Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 2

EXPLAINS VANISHING OF SEIZED LIQUOR Justice Official Blames ‘“Petty Graft” for Disappearance of Intoxicants. LUMBER CASES ARE CITED| Thompson Says Daugherty Slighted Price-Fixing Data. A Depart t of tioa of how seized liquor disappeared from the department throigh “petty graft” was placed before the Daugh- arty committee today x sossion de- Justice explana- investigating toward the end voted larzely to man Thompson of the ¥ Commission the department's failures in prosecuting lumber inter- ests under the anti-trust Taws. W. W. Grimes ¢ Justice nartment, who smaid ho wis acting by tireotion f Attorney Stono, ead a report by irators into the liquor dism rances. Tt tid not show where however, and contained no ine on previous testimony of it w: en to the pri Ty The witness nothing in th ther bage Consequentl piy_had had vanished sisted, however. that kind might larze ment departme about that some © home Y Daugh- 1. d there was rmit destrues trunks and claimed. and_some of it fously. e in Nty ETft” expected in any t ac and in nev i umulated my ste that Declares Barns Drastl The departmenta stiga- tion into these disappearances, Grimes maid, was made by agent named Cox, whose report showed little as to first inv an who was “Wasn't whitewash Sanator responsible. the Cox report made to the department?” asked ., the committee replied the witness, investigator. when he came in fired a number of people and had his own ion made. This second in- disclosed somewhat of facts the Cox Burns than was very positive in his a r suggested that could take id they got some and Cox report a statement James I, Mitchell, a Wash- ysician, got a truck load G @ from the Dr. ington T of it Price Fixing Charged. Turning bacec o upon rel how he and his leasues uncovered “price fixing measure in an inv 19. The from conditions in the to- ndustry, which he described at ted how and among lumber stigation begin- results of the in- said, were laid before the Justice Department before Mr Daugherty took office. Suit against the Southern Pine Association was instituted in the closing days of the Wilson administration, he “declared, since and court at producer ning in quiry, he now rests Kansas City, in the district The Southern Pine Association, Mr. | Thompson explained, of the large commodity. “The investigation as we reported it to the Department of Justice, said, “showed price-fixing and price- regulation and production restriction by different groups of the Southern l'ine Association and coercive meas- ures towird Various concerns to make them work in co-operation with the assoclation. “There were fourteen organiza- tions In different parts of the coun- try. such as the West Coast and North- emn Hemlock associations. We made ingestigations of them all.” included mi manufacturers of that Consent Decree Refased. Th> Department of Justice pro- posed ai one time to let “a consent decree™ De entered against the South- ¢rn Pine Association, and letting it continue some of its operations. “We refused that,” the witness said, *“hecause it would be just like 1 s & criminal ko with' the gun still n his hargis." John Il Kirby of Texas, Mr. Thompson =aid, had been head of the athern I'ine’ Association nator Wheeler read into the record a speech made by Mr. Kirby in New Orleans Jast month, vigorously defending At torney General Daugherty and Secre tary Fall “No crim 1_presecution of any kind has ever been brought?' Sen- ator Wheeler asked. *“No, sir.” “Notwithstanding, the shows conclusively there had been violation of the criminal statutes? “l don't want to say conclusivel Chairman Thompson repiied, “because that is the point for a ju but to my mind there is no doubt about it.”" Lumber Prices Soar. evidence Chalrman Thompson said that lum- Ber prices had gone up during months points higher than t wers during the . “In spring of cecded, “two attorneys from Colum- bus, Ohin, came down to see Attorne. General Daugherty. Nothing has been dane since.” He was asked if J. 12. Todd, Daugh- erty’s former law partmer, was one of these lawyers, but said he had no Dositive information as to their identity. The witness declured tae Southern Pine group had financed the “build your own-home” movement and “promptly raised prices” Taking up the case of the West Lumber Association, he said 20 the Trade (Commission Presented a report seeking prosecu- tion of th rEanization cont hey 1931, Charges General Conspiracy. “Nothing has been done since.” he smid, “and no action taken. There was a better sentiment out there and they were not well organized as the Southern Pine, but they soon got together, and joined in the ‘build Your own home' deal. T'rices mount- ed—they ran them up to the levels obrresponding to Southern Pine. “My opinion is that the evidence is much more direct us to the West Coast than the Southern Pine. The witness declared there strong evidence of a general spiracy” among lumber associations resulting in high prices and in “very considerable profits to the lumber manufactarers.” ~ Against the Western Pine Associa- 16n, Mr. Thompson said, the Depart- ment of Justice did file a civil suit i 1923, Outside of this, he said, no action was taken. . George H. Chamberlain, counsel for Daugherty, asked why the Trade Gommission had not instituted suits un its own account. “Overwhelmed With Work."” ~We are going ahead on many Sterman sct cases mow.” the chair- mun replied. “We have other cases Jjast as serious as these and we are dmply overwhelmed with work. We'se had to call our men in from the field under present appro- pefations.” . *Well, wasn't the Department of Justice overwhelmed, too? - “T was five years in that depart- ment,” Mr. Thompson replied, “and they never have been overwhelmed as so was “con- De- | the chairman there- | col- | has remained in status quo ever | he | pro- | ICE YIELDS WILD BOAR. Avalanche Leaves Carcass in Edible State for Village. GRENOBLE, France, April 22.—An avalanche sweeping across the Bourge D'Oisans road near Roche- taille recently left a huge block of ice in which was encased the body of a wild hoar. When thawed out the meat was found to be e lently preserved and the villagers enjoyed a feast. INSURGENTS DELAY BONUS BILL ACTION Democratic Group Demands Cash/| Option—Night Session Is Likely. |MOVE CAME As SURPRISE | Leaders Had Intended to Seek | Amendment After Law Enacted. Facing a contest on a proposal for a | cash option in the insurance bonus bill {as a result of an insurgent movement | in Democratic ranks, the Senate pre- | pared today to go into a night session Lo hasten ion on the measure H The cash aption fight flared up sud- denly late sterday when Senator Walsh, Massachusetts Democratic member of the finunce committee and author of the cash amendment, having | {formally withdrawn it, Scnator Cop {1and, Democrat. New York, backed by | Senators Dill, Democrat, Washington, and Norris, Republican, Nebraska, of- fered an identical proposal. The came @S a surprise. Dlemocra leaders had just an- nounced their intontion of withhold- ing the proposal until after enac ment of the straight insuranco bill planning then fo move for its| | adoption as an amendment to the | aw. Cash Substitute Offered. The substitute bill advanced by | Senator Copeland would gzive the veteran, in addition to all bemefits proposed in the pending measure, an | option of full cash payments instead | { of insurance. The pending bill would | | allow cash payments to veterans not ntitled to more than $50, but would imit others twenty-year endow- ment insurance policics. The substitute calls for issuance of | $1,500,000.000 additlonal bonds under | the second liberty loan act, with inter- | | est not to exceed 4= per cent instead of 41y per cent, to meet the cash pay | ments, which would be made av. able nine months after enactment of the bill, The straight insurar ure calis for an annual zpprop of $100.000,000 for twenty, vear. Senator Bursum, Republica Mexico, saig that while he had con- sidered other hills perhaps better, was anxious 1o support the pendin measure in the light of indorsement of it by American Legion posts of his state It suggested by | mons, Democrat, North Carolina, that | the legion's support was due to a belief { that the insurance bill was the best th could be «d now and that un effort | for cash would be better advanced late Senator Copeland read a telegram from a soldier organization in Arkan- sas supporting his cash plan. Senator Simmons said he was posi- | tive that “If a vote can be had here on a cash option entirely disussociat- ed from apprehension of an Exe tive veto” it would command an ov | whelming majority. | "It you fail to pass a bonus bill at ssion,” replied Senator Bu ill never et one passe The North Carolina senator declar- | e he could not agree with that opinion., for he believed that “every day the American Legion' | | ation itor & - Hits “Bloe” System. | Senator King, Democrat, Utah, an | opponent of the bonus, interrupted to suggest that “if we are to bow to the will of all blocs and organi- | zations, why not cut out this form | of movernment and let these assoc ticns determine what they want and | come here and pass the bills acoord- | ingly.” Senator Fernald, Republican, Maine, delivered t first speech of the | three-day debate against the bonus | Declaring soldiers of the world war | fared better than their forefathers | in previous wars. he argued atten- :!vu' should be given now to tax re duction. | " Revision of federal taxes on th | “scientitic plan advanced by Mr. Mellon he declared, would be impossible the bonus was passed. “Get the nation sub: feet,” he said, the ' veterans, erally. given | ir | tantially on its “and then compensate compensate them lib- Some consideration should be to the many who returned home from schools and business to |take the places of those in robus health who went to war. 1 think | all persons will best be compensated by giving attention to settling busi- ness