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WEATHER. Generally morrow, possibly local change in temperature. T for twenty-three hours e p.m. toda: yesterda lowest, 62, at § Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 23 cloudy tonight and showe Highest, 68, at 4:15 p.m. ‘emperature nded at 1 a.m, today. No. 29,229, g Entered as second-cluss matter office Washington D C CONFEREES AGRE ON ALY ASDATE TOBAR MPANESE Compromise Nearly Same as That Reconsidered to Meet Wishes of President. RETURN TO OLD STATUS FORCED BY HOUSE VOTE No Provision Now Left for Har-| Abrogation of “Gentlemen's Agreement.” monious The Japanese exclusion provision in | the immigration bill will become ef- | fective July 1. 1821, under a | agreement eached today and Senate conferees. The compromise substantially that reported the | first agr of the conference, Which was reconsidered in deference | 1o the dent Coolidge. | New conference was | ade when the House yes- | terday refused to approve March 1, 1 s the effective date. The only other important cha nge Made in the cqnference report was removal of the requirement that alien | ##amen entering ports of the United States must have landing cards iden- W by House reached today is| as nt wishes of Pre action by the necessary The me corded new report parliamentary the first d to the aceepted Senate. will follow procedure It will Monday to the one. House there, will be | :u-‘ | and, g0 the | As it now stands the exclusion pro- | Vision contains the | negotiation of agreement for abrogation of the gentlemen's agree- ent, and the President hds told the conferees that in any case no time| for such a negotiation would be left | ir exclusion to become effective néext July 1 The House confe are under- Etood to have told their Senate col- leagues that in view of the temper | of the House as den trated in yes- | terday's debate and on two roll calls it would be futile to make any further attempt to put through a con- ference report postponing the effec- tive date. The Senate leaders, in ad- dition, are doubtful whether the Pres- ident's postponement plan would re- ceive Senate approval even if it Ppassed the House. no reference to an is Rejected by House. The previous conference report was rejected by the House late yesterday, 191 to 171, because of the recom- mendation that the provision be made operative March 1925, and the | President be requested to nekmiate[ abrogation of the gentlemen's agree- ment with the Tokio governmen The conference report was called up in the House by Chairman John- son of the immigration committee, | who later proved to be one of three | members from Pacific coast states ! to vote for its adoption. Democrats lined up against the proposal, and on | the final showdown had the pport of twenty-three Republicans, most of them from the west. and three inde- pendents. Eleven Democrats voted to aceept the report. During the debate Mr. Johnson had | support from Representative Long- worth. the Republican leader; Repre- rentative _]:!uflnn of Ohio, who will be keynoter” at the Republican na- tional convention; Representative Vaile, Republican, Colorado, one of the conferecs on the bill, and Repre- ®entative Moore, Democrat, Virginia. Line Up Against Report. The fight against adoption of the report was led by the two House con- ferees, who declined to sign it—Rep- | resentatives Raker of California and Sabath of Illinois, both Democrats— and by Representative Garrett, the Democratic leader. Lined up with | them Quring debate were Representa- tives MacLafferty and Lineberger, California, Republicans. " Two roil calls were taken ¢n the motion to recommit the report. Mr. Sabath, who has consistently oppced the bill on the ground that It would | discriminate against certain European nations, seized the opportunity to seek to send the report back to con- ference without instructions. Mr. Raker offered as a substituye « motion for recommital with inw | structions to eliminate the Japanesp exclusion provision. By a vote of 189 to 174 his substitute was approved, | wnother vote then beinz demanded on | adoption of the Sabath motion as amended. On this vote the result was 191 to 171, SALM STILL WITH WIFE, LEAVING FOR AMERICA Couple Take Boat Train Together, Despite Reported Es- trangement. By the Associated Press PARIS, May 10—Count Salm von Hoogstraeten and his countess, who was Miss Millicent Rogers of New York, took the boat train early this morning for Havre on their way to the United States. The first plan was for the count to re- main here for some time, but he de- cided to leave with his wife. Ludwig NEW YOREK. May 10.