Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1924, Page 1

, of general debate, which ended yes- WEATHER. Showers this afternoon and tonight; much cooler tonight; tomorrow fair and cooler. Temperature for twenty-! Highest, 79, sterday; lowest, 64, at ended at 2 p.m. today: at 3:30 am. $:30 a.m. today. Full report on page T. four hours Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 Entered as secon post office WORLD COURTPLAN 5 REPORTED U BY SAATE BODY Senate Committee Favors Present Tribunal if Di- vorced From League. No. 29.243. ACTION THIS SESSION CONSIDERED DOUBTFUL Measure Calls for Equal Vote for America—Lodge Withdraws Plan for New Group. Adhesion of the United States to| the Permanent Court of International | Justice was indorsed in a resolution reported today by the Senate foreign relations committee. The resolution adopted by the com- mittee follows closely the composite roposal put forward by Senator epper, Republican, Pennsylvania. The committee’s action brings the vorld court technically before the Senate for the first time, bt there is little hope in any quarter of a vote during the present session The pian approved by the committee recommends adhesion to the court on oondition that the court statute and | nrotocol are €0 amended that the United States shall have the same voting representation &s any other power; that the “original jurisdiction” of the tribunal shall be restricted; and that judges shall be elected under council and assembly composed of signatory powers of similar auxil- iaries of the league of nations. 9 Hurt in Bargain d-class matter Washington, D. C. Rush When Pushed Through Windows By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 24.—Seven women and two men were injured today when two plate glass win- dows of an East 14th street de- partment store crashed in under the impetus of a bargain-counter rush. Sections of the crowd making toward counters op which bargain ery, sweaters and dresses were played were thrown against the windows, which gave way. A shower of splintered glass caused injuries which sent three of the women to a hospital, while four other women and two men were attended by physiclans. COOLIDGE APPROVAL FOR TAX BILL SEEN G. 0. P. Leaders Freely Predict Signature—Vote in Senate Is Due Today. ACTION BY HOUSE MONDAY President Compares Measure With Existing Law. The conference report on the tax reduction bill was before the Senate today with prompt approval in pros- pect. The House will act on the re- port Monday, under present plans and if approved there the bill will be ready for President Coolidge's con- sideration. Republican leaders freely predicted signature of the measure by | the President. In adjusting the differences between | the Senate and House, the conferees, | including three Republicans and two Democrats from each body, accepted Vote Is 10 to 6, The vote on the Pepper plan was 10 to 6, all the Republican members except Senator Johnson, California, being recorded in favor and the Democrats present in opposition. Before taking up the plan eventually reported, the committee voted down 10 to 8 the proposal prepared by Sen- ator Swanson, Democrat, Virginia, which comprised substantially the proposal transmitted to Congress by | Presidents Harding and Coolidge. Only one change from the text of the Pepper plan as introduced Thurs- day was made in the committee. It would have the effect of admitting to the benefits of the court any nation which has diplomatic_relations with | any signatory, instead of restricting them to signatories. Lodge Plan Withdrawn. The resolution reported contains textually the half dozen amendments ! that the other nations would be re- quired to adopt as a ocondition of American membership. They have the effect of deleting from the court dtatute references to the league of nations and substituting in each case a phraseology that would include the United States. Specific reservation is made also in the resoluticn with regard to pres- ervation of the Monroe doctrine, and the President is called upon to con- vene a third Hague conference to v international law. When the committee report was formally presented in the Senate by Senator Pepper, Senator Swanson, who is the ranking Democrat on the commiitee, gave notice that there would be a minority report. The proposal of Chairman Lodge, which would have t up an entirely new court, was withdrawn by its au- thor before the committee had an op- portunity to vote upon it. Vote on Pepper Plan. ‘The vote on the Pepper plan fol- lows: For adoption—Lodge, Borah, Bran- degee, Moses, McCormick, Wadsworth, lenroot, Wiilis and_ Pepper, Repub- licans, and