Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1924, Page 2

2 * NOYES IS RE-ELECTED | PRESIDENT OF ‘A. P. Five Directors Renamed and Two| Vacancies Filled at An- nual Meeting. | | 1 | TYPE SET BY HARDING, GIFT | Boards and Committees for Nutinn‘ Appointed for Year. By the Associated Pross | NEW YORK, April 23.—Frank B.| *Noves of The Washington Star today | was re-elected president of the A sociated Press by the newly organized board of dirgetor 3. H. Butler of the Buffulo News | vas elected first vice president and €. P. J. Mooney of the Memphis Com- mercial Appeal second vice ‘he counselor, Melville t was re-elected treasurer mmit ro- exception. Members Lansing Ray. St rk Howel onstitut harles Hop Hartford 3 memb The follow- ing were re-elected for three years Lawson Ix IHonored. v Vietor I. Lawson, Chicago (1i1) Iy News; W Cowles, Spokan: at, and, Frederick 1. Thompson, Birmingh resignatic nto (Cy uld have expired owland, Oakland elected next J K (Catif) Tribune® wa I8 Uilled. sed Vacaney To fill tie vac rosignation of W. deiphia Bulle « expirad in 1 phin Builet fal tribute re-elected Ballots for the The h on mogion o Saginaw (Mic wan, Pl terin’ wou by others paid to Mr. tion counted. Law f Lk and_chief on. 1 son of a director, that seintilla of the opportunity » him undivided support.” Honor Is Appreciated. the secretars, amid great ap- . had cast one baliot for his re- eiection, Mr. Lawson said | T am quite u dequat press my app the action of this ass but I do want in just 1 single word am deeply sensible of your good | opinion and zood will and generous tecatment of me. 1 thank you very, eeply.” | t stick of type set Ly T'resident vus presented to the Associated cretary of Agriculture - V. . Thompson, rbanks (Alaska) The type was s paper's composing room when President | Harding was visiting Alaska shortly fore his death. Mr. Walluce, wh sides the President, was the only mem- | ber of the Harding v to have been a printer, i Thompson re- garded the Associated Priss as the most worthy Institution to retain in its | custody a precious memento of one who | brought honor to the newspaper profes- | sion and of ono of our most dearly be- loved Presidents. pacity ¢ to ex- Vembership Vote Cloxe. Voting on the application of Baltimo the Evening Sun for member- <hip w ciose and indecisive, the | altimore American and the Balti-| more News objecting thereto. The | meeting instructed the board of direc tors to canvass the members by mail on the matter. The same course will be | taken on an application for member- ship in Rochester, N. Y., which did | not come to a vote The following boards and commit- | tees were elected | Advisory boards: Fastern division | —Richard Hooker. pringfield «Ma chusetts) Republican, chair-| man; Frank E. Langley, Barre, (Ver- mont) Times, secretary; Charles ¥ | Chapin, Waterbury (Connecticut) | American; Frank E. Gannet, [thaca (New York) Journal-News, and George Oliver. Pittsburgh (Penn- sylvania), Gazette-Times. Central division—H. J. Coffeyville (Kansag) Jour: man: Mrs. (Ohio) Powell, al, chair- Warren . secretary; F. A.| Miller, South Bend (indiana) Tri- bune;’ Arthur R. Treanor, Saginaw | (Michigan) News-Courier, and M. F. Hanson. Duluth (Minnesota) Herald. For Southern Division, Southern division—Robert Ewing, New Orleans (Louisiana) States, chairman; F. G. Bell, Savannah (Georgia) _ Morning News: J. N. Heiskell, Little Rock _(Arkansas) Gazett: A. Carter, Fort Worth (Texas), Star-Telegram, and W. C. Dowd, Charlotte (North Carolina) News and Chronicle. ‘Western _division—C. B. Blethen, Seattle (Washington) Times, chair- man; James D. Meredith, Sacramento (California) Union, secretary; C. A. Morden, Portland (Oregon) Ore- ®onian; A. N. McKay, Salt Lake Jtah)' Tribune, and Dwight B. feard, Phoenix (Arizona) Republi- can. Nominating committee: Eastern di- wvision—Jerome D. Barnum, Syracuse New York) Post-Standard, and Ed- Flicker, Bridgeport (Connecti- ) Telegram and Sunday Post, sec- #retary. Central division—W. Y. Morgan, Hutchinson (Kansas) News,and Mar- cellus M. Murdock, Wichita (Kan- sas) Eagle’ Adler In Elected. Southern division—H. C. Adler, Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times, and 4. § Cohen, Atlanta (Georgia) Jour- nal. Western division—Frank H. Hiteh- L:ock, Tucgon (Arizona) Citizen, chair- snan, and Harry Chandler, Los An- {zeles ‘(California) Times. Auditing committee: Bastern di- ‘vision—Arthur G. Satples, Lewiston (Maine) Journal, secretary. {_Central division—J. L. Sturtevant, Wausau (Wisconsin) Record-Herald. Southern division—James M. Thom- son, New Orleans (Louisiana) Item, p-hairman. | Western_divigion—Frank S. Baker, Tacoma (Washington) Ledger. RAIL STRIKE AVERTED. DETROIT, April 23.