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Che WASHINGTON, D. C RENT LAW VALIDITY . Foenir WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers ey city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s culation, 97,646 Sunday’s Circulation, 103,843 TWO CENTS. 0.C. WOULD MEET EATHER. and tonight - twenty: day—Hig] lowest, ers tonight what warmer nperature fo ended at 2 pm. t 1 pan. vesterday; am. today. il report tomorrow, ‘our hours est, 61, at 7, at §: on page 4. Late N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, 29.210. | Page 18 IZntered as second-class matter post office Washington D C. n Star. PAGES. * MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1924 _TWENTY-EIGHT Stone Presented As Justice Head | 2 ST AT QU s e IFT 10 OFFICIALS, WITNESS DECLARES Confiscated Goods “Sorted Out™ in Justice Depart- ment, Is Charge. GILLETT DENIES OFFICE GOT TRUNK OF WHISKY Speaker Says Receptacle Empty—Daugherty Called Cool to Anti-Trust Coses. Further charges of dereliction prohibition Attorney heard today committee. e or and anti-trust D law Gen- eral izherty wer the Daughert fird “aarted he wa it r. testi- confiseated i was sut” at the department while employed there, and the best kept in a safe i office of the f of the investization bureau to supply “officials” and others. Where Liquor Went. He was followed on the stand by Alonzo E. Bunch, who told the com Mittes that 100 cases of whisky il- ¥ taken from b had n d away and delivered to people ner towt lied to 1 testify Hu Federal it_had been zarding ant pson. chair rade Commi “uscless” for er_to Mr. it had time war- prosecu- charses apainst the com replies to cts the Depart wherd of 1 from criminal time to anti-trust You found flagrant vic Senator Whee armes Tobaceo Conspiracy. * Mr. Thompson went on, “from on only cases where there had been very jrough xaminations went to ihe ment of Just and only when commissioners felt their duty to b the Department of Justice cons tninal prosecu- tions." “Your i there wa manufac sumers Whe ion 1920 found of tobacco to Senator ation mbination fixing price: roducers: on- and hinations of JobbOE ufacturers finished pr ‘assisted by man- up the price of Chairman Thomp- won said at the buyers raw tobacce were Staying market so there was a trem drop in the farmers ) Gillett Takes Stand. il ared 2ife H. L to his statement that Washington by pro- w the Speaker at Daugherty and questioned tee witnes liquor ."did vou met your informa- » Speaker man Woodrufl Woodruff, Re- is from Michigan.) L former D tment of investizator, tnsisted that his testimony “needed no cor- to his knowledse. He re- that his “information” was Speaker got the liquor for ive a ican Life Quizzex Speaker. turned to the ied” that office. Witness Jersisted "that onstituent's taken to his office, had no liquor in it. Speaker tt then made a state- rent committee under oath. He said that in the spring of 1922 he had heird and denied the report tl 4 “trunk of liquor” had come to his office Kk had beer it that h which liquor had d heen sent to his istituent in 1919 Justice records were peaker to show that been removed. and he tion the had produced b the liquor 1id Seaif fed I think it Speaker said his motive is whole facts, it sonerated me "Fhis was before hut it wa port liquor the Speak iend who Stinguis hivd and had trunk of If I would .Lave entirely 11 the Volstead law, law to tran ary territory, that his L vers Sprinzfield, on a fishing of liquor sreaki to Cruise in the of one seizure he speaker said he city at the time and b srranged to obtain the trus clothing it contained, 1t iquor, and ship it springfield Later he ruff all of the and - was as would 1o the Spring! he thes of < and not MY, B, toid R cire 1 iny more It w field, however, ubstantially priv the s I have told it oke on Prominent Wan. Fverybody likes a joke on a promi- nent man,” he said. “For a witness lefore you to throw out a bold state- nt that 1 got liquor from the De- purtment of Justice, when he knew or had opportunity to know facts—well, that's an outrage. I cture what hix mo- may desire noto- won't try to con, tive may be—he riety M. Boucher, a former Justice Trepartment agent, testified that dur- ing his employment “therc was al- wways a supply of liquor in a safe 1he chief's office,”” meaning the office of the chief of the bureau of crimi- yial investigation of the Department of Justice. This liquor was always “iiven to people.” he said. Boucher said he had seen seized Jiguor “stored” in the “chief's office” und “the best of it put in the safe” while the rest was taken to the base- ment. The et, “afte otlice delivery to the house on H Boucher sai s in 1921, the Attorney General took Says Daugherty Got Some. ‘How much was taken to I erty’s house?’ Cl nquired. “It was four Boucher said. The liquor taken from Alonzo L. (Continued on ', Column 3.) zh- airman Brookhart six or quarts,” Was | Depurt- | it | com- | of | dous | the | earing today | commit- | | Mr. Wood- hat | said, he found | in | time aker | been expended. in | } Retention of Office | By the Associated Press. i YORK, England, April 21.—Prime Minister MacDonald told the inde pendent laber party conference here today that the labor govern- ment was doing its best, but would not necessarily always come up to the expectations of the party he was addressing. Mr. MacDonald said he did not know how long the labor cabinet wis going to be in office. “And don't very much care,” he added, “so long as we do good work. We are helping the worle to a new frame of mind and gets ting people to see that a different | viewpoint may be to their ben . and so long as we do that | are perfectly willing to go ol | 'POINC ARE ACCEPTS PLAN OF EXPERTS Intimates Penalties of Default Must Be Settled Before Allies Convene. DISPUTE BELIEVED LIKELY French Views Differ From British on Course in Failure. By the Associated Press PARIS, April 21 —Acceptance by the French sovernment of the Dawes report as a basis for a new repara- tion settlement b been formally has registered with reparation com- the | mission in the form of a letter from Premier Poincare to Louis Barthou, president of the commission. The premier makes no reservation in his acceptance, but points out that the F nch government supposes is understood that all the details insuring realization of the guaran- tees the experts propose will be ef- fected before the allies are called upon to give up the pledges they now hold. M. Poincare tells M. ho, the commission will proceed with all diligence with the nece sary prelim negotiations for putting the experts' plan into opera- tion, intimating this is necessary b fore the allied governments can gel together and settle such questions affecting the plan as depend upon them wil This is supposed to refer to even- tual penalties in case of default by jermany in earrying out her engage- ments under the experts’ plan. It s understood on the best authority that the French government will in- sist upon provision for.such penal- ties in spite of the interpretation put upon utterances by Prime Min- ister MacDonald of Great Britain in his speech on the that such a course would be likely to lead to contention between Paris T0 ASK BRIDGE FUND SOON Anxious to See Work on National Memorial to Arlington Started at Once. Barthou he Insist on Penalties. President Coolidge is anxious to see the proposed Arlington memorial rial with the National Arlington get under way necessary delay, and he cemetery at without un- soon legislation. Various features of the project were discussed at a conference at the White House this morning between | the President, who is chairman of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commi ion, and Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, itcd_States Engineer Corps, execu: tive officer of the commission. The bi epared by the commi sion tw ago authorize the building of the bridge, improvement streets and highways leading to , and the improvement of adjaeent pirks at a cost of $14,750,000. How- sver, this amount intended over a period of ten vears. The bridee proper is estimated to cost $7.250,000, and is to be re ary in five years. Ask $500,000 to Start. The commission's bill asks for only $500,000 to be made immediately \vailable and it is with the view of ohtaining this appropriation before Congress adjourns that the President make a special request for action. initial sum is to be used in or- -anizing the engineering forces, in buying equipment, erecting a piant, the preparation of working drawings, completion of grading and dredging and the letting of the contract for actual construction. It is figured that the first two years' work will be devoted to drilling tiirough rock at the bed of the river, and the construction of the river piers d the arches. Work on the bridge lperstructure will start during the of the third year and by that more than $6,000,000 will have end Draw to Be Installed. | The superstructure will be complet- ed during the fourth year and during the same year the draw to the bridge will be installed and the plaza and water gate at Lincoln Memorial, the avenue across Columbia Island, the twin bridge over the boundary chai nel between Columbia Islar.d and the Virginia shore, the parkway to the tery will have been half finished. Next will follow the