—Reports are current, according to the New York 7Times, that Col. H. H. Rogers, who sailed for Europe April 23, is return- ing with his daughter Millicent, the Countess Ludwig Salm von Hoog- straeten. Count Salm is not in the party, according to the reports. Wwhile the reports include no defi- nite confirmation of a break between 1he former Miss Rogers and the Aus- trian_nobleman whom she quietly amarried last January, persons close to the family are said to have grounds for considering such a possi- bility. January 26 the couple sailed for surope. No member of the countess' mily was at the pier. and she said her parents had not called on them since the marriage. Col. Rogers sailed for Burope last month to put his son, H. H. Rogers, ir. In Oxford. He refused to say whether-he would see his daughter. | to VITAL SECTIONS WASHIN OF TAX BILL GT STILL DISPUTED IN CONGRESS Income, Corporation and Estate Levies and Publicity of Returns Must Be Settled in-Conference. ' The scope of tax reductions pro- vided in the Senate revente bill dif- fers slightly from that proposed in the bill as passed by the House The vital sections of the measure, however, were transformed in the Senate to conform to the program of the Democratic-Republican Insurgent coalition, as compared with compro- mises effected by organization Re- publican leaders in the House. All sections on which a difference prevails between the House and Senate must be worked out in con- ference. Provisions which are adopted by both chambers automatically stand. A The main sections which must go to conference for final adjustment are by both the House and Senate and the amount of revenue involved are Telegraph and telephone messages, §34,000,000; beverages, $10,000,000; candy. $13,000,000; knives, dirks and dag- gers, $30,000; liveries, $140,000; hunt- ing, shooting and riding garments, $180.000; yachts amd motor boats (sale), $31§,000; carpets, rugs, etc. $1.800,000; theaters, circuses, shows (floor tax). $1.600.000; drafts and promissory notes, $2,150,000. Theater Tax Cut. Both the Senate and House agreed to the following excise tax reduc- tions: Exempt theater admission of 50 cents and under from 10 per cent tax, loss of revenue, $33,000,000; cut in half 5 per cent tax on automobile tires and tubes, loss of revenue, the income tax schedule, the corpora- tidn tax, publicity of returns, and estate taxes. | Agrec on Many Points. | | on which the in practical | Important House and agreement are A cut of taxes payabl Reduction of 25 per cent incomes. The House set the maximum to which th be applied, and the Senate to $10,000 Reductions in many of the miscel- laneous and excise taxes and repeal of a number, with the excise rate changes effective thirty days after enactment of the bill. Those excise taxes ordered repealed PITTSBURGH SCORES GASSED IN TUNNELS Suburbanites Caught in Jam of Autos Under Hills, Dye to Traction Strike. provision. Senate are per cent on all income | this vear. 2 earned | 00 as | cut could | reduced it | MANY TAKEN TO HOSPITALS| Street Railway Lines Will Resume Service Monday. By the Associated Pross. PITTSBURGH, Pa. of persons were overcome by auto- mobile exhaust fumes in the twin tunnels through the South hills here | today Increased traffic in the tun- nels as a consequence of a strike of 200 street car motormen and con- ductors caused the tubes to become choked with the g: S, First-aid | crews of the United States bureau of mines and the city fire department were. rushed to the scene: When the rescue men reached th tubes they donned oxygen helmets and went in. The tunnels were closed to all trafic and soon the rescuers were busy carfying out men and women who had collapsed. They were given first-aid treatment, and a number reported in a serious condi- tion were sent to hospitals. Gatewny Into City. i The tunnels form the main gate- way into the city from five thickly populated suburbs, With the street cars ticd, up the'tubes were crowded capacity this morning, hundreds of motorists using this inlet to Pitts- burgh from beyond the South hills. Shortly after 9 am. a traffic jam tied up many machines in the tubes. The drivers, it is said, failed to shut off their motors, and soon the tunnels were clouded with fumes, and prac- tically every occupant of ‘the stalled machines was affected. When the tunnels re thrown open to the pub- lic several months ago it was dis- covered that air shafts, sunk from Mount Washington, were insufficient to carry off the deadly gases. Bureau of mines men conducted experiments and found that persons passing through the tubes were affected by carbon poisoning. The tunnels, they said, were safe as long as motorists kept moving. Order Tunnels Closed. The Allegheny county commission- ers, when advised of today's accident, ordered the tunnels closed. = The exact number of persons over- come in the tubes was not known, but more than a score were sent to hospitals for