemp Asks for Data, There was furtheér indication that the ite House might interest itself in such legisiation. ~Secretary Slemp called upon the District Commissioners late yesterday for a ¢opy of regula« tions governing the sale of firearms in_the District; at the same time he asked the prohibition unit to furnish gu m}mo I-.l&\u:l wngh- copy of l!; gulatios ecting the carrying of firearma by its agent: - Hecretary of the Treasury Mellon, discussing the shooting of Senator i Green, openly asserted that the oir- cumstan of the case strongl - dicated & “loose and da .m..f zr::- tice” in the use of firearms in con- | P®. nection ith _prohibition enforce~ ment hers, On the other hand, Wayne B. Wheele: eneral counsel of the Anti-S8aloon League, blamed those who encourage bootlegging and violation of the dry laws for the tragedy. Thinks Agent Innoeent. Mr. Wheeler sald he had “reliable information” that one of the .first shats to be fired in the gun battle had felled Senator Greene aad therefore declared that it probably was a bullet from one of the alleged bootleggers’ guns that struck ‘ the blow. eeler sald he under. stood the car with the still was head- ed away from Pennsylvania avenus afid the men in It were shooting back at Prohibition Enforcement Agent Fisher. e th precinct, how- ing car was going ‘with Fisher in full . in Th t direction. At it was stated that .Fisher absolved the two policemen who &ccompanied him from art in the shooting and added t he Wwas aimin the tirew of the machine and not i occupants. = Bome nfl ed she were fouhd in the alley after the shooting and it was said that only four had been located. nited States District Aflornmm- ton C. Gordon snnounced that he had summoned all withesses to the shooting to his office this afternoon for the pure pose of questioning them al charge that the bootleggers at Prohibition’ Enforoement Agent Fish. An early start to rid the eity’, ing department today. Trucks of design similar to the one shown above were put into service to make the going [SALVATION ARMY eany for traffic. BELEVE SENATE WILL DEEDE TAX G. 0. P. Leaders Forecast Changes by Upper Body’s Finance Committee. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. come to the conclusion that while the Constitution says revenue legls- originate in of Representatives, the blll revising taxes will have to be finally written in the Senate. When the House gets through with the tax bill it will not be the kind of a measure which either the admin- the democrats would themselves write if they were Under the circumstances the Sen: ate, according to the dresent out 100k, will be chiefly engaged in iron- ing out the wrinkies put In the tax bill by the conflicting factions in the The administration 18 not & party 0 the efforts of House leaders to get a compromise on at 35 per cent or.37 per cent. the surtax rates Treasury still hope for favorabla ac- tion at 28 per cent, or near that fig- pre, and will not’yleld until after it is apparent that they must. they have faith that the Senate will not approve an unscienific tax bill, but that, responsive to public opin- fon, changes will House bill which will make the meas- ure workable. May Break Demoeratic Ranks. The place where the tax bill really will be written will be in the finance committee of the Senate and, while there will be a battle on the Senate floor on amendments, the chances of a break in the ranks of th2 demo- crats are greater than in the House. where Representative Representative able to hold their forces virtually The biggest fight against the tax in the Senate will not be|in and out of Congress that he does made by those who want high rates |not fear the result of such an inves- retained, but thoxe who will upon making provision in the bill for a payment of the scldier bonus. Renewed interest has been given bonus_legisiation by the extraordi- nary debate between Col. Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian, and the Becretary of the Treasury. Col Miller is prominent in the affairs the American Legion and shares the f the legion leaders that Mr. Melion's estimates about the cost of the bonus are misleading. Mr. Mel- the other hand, thinks the legion's estimates are misleading. D. C. USES MANY PLOWS TO PREVENT SNOW TIE-UP (Continued From First Page.) Garner and motor trucks equipped with portable slx passenier cari serapers on them to clear the subur- Funds Aval The Capital Traction Company has eleven broom-sweeping cars in oper- ation on its lines this morning. Although there Is & bglance of only $1,200 in the District's snow-removal fund, Mr. Hacker said he would pro- ceed with the work and pay for it out of the street-cleaning appropria- Under the law passed by Congres more than a year ago and other property owner retnises within th eight hou‘:'-‘ ?