Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1924, Page 2

PARK DEVELOPMENT BILL GETS FINAL 0. K. Senate Agrees to House Amend- ment; Measure Now Goes to President. IS PROVIDED Sherrill, Head of Body, Outlines Ideas for System. COMMISSION Final legis'ative action on the bill for a comprehensive development f the park and playground system of the District, creating a commission herefore, was taken today when the Senate agreed to the House amend- ment to the bill. The bill now goes to the President for his approval. It was passed by the House yesterday afternoon. The park commission will be com- posed of the chief of Enginecers, i A., chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and House District com- mittees the officer in charge of pub- lic buildings and grounds, the di- fector of the national park servic ind the director of the United States forest service. To Develop System. Heretofore there has been no offi- ted body or of- uthgrized to study or work out park or in- vited to mak ons or estimates for w that this unea has been remo every ¢ National Ca in 1y Erounds. rill, officer in charge of 'd grounds, who is xecutive and di smmission, has a <lopment_which ass; ticer of the number of lines of will Suggest to the mission. me of the ideas that he will | the extension of the parks fort boulevard follow- city and connce many of which are still w. Widening of Brunch Park- way from Rock Creek to 16th street S0 as to preserve this forest, em- bracing and preserving the Indian auarry” located there Extension of the Parkway under 1 the Tiger bridg Would Reclnim Marshes, Transforming the Anacostia River marsies above Benning bridge into & water park, and the adjacent Mount Hamilton into a national arboretum. Acquiring the forest-covered valley and springs tributary to Rock Creek, to protect the creek from pollution and to pre the flow of water. cquiring tracts on the outs proper i als for parks s be a thickly d, icreasing the ent the pellution of Anacostiz and for the continued dev. of what is now known a Park. these p: rrill has pl Piney Branch northeast from ts and built thereby at ric developments for the further utification of present ‘parks such Potomac and Rock Creek Parks, and his suggestions will include )..Ian: for the proper extension of the National Capital park system into the environs of the Distriet of Co- lumbia by acquiring lands in Mary- “”’;'hian.l Virginia. s would include the v ent of both b < h ’ l'wde\"hypm 3 breserve the forests, the development of park boulevards down the Poto- mac on the Virginia side to Mount \. rnon and on the Mary d side to Fort Washington, along the bluffs overlooking the river. Rock Creek Project Urged. The development of the valley of R k Creek, which is looked upon by many of those who are interested in the beauty and development of the ecity being so ur . probably will be one of the first projects entered upon by this new commissior In connection with the Roe ley development Col. Shi n calls for ext the park north of th lumbfa line practic together with its feeders branches. This, he 1ooks upon as es- sential to prevention of pollution, and to preserve the flow of water, which is already reduced to half its former volume. The development also is likely to include several boulevards running from Washi on into Maryland and a, the routes for which have been determined. iy to its not ye SCORES ‘INEQUALITY’ IN CLASSIFICATION Civil Service Representative on Board Files Minority Report With Senate. Declaring that there are “glaring Incqualities” in the reclassification of the fiela employes of the federal gov- ernmens, as proposed by F. J. Bailey and H. N. Graves, a majority of the personnel classification board in their recent majority report to Congress, Guy Moffet, representative of the Civil Service Commission, yesterday filed with the Senate a minority report. Mr. Moffet insisted that these in- equaiities in the proposed pay of the field service were comparable to simi- lar inequalities which were to be found in the rec sification of the government ¢mploves in the District of Columbia as carried out by the majority of the personuel ciassifica- tion board. Mr. Moffet's minority report is a resumption of the strife which has ed in the nersonnel classification rd for a long time. Mr. Bailey represents the bureav of the budget on that board and Mr. Graves the hureau -of efliciency. Mr. Moffet charged in his report that Mr. Bailey was directed to adopt a program for the reclassification of the field em- ployes proposed by the bureau of efficlency, to the principles of which Mr. Bailey was opposed. This, Mr. Moffet said, was disclosed at the hearings before the House commit- tee on the bill now pending in the Senate to abolish the personnel classification board and turn its duties over to the Civil Service Com- mission. The bill has already passed the House and Senator Stanfield, chairman of the Senate civil service committee, is pressing for action on it in the Senate. Suys Act Violated. Mr. Moftet said in his minority re- port that Mr. Bailey and Mr. Graves had violated not only the spirit but the letter of the reclassification act. “My bellef is,” he said, “that my colleagues have undertaken to settle in the board a matter of fundamental pollcy which was not delegated to it by Congress, and to settle it in & way contrary to that indicated by Congress.” Mr. Moffet charged that Mr. Bailey, chalrman of the board, had not acted in the reclassification of the field service on his own judgment, but had Leen influenced by officials of the bureau of efficienc: $40 CONSCIENCE GIFT. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va, May 28.—Some person in this city has mailed to the auditor of public accounts a let- ter, in double envelopes, which con- tained four ten-dollar bills. ‘“‘Please apply to state taxes.” That was the only message, no reference being made as to what year or the party Rum-Running Bar To Remove “Blot,” MacDonald’s Aim By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 28.—Answering a hurricane of questions In the House of Commons today regard- ing rum running into the United States, Prime Minister MacDonald aid that he would communicate with officials of the colonial and treasury offices “and see if we can do anything to remove this dis- graceful blot.” NOW BEING INSTALLED Boy Scouts Placing Sets Accord- ing to Approved Lists Given to Committee. MORE REQUESTS RECEIVED Cash and Apparatus Still Needed, Treasurer Reports. Actual Installation of the radio re- celving sets donated by the radio fans of the District for the poor and needy “shut-ins” as the result of the appeals broadcast from WCAP by Le Roy Mark was started today by a special detail of Boy Scouts who vol- unteered to do this work without charge. Before the end of the week the scouts expect to have instalied all of the sets thus contributed. The list of “shut-ins” deserving of the radio apparatus is growing daily, and few additional sets have been donated since Mr. Mark broadeast his 1 from WCAP, on May 18 ns cubmitted by Some Cash Recelved. A number of small cash contribu- tions alse have been received by W. R. Baum, vice president of the Mount Vernon Savings Bank and treasurer of the “shut-in" fund. The money is being used to purchase headpiecces, wire and other essential t. installing the sets In the of the “shut-ins” the Boy with the special detail, all of are famillar witn the techni- cal phases of radlio, are testing the pparatus to make sure that it is in perfet operating condition. The sets are of the crystal varlety and, thers- fore, easy to operate. BAPTISTS GUARDING AGAINST MODERNISM Plan to Hush Voice of Radical Tdeas Should It Be Raised in Convention. By th cinted Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 28—The annual Northern Baptist convention opened today with delegates to the Baptist Bible Unlon organized, through two days of pre-convention ns, to hush the voice of modern~ ism should it be raised In the con- vention. Withdrawal from the Fed- eral Councll of the Churches of Christ; adoption of a Baptist confession of faith; correction of the reading course for young ministers, and disfranchise- ment of salaried servants of the con- vention were among the principal questions before today’s session. C. S. Shanks of Seattle, Wash., presi. dent of the convention, is head of a £roup which is expected to seek adop- tion of a resolution deploring the action of Congress in excluding Japanese immigration. ’ When America turns its back upon its ancient friend Japan and forces the race question to the fore it becomes responsi- ble before God and the world for setting in motion influences the extent of which no man can measure, Mr. Shanks de- clared, in opening the convention. Raps Exclusion Clause. “By placing Japan upon a quota basis practical exclusion would have been ac- complished, and yet Japan would have been free from the ignominy of having been singled out as dangerous to the safety of America and this fact painted on the face of the heavens,” Mr. Shanks sald. “Japan is, therefore, seeking to un- derstand what are the mainsprings of this action. Japan does not question the right of America to close its doors to all immigrants, but it does ask by what reasoning America, with its pretensions of Christian idealism and friendship, with_its vast material resources and a population of 100,000,000 of people can justify its apparent position that her civilization is in jeopardy by the small number of Japanese immigrants that would he allowed on a quota basie, Mr. Shanks characterized the ac- tion of Congress in excluding Japan- ese as an act “of losing poise and descending to a status of a petulant debating society. The majority of the American schools are lost to God and the gos- pel, and today are the seats of un- sound eaching and the prolific mothers of modernist preachers all because Sa- tan, working with his trump cards, is ever busy, was the assertion