Shipstead, Farmer-Labor. Against—Johnson ' of California, Republican: Swanson, Pittman, Rob- inson, Underwood and Walsh of Mon- tana, Democrats. On the Swanson plan the commit- tee divided as follows: For adoption: Lenroot, Republican: Swanson, Pittman, Shields, Robinson, Underwood, Walsh of Montana and Owen, Democrats, Against: Lodge, Borah, Brandegee, Johnson of California, 'Moses, Me- Cormick, Wadsworth, Willis and Pep- per, Republicans; Shipstead, Farmer- Labor. MAY DELAY FARM BILL. Amendments Before House, With Five-Minute Discussion Limits, Amendments to the McNary-Haugen farm rellet bill were in order in the House today, with discussion limited by the five-minute rale.” Numerous amendments were pre- pared by opponents of the measure, which would create a $200,000,000 corporation to sell surplus farm prod- ucts abroad, during the fifteen hours terday, and these were expected to prevent a vote today on the bill as a whole. This would prevent action intil_the latter part of next week, under plans of House leaders to lay aside the measure during the first three or four days for consideration of other legislation. 7 DIE AS HOUSE BURNS. Woman and Six Children Are Vic- | tims of Blaze. CANTON, Mass., May 24—A woman and six children were killed in a fire which destroyed a two-family house here early today. The victims were Mrs. Anginetta d’Amatefo and two of her ehildren and the four children of Joseph Leclaire. The cause of the fire is not known. Mrs. @Amateio and one of her chil- dren were found suffocated near a window. ~The other victims were to death. e rolman réscued Vincent d’Ama- teio, husband of the dead woman, and ome of his children. He tried to Te-enter the house to save the others, but the flames drove him back. BERLIN CABINET REMAINS. TLONDON, April _ 24.—Chancellor -\hg of , Foreign Minister Stresemann and Minister of Labor Brauns confefred today in Berlin and Gecided it would not be necessary for {the Senate Democratic income rate |schedule but turned down other major provisions adopted in the Senate | through the Democratic-Republican | insurgent coalition. | Tax Publicity Curtailed. | Rejection of the amendment pro- | posed by Senator Norris, Republican, | Nebraska, opening all tax returns to public inspection, was offset some- what, however, by the conferees’ ac- tion in approving an amendment re- quiring publication of the amount paid by each taxpayer. Opposition to |both plans has been expressed by | Secretary Mellon. The conferees also |agreed upon a provision permitting | inspection of returns by certain Con- gressional committees The Senate amendment proposed by Senators Jones, Democrat, New Mexico, substituting for the present | flat corporation tax of 12% per cent a normal rate of 9 per cent with a graduated scale of surtaxes levied on | undistributed profits above 10 per | cent was rejected. House amendments proposing an increase in the present estate tax rates and the imposition of a new | Eift tax were retained. The Senate had proposed substitution of an in- heritance for the estate tax and dif- ferent rates to correspond on the gift tax. The maximum estate tax rate under the bill as reported by the conference would be 40 per cent on $10,000,000 instead of 25 per cent at | present. The new gift tax carries | rates similar to the new estate tax schedule. Several Angles Studied. President Coolidge has let it be | known that the general question of whether the bill is an improvement on existing law_will form the basis of his action. Specific considerations to be weighed by the President in determining his action are whether the new measure will provide suffi- cient revenue, whether it will provide an efficient system of administration and whether what he views as its undesirable features are outweighed by its good points. Chairman _Smoot finance conversation yesterday with Secre- tary Mellon that there was no possi- bility of a change in the conference report which would modify the pub- licity provisions or the estate tax rates increase President Coolidge was asked to ceto the pending measure in a pub- lic statement last night by Charles de B. Claiborne, president of the American Bankers League, on the ground that it had failed fo reduce sufficiently the surtax rates. Confers on Measure. Anticipatory of the action he soon will be called upon to take on the tax bill, President Coolidge today be- gan a series of conferences designed to provide him with complete infor- mation as to the merits and demerits of the measure. Two of the leading supporters of the Mellon plan in the House, Rep- resentatives Tilson of Connecticut and Mills of New York, Republican mem- bers