—The wage dispute of the maintenance of way men employed on the Canadian Nation rallways, has been amicably settled, it has been announced by P. H. JMjozdal, sgrand president of the Vnited Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers. The agreement, which was reached after the contending sides had com- promised some of their demands, narrewly averted a _strike of the maidtenance men. The readjusted | J wuge schedule was not made publice | SENATE NEAR VOTE | possible to compe | thing ‘| my Zenerous | s | be paid, it should be an honest bonus, |ure as a Sheep, Escaping Market, Holds Up Crowds on Avenue A sheep, escaping from a com- mission merchant in Center Mar- interrupted traffic on Penn- ¥lvania avenue shortly after noon today as it ieandered up and down the street, causing autoists and pedestrians to stop and look. Finally heading into a shop on 12th street, it started buttin A crowd gathered and the truder was made prisoner. hree little colored boys, pufing 4 the chase, ar- F One took the ¥ the tafl her by the and the other around the body, s it was taken back to market. ! in- ON BONUS: PAYMENT IN CASH ASSAILED | (Continuad from First Page.) Lis.dependents insurance under the war risk act. the amount of his ad- justed, service pay would be paid | io the dependents in ten quarterly installments, ! To meet the cost of the biil it providee at an annusl appropriation shall sear 1925, | provision, the | of the bill, has been | H7.420. wiven by ans’ Bureau a figured by Senator Bponsor of | 4t approxi- | ator U rencwed Ha advo- but deviared it fm- the former sol- aiers for th rice. | e protectors of ous thern dirty dollars,” 1, nroposing | policies, st this rs will have At to carry the twenty 3 cunningly fixed this bon won't be paid for twen propose that the ou will have to pa adding under this legisia- mous (ax to an ulready The doc bill, so that it vears and ou're a of the One oati- 00.000.000. v, M Mo 00,000,000, and is probably riht aust Le paid for every- rth having” Senator Under- woud said, “that i true of gover ment—the : factor civilization 1oyalty, in taxes. ~The orn under is f the m section titution providing power to "he duty red in money Will Vote Agalhst Bill. want distinetly undersiood against_any bonus 1t would ce given a reflection on the servi Ly son.” | et the senator would reflect on | it by letting war profiteers keep their | profits, Senator EBrogkha: Republi “That is not urned the When Senator Brookhart insisted at those securities were only a 1 part of the national security is- Senator Underwood expressed re- gret that he could not “keep up with the senator's imagination.” Ithough opposed to any bonus,” he continued. “I feel that if one is to id in “This bill says to the soidiers, You to sign a receipt, adjust your ac- sunt with the government and pass the Alabamian continued Tt is claimed the xoldiers approve this bill. 1 don't believe it. Why, they won't get anything for twenty years. A loan at high interest can be made after two vears, but only of $87, if the policy is worth $1,000. Calls Measure a “Sham.” Characterizing the insurance meas- “sham and fraud,” Senator Underwood said he would vote to amend it to substitute a cash option, but added he would continue to op- pose @ bonus measure. enator McKellar, Democrat, Ten- -e. described the pending measure a “‘makeshift,’ and therefore, said he would vote for the cash option amendment. To keep a pledge Mr. Mc- Kellar sald he would support the mousure if the amendment failed. The Tenuessee senator declared re- adjustments had been made for rail- roads, civillan employes and business interests and “it is time now, past time, to readjust to some degree the pay of our soldiers who risked life for us.” Bondholders’ Patriotism Urged. A proposal that holders of tax- exempt securities pay the cost of the soldier bonus by voiuntarily forego- ing their income from this source for four years was made by Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina. “We have been hearing of the pure patriotism of these bondholders,” he said; ‘here's a chance for them to show it Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massa- chusetts, suggested senators who held these bonas be asked to sub- scribe to the scheme first. -“f will ask it,” Senator Smith said, “and who is the first?" ‘I have an income of about $200 a year from liberty loan bonds which I turn over to your fund.” Senator Walsh replied. Senator Bruce, Democrat, Maryland, volunteered $10 a year which he said he gained from tax-exempt liberty bonds. Number E ith, as his time expired. ¢ Senator Copeland said if was time for “repentance”’ by the government, and, referring to the recent Senate invastigations, declared “we can best start cleaning house by paying our obligation to the soldiers Semator Copeland Explains, “I have been booed and hissed by the rich for presenting this cash op- tion amendment,” Senator Cereland suid. “I don't think there was a New York paper which did not criticize me for it. But there is hardly a bank or business firm in New York which every year does not give its employes a cash bonus.” Mr. Copeland said he had receive ! messages from soldiers in every sec- tion of the country indorsing and “demanding’” the cash option. The pending measure should be compared with “adjusted compensa- tion paid by the government to every industry since the war.” declared Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, “in order that its inadequacy might be_appreciated.” Senator