made here late today by the Rev. W. B. Riley, Minneapolis, before the Baptist Bible Union, a fundamentalist organ-~ ization. Schools named by Dr. Riley as hav- ihg deviated from the course of orthodox teaching are: Harvard, Princton and Rochester Universities, Andover College and Union Theologi- cal Seminary. Among others, which fall in line, Dr. Riley said, were Crosier, Newton, Center, Brown, Col- gate and University of Chicago. “When today you call the roll of these schools you name the captains of the hosts of hell, who marshall their_forces to fight the authority of the Book, the deity of Christ, the blood atonement and every Christian fundamental,” Dr. Riley declared. Turning to the principal issue be- fore the unlon sessions, that of mod- ernistic attack on fundamentals, the speaker declared that the Baptist de- nomination is passing through one of “those spasms of doubt to which the Church of God has been subjected since its birth.” Other speakers before the union were Dr. J. W. Porter, Loulsville, and Pastor William Fettier, Chicago. CHURCH TO PROTEST CARPENTIER FIGHT Presbyterians Will Ask Indiana Governor to Stop Match With Gibbons Saturday. By the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May 28— The Governor of Indiana will be urged to use the full authority of his office to prevent the Gibbons- Carpentler boxing match, scheduled to he held at Michigan City, Ind., next Saturday, under a resolution to whom it should have been credited. Mr. Moore says the money will be placed in the conscience fund, unanimously adopted at today's ses- sion of the 136th Presbyterian Gen- oral Assembly. ANCHORS OF LIQUOR SHIPS BREAK TRANSATLANTIC CABLES By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, May 28.—Rum fleets anchored off the Jersey and Long Is- land coasts are playlng havoc with submarine cables to such an extent that officials of two transatlantic ca- ble companies said they had protested to the Treasury Department at Wash- ington. Another company is contem- plating similar action. Damages at the rate of several hun- dred thousand dollars a year, at- tributed to the dragging anchors of rum-running vessels riding in_heavy seas, were revealed when the Western Union Telegraph Company’s cables steamer, Robert C. Clowry, docked to- day after repairing a broken cable oft the Rockaway coast. Repairs for Several Mon The steamer has been engaged in air work between New York D. C. PLANS MAILING REALTY TAX BILLS Majority of 60,000 Payers Now Required to Journey to District Building. A suggestion that the District estab- lish a system of mailing real estate tax bills instead of having taxpayers go to the District building to get them will be given eerious consideration before taxes again become due in November, Commissioner Rudolph, chairman of the board, stated today. The collector of taxes already malls bills for personal property taxes. He also mails real estate bills when the prop- erty owner makes written request. The great majority of taxpayers, however, now jourtiey to the tax ofiice, consuming their own time and that of the clerical force in having the bills handed to them. Realty of 60,000 taxed. It was estimated today that there are probably 60,000 individual real es- tate taxpayers in the District. In ny cases real estate firms handle tax payments for their clients. In such cases the real estate men send to the District building and obtain at one time bills for all of the property they control. This practice, it was pointed out, could be continued, leav- ing the collector to matl out on bills of individual property owners who handle thelr own taxes. *. M. Towers, collector of taxes, be- leves that if & plan for the mailing of ail bills could be worked out, it would result in a large increase in tax collections and a corresponding deerease in the number of delinquents euch year. In order to establish the mailing system the biggest task would be to -t an accurate mailing list. At the pr nt time under a new system the tax ledgers are written up by square and lot numbers and, since the bills are mailed only on written request, the tax office ix not in possession of the addresses of taxpayers. Card Index Possible. It is the opinion of Collector Tow- ers that a card index record of tax- payers, with addresses, could be pre- pared without disturbing the present system of keeping tax ledgers and bills mailed from the card system. Taking the estimate of 60,000 tax- payers and the fact that bills are now payable twice a year, the cost of postage would not exceed $2,600. Ad- vocates of this plan believe that it would not only prove a convenlence to the taxpayer, but would render the collection of taxes much easier. It it should be decided to mail the bills for_both half-payments at one time in November, the cost of postage would be cut in half. The last half of taxes for the cur- rent fiscal year must be paid between now and June 1 to avoid the penalty of 1 per cent a month. Commissioner Rudolph