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2 TEACHER PAY BILL [ogoon sesews. ORDERED REPORTED Blanton Fails in Fight Against Proposed Increase for Superiritendent. The Keller bill, carrying a schedule of salaries for teachers and officials ot the school system in the’ District of Columbia, as originally agreed to in - conferences between the school board and representatives of the teachers' associations, was ordered fa- | vorably reported to the House today by the House District committee. Failing to get the proposed salary for the superintendent of schools re- | duced from a basic salary of $8.000 with a maximum of $10,000, as pro- posed in the Keller bill, to a base sal- | ary of $6,000 with a $500 & year In-{ crease for three making the | maximum salary Representa- | tive Thomas L. Blanton, democrat, of Texas, reserved the right to make a | minority report and said he had other amendments which he proposed to . offer. ! Representative Blanton. however, | emphatically registered his support | of the increases in salary provided for the teachers. A minor amendment in the bill Places a basic salary of $5000 for the first assistant superintendent in- stead of §4300, with an_annual in- crease of £20( ead of $100 for five years or until a maximum salary of $6.000 a ¥ T hed. Repre Underhill of Mass- achusetts offered the motion for a; favorable report to be made by Rep- resentat:ve Lampert of Wisconsin, who was irman of the subcom-: mittee h recently conducted hearings on the Keller and Reed bill for a new schedule of salarfes for the school department, Representative Blanton said that ands. would mean that Baliou would imme- w salary of $10,000, has already served two He pointed out it law lixes the salary tendent of schools at , but that action of the appro- | priations committec, which is always | point of order, carries a salary, so that, he argued, the Keller bill proposes immediately to double the salary ullowed by law for the superintendent of schools. Protest by Blanton. receive he protested vigorously that the superintendent of ols in the Dis- | trict should not receive $2.500 a vear | more than the House leader or the chairman of the House appropriations e mitte or members of the Senate and House, and that he should not receive double the salary paid to bureau chiefs in the government de- partment Te also pointed out that Dr. Ballou receives other moneyw for lecture cours: Representative Keller, republican, of Minnesota, asked Mr. Blanton how | the salary of the superintendent in the District compared with that paid in other large tities, and this led to & lenginy discussion. ! Representative Gasque, a_lifelong educator in South Carolina, said that the question was not what kind of a superintendent the District schools | have now or what kind of teachers they have now, but for the commit- tee 'in conscience to take action which would make it possible for the city to have the best teaching force in the country for the future. “The teach- | ers, not only in Washington, but all | over the country, are not recelving | anything like proper salaries,” he said, declaring this to be “the poorest paid profession, while making the most exacting requirements.” Weakness in Schoois. gre: “The test asset that this coun- try has is its children, and the weak- ness in our country is due to the fact that we have never paid proper at- tention to the teaching of our chil- dren,” Representative que said. He told his colleagues that the people in the states are becoming more and more awake to the necessity of put- ting moral, Christian, well-trained, vigorous men and women in charge of the schools. During the discussion it was em- phasized that there are 2,700 teach- ers and more t 70,000 children in the schools in the District of Colum- a. Representative Underhill of Massa- chusetts read into the Record a list of cities that pay double the salary paid the superintendent of schools in Washington and a list of smaller cit- ies that pay the same as Washington. Representative Keller, speaking | from his own experience in adminis- | tration of municipal affalrs, said that | to get good teachers and good ad- ministrative officers in Washington, inducements at least equal to those ! offered by other large cities must be | given. He declared that any of the | states would be better off if they paid $10,000 a vear to their superin- tendent 'of instruction than if meyx paid §4,000 or 1 Supporting this argument of Rep- resentati Keller, ~ Representative Hammer of North Carolina told of the great increase in_appropriations for education made in his home state, | and declared that “education and | good roads are contributing wonder- | fully to the prosperity and progress of North Carolina.” H The propoged amendment of Rep- | resentative Dlunton was voted down, but he ated that he will make a | fight against it on the floor of the | House. | Acting Ch an Zihlman congra: ulated the ommittee on its work in considering the teachers' salary | pay bill and getting it before the House with a favorable report at such an early date CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Wanderlusters' hike for to- morrow will start from the bureau of standards. Connecticut avenue and Pierce Mill road, 2:30 p.m. Mr. Sligh will lead. i s oldstein of I Irnuflnflti 5 will deliver a | Conditions in | tomorrow, § p.m) at the ! emple. Lecture is open | to the public. Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, a former Goucher student, will speak at the Goucher College dinner to be given March 14 at National Clubhouse, 1684 1 street. Mrs. Gregory, wife of Rear Admiral Gregory, will sing. i The Red Triangle Outing Club will | meet tomorrow, 3 p.m., in Rossiyn for | a hike. Visitors are invited. | James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, | will speak at a free forum meeting | tomorrow, § p.m., at Typographical | Temple, 423 G street. Subject: “What' the Matter With the Coal Industry?" Execut| committee, Social Hy- giene Soclety, will meet Monday, 2 ».m. in Dr. Fowler's office, District uilding. Piney Branch Citisens' Association ‘will meet Monday, 8 p.m., in lows Avenue Methodist Church. The National Women's Political Study Club will_meet tomorrow, 5 p.m., at Phyllis Wheatley, Y. W. C. A. 'All women interested politically invited. Northeast Washington Citinens’ Az~ sociation will meet Monday, 8 p.m., in Ludlow School. Representative Thomas L. Blant of Texas, “father of the one day off” for policemen, . will be principal speaker at meeting of the Police- mens’ Association Thursday, at Py- thian Temple. Miss_Janet Richards, historian of Mary Washington Chapter, ‘D. A. R, will give a talk for tHe henefit of the iotic work of the chapter Tucsday, $:30 p.m, In ballroom of lCoolidge to Name Committees to {in the near future of two committees to study the merchant marine situa- jtion committee. lines recommended by Senator Jones {in_a_memorandum to last December. a plan for better co-ordination of rail and water transportation. committee would survey the country's commercial needs. | terior Department. Average royalty | the Teapot Dome royalty was obtain- {out that the Navy received a large Gen. Weyler to Use Tanks and Gas in Campaign Against Abd-El- Erim’s Forces. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 8.—The rebel forc- es under Abd-El-Krim opposing the Spaniards in Morocco total 80,000 men and are operating In two di- visions, according to the Tangier correspondent of the Daily Express. The Moorish airplanes, he said, are being piloted by Kufopean officers with world war experiences. Gen. Weyler, for the Spaniards, has made preparations to use all the modern methods of warfare, includ- ing tanks and gas. e S— WILL ORDER STUDY- OF MERCHANT MARINE ! Survey Situation and Seek Co-operation. FOLLOWS JONES' PLANS President Confers With Senate Commerce Committee Head. Appointment by President Coolidge was forecast today after the Executive had conferred with Chair- man Jones of the Senate commerce The committees would work along the DPresident One would work out The other and defense shipping | o o T | LEASES DEFENDED BY DENBY, IN REPLY (Continued from First Page.) December, 1920, Woodrow Wilson, President.’” “It is quite evident that the oil leases were drawn in the very best interest of the Navy and that the government was protected in every possible manner.” Recalls Daniels’ Suggestion. In his report Mr. Denby recalled that Secretary Danlels suggested that legislation be provided author- izing drilling of wells for protection | against drainage from adjacent lands, or to supply the government needs, and that- the war-time Navy Secre- tary suggested legislation authoriz- ing him to take possession of all such properties. within the naval petroleum preserves as are, or may become, vested in the United States, to conserve, develop, use and oper- ate them and to dispose of the oil and gas products and those from all royalty oil for the benefit of the United States. Secretary Denby said the lunguage of the Danfels' letters, virtually as suggested, was enacted into law June 4. 1920. Answering another question, Mr. Denby declared it to be a fact that Secretary Dafiels approved the leasing without public advertisement by Secretary of the Interlor Payne, and drllling of new wells on naval oil reserves. Total acreage of the naval oil re- serves now being operated is less than 52,000 acres, Secretary Denby declared. while the Interior Depart- ment now has under lease or permit more than 17,500,000 acres of such lands. | Oulls Leases Valuable. The government received more than $3,000,000 premium on royalty ol from the Salt Creek district in 1923 as a result of competition y‘l’omoledg Dy leasing of the Teapot Dome naval reserve, and the Navy received for| the calendar year 1923 41 cents more | a barrel for its royalty oil than the selling price of all other producers in the district under its contract for the leasing of Teapot Dome, Mr. Denby said. He brought out that had production from the Teapot Dome reserve reached even the minimum anticipated $16,000,000 more than the | daily market price would have been received, exceeding by many millions of dollars all the cash bonuses ever received from sale of government leases in the entire Salt Creek field. The total amount received as bo- nuses from leases in the entire Salt Creck field is $1,687,000, Mr. Denby | sald, according to records of the In-| from the Teapot Dome lease to date | has been about 17 per cent, he 2on- tinued, adding that on this basis the government can expect an ultimate royalty of 4,250,000 barrels. Applying the premium of 41 cents per barrel received to date, the excess amount | the_government would receive would | be $1.742,500, exceeding the total bo- nus received thus far from the Salt Creek district. Royalties fixed in the Teapot Dome lease are on what is known as the sliding scale basis, the royalty rate increasing if wells of large produc- tion are obtained. Cites Bonus Reeeived. Mr. Denby said had the average production of wells in Teapot Dome been as anticipated at the time of the lease, royalties would have been higher than the ordinary governmént rate in the Salt Creek district, and ed on territory a large part of which was unproved. The Secretary polnted bonus from the lease in the California reserve in the form of high royalties, free storage for its royalty oil, free pipe line transportation, advance sup- ply of fuel oil in storage, option to purchase at a discount, construction of storage facilities, and other con- siderations which, he contended, great- ly exceed any cash bonus which might have been obtained at the time or_could be expected. - Contracts with the Doheny compa- nies specifically exempt from drill- | | | | question doos not !near Quantico, but later made their THE EVENING TOSELECT CALIPH, Egyptian Manifesto Brands Deposition by Turkey as lllegal Action. By the Associated Press. _LONDON, March 8.