Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1924, Page 2

SENATE IMMIGRATION { BILL NEARS FINALITY Last Phases of Debate Entered as President Studies Diplo- 3 matic Points. DIFFERENCES DISAPPEAR Exclusion Provisions Practically Same as Those in House. Having brought its immigration bill nto conformity with the House meas- ure at points where wide differences 2.ad been predicted, the Semate went 3nto the concluding phases of its de- bate today, with action expected be- | sore adjournment. President Coolidge, meanwhile, con- tinued his study of the diplomatic questions raised by the adoption of Japanese exclusion provisions by both chambers, but has given no indleation of his probable course when the final measure is presented to him for ap- yroval or veto. An amendment by Senator Sim- ons, Democrat, North Caroling, pro- yiding preferential consideration for Harmers and farm laborers in immi- sration quotas, was pending when ldebate was resumed today under an agreement limiting each senator to ten minutes on_the bill as a whole on ecach proposed change. Provisions Practically Same. The exclusion provisions in _the | Senate and House bills are. in effect, identical, and the Senmate’s decision late yesterday to place the quota ratio at 2 per cent, based upon the 1830 census. eliminated another cause for controversy when the measures are taken up in conference to iron out the differences. This leavcs the Senate amendment Ruthorizing eyrtain exceptions from quota restrictions, and its provision for a permanent nationality-group survey on which to base quotas after July 1, 1927, proposals not incorpor- Gated in the bill passed by the House, thoe chief points thus far developed on which the conferees of the two cham- bers will be called upon to reach an agreement. Majorities Large. In every decision yesterday the Senate registered decisive majorities Rejecting, to 8, the proposal of Senator Copeland, Demacrat, New York, to make the quota 3 per cent, the Senate, by a vote of 54 to 26 adopted instead the amendment of | Senator Willls, Republican, Ohio, un der which the committee amendment providing 2 per cent was stricken out and 1 per cent, as originally re- ported in the bill. restored. A number of the affirmative votes in this poll were explained as being based on the expectation that later opportunity would be given to recon- tider both the percentage and the census of 1910 as the basis for com- Puting quotas. The census of 1590 was approved, 47 to 32, the 2 per cent quota restored and a motion to re- duce it again to 1 per cent defeated, DEMOCRATS MAY HALT CASH BONUS ACTION| Impressed by Report Presidem»‘ Would Probably Approve of Insurance Plan. und On the basis of reports that Presi- dent Coolidge probably would ap- prove the pending insurance soldier honus bill, some Democratic Senate leaders are considering the ady of withholding their proposal for incorporation in the measure of & full cash payment option Reports of the President’s attitude were received through American Le- gion officials, Democratic _senators maid. with the word that inclusion of a full cash-payment option requiring an immediate government bond issue would endanger the prospects of the il becoming law. While Senate Republican leaders expressed the opinion also that the nsurance bill had better prospects a combination insurance and measure, it was stated that no word had been received as to the President’s attitude. “Favored No Bonus Bill.” In his message to Congress Presi- dent Coolidge made the brief com- ment that he favored no bonus bill. With the prospect that the measure might come before the Senate late in the day and at least by tomorrow, Democratic leaders planned to confer further during the afiernoon on the position they will take as regards the full cash payment Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, a Democratic member_of the finance committee, who has been drawing up a minority report on the blll with a view to demanding the cash option, maid that while many Democrats thought this substitute would be a uch better bill, both for veterans and the government, the party did not wish to stand in the way of success of a bonus measure. DAY'S FINANCIAL Nt . v YORK, April 18.—New York clearings, $868.000,000: New ork bank balances, $§1,000,000; New ork Federal Reserve Bank credits. $70,000,000. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR SATURDAY. FTRST RACE—Tho Blus Grass purss; $1,200; +wo-yoar-olds: four and one-half furlongs. Edisto ........... 117 {Cloudland ....... 110 Gymkbana {111 Bernice Harrar .. 114 tBother .. 114 Seamsn ......... 110 3. 