will Inquire into the advisability of mailing bills before next year's taxes are due in November. MORTIMER CARR. DIES; LONG A LOCAL BANKER Resident of Hyattsville Succumbs After Operation—Rites to Be Tomorrow. Mortimer Carr of Hyattsville, well known in Capital banking circles, died in Sibley Hospital yesterday, fol- lowing an operation performed Sun- day night. Mr. Carr was connected with the Washington Loan and Trust Company many vears and was president of Carr Bros. & Boswell, Inc, of Hyattsville. He was taken ill_last Friday. He was born on the old Carr estate at Friendship, in Anne Arundel Coun- ty, and Is the fifth son of the late Judge Arthur and Mary E. Carr of Hyattsville. Mr. Carr moved to Hyattsville thirty years ago and served as councilman two years. . He ‘was prominent in athletics there. He was head receiving teller at the main office of the Washington Loan and Trust Company. Funeral services will be held to- morrow at 2 o'clock at the Pinkney Memorial Eplscopal Church in Hyatts- ville. Rev. Charles L. Monroe will officiate. Integment will be in Mount Olivet cemetery. Mr. Carr leaves one son, James, ten years old; two brothers and five sis- ters, A. ‘Ashby Carr of Baltimore, William A. Carr of Washington, Mrs. T. Carroll Grant, Mrs. Arthur Pue Gambrill of Hyattsville, Mrs. James B. Shallenberger of Seattle, Mrs. Wil- liam F. Childs of Frederick and Mrs. Henry Tormey of Baltimore. “SPRING KERMESS” GIVEN. A large and enthusiastic audience attended the “Spring Kermess,” which was presented last night at the Na- tional Theater by the pupils of Miss Minnie Hawke for the benefit of the Humane Education Society. Youthful dancers, rangiog in age from those barely out of the toddling stage to slim young girls in their teens, executed their steps with ease and poise. It would be difficult to choose the star performer, as each number seemed to have an individual charm and appeal. The “waltz pompndour,” given by four couples in powdered hair and period pannier costume, was espe- clally pleasing. The “floral ballet,” in ‘which about fifty children took part, was dainty and most colorful. Jac- queline Churchill, an unusually dimin- utive dancer, presented a dance, “La Papillion,” containing most_difficult steps, with perfect poise. Catherine Prichard, in the dance of “the doll,” handled the stilted movement re- markably well. Aubrey Sieber, in a most dainty number, “Le Spectre de Le Rose,” was gallantly assisted by Frank Burkhart. Mrs. Bert Saxon was responsible for the designing of the costumes, which were chagen for each number with unusual adaptabllity as to color and design. GIVES PEOPLE VOICE. Senator Wadsworth's constitutional amendment providing that further amendments shall be ratified by the people, either by a direct vote or through state conventions, was unan- imously reported today by the Sen- ate judlclary committee. It had been recommitted after having been de- bated in the Senate three days and was changed by the committee today to require that any state convention which acts upon a pro d. amend- ment shall be elécted for that spe- aific purpose, . ... Hallfax for several months, although officials of the company said that the Rockaway break was the first known to have been caused by a rum boat's anchor. The French cable company, which, with the Commercial Cable Company, has protested to Washington and to the United States coast guard author- ities here, reported that $50,000 was spent In repalring two breaks in ca- bles off Ambrose 1ight last month. Maps showing the exact location of all cables have been furnished the coast guard by several companies. Government officlals said, however, that while they would seek to drive rum from the cable lanes, they had no authority to order spectal coast guard cutters for this purpose. Officlals of the Commercial Cable Company sald that ships engaged in illicit liquor tramc had caused an un- paralleled number of cable breaks, all DRUGS NOW BLAMED IN DEATH OF FRANKS Killing of Boy Declared Accident and Kidnaping Story De- signed to Cover It. POLICE SEEK “GREEN CAR” Switchman Tells of Midnight Dis- posal of Package. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, May 28.—Investigation of the death of Robert Franks, thir- teen years old, son of a Chicago mil- lionalre, whose body was found in a raflroad culvert last Thursday just before a $10,000 ransom demand was delivered to his parents, assumed a new angle today when officers began rounding up drug addicts for ques- tioning. Evidence that narcotic users kid- naped the boy at the behest of a well- informed principal has been in the hands of authorities several days, it became known. Drug Theory Now Held. According to State's Attorney Crowe the investigators expect to find some user of drugs sufficiently well acquainted with the movements of the Franks family to have con- trived a kidnaping plot and engaged some one else to carry out the plan. ‘The killing was an accident,” the state's attorney said, “and