Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 2

\SLAYERS FACE TWO }s BATTLES FOR LIVES Franks' Kidnaping to Be Pressed k..,‘_ Unless Murder Brings e Death Penalty. ¢ ANSANITY PLEA FORECAST Fathers Unwilling That Loeb, Leo- pold “Defeat Justice.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 7.—Should Nathan 1. Leopold, jr., and Richard Loeb, mil- lionaires’ sons, indicted for the kid- naping and murder of Robert Franks, schoolboy son of another millionaire, escape capital punishment in their trial for murder, they immediately would be tried again on the kidnap- ing indictment, according to Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney. Plans are zoing forward for two distinct and complete prosecutions. The defense of the young university post-graduate students will be only that to which every human being is entitled, according to the first state- ment from their fathers, Nathan F. , sr, box manufacturer, and . Loeb, vice president of Sears, uck & Cc The fathers “have not the slightest inclination nor intention to use their means to stage an unsightly legal battle with an elaborate array of legal counsel and an army of high- priced alienists in an attempt to de- feat justice,” the statement said Insanity Plea Expected. atement interpreted in inal court building as mean- ing that the defense would set up a plea of insanity “Assuming that the facts in the casc are substantially as published, then the only proceeding they favor s a simple, solemn investigation under the law, touching the mental responsibility of their accused Son: said the statement. “If the accused boys are found a jury to be not mentally responsible, ‘their families, in accordance with their conscious duty toward the community, agree that the public must be fully pro- tected from any further menace by the boys.” In 1o event will the families of the #ccuscd boys use money in any at- tempt to defeat justice,” the state- ment asserted, pointing out that the Ktaff of two attorneys -already re- tained would not be increased by in- fernationally known lezal experts, nd that possibly one other Chicago attorney would be retained. It was stated that fees wouid be only manded by committee such such s usually com- work, and that a 0 the officers of the Chica 3, sociation would fix the fees to be paid the attorneys. Indictments Carefully Drawn. Two indictments were returned by the srand jury vesterday, scparate charges of kidnaping for nd murder—each a capital Drawn with the utmost care #nd calculated to defeat every pos. sible technical objection, the indict- ments contain twenty-seven counts, of which were for murder. % rouths will be arraigned next Wednesday and the state will ask that the trial date be set for July 15, the ecarliest possible & Defense counsel plan ask ng for a continuance. it was reported, but Wwithout confirmation, or a change of venue from Cook County (Chicago) 1o another county on the grounds that public timent has been Aroused to such an extent that the ndants coull not obtai detendants btain a fair Petitions for writs of habeas corpus for (vnf‘ release of the youths were dismissed with the returning of the indictments. and hearing on the peti- ;lolnd. scheduled for yesterday, was not Backed by Camera. State's attorneys are following a novel procedure in preparation for ‘the prosecution by photographing every witness at the exact spot where his connection with the case occurred. In addition to the sworn testimony of the witnesses before the grand v, the camera corroboration is ex- to allow jurors to visualize scene through pictures and pro- the state against the death or appearance of any witnesses be- fore the trial. Relatives of the boys visited them yesterday, the first weekly visitors' day at the county jail since their incarceration. The brothers of each boy called. Young Leob's childhood ‘nurse spent some time with him after fainting when she saw him. A letter purporting to have been written by Curt Geissler, Milwaukee, Wis., offering to substitute on the zallows for Leopold and Loeb, it his “heirs were given $1,000.000, was re- ceived by Chief of Police Morgan Collins today. PASSAGE CANCELED. %eopold Planned to Sail for Eu- = rope Wednesday. By the Associated Press _ NEW YORK, June 6—Nathan F. Leopold, ir., one of the two wealthy Fpuths indicted in Chicago for the %ldnaping and murder of Robert Branks, planned to sail from here 1 Europe next Wednesday on the Mauretania. A Cunard line official announced {hat a message had been received today from a Chicago booking agency .eanceling the passage booked for young Leopold. The official declined %o say when the passage was booked originally. “It was weeks ago,” he said. The announcement corroborated ‘part of the evidence uncovered in “Chicago tending to show that the youth had planned a European trip. WILBUR ON FIRST FLIGHT. “Carrying _out his plan of getting Vetter acquainted with every branch of the Navy through first-hand par- ticipation in its activities, Secretary of the Na Curtis D. Wilbur started out this afternoon from Hampton wads on lus nrst flight in an air- plane. with the naval air station at Anacostia as his destination, The plane, a new type of naval ship known as the P! was due to ar- rive here about 2:30 o'clock. It start- ed from the Hampton Roads naval air Etation at 1 o'clock. Lowden Will R_eject - G. 0. P.2d Place, = Says Letter in May By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Ore., June 7.—Milo C. King, Portland attorney, last night made public a letter which he sald he had received from Frank O. Lowden of Iilinois, and which was written under date of May 20, in which Lowden declared ke would not accept the vice pres- ~Mential nomination if it were of- fered. The letter said: “My Dear Mr. King: “1 am just in receipt of your let- ter of May 14 My name was placed ‘on the primary ballot without my knowledge or consent. 