treatment. The Pittsburgh Railways Company will resume street car service here on Monday morning, using men from other cities to replace 3,200 striking motormen and conductors, it was offi- cially announced today. More than 500 out-of-town men are* available| to man the.cars. it was said, and others will be brought in later. After receipt of a letter from offi- cials of the railways company, in which Mayor Magee was informed that the company looked to the city to protect its property during the strike, the mayor addressed the coun- cil, urging that pending ordinances for the purchase of 150 tear gas masks, 50 riot guns, 100 gas grenades and 10 tear gas tanks be passed and the equipment purchased immediately. He also asked that council provide auto- mobiles for the rapid transportation of police from one section of the city to another. Many Foreced to Walk. Tens of thousands of Pittsburgh and suburban residents moved to their work in vehicles of every con- ceivable variety, including automobile trucks and passenger oars, motor c¢y- cles, bicycles, busses, taxicabs, horse- drawn wagons and shuttle trains. Thousands of others found them- selves without service of any kind and were forced to walk. The traffic jam in the downtown section beganj at daybreak. Every available traffic officer was on duty, but their combined efforts were futile, and the long lines of motor cars and other vehicles moved at snail pace. 70 BELIEVED KILLED. Japanese Motor Boat Capsizes With 100 on Board. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 10.—Seventy persons are believed to have perished as a result of the capsizing of the motor May 10.—Scores | automobile trucks, chassis of which | sell for less than $1,000. loss of reve- | nue, $5,000,000; cut in half tax on prod- uce exchange sales, loss of revenue, $4,000,000. Some differences in excise rute reduc- tions are to be worked out in confer- ence. The House proposed to exempt from the jeweiry tax all articles selling for $40 or less Both bodie: eed. however, to exempt from the tax watches selling for $60 or les: A" 50 per cent cut ordered by the House in the tax on billiaxd, pool tables and bowling alleys was rejected by the Senate. The Senate voted to increase from 5 er cent the tax on all coin-oper- ated machines. An increase also was " (Continued on Page 4, Celumn 5.) Strife in Albania Follows Refusal To Change Capital Iy the Associated Press BELGRADE,. May 10—Armed strife is reported to have broken out in consequence of a conflict between the Albanian government ih Tirana and a number of depu- ties who demand that the capitai of the country be transferred to agother town. Dispatches from he Albanian frontier say the dep- have occupied the town of n (Kroya). PEASANTS EXPECTED 'TORE-ELECT POINCARE| | Farmers. Satisfied With Prosperity, | of Last Two Years, Counted Premier’s Supporters. RADICALS FORESEE DANGER. gy "oioh Declare Present Group Menace to Republican Regime. By the Associated Press PARIS, May 10.—The agricultural bloc will swing Premier Poincare into-power again in tomorrow's par- lamentary election, it is asserted by the government campaign Tmanagers. France has 4,500,000 landowners, most of them peasants, among whom are about one-third of the national electorate. ~The farming interests, combined with the commercial and industrial forces, are relied upon b the premics to supply him with an adequate majority. The farmers have more money in the than ever before and it is difficult to find in the rural districts any peasant or proprietor who is not in favor of keeping M. Poincare in power. Results to Be Known Monday. Coynting the votes under the pro- portional representation system is a long process and the result here will not be known before 5 o'clock Monday morning. The number of lists is so considerable in some con- stitueneles that there are forty can- didates for five seats. The Radical party appealed today to its followers to vote for Socialists in those districts where the Radicals do not appear to have the best chance of winning and where a coalition ticket has not been formed. The Radical party is the backbone of the coalition of the left formed by the Radicals and Socialists to de- feat the government, and has prob- ably three times as many votes as the Socialists. The Radicals make their appeal on the ground that republican regime would be imperiled by re-election of the present governmental majority. The examples of Mussolini, in Italy, and Gen. Primo de Rivera, in Spain, are cited as cases showing the “dan- ger” in giving too much confidence to one man, and Poincare is accused of aspiring to such a dictatorship. Both Prediet War. The campaign speakers of both the great blocs—National and Radical— tell the voters that the success of their adversaries will mean war. The Radicals afirm that M. Poin- care’s austere attitude in dealing with Germany and the tenacity with which he is clinging to military oc- cupation of the Ruhr will, if persist- been making last two years ed -in, bring about an armed conflict with Germany. The supporters of the government contend that if the new government were to adopt an attitude of gentle timidity war would be Inevitable. POST OFFICE BANDITS ESCAPE WITH $25,000 —— By the Associated Press. ) CHICAGO, May 10.