Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1924, Page 2

2 e Y “BLANTON TO FIGH . SCHOOL HEADS' PAY Backs Teachers’ Scale, But Scores That of Officials in Minority Report. With a time limite up at 12 o'clock last night, Representatjve Thomas L. RBlanton, democrat of Texas barely Zot in under the wire with his mi- nority report on the teachers’ salary bill which comes up for consideration in the House tomorrow Representative Blanton phatically upporting the for the teachers, takes general and specific exception to the provided for the officials and admin istrative officers, pecially the Su- perintendent of Schools, He predicates this oppositi fact that the District Commiss replying to a letter from Reed of the House District comm! referring to the Keller bill, that it has been submitt»d budget bureau which, v r February replied that conflict with financial the President. e em- increa w increates on the 28, t was the poliey ‘Wants Figure Within Budget. presentative Blanton said that was striving to bring U the budget limitations the salarics of the offi pared the Reed bill missioners reported jeint agreement bureau, the boa the Commissioners « Columbia,” and that while the salaries in bill for the teachers arc 3300 higher than in the bulk of increases are for He registered his intention to pro- pose a series of amendments on the floor as the salaries of the offic come up in turn. Discussing the sal- ary of the superintendent of scho; Representative Blanton's report s Cites Extra Pay. by reducing i which - represent the budze and between t tion hows in his report Ner « 00 or ed bill, the “While the substantive law pewinits & salary of only $5.000 per ¥ paid to the superintendent o un extra $1,000 per year has been paid him through a provision placed in the appropriation bill each year for eral So th hile unde the law he has been authorized to r ceive only §5,000, the Con nevertheless paid him $6,000 per year for two or thre “The bill proposes Ballou $10.000, which than a congressman receives $2,500 more than senator United States receives. This not be allowed. vears it has been threatencd by those who insisted on paying the extra $1,000 to Mr. Ballou that if we didn't raise his salary we would lose him, but he has continued on for several years and we haven't lost him yet nder no circumstances should his salary be fixed at a sum’greater than that $7,500. 1f we should be so unfor- tunate as to lose Mr. Ballou, there ars pas! rs past Supt more and of the should to pay is $2,500 a will be plenty of excellent talent and | another superin- | material to select tendent within the salary limits. As my colleagues have fixed the salaries of all the administrative officers at much higher figures than they should be, I want to call attention to what our constituents at home think about | this question of raising salaries.” Cempzred to Governors' Salary. Representative Elanton then gives | the name of the governors of twenty oight states who do mot get mor than $5,000 per year, and the name of the governors of seven other s who do not receive over $7,200 per vear. “Hence you will continue Representative Blanton, “that the | governors of thirty-five states of this union now reveive salaries ranging between $3,000 and $7,200, and vet my colleagues in this bill are proposing to raise the salary of’this school su- perintendent from $6,000 to. $10,000. 1 am against it, because T know the peopie back home are against it in at least thirty-five out of the forty- eight states. In regard to the salary of the first assistant superintendent, Representa- tive Blanton calls attention that the maximum salary in both the Reed and Keller bills is $6,000, while he argues that the basic salary should be $3,500, with an {ncrease of $100 a year for ten years. Opposes Other Scale. *Under no circumstances should the salaries provided for in the commit- tee bill be granted {o assistant super- intendents.” he declares. “It is out of all proportion to salaries paid to other important public officials. Cer- tain trial judges in most of the states do not recefve more than $4,000, and they try men for their lives and try civil cases involving millions of dol- lars in property rights. While the Reed and Keller bills both place the maximum salary for assistant superintendents at $4,700, Representative Blanton urges that the basic salary should be $3,200, with an increase of $100 a year for eight years up to a maximum of $4,000. “Under the Keller bill," he said, “there will be paid to colored ex aminers $4,500 per year, or $500 per year more than the governors of Seven states and that much more than the circuit trial judges of most of the states now receive. WIill Seek Changes. Representative Blanton, in his mi- nority report, similarly discusses the salaries in the Reed and Keller bills provided for supervising principals, directors of special