of the ways and means commit- tee, discussed the measure with the executive, but were unable to ven- ture a prediction as to his probable action. Calls Features Unsound. The two House members agreed with Secretary Mellon that certain features of the compromise bill are economically unsound. “If such features become law they will so change our tax structure tha they will remain with us forever,” said Representative Mills. “Financial- ly and economically bad, they, mev- ertheless, have a popular appeal and it would be difficult to find a Con- ghresn with the courage to repeal them.” HUGHES REPORTS ON IMMIGRATION Views Given President, But Re- sults as Much in Doubt as Ever. of the Senate The views of the State Department on the immigration bill, with its pro- vision for exclusion of Japanese im- migrants after July 1, were presented formally to President Coolidge today in a report compiled by Secretary Hughes after study of the legislation. Mr. Coolidge is expetced to act soon upon the measure, but White Housée officials were not prepared to predict whether his decision would be reached today. The probable action of the Execu- tive has become increasingly a matter of speculation, and officials who sev- eral days ago spoke of “an arrange- the ambinet to resign, according to :-Mqu nAxency dispatch from the German capital. ment” which might lead him to sign committee declared after a | WASHINGTON, SLAYERS THREATEN FRANKS FAMILY IF SEARCH CONTINUES | Police Guard Thrown Around Home — Kidnaped Boy Smothered to Death. CLUE POINTS TO WOMAN; FOUR MEN DETAINED Oculists Offer Tip to Police After Examining Glass Found on Dead Youth. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 24.—A police guard was hurriedly thrown about the home of Jacob Franks, father of the slain thirteen-year-old victim of kid- napers, Robert Franks, today after new threats of violence had been reported to State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, by members of the family. Anonymous telephone calls to the Franks residence, the father report- ed, warned of further outrages if the hunt for the slayers continued. Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins and Chief of Detectives Hughes, after a conterence, this afternon issued 2 joint statement predicting “pointed developments” in the mystery. A woman was sought today for the first time in connection with the kidnaping. and death. This and an automobile license number were all that the police allowed to become known of their plans to solve the mystery. Four Men Detained. At the same time four men, one an instructor and another a former instructor at the private school which the boy attended, were detained for further questioning. At least two slight clues previously had pointed to the possibility that a woman was Involved. The first was the pair of heavy-rimmed spec- tacles picked up near the culvert where the boy’s nude body was found on Thursday. These were 6¢ straight bows, such 4s usnally worn by women and nar- row from temple to temple, which oculists say were worn by a man of narrow frontal or a woman. The second clue was the statement of a culvert, who told of seeing in the neighborhood a man and a woman in an automobile apparently in a dis- agreement. Death Due to Suffocation. - The authoritics were apparently_ in agreement with the bellet of the coro- ner's chemist that death had been caused by suffocatiom. The instructors here are Fred Alt- wood, who formerly was a science teacher at “the private school, and | Walter Wilson, instructor in mathe- matics in the school. The two others are Fred Cretors | and his son Joseph, friends of Ken- neth Booth, until recently a room- mate of one of the instructors. One of the men held, the police ex- plained, lives two blocks from the 63d street drug store, where, Thurs- day afternoon, two telephone calls were received from a man asking if Jacob Franks, the father, was there. Franks had been instructed by tele- phone to take the ransom of $10,000 to the store. REVEALS POINCARE DAWES PLAN STAND Paper Declares Premier Had Plan- " ned to Demand Three Conditions. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 24.