—Seven automo- bile bandits who held up the East Chicago, Indiana, post office, escaped with between $25,000 and $30,000, ac- cording to estimates of post office inspectors _here. The money was being shipped by registered mail from the Federal Reserve Bank here to the United States National Bank of Indiana Harbor at Bast Chicago. The money is beligved to have been intended to meet at least one pay roll as one shipment consisted "of $20,000. The boat Kinga Maru near Keelung, For- mosa, press dispatches stated today. sengers and crew. were aboard. robbers selected four registered from among fifteen sacks of escaped. $21.000,000; exempted | ‘Fhe Senate cut this to $25. | ON, D. C, VOTE ON TAX BILL NEARS AS SENATE SETSDEBATE LINIT Arguments on Revenue Measure Will End at 2 P.M. " Under Agreement. G. 0. P. LOSES ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC RATES iE‘flortz for Compromise Backed by | Glass, Bayard and Bruce De- feated by Coalition. Action on the revenue bill, framed in accordance with the Democratic program, was hastened today in the Senate under an agreement which prohibited debate after 2 o'clock. attempts to upset the Democratic schedule, and the final showdown on party supremacy was thrown into ers are planning to make a stand for adjustments more to their liking. A fight to tack onto the bill a farm relief measure and several other proposals, including one of Senator immons, North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the finance committee, to increase the personal exemptions, | were pending today when the Senate met an hour earlier than usual to re- sume the debate. ! Democrats Bolt. Republican insurgents stood firm with the Democrats yesterday for the latter's income schedule, even voting against a compromise proposal to substitute the only slightly different plan approved by the House. Three Democrats, on the other hand, left the party ranks to vote for this com- promise, including _Senator Glass, Virginia, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Senators Bayard, Dela- ware, and Bruce, Maryland. The income tax rates now in the bill provide' for normal levies of 2 per cent on incomes of $4,000 and under. 4 per cent on incomes between $4,000 and $8,000, and 6 per cent on incomes above $5,000. The surtax rates would start at 1 per cent on $10,000 and graduate up to 40 per cent at $500,- 000. The normal rates approved by the per cent tax on incomes between $4.000 and $5,000. The House surtax rates provide for a flat 25 per cent cut in the present levies. The schedule would start at 1% per cent at $10,000 and graduate up to 37% per cent at $200,000. ' | Sems in Diserder. On motion of Senator Shipstead, Minnesota, it was voted today to reconsider the vote of yesterday testoring to the bill the Treasury provision to limit deduc- tions in relation to the income of a taxpaver from tax-exempt securities. Senator Shipstead declared there was so much confusion vyesterday that many scnators were uncertain what they were voting for. The provision | had been approved vesterday, 45 to 40, after having previously been turned down. | Several times during the sharp de- bate which followed on the proposal speakers were interrupted with re- quests for order in the chamber. The | provisicn under question was one of | the last recommendations of Secre- | tary Mellon to stand fire. It had been | approved by the House Mr. Mellon argued it would check tax evasions and bring in as a re- sult. $35,000,000 additional revenue to | the sovernment annually, opponents: of the scheme insisting it would | amount to an indirect tax on present tax securities. Twenty minutes were spent in an affort to determine whether it would be pecessary to vote aye or nay to strike the provision out of the bill. HOUSE TO CONSIDER FARM AID MEASURE Definite decision to have the House consider the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill at this session of Congress was reached today by Republican leaders. . Assurance was given supporters of the measure that it would: be taken up by the House the last of next week or - the first of = the week following. : Announcement of the decision te give the bill right of way was made after Chairman Snell of the rules committee had discussed the legisla- tive program