conditions, which certainly would | | be upset if this bill is passed. | A majority of the men in Maine | | who served in the war took the same | | view, he declared. ONE-MAN UTILITIES BOARD IS OPPOSED The District Commissioners today | | made an unfavorable report to Con- zress on the bill drafted by Repre- sentative McLeod, for the creation | of a one-man public utilities commis- |sion for Washington. n reporting against this measure! the city heads again call the atten- tion of the Senate and House to their own bill, sent forward a few weeks ago, for 'the reorganization of the ex isting Utilities Commission. The proposal of the Commissioners is that the three District Commis- foners retain membership on the | Public Utilities Commission and that | two new members be added to the utilities board, one a lawyer and the other an engineer. The plan pro- vides that the two new members wculd devote all of their time to utility problems and have the ad- vice of the three District Commis- sioners in arriving at their conclusion: mum” prices on lumber, manufacturers promptly “minimum” adding that abide by that.” “There i3 price fixing going on now in the country such as I've never seen before,” he said. He expressed the senterfces on we; which the ade their hey didn't view that criminal : the only solution.” farris,” whom he identified as “under assistant Attorney General Holland, ordered Cox to make the in- quiry, Grimes said, and “Harris" got a trunk of the liquor himself. The rest of the goods were “delivered around” on the orders of PFrank Burke, or Joseph Neal, or R. J. Scot private secretary to former Aftorney General Palmer, Grimes said. Most of the employes concerned, he said. are still in the Department of Justice, but Frank Burke was ‘“re- moved'” and “a number of others were reduced “Haven't you heard it stated by Department of Justice offieials that the court decisions are so confused that it is not advisable to start crim- inal prosecutions in these trade as- soclation cases™ Mr. Chamberlain asko “] never heard it,” Mr. Thompson replied. Mr. Chamberdain said _he would show the Department of Justice had started twenty-four criminal and twenty-seven civil cases under anti- trust laws since 1921, and that finea. “jai Pprosecutions | La | plicd THE EVENIN DECLARES LASKER ‘RULED’ SHIP BOARD Plummer Testifies Former Chair- man Dominated and Was Seldom Opposed. | FARLEY ALSO CRITICIZED Little Accomplished Under His Administration, Official Says. e House committee’'s Shipping iquiry went back again today wministration of former Chair- A. D. Representative Davis, Democrat, Tennessce, question- Vi irman Plummer of the ard as to Lasker's “dominating at- titudo™ Board toth man Lasker, in running the board. The witness d Lasker was ‘dominant figure” and there were times we didn’t agree with him." Representative Davis a ker had 1 to the that President Harding had given him full rein with instructions to report any officials disagreeing with his plans. Plummer repHed that Lasker at extent and given usually a when ced if Las- not st board had been members proposals. Plummer testified when Lasker pro- and put them into e isulting the hoard, rd “usually agree neh there were n 1hers He w Mr ma . were dirmanship. ot that the armitted to ehairman and 1 he of his (i trying 1o ship subsidy bill™ he d in hi Chairman times e Vied ther Were { plins witheut that the him. al when but b wi disagroed that during 1 n whaole drift as 1 stated witness replied that leg and not do the other “we were lation the nything to want to ask you if he did not start out with the umptions of authority wisdom that Mr. Mr (Farley) same us- and superior Lasker had.” said . to acertain extent he seemed to feel that as chairman he had cer- enlarzed responsibilities that ade his work greater than the work the ordinary pmissioners,” re- Plummer . He would not say Farley dominated, but declared ““We didn’t make progress while he was Plummer & of keepin the hands of “loading agents which the hoard was sharply divided, was “practicaliy” the the Lasker subsidy prop was held illegal by ~the of Justics The witness testified that the hoard “did not hav 1 then as we do now,” and that had been taken to ate “waste. extrava- gance and inefliciency much plan i hips in Department {GAS TAX DECISION EXPECTED TOMORROW ntinued from First Page.) roads up to April 1 of this fiseal vear, federal aid amounted to $3 9.55, or 73 per cent. It was ex- plained that this percentage was due to ‘the unusual amount of federal property in that state. Tables obtained from the Depart- ment of Agriculture disclose that for the same period the percentage spent in Arizona was 61 per cent and in Ttah per cent. Wyoming's' per- centage was 59 per cent The aid for the entire United Stat the past nine months of year is given us 44l per cent. According to the department, this money is spent in the rural sections of the various states for the purpose for of developing in each state highways | that will fiL into a national