Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1924, Page 2

D. C. PAY BILLS BEFORE SENATE THIS WEEK Teacher Measure May Be Reported Without King Amend- ments. i PERSONNEL CUT Reductions Proposed by Senator in Police-Firemen's Scale. Bills increasing the salaries of the public schoul teachers and the sala- ries of the police and fire departments the District will be on the Senate dar ready for action this week, confidently predicted last The House dy mea ca | night. was has alre passed these ure A subcommittee con tor Capper of Kan Senator King isting of Sena as (chairman) and of Utah has had un the ay he to the for its Wedne Senator Capper the bill passed by the with amendments. posed that er hill full Ty as fow has pro- consideration and it will committes teache reported action favo Housc Senator King the thirtecn supervis be elimi that | there bo several reduction These are matters that the committee will have to pass supporters of the bill will be reported to promptiy hout ments ated and full upon, and | that senate in ris, Velieve the King it | u the amend- King on Subcommitiee, Senator Ki committee with District is a member of Ball, mmittes hill \ sub Nenator chair on the and he man of the ha and ubmitt th a e pay " mher Bl pr subcomm n amend- o sinz redue been the | tinns ttee has bill opposed to r ules, it authorized to repor ator Ball is in the salary to Known. The bill has been ame include the ded so as to park police by authority of the committee and it will go to the Senate in that form. The salary schedule for the park polic the same as that for the metropolitan po- lice, except that the ceive $100 because furnishes park police re- the ir less govern- rent uniforms. The con them th for the the Lill 700, salarie ained park police first $2.300; f | Lieutenant | $2.400: sergeant sers privates three £1.500, ants, ass £2,000 nd priv wo, privates class one. s Other Provisions. The bill alse provides t Police 1 benefit and firemen's retire shall contribute 1% salaries to that fund, as d This be changed eent if that percentage District appropriation proposed. The amendments posed by Senator the salary of the superintendent of police $5,000, instead of 200; the *alary of lieutenants $2,640, instead of 2.700; the salary of sergeants $2,240, inctead of $2,400, and the salaries of . privates of class three $2,000, instead of 32,100, Park Police Amendments. Amendments proposed by Senator King to the schedule for the park police are follows: Lieutenant. 2.640; instead of $2.700; sergeants, $2.240, instead of $2,300. The King emendmen the fire department are Chief engineer, $5.000, instead of | $5.200; inspectors, $2,150, instead of $2,160; pilots, $2 instead of $2,250; marine engineers, $2,240, instead privates class three, $2,000, in- stead of $2,100 The committee amended the bill so to make the salary for sergeants the fire department $2,240, instead of $2,200, and for battalion chief en- gineers, $3,250, instead of $3,000. The committee also increased the salary hat the under the ent fund, and per cent of their " holice rk the others. per the now may t is set bill in as to the bill King would pro- as proposed for | as follows: | us in make | Dies Suddenly DR. BRIGG SCOTT YOUNG. VANDERLIP RETAINS COUNSEL FOR BUREAU iEmpluys J. Westan Allen Former Attorney General of Massachu- setts—Policies Announced. ' =enoral meneral Fedoral ctention of 4. Weston for of nsel arch by Ailen, Massachu for the RBureau Frank Citize v last n Nead of th Aflen will assume pers of all legal pl of | work of investigation In directing the legal work bureau, Mr. Allen said in a statement: “I shall have in view the two pur- poses so forcefully declared by Presi- dent Coolidge in his New York dress. First, that any who have been Euilty corrupt ctices shall ascertained and he | «bility, and second, that any of corruption shall be trustworthy evidence on_rumor or malic The niaterial gathered, he added, would be made available to the De- partment of Justice and other | tive departmen 'CAPITAL OF FUTURE OUTLINED BY MOORE nnonneed wherlip the s bureau’s char supported |\ and not Fine Arts Commission Head Speaks | to Washington Study on City's Needs. Washington possesses four monu- ments which have not becn surpassed in the last thousand vyears: the Washington monument, the Lincoln memorial, the Adams memorial and the equestrian statuelof Joan of Are, said Charles Moore, commissioner of fine arts, in an address hefore Wash- |ington Study vesterd That Washington is fast outgrow- ing the limits first =et for it, and the various departments of the federal government have outgrown the old buildings o that new and more ample quarters are in plan for them, was reviewed and illustrated with :ulnhrl slides by Mr. Moore, “The new United States Chamber of | Commerce building: is one of the| most beautiful buildings ever con- structed.” said Mr. Moore, “and thers are in plan five other buildings which will go far to bring this city to the accomplishment of dignity and beauty that George Washington {mp(d and planned that it should To Relieve White House. hava a hall ferences and great fore for international con- reception rooms for ate affairs which have