1 have stated to every one who has inquired that under no_circum- stances would I accept the nomi- nation for Vice President, even if it were tendered me. 1 have no inclination for any office at the vresent time, and I am not suited fo this office by temperament, in y opinion.” the primary election of May in Oregon Lowden won the reference _for _the Republican nomination for Vice President by @ large mafority. aid medical experts | making | COOLIDGE VETOES POSTAL PAY BILL; DEMANDS ECONOMY (Continued from First Page.) year 1921, $110,756,000: during the cal ‘year 1922, $114,956,000; during the fiscal year 1923, $123.256,000. It is apparent that the government has dealt generously with this service. “As a result of these readjustments the average salaries for 1923 are: Post office clerks, $1,751, increase of $919 since 1909, or 110 per cent; post office carriers, '$1,752.83, increase of $862 since 1907, or 96 per cent; rall- way postal clerks, $2,107, increase of $946 since 1907, or 81 per cent; rail- way postal clerks, including travel allowance, $2,292, increase of $1,131 since 1907, or 97 per cent; rural car- riers, $1,849.52, increase of $1,140 since 1307, or 160 per cent. Says Avernge $1554. The average for all salaries of clerks now recelving from $1,140 to $2,040 per annum in the clerical, ad- ministrative and fiscal services in all the departments in Washington will be approximately $1,554 on July 1, 1524, under the provisions of the classification act of 1923. It is thus seen that the lowest average of the salaries of the postal employes in the field service is nearly $200 more than the average for employes in the government departments in Wash- ington, At the request of the committee which_considered this legislation the Post Office Department made a spe- cial investigation of the range of salaries paid to persons employed in business institutions throughout the country and reported the results. These "investigations covered repre- sentative cities ranging in popula- tion from 2,000 to over 5,000,000, It was found that in all cases of em- ployes of a similar character the average salaries paid were much lower than those paid in the postal service. Higher Scale Justified. “The conditions under which em- ployment is undertaken in the postal service and those under which it is undertaken in business are not al- together alike. The scale of salaries in the postal service should be suffi- clently high to attract those who will make it 2 life work. This cannot be done without providing for a salary high enough to enable the emplove to take upon himself the obligations of citizenship and his place in society and render satisfactory rvice to the government. Therefore, it is just to Pay to postal employes a scale of wages that is somewhat higher than the scale paid to employes in the buginess worl “I am informed there is generall no difculty In maintainine Tiats of eligibles to fill vacancies. There are certain localities where difficulty ex- ists. these localities being almost without exception large citics und in- dustrial communities affected, in the to metropolitan eonditions, and the other case, by the higher wage scale and living costs. But there are approximately 6,000 eligibles on the civil service list' at the pre time |to fill vacancies in the railway mail service and there were 25000 ppii- cants for the examin: Leld | throughout the country b service commission ] 1 Yhis bill increases i al postmasters exceptin; thos the salaries of supervisory officers in post offices, post office inspectors and |eflicers of the raillway mail service 18300 each, and in some instances more. It increases the salaries of clerks and carriers $300 each and of rural car- carrier on a standard route. These increases apply alike to all classes of Post oflices. “They ignore the fact that there is a wide difference in the cost of living in the larger cities and |industrial centers as compared with {the smaller cities and towns. If there |is real need for revision of salaries {in the postal service it is to provide a wage differential for those em- ployes serving in post offices located in the larger cities and industrial centers. There is no justification for increasing salaries to apply to all offices when the need for such in- creases does not apply to a large number of offices.” Aside from |this, no provision is made in this bill {for raising the money which would be required to meet the additional expenditures which it proposes. Un- der its provisions we would be re- quired to take an additional amount of approximately $68.000,000 per year from the moneys paid by the tax- |payers, and pass it on to the emploves of the postal service. Certainly the any legislation increasing the cost of ‘the postal service should give con- sideration to the raising of the moneys necessary to defray the additional cost. Says Revenues Drop. “For the fiscal vear 1923 the postal revenues were $32.000. less than the costs of the service for that year. This deficit had to be met from the moneys paid by the taxpayers. We should not add to the amount of the postal deficit as is proposed by this bill, but should attempt as a sound business principle to have the users of the mails approximately pay the cost of the service. The law gives the Postmaster General the power, with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, to increase parcel post rates. Even if the pro- posed_increase of $68,000,000 contem- plated by this bill was’ justified, it would not only be unfair to the users of the parcel post to recoup the whole amount in that manner, but it would be wholly impracticable to secure it from the parcel post business with- out destroying that service. The farmers, who are the largest users of parcel post, are not in a position to contribute a large sum to the postal Rl ®Shost Office Department s now engaged, by direction of Con- gress, in a cost ascertainment, for Which half a million dollars was ap- proprjated. This inquiry has been prosecuted with diligence and is near- ing completion. When the results of this inquiry are available they will form the basis for an intelligent con- sideration by the Postmaster General and by Congress of all questions re- lating to the adequacy or inadequacy of postage rates. They will afford a proper basis for consideration of the relation of the cost of the postal service and the revenues derived therefrom. The time has arrived to consider putting the postal service on a sound business basis so far as ex- penditures and revenues are con- cerned. It is apparent that the matter of increasing the salaries of postal employes should be considered in con- nection with the ways and means whereby the postal revenues may be correspondingly increased, not apart therefrom. This report will be avail- able when the Congress convenes in December, and this matter can then be considered. A “If that provision stood alome, T should approve that part of the bill relating to campaign funds. “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” From Yesterday's 5:30 Edition of The Star. ENGRAVING WORKERS’ BACK PAY IS VOTED Senate Bill Allows Compensation for Period Employes Were Ousted From Bureaun. The Senate yesterday afternoon passed the Caraway bill providing for the payment of back salary to those em- ployes of the bureau of engraving and printing who were removed By execu- tive order on March 31, 1922. The bill now goes to the House. The language of the measure sets forth that the dismissed employes shall receive the compensation they were getting at the time of removal until the date they were restored to office, less any earnings they may have made by other employment In the meantime. It is further provided that those employes who were not restored shall be paid the salaries from the date 0f »dismissal to March 31, 1924 one case, by high costs of living due | riers on the average $293 for each | interests of the people demand that| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, 'SATURDAY, Appeal for Radio Sets for Shut-Ins VANDERLIP TO CLOSE INQUIRY BUREAU HERE Epidemic of Itchy Palms Disil- lusions Banker in Proposed Re- form Movement. ‘PATRIOTS’ PREY ON PAY ROLL Plans to Write Book Telling of Experiences. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. His dream of great clvic and govern- mental reform ended, for the time be- ing at least, Frank A. Vanderlip, for- mer president of the National City Bank of New York, is preparing to shut down the activities of his per- sonally conducted Citizens’ Federal Research Bureau, which he started here a few months ago as a sort of “permanent” adjunct or residuary lega- tee of the numerous Semate investiga- tions. Mr. Vanderlip has had a rather dis- fllusioning experience. He thought his bureau would be aided by other high-minded citizens and patriots. But he soon discovered that every 100 per cent American” who wanted to see things going better and better at Washington was unpatriotic enough to want a little filthy lucre in his jeans before proceeding further with the great reform movement. Reformers of many and diverse types poured in upon the Vanderlip bureau. They had grand schemes for purging and purifying the government. They knew exactly what was meeded and just where to begin. But first of all they wanted to connect with the pay roll. A great many of them suc- ‘ceeded in that important phase of their ambitions. Proved Costly Experiment. Just what the experiment at govern- ment reform cast Mr. Vanderlip prob- ably no one but himself will ever know. He wore out great quantities of checkbooks, and there are those who say that his cash balance in the Na- |tional City Bank must have been nicked to the tune of at least a quarter of a million dollars. Mr. Vanderlip, however, has come out of the experiment with a great {deal of experience. He spent some. thing like twenty years in Wall street, but he got some entirely new ideas in !w;nhmztom He was pursued from beginuing to end by persons with ideas. have nothing else but. the or centrifugal scheme of separating the one-time banker from a large slice or section of the fortune he had ‘guildéd amongst the bulis and the So out of his experience Mr. Van- | derlip is writing a book. It ought to Ibe a best seller. It certainly would And most of of the wild brought to him tested out. Turning to Authership. But it is understood that Mr. Van- schemes which were Some of these were |and will offer some good advice as to what may be accomplished in the fu- ture. He believes his narrative will be enlightening to a large section of the American people. He will tell where he found the weaknesses in the scheme of things at Washington, and if he per- | sonally was able to set things right {endeavors along that line in the vears to_come. The headquarters of the bureau has not been closed as yet. It is functioning in a desultory sort of way with a skele- ton staff. Some 'of - Mr. Vanderlip's friends have suggested that he main- tain this skeleton organization with the idea of expanding it into renewed ac- tivity at any time of great national emergency, such as during the recent epidemic of investigations. Other friends of the retired banker are urging him to close out altogether. Mr. Vanderlip's health is not of the best. and his closer associates want him to quit worrying. sonally was unable to set things right was the outgrowth of a peech Mr. Van- derlip made at a rather obscure Rotary dinner in suburban New York. In that speech he repeated numerous rumors he had heard. He said the situation at Washingtor’ ought to be cleared up, and he was willing to help with the task. Supplied Money for Sleuthing. The greatest activity of the bureau naturally fell in with the Daugherty in- vestigation by the Wheeler Senate com- mittee. Senator Wheeler didn't have much money to hire sleuths and run down clues and scents and leads and trails. So Mr. Vanderlip supplied the lack. It seemed to him for a while that all of the sleuths in the world were out of a job. It was difficult, of course, to tell just which ones really wanted to sleuth on the square and which qnes might be in the pay of the other side and anxious to get on the inside. Of course, some of these men had no aversion to taking pay from both sides Many “old sleuths” came out of oblivion. There were some who had had their heydey in the Bal- linger-Pinchot controversy of tweive long years ago. They leaped upon Mr. Vanderlip like a trout jumps for a suc- culent fly. But that is all over now. The easy money is no more. The com- mittee's work is just about done. (Copyright, 1924.) JAPANESE INCREASE FLEET OFF SIBERIA Will Protect Fishermen as Row ‘With Russian Officials Over Rights Grows More Acute. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 7.—Owing to minor troubles between Japanese fishing in- terests and the Russlan authorities on the Siberian coast, the navy de- partment has ordered four additional destroyers to Siberian and Kamschat- ka to protect the fishermen. This makes a total of eight destroyers in the waters, four already having steamed northward. Friction developed, although the Japanese fishermen and the Russians recently signed an agreement cover- ing Japanese rights for this season in these waters. The trouble between the Japanese fishermen and Russian authorities has been of periodical recurrence since the soviet government came into power. Under the Portsmouth treaty with the czarist government signed after the Russo-Japanese war, Japan was given certain fishing rights, which the soviet has repudiated. In- stead, Japanese fishermen have been granted licenses from season to sea- son, but each year there has been dif- ferences regarding the fishing rights under these and Japan has sent war- ships north to protect her nationals. ‘This is one of the subjects being dis- cussed in Peking between the Jap- anese minister, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, and L. M. Karakhan, the soviet rep- resentative. —_— It matters little what it is that you vant—a want ad in The Btar will 'the person who will fill your want, Ideas were what they didn't| be it Mr. Vanderlip would regite all | | derlip in his book will treat seriously | |of the problem he undertook to