everything that followed was undertaken to cover the accident. Drugs will be found at the bottom of it all.” An account of what he belicved was the midnight disposal of the boy's body, given to the police yesterday by John H. Shackelford, Gary, Ind, railway switchman, caused police to search for a green sedan in addition to the gray touring car sought since the boy's disappearance. Returned Without Bundle. Shackelford said he saw the green car last Wednesday night near where the body was found. One of three men in it carrled a bundle, which he thought may have been the body, into the swamp and returned with- out it. A woman drove the car, he said. Shackelford was unable to identify two instructors of a private school attended by the boy who have been held since the slaying. Hearings on petitions of habeas corpus-for their release were continued yesterday to today, although their attorneys main- tained both have given authorities all the information they possess. Chief Collins announced he person- ally will give $1,000 reward for in- formation leading to the apprehen- sion of the slayers, making the total now offered $16,000. MEDICAL PLANS PUSHED. Leaders From U. S. and Canada to Meet Here Next April. The date of the annual convention in 1925 of the American Congress on Internal Medicine and the American College of Physiclans has been fixed definitely for April 27 to May 2, it was announced last night at a meeting in the office of Dr. Willlam Gerry Mor- gan, president of the congress, 1624 1 street. Plans gradually are being shaped up for the convention, according to committeemen from tne Medlcal So- clety of the District of Columblia, host to the gathering, who are in charge of various phases of arrangements. Surgeon General Ireland of the Army, Capt, F. L. Pleadwell of the Navy, Supt. W.'A. White of St. Eliza- beth's Hospital and Dean William C. Borden of the medical department of George Washington University also attended last night's meeting, they, together with the representatives of other governmental and private medi- cal agencles here, alding in plans for the convention, which will bring more than 3,500 medical leaders from throughout the United States and Canada to the Capital. Plans are under way, it was said, for a comprehensive series of clinics and laboratory demonstrations, while a drill at Fort Myer, an excursion to Mount Vernon and a reception at the ‘White House are among the projected entertainment features. COMMITTEE ON CHURCH UNITY SESSION MEETS Southern Methodists to Designate Assembly Place for Conference. By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 28— The committee appointed by the Gen- eral Conference of the Methodist Eplecopal Church South to designate the meeting place of the unification conference called by the college of bishops for July 2 met here today. The committee on location is com- posed of Dr. 8. H. C. Burgin of San Antonio, Tex.; Dr. R. S. Satterfield of Nashville, W. E. Brock of Chatta- noogs, J. M. Rogers of Savannah and W. R. Cross of Salem, Ga. The committee heard the applica- tions of delegations from Nashville, Atlanta, Memphis, Chattanooga and Lake Junaluska, N. C. The session lasted all the forenoon and the indi- cations are that no decision will be reached today, but that the commit- tee will take the matter under ad- visement. et o CHURCH PLANS PROGRAM. The fiftieth anniversary. of the laying of the corner stone of the Church of the Ascension, 12th street and Massa- chusetts avenue, will be celebrated tomorrow by the Ascension parish. At 10 o'clock the Holy Eucharist will be celebrated. The evening service will begin with an outdoor proces- slon of acolytes, crucifers, banner bearers, taperers, lay readers and clergy and will conclude with choral guensong and Te Deum. = Rev. Dr. Thomas Worthington Cooke, the rec- tor, will preach upon the record and future of Ascension parish and Rev. Dr. Enoch M. Thompdon, director of the Washington Gulld of Altar Servers and Lay Readers, will make an ad- dress on that organisation which celobrates its eighth annual festival in conjunction with the semi-centennial celebration of Ascension, both events falling on Ascension day. Rev. Dr. W. "Atkinson of Incarnation S, marite of St St on. e_offertory there be & solemn pi ‘within she ghurehy . REIDY AND BLUNDON |SENATE PROBE GOES |ASK $15,000 EXTRA ADMIT HOLD-UP HERE Earl Blundon and Dennis Reidy, two of the four men Indicted in con- [ nection with the robbery of Piggly Wiggly stores treasurer on Lincoln road northeast, entecred pleas of gullty today before Justice Hitz in Criminal Division 1. On the assurance that the men had no previous crimi- nal records the court referred the case to Probation Officer Steele for investigation. The mgn are said to have stolen $13,847 D. C. FISCAL PLAN ACTION IN SENATE SEEN LATE TODAY (Continued from First Page.) the country except taxation. the matter of Senator King declared that, in his opinion, Congress would be derelict in its