hereto- been held at the White and in this relief the White House may become again what it was de- of inspectors from $2,000 to $2,150. NEW ARMS PARLEY APPROVED BY WILLIS| Ohio Senator Backs Coohdge Pro- | nosal at Grant Day Dinner. Hns Some Probes. By the Assoviated Press PITTSBURGH, April inz of another disarmament confer- ence was advocated by Senator Frank | K. Willis, Republican, Ohio, tonight | n an address at the Grant day din- the Americus Club. Senator | [Willis also commented at length | upon the Senate investigations and predicted the nomination of President Coolidge at the Republican national ~onvention at Cleveland and his elec- tion in November. Gen. John J. Pershing, speaker, outlined the n tary policy “of building up the nucleus of an organization capable of expansion in time of peril into a great democratic citizen army.” “This task,” he said, “is the issue now closest to my heart because it fell to me especially to witness the impotence of America for more than a vear after she accepted the gage of battle in & world war. It was my particular portion to realize how dangerous was our risk, and how jiclose we drifted to Irreparable d aster before tho force of our hu jriedly created armies could be to bear against a martial 26.—The call- | ner of s another tion's mili- Princess Is Speaker. Cantacuzens, a mrand- {laanzhter of General Grant. and Rep- ‘resentative . A. Newton of Missouri, {iwere other speakers. During the day {i5en. Pershing was voted a life mem- {fhar of the Pennsvlvania Secciety, Sons of the American Revoiution, after | making an address before the society. {iSeveral social functions were given {'in honer of Princess Cantacuzene, who came here from Washington yes- terday Characterizing the Washington con- ference “as the longest step forward in centuries of history toward peace and better understanding among na- tions,” Senator Willis declared that when the terms of the Daw report are finally accepted by Europe there s reason to expect that much good an be accompiished by the calling of another disarmament conference.” “The functions of The Hague tri- bunal” Senator Willis continued, “can be So enlarged as to make it a real instrument of world justice to which we can go, but to which we cannot be compelled to £o. Interna- tional law should bo codified through a conferenoe of the civilized nations, and tand armaments as well as fight- ing ships in the air and beneath the sea should be reduced through inter- national common council and volun- tary agreement without compulsion | the signed to be, a gentleman's home. “A short time ago President Cool sked members of the comm sion if they were ready to go forward with the buildings of they could get | the money, and the answer was, ‘Yes, if~ the, money comes slowly enous! One million dollars a year for five | years’ would.” said the “commissioner. “put the work in motion so that it could be handled efficiently and most beneficially.”” Department Hampered. The completion of the Department of Agriculture is a much needed ac- complishment. as the staff handling work of the department is ham- ered for lack: of space and ordinary comforts. The removal of the Botani- cal Gardens to Hamilton Hill, and | the development of the islands along the Anacostia River as an eastern | park “balancing FPotomac Park, was stated as wise and splendid develop- ments. “In preparation for the cslebration of the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth an_effort to bring the city to a nearer realiza- tion of the dreams of the great man for whom the city is named should be our determination” said Mr. Moore. This was the last meeting in Wash- ington Study this season. Certificates of attendange on the various courses offered this winter were presented. Among_those receiving certificates were Mrs. Charles Warren, Mrs. Theodore Noyes. Miss Nannie B. Maur? Dr. A. Frances Frye, Mrs. 1. E. Underwood, and Miss Ruth Burt. Courses in Washington Study will be resumed after Thanksgiving, it was announced by Miss Maria Ewing, director. tions, Senatcr Willis said that tre acts of an individual “cannot be at- tributed to an organization unless that organization _condones and adopts the acts of the individual as its own.” “If Mr. Fall” Semator Willis con- tinued, *should be nominated for any important office by the Republican party in face of the disclosures that have been made concerning his offi- cial record the Republican party Would properly be held responsible as an organization for its indorse- ment of this record. If the Democrats party should name Mr. McAdoo as its candidate for the presidency it would thereby adopt and indorse as Its own his_record.” The senator declared that congres- sional investigations to obtain a basis of fact for legislative action or to fmprove the public service are jus fied, “but when they degenerate into mere muck-raking for political pur- poses * * * it is time to call a halt” Mellon Plan Upheld. Uncounted millions look to Con- gress for enactment of the Melion tax pian, he sald, adding “it is the hope of its enemies that one result of the so-called investigation of the Treasury Department will be the crippling of the plan.” Declaring that Republicans believe in protection to American labor as well as protection to American in- dustry, Senator Willis said the Senate protects American labor and Ameri- can standards and without justly of- fending any, provides beyond perad- or mavrender of independence.”’ ’ Sweakihg of the Senale IDyestiga- venture that America shati remain Auwericany 1l direction | ¢ of the | ad- | “The new Department of State will | House, | “has passed an immigration bill that |- THE SUNDAY: DR. B. S. YOUNG DIES AT HOSPITAL HERE Was Assistant Veterans’ Bureau Director and Supreme Pythian Officer. CLOSE FRIEND OF HARDING Physician Prominent Figure in Fmtemnl World. Dr. Brigs Scott Young, former su- preme chancellor of the Knights of Fythias of the World, and an assistant ector of the Veteran divd yesterday morning Hospital, after an illness of tw Funeral will be held 4:30 o'clock tomorrow aftern | the chapel of A. J. Schippert, 2008 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. Rey Dr. Karle Wilfley, pastor of the Ver- mont Avenue Christian Church, is to officiate. sted by Rev. John Wesley Hill. The body will be taken to Ada, Ohio, at 6 p.m., where it will lie ate in the Knights of Pythias Tem | plo. Services will be held there Wed- | nexday at 11 am. | List of Pallbearers. The active pallbearers will Le offi of the Grand Lodge, Kknights of vthias of the District of Columbia. The honorary pallbearers will be Sen- or Frank Willis, Senator Simeon | D. Fess, Senator James Watson, Sen- |ator Peter Norbeck, Frank | Hines, Commissioner Bdward Plum- | mer, Gen. William Spry, John Nicol- | Representative Tom Connally Representative Claren Representative Clint Col entative Cash Dow: 1] | D Young was borin Octaber 30, 1565, He rec sren of PR D. from the Ohin North ern Universitv, where he held the chiir of materia medica and b istry for twenty vears Jast fi of ‘this year: was state hio. e was elected celior of the Kr World in 12, he marricd Hardy of 1o two sons, E. Seott Ohio, ar chuyler | city,” surviving him. Porminent in Party. minently connected with an party and was active the Harding campaign. Dr. was a life-long friend of for- esident Harding and was ap- | pointed by him as an assistant direc- 1| tor of the Veterans' Bureau. He was prominer son. having been con- ted with all of its athili hodies cinnati, Ohio, and was a_mem- of the Craftsman Club He wax 2 member of the ilon Greek letter fratern 'WASHINGTON AND LEE services on at in Ada sived (h later he emist cmber. chuyle whoL with . 5r., of A ung of t | th Youn . |in i HEIRLOOMS STOLEN| Thieves Also Take $15.000 of Sil- verware and Place Still in Creecy Country Home. Special Dispatehsto The Star BALTIMORE, April heirlooms of the Washington Lee families and silverware valued and state of her daughter. Mrs, B. Creecy, at Sulley’s, Howard County, used as a moonshiners’ acoord- ing 1o the report made to the police today by Mrs. Clarissa F. Balch, who hag just returned to her home here try a den The fine old n with water from a tank on the roof | and in the basement were found a fifty-gallon still and a great quantity of mash. The robbery is believed to have taken p about the first of the year, because Katon Creecy, brother-in-law of Mrs. ma the latter part of December last and found everything intact. Among the antique pieces of furni- ture taken were a rosewood sofa 150 s from the Lee mans White Marsh, Va: & Chippendale chair and mahogany desk, from the same estate; a pair of high-back chairs, from an old church in Vir- ginia; a grandfather's clock, 130 years old; a silver coffee pot, with the Lee | coat of arms: Chantilly lace wedding dress and veil used by several brides in the Led family many years ago, cld glassware and old-fashioned jew- elry. A large chair once owned by Washington was not taken aw: Mrs, Balch explained the jewelry and smaller valuables were in secret compartments in large wardrobes and bureaus, ¢h were too heavy to be moved. The compartments had been forced open, evidently by some one familiar with such hiding places of long ugo. BATTLE ON SURTAX RATES TO START IN SENATE TOMORROW (Continued from First Page.) | vears ol on | B introduced an amendment yesterday providing for an increase from $1,000 to $2,000 in the exemptions for single persons, and from $2,500 to $3.000 for heads of families, provided in both Inatances the incore of the taxpayers is less than $5,000. Otherwise exemp- tions in the present law would be n ntained. 5, Committee amendnfents to the bill which were passed over by the Senate and over which some controversy is expected include those dealing with earned income reductions, taxes on corporations, capital stock, estate, gift, telephone and telegraph mes- sages, automobiles, radio and drafts and checks; publicity of returns and the board of tax appeals. Considerable _support for an amendment Senator Jones. Democrat. New Mexico, plans to offer to institute a graduated tax on cor- porations, while some opposition also has been' voiced to the finance com mittee proposal to increase the pres ent flat tax of 12 per cent on cor- porations to 14 per cent and elimi- nate the special tax on capital stock. Several Senators have given notice they will propose repeal of the tax on telephone and telegraph messages. Repeal of this tax was recommended by Secretary Mellon and approved by the House. It was restored by the Senate finance committee. A fight for further reduction of the automobile taxes is threatened also Approval was given by the Senate finance committee to the House ac- tion repealing the tax on automobile trucks the chassis of which sell for $1,000 of less, and cutting in half the § per cent tax on automobile tires, parts and accessories. Doisey Off for Persia. ALEPPO, Syria, April 26.