8. Cosden and Ral Parr entry. SECOND RACE—The Halter Skelter ebase handicap; purse, $1,500; for fouryear- olds and up; two miles. .. 137 Jim Coffroth ..... 143 111138 Fort Eustice...... 132 uonora. ... 137 oatre 1110 184 Moadow. . 130 A. C, Bostwick and Gen. J. Buchanan entry. #laurel Stad Farm entry. entry, 8. Boss and Mrs. E. THIRD RBACE—The Combat handicap; purse, six furlongs. Th ~old: Leopardess . t8arko ........... M1 tKentlon Stable entry. . 8, Cosden entry. ¥W. J. Salmon and R. T. Wilson, jr., entry. FOURTH RACE—The Aero handicap: purse, $1,500; three-year-olds aad up; six Tarionga: PIFTH RACE—The Philadelphis Sonp: $3,000 added; three-year-olds and up; one mi) and & sixteenth.- 1W. §. Eilmer and J. K. L. Rows entry, SIXTH RACE—Purse, $1200; claiming; four-year-olds aad up; ome mile and & quarter. AS WOODS LURE Garden Club Committee “Please leave the dogwood for oth- ers to enjoy.” With this bugle call to nature lovers, as spring buds are bursting into bloom, a vigorous crusade swung into action today to save the beau- tiful flowering tree, which botanical experts agree s subject to more “ruthless destruction” in the vicnity of Washington than any other native tree cr plant. Aroused to defense of the dogwood by the increasing mutilation and dan- ger of eventual extinction of a prin- al spring attraction here, & group of organizations, headed by the com- mittee of the National Capital of the Garden Club of America and the Wild Flower Preservation Society, has planned and will direct to the public @ many-sided appeal. The principal reason for the move- ment {s the threat of almost com- plete destruction which, persons who have watched the dogwood for many seasons feel, would' be within the | bounds of possibility, should the mu- tilation of the trees continue to in- crease In the future as it has in the past. Branchex Stripped From Trees, Motorists have embarked on expe- ditions into the country each spring, it is pointed out, iith a view to en joving the beauties of the season, and have frequently ruined best specimens of the dogwood tree along the roadside. Branches have been stripped from the tree, peeling off great pieces of bark, leaving “wounds” which heal slowly 1¢ at all. Fungus often sets in. causing the death of the tree., Some trees are etripped almost bare of their branches, leaving nothing but ruins. In most cases the stripped flowers are wilted before they reach the vase or_the mantelpiece. Mrs. Frank B. Noves, chairman of the committee of the National Capital of the Garden Club of America, ha been active in organizing the variou featured appeals which will be pre- sented during the days of the dog- wood season. She asks the public to refrain from breaking dogwood from the “trees or purchasing the blooms from others The botanical phases of the crusade will be handled by P. L. Ricker of the Wildflower Preservation Society, who for vears has been active in various movements for the conservi- tion of wild plant 1I Some leading florists for the first time in the history of their business have agreed neither to buy nor sell SINCLAIR DEMURRER IS OPPOSED BY U. S. Pomerene and Roberts Ask Dis- trict Supreme Court to Up- hold Indictment. The District asked today by Supreme Court United States Attor- ney Gordon and “his special assistants in the oil cases, Atlce Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, to strike out the mo- tion filed last Saturday by Harry F. Sinclair, milllonaire oil magnate, to quash the indictment recorded against his for alleged contempt of the United States Senate by refusing to answer questions before the oil investigating committee. Arguments on the motion filed to- day, as well as on the demurrer to the indictment also interposed by Sineclair, are scheduled for hearing before Justice Hoehling in Criminal Division 2 April 25 Citex Reason for Dixmissal. As their reasons for dismissing Sin- clair's motion to quash, the prose- cutors declare that Sinclair's motion, on its face, is insufficient in law to entitle him to the relief asked, in that it fails to set forth any matter on account of which the indictment should be quashed: that the matters of fact sought to be raised are ex- trinsic to the indictment, and are not the basis or ground of a motton to quash. The government also contends that the matters sought to be raised by the motion are ones of defense to the merits and should be raised under the general issue plea of not guilty. was —— BOULDER CANYON SITE PORTRAYED BY DAVIS Former Director of Reclamation Service Opposes Proposed Mohave Project. Boulder Canyon site was portrayed today to the House irrigation com- mittee by A. P. Davis, former director of the reclamation service, as the hub around which all power and irriga- tion development of the Colorado River should hinge. Mr. Davis sald work at Boulder Canyon could be carried forward at greater speed and less cost than any- where else, and that all other loca- tions would fit in with initial de- velopment there. Proposals to start development with a flood-control reservoir at Mohave were vigorously opposed by the wit- ness, who declared this location should be dismissed from considera- tion because it presented “endless op- portunities” for delay and “would be inexcusable from every point.’ Contour of the land at Mohave, Mr. Davis said, would make a dam thers unfeasible for power, susceptible to evaporation, and more expensive than similar development at Boulder. He de- scribed the Mobave site as low, hot, shallow, exposed to wind and for these reasons unsuited for water storage, The Boulder location, he added, afforded a deep, narrow reservoir that would not pres¢nt such difficulties. HEARINGS ORDERED ON WORLD COURT Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee Decides Upon Inquiry. Early hearings on the proposal for American participation in the world court were ordered today by the Sen- ate foreign relations committee. A subcommittee of five, headed by Senator Pepper, Republican, Penn- sylvania, was selected to conduct the hearing and make a report to the fuill committee. Other members of the subcommittee are Senators Brandegee, Republican, Connecticut, one of the league of na- tions “irreconcilables”; Swanson ot Virginia and Pittman of Nevada, Dem- ocrats, and Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, Minngsota. Requests for the hearings have been receive@ from a number of chambers of commerce, the Federal Council of Churches, the Non-Parti- san League of Nations Assoclation and the Association of University Women, some of the | DRIVE BEGUN TO SAVE DOGWOOD NATURE LOVERS and Wild Flower Society Head Move by D. C. Organization Seeking to Prevent Stripping of Trees. dogwood this season in Washington. Others are seriously considering the matter. A. A. A. Plans Campaign, The American Automobile Assocla- tion, with national headquarters here. has not only enthusiastically indorsed the movement, but planned a cam- paign for wildflower conservation among its 500,000 members through- out the nation Boy Scouts and working on plan of action whereby they will spread the “gospel.” Caurs of both street rallway systems here will carry the mescage on signs over thousands of miles of track throughout the city. Motion picture theaters will exhibit a film depicting the beauties of the plant, and some features of its de- strucifon and preservation. Thesy are a few of the activities of the cifisade which the federated or- | gariza\ons launch today, on the eve of the' burst of bloom which will herald the arrival of the dogwood season. Already the bloom has appeared in parts of Virginia further south, it is reported by motorists who within the past few days have been over that section. The dogwood in this vicinity is the “flowering dogwood” known to scien- ! tists as “Cornus Florida.” It is more or less common throughout the re- glon from Maine to Florida and west to Minnesota and Texas, ascending in some of the mountainous sections as high as 4,400 feet. It is a shrub or small treé with spreading branches, usually 10 to 15 or rarely up to 40 | feet tall. The trees grow weil in any |average soil and do as well in the shade as in the open Conservation Possible. Although there has been “‘ruthless destruction” in the past there is stil time to conserve the tree, it is said, so that for the future there may be left some of the beautiful sights, which now are the pleasure of mo- | torists and all nature lovers, who go into the out-of-doors in the neighbor- | hood of the Capital. | Washington has been credited by |some distinguished students of the out-of-diors with having a vicinage |most admirably adapted to enjoy ment of outdoor life. In the spring, these same students point out, the | variety and beauty of the wild plant |1ife hereabor e substantial and | | delight of appeal. One | |of the picturesque und beautiful fac- | |tors In that wild plant life, accord- ing to those behind the new crusade, is the flowering dogwood. All efforts will be made o prevent this vear, as far possible, any destruction’ of the [D. A. R. CHEERS ALIEN RESTRICTION DEFENSE _(Continued from First Page.) rl Scouts are tree plauded for several minutes, leaving little doubt in the minds of the spec- tators how the majority of the dele- gates feel toward the question Tt was a small and tired audience that Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, the president general, called to order this morning. For