Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 2

IDGE A DONOR | HISPTAL FUND Workers Open Campaign to! Procure Subscriptions for Emergency and Casualty. | 3 suggested as the best plece of Four hundred and sixty-two Emer-|{ matel on which to attach the gepey and Casualty howpital cam- | sround wire, and in an effort to vaigners last night started the. ten-; day drive for $500,000, with an open- % ing dinner in the New Willard Hotel, | at which announcement was made that President Coolidge already had tendered a contribution. Addresses. punctiated by enthusiastic demon- | strations, marked the meeting. | Senator Copeland, guest of honor, | sounded the keynote of the campaign | stating: “There isn't any better thing you can do for any community than to give it a good hospital.” President Sends Check. Col Sdward Clifford. chairman of the force of more thun 600 workers | ngaged in the movement, presided. | in ) | { and before beginning the program an- | nounced that he had received an un- | solicited check from Uresident Cool- idge. The fact that the uign s | for both Emergency and Casualty | hospitals, und that people from il { Sections of the community are help- | mE to raise the fund was stronsin emphasized by Col. Clifford in his opening talk. Music was furnished by a sixteen-piece seetion of the | Marine Band. A two-act play depicting the right 1 sking for u | ed. and the wrong way of subscription was present Woodbury Bizir's Address. Woodbury BElair spoke brietly say- | president of the board of of Emergenc; d Casualty ‘ 1 now anticipate the result ! gn. and 1 thank you ! for other empioyes, John H. Hanna, vice fow for your successful work in ! president, cstimated today. resculng our hospitals. They are see- | The combal return on fair value ond only in importance to the fire and | last v $1.200,000, or equivalent lice departments ‘nfortunately they taived as they should work for the last yes not main- Our charity as entailed o for o net loss to us of over $40,000, which we have received no remunera- | Offers to Arbitrate. tion whatever.” | The company has rejected the appii Gas Fixture Used To Ground Radio, 85 Fire Results, Mins Frances H. Brooks, 927 18th street northwest, while trying to attach a radio wire to a gas fixture in the bathroom of her home last night started the first “radio” fire recorded by the locul fire depart- Miss Brooks had arranged the radio and was going to have mem- bers of the household listen-in. A kas bracket in the bathroom was make the connection Miss Brooks loosened the screw which permit- ted the escape of gas. The escaping gax ignited. Occu- panis of the house and neighbors quickly gathered and extinguished the fire before the arrival of No. 1 engine compuny, but Miss Brooks nmade no turthér effort to get th radio in working ovder. About $5 damage resulted. CAPITAL TRACTION REFUSES PAY RAISE Vice President Hanna, Pre-! fers, However, to Arbitrate on Employes’ Demands. 1t would cost the Capital 'l‘ru«'lt(m( Company $300,000 more u year in oper- | ating expenses to grant the petition of | the Street Carmen’s Union for an.in- crease to 70 conts an hour for motormen and conductors and a 25 per cent raise per cert on the value of the prop- erty. Mr. Hanna figured the granting or the petition would reduce the return to about & per cent. | the ! that He referred to Senator Greene, who !eation, but will rubmit the wage qu hue been in Emergency suffering 'tien to arbitration if the men ark fo from a bullet wound. und said he [such a course. . )Ii\d'lw!ll informed during the day ! “Our pay roll.” said Mr, Hanna, i | that the senator is in a f way and it does not take much u?‘ recover. n wages to produce a material j Col. Clifford praised Mrs. Rexinald opraling expenses. o 8. Huidekoper, chairman of the wom- | ashington Railw d Elec- en's dlvision. who responded briefly, | tric trainmen are not unionized. but saving: 1 have every confidence in | heretofore that company has main- | the outcome of this campuign. We ' tained the same wage level paid by | can teel perfectly sure that in our | the Capital Traction. Willlam F.; chairman we have the right man in} Ham. president of the Washington the right place. 1 am proud of our | Railway and Electric, said toda women's division: every one in It is|was not ready to dis i enthusiastic and ready to work with | apestion of what action hi m- %owill T want especially to thank i bany would take {f the Capital Trac- | Iy three vice chairmen for their ;tion seale should be increased under | did work—Mrs. C. ilover, jr.: arbitration, : | 3 Vaughan and Mrs Floyd | 'ay Vot Juxtified, He Sayw. | inan = ) c only comment Mr. Ham would | Senater Copeiand Introduced. s that he did not In—,liv\e)aln | Senator Copeland was then > in wages is justified at this | duced by Col. Clifford, who desci Ttime. The Washington Railway and | him us “the mreatest living auth { Blectric would be more deeply af- on_the conservation of health ted by a4 wage jncreaxe than the | Senator Copeland spoke in ‘part as tal Traction. The former com- | follow! ' pany last year earned 4.31 per cent| “There isn’t any finer thing lon the commission's ue of the, can he done for this community {propert T i to make a suceess of this campaign | The pital Traction men will de- | for Emer and Casualty hos- pitals. There isn't any more important aey investment any city can make than | in a hospital. [ “Mr. Blair, you saia thut the hos- | pital came next in importance to the fire department and %o the police de- partment. 