Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1924, Page 2

“GLOBE FLYERS READY TO RESUME FLIGHT « Expect to Hop Off for Last Stop on ) American Soil, 530 Miles Distant. ~IDEAL WEATHER PREVAILS Search of Bering Sea for Martin Continues. By the Associated Pross FALSE PASS, Alasks, May While searchers were prosecuting their hunt for Maj. Frederick L. Martin, the world flight commander, who has been missing since last three other Army a squadron were re: from Atka Island for Attu Island, 53 miles distant on the most western end of the Alentian Islands group. Preparations for a thorough search | of the Bering Sea side of the Alaska peninsula followed receipt of word “that Maj. Martin had becn seen flying in that region after he hopped oft from | Chignik for Dutch Hai join his command, who had gonc ahead. One | report had it that two men Port Moller, 100 miles west of Chignik on the north side of the peninsula, had observed something moving in the sk Bunday which they “felt certain w an airplane.” On the strength of this additional searching parties invaded ( the vicinity today. No word is expec ed from these searchers until tomo row at the earliest Ideal Weather Prevails, ldeal weather for this time .of the vear has prevailed in the vicinity of Attu and Atka Islands the last two deys. It was belleved that Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, commanding: Lieut. Erik Nelson and Lieut. Leigh Wade today would be able to leave Atka Island for Attu Island, their last lap in American territory on this side of the world. _The coast guard cutte still was searching alon ern coast of the peninsula for Martin _and his companion, Sergt. Alva L. Harvey. HAS TAKEN ALL STEPS. s t Algonquin the south- Maj Staft Bissell Notifies Department Noth- ing More Is Possible. Lieut. Clayton L. Bissell, advance officer for the Army world flight ex- | pedition, advised the War Depart- | ment today in a dispatch from Dutch | Harbor, Alaska., that nothing more could be done on the Pacific side of the peninsula to locate Maj. Fred- erick L. Martin, commanding officer of the squadron, who has been miss- ing since April 2 | “Everything possible has been| started on north side of the penin- sula,” Lieut. Bissell said, adding that the cutter Algonquin would be sent | into the Bering sea to search that| side of the peninsula if nothing de- veloped at Chignik, where the ship now is leading the search for the missing officer. | The cutter Haida arrived yester- day at Unalaska, wherc her officers conferred with the commander of the | Bering sea patrol force. The Haida | will sail Sunday and continue along | the westward route followed by the three Army machines which are con- tinuing the flight without waiting for Maj. Martin to be found. HAVE NOT DESPAIRED. Coast Guard Crew Still Hopes to Pind Lost Flyers. BY EVAN J. DAVID. | lent of The Star and the North Ameriean Newspaper Alliance. | ON_BOARD THE U. S. COAST GUARD CUTTER ALGONQUIN, Ch nik, Alaska, May 5.—We have not d spaired of finding Maj. Frederick Martin, commander of the round-the- world flight, and his mechgnic, Alva Harvey. I received definitd informa- tion today from R. J. Sachenroder, a White trader on the north side of Chignik lagoon, that he had seen Maj. Martin at 11 o'clock a.m. April 30, fying up the lake in the direction of Bering Sea. I also learned that before leaving Chignik, the world flyers were pro- vided with a large package of sand- wiches and thermos bottles filled with hot coffee by Mrs. James Osmund, wife of the cannery owner at Chig- nik, at whose home they stayed. Mrs. Osmund is a resident of Astoria, Ore., and comes north each spring with her husband. This food, in addition to their regular rations, may well be the means of saving their lives. From Sachenroder’s statement it is evident that Maj. Martin changed his plans to fly to Unalaska while in the air, due to the snowstorm. Instead of fiying from Chignik, southwest, he turned his ship due north and headed into the twenty-five-mile wind, blow- ing from the northwest, in the hope of finding the wind on his right hand after he reached the Bering Sea side the peninsula. The drift of his ane would then be continually to- ard the land and not away from it, #% would have been the case had he flown south. This is the most hopeful news up to date for it gives us a definite lo- cality 1o search for the world flyers nd eliminates the greatest fear of Capt. Gabbett of the Algonquin, that ‘he major and his mechanic had been bl n-out into the mid-Pacific. he Indians sent from Chignik with a dog t 1 are now nearing Unan- gashik Lake, where it is hoped that Maj. Martin 'landed his plane and is ihere at the vijage of Unankashik, or waiting for help at the lake. If they don’t find him thore they have Been tructed to proceed as far as Bering ea. They are equipped with first aid. The information as to whether or not the plane passed over Unangashik 1 do much to establish the place here the world flyers went down, for they did not reach that village t is reasonable to believe that they shed somewhere in the area be- een Chignik Lake, where they were ast seen by Sachenroder, and the Bering Sea ‘at Seal Islands, it will take forty-eight hours for the Indians ‘0 mush back from the Bering sea to Chignik with this information, Meanwhile Dr. Spear and Capt. Gabbett and the crew of the Algonquin are in readiness here to jand first aid, in case the flyers are found, and, if'need be, to go overland to Bering Sea and bring them out. I interviewed Mr. and Mrs, James Osmund today, at whose home Maj. Martin and Mechanlc Harvey lived during their stay in Chignik. “I served a big breakfast for them the morning they left” sald Mrs. Osmund, “for I knew it might take them six or seven hours:before they anded at Unalaska. I thought per- haps those brave men might again e compelled to stay a whole night oat in the open, as they had at Kanatak, without anything hot to ~at, 50 I made up ® big bundle of sandwiches and a couple of thermos bottles with hot coffee for them. When the major saw me come ouf with such an armful he laughed and said, ‘Oh, Mrs. Osmund, you have got 50 much food for Harvey and me I am afraid the airplane will not be able to_get off the water.’ “T told them” continued Mrs. Os- mund, “that there was no telling how much’ they might need before they reached their destination, and little did I think how true my words would prove. I mentioned emergency ra- tions to the major, and he laughed and said that what they had didn't amount to much.” Prom Mr. Osmund, who, by the way, was the last man to talk with the fiyers before they left, T learned that Maj. Martin had had a strange dream | their views. Dies From Injuries JOHN C. J. C. MERKLING DIES AFTER AUTO CRASH Jeweler Injured Saturday When Car Was Forced Off Road in Maryland. MERKLING. John €. Merkling, forty-two, member of the Henry C. Karr jewelry firm, 1419 H street, who was injured Saturday afternoon when a r in which he was riding was forced Off the road near Tompkinsville, Charles county, Md., died at Casualty Hospital last night at 10:20 o'cloc E E Herrell, Commereial Na- tional Bank, residing at 134 12th street southeast, also a member of the auto- mobile party when the accident oc- curred, sustained fractures of three ribs and his face and an arm were badly cut. It was said this morning that his condition was serious, but his recovery is expeeted. Lewis A. Payne and Paul Brandstedt, seriously hurt. The four men were on seriously hurt. The foud men were on their way to the country home of R. P. Whitty. Mr. Merkling, a native of Philadel- phia, was a member of the Cosmopoli- tan Club and Spalding Council, Knights of Columbu He is sur- vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis §. Merkling; his wife, and twelve-year-old son, ", Merk- ling: two brother. Philip Merkling, an Charies F. Theirs, Miss Katharine Merkling. Funeral arrangements have not been com- pleted. Mr. Merkling had been a resident of this city since he was six vears old. He received his cducation at Catholic schools here, and accepted his first position with the firm of which he was a member at the time of his death. His brother. Frank J. Merkling, is well known in poiltical eircles as the | campalgn manager for Senator Oscar Underwood. — — SUBSTITUTING BUSSES FOR CAR LINE OPPOSED Suburban Citizens Want Tracks Retained and Silver Spring Crossing Abolished, Citizens of Forest Glen, Silver Spring, Woodside, Linden and Capitol View unanimously opposed substitu- tion of the present Washington Rafl- way and Electrio strect car service to Forest Glen with a bus line at a meeting attended by 300 persons in the Woodside School last night. The assembly adopted a petition, which will be sent to the Maryland public service commission, outlining The petition, tion to opposing the elimination of the street car servioe, asks for the abolition of the railroad crossing on the car line. S R. Bowen, general counsel of he street car company, sald the line was not earning money on _the $200,000 investment in the Forest Glen branch. He doclared that the com- pany earned a profit of $3,000 over the operating expenses of the branch last year, but that this did not ao- count for dividends on money in- vested. He stated the company would rather operate street cars than busses if it could do so at a profit. It was pointed out that a large group of the residents of Linden, who have built a small community around the street car tracks, would be cut off from transportation service if Lusses were put on. A _committes, consisting_of Dr. George H. Wright, Ira C. Whitacre and Frank L. Hewitt, will convey the petition to the commission. QUESTIONS SOVIET RIGHTS Railroad Company Asks End of Suit by Moscow. The right of the soviet government to sue in courts of this country is questioned in a suit filed yesterday in the Supreme Court by the Lehigh Valley ~Railroad Company, which would have the federal district court at New York prohibited from further proceeding with claim for damages brought by the Russian government. The company points out that the President and the Secretary of State officially have announced the gov- ernment of Russia has not been recognized by this government, and claims that the soviet could not pro- ceed in American courts to recover for the loss of munitions and mer- chandise destroyed in the explosion at Black Tom Island, near Jersey City, in July, 1916. CONTRACT AWARDED. A seven-thousand-dollar contract for development of a soccer fleld at the Eastern High School was awarded to Latimer & Mahony by the District Com- missioners at a board meeting today. The contract also calls for concrete to or walks and steps leading to and from the field. i s The Commissioners approved a sub- stitute for the bill sent to them from the Senate authorizing the Harrington Hotel to increase its height to 130 feet. The bill is aimed to clear away obstacles placed in the path of such a develop- ment by the present zoning regulations. ——— sure fine. Here's a letter I wish you would mail to my wife on the first boat out.” And with that they had hopped into a small boat and rowed out to the waiting plane. All the territory on the north shore of the peninsula has been covered by boats from the Nichols cannery and Fort Moller up to within seventy-five miles of the Seal Islands. These islands are at the northern end of the watershed, which runs from Chignik across the Alaskan Peninsula to the Bering Sea. As the Port Moller tug- boat left that port yesterday, there is every reason to suppose it has reached the islands by this time.' In the meantime the crews of the coast guard vessels are straining every merve to rush the work of res- the ‘night before. “Mr. Osmund,” the major said, “I dreamed last ng:t that I lost my ship. It was a bad dream. I guess these delays, because of unfavorable flying conditions, are reacting on A me. - "Oh, dreams don’t mean anything” {ate Girnn Teushinely Tapen " ““ “kniow that” added the major, “and conditions here this morning are 4 cue. We are pinning our hopes either on word from Unangashik or the Seal Islands. The flyers have been lost now for five days, but with their spare rations and Mrs. Osmund's sandwiches there is still a chance that they may be rescued alive, v (Copyright, 1924, in United States, Cansda and (ComEEeE Dritatn By Nortn Americen Newspaper Alliance.) in_ addi- | BARNES RAPS SENATE FOR TAX BILL ACTION Tells U. S. Chamber Uncertain In- dustrial Outlook Is Ag- gravated. TRADE BOOM IS IN SIGHT More Chain Stores Needed,. Conven- tion Is Told. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Oho, May 6.—Action of the Senate in rejecting the Mellon tax schedules in favor of the Simmons rates, involving’ higher surtax levies, was characterized today by Presi- dent Julius Barnes of the United States Chamber of Commerce as an untimely and unfortunate incident tending to aggravate the uncertain industrial outlook. The action, he said, was doubly de- plorable because it came at a time when virtually. all economic factors pointed to an era of healthy expan- slon of world commerce. Addressing several thousands busi- ness leaders in the opening session of the annual convention of the chamber, Mr. Barnes expressed the view that the Senate action was “dis- couraging, but nat final.” Surely there will yet be an accord | on a reasonable basis of tax revision before it is too late, he said. Itaps Action on Measure. In voting the Simmons schedule of surtaxes, Mr. Barnes said the Sen- ate had rejected the ‘*matured recommendation of a public servant of great experience and ability in favor ¢f a rate manifestly the prod- uct of the obstinacy of untested in- | dividual opinion or of partisan con- sideration “This is discouraging, but not final. The great engine of American industry by which American living standards are maintained the highest in the world has been slowing up largely because of misgivings and distrust as to the ability of our Congress to appreciate the effect on industry when tax laws destroy the inducement to venture and stifle the individual impulse to try.” “We may not expect the radical group to be sobered by the responsi- bility which accompanies this ac- tion.” - Virtually all economic factors point to the expansion of world commerce as soon as business confidence in America is restored by &, clearer definition of govrenmental relationship to business, sarnes declared, Rehabilitation of European com- merce, which is expected to resuit from the operation of the Dawes re- port on German finances, was pointed to by Mr. Barnes as perhaps the most hopeful sign on the horizon of world industry. At home, he pointed to the recuperating agricultural industry and a perceptible stabilization of the public sentiment toward business as tokens of continued prosperity. Blames Situation Here. The present tendency toward re- trenchment. he said, was due almost entirely to financial uncertainty growing out of the present govern- mental situation in Washington, in which policies in taxation and trans- portation, two fundamental factors in the industrial life of the nation, are awaiting determination. The decision will clear the track for busi- ness to proceed at full speed—if it is not made too late, Mr. Barnes said. Almost without exception, the coun- tries of Burope today are making noticeable progress toward political and economic stability, the speaker said Development of the chain store idea toward mass distribution, the status of trade associations under the anti- trust laws, and suggestions for jm- provement of the postal service wered considered_today at group meetings marking the opening program of the convention. Sees Trade Bodlies Handicapped. The conflict of opinions as to_the legitimate activities of trade assdcia- tions, was declared by Lew Hahn of New 'York, managing director of the National Retail Dry Goods Associa- tion, to have left these organizations in such a condition of uncertainty “that many of them have ceased do- ing anything, rather than run the chance of being forced into court.” Recent opinion and court decisions relating to the gathering and distri- bution of trade statistics, Mr. Hahn said, have given him the impression that “the actual state of the law, or even the judicial decisions based upon the law, seem to be of less importance than the question as to who admin- Isters the law—as to who decides upon which suits are to be brought, and how_these suits are to be presented.” ““We complain about the law,” he said, “but I believe that we could ad- Just ourselves even to more onerous laws than are on the statute books if the administration of thess laws were anything but a game of battle- dore and shuttlecock.” Favors Chain Stores. Edward A. Filene of Boston advo- cated the organization of department and other stores into chains for mass buying to reduce the costs of distri- bution and to meet the competition of the chain stores already established. “Competition In production,” he sald, “has developed to such a degree that the producers are being forced to pay increasing attention to the cost of distribution, for producers realize more definitely now that the most successful producer will here- after be the one whose goods reach the consumer at the lowest retail price, quality considered. Just as in the case of production, eficlency in distribution lies in the direction of mass operation—mass selling. The chain Store, he asserted, rap- 1dly is encroaching on the field of the individual small stores dealing in sta- ple goods and “may supplant them” unless they “weld themselves into chains, in which each ‘local manager’ or ‘branch manager would be the