‘llnguunt after the 1t ) 3 ""8? ('n:ffoo :ntn avallable, 300 are a1 8t z{‘fia::.;“n laborers transerred from various branches of the engineer de: of the trafiic bureau, re- calling that the long tie-up ofsetreet car servioe in 1932 was due to motor- Ists using the street car tracks as a are, thus pucking the underground _trolley rged drivers of motor vehicles to avoid using the tracks during the present storm. Show thrown on the roadway by etreet car sweepers, whe: motor plows, will pack automobiles are driven over it, it was pointed out, making & clear ghtare. ; John W. Oeshmann, ihspector, declared today t showfall ‘should continue to an un- usual depth it would be advisable for proprietors of places of large sembly to have the snow removed edtor sald that 1 slots, today from the roofs. The bullding _In: such s courss would pro inst snow drifting to cer. roofs and becom- melting proces :| PLEA FOR WHITE LINES. A committes from the Washington ’i’ uoungl.t:’fl. y asked the Com. ceiai” ton of 37,600 to ial appropril painted on the bout ¢! ted of William m‘fluhz '3, mb:r and Inspector Al be exhausted next m ‘committee told the Co; TO SEEK OLD PAPERS Will Launch Campaign for Maga- zines, Rags and Other Trash. ’ Preliminary steps were taken today to lay plans for a campalgn for old newspapers, old clothes and maga- zines by the Salvation Army Indus- trial Home and Soclal Center, 112 B street northwest, under the direction of Adjutant George Paxton. Thé campaign will open next Monday and will continue until March 3, Thousands of dollars are wasted fdaily, it was pointed out, when old papers are discarded or burned. Dur- ing the campalgn, Adjutant Paxton said, an effort wiil home to the Washington housewife Ithe fact that she 1s serving a double cause in contriLbuting the waste paper ' to the industrial home—first, he gaid, by giving a former derelict employ- ment, and thé second In alding him to once more become independent. Inmates of the home include both men and women. Instead of accepting charity they prefer doing work around the home, for which they get a weekiy salary and board. In this manner, he said, the inmateg are made self-support- 1 "ilnle of newspapers and magazines s one of the chief sources of income for the industrial home, according to Ad- Jjutant Paxton. DAUGHERTY KEEPS POST, DEFIANT OF NEW ATTACK; (Continueg From First Page.) chief law officer of the government at a time when his colleagues in the cabinet wers concluding agreements how recognized by Congress as with- ) out authority in iaw. Whether new factors have entered into the latest phase of the situation i3 not revealed, nor are the senators opposing him willing at the present stage (o product publically the charges they say thev will make if he | remain in the cabinet and undergoes the ordeal of & public_investigation, as proposed in the pending resolution introduced by Senator Wheeler. Says He Welcomes Probe. . Mr. Daugherty has told his friends tigation; has pointed out that as & matter of fact he himself requested that the inquiry be held after de- mands for his retirement had been made In the Scnate; and has Insisted that his record both as regards the oll scandal and all other matters don- neoted with his administration is ab- eolutely clear. Yesterday he sent to the Sénate, in response to an inquiry, a record of the war frauds investiga_ tion which he said showed that ac- tual material progress had been made despite great handicaps. Replies to Semator King. Mr. Daugherty's report to the Sen- ate was ment in reply to a resolution: by Senator King. democrat, Utah, asking for information ag to progr in disposing of the fraud cases. communication, part of which was held confidential both by Mr. Daugh- erty and the Senate, embraced all of the information which the Attorney General submitted to President Cool- ldge late last week to acquaint the Chiet Executive with affairs in the war transactions section of the De. partment of Justice. Mr, Daugherty explained to the Sen- ate that he had begun preparation of | I the report submitted to the President rior to its action on the King resolu- ion, but he was sending to it a supple- mental report -urnlylnx information on the Wright-Martin case for which the Benate specifically asked. ‘Withhohds Some Data. To make public all of the information | asked for, the Attorney General said, ' ‘would be to damage men and concerns who are now co-operating with the NEWSPRINTRATE REBATEISASKED Complainants’ Brief on Car- rier Charges Backed by Paper Firm. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sfon should find that rates on mnews print paper from nfill points to Wash- ington and Baltimore are unjust and unduly discriminatory, and should Star - Newspaper Company and the Washington Publishers’ Association are entitled to reparation, attorneys for the complainants and intervenors | | maintained in a brief filed today with the commission. Another brief was filed by the In- |y jiding, containing general class- ternational Paper Company, one of the intervenors in the case, from which several of the intervening daily newspapers in Washington and Balt!- more purchase newsprint paper, as- zerting that the paper company is “in compléte accord with the position of the complainants that newsprint | paper must move at rates that are reasonable and free from unjust dis- criminatfon.” Put to rxe Expense. Alieging that the users of news- print paper have aiready been put to considerable expense from “unduly high rates” the brief for the com- plainants urges that the commission sbould not any longer permit the car- rlors to délay making reasonablg and non-dlserjminatory rates from ' mill points to Washington and Baltimore. The brlef requested that ¥ finding be made in thé case Submitted by Mason Mangum, & torney for the complainants and tervenors, and by T. D. eoghegan, trafic manager for the Washington Publishers’ Asociation, the brief de- clares that a reasonable basis for making the specific rates to Balti- more and Washington from all mill points, except the mill points where the basis should not exceed 80 per cent of the sixth-class basis proposed by trunk line carrlers, should not ex- ceed 80 per cent of the New England sixth-class scales. The brief contended that the com- mission should find that any rale to Washington in excess of a reasonable rate to Baltimore plus 1 cent has been and is unreasonable and unjustly dis- criminatory, quoting Examiner Hun- ter in the oral argument that for rate purposes on the commodity in ques- tion Washington and Baltimore should be considered jointly. Reparation Is Asked. I the complainants and intervenors prove that they paid the freight charges on the shipments Iinvolved in the case, the brief asks the commis- | slon to find they are gntitled to repargtion with interest at'6 per cent theredn, While the brief of the International Paper Comnnny agrees with the com- plainants that news pfint paper must move at proper rates, it submits th the proposal made by complainants witnesses for a rate basis would se- rlously disrupt the present grouping and destroy the established relation- ships at nearly every point. Mr. Geoghegah during the argument sub- itted what he considered a proper Fate structure for news print paper. The paper company's brief says the @otnestic paper industry has adjust- ed itself to the present group system and that the blanket adjustment should mot be lghtly or unnocessa- rily disturbed, adding that any change in the present relationships to the advantage of the Canadian producer would be disastrous to the domestic mills, some of which might have to shut down. in addition to the two complain- government in an attempt to make “fair | pnts named, eight_other Washington and honorable adjustments.’ ‘The report recounted the formation dallfes and four Baltimore publish- ing companies intervened In the cases of the war transactions section and the | against the Baltimore and Ohio rail- mass of work necessary to institute proceedings against those alleged to owe the government as a result of war operations. The attention of :the Sen- ate was directed ‘to the fact that the War contracts are novel and intricate to construe, and involve many ques- tions of law which courts hitherto have not considered. Reasons for Delay. been. necessary, it was ox- to bring sults involving questions in ordér to obtain legal construction of such points be- fore. negotiations could- proceed on others of & similar character. For that reason, it was added, trial many cases has been delayed. Regarding the Wright-Martin dir- craft case the Attorney General re- oalled the investigation conducted by Mefor Steinbrink of New York and his ultimate report that the govern- ment could not sustain its olaim. That report was made late in 1 Dt the heads of the war transaction seotion disagreed and another move was made to get action, Mr. Daugh. erty said, with the result that neg tiations ngw gol: on make it ap- pear that perhaps the controversy may be limited to & determination of - legal ‘questions only. Auditors and officlals appesr to be near an agreement with respect to Questions of acoounting, Mr. Daugherty ‘said, and this situstion indioated that.good progress was being made. 1“5 report .showed that the gov- ernment had recovered in the war fraud cases nearly four and a half ‘million dollars and that cases pend- ing before courta involve something in excess of §$62,000,000. In addition to those the de ment has under investigation other in which it-is claimed. the government s owed about forty million dollars, but many are held awalting legal O cinioms tn basio-cases’ Before suits are brought, Ny 7 road and the Canadian Pacific rail- road. tU. S.