1 don't think it does. 1| don’t think either the fire department or the police department is hali as important as our hospitals. t is cer- tainly necessary to protect ourselves from fire and to protect ourselve from bLeing robbed, but the hospital protects our health, and that is more important than anything else. * * ¢ Ancient Plagues an Example. cide late today or tomorrow whether ask for arbitration. {FAILS TO GET NAME OF BOOTLEG PATRON| Blanton Seeks to Learn Who in Congress Sought Liquor Seized in Arrest. “Is there any reason why we should = be so confident that the terrible — { plagues of ancient tmes are gone| House refused today to consid- | L uBtR B e o s mat by Representative | years there have been 45,000,000 ca sy o of typhus and 9,000,000 victims died L. "Blanton, democrat, ‘ofi Why do we flatter ourselves that we | Texas. secking to have the nume in Washington are safe from these made public of a member of Congress | I . oy | @lleEEd by @ man arrested vesterday | sre s i asuare milel sm New oSBT L L B e { Yok e S popuintion ef| 1o have hired him to procure whisky. { 500,000, There is nothing Ilike it! Representative Bianton in his first | anywhere’ else on carth. There is|resolution demanded that the man ar-; ouly one place in the world worse!rested vester with a half galion | than that, and that is in the alleys Jug of whisky, which he sald he was | of Washingtor. If a case of typhus delivering to @ member of Congress, | started in one of a month’s might die of it “The population growing steadily of our alleys inside time 100000 people of Washington 1t will not be is many | efore s PGSR { After a roll cail of the House, Mr. years before dt i twice what it i1 pringon - submitted another motion | {providing for a committee of fve Senator Greene in Modern Quarters. { pembers to investigate the truth or I recently visited my colleague, | falsity of the churges, 8enator (reene, ut mergency Hos- Chairman Snell of the rules com- | pital. and 1 was delighted to-find such | mittee made a point of order, arguing a s=plendid, modern. well-conducted | that charges carried in newspapers institution. I was sh v find that {are not of a privileged character, and when the senator wus brought there inted out that in this case the there was not a vacant private room are not even made by news- to put him in, and he had to be Papers, but by a criminal, & hoot- placed in a semi-private room with ilegger, and asked “what good would another patient over night, until a it do to get the name private room was availlable. Tt ix a | Representative Snell s that un- shome that we are so overcrowded j doubtedly the man arrested “would in our hospitals here in Washington, | 8ive a wrong name and that if he This is a condition that must be cor- |Bave a name it would be to. shkieid | rected. Go into this work with a will and raise the $500.000 you are sesk- ing, and_ then ahead and se another $500.000 after that." i SON SAYS PRESIDENCY WAS OFFERED W00D AS AN OIL BRIBE (Continued from First Pagch) haps others about whom | know noth- ing—consulted with my father. His campaign had been. bucked financial- I)'_ by a number of rich men. Here | Wish to state most emphatically that | hie had never given them a pledge of any kind. That is why | think’ they i turned on him later “Just what happened during the consultat have no fiest-hand kuowledge, but from one who knows what actually took plice, I do know be compelle i name. ! P Dorsey. wus charged with violat- {ing the Volstewd law. SXman’s to tell the congry {Rimself. It was beneath the dignity iof the House, he thought, to consider this resolutio: i Representative Blanton said that thi the question affecting an employe of the House. who said he procured the liquor for a member of Congress. This {was @ reflection upon every member of | Congress. “The papers in our home dis- itricts will report that we are shielding | i membere of this body in a violation of the " he said. “I contend that it is | privileged resolution.” = Speuker Gillett ruied that ~vague rumors are not privileged, and that Mr. Rianton’s motion was not in order. - MISS MARY HARLOW DIES. | Was Identified With Catholic Or- Che man, who gave his name as B. [ ganizations Many Years. i 0f Washington for the last X Federation of Catholic te na jonal that the offer meant thit my father Alumnae and identificd with other would have to take Hamon as Sec. | Catholic organizations, died at the retary of the Interior. Evidently, my | residence of her sister. Mrs. Philip J. father realized that u trap was he- | Roche, 1731 Riggs place northwest, ing prepared for him and he de-! Yesterday. Iined brusquely to accept to dny Preliminary funeral services will ditions. ! he conducted at the residence by Mgr. “0. K. LEONARD WOOD, | James F. Mackin tomorrow morning. “Copyright, 1921, United States, | Lter sirvices will be held at the St Canada, Great Brituin, South America ! ry's Catholic Church. Alexandria, and Japan. All rights reserved.. Pup- | V&. “With Rev. Dr. Kelly, assistant lication in whole or in part without | Pastor of the church, officiating, ermission expressly prohibited by | Interment will be’in the St. Mary's AN A Y cemete Alexandria. Her four i CORROBORATES WOOD. * ' Former Clara Smith Hamon Says She Enew of Offer. : 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 7.— “What Leonard Wood, jr., says is un- [ doubtedly true” sald Mrs. John W. Gorman of Beverly Hills, commenting on Leonard Wood, jr.’s, signed state- | ment for the North America News- | paper Alllance. The former Clara Smith Hamon. who waw acquitted of the killing of Jake Hamon, the Okla- | homa political Jeader, stated: e | mon told me he had offered the nomi- nation to Gen. Leonard Wopd.™ BShe was not at Chicago during the 1920 convention, but she sald she | received “all the inside Stuff” as soon as it was over from Jake Hamon e said, hastened to Ardmvrn.{ to attend to some business and e her ‘with him to Wuhlnx-' “Hamon 'never kept any politi- cal secrets_from me,” she asserted. “Hamon told me ail the getalls of everything that went on and _regard- ed me as his trusted con te.” Mrs. Gormen is living quietly in a nephews. Leo P.. George A, Edward and_ William K. Harlow, and James F. Shea and Francis R, Weller will act as pallbearers. Miss Harlow was born in Alex- andria. Since coming to Washington she had made many rriends here and had been active in church work. Besides her sister and four neph- ews, she is survived by a brother, Mi- chael B. Harlow of this city. Beverley Hills bungalow with her husband, John W. Gorman, a motion picture dircctor, and her mother. She came to Los Angeles after her ac- quittal. GEN. WOOD SILENT. Refuses to Discuss Statement of Son on 1920 Race. By Cable to The Star. . MANILA, March 7.