owner retaining his full interest in the profits of his store Cites System Desired. *“The coming successful department store chain,” he predicted, “will be an aggregation of department stores under one ownership, of which the similar departments of all the stores will themselves constitute a chain within the main group. “Under mass production and mass distribution high standards of wages will be maintained, for it will be most profitable to the producer, as Ford has shown, that the reduction in price should come out of the elim- ination of middlemen and the present wastefulness of production and dis- u:‘butlon—not out of wages and sal- aries Lucius Teter of Chicago, chairman of the committee on postal service, in presenting his report declared ‘‘Business men cannot accept the present conditions the postal serv- ice as satisfactory. New Directors Chosen. Seventeen new members of the ‘board, one-half of which is elected annually, were named by the council meeting today. The sessions were at- tended by approximately 1,000 mem- hers, representative of the entire country. The newly elected directors are: Alvan T. Simonds, president, Si- mond's Saw and Steel Company, Fitch- burg, Mass. Ernest T. Trigg, president, John Lucan & Co., Philadephia. John M. Crawford, Parkersburg, W. Va.,, president, Parkersburg Rig and Reel Company. M. J. Sanders, manager, Intern tional Mercantile Marine, New O; leans, La. John W. Sahartel, president, Okla- homa Railway Company, Oklahoma City, Okla. | John O'Leary, vice president,) Chi- cago Trust Company, cblu?. ‘William J. Dean, xuun Nichols, Dean &unw -l 4 Lafayette chett, ‘Salt Lake City. O. M. Clark, president, Clark-Wil- ‘. These two young persons were “caught in the act,” with arms full of flowering dogwood, broken from the tree in direct violation of the spirit of conservation animating the dogwood campaign. But they were neither ar- rested nor reprimanded. Mary and Warren Ricker of 3740 Oliver street north- west are working for the campaign, and broke these branches to show how the public ought not to do it. A few the blooms were faded and withered. DEMANDS LOCKWOOD BE HALED TO SENATE Robinson Wants G. 0. P. Secre- tary to Explain Attacks “on This Body.” A demand that George B. Lockwood, secretary of the Republican national committee, be called before a Senate committee to explain his attacks “on this body” was made in the Senate to- day by Senator Robinson, A zas, the Democratic leader. __ The demand came during a epeech from the floor in which the Arkansas senator attacked activities of Lockwood in instituting investigations of Senators ‘Walsh and Wheeler of Montana. The proposal was prompted by a statement issued last night by Mr Lockwood, in which he declared that the special Senate committe inves- tigating the indictment of Senator Wiheeler of Montana had not “looked at” the most important evidence in the case. ‘Wants Reason for Silemce. apprehend,” Senator Robinson “that Mr. Lockwood will be called to explain why he has kep the informatiom which he assert: justifies the indiotment of Senator Wheeler in the secrecy of hig con- science.” Senator Borah, RepubMcan, Idaho, chairman of the special committee. also replied to the Lockwood state- ments. He declared every witness suggested by Lockwood had been questioned, as had “every individual in any way connected with the mat- ter.” “T don’t want t port” he added, there is to be sald “Mr. Lockwood and his agents,” said Senator Robinson, “have not been active with a view to improving the public service, but solely to bol- ster up a defense of acts which can- not be defended.” Sees Senators Attacked. Replying specifically to the state- ment issued last night by Mr. Lock- wood, Senator Robinson said it con- stituted an attack on Republican senators for their alleged failure to defend “the dissipation of the naval o said, anticipate our re- ut it will say all oil reserves, a dishonest transaction.” | Referring to Lockwood's statement that much of the evidence against Senator Wheeler had not been “look- ed at” by the Senate committee in- vestigating that senator’s indictment in Montana, Senator Robinson said that “if his purpose had been an honest one, a frank one, he should have laid before the committee the evidence which he Dossesses, if he possesses any.” This statement by the committee chairman was interpreted by Senator Robinson as bearing a “plain impli- cation that there's nothing against Wheeler except he made it uncom- fortable for crooks in office.” CAPT. T. J. POWELL DIES. Retired Army Officer Succumbs at Atlanta, Ga. Capt. Thomas J. Powell, U. S. A., retired, died at Atlanta, Ga, Sunday, the War Department. 18 Informed. A native of Georgia, Capt. Powell was appointed to the Army from the District of Columbia. At the outbreak of the world war he lived in_this city and served as a_captain of en- gineers of Organized Reserves, at Fort Myer, Va, and at Petersburg, Va, and then went to Burope with the’ 305th Engineers. Returning to the United States in. 1918, he served at Fort Humphreys, Va.; Fort Myer, Portsmouth, Va.; Fort McHenry, Md., and in this city until his health broke down, when he underwent a gourse of treatment at Walter Reed ospital. He reached the grade of major in the National Army and in July, 1920, ‘was appointed first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps of the Regular Army, retiring last month because of disability incident to the service. EXECUTION IS STAYED. Perrygo, Sentenced to Hang r;l- day, Wins Delay Until July 25. Edgar Randolph Perrygo, the youth wlmllnsl charged with the murder of Mrs. Emily Faithful in Congress Heights in February, 1920, will not be hanged at the District jail next Friday. Justice Hitz, in- Criminal Division 1, today postponed the execution until July 25. Perrygo has an appeal from his con- vicition pending in the District Court of Appeals in which a decision