Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomprrow; slightly cooler tonight. Temperature for twenty ed at 10 a.m. today: 6:45 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. New York Stock Market Closed Today No. 29,249, Entered as sec WORLD COURT CUT FROM LEAGUE HELD PLAN UNWORTHY OF 1. . BY PRESIDENT Nation Must Surrender Some- thing to Gain Benefits, He Says, Rejecting Senate Committee Majority Report. ORIGINAL HARDING PLEA BACKED AT ARLINGTON tained, But Arms Limitation Policy Will Be Pushed—Warns Against Resistance to Federal Laws as New “‘Secession.” Proposals for American adherence %o the world court contingent upon its dissociation from the league of nations were spurned by President Coolidge in his Memorial day ad- dress at Arlington as unworthy of American principles and traditions. “If we receive anything we must Burrender something,” sald the President, speaking of the world court and the question of American embership in it. “We may as well face the question candidly, and if we _nre willing to assume th new duties in exchange for the benefits which would accrue to us, let us say veo. If we are not willing, let us say that. We can accomplish nothing by taking a doubtful or ambiguous position.” Hits Committee Plan, The President did not refer directly to the plan advanced by the majority of the Senate foreign relations com- mittee for American membership in the Permanent Court of International Justice, provided signatory nations Bgree to dissoclate the court from the league, but his declaration was taken gonerally to apply to that . proposal. He renewed his indorsement of the original Harding-Hughes world court plan, and said he would not oppise other reservations, but at the game time asserted ny material changes which would not probably receive the consent of the many other mations would be impracticable. Demands Adequate Defense. Warning was given by the Presi- Bent against leaving the country un- @efended, because history has shown *there have been and will be ten- *dencles of one nation to encroach on another.” He coupled with this warning, however, the statement that he was opposed “to every kind of smilitary aggrandizement and to all forms of competitive armament,” and that America should do its part in * making fast the ideal of limitation of armaments by international cov- enants. The President began his address. dclivered at the annual ceremonies | in the Memorial Amphitheater, witl en_ dnalysis of the founding and guiding ~ principles of the nation, foremost among which he found to be the necessity for surrender by individuals and by the states of a yortion of their rights and their moveroignty in order to obtain the benefits accruing to the organized whole. Puts Union Loyalty First. “In these days little need exists Ygor extolling the blessings of our | federal Unlon,” he continued. “Its | benefits are known and recognized | by all its citizens who are worthy of | gerlous attention. No one thinks now | ©f attempting to destroy the Union by armed force. No one seriously | considers withdrawing from it. But 3t is not enough that it should be free from attack—it must be approved and supported by a national spirit. | “Our prime allegiance must be to the whole country. A sentiment of gectionallsm is not harmless because i is unarmed. Resistance to the | righteous authorty of federal law is *:not innocent because it is not ac- companied by secession. We need a more definite realization that all of our country must stand or fall to- Eeother, and that it is the duty of the Kovernment to promote the welfare of cach part and the duty of the citizen to remember that he must be first of all an American. Text of Premident’s Speech. The. Prosident's Memorial day ad- dress in full follows: “We meet again upon this hallowed ground to commemorate_those who plaved their part in a particular out- realk of an age-old conflict. Many men have many theorles about the struggle that went on from 1861 to 1865. Some say it had for its purpose the abolition of slavery. President Lincoln did not so consider it. There ere those in the south who would ve been willing to wage war for its continuation, but I very much doubt_if the south as a whole could have been persuaded to take up arms for that purpose. There were those in the north who would have been Wwilling to wage war for its abolition, but the north as a whole could not have been persuaded to take up arms {:r that purpose. President Lincoln ade 1t perfectly clear that his effort was to save the Union—with slavery lavery if he could save it that 'T.hy o #outh stood for the principle of the overelgnty of the states, The north }v he could save it that way; without But he would save the Union. stood for the principle of the su- premacy of the Union. “This was an age-old conflict. At ts foundation lles the question of how can the government govern and &he people be free? How can organ- zed soclety make and enforce la nd_ the individual remain ina vendent? There is no short-sighted answer to these inquirles. Whatever may have been the ambiguity in the ‘ederal . Constitution, of course the ‘nion had to be supreme within i phere or cease to be a Union. It w: 1so certain and obvious that each tate had to be soverelgn within its kphere or cease to be a state. It is Highes 11:30 a.m. yesterday. Lowest, post office Washington, D. . |persons a day are smuggled into the Defense of Country to Be Main-| hours end- 11, at 55, at nd-class matter C. ¢h ‘WASHINGTON, ALIEN SMUGGLING CLIMAX SEEN WITH ARREST OF VICE CONSUL Secretary Davis Thinks Whole Issue May Be Brought to Head, Says Regular Rates Charged Chinese. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM .WILE. Arrest at Washington of David C. Kerr, American vice consul at Van- couver, B, (., on charges of smug- gling Chinese allens into the United States, may be the opening chapter of sensational revelations dealing with “immigrant bootlegging.” Kerr is accused of fssuing so-called “sec- tion six” certificates, without au- thority under the immigration laws, to Chinese coolies enabling them to enter America in the guise of busi- | nessmen, tourists, teachers and other “permitted” foreigners. The apprehension of the vie sul is bound to center public at tion on the “bootlegging” of aliens, which has been in notorious progress. | Department of Labor authorities es- timate that, on the average. 1,000 United States. in many cases, Corrupt individuals, unfortunately, with officiul status, connive at the pra tice, at enormous personal profit. Bribery, with which Vice Consul Kerr is charged, is known in numerous cases to be offered and accepted in BOY ADMITS GLASSES IN FRANKS CASE HIS Nineteen-Year-01d Son of Million- aire, College Honor Student, Grilled Hours by Police. By the Assoclated Press. . CHICAGO, May 30.—Nathan E. Leo- pold, jr., nineteen-year-old student and son of a millionaire manufac- turer, questioned for hours today, sald he believed the spectacles picked up near the spot where the body of Robert Franks, thirteen-year-old son of a millionalre, kidnaped May 21, was found In a culvert, were his and that he lost them while on a bird study expedition. “I don’t blame the police for hold- ing me,” Leopold said. “I was out near the culvert Saturday and Sun- day before the bedy was found and it is quite probable I lost my glasses out there.” He explained that he could estab- lish an alibl and that he did not know the Franks boy, although he knew of the family. He has long been Interested in ornithology. Second Bay Questiomed. Richard Loef, son of another millionaire, a friend of young Leo- pold, also was questioned concerning Leopold, although no suspicion was directed 'toward Loebb. Richard Rubel, another friend of Leopold, was ques- tioned, The spectacles, one of the chief clues in the mystery, caused Leopold to be held for interrogation. From an optical company the police learned that the prescription for the glasses would fit those sold to him. He readily sald that he had gone to t swampy prairie perhaps fifty times on bird study trips. He added that he had not worn the glasses frequently, and did not know what had happened to them. He sald, however, that in view of the fact that he had visited the prairie last Saturday and Sunday that he thobght it likely he had lost the epectacles then. Is Brilliant Student. Leopold is said to be a brilliant student, and says he is famillar with six or seven languages. The police, in leaving no line of in- vestigation unexplored, have taken typewriters belonging to Leopold, and also Loeb, and their private letters, for examination. There was no hesitancy by Leopold when_ questioned. Shown the letters signed “George Johnson" and demand- ing a ransom of $10,000 and asked if he could have written such a correct- 1y constructed letter, Leopold said he might have written 'a better one, as he noticed kidnaping was spelled “kidnapping.” Friends spoke highly of Leopold and Loeb. The theory that the Franks boy was the victim of others than kid- napers interested in the demanded ransom and killed accidentally still (Continued on Page 2. Column &. R S P IRISH FACTIONS INVITED TO BOUNDARY PARLEY Premier MacDonald Asks to Meet Craig and Cosgrave, Northern and Southern Heads. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 30.—Premier Mac- Donald has invited Sir James Craig and Willlam T. Cosgrave, heads of the northern and southern Irish gov- crnments, respectively, to spend the week end at Chequers Court for discussion of the Ulster boundary question, according to the Daily Mall, which adds that it is belleved both will accept. The questions involved in the boundary problem are so difficult, the paper says, that the government will seek the advice of the judicial com- mittee of the Privy Council and prob- ably dominion judges will be asked to co-operate with British judges in deciding the powers of the British government in the matter. LADY RUSSELL WINS CASE House of Lords Overrules Former Divorce Decree. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 30.—The House of Lords today granted the appeal of the Hon. Mrs. John Russell from the divorce decree awarded after a jury trial in March, 1923, to her husband, the son and heir of Lord Ampthill. The House adopted Lord Birken- head’s _motion’ to the effect that the court findings that she was guilty of misconduct with an unknown man, 1 equally clear that a governnrent must govern, must presoribe and enforce laws within its sphere, or cease to i a government. Moreover, the in- Jividusl must be independent and a.’ ‘within his own sphere, ntinued on ‘olumn 4.) alleged to be the father of her young- st _child, and the consequent decree 2 divorce could not stand. Mrs. Russell's claim that her hus- band was a somnabulist was a novel 1t to be widely followed. amounts running into tens of thous- ands of dollars in the aggregate. Regular Scale Maintained. Orientals determined to get into Amerfca by hook or by crook will pay almost anything to do so. Along the Pacific coast and the Canadlan and Mexican frontiers a more or less regular scale of prices exists. De- pendent on the ease or otherwise with which an Aslatic can be smug- gled onto our soil, the rate varies from $50 to $500 per person. 1f the allen can prove that he will bring in with him, carefully concealed on his person, even a small amount of pium or other prohibited narcot can afford to pay a corresponding higher “admission fec.” He count: getting it 1 k three or four fold from sales of the drugs, once he Is safely within our jurisc ion. The traffic_in. Asiatic women also induces the “immigrant bootleggers™ to deal in big figures in order to get the women in. In the case of a Chi- nese girl brought for immoral pur- poses the authorities have knowledge hat as much as $5,000 s i chunges hands. The bootle made up of a ring of corrupt officials, usually of minor rank ““(Continued on Page LAST COUNCIL HELD BY POINCARE REGIME Resignation of Cabinet to Be Handed to President Mille- rand Shortly. fected by Retrenchments. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 30.—The last full cabi- net council of the Poincare govern- ment with President Millerand pre- siding took place today at the Palace of the Elysee. The government will meet again {n council, but the meet- ing will occur at the foreign office, and Premier Polncare alone will be intrusted with the task of going to the presidential residence to present the collective resignation of the cab- inet. The present government has prac- tically ceased to exist so far as the president of the republic 18 concerned, for {ts members will not again pre- sent themselves In & body before the chief of state. Economies to Be Shown. The councll today decided to pub- lish the decrees for the economies determined upon thus far, represent- Ing a yearly saving of 440,000,000 francs, by retrenchment in the min- stries of foreign affairs, finance, pub- lic works, aeronautics, merchant ma- rine and commerce. These economles have been accomplished without ne- cessitating a single administrative reform. ““This is our parting gift to the country,” remarked Minister of War Maginot, somewhat bitterly, after the meeting. The full carrying out of the fiscal measures passed with such tremen- dous difficulties in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate earller in the year would have resulted in econ- omies totaling 1,000,000,000 francs yearly, but Premier Polncare ex- plained to the council that in order to save the additional 560,000,000 it would have been necessary to issue docrees for reforms in administra- tion, and that the government had refrained from promulgating ‘“‘decree laws” owing to “its imminent resig- nation. Gen. Weygand Advanced. It was in order to obtain author- ity to issue such decree laws that Premier Poincare waged his three- month fight before the Chamber and Senate, staking the question of con- fidence and the life of his govern- ment no less than ninety times. The last act of the present cabinet in_ full council was, upon M. Mag- inot's _recommendation, to appoint Gen. Weygand a member of the su- perior war council for 1924. MILLERAND STILL TARGET. Radicals to Decide Sunday on At- titude Toward President. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Radif” to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1024, RARIS, May 30.