—The Egyptian Ulemas (Mohammedan wise men) have issued a manifesto to the Mos- lem world, says the Morning Post's Cairo correspondent, declaring the deposition of the caliph at Constan- tinople an illegal act by persons who have no voice in the matter and urging the Moslems to hasten the assembly of a general congress to settlo the question of the caliphate iin accordance with law. The Ulemas affirm that the ex- istence of the caliphate is a& neces- S4ry to every true bellever as is rea- fon to man in general. They beg tho Moslems to defend the caliphate and sce that the settlement of the| weaken the pres- tige of Islam, but also warn the faith- ful against taking any action before the meeting of the proposed congress. More Support for Hussein. The Daily Telegraph has recelved through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency a dispatch from Jerusalem declaring it is expected that the Arabs of Palestine and Syria will join in the proclamation of King Hussein of the Hedjaz as caliph within the next few days, and that great cele- brations are being prepared. A con- ference of the Arab states will open at Kowait on March 15 when it Is likely Hussein will be formally pro- claimed caliph of Moslems of the whole Arabian peninsula. The Daily Telegraph's k diplomatic correspondent ren that the Turkish government played into the hands of its hereditary foe by abol- ishing the caliphate at the moment | when’ Hussein, now reconciled with his two crowned ons and nursing the idea of a vast L Arab federation, Fas actmally copferring at Amman v elegates of ri mih deley e principal Arab EX-CALIPH AT GENEVA. Switzerland to Grant Asylum, But Bars Propaganda. GENEVA, Switzerland, March' §.— The deposed caliph, Abdul Medjid, will be allowed to stay in Switzerland on the same conditions imposed in the cases of other refugee rulers, the ederal council has decided. The prin- cipal of these iy an undertaking to eirain from any sort of pri or political aetivity. STy Abdul Medjid, accompanied by his son. two wives and a suite of ten persons, arrived last night at Territet, on the north shore of Lake Geneva bagica, The Swiss authorities had not by advised of his coming, and the first they knew of it was when {he orient express reached the fron- er. EXILE MAY VISIT PARIS. France to Be Neutral in Dispute Over Caliphate. PARIS, March 8.—The exiled caliph, Abdul Medjid, whose arrival Switzerland, was announced today, is to come to Paris shortly, although thus far there has been nothing official from him as to his intentions. The French government’s policy, it was stated, will be to leave questions concerning the caliphate entirely to the Mussulmans, avoiding any action that might be interpreted as opposi- tion to British policy in supporting the caliphate of Hussein, King of the Hedjaz, proclaimed caliph by the Ara- bian Moslems. FOUR RUNAWAY BOYS HUNTED BY RADIO Eight Students Start Globe-Trot- ting Trip, But Four Tire and Return. The lure of the first pair of long trousers, the open road, adventure, thrills, and, at the end, fortune, fame and a name, came irresistibiy upon eight Washington public school stu- dents Wednesday morning and led them out into the world. Four, not finding the world any too rosy, returned home, John Gordon Hart, twelve, and Barl Verinte, sixteen. students at_ the Johnson-Powell School: Charles Dwo- rin, fifteen. Eastern High, and Ray- mond McClure, fifteen, Central High School student, are the four who are still continuing their travels, and have eluded both authorities and radio. WCAP last night broadcast the report of the runaway#. This morn- ing the station was informed that the above four boys had been picked up by the authorities upon suspicion escape. The authorities in all towns toward Richmond have been told to be on the lookout, because the four | boys who decided to return home said | that the others were headed south. Young Hart left home Wednesday morning, apparently to go to school. Instead, however, he donned his first pair of long trousers. given to nim | by a companion, and joined the other suven boys, ready for the trail. Sev- eral of " these likewise were ex- periencing the thrill of their first mg![-hl’y glrmanth& ; 8 was the last seen royers untll four came Co 0| their tale of globe-t: - il [ Fotting am- | —_— i DENIES BEING FORCED | TO BAN SPEECH ing, except by consent of the gov- ernment, nearly all of reserve No. 1, lying west of the range line between | ranges 23 and 24. Secretary Denby, | within a month after the first leases nd agreements with the Mammoth )il Company and the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, and long before the latter company's ease, dated December 11, 1932, told a Senate committee that such’ leases had been made. | Sees Remources Comserved. Leases referred to undoubtedly have conserved large areas of oil and gas underground, Mr. Denby said, because operators on neighboring privately- owned lands know that any move to drill wells that might drain naval petroleum reserves will be met by an adequate offsetting campalgn, vigor- ously prosecuted. The sum of $5,617,130.82, up to July 1, 1923, has been turned into the Treasury from ~royalties recelved from the naval ofl reserves, Mr. Denby added. Secretary Denby denied that any officer of the Navy had been retired or ordered away from Washington be- cause of opposition to his petroleum policy, submitting & list of officers who had retired or been transferred, who were