with President Coolidge at the White House. Confers With Leaders. On his return to the Capitol Mr. Snell went into conference with Speaker Gillett, Representative Long- worth, the Republican leader, mem- bers of the Republican steering com- mittee and several members of the House agriculture committee, among them Chairman Haugen. At the close of this conference it was announced that the McNary- Haugen bill would be brought to a vote with adequate time allotted for debate. s ¢ It was insisted that there had been no indication as to the Presidents views on the proposal, but Republi- can leaders in the House heretofore have declared that before right of way was given to the McNary-Haug- en bill some assurance should be ob- tained from the White House that the measure would not be vetoed. Present plans of supportess of the bill, which calls for creation of a cor- poration with capital of. $200,000,000 to sell surplus farm products abroad, are .for..tho. House to comsider the measure before it is taken up in the Senate. Members of the Senate farm bloc have been insisting, however, that the proposal be brought to a vote there without delay. Senator Norbeck, Republican South Dakota, had threatened yesterday to at- tach the McNary-Haugep bill as an amendment to the revenue\bill. Under the rules, he could have offered such a motion at any time prior to-the limit placed on the revenue bill debate last night by the agreement to start voting at 2 o'clock. Senator Norbeck said a I delega- tion of farmers from the northwest was in Wi n to urge emactment of the McNary-Haugen bill. His move in the Senate, he explained, was actuated merely by a determination to make certain that Congress would act before adjournment on farm legislation, and he indicated willingness to let such ac- pouches Ome hundrea persons including pas- mall dispatched from Chicago and |tion originate in the House if given the come tax provision yesterday in two | conference, where the majority lead- | - Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Republicans viinly absailed the in- | | House were similar except for a 5| | | | Harvey, WORLD FLYERS SAFE AFTER 530-MILE HOP Reach Attu Island, Completing First Division of 4,690 Miles of 27,000-Mile Flight. NEXT JUMP LONGEST LISTED Martin Search Goes on, But No Trace of Pair Is Found. By the Associated Press. . CORDOVA, Alaska, May 10.—Three United States Army aviators encir- cling the globe landed safely at Attu Island at 9 o'clock last night, Pacific coast time, after a journey of 530 miles from Atka Island, in the Aleu- tian Archipelago, according to a wire- less message today. The squadron, under command of Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, piloting the air cruiser Chicago, made the trip in ten hours and fifty minutes, having left Atka Island at 10:10 a.m. yester- day, The flight was made in fair weather, some bead winds encountered. 3 f the aerial armada at Attu marked completion of the first of seven divisions of a 00-mile around-the-world journey. Despite strong gales, blinding blizzards and the loss of their former commander, Maj. Frederick L. Martin, in the neighborhood of Chignik, Alaska, the intrepid flyers have covered 4,690 miles in 61 hours and 53 minutes, ac- tual flying time, since leaving Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif., March 17 Next Lap Is Largest. From Attu Island the aviators will traverse the longest single stretch on their schedule—an 878-mile jump to Paramashiru Island, Japan. Meanwhile no word has been re- ceived regarding the fate of Maj. Frederick L. Martin and his me- chanic, who were last seen April 30 near Lake Chignik, twenty-five miles north of Chignik. Cannery vessels and coast guard cutters continue to comb both the Bering Sea and North Paclfic Ocean coast lines. Dog teams, carrying numerous searching _parties, were sourrying overland between Chignik and the extreme southwest- ern tip of the Alaska peninsula. Additional preparations to enlarge the search were being rushed at Se- attle, Wash., where an airplane will be shipped aboard the United States coast guard cutter Bear late tomor- row or early Monday. Lieut Earl H. Tonkin was scheduled to leave San Francisco today on a non-stop flight to Seattle, where he will board the b-ar for Chignik, the aerial base for the search. The vessel is expected to reach Chignik about May 22. SEARCH TO BE SHIFTED. Desolate Island Believed Possible Haven for Flyers. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEATTLE, Wash., May 10.