-OTTAWA PACT ON LIQUOR DELAYED Regulation Governing Ships Halts Acceptance—Signatures Ex- pected Shortly. - Signing of the liquor treaty worked out between the Washington and Ot- tawa governments for. the suppres sion of illfeit trafiie along the Cana- dian border has been temporarily d laved in order that a minor change in the draft sent here by the Cana- dian authorities may be made. Request for the alteration has been communicated to the British embassy by the State Department, and it 18 be- lieved that thé embassy will be able to secure approval of it by telegraph from Ottaws, and thus make possible the actusl signing of the proposed traaty within a few days. 1t is understood that the Canadian government, while assenting to the greater number of na'n lons re- arding _meksures desired by the Fhiited states for ‘checking - border. liquor- traffio, .hae declined to enter into _any .agreement by which ships operating” between the two countrie would be denfed .clearance papers if they oarried liquor as a part of thelr Foss. ¢ haw be ‘ CALgOoss. n expli d that o ruaement Yol bl - Sugar Cane Lost _ In Cuban Fires By the Amsoctated Press. HAVANA, February 19.—Fires in four sugar -plagtations in Cama- guey province within the last twenty-four hours have caused an entimated loss of 11,600,000 pounds of sugar cane as it stood in the fle)ds. While cane flelds burn easily at this season and accidental fires are common, investigations are be- ing made on the theory that some of these fires were of incendiary origin, = e §2,140,000U. M BILL RILES RITCHIE ‘Governor Resents Flood of Propaganda With Request for Appropriation. { Special Dispateh to The Btar. ANNAPOLIS, Md, February 19. Authoritles and friends of the Uni- versity of Maryland last night placed the expansion program of the Uni- versity squarely before the Maryland assembly when duplicate bills creat- ing a state debt of $2,140,000 for the purchase of land and thé erecting and equipping of buildings for the uni- i\'ernlly were simultaneously intro- {duced in the housc and senate by Delegate Frank Given of Balti- more county and Senator William Curran of Baltimore city. This sum is in addition to the $400.- 000 allowed by Gov. Ritchie in his construction loan of 1924 and will in great part restore the $3,151,550 asked by the executives in the university's original request. If the bill passes the state tax rate would be increased in amounts ranging from 2-13 cents in 1925 to 1 cent in 1928. The fund would become available at the rate of $500.000 in 1924, $1,000,000 in 1925 and $640,000 in 192 Proyision for Expenditure. Under the provisions of the bill 1$1,375,000 will be spent on the Balti- more city branch of the school, $1,200,000 being for the purchase of {a Site and construction of a new uni- find that complainants and Inter-| e made to bring|Venors in the case now bLefore the 1 commission brought by The Evening versity hospital building and $175,000 for remodeling the old hospital and school of dentistry building to_ pro- vide for a medical and dental labora- tory and to furnish facilities for dis- pensary work. The balance of the loan, or $765.000, will be apportioned for various construction work at Col- | dormitory, $16 |building, $40,000; laundry. heating plant, $75.000; administration room and laboratories for home eco- nomics extension service, §285.000; ldining hail and equipment, $40,000; science bullding and _equipment, $55,000. The bill also directs that any balance remaining on hand shall be expended for university needs in- stead of turning to the state treasury. Shortly before the introduction of the bilis and apparently timed to arrive colncident with their presen- tation, telegrams poured in to the governor from every section of the state, all written in the same tenor, asking him to favor the program of | expenditure by the university. Governor Makes Statement. Gov. Ritchie bitterly resented ef- forts to force him, in view of his re- peated declaration that he would ap- prove no measure which will tend to increase the state tax rate of 271-€ cents, pledged at his inaugural, and fusued a statement, in which he prac- | tically promised to resist passage of the bills and foreshadowed his veto if passed. The governor said: *“Propaganda started this evening which bids fair to exceod the recent public school propaganda. It is in behalf of the University of Maryland's program, which embodies some very desirable features, if the state