system is uot usad to carry the through the citiez in any state, al officials Point out that Washin being the National Capital, ¢ the state of Nevada, a large pe centage of federal property within its boundaries. Tt w building 3 bill bece that if the gas 1d the $309), thus rai ~voted to local high work, the federal government would only contribute $150,000 out of a total of $2 009,000 sought for next vear. AL the present time the fiscal ratio between the District and the federal government is 60-40. Officials at the District building have reached the conclusion that the ratio on street work would be far different ur the gas tax bi If $2.000,000 is appropriated for streets next vear $1,200.000 would be used on nev: paving und resurfacing, of which abuiting property owner would pay half, or $600,000. Of that assessment, local officials say, the federal government would get back 40 per cent, or $240,000. The federal overnment also would get back 40 or $40.000. of the 100,000 from the sale of auto- per_cent to be raised mobile fug Applving all of the $300.000 gaso- line tax money to read work allowing for these federal credits, the logal estimators say the net amount contributed by the federal govern- ment would be $160,000. The figures of the Department of Agriculture show that up to April this fiscal year federal aid for roads in Maryland was $676.878.38, equiva- lent to 47 per cent of the sum spent. The figure for Virginia was $965,- 191.98, or 46 per cent POINCARE DISCUSSES EXPERTS’ PROPOSAL (Continued from First Page.) having spent two and a half days London without his arrival, presence or departure being chronicled by any English newspaper men. Such is the English devotion to Easter holiday-making that he ped the attentions of statesmen nd reporters who have been follow- ing his hourly activities since he ar- rived on this side of the Atlantic to help start Europe on a wrew road to- ward settlement. Gen. Dawes called on Ambassador Kellogg last night and spent the rest of the time while here with his broth- er, Rufus (. Dawes. The general is sailing on the LeviatWan from South- ampton. Inwues Brief Statement. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Apri —Before embarking on the liner Le- viathan for New York today Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, in a briel statement, emphasized = the effort which had been made by his commit- tee to put its reparation report in terms of the utmost clarity—a factor which he believed had contributed notably to the support given the doc- ument. ave done all my talking,” he in the experts’ report, which speaks for itself, and 1 don’t intend to o into competition with it. Noth- ing 1 could say would make it clear- er. It is a document prepared by men who recognized that the obliga- tion to make it understandable to average men was as binding upon them as to have it clear to them- selves. “This sense of obligation has not always characterized those who have drawn up documents of similar im- portance, and I attribute the wide- spread ‘su it s nmwfl-‘ prach to- STAR, CITY COAST GUARD FIGHT asions | verage percentage of federal | this fiseal | roads | but | out at the District | and | ON RUM SHIPS NEAR | President Signs Bill Carrying $13.- | 500,000 for Fleet—Many Ap- ply for Commissions. President Coolidge late vestarday “;“fll‘ll the Winsiow bill authorizing increase of the coast guard per- sonnel for (he war againet rum smog- gling. In anticipatior of the bill becoming law the coast guard was prepared immediately to increase ite personnel by 149 ofticers, 41% warrant officers znd 3.700 enlisted men | With the additional appropriation of $12.500,000 for building and equipping 4 new dry fleet to fight the rum run- ‘!nvN already available, and the leg- | islation for additional offic and | m anacted, the coast guard plans swing its entire program < speedily as possibie. | "Slores of applications from former | v men and officers in tbe naval erve are already on file at head- Prapers have been pre- the new tempo- | | | r | quirtors here | Fara" vor Tandling | Firy comm | ats which the eoast buy are understood ave bean completed by hipbullders, who fore- . it is expected, some of be in action. De- avy are to be re- navy vards for “first- t ¥ ng the tweive-mile 'NEW POLICY SEEN IN COOLIDGE SPEECH (Continued from First Page.) the stability of Eu- is restored.” New Demextic Policy. The foreguing passage IS not a new philosophy, but it represents the cauticus beginning of a new era in domestic policy, an attempt to draw America to Europe without formal ties. It is the reiteration of a thonght not accepted by American business experts, that the prosperity of the Urited States is bound up in the future of Europe and that foreigm markets will come as European currendies inorease in | value and as confidence is restored abroad. The Republican administra- tion since 1920 has pointed with pride to the fact that five billions of dollars of Amcrican capital have been investeq in