ornamentation of the in bridge and the twin bridge over boundary channel. ‘nless something unforseen hap- pens the bridge will be in shape to permit access across it the following year. By this time nearly $9,000,000 Will have been spent. When this has been done the com- mission will then ask for the re- mainder of the original authorization of $14,750,000 with which to formally treat Columbia Island and transform it into a beautiful park, the erection of a handsome memorial entrance to the national cemetery near the Vir- ginia end of the bridge and the mak- ing of extensive improvements on B street from the Capitol grounds to the Lincoln Memorial and 23d street from Washington Circle to tMt Lincoln Memorial, Both Senator Fernald and Rep- resentative Langley, chairmen, re- spectively, of the Senate and House public buildings committee, and mem- bers of the bridge commission, have informed the President that they look "for no opposition to the legislation, / it | report indicating. bridge to connect the Lincoln Memo- | will | urge Congress to expedite the neces- | cemetery and driveways to the ceme- | TEST CASE REFUSED BY SUPREME COURT Orders Action Brought by Chastleton Corporation Back to Lower Court. OPINION INDICATES FURTHER INQUIRY NEED Decision Without Actual Bearing on Constitutionality of Ball Measure. The case brought by the Chastleton Coropration and others test the constitutionality of the District of Co- lumbia rent law was sent back today by the Supreme Court for trial on its | merits in the District of Columb courts. The Supreme Court held that it was necessary to develop the f: |as to the emergency existing” in rent situation before it could act on | the question of constitutionality. The Supreme Court reversed the de- cision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in the case brought by the Chastleton Apartments against the Rent Commission District to enforce the order regulating rates. While the constitutionality of | the rent act was not decided, the court | sald_that “if the question were only | whether the statute is in force today upon the facts that we judicially know, we should be compelled to say that the law has ceased to operate. Herd, however, it is matirial lo know the fconditions of Washington at different dates in the pa “Obviously the facts | ascertained and this ¢ | should be at- nd carefully n ue done more conveniently in the Supreme Court of the District than here. T evi- dence should be preserved so that if | necessary it can be considered by This would seem to indicate gestion of a further inquiry into the actual housing onditions in Wash- ington by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbl. The deeision was rendered by Mr. " (Continucd on Page 4, Column 1.) sug- oIy PLAYGROUND SYSTEM INDORSED House District Committee Urged to Act Favorably on Bill | Reported by Ball. vorably reported by Senator Ball of of system of the comprehensive development park and playground National Capital given at the first hearing today before a special subcommittee of the House District committee. was | ment of the National Capital commission, composed of the chief of engineers of the Army, the Engineer Commissioner of the {lumbia, the director of the national | park service, the chief of the forest | service, the officer in charge of pub- lic buildings and grounds and the chairmen of the Senate and House committees on grounds. It proposes an appropriation repre- senting 1 cent from every citizen velopment of this park®and play- ground system in the Nation's Capi- tal. Coldren Quotes Statistics. Fred Coldren, chairman of the committee on parks of the Washing- ton Board of Trade and of the com- mittee of 100 for the deyelopment of the Capital, said that the District was very far behind the other states in the acquisition of sites for parks and playgrounds for future develop- ment of the city. He quoted statistics showing that from the time of I'Enfant, who draft- ed the original plans for the District, a total of only 2,058 acres at a cost ) $3,380,998 has been acquired in the entire history of the Capital city. He quoted other statistics with refer- ence to Chicago, Jan Francisco, St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Cleve- land, ' Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit and 'Los Angeles, and other large cities to show that Washington is at the bottom of the list in providing park property. Mr. Coldren emphasized that this proposed measure would provide the much needed method of control and urged that Congress should establish a ratio of participation as between the federal government and the Dis- trict, Maryland and