—Latest wireless messages received here to- day from the coast guard cutter Algonguin, now in Alaskan waters, indicate that the search for Maj Prederick L. Martin and Sergt. Alv: the lost round-the-world may be shifted to Unamak fiyers, about 300 miles south of 1sland, Chignik. The coast guard searchers are now working on the theory that Maj. Martin succeeded in flying across the peninsular from Chignik and was blown southwest by the storm, choos- ing Unamak, one of the largest of the Aleutian Isiands, as an emergency landing place. This particular island has an un- savory reputation among the Indians, who believe it to be the abode of evil spirits and its history is replete with (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Another Twelve - Page Rotogravure Section With Tomorrow’s Star This edition of the finest Rotogravure Section in America is but one of the many outstanding features of The Sunday Star Order your copy from your mewsdealer today. q Star. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924 —_THIRTY-TWO PAGES. NAVY AND CUSTOMS OFFICERS ACCUSED BY RUM SMUGGLERS Crew of Ship That Brought 25,000 Cases Says| Liquor W as Landed in San Francisco With Aid of Many By Radio t0 The Star and the Chic News. Copyright, 192 EDINBURGH, May 10,—The-British steamer Ardenza. one of the largest and most famous of whisky runners, returned to Leith Friday night after a year's voyage to the Pacific coast of America, on which she carried a cargo of 25,000 cases of Scotch whisky and disposed of 18,000 to San Fran- cisco rum smugglers. Members of the crew, in circum- stantial interviews after disembark- ing, told a story of graft and law breaking unparalleled in the history of illicit whisky trade. They declare the Ardenza passed through the Pana- ma Canal a year ago this month, sailed up the California coast to Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco, and re- MERRILL EXPLAINS WATER POWER PLANS Cites Saving to U. S. and D. C. in Chain Bridge and Great Falls Development. zo Dally Light, heat and power for the gov- ernment workshop and other consum- ers in Washington could be furnished at a reduced cost by water-power de- velopment at Chain bridge and Great Falls, O. C. Merrill, executive secre- tary of the Federal Power Commis- sion, told a special subcommittee of the House District committee today. The only justification, however, for undertaking this development, Mr. Merrill said, at federal government expense, is the fact that this is the National Capital and Congress has exclusive jurisdiction. 1f water power is to be developed at Great Falls for the National Cap- ital it should be done so as to reduce the cost to the consumers to the full extent possible. carrying out the full development as proposed in the report of Maj. M. C. Tyler. This would furnish approxi- mately twice as much power as the Capital city would require in the near future, but there is a ready market in circumadjacent for the surplus. Rights to Be Acquired. . 1f Congress decides to carry out the Potomac River development, for which the estimated cost is $44,000,000, be- fore this money or any part of it is expended definite arrangement should be made for acquiring all lands and rights in the vicinity of Great Falls needed in the development. Legally binding contracts should also be en- tered into for the purchase and use of the pawer by the local public utilities. Mr. Merrill pointed out that there are two courses open for the govern- ment, one to make the development and then sell the energy to local utili- ties companies for distribution. The other, which he thought preferable, was for the government t6 construct the plants, then lease them to local or other utilities companies for pro- ducing and.distributing the energ: These contracts with the local utili- ties companies should be made, he emphasized, before any of the de- velopment work was undertaken. An estimate in the report of Maj. Tyler made in 1921 says that the energy could be developed and de- lived at substations in the city of ‘Washington at about 7 mills a kilo- wat hour and that the cost of steam power at the same point is some- what in excess of 10 mills a kilowat hour. “Plans Not Followed Out.” In reply to questions by ‘acting Chairman Zihlman, Mr. Merrill said that part of the development project in the Tyler report is now being car- ried out through the construction of the new water conduit from Great Falls to the District line. He also emphasized that Congress -| in’ passing upon the proposed devel- opment should give serious consid- eration to the fact that one of the three reservoirs proposed, that at the Chain Bridge, would create a lake nine miles long and that in the sur- rounding territory there might be established a very beautiful park, ‘with camp sites and summer cottages, which would greatly increase the value of surrounding property. This would require territory | Officials. mained there seven months, disposing of the liquor. assisted by California ustoms officials, the San Francisco