—Lleut. Pellettier Doisey, French aviator, fly- ing from Paris to Toklo, took off this morning for Bushire, Persia, a dis- tance of 1200 kilometers. He is already approximately ~twenty-four hours ahead of his carefully planned | program, in lives in Washington, visited the place | at i expectea| STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., APRIL 27, 1924 — PART 1. Maryland-D. C. Tag Reciprocity Is Proclaimed The final step in the permanent establishment of automobile reci- procity between Maryland and the District wi taken last night when the District Commissioners ued their proclamation The city heads received from Gov. Ritchio yesterday morning the formal order giving Washing- ton motorists the right to drive into Maryland on District tugs and the “pronouncement of the Commissioners last night extends the same right to Marylanders (o enter the m«m-q FOREST GLEN BUSSES LIKELY, HAM REVEALS W. R. E. Head Tells of Burden In- volved Unless Cars Turn Back at District Line. GRADE CEOSSING | Tenleytown Line Would Abolish Intercompany Transfer. FACTOR | nt reports that ilway and Electric Company Wi considerih substitution of motor busses for street Letween | District and Glen cars line Forest on 1 at| | | Several | | | \ of | | pre at $15,000 were stolen and the coun- | Ann | | ¥ould zo to the we | wh after spending the winter in Florida. | was flooded | | mer | | | collateral RAIL RATE CHANGES 1.7 7. MAY BE ADOPTED -ii i il s i ant h- ident route by William ¥ night Mr. Ham explained this change may No Repeal of Tmnsportanon Laws ’:‘;'\‘ iz e fitde) Uoraimms (0n Expected at This Con- B0l o s | $17.500 to rearrange | nection with the | road grade Ham, pre; . com af its rails in con slition of the rail- Iver Spring. The Maryland Commis- OVER TUESDAY | sion is planning to lower the way under the steam tracks point. According to officials Washington Rallway and [ the i < | per cent the gress Session. k.”’lhxxlnh.\ HEARINGS road- rie, t of El than B)lls Before Committee Planning Final Draft. an s arning on its valuation, with ent increase in wages of train- omy of operation wherever possible Single Track Section. is only a single trict. Line to I n. A second fare is charged now when the <tree r the Distriet el if the b ubstitut s fre ndars an Aniendment, but not repeal, of the rate-making jion of the trans- portation aect of 192 known as s tion 15a, is practically the only ml-“ road legislation t the present 0, track from wrost There may be expected | the sossion of Congress, of influential mem Senatem commitiee on commeree, it learn 1agt nizht. The committee will con clude Thesday h the rious proposals to repeal or amend in bers of the t sinjon ox a 4 ch the he d to i The pro rstate was the Railway nt dary nd ¥ CGrorgetnwn Company, Washington Apply 1o the Ttilith for the antinu, 4 e nten g n avenue and M st the Capital Traction the Tenleytown In its petition the company the commis the rate making section Railroad legislation, which declared before the present of Congress convened last | ber, would be a major imme Dresent Congress, has to a large ex- tent been lost sight of during the period of sensational congressional | investigations, The Senate interstite nmerce committee, however, has Heen working on the problem. and | re this week will be in_excentive | taxe session the actual work of drafting The commite by Senators Cap- | er of Florida . Gooding of | of Washington. al or amendment of | mpany “and a in the to the commis that, alth on placed a va tion of $321,781.73 on the Tenle town line, it has not been able earn any return on that va on that operating expi have exceeded & New Tracks Needed. the petition st i fu tricks > has This subsidiary, heavily in de now to rebuild its twenty-five years ol The company state cent transier from Capi tion cars at M street is wholished company will continue to issu transfers to its own line P ostreets The petition on at ame tim from th Associat service from the Wisconsin avenue strects has hef per of La Foll it Kansas tte of W Dill repeal Smith Favors Change. ator Smith of South Carc chairman of ti committe known to favor a proposal to amend 15a so that total revenues in excess of a fair Teturn cent mple ¥ lina at O nate is T will be heard 10:30 o’clock on that it considers Northwest Nubur on_for through District line to section for given aged by the Interstat Commission, shall distributed over th t the weaker roads W fair retysm on tion as well the strong. In words, the carnings of the roads would go back to the ter- ritory from which they were received nd eventually would result in more osper roads all through that erritoy, and in lower