Virginia, in ac- quiring park sites. He assured the committee that none of the Maryland or Virginia state delegations are op- posed to this and that the foresters and Governors of Maryland and Vir- ginia heartily indorse the plan. ¥Frederick A. Delano, a member of {the board of regents of the Smith- sonian Institution and chairman of the committee of 100 on development of the Capital, discussed the L/Enfant scheme for the Federal city as a won- derful plan that was laid out for th& establishment of the city by the founders, but that nothing has since been done. The machinery is too cumbersome, he said. This plan is merely to simplify the procedure. It sats up a commission and provides for a definite contiruing program. Favorable Action Urged. Charles F. Consaul, chairman of the subcommittee of 100 which recom- mended the bill and of the park com- mittce of the Board of Trade, aiso urged favorable action by the com- mittee. Miss Harlean James, secretary of the American Civic Association, spoke in indorsement of the bill Arthur C. Moses, representing the parks and bridges committee of the Chamber of Commerce, spoke of the situation at 14th street and Park road. Seven years ago, he sald, the ground for a playground was offered at 75 cents a square foot, which was sold three years ago for $3 a foot. There is now no playground in this most congested area, he said. Evan H. Tucker, president of the Northeast Washington Citizens’ Associa- tion and representing the federated citizenship of the District, said that the people of Washington unanimous- Iy and heartily favored this legisla- tion. There is no division of senti- ment, he sald. Representative Gibson of Vermont again brought up the question of some form of self-government for the people of the District, 'his bill provides for the establish- | park | District of Co- | public buildings and | £ the United States to be used in the | | of ‘the | Hearty indorsement of the bill fa- | against the pair and his wif | the Senate District committee for a|pany's plant in Brook the | one man was seriously injured. READY FOR THI WHITE HOUSE EGG-ROLLING. BOB-HAIRED BANDIT |Children at Annual Egg Rolling Jam White House Lawn and Zoo TRAPPED IN FLORIDA New York Girl Said to Have c‘m_zPrvsident and Mrs. Coolidge Onlookers at Frolic. Frowning Skies Fail to Save Thousands of Eggs From Complete Obliteration. fessed All to Detec- tives. BECAME MOTHER APRIL 11| She and Husband Taken Withoutl Struggle. By the Associa*ed Pres JACKSONVILLI Preparing to rct this afternoon Fla, April 21— | m ote N York | ustody of two New York detectives, Fdward Cooney, | 25, and his wife, Cella Cooney, 20, pretty bobbed-haired hold-up woman, today confessed to the whole affair, according to detective F ay of | New York. | The man 14 said to have confessed to the majority of the charges filed | freely | talked of the most recent affair, the | robbery of the National Biscuit Com- yn, in_which The couple waived extradition and told the detectives they would be glad to return to New York and were ready to stand trial. Admits She Shot Man. According to the detective the girl admitted her identity and declared she was the pe who shot and seriously wounded Nathan Mezzio, an employe of the National Biscuit Com- pany’s offices in Brooklyn, on April 1 during a hold-up by a young woman und a male companion, “It was all through me that my Ed went wrong,” the detective quoted her as saying. ' “My husbandgdid not do_any shooting. The young woman refused to tell of her parentage beyond to say she was horn twenty vears ago on the East Side of Manhattan, Two New York defectives broke down the door of their room in a lodging house only to be confronted with a pistol in the woman's hand and two held by the man. but the girl shouted that they would not fire unless the officers shot and the cou- ple was taken without further trou- bie. in son Girl's Hair Dyed. The girl's hair, naturally blonde, had been dyed brunette, the officers said. The couple was traced. said the detectives, through the birth here April 11 to Mrs. Cooney of a baby, which died. The New York bandit woman had been identified as a pros- pective mother. Cooney from here is said to have wired his mother for money and_ the telegram was infer- cepted at New York. Wanted to Kill Self. The girl, according to the officers, said Cooney had wanted to shoot her and commit suicide when they were gaining entrance, but that she told him not to fire unless the officers fired. The couple had booked passage on a steamer leaving Wednesday for New York. The officers said they would_start with their prisoners for New York tonight. POLICE LONG BAFFLED. Specialized in Drug and Grocery Stores. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 21.—Activities of :the bobbed hair bandit, who, ‘it is believed has been captured in the person of Celia Cooney, at Jackson- ville, baffled the police for three months. The gun girl first made her ap- pearance in Brooklyn early in Jan- uary, when she held up a shop with the aid of a male companion. Before the end of Mach the list of holdups in which the pair participateed had mounted to sixteen. The girl specialized in drug stores and in chain grocery stores. She would enter nonchalantly, apparently for some merchandise, and when the clerk faced her, would point a pistol at him and order him to give her the contents of the cash register. Then she would back slowly out, keeping the clerk covered and warn- ing him not to call for aid until she was out of sight. During the first few weeks of her activities she left taunting notes for the police. She robbed ome place twice within about a week. Most of the time she would carry out her holdup while a male com- panion waited outside at the wheel of a_motorcar. While bobbed-haired bandits' ac- tivities were reported from Brook- lyn and then from Manhattan and the Bronx, police arrested several young women on suspicion, but were unable to establish that any one of them' was the real Brooklyn celeb- rity. {ban w Several met th slopes thousand Humpty ir ultimate fate on the grass of the White House grounds Zoo Park today. Tne occa- sion was the annual exg-rolling pic- nic of Washington kiddom, and d spite skies that threatened to end the celebration, the little frolicked to their hearts’ delight It was the day of children, and they wer discovering that, for Jeast. they might ru boss™ without fear of the f the hairbrush or carly hedt out supper. When the White House were thrown open stern-faced guerds stood at each entrance. and nary an adult might pass within those por- tals unless he or she was in charge of a child. The entire place was turned over to the children, and the clamped down on the grown- ups so the tots could enjoy their an- nual outing without interference. Marine Band Plays. All morning stream of little ones, some accompanied by elder folks and some not, passed into the White House grounds with their pre- cious packages of Kaster exzs, left only yesterday the mythological “bu * The entire south zrounds, where there is 4 goodly slope, was devoted to the egg rolling and the was crowned in glory by a spe- cial concert by the United States Marine Band. The only e of * no adults Mrs. Coolidie. time from his WALSH SCORES PLAN TO DECEIVE PUBLIC Dumpties and the for long hours days not fow grounds a constant to the Fresident President office to rule and took relax ceptions were The bu: Declares Campaign on to Mislead on 0il Lease Royalty Returns. A camp: to deceive the public as to the rovalty returns from leases in naval crves under the republi- can regime as compared with leases made prior to March 4, 1921, charged in the Senate today by Sena tor Walsh, democrat, Montana, prose- cutor for the oil committee. He cited as an example of such a campaign a recent speech by Leslic M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury under Roosevelt. In order that “this argument may not be further imposed on the pub- lie” Senator Walsh proceeded to an- alyze the various leases and their re- turns to the government. He drew the conclusion that the majority were on a sliding scale of from 16 to 45 per cent. adding that “no one can tell what the average will be in T pot Dome until test wells have bee sunk throughout the structure.” The Doheny leases average 31 per oent, Senztor Walsh continued, “but the tanks in Honolulu will cost three barrels of royalty oil for each bar- rel in storage, so the royaity will be about 10 per cent.” RELIEF WORK TO END. NEW YORK, April 21.—Relief work in behalf of the destitute children of Russia, carried on for the past three years by the American committee for relief of Russian children, will termi nate on June 30, Capt. Paxton Hibben, head of the organization, announced todsy. Inability to raise funds in the United States is the reason for the ‘cessation of the work, Capt. Hibben said. Unless the $4,000 pledged by the committee is raised by June 30 “a lot of Russian babies will just have to die,” he declared. Since its founding on May 27, 1921, the American committee for relief of Russian children has collected $100, 000 annually for its young proteges. s CAR SERVICE STOPPED. HAVANA, April 21.