Broussard, Democrat, Lou- isiana, said sentiment in that\state was overwhelmingly in favor of a cash bonus and gave notice that he Would vote for the Copeland substi- tute. Denouncing _the ‘“extremely ex- travagant” statement, which he said had been made by proponents of the bonus during the debate, Senator Bruce, Democrat, Maryland, asserted the average pay of the private soldler in the world war was $1,287 per an- num, exclusive of allowances for de- pendents. In no other conflict, he de- clared, had the men been treated so generously. The evils of the pension system has been a topid of public dis- cussion in every southern state sirce the civil war, he said, and yet many southern senators are advocating a return to it. Bruce Opposes Plas. “The large majority of soldiers in the world war who came from the south were young farmers and farm tenants” Senator Bruce continued, “and 1 know the average return to a man éf that class was never more than $400 above his expenses in any oa ' Senator Caraway, Democrat, Arkan- sas, declared the American 1egion, iz, P ne two!” shouted Senator “ |udopt the report | not | Mawr, | Thomas and {tee report. Misx Mary Van K | York : views of the American Legion lobbists THE EVENING UNIVERSITY WOMEN FIGHT ON RIGHTS BILL Bitter Controversy Started Over Amendment Giving Equality to Sexes. SOME FAVOR MEASURE Described as Question of Bread for Workers. into bitter controversy over the question of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution, the third annual convention of the Amer- lean Association of University Wom- en at the Washington Hotel rose to 4 climax of debate today which re- veanled some of the lcaders among American women in_educational and professional life widely divided Debate arose over report of the committee on legislative policies, pre- nted by Miss [Slizabeih Jastman Massachusetts, which proposed tinued opposition to the so- called equal rights amendment that men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States y place subject to its juris- Frecipitate a motion could made to | Dr. M. Carey Thom former president o Bryn Mawr introdu, an wmendment Would portpone consideration - subject by the association for year snd would prevent the octation or its officers from takis any position on the subject during that time. Afte varion + in which it was that such a pro- nendrient would or would wke the bread out of the mouths of women,” opponents of the amend- | 10 t moved the “previous question ‘ ttempiing to shut off debate. At! nogu the ciation was taking a prolonged vote, complicated by the | system of Fepresentation on the | previous questio 1 Dr. Thomas, who said she had given | the subject her best thought for many | months. during a tour around th world on which she had di =ed th proble with the womanhood of many nations, declared it was the | “burning qu ion of taking away a jroman’s power to support herself by | legisiation sponsored by ass which is opposed to the | of women in modern 1ife | Conditions in Kngland. gland, Dr. Thomas said, it was to see the way in which n were being imposed upon by e bitter competition of me We don't know.” she continued but what there cht be here special lation to take the bread out of ouths of women.” In Pennsyl- | she said, where the ten-hour nd forty-eight-hour week pre- as a feminist, had to dismiss oman janitors. If tha ten-hour | afiected the professors in Bryn couldn’t have a woman on | culty.” i prousiy In law Vi taking objection to Dr supporting the commit- | seck of 1 Sage Foundation of New | declared the propostd amend- mant would “fasten confusion on all the gtatutes containing the word ‘woman 1t would cause number- eS< cases to be brought before the | courts, she said, and, in effect, “we would put a noose around the necks of women in industry.” Tir. Florence Reno Sabin of Wiscon- sin, speaking in favor of a delay in consideration, said the proposal of Dr. Thomas “commends itself to the good judgment of all thoughtful Dpeople.” ] Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Connecti- | cut. attacking the committee report, | declared she felt the report presented | a “perfectly preposterous” position | for ‘the women of the associatiol Designating herself as a “trained| worker in sclence,” she declared, "My | profession is positively taken away | from me in many states where | women are prohibited from under- | ground work. 1 ask for just plain| fair play, as an intelligent thinking | woman.” | Ask Teachers’ Pay Bill. The association adopted all of the | legislative policies committee report up to the proposed equal rights amendment and went on record as| “sponsoring the compulsory educa- | tion and school census bill for the| District of Columbia and the teachers’ salary bill providing for an increase in_salaries for the teachers here.” Reclassification came in for criti- cism at the hands of the committee, which branded the personnel classifi- | cation board as a “three-headed | board.” | Among the billa pending in Con- gress indorwed by the assoclation were the Sterling-Reed education bill, a national physical education bill' by Representative