—Gov. Gen. Leon- ard Wood, 'when shown extracts of the statements of Leonard Wood, jr., here yesterday, stated that he declines to dis- cuss.in any way at this time incidents in the 1920 .campaign er.-statements of Leonard Wood, jr. Miss Mary Virginia Harlow. a vesi- | { eighteen vears, a member of the In- | | tiy AUTOISTS TOFIGHT BALL GAS-TAXPLAN Will Attend Hearing in Senate Room Tomorrow'to Op- pose Proposal. SUBSTITUTE HIT, 8 TO 1 Various Motor and Civic Groups| Want Commissioners’ to Senator Ball's gasoline tax pro posal already recorded, the American omobile Association. local civie organizations and citizens generaily are preparing to be on hand at the mass meeting to be held on the tax question in the Senate caucus rooms tomorrow afternoon Although the joint special civie committee, composed of represents- tives of the Washington Board of Trade, the Chaumber of Commerce, the Federation of Citizens” Assoclations, Washington” Automotive Association, thesNutlonal Grange gnd the truck Interests, has told Senator Ball at a speclal hearing that it was unequivocally opposed to uny but the Cominissioners’ originai proposal for a gas tax, with reciprocity with Maryland, and withough these organ- iaations, as well ux citigens’ associi- tions througnout the city, havi stated the same attiude, the mass meeting has been called 5o that Sen- ator Ball may hus heard the declaration of a united Washington. In order to corroborate its stand on the original Commissioners bill 2,500 letters to its members asking them Low they feel about the gaso- ine-tax question. Auswers recefved fur indicute an h-to-1 opposition 1y pian but the original one sub- itted to Congress, iington Automotive Trade tion, in ovder to make sure its attitude tefiected the united ment of the orgunization, held a me week at which auestion was dis result Was a unu Th imous o in favor of no reciprocity at all it could be obtained by the 1L of the Commissioners calling -cent in lieu crsonal-propeity tax and the Porsepower tax In order to assure at the meeting thu tion Is using a v in all the local papers today, UrKes MOtorists to attend the ing. The advertiserent points out that full attendance TOW District motorists are now paying approximately -$400.000 per year for their cars, that under the original uasoline tax proposal they would have to pay $1,000,000, and that under Senator Ball's plan they would pay approximately $1,600,000, an increase of $700.000 over What gliey are pay- ing now and $600,000 niore than thay would under the original plan ASSERTS UNIVERSITY CAPITAL'S BIG NEED Miss Peter Adjresses Zonta Club in Interests of G. W. U. Endowment Drive. Miss Agnes Peter, descendant of e sy e al or crook has to be presumed cliff dwellers,” and therefore one of | that the ro now worn by the | eriminal or us to be pr. the most ardent Washingtonians | Preschers had their origin througl !innocent until proven guilty. 5 ingtonians « BV S ing disgulsed themselves 15| Blames Department of Justice. working in the George Washington | Women in order to appear before tha| . SO0 000 Toe jugtice shoula University campaign. addressed the | cults, which they would ha > other- | T Withheld all publicity hearing business and professional’ women of | Wite bech WRaRIE 10 £0 BEIINCL, jon the case. MrLangley said, unt the Zonta Club &t their weekly lunch- ]1 an Wilbur of G ashington | It was ready eoudcliver the il con yesterday at the Raleigh Hotel | University. R Thin S to ths el of Miss Peter read a statement signed by | i use to make his defense he George wasnington i wnien - ne | INDORSES PURCHASE sudediiny, biss ool mentioned definitely that he felt the | Sl itovies atpraver oF Rz establishment of a national univer- sity would be a fine thing for the country and he set What was a large sum of mone nose days to be used toward this end. “We Americans are quick to eriti- cise. some of the inconveriences of life in Kurope" said Miss Peter. “yet we do not definitely try to rec- some of the conditions in our own Capital C'ty that are unworthy of our great and prosperous nation There probably is not another nation in the world whose capital city does not have a university. When friends who come here for the first time to see the sights they always | ask to fee our university, and in fits old. dark building: scattered about. it Is certainly not fire to look upon Also there are many alleys in Wash- ington that are evesores. A commit- tee visite them year after yvear, but nothing is ever done to rectify these conditions,” - Miss Peter also list of men famous in military service, scholarly occupations, heads of big industrics and prominent in politics and as statesmen who have been graduated from George Washington University There was an tendance ~ at Imogen James, ganisation, the speaker. mentioned a lo unusually large at- this meeting. _ Miss president of the or- presided and introduced PRINCETON QUARTET T0 PLAY AF DINNER Jazz Four to Feature Dinner of Alumni Association at Willard Tomorrow Evening. DEMAND HEAVY: i | TICKET Indications Point to Attendance of 100 at Affair. The Princeton Jazz Quartet Wallace Smith, president of the Princeton Triangle Club, will con- tribute special entertainment features at the dinnef of the Princeton Alumni Association of the District scheduled for the New Willard Hotel at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The jazz quartet, composed of undergraduates, is or- ganized and led by Herbert Sanford, a former Washington Central High School student. Applications for seats at the dinner have been coming in steadily to Ed- and mund B. Rheem, '13, president of the | association, and it looks now as if more than's hundred local Princeton grads will be in attendance. All alumni and undergraduates, who have not yet been approached, are urged to get i touch with Mr. Riieem, whose address is 727 15th street northwest. Speakers of the' evening will in- clude Senator David A. Reed of Penn- sylvania, '00; Representative Elmer H. Geran of New Jersey, ' and Charles Brown of New Jersey, the latter a former mayor of Princeton; J. Butler Wright, third assistant sec- Tetary of State, and Neilson Poe, '97, one of the six famous Poe brothers and coach of the well known Prince- ton “Omelettes.” _THE