—Groups of the new French majority will meet Sunday to declde its attitude toward Presi- dent Millerand. The Radicals are hostile to M. Mil- lerand, but no less than the Soclal- ists, who positively refuse to sup- port any government named by Mil- lerand. As Radical leader, Herriot, who will be the next premier, re- quires support of the Socialists for his majority, he Is bound to be in- fluenced by Soclalist desires in this "*he Boclallsts ref: e Soclalists refuse to participat actively in the new ministry, lfuz.lg they reach an agreement with the Radicals on the Millerand question they are willing to support the Her- riot government by their vote. Presidential Crisis. A presidential crisis in the near future seems inevitable. M. Mille- rand" shows no Inclination to resign and there is ne way under the con- stitution to get him out. If he per- sists In his determination to r. the p‘rna:::ency' the new majority ‘fl‘.‘: s o vo;.,' Pressure at its dis- t may refuse to form a : ment until Millerand I'Qllllll‘:‘::‘ml new president is elected, or it may continually invoke Millerand's namy in chamber debates. As French par: liamentary rules forbid Introducing the names of presidents of the repube. lc In debates, the sgeslon will have to ended and legislat: - sl wilf result RN e right desires Millerand to. main chief magistrate u.'i"’ rotl:.:o to see no reason why he should re- tire. The left declares it will nq forgive Millerand for acting speaking in behalf of the bloc m: tional during the electoral campaign, for the French president is sup; to keep above party politics, when he fails to do so he is no lon OF ceass | fegture of the case that has caused |entitied to political immunity others Wisv ageorded hin. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, NATION'S VALOROUS DEAD PAID TRIBUTE IN ARLINGTON RITES President Coolidge Rever- ently Places Wreath on Tomb of Unknown Soldier. MILLIONS HEAR SPEECH THERE AND BY RADIO Veterans of Three Wars Have Posi- tions of Honor in Majestic Amphitheater. Turning momentarily from worldly strifes, America remembers today with devoted reverence the valorous sons and daughters who lald down thelir lives in her defense. Wherever a mound of nodding grass marks the glory of a sleeping martyr, wherever the heaving bil- lows of the restless seas arch a fallen sallor’s sepulcher, delicate tokens of everlasting gratitude speak the nation’s eternal love. Unknown's Tomb Homered. Over In the sacred citadel of Anier- ica's sanctified dead, atop Arlington's hallowed slopes, President Coolidge led the nation in its Memorial day services when, in the presence of dis- tinguished guests and the surviving veterans of three wars, he decorated the tomb of the Unknown Soldler, symbolic of that whole vast army that has disappeared across the great divide in a century and a half of the nation's life. A marine bugler called the gather- ing to order promptly at 1 o'clock, just a few seconds before the Presi- dent, Mrs. Coolidge, ccretary of War Weeks and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, each accompanied by his official aides in full dress uniform, entered the amphitheater. The United State Marine Band played the usual overture when the President and his party marched down the main aisle to the dals, where he delivered the ora- tion of the day. Salute and Pledge to Flag. Quickly the formal opening cere- monies, carried out strictly according to milltary precedent, were complet- ed. Briscoe Goodhart, department commander. of the Grand Army of the Republie, pronounced the call to or- der and the colors were presented by John Middleton, officer of the day, while the Marine Band sounded the call to the colors. The salute and pledge of alleglance to the flag were participated in by the assembly. Immediately following “The Star ‘Spangied Banner,” played by the Ma- rine Band, divine blessing was invok- ed by Rev. Jason Noble Plerce. Os- born H. Oldroyd, assistant adjutant general of the Grand Army, read Gen. Logan's order establishing Memorial day; Violet Warren Pierson read a tribute to Abraham Lincoln and Viola 8. Klinge sang “Our Country's Flag.” President Coolldge was then present- ed, and delivered his address. Civil War Song Sung. Softly the famillar strains of “Tent- ing Tonight” floated out over the Roman balustrades of the amphi- theater. It was a spectacle to wring tears from the strongest heart, to see those old men in dark blue uniforms glancing back over the span of half a century, to the days when they sat around glowing camp fires and, sing- ing that same old song, had kej their minds from thought of the morrow. Bent under the welght of years, they stood and quietly listened, but out in the audience there was many a molst eye. Beside them the men who battled in the war with Spain, now nearing middle age, stood at at- tention, while In sharp contrast to all were arranged the vigorous youth of the nation’s latest and most desper- ate war—the great world war. It was an all too realistic tableau of America's manhood on its earthly march. Audience Sings “America.” Senator Stmeon D. Fess of Ohio de- livered a short address and Repre- sentative Clifton A. Woodrum of Vir- ginia sang O'Hara's “The Unknown Soldler.” TIsabel Linkens Gates re- cited “The Flag,” and the Madrigal Quartet sang “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” In a soft, sweet voice Gertrude Lyons sang “The Soldier's Day Is at Its Close.” fore Rev. R. E. McBride, department chaplain of the Grand Army, pro- nounced benediction the entire audi- ence rose and sang ‘‘Americ: ' Forees to Be Reconeiled. Senator Fess of Ohlo, in his address declared that “the preservation of tho American Union is the assurance of the perpetuity of popular govern- ment, which is rapidly becoming the ultimate form of government among men." He added that if the government is to be the agency of the advance- ment of the human race there must be reconciled two apparently con- fiicting forces back of liberty, on the one hand, and authority, on the other. “Government without liberty,” con- tinued Senator Fess, “is despotism. Government without authority is an- archy. One school of political sei- ence looks to liberty as the chief ob- ject of government. Another school Sees authority as the ond to be re- alized. The progress of civilization is not the realization of the ono as against the other, but rather the adoption of each as modified by the other." Thin Line Moves On. Another day full of throbbing mem- ories for the nation's veterans had neared its close. Once again ° the Grand Army of the Republic had kept faith with comrades long de- parted and the burdened warriors of 2 fast paasing leglon turned home- ward content in the knowledge of & duty performed ' gladly an well. Above every quiet mound on Arling- ton's slopes there fluttered a tiny American flag, and beneath it a floral Wreath lay in silent tribute. A bright sun, the first Washington has enjoyed for weeks, shed its joyful radiance upon the veterans when they began the day's duties by assembling at the south end of the Treasury for their It seemed like a pro- cession of th erations, the long line that Wwoi its way around the Treasury, Dast the east gates of the White House and through the busi- ness section df the city to special cars that awited the ‘veterans to take them Arlington. O e than Jover; the fadiog blue ~(Contmued on rage 4, Column 1.) A minute be-, TO MEET BONUS COST Deficiency Bill Reported to House Carries Fund to Start Admin- istration of Law. D. C. PROJECTS APPROVED Committee 0. K.’s $443,000 Fund for Capital Work. An appropriation of $131,943,138 to meet the estimated cost of the sol- diers' bonus until July 1, 1925, is proposed in a defiolency bill report- ed today by the House appropria- tions committee. Other items bring the measure’s total up to $158,196,- 417, or $1,898408 less than budget estimates. To cafry out provisions of the bonus law the Veterans' Bureau would receive $1,188,600 for administrative ekpenses, ' $26,629.398 for adjusted service and dependent pay and $100,- 000,000 for its adjusted compensation fund. " In addition, the general ac- counting office would be ailoted _$76,- 240, the Navy Department $450,000 and the War Department $3,600,000 for administrative expenses in con- nection with the act. Coast Guard Fund Asked. The bill carries 35,230,100 for the pay of personnel and operating ex-. penses of the enlarged coast guard fleet operating against rum runners, $80,000 for more frequent cotton crop and ginning reports, $1,000,000 for road construction in national parks, $3,500,000 for the eradication of the foot and mouth disease among live stock, $2.500,000 for expenses Incident to the scrapping of naval vessels un- der the Washington arms conference treaty, $6,216,906 for the Post Office Department as a result of increased volume of mail and transportation costs and $146,100 for the investiga- tion of reclamation projects. $443,014 Asked for D. C. Out of the total appropriation, $443,614.77 is for projects in the Dis- trict of Columbia, and of which $93,- 953.46 Is for the legislative branch, the second deficiency appropriation bill for the present fiscal year was reported to the House today. The amount recommended Is $1,- 898,408.15 less than the total amount requested. The _appropriations _for the District are $66,029.05 less than the estimates submitted. The District items include: Salaries and expenses for the rent commission, $45,000, which s $30,220 less than the estimates; . Judicial " expenses, 1923, $3,955.92; ‘advertising notice' of taxes 1923, $937.81; refund of erroneous collection, 1924, $1.500; painting traffic lines, 1924, $5,000; traffic_devices, purchase and Installa" tion, 1924, $10,000: payment of an- nuities to public school teachers, 1923, $1,526.29, and for 1924, $5,000; fuel, gas, etc, for the fiscal year 1923, $52,068.79, and for the fiscal year 1924, $60,000; furniture and _equipment, Thomson School, 1924, §3,361; comple: tion of equipment, Macfariand and Langley Junior High Schools, $3,000 school repairs and improvements, $25,000; for the fire department, for repairs to apparatus, $5,000; for the