—Street car service here was stopped today when motormen and conductors quit work in support of the striking dock work- ers, but the 5,000 or more taxi drivers did mot join in the general strike. Printers on several Spanish lan- guage papers went out, but the strike did not prove to be general at the start, as ice and milk and other mecessitles were being delivered. re: the presence of unrestrained joy of kiddom. He companied by Mrs Coolidge, |and she found much more time to enjoy watching the little ones have the time of their lives. kiddies also found the Zoo n 1 playground. The hills are steep and the eggs executed side-splitting twists and turns they met the fate of old Dumpty And although the was not there to smile his approval, King Leo, monarch of the jungles, and Mrs. Tiger with her frolicking cubs, not to mention all of the other animals, watched (he nt with dignified interest. Fashion Parade Suffers. Stern old Mother Nature and fickle oung Dame Fashion failed to along well together yesterday and as w result Washington's annual | Baster parade was far from the spec- |tacular carnival of color and blush- ing femininity it usually is. After threatening all morning to sprinkle the city with cool showers, a rather dread collection of clouds suddenly | @eveloped at Afty-three-mile-an-hour |gale and ruined Dame Fashion’s out- ling almost as completely as the rain |could have done it. Although the National Capital is usually a serene sort of 4 town, yes about noon it was the windiest in the country, according to reports gathered by the reau. Despite the gale, however, thousands were coaxed to church and later for a strong along 16th street, Connecticut enue, F _street Pennsylvania avenue. The parks also had their quota of both pe- destrians and motorist: D. C. REPUBLICANS TO MEET TOMORROW State Committee to Lay Plans for Organization and Campaign Activities. for | the | was a_brief time in hefore Hump! President To perfect its organization and to map out its activities for the coming political campaign the Republican state committee of the District of Columbia will meet tomorrow night in its headquarters, 1324 New York avenue. It will be at this meeting that plans will be perfected for the organizing of the forty-five election districts in this city, and at which the daies for the eclecting of delegates from these districts to the state convention, to be held here in May, will be decided upon. At this state convention, be- sides the adoption of a platform for the 1o Republican organization, there will be elected officers of the committer: and an exccutive commit- tee and two delegates and alternates to attend the Republican national convention in Cleveland and the elec tion of a Republican national com- mitteeman. - 1o Samuel J. Prescott, presidént of the state committee, who will be in charge of the campuizn In this oity for the Republican committee. will preside over the meeting, and during the brief speech of welcome he will give an_ outline of what is ex- pected of the committee and its sup- porters during the coming months. He will tell also of the preliminary work that has been done with a view to perfecting the Republican organi- zation in the District. The Republican state committee of the District already has gone on rec- ord indorsing the administration of President Coolidge and urging his nomination as the Republican stand ardbearer for 1924. When the com- mittee, several months ago, formally notified the President of this action, it assured him that the two delegates and the like number of alternates to be elected to the Cleveland conven- tion will be instructed to vote for him first, last and all the time. Besides Mr. Prescott the officers of the committee are Ralph Lee, vice president; Cuno Rudolph, treasurer; F. A. Fenning, secretary. It is understood to be very itkely that these officers and Edward F. Colladay, the Republican national committeeman for the District, will be re-elected for the next four years'when the state convention is heid next month. e Arnstein Conviction Stands. The Supreme Court declined today to review the cask of Jules (Nicky) Arnstein and others convicted of bringing into the District of Colum- bia stocks fraudulently obtained lvron‘: H. P. Goldschmidt & Co. of New ork, weather bu- | or | To Supreme Court The new Attorney General, Har- lan F. Stone, was formally pre- sented to the Supreme Court tod, He was admitted to practice be fore the court in 1920. The cere monies today were simple, consist- ing of introduction of the new At- torney General by Solicitor General Beck, and a few words of welcome by Chief Justice Taft. COOLIDGE REVIEWS BOY SCOUT PARADE . “TFsiest Protection” Week Launch- ed as President and Congress Members Take Part. | SECRETARY WALLACE SPEAKS | Pageant Crowd at Sylvan Theater ! Told of Need of Work. with a parade by several hundred outs, which was reviewed from west entrance of the White House President Coolidge and a number of members of Congress. Several members of the Senate re- [forestation committee and the House agricultural and forestry committee, in- luding Senator Fletcher of Florid > 1000 for e pshire, Representa- | tive Clarke and Representative Snell of 1.