Bacon, amend- ment to the Smith-Hughes vocational education act providing increased ap- propriations, a ch#fd labor amend- ment, adequate appropriations for the children’s bureau for coilecting data on_prostitution and its effect on the welfare of children. participation of the United States in the permanent court of international justice with the Hughes reservation, and a fed- eral and industrial home for women, ‘The program called for reports of several committees at the morning session. Ambassador Jusserand of France was expected to address a noon luncheon, and there were to be conferences during the afternoon and tonight. Speakers before the conference night included: Mrs. Walter J. C non of Massachusetts, Mrs. Ida C Clarke, associate editor of the Pictorial Review; Miss Mary Van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation and Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the children's bureau, Department of Labor. CHILD HURT BY AUTO. Gladys Crouch Suffers Fractured Skull When Struck. Gladys Crouch, eight years old, 904 14tn street southeast, was knocked down by an automobile in front of 1515 Pennsylvania avenue southeast this afternoon and her skull fractured. She was taken to Gallinger Hospital, where it was said her condition, slthough critical, is _not necessarily fatal. The child is said to have run in front of an automobile of Richard H, Lansdale of Bandy Spiring, Md., who was taken to the fifth precinct police station. the Ru. indotsing the insurance bill, had changed its stand. “I don’t know what controlled the here,” he added, “but I don't believe the majority of members of that or- ganization know what this bill pro- vides. We are just giying the soldiers a due bill which they can collect \wenty years from now, if they live.” Senator Neely, Democrat, West Vir- ginia, suggested a_bonus be voted for the Kaiser “for affording our soldiers the opportunity to enjoy such a great time as opponents of this bill have pic- tured.” Taking up amendments, the Senate voted down, 41 to 38, the proposal of Senator Smith, Democrat, South Car- olina, to limit the rediscount rates chargeable on the Insurance certifi- catee. Without a_record vote, a motion by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massa- | chusetts, to hold up payments of the 350 in cash allowed by the committee bill until July 1, 1925, was adopted. Senator Walsh' explained his pur- pose was to delay these payments un- til after next session of Congress, when an attempt would be made to amend the bill, if enacted into law, to make full cash payments an option. Under the committee bill, these pay- ments could be made after nine' months from the date of enactment |8 of the measure into law. Without a roll call the Senate agreed to amendments by Chairman adsworth of the military commit- tee extending the bonus to the Phil- ippine Scouts and making the Porto Rico regiment of infantry euxiole on the basis of overseas service by rea- son of their service at Panaima, STAR, The National WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL Roads of France are numbered throughout, and carry their numbers upon cach kilo- meter stone. BY following these indications, com- prehensible cven to strangers, the tourist can sce at a glance if he is o n the correct road. For cxample, Route National No. 20 comducts from Paris to the Spanish fronticr Pyrenees; and N daye on the Bay BUDYARD KIPLING. at Bourg-Madame, in the Eastern 0. 10 to the same fronticr at Hen- of Biscay. A SONG OF FRENCH ROADS By Rudyard Kipling (Copyright, in United States nnd Canadm, 1924, by Rudyard Kiplin Relenned wght in ely through the North Ame: reat Dritain, 1924, by Rudyard Kipling.) ean Newspaper Alliance. Copy- (English aceent) w opraise the Gods ¢ that bring a heart’s f Time and Chance desire, And lay the joyous roads of France Once more beneath So numbered by Napol the tire— leon, The veriest ass can spy How Twenty takes to And Ten is for Hend: Sixteen hath fed our fi Bourg-Madame aye. ghting line From Dunkirk to Peronne, And Thirty-nine and Twenty-nine Can show where it | \as gone, Which slant through Arras and Bapaume, And join outside Cambrai, While Twenty takes to Bourg-Madame, And Ten is for Hendaye The crops and houses Where Thirty-seven And even ghostly For Is all restored to man. spring once more ran, ty-four Oh, swift as shell-hole poppies pass The blurring ve < And Twenty takes to ars go by, Bourg-Madame, And Ten is for Hendaye! And vou desire that sheeted snow Where chill Mont L« ouis stands? And we the rounder gales that blow Full lunged across th So you will use the O While we slip throug Since Twenty takes to e Landes— rleans Gate vh Versailles ; Bourg-Madame, And Ten is for Hendaye! Sou'-West by On every vine appea Those four first cautic The temper of the y outh—and South by West-— 5 »us leaves that test ear. The dust is white at Angouleme— The sun is warm at And Twent) And Ten is Blay - takes to Bourg-Madame, for Hendaye. Broad and unbridled, mile on mile, The highway drops Past Langon down th her line at gray-walled aisle Of resin-scented pine; And ninety to the lawl The kilometers fly— What was your pace t ess hour o Bourg-Madame ? We sauntered to Hendaye! Now Funtarabia marks our goal, And Bidassoa shov At issue with each whispering shoal. In violet, pearl and r Ere crimson over ocea The sunset-banners die. Yes—Twenty takes to ose, n’s edge Bourg-Madame But Ten is for Hendaye! Oh, praise the Gods of Time and Chance That ease the long control, And bring the glorious Once more io cheer o With beauty, change an Of sun and soil and si Where Twenty takes to Sowl of France ur soul d valiancy ky, Bourg-Madame And Ten is for Hendaye! ND TEMPERANCE UNION . OF DISTRICT MEETS| Reports of Work for Last Quarter Presented by Officers of Organizagjon. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia convened in the Sherwood Presbyte- rian Church, at Rhode Island avenue and 22d street northeast, today for its quarterly meeting. The convention was called to order by the president, Mrs. Emma Sanford Shelton. Mrs. A. M. Charters offered prayer. \Mrs. M. M. Pollock read re- | ports of the work done by the va- rlous units of the union within the last quarter. The treasurer's report was read by Mrs. J. W. Allison. Rev. Walter F. Eagleson, pastor of the church, made an address of welcome. Reports were made by Mrs. Arthur H. Howell of the Women's Mission- ary Society, Mrs. A. B. Bafl of the Tadies’ Ald Society, Mrs. Bdna Proctor of the Northeast Suburban W. C. T. U. Mrs. L. S. Weightman and Mrs. A" D. McManus of the Moters' Club. Mrs-Clafre L Lusby and Mrs. Charles Cook made brief addresses. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler sang, while Mrs. Moffet Bradley led the noontide rayer. PrY feature of the session this after- noon is the presentation of a pageant in conjunction with the law enforce- ment convention, given under the Supervision of Miss Edna H. Taylor of the young people’s branch of the W.C. T. U. MYSTERIOUS LETTER TO WHEELER SOUGHT (Continued from First Page.) witness sald he had no knowledge that any employe of Campbell had n granted government permits. ;’;: himself had no assignment of overnment oil land from Campbeil, but did get one from the Gordon- Campbell-Kevin syndicate in settle- ment of his fees when he left the company. This was private land, he said, and he subsequently learned that there was a previous assignment of_the land to certain landholders. The witness was excused and the o adjourned until tomMOrrow, PROTECTOR OF BOY LOSES CHURCH POST Banker Who Adopted Young Kluxen Fails of Re-Election as Vestryman. By the Associated Press. MADISON, N. J., April 23.—Monnell Sayre, a New York banker and foster- father of Francis Kluxen, has failed of re-election to the board of vestry- men of Grace Episcopal Church here. No reason was given here for the | action, but it is generally believed it was due to Mr. Sayre's adoption cf the Kluxen boy, who was tried for the murder of twelve-year-old Jean- ette Lawrence of Madison and ac- quitted. The girl's body was found | near the Kiuxen home in the fall of 1921 . | Mr. Sayre siid he would ocontinue | to attend the church. “ROXIE” FUND INCREASED. Recent Donatidns Bring Total to Date to $1,469. Three additional belated subscrip- tions to The Star's “Roxie” radio fund veceived today brought the total to $1,469.81. Although The Star's fund has been closed because a suf- ficient amount was raised for the installation and maintenance of radio apparatus at Walter Reed, Mount Alto and the Naval hospitals, the committee in charge of the. money is continuing to receive subsctiptions for the purchase of radio sets for the bedridden patients in other gov: ernment hospitals in the eastern sec- tion of the countty. The contributions should be sent to James H. Baden, vice president of the Commercial National Bank and treasurer of the “Roxie” radio fund. ‘With the additional contributions, The Star's fund stands today as fol- lows: Previously acknowledged. American Liberty Chapter, 8 Of Al..oooen . Osiris Lodge, No. 26, F. A. A M. ceempesns $1,404.81 10.00 5.00 50.00 0. 23, 1924, - HOUSE TO ACT SOON. ON-D. C. MONEY BILL Measure, Reported Yesterday With | S.evere Cuts, Likely to Cage Up Saturday. COMPLAINTS ARE NUMEROUS City and School Heads Hit Severe Reductions. ‘The District appropristion bill to pay the expenses. of the National Capital for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, which was reported to the House yesterday, probably will come up for consideration in the House on Haturday. The members of the uppropriations committee hope {that this bill can be passed before | adjournment Tuesday night. | The biggest complaint against the bill is over the severe cuts for street and sewer work extension. There was a cut of $217,250 in the Item for pav- Ing or repaving specific streets. Two items for which appropriations were denied were for replacing the old cobblestone road to Anacostia Bridge with concrete, and similarly improv- ing I14th street so to the {of Engraving and Printing. | IUIs certain that the item of §6.000 | for rent for the order of deeds office must be This item 15 the sume Iy carricd. Al- ready. huwever, an item of $1.600 has | { been included