Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 2

TUDY OTHER CITIES - HANDLING TAX BILLS |11‘; C. Auditor and Assessor A |; thorized to Make Trip Looking !VAST WORK TO BE DONE Prepare to Install $10,000 Worth i of Calculating Typewriters. #¥he District Commissioners today authorized Auditor Daniel J. Dono- van and Assessor Willlam P. Rich- ards to visit & number of large east- ern citles to make a study of im- proved methods of preparing tax Jedgers and bills, with a view to ingreasing eficiency in that respect here. The trip is preliminary to purchas- ing $10,000 worth of new calculating typewriters, for which Congress made provision In the new appropriation act. Two vears ago the legislators ordered the Commissioners to collect taxes twice a year, in November and My, instead of annually. This dou- bieda the volume of work in the offices of the collector and assessor without providing for any increase in per- sopnel. Vast Clerieal Work. The clerks must prepare 57,000 per- sopal tax bills and 140,000 real estate bifls from thirty ledgers, which also must be prepared separately. When the appropriation was under con- sideration Maj. Donovan made this explanation of the advantages that woaid accrue from installing the new system: “If we obtain this equipment it will obviate the necessity of asking Con- gress for a material increase in the force of employes in the collector's and assessor's offices. We propose. as stated, to use typewriting m chines, which will enable us to write the tax ledgers and the tax bills in one mechanical operation. as com- pared with the present need of writ- ing the ledgers and bill separately. It is highly important that we improve the business system relating to tax records and payments. &0 as to give prompter and more efficient service to the taxpaying public. Te Study Malling Plan. In this connection Commissioner Rudoiph stated recently that befors taxes again become duc in November he would stud: the possibility of mailing real estate bills to taxpayers, st as personal tax bills are now mailed Twice a year there is a grand rush of property owners to the Dis- trict building to get their bills, plac- ing an added burden on the clerical force. It also is believed that many of the properties soid at auction for taxes each year arc owned by per- sons who would pay on time if bills ‘wer: mafled to them The obstacle now in tMe way of mailing real estate bills is the lack of a complete t of addresses of property owners at the District build- ing. CONTROL IN GERMANY IS PLANNED BY LEAGUE (Continued from First Page.) allied control would pass to the league. On his motion the resolu- tions were adopted. One of these called for the appointment of a com- mittee of jurists to interpret para- =raph 5, article 4, of the league's cavenant, which declares that any member of the league not represenied in the council shall be invited to send a represemtative to sit as a member of any council meeting dur- ing the consideration of matters especially affecting its interests. Several of the states, ineluding Rumania and Crechoslovakia, have aiready requested the right to be rep- resented when the council discusses the military control of the former enemy powers, viewing this quegtion of far-reaching importance, as™ in- yolving the future peace of Europe. The council wishes to move siowly and cautiously and have expert ad- vice concerning the rights of mem- bers under the covenant. Governs German Aection. The second resolution aske the permanent league advizory commis- H6n on armaments to draw up the technical plan for control which the council could adopt when the proper time arrives. Article 213 of the treaty of Versailles, which is dupli- cated in articles in the other peace treaties, declares Germany under- takes to submit to any investigation which the council of the league of nations, acting, if need be, by ma- jority vote, may consider neceseary. Lord Parmoor said his nation deem- ed the questions involved to be of immediate urgency. He pointed out that the interallied control set up un- dor the treaty was still operative, but matters had advanced ®o far ‘that Great Britain believed the time had come to examine the situation which would arise when such control was finally abandoned. Great Britain, he added, felt full confidence in the abil- ity of the council successfully to as- sume its responsibility to carry out investigations. He remarked that he understood that the other allies fa- vored the investigations suggested. Early Settlemeat Seen. The impression exists Geneva that the questions pending between the allies and Germans will be set- tled rapidly, such solution belng taken to mean, without doubt, Ger- many's early entrance into the Jeague. Before leaving Geneva for Berlin, Dr. Heinrich Brauns, the Ger- man labor minister, who came here for the international labor bureau meeting, informally discussed the sit- uation with Secretary Drammond. The question of approving Great Britain's mandate for Mesopotamia was postponed by the council until the September session. Great Brit- ain drafted her mandatory obliga. tions in the bilateral treaty which King Felsel's parliament recently ap- proved after a bitter struggle, but ihe council desires time to study its ntents. “'rm council authorized a new invea- tigation of the quantities of oplum and cocaine hecessaty for the world's medical and scientific needs, which the United States belleves should be the basls of the proposed opium con- vention. The experts will apply to hospitals and life insurance com- panies for information. Froatier Dispute Up. The council asked the Permanent Court of International Justice to give @« decinion on the Albanian-Jugo- slavian frontier dispute, referred to the