is not ex- pected until next Monday. —————————— son Lumber Company, Portland, Ore. Arthur S. Bent, Bent Brothers, Los Angeles. Wobert R, Ellis, president, Hessig, Ellis Drug Company, Memphi: Frederick J. Haynes, president, Dodge Brothers. Inc., Detroit. Felix M. McWhirter, president, Peo- ple's State Bank, Indianapoll Edgar W. J. Hearty, president, Kingman & Hearty, Boston. James S. Kemper, president, Lam- bermen’s Mutual Casualty Company, Chicago, Richard F. Grant, vice president, M A Hanna Company, Cleveland. Carl R. Gray, president, Union Pa- cific Company, Omaha. minutes after this picture was taken 1924 DIRECTORY LISTS 482,220 IN DISTRICT Statistics Indicate $21,441,579 In- crease in D. C. Building Opera- tions Over Preceding Year. Replete with information touching |every phase of life and activity in the District of Columbia, Boyd's Di- rectory for 1924 a volume or 2,088 pages. is being 'distributed to sub- seribers today, fresh from the press. It is the sixty-dixth issue of the pub- ligation. The statics in the volume give the District's population as 482,220 The area is given as 69,245 square miles, eight square miles of which is water. " According to thg directory there are 1,200 miles of streets in hington,"and 527.24 miles of pav- 203 miles of elcetric street rail- vay, and 752 miles of gas mains. The number of banks and trust | companies in the District is shown to | be 48, with deposits .in_1923 amount- |ing fo $194.291,000. The estimated value of+buildihg operations, includ- ing repairs. etc. during the vear is | placed at $57,638/638, an increase over the preceding year of $21,441,579. Touching on vital statistics, the di- |rectory shows that there were 6,305 eaths recorded during the calendar year of 1922, as compared with 6,067 | the, preceding year. The length of main and pipe |sewers constructed during the year | is_given at miles, with " the | total length of main and pipe sewers on June 30, 1923 me 775.98 miles. There are 21,256 street lamps of all kinds in the District, of which 10,759 are mantle gas, 787 electric are, 8442 electric incandescent and 616 street desigmation lamps. The net increase in lamps during the year was 548 With an addition of 159 miles of water mains of various sizes the total miles of the water distribution system is shown to be 674. TEACHERS’ PAY BILL ENACTMENT PREDICTED Measure, Already Passed by House, May Be Reported to Senate To- day—King Favors Changes. The school teachers’ pay bill will be reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar by tomorrow, in_the opinion of Senator King of Utah, ranking Democrat member of the Senate District committee. Senator King reiterated his belief that the teachers’ pay bill would be enacted into law. Tt has_already passed the House. Senator King said that the salary schedules for the teachers would remain practically un- changed as they came from the House. He desires some amendment, however, reducing some of the sal- aries for the supervisory officers. Senator Capper, chairman of the suhcommittee on public schoals. favors reporting the bill without the re- duction suggested by Senator King. 1t is considered likely that the com- mittee will follow the House rates throughout the bill, when it makes its reports, Senator King said that, if possible, members of the commfitiee would con- fer today with Supt. Ballou and the District Commissioners in regard to the bilL He said there was no in- tention, however, to hold a hearing on the measure. BITTER LEAGUE DEBATE AT Y. W. C.A. CONVENTION Resolution Passed by Board, Ad- vocating Membership, Is Being Argued Today. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 6.—As the 3,000 delegates and members attending the biennial convention of the Young Women's Christian Association as- sembled today to debate a resolution passed by the national board advo- cating membership in the league of nations, the opposing camps marshaled their forces in anticipation of a bitter fight. The resolution was forwarded to_President Coolidge last week. Mrs. William Fellows Morgan of this city, and Mrs. M. H. Freeman of. Albany 'were prepared to lead the anti-leaguo group in an attack on the national board. Critics of the board's action maintained the resolution did not reflect the attitude of the local associations. s Members of the students’ essembly of the Y. W. C. A. yesterday pledged themselves to attempt to eradicate the causes of war in & resolution outlawing war as “an international crime.” “The organization made it clear, however, that it would not try to influence its members in case of war. Miss Rachel Dunaway of the University of Texas, president of the assembly, declared that ffipperism Wwas “passe” and that good times must be sacrificed to principle in the in- terests of a “more sensible rela- tionship™ between boys and giris. hnturopathl Hold Election. Dr. James R. Armstrong was elected president of the District of Columbia branch of the American Naturopathic Association at a meet- ing Saturday at 1232 14th street. onniz ott'll«up T;lu:ud n::;e Vice, presiden T, 0! ; Becre~ tary, Dr. Elsle E%: and treas- urer, Dr. Maud Doran. MAY ADD SURPLUS TO D. C. FISCAL BILL Senator Phipps Takes Steps Which May Make Funds Available Next Year. $819,000 MORE rossnn.n Capital Likely to Receive Addi- tional Surplus Revenues. Following passage by the Senate yesterday of the Phipps bill, making available to the District the $4.500,000 surplus of District revenues now lying idle in the Treasury, Senator Phipps immediately took steps to have the bill added as an amendment to the pending District appropri~ t:on bill. In this way the House will be given an opportunity to act on the proposal when the District bill goes to con- ference. Senator Phipps, who firmly believes this accumulated surplus of District tax money should be made available to the ctiy, will also endeavor to have the Senate