health depfrtment, for dralnage of lots, $2,000; for 'public crematory maintenance, $1,000. For Police Court. For_the police court, for printing in 1923, $961.65, and in 1924, $1,500. For compensation of jurors, $3,500; for the Supreme Court, support of con- victs, $25,000; writs of lunacy, $102.72; missellanieous expenses, $50.63; work- house fuel, $10,000. To the National Training School for Girls, electrical equipment of the building for white girls, $3,000. For maintenance of =~ Gallinger Municipal Hospital, 1923, $16,117.03; for the board of children’s guardians, for ‘maintenance for feeble-minded children, $2,000; for care of the msane at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, $100.000; for the bathing beach for colored people for the next fiscal year, $50,- 000; for judgments in 1923, $4,213.54 and for audited claims in 1921 and prior years, $2,269. 3 The decreases under the estimates, amounting to a totdl of $66.029.05, are made up as follows: A decrease jof $30,220 for salaries and expenses . of the Rent Commission;. for condemna. in arrears, itary buildings, the esti- ‘was that %‘r :’d.ooo for construction and pair of iges. TORn item of $8.400 for repairs and improvements on the contagious dis- ease unit of Garfleld Hospital was not allowed. Ttems for medical charities, in- cluding $2,981.15 for Emergency Hos- ital: for the fiscal year 1932 and 03.40 for the fiscal year 1923, and Eastern Dispensary, 3$878.35 for 1922 and $6,236.15 for 1923, allowed. ‘were mnot ¢ Foening Star, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924 _THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. President Coolidge At Nogales, Ariz. By the Ansoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 30.—It is reported that one of the purposes of President Obregon's visit to Sonora is to interview President Coolidge at Nogales. American Ambassador Warren refuses to comment on the report. (Washington dispatches in Feb- ruary said efforts would be made to bring the two presidents to- gether In May at Albuquerque, N. M. Previous proposals for a trip to the Mexican border met with_declination from Mr. Cool- iage.) ORATORS’ VISIT HERE T0 BE MEMORABLEONE Plans Made to Show Seven Con- testants Major Points of Interest About the Capital. NEW FEATURES ANNOUNCED Star Plans Special Program to En- tertain Visitors. School boy and girl orators of the nation will be the guests of The Eve- ning Star when they come here to com- pete on the nite of June 6 at Memo- rial Continental Hall in the national oratorical contest on the Constitution. As the host newspaper, The Star not only will be in charge of the national grand prizes of $3,500, $1,000 and $300 for which the seven champion second- ary school speakers will contend, but also will entertain the visitors with a special program on June 7, the day fol- lowing the contest. Not unmindful of the fact that the young orators will want to carry away with them unforgettable mem- orfes of the beauties of the Natlonal Capital, as well as the prizes, this paper is planning for a whole day of festivities the day immediately fol- lowing the contest. Will See All Sights, Beginning early in the morning, the seven contestants, including the three grand prize winners, who will have been chosen the night before, will be taken on an all-day sight- seeing tour of Washington as guests of The Star. Two especlal features, mnot yet ready to be announced, are planned for the entertainment of the orators, Don Tyler of Los Angeles, John M. Dallam, 3d, of Philadelphia; Jack Turner of Birmingham, Ruth New- burn of Washington, D. C.; George Chumos of Topeka, Kans.; Eleanor Huber of Louisville, Ky., and Vail Barnes of New Brighton, N. Y. These special features will be a part of the day's entertainment and is promised that they will be of a ture to be duplicated nowhere else in the country except in the Na- tional Capital. Luncheon and dinner will be pro- vided - the orators and their parents and immedfate friends who will be included in the party. The tour will be taken in seven automobiles, and, in addition to the special features, will include the major points of in- terest In and around Washington. To Give Theater Party. On Thursday night, June 5, the Monarch Club will be host .to_the visitors at a box party at the B. F. Keith Theater, and at 12130 o'clock on the afternoon of June 6 the club will.entertain the visitors at a lunch~ eon at the Raleigh Hotel. This will be followed by a parade, with an honor guard.of eading High School Cadet companies, up Pennsylvania avenue and thence to Continental Memorjal Hall, where the speak will try out the acoustic properties of the auditorfum. Prenident. Coolidge is to preside at the contest after being introduced by Robert E. Lee Saner, president of the American Bir Assoclation. Chlef Jus- tice Taft of the United States Su- premhe Court will be chalrman ‘of the board of