league by the council of ambas- sadors as a matter possibly endanger- ing peace. Official discussion of control and reduction of armaments suddenly o0k On an American angle today when the council in private session voted to distribute to all the govern- ments represented in the council & re- port on !mI‘nuon of u;mu:lmu be- ing prepared by two American ex- nefnsprur. J. T. Shotwell of Columbia 2nd Gen. Tasker H. Bliss. Sir Eric Drummond, secretary gen- eral of the league, notified the coun- cil that this report, which he con- sidered & serious and probably ex- ceelingly useful study of the arma- ments problem, soon would reach President Benes of the leAgue of na- tions council. He proposed its imme- diate circulation an official docu- ment. and his recommendation was unanimously approved. The council today also approved the establishment of an intelligence bu Bingapore for combating epi- “Miss Them Horses? We'll Say' We Do!” BELL ASKS FURTHER [SUN-SPOT THEORISTS |Star’s Radio “Shut-In” Fund $467.75, Says Fireman, Sadly, But Read.on to End\WATER CONSERVATION| AGAIN AT THE FRONT Gone, But Not Forgotten, Are the Gallant Steeds, Pawing Hoofs, Clanking Harness,.and, Yes, ’ the Flies and l | A row of empty stall a rusty name-plate, bearing such names as Frank, Biil,. Dan, Henry, George and Morris, are .silent though eloquent reminders of days gone by ‘when gallant horses, with.their sat- iny coats and pawing hoots, lived and were loved by the firemen of No. 25 engine and No. 8 truck, out in Ana- costia. Gone, but not forgotten, are Frank, and Bill, and Dun, and Henry, and George, and Morris, and the likes of them, now pulling garbage wasons and ash carts through the alleys of ‘Washington. Gone, but mnot forgotten by the husky fire laddies, who polish and dust and grease and oll the giant steel and iron steeds which have re- placed them. Reminiseent One Wafls. Gone, but not forgotten by the re- porter, bent on heart sobs and human interest, who used to write about the dashing horses of No. 8 and how the firemen loved them, and petted them, and fed them and wept when they were led away—boo hoo, boo 00! Gone, but not forgotten by the fire- man today who was questioned by a story-seeking reporter. “My, my, my," the fireman solilo- OYSTER WELCOMES SHEET METAL MEN Convention Draws 500 Contractors to Washington—Vocational Education Is Topic. GROUP PIONEERED FOR IDEA Reception Will Be Held at Raleigh Hotel Tonight. With 500 delegates and 300 visitors fn the city, the twentieth annual convention of the National Associa- tion of Sheet Metal Contractors met at the Ralelgh Hotel today for a four-day meeting. Capt. James F. Oyster, Commissioner, welcomed the dele- gates to Washington. George Thasmacher of Cleveland responded in behalf of the national association and Rev. Thomas W. Cook delivered the Invocation. John A. Plerpoint, national president, was in the chair. Vocational education and trade de- velopment are the two outstanding topics before the convention, Sheet metal contractors were pioneers in the fleid of vocational education. Paul F. Brandstedt, a local contractor, headed the meeting in Scranton, Pa., which started the plan in 1914." The m of the organization today is to supply students with theoretical knowledge of the sheet-metal bu ness in an intensive tralning cou and then to give practical work afte) leaving school. In this work, the or- ganized labor group of employes is co-operating to the fullest extenmt, according to official Reception at Hetel. This afternoon, after the report of the national officers, the vocational training committee's report will be delivered, and Frank Custnan will deliver an address on vocational training. A reception will be held tonight at the Raleigh Hotel. Tomorrow's program deals with trade topics. The convention committee heads are as follows: Ernest Gichner, entertain- ment: Joseph A. Daly. finance: Charles Ockershausen, sightseeing; Paul F. Brandstedt, convention committes chair- man ; Joseph Apolonic, registration, and Max ‘Walten, publicity. SAYS BRENNAN SLAIN FOR DEFENDING WOMAN Prosecutor Declares Fatal Shooting District Followed Ejection of Prisoner for Insult. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June James (Bill) Brennan, the heavy- weight pugilist, was slain in his up- town cabaret early Sunday because he resented abusive remarks made to a woman by Joseph Pioli, one of the two men held without bail for the killing, according to Assistant District Attorney Morgan A. Jones. The woman, whose name was mot revealed, had gone to Brennan's cab- aret with a party of which Pioll wa a member, according to the prose- cutor. As she was leaving with Pioli he made abusive remarks to her. Drennan interceded, elther pushing or hitting Pioll in ejecting him from the cabaret, the prosecutor said. ‘™There are other ways of getting & guy than with your fists” Pioll Is alleged to have said. ‘Look out for yourself.” Pioli ‘then Ileft the cabaret the rosecutor continued, an or Dirned. When Brennan approached him in a hallway leading to the caba. ret, a shot sounded and Brennan dropped to the floor. Four or five other men were in the hallway, Jones asserted, although it is not known whether they were companions of Pioll, The only other man arrested was Terence O'Neil, & pugilist, who was captured with Pioli soon after the shooting. The prosecutor's statement Was is- ed after the two prisoners had been illed for hours by the police in ef- orts to learn tse motive for the shooting. James Cullen, a state trooper and friend of Brennan, also was mortally wounded when he tried to prevent the escape of the slayer. He died in a hospital yesterday. ADOPT NEW RULES. City Heads Provide for Quick Re- pair of D. C. Schools. The