District committee re- port his amendment favorably and inserted in the District appropriation il Th'e procedure will make it pos- sible also to get the question before the House prior to adjournment of Congress. Should the House concur in the Senate's action In recognizing the District's right to this surplus fund, it would not be possible to appropriate the money at any time. The way would then be clear to appropriate the surplus fund next year either for expenditure on urgent municipal needs or by applying it to the surplus account which Con- gress has directed the District to build up by the year 1927 in order| to _put the city ‘on a cash-paying asis. For Raising Certain Sum. The Commissioners, in fixing the tax rate each year, are now provid- ing for a certain sum to be raised | over and above appropriation charges in order to build up the necessary surplus to get on a cash basis in Senator Phipps indicated his grati- fication today over the action of the Senate in passing the bHl, and voiced the hope that the House also would | approve it. The senator pointed out that while the $4,500,000 has been in the Treas- ury for some time, the federal gov- ernment is deriving no benefit from it and it should be made available for use by the District. There are many urgent municipal needs to which the surplus could be applied when appropriated, in the be- lief of Senator Phipps. He mentioned the incompleted water condult from Great Falls and the shortage in school buildings as specific items. In addition to giving the District legislative title to $4,438,154.92. the Phipps amendment to the bill, adjust ing accounts between the federal and the District government, practically gives official recognition to an addi- tional $819,000 in surplus revenues, according to the construction placed upon the amendment at the District building today, which may make the owance in favor - trict $5,257,000. S For Additional Allowance. Maj. D. J. Donovan, District anditor, reviewing the bill today, noticed this | provision’ with gratification, he said, | since in reality it makes way for the allowance of the additional $819,000 which really constitutes part of the District surplus revenues. The interpretation placed upon this section of the amendment at the District building today was that in reality the Senate has stamped with its approval the title of the District of o 35 0 oz 0 in surplus e amendment orders in its last graph that the controller general of the United States ascertain and de- termine whether the items mentioned in the preceding proviso were im- properly taken into account in arriv- ing at ‘the $4,438,154.52, and it is be- lieved at the' District \building that the direct statement thdt the $819,000 is to be credfted the District in the first paragraph of the provisions of the amendment is a basis for authorizing District government title to the full amount claimed, which is $5 Maj. Donovan pPut up a s L3 meLt for the allowance of the $819 000 in a report presented to the Com- missioners in January last. In this report he questioned the correctness of the flgures $4,438,000 as repre- senting the District’s’ surplus, and called particular attention to the fact that more than $800,000, embracing | four items, whcih he listed, was improperly charged against the Dis- trict government. Several Items Embraced. Relative to this, Maj. Donovan's re- port eaid: = appeals to me that the fore- EOIDE explanations (relative to this $800,000 and the items that make it up) convincingly and _conclusively show that the sum of $825,603.69, em- bracing the several items considered in detail above, was improperly treat- ed as an obligation of the District of Columbia on June 30, 1922, thus re- sulting in _correspondingly reducing the surplus revenues of the District in the Treasury on that date, and should properiy have been treated as a revenue oredit of the District of Columbia, thereby increasing the sur- plus revenues of the District of Co- lumbia in the Treasury on June 30, Had this amount been treated in the light indicated, the joint select committee must have repored that the surplus revenues in the Treasury on June 30, 1922, belonging to the District of Columbia amounted to $5.263,758.61 instead of $4,435,154.92. Later Maj. Donovan agreed that some $6,000 in this estimate was not to be allowed, and ‘this made the amount 6 sought approximatel; $819,000, as provided in the bill 9,000 ALUMNI TO DINE. Michigan Graduates to Gather Si- multaneously at Many Points. ‘Washington alumni of the Uni- versity of Michigan will be among the 9,000 graduates of the Institution who will sit down simultaneously at TROOPS TO BE READY. Parker Orders Precautions for Amite Hangings. NEW ORLEANS, May 6.—Gov. Par- ker late yesterday ordcred Adjt. Gen. Toombes to have troops in readiness shoul¢ Sheriff Bowden of Tangipahos Parish call for them in connection with the scheduled execution of six men at Amite, Friday, for the mur- der of Dallas Calmei SAYS LANDIS GAVE FALSE TESTIMONY Chicago Assistant U. S. Attorney General Disputes Liquor Case Pardon Story. IS SCORED BY WHEELER Charge Ridiculous, Middlekauf Told in Daugherty Probe. C. W. Middlekauf, assistant United States attorney general at Chicago, told the Senate Daugherty inves gaing committee today that former Judge Landis had made “untruthful and unwarranted” statements in his recent testimony about the convic- tion and pardon of Philip Grossman, a former Chicago saloonkeeper, ac- cused of violating the prohibition law. In a letter filed with President Coolidge, seeking the pardon, Middle- kauf had said that but two witnesses testified to sales of liquor in the ease in which Grossman was _convicted. Judge Landls said there were four. Mr. “Middlekauf agreed today there were four witnesses, but said that only two of them testified about liquor sales. “I wrote the department it didn’t have a righteous