\!—w Yor! . After th arade the cong ional party * attended a | pageani at the Sylvan Theater. Watch Open Alr Pageant, Arriving at th entire assembly svlvan Theater the surrounded the open air stage to watch the pageant, “Red Ene The story the pageant illustrates how two careless campers smoking cigarettes set fire to a for- ¢St The carcless campers are brought before the court over which Chief Justice McCoy of the District Su- preme Court presided. Conrad Syme former corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, acted as prose- cuting counsel and pleaded for the onviction of the offenders before a jury on which Mary Roberts Rti hart, Colin Livingstone. head of the Boy 'Scouts of America, and Col. W B. Greeley of the forestry bureau were members The careless trayed by the took role John Viegler pany of the trick horse the forest ranger Urges Forext Seeretary of Agriculturs urged the importance of the Protection weck in an addre the pageant. He pointed out that there were 36,000 forest fires on the average every year, 20.000 of which were caused by carelessness. Mary | Roberts Rinehart. Chief Justice M Coy and Chief Forester ¥ spoke on the need of co-operation on the part of the public in reducing the tremendous loss caused by forest fire Sena tepresentative sn awarded slogan and the following Troop rgetown: Troop 4 | Foundry ' M. Church; Troop 44, Mount Pleasant M. E. Church: Troop Takoma Park Presbyterian Church; Troop 41, Wilson Normal School. For appearance prizes were awarded to | Troop 9. Parkview School; Troop 9 St. Martin’s Parish troop: Troop 42, Alls” Souls' Unitarian Church; Troop 15. Cleveland Park Church, and Troop 17, byterian Church. Statement by President. The hope that the American people will come to abhor fire in their woods just as much as they now abhor firc in their homes wa: by President Coolidge in a statement is- sued on the eve of the beginning of Forest Protection week | “1 desire again to call | attention to the serio caused fires in the United to urge every citizen to give ¢ thought to the matter of preventing the unnecessary w of our fast- dwindling timber supply,” said th President. “The Secretary of _Agriculture whose department has charge of our 146 national fore informs me that 11,000,000 people for wer, o campers scouts, F. Stuart, of fire demon o dquarters cc with his e part of por- h Cavalry S Protection. Wallace Forest- after get| | | { | Western Pres- expressed the nation’s eational purposes. 1 believe these figures tell the part the wooded a the United States play in the wholesome recreational activities of our people In fact, American character and AmericAn customs are largely the result of the influence which our for- sloquently nation’s history. Our civilization is largely depend- ent upon the unrestricted us wood. But America’ magnificent timber supply now needs replenish- ing. About = 81,000,000 acres of idle forest land should be growing tim- 'WROBLEWSKY TO SAIL FOR POLAND IN MAY Will Return to Warsaw Leave,” But May Be Assigned to Foreign Office There. “on By the Associated Press, WARSAW, April 21—Ladislaw Wroblewsky, the Polish minister to the United States, is returning to ‘Warsaw the middle of next month, it is announced. The official ex- planation is that he is returning on leave, but it is unofficially de- clared he is to be transferred {o another post or assigned to the for- eign office. & Two men prominently mentioned for the Washington place are Prince Eugene Sapieha, former foreign minister, and John Dombski, nego- tiator and signer of the treaty of Riga. S ENGAGEMENT WITHHELD. Announcement of Mrs. Gould’s Marriage Unconfirmed. PARIS, April 21—The engagement of Mrs. George J. Gould, jr., formerly Laura Carter of Philadelphia, to Car- los Ortiz Basualdo, heir Lo a wealthy Argentine_estate, recently reported, is of a quite unofficial nature, it learned. the engagement has been made, as the family of Senor Basualdo, who twenty-two years old, is understood to oppose a marriage at this time on account of his youth. Congregational | est background has exerted upon our | of | is No formal announcement of is MOST ALL STREET - COSTS BY GAS TAR | Figures Show U. S. Could Escape With Only $160,000 for Next Year. |MEANS LOCAL PEOPLE ' MUST PAY $1,840,000 "7280,000 of Special Assessments and Tags Would Go Back { to Treasury. If the gasoline tax bill is signed by t the President the people of the District will pay t the entirc cost of paving the streets of the National according to District ho have been busy fi alme ring o the effects of the exisiation The bill provides that the $500,000 be raised by the levy on gasoline shall lusively fom street improve. ments, | The estimates now pending before | Congress for next year call for $2.000.