subjects and d: partments, principals of senior high schools and normal schools, princi- pals of junior high schools, adminis- trative principals of vocational and Americanization schools, arsuing that in eAch case the salaries proposed should be cut down, and stating that he will offer amendments from the floor to reduce these “unwarranted raises.” Representative Blanton emphasizes, however, that he favors the increases proposed in the Keller bill for the actual teachers, saying “I am in favor of granting the raises to all the ac- tual teachers who really perform the work in the school room and the never ending home work which all good teachers must do if they are conscientious in performing their du- Representative Blanton closes his report with a discussion, at con- siderable length, of the fiscal rela- tion between the federal and District governments, which includes paying the salaries of 2,500 teachers and fur- nishing free school books for 70,000 Washington children besides the ex- pense of acnool buildings and nume- rous playgrounds. Gets Notre Dame Medal. NOTRE DAME, Ind, March 29— Charles D. Maginnis, prominent Bos- ton architect, was today named to receive the Laelare medal for 1924, presented annually by the University of Notre Dame to a Catholic layman in the United States in recognition of distinetive service to his country and bi= faith. Mr. Maginnis is the forty- first recipient of the honor, fl hin | a0 e enoots, | Bach year for several | ' MIDWEST STORM TOLL IS 26 DEAD HUNDREDS INJURED; DAMAGE HEAVY (Continued from First Pa the stroets into snow canyons; throughout the residential districts in the Twin Cities, stranded auto- mobi and cxhausted pedestrians showed other effects of the storm. Most of this section of the north- west went to bed last night with snow flurries blowing: it awoke to find mountainous drifts blocking doorways and blanketing streets, Twe Denths Reported. Hardy pedestrians started downtown offices and stores, and {many motorists, tightening tire } chains, set out in the same direction, Invariably the pedestrians arrived 1 hours Jate; sometimes the ts did, too. but frequently “ullrr covering part of the distanc on foot, leaving automobiles stalled lin impenetrable drifts. Two deaths due indirectly to the storm were reported in Minneapolis, where a leaky gas heater killed one {ind w motorist another. Several in- jjuries werc reported, wnd 4 number exinaus from 1o plodding for { werd g 1 through the was falling here somewhat dimin- | t=hed intensity, with tho official pre- { aiction that i would continue Sev- hours Jonger. The temperature shtly below freezing was ex- ted to continue unchanged. Valuable for Wheat While the difficulties apd hardships {of the storm were being recounted :.ll\n(ht-r phase was brought out in atements from ¢ clal sources, that { it would resuit in immense benefit to itho grain growers of the northwest, “The most wg erful thing that could have happened in the north- West.” was the characterization given { the st b Dean W. C. Coffey of | the Minnes Farm School. “It is it any rain could be. il in condition for ¢ grain crops in the state | ONE KILLED IN HUR. i fo H ory of the RICANE. Heavy Damage Caused by Wind in Ohio County. By the Associated Pross, FORT WAYNE, Ind, M least one man was killed, another was severely injured and thousands of ’(h\”.lr\' of damage was caused this afternoon by a hurricane that swept agonally across De county, Ohio, approximately forty miles east ! of here, cording to information 2 va et oo chivty-fons Townehip, who cuncrete block reh 29. At is Clinton vears, of was ecrushed wall. TWO DROWN IN FLOOD. Parents Lost Trying to Save Son at Pittsburgh. . PITTSBURGH, Pa March Scores of familics were vacating their mes in the lowlands here tonight, nd business establishments in the danger zone were moving merchandise to places of safely, in an effort to pe the rapidly rising waters of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers Two flood casualties late today. Mr. and Kraber were drowned tempted to ave their son from the flood wai aw Mill run. The d and his ter, who had gone to his aid, were rescied by a railroad engineer. Flood Stage Today. Unprecedented rains over the water- | sheds and melting snow in t moun- d the rise, and, according nited States weather bureau observers here, the stage at the mouth of the Ohio will be well over the flood mark Sunday before noon. The crest will be twenty-nine feet, seven feet above the flood stage, observers reported River shipping w tonight, the high water mu possiblé for boats bridges. Little dama xpected, for the river men had en warned 'of the impending flo and they made all craft secure against the swift currents. Rivers Riwing IRap‘dly. At the point here, where th gheny and Monongahela meet to form | the Ohio, the river was rising at the rate of about four-tenths of a foot an hour. The rise in the Monongahela | was exceptionally rapid. At Lock No. ! the hourly rise w more than two | feet. It was from the Monongahela | that most of the flood water came. | The crest of twenty-nine feet, ex-| pected here, will throw a stage of more than thirty-five feet at Wheeling, W. Va., and a flood stage at Parkers- burg. Practically every small stream this Tegion was out of its banks, the flood waters from these tributaries their weight to the ever-increasing river stage. CHILD LOST IN ELK RIVER. (Sotwen i tichland unde H were recorded Mrs. eph when at- they andstill shipping in | ! —High | today ell into Man Nearly Drowned in Futile Effort at Rescue. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March water caused one death here when Chester Spackman, four, the Elk river and was carried down the swollen stream. The body was belisved to have been carried through a culvert into the Conemaugh river. Joseph Rovan, who was watching the group of children phay, dived after the child but was carried away by the swiftly moving current and had dif- ficulty reaching the bank. A section of the city was without gas service tonight, a main having been broken when a derrick loosed from its moorings was washed against it. Both Stoney creek and the Cone- maugh river have overflowed their banks, flooding basements in the lower sections. Street car traffic was sus- pended in the flooded districts. The rivers continued rising. SIX ARE DEAD IN OHIO. Cold Weather Expected to Halt ! i i Scenes along the Ba Friday night. Rushing Down (Continued from First Page.) ports from the west brought word of, more hopeful conditions, there was no sign of a drop and points east of Cumberland were feeling the full foree of the torrent. owns in the entire Georges Creek ning region were inundated. Lon- | ni, Western Port, Barton Maryiand, and Piedmont were report- *d to be under water that reached Well up to the second story of homes and business hou In Ridgely, W. Va., entire_houses were submerged | and Shaw, Bluine | other points to feel the effect of the -rus flood. More than twenty- ¥ix miles of tra zaltimore a4 'Ohio_Railroad west of Cumber- \d has been washed away. Many Trapped In Office. Conditions in Cumberland defy de- scription. The story of the flood was glven to The Star by its correspond- ent, Frank Lee Carl, who sat in his | office on the second fioor of the Times hullding with the water splashing against the panes of the window near his desk. fteen men were trapped with him in the very heart of Cumberland’s business district, which was the hardest hit of all the city. “Shortly befors midnight he esti- mated that the water in front of the Times building was still twelve feet deep, virtually what it had been since early afternoon. It was racing through the downtown section of the city at @ speed of thirty miles an Your, carrying on its crest every manner of debris Along the river front the water was deeper and the damage far more severe, and some sections of the city could not be reached at all, lending credence to the fear that fatalities | may have occurred there. The torrent descended upon Cum- Floods in State. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 29.—With colder weather predicted for tonight and Sunday and no more rainfall ex- pected, flood dangers in Ohio are be- lieved to have passed tonight. At least six persons are known to be dead in the state as a result of the high water and high winds, and damage will run into thousands of dollars. Many cities reported the heaviest rainfall in years. Although many tributaries of the Ohio river are filled to overflowing as a result of heavy rains last night and today, floed dangers to Ohio cities bordering on the river are considered remote by W. C. Devereaw forecaster at Cincinnati. Four Tralnmen Drowned. Flood waters in Hog Run creek, south of Newark, caused a Baltimore and Ohio freight train to crash through & trestle, carrying four X, weu.harl jand driver disappeared. members of the crew to their death | beriand with lightning-like sudden- ness, Carl_reported. The Potomac | river-and Wills creek, an ordinarily placid little stream that runs through the business district, rose simul- taneously, and in a fe® minutes had | leaped over their banks and were surging through the city's streets, carrying all before them. Motorists Desert Cars. Motorists were caught before they could stop their cars and were forced to jump from moving machines and run into buildings to save their Ii One car waspicked up bodily, 5o fas! were the waters moving and swept past the Times building with its driver still frantically clutching the steering wheel. Suddenly both car A second later the driver bobbed to the sar- face hard beside an awning support Grabbing this he held on until inside could drag him to i post. those ! safety. Up at the corner of Baltimore and Nine Reported Dead in