freight rates and service Senator Smith beliey could complished through re-arrangement of the percentage of freight receipts al- lowd the feeder roads apd the trunk lines, so that a greater percntag: ker roads. called recapture transportation act, b *h one-half of the re i of the in cxoess of 6 per cent of th of the railroad property over to the Interstate Com Jmimission to be piaced in ratlroad ntingent fund, h loans may be made to the sperous roads, 1t is declared de not bring about the relief it was wizned (o bring. The borrowing roaud: it is pointed out, must pay & per cent for such loans and must giv for the louns. These re- atrictions make the aid off 4 prac tically impossible of acceptance with any benefical results, it is said. Farmers Demand Repeal. The demand for a repeal of section 154 comes particularly from the agri- sultural sections of the country. Sen- itors representing those sections in- st that it works a hardship perti ularly on the farmers. who are com- pelled to pay high freight charges on their produce. much of Which they ane now compelied to seil at very 1ow prices. Senator Capper of man of the farm bloc, author of one of the bills providing for the rep of section 15a, appeared at the hear ing vesterday before the Senate in- terstate commerce committee in favor of such repeal. The Senate committee between those for group system desig Commeree equitably w0 th el their [exercising its rate-mak treating with al f the four rate-n unit systems whatsocver. “Under this | sion fixes v for purpose making tially on value. It matter h worthless point {iroup aggres were entitle with _the th valus other XSS comm property the rate practice a lues of ra of applying the law of reprodu follows th improvident economic View- road within be in, it goes into the group valuation i it ) earn proportionately arriers within the group that by reasen of locatiyn and service rendered and eflicient ‘operation are within themselves capable and able to carn a profitable return “It {s my contention that the result of this practice is to make rates »sperous roads. the roads prin- used in the movgment of much higher than necessary 1o profit return on th he bas naturally w actually from un individual may The went s of th roud. Al turned is from w lese pre cipa trafic, Roads Fimancial Failures. s common knowledge that ire notorious financial f Some of this class of ro built _originally as enterprises. Others were with the view of pro- avail of public grants or funds or the quick and tem- itation of a region. Yet others were built as outlets for mining districts—once bonanza pr duc but whose diggings today are practically, if not entirely, exhausted and abandoned. Some others were built to serve transportation needs of timber areas long since denuded of saw timber. “It natually roads in operation actual service to the public in traflic movement that they are able to earn little beyond operating costs, if even that. Some of them are in receiver- ship beause of their inability to pay even the cost of operation. it ues that the roads that the major part of traffic are al lowed in fact to earn enough more than the fixed percentage return overcome the losses of the unsucces ful roads and to make up their @ ficiencies in failing to earn tho'fixe return, Phe repeal of sect posed, would enab Commerce Commis 10 exe power according to its judgment adjust and prescribe rates as circum- stances may seem to the commi to justify, and at tha same tim form to ‘the fundamental principle that rates shall be just and reason- able. That means, of course, just and reasonable not merely for railroad: but for the shipper and the public, Eiving proper weight to every fact and circumstance that in the juds- ment of the commission should affect both private and public interest That has always been thé fundamen- tal principle in the regulation of rates provided for In the federal act to regulate commerce, and similar ac passed by the legixlatures of the vari- ous states und embodied in the con- stitution of many of the states.” m s to public porasy boom expl follows that such perform so little interstate commerce pretty evenly divided who are believed to hold conservative views on railroad legislation and the more radical group, but with the preponder: nrp of power lodg,d with the Of course, if the ’DH\mlllEl‘ reporL-; out a measure to amend section 15a, and the majority sentiment in the Senate itself is for repeal of that sec- tion of the transportation act, the re- heal would go through, provided a vole was n‘a(‘hv\d before adjournment of the session. Senator Capper at the hearing yes. terday d the committee that the farmers a: whole are not inimical to the railroads, but that they believed the time had come when rates on ag- ricuitural products should be mater- fally reduced. Hardship to Shippers. “T am asking the repeal of sec! 15a." said Senator Capper. “because of my conviction that four years o operation of the law have established the fact that this provision mnot only works a hardship upon shippers, but i% fundamentally unsound. The ex- perience of four years, in my opinion, Teveals that the practice of the In- terstate Commerce Commission in moy a, as the Inte Hello, Washington! This Is Health Week How to Keep Well and How to Get Well The keynote of a citv-wide program of education in which all the Health, Social Welfare, Civic, Religious and iducational forces of Washington have enlisted under the Teadership of the Council of Social Agencies. 