in the deficion the present fieml year, s | ready 00 has been wppropriated | for thiz year while only $6.000 is al- | lo\n:bd for the next fiscal year. The item of $6,000 was sent before | the deficiency estimate came in. To Study Situation. Chairman Madden of the House of ‘n.pwmvr:utmns committee, accompan- |fed by Chairman Davis of the sub- gommittee on the Distriat bill and | Represcntative Ayres of Kansas, the | ranking Demcerat, will soon visit the | recorder of deeds’ office and make a llwe!'flnn.u investigation to see what is | needed. ~ Chairman Madden. antioi- | Pates that authority must be granted | to secure additional quarters | s, Another dispute that probably will deveiop is on of the tubercular Upshur | street tract | The bill as reported, specifically di- | rects that the tubercular school shall | be built on the Upshur street tract | and money has already been appro- | | priated for it The District bill a5 reported in- | cased the fee for certificates of | { from 50 cents to $1. This was advocated by the District Comm sioners and collector of taxes Under the existing law, rifl other military equipment loan the High School Cadets are under oond. Tiie District is obliged to put | ! ond to the War Department The present bill carries a provision that no such bond shall be required. | Commissioners Rudolph, Oyster and | Bell ‘united today In expressing th hope that Congress will restore at least some of the items cut from the | bi They indicated that they will en-| deavor to convince the Senate sub- | committee of the necessity for all of | the estimates approved by the bureau | of the budget, and that they would | look with hope 1o the conferees who | I finally settle the terms of the | i | Keen regret over the action of the | House appropriations committee in slashing the school budget for the next fiscal year. and hope that the Senate committe will be more gen- erous and restore some of the deleted | items. was voiced today by public| sehgol authoriies | | _“School authorities appreciate the efforts of ‘the House cammicice o meet the needs of the schools,” said | Robert L. Haycock. istant ‘supe: intendent of schoo There is some degree of disappointment, however, in the fact that appropriations for the | year 1924-1825 seem to be nearly | $500.000 less than for the current year. Bureau the school location on the and | U. S. MERCHANT HELD| FOR FLAG DISPLAY | Iste of Pines ngcident—s.id to Vio- late Law of Cuba About Showing Emblems. i 1 | | Ey the Associated Press. | HAVANA, April 23.—Auron Kerit- sky, & merchant of American citizen- ship. was taken Into custody in Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, last Saturday for displaying a large American flag, according to reports received here to- day. Published reports said he and some other Americans unrolled the flag in the street in order that Amer- ican aviators flying over the Isle of Pines might see it. At the American consulate general here, however, it was said today that Keritsky claimed he merely took the fla into the street to unroll it and see what condition It was in. While published reports described American residents in Nueva Gerona as much excited over the incident, at the consulate it was not rexarded as | important. It was said that if any charges were filed against Keritsky he was inclined to pay a light fine and not press his side of the case. He was taken to the city hall by a po- liceman, but not actually arrested. It is against Cuban law to display a foreign flag without displaying a Cu- ban flag at the same time. BULLETS RIDDLE AUTO. Driver, Suspected by Hijackers, Escapes Eighteen Shots. “Talk about your Argonne, that Maryland road this morning made it look like Peaceful Valley.” Safe and sound at home today at 2007 L street, Robert Brown, colored, who passed through a hail of bullets about 2 o'clock near Elkridge, Md., en route to Washington in his auto- mobile, smilingly told of his terror when hijackers, suspecting he had liquor aboard, tried to hold him up. The automobile tells a better story than he can. FEighteen bullet holes are in the rear of it One is just below the loading nozzle of the gaso- line tank. Three are in the chassis. Others are through the rear curtain. In_the windshield are three gaping holes made by screeching leaden pel- lets as they missed their mark by inches. The automobile itself is at the third precinct. Crowds are in- specting itf ‘When a policeman walked through an alley near Brown's, home this morning he saw the * automobfle. Blood was on the floor. A bullet had grazed Brown's right side. Another had gone through his cap. The policeman thought a murder had been committed. He told Capt. Flather. Capt. Flather had the car taken to the precinct and he looked up the owner's name. Then he interviewed Brown, amased to discover that the man who should be dead was able to talk about it at all. GOVERNOR’S WIDOW DIES. ASHEVILLE, N. C, April 23.