duty if it did not settte, in the light of conditions existing today, the fiseal relations of the District and the Federal government. He sald that he had read with pleasure the filuminating arguments of Theodore V. Noyes with.regard to the fiscal 15 of the District and the government, but that he did gree with the contention ef Mr. s that there exists a contract be- tween the government and the District by which the Federal government should pay a certain fixed proportion of all of the ex- penditures of the District. Demands Falr Taxation. Senator King declared that there would be no solution of the problem until there fs imposed in the District reasonable and fair taxation, and then if there should be any _deficit the expenditures for the District the government should meet that deficit, no matter whether it was $8,000,000, $14,000,000 or $28,000,000. Senator McKellar questioned Sena- tor Thipps as to what the language of the Senate committee amendment, providing a lump sum of $14,000,000, or the continuance of the 60-40 plan, really meant. He pointed out that the bill carries approximately $28,- 000,000, and that 40 per cent of that amount would ba about $11,200,000, and not $14.000.000 Senator Phipps said that the $14,- 000,000 was really a 50-50 division of the expenditures for the District, while the House had proposed a 30- 70 division when it adopted the $5,- 000,000 lump sum. Senator Jones of New Mexico wanted to know who was going io decide whether the $14,000,000 &r the 60-40 plan should be chosen, if the enate amendment should prevail. Senator Phipps sald this would be | decided when the bill went to con- ference, and in this suggestion he was backed up by Senator Warren, chairman of the appropriations com- mittee. He sald that the conference committee would be able to decide upon any amount from $8.000,000 to $14,000,000 or upon the 60-40 plan. Senator Phipps quoted from a speech by former Senator Root of ork, in which Mr. Root pointed people of the District have no voice in their own govern- ent and declared that he would rather pay four times the amount of axes than to have all right to a voice in his government taken away. Other Amendments. As =oon as the debate on the fiscal relations subsided the consideration of other amendments proposed by the Senate committee went forward rapidly. The amendment increasing the item for continuing the work on the increased water supply from $800,000 to $2,500,000 was adopted. All of the street improvement amend- ments and the amendments relating to the public schools went through with a rush. The Senate added ap- proximately $4,500,000 to the bill, The street Improvement amend- ments adopted added to the bill the following projects: Paving Bryant street northeast, Lincoln road to 4th street, $7,400: paving 16th street southeast, Fast Capitol street to A street, $4,600; paving Kansas avenue, 13th strect to Quincy street, $6,200° grading Fern street, Blair road to Sth street, $2,400; paving Quebec place, 10th 'street to 13th_street, $7,000° paving 27th streep K street to L street, §14,000; paving Vine street, Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Maple street, $2,800; paving Arkansas ave- nue, ‘Georgia avenue to Emerson street, $13,000; paving 12th street northeast, C street to D street, $8,000; paving 17th street, Irving street to Kilbourne street, $7,300: paving_39th street, Van Ness street to Yuma street, $13,900; paving 12th street northeast, Otis street to_ Michigan avenue, $19,000; paving G5th street northeast, T street to W street, $13,- 800; paving V street northeast, ith stréet to 5ih street, $3.500; blanket- ing with asphalt 7th street northwest and southwest, Pennsylvania avenue to G street southwest, $35000; re- pairs, $50,000; trees and parking, $45,000. Projects Stricken Out. The Senate, on motion of the com- mittee, struck out the following proj- ects which had been approved by the House: Paving Webster street northwest, 7th street to Illinois avenue, $6,000; paving 17th street northwest, Web- ster street to Allison street, $4,800; paving New Hampshire avenue, Grant Circle to Allison street, $10,900; pav- ing Kennedy street, 5th street to 8th street, $15,000; paving Kansas avenue, Allison street to Buchanan street, $7,500; paving Georgia avenue, Mili- tary road to Fern street, $112,000. Among the amendments for the pub- lie schools adopted was that providing for a business manager at $3,750, and those amendments increasing’ the number of public school teachers and adding to the longevity pay item. Agree to School Items. The items for public school building sites also were agreed to. These in- cluded $5,000 for the preparaticn of plans and specifications for a new school bullding tor the McKinley Manual Training School; $600,000 for the purchase of a site and the con- struction of a junior high school in the northeast section within a hait mile of the Taylor School; $20,000 for the purchase of a site for a new school near 3rd and