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They city from Asheville, N His Military Career. n. Gordon was born at Artonish Mise. Jun VSt He was t William Crawford and Mrs Gordon. He praduated from United States Militury Academy from the School of Submarine at Willits Point, Y. in 1891, and from the Army War Col- Jege’ here in 1914 He was a second lieutenant of the |12th Infantry from 1386 until 1892, {al which 1 he was advanced to the rank of first lieutenant. He be- came a4 major in the st Delaware Infa in fune. 185, and fa- nk of colonel in the \ was must- frviee in . ‘ A | £re wis street last night. | e was sent 1o t twn weeks Gen. Gor Highlands avenue and ame to this | | « Mary Min Ik | try | R 2 ar. 11 voluntes of that a captam fsna art commissioned ular Army in He was eiv ant n the nk of a lieuten + and appainted A Infaniry 1918 Command at Meade. rdon participated in insurrection campaig: rvice in China. Whil s in_progress he imand of the th t Camp Meade, Md. He was rvice with the rank about three Hippin alsn saw | wortd” war put in Brigade retired from the of brigadier general ago. and N Club ¢ Besides daughter, ort Riley this « his survive Alle wife Mrs, Kar he is Frank i HONDURAN CAPITAL REPORTED BURNING! Peace Negafiatmns Open on U. S. Warship as Battle Rages in Tegucigalpa. s the Associated Proas. SAN SALVARO, Ivador, April 26 government building capital be on | here women =id the forces of the ment, which are defe tal from the revolu According to negotiations between factions Hunduras started board the Uni cruiser Milwaukee, anchored of Amapala, with Sumner We inz as American mediator. pected that there will be some diffi- enlty in arriving an_agreement becuuse of the absenoe of emissaries to represent Gen. Gregorio Ferrera. who is group of rebels galpa. The | “u' r of the other revolutionary fac- tion is represented by three envoy while the de facto government is also | represented by three. There are rep- rpsentatives of the Central American | ropubl of Guatemala, Nicaragua and Salvador. but they are said to be | acting only observers. POINCARE DICTUM TO BE TAKEN UP BY REPARATIONS BODY (Continued from First Page.) Repub £ Sun (Honduran) —The at Tegucigalpa reported to dispatch reaching Thirty-two fizhting with facto govern- ding the capi- nary troops. advices peace t fighting have bee 1 States n Bay les act- 1 of Honduras. are fire from are n Un to be 1a these on ex- much the findings, o ttee's is attached Coolidge and urged its a indicate that he approved comm | cance | President | the report | seeming ¢ basic princip principl ternational paym First—Any solvent ¢ its debts if the allow it to. be paid only goods. Second—Payments may rectly, if such goods are produc wholly within the country, without an vil effect upon exchange rat An example is Germany's coal deliveries to France. Third: 1f payment is demanded in cash, then goods must be sold in ex- cess of goods imported. Otherwis an attempt to transfer money the border will result in upsetting the exchange rates. Mast Buy Foreign Goods. principles, which are set down the Dawes report as fixed | and uralterable, are held by Buro- fact that as applied to in- ts, hese are ur rest of th But those in one way ry can p debts namely, in be 7 - | These | peans to apply with equal foroe to| German reparations and to interailied dehts. Therefore, if America aocepts | | tiie principles as applied to repara- tions she must also admit their force | in regard to war debts. What it all | comes down to is that Europe will pay America if America will buy Europe's goods Otherwise she won't, because she can’t. We should b perfeotly glad to have the same expert committee tackle the war debt question and pledge our support to its decision in advance! said a French official to the writer today. And that sums up the attitude of the other countries as well. . Meanwhile, putting in operation of the Dawes reparations report is hanging fire for several reasons— first, uncertainty about the German elections next Sunday and the French elections the following week: second, the unwillingness of France to suspend economic exploitation of the Ruhr until she gets definite guar- antees in exchange. Two Forms Posible, These guarantees may take one of two forms: Either a definite agree- ment with England for co-operative sanctions_in_case Germany fails to execute the Dawes' program as out- lined, or an economic alllance with Germany. England is exceedingly hesitant any ut_committiag hermlt to and ia lite cnlm Laura Gordon, the | in | Depot | as a member of the | signifi- | promptly indorsed | ceptance, | world will | may across | Shoe Repairing Shop Is Raided By Vice Squad i High prices for shoe repairing ed investigation into the b activities of Tony Cichella, proprietor of ‘Tony's Place” at 205 Pennsylvania avenue The result was a raid by Police- men Dowd, Cole and Bacon, the sixth