—Premier Poin- care's last letter to Premier Mac- Donald of Great Britain enumerated several conditions to which he sub- ordinated his acceptance of the Dawes reparation report, Echo de Paris, which enumerates these stipulations as follows: First, the occupation of the Ruhr to end only when the Germans have begun to carry out the provisions of the report. Statement of Penalties. Second, the penalties applicabie to Germany in_ case of default to be defined in advance so as to obviate the eventuality of France again being driven to the recourse of isolated action. Third, the Rhineland railroad re- gime to be worked out by the ex- perts forming the railroad organiza- tion committee provided for in the report. Premier Poincare added, according to the paper, that if he had gone to England for the proposed conference with Mr. MacDonald at Chequers Court he would not have failed to raise the important question of French security. The premier will go to Bar-le-Duc early Monday morning to attend the session of the general council of the department of the Meuse, where he will make a political address. He will return to Paris Tuesday night. SOVIET FREES JAPANESE. Optimistic Outlook Seen Regarding Recognition Parley. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 24—All Japanese ar- rested by the Russian soviet authori- ties at Viadivostok several months ago have been released, the foreign office announced today. Earlier in the day the foreign office was ad- vised of the release of Capt. Matsui of the Japanese general staff and Commander Minotsuma of the navy, and later advices told of the freeing of eighteen other Japanese, princi- pally students and interpreters. Government spokesmen, speaking to the press this afternoon, discussed in optimistic tones the negotiations woman living near the swamp by the | says the| WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, CARTER SAYS G. P. 0. HOUSED GAMING RING Tells Typothetae Convention of Crushing Bookmaking Activities Here. BETTING RUINED MOB.A‘LE Declares Still Was Operated in Foreman’s Office. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 24—A story of startling conditions in the i!ovemmenl printing office in Wash- ington was related here last night before the sécond annual convention of the third district Typothetae Federatfon, composed of employing printers of New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania, by George H. Carter, public printer. Until he broke it up by driving more than a score of its leaders from the public service, Mr. Carter said, a Mng of race track touts and hand- book makers operated without re- straint throughout the government printing office; that track results were wired directly into the office over a private wire operated by a government employe; that more than $1,000 a day was placed in bets by he workers, men ana women alike; that many women affected by the manner of gambling were kept penniless by their almost daily losses, and finally that all of this was not only with the consent of high officials of the establishment, but that they were also participants in the orgy of chance-taking. Cites Documentary Proof. Mr. Carter produced a sheaf of telegrams found in the official files of the former chief clerk of the gov- ernment printing office giving racing tips and answers. Discussing the disastrous effect of | the race-horse gambling upon the morale of the printing office person- | nel, Mr. Carter referred to “one poor woman who confesed to me that she had mortgaged her home and lost all in her mad disire to thus win a for- tune.” | In a raid on a notorious handbook close to the government printing office, Mr. Carter said twenty of his subordinates were arrested. Activities of bootleggers were wide- spread through the establishment, he said, and evidence was found that liquor had been distilled in the office of one foreman, “either under his supervision or at least with his knowledge.” 268 Employes Removed. Mr. Carter said it has been meces | sary to_dismiss or suspend 268 e ployes during the last three years “in an effort to clean up the government printing office and raise to a decent and efficient standard its morale, which was dragged in the mire for many years.” One man, employed as a messenger between the priting office and the Capitol, “seemed to be engaged in bootlegging,” Mr. Carter said. “When I preferred charges against this man a congressman, Whose breath revealed his interest in the case, urged me to retain the offending empioye. Nevertheless, this custo- dian of congressional liquor is no longer on the payroll of the govern- ment printing office. Recently he was {mprisoned for unlawful possession of a jug of whisky, which he is said to have confessed was intended for a congressional friend.” 