Rittenhouse streets; $7,500 for the purchase of a school site in Burrville; $50,000 for the purchase of a site near 5th and Buchanan streets northwest; $125,000 for an athletic fleld for the Western High School; $15,000 for the pur- chase of a site for a new school near South Dakota and Rhode Island ave- nues northeast; $5,000 for the prepara- tion of plans for & junior high school near 24th and M streets northwest, Senate committee amendments for the police and fire departments were agreed to without debate. Hospital Gets Increase, Increases proposed by the Senate committee for the Gallinger Municipal Hospital and for the Tuberculosis Hospital were agreed to, and also those for the District militia. The item for reclamation of the Anacostia flats was increased from $150,000 to $200,000. The Senate amendment vrovides tHat $175,000 shall be available for expenditure be- low Benning bridge and not more than $25,000 be expended above Ben- ning bridge In the acquirement of necessary land. Among the amendments offered from the floor by authority of the committee which were adopted was that providing for the purchase of the Klingle Road Vzlley Park, the Piney Branch Valley Park and a part of the Patterson tract. Another amendment approved was that au- thorizing the erection of an addition to the District courthouse to house the office of the recorder of deed: and such other activities as the Dis. trict Commissioners might designate. The bullding is to cost not more than $785,000, of which $300,000 is to be im- mediately available. ‘Another such amendment adopted authorizes the District Commissioners to construct the preposed school for tubercular children on the so-called lel!ll' street site, and still another imiting fees of outside architects em- ployed by the municipal architect to 2% percedls - INTO MISSING FILES Daugherty Witness Quizzed About Supposed Loss of Mexican Plot Letter. ALIEN PROPERTY SALE AIRED Means to Testify at Session Tomorrow. Passing rapldly over several points in its investigation, the Daugherty committee inquired today Into reports of missing Department of Justice flles on Mexican revolutionary activ- ity, sought information about & De- partment of Justice investigation of another committee witness and heard some additional data about allen prop- erty and anti-trust cases. W. W. Grimes, a special attorney in the “department, was questioned by Senator Wheeler about the supposed disappearance of a letter, dated Febru- ary 10, 1924, sald to have heen sent by Gus Jones, a Texas agent of the de- partment, to W. J. Burns, its former chief investigator, which touched upon & Mexican revolution plot. Grimes also was asked why an agent named Need- ham was being investigated in Texas. The witness sald he did not know Needham was a committee witness, The anti-trust proceedings against the United Gas Improvement Company was dealt with in letters exchanged by Mr. Daugherty with Francis S. Hutchins, and others, put into the committee record. Quiszed on Alien Property. Isadore J. Kresel, a New York law- yer, then was called to the stand, and told of being In government service during the war and of ascertalning for the allen property custodian that Germans In 1917 owned 49 per cent of the stock of the American Metal Company. This corporation, dealing on a large scale with non-ferrous metals of all types, was organized by German capital, he said, with some English and American aid. In 1917 there were 70,000 shares of the metal company's stock out- standing, the corporation controlling about $13.000,000 of assets, and 34,644 shares were still in German hands, Kresel went on. C. M. Loeb, Julian Beatty and other Americans owned about” 18,000 shares, while 16,000 shares were in English hands. “I could not find_that more than this 49 per cent of the stock was German-owned,” Kresel went on, “after going through the books, ex- n‘mln‘:m: officers and tracing dividend checks. Did you ever at any time hear of s clalmants to ownership of this ?* asked Senator Wheeler. Swiss Claimed Stock. “I never heard at any time or saw any traces of Swiss ownership in the corporation until May, 1922, Kresel said. “Then 1 saw a newspaper ar- ticle that a Swiss corporation had been allowed to clalm the proportion of stock which the Gsrmns owned.” A. Mitchell Palmer was alien custodian in 1917, the witness ex- plained, and Thomas W. Miller in Kresel sald the custodian in 1918 took the German stock and named five directors of the Metals Company to represent the holding. The stock then was sold for $140 a share, he said, but the sale was set aside on the ground the price was inadequate. | It was again offered for sale, and this time the price was $166 a share, the custodian receiving about $5, 000 for the stock. Counting profits from dividends in the interim. he said, the custodian got $6,400,000. “Then these Swiss claimants, who showed up later,” Chairman Brook- hart put In, “got this $6,400,0002" “So I understand,” Kresel sald. “Now, under