Europe since the armistice and has insisted that Amer- ica has not been ignoring Europe. The speech of Mr. Coolidge is an at- tack on those who have accused the dministration of neglecting Europe. he prejudices against economic part- nership with Europe, however, have grown stronger as the political re- |lationship has been frowned upon | The President and Secretary Hughes have begun an appeal to bring America closer to Europe. not merely |Tor Europe's sake, but for the ad- | vantage of American farm and' fac- tory. whose exportable surpluses, if | marketed abroad, |Would stimulate domestic prosperity. | A< Mr. Coolidge said in conclusion. “Our first duty is to ourseives,” and |k has proclaimed the theory that America helps itself by giving Europe material aid (Copyright, 1924.) HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES ‘Wodnesday, April 23. four and & half furlongs. when rope ceonomic closer some 4Groen Tree Stable apd H. P. Whitney eo- try. 13. 8. Cosden and Ral Parr entry. SECOND RACE—Purse, $1.200; claiming; | throeyear-olds and up; six furlon Hard Guess . 110 108 Bright Light THIRD RACE—Purse, . throe-year-olds and wp; six furlongs. Lion DFOT ... Lou thorweod Ouligula . *Huon Pine *Bweep Stakes ... mes . Clough J BACE_The Bay View: purse, Slm&‘!-&dfl- and up; ene mile and a sixteenth. igrped 5 T Pt Jowics . 100 Red Stone 1011 T Hoir at Law .... 85 A J. Bus . Hell Gato .. 108 tSes Gram Stabls entry. BACE—Purse, $1209; olaiming; for e h olda ad up; oue milp aud & furlons. .. 114 SAshiand soeesiT0B SEVENTH RACE—Purse, §1,900: claiming; {hros-yonr-olds; one mile and soventy yards. Dendy Brush ... 112 *Ebb Tide ....... 97 vating Page 107 Seth's Flower ... 108 'k Dress .. 97 *Gold Mark . 102 Lai10 cAntiguity ... 98 *Blue aBewince otaimed. *Appretios VASHINGTON HEADS William Tindall, form. correspondingly | '"UESDAY secretary to the board, and RIOT OVER FASCISTI FLAG. Several Persons Hurt in France at Church Service. } NICE, France persons were hurt in a vesterday between local one side and members of labor unions and the Association of Vietims of the reat War on the other The trouble occurred when the un ion and war victims attempted 1o prevent a enurch service at the Jasecisti flug was to be blo The Fascisti were rescued by police reserves. RAILROAD UPHELD IN TAX CASE PLEA April 22 Several claxh here seisti on Deducted Despite Blair's Objection. Justice Frederick Ta Siddons of the District Supreme Court today tained the contention of the TUnion Pacific Rallroad Company that it entitled to a mandamus against David H. Blair, commissioner of internal revenue, to oompel him to credit on the | assessment for judgment | 586,93 which the company |in the New York courts for an over- payment of taxes mavle under protest in 1917, The judgment 6. 1922, and sus- is on of $5: secured | | | mpany May 12, 1922, filed a credit claim in which it | demanded that the amount of the judgment be credited against the tax due June authorities ‘. o stallment of income {1922, The revenue fused the request and contended that | the judgment could not be used as against the government's current taxes ddons holds that the section on by the revenue commissioner does pot cover the presemt case, which is “onm of the situations intended by Congress to be covered by the manda- tory provisions of section of the revenue act of 1921." which provides for the crediting of excess payments on future instaliments of taxes. Had the railroad not be a judgment creditor desiring to se- re payment. then it would have ed to proceed under the section said Judge Siddons. “But section for compell 1315 provides a simple. direct mode adjusting equitably the Kind of c which the company makes in th The statute is piain and compel its terms.” — TARIFF BILL CHANGES MADE BY COMMITTEE President Would Be Given Author- ity to Declare Embargoes on Agricultural Products. Material modification of the tarift provisions of the MoNary-Haugen agricultural export bill was agreed upon today by the House agricul- tural committee. A substitute was approved which would give the President authority to declare embargoes on any agrioul- tural product or to imcrease tariff duties when importations result in losses to the corporation to be created under the bill for the mgrket- ing abroad of surplus farm® com- modities. URGES GERMAN RELIEF. Gen. Allen Supports Appropriation of $10,000,000. Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen. former commander of the American forces on the Rhine, today urged the Senate foreign relations commitiee to report the_ bill authorizing an appropriation of $10.000,000 for German relief. Inadequata and improper food, he | asserted, had gradually weakened the German ‘public morale physically and spiritually, and a lump. gift such as that proposed would go far toward inaugurating a national recovery. |RENT BILL IS PUSHED. DESPITE COURT VIEW (Continued from First Page.) tends that ths plaintiffs, the Chastle- ton Corporation: and others, who are constitutional, | proof te show did not exist. In the previous case, when the con- stitutionality of the Rent Commission |act was on_ trial, the District Court of Appeals held that the act was un- constitutional. Following this de- cision, however, while the case of Block vs. Hirsh'was on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Rent Commission continued to perform its regular functions. The Block vs. Hirsh case finally was de- cided In April, 1921, by the Supreme Court of the United States declaring | that the rent act was constitutional The decision of the Rent Commis- sion_on August 7, 1922, from which the Chastleton Corporation and others appealed nad fixed “fair and reason- able rents” for the Chastleton. In the opinion of the counsel for the Rent Commission_this determination still remains in force. The process to be taken from now on, Mr. Brown indicated, will be for the case to be referred back to the Court of Appeals, with orders to send it to the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict to determime whether the emer- have the burden of that tho emergency which | Court Rules Overpayment May Be | company’s income tax | was recovered May | a taxpayer. but mere- | attempting to prove the rent act un- | 99 APRIL 1924 SWORN IN FOR SECOND TERM Morgan H PREPAREDNESS PLEA |TO DAUGHTERS OF 2] Strong Army, Navy and Air Force | Favored in President Na- | Report. tional's Need fo r preparedness, a s<tronz and an air force of strength in the TUnited States stressed today in the annual report of Mrs. Samuel Preston Davis, dent national of the National ciety, United States Daughters 1812, at the eecond day's session the thirty-second associate council | the New Willard Hotel today Another emphasized in the report was the supreme need for edu- | cation in the nation | Mrs. Davis termed the erection ! the tabtet in honor of Francis Scott Key, author of ““The Star Spangied Banner,” on the Key mof Bridge over the omac th crowning achievement of the vear” La: vear the organization adopted resolutions urging that the name of the bridge be the Kev bridee. when some doubt |as to name was being voiced 1 Reports of Officers. | This morning’s session was devoted | to the reports of the national officers. | Among those making reports were Mrs. Willlam ¢erry Slade of New | York, chairman of the charter tru | tees; Mrs. Robert €. Maxwell of New Jersey, Mrs. Alvin V. Lane, Mrs. Sam- uel Williams KEarle., Mrs amwel Z. Shope, Mrs. Robert J. Johnsten, Mrs. | | John "Francis Weinmann, Mrs. Fd- | mund P. Moody, Mrs. Frederick W, Matteson, Mrs. Reuben Ross Hollo- | Mre. Julins F. F. Cassell, Mrs. | Bartlett and Mrs. Clar- | odward. ) This afternoon’s session, starting | at 2 o'clock, will be devoted to reports of standing committees, and tonight 2 reception will be held at 6:30 and the annual dinner at 7:30, whe Senator and Mrs. Robinson, and Sen tor and Mrs. Caraway of Arkansas, Representative Abernethy and Mrx Abernethy of North Caroli and Capt. H.” H. Hough, United State: Navy, und Mrs. Hough will be the honor guests Election of Officers. The feature of tomorrow’s session will be the election of officers and the report of the committer of resolu tions. Topics listed for discussion in- | clude immigration. the Sulgrave In- stitution, the Smithsonian Institution, the Roosevelt Memorial, American avay History Library and the 1812 emorial Toom Memorial servic morrow fternoon night will be historical ve: Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, the his torian national, presiding. FoHowing this will be the presentation of new office adjournment and a meeting of the national executive board. ACTION ON TEACHERS’| PAY BILL FORESEEN Senator Capper May. Report Meas- ure to District Committee at Meeting Tomorrow. Navy superior | was presi- So- of of | in | point es will nd be held to- tomorrow e ng. with chair- | | Senator Capper of Kansas. man of a subcommittee considering the measure, expects to report the school teachers’ pay bill to the full District committee at its meeting to- morrow. Senator Capper and Semator King of Utah, of the subcommittee, worked over the bill for two hours vesterday afternoon with President Lloyd of the board of education. They plan to meet again this afternoon to consid- | er the bill further. Senator King is | | of the opinion that some of the sal-| | ary schedules are too high and that | | too many administrative officials are | provided. The fill committee is expected to act promptly on the bill so that it may be placed on the Senate calendar. | The bill has already passed the T in-law, | enabled |come a one-hole lead, which McLeod |4nd Hutchison enjoyed at the begin- | power of education Ope down going | | Leod’s partner in the mate | pion, | Bermuda grass I l | i UNIVERSITY WOMEN TOLD OF EDUCATION {Children‘s School Work Much Left to right: Daniel E. Garges, necretary to the board of Commissioners; Commixsioner James F. Oyster, Commissioner J. ¥ Beach, clerk of the Supreme Court of the GIRL SHOT