could afford to { borrow money for them at this time Interested in them have a right to appeal to the legislature, and it is up to the legislature to determin: its responsibility under the democrats’ platform to reduce taxes, but I already have determined my responibility un- . NAMING D. . HEADS Will Not Act Before March. Reappointing of Rudolph and Oyster Hinted. President Collidge will not take up the matter of appointing two civil- lan Commissioners for the District | 0f Columbia before the first week in March. The terms of Cuno H. Ru- {dolph and Capt. James F. Oyster, the bresent civilian Commissioners, do not expire until March 17, and the President is known to have ex- pressed himself within the past two days to the effect that he has plenty of time before glving his attentior to this matter. In making this known today « White House official said that it Is in- dicated very strongly that Commis- sloners Rudolph and Oyster wilF be reappointed. Both have been indorsed by Edward F. Colladay, the republi can national committerman, the re- i bublican state committes in and for the District and a number of trade and civic bodies. Besides these the President Is known to have received requests from other quarters and from individuals urging their reap- pointment. The President has been told that their administration of the affairs of the government has been highly factory and they have the support of the citize and their confidence. However, other names have been submitted to the President to_con- sider when the time comes. Julius Peyser, local attorney and member of the board of education, has been urged for Commissioner by a number of “individuals and several organiza- tions. 1. M. Fenton, secretary to Senator Elkins of West Virginis, is a candidate, and John B. Colpoys, well known in union labor circles here, has been suggested by his friends in Central Labor Union. The latter has been active in local democratic poii tics. Elwood P. Morey, attorney, alsc has been mentioned. Sentiment. in Washington. There is a strong sentiment fo: President Coolidge in Washington state, according to Alexander Polson, extensive timber operator in the northwest, who js engaged in fur- thering the interests of Mr. Cool- idge’s preconventfon campalgn. Ac- companied by Represcntative Albert Johnson of Washington, Mr. Polson called on the President The Preeldent heard good news from three prominent Tennessec re- publleans—Representative Will Tay- lor, Hal H. Clements, former state chairman, and Ralph Oliver, one of the party leaders of Knoxville. Blds Flyers Godspeed. President Coolidge yesterday shook hands with and extended godspeed to the aviators of the United States Army who are to engage in the air- plane flight around the world. This globe-circling_exploit will st¥t from Los Angeles March 15. These men were introduced to the President by Ma). Gen. Mason M Patrick, chief of the Army air serv- ice. The aviators wers: Maj. Fred- jerick L. Martin, who will commuand the expedition: Lieuts. Lowell H H. Smith, Erik H. Nelson, Leigh Wade, Leslle B. Arnold and Le Claire D. Schulze, the last two being alter- nates: advance officers, Lieut Clay- ton Biseell, Lieut. Clifford C. Nutt, Maj. Cariyle H. Nash, Licut. Clarence E. Crumrine, Lieut. Malcomb S. Law- ton and Lieut. H. A. Halverson; me- chanics, Technical Sergt. Arthur H Turner, aff Sergt Henry H. Ogden, Staff Sergt. Alva L. Harvey and Staff ergt A. L. Helney There are also in th party the following officers, who have assisted in working out details for the epoch- making air trip: Capt. William ¥ Volandt, Capt. 51 lair reett, Lieut Robert J. Brown, jr., and Lieut. El- mer E. Adler. Sees Oliver Metzerott. Oliver Metzerott of this city and | Maryland, member of the District Rent Commission. called on President Coolidge today and formaliy extended an invitation from the Princeton | Alumni Associat of the District of Columbla to be the guest of honor at | its annual banquet, to be held at the | Hotel Wlilard 2March §. Ha also, on { benalt of the local alumni, thanked the President for sugkesting that cer- tain valuable relics of John Wither- spoon, eigmer of the Declaration of i Independence and at one time presi- dent of Princeton University, be giv- en to the Institution instead of to the national government, Mra, Jackson Fleming of New York der that pledge. 