police and even by American naval destroyers. Rum runners, they say, passed the Golden Gate at specified hours while the “fixed” officials were on duty. The San Francisco police, the returned sailors continued, assisted in unload- ing the cargoes upon their arrival The Ardenza’'s crew ran short of food last November and were placed on rations of salt grub, which was eked | out by occasional supplies of canned goods and water brought by the rum smugglers. During January the crew | broached what cargo remained and | stayed drunk over ~a month, aiter | which they sailed the Ardenza north | to British Columbia with barnacles a foot thick on her bottom. On her ar- rival at Victoria, B. C.. the Ardenza was seized for debt and sold to new owners, who intend to refit her for legitimate trade. iCONTEST INCREASES INTEREST IN HISTORY Spurs Local Pupils to Obtain Bet- ter Knowledge of Govern- ment Fundamentals. Teachers and students in the Washington high schools have been vividly impressed with the para- mount place of the Constitution of the United States in the study of Ameri- can history as a result of The Star’s oratorical contest. ! While local contestants for the grand prize, and thereby the right to compete in the national contest to be held June 6 at Memorial Continental Hall, are resting today, teachers had a chance to reflect upon the impor- tance of the contest. “Students, parents and teachers now realize that the Constitution is the real thing,” declared George J. Jones, head of the history depart- ment of the high schools. of the tendency of recent vears for history study to stress the effects and not the fundamental causes. The oratorical contest has pointed out anew here, Mr. Jones said, the fundamental character of the study of the Constitution of this country. in the proper study of the history of the United States. Means Better Citisenship. Less attention to “the problems of the American democracy,” for in- stance, and studies of “graft in poli- tics”" and more real understanding by every one of what is meant by the Constitution, its provisions and what they stand for, means more real citi- zenship, Mr. Jones believes. Other teachers in the schools where the eight Tocal district winne: have been selected, in The Star's zone of the national contest, feel the same way about the value of The Star's contest. The Constitution is a fa- miliar document, they point out, so familiar, in fact, that in the hurly- burly of modern life, and even in modern teaching, it is apt to be over- looked, in some degree, at least, or regarded as something so familiar to all that intensive study is not neces- sary. A% a result of the local contest, now |in a more interesting stage than ever, as the eight local winners bat- tle for leadership, the Constitution has been vividly impressed upon the minds of students, teachers and par- ents alike as the fundamental base upon which this nation rests. Aspect of Real Life. 1t has been given an aspect of real lite, as students wrote and talked about its important and basic provi- sions and how they affect every one in_his daily life, the life being led by the students as well as by “the man on the street.” The thrill of nation-wide interest enters the contest and catehes the fancy of the local competitors as they realize that in New York City last night the winner to compete from thut zone in the final national con- test here, at which President Cool- idge will preside, was selected. Next week, while the five remain- Ing local contestants for The Star's grand prize are being heard by the local board of judges, the five re- maining national zomes will select their prize orators. Practice in Homes, Today and, tomorrow -there doubt- less will be enacted in five 'homes individual oratorical contests, as the five remaining school orators, follow- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) He spoke | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,648 TWO CENTS. RENT BODY 0 ACT UNTIL INGTON * COVERSALL ASES Ball to Bring Measure Before Senate Monday Despite Court Decision. iCONFlDENT OF PROVING EMERGENCY EXISTING | Senator and Commission Not De- terred by Restrainer Granted Landlord. Washington's rent situation, ready tangled, became further { meshed in difficulties today, | these points outstanding: Enjoined against “further function- ing” yesterday by the District Su- preme Court, Chapin Brown, attor- for the Rent Commission, de clared the commission would continue 10 hear evidence and decide cases as before, with the exception, of course of the Warren case,’ in which the in- junction was granted | In the face of an opinion by a | lower court that “the housing emer- | gency has passed, Senator Ball, | chairman of the District committee. ‘ser\'ed notice on the Senate toda) | that