Commissioners today adopted & set of rules to be followed in repairing schoo! buildings in future. The feature of the rules is that a lump sum of $30,000 will be et aside from the total appropriations of §300,000 for school repair work to be available for emer- gency repairs. All of the other regulations are mere- Iy designed to expedite requests for im- provements asked for by the principals of the various school buildings. Files Bankruptoy Plea. Pliny Halslip, tradis as Haiali molannl i’-uhm':un -l: electrician, has filed & petition in volun- bankruj tary iptey. He lists his debts at and estimates his amsets at i_. A is represented by A C. Ciayton. ! jos In the far east. It expressed A ianks 1o the Rockefeller Foun dation for furnishing funds for this bureau as well as' to mest the ex- penses of the interchange of the pubd- 2 measure for the pro- health condi- 17.—William the Odors!’ quized, “and again, my, my, my. How we do miss ‘em—the horses. Time was we went to sleep at night to the music of stamping hoofs and clanking chains and whinnying and neighing horses—that is, we tried to g0 to sleep. Now everything’s quiet. All that's gone. Now we can go to sleep. Odors Not. Forgetten. “And the odors, or, as the English ‘would say, the odours, or, if you'll pardon me, the smell. Time was ‘when I'd come home and go to bed and one of the kids down stairs would yell: ‘Hey, ma, where's the livery stable” Ali_that's gone now. “And the files, buddy, the files! In the summer time we had biillons of fies here. They'd come from all parts of the country and visit with us. They've followed the dear horses, too; boo heo! “And the harness. It would get Stiff and had to be oiled and polished and shined. You'd n with it. And ‘em down, rub P polish quicker than a horse's hide, and keeps it, too. And lovingly, tenderly, with a tear in his eye and a croak in his voice, the fireman ran his olly bit of cotton ‘waste over a shining plece of nickel work. “Miss them horses’ do. Want 'em back? her We'll say we Get out o' SCHOOL HEADS LIST CONVENTION PROGRAM Principals of Elementary Classes to Meet in Raleigh Hotel During N. E. A. Conclave. MANY ADDRESSES SCHEDULED Dinner to Be Held—Officers Will Be Elected. The department of elementary school principals, which will meet in connection with the annual conven- tion of the National FEducation Asso- ciation in Washington from June 29 to July 4, announced its program to- day. The first session of the principals will be held in the baliroom of the Raleigh Hotel July 1 at 2 p.m. The professional growth and development of the principalship will be the prin- cipal topic of discussions. Addreases will be made on “From the University's Polat of View,” by M. B. Hillegas, teachers’ college, Columbia University, New Yor rom the Su- perintendent’s Point of View,” by Jesre H. Nowlon, superintendent of schools, ' Denver, Col: “From the Principal's Point of View.” by Rose A. Prata, president, Chicago Principals’ Club,’ Chicago, Til, and *“The Report on Educational Progrees” by Ide G. Sargeant, principal, School No. 10, Paterson, N. J.. and chairman of com- mittee on educational progress. Addresses Anmounced. Wednesday, July 2, at 6 o'clock, in the baliroom of the Raleigh Hotel, arrangements have been made for an informal dinner. _Thursday aftérnoon, July 3, at 2 o'clock, in the ~baliroom of the Raleigh Hotel, will be an address on “The "Sehool 'Library,” by Joy E. Morgan, editor, Journal of the Na- tional Education Association, Wash- ington, D. C.: one on “The Study Habits of Pupils,’ by A. L. Hall. Quest, Cincinnat! University, Cincin- natl, Ohio, and an address on “Diag- nostic Measures of Pupil Diffculties In Arithmetic.” by Willlam'S. Max- €on. elementary school principal, White Plains, New York, followsd by a_business meeting and election of e officers of the Department Elementary School Principats " arer President, W. T. Longshore, principai Greenwood Bchool, Kansas City, Mo.; first vice president, J. D. Wililams, principal Woodlawn School, Birming.: ham, Ala.; secretary, Jessie M. Fink principal Palmer School, Grand Rap. ids, Mich, and the local committee, X Florence Gore, principal Corcoran R - RUHR POLICY BASED ON DAWES PLAN IS BACKED BY HERRIOT —_(Continued from First Page) had countersigned, lined himselr solidly with M. Herriot's anmounced forelgn policy. It was commented also that the statement appeared to differ little in its attitude from that of ex-President Millerand and former Premier Poincare with regard to Ger- many. In dealing with the report of the reparation experts President Dou- merxue said France has hastened to subscribe to the report ‘4o prove our conciliatory lglflt," and he added that since the publication of the report the reparation question seemed "Dound to evolve toward a solution in the near future.” He declared, how- ever. that France could not relax her vigilance with regard to “a vanquish- od foe if she persisted in preparing herself for revenge instead ot seeking to keep the promises she had signed. The parliament, like the country at large, sald the president, desires abroad and at home, and “will DosY, itselr, X am convinced, in found- tice is cns of the atablest ~ " o en 6 reiterated his promises to remain within the strict constitutional interpretation of his presidential duties, being above a1l parties, in order to be abie to be 'fll:} impafllhll unfll indisputable ar- on each occasion - -u.flcu do:‘nau\a [ o e president interpreted - democratic institutionssr - Then, i Jopds similar to those M. Policars ad emplo; when preside: m cxecutive said: & El ur coun nourish - ous meltlo:, She as r!: my"{d obtain payment of the reparations which have been molemnly promised her and guarantees of security which are not illusory.” Bymans Coming ts Paris. Forelgn Minister Hymans of Bel- &ium, on his return trip to Brussels from Geneva, where he is attending the sessions of the league of nations council, will stop in Paris long enough tomorrow to have a talk with Premier Herrjot, it was announced here today. Erench premier's intentions now are®o leave Paris for Lond Saturday at the latest for his confer- ce with Prime Minister MacDonald Britain, providing the cussion of today's mintsterial decla- :l.:‘ m in Parliament is finished in BERLIN, June 17.