alleged to have been sent away because of such disagreement. He added that none of the officers ever on duty in connection with the naval petroleum reserves had any prior training or experience in_connection with the oll production industry. Replylng to a question on impor- tant portions of the naval reserves Bever having been under the control§ ¢ Methodist Bishop Explains Re- scinding of Invitation to Stokes to Speak. H By the Associated Press, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., M: — Bishop Joseph F. Berry of Philadsl: phia, presiding officer of the annual New' Jersey Methodlat Contarence | to reseind his invitation to' former Gov. Edward C. Stokes, chate | man of the republican state commit- : tee, to address the conference this morning. The bishop's announcement that he Fad invited Mr. Stokes to “put himself straight with the ministers” was gregted with a storm of protest that threatened to disrupt the confer- | ence. A militant group of ministers had erfected plans to assail Mr. Stokes 'rom the floor after his address. He | was to be charged with aiding the ‘Assoclation Opposed to the Prohibi- tion Amendment and opposition to the Anti-Saloon League. | et WIS of the Navy, Secretary Denby replied: | That 15% per cent of reserve No. 1 is | owned by private parties; that 19,680 acres, or 65.4 per cent, of the total acreage of reserve No. 2, Is privately owned, with but 10.1 per cent under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy; that all of naval reserve MOSLEMS GALLED | Daugherty whom the aocused are al- clude United States District Attorney He brought with him a mountain of | Hayward and two of his assistants, John Holley Clark, jr. and Peter J. McCoy. Glass Casket Company, FOUR KILLED AS POLICE FIRE ON INDIAN STRIKERS Military Called Out in Cotton Mill Workers’ Riot in Bombay. By the Assoclated Press. BOMBAY, British India, March 8.— Four civillans were killed and five in- jured, when the police fired on riot- ing cotton mills strikers here today. The military then was called. There has been much incendiarism since the strike started. In one dis- trict 2,000 bales of cotton were fired, and strikers stoued Lascars, who were fighting the blaze. The damage is estimated at £30,000. Railway trains have been stoned. EFFORTS TO BRIBE DAUGHERTY CHARGED Means and Two Others Indicted by Federal Grand Jury in New York. |ACCUSED IN TWO CASES Attempts Alleged in Casket and Liquor Frauds. By the Amsociated Press. NEW YORK, March 8.—A federal grand jury yesterday indicted three persons for obstructing justice and attempting, for a price of $65,000, to bribe United States Attorney General Daugherty and other government prosecutors to protect men who since have been sentenced for using the mails in a fraud which netted $175,- 000. Those Indicted were Thomas B. Fel der, head of a well known law firm, president of the Georgia Soclety and defense counsel in several big boot- leg cases; Gaston B. Means, a former agent of the Department of Justice, and Elmer Jarnecke, secretary to Means. Means, Jarnecke and nine others were indicted last October for using the mails to defraud and engage in a conspiracy, through which 512,000 cases and 12,000 barrels of whisky were removed from licensed distil- leries and diverted into bootleg chan- nels. Felder is Means' attorney in the case. Today's indictments charge the trio with having received $65,000 from officers of the Crager System, Inc., and the Glass Casket Company of Al- toona, Pa., of whom seventeen since ‘o been sentenced for obtaining $175,000 in an allegedly fake stock promotion conducted through the mails. Alleged Bribe Efforts. Those besides Attorney General leged to have promised to bribe in- The chief complainants against the indioted trio were Samuel Safir and others of the Crager system and who _were sentenced to terms ranging from a day to two and offe-half years in federal and county institutions, after forty persons indicted with them had been acquitted or oharges against them dismissed. Safir has not been sent to prison and his conviction is under appeal. Promises to Safir. In addition to promising Safir and his: co-conspirators immunity from prosecution, Felder, Means and Jar- necke are charged with having prom- ised to obtain from Attornev General Daugherty a letter stating that the stock brokers arrest Was an erro o obtain for Safir et al. certain busi- ness records the government officials had seized and to enable the brokers to continue selling stock through the mails without further molestation. In October, 1922, according to the indictments. = Jarnecke, Safir and Henry Siedman, one of the brokers since convicted, “met at the New Wil- lard Hotel in Washington, D. C. to discuss ways and means of conduct- ing the unlawful and felonious con- 'y came to the Vanderbilt Hotel, in New York city, the next day, it is charged, and were aided in perfecting their plans by Felder and Samuel Rosenblatt, a Chicago attorney, who was sentenced with Glass Casket Come pany officials. Claim Receipt of Bribe. 