judges, the other members of which are Justices Sanford, Suth- erland, Butler and Van Devaxter of the same court. Secretary Hughes of the State De- partment will be among those on the platfo; Frank B Noyes, president of The Evening' Star Newspaper Com- pany and president of the Associated Press, will be on the platform and, as custodian of the national prizes, Will turn over the three checks to Chief Justice Taft, who formally will pre- sent the awards as declded upon by the Yoerd. - - every cit $131,943,138 ASKED |Dbregon May Meet |CONFEREES TO MEET ON D. C. FISCAL BILL Efforts Will Be Made Tomorrow to Press Action Facing Adjournment. RELATION'S FIGHT LOOMS House . Members May Contend for Lump Appropriation. The conferees on the District appro- priation bill will hoid their first meeting tomorrow morning, according to plans made today. With an adjournment of Congress planned for Saturday, June 7, every effort will be made to get an early agreement on the District b}, so that it may be finatly enacted into law. The conferees on the part of the Sen- ate will be Senators Phipps of Colo- rado, Ball of Delaware and Jones of ‘Washington, : Republicans, and Senators Glass of Virginia and Sheppard of Texas, Democrats. The House conferees will be Representatives Davis of Minne- Bota, Funk of Illinois, Republicans, and Ayres of Kansas, Democrat. Fiscal Relations Big Issue. The big issue in conference will be the fiscal relations of the District and federal governments. The Senate re- jected the Cramton amendment pro- viding for an §8,000,000 lump sum con- tribution in place of the 60-40 plan of appropriating for the District and restored the 60-40 plan. At the same time the Senate provided that, should a lump sum finally be decided upon, it should be $14,000,000 instead of $8,000,000. The belief exists in some quarters that the House conferees will seek to have the lump sum appropriation finally adopted, with an amendment making it _$10,000,000 instead of $8,000,000. The Senate conferees, on the other hand, will resist such a compromise, demanding the retention of the 60-40 plan at least until some means has been devised to ascertain what lump sum contribution by the federal government would be a just share of the burden of the upkeep of the National Capital. Passed Without Change. The Senate passed the bill prac- tically as it came from the Senate committee on appropriations, under the leadership of Senator Phipps of Colorado. All of the Senate commit- tee amendments were adopted and amendments by Senators Pepper of Pennsylvania and Copeland of New York, respectively, providing for walks and drives in the Mall and for the prevention of diphtheria among the children of the public schools. One of the amendments authorized to be offered from the floor by the committee, however, was defeated on a point of order—the amendment pro- posing that the District be permitted to use the $4,500,000 surplus District revenues found to be in the Treasury by a joint congressional committee. This matter has already been passed favorably by the Senate, and is now on the House calendar, and efforts will be made to get action in the House before adjournment of Con- Bress. The Senate treated the District: gen- erously. The bill as passed yesterday carpies a total of $29,227,519—whic is $4,574,822 more than was carried in the House bill. The Senate con- ferees hope to have continued in the bill many of the items of increase allowed by the/Senate. $250,000 Lost in Fire, HOUSTON, Tex, May 30.—Fire started .by two lightning bolts de- stroyed the storage warehouses of the Magnolia Petroleum Company here last night with a loss estimated at $250,000. Eight 17,000-barrel stor- age tanks, three containing gasoline, one . kerosene and four lubricating oll, were included in the loss. Obregon Grants Moratorium. MEXICO CITY, May 30.—President Cbregon has signed a decree granting an elght-year moratorium to short- gage. and {ssue banks. The measure was suggested by the permanent com- mission of bankers to enable the banks to regain their normal condi- tion. Ten Spanish Miners Killed. OVIEDO, Spain, May 30.—Ten men are known to have perished in a coal mine fire near here, and rescue squads are attempting to save others Enown to be in the workings. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers y 7 block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,950 TWO CENTS. GERMANY WARNED ALLIES WILL RETAIN FIRM MILITARY GRIP Ambassadors’ Council Reaf- firms Right to Decide When Berlin Has Met Terms. REFUSE PLEA TO GIVE CONTROL TO LEAGUE Ask Germans Agree to Inspection to Facilitate Relinquish- ment of Control. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 30.