—Acting on_the advice of the cabinet, President Edert F R s abroad. oS Level in Reservoirs Greatly Reduc- ed by Recent Break in Con- duit, He Says. LOCAL CONSUMPTION HEAVY Engineer Commissioner Cautions Aguinst Waste. Although the break in the conduit from Great Falls has been repajred and the flow resumed, Engineer Com- missioner Bell today urged the pub- lic to continue to conserve water un- til the reserve supply in the reser- voirs has been replenished. The reservoirs were practically full when the break occurred, but the level was greatly reduced during the period while the condult had to be shut off to mend the breach. The city uses almost as much water a day as the conduit conveys from the falls, 80 that even with the flow re- sumed. it will take some time to get a full reserve in the reservoirs. pply for Remervelrs. Maj. Bell pointed out that every city should strive to keep its ressrve supply of water up to the available capacity of the reservoirs, and especially so in this case, where the daily consumption ap- proximates the amount flowing in from the source. The Engineer Commissioner does not mean that householders should deprive themselves of water, but that they #hould be careful not to waste it. During July, August and Beptember there is a police regulation prohibiting householders from using hose lines on the sidewalks and restricting the water- ing of lawna to the hours from & to 8 o'clock morning and evening. The purpose of this regulation is to prevent waste of water during those hours of a summer day when consump- tion is at the peak. RECORDS NOT BROKEN IN BENNETT AIR RACE Brussels Reports Ten of Seventeen Balloons Entered in Contest * Have Landed. By the Asseciated Press. BRUSSELS, June 17.—Of the sev- enteen balloons that started Sunday In the fourteenth renewal of the Gordon Bennett cup race ten have al- ready landed without breaking any previous records and up to this after- noon seven weré still in the air or had not been heard from by the Bel- glan Aero Club here. The latest landings reported were the Ville De Bruxzelies (Belgian), at Saint Genoul, in the Alsne; Ville Bordeaux (French), near Brighton, England. the longest distance 80 far reported; Capitan (Spanish), at Fa- maches, the Somme; Ae stier (Itallan), at Moret-Surloing, in the Seine-et-Marne; Prince Leopold (Bel glan), at Lafinghe, near Ostend, and the “Picardie (French), Bray, northeast of Paris. The balloons which landed yester- day were the Crampino (Italian): the American entry, Uncle Sam; Ban- shee III (British) and the Marguret (British) PYTHIANS TO HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE Rites to Be Held for Members Who Have Died During Past Years. Membership of the local domain of the Knights of Pythias at 8:30 o'clock tonight will commemorate Pythian Me- morial day with appropriate exercises at Pythian Temple, 1012 9th street. Capital Lodge, No. 24, will convene in special session for this purpose. Immediately after the lodge is called to order, Grand Chancellor Gorham and his associate grand lodge officers will assume chairs and conduct the services. Rev. S. Carrol Cole, pastor of Mc- Kendree M. E. Church, will be the speaker of the evening. Taps will be sounded during the exercises by Capt. F. R, Farrar of Hermione Com- pany, No. 4, Military Department. Music will be furnished by the Musurgia Quartet, composed of Mrs. Fannie Shreve Heartsill, soprano; Mrs. William T. Reed, ocontralto; Charles E. Myers, tenor; Fred C. Schaefer, bass, and Harry Wheaton Howard, planist-conductor. The services are in_memory of the following who have died during the yoar: Past Chancellors Nathan King of Mount Vernon Lodge, Herman A. Rau of Syracuse Lodge, THomas J. Harford of Hermione Lodge, William T. Herritage and Jullus Veidt of Cap- ital Lodge, J. R. 8. Dickens of Ama- ranth Lodge and Richard P, ivans e Spe lfidn. al x:'n a ne-{ r 50 ights W. 8, Beachum and_G. G. Campbell of Mount _Vernon Lodge, Willlam D. Allen of Webster Lodge, W. J. Freund of Myrtle Lodge, Gaetano Forti and Nioola. Masini of Columbia Lodge, 3o- seph 8. Martin of Amaranth Lodgs and Charles P. Hancock and Daniel ‘Webster of Home Lodge, and the fol- lowing members of the Pythian Sisters: Mrs. Margaret Miiton of Friendship Temple, No. 9, and Mrs. M. Mansfield, Julla Bonnix and Lora Thomas of Rathbone Temple, No. 8. CLASSIFYING WORK FOR SCHOOLS AT END Members of Clerical and Custodian Forces Grouped and New Pay Ratings Announced. The work Of reclassifying members of the clerical and custodian forces of the District public schools who are not included in the new teachers' salary legislation has been completed, it was announced today by school officials. As a result the clerks and jamitors will be given new ragings July 1. “The reclassifioation _saves she clerks and janitors any financial loss through the lapse of the bonus, and brings increases above present sala- ries. The clerks will receive in, creases of 28.39 per cent over the present salary, which includes the bonus of $30 & month. The increase for the janitors will amount to 43. per cent over the présent basic sal- ary, and 9.54 per cent over the pres- ent actual salary. “The reclassification places the clerks and janitors