1t is charged that on the day of the Washington meeting Jarnecke received $10,000 by telegraph from Isidore D. Padorr, at Chicago, to be used as bribe money. Another installment of $47.800 of the bribe money is alleged to have been paid by Rosenblatt, Safir and Joseph O. Kostner, Safir's attorney, to Felder's law partners in New York late in Oc- tober. Then early in November Means and Jarnecke recelved $1,500 from Rosenblatt, also for bribery purposes, the indictments set forth. It is charged further that Felder, Means and Jarnecke represented to their alleged victims that the attorney “had considerable influence and control over the actions and conduct of the Attorney General of the United States” and his subordinate in the New York istrict, and that the defendants also conspired to represent that Felder was a secret partner in the practice of law with the Attorney General of the United States and that Means was an officer and employe of the govern- ment occupying a position of im tance in the Department of Justice. TEST OF NEW FIRE ENGINES CONDUCTED Fire protection in downtown Wash- ington will ‘be strengthened mext week when Chief George S. Watson places in service four powerful new pumping engines. The chief lined the new apparatus up on the waterfront this morning for a rigld all-day test, drawing water from the river and pumping it into hose lines, just as though fighting a fire. The test is held for the purpose of making sure the engines will do all that is expected of them before they answer their first alarm. Commis- sioner Oyster witnessed the demon- stration and was gratified at the per- formance, The new engines are Seagraves of 1,000-gallor capacity each. Each en- gine will throw four streams of water | last night denied that he had been | simultaneously. | “forcea” The motor engines now In the busi- ness district of the city will be trans- ferred to outlying hous: “LULLABY” IS DELAYED. Leonard Wood, jr., president of the Washington Theater Guild, today an- nounced he had postponed opening of “The Lullaby” at the President Thea- ter from tomorrow night until Tues- day night. Fhe opening had been postponed, he explained, in order that the Wash- ington Opera Company may rehearse on Sunday its production of “Car- men,” which will be presented at the theater Monday night. asked use of the,same stage on which the opera is to be presented, claiming |tnat”it would be “impossibie to' re- hearse successfully on a different No. 3 is under naval jurisdiction, but |stage. at the time of the signing of the lease of this reserve there were a number Mr. Wood announced that the post- ponement would cost him “at least & thousand dollars.” e STAR, WASHINGTON, D WARNS GAMBLERS OF FIGHT 70 FNH State’s Attorney Bowie Plans New Clean-Up Drive Upon Prince Georges Vice. A general clean-up of gambling and bootlegging in Prince Georges county is planned by M. Alan Bowie, newly elected state's attorney, after the cases of three alleged proprietors of gaming houses near the District line are disposed of. Mr. Bowie admitted that Prince Georges county has been embarrassed by the activities of gambling houses in the state, and he plans to take every legal measure to do away with them, to be followed by a clean-up of the bootleggers. Heariag Is Delayed. A hearing on the warrant charging J. A. L1 Fontaine, Phillip J. Steubner and Elmer Pumphrey with operating }gaming tables in the county near the | Baron Korff had established a long | District line, scheduled for yesterday, was postponed until next Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. , “I intend to go to the limit against gambling_houses in Prince Georges county.” Mr. Bowle sald “If it is legally possible, we will wipe out gambling from Prince Georges county. These men are violating a state law_ which prohibits the operation of a gaming house, and in doing so are flouting the au- thority of the state.” Pelieves He Has Evidence. Mr. Bowle said he hoped to base his case when the hearing is neld next Wednesday before Justice Gore on the testimony of a number of wit- nesdes who have visited the alleged gambling houses and saw them in operation. Regarding bootlegging . in Prince Georges county, the state's attorney said there was no state enforcement law in Maryland and that the work of cleaning out bootlegging ‘nests” would have to be largely done by federal officers, with the aid of mem- bers of the state legal forces. He said ho hoped, however, to “make it hot” for she purveyors of liquor in the county, although he had to ob- tain evidence of an actual sale before a copviction could be obtained. = e BARON SERGE KORFF DEAD OF APOPLEXY Member of 0ld Russian Aristoc- racy Noted as Authority on Economic Baron Serge A. Korff. forty-nime years old, a member of the old Rus- sian nobility, vice president of the American Institute of Political Science and an internationally known professor of political economy, his- tory and other subjects, died from apoplexy at his residence, 1021 15th street, lat~ yesterday afternoon. He had just finished lecturing his class in political and diplomatic history of Kurope at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service when several stu- dents noticed him turn very pale and rushed to his ald. He immediately collapsed and physicians were sum- moned. Two doctors in the neighborhood arrived and, although Baron Korff remained unconscious for nearly twenty minutes while awaiting the arrival of an ambulance, his condi- tion was not though to be serious. Upon the arrival of the ambulance he was taken home and died a few minutes later. Prior to the stroke he had been in good health and his death came as a shock to his friends and relatives. Funeral services will be held at his late residence and interment will be private, in the Kock Creek ceme- tery. The time for the funeral serv- ices and burial have not been decided. Born in Ruxsin. Baron Korff was born in Russia March 4, 1875. He received his early educatfon in the schools for the no- bility in that country. He gradu- ated in law from the University of Potrograd and taught law in his na- tive country. He was later graduated from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and only recently received thi honorary degree of Li. D. from Brown University. His father held an office in the czar's court. Baron Korff, during the early days of his life, was “a gentle- man in waiting” to the czar. Russia, Baron Korfl was appointed held that position until the commu- nists had secured control of Russia. For a while, during the reign fo the bolsheviki, he remained in Petrograd. However, it became unsafe for him. to stay there, and he departed, with his family. Lectured in Three Universities. and enviable record as' a professor and an authority on history, political economy and matters pertaining to affairs of international interest. At the time of his death he was & professor at Georgetown University, this city: Columbia University, New York, and the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity at Baltimore. turing at the Columbia_University At the time of the revolution in|{ He had been | C., SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1924. 