two nights running the delegates had sat until past mid- nij Wednesday night to nominate e president general and other officers and last night to hear the re- sults of the elections. The result brought few. if any, surprises. Mrs. Rhett Goode of Alabama was | elected chuplain general by acclama- tion, succeeding Mrs. Thomas A. Edi- son, who resigned. None of the three candidates for the lone office of hon- orary vice president general succeeded in gett the necessary two-thirds majority vote and the delegates were today balloting on the selection one to fill that chair. Vice Presidents Elected. The vice presidents general elected, in order of the votes they received, were: Mrs. Anne W. Lang of Oregon, Mrs. Paul D. Kitt of Missouri, Mrs Logan S. Gillintine of Tenne: Miss Amy Gilbert of lowa,' Mrs. Noval Smith of Arizona, Mrs. T. W. Spence of Wisconsin and . Frank Cain of puth Carolina. All but Mrs_ Cain ere elccted for three vears, She got the short term of two years. This morning was devoted to @ me- morial service immediately after Mr. Johnson had concluded his address. It opened with the singing of De Koven's “Recessional,” by Mrs. Flor- ence Sindell, Mrs. Maurice Beckham, Floyd Willlams and H. Alvin, Lake, accompanied by Miss Mabel C. Linton. All of the national officers and most of the state regents were -dressed in black. Tributes Are Pai Tributes were paid to the following: Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, honorary president general; Mrs. Erastus Gay- lord Putnam, honorary vice president general; Mrs. John Francis Yawger, former ‘recording secretary general: Mrs. Esther B. F. Noble, former chap- lain general; Mrs. J. Eakin Gadsby, former historian general; Mrs. George M. Baker, state regent: Miss Lucretia H. Clay, 'former vice president gen- eral; Mrs. John C. Hazen, formér vice president general: Mrs. James ¥, Maupin, former vice president gen- eral; Mrs. Henry McCleary, former vice' president general, and Miss Sophie Waples. Tomorrow the thirty-third conti- nental congress will pass Into his- tory, the session in the morning fol- lowing the usual business will con- sist of the final report of the reso- lution committee, unfinished business and new business. In the afterncon the newly elected officers will be in- ducted into office and in the evening the annual banquet will complete the congress. Some of “our best people” and sev- eral prominent members of the mo- tion . picture colony at Hollywood were subjected to the verbal lash of speakers who addressed last night's sesslon. = e speakers were Secretary of La- bor Davis and Maj, W. M. Mamm ot Columbus, Ohio. While the former made no effort to spare rich men and women iwho use their influence to flout prohibition laws, the latter elec- trified his audience when he named three prominent moving picture stars as having been implicated in soviet propaganda movements here. Appealing to the delegates and their guests for a pure American- ism, Maj. Mumm told of having posi- tive information that in several col- leges hundreds of young men sol- cmnly signed a pledge never to raise their hand in defense of the United States, “no matter what might haps pen.” ' He said hundreds of high school girls had sworn never to give their children to the Army or Navy of the country. Refers to Pamphliet. Then, referring to a pamphlet en- titled “The Reds in America,” published by the American Defense Society, he charged that Charlie Chaplin, Norma Talmadge and her husband, Joseph | Schenck, prominent motion-picture pro- | ducer, have been in communication | with ‘envoys from Moscow regarding the production of boishevik propaganda in the United States. That part of the pamphlet to which he referred and quoted from, reads as follows: “‘Last August, Charles Recht, the New York lawyer, who was on the staff of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, the bolshe- vik ambassador, who was ordered de- parted after an Investigation by Con- gress, probably the highest ranking soviet official in the United States, con- sulted with Will Hays, then lately made head of the moving-picture industry in this country, regarding the production in America” of propaganda films calling for an_expenditure of $8,000,000, an or- der for which Recht said he had then recently recelved from Moscow. Bias In Films Charged. “These pictures wére to be clevel constructed, anti-religious, anti-capital- istiq, showing the benefits of cemmanism ext Byrd and Walter Weaver, two colored men of Falls Church, Va., were killed. when the truck in which they were riding (shown at top) and the bus, which ix also shown, collided today on the Lee Highway, near Cherry- dale. PLATT BACKS PLAN. | FOR