on an efficiency basis for the first time. The new system also gives the medical and dental examiners in_the schools & rofessional status. Heretofore they E.n Deen meérely part-time employes. Under the reclassification they will be put on & full time basis, with deductions made from the rage annual salary for the time given to out- Weighty Arguments Advanced in Explanation of the Freaky ‘Weather Changes. ARMY OF ELECTRONS IN AIR Claim 0ld Sol “Breaks Out” Every Eleven Years. Not to be left out of the limelight by the moon theorists in this weather controversy that some one seems to have stirred up, the followers of the sun-spot explanation of Washington's recent freak weather have stepped out with an armful of arguments that leave the innocent bystander still the mud. No longer than yesterday, it is re- ported, sun spots were observed through a telescope by local scien- tists, and, with the vell of the last few weeks drawn aside, the spots are understood to have had an extremely gullty aspect. It is to be expected, therefore, the sun-spot cohorts assert, that weather conditions hereabouts “will continue in & state of uncertainty until they become more settled, at least. Seciemtists Agree om Ome Polnt. Eminent scientists agree that dur- ing the zenith of the sun’s spotted- ness the earth appears to recelve less heat from the sunshine than at other times. It is generally conceded, also, that O1d Sol breaks out about every cleven years. Singularly enough, rec- ords have been tabulated for various sections of the country tending to show that freak weather occurs, roughly, every eleven years. It this cojncidence that has given rise to the theory that sun spots are con- nected with the weather. The spots, hriefly, are believed to e caused by gfeat masses of Whirling vapor covering the face of the sun. The spots are thought to have strong electrical influence =nd it is thus easy. to hitch them up with electrical storms. A large army of electrons #alloping - earthward is enought to scare even the largest of dark-visag- ed clouds from its haunts, it is pointed out, precipitating a fracto-nimbus re- treat of the first order. Effect of Harmless Clouds.” This constant harassing of harm less clouds by invading electrons up- sets the weather to such an extent that it becomes an easy prey to the “heebie jeebies,” leaving Washington and other regular customers without the service to which they have been accustomed. 4 The planet Mercury, the sun's nearest relative, may have had something to do with starting trouble. On May 7 last Mercury took its first excursion across the face of the sun since 1914, the year the war started. It was in the first part of May, it will be remembered, that the weather began to be the prin- cipal topic among friends. Only eight hours it took Mercury to compiete the trip, but that was long enough to un- cover a lot of planetary deviitry, if Mer- cury had been so disposed. Admission by Weather Bureas. Even the United States weather bureau, always most guarded in its statements concerning unusualness of the weather, admits that Wash- ington, and, indeed, the whole east- ern section of the country, has expe: rienced extraordinary weather during the past two months. It has not, however, been unprecedented, accord- ing to Forecaster Mitchell As for ca the weather bureau discounts most emphatically any con- troversial “theories.” But the sun and moon factions con- tinue their battle, with the former calling the latter moon-struck and the latter retaliating with charges that they can knock the spots out of the sun theory. RODEO IN LONDON GETS 5 COURT SUMMONSES Promoters Charged With Cruelty to Animals—100,000 Watch Wild West Stunts. By the Amociated Pross. LONDON, June 17.—Five court summonses were issued today against Tex Austin and other promoters of the rodeo in the Wimbley stadium and cowboys participating in it charging cruelty to animals in the steer roping contest. One of the summonses is returnable against a cowboy in the roping contest which resulted in a steer breaking its leg Saturday night. Agents of the Royal Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals urged the magistrate to try the case immediately so the rodeo might be stopped, but the hearing was set for June 27, three days before the cow- boy contest ends. The agents after- ward said they were satisfied, as they were mainly concerned in preventing the rodeo from becoming an annual event in England. In yesterday's rodeo performance a cowgjrl, Anita Studernick, was thrown while riding a bronco and broke her collarbone, and one steer was shot after its horn was torn off in the meshed fencing around the arena. The steer roping contests are being carried on in the stadium behind locked doors with only London police- men as spectators. About 100,000 persons saw the other rodeo events yesterday and cheered the skill and daring of the cowboys and cowgirls. Newspaper accounts say the crowds ejected one spectator who booed last night's performance. SOLDIER BONUS SUIT IS ATTACKED BY U. S. Combats Injunction Proceedings Instituted to Prevent Payment. Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; John W. Weeks, Sec- retary of War; Curtis D. Wilbur, Sec- retary of the Navy, and Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans' Bu- reau, today filed in the District Su- preme Court a motion to dismiss the two suits recently instituted attack- ing the validity of the world war ad- justed compensation act. Suits for injunction had been in- stituted by Benfamin Catchings, an attorney of New York, and by Jo- seph Whelefs, a war veteran, who served as major and judge advoeate Quring the war and who was exclud- o4 from participation in the ;‘um'wt"nm:“r. hyl rn]aon of nl:"::l‘x.. 3 elefs also is & r e o esident of acked the soldie: class legislation with a '&l:r';:u'm: tion within the class. Mr. Catchings contended that Congress cannot give away the public money and charged that the act is political repayment by members of Congress to their I ‘asking the court to diemias both e court to dism| t! bills United States Attorney Gordon and Assistant United States Attorney West declare that there is no equity in either Dbill entitling the plaintiff to maintain his suit and that they present no “justifiable matter.” The govérn- ment offcials mssert that the bonus is a valld and constitutional exercise of the power of Congress and its payment may not be enjoined by the co With 143 Sets in Equipment Given| District Parent-Teacher Congress Contributes $15 Toward Cause. Every Crippled, Blind or Sick Invalid in D. C. to Be Supplied. Cash contributions amounting to $42.50 received during the last twen- ty-four hours swelled the total of The Star's “radio shut-in fund” to- day to $467.76. Additional crystal sets donated during the same period brought the total of the equipment fund to 143 sets, thirty-three pairs of headphones, sixty aerial posts, crys- tals, antenna and lead-in wire and other essentlal apparatus for instal- lation, Of the $42,50 donated since yester- day afternoon, $15.50 came from the District Congress of Parent-Teacher Assoclations. A letter from Mrs. Z. D. Blackistone, treasurer of the or- ganization, which accompanied the check, said: “We are not a money- making organization and have a very small treasury, but we are so much in sympathy with this movement that we wl,g to add our mite to help make some ‘shut-in' a little happier." Set for Each Invalld. Although radio enthusiasts & charitably inclined persons have e sponded generously to the appeal for funds and radio sets with which to give crystal recelver to every poor and needy invalid in the District, ad- ditional money and equipment are still needed to meet the requests of the many “shut-ins.” It fs hoped that by the end of the week sufficient funds and equipment wiil have been donated to give a set to every invalid wh name appears on the list of eligible to receive the appa- An effort will be made to place a radio set at the bedside of every crippl blind or sick invalid whose financial condition will not permit them to purchase one. The Star does SEES GAIN IN D. C. STREET PAVING FUND Auditor Donovan Says to Gasoline Tax Receipts Will Be Added | Borland Levi 1 OVER $1,000000 EXPECTED T. S. Property Escapes Toll Ex- acted From D. C. Owners. Radio Fund Receipts Cash contributions to The Stars “radio shut-in fund” received during the last twenty-four hours follow: Previously aoknowledged Unknown_ .. > Charles Garrels. 5 Miss Sarah Pool. Julia A. Nielsen. o “E. V. 8" Sd i District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associa- tions . e Mrs. E. K. Braseiton, 1731 Co- lumbia road AL H C. S..... In memory of Ella F. No name given.. Total Williams Orystal Sets and Equipment. Crystal sets and equipment re- ceived during the last twenty-four hours follow: Previously acknowledged—132 sets, 32 pairs of head phones, 60 aeriai posts, antenna and lead-in wires, crystals and other equipment for in- stailation. A {riend, wire. A. K., crystal set Mre. M. L. Lyon, Berwyn, Md., crystal set. Anonymous, fnstallation outfit. D. B. Todd, 243 Sth street northeast, crystal set. C. E. Currier, 916 14th street north- | west, two crystal sets, headphone, miscellaneous supplies. Mrs. F. M. Sewell, northeast, crystal set. i crystal set and lead-in 238 $th street ADMITS LUMBERMAN PAID $237,438.78 Defense in War Fraud Case Con- cedes Sum Paid to Philips, G. 0. P. Official. 'STIPULATION CURTAILS TRIAL Action Likely to Be Closed Today or Tomorrow. The prosecution at the trial of the alleged lumber fraud conspiracy case before Justice Balley and a jury in Crimindl Division 2 of the District Supreme Court shortened the lengtk of the trial by several days and avolded the introduction of morr than thirty-five witnesses by a stipulation reached today with coun sel for the defense in connection with a number of checks and drafts passing between John L. Philips. chairman of the Republican state committee of Georgia, and Frank T. Sullivan, lumber merchant of Buf- falo, N. Y. Both men are on trial The total of payments from Sullivar to Philips under the stipulation given as $237.43 Defense Reserves Right. Under the stipulation counsel for the defense admitted that the gos ernment can introduce witnesses competent to testify, who Wo Anonymous, crystal set. Total—140 sets, 33 pairs of head- | phones, 60 aerial posts, crystals, an- tenna and lead-in wire and other| invalid, and physiclans and clergy- addresses of those persons they deem as possible. that confronts them. During school, however, the boys have been abie wo rk only in the afternoons and eve- nings. GOD WORKS IN MIND, LECTURER DECLARES | “Christian Science, the Way to the True Kingdom,” Topic at | Local Church. equipment for installation. | | servea | relevancy, not want to overlook any deserving | bility of the evider men are urged to send the names and | Ly worthy of a set to The Star as k0on | fer of $43.000 from Sul | at the State Bank of Kenmore After the close of school tomorrow | Buffalo, the Boy Scouts detailed to the special | Ph squad to install the sets wiil devote | more time to the tremendous task | show that Frank T. Sullivan's bar account was charged with the che nd drafts in question at th checks and drafts, we d b Phillps. The defense the right com to the stipulation govern testimony ing a t n's accos nea In addition the sffered to the account of J s’ with a private bank New York Claim $256,435.78 Tota The prosecution