EVENING STAR, Trade | be convinced that he | the A. A, A has sent out more than ! O WASHINGTON, D. C, New Pact With Canada Hard Blow | * To Prosperous Auto-Stealing' Ring :Allreemem Providing for Return of Stolen Machines Run Across Border by Rum Smugglers | W orks to Benefit of Car Owners. The Canadian government had in- stituted & policy last spring whereby such stolen cars when taken by cul toms agents in Canada were confi cated as smuggled goods and sold on the market, proceeds going into the Canadian Treasury under the law. the province of Quebec, & provincial law which gives clear title to all property sold on public market, put the American stolen cars beyond re- demption. In the meantime the Canadians had cause for complaint. Certain smu glers from New York city, they charged, had been smuggling silks into Canada. There is a high duty on silks going into Canada and the smusggling business in silks, like that in booze and stolen American cars, evidently was highly profitable. The matter of reeiprocity in the case of silks and stolen cars came up at the recent liquor conference at Ottawa. The American delegates asked that Canada arrange to release the stolen cars to Americans, who could prove ownership, instead of selling them on the market. Canada wished more co-operation from the American government to prevent the smuggling of silks from the United States. The conference adjourned without Sensational tactics of crooks, who combine thélr thievery with rum- running along the Canadlan border have. suffered a severe blow rrom |new understanding with the Domin- ion government, providing for return lof stolen automobiles run across the boundary in smuggling. The agreement grew { daredevil escapades of ceptain jclass, particularly in northern New York. who had grown to be a terror to mutomobilists in border towns. Stealing cars for the rum-running jbusiness had become such a habit {with the smugglers that at one time jthere had disappeared in the city of Rochester, N, Y., and vicinity within {@ short time more than 100 cars. ! The thieves did nothing by halves, according to reports to the Treasury Depurtment. They stole two cars at a time. They would work in pairs, steal i these two cars, run them both across | the border, sell one take the proceeds {from that, buy liguor and smuggle | the liquor in the other stolen car back across the border into American dry territory. 1t was a highly profitable business for the crooks. It became exasperat- out of the a ing to the Americans who lost their | action on this -matter, but after a cars. They appealed to thei> wovern- | long delay, the proposed agreement ment for ussistance. has been made effective —_— LANGLEY DEMANDS PROBE ON BRIBERY; i | DEVELOPED DRAMA THEME OF ADDRESS | Dr.. Robert W. Bolwell Traces| Origin Back to Centuries Before Christ. I Page.) | against the advice of some of my beat friends in speaking now in ad- vance of the report, but I cannot longer remain silent. 1 have served this government In an official capac- ity for more than thirty vears, and nearly eighteen vears of the time has been as u member of this great body. i My life has been an open book. I Robert W. Holwell, assistant profes- | have gone in and out among my sor of English at George Washington | propie and amons the membership of Iniversity, i ¥ " | this_ House during these vears. This ‘l "',“‘.":“.\v AL A ECnE ) D C(_I. is the first time any aspersion has {mos Club last night. Hix subject was | 13 tPg Arst tme B3 Cber nal or Development of dramé from hun- dreds of years before Christ to the present time was described by Dr. j--nn.m;mc Origin | official integrity. Coming as I do | Dir. Bolwell described 1y of the | from a Kentucky mountain distriet, primitive magic which lead to the| p, | should feel shocked at such development of modern day drama.|an aceusation. He told how the need of impressing Wanld Bace Asiarers: 1|~»hul.un fors of worship upon peo- “While no report his yet been re- Iple lead up to the church worship—which, out, is a kind of dram development of he pointed ived, the rrying such a mes to this House 1 newspaper stories are report, and when it n going to ask of my colleagues that & forum be Our modern day game of foot ball, | imnediately created wherein 1. can explained Dr arose from the | at least exercise the right established ancient contesty over goats” heads. |at Runnymede of standing face 10 fuce with my accusers, and that all of he truth be speedily disclosed. With- out any specific information, 1 can- not enter into u specific denial, but 1 have this 1o say here and now in the presence of Almighty God and these witnesses, that [*have committed no crime: 1 have done no wrong; 1 con- fidentiy rely upon a speedy vindi- cation at the hands of my colleagues in_the House “I not only am anxious for such a report to come in. but I demand an immediate investigation of any charges that may be made. Conscious am of uprighteousness in my 1 and official « 1 shail . 1 shall demand House. appointment by the ker of a committee which shall wer to summon and The contests, he explained. were the ! result of an ancient form of worship | for a goat god Wan Symbol of Luck. belief that @ goat’s head a symbol of Juck and that the m of the village which was so y as to have the head would be | especially favored. Accordingly, regu- Jlar contests we held to who «hould keep the head. He told also how the ¢ hanging a fox's tail over the pantry door: the carrying of a rabbit's foot and ‘other symbols which are sup. | posed to brink xood luck. had their {origin in some ancient custom or be- | 1lief. It was believed by th neients, { he explained, that by coming in, con tact th nllv nnlh\';\l gn‘\;:- ur:. !'Il;‘r\-| ol oves animal. Due to this BIEeI : O le. Sionld carey some Dart of the|swear witnesscs und take auch action peok : {as will bring the truth to light. i God [ amimal or i S o i '8 | helping me. 1 want the truth. nothing {but the truth and the whole truth. pAEtioC/it. (B contiitied { "1 want at leust meanwhile, to { have in the minds of my friends and ! fle told of ancient religious cults my constituents and in the minds of | \hich wxisted among women