BRANCH BANKS Federal Reserve Board Official Quotes Statistics Before House Committee. Edmund Platt, vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board, advocated branch banking within certain limits at a hearing today before the House banking committee on the McFadden bill to amend the national bank act. Mr. Platt quoted statistics to show | the growth of branch banking. “One of the liberalizing provisions of the bill has do with branch banking within city limits.” Mr, Platt said; “with this provision the Fed- eral ‘Reserve Board is unanimously in agreement. “I think I may fairly add that the members of the board regret that this liberalizing feature does not go to the full limit of permitting the establishment of branches in all cities large enough to have nceds for out- ying banking facilities, as a matter of right and without regard to the limitations of state laws. Would Amend Reserve Aet. “The bill secks to amend the fed- eral reserve act, and nere it becomes repressive and reactionary,” he said. Because many bankers are opposed to any further liberalizing of the na- tional banking act, the bili seeks to deprive state bank members of the federal reserve system of some of their charter rights guaranteed them under the act of June 2, 1917. par- tioularly with reference to branch bankin, Some 322 independent banks have failed in the United States sinoe Jan- uary 1 this year, Mr. Platt told the committee, more’ than two-thirds of them banks with a capital less than $50,000 and more than seven-elghths of ‘them banks with a capital less than $100,000. URGES MORE POWER FOR DISTRICT HEADS The Commissioners today received from the directors of the Board of Trade a report prepared by a spe- clal committee of the organization Indorsing the proposed bill to give the Commissioners broader powers in handling municipal questions. “We have suggested amendment to the section which we deem proper,” read the report. “but have not at- tempted to consider the question of the constitutionality of the bill, which might be construed as vesting legislative power in the Commission- ers of the District of Columbia, and would, therefore, suggest that proper consideration be given this subject prior to its submission to Congress for enactment. “*Your committee is unanimously in favor of legislation along the lines of this bill, for we believe that the powers vested in the Commissioners by this bill. whén properly adminis- tered, will be to the best interests of all the citizens of the District of Columbia.” and the need of destroying all capitalis- tic_governments. Soon after this con- ference Recht sailed for Europe, bearing with him & letter autographed by a cab- inet officer which would serve to show the Moscow authorities how close he was to the American government. He met Norma Talmadge, the fim star, and her husband, Joseph Schenck, a producer, in Berlin, and they proceeded to Moscow to arrange with the com- munist authorities for the pictures and the organization of a Russian company to, furnish more propaganda filma. “Severnl members of the Hollywood motion picture colony are at least friendly toward communism. and one of them, Charlie Chaplin, the comedian, entertained William Z Foster with & dinner at his home shortly before the Bridgeman convention, to which Foster was a delegate. At a reception given by Chaplin_for Foster the chief topic of discussion was the great importance of moving pictures, with their educational and propagandist apoeal for the cause ’zun of the labor movement and the com- munist revolution. Several instances were cited of nflnpl‘ ideas being, or going to be, used ctures and legiti- SAIE g T 2 KILLED, 3 HURT IN CRASH ON ROAD ntinued from First Page.) with the Taylora Weaver died ten minutes after the accident, according to Smoot, while Byrd, with a great in his head, probably died in- stantly Aeccident Oceurred Early. The accident happened at § o'clock this morning, while a heavy r:in was falling. Marcey claimed the truck came around the curve at great speed and on the wrong side of the road. He pulled well over to the right, he said. but the truck could not turn back to the right side of the road in time to avoid a collision Mrs, Taylor quoted her husband as saying that the motor bus came to the turn at too great speed and that blinded by the rain and mist of the early morning young Taylor, driver of the truck, could not clearly see the bus. The bodies of the two dead colored men, one in the truck and the other where it was thrown on a bank along- side the road, lay out in the rain for more than four hours before they were removed to an undertaking establish- ment. The accident occurred at 6 