BY MISTAKE. Brother-in-Law Intended to Shoot Wife—Wounds Himself. DOVER, N. J. Woods and his fifteen ark, are April vear-old sister in a critical condition at the General Hospital fo day from buliet wounds inflicted by Wonds According to the police. Woods shot the girl by mistake, intending 1o sheot his wife, who had left and then shot himself, FOREIGN CHAMPIONS Havers and Ockenden 2 Up on McLeod and Jock Hutchi- son Here. samuel | | ehairman | i b i | count LEAD U. S. GOLFERS | More Scientific Now, Asso- ciation Hears. WORK FOR FUNDS URGED Mrs. Woolley Explains Present Ef- ficient System. Children getting much better marks in schools today than the chile dren of twenty-fiv ago wers able to make 3 profe of and edue tion of Smith , told the American Association of University Women today at the Washington Hote The school curriculum ha vised, she said seientific and oflic better to prepare modern condit successtul fivir Hnitersit years br I or n e meot “d M their own con Mrs. Helen Stant dircetor of the Me Schoal, at Detroit. expli the new experiment there dren between the ages « five they had heen able their children that the 50 per cent be The purpose « education said wa the good of are, but to train women who help carq { for better parenthood heard from various a2 - on the xubjects and Mrs. W yweh mm ur Thompson iies for ed w or “ cith dre 1 Miss 1 The fe the cemen women of the ' amplithed & o Iy Reis the Washingion ne $200,000 tinnal headanartere o conntric national felinwsh Mrs. Walter the n preparce Rronkinee, committee cha niore tha There supper this ever A. A. U. W. Club, where the convention the club s keept Tonight's prozram Washington will open at 8 o¢lnck 1t was announced that delegats hers of the associat Miss Spaulding, | President | ! Miss Canlkins o guests of homor. Wellesley and lesley will be th LATIN SPEAKERS HEARD. Arthur ;. Havers, British open zolf | pyprecs Tdeals and Viewpoints of champion, and James Ockenden, th French open champion, finished moming round 2 up on Fred Mcleod of Columbia and Jock Hutchison of New York in an exhibition match be- ing played today at Columbia Country Club. Three successive birdies, o nth, seventeenth and the Bri ing of the sixteenth. the sixtcenth, Havers holed twenty-foot putt for a 2 on the short Bols, Ockenden holed a twenty-five- foot put for a 2 on the seventeenth and Havers holed a fifteen—foot putt for a & at the eighteenth. The Pritish plavers, however, were both outscored by MeLeod and Hutchi- son, the latter pair scoring whi Havers hud 4 and Ockenden 5. On the sidelines, recovering from an operation Leo Diegel of ¥ was_original to D. 1o {endship, scheduled be receiv- hole, reports of matoh. Diegel ated by Havers and in_the international match Fli. last month the mateh today was arranged re- turn enzazement, Hutchizon's Great Work. Hatchison vesterday showed the golf he is capable of by shooting a from the extreme back tees at « lumbia over a slow course and pl ing the ball as it lay. He had a 4 on the eighteenth for a 63, but top- ped his brassic second into the He wnd Mcleod, playi p ball match with Albert K. Mac the middle Atlantic Donald_Woodward. ha of 68, McLeod holing a for a birdie 2 at the fourth Kenzie and Hutchison defeated Woodward and MceLeod by 4 and Mileod having an individual Havers Columbia tion mutches ne Philadelphia. where they took the measure of Max Marston, the national amateur ch and Joe Kirkwood. professional and partner of Walter Hagon hole by e of ‘the I#0d wern defl as four- en Mise and Ockenden today o arrived at exhibi String of Victories. Their steady string of since they came to the north from sreens of victories the ish players to over- | the | the six- | countries and the ides eighteenth, | women could do v a | from appendicitig, was | . who | contrast Me- | woman, and | inay 1 score: | brought greetin South America. An unusual featars of the eonven- jon was the pan-American meeting last night at the Pan-American I'nion the in tional viewpoint [ w was developed rere ntial work of peuce. Alfaro, y ward the establishm Panama, praising in the of civilization, declared the he association of universi allowing the flower of the educ women of each country fo co close contaet with the best feminin: gToups of other countri 4 a decided influence in th mutual knowledze, and sin edge leads to understanding. bring about a better under: among thé peoples of the world Contrasts Two Types. Senorita Dolores Castro Cervantes of Costa Rica drew a word picture b of the Latin America home-loving, uneducated for the most part, of admiration and adoration Senor Dr. minister of - and | United State initiative, of fight, old and until now dominance of render at least he renders to tion.” The two would b ing Dr. the Pan-Americs most ble pro decades in “higher edu enlary influen: inteliect and civili modified, bee sid, predict= will prevail® rector general of Union, said the p<x in the last two rica was in the women and the civig appealed # their cu nations to