- all wreet work. When allow- made for the fact that local | property owners pay as a special as- t half the cost of all new and resurfacing, the analysis | s said to reveal that of the $2,000.000 asked for the United States govern- ment would contribute only $160,000. tance is sessme) paving Method of Figuring. is how this revelation is ar- - total of street mates is £2,000,000. Of that sum $1,- 20 uld he spent on work call- one-haif ssment on perty owners, making ths 00,000, In depositing money in_ the Treas- i States would zet cred- nt. or $240,000. The $1 for wutomobile would raise $100,000, of which Uncle Sam also would get' 10 per cent, or $40.000 two items give the Cnited credit for to of $250,000. and road esti- for a ing pr 1esessments th ury the Unit it for 40 per tags A1l of the $300,000 of gas- oney toward the $2.000.- streets leaves ciated by Con- fiscal ag t federal zovern- this appropriation Deduct the $280.- which the United < would et from special assess- 1ts and and vou have Uncle Sam’s net contribution of $160,000 tu the upbuilding of the streets. Would Be Self-Supporting. familiar with District at- that this would mean the another branch of the practically on & basis. department, it was is already on a self- Hisis from rents collected onsumers. The building llects more in than the cost of in- The city refuse percentage of selling_ the and the of the now ment’s would be $440.000. of eredits Persons irs feel ing ¢ government Pl local self The water pointed sustain from private insy f permits and fi buiidin neets ating co lerived from garbage from the homes ting spectir divisior its <h taken city The Commissioners today are put- ting the final touches on the letter they will send to President Coolidge, giving him their views on the gas- oline tax measure hefore he decides whether he will sign it No intimation has been to what the text will contain, but it is generally believed the city heads will stand by their past position, which was for a gas tax bill entirely fferent from the one Congress has | pussed The Commissioners’ bill called for the abolition of the per- Sonal tax on automobiles with the adoption of the gasoline charge. SURPLUS BILL AGAIN SKIPPED BY SENATE | Phipps Told Only Uncontested | Measures Will Receive At- tention on Calendar. made as Sanator Phipps of Colorido sought | again to have the Senate consider his bill making effective the findings of the joint congressional committee on surplus revenues of the District dur- ing considevation of the Senate cal endar today. | The joint committee held that ap- proximately $4,500,000 surplus reve- nues in the Treasury should be made availabie for appropriation for the Distriot. Objection was made on the ground that only uncontested bills were tu be considered today. Senator Phipps | called attention to the fact that the I bill had been reached on the calendar |a number of times before, and that ample opportunity had been given those who desired any information regarding it and he gave notice that | when the bill was next reached Ithe calendar he would move to ts it up M’CRAY MAIL FRAUD CHARGE TRIAL BEGUN By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. April 21 Trial of Gov. Warren T. McCray ou the charge of using the mails in fur- therance of a scheme to defraud w. started before Judge A. B. Anderson in United States district court today Fifty talesmen reported from which to select a jury. Approximately 175 witnesses, mostly bankers, have beeu subpoenacd by the government. The indictment against the gover nor contains thirteen counts and charges that he intended (o defraud approximately 170 banks in Indiinu and elsewhere by sending through th. mails worthless cattle paser for dis- count and as collateral for loans and by mailing false financial statements in order to obtain loans, A second federal indictment, charg- ing violation of the national banving laws, is pending against the gover- nor, but no trial dat> his been set On ' petition of three Fort Wayne, Ind., banks, a federal master in chan- cery recommended McCray’ be ad- judged a bankrupt. This report is still pending before Judge Andersonm.