—Mrs. Zebulon Baird Vance, widow of North Carolina’s _governor during the war Lotween the states, died yesterday rnoon at her home, Gombroom, near Black Mountain. Mrs. Vance had been {ll for several months. She was in Kentucky, September- 29, 1840, | in, to | WIbE WORLD™ HARRY K. THAW. THAW IS HELD SANE; NEW TRIAL IS ASKED | Millionaire Remains in Custody Pending Decision on Ex-Wife's and Trustees’ Motions. HIS FUTURE PLANS NOT MADE News of Verdict Received With Aged Mother in Hotel. By the Assoriated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 23.—Al- though he was declared sane and fully capable of managing his affalrs by a jury in common pleas court last night, Harry K. Thaw today is still in the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, where he has been confined for last seven years After the verdict had William A ray, counsel for ¥n Neshit, Tha divorced w 3 thirte -year-old son w: per- mi 1 to intervene the trial. re- quested the usu fo file a_motio trial. The motion was granted Judge Monah before whom 1 cld Thaw in custody of th position. hearing of aw must Trustee In announcing for another trial, alro spoke for Arthur ¢ counsel for the trustees of Thaw estate. who also opposed his re Thaw and his aged mother Mar; Thaw, received news of the verdict in Mrs. Thaw's suite at the Ritz. rliton Hotel Thaw sald he would not make any definite plans for the future until his case fina was disposed of. Thaw returned to the asylum short- 1y before midnight. He did not say Wwhether he would voluntarily go to New York to answer the indictment harging him with an_attack on Frederick Gump, jr. a Kansas City high school boy. should he eventua ly gain his freedom. Spent Sixteen Years in Castody. Former Judge John M. Patterson, counsel, said the courts of Penn yivania_could take no coghizance the New York indictment until new extradition papers were here. Civil suit for $6 entered against Thaw by father was settled out of court last January. Since he shot and killed Stanford White in New York, in June, 1906, Thaw has spent about sixteen years in jalls and asylums, MISS NESBIT SURPRISED. been brought E and the the for the while remain in the asylum Axk New Trial. t he would ask ¥ caid he kson, hi Thaw's Former Wife Verdict Is Unfortunate. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., April 23 Believes | When informed that Harry K. Thaw | physic had been declared sane by Philadelphia last night, bit, his former wife, showed and disappointment and exy opinion “that the judge an should be held responsible he_does in the future. “1 saw Thaw's face and no one can tell me that man Is sane,” Miss N said. She characterized her for husband’'s statement that provision had been made for her and her thirteen-vear-old son. 3 for the sympathy of the publi “Ask him where the pre she continued. “He has ne Russell a penny and he doesn't in- tend to." ELISHA ). BABCOCK DIES IN CALIFORNIA ‘Was Resident of D. C. Sixty Years and Held Many Important Federal Positions. a jury Ivn Nes- surprise ssed her the jury for what Word was received here today of the death at Los Angeles, Calif,, yes- terday of Elisha J. Babeock, a well known resident of this city for more than sixty vears. Mr. Babeock was born in Albany, N. Y., February 2§, 1844. At the out- break of the civil war he enlisted at the age of seventeen years in the 44th New York Volunteers, with which organization he served for three years. On his retirement from the ‘Army he took up his residence in this city and held many responsible po: tions under the government. At va- rious times he served as private sec- retary to Secretaries of the Treasury Bristow, Windom and Sherman. Upon the election of Mr. Sherman to the *Senate, he went to the Capitol with him, and served as clerk of the committees of finance and of foreign relations. When Mr. Sherman be- came Secretary of State. Mr. Bab- cock was his private secretary, and served in that capacity for Secreta- ries Day, Hay, Root, Bacon and Knox. Tn 1810 'Mr. Babeock nominated and confirmed as American consul at Tangier, but declined the appoint- ment, accepting in its stead u clerk- ship of the highest grade in the De- partment of State, where he remained until June 30, 1922, when he was re- tiréd. He was a member of St. John Lodge, No. 11, F. A. A. M. and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He leaves a widow, four daughters, Mrs. Joseph Gurley, Garrett Park, Md.: Mrs, Anna V. Green of Los An- geles, Calif., at whose home he died, Mrs. Mabel B. Macy of Boise City, Jdaho; Mrs. Clara V. Stowell of Wash. ington, and one son, Charles E. Bab- cock of this eity. His remains will be brought to ington for interment at Arling- metery next week. PEAE R The lifting of an elephant by & human being seems fincredible, but the feat was accomplished in New York by Martha Farra, an Italian strong woman, who lifted, with ap- parent ease, a two-ton elephandy ton I four days in which | and reasons for a new | Mrs. | jump’s | m | | this | the given | CHEMISTRY COURSES {IN SCHOOLS ANALYZED Delegates to Convention Heer Im- provements Outlined—Council Adopts Proposals. LEATHER SHRINKING TOPIC Weather Changes Make Shoes Hurt Feet, Say Experts. Changes in chemistry collexes and high sehools fer and proble leather cupied day's courses in heat