the law, any Swiss claimants who had rights could have come to court and prevented the original sale?” Senator Wheeler ask- ed hey could,” Kresel replied. ‘Was any attempt made at the time to stop the sale?” “There was none. Owned Swiss Firm. The witness sald the German own- ers of the metals stock owned a Swiss subsidlary named “The Swiss Soclety for Metal Work.” The “Metall Geseli- schaft” was the name of the German corporation. “The claim for the return of the $6,400,000 was made by a corporation with a French name, Kresel went on. “But I think that it was the same German-owned subsidiary. Paul Howland, attorney for Harry M. Daugherty, intervened to ask the witness if he was working for the committee. The reply was in the negative. Howland then inquired who was sitting behind Sanator Wheeler, and the senator replied that it was J. Weston Allen, former attor- ney general of Massachusetts, Who now is counsel for Frank A. Van- derlip’'s Citizens’ Research Bureau. Senator Moses, Republican, New Hampshire, sald he wanted to tes- tify that Allen was “a man of char- acter and ability, notwithstanding his present connection’” Allen merely smiled, and the incldent blew over. Attorney Testifies. Bradley W. Palmer, a Boston at- torney, testified that he assisted the allen property custodian in 1917 and 1918, and that Henry Bruere and Julian Beaty went to Europe in 1918 as American stockholders of the metals company, and in Switzerland arranged with the German owners for a sale of their stock. The transac- tion was “futile” in law. Palmer sald. “When was the first time you heard this stock was owned by Swiss? asked Senator Wheeler. “A few weeks ago,” turned. Francis P. Garvan, allen property custodian from 1919 to 1921, also told the committee there was no question as to the German ownership of the 49 per cent of stock Interest in the metals company, and there was no resistance to its seizure or claim of neutral ownership. He was never con- suited, he said about the transaction. A. R. Johnson, special assistant attorney general assigned to the allen property office, testified that he had reported the metals company transaction to Guy D. Goff. then Mr. Daugherty’s assistant. The commit- tee recessed until tomorrow, excus- ing Johnson until Saturday. At to- morrow's session Gaston B. Means will furnish_his testimony, so he can go to New York for trial on the fed- eral charge pending against him. STONE ASKS HEARING. Wants Justice Offictals to Testify at Inquiry. The Senate Daugherty Investigat- ing committee has been asked by Attorney General Stone to hear sev- eral officials of the Department of Justice, in order that “certain inac- curacles” ~in testimony given the committee might be corrected, and “a false Impression eliminated.” This was proposed in a letter yes- terday from Attorney Genaral Stone to Chairman Brookhart of the com- mittee. Among the officlals sug- gested to be heard were: John W. Crim, who_already has appeared Augustus T. Seymour, Mrs\ Babel Walker Willebrandt, who heads the prohibition enforcement machiner: and Earl J. Davis, as assistant at- torneys general. Among_the special assistants, Mr. Stone asked the committee to call were former Senator Charles S. Thomas of Colorado, Judge Charles Kerr and Henry W. Anderson, who have been in charge of war fraud prosecutions. He added that he “would welcome & thorough and com- prehensive examination of these wit- nesses with respect to their personal knowledge of the transactions of professional business in the depart- ment. ‘ High School Game Off. Rain forced the cancellation of the ‘Tech-Central base ball game in Cen. tral Stadium this afternoon. The two teams probably will meet on the same fleld tomorrow. at 3:30 o'clock, Palmer re- TO BUILD SCHOOL Commissioners Urge Budget Bu- reau to Grant Estimate for Tenleytown Site. The District Commissioners lost no time today in asking the budget bu- reau for a supplemental estimate of $15,000 to make possible the imme- diate construction of the new Janney School, Grgently needed in Tenley- | town. When bids were opened at the Dis- triet 'hulldlnz yesterday afternoon it was_found tn, vas $13,300 in exc.f;‘.%?'u.'l’"fi’;‘m'in‘flmfl;, of $160,000. “Enginecer Commlssioner Bell and Auditor Donovan went to the budget bureau this morning and asked that the limit be raised to $175,000. This was the original amount asked for last year. Architect Embarrassed. If the city heads are not successful in getting the additfonal sum needed in a pending deficiency bill the munic- ipal architect, A! L. Harris, will find himself in a dilemma. If the plans for the structure cannot be curtafled without serious detriment, it will Le impossible to erect the bullding this year. Auditor Donovan also laid before the budget officials today supple- mental estimates amounting to 480,000 to cover the increased salari just granted by Congress to th, Dolicemen, firemen and school teach- ers. 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