o'clock, and the bodies wers not removed until after 10 o'clock. The coroner and com- monwealth attorney viewed the bodies before 9 o'clock. At the point where the accident oc- curred the road is wide enough to allow two cars to pass. Weaver, it was shown by records of the Post Office Department, was em- ployed as a laborer for that depart- ment for about sixteen ycars. Py DONATIONS CONTINUE FOR “ROXIE” PROJECT Star's Radio Fund Oversubscribed. Contributions Should Be Sent to James H. Baden. Contributions continue to swell The Star's “Roxie” radio fund, although it was closed this week because suf- ficient money was raised to assure the installation of radio apparatus in the ‘Walter Reed, Mount Alto and Naval Hospitals. The “Roxie” radio fund committee, however, is continuing to receive contributions for the general fund which will be used to purchase radio receiving sets for the disabled veterans in government hospitals in the eastern section of the country. Checks should be sent to James H. Paden, -vice president of the Commer- cial National Bank and treasurer of the “Roxie” radio fund. The contributions received today to augment The Star's fund follow: Previously acknowledged.....§1,334.81 Mrs. D, B. C b .. 3.00 E. G. D. R. . svese 1.00 Agency force and office force, branch office Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of N. Y.. 12.00 Total.. -.$1,350.81 NOON-DAY LENTEN SERVICES B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12 o’clock CANTATA TOMORROW “THE ATONEMENT” Rendered by CHOIR OF MOUNT VERNON ‘M. E. CHURCH SOUTH Every One Invited $17,152 IS NEEDED TO COMPLETE FUND 4,543 Persons Have Responded to Easter Appeal Sponsored by Associated Charities. With but two day remaining to Easter morning the Assoctated Char- itles and Citizens' Relief A ociation find themselves with scarcely three- fourths of their budget requirements of $55,000, and with less than one- half of the number of contributors, whom they are seeking as partners in their family welfare work. Since their Easter campaign opened eight days ago, on Thursday, April 10, the num- ber of contributions received up to noon today has been 1,106. This brings the total from 3,437 contributions— the number rececived during the first six months of these societies’ present fiscal year—up to the present number of 4 3. This latter number includ 140 responses received within the past twenty-four hours. Contributions to dat w total $37.848. This leaves & balance yet to be raised of $17, a little more than one-fourth of their required budget. The number received from the various sponsored letters from the 23 different professional and business groups totaled tod: 234, who have contributed §1,- 549.50. These group responses range from one contribution up to 75. Four groups are represented with 1 sub- scription each, five with 2 subscrip- tions, three with 3 each, one with 4, one with 5. one with 6 and two with 7. The druggists and bankers each have 9 contributions to their credit during the campaign, the dentists 21, the physicians 28, the real estate men 40 and the lawyers 75. The real es- tate men passed the physicians this morning, thanks to a group contribu- tion representing 14 subscriptions turned in by the sponsor of the group, Harry K. Boss. The figures given do not include individual subscriptions received directly from different mem- bers ofsthese business and profession- al occupations before the campaign started. These also will be added and duly credited when the results are finally tabulated. First Letter Campaign. So far as known this is the first attempt to interest these different occupational groups by means of a letter sponsored by leading repre- sentativer. As specifically stated in the letters which these sponsors have sent out to their respective groups one of the purposes has been to save the time of bu: men by avoiding asking them to serve upon teams and alfo the time which might otherwise have been consumed in personal in- terviews. Whether the final results of this method of appeal will meet the expectation of those engaged in it remains to be demonstrated. Cer- tainly a goodly number of new work- g partners have been enlisted in the support of the community-wide efforts of these family weifare agen- cies to meet the responsibilities which they are trying to cope with daily. 