solve | he feels he may chart the way for| ther @ situation.or & ser- reach One Woman Sits Lonely in Wheel Chair and Bemoans Fate. Invalid of 92, Confined in Dining Room Will Receive Apparatus. The names of more poor and needy invalids who are depending on a radio set to drive away the loneliness and lessen the suffering that marks their confinement behind the four walls of a room were added today to the list of those eligible to receive the crystal receivers donated to The Star's “radio shut-in fund.” One is a woman in Southeast Washington, a cripple who seldom musters sufficient strength and cour- age to leave the confinement of her home. Friends do not come to visit her often, and throughout the long day she is forced to sit in a wheel chair and bemoan the fate that took away the use of her legs. Confined by Iilness. Another is a helpless man in Lin- coln, D. C.. whom the ravages of disease, coupled with poverty, have shut off from his friends and the great outdoors since last July. A letter from one who is familiar with his condition said: {e is unable to write and appeal for a radio set, so he asked me to do it for him. He wishes to hear something that is going on in the District, and a radio set, I am sure, would grant him his wish." While the names of the deserying invalids are coming into The Star, radio enthusiasts and charitably i clined persons, touched by the worthiness of the campaign to place a receiving set at their bedsides, con- tinue to send in cash contributions and apparatus to the “shut-in fund.” The cash donations received during the last twenty-four hours amounted to $19, and brought the total up to $148.50. The apparatus inciuded nine stal sets, a pair of headphones, a ty of crystals and antenna equipment, which swelled the total to fifty-one sets, sixteen pairs of head- Pphones, antenna wire, etc. Scouts Delay Work. The two hundred Boy Soouts under the direction of Assistant Deputy Scout Commissioner Thomas A. King, who had planned to begin the work (PLATFORM FIGHTS LOOM BEFORE G. 0. P. IN EARLY SESSIONS _(Continued from First Page.) ideas reveloved about a central | order and honesty as against corrup- tion and hypocrisy. With that in vie 1 shall offer and work for the doption of a plank in the platform | which will pledge the party to liber- alize the Volstead act. should not ignore that issue. To do 8o would drive thousands of votes to the party that will support a plat- form of more liberal views. Congress has failed to meet the prohibltion or any other issue squarely. If the con- vention attempts to pussyfoot on this issue the Republican party will lose not only in New York, but other east- ern states, which will be vital in No- vember." WOMAN HEADS COMMITTEE. Mrs. Elizabeth Martin Gets High Republican Honor. By the Associated Pross. CLEVELAND, June 7.—Mrs. Eliza- beth P. Martin of Philadelphia, a delegate at large from Pennsylvania, has been selected as chairman of the committee on permanent organiza- tion of the Republican national con- vention. This will be the first time that a woman has held a chairmanship of a national convention committee. In announcing the innovation, William M. Butler, field marshal for President Coolidge, said the selection of & wor- an for this post had been made at the request of Mrs. A. T. Hert of Louisville, Ky., the new vice chair- man_of the executive committee of the Republican national committee. Mrs. Martin is the associate na- tional committee member of Pennsy: vania, having succeeded Mrs. B. . Warburton of Philadelphia. She long has had an active part in political affairs in her state. Committeer Adjourns. Concluding its pre-convention work, the Republican national committee today adjourned its sessions with resolutions of appreciation and praise for its retiring officials, Chairman John T. Adams, Secretary George B. Lockwood and Treasurer Fred W. Upham. Disposing of the last contest case before it, the committee seated G. T. Taylor and Wayman Wilkerson of Memphis as delegates from the tenth Tennessee district, dismissing the contest brought by J. M. Johnson and P. O. True of Memphis. In doing so the committee again went on_record for representation of negro Repub- licans in the south. The case was de- cided on a disclosure that the losing contestants had proposed an agres- ment that only white men should be solected as deiegates. The committee refused to hear at all a protest brought by former Gov. Warmouth of Louisiana against the seating of the Louisiana delegates on the ground that there was no Re- pubdlican party in Louisiana, as ex- pressed in the popular vote at the last election. Mr. Warmouth insisted on addressing the committeemen amid the turmofl of adjournment, but he was left standing on a chair in an empty hall. Vice Presidency Is Tople. Freed from the hearing of contests, committeemen went in for recreation Romance Started At Navy Acadamy Wrecks on Rocks A romance begun at Naval Acad- emy hops, which culminated In g marriage last Easter Monday be- tween the daughter of an Army officer and & student in the second year at Annapolis has gone “on the rocks.” Ella M. Beckham Low- ther, the eighteen-year-old wife, today, through her father, Col. pavid Y. Beckham, U. S A, brought sult in the District Su- reme Court for an annulment of g:r marriage to Robert D. Low- ther, a student at the Naval Aca emy, not yet twenty-one years OK%OL Beckham tells the court that he was transferred to duty at the Canal Zone and his daughter was left in a boarding school in Washington. The girl attended a number of the week end hops at the academy and there met Low- ther, it is stated. When she was about to leave the city to spend her Easter holidays, the court is told, Lowther persuaded the young woman te marry him. Acting en- tirely upon impulse and without due consideration.she consented, the father says, to go through a ceremony, but the couple never lived together, it is alleged. The court is asked through Attorney George V. Triplett, Jr., to restore the maiden name of the plaintiff— Ella Miles Beckham. “It is my belief that the convention | Brings Pathetic Cases to Notice ' Radio Fund Receipts | Cash contributions to The Stars “radio shut-in fund” received during the last twenty-four hours follow: Previously acknowledged. .$129.50 Mrs. R. L. Collins Z g Anonymous .... 10.00 Anonymo: $1.00 Barbara Mansfle! $1.00 A Friend . $1.00 AFriend . $1.00 Miss Upson $4.00 $148.50 Crystal Sets and Equipment. Previously acknowledged: Forty- two crystal sets, fifteen pairs of head. phones, antenna wire and other equipment for installation. E. P. Jinkins, 206 son st., Cherry- dale, Va., 1 crystal set. Mrs. R. L. Collins, aerial wire. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Isherwood, 1207 Oth st. n.w., 4 crystal sets. Mrs. Don Blumenthal, crystal set and crystals. Mrs. M. S. Badollet, 1409 15th st. crystal set. Stevenson, 1228 N st. n.w., pair headphones. A Friend, crystal set. Mrs. W. B. Laub, indoor and outdoor antenna and crystals. A Friend, indoor aerial. Miss Upson, crystal set. Total: Fifty-one crystal sets, six- teen pairs of headphones, antenna wire, crystals and other equipment for installation. today of finstalling the sets already received by The Star, deferred the job until Monday on account of the annual field meet of the organization this afternoon in which every scout is expected to participate. Some of the scouts, together with Mr. King, reported this morning to their base of operations in The Star building, and overhauled some of the sets that it was necessary to put into working condition. Deputy Scout Commissioner King already has made a survey of con- ditions in & number of the homes of the “shut-ins” preliminary to the in- stallation of the sets and reported unusually pathetic cases. An old woman, ninety-two years old, who has been confined in bed for fifteen years, was among the first of the cases investigated by Mr. King. Be- cause of her stringent financial con- diticn, this old woman, with her daughter, who {s employed during the day, is forced to live in a small, dingy room. She will be among the first to recelvo one of the sets donated to The Star's fund. Mr. King also told of the case of a man who has been lying on his back in bed for thirty-five months as the result of a tumor of the stomach. He has no one to entertain him. and discussion of the vico presiden- tial nomination. Eastern committee- men declared they would give care- ful consideration” to the sentiment from the west. The Lowden hoomers were busier than ever, confident that their man had the edge on the situ- ation now. Although Senator Bora has announced he would accept the nomination under no circumstances, his friends were working actively. Senator Curtis of Kansas, the Re- ican party whip in the Senate, Iso being put forward. Former stant_Secretary Clifford of the Treasury Department let it be known that he Would make an announcement during the day bringing out formally the candidacy of Charles G. Dawes of Chicago, but making it plain that he did not speak for the general. The hands-off policy of President Coolidge is continuing and is expect- ed to continue throughout the con- vention. Several garded b him as acceptable, foremost among them is Lowden. From now until next Thursda: when the convention gets to the choice of a man for second place, the various boomers Wwill be busy. In two of three cases heard yester- day—Texas and Georgia—the first compromises were entered into. In the third case, that of the delegates at large from Arkansas, the commit- tee voted unanimously to seat Na- nd tional Committeeman Remmel and his | associates, Mrs. H. H. Foster and Wallace Townsend of Little Rock, and J. W. Grabiel of Fayetteville, over the delegation headed by Scipio A. Jones, a negro. All of the Texas delegation, headed by National Committeeman Creager, was seated over the contestants under E. H. R. Green of Terrell, son of the late Hetty Green, but contestants were given seats in the eighth and ninth districts with an equal vote with the Creager delegates—one-half vote each. Johmson Lowes Plea. Reopening the Georgia case, the committee gave a_seat in the third district to S. Richardson of Marshallville, with a half_vote and permitted A. L. Fenton, a Henry Lin- Coln Johnson delegate, to retain his seat with an equal portion of a vote. The decision in this case was the first defeat for the negro national commit- tee from Georgia in contests at two successive conventions. Even with the compromise arrange- ment in the eight and ninth districts, the Texas contest was settled only after a lengthy discussion in execu- tive session and then on a division vote, 26 to 7. The Ku Klux Klan issue, as well as the negro question, entered into the hearing, which was brought to a dramatic close by Harry Beck of Dallas, one of the contesting delegates at large, With a warning to the committee that its decision might have important bearing on the fortunes of President Coolidge in November. J. E. Elgin of San Antonio, in pre- senting the case for the delegation headed by E. H. R. Green, charged that W. E. Haisley had been elimi- nated as a delegate from the four- teenth Texas district because of re- rts that he was afiliated with the “Creager is fighting one Klan which denies the negro participation in so- cial organizations,” Elgin said, “and at the same time he is the hesd of a clan that denies the negro a right to participate in political organiza- tions.” Supporting Elgin's argument, Wil- liam M. “Gooseneck Bill” McDonald, & negro banker of Fort Worth, and a familiar figure at convention con- tests, charged that Creager and his organization had read the negroes out of the party in Texas and that there was nothing left for the “black men” to do but to appeal to the na- tional committee for the right to vote. “Under the leadership of E. H. R. Green, a mutimillionaire, as national committeeman,” he said, “the Repub- lican party in' Texas can be revital- ized and made a power in the state.” Conducting his own case, Creager denied Elgin's charge that the Dallas convention of last May 27 was fi- legal and asserted that Elgin and. his crowd had called a “rump” convention which was wholly lllegal. It was to this “rump"” convention 'that Mac- Donald’s “black and tan” convention, meeting at the same time, was In: vited. OFFERS BULGARIA PORT. Greece Would Grant Trade Outlet if Sovereignty Upheld. LONDON, June 7.