Flood | from in_the water. i Mechanic streets, the two main busi- The ¢ nati and Dayton Traction { ness thoroughfares, a policeman was Company discontinued through serv- i directing traffic when the flood start- ice_at Hamilton because of the weak- i ed toward him. He dashed into the ness of bridges. Thirteen feet of | safety of an office building just as water brought the Great Miami:the water picked up his semaphore; imore Boulevard at Bladensburg, showing a large portion ef that community a wea of water, as a result o frail boats were dashed against the buildings and they were glad cnough to join the prisoners whose rescue they were secking. More than ed death by a hair's breadth. “Mayor Koon just telephoned that he would try to get a boat down to us S0 some of us could make the| break for liberty if wo cared to take the chance. 1 am going if that boat arrives and if you don't hear from me again you will know the boat got here and that I started, at least. As s00n as I get to satety I will get m definite confirmation of conditions elsewhers and let you know. Staff Men st Sceme. That was the last message The Star received last night from its Cumberlacd correspondent. Two stafl correspondents who had been sent from Washington by automobile ye terday afternoon, however, arrived in Cumberland shortly before mid- night, and more than confirmed the reports Carl had given earlicr. Thg flood had reached its peak, they said, and showed no disposition of retiring Kly. Seven hundred homes in Cuymber- land alone, they found, have been inundated. The famous Fort Cum- berland Hotel is surrounded and its guests and employes are trapped. without prospect of escape for an other day. Two dams up the Poto mac river had borst, and should the Sbbitt dam give way the city would be deprived of its supply of water for drinking and sanitary purposes. ‘Wherever the waters do not cover the streets Cumberland is a city of men and women running around in wild disorder, carrying lanterns and flashlights, looking for friends or relatives. ~Motorists have donated their cars for lighting purposes and hecs and there machines may be frund parked. their headlights turn- ¢d down the flooded streets. Weeping mothers look for lost children; shiv- ering little ones search vainly for pareats. New Emergency Waited. Every policeman and fireman in the city has been on duty since morn- ing and fifty special policomen have been sworn in to prevent looting. Fears are opening expressed by the authorities that the foundations of some of the marconed buildings cannot much longer withstand the strain of the flood and corps of doc- tors and nurses wait at emergency depots for duty on a minute's notioe. Some of the moro important oity streets that are surrounded by the ne | Potomac Valley the Times building. Women grew hysterical and the cries of frightened children increased the hor- ror of the situation as the waters rose with relentless persistency, creeping higher and higer, an inch al a time toward the end. Hundreds of persons had gone as high in their island bodes as possible. Only the roof and xposure to the rain that fell with sickening intensity remained. Rain Stops, Hope Grows. came night and darkness. Outside the water roared along on its mad_career. Insidemen, women and children huddled together. waiting and wondering. Now and then a blanched face was pressed close to a window looking for some sign of ve- i Finally it came when the ruin ceased falling. Then it was noticed that the water had stopped rising. A chalk mark was placed on the Times building, and once a drop of half an inch was noticed in an hour. But the next hour the water was back to its old mark—and_it stayed there. “Our street,” sald Carl over tha telephone, “is' a veritable mill race filled with ruined merchandise. We can stand by our window and see bolts of silk, crates of €ggs, victrolas, washing machines, all sorts of clothing, pieces of houses and even fruits and vegetables being carried by at a speed of at least thirty miles an hour. Automobile tires go bobbing past frequently, fine life preservers if only one would come close enough to be hooked. ‘Without Foed All Day. And the pity of it is that we have to watch that food keep on going. Until late tonight none of us had had a bite to eat since morning. Finally we learned that some people two doors up the street had a little to spare. We rigged up a rope and tossed it to them. They tied to it two sand- wiches and we managed to jerk them back, dry. We divided those two sandwiches between the sixteen of us. 1t wasa't much, but it was something. “We have watched a score of vain attempts of men in frail skiffs to drift down to some of the windows and take out women and children on the verge of collapse. Every time their Then river nearest to flood stage since | swept it a block down the street and 1913, jdashed it through the plate