and said | my countrymen as much right as a 1t was sect Ine was th see D be ziven the j Ancient Religious Cult FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1924. IPRISON SENTENGES i CHEERED BY HOUSE;| | GIVEN TO STRIKERS Former Union Station Em- ployes Get Heavy Penalties for Assault. Seven union workmen, formerly employed at the Union station and yards of the Washington Terminal Company, who went on strike in Sep- tember, 1922, and attacked two of their fellow employes who remained jat work, beaking the jaw of one of jthe victims in nine places, were sen- tenced today by Justice Hochling in Criminal Divigion 2 to terms of Im- prisonment in the penitentiary. i Raymond F. Erhardt, twenty-five; Charles B. Austin, twenty-seven, and Edward A. Smith, twenty-four, were each given a term of three years in jthe penitentiary. William B, Beckett, twenty-four, and Norval C. Pum-~ phrey. thirty-two, were each given fwo vears and six months in the pen- 'll(‘ tiary, while James J. Dugan. {twenty-one, and “William Phillips, 'Wenty-one, received sentences of WO years cach in the penitentiary. Innodent Convicted. The arrest and indictment of the {seven men followed the confession of Earl D. Dean, who with Robert W. Slsson and Maurice Sullivan had been convicted and sentenced for the as- suult on Keeton and Powers and whose sentence had been aflirmed by the Court of Appeals. Dean was sen- | tenced to serve five years in the peni- tentiary. Sullivan to seven years and Sisson to five years. Dean exonerated Sisson and Sullivan and declared they were not even present at the time of the assault. He then implicated the seven men who were in court to- day. By piecemeal Assistant United States ‘Atlorney Presmont procured confessions of ‘their complicity from the seven workers and caused an in- dictment to be returned against them, Pleas of guilty were entered and efforts are on foot to get a pardon from President Coolidge for Sieson and Sullivan. . Commenting on the silence of these men while they saw Sisson and Sulli- van almost at the doors of the peni- tentiary, Justice Hoehling said The ¢ Is a most unusual one and has presented a difficult problem to the court for solution. These de- {fendants ha now acknowledged their guilty participation in the crime jthe necessity of trying them. On the other hand,” the court is confronted with the sit ion of these seven qe- fendants standing mute while two men, who they now say are innocent, were tried, convicted and sentenced ito the penitentiary and were prac- tically on their way to serve the s tences until Dean, one of the o victed men, broke the silence b onerating the other two and impli- cating these seven. “The latter, however, did not break their silence until their convicted asso- ciate broke the silence for them.” The court then pointed out hbw some of the men merely acted as watchers while three of the group attacked and beat Keeton, breaking his jaw in nine places. Powers ran when he saw his assailant and escaped injury, the court said. Srhardt was married only about three months ago, Austin has been married three years and has one child, Pum- phrey has been married several vears and has three children, and Smith is {ON PARKING VIOLATION | Inspector Headley Announces Post- ! ing of $2 Collateral Will Not 1 Suffice Hereafter. land they have spared the government | { OF THREE PARK SITES It is going to cost anywhere from §5 to $40 to leave your automobile parked beyond the time limit on downtown streets from today on. Inspector Albert J. Headley, chief i statements i tepresentative Zihlman, republican, | Maryland. who earller in the day | had admitted he had heard reports that he was one of the men referred {of the traffic bureau, announced to- ] 1 takes g | to in the Chicago grand jury's re- { Klingle Valley, Piney Branch nndE | | -Patterson Tracts Approved by i Langley spoke. After the Kentucky member had = | concluded Representative Upshaw, House Subcommittee. , democrat, Georgia, took the floor to {declare that he was opposed to the “reckless and half-baked way" in The special subcommittee of the | which the honor of two House mem- | House District committee, which yes-{bers hud been attacked. As he . ~| waiked back to his seat the entire | terday made a personal tour of in |Hw” A L L U tieaniis specton of the tracts in Klingle road | piauded him. Piney b h. east of 16th, pepartment of Justice oficials have W the Patterson tract. in | before them a demand JSrom | exocut icn today decided to make a favorable report to the full District committee at a special mepb! ing tomorrow advocating the prompt | purchase of these properties for park | sites. { valley ! rtreet | of the two representatives charged ing accepted bribes. The House acted unanimously late yesterday, after leaders had learned that the grand“jury to be assembled I here to investigate these and other i This subcommittee was conducted | charges in lll»d ('hicl(un repunlv:ould ¢ & delegation from the Washington | 1ot be expected to reach a conclusion | br a detegation EtOn | 8 in & month ! Board of Trade and citizens' associa- | £tons. [ Longworth Wants Disclosure. The proposul is to purchase eight-! Official disclosure of the mames, it { een and one-half acres in the Klingle | was pointed out by Representative Road valley at a price not to exceed Longworth, the republican leader, will . $200,000; in the Piney Branch valley, | serve mot only to remove the suspi- ! east of 16th street, about eleven |cion cast upon the entire membership port, wasx not on the floor when Mr. | the | House that they disclose the names ! ! by the Chicago grand jury with hav- | | acres, at a cost not to exceed $155,000; : of the House by publication of the i about nineteen pcres In the Piney| Branch valley west of 16th streef, to preserve the forests to the top of | { the_hillside, at a cost not to exceed i $107,000, and a portion of the Patter- son 'tract, containing about 59 16-100 ] acres, at a cost not to exceed $300,000. | RIS {ALUMNI OF MICHIGAN U. i WILL HEAR DR. BURTON; President Will S8peak Here on Im-| provements at In- 1 stitution. Dr. Marion Le Roy Burton, presi- dent of the University of Michigan, will