claims that total of these two amoi $286.435.75, was a “'s Sullivan to John L. The in % to the hat it having a or having thersin." The stipulation is expect the case of the prosecuti either this a The defe: structed argument on SUGGESTS ATTACKS ¥ Yanow parti tomorrow en ask for an SIGNIFICANRCE 1IN EFFECTS Intelligent Causation Brings Bless- ings, Is View. The gasoline tax fund, which, it al- ready is indicated, will raise more than a million dollars in the first year, will be further enlarged by the as- sessments that will be paid into it by abutting property owners under the Borland law, Auditor Donovan said today. Officials of the highway division are unable to estimate at this time what these assessments will amount to. The gratifying point is that Congress provided in the new District appro- priation act that whatever these lev. ies are, they shall be put back into the gas tax fund, thereby increasing the balance in that fund for the pav- ing of other streets. The appropriation act authorizes expenditure of $925,000 of the gas tax money on specific street-paving jobs. The Borland law states that half the cost of such paving up to & width of forty feet shall be assessed against abutting property. U. S. Property Escapes Levy. For the coming twelve months thess assessments will not be as great as they probably will be in future years, for the reason that many of the strects to be paved this year out of gas-tax money are in front of gov- ernment property, on which there is no_assessment. In the case of 7th and 14th streets south of Pennsylvania avenue much of the assessment will be offset by the Mall. On 11th street southeast the navy yard covers part of the as- sesgable area. On Bladensburg road the Natfonal Training School for Boys will reduce the assessment. and on Georgia avenue the Walter Reed Hos- pital will be an exemption. Resar- facing of the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge also will be without assess- ment. Because of these exemptions offi- cials are unwilling to predict what the return from assessments Will be. It is not unlikely, however, that they Wlil exceed $100,000. FINAL TRIBUTES PAID NAVAL BLAST VICTIMS Emphatic Denial Made by I. W. W. of Slur on Sailors—Riot Is Probed. By the Associated Prees. SAN PEDRO, Calif, June 1 Civilians will join with the Navy at funeral services at Trona Field here today in paying final tribute to the forty-eight men killed Thursday in a gun-turret explosion aboard the battleship Mississippl. This harbor city today is a pot boil- ing over with rumors and suppressed excitergent as a result of the raid on I W. W. headquarters here Saturday night, following reported disloyal re- marks made by members of the or- ganization regarding the disaster on issippi Thursday. S ey Sers deciared that dsupite a careful check they were unable to learn of a single sailor from the fleet who had been with the mob that wrecked 1. W. W. headquarters when everal were injured and some mem- bers of the L W. W. were said to have boen kidnaped. The mob consisted of civilians and men clad in navy un- !tolrn‘v;: 'W. headquarters declared that no disparaging remarks about the Mississippi disaster had been made there Saturday night, reports of which inflamed the mob, and to sup- rt this assertion, & sign in large etters was nailed over the door of the I. W. W. hall which read: “Members of the 1. W. W., have not in thought, speech or action, defamed ed slurring remarks at any time about the terrible naval disas- Neither have we any such ab- surd ides of dynamiting the morgue or committing any other act of vio- lence whatsoever. D. C. Men Commissioned. Commissions in the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued to the following_named residents of this Gity: Walter B. Howe, 1821 H street, as d, 18 a u- teoant In the Medical Corps; Leslie d. Duffy, 41 T strest, and William C. Saf- farrans, 1815 Connecticut avenue, as e T ’i:'-': as a of ordnanes. Charles 1. Ohrenstein, C. S. B, of | Syracuse, N. Y., last night delivered a lecturs entitled “Christian Science ON JUSTICE HEADS WRONGLY PLACED Continued from F briet ? a valet Attorney General's something of the status ¢ haps. or a personal servant the Way to the True Kingdom,” at|*® First Church of Christ, Scientist. The | lectureship of the mother church, the | 5T First Church of Christ, Scientist, in | Boston, Bass, and was intro-| duecd by Elmer L Baldwin, first| reader of the church under whose | auspices the lecture was given | Mr. Ohrenstein said, in part: | “Let us consider this fundamental doctrine of Jesus and of Christian | Science, that there is oniy one real cause—epirit, mind—that this cause is the only legitimate governor of | man in all circumstances, and that this control or government consti- tutes “the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; which, in order to obey Jesus, all Christians must seek, | and seek to establish now, here ‘in earth, as it is in heaven. i Causation and Effect. 