he would call up for action on | Monday the resolution, already ap- proved by the House, which will ex- tend the Rent Commission's life an- other two years. At the same time { he said he would give to the Senate | the results of his secret investigation which already have been placed in the hands of District Altorney Gordon. s ai- en- with ney | Court Test Prepared. Meanwhile, preparations were be- {ing made for a final test in the courts, with the probability that a | sBecial appeal from the District Su- preme Court'’s ruling - yesterday would be prosecuted in order that | the District Court of Appeals might { express its view of the situatioh, and an eventual determination by th | United States Supreme Court. It was upor a decision of the United States Supreme Court—or part of it thatwJustice Wendell P. Stafford of the District Supreme Court, based h decision, rendered late yesterday aft ernoon, in which he held that suft | cient probability exists that the hous ing emergency in Washington has passed. The basis for Justice Staf Tord’s decision is tound in the United States Supreme Court’s opinjon in the | Chastleton case, rendered by Justice | Holmes, April 21 lust. It follows | “If about all that remains of war conditions ig the increased cost of { living, that is not in itself a j tion of the act, and if the question were only whether the statute wer in force tod: upon the facts @ we judicially know we should | compelled to say that the law | ceased to ope | To retuse a pporary. injunction asked by E: Warren, owner o premises 1865 Columbia road. againsc the Rent CommuSsion to prevent the | hearing of tenants would iord an oppor ¥ changed conditions in the market, Justice Stafford declared, and would be proceeding in opposition to the clear intimation of the United States Supreme Court. Not Prejudging Case. Justice Stafford made it clear tod that he is not prejudging the ocase befcre hearing the facts, but is af fording tle landlord an opportunit to present the facts to the court. Tes timony will be taken on both sides before an examiner in chancery. who will present it to the court, wheu counsel on both sides will be given an opportunity to discuss the case ou its merits before a final decision is rendered. The court pointed out that the ex- | pression “cost of living” used in the opinion of Justice Holmes as beinz not in itself a justification of the act can refer only to high rentals, as the cost of ing in other respects had no bearing on_the question then before the United States Supreme Court. An_emergency was not shown, Jus- tice Stafford said, to exist merely by showing that landlords were demand- ing too high rents in the face of the evidence of the large number of va cant houses, apartments and room disclosed in The Star's advertising columns. Rate of rentals, he sug. gested, are governed by the law of “supply and demand,’ and if the emergency on which the Ball rent a. was based has passed, then the que: tion of rents cannot be made to sup- ply an emergency. | Rules Afidavits. Referring to the affidavits of for mer Senator Pomerene and of a num- ber of members of the House District committee, which were submitted by Chapin Brown, attorney for the Rent Commission, to show that an emer- gency still exists in the housing con- ditions, Justice Stafford declared that the affidavits disclose that the basis of the decision reached by these les- islators appears to be based only on the existence of too high rentals and fiot on the scarcity of housing fa ties. A lawyer who has followed the cas pointed out that the wording of the United States Supreme Court opinion on which Mr. Warren's counsel de- pend for their claim that the emer- gency is passed, clearly indicatks that when that tribunal sustained the Ball rent act in the Hirsh-Block case it was largely influenced by conditions existing theh. The court took into consideration, in the opinion of this lawyer. the fact that there was a large number of employes of the government in crowded quarters, and when one wasx put out of a‘house it was with-great difficulty that he could locate else- where. In support of this view he called at- tention to another statement of Justice Holmes in the Chastieton | opinion where the court said: “It is a matter of public knowledge that the government has considerably dimin- ished its demand for emploves that was one of the great causes of the sudden influx of people in Washington and that other causes have lost as least much of their power.” Gives Laudlords Chance. ‘While the decision of Justice Staf- ford to grant the injunction is, of course, binding only. in the Warren case, it is stated, the position of the court is established and should an- other- landlord be summoned befors T (Continued on _Page 4, Column 13 .