help in_international s vere devel- increased come sor mong t dangers which, he hogreatly sence offset the relations, uped throu merce. Mme. ja Serna of Arzentina from her country, £reat admiration” for America and things American. Diry Aurelia Henry Reinhardt presided. b The occasion closed with @ recep tion by the W gton branch, in which the receiving line was headed by Dr. Reinhardt and Miss Merrill, president of the sranch Music Band, under de and professed rendered by baton of was the Wil S the | nard, leader. onth | indic 1o that combination will have no overcome the the ¢ notwithstanding the Scottish plavers with the course Hutchison drews, where is a product won he open champlonship in Hutehison-Meleod | sv matter pair rity of the Rritish of St the An Eritish 1921, while Me PROMPT INDICTMENT " OF GIRL BANDIT SEEN . \“ROXIE” FUND GETS BELATED DONATIONS | | | Though Star’s Project Closed Last Week, Contributions Swell Total to $1,404.81. Additional contributions to The Stars “Roxie” radio fund. which was | clesed a week ago because a sufg- | cient amount was raised to assure the installation of radio apparatus in the Walter Reed, Mount Alto and Naval | hospitals, have brought the total to $1,404.81. The committee in charge of the “Roxie” radio fund, however, is still recelving contributions for the purchase of radio sets for the Army and Navy hospitals along the Atlan- tic seaboard. Contributions should Dbo sent to James H. Baden, vice presi- dent of the Commercial Natlonal Bank and treasurer of the “Roxie” radio fund. The Star has recetved the following contributions since the publioation of its last list of donations: | lLeod learned his game on the windy course of North Berwick, in Scot- land. In more than one sense the contest will be an international one, with Scotland arrayed against Britain over an American course. Wilh good weather conditions one of the larg- est gallerles that have ever followed an exhibition match about Washing- ton should turn out this afternoon to see the internationally famous golfing quartet in action. 1$1,000,000 DONATION | T0 6. 0. P. DENIED | Jake L. Hamon’s Contribution in | 1920 Did Not Exceed $100,000, Accountant Says. Br the Associated Press, TUSLA, Okla.,, April 22.—Frederick L. Thornton, certified public account- ant, who made an audit of the estate | of the late Jake L. Hamon, Republican mational committeeman from Okla- homa, before and after his death, de- nied last night that Hamon contribut- ed $1,000,000 toward the nomination of Warren G. Harding, as has been charged in testimony before the Sen- ate oil investigating committee. He said Hamon's campalign contributions in 1920 did not exceed $100,000. Thornton left last night for Wash- ington in response to a request from the Senate public lands committee to appear befors it and tell what he knows regarding “tho business and political ventures” of Hamon. Ile took with him all data the Hamon, ac- counts have disclosed ® cie b AIRCRAFT PROBE FUNDED. House Votes $25,000 for Investi- gation Recently Ordered. Expenditure of $25,000 for the inves- tigation recently ordered into the air- craft industry was authorized today Jg-tha-Houze, | Bob-Haired Robber and Husband Reach New York This After- noon From Florida. By the Associated Prese NEW TORK. April 22 tacular career at an end Cooney, said to be Brooklyn's “boih- haired Wit and her husband. Edward Cooney, will in N York late today from Fla, where they were terd They may be arraizned in the po- lice court befora night and mmbably will be indicted by a King's county grand jury without deiay Inspector Coughlin, he tective bureau. said t have to face charges robbery growing out of at least fif- teen hold-ups of chain stores. Tha most, serions e covers the shool= ing of Nathan Mazzio, a clerk in the Brooklyn office of the National Bisouit Company. GIrl Confemwes Shooting. Besides admitting that she is the “bob-haired bandit,” Mrs. Cooney has, according to the police here. con: fessed that she and not her hasband fired the shot which wonnded Mazzio. Police department doctors will ba on hand when the couple arrive in case the wife, who only ten days ago gave birth to a child which dled. needs medical aid after long lroad journey. CORNERED IN FLORIDA. JACKSONVILL Brooklyn's daring bob-k known now as plain ( surrendered without a fight here Sun- day night, becauss “the death of my baby somehow softened my heart she said before officers started fo New York with her and her husband yesterday. Cornered after having been trailed through thirteen states in her dash to find solitude and a haven of safety in which to give birth to her child, the slender, twenty-year-old gun girl exhibited a flash of her former iror nerve when, beside her husband a both with drawn revolvers, she hal the officers as they swepf into their quarters in a rooming house and eoldly compromised with the promise A, 1o shoed il MW’M Mrs. arres A of the dn pair would & assault and th .. Fla., Aprfl 22 ired bandit, lia Cooney,