1 “The fact that everything we per- celve, no matter how primary it may seem, is in reality an effect, hardly needs restatement. Just as definitely is it also known that every effect must emanate from a cause equal to| its production. Therefore, potentially at least, the primary source or causa- tion of all existence must include the ultimate possibilities to which its product can develop or attain: just as this year's fruit bud includes—in embryo at least—the flower, fruit, seed and tree which are to come as its resultants. It means that the primary cause of all that really ex- i must include the intelligence manifested by {ts highest product, the enlightened man, plus all his latent possibilities; that nothing short of an intelligent causation can pro- duce an intelligent effect. “The question arises then, what of such a causation? Could it be non- intelligent matter—a mist, a gas, an atom, & point of force, an electron, or some stuff more or less concrete than any or than all of these, or some admixture of non-intelligent stuff with some unknown non-intelligent, or even with an intelligent force? OF could an absolutely immaterial intel- ligent force ever have created one iota of non-intelligent stuff? God Giver of Creation. “There is no_concelvable method whereby any of these things ever could have happened. Indeed, it must be evident that an orderly. purposeful creation, such as we live in—a cr ation including living, moving, think- ing beings, the highest of which are men and women—must have proceed- ed, and must continue to proceed, from that alone which could bring it forth—the one and only Creator or Father of us all—Spirit, Mind, God. “Recognizing the great fact that ‘God created man in Iils own image, * s ‘s male and female created Heo them, and also that God is the all- compassionate, all-loving protector and provider of all; that ‘He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust’ alike, Chris- tian Seience declares God to be not only our Father, but our Mother. It thus not only Eives the world an idea of the tender relationship that exists between God and man, but also the highest concept of God that it is possible to have.” KILL FLIES NOW, URGES HEALTH OFFICER FOWLER Swatting of Pests Early {n Summer Prevents Breeding by Millions, D. C. Official Advises. With summer weather about to set in at last, Health Officer Fowler to- day sounded the call to householders to prepare for the annual battle, against the house fly. S . T Although the constant campalgn of education in recent years has tended to keep down the population of these winged pests, Dr. Fowler pointed out that there must be no let-up in the war If the fly is to be subdued. A season of laxity, he said, would enable them to breed by the millions, thereby increasing their capacity as carriers of fiith and disease. Every precaution should be taken, Dr. Fowler declared, to kcep flies from alighting on food, both in the home and in public eating places. “Keoep & it every tim: he urged. fly crosses your path,’ | fused to sa thing or other abo think it was a postpo but I paid 1_spoke to Mr. Daughe: ‘Oh, dom’t pay any atte I've got T give q “Could anybody sver Jess Smith wanted 3T broke in to questions. just blurbs.” She said “Smith wa: ular about the depart she had no knowledge to files. Refers to Grossman Case. With reference to the Exes clemency obtai by Philip G man of Chicago, M= Willel said there was “no doubt but tha: corrupt local political ring o cago kept him out of ja fonn W. H. Crim. special to the Attorney General. interv when Mrs. Willebrandt repeatedl ¥ whether local off the Department of Justice at Chicas had concealed the facts in making u the pardon record ““There’s no_doubt at al body in the United office in Chicago knew th was being kept out or jail said, “and that's all there & case.” Succeed Against Bootleggers. Mrs. Willebrandt declared the = cessful prosccution of large-ec hootleggers at Atlanta, brought up the testimony. had been a most su cessful endeavor of the Departm of Justice, and that the evidence bad only been procured for convictior by many months of persistent patient “under-cover work" of secrc agents. i “The trouble about criticisms come in these big cases.” she said. “I< that the critics have only the genere knowledge, and you can' convict peo ple on that. You have to get fo thr bottom with specific names, dates and instances. The bootlezgers boast be fore they get in Jjail, but after that they only mutter quietly.” During his testimony before the committes vesterday describing cases which have come before the depart ment and policies adopted, A. T. Sey mour, first assistant attorney gen- eral, touched only ocrasionally on the more sensational allegations made before the committee concern ing the department. As to Jess W Smith, whose Status as companion of H. M. Daugherty during the latters tenure of office has been frequentl brought up, the witness said that he saw him in his (Seymour's) office but five times. Smith was interested. he added, in trying to influeunce action but the witness said the Attorney General never instructed him to fur- nigh Smith information, flles or other faclities. Mistake In Grossman Pardon. Referring to the pardon of Rhi Grossman, Chicago saloon operator. Seymour said he personally had “made a mistake.” because the files on which he recommended that the President pardon the man, after his conviction _in proceedings arising from prohibition enforcement, failed to show that Grossman had escaped completely incarceration in jail Later, he added. when he learned of this fact he made a personal investi gation of the matter, but with what result he did not indicate to the committee. Discusing anti-trust matters, Sey- mour said there had been consider- able delay in some prosecutions, but he held that the law was valuable and enforceable. Secretary Mellon, who has been in vited by the committee to appear i he cares to follow further any of the testimony in its investigation af- ecting the Treasury. has not re- sponded. Sessions will be conoluded at least for the summer, by the Sen- ate committee as soon as the officials desiring to appear have been heard. FIGHT AT JAIL FATAL. NEW ORLEANS, June 17.—One negro is dead, one white man seri- ously wounded and several negroes badly hurt as a result of a whole- sale shooting at Leesville, La. late yesterday when negroes attempted 1o liberate two negroe prisoners. ac- cording to word received today from Leesville. that som that “l<