1 have stated it 80| of the Loague for Political Education, often that the telegrams which have begun to pour in on me can only be who has been addreseing numerous large audiences in the east upon explained on the ground of ignorance|America’s foreign affairs, assured him of what I have said or a belief that I have not meant it. Emphasizes Firm Stand. “I have meant it, and I do mean it. | that the sound-thinking people of this nation arc behind him and will back {him to the limit. Commissioner Burke of the Indian bureau of the government introduced 1 repeat, every bit of influence I possess |to the President a score of Pueblo will be exerted to keep the state tax rate down to 27 1-6 cents. Everything that 1 can possibly do to prevent the adoption of measures which would raise the rate above that amount is going to be_done. “I have committed myself to that program over and over again. It in- cludes the University of Maryland and everything else.” Letters, “tele- grams and pressure are not going to change me, and they are perfectly ugeles In the fact of this statement and the recent report of the college com- mission appointed by Gov. Ritchie, which termed the request of the uni- versity “enormous” and recommended that it give up the plan of becoming a state university, and return to teaching purely agricultural subjects, the billg introduced last night prob- ably will meet Stiff opposition from ‘the administration leaders and beé the center of the hardest fight of the ses- slon. . 2 HIGH SCHOOL CADET COMPANIES CHOSEN Evenly Matched Groups to Act as Guard of Honor for Maj. Gen. Hines. Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, deputy chief of staff of the Army, will have a double guard of honor when he presents commissions to the officers of the Washington High School Ca- idet Corps at Central High School on February 29. It was originally planned to have one company—the best drilled company—to act as Gen. Hines' guard of honor, but school military aftharities, In their quest for the best drilled company, have faund two companles that are strictly on a par. As a result thess two com- panies—H of Western High School and F of Gentral High School—have been’ chosen as the escort for Gen. Hines at the commission presenta- tion ceremonies. 8everal weeks ago Lieut. Col. Wal- lace M. Craigle, U. 8. A, professor of Lnlllury sctence and tactics in ths igh schools, with the aid of hiw as- slstants, began am inspection of the cadet companies in an effort to find the best drilled. Three were lected ‘to- compete for the honor—t! two that have been chosen and Com- pany H_of McKinley High School. e McKini€y company - was elim- inated, but the school military. of- ficials “were unable to give elther Company H of Western or F of Cen- tral a higher sating than the other . M. Pelaman is .captain of the ntral company-and John Nesbitt of the Weatanf.e%nfiw [y Indians. They were attired in the full | regalia. PROBERS ON THE TRAIL OF FRESH OIL CLUES (Continued From administration of Attorney General and the Department of Justice. While there is no belief now among members of the committeo that further sessions will be necessary before the reopening of the public hearings next Monday, some of them said there might be developments which would make an earlfer meet- ing desirable. | Confer with Lambert. Curiosity over today's executive session, called despite the ten-day recess of the committee's inquiry and the mabsence from the Capital of Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon- tana, the leader in investigation, has been enhanced by the sequence of events Sunday which preceded the summoning of the New York men. Benators Walsh and Wheeler had a conferénce with Wilton J. Lambert. counsel for Edward B. McLean, pub- lisher of the Washin later they met with Chairman root of the committee, and Mr. Pom- erene. Afterward Mr. Lenroot and Mr. Pomerene called at the White House. It has been expected that Mr. M Lean, who was summoned recent from Palm Beach, Fla., would be among the first witnesses calied after the resumption of the inquiry, but suggestions have been made that tha committee might be satisfled with questioning him n private. Statement by MeLen! Mr. McLean Issued the following statement last night: “My attention has been called to a statément published In the evening newspapers to the effect that my at- torney had furnished valuable in- formation to members of the Senate committee investigating the ofl leases. “The implication of this report is that I have valuable information which 1 have authorized my attorney to impart to the committee. “I have no_such Information, and therefore could not authorize my at- torney -to Impart it. The report in question is false in its entirety.” + WHITNEY IN SOUTH. "Located on Route From Georgia to ,4 Palm. Beacli. :SAVANNAH, _Ga., February 19— Harry Payne Whitney left his winter home at Thomasville. Ga., last Friday on a special train for Jiokeonville to connect with a train for Pulm Beach. He was said to have been accompanied on the ride through the lower part of orgla and upper Fiorida by Finley eter’ Dupne, creator of “JMr. Doolog.”