55 DRIVERS FORFEIT $5 IN PARKING CASES Single Motorist Contests Charge for Overstaying Half- Hour Limit. TO BE SEVERE !&yl Fines in Excess of $5 Will Be Imposed. Of the fifty-six owners and operat- ors of automobiles arrested yesterday for violation of the half-hour parking regulation in the restricted district and who were required to put up $5 collateral instead of $2, as heretofore, fifty-five forfeited, failing to answer i their names when the collateral list wasg called in Traffic Court today. The forfeitures totaled $275. In the first precinct there were 10 offenders; in the second, 2; third, 2; fourth, 2; none in the fifth, sixth or seventh; in the harbor precinct, 1; eighth, 1; ninth, 2; tenth, 1; eleventh, 11; twelfth, 1, and from the traffic bureau, mostly in the downtown sec- tion, there were 22 cases. Lone Fight Made. John S. Moran, one of the fifty-six, was the only man to appear in traffic court and fight the case.’ He ex- plained that he was a salesman and had to park his car somewhere. The arresting officer sald he put a card in Moran's car at 1 o'clock, and that when he went back at 3:30 o'clock, the car was still in its original posi- tion. Judge Schuldt, in fining the ‘de- fendant $5, sald that this law had been in force long enough for the public to know it, and that here- after violators could expect a heavier fine than the $5 collateral required by_the police. The restricted district is bounded as follows: From the south building line of B street, to the north bullding line of K; from the east -building line of 7th to the west building line of 17th street northwest. e ARCHBISHOPS SAIL TO RECEIVE HONORS Hayes and Mundelein Leave for Rome to Be Raised to Cardinalate. ! By the Associated I'ress. NEW YORK, March 8.—Arch- jbishops Patrick Hayes of New York| and George W. Mundelein of Chi- cago sailed on the Berengaria today for Rome, where they will be elo- vated to the cardinalate by Pope Pius X1 at a consistory on March 24. Five thousand persons bade them | Godspeed at the pier. So cager were | the people to shake the hands of | the cardinals-designate that the | erengaria was twenty minutes lute in casting off. Escorted aboard squadron of police, went to the reception room, where they greeted 2,000 of their well wishers. Time did not permit the remainder to pass down the receiv- ing line and the impromptu recep- tion was brought to a close. - WILL BE FETED. the liner by a the archbishops Busy Days Ahead for Cardinals-to- Be in Rome. By the Associated Press. ROME, March S.—Strenuous days lie ahead for Archbishop Hayes and Archbishop Mundelein on their arrival | in Rome to be accordid ‘the high recognition that the Cathclic Church is to bestow upon them—elevation to the cardinalate, . Numerous formalities are to be ex- thanged Ly the American prelates and the members of the Sacred Col- | lege, such as visits and receptions, prior to the secret consistory on March 24, when they will be elevated { to the cardinalats and the public consistory on March 27, when they will formally receive their red hats. Then, after the last consistory there is to be the ceremony of giving the; new cardinals possession of their titular churches, which usually is anl prelates of the papal court, other| elaborate function, attended by the vice zovernor general of Finland, and | high church dignitaries, the hundreds | |ul Americans making up the Ameri- can colony and hordes of tourists who | | invade Rome on such occasions. | No hint has yet been made as to what churches are to be assigned to the cardinals. The announcement of | i these usually comes after the holding ! {of the public consistory. Rome is preparing for a great in- |flux of Americans for the comiug | ceremonies. FLAMES SWEEPING OVER VIRGINIA TOWN | THOMAS L. DAWSO. Of Rockville, who has announeed himseif as a candldate for seat in the House of Reprewentatives from the sixth Maryland district. FORD SHOALS BID ACTION SEENTODAY Supporters of Measure See Victory by Nightfall. _Amendment Pending. The House today resumed consid- eration of the McKenzie bill, which would authorize acceptance of Henry Ford's bid for Muscle Shoals, with leaders determined to put the meas- ure to a vote before nightfall. Pending when the House took up the bill today was an amendment by Representative Burton, republican, Ohio, to require Ford to pay for all repairs to dam No. 2 and its locks and gates and for their maintenance instead of a flat $25,000 a year. Advocates of the Ford off confident they had the votes to ward off any amendment objectionable to them and to pass the bill stantinlly reported by the military commit- | Supporters of the McKenzie bill said they were incli to accept amend- ment ch would bind heirs and assigns of Ford to carry out terms of act and to make more spe- nanufacture at | zer i were tee. ONE SHOT IN MISSOURI DEMOCRATIC MEETING | Another Partisan Stabbed and| Several Beaten Before Po- { lice End Disturbance. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March §.