'Mr. Carter told of his experience with the “Wahnetas,” which he va- Tlously described as “a secret, oath- bound clique,” an “invisible klan” and “typo-tyrants.” OFFICIALS ARE SILENT. Activities of Public Printer Re- called, However. Mr. Carter had not returned to ‘Washington today, and in his absence none of the officials at the printing office was willing to comment on his charges. It was recalléd today, however, that soon after he came into office Mr. Carter began a drive against alleged bookmaking in the government printing office, which resulted in sev- eral dismissals. He also enlisted the aid of police in cleaning up book- making establishments within the vi- cinity of the printing office, and ‘went 5o far as to close at noon the doors on G street, which prohibited em- ployes from “slipping out” during the lunch hour to place bets- There has been no recurrence of the bookmaking charges for some time, and, as he intimated in his speech now going on at Peking for recog- the bill, declined flatly today to dis- cuss the question in any way. nition of the soviet government by Japan. last night, Mr. Carter probably has been successfui in ridding the Fov- ernment printing office of the evil. | 1 AL'S Lets Cargo “Rot” To Be Loyal to American Ships How an American importer, em- ulating the practice of foreign im- porters by stipulating that his goods be shipped in a vessel of his own nationality, let a shipment from Germany “rot” in a Chicago warehouse because a foreign ves- sel was used, was related yester- day to the House Shipping Board investigating committee. Joseph E. Sheedy, Fleet Corpo- ration official, the witness, told the committeé that upon learnin of “this loyal American's action, he felt like “jumping up and kiss- ing him," as it was the first in- stance of the kind he had heard of during his connection with the governmen. merchant fleet. Mr. Sheedy expressed the opin- ion that domestic importers should like foreign rivals, specify ship- ments on an f. o. b. basis and name the vessel, instead of by c. i f. (cost, insurance and frelght) con- tract and accept the goods in any MILLIONS TO HEAR ORATORY CONTEST Broadcasting Stations to Carry Words of Speakers to All Corners of Nation. ARRANGEMENTS IN PROCESS { President to Speak for Twenty Minutes at Start. Plans to send praise of the Consti- tution winging over land and sea on the night of June 6 are being made today by officials of the national oratorical contest and radio station WCAP of the Chesapeake and Poto- mac Telephone Company. When the seven national winners in the oratorical contest, conducted in this city by The Star, meet June 6 at Memorial Continental Hall, with President Coolidge presiding. and five members of the Supreme Court of the United States acting as judges, their words will be broadcast to the world. President Coolidge is to open the meeting with an address of about twenty minutes in length, after which each of the seven secondary school orators, including Miss Ruth Newburn of the Central High School, represert- ing the National Capithl, will give an oration on “The Constitution.” Elaborate Apparatus. The elaborate “pick up” wagon and apparatus of station WCAP will be used in sending the program out on the air lanes to the vast audience here and abroad which nightly “listens in.” Arrangements have yet to be completed for the participation of other stations in the program. The President is no stranger to the microphone, his voice having been broadcast from this city and New York on several occasions. The com- peting .high school orators, repre- sentative of all sections of the United States, ‘will be so intent on doing their best in the contest that it is not expected they will get any species of “stage fright” over the idea of speak- ing to millions, as well as before the visible audience of approximately 1,600 persons who can have seats in the D. A. R. Hall. Station WCAP operates on’ 469 me- ters, being a class B, 500-watt sta- tion, one of the mast powerful in the United States. ‘Wil Link Stations. Arrangements are under way for relaying the program of the national oratorical contest, so that it may be heard throughout the world. Other powerful stations, including in all probability, station WEAF, the other station of the Bell system, will be linked in the broadcasting. The program for the event is being arranged, and the complete procedure for the evening will be made public next week.. Tentative plans call for the address by the President, who will be the chairman of the meeting, and the presentation of the awards by Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the United States Supreme Court, chairman of the board of Judges. The other judges, chosen yesterday, are the Justices Willls Van Devanter, Edward Terry Sanford, Plerce Butler ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1924 —THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. |WEALTH AND LABOR CONSCRIPTION URGED Methodist Conference Demands Action in War Time When Men Are Drafted. FAVORS WORLD PEACE DRIVE Wants Churches to Unite; Asks Arms Parley. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 24— The peace resolution of a special committee announced yesterday was unanimously adopted by the Meth- odist Episcopal general conference here today. An amendment was adopted which demanded that the conscription of wealth and labor “be a counterpart of any future conscription of human life” in war. Wants Anti-War Parley. ‘The report advocated a world con- ference of churches to ingugurate a campaign against war. The Presi- dent also was urged to call another disarmament conference. The conference, sitting as a judicial body today, denied the constitution- ality of the election of district su perintendents by the general confe ence. The superintendents are now appointed by the bishops. The minority of the judiciary com. mittee, affirming _constitutionality, was Tejected by a vote of 421 to 383, and the majority report was then adopted by a Jarge majorit Five Bishops Chone: The election of five bishops was completed last night after five days of balloting. Rev. Wallace E. Brown of Syracuse. N. Y. the only pastor to advance to the episcopal office, was chosen on the fourteenth ballot, receiving 561 of the 754 votes cast and upsetting predictions that the Rev. Ralph E. Ward of Foochow, China, would be the fifth new bishop. Dr. Raymond J. Wade of Chicago and J. R. Edward of Baltimore with- drew from the lists after the tenth ballot. Dr. Brown had 139 votes against Dr. Ward's 261 on the twelfth ballot, but his vote jumped to 346 on the thirteenth, Dr. Ward's dropping to 113 “The delegates suddenly realized that no pastor had been elected bishop.” one delegate said, “and the idea of choosing Dr. Brown spread through the hall like wild fire.” Consecration Is Tomorrow. The other four chosen this week to fill vacancies on the board of bishops created by death or retire- ment were Drs. George A. Miller of Panama City, superintendent of the Central American mission; Titus Lowe, secretary of the board of for- eign missions, New York city; George R. Grose, president of De Pauw Uni- versity, Indiana, and Brenton T. Brad- ley, executive secretary of the cen- tenary movement in India. ‘The five bishops-elect will be consecrated Sanday. . The standing committees are prepar- ing to wind up their business, as final_adjournment of the conference has been set for Thursday. A sifting committee has been appointed to se- lect the most important business for presentation in the closing sessions DEADLY WIRELESS RAY TO SLAY | AT LONG DISTANCE PERFECTED! | the deficiency bill which is to come up British Inventor Says He Can Deal Death by Radio With Direction of Fatal Impulse Under Control. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 24.—Dr. T. F. Wall, lecturer in electrical research in Sheffield University, claims to have discovered a “death ray.” He has applied for a patent covering “means for, transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of any intermediate transmission wires" Dr. Wall expressed the belief that his invention will be capable of de- stroying life, stopping airplanes in flight and bringing motor cars to a standstill, although he has not made tests on a large scale as yet. Informs Government. Dr. Wall has informed the war and air ministers as to his discovery, he said, “that everything in its success- ful application depends upon the amount of power available. One does not know hew much power is re- - @he Poening Star. tion is delive: “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- red to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’ s Circulation, 98,037 * TWO CENTS. Norris Breaking | Promise Sealed | By Kiss, She Says| Mrs. W. B. Edmundson, who lives on an Alabama farm, temporarily upset the decorum of the Senate | agricultural committee’'s Muscle | Shoals hearing today by jokingly accusing Chairman Norris of breaking a promise he made months ago to an Alabama school- girl. She told the committee that the chairman, attending a picnic in that state while on an_inspection trip, promised to support the Ford bid in return for a kiss, but did not make good on his part of the bar- gain. Senator Norris did not accept the story as a joke, and the hearing was interrupted while he demand- ed an explanation and questioned whether a deliberate attempt was being made to discredit him. M BEdmundson assured him she meant no harm, and the proceedings got back to a more serious basis. AIRMEN ACCLAIMED AS HEROES IN TOKIO Thousands Shout “Banzais” Army Flyers Reach City. Round of Entertainments. as PAY RESPECTS TO WOODS Congratulated on Behalf of