precinct's vice squad, and the confiscation of 61z gallons of al- leged liquor found in bottles that were snugly tucked away inside of hoes which had been left for repairs, Tony wis locked up selling nd illegal fausr: police siness | | ssession of 'RESTRICTION OF VISES| IMPOSED BY ITALY\ Wives and (’)uldmn of Aliens in United States Will Be Re- fused Passports. By NE Asenciated Pres V. YORK, April 26 bando steamship officials toda |nounced the receipt of cable dis- patches from Ttalian immigration au- thorities Rome adyising that further passports would be issu the wives and children of It uralized or resident aliens 4 The the st Verde | with Lioyd an- | at 1o 1 to| an nat- | in Amer- | | necement hip company's liner Conte | sailed for Naples and Genoa W. W. Husband, United States mmission of imm Wash abnard, tr national to be held ar teamship interpreted the cabied sa that the Italian zovernment had imposed such on immigration of the new American | under which the Markarian and | other decisions affecting excess quota entrants would be annuited. The Markarian and such decisions already had admitted 14,000 Italian |immigrants in excess of the quota, which was exhausted last December, | according to the steamship men. | came Just as . zration hound eonference an May the immizr tome & Fictals m o as noties restrictions 1o meet | requirements laws, = i, MRS. COLMAN HEADS PEN WOMEN LEAGUE Elected President Over Thompson-Seton and Mrs. Clarence Busch. Mrs. Mrs nest Edna M. Colman defeated Mrs. Thompson-Seton and arence M. Busch for the presid t of American closing ¥ of that organization's biennial which had Shorebam Wor terd convention the Leazie en at the seswion yes- ee way at Hotel Wednesd Other officers were elected as fol- lows: First vice president, Mrs. ence M. Busch; second vice president, Mrs. Bernie Babeock; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Hamlin Cogswell: re- cording secretary, Mrs Daniel treasurer, Mrs. Virginia King | auditor, Mrs Alice M historian, Mre. Gr: mond: librarian, Mrs. Jo and registrar, Mrs. J ningham Reception for Offcers. The league entertained elected officers at a reception at | Arts Club last night of the meeting here. A delightful | program of music, recitations and| speaking was presented, and each artist elicited applause from the au- dience. Among those who partici- | pated were the following: Sings New Ode. “Washington, My Washington new ode written by Miss Byrd Mo sunz by Miss Helen How com- panied by Miss Marie Howe Spurr: a number of poems. by Mrs. Ruth M Rice of N k: a number of | songs, by atherine Call Si- monds of pshire; selection of poems, by Miss Isabel . Conant of New York; selection of poems, by Miss Maric T. Phillips of Pittsburgh |and a recitation by Faith Van V Vila since Frye Kelly: the | the final event | | Composed By Singers. With the one exception noted, the | songs and poems were composed by the persons who rendered them. Mrs [Louis N. Gelbert, the retiring presi dent, was called upon to introduc | Mrs. Colman, her successor. who de {livered a short address. Mrs. (. ( | Calhoun also spoke. | A number state officers were | elécted vesterday in addition to the | tional officers.” In the former class, | Edward Nelson Dangley was | ted vice president of the District olumbia” branch 'KLAN CONDUCTS RITES AT MEMBER’S GRAVE With emnity, customary mystery and sol- members of the Ku Klux Klan p ated in funeral services |for Aluert F. Watson, who died in the Emergency Hospital Thursday. | and who was buried in the Cedar Hill metery yesterday afternoon. oming from over the brow of a| hill at the appropriate time—and un- | noticed by thos aurrounding the ve until within a few feet of it— | members of the Klan, dressed in | hooded costumes and led by one ot | their brethren, who was carrying a United States ¥, proceeded to pay tribute to their dead comrade at the grave. Amid silence and a hushed crowd they marched thrice around the grave, after which one of the members, bearing a buge floral tribute in the sghape of a ecross with the letters, K. K. K. emblazoned in the color de- sign of the crose, placed the tribute upen the grav ‘Then the robed visitors slowly raised their hands to their heads and did a salute, after which their master of ceremonies repeated the passages regularly used by the Klan, when holding = services for a deceased brother. After this procedure, the hooded visitors. in single file marched this time with all eyes upon them, over the brow of the hill and disappeared as mysteriously as they had ap- proached. Preceding the services by the Klan, Rev. Dr. Wolven of the Church of the Epiphany officiated. Members of the New Jerusalem Lodge, F. A. A. M., of which Mr. Watson was a member, then conducted regular Masonic fun- eral rites. P — now engaged in flirting with Mos- cow, So it would not be surprising to see the second of these alternatives prevail. A nationalist success in next Sunday's German elections at first glance might seem to make such a combination impossible, but the im- pression is gaining ground that the | support under | I | the |ship of the railroad unions. [RAIL BOARD END SEEN WITHIN NEXT 30 DAYS Labor Tribunal in Fair Way to Wy Abolished