case,” Middlekauf said. “Judge Landis says it is a matter of common knowledge that Grossman ran a saloon up to the moment of his pardon,” suggested Chairman Brook- hart. Deprived of Bullding. “It fsn't a fact” Mr. Middlekauf replied, “because the owner of the building took it away from Grossman after his conviction.” Middlekauf insisted there was no case against Grossman, but Senator Wheeler, the committés prosecutor, told the witness his statement was “ridiculous.” The-latter then complained he had been victimized by “scandal,” and by newspaper attacks, and Senator Wheeler sajd: “T'll say {o you that I now believe the testimony of Judge Landis about this matter.” Middiekant Is Excused. Middlekauf agreed with Wheeler that thero were breweries and “sev- eral thousand saloons running in Chicago.” “And will be as long as prosecut- ing officers try to discredit their own witnesses instead of trying to convict law violators,” put in Chairman Brookhart. “T'll discredit any wrong witness,” Middlekauf returned, “and let me tell you, when I came to Judge Landis in the Grossman case he looked at me with one of those prima donna smiles and said: ‘Those fellows down in ‘Washington would just like to get my name on a pardon application, wouldn't they? Middlekauf was excused. Conrad W. Crooker then returned to the stand fo tell further of the modification of the anti-combination consent decree against the New Haven Railroad allowed by former Attorney General Daugherty. Crooker repeated his concfusion that the “gravest injustice” had been in- flicted on Boston and Main stock- holders, for whom he is counsel. “What was the Attorney Genera motive in modifying that decree asked Senator Wheeler. Howland Ofers Objection. ¥Well, now, if you can get out of this witness information as to another man's motive,” said Paul Howland, attorney for H. M. Daugher- | ty, “my respect for you has gone up sons erably. I object to that ques- tior Crooker did not answer. R. G. Hutchins, jr.. of the New York banking firm of Hallgflarten & Com- pany was elected a director of the New Haven Company after the modification of the consent decree, Crooker testified, on the ground that Hutchins was “financial adviser’ to former Attorney General Daugherty. 42 PLACED ON TRIAL FOR LIVES IN RUSSIA Judges and Lawyers Charged With Offering and Accepting Bribes. By the Associated Press. LENINGRAD, Russia, May ¢ —For- ty-two persons. including three Judges, one prosecutor, ten investi- gators and several lawyers connected with civil and military tribunals, have been placed on trial here before a special commission of the Moscow supreme court on charges of accept- ing and giving bribe: ‘The accused officials are alleged by the government to have given legal immunity to persons charged with criminal and civil offenses, and to have commuted the sentences or dis- continued the triais of others. If the court sustains the indictments the former officials will be condemned to eath. ARREST MAN IN SHACK. 60-Year-0Old Austrian, Found With ‘Badio,” Sent to Gallinger Hospital Found in a crudely constructed shack of boards and old tin roofing on a vacant lot at Delaware avenue and B street, John Andrewshack, dinners in various parts of the Uni States Saturday night to mark the op:.d ing of the national campaign for $1,000, 000/ to erect a Women's League building on the university campus. Large groups will gather at din- ;’." in Washington, Ann y City, Battle Creek, Grand Rapids, Ne o cago, = pi ew York, Chi Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia, Pitts- burgh, Cincinnati, Toledo, Cloveland, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Denver, Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles. The opening dinners throughout the country will be linked together by ra- dio. Proceedings of the dinnmer in Detroit, ;;! vglneh Dré"l’d:;lon Burton, president e unive , will speak, will be broadcast by Station WWJ. ATTACKED WITH HAMMER. Newark Chiropractor May Die From Blow by Unseen Foe. NEWARK, N. J, May 6—Dr. George A. Neilson, thirty-two, chiro- practor and physical culture expo- nent, was attacked today by a ham- mer wielder in his house office and is expected momrentarily to die at the City Hospital from a crushed skull. A blood-stained hammer of a type used by a machinist was found on the floor near the doctor's desk. A pool of blood spread over the desk where the doctor is believed to have sat when he was struck down. Frank Volmer, forty-four, who had lived in doctor's house three months, un- rgoing treatment for a mnervous breakdewn, is missing and the police have sent out an alarm for him. an Austrian, sixty years old, suffering from lack of care, was arrested and appeared in Police Court today fo answer a charge of vagrancy. He could not speak English. The arresting officer said he found the man sitting beside a contraption intended for a radio receiving set and in undecipherable writing was copy- ing what the sound waves brought in. This “set” was aitached to an electri cal wire running ffrom the govern- ment printing office by means of a copper wire. The man's case was sent to the probation office for investigation and the court intimated the defendant would be sent to Gallinger Municipal Hospital for observation. WOULD REMOVE ‘STIGMA.’ Weeks Seeks Honorable Discharge for Minors in World War Army. Secretary Weeks today asked Con- gress to enact legislation authorizing honorable discharge certificates for minors who enlisted for world war service and were later dismissed when it was found they had misrep- ‘Under the provision suggested by the Secretary such persons would be “held and considered to have been discharged honorably from the mili- tary service on the date of his actual separation therefrom, if his service otherwise was such as would have entitied him to an honorable dis- charge.” ‘nfi are more than ome hundred cases where minors were enlisted by the Army and given other than an hon- orable discharge One of these, Ball, he insisted, | | was “discredited” because he “padded | his expense account.” EARLY QUALIFIERS MAKE HIGH SCORES Long Course and Fast Greens Make Heavy Cards at Indian Spring. 