1¢ should be remembered that the two organizations are city-wide, non- sectarian, dealing with applicants ir- respective of race or creed. The Citizens' Relief Association, which is solely a relief fund, is directed by a board of managers appointed by the Commissioners of the District. This fund is disbursed without cost to the association by the visitors of the sociated Charities. It is the Asso- ted Charities, through its organiza- tion, which stands responsible for the personal service work of family re- habilitation and _the mending of broken homes. The funds of both organizations are raised by a finance committee representing them jointly, of which Milton E. Ailes is chairman and Ord Preston, 1022 11th street northwest, is treasurer. Special Campaign Committee. The Associated Charities has a spe- cial Easter campaign _committee which co-operates with Mr. Ailes and Mr, Preston annually at this time of yéar. ‘Hach-organisation has its'own to treasurer, John Joy Edson being trepsurer of the Associated Charities , and William J. Flather treasurer of the Citizens' Relief As- sociation., One may send contribu- tions to.each ‘treasurer at the Social Service House, 1022 11th street north- west, or through the joint finance committee, of which Mr. Preston is treasurer, to be distributed between the two organizations according to their respective needs. — ———— No more curry combs for Army mules; new regulations say to use the electric cleaner, because it is more efficient and speeds up stable work. It takes about twenty-four minutes 1o ourry a mule, but the cleaner doe! it in fourteen minutea D. C. FUNDS MEASURE IS GOING TO HOUSE ‘Will Be Reported Tuesday—Con- sideration Next Week Hoped For, But Unlikely. HELD UP SINCE FEBRUARY Estimate as Submitted Calls for $25,652,850. The District of Columbia appropria- tion bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, to pay the expenses of the municipal government, will be reported to the House next Tuesday. Representative Charles R. Davis of Minnesota, chairman of the subcom- mittee which drafted this measure, is hopeful that he can get consideration of this bill i the House on Friday or Saturday next. The subcommittee concluded fits deliberation on the District appro- priation the latter part of February and the bill has been lying dormant since then, in the appropriations com- mittee, awaiting its turn for consid- eration in the House. Rent Law Up Tuesday. Monday is unanimous consent day Tuesday the agricultura]l appropriz tion bill will be under consideration. An effort also is being made to get | legislation extending mission for two years House under a day. Wednesday is calendar Wednesday Thursday will probably se~ the agri- cultural appropriation bill finished. An effect also is being made to get the child labor bill passed in the House next week. There are several other important measures for which special rules have been invoked. The District appropriation bill therefore, has not any very strong chance of being passed next week. The estimates as submitted to the appropriation committee for the Dis- trict total $25,652,850. There is a strong likelihood that this amount will be quite materially reduced. the rent com sed in the on Tues- ecial rule e BLOW UP PASTOR’S HOME IN DRY WAR Blast of Unknown Foes Shatters Buffalo Building After Series of Threats. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 18—The Rev L. E. H. Smith, pastor of the Ontario United ,Presbyterian Church and dry crusader for Buffalo church organiza- tions, escaped by a few minutes a borb explosion, which wrecked his home on | Gallatin avenue, Black Rock, after midnight last night The Smith family was also absent. A series of threatening letters had caused them to temporarily abandon the house, and for more than a week they had been living with neighbors. The pastor himself returned to his home several days ago and was on the point of leaving his office at the Ontario Church last night when a telephone call informed him that his house was wrocked. Had the explosion been de- layed a few minutes, Rev. Mr. Smith said, he would have been on the prem- ises, as he had intended $leeping there. Adjoining Houses Damaged. The vestibule of the Smith home was blown back into the living room, oak door sills were splintered and founda tion stones were hurled out of place Houses adjoining also were damaged All windows facing the Smith house were shattered, and occupants sleeping in front rooms were thrown from their shortly beds and showered with broken glass. | The explosion was felt throughout the block. Two anonymous letters received by Rev. Smith had set April 13 as his | ast da: On one ‘occasion, Rev. Smith said, he had gone fo a place named in one of the Jetters at a time appointed. Two men were there, he said, but they waiked away. Evidence collected by the pastor has been the basis of several dry ‘aids staged by federal agents, and the minister himself has taken part in many of the raids. The anony- mous letters, he said, had followed soon after