glass Heavy damage was done at Spring- | window of an automobile salesroom. field, “where the waters from Buck i Similar evidencss of the flood's force creek seeped into the powerhouse of | were to be found on all sides. th Springfield’ Street Rallway Com- Dam Reported Failing. pany, causing a halt in stret car service throughout the city. Low-| Adding to the horror of the situ- lands were flooded, and more than | ation reports began to reach the twoscore homes were under water. | marooned prisoners of the flood that Police and firemen worked with boats | the big Ebbitt dam was weakening. to rescue the occupants. Its fallure to hold would lend force Mtlires Ave Subimermed. to the torrent, it was believed, which il e the shaken foundations of the swamp- Swan creek, at Versailles, over-|ed buildings could not withstand, and flowed its banks and caused the | greater loss of life was feared. Hun- greatest flood in the history of the | dreds of men and women were trap- city with the exception of 1913.!ped in their places of employment Bridges to the east and west of towns | and held prisoner all night. were_submerged and traffic suspend- Six families weres forced to the| ed. Rescuers in boats removed fam- | shelter of the third floor of the Har- ilies from near the stream, rison apartment house, half a block VIR Piedmont, W. Va., Where Stoney river dam is slowly giving way uader premaure of fiood waters, Several bridges have been washed away in this Keyner, W. Va, reports heavy damage to railways and bridges. e e e et I narrewly Cumberiand, Md., which alveady ‘has suffered damage estimated to exoced $1,000,000. McCoole, Md, i inundated and a family of six ix reported drowned. Green Spring Junction, where the Capital Limited, the crack train of the B. and O., was stalled in the riving waters. Williamsport, Md., was receiving the brunt of the advancing ficod early this morning, - \ Harpers Ferry, where the junction ef the Potomac and Shenahdonh mnwfi;;mmm Cenverging rivers form danger poiny or 1ower valley. ¥t o the heavy rains of FLOODS CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE IN SPAIN | Valladolid Half TUnder Water. Troops Ready to Remove Chil- dren From Convent. By the Amsocinted Press, MADRID, March causing heavy damage in various s tions of Spain. About half of the city of Valladolid, capital of the prov- ince of the same name and 100 miles northwest of Madrid, is inundated by the waters of the Esgueva river. Troops have been mobilized to remove the inhabitants of the convent and school children there. Similar conditions are reported at Toledo. At Seville the flonds carried away part of the Triana bridge, caus- ing suspension of traffic Twenty-four Towns Inundated. WARSAW, Poland, March 29.—The flood situation in Poland is reported as still threatening. Twenty-four vil- lages in the Warsaw district are now under water. Many cattlo have been lost and the damage is estimated to be very great. The River Vistula con- tinus to rise. 20 —Floy ure Williams, Mechanics Crandall’s flood are Center, Liberty, Paca, Baltmore and stree(s and Avnett avenue. Strand Theater, whioh was only re- cently completed, is indunated. So are the Potomac Fdison Power Com- pany, which furnishes light for the city, and the Western Union Tele- graph Company’s office. The loss in Cumberiand alone is estimated at at least $3,000,000 and the railroad loss within_a few miles is placed at an- other $5,000,000. How much property was ruined up and down the Po- tomac valley no one can tell. The local weather bureau reported last night that at 7 o'clock it had received a message from its observer at Cumberland that the Potomac river alone had risen sixteen feet, eight feet above flood stage, and was “still ®oing up.” The depth of the water in the city varied according to the topography, it was pointed out, and the overflow of Wills oreek also added to the intensity of the flond. Territory in Which Potomac Flood Is Claiming Lives and Property MR. AND MRS. LEEDS NEAR DEATH IN BOAT Former Princess and Son of Tin Plate King Caught in Twenty- Five-Mile Wind. By the Associated Prose BRUNSWICK, While returning t St. Simon's Island William B. Leeds, jr. son of the tin- plate millionalre; his wife, formerly Princess Zenia of Greece, and former Ambassador Harvey's daughter, Mre. H. H. Thompson. had a narrow escape from drowning when the launch Reagal sank in a southeast wind as it was making its way across the sound. Members of the party took to a bateau which was being towed and were in Imminent danger of perish- ing when sighted by the skipper of a boat which way to port. The launch Reagal went to the bottom just us the lust member of the party reached the batean, The Reagul w Leeds during his He announced . March Brunswick from this afternoon. was making its chartered by yonng y on JekylIsland that he could handle the little craft without difficulty. It