be in Washington March 20 to address Michigan alumni at a ban- quet at the New Willard Hotel, ac- cording to an announcement toflay. Dr. Burton 1s one of the nation's foremost educators. Prior to going to Ann Arbor he was president of the University of Minnesota, and, before that, of Smith College. At the ban- quet here Dr. Burton plans to tell the alumni of improvements in progress at the university. He also will dis. cuss the modern trend of education and the needs of present-day society. The University of Michigan is of particular interest to Washington be- cause in_the last twenty-five years it has produced more public men than any other institution In the land, its friends contend. At present it num- bers among its alumni three cabinet members, senators, nine repre- sentatives, one justice of the Supreme Court and a host of experts in the government departments. SUN COMPASS PERFECTED. CHRISTIANA, Norway, March 7.—An instrument known as the *sun com- pass” has been constructed to the de- sign of Capt. Roald Amundsen. for use i l on _his fiight. 1t will sup- 'phm the ordinary compass, which is e in the region of the pole, report, but would give the accused an immediate opportunity to offer a de- fense. It -they don't,” he added, “we either can try this case ourselves or leave it to the Department of Jus- tice.” The demand was embodied in a res- olution_introduced several days ago by Representative Garrett of Tennes- see, the democratic leader, which wa. adopted after elimination of a re- quest for information as to the basis of the charges against the two men, and also the phrase, “if not incom: patible with public interest.” e THREE INDICTED IN GLASS CASKET COMPANY CASE Means and Others Charged With Attempt to Bribe Attor- ney General. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 7.—Thomas B, Felder, an attorney, was indicted by a federal grand jury today, with Gaston B. Means, former agent for the Department of Justice, and Elmer Jarnecke, the latter's sscretaly, charged with having copspired to| bribe the Attorney General of the United States, the United States at- torney for the southern district of New: York and two of his assistants. The indictment recited that the three had received $65,000 from the Gefendants in the Glass Casket Com- pany case, which they are alleged to have declared they would use in bribing the Attorney General, the local United States attorney and his assistants. Opera Stars on Strike. BUCHAREST, March 7.—The lead- ing artists of the Rumanian opera have gone on strike because of the government's decision to end state control and hand the opera over to with & oharged with lllegal Sond | chased with logel {day that the old rule of taking §2 {collateral from the all-day parker i'uul not been effectual enough | bringing oftenders to realize jmust not repeat the violation. i, With the high cost of parking ;lhere will appear a special squad of twenty traffic: bureau who specialize in ap- proaching vour car when you are in the office ‘and surprising vou with @ neat little invitation to call on them at the first precinet. The boosting of collateral and the they to the congested area are in ac- cordance with the announced inten. jtion of the Commissioners to enforce the parking regulations. The city heads last week increased the lawful purking time in the busi- ness section from thirty minutes to one hour, which rule is now in effect. But if you stay more than sixty min- utes it 1s going to prove expensive. 1t is_probable that the raising of the collateral on parking violations will have the effect of throwing many of these cases that are now forfeited into court for trial. |80 GALLONS TAKEN | Plumber Arrested While Delivering 5-Gallon Container of Alcohol, Police Say. Seizure of about eighty gallons of corn whisky and alcohol resuited from three arrests made by police yesterday and today. Most of the liquor came fyom Bal- timore, and was found in the posses- slon of William Riskin, plumber, of 1714 Jast Fayette street, who was ar- rested today by Policemen Salkeld and Ehlman of the second precinct. Riskin's automobile was seized along {with the liquor as he was about to deliver a five-gallon container of alco- hol at a home in Marion street north- west, police say. He was released on bond in the sum of $1,000. stioned by two policemen at 414 a5 atreets southwest, today, a8 to the contents of a wagon, Joe Mann, thirty-seven, describing himself as & trucker near Silver Hill, Md., replied ‘a_little corn, that's all. 3 You for the police station; that's all;” he was told. Horse, wagon, Joe and nine gallons of corn whisky were taken into custody. of {ilegal possession and transporting were preferred against him -and he up. w‘fie}::?v':d by & hacker in the vicin- ity of 14th street and Pennsylvania avenue a short time ago into buying 2 bottle of water for a bottle of Whisky, Detective J. E. Kane of the first precinct and Revenue Agents Thomas Wheeler and George King last night “sampled” the liquid be- fore handing marked money to Jo- seph Anthony Donovan, twenty-five, haoker, residing at 2425 N street northwest. Joseph wuen was taken to the first precinct station and ssion, sell- toxicants, dread messengers from the | assignment of additional traffic men | IN LIQUOR RAIDS | | COSMOPOLITAN CLUB - ! NOMINATES OFFICERS Paul Brandstedt, M. A. Leese and Ernest Herrell Named for Presidency. The following members of the Cos- mopolitan Club were nominated for election as officers for the coming year at the weekly luncheon of the organization at the Franklin Square Hotel yesterday: For president—Paul Branstedt, M. A. Leese and Ernest Herrell. For vice president—Roy Crampton, Robert McChesney, Dr. Arch Miller. Hoover Zook, Michael Schaeffer and Perdinand Waldman. For secretary—Lewis A. Payne, the present secretary. For treasurer—¥Frank E. Ghiselli. For member of the executive board for a threc-year term—Phillip Buett- ner, David R. Myers, Charles Lan- man, C. H. Hites, Ernest Herrell and M. A. Leese. i Announcement of the formation of a new Cosmopolitan Club of fifty members in Norfolk was made by Phillip Buettner, reglonal director. Booster prizes were won for the week by