—The Daily Tele- graph's Athens correspondent quotes the Greek foreign minister as saying that Greece has offered to concede Bulgaria a commercial outlet on any part of the Aegean Sea on condition that Greek sovereignty shall not be infringed thereby. A Sofia dispatch on Thursday said a new offer had been made by Greece, but that it was indicated that the Bulgarian government considered it inacceptable. The Bulgarian foreign minister was quoted as saying: “We are not willing to discuss any offer not giving us control of the port we shall build under the treaty of Neuilly. Too Slow. From the Hillsboro News-Herald. The reason why a lot of men are bachelors is because (hey failed to embrace their opportunitles, men would be re- | | | 1 COURT CONSIDERS RENT BOARD FATE Realtor's Suit on Question of In- junction Taken Under Ad- visement. BOND QUESTION DISCUSSED Justice Stafford Would See Tenants Protected Under Ruling. Justice Stafford of the District Supreme Court today has under cone sideration the question of the right of an equity court to grant a blanket injunction against the Rent Com- mission to prevent further function- ing of the commission, as asked by George W. Linkins, realtor and tax- payer. Before taking the matter under advisement late yesterday afternoon the court inquirgd of Attorneys Charles Linkins. Georse R. Linkins and William Linkins if they had con- sidered the amount of the bond which the plaintiff would be required to glve if his request for an injunction put the Rent Commission out of business were granted. The court cailed attention to the fact that a bond would be required which would protect tenants who might be deprived of relief from high rentals by reason of the injunction in the event that the United States Su- preme Court should set aside the in- junction. The lawyers for the plain- Uff expressed a willingness to give a reasonable bond or even a large one, but suggested that such tenants would have difficulty in showing damages sustained because they could not show that the commission, if still in existence, might not have Tuled against them. Quention of Authority. .-From a statement made by Justice Stafford it was inferred that should he decide that he lacks authority to stop all operations of the commis- sion on the Linkins' petition he might grant temporary injunctions to pre- vent the commission proceeding with any cases involving properties own- od or managed by the plaintiff. No_temporary injunction was asked by Mr. Linkins against Daniel J. Donovan, auditor; James R. Lusby, disbursing officer of the District, and Frank White, treasurer of the United States, to stop the payment of sala- ries to the members of the commis- sion and their clerks pending a final hearing of the case, and no rules to how cause have been issued against them. Frank White, treasurer of the United States, however, through As- sistant United States Attorney Ver- non West, filed a motion to dismiss the proceeding as far as it related to im. Mr. White declared that the suit is in effect against the United States without its consent, and that Mr. Lin- kins has no such interest as would entitle him to maintain the action. {COOLIDGE 0. K.’S BILL FOR WOMAN'S PRISON Measure Provides Committee to Se- lect Penal Institution Site Near Capital. One of the important legislative measures of interest signed by Presi- dent Coolidge today was the Foster bill providing for the appointment of a commission composed of the Sec- retaries of the Interior and of Labor and the Attorney General of the United States to select a site upon which is to be crected a national federal penal institution exclusively for female prisoners. Representative Foster, Republican, of Ohio, who introduced the bill which today became a law, and Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant at- torney general, who assisted in the preparation of this bill, stood beside the Executive as he put his signature to the bill. The pen used by Mr. Coolidge was afterward presented to Representative Foster. Will Be Near Capital. There has been much consideration given by those interested in this leg- itlution to the selection of a site not far distant from Washington, either in Maryland or Virginia. When President Coolidge affixed his signature to the San Carlos recla- mation bill today he brought to a successful close a fight which has been waged more or less earnestly for more than thirty years for legis- lation of this nature. It provides for the construction of a dam across the Gila River at San Carlos basin, Ari- zona, and will irrigate more than 80,000 acres of land situated in the Pima Indian reservation. This project, which will cost $5,- 500,000, is expected to nearly equal in 'size and importance the famous Roosevelt dam, will be named in honor of President Coolidge. Pen Given to Cameron. Secretary of Interior Work and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Burke and Assistant Commissioner Merritt, along with Senators Cameron and Ashurst and Representative Hayden of Arizona, were present in the Presi. dent’s office when he signed this leg- islation. “The pen used by the execu- tive was presented to Senmator Cam- eron. The President slgned also the Pueblo land title bill, which is in- tended to set at rest for all time the disputes and_litigation which have arisen regarding these Indian lands for many years. — $4,400 for River Examinations. On the recommendation of Ma). O'Connor, the engineer officer in charge of this engineering district, Maj. Gen. Beach, chief of enz(neefli has allotted $4,400 out of the genera river and harbor appropriation for a further_examination of the channels of the Potomac River In the vicinity of Kettle Bottom shoals. Complaints of renewed shoaling of those channels have been received and the survey to be undertaken will determine what action is necessary for improving the navigation, Women Aroused W hen Officer Comes With Padlock Order Fortified with a padlock Injunc- tion against the sale of rum, a dep- uty United States marshal yester- day afternoon entered the prem- ises at 1713 7th street and before he knew what was happening found himself the center of inter- est of a room full of members of the Ladies' Aid Society of Emory Methodist Church. ‘When he found that a rummage sale of the most exciting sort was under way he quickly realized that the court document which he clutched firmly in his hand was technically faulty in scope. Pad- locking & rummage sale with & rum injunction was no easy task. The ‘marshal, furthermore, soon found himself on the defensive, as the women were much perturbed over his arrival, and when quiet was restored he managed to ex- plain that the court ordef applied 1o Joseph McLaughlin and Richard Jennings, who had moved from the 7th street building some time pre- vious. Court records do not disclose if the al was able to get away without buying something, as a peace offering. 3 District Tax Boosted One-Third As Appropriation Bill Passes (Continued from First Page.) being ratified by the Senate last night Senator King of Utah rexistered a final objection to the clause permitting erection of the tubercular school on the Upshur street property. Progrum for Paving. ! The road work authorized is as fol- low: Northwest—For paving Varnum street, 5?