—One man was shot, another stabbed and several others badly beaten in a riot attending the democratic meeting at | the South Side courthouse last night. | Rival factions of the second ward battled for possession of the “court-| room” until the dusturbance was | quelled by 100 policemen. One fac- tlon filled the courtroom early yes- terday morning and held it untillast{ night, intending to control the selec-] tion of delegates the democratic state conventi Leading a de 1bol of de- mocracy, another faction appeared and demanded admission. Fighting ! followed and several shots were | fired. i * i i E.L. WHITEHOUSE DIES; | LONG IN U. S. SERVICEE 28 Years Spent in Consular Bureau. | ResigrnedsPost Novem- ber 24, 1918. | Edward L. Whitehouse, for twenty- eight yvears attached to the consular bureau of the State Department, died in his apartment at the Albany early this morning after a short illness, in his seventy-first vear. Funeral ar- rangements will be made thfs after- 00n. Mr. Whitehuose was born in_Au- gusta, Me. He graduated from Harvard Univer: n 1574 and after- ward studied at the Uni: ty of Ber- lin. He engaged in the practice of law up to the time of his appointment as a consular clerk at the State De- ! partment, under civil service rules, in June, 1890. Five years later he was promoted to the grade of class 4. In that capacity he was the chief as- sistant of H. D. Hengstler, chief of the consular bureau, serving as chief whenever Mr. Hengstler was called away or on leave. He resigned from the government servite November 24, 1918, but con- tinued his residence here, making an- nual visits to his former home in Maine. He was a member of the Metropoli- tan and Chevy Chase clubs and spent DAUGHERTY WILL GO, JOHNSON PREDICTS California Semator Scornfnl of Coolidge for Not “Firing” Attorney General. RIDICULES MELION PLAN Bonus Favored and World Court By the Assoctated Press. ROCKFORD, Iil, March 8.—Senator Hiram Johnson of California, candi- date for the republican presidential nomination, addressed a crowd that filled Rockford's largest auditorium last night and fired a verbal broad- side into the Coolidge administra- tion. He was constantly interrupted by applause. “Were 1 President,”.the senator said, “and had such a legal depart- ment as that now in office at Wash~ ington, I would sweep it away over- night and in the morning have & new legal department that would function. “I admire Daugherty. T admire a man who can say to his superior. ‘Fire me if you dare’ But I cannot say that T admire the superior who will not fire such an employe. Says Daugherty Will Go. “Daugherty will go. The United States Senate will see to that. The leadership throughout has come from the Senate. “Despite the fact that Secretary Fall corruptly, for a bribe, trans- ferred the naval oil rescrve to Sin- ciair and Doheny, some friends of the administration say that the oll leases were for the ultimate good 6f the United States, which will benefit largely from them. For this argn:- ment I have but one answer—no man ever yet bribed a public official for the good of the public.” Senator Johnson ridiculed the Melion tax plan as an appeal to the cupidity of the nation to divert its attention from political corruption. He asserted that tax reduction i3 not a political issue, a8 everybody is for that at all times and any adminis- tration, if honest. will reduce taxes to the ‘minimum of efficiency. Urges Bomus Be Paid. Urging that the republican par fulfill its pledge to the ex-service men and do them full justice. Senator Johnson advocated the speedy enact- ment of the American Legion adjust- ed_compensation bill. Senator Johnson reiterated his op- position to the world court idea and declared himself in favor of an American foreign policy, something e nation now lacks. The only thing I am in favor of giving Europe is advice” said the senator. “Let us travel the Amer- ican road of complete indepandence, as we have traveled it for a century and a quarter. APPEALS TO WALSH T0 BACK COOLIDGE Bay State Governor Asks Senator to Repudiate Colleagues Who “Be- smirch™ President’s Name. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March United States Senator Walsh. democrat. Ma. to repudiate “those demo leagues who for political g, assassinate the character of an hone man” . was telegraphed yesterday Gov. Channing H. Cox of Massa- chusetts. The telegram said: “Calvin Coolidge is today President of the United States. In private life ke is an honored citizen of Massachusetts When for contemptible partisan pur- Fposes an attempt is made to besmirch the fair name which all honest, fair- minded men know he has earned, does not your duty to your commonwealth transcend any question of party interest” “Our citizens. regardiess of par afiliations, would hive been Eratifi to have you stand . shoulder to shoulder, with Senator Lodge in resenting and repelling the baseless and reprehensible democratic attacks on President Coolidge. In the name of fairness 1 appeal to vou as a senator from M. achusetts to re- pudiate those democratic colleagues who for political gain would assassinate the character of honest man.” WALSH RETORT HOT. Accuses Cox of Resorting to “Cheap Politics.” Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, commenting today upon the telegram sent him by Gov. Cox of Massachusetts, said: “The governor's telegram is obvious- 1y cheap politics—the kind of cheap politics he accuses certain democratic senators of indulging in toward the President. The governor dignifies too much the criticisms made of the Presi- dent's telegrams to McLean. Has it come to t that Calvin Coolidge's henor and reputation depend upon be- ing defended by democrats? Personal- 1y I do not beileve it. and I have too high regard for the President’s honor 10 believe it necessary to dignify parti- san_criticism of political -opponents. If 1 am expected to stand up in the Senate and bear testimony to the un impeachable character of Calvin Cool- idge or any other Presiden: every time that officer is criticized T will have 8. — o an spending the first part of a week lec- i and the latter part of the week in! Many Buildings Burned as Fire| Edouard Al-| bion, director of the opera company, | Washington, lecturing at the George- town University. On his way to and stopped over in Baltimore to lecture |at Johns Hopkins University. sogicty L'Institut de Droit Interna- tional, and had also been connected and was well known with other na- tional and international socleties of learning not mentioned. He is_survived by his wife, Mrs. Alletta V. R. Korff, who before her marriage was a Miss Van Reypen; a daughter, Miss Barbara Korff; a son, Serge A. Korff, jr., and two sisters, living in Petrograd, Russia. DERAILMENT HURTS FIVE ONC. AND 0. TRAIN TO D. C. Coaches Remain Upright, But En- i gine, Tender and Mail Car i Are Overturned. By the Associated Press. MOUNT STERLING, Ky., March 8.— Five persons, three women and two men, received slight injuries, nothing more serious than bruises and scratches, when Chesapeake and Ohlo passenger train No. 32 was deralled eighteen miles east of here yesterday. The engine tender and mail car left the track and were overturned. Five passenger coaches were deralled but remained upright. A truck under the tender is be- lieved to have pulled loose and left the. rails, resuiting in the derail- ment of the cars. When news of the wreck was received here preparatiol vere made to rush doctors and nur to the scene on a special train. Wrecking trains were ordered to the Ipoint of the deraliment from Ashland and Lexington. The train, eastbound from Louls- tle, to Washington, Was reported to ve carried approximately 600, pas~. 'l!.; for sengers, from Washington and New York he! He was_a member of the French | Rages on Uncontrolled, Fanned by Wind. i i By the Associated Press. WYTHEVILLE, . Va, March §.— More than fifteen stores and offices, ingluding the, First National Bank |qp ®" 05 0 building and the two large mercan- tile establishments, were destroyed by fire which started in the heart of Wytheville's business district early today and still was beyond control several hours later. ; The fire started on the north side of Main street and, fanned by a high wind, enveloped structure after structure and then spread to the south side of the street. The section of the town in which the flames are raging is mostly of frame construc- tion, although intermingled are sev- eral brick buildings put up in recent years. COOLIDGE DELEGATES LIKELY IN MINNESOTA G. 0. P. Choosing Representatives to National Convention, Senti- ment Favoring President. By the Associated Press. PAUL, March §—Minnesota re- ublicans met in state convention to- BaY to select seven delegates at large to the national convention at Cleve- land, with indications that the dele- Eation would be. irstructed to vots for President Calvin Coolidge. Twenty district delegates to the na-|* tional gathering favorable to Presi- dent Coolidge already. have bee chosen. Sixteen were selected yes- terday at eight district conventions. Fourteen conventions instructed dele- MJ\:’IG and two Tesolutions, 1 i little opportunity to attend to any other public business. = ! “I wonder how the governor would Ilike to have me give him advice as to DEFENDS CO most of his leisure time on the golf links. OLIDGE. { the proprieties of his office? He will wait a long time before the present —_— democratic senator from Massachusetts Glover Declares Dragging of Pres-| ident Into Oil Case Criminal. | - will attempt to tell him how to per- form his duties.” HACKENSACK, N. J., March s.—| HAND-PICKED DELEGATES to ‘“drag President Coolldge’s name into the ofl scandal| FOR COOLIDGE PROTESTED is the crime of the dayv,” W. Irving Glover, third assistant postmaster general, declared yesterday in an ad- dress before the Coolidge unit of the New Jersey Women's Republican Club. Mr. Glover asserted that there were so many investigations in progress by Congress that no department knew when its turn was next. About 250 women attended the meeting. SEES MICHIGAN MAN. Coolidge Talks With Davidson on Navy Appointment. James E. Davidson, republican na- tional committeeman for Mlcmgln‘ mentioned for Secretary of the Navy, conferred today with President Cool- | 1dge. Indications were given after the tonference that the executive was giving serious consideration to ap- pointment of the Michigan man. DROPS LA FOLLETTE NAME Court Sustains Ruling to Keep Him Out of Primary. BISMARCK, N. D. March 8.—The state supreme court yesterday affirm- ed the decision of Judge. Thomas| BOKCHITO, Okla, March 8.--I. C. Pugh holding that Senator Robert|Walton, deposed governor. announeed M, La Follette's name should not golhis candidacy for the United Statos on the March 1§ presideatial primary | Senate at a meeting of the farmee- ballot. ~ = labor party here, Massachusetts Liberal Republican League Complains to President. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 8.—A telegram pro- testing against the alleged “arbitrary hand-picked methods by which Cool- idge campalgn managers are selcct- jing from Washington the persons who are to be allowed to be candi- dates for delegates-at-large . from Massachusetts to the Cleveland con- vention” was sent to the President yesterday by Conrad W. Crooker, Boston attorney and chairman of the Liberal Republican League of Mas- sachusetts. Mr. Crooker declared he acted “as chairman of an organization that led 100,000 liberal republicans against { Lodge and reaction in 1922, an organ- ization that is not dead or even asleep.” . The message asserts that “the lib- eral’ republicans of Massachusetts cannot be made to drink another drop of reactionary dictation in. Massa- chusetts.” WALTON IS CANDIDATE. Deposed Oklahoma Governor Will Run for Senate.