by Congress, Situs tion Indicates. SHOWDOWN COMING MAY & | Unions Join Those Who Would K} Present Arrangement. The railroad labor board ™« in ® fair way to be abolished by Congress within the next thirty davs. Organ- ed labor has joined enthusiastically in the fight on the board, which led in the Honse hy rat, Barkley of Kentneky e late by a Republican Ne- | braska. Organized capital board's abalitinn 4 The move a4 Dema and in the Howell of oPposes the 3¢ 1ahor them el ves forres inde- it te own whem deration trongls favors oppose the . reported pendently defeat the expected in the bill One hundred sentatives haye discharge the Hou mittee from further the measure these petitioners the The railro recalled, portation of settling it railrnads These he nation-wide A to working in a . proposal the Hou up for « and fifty show M comes signed a p conziders and measure. i labor hoard [ for t was creat tof 1 disputes hriween nosed of an o cqual nublin nd the fzured larcaby of the medte e hopworkers ator in two = a railroad and their employes ather putes between Substitute Measure. As a substitute for the board Rage resentatives Barkley and Howell pap= | Pose that there shall be created fous boards forty tween of adjustment, members, equally representatives .nd of th these containing divided be- of the romds unions of employes. Twe boards would consist e€ ler'vvrh members h and two e six members They would draw annual salarics of 37000 apieem. There would he created 2 board of mediation and conciliation of frwe members 2t annual salaries of 312,908 cach. The makes no provisses for representation of the public em the adjustment boards and the attask upon it is based, to considerable ame tent, upon this phase Within the past few days an appeal been made to employers of about 000,000 workers throughout the urging those employers te advise their representatives in Con- £ress of their opposition to the bill S eal was signed by John Edgerton. chairma the National Industrial Council; Earl Constantine executive secretary, and Jumes A | Emery, counsel. “Many signs indicate a determined |effort to reproduce the situation which surrounded the enactment of the Adamson law,” reads the appeal he importance of the subject and the circumstances presented dessrve your immediate consideration and formulation and cxpression of your views to your representatives’ The Industrial Counell which allied with the Naw= tional Association of Manufacturersy opposes the measure on nine groundsy and pleads for a further trial of the present One of the grounds that membership of all adjustmend boards, so far as the employes amm concerned, is restricted to membess This, would “exclude from represcutan men of their own choice.® measure is untry, i National is closely is the council states, all non-members tion by Enforcement Question. of the opposition, =g cited in Mr. Edgerton’s leter, is thad the awards would be enforceabls against the roads but not asainst the nployes. Further, he states “The proposal ignores the domms inant public interest 1n ntewe rupted transportation by tng representatives of the public from all preliminary ustment no provision for their pr arbitrators. It is the paramount public interest which just Zove ernmental interference in sputes® between carriers and their workers Representative Barkley has ab= nounced the measure to be the resuly of two + rious L 1 designed, according cates, to remedy ti in the transy The railroad labor organiz the Ameri n Federation are reported to be of its passage. and it will be supported, House and Senate, by bloe, which holds the power. Another basis exely = se thouz both the b | WHEELER WITNESSES IN DISAGREEMENTY Puge.) (Continued from culled later, probubly after the exnme ination who las beem im Washington for Some time. A. F. at Falls, one of the thr Fallm grand jury who have been summoned here, and Harry O. Willard, Uy S. A, retired, a stockholder in and trustes of the Campbell compamy, were heard befors the commitlee ade jonrned subject to call. Sparling said the grand jury had kept no minutes of the Wheslar case although minutes were kept on tha firet case that was taken up. He started to characterize the Whesles case, but Senator Gterling ¢hut hime off before he could do so. Semater Wheeler asked that Sparling state the number of ballots taken by the grand jury before a true bilj was agreed on, but Senator Sterling eb- jected, and Senator Borah said he would have to examine the law bes fore passing on tha question. Spariing will be recalled. Corresponded With Wheeler. Col. Willard told the committee tha he had had correspondence with Sen« ator Wheeler with reference (o hig employment by Campbetl, and prome ised to furnish later his letter to the senator and the latter's reply. Ho was not permitted to tell whag was In them, the committee holding that the letters themselves were best evidenc The witness said his understaj was at first that Senator Wi of Coan Sparling of men of the Great Col. Rationalists. once i ofice. Would like Ramsay MacDonald—be less ferocious than when in oppositoin. "“‘“, was employed only in the S receivership euit, but had later from the senator by mi he was to handle other law