‘-,(;:& to 4th street, thirty feet wide, Northwest—For _paving 3d street, Varnum street to Webster street, thirty feet wide, $5,800. Northwest—For paving 2d street, Up- shur street to Webster street, thirty feet wide, $9,200. Northwest—For paving 8th street, Crittenden street to Decatur street, thirty feet wide. $5,200. Northwest — For _paving Emerson street, Georgia avenue to 9th street, thirty fest wide, $6,350. Northwest—For paving _ Farragut street, Georgia avenue to Sth street, thirty feet wide, $13,700. Northwest—For _paving__ Hamilton street, Georgia avenue to Tlinois ave- nue, thirty feet wide, $7.500. Southeast—For paving Massachusetts avenue, 15th street to 16th street, forty feet wide, $14,000. $11,500 to Be Voted. Northeast—For paving Monroe street, 18th street to 20th street, thirty feet wide, $11,500. Northwest: For paving Varnum street, 15th street to 16th street, thir- ty feet wide, $6.000. Northwest: For paving 9th street, Emerson street to Farragut street, thirty feet wide, $5,200. Northwest: For paving Upshur street, 2d street to 4th street, forty- five feet wide, $9,500. Northwest: For paving Sth straet. Varnum street to Webster, thirty feet wide, $4,700. Northwest: For paving 4th street, street, 10th street to Kansas avenue, thirty feet wide, $6,400. Northwest: For paving Taylor street, west of 1ith street (approxi- mately 400 feet), thirty feet wide, $4,700. Northeast: For paving 2d street, Bryant street to Channing street, thirty feet wide. $5,200. Northeast: ~ For paving Bryant street, Lincoln road to 4th street, thir- ty feet wide, $14,500. T Street Gets $13,000. Northwest: For paving T street, 35th street to 37th street, thirty feet wide, $12,000. Northwest: For paving S street, 36th street to 37th street, thirty feet wide, $5,800. Northwest: For paving 38th street, Windon street to Albemarle street, thirty feet wide, $11,000. Northwest: For paving Princeton place, Warder place to Georgia ave- nue, thirty feet wide, $10,000. Northeast: For paving Kearney Street, 18th street to Z0th street, thirty’ feet wide, $11,500. Northwest: For paving 9th Butternut street to Cedar thirty feet wide, $5,200. Northwest: For paving Sth Butternut street to Cedar thirty feet wide. $3,700. Northwest: For paving Chesapeake Street, River road to 44th street, thirty' feet wide, $9.300. Northwest: For paving Otis street. §th street to Pavk place, thirty feet wide, $9,900. Northwest: For paving Farragut street, Georgia avenue to 13th street, thirty feet wide, $8,100. Provides for Grading. Southeast: For grading Savannah street, Wheeler road to 1ith street; 9th, 10th and 11th places, Savannah street to Alabama avenue. $7,600. Northwest: For paving 34th street, Newark street to Ordway street, thirty feet wide, $6,900. Northwest: For paving 34th street, Lowden street to Klingle road, thirty feet wide, $5,800. Northwest:' For paving Klingle road, 32d street to 34th street, thirty fect wide, $12.000. © Northwest: For paving 9th stree Crittenden street to. Decatur street, thirty feet wide, §5,000. Northwest: For paving 4th street, Taylor street to Upshur street, thirty feet wide, $4,000. Northwest: For pavivng 13th street, Allison street to lowa avenue, forty feet wide, $8,000. Northwest: For paving Jefferson strcet, 13th street to 14th street, thirty’ feet wide, $11,500. Northwest: For paving Allison street, 7th street to Tllinois avenue, thirty feet wide, $4,000. Work on Varnum Street. Northwest: For paving Varnum street, 14th streét to 15th street, thirty feet wide, $6,100. Northwest: For paving Garrison street, Belt road to Wisconsin ave- nue, thirty feet wide, $11,700. Northwest: For paving 35th place, T street to U street, twenty-four feet wide, $3.500. Northwest: For paving 7th Jefterson street to Kennedy thirty feet wide, $4,700. Northwest: For paving, Tth Kennedy street to Longfellow thirty feet wide, $4,700. Northwest: For paving 8th Ingraham street to Jefferson thirty feet wide, $4,700. Northwest: For paving 9th Hamilton street to Ingraham thirty feet wide, $5,200. Northwest: For paving 15th street, Varnum street to Webster stragt, thirty feet wide, $4,700. Northwest: For grading Potomac avenue, Macomb street to Norton place and constructing a culvert in connection therewith,$12,500. Northeast: For grading 4th street, Dix street to Grant street, $5,500. $7,000 Is Appropriated. Northeast: For grading Otis street and Perry street from Eastern ave- nue westward to a point about 155 feet west of 30th street; 30th street, Otis street to Perry street; Eastern avenue, south line of Monroe street to a point about $00 feet northwest of the northberly line of Bunker Hill 7,000. mg?ul’houz: For paving 16th street, East Capitol street to A street, thirty feet wide, $4,600. Northwest: For paving Kansas avenue, 13th street to Quincy street, forty feet wide, $6,200. Northwest: _For grading Fern street, Blair road to Sth street, $3,400. Northwest: For paving Quebec place, 10th street to 13th street, fweny-four feet wide, $7,000. ‘Northwest: For paving 27th street, K street to L street, thirty-two feet wide, $14,000. Northwest: For paving Vine street, Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Maple street, twenty feet wide, $2,800. Northwest: For paving Arkansas avenue, Georgia avenue .to Emerson reet, forty feet wide, $13,000. Northeast: For paving 13th street, C street to D street, thirty-two feet wide, $8,000. Northwest: For paving 17th street, Irving _street to Kilbourne street, thirty feet wide, $7,300. $13,900 on 39th. Northwest: For paving 39th street, Van Ness street to Yuma street, thrity feet wide, $13,900. Northeast: For paving 13th street, Otis street to Michigan avenue, forty and fifty feet wide, $19,000. Northeast: For paving 5th stree T,strect to W street, thirty feet wide) 13,800, 1 ortheast: For paving V street, 4th gtreet to 5th street, thirty feet wide, $3,500. Northwest: For paving Webster streeul. 7th street to Illinols avenue, 6,000, ¥ orthwest: For increasing width of 13th street to eighty feet from F street to Eve street. Northwest: For paving Kennedy street, 5th street to 8th street, $15,000. Northwest: Paving 17th street, z..nuzrer street to Allison street, Northwest: Paving Kansas avenue, QA‘l"g;:“ street to Buchanan street, Northwest:New Hampshire avenue, Grant Circle to Allison street, $10,960. Gasoline Tax Paving. Northwest and southwest: For pav- ing 14th street. B street south to C ecreet, north, fifty-seven feet wide, Southeast—For paving 11th street, Pennsylvania avenue to the Anacos- tia bridge, present width, $76,000. Northwest—For paving 20th street, street, street, street, street, street, street, street, street, street, street, street, street, T _street to Virginia avenue, thirty- two feet wide, $10.000. Northeast—For paving Central ave nue, Benning road to District line $78,000. Northeast—For paving 15th stree:, B street to E street, thirty-two fee! wide, $38,000. Southeast—For paving 15th street B strest to B street, thirty-two fee: wide, $38,000. Northwest—For paving Butternut street, 5th street to Blair road, forty- five feet wide, $10,000. Northwest—For paving 4lst strect Davenport