was never thought, however, that he would venture across the & twenty-five-mile wind, this afternoon, Young Leeds and Lis princess wife had been on Jekyl Island the last two weeks us guests of Col. Harvey The enire party is scheduled to leave for New York tomorrow “TWO POETS OF SOUTH” sound in This he did | Prof. Artbur Deering to Speak at Knights of Columbus’ Evening School. Prof. Arthur Deering of the Catholic University will lecture on “Two Poets of the South—Sidney Lanier and John Bannister Tabb,” Tuesday night at § o'clock at the Knights of Columbus Evening School Mre. Frank O'Hara discussed Joseph Conrad's “The Rover’ fiction lecture Tuesday The first try-out for the oratorical contest took place Thursday in her current evening. The first council was Committees lows Tyrrell, ton, W meeting held were Organizatio Leroy Va A. Creve student D, F The Tuesday of the Tucsday evenin appointed as fol- and aims, J. R entine, O. F nd Miss cations, Murphy an next o student J Frarn Joh g will Dr. y Friday public is in o'clock. The i Harry F. Flynn of department was for maintaining an five word miny {utes, with only awarded u gold pin verage of forty- for fiftcen min- it three errors. Mr Flynn als a bronze medal for writing fiftv-four words a minu for fifteen minutes, with five errors In the beginnars typewriting € Storm was awarded a medal for writing forty-four a minute for fifteen minutes, three errors, and Miss Leona Decker received ertificate for thirty-one words & minute for fifteern minutes, with one error. bronze words with POWER PLANT SURROUNDED. Williamsport Expected Peak of Flood This Morning. Special Dispateh HAGERSTOWN, The Potoma rent today. Vits widest . Star. Md.. March river becams u mad tor- leaping from its banks at part near Williamport and overflowing into the “bottoms." The two-millio: ollar power plant of the Potomac Edison (ompany at Williamsport surrounded by wa- ter for the first time since its erection, but there was no immediate fear ex- {pressed that there would be any dam- age to this | The main flood waters, which in- undated se nd and the Georges Creek district, this morn- {inz was expected to reach Williams- port by midnight tonight, and the peak of the flood was expected to be reached early tomorrow morning. ! All of the tributaries of the Poto- mac in this section overflowed during the morning, when nearly two inches of rain feil. The Antietam and Cono- cocheague creeks left their banks early today and inundated the low- lands. At the first warning that a flood was threatened, scores of persons who live within close proximity of the river banks began moving out to higher places of safety, Clubhouses _along the river were threatened. Several are doomed, the swirling waters already having weakened their foundations so that they will hardly be able to withstand the wall of water which is due with- in the next few hours. The river at 6 o'clock tonight was rising at the rate of fifteen inches aa hour. It is about twelve feet above normal. The highwater stage is forty-four feet above normal, reached during the Johnstown flood of 1889, “Crawling” to Wife for 16 Cents a Day Halted by Court Ruling Purse to Man Special Diepateh to The Star CHICAGO, March 29.—Judge Joseph Burke, whose court of domestic relations has delved into many thou- sand cases involving as many kinds of rifts in the marital lute, has been compelled to reverse himself on the following poser: “Does a man lose his self-respect and become less a man if friend wife controls the family pocketbook?" Six months ago Norman Borge, un- questionably a man of average tendencies and normal temperament, although as much above the average in size as his diminutive wife is be- low it, was put on probation by Judge Burke, who ordered the wife to col- lect the $75 pay check. The court held Borge had been a poor ad- ministrator, and authorized Mrs. Borge to direct the budget and dis- burse all moneys, even including the husband's allowance. TO BE LECTURE TOPIC| Ryan will lecturs | the typewriting | TOMORROW FIXED AS HOUSE . . DAY Four Measures to Be Acted Upon—Senate Committee to Act This Week. Tomarrow is to be a special Distres day for consideration of legislaion for the National Capital The day has been aside Ly unanimous specially consent House on the motion of Floor Teader Longworth, after consultation with Speaker Gillett, the members of the republican set steering committes and a | special subcommittee from the House District committee Four District measures have been selected be called up for action he Gilbert bill for prevention and ntrol of social disease is unfinishe busi Distri day and will get fir eration The an bill to auth extension of 14th str thre Walter d Hospital grounds, open- {ing up a new entrance to tihe Nu- tional Capital and giving an avenue | of approach to & big suburban terri- tory to relieve housing congestio: Gasque Bill en Calendar. The Gasque bill providing for ci ital punishment by eclectrocultion stead of hanging ‘he Keller bill of salaries £ the Washingt thes: except the Representa while fav for the amend ry cons Zihl icial school Al of mittes which Planion inerease tempt to have the sal superintendent | from a maxim | maximum of 37,500 Distr teacher s proposed H to be con- mmissioners | succeed them uation in Wash and Oyster 1o The housing « b asoline tax bill fo: 1t to <o committes £xpec retirn Tnferenee Houge the Hall hearing street tomorraw it subcomm with officia Compiiny bef, Protests to Be Heard. All protests azainst the tion of Commissioners m n the hands of the subcommittee an- nted to hand!e the nominations no \han temorrow morning wnd e in writing and signed. Tro- tests have been re ator Edwands of man of the subcor tor King of Utah Sibeummittee. The latter sid yester- day he had received a teon letters protestin Commission The will b pped in conferces o that it will a the personal property tax | biles, which both houses thought the lwere carrying the b w n they | passed asure. which thes actnaily failed to include 1t is not believed that the H e would agre to anw conference report which did n include this The report in the Distriet, ercnce to rentais ployed by the Disrri nake a survey of under a resolution Senate, is to be sub Ball by tom mittee will then on an investigation of charges tha @ combine exists here amons lani lords and real estate dealers to keep rents and prices of property high HOWARD STUDENTS HEAR SPEAKER FROM BELGIUM Prof. Jean B. Massart of Brussels University Talks on Brazil. Prof. Jean B. Massart, exchanta professor “of Brussels University, Brussels, Belgium, gave an illustrated lecture in the amphitheater of scienca hall of Howard University, Monday afternoen, on “Climate and Vegeta- tion of Brazil.” Prof. Massart's lecture with results obtained by personal studies in South America under tha C. R. B. Iiducational Foundation. Inc established by the commission for re- sief in Belgium. He spoke here on th invitation of Dr. Thomas Wyatt Tur- ner of the department of boiany. Prof. James A. Cobb, vice dean « } the school of law, addressed the uni- i versity student. the noon chapel on “The Law as a d 1 tomorrow of of the Dis- | | i | ment i liar N five- re the Senate must and mber of n automo the housing with particular ade by those em t commitiee, to conditions passed by th itted to Senator ht. The com- own to Work on nditions of had to dn Profession President J. Stanley Durkee will speak at the vesper services thia afternoon, in the Andrew Rankin M- morial Chapel, on the univ campus, at 4:30 o'clock ‘ To Borge was allocated the sum of 16 cents a day. Borge made out onm the pittance, but when the wife saw: he could buy cigarettes after ex=s penditures for lunch, she was fir- regular in payments of the $1.12 weekly, according to Borge, who said he had to kneel, literally, to the wife. In desperation he did a thing that many have done, but won't admit, He cracked the lion savings bank belonging to his children. Which. ax the lawyers say, joined the present issue. Borge mada the plea that where it is comparatively easy for a wife te wheedle money out of the tightest husband by tears or otherwise, it is not so vice versa. To which Judze Burke decreed: “It was wrong of this man to rob his children’s bank, but even the best man might be driven to such limits with only 16 cents daily and his wi autocratically controlling the ree mainder. “T shall put him in charge of the pocketbook, for a man cannot crawl, to a wife and retain his self-respect COOLIDGE OFFERED SUMMER HOME LOCATED IN GREEN MOUNTAINS uated in a rolling scenic country and 18 located near the village of Wile mington. President Coolidge is fum miliar with this section of New En. land_and is known to have been greatly interested in the photographs of the Brown home and the immedi- ate grounds and surrounding coune try. However, no intimation was made that the President will accept this offer. It is the opinion of those close to the President that, no matter what his longings may he when summer time comes, he is going to maintaig' the summer White House and saat of government right here in Washinge ton—that is, he will remain in the Capital, with the probable exception of one or two short trips. A large, modern country home con- venient]ly situated on the slopes of {the Green mountains of Vermont has been offered to P’resident Coolidge to use as the summer White House. The offer was made by Representa- tive E. W. Gibson of Vermont, who said in a letter to the President today that he was authorized to do so for the owner of the property, Martin A. | Brown. In'his letter Representative Gibson said that the tender was mado for the Prosident for such use as he may See fit during the coming sum- mer. The Brown estate i3 beautifully sit- {