79 IS BEST FOR FIRST HALF Other Tallies Turned Mark of 90. A long course and fast puttir greens combined today to keep th scores on the first half of the qui ifying round in the Indian Sprin: Club’s golf tournament on the hig side. A. F. Williams, unattache turned in the lowest card up to noc today with a 79. Next to Willlam was Commander C. B. lumbia, who had 89; G of East Potomac k and Waliter J Tuckerman of Chevy Chase reache the turn in 38 and 39, respectively Other scores turned in up to noo follow: C. B. Asher, Columbia, 91; A F. Prescott, Columbi; 91; 3 Mur phy, ' unattached, 91; E. Freeman Washington, 90; R. D. Crampton, ¢ lumbia, 94; H. Stabler, Indian Spr 94; 8. B. Bain, Washington, 96; Th as’ F. Scott, 'Indian sSpring, 97 Stabler, Indian Spring, 97; N. Kay, Indian Spring, 95; J. H Indian Spring, 9 MeCormac dian Spring, Grafton S. Wi Indian Spring, 112. Several of the leading players the tournament will go out this af ernoon, with & majority of the flight competitors scheduled to & tomorrow. Playing over a course stretched ou nearly to its maximum length of 6.1t yards, more than 100 goifers, incluc ing many of the leading players District clubs, began their qualifvi rounds today in the second .annu pring golf tournament of the India ring Golf Club. The course has been thoroughly groomed and tod. is in excellent condition for scorinz even from back tees. Last week's heavy rain brought ! the surface a good deal of ground water and the local rules that a ba buried in wet spots may be li‘ted an the lie bettered if on the fair.ray ar dropped if in the rough, are in us today, and will be in use again tc morrow. Leading Goifers Entered. Leading_golfers of the city, wit but one exception—Guy M. Standife the Columbia crack—have entered the tournament, which now inclu ter R. Tuckerman of Che District champion, and golfer of note about the Tuckerman got away early toda with George J. Voight, the Distric municipal champion, and is the ou standing golfer in the field whicl started today. The MacKenzi father and son, who played in t final of the Washington Golf and Country Club tournament last week both will play tomorrow, Albert, tic father, with A. M. Porter of Colun and Roland, the fon, with C. J. Du phy, a former District title hold Dunphy yesterday played fif holes in three over even fours, and should do well in the tournament, : the second shots at Indian Spring a well suited to his game. Event Won by Partridge. Last year Dwight Partridge, lon hitting Chevy Chase golfer, won t event, triumphing over Albert MacKenzie in the final round. Par ridge defeated Dunphy on the nin teenth hole in the second round. T course is admirably suited to lo: hitters, as it makes the second she much easier. BABY LEFT IN HALL. Police Seek Mother Infant Placed Before Doctor’s Door. The police are searching for woman who yesterday placed an ir fant before the apartment door o Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Ruby, at 192¢ 17th street, which was discovered short time later by the doctor. O« cupants of the apartment house saw the woman enter, carrying in basket under her arm what they later learned was the baby. She mounted 1o the fourth floor. and after leaving the child before Dr. Ruby’s door wan- dered into the cellar, where the jan tor's wife directed her to the street The child was turned over to ths Foundling Hospital. Several davs as. L daughter was born to Dr. and Mr uby. in Cross Wa e, th othe of R Will Tell of Child Aid. Miss Effie Bentham and J Stephen of London, England, are explain the work done in Dr. Barn do’s homes, at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. at a meeting at the hor of Mrs. C. M. Ffoulkes, 2011 Masc: chusetts avenue northwest. ‘Thomas J. Barnardo established first of the 160 homes which bear 1} name in London sixty vears ago. 1t charter explains its mission: destitute child ever refused admission Now there are homes througho Great Britain, Ireland, Canada Australia, and it is stated that hu dreds of American children have ceived help in them. therefor has been decided to raise funds this country as well as others, Joshua Evans, jr., of the Riggs N tional Bank is the local treasurer PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—The Guilford; twoyearalds; climing; fve furlosge, T Sam Grenet 107 10! Arbitration 107 Bother Gymkhazs 112 fSenalad S 1R, T. Wilson, jr.-Walter J. Salmon entrr SECOND RACE—The Ham purse, $3,000; four-yoaroids asd ape 145 Rockinghorse . 145 *Houyhnham . 145 Master 145 Herrturd 38 Bt. Lawres 148 $Vox Pop: 148 1William GarthBal Parr entry. $Herbert L. Pratt-Howard ;’m“ try. §Ten pounds claimed for rider. THIRD RACE—Purse, $1,300: olds and claiming; mile anc Troma 111 Treviscot Royal Ci 11 Quick Time *Lady Abbott 90 Salmon ....... *Wessie B, . . 101 *Sea Monarch Dr, Charles Wells 111 8t, Donard .. Fornove 116 e gt M 43. E. Gritfith entry, ord A. Cochran’entry. ivmur 3. Salmon-R. T. Wilson, jr,, entrs RACE—Pimlico graded handics olass A7 purse, $1,500; threoyear-olds. and ) six furlongs. e Wise Counselor... 123 Aleng ... 1 mho oo —p une : 121 YOomiza 1 v pouns CAIBEd for rider, SIXTH RACE—Pimlico graded handicsy class A: purse, $1,600;, three-yoar-olds aad uh six furlongs. e 128 yflu Wit m llermas wel Ross-Salubris stable enmtry. fi-m stable entry. ‘pounds olaimed for rider. . u9 .19 . 123 118 SEVENTH RACE-Pimlice graded hand olass A; pusse, $1,500; three-year-olds &nd up: Six furloags. & 120 Boland .. L1 #im Floating On . 3 108 tVivaciona'1ill ] . 125 Leonard G. 123 Ethel Clayton . 10. L. Whiting entry. sApprentice allowance of five pounds Weather clear; track fast. '