trans- of dye, rubber, und gelatin production oc- the delegates attending to- sions ¢ American Chem stral High School Diversity of length and content of high schoul courses and differing en- tra chemistry on the ps | were as the major fa | covered in a survey conducted by the committee on education appointed at e September meeting of the soe n Milwaukee. Adoption of the r port, which was submitted by Prof. 3 ordon of the University of . was announced by the so nell today Plany Widely Approved. npting t itnation ommittes ical Society liste Au tional | ported re representative ted in new bro outline &ht college \s for a national organization to « with chemical education are be- ing worked out Establishment of & al journal of chemical edaca 150 urged. in lcather from an parte of the country took part in sessions of ihe sociely's division of ather and gelatin chemistry. Foot discomforts which come th chang |ing weather were attributed by John Arthur Wilson and Albert F. Gallum of Mil to shrinking of |Tedther in Modern research they repor has revolutionized the making of leither. since it is found that “the degree of shrinking under fixed conditions of rei e humidi is determined by the hemical! co | position of the leather.” Variations in Leather. | “The greatest difference in this re- | spect” they said, “is founa between | chrome-tanned and vegetable-tanped | teathers. With increasing humidity | of the atmosyhere from 0 to 100 per cent, chrome leathers increase in area from 16 to 21 per cent, against oniy 1 to 7 per cent for vegetabla leather, corresponding shrinkages oc g when the relative humidity i again jow Chrome erty of nrognost chan p [ uk shoes d, w4 thus have the prop asing the sensitivity of rs who foretell weather by the nging degree of their The tighte. of th able shoes als, r holding th nting a much the chrome a better after | Am Kohr and L. Butler for t a | air service, o H £ ansfer symposium Great Waste of Gas. | “There has always been.” | report, “a great waste of | in airships @uring extended flighte [due to the necessity of maintaini | static equiiibrium by valving & when total Joad has heen de- consumption of fuel. This #ht be tolerated when hydro- | gen is used, but must be nearly elimi nated before e and ex | pensive as h put inte | men 1 use. solve the fting ga« can be problem of maintai ng a constant total load in order th change of load might not have to compensated for by change of 1i | survey of the possib means made and resulted in adoption of t | method of condensation of water fron: e exhaust i ] ‘This was accomplished,” the re- port said, “by passing the exhaust. as through lons thin-walled pipe: | éxposed to the air sweeping past the | =hip Structure and physical laws of the atom were discussed vesterday by Robert A. Millikan, professor of s in the California Ins@ute of | Technoloxy, and Dr. Gilbert N. Lewis. or of chemistry in the Un of California. Dr. Millikar | expounding the law of radiation be | tween electro afd it was here that | the difference of opinion existed t tween the physicist and the chemist Prof. Lewis, discussing the chem- ist's theo of the atom, said that, while six or eight years ago “hu thought in terms of a_static atom difference from the physicist's been largely resolved by che st ceepting th general orbit theory, while the physicist has changed his model to giv to each ctron its own orbit and to ascribe to each orbit a fixity.” | profe versity 200 Flee Fire in Hospital | NEW YORK. April 23—Two hun | ared patients were moved without mis *hap today from a wing of St. Mary | Hospital. Brooklyn, when fire broke jout under the roof. One hospital at- i tendant, a man, was overcome by smoke. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1.200: maiden fllies, two-year-olds; four and & Balf furlongs. Dorothy Gilpin.... 115 $Imagination .... 115 +Primrose ... 115 1Trip Lightly ... 115 Slow and Eesy . 115 Starmatia .. 118 Good Will ...... 115 $Rejected . 115 Mother Goose ... 115 1W. 7. Salmon entry. 1J. 8. Cosden entry. SECOND RACE—Purse, $1500; steeplechase: four-year-olds and up;: two mil Gold Foyle . 138 Lollipop . 187 Vicairs . 137 Fort Eustis e 1.8 tRockinghorse 4Five pounds claimed for rider. THIRD RACE—Purse, $1.200; three.year-olds; six furlongs. Buck Pond *Invictus Acontius Pollymara .. Flax Jim " Kenney . Much Ado M. *Julia M. ... Black Art . Trapstick .. Sun_Mart “Humble *Barleyoorn Also el *Spartan . Carajo 107 Saad Rook claiming : 18 L 107 12 103 s D90 Byron .01 108 FOURTH RACE—The Pacific purse, $1.500: three-year-olds up; mile and seventy yards. ‘Wilkes-Barre Nautioal . 111 Shamrock . 108 97 Minto ... Natural 101 Hazy Dawn FIFTH RACE—Purse, $1.200; claiming; three-year-olds and up; mile and & furlong, Trajanus . 115 East Indian ‘Humboldt 111 Ros Yeta ... Good Night 110 Maryland Belle Mountain Rose 24110 *Lord Wrack . SIXTH RACE—Purse, $1200; three-year.olds and up Armistios ol sixtoenth. 107 108 ing *Vice Chairman. . 110 *Venal Je SEVENTE BAQE—Purse, $1. claiming: threeyearolds AR up; Tl 454 & srteay Col. Whallen ‘Toodles . .. 98 ible— ° Stoel, s *Roseats Leaside ‘Loveliness . *A Ve sk, Wk e