Me- | Laren, British Pilot. ! Brthe Associated Pres TOKIO, May 24—Tokio took American flyers to its heart today. welcome unsurpassed In cordiality | and enthusiasm was accorded to the | three aviators and mechanicians who | are circumnavigating the globe by | plane. The day was a round of of cial calls and entertainments, at each of which notables expressed admira- tion for the achievement of the Americans in crossing the Pacific. Several cordial references to Japa- nese-American relations were made. A crowd of thousands shouted | “banzais” and surged about the plat- | form at the railroad station where | the Americans arrived from Kasum- | igaura, where Japanese navy mt‘»-; chaniecs are remotoring the round- | the-world planes and preparing them | for jumps on south and west to | Kushimoto, Kagoshima and across| to Shanghai, in China. Lieut. Ge Gaishi Nagoaka. president of the Imperial Aviation Association. greet- | ed the fivers as “heroes of the air” | and expressed the vast admiration of | their feat held in Japancse aviation | circles. the | Al Smith Gets Flowers, Gen. Nagoaka's small granddaugh- | ter then presented Lieut. Lowell H Smith, commander of the flight, with a bouquet and made him a brief and | pretty speech in English, welcoming him to Tokio. | The Americans were greatly affect- | ed by the warmth of the greeting aecorded them From the station, the little group of | guests went to the American embassy | to make an official call on Ambassador Cyrus E. Woods and present their re- speets. | Congratulated by Briton. Congratulations by Stuart MacLaren, | British aviator, winging around the | world from west to east, to the Ameri can Army flyers on their successful pas sage of the Pacific Ocean, were ex-| pressed by Lieut. Col. G. L. Broome, whois in Tokio as MacLaren's trail blazer. “Having just their route etter than lties, their Col. Broome the na | . the Americans! s and discomforts, “May 1, on behalf of British_flight, express admiration good wishes for continued succe: Lieut. Col. Broome recently traversed the route of both the American and British airplanes, laying down supply depots for Maj. MacLaren. FRENCH IGNORE FLIGHT. Doisy Trip Ended “Officially” With Crash at Shanghai. PARIS, May 23.—The ministry of aeronautics of the French govern- ment announces that the flizht Capt. Georges Pelletier Doisy has ended. The aviator may complete his plan to fly to Tokio with a new plane, but officially fhis flight ended when | he crashed at Shangha According to the ministry’s ruling, the Paris-Tokio flight should have | been done in one airplane, and this no longer is possible in the case of Capt. Doisy. It declares, however, that “Paris to_Shanghai in less than a month” is a French record. ‘WILL GREET AIRMEN. Shanghai Prepares Welcome for American Trio. By Cable to The Star and_Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1021, SHANGHAT, May 24—Full prepara- tions have been made here for re- ceiving the trio of American flyers, | expected early next month, and a special landing place has been ar- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) i quired for a given range, but if you have unlimited power you may get an abnormally large ,range. “There is no limit to its possibil- ities,” he added, “particular!y in sur- gical and medical operations.” Army Interested, Prof. C. B. Matthews, whose pre- vious “death ray" activities have ex- cited much interest, had an inter- view this afternoon with the vice marshal of the air forces and Maj. Gen. Sir Geoffrey Salmond of the air council and arranged for a test of his Invention in a few days. Mr. Matthews was recalled from France, where he has been conferring with a French firm interested in his ray. He withheld conclusion of any deal with the French, however, pending investigation of his invention oy the British authorities, who requested today's interview in response to a | 60-40 plan. | the Senate. | generously with SENATE COMMITTEE BRECTD 100K GODPLANTODAY Measure May Be Reported This Afternoon, Carrying $3,000,000 Increase. SOME FAVOR CHANGE IN FISCAL RELATIONS Believe, However, Any Modifica- tion Should Come as New Legis- lation and Not as Rider. The District appropriation bill, with the 60-40 plan of appropriating for the District restored and carrying ap- prixamtely $3,000,000 more than the House bill, will be ordered favorably reported to the Senate this afternoon, it was predicted by members of the committee. The committee is to meet at 2 p.m. The subcommittee in charge of the bill, headed by Senator Phipps of Colorado, completed its work on the bill late yesterday. Its action in dis- carding the so-called Cramton