—The allies intend to keep a firm hand on military con- trol on Germany by maintalning the commission of control in full operp- tion unttil the disarmament demands made in the treaty of Versailles are fully executed, according to z long inote from the council of ambassa- dors, sent to Berlin from Paris tod: The ambassadors’ communication was in reply to the German note of March 31, In which the Berlin gov- ernment maintained that it was time for the league of nations to take ove: the supervision. The ambassadors’ note reafirms the contention that it is the legal right of the allies to de clde for themselves when the tim has arrived for transferring the dut of controling German armaments t. the league after the time limit clauses have been executed. “It would be hardly possible 1o contend that this condition is ful- filled today,” the note adds. Ask Inspection Approval. The allies propose to end the mil- itary control as soon as possib says the note, which urges accept- ance of the general inspection con- templated by the allied note of March 5, which would consist of a serfes of visits, This inspection, in the view of the allied governments, could be completed within three or four months if it met with no ob- structions and if no grave infrac- tions of the treaty’s clauses were dis- covered. » Replylng to the German claim that the allies themselves had recognized that apart from’flve specified cate- gories Germany has fulfilled her dis- armament obligations, the ambassa- dors' note says the allled govern- ments never expressed such an opin- fon. It points out that in the British House of Commons the British gov- ernment made certain declarations relative to German disarmament, but that these declarations were not in- tended to imply that Germany had fulfilled her obligations; they merely indicated that certain clauses at on¢ time appeared to them to have been effectively carried out. Declarex Fault is Berlin's. “If more than four years after the enforcement of the treaty Germany is still obliged to undergo Investiga- tions by an Interallied commission, re- sponsibility for the situation rests only on herself,” says the note. “If there had not been systematic ob- struction, of which the allies many times had complained, the operations of disarmament would have been com- pleted a long time ago. The ambassadors say they feel called upon to define for the last time the conditions of the problem, which al- lows only one of two solutions: First, either the German government will accept the general inspection de- sired by the allies, and at the end of this inspection, and if the results are satisfactory, the military control will be limited to five points; or (second) Germany will persist in refusing the allled offer, upon which the allies will demand strict application of the treaty, The ambassadors conclude thelr note courteously, saying that from every point of view the present sit- uation, which i a source of constant difficulty, cannot be further pro- longed, ard the allles hope the Ger- man government understands that it is in the general interest to arrive at a_definite solution without delay. Therefore, the note adds, a favorable answer, saying that Germany accepts the proposals of the present note as regards a general inspection and the consequent limitation of control, is expected before June 30. PRESSING LA FOLLETTE TO RUN AS INDEPENDENT Petitions Urging Action by Senator Being Circulated in Chicago. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, May 30.—Petitions asking Senator Robert M. La Follette to be an independent candidate for the presidency are being circulated by the national La Follette-for-President committee, it was learned today. The petition does not ask him to head a third party, and it is understood he will not consent to do So on & na- tional scale, S. J. Konenkamp, Cook County, chalrman of the conference for progressive political actlon, sald today. Mr. Konenkamp added that whoever might be nominated at Cleve- land, Senator La Follette would be “the regular Republican candidate in Wisconsin.” It is my understanding,” he sald, “that Senator La Follette will be the cholee of the Farmer-Labor party in Minnesota, and probably of the Farm- er-Labor party in North and South Dakota, but that in other states his name will be entered simply as an Independent without party designa- tion. He has indicated that he will run only if convinced that sufficient numbers of the voters demand it. PRESIDENT’S DAY BUSY. Arlington Address Only Engage ment Away From Desk. Memorial day meant nothing to President Coolidge, at least so far as a hollday was concerned. Although he had no scheduled engagements other than his address at Arlington national cemetery, Mr. Coolidge put in a busy day's work. He wis at his desk before 9:16, and besides seeing several impromptu callers, devoted his time to the study of a number of im- portant pending matters and the dis- of a quantity of routine busi- The tax reductlion bill, which he sent to the Secretary of the Treasury for a review, had not been returned to him for his consideration before noon today.