his activities became gen- erally known. In a recent controversy between Rev. Smith and Mayor Frank Schwab, the mayor charged the pas- tor with being a member of the Ku. Klux Klan. Rev. Smith declined to affirm or deny the assertion. The Buffalo newspapers received a letter the next day, purporting to come from the Kklan, stating that Rev. Smith was not a member, but that his work was indorsed by the Klan. Mayor Schwab had charged that Rev. Smith had been leader of a group of hooded men who, he said, interrupted a meeting which mayor was addressing. | nit | grantea | | | zoned the found COMMISSION TO STIR INTEREST IN ZONING Citizens of Every Section of Capi- tal to Bs Asked for Opin- ions on Changes. ATTACK ON AMENDMENT Meeting Hears Opposition to Sus- pension of Permits. The zoning to invite th of the city leve their res are prop: This was sion late ing an all-day Raymond A. retary to the ion, a circular letter within days to all civic and trade organizations extending the invi This does not plained today, ymmission has decided citizens of every section whether they be tive neighborhoods zoned at the present time done tive ses- follow Maj tive sec- Al an exe erda pu Wheeler, commis yei Tiin exee will mail ion. mean, it that commy has concluded to make sweeping changes in the present height, area and use limits of any given commu All suggestions received as result of the invit n will be d ad tised and de N t public hearing before taken Not an Innovation. is not an of the Zoning the clty wa vears ago, was ex This Poltey Sir innovation in re Com on four changes have bee almost monthly where ¢ that har vin a street had been zoned o mony with prevailing cond In months, been brought to the atention of commission that many property own ers d dents are not familiar with the height, area and use restric- tions appl. the streets which they have residents or realize for busi five-foot hujlding made plans for a ing evidence was submitted ions. recent however, it has the res for example street did no property was for an eigh some one scture. 1 »w being ate city serve 10 ions Cases where know arisen, of a their until timu th voiced the propo ng Jaw tha n to suspend any of i not pending 1 to authorize th { a building permit dur- Zon empow commis Called Sweeping Measure. Linkins character the most sweepin ever suggested, and it that it might work to the perty owner in tho d of propert made all p have the zoning suspended pending hear consider changing it to reside The appiic from resid betw x turncd the rect 11 prop and ential 1 the a street restricted Quackenbos avenue and ila the n of @ Property Kaloramu avenue and ignated as CITY HEADS REFUSE DANCE HALL PERMITS Acting advies of department, the I sioners today turned ¥or the. R stree Florida A rest ecticnt s des cted on t the polica Commis down applications public of the licenses to @ance halls in city. The place: 01d Dutch Mill Club, 1 th street northwest, applied for by Thomas E. Gardiner: Oriental Gardens, 801 R street northwe oplicant, Louis T Thomas, and Penn Gardens, 2Ist street and Pennsygvania northwest, applicant, J. ( In each case the application came before the Commissioners with an un- favorable tion from Maj Sullivan and W Coombs, super- intendent of Dixapproval Recommended. the applicat for the Duteh Mill Club, Capt. Peck of the second precinct’ reported that the place had been closed for two months and recommended that it be mot re opened. He included in his report statement that the place had beer raided in the past. The records in the Penn Gardens case include protests from surround ing residents urging the Commission ers not to grant the license In reporting against the Orienta Gardens Capt. Peck stated that he had canvassed the neighborhood and at least twenty-four residents opposed to the pli operate different rejected are hreo venue recommenda! e H on on ol “Somebody Must Care” But Who? 943 Citizens of Washington, up to this noon, had proved that they do care by sending in their mem- bership contributions for the As- - Y sociated Charities and the Citizens’ Relief Association to enable these agencies to carry on their city-wide wel- fare work for families in distress. Are you one of these? If not, will you send in your contribution today Cut out and sign subscription form printed below, sending with check for whatever class of membership you feel able. 10,000 Members Needed ASSOCIATED CHARITIES (Including Citizens’ Relief Association) Ord Preston, Treasurer, 1022 Eleventh Street N.W. Inclosed please find §.. payment in full as first quarterly payment Memberships: Assoclate ... 32 Active . 5 Special . 10. 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