amend- ment, which would substitute a lump sum of $8,000,000 as the federal gov- ernment’s contribution to the up- keep and d lopment of the N: tional apital, had been forecasted. Members of the committee outside of the subcommittee have also expressed their intention of voting for the 60-40 plan and against the Cramton amend ment. The action of the subcommitter was unznimous. Senators for 60-40. Other members of the under the leadership of Senator Phipps, were emphatic against an bandonment of the 60-40 plan, which two years ago was made the perma- nent plan of caring for the District's needs as a substitute for the 50-50 plan, which had maintained for many years The Senate itseif is expected to back up the appropriations committee on the Many of the senators re- garded the adoption of the 60-40 pian A permanent arrangement as a settle- ment of a controversy over District af- fairs which had been waged for more than a d de between the House and It was with much surp: therefore, that they learned the Hou this year was again secking a new ad- Jjustment of the District's fiscal rels tions. he subcommittee for the construction high school building, ment of an athletic High School. It determined that sites for school buildings should be ac quired before the available property was taken up for other purposes, and that sites for playgrounds also should be_acquired for the same reason. The subcommitt inserted a new of approxim 1y $600,000 for the construction of a building to house the recorder of deeds. The incr es made by the Senate ubcommittee are greater than the enate committee has ever added to u District appropriation bill in the past The members of the subcommittee however, believe that the District is i1 need of the improvements proposed ana for that reason Congress should pro- vide the desired appropriations. While the House provided for street improvements and extension the Senate committee has been convinced that still further improvements of that character are nceded and amendments for “such $mprovements have be added committee added an_item of a new junior for the acquire- field for Weste Add to Water Funds. The position of the Senate, whivi it is said. will be taken in defense o existing law, will be a strong on. when the bill goes to conference. The House is in the position of seeking change existing law The Senate subcommittee has dea!t the Di t-in the r of appropriations, and the bili rted to the Senate will carrv 00.000 and $28,000.000, | stead of the $24,600,000 pro vided in th use bill. One large increase made by the sub- committee, it is reported, is to carrs a | on the work for an increased wate: | supply. The House allowed $800,001 for this work, and the Senate sub committee has increased it to 000. This increase is needed to pe mit the completion of the increascd water supply works by July, 19 Increanes for School Sites. Other increases allowed by the Senat: | subcommittee are for school sites and | public parks. Senator Phipps, who will have charge of the bill on the floor, will be author- ized by the committee to offer on the floor an amendment authorizing the use by the District of approximately §4.- 500,000 of surplus District revenues now in the Treasury, it is understood. The Senate has already passed a bill for this purpose, and the House District com mittee has reported such a measure fa vorably. It is unlikely that any attempt wil be made to include in the District ap propriation bill increases in the pay the police and firemen and the publ school teachers to conform with the legislative bills recently put through granting _such increases. These | creases will be cared for, it is said, in for consideration at an early date. EIGHT REPORTED DEAD IN MISSOURI STORM Wind and Lightning Take Heavy Toll in Southeastern Sec- tion of State. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, May 24.—Eight are dead as the result of a severe wind and electrical storm in southeastern Missouri late last night, H. H. Jordan, telephone manager at Charleston telegraphed the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company here today. Jordan’s telegram, filed from Poplar Bluff, Mo, at 9:27 a.m., said one per- son was reported dead at Caruther: ville and seven east of Kssex. No confirmation of the number of dead was available here. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. May 24— Seven persons are reported killed at Grayridge, Mo., and one at Caruthers- ville, Mo., in a severe windstorm last night. One block was reported de- newspaper campaign _against the secret being sold out of the country. stroyed at Caruthersville. Communica- tion’ lines are cut.