street to Livingston street thirty feet wide, $49,000. Southeast—For paving Nichols ave- nue, Portland street to 4th strect fifty-six feet wide, $25,000. Northeast—For ~paving Bladens burg road, end of concrete to District line. forty-five and sixty feet wide. $55,000. Northwest—For paving Wisconsi avenue, Massachusetts avenue to R er road, sixty feet wide, includin necessary relocation of street car tracks and water mains, refund tc be obtained from the strest rail company 8o far as provided under ex- isting law, $350,000. Southcast—For repairing and rec- flooring _the Pennsylvania avenu bridge, $20,000. Northwest and _ Southwest—For blanketing with asphalt 7th street. Pennsylvania avenue to G _streel southwest, present width, $35,000 Northwest—Paving Georgia avenus Military road to Fern street, $112,00( Government Pays Third. Under the present bill the federa! government will contribute about 7 per cent of the cost of maintaining the National Capital during the next fiscal year, according to Representa- tive Louis 'C. Cramton, Republican, of Michigan, author of the ameudment Wwhich changed the fiscal relatlons This was stated in reply to a ques tion from Representative R. Walton Moore, Democrat, of Virginia. Repre- sentative Cramton said: “Under the bill as it stands. it w1 be substantially 30 per oent Of course. there will be from $500.000 10 $1,000,000 of deficiences during the year, but the bill as it stands is 70-30° bill.” Representative Moore also ralsed the question whether “now that there has been a lump sum appropriatior out of the Treasurg of the United States. if it ends tNE liability of ti United States” and whether the b reau of the budget will still functio: on District estimates. Protection for Taxpayers. Chairman Madden of the House ap- propriations committee replied: “No; I think now, more than ever before, we ought to vise and grever from destruction the great govern ment of the District of Columbia b keeping guard over its activities and protecting and preserving in ever: way the integrity of every dollar of the money paid into the Treasury by the taxpayers of the District and pre vent any peculation, dishonesty, waste.” The following dialogue occurred Mr. Moore—"Then what is proposed in the future is that the government shall pay a lump sum for the supporr of the District? Beyond that the gov- ernment shall function as heretof: in connection with the bureau of the budget In restricting the authorities of the District in the matter of im posing taxes to raise the revenue to make the expenditures.” Madden — “Well, T think, of course, there must be some guiding spirit ‘somewhere, and this is the guiding spirit over the creature of the government, the child of the gov- ernment, we might say, and the fath- er must not send the child adrift, and we are not going to do it if I huve anything to say about it.” Donovan'’s Figures Explained. In reaching his estimate of the creased tax rate today. Maj. Donovar figures that the 1825 District appro priation bill provides for 326,455, for local expenditures. ¥rom this figure, to obtain the amount for esti mating a tax rate, is deducted $1.196.- 860 from the water department ap propriation, since this branch of the government is self-sustaining From the total also is deducted the gas tax item, which is in a separatc fund, amounting to $925,000. Th leaves $24.333,245 as the basic amount provided for in the bill, but deficien- cles appropriated for in a separate bill. which must be paid out of Dis trict revenues in the fiscal year of 1925, bring the total which will ¢ expended in the District in the ne: fiscal year to $27.155.293. And even to this amount must be added an e: timate of $500,000 for the next vear deficiencies and $600,000 to be placed in the federal Treasury as the annua increment toward the $3,000.000 bon to place the District on a cash basis in 1827, as provided for in 1 T a grand total of 9 confro Washington as the amount to be rai ed in the next fiscal year for all ex- Ppenses of the Distric Of this amount the United Staic a flat sum of $9,000,000, leas .255,393 to be raised throw taxation and miscellancous local re nues. From miscellancous fees, etc.; from the intangible per property tax and from the tax o public utilities, building associaticr banks and similar institutions. it estimated, $5,000.000 will bo raised This places upon real o an tangible personal property the bu den of raising the remainder, whic is $14,255,293. Rate Put at $1.60. Now, it is expected, the assesse valuation of real estate in the ncx fiscal year will be $782,000,000, and the assessed valuation of tangible personal property will be $100,000,000 Against property valued at $882.000.- 000, therefore, the tax levy will bo assigned and a tax rate of $1.60 per $100 will bring the District $14,212.- 000. The remainder, it is expected. can be cared for out of an indicated surplus, which will accrue from the Ppresent fiscal year. ‘The reason for the high tax rate Maj. Donovan pointed out, might be found at two sources. One is that the appropriations this year, in all, total $3,000,000 more than last year. The second is the abolition of the 60-40 plan and the :ubstitution of a plan which would be nearer the equivalent of a 70-30 propostiion, since the District raises §19,000,000 against $9,000,000 of the federal gov- ernment. lice: SENATE T0 PROBE WAR FINANCE GROUP Gooding Resolution for Inquiry Into Alleged Favoritism Adopted. Investigation of transactions of th ‘War Finance Corporation, “particu- larly as regards alleged favoritism" in dealings with Senator Gooding Republican, Idaho, was ordered today by the Senate, on motion of Senator Gooding. . This action was requested by Sen- ator Gooding despite the withdrawal today by Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, of a charge he made on the floor of the Senate last night tha the ldaho senator had violated the federal statutes in_his dealings with the War Finance Corporation. The charge was made during a pe- riod of disorder In the Senate, Scna- tor Glass said, and “before I had becn thoroughly advised as to the statut. to_which reference was had.” He expressed regret for the “In- Justice” done to Senator Gooding. Senator Gooding read a letter from the counsel of the board, declaring transactions of the board did not come within the category of those in whi members of Congress were prohibit- ed from participating, and that ti mere fact that a senator was a stock - holder in a corporation to which loans were mad: would make him thereby & party to the tramsaction. | The resolution agreed to author a committee of three to sit during the summer to inquire fnto twar ln::\cb earmaration 2ielings in the we: = =