James 1. Colliflower, president of the club, and Bertram Lennon. GIVES I MAJORITY House Rejects Amendments Making Changes in Muscle Shoals Bill. Forging its way toward a tinal vote on the McKenzie bill, which would { authorize acceptance of Henry Ford bid for Muscle Shoals, the House to- i rejected an amendment to limit future appropriations for completion of dam No. 2 to $28,000,000. The amendment was offered by Rep- resentative Blanton, democrat, Texa land was the st of importance to be put to a vote. 1t was turned down by 4 vote of 50 1o The first test of strength in the voting showed a victory for pro- ponents of the Ford bid, who lined up almost solldly against the amendment Mr. Blanton States Position. Mr. Blanton said that, while 1 favored acceptance of For ‘f“_ Te {he believed there should be a definite check placed on further xpenditures at Muscle was &upported in his efforts to put over his amendment by Representa- itive Hull, republican, lowa, and other members of the military com- mittee opposed to the Ford bid Representative Byrns, democrat, Ten- nessee, devlared that “an amendment to 4 bill of this kind can only be con: s defeating the purpose of the bill, urging the members of the House to be cous to vote down amendments. Advomtes Modifieati | _ Representative { Minnesota. advoc: republican, ation of the Newton, ed mmod term “following cont the first section of the bill, because, he pointed out, “we are giving provisions that the Secretary of War is o embody in a con- tract Representative Lozier. democrat, Missouri, declared t (he bill wis “m danger of being mutiluted beyor { recognition.” declaring that under the bill as reported out by the committe “Ford agrees to produce 40.000 tons of nitrate without cessation during the term of the contract’ | Representative McKenzie. lof the measure, urged spe in charge action married with one child. The other - ments € E { ! | SO e | Madden Speaks for Deficiency Bills. NEw DRIVE OPENED i Representative Madden, republican, {1Minois, reminded the House that de- 1 fi bills that were osting the government money were pending in ;nrz‘ln!-’ action the Muscle Shoals bill. pre tive La Guardia, re- {publican, New York, retorted that the | Muscle $hoals Bill ‘was on qunder a special rule and that if the ppropriation bills were so important they ought to be here” This il must be discu {he_added ! The House also rejected an amend- {ment by Representative Hill, repub- iliean, Maryland, to broaden the pro {vision Tequiring’ construction of dam i No. 2 and adjacent locks to be done jat actual cost without profit_to the company organized by Mr. Ford tc i specify that there also was to be Ino profit to “any one else.” Newton D. Bakers View of Insue. | As consideration by the House of {the Muscle Shoals question continued, ed in full’ inRepresentative Hull, republican, Towa, | ileading fizht against the Ford loffer, made public a letter received JbY him from Newton D. Baker, former ecretary of War, which declared tha it would be a public calamity to have {this great national asset come into private hands ! upon any terms now ipossible 1o be secured i “Impatience to recover a few mil- {liof dollars in monéy and modest iprospects of immediate benefits tc ifarmers ure blinding us” said Mr Baker. i The water-power framed to produc he added, “is the development o doubtful products by unusual re wards. So far from abating its pre visions in any way at Muscle Shoals, they should be strengthened. This not a doubtful project, but a palpable gold mine.” Text of Hix Letter. The text of Mr. Baker's letter jlows: i “Through your kindness T have just irere[\'ed & copy of the minority re- Iport from the committee on military affairs with reference exploitation of the terests fol- government's and properties at Shoals. The discussion of the sev- eral offers for purchase or lease of these properties is most informing land I congratulate you upon the w {dom and far-sighted patriotism with Which the report s infused. “I have always thought and continue to think that it would be 4 public icalamity to have thix great national jasset come into private hands upon any terms now possible to be secured. he progress of invention cannot be | foretold, but it is wholly within the bounds of reasonable likelihood that within & very few years the produc- tion of synthetic nitrogen compounds without "great power consumption will be cheap and easy and that in such event it would be wasteful to devote any substantial part of the availablg power at Muscle Shoals to that use. Industrinl Needs Growing. ut it is certain that with every n- Muscle pas population” and their transportation and industrial needs grow greater and the stocks of unmined coal and unpumped oil grow less, and it in- evitably follows that in relatively few years the possession of this im- mense source of power will be domi-~ nant over the lives and fortunes of a great and populous section of our country. “Muscle Shoals is an inexhaustible national asset. It is too large and too vital an element in our national economy, whether in peace or war, (0 be privately owned efther by an in- dividual or a carporation. 1 “Impatience to recover a full mil- lion dollars in money and modest prospects of immediate benefits to farmers: are blinding us. The real interests of the farmer and of every- body else for the hundred years in question are identical with the na- tional interests. Aim of Waterpower Act. “The waterpower act is framed to induce the development of doubtfu! projects by unusual rewards. So far from abating its provisions in any lease at Muscle Shoals they chould be strengthened. This is not a doubtful project, but a palpable gold mine. “Thank you heartily for your fine publia service. H t TEST ONFORD OFFER, the floor ! to the propesd | ing day in the United States the| TREASURY WANTS - UICK TAX ACTION Delay in Reducing Levies | on 1923 Incomes Would Prove Costly. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Both houses of Congress are being urged to take instant action with reference to the 25 per cent reduction on the inconfes of the calendar year 1923, payable on the 15th of this month. Separation of the proposal relating to 1923 incomes from the bill con- taining the general tax revision effec- tive upon 1924 incomes now appedrs inevitable. Both the republicans and democrats .are agreed that the pres- ent law can more readily be amended i by the passage of a joint resolution, which refers only to 1923 incomes, so that consideration of the whole tax question may not be complicated with the problems before the American taxpayers, who are working out their tax returns this month. The democrats would like to see ithe joint resolution put into effect not with a 25 per cent reduction all along the line, but with the Garner jrates, Thi would mean in the case jof smaller incomes a greater redu tion than 25 per cent, and so far A the higher incomes are concerned not as much as 25 per cent. ' Treasury Backs 25 Per Cent. Under the circumstances the actual work of checking up the returns for will be subject to a good deal of 192 confu on. The Treasury insists that if any legislation apropos of 1923 fn- ccmes is passed, it should be a sim- ple 25 per cent reduction, so that when auditing the returns the same jadministrative machinery now en- | gaged in cxamining the returns can be used and the one-fourth reductfon easily caleulated, The republicans have the votes to pass a 25 per cent reduction If the Jjoint resolution is pressed for aatfon, and there seems to be a desire to give the resolution right of way so as to relieve the uncertainty of the [taxpavers this month. Also the Treasury depends for its financing. | operations and its borrowings on dy flow of funds from all The payment of the fncome ing delaved because of a be- Congress may put into law ) before March 15 the reduction on 1923 incomes. If Congress is going to act. therefore, the Treasury would like to {ee auick action one way or the other. lief that Delny Would Be Costly. | 1t would be a simple matter for both houses to give right of way to the jnint resolution providing a_ 25 per cent cut on 1922 incomes. The Yresident and Secretary of the Trei ’ ury have ‘approved it and the two parties are agreed upon the principle involved. For a time it looked as if ans would keep the pro- vision for a 1 reduction in the ral tax bill. in the hope of ac- celerating its progress through the ate, but it looks now as if the 1 1ax measure will not be through jCongress before June 30, when the next fiscal vear begins, and it would be embarrassing to the Treasury to {leave the guestion of 1923 incomes |unsettied, with the prospect of being {required to rebate funds already re- eived. Ahout 75 per cent of the tax- |payers send their money to the Treas- fury in quarterly installments, so the Treasury would have to arrange for {u rebate to at least one-fourth of the {number of taxpavers. which means {more than 1.500,000 pérs The bookkeeping alone involved in i making out checks and arranging re- i bates would be an added expense to the | Treasury, all of which can be avoided by i prompt action before March 15. i The theory back of the 25 per cent jreduction of incomes is that a surplus of $323.000,000 having been accumu- lated during 1923 the taxpayer should ibe given the benefit of it. Just what ef- { fect the soldier bonus may have on the situation is not vet apparent, for if the champions of the adjusted compensation act wish they can hold up the reduction on 1923 incomes with the plea that the money could better be applied to the first pavments on the bonus On the other hand, there are those who believe per_ cent reduction sets a for 1924 incomes, and that s main tax bill doesn't go beyond r cent there will be money enough bonus bill as well as a new iio b (Copyright, 1924.) ! PLAN MEETS OPPOSITION. Joint Resolution Faces Fight in Both Houses. ) spects for immediate action on proposal for a reduction of per cent in all personal income taxes 3 this year were threatened as opposition developed in both 7 Congress. man Green of the House ways and means committee changed plans announced vesterday and in view the opposition decided to delay ing the committee to remove the reduction provisions from the rev- ienue bill and incorporate in a joint {resolution | Such action was proposed yesterday {by the Treasury Department with a view to making a reduction effective {for the first installment of taxes due March 16. The Senate finance com- mittee unanimously indicated its de- sire to agree to such a move if passed by the House. Representative Oldfield, Arkansas, democratic whip., declared today the move was preliminary to a presi- dential veto of the revenue bill and ¢ he would oppose it. enate democrats indicated they would seek to make the Garner in- come rate schedule effective fon 1922 taxes payable this year instead of the flat per cent reduction. This would open up the entire income rate sched- ule fight, leaders declared, and settle- | ment could not be reached before I March 16. In taking up the revenue blil today the Scnate finance committee passed {over the income rate schedules to con- sider the administrative sections. The House amendment opening tax re turns to inspection by certain co s gressional committees also w: passed over for future considera- tion. The interest rate of & per cent on extended pavments, recommended by Secretary Mellon and approved by the | House, was placed back at 6 per gent, as in the. present law, the only change decfded upon by ‘the commit- i tee toda; BURTON AND GROESBECK REJECT CABINET POST Ohio Representative and Michigay Governor Not Seeking to Succeed Denby. Prospects of Representative Theo- dore E. Burton of Ohio and Gov. Groes- beck of Michigan recelving cabinet appointments seemed lessened by statements issued today by the two men, Mr. Burton, mentioned as a pos- sible successor to Edwin Denby as Secretary of the Navy, informed ad- { ministration officials he prefers to {continue as a member of the House ! rather than accept a Cabinet position. Mr. Groesbeck, m}wlloned in_con- | | nection” with thé Nafy secretaryship and the attorney generalship, left Washington today after stating that he “had not applied for any federal office, been tendered any federal of- fice or had suggested to him that he take any federal office,” /